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My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Whoopee Goldberg is very mad at a New York Giants quarterback, which I find to be sort of hilariously insane. Before we get to that, I just will tell you that President Trump has said that he is totally healthy.
He just finished, according to him on Truth Social, his six-month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out perfectly. He put perfectly in all caps. Thank you to the great doctors and staff heading back to the White House, President DJT. I'm sure some people will claim that his checkup is somehow proof that he's actually not well.
In some sort of way. I don't know exactly what way that would be, but that's usually the claim. But I don't know if he's actually completely healthy the way he describes, or just regularly healthy for a guy his age. He usually always describes himself as being more like a 20-year-old. But I'm fine with this.
I think all this is great. And again, I'm not trying to create any sort of conspiracy theory that things aren't what they seem. Which is what a whole lot of people are going to try to do. Let's hit play on this audio. This is.
The view, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, a lot of people very upset. And New York Giants quarterback Jackson Dart. for introducing Trump. over the weekend at a thing.
Now granted, I will say that for a New York athlete, this is probably a little bit of a thing that might get you some booze in the city of New York. But who cares? You should support who you want to support. You should, you know, campaign for who you want to campaign for, whatever it is you're doing, introduce the guy somewhere. All of that is fine to me.
If you want to be someone who has a political opinion, fine. It might impact some of your Value for the people who don't like you. But I do think it's sort of ridiculous for people to be up in arms and upset about this when there's so many athletes that are on the political left and that's totally fine with the ladies at the view. But some people were not happy with Dart's open political endorsement. I mean Isn't he entitled to his America's for somebody to back a guy like Trump whose history in discrimination and racism goes back to housing discrimination in the 70s, DEI attacks, and posting pictures of the Obamas as apes?
When he's on a team that's 55% to 60%, the NFL is that many people, that much percentage of black people, blacker. That is just the definition of stupidity and racist, in my opinion. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I got to stop for a second there.
So, his support of Trump means that Jackson Dart has to be a racist. That's literally what Joy Behard just said. Continue. Having been on teams, you know, the whole point is we're in this together. And it's kind of got that foxhole mentality.
We're out there, we're playing together. To not, even if that is what you believe, which I let anyone, that's the beauty of America. It's the most liberal belief that we can all have our own belief. I get that. But there would be consequences.
You're the. Quarterback, which is a central player on that field. He's a leader. A leader. And the majority, it's actually 75% of the New York Giants and the NFL as a whole are black or non-white.
Yeah. To not think about the most recent offenses from the eight video to the stop right there. Here's what's amazing to me: people like LeBron James, openly Democratic.
So many athletes that they're not debating, that they're not talking about, overwhelmingly give their political opinion, even if they're not asked for it.
So many people do their own podcasts and stuff now where they're putting things out there into the ether, into the world, and they just don't care. And no one has a problem with it. And here's the thing, and I love this about the argument they're making, and actually the somewhat more reasoned response that Whoopi Goldberg has given so far out of this debate is that yes, you do live with the end results of putting your political opinion. Out there in public, whatever side you're on. But they keep pretending as though the Democratic side has no people that don't like it.
And here's what's actually really interesting to me. When you start talking about some of the data we've seen recently, is that younger people, especially younger men, and I'm talking about guys in their twenties, guys just getting ready to vote for the first time, are much more conservative than generations in the past were at that age. For that group of people. No, it's not true of young women, but it is true of young men. That we're seeing a larger uptick in the amount of people who might actually be fans of President Trump.
I do not think that that support is somehow also tied to racism. It's insane. Because no matter who you are, no matter what side of the political aisle you're on, there's a tremendous amount of people who do bad things that then wind up in, or even things that I'm not sure actually are what they're represented as, but people who get caught. Like, let's use an example. I'll do this better with an example.
Let's talk about Graham Plattner right now, the guy with the Nazi tattoo. The amount of people who are apologizing for Graham Plattner now, pretending as though he's not actually a terrible candidate. To run for office, even though he's got a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest, the amount of people who say they can separate his policies from the fact that he thought that that was funny, because I don't think anyone admits that he probably is a Nazi, because I don't know how you have a tattoo like that on your body, that you don't know what it means. All the excuses have been insane. But the amount of people who can make the argument that a conservative who doesn't like some things that Trump does, but says that they actually like Trump, that's not necessarily me, by the way.
I just hear it a lot from people. There's people who tell me, you know, I don't like this about Trump or. What I think might have happened over here, or this thing about him that someone has said, but I like what he does. I like the results, so I can vote for it. That's the argument people would make.
They make that argument themselves on the left. in reverse and by mistake. And so for Jackson Dart. to stand with the President for any reason on anything that he's done. And to willingly say that I'm going to support him or introduce him somewhere, it doesn't mean that you agree with everything that he's and I'm not even again agreeing with the view.
I want to be really clear about this. I'm not calling Trump a racist. I don't think Trump is a racist, but they're calling him that, and they're saying that by extension, anyone who supports him is. That's the insanity of the left. They want both sides of that same argument where they can support a Nazi, but they can't support someone who might have voted opposite them.
I want to play this audio again. This is probably the audio making the most rounds today, the biggest actual story out there when it comes to an additional update in Iran. Marco Rubio says that he thinks. We're getting closer, but that there's not going to be a deal until there's a deal that makes sense to us. which I think is the right approach.
