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at participating mcdonald's for a limited time this is the dana show uh my name is craig collins filling in thrilled to be with you you can find dana lash everywhere a very very popular uh personality uh over x on uh twitter whatever you call that uh d lash or dana lash radio two great ways to stay connected to her Let's play the audio that people are going to vilify as evil Donald Trump not acting presidential yet again in saying a thing that is hilarious to the audience and to pretty much every American, I imagine. That's not the talking head morons who are going to tell you this is bad.

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We're going to stop woke, woke, woke as bulls**t.

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The applause goes on for a while. That is a legitimate quote that came out of the weekend from the former and soon to be current president, the president elect. And it's it's awesome. Now, I'd like to add a caveat that I don't have to add to this because you don't need to weaken as hilarious of a statement as woke is bleep because that's great and that's accurate. But I do like to say that one of the biggest reasons that woke's a problem for so many Americans is not that you want to be mean, not that you don't like other people, which is all the sad sack, stupid stuff that you hear from people who say you don't like woke because you don't like people that look like this or people that act like this, whatever the stupid argument is. The truth is that in order for woke to work between people in a conversation, you pretty much have to pretend that crazy doesn't exist. You start out by saying, hey, are you a Democrat? And the other person says yes. And then you go, okay, what's the craziest thing you think so I can tell you that I agree with it? And then you go from there. That's what woke is. That's why it's BS. And that's why it's a big problem for us in the society that we're in now. Even the military is dealing with more woke stuff than they've ever dealt with before. And I love, I can't say this more definitively than I'm about to, I love talking to a young guy who's just signed up for the military, who's about as anti-woke as anyone you'd know is because the people of this generation who willingly sign up to protect us and have all those attributes necessary to do it feel like they're a rarer breed than they were in the past. But nonetheless, when you talk to them and they crap on the own stuff they're being taught and the messages they're being given by saying how stupid they are, there's something that's uniquely refreshing about that. that the system, the game, the brainwashing isn't working on individuals, at least some individuals, that we're going to ask to do one of the hardest jobs imaginable for this country, protect our freedom, is fantastic. So if you have someone, a younger person, in your life that you know that's had a desire from a young age to fight for us, I hopefully think that you can find that exact conversation that I find about how stupid woke is and how profound it is to come from those individuals because of the reality of what their job would be if they actually are called to serve and put into a dangerous situation and how little woke is going to matter in those moments in a foxhole. It's ridiculous. Nonetheless, another thing out there that I think is very interesting, Joe Manchin is stepping away. He is giving up his Senate seat. He's retiring. He pretty much hates Democrats based on a lot of the comments and quotes recently about him out there in the world. Things like how far left and sort of insane the party has become. So a new question you might ask yourself is, hey, who's going to pick up the reins? Who's going to be that stereotypical? Yes, they're a Democrat. But wait a minute. They occasionally say stuff that other Democrats don't say. And it seems like it's going to be John Fetterman. This is not the first time I've been able to use an example of something Fetterman said as a, you know, willingness to speak the truth, even if it's out of line with his political party, which was a mansion calling card or Kyrsten Sinema calling card, who's also going away. There's something that's fascinating about this to me. So go ahead and play on some of this audio. But John Fetterman in a sit down interview with ABC talked about the popularity of Trump and his lack of understanding some of the Democratic narrative that was trying to get you to vote against someone instead of vote for a person that had no real political positions that they were sharing with you because they didn't get the talking points from Dr. Jill, Dr. Biden. or whoever it was that you're supposed to get that information from. So Harris oftentimes had no answer to the what she was going to do question and instead told you how terrible Trump is. Here's how Fetterman responded to all of that.

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And after you survived an assassination, you literally were shot in your head and had the presence of mind to respond, you know, fight, fight, fight. I mean, that's a political talent. It's undeniable. And also, I never believed that it was about fascism. And for me, that made it difficult for... Kamala Harris said that he was a fascist. Yeah, well, it's like that's her prerogative. I mean, but it's not a word that I would use because you put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state, that I know and I happen to love people that are going to vote for Trump, and they are not fascists. And also fascism. That's not a word that regular people use. I think people are going to decide who is the candidate that's going to protect and project my version of the American way of life. And that's what happened.

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Yes. That is exactly what happened. A whole bunch of people that thought that your way of life had broken over the last few years that would like to see it come back. That's one of the big reasons people voted for Trump. But I do love a Democrat saying out loud that the Trump voters aren't bad people. Because the narrative from the left so often is not just that Trump's an evil, horrible, you know, boogeyman of an individual, no matter what he does, but that also his voters. And they act like there's only a few of them, even though he just won the popular vote in the last election. But they act as though those people are also bad. It's amazing, just quickly, to think about the transition of John Fetterman. When he first gets into that role as a senator and he's not really able to form sentences in a in a normal way due to a medical issue. I'm not trying to make fun of it. I'm just saying that was real. A whole bunch of people questioned whether or not he should be in this position, mostly because for his own health, he probably shouldn't have been. And then he goes and checks himself in for mental health treatment. More questions surround him and the ability to serve in this role. And then eventually he's now in this place where he's saying things that more Republicans agree with than any other Democrat is saying. And it's just fascinating to see the transition of John Fetterman. By the way, there's one other big story out there in the world of politics that probably won't get the attention that it deserves, but it's just insane. And it is a Republican. who's the person that's the target of the criticism. But there was an individual, a Congresswoman, who has been in a position of power for several years. She's 81 years old now. Her name is Kay Granger. That somehow, some way, is actually in a nursing home, but still has her role in Congress. She did not run for re-election. She'll be replaced soon. But she hasn't voted on anything for like six months. The craziest part of this story to me is the fact that even though she didn't vote for this long, it took that amount of time, pretty much since June or July, for news media locally in her district in Texas to say, hey, wait a minute, let's check on this person and see why they're not voting on stuff. And then you get to her actual campaign office and it's shuttered. It's completely closed. And as you dive deeper into the rabbit hole that is, where did our congresswoman go? You find out she's in a nursing home. The nursing home confirms she's there and she lives there and is struggling with dementia, according to her family. But you don't remove her from power. And this reinvigorates the discussion. about whether or not you know age limits are appropriate for our government i don't think personally that it needs to be that odd as far as a creation of a rule it doesn't need to be uh... you know past a certain age you're just not allowed to be a politician if you have mental acuity to the level necessary to do the job i think you can have that role no matter how old you are but if you're not mentally capable no matter how old you are again i don't think you should retain the position i think an iq or mental acuity excuse me test would be more valuable than say a arbitrary rule at a certain age you're just not allowed to do it i know it's the few and far between of the 80-somethings who are probably mentally at the level necessary to do a job as hard as that one. But if they're capable of doing it, by God, go ahead and do it. I'm fine with that. I think that the only real thing that matters is having an obvious demonstration of when someone mentally can't handle the job, them not being allowed to fulfill the role as a puppet. And out of anyone else that you can talk about this with right now, well, darn it, our current president is the other huge elephant in the room individual being talked about this stuff, mostly because of the Wall Street Journal and other articles putting out into the air or into the world how unfit he was for the job the entire four years he was in it. And one of the best examples of that, he only held nine cabinet meetings. over the course of four years and out of all of those meetings every time they met the cabinet was required to write down a question and then Biden supplied a written answer before the meeting started making you wonder who actually wrote that answer and why our president for all nine of his meetings with the cabinet couldn't answer things face to face had to do it off of a script that is as damaging as any report I've seen about Biden And there's a lot of damaging reports about Biden and how much people just want to pop it. I will actually play some audio from over a month ago of Tulsi Gabbard saying exactly the same thing and demonstrating why she's someone that the political system is so afraid of. but quite a bit coming up throughout the show today. Thrilled to be here filling in and working with you on the holidays for the very talented, very famous Dana Lash. More Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Lash show in just a bit. Happy holidays to you all. Quick break. More coming up.

