Join us on The Dana Show with guest host Craig Collins as he dissects the intersection of media, politics, and public tragedies. In a compelling discussion, Craig tackles the recent controversial narratives emerging from a weather disaster in Texas. He addresses the claims against the Trump administration and scrutinizes the role of media personalities who influence public opinion in the aftermath of such tragic events. The conversation progresses to explore the lasting impact of sensationalism on societal reactions and the importance of approaching news with a critical mind.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about on a Monday. Dana is back tomorrow. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all stuff that she’s doing, all stuff that is this show. I want to start with a very upsetting story, and it’s upsetting in two ways. I don’t like to politicize tragedy. I think most people who talk about tragedy don’t necessarily desire to politicize it. And I’m not talking about media people. I’m talking about you. I’m talking about people listening to this show. And yet media is obsessed with turning something into a political thing. And then it seems encouraging some people to think the same way and people as ever horribly are doing this. So there was a tragedy in Texas. I live in Houston. This is south of me. Kerr County is where 75 deaths have been reported. This is 48 adults, 27 children so far. And an update here. And essentially, to break down this story the way that media is talking about it, there was a shocking, you know, weather event. that caused a lot of flooding very quickly, a surge of 20 to 26 feet of water into the Guadalupe River near Kerrville, and this caused horrible things to happen. Now, media has also decided that this means that the Trump administration and employees at certain weather organizations is the whole reason that this was as bad as it is. And that’s insane, by the way, to talk about in those terms. That’s actually insane to me. Because local news media and other affiliates could have easily told you that this was getting bad quickly and informed people and got people out of there. But I don’t even want to argue about that point. What’s more important to me is because that narrative is out there. I think the New York Times even has an article about it today. There are a bunch of people, left-leaning, crazy, lunatic human beings who are saying that they’re happy about this. There are people that have gone to social media that said that essentially a county that voted very heavily for President Trump and has, I guess, according to some pundits online, said or done things as a collective that they don’t like, even though I think that’s kind of weird to blame Kerr County for thinking a certain thing when you don’t know anyone that lives there, when you’ve never been there yourself, which most of these media outlet people have probably never even been through that part of Texas. But nonetheless, there was even a teacher, or excuse me, a doctor, Dr. Christina Probst, Bluefish Pediatrics is where she works. So she’s someone who would be much closer to this than many people would be as an employed individual within Texas, who absolutely also sounded as though she was happy about it, that her heart went out to all visitors, children, and non-MAGA voters and pets. in the area, meaning that MAGA voters are allowed to die. This became a huge story. Patriot Talk 920 AM in Houston, Texas. I was one of the places that actually put this out on social media. And eventually there was a response and the organization said that the person’s on administrative leave. I thought that was great. Patriot Talk, that’s where I work, and also an affiliate of The Dana Show, just so you know, and that’s out there, Patriot Talk 920 on social media if you want to follow them. But she even used this doctor, the social media handle Tina or Steena, so you could kind of figure out who she was, but she was not using her real name. She was trying to be somewhat anonymous, and people figured it out. This is horrific. I don’t know when that lesson needs to be learned by the people on the far side of the aisle that refuse to learn it. But you’re not winning an argument when people die. That’s not that’s not the catalyst. OK, yeah, you’re right. Never mind this article, this conversation we’re having. We now see it and you are the person in the know and you shouldn’t weaponize people’s deaths for political gain. It’s horrible that it happens. It’s horrible that people do it. And it’s beyond, you know, I don’t know. It lacks humanity is probably the way I want to say it. And maybe that’s true of a lot of people in media, a lot of people in places where you cover this kind of stuff all the time. And actually, as a as a semi pivot to this discussion, I’ve worked with a bunch of people and I’ve known a bunch of people professionally who had really hard media jobs. And what I mean by that is. Sorry, give me a second. What I mean by that is that they actually have to show up at a crime scene immediately after someone has been killed and write a story about it for a local newspaper or something. And that job, it’s going to change you as a human. And there’s a lot of media people who’ve reported on countless amounts of tragedies. And so some part of it, their brain is now switched off. And I think that’s why it’s so easy for media to go there and then influence people to think the same way, to immediately think about the political discussion surrounding your horrible story about the death of children. Multiple kids died that were at a camp because of this shocking weather phenomenon that occurred. And it’s just not the kind of time to have this discussion. I hate transitioning conversations about, you know, mass shootings to whether or not guns and gun control is the solution to the problem. I don’t think it is. But I hate that you pivot into that direction, not because you’re actually wanting to fix the issue, not because you actually want to help moving forward. You want to find someone to blame. Someone beyond whoever the horrible person is, the act of God, essentially. And by the way, I’m a person of faith. I’m Catholic. I would not blame God for what occurred. I don’t mean it that way. And I actually think that you could find a lot of help through faith in a moment like this, even for the families going through this horrible tragedy that happened on a holiday. But I digress. I’ll move on from this. I just I can’t understand why the left seems so hell bent on finding The best examples they can of literal death as their excuse to then have an argument or excuse to try to, you know, push conversations a certain way. So much so that they seem to even be celebratory in these horrible, you know, tragic moments in our society. And again, one more time, I don’t think that having more people at the National Weather Service would have made this any better. I personally don’t think that. You know, and I know that no matter how much people are told something is happening with however much warning they can give. And in this case, they could have given very little warning, maybe more than they were given, but very little. People still don’t make different decisions. A lot of people will stay through bad weather events in wherever they live because they believe that they’re going to be OK. And so whether or not anyone else would have left this area if you had more people staffed at a weather organization is is a laughable discussion to me. And the only reason you’re going that road is because you want to politicize this. All right. I want to move on to something else. I have a couple other things here. Dan Bongino is, of course, a person now who is with the FBI, and he’s an important guy in our intelligence system, the deputy director of the FBI. He was for a long time, of course, a radio host and podcaster. Most people call him a podcaster, and the guy did more than podcasting. But he has egg in his face. today, and a lot of people have egg on their face over the weekend. And this might make a lot of people mad to say it this way, but I don’t care. I am going to be honest with you when I’m on this show or any show. They came out and let us know that there is no Epstein file. There is no client list. There’s no deep dive into the people who were doing horrible things. And even more importantly, Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. This is the current version of the FBI. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino telling us this. Yes, there are people who are going to think that this is still not true. They’re going to dive deeper into the rabbit hole of, you know what? I believe that someone is influencing something somehow and forcing this to be the discussion that we’re having. And there’s two reasons that’s difficult for me to accept. The first one being that if Trump was actually someone who should be getting in trouble because of the Epstein files, there’s zero chance that Democrats would have hidden that. That, you know, Biden and all of the people who worked for Biden would have silenced him. That’s absolutely not possible. Could not happen. Could a Epstein file have existed and been destroyed and they don’t know that it’s been destroyed? Maybe. That’s one argument I guess I could accept. That doesn’t mean that anyone’s hiding anything from us now. It just means that potentially if there was something that existed, it’s long been removed from this earth in any capacity. But the other reason that I really believe this, and I’m no longer one to accept a conspiracy theory, is how adamant Bongino specifically was as a media personality that this Epstein file was going to be incredibly damaging to Democrats. And so for him to tell us the truth, it wasn’t easy. And it makes me respect Bongino more. I’m someone who certainly already liked him to begin with. But I just I’m amazed that anyone would still think that this isn’t true. And so I do want to play a little bit of audio. This is Bongino on his podcast and other stuff saying that the Epstein files are going to be incredibly damaging and need to be paid attention to for Democrats. And then it jumps to him telling us that there is no Epstein file and that Epstein committed suicide. Again, for people on this side of the aisle to tell us the truth about this stuff, it’s not easy. Professionally, it’s even somewhat embarrassing, I would assume. I don’t know for sure, but I would assume that. So it leads to the credibility of it. And I’ll go a step further before I even hit play on this audio. Trump has launched an investigation into the 2020 election, another focal point for the Trump administration. I was happy about this and happy about a lot of these things when I voted for him to be the president because I would very much like to see the truth in this stuff. If the inevitable truth they tell us is there’s nothing there, I’ll accept that. I won’t be thrilled with that information, but I’ll accept it. And I actually won’t blame them. ringing the bell as hard as they did, believing that something was there, because I don’t think the other side wanted to have that conversation. And that seemed odd. They didn’t want to definitively prove that the conspiracy theories weren’t true when they could have done everything that the current administration is doing. And the question is sometimes why did they not want to disprove it? What was the point in letting it continue to to um you know be a thing that people believed but here there’s a little bit of bongino saying how definitively important the epstein files are going to be and then inevitably having to admit that they don’t exist i actually think that i have this muted right now give me one second i’ll go ahead and hit play on this again uh thank you to producer steven for letting me know i just created dead air there here we go listen um that jeffrey epstein story is a big deal
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Please do not let that story go. Keep your eye on this. Catherine Rumler, I want you, we need to keep the heat on this case, folks. There are a lot of people who are knee deep in the Washington swamp who are not telling you the truth about serious allegations out there that Epstein may have had video and audio of people out there doing things they shouldn’t have been doing. And you should be asking yourself the question, how is it that all these people, see, CIA director, the Obama fixer, Bill Clinton, all intersected paths with Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein isn’t with us anymore, and nobody seems to want to talk about it. Outside of a few entrepreneurial media outlets saying, hey, this is a big deal. He killed himself. Again, you want me to? I’ve I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.
