In this episode, Craig Collins fills in for Dana, navigating a series of pressing topics from media bias to political maneuvers. The episode kicks off with a critical look at how President Trump confronts media criticism head-on, in a manner that resonates with many Americans who remain skeptical of media objectivity. From there, the conversation turns to the tensions in Minneapolis, and how immigration and border policies have evolved under different administrations, highlighting the complexities of managing national security and humanitarian needs.
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make sure you’re following the podcast so you never miss an episode especially when the news gets crazy and while you’re there leave a quick rating and review it helps us get this show in front of more people who need some sanity in their day 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 d lash dana lash radio and x on twitter are great ways to stay connected to her i still call it twitter
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And I get told by young people I’m an old man for doing that. But anyway, yes, both of those places to follow her, to keep up to date with the show. Producer Steven, herself, everybody, they do a great job on all things social media. I’m envious of their social media and promoting it hard today because of how great it is. But anyway, let’s get into some things. First, I do enjoy every time the current president of the United States, President Trump, craps all over media to their faces. There’s nothing better to me than that, actually, because of the way other people do this. Other people say a negative thing, but don’t do it to your face. Like there’s a lot of ways where other people are weaker in the room or in the moment when you’re dealing with media that you think is biased. And most Americans think most media is biased nowadays. I always remind people of that when I watch Trump do something like this. Because someone out there, a lot of people out there who hate him, I just say this is bad no matter who it is, no matter when it happens. But remember, most people agree with him that media is crap. But here we go.
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You’re a loud person. Very loud. Can you answer the question? Why are you suing IRS? ABC fake news.
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Go ahead.
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I didn’t call on you. Go ahead, please. Go ahead.
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That’s so funny. I didn’t call on you. Go ahead, please. Go ahead. You’re very loud. You’re very annoying. And ABC is fake news. But yes, he did that. He does a lot. And I enjoy it every time it happens. And again, I remind people who hate it that he is in line with most of America in this. All right, let’s also play this real quick. This is the President of the United States responding to Tampon Tim or Tim Walls. This happened last week, but I thought it was interesting, too, to play today just because it’s more of this same crap where Democrats say they want the craziness of Minnesota or the temperature to be brought down. Whatever thing they say, and then they follow that up with the Nazis are attacking us. It’s kind of odd when you watch the two things one after the other. Like, man, we need to call for calm here and call for peace. But really, the people out in the streets are doing God’s work because the Nazis are here. That’s a weird two sentences, and they happen often for Democrats. But here’s President Trump’s response to it.
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On Minneapolis, Governor Tim Walz recently likened the conflict on the ground to Fort Sumter, sort of implying that this is the beginning of a civil war. Do you agree with that characterization? Do you feel like there’s a civil war brewing in Minneapolis?
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Does he know what Fort Sumter was? Or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? Now, this is, I was elected on law and order. I was elected on a strong border. You were. We had a border that allowed 25 million people to come in. Many were murderers. We did. We had 11,888 murderers.
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Yeah, here, I’m going to stop it there. One of the biggest things that’s not being talked about right now, at least in my opinion, or not enough, highlighted in this discussion, because you’ll hear a lot of political experts And I know some people in politics now in Texas, some people in the know who tell me all the things that the consultants are saying because we’re in the middle of a bunch of campaigns right now. And there’s a lot of concern on the conservative side of the aisle. You’ll hear this. on conservative media places to that people are turning on Trump they’re not happy with the way that things have been handled as far as Minneapolis or Minnesota goes as far as you know cleaning up the amount of people who are legally in this country and the thing always missing in that is this job is so much harder right now than it had to be because of how Biden handled the border while he was in office we had an influx of people who have come in in the last few years without any checks whatsoever. There was no version of we even remotely care who you are because the border was wide open and people knew it. And yeah, a lot of bad people came through, along with a lot of other people that came through. But a lot of very, very bad people. And Tom Holman is doing more to try to clean that up now and reframe the conversation to be what it’s actually about. One of the best things that I think Holman was doing last week was reading the list of things that people were guilty of that were being removed from this country. People who were harming children, people who were beating pregnant women. There were all kinds of crazy things happening. that the individuals who are being caught by ICE are also guilty of, that matters. That deserves to be discussed. But one of the reasons this is so messy, there are so many people and so much difficulty in cleaning this up, is because of how bad it got. And anyone who knows anything about if you ignore something long enough, it only gets worse. If you purposefully allow something to get worse, which is what Biden did while he was in office, then when you finally try to fix it, it’s harder. And that is what we’re seeing right now. All right, I’ll shift. I’ll move on. This is a big deal. The Surgeon General of Florida has announced that all vaccine mandates in Florida will be ended. This caused a lot of happiness in the room as he said this. And I love the way that producer Kane actually sent this to me when he told me about it because he said, this is the way, which is perfect. The Mandalorian quote. I don’t know if he did that on purpose or not, but this is true that you should do this. All the vaccines are available. Anyone that wants them can get any of them they want, but they’re not forced on you. You don’t have to do it. And so to me, this is exactly what freedom is supposed to look like. So I do love it, and I love the fact that people applauded it. Of course, a whole lot of other places in our society think this is dangerous and horrible, that people are going to be allowed to make up their own minds about something.
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What I’m most excited about is an announcement that we’re going to make, that we’re making now, which is that the Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida.
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All of them. All of them.
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Again, what’s funny about this is, I don’t know if funny is the right word. The conversation gets changed by the left into everybody on the right is anti-vaccine. You don’t want any vaccines. You don’t want to take any vaccines. I hate the idea of them, whatever it might be. That’s not true. It doesn’t matter. what I think about this or that vaccine. What matters is my freedom to choose what to do with myself or with my family. That is the thing we’ve been talking about for some years now after everything crazy that happened during COVID. And so this is a good thing and it’s not necessarily a thing that means that vaccines don’t exist anymore. in Florida, which is what I believe a whole lot of people on the left are going to say, that people are going to get sick now and horrible diseases are going to come back. And instead of saying, hey, people have the ability to choose, they have the ability to have a conversation and to be a part of the process as to what they decide to do for them and their loved ones. All right, one last piece of audio I’ll play before we take a break in a few minutes here. But I do think this is interesting. This is Bill Maher having a discussion with Lindsey Graham. Bill Maher is definitely an unapologetic Democrat. And I say that anytime I play audio of Maher because he’s also willing to say things that are true regardless of what side of the aisle they’re on. which is an anomaly in the world of democratic media or democratic pundits right now. He will say things that most of the side that he’s on would refuse to even acknowledge, even though they know they’re factual. But I thought this was an interesting back and forth. and a lot of conservatives, Lindsey Graham among them, of course, are willing to do Maher’s show, partially because when they push back on his Democratic rhetoric, if they make a good point, he’ll acknowledge it, but also just because Republicans oftentimes… are willing to wait into a room where they’re going to be attacked. It feels similar to how you might think you would be treated by coworkers if you work in a place where a lot of coworkers don’t agree with you on some of the political things that you think and believe. I think it’s just trained in to the conservative side of the aisle. to stand in the middle of the room and be the only person in the room willing to say some things. I mean, I watched the Grammys last night. I’m not really happy I watched the Grammys. My wife loves award shows. She doesn’t care about politics. The jokes about Trump and stuff go in one ear and out the other for her, which is great. They annoy me. But I watched that and I thought to myself, man, Too bad Nicki Minaj didn’t show up to that show and stand on that stage because you could see the way the left treats the right, even if nothing about politics is relevant. Even if it’s just a person standing on a stage who’s won Grammy Awards, they hate her. They made jokes about her last night simply because she’s a supporter of Trump. That’s insane. But here’s Bill Maher and Lindsey Graham going back and forth about Iran, about the potential for peace eventually in a lot of places where we haven’t seen peace, about the toppling of the scary regimes that have been things the United States has worried about for a long time in Venezuela, Cuba, wherever. I think this is a really interesting admission by Bill Maher that probably made a lot of his audience mad.
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Well, the generals have told us. that short of sending in a massive number of troops, it will be another Iraq. Well, then what did he mean when he said… I don’t know.
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By the way, what they’re talking about is Trump saying that if you do certain things, I will defend the people of Iran from the government that’s killing them, that’s shooting the protesters. They’re debating how much of his promise was rhetoric and how much of his promise was going to be backed by action.
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But if you look at it from a larger… If you look at it from a larger perspective, because of Israel, this is one person’s opinion, because of Israel and President Trump’s backing of Israel, the Middle East is safer than it has been in 20 years.
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Absolutely.
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I don’t know why I’m calling Senator Kennedy Lindsey Graham, by the way. I keep screwing that up, but I just thought of it as I’m looking at the guy. I’m like, that’s not, why do my notes say what they say? I apologize. Senator Graham, Senator not Graham. Senator Kennedy, continue.
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I gave him credit for that. Iran no longer looks invincible. And you know who is applauding us every step of the way? Not out loud, but the Arab countries.
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Look, if Venezuela causes Cuba to fall, if he somehow gets Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran all to be not these horrible places they were, he should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Yeah, he should. He deserves one. You hear like one clap. I do love that you hear that one clap at the end of that piece of audio for whoever that guy was in the room that was like, yeah, way to go. That’s John Kennedy, by the way. I don’t know why I kept saying, it’s on my notes and it’s just wrong, but I was looking at the human and I can tell who that is. But nonetheless, he did a Mars show. He said things that usually Republicans would say in response to Democratic narratives and the Democrats would say they’re not true. And Mars willing to admit that, yes, that is true. And some of the posturing was, Some of the rhetoric coming out of the White House isn’t yet backed by action, but could be. And that might actually turn the tide and fix some of the things you’re seeing in Iran, some of the bad, horrible things that happen there. That matters. All right, quick break. A lot more. 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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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. A D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected. Producer Steven and I were just joking about Puxatawney Phil and how often he is horribly, horribly wrong in his predictions. And Steven made a great point. He’s like, hey, man, but we can only play the audio today. So let’s go ahead and do it. The pomp, the circumstance, the stupidity of all this. and the fact that Puxatawney Phil has an amazing Hall of Fame batting average, but not a great actual predicting the weather average, 35% or so. He’s hitting over 300. He’s not actually doing that great, but this is beyond stupid, so we should play it here.
