In this gripping episode of The Dana Show, guest host Greg Collins dives into the complex web of accountability in politics today, using James Comey’s testimony as a case study. Through an in-depth analysis of Comey’s contradictory statements under oath, Greg explores the broader implications of such actions in our justice system. Moreover, he reflects on how these instances of hypocrisy reflect a broader trend in political and media landscapes, urging listeners to stay informed and vigilant. Join us as we navigate these turbulent waters with full disclosure and a critical lens.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in on special assignment. Thrilled to be with you. D Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and all the awesome things that are happening on social media for her and her team. And honestly, you really should follow that because there’s a lot of great things that happen there. All right, let’s do some stuff. Let’s talk about things. James Comey has to be a topic of conversation. And I want to do this the best way I can, because I think a lot of mainstream media is going to trash this. And then a lot of far right media is going to praise it without contextualizing what exactly is happening. Or they’ll do some version of it, but I don’t think it’ll be good enough. So I really want to go the extra step here to help you understand what is occurring. The left forever has told us that no one’s above the law. It doesn’t matter what you do. If you break a law, any law, you deserve to have the book thrown at your face as hard as it possibly can be. And that would be essentially their their big, giant version of we didn’t go after Trump unfairly. We went after Trump because he deserved it. All the crazy times that they tried to get him in a courtroom. What I think is amazing about that is Comey definitely lied under oath. And that is something that is against the law. You’re not allowed to do it. You’re not supposed to do it, etc., etc., especially not if you’re someone who’s involved with, say, the FBI, for example. Let’s go ahead and prove that first before we do anything else. Comey, who in his own book has made certain mentions to things and also has definitely demonstrated that he was a source that leaked things to news media. Well, under oath to Congress, he said, I did no such thing. How dare you for even accusing me of something like this? You horrible, terrible people on the right.
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Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
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Never.
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Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
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No. I needed to get that out into the public square, so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. I do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
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Wait a minute. So you lied under oath. And you’re the one admitting it, by the way. James Comey is the one saying, yeah, I did the thing that I told you I didn’t do. My bad. Whoops-a-daisy. How dare I do this? And by the way, remember, everyone was so, so happy when they said that no one was above the law. Everyone deserved to be in trouble, including, I think, James Comey, who at several times during 2024 said that Trump needed to be thrown in the hooscow and had absolutely no remorse in believing that Trump was guilty of something and deserved to be imprisoned, even as he was running for political office and evidently in front of Joe Biden at the time.
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a lot of people have suggested that there are a range of factors that would make it difficult to put a former there’s not the system has not been tested in this way do you agree with that that would be difficult or nearly impossible for the law enforcement institutions to put him in in actual jail no they would just put him in a double wide somewhere out near the fence out in the grass and he would eat there he’d shower there he’d exercise there he’d be away as donya perry said from general population but it’s obviously doable
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Obviously doable. We’ll throw him in a double wide. I hope James Comey gets thrown in a double wide. But anyway, all of these things were to demonstrate the fact that Comey definitely broke the law. And that’s what he is being indicted for, for making false statements and obstructing justice. It’s that simple. By the way, James Comey’s son-in-law apparently has also resigned. He was someone who helped prosecute the January Sixers. He has left his office as assistant U.S. attorney because the trash is now taking itself out, as Nick Sordo and others said, which I love. There’s so many versions of this, though, that seem to demonstrate to us How ridiculously hypocritical a certain side of the political world is, the landscape in which we live today. And actually, this might be another interesting example of that. The FBI has finally acknowledged that there were plainclothes agents in the massive crowd on January 6th. But you’re going to be surprised at the exact amount. I’m not surprised, meaning you didn’t think this was true all along, but surprised that they’ve finally given us a number that seems to demonstrate how many of the, I don’t know if you want to call them conspiracy theorists anymore because they keep being right about stuff, but how many of the conspiracy theorists really thought existed. 275 plainclothes agents were in the massive crowd on January 6th, 2021.
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That’s a lot of people. That’s a significant amount. of the individuals who are in that crowd, maybe potentially telling people what to do or how to make something worse and not better. All of this seems to matter quite a bit. Again, In the grand scheme of things, there’s a lot of people who have forgot about it. It’s four and a half years now. Who cares? You’ve moved on. Well, actually, if you’re the left, you haven’t moved on from the idea that January 6th was the worst day in society, which it wasn’t, of course, not at all. And context definitely demonstrates how far from the truth that actually is. But more so than anything else, what I think is important about that idea or about that discussion is Because it’s just the same old, same old for people who pay attention that eventually you get the truth. You eventually hear it at a place when they believe that we’re not paying attention anymore. And that’s when we have to pay attention the most. We have to eventually throw this in people’s faces because we want the truth from jump. We don’t want them to delay it. We don’t want them to try to avoid it and try to push the goalposts as far back as possible before inevitably, you know, doing what they’re doing. All right. I do want to play this audio, too. This is James Comey talking about how there’s a cost to standing up to Donald Trump. He’s an innocent man, even though he himself admitted that he lied under oath when he gave a different answer later on to a question he had definitively said no to. It seems pretty easy in the grand scheme of things. If you haul this gentleman into court and just play his audio against his audio, you should have an open and shut case.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she’s right, but I’m not afraid. I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it.
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You know what’s really interesting about this, too, by the way? James Comey is someone who absolutely lied under oath by his own admission. He didn’t say it that way, but he demonstrated that it’s true. And then he goes the other road in telling you that you need to be motivated and fight the tyrant. Every time that they tell us, that we’re the bad guys, which the left does all the time. They claim not to. They claim not to have supercharged and this version of rhetoric that does make things dangerous in society. They claim that that’s not them. And every time they say that you’re the bad guy and they’re the good guy, you just have to see stuff like this. because it’s always about what’s best for them. It’s always about what helps them the most. Complaining or pretending that this is a version of dictatorship because James Comey is actually going to be held accountable to something he did that was wrong. And remember, nobody is above the law. I believe that’s something they told us a whole lot of times. that everyone is, you know, the same and we’re all supposed to be prosecuted no matter who we are, no matter what our role is. I think Letitia James said that multiple times. I think I even have the audio of that, actually.
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No one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful, or politically connected you are.
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Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor.
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The fact is, no one is above the law. No one, not even the president, is above the law.
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Yeah, but James Comey is. Apparently, according to the left. But anyway, they tell you you’re the bad guy, that they’re the good guy. And then you find another example of how they are liars. How they are people who are manipulating and changing anything and everything for their own benefit. And by the way, one other quick thing. We’re doing a walk down memory lane, I guess, to start the show today. All the late night hosts who were up in arms about Jimmy Kimmel. And the fact that he was almost fired and then he was allowed to have his job back. What I think is amazing about that. And there’s two things, actually, that I think are really important. First, Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t imprisoned. He wasn’t murdered. He was allowed to keep doing everything that he wanted to do, just maybe not on network television. That is definitely an example of the freedoms that exist in our country. If this was actually a dictatorship and a horrible place where free speech wasn’t allowed, Jimmy Kimmel wouldn’t be a man walking around free. He’d be in jail somewhere, imprisoned there by a dictator who didn’t want to hear him talk anymore. That didn’t happen. That never happened with Kimmel. But the other thing that’s amazing is the hypocrisy. It’s always the hypocrisy, people, because so many times… Late night media praised the idea of Donald Trump, President Trump at the time, being silenced, being removed from social media because they thought it served the greater good. And then Jimmy Kimmel absolutely tried to pretend as though the person who murdered Charlie Kirk was somehow a MAGA Republican. He claimed that. Absolutely, he did. There’s no version of rewatching that where you think something else happened. 100%, that’s what occurred. And then he pretended as though he didn’t say that when he came back in his non-apology. But again, nonetheless, people wanted someone to be held accountable if it’s someone on the right or if it’s someone as significant as Trump. to things on social media. They wanted them actually to be removed from society much more than Kimmel was. His Twitter wasn’t shut down. None of the things he had access to were taken away other than network television. And really because he made a whole lot of people mad, which he’s done for a while. And that doesn’t really help his ratings. It has nothing to do with punishing him because the people who are upset with him are in power. It has to do with the fact that it’s bad for television business if half the people in the country think you’re an absolute jerk. But here is late night media celebrating Silicon Valley and the removal of Trump, the censorship of Trump, something that they then were up in arms about when it even sort of kind of not even all that much at all happened to Jimmy Kimmel.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But don’t worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parler is where all the right-wingers gather to post QAnon sense and misspell the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they’re being silenced. In fact, they won’t shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
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Oh, damn. A lifetime Twitter ban has got to sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn’t the only social media. I’m good.