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

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That's right. My name is Craig Collins filling in. This is a Dana Quick Five number one on my list of Quick Five stories. The Amazon rainforest is going viral because a group of uninteracted with people in a society apparently has exploded. We don't interact with them at all, although I guess we hid cameras somewhere to take photos of them. And over the course of just a few years, their population has doubled, meaning that you're successful in life if you're on a completely uninterrupted part of the world where people let you live naked with spears and stuff the way that you lived before any of that technology ruined stuff for us. The funniest part about this story, real quick, if you Google right now for Amazon Rainforest Topics, Number one on the list is this story I'm telling you about. Number two is our president wandering into the rainforest for no reason whatsoever, just disappearing into the Amazon, which happened after he gave some words there and then for some reason tried to wander away. I love that that's number two, because the viral story of 2025 needs to be Joe Biden joining these people in their civilization untouched by society and seeing how that goes. because I think it would be hilarious and also awesome. Tree-zempic is a thing, apparently. People are choosing skinnier trees this holiday season, or at least did choose skinnier trees, meaning your tree has lost weight. Just like everybody who's on Ozempic, we put our trees on tree-zempic, and it's not good for us in society. Parents have revealed that they love toys, physical toys for their kids because of how rare it is for kids to interact with stuff, whether it's human beings or anything that's in tangible real life. That's not a device or, you know, equipment of any some kind. I love this story for a But then also, just in general, the fact that this is a very easy excuse now for anyone that chooses not to get them the gaming console that they've chosen. It's going to be better for you in the long run, son. I wish this existed when I was a kid because our desire to have as many toys as possible never changed. By the way... I do have a recommendation for anyone out there that's struggling with this, and this is something that happened to me a lot as a kid, mostly because we chose to do it. Just send the child outside. As long as you're in a safe neighborhood, a safe area, let that kid go outside, let the other kids go outside, and guess what? They'll play. They'll wind up being friends and interacting, and they won't need all the computers and technology to talk to other humans, and it'll be great. Knowing your neighbors is probably a good thing. That's another big story out there in the world of just silly top five stories. And then finally, Gen Z is suffering from a midlife crisis, according to them. I would call it a quarter-life crisis at best, and I would tell them in response to their midlife crisis, things are only going to get worse, baby. Once your body stops working as well as it does now, and then you also have those other challenges that you're facing, you're going to wind up struggling more. So I know it's not exactly the sugarcoating, you know, holiday version of saying things are going to be fine because they're not. They're only going to get more challenging at other times in your life. So maybe use that as motivation to get over your quarter life crisis now. That's my advice for the young kids out there in the world. I'm not sure if it'll work. And if that doesn't work, I guess, you know, a hand to the face is also a potential reality. OK, I'm kidding about that. Don't smack your kids. I just realized that maybe a hand to the face would shock them into remembering that they're young and they have a lot of life left before they give up on things. Again, kidding. Don't hit your children. Darn it. That's at least the message I want to end on for this segment. Greg 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, Dana, all over the place. You can find her on Blaze TV. You can find her on all kinds of stuff. You can also, of course, find her on her podcast and on X on Twitter at DLash or DanaLashRadio. A very, very influential human being in the world of politics and radio and all kinds of things. Thrilled to be in for her. During the holidays, let's do this. Fox News, one of the many places that broke the story of Representative Matt Gaetz and the House Ethics Committee report that's been released. Gaetz attempting to block a lot of this report via some sort of court action. But Fox News giving us some of the details here.

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It's a 37-page report, and the committee claims that there is, quote, substantial evidence that Gaetz violated House rules. The committee says Gaetz was involved in prostitution, statutory rape, and the use of illicit drugs. Now, it says that Gaetz had sex with multiple women at a party in Florida in 2017 and paid them as prostitutes. The committee says that Gaetz also had sex with a then 17-year-old girl. The report says that victim received $400 from Gates. The committee says she did not tell Gates how old she was. She had just completed her junior year in high school.

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I know these are accusations, and I know that they're saying that there's proof of said accusations, but they're not actually, you know, necessarily giving us all of that information quite yet. And so you are innocent until proven guilty. But you realize how significant these accusations are against Gates and why it was so easy. I don't know if that's the right word, but it seems to be the right word for his attempt to have a political position in Donald Trump's administration went away. By his own choosing to get it to go away. A long accusations, some of these against Gates without maybe the level of proof that they're claiming they have now. But certainly the kinds of things that make you incapable of continuing to have a political career if they wind up being true. And certainly a big deal, bombshell, whatever you want to call it, report that's out there. I know a lot of people will doubt it. I will say this in response to that, too, because I don't know what the truth is yet. I know what the accusations are. I know what the proof they're claiming exists is. But I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to the process more so than anything else. And by the way, a whole lot of people doubt the judicial system is capable of doing things right. I think something like 30 some odd percent. of Americans actually have confidence in that part of our political structure, which, if you go after Trump crazily, makes sense for people to assume that it's broken. So we'll see what happens here. And I'm sure a lot of people will say it's political and it's not real. But the thing I'm most happy about—that's a weird way to transition, but I promise it'll make sense— is the American people's ability, which seems to be improving by the day almost or by the year at least, to figure out the truth from the narrative. And so if a lot of information does come out that backs these accusations as being true, I think the American people will, by and large, evaluate that correctly. I know that there were people that will still get it wrong. But Trump getting elected and winning the popular vote after being found guilty of a felony that never should have been a felony, much less something that he should have been found guilty of, is interesting because it does demonstrate America's ability to dive further than whatever the base level of the story is. In my opinion, at least it does that. So we'll see with Matt Gaetz how much of this proves out to be true and how much of this proves out to be accusations without the amount of information to back them up. But they certainly are damaging enough that it now makes sense why he went away and certainly doesn't help to make you believe that he's innocent. But we'll see again how that all plays out. All right. Other things out there. I don't mean to keep playing this, but I can't help myself. There's a bunch of audio of Senator Fetterman saying out loud that some of the fear-mongering stuff that's going on in the world of politics isn't actually going to happen. There's another quote from the ABC interview, the sit-down with Fetterman, in which he says Kash Patel isn't going to lock up all of Trump's political enemies, that that's insane to say and not going to be what happens, mostly because if you go after people in a judicial system, you do hopefully have to prove them actually guilty of stuff unless you're trying them in places where you know that the jury will side with whatever you say. But nonetheless, I do think that it matters that you have to take the extra steps. So pretending as though anyone could be found guilty of any crime is at least potentially a little extremist. But darn it, who knows? But here's a little bit of what Fetterman said about Kash Patel not being as scary as mainstream media claims he's going to be and not inventing crimes that didn't happen against politicians that probably all have some level of behind-the-scenes, seedy, potentially illegal activities that they could be held accountable for.

SPEAKER 30 : 27:41

From a Democrat, you met with Kash Patel, I believe, right? Yesterday, well, yes. He's talked about going after Trump's enemies. Yeah, and we've had conversations, but all of these interviews were all off the record and those things. So I'm not going to go into detail, but he absolutely is that that's never going to happen. He was very forceful. He's not going to use the FBI to go after Trump's enemies. No, that's not it. Did you believe him? That's what he claims. And I found out his... You know what's really interesting about this one too, by the way?

SPEAKER 29 : 28:27

I played audio of Fetterman a little earlier where he's much more definitive about the appeal that Donald Trump had to the American people and why the American people would choose to vote him into office overwhelmingly and actually allow him to win the popular vote for the first time for a Republican in quite some time. But with this, Fetterman is struggling again. He's trying not to necessarily say as definitively as he does within that 44-second clip that he believes Kash Patel is not just going to weaponize the FBI and go after whoever he wants to go after, weaponize whatever department he's in charge of to harm Trump's political enemies, and that he believes him in saying that because, darn it, it's what's actually going to occur. Because I do believe... And I'll just say it again, and then we'll move on to some other things. One of the biggest wake-up calls for D.C., whether it's Trump's election or the way Elon Musk got a bill to be refined from 15,000 pages to way, way less funding, is that the American people are more awake than ever and more willing to be critical of what's going on in our society than ever before in the world of politics. And that... is essentially good. All right. Other things out there. This is crazy. So apparently some plans have leaked, according to some insiders, political insiders, about what Jill Biden wants to happen before Joe is out of office in just a few weeks now. All the things she's pushing for him to do. He commuted the sentence of 37 of 40 death row inmates, saying that even though some of them are convicted of pretty horrific crimes, that he doesn't want to see Trump make a decision different from him. So he's wielding his power while he still has it to prevent Trump from being able to do something different, which is a horrible way to justify an action. To say that I haven't done this for four years because I didn't think I had to, but now I have to because I don't want the person that's been duly elected to replace me to get a voice in this discussion. If you believed it so strongly, do it four years ago. Do it within the first year of your administration. Don't do it now. It makes no sense. But more than that, this reporting essentially says that Jill is after scorched earth. She's mad that her husband got pushed into the closet because he was mentally incapable of doing the job. And that more likely than not, Jill Biden was one of many unelected people running the country in place of Joe Biden. But even more so than that, that if you can do things that are radical or extreme or things that will make a lot of Democrats mad, feel free. Go as nuts as possible. That's a real story that's out there. And there are real insiders that are leaking that Jill Biden is, quote, pushing her husband to be as extreme as possible, which is probably bad. Probably screwed up and probably the kind I shouldn't laugh at it. I should be more afraid of it. But honestly, and I think this has been true for Biden the entire time he's been in office. The thing he cared about least was the reaction to his behavior. If you take Afghanistan by itself as a horrible decision by the Biden administration and then even more so, and there's more reports coming out about this, too. The way he behaved while traveling to be with the family members of the U.S. military that he got killed based on how terribly he ordered an exit of Afghanistan. Apparently he was napping on Air Force One right before landing and being a part of some of those ceremonies and seeming disinterested in being there, which is horrific. But more so than anything else, when you think about Biden and the decisions he's made time and again, it seemed to fly in the face of caring at all if it left him with a valuable or not so valuable opinion for most Americans. Look at student loan debt forgiveness. As another one, even though that profoundly failed in front of our, you know, Supreme Court. It is interesting to think that Biden tried to go as far as he did to forgive as much of it as he did, because he did attempt to essentially use the executive branch to take away the power of the purse from the legislative branch and just do whatever he wanted. And he had to be stopped by a judicial branch, which matters quite a bit because it shows how reckless some of those plans might have been. Or I guess to the far left, it says that, you know, the judicial system is broken and needs to be fixed in every way, shape and form. Not that I disagree with every part of that, but I do think it's interesting how that comes and goes depending on what the level of discussion is. Another thing that I thought was pretty interesting that's out there now is There is still talk of Kamala Harris's fundraising campaign ability and then the weird amount of failures to use that money wisely. The party has lost its mind and is being openly crazy about the $2.5 billion she raised. Uh, during her time in office, according to many who are reporting on this, uh, her advisor, Lindy Lee, uh, who quit the democratic party, uh, said that she didn't want to be a part of this craziness anymore. I do have some of that audio. I thought that that was a pretty interesting too, because, uh, darn it. When you're handing millions of dollars to people like Beyonce, uh, to appear for a couple minutes on a stage somewhere, you're probably abusing every part of spending money as far as the billions of dollars you raised, and then also failing to have anything good happen in regards to the results of said election. Everything about that is amazing to me. But again, she appeared, Lindy Lee, on Piers Morgan's show and said this.