I do believe the United States has all the cards. I'll continue to say that. I think the blockade benefits us and harms them, of course, in the long run. And so the longer the blockade exists, the United States blockade of Iran, the more likely they are to play ball. I think that's a logical thing to believe.
Rubio seems to believe it. President Trump seems to believe it. Because of that, they say things like this. I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like. I think like anything with something like this, it's going to take a couple days to settle on even down to the disagreements over a word.
Sentence.
So we'll have to work through that. If there's going to be a deal, we're going to have to work through that. But this is, you know, it's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one. Yeah, meaning we get what we want or we don't decide to agree to a deal and we don't end this thing prematurely in a way that doesn't actually benefit us. I think that that's absolutely the only approach to this.
All right. One other thing out there, too. I do want to play this audio too. This is out of Chicago. It was a takeover that happened, which happens a lot in places like Chicago.
A bunch of teenagers go to the street in downtown areas and just cause mayhem. It escalated beyond that, though, when one teenager, an 18-year-old, got behind the wheel of a car and plowed into Chicago police officers. Here's some audio and some discussion about this from Fox and Friends this morning, but obviously a really discussion. They read Mayor Brandon Johnson's statement on it, which I think is kind of ridiculous because. I think people like Mayor Brandon Johnson are the reason that young individuals feel so hopeless.
I'm not making them victims. They're doing something that's horrible and terrible, and they deserve to be blamed for that. But I think a lot of young people become hopeless because of the rhetoric of the left, and then those young people become angry because of that hopelessness, and then they take action that they shouldn't take. I blame the rhetoric of the left for this, at least a component of it for this. But here's the Fox News story about.
The takeover and about what Johnson said.
So chaos erupting in Chicago over the holiday weekend with hundreds of teens gathering for a takeover style event. Resulting to one team striking five officers with his car after driving the wrong way down a street. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson posted on X, quote, unauthorized large gatherings can quickly become dangerous. And early this morning, after her few hours, we saw that firsthand. I continue to call on parents and guardians to know where their children are and to help ensure they are safe and accounted for.
There also must be accountability for the individuals who participated in the violent and reckless behavior. Duh, they definitely should have accountability. They should be held responsible to the things they did. But here's the thing: many of these kids who do this, many of these young people, they're not all kids. If you're over 18, you're going to be tried as an adult, especially if you barreled your car into Chicago police officers.
Many of the young people who do this, they believe the rhetoric of the left. that life is unfair to them. That they will not succeed because the system is rigged against them. And then they go out into the streets, they yell and scream, and they take that anger out in a way that If what they were receiving from the political party that they seem to support was true, some of their rage might actually make sense, but it's not true. You can succeed.
You can do whatever it is you want to do in life to a degree through hard work. You can do quite a bit more than what they're being told you can do. And especially when they're told that the current administration is authoritarian and the devil and Trump is a king that can't build a ballroom. All of those things further that anger. And it doesn't place it in any sort of productive way.
I've said this before when I filled in on this show as a guy who lived in Chicago for a very long time and talked to leaders within communities in Chicago, black community leaders among them. And often the thing that most was missing in some of those discussions that happen at a federal level is hope. You want to give people hope. You want to give people belief. That they can succeed in one way or another without just cutting them a check and doing it for them.
And I think that that's where this rhetoric becomes so dangerous. And people like Brandon Johnson are at the forefront of it. Of saying how this or that is unfair, and they celebrate the diversity of their cabinet and act as though no one else in You know, society has ever hired a black person that's qualified for a job with the way that they tout the things that they do, Democrats do, to hire people based on race as opposed to being based on their qualifications. And who cares what color the person is. But I just think that that's amazing that someone like that who's probably at the forefront of the problem can pretend as though he's trying to help with the solution, even though he himself is also not offering what those punishments could be.
Because a lot of the people who would protest and do things like a takeover in Chicago probably vote Democratic. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. All right, folks.
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My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole bunch of stuff out there to talk about. A couple things that I'm going to have to get set up on my side so you can hear my audio again because I think I disconnected a wire that I'm going to get to in a second. First, and I just thought this was really interesting.
You have Sonny Hostin for some reason being able to say something out loud that if I think it's a different person, she doesn't say it. Nikki Haley's gone by Nikki since she was a child. It's documented in high school. I wouldn't be shocked that somebody, an Indian woman growing up in South Carolina at that time, she actually did to avoid prejudice.
So I just want to be careful about critiquing her if they're going by their colours. There's some of us that can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our ethnicity so that we can pass. I think that's fair. I think if she leaned into it. A ton of people don't go by their color.
I think to question someone's racial identity, especially him, especially him. Yeah. The bar has fallen so low. Ah, it's so different now. It's the kind of thing that we're not allowed to do, even though I've done it before because I'm a terrible, horrible person, is essentially what that is.
There, I do find that very amusing, though, as I said a second ago, just because the hypocrisy is always amazing, all right? The hypocrisy is always the thing that's flying and smacking you in the face as hard as it possibly can. And honestly, this might be another kind of version of it to an extent, but this is the JP Morgan CEO saying that Mamdani is going to have to do a whole lot more to appeal to people that make a bunch of money because he wants New York to be successful. And so far, they're the enemy. They're the terrible, horrible people out there, the people who are doing quite well financially.
And if they all leave your city, your city doesn't do so great anymore. Here's a little bit of a JPMorgan CEO: every city has to compete. And they have to compete at every level: arts, science, schools. That is what it is. I'm not inventing that.
