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In this episode of The Dana Show, Rich Zioli covers significant developments in the economy with promising news on consumer price trends. Dive into an expansive discussion on energy policies, the Department of Education’s potential shutdown, and the political dynamics that could reshape America’s future. From declining egg prices to infrastructure strategies involving oil and natural gas, Rich offers a comprehensive analysis of the economic and geopolitical landscape.
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Hi, I’m Matt.
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And I’m Leah, and we’re from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week’s episode, we’re chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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Can’t blame them.
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It’s really important to do your taxes right.
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Listen to Grown Up Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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Finally, we have some good news on the economy and really the number one issue for many Americans, the cost of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in February increased by 2.8% year over year, 0.2% month over month. Both of these figures were a step in the right direction and both were better than expected. So this is definitely very encouraging to see.
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It is encouraging to see and it’s encouraging to be back with you here on The Dana Show. It’s me, Rich Zioli from Talk Radio, 1210 WPHC in Philadelphia. Yeah, good news on the economy, which is great. So the media is going to have to report that it’s bad news on the economy so that they can continue with the theme that Trump has been in office for 50 days and is somehow destroying the country. But he will be destroying the Department of Education, which is great news. His clear directive is shut it down. Shut it down. And Linda McMahon had a lot to say about that as well. And egg prices are coming down, which makes me very, very happy. Egg prices are coming down. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has a plan in place to deal with the avian bird flu that doesn’t involve just the mass murder of chickens, which is what the previous administration did, just murder chickens. She has an actual plan. It’s already paying off. Egg prices have gone down by about an average of like a buck and a quarter, a dozen, which, hey, if you’re a family like I am, where I’ve got three kids who eat eggs a lot, well, two out of three eat eggs. My one daughter won’t touch them, but I love eggs. That’s a big deal. Plus, can’t have French toast without eggs. And I know it’s spring, but we’re not out of the woods yet, at least in some parts of the country. for that final March blizzard where the French toast industrial complex will scare everybody into thinking that there’s gonna be a big storm. The kids will be out of school for a day and we all have to make French toast. At least if you live in the Northeast where I am, you can expect at least one more day of that before Mother’s Day at some point. So it’s good news that the egg prices are coming down. And good news on the economic front. Look, the tariff stuff and the trade war with Canada. Canada, it’s like the special needs child to our north. I’m not particularly worried about this. I’m really not. And I don’t think you should be either. I think a lot of this is a psychological operation to truly make Canada the 51st state. I really do believe that. I really believe that they want Canada to be part of the country. And the reason why is oil and natural gas. They got a lot of it up there. And from the manifest destiny perspective of this, just the United States of America having a clear shot all the way to Alaska with oil and natural gas. And then if we have Greenland too, then we strategically position ourselves to be able to protect our interests in the total Western hemisphere as Russia and China and a lot of the Gulf States like Iran are partnering up and they have a lot of oil and natural gas. What they don’t have though in their countries which we have a plethora of, a plethora, do you even know what that word means? Is climate change kooks. So yeah, no, that’s the difference is that in China and Russia, they just want to sell their oil and their natural gas and their coal. And Putin put a trillion bucks in his pocket last year, thanks to the European countries buying his liquid natural gas and his oil so that’s why where see i broadcast in philadelphia every day pennsylvania being a huge oil and natural gas natural gas really more than anything but a liquefied natural gas export facility very close to where i’m broadcasting would be able the united states of america could provide lng to the to the to europe and the world and you talk about weakening vladimir putin’s position while bringing billions and billions and billions of dollars to the economy i mean really just to pennsylvania alone because that would be fantastic if that happens will they do it though the problem is you’ve got a democrat governor in pennsylvania by the name of Josh Shapiro, who wants to run for president. And so if you want to run for president, the Democrat Party is obviously, as you’ve seen from their videos, not only cringey, but nutsy, nutsy cringey. That’s the combination right now. And in all their Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat videos, they all have the same theme, and that is to just oppose everything that Trump stands for. Trump wants to drill baby drill and frack, frack, frack, and an LNG export facility right outside of Philadelphia. We could supply oil and natural gas to the world, but really, I mean, we could lead on liquid natural gas and get there about a week faster than states in the southern part of the country. Europe would not have to give Vladimir Putin any more money, which is nice because if this peace deal with Ukraine and Russia goes through, then that would also be a big deal for us, no doubt about it. So all those good things are happening. But what it means then is if you really want to get the economy moving again, because the CPI numbers are great. It’s good stuff. It really is. It’s good stuff. If nothing else for consumer confidence. And I know everybody’s panicking, or at least there’s a lot of media hype around panic over the stock market and 401ks and everything like that. And if you’re retired and you live on your 401k, I get it. I understand that point. But the reality is that a lot of this stuff takes time because the previous administration destroyed so much of what our economic engine is. And that economic engine, of course, is really truly energy because energy drives prices in every single step of the way. So that’s good. That’s good that we are going to, for the first time in a long time, lead the revolution on not just energy independence for the united states of america but energy dominance for the world which would be great and that means then that bad guys like putin and bad guys like xi jinping and venezuela with that nut job maduro who won’t give up his own presidency even though he lost they don’t have to be as powerful i haven’t even brought up iran yet or the gulf states what i also love is that Dubai, when they hosted the climate change conference, that was cute. That was adorable because they had this climate change conference there and everybody was drinking out of paper straws, which I love because I love when they melt into my drink and all those chemicals get into my drink. Mmm, delicious. But Dubai was going, hey, don’t look over here as we’re building new islands to drill off of. as we continue drilling and drilling and drilling. So the United States of America has a vital interest in Western hemisphere oil, natural gas, and then dominance of that, and looking not just five years down the road or 10 years down the road, but 150 years down the road of being able to provide energy and not have to rely on crazy people around the world. But of course, if you’re Pennsylvania’s Governor Josh Shapiro, you’re going to oppose that because you can’t win the Democrat primary if you’re pro-fossil fuel. Just like how on the West Coast, the left coast, you’ve got Gavin Newsom, who’s now trying to yuck it up with every conservative or MAGA influencer who possibly can to show everybody he’s just a normal guy. But there was a book that came out yesterday. Susan Crabtree wrote a book called Fool’s Gold, all about California, and exposes Gavin Newsom’s ties with the CCP and China, because he’s got a wine company. It’s called like Plungerhead, I think, or something like that. No, Plumberhead. I don’t know. Airhead. But whatever it is. And it’s all about getting his wine on the shelves in China, because they love those Napa Reds. So there’s this whole thing about him. And then there’s another story about Gavin Newsom where… He was bailing out the utility companies that were not providing the assistance and the aid to the people of Los Angeles affected by the wildfires. But they did give him lots and lots of money for his campaign. So Newsom’s just a creep. But as you start looking at 2028 and you start thinking about what the Democrat Party is going to look like, it’s very obvious to me When you watch these videos, the TikTok videos of AOC, the street fighter, and you watch that and you see how cringy it is, somebody in the Democrat Party, a consultant, is running around to the candidates and saying, we need someone here to be the adult in the room, the voice of normalcy, and to pull up a playbook from Bill Clinton’s 1992 playbook and try to go outside of the lefty lane. I just don’t know if a Democrat like that can get through the primary. I really don’t. I just don’t know if a Democrat like that can. I mean, all signs right now point to, honestly, even though he’ll be 142 years old, Bernie Sanders. Becoming the nominee. I mean, he’s saying right now this is the scariest time in his lifetime. That’s what Bernie’s saying right now. Scariest time in his lifetime is right now. This moment in time. He’s lived through 9-11. He’s lived through World War I, World War II, the Civil War. He lived through the Crusades. And he’s saying that right now is the scariest time in his life. But he’s getting people to his rallies. He’s getting a lot of people to his rallies. And Bernie was the guy back in the day who had a clear shot to the nomination, but the Democrat Party jumped in and stopped him so they can ensure that one of their puppets, like Hillary Clinton, a warmonger, and then Joe Biden, a puppet warmonger in 2020, and not a guy like Bernie who they couldn’t control. But the difference, though, going into 2028, is that who’s in charge of the Democrat Party now? Who can control those levers to ensure that they get another pro-war puppet and not an outsider? So you’re going to see more of this. And then if you want to go a step further, then you look into New York, where you’ve got the love gov, Andrew Cuomo. He’s back, the nursing home killer. This serial killer, truly, we were talking about TV shows before. Dexter, one of my all-time favorites. Dexter’s it’s a show about a serial killer, but he’s a love. He’s a lovable serial killer because he kills other serial killers. Dexter is envious of Cuomo and how he got away with all the nursing home deaths. Truly, he’s really envious of this. And Cuomo is running on experience to become the mayor of New York City. He doesn’t really want to be mayor of New York City, but he needs to rehabilitate himself. And he has plenty of time if he wins to be able to rehabilitate himself and then run for president in twenty twenty eight again as an outsider. But in order for the Democrats to achieve this, they all have to stop Trump. That has to be their mantra, not work with Trump, not try to be bipartisan and build consensus, but to try to stop him at every turn and then be the answer to Trumpism, be the alternative to that. And I just I don’t I don’t think you can escape a primary in the Democrat Party right now being anything else. I really don’t. They want, like, this is a party right now that’s cheering when Tesla dealerships burn. There was a time five minutes ago when governors like Gavin Newsom were mandating that everybody had to buy a Tesla. Now they’re setting them on fire everywhere. So, I mean, I would imagine as Trump buys a Tesla… I can see the left coming out and mandating that we all have to buy gas-powered cars. Just to do the opposite of whatever Trump does. So if Trump’s like, well, I’m buying a Tesla, they’re going to turn around and go, well, now you can’t buy electric cars. We’re going to ban them in our states. I can see that happening too. Because whatever Trump is for, they’re against. Whatever Trump wants to do, they just oppose it. And that’s how they work. And they keep doing that. But inflation has has slowed for the first time in four months. That’s CNN reporting on that. Inflation has slowed. Let’s play that clip for you. This is a more good news for America. Cut number eight.
