In this engaging episode, we dive deep into the alarming rise of attacks on places of worship and explore whether the data supports the claim of an increasing war against faith. Craig passionately presents the facts, examines the divides in faith-based beliefs, and challenges the narratives often seen in the mainstream media. Plus, curious about how AI could potentially escalate cybercrime? Tune in for an intriguing conversation on technology’s double-edged sword.
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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 today. DLash, DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her. This was a question yesterday to the White House press secretary. I can’t remember if I played it on this show. or another show that I do in radio, so I apologize if this is stuff that I’m bringing back from yesterday, but it’s still great. This is a back and forth with a reporter where Caroline Levitt says the answer that a lot of us are thinking, and I do think that this is absolutely the right next step, the right pivot in the conversation about what was horrific about Minneapolis, Minnesota, and what needs to be done to get to the root of the actual problem, the things causing these issues, and blaming those who are in even some way responsible.
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shooting involving a trans-identifying shooter who specifically targeted Christians and Catholic kids. What kind of consequences do the gender affirming therapists, doctors, or even the parents of these shooters face after these types of shootings?
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Well, as for the parents and Potential therapists in this case, again, all of that is still currently being investigated by the FBI. I know the Secretary of Health and Human Services this morning said that HHS is investigating perhaps links between some of these drugs and these prescription drugs that some of these minors may be taking and an increase in violence. Obviously, we have mental health problems in this country that this administration and Secretary Kennedy will continue to speak out about and the work that we’re doing to solve it.
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Yes, that is good. And actually, yes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said yesterday, and I’m sure I played this audio on the show, that one of the label aspects, one of the warnings on some of the medicine that’s given to people that say they’re transgender is a suicidal and homicidal ideation, which is a terrifying thing to say out loud again and to consider as a likely aspect of some of these discussions, some of these points. So 100% makes sense. when we look at this and talk about this and how awful these kind of things are. And it’s really insane that people refuse to talk about that part of the discussion about how right now you’re being told that something that is not attainable A man cannot become a woman that you can be that. And then when it doesn’t work out, the person who is mentally not doing well is mentally doing even worse and does something horrific like shoot children in a school. Also, of course, targeting people for religious reasons with for some reason media hates to talk about. All right, let’s move on to something that’s more uplifting, although apparently making CNN upset, even though they are celebrating something without giving credit to the people who deserve the credit. If you’re planning on driving this holiday season, guess what? Gas prices are way down. Things are going way better than they were going when you had a guy in the White House who was in a war against oil and gas, who campaigned that he was going to do things to harm oil and gas. When you have someone who’s saying, drill, baby, drill, apparently things go better.
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If you’re planning a road trip this holiday weekend, gas prices at their lowest level for a Labor Day weekend in years. In some states, they are below $3 a gallon. Matt Egan is here with the good news. We have to say goodbye to summer, but we’re going to do it and save some cash.
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That’s right. That’s right, Erica. Look, you are in luck if you’re hitting the roads this holiday weekend. Gas Buddy is projecting the national average this Labor Day, $3.15 a gallon. That’s the lowest since 2020. Of course, back then, the roads were pretty empty because of COVID.
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Wait a minute. I know that COVID was one of the reasons that gas prices were low, but who was in charge for some of the time going on there when gas prices were good before someone else took over and then gas prices were horrible for a while? What policies were dictating that sort of stuff? I don’t know. Go ahead. Tell me more.
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record highs and i wonder who was in charge in 2022 who was causing some of those issues more good news drivers in 15 states across the country the average there is now below three dollars a gallon that includes iowa north carolina south carolina georgia louisiana and texas and yeah
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Things are pretty good in Texas where I live. By the way, what I think is really hilarious about this is media and a lot of politicians will tell you that the president doesn’t affect gas prices. Nothing he can do to make prices go up and down. It’s something you don’t even understand how it all works. It works very differently and internationally and with all this other stuff. And yet, if our country changes how much gas it’s creating, how much oil and sweet, sweet, delicious things we’re drilling, apparently it does impact things. Somehow things do change when there’s more supply to meet demand because our country is one that’s uniquely capable of putting out a significant amount of supply of something. That’s weird that that somehow actually has an impact. I thought that was impossible. All right. Some other things out there that I wanted to play. This is sad, and it goes back to starting to react to some of the beginning of what we talked about when I opened the show and the horrific thing that happened earlier this week. where children were the target and two children died because a deranged lunatic with mental health issues, a transgender man, decided to shoot children in a church at school. The left is trying to tell you that this is not a hate crime and that essentially this sort of thing isn’t really happening. People aren’t motivated to hurt people of faith. Well, here’s a problem with that. Apparently, the data doesn’t support that. Apparently, the incidence of attacks on people in churches or seems like somehow you know the the focus on harming people that are people of faith it has gone way up the data and over the last couple years demonstrates that there is in fact a quote-unquote war against people of faith as less and less young people even think that they do believe in anything here’s a little bit of data on that
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against churches in the United States, released this month by the Family Research Council, found that last year there were 415 incidents of hostility against 383 different churches across 42 different states. Mostly vandalism and arson, but at least 28 cases involved guns. 2023 saw the highest number, 485, but last year’s total is still more than a four-year span from 2018 combined.
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wow that’s crazy 2018 to 2021 286 2023 for some reason 485 and now 415 uh in 2024. uh what could possibly be going on that’s causing people to do this um this reminds me of a conversation i had with a relative a niece of mine uh… who blamed uh… religion and seem to have very specific information on very specific aspects of things and the history of how religion was created and and certain religions uh… but blamed it for being the the reason that people are radical in our society i mean here’s what i actually think is happening there are certain discussions whether they’re in the world of politics or somewhere else, where two people disagree. There’s a lot of conversations where people disagree. But there’s certain ones where they disagree, where the person that is on one side of that argument goes, well, I believe what I believe because of my faith. And the person on the other side gets mad. Because there is no counter argument. There’s no response to that that they’ve come up with yet. The person believes what they believe because of their faith. I believe that people shouldn’t commit abortion, that abortion should be something we prevent in our society because I believe that all life is important because of my faith, et cetera, et cetera. You get the idea. There’s some of these arguments where it goes that way. And I think this is the byproduct of being mad. You don’t have a better counter argument to I believe what I believe because I’m a person of faith. I don’t even really need data to back up some of the faith-based things that I believe. I’m not saying it’s not out there, and I’m not trying to dismiss the significance of data. I actually laugh a whole lot at people who do that. But I will say that there are certain things in my life that I believe because of my religion, because I’m a Catholic. And I believe it, regardless of if you tell me that you can disprove it. Things like, does God exist? And people do try to disprove that in all kinds of ways. Although at the end of everything, you really can’t. There’s no real definitive way to say no there. And so that is what faith asks me, to take that leap at some point, to believe that certain things might have happened, like Jesus came back from the dead, and people try to disprove that and whatnot. Again, all of this, I’m not trying to make this an overly faith-based show, fundamentally misunderstands to me and the people who don’t have a faith, this makes sense to me, but the whole point of it. And even now, when they’re saying that you can’t have prayer be something that you offer people, I just want to say as clearly as possible, the families that lost loved ones or the families that had their children injured when a deranged person shot up a church that the kids were inside of have asked for prayers. They want prayers. They’re people of faith who are praying for the other people who are involved in this. And so how dare we as a society say that prayer is inappropriate when the people who are the actual victims experiencing the actual thing are asking for that. How dare we disregard that desire of theirs and say, no, it’s not important, it’s not appropriate, it’s an excuse. We don’t like the fact that it’s an excuse for people to try to avoid what we think the only solution to this problem is, again, even if there are multiple potential solutions, and if the one that you throw out all the time, the taking the guns away thing, wouldn’t actually work. And we know that because, well, darn it, we’ve had a federal ban on, quote, assault weapons in the past, and it didn’t do anything to help us. All right, I’ll take a break. A lot to talk about. We’ll try to have fun. It is a holiday show, so we got to have as much fun as we possibly can because darn it, the truth and the serious and all this other stuff all the time just gets to be a lot to handle. So let’s do some things where it’s just about silly. That’s coming up in a bit. 