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You get the idea. There’s a whole bunch more of this, but it’s terrible. It’s awful. And they were thrilled about it when it was someone they disagreed with, not when it was one of their own. How dare you do that? That’s the end of society. 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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That’s right, it’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. At least two scientists are telling us the best way to fight back against AI is to bomb the labs. That’s real. A couple scientists say that right now artificial intelligence is outpacing human thought at a very scary amount. Essentially, the computer can think about things in about 16 hours that would take the human brain 14,000 years. to process, which is bad, according to at least two scientists out there. They say there’s no real way to turn it off. It’ll just figure out how to turn itself back on for the best course of action, and they think we should do it now. Bomb the AI lab. I think I’m fine with this, in all honesty. The version of AI that I experience on a daily basis that is constantly annoying is when it tries to finish my text messages for me. It’s never right. It’s always wrong. I don’t want it to do that anymore. Stop it, AI. Let’s bomb the labs. I’m all for that too. Obviously, you want people to leave the labs first and then we bomb the labs in case anyone wants to go after me for saying bomb people. I didn’t say that part. This is a great story. Producer Steven sent this along. There is a South Bay area woman in San Francisco who’s trying to find love, and she’s doing it in a very weird way. She’s put up a bunch of billboards throughout all of California asking people to marry her instead of going on the dating apps, which apparently might not have worked so well for this young woman, although she’s not exactly that young either. She’s now doing it this way. And I think Channel 4 News in San Francisco decided to cover this story, which I thought was ridiculous.
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When it comes to love, some people swipe right, but one Bay Area woman named Lisa is taking her search for a husband to new heights, quite literally with digital billboards from Santa Clara all the way to San Francisco off 101. I just want to meet somebody, and I was just not having any luck any other way.
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the billboards showcase lisa’s face and her website marylisa.com a page she built after too many bad dates and there it’s where you can apply to be her future husband yeah uh no everybody should be saying no to every part of this this is crazy this is scary and in all honesty the thing i love most about the ridiculousness of marylisa.com and that is you’d never ever want to admit to anyone this is how you met the person you’re married to You wouldn’t be like, well, I was driving around one day and your mom put up a bunch of billboards throughout all of California begging someone to marry her. And I was like, I’ll give it a shot. She’s obviously got some cash because she spent all this money on these billboards and this website. So maybe that’s what it is for some guy out there. But no, this is a level of desperation you should not reach in your life. We all know this. And you would never want to be again proud of someone eventually meeting you this way. Just talk to people at bars, lady. Men are easier than women, I think, in that way, in who you talk to. No one’s going to get mad at you. Just try it out. No more billboards. 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 D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to everything going on for her in this show. By the way, this is just sort of fun for me or anyone else out there. The president’s at the Ryder Cup this weekend, which is something I would do if I were the president of the United States and got an opportunity to travel to the Ryder Cup. There was also a really cool flyover. that occurred as President Trump, I think, arrived there at the Ryder Cup, which is a golf competition for anyone that doesn’t follow or isn’t aware of that part, which is just sad. You should be more aware of these things. But here we go. Here’s a little of that.
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For the land of the free
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By the way, every part of that. You know what I love about Trump going to a bunch of sporting events, whether it’s UFC, anything, is how different it is than Biden showing up in this stuff or anybody on the Democratic side of the aisle. Because there’s two things that are great about it. First, when Trump goes to certain events, he demonstrates that sports is something that’s accessible to conservatives, which oftentimes the agencies that run these sports, you know, like the NBA and whatnot, would desire for you to stop paying attention. They seem to almost hate you and how they behave on certain things. Golf is not within that world. I think that’s one of the exceptions. UFC, other things are. But the other reason I love Trump going to this stuff is that Biden would have been afraid to be seen in public. It seemed like very, very often. And there are other people in the Democratic Party who show up and get booed places. But Trump often gets celebrated at a bunch of the sporting events he attends, which demonstrates how much of the actual American people like him. how much they actually do approve of this man, even if mainstream news media is going to tell you that he’s a horrible, terrible, awful person. By the way, this is just funny. I’m going to play this audio too. This is Trump saying that Jasmine Crockett is a low IQ person. Again, he’s been saying this a lot. The Texas politician does seem to be a person who’s just Definitely not up there. I would not rank her high along the Einsteins of the world in society, especially as she becomes more and more of a person that likes to speak in that weird slang that she didn’t use when she first ran for office. But she definitely seems to use now. And she wants to be this tough person all the time and how she talks about certain political issues. But this was this was pretty funny. Here’s Trump.
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Jasmine Crockett.
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Remember what I said? Is she a relation to the late great Davy Crockett? I don’t think so. Jasmine Crockett, let me tell you, before you even ask. She’s a very low IQ person. I mean, if we ever had to pass an aptitude test, that’s the one should take one because she shouldn’t even be in the crowd. So I have no idea what you’re going to. But I don’t think we should waste our time. This is a low IQ person who I can’t even believe is a congressperson between her and Ilhan Omar.
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OK, I do like that he mispronounced Ilhan Omar’s name. That was pretty funny.
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Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. And he said, I don’t want her.
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That’s hilarious, too, by the way, that he’s like, hey, we have someone here in our country that claims that our country is terrible. Would you like to reacquire this individual? And Somalia says no. Like, no, thanks. We’re good. You keep that one. She can stay with you. That’s hilarious. By the way, Trump did actually touch on something important, too. He talked about how George Soros and others might actually be probed for how they back left wing terror groups. This is absolutely stuff that I voted for. I love when someone on the left actually shares their version of this and says, did you vote for this? This is authoritarian or a dictatorship again or whatever crazy Nazi Germany version of things. And I’m like, yeah, I absolutely voted for the rules to be applied equally to both sides and not disproportionately applied to just one side of the aisle. Investigate people like Soros to see if they have ties to terror groups. And guess what? If they do, throw them in jail for it. That would be wonderful. That is not a bad thing. I hear Trump talking about that.
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Yeah, go ahead. Let’s see you defend them, Jeff. No, I’m not defending anyone. So that we can explain this in our stories, could you name a couple?
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You don’t explain it right, though, Jeff. Go ahead, let’s go. Maybe let’s give you another chance.
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Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
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Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don’t know, but Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. maybe i hear about a guy named reid hoffman somebody’s a pretty rich guy i guess and i hear about him i don’t know maybe maybe could be him could be a lot of people we we are the same names but they’re bad and we’re going to find out and if they are funding these things they’re going to have some problems because they’re agitators and they’re anarchists these are anarchists Really bad. Okay, yeah.
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Yeah, they’re really bad people. The Antifa and the individuals who show up and do horrible things at all kinds of events, they’re not good people. And if you’re forking over cash to get them to show up at things, you in fact are part of the problem and you need to be held accountable for it. I love the version of media that tells you that you can do anything you want to investigate the right. Any red herring that you want to chase down is fine if it’s in the name of making sure that everything’s on the up and up. That’s what mainstream media will tell you is there’s nothing wrong with an investigation. Let’s see what’s going on here, except when the investigation is on the left. And yeah, if nothing gets turned up from this, fine. If something does get turned up, I love this part of it too, actually. I’ll respond to this idea because I’ll have this conversation with a friend of mine on the left and he’ll say, well, they’ll make something up. They’ll investigate and then they’ll create something that’s not real. And then they’ll hold somebody accountable for this fake thing. I’ve never heard of that before. No one’s ever done that to the right or to Trump before. But here’s the part that I love about that. is it immediately assumes that you’re an idiot or that I’m an idiot or that everybody in society is a moron because we wouldn’t be able to parse out the truth ourselves given more information. The left is terrified of giving you more details. They don’t want you to even want them. And as I said before in the show, the fact that 200 plus plainclothed FBI agents were part of the January 6th crowd, even though they denied anyone being involved for quite some time till eventually getting to the point where, oh, yeah, we had almost 300 people in that group of individuals. The thing about it is they always tell you that like the information could hurt you. If it looks bad for us, it’ll radicalize you and that’ll make you a danger to society. So we have to keep this secret. But also we have to go after anything and everything, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, as long as it’s going after the other side, because at the end of the day, all they believe is that they can shape the narrative. They believe that they can convince you of anything. And unfortunately, there’s a lot of people on the left who repeat all the talking points that demonstrate to me that you haven’t done enough research. You haven’t looked far enough. I’ll tell you this. I have a social media page, Radio Craig C. It’s nothing compared to the Dana Lash, D. Lash radio pages that you should be following. Those ones are way bigger, way more important. But I put something up on my Facebook at Radio Craig Z, and this crazy lefty came after me. And all I said was that I was shocked and needed to process the death of Charlie Kirk. That’s literally all I said. I said there’d be a podcast out. I’ll talk about this in more detail. But right now, it was one of the most shocking moments of my entire professional life, honestly, of my entire life. Not the most shocking. That would be 9-11. But one of the most shocking. And this left person was so angry. that I would actually care about the murder of Charlie Kirk at all, that they came after me and they said all kinds of crazy things. And my favorite thing happened within that interaction with this nuts person who seemed to be overly mad about something that they