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California in 2026 and perhaps even running for president in 2020. And I just want to echo what a lot of you guys already said. This past week has been harrowing for me. This just this Saturday, I went on Fox and Friends and I said that Democrats have a stench of loser hangover for them.

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Yeah.

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As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me, unblock, unfollow campaigns. I lost 40,000 followers in four days. People have called me the W word. I don't know what we're allowed to say, but you can fill in the blank. We're uncensored.

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No, no, no. Don't say it. Don't say it here. I'm not uncensored. They are in Piers Morgan's show, but I'm not uncensored here, so I'll stop it there. But people turned on her. People went crazy against her, and she's just speaking the truth as far as the failures of the Democratic Party and the failures financially of the Democratic Party. What I think is as interesting as anything when you talk about that issue is also the stuff that Jon Stewart has said. And the most famous one is when he made jokes about how COVID probably came from the coronavirus lab in Wuhan that studies coronavirus. And that's where the virus originated. He was attacked by his own side of the political aisle. I know he's not actually a politician, but certainly a very far left voice in some issues and not quite as far left on others and willing to attack Democrats more than a whole lot of other Democrats are. But nonetheless, he was attacked resoundingly by people who are majority of the time his fans. And so he thought that that was jarring. And I have audio that I can play later. This from years ago, him him saying that it was a real wake up call as to how much anger and craziness exists on both sides of the political aisle, not just the side that he's more often critical of. Because when you step out of line, you hear about it strongly. And apparently this is something that she's experienced now as well. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. 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. Thrilled to be with you. You can find Dana everywhere. DLash or DanaLashRadio, two of the best places to stay connected to her on social media, on X, on Twitter. There's a crazy story from 2011. about a woman 27 years old at the time named Ellen Greenberg who appeared to have been killed inside her home. She had 20 stab wounds from a knife that was actually found in her chest. There was a fruit salad on the countertop that had been left there. Just a lot of bruises all over her body. The reason I'm bringing this up with barely any time to talk about it and not exactly an uplifting story for the holidays, it was ruled a suicide. for a long time. And the parents of this woman had to fight in court for years, even recently appearing in court again after filing a suit in 2022 to argue the fact that you couldn't possibly do this to yourself and take your own life. And many, many people, even the judge, agrees that there's no reason this should have been deemed a suicide and not a homicide. And the most likely suspect in this case, although obviously still far from finding any way to prove that specifically, might have been her fiance, who was texting her crazy, angry things for 20 minutes up until likely the time of her death. things about how he was locked out of the house and upset about it. What's crazy about this story is on the heels of Americans saying they don't trust stuff like the judicial system or whatever it might be. You see a story about a woman who was stabbed 20 times, bruises all over her body that somehow got determined to be a suicide for over 10 years before finally being reevaluated differently. A horrific, again, not fun discussion and thing to talk about. But certainly something that makes you wonder, like, how did anyone say that? You know, how did anyone believe that? How could anyone have assumed that that made any sense at all? And the only other part of this story that seems worrisome is that the, you know, a medical examiner originally had deemed it a homicide, then met with police behind closed doors for a while and changed the position to a suicide until now being reevaluated all these years later due to the parents being determined to to fight this all the way up until the end, there is a concern or a potential explanation, again, not officially proven, that the investigation itself was so screwed up that it was an embarrassment to police. And for that reason, they wanted the entire case to go away, even if it lacked getting justice for a victim. I don't know if that's true or not. That's an accusation. But just insane story out there in the world that you're probably not going to hear about a lot, certainly right before the holidays, that might back a lot of people's opinion that some of our systems are broken and in need of some fixing. But all right, on that note, however not uplifting it was, but certainly shocking, we will move on to some other things, certainly some more discussion about Trump and politics and whatnot coming up 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. A bunch of stuff to talk about just before the holidays. One of the crazier stories out there, or two of the crazier stories out there that I love a whole lot involve things that Trump is considering either doing away with, removing himself from, or taking back. in the world. Before I get to those, though, first, this story, which is just crazy. Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent friendly fire incident, according to the U.S. military. The pilots are both okay. One has minor injuries, but both were able to eject safely from their aircraft that were destroyed. And this comes after a bunch of training in the area going after Yemen Houthi rebels. So a friendly fire incident causes two pilots to, you know, emergency eject and two planes to be destroyed. Both will live. That's just a crazy story and really references the heightened tension that exists in so many parts of our world right now. after four years of a Democrat in power, who a whole bunch of our, say, not necessarily all of them enemies, but not exactly allies, were unintimidated by the United States and willing to be provocative more so than they will be when Trump gets back into office, which will be a good thing. We were told again and again, not that I need to reiterate a point you've probably heard before, that Trump would be the most dangerous president because of the things he could or will do in the world if people threaten us or threaten him or anything else. Having his fingers on the nuclear code was something we were told in 2016 would be entirely dangerous. And yet Biden has made the world quite a bit more unsafe than it was before. This is the latest example of that. All right. Two things that Trump is considering doing within a first few days or even day one being, you know, back in the White House. He's considering leaving the World Health Organization. He's also considering taking back the Panama Canal, the second of which I find hilarious. And I'll tell you why in just a second. But the World Health Organization outed their bias during COVID. Not only are they funded by quite a bit of U.S. money, they're also funded by quite a lot of Chinese money. Because of that, they were very reluctant to have any discussion, much like parts of our country were, or at least some of the bureaucrats in our country were, of the lab leak theory. They then tried to investigate said theory and were being blocked by China and not telling the world about it for quite some time. There's a lot of issues there. When you look at the World Health Organization and wonder how little they benefited us and how much it is, you know, costly for us to be a part of it. And so Trump saying that he'll leave much like when he talked about leaving NATO. Granted, they're very different things, but still a threat that gets out there in the world might wake this organization up into behaving differently or we might just leave it. which I think is also fine. The United States can operate on its own. Being America first is not inherently bad by any stretch of the imagination because we will survive. There are a lot of places that would be hit quite a bit harder than us if we truly lived by that America first notion, which is why they'd all, I think, behave differently given just simply the threat of it. We've seen that in the world of tariffs. We could see that in the world of this, or we could just be done with them entirely. Who knows? But that is a prediction that's out there. Now, the other one, the Panama Canal, I find that hilarious. The reason why Trump is saying this is he believes, one, it probably is something we never should have surrendered and given up in the first place. But two, it's something where the unique agreement that we expected to be in place after surrendering the Panama Canal is something that is no longer being lived up to by the other side. And so if this is something that doesn't change, that he will take control back. This is part of what Trump said on Truth Social. The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous amounts. especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the U.S. This complete ripoff of our country will immediately stop, is what he said. We would and we will never let it fall into the wrong hands. It was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us in Panama. If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us in full and without question. When he says this stuff and then regular media goes crazy, mainstream, legacy, whatever you want to call it, media, like how reckless this man is, how insane he is, the end result is usually at absolute worst that we actually take some of these actions he's threatening to take and it doesn't harm the world as much as people think it does. Or nine times or 99 out of 100 times, he gets the other side to cooperate by leveraging, you know, a let's blow it up first version of an argument. And they have to come back to the table with, all right, let's find something in the middle to agree on. That wild cardness has benefited him. A bunch of times and likely to benefit him again. And it's just so interesting to see it play out or to be that amused by it, because the way it'll get covered, the way it will get talked about will actually enhance our ability to secure a deal that we actually want, because the press will do some of the work for Trump in convincing Panama that we might actually do this. which is awesome. And they'll do it because they hate Trump, not because they like him or want to help him. But nonetheless, it'll all swirl together in this perfect ball, like the tariff discussion, as I said a second ago, where it wasn't just Canada or Mexico or anyone being afraid, China, of certain tariffs. It was also the way that our country covered it and saying, Trump will do it. He doesn't care how reckless it could be and how much it would hurt society, even if it might not have. to have more tariffs be part of a plan moving forward. It's just amazing to see how all these pieces kind of work. Trump feels more refined in the way that he uses, say, the news media system to benefit him than he did in the past. It's similar, but it seems like it's with more experience now and just knowing how things are going to go. All right. Another thing that I love that's out there in the world, and Scott Jennings has been going viral a lot on CNN for some of the takes he's thrown out there, some of the things he's willing to say to a panel of people who hate that he's saying them to their faces. But Scott Jennings said this about the risk of Elon Musk and his influence on Biden. And also highlighting the fact that several stories have come out recently demonstrating how little Biden was actually in charge, even though he was the person elected to be our president. He was essentially a puppet being manipulated by all kinds of people around him, not even really aware of what was going on, which is terrifying. But more and more reports are solidifying that belief. which was called a conspiracy theory during the first couple years of his administration. And so Scott Jennings said this about the fear of Elon Musk and his influence.