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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Now on this February 2nd, Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of seers, prognosticator of all prognosticators.
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Wrong 67% of the time.
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Was awakened from his wintry nap at dawn on Gobbler’s Knob. Phil looked to the skies.
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Gotta really think about changing the name of that. That’s not a great name.
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And then, speaking in groundhog ease, directed President Dunkel to the proper scroll, which reads… It’s my great honor to answer your annual call.
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And do it wrong.
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So I rise again this morning to greet you all.
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Yeah, thank you.
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But today, I wake thinking of numbers and time. America turns 250, and I’m at least 139. Uh-huh. Let’s celebrate all, young, old, babies, or millennial. Sure. And kick off America’s semi-quincentennial. I’m already annoyed by this. I don’t know why. We look to the future and not just the past. So I suppose this party could use a forecast. A wrong one. It is my job this February 2 to look to the skies and report back to you that there is a shadow here on my ground. Six more weeks of winter abound.
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Other things out there. Melania crushed. at the box office compared to what people might have thought was going to happen. I think it’s got like a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, but it made $7 million in its opening weekend. It beat a Jason Statham movie, which is incredible. And also, this is kind of crazy. At least one person online showed a photo of a different ticket that they were given, where instead of giving a movie theater somewhere, I think this was in Arizona, instead of giving them a ticket for Melania, gave them a ticket for Zootopia, and then wrote a different screen for them to go to on it, and said, oh, it’s just a computer glitch. It was the only movie they were doing this with, but it seemed to be trying to dull the numbers of people who actually went to see it. I wonder how many theaters around the country resisted printing out Melania tickets because they didn’t want the movie to be successful. How dumb is that? In all honesty, like how petty and stupid are those kind of things if they happened any more than this one time it was shown? I have no idea if it did, but that is uniquely dumb. I did not go see Melania, by the way. I’m not sure if it’s great. I’m not sure who cares, but I do think it’s interesting that it did as well as it did. And maybe I will go see it now. That word on the street is pretty good. Those are two of the quick five stories. Got a bunch more to get to later on in the show. This is Craig Collins filling in on Groundhog Day on The Dana Show. Stick with us.
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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. Dee Lash, Dana Lash Radio, an ex on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and her team and all the awesome things they do in digital. They do on social media. All right. Authorities are saying that Savannah Guthrie’s mom was kidnapped. This story is crazy. The story is crazy on a bunch of levels for a bunch of reasons. Savannah skipped the Today Show today. Of course, she released a statement saying that her family is worried about her mom. And I can read that statement in just a second. But this is actually the Arizona sheriff updating people on Nancy Guthrie and the search to find her. She’s not very mobile. So there’s no way that she left her home on her own. Someone took her. Here we go.
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As I said yesterday, we saw some things at the home that were concerning to us. We believe now after we process that crime scene that we do in fact have a crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime. And we’re asking the community’s help.
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This is crazy. By the way, one of the biggest things that was declined to be shared with the public was whether or not Savannah or Nancy had been threatened at all by anyone. But someone, it looks like, kidnapped Savannah Guthrie’s mom. That is beyond horrible, of course. It’s the kind of thing, when you see it in society, where you have two reactions, unfortunately, in the world we live in now. And the first reaction is the human one, the one that matters most, the one that’s like, oh my God, that’s horrible, that’s terrible. Why would anyone do that? I hope they find her. All that stuff. And you envision yourself if someone in your family had been taken. And then the second one is a political one. It is the one that this could turn into, unfortunately, where you say why someone might have done this. What political reason were they motivated to on this side or that side of the aisle? It’s always the second question. Our society asks right now. We’re so obsessed with politics or at least mainstream media and a lot of other people that want to blame a certain side of the aisle for certain things are that everything becomes that. It’s almost unbearable in a way to say this, that something like this, a story about someone’s mother who’s a media personality being kidnapped. has to inevitably have a political take. I’m not giving you one. I don’t care to do one today on the show. It is of no interest to me, no importance to me. I pray to God that they find Nancy Guthrie safe and they figure out what’s going on and why. And I don’t know what will happen there, but again, and I think you should too, pray for that. But it’s just, it’s awful. And it’s horrible that these things have become so easily switched into politics from what they should be, just human things that are happening. And so I’m just going to do the human take. And then I’m going to move on from the story for now, outside of telling you that if there’s an update of some kind, I’ll definitely break it and give you that information during the show today. But Savannah Guthrie’s mom was kidnapped. And, you know, right now it’s just sort of surreal to think about. All right, some other things out there. One thing that I can’t get over, from last week and this weekend, is the needed discussion about Don Lemon. Now, here’s the part of information you most need. Don Lemon definitely broke the law, in my opinion. That’s my own opinion. That is not necessarily something that comes from any other expert on this. But if you watch the video of Don Lemon in a church disrupting people’s right to practice their faith, which is what he and others were doing, and you listen to the things he’s saying, He’s absolutely a protester. There’s no version of him being a media guy who’s just capturing a story and doing the thing that you would have seen on television when television was more respectable, where it would have said, hey, there’s people out in this church or whatever. Maybe you’re even standing outside of it as you say this. They’re disrupting a service. We’ll let you know more of what’s going on and why later. Instead, Lemon is saying this is what will happen all throughout the country. if ICE is allowed to keep operating, if blah, blah, blah. He’s absolutely echoing the sentiment of the protesters. You can’t call yourself media if you have that strongly of an opinion on a certain side that is doing the illegal thing. You don’t get to say, hey, First Amendment right for me, baby. I’m just a journalist. If we did that, anyone breaking the law could turn their camera on while doing it and say they were an independent journalist not breaking the law. I’m just showing you guys a news update on the person robbing the jewelry store who is me robbing the store. But I can’t be held accountable for this because I’m just journalism. I’m just media. I’m just a journalist letting you know that someone is robbing this jewelry store. That doesn’t get you out of the crime, people. But they’re pretending as though it does. Todd Blanche and George Stephanopoulos had a bit of a argument yesterday. on ABC discussing Don Lemon, who was released after he was arrested for the church incident in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that I think is very likely to find him guilty of a crime because he seems to have recorded himself doing it. But here we go. Here’s part of this.
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So when do you believe that Mr. Lemon crossed the line from reporting on what was going on to criminal activity?
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Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George, is the appellate court and a judge on the appellate court who said just a few days later there was clearly probable cause and it wasn’t even a close question. And by the way, a grand jury, which is what our system has set up to determine whether probable cause exists, concluded that there was probable cause. That indictment is now public. Everybody in this country can pull it up and read for themselves and see what the grand jury found that Mr. Lemon did. I am not gonna comment on the charges specifically because it’s not appropriate, but it’s interesting that we talk about the First Amendment right. You have a right of freedom of religion. which is just as important as any other right that we have. And George, I don’t know if you’ve watched the videos or read the indictment about what it’s alleged that Mr. Lemon did, but if anybody in this country thinks that that is, quote, independent journalism, I would like to have a conversation with you.
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You’re an idiot, is what I would say in response to that. He didn’t go that route.
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He obviously has a very good lawyer. He can raise defenses in court to the extent he wants to. But nobody in this country should feel comfortable storming into a church while it’s ongoing and disrupting that church service and thinking that we’re just going to stand by and let that happen because there is a statute that does not allow that to happen. It doesn’t matter if you happen to be a former CNN journalist. It doesn’t matter if you’re a rioter. It doesn’t matter.
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He’s absolutely right. I want to play that beginning part again because I really do like that part a lot where Stephanopoulos is like, oh, what? At what moment did he change from being a journalist to being a writer? And my answer would have been the entire time. He was never a journalist, it seemed, because he was providing an opinion that was completely aligned with the people who were disrupting the church service. But I love the response back, that it’s not a MAGA opinion. It’s not something that a bunch of conservatives got into a room together and said, well, we think that Don Lemon is guilty of something, so let’s go and share that with the public. This actually went through the proper channels. a grand jury said, yeah, he seems pretty guilty of doing stuff.
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So when do you believe that Mr. Lemon crossed the line from reporting on what was going on to criminal activity?
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It’s not my belief is another way to say that.
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From what you just showed, George, is the appellate court and a judge on the appellate court who said just a few days later there was clearly probable cause and it wasn’t even a close question. And by the way, a grand jury, which is what our system has set up to determine whether probable cause exists, concluded that there was probable cause.
