Join us as we untangle the complex web of media narratives that shape public opinion and policy. We delve into the story of a high-profile deportation case involving alleged gang affiliations and explore the moral and legal complexities surrounding birthright citizenship. Plus, hear about the peculiar antics of the Cutthroat Cowboys and find out how everyday absurdities can shed light on deeper societal truths. This episode is a must for anyone wanting to see beyond the headlines and understand the forces at play in today’s political landscape.
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That’s excellent. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in DLash, DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her, all things necessary there. Let’s start with one of the two stories that media is obsessing about right now, although not for the right reasons. This story easily deserves to be in the news, but not the way they talk about it. This is the FSU shooting that happened yesterday. The suspect in that shooting has been identified. I’m not going to give the person’s name out on the radio. I don’t like to do that because I don’t like to at all help to bring anyone notoriety that has done something awful. But here’s the two predictable narratives that emerged from this. The individual is a registered Republican, and so he’s being accused of being a white supremacist and a far-right MAGA supporter individual. Whether that’s true or not, which will come out in a courtroom somewhere when all that proof actually comes to the surface, It doesn’t mean that anyone else who also voted for Donald Trump is, you know, moments away from being the next shooter in some sort of horrific shooting. Although that’s the way that media likes to portray that part of the conversation. And then there’s also this other aspect of the conversation that I can’t get over. And it’s the very simplistic one. It’s the very political one that guns are somehow the problem. Not the individuals who commit crimes and, you know, the mental health or mental deranged, you know, evil that exists in certain people’s hearts that allows them to do things like this. Whether you take two lives or 20, there’s something about people who are willing to indiscriminately fire weapons in public or use other means of harming people that we deserve to talk about that. we don’t necessarily need to talk about whether or not uh… preventing someone from owning a gun i was in fact the problem and by the way Before I even play audio of President Trump responding to a question about that, just for clarity’s sake, the media knows the details of this story. They know that the weapon used was a handgun. They know that the 20-year-old who had access to that handgun had access to it because a family member was a police officer and it was a service weapon. All things that would never be legislated away. No amount of discussion about any sort of gun control ever involves handguns, ever involves shotguns, which was another weapon found at the scene, but not used to take the lives of the two people that died. And also not something where you’d ever take weapons away from people who protect our community, protect our society, like the police who rushed toward danger to protect that school after a shooter opened fire on people. None of those things would change. Media knows this. They don’t care about fixing problems. They care about specific narratives and propping them up whenever they can. But here is some audio of President Trump being asked a question about gun control legislation and without even all the details I just gave you, saying that was going to be a non-starter.
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There are now two deceased following that shooting at Florida State University. Following and amid that, is there any changes that you want to see to gun legislation? Anything you see broken with gun laws in our country?
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Well, I’m going to have to… Look, I’m a big advocate of the Second Amendment. I have been from the beginning. I protected it. And these things are terrible. But the gun doesn’t do the shooting. The people do. It’s, you know, a phrase that’s used probably too often. I will tell you that… It’s a shame. I’m just hearing about it now. I just hear about it. I know the area very well. I know the school very well. I know everything about it. It’s Florida. And we’ll have more to say about it later. I’ll have to see what happens.
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What do you mean when you say there will be more to say about it?
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Only in terms of what happened. As far as legislation is concerned, this has been going on for a long time. I have an obligation to protect the Second Amendment. I ran on the Second Amendment, among many other things.
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and i will always protect the second so again uh… media’s immediate response to this is let’s create a moment where president trump rejects uh… gun control legislation so we can then blame him for a shooting that wouldn’t be prevented by gun control gun control right legislation and we’re not going to blame at least not consistently blame the person who took other people’s lives It’s insanity. This is insanity. And we have so many versions of this same broken narrative existing in our society. I’ll give you two more examples of things where media is obsessed with a simple narrative in which they take out a bunch of information so that you believe whatever they want you to believe if you don’t do any amount of additional checking yourself and find out, wait a minute, this is probably the reason why this is happening or this wouldn’t work, etc., etc. You have the story of the… Guy in El Salvador who was removed from our country. He did come in illegally. Two different judges believe that he is a member of MS-13, the gang. They believed that years ago. They believed it more recently. His wife accused him of beating her. That is true. She asked for a restraining order against him in court in 2022. All these things are true about him. But because in 2019, a judge said that he was likely to be killed by a rival gang. of MS-13, if he was returned to El Salvador, he was allowed to stay in our country. And Tom Holman says that some things have changed since that makes him feel as though that order to stay, not a grant of asylum, but something else, is no longer relevant. But because of that, media is now obsessed with a wrongfully deported man who… It seems by a whole lot of, you know, information and different receipts that have been provided by the Trump administration now is very, very likely not the kind of person that makes our society better, but in fact makes it much worse. Here is Scott Jennings on CNN responding to a bunch of the other people in the panel talking about how horrible it is that this person was deported and how they need to be brought back immediately, etc., etc., and just confused by the need of this narrative And the forgiveness of all the things that seem to make, you know, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a guy that most Americans would be happy, is no longer in our country. Whether he should have been sent out or not, it seems like it’s a good thing for most of us that he’s not currently here. If all the things he’s alleged to have done wind up being true, again, two judges in courtrooms decided it was true. So it’s not even like it’s just stuff still being debated in a courtroom somewhere. He’s been found guilty, or at least found likely to be tied to these things. Here we go with Scott Jennings.
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And I think, boy, the party of women is really covering itself in glory tonight. I mean, I don’t understand why the American left falls in love with the worst people. You’ve got a gang-banging, human trafficking, wife-beating, illegal alien, and a United States senator in a ludicrous display of energy is in El Salvador having Mai Tais and Yahtzee? I do not get it. I do not understand why the left takes on the heroes.
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I don’t get it. Look, I’m not… You’re allegedly in there somewhere? I’m just wondering. I don’t think that this is…
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I love that Scott Jennings pretends the allegedly was about the Democrat and the U.S. Senator and not about the other individual because all of the things he said, that he’s a human trafficking, gangbanging, wife-beating, illegal alien, for the most part, are not being debated. The only one that may be debated is the human trafficking mention. He was pulled over and then cited by cops for being someone that was likely to be trafficking two other people in the car with him. But he was allowed to go. And so that scenario never actually had an end resolution where he was found guilty or innocent of a crime. But it was a suspicion that was noted at the time. And more information would have to come out for us to know for sure what was going on there, whether that investigation led to the inevitable removal of this person from our country is not something we know either. But I think that’s interesting because the ties to MS-13 are fairly well established. The ties to being someone who’s here illegally are easily well established. And then the accusations by his wife that he beat her enough times, and she said many times that she needed to have a protective order against him, is also something that’s easily well documented. And so if certain media… Desired to know this information and I assume a whole lot of them do know it and simply ignore it to enhance the narrative Anyway, but you could very easily find it or very easily encourage people to go look for it But it doesn’t help you and it doesn’t help go after the Trump administration as the only bad guy you want to attack Regardless of how much of an actual bad guy they are alright one last story that matters in the same world of we need to be angry and and we need to only be angry at certain people in certain individuals and not everyone is this horrific press conference that happened yesterday carmelo anthony the uh… young man who is accused of stabbing to death austin met calf at a high school track meet and the details of the story if you need more of them From what I understand, one high school track team was setting up a tent in which their team is supposed to be. Austin Metcalf is on that team. As they’re setting up a tent, Carmelo Anthony shows up wearing the jacket of the opposing team that’s going to be part of a track meet in high school and saying he’s there. And them saying, you’ve got to not be here. And him saying he didn’t care about that. And then at some point, Austin Metcalf saying to him that if he’s not going to leave, he’s going to force him to leave. And Carmelo Anthony saying to him, if you touch me, I will harm you. I’m paraphrasing. That’s not exactly how he said it. But essentially, keep your hands off me or something bad is going to happen to you. To which Carmelo Anthony then decided to stab and kill him. Stab him in the heart. Most times in my life that I can think back on any amount of, you know, high school interaction where guys are starting to be, you know, tough with each other. At no point had anyone ever thought that the end result of that would be someone’s death. And then that would at any way, shape or form be acceptable. I say this not because I think I need to, but because it’s ridiculous to be here. But anyway, at a press conference yesterday, one of the people defending Carmelo Anthony said, said it was absolutely inappropriate that austin met calf’s father showed up to the press conference he didn’t create a scene he didn’t harm anyone he willingly left when he was asked to leave again the victim’s father who actually in media has said to forgive the person who killed his son because his faith implores him to do it uh… which is something that people were critical of to a certain degree and i understand a little bit of why but your faith would ask you to do something that incredibly hard to do uh… not that they would then get away with it he still wants him to be punished in a court of law But Jeff Metcalf has said that he’s forgiven Carmelo Anthony for killing his son again because of his faith. And it’s Good Friday today, a very big religious holiday going to be happening over the weekend. I can’t fathom how any of this could end with this version of audio out in the world. But this is what the people that were calling the press conference to support Carmelo Anthony said about Jeff showing up at this press conference. This is disgusting.
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And all I’m going to say, so it don’t be asked later. as that was disrespectful and just shows you all the character. He was not invited. He knows that it’s inappropriate to be near this family, but he did it. And so I say to people, actions speak louder than words.
