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at participating mcdonald's for a limited time this is the dana show my name is craig collins filling in thrilled to be with you over the holidays uh dana is back in just a few days a well-deserved vacation for one of the most successful people in this industry uh d lash and dana lash radio two places to stay connected to her on x on twitter um let's start here donald trump put out a series of truth social posts that also then are shared on other social media platforms like Twitter, saying all kinds of things. It's something he's done every year around Christmas. And I found these to be wildly entertaining. I imagine a whole lot of Trump supporters did. I imagine a lot of people who hate Trump. I thought they were the worst thing they've ever read in their entire life. Part of the reason I personally think that these were such interesting things to say in a collection of of things, especially during a Christmas season in which news media is almost always lazy. Like over the last couple days and the next couple days, almost nothing feels like it happens in a lot of news places because they're not really looking for anything. They don't really want breaking news for a variety of reasons, I imagine. And so Trump putting out what he did and making people talk about some of these things was kind of amazing. But I'm going to start it this way. Instead of playing audio of Trump or reading some of the tweets and things he put out there or truth social posts, I should say. I want to play audio of CNN and Scott Jennings saying how much he hopes we actually do buy Greenland, which is one of the things that Trump referenced. I just really enjoyed this. Here we go.

SPEAKER 19 : 2:02

Yes, we need Greenland. Greenland is an amazing thing to have. It's like you ever play Monopoly? You know, like the first row of properties like that are cheap. Maybe I don't need you need those. Those are vital properties. I'm for Greenland. I wanted him to do it before. I want him to do it now. And I am personally and on television applying to be the military governor of Greenland if, in fact, we do take control of it.

SPEAKER 18 : 2:23

I don't think that they'll actually pick you, Scotty. Sorry about that. But nonetheless, I love this and I love the reaction to at least one of the things that Trump referenced. He called the prime minister of Canada the governor of Canada. This was Trump on his post. I can't help finding it this funny because he's said a couple times now that it wouldn't be the worst thing for Canada if they became the 51st state. It's not going to happen, but it is an interesting way to troll the leaders up north and maybe get them to play ball. Like, that's the whole point. All of this is just to get people to be more willing to give in to more of what Trump would want from you name the country or situation by seeming as though he's serious in some of these very ridiculous things that he's threatening to do. Greenland is not for sale. We're not likely to convince Denmark to give it to us or sell it to us. In any capacity, even though we'd very much like that, and it would be a good deal for the United States, apparently Russian media was all over it, too, supporting the idea of Trump buying Greenland, which is interesting, but nonetheless not necessarily a reason for us to think it's a good idea if their statewide media is in support of it. But also, there's another thing that gets referenced, the taking back of the Panama Canal. And this is all in his tweets, his, you know, things that he was saying over the holiday that's getting talked about and people still afraid that Trump might try to forcibly take back the Panama Canal. Here's what's true about this. Most Americans did not even think about what it costs to get across the Panama Canal, what the fees would be, why Panama might have raised them recently and said that it's tied to some sort of drought that that country is facing and how it might make places like the United States mad because, well, darn it, that was a gift that we gave you. And you're not being very nice about that gift. It is interesting to have that be at the forefront of anyone's mind, because, as I said before, Trump is reelected and still not actually in the White House, but just talking about stuff enough on social media and saying it in a way that that mainstream legacy media can't ignore. They're obsessed with the man. They talk about him constantly. They do have Trump derangement syndrome. But if he's going to make a reference to taking back the Panama Canal, people can't help but be like, we got to talk about this. And it makes you and I aware of just how much money it costs or how the fees have changed recently at the Panama Canal. And that's, again, something that Americans would not have given a crap about or even known about if not for Trump. The buying of Greenland, I find to be uniquely entertaining because I saw some coverage of how good of a deal it would be depending on how much we pay for it. I think $1.5 to $1.7 trillion is the high-end estimate of what it would cost us. And people are comparing it to the Louisiana Purchase. And it's just amusing to me to see people actually like legitimately talking about things that happened so long ago as if they could happen again, as if the United States could buy some territory because it's been a bit since we've done any of that during the Trump presidency. And as Scott Jennings says, it would be a legacy defining move for Trump. There was one other thing. He talked about this was in both his tweets and then actually some videos that were put out to talking about his strong stance against people who harm kids, specifically people who traffic minors and children. You might think and mainstream media, legacy media seems to think that this is, you know, an extreme take. But I have to tell you that one of the most universally agreed upon things for most people is an individual who harms children deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law. I've been doing this on some other radio platforms I've been today, and it's probably not a good idea to do it. But even a quote from the Bible attributed to Jesus talks about the significant punishment that people deserve if they hurt kids. Something like being thrown to the bottom of the ocean. Again, not usually wise the day after Christmas to paraphrase Jesus. But nonetheless, it's fairly universal that punishing those who harm innocent kids should be about as extreme as any punishment we have in society. It's something that Trump is saying here.

SPEAKER 11 : 6:43

When I am back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children. We will fully secure the border. I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate 100% gone, 100% destroyed. They'll come back now because we have a weak administration. I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay. And I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border Receives the death penalty immediately.

SPEAKER 18 : 7:23

Immediately. The death penalty immediately for anyone that is trafficking kids. Again, not exactly as insane of a stance when you think about what he's saying that we should be standing up against as a country in the world. The harming of kids specifically, that seems probably to make sense to a lot of people just after Biden commuted the sentence of 37 of 40 death row inmates, some of them convicted of horrible things that involve children. So, you know, one more time, I can't say it any differently. Not something that sounds as controversial when you hear the full context of it, as it's likely to be reported on other places. Many people would hail that as a good thing. The thing in the middle is the thing that entertained me the most about what Trump said. And I'll go ahead and play that again.

SPEAKER 11 : 8:09

Destroyed the ISIS caliphate, 100 percent gone, 100 percent destroyed. They'll come back now because we have a weak administration. I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay.

SPEAKER 18 : 8:27

Yes, that that part to the whole returning people to their home countries and without delay thing. Of course, Trump has been challenged before the kids in cages. which you remember was actually something that happened during the Obama administration, not the Trump administration, but something that he was attacked for. So not keeping kids here, but returning them to family and loved ones that we find in foreign countries would be a way to mitigate that complaint necessarily. I don't know if that'll actually work. I don't know how many kids that get brought across the border here are going to be people where we can locate other family members for a variety of reasons. But nonetheless, I think, again, to say it as crystal clear as I can, punishing those who hurt kids are not controversial, not usually considered controversial to a whole lot of Americans. One other thing out there, and this just amused me because of the ridiculousness of it. So two women, I think 220-somethings, are in the backseat of a police car in California, and one woman seems surprised to find out that theft is now a felony again in California. Granted, you have to be caught doing it more than once for the dollar amount not to matter and for the misdemeanor charge to be up to a felony, but completely different than what the rules were just a short time ago in that state when you saw an incredible rise in smash-and-grab crimes and just brazen theft happening all throughout uh california and now in the back of a police car with their hands cuffed behind them uh the one woman is finding out how much trouble they're in and seems shocked by it and i just love the response from the other person that also is caught uh you know stealing stuff with her it's a felony it's no loss

SPEAKER 07 : 10:15

Stealing is a felony.

SPEAKER 18 : 10:16

Yeah, stealing's a felony now. And that bleep word, new laws, is what she says to her friend, being like, they changed some stuff. And if you weren't paying attention, we were risking ourselves quite a bit in how much trouble we'd get in. She also goes on to say Orange County not playing. Meaning that apparently she's been arrested and in trouble there before, which is part of what it takes to enhance the charge to a felony. But one more time for anyone out there that needs the information, especially throughout a whole lot of California, once again, illegal and seriously illegal to steal stuff and take stuff that's not yours and probably a good thing to finally cause people to i don't know follow laws but that's a lot of the context of this entire opening segment of this show is uh that uh trump or you know california or whoever it might be is actually trying to get back to a place in which laws matter and that sounds good that sounds like that'll benefit all of us all right quick break a lot coming up greg collins filling in on the dana show

