Join Craig Collins as he explores the intersection of politics and entertainment following the latest from Roger Goodell and Bad Bunny’s statements at the Grammy Awards. Dive into the controversy that surrounds the Super Bowl halftime show and the ever-persistent injection of political messaging in music, sports, and beyond. With a focus on the anticipation surrounding Bad Bunny’s performance, listeners will be captivated by the debate on whether the artist can unite fans while navigating the complex landscape of politically charged entertainment.
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a show my name is Craig Collins filling in thrilled to be with you for the day Dana will be back tomorrow a D lash Dana lash radio on X on Twitter I still call it both great ways to stay connected to her at radio Craig Z if for some reason you want to follow a very much way less famous human that occasionally gets to sit in this fancy chair and that would be well this guy that would be me Roger Goodell said something really interesting yesterday. This is after Bad Bunny said ice out and other stuff at the Grammy Awards. Of course, Bad Bunny will be doing the Super Bowl halftime show. It might be odd to start the show with like a sports thing, but this was the most fascinating thing to me. That Goodell is confident that Bad Bunny is going to unite people. and not push us further in our opposite directions, which no one else is confident will occur, I assume a whole lot of people, before and especially after the Grammy Awards, assume that there will be some kind of ice thing that will be an aspect of Bad Bunny’s halftime show. He’ll be political, definitely, is what a lot of us assume, and I think His own fans, I don’t know how many there are, but those ones out there would be disappointed if he’s not. And a whole lot of other people like myself will be incredibly annoyed if politics gets injected, even though it’s all over sports, yet again into the world of sports that I like as an escape from politics, not a way to discuss it with my friends and family. This seems like the kind of thing I don’t need. And the Turning Point halftime show is really interesting, too. But anyway, let’s play the Goodell audio first, and then we’ll get back to this.
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Bad Bunny made a pretty clear anti-ice statement at the Grammys last night. What are you expecting in terms of political statement, whether that’s from Bad Bunny or Green Day or any of the other performers?
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On your first question, security is obviously one of the things we focus on the most.
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I know that question’s not in there, but I love the fact that the guy’s like, I don’t want to answer that one yet. And Green Day is a horribly political band, a band I liked a lot when I was younger, not because of politics at all. I don’t remember caring about politics at all, but I remember thinking they were cool when the Dookie album came out, but now unavoidably. Every time you hear any music, you can’t escape their one-sided political messaging.
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This year, one level event that involves unique assets at the federal level, state level, and the local level all working together.
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Yeah, we don’t care.
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I see no change in that. in the preparations for the Super Bowl. We’ve not seen that. We’re working with all three of those levels. I know you don’t want to talk about it. And doing everything we can to make sure it’s a safe environment. And the federal government is a big part of that, including this administration and every other administration before that. That second part was more important. It’s probably been the category we’ve had.
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I was so abused by how long he took to answer, do you expect any sort of increased need for people to make sure everything is safe? Are you expecting any additional dramatic stuff to happen? Is there any concern there? And this is like a 45-second answer.
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Since at least the turn of the century, if not before that. I just anticipate we’ll continue to do the work to make it the safest event possible. On your second question, I think everybody in one of, listen, Bad Bunny was, and I think that was demonstrated last night, one of the great artists in the world. And that’s one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and that this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents. and to be able to use this moment to do that.
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I love that he said that Bad Bunny is one of the great artists in the world and that a Grammy award or a couple of them is a demonstration of that. Because a whole lot of people win Grammys that you’ve never heard of. And I’ve never heard of all of the new bands that they always showcase there that win the New Band of the Year award. No idea who any of those are usually. And I assume you’re the same on that. A lot of times the Grammy Awards are full of people that you’re like, oh, I know that song kind of, or you have no idea. But yes, I’m not trying to, Bad Bunny’s talented. He’s good at what he does. All that’s fine. I’m not going to go that far to try to crap on it. And I know the guy’s Puerto Rican, so I know he is part of the United States, even though that’s been a thing that they joked about on the Grammys, too. It’s just so stupid. The Turning Point USA alternative halftime show is also really looking very appealing. Kid Rock is going to be a part of it. It’d be funny if Chris Rock was. A lot of other people sound like they’re going to be in there. I think there’s like a voice contestant who’s going to sing something. It’s probably going to take a lot of eyeballs away from the actual halftime show because of how much politics is likely to be injected into one of those things. And it’s really just going to be a celebration about America in the other. By the way, I do want to also play this audio. I thought this was interesting. CNN saying that a whole lot of people agree with Nicki Minaj. and that voter ID for voting in elections, a photo ID to vote, makes a lot of sense. It’s a crazy thing. I have audio, and I should play the audio, but I will say this. It’s a crazy thing to fight, and it’s being fought. Of course, it’s been fought for a long time, but if someone on the other side of this argument were to take an honest step back and reflect for a second and say to themselves just one thing, Why would my side of the aisle not want a photo ID for people to vote? There’s no good answer to that. There’s nothing that comes that you can’t say, well, you know, it’s racism or it’s this or that, because there’s so many so many other things in our society buying alcohol among them where if this was actually a racist action, you feel like people would complain about it more. Of course it’s not. So having a photo ID to vote in an election, one of the most important things we do as Americans in this country, it feels obvious. And apparently CNN is admitting that people, along with Nicki Minaj, who got crapped on at the Grammys, agree with this sentiment.
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And the American people are with Nicki Minaj, because what are we talking about here? So take a look here. Favor voter ID to vote. Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You’ll notice on all of it, it’s all north of 75 percent, 76 percent, 76 percent, 76 percent, 81 percent, and then 83 percent in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor Photo ID. Of course they do.
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By the way, that 76% that he started as a chain was in 2018. And then 21, 23, 24, all trending upward. By 2025, it’s 83%. Of course a lot of us favor this. And this is the game that they play. The whole, we promise it’s not about the thing that you definitely can tell it’s about. We want people who are not allowed to vote to vote in elections because they’re going to vote for us. that we want illegitimate votes every single election all the time. That’s what Democrats are saying quietly, or sometimes not all that quietly, even though out loud they’re saying it’s racism. That, of course, we don’t want to do it for this reason. It’s one of their tried and trues, man. For Democrats, some sort of identity politics thing has got to be the excuse for the terrible stuff they want to do. If they want to defund the police or defund ICE, it’s because of racism. It doesn’t matter what it is. You can connect the dots for them from regular, normal thing that has nothing to do with racism, sexism, etc. The thing that’s definitely about that, and they have it circled and underlined when they have their talking points written for them. And again, it doesn’t matter how we get there. Now, I really love something else that’s out there in the world today. This is hilarious. The Indian tribe that’s ancestral land is the place where Billie Eilish has her million dollar, multimillion dollar mansion of a home. They actually responded. to her saying that you cannot be illegal on stolen land. This is so funny because when I first saw this go viral, and I think I talked about it yesterday filling in on Dana’s show, the last thing I expected was the Indian tribe to have their own response because I just thought it would be a joke. Like, yeah, she’s a hypocrite and an idiot, and I’m not telling her to surrender her house because I like capitalism and all the things we do in our society. But it is funny to watch her say something while she is, in fact, benefiting from the thing she’s pretending to be against. And now the actual tribe’s like, hey, if you want to give us your house, we’re good. We would love that mansion. Please go ahead and give us the keys. Get out by, I don’t know, maybe the first of the next month. It’d be lovely. But here’s Fox News talking about the fact that the Indian tribe, whose ancestral land is actually the home of Billie Eilish’s house, is like, yeah, we agree with you. Get out.
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Billie Eilish, she says, America’s just made up all this land that was taken unjustly from people, but is the singer also living on stolen land is the question. Well, according to a local tribe out in California, she built her mansion on property that belongs to Native Americans. We talked to the Tongva tribe out in Southern Cal, who says she’s living on their property, saying this in part, as the first people of the greater Los Angeles basin. We do understand that her home is situated on our ancestral land. Eilish hasn’t contacted her tribe directly. regarding her property. So back in 2020, comedian Ricky… It’s so great.
