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...decision that I'm sharing with you today. I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process. Last night, I asked the president of the Liberal Party to begin that procession.

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So that was little Castro. Who's announced that he's, I'm sorry. Should I not start the new year off like that? I don't believe in that new year, new me garbage. I don't do that stuff. I'm new year. Same Dana. So, and I, I'm not going to pretend that I like this guy because I don't, no one likes this guy. Right. Y'all out there in Radio Land don't like this guy. We don't like this guy. This is Justin Trudeau, who today, it emerged, he is going to be resigning. Now, it doesn't mean that it will explain some of this. It doesn't mean immediately that he is going to step down because they have to have their new party leader selected by members of parliament. So that's, you know, there's a couple of things that are in play. But anyway, that's how, that's the latest. I mean, we kind of knew this was coming too with all of this. But yeah, he's set to resign. He said, well, and it's expected to because his own liberal party They're they're going to get beaten to death. And I mean, politically speaking, of course, you know, rhetorically speaking, they're going to get beaten to death in the next election. So there's just saying welcome back, everybody. It's the first day of our New Year broadcast. And it's also a day that Democrats say is the worst observance of the worst attack on American soil ever in the history of America. It's true. It's what they're saying. So it's J6 as well. Do we care? Show of hands? No. I just really don't care. Sorry. Because it wasn't. We're going to go over some of the statements the Democrats have released, etc. All that good stuff. Because it's, you know, they've... They're making it an all day thing. It's going to be like an all day thing. They've had nonstop statements and observances and all this stuff. So we're going to touch on all of that. So we've got the latest little Trudeau, little Castro up in Canada resigning his spot. We'll explain what that means, you know, also for the U.S. and. I'm going to have that for you. We're going to get into all the latest with anything stuff. But of course, you know, we have a transition. We have just like we're days away from the inauguration and a new administration coming into office. And what does that mean? Because there were some bust-ups over Christmas break, right? We had a few bust-ups over Christmas, right? There was some fighting. So we're going to get into all of that. So as usual, your hostess, your lovable curmudgeon, Dana Lash, here with you. So we're at the top of the first hour. We're also going to do some recapping because we've had, you know, the Vegas, that whole situation. And Lorraine over at Substack has the latest piece up about that if you want to follow along because there's a lot of really good new information there. She thinks that it's more PTSD and veterans issues more so than it was a terror attack. And the two are unrelated. Now, New Orleans, that was a whole other story. So the latest, Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister. His policy's disastrous. Just the latest domino in this progressive chain to fall. Because he's been, well, I mean... Let's go all the way back to lockdown. And then when you had the trucker strikes and he is a severely anti-speech authoritarian. And so for him to step down. This is incredibly significant. And it also means that there, you know, we could have even better relations with Canada. I mean, you know, who knows? There are a number of lawmakers that are tipped to consolidate power. Amongst them, one of our favorites, Pierre Polivier. He was the apple-eating guy. Remember him? He was the guy who was eating the apple when a reporter tried to pin him down on something and Polly Avere wasn't having it. And so he was eating his apple and he became like this viral sensation because of it. And he's just very straight. No chaser is just going to handle the business of his country. So he's tipped amongst several others. As to, you know, maybe potentials for where the power will solidify. Trudeau became he's been in power since I mean, he took over the Liberal Party in 2013. He's been there quite some time. So this is it's interesting that. He's finally been forced out. And I think that had the U.S. elections not gone the way they would, I think it would have been a little bit more difficult to do this with Trudeau. But he was he's been there since 2015. He had a no confidence vote from Parliament. And that was back in September. And they've there's been a lot of efforts to remove him from office. And now it looks like here you have it. So we're going to cover this more. Also. We have, oh, goodness. No, I did not watch the Golden Globes because I don't care. I don't care. Right, Cain? We're just doing a quick check just in case anybody was wondering if we're going to touch on that. Yeah, it didn't. I watch what I want to watch. I don't care who's getting awards. I just don't care. So the move we're talking about some of the latest with Justin Trudeau. So we know Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House. We're going to cover. We're going to touch on some of that infighting. But that's not really what you should be watching today. Now, I know Congress, they're all back in office. They all took their hours. They were getting their little parking plates and doing all of this other stuff. But have you been paying attention to what Biden has been doing lately? So there's a couple of things that we're going to touch on. One of those concerns, the cost of heating. Oh, Kane, we're going to have fun with this one. And then Biden's banning new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters. That is one of the latest things that he's doing. He's doing everything possible in his final days as president of the United States. He's doing everything possible to gum it up. for trump as the transition team and all of the everything that they have to lay out everything that they have to organize gets underway so he's he's biden says he's using his authority under the federal outer continental shelf lands act to protect offshore areas on the east and west coast uh etc etc and he says oh it's uh you know these are what coastal communities have wanted for a very very long time this touches like 625 million acres in And it's one of the things, one of the last things that he's doing as a way to just, you know, a giant middle finger salute, which I don't think that that's entirely. I don't think anybody's surprised that, you know, they're seeing we're seeing Biden do something like this. But still. I mean, to do something, to do this, to try to further constrict us where it concerns oil and gas and drilling, right? I mean, you're out in two weeks. It's petty. It's supremely petty. But this is what again, if you watch that medal of what is it, the Medal of Freedom ceremony that he had and he was giving out those medals. Do you think were you expecting anything else? I mean, this was a guy who awarded George Soros and Hillary Clinton medals. But at the same time, they denigrate people like Elon Musk and others. They've had their own Elon Musk forever. George Soros was the original. I mean, the progressive version. So I'm not quite sure why they're upset just because, what, someone doesn't think the way that the left does? Oh, my heavens. So... The fact that he's awarded – had them, included them in there, that was just a giant troll. That's all that was. And this is kind of – he's petty. He's getting all of his pettiness out. That's why I was saying don't feel sorry for him. He does that old pawpaw shtick. You can't feel sorry for him in that situation. You can't. This is who he is. But the banning – this is something that will be – I think that they can be undone quite easily. But this – It looks at all of the future leasing for oil and gas. So it's, from what I understand, the existing activities, for the lack of a better way to put it, are unaffected. But what he's trying to do is put a lock on any kind of future leasing, exploration, etc. Which isn't, I mean, just because it's future leasing doesn't make it any less worse than what this is. But, and they keep saying climate crisis, climate crisis. It's not a climate crisis. I mean, we're getting, it's 20, what's the temperature today in Texas? 30 degrees. It's 30 degrees in Texas. 30 degrees. You guys, I'm in, I can't wear any more sweaters than I am already. I mean, I am entirely in an outfit. It's 30 degrees in Texas. I didn't move to Texas for 30 degree weather. I feel like this is a little bit of a lie, Texas. Yeah. Stop it. We're supposed to get in Texas ice and snow later this week. So you guys know what that means. Beginning probably around tomorrow afternoon, you're going to start seeing an increase, a run on the French toast supplies in stores across Texas. True. it is going to be a mad rush because for whatever reason, any kind of inclement weather or even natural disasters, I mean, it doesn't even have to be, you know, where it's freezing outside, any kind of inclement weather, you have people who race to the store to get their bread, their milk and eggs. They're making so much and toilet paper. All they're going to do is go to the bathroom and eat French toast. That's all they're going to do, apparently, when the ice and snow come. But anyway, that means Texas is going to shut down. So, Canaan Juan may not be here later today or later this week because they might be iced in because they're not going to get on those roads. They're not good because they don't even do anything to them because they don't have the infrastructure to do it because it just doesn't happen enough to justify it. It's weird, but that's the way it works. So, you know, I keep seeing these headlines about Snowmageddon and snowpocalypse and all this other stuff. I don't want to hear about your climate threats because it's freezing. It's 30 degrees in Texas. Shut up. We don't care. I want climate change right now. I want there to be an ungodly heat. That would be amazing. Woo. Let's have that. Because I love global warming. This is way too cold outside. I'm not dealing with it. One of the other big things that we're going to talk about coming up, actually, just right after headlines at the bottom of this hour, the great H-1B debate. I know you guys were watching all of that over Christmas break, as I was, and thinking to yourself, what in the hell are you doing, right? Why are you fighting with yourself? Why are you doing this right after you clinch a historic victory? Why in the world? would you now fight with yourself and try to pull the rug out from underneath yourself? We're going to talk a little bit about that because there's some I think a lot of people don't get into the minutia of the whole visa debate and the best ways to come over here. But there's a lot of stuff that said about like the H-1B is it just not is not true. Like the top one percent of the one percent. No, it's not. So we're going to talk about this, get into some of that. We're also going to we got the latest with the because, you know, Jimmy Carter's little funeral procession. A lot of stuff happened while we were out. We got to touch on that and how that's going to affect the inauguration. We've got immigration. The UK, we've talked about this before, the Rotherham abuse scandal. Well, apparently now it's just starting to get, even though it's over a decade old, and probably has continued since then, it's starting to get the heat that it deserved to get from the beginning. And that's because Elon Musk went after Keir Starmer, the UK's leader, and it exploded after that. We're going to talk about all of that and more. So we have a really packed show today. We have to recap some stuff and we're following some of these latest developments too. So you don't want to miss a single bit of it. And of course, you can also hit Substack. and follow along with some of the things that we're going to be discussing on Substack. There's a lot of really good pieces up there. And our partners over at Burn a Gun, the non-firearm firearm. And it's always good to diversify your self-defense arsenal because I carry all the time, and I have zero problem using lethal force. You come at me, UFA, UFO. That's kind of how I look at it. 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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