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

SPEAKER 18 : 14:44

That's right. Let's do these rapid fire. The first one, very weird. First, it was just women in China that were doing this. Now women throughout the world are doing this. Apparently, they're going to social media and taking photos of themselves with fake baby bumps. The reason that they're doing this in China was to celebrate a anniversary of the no more one child policy and also to look good. for when they, in the future, both have a relationship and get pregnant. They want the fake version of the baby bump photo to be better than the real version because they're younger. This is something that other women now throughout the world are doing on social media. It's a viral trend. Terrifying boyfriends everywhere, I imagine, as far as the thing goes. If they even have a boyfriend at the time that they're taking the photo, apparently some do not. Another story out there. that i thought was interesting it's called the christmas gas prank uh mostly it's women pulling this on men uh they call their husband uh or whoever and they say hey uh i was you know running out of gas and i stopped by the um uh the gas station and i got the christmas gas because it was cheaper and then the husband usually goes uh what are you talking about what's the christmas gas and the woman will say the one with the green handle which would be diesel And then the woman usually says something to the effect of, and now the car's running weird and seems like it's about to stall. Do you know what's going on? If you believe them, they just ruined the vehicle. They just destroyed that engine. There's a lot of problems that you're going to have. The Christmas gas prank, making the internet laugh and your loved one terrified for a short amount of time, is something out there that I guess people are doing and then putting up the reaction on social media. Because you can be a jerk as long as you do it virally. To the people you care about. To the amusement of total strangers. That's the world we live in now. But the Christmas gas prank is out there. It's real. Some find it humorous. I'm going to be honest. I find it a little funny too. I'm glad that I wouldn't think of anyone in my life as dumb enough to actually do this. So I wouldn't be that afraid that it actually occurred. Another story that I love out there as far as a viral quick five moment. A guy who drives a cyber truck decided to take it with his wife to go see his in-laws in rural West Virginia at a farm. When he got there, he found out that the farm had no way to charge the cyber truck. There was some discussion about maybe some things that got done. The parents didn't exactly get it figured out. So the guy had to plug it into a regular outlet. And if you don't know, a Cybertruck will charge one to two miles of distance per hour when plugged into a regular plug. So it took six days to recharge the vehicle. The guy said it was an awful six days to spend with the in-laws because he was stuck there. Couldn't do anything. I imagine they had a bunch of vehicles on the farm they could have used to tow the Cybertruck to some sort of supercharger and get them out of there. But the in-laws obviously didn't want to do that. They also probably complained for days about the extension cord going outside of their house into a car outside. And who knows if it even was turning off like the lights on the Christmas tree. I kind of hope it was because the amount of fighting I now picture being a thing that happens would just be all over the place. Fighting with the in-laws is never fun. The simmering tension of this one sounds Hallmark movie-worthy to me. And then one last one as far as quick stories go. $32,000 per person was the amount of money spent for a recent bachelor party trip to the North Pole. Over 1,000 people were surveyed asking, like, what's a very expensive thing you did for someone? This was the number one answer. A very stupid use of $32,000 to me. They had thermal equipment to protect them from negative 31 degree weather. They got to experience a few different helicopter rides and polar guides and whatnot. But just think, 32K per person, if you spend that somewhere like Vegas, how much fun that's going to be and how uncomfortable you're not going to be having to deal with negative 32 degree weather. But that was another big story out there that went viral, and a lot of people made fun of it as just a total waste of time. A quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. You can find her everywhere, DLash or DanaLashRadio, two of the best ways to stay connected on X on Twitter, to all things going on in the world, Dana. I thought this was really interesting. A few tweets over the holiday, even some earlier this morning, showing just how deep of an attempt was made by the Biden-Harris administration to hide any information about a potential lab leak theory. as early as 2021. The FBI was the only agency that said, without a supreme amount of confidence, that they thought that potentially the Wuhan lab in China leaked COVID-19 since it was a coronavirus lab, sort of famously made fun of by Jon Stewart, who then complained that he got attacked by the left for saying it. But it's sort of ridiculous that it took that long for a lot of places to admit the likelihood of this. And apparently this was intentionally done to the current president. Although, you know what? I pause... This is all leaked information, and it seems that there's likely some truth to it. But there's additional information that shows where the Biden-Harris administration silenced these types of claims because the first claim is that he didn't even know about it. Essentially, at a briefing in early 2021, when agencies would have been giving their report on what they thought happened to President Biden, the FBI was left out. Not that many agencies typically show up and represent themselves in this, but even the reporting by the FBI was left out. Essentially, they're saying in some of these leaked documents, the biggest reason that Biden was so confident in his opinion is that they simply didn't even tell him about the belief that something else existed. Now, that could be true. They kept a lot of information directly from the president of the United States because he doesn't seem like he was actually running the country at all for four years. The Wall Street Journal also reporting on that somewhat recently. But the fact that the administration probably knew and took steps to hide this information or hide this theory also seems to be more than plausible, but tremendously likely based on what's been leaked so far. So truthfully, any way to try to make the president seem like he was unaware and that means he deserves some level of forgiveness for not acting more informed about this is actually a fairly straw man argument because the administration itself, the actual power that was in charge, seems to be the issue with covering up and hiding so much of this. But the latest details, once again, providing us sort of the two things. that you can know together about so much of what happened during the early and middle parts of COVID. They knew they were lying to us, and they did it anyway. There are some that believe that they didn't know they were lying, but just kind of like we're guessing at stuff. And at some medical things, I believe that that is likely to be more true than not. They were probably guessing, knowing they could very well be wrong, not caring about that, not telling us that part. But any study, any information that's come out over the last few years on a large variety of this information has proven time and again that they willfully told us something was definitively a fact when it wasn't. And more times than not knew the exact opposite was true. So horrific. I say that to set up this other piece of audio. Joe Manchin is on his way out. He's done with politics, or at least being someone in the Senate. He has long been a person that people would point to and say, well, he was a Democrat. He's actually been a Democrat for a long time before becoming an independent. And he's willing to say the thing out loud that most of his party is not willing to say. John Fetterman might be taking the baton from him. I'm not sure, but it seems that way sometimes. But Manchin did a sit down, you know, over a beer discussion with CNN. I don't know why they had to do this in a bar. It's stupid. But as they're talking, Manchin gave the strongest indictment yet of the Democratic Party that anyone who's been a part of it has ever given. And so I want to play part of that audio of just how bad things have gotten. Here we go.

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I am not a Democrat in the form of what what the Democratic Party has turned itself into the national brand. Absolutely not. And they know that they're all good people on both sides.

SPEAKER 20 : 26:08

But what do you think is the reason for you said you're not a Democrat? What caused Joe Manchin to divorce himself?

SPEAKER 17 : 26:16

Here's what I told them. I said, you ought to figure out how you lost somebody like me.

SPEAKER 18 : 26:21

I was born... By the way, I could stop it right there. You also should figure out how you lost someone like Elon Musk, someone like Joe Rogan. There's a bunch of people that said they were long-term Democrats who just don't understand the party anymore and see themselves as still the same level of down-the-middle independent person who is more captured by the discussions on the right than by the discussions on the left as far as their beliefs and who they align with.

SPEAKER 17 : 26:45

I was a Democrat because of my grandfather's love of FDR. I was a very strong Democrat because of my family's love of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I came through the whole iteration. And I was a Democrat in West Virginia, and it has always been a 75, 80% plurality of Democrat. Not anymore. But there was a split. I was never in the liberal side of it. I was never in the establishment side. So I always had to fight my way through.

SPEAKER 18 : 27:16

I love the fact that you're this far into this discussion and the person doing the interview is still not sure he's gotten the right answer. But what is it that makes you not want to be a Democrat? Not the fact that you feel utterly unwelcome and that your entire life what you've thought of a Democrat as being is not what it currently is. Give me one more. Give me the thing that we can play as the short clip. Is it a shift on social issues?

SPEAKER 17 : 27:38

Yeah. The brand got so bad. The D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of it's toxic.

