In this episode, guest host Craig Collins tackles a range of topics from political rhetoric to judicial insights. With a spotlight on J.B. Pritzker’s contentious statements and Amy Coney Barrett’s legal perspectives, listeners are treated to a balanced discussion of opinion and fact. Discover the dynamics of U.S.-Japan trade relations influenced by Trump’s policies and delve into the ethical considerations surrounding media and politics in a rapidly changing landscape. With humor and gravity, Craig provides an engaging narrative on current affairs.
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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 out there to talk about. First, though, I do enjoy this more than I should. This is J.B. Pritzker talking about the city of Chicago and how dangerous it isn’t, even though it absolutely is one of the most dangerous cities in the country. I think it ranks like eight or something in the top ten. But it doesn’t matter. JB’s going to lie about that. Then he’s also going to claim that Trump has Pritzker derangement syndrome, which sounds horrible. If anyone ever were to get that, that illness sounds uniquely terrible. I would not want that at all. Here we go. Let’s see if we can get this to play for us. And then let’s do it. All right, here we go. One second. We’ve got to make sure that we actually hear that for you, not just for me. So we’ll give it a minute there. But what I think is really interesting about this, too, is that J.B. Pritzker is the kind of moron, the kind of idiot that… That begs you to pay attention to him and then pretends as though when you’re paying attention to him that it was your choice, even though he’s the most annoying person in a lot of rooms and needs you to be focused on him 100 percent as much as possible in order to have even, you know, a modicum of a conversation about anything. So I just find that really interesting. That it’s him who’s blaming others for something that he’s definitely desperate to have occur on a daily basis in all capacities. All right. We’re going to take a second on the audio there because I actually have to get something to restart itself for us. But we will get that to you in just a second. Let’s talk about this. Pete Hegseth put out a pretty hilarious post on social media. There was an individual that was a part of the military. She was a part of the Navy. She also, in fact, was there we go. Now it’s going to work better. That’s so great. Anyway, so he put out a tweet for Janelle Mara, who had her pronouns in her bio, I think on LinkedIn. She her. So Pete Higgs tweeted pronouns updated. She her fired. which I thought was hilarious. I thought that was amazing that you would go the extra step to say this person has been fired because of the way in which they definitely don’t seem to agree with anything and everything that is who we are and who we should be in the military and who this administration is, etc., etc. All right, let’s get to the J.B. Pritzker audio that I was mentioning a second ago. Because, again, I just I shouldn’t like this as much as I do, because I definitely don’t agree with JB that Trump has Pritzker derangement syndrome or that anyone would ever have anything like that. But I just think it’s amazing when the left essentially like flails in the water and then gets mad when the lifeguard tries to save them.
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The city of Chicago isn’t even in the top 25 most dangerous violent crime cities. So he needs to do a little reading. I know he doesn’t do much of that. And instead, maybe someone can inform him what the facts are. But he seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago. Maybe he’s got Pritzker derangement syndrome. Maybe, again, he could just take a beat, learn a few things and focus elsewhere, maybe on protecting the country from the axis of evil that is beginning to form between China, Russia, North Korea, and they’re drawing in India now.
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Yeah, actually, he has been doing that. Trump did tweet about that, by the way, and does seem to be focused on that as much as he needs to tell us about it. But more than anything else, man, does this guy want to be a presidential candidate for the Democratic Party? He’s he’s begging to be it by trying to get attention the way he’s doing it. All right. Let’s do some other things. I thought this was really interesting, too. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett did her first interview since she became a Supreme Court justice in October of 2020. And one of the questions that was asked to her was about contraception and whether that could be similar to the changing of rules for Roe versus Wade. And Amy, she has a unique opinion on this. Here’s what she said to CBS News.
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You wrote in the book, the court has held that the rights to marry, engage in sexual intimacy, use birth control, and raise children are fundamental, but the rights to do business, commit suicide, and obtain abortion are not.
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Right. I’m describing the doctrine. I was a con law professor for many years. Yes, I describe the doctrine in the book, and that is the state of the law. which I, yeah, which I described in the book because I want people to understand it. I want Americans to understand the law and that it’s not just an opinion poll about whether the Supreme Court thinks something is good or whether the Supreme Court thinks something is bad. You know, what the court is trying to do is see what the American people have decided. And sometimes the American people have expressed themselves in the Constitution itself, which is our fundamental law, sometimes in statutes. But the court should not be imposing its own values on the American people. That’s for the democratic process.
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Yeah, I agree with everything she just said there. That was fantastically not. I love the fact that a lot of people will fear monger in the place of mainstream media about whether or not, you know, the Supreme Court will change other rules and make more things illegal, whether or not that actually protects babies. That doesn’t matter. That’s not important. But what I do like about it is just the interpretation of the law itself, which the Supreme Court justices will say is why they’re doing anything. That’s why they make any decision in their profession that they make at all. So that is an unarguable reason to do whatever they choose to do. And so I really do like it. I think it’s a great version of saying, This might happen. And the reason it might happen has nothing to do with my own personal opinion, regardless of what you, the news media, want to claim is happening. All right, let’s move on. Other things out there. I do think this is interesting. The White House put a big statement about implementing the United States-Japan agreement. by the authority vested in me as president by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, etc., etc. I announce a framework agreement between the United States and Japan, which lays the foundation for a new era of United States-Japan trade relations, grounded in principles of reciprocity and our shared national interests. So, yeah, things are going to be better. What I think is amazing about this is as Trump continues to actually get deals done because of tariffs more than anything else, deals that benefit us more than any deal in the past has on a large amount of these things that he’s accomplished, there’s still that pesky little thing going on in the court, and then Amy Coney Barrett might actually be involved in this at some point, the pesky Supreme Court version that might eventually be the decision as to whether or not he’s allowed to do this. It is amazing because if at the end of all of this, and I don’t think this will happen actually, I think the Supreme Court is probably going to be the only judicial body that decides that Trump does have the power to do what he’s done because it’d be good if that happens. But anyway, if they take this away from him, all of these deals, which are locked in and hopefully don’t change, will have been created by something that they tried to flip back. And they’ll make us refund money that’s going to help us pay down deficit. And we’re not seeing the economic horrible things happen. I did just open a soda while I was on the show. I think that, again, we didn’t see the horrible things happen. And they told us we’re going to happen with the economy. So they’re really just doing this because they hate Trump trying to fight him on the tariff stuff. It hasn’t gone as badly for us as anyone said. And it really feels like we should just leave good enough alone here. All right. One more thing. I’ll play this and then we’ll take our first break. Jasmine Crockett was laughing and clapping as she joked about Trump’s hand looking like it was, quote, about to fall off. The amount of hate that people have for the president or for the right for, you know, voters of President Trump. It’s through the roof. Insane. And then this side of the aisle also wants to be the nice people or claim to be the nice people. And I don’t get it. We have so many examples of this. They happen all the time. But this is the latest version of someone hoping that Trump dies on the Democratic side of the aisle, that he’s seriously ill, which is the most pathetic way to want to try to win some sort of ideological political argument to wish death upon someone else. Here we go.