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Is this going to wear thin with Donald Trump soon?

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I don't think so. I mean, look, they appear to be getting along well. Musk was very instrumental in his victory. And I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government. I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years. I hear Democrats criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've got this Soros punk running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokemon cards. I think all the criticism of Musk coming from the left is totally hypocritical, totally over the top, and he is doing something interesting, bringing some transparency to the federal government. It's not a terrible thing.

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No, it is not a terrible thing to have more transparency with the federal government, to have giant pork-filled funding bills get reduced down to non-pork bills. And then also, and I'll say this until I'm blue in the face, if Democrats want to roll out with any one issue that they feel was unfairly pulled from the giant spending bill, like cancer research funding for children, which has been what Hakeem Jeffries and others are doing right now, then introduce a bill that funds just that and see if Republicans vote yes for it. Do not complain that Republicans were unwilling to provide this money here, that money there, without being willing to bring across a bill that funds just the one thing. Because you know what you're doing is manipulating the American people, or at least attempting to. They've gotten much better at detecting this now than they were before because of how much more information I think is available to us compared to the past, and maybe just COVID in general. You know, I'll say this, and I know you've heard it before, but I always think about this. And a friend of mine that I've had this discussion with many times, the biggest benefit of 2020, 2021, all the lockdowns, all the mask debates, everything might be the amount of Americans who now distrust the narrative more than they used to. Whatever that narrative is, because a lot of that medical health information stuff has wound up being a second guest and fully rejected with years of additional information. And some of it is outing how early on in the process they would have known. that they were lying to us and didn't care about it. They were doing it. Even some of the doctors that were working with both Trump and then Biden, like Dr. Burke, saying that they overplayed mask wearing and other things, much to the detriment of our society, and at times even tried to be at odds with Donald Trump because of that, which is just interesting to hear people say and admit to. And if you have more of an attention span, which I'll argue this too, actually, just real quick, and then I promise I'll move on, but I can't help it. I think the internet and technology has ruined our attention span, has ruined our intelligence to a degree, because things like spellcheck have made it way too easy to not know how to spell words, but have also enhanced our ability to have a longer memory for certain issues, because things can go viral over and over again when people lie. So if someone tells you something that's crap, you can see that for years to come. And you're seeing it in mainstream media now, finally, where someone is sitting on a TV show somewhere in front of a microphone, and they're played video and audio of something they said in the past that's crap because of how viral it is online. And they feel like, well, we have to ask them this question because it's something everyone's asking about. So I think the memory of technology has both hurt and helped us in having an ability to recall things that matter in moments when they might have been forgotten in the past. So it is interesting to see, and Scott Jennings is right across the target, in my opinion, on saying the value of an Elon Musk and his social media platform that it can't be overstated, him buying it had such a tremendous impact on the way in which we talk about a large variety of things. But his ability to put that out on Twitter, which still has a lot of people on it, as the kind of thing that might make the government behave differently simply because of the fear of them losing their jobs. Voting them out of power is the carrot that we've long been able to dangle or, you know, threaten to use the stick. And finally, it feels like we might be able to wield that power effectively. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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That's right. It's time for the quick five. My name is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. I do just love this sound of a baby laughing. I can't get over it as one of my top five stories of the day because it went viral. The reason the baby is cracking up is the Grinch is stealing presents and the baby finds it hilarious every time the Grinch takes presents from the unassuming who's. And so this has gone viral and mom has asked this a bad thing. There he is. Wait a minute, gets even better. I'm dying. It's so good. That baby just keeps going, laughing at the Grinch stealing Christmas from everybody that's supposed to represent the innocent people. And I love it. I think the baby's going to grow up to be just fine, and Mom doesn't have to be worried about that at all. But baby laughter, usually viral on social media, uniquely funny during this holiday season. Wham's Last Christmas is the number one song for the second year in a row as far as Christmas songs are concerned. And we need to fix that, baby. We need to come up with new songs that are actually good and not terrible because I am sick of these songs on repeat every year. I'm never going to be sick of, say, the tried and true, the, you know, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas kind of stuff. But I am sick of the fringe. It's been 20, 30, 40 years since they were popular, but they're not necessarily the same as the other classics. I'm done with them, man. I am sick of this song. I'm sick of anything by Mariah Carey this time of year. I want new stuff. Another thing out there. James Gunn, the director of the new Superman movie, says that Superman and how beat up he seems in the new trailer is akin to the United States. He says that essentially the movie's about how human beings are good, but a lot of us feel beat up by all different kinds of things. He's making me not want to go to the Superman movie. And that's amazing because it's got a dog in it that has superpowers. And that seemed to make me think I was definitely going. But if there's going to be political sentiment from this whole thing, I'm going to hate it a whole lot more. But Gunn does go on to say that regardless of your political side of the aisle, he believes that humans are inherently good and that maybe it's just the dark voices in our society that make things bad. But you're worried when it comes out of D.C. or when it comes out of, excuse me, Hollywood, and it has elements that connect to what's going on in D.C., you fear that it's going to be incredibly one-sided politically and all that other crap that's going to ruin Superman more than anybody else has ever tried to, more than Nick Cage attempted to during his non-Superman movies. And then finally, one last thing. Jeff Bezos is denying that there's going to be a real fancy wedding between him and Lauren Sanchez, where $600 million is going to be spent in Aspen over the weekend, even though the New York Post and others reported that this was coming. Elon, or excuse me, Jeff Bezos has said it's not happening. It's not occurring. How dare anybody lie about this? We'll see who winds up being true, who's telling the truth when it comes to this weekend because you can't hide something that expensive, man. You can't do it. All right. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Thrilled to be with you on the holidays. Dana is back after them. A lot more coming up in a bit. Preborn.

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This is such a great organization. And if you are unfamiliar with Preborn, let me tell you, this is a great ministry that meets with women who are facing unplanned pregnancies, and they assist these mothers in their choice of life. They introduce these mothers to their babies through ultrasounds that you help provide. And when a mother hears her infant's heartbeat, and sees the infant on the ultrasound, that baby's chance at life doubles. There have been numerous studies on this, and Preborn helps make that possible. That's what your money goes to. They have right now matching grants, so your donation is doubled. It goes twice as far. Every dollar you contribute, that's what it goes to. It puts ultrasound machines in women's clinics. It helps to partner with women who have chosen life. And they help them with maternity and things like diapers and all kinds of stuff. So these women feel less alone. And I think that's such a great thing to do as an affirmation of life. And pre-born cannot do it without you. Every donation counts. So you could, I mean, for $28, you can actually get an ultrasound for a woman like today. for $28. You if you wanted to go big, if you can go big, 510 15,000, you can actually put ultrasound machines in clinics. It's an it's an amazing thing what they do. And they have such an excellent rating with like every measure of you know, charitable grade possible like they they they're just so above board. They're so transparent. And you know where your money goes. And they I mean, because you see it, they like send you emails and videos and all kinds of stuff. It's awesome. It's very simple to donate. Pound 250, hashtag for you Gen Zers, pound 250, and say the keyword baby. It's so easy to donate. You can also visit preborn.com slash Dana and donate online. Every dollar counts. Pound 250, say the keyword baby, or donate securely at preborn.com slash Dana.