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It's the feel-good story that you didn't know that you needed to start off your new year. A tech entrepreneur trapped in a circling self-driving car on the way to the airport said, I feel like I'm in the movies. A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur got stuck in one of the self-driving vehicles so long that he almost missed his flight. The guy's name is Mike Johns. He was in a self-operating Waymo taxi on his way home from Scottsdale when the vehicle went rogue and began driving in nonstop circles. And he had to make a panic call for help. He said, I it's going in a circle. I'm getting dizzy. It will not stop. And he was trying to talk to a Waymo customer service rep in the backseat of the vehicle. He recorded some of it, too. He goes, I can't even get out of the car. Is it been hijacked? I have no idea what's happening. So he almost missed his flight. but apparently even their customer service was AI automated, so he actually didn't get to talk to anybody, but that's a terrifying thing. I'm telling you, I'm not an EV fan, and I think that they were pushed because of government subsidies and a whole bunch of other stuff, and they've been pushed on the street way too early than they should have, but that's my own opinion. Let's see here. In New Jersey, they have a... New fewer standards when it comes to education now. New Jersey teachers are no longer required to pass a basic literacy test. That's a new thing. It's under Act 1669. Individuals seeking an instructional certificate in New Jersey no longer have to pass a basic skills test for reading, writing, or math. Signed into law. That's true. Yeah, it is. Absolutely. It's a thing. The bill, this passed in May 24, 34 to 2 vote. It cleared the chamber. So, yes, they said that the testing requirement was unnecessary. to enter, yeah, to get your certification. So that's in New Jersey. I'm sure that that's going to work out real well for them. You know, we're supposed to be positive because X is pushing positivity. You know, like that meme? The guy's going, I said we're positive today. That's how we are. I got to say it positively. New York City residents are being slapped with congestion fees, a pricing surcharge. And companies are because everybody has to pay like tolls to go into Manhattan now. And everybody is complaining. Even if you don't drive, you have to basically pay the new toll because the companies that make deliveries or provide services, they have to add the cost of the fee as a surcharge to all of their customers. And that's and already people are complaining. It's already getting out of out of control. We have a lot more coming up, including the transition period and how Biden's using this to plant some dangerous seeds. Stick with us. Our partners that are helping bring you the program. It's our friends over at Ready Wise. Ready Wise is always ready, even if you're not. And Ready Wise has the best and most delicious premium survival food out there. And you can visit Ready Wise Use promo code Dana20 at checkout, and you can get 20% off of your entire purchase. And they have an array of product choices to meet every budget. They have their emergency one-month supply, two-bucket bundle. They also have their three-month emergency food supply, all designed by their team of in-house culinary experts to make sure that you get your caloric intake required for the day, how many proteins you need, the healthy carbs, all of that. And you can enjoy a range of breakfast, lunch, and dinner options. They got whey milk. They got it all. 25-year shelf life. Visit ReadyWise.com. Use promo code DANA20 at checkout for 20% off your entire purchase. That's ReadyWise.com. Promo code DANA20 for 20% off.

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country and I just remember after January 6th you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on January 6th where it belonged squarely on Donald Trump's shoulders and then you started seeing people backtrack that and not and losing their moral center you had Condoleezza Rice I believe on this very show saying you know we need to move on from January 6th I say no you don't move on because January 6th was an atrocity it was one of the worst moments in American history And when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know, like World War II, things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery, we need to never forget because past becomes prologue if you forget any race.

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I mean, I get it that these people have a fetish with making J6 something that it's not. But it's really I mean, it's really annoying. I mean, it's it's kind of and the left is so desperate to hang on to J6 because they need to have something that makes what they did for two summers burning down entire neighborhoods and race rioting. They need something to justify that. They have to make that look normal. They have to normalize it. So they need this to be more than anything it ever was so they can offset how badly they behaved this whole time. Welcome back. Dana Lash here with you at the bottom of this first hour. And that's how they're starting because they're certifying Trump's win. No one cared about this before. It was just a procedural thing. Nobody cared about it before. And now it's like this big deal where the press is just breathlessly covering it and, oh, the certification's coming in any moment now. The certification's going to happen. Nobody cared before. Nobody cared. We're like, okay, this is a function of government. That's, you know, okay. All right. That's, you know, function of government. We get it. But, and then you also, of course, have Kamala Harris who has to certify her own loss as well. which is interesting, but that's just goes along with her role as VP. I don't care about the J6 stuff. And I think it's insipid that the leftists insist on making this something bigger than it is, as I said, to normalize the behavior that they, all of the offenses that they committed, the summers of riots. We all remember that. I mean, how they set a church on fire in D.C. They set a church on fire in D.C. How are you excusing them for that? They set, again, a literal church on fire. People were killed during progressive riots. The only person that was killed with J6 was Ashley Babbitt, and she was shot by a cop. She was shot by a D.C. police officer who failed the first rule of gun safety. Know your target and know what's behind it. Because he just started firing through the door. There were SWAT people already in the hallway with everybody. Now, I'm all for, you know, there being consequences to people who bust up what my tax dollars pay for. You guys know how I feel about that. And I think, too, that You know, you can't present a threat to people. You can't blah, blah, blah. I'm not the left. I don't believe that violence is the same thing as protected speech. So I differ from the left in that regard. This, to compare it to, like, World War II, are you serious? It just makes the left look all... It just makes me want to take it even less seriously than I do, as if that is even possible. If I could even... If I could take J6 less seriously than I do. I don't think I can. And we were live when it happened. I mean, we were right here all those, you know, those several years ago when it happened, watching everything live. And I... The idea that it's somehow like this great big thing. I mean, it's wall-to-wall coverage on CNN, MSNBC, all of those. Wall-to-wall coverage. The interesting thing is that he gave a medal to the guy who helped fund and facilitate a lot of the lawlessness. Those summers where everybody was writing George Soros. I mean, the Tides Foundation, they fund a lot of this stuff. They were bailing people out right and left. I mean, it's just, you know, the irony. But I just, I can't, I don't take it seriously. I don't take it seriously because I, it's not what they're making it out to be. I'll be damned if I have to go through all but the next several days listening to nothing but that. They're acting like it's a holy observance now, the left. January 6th, like it's a holy observance. And on these steps, this is where... this happened on that day, and this is the certification. There was a lot of confusion about the certification stuff. My whole thing was, I don't have any objections to pausing certification of anything so long as the whole point is to, you're making sure that the integrity of the votes that are being submitted by the states is what everyone had agreed upon. States run their own elections, but if you want me to take your state's Votes that are going to help determine who's going to control our collective future. If you want me to take those seriously, then there are and there's some agreed upon things that we've all come to terms with. And that's, you know, you have your matching signatures. You have, you know, your dates. If you're doing the mail-in ballots, those have to have, you know, be clearly marked with a date, et cetera, et cetera. And in the wake of COVID, a lot of this stuff was suspended. And it was done to efficiently accommodate people voting during a time of self-imposed lockdown. And a lot of them, a lot of states like Georgia decided to go ahead and incorporate a lot of those changes, make them permanent, which is something I completely disagreed with. And they still got criticism. So that's all that that was. People who were people who who claim that they were trying to stop an election are it's a moronic assertion. It is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Just other than the phrase assault weapon. It's really dumb because it's not what was happening. No one was ever going to change the outcome of an election, but states have every right to go. You know what? Can we make sure that that state's votes that they're submitting, that they've done so with the utmost of integrity and no impropriety has occurred? And I think that after you have it in your state constitution to make sure that certain parameters are met and when you disregard those and you deliver votes that don't satisfy the previous vote, requirements that you yourself as a state, your state legislature has passed and added to your constitution, don't you think that you have the right to say, well, maybe we should just make sure? I mean, if it's serious enough to determine the outcome of the President of the United States, it's serious enough to make sure that you've met all the marks of propriety and integrity that you claim to do so within your state constitution that you briefly suspended just to satisfy COVID. So I mean, I don't know why people are acting like it was some sort of usurpation. It wasn't. I don't think those people clearly... I don't think they understood what was happening. They really didn't understand what was happening. So Biden's... I mean, we've got the death row pardons. We've got George Soros getting an award. Oh, and here's the other big thing. The... water heater ban of all the things to focus on. This is what they're doing. So he's got a ban on certain natural gas water heaters as part of his Green New Deal. His Green New Deal. So under the policy, you have to have these new non-condensing natural gas fired water heaters. Those are going to be prohibited for sale beginning in 2029 due to concerns about carbon dioxide emissions. And it's supposed to kick into effect on March 11th. Fewer than actually less than 40% of the tankless water heaters. That's barely less than 40%, though. They're trying to downplay it. Oh, it's the Appliance Standards Awareness Project. And it's talking about the percentage of water heaters that are going to be affected. And it's going to be less than 40%. I don't care if it's less than 2%. You're the government. You don't have a right or any authority at all whatsoever to tell me how to heat the water in my home. You don't. And if you have the ability to do it, you're too big. And we need to start cutting it immediately. They published this just after Christmas. So as you were cutting into your Christmas goods, this is what the Biden administration was doing. The Department of Energy, they published it right after Christmas. And they are stipulating that the new tankless gas heaters have to rely on 13% less energy than the least efficient comparable model on the market today. Why? And it doesn't they say, well, it doesn't outright ban non-condensate models. No, you syntax them until they're prohibitively expensive is what you're doing. That's that's exactly what you're doing. And this I mean, this is just a lot of the I mean, this is a lot of equipment that's going to have to be scrapped. They said that there was a factory in Georgia. That was built $70 million to produce non-condensing gas water heaters. And all of the new water heaters are so much more expensive. Or you have to have a non-instantaneous storage tank heater. And that's not efficient. Not as efficient. So, this is so stupid. I mean, think about it. The tankless non-condensing natural gas water heater at Home Depot. This is from Renai America. That lists for about $1,000 at Home Depot. A comparable one is almost double the price. It's over $1,800. So, you're paying double. For something for no reason. It's a stupid reason. It's so stupid. It makes me want to go throw styrofoam everywhere. I want to litter more when I see these stories. I want to litter can and I want to throw plastic in the ocean.

