More details are released about the fatal plane crash in Washington, DC including the elevation of the Blackhawk Helicopter and the shortage of staffing at Reagan National Airport. A US Circuit Court of Appeals finds the ban of firearm sales for those 18-21 years old is unconstitutional. Kash Patel kept Democrats in line during his Confirmation Hearing in the House. The DNC held a panel asking if racism played a role in Kamala Harris’ defeat in which the crowd was told they “passed”. A report drops that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has a “hidden gift room” including jewelry, shoes
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins. In with you again. Thrilled to be here. Dana will be back on Monday. Thanks so much for letting me jump in. D-Lash and Dana Lash Radio, two great ways to stay connected to her. on Twitter. More information is coming out about the plane crash, the horrific plane crash between an American Airlines flight out of Kansas that was landing near Washington, D.C., and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. I’m going to play a couple different pieces of information out there, but I’ll start with this. This was the breaking coverage last night on ABC. Two very big aspects of that will be talked about quite a bit moving forward are why the Blackhawk helicopter was flying higher than it’s supposed to fly, apparently the limit. And this is all stuff, it’s weird, I’ll say this quickly too, this is all stuff we as the general public learn after something horrific like this happens. But a Blackhawk helicopter is only supposed to fly at about 200 feet. This one was flying at 350 feet in the air. That’s bad. And then also they were understaffed. But here, this is all stuff that ABC will tell you in case somebody thinks that the dirty, horrible person who might have voted for Trump is lying on the radio again, which I’m not and do not do. Here we go.
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As investigators search the wreckage of that mid-air disaster in the icy Potomac River, an early focus is the flight path of that Army Black Hawk helicopter. That chopper appeared to be flying at about 350 feet, according to early flight data, when it should have been flying under 200 feet. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tonight.
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The military does dangerous things. It does routine things on the regular basis. Tragically, last night, a mistake was made. There was some sort of an elevation issue.
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Now, it’s interesting that Hegseth is already having to deal with this, obviously just being confirmed recently to this role. But some sort of an elevation issue is an interesting statement as you hear the discussion going. And people who feel as though conspiracy theory type questions, if that’s what you want to call them, deserve to be asked, will feel stronger about their opinion, knowing that something was going on that shouldn’t have been and knowing that the people flying the Blackhawk helicopter were experienced. That doesn’t mean that conspiracy theory is true in this case. I’ll say that as well. And again, I’m not always sure if I like calling these things conspiracy theories. Sometimes they’re just questions that deserve to be asked and you deserve to get answers on them. But this will be one of those things. Also understaffing.
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was an issue and this is something that abc also touched just in the country and tonight a source with direct knowledge confirming reports that the air traffic controller on duty was performing the job normally done by two controllers bad this is usually done when there’s less air traffic but last night that change from two controllers to one was made 40 minutes earlier than usual because of lighter traffic yeah see that’s all very very bad um but here’s the thing
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The biggest takeaway from yesterday, and this is from Donald Trump, President Trump’s press conference, he said that DEI may have played a part in this. That’s something that was stated out loud. And then media freaked out about that. People who decided not to do their job and keep getting information and instead said that Trump has no way to prove what he’s saying is true. I find that very interesting because first and foremost, if you are doing a good job as media, your job should be to figure out what the truth is, not to reject a potential truth simply because you don’t like a person. It doesn’t mean that you accept his statement either. You go look for what actually occurred and the amount of arrogant media people who yesterday definitively spoke as though there’s no way this could be true. How dare you? And they don’t actually know the answer. They just know that they don’t think that Donald Trump tells the truth or they know something else about the scenario that has nothing to do with the facts of this. So let’s dive into the facts one day later, because it is interesting. You had a former air traffic control person, former individual who worked in exactly these jobs. Pop up last night in Fox News. The guy’s name is Michael Pearson, and he pointed to some decisions that were made all the way back in 2010. Now, granted, You might still not think that this is accurate or you might think this is very accurate as the inevitable cause of a horrific accident in 2025. But this is actually trying to look for answers and getting information from people who would say that they can prove that thing that Trump said yesterday is definitively accurate. Here we go.
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This is a preventable disaster. This is this. The system has been under attack through the DEI. and the FAA bowing to wokeness since 2010, since the Obama administration. The lack of staffing is directly attributable to the Obama administration terminating the list of eligible, well-trained air traffic control statements in 36 universities across the country in 2013 because they were too white.
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Let’s stop it right there. Now, here’s what’s interesting about this. And I know this is sort of a deep dive into this one topic, but I can’t get over it. Whenever you know someone who has one set of political opinions, and this is just an everyday person, your friend, your brother, I don’t care who it is. And then you know someone who has a very different set of, say, political opinions. Whoever the messenger is matters more than the message. So if I say Fox News, somebody on the far left will be like, oh, Terrible. How dare you? And the same as I was pointing out a second ago is true about Trump. When someone says President Trump said this, ah, horrible. How dare anybody say this? So let’s change the messenger, shall we? Let’s pull audio, which I found and has been going viral of Representative Jasmine Crockett. bragging, she is definitely a Democrat, a black woman, by the way, bragging about those changes that were just referenced on Fox News last night, bragging about the way in which the Obama administration specifically tried to force the FAA to hire people based on their race and not based on their skill set. And it is absolutely true that they rescinded a list of colleges, universities, schools, that were providing air traffic controllers to the FAA, this happened years ago, because those schools weren’t diverse enough. And instead, they incentivized schools that would be, well, overwhelmingly different than the schools that were on the list so far, simply because of race. These are typically historically black colleges and whatnot. And again, I know I’m a messenger. I know somebody can try to shoot me. Let’s let Representative Jasmine Crockett say it.
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I think that I’ve been somewhat effective. We also were able to get monumental legislation into the FAA Reauthorization Act that really flew under the radar, thank God. But this was funding to make sure that hopefully we can increase the number of African Americans and Hispanics that are entering aviation, which can be very expensive, but can obviously be very lucrative. And so we set up a situation where basically there will be full rides for those attending land grant HBCUs as well as HSIs to go into aviation. In this crazy anti-DEI environment, we were able to get that done because we were working with everybody that mattered.
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And because there was a shortage of staffing from the way in which you try to prevent the FAA from hiring people that they thought were qualified because those people were white. This is bad. This should be thought of as bad for everyone. And again, I want to be super clear. I want to be ridiculously clear, overly clear when I say this. I don’t care what you look like. I don’t care if you’re black, if you’re white, if you’re a man, if you’re a woman. I do not care if you’re good at this job. We need people who are good at this job to do this job. Go get the job and do it. When you say out loud, how dare someone change something because it somehow impacts, say, you know, white people or whoever in some situation, an individual who wants to argue with you does not hear your statement and instead hears a statement you don’t make. And the statement they’re hearing is, I don’t want people who look a certain way to have a certain job. And that’s not remotely true. I couldn’t tell you more candidly and more directly how untrue of a statement that is and how ridiculous it is when people argue that crap. What is true, though, is that people who are qualified deserve these jobs. And again, go look for it yourself, because I hate how much we reject the message because of the messenger. And again, I want to be super clear about that, too, so that no one misunderstands what I’m saying. I don’t think you should accept the message because of the messenger. I think you should go figure out if the message is accurate. I think that’s what we should always do. It’s the reason I’ve been critical of things that people say on both sides of the aisle. It’s the reason that people who are very good at this job, Dana certainly among them, will reject things said on both sides of the aisle. Because the truth is far more important than whatever the crap narrative you’re getting from someone who might be motivated to lie to you is. And, you know, potentially occasionally those individuals might actually tell you the truth. You have to go in with a fresh set of downs. You have to go in completely starting at the beginning here and hope that no ref makes a Patrick Mahomes style call at the end of this thing to trick you into believing something that’s wrong. I like the sports reference there. All right, one last thing I want to play. I know there was a deep dive into that topic, but I believe it deserves more attention, more discussion, and I believe the fact that the helicopter was too high, that the plane was rerouted kind of late in its decision on where exactly it was going to land, and also that it was just one air traffic controller working, and also understaffing exists within that industry because of policies that have been passed all the way back in 2010 and continued policies being passed in that world. as recently as 2024. All right, one last thing I want to play before I take a break. This is Hakeem Jeffries doing the annoying, we’re all in this together thing that Democrats often do when they speak. And the thing we’re in together is just going to fight anything that Trump wants to pass in the streets, anywhere. Because, again, the boogeyman and the bad guy needs to be fought regardless of if the thing he’s doing might actually be good. It could be good. It could be bad. Irrelevant to us. We care more about the messenger than the message. Here’s Akeem Jeffries saying the quiet part out loud.
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We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.