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Actions absolutely speak louder than words and killing someone because they told you that you need to leave an area is the kind of action that puts you in jail for a very long time. Taking someone’s life. When you were not in any way, shape or form in a life or death situation of your own, the self-defense that they’re going to argue in court is going to be very challenging. I’m saying that as nicely as I can because the court case is not determined yet for them to prove is accurate at all. It’s insane. This is insane. And I can’t believe that the way that a public press conference goes where a whole lot of people who weren’t invited showed up. um is blaming that father for being there to hear whatever they’re going to say about um the young man who killed his son he just wants to hear it he didn’t make a scene he didn’t attack anyone he didn’t even talk to anybody and they kicked him out and they told him it was inappropriate the need to vilify certain people and follow certain narratives all-time high in our society disgustingly so quick break a lot more craig collins filling in on the dana show
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. Time for a quick five. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Four men who dubbed themselves the Cutthroat Cowboys were found recently by authorities after they went through a Walmart on horseback. All four people were riding horses in a Louisiana Walmart, and police were on the hunt for them after that because they posted a 40-second viral video of themselves committing the crime. which is both the dumbest and best part of the society we live in now, that idiot criminals post themselves doing idiot crimes online to make the cops finding of them much easier. But the guys claim that the horses were their emotional support animals. which is absolutely terrible and completely idiotic. But all four of these guys were arrested and found, hopefully, will be found guilty of certain crimes involving disrupting the peace, etc., etc., because they’re idiots who wanted to go viral on the Internet by riding horses inside a Walmart. I don’t know how to say that with any level of anything other than just shock at the stupidity of it. Other stories out there that I thought were interesting, and this is a good news one. A two-year-old had wandered a few miles away from their home in Arizona when the ranch dog went to go fetch the child. The two-year-old then followed the dog back to safety to the house. where the family that was going crazy and scared looking for the toddler was thrilled to see him arrive. A 16-hour search. A rancher approximately seven miles away reported that the young child walked into his property. Upon arrival, deputies confirmed it was indeed the missing boy. But because the dog went to go fetch the kid, the kid wound up out of harm’s way. That is awesome as far as the dog goes. Not exactly so awesome as far as the craziness of the kid getting to wander off for several hours. Not sure the parents will be able to answer questions well as to how that occurs. I don’t know. It might be innocent. Who knows? But at least the dog was there to protect people. Other stories out there that I thought was interesting. Apparently, tax attorneys are saying the IRS has become a ghost town or a zombie agency after certain staff cuts have made it very hard to audit anyone or do anything there. Most Americans do not care. Most Americans are not concerned about whether or not the IRS is, in fact, an active and, you know, bustling with energy agency right now, days after taxes were due, or if it’s a zombie plan. I’m actually totally fine with the secondary one, as I imagine most people are. But some tax attorneys are saying this in sort of a negative way as some sort of shot at President Trump. Again, something that most Americans do not care about. Another thing I thought was interesting that’s out there in the news. A 40-something-year-old guy said that he recently discovered a Lego brick that had been stuck in his ear for 20 years. The guy was in his mid-20s when his children played with Legos. I’m sure he stepped on a whole bunch of them. At some point, one of them made its way into his earlobe, and he didn’t know about it. I don’t know if that’s like you’re passed out on the couch, and the kid’s trying to put Legos in your face and puts one in your ear. But 20 years later, his eardrum erupts. That’s amazing it took that long. I guess it’s one of the other signs of aging. You go into your 40s and Legos stashed inside your ears might eventually cause you harm. Sounds terrible. But anyway, his ear erupts. And when they look to figure out what happened, it was a Lego that had been lodged in there for a very long time. I wonder what even conversation you have with somebody about that when the kid who’s now an adult has to tell you that, yeah, that was me. If I even remember doing it, I did it when you were asleep and caused you harm 20 years later. All right, we’ll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on a holiday 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. DLash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her. YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, everything. DirecTV Channel 347, the first TV. Dana, very, very famous, very popular, very successful. You can find her a lot of places. All right, let’s do this. President Trump and his administration are going to be challenging birthright citizenship here in the United States. The Supreme Court will hear that challenge soon. Of course, most media outlets will tell you how it’s unloving and terrible that Trump wants to end birthright citizenship in the U.S., mostly because of the amount of people who want to cross our border illegally to have a child here that then gets referred to as an anchor baby. Here’s the thing, and this does matter. A whole lot of places do not have birthright citizenship. Most, if not all of Europe, does not have birthright citizenship. They have something else. If one of the two parents is of the nationality in which the child wants to have that said rights to be of that nation, they have the ability to become someone who’s a naturalized citizen of that country. But a whole lot of the rest of the world doesn’t actually do this. A lot of places in North America do or have some version of it, including Mexico and Canada and the United States, but not exactly the same form as the U.S. has. A lot of places have some sort of nuanced version of something. President Trump recently said the U.S. is the only country in the world that has true, you know, birthright citizenship. Again, not exactly accurate, but not as wrong as media is going to tell you it is. But here’s what’s more important than anything else about that. Why should this be removed versus why it should be kept? And I’ll do this argument very quickly. I don’t want to take up too much of your time on this. Why should it be removed? Well, the best reason for that is that people dangerously choose to try to travel illegally into our country to have a baby here so the baby has rights. That’s something that we’re seeing happen a lot. It’s not a fake story that I made up as an argument point. It’s a real thing. And so creating deterrence to prevent people from risking their lives to travel illegally into our country and then, you know, break the law to try to come into our country. That seems like a good thing. That seems like a generically good thing that we should do. Why should you not get rid of this? According to the people in our society who say you absolutely can’t get rid of this is somehow it’s unfair or it’s un-American. It’s not what this country was founded on or believes in, etc., etc. Here’s the thing, though. If you changed it to be a version of, if one of the two people who is a parent of this child has citizenship, then the child can gain citizenship like it exists a lot of the other places in the world that are, you know, well-developed countries. I don’t know how it’s any less loving or any less valuable than whatever else we’re doing in the world. And in fact, I think you could make the argument that because it’s preventing people from trying to, you know, work around any sort of laws or rules to have a kid just on our soil, it actually makes it quite a bit better for society as a whole. But darn it, that’s the argument we’re going to have. You’re going to be told how this is awful and terrible and Trump’s an evil person and no one else does this, even though a whole lot of places do this, a lot of places that also don’t allow people to just cross the border illegally, stay in their country, and then fight for rights to be here forever, which is something we also do, or at least our politicians argue about, which is insane and crazy. But I love the bleeding heart narrative of all of this that usually is the best argument that people can make. I’m married to someone who was born in another country who went through the correct process to become a US citizen here. and is very proud of her U.S. citizenship because of, you know, well, how much money and time it cost us, and also the fact that she wanted it. And so I think there’s something interesting about being directly connected to how the process can work successfully and how more people could go through a successful version of the process, a legal version, have rights at the end of all of it, and how much better that would be than just trying to illegally get into our country to have a kid here, which seems bad. That seems like the kind of thing that we should want less of, and darn it, we’re going to somehow argue about this. But that will be happening. Trump will be bringing that to the Supreme Court. And I’m sure if they side with him, the narrative will also be that they’re horribly conservative. And the Supreme Court needs to be changed, even though recently we’ve seen some decisions and also some of those conservative justices land on the same side as Democratic justices on certain issues that made the Trump administration mad. All right. other things out there that i think are very interesting uh… there’s been a lot of job cuts sweeping cuts by the trump administration uh… certainly there’s a lot of people that i think uh… are happy about the amount of savings the consumer financial protection bureau on Thursday moved forward with sweeping layoffs at that agency as the Trump administration looks to remake the Consumer Enforcement Agency. A source familiar with the process told a couple different outlets that more than 1,500 workers at the CFPB will receive reduction in force notices. The layoffs are across the CFPB’s core functions, including supervision of financial institutions and its enforcement arm. You know what’s crazy about this and these stories and how they bounce around as this is happening and as this is probably becoming a focal point of discussion. There’s a bunch of other stories out there of people that are doing horrible things behind closed doors within our government bureaucracy or in some other way. that barely get any mention comparatively to stories of people getting laid off who may or may not be benefiting us at all and may just be making our government cost way more than it should. I’ll give you one example. I thought this was pretty interesting. A former FAA contractor has pled guilty to illegally acting as an agent for the Iranian government. This is a real story, and you might not see it a lot of places. Justice.gov, if you’d like to look it up. This individual, who was placed here by the Iranian government, who worked with them closely to give whatever information he had access to to them, to, you know… cover up different meetings he was having with them. Was also capable of getting a job within the FAA in order to do even more of spying and informing of a different country and also spying on our solar energy programs. which is an odd thing to choose to spy on. But nonetheless, this story came out, I think, on the 16th and got like blip radar version of coverage most places because someone within the bureaucratic system was doing exactly the kind of things that a whole bunch of people believe a whole lot of other people are doing. whether you’re Bob Menendez with gold bars or anyone else. And so laying off a bunch of people throughout a whole litany of government organizations and then begging, I don’t know if that’s the right word, or at least trying to recreate those systems by hiring better and more streamlined individuals to do the job correctly. and not overspend i don’t know how that’s not widely accepted by most americans is incredibly good and then how stories like this aren’t brought up when people say well they just laid off a whole bunch of people over here and one of the reasons why they did it is they believe that this is you know fraudulent excess spending wasteful government decision making whatever it might be and we actually have receipts and proof you can bring to the table consistently of people that are exactly the types of deep state, you know, crap individuals that you expect to exist. We have several different ways to prove that narrative is true. And yet, darn it, it doesn’t matter. They’re going to tell us how bad and awful we are because that’s what they have to do. All right. One last story that I want to highlight just quickly that I thought was interesting. Luigi Mangione, for some reason, another darling of the left, which is the weirdest thing ever. He is a murderer, someone who is going to be charged with federal charges that allow the death penalty to be something that they seek as a punishment for his crime. But Luigi Mangione is all over the news because people are up in arms about the likelihood that he could actually face the death penalty if convicted of killing, which I think is, you know, I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn, something a whole lot of people expect to happen in that court case, mostly because of the video and everything else that exists there. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already signaled her intention to pursue the death penalty in the case, which Mangione’s lawyers are actively trying to stop. But again, a punishment for a crime like this, as high profile as it is, with as much weird amount of praise as exists in our society, I think actually is a good thing. I’m not someone who often actually argues for the death penalty. I’m not quite as against it as the people out there in the world would be, but I’m a person of faith. I don’t mind mentioning that on Good Friday, and parts of my faith make me believe that it is better to choose not to use the death penalty against someone, even if it’s going to be life in prison, simply because of what I believe from a religious standpoint. But nonetheless, as I say that and I put that out there, I would think that of all the examples you need to make to society of how murdering someone in cold blood is in fact not a good thing and not something that we should be praising and celebrating in this country or in the world, Luigi Mangione is a textbook case of how you need something like this to be the punishment for the crime to deter anyone else from doing this. He couldn’t be more high profile. He couldn’t have more strange versions of support than you usually don’t see in cases like this. So if I were ever to advocate for the need of the death penalty and the reason for the death penalty being an important byproduct of murder, this would be one of those cases. And so I just think it’s so interesting that so many in media and so many other places will tell you that it’s horrific. that this could possibly be the punishment for this crime. Because, again, it’s not just the fact that you took a life in cold blood the way you did it, but it’s also the fact that so many in society are praising you for it. And I think that you need to be shown those parts of our society that this, in fact, is not something that our country tolerates, our world tolerates, and something that you absolutely do get the full extent of the law thrown at you when you do. It’s just, it’s incredibly odd to say it that way. And again, to say it, you know, just before a religious holiday, as someone who usually comes from a place of, you know, faith and not wanting to see the death penalty be the end result of a crime, but to see someone serve a life in jail without the possibility of parole for whatever reason. I know that it even can cost quite a bit more taxpayer dollars, but something about my faith implores me to say that that’s better. And this feels like an exception.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, Dana Lash Radio. Great ways to stay connected to her on Twitter. A woman went viral. Actually, a dude who shared a list from a woman went viral. That’s the way I should say it. Because he saw a dating profile for a woman that referenced her checklist. These are a checklist of demands that absolutely have to be things that the guy, you know, can check off for him to go on even one date with her. She shared it with him when he sent her a private message asking to see the list. And I have that list in front of me now. The number one thing on the list doesn’t seem that bad. Love me deeply and always put me first. Maybe put you first a little bit more often than myself would be a little fair, but always putting you first, fine. Number two, financially successful, $300,000 plus salary. Anything less and you, poor jerk, cannot date me. That’s number two on the list. Be very generous and spoil me. Not surprising. If you want him to be very well off, you also want him to be willing to spend a whole bunch of that cash on you. And again, this is just to date her. It’s not if you’re in a married relationship with her. Sophisticated and enjoys luxury. Emotionally intelligent and confident. Chivalrous and protective. Ambitious and disciplined. Family oriented and well connected. Which is also weird to ask for both of those. Darn it. You better have a close family and you better have a whole lot of friends. Because I don’t want to have to supply you with either of those things. You also better be fit, attractive, well-groomed, take control and make plans, keeps his word and values, support my goals and lifestyle, fun, outgoing, socially respected, prefers privacy over social media validation, which apparently you feel the exact opposite about, by the way. And then finally, disciplined. In the world of, well, romance is what I’ll say, because it’s the radio, and I don’t want to be more specific than that. Oh, and one last thing. Needs to be, needs to be, get a vasectomy. Excuse me. Needs to be incapable of having children. Handles pregnancy prevention, is what it actually says. which is crazy. So if you qualify for all that stuff and you don’t mind the fact that she demanded it up front, then you can date this lady who’s somewhat attractive and viral online, more for her ridiculous demands than anything else. This is amazing. I love that that would be the early interaction between two people online now in the world we live in, as opposed to like something you’d figure out about someone over the course of, say, several dates. Now that you can just fire it off in a text message on a dating app to someone you’ve never met before, it makes it much easier for us to know who you should and shouldn’t even go on a date with. She really did him a favor by showing him how insane and crazy she was and how much of his money she wants spent on her the minute they start any sort of relationship, which seems like a really, really bad decision financially. You know what? Actually, it’s funny. I can’t help this. Every time I see one of these stories or talk about one of these sort of things that goes viral in media, I think about a Craigslist ad from years ago. I think this went viral like in the early 2000s and it’s just stuck in my brain ever since. The ad was from a woman who had similar demands to this woman now. Things like, you better be a millionaire, you better give me a bunch of money, anything else is unacceptable. And I think in the Craigslist ad that was viral years ago, the person even complained that she couldn’t find anyone that fit all of her qualifications to date her, and she wondered why, because she described herself as incredibly attractive. And my favorite thing, and why that story is still in my brain today, a investment banker, responded to her ad and told her since she’s made a business proposition he will handle it the way he does any other business proposal in his life and tell her what the problem was and this was my favorite thing he said he said the things that you’re selling are not things that will retain their value over a long term if i was looking at them as long-term investments all the things you’re promising me is stuff that has a finite shelf life Essentially, there’s no nicer way to say it. You won’t be as hot now or as hot years from now as you are right now. And so if you’re asking for me to make a lifelong financial investment in you, you’re simply a bad financial investment. Viral. People hated it. People loved it. I thought it was kind of hilarious because at the end of the day, when you’re cutting down romance to some sort of business transaction, that. All right. One other story out there that I thought was pretty funny as well. A woman said that she went to college completely on the dime of Taco Bell. She was a employee at Taco Bell who applied for a certain type of scholarship where people who round up their change at the restaurant wind up contributing to her. And she’s very proud of herself for doing this. I think this was a funny story. I kind of like this. So here’s a little bit of audio of a woman going viral and thanking Taco Bell for paying for school.
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graduating college completely debt free because of taco bell if you work there you can apply to get a scholarship it was what’s your name your gpa and then all you had to do was create a two minute video talking about what you would do with the money in total from working at taco bell if you only had to work six months i received forty thousand dollars just from you guys donating your change every time you go to order every time i’m in that taco bell drive-through i’m like yes i would like to round up my change
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Because you’re paying it forward. Here’s what I love about this and comparing it to the last story I just told you. There’s a woman who wants her next boyfriend to give her a crap ton of money for a variety of reasons. And then there’s another person who decided to go work at Taco Bell that got $40,000 in a college scholarship because she also was a good student. I love option two. Option two seems like a way better person in society. I don’t want anything for free. I’ll work for stuff. I’ll, you know, I do what I can to apply for certain scholarships and I’ll win them. And then I’ll get to get out of school completely debt free. There’s something amazing about that. And the fact that this person whose first name, by the way, is Crimson and it’s spelled funny. C-R-I-M-S-Y-N is how she spells Crimson. But Crimson is so proud of the fact that Taco Bell, you know, paid for the bulk of her education. I feel like you got to have a Taco Bell taco party at some point. That’s got to be there at the graduation party at the very least. All right. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be here for Dana. She will be back next week after the holiday. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to everything she’s doing. Stephen Miller delivered what is being described as a master class discussion on the ongoing push from Democrats and certain media outlets to bring back a member of MS-13, someone who was deported from our country, who two different federal judges found to be connected to that gang. That’s not just something you’re saying out loud because you’re a dirty conservative who says horrible things that get told to you by other conservatives. This is a real thing. But the judicial system said it was true. And now, actually, according to the Trump administration, has a legal process that they followed exactly correctly, even though they early on said they didn’t do that. Obviously, the nuanced approach now seems to find a legal argument to why this person was sent out of the country. I love that. of this version of discussion. I wish this had happened right away, that there wasn’t any acknowledgement that maybe this was a mistake that got made before finding the actual version of why this occurred. Whether that’s political theater or not, I don’t know. But this argument is strong, so let’s go ahead and play it.
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So, as Pam mentioned… There’s an illegal alien from El Salvador. So with respect to you, he’s a citizen of El Salvador. So it’s very arrogant even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting point.
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Correct.
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As two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13, when President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, That meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law, which I’m sure you know, you’re very familiar with that, that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States. So we had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our law, he’s not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation. This issue was then by district court judge. completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was raised to the Supreme Court. That doesn’t make any sense. And the Supreme Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously. stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador, who again is a member of MS-13.
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See, again, it’s so crazy that you make this argument, that you have this discussion in our society, and people are on two sides of the equation when you can make that version of this is why this makes sense argument to the media or to anyone. This is a guy who several different courts… found to be a person we wouldn’t want in our country anyway. I have more audio about this. I have the left and now it’s praising and talking about this issue and kind of very crazy because they’re putting the quiet part out loud for all of us to see. It’s not about saving this guy. or caring about this guy and his family at all. By the way, his own wife, the individual who was deported, said that he beat her and needed a protective order against him. So he’s someone that has his own wife accusing him of something horrible. And I know the left usually says to believe all women. I thought that that was a narrative that we were supposed to follow. I guess not always the case, or at least they’ll leave these parts out. But here’s what an individual, a talking head, said on CNN about what makes them feel good. about the maryland uh senator who decided to go visit uh kilmar abrigo garcia in um jail or in el salvador and also by the way have photos of them sipping on margaritas which is very strange but here’s a little bit of that audio from cnn someone in power is actually trying to do something to check
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the imbalance in power we have right now. The Senate is a powerful body. They can do things. Congress, this is the Article 1 of the Constitution. But is this a little like the Senator Booker sort of standing up and giving a speech? Is it about the image? Because it doesn’t actually do something. Well, what it does is that it gets the attention of a group of people right now who feel like they are leaderless, right? So there is a large swath of the country that is Democrat. There’s a large swath that is uncommitted. 90 million people did not vote.