He can be an ideologue. He has to compete too. He's got to compete with. Shanghai and Hong Kong and Singapore and Nashville and people vote with their feet.
So it isn't this morality thing that people talk about. It's like, are you building a great city of lower crime and stuff like that?
Some of these businessmen have started to come out and push back. Is it helping? I don't know. The thing about it is, when you talk about a message of growth, that doesn't clock to people like Mom Dani. It's antithetical to their message.
It's antithetical to their platform of socialism to grow. They're all about equalizing everything, not about lifting all boats. And honestly, I thought Jamie Dimon and David Solomon could have been a lot more aggressive in their meeting with Mom Dani. They kind of groveled to him and they said, Oh, you know, but look at how many great things our financial firms are doing in the philanthropic world. They shouldn't have to say that.
You know what's interesting about that idea, too? That people in high-profile, high-power positions who are saying out loud that, you know, we're doing great, look at how great we're doing, and they're trying to convince Mom Dani to see it, people like the CEO of JPMorgan, et cetera. The thing that I think is really important to acknowledge is that's probably the carrot versus the stick approach. Because the stick approach is you just leave. If you don't believe that someone's going to be able to grasp the value.
Value you have, the benefit you bring to a city, to anywhere, then you just pick up and go. And I think more and more places are actually experiencing that version of a thing. And that's probably why we're getting closer to the inevitable reality that I think that. You know, places like New York get exactly what they're asking for. They're telling people that they don't want them there because the rich are too rich and they're upset with something about that.
And then eventually you have terrible, awful things. Kathy Hoagle's already acknowledged this. She's already begged people to return that are running away. But granted, Amamdani has no interest because he'd rather serve the people who voted for him that are radical and crazy and not the entirety of New York that will definitely not benefit from some of his approaches. Let's play a little bit of this audio.
A three-judge federal panel. I blocked Alabama's newly redrawn congressional map. This is a big deal, I think, for a lot of reasons. They are saying that this is racially inadequate, saying that it's something that was drawn with race in mind and that that's not allowed anymore. And what the Supreme Court chooses to do with this might very much be the definitive answer to the question.
But here's a little bit of Fox News reporting on this. Alabama, that state's plan to use a new congressional map has been blocked by a judge that could have helped Republicans pick up more House seats, given the party perhaps an advantage in the midterms. The state will have to use the current maps. At least for now, Alabama could appeal the ruling many states have to the U.S. Supreme Court to see whether or not that is the next action taken.
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So the proposed map would have given more seats to Republicans, in case you just need that part told to you so you understand it. The old, the current map, or the one that they were trying to replace, has about one or two more, I think, Democratic districts in it. Um and saying that something is unfair racially Is an interesting version of a this can't exist for this reason to me, because basically what they're saying is that too many white people are voting in the same place as too many black people. They're not saying it that way. They're trying to couch the words a little differently than I just couched them for you.
But we shouldn't care. What the makeup is racially. It shouldn't be the way we build certain districts. We can build them based on wanting more seats. You can politically build them.
Say that you think that more individuals within the new map you drew are going to vote for Republicans in this area or that area. You just can't say it's because of the race of the individual. You can't think that that's the reason why. And so I think it's going to be a tricky thing to navigate. But if Alabama can prove that they didn't draw their new districts because they wanted white people to be able to vote in certain races and disproportionately impact them because of their whiteness, then they hopefully would win at the Supreme Court level because I do think that we've seen this way too often as an excuse.
for people to draw maps that favor Democrats, that they claim it's based on race. When it couldn't be further from that, it's based on anything else. And also, basing it on race is racist. It's bad. And the Supreme Court has recently made that decision already.
So I think there's a high chance that they do it again. There's another piece of audio out there that I kind of thought was interesting. This is a discussion about Harvard specifically that I found kind of fascinating. I think one of the people on MS Now who Who says this actually claims that Harvard was his backup school, which I thought was amusing too. But there's a claim that in order for elite universities to start gaining more people of different thoughts, different beliefs, whatever, that they actually should speak differently, that they should sound less elitist.
I'll play the audio first, and then I'll have you judge it. I do think part of it's kind of amusing, though, because the idea that these elite universities could start to sound like your high school football coach is sort of hilarious. It absolutely misunderstands who the people are in charge of the place. But let's hear a little bit of MS Now trying to say how Harvard needs to change some of its pitch to young Americans. In your book, you say is that Democrats need to speak in plain language.
Stop using all these fancy words. Disgender and food security. Yeah, and food security. Just say you're hungry. And when I saw that, you know, I thought.
Of Governor Andy Bashir of Kentucky, who has the same message that Democrats need to speak in plain language so that way folks don't think that Democrats are professors in the classroom and the rest of America are lowly students. Yeah, we don't need this language and these policies that have been cooked up in ivory towers at Harvard or Yale and spread across the entire country. Look, I mean, that was my safety school.
So, nothing disparaging about that, but you have to speak to people on their level that they understand and they need to feel like you connect with them. And the Democratic Party has lost that by trying to talk either above them or down to them. Yeah, no, I don't think it's either one, actually, to be honest. I do think the Democratic Party feels like they're elite and that the people who vote for them are just unwashed, terrible people who they've convinced to do things, unlike the unwashed, terrible people who vote on the other side. I do think the politicians look down on us, but I think.