SPEAKER 18 : 27:47

And the brand, the brand, the Democratic brand, the Democratic brand, excuse me, itself is toxic. You know, what's really interesting about this, as I dive a little deeper into the thought of all of that, you have a lot of rhetoric on both sides that people call extreme. They claim that this is extreme things that people say. And when you look at the stuff on the right that's extreme, it's almost often always tied to Trump. And a whole lot of it, stuff like I want to take back the Panama Canal, a lot of people know isn't actually going to happen. Or if it does happen, like, honestly, I don't know that it would be all that bad for the United States if it did. Again, I doubt it would. But, you know, taking Greenland, another example of stuff recently out there. It would actually benefit us if we owned it and we bought it somehow. But I digress. That rhetoric is not usually what shapes the actual policy. And when you're actually trying to get extreme rhetoric to shape policy, for the most part, what conservatives are trying to do is limit the amount of money spent in D.C., in Washington, limit government itself, a long-running, very simplistic conservative stance that a whole lot of Americans agree with. They think that Washington is wasting our money, overspending and causing things like inflation. Now, when you look at the left, yes, there's extreme rhetoric, but that also seems to work out as extreme policy decisions. Oftentimes, the craziest thing said by the conservative is not the thing that inevitably gets passed. The craziest thing said by the Democrat is the thing that they try to pass, and they try to shame people into believing that it's the only way to move forward. It's actually usually why I think rhetoric on the left is more emotionally charged than it is on the right. If you want to try to validate a wide open border to the entirety of our country, the Democrats have to tell the story of a mother with two kids who crosses the border because she can't afford to live and support her family somewhere else. And the Democrats choose to leave out the story of the people who are coming across the border and hurting people. And there's a lot of people who are doing that. That's left out. The emotional narrative is all that matters. The same holds true with abortion, for example, one that I use a lot to talk about some of the more extreme ways that stuff gets argued. The Democratic position on this is that women's health is at risk and women could die because they're not going to be given a certain treatment in scenarios where their life is in jeopardy. And you had an OBGYN in Texas go viral for saying that that was crap. saying that I work here, I work in this place, I've worked in this place for a long time, and I know the narrative that's emotional and not true, and how often you see it in all these other places. But that's essentially the place we're in right now, where if the most extreme stuff on the right, you can simply smile and ignore it if you're someone that's not in agreement with that sort of thing, because you believe that the policies at the end of the day won't reflect it. Or if you're someone that's extreme on the left and you are upset because the policies don't always reflect what you want to see done in the world, that's the big issue with some younger voters on the left is they didn't think that they went far enough in the degree they wanted to go. Then, yeah, the Democratic brand becomes toxic. And a lot of people who think they're in the middle, like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, now think that they're part of the, you know, Venn diagram or whatever it is that Kamala Harris would love to talk about in relationship to this, that fall on the Republican side and not the Democratic side. And actually, something else I mentioned that I thought was really interesting, and you've probably said this before or thought this before yourself if you've had a conversation like this with a loved one, Some of the marquee Democrats in history would be conservatives by today's standard. People like Kennedy who Manchin mentions. Those are individuals that if you look at the policies, at the speeches, at the discussion points, so much of it is echoed by people on the conservative side of the aisle now. And that was a vastly popular Democrat. So what has changed there? It doesn't seem that if you look at the history of both parties, that what you see is extreme rhetoric getting more extreme on the right based on who falls into that bucket now compared to the left. The left feels like it's moving off into a corner and the right feels like it's absorbing some of that middle sort of by happenstance. Because you just don't believe that the next policy decision by a Democrat involving your school is something that would be good for your kids. And you think whatever's happening on the right, at least it'll get government out of the way and you can decide for yourself what you want to do. So it's just very interesting to hear and see him say and crap all over Democrats one last time on the way out on CNN. Well, for some reason, being at a bar and having a beer. Again, Manchin looks more normal than most and not quite as uncomfortable as people like, you know, Pocahontas, as Trump would call her. But so many people out there that seem to need to do this like human part will do in the political part. Just just tell me the political stuff. You don't need to pretend to have a beer or to pretend to be having fun while you're talking about this. I don't need that. All right. Quick break. A lot more coming up. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in on The Dana Show. You can find her everywhere at DLash or DanaLashRadio. Two great places to stay connected on X, on Twitter. Americans are tuning out political conversation at an all-time high, according to the Associated Press. There's a couple reasons why the Associated Press says they're doing that. The first one is that places like MSNBC and CNN... have terrible ratings. I think that's more the quality of the product than people just not wanting to pay attention to politics at all. But I digress. Also, in a survey, 7 out of 10 Democrats and 6 out of 10 Republicans said they've had enough. They don't need a daily barrage of this information. And I imagine that's for very different reasons, of course. Democrats are probably sick of it because, I don't know, they've been convinced by their own party to be afraid of everything that could happen over the next four years, regardless of the legitimacy of that. And so at some point, boy cries wolf enough and you just get sick of the whole thing. And Republicans, I think more so than not, are just annoyed with bullcrap. versions of political rhetoric and the fear-mongering that exists whenever Trump says anything. Trump uniquely good, even better now than ever before, at manipulating media to talk about the things he says in a way that I think will benefit him, especially when he sits down and has conversations with other world leaders. But nonetheless, what I think is so interesting about this is, yeah, a lot of people are sick of it because a lot of the political rhetoric and storytelling and coverage that exists in our society is just truly broken. Another thing out there that I thought was interesting as far as, I don't know if this is an uplifting or not a version of a thing. People were asked how to rate 2024 as a year. I give it a one through 10 and how it, you know, compares to other years. Of course, not as bad as some of the worst years we faced over the recent four to five years or so of a 2024 got a six out of 10. for most people, so an eh rating. The things that made it a good year I thought were really interesting because you have a lot of ability to do this whenever you feel like it. It's not something that you have to wait for a specific year or something to have happen or that can change if something bad goes on. But things that made people likely to rate the year higher is if they reconnected with an old friend or family member, if they had some sort of personal or creative growth of some kind, If they got a pet, I was one of the ones on this list. I learned a new skill, volunteered somewhere or visited a new place. All stuff you can do at any time. You don't have to wait this year, next year. You could do some of that right now. A little 2024 still exists if you want to. And those are the things that made us rate the year the best. So what I love about that, if I'm doing the like kumbaya hopeful moment in all of it, is we have a tremendous amount of power to make any year a good year just by doing those kind of things. So if in 2025 you want to have a better year, do some of that stuff at the top of that list I just mentioned, and boom, you're going to feel great about it, even if some horrible stuff happens too, which is interesting. A whole lot of us feel, you know, as though we're not in control of a grand amount of things that make us happy or not happy. But the reality is very different from what you might think, according to this data. Also, I guess this might make you feel good and not maybe make you rate the whole year as good. But Burger King has given away free stuff. This isn't an advertisement. I just saw this shared enough places that I thought people thought it was interesting. 31 Days of Deals is the promotion. You can get a free chicken sandwich today. And then on Monday, you can get a free bacon cheeseburger. Here's the reason it's going viral on the internet, though. A way to game the system. You have to be a member of their app like anybody else does, and you've got to buy at least $1 worth of actual menu items in order to get the free item. And people said you can just buy four sauce packets, and that'll equal exactly $1, the cheapest way to get your item for free, and not exactly the thing that Burger King is trying to promote, I think. Probably why this is not an endorsement for them, because they don't want this information out there. But just a uniquely sad thing that a lot of people are doing. You buy the four sauce packets, whether you want them or not, and you get yourself the free chicken sandwich or the free bacon cheeseburger, which probably only costs a couple bucks as well anyway, instead of just buying something from the dollar menu that's actually food. But that is a real story that's out there that people are reacting to. And the one final one, I just thought this was interesting. A woman, quote unquote, revealed the genius hack, according to the internet, to get guys to stop hitting on you. She was on a beach in Australia. A guy walked up to her and asked for her number. She turned her phone toward him, said that she was live streaming, and said she wanted her potential new husband to meet her mom, who would have been watching the live stream. And the dude just walked away. That was too many pieces all added together. Whether the guy wanted to be on live stream or not for reasons that may not be, you know, good. A lot of people were guessing that was the issue or just the fact that you're trying to meet mom within the first few moments of meeting someone is not a great move. We don't know what it is, but women are saying this will work. And it's also kind of insane, but we'll see if you try it out. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. D. Lash or Dana Lash Radio. Great ways to stay connected to everything going on for her, her podcast, whatever. All on X on Twitter. Very, very popular and successful human being. A lot of ways to stay connected to Dana's stuff. Let's do this. There's a story out of Houston that's causing a lot of people to have different opinions. And the only reason I think that anyone has a remotely different opinion than the one I'm about to share, the one I have about this issue, is the age of the people that were committing the crime. The people that were trying to rob another man, again in Houston, Texas, are between the ages of 12 and 14. Three out of four of the individuals trying to rob someone were injured in what I'm about to play as far as the news audio, how this happened. One is reportedly in critical condition. But nonetheless, four teenagers, 12 to 14, sadly their ages, walked up and tried to, you know, armed and dangerous, rob a guy on the streets of Texas. And what happened might have been more predictable to some of us than others. Here's part of the audio.

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Good morning, Amy. In the course of the investigation, deputies learned those kids were just between the ages of 12 and 14 years old, and they tried robbing a man with a gun. Deputies say at least three of those kids were shot. gun actually many guns were recovered from the scene so uh out of the four teens that were holding weapons three of them were shot one of them is still in critical condition at last check when harris county sheriff deputies showed up here they found one of the kids with several gunshot wounds he was taken to a nearby trauma center in critical condition as i just mentioned And as paramedics were attending to him, two other kids were found with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to the hospital and are stable. Shortly after that, the suspected shooter, who deputies believe the teens were trying to rob, returned to the scene and turned himself in.

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he is also cooperating with authorities in every part of this conversation. There is an interesting part. Another reason this story probably went viral out of Texas is what a witness says he saw and what he did in response to it. Again, Texas is a state where you could assume that the person you're trying to attack with a gun might actually also be armed. Here we go. Some

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gunshots sound like they were basically at my front door and of course as you can see from behind me they were down the way a little bit be frank and honest with you I grabbed my gun which is in a holster and walked outside to see what was going on it is believed the incident occurred due to an attempted aggravated robbery that involved the juveniles attempting to rob the adult male