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I love it so much. Ricky Gervais was funny back in 2020 when he hosted the Oscars and told everybody, just shut up, that you’re all hypocrites and we don’t need your political opinions. But that’s such a nicely done message from the tribe, too. It’s like she hasn’t contacted us. We’ll get her our contact information. We’ll let her know. And again, she can probably stay in her mansion until the 1st of March and then she’s got to be out so she can surrender it to us. If you believe that so strongly that, you know, stolen land is stolen land and you have no right. because the land is stolen, then you got to return it to the people you stole it from, Billy. And this is a you thing. This isn’t a me thing. I don’t believe that. That first thing that you said at the Grammys. I get to keep my house. I get to keep all the things that I bought, that I paid for, that I worked hard for. You got to give yours up though. Otherwise, and this is the part they don’t care about. You’re a ridiculous hypocrite, which of course she is. They all are. And it’s insane to watch and see. It’s so easy to find the hypocrisy in the things they say. It’s almost not fun. Like when I do this show and I fill in for Dana, I love talking about these things because there’s, it’s so easy to point out the stupidity of how the left talks. But then another part of it, like at the end of the show, you’re like, yeah, It’s just more of that crap that we talk about all the time because it’s so easy. It happens every day. If you have a crazy leftist in your life, you could probably trap them in a hypocritical statement within 30 seconds. You should do that. Actually, before I take a break, this can be your next challenge. at the next thing that you go to where a liberal person is there that you know is a hardcore, like, so proud to be liberal, see how quickly, hit a little stopwatch on your phone, you can trap them in a hypocritical statement, and then just laugh about it. Then just, like, walk away. You don’t need to argue any more than that because that’s how fast these things occur. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right, it’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. That was Three Dog Night, of course, because their lead singer, Chuck Negron, died. Sad, 83 years old. Definitely a great band at one time in our society. So a tribute to him, first and foremost, that was played there. Some other things out there as far as quick five stuff goes. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to her. Americans will legally bet. I love that this was in the headline, by the way. Because illegally, it’s going to be a little bit more or a lot more. But legally, we’ll bet $1.7 billion. During the Super Bowl, this is on all kinds of things. Prop bets, sports related stuff and not sports related things. People will bet, for example, on how long the national anthem goes over and under of a certain amount of time. By and large, it’ll be actually the event itself from a sports standpoint. $1.76 billion, though. That’s a ton of money. And again, this is legal. We don’t know about anybody who’s showing up and meeting a bookie under the table, throwing them some money, and then maybe getting their legs broken if things don’t go the way that they think they’re going to go. Good luck to all, though, out there. A lot of people are going to lose. That’s how betting works. This is why I don’t do it a lot. I’m always tempted to do it, and occasionally I might throw down a little bit of money. I like the $5 parlay. where if I get all three legs of it, all of a sudden I make $250. That’s the thing I like. When you’re working with those kind of odds, though, it doesn’t happen often. Anyway, McDonald’s, this is another story out there, is debuting a McNugget Caviar just in time for Valentine’s Day. You cannot get this inside the McDonald’s restaurants. You have to go to McNuggetCaviar.com. You have to order it. They’re going to send it to you in the mail. It’s a $25 gift card to go to McDonald’s, a one-ounce tin of caviar, a mother-of-pearl caviar spoon, some creme fraiche as well, which I guess is important somehow. What you’re supposed to do is take your kit with you to McDonald’s, use the gift card to buy the nuggets, and then enjoy yourself a very odd Valentine’s Day caviar dinner, which I have no interest in whatsoever. Caviar is not that good. People know this. Everybody knows this. If you ever had it, you just pretend it’s great because of how fancy it is. But we all know it’s not good. And there’s no reason to add it to McDonald’s. I would actually tell someone who did this if it was a surprise somehow. The missus would never buy a Valentine’s Day surprise for me. This is what I’m supposed to do for her. But if anyone ever did this and I witnessed it, I’d tell them it was an absolutely ridiculous loss of money. That was a dumb move because you’ve made, I don’t know, But you do what you want. It’s your cash. Spend it however. One last story that I saw. This is in the New York Post. And I just want to read the headline because it’s amazing. It says that women are chasing the perfect body. And so more and more people are purchasing, and this is a quote, ethically sourced cadaver fat. Yes, that’s the fat from dead people. And they are injecting it into their butt and their boobs. They’re recycling, according to them. This is beyond creepy. I don’t want to know how this is ethically sourced. I don’t want any information about it. It’s actually quite costly. For example, $45,000 might be the cost to plump up your backside with cadaver fat. And I also don’t know why people want to do this, but it’s becoming a trend, at least for wealthy people in places like New York City. According to the New York Post, this is creepy. It’s beyond creepy to me. This is the kind of thing that if someone told you they were considering it, you’d tell them to call a psychologist. They’re like, yeah, that sounds great. That’s an interesting idea. Just out of nowhere, a totally separate topic. You should probably call someone about a mental health thing. You should probably check in to see if that’s okay. If that’s the kind of thing you need to maybe discuss with people. Because I don’t know why, if you’re injecting something fake into your body, you also want it to be ethically sourced. Like, I don’t understand that last part. I feel like if we’re going the road of injection… Just inject me with anything, baby. It doesn’t have to be the fancy stuff from the dead people, which is a weird way to say that. It can just be fake stuff. That’s not at all, I don’t know, sourced from someone who used to be alive. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff to talk about. Producer Steven just reminded me, Jill Biden’s ex-husband was just officially charged with murder. William Stevenson is the guy’s name. About a month ago, I think TMZ and others reported that he had dialed 911 about a domestic dispute with his wife. before she was found dead, which was certainly strange to read that in the news and certainly seemed to indicate that the man was preempting having the police come by and find something horrible that he had done, which is now exactly what he’s charged with. He’s charged with killing his wife. The ex-husband of Jill, Dr. Jill, Dr. Biden, or whatever I’m supposed to call her, is a horrible, deranged, terrible person, at least potentially. I guess this is all alleged. We’ll see what happens in court. And I know this is a weird thing to say. I can’t help it. This is what my brain is thinking in this moment, however horrible and terrible this is. And that’s your first reaction. Some part of me is like, I feel as though the people that are surrounded by some of these high profile Democrats are usually pieces of crap and horrible people. So it’s the, you know, friends you keep or the people around you kind of thing that’s bouncing in my brain. Of course, this is awful and terrible. I’m not trying to say that Dr. Jill, Dr. Biden is someone who would also want to kill people. But nonetheless, it just it feels as though on that side of the aisle, this is a I know this is weird to say an unsurprising development that someone is this awful. I connected to people this high powered in that on that side. And, you know, it’s certainly something that I think a whole lot of people would have a political slant on if it were a person connected to a Republican. I don’t mean to make it a political thing. It’s just part of where my brain goes, I guess. All right. Other stuff out there. I thought this was really interesting. Italy is having a really, really great time right now. The prime minister of Italy, Georgia Maloney, is saying that some of the decisions we’ve made seem to be really beneficial to us in our society. By the way, you might ask yourself, hey, what are those decisions? Well, one, they made it a whole lot more difficult for people to live in their country illegally than It was already tremendously more difficult than to live in the United States illegally. But they they created a system that made it even harder. They deported a lot of people who were there that shouldn’t be. And things apparently have gone incredibly well. As I said a second ago, here is the prime minister talking about it.
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The mainstream propaganda machine predicted that a conservative government would have isolated Italy. deleting it from the map of the world, driving away investors and suppressing fundamental freedoms. They were wrong. What? Their storytelling was fake. No way. The reality is that Italy is thriving. employment is at a record high, our economy is growing, our fiscal policy is back on track, and the flow of illegal migration has decreased by 60% in the last year.
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Man, that’s crazy that things are getting way better when you remove a lot of people. That shouldn’t be in your country. It could be way better as far as the job prospects go, even though that’s racist and horrible. And they took our jobs is the kind of ridiculous thing that the left makes fun of. But it does also happen. So when you change that, apparently your society gets better on that. And also here in our country, we’ve seen a tremendous drop in the amount of violent crime. And several people have talked about that, that it’s simply obvious when a handful of individuals are responsible for a tremendous amount of the violent crime in any community, especially in any big city. People have been arrested multiple times before. This is simply data. I’m not saying something that is an opinion. This is simply a fact that a very small amount of people commit a tremendously large amount of crime in a lot of the cities that have crime issues. And apparently, deporting a whole lot of people who are here illegally has fixed part of that. Not all of it. Crime is not at zero across the board everywhere. But again, weird that those two things seem connected and mainstream media refuses to talk about them. I love when mainstream media brings up that crime numbers are down, and usually their reaction is, who knows why? It seems like an anomaly. It seems like some weird thing that’s happened for no reason whatsoever, because that’s their fake best guess at what’s actually occurred. All right, another thing out there that’s just great, a producer, Stephen, sent this to me. A Boston-area woman is thrilled after a Haitian migrant has moved into her house, and she calls this person her personal chef. This is insane. I saw even Dana tweeted about this, saying that, well, it’s not surprising, even though she feels like she should be surprised by it. It’s just, it’s crazy. And a local news affiliate, NBC7 in Boston, seemed to be happy to tell this story about the indentured servant who’s now trapped inside a woman’s home because she wants to be here. This is the weird stuff the left does. They fight and demand that you treat people with certain levels of respect, regardless of if they have the legal right to be in this country. And then also they want people to move into their house and cook for them. They want both things. Darn it. I want people to pick my food for a much cheaper amount of money to be paid almost nothing compared to if that job had to be done by someone who is legally in this country. I want that. I also want a personal chef.
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And it’s really fun having them. What I realized is there’s so much prejudice against refugees, mostly because people don’t know them.
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Lisa says she feels like she has her own personal chef as Wadande loves cooking.
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Wadande loves it. She’s so happy to cook. Yeah, and then just showing her cooking stuff and speaking in Spanish to other people. But Wadande now appears to be a trapped slave inside someone’s house because she loves cooking. And news seems very excited about that. They seem very thrilled to discuss it. And how dare you point out the ridiculousness of that. Actually, another great piece of audio. Thank you again. Shout out to producer Steven for sending this, which feels like a perfect response to the thing I just played. There was a white woman. I want to preface this so you know, in case you want to shoot the messenger, which would be me, I’m not the one saying the thing I’m about to play. The person who is saying it is a white woman who went viral on social media. She’s criticizing liberal white women. So it’s a white-on-white crime. And it’s not even me. It’s a woman-on-woman fight that’s happening here. But it’s done so well. And she plays multiple clips. All the clips have the bad words removed. But she plays multiple clips of crazy people saying crazy stuff on social media. I can play a little bit of that, one of the examples she uses. But then it jumps to her breaking it all down. And it’s so fantastic. And I guess the reason I’m going to play the audio of her saying it is that if I say it, someone will want to attack me for being sexist. I can’t be racist. I’m also white. But I could be sexist, according to the idiots out there who say I can’t have an opinion on stuff. So darn it. Let’s let the white lady do it instead of me. But first, here’s some of the things she was playing before she spoke of the crazy people.
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Don’t come on my page and say that people should be in this country legally. Don’t do it.
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OK, sorry. The next one is just a woman with a crazy face painted thing and a crazy audio behind her yelling and screaming. Uh, there’s a gay lady, white lady who says that the reason that Renee good was shot is she’s gay, a bunch of that and a bunch of like fake tears and crying and whatever. And now here’s the woman explaining what’s happening.