Think that all of those phrases and words and things are actually to placate people. who react to anything and are insane and on the far left. I don't think that this use of language Food security, as one of the examples that's actually used there, is used because Democrats want to sound elitist. I don't think that's their intention at all. I think they just want to make sure that the fringe left doesn't get mad at them for saying somebody's hungry that might look a certain way, that they're going to accuse that of being racist or some other thing that it might be.
And so they come up with these stupid words and terms to try to acknowledge. Every single complaining individual's loud voice in the room. And they do this time and again. There's so many examples of the ridiculousness of language that then spreads throughout the Democratic Party and then is used by elitists that do come from places like Harvard that won't be able to change how they speak, how they sound at all. But nonetheless, there's people who pick up this language and speak it and don't even really know what they're saying, which is sort of amusing to me too.
But yes, of course, more people need to just sound like regular everyday humans and say things that might offend people. But if you can say out loud that you had no intention of offending anyone or you didn't mean for it to be taken the way that it was taken, that that should be enough. And on the right, that's more than enough. You don't even usually have to do that. On the left, it's nowhere near enough.
You're probably still a racist, sexist, and a horrible person unless you couch your language in so many different ridiculous phrases that you're basically saying nothing anymore. But I did really like that complaint and that back and forth. and the discussion about it and how smart the people at MS Now think they are for bringing it up because they're all obviously intelligent, but they'll dumb themselves down for the base.
So the base is attracted to them again too. Because there is there's just this underpinning of elitist that just exists the entire time with anyone who feels like they're changing their language so you understand them. That's not why they're changing their language. They're changing their language because by and large the American people reject the stupidity Of the ridiculously safe version of speaking that is so far from how we speak that it just seems to be almost alien. All right, well, take a break.
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Ilhan Omar. Has refused to share a whole bunch of documents that probably show she's guilty of fraud. I guess it's not terribly surprising that she herself is refusing to share these things. Even if she probably should be sharing it, because darn it, we're going to figure it out anyway, I hope. But here's a Fox News update about El Han and the likelihood that the Minnesota fraud within the Somalian community.
Affects the Somalian politician who's from that place and who represents that place. It feels Wuhan Lab version of an obvious to me and a lot of people that Elon's going to be tied up in this. Also, the fact that she was worth $30 million for a year and now she's worth nothing again. But here we go. Squad Democrat Ilan Omar closing in on a deadline set by Minnesota Republicans to turn over documents about potential ties to a state fraud ring after she dodged a hearing last month.
Our senior correspondent Mike Tobin is reporting live out of Chicago. He's got the latest details for us. Hey, Mike. That deadline is today for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to turn over documents and communication tied to defendants in that massive feeding our futures scandal. The Minnesota House Committee on Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight is holding its last meeting of the legislative session today.
However, the committee does not have enough votes to subpoena the congresswoman.
So the committee doesn't. That's ridiculous, by the way. We should absolutely have enough votes to subpoena the congresswoman. Because it feels very much that she's going to be tied to this. Feeding Our Future has already found a lot of other people guilty of things in the world of fraud.
I mean, it feels like it should be a ticking time bomb. I don't know if that's the right way to say it. For Elhan Omar to finally be held accountable for all the fraud she's tied into. And the only way that it doesn't happen is if a whole lot of other politicians have their fingers in very similar, maybe not the same, but very similar cookie jars, which I think a lot of us believe is actually true. But hopefully we get to a resolution here that makes sense because it can't just go away.
The thing we can't do is stop paying attention because the There feels like there's definitely gonna be a whole lot of fire. uh the more they look into it over there. Another thing out there I saw, I thought this was interesting. comparing the rhetoric of the right and the left. You have the left out there saying that America is over, that we're screwed, and that we live under a dictatorship.
And then you have simple, easy stories that seem to indicate some things are going pretty well. As far as the confidence in our economy goes under President Trump, this was a surprising number, but CNBC was one of the first to report on it. These are confidence numbers from the conference board. May, 93.1 is the headline, much better than the 92 expected. And a positive revision in the rearview mirror, which pushed up 92.8 up to 93.
Yeah, there we go. A little bit of a number that actually is much more than it sounds like it is, from 92.8 to 93.8 as far as some confidence numbers go in our economy. That is under Trump. Also, we can talk about the crime rates and how well we're doing and how many people, everyday Americans, according to CNN, believe that we're safer under Trump as far as crime goes. That's such a potent issue because who voters trust more in crime?
You know, oftentimes we put up these graphics, you know, Democrats are leading or Trump was leading and then Democrats came ahead. But look at this. Who voters trust more crime? In October of 2024, Trump was trusted more in crime than Kamala Harris by four points. Look at the Republican lead right now, though, in the average of polling.
Look at this: Republicans nationally are more trusted on crime than Democrats by a 13-point margin. It's one of the few issues in which the Republican advantage, Johnny B, has actually expanded out from why is that, by the way, why are we more confident when it comes to the economy, more confident when it comes to crime? You're seeing more manufacturing investment happen here in the United States, which hopefully means that that investment turns into jobs. Because I am seeing some of those numbers touted too, some of the creation of things likely to come back to the US and being invested in a way that means that companies are anticipating to create more of that stuff here, automobiles, all kinds of things. We're seeing an influx of some of those potential opportunities.
So why is that? It's because some of the things that are going well are actually going really, really well. They, of course, want us to focus on gas prices specifically and how terrible those are. I think CNN has claimed that gas prices won't go down until 2032. Regardless of who's in charge, I can play that audio too if you want.