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana Lash can be found everywhere. DLash or Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Some of the best ways to stay connected. Very famous, very successful human. We'll be back just after the holidays. Let's do this. The numbers for Joe Biden's presidency are terrible. There's a whole lot of them that are going viral on social media. One of the most significant is that he only held nine cabinet meetings in four years. During all of those meetings, people that were going to ask Biden questions had to handwrite them and submit them beforehand. You had to do your homework to sit down with the president. He then gave you a written answer. that was available during the meeting and wasn't going to be jumped away from. Meaning what was actually being answered and who was answering those questions is stuff you couldn't have figured out in the meeting. Who was in control of the country is a question we've been asking ourselves for a while as damaging reports come out from the Wall Street Journal or whoever saying that, you know, Biden oftentimes seemed like the last to know things. Everyday Americans had demanded answers on a lot of things. CNN and so many others covered up and lied and also told many, many people that Republicans were playing an unfair game or a dishonest game in all the things we were saying about the faux pas of Biden. One of my favorite examples of this, too, by the way, there's a story out there, a viral thing, photographs of the Amazon rainforest and a group of people indigenous to the area that have not been interfered with by, you know, life and society the way we know it now. And I guess some hidden cameras took photos of them and showed that that society has exploded. They've like doubled. in population over the last however many years that we've been not interrupting them as they've been living unaware of all the technology that's actually out there in the world and the craziest thing is if you look that story up today as it's trending and going viral the number two result on google is joe biden wandering aimlessly into the rainforest which happened about a few months ago during his presidency and by the way would be the absolute best reality tv show to have him dropped off into that area now and just see what happens. Joe Biden plus a bunch of people who are not at all aware of civilization around them or who he is and how Biden would do. I think he would actually do okay in that atmosphere. I doubt he would lead anyone, but he might not get as harmed as others might get hurt in that world. Other things out there that I thought were kind of interesting. The Social Security expansion vote has cleared the Senate and is going on to Biden's desk for approval. This is something that a lot of people on both sides of the political aisle has said is appropriate and a longstanding issue that needed to get done. There are people that would argue, I think, that the existence of pensions and whatnot for federal workers made it unnecessary for them to get the same level of other benefits that everyone else gets out there. But darn it, Social Security is going to be expanded to include federal workers who have other ways to have retirement accounts, too. So you get the best of both worlds. It is going to cause us to spend more money. But again, it is something that's not necessarily as political one-sided as it used to be. as far as discussion goes. But there are still a lot of politicians who were not thrilled about this or definitely tried to argue about how exactly this would be done. And if we can save money by not spending it in a lot of other places, some of these plans become less terrible. than they are if we do it while still spending reckless amounts of money everywhere else as drunken sailors, which is what the current administration has been doing and what hopefully the next administration and specifically the Doge part of said administration will be about fixing. Some other stories out there just doing kind of a, you know, grazing of a lot of the bigger political stories. Laura Trump has removed herself as far as a candidate for the replacing of Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate or in the Senate from Florida. This leaves DeSantis to still make a decision on who would be the next senator out of Florida. And the right answer for his own political career is him. Ron DeSantis should give himself this job. That has been my opinion already on this issue. It'll continue to be my opinion about it. DeSantis cannot serve as governor of Florida again. He will term out. He has had his political career be somewhat hit by his attempt to run against Trump and how terrible his presidential candidacy went against Trump. It is unique when Trump didn't even have to debate you in order for you to not wind up in a position where you threatened him for real. That's that's bad. And that's bad for anyone that ran against Trump in the last, you know, in this past primary season before the election. And I do think DeSantis is someone who's very well liked in Florida. I live in Florida now. I lived in Illinois for a long time. And I can tell you Florida is much better than Illinois was to us for a variety of reasons. And part of what a lot of people here give credit to for that truth is Ron DeSantis. So give yourself the job, serve in the position for a year and a little bit of change, and then run for re-election. You don't get to serve out the full term that Rubio had because since you appoint yourself, you become immediately available to run again in the next election. So again, there's just a variety of reasons. why Ron DeSantis should give this job to himself and no one else and not even bat an eye. And honestly, Florida, I doubt would care all that much if it happens. Maybe the rest of the United States would judge him, but that's not what matters here. And that is the next step for a lot of governors to want to be a senator. So again, you got the ability, just go ahead and get it done. That's my opinion, but we'll see what actually happens there. Finally, there's this other kind of deep in the weed story. that I wanted to talk about a little bit, and the corruption of NGOs specifically. And this is a story coming out of a couple different places. I think Elon Musk, once again, is one of the people at the forefront of having parts of this discussion. So when Trump was in office, something that he made illegal, or at least he prohibited the practice of the DOJ, was forcing civilian and criminal fines to be forced into NGOs that would help fund political sides of the aisle. When Trump left office and Merrick Garland took over, he immediately reinstated that policy, and millions of dollars have been funneled from court cases involving the DOJ to left-wing NGOs that then spend ridiculous amounts of money on everything and anything in the world of politics, essentially meaning—to simplify this as a statement— that you are forced to politically support a side of the aisle with your money that you don't necessarily support because of different fines and civil action and criminal action taken by the DOJ. This seems horrible as far as the willingness to funnel this money into certain places, demonstrate the deepness of corruption within our political system, and also just essentially be thought of as legal for a whole lot of people. Like, yeah, nothing to see here. Well, I complain about that. No problem whatsoever. But many people are saying just how significant of a problem this became and the amount of individuals, say, in the Trump administration this time around who are going to do even more to try to fight and prevent it more than was done last time. But when you look at the... Billions of dollars, which is a crazy number to say that Kamala Harris was able to raise during her political campaign and thus of Biden before her two billion plus dollars. You wonder how much of that could have come from situations like this. the money is being forcibly funneled into certain places where no one is actually donating to someone. And then mainstream media runs with a narrative that she's raised so much money because she's widely popular and then gets destroyed in the election. And obviously not as popular as it would seem. somehow raised all that money that a lot of people probably regret giving to that campaign. But this is interesting, and yet another report in just how deep the weed is, or how deep the problem is for Democrats right now. And actually, if I'm being honest, one of the things that's kind of shocking in all of this is how popular some statements by John Fetterman have become in regards to just how broken the Democratic Party is. He's not alone in saying this. There are operatives, there are, you know, representatives, people who worked with the Harris campaign who are saying similar things. But it's just so interesting to watch Fetterman and some of his words go viral now because of how willingly he is, you know, attacking the narrative or some of the ridiculousness on the left. This is one of those examples and something after his sit down with ABC News that makes people feel very differently. And he's been doing this for a while now, so it's not truly the same as the first couple times he said not far left-leaning things. But it's amazing, just again before I actually hit play on the audio, to think about the trajectory of Senator Fetterman to go from someone who won an election that you were surprised he won because he wasn't really terribly articulate, granted, for a medical reason, but still someone who was struggling to say stuff to someone that now is willing to stand in almost a Joe Manchin type of role and look critically at his own party more often than a whole lot of other senators with a D in front of their name are willing to do it. Here we go.

SPEAKER 30 : 75:54

And after you survived an assassination, you literally were shot in your head and had the presence of mind to respond, you know, fight, fight, fight. I mean, that's a political talent. It's undeniable. And also, I never believed that it was about fascism. And for me, that made it difficult for... Kamala Harris said that he was a fascist. Yeah, well, it's like that's her prerogative. I mean, but it's not a word that I would use because you put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state, that I know and I happen to love people that are going to vote for Trump, and they are not fascists.