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Okay, so there's a few things here. The first thing I would say, I'm a gun owner. I've only been a gun owner for the last couple years and definitely enjoyed learning how to, one, utilize my Second Amendment right, but also how to fire a weapon. It's fun. as far as the thing you could do if you choose to do it. But the thing I know, and most people who've had any amount of, you know, even a simplistic course, I'm not pretending I have training like actual human beings who, you know, serve and protect our country or our community, but any training at all is that if you draw a weapon on a person, you have to be willing to use it. And thankfully, that the man that was getting robbed wasn't injured. It sounds like these kids, 12 to 14 years old, did not intend to use their weapons. They just intended to frighten someone with them. However, the guy, the adult who had a weapon, knows that if you draw it, you use it. So he defended himself. He has every right to defend himself when armed robbers approach you. Yes, it's sad. Yes, it's upsetting if they're 12 to 14. But there's an aspect of this too that I couldn't get over in all the things I'm reading about it. For anyone that's saying it's horrible and terrible and with the Christmas season and everything being around to be dealing with your child being in the hospital for the one kid who's in critical condition. The thing I can't get over is what is the person supposed to do if it's not that stuff? What is the person who's, you know, being attacked by four guys, kids or whatever? And I don't know exactly how old the 12 to 14 year olds look, but that are armed and threatening to shoot you. And if you have a gun and you know how to use it, what are you supposed to do? You defend yourself. That's the whole reason of having it. That's the whole reason of carrying a weapon is to protect yourself from dangerous situations. Now, again, I guess the big fallout or discussion about this is what else could have or should have happened in the first place to prevent these kids from having guns, to be on the street robbing someone, like where are the parents is a valuable question, et cetera, et cetera. But what I can't get over, again, is the entire intention of, of being able to protect yourself is if you're put in a life or death situation, which if someone points a weapon at you, that is a life or death situation. You don't know if they're willing to use it or not. You have to assume they are. And your response to it doesn't deserve the amount of debate it's going to get. And it's only because, again, of the age of the kids. And that's horrific for a different reason. And I'll tell you what that is. You're seeing a lot of very serious crimes committed by younger and younger people in our society. You have a lot of like, you know, auto grand theft auto or whatever you're supposed to call it, where people are joyriding and stealing cars and things they learned on TikTok on social media. And it winds up being under the age of 18 individuals who are doing this and sometimes as young as some of the people in this story. Yeah, I would feel horrible for anyone involved, including the guy who used the gun to defend himself, because anyone who does that in a certain situation doesn't usually do it with joy. I mean, cops and people who wind up using their weapon in the line of duty wind up dealing with a lot of the mental fallout of that. But it is the only decision you have in that moment. So I'm sort of dumbfounded by some of the discussion on this topic. Even though I understand if you're trying really hard to get to a place where if I'm equating it to like a 12 to 14 year old, I know and not one approaching people with a gun threatening to shoot and rob them that you wouldn't, you know, want to see anyone, you know, be injured in this way. But it's decision making that that put them in jeopardy and not something where you got to blame the guy who's defending himself. but a lot on social media doing it. Like you should have known because they're younger that they weren't going to actually shoot you as they're pointing a gun at you, which is insane to say out loud. And yet people are saying it. All right. Another thing. This deserves some coverage. There were several truth social posts from President Trump, soon to be again President Trump, but President-elect Trump. And they got a lot of coverage in media. And I haven't read them at all today. I've just been kind of like throwing out some of the pieces of them. But I could read more of it. What I do like about the Trump posts on Christmas is he usually starts a lot of them with Merry Christmas. And then he's also usually targeting people that he does not like as part of his Christmas wishes. The first of the posts he put up said, Merry Christmas to all, including the wonderful soldiers of China who are lovingly but illegally operating the Panama Canal, where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago, always making certain that the U.S. puts in billions of dollars in quote unquote repair money. but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything. Also, the governor, Justin Trudeau of Canada. This is, of course, in reference to how Trump thinks that Canada might benefit from becoming the 51st state of the United States, whose citizens taxes are far too high. But if Canada was to become the 51st state, their taxes would be cut by more than 60 percent. Their businesses would immediately double in size and they would be protected by the best military in the world. He went on to also say, likewise, the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for national security purposes and who want the U.S. to be there. And we will. That was one of a few. He also tweeted a lot of things or actually truth social. And then it gets put on other platforms, a lot of things about some of the decision making of Biden recently. This obviously is somewhat designed to be talked about. by a lot of media. And in doing so, you wind up asking yourself, well, why would Trump even want to take back the Panama Canal and the amount of fees that we pay and the fact that those fees have risen recently because Panama has a drought and they're trying to gain money to help with their drought by charging more money for people to go through the Panama Canal. or whatever it is with Greenland and how resource-rich that place is and how it might be possible for the United States to negotiate some kind of deal to get access to more of those resources. All of these have a purpose. All of these are being obsessed about by mainstream media as the latest examples that Trump's a terrible person. And then there's one last one as far as Trump is concerned. And this one I find pretty interesting because it's, in essence, part of a second or third message he put up on social media, but also something he put up via video. So he spoke as well about the punishment for people who hurt kids. Anyone who traffics minors will be given the death penalty. Again, tough words. But not necessarily words that I think a whole lot of Americans would actually disagree with, because when you hurt kids, you wind up having a universal kind of feeling that person deserves the fullest extent of the penalties of the law. Here's what Trump said exactly.

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When I am back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children. We will fully secure the border. I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate, 100 percent gone, 100 percent destroyed.

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By the way, I want to stop it real quick. I thought that was a really interesting thing to say, too. He's mentioning how he wants to secure the border. There will be people that will be deported. All this stuff that winds up getting him attacked as a racist or whatever. And he says that he would actually fight the cartel. My wife is from Mexico. Her family still lives there. I've been there a tremendous amount of times. If the United States actually did directly fight the cartel more significantly than they've done so far, which sounds like a tremendously challenging thing for a variety of reasons... It would be good, not just for the people of the United States, but for the people of Mexico. So I thought it was interesting to put that right in the middle of this part of the statement, because essentially you're saying something that would be wildly popular with our neighbors to the south, using our military, our resources to fight the drug dealers and horrible people that exist and have an overwhelming amount of power in the south. Continue.

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They'll come back now because we have a weak administration. I will use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis by returning all trafficked children to their families in their home countries and without delay. And I will urge Congress to ensure that anyone caught trafficking children across our border receives the death penalty immediately.

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Look, I got to be honest. even though he's being used by some on a certain side of the aisle as being like too extreme, too crazy, too insane. And honestly, I'm Catholic and I'm not trying to throw my faith into the equation, you know, for no reason whatsoever. But the death penalty is a tricky one for people to talk about in general. But when you talk about kids specifically and people who would traffic or harm children, The idea of putting those people to death or having the death penalty be the punishment to deter that type of thing is something that I think a lot of Americans actually would agree with because even, and I've quoted it a couple times now and I probably shouldn't, but my faith keeps making me think of it as a thing. The Bible has a quote from Jesus about how people who harm kids deserve to be thrown to the bottom of the ocean. So even biblical scholars would say that there was some sort of universal, not the death penalty per se, but some sort of universal acceptance and belief that those who harm children are the uniqueness and worst of sinners or criminals that exist in our society. So again, it's going to be covered as this horribly radical thing that gets said, but if it's actually designed to truly protect children, I wonder how many parents are really going to be upset when they hear that message said in that way. All right, quick break, a lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Let's try to do a real quick Quick 5.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5.

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All right. First, an Amazon driver abandoned 80 packages in the woods in Massachusetts because he said he was stressed with holiday deliveries. You probably shouldn't be an Amazon driver, especially in December, if you're going to get stressed out by having too many packages in the back of your vehicle. And you also shouldn't ditch them all in the exact same place for cops to find them and be like, hey, what happened here? Easy case for them to solve, by the way, because you left all 80 things in your own route, not even that far into the woods. So you didn't even do that part well. But luckily, that's why people were going to get their stuff just after Christmas, because cops found a bunch of unattended packages just lying around. Another story out there, flight times are indeed getting longer. People might think that their flights are taking longer, that everything about flying is getting worse. They're right about that. About 20 minutes longer on average. mostly because of the increase in amount of traffic in the air, causing people to take less direct flights or circle longer around airports before landing, etc., etc. This is something that people would like to have fixed. Also, the amount of carry-on luggage that's gotten so large that it feels like regular luggage out of people taking up all the space in the overhead bins. Another complaint about airlines. But those are things out there that apparently are actually happening. Another story of a couple that went viral saying they moved to one of the most remote islands in the world. It's so far from society that they have to spend six months planning and then purchasing items to have them shipped in time for things like Christmas. You're buying all your Christmas gifts in June to make sure that they get there in time. But they said they would not go back to regular society, regular civilization, that it's so much better where they're living now being away from everybody and everything. I imagine there's a whole lot of people that agree with them that that kind of makes sense. For whatever reason, it might be maybe a humbug to some of the family members, but you can't go anywhere because you're in a completely remote area. And then finally, one last thing, a survey found that people over the age of 55 are still very active in the bedroom. I don't know how to say that cleaner for the radio. Surprising to the people who are studying this is the amount of 55 and older who once a week have a romantic time. They're saying that this is a combination of different things, but maybe also just the fact that, and this is the uplifting part of it, the best is yet to come. Yes, I could have made dirtier jokes. I didn't make any during this whole segment. But your life will not get, you know, less interesting. It might get more interesting as you get older, especially if you even wind up living in a retirement home where apparently a lot of the romance is occurring for people over the age of 55. Something that might haunt your dreams is a piece of information. If you started to think about your own family members above that age group, I apologize for it. But, hey, good for them. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back just after the holidays. Thrilled to be with you. You can find her DLash or DanaLashRadio on X on Twitter. The Hill is resurrecting a very weird argument that Congress should prevent Trump from taking office. This is something that Jamie Raskin has talked about before. The moron who sometimes has a bandana on the top of his head. But anyway, Jamie Raskin has said how, you know, this could be a move that Congress makes. I can play the old audio of him making the argument. What's so interesting to me, though, is every time that Democratic talking heads or whoever they are want to essentially fulfill a conspiracy theory. If you're someone who believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump or at least some stupid stuff or weird stuff or stuff that should have been illegal but was claimed wasn't happened, you are not alone. You're very much in a giant group of individuals. And so if Congress attempted to block Trump from becoming the next president in the final hour, at the last minute, in whatever way they attempt to do it, according to The Hill or anyone else, how they could try to do it, it would fulfill another of those conspiracy theories that people think and also things that they yell and scream about when Democrats hear that Republicans say, you know, this is something you might do. How dare you, sir, say those things right up until they really want to do it. But here's Raskin again talking about this idea that has been resurrected today by the Hill.

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what can be put into the Constitution can slip away from you very quickly. And the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which they're just disappearing with a magic wand as if it doesn't exist, even though it could not be clearer what it's stating. And so... You know, they want to kick it to Congress. So it's going to be up to us on January 6th, 2025 to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he's disqualified. And then we need bodyguards for everybody.