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Well, this is welcome news for consumer for consumers. Prices in February fell for the first time in four months. Prices in February, month over month, increased about 0.2%, and on an annual basis, 2.8%. So that’s encouraging news for consumers. We saw in this report that shelter, that is rent, made up half of all increases in the report. But we did see decreases on things like gas and also airline fares. Good news for consumers.
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You know why gas prices are going to go down? Because we’re going to start drilling again and we’re going to be able to increase the supply that is so badly needed in the marketplace. And that is great news for consumers in this country. And as energy prices drop, you’re going to see prices drop as well because everything is dependent upon energy. That farmer… and the fuel that he puts into his tractor you’re paying for that on the shelves with your food which by the way might become a whole lot healthier if bobby kennedy gets his way and the maha movement is very very real no doubt about it all right we got a lot to chat about it is the dana show It’s Rich Zioli in for Dana. I’m with you all week unless I screw up, which is entirely possible. But otherwise, we’ve got a great show ahead for you. Donald Trump will be speaking from the Oval Office. Is he going to say that the Education Department is going to be shut down once and for all? We’ll find out. Don’t go away.
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Elon Musk and Doge need help. Doge is only highlighting the spending problems, but Congress controls the purse strings. Congress needs to follow through and step up to control the spending, or we’ll be back where we started. Check out the Watchdog on Wall Street podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I’m Matt.
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And I’m Leah, and we’re from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week’s episode, we’re chatting with CPA Lisa Greene-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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Can’t blame them.
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It’s really important to do your taxes right.
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Listen to Grown Up Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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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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Well, first of all, let me just say that Billy Joel, who’s 75 years old, has postponed his tour due to serious medical issue after a surgery sparking concern. That makes me sad because I love Billy Joel. And a statement posted to Instagram reveals he’s been halted. This tour has been halted after he underwent a recent surgery. So he’s expected to make a full recovery. That’s the good news. So I wish the Piano Man our best. If you’ve never seen him in concert, I would highly recommend it because it’s really good. Not everybody’s good in concert. Billy Joel happens to be one of the best. Absolutely no doubt about that. Dave Portnoy. El Presidente, Stool Presidente himself, claims the White House reached out to hire him for a job with the Commerce Department. He’s been a pretty vocal supporter of Trump, but he tells it like it is. He said that he was offered a job in the Trump administration, but turned it down because he’d have to stop running his sports, gambling, and of course, barstool. And I don’t know if he could still do pizza reviews if he was in the Commerce Department. But I highly, I definitely, me personally, I rely on those pizza reviews before I order a pie. I really do. I like him. I agree with his reviews for the most part. Sometimes I think he’s a little harsh, but I do like his stance on pineapple, which is it should never, ever be on a pizza. So we talk about Maha, Make America Healthy Again. This is a bummer. Girl Scout cookies, they’re sued. Girl Scouts are being sued over alleged heavy metals and pesticides in their cookies. A study found harmful metals and glyphosate in Thin Mints and other cookies. The lawsuit seeks $5 million in damages citing consumer protection law violations. Look, I mean, I don’t know what to tell you. I’ll take a frozen Thin Mint with glyphosate every day of the week. The problem is that when my kids sell them, I’ll end up eating all of them. That’s the problem. Try saying this five times fast. Transgender TikTok influencer jailed for three years in Indonesia for telling Jesus to get his hair cut. That’s it. Just try saying that five times. I’ll say it one more time for you. Transgender TikTok influencer jailed for three years in Indonesia for telling Jesus to get his hair cut. And finally, if the left did not hate Jeff Bezos enough by opening up the Washington Post to other views besides just we hate Donald Trump, well, they’re really going to hate him now. Because Trump’s TV show, The Apprentice, will stream for the first time on Amazon, not on Peacock. You know, the show was owned by NBC and it was on NBC. But Jeff Bezos, who has Amazon Prime, he owns Amazon, and their streaming network Prime, well, The Apprentice is going to be on Amazon. which means the left is really, really going to hate him. It’s The Dana Show. It’s me, Rich, in for Dana. Breaking news on the Department of Education. We’re watching it. Don’t go away.
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Hi, I’m Matt.
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And I’m Leah, and we’re from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week’s episode, we’re chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
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A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
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Can’t blame them.
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It’s really important to do your taxes right.
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Listen to Grown Up Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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It is the Dana Show. It’s me, Rich Zioli from Talk Radio 1210 WPHC in for Dana and the Department of Education. So as you know, I have three kids. Patrick is 10, my son, my daughter Claire’s eight, my other daughter Reagan is five, also on the terror watch list. And the question that I ask that every parent asks is, do we need a federal department of education? It’s a very, very simple question. Is this what we need? Do we need a department of education? And, you know, Linda McMahon, who’s got a job, and her job is to put herself out of a job, which is something that I admire. I really do. She’s taking a job to put herself out of a job. It’s really remarkable when you think about it. But what would happen if there was no Department of Education, for example? So I sent a friend of mine a text earlier today because she had sent me a text a little while ago. And I’m going to read this to you. This is what this mom said. This is why Trump won Suburban Moms. Many of them didn’t really even like him, but they voted for him anyway for two reasons. The Maha movement, because, yeah, they’re putting crap in Girl Scout cookies, among other things. But also, too, it’s all the woke stuff in schools. So this mom, suburban mom, sends me a text a couple weeks ago. She says, I think some of this is in your wheelhouse and looking for a resource or maybe just some guidance as I know you have talked to many, many people about this issue. But my oldest is in fifth grade and it looks like some curriculum is in their family life class. It’s gonna start the next week or so. And it is regarding gender identity and gender expression and all the other BS it encompasses. I found out through another parent who has screenshots from the nurse, so parents didn’t even know about it. And now I have a meeting tomorrow with the principal. I know this eventually is a battle I will have to take, but anything you can suggest for me? Now, what I did send her was the Department of Education right now has a form where parents can go and you can, it’s called enddei.ed.gov. School should be focused on learning, is what the website says. The US Department of Education is committed to ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination. This submission form is an outlet for students, parents, teachers, and the broader community to report illegal discriminatory practices at institutions of learning. The Department of Education will utilize community submissions to identify potential areas for investigation. And the president has already cut off funding for the state of Maine because of their stance on the transgender issue when it comes to student athletes. But I think that this is the defining issue for so many parents, not just in the suburbs, but in cities too. And cities, too. They look at this and they think it’s crazy and they just want it to stop. And a lot of these policies are driven from the federal level. Well, sure, it’s easy to get bureaucrats in Washington who work at the Department of Education. They put in woke school guidelines. Then they send them to the states and the states are like, well, golly gee, there’s nothing we can do about it. We have to do what the feds tell us. That’s not true, of course. But they found a way in the federal level to tie grant money to ensuring that the states follow the curriculum guidelines on the federal level. Now, that’s crazy because every state’s different, but they act like, oh, well, if we don’t do that, it’ll be 1950 all over again, and certain students won’t learn to read and write. Read and write and then arithmetic won’t happen. So the education department has cut nearly half its workforce, and they’re going to shut the agency down. Harvard has announced a hiring freeze. Because now Harvard, which has an endowment that I think it’s like $457 trillion or something crazy like that, they’re worried. Johns Hopkins sees $800 million in cuts and says it will be devastating for Maryland and beyond. But long past the pandemic, kids are still skipping school in many places. So let’s think about the pandemic, because it really was five years ago this week when schools were shut down, but liquor stores were told they could remain open, which was helpful to parents who had to educate their kids at home because day drinking certainly helped with that. But Jason Riley in the Wall Street Journal has a really good piece on this. Long past the pandemic, kids skip school in New York. So let’s look at New York, for example, as a great indicator of this, as Andrew Cuomo tries to make his return, the Love Gov, to become the mayor of New York City, hoping that that will launch him to the White House. The city’s rate of chronic absenteeism shot up from 25% of students before COVID to 35% last year. What’s happening with all that? Now, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned four years ago after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, is now running for New York City mayor as the answer to the problems that he helped to create. And one of the things that he did, like so many others on the left did, was shut down schools. And the lasting damage to children is something that we still to this day have not caught up from. We still right now have not caught up to where we were. pre-pandemic levels, particularly in math and science where other countries around the world are just kicking our butts in this. But it’s even worse than that too. There’s a whole mental health component of this that kids are just more addicted to screens and kids just, they don’t like going outside anymore and all the other problems that COVID brought. It was five years ago. And I remember it like it was yesterday. That it was going to be a Thursday night would be a Thursday, would be the last day in school, and then that would be it. And then the school shut their doors and, you know, good luck, moms and dads, we’ll send you. And it was pretty funny too earlier. Not funny, but it’s funny. Funny in the sense of just pure lunacy. When they had, they would send home some, I don’t know, teaching points or something and a quick video from the teacher, which would get us through 10 minutes. I kid you not, 10 minutes. And by the 11th minute, my wife and I were looking at each other going, what do we do now? What do we got? I mean, we both have to work. Even though the kids are home, we still have to work. It’s not like we could really get childcare. Nobody wants to come to the house and be around. We just had a baby, a newborn baby. Well, at that point, actually, in March, my wife was still a few weeks away from Reagan being born. She was born April 16th. But my wife’s pregnant. She’s on maternity leave, just getting ready for it. We’re on