SPEAKER 29 : 76:31

Now, look, it might just be intelligent as far as political theater and whatnot for Fetterman to be someone who sounds like he's more in the middle, because as he references where he comes from in this country, it's somewhat likely that he needs to say these things in order to get reelected. But nonetheless, it's profound to me that someone can go from an individual that is getting reelected and certainly definitely critically evaluated by a lot of the other side of the political aisle for his inability to seem to have basic necessary skills to be in the role of a politician to someone who's now being played on a lot of conservative outlets as the person most willing to speak the truth in the room in the world of democratic politics. It says something. about how broken, I'm not trying to crap on Fetterman in this moment, but how broken the Democratic Party is that it would take a Fetterman to start voicing these things that other people aren't saying. But nonetheless, he is going viral for many of the positions he's taken on just how flawed his own party is. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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That's right. This is Florida Man on the Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Three Florida Man stories out there for us. The first one, and this is definitely against bro code. This has got to feel like you broke a lot of rules. So two guys were having an argument about stuff, mostly a dispute over a woman. One guy decided to set fire to the other dude's motorcycle, which was a Harley Davidson. As I said wrong, Harley should always come before ladies. I'm not going to say it that other way. But they should, man. But anyway, during the fight and I guess the love triangle, the woman may have been romantic. Let's use that word for it with both men. A motorcycle took the brunt of all the harm for all involved. That's illegal. You get arrested for that kind of thing. Lieutenant was even quoted as saying that, you know, the affections from both gentlemen seemed pretty strong and the affection for the motorcycle seemed to make it an even more rough situation. I feel terrible, mostly because I love motorcycles. I used to have one, not a Harley. I had a Triumph Bonneville, which, judge it if you want, is a great bike. And if you don't judge it, awesome. I'm thrilled we're in the same boat. But never set fire to a motorcycle during a fight about a lady. Number two, as far as Florida man stories go, a Lyft driver said they heard a strange noise while driving their vehicle. They looked in the back seat, and this feels like the kind of thing, like I'm not judging. I know you're the victim here or somebody breaking into your car. Maybe, well, you weren't in it. But nonetheless, I feel like you should notice this sooner. But there was a naked Florida dude in the back seat of the car. So you look in the backseat, you're like, what is making that noise? And there's a dude with no clothes on sitting there hoping for a ride for free. That's got to be terrifying. The unclothed Florida man revealed that he got a little naked when he was talking to police. I don't know how you get a little and not a lot. You either are or you aren't in that world. There's no little amount of being naked and that he felt bad about the decisions he made. You are in trouble for that. that does wind up also getting you thrown in jail. Can't get naked and climb into somebody else's car, even if it says lift on the window. That's not how that works. You got to use the phone and app and, you know, you got to keep your clothes on the entire time. And then one last Florida man story. This one, you know, a feel good that I really like. So a Florida guy said that his dogs like to travel with him in the winter. He goes to cold weather climates and they have a bunch of fun in the snow. But this year he wasn't going to be able to take his dogs with him on a trip. So what did he decide to do? He bought a whole bunch of artificial snow, had it sprayed all over his yard in Florida, and then made viral videos of his dogs playing in snow for the day in Florida. Well, he's wearing like a t-shirt and shorts and playing fetch and all kinds of things with them. This is awesome for so many reasons. As a guy who used to live in the Midwest, who now lives in Florida, I know how much my dog personally loved the snow. My dog would stick her head. Her name is Mancha, which means spot in Spanish. My wife, who's from Mexico, named her. in the snow, and then pop up and run around. I'm sure a bunch of other dogs do this. But it was adorable to watch it happen. The joy of snow is something that happens for little kids and dogs. And so this guy, with all these videos, got to share this with his two pets. A bunch of people would think this was a waste of money and an insane thing to do. Bah humbugged all of them. Who cares to all of them? I love the fact that this went down and that the dogs seemed to have a whole lot of fun. And a bunch of viral videos means the guy probably made money from, this stunt in order to cover it. So I guess if you're someone that wants to do an elaborate gift for your pets on this holiday season, I'll find a way to make a viral video so you can make cash, make money off of the video and then spend like a drunken sailor, which is what I guess our government does all the time. And this guy might be accused of doing, but it is awesome. And again, there's videos all over social media of the winter wonderland the guy created in his garden by covering it in snow for a couple days or at least a day. I imagine when he did this in early December in Florida, it didn't last anywhere near as long as it would last a whole lot of other places. So the fun was there while it lasted, baby. And then it was over. But darn it, I will always be okay with an excessive gift to a pet. If that pet's a dog, because they're way better than cats. I say that every time. I know you'll write in your angry letters, and I don't care. Dogs are just better. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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SPEAKER 29 : 86:31

This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. One of the biggest topics of conversation today was Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentence of 37 out of 40 death row inmates, almost all of them convicted of horrific crimes, many of them involving either mass murder or harming children. Three individuals left off of this list. Here's the thing that I don't understand. Well, there's a lot that I think I don't understand about this. But Joe Biden, President Biden, who we don't think is actually really running the country, according to a whole lot of reporting recently, and some of us felt that way for years before these moments where people are being more honest about this, said out loud in his statement that the reason he's doing this is to prevent Trump from from having a different opinion on these cases when Trump takes office in about a month. And here's the genuine question I have for you or anyone else out there. Why say that part out loud? What's the value of that? I know that they're determined, the left or Democrats, to continue to vilify Trump, regardless of whether or not what he says is actually in some way, shape, or form something you can be critical of or complete nothingness that they attack all the time, too. But in all honesty, it's because they need to get the political win of whatever these moments are. It's the same reason that the left needs to say out loud that they believe in DEI. If you truly believe in hiring people that look different because somehow that provides value as opposed to just hiring the people who are best for whatever the job might be. Why say that? It's always been my complaint. Not that I actually think DEI is a good thing. It's a terrible idea. You should hire people just on their ability to do a job and are relevant to what they look like or what sex they are or any of that other stuff. And that's a very obvious statement that a whole lot of people would have made years ago before it becomes a stupid thing like it is now. But in all honesty, the need to say this part out loud is what causes the criticism to land so much better. If Biden just excuses, well, he didn't actually remove them from jail. He just changed them to having life sentences without the ability of parole. 37 out of 40 of these cases and doesn't say the thing that we all know this is about. At least he doesn't actually, I guess, absorb the shot. And granted, I like honesty. I do. But the problem is that so often when politicians are remotely close to honest, they believe it benefits them. They're never honest with us because they think what they're saying is actually important to society or to us or to anyone at all. The only reason that they tell us that is they think it's going to give them a win. It helps them get some sort of other thing in the future. I have no idea for Biden what that could even possibly be. as his political career is absolutely over in every sense, shape, or form. But maybe it's the protection of the people who are actually running the show for him that's part of the reason he's doing that, too. I'm not sure. But that, to me, is the bigger problem than the decision to go ahead and commute these sentences, which, again, people convicted of absolutely horrific crimes, not exactly a political win there, but nonetheless is to say the part out loud that you could easily just not say. Other news, something else that I thought was pretty interesting. Tucker Carlson sat down for an interview talking about Speaker Mike Johnson, who is probably on his way out as far as the speakership goes for a variety of reasons. Two or three times now choosing to be more, you know, willing to agree with the demands of Democrats than actually stand stronger against them. You take a long time to pick who the speaker would be in the first place. You have some, you know, tumultuous moments there as far as that position goes. And then you put someone in power who's making deals behind closed doors that Democrats are thrilled with. That's not a good look as far as that person is concerned. Here is what Tucker Carlson said is as far as a reaction to the question. What's going on with Mike Johnson?

SPEAKER 21 : 90:39

why what you know it's an interesting there's something profoundly wrong um i don't i don't understand it exactly but i watched him make the number one priority of his speakership funding ukraine um without any audit at all at a time when the us order was open united states office being invaded and his priority was protecting the borders of the country that whose language isn't because i know something about this on america i'm is that the only country that he's whose interest is put above ours and so you know i don't overstate it i think that's a it's a kind of treason door yeah and it's very common washes up the only one but You know, once you see that, then you lose all faith in a man. And so I wasn't shocked by what happened, but I was very pleased to see Elon Musk just basically stop it single-handedly, which is amazing.

SPEAKER 29 : 91:35

Yeah, it was amazing to watch. and to see and to provide that level of exposure to some of those discussions when you're talking about Elon. But it certainly hurts Speaker Johnson, again, in multiple ways because when you continue to placate the other side, when your side is begging you not to do it, it's not going to give you a long political future even after such a resounding win on one side of the political aisle, would hopefully give you more strength to say, you know what, man, I can keep going. I can keep pushing the envelope here because that's what my side of the aisle wants me to do and not the opposite. But it is a crazy additional story just out there that some of the questions now revolve around how that process will go, who the next speaker could be, et cetera, et cetera, once Mike Johnson is officially done with the deal. I do love this, and I'll keep saying that I love it. Donald Trump, over the weekend, President-elect Trump, said that he might take the Panama Canal back from Panama. He said, the fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the U.S. This complete ripoff of our country will immediately stop. He goes on to say even further that it's outside of the spirit of what giving the Panama Canal to Panama was in the first place, all the ridiculous benefiting from it, and that if it doesn't go away, we're taking that thing back. We'll never let it fall into the wrong hands, but it's not going to be yours anymore. That's hilarious to hear him say and put out on social media. I imagine mostly because it's going to allow him to have a position in some sort of negotiation that the other side will be afraid of enough to play way more ball than if it's the kind of thing you'd even threaten. You couldn't picture most Democrats. Of course, you couldn't picture Joe Biden making a threat like that and having it even be remotely believed. Not that he'd actually do it, by the way. But there's no chance that it would be believed. And then you have Trump do it. Not only is it something that people think could actually be attempted or happen, but beyond that, it's just the kind of thing that... allows someone to sit down and say, we're really not messing around here. We are absolutely making sure that whatever discussion we have from this point on includes the potential that you make me so mad that I do this in reaction to it. That causes a whole lot of stuff to change. Another story out there that I was amused at over the weekend... There was a world record broken. 20,000 young Americans performed the single largest Trump dance in world history. This happened at a convention, and it was, again, hilarious. Benny Johnson, one of the political pundit people who actually got this to be a thing that occurred. The Trump dance in and of itself is amusing to me, because there are people... I think predominantly even young people who might not have had as strongly negative of an opinion of Donald Trump as maybe mainstream media wanted them to have. And then they see the Trump dance go viral. And I think it, you know, humanizes the person even more. And it's the kind of thing that people seem to quite enjoy, which I again found just hilarious that it was the thing that happened. But anyway, the single largest gathering of people to do the Trump dance in the history of our country happened over the weekend. And darn it, that record was one that needed to be broken, I guess. And then finally, there's this as far as more from that convention. Donald Trump spoke and said very plainly, very simply, very, you know, everyday guy kind of speech that he wants wokeness, any version of it to go away. This is another viral moment. A lot of people are complaining about this on the left and saying it lacks behaving presidential. But darn it, the crowd loved it. And most people probably loved it because of how many agree that the world as we know it has gone insane. And this is the best way to combat that insanity.