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I don’t know, Donald Trump hand look like it’s about to fall off. But no, in all seriousness though,
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Yeah, I don’t understand how that’s a joke, by the way. I don’t understand how you find that funny or amusing. I’ll be honest. As President Biden became more and more visibly broken, not that I think he was ever really functioning properly as a human. I don’t think his brain was ever working the way it was supposed to the entire time he was in the White House. But when it got real bad toward the end, You started to actually think that for his own health, he should not be doing anything, much less being president of our country. That’s a very different sentiment than I hope he dies. So actually, I and I think a lot of other people did say and this was not tongue in cheek. This was not disingenuous. It was absolutely intentionally on purpose and authentic. that Biden should go away for his own well-being and that they were kind of doing elder abuse by keeping him in a position of power and using him via the auto pen up until the end of his terrible presidency. And so I just think it’s amazing that that’s the difference. that I would say something to the effect of, and I think a lot of people I know who voted for Trump would say something to the effect of, man, I think Biden should go away because it would be good for him as a human. Among other things, it’s not like I’m going to be nice about all the other crap that was happening, but I’m not wishing him dead. And then the exact opposite is how they treat Trump on a daily basis. And they treat other politicians that they disagree with because they don’t like when power is taken away from them. That seems to be the motivating factor for Democrats and hatred is if I don’t have power or control over something, I hate you. And I hate you up until I can remove you in whatever way I decide to remove you so that I get my power back. All right, we’ll take a quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X on Twitter if you want to stay connected to her. Thank you to all the people who followed me at Radio Craig Z, as I’ve been mentioning my own Twitter handle this week, and the very small amount of people that follow it. And my Yankee tweets. All right, let’s do this. Giorgio Armani sadly passed away. The king of Italian fashion, as he’s described in a couple different articles about his passing, was 91 years old. This is big news in the world of… fashion uh not that i follow that world very closely but it demonstrates how big of a person this is that i i know that name and i know that brand armani is most of us of course do uh he uh sadly again as i said passed away but 91 years old uh lived a long life uh let’s do this the powerball jackpot is now going to be at least 1.7 billion dollars That could go up even more, but that is expected to be the third largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the country or the third largest lottery jackpot in the history of our country. The thing that matters here is that they did this on purpose. They made the odds even worse, and no one has won since May 31st. But people will probably buy a whole bunch of tickets. It’s actually within $700 million, I think, or $70 million, something like that, of being the second largest. And then there’s a $2 billion jackpot that happened in November of 2022. So we’ll see just how high it goes and if anybody wins. By the way, the two biggest jackpots in the history of our country were both won in California. which means that somebody’s cheating. I think that’s my feeling about that. Millennial parents are going crazy for this tin can phone for kids. This is hilarious. It is a little toy that kind of looks like the phones that you used to create yourself out of a tin can. The new iPhone debuted next debuts next Tuesday. But there’s only one phone that kids really need. According to the post about this, it is a kid friendly Wi-Fi phone called the tin can. And it’s gone all crazy over social media. I like the fact that they’re creating landlines and other things that look like these old school things that we had before, but work very differently. So at least a kid can start to experience it. The craziest thing for me, as someone who was raised in a generation without cell phones being as ubiquitous as they are now, is that when you ask a kid to do the phone with their hand… Most people over a certain age will do the one that you would pick up physically with your pinky shooting out to talk into. Your thumb is the spot where you’d put the, you know, the audio into your ear. For some reason, the little kids now all do a flat hand because they think of the iPhone or a cell phone instead. So maybe interacting with some of these things gets them back to realizing what phones used to be. for us and for so many other people out there. All right, what are some other things going on as far as just silly topics go? You can now buy a Star Wars Lego set for $1,000. This is, I guess, a good deal, according to some. I don’t know why anyone would spend $1,000 on Legos with 9,000 pieces, 38 different figurines, all different kinds of things in it. It’s a Death Star, and I wouldn’t want to build it, and I also wouldn’t want to step on any of these pieces. And then finally, one last thing. The Cowboys did lose last night to the Eagles. A pretty boring second half, I would say, even though it probably was stressful for any sort of Eagles fan like producer Steven. But not as much scoring as in the first half. But the most important thing from the game is that Dak Prescott spit first. And this is sort of connected to Star Wars, I guess, the whole Han shot first thing. Dak definitely spit before anyone else spit and then got thrown out of the game. So I just think it’s really interesting that that happened at the beginning of the game, too, and that Jalen Carter had remorse for spitting on Cowboys Dak Prescott and how he spoke about things after the game. But I don’t blame him as much as other people do because Dak spit first. and there’s video and you can see it. And if anybody deserved to be thrown out, or at least if one other person deserved to be thrown out, it should have been both, not just an Eagles player that got thrown out of the game. But NFL football is officially back, baby. That is exciting. I think it’s a lot of fun. I think a whole lot of people are going to be gambling and betting on things. The Chargers do play the Chiefs today. that game might be more interesting than the game was expected to be between the Eagles and the Cowboys, even though it did end up in just being a four-point game. So the spread was larger than the inevitable end, and I think the spread is much closer for the game tonight. All right, quick break. A lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X. On Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins. Radio Craig C is a good way to stay connected to me and the 400 or so people who do that. Very different. than the giant audience for Dana. And I’ll stop mentioning that at some point. But thrilled to be on this week for her. She is back on Monday. The DOJ has responded to the secret tape of the official detailing the Epstein file plan. Look, Project Veritas was incredibly effective at uncovering a lot of truth that was hidden via these secretly recorded tapes, which oftentimes seem to be honeypot stuff where you sent an attractive person in to date someone that knows things. And then the person who knows things didn’t question the fact that an incredibly good-looking person was after them. After James O’Keefe left Project Veritas, they’ve broken way less things. But James continues to be very successful at doing this on his own now with his new organization. And that’s what happened here. A DOJ official… A person of significant importance, the deputy chief of special operations, Joseph Schnitt, told somebody who apparently was a very attractive human that he was planning, along with the DOJ and removing a whole bunch of Republican names from any sort of Epstein file and releasing just a Democratic version of information. This is exceptionally damaging to Pam Bondi and others, regardless of if it’s actually true. I will say that a person may brag to a hot individual about things that may or may not seem true, but might not actually be true. I’m not trying to claim that it’s false either. I don’t know. It seems there’s a good chance that this is true, but I will just put that out there, that a dude who’s dating someone might actually up the amount of things he claims to know beyond what he actually knows to impress them. But the funniest part about this, if there’s a funny part to this story, is the 30% iPhone battery airplane mode notes app response that the U.S. Department of Justice actually put up on social media, on Twitter, to deal with the fallout of this becoming a giant story. And here’s what it actually says. This is the notes app. I met a woman named Skylar on Hinge, a dating app, in July of 2025. Her profile is no longer findable. We had two dates, August 4th and August 16th. She claimed to be an au pair in Georgetown. That sounds like a nice gig. She gave no clue that she was a reporter or recording our dates. Had I a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one. Of course not, by the way. I love that part. Like, had she told me at all that she was secretly recording me, I wouldn’t have been interested in this hot lady anymore and certainly would not have told her any secrets. But since she didn’t tell me she was recording stuff, I remained interested. That’s the dumbest part of the mention. My profile indicated I did government work but did not specify for which agency. I never discussed what I do at the DOJ. Unfortunately, there’s some video and things that have gone viral of you discussing a lot of work done at the DOJ, whether it’s you or not. It goes on to say the comments I made were my own personal comments on what I’ve learned in the media and not from anything I’ve done or learned via work. I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Maxwell other than what is reported in the news. I also never divulged anything about what I do at work. I recall that she asked if I had any knowledge about Maxwell. I specifically said I only know what’s been reported in the media. Yeah, this is not a good look. No part of this is a good look. And to be honest, the funniest thing to me is how effective the honeypot is. And if you don’t know what that is, that’s just a very attractive person that hits on you and gets insider information from you. It’s a tried and true, as old as time, version of a way to break whatever wall exists between the truth and the lies given by the government. Would I be surprised if the DOJ and the Republican Party had a unique interest in protecting just Republicans and not putting out information about them, about Epstein, while trying to slant everything to be overly about Democrats? No, I wouldn’t be surprised. That’s not what I want. I want full transparency. But the reason that I think that it’s important to focus on this, and this is a weird, I’m going to take a full U-turn approach to it, is that the Democrats would have done the exact same thing when they were in power. And, oh, wait, they were in power when they had access to all of the Epstein files. And they never went after Trump with them at that point. They’re going after him now and claiming that there’s something damaging involving him and those files. But they did nothing to release them on their own. And Democrats would have tried to overly make it about Republicans and specifically Trump. And so it says something to me about who actually is in this and how significant the names are on both sides or wherever they are, that it might even be hard to clean this stuff up. I’m not sure. But I do think that it matters because it proves even more that Trump’s not actually going to be harmed by any inevitable release of the Epstein files. He’s not actually going to be indicated as being someone who did anything wrong. And even the people, the victims who spoke earlier this week, seem to agree with that. When they were asked certain questions about Trump or asked if they had any knowledge of any wrongdoings of the current president, they kept saying no to that sort of stuff. They also said there’s no actual list written down on paper. So that’s interesting. But anyway, I just think it’s amazing. That James O’Keefe is so good at this gig, and he just keeps being above and beyond what anybody else can seem to do in respect to breaking news and getting people to say things to attractive people. I would say that if you’re in government… in any role whatsoever, and someone who is way out of your league has interest in you and asks you random questions about your job, do not engage. Or actually, maybe do engage because I want more information to keep coming out. So maybe I shouldn’t help. The politicians, actually, I should take that back. Hot people definitely like you for real. It’s the waitress or stripper fallacy happening again. They definitely have real interest in you. It’s not the job you have in the information they want. Tell them everything. Yeah, that’s what I should say. That’s actually what I’d like to see happen. I just find it amusing. All right. Another story that I thought was interesting out there. There’s a teenager in Scotland, a woman, her name is Lola, who got ridiculed by media there and some social media because the original narrative is that she was being mean to a migrant, mean to someone based on race, being a racist. Her sister, her younger sister, was involved in this too. It turns out that what really happened was a person, a foreigner, decided to harass and attack them. Her and her younger sister, Ruby. And then Lola stood up and defended them against this horrible guy who’s now been arrested for assaulting a minor. But what I think is amazing about this is that the initial narrative, because they saw a young white girl being mean to a non-white man, was that it had to be racism. It had to be horrible, terrible things. happening anywhere in the world in Scotland not even here in the United States and the end result is that actually she was being a brave awesome kid deciding to stand up to someone who was doing horrible terrible things and being a creep in front of children so every single version of the initial reporting of the story was wrong and they inevitably arrested the guy and it demonstrates how desperate people are for a narrative that they would go so far as to portray a teenage girl who defended her little sister from a guy who was assaulting them into someone who had to be a bad person because they want everyone who’s white to be a bad person or everyone who disagrees with them politically to be a bad person. They want that so bad that they’re willing to to lie about a kid. That’s horrible. And we’re not surprised by that. We know that’s true. But I just love the end of this story. The guy inevitably gets arrested, that the truth comes out and that it’s all over social media, specifically X. or Twitter, because that’s the one that Elon Musk owns now, and he lets all the real information actually come out about stories there, much different than anything else. All right, let’s do this, too, before we take a break, actually. Trump has responded to the job numbers, saying the real numbers will be about a year from now. Fox Business announced that the 22,000 jobs added in August are much less than the expected 75,000, etc., etc. Here, let’s get Trump first, and then eventually I will actually throw my take into the wind on this topic. Here we go.