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Yes. And they go on to say that there is no Epstein file whatsoever. So, again, this is professionally embarrassing. And so for that reason, I actually believe it’s true. I’m checking that conspiracy theory at the door. But I do wonder why the Democrats didn’t give me an opportunity to do this. And it’s only the Republicans, even to their own harm or professionally to specific people’s own harm, that they’re finally giving you the information that closes the door on these thoughts. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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That’s right. This is the Dana Show. And this is a very quick, quick five. It’s official. Eating ice cream is the best summer activity, according to a bunch of individuals who answered a poll online from YouGov. Going on vacation was number two and grilling was number three. But having ice cream or popsicles of some kind outside in general is the best. Maybe because that’s easy. Maybe because in the world in which we live and all the ridiculous price increases that happened during the Biden administration, eating ice cream is more attainable for more people than going on a fancy vacation. I’m not sure. I don’t know. But apparently it came in at number one. As I said, grilling number three, that seems to have been done a huge disservice. I actually would rearrange a lot of the things. I think going on vacation is probably admittedly the number one best thing you do during the summer if you can do it. And then grilling number two and eating ice cream number three. That’s how I would line it up. Apparently not the way others did it. But that is the latest poll of American people from YouGov. A third of us have a nickname for our car. No matter what this name is, a bunch of people have a bunch of different nicknames for their car. Some of my favorite ones were the ones that ripped on your vehicle. Maybe this is a vehicle that you’re upset with or it’s your first car. I don’t know. But someone said they call their car the rolling turd. And I found that hilarious. Also, the turtle, the slug, the puddle jumper, all kinds of mean names for cars that you wish you weren’t driving around, but you are. Joey Chestnut reclaimed his hot dog eating contest championship. He won the title after scarfing down 70 and a half hot dogs in 10 minutes. He missed last year’s event due to a conflict over a vegan hot dog sponsorship. That’s why Joey wasn’t there last year. Not an issue this year. The man is the king of eating hot dogs. I do like the thing that Scott Jennings said on social media about this, though, that we all know that this competition is actually gross. No matter how much we might enjoy celebrating the sport, if that’s even what you want to call it, of eating a whole bunch of food and dunking the hot dogs into water so that you can consume them easier, the end result is that this is a gross thing that most of us would not want to actually attempt to do ourselves because we wouldn’t enjoy any part of it. One other thing, a new trend. Women are not wearing makeup on their first date. Apparently, more and more people are bragging about this on social media of the younger generations, saying that if they want to date me, they got to see the real me right away, baby. No catfish whatsoever. I don’t know if the photos on social media that are creating the dates are also makeup free, but the first date itself, they show up and it looks like they just woke up. And now it’s your decision as to whether or not you still like this person. I find this hilarious. And honestly, I have no problem with it. Go ahead and rock whatever version of attempting or not trying all that hard you want on your appearance and see what guys stick around. It’s fine with me. I don’t know if it’s going to be a winning strategy, but darn it, I’m not here to judge. Quick break. Oh, I am actually. Just not this. 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. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. DLash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected. Two of the bigger stories out there that I’ll certainly want to keep touching on throughout the show is the loss of lives in Texas, a part of Texas that was surprisingly flooded in a very short amount of time because about the, you know, two months worth of rain happened in a day. And lives were lost, 27 children, campers at a faith-based camp were lost in this. And for some reason, people on social media on the left in general have wanted to politicize this, wanted to blame Trump for what they think are changes to the National Weather Service or anything else that caused this, which isn’t true. None of that’s true at all. I just want to put that out there that it’s horrific. that this is the road people want to go down when there are families grieving the loss of their children. And it was immediate, that reaction. That’s the other thing out there that made me so mad is how quickly it became about that and not about the horribleness of losing individuals, especially children, for parents on a holiday. But I digress. That’s one of the bigger stories out there and certainly one to keep being discussed. Also, the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. The fact that there is no official client list of any kind and that the FBI and the DOJ have investigated and found that Epstein did in fact kill himself. A whole lot of people made jokes the other way. And honestly, you know what? I’m not using this topic. I want to be extra clear about that. To indict anyone that believed the past administration wasn’t telling us the truth, because they could have put the information out that the current fbi director and you know deputy director and everyone else is putting out people who actually actively said and committed to the american people that they would do everything they could to expose the secrets of this story and even if the secrets don’t go as deep as we thought they did or maybe the secrets were destroyed along before the current people got in charge i’m not sure whatever it might be they’re doing the thing they offered to do they’re telling us the truth And they’re telling us the truth regardless of how it looks for them professionally. I find that interesting. There are two pieces of audio that people keep sharing and talking about. One is Pam Bondi back in February saying that she had the client list sitting on her desk. I don’t know what exactly was actually sitting on her desk, but it wasn’t a client list. If one doesn’t exist, this has caused people to still ask questions. But again, I don’t actually believe… conservatives in positions of power are covering this up now because of who these people are and and the things they’ve been saying before they got into that position of power you might believe that that’s naive you might believe that they are and you know someone’s got a knife to somebody’s throat forcing them to say these things but especially people like dan bongino i just don’t think we’re capable of that i think that 100 they were willing to tell us the truth and the truth is whatever it is but here’s bondi back in february saying she had the client list
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The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients? Will that really happen?
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It’s sitting on my desk right now to review. That’s been a directive by President Trump. I’m reviewing that. I’m reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That’s all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.
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So have you seen anything? You said, oh my gosh.
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What a great way to ask that question. Not yet. Nothing yet that she’s seen that would make her say, oh, my gosh, but it might be out there. I thought that was a great way to ask the second question. And also, honestly, an interesting answer. Her saying that she hadn’t seen anything, but maybe there was more. Maybe she was diving deeper into it. I don’t know. But she said that it was on her desk. And unfortunately, it winds up being a nothing burger of a story. And I only mean unfortunately because I want the bad guys caught. That’s the other thing that’s crazy about this. Only two people have actually had any level of guilt thrown at their feet and been arrested and or imprisoned for it. Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein are the only two individuals who’ve had anything happen to them And you have to feel like the organization, the horrible trafficking of children, was larger than two people and involved a lot of other people. And yet, as of right now, the FBI is telling us and the DOJ, there’s no one else they’re going to try. So a part of that seems unbelievable. But maybe there’s a reason why none of that information currently exists, if it ever did. Here’s Alina Haba saying that they need to do a whole lot. This is on Piers Morgan back in February, to fight all of the, you know… horrible people that were involved in this and that all this information, flight logs, et cetera, was going to eventually come out.
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But in this case, in Epstein’s case, it is incredibly disturbing. We have flight logs. We have information names that will come out.
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Is it going to be shocking?
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I don’t see how it’s not shocking that there were so many individuals that were hidden and kept secret and not been held accountable. Let’s talk about the reverse. I believe in accountability. So you have to now go through your process. Now, I won’t say they’re guilty until they go through their time in court. But again, now it’s time for accountability. We have seen…
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I wanted all this, to be honest. I was very excited about this. Alina Abba, who is an interesting voice for Trump and his administration and just him in general as one of the lead attorneys that helped try to defend him and stuff. She didn’t really do a great job in some of those court cases, but she is wildly attractive. So I understand why they put her on television. Nonetheless, though, Alina saying some things that didn’t wind up materializing. So this is a big story. And how you handle this, how you discuss this is actually going to say a lot about the people who you pay attention to in media. If there’s people who deny it, people who say that, you know, maybe a lot of stuff was definitely destroyed. And I don’t know that one. None of us will know that one. We weren’t in power when the information first became something of public interest. Other people were people who might have had more interest in just fully scrubbing the archives. of anything and everything out there that could have been related to this. But other than that, I guess you also just move on. And honestly, and there’s one last thing I’ll say about this, and then I really will talk about other things because there are other things out there in the world to talk about. I like that we ask questions. I like that you ask questions. I like that I ask questions. I like that. I actually love that. I’ll go even a step further. I don’t like when people assume answers. That’s the part that I think has always been the mistake. Asking questions is incredibly valuable. And when you ask questions and people don’t give you answers… being even more interested in why they’re not giving you answers, heightening the level of scrutiny, all of that makes tremendous, tremendous sense to me. So you should do everything you can when people are refusing to answer certain questions and the Democratic politicians and administration in charge refuse to give us the definitive information that the Republican politicians and people in charge are giving us now, and you can ask why about that, but you can never assume the answer until you know for sure. That’s the one part of it. And so I think that there’s a delicate dance of finding a way to always demand answers and always ask questions, regardless of how valuable someone thinks the question is, but never assuming you know for sure what the answer to that is until someone gives it. And I love when people always tell me, we’ll never know the truth. We’ll never know. They’re never going to tell us the truth, so we have to guess at it. Well, no, but we do have to keep demanding it no matter how long it takes them, even if they never give us the truth. And the more we demand it as a group and the more they refuse to answer, the worse it looks for them. So then you can make a guess that you’re likely to see something come out a certain way, a way you believe. But I think there’s still a nuance to all of that. And I think this might be a lesson learned for some in that delicate dance of, I don’t actually know, but I’m pretty sure that I know the truth based on all the information I’m seeing. So I feel really good about the questions I’m asking, but I will admit if you drill it down, I don’t actually know. All right. One other thing, and I thought this was just interesting. A rescue swimmer named Scott Ruskin saved 165 individuals during the disaster in Texas. People are sharing an interview he did on Good Morning America because they’re calling toxic masculinity a tremendous success. I do think it’s funny, and I said that I don’t like to politicize tragedy, but I do think it’s funny when you see people acting like brave heroes running toward danger, jumping in and saving people’s lives, like doing all those things. that people are now saying are somehow bad, that men being men is somehow a problem. And because this person is the way they are, because the attitude, the personality, all those things weren’t silenced as a kid growing up, he was able to save a whole lot of people. And so we want a whole bunch of this in our society, especially in positions where people are fighting to save us, to rescue us. We want this attitude to be at the forefront of those kinds of operations. And it is right now. But here’s a little bit of that back and forth interview with a guy who saved 165 people during the flooding in Texas.
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Scott Ruskin joins us now. Scott, thank you for joining us this morning. Tell us what happened.