SPEAKER 03 : 95:32

We're going to stop woke. Woke. Woke is bulls**t.

SPEAKER 29 : 95:40

Now, granted, he's not the first person to say that. What's actually funny, I'm sure this isn't even the first time he said that, J.D. Vance used the exact same bad word, a thing I can't say on the radio, to talk about wokeness a few days before Trump does it on the stage he does it on, and it goes viral. Because, again, one of the things that is certainly different about that individual or this administration, and I don't need to say it to you as many times as maybe I do say it, is how refreshingly juxtaposed his behavior can be to everyone else in D.C. and how much everyone else in D.C. seems like a bad guy who's out for themself and not out for us. And granted, Matt Gaetz, who I'll probably bring up a little bit later on in the show, is another significant example. Now, granted, they're all accusations. Nothing has actually been proven in a court of law to be true. But these are things that are being said that are, you know, accusing that that excuse me, the committee is accusing him of doing. And they're bad. But I did have two thoughts quickly about that. And as I said, I'll dive deeper into the Matt Gaetz story a little bit later on in the show. The first one being is that so many political theater types of cases have come out against politicians that it makes you more likely to be critical of the idea that all of this stuff is true than you maybe would have been just a few years ago. And then also, and this seems to be as valuable as anything else in response to this story, part of the reason that Gates sort of willingly stepped away might be because of just how damaging all of these accusations themselves would be and the potential proof of said accusations that are claimed to be had. I'm not sure, again, but when someone willingly sort of disappears, not just removes himself from consideration for a cabinet position by Donald Trump, but actually fully steps down from a position within our government. You wonder what's causing that. And this may very well be it. Of course, this was it. I know a lot of people thought this was it. But the potential truth of some of these allegations might be part of the reason that everything as far as Gates's career has transpired the way it has. But we'll see. I wouldn't begrudge anyone who was still skeptical because there's certainly a earned right to be skeptical right now with so many things that we hear about narratives in our society. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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

SPEAKER 29 : 99:41

That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Two men in Texas stole $400,000 worth of Legos over the course of the last few months. These guys are named Brian and Ladarion. That's a sweet name. They're both 33 years old. They were caught in Fort Worth, Texas. Their crime spree involved several states, including Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. Apparently, they specifically stole high-value Lego items like the Millennium Falcon, which is a crazy thing to say. Some of these items price out at $850 individually. I don't know how you get to $400,000. The way they were busted is cops pulled them over, found a bunch of stolen Legos in the car that they had stopped, and then were able to connect it to crimes that had a vast amount of additional thefts. which is nuts. You pull over people in a stolen car full of Legos, and you go, something's not right here, man. We got some issues. Another story, as far as the quick five goes, Oscar Mayer is looking to hire more Wienermobile drivers. So many jokes I can make right now. So many I promise not to make. But just in time for the holiday season. Anyone who's looking toward driving a novelty Wienermobile has the ability to apply. I love some of the qualifications of the job. It pays $35,000 a year. Not exactly great in the society in which we live. It requires a college degree. which is sort of surprising, and also an ability to navigate social media because you'd be expected to put up a whole bunch of social media posts. Far less surprising to be a Wienermobile driver. You do also get free stay in any hotel you're in, which just sounds normal for any sort of job that makes you travel as part of the equation. $35,000 a year seemed to be the worst part of the deal to me, but people will apply because they want a chance to drive the Wienermobile, and others will question why you want that job so badly. Other things out there? A large asteroid is approaching Earth that could hit on Christmas Eve. It's traveling 23,000 kilometers per hour. Obviously, it's unlikely to actually hit us, but it's a question that people are asking. What kind of a Christmas would this be if we actually have Armageddon be a byproduct of the discussion over the next couple days? Whoever wins the Mega Millions would be very upset if right at that time we also got hit with an asteroid. I shouldn't make jokes about this, man, but it's out there. It's a story. People are discussing it. I hope we know how to blow this thing up if it's actually barreling toward us. Other stories. TSA agents discovered a bunch of fake toy guns, knives, and other items inside a woman's carry-on. And after telling her that that's not an appropriate thing to travel with, even if they were gifts for the holiday season, they also released a reminder to anyone traveling this holiday season not to bring fake forms of what look like real weapons. when you put them through the x-ray machine, because you're going to get some questions asked of you. You're going to have some stuff taken away. It's not okay, even if they're toys. I find that hilarious that people needed that reminder. And then finally, one last thing, adult in nature. I'll do my best to talk about it quickly without saying everything. A study dove into the health harm that is done if you don't wind up having intimate times with your loved one. You don't wind up having, you know, romance in the bedroom. Apparently, it can cause all kinds of issues from mental health to actual physical health problems. And the opposite, having a healthy bedroom life can actually cause you to, say, put off things like cancer. So a bunch of dudes that are also scientists did a study that they then presented to all of their wives. I imagine that's exactly what happened, but it's out there and it's been proven now that a happy bedroom apparently makes you a healthy and happy person. More stuff in just 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. Dana is back after the holidays. You can find her all over, though. DLash or DanaLashRadio is some of the best places to stay connected to her on X on Twitter. Let's do this. Tom Holman, one of the nominees, one of the people chosen by Donald Trump to have an important position within our government and to be willing to kick out a whole bunch of people who are here illegally, gave a speech at Real America Voices. The Turning Point USA event that happens every year. This was a valuable moment in which he called out the mayor of Chicago specifically. And the crowd went wild. I thought this was a great because if you tell someone not to do a thing and they wind up with a position of power where they can do it anyway, odds are they're probably going to do it anyway.

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The mayor of Chicago, not a real bright guy. Says Tom Holman isn't welcome in Chicago. Well, guess where Tom Holman's going to be day one? Chicago, Illinois. You don't want me there? Come get me.

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Come get me. You don't want me to show up? I'm going to go ahead and do it. He also said that some of those gangs that are at the forefront of so many conversations, like the one in Colorado, that took over an apartment complex, he's coming for them. And he's coming for them as soon as he gets into office as well.

SPEAKER 06 : 106:46

Your days are numbered. My gang's bigger than your gang. And we're going to take you out of the country. We're going to port you out of here.

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I do like the my gang is bigger than your gang thing that he said a few times now. That would be one of them because any small operating gang in this country is not going to be able to stand up to Tom Holman and his forces, which is going to be awesome to see. And he also complained about the fact that so many Democrats are saying they're going to try to prevent Tom Holman from doing the job he was asked to do. and essentially supporting the idea of keeping dangerous people inside our country who have no legal right of being here. Tom Holman has continued to say that he's not going to mass deport every individual who's here illegally. Not that I'm saying that's necessarily a bad idea in and of itself either, but not the position of the conversation, yet the only way in which Democrats are willing to talk about this and accuse Holman of doing something that's somehow wrong or Terrible, even though it's really just following the law. You're not allowed to be here. You probably shouldn't be here. But nonetheless, I digress. I can move on from that. Something else that I think is interesting out there, and this is going viral again. This is from November, actually, even before the election had happened. So Tulsi Gabbard is not sure in this moment when answering a question who is going to inevitably win the election in November. But she's answering a question about the problem with our country, the problem with the deep state or whatever you want to call it that exists in Washington, D.C., that causes so many things to not benefit the American people. So many decisions, so many financial choices out there to have such a lasting impact in a negative way on all of us. And I think it's interesting because you have Tom Holman saying what he's saying about upholding the law and removing violent people who are somehow still in this country, even though they're here illegally. You have several other nominees of Trump saying that they will go after the corruption within whatever the system is that they've been asked to run. And then you have Tulsi Gabbard saying some of the most basic stuff about the problem that exists in D.C. And she is threat number one, according to a lot of Democrats, of being someone put in a position of power, excuse me, that they would be terrified of. This is exactly why.

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The troubling part about all this is it's not even people who we vote for. When you look at... what happened when president biden had that infamous debate with president trump uh it exposed the reality that many of us have known for a long time which is that president biden has not been the guy calling the shots he's not been the guy making the decisions nor has it been kamala harris for that matter nor will it be if she is elected president it is this cabal of You know, the Democrat elite, the the woke warmongers made up of the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and, you know, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan and, you know, people who. are in the military-industrial complex, people who profit from us being in a constant state of war.