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People are wondering right now how in the world a person’s brain ends up like this because this is not how healthy, happy people act. No, it’s not. Let me explain. Liberal women are what happens when the natural female instinct to nurture and defend and care for gets misdirected away from families and children and misapplied to whatever the liberal cause of the week is. See, women have an innate instinct to support and emotionally connect to vulnerable people. We are designed to be mama bears. And in the absence of a stable and healthy home and family, a woman will find a place to put all of that. The natural instinct to sacrifice yourself for your children gets misapplied in all the wrong directions. You want to know why so many liberal women are out there playing hero for criminal aliens and gender confused perverts and cultures that hate them? It’s because they believe they have identified groups of people who need them.
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They need them. They’re in desperate need of them. Yes, I’ve said this not just about liberal white ladies, although I do enjoy the fact that this not liberal white lady seems to be saying all this. I think this about anybody. I think this about the protesters who show up to protest ICE, the deranged people like Alex Preddy, which he was. It’s still tragic that he died, but he was crazy, kicking out the lights of ICE vehicles and whatnot. They just want this self-importance. It’s all about them. It’s a psychological thing where they’re getting fulfillment by thinking they have some sort of higher purpose in our society, in life. And they seem to think that this makes them a tremendously good person, regardless of what else they do, how terrible they act in their day-to-day life. Um, whatever they say, however they behave, whoever they’re mean to, as long as they go out and protest a thing and seem to be the craziest person on the street, uh, they can sleep well at night because it’s about them. It’s not about the people that they’re trying to quote unquote protect, uh, by going out there and being insane. And they’re becoming deranged because of the messaging of the left or the messaging of media. So much media right now is pretending as though ICE agents are the devil. They’re Nazis. And it’s crazy. What I think we need at some point, I would love it if this was a spot that aired during the Super Bowl. And unfortunately, you can’t air it the way I’d want it to because people want to dox and attack and harm these individuals. But just ICE agents showing that they’re regular humans. You know, just saying I’m a regular human being. I have a wife and kids. I’m not trying to hurt anybody. I’m just doing a job that the people in charge in our government have told me to do. And I’ll say this. I feel like I said it yesterday, but I’ll say it again. When you create a fight, in which your side of the aisle is trying to get all of your people to fight the lowest level on the other side. You don’t want to fight the higher-ups, the powers in the top of the rafters at whatever the event is where the fundraising is happening. You want to fight the people on the ground level. You want to look someone in the face who you can touch, who’s tangible to you, and tell them that they’re the bad guy and they need to do differently or they are going to get in trouble. When you do that, you’re trying to intimidate people to not follow the directions of people above them because you can’t win the fight at the higher level. The reason you choose to fight the person at the lowest level to you is because you can’t do anything else. You have no other options. For whatever reason, whether this is because the message you have, the thing you’re trying to say is worthless, and you know you won’t win the argument at a higher level. This even happens in workplaces. I’ll tell you the amount of times… As just somebody who’s been in an interesting career, I’ve been in media for years and years and years. A bunch of people are egotistical idiots and morons in this profession that I happen to be in. And so occasionally someone who has slightly more influence and or power than you will do a whole lot to mess with you. They’ll do everything they can to screw with you and how your job works or how you’re behaving. This happens at all kinds of other jobs too. And you might scratch your head, go home at night and be like, why are they messing with me so much? This person that’s more influential, more powerful, more successful, whatever the word might be, than you is just disgruntled. They’re just unhappy with their life. This is the women that she’s talking about who don’t have another place to put their mama bear instinct. So they put it in these insane places and think that they’re doing good or at least making themselves happier when the reality is they’re doing insane and terrible things. But these people just do it for ego or in their own self to to feel more important. And they screw with you. They might even cause you to eventually lose your job. And at the end of the day, I bet you a year or two after you’re fired, they’re thinking to themselves why they did that and why they’re now attacking the next person in line, because they just don’t want to see people move above them. They don’t want to see any of that. It’s all ego. It’s all about themselves. It’s all terrible and awful. And they always pick a fight with someone weaker because those people have no you-know-whats. The people like this don’t want to fight the highest level because they don’t have the bleeps to do it. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I saw something uniquely stupid on the internet, as we all do all the time. That is a common sentence. And yet I can’t help but want to talk about it, even though I feel like it’s a mistake. Like I shouldn’t publicize this dumb thing that this guy is doing, but I can’t help myself. A 49-year-old dude who’s not in great shape. You see his tremendous beer belly while the guy is sitting in his chair at his computer in his house. His name is Skip, though. He has decided to isolate himself for a year and put it all up on social media. He is desperate for attention, I think, to say the very least. He’s got a makeshift gym inside this room he’s going to live in in his house. He’s got a shower. He’s got all the things he needs to not, you know, die. He also has tasked his wife. He has a wife. I defeat him every single day as if he were in prison in solitary confinement. He says he’s doing this to benefit himself. He says he needs to be cut off from the world for a year for some reason. He announced it months ago. He started it three weeks ago. It is now going viral. His quest to become healthier is to strap himself to his computer chair behind his computer and sit in his bedroom for a year. Exactly what most crazy troll people on the internet think they probably need and they definitely don’t need. But darn it, here’s the 49 year old guy talking about why this is a good idea.
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My name is Skip. I’m 49 years old and I’m starting something today that scares me a little. On January 10th, I’m locking myself into this room for an entire year. I’m doing this because I’m tired of being the version of myself that avoids hard things. One goal is simple. By the end of the year, I want to do one perfect pull-up. The pull-up is the proof, but the real goal is rebuilding who I am from the ground up. This is day minus 70. I’m starting the preparation now.
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Yeah, I got to be honest, bud. If you wanted to improve your life, you can do it without locking yourself in the bedroom. And the other thing, and I find this interesting, is that if the internet didn’t exist, he wouldn’t do it this way. He is doing this for attention, of course. If he were not capable of potentially getting some sort of internet fame and or money from this, he would probably just do it the way we all do it, which is you dedicate yourself to waking up every morning, hitting the gym before whatever your day is. That, to me, is the best way to change your life. If you wake up an hour and a half early, two hours early, whatever time you need, however far your gym is from you, force yourself to be in the gym every morning before you do the rest of your life. That alone puts you in a much better place because, well, darn it, it’s hard. Waking up a little early, going to the gym a little early, all that is hard to disrupt your life, going to sleep earlier. But if you do that, you don’t even have to commit to a specific workout. The way that I’ve seen it done before is you just stand there in the gym at first, and eventually you start lifting things, you get healthier. A year later, if he did this instead of a year of locking himself in a room, I feel like it’d be less dramatic and stupid and even more beneficial to him. Just stand in the gym every day for an entire year in the morning before the rest of your life and see what happens. And of course, what I actually mean tongue-in-cheek is you probably have to work out and do stuff there. But hey, some gyms give you pizza. So maybe you just have unhealthy food in a different place. I’m not judging, by the way. I’m no perfection myself. I just find this guy to be hilarious in what he’s doing. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about at D Lash at Dana Lash radio on X on Twitter. If you want to follow her and her very fancy social media, as she’s a very famous person at radio, Craig Z. If you want to follow someone that, for some reason, occasionally gets to fill in on this show and is very much not famous, at least not on Twitter, on X. And I promise to use it more if a bunch of people… I see that I get follows every day when I mention this, so I can’t help continuing to do it. I apologize. You probably don’t need to follow me, but it’d be nice if you did. Anyway, stuff out there to talk about. Don Lemon says that he contacted the DOJ, offered to turn himself in, but how dare they? They ignored him. They had to make a spectacle of him by arresting him at the Grammys instead. This was during his ABC interview. Here’s the thing, and I want to make this abundantly clear before I go in. Not only do I not believe Don Lemon actually did this and that this is a thing that he was willing to do because he would have made it a performance in the spectacle, I think, if he did turn himself in. He’s reacting to the fact that he got arrested exactly the way you expected Don Lemon to react to it. But not only do I not believe him, I also think there is a reason that you arrest the guy at the Grammys, and it’s not about him. It’s about the fact that you can’t claim to be a journalist while you’re obviously being a protester, which he says the opposite. But if you watch any of the video and listen to any of the things he said, you can easily tell that the guy was aligned with the people that were disrupting a church service, that he agreed with them, that he was also being disruptive. He recorded himself breaking the law, And I don’t know how many times I need to say that to convince the morons on the other side this isn’t about the freedom of the press. It’d be like me robbing a bank. Maybe like making a couple friends along the way. Who knows? Maybe I find them on some sort of social media group like Don Lemon did. And I’m like, hey, we should all rob a bank. You guys do the robbing, and I’ll just do the recording as a journalist, and then I can’t get arrested. I’m going to take the money with you. I’m going to stand in there and cheer you on as you guys rob the bank. But then when we all leave, and of course I get in trouble because I put it all out on social media. I’ll just say I was a journalist, man. It wasn’t about that. This isn’t an argument you can use if you break the law. But here’s Don Lemon being a pompous idiot and a jerk and exactly the reason why I’d probably decline if he did offer to turn himself in, which I, again, doubt that he did.
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Walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button and all of a sudden I feel myself being jostled and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs. And I said, what are you doing here? And they said, we came to arrest you. And I said, who are you? And then finally they identified themselves. And I said, if you are who you are, then where’s the warrant? And they didn’t have a warrant. So they had to wait for someone from outside, an FBI guy, to come in to show me a warrant.
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I love the fact that the people inside this TV show, I think this is Kimmel, reacted. You can hear them groaning like, he didn’t have a warrant on him. But they did have one. They were legally allowed to arrest you. A grand jury made a decision. This is all the performative crap that I’m saying is the reason I wouldn’t have let himself turn himself in.