SPEAKER 18 : 66:15

And so I hear I got to stop it right there. So the felony conviction is part of the reason that they're trying to say that Trump is disqualified, which is amazing for a variety of reasons. The first one being Trump getting into office after that happening to him. Just one case, just 30 something charges for the same crime, all of which is almost always a misdemeanor. But in the case of Trump, for some reason, was inflated to a felony and then found guilty in a courtroom in New York, although it's likely to be overturned. if it actually doesn't just get fully thrown out at some point. But that would disqualify him from being the president, according to Raskin and according to The Hill, and that they would essentially prevent him from taking power, which would cause a lot of people to go, well, insane. This wouldn't be a good thing for our country. It would be a horrendous thing for our country, especially since so many Americans voiced their opinion and saying how little they thought of that case or any of the cases against Trump to begin with. based on still electing him into office after they happened. But this is a real thing. It's out there as of six hours ago. It's an opinion piece in the Hill. And I don't know. You know what it really says to me? And it's something that a lot of people on the left would put their noses up and, you know, be mad about if someone on the right said, you know, I don't think the 2020 election was entirely fair or whatever version of that you might say. The people on the left would say in response to you, wow, you're such a sore loser. Wow, get over it. Get over whatever it is that you're upset about that you think was a problem that caused the election not to be won, or at least in general, a tremendously higher amount of people to turn out than turned out this past election, which is weird, isn't it? That all of a sudden you have numbers similar to what we've seen in the past, as opposed to the one election in 2020, where a whole bunch of mail-in ballots made the turnout ridiculous. That's just strange. But nonetheless, I don't care. I don't want to have that argument or dive any deeper there. I just want to say that it's amazing that these same individuals would also advocate for preventing Trump from becoming the president when he was elected by the people and even won the popular vote. The most significant thing, I don't know if significant is the right word, but they think it is, that Democrats try to do to conservatives is complain that they don't win the popular vote. when they win the presidential election, but Trump won it. He got the most votes out of anybody, even though they say he didn't win the popular vote because he didn't get 50% of the votes, depending on who you ask, if it's 50 or if it's just under it, which is so stupid. Some of those arguments are so dumb. But this is uniquely risky to me or stupid to me for a variety of reasons. Because you just don't care about being a hypocrite. Truthfully, there's no way you can say this stuff and just even remotely care about if people see you as just full of crap when your side doesn't win a thing. And actually, there's another example of that. This is a talking head on CNN. Her name is April Ryan saying that, you know, Biden is protecting the checks and balances system that was created by our founding fathers by trying to preemptively stop Trump from doing certain things or whatever that might be. Even though that's very far from checks and balances, because as she states, Trump is going to have Congress with him. He's going to have the House and the Senate aligned with him as far as, you know, the are in front of all their names, which means they're likely to work well together. And so Biden has to do as much prevent defense as he can, which isn't the checks and balances. that she's actually advocating for, that would be if the legislative and executive branch didn't agree on stuff, which, uh-oh, she seems to admit they're going to in just a month or so.

SPEAKER 07 : 69:56

The president, this president, Joe Biden, did not want to give President-elect Donald Trump a chance to add more conservatism into our courts, bottom line. I mean, you have so many people talking about how everything is weighed down right now. The White House on January 20th at noon will be Republican. The House, Senate, what? Republican. And the Supreme Court leans Republican. So this president wanted to ensure checks and balances. He is that standard bearer from what the founding fathers put in place. He wants checks and balances and he wants to make sure everything goes well.

SPEAKER 18 : 70:32

he doesn't want checks and balances because if all three branches of the government are likely to work well together on something, and it's not something where Trump forced people to vote certain individuals into power in the house or in the Senate. And I know Trump got, I guess, lucky if that's what you want to call it in the amount of appointments he got to make to the Supreme court. But I will tell I'm blue in the face, actually tell people that the Supreme court makes a lot of left-leaning decisions that you'd be surprised they make is those don't make the news. Yes, they make right-leaning decisions too. Yes, some of those get heavily talked about, but there have been several decisions by this Supreme Court. Just look them up for yourself that wind up aligned with democratic ways of thinking and not conservative ways of thinking. Conservatives have lost arguments. It's not like it's a rubber stamp version of a part of our system and it gets acted like. It is. The judicial system is definitely not one that is heavily controlled by just conservative mindsets, even if it has more conservatives than liberals on it, although they're not exactly. Anyway, I digress. What I think is crazy about that is to call this checks and balances. It's the same thing as when Biden said he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes that he was found guilty of. Felonies as well, by the way, that he was found guilty of. Joe said he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't do it. And people praised him for being presidential and understanding that you're supposed to be above the needs of your family. et cetera, et cetera. And then he did it. And then he went ahead and he's like, and I pardon him anyway. And I pardon him all the way back to 2014 for crimes he has or hasn't been accused of, which was sort of nuts. It also made you think like, hey, what else did Hunter Biden do that you're aware of that some of us aren't as aware of yet that you're trying to protect him from also getting in trouble for? That's insane. But nonetheless, like these kind of things, they just happen all the time. And so it's amazing to desire so badly to think that you're the good guys, which I think happens not just for politicians, but more for voters on a certain side of the political aisle, that you will listen to anything and you will believe anything as long as part of the argument is, and we're doing this because we're the good guys, regardless of how much it makes us absolutely seem like the bad guys to everybody but us. And it doesn't matter. We're the good people. We're doing things for the right reasons. Everyone look away. Another story out there that's been a big deal. That boxer, the one in the Olympics who got a whole lot of discussions about her because she had male chromosomes in her body. Essentially, a lot of people calling her dude. I'm not going that far not to try to be woke or anything like that. As far as I understand the story at this point, all this time later, is she was born both male and female. And I don't really know how to understand that situation more. If she has a biological advantage, which it sounds like she did, she probably shouldn't be boxing in women's athletics as no one who has a biological advantage should be allowed to compete. But it's uniquely different than some of the discussions we talk about, as woke as it sounds, to say if you were born both. I don't know how to say that different, and I'd rather not talk about it any longer than I already have. But making her the number three female athlete of the year seems ridiculous. And that's what the AP did. They voted her the third most important female athlete. If you were a female athlete that didn't have a biological advantage tied to you because you're actually fully female, then you're not going to be so thrilled. that someone who would not fall into that same category just beat you out as a better female athlete than you. It's the same discussion you have all the time. You can make this simple. You don't have to make this sound like it's a thing where even though I'm accused of being hateful, hate's actually involved. It's just matter of fact. I don't want my baseball players taking steroids because I think it creates an unfair advantage for the people who are on steroids because they have a medical, a biological, whatever you want to call it, you know, a thing that they're putting in their body that's making them more capable than people who aren't doing that. The same is true in these cases, even in the case of this woman, this boxer who went viral during the Olympics because she was disqualified from a previous event for having male chromosomes. Now, again, I'm not going as far as to call her a dude because I guess she was raised her entire life as a girl. Because, again, when you're born with both, I guess somehow that decision is made somewhere. But she's certainly someone who deserves to have the discussion about whether or not a biological advantage precludes her from the ability to compete in a sport where she's beating the crap out of other people. And even more than that, you know, getting named athlete of the year or one of the athletes of the year seems like a slap in the face to a whole lot of other people. You can say that, all of that, and not be hateful. I know, shocking. And I know some people think I was just weak and overly woke in what I said there. Hey, I can't help it, man. If you're raised your entire life As a woman, some part of me actually respects the idea of calling that person a woman, even if I can say out loud they also potentially have chromosomes that make it unfair for them to fight in a fight against a fully biological woman. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in. This is The Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 04 : 77:25