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 on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Micah Parsons is now a Green Bay Packer. He’s no longer Dallas Cowboy, and many people are calling it the worst trade in the history of Cowboys team history. It’s hilarious to me. And here’s the thing. The Cowboys should have traded this player or at least demonstrated a willingness to trade this player several months ago, let’s say four or five months ago, because of the unique talent of this guy, the ability for teams to compete over getting that talent, thinking that there might be a chance that he stays in Dallas or he goes elsewhere. The worst kept secret in football is Micah desperately wanted off of this team, so much so that the guy started eating nachos when he’s supposed to be playing during the NFL preseason. I know this isn’t a sports show, by the way. I’m just quickly trying to talk about this. I think it’s interesting that the Cowboys continue to spiral and that Jerry Jones might be the catalyst to a lot of that spiraling at this point. He hires head coaches that seem like they’ll just listen to whatever he wants them to do. He puts himself in front of cameras and microphones at a time when most owners would be very, Very quiet about a star player having a contract dispute. Publicly reacting to the things that Micah wanted was not a good way to retain the player, which they would know, which made things worse and crazier. And so at the end of the day, I just kind of feel sad. I’m not a Cowboys fan. Far from it, actually. But I do think that when the Cowboys are good, that helps the NFL. And when the Cowboys are bad, that hurts the NFL. And this trade hurts the Cowboys and thus the NFL for a while. It’s going to be a bit. Bill Belichick’s company. is managed by Jordan Hudson, his 20-something-year-old girlfriend. And that’s hilarious to me. This company also did file a trademark for Gold Digger. And I think they’re going to be making some jewelry and some keychains and whatnot that have a gold digger as a part of them. So apparently Bill and his 20-something-year-old girlfriend think that the jokes about her being a gold digger are funny enough to monetize them. To make money off of it, a guy in his 70s dating a woman in her 20s, I’m never going to judge the dude because that’s a unique thing. And a lot of guys in that part of their life would also love to have someone of that age be romantically tied to them. And if that even means that they’re there for the money and not for the love, I think at some point you might not care about that anymore. I love saying that out loud, too. Because there are people that get up in arms and mad about it. I even have a family member that told me how disgusting the whole thing is, how gross it is. And yeah, for Jordan, it’s probably not ideal. I would think that it’s not great. But if you’re Bill Belichick or envisioning yourself someday being Bill Belichick’s age… Gross is not the word I think of when he gets a shot to be in a relationship with her. Again, even if he’s helping her create certain jewelry and whatnot. And it seems to be leaning in to the thing a whole lot of people assume is already happening anyway. I feel bad for Bill Belichick. That’s a thing I can say out there. But I don’t think that he’s the one participating in the gross activity. All right. Another thing out there, a hacker used AI to automate an unprecedented cybercrime spree. This is according to several experts. It’s scary how easily this was done and how AI can enhance the crime spree to make it much quicker than a human could do it and much more significant. Essentially, if you ask AI, hey, help me with this crime spree thing I want to do, it pops up the little paper clip and it goes, how would you like me to do that for you? What things do you need to get done? And then you go from there. Uh, yet another version of how AI is probably going to ruin our society, not help our society. And most of us should be terrified about, um, you know, Skynet at some point taking over one final thing. Uh, China is building a brain computer interface industry, uh, which also seems bad. It also seems like the kind of thing you might not actually want. And China of all places, uh, the, the, uh, you know, location trying to do this, um, uh, Look, I will readily admit on this very show, filling in for Dana, that aspects of becoming a cyborg or some version of half machine, half man intrigue me. I would like power and capability. I’d like to be a superhero, essentially, whether it’s mentally and or physically. And if machines can help get me there, part of me is willing to change or at least consider changing the natural body that I currently have. And yet the other part of me realizes how easy this stuff is hacked. And the last thing I’d ever want to do is have like my computer eyeball hacked in a bad way. I laugh as I say that, but it would be terrible. And so putting computers in your brain or using interfaces that interact with your brain seems like a really bad idea. And a lot of us know it. A lot of us are saying it. But darn it, the magic of feeling superhuman is also out there. That’s the temptation. Maybe you let several people barrel through this rabbit hole before you even try it. And even then, you’re probably doomed. We’re all doomed. Anytime I see an AI story right now, the first thing I do is look to see the moment where I’m pretty sure we’re doomed. And if it’s not there, I take a nice breath. If it is there, which it usually is, I’m like, all right, great. Another one of those. All right, quick break. A lot to talk about today. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I’m going to play a portion of this because it makes me very mad. This is a talking head on CNN saying that the shooting that happened in Minneapolis is not a hate crime. uh… for dumb reasons and actually going even further to say uh… that it is a far-right media narrative uh… that it was a hate crime even if all of the information is screaming the thing that he doesn’t want to be true it gets a little nuance and i teach a class on this in in georgetown uh… this individual appears to be what we call a nihilist uh… and and and
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Not to get into too much detail about their ideology, they believe that no lives matter. I believe that calling this or investigating this as an attack against Catholics, I believe, is a little disingenuous. And it plays into the far right’s narrative about Christians being under attack in this country.
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Which they are, by the way. There is a significant increase in the amount of people who are attacking churches. But darn it, that data doesn’t matter. None of that matters. They only want to be able to say that there’s unique victims of a quote-unquote hate if those victims are on the left, if they’re Democrats. If someone who seems to be a Democrat… seems to hate Trump and writes on the gun, you know, kill Trump along with other horrible things and then targets children and takes the lives of children. Well, that person has to be protected is not someone who’s motivated by hate, which is insane. It’s fully insane. All right. Something else out there that’s really interesting and certainly garnering more and more attention is an obsession with going after people that are helping President Trump trying to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine. One of those individuals at the forefront of this discussion is someone that for whatever reason Politico wanted to put a hit piece out about. Steve Witkoff is someone who has been doing tremendously good things, according to a bunch of people. within the current administration, but within President Trump’s White House. These include the Vice President, the Secretary of State, Jared Kushner, who’s on the record. A bunch of people said things to Politico saying how invaluable Steve is to the entire process. And yet a headline came out the other day written by someone who’s pretty far on the left, saying his inexperience shines through, Witkoff struggles to manage Russia as Trump peace envoy, and something that, again, in the article, a bunch of deep background anonymous people are saying is the problem, is that there’s been things offered that aren’t going to be delivered on, etc., etc., This is so significant that J.D. Vance decided to put out a long tweet refuting so much of it. And here is part of what the vice president said. This story from Politico is journalistic malpractice. But it’s more than that. It’s a foreign influence operation meant to hurt the administration and one of our most effective members. which is fascinating to hear him call Witkoff so utterly different than what Politico wants him to be. And then if you go down, it’s a big statement. He says at one point, to set the record straight, he is an invaluable member of our team. He did not mislead anyone on what the Russians told him and what the Russians conceded. Trust me, I’ve seen the intel, the vice president saying this. The fruits of his negotiation are that we have narrowed the list of open issues in the Ukraine-Russia conflict to a set of clearly defined issues, specifically security guarantees, territorial concessions. That is it. That’s what’s likely to be the end result of potential peace or the failure of peace. Will Russia get the territory that they want? Will Ukraine concede there? And will Ukraine get a guarantee protection moving forward that they want, especially if they give up more territory than they want to? Or will they be incapable of getting that from places like the United States? Finally, J.D. Vance on Twitter says, maybe we make peace, maybe we don’t. If we do, it will be because of Steve and the President of the United States’ work as they worked their tails off in the face of outright lies from the mainstream press. Cheering against the success of the United States to negotiate this peace is insane. And it’s exactly what members of the left are doing. I love in the tweet out there where J.D. Vance is refuting a lot of this narrative, he also does say simply the author is either an idiot or in on it, in on trying to shape a narrative as something far different than what the actual reality is, because yeah, I oftentimes believe that many individuals in media, in today’s world, since media is a young person’s game, you’ll see a lot of people, especially producers in newsrooms that are in their 20s, I do think a lot of them are just useful idiots. They’re people who expect a certain story, go looking for that story, and anyone who’s willing to tell them that that story is true, those are the people they trust and they ignore everybody else. But I’m sure there are also people who are in on it that get some sort of money, some sort of funding to say these ridiculous things. But this is essentially Russian propaganda, according to the vice president, trying to undermine the authority of an individual who is helping to get Ukraine and Russia closer and closer to being countries that actually do have a peace agreement. That just seems uniquely un-American or just the kind of person who wants to hurt society as a whole, the author of this piece. I’m not even naming the person because I don’t want to give them any sort of additional publicity through this show. I could. It doesn’t matter. But it’s just so annoying to me. Again, that these individuals are out there writing the things they’re writing and acting like the deep sources, the anonymous sources are valuable. We’ve seen this game time and time again. We know how stupid it is and how untrue it is. And in all honesty, it’s only helping to prevent something that would be universally considered good, a peace between Russia and Ukraine. All right, let’s play some audio of the mayor of Chicago in Uptown there talking about opening up a Narcan newspaper stand, Narcan vending machines, all kinds of drug response things are becoming more and more prevalent in Chicago. I wonder what a year from now will be like there if you’ll see a lot of overcrowded addicts, dealers, homeless people on the street, close to the Narcan vending machines. But apparently this is more important than actually fighting crime and removing crime from the streets of Chicago. You want to say no? to the president who’s offering to send National Guard troops to Chicago who already live in the area because that’s how that whole thing works. Instead of doing that, though, Chicago would very much like to open up some ways to treat people who are having drug overdoses and not deal with the rampant crime in any other way. Here we go.
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Narcan is a safe legal medication that can reverse an opioid overdose and it saves lives. So we want to ensure that everyone here in uptown and around Chicago has access to life saving medication. And that is why my office Working with Alderwoman Clay and Commissioner Ige are working so hard to make Narcan widely available through vending machines and stands like the ones that you see here on display today. All right, real quick.
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I lived in Uptown for a while. It’s just on the north side, like the near north side of the downtown area. Well, a little bit further than that. It’s just past Wrigleyville and whatnot. But the thing about that area and that place is you get further and further away from, say, the heart of downtown or even the south side. Because there’s a lot of not bad things going on. You feel fairly safe even walking around late at night. At least you did a certain amount of years ago. And I couldn’t think of something worse to add to some of these neighborhoods than a Narcan vending machine. Because if the overdoses aren’t happening in great numbers in Uptown, and I’ll have to look into if things have changed since I lived there last year, If they’re not happening there, and even if they are happening there, I’m not sure this is the right response to that situation. As you and I both know, it’s probably going to make things worse, not better. But nonetheless, it does seem to be creating an incentive for people who are on the south side causing a lot of drama and chaos to move to the north side, to relocate to another area and cause more drama in new places. And so there seems to be an ulterior motive in all of this. This is somewhat horrible and terrible, mind you. Again, for people who probably no longer would want to say, go to a bar late at night and take the train home late at night, as where he’s standing is actually uniquely close to the train as well. All right, some other things out there that I wanted to talk about. I do find this fairly interesting, too. And just again, so many of the different versions of how people have discussions, they seem to demonstrate the truth of what’s going on and how afraid they are of talking about the truth, whether it is the Minneapolis shooter or what have you. Gavin Newsom was asked a question in a press conference about crime in California, and he was asked a real question. with a significant need for a actual answer. He seemed to get mad at the idea that the question was asked, and then he was ushered away before any follow-up questions could get more specificity from the governor about the actual problem of crime and how bad it is in places like California. Here we go.