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Did they ever give us a measurement as to how this regulation will actually improve anything?

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No, they haven't. No, there's no. No, they have none. It's amazing. No. Because it's not. Are you so excited for your double the cost, less efficient water heater? Yay. I mean, out of all of the things, and then you have this group called the Appliance Standards Awareness Project. Imagine how pathetic your life is that you're like, I'm going to join a new club. It's the, checks notes, Appliance Standards Awareness Project. I want to make people aware about appliance standards. Wow. Like if you had cardboard and vanilla that existed as an entity, it would be this. And they said that they want to reduce 32 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions related to water heaters. I feel like most of the carbon dioxide comes from the people that are pushing these stupid awareness that whatever this is, awareness of what? Everything emits some kind of carbon dioxide. Everything does. That's the reality of living in an actual real world. But this is just stupid and needless. And I just see if I were president, I would have them rounded up and arrested for being stupid. This is why I can't run for elected office. I will freely admit to you I'm a tyrant. I would find the quote unquote appliance standards awareness project people and I would drag them out into the streets probably and beat them up. Maybe within inches of their mortal coil with parts for non-condensing water heaters. I'm just saying. Just saying. I mean, how sad is your life? I'm a member of this group. My job exists in telling you what to do with your water heater. I bet they were also responsible for making the dish soap worse, too. How much you want to bet? So that's like a nice little Christmas present for everybody, right? It's going to make everything more. But I got to talk about this. I got to be positive because X says you got to be positive now. They don't want unregretted user seconds. Is that what it is? I regret when I have to be positive unnecessarily. You know what I mean? Because I feel like I'm giving something the positivity that it hasn't earned. And that makes me feel resentful, which then in turn makes me meaner. And then there's this whole vicious cycle that begins. I mean, you see how, Cain, this is actually going to create more resentment. So we're going to talk about that coming up because the positivity. Also, Trump's chief of staff says that there's not going to be behavior. No one who is self-serving or looking to be a star is going to be tolerated in the White House. Oh, yeah, she came down on everybody. And she's trying to get ahead of any leaks. Because remember, Trump's last term, it was a leakapalooza. So she's trying to make that to where it's not going to be like that again for a second term. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she's searching for hope. And that's where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. Your generosity can be the key to a mother choosing life for her baby. And with your gift, you will receive the story of a mom who chose life as well as the ultrasound image of her precious baby. And like the story of Kelsey who found Preborn and after hearing her baby's heartbeat, she chose life. Consider making a larger, life-changing donation of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000. Maximize your gift that can help women in unplanned pregnancies receive ultrasounds and even help place an ultrasound machine in a women's center. Donate for the gift of life. Just dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound or hashtag 250 baby. Or visit preborn.com slash Dana to donate online. Every contribution counts. So again, that's pound 250, say the word baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States.

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Join me in pledging allegiance to our flag. Pledge allegiance to the United States of America.

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What? What? What? What? What? Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. That was a break. That was Kamala Harris. First off, how do you not know where the flag is positioned? You're up there frequently. And number two, how do you not know the Pledge of Allegiance? She was going to go. It sounded like, Cain, she was going to say, I pledge allegiance to the United States flag. That sounds like what she was going to say. Can I hear it one more time? Sorry. I just a little bit of a shock. Really? Is it, though? I don't know. But she's a VP. Yeah. Go ahead.

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Oh my gosh. Yeah, I am going to make a big deal of it because I was told she was the smartest, most genius, genius that's ever widely coyote-ed on earth. That's what I was told. And the fact that she didn't know that, I mean, you know, I'm sure that, you know, in some great patriot Valhalla, there's a point against her on the wall somewhere. Just saying. That's how it goes, right? I mean, it's J6. We're keeping all scores today. That's really ultimately what J6 is. It is Christmas. It's reconciliation. Everybody comes together. Yay, brotherhood and all that stuff. Whatever. And then the fakery stops after New Year's and everybody's sober because then you go into J6 and now it's time to settle some scores. New year, new me. New year, new score to settle. Seems like what it is more than anything. X says you have to be positive on X now. Musk says that the platform is requiring positivity and that those who are negative are going to be basically suppressed. which sounds exactly like how free speech doesn't, but he owns it and he can do with it what he wants to. If he wanted to turn the hearts into butts, he could, you know, instead of just doing the little heart, if you'd like somebody's post, he could do whatever he wants. I'm just saying that it sounds exactly like free speech isn't. So we have to be positive. So we have to come up with ways throughout the rest of the show to talk about things on X positively. Like I am positive. that President McDaddy Showers had his cocaine-addicted son, and he was probably positive with cocaine, at the Medal of Freedom ceremony. You see how I was positive? Right. See how that works? Stick with us. Second hour on the way. You don't want to miss. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends over at Super Beats. The Super Breen product is, I mean, this is a product that, I mean, it's kind of new for them. It's like one of the new ones that they've done. But the Super Bering product is helping with your metabolic health. It's helping with your overall blood pressure, etc., etc. And it's made by the makers of Super Beets. And so the berberine that they use, it's like a super nice berberine. And As you know, because of this, it's easy to absorb. It's easy to work in the body. And it's just a great I mean, it's just a good product. And it's something that you just one capsule a day. It's super easy to take. And that's all it is. So with the with healthy blood sugar levels as well, that's also something really important that a lot of people overlook. And this is one of the things that Superbrewing will target. You get real results. It's super convenient, used by doctors. And it's easy to get. You just go to Sam's Club and get it right at Sam's Club. You can save on the Super Beats hard shoes and you can also get the new Super Boreen from the same company. And you're going to like the way that it makes you feel. So they have the Super Beats hard shoes there and they also have the new Super Boreen product at Sam's Club.

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Why did you change your mind on H1B? I didn't change my mind. I've always felt we have to have the most competent people in our country. We need competent people. We need smart people coming into our country. We need a lot of people coming in. We're going to have jobs like we've never had before.

SPEAKER 07 : 37:48

Oh, boy. That was, man, it's been a fight over that issue in the right since Christmas break began. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the top of the second hour. That was POTUS, elect, who was at, like, right ahead of his New York, sorry, New Year's Eve celebration stuff, where he was still talking to reporters right there, right there before Christmas. New Year's Eve celebration. So it there are a number of things that kick started this. One of those was an advisor that Trump has that he that he named someone to help guide a policy as it relates to AI. And that's Saramam Krishnan was. The guy who was announced that he was going to be at the senior position. And then it kickstarted like all of this, this huge discussion over H-1B visas and H-1B visas. I mean, this is really, I mean, honestly, it's like temporary labor for maybe mid-level skill tech jobs or programming jobs. It's not the top 1% of the 1%. That's been grossly misrepresented. And there are a lot of America First folks that justifiably, you know, I think oppose these. And with Trump being in that line, I get real nervous when ever I find myself coming to the right of a candidate that's supposed that is the leader of the party. And that's kind of where this is like we're coming to the right of him on this. And he was saying that he and he I mean, he actually hasn't. He's with H-1B. He's always been H-1B. supportive of H-1Bs. He was supportive of giving a green card to anybody who graduated from a U.S. college. And this was audio soundbite 11. This was a flashback for him. So he's not changed his position on this either. Listen.

SPEAKER 03 : 39:52

Let me just tell you that it's so sad when we lose people from Harvard, MIT, from the greatest schools and lesser schools that are phenomenal schools also. And what I wanted to do, and I would have done this, but then we had to solve the COVID problem because that came in and, you know, sort of dominated for a little while, as you perhaps know. But what I want to do and what I will do is you graduate from a college. I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country.

