The conversation shifts towards a critique of media narratives, with Craig dissecting President Trump’s response to federal spending scrutiny. In doing so, the episode highlights the broader implications of questioning official narratives, encouraging listeners to seek the truth amidst chaos. Additionally, the episode features insights into the role of media in shaping public perceptions, with a spotlight on the controversial interplay between policy, truth, and media speculation.
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My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff to talk about. Let’s get to this first. A horrible thing happened in the world yesterday. And I want to touch on, and by the way, just to the studio, I’m hearing myself back. If there’s a way we can fix that, that would be… There we go. That’s awesome. Thank you. Anyway, something horrible happened in the world. And I’m going to touch on a lot of the questions that people are asking out there. And I’m not surprised they’re asking them. But first, we’re going to just discuss the… the situation itself and also this crazy almost surreal audio of uh dc air traffic control describing what they saw as the american airlines flight collided with a blackhawk helicopter and went down and as of today we’ve been told there are no survivors not that that is surprising that update because the crash looked horrific and you fall into freezing cold water, but certainly something where thoughts and prayers doesn’t even feel like enough. And I’m not trying to be woke about that. I’m just saying that this is horrific and shocking and quite a few different reactions probably go through lots of our minds. But here, this is how air traffic control sounded as they were trying to describe what happened.
SPEAKER 17 :
Fire command, the accident happened in the river. Both the helicopter and the plane crashed in the river east of the approach end of Runway 33. It was probably out in the middle of the river. I just saw a fireball and then it was just gone.
SPEAKER 22 :
So I haven’t seen anything.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that is somewhat impossible to get over, just hearing the description of the fireball. There are videos you can find online on X on Twitter and other places if you want to go looking for those. There’s certainly a lot of ways to do that. And I’ll say one other thing just quickly before I get into the questions that people are asking part of this discussion. I did absolutely see that there was a husband that was asked, I think, by CNN as he was sitting in the airport very quickly after this occurred. You know what was going on. And there were even text messages shown on the screen. And I think that’s horrible. I couldn’t get over thinking about that individual still trying to figure out what has happened to their loved one and now being a part of this news media story where their face, their name, and even the texts that were not received by the telephone of his wife who said, I’m landing in 20 minutes and I’m not going to throw the name out there or anything. But there was just something that was horrific about that. Like, leave the guy alone. You don’t need that version of a discussion when you in news media don’t even know what happened. And I will say that I think the reason the individual spoke to the news is you’re searching for answers. You don’t know if your loved one is OK. You don’t you don’t know anything. And maybe you think that this news media outlet is going to give you information that you don’t have. And so you’re hoping for it. And then you interact with them and you’re on the television with them and then you become a face of this. And that I feel horrible for that person. But here’s the other thing I want to say. Because it’s a Blackhawk helicopter and there’s a military-esque connection, because of Donald Trump, the President of the United States’ desire to take out all of the horrific things that exist within our government as far as corruption and whatnot, and because we never see this in the United States. We haven’t seen an accident like this in many years. Well, maybe not ever specifically like this, but accidents in general to this degree. And so when you have several components, was the Blackhawk helicopter flying dark, meaning that you couldn’t pick it up on certain equipment? It was communicating with air traffic control. And actually, there is other audio I can play of air traffic control trying to tell the helicopter what it was allowed to do and what it wasn’t allowed to do. And that’s kind of crazy in and of itself, too. But what I really want to say about this, and I apologize if I’ve taken too long to get there, The questions are never wrong. That doesn’t mean that they’re accurate. That doesn’t mean they’re correct or factual. But the people who shout down, how dare you ask that question? How dare you say this thing? How dare you wonder if this could have been somehow intentional or someone involved in this crash was someone that, you know, for whatever reason, someone else out there didn’t want to be alive anymore. Those simple questions are, And they matter in any situation, not just this one, but any situation, because I think asking questions like that eventually does get the truth or at least attempts to get the truth. We’re not asking them. Never gets the truth. If you’re shouted down, it’s how dare you. It’s too soon. It’s insensitive or it’s this, it’s that. And honestly, CNN did something that was crazy insensitive that I saw when it tried to blame Trump for this horrible accident and saying how restricting air traffic controllers is a part of the problem. Although Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, has said that he’s going to do an investigation into this. And then also your new transportation secretary has said that they’re probably going to add more air traffic controllers. But nonetheless, What I think is so interesting about the potential for there to be some sort of tinfoil hat conspiracy theory behind all this to yell at those individuals who are going to ask those questions and say, how dare you do this? You’re a horrible person. You’re a terrible person for thinking that you need to shut up only allows things that people desire to be hidden to stay hidden. When you ask questions, you potentially uncover the truth, no matter what the truth is. If the truth is completely innocent, if no one did anything nefariously wrong, if this is simply just a horrific accident, all those things can come out as defense against the questions that are being asked. But I don’t think asking those questions is simply wrong. But nonetheless, to start the show, I figured I’d mention this a few times throughout the show today, and we will play the other audio. And it’s hard to make out a communication between air traffic control with the Black Hawk helicopter saying that it’s allowed to fly behind the plane as the plane is trying to land. That plane out of Kansas landing near Washington, D.C., And obviously that interaction, that communication, I don’t know what happened there because they’re even asking if they can see the plane and you don’t really make out exactly how the helicopter responds. But it’s just horrific, just a horrific, a horrible thing to have happen. I won’t keep repeating that. But even more so, the people who shout down questions in these moments are people I’m often afraid of because those are the people who don’t even want you to wonder or ask or be curious and never definitively say with facts. You’re lying if you say something is true that you cannot prove to be true. That’s something that we know quite often is happening now in the world of mainstream media. But I’ve never been afraid to ask a question. I don’t think you should either. All right, let’s move on. Trump got a lot of backlash. A lot of reactions to trying to pause funding within our government for a bit to figure out how much of it is wasteful and how much of it is actually good. He went and responded on television yesterday trying to dismantle the media narrative about what was and wasn’t frozen. And I thought this was excellently done. Donald Trump 2.0, President Trump 2.0 is intriguing to me. I assume he’s intriguing to you, too, but the way he handles himself, he still does the things that media obsesses about. He still behaves the same way you’re used to Trump behaving. But there’s a clarity. There’s a focus as well in some of these moments that seems better than what you had a few years ago.
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Announced in 2015 and we won in 2016. We did very well in 2020, but we did really well just recently. And I’m restating right now to correct any confusion that the media has purposely and somehow for whatever reason created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid have not been affected by any action we’re taking in any way, shape or form. We are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse. In that process, we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. $50 million. And you know what’s happened to them? They’ve used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?
SPEAKER 03 :
That is crazy that that is a completely accurate statement by the current president of the United States and also something that gets laughed within the audience because you wonder to yourself, we’re spending $50 million on that? We’re sending taxpayer money there for that reason? That makes no sense, and obviously it doesn’t. But he goes on to say that, of course, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, they weren’t impacted. Many of the things that the mainstream media claimed were happening weren’t. Even the discussion about funding for medical research is completely different than reality. Any sort of pause, any sort of attempt to understand what’s going on there doesn’t have the level of impact that people claim it’s having if you’re actually trying to weed out all of the wasteful spending. And there’s a ton of it. And they found some of it with just a couple days window and they will continue. So that seems to make sense, too. Even if the memo gets rescinded and gets covered crazy in media, the actual desire for people to follow executive orders hasn’t hasn’t changed.
SPEAKER 25 :
One other thing from Trump real quick. Their home as federal employees, they must meet a high standard. They’re representing our government. They’re representing our country. If they don’t agree by February 6th to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated and we will therefore be downscaling our government, which is something that the last 10 presidents have tried very hard to do but failed. That’s true. Most of the people we’re talking about have not been going to their federal offices in many, many years from even before COVID. But they have nevertheless been paid. Some have worked. Some haven’t worked. And most of the studies say that some have just gone through the motions. We may ask these people to prove that they didn’t have another job during the…
SPEAKER 03 :
so-called employment with the united states of america because if they did that would be unlawful sound the problem and a lot of people who work from home uh… double-dip uh… in that world and they double-dip here to us yet that’s great from trump and honestly if you save a bunch of money by weeding out the wasteful spending in our government you should make a lot of taxpayers happy. A lot of Americans should be thrilled that our money isn’t going to terrible things. Nonetheless, that is just one of several topics out there today. Lakin Riley’s mom made an appearance during Donald President Trump’s press conference yesterday. We’ll get to some of that audio a little bit later. And Chuck Schumer, in what is for some a difficult day to find levity after a horrible thing happened yesterday, he provided a whole lot of it. He said aroused. More times than I’ve ever heard a politician that is Chuck Schumer or anybody like him use that word. And the way he used it, even better. We’ll get to all that in a bit. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff to talk about out there. Let’s do a quick five.
