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My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you at Dana Lash Radio on X. Great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C if you want to follow me. The President of the United States will be traveling to attend the dignified transfer of fallen troops. That will happen at Dover Air Force Base.

He was asked questions standing outside Air Force One before traveling, and he gave the answers you'd expect. A world leader to give, the President of the United States to give, when asked something about the emotional difficulty of a day like today. Good ladies and gentlemen. Yes, some of you are going with us. To honor our heroes, and they are indeed.

Great heroes, actually. They said and they all of them said very strongly We can't let You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. They won't have a nuclear weapon.

So we're going to honor them. And uh One of the hardest things to do. For me, it's one of the hardest things to do as a president. But it has to be done. Yeah, it does have to be done, and it can't possibly be easy.

I believe him when he says it's one of the hardest things to do as a president for anyone. I'm not acting as though I think that that's unique to President Trump, although you immediately think of the times when it seems that other presidents of this country have not cared.

Well, they've been a part of this. And Biden certainly comes to mind and some of the ways that he seemed to behave. And also, I will say this. This isn't intent to transition from talking about what the president will do that a lot of people who probably listen to the show, including myself, supported, and what the person that I didn't support did when he was in office. But I do think about that story.

of the military individual who was injured but survived. The attack in Afghanistan as the exit, the horrible exit was happening there, and the story he told to media about how unprofessional, rude, just sort of like a heart that's as cold as ice. Behavior from President Biden in the hospital room while this person is recovering. I don't know how many people remember that. I pull the audio, but I don't want to pivot too much to that.

But that was one of the darker things I ever heard from anyone that was a member of the military talking about an experience with a president of this country when Biden walked in and said, What do you want? Essentially, asking the officer, the person who was injured in the line of duty, to. Ask for something because of the injury and then go away, not talk to media so that it doesn't embarrass Biden. That's horrific. And the president, the current president, Trump, Not taking that road, not thinking about himself, which he shouldn't.

I'm not even saying that this is essentially praise. It's just crazy that you can compare it to someone who did something different. But here's a little bit more from the president. Yeah. All I'm gonna say is...

We love you, we love your child, and that's what... They are to them, they're their children. There's no games, no nothing. That's their child. And uh all you can do is throw out your heart.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All you can do is throw out your heart. And I'm sure parents that show up there in any of these types of situations, some of them are mad.

I'm sure they are. I can't fathom why you wouldn't be at least a little upset. And you'd be so proud of your child for the sacrifice they made for this country, for the willingness to do it. But I imagine there's some level of anger toward the person who sent them into the fight. And the president will be standing there next to them, trying to comfort them.

And I assume, accepting that role of being the commander in chief and asking something that we can't actually fathom at all for us who don't serve this country in that capacity, what that truly means, like what that truly is.

So it's profoundly important, I think, that when you have this discussion and when you hear what the president does today, that he goes there, he takes responsibility for his decision to send people into combat. He said that he will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon and that he understands as much as you can, because you can't truly, but at least to some extent, the pain that people are going through.

So it'll be interesting to see exactly what unfolds today and what the the inevitable reaction from families is if they choose to talk to the media. About their interactions with the president. I would say that I always say this, and I'll just put it out there again. Before I move on. I'm not going to tell anyone that's grieving how to handle grief because that would probably be wrong.

Uh but I do hate when I see people uh being used by media so quickly after something horrific has happened to them or their family, and you see it so often. That some person in news media sticks a camera and a microphone in somebody's face that doesn't need it there yet. And the individual might be motivated by thinking they're doing something good in that moment. But I'm guessing a decent amount of people regret.

So quickly being in front of cameras when truthfully, you probably need a decent amount of time with your family away from any sort of spotlight before coming forward to speak.

So I do. Often hate that. But I'm also, I should say this, I should be completely fair. I am sometimes amazed. At the capability of some people that are put into that position to be so eloquent, to be so well thought out.

Like occasionally, you are stunned. With the way that someone handles that scenario while they're going through something so awful.