COVID now. The kids, Patrick and Claire, are home. And we’re supposed to teach them. We don’t know what the heck we’re doing. But this is when parents, for the first time, opened up a lot of books and said, wait. What are you learning? What is this? And that was the beginning of parents discovering so much of the indoctrination and books that were just straight out pornography in their kids’ classrooms and learning about the indoctrination that our kids were going through. I mean, for many parents, they’d heard about this stuff anecdotally, but this was the first time that they actually cracked a book open themselves. or a computer assignment or whatever it was and said, wait, I’m supposed to teach you that boys can be girls and girls can be boys? That’s our subject? Yeah, mom and dad, that’s what we’re learning in health class. So then what happened after that? Parents turned around and said, oh, hell no. Then when schools gradually reopened, and depending on where you were in the country, in some places they opened up a lot sooner. So if you’re listening to the show in Florida or Texas or somewhere, you’re lucky your schools opened a lot faster than schools in Jersey did, Philadelphia did, and New York City did. But by the time they opened though, the kids had to come back wearing masks. There was talk of mandatory COVID shots for the kids. There was still the issue of curriculum. So parents started going to school board meetings and they started speaking up. And for many parents, they were agitated. COVID was very stressful for a lot of people, for everybody. We had lost family members. We were scared. We were confused. As life started to get a little bit back to normal, we became angry because so much of the guidance that they put us through was completely meaningless and made up. six feet social distancing, telling us that we had to get a COVID shot that did not stop transmission despite their lies and led to a lot of side effects, particularly in healthy young men. So parents were upset. They start going to school board meetings and they start speaking out. What happens? Well, Merrick Garland, Department of Justice, and the National Association of School Boards, they send out a letter saying, you better watch it, you parents. You just might be domestic violent extremists. We might be watching you. The FBI might be in the back keeping tabs on you. Remember in the movies, The Godfather, where they had the wedding, and the FBI agents are walking around taking pictures of the license plates. Sonny comes out, grabs one of the cameras, and throws it down, and then just starts handing the guy money. So the FBI used to do stuff like that, like see whose mafia cars were in the parking lot at a wedding. Then they just started watching which parents, which minivans were in the parking lot at school board meetings. People got angry, really upset, but they dialed in. They dialed into what was going on in schools and they learned a lot of things. And then you had a whole other fact of this too, which is they realize now that a lot of the COVID money, we’re talking about trillions of dollars of money here. Well, billions really, but billions of dollars was just left unspent. It was supposed to go to ventilation systems and making schools better for them and the money went for nonsense. This issue would lead parents to a gigantic wake-up call. Gigantic wake-up call, all right? And then here’s the other thing that happened, too. Parents started sending their kids to college. Colleges were locked down, too, and many colleges had vaccine requirements. And then the kids got to colleges, and then their little girl, who worked so hard to get on the swim team, wound up losing to a dude in a women’s swim competition. And then, you know, the young girl would call home to her parents and say, yeah, you know, we’re really excited. We’re going to, for the first time now, the team’s going on a trip. We’re going to go play another school. Great. Yeah, but I got to share a room with a guy. What? Well, it’s a transgender woman, but wait, wait, back up a second. Yeah, no, no, it’s fine. I mean, she, she? Well, I mean, technically it’s a guy, but… A sorority house winds up having to accept a biological male in their sorority house because their national chapter said, you got to take this transgender girl. And all the sorority sisters turned around and sued. Parents woke up and said, what is going on in this country right now? And they looked at the left, and the left was all in doubling down on this issue of biological males playing in sports, being in the locker rooms, sharing rooms with girls. So all of these things just brought the fever pitch up to a 10%. And then you turn around and you find out how powerful organizations like the National Education Association, led by that little troll under the bridge, Randy Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers, all these other groups, you wind up realizing how incredibly powerful they were with the CDC, and they were writing the school reopening guidance. And you hear stories about how much money they give to Democrats, Democrat politicians, and you turn around and you go, I don’t understand. So you start bringing up lots of different things. You say, hey, not for nothing, but what if my kid wants to go to a different school? They say, nope, can’t do that. So the Democrats start fighting against school choice. Donald Trump comes along and says, we’re going to support school choice and we’re going to shut down the Federal Department of Education, which really is the epicenter of so much of the nonsense that occurred. Because the Department of Education, working with the CDC and the teachers union on the school reopening guidance and mask mandates and so much of this woke curriculum, And then these suburban moms and dads turned around and voted for him. For a lot of them, they hated him. They really did. They voted against him in 2020. But COVID and schools and the transgender issue in sports, the unhealthy foods, the Maha movement, the vaccines, not that they’re anti-vax, but they have a lot of questions about things, and certainly the COVID vaccine when it came to their kids. led parents to wake up in big, big, big numbers. So Trump gets elected largely because of this group, and he makes good on the promise and signs directives to schools saying, you better cut the crap when it comes to this DEI stuff. You better not get off with the transgender sports stuff. All right? And there’s only two genders, male and female, period. That’s it. And by the way, we’re going to shut down the Department of Education. And while it takes an act of Congress to do so, there’s a lot the president can do. The president of the United States can do a lot on the issue. And particularly what he can do is he can start the process by which Congress can shut it down or make it so incredibly ineffective that really its presence doesn’t bother any of us because it’s just so meaningless. And all it really does is redistribute wealth. That’s all the Department of Education really does. But truly, it would be a symbolic win, a symbolic win of the utmost kind to finally shut its doors. And Linda McMahon will body slam that place out of existence. She’s made her money off World Wrestling Entertainment. I helped provide some of that money to her. Growing up, I loved wrestling. And she’s got plenty of cash issues. She doesn’t have to worry about it. I’ll tell you one thing. She goes in there and does her job, which is to put herself out of a job. It’s going to make a lot of parents very, very happy. This is The Dana Show. It’s me, Rich Zio, the in for Dana. We got a lot more to come. The president meeting with the Irish prime minister at the White House. What’s he saying about Rosie O’Donnell going to Ireland? Don’t go away.
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Actually, it is because that was the president’s mandate. His directive to me clearly is to shut down the Department of Education, which we know we’ll have to work with Congress to get that accomplished. But what we did today was to take the first step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat. And that’s not to say that a lot of the folks, you know, it’s a humanitarian thing to a lot of the folks that are there. You know, they’re they’re out of a job. But we wanted to make sure that we. kept all of the right people, the good people to make sure that the outward facing programs, the grants, the appropriations that come from Congress, all of that are being met. And none of that’s going to fall through the cracks.
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And that’s good because you want to do it the right way, obviously. And again, it will take an act of Congress. President, in fact, just a few moments ago in the Oval Office was saying that we got to move education back to the states and parents need to be more involved in the process. And this is another big issue in the election is the parental rights movement, the parent rights movement, which is to say that parents get to know what’s going on in the classroom. The president is saying this. There’s no reason why the states at this point should not be in charge of the education in this country. But I’m telling you, in blue states like mine in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it’s a battle. It’s a battle. There are Democrat politicians who do not want parents to have any say over what’s happening in the classroom. And even a situation where their kid comes home and goes to school and Johnny identifies as Susie and the school is not even allowed to let the parents know what’s happening. which of course is utterly insane. All right. It’s the Dana show with me, Rich Zioli. We got a lot to talk about in the next hour coming up here on the Dana show coming right back.
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Indeed, it is the Data Show. It’s Rich Zioli from Talk Radio 1210 WPHC in Philadelphia. It’s an honor to be back with you today, hanging out, filling in for Dana and some breaking news all over the place. The president speaking in the Oval Office, speaking about peace with Ukraine and Russia, speaking about tariffs and speaking about Rosie O’Donnell going back to Ireland. So it’s that’s my favorite part of this entire thing. Rosie. On her way back to, well, she’s there. She left. She left the country. She had to leave because of Trump. Trump derangement syndrome. Poor Ireland. They’re going to wind up giving her back. I’m telling you, they’re going to give Rosie back. There’s no way they’re going to keep her. No way. But I do give her credit. And I think she deserves credit in the sense is that all these celebrities for years kept telling us they were going to leave. And she actually did leave. She self-deported. Rosie O’Donnell self-deported. And, you know, all these celebrities for years, like, oh, Trump wins, I’m leaving the country, and they don’t go anywhere. Barbara Streisand, she just winds up making herself more pancakes. Bette Midler, Ben Affleck, I mean, they all say the same thing, but they don’t go anywhere. So I give Rosie credit. She actually did leave. She actually did self-deport. Here’s cut 19.
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And I’m here in Ireland, and it’s beautiful and warm, not physically, it’s actually quite cold. Moved here on January 15th, and it’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming, and I’m very grateful. In the process of getting my Irish citizenship as I have Irish grandparents. And that’s what’s going on.
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That’s what’s going on. Oh, man. The consumption of Guinness in Ireland is about to triple. Really? Just having to deal with her there? It is March. I mean, St. Paddy’s Day is almost here. It makes me very, very happy. I married an Irish girl. Not from Ireland, but I mean, you know, she’s half Irish, American, but still. But it’s a great time of year. I love March for that reason. How can you not, right? How can you not have fun? So the Irish prime minister is with the president in the Oval Office, actually right now as we’re speaking, and they’re having a chat. I was just listening to it during the break, and what the president was saying about Russia and Ukraine, It’s very real. It’s very serious. You know, Russia needs to accept this deal. And he said, you see the images from the battlefields there, and it looks like something out of Gettysburg. It looks vicious, and this has to stop. The question is, if Donald Trump is able to achieve peace, will they give him the Nobel Peace Prize? Really, will they give him the Nobel Peace Prize? Because that, I mean, that would be amazing. It would be absolutely amazing if that were the case. I don’t think so. Call me crazy. Call me crazy. Here’s what the Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to say about a cut 16.