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

SPEAKER 18 : 77:34

That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back after the holidays. First, this is, I guess, a Florida people, more than just one Florida man. But a guy named Sam, who's 22 years old, went viral on the Internet. He went to Reddit specifically to complain. He's actually the manager at a frozen yogurt stand in Florida where he said multiple employees who were Gen Z, much younger, say 15, 16 years old, had marked bills fake that were not fake, $10, $5 bills, things that were older than, say, the late 90s. So they look different than the bills of today, but were definitely real, actual currency. They even wrote things on them in black Sharpie, like fake, do not accept, fake, reject, et cetera, et cetera. And the guy is really upset. He's like, why do they not know that these are regular bills? I know this is a Florida story, but this probably happens other places too. Not a great look. Figure out what a bill looks like from pre-1999 before you reject it and write all over it because people were trying to pay with actual money and had it confiscated, which probably made people go nuts. But then eventually the guy steps in and fixes it. That's one Florida story. Another one involves a gym teacher in Florida, in Scheffner. This guy was arrested after he shoved a student to the ground. The reason the gym teacher did it, and he shoved a 12-year-old, he said was that he had a dodgeball thrown at him. Apparently the kid did it by mistake, or even if the guy did it on purpose, the 12-year-old child, it's a ball. You'll be fine as a teacher, and I can't believe this would be the first time this has ever happened. But the guy got mad, and in response to that, shoved the kid. That is child abuse, and you go to jail for that. Now, granted, pushing a kid down, if it's the only time you've ever done anything remotely bad as a gym teacher, it does feel like the kind of thing that maybe some leniency could be found in the court system itself. If you're the parents of the kid, I don't know if you feel that way because he got shoved to the ground, could have gotten hurt, didn't. But all of this being over a thrown ball is one of the more hilarious and dumb things I've heard in the world. The teacher's name is John Steele. He lost his cool and obviously probably shouldn't be a gym teacher if you can't be hit with stuff during gym class. That feels like a prerequisite of the situation. And then one last Florida guy story. This one out of Indian River County in Florida. First, a guy got arrested for being just a piece of crap. He got arrested on a domestic violence phone call in which it seemed that the woman actually was injured. So the guy's just a piece of crap. That part's not funny or amusing. It's just a reality. this 42-year-old dude off to jail. They have to do a search of his body at some point to see if he's got anything he shouldn't have before he gets checked into the night or hopefully a while into prison. And apparently, and this is a quote, he had cigarettes hidden between his genitalia. I can't clean that up for radio. That's the way I got to say it. I don't know what that means, and I don't want to know what that means. I know what I think between could mean, but the fact that they were less specific about the other part makes me curious as to where it was going or what was being hidden. When asked why he took that, something that was not allowed in the jail, with him on his person the way he did, he said he wanted to smoke him when he got to jail because he wanted to think about what he'd done, which does not make it any more allowed. If you're trying to say that these are cigarettes I'm going to smoke to reflect on the decision making I've made in life. So that's why I hid them there, officer. It doesn't wind up being less illegal. This is still very illegal. He added another charge to the crimes against him for trying to smuggle contraband into a facility. But that is that is something. And the fact that the cops said they just got a sense that something was off with this guy. I don't know if it was the way he was like walking, depending again on where things were hidden or the decision making beyond it. And the guy is uniquely a piece of crap for hitting a woman. But nonetheless, or at least accused of hitting a woman, I should say, although they found the woman with visible reasons to think that this was going on. But nonetheless, beyond that too, it's just the fact that you thought you were going to get away with this. I don't know. I don't know why you thought this was something that they wouldn't be able to figure out at some point down the road. And luckily they did. And it just adds to the issues for this Florida man. And also I do wonder about one thing, like when you hid this, the place that it was hidden, because it sounds like the cops were there for a decent amount of time and you were being talked to and then arrested. So it had to be hidden before they showed up. which adds a whole bunch of layers of questions to this conversation that I don't want answers to. I don't want to know why somebody would just assume, hey, I'm probably going to jail later today. Might as well hide these things in this spot just in case, because I would like to have them if I am in prison later. A unique piece of crap there for a variety of reasons. Also thinks he's part of a mafia that doesn't exist, but I'll get to that some other day. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins. Filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana back just after the holidays. D-Lash or Dana Lash Radio. Great ways to stay connected to her. Someone actually, this is the Daily Caller, did a deep dive into the biggest lies that Corinne Jean-Pierre told. During her time as the White House press secretary, lots and lots of fibs and incorrect information shared by this White House press secretary, even though she told the press that she would tell them the truth. That was the big thing that was going to change between her and people who had that role when Donald Trump was last in office. A terrible, horrible person that is Donald Trump, according to a whole lot of people on the left. Several lies are pretty interesting. Of course, saying that Joe Biden was the candidate and not going to drop out of the race is one of many that wound up being untrue. One of my favorite ones that was listed here was when a neurologist had visited the White House and Corinne Jean-Pierre tried to say with a straight face to the American press that it had nothing to do with any concerns about mental health. uh, for Biden or dementia claims or any of that stuff. It was just, it's, you know, uh, normal is the kind of thing that happens all the time. It was preplanned. Wasn't, we didn't even really need to do it. We just kind of did it. That was amazing. That was not true. Um, but then the best one and the one that most people are citing as the most egregious lie, uh, although to be honest, uh, She was told this so many times by the president who would say it as well out loud that she was just kind of echoing a message that she was somewhat convinced would actually wind up being true. However dumb that was to believe this. But she said several times that Biden would not pardon Hunter.

SPEAKER 19 : 84:20

But from a presidential perspective, is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son?

SPEAKER 05 : 84:26

No. I just said no. I just answered.

SPEAKER 20 : 84:30

The president would not pardon or commute sentences for his son, Hunter. I just want to make sure that that is not going to change over the next six months. The president's saying he would not.

SPEAKER 05 : 84:40

It's still a no. It's still a no. It's still a no. It will be a no. It is a no. And I don't have anything else to add.

SPEAKER 18 : 84:47

Except it's a yes. Except that's what you want to add later on after this happened. That goes on. There's like a two-minute video viral online right now resurfacing of all the times she said no to that one. But just one of several. Lies that was told by this White House press secretary and not even done well. The real knock on Corinne Jean-Pierre, and I know people get mad if you call her a DEI hire, even though the Biden administration for anyone they put in any position that was a minority or anything else, the Biden administration told us about it. They said, look at this person who's breaking this barrier. And one of the reasons we put them into this position is You can't ask for credit for doing something a certain way and then claim that's not the reason you did it. You can't say, no, she fully deserves the job, but also we gave her the job because of this, because that kind of shoots the first statement in the face. More than anything, what Corinne Jean-Pierre was really bad at, that even Jen Psaki was better at, was lying convincingly. or lying in a way that made some amount of sense, or dodging questions in a cyclical statement of word-vomity stuff that at least you thought might have answered the question. It was too transparent too often when Corinne Jean-Pierre was lying, or when Corinne Jean-Pierre was struggling to answer a question. And her favorite thing to say in most press conferences was, I've got nothing for you on that. I'll have to get back to you. You have to check with somebody else about that sort of thing, which really doesn't give you any sort of confidence that any of the information you're being given is, well, a valuable, important or even accurate. That was a constant complaint as well of this White House press secretary who stayed in the position. Far longer than people thought she should have stayed in that position. But the biggest reason why she was there was probably the other thing that we're not supposed to talk about, the DEI hire part, which also made her harder to fire, I imagine. If you want the political win for your side of the aisle, however weak or strong it is, of putting someone in a position that you're happy to be there for reasons other than their job performance, it's also hard to fire them when the job performance is not living up to whatever expectation you had. All right. There's something else I want to play. I kind of contemplated not playing this audio today, but I do want to rip it apart as just a tremendously dumb. And so for that reason, I guess we're going to play it. A joy read of the failing MSNBC. Its ratings are in the tank, as most reporting is saying. And Elon Musk is at least jokingly contemplating buying it, which would be hilarious. If that happened, I can't help but laugh when I say that. But Joy Reid is throwing out a new theory. First, people on the left were trying to get under Trump's skin by claiming that Elon Musk is really the president and that he's not calling him President Musk and whatnot. So much so that Trump did respond to it in a statement over the holiday. saying out loud that Elon can't be the president because he wasn't born in this country. So maybe that ends part of that discussion. Maybe not. Elon also tweeted out that anyone trying to bridge a gap between him and the president or the president elect will fail. because that's the whole reason for that rhetoric is just to try to create some sort of distance between the world's richest man and the owner of one of the most influential social media platforms in society and the guy who will be the world's most powerful man, or at least if you're not Joe Biden, you wind up being powerful because you lead the United States of America. So there will be a lot of interesting intersection between those individuals. But Joy Reid wants to go a step further and accuse Trump and Elon of listening to somebody else somebody who's definitely not a person that we would want in charge of our country. Here's her conspiracy theory.

SPEAKER 22 : 88:32

An interesting development that may have changed the calculation a little bit today, that we found out that Trump, our would-be strongman, is in a sense answerable to a bigger strongman, not Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk, who also allegedly, at least according to reports, has lots of conversations with Putin. What does that do to the calculation on how Americans should deal with Trump?

SPEAKER 1 : 88:55

Nothing.

SPEAKER 18 : 88:57

First, I want to answer the question myself. Nothing. She goes on to say that she thinks Elon Musk secretly is having, you know, conversations with Vladimir Putin that shapes what Elon Musk thinks about stuff, meaning Putin is pulling Elon strings and then Elon is pulling Trump strings. It's so stupid. It's so dumb. The biggest reason why it's dumb is no one who's even remotely familiar with Donald Trump, the person, thinks he can be manipulated by anyone. A case in point, and Joy Reid would be thrilled to talk about this, which makes me not all that thrilled to bring it up, but is the 2020 election. The biggest defense Trump was going to use in any courtroom anywhere in the world to why he did any of the things he did, if they were going to claim they were illegal, is that he believes the 2020 election was stolen. He still believes that right now. And even if people told him it wasn't, he didn't care because he thought that what he was seeing was different than what they're seeing. Now, I'm not trying to relitigate that discussion with you. I don't care to anymore. Trump's back in office in 2024. And if there's proof of certain things that we haven't seen before, I very much hope that Trump demonstrates that proof and releases that proof. But nonetheless, what I think is amazing, and Elon Musk is the same way, by the way. He feels like a fairly confident person now. So it's amazing to think that anyone, Vladimir Putin or anyone else, could just willingly control these guys to the degree that they do or just, you know, trick them into following their advice all the time. There is one caveat I'll say to this. I'm sure it's backing up Joy Reid's statement, or at least what she thinks is true. Trump has made jokes about wanting to buy Greenland, and apparently media in Russia, state media, said it was a great idea. They threw their support behind Trump owning Greenland or the United States owning Greenland through a deal with Trump. Now, what's interesting about that, too, is that there would be another president at some point to come along that you would assume Putin would get along with way less than he gets along with Trump. And we would still own Greenland if we got to purchase it while Trump was in office. So it is interesting, for whatever reason, Russia would support that and believe that maybe they can make better deals with us than with anyone else as far as the resources that exist there. But it's just fascinating to me because anything like that might back its way into being a Well, this means that this is what Putin wants all along, even though a whole bunch of people would say it would benefit the United States for us to own Greenland or to own other places. Not that I think it's going to happen. Greenland is not for sale. But nonetheless, it's just amusing and sort of amazing to me that these kind of conversations happen and that people like Joy Reid can float insane conspiracy theories and not be called out for them. And then the minute that a conspiracy theory exists on the other side can attack it as though it's the most insane thing they've ever heard, as if that actually makes sense. The whole like, you know, you can't scream a fire in a movie theater, even though you actually can. That's a misunderstanding of how that actually works. And she seems to be screaming it on the daily, but then also yelling at anyone else that she accuses of screaming a fire in a movie theater. All right. I want to play this audio, too, just because I mentioned Greenland. I find it interesting. Scott Jennings, a guy on CNN who says a lot of stuff that the rest of CNN hates him for saying, said that he'd love it if Trump took over Greenland, bought it from Denmark, because it'd be great for us.

