As the Medicaid debate explodes on Capitol Hill, Democrats once championed the welfare work requirements that they now claim are abusive. Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to murder after admitting to the brutal stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho students. Hakeem Jeffries gave an extremely long speech on the House floor to delay a vote on the Big, Beautiful Bill. The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 147,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. PBS brings on Brian Stelter to claim “CBS did nothing wrong” when deceptively editing their interview with Kamala Harris. CNN’s John Berman pained to
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. DLash, DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things that she’s doing, all things going on. Producer Steven does an incredible job with the social media stuff, as does Dana herself. I love two things out there in the world of the big, beautiful bill. The first one is the supercut from Tom Elliott of Grabian. Now, granted, he actually put the supercut out back in early June, so it’s about a month ago, still relevant in July, of Democrats, specifically Bill Clinton, talking about how welfare needed to have work requirements in order to be compassionate. meaning you wanted to get people on welfare back into work and not have them discouraged and not trying to work and just accepting the welfare benefits. This was something they passionately believed in. So the supercut has a long thing from Clinton and then, of course, you know, a couple other politicians, including his vice president at the time and also Biden, a younger, more mentally capable Biden. But I just think this is amazing. to listen to this speech in these uh… things that they’re saying and then think about it in the terms of twenty twenty five and how democrats are behaving as though the work requirements uh… in medicaid and medicare and any kind of snap benefit changes the deal with people that are not working are profoundly horrible their their the demonstration of you know the ending of our society as far as compassionate people go et cetera et cetera people will die i think is one of the biggest things that they keep saying about the big beautiful bills to kill people as u s aid also going away was supposed to be killing people i’m not sure exactly how but again that’s what they’re saying i was amazing to hear the politicians just a short time ago i’d just say you know not that long ago a version of history saying the exact opposite stuff nearly thirty years ago robert kennedy said
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work is the meaning of what this country is all about. We need it as individuals. We need to sense it in our fellow citizens. And we need it as a society and as a people. Yes, we do. It’s right then and it’s right now.
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Like now now or then now? Sorry, continue, sir.
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Our nation’s answer to this great social challenge will no longer be a never-ending cycle of welfare.
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Okay.
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It will be the dignity, the power… the ethic of work fantastic today we are taking an historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be a second chance not a way of life this bill will help people so they can stop drawing a welfare check and start drawing a paycheck it is now clearly better to go to work than to stay on welfare
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clearly better because of actions taken by the congress in this session it is clearly better you know before you get the rest of the supercar because it’s all just clinton’s statement about something he did back in the nineties uh… i’d i’d love it i’d love that social media one of the biggest benefits of it to me in today’s world is that its memory is perfect and that the ability to share this stuff is easier than ever and so if you want to see hypocrisy uh… it at any level you just have to go to the google machine or in this case x twitter uh… ask for what you’re looking for and you’ll find it because it likely exist especially in the world politics where people profoundly say different things than what they would say today for a variety of stupid, ridiculous reasons. But let’s continue because it does bounce into the other politicians. You get a little bit of gore, you get a little bit of Biden telling us how important it is to go ahead and have work requirements tied to welfare because we don’t want people that just take, take, take from that system and abuse it, which is something we have a lot of now based on a very recent investigation that found billions of dollars of fraud within the medicaid medicare system terrible almost physical isolation
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of huge numbers of poor people and their children from the rest of mainstream America. We have to do that. Today we are ending welfare as we know it. But I hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended, but for what it began. A new day that offers hope, honors responsibility, rewards work, and changes the terms of the debate.
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For too many, welfare has been a way of life. For too long, it has condemned too many on welfare to a lifetime at the margins of our society.
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I got to be honest, I do not miss hearing Al Gore speak at all. It is the most, I can’t deal with it. I want to go to sleep immediately.
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Today, we start to change all that. Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual responsibility contract. They must do what now? They’re forced to agree up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit. And so that they will have a plan from day one on how to get themselves off of welfare.
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That’s crazy. That’s crazy, former Mr. President, what you’re saying as a senator when your brain worked better. One more time, just for the cheap seats in the back, I kind of wish that President Trump would just fully lift one of these speeches, say it into a camera after he passes the big, beautiful bill, and see how the Democrats respond. Because you could just take all of Clinton’s speech, say that your intent in changing some of those things that are supposed to be the most controversial parts of this new bill are 100% for that exact same reason, logically, is that you’d like to change the abuse in a system that’s not designed to be a lifelong thing that people do. And yet… Here we are in 2025, where I’m sure if he said word for word what Clinton said back in 1996, he would still be attacked by everybody, including Bill Clinton. I imagine he would also come out of the woodwork being like, that’s terrible that he said those horrible, awful things. All right, I want to move on to something else. I do think this is interesting. It is not a… you know hot take per se but is pretty great this is scott jennings are talking about how many of the things within the big beautiful bill are very easily popular with the american people i don’t love when we simplify giant amount of spending to some of the headline grabbing aspects of it But when you can run through several of them and you can point to each one of them being something that the everyday American, not even of a certain political side, would like, you are starting to win this argument. To say the very least, Scott Jennings does a good job being someone who actually does sound like a conservative and work at a place like CNN. Here we go.
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I don’t accept the projections on this, number one. Number two, it is not unpopular. It is not unpopular to invest in ICE. It is not unpopular to give this agency what it needs to deport violent criminals. It is not unpopular to make sure illegal aliens are not getting welfare. It is not unpopular to take able-bodied Americans who are not doing anything, who are choosing not to work. It’s not unpopular to say, we’re not paying for your welfare when we’re asking everybody else to get up and go to work. These are popular provisions, as is no tax on tips, as is keeping the tax rates low. You keep talking about the popularity of the bill. Individual provisions are exactly how Trump won the national popular vote. It will work if they run the play.
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I do love that he says if they run the play here, because Republicans are getting a little skittish about the play. They’re not sure that they like it. They want to do several audibles, just like the Senate did a whole bunch of audibles that kind of ruined the play. We’d like for it to get run because we’d like this whole thing to be over. To be honest, I’d rather not talk about the big, beautiful bill. I would like it to just be a thing that’s passed. So it’s no longer a topic of conversation as it gets closer and closer to the goal line. And then eventually we forget about it. because it’s the other funny thing about massive spending bills within politics whether i hate them or think i could like them based on who’s passing them or what things are in them eventually it doesn’t matter a whole lot of these things pass and we definitely stop talking about the vast majority that stuff within a few weeks if not days of it being over is all of our voices only matter so much out of washington dc they’ve showed us i don’t know how many times That, like, the constituents can be up in arms. We can be begging them to do something different, and they can look at us and be like, yeah, but we’re not going to do that. We’re going to do whatever we feel like, and we’re really kind of mad you’re asking us to do stuff for you. It’s sort of like you think you’re our boss, which we, in fact, are supposed to be. All right, another story out there that’s crazy. This isn’t exactly an uplifting 4th of July story, but I figured I’d get it out of the way early in the show because it deserves to be talked about. The crazy story of the four Idaho students who were killed by Brian Koberger, the dude who was a criminal science major and seemed to think that he could commit a crime as horrific as stabbing four strangers at a university and get away with it because he was just like a criminal justice graduate again and thought he had developed the perfect crime. There’s something uniquely sick about this. and the big reason that this is a headline right now is that he’s going to be able to avoid the death penalty by uh… pleading guilty to this crime something he actually did it uh… yesterday he he said yet that he was guilty uh… in order to are not you know uh… immediately be sentenced to death i have two things that i usually say about this and i know one of them is considered weak and i i i don’t care uh… but is fine if that’s what you want to say uh… my faith uh… catholic uh… calls me to believe that the death penalty is in fact wrong uh… that we shouldn’t be the ones taking life that it’s got who should do that and life in prison is a valuable enough punishment for the most terrific crimes that exist in our society and truly life in prison not ability to get out life without the possibility of parole is the kind of thing that we’re supposed to do or that my faith tells me we’re supposed to do even for the most awful among us And yet, if I were a parent of one of those kids who this psychopath of a person chose to kill for no reason, not that reasons would make me feel any better about it, but just because the individual thought he was smart enough to get away with it, I would feel the exact way these parents feel, even as a Catholic, that he should be put to death. That I would like to see this person punished immediately. I don’t want to have to wait the rest of my life to be convinced that he’s being punished for the rest of his life. I want to know now that he’s punished for it. So I completely understand The biggest aspect of this and the big reaction from the families to be incredibly upset with this plea deal and this plea arrangement that allows this individual to avoid the death penalty altogether by finally admitting what they did when Brian had been claiming he was innocent right up until he made the plea deal. So I don’t know. I just wanted to say that I kind of land in both camps on this. That if it were my own child, I would want this person to be put to death. I’d actually want to do it. We do like firing range. I’d like to be one of the people with a gun and I would definitely hit my target probably more than once. So I fully understand what’s being said here and how it’s unique because it’s your kid. Parents and children, even in the Bible, was acknowledged as a unique thing. I believe that Jesus Christ said in the Bible that if a person is to harm a child, it would be better for them to cut off the hand that harms the kid and throw it to the bottom of the lake than actually harm innocent children. So even there, definitively, by someone who would tell me that I should put this person in jail for life and not put them to death is a pretty big gap between how bad we should feel about those who hurt kids and those who hurt adults. And I know that the people were adults, they were in college, but you know, they’re, they’re still children in a lot of ways to their parents for sure. Probably forever. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. That was serious. That was heavy. It’s the 4th of July. It’s a holiday. I promise we’ll get lighter. We’ll have more fun. I just couldn’t help throwing my take out on the topic. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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That’s right. This is the Dana Show. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter to stay connected to her. This is her Quick Five. My name is Craig Collins filling in. A snake on a plane actually did force a flight delay for real. Samuel Jackson was not aboard the plane. A Virginia Airlines, Virginia, Australia, excuse me, Airlines flight was delayed two hours after a guy, a snake catcher named Mark Pelley, who must be a cool dude if he’s a snake catcher who lives in Australia, boarded the flight after being told there was a snake on it and then took the entire amount of time, as I said, that two hours to track down the snake. He also said that at one point when he first saw it, he thought it looked very dangerous. He thought it was definitely venomous. It was not. It turned out to be just a simple tree snake that’s completely harmless, but he didn’t want it climbing somewhere else in the plane, which is why he took it down and he got it out of that plane. And there are several photos, I think, of him carrying the snake off the plane. But yes, that’s a real thing that happened. Snake in a plane caused a delay. Probably not the first time. Microsoft is set to lay off 9000 workers. This is going to be the largest cut of its staff since 2023. A whole lot of the tech sector is firing more and more people, which is interesting because they’re hiring people to trailblaze in the world of artificial intelligence. And I wonder if there’s at least a few people who are sitting at desks working on something and eventually like, oh, I got it. and they send it to their boss, and the boss goes, great, you’re fired, as the response back, because it does feel a little bit like that industry specifically might be working its way out of jobs. But Microsoft to lay off 9,000 people again, the biggest layoff for them, even with all the good job numbers and economic numbers that are coming out, the biggest layoff for them in the last few years. Chuck E. Cheese is planning to create a brand new concept. This concept would be aimed at targeting adults. They’re calling it Chuck’s Arcade, which would feel really dangerous as a place that you would have sent your kid until you know it’s affiliated with Chuck E. Cheese. If some dude named Chuck was wanting an arcade, that’s not the place I’d want to send my child. But Chuck’s Arcade will have drinks. It’ll have all the things that a video game bar has and some Chuck E. Cheese branding. They’re hoping that a lot of young people like me, millennials who grew up on Chuck E. Cheese as a birthday destination, will go there via nostalgia to have pizza and other things and not feel embarrassed about wanting to go to the child version of Chuck E. Cheese, which I don’t actually want to go to. So I’m not embarrassed because I don’t plan to attend Chuck’s Arcade. It’s just crazy to me that the amount of plans for businesses in today’s society that wrap around getting you in the nostalgia feelings so that you buy or, you know, overspend and whatever the item is they want to sell you. It’s through the roof. Most people think that a good idea that’s new is terrible and a good way to exploit the feeling of nostalgia for something you remember from the past is a way better decision. I just look at what they’re doing in Hollywood and the amount of movies they’re remaking and how they think those are going to be great. All right. One other story that I thought was interesting. Spicy McMuffins are coming to a McDonald’s near you. Starting next week, they’re putting spicy inside of all of their breakfast items. Spicy sausage McMuffin, egg McMuffin, sausage and egg McMuffin, everything. There is no reason I think that this would be good. Personally, the spicy pepper sauce being added to this thing just seems like a step too far since we all know that spicy fast food is very different than actual good spicy food made with better ingredients that don’t turn things a weird shade of orange. But nonetheless, good luck to everybody out there. If you try the spicy McMuffin, report back and let us know what you think. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff out there to talk about. A few of the reactions that are going viral to the big, beautiful bill include President Obama coming out and saying that this bill is horrible and it’s going to take health care away from some 16 million people. And the amount of individuals who absolutely thought that was hilarious and reacted to Barack Obama by saying that you did this to me. I can read some of these tweets back. One person said, you took me off of a barely affordable $600 a month plan with a $500 deductible. You forced me onto an $1,135 plan with a $10,000 deductible. No difference in lifetime benefits. That was just me. Not even my family plan. But you did this and your Affordable Care Act did this to a tremendous amount of Americans. A whole bunch of people pay an insanely higher cost for health care today because of you. So it’s weird for you to be out there saying how any sort of restrictions that might pull back on the amount of people that have Medicaid or Medicare based on being able-bodied individuals who aren’t working is somehow worse than what you did. I just love that. Also, this is funny as far as owning yourself on Twitter goes. Hakeem Jeffries is currently trying to filibuster the big beautiful bill by just talking and putting a whole lot of people to sleep. Hakeem Jeffries in 2021 tweeted, The filibuster is a Jim Crow-era relic that has been used to stop progress for decades. Enough is what he said. After it’s been used to stop progress for decades, he wanted the end of people filibustering, and now he is currently on a stage filibustering in just another chef’s kiss version of it can’t be this hypocritical, can it? And the answer is absolutely it can’t. Finally, here’s a little bit of audio of Hakeem Jeffries and some of the things he’s been saying that are absolutely not worth the amount of time he’s taking to say them and the amount of individuals behind him that appear to be actually falling asleep while listening to him talk.
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Speaker, that’s not what this country should be all about. Manu wasn’t the only one. The only American citizen who’s been targeted by the deportation machine, a deportation machine that will be unleashed on steroids by this one big, ugly bill.
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Don’t threaten me with a good time is what a whole lot of people are saying in response to that. A deportation machine that will be on steroids if the big, beautiful bill gets passed. I know that some stats out there are now claiming that Americans have become a little more pessimistic about the way in which the Trump administration is going about getting rid of people who don’t have the right to be in this country, essentially saying that it’s gone too far or that you’re not targeting the right people. that individuals who are getting arrested, say, outside of a place they’ve been working for years, whatever it might be, are the individuals that should be the last part of the equation of getting people out of this country, not the beginning of it. I have a unique take on that. At least I think I do. I am married to someone who was born and raised in a different country, in Mexico. She is a U.S. citizen now because she married me. She married an American. So she has all her paperwork. She has all her status for anyone that wants to call ICE on me. But nonetheless, what I think is really interesting about the idea of that is that the example that she set for her family is that there is a path toward actual citizenship and rights and then a whole bunch of things that have value. So at times, she’s even had conversations with family members and friends about the unique difference between her experience and experiences that other people in Mexico talk about that they might know someone who’s going through when you don’t have any rights to be here. And honestly, and saying this as candidly as I can, without it necessarily trying to be politically on either side of the aisle, the people who want illegal immigration to exist and want individuals to work jobs without the right to work them which means that they’re going to be underpaid in terrible conditions with no ability to actually combat those things if they wanted to say you know try to get uh… something improved uh… those individuals the ones most taking advantage of the people other actually coming into this country the people who advocate for unfair work situations of the people who are here now granite the only way to fix that as you know and i know and this is the part that might start to sound political to others is to only allow people in who have the right to be here only allow legal individuals to get into our country and yes i believe that the trump administration and tom homan and all involved are doing everything they can to catch every a very bad person uh… that’s on the list that’s committed a bunch of other crimes while they’re here uh… which is exactly what they told us they were gonna do they were gonna do everything they could to get the most dangerous individuals off the street as quickly as possible they’ve been doing that since they got an office Well, doing that, the other thing they need to do to truly fix the system that is broken is remove everyone that is here illegally. It’s not a hot take. It’s not a mean take. At least I don’t believe it to be. And I hope that I’ve demonstrated why. Not that I think a lot of people listening actually care about that part. And it might even make me sound somewhat weak to be saying it the way I’m saying it. But I don’t care. It’s simply the truth for me. You have to remove everyone. uh… from our society that’s not here legally if you want to revamp the system legally to actually be more fair uh… to people who would come into this country the end result the end goal can be a good one can be a valuable one can be whatever one you want it to be but those conversations have to come second what has to come first is fixing the brokenness in our system and the amount of people that feel that and these are people like the south side chicago who constantly vote democratic i feel like the uh… you know loss of ability for the government in those smaller places to give more to their community because the government staff they have nothing else to give is are spending millions of dollars on people who are here legally is also unfair That if you’re actually paying taxes and you think the government isn’t doing enough to uplift your community, the last thing you want to hear is that they’re giving a bunch of the money to people who aren’t even supposed to be in the country to begin with. So the amount of people who dislike this is way beyond what regular media would tell you it is. And by the way, another thing out there that I find interesting, the job numbers have some pretty important pieces buried deep within them. There are two of them that are going viral now, being put out by a few different people on social media. First, 830,000 new jobs were given to native-born individuals in this country. Only 348,000 jobs were lost for foreign-born individuals. That does mean that there were a lot of jobs lost for people that might not actually be here with legal status. But I love the fact that they try to tell you that, you know, essentially people who have the right to be here are now stealing jobs from people who don’t have the right to be here because that’s insane. and then finally the other thing four hundred thirty seven uh… thousand uh… four hundred thirty seven hundred thousand jobs that were created our brand new full-time positions three hundred sixty seven uh… a thousand lost jobs are all the part-time jobs the biggest complaint during the biden era is that a bunch of jobs that were being created were for foreign-born individuals and that those jobs were part-time in nature Both of those trends are being reversed by the most recent data. This is before the big beautiful bill is even out, is even a thing that changes stuff more. Most Americans would support and like this. Most Americans would be big fans of this. And actually, one more thing I wanted to say, and I want to talk about this probably more than most other shows do, and I probably should have some audio to back it up, but darn it, whatever. I’m just going to break it down for you. This deal between the United States and Vietnam is uniquely important. It’s a trade deal. The reason why it’s so important is that it shows, or at least I believe it demonstrates, the path forward that the President of the United States sees for all of our trade partners. a vietnam agreed to a twenty percent import tariff by that means that stuff that we get from there will now cost an extra twenty percent is all have to pay a tariff to bring it in uh… vietnam agreed to that they also agreed to charge absolutely nothing for products that we send to them so in order to fix a trade deficit they’re gonna have to pony up a little bit of extra case in order to