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Yeah. So it’s not just my opinion. I’m not the only one as deputy attorney general saying this. There’s a bunch of other people through the proper channels who seem to believe that Lemon committed a crime. And again, if you just watch the video, I’m not going to play it because I’m so annoyed with Don Lemon and his attempt to be relevant and to be in the news. Like part of him is thrilled that the news cycle is focused on him again. He says the reason they’re attacking him, he’s gay, he’s a black man, anything other than I committed a crime inside a church, which is what I think definitely happened. And a lot of people seem to, again, I’m just going to keep repeating it. I think definitely happened. But part of him is very thrilled to be at the forefront of a news cycle for any amount of time. And that annoys me because it is all performative and stupid. And every part of it is designed to be, oh man, Like here, you know what? Let me say it this way. I bet you whatever meeting Don Lemon has with who’s ever a part of his social media team, I wonder if it’s like one person or two other people. I don’t know how much money he’s throwing at this thing that I’m not saying he’s all that successful at right now. But anyway, that debate as to how much attention he’d get for being a part of this thing that was happening at this church in Minneapolis where people were accusing a pastor of being a member of ICE and wanted him to stop doing his church service, all horrible, terrible, illegal things. But I wonder how much of their debate was, man, this is going to get us a lot of clicks, a lot of mentions, because no news is bad news or no publicity is bad publicity is the version of think that so many people in digital media only believe to be what’s important for them. Look, I was really happy. I’ll say it this way. at the reporting that Nick Shirley did in Minneapolis when he uncovered all the fraudulent places and knocked on all the doors and showed us how ridiculous and unapologetic the fraud is. But to be honest, Nick Shirley is going to be a person who disappears from our day-to-day conversation unless he does it again, unless he finds another controversial thing to be the first person reporting on and demonstrating how much news media is useless today. in today’s society, even though they have the money and the means to easily do what any independent YouTuber does, like Nick Shirley. But the problem with that beast, with that monster of internet media, is you have to keep feeding it. People ask the question, why did Tucker Carlson interview this guy and have this conversation with this person? Does he think what the other person thinks? Or is Tucker Carlson blah, blah, blah? That happens all the time. where people react to the platform that is shared from one known person to maybe a lesser known or probably just as well-known person in a lot of cases. And I laugh every time I see that because the platform conversation is ridiculous. The platform is ubiquitous now. Everyone has one. Anyone can have one at any time for whatever reason they want, and if the content is good, it’ll go viral. If it’s meaningful, if it matters, people will talk about it, and then eventually news media and everyone else will discuss it, like they did with Nick Shirley. So the playing field has been leveled. I don’t care… why someone put someone else on their show from a platform standpoint, because I believe I know why. I believe I know what the answer is. I don’t care why they tell me is what I should say. I think it’s just to get more clicks, more views, more people witnessing it, and then more money. Because the more people you have consuming your content in today’s digital media world, the more money you make. I look at Candace Owens as another example of this. I did this deep dive, not in the things she was talking about. I thought a lot of them were stupid, to be honest. And I don’t know how many people in this audience agree with anything that Candace said or don’t agree. But I think by and large, the things she said were ridiculous and clickbait stuff that benefited her a lot. But I did a deep dive into how much her podcast jumped in consumption and the amount of listeners or the amount of money she’s making off of it based on that. And she went from the back end of the top 100 podcasts. like in the 70s or 80s. In the 30s, she got millions of additional downloads. That doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone that downloaded her show agrees with her. That’s another thing that’s missing often in these discussions. There’s probably a whole lot of people who heavily disagree with with the person that they’re consuming the information of. Anyone else can be used as an example of that other than Candace Owens. But it’s funny to think that the amount of downloads you have actually provides credibility to the thing you’re saying, because that’s not true. It just means that people are interested in what you’re saying, and it might be for the exact opposite reason. But nonetheless, I just thought that was fascinating. that the thing she did and the way she did it and how long she and still is dedicated to some of the conspiracy theories around the tragic death of Charlie Kirk has tremendously financially benefited her. And so many people say that now. The best way to make money in media, in digital media, is to be as controversial as possible. Because unless you get sued, who cares? You’re just going to get more clicks, more likes, more views, and that’ll be great for you. Not great for society, but great for you. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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on the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist follow dana’s absurd truth podcast for bite-sized informative episodes perfect for your busy schedule on apple or wherever you get your podcast this is the dana show my name is craig collins filling in thrilled to be with you i sadly watched most of the grammys uh last night my wife loves award shows she likes the pageantry of them doesn’t care so much about politics so some of the political jokes go in one ear and out the other which i envy For her, she was born and raised in Mexico, by the way, and is now a U.S. citizen and still doesn’t care that much about the political discussions that people have or want to have on a lot of those shows. But I watched it and there were a lot of really dumb, really annoying moments where people said things that made no sense. And here’s the thing I love. When I talk to someone about those issues and they say, you know, the bad guys aren’t really the ice agents. The bad guys, if there are bad guys, which I don’t think there are, but if there are bad guys, a lot of the times it’s the people telling someone else what work to do. Fighting the fight at the lowest level. If you disagree with someone and you want to fight it at the lowest level, like it seems Hollywood wanted to do during the Grammys last night, it’s because you don’t think your message is good enough to win a fight at a higher level. You don’t think that you actually can win the debate as we saw during the 2024 election as to which side Americans want to be on when it comes to having the border wide open and anybody and everyone coming into this country or having a secure border like we do now. When you can’t win the fight at the top level, you bring it down to the lowest level. and the lowest level is trying to vilify and attack ICE agents, police officers, but nonetheless, and we’ll get into it after the break here in a little bit, but what is going on right now as far as a partial government shutdown is 100% tied to Democrats trying to defund ICE, at least partially in some way, shape, or form, and it’ll wind up being terrible. Other things out there, though, more fun things to talk about. A guy invented a flying umbrella that follows you around with drones. He said the first version didn’t work so great. The newer version works better. This went viral. The guy is, you know, hilariously lazy. I’ll say that, but I kind of love his invention.
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This is a flying umbrella, and today we’re going to make it follow the rats. This is version 2 of my flying umbrella project. I basically just slapped some propellers onto an umbrella and it somehow managed to fly. Except, as thousands of you guys pointed out, it doesn’t follow you. What if you made the drone follow you instead of using a controller? So today, we’re finally going to make things right.
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I love how dramatic that audio is. I love how happy the guy is when the drone does follow him. The umbrella would be incredibly loud. So the thing that would be horrible would be for you to be flying around or having your umbrella fly around behind you with a ridiculous amount of noise just so that you don’t have to carry said umbrella. But I do like this. Part of me would be so tempted to get one of these things if it became a thing that you could buy someplace. It Excuse me, and not just a thing from some idiot on social media who made it themselves. But I love it. I love every part of the guy with the umbrella that has drones that fly it around for him because that’s the kind of thing we need to do on the Internet. That’s the kind of thing we need to do in society. I also have one more piece of audio. I might not have time for it now, but I’ll play it maybe a little bit later. Wild turkeys are attacking people in Wisconsin neighborhoods. They’re chasing off postal workers, blocking traffic. They’re even going after children, which is horrible. We need to stop that. Members of the community are talking about what to do with the wild turkeys. I think you have a Thanksgiving in February. I think you do that. That’s the way to get rid of the wild turkeys in anywhere in Wisconsin. Let’s go wild and let’s go get these turkeys. That seems like my statement for all. 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 Greg Collins filling in for the day. Dana Lash. You can find her, DLashDanaLashRadio, on X, on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to everything she does and her team does on digital media, on social media. All right, let’s get right to it. Caroline Leavitt, the press secretary, did an interview over the weekend in which she said President Trump is not going to waver. on his commitment to removing a bunch of illegal people from this country that should not be here, regardless of what the Grammys says about this situation. Trump’s not wavering on this. This obviously happened before the Grammys. But nonetheless, I do love this message. And then I enjoyed something else that Caroline said later in the interview. But let’s play this audio first.
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Well, the White House and the president are open and willing to listen. I know the president said aboard Air Force One last night that those conversations and discussions will continue. Last week, the White House invited moderate Democrat senators to come to the White House and to discuss their concerns so that we can hear them out and at least see what they are trying to put on the table. Unfortunately, that meeting was blocked by their leadership. So these conversations will continue, Maria, and ultimately the president will be the decider on any policy changes. But what I know in talking with the president and seeing what this administration has done over the course of the last year is that President Trump is never going to waver in the commitment that he made to the nearly 80 million Americans who voted for him to deport illegal alien criminals who broke our nation’s laws to get here and then have committed further crimes of violence against American citizens. And that’s why ICE and Border Patrol are true patriots. They need to be respected. Yes. Democrats need to agree to stop demonizing them.
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Amen to everything she said there. Democrats absolutely need to start stop demonizing them. And the reason they’re doing it at the ground level, meaning the people that they think that Democratic supporters can get up in the face of. Unfortunately, we’ve seen a few times and seen some bad things that happened because of that. Everyone that’s been harmed, Rene Good, the two people that have died, Rene Good and Alex Preddy, would be alive if they chose not to disrupt legal law enforcement being done at a federal level with ICE agents. I know you’ve heard that take before. I’m just going to say it again at the forefront here. They’d both be alive right now if they didn’t inject themselves into a situation that very quickly turned into something awful and tragic, but nonetheless didn’t have to happen. And I have audio on that in a second. Although, you know what, actually, let’s just jump to it. Let’s play that here, and we’ll get back to Caroline Leavitt in a minute. You had Ilhan Omar with a huge Freudian slip, which I think is how political circles talk about this stuff when they discuss it. Instead of saying entirely avoidable the deaths of Rene Good and Alex Preddy, which is what she should say, and the thing that backs that should be they shouldn’t have behaved the way they behaved, this time or other times, when around law enforcement in the first place, that would have been the easiest way to keep them unharmed and alive in our society right now. But Ilhan Omar said something very, very different that bears discussion. I know Freudian slips are usually just mistakes of words, and you can overblow them. This one, though, fascinating to me.
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Now our community is reeling from their murder that were entirely affordable.