shouldn’t be anywhere near this mad or mad at all about. If I care about Charlie Kirk and you don’t, which says something about you to me, why does it make you mad that I care? Why do you want to change my opinion of who and what matters to me? That’s a unique thing that makes the left so deranged and insane. But going back and forth, the person accused me of not caring about January 6th. And then I told them that they had the wrong data. And so I shared a link with them. And I think the link was from like factcheck.org, which is overwhelmingly to the left, that demonstrated a lot of the things they were saying were false. And my favorite thing happened. There’s a long story. I promise it has a value. They shared the same link back, which means they didn’t read my link. And they said, we can play the link game all day long. And then they sent me back the article I sent them. And this is a wonderful demonstration of, I think, what we deal with a lot when you talk to people on the left. They are so arrogant. They are so full of their own opinion that they demonstrate how little research they actually do. My response to the person who tweeted me back, or this was on Facebook, sent me back the link I sent them, disproving their narrative, believing it proved their narrative simply because of the source and the headline, and they didn’t actually read the article. The only thing I said back is maybe you should actually read that, that thing that disproves what you’re saying and proves what I’m saying, that I cherry-picked from the left, even though there’s more of them, because the truth is simply the truth in that scenario. But I love the arrogance of that. And when the left is confronted with the idea that they’ve done very little research to have the opinion they have, they double down even harder. They go, how dare you? How dare you say this? How dare you say that? And they continue to demonstrate how little information they actually have and how little information they want. So, of course, their side of the aisle assumes that they’re idiots. It’s a unique version of demonstrating how little you care about finding the truth to do something like that, where you share something that disproves your point that someone just sent to you, not paying attention to any part of it. I know I’m overly harping on this, but it was such a chef’s kiss moment of the stupidity of this is incredible. Because if it were me, like, let’s say, and I know I’m… Sort of a public figure, barely a public figure. Certainly the fanciest thing I do is fill in on the show for Dana, who’s definitely a public figure. But let’s say that in a scenario where I’m arguing with someone, I share a link that definitively disproves my point. The first thing I do is read the article, especially if someone had to point out to me that I hadn’t read it, which is uniquely embarrassing. I would go and read it and I would actually sit there for a second and try to process why I believed something that I accidentally proved to myself wasn’t true. Like there’s something about that, that desire for more information that just seems to be the biggest weakness for some. You just shouldn’t, you need more of it. And so again, to go back to, I guess to make the main point, I was trying to make this odd rant of a thing and promoting my social media page at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow, that would be awesome. It’s not really valuable. At DLash, at DanaLashRadio is better. I probably shouldn’t say that about my own social media pages. But the thing that I love most about all of this is the idea that some people absolutely knee-jerk away from gaining more information. I think that’s why people hated Charlie Kirk so much on the left and seemed to celebrate someone’s death. which is uniquely horrible. That’s a part of our society that you think you’d never get to. We’re even the people who are doing it. I think if they really searched their soul, there has to be something. At least I knock on wood and pray there has to be something in them that knows they’re doing something horrible. But it’s because Charlie Kirk would disprove people to their face using basic truth and knowledge and information and did it respectfully. As Dana said, they killed the nice guy. He was very nice and respectful. And all these videos you might be seeing now of Charlie pop up after his death, which makes him more significant, more impactful in society, continue to show how respectful he was compared to the average person, especially a lot of people on the left and how they behave in these arguments. But it’s just amazing to me. Again, to watch all that unfold and to watch someone actually be a useful idiot, you know, in the moment, showing me how little information truly matters to them and how that can be weaponized and used. The best thing you can do left, right, middle, I don’t care what you’re at, is to actually educate yourself more. And this is something that Charlie Kirk also said a lot by being someone who’s constantly learning. who learns for your entire life, who never stops learning, who never accepts a narrative simply because you heard it once. Dive deeper, read more, see if you believe it after that. All right, quick break, a lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in just for the day. Dana will be back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio on X, on Twitter, on all kinds of social media. You should be following The Dana Lash Show. Both Dana and her team, including producer Stephen, do a great job of keeping you up to date and giving you a whole bunch of stuff that you might have missed that you should check out there. The NFL is going to Brazil, baby. In 2026, they’ll be playing a game in Rio. This is part of, I think, a five-year deal to play NFL games in Brazil. I think this is abundantly cool. I think it’s cool when baseball does it. I think it’s cool when football does it. When you go play our sports, somewhere else in the world, you give more people an opportunity to appreciate our version of football or our version of anything, not the horrible soccer version that people everywhere else in the world seem to think is actually football. No, no, baby. It’s the real deal. There was an odd thought that came across my mind, and I don’t know. I’m going to use this as a word vomit section of the show where I just tell you or a thought vomit section of the show where I tell you stuff. For some reason, I thought that Brazilian cheerleaders would also be a big draw. Brazil is known to have very attractive women. Maybe during the game in Rio, they also get a set of Brazilian cheerleaders to pop up onto the field for a bit. there but we’ll see but it should be cool I love that they do this again that the NFL that MLB this is the best thing they’re doing all the woke horrible stuff that happens in the world of sports right now is the stuff that makes me and I’ll never tune out I like sports too much to ever turn it off I definitely will tune out to the stuff that I don’t care about though and only pay attention to the stuff that I do but this is an exactly different version of that and you know what’s also funny You see this anytime they go somewhere else. They don’t preach as much. It’s not about anything other than the product of the sport. There’s not, you know, the woke statement inside the end zone as often as you see other places because the other countries don’t care about that. And oftentimes you’d actually be unpopular in some of these countries for some of these things you might say and do, which is why I think they don’t do that. All right. other stuff out there. There is one other thing that I thought was pretty interesting, and we’ll probably get to it more in a little bit here, but the UK is going to have a digital ID for the right to work there, which is crazy. I have some audio I’ll likely play after the break about that. But the United Kingdom… Maybe one of the only places that’s an exception to the rule I just said about how wokeness is unattractive, at least for the politicians, maybe not the people, is blazing this crazy trail that we’ve seen again and again fail in other places throughout the world. but getting further and further away from you having any rights and freedoms at all as a person. No freedom of speech, no freedom of all these certain issues, which is just interesting to see from afar how terrible of an idea it’s been. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo some boobs on is just a great… I need that as a bumper sticker for DanaLash. My name is Craig Collins. I’m filling in. That is funny. You cannot do that, by the way. nor would you ever want to. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo some boobs on. All right, let’s talk about some things. This is amazing. This is the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. By the way, much cooler name. I would prefer if we had always used Secretary of War instead of ever getting away from that. But he called for an urgent meeting for all military leaders to report to Virginia. They’re going to have a chit chat. A rare urgent meeting is how it’s been described a whole lot of places. The big question being asked by some is our woke generals getting fired. And I think that would also be great. I think there’s no problem with that. Actually, it’s funny. Let me parallel it with another story out there. Let me try to add both of these together. The White House has said it might lay off some people. This is a response to a potential government shutdown, which the left is saying is not their fault. And the right is saying is not their fault, of course. You know, it’s interesting about this, too. Whenever the government’s about to shut down and the left is in power, my reaction is I don’t care. Not that it’s changing because the right is in power. I want to make sure that you expect that going in. I’m not going to change my mind, but I don’t care. The government can shut down for a little while, for a long while, and I feel like it’s not actually going to impact my life all that much, your life, a lot of our lives. And eventually, unless you work for the government again, you’re probably not even going to notice when it gets turned back on because it will. They also should stop. They should stop paying the politicians who are in charge of shutting down the government. They never do that, but they should anytime they shut it down. The only exception to this rule is I think it’s ridiculous that we stop paying military. A military always deserves to be paid, should always be paid. That should be the group of people that’s above shutdown, not the politicians who are doing the shutting down for all kinds of political and stupid reasons. But anyway, when that happens and when the left is in charge, that’s usually my reaction. What I think is interesting is that people actually react differently now with the right in charge, who would also say that they would say, oh, it’s important or all the left is being terrible. I don’t actually care. And to be honest, I’d kind of like to see it if the White House can use it as a way to fire people who are probably far left leaning, bureaucratic, longtime, you know, government employees who don’t need jobs. If the secretary of war can use it as a catalyst to fire people from that part of our military slash military. a political system. I’m fine with that too. Maybe all of this barreling towards shutdown is inevitably to actually fire a bunch of people, which again is something I voted for. I’m totally fine with that. That sounds great. Let’s do it. I just think it’s funny when people do flip flop on some of these issues, when they’re not intimidated by the idea of it, when Democrats are wielding power and seem to be doing it on purpose. And for some reason they and I’m not saying who, but other people less so seem like they’re gung ho about it. If the Republicans are in charge, I’m totally fine either way. Shut the baby down and fire a whole bunch of people. I totally fine with me. All right. Other things out there? I thought this was interesting. President Trump said that he believes there’s going to be a deal in Gaza, a deal to end the conflict, another conflict that the president would end, yet even more so demonstrating that he is the commander-in-chief of peace, something that he will not get credit for here in this country, but may get credit for on a world stage. Let’s hear a little bit of that.
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I think we have… Maybe a deal on Gaza and very close to a deal on Gaza. I think it’s a deal that will get the hostages back. It’s going to be a deal that will end the war. It’s going to be a deal. It’s going to be a deal. I think we have a deal. That’ll be number eight, Peter.