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At the same time, we’re here because you’re surging law enforcement across the state. So, do you believe that crime is a problem in California or not?
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Well, I… A sort of curious question. I made the entire point that crime’s an issue and we want to tackle it, and we continue to do more in that space, and we announced and highlighted some of the expansion. What is not contradictory, respectfully, is that we’re doing it in partnership with our local communities. We did it in partnership with the Biden administration prior. We’re not talking about the nationalization, the militarization of the Guard and militarizing United States cities.
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Let me ask you a question, Mr. Newsom, and I think this is what the reporter was getting to. And again, you’re going to be ushered away from this platform after the end of this answer, so you can’t answer anybody’s questions anymore. But I would like to say to him as a follow up to that, everything you just bragged about, all the working with communities, working with Biden’s administration, it obviously failed. You obviously didn’t get the results you need because guess what? Crime still exists and it’s still a big problem in California. So like the other reporter was trying to ask a second ago, I’m going to repeat his question. Do you actually care about solving the problem? Because if you keep doing the same thing over and over again and claiming you’re expecting a different result, you’re insane. If you actually know you’re not getting a different result, then you don’t think it’s a problem or you don’t care about getting a solution. It’s either or. You’re either insane, which I can accept, or you’re someone who definitely knows the things you’re doing won’t work and the things you’re saying no to would work. And for some reason, you don’t want that to happen. But go ahead. Let’s let him usher away. Quite the contrary. Okay, all right, we’re done now. And now you can’t ask the question at all. You’ve got to leave because someone actually wants to challenge the individual, challenge the human. This is just crazy. And again, part of me can’t help but say that there has to be a reason that they like crime in these areas, that the big cities want you to be dependent on the politicians who run them, who are overwhelmingly Democratic. And by the way, the AI for Twitter owns uh a lie that jb pritzker told i will get to that a little bit later on in the show because it’s so amazing uh but these uh democratic run cities that are rampant with crime it seems to be one of the best ways for the politician to keep you dependent on them is to not fix it that’s a claim they’re doing everything they can to ask for more of your money, and then they’ll let it get worse, not better. And maybe just like in places like Mexico, maybe some of the criminals are sending some money some certain directions, I’m not sure. But nonetheless, this just seems like the kind of moment where you ask yourself, do you actually care? And the answer is, we have to go, we have to leave. All right, a quick break, a lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff out there to talk about. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter to stay connected to all things Dana. Great job done by her and her team on everything they put up on social media. A woman was charged for driving with a steel metal staircase on top of her car, which is a really weird thing to do. The woman was in Canada, not Florida. Otherwise, this would have been in our Florida man stories that we do in about an hour. She was caught with the giant staircase on top of her car in something that many people described as very unsafe. At least one onlooker had a reaction on a video because instead of calling the police, the thing we do now is we take out our camera and we put up a social media reaction video and then hopefully somebody else is calling the cops. Here you go.
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How can you drive like this? How? This is not safe. What’s a license plate? That is so bad. Like, how?
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Yeah, I don’t know. To the Indian lady that’s very upset about this, I don’t know how you can drive like that. It’s crazy. The only thing missing from the giant staircase on top of the regular car was the dude whose hand is out the window holding it. Because my favorite is always the guy with the mattress or whatever it might be who thinks that his physical strength is enough. that if everything goes wrong, the item on top of the car becomes untied and it starts dangling the wind, that you’ll be able to hold it. Or that if, you know, you crash or something and it tries to shoot off the vehicle, that again, you’d be able to restrain it and stop it from going anywhere. That’s the only thing missing. Otherwise, this would have been absolutely perfect. But yes, in Canada, a woman driving around in a crazy way, she shouldn’t. A baby was born in a McDonald’s parking lot. I do like part of the story here. Their McLovin, their little nugget. It’s terrible. It’s something that someone wrote. But a Michigan woman gave birth in a McDonald’s parking lot to their brand new baby. The baby’s nickname is a nod to the fast food chain. Elise Rotunda had her fourth child. The famous Rotunda’s daughter named Matilda on August 11th. And to honor the Golden Arches entrance to the world, they gave her the nickname. They gave her nickname a slight adjustment. The Rotundas apparently always planned on calling her Matilda, but the nickname Tilly was on her birth certificate, and they changed it to Mick Tilly. Because darn it, if you have a baby in the McDonald’s parking lot, I think you at least are required to add a Mick to that situation, which is hilarious to me. I do love that a lot. But anyway, again, I don’t know how the baby gets born in the parking lot of McDonald’s, why you decide not to go anywhere. She’s got several kids. So I’ve heard some things about the more kids you have, the quicker you go from the beginning stages to the end stages of birth of a child. So maybe that was it. I’m not sure. The woman also has type one diabetes. And so there might be some other things that they were worried about or what have you. But she’s fine. Everybody’s doing OK. And she popped out McTilly in a parking lot, which is something else. All right. One other quick story before we take a break and move on to other things. I do love a list online of the stuff you shouldn’t say in an interview that will most not help you get the job. There’s like four or five tips out there for things you shouldn’t say. But one of them is you shouldn’t ask about having a work life balance. This is not because it’s not important to say not have to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But you at least want to pretend in the interview that you’re someone who’s going to dedicate yourself to the job. Later on, if someone’s asking you to work on the weekend and you don’t want to, you can say no. It seems like a bad idea to negotiate a I’m already employed here conversation before you’ve been given an offer and a job to work a place. So I thought that was an interesting tip, is the next time you think about having an argument with someone over something that would only be relevant after you have a position, maybe wait to have the gig first before having said discussion. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. I do love the fact that people are up in arms because the former vice president will have her Secret Service detail taken away from her just before her book tour gets going. The president said she doesn’t need it and she’ll probably be able to fund something on her own with the massive amounts of money she raised and then somehow wound up in debt. And so the Democratic Party is still giving her cash. I’m sure she’ll be fine. The thing I find funny about this is that I can’t possibly imagine that Kamala Harris is going to have a successful book tour. There’s so many people who couldn’t want to hear her speak as much as she’s claiming people want to hear her speak. She’s going to roll through Houston along with other areas. And I know there’s some people who are fans and I’ve actually like talk to people who live in this city who believe that she lost because of racism. which is insane to me, because I’ll look at someone and I’ll ask them a question. I’ll be like, well, what do you think the things she did were that really showed how good she was going to be at the job? And they’re like, well, I don’t know. I don’t know what that is. There’s nothing. There’s no hallmark moment. There’s no I’m really great at speaking into a microphone sort of thing. There’s none of that. There’s just a bunch of being terrible and talking in what I like to call drunk fortune cookies. And apparently now that version of thinking has been put into a book And she’s going to do a whole book tour. But yes, her secret service security detail, excuse me, has been taken away. It’s also nice that we’re saving some money. We’re trying to do the best we can, but it doesn’t mean that she’s going to just wander out on the streets alone and hope to be okay. I’m sure they’re going to figure out another way to make sure that she’s protected and safe from the droves of people that are not expected to show up at any of the events that she’s going to be a part of. But that is something that’s just sort of amusing to me, that that becomes a headline because people just want to vilify Anything and everything Trump does, even if, again, those things are going to have very little impact on the actual existence of how people behave in our society and whether or not Kamala comes up with the money to protect herself another way. All right. The press secretary made a pretty hilarious admission when talking about the people that have been leaving the CDC. Yes, of course, they fired some people. Some people went the other way. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also uniquely honest about what was going on there. I have both of those pieces of audio that we can play. But here is Caroline Levitt being asked a question about additional individuals who are leaving the CDC beyond the ones that are high profile and in the news. And she has a unique response to how it’s totally fine with her. if these people leave.
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I understand there were a few other individuals who resigned after the firing of Ms. Monorez. One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as pregnant people. So that’s not someone who we want in this administration anyway. So if people are not aligned with the president’s vision and the secretary’s vision to make our country healthy again, then we will gladly show them the door.
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Yeah, see ya. Bye. Not going to miss you at all if you don’t understand that babies come out of women and not out of men. That’s just a weird thing. By the way, actually, you know what? I just remembered I have this audio, too. This happened on CNN, where you have the one individual on CNN who’s willing to actually say stuff that sort of makes sense, Scott Jennings, or oftentimes actually does make sense now, and the rest of the group who are just terrible, horrible people saying terrible, horrible things It’s honestly the best way I could possibly say that. That’s the best way I could summarize the things that actually occur there. But Jennings did get in an argument with several people about the whole can men pop out babies, which just real quick, before I say anything else about it, is one of the more amusing things to me that has become a discussion point between the left and the right. Because if you rewind a certain amount of years and you say to yourself, man, I wonder what the political arguments are going to be. Not many people would come up with the idea that men and women are going to be debated as to whether or not all of them can make babies, whether or not it’s a thing that men can do at all. That’s not that’s not a discussion point that you have any level of expectation about. eventually being a reality in the world. And yet, darn it, it currently is. And so when the left wonders how they’re losing support with people, it may be just a little bit because they seem to blatantly disregard very obvious facts if they think that it somehow hurts them and their political opinions or the optics of their opinions. And it’s insane to watch these things happen. But here, case in point is this back and forth with Scott Jennings. where he’s talking to people about, you know, if men can pop out a baby. And it’s just, again, to me, sort of amazing that this is the kind of thing where people want to, you know, object to the style of conversation or the focus on these issues. They’re acting as though this isn’t important. And it obviously is. I’ll tell you why in a second. Here we go.