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She said affordable. She said affordable. The reason that matters to me is it seems as though in the back alleys and the back rooms and wherever they’re discussing these crazy things, the shady people, they would have a version of conversation where one would say, can we lose a couple people? Can a couple people that we’re radicalizing to be as disruptive and crazy as they’re being in the street? If they get killed, and we can easily blame ICE for it because that’s what we’re going to do regardless of what the facts are. We’re going to attack them because we’re already attacking them. But can we also, unfortunately, have a couple people die because of the things we’re saying? And I very much assume the other decision makers in a room of political horrible people would be like, yeah, we can afford that. We can afford a couple people, innocent people that are dying because they’re insanely radicalized by our media and our discussion and think they’re doing good things by yelling and screaming and kicking out the lights of ICE vehicles and calling ICE agents and Border Patrol agents, you know, demons and villains and all this crazy stuff. There was a comparison made by one of the morons in media between, I think it was Kimmel, Or no, actually, it was Stephen Colbert, between ICE agents and the Nazis. And he actually tried to make it sound as though the Nazis were better people than ICE agents. That was the joke. I’m not even going to play it. And it was disgusting. I know it was a joke, but it was still an insane thing. But that’s working. That version of radicalization, the same way they said defund the police for so long, it’s succeeding. And it’s horrible that it’s succeeding, but yes… A whole lot of Americans just a short time ago wanted our society cleaned up from the amount of people who are here illegally. And that seems like that’s what’s happening. And it doesn’t exactly look good when it’s already gotten this. But when the when the hole is this big and the ship is sinking this badly, it’s messy when you try to fix the hole and get the ship not to sink anymore. Well, you’re on the water. While you’re moving through the water, if you’re trying to fix a thing that’s very broken, it’s going to be difficult to fix it easily and to make it as nice as you want to make it while you’re trying to make it better, which is what we’re doing right now. Levitt also said something about Melania Trump. I want to play that real quick.
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And first of all, I want to say congratulations to Mrs. Trump, our beautiful, wonderful, classy first lady on the debut of her documentary film. I know that it’s a blockbuster movie in theaters now, and it’s a really great example of what the first lady is truly like behind the scenes. And she has a great influence on the president.
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Yeah, I’m sure she does. That movie made a crap ton of money for a documentary. It made like $8 million at the box office, which is the largest opening for a documentary in a very long time. That’s legitimately a thing. Whether you’re mad about it or care about it at all, I don’t care. I’m just telling you an actual fact. I did not go see Melania. I’m not anti-Melania. I might go see it at some point. Who knows? I don’t go to the movies as much as I used to in general. But even though it has a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and people crapped on it, it actually did quite well at the box office, which I’m not surprised in, actually. An inside look at a First Lady in general is the kind of thing that people are usually interested enough in to go see it. And if it were a Democratic first lady, just real quick, I hate the whataboutism. It’s usually easy, but this one is uniquely easy to say. This would be celebrated by media. Media would be obsessed with the documentary if it were Michelle and not Melania. That’s honestly the thing. If there was a documentary out there right now that was highlighting a Democratic first lady that they liked, they would be gushing about it. They would be talking about how amazing it is. that it broke the record for, or it did quite well for documentaries in an amount of years, the biggest opening in a lot of years, they would be so happy, and they’re so upset about this one, they’re barely going to talk about it at all. All right, one other thing actually out there, This might not be on the radar for everybody, but I thought it was interesting. President Trump on Air Force One having a conversation, went en route to Palm Beach, Florida. I had a discussion about Michael Wolff. The Epstein documents that were released, a crap ton of them. got flooded all over the place more than we’ve ever seen before. This was a huge dump of information. None of it really proves anything negative about Trump, even if some media outlets are going to pretend that because that’s all they ever wanted in this story. They didn’t want to actually catch bad guys. They wanted to turn Trump into a bad guy again, regardless of what the truth is. But nonetheless, one of the things that emerged is that the filmmaker Michael Wolff was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to create something that would have been dishonest and attempt to do harm to President Trump. So he might sue them. President Trump likes suing people, likes suing anyone that seems to break the rules in a certain way. Which, by the way, would also be celebrated by mainstream media if it were a Democrat doing it, keeping people accountable by going through the proper channel and system that exists in our society. If that were a Democrat doing that, they’d be thrilled. When Trump does it, it’s awful somehow. But here he is, saying that he might sue some people.
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what did you think of the latest release of epstein files and do you think your critics will be satisfied with this release like this guy wolf was a writer was conspiring with epstein to do harm to me and i didn’t see it myself but i was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me it’s the opposite of what people were hoping you know yes it is it is the opposite
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There seems to be a bunch of pieces of information that demonstrate how much Epstein and others were targeting Trump and trying to turn him into someone more in trouble than he deserved to be. There’s absolutely nothing in the document dumps that have been put out there that continues to show any version of anything that Trump did wrong. He’s still not going to be charged with any sort of crime. No information has come out. This is all the stuff they’re mad that is true. And it’s funny. And I use funny loosely because it’s not I’m not going to laugh at this, but it’s funny to me in a dark way that as this information continues to get dumped out and we continue to see horrible things of terrible people connected to Jeffrey Epstein, who who seem to just be awful and none of them are Trump, that none of that media cares. None of the Democrats who are begging for this stuff to be made public care about any of those people. They don’t want to discuss it. They don’t want to think about it. None of the royalty that’s involved in this, none of the Democratic politicians or Democratic financial people or anyone behind the scenes within that party that’s now being outed as someone who seems to have done, or at least even photos of people seemingly in very bad situations. None of that matters. Media, by and large, ignores it because they’re disgusting, as they often are. All right, we’re going to take a break. After the break, We’re going to do the quick five, but I’m also at some point in the very near future, let’s call it like 15 minutes, going to discuss a data dump that is truly absurd. This is a data dump out of North Carolina that shows the amount of anti-ICE group members from different communication things online or whatnot that are actually also members of certain teachers’ unions, city council members, school board members, mayors of major cities. It’s insane the amount of politically relevant and in the world of education relevant individuals who are closely tied to the anti-ICE groups or the Antifa groups that are out there causing all these problems. It seems very obviously to be a thing created by a bunch of people in those positions of power throughout that side of the political aisle. And that’s not going to get talked about a lot. So we’re going to talk about it here. But a huge data dump and a crazy amount of people. hundreds of people that are connected to organizations that you would think would shy away from being at the forefront of this sort of a controversial movement that are absolutely 100% unapologetically trying to lead it and push others to do crazy, horrible stuff. So we’ll talk about that in just a little bit. I will do a quick five. All that coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Quick Five on 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 X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. I found this amusing. Santa Fe police had to arrest a pair of individuals. Their ages are 49 and 45 who were on a bit of a thieving trip. They stole stuff out of a store. They went on a high-speed chase with police officers behind them. All these things which made you think that they robbed a bank. Now, they robbed an adult toy store. They robbed one of those stores. Here’s some of the audio from Channel 7, I think, in… Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Santa Fe police have arrested two people after they allegedly shoplifted and then ran from authorities. SFPD responding to a report that a man had went into a local business and showed a gun, followed by a woman in a car nearly running someone over. Here’s a video of that chase.
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You don’t need to see the video of the chase, but what’s crazy is as you’re listening to that, you’re thinking to yourself, man, I wonder what they stole or where they went and they robbed a Love Etc. store. which is very much an adult toy store. And the things that they had with them were things that obviously I think the police didn’t want to confiscate, but have to because they don’t own them. But that’s a story that was out there. It feels like it should have come out of Florida, but it did not. Another thing that I thought was pretty funny. Americans were asked in a silly poll what major holiday character or holiday person would win in an all-out brawl, like a WWE cage match where everybody goes in together. Puxatawney Phil did better than expected. A lot of people thought that he would easily take the Easter Bunny in a fight if it was a real bunny and a real groundhog. But a lot of people did not think, and this was appropriate, that Puxatawney Phil could take Santa. So if everybody went into a brawl together, 42% of Americans thought Santa comes out on top. 25% thought the Valentine’s Day Cupid would win because he’s coming in with a weapon. He’s got the bow and arrow. But yes, not a lot of people thought that Puxatawney would win. He only got 11% of the vote. which would still make me sad as Santa Claus to find this out, that you as a human fighting a bunny and a groundhog weren’t assumed to have 100% chance of winning in that fight. By the way, the Tooth Fairy got hosed in this thing. Only 4% of people. thought that she would win and she has magical power uh so you would think again that unlike uh the tiny groundhog that’s in there who got 11 of the vote that the tooth fairy would have done better but she didn’t that’s absolutely hosed to me in that conversation uh one other thing that i saw that i thought was interesting a one-armed man a golfer from uh i think an irish golfer from ireland obviously from ireland uh he hit a hole in one just an amateur guy He’s not the first one-armed golfer who hit a hole-in-one. There have actually been several of them. But if you wanted to feel bad about your golf skills today, you have to read more into that story. It was a par 3. The guy used a 7-iron, and I think it was like 130 yards, and he dunked it. He got it in. I have never hit a hole-in-one in my life. It is a great shame of my life right now that even on an easy par three, I have come close, but it hasn’t gone in. And I don’t know if I ever will hit one. And yet another person who has a physical disadvantage compared to me has succeeded in a place that I’ve failed. So again, if you want to feel bad about yourself today, I’ll be happy for this guy. and proud for him and his friends seem to be thrilled and you definitely buy that dude drinks for the whole rest of the day after the hole in one there he can’t buy another thing at all you have to celebrate him he got a hole in one so i just thought that was awesome and out there and one last thing one final thing a band that was not well known uh from the 1960s has had their first album actually released after a dude found it in a thrift store and bought it for four dollars Hilarious story to me. Not sure if they’re making any money off of it, but a Canadian band has finally had a release of a CD or an album they lost. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. More coming up in a bit.