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Number eight, Peter. He’s talking to the Fox News guy. That’s number eight as far as the amount of peace deals we’ve created during my time, my very short time in office. What I think is really interesting about this, too, and that was right before Trump headed off to the Ryder Cup, where he definitely seems to be having a good time, and I would be, too, if I was the president and got to go to the Ryder Cup. What I think is interesting about the potential for a deal in Gaza or a deal anywhere else or any of that ushering in of peace is how the left inevitably tries to change it. They try to somehow discredit it, somehow find an avenue to where this was done wrong or this could have been done sooner. Biden not only was terrified of being in front of media, he did not do what Trump does on a daily basis. Anyone who does what I do for a living, what Dana does, anybody who pays attention to media, you can find a Trump clip every day. And it’s not because he did one thing that’s been viral for weeks. It’s because Trump is providing a clip to media every single day. When the left says that his brain doesn’t work, that it’s broken, that he can’t pronounce acetaminophen, which I don’t know, that did happen. I’m not going to pretend it didn’t. I don’t know why. Maybe Trump’s not a guy who takes Tylenol a lot, so isn’t aware of that. But nonetheless, when they point to those things, they ignore the ridiculous amounts of audio that exist on a daily basis that disprove that idea. I would not have said that Biden’s brain was broken if he was doing this many interviews this well with media every day. But of course, his administration knew that he wouldn’t. So they protected him at all costs from anyone and everyone in media. And actually, it’s not like they could roll out the vice president. Her word salad broken crazy things seem to demonstrate that her brain might also be broken at a much younger age, which is probably bad. A case in point might be this. There’s a new viral clip that shows Kamala Harris talking about how babies would be passed around at her rallies. This is a weird thing to brag about, by the way. Like, not pass to her to kiss them. She just, like, would see in the audience a whole bunch of people just passing around babies. Whether or not that’s my child and I trust all the people around me to give the child back to me, that’s not important. We’re celebrating the vice president, apparently, and her run for office by passing around babies just at any kind of event for some reason. Here is how Kamala Harris described this.
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You know, one of my favorite things to see, and it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies, and thousands of people would come, and it would happen is invariably somebody would want me to take a picture or to hug their child, and someone in the back would hand that baby over. Just hand the baby. Through the crowd. Up to you. Of people who would hold and care. But pass the baby.
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And then pass the baby back.
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Pass the baby back. This is ridiculous. It didn’t happen, by the way. This not only didn’t occur as often as Kamala Harris wants to say it did, but if it did, she should have immediately said no to this. Like, don’t just hand your baby to strangers. Don’t do that just to get a picture with me and the baby. This seems ridiculous and bad. It’s insane. And there’s so many different versions of just broken, ridiculous, lying craziness. But that is Harris. And she also said it with that twang and voice that she’s trying to use, depending on who she thinks her audience is. Her speech changes, which is weird, and it happens for a lot of people in politics. And I want to say another thing about that real quick. I know that’s not what this rant is about, per se. If you’re someone, Jasmine Crockett’s another name that comes to mind, and Trump recently called her low IQ again. But if you’re someone who talks like that in your real life, like when the cameras are off, when you’re not in front of the microphone, and you can say it’s because of your ethnicity or whatever you want, If you’re someone who talks in, you know, that weird version of speech that I don’t use as a white dude, then do it all the time. Don’t do it occasionally. Do it constantly. Own who you are. Be yourself. Don’t be performative in another way if your performance is actually the version of you that doesn’t speak like that. I think that that would be good for society is to be who you are all the time, because it would make me not accuse you of being performative when you do it occasionally, when in front of certain audiences. And Hillary Clinton did this. A bunch of other people did this. And I know if you’re a black, you’ll couch this in. Well, this is how I actually am. I just can’t be this way because white people wouldn’t like it. Well, that’s as inauthentic as the opposite, as pretending that you’re something you’re not, depending on what crowd you’re in front of. Just be yourself and see if you can get votes that way. But that’s why I don’t believe it. I don’t think that these individuals are like this. And actually, what I most appreciate… I guess this is the last thing I’ll say before I take a break. I most appreciate about Trump, about Elon Musk, about Charlie Kirk. Very tragic to have lost Charlie Kirk. I know I didn’t fill in for Dana after that, and she did an amazing job. You should check out the videos and audio that’s out there, Dana, who knew Charlie and how she talked about him. But something that they said about Charlie Kirk that they say about Elon and Trump, same person. in front of microphone, in front of camera, as they are off camera, off microphone, exact same, same beliefs, same thoughts, same mannerisms, just identical individual. And that is so rare in our society, especially in politics. It’s so rare that it deserves to be celebrated. And these individuals who don’t do it, who don’t do any form of it, deserve to be told that they need to behave differently and be rejected by society until they actually are the real version of themselves, whatever it is. Because the performance is the thing that acts like you and I are stupid. It definitely does not respect the audience when you do performative versions of anything. And so I think it’s sort of amazing that we have that version of defense that comes out whenever someone does throw in the slang more. And then they say, well, that’s who I actually am, but you can’t take it as the white people out there or the whoever out there in society. So I can only be myself occasionally. That means you’re a liar. And that means you’re probably lying about a whole bunch of other things, if it’s even true that the lie you’re telling us is actually a fact and not just another lie. All right. One last thing. I do want to play this. This is an announcement in the UK that a digital ID will be required to work there. More authoritarian, crazy Nazi type of stuff is happening in the world. It’s not happening here. It’s happening in the United Kingdom.
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And that is why today I am announcing this government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It’s as simple as that.
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Yeah, this is a thing that’s happening. More things are happening. A digital ID is the first step toward Chinese government takeover is what many people are reacting to on social media because China. use this as a foundation for their own surveillance, their own state surveillance of their people. So great job, UK, barreling further and further toward an unrecognizable thing, or at least it should be unrecognizable, to the people here in the United States and what we deserve to have, the freedoms that we think everybody is entitled to, a right that you were given by God and not by any sort of military or political system. All right, quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. It’s time for a Quick Five on the Dana Show. Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig Collins filling in. This is funny whenever this happens. But a ref turned on a microphone during Thursday night football last night. And just as he was talking and making a call, a player walked by him and said a very bad word. Seattle, Arizona, final score 23-20. This moment probably, you know, as entertaining as a very good game. Here we go.
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Jackson Smith and Jigba, who didn’t really need to make the hole, is right in front of the ball carrier. Offense number 11. 10-yard penalty. Be careful. He even looked. He did. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah.
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beautiful I love all the reactions to it after they hear the bad word that gets played on television mostly because I bet you the player did it on purpose I think that you know as the mic’s on you want your side of the equation to be thrown in there and that’s what it was so I like that all the time I like when players are mic’d up I like when baseball does it everything about it is just a lot of fun let’s get more of that going on I don’t care if bad words happen it’s a part of the game baby They’re saying a whole lot of bad things on the field all the time. Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit about deceptive practices and forcing you into certain things as far as your Amazon Prime membership is concerned. Deceptive Prime enrollment practices is what it was saying. The suit was filed in 2023 under the Biden administration. It claimed that Amazon created confusing and deceptive user interfaces that led consumers to enroll in Prime without knowing it. pay a whole bunch of money. So yeah, yet another company that’s big and terrible and overly powerful in our society doing something bad and getting hit with a speed bump that they’ll pay. Even if the speed bump is that significant, they’ll figure out a way to throw that money in and just keep going, just keep doing more of the same. All right. Another thing out there, Starbucks has announced significant store closures and layoffs. This is causing a whole lot of chaos on the left. CNN is one of the places that reported on this and talked about how it might be because Starbucks has dealt with a whole lot of employees who have unionized. And that means that Starbucks is bad, not the other thing. The thing is that Starbucks is struggling a whole lot because a bunch of its stores not as popular. apparently, and the amount of money they’re paying off their workers, maybe not as great as it used to be. So again, a big reason why likely this whole thing is shutting down or not all of them, but a bunch of Starbucks are closing is because you can’t force a business to do something that doesn’t benefit the business. Inevitably, they just close the whole thing down. Not surprised at all. And again, I don’t think I’ll go into the fear mongering version of this is bad because because this is how companies react to losing money. They close businesses. There’s a guy that needs to be publicly roasted. Ticketmaster CEO says concert tickets are too cheap. Actually, that’s ridiculous, of course, to a whole lot of us. But the CEO at Ticketmaster would like concert tickets to be more expensive. So he makes more money. Mostly what he’s saying is that they get resold on the secondary market for more money than actually people pay for them originally, and it’s cutting into his profits, baby. What an idiot. 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 for the day. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C if you want to follow someone way less successful than Dana who’s way less active because I don’t have people like the fancy producer Stephen helping. Dana does a lot of it herself too. I make for some awesome social media posts. All right, let’s talk about Call Me. It’s the topic of conversation. The left is going to tell you that this is politicizing the DOJ, weaponizing it against your political opponents. All the stuff the left did to Donald Trump while he was running for the office of president is now happening to James Comey. This is according to the left again. Not someone who’s actually significant. Comey’s not going to be running for the president and winning anytime soon, which is why that narrative is uniquely ridiculous. But let’s first prove that it’s a thing that actually deserves to happen. Comey lied under oath. He is going to be in trouble for that, most likely, in trouble for all kinds of things like, you know, preventing obstructing justice is actually the way to say it, but preventing investigations from going the way they should go because of the lying and the dishonesty and the whatnot and the illegal stuff. Again, all ways to say it. But here’s proof that Comey actually did the thing that Republicans are likely to hold him accountable for doing.