SPEAKER 07 : 40:21

The problem is, is that we've seen some of the the and that's a flashback. But it's I'm playing it to illustrate. He's never been like a super. He's never been a hawk on TV. immigration, or this type of situation with visas. I mean, there's a difference between illegal immigration and legal immigration, and there are people, and I'm one of them, who think that legal immigration also needs to be streamlined and refined. It's not, you can't just say it's an issue with, yes, of course, the lawlessness at the border and people who are coming into the interior of the country, and you're unable to verify who they are or what they're doing, etc. But This also is a huge issue where it concerns legal immigration as well. And, I mean, you see some of the people who have been at these college campuses protesting, right? I don't think that if you graduate from a U.S. college, you should get a green card. So the H-1B program, so it started with the announcement of this one advisor to Trump for AI, and then Elon Musk got into it. He quoted Tropic Thunder. when he was telling people if they don't like it, then they could do something unflattering to their own face, which literally was a Les Grossman quote from Tropic Thunder when he was speaking to the cartel that had Ben Stiller's character. But anyway, so... The program, I think, is advertised as something that it isn't. I mean, for the top 1% of talent, there's a whole other program that they go through. They do not go through H-1B. That's like temp work. It's like temp work lower to mid-tier skill set. That's it. And it's been abused egregiously. I always thought... There's a really great account that I follow. It's called Frog Capital. And the guy who runs it does such a great job. He's just a data... Just like a data person. Loves... just going through all of this stuff with regards to the program and the number of people that are coming in. One of the things that he caught, too, the H-1B, because it was a Kennedy thing. I mean, this was a whole program that was... I was in sixth grade when Teddy Kennedy passed this into law. I mean, it's been around for a long time. And this... overview of it and he pointed this out over it for our capital was saying that it's to hire non-immigrant aliens as workers and specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability a specialty occupation is one that requires the application of a body of highly specialized knowledge or attainment blah blah blah it it bush signed it into law uh kennedy introduced it in 89 uh bush 41 signed it into law and the fact that I mean, just the description, it was never meant to bring in the top 1% of the 1%. Again, that's a whole other program that people go through. Elon Musk would be an entirely different type. He would not go in that. He would be an entirely different program because you're talking about the top 1% of the 1%. The H-1B absolutely does need absolutely a ton of modification. It's literally a way to recruit hundreds of thousands of lower wage IT people. That's it. That's literally it. That's H-1B. So I don't know why we're making that like the hill that we're planting our flag on as like a party or a movement or anything else. It doesn't make any sense. And I think that some people and I think voters have a right to be angry if they feel as though there's not enough movement being made, not just on illegal immigration, but just immigration as a whole. Countries have the right to make determinations about who they want or don't want to come into the country. I've given you know, I think I've given this example before a friend of mine that I actually actually she was a makeup artist and when I would go to like the Dallas Bureau. for Fox, and I would go and do hits down there. She worked with Fox at their Dallas bureau, and her daughter was, I think she was studying art history or something like that over in Ireland, and she went to Ireland, went to school there, got her degree, and then she wanted to stay for an additional term or additional semester and take a couple of other classes, but they told her since it wasn't going towards college, A higher level degree, then no, you can't. You have to leave and we'll make sure that you're gone by the date that you're expected to leave. Like they were routinely following up with her almost to the point where she said it was freaky. But a country has every right to be able to make that determination. I mean, they didn't want someone who was just going to be. and I'm not saying that she was doing this, but they didn't want anything like a professional student or anything. They want somebody who's, you know, if they have every right to exercise that discretion, just like France does, just like, I mean, Saudi Arabia does, Mexico does, you know, every other nation is afforded that right. But the United States, is expected to just throw open the doors for everyone, which is odd because the United States also for my entire life has been slammed by every other nation for being a nation builder or an interventionist or whatever. But the moment that somebody else needs money like Ukraine or anything, guess who they come calling to? The United States. If Russia saber rattles, NATO looks to the United States. Same old, same old. But yet we're not afforded the expectation and sovereign right of determining who comes in our borders legally or illegally. It's not wrong to say that you should also refine and streamline your legal immigration process. There's absolutely no reason why you can't say that. But the left wants to make people so afraid of the discussion that they that's how they they've conflated it like any any opposition means you just don't like immigrants is what it is. I think the point is, too, one of the reasons that this blew up, this H-1B fight blew up the way that it did, is because the sentiment is different now than it used to be. A lot more people are aware. Back during the tech boom. You were rushing to you couldn't find enough people that were going into these courses of study to fill these positions. And they were bringing in a lot of people like like I was just describing, like lower to mid tier programming, I.T., things like that. Now we have really highly educated, very specialized, super skilled Americans who are seeking these jobs and they're not able to find these jobs. And you also have hundreds of thousands of people that are being brought in by some of these companies to be able to work some of these mid-tier jobs like this. And I think that that has changed the sentiment. I think people are more aware of it. And I think people are also aware too That, you know, when an American worker competes against someone who isn't, especially if the American worker is asking more for a salary, the American worker is going to lose out. This it's this is less about replacing actual American workers and it's more about strengthening actual American culture is what it is. And that seems to have been lost in this whole debate. I think that the H-1B, I think that it's been a cudgel to reduce people's wages. I think it's been a cudgel against Americans seeking jobs. And I think that we absolutely have to have that discussion and it needs to happen fast and people need to be decisive and show some leadership and do something about it. Because This is you don't need to bring in cheap labor. You don't need to. And the H-1B abuse is insane. And that to argue that shutting that down is a limitation of bringing in the best and brightest presupposes that that's the program that they come in on in the first place. And it ignores tons and tons of data showing that it is, in fact, not the case. That it is mid to lower tiered tech and info and all of that stuff. That's what it is. Anybody telling you anything else either doesn't know about it or they're lying to you for a purpose, obviously. But that's the reality of it. And I don't know how deeply you want to go into some of the data, but I mean, that's, you know, you have H1B, but then you also have the spousal accompaniment, H4. And so now you have H1B, but then you get the spouses with the H4. And there's just a lot of, there's a lot of different things that need to be Robert Sterling did a really good deep dive looking at actual government data and looking at the percentages for salaries that were coming in, how 15 percent, in fact, 75 percent were jobs that paid salaries. about $150,000 a year and under. Barely 25% were $150,000. And of those, it was only maybe 2.5% that hit $250,000. So the idea, the argument that it's super top 1% of the 1% that are making a lot of money and you're trying to bring those people in, that's not reflected in any of the data, in any of the jobs data. In fact, in a lot of it's the same companies. There were 15 companies that received approval for 20,000 plus applications. Um, then you had universities, you have consulting, a lot of it is computer system design. That's like the biggest thing. Um, and, uh, universities, et cetera. So, and a lot of these are Indian companies that are bringing in H1B tech workers in, you know, massive amounts. Like you're talking thousands and thousands, uh, like Infosys, uh, Cognizant, these are all technology companies, uh, and they're getting these visas to bring in people for these roles, uh, And like, for instance, over the past five years, as Sterling noted, 80,000 plus computer system analysts were brought in for Cognizant and programmers and others. I mean, that's a lot of people that are being brought in. And it's not that we don't have Americans to do those jobs. If you're bringing in people that are going to demand a lower salary than an American worker, guess who's going to be getting that job? Exactly. You just so the debate over H-1B, I think it's really disingenuous to say that if you are criticizing the abuse of the system, then you are against the top one percent of the one percent coming in or you are somehow against immigration as a total. 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SPEAKER 14 : 52:40

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

SPEAKER 07 : 52:46

Snowpocalypse is coming. They're calling for actual accumulation of snow in Dallas. Kane, I don't know if I believe the 13 to 15. That's dumb. I just don't believe it. I don't think that's right.

SPEAKER 11 : 52:58

That's dumb.

SPEAKER 07 : 52:59

It's dumb and I don't want it. No, but everybody's talking about the cold, the expansive Arctic cold pattern that's jolting the central eastern half of the United States. So basically, stay inside. Texas is closed. We'll be closed at the end of the week. And that's about. Yeah, I don't I don't want any of that. No. Volunteering is a proven way to stay younger. And it takes an hour each week, according to a new study. Look at that little positivity. You could volunteer. You could just go and help other people. That's what this story is suggesting, that it actually enriches people's lives, etc., etc. I mean, it creates a sense of purpose. And I think, particularly as people get older, I think that that's like... It just seems like that's something that they... I've heard that when you retire, that... That's when like a lot of people have that purpose, right? Like people, when they retire, they got to have a purpose. And that's like when their health kind of starts to decline. I don't know. It's what my mom always said. But I don't know. Just interesting. Let's see here. Oh, I wanted to touch on this real quick. We're going to talk about it more. Illinois taxpayers on the hook to pay millions in damages for J.B. Pritzker's gender affirming. They're on the hook to pay a lot more this year. We'll talk about that coming up more. Also, coffee prices are expected to hit up to $12 a cup by the end of this year. A cup. $12 a cup. Coffee prices. That's how crazy it's going to get. So, you know, save. You're going to be needing to save money on your coffee. We got a lot more coming up. Jim Acosta. We got immigration. All kinds of stuff. Jay Snicks. Stick with us. If you're looking for a convenient, affordable way to access medications and treatments you can trust, All Family Pharmacy has you covered. Whether it's the flu or parasites, cancer support, or general well-being, All Family Pharmacy's online service makes getting the medications you need hassle-free. With All Family, it's simple. You can choose the individual medications that best suit your needs or opt for one of their comprehensive treatment packages designed to give you everything that you need in one convenient order. And every order comes with a doctor's prescription included. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, or any other effective medications, they have it all. And you can get fast shipping with most order shipping in two to three business days. Medications start as low as $3 per capsule. No insurance needed. You can skip the paperwork and get the treatments you need directly. Stock up with their emergency preparedness bundles and access over 200 medications online anytime. Visit allfamilypharma.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 for 10% off of your entire order. That's allfamilypharma.com slash Dana, code Dana10.