So, I certainly will say that it's not always something that when you witness a person talk to media, that you, I always feel that this is terrible. Occasionally, I'm stunned, like I said. All right, we're gonna move on. I do really like this. I think that this is one of the dumbest things that Jake Tapper has ever said on television.

And I have to be honest, he said a lot of really stupid stuff on television. But the way in which he stated That he was surprised that people who are here illegally, if they get accidentally, I use their quotes you can't see, a registered to vote, that they'd actually go ahead and show up and punch a ticket in a ballot of any kind. I know why they do that. Apparently, Jake Tapper does not. Here's a little bit of what he said on CNS.

Here in the country illegally. And you get a letter saying that you can vote, and you know you're not supposed to, not only you're not supposed to vote, you're not supposed to be there. Why do you vote? Like, how do you get registered for a party? And I love the way CNN is handling this because of how ridiculous it is.

Because this is one of the biggest moves that the left makes. They try to pretend whatever the topic is is ridiculous. You know, they say that people who are here illegally do not vote. That's usually the thing that you and I hear. Like, they don't vote.

They never, why would they do that? And then, once New Jersey says they have a whole bunch of people who are here illegally who got accidentally, air quotes again, registered and decided to vote. They say, well, this is rare. It never happens. They just inch those goal posts.

That direction that we all know it's going. But here's the reason that people who are here illegally vote. I'm going to help them out. I'm surprised it's this hard and that they don't understand it. It's because they want the people in power who claim that they won't be illegal anymore.

The people who are saying that you get to stay, you get all the free stuff, you get whatever you want. Please enjoy taxpayer dollars and live in a hotel in downtown Chicago. If those individuals remain in power, or more of those people win more elections, guess who it benefits? The people who are here illegally who are trying to vote for them. And that's why Democrats are trying to allow them to vote.

Like, this is the dumbest thing. To talk about in all honesty, because of course they would try. to get the side of the aisle that advocates for them. That's the same game plan. I'll say this, the Democrats have in any scenario.

Democrats tell all of the LGBTQ plus alphabet community that they're the only ones that'll help them. And so, regardless of positions on any topic, these are the good guys, those are the bad guys. You got to vote for us. And then, just like any other group, minority voters who overwhelmingly seem to vote a Democratic, inevitably, all of these groups say, you know what, they didn't really do much for me. They didn't really care about me.

They just said that they would, and then they didn't help at all. The only war that it seems the left wants to have in the world of some of these topics is letting men play in women's sports, which is odd, to say the very least. And actually, I really love, you know what, I'll move on to that. I really love something else that's out there.

Sophie Cunningham, the Indianap Indianapolis fever player. who is the Indiana Fever player. who is certainly making her a name for herself beyond basketball. Whether that's being a ring girl at the UFC, the pointing thing that was a meme all over the place, she's not a huge person. player in the world of basketball.

But again, there aren't a lot of terribly famous humans right now that play in the WNBA. Caitlin Clark is one of them. I couldn't name a team for you, like a set of five people that are all actual current players. I'm sure some people out there could. I can't do it.

But anyway, Sophie Cunningham recently came out and said. We shouldn't have dudes playing in women's sports. And I feel good about that. And then there's a crazy additional piece of audio. I think it's from Megan Rapino.

The soccer player who's Certainly, said a whole lot of things that make me scratch my head that says how this is an attack on women. Even though I think Letting dudes play female sports would actually be the attack on women. But here's a little bit of how Fox News talked about Sophie Cunningham, and then I will play a little bit of audio repeato before we take a break.

So, what happened is she retweeted a CBS sports host tweeted out: female collegiate athletes deserve so much better than this. And so, that was in 2022, years ago. She just retweeted it, and then people are putting words in her mouth saying, You know, this is how you feel. And she said, She's setting the record straight in this ESPN interview. She said, I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans.

And I'm like, I never once said that. I think that I am here to extend love, but I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room or young girls in sports who shouldn't have to go against biological men. Yeah, or be in a locker room with a biological guy. That would be the kind of thing that anyone would want to protect a young woman from, including, of course, their parents.