SPEAKER 07 :
And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, one of the first topics that I saw that I thought was pretty funny, AI commercials are going to be all the rage at this Super Bowl. Apparently, one of the biggest things… Sorry, I’m getting that feedback again. If we can get that out of my ear. There we go. One of the biggest things that you’ll be seeing with 30-second commercials now hitting $8 million in cost is companies that are either working in AI… or even AI that has helped to create said commercials because it’s ridiculously cheaper than, say, buying actual talent. Will we be able to detect those things? Will they annoy us? We will see. But the Super Bowl is going to try out a whole bunch of artificial intelligence-created commercials, and they’re going to be nuts. A woman was arrested on 15 different charges. Many of them sound somewhat repetitive, but 15 feels like a lot. It feels like she and P. Diddy have some things in common. Her name is Bridget Fawcett. None of her crimes are the same as Diddy’s. I should make that clarification. And her bond is only $11,250. You feel like if you have that many charges, the bond would be higher. Three counts of vehicular eluding, second-degree burglary, third-degree motor vehicle theft. first-degree criminal trespass with the intent to commit a crime, etc., etc. Some of the crazier ones are two counts of speeding 40 miles over the speed limit and speeding 25 to 39 over the speed limit. Hit them for both. Also, drugs, alcohol, and other things probably being in this woman’s system. Unsurprising there. Was a Van Gogh painting sold at a garage sale? That’s a real question people are asking. The Wall Street Journal had a story about this. A team of specialists are trying to figure out if a $50 sale was actually an iconic painting not done by Hunter Biden. Certainly not for this amount of money. Well, maybe the $50 because it’s actually worth $15 million if it is, in fact, the authentic Vincent Van Gogh painting. Why are my yard sales not full of this stuff? Why don’t I ever interact with this? And then finally, one last one that I saw and loved out there. Twix is offering you a chance to win two gold bars. I think you have to skip some Super Bowl commercials in order to do it. What I find hilarious about that is Bob Menendez was also in the news. I’ll talk about him after the break in a little bit. But apparently, Twix is trying to give you your Menendez gold bars in order to promote their products. Okay, they didn’t make that connection, but I did, and it’s awesome. Quick break. A little bit about Bob Menendez coming up in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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SPEAKER 03 :
My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff to talk about out there in the world. Of course, one of the biggest topics of conversation right now is the horrific crash that occurred, the American Airlines flight crashing into a Black Hawk helicopter that was flying a training mission with three military members on board. There was a press conference. Donald Trump is certainly not afraid, President Trump, of press conferences. I can’t even picture, in all honesty, president biden um having you know so few press conferences in general and this isn’t meant to to pivot the conversation we’re definitely going to get to the topic at hand but but going out there and speaking himself i feel like this would have been handled by others uh trump and jd vance uh spoke uh several things important were said uh there was a back and forth with caitlin collins of cnn because of course there was and we can actually start there um but here’s some of the information that was provided today
SPEAKER 18 :
We don’t even yet know the names of the 67 people who were killed. And you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and air traffic control and seemingly the member of the US military who was flying that Black Hawk helicopter. Don’t you think you’re getting ahead of the investigation right now?
SPEAKER 25 :
No, I don’t think so at all. I don’t think with the names of the people, you mean the names of the people that are on the plane? uh… you think that’s going to make a difference they are they are a group of people that have lost their lives if you want a list of the names we can give you that will be giving that very soon in coordination with american airlines were in coordination very strongly obviously with the military but i i think that’s not a very smart question i’m surprised coming from you that’s amazing uh… look first and foremost a horrific thing happened a terrible thing happened
SPEAKER 03 :
Someone made a mistake. This isn’t the kind of thing that occurs where everyone made the right decisions. And saying that part out loud the day after is strength. It’s not the opposite of that. And desiring to figure out who made the mistake and why they made a mistake, whether it is air traffic control and what they were communicating to both sides. And there’s a lot of audio that’s available now to dive into that rabbit hole if you want to. whether it was, you know, someone on the on the airplane, the helicopter, the helicopter’s decision to stay in the position it’s in. Obviously, this isn’t without fault. Someone deserves to be blamed. And that’s not mean. That’s not dark. That’s not whatever Caitlin Collins is trying to say it is. It’s it’s simply being honest. Here’s a little more from Trump.
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Mr. President, on DEI and the claims that you’ve made, are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the result of diversity hiring? And what evidence have you seen to support these claims?
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It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a much higher standard than anybody else. And there are things where you have to go by brain power, you have to go by psychological Quality and psychological quality is a very important element of it. These are various very powerful tests that we put to use and they were terminated by Biden. You know what’s crazy to me?
SPEAKER 03 :
And that is true, by the way, that Trump in office the first time did try to make air traffic control a uniquely challenging thing to get a job in. He did try to do away with certain things that made it easier and wanted to do so again. But what’s crazy to me is how often the press is arrogant when speaking to the president of the United States, as if the press has a greater handle on information than what they would brief the president with. Whatever you think about Trump, however you feel about him, pro or negative, as a human, as a person, or as the president of the country, he gets briefed with the deepest level of information before he shows up and speaks. Whether he uses it all, I don’t know. Whether all that information is communicated the way that, say, his own team wants him to communicate it, I don’t know. But he knows it. And so if he’s going to say something like DEI may have played a role in this, I don’t think my first response as a reporter and as press would be to be arrogantly defiant to that idea. I would ask him in a different way, what other information can you provide to us now to back up that claim or back up that potential claim? And he doesn’t say that it did happen. He says it may have. And there are ways that I think you could probably point to Maybe someone getting a job that didn’t have the qualifications of someone else. And then maybe being on a staff in a rotation of people that they’re not supposed to be in because they’re not as qualified as someone else. And somehow that having an impact on a story like this. But nonetheless, I just love how often media behaves as though we know more than you do, sir. How dare you when he’s getting the ground level information before he speaks. J.D. Vance was also there for the press conference and said this.
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Thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership. I just want to reemphasize something the President said, and you’ve heard from the Secretary of Transportation and of Defense. There really was a whole of government response. We were all on the phone. We were all communicating yesterday, trying to get to the bottom of this immediately, but also try to communicate with the American people about what happened. Something the president said that I think bears re-emphasizing, which is that when you don’t have the best standards in who you’re hiring, it means on the one hand, you’re not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there. And I think that is a core part of what President Trump is going to bring and has already brought to Washington, D.C., is we want to hire the best people because we want the best people at air traffic control. And we want to make sure we have enough people at air traffic control who are actually competent to do the job. If you go. Yes.
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You don’t want to have people in positions that matter wherever they are in government just taking money from us and not filling their part of the equation and essentially just throwing that money into the ether and needing other people who are competent who may surround them to pick up the slack. Yeah, that all makes sense. And whatever information comes out about this, whatever discussions are had, I think you have to be open to the idea first. This is difficult for some, not all, probably not a lot of this audience to handle. Open to the idea that someone made a mistake and they deserve blame. You know, I find that crazy. And I’ll be honest about this, as honest as I can be. I’m a millennial. I can be pretty honest, actually, so I don’t think I’ll struggle there. I understand the millennial people who don’t like when they get blamed for stuff because of the way that a lot of people were raised in my generation. A lot of people want to skirt blame for anything and everything, and they don’t like it when someone else gets it. blamed for a thing, but someone made a mistake and they deserve to be held accountable here. And it’s not wrong to be saying that one day after a tragedy. Certainly the families of the individuals who lost their lives are going to want to know who’s to blame. And so we’ll see more on that later. I thought this was interesting. Former Democratic Senator Bob Menendez was in a lot of trouble. This is because he had gold bars in his house and just jackets stuffed with cash, which was hilarious as far as the story goes. But Democratic Senator Bob Menendez did a press conference yesterday after getting a sentence of 11 years in prison. I think he was even crying in the courtroom as he begged not to be found this guilty and imprisoned like this for his bribery scheme. And he said something that was kind of amazing. I’ll see if you think what I think about it. Here we go.
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Only in the SDNY could you embrace an FBI agent who was caught lying on the stand in order to make their case. Only in the Southern District of New York would prosecutors allow a witness to walk away from over 10 criminal charges, including defrauding the United States government so that they can get him to lie on the stand. Welcome to the Southern District of New York, the wild west of political prosecutions. President Trump is right. Oh, this process is political and it’s corrupted to the core.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is amazing. Now, I think Bobby Menendez is definitely a guy who committed a bunch of crimes just personally. He’s been convicted of them. It’s kind of hard to explain gold bars in your house. But it’s amazing as the system may be going after some of these individuals that they’re starting to side with Trump. The ultimate outsider to the system is starting to get a lot of praise from the, you know, Eric Adams of the world, the mayor of New York, or people like Bobby Menendez after he goes down for 11 years in jail. And I think what he’s actually saying is a whole lot of other people are guilty of crimes, too, and they’re not being held accountable. That’s what I hear when I hear him say that, you know, this is all political. It’s not necessarily that I didn’t do this. It’s that the kind of things that are happening are fairly common, and only some of us are getting in trouble depending on who they want to hold responsible and who they don’t. All right. Let’s do a palate cleanser if ever there was one. Granted, it’s still politics, but to me, this is amazing. This is Chuck Schumer talking about stuff. All kinds of things. And the way in which he articulates the what he thinks is, you know, movement of the people, the activating of the team is, well, strange to say the very least.
SPEAKER 29 :
People are aroused. I haven’t seen people so aroused in a very, very long time in terms of going trying to get this done. So, yes, I think democracy will have an effect and we are going to keep at it.