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Thank you, Mr. President. Tomorrow we have a jobs report coming out, the first since the BLS commissioner who you fired won’t be there. A lot of people will be turning to you to see if you believe the data that’s released. Can you commit to saying the data will be credible?
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I don’t know. They come out tomorrow. But the real numbers that I’m talking about are going to be whatever. It is, but will be in a year from now when these monstrous, huge, beautiful places, the palaces of genius. And when they start opening up, you’re seeing, I think you’ll see job numbers that are going to be absolutely incredible right now.
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By the way, he’s looking at a bunch of tech and company leaders sitting at a table with him talking about how they’re going to be developing a whole lot more here in the United States. But the 22,000 jobs is much less than expected. There does seem to be a pullback by a lot of companies toward the end of the year for a variety of reasons. Here’s what Fox Business said about it.
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22,000 jobs added in the month of August. That was much less than the expectation of 75,000 guys. The July number was revised. I will get to revisions in a moment. Unemployment rate coming in as expected, 4.3%. So that would be higher than July’s 4.2%. Again, 22,000 jobs added in August. Let me get you the revisions because this is what everybody is focused on. For June and July together, combined, 21,000 jobs lower than previously reported. I’ll categorize that now. So you see for June, it was revised down by 27,000, getting you to negative 13,000. And the change for July, up by 6,000, getting you to 79,000.
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Yeah, numbers are flying all over the place in the world of jobs creation, in the world of everything. What I think is actually more interesting than anything else about this discussion, The Supreme Court will inevitably decide if tariffs are something that the president can actually apply to countries the way he’s done it, and if it’s what helps us create trade deals, etc. So there is a lot of unknown, uncertainty all across the board, not just in the tariffs to begin with, but in everything, every decision, what’s happening, where we’re going moving forward. And so it does seem like a confusing time. But if you wait longer down the road and see things get way better, which we all hope that they do, inevitably what Trump says will be true. I don’t know if that’ll actually occur. I just think it’s interesting that even President Trump himself had stated early on in the tariff stuff, as mainstream media was projecting it to be immediately horrible, that there might be early pain for long-term growth to happen. And so I do think that that might be what’s playing out here. But we’ll see. But to have job numbers revised into negative is never a good thing. And then to have them be as low as they are now is certainly worrisome. But the exact reasons why and the length to which this will occur is something that deserves to also be mentioned, as Trump did there. 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. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, on X, on Twitter, to stay connected to her. All great things going on from both her and her team, including producer Stephen, who make all the social media must-watch, must-pay-attention-to stuff. Let’s do this. A exclusive grocery store that exists in California is making its way to New York City. But it’s going to be for members only. And the price is going to be ridiculous to get inside of this grocery store. Something like an initial fee of thirty six thousand dollars. And then you got to pay seven thousand dollars a year to keep your membership to a grocery store. Here’s the thing. If you have money and you want to spend your money on something as dumb as this, that’s your decision. Spend your money however you want to. But I would just say if a buddy or friend of mine was like, hey, do you think it’s a good idea to drop this much money on an exclusive grocery store? My answer would be no. It would be a very definitive no. It’d be like there have to be better things you can do. What’s wrong with Whole Foods or anywhere else that you want to spend higher amounts of money for better products on food? Or just go to the cheaper grocery stores, darn it, which may be killing you with all the terrible things in them. But hey, at least they’re affordable. I just find this ridiculous. But this is in the news and people are asking the question, who’s even going to show up at this spot? But it’s New York City. There’s a bunch of people who have more than enough money to throw it down on that. And it’s just sort of a status thing, I think. I think once you know that something is exclusive, if you can afford it and you pay to be in it, you’re really just happy that you have it more so than even you use it. All right, let’s do this. There was a spinning volnado that occurred in Hawaii. That would be a volcano tornado thing that was happening. It looks terrifying. There is video you can watch of the, you know, cyclone-esque molten lava foaming phenomenon volcano thing and say to yourself that this would be the end of days. If this occurred more places, you’d look at it and say how absolutely you don’t want this to be a thing. Sharknado is nothing compared to Molten Lava Volnado. That feels like a movie where everyone would just be screwed. That doesn’t seem like a good thing by any stretch of the imagination. But there is video and I think even some live feed stuff of that that you can check out if you want to. And then finally, I thought this was really interesting. There is a Harvard astronomer who is saying that there is an object flying very rapidly toward Mars that seems like it was shot intentionally at the planet and not that it’s just a clump of ice or something or a comet that they’re saying it is, but that there’s a lot of intelligent planning in how close this thing is going to get to Mars specifically and that with a little itty-bitty correction, it might actually hit Mars. So at least one astronomer, again, a guy at a Harvard by the name of Avi, is saying that this is proof that aliens are they exist somewhere and they’re now firing objects at our solar system and hoping to hit some of our planets. That seems either good or bad. depending on your belief that they might fire something at the Earth and we might not be able to avoid it. But I think it’s interesting that he’s making the argument and saying how the object has turned and moved and how it seems that it couldn’t have been natural and that this means that there are aliens somewhere. We don’t know where the object originally came from, so we don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s Superman. Maybe that’s the vessel that’s carrying Superman. It’s just going to miss Earth by a bit. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana show. Uh, my name is Craig Collins filling in thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. D lash Dana lash radio on X on Twitter is a great way to stay connected to everything going on with her at radio. Craig Z. If for some reason you want to follow me and the very small amount of people who do that and the very seldom tweets that I put out. Uh, but I, I’d like it. Uh, Trump administration, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme court to let him fire more people, uh, specifically a person, a person at the federal trade commission. Um, I think that Trump should be allowed to fire people. I think it’d be great. I don’t need to dive deeper into the story than to say that. I think that any president should be allowed to can a bunch of people and then have other people come into positions of relevance within any administration, mostly because I hate the fact that bureaucrats think they can have their job forever. I’d like to see a bunch of firings. I’d like to see an apprentice style on television with Trump saying you’re fired after they go through some of the things they’ve done or failed to do to help the American people. I don’t know why this has to be a big, giant, debatable thing. If the president is in charge and if a certain subset of people work for him in some capacity via the bureaucratic government that exists within the executive branch, then fire away, buddy. That’s my response to it. I will see what the Supreme Court says. DEI insanity goes even further in Wisconsin. This story is insane. The governor there, Tony Evers, is just a broken mess of a human in some of the things he wants. To remind you of one of the most ridiculous things he did, he changed women, pregnant women, as far as any sort of statewide acknowledgement of the person, into inseminated persons. It’s a real thing he did. that he pushed for that. He’s now pushing for mother and father to be entirely removed from any of the verbiage that exists within Wisconsin, which is, again, the dumbest thing you’ve ever seen. You can call this a war against fathers if you want. You can call this a war against women if you want. You can call this just an insane, stupid war in all capacities. But what it really does, and Evers is running for re-election, and you gotta hope that he loses based on this amount of stuff, Because what it really does is shows how out of touch the Democratic Party is with the everyday American. Especially most Americans in Wisconsin that aren’t in places like Milwaukee, I guess. Because there’s so many people who think that this sort of thing is insanity. And it’s not at all valuable in the grand scheme of how you run an organization, run a government, run anything, much less an entire state. So I just think this is crazy. That this is a real thing that’s actually out there in the news that he’s pushing for. And then people on both sides of the aisle are saying all kinds of this is sort of insane versions of reactions to it. Mostly that it’s actually a war on both mothers and fathers and that who knows who else could wind up in the crosshairs of this. But it just it just makes no sense. All right. Another thing out there that I do want to talk about a bit more on the DOJ is considering banning trans people from buying guns. It’s a real story. Justice Department, President Trump, in some capacity, the Trump administration, whoever, have contemplated if it’s a smart thing to allow people that are showing a lot of mental health issues to the American people, if it’s smart to allow those individuals to buy guns. Now, I have two opinions on this, and they sort of compete, and one does inevitably win. I don’t like government encroachment on the Second Amendment. I don’t like it across the board. I don’t think it’s a good thing. Mental health is an exception because we do have mental health restrictions on guns that do make sense to me. You shouldn’t let anyone who is demonstrating their inability to be sane to purchase a weapon. But I don’t like just a blanket rule that says that everyone in some subset group in our society is incapable of buying guns because of this. I don’t like that. And so it’s interesting that my inclination is actually to defend trans people. And their right to bear arms. That is my gut reaction to a story like this. Even if I acknowledge, when mainstream media and a lot of society won’t, that it’s a tremendously great likelihood that everyone in that group is struggling from some sort of mental health issue. Whatever that might be. Or several different mental health issues. And a lot of people in that group actually do commit suicide. So… Even more so, it seems to be the kind of thing that you deserve to have a discussion about that goes on for more than, say, a couple minutes. But what I really think is interesting about this topic… If anyone on the conservative side of the aisle, myself included, actually advocates for gun rights to exist for trans people, is what the left does in