So, it's just sort of insane that any version of of, you know, reality exists. The world we live in exists and the obvious competitive advantage of this type of situation exists. And let's just say that out loud, turns into some people to be horrible, terrible hate. And here's Megan Rapido doing the exact same thing in the world of this is somehow an attack on women in society because she's advocating for letting dudes play female sports. Let's just like pull back a little.

At first it was like, well, nobody likes women's sports and nobody wants to watch it. Or there was, you know, abuse happening and nobody seemed to care.

Now all of a sudden we're going to use a vulnerable group of people in the trans community to be like, oh, well, we're just protecting women's sports and we care so much about it when the Heritage Foundation is now going to go after Title IX.

So is it about reproductive rights or is it about just women's rights in general? We're seeing the rollback of Roey Wade. Marriage equality, I feel like, is getting put back on the table. Yeah, I'm already done. I'm already, there's so many things happening there and I'm already so, so done with it.

I'll say this about the beginning part of the statement where she claims that one, a lot of people don't watch female sports. sports. I don't want to be a jerk, but I do want to be an arbiter of reality. And if you look at the ratings before Caitlin Clark, the WNBA was not doing great. They're doing far better now, and the salaries are much higher now.

And all of that is because of Caitlin Clark. And yet it seems the WNBA hates her for some reason. But then the other thing, abuse of women in sports, the gymnastic controversies that came out. I thought people did care about that. That was horrible.

And I thought people did care. And then finally, claiming that now there's an attack on a vulnerable community. It has nothing to do. uh with attacking people in a vulnerable community. It has everything to do with protecting the competitive capability for biologically female people to participate in sports without losing to people they cannot defeat because of, again, DNA and biology.

I don't understand how people don't get this. I feel like anyone that has a daughter immediately gets this, and everybody else pretends they don't. Quick break, a lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. For our partners that bring you the program, it's the folks that are over at Burn a Gun.

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I know they just promoted the podcast as we came in here, which is great. But she also does a great job in Substack. Follow a lot of stuff that Dana's doing and all of her social media. I would see in producer Steven and a bunch of other people make so much better. than my social media and a lot of our social media out there at Radio Craig Zig.

If you want to see what it's like to not have a producer, Steven, let's do this: Benjamin Netanyahu. Seems like he, you know. Will be completely immune to any sort of arrest from Zoran Mumdami because he was always going to be immune to it. But the only person in the room who took a long time to actually admit this: that in fact, if Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, goes to New York, New York cannot arrest him, was Zoran Mumdami. The mayor of New York seemed to refuse this basic.

Logical, simple to understand thing for quite some time before finally, I think last night, admitting in a long video in which a whole lot of it is about how terrible and awful Israel and Netanyahu is or are. But here we go. I'll just play the part where he finally admits he can't actually arrest someone. Mamdani, at least, finally has come to the light. Actually, hold on.

Let's make sure that you can hear that audio first and here. Be with the ICC. The Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes. as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here.

It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does. And I call on them to join the ICC to execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear. Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City.

Nor is any other war criminal at large. He's going to go there. He's going to be in New York City, and then he's going to leave New York City, and you're not going to be able to arrest him at all. We had a guest on in the last hour of the show, Ben Strusand, who mentioned that he kind of wanted to see. The interaction because it probably would have been politically very valuable for Netanyahu, even back home in Israel, if the U.S.

tried to arrest him and if more people within the United States, Secret Service among them, prevented New York from doing so. And I actually agree with Ben on that, that the political spectacle of this would have been actually probably surreal to witness. And who knows? It might have benefited Netanyahu back at home as an election is coming up in Israel. But nonetheless, and this is, I think, the biggest takeaway, which many, many people understand, it was never going to happen.

Um Mamdani should have known immediately that he had no authority, and you thought he did know, but the longer it took for him to admit it, the longer the game of pretending that he might arrest the leader of Israel played out, the more you wondered if this was a genuine thing that he actually thought he might be capable of doing. And it's crazy if that's true. Like, it's all crazy. There's no version of discussing this topic where it's not legitimately insane. And I don't care what you actually think.

of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, whether you do think he's a horrible, terrible person and a war criminal or not, if you think Israel is defending itself, because that's not actually the substance of the discussion here, even though that's what Momdami wants you to be talking about. The substance of the conversation is whether or not it would have been legal for New York to arrest someone based on international law. And the answer was very simplistically no. The United States doesn't even follow international law, so we wouldn't arrest someone on those grounds. We would arrest them on something that happened against us here, which we see all the time.