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SPEAKER 10 : 55:51

The peaceful transfer of power is one of the most fundamental principles of American democracy. As much as any other principle, it is what distinguishes our system of government from monarchy or tyranny. Today at the United States Capitol, I will perform my constitutional duty as vice president of the United States to certify the results of the 2024 elections.

SPEAKER 07 : 56:15

And she's done that. So it is over and Congress has certified the win. So there there it is. There it is. Welcome back to the program. We're at the bottom of this second hour. And I could not I don't think it's possible to care any less about. concerning j6 then i do although i think now it's even like more so i just i'm the left is angry because it's not the rest of all of you aren't acting like it's a huge gigantic deal that's what it seems like they're trying to make this it's what they talked about all the morning on the view which nobody watches the view but it's just kind of fun to to poke fun at them But it's four years ago. They try to act like it's a big thing. CNN made a big deal out of it. CNN lecturing the country about not caring as much as they should about January 6th. I mean, they talk about January 6th like it's Pearl Harbor. They act like it's Pearl Harbor. I mean, they compare it to World War Two. They're having panels all day about J6 and where we were four years ago. It's like fear-mongering. But they are obsessed with it because it's the only thing that they can use to justify or to try to argue that, oh, well, see, they do it too. Because after two summers of burning everything down, burning down neighborhoods. After two summers of that, it was probably longer, I think, actually, wasn't it? It was two summers of it. They burned a church in D.C. for crying out loud. They set fire to the Lord's house. This, they need something to make it look like that's acceptable. And that's one of the reasons why they're holding onto it so tightly. So Kamala Harris is done at this point. Now we're going through just, I mean, Congress, they certified Trump's win. And everything that they've done up to this point has been a failure. And now you see Justin Trudeau's leaving in Canada. Now, what about Keir Starmer in the U.K.? So can we touch on this story real quick? This is a crazy story. The grooming gangs that were in the U.K., Rotherham particularly, was a huge issue. And I had this, I was going to talk about this a little bit later, but I'm amazed at how many people were unaware of this. And we've talked about it when it first made headlines. But it, all of this got underway. When you had the head of UK, Keir Starmer, the prime minister, he was criticized by Elon Musk because someone had brought to Musk's attention the story about the groomer games in the UK. And you had tons of young women and girls who were trafficked. And I mean, Stormer held a press conference and accused Musk of spreading lies and misinformation and said that the people who were repeating this stuff are, quote, not interested in victims, they're interested in themselves. And it had to do with Tommy Robinson, who is the head of the English Defense League. That was a group that kind of got started in hooliganism, but they had a reaction to, this was some years ago, there was like this parade for veterans of foreign wars in Chicago. somewhere in the UK, and there were people who were associated with Islamism, Islamists, who were apparently heckling the soldiers, and then it turned into this big thing, and then you had this huge movement that kind of got underway in the UK. And all of this got thrown in. Tommy Robinson is one of the leaders of that. And it had like Nigel Farage was even saying that Tommy Robinson doesn't have a place in reform. And then Elon Musk started going at Nigel Farage and then Keira Starmer stepped into it. And he was he he stepped into it by saying people who cheerlead Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice. They support a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming case. And everyone's like, wait a minute, wait a minute. And Musk said that Starmer was, quote, complicit in the rape of Britain and also gave because he was the head of public prosecutions at the time is the way I understand it. So there's that's a little bit of the background to it. The free press has a huge story out today, in fact, where. It started to they went back and looked at this story because it was a huge story when it happened. And it's still going on. Apparently, if you're unaware of it, it had to do with in the UK. And you had girls, young girls, English girls who were groomed and serially raped and trafficked by mostly Pakistani men. Like mostly I was like most all of them were Pakistani men. And this was this has been what over 15 years ago when this happened, they had some prosecutions. They were sort of declared to be nothing more than symbolic. And the story kind of went away. And then over the new year, that's when Elon Musk had responded to it and said that, you He responded to someone saying that saying it was a depraved at what happened was depraved. And he said, read the read the court transcripts for anyone doubting the severity of what happened to these girls in Britain. It's worse than you could possibly imagine. And then, of course, then you got Keir Starmer and others that decided to go to war with Elon Musk. They were harsher with Elon Musk than they were with the perpetrators that were committing these offenses to these girls. And that's the thing I don't understand. Why are people angrier at Elon Musk for tweeting about it and not angry with the Pakistani men who groomed and sexually assaulted them or all of the people who covered the story up? I mean, they there was one instance in which police allowed abusers to hand over children in exchange for walking free. And parents were routinely told that law enforcement's hands were tied because of racial tensions. They even turned a blind eye to the abuse of 11-year-olds. In fact, nobody lost their jobs over it. In fact, it said, this is from a British publication, quote, in one case, they failed to investigate an older man who was found undressed in a bedroom with one of his victims. And another, they did not act when a perpetrator handed over a missing girl as part of a deal to not arrest him. And they said that they wanted to preserve... They didn't want to inflame racial tensions. This happened for two decades. And it wasn't just thousands. It was hundreds of thousands of girls. Hundreds of thousands. By 99% Pakistani men. And labor, which is the... far left party of which Keir Starmer is head. It was they were the ones who blocked the inquiry into his conduct at the time, because as he was the head of the public prosecutions and there's a lot of questions as to what Keir Starmer failed to do at that time in that role to protect those young girls that we were just talking about. And that's what Elon Musk was hitting at. And of course, Keir Starmer reacted with, you know, he was just enraged, absolutely enraged. And this, I mean, the reaction of the British left is stunning. Because if you were to look at The Guardian, which I know is a far-left publication, or like Telegraph or something, they're all enraged that Musk tweeted anything about it. Audio Sun by 31, this is Starmer, the UK Prime Minister. Listen to what he says here. This is insane.

SPEAKER 01 : 65:02

And when politicians, and I mean politicians, who sat in government for many years, are casual about honesty, decency, truth and the rule of law, calling for inquiries because they want to jump on a bandwagon of the far right, then that affects politics because a robust debate can only be based on the true facts.

SPEAKER 07 : 65:31

How is it jumping on the wagon of the far right? I mean, did the rapes and grooming and assaults happen? Yes, they did. They absolutely did. Did it affect hundreds of thousands of young British girls? It absolutely did. Was it from literally predominantly one type of demographic? Yes, it absolutely was. These are inarguable things because we like data. We like looking at hard data. We like trying to resolve issues based upon data. Correct? Correct. This is not a bandwagon of the far right. This is about he's trying to cover his ass because Keir Starmer was directly responsible for a lack of prosecutions. I mean, that was his role. And now he's trying to deflect. I mean, how dare Elon Musk stand up for young girls? Oh, my gosh. Can you believe it? And that's when he tweeted this, he was baffled that not only did this thing go on for 20 years and everybody knew about it and they were making excuses about it, but it's not, it actually never has gone away. And the coverup has gotten so bad that it's actually now engulfing the crimes themselves. Every single level of British government is implicated at some point in this story. The Free Press has it how social workers were even intimidated into silence. Crazy. They said that they even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. MPs, members of parliament, they rejected police for help from parents of these children who were targeted. And anyone who tried to bring up the issue was accused of Islamophobia and racism. And so they didn't want to address it. They were too scared to be called names. They were too scared to be thought of as racist to the point where they allowed these young girls to be sacrificed so they could continue with this veneer of whatever diversity. I don't know how you want to call it. Can you imagine? This is what I don't understand. This floors me. People are more terrified in this instance of being accused of racism. Like, for instance, the first convictions they had weren't even kicked off until 2010. You had five men, five Pakistani men who were jailed. They were targeting girls 12 and under. And they were going after the fatherless, the children in care homes, the poor. They were passing them around to friends and family. I mean, they had a 2014 inquiry in Rotherham, where it was sort of like the ground zero of this. They found that an estimated over 1,400 girls had been serially raped in Rotherham alone. I mean, there are stories after stories after stories. It's horrific. And Keir Starmer and the other members of the Labour Party are more outraged that Elon Musk tweeted about it than that this happened to their country's daughters at all. And they're mad because it shows Keir Starmer had an opportunity to do something and didn't. And so the British left is much more upset over this than anything else. They're incredibly upset. How dare you? I just, I mean, at least now there's attention being paid to this, although it's really incredibly late, especially considering it's like, you know, 15 years later. But the reason that the left is reacting with such fury is because, oh gosh, you implicated Keir Starmer. What? You implicated Keir Starmer. Well, I mean, it's true. He, uh, pulling this piece up. He was, I mean, in 2008 in the home office under the premiership of Gordon Brown. I mean, he was the director of public prosecutions in 2008. That's right. I mean, it's not, you know, not fake. Just saying he's got a lot of questions to answer. Deflecting and attacking the people who are bringing up the questions is not an answer to the question and it doesn't satisfy the curiosity for an answer. He's going to learn that the hard way. It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile. The only Christian conservative cell phone service in existence. Patriot Mobile wants to save you money. They have plans of all types to fit every single sort of budget. Families of all sizes. Businesses of all sizes. And they have exceptional services. nationwide coverage on all three major networks. Right now you can get their Every Friday Matters special and they're giving away a brand new smartphone when you make the switch and it's easy to do so. Seamless with their 100% US-based customer service team. They make it really easy. They get you all set up in just minutes. It's so great. And you can get a free smartphone as a part of the special offer. It's never been simpler to switch. So it's a free smartphone, offers eligible only with promo code FRIDAY. Limited time offer or until supplies run out, terms and conditions apply. Make the switch today. PatriotMobile.com slash Dana972Patriot.