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Director Comey, have you ever… been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation never uh question i really love how quiet it got after that answer from years ago uh because everybody’s like yeah no we know he’s done this two one relatively related. Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? No.
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By the way, eventually Comey went on under oath to say that he did exactly that thing that he just said he didn’t do. So lying under oath all that bad, not good. These are things that get you in a lot of trouble. Comey, for his part in all this, is saying, let’s have a trial. Let’s figure out if what I admitted to doing is something that I inevitably did. And you can prove in a courtroom I did because you can just play tape of me doing it and then, you know, disagreeing with myself years later. Here we go.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she’s right, but I’m not afraid. And I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it.
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Which it does. Yeah, by the way, I love the fact when he says she and then he’s trying to refer to somebody he loves because it sounds a whole lot like it’s Hillary Clinton. That’s not my joke, by the way. I’m stealing that from Sergio Sanchez of KURV, a Dana affiliate, who texted me that this morning. He’s like, hey, man, you should just say that it’s Hillary that he’s talking about because it kind of sounds like it’s Hillary that he’s talking about. But I love the fact… That he says we’re going to fight. We’re not going to bend the knee to Donald Trump. This was a person when he was in a position of power that claimed he wasn’t politically biased, which seems ridiculous and insane when you watch who the person’s been after he thinks the rules don’t apply anymore. And they’re they’re off and he’s allowed to say and do whatever he wants. By the way, I’m fairly certain. that a whole bunch of people claim that no one’s above the law. So if Comey lied under oath, if he obstructed justice and prevented an investigation from going the way it should go by protecting himself from getting in more trouble, but actually causing himself to likely be in a lot of trouble now, then he deserves to have the book thrown at him. That’s not my opinion. That’s the left’s opinion.
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No one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful, or politically connected you are.
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Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor.
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The fact is, no one is above the law.
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No one, not even the president, is above the law.
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And not as James Comey, above the law, according again to the left and their rhetoric, at least as I’m supposed to believe it. By the way, James Comey’s son has also quit. He was a assistant U.S. attorney. He resigned. He said it had something to do with his dad or some crap. But the reality is he’s probably hiding and running from anything that’s terrible that he’s also doing and a part of. What I love most about this And this is what I’ll go back to in the audio from Comey before. I can play a little bit more of it, but some part of me doesn’t want to. I think that’s enough. He said, let’s have a trial. And I agree with him. Let’s have a trial and see how much trouble he actually gets in. But the thing is, they always have to make it about you. It always has to involve you. A James Comey lied under oath about leaking information to the press that he shouldn’t have leaked to the press. And his version of rhetoric to try to get you to support him is you’re next. You’re the next person on the chopping block. And the Democrats as a whole, the people who voted for the Democratic Party, haven’t done that. They haven’t had the opportunity to lie under oath themselves. So it’s not about everybody. It’s about him. It’s not a fight against authoritarianism. It’s not a fight against, you know, the dictator that Donald Trump is not, but they claim he is. It’s actually just a person getting their comeuppance that they deserve, that they were stupid enough to admit themselves to having done. All right. Another piece of audio that’s pretty interesting out there and more left-leaning people or just far-left crazy people that could get in a lot of trouble involve George Soros and Reid Hoffman, President Trump, who said he doesn’t really know who they are, which I do love that, too. I don’t believe it, but I find it amusing when he says these things. But he’s not deeply tied to the investigation is what he’s trying to get across. They might get in some trouble for backing some left-wing terrorist groups. That would be another no-no in our society.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Go ahead. Why don’t you defend it?
SPEAKER 22 :
Let’s see you defend them, Jeff.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I’m not defending anyone. I just want so that we can explain this in our stories. Could you name a couple?
SPEAKER 22 :
You don’t explain it right, though, Jeff. Go ahead. Let’s go. Maybe let’s give you another chance.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don’t know. But Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. maybe i hear about a guy named reid hoffman maybe he’s a pretty rich guy i guess and i hear about him i don’t know maybe maybe could be him could be a lot of people we we hear the same names but they’re bad and we’re going to find out and if they are funding these things they’re going to have some problems because they’re agitators and they’re anarchists these are anarchists Really bad. OK.
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Yeah, they’re really bad people. A whole lot of people are very bad people. In fact, actually, in other news that seems somewhat related to the whole anarchist thing and the whole funding of terrorism thing. And this is just something that the FBI has finally admitted. They had almost 300, like 250 plainclothed agents in the crowd on January 6th. And of course, those people didn’t actually try to push to have the thing that happened happen that day. Of course, that wasn’t the FBI agents in the crowd trying to make something worse and not better because they were doing it for political reasons at the time. Of course not. But they finally admitted this years later that a whole bunch of, quote, conspiracy theorists thought was happening that were then told and, you know, yelled at for being horrible people that needed to be canceled and their social media pages needed to be removed. And then apparently they were right all along. Because very often now the conspiracy theorists are actually right, which is why we probably can’t call them conspiracy theorists anymore. And by the way, celebrating Kimmel this week has probably been one of the most annoying things the left has done. I don’t think they’ll be watching long term because Kimmel’s just really not that good. He alienates half his audience and how hardcore politically he is. Something that, you know, I really love a quote from Johnny Carson about this. And I’m about to be 40, so I’m not someone who grew up watching Carson. But you can still appreciate the significance of Johnny Carson to late-night television. And one thing he said about not sharing his own opinion in that world is that if you do it too often, it starts to become something that you believe is more important than just entertaining people. You start to be so full of yourself—this is Carson’s opinion— That you no longer are serving your audience. You’re serving yourself and how you throw out your opinions on a daily basis in the world of late night entertainment television. And I think he’s absolutely right about that. There are places and forums where what you choose to go and consume is going to be opinionated, political, whatever. I mean, this show is a great example of that. Dana is not going to be shy about her opinions on a daily basis on this show because that’s what this show is about. But if she were given a late night, you know, entertainment talk show, I shouldn’t speak for Dana, but I think if anybody were given a late night entertainment talk show, some part of them might say, hey, if I can try to lay off the politics a little more in that atmosphere, maybe I’d have a larger audience. This is something that Kimmel and others seem to refuse to learn that Johnny Carson knew is that if you’re not coming to me for political opinion and when you used to turn on late night entertainment interview TV, you weren’t going there for political opinion. And a whole lot of people do not go there for political opinion now. That’s why they don’t watch it. Then you shouldn’t add it. You actually you know what I also love? It’s something that a couple guys in sports radio talk about. I won’t name them. I don’t want to push you anywhere other than this show. But I do love when people say that the audience determines what I pay attention to, not what I think of it. That’s not how the audience gets to tell me what to do. My opinion will always be my own. I have to share my own. I have to be honest about what I think because anything else is going to fail. Honestly, that’s the number one trick I think of media in general, whatever form you’re on, is say what you actually think. It’ll be easier than trying to make up stuff that you don’t believe. But as far as what topics you discuss, absolutely the audience can dictate which ones you should be focused on because it’s the ones they care about. and the ones they probably most want your take on. And that’s something that comes from sports media too. And I love that when people say that, when they push you that road, because it is true. It is valuable to pay attention to the things that other people are paying attention to. Now, case in point, to get back to something else I was trying to say, though, is late night hosts celebrated Trump being censored and removed from all media. Jimmy Kimmel, for about a week, lost a network talk show. He got it back, but he lost it for a few days. He wasn’t silenced at any form of social media. He absolutely joked about the death of Charlie Kirk, and he absolutely tried to point the finger at MAGA and claim that the killer of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA individual, which he’s absolutely not. No part of that makes any sense. He then came back without apologizing and said that he never meant to say the things he evidently said. But nonetheless, he wasn’t silenced as much as Trump was. This did not occur in the same capacity whatsoever. And here is the left celebrating the silencing of someone that they heavily disagree with. Again, something that didn’t even happen to Kimmel. But now Kimmel and others are pretending as though it’s a freedom of speech thing for them and for, you know, this one person to be kept on network television, even though, as I said a moment ago, he’s already alienating half of the audience. and how he chooses to be overly political when they’re really coming there for entertainment, or at least used to come there for that and not for the political ranting.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But don’t worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parlor is where all the right wingers gather to post QA nonsense and misspelled the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they’re being silenced. In fact, they won’t shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
SPEAKER 03 :
Damn. A lifetime Twitter ban has got a sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn’t the only social media site that wants nothing to do with our president. He’s also been banned or restricted from a bevy of other platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, and even Twitch. What are you waiting for, Pornhub? It’s not a coincidence. Yeah, way to go.