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Hey, good morning, everyone. Yeah, so I’ll kind of give you guys a quick synopsis of what was going on. The Coast Guard launched us and decided to send a rescue crew from Air Station Corpus Christi at about 6.30, 7 a.m. on Friday, the 4th of July. I just happened to be on the duty crew with Ian Hopper, Blair Bourgeois, Seth Reeves, some of our crew members in the Coast Guard. And yeah, they sent us out. We kind of encountered some pretty serious weather, some of the worst flying we’ve ever dealt with personally. It took us, you know, it should have been an hour flight, probably took us about seven or eight just to get into the landing zone. Once made about four different approaches trying to get in, we were able to get boots on the ground with the Air National Guard, Department of Public Safety for Texas, game wardens. And we decided to leave me on scene at Camp Mystic. That was kind of our main triage site we were trying to help out with. We decide, hey, if we leave the rescue somewhere unseen, we’ll have more space in our Dolphin MH65. So based on that, I got unseen, boots on the ground at Camp Mystic. Kind of discovered I was the only person there as far as first responders go. So yeah, I had about 200 kids mostly, all scared, terrified, cold. Wow. Having probably the worst day of their life, and I just kind of needed to triage them, get them to a higher level of care, and get them off the flood zone with a lot of the US-60s.
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I’m going to stop it right here before you answer another question. Here’s what I love about people like this. Individuals like him who are not remotely afraid. And if they are, they’d never let you know. But to go toward danger when everyone else is desperately trying to get away. He just casually described how the flight he was on took eight hours when it should take one to find a safe way in to Camp Mystic where people are terrified and a bunch of kids are. He described it like he was having his morning breakfast. He’s like, yeah, and you know, then I had a couple of eggs and I saved 165 people. And that’s what you need to be. You need to be a person. And I love the other part where he’s like, yeah, they just left me at Camp Mystic, this place that’s, you know, in chaos and people are terrified and craziness is all around us. It was better. It was better. They freed up a spot in the plane or the helicopter and I was able to do my thing. So I just love. every part of individuals who nonchalantly describe the way that they kicked absolute butt. And this person is doing exactly that on Good Morning America. And people call this toxic masculinity now. They say, oh, it’s horrible. It’s terrible that this person wants to be a tough guy. They want to be someone who would, you know, dive into a situation like this and save people’s lives. And yet this is actually the version of the person you get is the, yeah, I did it. They told me to. I was prepared for it. I was trained for it. And I’m the right human being with the right makeup to be in this situation. And good things happened because I was there.
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Army helicopters.
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Talk about how that works. You got 165 close to 200 kids there. How do you get them out? Just one by one?
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Yeah, yeah, sir. It’s a great question. Yes. So the United States Army National Guard was landing their 60s with Task Force One, some of their rescue swimmers, and they were able to land. We kind of came up with two different landing zones. There’s one off an archery field and then one at a soccer field. So, yeah, we were able to kind of land those 60s in there. And then I was kind of the main guy as far as like grabbing people. Usually like 15 to 10 kids at a time, maybe one adult with them and bringing them over to those 60s and getting them to a different LZ that was kind of safe and had more first responders than just myself out there.
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It was amazing. He’s like, yeah, it’s kind of just me by myself grabbing a bunch of children who are terrified and at least an adult and bring them all to safety and then doing it again and again and again until I save 165 people. It’s just incredible. This is the other reason that you should be so, so grateful for the men and women who serve this country in any capacity, whether it’s the military men and women, National Guard men and women, of course, Coast Guard people like this guy, your police officers, your firefighters, any… excuse me, any human being, I got a little choked up as I was talking about that, who tries to do whatever they can to keep you safe. These people are vitally important to what makes our country so special, and these people can be as toxically masculine as anyone ever created, in my opinion, because it’s wonderful. But I love how, again, this is a topic of discussion where people criticize who this guy would be day to day, and then in a moment where you need him, thrilled that he’s there on the ground. 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. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things that she’s up to. For sure, something you should definitely be following every single day. I thought this was interesting. A driver… hitting everything but the lottery while slamming car and dragging officers is a story that went viral in Boston. The person has been arrested, but the eyewitness who was talking about it is part of the reason that this thing went viral. I’ll go ahead and play a little bit of this audio. This is terrible. I think everybody’s going to be okay, which is good, but there were officers that were being dragged along during part of this crazy chase.
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When I came outside, there was no other second car that had been an accident. I was like, okay, this is a little bizarre. And the cops said, no, she started smashing cars downtown like an hour ago. It’s not an ordinary to see somebody sort of maybe driving too fast. But this is, of course, off the charts.
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Yeah, it’s off the charts. It’s insane. It’s terrible. And as I said, again, the driver was hitting everything but the lottery was part of the phrases that were used to describe this. That’s crazy. Again, I’m glad that the officer and everybody else can be OK. And I don’t know if there’s anything that’s added to the reason this has gone viral from the the Boston accent of the individuals who are talking about being eyewitnesses to this. But nonetheless, a big deal story. Another thing out there, I thought this was pretty funny. Now, good news, if you have a dad bod just in time for beach season, yet another study has found that women’s ideal body type for men is a dad bod. And a bunch of this research says why. And if you don’t know what a quote-unquote dad bod is, it’s someone who’s fit but not like insanely in shape. Someone who might have a stomach, someone who might have some things that you would say mean they hit the gym from time to time, but they’re not a person who’s living in the gym 24-7. The biggest reason, they say mentally, that women are attracted to this is it makes them not feel bad about themselves. They see muscles. They see success or capability as far as being able to defend somebody. But they also see someone who’s not going to be eating dinner with you and saying to themselves or saying to you that you’ve got to count certain calories. There’s someone who’s okay with both. I love that. I love that the idea that the reason that the dad bod is so successful with the ladies, at least on paper, I don’t know if it’s actually successful in practice. I am a guy who’s been married for long enough now to not understand what the current dating world is looking for and happy about that. But I love the idea that on paper, people are like, no, yeah, this is the ideal thing I want because this person will finish my ice cream if I don’t want to finish it. But they’ll also not be afraid of hitting the weights even a little bit at the gym, which is the exact thing you apparently want. 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. A bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. DLash, DanaLashRadioNX on Twitter. Just stay connected to her at RadioCraigC. If for some reason you want to follow me along with the 400 or so people that do that, definitely not a large social media platform for me. But anyway, all right, let’s get to some real serious stuff out there. A 27-year-old man in tactical gear wielding a rifle opened fire at federal agents on the southern border in McAllen, Texas. The person was subdued. One border patrol agent was shot in the knee. He will be okay. A couple others were injured during this. The craziest thing about this story, other than the absolute… piece of crap person that decided to try to attack border patrol agents armed with all kinds of things. By the way, the guy’s license claims he was from Texas, or excuse me, he was from Michigan and just in Texas. I don’t know how long he lived in Michigan, but that’s the last known address for the individual. And there’s something really important about this person, too. The person’s name is Ryan Lewis Mosqueda. So a, you know… last name that’s not, say, common in the United States compared to other ones. For some reason, when CNN reported on this story, they simply called him Ryan Lewis. They left off his actual last name and used his middle name, which is very strange. That’s a very odd thing to do, maybe because they thought that calling him Muscata would make people think that the reason he attacked Border Patrol is because of an ethnicity or a reason to a motivation for the attack is racial. And this is something that no one has admitted so far. Everyone is is claiming we don’t know what the cause of this is. But here’s CNN trying to fully avoid this discussion whatsoever by choosing to not report actual news to you by changing it.