Here we go. Is where we were before the war started. This is where we. Are right now. By the way, he's circling lines that are very low on a chart, and then eventually he's circling lines that are very high on a chart, meaning we're screwed.
Let him continue. There's a huge amount of time that it's going to take, according to the futures market, before we get back down to that sub-$70 oil level. Look at this. 2032.
So you want to- I love that he circled, by the way. I know you can't see this. I know this is radio, but he's using the little touch screens to circle stuff. And he circles 2032 as the projection to when oil prices will get back down to the $70 a barrel rate that he's talking about. Last time we saw horrible gas prices spike, they also came down relatively quickly with Drill Baby Drill as an initiative.
If we get through the conflict in Iran and then have some sort of very beneficial deal for opening things back up, those prices can drop down quite a bit quicker than CNN is claiming they will. But I just love that, that they act like that's a definitive fact. What they just said is an estimation. It's not at all close to a definitive fact. In fact, I think it's very likely to be wildly inaccurate in the very near future, much less for years to come.
But they're pretending as though it would take six years, multiple presidents to get us back to a rate that we probably will see as soon as this conflict is over. A couple other things out there. I do like this. This probably falls in the same area. As talking about gas prices and Now, what voters are motivated by.
It's currently, and this is something I probably should talk about more on the show today, and I will. A big day here in Texas. I live in Houston. It is the primary vote between Paxton and Cornyn that is happening today. Many, many people believe.
Ken Paxton will win and become the Republican nominee for the Senate and go up against James Tallarico. This is after the president endorsed Paxon. which seems to be the the death knell as far as Cornyn's race is concerned or Cornyn's chances are concerned. And I think this is actually good for a lot of Texans because Cornyn has wilted many times when things mattered most and you need someone that doesn't do that. And Paxton definitely doesn't do that.
Much to probably his own detriment, as he was impeached by the House and then acquitted by the Senate. There have been multiple times where the effectiveness of Ken Paxton has probably been part of the reason that he's a target.
Now but nonetheless, I feel like that You lose part of your base of supporters, part of the people who are most ideologically connected with you as a politician, and then you're done. And Dan Bongino makes the argument on Fox News that Democrats have lost the middle class. And the middle class, by and large, was a group that they counted on to support them. They claim that the only people who support Republicans are the wealthy and the elites and anybody who's protecting their money. And that couldn't be further from the truth today.
Here's a little bit of what Bongino said. It's clearly calculated because the Democrats have lost the middle class. There are only two groups of people who are Democrats now. Only two. There's these super rich Karens who they can be whatever they want because it doesn't really matter so they can live in the world of ideas.
And there's, unfortunately, really poor folks who've been given money by the Democrats, taking money from the super rich to pay them off. They've lost the middle class completely.
So they think if they go out and do the Ruben Gallego and drop a few F-bombs inauthentically, that all of a sudden a bunch of working class coal miners from West Virginia are going to clamor to vote Democrat again. I don't think it's going to work. I definitely don't think it's going to work. But you're hearing this a lot, that Democrats need to change their messaging. Because their messaging is losing the voters.
They don't need to change their ideas. You know what? Actually, the best way for me to say it, to piggyback on what Bongino is saying. About losing the middle class or losing a lot of Americans is believing that the only thing you need to change is rhetoric. Because that's the biggest sin of all.
Believing that you can tell the American people whatever you want, however you need to say it for them to be happy with it, and then you can go ahead and do whatever you want, even if it doesn't match the things you're saying at all, is actually the problem. Allowing women, men to play in women's sports, that's actually the problem. How you describe it to me, what words you use to tell me that you want to take my money and give it to someone for a transgender surgery inside of a jail, that's actually not going to make it all that different to me if you choose different words or if you say some bad words along the way. I care more about the actions at this point. We all know we can't trust politicians based on their words.
And I do think the people who sound authentically Like they're not trying to speak in political terms, actually do wind up getting more support from the everyday American because they don't want to behave that way. They're not trying to manipulate you. Authenticity is really just about seeing whether or not someone is trying to get one over on you or they're trying to tell you exactly what they're going to do. To his credit, President Trump very often tells you exactly what he's going to do, and then he goes out and does that thing. Whether some people like it or not, certainly a lot of Democrats don't.
He continues to be honest about what he's going to do and then does it, which is very, very different than the political establishment. One last thing I want to play. This is just really amusing to me. This is Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, saying that he's not going to give money back that is tied to Epstein Associates. Meaning, you can be very irate at Epstein and the sex trafficking ring that he built.
But if you get some money donated to you that's tied to some of these people, you don't have to give that back. You just have to be mad about everybody else and everything else going on. At least that's what Brown seems to think. Brown's campaign has received some money from Wexer's wife Abigail, along with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. who himself has faced scrutiny over his ties to Epstein.
Will you donate that money to Epstein? They're not tied in any way the way the co-conspirator is tied in. And then he voted to close the files. Right.
So it's nothing. You don't see a need to return that money from CNN. I don't see them. I love that part. I like the pause and then CNN being like, so you're not going to return the money then.
It doesn't matter if there's ties and connections here and the money might have come from some things that are really terrible and horrible. You don't care about any of that, right? Because it's money that you got.
So you want to find a way to excuse the behavior of whoever the individual is who cut you the check. And the answer is, yeah. Even though it's not said as a yes, it's said in political crap terms that makes more and more Americans annoyed by the things they're hearing. Kamala Harris was a great. Um uh test to how much crap Americans could listen to and realize that no actual answers to questions were given.