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Hopefully we’ll take this off for now to the Russians. And we hope that they’ll say yes, that they’ll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court. And but again, the president’s objective here is, number one, above everything else, he wants the war to end. And I think today Ukraine has taken a concrete step in that regard. We hope the Russians will reciprocate.
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Oh, something else for you. The story of that student, this Mahmoud Khalil, whatever his face is in New York City, Mahmoud Khalil, he’s the one that they wanted to deport. Well, it turns out, according to human events, Mahmoud Khalil had security clearance from the British government. The UK program with which Khalil was affiliated is a flagship UK soft power policy. The Middle East Eye has revealed on Wednesday that Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University master’s grad who was detained by the Department of Homeland Security Saturday night after his green card was revoked by the State Department, had security clearance from the British government. He worked, the outlet states, as a program manager at the Syria office in the British embassy in Beirut from 2018 to 2022. Khalil worked as a local manager for the Syria Shevening Program, a prestigious UK government international scholarship scheme, as well as for the Conflict Stability and Security Fund. Came to the United States in 2023, obtained a green card, and completed graduate studies at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs in December of 2024. British diplomats had kind words for Khalil. Former diplomat Andrew Waller said that to gain his position in the UK’s embassy in Beirut, he went through a vetting process to get the job and was cleared to work on sensitive issues for the British government. Waller said that the UK program with which Khalil was affiliated is a, quote, flagship UK soft power policy program. It brings the brightest students from around the world to UK universities. Mahmoud ran its Syria program and interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants on behalf of the British government. He also served as a local staff political officer and a translator both for language and context in meetings. Waller had nothing but kind words for Khalil per MEE. That vetting process had no weight with the Trump administration, which, acting on the president’s order to quell anti-Semitic protests on campus, has set about revoking visas and green cards of student activists who engage in the chaos on college campuses in the wake of the October 7th massacre. Student activists on college campuses took up the side of the Hamas terrorists who perpetrated the program, which killed 1,200 people and kidnapped over 200, more than 50 of whom are still being held by terrorists in Gaza. It’s believed that many of those Hamas is holding are dead. Now, this Shevening Scholarship is a program of the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and aims to support UK foreign policy priorities and achieve objectives by creating lasting positive relationships with future leaders, influencers, and decision makers. This kid from Columbia University, who they now want to deport, was a leader and spokesperson for the violent demonstrations and occupations that took place on Columbia’s campus. Students and activists occupied the Quad administration buildings and, as recently as January, disrupted classes to distribute anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian pamphlets. Last week, a Bernard College library was occupied and the NYPD was called in to clear the building. Trump has called his detainment a blueprint for the removal of other students in the U.S. on visas or green cards. The question, of course, becomes, is he getting deported just for his beliefs and his speech, or is he getting deported for other reasons? This report, assuming it’s true, this report really changes everything in the context of kicking this kid out. Does it not? Does it not? I mean, it’s just it because the UK, the mayor, Sadiq Khan of London, for example, the UK is all in on being pro-Palestinian. So it wouldn’t surprise me. And the question becomes, do they send agitators here to the United States of America? Now, I am no fan of punishing people for speech. And even on this issue, when we’re dealing with people with green cards, deporting them for speech is a very, very serious… Slippery slope, because if you just you imagine in the future, President AOC or President Bernie Sanders deporting Israeli students and saying that that they’re engaging in advocating for genocide against the Palestinian people and blah, blah, blah. And we would be outraged if that happened. So the speech thing, you’ve got to be very careful of. But now organizing and being part of an affiliate of groups that are dangerous to the United States of America and or its allies and or its policies is a totally different story. And by the way, even when it comes to speech, it still is legal for the United States of America to deport somebody because it doesn’t like what they’re standing for. I mean, that is the case. It is legal. It is legal and is it constitutional? Probably. Has the Supreme Court fully decided on the issue? No, not yet. There’s case law, though. There’s precedent on the books to suggest that, yes, in fact, you can deport somebody over political beliefs. Because, you know, obviously, if the United States of America doesn’t want foreigners coming here, you give them a visa, you give them a green card, and then they’re working to overthrow the United States of America or advocate for our enemies. And a lot of the case law actually comes from the era of which the communist paranoia was taking over the country, where we thought everybody was a commie. And for the most part, we were probably right. But that’s really where it comes from. It’s the idea that, hey, we don’t want people coming here to this country. And then they’re advocating for the Soviet Union. They’re advocating for Russia. And they’re here to help with the eventual overthrow of capitalism in the West and the rise of Mother Russia. But I could also see that being used against us in the future by the left by saying that you’re a Russian sympathizer. If you want the war with Ukraine to end, times have changed. Now the Russian sympathizers are people like, obviously, Donald Trump for wanting the war to end. And me for wanting the war to end. Tucker Carlson. Dana Lash, other people who want the war to come to an end, who are sick and tired of it. But the left and the media flip that script to turn around and say that you’re actually now advocating for Russia. You’re a Russian sympathizer. You’re part of the problem. And I could see them trying to deport people in this country for those reasons, too. So you’ve got to be really, really careful. And obviously, everybody has a constitutional right to be part of a group. We have freedom of association. And while you’re in the United States on a visa or a green card, you do have constitutional rights. But that doesn’t mean the government can’t deport you. The question, of course, always is, should they? Or are we opening up a door here that we’ll someday regret? But as more details come out about this particular student, it’s very obvious that it’s more than just simply his political views and his political speech. It may very well be his associations here. And it may very well be that he’s part of something that is dangerous and antithetical to the United States of America’s interests. You know, the other thing too is I always say it’s the common sense test, right? If Rosie O’Donnell is in Ireland and starts advocating for, say, the end of alcohol, which would be antithetical to Ireland’s interests. I’m just kidding. Sort of. I mean, kind of. But they would have every right to boot her out of there. I mean, they’re probably going to wind up booting her out of there anyway. But when you’re a guest in someone’s country, just like if you’re a guest in someone’s home, you should respect the home. You should respect that country and just be a good… That’s the Zioli common sense test. I mean, come on. It’s like going to Italy and advocating for the Olive Garden. You know, that’s antithetical to Italian food and antithetical to Italian views. So they’re going to turn around. I’m just kidding. Who doesn’t love a good endless salad and breadsticks? Am I right? But you got to use common sense here. You’re not a citizen of the United States of America. And so, yeah, the government can boot you out. They have the right to do so. The real question, though, is should they? And are we opening up a door that someday we’ll regret opening up? That’s the only question that we have to think about. And then we should think about it because it is a very, very important question. No doubt about it. All right, it is The Dana Show. We got a lot to chat about here. The president says Russia must end this war. And where does everything stand on tariffs? And Tom Massey, hero or villain? 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So a man broke into the apartment, hit a victim in the face with a frying pan. That just seems rude to me. It’s Chambersburg, PA, so not far from where I broadcast from. The attack happened, and this guy broke into an apartment, a victim opened the door. Three males forced their way into the residence, assaulted the guy in the face, and struck him with a frying pan. And so hard that the pan had significant dents in it. So, you know, I mean, we need frying pan control. We clearly do in this country. And frying pan violence, the frying pan violence epidemic. I’m sure we’ll probably have to have some bans on those, maybe some age verifications too. A Colorado man is accused of robbing the same store five times. I think that that’s actually good because, you know, it takes a couple of times to warm up. So you really can break to know the store. So he held up the same Shell gas station five different times. And looking at this genius, you can tell that he obviously is a brilliant, brilliant man. I’m surprised he’s not leading Doge right now. Five different times, same gas station, and then they finally arrested him. And there’s going to be a whole lot of charges against this genius. What a loss for society, though, that he’ll be locked up behind bars. Rat populations are surging in cities across America just in time for summer. That’s right. Rats, baby. I hate rats. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, just a reminder right there. And female rats will reach sexual maturity faster. Well, isn’t that the same with humans too? They’re able to breed more and typically their litters are larger at warmer temperatures in the lab. Ooh, gross. How many of these rats though are transgender is what I want to know. You know, I just, I’m curious about that because obviously we paid for a lot of those transgender lab rats. I paid for this transgender lab rat. Transgender lab mice. I mean, depending on your, you know, your genre. President Trump has halted funding to Maine schools as states refuse to bar trans-identifying athletes from women’s sports. The pause in funding impacts eight public colleges and the University of Maine system. Guy’s not joking around here, all right? Not joking around. So, you know, you better cut it out, Maine. Cut it out. That’s where they barred that one legislator for speaking out. Poor woman. I mean, all she did was express herself and they banned her from the chamber. Oh, there’s a whole outburst of misgendering that transgender congressperson. I’ll share that with you in a second. And finally, an embalmer busted for a funeral home horror This is bad. Texas funeral home. Person used a scalpel to mutilate a sex offender’s corpse, then stuffed the descendant’s severed junk in his mouth. Oof. Man, well, the guy had it coming. What can I tell you? All right, listen, it’s the Dana Show here, and Rich Zioli in for Dana. President Trump taking questions, still going with the Irish PM. Don’t go away.