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We’ve got multiple teams working this story as we learn more about this breaking news. But apparently a man showed up to this facility this morning with tactical gear and a rifle, opening fire on those agents at the front. Fire was returned. Dozens of shots was fired. And we have confirmed that man was killed in this. He’s been identified as Ryan Lewis, 27 years old. But as we show you these images. obviously very concerning this man with a rifle and that tactical gear showing up you can see the image of him down right there multiple shots fired we have a confirmed statement this morning an individual open fire at the entrance of the United States border sector annex in McAllen Texas
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All right, so here’s something that’s really important about this, too. CNN is one of the places that has given you a ton of information about apps that are designed to help people track ICE agents to see if they’re in certain areas. And they claim the reason for this is so people could run away, hide from ICE agents in your area if you’re worried about them showing up in your area. which is very strange because essentially is saying that we’re going to help criminals thwart investigations. If the police are coming to arrest you because you committed a crime, even if that crime is simply living in the country illegally, then any app that tells you that the police are there is trying to prevent police from doing their business, from doing their duty. So that’s insane. But it also is tied to a 700% increase in violence toward ICE agents. The party and the television stations that call Trump Hitler, that talk about all the different things that they think are wrong in society because of conservative ideology, because of Republican voters, and they call them all MAGA voters and terrible people or whatever they say, all of that, they’re then surprised when something like this happens. Now, granted, I always err on the side of whenever I talk about any of this, that the insane person deserves to be treated as the individual responsible. So Mosqueda, Ryan Lewis Mosqueda, deserves to be treated as an individual who chose to do this of their own volition, who attempted to commit a horrible crime and was shown why you shouldn’t do that by being stopped. by being subdued, or just killed, is the way that I’d say it. It’s weird the other ways people say it. You know, he was neutralized. He was shot and killed because he opened fire at Border Patrol agents, which was uniquely stupid of him to do. But nonetheless, I just think it’s amazing that the people who essentially beg for this type of behavior and actually celebrate it to a degree, because if the people are standing for the same values that their organizations are standing for uh… they acted they act like this is somehow a tragedy like there was no bad guy involved when there was an active shooter trying to kill border patrol agents for whatever reason reasons that we might be able to get that when you’re given the entire name of the individual of another last as this is going on as people are are you know trying to debate back and forth you just have news media outright lying to you and i’ve talked about this before I know it’s not shocking. Everybody thinks that media lies to them now. But in a newsroom like a place of CNN, and I don’t know CNN specifically, I’ve never worked there, never had anyone I know that worked there. So I’m not talking about them directly. But I’ve been in newsrooms where people think that they’re, or at least have convinced themselves that they’re doing something for the right reasons. but they’re actually articulating out loud news directors and others that we’re not going to tell the full story here we have more information we’re not going to give it to the american people the public or even our our subsection of it if it’s a smaller news organization and the reason why uh… these people that claim to be journalists they claim to be you know of the of the upper uh… echelon of people with credibility and and a willingness to just tell you what it is they’ll say that we’re we’re afraid that this true information will radicalize people that we don’t like people that we don’t agree with into believing the radical opinion is true and you look at them and usually say back in the in the beating as someone like me at least as back But that’s the true information, right? Like the thing you’re deciding to censor in this story is true. We have it factually. We know verbatim that this is an accurate thing. I’m going to give you an example. I was working at a place where an individual who was thought to be very philanthropic, she was thought to be, you know, a big high profile name in the world of philanthropy and certain nonprofit organizations had killed herself. And a lot of people like, oh, there’s parts of this story we don’t want to talk about for reasons because it intertwines with politicians. It got difficult as you went up the tree branches of that discussion. And so many news organizations in a small community simply left out information that I was adamant we should be talking about. And people were telling me, no, no, no. How dare you think that that’s something that should be talked about? And then eventually it does come out. That’s the other thing about the truth is eventually it comes out and there was a bunch of other details to the story about potential embezzlement of money and other things that made it not look like the individual who people in the community really thought was was like a great person. I had lived up to that standard privately to the level that people assumed. And so it was just interesting to me to go through that because the people who are telling you we can’t talk about this, we can’t talk about that, we’re usually couching it in some sort of this is for the betterment of people. Like we’re protecting people. We’re not going to make people more likely to hurt themselves or do this, do whatever it is that we think they’re going to do in response to this information, even though it’s… I mean, another crazy story nationally that you remember that lives in this same world is the story about the trans shooter. And people didn’t want to talk about it. Well, we don’t want to talk about it. I just knocked something over. Ignore the thing that fell in the studio here as I’m talking to you. Sorry about that. No one’s attacking me for saying the truthful things I’m saying on the radio right now. But all this stuff about the trans shooter and the manifesto. And how dare this person potentially target a school, a faith-based school and hurt people because of their unique and I would think mentally unhealthy position in life. And this would be the individual that I’m talking about specifically and all the things that were in that manifesto that showed how mentally unhealthy this person was. But darn it, if we say that the trans person was unhealthy, we’re gonna cause a whole bunch of things in society to go the wrong way and we just can’t tell the truth here. How dare media continue to feel that way? How dare media continue to disrespect the audience it has or the audience it’s afraid it has? Because the other stance in this is that if there are people who aren’t asking these questions, news media likes those individuals. They like the people who hear their news story and think that’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God. And honestly, the people who pretend like they were as tricked as anybody else are unnerving to me. Like, oh, we didn’t know until we had to know because the public knew that we knew this information, and then eventually we admit it. But so, to me, the big takeaway to get back to the actual issue at hand with McAllen, Texas, is that a 27-year-old radical person decided to arm themselves with tactical gear and open fire on federal agents for reasons yet to be determined, But a decent assumption can be made, at least for now, that we think we’re going to figure out that this was motivated by the person believing that race, you know, was unfairly being, you know, attacked or something, that they were racially motivated. that to try to harm people that are protecting our border and so essentially uh… you know is this whole thing plays out as all these discussions play out uh… that the biggest thing that media will inevitably do is claim what they didn’t didn’t know and when they did and didn’t know it based on us asking questions so as i said before i’ll say again i love demanding the truth from media because eventually it works And I hate when media says, how dare you ask those questions? The conspiracy theorists, how dare they dive into their rabbit holes and say things that they’re going to say? Now, granted, as I said before in the show, and I’ll say again, having a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean you have a conspiracy fact. And I know it’s very hard to get from theory to fact here on a lot of this stuff if news media is unwilling to tell you the truth. which a lot of times they are. But nonetheless, if you keep asking the questions, you at least hold their feet to the fire as best you can. But this story is uniquely awful and uniquely interesting to hear from places like CNN that have promoted apps that would help more radical, far-left, crazy people try to target, harm, and take the lives of police, border patrol agents. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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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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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Time for Rapid Fire Quick Five, as she does every hour on the show. Let’s do this. Ozzy Osbourne reunited with his band for an epic performance for Black Sabbath and also said thank you to the fans who were going crazy for the end of the show. I believe I have some of that audio.
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Coming to our final song for you, Heather. I just want to say to you on behalf of the guys in Black Sabbath and myself, your support over the years has made it all possible for us to live the lifestyle we live. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you. We love you.
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Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart, he says, as he is dealing with Parkinson’s disease and he was sitting in a giant throne chair, which was awesome as he was doing this performance. But Ozzy Osbourne says the last performance, last song Black Sabbath is ever going to do as a group together, and it feels like that’s obviously true. But a really cool moment in the world of music. Is a master’s degree worth it anymore? Gen Z grads have seen higher unemployment rates than most other generations when it comes to obtaining your master’s. The biggest reason for this is usually that a lot of people who are in those jobs and have master’s degrees don’t want to leave them. So people who are getting this degree and trying to start out their career at a certain level are finding that those jobs aren’t really open. And if they are open, there are people with more experience and not just the document that are getting them. So a lot of Gen Z is asking the question early in their professional life if this document has any value. I would say two things about this real quick. First, I do think higher education is about brainwashing people. A lot of places are. So I think that not doing that is not so bad. But I also think that obtaining this degree or a higher learning degree, it’ll eventually pay off. Will it pay off for you in your 20s and 30s? Maybe not. But there might be a point down the road where people need someone in an established position who they’re looking for certain experience in. And maybe there’s no one really coming along the table that has that because a lot of people aren’t finding these jobs. Inevitably, they need you. So I do think that getting this degree, if you want to ensure that toward the tail end of your professional career, you have as many options as possible. It makes sense. This comes from a radio guy who does not have a master’s degree. I’m just saying it, putting it out there. I’m not trying to overvalue education, though, because a lot of bad, a lot of negative is going to be told to you in those places that you’re going to have to not listen to if you’re going to survive them. Elon Musk is creating his own party officially. He had talked about creating the American Party if the big, beautiful bill passed, which it did. It passed the House. It wound up being signed by the president on the 4th of July. So that’s that’s a thing that’s in the past now. It’s the big, beautiful law from this point moving forward. So Elon wants to create something that sounds eerily similar to parties that have existed in the past. And whether or not that party would actually be successful, who knows? I will say one thing about this. If you wanted to pick a candidate, a face for your brand new America party, the person you’d most want to lead it. And I know he’s incapable of being elected a third time is President Trump. That’s the person you would have wanted at the forefront of a party that’s not claiming to be conservative and or a Democratic that’s claiming to be its own thing. Because I think he actually has a lot of people that are only Republican candidates. Because of him, like they actually see a lot of rhinos and a lot of problems with the party, but they’re willing to vote for him. So is there anyone else on this planet that could actually attract enough voters to succeed against the two major parties? I think the answer is probably no. I can’t think of anyone else, even famous celebrity people, who’d be capable of doing that without just harming the Republican Party more than helping it. Because right now you think of this as an alternative party that’s going to drain votes and allow Democrats to win a whole lot of races. Although I guess Elon has said he’s going to focus on maybe some specific Senate races and other things at first to try to get some wins for the American Party before jumping up that ladder to harder races like the office of president. We will see. But it does sound a lot like the no names party or anything, no labels party and a lot of other things that have existed before and don’t necessarily do terribly well. And then one other thing, the U.S. is set to make several trade announcements in the next 48 hours. This is according to the Treasury secretary and the president of the United States. A bunch of letters and stuff that went out. So I actually, you know, I’ll talk about that deeper. It’ll be more than just a quick five coming up after the break. The U.S. is hopefully going to demonstrate why all the tariff threats were actually a good thing and a very good thing in the very near future. We will see that more coming up in a bit. This is 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. A bunch of stuff out there to discuss, even when it feels like there’s only a couple stories that are at the forefront of news. DLash, DanaLash, RadioNX on Twitter to stay connected to her. At RadioCraigC, if you want to connect with me. An idiot, a horrible person, tried to attack people in tactical gear at the border in McAllen, Texas. That person was killed. They were subdued. They were whatever you want to call them. He was stopped. He was shown the reason that you don’t charge at a U.S. Customs and Border Agency with a gun opening fire. At least one officer was injured, shot in the knee. I believe they’ll be okay. Another couple other officers were hurt, but I don’t think that they’re harm or their injuries are or serious in nature and again uh… in the easy pivot an easy part of this conversation can be how many people in media seem to be begging for this to happen and then it does happen and they pretend as though they’re upset about it that’s just one big story out there of course the ongoing discussion about camp mystic in texas and in general the flash flooding that occurred there eighty two people died uh… and a lot of uh… people now coming out of the woodwork saying that this organization is responsible for that organization responsible And even the National Weather Service is saying, we warn people, we did our best. But this was a uniquely crazy event that materialized very quickly and made it a situation that unfortunately had the level of harm it did. But it’s an awful, awful story. And it’s crazy to see people almost celebrate it, which I’m saying actually truthfully, because a lot of the left seemed happy. to blame all of this on Trump and the people who voted for Trump that they envisioned to be in this area, 27 children died. And yet that’s the takeaway for some that is uniquely horrible. Those are big stories out there. Some other things I want to talk about. It is interesting to hear that President Trump and then other members of the administration are saying they expect a whirlwind of trade deals over the next 24 to 48 hours. That letters have been sent out, I think, is the way that Trump said it. President Trump said it and others. But if this is true, if this actually occurs, I know it’ll feel like a nothing story compared to the things I just mentioned a moment ago. uh… but it would be interesting to see how all of those terror threats and all the freaking out about it i mean if you rewind the clock essentially this is what happened trump takes office he says that he wants brand new trade deals with most of the the countries in the world because they take advantage of us we have tremendous trade deficits with a bunch of countries who put roadblocks into getting our product well then also you know, creating scenarios where they demand to get our product as cheaply as possible from them, and then also, you know, et cetera, et cetera, take ways to gouge us for the things that come across from them to us. There’s just so many different ways where the trade deficit becomes alarmingly hilarious, and how much red tape and decision-making by other countries is involved in causing it to be as extreme as it is. and the fact the United States and other leaders have just often tolerated this. They’re just like, that’s fine. Cost of doing business as a uniquely rich country is we get taken advantage of by everybody else. And essentially one of the reasons, I’ll say this quickly, and I know this is a dumbed down version of talking about this issue, but one of the reasons China is as successful as it is as a country today is because of us and how much we outsourced production of things to them at a lower cost. But anyway, If all these trade deals come across and are much better, what’s funny about it is that all the freaking out again and again and again over tariffs never materialized to actually being a thing uniquely damaging to our economy as we’re having gangbuster days on Wall Street and as we really need to start lowering some of those interest rates to get back to a world that responds to the economy that we have. which seems to be something uniquely unwilling to happen because of political reasons, for people in charge of the Fed and whatnot. But I digress. As I say that, it’s amazing to see the end result of this story and to reflect back on the months of coverage of it from all the different angles and all the places it was covered because of how profoundly different the end result is going to be or is likely to be, at least right now. There’s so much potentially there. And again, if this actually happens in the next 24 to 48 hours, amazing. If not, I guess we’ll continue to debate back and forth what’s really happening and is something good or not good. And the same is true about the amount of people being deported from this country. I will say that as well. There’s a lot of reactions in places in media and whatnot and honestly all over social media of people being upset that people who are here illegally are not being allowed to stay, that they’re being removed. And honestly, that might be the catalyst to something like the story about McAllen, that someone wants to attack a Border Patrol agency with their last name Mosqueda because they’re racially motivated to do something they think is happening for race reasons and not because people are here illegally. People are committing a crime. I think even Jasmine Crockett out of Texas said that this country should feel terrible for the things they’re doing. I think I have a piece of audio from Jasmine Crockett.