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Okay, I got to stop it right there. That’s my favorite first part of this argument is that she would say that not only did everybody who didn’t vote for Trump feel as though they have no president. Everybody who didn’t vote at all has to, of course, also agree and feel as though Trump’s a terrible person. It’s not like some people who didn’t vote might have actually voted for Trump if they chose to show up at a poll, but didn’t really want to do that. That couldn’t possibly be the case. I will use that argument every time in the future. Now, whenever a Democrat wins any position of power, I will just highlight the people who voted against the Democrat and the people who didn’t vote as if they all absolutely don’t support The individual in power, because it’s such a weird, strange, like, you know, logic jump that she’s making to try to add more value to her argument. But let’s let her continue because she’s going to get even crazier.
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They are all at this moment waiting for somebody to directly challenge individual actions of Trump. Doesn’t mean you need to be the next president candidate of the United States. But this idea that if you have power right now, this is an opportunity to step up and do something about it. So, yes, going directly to El Salvador, making sure that he laid eyes on a resident, a someone whose constituent, frankly, made me feel better that if I get disappeared, somebody’s going to try to find me and figure out if I’m OK.
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OK. I love that other part because that’s the other argument they make all the time is it could happen to you. It could happen to you. It could happen to her. It could happen to anybody. You may or may not need to have ties to a gang, MS-13, that then gets described as a terrorist group within our country. You then also need to have multiple court cases against you that find you to actually be tied to that organization and that you came here illegally in the first place to be removed from our country. But darn it, it could also happen to her. because she’s a Democrat, because that’s the best way for people to convince you that you have to support their side of an argument is that, well, if we allow this to happen, the next step is that you immediately are the next victim, even if it’s not even remotely close to the case. I know that that happens on both sides of the aisle, by the way. I never understand the argument whenever it happens on either side because it usually takes more steps to get to me. So telling me that I’m next has to actually make sense for me to be afraid of it, and yet a whole lot of people fear it because they heard it on TV. Let’s go ahead and play this. This is in response to everything going on with that specific individual who was deported. A mother from Maryland whose daughter was killed by someone who was here illegally is is completely confused as to why someone who was deported to El Salvador with the track record that he has is a media darling and her family and the child that she lost was not really talked about at all by members of the political party that’s in power in her own state.
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To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledge my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother, so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that’s not even an American citizen. Why does that person have more right than I do?
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They don’t is the right answer to that question. And also, and this is the part that matters so much in these discussions. And I think people on a certain side of the aisle really need to hear this. I don’t know if they’ll be listening to this show to hear this, but darn it, I’m going to say it anyway. Hiding facts from you doesn’t make that side the honest side in any kind of debate. If they tell you the reason they hid facts from you is they didn’t want to radicalize you. They didn’t want to convince you or anyone that’s worse than you that the beliefs they had that are not true could somehow be backed up by facts and stats and data. So they hid that information. Those individuals are the ones lying. They’re not the good guys. They’re not the people, you know, fighting the good fight. They’re the people unwilling to have an honest conversation. And I think that’s the most important part of this sort of thing. An honest conversation about Kilmar Abrego Garcia is that he was found a couple times in court to be someone tied to MS-13, a gang that now has a classification as a terrorist organization in our country, and he was removed from our country because of that tie. And also, when you learn more about him, including the, you know, accusation that he’s someone who beat his wife and she needed a protective order against him in 2022 and may have been someone who was trafficking, you know, human beings in his vehicle around that same time. When you know those things about him, you no longer have the same one sided version of a discussion and narrative to prop up whatever it is you’re actually trying to talk about, which isn’t this person at all. It’s your attack on the Trump administration and what you think they’re doing and how it’s wrong and terrible. We at least should be willing to say what we actually want to talk about and then have a discussion about just that and not a discussion about other stuff where you then get to bring in different pieces of information that disprove the narrative. Let me say that again. So I say that as clearly as I can. One thing I think that would make society much better in these moments is if you could pause partway through a conversation and look at someone and say, what do you really want to talk about? What’s the real heart of your discussion here? Let’s remove this one example that you think backs up your position and just tell me what you actually want to say. And if what you want to say is that Trump’s immigration policies are wrong and you need to prove that they’re wrong somehow, we can then have a debate about that where we don’t even need to bring in specific examples, but tell you why from a macro position, I agree with it and you disagree with it. Then at least we’re having the same conversation instead of two different ones where my facts don’t seem to matter to you because they don’t fit your narrative. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you just before the holiday. Dana will be back next week. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, all over X. Twitter, several different other places you can find her. I’m actually someone who’s new to Texas, and I’ve been meeting some of Dana’s affiliates as she is a dominant force in Texas. A shout-out to Sergio Sanchez and KURV710 in McAllen. Awesome dude. And I actually also got to meet Matt at Patriot Talk 920 in Houston, Texas, excuse me, the other day. And Matt’s an awesome dude, too. an awesome Patriot doing things like a veteran of the week segment on that station. So really cool to get to fill in for Dana and get to meet awesome people in just some of the many places that air this show. I’m sure there’s obviously a ton more out there that I should probably mention at some other point. I’d love to meet you just as I bounce around this country or now in this state. All right. A couple of quick things. Let’s go ahead and fire off a quick five.
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And now all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s quick five.
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All right. My favorites. The first one, producer Steven, just let me know about this, which is great. Whitehouse.gov is now pointing to the lab leak theory. When you go to covid.gov, you type in covid.gov and it replaces it with whitehouse.gov slash lab leak. True origins of covid-19. And you dive through all the different information. that demonstrates why President Trump and many other people believe that the origin of COVID-19 was the coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China, something that even Jon Stewart made a joke about, how ridiculous it is that people question that that is the likely scenario that caused COVID-19. This is something that places like The Verge are saying is a conspiracy website, even still, which is amazing how people hold on to those beliefs and those things that I just can’t accept this. It can’t possibly be true. How dare you? But the Trump administration doing an amazing job of flipping that site. They also did a great job on social media of correcting a New York Times headline. I might get to that a little bit later on in the show. But the New York Times put out a headline about the guy who was deported to El Salvador and the White House, White House on X on Twitter, went ahead and said in their post that they fixed the headline for them. by removing wrongly from the phrase about being deported and also adding that he is never coming back. Fairly hilarious as far as that goes. Other things out there that I thought were interesting as far as just quick stories go. A Michigan man was upset that his girlfriend went on a cruise without him. So this boyfriend decided to call in a bomb threat on the ship. That is something that gets you in a whole lot of legal trouble and also something that seems to be a good red flag. and a reason why you might want to break up with this dude. But Michigan man, upset that he was left out of a cruise, decided to go ahead and threaten everyone on the cruise. Also, this Sunday, of course, is Easter Sunday. It’s also 420, which is a holiday that a lot of people, I guess, celebrate by smoking pot. Of course, if it’s legal where you are, that’s probably a good thing to know or care about before you celebrate the 420 version of Easter. Here’s the thing I couldn’t get over. I saw a stat about how almost 60% of American adults would like to go on an Easter egg hunt, even though they’re adults. They don’t care. They want to do that. And I thought that maybe a decent percentage of the people who said yes to that survey and would like to relive their childhood might also be people who intend on celebrating 420 and how ridiculous that would be if those individuals showed up at a park after imbibing in the other stuff that they’d imbibe in and trying to find Easter egg. Because I feel like that hunt will take several days and we might not even find some people. They might never come back from that. But if you so want to, and I am not encouraging you to do that at all, I am definitely encouraging you not to do it, but Easter is also 420, which several people, at least online, are quite amused about. One last thing that I saw was interesting. Budget cuts are causing some people to decide to forego a toilet in their house. This is a real story. I can’t imagine how many people are actually part of this. Also, U.S. national parks are deciding to skip creating toilet enclosures in said parks. But some people are like, you know what? Going outside is good enough for me. It’s good enough for people in the past who needs a toilet. So they’re going that road now. And I can’t imagine that this is a move that you yourself want to make or that many people are actually making. But again, a story went viral from USA Today talking about national parks doing this and people on social media claim that they were doing it in their own homes as well. I know ability to back that up. with proof, though, and certainly a lot of assumption that some may be kidding, but some people seem to claim this is actually true. I am familiar with the outhouse move, though, by the way, not personally, just based on, you know, the legend it is, and I am glad that it’s not something I ever lived with. But I’m sure if you’re listening to this show in certain parts of the country, and you might somehow still have that, you think it’s ridiculous that anyone needs a toilet. I’m trying to be, you know, understanding on all sides on this. For some reason, I don’t know why, but I love the fact that this is a real story that’s out there in the world. Finally, one last thing, as far as quick stories go, Puerto Rico went completely dark after another island wide power outage. This happened over the course of the last few days. It’s got to be something when you figure out that the power outage is hampering the entire island and not just you and not just your block. It’s not a squirrel that just knocked down your power line. It’s something that’s going on that’s taking effect in the entirety of the country. And you got to be like, all right, man, we’ll just wait for this to turn back on. It’ll be fine. At some point, let’s go ahead and use the outhouse. That’ll be good too. Luckily, that doesn’t actually run on electricity. All right, I’ll take a break. A lot coming up in a very short time. Craig Collins filling in and having fun on a holiday on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A press conference a little bit ago ended sort of abruptly. The word is that a kid got sick as President Trump was answering questions from media. I can play the audio. Certainly a lot of other people were worried that it might have been something more serious. But you can see at the tail end of this video that a young girl seems to be taken out of the press room. It seems like someone else is kind of holding her closely. From what I’ve seen or heard, it sounds like she might have been ill, but people immediately decided to Remove the press and end the press conference because if someone is sick and vomiting or something like that, it might be better for everyone to just go ahead and clear the room. Here we go.
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We don’t know what’s going on there. The press is being ushered out.
