SPEAKER 15 : 0:00

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SPEAKER 28 : 0:29

This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, two great ways to stay connected with her and the show on X, on Twitter. Do that every single day. Check it out and everything going on there. And Producer Steven putting up a lot of awesome stuff. All right, let's do this. First, the back and forth between NBC News and the White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, is fantastic. She's very good at this job. I'm going to be honest about that. I don't think that's because she's on a certain side of the political aisle that I happen to be a fan of. I think it's because of the way you react when people challenge you and they're wrong. When you have someone who challenges you and you have to lie, you have to figure out a really good way to not sound like you're lying or avoiding the question. The last White House press secretaries we've had were really bad at that part. They essentially sounded like they were avoiding or, I'll get back to you, I'll find more information out. Being well prepared and being able to combat people who want to convince the United States that what you're saying isn't true, even when it definitively is,

SPEAKER 08 : 1:42

uh absolutely are better at this gig carolyn levitt for sure is one of them here is some audio of her back and forth with nbc news at a white house press conference just yesterday sure the president showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white south africans and he said were murdered we know that that was not true and that the video wasn't doing that so i wonder why did the president choose to show that it's not true the video was showing a burial site it is unsubstantiated that that's the case no it's

SPEAKER 05 : 2:11

It is true that that video showed the crosses that represent... The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin. And those crosses are representing their lives. Those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it.

SPEAKER 28 : 2:38

Look, the topic is horrible. No part of me is laughing because of the horribleness of the conversation. The thing that I'm laughing about is how ridiculous the reporter is starting to sound by trying to argue this with the White House press secretary. And it's about to get slam dunk version of what you're saying and what you're objecting to has been proven to be wrong. And one of your colleagues in the room An organization that certainly is not right-leaning even remotely has said that what we showed is real, even as you claim to say it's false or unsubstantiated or some ridiculous thing.

SPEAKER 08 : 3:15

Are you disputing that there's no... I'm disputing the fact that the video showed what the president claimed it showed because it did not show that. But even more, what I'm asking you is who at the White House... No, it didn't show that.

SPEAKER 05 : 3:23

It showed white crosses representing people who have perished because of racial persecution.

SPEAKER 08 : 3:27

the videos that the president shows, and what protocols are in place when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders to show?

SPEAKER 05 : 3:35

Yamiche, what's unsubstantiated about the video? The video shows crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government. In fact, the Associated Press, of all places, has a picture of that very monument, and the caption from the Associated Press is, each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder. So it is substantiated, but it's not just by that.

SPEAKER 28 : 3:59

That's incredible, by the way, that back and forth. It's incredible. And then you get further, further and down to the minute details in which the reporter is trying to claim that the whole thing is a lie while not explaining how she's trying to say that until the very end of all this pushback. She's like, well, it's not literally a burial site. People's bodies aren't actually under the crosses, even if they represent the exact number of people who deserve to have a burial site with their, you know, cross with their remembrance for their families, you know, demonstrated to the rest of the world is something that's bad that's happening that we should want to happen zero times. in our society or in the world. It's crazy. But honestly, this is a slam dunk by the White House press secretary. And as I said, I think she's uniquely good at this job. I did think that other press secretaries that Trump chose were good at this job. Here's another one.

SPEAKER 05 : 4:53

In other news, the Department of Homeland Security conducted a deportation flight from Texas to remove vicious, illegal criminals in the United States. All of these individuals were sent, or are trying to be sent, to a third country. And President Trump promised to get vicious, illegal alien murderers, rapists, and pedophiles like these out of our country, and he is delivering, trying to deliver, on this promise. But no matter how upset this makes Democrats, we will continue to deport these monsters to keep Americans safe. And here are the heinous individuals.

SPEAKER 28 : 5:32

Okay, honestly, it's going to make me real depressed just before the holiday to go through all that. So I'm not going to play. I could play it, I guess, if you want the context of it. No, I don't want to play it. This weekend is a holiday weekend. But there are bad. They do bad things, the people that got removed from this country. My favorite part of that audio is, though, no matter how upset this makes Democrats, we will continue to deport these monsters to keep America safe because that's something we should be doing. And that's something that shouldn't be an argument. between sides of the political aisle. All right, let's move on. Nuclear power is coming back, baby. President Trump is going to sign an executive order to remove restrictions to boost that industry. Stocks have rallied within the nuclear power world because of Trump signaling a willingness to benefit and not harm. That industry is every single one of these decisions gets made, whether it's not trying to put red tape all over oil and gas, something that Biden did, or now this nuclear energy and embracing it. What we're seeing is energy prices here in the United States going way down, gas prices going down and stuff being awesome for all of us. Which is interesting, right? Because we're often told when the Democratic politician is in office with the policies that are hurting the industry of energy, we're told that they couldn't possibly affect the cost of energy, that it's not within the powers of the president to do that. And then when Trump gets into office and gas prices are at the lowest price they've been for Memorial Day weekend in 20 plus years, you say to yourself, How is this possible if you claim the other thing isn't? How is this guy actually impacting the prices? And it's plans like this. It's stuff like this in which we're going to pay less and less and less in energy as we keep creating it here. And I'll say one thing as a millennial who was raised at a time when schools taught you about global warming and all that stuff. And this is my best point to anyone that's up in arms about this is going to ruin the world we live in as a reaction to Trump's nuclear power policies. If we don't enhance our production of energy, other places in the world will. They always will, especially since some of this energy is provided from one place to another place. All kinds of different ways that that's done. If we don't embrace energy, we don't fix the world. And even if, say, there's not some level of what we stop doing, someone else picks up doing, there's still no impact on society as a whole, according to all these scientists who say all the terrible things they say, if just the United States makes decisions and no one else in the world does. So if we're alone in how we behave, we have zero ability to do any of the things that people claim they're trying to do when they take over these industries. So all of that is just out the door when people discuss this. We pretend as though if the USA has less nuclear power, somehow all the people that are saying, you know, global warming is upon us are satisfied. They're like, oh, no, things are great now. which is not at all what they say. I don't know if everyone turned off every version of power and we went back to candlelight at night if the fearmonger people in the world of the scientific community that says that would shut up. I feel like they'd keep talking. They'd be like, well, you don't know. The candles are now the problem. It seems like they just want us to have pitch black. all the time. But anyway, again, the fact that more energy is going to be embraced means, at least on the simplistic level, things are going to be less expensive for you and me, and that's awesome. All right, one last thing I want to play, and then we'll take a break. This is a back and forth between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CNN, Caitlin Collins, about why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says you should be skeptical of him And, you know, skeptical of his medical advice and how awesome it is to hear someone in a position like his saying that, because oftentimes when you have a fancy doctor as the secretary of health and human services, they act as though their opinion is the only opinion in the room that ever has mattered and will ever matter. And to have someone have such a different approach to that discussion is awesome. But even more so as this back and forth becomes predictable, how Robert F. Kennedy responds to it is truly amazing. Here we go.

SPEAKER 07 : 9:52

You said that people should not take your medical advice. Is that your position?

SPEAKER 21 : 9:57

Yeah, absolutely. People should not be taking medical advice. I'm somebody who is not a physician, but they should and they should also be skeptical about any medical advice. They need to do their own research. You know, you're a mom. If you're a mom, you do your own research on your baby carriage, on your baby bottles, on your baby formula.

SPEAKER 07 : 10:17

They don't have medical degrees, obviously, if you're a mom and you're looking at what science has been tested.

SPEAKER 28 : 10:23

Let me break this down the way that Caitlin Collins wants to say it. They're all idiots. how dare you say that anyone who's is complete moron i can look into uh... information and figure things out for themselves that's their position all the time on these topics is that you're too stupid to do anything said they did they trust their doctors and their pediatrician what you know one of the responsibility of living in a democracy where where

SPEAKER 21 : 10:46

Physicians and every sort of expert are subject to all kinds of biases. One of the responsibilities of living in a democracy is to do your own research and to make up your own mind.

SPEAKER 07 : 10:58

So that's your message to moms or to anyone is to do your own research.

SPEAKER 21 : 11:01

I would say be skeptical of authority. My father told me that when I was a young kid. People in authority lie. And we've seen a lot of that in our country. And people in the media lie. And people need to make their own judgments and be skeptical and maintain their capacity for critical thinking. And that was shut down during COVID. And the media was complicit in that.

SPEAKER 07 : 11:24

Disagree on that last part.