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Stephen Colbert, hilarious, hilarious stuff. Anyway, again, they all celebrated this. And these are the same people that are up in arms now saying that, you know, the right to have a talk show is the same as the right of a president of the United States to be left on social media platforms. The silencing of Trump while he was still in the office of president is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things that ever happened in our society. And it should be the same thing where the, you know, free speech warrior is up in arms screaming and yelling and all of them were celebrating it. So you reap what you sow seems to be an aspect of that in the world of these individuals being so proud of something. If it inevitably even remotely close to the same, which it wasn’t happens to them, they get to react the way they do. But guess what? We’re not all that surprised that it occurs. And maybe more of these people deserve to be fired because they don’t have anywhere near the audience that Carson used to have. Because no one cares about hearing their political opinion so much. Let the audience tell you what it wants to hear you talk about. Don’t be defiant in the face of that when your ratings are terrible. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. I am Craig Collins filling in. A Florida man put somebody else in his car over a crazy, crazy argument that happened at a 7-Eleven. So a Florida clerk is working, and a dude comes into the 7-Eleven in Florida, of course. The guy, I think, is 49 years old. This is in Seminole County where it happened, and he wants to buy some black and milds. He wants to buy some cigars, some very popular small cigars, actually. He said that the clerk didn’t immediately stop cleaning up to serve him. So he got mad. He started to yell and they got into a verbal argument. And at one point, the clerk at the 7-Eleven decided to usher the man out of the establishment into his vehicle and lock him up. which I find hilarious. I also do think that it’s the kind of thing that you’re sort of weak if you allow someone to do. But anyway, nonetheless, yes, the guy, the defendant, wound up getting shut inside a vehicle that he couldn’t get out of for some reason. That’s when he called 911 to say that he had been detained and arrested by the 7-Eleven clerk who thought he was being disrespectful in the first place. This only happens in Florida, man. You only have somebody walk into an establishment, get mad about the service they provide, and then have that person who you’re mad at decide to pseudo arrest you, which is illegal. That is a crime. You do get in trouble for that. He said the defendant that he was scared that something else might happen, which is part of the reason he went along with being locked inside the guy’s car. Come on, dude. Just leave. Just decide not to get your black and mild and leave when the clerk is berating you for being upset with them and then also threatening to lock you into their vehicle. This story is crazy, though. Another Florida man that I do like, a guy in Marion County, decided to build a tire fortress around his property. when he thought people were being a little bit too nosy. This is the kind of thing I just accept and not even really pay attention to, to be honest. If I live next to a Florida tire fort guy, I just think that was the cost of living in beautiful Florida. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. I’m going to laugh every time I hear bippity boppity some boobs on. That is not something you can do and not something you want to do, in all honesty. Great show, as always, for Dana. Great everything. Check it out on social media. I listen to this every single day. Thrilled to be here today for… All right, let’s do this. The president signed a national security memorandum that’s going to establish a comprehensive strategy to investigate, disrupt, dismantle, do everything against organized political violence. Essentially, the people who fund what is domestic terrorism in our country, we’re going to attack it and go after it. This should be universally praised as a good thing because and this is kind of crazy that I’m going to say this as if it’s something people don’t agree on. Terrorism is bad. All kinds, even the domestic kind, even the kind that causes all kinds of violence and horrible things in our country based on politics. Here we go with President Trump.
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Sir, this is a presidential memorandum on countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence. In recent weeks, months, and years, we’ve seen a tremendous upsurge in some highly visible but also other acts of domestic terrorism and organized political violence being perpetrated by radical politically motivated groups all over the country. What this presidential memorandum will do is set off an administration-wide response to that. ranging from the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to other components of the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Treasury. We’re looking at interdicting these groups, preventing them from performing acts of violence and also looking at sources of organization and funding and support that prop them up and allow them to do the acts that they have been doing.
SPEAKER 04 :
This is great. Let’s let Trump continue to say that, but this is a good thing.
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We’re looking at the funders of a lot of these groups and… You know, when you see the signs and they’re all beautiful signs made professionally. These aren’t your protesters that make the sign in their basement late in the evening because they really believe it. These are anarchists and agitators, professional anarchists and agitators. And they get hired by wealthy people, some of whom I know, I guess, you know, probably know them. And you wouldn’t know it at dinner with them. Everything’s nice. And then you find out that they funded millions of dollars to these lunatics.
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Yeah, this is the kind of thing that we should actually investigate and go after and check. And anyone who says that this is a slippery slope, that all you’re going to get is a whole bunch of manufactured fake, you know, not actually guilty of anything accusations in order to go after your political opponents. I’ll then prove that when it happens. That’s usually my best response. Let’s actually see what the accusations are. Let’s react to them in the moment as they’re happening. But let’s go ahead and make sure that people can’t fund terrorism. Even here domestically, that seems like a good thing, even though somehow this is something that people disagree on, who are saying that the DOJ is now weaponized and that James Comey is an example of it, which is insane in other ways. All right, I’m going to shift gears for a second away from Comey. I’ll probably talk about it in about 20 minutes or so before we get out of here today just because it is such a big story. He has been indicted by a grand jury, and he’s likely to get in a whole lot of trouble for lying under oath, something that you can easily verify he did via the video of him doing it, and then the other video years later of him contradicting the thing he said. So this should be an open and shut. a version of a thing where Comey gets in trouble for actually breaking the law. And if no one is above the law, then it’s good, right? On the left, that Comey’s in trouble? No, of course not. All right, let’s play this. I have two pieces of audio. that I love. There is an obsession with talking about race that doesn’t need to exist in our society right now because it seems to be designed only to get political points. A case in point might be Representative Presley, who recently said that as a black woman, she is both hyper-visible and invisible, which doesn’t make sense. That begs the logical question, how are you both of those things? I’ll play this audio real quick.
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There has been such a targeting. To be a black woman is to just walk in this dichotomy of being hyper-visible, where you are surveyed, targeted, criminalized, while also hyper-invisible. Because contributions are ignored and denied, if not relegated to a footnote, and our pain delegitimized. And that’s the dichotomy that we’re
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, no, wrong. I’m sorry. I don’t know how to say this differently. And I know that you’re not allowed to talk about race at times. Some people believe this. I don’t believe this. I’m assuming you don’t believe this. I’m a white guy. I’m going to talk about race. Charlie Kirk would often debate certain topics with race as a component of it. And then the left called him a racist, which he evidently wasn’t, not even at all. And essentially they killed it for they being society in general, for being willing to have these types of discussions as a white guy. I think that is a byproduct of what happened there. But anyway, what I think is crazy about this idea is that saying that you’re being silenced because of your race provides you a microphone in our current society. There’s a lot of things that provide you a microphone saying, this thing that I did is not getting the amount of recognition that it deserves because of my race, my sex, my whatever. If you’re anything other than a white guy, the odds of someone amplifying that megaphone around you because they believe that narrative is through the roof right now. So Presley absolutely has more of a presence in society and the things she says and does are focused on by a whole bunch of people in society because they believe it’s somehow a reaction to the racist world in which they believe they live in, not the actual society that we live in where people are hyper-focused on in a positive way. for being people that say they’re being marginalized. That is simply the world we live in now. Jasmine Crockett is another individual who all the time says that the focus on her isn’t fair or isn’t enough or it’s too much at other times. When she also says a bunch of really ridiculous and idiotic things, this is something that Trump reacted to yet again. Someone asked a question about Jasmine Crockett and Trump did not pull any punches in how he feels about the representative.
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Jasmine Crockett.
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Remember what I said? Is she a relation to the late great David Crockett? I don’t think so. Justin Crockett, let me tell you, before you even ask. She’s a very low IQ person. I mean, if we ever had to pass an aptitude test, that’s the one should take one because she shouldn’t even be in the crowd. So I have no idea what you’re going to, but I don’t think we should waste our time. This is a low IQ person who I can’t even believe is a congressperson between her and Ilhan Omar and the group. You know, I met the head of Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he’d like to take her back. And he said, I don’t want her.