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As far as I’m concerned, you randomly kidnapping folk and you throwing them out of the country against their civil rights, against their constitutional rights. And frankly, how would they feel if some other country decided that they were going to start throwing people randomly in our country?
SPEAKER 31 :
I’m sorry, I love that last part. Isn’t that what’s happening? Aren’t we having a lot of people just randomly getting thrown into our country? You don’t think any of those are government-facilitated, where people are being sent here that the other places don’t want to keep, and they see the giant wide-open border that existed with the last administration, so they swing through these doors? Are you really asking us that question? But the reason I brought this up, and the reason I tie it to the tariff deals, is that what if it also benefits us tremendously? What if the economy gets even better because people who are working certain jobs start getting paid more money to work them because they don’t have to compete against people who are willing to take less money because they’re here illegally? And those people who were here illegally were being taken advantage of, so it’s in their best interest to need to have certain paperwork in order to work these jobs, to have legal status in our country, not be illegally here. All of that makes sense. So what is the end result of all of these discussions and all of these things that you get told are going to be horrible, terrible, that society will never recover from them and the democratic country that we live in? the Constitutional Republic is what they should say, a country that we live in will never be the same. All those things get touted again and again and again. And at the end of all of it, you see, and this might be, again, a reaction to the big, beautiful bill as a whole and what it does for our economy, what it does for our country. If people rush back to create products here the way that Trump has said they would. And I’m not saying that will happen. I’m just saying there’s a chance that these things could happen, and it might be pretty good. Another piece of audio that’s gone viral, CNN’s Dana Bash was thoroughly schooled on Medicaid work requirements. This was funny. And this, again, is tied to some of those changes and how they’re talked about in media versus the reality of them. But this was a back and forth about Medicaid and all the horrible things that the big, beautiful bill is doing. And then the person on the other side sitting there thinking, You don’t know any of this correctly. You have no concept of what the actual thing says and what’s going to occur. And let me just go ahead and demonstrate that to you in about a minute and a half. Here we go.
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I’m sure you’ve seen and heard a lot of the concern, including and especially from Republicans who are the most vocal in Congress about the fact that those work requirements are going to be very cumbersome to actually prove. And it will inevitably force the people who need that Medicaid coverage off the rolls.
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Well, first of all, the Republicans are not the most vocal on this. It is a group of Democrats who unfortunately seem to think that poor people are stupid. I don’t think poor people are stupid. I think they have agency.
SPEAKER 31 :
Amazing! I’m sorry, that already. And I’ve said this a bunch about the way the Democrats treat radio listeners or media consumers or the American people in general. They essentially think they’re stupid. And the way they talk to you is that you’re too dumb to understand anything unless I tell it to you exactly the way I want to. And I think not only do the… poor people or any people that we’re discussing in this term in this situation have agency. I think they also have capability. They have the ability to go on social media, go here, go here, do whatever, and find the truth for themselves. Look for multiple sources of any of this information. Again, more talking about media than Medicaid and Medicare. But I love this initial response to the discussion. You seem to be treating people like they’re idiots if they’re in need of Medicaid and Medicare.
SPEAKER 23 :
And I think to have them register twice a year for these benefits, that is not a burden. But these people who want to infantilize the poor and those who need these Medicaid benefits are alarmist.
SPEAKER 26 :
Yeah, but my impression. Okay.
SPEAKER 31 :
Sorry. I really love that part. I love when Dana Lash is like, but I don’t know what to say now. I have no road. She had probably a bunch of options for his response, and she did not expect that with where to go. Here’s what she says next.
SPEAKER 26 :
The party is that historically wanted to cut through the red tape and not create more red tape. But I do want to move on because… Well, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 23 :
But… We’ve also wanted to put in work requirements, which somehow was very popular under Bill Clinton, was popular under President Obama, and this Democratic Party blew out the deficit in 2020, and they never want to bring it back. But work requirements even pull well with the median Democratic voter, maybe not the…
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So I’m just saying to you as politely as I can that you’re an idiot and I’m doing way, way better in this discussion than you are right now. That was excellently done. That was professionally done to a degree that some of us aren’t capable of when we wind up arguing with someone that wants to just change facts and reshape things to fit agenda, to fit narratives, as opposed to actually just tell the freaking truth. I feel like that’s got to be the campaign of somebody somewhere in media in the near future is that they just look at you and go, we’re going to tell you the freaking truth. I mean, Dana does this every day. So Dana certainly could say this, but there’s a lot of people that could be out there saying, hey, do you want the freaking truth? We will give it to you regardless of if it damages us or damages, you know, the other side of the aisle. That’s not the point. The point is telling you the truth. In case in point to that might be this story about Epstein, which I won’t get too much here, but I will just say that the fact that Dan Bongino is one of the two anchors, one of the two names behind the FBI right now, that is telling us that there’s nothing there there. With Epstein and a potential client list and, you know, his suicide not being a suicide. It’s amazing. The reason it’s amazing is because Bongino for years in his media places would absolutely be telling you something else was going to happen. And then he got in a position of power. He actually looked into stuff. And he’s telling us the truth the way the other administration refused to. They could have put any of this information out. Anything that’s being released right now that the FBI has, they had during the Biden administration. And whether or not there’s some stuff that they used to have that they don’t have anymore that they destroyed, I don’t know. We can never answer that question, sadly. At least the current administration can’t. But the stuff that they are putting out is stuff we had for the last few years. And so the big question is, why would Democrats want a conspiracy theory to remain because they don’t answer the question definitively? And why would they allow Republicans to do it, assuming maybe they never would? And yet they are. Republicans are putting the real information out there, or at least these individuals are, to their own personal harm. It doesn’t make their brand look uniquely good today, and they don’t seem to care because they’re going to tell you the freaking truth no matter what. And I love that. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. This is 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. It’s time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio and X on Twitter to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to be one of the 400 or so people that follow me on that platform that I barely use, that’d be awesome. I’ll go ahead and add to that. Florida just recently added a super speeder law. Anyone that goes over 100 miles an hour can get caught with a unique violation in Florida. You actually land in jail for 30 days. Within hours of this being implemented, a guy got arrested doing 104 miles per hour in Florida because darn it, it’s Florida. And this is a Florida guy. This is audio of the guy being pulled over and talking to the lieutenant who was telling him about the brand new law that he has already violated shortly after it became a thing.
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The reason being, stop the speed limit at 70 miles an hour. You’re doing 104.
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If you’re doing 50 miles over the posted speed limit, or again, 100 or more, you could face 30 days in jail and a $500 fine, or both. If you do it a second time, it could be 90 days in jail, $1,000 fine, or both.