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This is the Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Stay connected to the very popular things that she does on social media for this show or just in general. At Radio Craigsy. If for some reason you want to follow me on social media and the 500 people that do that, I promise if I get to at least 1,000, Because it’s sort of an embarrassing number. It’s definitely an embarrassing number right now. But I’ll start doing stuff. I’ll start saying things and interacting there. I don’t have much of a following on Twitter, on X. But if I did, I don’t know why I’m taking so long to tell you this. If people who follow this show want to follow me, I’ll do things. which you probably also don’t care about. But anyway, this big story out of North Carolina is going to be ignored by a lot of people in mainstream media, and it should not be because it’s a giant, giant story. An anti-ICE group in North Carolina that has a bunch of data and information that was recently gained through a different like OpenClaw and other systems. It found that a lot of these individuals who are interacting with each other, basically an Antifa group that’s trying to encourage people to do crazy stuff and attack ICE. And one of the reasons we have bad things that have happened in our country over the last month, a couple people tragically died, is because of how brazen they’re being in the way that they’re attacking and yelling and screaming and spitting on and kicking the lights out of ICE patrol cars. They’re acting as though it’s not a situation that can immediately heighten in the potential risk for the ICE agents and how they interact with someone who’s being obnoxious and ridiculous on the street. They act as though they’re immune from the potential for that to go poorly, and it obviously has, at least a few times. That is genuinely the way I think we should discuss this, is you have to acknowledge the behavior of the people before you talk about the tragedy that occurs after. Of course, media won’t do that. But anyway, when you’re looking at the group of people who are organizing, who are well-funded, who are radicalizing others, it is surprising maybe to some, shocking maybe to some, not all that surprising to a lot of others out there, myself included, though, that this group includes mayors of cities. This group, Leonard Williams, the mayor of the city, Durham City, in North Carolina, is one of the people on one of these groups interacting. A bunch of other activist leaders, politicians, government officials, all kinds of stuff. Soros-funded organizations are tied to this thing. And this is just in North Carolina. where some of this information has been made public and some people have combed through some of the data on some of the groups who are interacting with each other and forming these anti-ICE coalitions, whatever you want to call them, organizations that do horrible things. And so will we see a lot more of this? I hope so. I hope more of this sort of stuff gets outed. But are they well-funded? Are they politically connected? Are they all the things that your conspiracy theorist uncle tells you that you disregard? Yeah. In North Carolina, at least, on paper, it’s been demonstrated that that is 100% a factual thing and not a conspiracy theory. The government officials are helping to push people in radical directions and seeming as though they don’t care if some people might get hurt because of that. If you put people in harm’s way, you have them act erratically and insane, and then tragically some things happen. It seems like the cost of doing business for these politicians, at least from my assumption of it and the way that they’re discussing it, because they’re still pushing people to be radical and in the street again, even after some things have happened. The president, by the way, did say that if you attack ICE agents, it might not end well, which is obviously a true statement, and I’m sure one that he’ll be attacked for. Trump also at Mar-a-Lago talked a little bit about Cuba and how he compares Cuba to Venezuela and how he thinks that some of the things we’ve done in Venezuela will actually very much harm Cuba, and you might see some more action, some more things take place between the United States and Cuba as well. Even Bill Maher can admit that if Trump has a major impact on Venezuela, on Cuba, on Iran, on a lot of places that want to do harm to us, or at least, you know, definitely facilitate harm that’s done to our country, that he would deserve a peace prize, that he would deserve recognition for that, because of course he would. But here’s President Trump talking about this.
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Well, Cuba’s a failing nation. It has been for a long time. But now it doesn’t have Venezuela to prop it up. So we’re talking to the people from Cuba, the highest people in Cuba, to see what happens. I want the people that came here that were horribly treated by Cuba to be taken care of, to be able to go back and do what they have to do. You know, they have their family there. They haven’t been able to see them in years, many, many years. So I think we’re going to make a deal with Cuba. It’s in bad shape. Cuba’s in bad shape. Cuba has a humanitarian problem.
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You know what’s really interesting about this version of talking about this, of saying that if we can help fix things in these places where people are fleeing from and coming to the United States and oftentimes doing it illegally, and not necessarily people who are refugees from Cuba. But nonetheless, a lot of people who are legally in this country, if we can improve the conditions of the place where they used to live and they would want to go back, that’s exactly the kind of thing that Democrats are oftentimes, you know, championing. When the idiots that were Biden and Harris, when they were in office and they would talk about this, when Kamala Harris was wagging her finger and Biden was wagging his and saying, Don’t come illegally to our country, even though the border is wide open and you can be here. The solution they’d often address was we have to improve conditions other places. And the way Democrats wanted to go about that is just give a ton of money to these corrupt governments that were going to give absolutely none of the money to the people and nothing was going to be solved. Trump sounds as though he’d like to actually solve the problem. or at least attempt to, by making things better, by dealing with the governments themselves and potentially causing some government officials to no longer be there. Like in the case of Venezuela, where you take a person that we didn’t even acknowledge as the president and remove them and charge them with certain crimes here in this country for the drug trafficking that occurs from Venezuela to here. That’s a better approach to potentially fixing things other places and allowing people to go back home to a different version of society and not just cutting people random checks, which doesn’t do any good at all, as we’ve seen time and again. The Dan Bongino podcast has officially started. That’s back. That’s in the world again and president trump made an appearance on it today the first day of the show and he sort of hilariously mocked joe biden president biden and how often he fell on the stairs i have a little bit of that audio on gino not know to be radio friendly so i probably won’t play a lot of this audio but i got a little bit of it here of president trump joking that when he goes up and downstairs he does it very carefully because he doesn’t want to fall down three times like his predecessor did
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We were laughed at a year and a half ago. We were laughed at as being stupid people. We were laughed at as not, we see a guy falling up the stairs going into an airplane. I got to be very careful going in. Have you noticed how slowly I went? Nice and slow. I’m not looking to set any records. You don’t want to go down. Could happen. But it can’t happen three times in one shot. Three times going up the stairs.
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I love that. It can’t happen three times in one shot. You can’t keep tripping as you go up a flight of stairs and use the baby stairs. And that’s a bad look for us. And a lot of people are making fun of us and the capability of the person in charge of this country, the commander in chief. And that’s simply true. That’s absolutely an accurate thing to say that a lot of people disregarded us. Even people in positions of power like Vladimir Putin just assumed that there would be no cost whatsoever to not doing anything. or doing exactly the opposite of what America was telling them to do, which is obviously a bad thing. But you saw that time and again, and it was because of the feebleness, the lack of respect for the former president of this country, which is very different today. That has profoundly changed, and honestly, in a very good way, because more people believe us, believe that we could do things if need be. Now, granted, when you talk about Iran… That’s one of the easiest places for liberal media to take a shot at Trump right now, to say that he’s all talk and no action. But if action inevitably happens, they’ll also crap all over that. They’ll say that that was horrible and terrible and how dare he do it. So you’re darned if you do and darned if you don’t sort of thing in the world of them, the world of the politicians and the media companies that discuss Trump on a daily basis. But I just think that’s interesting that that as these things are happening and as you’re seeing change, essentially what Trump is calling for is identical to what Democrats were calling for. And of course, they don’t admit that or saying there’s so many times. Actually, let me say this real quick. Don Lemon is another great example of it right now. where the exact same argument that the right had some amount of time ago exists on the left, the same complaints, the same talking points, identical things for a lesser conversation. And here’s what I mean. Trump was being attacked all in crazy ways. He almost got killed. People literally tried to kill him. but also through the Justice Department. He was being politically attacked and persecuted. The things that happened out in New York, uniquely ridiculous. The felony charges that people tie to President Trump are insane. Most people would say that there’s not often, if ever, an example of someone getting charged with some sort of, you know… Company decision to not put a charge in the right place. Felony charge for that is insane. It’s a misdemeanor to have my my organization’s records that I probably don’t even do myself. Not exactly correct. And honestly, in New York, I know I’m doing a bad job of explaining this, but it’s such a stupid thing. Honestly, in New York, the only reason they got that is because of how biased the jury would be in a place like that. They wouldn’t have gotten that same conviction, I think, anywhere else. But that was political prosecution. And so what did the conservative side of the aisle say? That that was wrong. You shouldn’t do it. Don Lemon goes into a church, acts like a protester. says things into a microphone with a camera on him and others that show that he’s definitely not a media person, that he’s definitely a participant in the disrupting of your legal right to practice your faith. So he did a lot of things illegal, a lot of things very bad. It’s on camera. for freaking sake. And yet, as that exists, most people now on the left are saying that this is political prosecution and wrong and First Amendment and no one is above the law except apparently Don Lemon. All that crap that you heard a certain amount of years ago from conservatives that Democrats attacked and said was horrible and terrible. How dare you say that? Everyone deserves to face their day in court no matter who they are. Again, unless they’re a Democratic politician on a certain side of the aisle, it’s crazy. One last thing, just to continue to play this audio, just shifting gears real quick before I take a break. Authorities say that Savannah Guthrie’s mom disappeared over the weekend, and now they’re saying that she was probably kidnapped. The biggest reason why they believe that this is a crime is that Savannah Guthrie’s mom, Nancy, is not capable of moving around much on her own. So she would not willingly get up, leave her house, and just disappear. Someone had to take her. Whether or not there were any sort of threats or anything that were being thrown at them, Savannah and or her mother before this happened. We don’t have all that information there, but it’s just sort of a surreal story. And here is the Arizona sheriff talking about it. His name is Chris. And how they’re investigating this is a crime. And someone who was kidnapped from their home.
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As I said yesterday, we saw some things at the home that were concerning to us. We believe now after we’ve processed that crime scene that we do in fact have a crime scene, that we do in fact have a crime. And we’re asking the community’s help.