SPEAKER 28 : 11:25

Ridiculous. Ridiculous that she had to get that shot in where she disagrees that the media did a whole bunch of horrible things during COVID. But just excellent. Excellent. Everything that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said there at the end and how people in authority obviously lie. And if you behave as if they don't, they'll just lie to you more and more and more. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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and now all of the news you would probably miss it's time for dana's quick five that's right it's time for the quick five on the dana show uh my name is craig collins filling in d lash dana lash radio two great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on with this show uh first this is kind of ridiculous abc news their news boss has told the view to tone down the trump bashing Guess what? It's not good for the ratings. Unsurprising. This has continued to happen. And actually, what's also hilarious is that it's May of 2025. And that's when news of this story gets out. Not, I don't know, when Trump wins reelection by also winning the popular vote. Something people thought he couldn't do. You feel like at some point the decision makers would be like, you know what? We can just at least skip some of these topics. Just not talk about them instead of continuing to make most of our audience or some of our audience mad. Because I doubt much of that audience that cares would even be left at this point. But nonetheless, they're continuing to try to tell them to rein it in. That story is interesting out there in the world. Also, revolutionary new contacts that are being created in China. That would allow you to basically have night vision without ridiculous goggles on your face. That's another thing out there in the world. It sounds kind of intense. To be honest, if everybody had night vision, I don't know if it also would ruin your day vision. If someone just popped a light on, would you have to rip the contacts out of your eyes to see again? I'm not sure. But this seems rough. This seems to be something that's not going to be invented for any sort of good reason. It sounds like it's invented for ninjas or some other thing like that. I don't mean to say that, but my brain couldn't help me from saying that. That's where it went, and darn it, I'm okay with it. Another story out there that I thought was amazing. A guy graduated from the University of Buffalo in New York with a baby in his hands. He asked before, and I'll play some audio of him talking about it, if he could bring his infant son with him. And his infant son was dressed up in his own graduation gown. So both people matching outfits walk across the stage to accept a diploma. But here's the ridiculous part. He was being slowly chased by a police officer because the day of the event, the venue tried to not let him carry his baby onto the stage, citing some sort of, you know, safety concern. Stupid rules enforced by stupid people who seem angry is something I hate in society. And it seems to have plagued this whole situation here.

SPEAKER 18 : 16:10

I've asked last semester if I could walk with my baby in commencement prep session. And they were like, yeah, it's okay. No one's going to tell you no. But they said it was a safety hazard. They don't want the baby on stage. I won't walk then. And I ran. That's what I did. I promised him I'm going to walk with him on the stage or run with him on the stage. I have nothing against UB. I love UB. I graduated from UB. I'm doing my master's right now at UB. It's a great college.

SPEAKER 28 : 16:35

He got a standing ovation from the audience when he walked across the stage with his baby in a matching gown, graduation gown. So, of course, that made sense. And some moron who's like, nah, the rules apply here. It's too dangerous. This baby might not make it across the stage is someone ruining things. And you know these people in your life. They're angry, they're upset, they're, you know, horrible to be around, and they spread that misery in whatever way they can, mostly by, if they have the power, enforcing stupid rules at stupid moments. They definitely exist, and I get so fed up with these people and even trying to deal with them a little bit or have any sort of conversation with them because it's an absolute nightmare. All right, one last thing. You can tell I'm uniquely mad about that. One last thing that I thought was interesting out there Jennifer Lopez is being sued for copyright cases involving photos of her. So essentially, she put up photos of herself on social media that she didn't take. It is her, and she is wandering around, and someone else who took them is like, how dare you? use my photo of you. This would be the weirdest thing to deal with in the world of being a celebrity because no matter how much I understand the law would allow someone to sue for this, it would feel real stupid if I was the person that was putting up photos of me and someone was like, how dare you use that photo of you that I took? I would be like, come on, man, it's me. If I don't exist, there is no photo. So again, I'm not saying she's right to be mad, but I'd be mad too. All right, quick break. A lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 28 : 19:17

This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio, two great places on X, on Twitter, to follow her. At RadioCraigC, if you want to follow me, I need to get my Twitter numbers to be even remotely respectable. I feel like there's members of my own family that have more followers than I do there, so I'd love it if you followed me. I probably also need to put stuff more on X than I do. All right, anyway, let's move on. Hillary Clinton was on X. And she put something out. Producer Stephen pointed me in this direction, and it's ridiculously stupid. She says, this Memorial Day, will you celebrate and also, and she doesn't say this, but this is the part that should be there. Remember those who we've lost who defend the freedoms of our country. That's what Memorial Day is about. It's about remembering the fallen soldiers who fight for us right now, who fought for us in the past, the individuals who are willing to say that our safety, our protection, our freedom are things that they're willingly letting themselves potentially die for. They will give their life to protect those things for us. That's Memorial Day. That's not what Hillary Clinton wants us talking about. She wants us talking about how Trump's budget hurts kids. She says it hurts the health care coverage of kids, food insecurities of children. Families are going to be poor. There's other things, she says. The AI dangers are going to be unchecked. So kids are going to be harmed. Let's actually dive into those claims and see how real they are. One of the biggest ones here, and I think the reason this tweet went viral, is Hillary Clinton referencing food insecurity and children and the budget from President Trump. Here's the part that you need to understand about any cut that happens with the federal government when someone like President Trump takes over and someone like Biden steps out and how it actually works. won't be or doesn't have to be the extent to which they claim if certain things happen. So what's the difference between policies for conservatives and liberals in this world? It's a few more steps of paperwork to prove that what you're doing isn't taking advantage of the system. What has Trump's bill actually required? It's expanded work requirements. It's pushed the age back to which you can receive SNAP benefits without working from 54 to 64, meaning that you have to keep working into your 60s if you're getting a free government assistance to buy food. You have to demonstrate that you're working in order to do that. Beyond that, it reduces the exemptions that state and federal government can place on people from having to seek work and work in order to get these benefits. Able-bodied adults without dependence would be subject to rules unless they meet certain exemptions. And able-bodied adults with kids over the age of seven would also have new rules apply. So what happens? When the projection is cutting the budget and stopping spending by a ridiculous amount of money on some of these government policies. And then media runs with it's going to be, you know, millions or billions of dollars and tons of people affected. The assumption that people can't prove that they're going to start working. If everyone that's on Snap right now follows all the new requirements, which I'm not saying they will, and I am absolutely saying that the government is anticipating they don't, and that's why they're assuming there's going to be a projection of savings. Now, granted, it's over a 10-year period, too. $267 billion could be saved over 10 years. If they're wrong, if everybody that's on Snap needs Snap and is willing to work and is capable of working and finds a job and still needs Snap, if that occurs, we keep spending the same money on this. It doesn't just remove the system. That's the part that always annoys me. When people talk about this, and again, it's probably something that's not necessarily desired to be highlighted on either side of the political aisle. The side that's telling you they're saving you money wants to tell you that they're definitively saving you money. And the side that's telling you that this is a disaster and it's horrible and everyone that's impacted is going to suffer wants to tell you that without the other part. But essentially, the government is creating more hoops. for you to jump through. And if you jump through them, you retain your SNAP benefit. So those 11 million people, those 4 million kids that Hills is referencing in her tweet, might all still get to keep their benefits if they just do the thing that this administration wants them to do. And to be honest with you, and this is just a stat that I looked up Most people who take advantage of certain, you know, assistances in their community as far as food goes, this isn't necessarily SNAP benefits specifically, but this is other things. Things like getting food from your local church, whatever. Most of those groups of people, I think it's something like 70%, have a working adult that's in the household which would make them qualify for snap benefits and other things like that so it's really people who are using government benefits uh and not even necessarily going the additional proactive step of say getting uh the free food that might exist in your community through certain non-government programs or things that are tied to and also not tied to government programs and i know i'm getting deep in the weeds to say this But it's interesting because essentially the conservative position has long been stop taking advantage of our of our country. If you want a benefit and you don't want to do anything to try to get yourself into a place where you don't need this government benefit anymore, you shouldn't have it. It's not beneficial to you if you're relying on it without trying to improve your situation. That's the extent of the rule. And again, you're called heartless and horrible. for saying that part out loud, for behaving as though that part matters in the equation. And yet the more room you give for society to take advantage of something, the more people who do it. It's true of anything you do in your life. anything if you tell your kids that they're allowed to stay up a little bit after you know their bedtime one night the next night they're going to ask you if they can do it again and if they can do it again and again and so there is absolutely a need to rein in a bunch of government spending through restricting access to certain things that we're overspending on because there's people who are taking advantage of it and also of course people are just full on stealing money in all different kinds of ways within the government People who are corrupting and changing all of those things, too. But I just find this so fascinating that it becomes such a dominant conversation and so widely misunderstood by so many people. All right. I've spent way too much time harping on this. Let's do some other stuff. President Trump recently had a meeting with the Health Commission, and he said some things that are uniquely him that no one else does or says. And these are reasons that people who vote for him tremendously like him.

SPEAKER 03 : 26:08

I'd like to ask Oz in particular, because you and I know each other. He's a very tough hombre, this one. He's tough as hell. And so if you can lead the group, and it's not going to be easy. You're going to have to get in, and you're going to have to fight. If you do it, you can have, within a period of weeks, you can have drug costs that drop like a rock, okay? So you, as a group, I have great confidence, and if you don't do it, I am firing every single one.