get their products in our country and i know the people actually pay to the people importing and i get it i understand but that paper the plan on paper is what it is and the reason that is that way is because we’re trying to get more products that are made here in the united states as the ones that were selling and that’s going to take a bit but anyway the fact that tariffs exist at all and to the degree that they do, even in a signed deal between two countries, is important. Because I do believe, and I honestly think that that’s the biggest reason that all of these numbers, all of this money is so wrongly being projected, is because everyone’s ignoring the fact that Trump would like tariffs to be a long-term solution to the revenue issues united states might have the amount of spending verse the amount of uh… you know actual making of money and the other reason i think this deal in vietnam is so important is forty percent tariffs exist if you ship something to vietnam from a different country like say china slap a made in vietnam tag on it and then send it to us if you do something to change it but you got it from somewhere else we get to charge the full forty percent tariff uh… that we would charge to begin with That is also a really good thing because one of the ways they assume a lot of companies are going to skirt or countries are going to skirt around these tariff rules is find the one country that has the sweet, sweet deal with us. And then after that happens, everybody just send products there and then that country will send products to us. And we’re not going to allow that either. So I just think the amount of people that are profoundly underestimating. uh… the the degree to which tariffs will be a solution to the problem either they are saying is the whole reason they vote against the big beautiful bill is somewhat amazing and uh… ideal specifically with vietnam feels too heavily reinforce that position by the way jd vance did put out on social media that the along filibuster by the king jeffries has caused an undecided congressman uh… republican voter to decide that they’re definitely a firm yes now All the things they were listening to, all the versions of, he’s going to do this and do that, and it’s going to be deportation on steroids, apparently have convinced this one individual on the wrong side of the political aisle for Akeem Jeffries that the right answer is actually to immediately go ahead and pass this thing as soon as they’re given the option to vote in it. So I love the fact that that’s a thing out there too, and even if you doubt the vice president and the accuracy of his statement, I believe it could be true. And maybe it’s not even the fact that he mentioned certain policies and things, but just the fact that Hakeem Jeffries is so annoying and how he’s filibustering and the long pregnant pauses he’s taking in between the words and sentences he’s saying, because I guess he didn’t bring enough material with him to last as long as he wanted to last as far as filibustering on the House floor. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot to get to throughout the day. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I want to complain about something, and I feel like this is the perfect time to do it. The amount of holidays that now have, like, sales tied to them. It feels like it’s every holiday. And then a bunch of times they just say that there’s sales on this day, prime days, whatever you want to call them, that have nothing to do with holidays. Memorial Day, of course, we’re buying things. I think you can buy your mattress for a very low price on a Memorial Day or a Labor Day. But even this July 4th, there are so many different stories about like these deals are cut. These prices are cut. It feels like stuff is claimed to be on sale so often that nothing could ever actually be on sale anymore. It feels like these have to be the actual prices of all these items. And I know this has happened before. I know everybody and their brother has pulled this game on the American people for quite a long time. It just feels like there’s something unique about how Every single holiday, anything, Memorial Day, as I said, Flag Day, literally any holiday you can think of, someone somewhere is going to put out a list of the things that are way cheaper today. We promise that you should be buying right now and don’t wait another week to buy these things or do wait another week because the next holiday they’re going to be the same price. as they were before. There are some websites that even track this stuff for you that tell you how many of these items are actually on sale, like how many are hitting the price that’s the lowest they’ve ever been seen at. And surprise, surprise, almost none of them are actually to the degree where they would say that this is legitimately a sale that we haven’t seen before, even if other people tell you that it’s absolutely a thing that you’ve, you know, you’re only going to see this one time and you got to get in while the getting’s good. It just, it’s annoying to me and it’s hilarious to me and I’m kind of sick of it. I guess the reason I’m complaining about this more than anything else, I’m humbugging the crap out of it, is my email inbox. It’s uniquely ridiculous. You actually should just have an email that you use as a standby whenever anyone asks you for anything, if you even give it out anymore, although a whole lot of companies just buy this stuff from leaks that happen, too, because it’s just inundated. with tons of companies telling me happy fourth of july which is nice and then also come buy a thing at my store because i promise it’s cheaper than it’s ever going to be and it’s probably going to be that same price next week all right other things out there that i saw that i like i thought this was interesting there’s a list of the best potato chips to buy for the fourth of july there’s a definitive answer to this question by the way and you don’t have to be crazy you don’t have to even get creative at all the right answer is barbecue potato chips If you’re going to have a cookout and a barbecue, you should get potato chips that taste like the barbecue. That’s the right answer. But people are saying there’s actually other options for some reason. Kettle chips is something that people are saying is good. They’re not as good as just regular Ruffles, Lay’s potato chips. People are also saying, depending on what part of the country you’re in, the brand of chip that you choose will be specific to that place in which you live, which I love that part. And actually, I can do some of those real quick. If you’re in the Midwest, it’s Ruffles. If you’re on the East Coast, it’s either Lay’s or Utz, depending on where you’re at. Kettle brand is California, which is just terrible again. My favorite, though, only one state actually decided that Pringles. was the right option for them. Iowa seems to think that Pringles is the right decision. So you go that road if you want. And I like that a lot. I know this is a dumb topic, but I can’t help but do it and talk about it quickly. The potato chip move is an important part of the entirety of your cookout. You do need them. And you do need good ones. If you have bad ones, you’re ruining things. I think I said that before, actually, that there’s really two things that can ruin the cookout. One is not having regular hamburgers, regular hot dogs. And then actually this, they did recall recently turkey bacon. I think this is Oscar Mayer turkey bacon. Thank God they did that. Because one of the biggest things that ruins a cookout for me is if someone tells me they have bacon and the bacon is turkey. It’s not real. If you’re going to put bacon on my burger, it better be actual bacon, darn it. That’s the only way I can live. But nonetheless, as I said a second ago, stuff’s been recalled, so maybe you’re better off there. But those things ruin the Fourth of July party. The lack of chips, the lack of good music, and the lack of bacon. Which honestly probably ruins a whole lot of parties. All right, I’m going to move on. One last thing as far as just quick stupid stuff out there. Shaquille O’Neal is finally getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It feels like he should have had one a long time ago. Shaq feels famous enough for this. Miley Cyrus, Timothee Chalamet, other people that made the list. But the only athlete that is going to get a brand new Walk of Fame is Shaq. And again, I was kind of surprised he didn’t have one. It’s kind of interesting, not that I go to L.A. or care about the Walk of Fame specifically, but it is interesting that there’s a tremendous amount of very famous people who don’t have one of these yet. Way to go, Shaq. Proud of you, buddy. 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. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Hakeem Jeffries trying to filibuster the best he can filibuster by just talking about all kinds of things. I love that some of the stuff he said has gone viral as reasons that people want to support the big, beautiful bill. There was something else he said, and this is essentially boiling down the Democratic playbook to a simple message. If you like or vote for Donald Trump or any of the things that President Trump wants you to like or vote for, you’re going to kill people. That’s usually what they say, is that somehow, someway, President Trump equals the death of tons of people. That’s their favorite. Here is a version of it being used on the House floor today by Hakeem Jeffries.
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I’ve been talking to my constituents. I’ve been reading their letters. The fear, the anxiety. I mean, there are literally people that I’m talking to that I represent, Pam, who don’t know if they’re going to survive, literally survive this. They can’t pay for their… their health care bills, that have disabled children and the coverage for these disabled children, the care that they need to be able to work, to be able to survive, to be able to get basic care is going to go away. This is the most brutal thing I have ever seen in my time in public.
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That voice is actually Jason Crowe, who is a Democratic politician, too. It’s not Hakeem Jeffries. He’s just on screen in the background. I forgot about that. But nonetheless, as I’m telling you that these politicians say that it’s life or death, they literally always go to this. And I love that he’s saying, like, there’s so many people. They’re just screwed. Their lives are over. um i don’t know maybe there’s a chance that some individuals who truly do lose a certain social services certain welfare and they do it because they’re deemed to be able-bodied and not willing to or trying to get a job maybe if they wind up getting a job they’ll be able to support and help with those things and if they’re not a person in that situation by the way anyone that’s screaming And not that I assume there’s a lot of it like, oh, it’s racist or sexist or horrible, whatever you just said. Somehow it’s bad. I’m sure it is. If they are someone who’s trying to get a job or are someone who’s a guy unique reason they can’t, they still qualify. The benefits aren’t profoundly changing to the degree that people are claiming it is. They’re just creating new hoops for people to jump through who seem to be taking advantage of our welfare system, which seems to be a whole lot of people. So if his actual story were true, a mom who’s got a special needs kid that doesn’t have a way to pay for medical bills and can’t work because of the demand of the special needs kid, guess what? They would still be covered. That is the way this works. It is wrong for them to claim that this person would definitively lose coverage if the bill does pass. It is just lying. just lying for the sake of life right another thing out there a couple of these are pretty awesome this is lying for the sake of life let’s do this first and i’ll get to uh… cnn reacting to how good the economy is doing i wish they seem very upset about uh… but this is brian stelter uh… being rolled out the idiot that he is in front of uh… uh… cameras and microphones i think this is pb s giving him an opportunity to talk and say how he thinks cbs did nothing wrong that the way they edited their Kamala Harris interview was standard TV news editing practices, which is terrifying, and I’ll be honest about that too, but Brian Stelter fighting the good fight, at least in his mind, the bad fight to the rest of us, trying to convince us that a settlement from a news organization to President Trump and his library because they absolutely did something they shouldn’t have done and not getting the actual court case where we would have gotten even more awesome information about it is somehow a nothing-to-see-here moment. The U.S. citizens should be paying attention to this. The everyday Americans should wonder why multiple news organizations are having to pay President Trump money. And it should be screaming from, you know, their minds and from our mouths that this means that media is as corrupt and lies as often as we think it does. And it’s unsurprising. And media is trying to do its best to pretend that that’s not true. Here we go.
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So, Brian, this is not the first major media company to settle with President Trump. You’ve been following this, though. Did anything in this settlement or its terms surprise you?