SPEAKER 36 :
I don’t want you to keep it anything, sir. And I’m not surprised when you tell me how long it’s been since you’ve seen something like this.
SPEAKER 29 :
People are aroused. I haven’t seen people so aroused in a very, very long time. Sure you haven’t. In terms of going, trying to get this done. So yes, I think democracy will have an effect and we are going to keep at it. We’re going to keep at it legally. We’re going to keep at it legislatively. Please don’t. But we’re also going to keep at it in terms of the grassroots.
SPEAKER 36 :
Okay, I don’t want you to do any of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I would really prefer you don’t. I don’t know why he said that, why he used that word, and why he went that way with it. But Chuck Schumer is excited that people are aroused, and they haven’t been this aroused.
SPEAKER 1 :
I can’t.
SPEAKER 03 :
You just repeat the words, and it’s hilarious. It’s crazy. One last thing. I wanted to touch on this, too, before we take another break. Dana is sick today. She put it out on X on Twitter, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio. But she was all over. uh, social media last night, which was awesome. And she put out one, uh, well, many very great tweets, but one that I wanted to, to relay to you on her show today. Uh, and you should go find her D lash on social media. If you don’t follow her, which I imagine most of this audience does, but you want some real questions asked to RFK jr. And I thought she was incredible about what she put here, too. She’s not looking for a pound of flesh. She just wants reassurances. But here, this is part of what Dana put up on X yesterday. I just want one Republican to grow some cojones, I’ll do that word for it, and ask two basic questions for RFK Jr., You once described gun owners as a terror group. Do you still hold that view, and can you clarify? You once called oil and gas heads traitors who should be jailed for all eternity and demanded that they be put to corporate death. Do you still hold that view, and can you clarify? Why is clarifying these questions important? She went on to say because HHS has been weaponized to target firearm owners. This is easily true. Remember the push to classify firearm homicide as a health epidemic and the CDC directed directed pause on rents caused during covid. Excuse me. There is always mission creep that includes the animus of the people leading the agency. That’s fantastic. And I agree with her that there are tough questions that deserve to be asked of a lot of people, even if RFK Jr. will still eventually wind up, I think, being, you know, put in his position of power as everyone else within Trump’s cabinet has been. But I just thought that was really great. And this her show figured I’d relay that one, especially the end explanation of it for anyone that’s going to get mad at her. And obviously, Dana’s not one to care about that. But she said she’s not looking for a pound of flesh, as I said a moment ago. Just reassurances, which is exactly what that is supposed to be for. These questions, these grilling, essentially, of cabinet appointees to make sure that you understand how they’re going to behave when in office. Whether or not they tell the truth, whatever, it is what it is. I just think it’s incredible. And that is, out of all the stupid things that are being thrown at RFK Jr., this is one that needs to be put out there. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff out there to talk about today. Puxatawney Phil.
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The groundhog that gets most talked about makes all the other weather predicting groundhogs jealous, probably. He’s only the 17th most accurate groundhog, according to some sort of crazy, weird, people wanted to waste their time study that was out there recently. There’s even some large squirrels that do quite a bit better, according to this. I find that amazing. We probably have to introduce ourselves to some of the other ones. Staten Island has one named Chuck. He’s the best, 85% accurate in the last few years. There’s a groundhog out of Georgia named General Lee. He’s 80% accurate. And then finally, third place, 75% of the time, Lander Lill. which is out of Wyoming, or Lil Lander. I’m not really sure what it is. Sounds kind of like a rap name. But that isn’t actually a groundhog. It’s a prairie dog. And apparently she’s quite good at this too. I love this. I love that stat just being out there in the world a couple days before Groundhog Day. A Little House on the Prairie is getting a reboot. Netflix will be recreating the show, which I don’t know why we’re doing that. The original series ran from 1974 to 83. People streamed more than 13 billion minutes of it in 2024. So that’s one of the reasons to reboot it. It seems like it’s fine just leaving it how it is and not trying to recreate a thing and trying to come up with something new. But darn it, they’re going to make more Little House on the Prairie. One other thing that I saw out there that I thought was interesting, this was a BuzzFeed and Reddit list of the common things that people find disgusting. I would probably allow you to play a game if we were doing this a different way, but I’ll just give you some of these answers. Number one on the list of things that people find gross but is pretty common is the feeling of lotion on your hands, on your skin, even if you need it, even if things are dry. It’s kind of gross, and I actually agree with that one. Toddlers with food on their face, people actually think that’s disgusting. I think that probably goes with being a toddler. When people floss in front of you was number three on the list of gross things. You see, I think you can do worse in the world of something that might happen in front of you in the bathroom, depending on your closeness to someone else. That’s all I’m going to say about that. When people wear dirty shoes on a couch or a bed, this one drives my wife nuts. If you have shoes on at all in the house, she’s going to look at them and be sad about it. Even if she’s not actually going to tell you, she’s going to be nice. Not tell you to take them off, but those are the rules people. And then finally, one last one on this list, eating runny eggs. I came in at number five of things that people think are gross when you see them. And sure, that sounds fine too. One other thing before we take a break and get back to stuff in a bit. A woman went viral on TikTok. Her name is Catherine Hates Boomers, or that’s at least her social media name, for saying that your boss, especially if you have an older boss, a boomer boss, according to her, schedules meetings just to feel important. This went viral. A lot of people reacted to it. You may have a boss that, in fact, does this. Here’s the thing I wanted to remind Catherine Hates Boomers. Your boss is important. If they are someone who’s in charge of stuff, they are, in fact, important. They don’t have to feel that way or they don’t have to remind themselves of that. And you might not like that. And that might be a you thing, not a them thing. Even if they do schedule meetings just to talk because they feel like talking, they are, in fact, valuable more so than you at whatever company you’re at. So I just thought that was interesting that she went viral. She said some stuff. Maybe I’ll play some of this audio a little bit later on in the show. But she is, in fact, correct about a thing that might eventually cost her her job if it keeps making her grumpy, which is a thing that a whole lot of people are. All right, we’ll take a break. We’ll talk more about some of the biggest news of yesterday and today. 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 as Dana’s getting better. She’s on the mend on social media. You can follow her at DLash at Dana Lash Radio and a bunch of stuff that you should follow all the time right there. Let’s do this. There’s a lot of reaction to the idea that Trump will put 30,000 detainees, migrant detainees, illegal people here in the country in Guantanamo Bay. And I think this is a brilliant idea. And I’ll tell you why in just a second. First, I will tell you that the Cuban president is upset about it. And a lot of other people are upset about this, putting out all kinds of reactions, how horrible it is. San Francisco and their government.
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uh people uh their politicians are certainly very proud of the fact that they want to harbor illegal aliens and break all kinds of rules here we go we know that san francisco is a sanctuary city we will always be a sanctuary city yeah we will be clear the sheriff’s office does not and will not take part in immigration raids by any federal law enforcement actions directed towards the immigrant community. Very simple message. If you want a safe city, you must support a sanctuary city.
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That doesn’t make sense. Many of the sanctuary cities are not exactly safe. Places like Chicago, they don’t scream safety when you think about them. But here’s the bigger reason that I think this is brilliant. I want a deterrent. The wall is one said deterrent. There’s several other ones. I want people to believe that coming into our country illegally is not a good decision. It’s a bad decision because I want the amount of people that are coming here that way to stop. You want to plug the boat. Then you can have conversations about how you change things to make it, say, fair or For someone who wants to get into this country a certain way, if that’s not something happening now, you don’t do that part first and you don’t keep leaving the influx of people who are coming in the wrong way to keep going. So saying that you’re going to send people to Guantanamo Bay, a notorious, obviously, location within our world. is brilliant. It’s brilliant discussions about these topics and it’s willing to push people to understand, all right, if I go there and if I get caught, especially if I do something else horrible, I want to get into that country, I may very well be punished and punished severely. Those deterrents prevent people from doing bad things. We like those things. That’s how society works to a certain degree. All right, let’s also play this. When you’re talking about illegal immigration, we’re talking about all those things. Lakin Riley and Lakin Riley’s mother may come to your mind. She spoke yesterday at Trump’s press conference talking about some of these issues and really said some very moving things.
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We also want to thank President Trump for the promises he made to us. He said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin. And he hasn’t. He’s a man of his word. I trust that he will fight for the American people. Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Because without his sacrifices, Lakin’s story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us. But because of him, we can continue living knowing that we will see Lakin again.