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He doesn’t want her back. Here’s the thing. Jasmine Crockett and a bunch of other people are going to say that Trump’s being a racist. And then anything I say that’s negative about someone who’s in a position of power politically, if they happen to be a black woman, is racist. Like, oh, that’s racism. That’s horrible. That is a protection that exists in our society that wouldn’t happen if someone says that Trump’s a low IQ person. And the left obviously says this all the time. No one would be like, how dare you marginalize a white man? That’s not how they behave in society. So that inevitably allows you to protect someone who does seem like just a low IQ person. And it has nothing to do with her race, her sex, anything. It simply has to do with the ability of her brain to think valuable thoughts and the lack of ability to do that. That’s a Jasmine Crockett. That’s some of these other people in society, but they’re protected. To a certain extent, they’re immune to criticism because they can pull the race card, the sex card, the whatever, a marginalized version of a card that they want to try to pull in order to get a larger microphone, not a smaller one, which is why it’s ridiculous for politicians to say, Presley and anyone else, that it makes them invisible to be anything other than, say, a politician whose thoughts matter most. There’s a reason why Democrats… keep trying to bring a woman forward to be the next president of the United States. The reason why is they think that you would vote for her because she’s a her, not because her thoughts are valuable or good. They want to do the same thing they did when they believe Obama got elected because of his race. even though Obama, I think, partially got elected because he’s a very eloquent speaker. Now, granted, he didn’t actually do things that were good for society the way that he might have convinced people in 2008 he was going to. He did all the bad stuff that people behind closed doors do. But I think the real reason… that someone got elected has more to do with, you know, their capability, at least publicly, more so than their, you know, simple color of their skin or whatever. But that’s not how Democrats think. I mean, look at the politicians that they’ve paired with Hillary Clinton and with Kamala Harris when they ran them. Generic older white dude who’s overly woke, overly, you know, feminine. The Tim Walls, the Tim Canes of the world are people that are eerily similar because they also think very little of you. They think that you will vote for someone based on anything other than the the content of their character. And the beliefs and the, you know, things that they espouse, the policies and the things that they stand by, those things are things that are marginalized on the left instead of your race, your sex, etc. And yet the left still complains that somehow those things are what’s holding those people back. That is insane. Anyone and everyone. who’s in a position of power because of DEI type of stuff, knows it. They know that it’s something, and they lean on it, and they claim that it’s still harming them when it’s done anything but. And as a white dude saying that out loud, I could get in trouble, and yet I don’t care at all. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on for this show. Let’s do this first. An elderly care home had introduced robotic dogs and cats as a way to tackle loneliness. Also, I think in China right now, there are more robot workers than anywhere else in the world combined. The amount of robots doing work in China is skyrocketing. scary. But elderly people in England now get to interact with robotic dogs and cats instead of just getting real dogs and cats, which feels like the thing you should have done. I think there’s some audio for this story, too. I’m not okay with the robotic cat purring sounds or the robotic dog barking sounds. All this just seems wrong. It just seems weird. I’m not okay with it. Robots are slowly taking over, essentially, is the story there. And a twofer, both in China and in the UK. All right. Another story out there that I thought was interesting. A Linkin Park lullaby album is dropping today. A Rockabye Baby is the name of a group that turns music into lullaby music. I have a piece of audio for this one, too. But I just think it’s hilarious that Linkin Park is the latest to get the Rockabye Baby treatment. Because if you’re someone who loves this music and you want your kids to love it too, no better way to start the brainwashing early than to play it as lullaby music as they’re going to sleep. Here’s an example.
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Okay. Okay.
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If you can’t tell, that’s In The End by Linkin Park without any vocals and a lot of lullaby treatment. This is a company that does a whole bunch of this. I actually kind of like this. I think this is kind of cool to be able to rock your kid to sleep with whatever the rock music of choice or whatever music of choice you have is. so that you can demonstrate to them how great this music is and slowly and surely turn them into someone who’s as big of a fan as you are without them even knowing it. You’re brainwashing your baby in the best of ways to make their musical taste match yours. That I’m okay with. A lot of brainwashing I’m not okay with. But the music today is so much worse. I’m not even calling Linkin Park an example of great music. You got to go back further than that. But darn it, so much good music. The ACDC Rockabye album is a good one to check out too. That’s my own suggestion. Miriam Webster dictionary added more than 5,000 terms, which seems ridiculous and demonstrates how it’s not really a dictionary at all anymore. Among those terms are things like beast mode and dad bod, which apparently were not defined before. A dad bod, by the way, as defined by Miriam Webster, is a physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular physically. See, now this is interesting because my perception of a dad bod is it’s a dad who hasn’t given up entirely. That’s what I thought it was. There’s demonstrations of how you still care about your physical fitness while you might not currently be in good shape. That’s what I thought it meant. I thought that, you know, sometimes hitting the gym was the version of creating the dad bod that may or may not. be a reflection of even myself now. As I get closer to 40, you haven’t given up entirely. You’ve just mostly given up, is a version of it. A dumb phone is another term that got defined by Merriam-Webster. This is a cell phone that’s anything other than smart. something that can just make phone calls and maybe not do things like browse the internet. Essentially, you could just call it a phone and not the computer that’s in your pocket now. And finally, love language is something that’s been defined. It’s a person-specific desire for how they’re shown love or care, meaning that you have a specific love language that people communicate to you that you like and stuff that you don’t like. I’m not really sure how I feel about the idea that that’s a Merriam-Webster-defined term. But it is a reality. There are versions of treating someone a certain way that they like that other people don’t. My wife loves to be bought gifts. I imagine very few people don’t like to be bought gifts. But my wife says that’s her love language. Buying her things, you know, nice things is a great way to show her that I care. Convenient, I’m sure, of course. For me, it’s just anything. It’s just any sort of niceness, any sort of anything at all. You don’t even have to buy me stuff. I’m a dude. I’m much, much easier to make happy. One final thing. Hershey’s defended a lawsuit claiming its Halloween candies weren’t spooky enough. Someone brought a $5 million suit against Hershey’s, a woman, last year, saying that their Halloween candy needs to be scarier. The pumpkin, essentially, on the Reese’s shouldn’t be smiling. It should be upset. Hershey’s actually defended themselves in this lawsuit because they don’t want the frivolous suit to gain any kind of benefit to the woman who brought it. Way to go, Hershey’s. Quick break. A little bit more coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. And yet a big announcement happened today. Sinclair has folded. They have decided to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live starting tonight and air the show. Now, Sinclair has tried to have some sort of moral victory or some sort of lesser than actual victory. They lose, but they’re claiming that they didn’t completely because they’ve made suggestions on how to make the show better, how to make it something that doesn’t alienate half of the people here in the United States of America with how Jimmy says and does stuff or his lack of apology. Now, granted, I will say one thing about Kimmel when he first came back. His praising of Erica Kirk was, I think, genuine and also a smart thing to do, an easy thing to do, because Erica’s behavior over the last week or so has been incredible. Her saying out loud that she forgave the person who killed her husband a mere days after it happened was one of the most Christlike things I’ve seen in society in a long time. And so praising someone like that is uniquely easy, even for the hardcore lefty that is Jimmy Kimmel. But that shouldn’t be enough for Sinclair to, quote, bend the knee or fold or say that, you know what, that’s fine. He tried, you know, and so we’re going to start carrying the show again. But here’s what I think is really interesting about this. I’m not exactly upset that it’s going to occur because the ratings aren’t going to be good. Long term, the ratings are going to be as bad as they’ve always been. Kimmel will continue to struggle. We know that. You know that. I know that. And so inevitably, the narrative won’t be that the big bad media outlets like Sinclair prevented Kimmel from having the audience that he’s supposed to have, but his own behavior. his own inability to retain that audience that may or may not have been watching for the last couple of days is in fact going to be the true narrative, the true story. And eventually these late night shows will go the way of everything else that slowly and surely faded from our society because it’s just not relevant anymore. He’s just not relevant. The only thing that made Kimmel relevant was him becoming the news. And that’s the worst case scenario. For you as a broadcaster or an entertainer or anyone out there, you never want to be the news. And on the off chance that you are the news, it’s going to be the least permanent form of having people pay attention to you. And he made it all about himself when he actually came back, too. He did not apologize, et cetera, et cetera. But I’m not surprised by this, to be honest with you, too. to be honest with anyone out there, anyone that’s upset with Sinclair or any of these other broadcast platforms, because essentially the narrative was too easy to wield against them, that they’re the big, bad, horrible person doing the terrible thing, when the reality is that, say, a year from now, if Kimmel gets fired like Colbert, because his ratings don’t wind up being amazingly better long-term because he’s as hardcore to the left and unapologetic about it as he is, then eventually you won’t be able to say that it was the fault of the conservatives that prevented this from happening. And also it continues to demonstrate that we do live in a free and fair society. Well, I don’t know about fair all the time, but we live in a free society because he is not, you know, in jail and incapable of doing a show. He’s doing his show. It’s fully back. None of the things that that were talked about happen. And if the FCC and Trump actually go after him, which I know that Trump has made some more references to that on social media, on Truth Social. which Kimmel then used to his own benefit to say that it’s still like a silencing of his speech thing, they still would go to a courtroom, they’d still battle it out in a courtroom, and they’d still decide whether or not what Kimmel is doing is essentially free propaganda media for the left, which is absolutely what it is. But the thing that makes me most mad And I think it’s the thing that I wish we could all agree on. Because just agreeing on it, even if you don’t think that it’s, you know, something that should have happened differently or you can be upset about it, happy about it, I don’t care. But we should at least be able to agree that Jimmy Kimmel absolutely made a joke that not only seemed to belittle the death of Charlie Kirk in comparing the president’s reaction to the way that a baby reacts, you know, not getting a toy or candy or something. but also said that it was a MAGA person who did the killing. That is what Kimmel said. And that is what Kimmel should apologize for in the horrific response to the death of Charlie Kirk from that show and from that entertainer, if that’s actually the word you want to use to describe him. And that’s not a thing that happened. If there were anything that made me want to have Sinclair and these other places continue to preempt the show, it was the inability for Kimmel to tell the truth and to apologize for the thing that he absolutely did. And actually, you know what’s really interesting? Out of all the people who reacted to this, Bill Maher might have been one of the more interesting ones to me. Because Bill Maher said something to Jimmy Kimmel that I thought was… He said it publicly. He said it into a television camera and a microphone. He probably also may have tried to communicate it directly to Jimmy. But I don’t care. The thing that I thought was interesting about it, and I’m certainly a guy who disagrees with Bill Maher on a lot of stuff… But he said that you’re allowing hate to run your life, more or less. I’m paraphrasing. But Bill Maher told Jimmy Kimmel that he was blinded by the hatred he had for Donald Trump, for the right, for wishing that people during COVID would die who disagreed with him. All kinds of things that Jimmy Kimmel has done He was allowing that to influence all of his thoughts and behaviors. And that’s why he would accuse someone who killed Charlie Kirk of being a MAGA Republican. That it’s just hate that motivates you that far and then makes you refuse to acknowledge when hate has pushed you that far into the corner. Because that’s the other thing about the power of hate is it’s influential and significant enough to make you double and triple down on the horrible things that you say and do and never repent or never acknowledge the mistakes you’re making. And so, again, I just think it’s sort of amazing that Sinclair is going to start airing the show, mostly because he never apologized. But as I said a moment ago, it does selfishly give me some level of of, you know, I wouldn’t call it happiness, but some level of, see, I told you so, because I believe that when Kimmel fails, it won’t be something you can blame on Sinclair or any sort of media that stood up to him. You’ll be able to say that it’s just the fact that he’s terrible at entertaining people on television and his ratings actually are awful. This is not an untrue statement when Trump made it that he gets something like I think like a million viewers or something, which is horrible for a late night network television. But all of the late night network television people are fighting it with a million here or a million there. And the YouTubers have way more people bet this radio show. has way more people that pay attention to it than late-night television does, and that should say something to the late-night television people. Maybe give Dana a show at some point. All right. President Trump also referenced George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, as people that might be probed for funding left-wing terror groups. I think this is great. I think it’s weird… Let me say it this way. This is the best way I can say it. I think it’s weird that the left is now a proponent of violence in cities because Trump trying to end violence in cities by using the National Guard in places like D.C. should be something that everybody’s fine with. It feels like a lot of the traps being set by Republicans right now for Democrats are trying to show just how extreme the Democrats have become. They’re for violence in cities, apparently, because they don’t like ICE and they don’t like the military. They’re also for terrorist groups getting money from their would-be giant rich financial backers themselves because they think that this is political witch hunts or some other version of something else, as opposed to just being an investigation to see if Money is being given to Antifa, who then riot and loot in cities with Democratic dollars and us thinking that’s bad as a society. Essentially, all of these are ways to demonstrate how far the left has gone from what the average American thinks simply makes sense. Here we go.