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I just noticed the president’s not wearing a green tie. But the vice president is, J.D. Vance, the Irish prime minister is. Everybody else is wearing green, but not President Trump. He’s rocking his red tie. And I wore green. I like green, actually, as a tie color. It’s usually green as a tie color is not a real popular choice, but it works for me. It doesn’t work for everybody. Red does not work for me, though, however, because I have rosacea, so my face gets very, very red. So the red in the tie brings out the red in my face. So I got to be careful with that. It is the Data Show. Welcome back. Glad you’re here. It’s Rich Zioli. You can tweet me at Rich Zioli, R-I-C-H, Z-E-O-L-I. I broadcast out of Philadelphia. One of the funny lines that came out of this Oval Office meeting with the Irish Prime Minister As a reporter asked him, you know, why would you take Rosie O’Donnell? Because I shared that with you earlier. Rosie has self-deported, which, again, I give her great credit for the fact that she actually is the probably only celebrity who followed through on her threat to leave the United States of America if Trump got elected, which is not a threat. It’s actually a gift to the people of the United States of America. But that was the question of the report to the Irish PM. It’s like, why would you take her? Cut 23.
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Ireland is known for very happy people. fun-loving people, great attitude, many in this room right now that I’ve met. Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland? I think she’s going to lower your happiness level. That’s true. Thank you. I like that question.
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Do you know who she is?
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I’m joking. You’re better off not knowing.
SPEAKER 31 :
You’re better off not knowing. You will, though. You’ll find out. Unfortunately, she’s not going to be just a calm guest in your country. I can pretty much promise you that. She’s probably going to start trashing you for being nice to Trump in the Oval Office today. So it’s not good luck for the Irish to have Rosie O’Donnell there. And I was speaking earlier about oil and natural gas prices. So, look, here’s the deal. Good economic news today. And a lot of this is because of energy prices and oil prices falling faster. So we were just saying, we want gas to come back to two bucks a gallon. I don’t know if it’ll ever go back that low because a lot of that was during COVID when people weren’t driving as much or there was just a lot of supply sitting around and not as much demand. But we have a lot of demand for this. We are going to need it and we have to get energy prices down. And the best way to do that, of course, is to put more on the market. You put more of a product on the market, and you can meet that demand, and then the prices can drop. And then everything else in the economy will benefit from that. So the price of everything you pay will benefit from that. I mean, really. If you think about it, too, I love to cook. It’s one of my favorite pastimes. And I have a five-year-old daughter, as I mentioned. So we love to cook together. It’s our fun thing. On Sundays, we always do pasta in my house, Italian, obviously. And everything that you make, the food, all the prices, it’s passed on to you by farmers who are dealing with very high fuel prices. And even there’s a lot of fuel that’s used for pesticides and everything else too. And of course, the transport from the farm to the grocery store and the food suppliers to the grocery store. And so energy prices factor into everything. You get energy prices down, you get the economy cooking again. That’s the key. Biden, on day one of his administration, kills the Keystone XL pipeline, and then starts going out there and revoking leases to drill on federal lands. So Doug Burgum, who’s now the Interior Secretary and is the chairman of the President’s Council on Energy Dominance, they’re going to allow those leases to go forward. Biden was in court over this issue. And ironically enough, because you didn’t hear about this from the media in all the years, he was in contempt of court because judges were ordering him to grant these leases and he was just still saying no. But he defied the courts all the time. Remember when the Supreme Court told him he couldn’t do a student loan debt repayment scam? And he just did it anyway. But you didn’t hear about tyranny and fascism and the destruction of the Constitution and separation of powers. You didn’t hear about that when Biden did it. So here’s President Trump talking about oil prices cut 24.
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I’m very happy with this. Oil is down to $65 a barrel. And that’s faster than I would have intended. We put on the gas. We stepped in the gas in order to get oil. and with what’s happening. So we’re getting that down. And when energy comes down, prices are going to be coming down with it. So in a very short period of time, we’ve done a very good job.
SPEAKER 31 :
But it takes time to undo the mess that was caused. And I’m telling you, the biggest problem was that Joe Biden got into office and then he allowed the nuts in his party, the whack jobs in his party, to do everything he possibly could to stop oil and natural gas. For example, they put in a policy where you couldn’t transport natural gas via train. Why not? They’re like, oh, it’s a safety issue. Safety issue? There are literally buses powered by natural gas that go through our city streets every day in this country. It wasn’t a safety issue. It was just they wanted to stop the United States of America from being able to export natural gas. But here’s a real question. Speaker Mike Johnson had made the point that Biden didn’t remember doing the liquid natural gas export ban. So the story that’s come out about the auto pen in the White House being used to sign documents, the auto pen is this, it’s this elusive magic machine pen in the White House somewhere, somewhere in the White House or the old executive office building. I was at our executive office building. And you send a letter to the president And the president gets lots of mail, as you can imagine. So they auto-penn a thank you letter, declining speaking requests, all kinds of different things. It’s auto-penned for the most part. And typically, things that actually carry the weight of law, executive orders and things like that, were signed by the president. Pardons are actually physically signed by the president and not auto-penned. So the story that comes out this week is that Joe Biden used the auto-penn on all these official documents. This goes to what is, I think, the greatest political scandal of our time, which is Biden’s cognitive decline and the coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline. How bad was it? And were there forces within the White House who were taking advantage of the fact that you had a president who was literally hiding his own Easter eggs and then signing whatever they wanted with the auto pen? Because that’s what Mike Johnson said. He told the stories. He says to Biden, he goes, I can’t believe you put an abandoned liquid natural gas. And Biden’s like, I did? Huh? The problem is he may have and just forgot. Or it may have been people who are taking advantage of the fact that Biden is hiding his own Easter eggs and then went ahead with the auto pan and did it anyway as a policy move. We don’t know. We don’t know, but it really opens up the question, should we be investigating the pardons, executive orders, and so many other things that were signed by the president of the United States allegedly using the auto pen? I think the answer to that is yes. Because it’s very obvious that they knew this man was cognitively, that he’d lost it as far back as 2020, and he was a puppet, and then forces were using that puppet. How far did they use him? On the issue of oil and natural gas, though, he did everything he possibly could to stop the United States of America from drilling. At the very same time, though, he was doing everything he possibly could to ensure offshore windmills, massive offshore wind turbines that kill whales and dolphins. and do nothing for the energy supply in this country, nothing. They do cause consumer energy bills to go up. A lot of people are discovering right now how their energy bills have skyrocketed. Like where I live in New Jersey, for example, we’ve discovered this and people are shocked. And you go through the bill and you itemize it and you realize what you’re subsidizing. A lot of this is green energy nonsense is what you’re subsidizing. So when Caroline Levitt, and let’s queue up cut number one here, talks about a period of economic transition, what we’re really talking about is undoing the damage that was created by this administration being so anti-energy and so pro-green energy, which does not provide the energy needs of the United States of America, certainly not the world, but does enable Vladimir Putin to get a trillion dollars from the same European countries that are giving Ukraine, you know, 15, 20 bucks to fight their war against Putin.
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We see today, the numbers we saw yesterday, the numbers we will see tomorrow are a snapshot of a moment in time. And as President Trump has said, and I’m here to echo the remarks of this president of this White House, we are in a period of economic transition. We are in a period of transition from the mess that was created under Joe Biden in the previous administration. Joe Biden left this country in an economic disaster.
SPEAKER 31 :
It was an economic disaster, and it’s going to take time to undo that economic disaster, no doubt about it. It’s going to take time. And as part of that, though, you have to ask yourself, well, what’s the long-term play of the left here when it comes to energy? Democrats are proposing $20,000 fines for gas stations that don’t warn customers about climate change. No, that’s a real story. That’s a real story. So I was in a pharmacy the other day and this pharmacy was selling cigarettes. I wasn’t buying them, but I just noticed a sign. And the sign said that cigarette companies have lied to you, whatever it is, they’re ordered by law to put the sign up. And the cigarette companies have to pay for them. You know, they lied to you about the harms of smoking and blah, blah, blah. Well, the idea of the left and people like Gavin Newsom going after oil and natural gas companies is, oh, they lied to you about climate change. They didn’t tell you the truth about climate change and how their product was leading to climate change. So gas station owners and other retailers who sell fuel in Colorado could be whacked with a $20,000 fine if they don’t include labels warning consumers that by using the product, they are harming the climate. Now, first of all, there’s zero actual scientific evidence that that is the case. But don’t let facts stand in the way of a good bill of totalitarianism. One of the sponsors of the bill, State Representative Junie Joseph, said that they’re trying to encourage people in Colorado to bike or walk because everybody knows burning fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. but struggle to explain then why it was imperative for the state to warn gas buyers about a problem. Well, I’d tell you what it is, what it comes down to. And this is what’s going to bite the left in the, you know what, in very short matter of time. On the one hand, they’re destroying Teslas, and they’re arguing that by destroying a Tesla factory, that’s actually a great form of protest. At the same time, they’re still trying to warn people and get them out of gas-powered cars and into electric vehicles. Tesla electric vehicles, Elon Musk made the electric vehicle something palatable to the masses, something that the masses could afford. And now you’ve got people who are selling them, burning them, calling them hate mobiles. This is the actor Jason Bateman who sold his Tesla because he said it felt to him like he was just driving around a giant Trump bumper sticker. So yesterday when Trump has Elon Musk at the White House and gets his shiny red Tesla and the Cybertruck and everything, it occurred to me that a Tesla is now going to be a sign of conservatism, which I’m okay with. I don’t care. You drive whatever you want, gas, electric, you do you. But for me, the only reason why I would ever want one is the self-driving car. I’m a Gen Xer, baby. I grew up watching Knight Rider. I want kit. You know, I want Knight Rider. I want a car that drives me. But I heard from people that have the self-driving feature on the Tesla. First of all, you have to pay for it. Secondly, I would only want it if I could take a nap. You still have to keep your hands on the steering wheel, and you basically still are driving. It’s like driver assist more than anything else. No, what I want is I want to be in the back seat, taking a nap, and I want the car to do the driving, and then I want the car to give me all kinds of ideas on how I can defeat my enemies, just like Kit did to Knight Rider, okay? We have that car. I’ll buy it, whether it’s gas or whether it’s electric, but I would prefer a gas-powered car like kit because that was a gas guzzler that that that oh man what a great car and that was david hasselhoff in his prime all right i don’t care what you tell me about baywatch knight rider was hoff in his prime but here’s msnbc cut 22. but then you also overnight have this post claiming that protests at tesla dealerships are illegal um he said today he would label violence against dealerships domestic terrorism Yeah, there you go. You know, burn them down and try to put them out of business. And it doesn’t matter about the workers. I mean, screw the workers. You know what I mean? Forget them. Forget the workers and the people that are actually building the cars, servicing the cars, selling the cars. Who cares? This is why the left has lost the working class in this country. Is there are people right now building these cars and they’re thinking like, why are these people trying to put me out of a job? Because they don’t care about you. That’s why. They just don’t care. It’s the Dana Show. It’s Rich Zioli in for Dana. We got student test scores falling. The president’s talking about shutting down the Department of Education. This is really, really good news. What has he said about tariffs? Don’t go away.