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Look, I don’t know if you know anyone that’s lost a loved one younger than them, a child, essentially, and the amount of impact that that has. And especially when you feel like the child was taken from you in a way that is deeply unfair. whether that’s the story of Lake and Riley or even some stories I’ve personally known about in communities I’ve lived and worked in where tragedy and or question mark thing happens and you wonder to yourself how people deal with The loss. I mean, when you think about the American Airlines flight that went down yesterday and the amount of families that lost a loved one now, and they’re going to want answers. They’re going to want information and they’re going to want people who made mistakes to be held accountable if that’s possible. or at least know who those individuals were that caused the problem in the first place, that’s human. And I think it’s even more moving. And I’ve known people that said similar things to me about stories I’ve talked about in my career in broadcasting. Thank you for keeping this person’s memory alive. Thank you for not letting them be forgotten. A lot of military individuals that I talk to have said those sort of things to me and others. And so I know that wholeheartedly Lake and Riley’s mom believes that and honestly feels that way about President Trump. And so it’s incredibly moving, even even more so for that reason. And these stories do matter. Sometimes when you pivot to the emotion, oftentimes I think in the world of politics, you’re trying to take advantage of someone’s humanity to convince them we need to do something. But other times when you prop up the individual themself that’s lived through or fought through whatever the horrific thing is they’ve dealt with. you might better understand the need to do something. So I think sometimes it’s a very good thing when it happens. And that was one of them. And a very moving set of comments made from a mother who probably still can’t every day that she wakes up believe for mere moments or maybe for an entire day what happened to her family happened and is still in a grieving process and probably will be for a long time. all right let’s play this audio uh… call this a palate cleanser if you want to uh… this is uh… democratic senator brian shat that his name don’t get mad at me uh… he’s at hawaii and he made an insane claim about robert f kennedy junior this is just trying to get a pound of flash by inventing something uh… this is performative politics to the t uh… this is not here we go that rfk junior wants to conduct the tuskegee experiments
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on all of us.
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No. You actually even hear behind him, some of the politicians who are standing with him in a video shot of the podium, their reaction to it.
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That RFK Jr. wants to conduct the Tuskegee experiments on all of us. He wants to observe the disease process population-wide. No. But I believe, I believe, Don’t know. I believe the Democrats will be united. All right, I’ll stop it right there.
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I’m having a very hard time not making fun of the fact that this senator’s last name is Schatz. I’m trying very difficult. It’s very difficult for me. I’m not going to be able to completely do it. I kind of want to coin a new term when you just speak nonsense into the air. You’re, you know… Doing a shats. You’re pulling a Brian shats. Let’s make sure to have clarity there. You’re shatsing all over the world in your takes and whatnot. I’m a child because this is insane. This is ridiculous. And I’m thrilled. that his name is what it is because it feels tremendously appropriate after that take, after that information is thrown out into the world or lack thereof information is probably what you can call it. But honestly, I don’t know why Democrats can’t learn their lesson. And the lesson should be that the worst way to garner the attention of the American people to the degree you need it in order to, say, win an election is just crap all over. I’m not going to shats all over the and that’s Brian Shatz, by the way, all over the other people involved in this situation. the other people out there in the world, and don’t actually provide any sort of solution yourself. Don’t give us any real information. Many of these organizations that Trump has put people in charge of need to be overhauled, dismantled, potentially, or at least fixed by going ground up and rooting out all the waste, abuse, etc., etc. That’s what I think is happening. Honestly, real quickly, too, about the memo that gets rescinded, the memo that essentially paused a whole bunch of government funding for everything as they get an understanding of whether or not people are going to follow Trump’s executive order to remove DEI and other things from our situation, from the world in which we live. This is good. I don’t know why anyone would actually care about a slight pause, which is what they said it was, and no one actually took any money directly out of the hands of a human being who was getting money themselves for this. He said that money going directly to people was going to continue. It was money going to organizations, to anything else that had to be reviewed and made sure that it follows… the new policies of the new administration. And you know what’s great about that too, by the way? Just real quick. If you know anyone in the world of government that gets paid by the government, they sometimes act as though it doesn’t matter who’s in charge. Like, ah, we’re still going to get our money. We’re still going to get this over here, get that funding over there, or move these dollars around once we claim they’re for this, but we know we’re going to be able to use them for something totally different. They essentially act as though there is no check and balance. And so this was, the most profound example of that. And even if it was a couple day example, and that’s all it was intended to be, hey, I can turn the faucet off if I want to, and you now know I can turn it off, and so we’ll see who actually gets the faucet to stay on and who doesn’t. I think that’s brilliant. I think that’s incredible. And honestly, I’m not a giant Trump fanboy. I might sound like one filling in today on the show, I don’t begrudge you if you are one. But I don’t call him, or at least during the first term, didn’t often say that the moves he made were always the most genius decision anyone’s made. But in the first couple weeks of the new administration, I think there’s a refinement to how this process goes. What’s said to the public, what’s said in private, the actions that are being taken. I continue to see… what I believe to be a very focused individual and a very significant individual, certainly not just by being our president, but in general by how he’s going about wielding that power. I think there’s something new about some of this, even from last time. One of the biggest knocks on Trump, I will remind people of those who voted for him the first time around in 2016. But then I don’t know if they were truly unhappy. I can’t imagine a lot of them voted for Biden. But one of the knocks on him was that he didn’t do the removal of the deep state, the removal of the government corruption the way he promised to. And it feels like this time it’s all or nothing, baby. There’s a version of that that is occurring and occurring more significantly. And I think that’s good, regardless of what else other people, other, well, idiots, in my opinion, have to say about this scenario, these situations that go on. It makes sense because the system that’s operated for so long, believing itself to be independent of any sort of prevention or at least checks and balances, is getting a tremendous wake-up call. And I think that that will only expose some of the deepest sets of corruption that we’ve seen. All right, I’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana will be likely back tomorrow, just not feeling great today. Follow her DLash or DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter. Let’s do a quick five.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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The world doesn’t look great for a couple reasons out there and sillier stories. Well, actually, probably you could take these very seriously. AI girlfriends are a trend that is exploding. This is real. 8 in 10 men, well, it’s actually not real. It’s the exact opposite. 8 in 10 men think they could one day replace people, humans. Mostly out of a survey of 2,000 guys, people that said they were lonely and struggling to find a human being that interacts with them the way that AI does on their phone. There’s something about a detachment from reality being so strong that just having fake AI messages on your cell phone feels like human interaction, and that is terrifying. Just one of two stories out there that makes us worried about our future. The other one is a story about an asteroid that’s being called the Christmas Asteroid. that has a perilous path ahead of it that might, in fact, harm us. We pray to God that doesn’t happen, and usually it doesn’t happen, but it’s also a story out there in the world that I couldn’t get over relaying to you for some reason, whatever reason. Super Bowl commercials are going to be $8 million. Most of them will leak online, or not even leak, just purposely be put online. The significance of the Super Bowl commercial now compared to before… totally different it feels uh tremendously like you’ve already seen everything honestly even if you stream stuff and i do a lot of streaming television i think they’re putting some of those commercials out there already along before uh say they’re going to be out there for regular tv and a lot of us watch it the other way so uh really none of this is getting debuted none of this is new and different uh so who knows but that’s another story uh in the world another quick five topic The UK Navy mistook a farting whale, this is real, for phantom Russians trying to track their nuclear submarine. This was hilarious, I guess. Navy officials feared that Vladimir Putin had locked onto them. We have been analyzing the sounds and now believe it to be a marine mammal, a whale, and some flatulence was what they put out there in the world after for a while thinking that it was something else. It’s one of the UK’s doomsday subs, apparently, that was worried if it had been located. I wonder how that feels to go through all the procedure, all the elements of this. And it’s, you know, a bunch of dudes who will probably find this funny when it’s all said and done. But finding out that what you’re freaking out about, what you’re preparing to interact with is a whale that maybe had too many fish that day. That’s got to be something as far as the conversation sitting across the table after it’s all over and being like, man, we can’t believe we thought that was a real thing when it was in fact just a whale farting. I can’t get over how stupid this is. Man, I love that topic so much. And probably partially because I was nowhere near the actual version of freaking out about it and then finding out that it was not, in fact, a real risk. And then, all right, one other thing out there that I saw. A study found breakups are harder on men than on women. This scares you in connection to the story about AI, artificial girlfriends who are never going to break up with you. But apparently young people specifically, with a couple weeks until Valentine’s Day, were asked about this. And straight men are ones who feel like they have no, quote, emotional support after the breakup. You just own it, man. You just you live in your own world for a few days. You figure out how to move on and then eventually you move on. That at one point was something a whole lot of us as men did and didn’t complain about as much as you complain about now. But loneliness, sadness and other things together apparently demonstrate just how difficult this is on men. I will go a step further. because it mentions divorce, too. There are ways in which society, I think, does make that harder on dudes, whether it’s more challenging to see your kids for a man than for a woman, et cetera, et cetera. So there are a lot of, you know, valuable aspects within this story that I think matter and deserve to be looked at. But for some reason, there’s also the things about it that make you just feel bad about the world we live in now, if that’s the right word. 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. Find DLash, Dana Lash Radio on X, on Twitter, all over the place for Dana on television. Her podcast is great. Just follow her everywhere, as I imagine many people who listen do. Let’s do this. A Democratic senator was unaware of how smug and hilariously hypocritical he sounded. Well, I don’t know if he was actually unaware. I imagine they don’t care. They very much are aware of how how big of idiots they sound like. But anyway, this individual’s name is Ben Ray Lujan. He was asking questions to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And then he had to take a pause. as Kennedy was kind of winning, I think, some of that discussion, to yell at the audience for the signs that they were holding up and the things that they were doing to kind of voice their displeasure with said, Senator, here we go.
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If President Trump asks you to cut Medicaid, will you do it?