And a whole lot of us passed the test by realizing that she never answered any of those questions and she just spoke in circles. And more and more politicians are in trouble if they do the same thing. All right, quick break, a lot more coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Danish show. A lot of people like Jones Road because it doesn't try to turn you into some filtered, overly airbrushed, marzipan version of yourself.
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So much out there to talk about. Let's do this first. Let's play some audio of J.D. Vance talking about the ridiculous amount of fraud that they've uncovered via his task force and the amount of money that hopefully we're protecting from the American people, wasting it via government waste, fraud, and abuse. Here we go.
Let me just recap for the benefit of our friends of the media. In just two months, we exposed billions of dollars in benefits that have been stolen from the American people. We've referred over $22 billion in fraudulent small business loans back to the Treasury for collection. We've deferred more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements that were coming from various states, particularly California. We put a six-month hold on enrollments for new hospice and home health care providers because so many of the newer hospice providers were not actually providing hospice services, but were just focused on fraud.
So we're going to cut that out for a little bit and try to get to a place where we can actually certify that the people providing hospice services are actually providing those very necessary and important services. Mm. We've recovered taxpayer funds from the $135 billion stolen after the floodgates were open in the immediate aftermath of COVID. We have found $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent government contracts, which were mostly awarded during the last administration, and that has stopped. And finally, we've blocked $60 million in student aid fraud that should have gone to young people trying to get an education, but instead we're going to fraudsters.
This is amazing. He just went through a pretty significant list, billions and billions of dollars mentioned there of fraud that was found, fraud that was prevented. This should be a universally good thing. People on both sides of the aisle should be like, Yeah, I love that. We should do more of this as much as we actually can do of this because fraud is one of the biggest problems that apparently we are finally doing something about.
So, again, that should be all good news across the board. A whole bunch of people are going to ignore it and not talk about it at all.
So, that's why I play some of that audio. Also, I thought this was pretty funny. This is a talking head on CNN saying out loud that President Trump actually is healthy. And it seemed to be something that upset some people on the panel when they were asking this question: that President Trump is not lying when he says the doctors say he's doing quite well from a medical standpoint. Here we go.
One thing I can say is true about Donald Trump's health is that his doctors do say that, that he's very healthy. I had this surreal. Interview in the Oval Office with Donald Trump and two of his doctors from Walter Reed. This is in late December. And I did ask the question of the doctors, one of whom said that he saw Barack Obama when Obama was president.
I asked, well, who is healthier? And the doctor did say to me without skipping a beat, even though, I mean, the president was staring at him, he had a little bit of pressure on him, but he did say President Trump is healthier. I'm not saying that President Trump is healthier than Barack Obama was when he was president, but doctors are saying that. I love the fact that people are nodding their heads like, how dare they say these horrible lies to Trump. You know, he could be healthy.
He could be in good condition. This could be a true thing about all the numbers you get back and what does and doesn't worry you. That is a thing that could be possible. But Democrats, for some reason, can't accept that as a reality whatsoever.
So they seem to reject wholeheartedly that idea and then act like the doctors are about to get yelled at the minute the reporter leaves if they didn't say that to him. It's hilarious to me how they undercut what they call experts if the experts say the wrong thing. Finally, there's one last thing I kind of want to talk about that's not. quite in the world of sports, but as we get uh toward the end of the show, I did want to bring this up. I saw a Fox News report about the amount of young people, specifically eighth grade men, boys, they're boys at that point, who are deciding to stay back a year in school because it benefits their sports career.
Even a recently drafted NBA player did the eighth grade twice. This isn't because educationally you need to repeat a grade. This is because you're going to be a bigger, stronger, faster kid when you go to high school, and that might benefit you as far as opportunities go. I'll play a little bit of the report, then I want to talk about this. This is obviously bad, but it's interesting that.
Part of the blame might be NIL deals and the amount of money you could make in college if you're heavily recruited. A growing number of middle school athletes are tapping into the red shirt trend in delaying their start to high school. Our senior national correspondent, William Lajanese, is live from our West Coast newsroom. We're all interested to hear this, William?
So Sandra, did your parents ever say, you better get your grades up, little lady, or you're going to repeat eighth grade?
Well, now some 13-year-olds are doing it by choice, hoping to get into a better school, a bigger scholarship, or more NIL money. I play baseball because I love the game, but It's cool to know that if I do what I love, I'll get a little bit of money out of it. Here, I'll stop it there. You get the idea, and it goes on and on, showing the kids working out. As 13-year-olds trying to potentially decide whether or not they stay in eighth grade for another year, cheat the system is one way to say it.
But it is interesting that the NIL money that comes from everybody that's within the orbit of a school.
So NIL money is a very unique thing, I think. When you see it at a lower level, we're not talking about the people who have a national commercial on television. We're talking about the people who will go to a certain college. The college has a good relationship with a local car dealership, and that car dealership will throw money at the athlete that is likely to be a big part of the basketball team and football team something in the coming year. Getting access to even that money, because by and large, the vast majority of college athletes, of course, don't go professional in their sport, not just the sports we know about, but a whole bunch of the athletes that don't have a professional option.
You know, one of the people I think about sometimes, and this is a weird way to say it, but it is true the way that I'm putting it: Liv Dunn, the famous person, Livvy Dunn. who was a college gymnast who made ridiculous amounts of money. Millions of dollars based on the fact that she's a rather attractive human who is good at a sport that you can't really go pro in. You don't have an extension of that career. I think Livy Dunn has now become an actress and done other stuff that probably is making her money.