response to that version of a discussion. Is the left going to demand the right for trans people to have guns, even though they want no one to have guns? What are they going to say? I almost feel like this is a test. where you put out a leaked story where the Trump administration is contemplating doing something that they may never, ever do, and you just see how the left responds. Because if they dangle the carrot of the argument that the Second Amendment protects people’s right to own weapons, then you’d think that they’re actually admitting a lot of what they try to do to undermine the Second Amendment is no longer going to be a thing they can keep doing. It seems like they might lose the war to try to win this battle, essentially. And that might be the reason that it’s occurring. Or they go the other road and they say that, you know, this is fine with them, that more people shouldn’t have guns, not just trans people. And then it feels as though they’re not being the party that’s supposed to protect the weak, innocent individuals of the world in certain groups that are disenfranchised and treated terribly. So it seems like actually a lose-lose situation. For Democrats in whatever position they take on that issue. And so I am interested to see it. But just to fully explain my belief here. And I’ll do this. It might sound woke to do it this way. And I’m not intent to be woke. And I don’t care if it sounds woke. I do believe that there’s some minuscule subset of society that might struggle more with if you’re a dude or if you’re a girl than the whole rest of us do. And I don’t know what causes that, if that’s like, you know, a bunch of chemicals in the brain and whatnot. But I think it’s minuscule. I think it’s the kind of like weird thing where someone is born with both male and female parts, which does also occur, but is exceedingly rare. I think our society’s demand for something that’s incredibly rare to actually something that’s way less rare has caused a whole lot of other people who are evidently struggling with mental health issues to believe that they’re in the same bucket. And no, I absolutely don’t advocate for the mutilating of children or any of that stuff. All of that is horrible. But I’m just saying that somewhere in the ridiculous amount of lies that media is telling us, there’s somebody who at least has a version of a conversation about what’s going on with them medically. But it’s such a small group. that it’s insane to pretend as though it’s as many people as it needs to be for as many people who are questioning whether they’re a boy or a girl, because media is begging them to do it because of all the things that are pushed on you and thrown on you now as kids, as far as conversations go, that are highly inappropriate and definitely designed to make you politically on a certain side of the aisle. But so I say all that to say this. When you’re talking about the rights of people to own guns, for anyone that’s actually medically affected by something, I think they have a definitive right to own a gun. I don’t think that the mental health issue is as apparent. But the vast majority of people who fall into this category have mental health issues. I would say it’s in the 90 plus percentile, a 99 percentile of people who describe themselves this way. And so for them, I think I am comfortable with the idea that you restrict gun access, that you restrict, you know, the use or ability to buy weapons because they might hurt themselves or hurt somebody else because they obviously have a mental health issue that no one is addressing. And I know, again, to even crack it all in that world of somebody somewhere might have an actual issue and might not just be a mentally unhealthy person feels like you’re giving in enough for the left to squeak in and expand. And yet I just think it’s simply the truth. I think there is data out there that demonstrates the uniqueness of this conversation. But that’s all it takes all the time, by the way. I will I will remind everyone of one other thing that I definitively believe is important. Another ridiculous way that Democrats use something and pretend as though it’s more significant than it is when they talk about abortion and then they include rape and incest, which is a minuscule amount of people that wind up being pregnant because of something horrific. They talk about that like that’s the majority of people who choose to get an abortion and it’s not even close to true. So, again, whatever the thing is that the Democrats can exploit, they choose to exploit it. And much to the harm of all of society, they pretend as though it’s something that they convince more and more people is a part of their own life when it isn’t. But nonetheless, I say all this to get back to the original point that by and large, I think that my position on a story that’s ever evolving is that I would defend everyone’s right to own a gun, although I would think. that you need to be if you’re going to any level of treatment or any level of exploring the option of changing yourself from a man to a woman. You need to be heavily evaluated for mental health issues because I imagine that the tremendously large percentage of those individuals are dealing with a mental health issue and probably shouldn’t have a gun because of that. But anyway, I would say blanket statement, no. Majority of people, probably yeah, as far as mental health issues are concerned. That was complicated. I did my best. I might have gotten woke. I didn’t do it on purpose. A quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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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 to stay connected to her. The Powerball is going to be a ridiculous amount of money. It already has been, but it’s just getting more ridiculous. And so someone somewhere decided to put out a list of the most likely numbers to be drawn. Not at all mathematically backed and supported is this thing. But they do say that the most common numbers drawn by Powerball are 61, 21, 23, 33, and 69. Yeah, baby. Those are the numbers that are most likely to be, maybe not all together. but at least some of them probably should be in your list. The five least likely to be drawn, 13, 49, 26, 46, and 65. Again, according to a very unscientific thing put out there by people just before the Powerball drawing tomorrow, that’s likely to be $1.7-plus billion, and maybe even more than that. The least likely Powerball number, by the way, is 16, according again to a very unscientific thing. So go any road you want, people, if you’re going to be buying something. I do start to buy Powerball tickets when it gets to this ridiculously high price, as I imagine many people do. And that’s probably why they made it harder to win the thing to begin with. So we get up to these ridiculous numbers. Japan has a rent-a-person industry with scary people friars. which is sort of like getting a bodyguard, intimidating appearances and things are available. I mean, you can rent people in Japan, which sounds horrible for all kinds of reasons. You can look up the rent a person industry there. You can get fake grandmothers, siblings, muscle to walk around with you and again, intimidate people, whatever it might be. You need a date for a wedding, rent a person. You need someone to accompany you to a bad side of town, rent a person to do that kind of thing. This is weird and definitely the kind of thing that I don’t think a lot of us would want to do as a career. But apparently it pays pretty good in Japan if you’re a rent a person for hire. I wonder, though, and this is my curiosity, if the people who look like muscle, in fact, act like muscle if you need to be defended. If you rent a person who’s not actually a security guard, but just someone who looks like they’d be a valuable security guard, when stuff goes awry, do they help you or do they run in the opposite direction? My guess is it’s option two. It’s not going to be option one. They’re not going to assist. They’re not going to care. And they’re going to look at you like, well, I did my part in standing next to you. The rest is up to you, buddy. And then they leave. So we’ll see what actually happens there. College football continues this weekend. 52% of college football fans admit that they’re superstitious on game day. This can manifest in all kinds of different ways. from just wearing your favorite jersey, lucky hat during a game, certain other things that you might do in order to help a team win. My favorite version of a story to this, and I’m not necessarily proud of this, but it might have happened. was during the Stanley Cup when the Blackhawks, I was living in Chicago, not a huge Blackhawks fan, but with a group of people that were playing in said Stanley Cup. And my wife went to the restroom and the Blackhawks scored a goal. And then later in the game, my wife went to the restroom and the Blackhawks scored a goal. And so at the end of the game, the friends and family that were watching the game with us started to ask Betty to go to the bathroom when she didn’t have to go just to see if it would happen again. And I believe that actually she was in the bathroom during a marquee moment when the Blackhawks scored multiple goals late in the game to win a Stanley Cup. And this is why I feel bad about it. She didn’t get to see it because she was sent to the restroom. And I probably should have defended her honor. But truthfully, it seemed to actually work. So there was something confusing about all of it going in. And she seemed to be amused by it more so than upset by it. For anyone that’s going to send hate letters to me. But I love that story. I love still telling. She hates that I tell that story still, actually, even though I do have permission to tell it. She thinks it’s so dumb and so stupid. But I think she deserved a Stanley Cup ring, you know, a championship ring. I think that’s a part that’s missing. The Blackhawks really should still get her hers from that championship team. All right. And then one last thing just out there as far as silly stuff go. What’s the most and least organized room in your house? The living room is actually the most organized because it’s the one that people see. That made sense. Forty five percent of people say that it’s very organized. Only four percent said it was a total disaster. The least organized room in your house, the bedroom. As again, this is the one you’re least likely to put other people in, at least unexpectedly. So only 33% of people say it’s very organized and a decent number, about 10 or so, say that it’s an absolute disaster, which seems interesting to me too. You probably should not let the bedroom get to disaster stage, even if you’re not showing it off to the general public. It feels like the kind of thing you shouldn’t do. 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 D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her and the show. Very great things on all the social media pages. She’s got podcasts, television, everything. You can find Dana all over the place. A very successful, very famous, very smart person. My name is Craig and you can find me at Radio Craig C along with, say, 400… So people, it’s not as big of a following, but thrilled to be here and doing the show. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about a lot of things yesterday. We played a lot of audio as it was happening in yesterday’s show. But this was probably one of the better things that we sadly didn’t get to. So let’s do it now. This is Robert F. Kennedy just unloading. on all different kinds of problems we have, how we’re one of the sickest countries in the world that’s based on the development of our country and then the effectiveness of our medication and our medical community, even if it’s tremendously expensive. We are the most expensive country in the world for medicine, too. And this is bad. RFK Jr. thinks that this is not good, as do most Americans. He also points out that he’s going to fire some people at the CDC who are not doing their jobs well.