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We’re fighting in the streets, baby. We’re doing everything we can, regardless of what the decision is. Trump can go out there and say the most democratic thing ever. And they would be like, no, we don’t want that. We don’t want you to do it. That’s part of the problem. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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All right, that’s awesome. My name is Craig Collins, by the way. First, would you rather have extra love, extra money, or extra time? That was a question that was asked online to people. I don’t know what extra love means. I think you can use your imagination as to what specifically people are talking about. The love of another individual or something else. But anyway, people didn’t want that one. People wanted money. Whole bunch of cash. 46% of people. who were asked this question said, give me more money. 29% said, give me more time. I think with more money, you might actually be able to get more time as well. And then finally, 24% was like, yeah, I need some love from real humans and not AI robots. That’s a story that I talked about the other day that’s terrifying, the amount of people turning to AI relationships. Amazon is apparently going to be raising its spending on X on Twitter. This is good news, and this is a reversal from when it said very wokely just a short time ago, how dare Elon Musk do terrible things with X, like make free speech real on one of the social media platforms and not overly marginalize just one side of opinions. Now they’re coming back. That’s after they all hung out together at Trump’s inauguration. This also may be true of Apple returning to the platform and spending money on it. Elon Musk is going to make a whole bunch of money having bought Twitter and then hung on to it as long as he did. To me, I find that hilarious as well. 24% of people say it’s easier to fall asleep with a TV blaring, not just on, but turned up more than loud enough to understand what’s going on. This surprises the rest of us who actually like quiet things. But yes, 24% of people like a very loud or just regularly loud television while going to sleep. My mom’s in that bucket. I remember as a kid, if you heard the TV on and it was, you know, Jay Leno or something late enough at night, you knew you could sneak out because she was asleep, which is not something I should say on the radio. But darn it, it’s been enough years. If my mother listens to this, I think I’ll be okay, which I love. I do love that part. But that’s a tip to parents out there. your kids might be timing the moment in which they duck out of the house to how loud your TV is at night. So quick tip for anyone trying to prevent that. One other thing that I saw out there, And I might dive into more of these later. There is a list of food hot takes on BuzzFeed that is causing people to debate whether any of these things are true or whether they’re horrible, terrible opinions that people have. Like mint chocolate ice cream is gross and tastes like toothpaste. That is one hot take that’s out there. I kind of like that one. Mushrooms are the devil’s food, meaning mushrooms are also terrible. A box macaroni and cheese is better than the version you get inside of restaurants. A lot of these are just young, just, you know, childish opinions, I would think, more so than criminally wrong. But I do like that they’re out there. And then finally, one last thing, and I have some audio. Let’s see if we can play some audio on this one. A woman was accused of throwing a brick through her ex-husband’s window and got in trouble for that. Banging on you?
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Yeah, I’m trying to get in touch with my ex-husband. I banged on the door because he won’t let me in. You live here or not?
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Did you launch anything in there? Yeah, you did. You sure?
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Yes.
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You cannot afford a lawyer?
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For what? For breaking the window? I didn’t break the window.
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I didn’t do that. We’ll speak about that now.
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I did not break the window.
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Do you want to speak to me about it? We can, but I’ll have to read you the same rights.
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Yes, I want to speak with you. Yes, I want to speak with you. I did not break the window.
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Just give me a second. I’m going to read you the rights and then we’ll go from there, okay?
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Wait, officer. Officer? I did not break the window.
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We got video you breaking the window, lady. Not only do we have video, we very clearly can tell it’s you. Sabrina is her name. She’s mad about something involving her ex-husband. So she brick windowed his house and then got in trouble for that. That is something else. Apparently it was also on the anniversary of their first date back in 2020. So whatever the fight was, she might have been harboring some anger for a little bit of time. She might have been hanging on to this one, which for some reason, as a guy who’s been married for a bit, I kind of love that, too. But all right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in. Dana will be back on Monday. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her the best way you possibly can. A whole bunch of great stuff being put up on social media the last couple days from Dana. Let’s start with this. A U.S. ban on gun sales, federally licensed firearm dealer sales to 18 to 21 year olds has been rescinded. A U.S. court has found it unconstitutional. A court of appeals and. Duh, is my reaction to this story. It’s crazy it took this long, and it’s crazy it took a Supreme Court ruling just about a year ago or so to say that the Constitution is fairly clear in the way in which it phrases certain rights and that the people would include 18 to 21-year-olds and not exclude them like this ban has tried to do. But New Orleans, their appeals court, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, decided that things make sense again. If you can defend our country, if you can be handed a firearm and told to go into a foreign country and fight an enemy, then you should be able to buy one legally. This is a dumb moment, if ever I’ve seen one, to me. And I’ll go ahead and say one other thing, because I know what the argument is out there for people on the other side, that a lot of kind of bad moments that we’ve seen in our society involve younger people, people who take the lives of others. The way in which you combat that is not to try to make something like this illegal, because guess what? Even if there was a ban in place, it hasn’t seemed to change any of that information. That matters when you make those discussions. Instead, I think mental health is the proponent of the thing that we need to be focused on instead of just hoping that banning something would somehow make it less likely for the people who most want to do harm getting whatever they need to do harm. That will never not be the case. Even if you fully banned this, that, what have you in the world, they’ll find another way. Evil does evil. We need to combat evil differently. But I know that that’s the biggest narrative on the other side. All right. Kash Patel did a great job yesterday during his hearing to be confirmed. One of the nominations put forward by Trump that a lot of Democrats freaked out about. I have a couple of great freak out moments and then a very good reaction from Ted Cruz about how many misses Democrats took. Let’s start with Cory Booker, who is very annoying as a person to me. But let’s start with him.
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In this we are agreement, Senator. Get my grand jury testimony. I want it made public. I asked the Department of Justice to make it public and they refused to do so.
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There is no legal bound against you telling us right now what you testified to.
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When I asked for my transcript to be released… Sir, did you or did you not commit a crime? Senator, I did not commit a crime.
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Then why won’t you tell us what you testified to?
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Because it occurred over the course of three weeks. I don’t have the ability to recall everything I testified to, but I’m asking you to put my transcript down.
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Here’s what I love so much about this back and forth. Kash Patel is saying the thing that matters most out loud. If you think there’s something bad in any of the information that I gave to the government at a different time, just release all of it. just put every piece of information out there in the world let people dissect it and review it let’s go ahead and do that you won’t do that i know you won’t do that because apparently there’s stuff you asked me about and i gave answers about that you don’t want public but you’re going to pretend as though your decision to hide something is actually my desire to have it hidden so i’m begging you to put it out there for all the world to see that’s a great way to handle The what secrets are you keeping a version of a question that’s being thrown at and asked of him. He’s not keeping any. He wants the totality of the information released. And even better than an answer I’ve heard from most people when they say, why won’t you answer this question? He says it’s three weeks. It’s tons of hours of communication. I couldn’t possibly tell you everything I said. And honestly, this whole hearing would last a lot longer if I did, if I actually had perfect recall of all of that stuff. But please just release it all. Let’s get this done a different way. Adam Schiff, also a person being very annoying while talking to Kash Patel. Here’s a little of that.
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I want you to turn around. There are Capitol Police officers behind you. They’re guarding us. Take a look at them right now. Turn around. I’m looking at you.
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You’re talking to me.
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Look at them. I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage to look them in the eye, Mr. Patel, and tell them you’re proud of what you did. Tell them you’re proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper-sprayed them, that beat them with poles. Tell them you’re proud of what you did, Mr. Patel. They’re right there. They’re guarding you today. Tell them how proud you are.
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That’s an abject lie, and you know it.
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I’ve never… Oh, my God.
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Never… ever accepted violence against law enforcement. I’ve worked with these men and women, as you know, my entire life, and I did not make a single dime out of it.
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How about you ask them if I have their backs, and let’s see about that answer.
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Oh my God, that’s so good. How about you ask them if I support them, if they support me, and see what that answer is like? Here’s the problem with Kash Patel for Democrats, the problem with Kash Patel. He’s incredibly qualified for the position he’s been nominated for. He’s not like the individuals that they can go after the record of. by saying you just don’t know what you’re going to do. You don’t know how to be in charge of this part of our government because there’s no way that you could know. You don’t have the record for it. That’s not true. So instead, they’re going to go after these radical, crazy things. And Kash Patel did an amazing job, I personally think, in fighting back against it. And even the performative moment of you turn around and look at these people and you tell them something the way I want you to say it and see how that goes. So maybe we can get this as some sort of moment that gets played on all the news stations that want the narrative to be totally different, as if you just did this yourself. You could even pull out him telling Cash Patel to do it and just have the video of him doing it without it, which is one reason that Cash didn’t play along to the stupidity of that moment. But here’s Ted Cruz on the totality of this thing.
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I think the Democrats, they tried to put on a circus. They screamed, they yelled, they stomped their little feets, they beat the table. But at the end of the day, what is really striking is none of them made a serious argument that Kash Patel is not qualified. He spent nearly two decades working in law enforcement. He’s been a federal public defender. He’s been a federal prosecutor. He’s worked in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice. He’s been a senior national security staffer on Capitol Hill. He’s worked in the National
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uh… see uh… see security apparatus in the white house he’s been the chief of staff at the department of defense i mean his experiences extensive what this bona fides are great uh… the problem is that they’re afraid he’s gonna go after them and he very well might uh… weaponizing a part of our our government very differently than the fbi has been weaponized the past i don’t think that’s actually true by the way i don’t think that finding people who are guilty of crimes is weaponizing anything I think, making up crimes, pretending you’re guilty of something you’re not guilty of, or, I don’t know, inflating what would normally be a misdemeanor into a felony charge, and then saying that someone was guilty of 34 of those, that feels like weaponizing a government system or the judicial system. Just finding people who are guilty of stuff. And you know who might actually be one of the first people, if I was Kash Patel, I’d sit down with and have a conversation? Bob Menendez. The recently disgraced and sentenced to 11 years in jail, Senator Democrat, who’s definitely got some problems and some gold bars that got taken away from him because he’s ready to chirp, baby. He’s ready to tell all the stories about all the other people doing the same stuff he’s doing. So that would probably be interview number one for me, especially after Bob Menendez in a press conference just the other day said that Trump was right about everything. All right, let’s do this. This is JD Vance in a one-on-one conversation talking about some of the things we need to do differently, that this administration will do differently. I think some of this stuff is great, too.