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On a cell phone. And by that time, I was trying to figure out what was going on to get my bearings and dropped all my stuff. My glasses had fallen on the floor. Oh, no, not your glasses. I can’t read that. So that to pick my glasses up and I read it and still what does that mean? So and then they it was a bunch of guys and they took me outside FBI guys were out there. I mean it had to be maybe a dozen people which is a waste Jimmy of resources because I told them weeks before and maybe once or twice. I think my attorney tried to contact them once maybe twice. that I could just go in and it would have to be the folks who are just working there that day and they wouldn’t have to have all these people following me around. It’s more than just a waste of resources.
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And I’m good. I’m done with you, Kimmel. I don’t even care from you. But I love the fact that he says, yeah, I would have done it. And what do you think would have happened had Don Lemon turned himself in? He would have recorded himself going in, complaining that he had to turn himself in. It would have been obnoxious and ridiculous. And having control on the side of this equation for the person who’s trying to make themselves the story, which is the first sin here. It’s a journalism sin. It’s not necessarily an actual crime. It should be. No, I’m kidding. It shouldn’t be. But Don Lemon wants the story to be about Don Lemon. He wants every part of this to be about him. He doesn’t care about telling the story of anyone else. He cares about being a martyr or anything else that he thinks he can turn himself into so that his notoriety can rise. But I love the fact that he complained about the way… was arrested. They knocked my glasses off, man, when they were arresting me and putting my hands behind my back. And then I asked for the warrant and they had to go get it. And then they had to give me my glasses back so I could read it. And I love the little acknowledgement there too, where after he says that he did read it, he’s like, and I don’t know what this means, even though it’s obviously a legal document that says what they’re doing is just fine. He’s going to act like there’s still some controversy there too. Yeah, this guy’s an idiot. He’s a moron. He’s all the things that you don’t like about the way a human being reacts or behaves who is arrogant. It has nothing to do with the fact that he’s black or gay. I don’t care about those things. There’s a ton of people who are both black and gay that I don’t dislike the way I dislike Don Lemon. It’s his pompous arrogance and his stupidity. Those are the ones. And there’s a lot of people who don’t look like Don Lemon, who don’t date the people Don Lemon dates, who I also dislike for the same behavior. I just want to put that out there for anyone, Don Lemon specifically, who wants to say I’m a homophobic, sexist, racist something for saying that Don Lemon is a bleep nozzle. And he is, in every way, shape, or form, an idiot. All right, let me play this. I keep making myself laugh. Let me say this, play this audio. This is Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. He is confirming the intentional distraction that we’re all seeing in Minnesota, the desire… to essentially sacrifice your own protesters in a way by causing the amount of mayhem and confusion that inevitably ends in the horrible things it’s ended in over the last couple weeks in Minneapolis. But this is the Deputy AG saying that part out loud. that, of course, when fraud is uncovered to the degree that it is, that a YouTuber named Nick Shirley blew up a fraud scandal, and a lot of people are in trouble, and Tim Walz is ending his political career, the thing they’d rather talk about is the boogeyman, and the boogeyman has to be connected to Trump, and in this case, the boogeyman is the ICE agents who are doing their job at the behest of the horrible, terrible orange man. Of course it is. But here’s the Deputy Attorney General talking about exactly that on Fox.
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And we have several ongoing investigations. And remember what was happening in December, Laura. We had a massive fraud going on all through Minneapolis, all through Minnesota.
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And suddenly… They didn’t have, they still have a massive fraud going on.
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It turned. almost on a dime, and it became suddenly all about ICE, all about getting ICE out and how horrible ICE was doing. But really what we have here is a massive underground fraud network operating in Minneapolis. And we had a very strong pushback, very strong pushback when we raised our hands and said stop. And so yes, we have multiple investigations going on. We sent prosecutors from Maine Justice. We sent prosecutors from other US Attorney’s Offices all over the country. And we’re making progress every day.
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Yeah, and they’re trying to distract and move on from it and act like it’s not a big deal or it doesn’t matter, even though billions of your dollars, my dollars, everybody’s dollars have been stolen in just this one place and probably everywhere else in the country. But don’t talk about that. Let’s talk about something completely different and then tell you that some poll numbers back up some of this stuff. And I’ll say this again about poll numbers. I don’t care about them like at all. I don’t even care about them. They to me, they feel like meteorologists telling me what the weather is going to be the next day, because there’s so many reasons to think that they could easily change. And the way they were collected is probably a flawed anyway, that like tomorrow, a poll could come out and be totally different than the one we’re seeing right now. And also a few months from now, if the economy gets better, if people think that the prices of items are actually starting to go down or their life is more affordable, the amount of people who say that they’re going to be happy with the current president will skyrocket from whatever number they’re saying it is now. But polls are so stupid. to, in my opinion, couch all of your positions on, like all of my opinions of how people are, what people think, based on this poll that came out from this place. It’s so dumb. I would just talk to people in my everyday life. I get a sense from them, and I get as much understanding as the version of information you get from a random poll. Neither one is really great. The anecdotalness of my friends and family or people I talk to on the street is only so much more less beneficial than getting a random collection of 8000 people to answer a poll question from a phone call they get. And we’ve seen it time and again where the polls are tremendously wrong about stuff and they don’t admit it’s just like the weather people actually. The meteorologist never goes on TV while predicting the next storm and tells you his batting average. And maybe we should have that. Maybe just like the stats in a baseball game, a little like ticker should go on the bottom of the screen and tell you how often the thing that somebody’s saying is correct. Just so you know. Like, yeah, this prediction is percentage correct about 40% of the time. Puxatani Phil, as we talked about yesterday, he’s only right about 30-something percent of the time. So he’s a great Hall of Fame baseball player. He is a terrible predictor of weather, and he’s not alone. Honestly, and that is, of course, a groundhog is probably not a great pick for figuring that stuff out. All right. One other thing from the deputy attorney general that I thought was interesting. A quick mention of all the Epstein stuff that’s come out recently. The Clintons will testify. They’re setting up dates and more to eventually show up in a courtroom and under oath probably plead the fifth a whole bunch. I’m assuming that’s what’s going to happen more so than anything else. But the Clintons will be asked questions about Epstein because, darn it, that was always going to be how this happens. But Todd Blanch is saying that it’s not a crime to have partied at one time with Epstein, not on his island and not around underage women, but in general, having at some point been around this person at some sort of social event in and of itself is not indicative of a crime. It’s weird we have to say that, But apparently we do in society. So here we go.
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Well, some of the people we saw on camera at the rallies. Is there any chance that any of these individuals who partied with Epstein and engaged in relations with minors will be prosecuted? Any chance?
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we i’ll never say no and we will always investigate any evidence of misconduct but as you know it is not a crime to party with mr epstein and and so as horrible as it’s not a crime to email with mr epstein and then some of these men may have done horrible things and if we have evidence that allows us to prosecute them you better believe we will but it’s also the kind of thing that that the american people need to understand that It isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein. It isn’t a crime to have bloodshed.
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It didn’t look like that’s all that was going on in some of those photos. I mean, if the photos could speak, some of them look pretty bad. That’s right.
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And unfortunately, photos can’t speak. And so we need witnesses and we need evidence.
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I really think that’s interesting, the line of questioning, too, because it is two separate issues. Will someone who at some point associated with, emailed, or partied with Epstein be charged with a crime? Not if that’s all they have. That’s the way this whole system works. Innocent until proven guilty. But if they have a reason to be capable of proving and believing that someone actually did the horrible things, she adds to the second half of her question, someone who harmed underage women, of course, that person should face justice in a courtroom. And I think they would likely bring those charges. And I think that’s the thing we’re seeing and learning in this whole story is how often something that appears bad might not actually be concrete enough to win you a court case. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and the very fanciness of this very popular radio show. Let’s do this. Cougar relationships are at an all-time high. Apparently young men are desiring to date older women. This is according to the New York Post, and I think some sort of communications firm out of Chicago that claimed that this was true. A bunch of reasons why young men are now, I don’t know, with the right, yeah, I’m just going to say it, less successful than men in other generations are, by and large. There are still obviously exceptions to the rule, but a lot of dudes who aren’t all that successful. So they’re looking for a sugar mama, if that’s what you call it. They’re looking for someone who’s doing well that they can trade some sort of services for. That’s probably not the right way to say that either. But anyway, the New York Times lining out how more guys are looking to older, successful women for potential relationships. I’m not terribly surprised by that information. It sounds like it’s happening on both sides of the, I almost said aisle, but both sides of the world of relationships. It sounds like women are also seeming to want to date successful men and be unapologetic about it more so than, I know that’s always been a thing, but more so than before. Social media apparently is complaining about the amount of young, hot women who are proud of the age gap with their older, successful dude in their life. A daredevil climber was recently studied to see how his brain reacts to climbing stuff. This guy was in the news for climbing the Taipei 101 skyscraper. His brain never shows fear during any of these stunts that he pulls. Other people like him who’ve been studied as well seem to demonstrate they just don’t have that thing in the brain. Or if they did have it, it’s long been destroyed by the ridiculous things they’ve done in their lives. But zero amount of fear popping up in the brain. I’m impressed with that. I’m terrified of that. That sounds like someone who’s also psychotic, because if you’re climbing a giant skyscraper with no rope, you should probably have some amount of fear. But it’s probably also that thing that’s the reason that they can be successful. The reason that certain performers are great at, say, you know, performing, whether it’s singers and musicians, is because they don’t have the amount of nerves the way other people do. And again, that can be conditioned out of you. I remember the first time I ever did anything that had a public performance component to it. I was a PA announcer for a minor league baseball team in my early 20s. And there was like a few days where you’re a little nervous because you’re doing something that’s new. And then by like two months, it’s no big deal. It’s who gives a crap. This will be fun. Let’s have a good time and do it again. I think that’s true of almost anything. I don’t think it’s true for a lot of us in climbing a giant building. I think that that’s going to be the separator for us and this guy. in this world and then finally one last one a dude who was heavily intoxicated unsurprising stripped naked on a flight to Thailand he did Thailand a little early compared to how everybody else does it and he got arrested and he went viral but the dude got entirely naked and seemed to be belligerent and crazy on a flight to a place where he probably was going to behave a certain way once he got I’m going to assume I’m going to make some educated guesses here so the guy just needed a few more hours until he would have potentially been in way less trouble. But that’s another ridiculous story that I saw on the news, and I’m thrilled I wasn’t on that flight. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in D lash Dana lash radio and X on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected to her and her social media team. Like producer Steven, who do an awesome job of bringing you all kinds of cool content every single day at radio. Craig C. If you want to follow someone who does none of that stuff, which would be me and my very small amount of, uh, X followers. I don’t know why I keep saying that, but darn it. I do probably not making it attractive to follow, but I’d love to have you. All right. Uh, things out there that are important. It looks like the government shut down. The partial one will end very quickly. It looks like that’ll end as, as early as, you know, over the next few days, uh, because the House did move forward in passing a bill. They passed a procedural hurdle to eventually vote to pass a bill that then the president signs, and yada, yada, yada, things are over. What I think is interesting about this, outside of the fact that Thomas Massey, of course, is the lone holdout, along with all the Democrats who voted against this, 217 to 215, was a question asked to the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, right after this passed about the SAVE Act, and how it’s going to be involved in anything that the government does moving forward. The SAVE Act requires people to have a photo ID to vote in an election, which overwhelmingly, most 80-something percent of Americans support this idea, because there’s no good argument against it. There’s a lot of fake, false, ridiculous arguments that are racially motivated or whatever else that have no place in reality. But there is a lot of really valuable things to talk about in securing the election as a byproduct of allowing the left to get some sort of political win in trying to defund ICE. That’s the other thing happening. I heavily disagree with that, that conservatives might make some sort of concession, and they did within the Senate, in order to pull back or slow down Homeland Security funding because the Democrats want to say out loud they defunded ICE, which is Awful and a terrible decision and not going to end well. Anytime you’ve seen this movie before, Democrats inevitably regret the thing they were saying and selling to the American people. They don’t take any responsibility for it because things go horrible. Defunding police did not go well in any place that attempted any version of it. But here’s Johnson talking about the SAVE Act.