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Yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER 22 :
Let’s see you defend them, Jeff.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I’m not defending anyone. I just want so that we can explain this in our stories. Could you name a couple?
SPEAKER 22 :
You don’t explain it right though, Jeff. Go ahead, let’s go. Maybe let’s give you another chance.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don’t know, but Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman. He’s a pretty rich guy, I guess, and I hear about him. I don’t know. Maybe it could be him. It could be a lot of people. We hear the same names, but they’re bad, and we’re going to find out. And if they are funding these things, they’re going to have some problems because they’re agitators and they’re anarchists. These are anarchists. Really bad. Okay, yeah.
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Here’s my favorite part of what happens very often in society right now with left-leaning media. The tariffs is a good example. The Hunter Biden laptop is, of course, a great example people still lean on today because of how amazing it is in demonstrating this. COVID’s another example of this. They tell us the future, they claim definitively to know the future, and then they’re absolutely wrong about the future they told us was going to happen. They say tariffs are going to be bad for the economy, and that doesn’t happen the way that they claim it would, as quickly as it would, etc., etc. They claim these things about COVID and the shots, and then everything that’s the opposite of that winds up being true. Again and again, they tell us the future because they don’t want to react in the moment where the actual information is there. They want to tell you they know what the information is going to be. You don’t have to pay attention to what it is or what it ends up being. You have to look away by the time that we know for sure that we get the receipts to whatever the story was and that you just have to trust that they were right all along. The FBI agent story is another amazing thing. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, just quickly, there were 250 plus plain clothed FBI agents in the crowd on January 6th. This is something that the left and left leaning media definitively told us could not have happened, was not true, was absolutely a conspiracy theory. Years later, we now know that it absolutely was true and the FBI has admitted it and acknowledged that it happened. And whether or not those people were agitators is you and I’s obviously a best guess that they were. But nonetheless, what’s amazing about that is they just assume you no longer care on the left. And so you won’t pay attention to that part. And it’s ridiculous and it’s upsetting because it works and it needs to stop working. The people who pay attention more now to the end result of a story are the people who are best informed. And as Trump said a moment ago, when investigating whether or not left leaning money is going to, you know, domestic terrorists, we’re going to find out is what he said. We’re going to investigate it. We’re going to find out. And the American people are going to be told about the things that we find. In that moment, at that time, you could then decide whether or not you think it’s true. But media won’t give you that opportunity, or at least they’ll discourage you from taking it when it does happen. They’ll convince you that you need to react now. You need to be sure that there’s no way that George Soros could be funding Antifa. And then when inevitably the proof comes out, they hope that you’ve already made up your mind and will no longer look back. They count on you to be the type of society, and a whole lot of people who listen to this show are not these people, but they count on their supporters to be the type of society that only reads the headline once and doesn’t go back for the real information later. And I told this story before, but I’ll do it very quickly now. I had an argument on my social media page at Radio Craig C. This was on Facebook, not Twitter, with someone about January 6th, which was totally not the context of what I had posted. I had posted about Charlie Kirk and how impacted I was and shocked I was that he was killed and how I was going to put out a podcast about my own feelings about it. And someone came at me and tried to make it about January 6th, which was uniquely stupid. But then when I tried to share with them proof that what they thought happened didn’t happen and I cherry picked out a left leaning source that still told them that they were wrong about what they believed to have occurred on that day. The funny thing about it is they responded back by trying to defend themselves by sharing the exact same link, which showed me they didn’t read the link when I sent it to them. They Googled for what they thought was going to be their opinion. They found a source that they thought they’d agree with. And then they shared that back with me. It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen happen on my social media page in a while because it absolutely demonstrates how little thought goes into the feelings that the left has as strongly as it does in a wide variety of topics. Because if they had read the story the first time when I gave it to them, it would have disproved the thing they thought instead of when they shared it back with me, believing it proved them right. Because they only read the headline, and they only did it once, and they did it well before the story had all the facts. That’s what the left wants. That’s what the right refuses to do. And for some reason, they get incredibly mad at us. We know the reason for doing that, for actually caring about the truth. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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SPEAKER 04 :
This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for just a few more minutes. Dana is back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you on a Friday. A couple quick things in the world of sports. College football has been incredible this year. Week five has a bunch of really interesting games. Oregon Penn State is probably one of the best ones. Penn State doesn’t know how to cover a spread, by the way. That’s just a helpful tip for you, for anybody out there. No matter what the spread is, betting with Penn State is usually a mistake that you shouldn’t make, that we don’t want to make. But anyway, Oregon-Penn State, good game. Lots of good games. College football has been incredible, even as my favorite team, Notre Dame, has lost a lot more at the beginning of the season than you would have wanted them to. But those games were interesting, too. Also in the world of sports, Aaron Judge is clearly the MVP in the American League. It’s not Cal Raleigh. It’s not the big dumper. I know this isn’t a sports show. I know that I can talk about other things and I will, I promise. But I love an article in The Athletic about this for anyone who does care about this out there. Because part of the argument being made is that Judge, and I quote, is obviously superior statistically. He was superior to Shohei Ohtani in 2022. He is superior to Cal Raleigh this year in 2025. But that’s not the reason that voters might decide that Cal deserves the MVP award. It is, quote, novelty, at least in some part. The fact that Cal’s a catcher, that he’s a switch hitter, and that he’s hit 60 home runs so far this year with three games left to go all make him someone that a lot of voters would like to vote the MVP award for. even if, in fact, he’s not actually statistically better than Aaron Judge, which feels like the part that should matter. Darn it, I’m a Yankee fan, though, so I can’t help it. All right, two other things, non-sports, before we get out of here. First, I thought this was hilarious. A first grader told his teacher that he was ill. I wonder if this is a demonstration of woke being an aspect of what is happening for him at home, or if it’s just a misunderstanding, like a cute kid is one to do. But the kid told his teacher that his illness was caused by something unique. And here’s how the teacher responded to it. I loved this audio.
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You said the reason you cough was what? Morning sickness. Morning sickness. So do you have morning sickness? Sometimes. Sometimes? You know who have morning sickness? Pregnant women. Are you a pregnant woman? No. So you don’t have morning sickness. You just got the sniffles, okay? Bye. morning sickness.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. I love everything about that audio because it demonstrates something about actual people in our society that the left doesn’t seem to understand, which is that we think a lot of the things the left says is insane, but the left would think that a man can get morning sickness. And obviously that teacher doesn’t think a little boy can have that. So it’s sort of insane. All right. That’s it. That’s the show. Thrilled to be with you as always. Dana back Monday, Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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