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Yeah, they would like the community’s help in solving this case, a ridiculous case, a crazy case, and one where people are going to shift the conversation into the world of politics and out into the world it deserves to be in, which is just humanity, and say how horrible it is that someone’s mother has been kidnapped and pray to God that she’s okay and she’s found. But this is just sort of an insane story, at least the current belief. Maybe there will be an innocent explanation to all of this at the end. I pray to God that’s true. But who knows? But it’s just sort of a surreal story that’s also out there, and I assume will be talked about a lot, and I assume we’ll have a lot of political slant added to it, even if it’s unnecessary. All right, quick break. A lot coming up, including the Florida man stories in just a second. 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. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Here’s a few quick Florida Man stories out there. A Florida man was sentenced for a high-speed chase in a stolen law enforcement vehicle. This happened over the weekend. Forty two year old James Marion Brady was found guilty on all charges related to the pursuit by law enforcement back in twenty twenty four. He had stolen an emergency vehicle and then fled police in it. A grand theft auto style and actually grand theft auto was one of the charges against him. I would just sort of surreal. that a dude walking around is like, oh, I know how I’m going to run from law enforcement. I’m going to take an emergency vehicle. They’re never going to find me. They’re never going to figure it out that way. I’m sure I’ll be 100% fine. You are not, sir. And now, finally, you actually face the charges in court and are found guilty of the ridiculous thing you did there. The next time you see a crazy version of an emergency vehicle and a bunch of police following behind it in Florida, that might be stolen. That might not be people going to help somebody. Sadly, it might be something else. A man was arrested in Central Florida for impersonating a law enforcement official. I feel like there’s a theme to the stories that are out there. Hillsborough County arrested a guy who was pretending that he was a police officer himself. He drove around in a black car. He had a set of lights that he would hold up, which is sort of insane. Not actually on the vehicle or anything the right way. They would flash blue and red. And he’s just pulling people over, just doing certain stuff. A suspicious vehicle was called in. The lights caused other drivers to believe that he was law enforcement. Of course they did. Mostly, I think he did all this to just circumvent traffic. And I’ll tell you, living in Houston, in Texas, where traffic is uniquely horrible, almost as bad as I think is L.A. and pretty much anywhere else out there in the world, it’s pretty terrible traffic here. Man, oh man, would I be tempted to do this, to pretend as though I’m law enforcement just to get through traffic every once in a while. Of course, I’m not going to do it. I don’t ever want to be in the news as someone who did this sort of thing. Probably be bad for my radio career and quite a few other things. But it would be great as far as not having to deal with traffic for the day. And so I get it. I understand the crime, this crime. I don’t understand the guy who steals the emergency vehicle and goes on a chase with cops. That one doesn’t make sense to me. This person, however, does. I get it. And the reasons that it makes sense to me are obvious and probably also make sense to you. Uh, there’s also a viral video. I don’t know if this is a Florida man in the same sense as the other. I don’t, the guy didn’t do anything legal. Like there, he’s not been arrested, uh, for anything. I just thought it was funny that there’s a dude who went viral because there’s a video of him lying on the ground covered in a pile of frozen iguanas. Um, iguanas freeze in florida when it gets uniquely cold they’re not dead they’re just frozen and usually once it warms up they start moving around again for some reason uh either the man stacked the iguanas on himself or um they may have just climbed up there when he was passed out whatever whatever the decision was made but uh he claimed to have created the world’s first iguana blankets I would be creeped out if there’s other reasons for this that I don’t want to know about for the man to do it. But he’s a Florida influencer by the name Stacks who went viral on social media again for having a blanket, per se, of frozen iguanas. This is the weird stuff that happens out of that place and nowhere else. I can’t think of another part of our country where you’d see a thing like this and be like, oh yeah, Florida. Like my first reaction out of that story and the viral coverage of it, the dude who created his iguana blanket, is that yeah, of course, that’s Florida. That makes sense there. He probably wasn’t alone. Probably there are other people that are going to do the same thing in the very near future. I feel bad about all of it. All right, quick break. A lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. The Clintons are in contempt of Congress. They seem to think that they’re above the law, as does Don Lemon, of course. They’re not. This is something that Democrats would celebrate if it were Trump. even if the thing coming after Trump seems to be a lot less valuable than the things that are coming after the Democrats right now. That doesn’t matter. If it’s Trump that’s being attacked, then no one is above the law. If it’s Democrats and this is political prosecution and it needs to go away, James Comer on social media said that he rejects the latest letter from the lawyer for the Clintons who seem to continue to think that they deserve to be treated differently than anyone else should be treated. They are in contempt of Congress. They might be in trouble for that. All of this stems from the things we’d like to know about them. Specifically, Bill Clinton’s relationship to Jeffrey Epstein. There are certain questions where answers seem to be necessary. And I know the whataboutism is the easiest thing to do, but it seems relevant here. If this were the other way around, it’s the exact kind of thing that would get them media up in arms if Trump were avoiding it. uh, some sort of a thing here that he’s obviously not. Um, and honestly, after the biggest and newest data dump in the world of Epstein files, the fact that Trump still doesn’t have any, anything against him, any reason for anyone to say that he’s guilty of any sort of crime. It makes media, most media not even care about that story, which is insane because until it was a thing that was public, uh, they were obsessed with it. But now that they have no avenue to get the guy they wanted the whole time, none of the actual people that are bad and responsible for treating children horribly, for sexual abuse of kids, no, no, they don’t want to go after those people. They just want to get Trump, which is crazy. By the way, I do want to play this audio. This is Billie Eilish. I’m just going to play a moment of it, accepting one of the awards at the Grammys last night. She used the old version of a thing that people say on the left all the time. No one is illegal on stolen land, which is such a stupid thing to say for a variety of reasons. But the funniest one, and this is what media is pointing out. Well, social media, not mainstream media. They’re going to ignore this, of course. is that Billie Eilish owns a $14 million mansion that was built on land that was once owned by a Native American tribe. Sorry about that. That’s where we’re going. The Tongva tribe. I think I’m saying that correctly. I have no idea if I am, actually. But anyway, is she going to surrender her mansion because her mansion was built on, quote, stolen land? I’m guessing the answer to that is no. But here she is saying the dumb thing that people say quite often.
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No one is illegal on stolen land.
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I left all the applause in and there’s a bunch of shots of like famous people nodding their heads and being like, yes, thank you for saying this out loud. The thing that I’ve heard a ton of other times before. When is this argument relevant to you, to these individuals? When do they surrender their stuff? Because they should know it if they weren’t supposed to have it in the first place. Because it sounds like when does that happen? The answer is never. It’s so dumb to me to watch the sheep clap and applaud when the sheep says a thing out loud, and then none of these people who have legitimate access to financial value and all kinds of other things, none of them do anything to actually help. I’m not saying they should. I totally disagree with the entirety of the conversation. Yes, people are illegal for being in this country illegally, even though at one point we didn’t own the land we have now. It’s… You know what’s so dumb about that? You could win any argument by that version of discussion. And a lot of Democrats would hate winning a bunch of arguments via that version of discussion by delegitimizing the United States itself and saying that there’s a historical reason that we don’t have any power or value I could have done that during Biden’s whole time in office, be like, every moment of this presidency is illegitimate because this is stolen land or stolen election, which it seems more and more it’s proving out to be. By the way, I’ll reference that real quick. I know I’m jumping around. I like to try to cover as many of the news headlines as I can at the beginning of these shows. And I have some audio of Trump talking about Michael Wolff that I’m going to play in a second. But the raid that happened last week in Fulton County, where they took a bunch of ballots, they took a bunch of digital records, physical records, and they’re looking to prove that election fraud occurred. And Fulton County has long been a discussion place for the likelihood of certain kinds of fraud. But getting the digital and physical information and matching them all up could potentially demonstrate how they said, ah, this ballot’s not legitimate. This ballot is legitimate in a way that made no sense and 100% benefited someone that inevitably, quote unquote, won the 2020 election. And why this matters so much is you finally have receipts. Receipts that we were told didn’t exist or receipts that we were told there was no reason to investigate over here. And the Democrats are still saying that. If that occurs, and I don’t know what the end result of the FBI raiding this facility will be, but if you can say out loud, and I had this debate with a buddy of mine over the weekend, and both of us actually wound up agreeing on this topic, but if you can say out loud in a profound way that Trump should have won, at least in Georgia, if not other places that were heavily contested in 2020, And I don’t mean you and I say that. There’s a lot of people who have been saying it for years, so it would be no different for them to say it now, regardless of what proof came out of Fulton County or not. They didn’t need that proof before, so I doubt that they’ll change what they’re saying now. But to hear mainstream media have to admit that, and I think that if a court case exists… to the extent that it could exist in this case, to where inevitably that would be the thing you’d have to say out loud that he should have won and didn’t. And the amount of people who would say it on places like X and Twitter that would demonstrate the lack of integrity that mainstream media has if they didn’t report it. But anyway, to get back to it, if we get to a place where mainstream media has to report that the election was stolen from Trump, at least in Georgia, if not other places in 2020, I feel like that’d matter. I know that that’s a very simplistic thing to say, but let me demonstrate more what I mean. I feel like there’s very few things in our society right now where the one side went so hard in the paint against the idea that was being brought from the other side of the political aisle. But the fact that on debate stages, they made all the Republican candidates raise their hand and say whether or not they thought Trump lost in 2020 and whether or not Biden is the legitimate president, all of that. To have all of that potentially questioned in a valuable way based on actual things that happened regarding the FBI or any sort of courtroom in Georgia, I think that should change a lot. It would essentially wake a lot of people up. A lot of minds would be like, wait a minute. There was some level of legitimacy to this thing that was so heavily disregarded, just like COVID and some of the people who were saying exactly the stuff that now we know is true, that they said, how dare you say that, or whatever it might be. But there were so many versions of that to get to a point where this could happen. And I will tell you one other thing about this. And it’s not really relevant. It doesn’t really matter. You probably don’t even care about it. But I’m going to say it. I’m going to admit it and be honest about it. As a broadcaster, I’ve been someone who would say I need receipts to know definitively that the 2020 election was stolen. I know logically why people say it, why they question how it was at all possible that Biden, a candidate who ran from his basement, got more votes than Barack Obama ever did, someone who was supposed to be the most popular president in the history of the country ever. According to the left, how could Biden have beat him so profoundly and then Harris done so poorly just four years later? It makes no sense. I get all that. But having actual receipts and actual proof is really important to bringing the skeptics along with you. And I’ll say this. I know we’re somewhat removed from Martin Luther King Jr. Day. One of the most profound things that MLK Jr. would say is in order to win an argument, win a push for social justice or whatever, a change in our society, you needed to bring the skeptics along and you needed to be people who didn’t necessarily obviously agree with you to be a part of your movement. Essentially, what he was saying at the time is he needed a lot of white people to support his fight to get rights for black people in our society. But it’s profoundly true today that the version of discussion, the thing that causes someone like Trump to win the popular vote, is an admission that not everything he said was horrible and terrible, and that a lot of the things that they claimed he said were lies, etc., etc. These are things that change the opinion of some people. They’re the moment where you finally accept that your self-righteous version of confirmation bias is flawed. And I think this would be the biggest argument to go toward. Like, I couldn’t think of a bigger one. If someone somewhere in mainstream media or a whole lot of places in mainstream media inevitably exists that the 2020 election was more corrupt than they’ve ever admitted it was before, that feels like the smoking gun win that could cause a change in the midterm elections. Whether people right now in certain places think that what’s going on with ICE or anyone else could potentially cause people to vote against conservatives, against Republicans in the midterm election. I feel like there’d be no bigger win than what could be happening in Georgia. And it’s not being talked about a lot. And there’s a huge reason for that. But I’ll probably continue to discuss it myself and continue to have interest in it because receipts is a very different of discussion than telling someone that logically this makes sense. You can doubt logic. Doubting Thomas doubted Jesus. You can doubt things based on discussions. You can’t doubt them usually when receipts and information show you the truth. And so I just think that that’s profoundly important. I mentioned I’d play this audio, so I’ll play it quickly before I take a break. Outside of the rant I just went on about the 2020 election, which I do think is still relevant in 2026, even if people say move on a lot of the time. Trump said he might sue Michael Wolff. The filmmaker, the documentarian, who was working with Jeffrey Epstein in the latest Epstein files that came out, seemed to show how closely they were collaborating and conspiring, is probably the right word to say, to potentially do harm to President Trump. This is something that he thinks might have value in a courtroom somewhere. I thought that was interesting. Here we go.