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By the way, that is the voice of someone on Fox News talking about what’s happening in that moment as they were going live to a press conference. A lot of people were saying, press out, press out. But toward the tail end of this video, you can actually see a young woman being taken out of the room by an adult. So I imagine what happened is someone got sick. But that is something that’s going viral in the last… hour or so online all over social media because people were worried if something more significant had happened there. And we’ll probably have more information about that somewhat soon. And I’m sure certain people on a certain side of the political aisle will claim somehow it’s a bad, terrible, horrible thing. And, you know, it’s Trump hiding something or something else. Who knows? But it seems that they immediately ran to help a kid, including Dr. Oz. who was in the room, who seems like he immediately ran over to help the little kid, and then also President Trump seemed to be waving his hand toward doing something to make sure the child was okay. Other things out there, I think this is really interesting, and I’m going to go ahead and throw out an opinion on what I think should happen here. President Trump has called for the termination of Jerome Powell. That’s the Fed chair. The reason why is Powell keeps resisting lowering any sort of interest rates that would help all of the country, have better financial future going. And actually my favorite part of Trump making his argument is that this has already happened in the EU. You’ve seen Europe do something that the United States has continued to resist doing that would again help financially relieve a lot of stress in our economy. What I think is really fascinating about this is the debate, not necessarily even the discussion about economic impact of the decision-making of the Fed chair, but whether or not Trump should fire this person. And I think you absolutely should fire this person. Most people argue that you need him to finish out the remainder of his term in this position of power. which would be 2026, so next year, and then you assign your own person, and your own person sits through a period where they’re in that office, and the next administration that comes in promises they won’t fire your guy, because you don’t fire their guy. You don’t cross that line. But I don’t know why you would do that. I think that if the impact now… Of getting rid of this person and putting someone like Kevin Warsh or anyone else in a position of power where they’re actually going to make economic decisions that benefit us right now. I think you do that. And I think there’s a debate as to whether or not Trump has the power to do it, should do it, all of that stuff. I think he does have the power and I think he absolutely should. That’s my own opinion on it. Powell says the Federal Reserve can wait on any interest rate moves just yesterday, according to AP News and a couple other places. And President Trump thinks that’s obviously wrong. And you know what? I would say even one more thing about this, and anyone who says, well, if we do it, they’re going to start doing it, or whatever the case may be, the argue against it, is Trump has always played by a different set of rules. And I imagine that if President Trump did something, you could easily make the argument that whoever comes after Trump’s not going to do it, we swear. Don’t do it to us. We won’t do it to you, even though it probably would happen again. And it might actually be believed by the other side. And they would also love to vilify Trump for something else. But to be honest, waiting till 2026 won’t do us any good. It won’t be beneficial to the everyday American who has to deal with decision making that is actually impacting us. At least I believe it’s impacting us and causing our economy to be more stagnant than you want it to be, especially as Trump wants to wage a war, a tariff war, especially against China, but in general against countries that have long treated us unfairly. That’s his position. And by the way, just quickly about that, and I don’t mean to get on a soapbox and talk about things that I’m honestly going to tell you I’m probably not an expert in, but I will say that if the goal at the end of the day to do something that hasn’t been done in a very long time, to a degree that it hasn’t been done in a very long time, but to do something that actually causes the rest of the world to see us as a serious negotiator, as someone who’s going to no longer tolerate being taken advantage of to a certain degree financially on the world stage that that should be a good thing that most americans like if that’s actually the end result of all this and guess what we get to wait till the end of all this to have a definitive um you know opinion of if it did or didn’t work we don’t have to have the reactionary opinion right now to say this is terrible and horrible and the stock market tanked for a day and then immediately bounced back and doesn’t seem to be struggling anywhere near as much as people predicted it would struggle especially since there was a pause on a lot of those tariffs. I understand. But just saying it simplistically, just saying it the way that hopefully someone else would in your own life, sitting across the dinner table or having a beer with you at a bar. If at the end of all of this, we have better trade deals that benefit our country more, benefit Americans more, that bring more money and wealth back into the United States of America, how many people are actually going to be against it? I just, I asked that question. And I don’t know the answer and you don’t know the answer as to what the end result of all this potential negotiating is going to be. You don’t yet, no matter how much you could tell me you do, you don’t actually know the outcome. And when we do know it, if it benefits us, I wonder if anyone will give him an attaboy. And I already know the answer to that is actually absolutely not. No one’s giving Trump an attaboy. But it’s just so interesting because we’re in a society now where most people only want to react They only want to have the hot take immediate, you know, I’ll give you another example. Actually, I love that. I’m going to equate this to politics. Because I can’t help it. I am a Yankee fan, and this is a baseball thing, and I can’t help going here. So anyone who follows baseball, and I promise this will lead back into politics, might be aware of the torpedo bat situation. Within the first week of the regular season of MLB baseball, the New York Yankees were covered all over the place for having several of their players switch to something called a torpedo bat. which supposedly moved the thick part of the bat further down, which meant you could hit a home run on a pitch that you usually would have popped out if you swung at it and hit it with the same part of the bat with a traditional bat. That’s a lot to explain. I couldn’t help it. I did it anyway. Here’s my favorite part of that. Since that outcry, since that reaction to the torpedo bats are unfair and they’re ruining baseball and people like Dave Portnoy went out and went crazy about how the Yankees are basically cheating, even though nothing they did is against the law or against the rules of MLB, excuse me. Not the law. Whatever they did, they also went really dry with home runs. There aren’t more home runs being hit by torpedo bat players. In fact, several of the Yankees who use torpedo bats have not been hitting a lot of home runs since. It’s amazing. And so that immediate reaction… baseball is ruined forever because of a specific change to you know a bat is now gone and no one is out there saying hey you know what the torpedo bats aren’t having the impact we thought they’d have they’re not ruining baseball the way we thought they were we’re gonna wait and get more information before we have the same hot take it’s just silence It’s just over in the world of sports to have that discussion. That happens every day in politics. That happens all the time, specifically following around President Trump with the immediate, crazy, insane reaction and the predicting of doomsday in the apocalypse and then the inevitable non-occurrence of doomsday in the apocalypse and a whole bunch of people just forgetting to give us a new update. And I guess to make this full circle, I’ll go back to the hilarious change that the White House has made to covid.gov, a website that when Biden was in office, told you how to get vaccines and shots and all of that stuff and didn’t do anything talking about the origins of the covid-19 pandemic. And now if you go to that same website, the Trump administration has given you a thorough debriefing on the lab leak, you know, Prove for or assumption. I don’t even want to just call it a theory as to how this China has refused to actually let us fully prove this, how this is the way that COVID started. And I just love that. I love this version of we’re going to revisit that part of history that no one else has really deemed worthy of talking about because the reaction period is over. So that might have been another long walk I couldn’t help take on a holiday show about something that I care about that’s not politics at all. But the Torpedo bat is not ruining baseball, even though people said it would. And players who aren’t good would all of a sudden act like, you know, players on steroids. That is not actually happening. And so maybe just maybe. The lesson we can learn from my favorite sport, America’s favorite pastime, at least at one point it was, of baseball, is to wait. To not have the immediate reaction that fits your narrative, but actually wait for all the information to come across the old desk to decide whether or not the thing you’re saying is true or false. And the same is probably even true about the current discussion about the person deported to El Salvador, who, when that story first broke, a lot of people were saying was obviously a mistake and a separation of a person from his family that never should have been removed from the country. And now we’re talking about how that person had multiple judges to find them as a member of MS-13, a gang that is now seen as a terrorist group. And that terrorist group and his involvement with it would make him incapable of someone who’s allowed to stay in this country, even if he had a protection order in 2019 saying we can’t send him back to El Salvador. It’s interesting, as more time and information allows you to have a more nuanced opinion about a discussion, about a topic. But darn it, how many people want that? First, the instant reaction. I’m thrilled that I just brought torpedo bats up in a political discussion, and I’m not going to get over that for a while. You probably don’t care, a listener out there, but I’m very happy about it. And on that note, I’ll take a break, and we’ll come back and do something probably just as silly or just as, I don’t know if I want to say stupid, as torpedo bats in politics. But darn it, that’s the kind of show I’m bringing you today. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right, it’s time for Florida Man. My name is Craig Collins, filling in on the Dana Show, DLash, DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter. One Florida man, a Florida Keys man, is facing three felony charges after deputies said he swung a knife at a convenience store clerk and bystanders who confronted him about stealing a bag of Chex Mix. Early Thursday morning, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the armed robbery happened about 2 a.m. at a Tom Thumb store. The arrest report states that Jonathan Charles Sadaik, 35, I’m sure I got his last name wrong, of Marathon, Florida, went into the store, started drinking a Mountain Dew. I don’t know why I find this so funny. Bumped into and knocked over a stand of donuts, then grabbed a bag of Chex Mix and tried to walk out of the store without paying for anything. A deputy said a clerk and multiple customers tried to stop him, to which point he pulled out and started swinging a knife around, so they let him go. He allegedly accidentally cut himself during the process. I love that, too, of threatening other people and then leaving the establishment to get apprehended. It is not OK to do that. Of course, there is a, you know, set of charges, including armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, felony possession of a weapon, et cetera, that he will be charged with. No bond has been listed. But I do love the fact that he harmed himself. It feels like that was exactly appropriate karma. for what was going on there. Another Florida man is accused of impersonating a deputy while trying to confront a Walmart driver that he, for no reason at all, was suspicious of human trafficking. So a guy walks up to a Walmart driver in Orlando, Florida, tells him he’s going to need him to step out of his vehicle. We’re going to have to have a conversation about any of the human trafficking he thought was going on inside the Walmart truck that was full of Walmart products and not people. This conversation led eventually to the person who was making him get out of the car, claiming that he was a police officer, a law enforcement deputy, eventually getting in a whole lot of trouble because that’s a felony. That’s a crime. Michael Diaz is the name of the