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Oh, it’s not up to me to cut Medicaid. It would be up to Congress.
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Oh, and I’m going to work. Mr. Kennedy, you don’t want to answer? I’ll move on. That was the answer. Sorry. I know you didn’t like it. Do you know how many states will end? Mr. Chairman, if I may pause my time. So I understand that people are getting asked to leave if they stand up with signs. But there’s a lot of other as well, Mr. Chairman. So it needs to be extended to everyone. As Mr. Kennedy said, we should respect each other when we have a difference of opinion. We’re just trying to do our jobs here and trying to ask questions. That’s all.
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Oh, so many great things happened within that piece of audio. First, he got all upset. He got all butthurt toward the end there when he was realizing that people seemed to not be thrilled with the questions he was asking. And also just the very beginning of the audio, his own reaction to Kennedy letting him know that he’s not going to be able to cut those programs even if he wants to, because darn it, he doesn’t control the purse.
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If President Trump asks you to cut Medicaid, will you do it?
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Oh, it’s not up to me to cut Medicaid. It would be up to Congress. Oh, shit.
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I love that he goes from that ownership of a quick answer to the version of how dare these people say and do things that they’re doing in front of me that are making me look bad. I want these people kicked out of here. That’s insane. All right, let’s move on to one of the most serious stories of the day, something that’s certainly important. The American Airlines flight that crashed yesterday into a Blackhawk helicopter that took the lives of everyone on board the flight and all three individuals on the helicopter. It’s it’s unfathomably sad, first and foremost. It’s the kind of thing that we don’t see very often here in the United States. And so it’s sort of surreal to an extent to know that it happened. There’s a second aspect of it, though, that’s certainly going to be talked about and I think deserves to be talked about. And that is why this happened. And there are people that think it’s horrible to even ask those questions, to wonder how this could be in general. But I don’t understand that. And I’ll be honest about that. I know whenever anyone thinks… that they’re fighting against a conspiracy theory, or whatever you want to call it, that they seem to think they’re doing a good job. They seem to think, like, how dare you say that? You should be stopped at all costs for the things you say and do because they’re inappropriate to be said and done. And that’s insane. And the best way that I can explain this is the only way to get honest answers, to get truth, is to ask questions. If you don’t ask questions, you don’t get truth. And don’t claim things are true when you don’t know if they are. But never be afraid to ask a question. Never be afraid to wonder how a military plane that may or may not have been flying in a way where it can’t really be detected, although there was communication between that plane and between air traffic control. But if you ask a question why that plane would seem to… almost by a flight path purposefully, crash into a airline plane that’s landing, a helicopter and a plane crashing in a way that seemed like it could have been intentional. Granted, not saying it was. This absolutely could be a horrific accident and not intentional at all. It’s not wrong to ask those things and to wonder that, especially when you have a person like this president trying to remove corruption from our society and wondering how corruption will respond to that. That is something that deserves, I think, to be asked. Caitlin Collins seemed to think it was horrible that President Trump not only called a press conference, showed up at his press conference this morning, but even laid out there, and certainly not the way I’m saying things, but that the cause of this might also be a hiring of an individual that didn’t deserve a job. I think that makes sense, too. Here’s a little bit of that.
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of the 67 people who were killed. And you are blaming Democrats and DEI policies and air traffic control and seemingly the member of the US military who was flying that Black Hawk helicopter. Don’t you think you’re getting ahead of the investigation right now?
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No, I don’t think so at all. I don’t think with the names of the people, you mean the names of the people that are on the plane? You think that’s going to make a difference? They are a group of people that have lost their lives. If you want a list of the names, we can give you that. We’ll be giving that very soon in coordination with American Airlines. We’re in coordination very strongly, obviously, with the military. But I think that’s not a very smart question. I’m surprised coming from you.
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I’m surprised coming from you. Someone he’s thought doesn’t ask great questions in the past. What’s most amazing about this topic is CNN itself put out yesterday right after this horrible thing happened that it’s Trump’s fault, more or less. in saying that some of the decision making to pull back on government funding including even with air traffic control might have somehow played a part in this even though it couldn’t possibly have the man has been in office for a very short amount of time nothing that he’s done has had the impact that CNN was trying to allude to it being and more so than that if you go even further Trump is trying through executive action and other things to make it harder to become an air traffic control person, but also to make sure you’re hiring people that deserve the job and not necessarily hiring people that don’t deserve the job for a tremendous amount of reasons. A DEI among them. And Trump was not shy at all about this. And I think there’s something great about that. Because again, you’re not saying out loud that you definitively believe that something did occur. You’re saying out loud that it could have occurred and we’re not going to pretend it didn’t. One of the best examples of this, by the way, in recent history is the lab leak theory about COVID. The amount of people that said it was horrible to say that. And Trump, one of the people who put that out there at the time. But how dare you? And now most of our intelligence community recently updated us into believing that COVID leaked from that lab in Wuhan. So all these years later, When they hope that you’ve forgotten the way that they fought against you at the start, they want to pretend as though they always accepted it as a rational, potentially likely scenario. And now inevitably the main, you know, belief in what caused all of that. But for now, they’re going to pretend with the DEI stuff like it’s a horrible, terrible thing to say. Here’s a little bit more Trump on it.
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It’s all under investigation. I understand that. That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
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Because I have common sense, okay? And unfortunately, a lot of people don’t.
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The tragedy itself is not funny. I want to make sure that I make sure everyone knows that I’m not even remotely laughing at anything like that. I don’t know why, but just the matter of fact way that Trump responds there, I think is incredible. And here I’ll say one other thing about media and press. This is the president of the United States. I’m not trying to say that. So you respect him more because media won’t do that. And I actually don’t really need them to. I mean, look at the way they treated Biden and the amount of stuff they ignored that Biden evidently was doing that you could have easily actually attacked him for. But assume that he might have some decent information that he’s going to get briefed by people that know more than you do. The amount of media that so arrogantly seems to assume they know the story better than the guy who’s going to actually get the intelligence briefing that no one else has given yet, the non-public information that may or may not ever be public, that we want to be public. It’s incredible. The amount of times that I think we’ve seen this play before and are likely to see it again, and then media has egg on their face for being the idiots in the room, and they don’t learn their lesson. They keep going with the, how dare you say that, or how dare you think that, and we’ll see what occurs. I want to say one other thing, actually, and I mean this with all sincerity. Just because something like this could have happened, that DEI itself could have potentially been to blame in some way, shape or form. And again, you’re waiting for the information to know for sure. It doesn’t mean that Republicans or conservatives or people who are willing to say that out loud, no matter what political party they think themselves to be, are also hateful. They’re not hateful. I’m not hateful. I just think that you need to tell the truth. Whatever the truth is, you can’t be afraid of it. And more and more people seem to pretend as though not only can you be afraid of the truth, you should be afraid of it. You should be afraid of asking the questions that get us there. By the way, one other thing that I thought was amazing of just audio that’s out there, Caroline Leavitt, I think, is going to crush the job as the press secretary. Did a very good job the other day. um she also popped up on uh good morning america michael strahan asked her a uniquely stupid question and she she did pull no punches she definitely went after the stupidity of it in a 30 second sound bite that i thought was amazing here we go but is there any concern that we risk losing people with years of experience like doctors and and let’s say scientists
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Well, most doctors who work in actual hospitals and medical institutions have to show up to the office. We know that employees are more productive and more efficient when they are working in an in-office environment. And that’s what this administration expects. And I think that’s what American taxpayers expect. Don’t forget, it’s the American people who are funding this government. And they deserve people who are actually showing up to work.