SPEAKER 28 : 26:32

That's the part I love. And honestly, that's the part that you no longer see in most political places because politicians don't wield power that way. And if they do wield power, they're said that they're a dictator and something horrible and terrible. And then also they simply don't make jokes like that. They don't, you know, lighten the mood in a fairly strong way. But every part of that's amazing. And I actually believe Trump. If his health commission doesn't do the things he wants them to do, he'll fire all of them and find other people to do it because it's a uniquely beneficial to all Americans policy to want pharmaceutical prices, drug prices, you know, all kinds of medicine prices to go down. That's uniquely beneficial to a lot of us. And it should be wildly popular in this country. It shouldn't be the kind of thing that people are like, well, I don't know if I want that. I don't know if it's a good idea for me to pay the same amount of money that every other country in the world pays for these drugs, or at least some of them pay for these drugs, or get even closer to it if I'm not paying the exact same amount as some of the well-developed places in the world. All of those things are just crazy because the argument for the left can't actually be the substance of the discussion because they know they're losing there. They know that the average American wants the thing that Trump is offering. So they can't tell you that, you know, he's going after drug prices because it would be beneficial for us. They have to tell you that he's acting like an authoritarian and he's trying to do things, you know, through abusing the powers within his position as the president so that you believe they're bad, even if what he's doing is good, because that's the only way to combat him. All right, there's one other thing. I'll play this too, actually, before we take a break. And this is pretty great as well. This is ABC Channel 12, WISN in Milwaukee, in Wisconsin, reporting on that judge, Judge Dugan, who initially was charged with helping someone escape authorities. She let an illegal person sneak out of a back door at her courthouse. And when this occurred, most of mainstream media said it was President Trump imprisoning his political enemies. People said that there was not going to be any proof of this, that this was terrible, and the beginning of another authoritarian move by the current president. As of yesterday, for the first time, as you'll hear in this news coverage, sadly, this is radio, so you won't see it, but you can go find it for yourself for sure. There is video evidence of the judge doing exactly the thing she is charged with doing, meaning that this is not at all a Trump going after a political enemy, but someone who committed a crime on videotape getting caught for it. Here we go.

SPEAKER 02 : 29:16

For the first time, we're seeing Judge Hannah Dugan outside her courtroom April 18th wearing her black robes, appearing to confront several federal agents there to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz, a Milwaukee man and Mexican national charged locally with three counts of domestic battery. This video, released by Milwaukee County through an open records request, is part of the evidence in the case against Judge Dugan, who's charged with obstructing a federal investigation concealing Flores Ruiz, allowing him to leave her courtroom by a different door after sending the agents to speak to the Chief Judge. What?! Flores Ruiz, dressed in black with his attorney, is seen in several of the videos leaving by that other door, one prosecutors say was used by jurors and not open to the public.

SPEAKER 28 : 29:59

This can't be possible. There can't possibly be proof of the thing that she's accused of doing that has no connection to a politically motivated charge that you can't actually prove occurred. I thought all of those media outlets told me this didn't exist. And yet it does. And it's hilarious and amazing that this is a thing that's out there in the world for you to see and for me to see and for us to react accordingly. By the way, just real quick, the fact that they call people who are here illegally the place in which they live and then their sex is hilarious. They call him a Milwaukee man and then a Mexican national as opposed to a guy who's currently in Milwaukee. That's what Milwaukee man means. This is a dude that's not from Milwaukee, that's not from the United States, that doesn't have the right to be there legally, who's currently in that place. And yet when you say it, Milwaukee man, it sounds like somebody who has every right to be in Milwaukee. And they sanitize that language on purpose to slowly convince you that what's happening is horrible. as opposed to saying, here's a dude in a courthouse in Milwaukee who's from Mexico, who should be in Mexico, who got in trouble. And, well, honestly, the judge is in trouble for sneaking him out of a courtroom that he was probably going to get arrested in. All right, quick break. A lot more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I was just talking to producer Steven during the break about the NBA. It has been a fun playoffs this year. I know at times people say they don't watch certain sports anymore because of all the ridiculous wokeness that exists in those sports. The NBA is certainly one of the worst abusers of said wokeness in just permeating every part of that process. But still, if the games are good and if the play isn't interesting, I get suckered back in, especially the Indiana Pacers. Out of all the stories out there, and there is a game two happening tonight between them and the Knicks, and a whole lot of New York fans that absolutely want to see a win after the epic crumble in game one. But Pacer comeback games have been a unique thing this year, and even in the playoffs, and the historicalness of the last one makes you want to see that part. Honestly, I have a lot of friends who... actively currently don't like the NBA because of the political stuff who were messaging me if I watch that Pacers game and saying they regretted they didn't see it because they like to sometimes and maybe this is a sports fan thing in general. I'll just throw this out there and we'll move on to some other stuff. But I think it is true. Historic moments in sports. force you to pay attention if you care about them at all it doesn't even matter if it's like your favorite sport second favorite if it's a team you love or a team you hate you know the home run chase whatever it might be are those historic things those things that you know no one has done or only one group of people or one dude has ever done, they grab your attention because it's the 1% of the 1% of success in that world. Because already the professional athlete is someone most of us will never be. And then the professional athlete who does something that no one's ever done is you can't get away from it. And actually, you know what? I'll say this, and this might make me sound, you know, woke to some, and I promise it's not that. I occasionally check in on the stats of Caitlin Clark. I know the WNBA just started. I don't watch the games. It's not something I do. I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't or you should. It's not exciting to me the way the NBA is, no offense, even if Clark is shooting from half court occasionally. But I do check on her stats because I'm curious about that. And if she becomes the most dominant player in that league, clearly, which she already might be, it will be interesting. There will be something that will be interesting about it. Maybe there will be a demand to watch, especially if, say, she makes it to a championship game, a championship round where she's playing multiple games. I think that there might be a chance. I think 2.5 million people watched the opening game between them and the team out of Chicago, the Chicago Sky, I think, because of interest in it. So, again, something where athletes transcend their sport by being the best of the best and doing things no one else has done are always captivating. All right. Other things out there quickly before I take a break that probably matter to you might not matter to you. What meat you're going to be choosing to cook for Memorial Day based on where you live was a giant survey that went out into the world. And I thought it was somewhat hilarious, mostly because of a bunch of terrible decisions. that certain states are making. All of the Midwest just cooks bratwurst. This is Chicago, Indiana, a bunch of places. The top item that they'll be making for Memorial Day is cased meat. And that's just wrong, man. If money is no object, which is the premise of the question, you have to choose a more interesting, a tastier, a better version of meat than just choosing a version of a hot dog or a bratwurst. That's wrong. Some of my favorite places that made decisions that I more understand. Florida went with filet mignon. Also, I think Washington, D.C. threw on the filet mignon. A bunch of places on the West Coast actually chose ribeye and fancier versions and cuts of meat and steak. That's a better decision for me. Even Beef Tips, which was out of California. makes way more sense than simply buying and eating the bratwurst and the hot dog. I'm not shaming you for doing it. Delicious food. But if money's no object, improve the meat, people. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 28 : 38:10

This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. So much stuff to talk about out there in the world. First, just a kind of sad and maybe a little bit confusing of an update out there. Billy Joel has been diagnosed with a brain disorder. I don't think that it's life-threatening. It does cause him to lose his balance, struggle with some hearing stuff and other things. Normal pressure hydrocephalus, NPH is what it's called. But Billy Joel has canceled all of his upcoming tour dates. All of his concerts as he gets treatment, physical therapy for a brand newly discovered brain disorder. That's just a thing that recently hit the news that I figured I'd throw out there. All right, let's talk about something that's causing, you know, a rift and even some pushback from his own side of the political aisle. President Trump's fight with Harvard. This is the latest move. A DHS letter from Kristi Noem to Harvard says that they're no longer going to be able to have foreign students. In fact, students that are currently there with F or J visas are going to have to transfer to another school to keep the visa or the visas being taken away. How is the Trump administration validating, or at least how are they claiming that it's valid, that they're going to do this? They said the campus is unsafe, and this part I easily agree with. The Trump administration says that Harvard has allowed for a very anti-Semitic, very anti-Israel sentiment to exist on their campus, that certain students who come from other countries enhance racism. that problem and that, and this is probably the most important caveat of it, Harvard has been absolutely unwilling to work with the Trump administration and some of its requests, demands, whatever you want to call them, to gain more information about that. The Trump administration, this government they want, DHS, information about what students are coming, what countries they're coming from. They go into Harvard and more background information about it. And Harvard is unwilling to give that information until, say, it would be too late and people are here in this country. And the United States wants to stop that. Now, look, I get every objection to this as like this is too far. This is trying to act like a dictator. I understand those or saying that, you know, penalizing certain students or whatever it might be. But here's the part that I find good or uniquely interesting about stories like this. Trump is absolutely willing to make someone the demonstration of why you should follow the rules so that everyone else behaves differently. And Harvard is trying to stand up against him for whatever political or, you know, I guess, optic win they think they're getting. But Harvard doesn't get as many federal dollars if it decides to fight the federal government. That's simply true. It doesn't mean that the United States is shutting Harvard down. Of course, it's not doing that. And it doesn't mean that Harvard can't recover the money and funds and all the things that are being taken away from them by the federal government some other way. And it's not even a huge part of the money that exists in that university anyway. But this is just showing them the extent of power that the U.S. government has. And essentially, all of this goes away if Harvard starts playing ball as far as the DEI initiatives go, as far as any of this stuff. But they want to stand firm. They want to stand tall and say, we can resist. We can, you know, say no to you. And this is the byproduct of doing that within the rules that exist in this country. It's not going to go further. No one's breaking any laws, though, and deciding to change things this way or that way and couching them. And I'm sure that'll be challenged in court as to whether or not what I just said is actually factually true. And we'll find out if someone decides it somehow isn't. But nonetheless, and this is the thing I do support. The idea that if you want to mooch off of our government in some way, shape, or form, and you wind up getting kicked in the teeth for it, especially if you're bragging about doing it, that it kind of sounds like it's a self-inflicted wound. Even if the way they're kicking you in the teeth is a way I wouldn't personally do it. I don't like government taking control of things that it shouldn't have control of. But again, it's not really totally doing that. All right, let's play some audio. This is a CNN interview. This is a Harvard professor who melts down over the outrageous, awful, authoritarian decision by the Trump administration. Well, this same guy and people just like him, people who work at that school, would love to be invited on to television to brag about the ways that they're fighting the Trump administration. They'd love that. They want the publicity of that. They want to be the tallest person in the room of short people saying, look at me, look at me, I'm great, because I'm fighting back. And sometimes when you fight back, the bully punches harder.