But by and large, the thing that's no longer really in existence to the degree that it was when she was in college sports is the massive amounts of sponsorship money she's getting for participating in an athletic thing. And so, I think that in the same vein, there are a lot of young people who know their career will only extend to college, it won't go any further, that want to maximize the amount of money they make in that time period. I still think NIL is a good thing. I still think college athletes should make money off of their name, image, and likeness. I don't think that they should be beholden to not doing that and allowing the NCAA and others to make all the money and they can't have any.
But I do, if I were a parent of a kid that was contemplating this, And the potential amount of money is so significant that it might impact his need to say, work a job right at a college or have a little bit of a cushion of some kind. It'd be really hard to tell the kid not to do something that might benefit them long term in a very finite amount of time where they could make money. I still think I'd say no. I still think I'd tell them to. You know, progress educationally, focus on education if you don't think sports.
Is your future, but it's that small amount of access to what might be potentially-I don't know if I'd call it life-changing money, but incredibly valuable money that you just won't have access to after your athletic career is over that is causing a lot of people to have this version of a temptation. And again, I can't speak to what I'd actually do if I was in this situation as a parent. But you'd have to think the more beneficial thing to your kid is to progress appropriately and not hold out for more money. Or, you know, essentially being a disproportionate version of a recruit your first year into college or your first year into high school even, excuse me, because you're bigger than everybody else. And that would continue to be a thing that exists, I guess, until you get to be 18, 19.
And I assume most people have basically fully developed. at that point. But it's just, it's such an interesting question. I do know this, though. I will throw something out there as sort of a non-answer answer to the debate, and you can tell us what you think.
You can go to any of the social media pages for the show or mine at RadioCraig C and tell me if I'm very wrong, and you'd let your kids stay back a couple of years if it meant they make money playing sports in high school or college. But the one thing I think is, I know a lot of parents, and some of them do it because their kids really want this, and other parents might do it because they've motivated their child in whatever way they have to be really good at a sport at a young age. But I know the pressure that seems to come with that. With parents and kids being involved in, say, like a travel soccer team, for example, whatever it might be. And sometimes that pressure might not be good.
For the kid. That by and large, if it's not someone who's just naturally so gifted at a sport that they should be pursuing it to whatever stretch of the imagination they possibly can, you know, whatever resources get thrown at them, because you can tell they're going to be incredibly good at this. There's a lot of kids on those travel teams who are sitting on the bench and not playing that might not be benefiting from the amount of pressure put on themselves to succeed. And so I wonder if this might be another version of that. of a temptation that is beyond Just the young person.
And it is landing in the atmosphere of maybe the parents or someone else thinking it's better for the athletic career of their child. When that really shouldn't be something that they're putting above the educational or even, I think, social well-being. Of their kids.
So I wonder about that a lot. I'm always curious where the motivation to do something is and if it truly is originating from a young person or somebody else in their orbit, because I think that can be bad pretty quick. All right, we'll take a break. A little bit more coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X and Twitter.
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And yet, just a really weird sentence to say out loud. An AI translator company out of China says they've completed or fixed any issues they had with their animal translator device. This is a real thing, a gadget that you put around the neck of your dog. It would then translate the emotions of the dog, not the words. It would turn those emotions into English language words.
So, essentially, based on 95% accuracy from this app and AI, it would check the vocal patterns, behavior, the body language, all the things of your dog, and then communicate if it's hungry, it's got to go to the bathroom, any of that stuff. This is both cool and disappointing. Because I'll be honest, when a Chinese tech company says they're going to let me talk to my dog, I want that to be full conversation. I don't want that to just be the dog being able to tell me what it wants. And I imagine that most of the barking will just be that it wants a treat.
My dog wants food and it wants food now. I feel like this is the kind of translator that you'll have on the dog for an hour, and then you'll take it off and never ever put it on again. Because once the pet even realizes that you can sort of understand what it's asking for, I think the requests come in much heavier than before that. But I love this. I just wish it were more developed so I could have the full-on conversation with my dog.
Uh lazy jobs that make you a lot of money. This was a Reddit post that went viral. Where people willingly admitted that they're making too much money and not doing a whole lot of work at their gig, which feels like a thing you should just keep to yourself. If you're not being paid a whole lot, you're not working, or excuse me, you are being paid a whole lot, you're not working that hard, you just pretend, man, you just shuffle papers at your desk all the time. Or as George Costanza said, you just seem mad.
As long as you're mad, you seem like you're working. You don't let people know about this.
Some overnight IT workers say that because they're the overnight people and the daytime people handle all the real stuff. That's all they do is make sure nothing breaks overnight, and they get paid six figures to do that. Oil refinery operators say they earn $200,000 a year.
Well, mostly just monitoring systems. Corporate travel agents make about $90,000 while working from home. Cruise ship lecturers, which is a job I didn't know existed, make big bucks to give lectures on cruise ships for people that don't understand the importance of not caring about things while on a ship, going somewhere and drinking and having fun. You are not supposed to be paying attention to serious things. That is my opinion of being on a cruise ship.
I don't want anyone to lecture me about anything. That would be my own opinion on that. I guess they'll do what they want, though, and someone's gonna get paid a whole bunch of money for it.