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Well, CBS did not actually do anything wrong here. CBS engaged in standard television news editing practices, but its parents…
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I love that. CBS definitively changed the answer to a question. An interview question was asked of Kamala Harris. The answer she gave was not actually to the question she was asked, and it was cleaned up profoundly to not sound as loopy and weird, which was a major criticism of the candidate running for the office of president, that she spoke in these giant circles that seemed to make no sense, which is what she did in response to a very important question, and they removed that question. But I digress. Standard operating news editing practices.
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Their company paid the price anyway, with some people likening this to a ransom or even a bribe. The terms are not surprising because, as you said, Paramount’s not the first company to do this. Disney’s ABC in some ways wrote the playbook that paramount is now relying on because last december when trump was still president-elect abc settled with trump out of court to the tune of 16 million dollars so here we are again with 16 million dollars heading toward trump’s presidential library i love how he makes that sound as though that’s somehow an indication that the money that’s being spent on these cases is you know uh not real uh essentially what i mean by that is is he thinks that because both
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organization spent the same amount that that means that they’re just giving in or paying a ransom or a bribe and they didn’t do anything wrong when the reality is that the second organization noticed what their mistake actually deserved to cost so the first organization sets the the standard Because we’ve never really seen this. We’ve never seen a sitting president use the legal system to go after the amount of news organizations he’s going after in courtrooms and winning by saying that they deceptively did certain things during a campaign. And so when ABC lost, which is what happens when you settle and give the money, CNN or excuse me, CBS decided, all right, that’s probably the amount of money we owe for our version of this crime. which we also committed. I love that a stelter, though, it’s just simple proof that, oh, that’s the number they’ll accept. So we’ll just do that and we’ll make the whole thing go away. I can’t understand how there are people in our society who don’t think this is an important story. actually believe the things that Stelter is saying on lying news media, that like, it’s not a bigger deal that organizations are paying the president and his library significant sums of money as a reaction to the way that they unfairly covered the 2024 presidential election. This should matter. And I know I’m repeating myself and saying it, but I don’t know how not to, because it’s crazy that it doesn’t. All right, quick topic change here, and then we’ll take a break in a few minutes. CNN’s Berman was pained when he had to tell the audience that job losses didn’t materialize, that inflation hasn’t gone the way that it was supposed to go, that essentially all of the projections about what Trump’s tariff threats and then actual tariffs would do to our economy and society just haven’t occurred and so a ton of people uh… jim kramer certainly among them who said that by now everything would be a you know smoking crater of what it was supposed to be uh… is gotta look us in the face and say we were very wrong about this and pretend they don’t know the reason why other reason why of course being that all along they should have been aware that nothing would go as badly as they were projecting it to go and they actually were hoping for a worst case scenario to blame it on Trump, which is uniquely bad in our society to have people in media cheering on like an economic downturn that would be catastrophic because they want to be right more than they want their friends and families to keep their houses. That does seem to be a play. But here’s the back and forth where Berman is saying he seems to be upset that things just haven’t gone completely in the bleep, you know, the way that they’re supposed to.
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Again, since March and before, there were predictions that the tariffs, granted a lot of them have been pulled back, most of them have been pulled back, but all that tariff policy was going to lead perhaps to inflation, would lead to job losses, predictions of doom. That doom just hasn’t happened yet.
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What is going on? Why hasn’t it happened? He’s asking his guest. He’s going to weigh in with all kinds of stupid stuff.
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It hasn’t happened. And, you know, John, I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on this topic. What I’m hearing is that for the last few years, really since COVID, but even before, companies have realized that their supply chains can be interrupted for lots of reasons, for a virus, for a geopolitical event, for a war, for a climate event. And so they’ve been using technology to really streamline things. They’ve been getting their systems in place. And there’s just a lot more efficiency in the system now.
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They can survive it. These resilient, amazing companies can deal with the horribleness that is the President of the United States is basically what she’s trying to say or the position she’s trying to take on that so that they can be right, media, that things should be bad, but also the companies can somehow succeed because of how much forethought they put into this. There’s no chance that the other thing that’s true is that it’s just simply not having the negative impact that they thought it would have and things are going way better than you believe they go. That can’t be true. That can’t possibly be the reason for this. And even some of these policies are actually causing companies to hire even more people with the expectation that you might even create more product here in the United States, which is the entire design in the first place of this whole thing. I love that they wouldn’t even dare to dabble in that road. But at the same time, that if Biden did anything even remotely resembling something positive, even though he wasn’t aware he was doing it for most of the time he was in office, they would praise him to a degree that seemed uncomfortable and ridiculous. But absolutely, that is what’s being talked about and going on right now is that essentially somehow, some way, all of the numbers they projected to be terrible are way less terrible and actually pretty good compared to what they were, you know, guaranteeing us would happen. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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That’s right. It’s time for the Quick Five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine did sign a two-year, $60 billion operating budget. It flattens the state’s income tax. It sets aside $600 million in unclaimed funds for a new Cleveland Brown Stadium. That was a big deal in the world of football news today. The Republican governor signed the budget late Monday night, about 45 minutes before the midnight deadline. And as you’re parsing through all of it, you see just how much money is being earmarked for a sweet, sweet new stadium for the Browns. Whether or not that makes the Browns actually capable of, say, winning a Super Bowl is something that’s yet to be determined. But we will see how that goes and what the inevitable result may be. But at least there’ll be somewhere swankier. They’ll be somewhere fancier as they’re losing in heartbreak fashion in the playoffs, which just sounds like a brutal thing for me to keep saying. And yet it’s true. And I’m not a Browns fan, as anyone can tell. Although I don’t really hate them. How can you hate people that don’t win? Anyway, moving on. Other stuff out there. That was probably epically mean. I apologize. Well, nobody. South Park season debut has been delayed by streaming rights that are in limbo. South Park is a uniquely interesting show to me. One, because even though they have a lot of left-leaning thoughts that pop up there, they have a lot of hilarious trolling of the left-leaning thoughts as well. I don’t know that I would really consider the people who run South Park to truly be a liberal, but they’re certainly no fan of President Trump. So they’re definitely people that are willing to go after anyone politically. But what’s unique and interesting about this story is that essentially the streaming rights have become more valuable than the television rights to the show. Something the founders and creators of South Park have long fought for and fought to, you know, retain. Because I think that more and more people just watch everything via streaming services. There’s almost nothing. that it feels like, especially Hakeem Jeffries being a moron and complaining for a while on the House floor and trying to filibuster and claim it’s not a filibuster. That’s the kind of stuff you don’t need live television for. You can get the highlights on an ex on Twitter and feel really good about yourself. That’s all you need. A beloved performer by the name of Red Panda fell off her unicycle and she was taken off the court in a wheelchair during the halftime of a WNBA game. This happened in Indianapolis. The woman is, you know, popular because she rides the unicycle, puts plates in her head, does that whole thing, and apparently quite good at it, been doing it quite a long time. An accident happened right at the beginning of her performance, and she did seem to be seriously injured. She did walk off the court with the help of others. I got to feel like that’s a weird moment. You’re at the game. I don’t think that many people bought their tickets, even to a WNBA game, to see the Red Panda. I think you might have gone to see Caitlin Clark, who was unfortunately injured and didn’t play in that game. But when you see that person get hurt during the halftime show or a timeout performance, I know you uniquely feel bad about them, but you also kind of wonder if maybe they shouldn’t have had that planned. You know, maybe they could have done something else during the halftime show. Although I’m sure as long as she’s successful at balancing the plates and staying on the unicycle, you’re cheering, you’re applauding, and then you’re waiting for the game to start again. But yes, sad story. Definitely something that a lot of people seem to care about because this lady has been performing a lot of places for a very long time. All right. Other stories out there as far as quick five go. Amazon deploys its one millionth robot in a sign of more job automation occurring. I’ve said this a few times, even though I believe in what are aspects of what I think the big, beautiful bill is going to try to achieve. The ramping up of manufacturing, creation of products right here at home in the United States for U.S. citizens. I think what is more likely to happen in the both short and long term is a whole lot of that will wind up being automated. And it can be automated abroad or it can be automated here. We’d obviously rather have it automated here for a variety of reasons. But I think that that is inevitably the future, as does almost everybody else. And this is another one of those signs of our times seeming to tell us that, yeah, this is what’s coming and this is how quickly it’s coming. And, you know, we’ll do everything we can to avoid it. But truthfully, the creation of those jobs is probably a temporary, not a long term solution. And then finally, one last one as far as quick five go. California just rolled back a landmark environmental policy. There’s quite a bit to deep dive into here. But the overarching thing, it’s a law that was signed in the 1970s. It was actually signed by Governor Ronald Reagan at the time. But it’s something that the Trump administration, a lot of these policies, have been pushing back on for quite some time now. And many, many states, many cities all seem to be finally bending the knee. So rolling back some environmental policies and natural and protected land exclusions from certain exemptions does feel like you appreciate, no matter what they say publicly, no matter how defiantly they speak, that the person in charge is definitively the guy in the White House. And so I like that. I’m a fan of that. It’s unique that actually the policy was originally signed by Ronald Reagan. All right, we’re going to take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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There it is, Thunder. Thunderstruck. That is a great song by ACDC. It is a requirement at every single July 4th party that you’ll be having tomorrow. It actually also is the song that I use as the intro to the radio show I do. But thank you for everyone listening today. My name is Craig Collins. I’m filling in for Dana Lash on The Dana Show, DLash on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things her, or Dana Lash Radio to stay connected to all things the show. Definitely a great place to be. All right. For anyone that’s unaware, as the show is live, McKeem Jeffries is continuing to talk on the House floor in what is not a filibuster, but it’s definitely a filibuster. He was supposed to speak for one minute as the minority leader in the House before a vote. He’s supposed to get the, you know, simple magic minute treatment. And he stretched it out into a ridiculous thing. And I wanted to check on it. I believe we have some audio of it. That’s what it sounds like. That’s Hakeem Jeffries just doing his best Charlie Brown teacher up there doing whatever he wants to do. You know what? Actually, I do have actual audio. My favorite is that this one moment, this one statement he made has gone viral. And so when Jeffries finds out that a vast majority of the things he said, very few people cared about, which he doesn’t know. He’s probably not on Twitter as he’s speaking now. But when he gets on it later and sees, he’ll be fairly upset that this is the thing we all took away. But this is a brilliant, brilliant moment for us to focus on, and I’ll tell you why. Here it is.