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

SPEAKER 07 : 71:16

So this is a story of two dog owners. The first one is a Florida man who got attacked by a bear cub and bitten on his stomach while he was defending his dog. He said he could not watch his dog die. Wasn't going to watch it. Amen. And so he fought like a black bear cub to try to save us. He said the dog was chasing the cub. And, yeah, Mama Bear was there along with two other cubs. He said he growled and charged. The bear did in return. And he said he just bit me right in the stomach. He said there were three bears. My dog saw them, ran right for them. And he said that one of the bears had his little dog, which is, of course, named Karen. In his mouth. And he said, I ran up to it, kicked the bear in the chest, got him to drop her. And he said that he couldn't, he's like, I couldn't tell my kids at Christmas that their dog was eaten by a bear. So I had to save this dog. So good for him. Good for this Florida guy. This Florida guy though, police are, I don't even want to read this story. He was arrested for slamming a dog into concrete over a bathroom incident. And I want to find this guy and do the same thing to him. Rhetorically speaking, of course, you know, we're all about positive. Marco Zuluaga, 28 years old. He swung a dog in a concrete that the dog yelped in agony. And he's been accused of animal cruelty and booked into a county jail. Good. I mean, good. Now, if only. There was some prison justice. I'm just saying. I've seen Mayor. I watched Mayor Kingstown. I know how that works. I know how it works. And then coming up tomorrow, I'll have to share with you the giant gator Godzilla that dragged the biggest python ever seen past tourists. It's a terrifying video because both those things exist in Florida. Stick with us. Third hour next. Imagine a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy, feeling alone and unsure of what to do. And she's searching for hope. And that's where Preborn Ministries comes in. You can make a difference for just $28. 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And we're at a week where we're going to get ice and snow at the end of it in Texas. It's going to be crazy. So welcome back. Dana Lash with you. All right. So there were a lot of things that happened when we were out. There are a lot of things that are going on right now that, you know, we had Congress that certified just certified Trump's electoral win. Kamala Harris making sad face because she had to certify her loss. It's very, you know, we've been discussing to some of this, this insane fighting over the UK groomer story because it's not a new story. It's just Keir Starmer's involvement. And you can kind of see that his incompetency has a long lifespan. And that, you know, pointing out that every level of British government was essentially complicit in this ongoing grooming of girls that who knew that pointing that out was going to be received worse by the British left than the fact that these crimes happened at all. Right. Right. And that's why they're going at, they're now targeting Elon Musk. Someone was like, Musk is going to get people killed. That's how the British leftists, because he's pointing out that all levels of British government, I mean, everybody dropped the ball when it came to protecting these girls for over 10 years. For over 10 years. Why is the problem always the people that are pointing out what was done? And it's never the people who are doing the things that are being pointed out. Like, heaven forbid, accountability is more terrifying to these people. Keir Starmer finds accountability to be more terrifying than old Pakistani dudes raping young British girls. It's apparently what it is. I mean, trafficking them, grooming them for decades. And it's a predominantly one demographic. I'm not writing this story. I'm just merely sharing it with you. It's predominantly one demographic. But they're all girls. But they're all girls. It's, yeah, and as Kane notes, they do, they're stricter over Facebook posts and other things like that than they are anything else. Remember they sent police to question a young girl and because she made just like one offhanded comment about one of the police officers. You can't, you can't even say, you can't, there's no free speech over there. There's no free speech. But I'm not surprised with it being the Labor Party, got to say. We're supposed to be positive, though. It's the new year. X has a new algorithm. I don't think they need more algorithms, honestly, but they have a new one. And apparently it's all about making sure that there's no negativity. And what is the phrase that he used? To... Prevent user regretted segments or seconds. User regretted seconds. I don't know what that means. It sounds like something going to Paltrow, right? But I just think that by way of being X, it's not going to be all kittens in sunshine. It's kind of like the sandbox, you know? It's not going to be... I don't know. What do you think about the positivity push, Cain, on X?

SPEAKER 14 : 78:03

I feel like it just sharpens my skills on framing whatever happens into a positive thing. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm going to do. That's how I'm going to handle it. I don't care how negative that it's going to be. I'm going to have a positive spin for you. If you want to test me, I mean, you can test me.

SPEAKER 07 : 78:19

I just, like, how would you positively paint Joe Biden now going to clamp down on, for instance, water heaters and make that more expensive for people to heat their water?

SPEAKER 14 : 78:33

Well, the positive part of that would be there's a lot of sane, not riddled by dementia people that will push back on this. And eventually, and by the way, I think this is an executive order of Biden's, right? Or is this law? It's not law.

SPEAKER 07 : 78:48

No, it's like a, yeah, it's part of the Green New Deal.

SPEAKER 14 : 78:51

I believe Trump will reverse the executive order.

SPEAKER 07 : 78:53

Well, if this is part of the Green New Deal, it might take Congress to obliterate it.

SPEAKER 14 : 78:57

Well, then I hope Congress will do it. But I think there will be enough pushback because of this insanity that the positive of it will be it eventually will just go away.

SPEAKER 07 : 79:05

Yeah, yeah, perhaps. I mean, we shall see. But, yeah, I'm just... I'm not quite sure how that works, the positivity. Like, for instance, he is... Because he sent more money to Ukraine over Christmas. Put a positive spin on that, Cain.

SPEAKER 14 : 79:33

Well, you mean from a perspective of the Ukrainians?

SPEAKER 07 : 79:36

Yeah, like if you're on X and you're talking about Biden sending more money to Ukraine, you can't be negative. You can't criticize it. You got to be nice about it.

SPEAKER 14 : 79:44

Yeah, I would say that seeing the smiles on the Ukrainian people's face.

SPEAKER 07 : 79:50

Shut up.

SPEAKER 14 : 79:53

No, it just proves to us that the people that we have in charge of our money, they're horrible with other people's money.

SPEAKER 07 : 80:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER 14 : 80:01

It's just the way it is.

SPEAKER 07 : 80:03

Always horrible with other people's money.

SPEAKER 14 : 80:04

And that realization is a positive.

SPEAKER 07 : 80:07

Okay, that's a positive. A couple of other things. At the Medal of Freedom ceremony, I had a touch on this. Hunter Biden was there. I hope they dusted for dust. Yeah. He got pardoned and he was actually there at the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor that you can give someone in the nation. And of course, you know, you got. George Soros there and you have Hillary Clinton there with her hairdo. What was her hairdo? Like she actually fixed her hair. I don't know what I thought. Did you see? She had like an old 80s hairdo. Anyway, but I'm just like that's just cherry on top. that's just the cherry on top, right? Hunter Biden at this medal of freedom ceremony that again, the highest civilian honor. And he's there shaking hands with everybody, talking to everybody, hanging out. He was there and he's in a photo with Alex Soros, who I guess, did he accept that award on it? Bono was there. Bono and the Bidens, I think have a good relationship because when I went to the state of the union address, um, One of the State of Union addresses that I went to Bono was sitting in the same wall like near us in the gallery. And he was a guest of Jill Biden, Joe and Jill Biden. So he he was like her guest went with them. So he gets one. He got a medal. George Soros got a medal. Why are they so mad at Elon Musk when they have George Soros? Is the left like only we're supposed to have billionaires? Is that their whole thing? They gave a posthumous medal to Robert F. Kennedy for some reason. Okay. And he, of course, Hillary Clinton, who had Margaret Thatcher hairstyle. Oh, my gosh. And they also gave one to Anna Wintour. I totally don't understand that. Why? That's like, there are so many people who do so many great, amazing, charitable things. And you're going to give it to Anna Wintour? You're going to give a medal of freedom to Anna Wintour? She runs Vogue. You're going to give that to her? But there are people toiling away and they don't do it for attention. They don't do it for adulation. They do it because they love other people and they want to contribute to their community. I don't know. Am I being picky?

SPEAKER 14 : 82:34

Because I feel like this is really... I think it's like Democrats' hat tip to what they believe to be culture.