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This morning, I got the latest numbers from CDC that 76.4% of Americans now have a chronic disease. This is stunning. When my uncle was president, it was 11%. In 1950, it was 3%. They had 76.4%. Eight out of 10 of our kids cannot qualify for military service. This is a national security issue. When my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease. Today, we spend $1.3 trillion. It’s the biggest cause. It’s increasing. And all of the arguments that Republicans and Democrats have about single payer obamacare or uh with the various ways of allocate the health dollars they’re all like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic if we don’t end this chronic disease we are the sickest country in the world that’s why we have to fire people at cdc yeah they did not do their job This was their job to keep us healthy. Thank you. And I need to fire some of those people to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
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Yes, buddy. Do it. Fire away. I like when you actually are held accountable. If you do a terrible job, you don’t deserve to keep your job. This is something that would be startling in the world of bureaucratic government. but is true everywhere else in society. Also, there was this shouting match, which was amazing, where myocarditis comes up and the actual risk that is definitively proven science that mRNA vaccines create issues with your heart, especially for people who are young, healthy, and would not otherwise have any sort of heart swelling or myocarditis problems. This is a big reason to not recommend these types of vaccines for kids or anyone that is, you know, healthy in a whole lot of ways. Here is a shouting match between our Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and one of the senators trying to corner him on a topic that they definitely chose incorrectly.
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You can characterize it any way you want. I quoted them today. What I said was accurate. What you said were lies.
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has never been associated with myocarditis or pericarditis in teenagers.
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Is that what you’re trying to tell us? I am simply trying to say that the people that you have put on that panel, after firing the entire- You’re evading the question.
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Yes, you’re absolutely evading the question, sir. Does it have a likelihood of creating myocarditis for anybody?
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You’re evading that question. I’m asking the questions, Mr. Kennedy. I’m asking the questions.
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Okay, I love this. I love that back and forth. Hey, we’re sitting here. You got a microphone. I have a microphone. You think you can handle full control of how this discussion goes and what you can trap me in and what you can’t talk about. And I’m just going to add some context. The things you’re trying to say and see if you agree with me or not, because the moment he says he does, because you can’t say no to that, that it’s obviously and definitively proven that myocarditis is a genuine risk of taking an mRNA vaccine. As that stuff occurs, as these things happen, the only thing you could possibly say in response to it is, you know, all right, never mind. Let me move on because I’ve demonstrated how my opinion is flawed. But Democrats, they wouldn’t do anything like that. How dare you even pretend they would ever contemplate that? All right. Let’s talk a little bit about. the ability to speak freely in the UK. I think that there’s a lot of discussion about this. There’s a comedian that got arrested for making jokes on social media that says that he’s the latest example of how terrible free speech is now being hindered in the UK. There’s also this audio from the new Home Secretary of the UK and how she’s talking about Islam being her religion. and that she likes to practice certain things and how bad that might be for restricting, say, free speech even further. Here we go.
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Islam, my own religion. Like a lot of practicing Muslims, my faith is the most important thing in my life. It is the absolute driver of everything that I do. I feel a very strong calling of my own conscience and my conscience calls me to God.
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That’s how I know that I’m supposed to do certain things in certain ways. And, you know, we’re all screwed is essentially the entire story. there, which I love because, yes, there’s certain lessons within certain religions that if they’re the driving force of how you behave, I might actually not be so great as far as governing people in a whole lot of ways. Now, I’m not telling you to change your own religion. I am telling you, though, that sometimes you might have to govern beyond it in some capacity, in some scenarios, whether you like that or not. And especially when free speech is concerned. But a whole lot of people have to do that just in general to things they simply disagree with. You don’t have to have the stakes be up to the level of religion where it’s something that’s, you know, more emotionally and intellectually connected to you than, say, just something where I have an opinion different from yours. making sure to protect free speech in and of itself is a basic right in society. One actually granted by the creator that we believe is true. And so I just think it’s very interesting and very odd that these type of videos go viral and these discussions get had and then how people make certain, you know, executive decisions based on what we’re already seeing in society and how horrible things are going in the UK. You’re arresting comedians. that are making jokes on social media and saying that they’re somehow a threat to society. And honestly, bad jokes really aren’t a threat to society. It’s just the kind of thing, I don’t even think his jokes were that bad, actually, but just the kind of thing where he’s probably not going to have a whole lot of success. All right, let’s do this. Jasmine Crockett seems to be cheering for Donald Trump to die. She is the latest Democrat to be cheering on what she sees as medical issues that are apparent with the current president of the United States. I don’t remember a single conservative saying that they wanted Biden to die. And Biden was evidently behaving like someone who was not doing well health-wise for a long time. And you were screaming from the rooftops that that was occurring because mainstream media was somehow trying to pretend it wasn’t happening. And main people, main, you know, everyday Americans could see it. It was easy. Even Jon Stewart admitted it and then got trashed by the left for doing that. What I think is amazing is that these Democrats actually do hope for the death of someone. If you remember during covid, when Trump got it and was flown to the hospital, there were a lot of people hoping that he would die, which is just surreal. And this is the party that claims to be of better people. This is the party that thinks that they’re the good guy and you’re the bad guy because of who you vote for. And they hope that politicians they disagree with are off from this planet. Even politicians who were almost killed and attempted assassinations occurred, which is ridiculous again, too. But here’s a bit of that audio of Crockett seeming to hope that his hand looks like it’s going to fall off soon.
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I don’t know, Donald Trump’s hand look like it’s about to fall off. But no, in all seriousness though, I do think that we should have a reasonable conversation about what the 25th means.
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I already don’t care. I already don’t care so much about her and her take and everything about it, because it’s just it’s so odd to a cheer for someone to die and then to also want to do anything you can to remove someone from the position of power because you don’t like what they’re doing. Trump. every single day, multiple times a day, takes questions from media. And so the narrative that his brain is no longer functioning appropriately like Biden is so difficult to validate because he’s so consistently the same guy he was a few years ago. He goes on tangents and rants. He does all those things you’d expect him to do. But he’s also incredibly accessible. And the thing that they did with Biden is they hit him. They made him completely unaccessible. They gave him sheets of of information to ask specific questions of only individuals, you know, that were pre-approved by his administration, where he probably got the questions in advance and practiced the answers like it was so controlled. And Trump and this is something they actually ridicule him for is uncontrolled, is going to do whatever he wants to do, however he wants to do it. I do believe President Trump is the kind of person. who could wake up one morning with what he thinks is an epiphany and run with it, regardless of what it is. Be like, you know what? I’m going this road today. And that sounds unpredictable. And I think the left pretends that it’s terrible, but it is someone who’s leading. It is someone who’s in charge and behaving with the authority of a person who believes themselves to be in charge. Biden was the exact opposite. Biden was the kind of guy in a room who would make jokes about how his wife or his team were telling him what he was allowed to do and not do. I would never want someone in a position of ultimate authority for a government or even a company I’m working for to behave that way. I’d want them to be certain of the decisions they make and to deal with the fallout if those decisions go poorly, because at least they’re leading and they’re not doing everything else to give that power to other people. I wonder, I’ll say this real quick. If you’ve ever worked at a company where there was a person in charge who was weak, who was easily manipulated, who seemed like they had people that they deeply trusted within the company, and then you talk to those people, the people that, you know, again, the boss thinks are their knights in shining armor, their friends who are on the front lines fighting for them. A lot of those people hate the person in charge, but they do manipulate them. They are in control of them, but it’s crazy. They’ll say all kinds of awful, terrible things. And then if any of those awful, terrible things get back to the person in power, the person manipulating them goes, oh, I was just saying that to get everybody’s trust who was saying stuff about you, but I don’t actually believe it. It’s amazing. I’ve seen it occur two times in my professional career in the industry that I’m in, where the person at the forefront of a company was actually the least secure, the most easily manipulated, just the person who probably should not be in charge because of how weak of a leader they are and how easy it was for someone else to, in the shadows, actually control everything. And the people in the shadows are the most devious, horrible people that you can possibly imagine. And this is true easily within our government. The amount of people who wielded the auto pen for Biden seemed to be more than it should have been. It should have been zero, but it seemed to be a large group of individuals. And the things they did and the way they use someone who is mentally incapable is sort of, you know, the antithesis of what it means to be a good person. And then you have Trump, who probably can’t be wielded by anybody in any capacity because he’ll he’ll do what he wants at the end of the day. But all right. And I do like that better again. And I almost feel bad for the bosses who get manipulated by other people. But inevitably, sometimes that manipulation hurts me. I don’t feel that bad for the people that are stupid enough to be tricked by people that work for them. 