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We need to spend, obviously, more on defense to make our country safer. We also have to spend smarter on defense. Our procurement process is totally broken. The way that we actually buy weapons has become totally broken. that we’ve made it harder for new entrants, new companies to develop new technologies. We’ve learned this in Russia, Ukraine. We’ve learned this elsewhere. The face of the modern battlefield has changed. It’s going to keep on changing, and America has to keep pace with that change. And I think what Doge is going to do, it’s going to save money. And I really believe it’s already identified a lot of cost savings. And again, we’re eight days into this thing, Sean. It’s going to identify a lot more cost savings. The most important thing that it’s going to do, I don’t even think it’s the cost savings. It’s making the bureaucracy responsive to the elected president.
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Yes. Oh, I love the way that that’s articulated at the end of there. I don’t mean to turn into my own when Harry met Sally moment, but yes, that is absolutely right. Be more responsive. to the decision-making, the orders, executive and whatnot of the current president. That’s what suspending funding for a couple days did. It woke up the system. Even if they knew they were going to reverse course on some of that, and even if they don’t truly reverse course, but at least rescind their memo, this woke up everyone who just ignores who’s ever in charge. You know what’s funny about this, too? I don’t always think this is a bad thing. It is in government. But what I’m about to say, I don’t think is always a bad thing. I’ve worked in places where there’s a corporate owner of whatever you’re doing and the corporate owner changes. You go from one guy to another group of people and some of the people you work with on the ground level of whatever it is you’re at. Act like that’s no big deal. Like, oh, yeah, these people are in charge now and these other people used to be in charge. And I’ve always thought that was weird. In my own personal life, to be like, well, do the new guys have any thoughts? Do they want us to do some stuff differently? Are they passing on any sort of recommendations that we’re going to follow or we’re not going to follow? And oftentimes, the people who are actually in the position of power locally are like, we don’t know. We’re not paying attention to that until it’s too late. And that’s amazing to me. And I think that happens a lot of places. And I think the scariest place that happens is our government, where someone like a Trump can take power. And all of the bureaucracy, all of the far left-leaning individuals in those positions that are lifetime employment positions for them, just ignore it. Just go, ah, it’s fine. We’ll do all of this under the covers still, and no one will know what’s going on. This is finally the wake-up call of, you can’t do that. And I do think that’s awesome. I do think that’s wonderful. And we’ll see exactly how well it works moving forward. but it’s certainly the kind of thing that you don’t see a whole lot of. A lot of government just lets itself keep doing horrible stuff. All right, one last thing, and I just found this funny, so I’ll play this before I take a pause. This is the outgoing DNC chief, Jamie Harrison, saying that he wants Kamala Harris to run again in 2028. If that occurs, great, is I think what a whole lot of people who would easily see a Kamala losing again to anybody would expect to happen. But again, if she actually ran for real, she might not gain the nomination. That’s the thing that I think matters too. But here’s what the DNC chief had to say about that.
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So looking ahead, should Kamala Harris run again? Yes, she wants to. You think she could win?
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I believe she can. I mean, if I didn’t believe Kamala Harris could win, I wouldn’t have worked as hard as I did to help her win this last time around. You know, Donald Trump, and when you look at politics, Donald Trump and Barack Obama… If I had bingo…
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every time they just mentioned Donald Trump. Should Kamala Harris run again in 2028 was the question. It took you 15 seconds to mention Donald Trump’s name twice. That seems bad. But no, she probably can’t even win the nomination, much less win an election. And there’s a lot of reasons why, and you would have known them, The reason he worked so hard to get her elected is she’s the only one that wanted to dive on the grenade that was the last four or five months trying to beat Donald Trump in an election. No one else even wanted to do it from the Democratic side of the aisle. That says something. I’m not sure about that. That’s my assumption more than anything else, and also the amount of money that Joe Biden had already collected that you wanted to go to someone. The only person you could legally give it to was Harris, so that’s who you gave it to, and you failed spectacularly. But sure, set it all up and go again in 2028. A whole lot of people on the other side of the aisle would say thank you as you elect J.D. Vance the next president of the country. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff to talk about out there. A 94-year-old woman in Texas was pulled over after going 106 miles an hour on an interstate in Oregon. She’s from Texas, excuse me. She was in Oregon when she did this. A hundred and six. I’ve made several jokes about how there’s an age in which you really stop caring about the rules of the road, because in all honesty, what’s the worst thing that’s going to happen to you? I know people who I think fall into that category. This feels like someone else who lives that life. It’s not a life I encourage. I’m not telling you to do it, but it apparently seems like something that she was definitely, you know, just did not give a crap at all about because there was no medical issue. She’s pulled over and she was asked how fast she was going. I wonder if they also asked her like what song she was listening to when she took off at 106 on an interstate in Oregon. I’m guessing it was Hagar, but who knows? It could have been anything. There’s a danger zone might have popped up too, and she just decided, I’m going. No one’s stopping me. Another thing out there that I love as far as just a silly story, apparently Chili’s is the hottest restaurant in the country. 31% increased sales year over year, and certainly just doing better and better. 20% increase in foot traffic. Chili’s is on fire in the world of people going there, and it’s mostly young people. I remember at a different radio stop in my career, I had a Gen Z producer, a young guy, and I was asking him, like, what’s his favorite restaurant to go to? And he definitively said Chili’s. Like, oh, we love it. We love it for date night. We love it for anything. Him and his friends. And I thought that was weird. Nothing against Chili’s. I’m not trying to besmirch it, but I thought that it was kind of similar to some of those other national change that are much like it. But apparently I was wrong. He told me all the great things about the Chili’s, mostly the advertising on TikTok, the advertising on social media. It is amazing. how much impact TikTok can have on the decision-making of the young. Trump credits it with some amount of his victory in an election. If you make something cool on TikTok, you have a great chance of making it something that actually is successful with young people in the world. Maybe there are certain industries that could use some additional listens, additional audience in the certain demographics that just need to dive into TikTok hard. Apparently, that’s the right move there. And apparently, if you want to try to go viral, one thing you could do is just collect really cool sticks. I’m not lying. There’s a subset of people on TikTok that call themselves Stick Talk. And they find cool sticks in the forest. And then they discuss them online on the Internet. And other people seem to love it.
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What is up, Stick Nation? This is my official submission. This stick was growing through. amazing stick. One of one. You will never find another stick like this.
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I have to tell you that if it was me back in high school and a kid came into our school and talked about his wizard casting staff stick that he found, he would not be thought of as cool. But in the world of TikTok, apparently you can go viral, baby. So that’s it. That’s how it works. Quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in.
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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. Great ways to stay connected to her. This is hilarious as just like an update out there in the world. Apparently, the White House stenographers are having a really difficult time keeping up with Donald Trump because he says a lot of words. President Trump speaks often. It’s utterly different. than Joe Biden, than President Biden in such a fantastic way. Like in all honesty, if you hate the guy or love the guy, getting information from him, getting statements from him is one of the easiest things that’s ever existed. for media and finding President Biden, you had to like go into the closet they were keeping him in and beg him to speak to you. And then he had to look at six other people and get something written on a piece of paper before he was allowed to speak. That is not the challenge with President Trump. Not at all. 22,000 words spoken on Inauguration Day by the president, 17,000 after visiting a disaster site in North Carolina and California. Apparently, the people who are supposed to transcribe all these words have no idea how to do it. You need like two or three. You need them to tag each other in and out like it’s a WWE match or something. That seems better to me. This seems great. All right, let’s move on to this. The amount of failed, you know, they need to learn their lesson moments that exist for Democrats after this last election is simply through the roof. You can find example after example of someone saying on one of those platforms, you know, we need to do things differently. We need to think differently. We need to approach certain topics differently. And then you wait a couple minutes and they say exactly the same thing they’ve always done. They call Trump a fascist, whatever it is they need to do. That’s the world we live in. This is one of those moments where every single candidate to be the new DNC chair blamed the 2024 loss on race and misogyny. They did not blame it on the fact that Kamala Harris couldn’t answer basic questions, hated actually being asked direct questions about what she would do if she were the president, and instead all the time tried to crap on Trump. don’t just blame the person that you’re running against for being a bad, terrible person. Blame all the people who vote for that individual. That’s the plan of the DNC. It’s been the plan. It failed to work. It’ll fail to work again. Here we go.
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This round, so I’m going to have a show of hands. How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’s defeat?
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All the hands go up. The whole audience laughs. There’s people in the audience raising their hands to this question and joking about it.
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And it’s amazing, man. That’s good. You all pass. That’s good.