guy who was caught doing this. He approached the vehicle. He knocked on a window. He did all those things, as I said. He even presented a business card. that featured Florida Sheriff’s Association as an organization with a logo that apparently he printed up himself. Because darn it, isn’t that how all police officers identify themselves to you? With a business card that they printed at a local print shop. That’s exactly how they do it, darn it. That’s no way to figure out this crime. The guy was arrested and is going to face quite a few charges as well, because again, that’s a felony. And finally, one other Florida person. This is actually a Florida woman who decided to drug a Florida man. She did this after a, I love the way this is described in the story, nightclub encounter. We’re not sure exactly what that means, at what point the two of them wound up alone in some sort of place. But they started out at the restaurant and nightclub at East Atlantic Avenue. The individual that is accused of this crime is a Delray Beach woman. who drugged a man and then, as I said, stole his $17,000 Rolex after they met outside at the downtown club. According to the police report, one of the women later accompanied him back to his home. Once there, you know, other things probably occurred that were bad, including all the extra drugging and the sleep aids and whatnot. Wilson, the individual who was accused of this crime, was arrested, 25-year-old woman. Her middle name is Sunshine. I don’t know why I found that amusing. Serena Sunshine Wilson is the person who did this. 25, she’s actually from Georgia. She was arrested and charged with a grand theft, violation of Florida Anti-Tampering Act and other crimes. So be careful who you’re hanging out with at the nightclub, who offers to walk you to your car outside and inevitably takes you home as that person may be someone that’s drugging you, even if that’s a young woman, a young lady. I don’t know why I can’t get over this. The other thing I reacted to the story on, and there’s a game that people can play called Florida Man, where you put your month and day of birth into your search engine of choice, and then the phrase Florida Man, and you find out who your Florida person is. You can go ahead and do it right now if you’re listening to the show and you want to try it out. But the funny thing about this headline, the Florida man did nothing. He was drugged. Stuff was stolen from him. And yet the headline still says Florida man, not Florida woman who committed the crime. I feel like that’s what should have led it. But I guess she’s from Georgia, so they can’t do that. So this guy gets to be somebody’s Florida man. From this past weekend, if your birthday was this past weekend and you Google it, you are now just the victim of a crime, not someone who did something crazy like wrestle an alligator. By the way, I am born on Halloween. So October 31st and Florida man goes into the old Google machine or again, whatever search engine of choice you want. And the first result I get is a Florida man takes epic mugshot after driving naked and getting in a lot of trouble. for it, making some other terrible decisions. The mugshot makes him look like he was definitely beat up. Kurt Jenkins, 56 years old, in a whole lot of trouble. That’s my Florida dude. Drunk guy who made decisions he should not have made. I think he did this in San Antonio, too, by the way. So a Florida man going rogue in Texas. is apparently the first result I get. If you want to tell Dana on social media, on X, on DLash or DanaLashRadio, who your Florida man or Florida woman is based on your birth month, birthday, and then that phrase, go ahead. She won’t know why it’s happening. Which I will immediately apologize to her for if she asked me to. But go ahead and let her know who your Florida people are. So that can be maybe research for a future Florida Man segment on this very show. My name is Craig Collins filling in on the holiday. Dana will be back after the holiday. And I am thrilled to be with you today. I will just quickly take a second before we take a break and get back to the show. The show, that it is Good Friday, that it is a fairly significant faith-based holiday weekend. And as someone who’s Catholic, I just want to say Happy Easter and Happy Holidays to everyone out there, even if Good Friday is a weird day to celebrate or a weird day to at least talk about. But all right, that’s all I’ll say about that. More coming up in a bit. 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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana is back after the holiday. DLash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. There is a short form and a long form version of the clip I’m about to play for you of the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia appearing on ABC News and their morning show, Good Morning America, earlier today. I’m going to play the longer clip Not because I think it actually does any of the stuff that Democratic or left-leaning media want you to believe it does. And actually, I have a reason that I definitely think that. But because I know people will start to accuse conservative media of cherry-picking out the one part of this interview that is the most scary or the most significant and not playing the other two parts, the part at the beginning and the part after that moment. But I’ll play all this about a minute 50. I’ll probably jump in as we go. But this is the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was booked on ABC News to do an interview that obviously was about trying to bring Kilmar back and how much she misses him and how, you know, important it is to reunite the family and all that narrative stuff that media is obsessed with right now with this story. But there’s two very chilling moments. During this, let’s go ahead and play it.
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The administration, they’re resisting a court order to bring your husband back to the U.S. They say your husband’s a member of the MS-13 gang. Is he a member of the MS-13 gang or any other gang?
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No, he’s not.
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Okay, I have to be honest with you. Right there, I already am. And it’s not just the delay that exists when you’re having a conversation with someone on a phone or something, which people might point to, but it’s her face, which I know on radio you can’t see. There’s no smile, no laughter, no version of, that’s a ridiculous claim. There’s a very stone-faced, straight-faced version of no. I was told to say no, and I’m going to say no to this question, no matter what the actual proof is that’s come out, and the judges who believe that he is, in fact, part of MS-13, or at least was a few years ago, and likely still is. There’s a lot of information that’s demonstrated that there is a belief that that is true, and she simply says no with a stone face. But here’s why I even played that audio, because a lot of liberal media is just going to use that and nothing else. Here’s the next question, which you’re going to hear in a lot of conservative media,
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this one is and i know this is a sensitive question but i have to ask it you you did take out a temporary order of protection against your husband in 2021 were you in fear of your husband husband is alive um that’s all i can say
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OK, that’s the entire answer to that second question. Were you in fear of your safety? Were you afraid of your husband? And she says, my husband is alive. That’s all I can say. And again, her face doesn’t change. There’s not any version of anything other than a very stone faced individual doing an interview on a national television show in which and I’ll play that part again, because that is, to me, the most haunting moment. And you hear Strahan immediately say, well, I’m not going to press anymore. I’m not going to ask any more questions about that. Probably because he told them in advance he would barely ask anything about it at all. But the fact that that’s the answer, it comes out of her mouth that absolutely it seemed like she was afraid for her safety because there’s no reason not to say no. And she does not say no. She simply says he’s alive and that’s all I care about. This seems like someone who’s the victim of something and any amount of You know, psychological data and information and studies will tell you that sometimes these victims try to protect the people who harm them. That a lot of times this happens. That people who go through domestic violence and domestic abuse take years to find the strength, the courage, whatever you want to call it. They even wind up getting judged for it in a really horrific way for standing by someone that they should have stood up against sooner. And there’s something about that that rings so true and so… I don’t know, it scares me in a way to hear that be the answer to this question for this woman who’s being trotted out in front of media to try to say how much she misses her husband. And so I’ll play that part again, and I’ll play the last part that probably a lot of liberal media would also accuse conservatives of not being willing to play, but here it goes.
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And I know this is a sensitive question, but I have to ask it. You did take out a temporary order of protection against your husband in 2021. Were you in fear of your husband?
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My husband is alive. That’s all I can say.
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Okay. I’m not going to push on that, apparently. But how much hope Do you have that you’re going to be reunited with your husband? Here’s the thing.
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I can’t even handle it. There’s something about it that makes me so upset that media would even do this. So you hear a woman give an answer to a question like that. Were you afraid for your safety is the way he basically phrased the question. And the woman seems so terrified of her husband currently. that she’s doing this media interview to try to drum up support for people to reunite them as a family, whatever, who knows what it is. But she seems so currently afraid of him that she’s willingly doing this. And his next question is transition to the thing that media wants to be the narrative. To not actually think to yourself as a human being, holy crap, I’m interviewing someone that definitely has some sort of reason that they did this just a few years ago that still feels a certain way about this individual, no matter what they say next. And I’m going to go ahead and allow the part of the narrative that I want to exist to exist. I’ll play this for you. It makes me mad, but I’m going to go ahead and play it because it’s all that ABC wanted out of this discussion and not that part that seems jarringly more important that just occurred.
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You and your family going.
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A lot of hope. And this fight still continues for Kilmar, for all the other Kilmars out there whose voice haven’t been heard yet. I won’t stop fighting until he returns home, until I know that he’s safe.
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And if you could get your husband a message, what would you like to tell him right now?
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I would tell him that I love him and I’m going to still keep praying for him until he returns.
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I have to stop it there. This is media taking advantage of a person. I’m not playing it because I enjoy this or I want to slam dunk on the narrative or the political aspects of the story. I’m playing this because I think how evil media can be sometimes. And I’ll go back one more time and play the reason that I think that for anyone who doesn’t understand this. Now, I’m not trying to overly play this again for any sort of sick enjoyment of it, but because of how important it is to the discussion I’m having with you and the point I’m trying to make to you, the listeners of this show, as to how egregious it was to interview this person. to put this person on television, to have a discussion about this person’s husband, when she’s evidently still afraid of him. So one more time, the middle part of this discussion that’s going to be played in a lot of conservative places, without the beginning, without the end, and then accused of being cherry-picked and whatever it might be, and then the Democratic places that are just going to play the two other pieces that I played for you, and not the totality of this message, but this part being the most disturbing of the entire discussion.
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hold on one second of the ms-13 gang is no let’s not do that she says no he’s not a member of ms-13 husband is alive okay and i know this is a sensitive question but i have to ask it you you did take out a temporary order of protection against your husband in 2021 were you in fear of your husband
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My husband is alive. That’s all I can say.
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Okay.