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How do we fix the wounds dividing America? Pastor Alan Jackson has the answer.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I think the reason we’ve been silent for so long while our country’s been pilfered and pulled apart is all of our groups have gotten little pieces of the pie. And we’re afraid we’re going to have to forfeit our little special side deal, our side hustles. And so we just don’t say anything. But we would all be stronger if we’d come back to the truth.
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SPEAKER 27 :
Hi, I’m Matt. And I’m Leah, and we’re from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
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And just in time for tax season, on this week’s episode, we’re chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
SPEAKER 26 :
A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
SPEAKER 29 :
Can’t blame them.
SPEAKER 26 :
It’s really important to do your taxes right.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 15 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions.
SPEAKER 31 :
It’s time for Florida Man. I feel like this one was inspired by Philadelphia. Body cam video shows a Florida man strikes a police horse and then leads to a wild horseback chase in a crowd. That happened in Philly. After the Eagles parade, a guy punched a Philadelphia police horse in the face. Well, this Florida man did the same thing. Video shows the moment a Florida police officer on horseback pursued a 22-year-old suspect after he struck the officer’s horse. Body cam video shows the Tampa Police Department mounted patrol officer and horse clearing a busy street on March 9th. And the officer is trying to get everybody off and get everybody away. And then you hear the cops say to one kid, don’t touch the horse. And then the guy, this kid, his name is, the suspect is Justin Riera, allegedly struck the police horse before running off into the crowd, attempting to evade apprehension. The horse can be seen galloping through the crowd as the officer went after him. Stop, you’re under arrest. Watch out. Eventually, officers were able to apprehend him. It’s a felony to hit a horse. So there you go. But yeah, that’s a little bit Philadelphia inspired here. Just don’t, don’t punch police horses in the face. It’s not nice. It’s just really never punch. You shouldn’t punch anybody in the face, but a Florida man was arrested after being accused of trying to steal his aunt’s home. The Fort Myers Police Department arrested 27-year-old Gregory Matthews Jr. on Monday after being accused of trying to steal property rights to a woman’s home that was listed on the clerk of the court’s property fraud alert. Gulf Coast News learned that the victim was former city councilwoman Christine Matthews, who resigned from her position in 2014. Investigators say that Christine tried to transfer ownership to her home to her brother, but was waiting on a physical copy of her license. But then the brother died before the paperwork was finished. So the kid finalized the deal for himself using his dad’s information and a fake driver’s license and property theft. I’ve seen the commercials. I didn’t really think it was a real thing, but there you go. But they got him anyway. It’s just genius. Used a fake ID by using a photograph from Facebook. So, you know, I’m sure it wasn’t exactly very high res and probably not that hard to spot. And finally, a Florida man wins a free speech case over Trump banners. County ordered to pay him $42,000. This is good. A Santa Rosa beach man has just won a free speech lawsuit against Walton County. He had hung two large banners supporting Donald Trump from the balconies of his home. And they say the banners violated property maintenance rules, but he said it was a right to free speech. The county began to fine him $50 a day. Case went to court. He had a lot of support across the country. And a judge ruled the county was in the wrong, ordered county officials to pay him $42,000 in legal fees and fines. And the man is still flying his Trump banners. Well, there you go. Good for him. That’s a win for the good guys and a win for the First Amendment. A win for freedom of speech. That makes me very, very happy. It’s the Dana Show. It’s Rich Zioli in for Dana. Hour number three. It’s a big one. Don’t go away.
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Hi, I’m Matt. And I’m Leah, and we’re from the Grown Up Stuff podcast.
SPEAKER 11 :
And just in time for tax season, on this week’s episode, we’re chatting with CPA Lisa Green-Lewis about how small businesses can tackle their taxes using TurboTax Business.
SPEAKER 26 :
A Forbes study mentioned that a whopping 93% of small businesses overpay their taxes. And 17% of Gen Zers believed that you could write off any expense as a business expense.
SPEAKER 29 :
Can’t blame them.
SPEAKER 26 :
It’s really important to do your taxes right.
SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 31 :
indeed it is the data show it’s me rich is the only in for dana today as yearly inflation rate cools to 2.8 percent and canada oh canada blinks when it comes to electricity fees for u.s customers welcome back to the show great to have you with us today so the ontario premier doug ford announced that Canada’s most populous province was suspending its 25% surcharge on electricity exports to the United States hours after President Trump announced additional 25% duties on Canadian aluminum and steel. In a statement on X, Ford said he had a productive conversation with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the two would meet in Washington Thursday alongside U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer. Now, I have a clip of… Howard Lutnick here talking about this issue. I think, I mean, look, the bottom line is this. There are a lot of tariffs that Canada imposes on the United States of America. It’s not fair. It has to be fixed. If President Trump is able to use these tariffs as the leverage to get a level playing field, then great. I mean, that’s wonderful. That’s a fantastic thing. And this is what Howard Letnick said regarding the issue. Cut number seven.
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What does the president want? He wants to worry about major things for national security of America. Steel and aluminum tariffs. That’s today. Right. Autos coming April 2nd. semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, things that America must have. So you can imagine these are the kind of tariffs we’re going to make sure these things come back to America and are built in America. And then on April 2nd, he does his reciprocal tariffs, which basically say to all the countries in the world, come on, you treat us a certain way, we’ll treat you the same way. Let’s make it fair. You want them high, they’ll be high like they are now. You want them low, they’ll be low. But let’s treat each other fairly.
SPEAKER 31 :
Yeah, look, I mean, I think that that’s it, right? And if we can turn around and we can say that it’s going to be a level playing field, great. So if you’re anti-tariff, and I know that there are a lot of people that are, and I get it. I really do. I understand that point. If people want free trade, I get it, but it’s not free. If we’re still paying tariffs on goods that are imported into this country from Europe from some World War II era country, rebuilding project. That’s stupid. If we’re paying tariffs on goods coming into this country from foreign countries and then they’re taking our stuff and they’re not paying any tariffs on it, that’s not fair. You want fairness. And I think ultimately that’s what’s going to become the outcome of this because the United States has enormous leverage in all of this. And the president has to say that the issue is the border and security for him to be able to use his power as president to put in the tariffs in place. But ultimately what you’re going to have here is, I think is a level playing field. That’s what ultimately is going to happen. Here’s Caroline Leavitt talking about this issue yesterday. Cut number two.
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He’s actually not implementing tax hikes. Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that, again, have been ripping us off. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people. And the president is a staunch advocate of tax cuts. As you know, he campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security benefits. He is committed to all three of those things, and he expects Congress to pass them later this year.
SPEAKER 31 :
Now, the other issue that I’ve mentioned earlier today is the issue of deporting this student from the United States of America. And let me play this clip for you. This is what the White House press secretary said yesterday about this kid. Cut number three.
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And this administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans.
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And here’s Senator Kennedy on the issue, cut 14.
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Mr. Khalil is not an American citizen. He’s here with the green card. By word and deed, at Columbia, he’s shown that he supports Hamas. That’s a violation of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which says you can be deported if you support a terrorist organization.