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You all pass is the way that you respond to an MSNBC. Why is that a belief? And in all honesty, like truly, why is that a belief? I’ll wait for someone to give me a real answer because I’ll tell you, I’m a white guy. I’m about 40. I’m a millennial. And when you grow up in a world in which not only are you taught to what right and wrong is, and you’re also told what beliefs you should have and what beliefs you shouldn’t have from a very early age in school, which some people now call indoctrination and whatnot, but certainly been taught lesson after lesson about how bad racism is. You don’t at all feel like you yourself are a racist in any capacity or a sexist or any of those other things. And more importantly, when you’re specific to the 2024 election, you did not choose not to vote for Harris because she was not a white man. That wasn’t the reason. You’re like, well, I don’t know if I can vote this person into power. Is that why Joe Biden got elected in 2020? Because he’s a white dude? Is that why his poll numbers were so terrible? terrible absolutely atrocious going into 2024 because white people got confused is that what you think happened i i don’t have an answer to that i just think it’s crazy but here’s what i’m trying to say about that that other stuff when you’re raised in this world where you’re taught certain things and you believe certain things uh and you you know uh grow to be the age where you’re going to vote in an election and i don’t mean just people in my generation i mean the youngest of people And the whole time you’re being told by one side of the aisle that you’re the problem. If you’re a white dude, you’re told you’re the issue. You’re the thing we need to change. And even in this moment, the DNC is saying out loud, everyone’s raising their hands and they’re all joking about it, that white people are racist or sexist or some version of that is the undercurrent of that message. Why would you vote that party into power? I’m not saying that you believe what they’re saying is true. But if you were standing between two choices and one choice says you’re the reason our society screwed up and the other choice doesn’t bring that discussion to the table at all, it’s kind of hard to listen to the narrative of the side that’s telling you you’re a bad person. It’s usually not easy to be like, all right, I’m a bad person. What else you got? Let’s go to option number two before we decide where to vote, especially when, and this is the thing I’m trying to make most clear, you’re not a bad person. You’re not doing anything remotely bad in your everyday life, actually, in those worlds. You’re not behaving like a racist, a sexist. You don’t hide any of those feelings. I’ll actually go a step further. This is interesting to me, and it’s just a personal experience I had. I remember this vividly. I was standing at a bus stop in Chicago, Illinois, on the south side of Chicago. I used to live in Chicago for a long time, not necessarily the south side. And I was just standing there waiting for a bus. And there were some other people standing near me, different collection of human beings, not all white people. And a black man walked past us. And he walked very close into the orbit of every individual who was standing at the bus stop. And I didn’t move. And most of the people did. And again, they weren’t all white. They were all different races and sexes of humans. And he invaded the space of every one of us. And I’ll tell you the reason I didn’t move. I didn’t even pay attention to it. In the city of Chicago, sometimes there are people who get up in your space. And I was living there for long enough that I just didn’t even notice. I think I was looking at my phone or something. And the guy came up to me and said, good job. And I looked at him. I’m like, what? He goes, you didn’t move. Good job. Everybody else moved. They’re afraid of me. And I don’t even think I said anything to the guy after that happened. I just boarded the bus. But I kept thinking about it, that his life that day, what he was doing, I assume if he did that more than once, was testing people in a weird way and then deciding the reason they might have moved away from him is they were racist or something of a black guy. And the reason I didn’t move had nothing to do with his race. Or if I had noticed him more, I also probably wouldn’t have moved because, you know, I wouldn’t have cared about that. It’s just weird to get that close up into your space for no reason. But nonetheless, I didn’t. It’s the decision I made. And it’s just weird for someone to then hold that chip. to hold that information in the back of their mind that people have to be racist and I’m going to prove it to myself in a weird way. And that seems to be the DNC’s narrative all the time. It’s like, well, people are terrible and they’re keeping it a secret from us, but we know it’s the truth and we’re going to figure out it’s the truth and then we’re going to blame them for it. And when you articulate that out loud to people who don’t actually feel the way you’re telling them they feel, well, they don’t wind up supporting you. They wind up supporting someone who isn’t bringing that discussion to the table at all because it’s not a founded one. All right, let’s do this. I thought this was really interesting, too. I mentioned Chicago a second ago. An inspector general dropped a crazy report that Mayor Brandon Johnson has a, quote, secret gift stash. It’s the gift room, is what he calls it. Chicago is one to be known to be quite corrupt in the world of politics. The Democratic City and also a lot of the state has had some corruption issues from time to time. I just love this. The hidden gift room, according to investigators, includes all kinds of things. Jewelry, whiskey, handbags, shoes. It’s something that’s kept off the records. It’s actually within his personal office of Brandon Johnson. Just as scandalous, according to the report, the report reveals a system with no checks on the power of the mayor’s office. which is unsurprising and actually at times something that has demonstrated to this mayor to be a problem for him because as he makes certain unilateral decisions, he winds up getting blamed by communities he expects to have support from for problems like the amount of illegal people that are now in Chicago and making it harder for people to live and work there. But I just find that amazing, again, that you have a secret, quote, gift room there. um it sounds like the kind of thing that would be the end of a game show like you sit down with the mayor uh you have whatever the meeting is and then he asks you a few trivia questions and if you get enough right you get to take something from the gift room uh jewelry whiskey and handbags and shoes i don’t know why i found that amazing uh because that’s quite the collection of items too i don’t know if the shoes are like sneakers and stuff Or if this is like shoes for ladies where he’s given away these gifts to people and there’s like a whole area that got curated by somebody else. I’m not really sure what that is. And again, just the whiskey situation would probably be the road I would go. I don’t think the mayor of Chicago is going to invite me into the gift room anytime soon. I don’t know if I’d get the trivia questions right. But if I had to pick the jewelry, the handbags, the shoes, those all feel like gifts for other people. And I’m not giving my gift room item away. I’m keeping it. So whiskey is the road I’m going again. I can’t get over this, though. This is extreme in the way that very few things are in our society and reality. This is the Bob Menendez gold bar version of an accusation in the city of Chicago. And I feel like we’re going to see a lot more of this. The amount of corruption, the amount of ridiculousness that exists in D.C. or throughout politics, throughout the country, and the people in positions of power, like Kash Patel soon hopefully will be, will demonstrate just how broken the bureaucracy of this system is and how in need of fixing it is. And nothing would be more ridiculous than getting to stand in somebody’s gift room and be like, yeah, you shouldn’t have this. This is something that shouldn’t exist right now. But since I’m here, I’ll take a little bit of that, a little bit of that. And thank you so much for everything, sir. This has been wonderful. All right. No, it’s been horrible, actually, is how you’d probably react to the gift room if you had any sense of, you know, right and wrong, which a lot of our politicians don’t. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for the day. A D-Lash, Dana Lash radio on X on Twitter to stay connected. 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 Trump FCC chair has announced that they’re going to investigate NPR and PBS, which is awesome for misuse of funds for all kinds of things, for running commercials that we don’t actually know are commercials for a myriad of problems. That’s what will be investigated. And it seems to make a whole lot of sense. Brennan Carr is the individual’s name. I just recently appointed and going to go after bureaucratic corruption within the world of some state funded basically media. That seems like a really good call. And we’re going to see a lot of these headlines in all these different industries, all these different fields as people continue to get to be put in positions of power. Another thing out there that I thought was interesting, millions of California drivers could have their vehicles taken away for being not safe on the road. This is a state that has a crap ton of people driving completely unroadworthy things. This reminds me of trains, planes, and automobiles. 1.6 million vehicles. on the roadway that are likely deserving of some recall. Texas and Florida also came in high on this list, but California at the top, baby. That is a bad news for them. And just the amount of traffic. You don’t even really need a car in parts of California. You could ride a bike and get there at the same speed and ride it on the highway as you were stuck in traffic the entirety of the time. You’re going places. An employee was injured. I can’t get over this headline. I’m going to give myself a second. All right, we’re going to do this. An employee was injured because of an exploding toilet in Pittsburgh. All right, hold on. Greg, come on. You’re on the radio. Get it together. A worker was, I don’t think, seriously injured. Hopefully, the mayor’s office responded to this. We’re not taking care of our own house, is what a council person said in response to an exploding toilet.
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toilet.