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I just, I just have to say he did use the term pregnant people in his resume.
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Oh, come on. I’m sorry.
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If that is like the way you, if that is like the way you’re presenting information, I have questions about your credibility.
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Is that, Scott, it’s like, it’s so amazing. I love that sound.
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I love that Scott is saying, and it’s actually really annoying, so I don’t love the actual sound of it, but I love the fact that it occurred. That’s maybe a better way to say that. What’s so awesome about this, in my opinion, is that he’s saying that I don’t trust the professional opinion of a medical person who doesn’t acknowledge that women are the only people who can have babies, which is very rational. If I were to be sitting down with a doctor before a checkup, new doctor trying him out, seeing if this is somebody that I’m going to like or not, and we’re just having a casual conversation about some of their beliefs, and they mention to me that they think men can have babies, I’m pretty sure they didn’t get their degree from any sort of real medical college, and I immediately leave. I’m like, you know what? We don’t need to do the physical. We’ll maybe see if something needs to be worked out down the road, but you have a good day, sir. It’s a very obvious moment. where you’re like, OK, this person has abandoned medical opinions for the sake of some sort of political loss that they think is a win.
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It’s not a ruse. He wrote it down.
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We are talking. We are talking. This guy’s not credible. Are you serious? Come on. He is not credible. Are you serious that this is. Yes, he did write that of all the things that we’re talking about here. Immunizations, vaccines, autism.
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me the research about on on communicable diseases on cancer and you are the most concerned about someone’s use of the word people uh no no birthing people not just the word people i’m sure that there’s a lot of other times where this guy had used the word people that i would not have a problem with and scott jennings would not have a problem with um the deterioration of the respect for the difference between men and women is hurting women. And they know it. And they don’t care about it. It’s crazy to hear them say this stuff, though. It’s crazy, actually, to watch a white man argue with anybody, but argue with women, about the fact that they’re the only ones who can have babies. It’s insane in the society we live in. Because people want to vilify the white guy for not being woke, not… you know, caring enough, not wanting to watch the WNBA because it’s not as good as the NBA, whatever it might be, even if Caitlin Clark is uniquely interesting to watch. And this is the version of propping women up, being like, you are special. You do something we can’t do, and being like, how dare you, sir? No. But even better than that is the argument that you really want to talk about this simplistic topic instead of the more difficult things where we think we have more of an argument against the things you’re going to say. You really want to focus on the easiest thing, Yeah. And the reason why is that if I can demonstrate the craziness of someone with a very obvious point, if I can say out loud that this person doesn’t deserve respect medically because of their insanity in how they think about who does and who doesn’t pop out a baby, then all that other stuff doesn’t matter. I’m not going to take math lessons of an advanced level from a guy that can’t add. If I sit down in the math class and the guy’s like, all right, we’re about to get into imaginary numbers. But before we do that, just a quick demonstration of the capability I have as your math professor. Two plus two equals seven. I get up and I just leave. I just, I leave the room. And I’m like, we’re good. It’s fine. Because again, I doubt that he got an actual degree from any sort of real place. And that’s essentially the argument the left is trying to make here is that you need to listen to the more complex points that we’re having, that we’re discussing based on this person or people of the CDC. And we don’t want you to focus on the very obvious, easy one that discredits the whole rest of the conversation because we don’t want that. We don’t like that part. All right. One last thing I do want to say. have a bunch of audio i’m choosing not to play it um and not because i want to shy away from this topic um i think it’s vitally important that you defend people of faith from the attacks that are happening right now uh to them whether those are just simple verbal attacks of people saying that thoughts and prayers are inappropriate after a horrible thing happens in society or the actual attacks as more data is showing that more churches are the target of um you know uh crime of violent crime Something like two to three times the amount of churches over the last two years have been the target of things like this compared to what we had seen in the past three or four years combined. And so as you say all that, as you reflect on being two days removed from another transgender individual, a guy, a biological man, choosing to attack a school and children and a church, a place that he had gone before, a place that he uniquely hated, and in his manifesto says that he wants to see children in pain. When you see all that, you just say to yourself how horrific it is that this is a a conduit for people to have a conversation with a try to tear down religion because it does feel like the devil um… and again i’m not trying to be overly religious on the show today i’m not trying to force that down your throat if you’re someone that that doesn’t care about this sort of thing uh… but There is no better example to me of the power of any sort of side of good and evil that wants to tear down good than trying to say that prayer, something that actually the victims of the tragedy are asking for, is an inappropriate solution or an inappropriate path to at least being emotionally maybe capable of healing. At some point, who knows when, if families are even capable of doing that, but through prayer, through faith, uh, being able to go that road to do it, saying that that’s, that’s, um, useless, uh, saying that the kids were already praying in the church and didn’t do anything like all the horrible things they say about it to vilify religion only makes that worse. And so it does seem to be important as a pundit to want to come out and defend a religion and people who have a belief in faith today, because it does feel like a conversation between, you know, good and Satan. All right. I’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Uh, Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in DLash, DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. Just stay connected to her at RadioCraigC if you want to find me somewhere. But it’s time for a quick five. Let’s fire some off. Should we fine people who blast loud music in public on public transit and other places? That’s a question being asked by Metro.co.uk to people in the UK. But I’ve got it. I’m doing this story. And I say the answer is yes. They should get a fine. Maybe a bare-handed beating is another thing that was out there. No knuckles. No version of brass knuckles. You can just beat them with your bare hands. But yeah, it’s uniquely annoying that people would disrespect you by blasting some sort of loud thing when headphones and all different kinds of earbuds are so very easy in society. I also don’t like it, by the way, when people that you’re supposed to interact with are wearing headphones and don’t hear anything you’re saying. But it’s a very different kind of annoying. It’s an annoying that comes and goes and only when we have to interact. The blaring the headphones or blaring the speaker thing or whatever you’re doing. That’s very different. So, yes, even if I don’t like government overreach, I’m totally fine with finding these people because they’re monsters who deserve to be in trouble. Other things out there. that I thought were kind of interesting. Judge in Lisa Cook case is set Friday. And this is a hearing on Trump’s effort to fire a federal governor. I do hope that the end result of this is that he’s allowed to fire all kinds of people for all kinds of things for two reasons. First, I would like to see a return of The Apprentice, where Trump fires people on television because it would be hilarious. And second, I do think that if you shake something up, if you’re at a company for a long time and a lot of people are there a long time and you want to shake it up, you want to get change, the best way to do that is to can somebody. The more people you can, the better that things could go with the people who remain. And if they don’t, you can more people. That’s how that works. But I do love that. By the way, a Tesla Cybertruck crash was so hot it disintegrated a driver’s bones. This is uniquely terrifying. I wasn’t exactly thrilled to read this story, but those batteries can burn hot was one of the reactions to the story. And the answer is, yeah, they sure can. This is scary stuff. And sometimes those batteries just explode and do all kinds of things on their own, too. So this does seem like the kind of thing that you at least should know going in. Someone may be at the Tesla dealership when you’re debating whether to buy that or a beautiful gas powered vehicle. I might casually mention that sometimes this car has been so hot that they couldn’t even find the remains of someone who crashed inside one, which is, again, uniquely terrifying in a different way. And then finally, one last one. Tourists have been pouring beer down an elephant’s trunk in Kenya. This has sparked anger, all kinds of other things. There’s bacterial issues and whatnot at play. I don’t know why people think it’s uniquely funny to get animals drunk. Maybe because in some ways it sort of is. I’m not recommending it. I’m not condoning it at all because it’s mean. They don’t know what they’re doing. The one thing about drinking that I like is a person that I think is a professional drinker. at this time in my life, just before a holiday, is that I know what I’m doing. When I’m doing it, I don’t want to be tricked into this sort of thing. And animals cannot agree to be drunk with you, even if your dog might be your best drunk friend ever. I just pictured the idea that my dog could willingly go on like a drinking run with me and how fun that would be. But that is not okay. You shouldn’t do it. Don’t get the elephants drunk. And actually, also, I’ll say one other thing about this story. If the size of the animal is that much bigger than you and you get it hammered, it’s going to end poorly. There’s no scenario where it’s good. I’m not encouraging you to get small animals drunk instead. Leave all the animals sober, please. That would be good. But if you had to pick between who to get hammered and who not to, I would much rather prefer an animal that can’t fall over, you know, on the side and squish and murder me. That seems much worse as far as someone or an animal who’s no longer in control of what’s going on for them. So an elephant is a uniquely bad choice for the people in Kenya who seem like they just need a better friend to party with. You just need a different drinking wingman and you won’t be trying to get any animal drunk And any sort of scenario like that, this seems like a better plan. Just find your drinking wingman. We’ll hang out with you till 3 a.m. at the bar and enjoy having fun and doing the same thing you’re doing. It’s a precious friend in life to have that guy, even if he might need some help in some way. All right. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Two wrongs have been righted in the world of the January 6th rioters, or whatever you want to call them. Certainly not insurrectionists. That’s an insane word to be used with people who showed up to the Capitol to protest some things that didn’t bring any weapons with them. It is hard to overthrow a country, I’ll keep saying it every time this comes up, without any weapons at all. That seems difficult. But anyway, a judge has reluctantly authorized the refund of restitution paid by January 6th rioters. That’s the first time a January 6th rioter who was convicted and then pardoned will get some sweet, sweet cash back. The authorization was for $2,200 to be refunded to those who were convicted of certain felonies that have since been dropped after President Trump’s blanket pardon to anyone from that day. Also, righting a wrong, Ashley Babbitt will get a military funeral. The Air Force has confirmed that Babbitt, 35, who was shot and killed that day and did not get the appropriate, I think, treatment that she should get for being someone who served in our military, will inevitably get that. So I think that that’s a very good thing. again, and that more very good things should happen here, uh, in response to this. Um, and Ashley Babbitt story is uniquely sad, uh, in our society and what happened and how that all occurred. And if you don’t remember, uh, for some reason, which feels almost weird to say, uh, she was shot after she went through, uh, an area, um, in the Capitol building, uh, by, uh, a Capitol police officer. Um, and it made no sense at the time, and it makes no sense now, and that was the only person who actually died by the actions of someone on that day. For a while, the New York Times tried to claim that other people had passed away, and a couple other people did die, actually, but a lot of medical reports found it had nothing to do with what was going on as far as the rioting goes, and so it’s sort of insane to be there. Trump eyes a Chicago ICE and National Guard move into a naval base. I love this story. I love things like this and conversations like this a lot. And one of the reasons I uniquely kind of like these sort of things is because when the president of the United States gets sold, no, by some guy who wants to be the actual story and JB Pritzker and doesn’t actually want to stop crime because he’s in fact the president, he has some unique moves he can make that will demonstrate his ability to have power that you don’t want him to have if he needs to go that road. So here’s a little bit of a, Channel 7, ABC News in Chicago are reporting on this crazy thing that’s going back and forth as chess pieces are getting moved and pawns and whatnot. And it seems like the president continues to win. And I would say also with the American people, because if the end goal is to remove crime from cities that are rampant with horrible crime issues, you have to think that’s something the American people would support.