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Manu wasn’t the only one. The only American citizen who’s been targeted by the deportation machine. A deportation machine… that will be unleashed on steroids by this one big ugly bill.
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Okay, that’s the moment where he’s talking about deportation and whatnot, and he says if this ugly, horrible bill passes, then it’s going to be a deportation on steroids. A whole lot of people on social media, on both sides of the political aisle, are yelling, don’t threaten me with a good time, because they’d absolutely like to see that happen. And I continue to point this out whenever I talk about this, uniquely on the left. During the Biden administration, excuse me, before Trump retook office, a whole lot of people were realizing how bad it is for a bunch of government money to be funneled to people who don’t have the right to be in this country. And all the different things they thought were no longer possible, not that maybe they were being funded to begin with, but no longer possible because the excuse of we have no money left was being used, like this outside of Chicago. where a whole lot of Democratic voters, a lot of black individuals, were saying their community has been unfairly treated for a very long time and they deserve additional government support, regardless of if you agree with them or disagree with them. And they were livid. that the newest excuse they were being told by a black mayor in Chicago was that he simply couldn’t afford it. He gave too much money to the people with no right to be here. And that part is true. The massive amount of spending that has existed in New York and Chicago all throughout the country to deal with this is surreal. It’s crazy. By the way, I believe Hakeem Jeffries finally finished his marathon speech on the House floor. And we are going to do something that’s going to be quite a bit of fun to go ahead and finish this off. So I have some audio of Jeffrey’s that I’ll play, and then we’ll go ahead and play this guy off. Here we go.
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We’re going to press on. We’re going to press on for our children.
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Uh-huh.
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Press on for our seniors. Press on for our veterans. Press on for our unions. Press on for our farmers. Press on for our dreamers. Press on for working class Americans. Press on for the middle class. Press on for all who aspire to be part of the middle class. Press on for the poor. Press on for the sick. Press on for the afflicted. Press on for the lease.
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It would be a little funny if he started saying, like, press on for me. Press on for my family. Press on for, you know, the guy who’s going to make me my sandwich later today.
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Press on for the lost. Press on for the left behind. Press on for the rule of law. Press on for the American way of life. Press on for democracy. We’re going to press on until victory is won. I yield back.
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And it’s over. It’s finally, finally over. Yay. Yay. That’s what he deserves for it to be. I love that the end message there is we’re going to press on, we’re going to press on, we’re going to press on, and now I’m done. It seems that he immediately decided to stop pressing on right after claiming that he was going to continue to press on, which is a weird thing to say or a weird thing to do. And I love also that Democrats seem so proud of themselves that they thought of saying the word press on as he’s speaking. I’m not sure if that was pre-coordinated. I’m going to assume it was. But even if it wasn’t, it wasn’t exactly a genius stroke move. And they’re all smiling as they’re throwing their hands in the air saying press on. Press on. And then immediately, again, the guy ends his speech. You’d feel like that should have probably been the start of the whole thing, where he then does the marathon speaking thing when he claims he will not yield, he will not sit down, he will not be stopped, because it’s uniquely hilarious. One last time. I feel like I’m belaboring the point, but I can’t help it for someone to say that and then be done something. It would be like me in the middle of some sort of argument discussion or anything with the missus and be like, you know what? I’m not giving in on this, honey. On this one, I’m sticking to my guns. On this one, I refuse to be changed in my opinion. And then immediately I’m swayed and I’m like, you know what? Actually, I’m done. Actually, it’s fine. My wife might threaten to, you know, not do certain things. I don’t know how I could say that different. And then all of a sudden I’m like, you know what? I lose. I give up. It’s why was I even talking about this? You’re right. Let’s go ahead and change the subject completely because that’s how these things actually happen. All right. Other stuff out there. I do think this is interesting. This is Jason Crow. I played this audio before. I’ll play this audio again because I do think it’s surreal. It’s the Democratic playbook. They want you to believe that if you vote against them, that people have to die. That’s that’s how they say it. Democracy dies and or humans die. The USAID discussion right now. There’s ridiculous projections out there that have no basis in reality. The claim that a whole bunch of people will die because USAID is stopped. I responded to this yesterday, and I’ll tell you again what I said about it, just so you know. If you really wanted to help people in disadvantaged situations throughout the world, you can. As a human being, as someone who might have money that you can spend on whatever you want, Just because the government stopped sending all of the government funds to places that are not the United States, which is not exactly what we’re doing, but I wish we were doing more of that, doesn’t mean that Americans are precluded from doing it themselves. It actually would be much better to have it happen that way. If you chose… to send your own money to the causes that you supported, which a lot of people of course do, and the government stopped doing it for you, we’d all be in a better place. That would be wonderful. They never say that part. But anyway, instead of that discussion, one of these politicians popped up on CNN to let us know that supporting Trump, supporting the big beautiful bill, supporting anything, it’s pretty much murder. You’re pretty much taking the lives of a bunch of people. How does that make sense? Where do those facts check out? Eh, it doesn’t matter. I’m just going to go ahead and tell you it’s true, and that should be all you need to know.
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You know, I’ve been talking to my constituents. I’ve been reading their letters. The fear, the anxiety. I mean, there are literally people that I’m talking to that I represent, Pam, who don’t know if they’re going to survive, literally survive this. They can’t pay for their… their health care bills, that have disabled children and the coverage for these disabled children, the care that they need to be able to work, to be able to survive, to be able to get basic care is going to go away. This is the most brutal thing I have ever seen in my time.
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People are going to die. That’s what they want to tell us. That literally has been the playbook for quite some time now, and it’s theatrics to the next level, to the next degree, as many people are calling it, because it’s simply not true. Just to reiterate one last time on this issue, too, before I move on to other things, that the current version of the bill that’s going to be voted on— uh… completely stupid i mean people said the eight hours and forty four minutes that he spent speaking i had very little value and i was supposed to be one minute but nonetheless to go back to it uh… the big beautiful bill itself does not simply remove access to welfare are for people that might need it it creates more hoops more barriers for people who might abuse those systems so when you talk about people who are afraid they’re going to lose something and it’s very very important that the politicians who tell you these stories include the word afraid uh… because they don’t include the word will lose these things they don’t say that this definitively will happen they just say people are are worried about the possibility of it because they don’t know if they’ll be able to jump through the new hoops If there’s someone who deserves the welfare, which is what our politicians are saying you have to be, and it’s not necessarily that you have to be a working adult. There are provisions that if you have kids of a certain age, they don’t even require that. But if you are an able-bodied adult without young children, you should be trying to get a job. You should be trying to fix the situation you’re in on your own, not just through government funding. And so if you do that, guess what? You still actually benefit. You still qualify for many of these things if you need them. So that’s the other surreal part is the idea that someone couldn’t potentially get a job if the job doesn’t cover enough expenses, then also still get assistance from our government. That didn’t go away. And they refused to accept that. And I think that that might curb some of the potential deaths and some of the potential harm that this bill might cause, according to Democrats. One more time, just go back to it. We’ll take a break in a second. We’ll come back and do some sillier stuff. became jeffrey’s did finally finishes eight-hour forty four minute rant about all kinds of crazy stuff and the most valuable the most interesting moment the most viral moment is when he said that deportation will be on steroids and a whole lot of people who support the big beautiful bill and a lot of people who support the idea of cleaning up the amount of people who are here legally are a hundred percent in on that they’d love to see that happen because more of that means more of the ability to help other people in our country and in the world and not spend all this money on people who don’t deserve to be here, which is another thing, again, that the left wants to claim isn’t true, but could very well be true if we fix the problem that is costing us incredible amounts of money. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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Ben Carson joins Pastor Alan Jackson on Culture and Christianity, Protecting Faith and Family.
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There were some failures in our culture, from expressions of racism, I mean, those widely documented. But there’s abundant evidence that as glaring as some of those weaknesses were, they didn’t prevent opportunities. I’m concerned for the younger people today. I think they face challenges that could be even more debilitating.