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Look, if I’m the worker, if I’m the individual and I have a potential for a lawsuit, but I have to admit that I was injured by an exploding toilet, I go ahead and go the other road on that. I swallow that and bring that to the grave. It was a plumber who was trying to fix something. So maybe it’s not what you think it is. But when an individual’s name is in the news and then also exploding toilet is in the news, a part of you wants to just get distance. At least I would want to get distance. So again, I feel like I would just let this thing go. But there are photos and even a video of the destroyed toilet that was being worked on. Sentences in this story. And, you know, it does seem bad. It does seem like that’s the kind of thing you would not want to be part of your workday. And you know what? Depending on the money, I think if it’s over a million bucks, I admit to being injured by an exploding toilet. If it’s anything less than a million, I’m out. But if it’s more or at least that amount, then I’m in again. All right. Two other quick stories. A mountain in New Zealand has been given personhood, which sounds abundantly stupid. The Maori name of the mountain is Taranaka Mayunga. I have no idea if I’ve just said that right. But Mountain Taranaka apparently has now been recognized as a person because it helps protect it in some way, shape, or form. It’s also thought of as sacred. So there’s a religious component to this and then just a weird personhood component to it that I don’t think many of us will recognize. I have no ill will toward a mountain. I will not pretend that it’s a human being. One last one. Women feel invisible at a shockingly low age, according to a new study, by the age of 36. Most women feel like people don’t notice them anywhere near as much as they did before the age of 36. I’ll tell you this is wrong. As somebody that’s older than 36, I definitely still notice ladies above the age. And I’ve said this, even though it might make my wife mad, but it’s true. So don’t worry. Wrong study. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. They will be called conspiracy theorists for the next several months. But people will ask what I think are certainly reasonable questions about the horrible accident that happened yesterday. One of the most significant ones being why the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter was flying at an altitude much higher than it’s supposed to fly at. 350 feet in the air as opposed to 200 being the restricted altitude. height limit? That’s a question people will ask. People have dove into the flight patterns of both the plane and the helicopter and wondered why the collision occurred and it wasn’t avoided. People are asking questions about the air traffic control communication and also the staffing. And those are not just people on a certain side of the political aisle, not just people who are quote unquote conspiracy theorists. This would include the ABCs of the world. Probably not coming to the same conclusion that some others might come to when asking said questions. But they there seems to be a growing list of why did this happen? What’s the reason for this coming out in just the day after the two days after a horrific accident? The black box has also been recovered. I might as well mention that. But here’s part of what ABC said about this story.
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Tonight, as investigators search the wreckage of that mid-air disaster in the icy Potomac River, an early focus is the flight path of that Army Black Hawk helicopter. That chopper appeared to be flying at about 350 feet, according to early flight data, when it should have been flying under 200 feet. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tonight.
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The military does dangerous things. It does routine things on the regular basis. Tragically, last night, a mistake was made. There was some sort of an elevation issue that we have immediately begun investigating.
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D.C. airspace among the busiest in the country. And tonight, a source with direct knowledge confirming reports that the air traffic controller on duty was performing the job normally done by two controllers.
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Yeah, that’s bad. By the way, should the air traffic controller have just informed the helicopter that it was too high if it’s flying via, you know, just the way it’s seeing things and told it to lower its altitude? What should have occurred there? There’s a lot of questions, not a lot of answers. And questions matter. I said it the other day. I’ll say it again today. It is valuable to ask them. People cannot shout you into silence by saying, how dare you ask that? Or you sound like a crazy tinfoil hat person for saying that out loud. You can’t make up, you know, facts. You can’t claim things are true that you can’t prove to be true. That’s a bad decision. But you can ask whatever question you’d like. That makes sense to me. All right. Let’s move on to Kash Patel. He crushed it. the other day in his hearing with Democrats and conservatives, but Democrats trying to go crazy after him. One of the better Mike Trach moments was probably this moment. This is Kash Patel versus a Democratic senator, a Democratic senator, White House. This is good stuff.
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In the collective, all of those statements are taken out of grotesque context. And anyone that thinks my 16 years of service is an exemplary on how I would proceed if confirmed as FBI is intentionally putting false information into the public ether and creating more public discourse. The only thing that will matter if I’m confirmed as a director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, de-politicized system of law enforcement completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and a singular standard of justice.
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That is amazing as an answer to me. It actually immediately reminded me of something, though, that has nothing really to do with politics. But hopefully people remember it from Billy Madison, because some of the moments where Cash Patel was speaking and looking at people that just asked ridiculously stupid questions to him in ridiculously dumb ways sounded a whole lot like this.
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Mr. Madison, what you just said. is one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
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I love every part of that. He should just say that if Kash Patel is put back up there again. You know, we’re all dumber for now hearing what you said. Here’s another moment where, again, people are just doing a great job of demonstrating why Democrats are terrified of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard. uh great to watch them uh kind of appear back to back because they’re two of the most experienced most deserving cabinet appointments still outsiders still looking to upend systems uh that trump put forward and people that uh politicians are just freaking out about is how dare they get these people in position to power and it has led me to one thing why are the democrats so afraid of you i don’t know senator you’d have to ask them
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I’ll tell you what I think. Listening to their questions and your responses, which we appreciate. They know that you’re going to go in and you’re going to clean up that political cabal that has been over there for years. You are going to reposition the FBI to its core mission. You stated that earlier in this hearing and there will be no more political persecutions and no more two tiers of justice. And they have liked having two tiers of justice. They have enjoyed it.
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Of course they have.
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And it has helped them.
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Okay. That is amazing. That’s Marsha Blackburn saying her own opinions, why Democrats are going crazy. Say it to me slower, Marsha. It’s so great. But no, I love every part of this. And again, as I said a second ago, I love the fact that as you’re discussing what could happen, what could change, the first thing you will do is out how broken this stuff has been. And to be honest, to go back to the plane crash yesterday, The American Airlines flight and the Blackhawk helicopter and the questions surrounding it and how many of those questions land within the air traffic controller who was doing the job of two people. You wonder what was and wasn’t supposed to be communicated, et cetera, et cetera. And this goes back to what Trump said the other day, too, about diversity, equity and inclusion being a potential cause of this problem. And most of mainstream media just outright rejected that. No one did any research. No one looked into any potential aspects of how that could be something you could point to as true, historically or in general. They just said, Trump with no evidence put this out there and claimed this to be true. Here’s the problem. When you actually do the job that a whole lot of people in media are supposed to do, that job being actually looking into certain things and seeing what is and is not factual about said topics, you see in 2010, The Obama administration restricting the amount of programs, the amount of schools that could essentially train air traffic controllers or be used to select air traffic controllers from because they thought they were too white. That’s real. You have Michael Pearson, one of several people saying that on TV yesterday on Fox News. He’s a former air traffic controller. You also have celebrations going on. Within a, you know, a year or so of this horrible accident from people like Jasmine Crockett saying that they think that, you know, it’s great. The decision making that’s changed in the world of government to help people get into positions within a certain, you know, agencies, the FAA among them simply because of the color of their skin. which is insanely broken, or anything other than their ability to say, do a job correctly. And this is one of those moments where Jasmine Crockett is proud that something, quote, flew under the radar, which is scary to hear her say, too, that’s becoming popular again in light of the horrible thing that happened yesterday. But here’s Jasmine Crockett back in 2024 being proud of legislation that’s restricting access to certain professions or encouraging access to certain professions, funding your education for certain professions so that you can land in places regardless of if you’re the best person for the job, which is, well, bad.
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I think that I’ve been somewhat effective. We also were able to get monumental legislation into the FAA Reauthorization Act that really flew under the radar, thank God. But this was funding to make sure that hopefully we can increase the number of African Americans and Hispanics that are entering aviation, which can be very expensive, but can obviously be very lucrative. And so we set up a situation where basically there will be full rides for those attending land grant HBCUs as well as HSIs to go into aviation.