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He’s considering, but today a published report indicates it could happen as soon as next week, raising the stakes surrounding a possible guard deployment. Naval Station Great Lakes is now preparing to house federal immigration agents and also possibly National Guard troops, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times. The paper cited an email from the commanding officer to his leadership team that said there were not many details on the operation, but that it would focus on downtown Chicago. At a groundbreaking in Maywood, Governor JB Pritzker said there has been no communication from the federal government about any Guard deployment. He’s just hearing rumors.
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We only know so much. Right now, it’s hard to tell. We haven’t seen troop movements yet. We also haven’t seen any call-up of our National Guard, but we are on guard, hoping that that does not happen.
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It’s so stupid, by the way, because the other thing that they haven’t seen yet or for a while in Chicago is safe streets, especially on the south side of the city, late at night, terrifying the amount of people who are shot and killed every single weekend. So, again, if you want those things to get better, if you want improvement to be done, hey, maybe embrace the idea that this could occur in your city, in your state or throughout the country. And I’ll say this again, just to be uniquely clear. And it is sort of in response to the Ashley Babbitt story, too. And the sad aspects of that and the fact that the military funeral was denied so long to someone who served in our Air Force. I am not afraid of the men and women who serve in our military. I’m not remotely afraid of them. I have gratitude toward the things they do. I’m uniquely grateful, I think is the word I was looking for there a second ago, for their willingness to volunteer to serve and protect our society. And if I were living in a dangerous city, which actually I am, Houston has a lot of crime problems itself, and the National Guard were used as a catalyst to create change, I would welcome it like with open arms. I’m thrilled to see police officers in line in front of me at like Starbucks and whatnot. I usually buy them a coffee and it’s not just to be a kiss up. So the next time they pull me over for some sort of speeding situation, I’m like, hey, come on, maybe you’re the guy who bought a coffee. I’m kidding. It’s because you’re supposed to honor and see value in these individuals. And if they did by chance get told to do something that they thought was uniquely wrong, I have faith that the military men and women of our country would say no to that. The reason we’d never be anything like you know, Nazi Germany is because our military would stand against a radical, actual, you know, authoritarian dictator leader, which Trump is, of course, none of those things. And no matter what liberal left leaning media wants to tell you, and they would say no to that. If someone actually ordered you military men and women of our society to round up people based on their race, which is one of the things that the fear mongering left tells you, it’s basically happening. We’re one step away from all the black people being rounded up in the streets and taken to concentration camps. That’s something that actually thought leaders on that side have said, which is insane. But if that actually were to occur, I believe that our military would say no. Let’s pretend that the craziest things that they claim could happen did happen in some facet. And let’s point out where that link would break. where they think that, you know, we would inevitably turn into a place where Trump is is Hitler 2.0. And that just doesn’t occur. And I think it’s so easy to find those moments of break. And it’s why I, again, believe very significantly that this is how we would never, ever get to the places that they claim we’d be at. So one more time, as clearly as I can state it, I would be thrilled to see military men and women in my city or, you know, in uniform in an area that I think is unsafe. Because it would instill the belief that it will be a safer place and that they would be willing to protect good people from bad guys who want to hurt them or do bad things. It’s not necessarily taking over the job of police, but it’s doing something to aid and assist those who are trying to enforce the law, which is good. And also the thing that the military said they’re willing to do is protect the people in our country who deserve to be protected, although they protect everybody when they go abroad, which is great. All right. Another thing I want to play, and I think this is interesting. It’s definitely not political news, but who cares? An Irish traveler, an influencer, is being blasted online after they recorded and posted video of what they claim to be a cannibal tribe that may or may not be cannibal. It is a remote tribe. There was a representative for the tribe trying to tell the influencer they weren’t welcome to do video here. A lot of aspects in this story are moving pieces. First, if they actually are cannibals, I really don’t care what their spokesperson is asking for. If they’re not cannibals, I don’t know. I am annoyed by the influencer traveling to a certain place and trying to get a lot of clicks. The influencer doesn’t have any real desire to help anybody. They just have a desire to be more famous, and they thought this was an avenue toward it. But there is some audio that goes with this story of the Irish traveling social media influencer person trying to uncover the remote cannibal tribe. and put it all over social media for views and whatnot. This is weird. I almost want no one to win in this side versus that side because, again, I’m not going to cheer for the cannibals if that’s what they actually are, and I’m not a big fan of a lot of the influencers. Here we go.
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I think they’re going to go on air I suppose. This is terrifying. They’re huge bulls. I’ve got an offering for them. Basically bargain our way and try and make them accept us. Put it in my hand? Open it and just put it in your hands. Oh god. Okay, he doesn’t look like he likes that. Careful. He doesn’t like it. Alright guys, let’s move back maybe. We have to go out. He’s not into that. Not really welcome. It’s really dangerous. I’m not gonna lie, that is absolutely terrifying. Tell me they’re scary. I’m sorry I had to take you here.
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Yeah, that’s real stupid, by the way. That sounds a lot like, and I’m not trying to crap on somebody else, but the crocodile hunter, whenever he was in front of a crocodile saying, like, this crocodile seems mad, I’m going to make it angrier. The crocodile hunter, may he rest in peace, is someone that definitely seemed to be willing to risk his life I think the same is true of a social media influencer who wants to out the cannibal tribe in a remote part of the world. That seems like a dumb thing. And I don’t know why the frat guy reaction of these two kids made me laugh even more. Thank God they’re okay. But like, yeah, they don’t really like that. Yeah, they seem mad at us. They’re getting their bows and arrows out and things seem like they could get scary fast. Yeah, they could. These people would have no hesitation in harming you if they believe that you’re someone who’s a threat to them because society used to work that way for quite some time in the past and they haven’t changed. So I just don’t get any part of this. If I was the influencer or the team that’s supposed to advise this influencer, if it exists, when they got to the idea about trying to infiltrate the cannibal remote tribe, I’d be like, no, let’s not do that one. Let’s do anything else. Let’s do a marshmallow eating challenge instead of going to the remote tribe and seeing if they, in fact, eat people. That seems like a bad choice for our Saturday night. All right, a quick break. A lot to talk about today on the show. We do have Florida Man coming up in just a little bit. I do love some of the Florida Man stories. One of the best ones I’ve seen in a while involves a man who lives in Florida, of course, and a pair of Batman pajamas. that has made me very, very happy, and also somewhat jealous, which is weird, because there’s aspects of this story that I’d easily want to make fun of, and there’s other aspects of this where I have to tip my hat and say, way to go, Batman pajama guy, adult man in Batman pajamas. I’ll explain more in just a bit, but that’s coming up in quite a bit more here on The Dana Show, on all the different places The Dana Show airs, and also find it on social media at DLash or DanaLashRadio and X on Twitter. My name is Craig Collins. A quick break. More coming up in a bit.