SPEAKER 06 : 43:01

this decision that Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students have to transfer or lose their legal status. What's your reaction to this?

SPEAKER 20 : 43:16

I think it's awful and it's outrageous. It's another pattern of the Trump administration taking authoritarian actions. In the United States, the president does not have the power to punish people, target people for punishment because he doesn't like their politics. And he's targeting Harvard because he thinks he politically disagrees with them. It's a political vendetta. And he's doing this on the back of students. who were admitted to Harvard from around the world for their merit, for things that they accomplished in life.

SPEAKER 28 : 43:46

Here's what's amazing about this being a thing that people are saying, because on its face, I agree again that you shouldn't try to enforce your will by any means necessary. However, they're literally talking about the guy who was almost sent to jail in New York for a case that absolutely wasn't a felony, has never been tried as a felony before. A business, you know, accounting error, if that's what the Trump companies would say it was. And if New York says it's something else that got inflated from typically, you know, a misdemeanor charge to a felony without the explanation of what it was to try to throw the political opponent of Biden into prison. so that he couldn't run, and the only case that actually got that far. So politicizing and fighting and showing strength by using any sort of loophole you can find is absolutely something that the left constantly does, that Harvard, I'm sure, does all the time. They find a way to maximize every federal dollar they get, even when they don't need all the federal dollars. even when they'd be just fine without them. And a lot of organizations do it, and a lot of organizations feel they're smart for doing it. But when you depend on that, when you use those sort of things, you can also stand up in the middle of the room and say, by the way, I hate you. Now give me more money. It usually winds up being a thing that causes conflict. And so again, I know that Harvard's being made an example of, and I know that Trump is trying to tell the entire United States, play by our rules, especially our DEI rules, which I firmly believe in. I think he's absolutely right in trying to get rid of DEI. Let me say something else actually about that. So the mayor in Chicago, his name is Brandon Johnson, has been viral multiple times over the last few days for crazy stuff he is saying, mostly because he seems proud that he hired a bunch of people based on their race. He hired a bunch of people into this administration, the one currently running Chicago, because they're black and he's a black man, too. And so now that he's getting in trouble for that, even though he bragged about it as he was doing it. He's upset. He's like, how dare the Trump administration comes after me because they also disagree with me. They also politically don't like me and find something that I actually did wrong and try to hold me accountable for the thing I did wrong. Let me play a little bit of Brandon Johnson's audio. But this is amazing.

SPEAKER 29 : 46:09

You know, as far as, you know, the president's animus towards Women, people of color, working people. We have always known who he has been. This is not a surprise. He's a monster. Period. End of statement. We have the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago. And he is threatened by that. You can tell when someone is fearful is because they act out. We have a president that is screaming and having tantrums right now because we have an administration that reflects the city of Chicago, but he would much rather have administrations that reflect the country club.

SPEAKER 28 : 46:55

It is ridiculous. Every part of this is ridiculous. My favorite part is when he says that someone who behaves at all is, you know, someone acting out because they're afraid. So that means anyone who takes any action for anything is afraid. And that's why they're behaving the way they're behaving. Even say like a cop who's stopping someone from killing someone else. That cop was terrified. That's why he did what he did. And that cop might actually be scared. But nonetheless, that's not why you take the action. Sometimes you take action because people are doing things that are bad and you want them not to do the bad things anymore. And by the way, when he says that his current administration reflects the population of Chicago, oftentimes an excuse used by people to say they do things the way they do them. The truth is that the majority of people that live in Chicago are actually white. About 36% of Chicago is white people. 29% is black. 7% is Asian. 0.1% is Native American, et cetera, et cetera. There's other races. A lot of people who describe themselves as Hispanic might also describe themselves as white, by the way. So significant population and diversity there. Not exactly reflected. in the Brandon Johnson administration. And so here's what's so funny about all the virtue signaling and all the ridiculousness of these sort of conversations. They don't have to exist. And what I mean by this, and I'm not trying to help the bad guys do their bad stuff better. politicians need the political win of hiring people that don't look like me, a white guy. They desperately want it because if they didn't tout it, if they didn't brag about it, if they didn't celebrate it, they could do it and no one could object to it. If they told us everyone they hired got their jobs solely based on merit, I'd have nothing to be upset about. Now, I could be suspicious that that's not true and I could talk about it in a different way, but the fact that they admit it And they admit it because they know that it's politically advantageous to them with their voters that they want voting for them is the thing that causes the problem. Because when you use simple logic, you understand easily it's not a good policy. You shouldn't hire anyone based on their race or their sex. That's not why they should get a job. They should get a job because they're good at something. And anyone who wants to yell at a radio or me or anyone else saying that, how dare you? If that's true, then the people that have these jobs won't get them. Well, then they don't deserve them. If they can't get a job based on merit, they shouldn't get a job based on something else. And if you think they're not getting evaluated fairly, we can have that discussion by proving it, not just saying that you think it exists. You have to prove that it's true, which means that whoever gets the job, you have to demonstrate how they're not as qualified as someone who didn't get the job. And then we can do this on a case-by-case basis, and we can figure it all out. But anyway, I'll stop ranting about this. I just think it's ridiculous that this is the kind of conversation we have in society so much. And it emboldened so many people on a certain side of the political aisle to say things that are like evidently racist. I know people that will look at me and say they hate white dudes to my face. And, like, I can't fathom saying that to someone else to look at them and who they are and whatever their race, sex, anything is and be like, hey, I hate everybody that looks like you. And yet people can do it to me, to my face, and not worry about any ramifications from it because of the current version of the world we live in. And that is nuts. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

SPEAKER 28 : 51:31

That's right. This is the Dana Show. It's time for a quick five. My name is Craig Collins, filling in DLash, DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things DanaLash. A few interesting stories out there. Two of these are not connected, but they're going to kind of sort of feel like they are. First, Wienermobiles will be competing before the Indians. at Indianapolis Motor Speedways in something that's being called the Weenie 500. I'm not going to get sued for anything I'm saying so far, in case you're curious or worried. The Chicago dog, the New York dog, the slaw dog, the chili dog, the Seattle dog, among those that will be representing parts of the country as they race around the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway competing in a first-time-ever event. not sure which Wienermobile will be the fastest and what sort of bragging rights, if any, will be provided to the region of the country that it represents. I'm not sure anyone that will be proud of their Wienermobile for winning the Weenie 500. But that's a real thing out in the world. And again, not connected to the next story I'm talking about. The UK has passed a brand new law that punishes people who are found guilty of pedophilia by castrating them. That's a real thing out there. A whole lot of people are actually celebrating this, and I'm not saying that I'm upset about it at all, but they're celebrating this as a harsh punishment for uniquely disgusting criminals. Actually, they often say that people who have sex crimes against children that go to jail get pretty horrible treatment in prison because of how disgusting the rest of the world thinks that sort of thing is. But the UK said that in order to crack down on any sort of cases it's finding that are, you know, disturbing... And I'll actually I'll go one step further. I know police officers who at times have told me they've been involved in a uniquely horrible case where certain things come to light and the anger, the rage they get and how much it impacts them. That like parts of humanity can be so horrible and evil. It makes you understand this law, the reality of this law, and the value of laws like this, and the hope that it causes people to not do the thing in the first place that makes so much of our society mad. But I just thought that was uniquely interesting, and again, not tied to the Weenie 500 story. All right, other things out there. A yurt company, this is a real thing, a yurtle went bankrupt. Apparently, it's caused a whole lot of people to be ticketless and also accommodationless for a music festival. It sounds very similar to the Fyre Festival. 10,000 to 16,000 euros was spent on a luxury yurt that would have been set up at a local music festival. In Wilshire, coming up in just a little bit in that country, the Glanston Berry Festival. Now the people who paid 16,000 euros to yurtle are no longer going to have tickets to the event or an accommodation to be under during their fire festival-like experience. This is the dumbest thing I've heard. I would never buy tickets and a luxury yurt from a yurt company. Go to Ticketmaster like a normal person. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 28 : 56:07

This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff out there in the world to talk about, and yet there's a really weird thing that's been going viral from a little bit earlier today. This is a discussion on Outnumbered on Fox about a comment Michelle Obama made in a podcast. Again, this is raising people's eyebrows because of how weird it is that the former first lady is thinking about stuff like this. But here we go.

SPEAKER 04 : 56:39

latest comment to uh airbnb ceo is certainly raising some eyebrows watch this

SPEAKER 12 : 56:47

You know, I have to say, Brian, if I'm a single girl out there and I find out that Brian Chesky is single and I can, like, stay in his house. Here she goes. There you go. Right to the relation.

SPEAKER 25 : 56:59

Brian, you don't have to feel pressured.

SPEAKER 11 : 57:01

No, but we've never talked about this.