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Hear the full story on Culture and Christianity with Pastor Alan Jackson. Subscribe now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man. This is the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. The best ways to stay connected to her and everything she’s doing. Producer Steven does a great job and as well does Dana herself at keeping you up to date on all the information, all the things going on via their social media pages. We got a few different Florida Man stories. A Florida man was arrested near the Mark Twain National Forest for drug trafficking. This feels like an odd place. to do this, although, honestly, it’s Florida. They’re probably doing it everywhere. Well, that sounds like something I shouldn’t say out of context. They’re probably selling drugs a whole lot of places. But this individual, the United States Forest Service officer William Cox said, was observed in a Dodge van that crossed the center line of Highway 99 in a careless manner. According to the probable cause affidavit, Cox initiated the traffic stop and identified the driver by his Florida driver’s license as David Larkin. Cox asked Larkin if he had been drinking alcohol, and Larkin stated that the reason he crossed the center line was that he was attempting to retrieve a soda that had dropped in the back of his car. That’s not usually a good excuse. It’s better than, yeah, I got a bunch of drugs in here. Officer Cox eventually requested to have the Missouri State Highway Patrol on the search and substance included methamphetamine, mushrooms, 57 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, all kinds of different things. This is crazy. But this Florida man caught in, you know, Missouri for this problem seemed to be just absolutely very much impacted. by all the different drugs that he had taken he also was in possession of uh different um paraphernalia uh that luckily was not hidden anywhere in his body we did a story yesterday about a guy out of florida who not only had the drugs on him but he hit it in a place you wouldn’t want to hide stuff at least in this case the dude just had everything on display out there in the open But I love the fact that his excuse was, I’m just trying to grab a soda, man, and that turns into this whole thing. But that’s one Florida man out there living up to his Florida man reputation. Another Florida guy that’s in the news is, well, actually a Florida woman who had to tread water for 12 hours after falling out of a canoe. A Good Samaritan eventually rescued the woman. This was in Charlotte Harbor. She is lucky to be alive, of course. She’s kind of impressively alive because, again, she accidentally fell out of her canoe at around 9 p.m. in what is kind of hilariously called Peace River. That’s near Charlotte Harbor. She was found by Good Samaritan, as I said, almost 12 miles later, just a mile away from the shore. She might have been trying to get there. The guy who found her said, I heard someone yelling, help. And I looked over, and here’s a woman yelling help, and she could wave her hands. Amazing that she could do that with that much time spent in the water. But again, he was able to save her. Maybe she’s experienced in this. Maybe she’s aware of how to survive hours of being stuck in the ocean because she’s, in fact, from Florida. I’m not really exactly sure. But nonetheless, this is kind of the craziest thing. And honestly, I’m reacting to this a little bit oddly, and I’ll tell you why. The story about that guy who saved his kid, the guy who jumped in the water on a Disney cruise and saved his child and wound up treading water for like, I don’t know, 40 minutes or something like that before they saved him. A lot of people were saying that’s impressive. This Florida woman just crushed that. 12 hours went by between when she fell out of the canoe and when she was inevitably saved. And the fact that the individual in that amount of time was like, I’ll be fine. I can figure this out. is part of the reason I think that so many Florida stories go viral. Because even in their successes, the people seem to pretend as though this is just normal happenstance, everyday life, a version of a thing. And she did something fairly incredible. All right, one last story. And to be honest with these Florida stories, they usually shy away from anything all too violent. But this one, there’s something about it that’s kind of crazy. Well, there’s a lot of things about it that’s crazy and horrible. A Florida man who killed his family after his wife sought a divorce is finally set for execution. The Florida man, who I think on Tuesday had a death warrant signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, is a unique piece of crap. He pled guilty in 1996 to three counts of first-degree murder. This was killing his wife, Sylvia, and their two children, who were seven and five years old. Edward is seven. Ana is five. The reason I bring up a story or talk about this at all, and again, it’s not as fun as a bunch of Florida man stories are, and honestly, it’s in reference to something I was talking about a second ago, too, or a little bit ago, earlier ago, is harming children is the type of thing that even… Jesus said in the Bible is uniquely horrible. The quote, I believe, from the Bible is that if a arm that you have, a hand that you have, would cause you to hurt an innocent child, it would be better for you to cut it off and throw it at the bottom of the ocean than to keep it and harm innocent kids. So it was the most aggressive thing that’s in the Bible where Jesus himself, where the Lord was saying something unique and something bad. So whenever people are up in arms and have discussions about the death penalty, and I am one who often sides with my faith on that, I do think that people who do horrible stuff like this are the exception to the rule, and I am not at all disappointed to see that this person will be facing justice in the way he will be facing it. It seems like the kind of thing that the family of anyone that was lost would absolutely be thrilled to finally see. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about in the world. And this is crazy. I do love this. Producer Steven sent this to me just a bit ago. President Biden, former President Biden, is on the part of the tour of his life, the after you were the president thing, where you just do a bunch of book tours and speaking engagements. He did a Q&A in San Diego that has gone very viral, even though the only audio I have of it is the entire nine minutes and it’s shot off a camera. So I’m probably not going to go ahead and use it on the radio. It’s not it’s not ideal for radio conditions, but it’s interesting. Nonetheless, I probably recommend you watch all of it. But several of the quotes are easy to share with you. He was asked at one point who is still calling him. This is my favorite thing. So the person doing the interview is aware that President Biden is unique in the ability of his brain to function. And you can see it several times in this video. So I think as earnestly as you try to ask it, you probably are genuinely curious. Is anybody seeking your advice? And President Biden, of course, says, I’m getting calls. I can’t get into it. Can’t tell you any of the people. They’re giving me calls. He then says that several European leaders are asking him to, quote, get engaged. He said it’s not for him to do. It’s not for him to be involved in this, but that people are essentially begging him. And he even said at one point that one of those leaders said, how can you just walk away, which is literally what almost every president does after their time in the White House, which I find funny. But here’s the best part of that. One of the more notorious things that President Biden got wrong while in the White House was who the European leaders are. He often named people that had died or people that had long no longer been in power because they were people he interacted with when he was a senator, not even a vice president. And so it’s amazing because I wish he had actually named the leaders this time around because I and obviously he wasn’t because he’s probably making this entire thing up because I wonder if they would have continued to be the people who aren’t even alive today as people that he’s like, oh, can’t get these guys off the phone. They need to talk to me all the time. And these are the voices that are just going on inside his head. Speaking of weird things involving Democrats. Which certainly is anyone that pays money to see President Biden speak. Michelle Obama has a podcast, and she’s now doing ads for different companies as part of her podcast. People are wondering if somehow the Obamas are just broke. Because much like anyone else, you would assume that the paycheck can’t possibly be good enough to take the reputational hit that seems to be this thing. But it seems that Michelle Obama has thrown herself entirely into podcasting the former first lady, which means doing the occasional live read is what you call it in the industry. Here’s a little bit of something that’s going viral with she has drinks set out in front of her to go ahead and hawk some products.
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I just love everything about the Fourth of July. Friends, family, barbecue, and fireworks. And as you and your families are out there, don’t forget to stay hydrated. Plezzi Hydration or Plezzi Fizz are great options with less sugar to try out this weekend. Have a great holiday weekend, everybody.
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It is ridiculous. A 21-second plezzy fizz and plezzy water. I don’t even know what this is. I’ve never had a plezzy. I don’t think I want a plezzy. But that’s the former first lady. And honestly, the road Joe Biden’s going all of a sudden looks better, even though his brain doesn’t work, because you just get a bunch of money from the speaking engagements. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about that all the time, about how ridiculously fraudulent that whole thing is and how every politician that will make money for the rest of their life We’ll do it through like fake book deals and other crap that you’re getting overpaid for what the inevitable value of whatever you’re doing actually is. Mostly it’s books that never even get published that just give you hand and fist dollars for. But the Plessy, I can’t, I kind of want to play it again. I want to play it again because like actually genuinely saying this, This would be the kind of thing if I respected the Obamas, which I don’t. But if I did, this would absolutely be a punch in the face to all that credibility stuff that you’d be looking for because she’s hawking Plessy drinks. It’s not even like a brand that I know. At least she could have had like Gatorade or Coca-Cola or something. I mean, it’s the former first lady. You think that she’d be pulling the advertisers that are, you know, of the upper echelon. I guess not so much. I guess the podcast audience isn’t big enough to go beyond the Plessys.
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Plesi Hydration or Plesi Fizz are great options with less sugar to try out this weekend.
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Can’t wait for the Plesi. Plesi Fizz. I’m now looking that up to see exactly why this is the kind of thing that, and I wonder who else, you know, that’s the other thought that a lot of people in the world of podcasting and whatnot wind up all hawking the same products because somebody’s budget is to spend on podcasting and they just kind of spread it around. But Plesi Fizz. is the name of a group. And they have different products out there. Their cherry fizz is about 30 bucks on Amazon for a simple case of them. Although there are some special offers going on right now, they’re not paying me. I’m not going any further than this. But that is weird. That’s uniquely strange to watch a former first lady do that. All right, let’s do one other thing in the world of weird, stupid, far left audio out there. This is Joy Reid. Joy Reid is someone who you could probably play audio from every day. None of it would make sense. You could crap on it quite easily. And then part of me thinks that I should never play audio of her again because I’m platforming this stupidity. But I can’t help it. I enjoy reacting to it. So it’s going to happen again. Joy Reid is fear mongering about health care. And obviously there’s a subtext of transgender people and transgender care, whatever she’d call self-affirming care. uh mutilation of babies is another thing or children uh that people might call this uh but she’s she’s definitely lost the plot according to many here with this latest conspiracy theory type of thing that she’s sharing with who knows how many followers she even has on places like tick tock but here we go okay one more thing let me just do a public service since the 1930s
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The medical establishment has never wanted to have universal health care. They didn’t want to have Social Security. The super rich fought Social Security in the 1930s. They fought Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s. Medicare and Medicaid are the only way that many seniors and poor people can get health care, and rich people do not want it. They’ve been wanting to get rid of it, and they’ve been looking for an entertainer who could be dazzling enough to poor folks, to get them to vote, to get rid of it for themselves. Y’all did that in 2024 by electing Donald Trump.