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Speaker, what’s happening with the SAVE Act in the Senate?
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I wish I could tell you. We passed it out of the House twice. We’re going to pass it out of the House again. And we’re hopeful that the Senate will take it up. It’s very important to the American people. The idea that only citizens should be allowed to vote in U.S. elections is really important. And voter ID is very important. So we’d like to combine both of those on the Save America Act. It’s a top priority to the President. It’s a top priority of House Republicans, and it should be all Republicans and all the American people, because if you don’t have integrity in your elections, you can’t maintain a constitutional republic.
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Yeah, and by the way, this is something when they lose, the Democrats, they want to say the election was stolen and fraudulent and all the other stuff, and Trump’s an illegitimate president, which they’ve done in the past. They want to say all that stuff, and then they want to pretend it doesn’t exist when their side actually wins something. All of this seems valuable. By the way, in the world of voting and security in our elections, Tulsi Gabbard came out with a pretty awesome defense and a pretty awesome response to all the people who are saying that she’s horrible and terrible. And national intelligence under her watch has changed to be incredibly partisan and raiding a voting facility in Fulton County in Georgia, Florida. Or Georgia, excuse me, in Georgia. I don’t know why I said Georgia, Florida. My brain broke for a second there. In Fulton County, Georgia. Having that happen, I think I’m thinking about Florida, man, which is coming up in a little bit here on the show. Having that happen, I love that Democrats are mad about the potential access to receipts. Because raiding a facility doesn’t necessarily mean you’re placing a bunch of fake proof in that place. Now, if you’re Democrats, you might do that. But if you’re Republicans, by and large, it seems that you’re actually just going to work with the stuff you find there. But that’s the way Democrats are behaving. is that when inevitably any of this information comes out that demonstrates that horrible things did happen, at least in Fulton County in the 2020 election, and potentially maybe a whole bunch of other places, that it was really just a witch hunt that somehow struck gold. Or they created it themselves. They manufactured it themselves. Some version of that. is going to be the thing they say. But Tulsi Gabbard went to social media and said, contrary to the blatant false and slanderous accusations being made against me by members of Congress and their friends in propaganda media, which most mainstream media has been demonstrated time and again to be absolute just propaganda. the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has and will continue to take action under my statutory authorities to secure our nation and ensure the integrity of our elections. And then she posted a long-form response to Congress where she says all the reasons they’re doing all the things they’re doing in Fulton County, Georgia, and what is important about that. Again, you know what’s amazing to me? So many people make the argument that we shouldn’t even go looking for proof. I like to call them receipts to the things that people claim publicly. And that is the most dangerous thing anyone can ever say to you is like, ah, how dare you turn over that rock and look in that place to see if something exists there. How dare you investigate me? How dare you make the Clintons testify when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein? Now, granted, I will admit that there’s a partisan nature to that that probably shouldn’t be. Anybody and everyone that seems even tangentially connected to Epstein might need to be brought into a courtroom and answer some questions. Among those is probably Bill Gates. The stuff that’s come out about Bill Gates, by the way, I’m distracting myself with a side topic here, but Bill Gates’ connection to Epstein and the communication about stuff like antibiotics that he might need to give his wife that Epstein might be able to provide for him. A lot of this is coming out in these Epstein files, and it’s just so shocking that if it weren’t for the fact that you kind of expected that the left would get hit hard by all the Epstein files. And of course, mainstream media is ignoring it. But one of the people that seems to most be damaged, I’m sure he’s going to have his day in court and whatnot, too. So I can’t say definitively. that any of this is proof that horrible things did happen. I don’t know why I can’t say that, but I guess I don’t want to get the station sued or the stations that the show is on sued. So I will say innocent until proven guilty, even for Bill Gates. But man, oh man, some of the communications between him, his asking personally to have Epstein involved in certain things, to be on certain advisory teams and et cetera. And then also a conversation about antibiotics. It seems fairly damaging. Not to say also there are conversations about the pandemic and about the need for certain treatments for coronaviruses and other things as early as 2017 that also seem pretty bad. This seems like the kind of stuff that most media should be talking about. And darn it, who cares about that? The Epstein files were only about trying to get Trump in trouble. And if Trump is not in trouble from the Epstein files, which he’s not, then they can just ignore them and move on. It’s hilarious to see. this version of we only care in this one context because it’s such an extreme example of that thing. You see it all the time, but this is the most extreme example of we really only wanted to get Trump in trouble. We don’t care that a tremendous amount of information is coming out that seems to show a lot of other people are horrible, horrible people. Another big thing, news that happened earlier today, the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching one of our naval ships, the USS Abraham Lincoln. Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, confirmed this on Fox this morning. I thought this was a pretty big deal that they were flying a drone near us. And we decided to take it out in this escalating tension between Iran and the United States, which would end badly for Iran if this ever became a thing that escalated in the way people think it would. But here we go.
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This is that CENTCOM confirms that a U.S. F-35 fighter jet shot down an Iranian Shahed drone that was making an aggressive approach toward the U.S. as Abraham Lincoln. This on the same day that a couple of Iranian gunboats were threatening a U.S. flagged tanker in the Gulf of the Persian Gulf, threatening to board it. So what is going on, to the best of your knowledge, and what is the president going to do about what appear to be some threatening moves being made by Iran, even as Steve Witkoff prepares to meet with the foreign minister, Araghchi, either in Oman or Turkey on Friday?
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Well, sure, John. And thank you for having me today. I did speak with folks over at the Pentagon this morning who said that CENTCOM acted both appropriately and necessarily to protect our U.S. personnel and equipment in the region. So CENTCOM did make the decision to shoot down that Iranian drone. It was unmanned. It was acting appropriately. aggressively towards our USS Lincoln, which we know that aircraft carrier is in the region at the direction of President Trump. As for the president, he remains committed to always pursuing diplomacy first. But in order for diplomacy to work, of course, it takes two to tango. You need a willing partner to engage. And so that’s something the president and Special Envoy Witkoff are exploring and discussing right now.
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every single one of these actions that does the opposite of what we expect them to do, which is behave, uh, can cause, uh, relations to be strained further in some sort of agreement, uh, to not necessarily take place. Uh, nonetheless, um, I love the fact we just shot it down and moved on. Uh, there’s nothing stronger, uh, than, uh, this sort of behavior being like, nah, we’ll still do the meeting. We’ll still talk to you. We still want to try to come to some sort of agreement here, but also don’t fly any more drones around our ships because they’re getting blown out of the sky and they’re getting blown out of the sky quickly. Uh, A little bit of both is this behavior. And of course, someone somewhere on the left will cry about the tragic downing of an unmanned drone. And I don’t care about that, but I’m sure that’ll happen somewhere. Someone will say that the unmanned drone didn’t have its rights processed correctly. There was no due process before we blew that unmanned drone out of the sky. And I don’t care. I’m sure someone out there is going to make that argument, though, and that’s hilarious. By the way, this one other thing that I talked about earlier and I just love so much, there was an update in the story about Billie Eilish and her claim that no one is illegal on stolen land, which she made during the Grammys the other day. It was pointed out quickly after she said that, that she just so happens to own a mansion that’s on land that used to be owned and, according to some, should still be owned by a Native American tribe. I love the update. on this story. I found it so, so amusing. Uh, the tribe confirmed with Fox news that Billy has not reached out to them, has not offered her the, have not offered this, uh, Indian tribe, the keys to her multimillion dollar mansion. It’s weird. If you feel like a stolen land is a problem and we shouldn’t have the things we have here, you think that you’d surrender your stuff first. Like that’s the first move you made. How shocking. I’m being very sarcastic that that’s not what she did. But here is that. I just love this update so much.