SPEAKER 19 : 92:21

Yes, we need Greenland. Greenland is an amazing thing to have. It's like you ever play Monopoly? You know, like the first row of properties like that are cheap. Maybe I don't need you need those. Those are vital properties. I am for Greenland. I wanted him to do it before. I want him to do it now. And I am personally and on television applying to be the military governor of Greenland. if in fact we do take control of it.

SPEAKER 18 : 92:42

Yeah, I don't think that's going to work out. By the way, I don't know if I would equate it to like the cheapest properties in Monopoly. It's going to cost us like $1.7 trillion to buy Greenland, even if it is cheap compared to other places, territories, parts of the world. If Denmark actually put it up for sale, it still feels really expensive. So I think I would equate that more to the boardwalks and park places of the world than anything else, just because the number is too high for me to consider it one of those purple ones at the beginning. But anyway, Scott Jennings offering to have his services tied deeply to Greenland, if so desired. And again, even Russia on board with that plan, which are possibly or probably convinces Joy Reid that that's what's going on. It's all a dirty plan. And Putin's actually in charge. Four more years of Russia, Russia, Russia would be incredibly annoying, but it's probably likely to happen, and we'll see how many of those desperate moves are made by the side that is so, so upset that someone's about to take power in about a month. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

SPEAKER 10 : 93:47

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That's right. First, apparently, according to at least one quote unquote expert, although I'm not sure this guy's an expert in anything. If you want to make New Year's resolutions that work, turn them into a goal bingo board this holiday season. Meaning you put all the goals up on a board and every time you get a bingo by putting a row or something in there, you get some sort of prize that you give yourself. I think you could just award yourself without the bingo concept if you need a prize to do stuff. But the New Year's resolution bingo board is an idea that's out there. I think ABC News reported on it in the morning with one of their moron experts who said this would work somehow better than something else. Another story that I love a lot, granted a little bit older from December. is about a sweep-free encampment that popped up near City Hall in San Francisco. This was billed as a place that the police had promised not to sweep, not to essentially remove people from. Two days after it popped up, police swept it and removed everybody from the area. The thing that organizers did not tell anyone is that they kind of hoped that sweeps free would be a thing they could just say that the police would follow and not something that they'd actually agreed upon with the police about. That does not work. If you just advertise a location as something, hey, they're going to leave us alone here. They don't actually listen to you as if you make the rules, and they don't. A fisherman hooked a woman that was drowning. He actually tried to cast his fishing rod on purpose. He didn't catch her with the hook in the body. It actually stuck to her jeans pants. and he was able to reel her into safety. This is a real story that happened. I think it happened in South Africa. When the woman got to waist-deep water, other fishermen jumped out of their boats and helped her get out. This guy missed an opportunity. He should have taken a photo with the lady holding whatever version he could of the string, the fishing line that attached her to his fishing rod, because that's the best catch he'll ever have in his entire life. He literally caught a woman I don't know if she's single. I don't know what's going on between the two of them now. But he saved her life. She was drowning and authorities weren't able to respond quick enough. The dude reeled her in. By the way, if I was ever saved by a guy that was fishing, I would never tell anyone. That would be the kind of secret that would die with me because of the amount of embarrassment I would feel for being reeled to safety. But darn it, if you're dying, you don't care. And I'm sure she didn't care. And she might have posed for the photo. So again, the biggest miss in the internet is that we don't have that photo of the two of them standing next together and him holding her up like he caught her because darn it, he did. All right, two other things out there. A living Nostradamus, a dude from Brazil who apparently claims to have predicted COVID-19, the death of the Queen of England, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and other stuff, has made his predictions for 2025. Three of them have made the news. He thinks that humans will get genetically modified to be resistant from diseases. That'll happen this year. That sounds interesting. He also thinks the robot uprising will happen. Artificial intelligence will be out of control. And the digital apocalypse is upon us all this year. Oh, and then also aliens. We're going to make contact. So a lot of things happening, according to the Nostradamus who made other predictions for 2025. I feel like he's the kind of guy that says a lot of really crazy stuff. And then if one of them works out, says that's the only thing he predicted. But he's pretty much throwing everything at the wall. with those three predictions. If they all happen, darn it, I'll be thrilled that Trump's president for that stuff. Because I did say my biggest disappointment if we had contacted aliens during the last four years is how terrible the press conference Biden would have done, but how glorious it would be with Trump if he's standing next to an alien. Depending on how the alien feels about him, I feel like it could go any way we want it to go at all. And then one last one that I guess I'll get to a little bit later on. Schools in places like Poland are convincing teachers to be ready for fights by giving them gun training. Doesn't seem so bad. It seems to be working there. More on that in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff to talk about. There is some debate online about a story that happened in Houston, Texas just about a day or so ago. So a group of kids is the way they're being referred to by mainstream media, although even though they're ages 12 to 14, they were holding guns and robbing people at gunpoint. But these group of individuals walked up to a man and attempted to rob him at gunpoint. He happened to be a gun owner himself and defended himself by shooting three of the people that were threatening to kill him. Now, granted, since the ages of the kids, again, how they're being referred to in media, is 12 to 14, a big fallout portion of this conversation, even if the man acted legally in defending himself when he was standing there with people pointing guns at him, is because one of the people is in critical condition. But the discussion becomes like, did this man do something wrong? Because the age of the victims or the age of the people who were the criminals in the case has become at the forefront of the discussion. I'll play some audio of it first, then I'll react to it. But I do think that there's something sort of insane about the way this discussion is going, where you have to remove one variable in order to even get to the place that a lot of people are getting to. But here we go.

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Amy, in the course of the investigation, deputies learned those kids were just between the ages of 12 and 14 years old, and they tried robbing a man with a gun. Deputies say at least three of those kids were shot. One of them is still in critical condition.

SPEAKER 18 : 103:08

By the way, there were multiple guns recovered at the scene, not just the one used by the man defending himself. So multiple of these 12 to 14 year old people was holding a gun when they came up to rob.

SPEAKER 21 : 103:20

At last check, when Harris County Sheriff deputies showed up here, they found one of the kids with several gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby trauma center in critical condition, as I just mentioned. And as paramedics were attending to him, two other kids were found with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to the hospital and are stable. Shortly after that, the suspected shooter, who deputies believe the teens were trying to rob, returned to the scene and turned himself in.

SPEAKER 18 : 103:45

And by the way, they then cut to audio of a neighbor. And this is what's really interesting about this story. It is Texas. It is a place where you might assume that people are more likely to have a gun than, say, other parts of the country where it's harder to have a weapon to defend yourself legally. Those who do it illegally never care about the laws. And, of course, 12 to 14, not allowed to have guns, but they do. But here we go.

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I heard some gunshots, sounded like they were basically at my front door. And of course, as you can see from behind me, they were down the rail a little bit. To be frank and honest with you, I grabbed my gun, which is in a holster, and walked outside to see what was going on.

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It is believed the incident occurred due to an attempted aggravated robbery.