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Here’s something else to think about on this issue, all right? So Ilya Shapiro is a libertarian-minded constitutional scholar, and he’s also the director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. He and Daniel DiMartino, who is a fellow over there, they’re both immigrants, they wrote a piece today in the New York Post. It’s the right thing to do and well within the law to get him the hell out. And here’s a little bit of their piece that they wrote, because I found this fascinating. Because again, like I said to you, I’m a pro-First Amendment advocate. But at the same time, I understand that this is within the law. I understand it’s constitutional. I also understand that there’s more to the story here than just simply the kids’ speech. And yes, we have to be careful, and we have to use these things carefully. But they write the following here. This is the right thing to do if we want to fix campus culture. And contrary to misinformed or disingenuous critics, it poses no First Amendment problems. Not only is Khalil Syrian, not Palestinian, the Democrats are wrong about both the principle and the application of the law. Because the Democrats are running around with free Mahmoud Khalil. They wouldn’t say the name of Lake and Riley, but they can’t shut up about saying Mahmoud Khalil. Presence is a privilege. Indeed, it’s a basic application of U.S. immigration law, which says that people here on a visa, tourist, student, employment, or otherwise, who reveal themselves to be ineligible for that visa, quote, inadmissible in the parlance of the Immigration and Nationality Act, quote, can have their visa revoked. Even President Joe Biden’s State Department once told then-Senator Marco Rubio that it could revoke the visas of Hamas supporters. Holders of temporary visas, like students who are deemed ineligible, generally do not get a hearing or anything beyond an administrative order that cannot be challenged.” Green card holders, like Khalil on the other hand, are entitled to appear before an immigration judge who must determine that the government has met the burden of proof to make the person deportable. There is no doubt that pro-Hamas protests on college campuses across the country are detrimental to the foreign policy goals of America, which include protecting the state of Israel, one of America’s closest allies, they write. In Khalil’s case, we don’t know the details of the due process he’s been given, but one thing is clear. The executive branch has the authority to vet non-citizens based on their views, thanks to laws Congress has passed and the Supreme Court has upheld. While the relevant Immigration and Nationalization Act provisions could potentially be abused, which is again what I’ve been warning about and we have to be careful of, there’s no evidence of abuse in this case so far. Rather, they’re being applied selectively and in furtherance of the national interest. But that’s not all Trump can do. The INA’s inadmissibility provision also empowers a president to, quote, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens whom he determines to be detrimental to the interests of the United States. During Trump’s first term, the Supreme Court upheld that broad grant to presidential discretion to vet, restrict, and even ban immigrants, and thus to direct executive agency action in that regard at the culmination of the high-profile travel ban litigation. You remember that. That whole thing in the early days of the first term of the Trump administration when he said, if you’re coming from these particular countries, we’re not going to let you into the United States of America. And they said he has the right to do so under the Immigration and Nationalization Act. Like I’ve been saying, I mean, nothing about this is illegal. Nothing about this is unconstitutional. The only question is, should we do it? And we have to exercise care and caution here. And I like the idea of doing it when it’s just bigger than just simply speech, but it’s about actions. Because it’s a very slippery slope when we get into the area of speech, as we all know. And we have to always think about what the left will do in the future. We would be foolish not to think about the consequences of that, given how they have weaponized just about every aspect of government. And weaponized every aspect of the Justice Department, all the rules, all the powers we gave them after 9-11 to keep us safe, all the other things. In Trump v. Hawaii, the court okayed an executive order restricting travel from various countries with Chief Justice John Roberts affirming that the only statutory requirement is that the president find the entry of the affected aliens to be detrimental to the national interest. That’s exactly what’s happening now, they write. Again, this is Ilya Shapiro. director of the Constitutional Studies Program at the Manhattan Institute, and Daniel DiMartino. Both are immigrants, both are constitutional scholars, and both are libertarian-minded, pro-free speech, pro-First Amendment attorneys. In one of the first executive orders Trump signed this year, he directed federal agencies to strengthen vetting and screening of those seeking admission and those already in the country, because the United States must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do not bear hostile attitudes towards its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security. Finally, and this is a very important piece here, as part of his additional measures to combat antisemitism, The president ordered the use of all available and appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence. All of this makes eminent sense. It’s the government’s duty to screen out visitors and migrants who would be harmful to our country, including those who reject our values or are hostile to our way of life, such as communists, Nazis, or Islamists. There’s nothing objectionable or controversial about removing those who harass, intimidate, vandalize, and otherwise interfere with an educational institution’s core mission. And then they conclude by saying two words, more, please. They want more of this. Now, again, as I mentioned, you’ve got to be careful, because like everything else, we try to be reasonable and use the law and use the Constitution. The left does not. And we have to guard against the weaponization of these things, or we’ll come back to regret it down the road. But insofar as I can tell in this case, while restraint is appropriate, and yes, this kid has due process rights being a… permanent legal resident of the country and married to a United States citizen. He has due process rights, and we want to see those exercised. I mean, obviously we do. Clearly we do. But, you know, if the left winds up making him a cause celeb, they’re going to wind up regretting it, no doubt about it. There’s no doubt in my mind. All right, it’s the Dana Show here on a very busy Wednesday. The president in the Oval Office today with the Irish PM. More of the antics of the left. I mean, it’s just, it’s amazing to me they don’t stop. You got to hear what Senator Alyssa Slotkin said, why you voted for Trump. She’s got, she’s got an amazing revelation. which I’ll share with you here on The Dana Show. It’s Rich in for Dana. Don’t go away.
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So the United States has been added to the international watch list for rapid decline in civic freedoms. Yes, Civicus, an international nonprofit, puts the country alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo, which, by the way, has nothing Democratic about it, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia. First of all, why is Italy on the list? That’s offensive. Why are we on the list? This is insane. Well, maybe it’s because of this. USDA stops funding research into trans men’s menstrual cycles. Let me say that again because I know that that’s a little bit like you might have said, Zioli, did you stutter? Yes, that’s right. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a post on X announced that the USDA is canceling a $600,000 grant towards this research project used to fund research into menstrual cycles in trans-identified men. We are a horrible, horrible country, are we not? The United States Postal Service warning customers of major disruptions as mail carriers are set to take on a new task and you’ll face being questioned. Trump’s new plan could have mail carriers knocking on your door. What will they do? Will they haul you away? Will they try to enter your home? Or will they just count you for the census? That’s right. It’d probably be that. So, you know. I like my mailman, Rich. He’s a nice guy. Texas Senate poised to pass bill requiring classroom displays of the Ten Commandments. And they’re freaking out about that, too. How can we have a classroom display of the Ten Commandments? What if the children don’t want to look at it? Like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Don’t look away, Marion! Look away! Literally, it could be like that. I’m just saying. You know, and then everybody looks at the Ten Commandments, they just, you know, the Ark of the Covenant, and then, you know, their faces melt. I’m just saying. It’s very possible. It could be the case. I’d be very, very cautious of this if I were you. And finally… This is something we all needed to know. And I didn’t even know this was a thing. Werewolf syndrome. Did you know this was a thing? Werewolf syndrome. Well, a teenager who’s been called Werewolf Boy and Monkey Boy due to his rare condition has been awarded a Guinness World Record for having the hairiest male face in the world. He is a teen with werewolf syndrome. We’re into the Daily Star. And he does kind of look like Teen Wolf. I mean, if you ever saw the show or the movie Teen Wolf, he kind of does look like Teen Wolf. I’m just saying. Real life Teen Wolf. His name is Lalit Patadhar, 18, born with a super rare condition known as werewolf syndrome, which has left his face almost entirely blanketed in hair. Poor kid. But he’s only around 50 documented cases reported worldwide since the Middle Ages, making him one in a billion. And now he’s in the Guinness Book of World Records. He said, I am speechless. I am so grateful for this honor that I’m at a loss for words. I like, how am I? I don’t want to change my look. And nor should you, my man. Go with it. Go with it and be proud and howl at the moon. All right, this is The Dana Show with me, Rich Zioli. Protesters are rallying to support anti-Israel activity. The president says it’s time for Russia to come to the table. More to come. Don’t go away.
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We cannot keep our promises on Medicare. We simply must. Make the cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare so that the benefits and the premiums are untouched. We owe it to our seniors. We owe it to our country.
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That was a vampire you know as Nancy Pelosi. A little flashback right there, back when Democrats used to talk about, you know, cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, things like that, which nowadays, of course, you can’t touch. You’re not allowed to go after waste, fraud, and abuse. Excuse me, but there was a time. Yes, I mean, there’s even a time when Bill Clinton had a balanced budget and pushed for a balanced budget amendment. push for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, line Adam Vito, and Bill Clinton was out there talking about cutting the size of the government. Hell, so was Barack Obama. But now we can’t touch waste, fraud, and abuse, and the Democrats have to use it as a scare tactic. You know, they’re very close to going back to the time of, remember they used to warn us that grandma would be thrown down the staircase? Remember that whole thing they’d say? They’d have like a great graphics of grandma in a wheelchair at the top of the staircase, and Republicans want to come over and just go, oh, push, and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. That’s what they used to do. I remember those scare tactics. We’re very, very close to that again. course the reality is though is that we have a situation where in say like one red state for example illegal immigrants cost that health care system six hundred thousand dollars in the state of florida that’s right the data shows 67 700 er visits in florida last year were by patients who entered the country illegally now hospitals cannot turn them away that was a law that was signed in the 80s it was a compromise bill in order to try to deal with the people that were in the country legally at the time, hoping that we could stop this once and for all. We didn’t, and so the costs keep going up. The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration announced the latest update to its hospital patient immigration status dashboard Tuesday, which records the total number of hospital admissions and emergency room visits based on a patient’s immigration status. The data for 2024 showed a total of 67,700 emergency room visits were made by patients who illegally entered the country, leading to roughly 76.6 million in Medicaid payments for their emergency care. In total, the state paid nearly $660 million for the cost of care provided to immigrants outside the United States illegally. That’s insane. That’s an insane amount of money. And there’s nothing they can do. They have to take care of them. So, yeah, there are real consequences, real cost to these things, no doubt about it. Now, this is something interesting. So there’s a member of Congress from Delaware who’s a biological male and identifies as a woman. This caused a whole battle on Capitol Hill over bathrooms, bathroom rights and bathroom issues and everything else. And all hell broke loose yesterday in a committee hearing when the chairman of the committee referred to this member of Congress as congressman. Talking about Representative Sarah McBride. So the chairman of the committee accurately called Sarah McBride, Mr. And it’s just, I mean, look, I, you can, I can say I’m Batman. Trust me, I’m not Batman. I can say, I can identify as Batman. I can tell you I’m Batman. Doesn’t make me Batman. Just like a, like a man can identify as a woman. It doesn’t make him a woman. It just doesn’t. Now, I mean, should the chairman have said representative versus congressman? Would that have been more polite, more decorum? Or do we just finally address this nonsense head on once and for all and say we’re going to stop? We’re going to stop living a lie. We’re going to stop pushing a lie. We’re going to stop going with this idea that we don’t entertain the truth. Truth for its own sake. Men are men. Women are women. And that’s it. you’re free to dress up like you ever you want but i i mean you still man still do it even if you get a chopped off your still man getting a chopped off doesn’t change that status here’s cut twenty representative from delaware mister brad thank you madam chair uh… ranking member keating also wonder if you’re a chairman could you repeat your introduction again please uh… yes it’s uh… it’s a
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we have set the standard on the floor of the house and i’m simply what is that standard mr chairman would you repeat what you just said you introduced a duly elected representative from the united states of america please i will the representative from delaware mr mcbride mr chairman you are out of order mr chairman have you no decency I mean, I have come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent. We will continue this. You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.