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. This is the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X to stay connected to all things she’s up to. And time for Florida Man. We have several today. First, there was a machete-wielding man in Florida in Fort Pierce that showed up at a Walmart. He started threatening people and just flinging around a machete. That’s definitely the kind of thing where you’re going to ask yourself all kinds of questions. Like, why is this guy at Walmart? Why am I at Walmart at this time of night? But Lawrence Fountain is the dude’s name. Eventually, Fort Pierce PD showed up and tackled the guy. No one was injured. And police are amazing to do this kind of work where they show up at a scene, see a crazy dude with a machete and like, well, we’re going in and tackling that dude again. They prevented hopefully anything horrible from happening, which seemed like it could have. But this dude eventually went with police and no reason why he was there wielding a machete other than the fact that it’s Florida. All right. That story is one Florida man. This other guy was dumb enough to, quote, headbutt a patrol car. I love this story. After a fight at a tiki bar. So a 39 year old dude by the name of Christopher, I got in a fight at a tiki bar. And as the police rolled up to the scene, I guess the man who thought he was probably getting in trouble with authorities decided to take it out on the worst object he possibly could by headbutting the car itself, being like, get away from me, police. I’m doing this now. It definitely did, I think, two things. First, it demonstrated that this guy is nuts and probably the problem, which is why I think he immediately gets arrested after that moment. And the other thing it did, and this was the Joker’s thing in The Dark Knight, is you don’t start with a head injury, man. People get all fuzzy and then they have no idea what else is going on. So this individual probably also made it easier to apprehend him. the moment he rammed his head into a vehicle. But this really occurred, and the dumb Florida man was arrested. Man, I can’t imagine how many drinks he had at the Tiki Bar or if he’ll be invited back anytime soon. Although it would be amusing to look out the window and to see a dude headbutt a car and go down is the kind of thing that I would not mind seeing again. I would even maybe pay for that type of entertainment. Another story out there, a Florida man was arrested for a DUI after he drove past police who were actually in another traffic stop thing going on, and he had absolutely no tire on one of his rims. It was just rim, and he was driving on the street, sparks flying, things going crazy, and cops watched him, and they’re like, this is probably not good. So they pulled that guy over, he’s intoxicated, and now he’s arrested. But what I think is uniquely interesting about this is that the dude was yelling that there was nothing to see here. Don’t be suspicious. Don’t be suspicious is probably what he was thinking as he was like, it’s totally fine. Everything will be okay. They’re not going to catch me. And then he drives by missing a full-on tire. Easy work for Florida police sometimes. I like that that’s happening too. One last one, and this one is kind of just awful. A Florida man in an inflatable dog costume choked a juvenile during an argument outside of a pet store. What the exact argument was, I’m not sure how old the juvenile was. I’m also not sure, but certainly not 18 years old. But Clearwater, Florida, had to arrest a 46 year old man again wearing a puppy costume, which actually made it look like he was riding a dog. The inflatable dog, you know, similar to the way a horse would be. and the dude standing over it, and he choked somebody. He choked a child. And that gets you a whole lot of arrested in a whole lot of places, including Florida. It also gets you in Florida, man. 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. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great way to stay connected to her and the team and everything that they do on this show. Producer Steven does a great job with social media as well. At RadioCraigZ, if you want to see what it’s like to not have a Producer Steven and to just be me and 400 or so followers. But anyway, other things out there. Janine Pirro announces that they’ve made two arrests in the murder of a Capitol Hill intern. This is a uniquely sad story. They’re looking for a third person that they believe was also involved with this. But way to go, Judge Janine, in tracking down some of the people responsible for killing an intern, you know, for whatever reason, political or not. Here we go.
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I stand here to address specifically the tragic event that has shaken DC, the senseless fatal shooting of a 21 year old intern by the name of Eric Tarpinium Jackham, who was fatally shot in Northwest DC far too soon on June 30th of 2025. He was shot and killed at 1028 at night. He was hit four times. The scene involved two rifles, one 9 millimeter, and 79 rounds on the ground. Wow. Eric was a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was in the nation’s capital, as many young people are, pursuing his passion for public service. He was interning for Representative Ron Estes, and he was an innocent bystander, innocent bystander who was caught in a violent act that was not meant for him. He leaves behind his mother, Tamara, his father, Robert, his sister, Angela, and his brother, Jeremy.
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As I said, she goes on to announce that there have been at least two arrests and there’s a third suspect that they are looking for. Judge Jeanine Pirro doing a good job in front of a microphone, of course, and how she talks about that and making sure to mention the family and the victim long before getting to the part where you’re actually talking about the people who have been caught as people responsible for this. All right. Other things out there. AG Pam Bondi is mentioning a brand new fight against human smuggling, human traffickers, all kinds of things. And I just love how definitive she was. And one of the statements she made, Pam Bondi, not exactly popular with a lot of people right now. The belief is that she might be aiding and covering up some sort of stuff with the Epstein files and that even if Trump doesn’t seem to care as much about them, maybe people like Dan Bongino are very upset with Pam Bondi specifically of what they are or are not doing in that regard. And a recent thing that got leaked that I’ll reference in a minute is a pretty big deal and it doesn’t make Pam Bondi look very good. But this is a good thing, focusing on human smuggling, drug trafficking, all kinds of things, and trying to get a handle on it. This is good. So let’s play with this.
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Under President Trump, we have coordinated more closely with our U.S. Attorney’s Offices to protect unaccompanied children being smuggled into our country from exploitation. One of the task force’s greatest accomplishments has been demonstrating how dangerous human smuggling and trafficking are for those being transported. For those who are considering paying to be smuggled into the US, it is not safe for you or for your families. These coyotes are coordinating with terrorist organizations collecting money from them to bring families and unaccompanied children into our country. These operations are getting people killed.
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Yeah, not just that. Horrible things happen to a whole bunch of people who trust cartels to get them into the country. You know, rape, abuse, everything you can imagine. It’s horrible. And so one of the things that we do in creating a better deterrent to, you know, prevent people from coming into our country illegally, one of the byproducts of that is actually protecting individuals from putting themselves in harm’s way by trusting people they shouldn’t trust and giving money to organizations they shouldn’t trust to do horrible things throughout the world and certainly here in the United States. So Pam Bondi in a fight about that, that is good. Is that put out as a distraction to the other thing that’s out there in the news? I don’t know. So if you’re not aware, James O’Keefe, who is famous for Project Veritas and all the things they uncovered, all the moments where someone in a position of power said something that they probably shouldn’t have said to what is usually a honeypot, that would be an attractive person who has gotten insider information by convincing someone in a position of power that they’re interested in them romantically. To whatever degree that is, I don’t know. Who knows? But anyway, James seems to be uniquely good at this stuff. Even though he’s no longer with Project Veritas, he does this on his own. And a secret taping of a Pam Bondi official, the Deputy Chief of Special Operations for the DOJ, Joseph Schnitt, was damaging, significantly so. In the video, you hear Joseph talk about how They’re going to do everything they can to quote, redact Republicans from inevitable Epstein files that could put out into the world, shift all of the blame to Democrats, like all of the tinfoil hat stuff that people believe politicians are doing and might even think that Trump is involved in doing. Any of that. And so what’s really interesting about it is first that this is a person in a position of power saying all that stuff out loud. Now, I want to make two points about this topic. The first one being that if you’re a position of power person in government and a ridiculously good looking person seems to be interested in you. Question it. Question it heavily. Although, actually, I don’t I don’t want them to like I give that advice. But but truthfully, I’d like to uncover truth. So go ahead and believe that this 10 out of 10 is interested in you. A four out of 10. I go ahead and give them information. But the second thing is, this is obviously what both sides politically would want to do. This wouldn’t be uniquely a Republican thing. And it’s the big thing that Trump actually is saying about Democrats and how they had access to these files first, that they might have scrubbed any and all version of information. And actually, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino also stated that there’s files they don’t have access to at the FBI that other people might have access to and they need them that seem to demonstrate that maybe the rabbit hole goes deeper than what they have right now. But the other thing that’s important in saying that is that since this is so manipulatable and that both sides of the aisle had, you know, fingerprints on it at one time or another, it convinces me even more that Trump is not going to be found guilty of anything and not going to be, you know, a casualty of any inevitable Epstein file release. And the biggest reason why is Democrats would have done that already and scrubbed it the same way this Republican is claiming that the DOJ is going to attempt to do it before they put stuff out there. I think there’s always a thread. No matter what happens, as long as you get transparency, I think you can keep pulling at a thread and you can find the truth, even if it’s being protected. But the other thing I will say… The defense here, the guy wound up sending a notes app screenshot to his director, to his boss, Joseph Schnitt. He signed it and everything. The funny things about this is it’s an airplane mode, 30% battery iPhone note. It doesn’t look like he put a lot of work into it that eventually got tweeted out by the U.S. Department of Justice. In it, the person who’s in the video says, I met a woman named Skylar on Hinge, a dating app, in July of 2025. Her profile is no longer findable. We had two dates on August 4th and 16th. She claimed to be an au pair at Georgetown. She gave no clues that she was a reporter or recording our dates. Had I had a clue, the first date would have ended immediately and there never would have been a second one. Duh. That part is like, of course. I love that he also doesn’t put in here. I probably wouldn’t have discussed my own opinion of what we’re doing in the DOJ with someone that I thought was a secret reporter. My profile indicated I did government work, but did not specify what agency. I never discussed what I do at the DOJ. I love that it also says he was a victim, you know, that he didn’t actually make it easy to figure out who he was. I think his photo did that. The comments I made were of my own personal opinion from what I’ve seen in media and not anything to do with what I’ve done or learned via work. I have no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding Ms. Maxwell other than what is reported in the news. I also never divulged anything about what I do at work. So essentially he was gossiping with a hot chick and trying to impress her with knowledge that he claims he didn’t actually have. Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know. James O’Keefe is very good at finding the individual who’s a weak point, who’s willing to give you information, as I said a second ago. So there seems to be a tremendous amount of value to believing this and believing that it could be true. And the delay might be in trying to create a convincing version of of document that doesn’t harm Republicans, but does harm Democrats. But I think once more information gets out there, the people that exist in our society, the independent reporters will keep pulling at threads, will keep chasing down rabbit holes. And the thing that’s most important, and I think this is what would disappoint mainstream media, is that they probably won’t get Trump. Even the accusers and the victims who spoke yesterday with a lawyer about all the Epstein stuff, and there were a ton of women there. They were asked point-blank questions about Trump, and no one said anything to indicate that they saw or were a party to something where Trump did something bad himself. And they also seem to say very often that the only thing they ever heard was Epstein bragging about his friendship with President Donald Trump long before he was actually the president. And so… I find that very fascinating, that that information is already out there coming from the victims themselves and mainstream media is ignoring it and trying to blow up this thing to be something different than I think what O’Keefe thinks it is, which is a bunch of elites hiding other elites that you may not even have heard of before and how they orchestrated and helped run a sex trafficking ring involving children, which is a uniquely horrific group of people. that deserves to be as accountable as humanly possible for the horrible things they did. But all right, we’ll take a break. We’ll talk about some other things, have a little bit more fun within the rest of the show today, because darn it, it’s a Friday, and we have to. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
SPEAKER 05 :
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. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X on Twitter to stay connected to her and everything that is awesome coming out of the team that handles some of that social media. She does a lot of it herself, but producer Steven handles a lot of it too. Great job all around. An Eagles defensive lineman was kicked out of the game last night before it even started. It’s a unique walk of shame to be taken off the helmet, to walk back through, you know, into the locker room and to have no sweat on your face whatsoever. This is because of him spitting at Dak Prescott, who definitely spit first. Here’s some audio of Mike Tirico talking about what happened last night.