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Yeah, people who profit from all the different ways in which the government just hands itself money. It is interesting for her to name names, a lot of names that other people believe are relevant to the discussion, as she is being gone after. And the way in which she says this is so controlled. It's not crazy and unhinged, the way some might accuse it of being. Even more so than that, she's someone who at one point was a Democrat. At one point, like Donald Trump famously said during his debate with Hillary Clinton, I know about some of these problems that exist in our society because I've benefited from them. A moment that Dave Chappelle says turned Donald Trump into a political star. But nonetheless, Tulsi Gabbard feels like she's cut from that same cloth of being willing to say that these things exist. I've seen them exist during my time in D.C. or my time wherever, and I'd like to see them no longer exist. And I'll say this again and I'll say this to anyone who asked this question to me. If someone truly isn't up for the position they've been nominated to hold and they're actually put in a position of power by being confirmed by the Senate or by the House or the whole process that goes through in order to let them be a person in charge of the Department of Defense or whatever it is, if all that happens and then they fail. You can remove them. I don't know why we pretend you can't remove people from these positions. It is crazy that they act like that can't happen. Because to me, if you're putting people that are political outsiders into positions of power, hoping that they upend the problems with deeply entrenched corrupt issues or deeply plagued versions of our bureaucratic system, One of the things you know will happen is they won't be cutting favors for friends because they didn't build their whole career inside those industries, inside those departments, inside of whatever it might be that they're asked to be in control of. And so it will be better for us. And if they fail, you remove them. You know, the lasting impact of someone in a position of power in some of those places doesn't have to be anything anywhere near what they say it is, because it's not like this is a lifetime position that you can't be fired from. You can be and maybe you should be more often. than we see in politics quite a bit more honestly because people fail and get to keep their job for quite a bit of time. Alejandro Mayorkas, one of many examples that come to mind is someone who's profoundly failed over his time as head of the DHS and yet still no big deal. It doesn't matter what Alejandro Mayorkas does or how wide open our borders get, you know, because darn it, it'll all be fine once he's no longer in power, I guess, or I don't know what the actual decision would be to keep him for as long as they did. But the Biden administration didn't care that he wasn't doing his job well. That's something I hope that changes too. All right. I want to play this audio. Fetterman has been all over the place as far as quotes from his ABC interview. John Fetterman, the senator, being willing to say out loud what a lot of other Democrats are not willing to say out loud. This is another one of those moments. It would not have been on my bingo card or whatever you want to call it at the beginning of this year to think that Fetterman would rise up as a voice of reason within the Democratic Party. Of course, if you rewind long enough, you were worried Fetterman would even last as a senator because he didn't seem mentally or medically capable of staying in the role he was in. And granted, it's sad if it's a medical reason that someone can't be a politician or anything in our society, but it seemed like it should happen. that he should be asked to step down. Now, after getting, you know, some health things improved and saying, I guess, the things he's been saying, he's probably someone that a lot of conservatives are happy is a Democratic politician. Not that you wouldn't vote a conservative into office instead, but that he is willing to say out loud what most people in his party refuse to speak, including this.

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Do you think he has the potential to be a successful and a good president? I hope. I hope. Because I'm not rooting against him. If you're rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation. Fantastic. And I'm not ever going to be where I want... a president to fail. So country first. I know it's become maybe like a cliche, but it happens to be truth.

SPEAKER 29 : 114:20

Yes, it happens to be truth. Country first. I don't want to root for a president to fail. I don't want to root for this party to be in control when things are bad so that I can blame them for that. And when I get into power, I go ahead and do different stuff and feel like I'm winning some sort of political fight. I just want our country to actually succeed as a whole. And nobody really says that. Granted, some do on the other side of the aisle. You don't hear a whole lot of Democrats say that in that way and be willing to tolerate whatever version of Trump they think is evil and horrible and out there in the world. But I love that. And as I said, Fetterman is being quoted a lot now or audio of him in interviews is being used more often because many of the things he's saying seem to have a tremendous amount of value to a whole lot of people. who would have voted that side into power, not just necessarily people who traditionally vote for guys like Fetterman. One last thing I want to play. This is Rand Paul complaining about the way that the government might use the drone situation in New Jersey to pass a bill that would infringe upon all of our rights as people, our privacy. Two things. I don't care. Maybe it's a little bit naive to say it this way, but I will. I don't care if the conspiracy theorist is right and say the drones have been flown by the Biden administration in the hopes of then scaring enough Americans into allowing for a bill like this to exist. or if they were flown by somebody else, and then opportunistically, people in a position of power in the government see an avenue to get a bill passed that interferes with your right to privacy. Either scenario could be true. It could be seedy from jump, or it could be seedy after they realize that they had a chance to do something here. And I've heard descriptions both ways. What I care more about than how this happened is, is what we do to prevent it from being a thing that actually winds up benefiting those in our government who want to take away more of your privacy. But here's what Rand Paul said about the craziness of this bill that's supposed to be designed to protect us from an unknown threat of a drone that we don't know where it's coming from or who's, you know, using it, et cetera, et cetera. This seems insane.

SPEAKER 05 : 116:31

The bill before us would grant law enforcement significant authority to intercept private electronic communications without consent. For example, the bill would allow the government to conduct dragnet surveillance of the phones innocent Americans traveling through U.S. airports as long as the government claims they are doing it to neutralize a drone. So in order to look at the information that might be coming to a drone, it may be that you capture all the information of everybody surrounding an airport or everybody who lives near an airport. Once you have all that data, what are the assurances that the government isn't looking at your data in addition to the data that may be related to flying the drone?

SPEAKER 29 : 117:10

None. The answer would be none there, and of course we expect that to be the case. So again, sometimes when I get in an argument with a buddy of mine who's more of a conspiracy theorist than I am, the argument isn't even about whether or not they're right or wrong, because sometimes it's hard to prove that stuff, almost all the time it is, and it really doesn't matter. Once we're at the point where they're trying to change the law to benefit them the most, that's where we have to both fight back and say that it's wrong, and the Rand Pauls of the world that we put in positions of power have to fight back and stop it. Because no matter how we got here, we need to make sure we don't progress to the place that neither of us want us to be. That part matters more to me. 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 during the holidays. Dana will be back sometime next week. I'm thrilled to have you to be a part of the show with you for the next few days. People are understandably very protective of their homes is how a story starts about a couple that is complaining about a, quote, serial pooper. Someone who had been showing up in their backyard and going to the restroom multiple times before they started to complain by putting up signs and video cameras, eventually a spotlight, all kinds of things that they thought would get this person to stop doing the thing they were doing. They found out it was a runner. who every morning at about the same time would run through the area and chose this as the location where they did their deed. No matter what this couple did, they wound up finding out that the guy didn't stop going to the restroom. Again, they created a spotlight that would kick on, cameras that would roll, photographs and even demonstrations. They had video of the person. They included doggy bags in the area where the person was going to the restroom, asking them to at least clean up after themselves. None of this mattered. The couple complained about it and went viral on social media. Whether or not the guy's actually in trouble for any sort of crime, and you have to imagine there are several he could be accused of, is yet to be seen. But the craziest part of this story More than one other person in the comment section reacted by saying they also had a serial pooper who was someone who ran in their own neighborhood, which is insane to me that more than one person would be dealing with this issue in a society in which we live, that someone would not care at all, disregard any common decency, and do this sort of thing in your backyard multiple times. But you have more than one example, as I said, of that actually occurring, which is crazy and out there in the world, and hopefully the serial poopers are caught. That is a PSA I stand by while filling in for the Dana on the Dana show for Dana Lash. Another thing I saw out there that was kind of insane. So a passenger on a flight recently tried to get up and open the, you know, a side door and who knows what they were trying to do. That's illegal. That gets you fully arrested. This didn't happen in the United States. So it was a flight happening, I think, actually in Thailand. And what I thought was crazy about it is some Americans were on the flight and were quoted as saying in all the years they've been flying, they've never seen someone try to get up and just open one of the emergency hatches or one of the doors that you're not supposed to be opening for whatever reason that they're trying to do it. That's a first for them. Thank God it's a first. I was actually happy to see in this story, unlike in the serial pooper story, there weren't a lot of people who were saying, man, that's happened to me too, because the world we know it is horrible. And these sort of things make it feel even more so when you see them out there and being reacted to. This is just crazy that someone would try to do this sort of thing, have no parachute on, essentially just try to harm others. As I said, that gets you fully arrested. Although I guess in retrospect, The one other thing I would say about this is anytime I complain on a flight and I'm upset with someone for being an idiot, whatever way they're an idiot, I guess I should be happy that they didn't try to open one of the doors mid-flight and cause even worse problems for all of us. I guess there's always something worse. Out there is what I'm saying, that you can expect to be a thing that causes you to maybe feel like, all right, fine, that person who went crazy and had to get thrown off my flight wasn't as bad as they thought they were, because at least they didn't try to kill us all. And then actually, in regards to that first story I just told a second ago, at least they also aren't taking a crap somewhere in my backyard. I can't get over that, man. That's a thing that happens. What kind of runners are so in need of the long-distance run training that they just do this during the training every day and just leave it? no matter how many things are being done to try to prevent them from doing it. Do better, people. That's actually what the couple said in one of their notes to the person that was leaving them these undesired gifts and these undesired Christmas presents that were not wrapped. What a weird time to be alive in this world in which we live. All right, that's it for me. I'm out of here for today. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Happy holidays, everybody.

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