SPEAKER 18 : 104:27

Yeah, so I'll stop it right there. First, I'm not surprised that more people are holding guns. The other guy's like, well, I grabbed my gun to protect myself. Second, this is uniquely sad. I'm not going to pretend it's not, but we've seen a lot of stories out there where younger and younger people are committing crimes like this. 12 to 14 years old is not as abnormal as it used to be, especially when it comes to like, you know, stealing cars, joyriding in them and causing all kinds of damage and potentially putting people's lives at risk. You're seeing lots of stories of younger people doing that. But you are seeing violent crime, gun-related crime, and even shootings between people in those age groups, too. So what do you do? I'm a lawful gun owner, proud to be a gun owner, and someone that's learned how to shoot over the last couple years. And if you're holding a weapon to defend yourself in case someone threatens you, And three or four people walk up. I'm not sure exactly what they look like because the individuals haven't really been shown on any sort of camera that I've seen. So I don't know if they look their age or if they look older. I don't know if that's something that runs through your mind when you're thinking, is this person going to fire on me even though they're threatening to? I don't know. at what point it would be justified in the average everyday American's mind for an individual to think that they were in harm's way. But I would think that it's justified because someone's pointing a gun at me. And one of the first things you do learn if you are someone that takes any level of like gun class, I'm not talking about like, you know, cops or military and the level of training they get, but just regular everyday training. And one of the things that you're told is if you point a gun at someone, you should be willing to fire it. So don't point a gun at anyone that you're not willing to fire upon is part of the reason that you never point a gun at anybody in your day to day life, even if you think it's not loaded or something like all of those things. So if people are pointing a gun at me, I would assume they're willing to fire. And if I have a way to defend myself, I would think that it was my right and it is my right to do it. So. This conversation is causing a whole lot of fallout and other discussions, and I doubt that there will actually be any charges against the man, but some demand for that simply because of the age of the individuals. And you can't change other people's behavior no matter how much you want to. What I mean by that is just because these people are 12 to 14, and you might know somebody that's also in that group that you couldn't even imagine being in a situation where they'd threaten harm with a gun on someone else. It doesn't mean you can add those attributes to these individuals who made this choice. They acted like adults, whether they are the age of adults or not in the crime they chose to commit. And the way in which the response to the crime happened is one that again, and I don't mean this, you know, trying to be judgmental or whatever you'd say it is, but, uh, but Texas is a place where more people are likely to defend themselves this way. And that I think is actually a good thing. And it would be a deterrent to people doing this to begin with, although it wasn't a deterrent for these young men, but three out of four individuals were shot one in critical condition. Last I saw, I'm not sure if still in critical condition now, but a big story and a one that a lot of, you know, regular everyday people are reacting to online with different takes. All right. There's another story out there. That's fairly big. I'm not trying to do this story woke. I have no reason to be afraid of saying it differently. I just truly believe this to be the case. So I'm going to refer to it the way that I think it deserves to be referred to as far as the individual in this story. So there is a woman who was a boxer that made a whole lot of news as part of the Olympics because she's got male chromosomes. The way that that happened, as far as I understand, and the reason I call her a her is because she was born with both. She was born a way that very few people are ever born and then raised as a girl. So I will refer to this individual as a woman. However, I will admit easily, as anyone should, that you have a biological advantage in boxing against women if you have male chromosomes in your body, which is a thing that she has. So anyway, she was named the AP third place female athlete of the year. She didn't get first or second. Thank God. Like when Caitlyn Jenner, I think, won female of the year a while back, which was odd. But she got the third most significant female athlete. And that's got to make people mad who, I don't know, don't have male chromosomes in their body and feel like, how did I lose to this person? But anyway, that was almost like a Seinfeld moment. I was trying not to. Well, he would never joke about that. But the sound of it. But nonetheless, what I what I don't understand about this, what I don't get about this is how we can't have that conversation, you know, in that way. And you can say it whatever way you want. Call her a man if that's your prerogative. I don't really care. I'm not telling you not to do stuff. But what I am saying is that if you're sitting in front of people and trying to explain to them why you think something is unfair. And all you have to say is there's a biological reason that someone can't compete with somebody else. That should be enough to win the argument that this is unfair. It's the same thing. I've equated it before, and I'll do it again, to taking steroids and baseball, which I'm very against. And I love baseball. People who took them had an advantage, medicinal, I don't know, as biological, but yeah, over people that weren't taking them. He got bigger, stronger, recovered faster, all that stuff. Those are some of the caveats of this discussion. It just can't be had in our society without a whole bunch of people yelling like racist, sexist, homophobic, whatever you want to yell. And then other people give awards. to individuals. That again, if I was the father of a female athlete, or if I was a female athlete, which is a weird sentence to say, I'm not, I can't be, I got male chromosomes. But nonetheless, if I was, I would be very upset that she won third and not me, because I'm without the male chromosomes that she has. But that was a big story that's out there that's all over. It just seems stupid. Honestly, it seems like it's a way for us to argue and create more controversy anyway. to have those discussions when they don't need to be had and to try to fight each other over stuff that isn't terribly important to most of the people who have the loudest voices. Again, if you're actually an athlete or the parent of an athlete, you have a reason to be in on this fight. If you're everybody else, I don't really know what the point is to be yelling and screaming about it. I'm not telling you to shut up. And I'm sharing my opinion. And I didn't fall into those categories. But nonetheless, I don't get part of how these topics wind up dominating what a lot of people talk about. Like you could sit down at Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner earlier this year or be around people for New Year's Eve. This story could come up. You'd want to say a tremendously rational thing. And I don't really think it's fair if there's a biological advantage for one person and not the other. And people would just attack you. They'd go, how dare you say those things out loud that are true as statements and not at all inaccurate as statements. How dare you say them because they mean something else. I think that's the problem, and I've complained about this before. A lot of times in these discussions, people want to add some words that you may or may not even be saying because they want what you say to mean something worse than just being simple matter of fact. Men and women are different is a simple statement of fact. It's not anything other than that. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about and very little time left to do it. I do love this story as far as stuff I left on the cutting room floor until now, or at least I think I did. A kid wrote an angry letter to her parents after she found out something about Christmas that she thought was true, was in fact a lie. Someone that's not real. So she went to the parents. She asked a question after a little boy in school told her some things. And when they admitted to her that, yes, that's not in fact real, that this is a lie, she said, I need to collect myself. I need to take some time in her father's den and write a letter. And so she wrote a message to her parents calling them backstabbers, liars. and saying that she'll never trust them again. It's actually kind of adorably sad. She said her heart was broken to learn the truth, but also that she now knows that people would lie to her for as much as eight years, her entire life, before she finds out the truth. She was very upset. To say the very least, the parents are amused by it. The kid will eventually get over it, of course, and at some point it'll probably be used. I think the parents even responded to a social media reaction to the story by saying that they are going to frame it and roll it out at the wedding to show how passionate their young child is about a lot of things, including the truth. But it reminded me of something else that's gone viral on social media. just because I think this little kid would love this audio. Kamala Harris back in 2017 got mad at the idea of people saying Merry Christmas. And this audio went viral this year on TikTok with people laughing at the fact that she almost became our president and that she had some hot takes on a whole lot of things when she was a senator out of California. But this is the audio. You can find it all over TikTok, all over social media of people even pretending to say it themselves or laughing and reacting to it. And this little eight-year-old girl definitely needs her version of the video up where the letter gets posted and you hear this.

SPEAKER 06 : 115:31

And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER 18 : 115:39

No, she's not the eight-year-old.

SPEAKER 06 : 115:41

How dare we speak Merry Christmas? How dare we? How dare we?

SPEAKER 18 : 115:46

No, no, no. Kamala, please stop. How dare we speak Merry Christmas to each other? How dare you? How dare I? How dare anybody? The kid who's calling her parents backstabbers and liars probably feels the same way that the, you know, vice president does, which is saying something about one of those two individuals. And it's not the eight year old kid. Another story I saw, it's an op-ed, I think it's in The Guardian, was about how virtual reality has gotten more convincing. This is a technology guy who writes about this stuff. He said many of the glitches of virtual reality have been removed. He actually can now work in a virtual reality space where he puts on goggles and thinks he's sitting at some other desk somewhere and interacting. And he said that this is a tipping point. That we're about to be in a situation where more and more people might embrace virtual technology because of how convincing it is. I don't think that's a good thing. I don't think any part of that's going to be a good thing. I think we're barreling toward more and more bad things and not good things. And eventually we'll be like the movie WALL-E when we're all just riding around in our own chair that's doing our own virtual reality stuff and no idea what real life is like. You already have people that claim they can't have face-to-face conversations. I don't think we should make it worse by going this road with it instead of any other road with it. But darn it, this guy is saying that things are getting better in that field of that technology. So expect more, not less, in the future. And I feel like this connects to the guy I mentioned a little bit ago. the Nostradamus dude from Brazil that said that we're likely to have the robot uprising happen this year. I know this is a hell of a way to end the show, hell of an uplifting thing, but nothing sounds worse to me than robot uprising plus virtual reality, because then we just become the Matrix. That movie just becomes a real-life thing then for us, and that's not good. I feel like that didn't end well for anybody involved, but maybe I don't remember all the three movies as well as i thought i did uh but they're out there and they're a thing and we can check on them because at least one an ostradamus person is saying to pay attention uh one last story really truly last story it's about humbug woman uh there was a woman that went viral on social media because she said she wanted some free gifts from her local church for her kids she said she's in need of the free gifts she however didn't like the idea that she'd have to attend church to get them, which seems uniquely strange. She said in order for the church to know that she needs the gifts, she'd probably have to go, and that members of her community urged her to go to church to be a part of the service to then get free stuff from the church. And she said that's inappropriate. How dare charity have strings attached to it, like going to an hour of mass once in order to get free stuff from a church that you don't actually go to, that you want free things from, which is insane, by the way, to me. I think that this is the most bah humbuggy thing of any bah humbug I've heard. I don't think it's that big of a deal. If you actually had to attend a service, even if you don't agree with or believe in anything or walk out of that church feeling any different about anything, if you're asking for free stuff from them and you're not on their radar already, I don't know why you thought you would be. But I love how angry she is. Like, how dare I have to do anything? I want the free stuff and I want it for no reason whatsoever except for the fact that I need it and I'm telling you I need it and therefore you should give it to me. I am happy that a lot of people online did react by saying she was nuts and saying she was insane and saying it doesn't seem like it's that big of an ask as far as anything else is concerned and maybe at some point later on if you even develop a relationship, even if you don't change your religion and go to the church, then maybe you could donate toys to other kids if you wind up in a better situation in the future. All these are possibilities. If you just go to church once for one hour and then leave with a bunch of things. But again, she said that that's inappropriate and not what should be the rule at all. And darn it, she wants these things to change, which is the society we live in, people. It's horrible in a lot of ways, but it is what it is. All right. That's it for me for today. I am back with you guys tomorrow. Dana is back after the holiday. Thrilled to be filling in for her. DLash or DanaLashRadio. Great ways to stay connected on X on Twitter. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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