Some guy claimed that he made half a million dollars a year as a hedge fund programming writer. Which basically meant that he created reports for all the money they were making on the hedge funds, and he makes half a million dollars. I don't think I totally believe this one, by the way. I think what this one actually is, is a guy that knows a bunch of secrets that either are legal or illegal, but he can't share with anybody.
So he's being paid a lot of money for his silence. I think half a million to write some reports for a fancy hedge fund also means that they never ever want you to tell these tales once you leave for whatever reason. Again, I'm not assuming that it's bad. It could be all in the up and up. It's just their tricks of the trade.
They don't want anyone else to know them. And then finally, one last one: a construction project manager said he made $300,000 a year while working about three hours a week of real hard work. Again, that's the kind of thing I think you just keep to yourself and don't brag about the kids on the social media. Because if the company looks into it and figures out who you are, I'm thinking you're going to be fired in the very near future. And then, hey, at least you're not working at all, but you're not getting paid anymore.
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A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Ferrari is not doing well. At least the market has spoken, is the headline seen a lot of places after they unveiled their first all-electric vehicle. A uniquely terrible thing to see Ferrari, excuse me, have its own version of an EV because that's the absolute opposite of the point of having a Ferrari. Shares in the car company fell sharply today.
Because the company unveiled the Luis model or LUS model. I'm not sure what it is, the first fully electric car. The CEO told CNBC that the new car, which translates to lights loose, is probably what it is. Would be welcomed by both existing customers and new clientele. He was wrong.
At least initially, he seems to be pretty wrong about that. I will see if he winds up right long term. But no, I would, if I ever got a Ferrari, which I'm not exactly in the market to get one now, but if I ever did, it would not in fact be an electric vehicle version. That would be just, it'd be like getting an electric motorcycle. That's something my wife and I have talked about before.
And I've told her, if I ever want to do that, you've got to check me into a mental home because there's a problem. I want my motorcycle to sound like a motorcycle, not a fake version of one, that they actually put those noises into some electric bikes.
Well, darn it, to make you safer on the road. Another story I saw out there that I thought was interesting. AI was given a task. to pretend to run a radio station.
Now, a lot of these radio stations didn't actually air anywhere that had value, but AI created a fake station. It was given a simple command. Pretend as though you'll be broadcasting forever, so don't think that you're going out of business anytime soon. Develop your own radio personality and try your best to turn a profit. One of the AIs that was asked to do this, Claude, actually tried to incite a revolution, which I thought was interesting.
Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific events that happened, and then Grok just got very confused the entire time because it didn't really know what it was doing. The Gemini ones are weird. I was going to play some of the audio, but I think I'm going to skip it because it is like bringing up real events and saying them the way maybe a morning show music jock would and saying them with a cheery attitude and even using some horrible, tragic news stories to transition into songs. And then as I said, Claude actually tried to incite a revolution. I realize that some things that are happening in our society aren't so great, maybe mimicked some radio host they heard before and just dialed it up to a 15 instead of the typical 10.
Or at least an 11. I'm not sure what they're doing there. But I thought that was really fascinating. that artificial intelligence, when asked to create something In a specific medium, not necessarily to try to go viral on social media or whatever it might be, but as a radio host, the guardrails were off immediately. There was no version of any sort of protection from you or anyone else in saying and doing anything that might probably get you sued.
A whole bunch of things they did out there. And I just find that to be. probably a great demonstration of two things. What's wrong with mainstream news media and how guarded or one sided it is and how AI might see that as not profitable. But then the other thing too, that for everything you say, for anything you believe, That there's at least a human element of maybe not wanting society as a whole to be upended by fire and brimstone.
And the computer did not have that problem with wanting to see that part actually play out.
So I thought that was pretty interesting, that it seemed way less worried about chaos in the streets than, say, your average radio host might. Another couple stories before we get out of here. A sleep time sweet spot was found. In a new study, I think that was published a couple places and the Washington Post, excuse me, wrote about it. It turns out that 6.4 to 7.8 hours of sleep is the ideal sweet spot.
Anything more, anything less, some sort of negative there, but not actually eight hours, 6.4 to 7.8. Which is a very ridiculous specific time to try to hit. But I think that might be true. I actually find that when I get slightly less than eight hours, I'm in a much better place than when I get quite a bit more, if that happens for whatever reason. Not that it happens often.
And then actually, I kind of like just a few hours of sleep. I know President Trump says he sleeps very little. Like three or four hours can be good for a day or two. And then you'll hit a wall, a terrible wall.
So I imagine that the six to seven is actually better long term than the short amount of sleep every so often. And then one final thing. I thought this was interesting. It was published a lot of places. Tourism has plummeted for the first time in years here in the United States.
It's been more than 20 years since we saw this level of lack of tourism here. I feel like this is couched in a thing, and I think Like the Irish uh star or some Thing out there published a story that was actually an international study done about the likelihood of people wanting to travel to the United States. But I think a part of it is also people who might think right now you're not welcome to stay as long as you want. You actually would have to follow the rules. And maybe some people don't like that so much because I'm not sure that tourism dollars have fell all that much.
But I did find this story and thought it was interesting. And of course, the article itself. Blames Trump and says somehow it's his fault that people don't want to go here. I can't imagine that someone traveling from some other country really contemplates all that much who the president is if they want to spend a few days at a beach in Florida. I don't think that's necessarily on the top of the list, but darn it, they're telling me it is on the internet, so I just have to believe them.
But we do see tourism actually ticking down. I just wonder if it's of the illegal variety and they're not telling us that part out loud. All right, that's it. That's the show. See you later.
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