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Why wouldn’t you just give people an opportunity to, you know, get a job that they deserve and not try to force people into a position that look differently than people who have the job already? I don’t understand that. I don’t understand what the claim is there. And then also the fact that she says it flew under the radar. Thank God. It’s no longer under the radar, at least in certain circles. It’s probably going to be talked about more now after something horrible happened the other day. But again, this is all information that’s just out there that media could dive into, could look to discuss when trying to figure out what Trump means when he says something, as opposed to just attacking the messenger for the message because you don’t like the person who said something out loud. It doesn’t mean that the messenger is always telling the truth. I’ll continue to say that until I’m blue in the face. But it doesn’t mean just because you don’t like them or you don’t like what they said that they’re lying. You got to look for the veracity of the statement first before you attack the individual. And media was so arrogant yesterday in attacking Trump for saying what he said that it seems like very few people decided to do any of the homework to look into what could or could not be true. And here I’ll explain it differently for anyone that still doesn’t understand exactly what I’m saying or wants to accuse me of saying something horribly different than what I’m saying. I don’t care what you look like. I don’t care who you are. I don’t care if you’re a man, a woman, black, white. It doesn’t matter to me. If you’re good at a job like being an air traffic controller, if you have the capability to do it, you go do it. I will support you for doing it. That’s great. I don’t need to highlight the things about you that didn’t get you the job or shouldn’t get you the job. I can just highlight the stuff about you that made you deserving. of the position that you got, the fact that you’re good at this and you’re going to keep us safe, keep people safe in the air. Because anyone who hears a discussion about this now will add things that are not being said by people like me about how racist you are and how you’re demanding it be white people that are in that position that couldn’t be further from the truth. And it honestly just distracts us from the conversation in general or the conversation entirely. And it’s really quite a dumb statement to be put out there in the world. But that’s the kind of thing we’re fighting now. We’re fighting this version of if you don’t stand for something that simply doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t make sense. Well, you have to be hateful. You have to be a racist. You have to be something else. And Trump has to be a hateful person who said a hateful thing and not someone who could be talking about the lack of people who are in this profession right now. the staffing issues that the FAA is seeing for air traffic controllers, because specifically in the world of air traffic controllers, they have limited the amount of people who can pursue that profession at certain schools because they didn’t like the makeup of the school from a demographic standpoint, which is bad. That could all prove to be the truth in how we get to a point where you only have one person working the job of two people, et cetera, et cetera. But darn it, who cares about the facts, as I said a second ago? All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you on the Dana Show. Three very epic Florida Man stories. The first one involves a guy who’s now being charged with a felony. This is, I guess, his third battery charge. So it gets upgraded to felony. The problem with this one is it involves a bologna sandwich. So a guy who was playing video games, his name is Quatevos Chandler. He’s 29 years old. I don’t even know if I got his first name correct, actually, to be honest with you. He’s playing his PlayStation 5. His friend took it away from him, said he was playing it too much, and he threw a bologna sandwich at somebody. Within the police report, it says the alleged bologna sandwich that was allegedly thrown, I like that wording, hit someone in the center of the chest. There was no visible injury because, again, it’s a baloney sandwich. This is all on a video, which is bad for Chandler, and then also the fact that it’s the third time he’s done this. The other two incidents also involved video games. Apparently, this dude should not be put anywhere near video games. They cause a problem in his life and also make him very willing to chuck said baloney sandwich. I don’t think you can actually charge somebody with a felony for a bologna sandwich. It sounds like the kind of thing they do to Donald Trump, to President Trump, but I digress. It is what it is. I don’t know if the other charges are much more extreme in his previous cases. Maybe it’s a good thing that he’s going to get this one up to felony charge, even though, again, the worst thing done was the throwing of a bologna sandwich. All right, another story that I thought was great. Dylan DeVereaux, who is 36 years old, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol. He escaped during the process. Several aspects of his escape are sort of amazing. Dylan was wearing a Dalmatian dog onesie for some reason after being pulled over by cops in Florida. He was also in the process of being handcuffed and, get this, had been tased twice before. once well first apprehending him and him fighting back then again just before he gets away he gets tased doesn’t stop the guy he’s still capable of making it away and running so a dude with one handcuff on one of his wrists in a dalmatian onesie after being tased twice ran erratically away from cops and then eventually was apprehended i wonder what’s going through your mind In the moment where you fight your way to separate yourself from cops for a few seconds, you’re wearing a Dalmatian onesie. I imagine you’re not in your right frame of mind. I should actually say that part too. But you got a set of handcuffs dangling off of one wrist and you’re trying to make a run for it. I wonder what’s going through your brain as to the odds you’re going to succeed. I wonder if the guy’s like, oh, I’m getting free. I’m getting away from this whole situation. I’ll be just fine. But tased twice and still somehow fine or still somehow capable of continuing to go, that’s sort of remarkable in and of itself. All right, those are two. One last Florida man story or Florida woman story in this case. A couple was having a picnic when an alligator decided to interrupt said picnic and Things that I love about this story, the dude vanished in the video, so the woman was left to fight off the alligator, although there wasn’t much fighting. The woman simply just yelled at the alligator, and eventually it turned around and left them alone for the picnic. But the woman kept yelling, Gator Boy! along with words that I can’t play on the radio, so I won’t be able to play the audio, at the alligator to make it go away. The internet loved calling the gator, Gator Boy. I love calling the dude who disappeared from the video, everything other than Gator Boy, and probably a bunch of words I also can’t say on the radio. Not exactly a good look for Florida man, a good look for the Florida lady, even though you probably should not have tried to stand your ground against an alligator, but it worked out, and you showed that Gator Boy a lesson. But those are three Florida man, Florida woman stories that I really love that are out there today. Some of those are top tier for that whole situation. And I guess I’ll just warn you, if you’re around Quatevos or whatever this guy’s name is, and he’s playing a video game, you might be hit with some sort of lunch meat. And that seems ridiculously bad. I can’t get over that, that that might be a felony charge. Come on, people. There’s got to be a way. I’m not saying that he’s not guilty of other things, but there’s got to be a way to not go that crazy about bologna, although it’s not a good meat. 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. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio. Two great ways to stay connected to her on X on Twitter. Definitely a lot of things there you should be checking out as well as just everywhere else. The podcast, everything she’s got going on. Pete boot edge edge is very upset that Donald Trump called him out and said what a disaster he was while in charge of the transportation department as the secretary of transportation. Apparently furious with a line of bull was boot edge edge. His reaction to it. I love every part of this and how dumb some of these people wind up being because Pete boot edge edge had no idea. had to be in charge of the transportation world. And yet he was put in charge of it, like many other individuals put forward by Biden. And media was totally fine with that. And then if they think that Trump puts people forward who don’t deserve their positions, well, darn it, that’s bad. You got to fight that. And actually, Hakeem Jeffries saying the quiet part out loud recently when he was claiming that no matter what Trump does, Democrats are going to fight it. They’re going to fight it every single way they can, including like in a mafia sense. That was the weirdest ad at the tail end of this. Here we go. All right, hold on. You can’t hear that yet. Let me go ahead and make this actually a play on the radio. And then let’s do that again. Here we go.
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We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.
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That’s bad, of course, fighting it in the streets. But I kind of wonder what that means. I want to keep putting forward my idea that at some point the people who are most in disagreement in the world of government have to do a gladiator joust thing. much like in American Gladiators, where you jousted those guys. I would love to see Hakeem Jeffries go up against someone in the world of the jousting world and see who wins that, just because I’d be amused. You want to fight in the streets. You want to throw down the gloves and go. That seems like the right way to try, not whatever the other thing is you’re saying, which is probably horrible and also encouraging a lot of bad behavior, which is, again, something that Democrats only pay attention to when they think Republicans are doing it, not when they themselves are acting in a way they shouldn’t be acting in. Senior FBI leaders promoted by former director Christopher Wray have been demoted or reassigned. This is according to a CNN story that’s out there. I will tell you, As you watch this system actually start to be upended or at least threatened, I don’t know if they’ll be able to go all the way to upending and changing everything because the system, like a snake, is going to fight back hard whatever way it can. But you’re going to see a tremendous amount of these stories come out. We’re like, well, these people got in trouble or this person got removed from position of power. Out of Chicago, you have a story about Mayor Brandon Johnson and his quote-unquote gift room that apparently was not a secret but was a secret. It’s definitely illegal, it sounds like. It’s an accusation. Can’t say for sure if it’s what’s going on there. Allegedly, though, he had a room full of stuff that he would just get given as gifts, which included shoes, handbags. I don’t know why Mayor Johnson wanted those. And also a whiskey, which makes sense. That would be something I would be very much for if I got a bribe. No gold bars, which disappointed me a bit since it wasn’t the same road as Bob Menendez. But again, as this system winds up getting fought with, as things wind up potentially changing, You’re going to see all the different versions of how dare they do this. It’s dangerous that they’re doing this, et cetera, et cetera. And at the end of all of it, hopefully what we actually see is profound change because that profound change will, well, darn it, be good for our society and not as horrible as people want to say it is. But we’ll see because a lot of things will be happening. Another big story out there, and the brand new press secretary talked about this today, is potential tariffs. tariffs on Mexico, on Canada, on China. Some of those announcements getting a whole lot of attention in media. Some of the other ones not getting so much attention in media. Here’s a little bit of that audio from earlier today.
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I can confirm that tomorrow, the February 1st deadline that President Trump put into place at a statement several weeks ago continues. The president will be implementing tomorrow a 25% tariffs on Mexico and 25% tariffs on Canada and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans.
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Yes, this is actually going to happen. And it’s a punishment. for some of the bad things that we’re seeing that we’d like to see happen differently. And if it works, it would be amazing. Even more so than that, the ability to gain money through tariffs, well, crapped all over by a lot of mainstream media, may eventually allow us to, say, tax the American people less money, which might be a good thing. And you might say, well, we’re just changing the way you’re taxed because people will raise prices if they have to pay tariffs. Well, eventually, if people don’t buy certain stuff, lower prices. You can’t sell nothing or you can’t sell something to someone who’s not buying it. So we’ll see if that part actually plays out too, as far as all of this is concerned, because I love that. Whenever people tell you, well, we’re just going to raise the price of everything. Well, not the stuff that’s created here. That’s not actually going to be, you know, hit by tariffs. That’s the whole point of it too. More production within the United States means less costly items for the American people who are not buying the stuff that’s being created here. elsewhere. But Caroline Leavitt is doing a great job as the White House press secretary quickly, I believe. Here’s another clip from this press conference earlier today.
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The President has made it very clear that this is a common sense solution to solving some of the problems that we have seen at the Federal Aviation Administration and also when it comes to many of the federal agencies across our government. People should not be hired based on their disabilities, based on their skin color, their gender, their race. None of that matters. What matters to this President and this administration is how well you can do your job and the American people agree with that sentiment. So it’s about competence, skill, and merit. And so the president is focused on ensuring that the most competent individuals, the best and the brightest in this country, are in positions in this federal government, especially when it comes to public safety. Can’t overemphasize the importance.