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Why would anyone keep that conversation going, is my question. And I don’t have an answer to that. Because when she says that like that, I would think that, you know what, no matter what you’re going to say next, no matter how this conversation is going to go, and no matter all the other times that you’ve been propped up in media and clips of you are being played, that when you have that version of a reaction to that specific of a question… We know there’s not nothing behind it. We know that this is not just an innocent guy who’s never done anything wrong that’s sitting in a jail in El Salvador now based on simply the reaction of his wife to a question about her own safety inside her home. Again, I’m not doing this because I want to turn this into some sort of like, you know, there’s no other term for it. Like news overuse or news, you know, I am trying to avoid a bad word here. News, you know, ridiculousness. This is simply important for anyone who knows anything about the psychology of a victim of domestic abuse. And I’m not pretending to be any sort of expert in that, but I certainly know enough to know that a whole lot of people who go through it protect their abuser for much longer than they should. And so I guess I can end this segment and take a break on that simple notion. There are many different organizations you can reach out to, national hotlines and things you can call if there is domestic abuse going on inside your home, inside the home of anyone. that you need help, you need a way to get out of that situation, and you need support to do it, there are things you can do to do that because of how important it is to get someone the help they need in those situations. But I will go ahead and give out a number you can call and a… group you can reach out to if that is something that you need there is a national domestic violence abuse hotline one eight hundred seven nine nine seven two three three one eight hundred seven nine nine seven two three three if i was just being a human and having an interaction like the one michael strahan has on television with that woman I would immediately give her that number off the air. That’s immediately what I would do. Not that, again, since he’s not in this country anymore, she might necessarily need it right now, but who knows what’s going on that might cause her to do an interview like that and react that way to a question about how safe she felt just a few years ago. A quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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This is Dana’s Quick Five. My name is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her. Coca-Cola bottles with yellow caps are selling out of stores. I think this is mostly in Minnesota and some other places. The reason that they’re so popular is the yellow cap means that the Coca-Cola was made with real cane sugar, not with corn syrup, which is way more delicious for anyone that’s had like a Mexican Coca-Cola or anything else that does have cane sugar in it. I’m not surprised at all. Very, very popular. If you see a yellow capped Coca-Cola bottle, the two liter one or even a littler one or a can or anything, it’s got a yellow top to it. You should buy that and consume it is what the Internet is telling you because of how much more delicious it is than anything else. Other quick stories out there. Doge has begun freezing health care payments for extra review. This is not something that they say they’re going to stop forever. But Doge has dubbed itself as defend the spend. And it wants more information about anything that our government does and any excess money that’s just getting essentially thrown in the toilet to some of it. So it’s going above and beyond. to look into all those different ways that the government just shells out dollars, not just to people, but organizations, including Harvard, of course, to see what we can do to get some of that sweet, sweet cash back. A 24,000 pound of egg semi truck, a semi truck carrying that many eggs, was apparently destroyed. The truck caught on fire. and all the eggs were inevitably destroyed. A lot of people on social media are thinking this is a conspiracy theory. This happened on purpose because it makes the price of eggs even more expensive, at least outside of Chicago and in parts of Illinois. 24,000 eggs just gone. That seems terrible. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. No actual cause given to us yet. I feel like I might lean with the conspiracy theorists on that, that there’s a good chance that someone did this on purpose to cause more harm in the price of eggs. One other story that I thought was real interesting out there as far as a quick one goes. Snapchat is harming children. This is not new information. We’ve known this for quite some time. It’s not alone in doing that. Most social media platforms are doing it. But Snapchat’s design specifically chooses to expose millions of kids to harm, according to a brand new study. The investigation originally happened in October of 2024, and several different independent journalists, after investigating the app, saw just how likely it was. to cause not only addiction, but maybe even some sort of promoting of bad lifestyle behavior. This is compulsive behavior, drug and gun use behavior. Certain abuse is being, you know, sort of facilitated through Snapchat. Cyberbullying, knowledge of harm to underage kids is something that the platform is widely aware of as a byproduct of cyberbullying. its specific uses, and yet they don’t care. Essentially, it’s an industrial level of harm that’s happening to kids on an industrial scale, I should say. And the company knows that that’s also feeding its level of success, so they’re doing nothing to stop it. There are several suggestions of what should be done to protect both minors who use this app and then just people in general. Several of them include removing filters like beauty filters for minors, removing the ability for people to search for individuals they don’t know of a certain age on social media, et cetera, et cetera. And none of this is stuff that’s actually happening with Snapchat. As I said, they’re not alone. Most social media apps right now are harming young people. The younger you are and the quicker you turn to those apps, the more likely it is to do sustained lifelong damage to you and your mental health, among other things. I think it is very interesting that as more and more of this information comes out, Facebook years ago was caught doing a whole lot of this. Essentially, the organizations that benefit from it, the companies that run these apps, just don’t care. Why would they care? It’s essentially our version of cigarettes. I guess, is the amount of people who are addicted to this, the amount of people who are harmed by it and the industry that’s making money off of it is this perfect circle, this perfect storm of we’re not going to fix it anytime soon. And I’m not trying to vilify TikTok specifically. as this discussion was about Snapchat. And I know one of the benefits of TikTok, certainly during the last election, is that it was nowhere near as heavily censored to one side of the political aisle as other apps are. But I just think it’s interesting when apps are sort of proud of the fact that they cultivate a whole lot of young people on them, like people, you know, under even the age of 18. A lot of minors use certain apps and like to use certain apps. It feels like a weird thing for companies to brag about and be proud about in the world of social media or anything else because of all this data that says how damaging all this stuff is to kids. And it’s even odder when I think about that because social media became a thing when I was an adult, not a child. And I can’t fathom what it would be like to be a kid who can’t get away from, you know, the way in which people interact sometimes or kids interact sometimes. Especially if there’s bullies and other people at school or, you know, things embarrassing that happen to you that wind up all over social media. I just can’t fathom how much more difficult that is than what we dealt with growing up as kids, where at least if something bad happened, nobody remembered it after a certain amount of time because it wasn’t plastered all over social media for strangers to even interact with or any of the other dangers that come in. which I guess is why I never really cared about the idea of banning TikTok or banning any of the social media apps. I imagine they do tremendous value to kids, even if the rest of us might have to figure out something else to use. I’ve never cared about that as much. I know it’s wrong. I know it’s government overreach, but the damage being done is often forgotten. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff to talk about. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Let’s do a quick coverage of a bunch of different headlines out there, some that we haven’t touched on much today, even though I thought I actually would talk about some of these more. The Trump administration is seeking records from Harvard on foreign funding and ties. The fight between the Trump administration and Harvard is getting more and more interesting by the day. At first, Harvard seemed to be willingly defiant to any sort of changes to DEI and said so much out loud to the Trump administration. And they decided, all right, we’re going to pause some federal funding while we look a little bit deeper into that. And now, as you dig through the records, more and more pieces of hey, maybe we should chase this rabbit down this rabbit hole and see how far this goes, including Reuters reporting just a few hours ago that the administration is going to seek to understand foreign funding and ties to other governments and what else is going on there. I find that very interesting. This feels like a more is yet to come version of a story, and we’ll see where those rabbits go. RFK Jr. is getting bashed by a whole lot of liberal media for vowing, this is funny to me, transparency in a search for a cause of autism. I have the audio. I can play it. RFK Jr., the HHS secretary, said on Fox last night that this is what he was going to do to see about, one, what actually causes autism, and two, how he would be fully transparent with the American people while seeking transparency.
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to figure out what that is and this apparently is horrible and terrible if you’re liberal media and we’re going to be transparent about our protocols about the data sets and then every study will have to be replicated we’re going to look at mold we’re going to look at uh… at uh… at the age of parents were going to look at food and food additives we’re going to look at pesticides and toxic exposures We’re going to look at medicines. We’re going to look at vaccines. We’re going to look at everything. How dare you, sir?