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She says America’s just made of all this land that was taken unjustly from people. But is the singer also living on stolen land is the question. Well, according to a local tribe out in California, she built her mansion on property that belongs to Native Americans. We talked to the Tongva tribe out in Southern Cal who says she’s living on their property, saying this in part as the first people of the greater Los Angeles basin to We do understand that her home is situated on our ancestral land. Eilish hasn’t contacted her tribe directly regarding her property.
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Shocking. This is crazy. I can’t believe she hasn’t contacted them. She should probably let them all move in and live with her and then maybe just full on surrender the keys. That would be a better example of the thing she’s saying is something she actually believes than saying it while winning an award at an award show. It seems like one would be better than the other to demonstrate she’s not full of crap, and yet one is very unlikely to ever happen in any capacity whatsoever, because hypocrisy is the name of the game in that way. Now, I’m not saying I agree with the stolen land crap. I’m not surrendering my house to anybody. I worked hard for it. I’m happy to have it. That’s mine, and I still pay stupid taxes on it and whatnot, so I don’t agree with you on any part of this, but if you think it so strongly, you should probably hand those keys over and be out by the first of the month. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Florida Man next on The Dana Show. Craig Collins filling in.
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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
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That’s right. It’s time for Florida Man on the Dana Show, DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. I have three Florida Man stories that I like the whole lot. The first one was a Florida teenager who was driving his motorcycle at crazy reckless speeds, like 130 miles an hour, 19-year-old kid in Orlando that was doing this. First and foremost, I will say that at that age, behind the wheel of anything, much less a fancy crotch rocket motorcycle, you do make stupid decisions, decisions that are tremendously more dangerous than you might realize they are. Still a crime, still bad, still deserve to get in trouble. But nonetheless, part of me at least can envision myself being almost as dumb as a not quite as dumb, but almost as dumb as this person. So I guess I’m just putting that out there. Still a very bad thing. But this guy was driving so fast in his vehicle that it burst into flames. People said he won the Ghost Rider Award. He is fine. Everybody else is fine. No one got injured, thank God. But the dude literally burst his motorcycle into flames by flying around highways in Florida at 130 plus miles per hour. That would be a lot faster than the 65 mile per hour zones he was in when he got arrested. That’s got to be a unique prize or a unique version of an accomplishment. Not that I think that that’s what I should call it. I’d watch your motorcycle burst into flame after you’re being pulled over for speeding and speeding at such a ridiculous degree. There’s a moment where you think maybe you’ll learn a lesson. I don’t know, but maybe you will at 19 years old realize how dumb you were behaving. Another story I love. A Florida man put his house on the market for sale, $420,000 in Tampa. That’s not a newsworthy thing in and of itself, except the ridiculousness of the home. They covered all the different crazy things in it that you’re probably going to have to remove. There is a pirate cave basement. which sounds and looks exactly like you think it would sound and look. There is a room dedicated to a 1950 hot rod vehicle that sort of looks like a diner that would be around the same concept, but it’s just a room in the home. And then my favorite, there is a Jaws tribute in the backyard, complete with a bunch of taxidermy stuff. Because, I mean, how can you celebrate the movie Jaws without throwing a bunch of things in your backyard to do that? All these things are supposed to be add-ons to the home that you’re buying for $420,000 that you’re very quickly ripping out of this place if you do purchase it at all. But I love that. I love the craziness of this Florida house. And then finally, one last story that I saw. A Florida man bought a used 1999 Honda Civic from a car dealership. It had 250,000 miles on it, no windshield, no front bumper. It was missing a bunch of things. The cops pulled the guy over and said, do you really think this vehicle is safe? It immediately made me think of trains, planes, and automobiles.
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Do you feel this vehicle is safe for highway travel? Yes, I do. Oh, yes, sir. Yes, I really do. I believe that. I know it’s not pretty to look at. It is not. It doesn’t get you where you want to go. Yeah. And you got no outside mirror. No, we lost that. You have no functioning gauges. No, not a one. However, the radio still works. That may seem, with all this mess, that the radio is the only thing that’s really working good, and it just clears the bill.
SPEAKER 29 :
Hey, you can listen to the Dana Show while you drive around in your crazy car, but a guy literally bought a version of the Trains, Planes, and Automobiles car that was broken. Not that it was lit on fire, too. That was the motorcycle guy. But in this case, the dude had several things missing. His steering wheel was dangling and not well-equipped into the car, and the dashboard had problems. He was told he couldn’t drive that car anymore, and people are in trouble. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back tomorrow. Thrilled to be with you. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio, an ex on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to this very awesome, very popular radio show and do a very famous human being in Dana Lash. Let’s play this audio. This is audio of a local news affiliate in California being very upset. that san francisco has a brand new billboard i’m gonna play i’m not gonna tell you what the billboard says it’s a few seconds into this audio it’s just so funny to me uh this whole thing and whoever did this and they’re not responding to questions even though i think the answer to the question would be obvious but let’s go ahead and play a little bit of the audio of the billboard that’s making the news in san francisco before the upcoming super bowl
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A new digital billboard at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco is evoking mixed reactions. It made me sick to my stomach. It’s an ad that shows support for ICE.
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They have a job to do, too. That’s it. You know, I don’t have a problem with them.
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The billboard reads, Defensive Player of the Year, ICE.
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That is hilarious. The defensive player of the year is Ice, and it’s a guy holding an award who is an Ice agent. Let’s do a little more.
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That calls itself American sovereignty. It’s behind the billboard. We tried to reach out to them to learn more about their motivation, but have not been able to reach anyone.
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I’m worried for my neighbors. I’m worried for what is happening. And I’m worried to see it escalating here.
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With the Super Bowl just days away, these concerned community members say they’re doing something every day to get their message out.
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Yeah, they’re doing something every day. Except buying a billboard across the street that says they’re mad at the other billboard. I love how hard news media tries to find people that agree with them. Actually, it’s really interesting. There was a viral rant yesterday on the premiere of the Dan Bongino podcast. He’s no longer in the world of terrestrial radio. He’s no longer a competitor of this show at all. His podcast airs before anything Dana does, I think, in digital media. But nonetheless, what was interesting is he went through the pillars of a fake news story. And many people know these already. He said he experienced them when he was an important person at the FBI. The first version is getting the quote machines to say the thing you want them to say. If you’re a terrible person in terrible news media, what you do is you have a story that’s pre-written, and you just need someone to say the thing out loud that you want them to say. This we see all the time in smaller doses for local news. When they go on the scene for whatever the story is, ask 40 people a question. Get the three people that say the thing they want. Those are the only three you see in the news package. That’s all they care about. And then they pretend as though there’s this huge groundswell of people that are trying to fight this billboard and all the people who are upset about it because one lady said she was sick to her stomach. Nonetheless, that’s one of the things that is a pillar of the fake news story. The narrative is written first, and the people who are going to agree with you are already people that you know or have used in the past. I had a quote machine, whatever the thing is that you want. It is funny to point that out. We all know that that exists. But to hear it said from someone who experienced it on the other side after being in media for a while is interesting. The whole first episode of his podcast was actually quite interesting. Another thing out there that I do love, CNN said that most Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. She was lightly trashed a couple times at the Grammys because of her belief that President Trump is a good president. that she likes him and she likes the things that he’s doing. How horrible and terrible of her in the world of Hollywood and music and all the idiots that are on the other side of this discussion that don’t care that they lose certain fans and money because of how opinionated they are. And Nikki obviously doesn’t care about that either, which is sort of amazing. But nonetheless, I want to play this where CNN goes, it’s weird. We did the polling. A whole lot of people agree with Nikki and, well, darn it, Republicans in the desire to have voter ID be a part of your ability to vote. You need a photo ID when you show up somewhere to cast a vote in an election because we do care about the security of our election. Surprise, surprise. As politicians on a certain side of the aisle do not care at all and love the fact that people could illegally vote for them. Everybody else seems to have a differing opinion.
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And the American people are with Nicki Minaj. Because what are we talking about here? So take a look here. Favor voter ID to vote. Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You’ll notice on all of it, it’s all north of 75%.
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76%. 76%.
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76%. 81%. And then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor… Photo ID. Yeah, they do.
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Of course they do. Why wouldn’t you? It’s an easy question. Do you think someone should be able to prove they are who they say they are? They are legally in this country. They have a right to vote. And honestly, there’s a lot of states that will give you an ID even if you’re not legally here. So voter ID is only a step in the right direction of securing our elections. People don’t often say that when they discuss this topic. But nonetheless, it would be better than what we have now. which which seems to be a thing that you desperately need more of. And of course, you don’t have. And most Americans agree with. But politicians on a certain side pretend as though it’s a race thing or some other thing and not actually obviously what it is. They want those illegal votes, baby. They want as many of them as they can get. I saw this. It was interesting. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacking MAGA. and saying all the things she realized and people realized who she’s pretending are like her and have turned their support away from President Trump. I don’t think this is actually anywhere near as big of a group as Marjorie’s pretending it is. But I do want to play this audio because I want to attack it. And it’ll be fun to do that. But here’s what Marjorie said about the dirtiness and horribleness of what MAGA really is and how people are realizing it’s not actually doing what they want it to do All of this happened after Marjorie found out she wasn’t going to be endorsed by Trump and decided to end her political career instead of losing in an election.