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This is so abundantly stupid for a tremendous amount of reasons. She says that since the 1930s, rich people in certain companies have been desperate to convince you that universal health care is bad. Do you know why it’s a topic that actually was talked about in the 1930s? And this is really more just an educational thing for Joy Reid than anybody else. What happened just before the 1930s? Oh, that’s right, the Great Depression, where people were struggling, economic hardship was at an all-time high, and so discussions about universal health care became particularly important as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. It faced strong opposition from a whole lot of people, and it was not actually implemented, which, of course, is something that we know about in the society we live in, because they didn’t think that it was the right time to spend that massive amount of money on something like this when they basically weren’t doing well and no one could afford anything anyway. So what’s interesting is the companies that pushed back on that did it because they thought it would be a, you know, a death knell for everything else that they were doing in the world of trying to recover from the Great Depression. But I love that she just says the 1930s, like it’s a conspiracy theory that’s been going on for a long time, where it would have been so easy to do. Man, they had the money, they had the capability, they had the means, and it would have made things so much better. But they fought it then and succeeded. They fought it now and succeeded because President Trump convinced you that it’s bad. And one last time, I don’t know if he was the charismatic leader that Joy Reid is talking about, or if it was Bill Clinton. Because Bill Clinton implemented a bunch of the same work requirement standards in the 1990s in order to campaign that he was making welfare better for the American people because he was getting people back to work. And every single Democrat seems to forget about that. You want to throw back to the 1930s? What about just throwing to 1996 as far as a time period that you can reference and say, hey, we thought these things at this point. We think other things now. I can prove this. I think it’s kind of silly if you have to. But I do like Tom Elliott Grabian. I mentioned him earlier. He put up a supercut of this stuff, although a lot of it is really just the announcement of a decision back in 96 by Clinton. But then you have other people that were trying to advocate for this as well. People like Al Gore and Joe Biden, when his brain worked better as individuals that are trying to say how important and how good of a thing this is. So it’s just funny to get in the old time machine. uh… that social media provides to us and hear the audio of the democratic side of the aisle embracing and campaigning on the idea that having work requirements in order to get social service benefits simply make sense and is actually good for the people uh… were utilizing these services because it encourages them to stop relying on just welfare which is not going to give you a good quality of life it might give you a standard of living that you’ve come to accept but there is better out there if you start to progress it as far as you know professionally and in the uh… world of employment so here it is a little bit audio for anybody that doesn’t believe for some reason but this is absolutely something it doesn’t remember uh… that was a hundred-percent a democratic concept just a short time ago and changes the times of the debate fortune welfare has been a way of life
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For too long, it has condemned too many on welfare to a lifetime at the margins of our society. Today, we start to change all that.
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Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual responsibility contract so that they’re forced to agree up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit. What? And so that they will have a plan from day one on how to get themselves off of welfare. Put them to work and make them want to go to work and make it reasonable for them to go to work.
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Wait a minute, I thought that was all racist or sexist or something. It’s got to be something. It’s got to be a hate of some kind for Biden to have said that back when he was a senator and for the president of the United States at the time, Bill Clinton, to have said that. It can’t possibly be a thing that Democrats once believed in. How could our society change so much? That’s the other thing I love about all this. i’ll take a break after i say it is the democrats uh… biggest holdout in any of the back-and-forth discussions about politics is that they try to convince you that their position hasn’t trans hasn’t like profoundly transformed over the last thirty years and it absolutely has you don’t have to go back as far as a j f k to demonstrate that a lot of democratic positions are now republican positions You can simply go back 20 or 30 years and show how much has changed and how far left that side of the aisle has gone and why so many people who thought of themselves as left-leaning or in the middle now consider themselves as conservative and maybe even staunchly conservative because it’s the only place for them and their ideals. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. It’s time for the Quick Five. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things that she’s up to, everything that she’s doing, and just expertly run by her team, by herself, by producer Steven as well. A few quick stories. First, a 106-year-old World War II veteran recently gave his secret to a long life. This guy’s name is Leslie Lemon. He seems pretty awesome. Again, a living World War II veteran. He said it’s just eat frozen custard. Just get yourself some Freddy’s or wherever your location of choice is that you want and eat some delicious, delicious frozen custard. Do it every day. He actually has like rhubarb and stuff with it that makes it healthier. I’m not sure that’s the road for me, although I’m not going to question anything he’s telling me to do. But if you do this, you should live to be 106, according to him. And again, I’m not going to distrust him on anything he’s saying. And I love that his favorite thing is a frozen snack. Other things out there that I saw, there are certain outfits that you should never wear to the gym. But there is one item that they say is most important to leave off when going to work out. And it’s interesting and it’s actually causing some controversy with fitness professionals and others. But people say the item that you should always remove is a wedding ring or an engagement ring. The reason why, especially the engagement ring, more so than the wedding one, although both are expensive, is the amount of money they cost and the likelihood for them to get damaged while working out and also the likelihood for it to hurt you. I do take my wedding ring off when I go to work out. My wife is aware of this. And actually sort of funny, and this is just a quick little story. While working out in downtown Chicago one time, I had plucked my wedding ring off. I put it in the pocket of my, you know, shorts. And then as I was walking out of the Planet Fitness down a set of stairs in downtown Chicago, I tried to pluck the ring out to put it back on and it fell and then landed in the street. And it was run over, I don’t know, 50 times before I found it. Because I had no idea where it was. And it disappeared. And I kept thinking to myself, man, I show up at home. I don’t have the wedding ring. The wife’s going to be mad. I eventually found it. And it was squished into the pavement as much as a ring that had been run over 50 times was. The ring is nice, but not incredibly expensive because it’s a guy’s ring, not a girl’s ring. I molded it back into something that fits on my finger. And to this day, I wear it. The exact one with all the little creases and bends in it that if you asked me if I took it off and you looked at it, I will tell you it was run over aggressively. for about 10 to 15 minutes for a bunch of cars in downtown Chicago. But I think the lesson I learned is I still found it, I still put it on, and it still works. That means my marriage will survive anything. At least that’s what I told the missus when she was getting mad at me because I let the thing get run over a whole bunch of times. But I agree with this now. Do not wear your wedding ring while working out because it’s likely to, at the very least, cause some cuts and things on your finger that you’re not going to want. All right. Those are just a couple of stories out there. Another one just quickly that I did like is the Waffle House has announced that prices are back down on eggs. No longer an egg surcharge at the Waffle House. And a lot of people, more people than you think, are celebrating that news on social media. Good job, everybody, for doing nothing except while voting Biden, excuse me, Biden out and Trump into office. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. More coming up in a bit.
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This is the Dana Show. Happy holidays. My name is Craig Collins filling in just before the 4th of July. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio on Twitter. I’m at RadioCraigC. If you want to throw me a follow, I have just a fraction of a fraction of the amount of followers that Dana does. I don’t do a lot on Twitter. I should try to do more. I hear it’s good for this career. But yeah, if you want to throw me a follow, I wouldn’t hate it. The big, beautiful bill did pass. The House got it done after Hakeem Jeffries’ filibuster and everything else. We have a little bit of audio of that final moment. Republicans are cheering this as the largest middle class tax cut in American history and much, much more. Of course, Democrats are hailing this as the worst thing that’s ever happened in the history of our country. We will see because inevitably this was going to pass. And to be honest, I’ll say one other thing before I play on this audio of them officially passing it. The funniest part to me is let’s say it didn’t happen. let’s say the republicans have been more measured in their spending decisions and at some point in the near future uh… democrats got back into power do you think they would do the same thing do you think the spending if one person avoids it wouldn’t inevitably happen into a more ridiculous degree later that either side we use it as an excuse you know we saved money uh… back then we’re gonna go ahead and spend it all now we’re always gonna operate at a deficit because drunken sailors are in charge of of the finances of this company And so whenever the drunken sailors start to realize that money’s going the right direction, they’re going to spend, spend, spend. But here we go. This is monumental. The big, beautiful bill did pass the House.
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On this vote, the yeas are 218, the nays are 214. The motion is adopted.
SPEAKER 04 :
The big, beautiful bill is now a thing that exists here in our country, and… The Republicans started chanting the Conservatives USA, USA. We will see. Many people are reacting to it already by saying that it’s a tremendous win for Trump and for the nation. It’s absolutely a win for President Trump. He wanted this. He campaigned on this. I think Mike Johnson actually had said yesterday at night when the arguing was going on about the big beautiful bill that 85% of President Trump’s promises were in this big beautiful bill. I’m not sure that that exact number makes sense to me. I can play that audio too, actually. But I do think it’s interesting that if that’s the narrative they’re going to go with, if that’s the way they’re going to sell it to the American people who voted Trump into office, he won even the popular vote. while winning convincingly the electoral college, then we will want to see all of those promises actually be, you know, realized. We would like to see all that happen. But here, this is the moment when Mike Johnson last night, while they were bickering and doing test voting and all kinds of other things, said that they really needed to pass this, which they’ve done, because, again, it contains so much of the promises made on the campaign trail.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so we believe we can get everybody to yes. We’ve got to get the final questions answered. The White House has been very helpful in that and fully cooperative. And, you know, that increases our chances of success here. The risk of failure is too great. All those things that you just said are included in this legislation. We call it the one big beautiful bill for a reason because it is both. And 85% or so of the President’s agenda and campaign promises are wrapped into this. We are going to deliver it, and we’ve got to do it as soon as possible. The reason we put it on this aggressive timeline to do it by July 4th is not just so we can celebrate Independence Day and all the great things here, but… It’s a little bit because of that.
SPEAKER 04 :
They all wanted to go home. They didn’t want to keep working.