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You know what’s funny is you hear some of these things and probably a lot of us are thinking in the back of our minds, How is this controversial? How is this a bad thing? In all honesty, the people that I’ve known in life who feel like they got ahead based on anything other than their merit don’t like that. They don’t want that to be true. The individuals themselves are usually prouder or very willing to discuss the merit-based reasons that they’ve succeeded in their lives and nothing else. That is what the American people want. They want a meritocracy, which a lot of us believe does exist. in a lot of places or should exist in all the places where they’re trying to prevent it. And anything less than that is bad for us. And again, this isn’t remotely controversial, but somehow in the society we live, it’s twisted into being that because what people complete as far as the sentence or the thought is, is they claim that you said out loud when you just want a meritocracy to exist, that you don’t want people to succeed based on their race, their skin color, their sex, whatever it is. That’s not remotely true. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I don’t care what you look like. I care that my plan lanes safely. I care that certain things happen in the world that protect us from any sort of danger. And that’s simply all I care about, as do most Americans. So I love when these arguments get made because the only reason to make the only way to make them make sense to the American people is to add a bad behavior. Because if you don’t add a bad behavior, there’s nothing wrong with this existing simply the way that it should exist. All right. Other things out there. I thought a piece of audio from Rand Paul was pretty interesting. This is all over the place. I think the Daily Caller, one of the places that put it up. He went after fellow senators over their belief in submission to government over vaccines during RFK’s hearing. Rand Paul is is not going to move on from this stuff. And I don’t think he should, because these are the types of questions that I would like to see. I would like a lot more information. personally, about everything that happened during COVID than the inside look that we’ve tried to get so far. I believe that there’s a whole lot of missing variables that certain individuals, when put in positions of power, will actually try to give us that information. And I can play a little bit of what Rand Paul said, but I just think it’s fascinating. that it’s taken this long and it’s taken a shift in power for us to get to a point where people believe more of this information could actually come out. And when you’re trying to criticize any of the people that Trump has put forward for positions within his cabinet for being too loyal to him It is the most hypocritical thing you’ve ever heard from a traditionally very hypocritical part of our government to say that that is somehow, you know, something they can judge because of how many of them did it. All right, here we go.
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So oversimplified and dumbed down that we never really get to real truths. And it’s why people up here are so separated from real people at home. Hey, Ben. We talk about hepatitis B. It’s a terrible disease. It could lead to liver failure, as the chairman said. But the reason you have distrust from people at home, why they don’t believe anything you say, they don’t believe government at all, is you’re telling my kid to take a hepatitis B vaccine when he’s one day old. You get it through drug use and sexually transmitted. That’s how you get hepatitis B. But you’re telling me my kid has to take it at one day old. You’re not. That’s not science. And so every person with a bit of common sense, even people who don’t resist vaccines. I vaccinated all my kids. I believe vaccines are one of the modern miracles beyond all pale. The Speckled Monster is a great book about the introduction of the smallpox vaccine in 1720 into our country. All miracles. but i’m not a one-size-fits-all it’s not all or nothing i chose to wait on my hepatitis b vaccine and we did it when they went to school does that make me an awful person does that make me an anti-vaxxer because i questioned the government dictate of whether i do it and i’m not speaking for anybody else i’m only speaking for myself but for goodness sakes let’s have an honest debate about these things yes
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let’s do that. Let’s have an honest debate about so many things. He goes on to say that submitting to the government, do what you’re told, uh, no discussion, you know, essentially stuff is something that so many people on that committee or on that, um, you know, a floor, uh, do all the time or tell the American people to do all the time. And yet they’re attacking Robert F. Kennedy jr. And others for how they might listen to Trump. If Trump tells them he’d like to see something done, uh, And essentially, I think the only edict given from Trump to the people he’s put in these positions is to upend the brokenness of the system. I don’t think it goes any deeper than that. I truly think that the way that you communicate to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to Tulsi Gabbard, to Kash Patel, What you want to see them do in our intelligence community, in our medical community, is to upend the brokenness, the bureaucratic system that is pretty much operating no matter who’s in charge and ignoring any sort of, you know, you need to change this, you need to do this different. Go ahead and force them to acknowledge the weakness and maybe cut a bunch of the excess spending that is costing the American people a lot of money. Good stuff. Really not bad stuff. Asking questions, always good. Seems to be a byline in this as well. 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. Let’s go with 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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That’s right. Very quickly, the top who, what, when, where and why questions that were asked to Google in January. A list was created on the Internet. Google Trends shows us who owns the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America, as it’s supposed to be called now. I was the most the top trending who Google search. And the answer is nobody. The U.S., Mexico and Cuba all have territorial waters there. And nobody owns that thing. What time is the inauguration? Was the what? When will TikTok be back in the Apple store? Was the top when question asked? I don’t know why I find that one so amusing. Where to watch Notre Dame and Ohio State? The national championship game got a lot of views. Unfortunately, Notre Dame did not win that game. I was cheering them on. Why is TikTok back? Was also asked. Two of the top five. who, what, when, where, and why questions, TikTok related. Also in the world of sports, if I go ahead and throw this out there, a Buckeyes fan is going to award 16 scholarships based on the national championship win. They’re only 500 bucks a pop, but hey, free money’s free money. The guy’s name is John Peters. He went viral for talking about his fandom and also because his nickname is Big Nut. That’s real. Can’t make that up. Here we go.
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If you show me… that we better be winning because if we’re not winning, don’t show me because I won’t be happy. As Buckeyes, we wear our emotions on our sleeve, you know what I’m saying? For me, knowing that I’m not a Buckeye graduate, it’s a form of healing for me because it helps me deal with the fact that I’ve never had that feeling of the ultimate of walking across stage and receiving that diploma from Ohio State because I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. As some people say, you know, I’m a blue-collar guy working in a factory.
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I kind of love the fact that he says it’s healing, even though I don’t exactly love the verbiage because he wishes he could have graduated from Ohio State, but he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But Big Nut giving out 16 scholarships and proud of it. That went viral online. 7-Eleven is going to be rewarding people who made it through January, which is all of us with a free Slurpee. You can get a free Slurpee in the early parts of February. This is specifically because of dry January, a month that a whole lot of people celebrate by giving up alcohol. So if you did that or if you didn’t, I think you get a free Slurpee no matter what if you walk in on free Slurpee day. Also, Apple iPhone sales are shrinking. Apparently, people are a little bit disturbed by the amount of artificial intelligence added to these phones and if it’s actually going to benefit us. So at the best, we’re waiting to see what good comes from more AI in our phones. At worst, we’re scared that it’s only going to make things bad. But that’s another story out there. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana should be back on Monday. A White House press release has asked for an apology from minority leader Hakeem Jeffries for calling to fight Trump in the streets. The minority leader said that he wanted to fight people a whole bunch of different ways. I was playing that audio just a little bit ago. We can play it again for context here quickly. But essentially ended it with a weird, you know, almost mafioso type of ad that we’ll fight it in the courtrooms. We’ll fight it legislatively, anything and everything Trump wants to do. And if that doesn’t work or even if it does, we’re also fighting in the streets, baby.
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We are going to fight it. Legislatively, we are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.
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I don’t know what that means. I’m confused what that means. But I love that the White House has said you should apologize for that. You should take that back. And I don’t know how it’s lost on people. I don’t believe it is, actually. I don’t think you can forget this part. Trump was almost killed in assassination attempt that miraculously failed to take the life of our current president occurred. And any time that Republicans say something that Democrats can warp into a call for violence, it’s all over media. It’s discussed everywhere. It’s acted as though the power that certain politicians wield over the American people is so significant that you’re just going to immediately start fighting people. But then when Democrats do the same thing, they act as though all of those things that they would claim are completely lies and completely untrue or that, you know, Hakeem Jeffries isn’t calling for actual violence. Which I don’t know, makes no sense because he did say in the streets. I don’t know what other version of fighting he could possibly mean there. But nonetheless, I also can’t get over the fact that to me, what matters most about this is the idea that it’s just someone else’s idea, an idea that you hate. So because of that, you have to fight it. You have to push back against it. There is also an interesting moment when you talk about the Democratic Party not learning anything, which is essentially what that is right there. They were resoundingly defeated in the presidential election. And actually, you know what? Before I even play this audio. There’s something really interesting that I think occurs, and a lot of people seem to say this, when they claim that Trump had one of the most incredible political comebacks in the history of our country. I’ve never thought that. I don’t think that now. I wouldn’t say that to you. The reason why is in 2020, regardless of whether or not you think that it was a fair or an unfair election, Trump got an insane amount of votes. He got an incredibly high amount of votes. He won in 2016. He got the most votes of a sitting president ever in the history of our country in 2020. And then he won in 2024. I don’t consider that to be a political comeback. I consider that to be a politician who was insanely popular, continuing to be popular, and a politician who was in power in between his times in office and Biden, who was insanely unpopular, who did terrible things and policies mattered. Those decisions is what caused people to go ahead and choose to put Trump back into office. Now, the DNC doesn’t seem to get that. Again, they had a bunch of people sitting for a panel discussion, all potential people who could be the next DNC chair, and they were asked a very simple question and gave a very dumb answer. They all raised their hands in the air. I’ll play this first, but this is profoundly misunderstanding what actually occurred.
SPEAKER 04 :
In this round, so I’m going to have a show of hands.
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How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’s defeat?