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MAGA is, I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people. What MAGA is really serving in this administration, who they’re serving is their big donors. The big, big donors that donated all the money and continue to donate to the president’s PACs, and and donate to the two hundred and fiftieth uh… anniversary or donating to the big ballroom and if they’re donating to all these things those are the people to get the special favors they get the government contracts they get the pardon you know it’s amazing about this is uh… i i care about two things i’m gonna say something a little controversial in all of this uh… the fact that somebody who might do something to help the trump administration might get some kind of favor
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out of it um is seems to me a sad inevitable cost of doing business in the world of our political system i wish it didn’t happen i wish it wasn’t real and i’m not saying that marjorie is completely wrong in claiming uh that it probably exists within this administration like it does with every administration for all of time i wish it didn’t uh but the things that are actually happening that the Trump administration is doing. Things like cleaning up the streets and reducing the amount of violence in all of the places that have seen tremendously bad amounts of violence throughout the country. All the big cities that are seeing their homicide rates go down and all of that. The fight to secure our country. The border. For example, like no one talks about how secure the border is because that was a night and day like light switch flip thing. Trump came in. He started deporting people. He did all the things he’s he’s been doing. And all of a sudden we have nobody crossing illegally into our country when we had a ton of it before. These are things that are not favors to special interest groups. They’re promises that the president made when he ran for office that he’s keeping and These are the things the American people care about. These are the things, if a government contract is awarded to someone who helped build the ballroom, I don’t like these things. I’m not trying to justify it in that sense. By and large, I can ignore a portion of that. I hope for it to be better, but ignore a portion of it when also good things are happening. The problem for the Democratic side of the aisle is they do all of this corrupt crap and they don’t do anything that actually helps us at all. Inflation gets worse. Things go terrible. They serve all their special interests. They do all of it without doing anything that benefits the American people. At least this administration is doing a bunch of stuff that Americans can see are benefiting us. Even the terror fight. The tariff fight was in no way serving any of these special interest groups because a lot of them were harmed because of it. A lot of organizations that would donate money to certain things didn’t like the tariffs. And Trump didn’t care about that. He cared about making better trade deals, which happened. And some tariffs, which still exist, seem to still be benefiting the United States. And maybe I just I like saying this because I enjoy the idea of it. I might want even a dividend to the American people. You might get a check in the mail if the tariffs is a thing that’s allowed to continue, etc., etc. And I just find that fascinating because most Americans, especially the left, like free money. They love free money. In fact, it would be hard for them to argue with the free money thing. But Marjorie. saying that most MAGA conservatives, most people who voted for Trump, are now unhappy with what has happened in the White House. The data doesn’t back that up. By and large, that’s completely untrue. Absolutely incorrect. Do I wish there were no favors being given to anyone? Absolutely, I wish that. And I think that that would be better for our society. Do I have receipts to say that there are actually favors? that are occurring now and Marjorie didn’t present us any receipts either which is part of the problem but nonetheless is there a version of I accept something as long as I get something better as a result of it more so than I accept it when only bad things happen Meaning that if there is some version of quid pro quo in our political society, which of course there is, but if there’s some significant version of it, but I’m still getting a lot of the things I want, it is much more tolerable than the opposite. Of course that’s true for most people. Of course I can be extreme and say I want the thing that we should have in our society, zero corruption in the world of government, in the world of any of that. And again, I’m not even saying this because I agree with Marjorie on her point. I’m saying it because there’s a version of getting what you want where you make sacrifices. We all know this. And hopefully one day we don’t have to make those sacrifices. But darn it, I’ve belabored this point. I think we’re good to go on it. A quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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That’s right. It’s time for a quick five on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Apparently, prosecutors in France raided an X facility, a Twitter office, because they were looking for child abuse images, deep fake images. A lot of the things that were making the news after Gronk, the AI, Gronk, the AI for X facility. apparently was creating a bunch of these images, even though it shouldn’t have been. French investigation is underway now, and they raided some offices there. That seems like it might become a bigger story than it is right now. Whether it’s for political reasons and whatnot, you be the one to decide. Washington state lawmakers are joining other states and proposing a potential millionaire tax. This is just an additional tax on people that have an annual income over a million bucks. Some states that are also considering this include California. States that have done versions of this include Minnesota. Of course, it does. Everything that’s terrible seems to somehow come out of Minnesota. And by the way, Minnesota has seen about $2 billion in lost revenue because high-income people have fled the state after this sort of thing was introduced there. So all of these places will probably have a tremendous net negative occur if they do create certain taxes. Because guess what? Very rich people, they can move very easily. It’s easier for them than most other people to get up and leave when you tell them they’ve got to give you a lot more of their money. And if they go somewhere like Texas, where I live, even though I’m not one of the uber rich people that lives here, they don’t have to do that. They can keep all that money, which is lovely and great. And they’re likely to do it, as we’ve seen again in places that have done this, even though more states are considering it. I saw this. A thrifty couple bought a bus, a school bus for five thousand dollars and turn it into the best beach home in America. That’s according to the internet. They did a lot of things to transform it. I think there’s a, you know, reality TV style video on social media that got millions of views. But essentially, they now drive their fancy decked out formerly school bus up to the beach and just hang out for a while. No judgment. I have no judgment for these people. I would not do this. I would not put in the effort to do this sort of thing. I’d rather just get an Airbnb for a weekend and call it that. But darn it, hey, look at them and how fancy they are and how they went viral on social media for it. They probably made enough money off the viral videos to pay for the transformation and the bust itself. So good on them. And then one other story I saw out there. As just a quick thing, this was a list, I think, on Reddit of the experiences we have in life, the, quote, luxury things that you at some point do that once you do them, you can never go back. Once you’ve had this once, you want it all the time. There’s a few different examples that are easily on this list. Number one was having your own place. I find it so funny that people can admit that because of the amount of people who still don’t move out from the home that they are in with their parents. But yes, having your own place is amazing and wonderful. And once you do it, you never want to go back. Keeping your house at a temperature you actually are comfortable at. I love this one. However, I do disagree with it. I think you can do it from time to time. But there’s something nice about having it at a temperature that’s more difficult to deal with. You feel thrifty. You feel like you’re accomplishing something, even if you can afford it. to turn the heat up a little bit more when it’s colder. I don’t know. It’s a badge of honor to me, I think. And then finally, hiring movers. I made this list, which is something I absolutely agree with. As you get older in life, if you move, the older you are, the less likely your friends will show up if you buy them pizza to help you move. All of those things make movers just so amazing, so wonderful, and so, so great that most people who do it probably do it forever. I agree with that too. All right. We’re going to take a quick break. The government shutdown already officially over. We have some audio and other things to play and share as we discuss that, but the house has voted and it went exactly the way you thought. So no partial shutdown in 2026, at least so far. A quick break, a lot more Craig Hans filling in on the Dana show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. The government shutdown that didn’t ever happen really at all. The partial one. It’s over. It’s over because Republicans in the Senate gave in and allowed Democrats to get a performative win and saying that they’re cutting some of the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, potentially affecting some of the funding of ICE. whether or not that actually materializes and ICE can’t do its job because it doesn’t have enough money to do it. We’ll see. I hope that this is a version of 4D chess, but it’s probably not. But anyway, here’s the announcement. The votes went the way they did. One Republican voted no. And that Republican, of course, is Thomas Massey for some of this stuff. But here we go.
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On this vote, the A’s are 217 and A’s are 214. Without objection, the motion is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.
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There you go. Went. Government shut down. Over. That didn’t really happen anyway. I’m so amused by so much of this. But yes, this is a thing that occurred. A thing that causes us to go ahead and not have what I don’t think is all that bad anyway. It’s amusing to me because I don’t care. about the government shutting down. I love saying this every time this topic is discussed. And I don’t know if anyone even thinks this is a radical opinion anymore. I feel like a lot of other people believe this too, because it doesn’t impact our lives as much as they say it does. And the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in government means it could shut down. for a few weeks every so often, and I’m probably better for it, not worse, regardless of what they tell me after the fact. But it’s been avoided. And one of the ways, the biggest criticism of this is that it seems as though Republicans are giving in and allowing Democrats to dictate how Homeland Security, and specifically the Department of Homeland Security, but specifically ICE, will be funded or lack thereof. It’ll be separate bills and separate arguments. It’s essentially defund the police just on a federal level instead of the thing they did that failed years ago is their former version of discussion. It’s crazy to me that we have to talk about this in the ways that we do, though, in our society, because in all honesty, I hope it’s 4D chess. That’s what I hope it is. I hope that they were planning on changing the way that some operations were going or doing something where giving in on any amount of funding is irrelevant to the mission of this administration. But we’ve seen a tremendous amount of benefits to the crackdown on people who are here illegally who also committed other horrible crimes because we’re seeing less violence in cities. We’re seeing less crime across the board in so many parts of our country. And no one wants to tie those things together. And they want to tell you’re racist if you do it. But we’re seeing good things as a result of this policy. So you probably want to see more of it. One of the big things Republicans hope to get as a win in any of this discussion is voter ID laws that require you to show that you’re a legal citizen with an ID in order to vote in an election. It’s an imperfect system. There are states that will give you an ID even though you’re not legally here. States like Illinois are unfortunately known to do this sort of thing. But nonetheless, it’s something that seems valuable, and the argument has long been that it’s racist and horrible to do this. It’s unfair to those who are disadvantaged A viral video asked a bunch of what seemed to be white 20-something college students and a couple people walking around a college campus who were not of college age, but white people, if they thought it was racist. They all said yes. And then asking residents of Harlem if they thought that it was racist. They were all black people. And they, of course, said no. I want to play a snippet of this audio of all the white people saying the crazy thing.
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Do you have an opinion on voter ID laws?
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Yeah, they’re usually pretty racist and they’re bad. I think voter ID laws are a way to perpetuate racism.
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Would you go as far as to say those laws are racist? For sure. Do you think it suppresses the African American vote? Definitely.
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Because they’re less likely to have state IDs.
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Minority voters are less likely to have the kinds of IDs that have been described or required.
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These types of people don’t live in areas with easy access to DMVs or other places where they can get identification.
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You can always get IDs if you open the internet. Does that also make it difficult for black people in particular? Yeah, you have to have access to the internet.
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Yeah, you do.
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Of course they don’t. You have to pay an internet service provider for certain fees. Do you think that’s harder for black people to go online?