We would care much more about that than whatever the international community is telling us to care about. That's what makes us great as a country. That is what makes America so important. And I just wonder. And I said this, I think, the other day on this show, and I'll say it again.

I wonder how much this type of rhetoric goes, how much it impacts people to a degree that they could eventually be radicalized. And I always couch when I say something like that in saying that I'm a believer in free speech and I'm not trying to censor free speech, but I'm so annoyed sometimes to hear the left, and I've explained this to you before, but hear the left say that the right is radicalizing its base, that it's causing its base to do horrible, crazy stuff. When by and large, the people we've seen recently doing horrible, crazy things are on the left, and the rhetoric coming out of the left is intentionally insane. Um because again, Even though I'm more convinced than I was when this whole thing started that Zoran Mumdami actually thought he might have had an avenue to arrest Netanyahu and that it wasn't all political theater, only because of how long it took him to admit it. By and large, I still tend to think that he knew all along and he was doing all of this as performative and all the things that make politics so awful and terrible.

And honestly, the thing that makes people likely to be radicalized when they believe you and they wind up realizing you can't do the thing that you say that you were going to do and you blame someone else for it, even though you knew all along it couldn't happen. And then they want to take matters into their own hands. Honestly, I'm somewhat worried about the safety of Netanyahu while he's in New York, even though he will be protected by the Secret Service. All right, I'm going to move on to other things. I think this is interesting.

Abby Phillip was questioning if non-citizens voting in New York. Was really fraud. And Jake Tapper also said something amazing.

So I might as well play the Tapper audio too when it comes to this topic. But let's do Abby first. And Scott Jennings does his typical reaction to the insanity that comes out of that show on CNN. But here we go. Because they're trying to defraud the system.

They might have cast a ballot because they just weren't aware that they were incorrectly put on the voter. They weren't aware that they weren't a citizen of the United States. No, they didn't say that. They said in this instance that they weren't citizens. They were still voting.

Is this. accurately described as fraud when none of these people tried to Register to vote. Yes, they cast ballots. 400 of them cast ballots. They had to actively go do that.

I assume no one voted in their name. Maybe they did. I don't know. I love this idea that she's like, is this really even fraud at all? Maybe it's totally fine and we probably should have just accepted it.

And then more illegal people can vote and that'll be totally fine too. Like that's the extension of her thought. And what's amazing about it is it reminds me of any Instagram video or any sort of like TikTok video where someone pretends that they unwillingly do anything. Like my favorite ones is when someone eats unhealthy food when they were trying to eat healthy. Like they're sitting in front of a salad and then a brick hits them in the face and they wind up eating a hamburger.

There's versions of that out there. That's essentially what they're trying to say happened here. That a bunch of people who know they're not in this country with any right to be here accidentally voted. They got confused. They didn't know if maybe they were born an American citizen the whole time.

And so they voted for that reason or they were shoved down a flight of stairs and fell into a voting booth and then cast a ballot and then left all by accident. It's incredible to hear them say this, but this is the version of trying to make anything make sense on their side, the moving the goalposts, as it's often called, because there's no other route forward for the left to defend this. This is obviously fraud, and it's entirely connected to what President Trump talked about last week, that most broadcast news stations didn't even want to air. Here's Jake Tapper, though, which is an even better. Like, this is a chef's kiss version of the Is this even really a thing that's happening?

Because why would anybody do it? A question that's it's hilarious to hear them ask it. And to wonder how they could possibly pretend to say these things authentically. Here in the country illegally, And you get a letter saying that you can vote, and you know you're not supposed to, not only you're not supposed to vote, you're not supposed to be there. Why do you vote?

Like, how do you get registered for a party? Because some of that is. Why would you do any of that? I don't know. Here's the thing, the left is constantly promising the people who are here illegally a path to vote, a path to all kinds of stuff, and giving you free things along the way.