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Yes, they do. They deserve people who are showing up to work. And even if you can do the over-the-internet version of a medical consultation, you can’t imagine that that doctor isn’t showing up at some hospital somewhere and doing hands-on work in order to be good at their job. I don’t know a lot of people who are exclusively… individuals who are giving online care and no in-person care, because that seems like it shouldn’t be a thing in the world of the medical profession. And certainly when we’re paying taxpayer dollars to doctors who quote unquote work in hospitals. But I just love that reaction to the question. What if we lose some really great people? some really intelligent ones, some people we can’t lose. Why can’t they show up at work would be the question back, much like I think a lot of them have to anyway. But what is the problem with asking people who are taking checks from us, from our bank accounts, from our tax dollars to go ahead and show up for the day, punch in and be in the studio for a little bit or be wherever you got to be, be in the hospital in order to get that money? That seems like the lowest request we could possibly give. The bar is as low as it’s ever been, and Democrats and media are still pushing back against it, which should say something. It should scream something, in fact, to a whole lot of us, a lot of us who are being shouted down every time we have a quote-unquote conspiracy theory that we just want answers about. How dare you ask the question is insane. As I said before and insane again, and when people ask stupid questions, they should be slapped like that, which was amazing for the new White House press secretary. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Find Dana everywhere at Dana Lash Radio. Two great ways to stay connected on X on Twitter. I love this first Florida Man from Stories Today. Radio Kane does an awesome job of sending these to me. A Florida man with an ankle monitor tells deputies he can’t go to jail. I have a curfew. I got to go back to my house because I’ve already got the ankle monitor. I’m already in trouble. He went on to also complain that you can’t do bleep is the word he said when he found out that you can get arrested while wearing an ankle monitor and under house arrest if you do other bad stuff. There’s something amazing about this. He thought that there was some sort of like get out of jail free scenario that if you do something you’re not supposed to do, the guy in Winter Haven, but you happen to already be in trouble that you just point to the ankle monitor and you’re like, no, guys, they got me. It’s fine. You don’t have to get me in trouble for this. I’m already in trouble. And they’re like, well, no, if you do a bad stuff, then you have to actually also go back to jail. A car crash happened, et cetera, et cetera. The guy is in trouble. I just love the things he said and the way he acted as though he can’t possibly have things. It’s like double jeopardy to him, even if the crimes are totally different. Amazing. A Florida man pled guilty to assaulting a Dallas-Fort Worth airport gate agent. This is according to the U.S. DOJ. Usually Florida people, some of them, may Florida hard. This seemed to be one of those situations where that would happen. The guy was accused of assaulting a gate agent and pled guilty to it. In the statement, the DOJ said the security cameras captured Keith Charles Owens, 53, repeatedly punching the gate agent in the head. The incident occurred back in October of 2024. I went according to court documents at 4.42 p.m. He arrived at his gate to tell the agent he was late and tried to scan his boarding pass when the agent explained that he had the wrong gate. You’re not in the right place, sir. You can’t get on board this plane. It’s not your plane. Owens lost it. He started cursing, walked away for a bit, came back and attacked the agent. This is surreal. Owens went back to A36 and started yelling at the gate agent, grabbed him by his shoulders and punched him repeatedly in the face, even though he was supposed to board at A35. That feels like the kind of thing where eventually, I hope, with enough time, enough clarity, you look back and you regret the fact that you got that mad. I don’t know if that’ll ever happen for this guy, but hopefully it does. Florida man was arrested for allegedly calling for a Trump assassination on Facebook as well. One other crazy story out there. This is illegal. You can’t go around and do this. Shannon Atkins, 46, faces possible federal charges for essentially asking for something horrible to happen to the current president of the United States. Atkins is also charged with drug possession, smuggling contraband in a county detention center and other stuff. So obviously he’s, you know, the cream of the crop in the world in which we all live. But darn it, it seems just insane, again, that these individuals do these sort of things and then assume that there’s not going to be any sort of consequences. I wonder how you actually react when you throw that up on social media. You type out the crime and then hit post and then just sit back and look at it and go, this was a good idea. I’ve done a great thing. Maybe you’re something like the ankle monitor dude who just assumes you can’t get more trouble if you’re already in trouble. So what’s the worst that can happen? And well, you can go back to jail. You can have a lot of other crazy things occur. I just can’t get over that. The individual thinking that it’s no big deal, it’ll all be fine. And then, you know, not so much. All right, one last thing, and it’s just because I love it so much. Before we take a break, I want to keep playing this audio of Chuck Schumer saying that people are aroused. I don’t know if he was talking about Florida specifically or something else, but I can’t get over that this exists. Let’s use this as a palate cleanser to close out the hour. on the show because, well, darn it, it’s awesome.
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People are aroused. I haven’t seen people so aroused in a very, very long time in terms of going, trying to get this done. So yes, I think democracy will have an effect and we are going to keep at it.
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I hope you don’t.
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I don’t want you to keep at it. Nothing at all whatsoever. That sounds like a Florida man took over the body of a Chuck Schumer and said some things that a Florida man would say. But darn it, that was really Chucky. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. Find Dana everywhere. DLash, DanaLashRadio, two great ways to stay connected on X, on Twitter with her and all the things that she’s up to. Let’s do this today in reaction to the horrific accident that happened yesterday. The American Airlines flight and the Blackhawk helicopter that collided, taking the lives of everybody on board of both. Trump has announced a new FAA veteran to lead that organization.
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They are working tirelessly to figure out exactly what happened. We will state certain opinions, however. I’m also immediately appointing an acting commissioner to the FAA, Christopher Rochelieu, a 22-year veteran of the agency, highly respected. Christopher, thank you very much. Appreciate it.
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Thank you very much. And I appreciate it as the words back to the president on that for putting him in a position of authority. And this certainly demonstrates the huge difference between, say, moves that Trump is making and media will give him no credit for where you’re finding people that have deep amounts of understanding and connection to the agency they’ll be in charge of and what Biden did. When he was in charge, there’s audio going viral of a nominee that Biden put forward for the exact same position who couldn’t answer questions. This was back in 2022. Eventually, this individual, I think, withdrew their candidacy for said job. But here we go.
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Mr. Washington, can you quickly tell me what airspace requires an ADS-B transponder?
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Not sure I can answer that question right now.
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I don’t know. OK, we’ll just keep going. So that’s a that’s a pretty important part. So what are the six types of special use airspace that protect this national security that appear on FAA charts? Sorry, Senator, I cannot answer that question. So what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying under basic med? Senator, I’m not a pilot, so. But obviously, you’d never see the Federal Aviation Administration. So any idea what those restrictions are under basic med? Quickly.
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Well, some of the restrictions, I think, would be high blood pressure. Some of them would be it’s more like how many passengers per airplane, how many pounds in different categories.
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Many even have to explain the questions. Again, Trump went on in a press conference today to remark about DEI and how it could potentially be to blame in some way, shape or form for horrific things like the accident that occurred. There are a lot of other people who might ask if some sort of conspiracy theory could wind up being true on this. And I think asking questions is important and is smart and is never a bad thing and shouldn’t be shouted down even a day after something horrific happens. But don’t present those questions as if they’re statements of fact. That part matters too. But a lot of mainstream media and other outlets are Already up in arms about some of the potential reasons that are being floated or put out there in the world. And again, I think these type of questions actually get you to the truth. Let me put it this way, and I’ll play some more Trump audio in a second. If someone is lying to you and you look them in the face and go, OK, thanks for the information, you never get the truth. They’re never going to tell you what actually occurred if the way you respond to lying is, thanks so much, man, can I have another? The way that you respond to lying where you actually get real information is to go, you know, I don’t think that makes sense. Or to at least say, well, what about this other person? Is this at all plausible? And then they have to react to that one, too. And you gain more information. But here’s Trump talking about DEI and some of what may be to blame for the horrific accident that occurred yesterday. And then getting an immediate reaction from the media that thinks he’s a terrible person for saying this out loud.
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It’s all under investigation. I understand that. That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
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Because I have common sense, okay? And unfortunately, a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level. When you have 60 planes coming in during a short period of time, and they’re all coming in different directions, and you’re dealing with very high-level computer computer work and very complex computers. And one of the other things I will tell you is that the systems that were built, I was going to rebuild the entire system and then we had an election that didn’t turn out the way it should have. But they didn’t build the systems properly. They spent a lot of money renovating a system, spending much more money than they would have spent if they bought a new system for air traffic controllers, meaning the computerized systems.
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Look, here’s the thing, and I find this is very important to mention. We have a lot of close calls in the world of air traffic control right now. You might not be aware of that, but it’s true. And there are even videos that go viral occasionally of almost terrible things that luckily, thank God, didn’t happen. But you see planes just missing each other. And that’s a mistake by someone in an air traffic control situation of saying, go ahead and land when you shouldn’t be landing. And whether it’s telling the helicopter where it can fly, telling the plane when it can land, getting something wrong is horrific and obviously incredibly important. And so Trump is pulling no punches and shouldn’t be pulling punches because, again, asking those questions matter. You know who agrees with this, by the way? The simple philosophy of of no question is in and of itself bad or inappropriate. If you actually are after getting the truth and not just trying to be a performative lunatic, then darn it. This is a good thing. Bernie Sanders, apparently, although he immediately becomes a performative lunatic after saying it, he was talking about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and about President Trump. during the hearing yesterday and he started his question by saying something that a lot of people who are not on his side of the political aisle will agree with care system is broken and it’s broken for some of the reasons the mr kennedy indicated we have not paid attention
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to the fact that we have massive amounts of chronic disease. We have not answered the question why in the richest country in the history of the world, our life expectancy is lower than it is in countries far poorer than we are. Yes. So I think in many ways, President Trump And Mr. Kennedy has asked some of the right questions.
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Great. Asking the right questions is important. I paused him before he went crazy, and I’ll let him go crazy in just a second. Because again, and this is what I’m saying about the DEI discussion or even potentially something more nefarious in the world of the crash yesterday, asking those questions gets you closer and closer to the truth where ignoring them doesn’t.
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Problem is their answers will only make a bad situation worse. I don’t think so. So let me ask Mr. Kennedy again. out there if we want to make america healthy uh… will you are sure the american people that you will fight to do what every other major country on earth does guarantee health care to every single american okay if our health care isn’t a good if the americans who have access to its aren’t getting the version of it that bernie sanders thinks he deserves
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Why would the first thing you decide to do be to give that health care to more people? Why wouldn’t you try to fix the thing that you’re providing before you just dole it out in larger numbers? That’s a simple question. That’s a valuable question. That’s not one Bernie Sanders wants you asking. But I love this back and forth, and it’s only going to get crazier for Bernie Sanders and all involved. And honestly, I feel like if you shout enough, Like if you go crazy enough in a political sense, you should eventually be able to like attack the other person. And I don’t mean violently. I don’t. Well, there’s not going to be a way to do it nonviolently. What I mean is maybe do it like gladiator style, like put both guys. And I’m talking about the American gladiators. I’m a millennial after all. Put both guys on the jousting pad and give them the foam things and have them swing at each other. And whoever gets knocked off the jousting pad, that person loses. And the other guy wins. Because this gets to the point where I would really like to see Bernie Sanders and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joust. I took a long walk to my joke there, but I liked it. I hope you did too. More Bernie going nuts.