SPEAKER 26 : 57:03

He just got here. Have you ever? Her husband has tried to set me up before, so. Yeah, I'm very invested in Brian's love life.

SPEAKER 28 : 57:17

I hear a couple of things about that. First, a reaction to the thing Michelle Obama was trying to talk about. She's saying that if you're a single woman and you find out that a person that you're interested in rents out their home on Airbnb, that as an interested woman, you would rent the Airbnb and spy on the person you're interested in having a relationship with, which is uniquely terrifying. Like first and foremost, the craziness, the stalkerness, the all the things-ness that would hit you if some lady that you've asked out for a blind date, maybe you've met them on a dating app, all of a sudden pops up on your Airbnb as someone who just rented your house out. You'd be like, what? And then they're going through everything. That seems uniquely crazy. So first, just the premise of the comment is kind of weird. But the other thing that people said is raising eyebrows is Michelle Obama saying how interested she is in a unique man's love life and the stuff going on with him. And the fact that the guy kind of couches it by saying, well, she and Barack have been trying to set me up on some kind of a date or something anyway. But how how weird is every part of this? But especially the part where Michelle is essentially telling young women, this would be a great way to spy on a significant other you might have interest in. Just go ahead and rent their house. And then you have everything you want all to yourself to do all the spying, all the craziness. That is that's insane. And that's really a thing that happened on a podcast out there in the world. So many weird comments happen because people who go on shows think that they can't go viral. And then the rest of us get to talk about it no matter what show it's on because it went viral. All right. This is interesting to me. This is a discussion about the big, beautiful bill that passed the House. Of course, it has not yet passed the Senate. There's, I think, a lot of assumption that that's going to happen and the president will sign it into law. I think Hillary Clinton and others are tweeting about all the terrible, horrible things they think are in it. One of the most significant reactions, though, and even for some conservatives, for some Republican politicians, has been that they think there's going to be an increase in our debt, that there is going to be a lot of spending and a lot of bad decision-making as far as that's concerned. Well, in order to try to quell, potentially quell those concerns, the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, went on Fox News and talked about how this could actually not be as bad as you think it is because we have this other plan to make money. We want to make more money. We want to have more success, more things created here. And when you do that, if you proportionately raise your debt to your GDP, then you're kind of doing okay. uh... or even if you do better with one than the negative one you're doing even better than ok something that democrats never do when they increase uh... deficit and debt spending they do not find a way to make money elsewhere in fact they're usually also losing money while spending more money but here we go comment there this bill adds trillions to our debt how is that acceptable to this administration again

SPEAKER 19 : 60:35

You're referring to the CBO scoring, I believe, which is tenure scoring, and it's DC-style scoring. So we think that we can both grow the economy and control the debt. And what's important, Bill, is that the economy grows faster than the debt. So what I would tell your viewers to focus on is what I'm focused on, is what Secretary Yellen was focused on, is what is the total debt to GDP? because we can grow our way out of this, that if we change the growth trajectory of the country, of the economy, then we will stabilize our finances and grow our way out of this.

SPEAKER 28 : 61:12

All right, here's the thing. First and foremost, don't mention Janet Yellen when you're trying to make a point that makes me believe you and hear you more. Janet Yellen is most famous to me for saying that inflation was transitory a ton of times when it absolutely was not. And she probably knew it was not, and she was lying to us. But the thing that is simplistically true from an economic standpoint is what he's saying. You can grow yourself out. But how do you actually do that? You have to create a lot more stuff here. And the Trump administration is actively trying to do that. You've probably heard today about how Apple faces unique specific tariffs to its company if it doesn't create more products here in the United States. Now, a lot of people will say this is government overreach, and I wouldn't totally disagree with you when those sort of things happen, when the government does everything it can to invade the space of our private sector. And yet at the same time, if I'm standing even further back and thinking to myself, does this net benefit the United States and the American people? The answer is yes. When Democrats do things like go after oil and gas and they tell you the benefits for the world and the benefit is fighting climate change and it doesn't make your life better, it makes your life uniquely worse and substantially worse. And then you realize even more so that if the U.S. does things alone, even the climate fearmonger people out there who tell you everything's terrible won't say we made a difference, won't say anything got better because things are more expensive simplistically in the United States. And yeah, Trump today actually also made news, President Trump, because he's going to go ahead and pull back restrictions on nuclear power. So we're going to have more energy and more cheap power here in the United States, which is going to make our lives better in the short term. But all of that is so interesting to me and so valuable to talk about and have an appropriate discussion about. Because sure, on paper, every time the government maps out a plan, they can tell you how they get from point A to point B, and it winds up being good for all of us. But there's a whole lot of times where you look at the paper, you see the squiggly line that's gone all over the place, and you go, yeah, that's not going to happen. Every part of this is terrible and not going to happen. But the truth is that if we do simply, you know, enhance the amount of things we create here, we can have a surplus of product going throughout the world instead of a deficit. And that would be a good thing. especially since our country is so uniquely qualified and skilled in the world of the things it creates, in the world of the people who can create things here, and also in just the world of the amount of wealth and money we have to buy our own stuff. If we make our own stuff, that would all be great. That would all make our lives better. And it's a thing that used to exist in our society that doesn't exist anywhere near as much as it should, which, again, is part of the way that the rest of the world has subsidized their growth based on our back. All right, let's play this. This is interesting. Totally out of the world of economics. I should probably get an economic expert at some point on to discuss this stuff with me when I fill in on this show. But Jennifer Lawrence said something that went very viral a few days ago about how kids have changed her life. And the reason I want to play this audio is this is a core tenet, a core belief of the conservative party, of your friend who votes conservative, or you, whoever you know that votes on a certain side of the aisle. And in fact, obviously, you know yourself. This is the reason that a lot of people say that when you're a young person, 18, 19, 20, just start voting, you're sucked into the narrative of the left that tells you that if you have a heart, you need to vote Democratic. But as you get older, if you have a brain, you wind up voting conservatively because you buy a home and see how much advantage the government takes of you for owning a home or even just having a job. And then eventually, when you have kids... You again notice how the things you want to fight for and the things that are important to you shift and change and how the side that actually is focused on that isn't the side you thought it was. If we had a lot more of this in Hollywood and then a lot more admission of how some of the things that are called radical by the left come from this foundation of caring about family, caring about certain things. we'd be so much more capable of coexisting and enjoying things like Hollywood again. You just need more of this sentiment and then the one, two, three step of what it provides to a lot of the discussions we have where people retreat to their corners. But here we go.

SPEAKER 01 : 65:47

Having children changes everything. It changes your whole life. It's brutal and incredible. And so not only do they go into every decision of, you know, if I'm working, where I'm working, when I'm working. They've taught me, I mean, I didn't know that I could feel so much and my job is, has a lot to do with emotion and they've opened up the world to me.

SPEAKER 28 : 66:31

Look, all the time, I'll say this all the time, there are certain things you can't understand until you experience them. And once you experience them, you will always understand them differently because now you get the thing that you couldn't, no matter how much you envisioned yourself in that space, you couldn't get there until you actually experience it. She is basically saying that and saying that on some of the most profound things that happen in people's individual lives. And of course, of course, most people agree with this. Now, the reason that this is such an important thing in the world of political discussion is because of how much this is at the bottom level, the basement level, the foundational level of a lot of the beliefs that come from it that exist within a side of the aisle that mainstream media often calls nuts and insane and radical. This is a core part of that. Family, faith, freedom, all things that people care about. Patriot Talk 920, by the way, an affiliate of the Dana Show that I have a show on, believes in those things too. It's actually the tagline of their station. But I think it's just very interesting, again, that Jennifer Lawrence is saying this and that so many people on a side of the aisle that she's not on embraced it and played it and liked it because they never even hear this from Hollywood and how simplistic it is to just admit this. I get to step closer to at least having a conversation without you refusing to listen, even if you don't wind up agreeing. All right, quick break. A lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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SPEAKER 13 : 69:16

But he shot this insurance executive. And I mean, there's this whole host of people trying to justify it because their insurance got canceled. Therefore, it's okay to go assassinate some insurance worker. That is teetering on anarchy.

SPEAKER 27 : 69:31

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SPEAKER 32 : 69:39

It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

SPEAKER 28 : 69:48

That's right, it's time for Florida Man. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. First Florida Man is Olivier Rieu, who is a 7'9 Florida basketball player for the Florida Gators. He didn't actually play this season, even though they won the championship. He was redshirted because he's developing some of the skills that might be lacking fundamentally in a guy that's 7'9 inches tall. But they expect him to be very good next year for that team. He met President Trump. Florida man in the White House, seven foot nine, hanging out and having a conversation. Here's how Trump reacted to the giant human that stood next to him for a sec.

SPEAKER 03 : 70:29

And you're a beautiful looking guy. I think it's great. Come on over. Is he a good player? What a big advantage.