SPEAKER 05 :
Everyone’s hands are in the air, even people in the audience.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s good. You all pass. OK, I have to stop at first.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know what’s amazing about a claim like that? They had a white guy as their candidate who was in office and they shoved him into a closet. If Democrats believed that Kamala Harris would not win an election because of racism and misogyny and not that her ideas or her closeness being the vice president of an administration that was popular. is the reason that she would not succeed in trying to be the next president of the country. If they believe that, why did they force Joe Biden into the closet when he didn’t want to? He wanted to run. He wanted to be their candidate. They had that option. They chose not to get it. And then they blame society for not choosing their candidate that they hoped would win because of her race and her sex. They hope that that would be the reason to put her into a position of power. It is insane. Because immediately after you switch from Biden to Harris, you start talking about her being a black woman or her being an Indian woman or her just being a woman in general, as opposed to what her ideas are. The DEI conversation. whether it’s about the FAA and air traffic controllers or anything else, is so profoundly flawed. I actually was thinking about this just the other day, and it’s a weird person to think about in response to this discussion. But Dave Chappelle, and he probably would be surprised that I’m mentioning him in this moment. Not that I know the guy. But Dave Chappelle was on SNL recently. He talked about, again, it’s going to be a long walk, but I promise hopefully it’ll be worth it. He talked about the California wildfires. He talked about all kinds of stuff. And he made a joke. One of the jokes he made, well, he made a lot of jokes, was that poor people can’t see beyond their own pain. He was complaining about the amount of people who are not all that sympathetic to the people in California who lost their homes because of the perception that those people are incredibly wealthy. So he said that people who are not well off can’t see past their own pain. I believe this to be absolutely true. in the discussion about DEI, that individuals who would perceive Kamala Harris to have lost an election or whatever else it is that exists out there in the world to be a thing about race or about sex and not about qualifications for a job, you can’t see beyond your own pain. You believe this to be the reason that you yourself are not succeeding in life or that something isn’t going your way or something shouldn’t be going your way. Essentially, you’ve turned yourself into a victim in a sort of ridiculous fashion. Regardless of the truth of that statement or the meritocracy that we exist and live in right now and the people who would tell you that, successful people, regardless of what they look like, that say that they got where they got to based on merit and their ability to do it. I don’t know many people Truthfully, in my entire life, I have not met many individuals who are highly successful, who would look you in the eyes and say, I’m successful because of my race. I’m successful because of my sex. I’m successful because people handed me stuff I didn’t deserve. I don’t think I know anyone who actually would say that and believe that. because they all believe that they got where they rose to based on something else. And they want to have gotten there based on something else, the desire we all have as human beings. So it’s amazing when these moments happen because you can’t see beyond your own pain. You can’t perceive this discussion differently. And you can’t say to yourself that Kamala Harris lost an election because she was deeply unpopular in 2020 when she tried to run for president and was not given the nomination. She was deeply unpopular along with Biden while running the country over those four years that they were in office. And she failed to answer basic questions during interviews, something that went viral all the time on TikTok and other social media platforms where they would ask her what her solution to a problem is. And within seconds, she would say Donald Trump’s name. She would be like, well, Trump is bad. And that’s what matters more than anything else. And it’s surreal that we have to even have this discussion or have this conversation and convince people otherwise. And again, until the Democratic Party actually learns their lesson on this stuff, they will continue to lose elections, which won’t necessarily be bad to anyone not voting for their side of the aisle. But truthfully, if you want to actually be more competitive, come up with a different reason for why you think that you failed to succeed based on what is actually true, darn it. Elon Musk, just in other news, is tweeting out White House press secretary stuff. Caroline Leavitt is doing a great job in this position. Here’s a little bit of what Elon put up today. One of the clips, I think Charlie Kirk put this up too, and Elon was just sort of retweeting it or re-exing it. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to use that phrase, but here we go.
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If you are an American who has spent many years studying aviation and you graduate from school and you’re an air traffic controller based on skill and merit, and then you apply for a job and you’re forced to fill out a biographical questionnaire asking you the color of your skin and asking you where you’re from in details that aren’t relevant at all to the job description, I think that deteriorates the morale of people in this industry. And if you talk to people in this industry, they’ll tell you that. In fact, many of them filed a lawsuit against the FAA a couple of years ago under Joe Biden’s administration because they were denied positions because of this DEI hiring practice that was putting identity politics over merit and skills.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know what’s interesting about this, too? When you have a shortage of staff and you can point to the reason for the shortage of staff being a refusal to hire deserving people of jobs, you look bad. But it also reminds me of something that happened to me years ago in a radio meeting with a lot of staff on what would be called the programming side of the aisle. And I’ve mentioned this several times over the last few years because it struck me as so odd. But it was in a place I don’t want to say exactly where, but it was in a place where the audience was perceived to be overwhelmingly liberal and not necessarily a large amount of conservatives listening. And so the statement in the room was the next person who applies for a specific job isn’t going to get it if they’re a white guy. And I was standing in the room looking at myself and some other people who had the position and happened to be white people, even though there were other people in the room that were not white guys. And I thought, that’s such a weird thing to say out loud. Are you saying I don’t deserve my job because of what I look like? Or if I applied now for this job that I’ve been doing for years and you think I’ve been doing it successfully, that I wouldn’t get it because of what I look like. Because it’s a horrible thing to say. You know what’s weird about that, too? And I don’t know how to say this more appropriately. Not that I have any desire to do that specifically. But there’s this narrative. I’ll explain this very quickly. Certain movies and things that dive into, say, racism or slavery, even anything like that. There’s a unique character that gets criticized in certain parts of media or certain parts of social media. They call it the white savior. It’s the individual who pushes back against the bad thing that everybody else in the movie is doing by agreeing with the people that are being treated unfairly, and it happens to be a white guy. I’ll give you an example. In the story of Jackie Robinson, and there’s a few movies about Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese is used as an example of someone who’s a quote-unquote white hero. It doesn’t matter that that actually happened. that the moment that’s depicted in these movies actually occurred. But it said disparagingly, it said, why do these movies need to have this individual who acts a certain way, you know, and whatnot. And what I find so profoundly interesting about that is regardless of your behavior, If you’re the good guy in the movie or the bad guy in the movie, what matters more to some people is what you look like. It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are, what you think is appropriate, what should be true in our society or how we should behave. It only matters if you’re part of a certain subset, a certain group based on skin color, based on ethnicity, based on sex, based on whatever. And that’s horrible. And to say this definitively and to actually say it a way similar to how, and I know you always get in trouble as a white dude when you quote him, but Martin Luther King said when he was criticizing people who would riot in the streets is that the best way to get change in society is to make people feel as though the club is open to them. The club that you want to join is something that you would have open arms and willingly accept you into. And when you restrict people, when you push people out of whatever the issue is that you’re trying to change in our society, you wind up not affecting change in the world because you’re now blaming them as part of the problem and not acting as though they can be a part of the solution, which is insane. But we see it all the time in so many ways. And where I don’t really care what your thoughts are, which should be the only thing that actually matters. I care what you look like. And in the world of the FAA, and again, the thing that Elon and other people are putting out there that’s so excellent, so valuable, is I care if we land safely. I don’t care who you are and what you look like if you’re good at getting that done. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in in a very short amount of time on The Dana Show.
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SPEAKER 05 :
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. We’re a little bit more than a week away from the Super Bowl, baby. A lot of people are excited about that. I kind of love one of the stories that’s bouncing around out there, though. One of the very commonly Googled things right now. What is a tush push? To me, that’s funny. It’s a goal line play. I can explain it, but it doesn’t matter. It’s a one-yard line play. It doesn’t have to happen at the goal line where you’re trying to get a first down, get something. But I love the question, can the Chiefs stop the tush-push? And then the amount of people who get confused as to what they’re actually talking about. Because, darn it, the Eagles have a great running back in Saquon Barkley. They have a great scrambling quarterback in Jalen Hurts. They have the ability to gain one yard fairly easily. But you’re probably going to be asked that question. During the Super Bowl, as someone talks about it, whether it’s Brady or someone else, someone’s going to look at you and be like, what’s what’s a tush push? And you’ll go that road. It’s also called the brotherly shove if you’re talking about the Eagles specifically. But I just love that that was a viral story out there in the world, in the world of. sports and actually you know what it reminds me of during um the uh nfc championship game you had jason kelsey uh formerly of the eagles now retired uh trying to explain a handoff during a tush push i was also very much amused by this and love that it’s popping up on the internet now for people that are asking this question so darn it let’s go ahead and play this real quick
SPEAKER 01 :
We’re not hiding nothing. They know it’s coming. We know it’s coming. I’m going to get as low as possible, even in a four-point stance. My butt’s up in the air. You have to make sure you’re finishing to the hands. We actually saw some quarterback exchange issues early with Juergens this year because he had never done it in a live situation. You’ve got to do it. It’s one of those things where… No matter how much you practice it, the game situation in that play is a thousand times different, more intense. Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
I assume it’s very intense in that last moment when you’re trying to transfer the ball from the person hiking it to the quarterback taking it and then plunging forward. Goal line plunge, there’s all other names for it, but tush push or brotherly shove is going to get a lot of attention. And then also, who knows if a lot of attention will be given to other places that people don’t like. It’s just amusing to me. I guess it doesn’t really matter to a lot of others out there. Very quickly, before we get out of here, just some other silly stuff that I saw that I thought was interesting. Apparently, many, many people are complaining. Wendy’s has a secret menu item everyone thought was purely a myth, but it does exist, which is a ridiculously sized hamburger where you ask for a nine patty hamburger. You call it the T-Rex and you get exactly that. You get something that people think is most of a cow. 2.1 million views. on TikTok and social media talking about the greasy, goopy, grubby, I think there’s all kinds of other adjectives used to describe it, a giant sandwich you can get from Wendy’s. Talk about the tush-push and the brotherly shove and the pure cow sandwich. What a way to end the show. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