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I’m going to make America healthier than other countries in the world right now.
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Will you guarantee do what every other major country does? It’s a simple question, Bobby.
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And by the way, Bernie, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies.
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Oh, yeah.
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It’s in Congress, too.
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Yes, it is.
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Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.
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Oh, no. And protecting their interests. Oh, I thought that that would come down. I love that that would happen.
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I love that he got applause for that. I love that that’s amazing. And again, at this point, you need Blazer and Taser to walk out and invite both of these guys under the jousting pad. A little bit more from Byrne.
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I ran for president like you. How dare you? I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry. They came from workers. 2020.
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In 2020, you were the single largest… Because I had four contributions from workers all over this country.
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Nah, buddy, come on. Be more honest about that. Bernie Sanders, it’s also hilarious to mention whenever he rails against all the different corruptions he sees in the world is that he’s a millionaire, a multimillionaire worth a bunch of money who spent a lot of time in the political system How does that happen, Bernie? How do you get that much money? How does it go that way? But nonetheless, I love that. And I love the back and forth of all of this. And honestly, yeah, I would like to see us be a healthier country. And let’s go back to the start because Bernie admits what’s happening is good. Asking questions is good. Putting people, he didn’t say this part, in positions of power who are not going to just do same old, same old and have a bunch of friends that they want to protect is also a good thing.
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The care system is broken. Yes, it is. and it’s broken for some of the reasons the mister kennedy indicated we have not paid attention to the fact that we have massive amounts of chronic disease have not answered the question why in the richest country in the history of the world our life expectancy is lower than it is in countries far poorer than we all let’s answer that so i think in many ways president trump And Mr. Kennedy, I’ve asked some of the right questions.
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I would have loved it if it just stopped there, because I agree with him wholeheartedly. And then getting to those answers might take time. I get those answers might be multifaceted. One of the things I’ll tell you, as far as the information I’ve seen on this, in some other countries, medical professionals are motivated to have good outcomes for their patients, financially so. You make more money if you’re doing good things health-wise for the people you’re treating. The United States is unique in not having that as a requirement. You get money if you ask for a bunch of tests. That is something that gets you paid well, or you provide a lot of medical care. Whether that care is actually making someone better or not is something we can all debate until we’re blue in the face, and I’m not going to outright accuse the entire community of not doing its job of trying to make people better. But it’s not good when the money part is handed out just for doing work that may or may not actually be saving and helping people. And in some of those other places that Bernie Sanders is referencing, some of the other valuable countries in the world as far as medical care goes, you get compensated for treating people successfully. So is there a way to provide that without, say, socializing all of health care, which is what Sanders wanted to do? I think those questions deserve to be asked. And even more than anything else, just having transparency in the cost of things would matter. Because if you’re sitting in a doctor’s office and a doctor says, you know, you’re not really in need of this test, but I’d like to have this test for you. Let me go ahead and order this test and see if it comes back a certain way. And you get to look up on the big giant board of charges and go, you know what, for a few hundred bucks, I’m going to go ahead and pass on that. I’m going to go ahead and take that one. That part makes sense to me. And that’s nonexistent here in this country, too. And it should be. Those are some of the things that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would like to do that other people are too afraid to do because they’re too much on the inside of these systems. 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 5.
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All right. There’s going to be some football mentions in this. But first, an Ohio man bought a street for five grand. Now the city would like it back. The guy’s name is Jason. He thought it was the deal of a lifetime for five thousand dollars. He bought a street at an auction in Butler County. The city then said, hey, this isn’t good for us. We’re going to need you to give that back. We’d very much like it. The drama began in October of last year. There’s been all kinds of things since. And he said, essentially, I bought something fair and square and they’ve shut me out of it. Probably shouldn’t should not sell your streets for five thousand dollars at auctions. If people are going to show up and be allowed to bid on them, they might do things once they think they own stuff. All right. Another thing that I love out there are the weird prop bets. I probably will dive a little bit into Super Bowl betting before I end the show because I can’t help myself. But when you look at just silly prop bets. There’s a lot of great ones out there for non-sports gamblers and degenerates to pay attention to. Will a player or coach cry during the national anthem? You do not get good odds for going yes on that. You’re going to have to pay $430 to make $100. You get great odds if you think no, if everybody’s just going to hold it in until after the national anthem, although people do often cry. Will Travis Kelsey propose to Taylor Swift is one out there. I know even the name T Swift annoys a lot of us, but you’re getting great odds. If you say yes to that, you bet a hundred, you get $500. So that seems pretty good. You got to spend up to a thousand almost in order to win any good money. If you say no. So a whole lot of people seem to think it’s not going to happen, but Hey, if it does, you could be rich, baby. Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show guests. Who will they be? Will there be a power outage is another bet that has a giant benefit if you go yes on that. You just throw a dollar on it. You can make $160. Any non-quarterback to throw a touchdown is a big one. And any offensive lineman to score a touchdown as well in there. These are the kind of things that if they happen… make you wonder if maybe a ref has some sort of money on the game, especially any sort of profits involving Patrick Mahomes. That’s going to be something people pay attention to. I’ll talk about that more in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Yes, follow her YouTube podcast, all the places you can find her on television and whatnot. Also, D. Lash and Dana Lash Radio, two great ways to stay connected to her. The Dana on X on Twitter. Tulsi Gabbard is certainly a strong, independent human being, which as a woman is something that a whole lot of people on the Democratic side of the aisle love to. I usually love to, you know, celebrate, be happy about. This is an opportunity for woke to do its woke thing. Not that Tulsi is asking for that. And yet they’re not going to, of course, because she’s a bad guy. She’s on the wrong side of the political aisle. This is part of what she said at her confirmation hearing today. Pretty great stuff.
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Before I close, I want to warn the American people who are watching at home. You may hear lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my loyalty to and my love for our country. Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience, and the Constitution of the United States, accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters. That’s good. The same tactic was used against President Trump. Yes, it was. And failed. The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and mandate for change. The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet.
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You go, girl. I feel like that’s the right thing to say in response to this moment. Isn’t that what people use anyway? Yeah, she’s going to be attacked ad nauseum and was attacked a whole lot today for being a terrible person, even though she seems like a very tough, no-nonsense human. She also said this about terrorists and dictators.
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I have no love for Assad or Gaddafi or any dictator. I just hate Al Qaeda. I hate that we have leaders who cozy up to Islamist extremists, minimizing them to so-called rebels. As Jake Sullivan said to Hillary Clinton, quote, Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria. Insane. Well, Syria is now controlled by an Al Qaeda offshoot, HTS, led by an Islamist jihadist who danced in the streets on 9-11.
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Yes, go after those people, please. Go after them hard, and it would be great to see you do it. Chelsea Gabbard seems utterly appropriate for this job. She also has asked a lot of questions about Edward Snowden. This was probably one of the more notable back-and-forth moments within her confirmation hearing, which shows that she’s also really good at navigating the nuances of an issue. Here we go.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Gabbard, Edward Snowden does stand out as having done particularly grave harm to our national security by revealing top secret information, including sensitive sources and methods, thus jeopardizing agents in the field. So let me ask you a question. If confirmed would you support or recommend a pardon or any kind of clemency for Edward Snowden?
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Thank you for the question Senator Collins. If confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence my responsibility would be to ensure the security of our nation’s secrets and would not take actions to advocate for any actions related to Snowden.
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So the answer is no. Is that correct?
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Correct. Yeah, if you need the no, I’ll go ahead and throw out the no there. But Tulsi Gabbard, not afraid to do or say whatever she thinks she’s going to do or say. Usually something, again, the left likes to celebrate when it’s a woman that does that. I’m not trying to be sexist. I’m just being honest. They’re not going to celebrate it in this sense, again, because the wrong individual or the wrong belief system, I guess, of the person saying these things. Let’s also do a little bit of Kash Patel, who’s also having a confirmation hearing today and some of what he dealt with from Senator Dick Durbin.
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Leonard Pelletier was in prison for 45 years. He’s 80 years old and he was sentenced to home confinement. So he’s not free, as you might have just suggested. He killed two FBI agents.
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That’s true.
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He did. And he went to prison for it.