SPEAKER 28 : 70:42

What a big advantage. That's going to be in life. Trump is not short and his son is not short. And still, Olivier Rieu is gigantic. He's gigantic. He's huge. He's actually the kind of dude who can cut down the championship nets without getting on the ladder at all, which is something you might have seen after Florida won the national championship if you were watching. You're like, who's that giant dude they weren't playing? That's this guy out of Canada who is hopefully going to be good, but at least going to be ridiculous to see regardless for that school. All right, other things out there as far as Florida man stories go. A Florida man was accused of setting fire to a strip club and throwing a urine-filled bottle at a police officer. This is the kind of story that only comes out of Florida. It actually is coming out of Tampa. The Pink Pony Showgirls Strip Club in Tampa had a crazy thing happen at 5 a.m. on a Wednesday. You feel like anybody who's hanging out at pink pony show girls at 5 a.m. on a Wednesday is the kind of person that might make certain life decisions. Uh, this guy's name is Arvin. He's 29 years old. Uh, he did, as I said, set fire to the building, uh, because he was upset at an experience he had inside the club. And he then started to throw, uh, urinated empty bottles that he had urinated in at officers as they were trying to arrest him for being an insane, horrible, terrible person who does horrible, terrible things and makes all the other people that were at Pink Pony Showgirls at 5 a.m. upset. I don't know how many people that is, and I don't know what the plan is to, you know, respond to it, but I feel like this isn't over. I feel like more is coming out of this story, and none of it's going to be good, and all of it's going to be terrible. There's a simple rule that nothing good happens after, like, 2 a.m., and it's usually true, and I feel it's especially true in Tampa on a Wednesday. All right. Another story out there. One last one for a Florida man. A Florida woman actually struck a man in a MAGA hat at a Largo Park before battering an officer. Sometimes women seem to think that the rules don't apply to them. I guess Laura Elizabeth Garrett, who's 33, thought she was allowed to get mad at a 70 year old, 72 year old dude in a MAGA hat. And so after a confrontation and Laura demanding that he think what she thinks, no matter what it is they were talking about, I'm sure it was a lot of stuff. She hit him and she attacked him. And that's going to cause some issues. And then when the police got there, she also attacked them, which is probably going to compound the situation. It will be unsurprising to many people. But Laura has blue hair. entirely blue hair that looks sort of ridiculous. I don't know that she went the expensive route in getting it dyed that color, but she's also someone who's obviously very much of a certain side of the political aisle, which is not common in Florida, by the way. I feel like Laura lives her life fighting with a lot of people a lot of the time. I lived in Florida for a few months. I had planned to live there longer, but I lived there for a few months. And then eventually I moved to Texas in Houston, where I am now. And I remember one of the first things I saw when I got there was a dude shirtless, driving a motorcycle with a Trump flag attached to the back of it, just waving in the wind. And that dude was feeling good about himself. And I think it was like 2 or 3 a.m. since I was driving from somewhere else when we were relocating to Florida for a bit, which is a story for another day. But I remember seeing that and thinking to myself, yep, I'm in Florida. I'm in the place that Dana talks about a lot on the radio. And I wasn't sad about it. Laura, this person in this story, probably is. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 28 : 75:18

This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. So much stuff out there in the world to talk about. And yet one piece of viral audio that I just love, I just love it today, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sitting down with CNN for a chat that has an epic, epic back and forth in it. So Caitlin Collins seems to think she's got Robert F. Kennedy Jr., She's trapped him. She's concocted the perfect plan in order to get him to say a thing that she thinks is uniquely embarrassing, because how dare anyone be even remotely humble as a human being whatsoever, especially someone in charge of our health as a country, or at least in charge of directing what we do with our health as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. And so as this back and forth goes, the reasonableness of robert f kennedy junior and and the mildness and how he reacts to the stupidity of this challenge is it's incredible it's like it is the kind of stuff they should teach in debate classes i think here we go that you said that people should not take your medical advice yeah that's your position yeah absolutely people should not be taking medical advice for

SPEAKER 21 : 76:28

i'm somebody who is not a physician but they should and they should also be skeptical about any medical advice they need to do their own research you know you're a mom if you're a mom you do your own research on your baby carriage on your baby bottles on your baby formula they don't have medical degrees obviously if you're a mom and you're looking at what science has been tested they do they trust their doctors and their pediatric real quick i have to stop it

SPEAKER 28 : 76:53

You know what to the left doing your own research sounds like? It sounds like we're proposing that they run the studies themselves. That we're saying that everyday people got to go out there in the world, create studies that are perfect and could be published in medical journals throughout the country. And in those studies, make sure to examine whether or not things work. That's their version. That or you're just a moron and an idiot, and you couldn't possibly read the opinions of six or seven people and decide which one you believe most, or research the people to decide which one you believe most, or even more so, maybe go to a few doctors and have conversations with them as part of doing your own research. There's all different kinds of ways to do that. But I love that to Caitlin Collins, what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just said is, you know, break out the beakers. Get all the stuff you need to do the testing yourself, people. Otherwise, you won't know for sure.

SPEAKER 21 : 77:40

You know, one of the responsibilities of living in a democracy where decisions and every sort of expert are subject to all kinds of biases, one of the responsibilities of living in a democracy is to do your own research and to make up your own mind.

SPEAKER 07 : 77:57

So that's your message to moms or to anyone is to do your own research?

SPEAKER 21 : 78:00

I would say be skeptical of authority. My father told me that when I was a young kid. People in authority lie. And we've seen a lot of that in our country. And people in the media lie. And people need to make their own judgments and be skeptical and maintain their capacity for critical thinking. And that was shut down during COVID. And the media was complicit in that.

SPEAKER 28 : 78:23

disagree on that last part. I love how she had to get that in, by the way, where he says that we need to have a capacity for critical thinking. A lot of that was attempted to and actually successfully shut down during COVID, and media played a huge role in that. She's like, I don't agree on that. I'm incredible, and everything I did and everything media did was amazing, even if we actively didn't tell people things that were true and instead trusted the government to be giving us the only version of the truth, which, in fact, it was not by any study that we have now. But I digress as I say that. I love this. This is so good. because it should not be remotely controversial, and it will be, that anyone in our society encourages you to be a critical thinker that utilizes the freedom of information that exists in our country to go look for information. That is not remotely. If you said that to a founding father, they'd be like, great, no matter who they were. That's the core of what we want in the United States of America, people that feel like they can get the truth on their own by looking for it, however they look. And again, if you want to, go ahead and break out the beakers. Turn it into like an episode of Breaking Bad. Just make sure that you don't get arrested and do a bunch of years of hard time for whatever test you're doing. But I love every part of this. And again, I love the response by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Because if he got madder, if he acted crazier, that would be the narrative. And I'm sure... The simple clip of you're telling the American people not to trust your medical advice will be used a bunch of places. And all of the explanation part will be removed from it, even though that's the part that actually matters. And they want the simple quote so they can say that the person in charge of health in the United States says you shouldn't trust him at all, even though that's not what happened. But nonetheless, again, it's one of my favorite pieces of audio I think I've heard in a while. And also tremendously interesting. When you think about the impact Trump has had on our country simply by who he's chosen to put in positions of authority within the government, within his cabinet, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who thought he was a Democrat for most of his life and now realizes that the Democratic Party has absolutely left him behind. All right. I got to play this audio, too. This is from ABC 12 WISN in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is footage which I know on radio you can't see, but also a description of the footage on the television and a local news team that I'm guessing is always on your side or, you know, in the heart of the city or whatever the tag might be for them. But it's Judge Dugan. You might remember that name as someone that got arrested and all of media said that Trump was imprisoning his political enemies, that he was essentially doing the thing that Democrats were trying to do to him and that it's horrible and terrible, even though a whole lot of those media outlets cheered it on as they hoped Trump would go to jail. Now we're seeing actual evidence of the thing this person is accused of doing, meaning it's fairly likely she gets found guilty of this crime now based on this information. But we're seeing it for the first time, which essentially means that the places that want to cover up these sort of things hope you forgot about this story and aren't paying attention anymore. Well, the actual truth breaks. that it definitely was someone deserving of being, you know, accused of something bad because she absolutely did it based on this video. Here we go.

SPEAKER 02 : 81:48

For the first time, we're seeing Judge Hannah Dugan outside her courtroom April 18th wearing her black robes, appearing to confront several federal agents there to arrest Eduardo Flores Ruiz, a Milwaukee man and Mexican national charged locally with three counts of domestic battery. This video, released by Milwaukee County through an open records request, is part of the evidence in the case against Judge Dugan, who's charged with obstructing a federal investigation concealing Flores Ruiz, allowing him to leave her courtroom by a different door after sending the agents to speak to the chief judge. Flores Ruiz, dressed in black with his attorney, is seen in several of the videos leaving by that other door, one prosecutors say was used by jurors and not open to the public. For the first time, we're seeing Judge Hannah do that again.

SPEAKER 28 : 82:34

Yeah, shocking, right? Crazy that that's something that actually happened, that actually occurred in our society, and that most of media told us this was definitely not true, this definitely was not real, and it's the beginning of, you know, Trump is a dictator, only to eventually find out that it 100% absolutely is perfectly accurate. All right, there's another thing I want to play, and it's probably audio that I'm overly kind of intrigued by. It's just, it's weird, and I can't help it. You know what, actually, I'll save it. It's audio Michelle Obama at a podcast that she recently, a comment she made. We'll get to it in about 20 minutes. But it is audio of what she thinks women that are single would do if they find out the person they want to date also has an Airbnb listing available. That's all I'll tell you for now. I'll save it because I've been talking about it too much. But I'll also play this. This is J.D. Vance, the vice president, speaking to the Naval Academy's graduation ceremony today. and demonstrating why people in positions of authority who have unique reverence and connections to military wind up being so important and why we need more leaders who have military backgrounds or who have versions of understanding of the sacrifice that men and women make and the importance of things like Memorial Day as our leaders. This is something we need more of, not people like Walls who run away and hide when they're supposed to be serving our country and then claim things that they didn't do as stolen valor claims that make everybody go nuts. But here's J.D. Vance at the Naval Academy's graduation ceremony.