One of the biggest reasons that the Biden open door policy was so detrimental, not just to our country, but to the Democratic Party, because it became something that they tried to ignore for as long as they could until inevitably they couldn't, because the totality of the American people said, we don't want this. The left-leaning voters, I always use it as an example because I lived there a long time, the south side of Chicago. I was up in arms, angry about seeing an amount of money going to people who had no right to be here to like live in hotels and get free food. They thought that was insane.

Society, parts of society that thought they're often been neglected themselves and want government handouts couldn't possibly fathom how other people with less right were getting them than they were, because at least they're American citizens. And I understood that. And that's what... eventually made that topic such a big issue. And I think one of the big reasons that Trump did so well.

It's one of a few, but I think it's honestly one of the main things that the conservative side of the aisle had such a definitive win on. And we're right back into this world of, well, why would they vote? Oh, they would vote because they want to be here and they don't want to have to leave, and your side let them in, and your side says they don't have to leave. Like, of course they do that. Who wouldn't?

It's voting in self-interest. To be honest, I actually talk about this in another way. Whenever I have a conversation with people about why young individuals Young people, young voters often wind up voting Democratic. And you've probably heard the saying that when you're young, if you have a heart, you vote Democratic. And as you get older, if you have a brain, you vote Republican, you vote conservatively.

But the thing is. More and more, the obvious version of trying to buy someone's vote is out there. If you have a student loan, And you look at the two political parties and all the different things that you might say, you know what? I don't agree with them on this. They're kind of crazy.

They're pretty communist. Like all the things you would normally hate, but you're 19, 20, 21, and maybe not worried about things the way you should be quite yet in life. You don't have a house. You don't have kids. It's just you, and you're just making your way at the beginning of your life.

And one of the two political sides says, and by the way, all those loans you signed up for, Boom, we're gonna get rid of them. They're gone. You vote that way. You vote that way solely out of self-interest, and you don't really worry about anything else. It's the exact same thing.

with any ability for anyone in California or anywhere else to vote without the legal right to live in our country, to actually cast a ballot in an election would solely be for their own sake and their own benefit.

So how do you not understand that truthfully? And by the way, one other thing that I find funny. We talk about voting so often and passing the Save Act and voter ID being something that Americans all agree on. And this week, virally. People have been talking about how Olive Garden cards you if you get the pasta pass or whatever it's called, which is hilarious to me, that you cannot have the pasta pass without an ID.

And it's now become a thing, and the left is accusing the right of talking about stuff that's silly, and the right is accusing the left of easily misunderstanding how obvious a voter ID should be if Olive Garden uses it. But I do like this clip. It was put up by a lefty social media account, but it is yet another complaint about how crazy it is that we can't agree on if voter ID is racist or not, because the left claims it is in the world of voting in our elections. But a company that does not really make genuine Italian, this comes from an Italian. I like Olive Garden.

If they're an advertiser of the show, I probably love Olive Garden. But it doesn't make genuine Italian food. I'll tell you that. And they understand the need to have an ID. When you think about something like Save America, which is at the heart of democracy, just saying, show picture ID to vote.

For God's sake, you can't go get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID. Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote? Yeah, and I feel like Left's going to be like, you can't get unlimited pasta. You can go buy pasta without an ID, but it's not going to be unlimited unless you get the pasta pass and you throw that ID in there. This is amazing.

And again, I would actually recommend, and I'm only doing this because I don't know why I go into my New York accent. I'm from Jersey. I'm an Italian from Jersey. But I'll tell you that you should really just go to like little Italy or you should go to an actual Italian restaurant to have some good Italian food. If you want to bring the family somewhere a little bit cheaper, sure, Olive Garden's the right bet.

I don't think I'd ever be, I think I'd lose my Italian card. If I bought the pasta pass, but I'm not sure. You guys can let me know. I'm happy to be told that I can have all the pasta I want, because guess what? I do have an ID.

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My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you at D Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X. A great way to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If for some reason you want to follow me with way less fancy social media stuff, a couple of things out there that I do like: Jasmine Crockett claiming that not cheering for Argentina was rooted in racism. Which made no sense to me.