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There are, you know, I mean, look. Sarah McBride is a man. I don’t know what to say. I’m tired of this idea that we all live a lie. You could argue that decorum, and it would have been more polite if the chairman had just said Representative McBride. But, you know, for the freak out by the left over that issue, because the congressperson was just going to go on with the question. But the Democrats have to use this as a moment to grandstand. And if they want to grandstand over this, go ahead. See, this is what I don’t understand, is that they’re still doubling down on all this. They’re doubling down on this transgender issue, particularly when it comes to kids and sports. And I don’t get this. I don’t understand this. You’re talking about such a small minority of people. We’re not talking about rounding up and killing these people. We’re talking about the truth of science, which is that there are just two genders. Here’s a person who is turtle gender, who currently sits on the Oregon Consumer Advisory Council, which advises decisions about mental health services in the state. Turtle gender. Now, I went to the University of Maryland, so I’m a Terrapin. So I’m a Terp. But I still don’t identify as a freaking turtle. That’s my mascot. I root for the Terrapins. I say don’t fear the turtle. I also don’t think I’m turtle gender. Cut 21.
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Hello, everybody. It’s J.D. Turtle and pronouns. Pronouns are turtle and they, them. Hello, everybody. It’s J.D. I use they, them or turtle for pronouns. Hello, everybody. It’s J.D. They, them and turtle for pronouns in the Springfield, Eugene area.
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Go back in your shell and come back when you’re not crazy. I mean, this is mental illness. We’re now identifying people as freaking turtles. This is okay. It’s not okay. There’s nothing okay about this. It’s insane, and it’s nuts, and it’s crazy, and we should not entertain this. We should give these people the help that they need. I’m sorry, but we should. Bottom line, give people the help that they need. And when you’re dealing with kids here, because I really don’t care what you do as an adult. You want to identify as a turtle, freaking identify as a turtle. I don’t know what to tell you, but I think we can all agree it’s mental illness. So why don’t we just give people help? Wouldn’t that be the kind, compassionate thing to do instead of, oh, you’re a turtle. Oh, are you a brackish water turtle, a freshwater turtle? What kind of turtle are you? And can I make soup out of you? Because turtle soup is delicious. Have you ever had it? Snapper turtle soup. Maybe identify as a snapper turtle and just go around biting people. Now, this is an interesting clip here. Rapper Lil Yachty, Lil Yachty, openly calling Black Lives Matter a scam, because Black Lives Matter is a scam. It was a scam, that’s why Black Live Mansions, BLM, Black Live Mansions, where you had all these people buying mansions, using money raised through the Black Lives Matter movement, Take a listen. Boom. It is a scam. There are a lot of people out there. They’re race hustlers. And they use stuff like this to divide America and to get rich off of it. And it’s over. It’s done. It’s over. President Trump’s election was the death of woke. The fact that he did so well with black voters means the end of woke. The end of this nonsense. And we should be trying to unite as Americans, not look for ways to divide us. That would be the healthy thing to do. That’s what we should be doing in this country. But not Senator Alyssa Slotkin gave the Democrat response the other night to Trump’s state joint address to Congress. No, no, no. Senator Slotkin said people who voted for Trump did so because of this cut 17.
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I think there’s a feeling in the country, and I often say this, you know, we’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country. These are our, like, our angry teenage years, right? We are going through this push and pull where we’re happy, we’re sad, we want this, we want that. And what do you do when you have a teenager who’s threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back to kind of what a country… No, I’m talking about our country. We’re pendulum swinging. We’re pendulum swinging.
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Yeah, I don’t know what to do about that. This is, we’re a young country, but we got mood issues. Is that, we’re moody, we’re cranky? Is that what it is? Moody and cranky? I guess so. All right, let me take a quick break. We’ll come right back. And what I could do, I guess I got to fix this, Steve. So I’ll do that on my end. But there’s more to come. The president today speaking in the Oval Office. And what about the dangers of microplastics? What can we do about microplastics? This is a real thing. You know, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Bobby Kennedy, he’s out there trying to deal with additives, food preservatives, all these things like red dye number five and yellow number seven and all these things that make our kids nuts, the additives in our foods, the MAHA movement, the Make America Healthy Again movement. And I kept thinking to myself, of all the things I got to worry about, do I really have to worry about microplastics? Turns out the answer to that is yes. So should you be afraid, be very, very afraid. It’s The Dana Show. We’re coming right back.
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So microplastics, yeah, that’s a thing. And, you know, for a while I kept saying to myself, I got enough to worry about in my life. Do I have to really worry about microplastics? Do I really need to worry about this? But it turns out, yeah, because you can’t, once they’re in your body and your lungs and in your brain, you can’t get rid of them. And so it’s really a thing. So now Bobby Kennedy, as the HHS secretary, is speaking out more about this. And the other issue, too, is fluoride in the water. Utah… becoming the first state to ban, or at least, I don’t know if the first state, but the first state under Trump, at least, to ban fluoride in the drinking water. The issue with fluoride is that you can use it for your teeth by brushing your teeth and even rinsing with a fluoride rinse. You don’t need to have it in the water supply where you ingest it because it even says on toothpaste, like, don’t swallow, spit it out. So don’t, you know, but the other issue too is in tap water is chlorine. See, I like to cook, and what I do is I use a sourdough starter. Because if you make bread or pizza, which I do, you have to use a sourdough starter. It’s essential. It’ll change your life. If you like to bake and you’ve never used one, I’m telling you right now, it’s going to change your life. Sourdough starters are fantastic. Not only is it better for your gut, that’s why sourdough bread is healthier, but it also helps it rise. It gives it that crispy, chewy component to the dough and everything like this. But chlorine… kills my sourdough starter. So for a while, we were just using regular old tap water. And I was like, this thing keeps dying. What’s going on here? And then I started using bottled water and it was still dying. And then I realized that a lot of bottled water still contained chlorine. So I had to make all these phone calls to figure out what I could get water-wise that could take. And then we just finally just bought a whole house water filtration system. Cause I just said, you know, forget it. I can’t deal with it. And so this thing takes out microplastics and lead and it takes out chlorine and it takes out fluoride and all these other things. And that’s good because I have kids and I don’t want to worry about this. And it tastes good. It’s good. It tastes, you know, it tastes fine. But the other thing they say is you should never heat up plastic. Like if you’re going to microwave something, and this is a real problem for my generation, right? Because remember we used to have TV dinners? I love TV dinners. But TV dinners came in plastic, you’d microwave them, and then you’d get plastic right there. And then, so the chemical breakdown with the heat leads to microplastics. So they say, don’t do that. Don’t heat up plastic. So don’t wrap any, if you have anything wrapped up in saran wrap, don’t nuke that. You know what I mean? You got to take it out of the plastic wrap. And also you got to be careful about, They even say it can get through your body, through the pores in your sink, in your skin. So they really also say you got to get like a shower filter if you don’t have a whole house filter and everything like this. But I don’t know. It’s just… I’m glad that Kennedy’s there to ask these questions and raise these issues. And like I said, it is a big reason why I think Trump won because… The Maha movement, a lot of moms out there just turn around and go, and what’s, I don’t like, we don’t want this. We don’t want this in our showers and our drinking water and everything like this. We don’t need these things. Forever chemicals and chromium six and all the other stuff. But for the most part, we don’t, we’ve never talked about these things. And if you just said, I don’t want fluoride in the water, they went, oh, you kook. What are you? What are you? You think fluoride’s bad? Well, why am I drinking it? I’ll brush my teeth with it and spit it out like it says to do on the bottle of toothpaste. But then you got to be careful because those microplastics are also in things like toothpaste. a lot of skincare products, and then they go into the water, goes down the drain, goes to the water filtration treatment plant, but apparently the treatment plants don’t have the proper, they can’t filter out, the particles are so small that they can’t filter out the microplastics, so it goes right back into your water supply that you wind up drinking. And I don’t know how long it’s going to take to get to the bottom of all this. And I think you got to just figure this out for yourself. But at least for us, not only because I have three small kids, but I don’t want freaking microplastics in my brain. I got enough problems. I got enough problems in my life without having microplastics in my brain. That’s how I look at it. So if I can filter that stuff out, great. Filter it out, filter away, baby, as far as I’m concerned. And ever since we put in the filter, my sourdough starter has never been better. It’s fluffy and lovely. And when I make my pizza dough, which I’ll probably wind up doing tonight, as a matter of fact, I probably will. I got to go do my show in Philly now from three to seven. You’re welcome to join in and listen on the Odyssey app, wherever you are in the country. But I’m going to do that. And tonight I’ll make some dough. And then this weekend we’ll fire up the pizza oven and we’ll make some homemade pies. It’s great. They call me bread. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing. All right, listen, I’ll be back with you tomorrow, assuming that they still want me. In the meantime, keep the conversation going. I’m on X at Rich Zoli, R-I-C-H-Z-E-O-L-I. Have a great rest of your day. This is The Dana Show. Thank you for listening.