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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 Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show, a D lash, a Dana lash radio and X on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected to her. I love all three of the Florida man stories that producer Kane sent along. I’m going to go ahead and count them down in reverse order though, because this is the radio and we like countdowns of things. And actually, you know what? I have audio. I’m going to let Casey Kasem help me count these down. So number three, as far as the best Florida man stories of today, according to me, thank you, Casey. for saying that out there. Number three is a Florida man that woke up a woman by mumbling stuff next to her bed. The man, who was a stranger to her, had broken into her house. That’s terrifying. And then once he got there, he, I guess, got close to the bed and didn’t get in, thank God, but just started saying stuff that was incoherent and he definitely seemed intoxicated. The woman, when she woke up, yelled at him. Excuse me. I had to sneeze there. The woman yelled at him. And then I might have to sneeze again during the show. I’ll do my best to try to handle it. But anyway, he decided to leave because of the yelling and whatnot. But he didn’t go very far. The guy opened up her car, which I guess was unlocked. That’s kind of her fault. And then went to sleep in the backseat. When the cops eventually arrived, they arrested the guy who refused to get out of the car on his own. And Elijah Spencer was charged with multiple problems. A burglary of an occupied dwelling. He took fruit snacks and stuff from her house. Burglary of an unoccupied conveyance. That would be inside the vehicle. Criminal mischief and then resisting an officer without violence for just saying no until eventually he was pulled out of the car. But what a weird dude. But he only comes in at number three on my list. And Casey. Hi, it’s me, Casey. Again, glad to have you with us. Let’s do number two on this list. Thank you, sir. Number two of the best Florida man stories of today is the Florida man whose Trump house has gone very viral on social media, on TikTok and other places. He lives in an elite neighborhood in Florida. He fought the county several times for these giant signs, these huge, like, things, banners that he hung up on his house that are all Trump things. Some things say, like, legend, bulletproof. There’s a bunch of other ones. He’s been dealing with this since 2021. fighting back and forth with the city. Eventually he won a lawsuit saying that any kind of fines they tried to charge him were inappropriate and they actually had to pay his legal fees, which is like $42,000, which seems great for the guy. But now he’s even more popular than ever on social media and continues to put out new banners, more American flags and all kinds of things to be pro-Trump. Some of his banners, which all have photos of the president, say things like, Who’s your daddy? Trump coming home in 2025. And as I said again, ones like bulletproof. A whole bunch of people reacted on social media recently to some of the videos he put up by saying how much they love the House. and how much they like to stop and take photos with him or at the house when they pass it. It’s literally becoming a tourist attraction. The guy with the pro-Trump house that tried to be fined and stopped by a city council, and they inevitably failed. All right, that was good for number two. One. Thank you, Casey Kasem. The number one story in the world of Florida, man, the best story out there to me, is the guy in Batman pajamas who stopped a criminal. A Florida man described what it was like to be woken up and noticed that his car was being robbed. It was in his neighbor’s garage, I think he’ll tell you. And unfortunately, bad things were happening. And so he sprung to action, and he just so happened to be wearing his Batman pajamas when he did it, which is hilarious to me. You want to make fun of an adult man wearing Batman pajamas, but you want to respect a hero who apprehends a bad guy and holds him until cops arrive. So it’s a little bit of like, I’m not sure what way to go with this story, but here it is.
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She checked it and she woke me up. She’s like, hey, someone’s rummaging through your truck. So I called them. I said, hey, your garage is open and my truck was just broken into. So I’m going to sit outside until you guys secure your garage without the person seeing me. And I grabbed a hold of their shirt and their right wrist. I said, listen, don’t try to get away.
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have plenty of experience with this i’m really glad i had my batman pajamas on because that gave me the extra confidence that i needed that is hilarious that he said that at the end there too and the guy was rocking rocking actual batman pajamas uh and it’s it’s real it looks like the batman outfit with the fake utility belt and everything um man yes Nine times out of ten, or I would go even further, 99 times out of 100, I’m making fun of a friend of mine who admits they still have Batman pajamas as an adult man. The one time I’m potentially not doing it is if the guy also happened to stop a robbery of his own vehicle and keep a man in custody until police arrived while wearing the Batman pajamas. This is fantastic, and I do really like the fact that he says that it added in his confidence because that’s usually not true of adult men wearing Batman pajamas. Confidence is usually not the byproduct of that decision, but it is here, and it is to a great degree. So again, I love that story so much. Thank you, Casey, for everything you did to help. Sure. All right, that’s fine. He seems excited. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff out there to discuss. There is a leaked phone call that involves Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia. It’s raising questions and someone curious as to how the phone call even leaks in the first place. So there’s there’s multiple things that deserve to be said here. But I do think there’s some interesting moments in the audio that’s inevitably been leaked. This includes Kemp demonstrating that he thinks people in politics who have a voting record that is closely tied to the things President Trump would like to see done is somehow bad. Somehow that’s going to be a negative in any sort of midterm election. Here’s a little bit of that audio again.
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To defeat a Democratic incumbent who has and will have unlimited resources in a midterm election. Another congressman from a heavy Republican district with a congressional voting record isn’t going to work. I know and respect both Congressman Carter and Collins. This is not an attack on them. It’s just the way that I feel. Also, as you all know, we have hundreds of millions of dollars to define anybody’s voting record in the worst possible light.
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Okay, you know what’s really interesting? Hold on. Pump the brakes there, bud. You know what’s really interesting about this to me? Several things. Everyone knows a candidate with no record is far easier for the left to define and destroy than someone who actually supported certain things. These would be things like the stuff that President Trump wanted to do, the Lake and Riley Act, One of the first things he signed the law in his second term. Mike Collins was a champion of it. So it’s interesting. The bottom line is that Republicans can’t trust Brian Kemp, according to the person who posted this on social media. I don’t necessarily know if that’s true or not. The audio doesn’t make it sound very good as far as what’s going on here. Kemp uniquely also has kind of supported President Trump as far as the National Guard and using them as concerned, something that protesters recently were up in arms and upset about. in Georgia, but it is interesting. And the first question that does need to be answered is how does this stuff leak? Like, where is he? What’s he doing? Who’s he talking to? And what people could have inevitably leaked it. I’m always curious about that because what’s the agenda of the leaker? Sometimes the agenda of the leaker might show what the actual intention of the reaction to the leaking is and whether or not they’re matching, whether there’s context missing from any of this. All that matters. I do think there’s a whole lot of politicians we probably can’t trust. There’s a whole lot of politicians who very, very likely are people that are rhinos or people that are, you know, in it for some sort of specific reason that has nothing to do with doing good for us. And I know you believe that, too. I know that’s a very obvious and simplistic statement. But in saying that, when you point to me who the rhinos could be, I’m willing to think it could be anybody. I guess the only person that I’d be surprised if they’re a rhino is Trump. That would be like a brain twist. That’s like Quentin Tarantino directed this movie. So I’m definitely not saying that I think that’s true because I don’t think it is. Although, you know what? I’ll say this. This is funny. So I have friends on both sides of the political aisle, having lived in places like Chicago. I also have some family members who are younger people. And some of the 20 somethings that I know, whether it’s friends of my family members or just people that I work with in some capacity, Not in some of the radio stations about now, but just other places. There are these like far right young people, and that’s how I best describe them. They’re people who really want some extreme decisions made within the Conservative Party to be more of the norm. for the way we govern. It seems to match the far left people that are young. When you’re of a certain age, maybe it’s more appropriate for you to think that there’s really only one answer, one right and wrong and no aversion of middle ground or any of that. And the reason I’m bringing this up is some of the guys I know on the far right, or at least what I would describe as it, often tell me they think Trump is in the middle. They think Trump is a guy who’s actually at times really appeasing the left. And I laugh at that. Not because I think Trump is some extremist. I actually agree with them on that. But because it’s funny to think that he would do anything other than whatever Trump wants to do. I don’t really think he’s ever done anything in his roles either time in the office of president to appease anybody but him. And I actually like that, by the way. Leaders who want to lead by having their own version of things actually occur seem like people who will be successful in this life. All right. Another thing out there that I wanted to refute, and I’m annoyed that I have to do this. I’m thrilled that I get to be on a show as big as The Dana Show to play audio like this and have a discussion about things like this because it is ridiculous and it is crazy. uh… but there is a big narrative on the left right now that says that any discussion about of violent uh… crime uh… being uh… done to people of faith because of their faith essentially that would happen in minneapolis was obviously a hate crime other saying that that’s up that’s completely untrue uh… there’s no way that you could even you know uh… confirm or demonstrate the accuracy of that and some of the ways they go about trying to to make this claim or approve this argument it’s so incredibly flawed and and kind of awful uh that you don’t even really know how to respond to it like you you have a version of all right i’m gonna have to talk about this now uh but not maybe to the degree that that we should so i want to play some audio and i’ll demonstrate to you what i mean uh we’re talking heads on cnn are saying that it’s the far-right narrative and not the actual fact-based obvious conclusion uh that the person who attacked children in a church that were at a school that he had gone to, who was a transgender man, was doing it for reasons that were specific to the faith of the place he was attacking, and also his manifesto, which said that was exactly why he did it. All of this can be discredited because the left is going to come up with some stupid narrative that seems to want only some people to be the victims of hate, not all people, which is a very weird thing to have people you want to exclude from that situation.
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I teach a class on this in Georgetown. This individual appears to be what we call a nihilist. And not to get into too much detail about their ideology, they believe that no lives matter. I believe that calling this or investigating this as an attack against Catholics, I believe, is a little disingenuous and it plays into the far right’s narrative about Christians being under attack in this country.
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All right, let’s see if this plays into the narrative of Christians being under attack in this country. This is a stat that Fox News aired this morning demonstrating that Christians are under attack in this country.
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hostility against churches in the United States, released this month by the Family Research Council, found that last year there were 415 incidents of hostility against 383 different churches across 42 different states. Mostly vandalism and arson, but at least 28 cases involved guns. 2023 saw the highest number, 485, but last year’s total is still more than a four-year span from 2018 combined.
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Alright, so that seems to easily be true. It definitely seems as though churches are under attack, that people are turning people of faith into enemies for some reason. And I think the reason why is that there’s a point in a discussion about two different sides of an argument. We’re someone who believes in something beyond what happens here on earth. I might typically say, you know what, I feel the way I do about abortion or whatever the issue might be because of my faith, because of something I believe in that’s beyond politics. And I think it makes the other side mad that that’s an argument that they’re supposed to respect. They have no interest in doing that. And I think that’s where the anger comes from. It’s not just that, though, lying about whether or not it was a hate crime, specifically targeting people based on their religion. It’s also denying whether or not the transgender man shooter had a mental health issue. He wanted to kill children and succeeded in taking the lives of at least two little kids, which is uniquely horrible. And for some reason, the authorities, the police out there want to say they have no known way to figure out if he had a mental health issue or not. the shooting itself should be one of a few indications that the person was not mentally okay.