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Sportsman like Condor, defense number 98.
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So Jalen Carter the focus and the star for the Eagles on the front line out for the game before a snap here he goes He walks there front of Dak Prescott. Did he spit? Did he spit on him? There you go Jalen Carter out of this game before a snap
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I don’t know if I enjoy a little bit too much Mike Tirico asking several times, did he spit? Did he spit? Later on in the game, I think they debated whether or not Dak spit first. And my answer is absolutely yes, he did. A mom from New Zealand broke a world record that you probably don’t want. Her name is Gabrielle. She ran the fastest 100-meter sprint ever. Over Lego pieces. This is something that maybe moms might be uniquely good at avoiding injury, although I’m pretty sure they would hurt while stepping on Legos. A pain that is surprisingly bad compared to what you would assume it would be until it happens to you. But anyway, Gabrielle was talking about breaking this record and how weird and specific it is right here in this piece of audio that went viral. I love that she’s proud of this. that she can run 100 meters faster than anybody else. 24.75 seconds on a bunch of Legos.
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I actually had a health scare a couple of years ago, so I re-evaluated my bucket list as a result. One of the things that ended up on the list was to do a Guinness World Records attempt. Nice conditions on the track today. Sunny with a good chance of injury. It looks a lot longer than it did in the training I have to say. Probably about halfway it switched from being like wow I’m actually doing this to boy that looks like a long long way away. Like a dream. It’s like running on clouds.
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Like a dream, running on clouds where a whole bunch of pain happens. Other things out there as far as Quick Five go. Way to go, Her. Charlie Sheen is opening up about a lot of crazy stuff, surprising stuff that he’s done during his life, which is saying something about a guy who has already been very vocal about a lot of crazy stuff. He has a new book coming out on September 9th and then a documentary on Netflix called The next day, one of the biggest things that media is focusing on is that he admits to having sex with guys. I don’t have more of a take on that. Charlie Sheen did say when this started happening was when he was heavily using crack. So whether or not media is propping up what they think is an LGBTQ plus story. because they like it about a guy that’s been in media a lot for a lot of reasons. And whether it’s actually a story about drug addiction and how, you know, certain activities that you do, you might not understand later. Some of the quotes within the book seem to demonstrate that he wasn’t really sure why he did what he did outside of the fact that maybe crack was a big component to that. So it’s weird. It’s weird to celebrate drugs. drug use because it might tie to a different narrative that media thinks they’re happy about. And Sheen is going to make money and say that he doesn’t care anymore about what people think of him. Not that I think he ever did. And then finally, one last thing. I thought this was interesting, too. Florida Honda salesman has gone viral for a skateboard trick. And I use air quotes when I say that that he put up on social media. The guy is standing in the bed of a truck and he jumps down and lands on a skateboard and I thought it was like a kickflip or something at first, some kind of trick from outside the bed of the truck. It’s not. He’s just dropping the skateboard in front of him and landing on it and then holding it while talking about making sales in Port Richey for you to buy a Honda. And he’s gone viral mostly because he seems to think he’s cool when he definitely doesn’t look all that cool and definitely looks a tad too old viewing the skateboarding tricks he’s doing. But I’m not judging, man. I’m almost 40, and if you can do a skateboard trick at this age, I’m as impressed as anybody else, even if that’s barely a trick, bud. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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That’s right. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in at DLashDanaLashRadio on X on Twitter. Best way to stay connected to her and everything that they have going on there at Radio Craig C. If you want to help me have a less and less embarrassing amount of followers, although it’s still embarrassing and probably will be for a while, but at Radio Craig C. If this giant, massive audience wants to help me at all and cares about my Yankee tweets. All right. CBS News is demonstrating bias yet again. What I find amazing, actually, about this topic and how long it’s been going on now, President Trump absolutely deserves credit. There are others before him in the up and down history of people in charge of our government and the media and how they cover those people. But President Trump absolutely deserves recognition for being at the forefront of a lot of Americans in today’s society openly admitting that most media is biased, that mainstream media especially has a significant bias. And now it’s so valuable in the world of discussion that Trump’s getting sweet, sweet cash out of it. He’s getting deals and he’s getting, you know, organizations to go ahead and make some sort of negotiation with him, some sort of payout to him in light of actually having discovery occur in a lawsuit. If you’d rather settle. than have the lawsuit. The biggest reason to me why is because you don’t want Discovery to damage the reputation of your organization even more, which it would inevitably do. The case in point to how biased media still is, even with all of that going on, is the difference between the Ketanji Brown Jackson interview and the Amy Coney Barrett interview that CBS did recently. So we have a side by side comparison of some of the things that happened in these conversations. And we just want you to acknowledge anyone out there to acknowledge how ridiculous this is and how when the left fights back against the narrative that media is uniquely unfair to Trump, they embarrass themselves even more and push the everyday American further away from that party because of how much how detached they seem to be from the reality at hand. But here’s a bit of a comparison.
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To understand Justice Katonji Brown Jackson, consider the poem she’s kept close for decades. The court has held that the rights to marry, engage in sexual intimacy, use birth control, and raise children are fundamental, but the rights to do business, commit suicide, and obtain abortion are not.
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Okay, by the way, that first part was a narrative and a pre-interview demonstration of how they were turning Ketanji Brown Jackson into essentially a saint. And then the next piece of audio is actually a question thrown at Amy Coney Barrett challenging her and her position on certain things. Let’s hear more.
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as henry wadsworth longfellow put it is how the 116th justice says she made history as the first black female on the supreme court what kind of pressure does that come with and so when hillary clinton for example says what’s next she said my prediction is the court will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion
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Sorry, I can’t help how good this is, how well this is cut together by town hall media. And I think the conservative war machine actually initially put it up on social media. But what does it feel like to have pressure surrounding you and the amazingness of who you are, Ketanji Brown Jackson? Is there anything you can say to us to to blow our minds? with the amazing and incredible nature of you as a human. Just give us some insight into what it’s like to be officially a saint of the Democratic Party and Democratic machine that runs a lot of media. To Amy Coney Barrett, what’s it like to be the devil incarnate is basically what they’re saying. One more.
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Details her journey to the highest court in her memoir, Out Tuesday. The title, lovely one. Yes. That’s what your name means. It is. It is. But you also say…
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I’m sorry. I have to uniquely stop it there, too. I love that, like, that’s a question. The title of this book, that’s what your name actually means, right? Yes, that’s correct.
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In the book, that the rights to marry and engage in sexual intimacy and use birth control and raise children are fundamental. This is the classroom where you met. This is the classroom where we met.