SPEAKER 31 : 84:14

for all of about 120 days. And this summer, I will celebrate my 41st birthday. But I have never in those 41 years been so proud as I am today to honor you, to celebrate you, and to congratulate you on a job well done. Now I'm sure some of you share my politics and some of you don't. But I know today I speak for a grateful nation when I say we are rooting for you. Naval Academy class of 25, we are proud of you and we depend on you. Congratulations. Godspeed. And do great work.

SPEAKER 28 : 85:07

A freaking men. Not everything he just said there. And honestly, with Memorial Day coming up on Monday, the fact that people in our society all the time say that they're willing to put their life on the line for our protection, our freedom, our safety. It is so important to think about it and remember it. And there's a lot of ways you can do that, by the way. You can absolutely tell someone, thank you for your service. You can absolutely honor those who were lost, either people that you know in your own family, people in your community, by simply going to things. If you've gone to a military funeral before, even one where you didn't know someone, but you saw a procession happening and you decided to attend part of it, you know how moving they are. You know how horrible some of the family impact and loss of individuals is, especially for those who lose their lives defending our country. But because of that, again, you also should have an appreciation for what these men and women do and, you know, what happens in the world all the time to these individuals. And honestly, another thing I'll recommend is an honor flight. There's a bunch of honor flights throughout the country. You should show up at the welcome home to one in your community if you have one and just feel what it's like for these veterans that are being honored at the honor flight to come back from a day trip or a weekend trip to Washington, D.C., where they get to see all the monuments to the wars that our country has participated in. And then they come home to their community. And usually it's a hero's welcome back. And that will move you. That's just one of a couple of things. I'm sure there's a lot of other worthy organizations you can work with and experience. But that's my recommendation. Do something like that tied to maybe celebrating Memorial Day and honoring those in Memorial Day. And again, very happy that a U.S. Marine is our vice president and someone who says things like that. All right. Quick break. A little bit more coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 32 : 88:40

And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's quick five.

SPEAKER 28 : 88:46

That's right. It is time for the quick five. This is pretty funny. The Wiener 500. I was talking about it a little bit earlier in the show today. We actually have the audio of the green flag drop, baby. Six Wiener mobiles, one iconic track, the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is actually what I should call it. And this is a real thing that's going to happen every year now, I believe. Here we go.

SPEAKER 10 : 89:09

Ha ha ha!

SPEAKER 28 : 89:16

Okay. Some things I already love about this, and I know you can't see it because this is radio and not, you know, video, but I love the fact that you're already hearing, like, the dramatic music for the spot they're creating for the Weenie 500, which is incredible, and the history that they're saying will be made as you hear cannons go off in the background.

SPEAKER 1 : 89:36

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SPEAKER 28 : 89:48

All right, look, this might be a gift just for me right now that I'm watching, but it's a green flag to a red, you know, flag symbol being dropped and the Wienermobiles coming out of their parking spots and everything about it is epic. So far for just you, all I've done is share the music, but you definitely will enjoy it. I thank you for the producer, Stephen, for sending it to me because it is hilarious and you should check out the Weenie 500 in the near future on televisions throughout the country. I imagine it's going to be a cherished event. that we all celebrate along with the Indianapolis 500, which is uniquely fun, by the way. If you've never been to an IndyCar race at all in your life and you contemplate going to just one, you should go to the Indianapolis 500. That's the thing you should do. You should fly into Indianapolis. You should listen to Dana Affiliate WIBC in Indy if you go there. And then as you're hanging out and listening to the radio, you should also definitely enjoy yourself some Indy 500 time because it's going to be an incredible, incredible experience. All right. Some other quick things as far as the quick five go. The last pennies will be minted next year. President Trump said he's done with the penny. And so we are, in fact, done with the penny. It costs us quite a bit of money to make pennies. $56 million a year is the cost to us. So why do that? Why bother to keep creating them? Part of the reason we make so many is people just throw them out. So now they won't exist at all. The bad news, nickels also cost us money. Making nickels actually cost us 14 cents each time. So that's a loss leader too. At some point, maybe we'll just have everything in those varieties be digital only. You only have digital versions of pennies and coins and nickels and stuff. I'm sure it would make people mad. I'm not telling you that it's a great idea or a great solve to our problem. But it certainly is an issue if all of these different types of currencies cost way too much to be created based on the thing they're being created on. We can go to paper versions. of quarters and nickels and dimes and stuff, we could try it. Probably won't be any more valuable, but darn it, it's a thing to consider. Other things out there that I thought were interesting before we take a quick break, there is this audio of Aaron Paul where he talks about the fanciness of his own life and how he books private concerts in his living room because he's a famous person with a lot of money when he wants to see a band. He just calls them and says, hey... Can you do a gig on Thursday at my house? This is part of his discussion about that.

SPEAKER 22 : 92:12

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SPEAKER 28 : 92:29

This is great. I'd love to go to your home and in your living room, watch a famous band perform music. That sounds awesome, dude. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

SPEAKER 24 : 92:40

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SPEAKER 28 : 94:20

This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. This is just like uniquely weird. I can't get over this audio. It amuses me a lot more than probably it should, but darn it, that's fine. Michelle Obama was doing an interview and she said something that has terrified me. Not that I'll ever be victim to this. I'm a happily married man, and my wife has full access to my home at all times, of course, because she lives here, too. So it's not like I'm afraid. I don't want anyone to hear this topic and be like, whoa, Craig Collins is hiding some things in his house. But Michelle Obama said during an interview that if you were a single woman and you found out the guy you were interested rents out his home on Airbnb. She's the kind of person that would rent it to see what's going on in this guy's life. And that I find to be uniquely stalkery, kind of creepy, that if you were maybe about to go on a date with a lovely young lady, and the first thing you found out as you look down at your phone is your Airbnb has been booked and that that person wants to stay a night in the house. And I'm sure they'd be a little bit more secretive of it and not actually go that road and probably have somebody else book it and then be in there. But I think going through the medicine cabinet, all that stuff is part of the plan. Anyway, here's the audio. Fox News talked about this and played the clip where Michelle Obama's contemplating what she would do if she were single and found out Brian, the guy they're interviewing, had a home on Airbnb.

SPEAKER 04 : 95:48

Her latest comment to Airbnb CEO is certainly raising some eyebrows. Watch this.

SPEAKER 12 : 95:56

You know, I have to say, Brian, if I'm a single girl out there and I find out that Brian Chesky is single and I can, like, stay in his house. Here she goes. There you go. Right to the relation.

SPEAKER 25 : 96:09

Brian, you don't have to be feeling pressured.

SPEAKER 11 : 96:11

No, but we've never talked about this.

SPEAKER 26 : 96:12

He just got here.

SPEAKER 11 : 96:14

Have you ever?

SPEAKER 26 : 96:15

Her husband has tried to set me up before, so.

SPEAKER 11 : 96:18

Yeah, I'm very invested in Brian's love life.

SPEAKER 28 : 96:24

So, look, the thing that people are reacting to that I'm very invested in Brian's love life thing is adding to conspiracy theories or whatever you want to call them, that there's not exactly happiness in the household for Barack Obama, Michelle Obama. I don't care about that as much. That's not the part that intrigues me, to be honest. I really don't give much of a crap about if they're in a happy relationship or not. I don't know if I'm supposed to. It's not actually a thing I think about all that often for any politicians. I'm not hoping badness on people. It's not in my brain a lot. But it's that first part. It's the idea that if you found out that the person you're interested in rented out their house on Airbnb, that you'd want to be in it when they're not home. That is terrifying. There's something about that that I would absolutely think you would not want to go on another date if that's a move that someone pulled on you. And no matter when or how they did it, no matter when this occurred, this seems like the kind of thing that's just absolutely crazy. I have a piece of audio. I have not screened this audio to make sure that it's playable on the radio. But as a couple of friends of mine in another show often say, you got to risk it for the biscuit. But this might be a warning for producer Steven that we're risking it for the biscuit. This is a viral piece of video that just popped up of a Democratic politician saying they hadn't slept in 27 hours because they were fighting the good fight. I'm not saying that I expect this to have naughty language in it. But if you're awake for 27 hours, you never know. Once again, I'm risking it for the biscuit.

SPEAKER 09 : 97:51

Just got back from the Capitol. I haven't slept in 27 hours. Democrats fought all night, all day and into the morning today. to try to stop the Republicans from yanking health care away from nearly 14 million people, from making the largest nutrition assistance cuts in American history, all in service to making rich people richer.