And then actually, Javier Becerra was talking about where you get a taco. In California. This was odd. Let's go ahead and hit play on this. Whether you are new to our state and visiting, and we hope you do spend some money.

And if you're going to buy a street taco, buy a real street taco, not something from one of these Yes. Yeah. I'll leave it at that. I don't even know what he just said there. I'm still very confused.

And he honestly looked like he was about to drop the F-bomb on the fake street tacos that he doesn't like. Whatever, you are new to our state and visiting, and we hope you do something. I'm passionate about tacos. And if you're going to buy a street taco, buy a real street taco, not something from one of these, you know. The camera.

I'll leave it at that. Why are you so mad, man? I live in Texas. We have something called Tex-Mex here, which is inspired by both Mexico and the United States. And I feel like Javier Becera, if he ever were forced to eat a Tex-Mex taco, I would be very, very upset about it.

And I'm actually also married to a Mexican, so I do understand that some things taste authentically like they're from that country, and some things taste like they're from here. I wonder what it's like to take Javier Becera to Taco Bell. Probably awful, I imagine, and especially now with the potential for explosive things to have gone up quite a bit more than before. But that's just hilarious to me that he's like, go get a real one. A darn it.

Thank you for the advice. Here is Jasmine Crockett saying that a rooting against Argentina in 2026 was rooted in racism. It's like the church lady yelling about Satan, but it's their version of it. It's everything is racism, anything is racism. Whoever it is saying this on the left that does it, and it's just crazy to think that so many things have to be couched in an issue.

You got to be racist, sexist, you got to be something. But here's the other thing that's funny to me. And I barely pay attention to soccer. I paid more attention in this World Cup than I've ever paid attention before. But I definitively know before I hit play on this audio why people were cheering for Argentina in 2022 and why they weren't cheering for them in 2026.

They wanted Lionel Messi to win one because he never had. And so most of society just four years ago seemed to be aggressively in favor of Argentina succeeding on a world stage. And like any other sport, anyone who actually pays attention to sports, to me, this is Jasmine Crockett showing you don't know ball, as they would say on social media. She doesn't watch sports, and this is how you show me without telling me. Because once you build someone up.

It's the quote from the Michael Jordan sneaker movie, Air. You then tear them back down. We do it all the time to everybody in sports. We want you to be incredible when you're the underdog, Rocky Balboa. And then the moment that you become the person expected to win or you've won a few times, a lot of people turn on you because they don't like the fact that you're getting all full of yourself now, whoever you are, whatever you're doing.

In saying that, that is the world of sports as a whole to everyone and anyone, regardless of their race. Apparently, not true for Jasmine Crockett. Here we go. The world that captured the imaginations of the entire world when they saw all of these people of color that was playing for all these teams. And ultimately, if you recall, the last two teams, it was Argentina and Spain.

And it seemed like the vast majority of the world was rooting for. Argentina, or actually against Argentina, right? And why was that? Just give me an explanation if you could guess. If you'll just let them finish the Spanish best team.

Maybe that's why they were rooting for them. There's also a racist history that exists. Oh, my God. Oh, it is. It feels like to me, whenever Church Lady yelled Satan, whenever people on the left, whoever they are, it doesn't have to be people that are black.

It's white people do this all the time too. Or they just yell out loud like it's racism or it's sexism or it's something. Again, go back to 2022 and look at how many people were cheering for Argentina to win. I guess we weren't racist then. We get confused as a society as to what years we are and what years we aren't racist people.

And actually, if I want to talk about race a little more, which as a white dude at 40, I don't always want to do, but darn it, sometimes you do it because it's what's in the news. And I'm not afraid to have these conversations and being afraid of them is what makes us terrible. What makes us incapable of all kinds of discussions. But Brandon Gill, the politician out of Texas. Absolutely torched somebody.

It's a white woman, by the way, that he was. Asking questions at a hearing to the director of the Smithsonian American History Museum.