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Is there any kind of mental health diagnosis that anyone is aware of?
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There is no diagnosis that I’m aware of that I can share. I can tell you we are not aware of any state ordered mental health commitments. We’re not aware.
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We don’t know anything about it. In fact, there are people that help treat and give drugs and all kinds of things to the individual drugs that one of the labels, one of the warnings say could cause suicidal or homicidal ideation. And then, boom, this happens. This is absolutely horrible. This is uniquely a terrible, terrible thing. And I just I just think it’s amazing that, you know, so often so many people want to keep whatever the issues are that they think are making them a victim in society specific to them. It’s so weird. that you’re going to say, you know what, no, not everybody can use the defense I use or the excuse I use for whatever the problem is going on in my life, even if this is not the thing the other person is doing this for. Even if other people are saying, you know, that this is obvious, that the reason this occurred and why it occurred, and we need to talk about it so we can actually prevent it, and just, you know, behaving as though that’s something that’s somehow inappropriate. It’s so crazy. I’m so… I get mad to… during this part of this discussion. And so there’s not a lot of other roads for me to go than to just get angrier and angrier on the radio, which I probably shouldn’t do. But all right, let’s move on to another thing out there that’s just uniquely weird. This is the mayor in Chicago, Brandon Johnson, being very, very proud, not of doing anything to help fight crime, but being very proud of the fact that he’s going to add some Narcan vending machines to more parts of the north side of the city where they’re not seeing as many overdoses of drug use. But darn it, hey, everybody needs one of these. Let’s add it. Let’s see if a year from now you have a bunch of drug addicts and homeless people and drug dealers all hanging out near the Narcan vending machines in Uptown. Here we go.
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Narcan is a safe legal medication that can reverse an opioid overdose and it saves lives. So we want to ensure that everyone here in uptown and around Chicago has access to life saving medication. And that is why my office, working with Alderwoman Clay and Commissioner Ige, are working so hard to make Narcan widely available through vending machines and stands like the ones that you see here on display today.
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Yeah, way to go. Way to have your priorities aligned perfectly, sir. There’s a crime epidemic. You’re refusing to allow the National Guard to help assist and make things better, which we see is absolutely working in places like Washington, D.C. And in response to that, you want to open up some Narcan fending machines It’s just weird. All right. One other thing before we take a break, just very quickly. Thanks, President Trump, is what CNN should be saying because of the ridiculously low gas prices that are out there somehow missing from the way they covered how cheap things are in the world of gasoline before the Labor Day long weekend holiday. I wonder how they could have forgot to mention that Trump and drill baby drill are a reason that things are looking so great.
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Gas prices at their lowest level for a Labor Day weekend in years. In some states, they are below $3 a gallon. Matt Egan is here with the good news. We have to say goodbye to summer, but we’re going to do it and save some cash.
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That’s right. That’s right, Erica. Look, you are in luck if you’re hitting the roads this holiday weekend. Gas Buddy is projecting the national average this Labor Day, $3.15 a gallon. Whoa! That’s the lowest since 2020. Of course, back then, the roads were pretty empty because of COVID.
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Wait a minute. Also, who took over? who wound up being in charge of 2020. I wonder what’s there. You can see the trend the past few years.
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The expectation is that prices will be a little bit lower than last year, but significantly lower than three years ago when we were looking at almost $4 a gallon.
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Wow, what’s weird again is in 2022, who was in charge and what were they doing and who did they say they were going after? Biden literally ran on a campaign promise to disrupt and harm oil and gas companies. And then Trump says, drill, baby, drill. And for some reason, the gas prices seem to be a perfect reflection of who’s in charge. And I thought the president couldn’t impact the price of gas. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s quick five.
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All right, let’s try to actually rapid fire these. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Someone wrote to a Dear Abby page and asked a simple question. They said, my fiance might be cheating on me. I wonder if I should still go through with the wedding. Usually the answer is no to this, but here’s the caveat. The fiance said that they might be cheating with a female friend, meaning that the woman in the relationship might be with another woman on the side. And the thing that I think is interesting about this is the way that social media talked about how if it’s a dude that’s getting married to a girl and then finds out that she might have a female friend, it’s more than a friend. Part of your brain, the man part, tells you that you can make this work. You can figure this out. This can be fine for everybody involved, especially if you think the friend is attractive too. But again, this is probably going to be horrible. So the end advice is exactly what you think it is. You can’t get married to someone if you think they’re already cheating on you before you’re even married. That’s usually a bad move. But I do love the fact that a lot of men out there are like, well, wait. Let’s really think this out before we make any rash decisions, before we go any certain roads. The worst fast food items in America have been revealed. McDonald’s did quite well on the list of least healthy items. But the absolute worst thing to eat is apparently the McDonald’s chicken tender. Not even the chicken nugget. The chicken tender did even worse than the nuggets as far as value compared to calories and whatnot. Second worst was Chipotle’s rice bowls, which are apparently very unhealthy. And then KFC chicken tenders came in at number three. And finally, the Popeye’s chicken sandwich and the KFC chicken sandwich rounded out the top list. Yeah, I don’t care. The point is, whenever you eat any of these items, you’re checking the health at the door. You know that it’s not going to be healthy. No one ever tried to trick me into thinking that these items were healthy, so I’m good about them not being it. And finally, a study revealed which generation would most like a four-day workweek. Unsurprising, it is the youngest generation. It is Gen Z that would like to see this happen as they’re in the workforce. You know, fairly new compared to everybody else. Maybe other people have gotten more used to it. Although Gen X is almost as excited about the idea of a four-day workweek as Gen Z. And then Millennials and Boomers coming in at about the same percentage, just a little bit behind. Of course I’d love a four-day work week. Who wouldn’t? No one’s going to say no to it, but is it actually going to work out for the company? The answer is probably not in the long term, but who cares? Let’s try it anyway. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I almost said something way different than stuff, and I’m glad I did not say that. But again, this is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back next week. Well, actually, no. She’s going to be back after the holiday. You will hear her best of tomorrow, but she’s getting some additional time off. Very well deserved for the very famous, very talented Dana Lash, DLash, Dana Lash Radio on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to her. President Trump is lost in a courtroom again. A lot of people are calling this activism within the judicial system. Let’s play a little bit of Fox News. News discussing this breaking story of another way in which Biden was allowed to do one thing. That’s give illegal individuals legal status. Trump’s not allowed to do the opposite, which is take it away, apparently, at least according to one federal judge into us right now.
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A federal appeals court, Shannon, has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work here in the United States. Shannon, this was a three-judge panel from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that made temporary protected status for those Venezuelans while the case proceeded through the court. Your thoughts on that?
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Yeah, I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but coming from the Ninth Circuit, not surprising. It’s one of the places that you would go if you want to challenge a Trump administration policy. You’re going to look for those judges in California that tend to lean more liberal. The Ninth Circuit certainly has that reputation as well. But it sounds like what they’re saying is that for now, those people who have some legal protections to work and live in the country, that when Secretary Noem of DHS tried to wipe those out with a blanket proclamation, they’re saying they don’t think she has the power to do it, that the way Congress with the statute doesn’t allow it, this administration has argued she absolutely has the power. DHS has the power to revoke this status. So I think it’s yet another thing we’ll watch, Sandra, on a collision course headed to the Supreme Court.
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Yeah, it’s going to be at the Supreme Court. That’s what happens with all this stuff, to be honest. And yeah, if you have a 9th District Circuit Court of Appeals out of San Francisco, California, you’re uniquely hoping that the people there are willing to help you get whatever you want across the finish line the way you want it across the finish line. It’s sad that that’s true. It’s sad that we can’t have law just be law. One of the things that shapes your ability to say yes or no to the legality of something in the society we live in is the likelihood that a whole bunch of people believe something on a certain side of the political aisle. The other reason that it’s important to talk about this stuff, at least to me, is how often the left will say that Trump has rigged the court system. He’s put too many judges in. He’s got too much power in too many places. Of course, the Supreme Court is one of the options or one of the examples they use for that. And Trump does lose in court a lot. Not all the time, and certainly the Supreme Court has made big decisions that seem to be aligned with the things Trump wants, but even the Supreme Court has shot down and rejected stuff that the Trump administration thinks is the appropriate way to go in regard to any individual stories that are out there. So it’s just fascinating to me to watch that play out and to watch people say, consistently that, you know, we got to do this. We got to stack the court. We got to be crazy because if we’re not, then unfortunately Trump gets everything he wants and just disregard all the stuff that actually happens. All right. I’m going to play a little bit of this audio. I don’t want to play all of it. This person is unhinged. And I, I think absolutely disgusting as far as a human being goes. This is an older dude, white dude, with a bunch of rainbow flags and stuff behind him as he’s talking into a camera on social media and saying how happy he is to watch children get killed in a mass shooting. This is real in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from just a couple days ago, because he thinks that the Catholic schools or the religious schools need to experience the same kind of pain that has happened in public schools. So he thinks that it’s appropriate for the horrible thing that happens sometimes in society to now be happening in this part of the community instead of that part, which is a tremendously big problem for people who think anything like this, much less when you’re talking about children being shot by a deranged lunatic and a disgusting, evil human being. Here we go.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know what? There’s going to be a lot more of that coming up. You know, especially at these religious areas, you know, hey, we’ve had enough of your kind coming after public schools, right? It’s about time, yeah, churches and Catholic schools and religious schools, it’s about time they get their turn.