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Not good. Yeah, he was doing 104. When he’s supposed to be doing 70, that’s too fast. That’s 30 days in jail for you, sir, and that’s a Florida man doing Florida man things. The super speeder law is probably going to catch more people doing that. You know, I’ll say one thing about this. And I only lived in Florida for a very short amount of time. I lived in the Midwest for a long time. I live in Texas now. I did live in Florida for just a little bit. It’s uniquely tempting on the highways of a Florida, especially on a nice day, to try to figure out how fast your car goes. And every single vehicle I’ve ever owned, I eventually found out how fast they go. I have a nicer car now. Uh, I usually do not have a nice car. So finding out how fast my vehicles go is never really a risk. I haven’t done it yet with the current vehicle. If I do, uh, I don’t know. But it’s usually a back road or something. You choose for that. I’m not saying this is good. I’m certainly not advocating for any of this. Break the law, get caught. That’s what happens. But I understand the temptation, I guess, as far as Florida man goes. And again, I only lived there for a little time. I’m not sure how much I became a Florida man mentally myself. But I get the temptation. I do. But super speeder law, that’s going to be rough for you, bud. St. Petersburg, Florida, a guy had a bomb threat that he called into the St. Pete Clearwater International Airport there. The reason the guy did it is probably just because he wanted to get on the flight later. The identified suspect is 27-year-old Taj Taylor, who they say told another passenger that his laptop was a bomb. The passenger who was heading to a different airport, they were to plane but expected to arrive at their destination at 8.09. What I think is also interesting about this is the guy and what he chose to do and how he chose to do it and how annoying it would be to have your flight plans delayed, rerouted, changed in any way, shape, or form because of a moron who wants to pretend that their laptop is a bump. And then you’ve got to believe it. You’ve got to accept it. You’ve got to talk about it and have other people investigate it. All those things have to happen. Because a Florida man wants to be a dumb moron for some reason. Another guy out there, 60 years old, lost $1.6 million in an elaborate investment scam, the man is saying. It was fronted by a woman that he’d known for many years. Real estate scams are becoming all too significant of a thing. Authorities say Del Carmen wound up stealing $1.6 million. from a guy named Jose Luis Fernandez. Now, this is in sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Through an elaborate real estate fraud scheme, Fernandez’s life will never be the same. He said he’s lost everything. He’s uniquely upset. Of course he is about all this. But the question remains, Why you go all the way 1.6 million deep into something that’s not returning funds to you? Why do you keep believing that you need to give more? The initial investment was like $842,000. And then when Carmen kept coming back to the guy asking for more money, he kept giving it to her. And it might be because of how long again they’d known each other. or whatever else it is. And that’s really the most tragic, the saddest part of the investment scheme like this is that, you know, if someone’s taken advantage of, there’s no way to recover the funds. So that part is probably over forever. Yes, that’s one story out there. One last one with a Florida guy involved in peeping into people’s windows who thankfully got arrested for that, because of course he did. Florida man on a Monday, man, crazy after a holiday. 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. So many things to talk about. I do want to do a rapid-fire version of some of the biggest stories out there right now. Of course, there’s an ongoing discussion about a tragedy that happened in Texas. This happened when some flooding of the Guadalupe River caused a lot of people to be in harm’s way very, very quickly. Essentially, four months’ worth of rain happened in parts of Texas that are used to rain in general. But the reason to bring up this topic and to talk about it all, other than to state that it’s a tragedy, and our hearts should go out, our prayers should go out to the families of the loved ones, including children, 27 children, so far as the numbers currently are updated, that have been lost to this. The other reason to bring it up is that people have politicized this and claimed that it was because of staffing changes by Doge or by President Trump. at the National Weather Institute or the National Weather Service that may have caused some of these problems. The Weather Service has come out defiantly defending themselves, saying that they warned people in the area they did just as much as they would possibly have done if they had more staff or not. That has nothing to do with them. And one of the things they actually said is that there might be a lot of fatigue in Kerr County for people and warnings because they get warned a lot and nothing quite like this usually happens because that area is actually thought to be one of the more dangerous areas in the country as far as likelihood of bad weather events are concerned. And nonetheless, as I say all that, the part that’s not lost on me is that it’s absolutely horrific to turn this into discussion about whose fault it is politically, when the truth is that it’s an utter tragedy and it seems to be an act of God. And as I said before, and I’m a person of faith, Catholic, that doesn’t mean that you blame God, and I understand people who get out there and yell and scream and get frustrated if you have faith or if you don’t, but it might be a moment to really turn to your faith and really believe uh… in a couple things one of those things as dark as it is to maybe say it is that your loved ones are are now in a better place uh… as horrible as it is to lose loved ones as horrible as this tragedy would be something might give you any grain of solace i’m not sure if if it does or not is the idea that they’re in heaven uh… especially children uh… but again like none of that it pales in comparison to having a discussion about that the pain in the tragedy of this and why people need to politicize it even celebrated There’s a local doctor in Houston that Patriot Talk 920 outed. Patriot Talk 920 is a radio station that I happen to work at. This Dana show actually airs on a Dana affiliate. But they helped raise, they, we helped raise the alarm to an individual who put out on social media a celebratory post about how they, were sad for any children and innocent people, essentially, I’m paraphrasing, who lost their lives, any non-MAGA voters, but that everybody else more or less deserved it. Again, I’m not quoting verbatim the teacher, and I actually don’t even want to say her name anymore because I don’t want to give her any sort of weird publicity she might have wanted. But she’s been fired. And thank God the organization who employed her made that decision and made that decision quickly because of how awful it is. But she wasn’t alone. There were a ton of other social media comments and people out there saying horrible things that seemed to be said. How can our differences be this far apart? that people cheer for death. I mean, when someone almost killed President Trump when he’s running for office, there were people that were sad that the bullet didn’t kill the man. And it’s just surreal to see versions of this. And I know that that’s unique because it’s a politician. And so maybe you’d think that more people would act like human or act with humanity when they see the issue is affecting people who are not even politically important. They’re humans. They’re everyday you and me people. Although politicians are also those people. But nonetheless, as I say that, it’s still the lack of humanity is stunning in some of these discussions. And it’s just it’s awful. One thing I do want to praise, though, in light of this tragedy is a rescue swimmer. His name is Scott Ruskin. He saved 165 people by being dropped into this chaos after hours of being on a helicopter trying to get in. He’s a Coast Guard swimmer. He’s a toxic man, is what some people might want to call him. And apparently that is a tremendously good thing. But I loved his Good Morning America interview he did today because of how nonchalantly he talks about the incredible danger that he faced and how he faced it like it was no big deal and saved a lot of people’s lives, including a lot of children. This person deserves… tremendous praise today and honestly the fact that he was raised to be a toxic man who does good things who acts like the the bad bleep that he is is wonderful for me here we go scott ruskin joins us now scott thank you for joining us this morning tell us what happened
SPEAKER 28 :
Hey, good morning, everyone. Yeah, so I’ll kind of give you guys a quick synopsis of what was going on. The Coast Guard launched us and decided to send a rescue crew from Air Station Corpus Christi at about 6.30, 7 a.m. on Friday, the 4th of July. I just happened to be on the duty crew with Ian Hopper, Blair Boucher, Seth Reeves, some of our crew members in the Coast Guard. And, yeah, they sent us out. We kind of encountered some pretty serious weather, some of the worst flying we’ve ever dealt with personally. It took us, you know, what should have been an hour flight, probably took us about seven or eight just to get into the landing zone. Once made about four different approaches trying to get in, we were able to get our boots on the ground with the Air National Guard, Department of Public Safety for Texas, game wardens. And we decided to leave me on scene at Camp Mystic. That was kind of our main triage site we were trying to help out with. We decide, hey, if we leave the rescue somewhere on scene, we’ll have more space in our Dolphin MH65. So based on that, I got on scene, boots on the ground at Camp Mystic. Kind of discovered I was the only person there as far as first responders go. So yeah, I had about 200 kids mostly, all scared, terrified, cold, having probably the worst day of their life. And I just kind of needed to triage them, get them to a higher level of care and get them off though.
SPEAKER 31 :
It’s amazing. to hear him talk about this like it’s no big deal. Like, it’s incredible. I know humility is an amazing thing from anybody, especially a hero like this. But I just, I can’t get over how well-trained he sounds. And I was like, yeah, you know, they decided to just leave me. Chaotic day, craziness, took us multiple hours to get into this place. And when we finally got there, we all discussed it. We’re like, yeah, just leave me. I’ll stay behind. I’ll save everybody’s life. No big deal. Just a typical day working this. I love that he also says he happened to be the one there. You know, because that is the way that a lot of military guys and women act. Like, well, I was the one that needed to act in this moment. I was trained to do it, so I’m going to do what I was trained to do. Here’s a little bit more from him.
SPEAKER 28 :
A flood zone with a lot of the U.S. 60 Army helicopters.
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Talk about how that works. You’ve got 165, close to 200 kids there. How do you get them out? Just one by one?
SPEAKER 28 :
Yeah, sir, it’s a great question. Yes, so the United States Army National Guard was landing their 60s with Task Force One, some of their rescue swimmers, and they were able to land. We kind of came up with two different landing zones. There’s one off an archery field and then one at a soccer field. So, yeah, we were able to kind of land those 60s in there. And then I was kind of the main guy as far as grabbing people. usually like 15 to 10 kids at a time, maybe one adult with them, and bringing them over to those 60s and getting them to a different LZ.