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Yeah. And then he got out because Biden commuted his sentence, which makes no sense. And Patel thinks that’s wrong. And I agree with him that that’s wrong. And I love that Dick Durbin is trying to defend that while also trying to go after Kash Patel. Look, to be honest, and just to say this one more time before pivoting to something else, you need people from the outside who are willing to actually go after and attack the brokenness of our systems in order to fix them. You need a ground up version of working on things to make them better. That sounds like what a whole lot of people who have been nominated by Trump and are very likely to wind up in positions of power. are going to do. And that’s going to be a good thing. And that should be considered a good thing, even if a lot of mainstream media is acting like it’s a horrible, terrible thing. Something else out there that I really just like, this is Good Morning America. The new White House press secretary already leaving some people kind of surprised, not me so much, at her willingness to say certain things or behave a certain way. She was asked a uniquely stupid question on Good Morning America from Michael Strahan, and her answer was about as awesome as it gets.
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But is there any concern that we risk losing people with years of experience like doctors and let’s say scientists?
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Well, most doctors who work in actual hospitals and medical institutions have to show up to the office. We know that employees are more productive and more efficient when they are working in an in-office environment. And that’s what this administration expects. And I think that’s what American taxpayers expect. Don’t forget, it’s the American people who are funding this government. And they deserve people who are actually showing up to work.
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I do feel that way. I would like you to show up to work to get my dollars. I also just really love the question from Strahan where he looks at her and goes, what about like doctors and scientists? Because you could have oversimplified that even more. Smart people. Are we going to lose smart people? We might lose them. What do you think about that? And then you actually contextualize it and say, well, a lot of these people should probably be in an office setting or a hospital setting or some sort of workplace setting. In order to do these things, we’re paying them money to do. So, no, we’re not worried about losing smart people, long tenured ones. In fact, we’re actually really excited about getting people that want to do their job and not just take money from us as a byproduct of this. But I do love that. And I love the reaction to it, too, because we’re in for a treat. I think forever long she winds up being the White House press secretary. All right. The one last thing that I do want to play, and Trump talked quite a bit about DEI in a press conference he gave today, reacting to the horrific American Airlines crash with a Blackhawk helicopter carrying military personnel that happens yesterday. Before you even play any audio and people try to attack the things that Trump is saying, just realize that how different of a world we’re in now than just a few weeks ago, that a day after something like this, the president takes a press conference and answers questions from the press, even press who vehemently disagree with him and don’t have the level of information he has because darn it, he’s the president of the United States. He is going back and forth with the press. This is what they want. This is what they beg for. No matter how they shape the narrative and how dishonest and crap sometimes so much of their own version of events is after they attack whatever it is that this president says, the fact that he’s actually willing to do it is profoundly new compared to what we had to deal with for four years. Not so new if you go back a little further than that. And that’s great. That’s awesome regardless if you think he’s a good or a bad guy. It’s just kind of amazing. Having done this job for a while, when you show up the next day to work after something horrible happens and it’s President Biden in charge and you know he’s not going to speak or he’s going to do some very taped, canned thing at the end of the night with no press being able to ask any questions unless they’re written on a piece of paper and probably submitted in advance, you know how much better this is just from a media or journalist standpoint in general.
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It’s all under investigation. I understand that. That’s why I’m trying to figure out how you can come to the conclusion right now that diversity had something to do with this crash.
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Because I have common sense, okay? And unfortunately, a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level. When you have 60 planes coming in during a short period of time and they’re all coming in different directions and you’re dealing with very high level computer
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Yes, and very difficult things to manage. You want people who are good at this job to do it, and you don’t want to hire and celebrate people based on something other than their ability to do the job. That’s the thing about DEI that I will never understand. And I’ll put this out there and I’m not trying to get the bad guys, you know, a roadmap to do their job better, whoever they are, whatever they’re doing. If you hire someone based on something other than their capability of doing a job, why would you ever tell anyone about it? Why do you need the political win, the political score? Because it makes Trump’s comment about common sense make profound sense. Make, you know, it’s the obvious move or the obvious conclusion. In this scenario, because you say to yourself, man, we shouldn’t really be celebrating and highlighting the fact that this person got hired because of what they look like or because of their race, ethnicity, whatever it might be, their sex. We should be grateful that they’re great at their job or we believe they’re going to be great at their job. And if they aren’t, they get canned. They get fired. They don’t get to stay in that position of power, that position of importance. And it’s just surreal that we so often have that. But again, for media to be reacting so negatively to Trump, and he’s not definitively saying something. He’s saying that it’s his belief or his conclusion that this could have been or likely is a cause, a potential problem. There are also a lot of people who are asking if somehow this was intentional, and they’re being shouted down and told to shut up by a lot of mainstream media and others out there for being reckless conspiracy theorists. And yet, if you don’t ask questions, you don’t get answers. So asking questions is, I think, a smart decision. No matter who you are, no matter how crazy the question is, and getting an answer that disproves it helps us understand what really occurred. It helps us get to the truth, essentially. But I just think this is sort of amazing. And it’s so profoundly different than what we had just a few weeks ago, as I said, to start this. that I couldn’t be more grateful, regardless of if you like the guy or hate the guy, think what he’s saying is true or false. The amount of conversation now and the way in which it’s going to evolve, profoundly different. And if you think you can disprove a narrative, go do it, whoever you are. The media outlets are there. The ability for you to get a whole lot of coverage to your position is there. Go bring the receipts and show us what the truth is, and people will pay attention. All right, quick break. A little more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio, two great ways to stay connected to her. I watched a lot of football over the weekend, last weekend, so forgive me, can’t help it. Going to do a few quick things about the Super Bowl. Just general information out there. The commercials are something that people are probably going to see a lot of before the Super Bowl happens, and there might be a lot of AI information featured in what’s being advertised, which is weird. But when you talk about the actual game itself, and again, can’t help it. This is where my mind’s at. So we’re going to go a little deeper than normal here on this kind of topic. The Eagles are being given a point and a half. So the Chiefs are the favorite. If I were a betting man, which darn it, so many of us are now in the world of sports, I would go Eagles on this. They’re much better at covering the spread than the Chiefs are. Actually, if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, they will be the worst team against the spread in the history of the game, since we’ve been paying attention to that. I don’t know if you care, but I do. So I think the Eagles outright have a great chance to actually win this game for a variety of reasons, man. Saquon Barkley looks unstoppable. The Eagles’ run game looks unstoppable, even if, candidly speaking, the Chiefs are a much better run defense than the Eagles have played so far. But let’s do some other bets. because we’re degenerates, and I can’t help thinking about this before I get out of here today, and I just can’t do any more politics. I think I’m sick of it for now, and this is darn it more fun for me. Jalen Hurts, right now you can bet to have over or under 212.5 passing yards. A lot of smart people, a lot of people in Vegas are going with the under there, because Jalen’s not throwing for a bunch of yards. Although I do believe that in a game like this with the expectation that they’re going to run the football a whole lot, there’s a tremendous chance for them to have some really big down the field, you know, just let them loose kind of plays. And you have two really great wide receivers playing for this Philadelphia Eagles team. So I think there’s a chance for a lot of home runs. So I’m going to go over on that. I’m telling you to go over. You make more money that way. Again, I know I shouldn’t be doing sports betting down the show, but I can’t help it. As far as Chiefs running back Pacheco goes, under 30.5 rushing yards is pretty significant of an under bet. This is mostly because he’s probably not going to be the starter in the game after getting hurt earlier on in the season. So why not go ahead and take that bet? And finally, Patrick Mahomes being over six and a half rushing yards. A lot of people are going to take the over on that. And you only get a little bit less than a hundred bucks if you bet for that one. And I think that’s probably the smart decision. He’s definitely going to run for more yards than that, as you saw in just the last game. But yeah, I got football fever, baby. I can’t help it. Some other things I saw out there in the world of football, if you care at all about it. Saquon Barkley, ridiculous season that he’s had for the Eagles. He could break the all-time rushing record in a season, including the playoffs. For any running back, if he gets 30 or more yards in the Super Bowl, I think he’s very likely to get way more than that. So I think that’s going to happen. The Chiefs finished the regular season as the eighth-ranked rush defense, but they have struggled against the run in the playoffs. So for that reason, even more so, you think it could happen. And then the over-under on the score in general. Right now, the expectation is that, at least from Vegas, that it’s going to be about 49.5 points over and under for this Super Bowl. I think it’s going to be way more than that. I think you’re going to see a lot of scoring. You’re going to see a lot of offense out of both teams, even though their defenses are great, because Patrick Mahomes is going to have to fire the football all over the field in order to keep up with the ridiculousness of the Eagles. They look dominant. They look unbeatable after their win in the NFC Championship game. And yes, selfishly, I did that for the whole end of the show. Just sports because, darn it, it’s more fun than the world of politics sometimes and the craziness of human beings out there. This is just a more enjoyable thing for me to talk about. And hopefully it’s something that you talked about. And maybe throw some bets out there and go ahead and credit us if we got it right and pretend it never happened. if we got it wrong. I’m telling you to do whatever you want to do, though. I don’t know if I should go that far into that world, but I’m excited. Super Bowl should be a lot of fun and should be a great game, and hopefully you’re tuning in for more than just the commercials and everything else, and you care about what’s happening on the field, and it’s not just the time you think you go and pee. A lot of people do, though, I guess. Apparently, I take a restroom break during the game as opposed to during the commercials or during the halftime show. As apparently it’s been pointed out on social media, that’s the best time to do it. I disagree, sir. I disagree a lot. All right, I’m out of here. Dana should be back tomorrow. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