SPEAKER 07 : 82:41

Jeez, Jane Goodall. That's another one. I don't know. I just... I've got... Ralph Lauren and Denzel Washington were probably the only two of the names that I'm mentioning who... Deserved it. Oh, and then, you know, they they got they gave it to David Rubenstein, who lets the Bidens vacation in his Nantucket house every Thanksgiving. So if you let Biden like vacation in your house over the holidays, and I guess you can get a medal of. You know, you can get a medal of freedom to what a Hillary Clinton. Why is she getting wire? Why is she getting a medal of freedom award? She single handedly is responsible for helping to reintroduce the Muslim Brotherhood back into Egypt after they have been banned. And then Egypt banned them again and also destabilizing Libya. What in the world? Why is she getting a Medal of Freedom? I'm surprised he didn't give Fauci one. Good. What in the world? I'm actually surprised he didn't give Hunter Biden one just as like a big blank you. To not just the administration, but also the voters. I'm kind of surprised. Gotta say. Oh, and then he gave one to Jose Andres, who I cannot stand. I cannot stand Jose Andres. You know who Jose Andres is? He's the guy, he's the Hamas-loving guy who was complaining about, why does Israel have to be so mean to Gaza? He's a big progressive. He's, you know, He's run his mouth on all kinds of stuff. He's started a number of different restaurants. I think they're all fish-related. I've only seen some of his restaurants, and they're all fish-related, I think. But he's gotten all the words for his cooking and all this stuff. Anyway, so he got one. He's very far left. He got one as well. So, you know, just saying. If you're of the left... and uh you can buy access then you can you too can get a medal of freedom i've they had lionel messi didn't they wasn't he gonna give lionel messi one i'm sorry i don't get that either he's been with enter miami for a hot second all right come on am i being i don't dislike him at all i'm just explaining to you i don't understand what the hell is going on with this this metal

SPEAKER 14 : 85:09

Like I said, it's a hat tip to culture, what they believe to be culture.

SPEAKER 07 : 85:11

Was he trying to get messy because he's like, oh, here's my in? And then messy was like, I'm not even showing. He didn't even go. He didn't even go. I wouldn't have gone either if I were him. I mean, why? Because it looks cheap. You're getting an award with George Soros and Hillary Clinton. How much cheaper can you make it look, right? But I still don't understand why. Is there a reason why? I mean, he's been here a hot second.

SPEAKER 14 : 85:42

are we not allowed to ask these things anymore I'm curious why are you not saying anything Cain's over here going I think they are doing the hat tip to culture because they believe they know about all of this that politics is downstream from culture so that's why they do this that's why they do these ceremonies that's why they do any of these well I know but these are supposed to be you know you're supposed to do something like really great yes I don't know I'm gonna let's make metal ceremonies great again

SPEAKER 07 : 86:10

Or how about let's not do it if it's not Article 1, Section 8 and let the states recognize people. That's how petty I'm getting about how much I want to cut government. I don't even want them creating medals unless it's like military related. I don't want this. I just I don't want it. But I do think it's funny that Messi was just like, no, I'm not going to do it. Apparently, Magic Johnson got it, too. I mean, who didn't get one at this point? Like everybody got one. I mean, on the left anyway. I'm just I don't know. I'm just curious. He said he sent a representative, but he didn't attend the he didn't attend the ceremony. And he sent a letter like, thank you, blah, blah, blah. I still don't know why he got one. I don't know. Yeah. Daniel Penny. You're right. Daniel Penny should have gotten one. You know what? Trump should. His first Medal of Freedom. Trump should award. He should give medals. Medal of Freedom to Jason Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny. Kyle Rittenhouse, sorry. Who else am I thinking of? There's like a third one that I would. I'll remember it later. But Kyle Rittenhouse, Daniel Penny. There's a third one that I would give a medal to as well. Just saying, you know, all about self-defense. Just, you know. It's our friends over at Kel-Tec. Florida-based company. And they do lots of really... They make lots of really nice stuff. Now... They're also apparently unveiling something new during SHOT Show this year. And this is the year that everybody always unveils the newest product that they have, and Kel-Tec is no exception. So they're going to be presenting some new things coming up for SHOT Show, and we'll talk about it when it happens. But if you want to hear about all the latest that they have when the news drops, I'm going to be actually at Kel-Tec's booth at SHOT Show tomorrow. And I'll be able to cover everything. You're not going to be able to actually be there in attendance. It's a private industry event, but we're going to but you'll know what they have. Apparently, I haven't even been told. But as you know, the P-15 lightest, thinnest double stack nine millimeter on the market, or it's the KSG family of shotguns, or it's the fold and half carbine family of sub two K's, all kinds of awesome stuff. And they're going to unveil their latest. just actually at the end of the month, visit caltechweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C weapons.com slash Dana. And while they are signing up for the Caltech Insider e-newsletter, get their posts, all of that good stuff. It's caltechweapons.com slash Dana.

SPEAKER 14 : 88:32

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

SPEAKER 07 : 88:37

There's a new baby pygmy hippo. And it's ours. I think the other one was, what was it, in Thailand? That's, uh... Because I've been sharing images of that. That baby pygmy hippo. Now there's one in the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia. It had its first swim after the water level was lowered. And it went and swam with their little tiny little guy. But I do want... I do want a pygmy hippopotamus for Christmas, in fact. Maybe next year. But Mu Dang is the one that's in Thailand. I don't know what this one's name is. So I hope it gets a little cutie name. Not like hippo McHippo face or something like that. So let's not let the public vote on it. I'm just saying, let's not. Also, I got a couple of leftovers that I want to make sure I hit here because they were still important. So first, Selena's killer. She was coming up for parole. Remember Yolanda Salvador? She filed for parole after she was locked up for 30 years because she murdered the Queen of Tejano, Selena. And now, I mean, she was the president of the fan club. She was taking money from the group. I mean, everyone knows the story. She killed her. She should rot in prison. The fact that she's still alive is amazing. Like that's, I mean, how prison justice, but they keep her, apparently she's solitary because they can't really, everybody hates her in prison. So I'm just saying, you know, I mean, mayor of Kingstown needs to be an actual thing in some of these instances, I have to say. But yeah, so no, we're not letting Ilana Salvador. No, she cannot get parole. She she shouldn't even be alive. I think, you know, her act was so heinous and premeditated. But that's my opinion. Just saying positively positive, positive. That's like the new thing, right? That's what we're all supposed to be positive. Let's see here. I'm also and of course, this I got to restart this. I had another. What was the other one I had? My whole thing froze again. It's apparently a new year, but not a new browser. So we don't have that. Let's do this instead. We're going to go ahead and go to break. But when we come back, we've got what? Well, the latest at the Republican Party. What's this transition going to look like? We're two weeks away. Stick with us.

SPEAKER 05 : 90:54

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SPEAKER 07 : 91:06

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. You know, after the attack in New Orleans, where, again, why were the... I know I and many other people were wondering where the street barriers that they had installed to go up, they can auto pop up, why those weren't up. But while everybody was processing that, Allstate CEO Tom Wilson, Audio Sunbright 32, does a video and says this.

SPEAKER 02 : 91:34

Welcome to the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Wednesday, tragedy struck the New Orleans community. Our prayers are with the victims and their families. We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. Join Allstate working in local communities all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust, and accept people's imperfections and differences. Together, we win.

SPEAKER 07 : 92:02

Wait, what? What the hell does this have to do with any... We're going to celebrate. Why don't you tell that to the guy who drove the vehicle down Bourbon Street and murked people? You're all right, Kane.

SPEAKER 14 : 92:15

So was that... Was that a difference or a divisiveness?