SPEAKER 12 :
We’re going to get relief to the American people. Sean, this is going to be, as you and I have discussed, jet fuel to the U.S. economy. All boats are going to rise. We’re going to have…
SPEAKER 04 :
So what’s interesting about that, too, and that’s probably enough of that clip from last night. They did inevitably pass the bill. I just played the audio a second ago. But what’s interesting to me about all this is that we hopefully will see the reality of that last statement relatively quickly. And we already are. There already are many things that were happening that were good within the economy, good within the amount of hiring, the jobs report numbers that we were getting, the amount of those jobs that are actually full-time and not part-time jobs, essentially flipping a lot of the things that were going one direction with the Biden administration are now going a very different road with the Trump administration, and this is good. But to immediately see more of an impact on the way in which businesses invest in the United States, invest in creating things in the United States, all of those things hopefully become the backbone of selling the reality of the big, beautiful bill to the American people, not selling your position on whether you wanted it supported or not, because again, it’s going to happen. but i just want to say it one more time and i’ll move on to other things and it might seem like a silly point uh to bring up or to uh put out in the world but i love the fact that people pretend as though any one rational financial decision made by the government would prevent us from making a horrible completely irrational financial decision almost immediately after if not in the near future after and at the very worst when the other political party is in charge It feels very similar. I thought I was done. I’m not done. It feels very similar to when I talk about any sort of green energy stuff or any sort of global warming stuff. And I’m a millennial. I remember going to school and being taught in science class that global warming was real. I think there’s some indoctrination that might have been at play there because… Scientists seem to disagree on some things more than you would believe if you just watch mainstream media and or listen in those classroom settings. Although I’m not pretending there’s not parts of it that are real. But here’s the thing that matters. If we cut down on our emissions through harming our economy this way, that way, if people like President Biden, when he was in office, continue to succeed at convincing their party that a war against oil and gas is a good thing, the rest of the world just compensates. They don’t also follow suit because they don’t give a crap about us. And Democrats don’t give a crap about the budget. They don’t give a crap about balancing the deficit. None of those things. So if Republicans had passed on their opportunity to do one big, beautiful bill that included a whole lot of what they believe in and not a whole lot of what Democrats believed in, the only thing that would happen is we would have spent that money later. I continue to call us drunken sailors. We’re essentially people that don’t know how to not max out their credit card. That’s how our politicians behave. And if you swoop in and you pay off the whole credit card for somebody, you look at them and you’re like, you really should max out again. They look back at you like, but I’m probably going to max out again. I’m just going to have to do it. It’s just a thing I have to do. You got to cut them up. You got to destroy them all. You got to get rid of them. That’s how the government behaves. And that’s how they want to behave. And it’s, it’s awful. It’s terrible. All right. Other things out there. It is almost the 4th of July. This is, of course, a very important holiday for a variety of reasons, both the fun that people can have on this day and then also acknowledging what it took to become a country in the first place. I mentioned this a little bit ago. I wanted to mention it again. something that i think about a lot uh… from my own childhood and i’m just a filling host for dana i i don’t mean to take too long talking about myself here they can help it is going and seeing fireworks is a little kid and i i have to think that in the world we live in now uh… with the amount of people especially young people who are not proud to be an american a poll came out just the other day i think was in a people uh… that said that you know forty something percent of jen’s ears are proud in some way to be an american even if it’s just like a little bit proud which meant sixty percent or a little under that because i think three percent were undecided are not proud they’re ashamed to be an american citizen uh… the same is true for a whole lot of democrats uh… republicans by and large seem to stay about eighty ninety percent of us are being proud of the country where from because we seem to understand how it could get a whole lot worse if you left and went to live in a bunch of other places in this world uh… but july fourth feels like the absolute perfect catalyst to having a conversation with a young person uh… your kid uh… whoever about the importance of our country the importance of the freedoms that exist within it how those freedoms remain regardless of who’s in charge within the white house not trying to piss uh… uh… uh… not trying to besmirch or disparage President Trump, which it might sound like that’s what that statement is. It’s really more about Biden when he was in office. But for any young person that thinks that you can’t be proud to be an American because they didn’t like Donald Trump or something, telling them all those things and instilling in them a belief that our country is bigger than the politicians who try to run it is important. It’s life-changing, I think, to a degree, if it actually works. And it’s something that I remember, not that that was the conversation per se that I was having with my mom or any of my military uncles during the Fourth of July, but you do feel patriotic. In that moment, as you watch the fireworks explode, as people explain to you that the reason we’re celebrating this is this was us declaring that we are, in fact, the nation that we’ve grown up to be, all of those things, it just seems like such an appropriate moment for that. So in honor of the holiday, in honor of something special, I just wanted to take a second on the show before we take a break and come back with some silly stuff before we get out of here. To remind everybody of the opportunity you have with your family and with your kids to go ahead and make this a holiday that’s more meaningful than just, you know, having hot dogs and hamburgers outside and watching some things blow up. That there’s a point to all of it. There’s a reason to all of it. And having those conversations might in fact be what helps people get back to a world where more of us are proud to be Americans because we should be. Regardless of who you are and what you believe, I think you actually should be proud to be from this country. Again, because situations get way worse very quickly once you leave for a bunch of other places. And by the way, just quickly as a stat on this, the things that people actually do during the 4th of July to celebrate, 11% will watch sports, 5% go to the beach, 10% will go to a 4th of July parade of some kind, which I probably recommend you also do. 16% will go to a firework display and 33% will have a barbecue or picnic or something while most of those people are spending time with family. I think the 16% firework thing needs to go up because I do think that’s part of that catalyst to having that conversation about the specialness of our society and our country is you get to look up in the sky and see things sparkle and explode as someone is telling you how difficult it was for the United States to get off the ground in the first place. All right. I will take a quick break. As I said, we’ll do just a little bit more, some sillier stuff. One last time to mention it, as it happened during the creation of the show today, the big, beautiful bill was in fact passed. It has been passed by the House. It will be signed by the president tomorrow on Independence Day. And I heavily encourage him to lift several different sentences from when Bill Clinton bragged about what he was doing to get people on welfare to also become employed individuals. I just lift sentences from that speech. Say it during your speech about one of the benefits of the big, beautiful bill and watch as democratic media implodes, trying to understand how they can trash something that they praised just a short time ago. All right, quick break, a lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
SPEAKER 05 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Just a little bit of time left to talk about all kinds of stuff. Just before the holiday, happy 4th of July weekend to everybody out there. It feels like it’s officially starting on a Thursday. Johnny Carson would make jokes about the 4th of July and say all kinds of things about the importance of celebrating it. One of his monologues or a little piece of it from 1974 has gone viral. It’s funny that we have multiple people doing late night television And none of them feel even remotely relevant enough for a show like this or honestly most media to want to show what they’re doing and talking about before, you know, the 4th of July or any of those holidays. But Johnny Carson still holds that weight. And it’s been quite a while since the 1974 show on July 3rd. Here we go.
SPEAKER 06 :
I see you all started celebrating the 4th by drinking a 5th. Is this the crowd tonight? Yeah, I did not bring any fireworks out tonight, but I do have a bomb. The monologue. Everybody out here is getting ready for the fourth. Were you over at the commissary today? Yes, I was. It’s all kind of red, white, and blue. And that’s just the tuna fish casserole. They’re having a special out here at Burbank’s McDonald’s. They have an Independence Burger that they’re making up. It’s half meat and half prunes. And I want to tell you, one bite of the Independence Burger and you’re really set free.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m going to be honest, I don’t hate the writing of one bite of the Independence Burger and you’re really set free, even if it was 50 years ago that they wrote that joke. Well done, Johnny Carson. Of course, well done to the king of late night comedy. And again, it makes you so sad that the world we live in today is so different. than a world where someone like that existed and did stuff. All right. Other things out there that I thought were funny with just a few minutes left. People are asking if the mustache is making a comeback. A lot of famous young people in Hollywood, Timothee Chalamet, Donald Glover, Benson Boone, rock a mustache. They don’t rock the full beard, which has long, I think, been the millennial or the Gen Z look. We’re not really clean shaven as far as my generation goes. But now just the mustache. is a kind of thing that more and more people are gravitating toward, again, according to the internet and some decision-making of some famous people. I gotta tell you that out of everything I’d ever do in the world of rocking facial hair, and I’m a beard guy, I would never do the mustache. It seems way too hard for nowhere near the benefit. The best thing about having a beard, this is a weird rant, and I wanted to do it, and I’m doing it, and I don’t care, um, And I also picture Dana Lash never doing a rant about the value of a beard. I just assume that’s never going to happen. But the value of a beard to me is that you don’t have to try hard to have a decent one. You can clean up the edges from time to time. You can go a day or two in between doing that if you want to be a little lazy. I’m not sure that it looks great to have the neck beard growing out too much. But that’s the value of the beard is that occasionally you don’t do maintenance the way you’re supposed to. And the value of being completely clean shaven is essentially that you’re walking around billboard demonstrating that you get stuff done, that you stick to any sort of things that you’re committed to doing, that you shave every day, baby. Because I do think that it’s simply the act of doing it that is more impressive than the look that I have when I have no facial hair. I look like a baby. That’s at least my opinion. But the mustache is the worst of both worlds. You don’t get the coverage of the full beard. You don’t get any of that. You just have the mustache. The only time I ever would do that look is if I was signed by the old version of the New York Yankees, where you were only allowed to have a mustache and not full facial hair because it would have been awesome. But that’s the only scenario for me. But they’re asking, is the mustache making a comeback? Is it a mustache renaissance? a stash-sance or whatever they’re calling it. So you answer the question. You tell us if you think that this is something that’s actually occurring or if you absolutely don’t care even a little bit at all. And I accept that. I accept that criticism now. But darn it, it’s just in time for the holidays for me to talk and do something silly. And this is what I wanted to do. Now, one last thing. Just a PSA out there before I get out of here. Your pets hate fireworks, especially dogs, dogs and cats. Not a huge fan of them. There are things you can do to mitigate that feeling. There are even some medicinal things you can buy in pet stores now that do have like THC and stuff in them. My favorite solution to that problem is the Thunder Shirt. They’re not paying me. This is not an advertisement. It is, I guess, technically, but not one that I’m making anything off of. My puppy, Mancha is her name, had long been very afraid of fireworks from when we first adopted her, and putting on a Thunder Shirt made things much better. So if you’re unaware of this, if there’s a store where you can go and grab one before tomorrow night, before the fireworks get set off in your community, and if you have a neighbor that does it for the next week, not just the next day, It’s something I think that does help out a lot. I don’t know why. I think that they say it’s just the comfort of the dog feeling embraced by, you know, a very tight piece of fabric that’s around their body during anything scary. And if you don’t care enough about pets for that, then bah humbug to you, buddy. But all right, that’s it. That’s the show for me today. Thrilled to be with you. I’m actually back on Monday. Dana’s back after that. Happy holidays, everybody. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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