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It is incredible. You know, I don’t tell this story often on the radio, and I actually, it’s not even remotely close to the situation that this Coast Guard is talking about, but I grew up in New Jersey, and I remember a flood that happened that totally ruined our house, and we didn’t leave. I don’t remember why or if it was like very quick, the same kind of thing that happened here, But the neighbor next door lived on a hill. And I remember the guy, the dad, he had three kids of his own and a wife. He came over, he knocked on our door as the flooding started to get bad. And he’s like, hey, you guys need help. And my mom, a mother of four kids, a single mother of four kids, was like, yes, we need help. So this guy, this neighbor, like took my brother and I, who were little kids at the time, and just brought us across to his house. And then I think the girls, I got across next and my mom got across last. And eventually we’re all just in his house and very sadly watching our house get ruined by a flood. But happy to be there and happy that some guy just decided to jump in the water and save us. And so this dude did this for tons of people. And it’s amazing to hear this story. And again, just the nonchalantness of it. And I know the political twist of calling it toxic masculinity. I don’t think Scott Ruskin would describe himself as a toxic man. But a lot of people might have described him that during his life. Because he’s just a bad bleep who does bad bleep things. This is amazing. And so I do love this story in light of a tragedy. And these are the kind of things we should be talking about. We should be having a deeper discussion about this than some of the other things out there. Now, granted, I also think one of the bigger news stories today is the gunman in tactical gear who attacked the Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas. He learned that you shouldn’t do that because he was subdued and or just killed. He was stopped, prevented, whatever word you want to use. He was shot. The threat was ended. He did hurt at least one Border Patrol agent, shot a guy in the knee. That guy will be OK. At least two other border agents were injured in this attack. And it’s crazy. And the guy out of Michigan and I have the CNN audio because it makes me the most mad of any audio that I’ll play today on this topic. But the thing that I can’t get over is this. Some media is trying to pretend as though the guy’s last name isn’t what it is because it’s a a Hispanic sounding last name. It’s a Latin sounding last name. And whether or not the guy is from the United States or from somewhere else, his last known address was in Michigan. All of that. It feels like news is just trying to avoid those questions by referring to him as Ryan Lewis instead of his actual name, which is Ryan Lewis Mosqueda. And that obviously is something that they’re too afraid of. uh… these media outlets in telling the truth on because they think it’s gonna radicalize somewhat although they’re totally fine telling you about apps that help you track ice agents that are coming in and out of your community with a seven hundred percent increase in the amount of violence that ice agents are facing they’re totally fine talking about that because they think cooler heads will prevail they think you’ll just use it for the reasons they say which according to them are just to have people who are maybe going to get caught being here illegally run And so media pretends both things exist. They pretend people can hear one story and filter it the way they want them to filter it to not do the horrible thing that people are doing. And then they refuse to tell you the story about something else because they’re afraid you’re going to act on it and not believe that you could be smart enough to not do that. But here’s the way CNN discussed this story.
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We got multiple teams working this story as we learn more about this breaking news. But apparently a man showed up to this facility this morning with tactical gear and a rifle opening fire on those agents at the front. Fire was returned. Dozens of shots was fired. And we have confirmed that man was killed in this. He’s a bit identified as Ryan Lewis, 27 years old. But as we show you these images, obviously very concerning. This man with a rifle and that tactical gear showing up. You can see the image of him down. Right there.
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Ryan Lewis Mosqueda is the guy’s name. And I still think the individual deserves the punishment. I’m not trying to tell you that anybody who has a last name like his now deserves to be looked at like they’re about to, you know, attack a border facility in McAllen, Texas. I’m not insane. And I know that the left likes to pretend that when you say one thing, you mean the insane, ridiculous, exaggerated thing. But as I say that, you also need to tell us the truth. The whole story. Trump is going to visit Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Netanyahu. and have a conversation. A lot of people are reporting, Axios among them, that the hope is that they will align in their efforts to end the war in Gaza and that anything that may have happened after President Trump believed that things like a ceasefire were in effect And then some additional strikes occurred that hopefully President Trump can cause this situation to change moving forward so that when we expect something, that’s the thing we actually get. President Trump or peacemaker in chief has had a lot of successes recently in finding ways to end conflicts. He won’t be praised for it because of the amount of people who hate him, and he’ll certainly be attacked for anything they think they can blame on him, but nonetheless, it’s pretty interesting. And then also, just one last thing for news stories out there, tariffs. Apparently, tariffs might have been wildly effective. The United States, over the next two days, is likely to announce a tremendous amount of trade deals right before tariffs swing back into effect. If that occurs the way they’re saying it’s going to occur, Media will refuse to give him credit. Once again, it’ll seem like a good thing happened. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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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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This is the Quick Five on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio on X on Twitter. To stay connected to all things her, at Radio Craig C. If you want to help me have a not embarrassing amount of followers on that social media page for me. But that’s up to you. Jurassic World crushed box office expectations. It still came in under many of the other Jurassic Park movies that have been released. But $318 million globally. $147 million domestically. A whole lot of money. raised by scarlett johansson yelling about dinosaurs along with marshalla ali and others i just thought this was a really interesting story because expectations had the money down to 250 260 and it went way above that so a good job jurassic world for bringing people out to the box office on the holiday people will go see movies you just got to have the movies be good Mexico defeated the U.S. for the nation’s 10th Gold Cup title. I was there at that game. Kind of funny. And I’m going to definitely praise Game Time Tickets because they really do the thing they say they’re going to do, which is as the game gets closer, prices on tickets drop dramatically. And if you even wait for the game to have started, which may or may not have happened with my wife and I, since we actually live relatively close to NRG, that stadium, and she’s from Mexico, so she wanted to see this game. If you wait a little bit into the game, prices go down even more. We still got nosebleed seats. And that was a tremendous discussion between the wife and I, because I was like the cheapest possible ticket seems to still be valuable. And she agreed. But part of me was tempted when the price kept going down for the better seats to be like, well, if we’re spending money on this. But we went the air. We aired on the side of spend as little as possible. So we got in the game for a ridiculous deal and got to see it at least a little bit more than half of it. So that was a lot of fun, even if it had a sad ending for anyone here from the United States. Although I would say that stadium was uniquely pro Mexico. I did not feel like that game was happening in this side of the border based on the amount of people that were cheering when Mexico took the lead. One other thing out there, Costco revealed several items that you definitely should stop using immediately. I have bought from them two different brands of window air conditioner, a Danby one and a Madea one. You need to stop using them if you bought them between 2001 and 2002 or 2001 and 2005, respectively, apparently for horrible growth of mold reasons. This is Craig 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. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. DLash, DanaLashRadio on Twitter to stay connected to her at RadioCraigC. This is just something I keep throwing out for me. My following is very small, so if you decide to follow it, Don’t expect much there, but I wouldn’t hate it to have more people paying attention out of my Twitter. All right, let’s move on. Trump’s health bill is likely to have effects that won’t be felt till after the midterm elections. That’s according to Axios and some others reporting on this. Here’s why I find this amazing. The big, beautiful bill has now been signed as the big, beautiful law. It’s going to have a tremendous amount of impact on our economy, on our taxes, on all kinds of things. And the amount of people who are saying it’s going to be bad. They’re like all the negatives, the horrible deficit things, all that stuff. they’re telling you you might not notice it until after you voted people into power again because they want you to vote the other side into power but they don’t want you to do it based on your own personal experience that’s something i love about the way the left specifically handles things is when they say to you like don’t worry about what you’re feeling or seeing that’s not important You need to just worry about what we’re telling you is coming, whether it ever happens. So that’s one story out there. Trump has also sent out 12 more tariff letters today. This is letting certain countries know that deals need to be made or tariffs are going to be changing. Japan is on the list of people that are going to have pretty significant tariffs since they’ve balked at actually doing a deal with us. If all of this ends with us having way better trade deals, way less trade deficit with a bunch of countries in the world, It is a win for President Trump. People don’t seem to want to admit that, but it would be a win for him if that does occur. We’re still yet to see enough deals come across the table, although there is a claim that a lot of that’s going to be happening today and tomorrow, too. So I will continue to wait and react to the actual information I have and not do the thing Axios is doing about the Medicaid, Medicare changes, which, by the way, are kind of ridiculous. I do have some audio I want to play in just a second. of uh… the way that certain uh… political people or certain administrative officials i’d just absolutely owned uh… the left and how they want to talk about medicaid medicare and all these different changes and actually use like real fax information instead of opinions that people then pretend are actual fax information when in fact they are not up before i get there another thing i wanted to mention uh… there is a lot of news about tesla and their shares diving This is after Elon Musk announced that he was going to start the American Party because he is upset with the way things happened as far as the big, beautiful law, big, beautiful bill is concerned. He wanted it to go differently than it wound up going. And so he’s launching his own party. The party sounds eerily similar. To many of the things that were part of the No Labels Party or other parties that never really took off. So you’ll see what the end results are. Elon Musk keeps saying that he’s going to focus on winnable smaller cases or smaller races at first. And then eventually start to grow the party to win more significant things down the road. But who knows? We’ll see if any of that at all happens. But that is essentially the conversation with Elon Musk and how much it harms the brand Tesla or any of the other brands that he’s in charge of. And it seems to be kind of significant. So will he have the amount of money? I’m sure he will to actually damage the political system as much as he wants to or change it as much as he wants to, whether you like or dislike what he’s going to do. I think he’ll just siphon off votes. for conservatives and republicans which means democrats will be more likely to win races would not be good night a couple other things that are big news stories uh… dan bongino uh… cash patel ham bondi all the people that told you for a while that they were going to investigate at the epstein client list and jeffrey epstein’s mysterious death or his suicide They’ve come out and told you that there’s nothing there, that apparently all this stuff that even some of them really talked about and said, certainly Bongino, as a media personality, was assuming that there was going to be a deep rabbit hole here where a lot of information got exposed. uh… centrally that didn’t occur what i think is wonderful is that the people who’ve told us this information uh… did it at their own detriment meaning that it doesn’t make them look particularly great that the information that they promised us for years was going to be damaging isn’t But it demonstrates their willingness to tell us the truth no matter what it is, which the other administration before could have done. Biden’s team could have released all the things that Bongino and Patel and Bondi are releasing. And who knows what things could have existed that no longer exist because the people in charge can only work with the current information they have, the 300 gigabytes or whatever of data that they said they found on this. and tell us the simple truth about it uh… the white house press secretary caroline levitt was asked about this and this was part of her response on the uh… jeffrey epstein issue or the jeffrey epstein story and the end result of the uh… finishing of the you know investigation by the d o j and by the fbi re jeffrey epstein according to the report this systematic review revealed no incriminating client list
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So what happened to the Epstein client list that the Attorney General said she had on her desk?