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When did you think of the latest release of Epstein files and do you think your critics will be satisfied with this release?
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Like this guy Wolf was a writer was conspiring with Epstein to do harm to me and I didn’t see it myself but I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me it’s the opposite of what people were hoping you know the radical left that Wolf, who’s a third-rate writer, was conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to hurt me, politically or otherwise. And that came through loud and clear. So we’ll probably sue Wolf on that.
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Yeah, we’ll probably sue Wolf on that. That makes sense to me. That makes sense to a lot of people. And so absolutely, we’ll see if it actually happens and if mainstream media again discredits it, even if that’s the kind of thing that they’d usually pay attention to. All right, quick break. A lot more 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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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. A lot of ways to find her in social media and all the different ways that she’s a dominant human being that she is in conservative media or just media in general. And then at Radio Craig Z. If you want to follow someone with absolutely no following whatsoever, that’d be me. That’d be this guy. I’d appreciate even just a smidgen of the stuff that she gets out there. Myrtle Beach polar plunge was canceled due to winter weather. I found this amusing. I know that weather has been very bad in a lot of the country, in Florida specifically, was hit pretty hard. They had a bomb cyclone that caused snow and bad things to happen. But it is a uniquely bad look or a weak look, I think, to some. I myself, who lived in the Midwest for a long time, to see a polar plunge canceled because they think it’s too cold. There actually is a video of me at Radio Craig C on Facebook jumping into ice water in Illinois that had to be cut out. We had people show up, firefighters, that cut a block of ice in the river open so that myself and a veteran could jump in. A really cool dude. His name is MT Reagan. I interviewed him on the show. He jumps into ice water on the 22nd of every single month. He’s been doing it for three years. whether it’s actually in the Illinois River or somewhere else. He’s doing this to raise awareness to veteran suicide. Twenty two veterans a day horrifically commit suicide. And M.T. Reagan is doing his part to try to raise awareness there. And I have jumped into freezing cold water with him to be a part of that, to help him raise awareness, including when they had to literally cut the ice in in the river there. to let us get in. So I’m judging the people in Myrtle Beach, I guess is what I was trying to say, because they probably should have pulled or plunged anyway, even if they were told it was bad. Because it’s a bad look not to do it, but darn it, I’m glad they’re safe. Three people, one dog, were also displaced after an Indiana man tried to thaw his gas lines with a blowtorch. This is a decision you should not make anywhere in society. In Indianapolis, for sure, it’s something where you think that he would have enough experience to know better. But a 49-year-old guy narrowly escaped injury. His pets, his house narrowly escaped anything worse than what had happened to it because he’s like, man, these gas lines are frozen. I know what we need. We need to thaw them with a blowtorch. I love the Tim Allen approach to it. I do personally. I just would have understood that it wasn’t going to work. I, like many others, would have known going in, this is a terrible idea. But sadly, none of the other three people who live in that house with him told him that. And then finally, one last thing. And actually, the station I work at in Houston, KSEV, interviewed the president of Texas A&M on Friday. The Amigos, you can go find that podcast somewhere and hear from the president of the university, Tommy Williams. But he talked about ending gender studies, women’s study programs or women’s and gender study programs at Texas A&M. And the big takeaway is. from that discussion on that show last week is that there were like eight students enrolled in one class and like 12 enrolled in another class. So even if media is going crazy and faculty members were protesting in the streets or something, Texas A&M by and large canceled a bunch of classes that had no value to them because of the amount of people that were in them compared to the cost it was to run them. So they made a very simple business decision, probably for a variety of other reasons, as you can hear in that interview. But nonetheless, I thought that was amazing, that the biggest takeaway that media won’t tell you is how few students were actually enrolled in these courses that no longer exist at Texas A&M. And they probably shouldn’t have existed at all at Texas A&M to begin with. 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. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and the giant social media empire that she has at Radio Craig C. If you want to be one of the chosen 500 that follow my random tweets about the Yankees. All right. A huge thing happened in Florida. It’s probably not going to get a lot of positive coverage if it gets a lot of coverage at all by mainstream media. But they made an announcement that they will end all vaccine mandates. That doesn’t mean vaccines aren’t available in Florida. It just means that if you want them, you don’t have to be forced to get them. You actually have to go ask for them. And then you get everything you want. Freedom. Freedom of choice. Seems to be pretty important here. Let’s play the announcement from the Surgeon General in Florida saying that they’re making this big public statement. And of course, they’re probably going to be attacked for it. But it seems to be very much aligned with what America is supposed to be.
SPEAKER 23 :
But what I’m most excited about is an announcement that we’re going to make, that we’re making now, which is that the Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor, is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida. All of them. All of them.
SPEAKER 26 :
All of them. Every single one. I think he couldn’t make that more abundantly clear. The reason that this is great is that this is just the way it should be. It shouldn’t be that you can’t get a vaccine. If you want one, you can go get one. It shouldn’t be, though, that you’re forced to take them. That’s what people want. And here’s the other thing that people don’t like that you can say out loud in response to this. Let’s say something horrible happens. Let’s say that over the next five to 10 years, a whole bunch of people in Florida are getting illnesses that we thought were preventable and they’re spreading it to other, but like, let’s say worst case scenario, the kind of thing you’d pull from some like horror movie and not from actual society. I don’t believe this is going to happen. I’m just saying, let’s say it occurs. There would be an opportunity to rethink some of this strategy based on that. I don’t know that they would, and I don’t know that I’d recommend that they do. But even if what you got was horrible in response to this, which I, again, very much doubt will happen, you’d be able to revisit the discussion. People never accept that part of any of these things. My favorite example, I’ll use another example of this, because so often I feel like the right response to something is let’s wait and see what occurs, as opposed to this has to be awful and terrible. But they told us that the tariffs would cause inflation. That didn’t happen the way they did. There’s so many examples of this, actually, where they warn you about something. It never materializes. And then they go about living their lives, pretending as though they warned you about something that made sense, even though it obviously didn’t. My favorite recent example of this sort of thing, out of all the ones I can choose from, and again, there’s a crap ton of things out there to be like, hey, wait a minute, didn’t they tell us this was bad? And I don’t see how it was, but it’s an obscure one. It’s that 60 Minutes story that got buried by Bari Weiss. They said, oh, how dare she? She’s ruining media. And she’s taking this story about Venezuela prisons or something away from television and You might barely remember this story, because it was over a month ago that media freaked out for like two days about the idea that a story at 60 Minutes was prevented from being on television that Sunday. Not that I think even that many people watch it. The funny thing to that, as an update on that story to me, and the reason that waiting a little longer matters so often… is that story inevitably aired on television. If you rewind the clock to when they were debating it and how terrible it was that it got silenced, the one thing you never would have assumed is it ever would have been on television. And it was like two weeks later that the story actually aired, almost exactly as it was intent to air the first time. And no one cared. Media had moved on. They were done with it. But that little example to me is so… I remind people of that all the time now. when I talk about this, because the things they freak out about, they do it just to freak out about them. They don’t do it because the end result is actually better. I’ll give you another example, and it’s one that I’m assuming will be a byproduct of this agreement to reopen the partially shut down parts of the government and to limit the funding that’s going to go to Homeland Security, essentially limit the funding to ICE. We’re going to get exactly the thing we don’t want in the other way. The thing that people were complaining about when Biden was in office, and it’s that violence is going to rise in certain areas, and crime is going to go up, and things are going to be worse if we limit the amount of authority that ICE has to do the job that they need to do in this country. Essentially, the byproduct of a decision will change people’s opinions of it. They’ll be like, wait a minute, I don’t want this. That’s what happened when Biden was in office and swung the gates wide open at the border. And then a whole lot of people, even in very liberal places like Chicago, were saying, this is broken. We need to fix this. This is bad. We need to do better. And then Trump wins the popular vote. All of these things inevitably have to pass the eye test. At least hopefully they’re supposed to pass the eye test. And when they don’t, they do change people’s minds. And so I think that’s what’s going to happen. I don’t think it’s a great decision to make the deal that’s potentially going to be made to limit the funding to ICE and to Homeland Security in order to keep the government open in a midterm election year. I think that is the… The surrender that’s coming from conservatives, from Republicans on this, is that they don’t want to be blamed for a government shutdown months before an election happens. To be honest, too, actually, you know what? I’ll use one more example, and then I’ll move on. I have some audio I want to play of President Trump on Dan Bongino’s podcast that is now back that I thought was interesting. But before I do that, I do think that when you talk about these things, and right now in a lot of political circles, people believe that Republicans are likely to lose the midterm elections because of what’s going on with ICE. That is a statement I’ve heard a lot of think tank people and political people say. And I got to be honest, it’s February 2nd of 