SPEAKER 07 : 92:21

What, the guy driving the vehicle down the... Yeah. Yeah, that's a great point. I mean, if you were to read what the press was saying, this SUV just decided to attack people. Truck decided to attack people. That's what it was. That's the video that you put out after this happens? This is insane. I mean, immediately, it's... We have to focus on... Do they think that that's somehow going to just smooth things over? Well, we'll focus on diversity. That's what we'll focus on. I was looking and pulling up this video because I just could not... I just couldn't believe that this is why he, I mean, he's, they scrubbed it too, by the way. They posted it and it's gone. So if you were looking for it, you know, you're not going to be able to find it now. It's not up there anymore. The guy had an ISIS flag. The terrorist had an ISIS flag on a rented pickup and he mows people down on Bourbon Street. And then the mosque that he attended said that their focus needs to be on the safety of our community. Don't don't talk to members of the press unless you consult the terrorist group called CARE. Council for American Islamic Relations, which has a very interesting history and has very interesting financial associations as well. So they are immediately, we don't want to cooperate. To me, that's a further insult to a community that this guy attacked. And to immediately, well, do not cooperate with any, because he attended that mosque. What are they, what's going on at that mosque that this guy comes out so radicalized and he drives a truck with an ISIS flag through a bunch of people at Bourbon Street. What's happening at that mosque? You know, and then you have Joe Biden who goes out and says, no, no, no, it's still white supremacy. That's the big thing. Well, I mean, these white supremacists must suck because I don't see like not even remote. I don't see any any kind of death and destruction like I've seen from, I would say, the non-white supremacists. It's just so stupid. And how do you not know? I don't know. Maybe if the guy spoke out at a school board meeting, the FBI would have had him on the radar. I mean, I could sit here and make these jokes over and over again. But at some point, my gosh, why don't you pay attention to the threats that you know exist? And I got a million questions about what's happening. Because wasn't he at, well, they don't call it Fort Bragg anymore. It's Fort Liberty. Yeah. It was one of those renaming, one of the renaming sprees that they went on. It's goofy. It's so Mao-esque. But they were worried about the backlash against their community. And then you have the all-state right before the game that came out with that. We need to overcome addiction to divisiveness and negativity. What does this have to... So I just... If you're asking me... of whether or not I think it's really negative to ram a truck into a bunch of people on Bourbon Street, that, you know, as like, you know, jihadi move, that seems pretty negative, right? Like on a scale of one to 10 with 10 being super negative, that seems like a 10, right? Yeah. I just who at all state decided that they were they were going to put this wet fart out there as a statement. Who decided that they were going to do this? Overcome an addiction to divisiveness. And how about, you know what is a really bad division? The division of having your leg literally run off of your body by a truck flying an ISIS flag. Or what about someone who's separated forever from their family because they were killed to death by the truck with the ISIS flag? Just say that in the jihadi driving it. That seems pretty divisive. Oh, my gosh. And so they did have to scrub it. So they scrubbed their timeline. They took it down. Of course, you know, it's the Internet. The video stays up for forever. But they deleted their post because they got so much pushback. They got so much pushback. I mean, that was one of the dumbest. No, that's one of the dumbest thing. Also, too, I was thinking about this. Screw the positivity. Screw the positivity. I'm going to tell you something. And this is where I wish that tech bros would kind of maybe have a little bit of an understanding. I think it's great that some people have moved to the United States and have created companies and have done all these amazing things. That's great. Some of us have been here for a hell of a long time, a hell of a lot longer than some of these other people have before they came to the United States and created companies and got federal subsidies and everything else. And we have been, we put up with everything. being called every name in the book by ideological opponents who try to conflate policy positions with moral failings. And they will accuse you of everything under the book simply because you oppose giving government more authority over the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans. And for this, we have been denigrated. We have been targeted. We have been persecuted. Some have been prosecuted. They have been doxxed and stalked and smeared and name-called. And whenever the left comes out of power, they always want to turn around and tell the Republicans that are climbing into office behind them, oh, we need to be nice and we need to be unified. Piss off. I have zero interest in being nice or being unified or demonstrating any kind of courtesy over the past several decades after being kicked around by the progressive left. I am sure as hell not going to be positive about it on social media. I'm not going to be positive when there's nothing to be positive about. I'm not going to hold. I'm not going to do the whole let's be friends and let's reconcile, because in order to have reconciliation, people have to have an accountability of the wrongs that were done. And the left's idea of reconciliation is you just look over everything that we've ever done. So we never have to have accountability for it. We never have to ask for forgiveness because asking for forgiveness would imply that we've done something wrong, which we don't believe that we have. So we want to fake reconciliation. I don't want to fake reconciliation. If I don't get the real thing, I want a reckoning. That's the only other that's acceptable. So this Allstate stuff, yeah, screw Allstate. I don't have them for anything. I had to double check. I don't have them for anything. To be lectured like that right before a football game after people were killed, as though you're a part of the problem, as though you drove this guy to be a jihadi and stick an ISIS flag on his truck. As if you had a responsibility in doing it because you want to be divisive. That seems pretty divisive. And if someone is driven to the point where they have to drive through a crowd of people as a jihadist action because they have their feels hurt by other people's positions on policy issues, that person should be eliminated from walking the face of the earth because that would actually be a boom to people because you don't have this dangerous individual walking around anymore. I just, it's just so goofy. I get the whole positive. This is why I hate New Year's resolutions. I don't do New Year's resolutions because they're stupid. We're celebrating the earth. We're celebrating going around the sun once more. Am I too cynical? I might be. But I just it's stupid. I don't care. And I know New Year, no, no, I'm not doing any of that stuff. I'm not because because Democrats are out of power. I'm not going to say, oh, that's great. Let's have unity. I'm not doing that. And I don't think that you should do it either for the exact reason that I mentioned. This isn't they don't want reconciliation. They don't want that. That has nothing to do with reconciliation. And there's no unity without reconciliation. But what do you have to have for reconciliation? In order to reconcile, you have to have an acknowledgement of grievances. You have to. Otherwise, what's the point? You're just papering it over and going on to get along? No. Because that's how you get in this position in the first place. Doesn't make any sense. None at all. We, in addition to this... There are a couple of pieces that are up, by the way, that gets into everything, all of the latest with the Vegas story and with New Orleans thing, that terror attack that's up on my Substack chapter and verse. There are two pieces up there that you can go and read for all the latest information on all of that. The couple of other things that we're going to touch on because we've got the cabinet stuff as well. There is there was a move made by his campaign head who's now going to be his his chief of staff. where his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was telling everyone, don't get on social media. There's a new imposed social media ban on all cabinet picks after the H-1B debate raged publicly. There's a huge rule. I don't think they've ever implemented anything like this. They didn't do this last term. But apparently the word is that she's really trying to control Any leaks, unlike the first term, where it was, I mean, they leaked like a colander. It was crazy. Leaks galore. And I think she's trying to get a handle on that. She had some pretty harsh words. She said that she's not interested in people who are just about self-advancement or becoming stars. That this is just about the mission. That's smart. We'll see if it sticks.

SPEAKER 05 : 102:40

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SPEAKER 08 : 102:51

Obviously, there has been a lot of focus on President Biden's role in this. You were obviously in close contact with President Biden well before the public tuned into that debate that ultimately led to him stepping down. I want to play you a little bit of something you said last year. Take a look.

SPEAKER 06 : 103:09

I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly or sometimes several times in a week or usually several times in a week. His mental acuity is great. It's fine. It's as good as it's been over the years. All this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.

SPEAKER 08 : 103:28

Leader Schumer, what do you say to Americans who feel as though you and other top Democrats misled them about President Biden's mental acuity?

SPEAKER 06 : 103:38

Look, we didn't. And let's look at President Biden. He's had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since Lyndon Johnson.

SPEAKER 07 : 103:55

So she asks, you know, people say that you misled. And? Misled them about his mental awareness and Schumer's defiant, even until Biden's, you know, last two weeks of his term. No, we didn't mislead anything. It's a right wing. Not everything. Everything is not part of the vast right wing conspiracy. The famous phrase that Hillary Clinton came up with back when Bill was dealing with the Paula Jones and the Jennifer Flowers and the Kathleen. Oh, my gosh. How many were there? Juanita Broderick. I mean, there were a million. And she said it was all part of this elaborate, vast conspiracy. right-wing conspiracy that's what they always say that's what schumer that's what they're saying about these accusations with regards to biden that's what they said originally with a laptop remember just a vast right-wing conspiracy cure starmer's k notes with the you know 10 15 years of grooming and reaping british girls done by predominantly pakistani men and nobody wanted to say anything because they didn't want to be called racist they're saying all the allegations it's a vast right-wing conspiracy I am so tired of that being their be-all, end-all excuses. That's what they go to. That is their excuse every single time. It's not that you guys are just statists. It's a vast... Any accountability? You expect us to be accountable? That's a vast right-wing conspiracy. Every single time. Every time. So the new administration has to hit the ground running. Republicans for two years are going to have control. Of course... There's an asterisk by that because Republicans are going to be empowered right up until the midterm cycle begins. The midterm cycle for midterm elections. And that's probably going to start in about six months. So you're going to have a full six months before anyone looks over their shoulder after they cast a vote. And then the honeymoon period's off after that. So you got to hit the ground running. And that's what I think his new chief of staff is trying to make happen. I read this article this morning. His new chief of staff won't even disagree with him in front of other people for fear of leaks. So she disagrees with him only privately when no one else is there. I thought that was a little weird. You don't trust your people that much? That you're so terrified of something like that getting out that you can't. That's a major problem. That was the first thing I took away from the piece. It had the opposite intended effect, I think, on me. I thought, if you can't even disagree publicly because you're worried about the narrative that would be created, who's building and selling that narrative that's within your inner circle that would have access to that kind of conversation? That was a real problem for him first term to the fact that it actually was like it threw the wrench in the works a couple of times. Hopefully they can tamp that down this time. Today's stupidity came.

SPEAKER 14 : 107:01

It is our president, Joe Biden. Still president. It's our president for now. Cut one one. This is him. I guess you get a little angry in your old age. This is what happens. Listen to this.

SPEAKER 03 : 107:14

By being the oldest president, I know more world leaders than any one of you ever met in your whole goddamn life.

SPEAKER 14 : 107:19

Oh, wow. Really? So what did that do for you?

SPEAKER 07 : 107:24

Wow! Wow! Did that make you a good president? Well, he knows more leaders than you've ever met. What?

SPEAKER 14 : 107:30

It's one of those short fuse moments where it's like he was all smiling.

SPEAKER 07 : 107:33

I'm surprised he didn't challenge him to a fight.

SPEAKER 14 : 107:34

I know. He's all smiling like 30 seconds before then all of a sudden.

SPEAKER 07 : 107:37

Dog-faced pony soldier. You know what? Like, what in the old man's scrabble hell is that? Oh, my gosh. That does it for us today. First show back. Make sure you find us over at Substack. Sign up. Facebook, like and subscribe. YouTube as well. I'll be back behind the mic with you tomorrow. Happy New Year.