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Well, I think if you go back and look at what the Attorney General said in that interview, which was on your network on Fox News. Go ahead.
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John Roberts said, DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients. Will that really happen? And she said, it’s sitting on my desk right now to review.
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Yes, she was saying the entirety of all of the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. That’s what the Attorney General was referring to, and I’ll let her speak for that. But again, when it comes to the FBI and the Department of Justice, they are more than committed to ensuring that bad people are put behind bars. They have an operation.
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Look, here’s what’s really interesting to me, too. You probably know that voice. That’s the deuce. That’s Peter Doocy. And what I love so much about this is that he’s actually holding the feet to the fire of the other side. This is something where he went viral all the time for the tough questions. that he asked the former White House press secretaries who worked for President Biden, and people said he was ridiculous, or they’d even make jokes about him. And Leavitt had to take some tough questions from him, including that one, because there is audio of Pam Bondi referring to the client list being on her desk. In the follow-up question that Fox News asked about this, she said that there was… Nothing that she had seen so far that had been like shocking to her because essentially that was the second question, which seems to align with the fact that there is no significant story here. I don’t know what you’re. You’re going to believe this. I don’t know if you’re going to believe that information was deleted and destroyed, which I can’t tell you that’s not true. That might be true. A part of me believes that that had to be what happened, too. But I can’t say that factually, so I can’t tell you that I know that definitively. Or you think that it’s still a cover-up? The odds of that, to me, are much lower. Because if Biden was in charge—well, was in charge. Actually, he wasn’t. Other people were. Whoever was in charge when Biden was in office, if they would have kept a secret, anything that’s incriminating to President Trump, that sounds insane like they they absolutely would put it out there no matter who of the damage they would have cared they were trying to kill trumpet roman jail but they really threw everything they had at the man so i i can’t imagine any any version of you know past history would have included burying something trump’s name was on it but so were other names and that seems to then be true about the current uh… people in charge as i doubt they do something to benefit president trump which is what the left-leaning conspiracy theorists are saying today which is weird because they didn’t care at all about the Epstein client list until rather recently. All right, another thing that I want to play, I referenced it a second ago before we take a break. This is Dana Bash trying to go after someone in the world of Medicaid and Medicare, and she just made the wrong pick. If you go for the U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Scott Besant, you better actually have the information necessary to demonstrate to him that what you’re saying is true and what he’s saying is false. If you ask him a question, a very leading one, and you get a bunch of things wrong, he’s going to come at you. He’s going to come at you in a way that was just so expertly done. Just chef’s kiss version of how this back and forth went. The Dana Bash of CNN at one point seemed to not know what she wanted to say next because she was stunned. But here it is.
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I’m sure you’ve seen and heard a lot of the concern. including and especially from Republicans who are the most vocal in Congress about the fact that those work requirements are going to be very cumbersome to actually prove. And it will inevitably force the people who need that Medicaid coverage off the rolls.
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Well, first of all, it’s the Republicans are not the most vocal on this. It is a group of Democrats who unfortunately seem to think that poor people are stupid. albany or people are stupid i think they have agency and i think they have them registered twice a year for these benefits it is not a burden it is amazing to hear the way to cnn also treats a lot of the people who watch their station like they’re more like the radius the democratic party does this a lot of the voters
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uh… the the party that tries to protect you from certain truths and information they can’t tell you as you won’t understand it correctly et cetera et cetera and so to say that poor people have agency is justin expert way to go about saying that i think that people are smart and they can use the systems and the, you know, technology that exists today to handle simple requirements, basic hurdle jumping that we need because of how fraught with abuse the system is. And just saying it like that, and Bass just saying they’re like, whoa, I didn’t know he was going to say that I’m calling people stupid and that he’s calling them smart on my own show.
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But these people who want to infantilize the poor and those who need these Medicaid benefits are alarmist.
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Yeah, but… My impression of the Republican Party is that… I love that but.
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It’s so good because of the delay.
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Historically, you’ve wanted to cut through the red tape and not create more red tape. But I do want to move on because… Well, no, no, no.
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But we’ve also wanted to put in work requirements, which somehow… that was very popular under Bill Clinton, was popular under President Obama, and this Democratic Party blew out the deficit in 2020, and they never want to bring it back. But work requirements even pull well with the median Democratic voter, maybe not the frame.
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You’re an idiot. is essentially what he’s saying to her, but he’s saying it in such a polite and awesome and well factually checked way that there’s nothing you can do about that. I love that she wanted to move on, but she wanted to jab in and he expertly parried that jab as well. Just fantastic. And honestly, obviously what a lot of people do want We want more hurdles because we want abuse to be removed from a system that is really supposed to just be there for people who absolutely need it. And it’s very different than saying we just want to end the program entirely and no one can have it anymore, which is what Democrats want to pretend Republicans are saying to then say that they’re heartless Republicans awful, terrible people that want to kill individuals. And a bunch of places have already said the amount of people they think the big, beautiful bill will kill is this number or that number, and no one has any idea how their math got where it did. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. This is 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. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about today and very little time to do any of the rest of this. There is a new law in Tennessee that makes it illegal to bully people, which it probably already was. But if you’re found guilty of it, you could have your license suspended if you’re a younger person or I think probably anybody. But here’s a little bit of audio of an attorney talking about the new law and some of the controversial reactions to it.
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A lot of these cases won’t go to trial. They’ll wind up getting resolved. Basically, if you’re convicted of this, your license is going to be suspended for the year. You can get a limited license, but you’re going to be stuck with that one year suspension.
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By the way, a limited license typically means you’re allowed to commute to and from work if you have a job that you need to get to via a vehicle. But if you’re found driving and you’re not actually commuting to or from a place of work, air in trouble or someone who has like a medical thing they have to deal with are there a couple things where you can prove that in this instance you were legally allowed to drive i don’t hate this as a punishment uh… i know that it seems to be an infringement on you know our fights uh… because the government is stepping into a place that it shouldn’t necessarily be stepping into and so there is cause for concern But bullying is uniquely damaging to kids, and there’s a whole lot of it that goes on. I would be curious, though, what they eventually define bullying as. Tennessee is a conservative state, and so is bullying gonna be something where one child is making another child feel bad about their physical appearance to a degree that that child might harm themself? That’s the kind of bullying I’d be worried about. Are they talking about politics? Are these adults that are having a conversation? with the decide someone is bullied because of the political uh… you know opinions one person has not the other one of course i hope that is not the case as it does feel like there’s a potential for a significant slippery slope here uh… but nonetheless getting kids to stop being jerks to other kids since involving the parents hasn’t seemed to work, does seem like a valuable thing to try to achieve. How you go about that, I’m not sure. This is one attempt being done, again, in a state that I’m more comfortable with it happening in because of the political slant of that state than another place, which is just me simply saying the truth. I would be much more worried if a place like Illinois were instituting this and what they determined to be, you know, Some sort of abuse or some sort of bullying because they would see a lot of things politically, at least the people in charge of that state would see a lot of things politically differently than I would. And they might encourage you to think of those things as bullying so they can throw whoever they want, who’s cow, or at least take away their license. All right, some other things out there. I thought this was interesting. A woman went viral for being a professional car sitter in New York City. She rides around in people’s vehicles so they don’t get towed by street sweepers and whatnot whenever they go on long vacations. So essentially they just give their keys to a stranger, much like babysitting your children, your pets, your house, house sitting. This is just car sitting and it’s unique to big cities. There is nothing more devastating. than showing up after a trip away and having tickets or something on your vehicle because it was in a place it should have been in uh… during the time you were gone not necessarily the day you parked it there but someone did a street cleaning you didn’t know was coming etcetera etcetera those things do matter uh… those things are annoying I don’t know if I just trust a random stranger who has a social media profile or some sort of advertisement line claiming they’re going to car sit for me. I think I’d rather have a friend or family member do that. But this girl is making a ton of money doing it. So more power to her. Another story out there I saw, which is crazy. There’s a woman who went viral for saying that she’s addicted to sunbathing. Her name is Megan. She’s 19 years old. She does not look the way you should look as a human being that’s tan because she is insanely, insanely tan. She said it’s become so much of a problem that she’s actually been banned by some of the local tanning salons that she goes to. And she’s also potentially afraid of cancer scares. She finds moles on her body from time to time. But she seems to be going viral partially because she’s also trying to brag about how tan she is. And I don’t know how to deal with that part of it. She seems to be much more proud. It seems like a mental health issue. But she seems to be much more proud of the extent of her tanning than she should be. And I know that people make all kinds of jokes politically about Trump or others. They call him Orange Man. This level of tanning that this woman has is actually the version worth things seem to be very, very bad and not okay for a person who should not, you know, naturally look the way she looks. This seems to be the real version of the thing. So I just, that ran through my mind too, is that all the people you might make fun of politically that you think have bad spray tans or something going on and no one usually looks like this individual. So really, I do hope that person gets help since a portion of them sharing online that they’ve been banned from tanning places and whatnot seems to be they’re still pretty proud of tanning. And then one last thing. A majority of childless dog owners say their lives revolve more around their pets than they should. This survey was asking essentially people without kids if they treat their pets like kids. And a whole bunch of places out there that demonstrate how much money you can spend on pets probably say that this is true. I felt bad when I read this story. I felt bad for anyone that does maybe lean too hard into your pet as a way to replace a child. And I am someone who didn’t have the joy of getting kids. My wife and I weren’t able to have them. And so we do have a pet dog. And so there are things that happen. But I feel bad whenever people seem to overly value something and not something else because they’re not the same thing. My dog is great. We’re never going to have a lovely conversation about certain stuff. All right. On that note, uplifting as it was, I’m out of here for the day. Dana is back tomorrow. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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