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Well, I feel like they don’t have the knowledge of how it works.
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Okay, a lot of that sounds… kind of racist, if we’re all being honest, which of course it does. White people saying that they assume black people don’t have IDs because they don’t have access to things like the internet or don’t understand how it works. So this guy who was doing this question and answer thing, he went to Harlem and he asked a bunch of black people what they thought of the opinion of what he said were a bunch of white people who said these things about voter ID laws and racism. I will remind you one more time that 80-something percent of Americans and I’m assuming a vast majority of black Americans believe that a voter ID is okay. 86, I think, percent is what it’s up to now. I say this is a fine thing to require to make sure that our elections are secure and illegal people aren’t voting in them. But I did like this version. I’m not sure I can play all this audio, but let’s play a little bit of it.
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Do you have ID normally? Yes, I have state ID. Do you carry ID? Yes, I do. Do you know anybody, any black person who doesn’t carry ID? No. Everyone that I know has an ID. Why would they think we don’t have ID? That’s a lie. Why would they say that?
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Why would they say that? Why would these people think that? Well, one, because they’re radicalized and conditioned by mainstream media outlets who throw propaganda at them all the time and the crazy politicians who say stuff to them. And two, because they’re stupid. The other reason is that they’re dumb. And when they say and do things that are stupid, they hope that stupid people are attracted to their stupid things so that more dumb people catch on and do the thing, too. But I just love that approach. And some people were less kind in the words they chose. There’s some things that were not radio friendly for me to play of black people in Harlem being asked what they thought about white people on college campuses, believing they don’t have IDs and couldn’t prove who they are to vote in elections. That is uniquely hilarious. To me, because honestly, a lot of times and I’ve seen these videos on social media go viral. We’re like you have the one minority person standing in the room saying they’re not upset about the thing that the white people that are being crazy. I’m a white guy, by the way, in the room are saying is bad. Like you have people that aren’t a part of something being like this is horrible and you’re treating people terribly. And the people who are supposed to be treated terribly are standing in the room like, we like this. We don’t care. Our voice doesn’t seem to matter. Venezuela was a great example of that. I loved all the protesting. I didn’t love protests. I mean, you’re right. At protests, go ahead, do whatever you want. But I love the fact that all the protesting did not include Venezuelans, that people in this country that were from Venezuela didn’t seem to be motivated to go to the streets when Maduro was arrested and taken out of the country as a false president. They didn’t seem like they wanted to scream and yell and be a part of it, even as people who were not Venezuelan were saying they stood with Venezuelan people who disagreed with them and they didn’t have the time to listen. There’s something so arrogant about that, too. To be honest, people get attacked often for their ridiculous, arrogant position on things. You’re told all the time that if you don’t look a certain way or you aren’t, you know, whatever the group is, you can’t even have an opinion in that world. And yet an informed opinion would always be valuable no matter who it’s coming from. But an unaformed opinion is always not valuable no matter who it’s coming from. And we have a lot of uninformed opinion people out there screaming and yelling at the top of their lungs, frankly, again, like absolute morons. I have some audio of the White House press secretary. She’s talking about celebrities and gated communities with private security teams and all the different political things they’re talking about. Essentially, she’s taking Ricky Gervais’ Oscars opening and turning it into a statement she’s making to the press. which is great. There has been a lot of coverage, which is, I guess, somewhat unsurprising. I mean, a lot of people don’t watch the award shows anymore. The ratings for those have tanked compared to what they used to be years ago because how often these stupid political messages are injected into things where people aren’t winning awards for their political opinions. You’re not standing on a stage, Billie Eilish or anyone else, because you politically believe something. You’re standing on a stage because you made music that other people in music liked, and they voted for your music to win an award, even if people who aren’t in the world of that industry maybe didn’t like it as much as the people who are in that world. But I digress. Those individuals and that stuff, it’s just so commonplace. And yet this time, it feels like there’s been a little bit more of a shelf life for this conversation. It’s usually died out by now, and yet the press secretary was still talking about the hypocrisy of it. And I do love that an Indian tribe that believes that it originally owned the land that Billie Eilish’s mansion is built on has said that they’re waiting to hear from her. If she thinks that stolen land is a problem and that people don’t have rights, if they’re on things that are stolen from other people and they should surrender it to them, essentially her sentiment at the Grammy Awards, then maybe she should give her multi-million dollar mansion to the indigenous tribe that you to live there. That’s on her. I don’t have to agree with anything she said to think that she should live up to her own version of logic. If she thinks something, she should live the life of the things she says out loud. Otherwise, she’s not worth your time listening to. But here’s Caroline Levitt talking about exactly this.
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I think it’s very ironic and frankly sad to see celebrities who live in gated communities with private security, with millions of dollars to spend protecting themselves, trying to just demonize law enforcement, public servants who work for the United States government to enforce our nation’s laws.
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Yeah, and that’s the thing that matters most, actually, that she says at the end there. It’s not like these people who are being vilified now because ICE agents are bad, is what mainstream media is trying to tell you, are just waking up and choosing to go attack somebody in a neighborhood of their own accord. Not that I think they’re actually doing that, but the narrative from the left would make you believe that I wake up tomorrow morning and if I want to be an ICE agent, I just decide I am one. And I go into the streets and I arrest somebody who’s totally innocent. Somebody’s mother, somebody’s grandmother, who maybe isn’t legally in this country, but is harmless. How dare I do that? And the reality is that I’m actually a federal agent doing things that I’ve been told to do by the U.S. government and the Constitution and everything I’m legally allowed to do. And I’m trying to arrest somebody who’s a pedophile. who’s a wife beater, who’s who’s been convicted of other crimes and is now in trouble because they’re here illegally and they’re doing bad things every single time that these protests get out of hand. Eventually, someone somewhere tells us who the person was that they were trying to arrest. And it’s always someone who’s done more than just come into the country illegally, even though that is, in fact, a crime. But there’s always other horrible things. These people are doing and the individuals who are fighting against ICE are essentially standing with them. So it’s insane. And to the press secretary’s point, these are people who would never have to deal with someone bad living in their neighborhood. I have my own gated community. I have my own security. I have everything I need. I would never be hurt by someone. So from afar, I can say that it’s bad if someone’s getting arrested in an impoverished community where an individual who lives there is both illegally in our country and also been found guilty of other horrible crimes. It’s easy for me to say from afar, that’s totally fine if we leave that person there, but I’m not moving into that neighborhood anytime soon. And as Billie Eilish is concerned, I’m not surrendering my mansion, unfortunately, to the Indians that believe that they own that land that her house is now on. And she apparently believes that too. So confusing to all that she’s not making that move. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back tomorrow. The Super Bowl commercials all come out early. This is not new. It happens all the time. One of the ones that’s already believed to be what people will think is one of the best of the big game coming up on Sunday is an Xfinity commercial in which they lift scenes directly out of Jurassic Park, the first movie. where their whole computer system crashes, all their defenses crash, and then a dude is seen fixing it because he’s from Xfinity and he’s got to plug something in. No demonstration of how long it takes to be on the phone with Xfinity in order to get anything done by them. Their customer service is not known to be great. But this guy who’s physically there to plug in a router and a modem seems to be capable of fixing the Jurassic Park movie long before anybody gets eaten by any of the dinosaurs. I’ll play a little bit of this.
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Defenses are failing all over the park.
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Oh, no. Not the defensives. I can’t get Jurassic Park back online without you.
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Whoa, this place is awesome. By the way, you should have plugged this in.
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There you go. He’s plugging in the machine, and then all of a sudden you hear the music, and all the computers are on, and everything’s fixed, and Xfinity saved the day. Not exactly the experience every customer has with that company all the time, but darn it, a good commercial, and probably one that will be thought of as one of the better ones because of people’s like for the Jurassic Park movie more than anything else. A viral trend is outing men. I saw this on social media. Apparently guys take what’s usually referred to as crib notes. This would be notes about women that they might at some point be romantic with. Let’s call it that since we’re on the radio. Women are mad about this. that men might write down information that they have on maybe a notes pad app or something on their phone that has certain logistics. Maybe it is just favorite snacks, shoe and clothing sizes for gifts you might buy somebody. Important information. and then other things that might be included there. I found that amusing that people are mad about this because it’s definitely been a long-going thing. It’s just now digital when it used to be another way. Don’t let people see this on your phone. It’s maybe a lesson if you do have this at some point on the old cell phone. A man took off all his clothes on a tram at Universal Studios. He was arrested. Security took about 15 minutes to get the guy who was up for some reason on this thing as he was doing horrible stuff. People love getting naked and getting arrested for getting naked. I don’t understand that crime. I’ve never understood that one. People who are committing another crime and then also take their clothes off are people who the only crime is taking the clothes off. I get perverted, horrible people exist in our society. But you think there’s got to be a better way to go about whatever you’re trying to do to get your jollies without getting arrested. And yet, darn it, it happens. And it’s definitely going to be a thing that gets people’s attention quickly and gets you arrested quickly. Not a lot of people get away with the crime of getting naked somewhere. Thank God, I’m happy about that, but I just don’t understand it. And then finally, one last thing, just quickly, a resurfaced 3,300-year-old Egyptian document may hint to some biblical figures being real. Giants that are referenced in the Bible at certain times and other groups. The 3,300-year-old document has been known about for a while. It’s actually in a museum, but has rekindled interest. from some religious groups, including some out of Pennsylvania, into thinking it’s one of the definitive demonstrations that what’s in the Bible is also historically accurate. I’m fine with this as a Catholic. I like this. It’s funny that this thing has been sitting out there and available for people to read for a while, and I guess you just get bored for a bit. You don’t really talk about it. Then you remember it, and you’re like, oh yeah, let’s talk about that thing. But hey, it’s good. It proves stuff. I’m all for it. That’s it. That’s the show.
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