SPEAKER 28 : 98:14

She's been asleep. She's been awake for 27 hours. It looks like it, by the way. She's in like a bathrobe and stuff and her eyes are kind of like blinky and whatnot. I don't know. She's obviously playing this up quite a bit as well, which is so stupid. But here's the other thing. And I've reacted to this before and I'll react to it again on the show. The narrative that the biggest impact that the big, beautiful bill will have negatively on our society will be all the ways that it's pulling support from tons and tons of Americans. And yes, there's a bunch of projected savings in the budget for things like SNAP programs or things like Medicare programs. But if you're being truly fair about how you discuss that, truly honest and fair you're not talking about money that's just strictly being taken away you're talking about money that is creating more hoops to jump through for people to get it and the design of those hoops is to prevent people from misusing our system Two of the biggest changes that will be happening for both SNAP and Medicare, the age in which someone who is receiving these kind of benefits will go up from in the 50s to in the 60s, for which you have to be a working adult. If you are able-bodied, if there's no restrictive reason that you're not working a job and you get some kind of gig and then still need assistance, you would qualify for it under Trump's policy. So it's not that you have no access to it. It's that you have to do some things in your own life to give yourself the additional ability to have that enhance how you're living your life or what you're doing to make ends meet, to get by. That's one aspect of it that really matters. The other one is that if you do remove waste, fraud, and abuse in our society in all kinds of ways, which Democrats even agree with, depending on what the topic is, then you definitely save the government money and that should be a good thing. And when you don't do that, when you don't put a prevention mechanism in place to stop people from misusing systems, They do it and they do it more and more and more. And I know I'll get some kind of anger, at least some places for saying it this way, but there's no other way to say it. If you have kids and you give your kids the ability to not follow a rule one time or two times, there's a chance that they're never gonna wanna follow it again. So the more you give in, the more people who you give in to decide that now's the opportunity to take advantage. So simply creating a work requirement for some of the most generous support systems that exist within our country is not the same as fully removing those systems from our government's payrolls. And that's how it's going to be represented by politicians and by mainstream media, that the money was just taken away. It's projected to not be there, but it's projected because of waste, fraud and abuse, not because people who are deserving of some of this assistance won't be able to get it. That's just a point to put out there. I know you might still not be happy that there's a path to still get these things if you have other issues with certain programs. But nonetheless, I think it's important to at least have a conversation honestly when talking about this stuff. All right. One other thing I do want to play. Before we take a break and shift gears because, darn it, we can't do serious stuff the entire show. And this isn't all that serious, but it is amusing. President Trump is such a unique person that there are times when he'll say or do something, even if you hate the guy, even if you think he's the worst politician that's ever existed on the planet, where you can't help but admit that was kind of funny. What just happened there, that was amusing. So he's sitting and talking to the health commissioners, the health commission, excuse me, and he's talking about how he'd like to see the price of medicine go down, something that almost all of the United States would like to see. There are not many Americans who make the argument who don't work for pharmaceutical companies that we should have these prices continue to be ridiculously high compared to the rest of the world. And so as Trump is talking to them and as he's calling some of the individuals on that commission out by name, He also says something that only Donald Trump, as far as, you know, someone in an office like this would say, or anyone in general. Like, sometimes the comments he makes, your friend at the end of the bar doesn't even say them. Not that that's bad. It's just certainly unique about him. And I think it's probably what gets people to do more of the stuff he wants them to do.

SPEAKER 03 : 102:35

I'd like to ask Oz in particular, because you and I know each other. He's a very tough hombre, this one. He's tough as hell. And so if you can lead the group, and it's not going to be easy. You're going to have to get in, and you're going to have to fight. If you do it, you can have, within a period of weeks, you can have drug costs that drop like a rock, okay? So you, as a group, I have great confidence. And if you don't do it, I am firing every single one.

SPEAKER 28 : 102:58

It's that last part. If you don't do this, if drug prices don't go down, I'm firing every last one of you. And it's said as a joke and everybody in the room laughs, but it's the kind of thing that Trump also kind of means. And if you had another politician, say a Biden, who probably would forget halfway through his sentence what he was talking about, Obama, anyone try to make a similar joke to that, it would be very different. There would be no undercurrent of threat. that exists there, that absolutely is a byproduct of the way that Trump is talking about those sort of things, that again, as I said, makes him uniquely effective when he's negotiating with other countries in the world, when he's talking about a wide variety of issues, or in this case, even threatening not just people getting fired on a commission in the government, but he's also going to add tariffs potentially to Apple's products or the things they use and the things they import into our country to make these products. If they don't start making iPhones here in the United States, I think it's something like a 50 or 60 percent tariff. And that that actually seems like a good thing, too, because, again, more production, more creation here will lower the amount of trade deficits we have with the rest of the world. We'll increase our GDP. We'll do all kinds of things that help us be a more wealthy country. a country that should be ridiculously wealthy, or we should have a huge advantage, if I'm trying to sound like Trump for a second, that we simply don't have because we've subsidized the rest of the world for a very long time. And that is one of a couple things that is absolutely at the forefront of Trump's mind and his policies in trying to pull that apart. And it certainly is aggressive, and certainly people can have problems with some of the things that are happening now, but if the end result is the success that they're hoping it is, I don't think I'm going to look back on this time period all that mad if we wind up in the place that we could be in in the very near future. 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. Thrilled to be with you. So many things to talk about. So little time left to do it. I do love a list of things that went viral on the Internet, as sometimes I do enjoy even the simplicity of a list. These are all the top one-hit wonders from the 2000s, according to several people. I think Rollingstone.com, among the places that rank these things, are the number one one-hit wonder. teenage teenage dirtbag uh i love that song that's pretty great will afford made the list of number two i want to be bad uh jay kwan and tipsy uh is number four on this list uh excuse me yeah number three was will afford number two lip gloss little mama and number five the reason who bestank now here's what's funny about this uh since this is specific to the 2000s I bet you a whole lot of people have no idea what most of these songs are, even though they're the biggest hits of the 2000s. Because even like the one-hit wonder lists that exist out there, just they fail when you compare them by generation to one-hit wonders of, say, the 80s, the 90s, the 70s, any of those generation one-hit wonders. It's just kind of sad. As a person who is in my late 30s, almost 40s now, and does fondly remember many songs on this list, it also makes me realize how worse music was during my generation than past. Because, like, come on, Eileen. is a top song from the 80s as a one-hit wonder. Take Me On, another one, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9 by Tommy Two-Tone is a one-hit wonder that makes the list if you're looking at the 80s as far as like top 10 songs go there. This is better. That music's just better. And I'm sure somebody's yelling at their radio that I should do the 70s or the 90s as far as one-hit wonders go for how successful those songs are. Fine. I'll relent. I'll be controlled by you. I never promised you a Rose guard is a number one, one hit wonder from the seventies, a five, 10, 15, 20 as another one from the presidents, which is pretty great afternoon delight. Come on. That's been parodied in a few different things, and that's pretty great there, too. That's number three on the list. All Right Now, Babyface, Beach Baby, a bunch of songs that also make that list. So again, My Generation of Music, while I enjoy this, probably has a bunch of one-hit wonders you've never heard of before. But The Reason is You by Hoobastank. Come on. That's not such a bad song. All right. A bunch of people probably just yelled it definitely is. Let's move on. Some other things out there. I just thought this was interesting as well, too. There's a couple big movies being released this weekend. Mission Impossible Final Reckoning will be in theaters starting today. And also the live-action version of Lilo and Stitch. Now, the reason I found both of these interesting enough to talk about is I've really enjoyed the Mission Impossible movies. And every time that Tom Cruise decides to make a new one, he does something dumber than the thing he did in the last one. And it's awesome to watch. So I hope that this one has a lot of stupid stunts that didn't need to be done by Tom Cruise, but were done anyway, because it makes me appreciate the movie more. And then the other thing, Lilo and Stitch. So this is a Disney live action thing. And of course, after the horribleness of the last couple Disney live action things that came out and some of the crazy also controversies that surrounded them, like Snow White specifically and its lead actress and the things she said about the terribleness of the movie, the safest bet you might be able to make is to put out Lilo and Stitch, which was already the plan. And I don't know how many live actions are coming after this, but I'm wondering how successful this one's going to be because it's uniquely appealing to kids. I think it's probably uniquely appealing to parents, too, because there's no wokeness that I'm aware of, although maybe there is some sort of controversy. I would be unsurprised if one does exist or did exist, but I'm not familiar with it at all because it's an alien that comes from somewhere else that doesn't exist. that looks like it's real, and a movie about a little kid who has the alien as a pet dog in the movie. That's as far as I understand so far. I know a few more things about Lilo and Stitch, actually. But I wonder if this will be a template for Disney to not completely do away with remaking things, but to instead kind of shy into the corner where you can't possibly inject wokeism into these things. And I say it while realizing you totally still can't. Because the Buzz Lightyear movie had woke elements to it. And when you watch that first Toy Story back in the day, I doubt you thought there would ever be a woke version of Bud Lightyear in the future. And yet one exists. So who knows? But I do think that's interesting. Tom Cruise versus an alien from space. which I think based on his belief in Scientology, he kind of thinks he is too. I will see who comes out the victor there, and we'll see how well everything else does at the box office. I do still go to movies. I know a lot of people don't, but I do, and I like going, and hopefully you go out and check out something for the Memorial Day holiday. All right, one super last thing as far as the last topic before we get out of here. Half of people who have a cleaning service in their home clean the house before the cleaning service gets there. Half. 53% actually. You pay someone to do work you don't want to do, but then you do it so you're not embarrassed by how hard the work is. Anybody doing this should stop. The rest of us can laugh at you. All right, this is it. I'm out. Dana's back after the holidays. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.