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I wish that that’s how people actually behaved. When you say something completely, you know, logical, something that makes tremendous sense to a lot of us, we’re going to look at everything. We’re going to make sure that we can replicate studies that we believe actually demonstrate some sort of cause to this. And we’re going to do all of it in the most transparent way we possibly can. Granted, I’m sure people will accuse them of not doing it this way. But it hasn’t happened yet, so I’ll wait before I make that decision as to just how transparent this information is. But nonetheless, if you were just going to figure out the cause of anything and you thought that eventually actually breaking that code might help us to do more to help people in certain situations, no one would ever object to this. But when it’s RFK Jr., when it’s specific to things where vaccines is something that he might believe, we might find a whole lot of information. But not actually saying it there, waiting for the proof to actually follow whatever the discussion is. People have to vilify and say that you’re a terrible, horrible person. And how dare you go and try to figure out the cause of something which is insane to me. It’s I can’t get over that. Other stories out there, students at Florida State gathered for memorials. They prepared to retrieve belongings to those who lost their lives in the school shooting that happened yesterday. Some things that really matter, and I think are… rather important to this discussion the FSU shooting suspect was kidnapped as a child by his biological mother who briefly fled to Norway with him that’s a story that people dot com and other places have broke within last couple hours as the discussion and I can play audio of this and you can understand audio of this, turns to guns and gun control or whatever else has to be the discussion point for mainstream media or legacy media or liberal media to follow its own narrative irrelevant to any of the actual data that matters. There are going to be these things that come out that talk about the mental health of the individual. and where and how that mental health could become something that would cause you to eventually be willing to just take the lives of people. Indiscriminately so, at least is the belief so far. i’m not gonna say the name of the individual who’s twenty uh… that was the shooting suspect in this they did use their uh… stepmother’s service weapon uh… to commit the crime and so a couple things that matter about that is any sort of legislation that would even be used wouldn’t regulate handguns i wouldn’t regulate people that are members of uh… police department from having service weapons so none of the things that anyone would do anywhere in dc would actually have prevented this individual from having access to this firearm that wouldn’t occur. Whether or not the firearm was safely stored somewhere in the house where the kid didn’t have access to it, where the 20-year-old didn’t have access to it, that’s a discussion for another day, I guess. I doubt that’s something that actually, who knows what the exact variables of that are, but I doubt it’s something that actually would inevitably be in and of itself the only thing that could have been done differently. But the truth is, if you actually want to solve the problem and actually want to get to the heart of these issues, you focus on the individuals who are willing to commit these crimes, not necessarily the weapon they choose to do it with because horrifically, and this is obvious, they’ll choose a different weapon. or they’ll gain a weapon illegally. They’ll do whatever they have to do to still commit the crime. They don’t care about breaking more laws if they’re already willing to take lives. I don’t know why that part of the discussion can’t be discussed or can’t actually be admitted to more by the side that wants to turn it into just a gun control issue. Other stories out there that I thought were interesting. The Trump administration is coming up against judges in the judicial system, not necessarily the Supreme Court, but U.S. judges halting all kinds of things. And one of the most interesting decisions made earlier today is a judge has blocked the president’s administration from being able to deport non-citizens to other countries, to what they call third countries. This means if you’re someone that should be deported But for some reason, and this is true in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the guy that’s getting talked about in the news all the time, some court order decides you shouldn’t be deported to the country you came from. We could send you somewhere else. A court recently tried to prevent that as of today. which is unsurprising because many people believe that what would happen here is that some additional steps would be taken to try to stop Trump from President Trump and his administration from getting people out of this country that illegally came in here. As many roadblocks as possible, this is the newest one. Because typically, and what would have happened, and honestly, this was an argument just a few hours ago on some talking head places, if Kilmar Abrego Garcia was brought back to the United States based on anything before this judge blocked this action, he would have immediately been deported somewhere else other than El Salvador. That’s what would happen next to someone that’s been designated an MS-13 terrorist and gang member. You would be sent somewhere other than the United States, even if it’s not El Salvador. And now that part of the process is attempting to be blocked by a U.S. judge. That Because again, this all seems like different aspects of pay attention over here. Will we do this over here? And the government pulls this trick over here in order to get you to, you know, not pay attention to what actually matters. And it’s horrible. Another one that’s interesting and out there. Luigi Mangione, another person who for some reason, even though he seems very obviously to be a murderer, someone who is allegedly to have committed a crime in which video and all these other things and proof found on him at the time he was apprehended, etc., etc. I think I legally have to be safe in how I talk about this. But a whole lot of people are going to assume he’s guilty of this crime for very obvious reasons. Anyway, they will be seeking the death penalty in this case, very likely, as the DOJ shifted to actually go after an assassination case against him. Here’s what’s interesting about that. And I say this as a person of faith, a person who understands the Catholic Church has a stance against the death penalty, something I often very much agree with and believe in, just personally, not telling you what you have to agree with. But the thing that’s odd about the media darling that is the accused murderer, Luigi Mangione, and this is crazy, is that he is being celebrated by so many people that if you ever needed an individual to be an example of why you can’t just shoot someone in the back on the street, Luigi seems to fit that description of someone that’s case is high profile enough that the punishment needs to be high profile enough to demonstrate to anyone else that might want to, you know, be a copycat person of this crime that you shouldn’t do that. And so it’s interesting to me, and certainly the federal government has said that they absolutely are going to seek the death penalty, that if anyone ever were, I’m not sure if I should say it this way, but I will, deserving of this level of punishment to not only fit the crime but be a deterrent to others, it seems to be this exact case. And again, I say that as someone who is a person of faith who oftentimes believes the death penalty is wrong and life in prison is better because life is sacred even for people who commit horrible crimes. That’s just something simply based in the faith that I have as an individual. But even so, if ever I was to be convinced otherwise, this feels like the case where that exists. Of course, and maybe I neglected to mention this, The part of this narrative that matters, too, is the amount of people that are saying it’s horrible and terrible that the federal government would even seek the death penalty in this case. And, of course, continues to somehow in some way appraise and or do odd things with someone who seems to be very likely to be convicted of murder. Again, and so I just find that so interesting and certainly a topic that deserves more discussion than it’s probably getting today outside of people that are saying it’s very simplistically bad when it doesn’t really appear to be the case. And honestly, if you really dive deeper into it, it’s probably exactly the reason that something like that exists. All right. One last thing. I just think this is interesting and I want to throw it out there because I agree with him on it and I don’t try to agree with President Trump on everything on purpose. It just happens sometimes. I love the fact that he’s making reference to potentially firing Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, because I think he should do that. I think a whole lot of people in government and in politics think you should not do that. I think that you should wait for Powell’s term to finish in 2026, appoint your own person to be in charge and allow things to happen then. And the biggest reason why is because if you do something, then the other side is going to do it, too. And there’s also going to be some sort of legal debate as to what you are allowed and not allowed to do in the first place. I think that Trump has always played by his own rules. I think that this is a rule that he could play by again, and you could convince the other side not to do it in the future because other Republicans aren’t going to do it. And also, it seems to really help us. If interest rates got lowered right now, it might be a huge benefit to an economy that is struggling, and it might allow President Trump to continue a trade fight that’s intent on getting us better deals with the rest of the world. And so all these things seem to merge together in a way where, yeah, Lowering the rates might be a good thing for both us and for everybody else. And what’s funny about it is this person seems to be resisting it for political reasons, because even one of the things that President Trump referenced in social media is that Europe has done a lot of adjusting to its interest rates, similar to what he’s hoping happens here in the United States. And for some reason, we’re saying no to that. And it’s actually because you want to make the tariff pain worse, not better, which I find very interesting. So I think Trump should fire Powell. And I think that should happen really soon. And I don’t mind saying it on the radio, even if I’m in the minority on that opinion. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.
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Amen. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. DanaRadio.com, DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Other ways to stay connected to her. Just a couple quick things before we get out of here. I find it hilarious that Fry Festival 2 has been postponed. There’s no new date set. The founder of the Fry Festival has done interviews now where he’s like, I don’t know. Because to be honest, if you were someone who trusted Billy McFarlane the second time around after the fraudulent luxury music festival organization that was Fry Festival 1 by signing up for Fry Festival 2, this is on you now. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Feels very appropriate. Many people are calling for refunds. The individuals behind this at first said no. Now they said maybe there might be a yes to the refunds. You don’t deserve them. I think if you bought tickets to Fry Festival 2 and it’s going to get canceled and postponed and all the stuff that you probably assumed was going to happen to begin with, that money’s got to be money you eat. That money’s got to be money that just goes away forever because darn it, how could you possibly have bought a ticket to this? And actually, quickly talking about concerts, I don’t know why I find this funny. I live in Houston, Texas now. I drive by the place where Beyonce is going to be having one of her shows for her Cowboy Carter tour. And I saw recently that people are very upset that they bought tickets in pre-release when they first came out on Ticketmaster because they had surge charging prices on them. So if you waited for the very first release of these tickets, assuming they were going to sell out, You paid a whole lot of money for essentially nosebleed seats in the back of wherever it is you’re going. Apparently, thousands of tickets are still available to multiple locations, and the price of them, even for really good seats, have now fallen significantly lower than the price people paid for terrible seats as far as, you know, those pre-release sales. Why do I think any of this is funny? I’m not a hater who’s anti-Beyonce or any of that stuff. I don’t really care. Not exactly my cup of tea musically, but not someone I think is bad at music. But when you totally switch genres, when you go for a country album, even if you win a Grammy as the best album of the year for said country thing, there might be some core audience members who don’t show up to the concert. So I imagine the best thing Beyonce could do to sell out those remaining tickets and all those venues where people are surprised they’re not sold and also make all the people happy who paid way too much money for really terrible seats is guarantee she’s going to play some older stuff, some stuff that you love, some stuff that are the hits that make her someone who sells out venues a lot and not just the country music stuff from the newest album. I think if she makes that promise, all of a sudden the ticket issues will go away. But it’s been in the news recently. that Beyonce somehow, someway, has multiple tickets available for multiple shows, both at the beginning, middle, and end of her tour. And again, I drive by the place right here in Houston where she’s going to be performing, and I wonder how many tickets are actually sold for that venue, for that event, and how many people might be mad if they paid too much for it. All right, a couple other quick things. A surgically enhanced influencer… That’s the way she’s referred to in this story about her. Wound up struggling with customs officers because her passport looks nothing like her. The woman not only obviously edits the photos the way anybody on social media does, she chose to take matters into her own hands and allow surgeons to actually edit her face. And she edited it way too much and didn’t get a new passport photo in time. So Jessica, which she spells with a G, which for some reason annoys me, But Jessica is now someone who’s going to have to get a brand new passport and almost didn’t get back to her home country of Brazil. The 32-year-old YouTuber and TikToker looks absolutely nothing like the photos that went viral that are on her passport. I don’t blame anybody in customs from being like, that’s not you. This isn’t even close. And then finally, one last thing. I do enjoy this quite a bit, too. A guy went viral on social media for claiming that this holiday you should have an abomination of a food product. I’ll go ahead and play a little bit of his audio. But he says hot dogs are great. Peeps are great. Why not mix them together?
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My friends down here at Lexi’s Road Dogs, we started off as a joke. We’re talking about a hot dog and a peep bun. It’s a hot dog, but instead of a regular bun, it’s peeps. And we’re going to try it for the first time here. Okay, I’m not going to lie. This is really, really good. No, it’s not. I’m not even playing. No, it’s not. You are playing. I’m going to give that a 9.1 out of 10. That’s how good it was.
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You know, it’s honestly my first reaction to that audio. I never care what another food piece of advice this individual, this influencer gives if he gives a 9.1 to a peep hot dog. That absolutely cannot be true. There’s no scenario where it is true. And I do not encourage you to try the Peep Hot Dog if you’re now tempted to do it because it looks disgusting. Why do you have to merge two products that are great together if you can just keep them separate? Peeps are awesome. Hot dogs are awesome. They don’t need to be merged in some sort of unholy alliance. That’s absolutely wrong. Just in time for Easter. All right, I’m out of here. Dana’s back after the holiday. Happy holidays, everybody. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