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Oh, fun. Look at Ketanji meeting the person that she’s married to now and look at Amy Coney Barrett facing the fire hose of questions. Look, I’ll stop it there because even without the answers coming from Amy Coney Barrett on this, it’s just amazing. And these media people, they show their personal opinion in the way they ask these questions. If someone were to get an interview and they inherently agree with the person they’re interviewing now, which media is not supposed to do, you see it on display. You see the, yeah, I’m going to take it easy on you. I’m going to highlight and prop you up and love you and everything you do. And honestly, I’ll say this. A lot of conservative media will do the same thing. Not all of it. Actually, something that I’ve always been very impressed with Dana on is her willingness to hold the feet to the fire of anybody, which is awesome and important. And you need it. People absolutely need it. But there is a lot of conservative media that won’t challenge their leaders. And I think part of the reason why is and this is what the Fox News people of the world say when they don’t do it, is they’re trying to be a counter point to the inevitable version of of ridiculous challenge that exists in mainstream media. So it does feel like a softball interview somewhere might be more valuable for the conservatives than for the Democrats because of how consistent the the larger news organizations in our society, which luckily have been losing their influence more and more all the time. But they often operate, you know, softballing one side and giving a whole lot of scrutiny to the other. So I don’t hate occasional softball interviews existing in the world for Republicans because they’re rarer, I guess is the way I’m trying to say it. But I usually just love anyone and everyone being challenged on anything because that’s the right way to go about this stuff. And actually, you know what’s really interesting about this? The backdrop. Of Amy Coney Barrett writing a book and being, you know, essentially attacked by the person interviewing her at CBS after they celebrated Katonji Brown Jackson is the ridiculous amount of lying and secrecy that exists on the left. And you’re seeing it on display in President Biden and the things we’ve learned about him. You had another mid-level Biden staffer showing up at Capitol Hill for his testimony into the ridiculous cover-up and all the different things that happened with the auto pen actually being in charge. I think there’s a little bit of audio of Fox trying to confront this guy.
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What do you plan to sell the committee?
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Silence!
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Are you concerned that you’re going to get caught doing a lot of horrible, terrible things? And his just stone faced reaction as he’s trying to walk by people. What’s amazing about this, again, is they claim that Biden was fine. And if Biden actually was fine, which no one believes anymore, then they wouldn’t have a problem answering questions to press and saying how ridiculous is that they’re even there. Like, how crazy is it that I’m even having to talk about this? That’s how media reacted for years when Biden was in the White House. And now everybody seems to be stone-faced and quiet and hiding the truth as much as they possibly can and worried about their own self-incriminating position they might take on stuff, which is amazing because it definitely shows how horrible stuff actually was and how many conservative pundits were right. By the way, this is also interesting. Jesse Waters broke the news last night that Biden has been diagnosed with a second form of cancer. As there’s a continued scrutiny over just how much Biden was actually in charge and how much he was manipulated and how much mental decline he suffered, they continue to roll out these stories that I think are designed to make people just move on, just forget about it, and to allow the left to say you’re being mean to someone who is ill. However, the left was willingly using someone who they knew was ill for quite some time and actually for a while tried to get him back in a position of power in the White House, probably to have this happen. They probably knew this was going to occur. And the best way to get Kamala Harris, the White House would have been, in their opinion, until it went horribly wrong to get Biden reelected and then to have him die. Essentially, the left was sort of orchestrating all of this, it sounds like, behind closed doors. And it’s uniquely horrible in how they treated Biden. It almost reminds you of how they treated Bernie Sanders, their side of the aisle, when they didn’t want him to be a candidate. And he was doing uniquely well against Hillary Clinton. But here we go.
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Fox News alert. Joe Biden’s been diagnosed with another form of cancer. A spokesman confirmed that Biden underwent surgery last month to remove cancerous lesions on his head. This is not the first bout of skin cancer. He’s had multiple cancers removed in the past, as recently as 2023. He’s also battling an aggressive form of prostate cancer that spread to his bones.
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Yeah, this sounds horrible. It sounds like his health is definitely not good and that the former president of the United States does not have a long left to be on this earth. And that’s sad. I don’t care how much I disagreed with him publicly. I don’t wish death on anybody, unlike the Democrats who seem to be wishing death on Trump on a daily basis. But it’s interesting that this giant amount of health issues… has been hitting the news now and didn’t hit the news at all when he was in the White House, even though he definitely had some of these issues then. The skin cancer one, I guess, being a bit of a different thing because he was treated for it openly while in the White House at times. But nonetheless, like all of the health issues of Biden finally coming to the forefront of discussion on purpose, it feels, for Democrats to try to get you to just move on the same way they did when they chose not to try him for stealing a bunch of classified documents. that the assessment then at the time by the DOJ while Biden was in office was that you’d feel bad for him if you were a juror because it was evident that he was an old guy whose brain didn’t work anymore. And that guy was still in charge of the country and remained in charge of the country until his term ended after that moment happened and after media called it, you know, ridiculous and corrupt. And it seems utterly true. One last thing. I do want to play this. JB Pritzker, Jellybean Pritzker, has said that Chicago crime isn’t that bad. He said they’re not ranked in the top 10 in violent crime in the country. Chicago is number one for murder in the country, any way that you slice the data. They are the number one city, the number one place with 100,000 plus people per capita for murder rate. that feels like violent crime that you’d want to stop if you go beyond murder if you go into the world of of you know assault rape um a bunch of other things um you know carjackings and whatnot yes you can start to mess with those numbers but i think the most relevant one the most important one the one that gets talked about all the time with chicago the amount of shootings and murders that happen there they are in fact number one in the country by any set of fbi released data Over the last year, Pritzker going to refuse to admit that and claim instead that Trump is focused too much on him. Well, Pritzker is begging to have a national spotlight. Here’s a bit of what he said to mainstream media about the National Guard being sent in to help prevent murder in the place that has the most murder of any place in our country. Again, just go ahead and look those numbers up if you want to. Definitively true.
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court uh if uh national guard or other military troops are sent to deployed to the city of chicago immediately go to court um so that’s going to be our first line of defense is getting a court to issue a tro or other injunction again we’re gonna stop everybody
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from doing anything. You know what’s crazy about this too, by the way, the last thing I’ll say about it is let’s say that the National Guard were activated by the president in Chicago to help fight crime. And they didn’t behave like police, but they assisted police in whatever way they needed to to bring down the number one murder rate of any city in the country. If it went the way that Democrats claim it could go, which is it felt like martial law and people who were innocent were being treated poorly, they could actually go to court then. They could allow the help to happen. and then react to the thing that they’re claiming may occur when it actually does occur, instead of saying they’re going to fight it immediately for whatever reason. That shows how little interest they actually have in cleaning up crime in Chicago. Because even if they had a legitimate concern, which they don’t, about the military doing things wrong that I don’t think the military would do, because I actually trust and honor the men and women who serve our country, But anyway, in order to, you know, get any of that to make sense, you have to claim that inevitably they would be doing, you know, essentially Nazi Germany type stuff and not even allowing any of it to occur for even a moment to see if that were actually happening, which is a case in point. The reason that they fight this so hard because they know it would actually get better and they don’t want Trump to get a win for bringing down the murder rate in places beyond Washington, D.C. I 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. Very quickly, D-Lash, Dana Lash Audio, Dana Lash Radio, excuse me, on X, on Twitter, to stay connected to everything going on with her. A great job by producer Steven and the team for doing a bunch of the social media so, so well. And Dana does a lot of it herself, too. Newsome leads the 2028 Democratic field in a brand new survey. that demonstrates how screwed Democrats actually are. Newsom is way ahead. Part of the reason they say for a recent surge in popularity is the disrespectful way that Newsom has behaved on social media toward Trump. Now, I definitely think it’s not actually Newsom making those jokes, but some people in charge of his social media campaign. And the difference between Newsom and Trump is he won’t be able to do that well in public. The haircut is a uniquely annoying person to listen to and how he talks and how he carries himself. So any amusement in the social media version of him, I think, will wane very quickly. Harris came in at a distant number two as far as presidential hopefuls in 2028 is concerned. And then AOC was number three on this list. Pete Buttigieg and J.B. Pritzker rounding out the top five. By the way, Pete Buttigieg recently accused by Tucker Carlson of being a fake gay guy. something that definitely made the news and something that a whole lot of people attack Tucker for. But I do have to be honest, not that I have any of the insight that Tucker has in any of this. I do not put it past any politician, especially a Democrat, to be fake anything. So I don’t necessarily think that it’s impossible for that to be true if you think it garners more support for you. And Buttigieg does make the list. Other things out there that I thought were kind of funny. A woman went viral for making her own pasta on a flight. You’re not allowed to bring any sort of cooking apparatus with you on a flight, so she couldn’t actually make the food into edible versions of pasta. She just has raw gnocchi. But she did demonstrate while sitting in her seat how she slowly put all the ingredients together to roll her own pasta. A lot of people said if they saw this next to them on a plane, they would be irate. The woman is a social media influencer, and yes, she is attractive, if you’re wondering about that. But she did impressively go from no gnocchi to raw gnocchi, but did not cook it at all, so I’m not sure she ate it. But she bragged about how airplane food is terrible, that’s true, and how she’s uniquely good at making her own food, which also seems to be true. Again, not really allowed to cook whatever you want on the flight, that part is going to get you in some trouble. Finally, getting older and eating breakfast later may be a sign of waning health. This could be because of depression, fatigue, or oral health problems. If you used to eat breakfast early and you’re putting it off, don’t do that, they’re saying, because it might be bad for your health as we get older. That’s it. That’s the show. Thanks for being a part of it. Dana back on Monday. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