SPEAKER 27 :
Wow, that is insane to hear someone say and to be proud of it and happy about it. It’s actually insane. It’s a level of… of anger you have inside yourself that’s similar to the anger that the shooter had to do the horrible thing that he did. But it’s the level of anger you have and you found a thing in your life for people that you get to interact with in some capacity or see or whatever that you want to put that anger on. whether they deserve it or not. And in this case, the person wants to place it on the kids in school, in Catholic schools, because he thinks people who have a faith are making arguments that he doesn’t like in public places. It’s horrific. And it’s these same individuals. that will go out into public whenever something else happens in a different way in our society and tell everyone that we should love everybody, that we should care about everyone, that why can’t you have the compassion and the mercy that a human is supposed to have? And then they go out and celebrate something as horrible as what happened a couple days ago. It is uniquely disgusting. And it’s the reason, to a degree, that we have this continuing to happen in our society now, that we’re seeing this grow in the amount of people who are targeting faith-based individuals for crimes like this. This is a byproduct of this type of rhetoric. And I know the left says that all the time. And oftentimes I actually shoot down the idea that anyone is responsible beyond the individuals themselves who are responsible for the awful, horrible things that happen in our society. But I will say that occasionally… You have a story that demonstrates to you exactly how risky some of this stuff is and how it can help to radicalize someone who’s probably already a lost cause anyway, and how the real solution to all these problems is addressing mental health in a more significant fashion and not trying to just take people’s guns away, which is what they usually say. One thing that I always believe and still believe is true is the deranged lunatic person is that person mostly from their own life, not from just the TV or whatever it is that they consume. But there’s certainly a way to believe that they go from being somewhat likely to do something horrible to incredibly likely to do something horrible based on people reinforcing the belief that it’s not them but someone else that’s the real enemy or the real problem when they, in fact, are the one causing all the hurt and pain. All right, let’s play this. I do like the headline. California’s lost. A newly proposed bill would expand options for people to seek temporary guardianships. That’s the word I was trying to say. Adults who are not relatives would be allowed to make short-term educational health care decisions for kids without parental consent. Man, I wonder what this is about. I wonder what people are talking about here. But you could potentially fight for temporary control of children in order to allow them to do medical things that the parents think you should not do. Here we go.
SPEAKER 08 :
California lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that some critics are calling legal kidnapping. It’s called the Family Preparedness Act. It would expand options for people to seek temporary guardianships or step in as caregivers. And that means adults who are not relatives would be allowed to make short term educational health care decisions for those kids without parental consent. Critics are warning that it could allow virtually any adult claiming a, quote, mentorship to step in even against a parent’s wishes.
SPEAKER 27 :
Yeah. Someone like a teacher who has a unique belief that they’re more important in the life of the kid than the kid. A lot of people could do this. This is horrible as an idea, as a conversation. Look, so often in society, people out there say that parents need to be more involved in the lives of children, especially kids who are on the wrong side of doing certain things, like the kids who are out there and harming other people or just doing anything that’s bad, that one of the things that you wish were true is that parents were more active in someone’s life to guide them to a different path. whether it’s faith and other things that could help do that too. Parents are a vital part of it. And California wants to do the exact opposite. They don’t want to help prop up parents, help get them more involved in kids’ lives. They want to say out loud that, don’t worry, we’ll go ahead and pass a law that would even strip parents of rights in certain situations if we think it’s appropriate and we believe that it’s the right thing to do for whoever this random person is and the child and not the people who are actually the rightful people raising children. It’s amazing to watch. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again before I take a break. It’s amazing to watch people in certain parts of our country or in certain arguments and conversations that happen politically no longer want to try to have that argument with an adult. They think to themselves, this is too hard. There’s too many variables, too much pushback. Let me go ahead and route my conversation through a child and try to win the argument by brainwashing the child to disagree with their parents on a myriad of issues so that in the future, what I think is true becomes the prevalent opinion, not because I’ve defeated any of the adults who want to tell me I’m wrong, but because I just go immediately down a step lower to kids. And it feels very often that the people on the side of the argument that don’t want to do that are the more honorable people who would rather have an argument adult to adult. And this is just horrific. This is horrible. And certainly the kind of thing that I hope doesn’t actually become a law anywhere, much less in California. But yeah, that is a place that sounds uniquely lost because especially if you’re a parent who’s already not active. Like, say you’re a parent who is failing your child. You’re not doing enough to prevent them from going down certain roads that you don’t think they should be going down. And then you hear about this. It gives you even more opportunity to be like, all right, fine, I’m done. I’m out. Somebody else can handle it. Somebody else can be in charge over here, which is another thing that we don’t need. The breakdown of the family within our society seems to be something that some are cheering for, and you have to wonder why. What possible value could come from that other than the one I just said, controlling the opinion of younger people to, you know, get them to believe something more consistently than people of the current generation who are, say, a voting age or older disagree with. I try to change the argument by changing the perception of someone when they’re vulnerable is uniquely horrible. All right, we’ll take one last break. We’ll come back. We’ll close up everything for today. Thrilled to be with you just before the holiday. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for you. Thrilled to be here. Dana will be back in about a week or so. She’s getting some much-needed time off because she very much deserves it. DLash, DanaLash, RadioNX on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her. At RadioCraigC, if you want me to feel like I have a few more followers than I currently have, which is not very many. And to be honest, I need to try to do more on Twitter, and I’m not very good at that. All right, let’s talk about a couple crazy things that are out there in the world. First, this is just funny. The Democratic Party has a unpopular dark money group that is apparently helping to fund all of the influencers who are trying to make Democrats cool again when they’re definitely not, or if they ever were. what i find funny about this is it must have been like a year ago or so uh the republican party was outed for having a group of companies that were giving advertising dollars to a certain social media influencers and it was a big deal uh mainstream media talked about it how you know people on the right were taking this money and multiple people went out and said you know what actually i had a meeting and didn’t take their money and then other people like well i took money but i didn’t actually do any of the things they asked me to do which I thought was funny. But now it’s true of the left. The left has finally been outed for doing the exact same crap and having just a bunch of money funneled to people like $8 million a month to disseminate left-leaning talking points. And for some reason, we got bupkis as far as people talking about this. A lot of crickets, a lot of silence, but it seems to be a big thing. And some of the data that was put out seems to make it a massive, massive amount of individuals who are getting this money, even if they don’t seem to be all that influential. And guess who seems to be connected to this, too? That’s right, George Soros. So something that a lot of Republicans have known for quite a while, that it seems the Democrats, who probably aren’t even going to pay attention to this, might be subtly admitting, at least some of them, that, yeah, Soros is in control of the party and does a lot of things. But it’s unique how much money you’ve got to spend to get the influencers to say the stuff you want, because it’s not stuff that makes you a more popular person right now in social media either, which I find funny. Scientists are studying something they call mirror life. These would be synthetic organisms that have the same molecular structure as living organisms that are not created synthetically. But they would essentially flip the DNA where some parts of it are, quote, left handed and other parts are right handed and how they arrange it. The amino acids and sugar molecules, they would essentially do the same structure, but in reverse. So bizarro Superman is something that they’re actually talking about in real terms. That’s the best example I can give in the world of science. A bunch of scientists, including Nobel laureates recently said, this is a horrible idea. Don’t do this. It could be the end of society as we know it. It seems like we’ve learned nothing from COVID and all the other horrible things that happen. The most devastating potential problem of creating synthetic organisms that have a reverse version of our genetic makeup is that they could be petri dishes for all kinds of horrible bacteria and illnesses that we’d have no ability to treat and cure, they would be completely able to evade all of our immune responses because they do exactly the opposite of what they’re supposed to do, which again seems horrible. Please don’t create bizarro Superman in the world in which we live science, even though I’m worried that science doesn’t give a crap about people who say this, as we all know. And then finally, one last one. A Saudi company has created an artificial intelligence that is, quote, the Islamic chatbot. It also steals all of your information, which just seems like a nice extra kick in the gut on top of this. But apparently the future of the Islamic culture, values and heritage would be alive and well within these Arabic language AI chatbot created again by a Saudi AI company. A lot of people. are worried about some of the potential things going on here and how it could even be further manipulated to be potentially horrible. And then again, just any AI out there created by any sort of government also has that unique caveat of you’re going to get spied on and they’re just going to do it no matter what you say. They don’t care. That does seem horrible, too. So it’s one of the better reasons to choose not to do anything with the world of AI as best you can avoid it, even though it’s almost impossible in our society now to do it, because you’re just one more avenue to which you’re surrendering any level of privacy. Although the idea that we actually have privacy now is probably somewhat sadly laughable anyway, which makes me a little bit sad. All right, one last thing. I just want to mention this very quickly. I am relatively new to Texas, only been living here a while. I recently found out that Ojos Locos is not, in fact, a family-friendly Mexican restaurant, although it could be. It’d be fine for that. But more of like the Mexican restaurant version of Hooters. I took my wife there. It caused a whole big fight. So I just thought it was hilarious because I just found out today that they’ll be having the final round of their bikini contest that we may or may not witness a part of on the quote accidental journey there. And so I wish I could get listeners of this show to answer the question. I got to bring the wife back to find out who wins the bikini contest. Even if she hated going the first time, it’s a story we don’t have the end of. You got to get the end of stories, right? That’s a question. I’d love to have you answer it. I know what the answer should be. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. See you later, everybody.