2026. It’s not November. And so a lot can change between now and then. If I even believed that sentiment, which I struggled to believe it, but I love how the prediction people always pretend that they know what’s going to happen. And then when things change in four or five or six months, is there inevitably going to. They act like they still know what’s going to happen, even though it’s profoundly different than what they said in February. And they had no impact on it. They did nothing to make things better or worse for politicians on both sides of the aisle. Society in general just kept going, and the results of the changes that are made politically matter more than what’s happening right now. What matters most is what’s happening in eight, nine months. That’s when we’ll actually care. And so I just find that so funny that so often people disregard the fact that and you know what? Another way to describe it is like a weather guy trying to predict the weather six months from now and saying every piece of information he has, you know, in February tells him there might be a winter storm next December, next November. And then when it doesn’t happen, be like, well, man, I don’t know. I was trying to predict something eight months ahead of time. We knew we could be wrong or things would change. Of course you do. You never admit that in the world of these political circles. But let me play this. This is President Trump on Dan Bongino’s new podcast. I thought this was pretty funny. Trump said that he was very unhappy that Bongino left the FBI to go back to his show. And then Bongino tells a really interesting story about getting to work closely with President Trump on something and how he’s a data-driven, stat-driven guy who This is an interesting inside look. This is probably one of the reasons that at least initially, Bongino is probably going to have a lot of success in the podcast space. Coming back to this platform, he will be seen as an obvious insider for quite some time as far as working directly with the president goes. It’s a fascinating year of news surrounding a political pundit turned FBI high-ranking person and now back into being more of a political pundit. I know he had a career in law enforcement and other things. I’m not trying to diminish Bongino. He’s unique. Not a lot of people in our space, in the media broadcast space, will be able to say that they had this close of a working relationship with Trump for the amount of time that he had it. But first, before even that comes up, I just thought it was interesting that Trump said, I’m not real happy that you’re not still at the FBI.
SPEAKER 08 :
In my lifetime, and frankly, probably any other lifetime either, President Donald J. Trump. Mr. President, thank you so much for joining us today. We appreciate it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, thank you very much, Dan, and you too. I was very unhappy when you left the FBI, but I was very happy that you have your show, which is so good. So I’m okay with this. Net neutral. I call it a net neutral.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, Mr. President, I want to thank you for the opportunity. The past year has been absolutely incredible. And given that you’re a results guy, obviously we were friends before, but working for you is a completely different experience.
SPEAKER 26 :
And I’ll stop it right there. I’m going to let him actually tell the story. I just think that this is exactly the kind of stuff that at least in the first few weeks of this specific show, people will be very interested in. I don’t know if it’ll last. And I know that I often wind up agreeing with Dana, Dana Lash, the host of this show. I don’t love angry, screaming, yelling radio as much as I like funny, enjoyable radio that crafts on the ridiculous stuff that happens in media all the time. And however much you might love or hate Bongino, he sort of is the angry radio type more often than not. For good or bad, whatever it is. And so it’s certainly got its own audience. He’ll certainly have a big audience. But I think more than that, what might be the, you got to hear this, a version of a thing from this show is this insight stuff. And here we go.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re a results guy. You’re a spreadsheets guy. How would I? how would you get to a net present value positive with what you’re doing and i’ll never forget an oval office meeting we had in light of the dc crime numbers today hadn’t had a homicide in a record amount of time in dc thanks to your leadership we’re sitting in the oval office and i was talking to you about the homicide rate plunging and it was only about three months into my term there i said mr president what we’re doing down in memphis and elsewhere is working and And I’ll never forget, I said, we’re doing the broken windows, Rudy Giuliani-style policing. You looked at me and you said, hey, how do we take this nationwide? And you never, ever let go. You stayed on top of it with me and Cash. You were all over it. You’re such a hands-on guy. And it was just so refreshing to work for someone who doesn’t get into all the hype and all the nonsense but cares about the numbers. It’s probably your business background or what it is, but amazing job on that.
SPEAKER 26 :
Yeah, I thought this was really interesting to hear him say it. I’ll let Trump actually react to it, too, before I take a break, just because I think Trump’s reaction is interesting. But the fact that it’s all data-driven, it’s all information-driven, it’s all, let’s see what results we can get here on this. It’s the polar opposite of what the Democratic Party tries to tell you goes on within a Trump White House. that it’s all insane and hectic and who knows what’s coming, who knows what’s changing every single day or all the time. I find that uniquely sort of fascinating that the end result is that Bongino is saying, of course, somebody who’s pro-Trump in general, that getting to work with the data-driven version of you was something he wasn’t expecting and something that really seemed to gain a lot of results, as of course it did in D.C. and other places. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, we have the best crime numbers we’ve ever had. We have the lowest number of crimes in 125 years since they recorded. That’s in 1900. You have to think of it, 125 years. That’s despite a lot of bad people coming in through the border that shouldn’t be here, and we’re getting them out. You got a lot of them out yourself. We’re doing… Much better than anybody would think. And yet we have our lowest. Think of it. A lot of criminals came into our country. We’re getting them out and we’re getting them out fast. We have to fight liberal judges and, you know, fake governors are terrible.
SPEAKER 26 :
Yes, they’re terrible and awful. That is absolutely true. But again, to echo something that the president is saying there, the numbers speak for themselves. And that is the kind of stuff that I think actually helps you win midterm elections. At the end of the day, if I walk outside, if I go through my neighborhood and my community, I feel safer. I see data in the news that’s telling me things are safer and better, regardless of who I blame for the fact that things were bad and aren’t bad anymore. I think my day-to-day experience being improved by and large influences my decision-making in an election more than anything else does. More than anything I see in news media, how I live my life and what’s changed for me matters more. And if we actually do see the benefit to our economy that a lot of people are projecting to see over the course of the next few months, even more so. Things could go much better for conservatives in the midterms than some seem to think right now. A quick break. A lot more Craig. Well, a little bit more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
SPEAKER 07 :
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SPEAKER 26 :
This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I’m not a giant financial guy. And actually, I will tell you that producer Steven just told me about a hilarious joke going on in the world that involves Bill Clinton. And I probably shouldn’t tell it on the radio, but you probably can find it anywhere on social media. It’s quite funny. That’s definitely funny. Good one. But anyway, to go back to the financial thing, I saw a lot of people are liquidating their crypto. Part of this is because there was volatility in gold and silver over the last few days, maybe even a couple of weeks. Some of that volatility is likely to settle because it’s gold and silver. They seem to be some of the most easy to depend upon assets that exist in our society. They’re often thought of as the kind of things that can sustain a giant huge swings. Crypto is the exact opposite to it. But I just thought that this financial news was interesting and that people were saying part of the reason for all the volatility in gold and silver and commodities that typically don’t see it was China. China messing around and screwing around and doing things that China is unique to do in these sort of places. And of course, why not? That seems like that might obviously be the case as oftentimes it is, but it’s interesting to see people respond by liquidating crypto because oftentimes in the world of finance, and again, I’m no financial expert, so take anything I say with a grain of salt here, you go from the volatility of one thing that’s more of a commodity that doesn’t typically see it The tremendous volatility and the other stuff, the stuff that you were hedging your bets on and expected to go up and down wildly. So yeah, crypto might have some wild swings in the near future, and that would be par for the course to an extent, but also uniquely different. Also, just different quick stories out there. No more drunken sailors in the UK, as the Navy’s been told to sober up with a new alcohol policy. I know a bunch of veterans. I know that the UK is not the United States. But one thing that I definitely assume would cause problems would be telling you how much liquor you can consume. And why take that away from people? I’ve got to be honest with you. Why have uniquely harmful policies in the case of how you cool off how you digest some of the horrible things that you have to deal with in the world of being someone who’s an active member of our military and what you see and do to defend this country. I would never, ever restrict your access to any of these things. This is beyond stupid, beyond dumb to me, but it definitely made the news that the UK is going to tell its soldiers what they can and can’t do to deal with some of the fallout of doing a uniquely hard job. Also, I saw this out there. Minivans are making a comeback for all the right reasons. One, they’re saying minivans of today are more fun to drive than minivans were in the past. That’s only so true. There’s only so much of that. Like, minivans are not fun to drive compared to cars that are fun to drive. You know that, and I know that, and any dad of three kids who’s pretending his minivan handles well knows. He also knows it. He’s pretending he doesn’t, but deep down he knows. But minivans are also practical. They’re valuable beyond just being able to haul the family around. They’re the kind of thing you can use to actually haul stuff around. Not as good as a truck, but decent enough for getting your things from one place to another place. So I love that minivans are making a comeback in 2026, but I definitely don’t believe the people that say they’re fun to drive. You know that’s not true. I know that’s not true. Talk to you later. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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