So, this is white on white crime for anyone that wants to be up in arms for some other reason. But it's amazing, and it's all about race, and it's all about a document that the Smithsonian American History Museum uses to train people and to teach people all different kinds of things. And it has this long description of what white supremacy is and what characteristics of white supremacy typically are. And Brandon had a problem with some of the stuff in this document. And I do like, and I have the long form to play a couple minutes of this audio here, that we go a couple roads, the typical roads that someone who gets trapped in a logical argument that they don't like because they're losing, the other side is making a logical, you know, set of points as to how what you're saying is not true and what I'm saying is just factually true.

You have two choices then. The person defending themselves goes the road of, I didn't know anything about this, I'm naive, or they actually try to fight fire with fire. and disagree with everything. And that usually leads to something hilarious. We got a little bit of both.

As far as the choose your own adventure of how the director of the Smithsonian American History Museum chose to answer these questions from Brandon Gill. But I want to play, there's like four and a half minutes of this that went viral. I won't play all of that, but I'm going to give you a couple minutes and jump in as we go. You say that the goal of history is to be objective. Yeah.

The goal of history is to be objective. She is going to do a long pause here. Thank you, sir, for the question. You know, I think that there are many goals of history, and certainly as you collect as we do, examine evidence, create scholarships, doesn't that seem like the basics of these when these people who testify know that they're you know opposing a certain side of the political aisle.

So, when a Republican is asking them a question, they're so difficult. I don't mean to keep crapping on things that happen in my own relationship. I love my wife for anyone that listens to the show and think I've made too many jokes about it. But this feels similar to me to asking her where she wants to go to eat. Every time for dinner, if we're ever going to go out and not make food at home, which luckily we don't really do that often anymore.

But if I ask her, like, where do you want to go? It's this level of challenge that you have. Seems a little bit concerning. It certainly does to me because, as part of this white supremacy document that your organization has promoted. Objectivity is a core and defining aspect of white supremacy culture.

Do you think that it's the goal of the Smithsonian Institution to promote white supremacy culture? And so now there's going to be a bunch of. Sir, do you mind sharing with me which document? White supremacy culture right here. This is part of the mass action toolkit that your organization has promoted for several years now under your leadership.

Now there's going to be another pause, some writing, some thinking, some watching. Are you promoting a white supremacy culture at the Smithsonian? Are you? Just answer the question. Why is it taking so long?

Am I promoting a waiting?

Okay, repeating. Damn, is this a difficult question? No, sir. I'm just thinking about the mass action toolkit. We didn't develop it, but.

Back to your question, no, we're not promoting any ideology. It's crazy that that took like 30 seconds right there, too, where you're repeating the question. Again, this feels very similar to: do you want to go to this restaurant or that one? And the wife being like, Do I want to go to that one? If they repeat it, the answer is no.

By the way, I have learned that in my relationship continuing. Your goal is objectivity. One of your goals is objectivity in your mass action toolkit. References objectivity as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture? It's not our toolkit.

It is your toolkit. You've been promoting it for quite some time. We did not come up with a toolkit, sir. I love this too. I don't mean to interrupt it so much, I just can't help it.

They use the toolkit. They've used this since 2019. They train staff based on the information that's within this document. They didn't write it.

So that was her big defense right here: is that even though we've adopted it and use it, and he never actually accused them of creating it. He just said that they promote it. This is part of the back and forth. This is the version of, I want to win a very specific semantic argument so I don't actually have to answer the broad, general question that you've given me that's much harder for me to defend myself on. It is used as a reference, I believe, probably in 2019, 2020.

Under your leadership, it has been used as a reference. Mickey Mouse is not racist. It's not racist. According to the Smithsonian Institution, one of your exhibits referenced Mickey Mouse as representing, quote, vestiges of long-standing traditions of blackface minstrelsy. Would you describe that as racist?

No, the historical trajectory of the origins of Mickey Mouse tied directly to Mickey Mouse is rooted in racism. Racemos are. It's rooted in minstrely.

Okay. Minstrelsy, and you don't think the blackface minstrelsy is racist? Yes, it is. It had certain obvious reactions. See, that's the moment.

I feel like this too, and I don't mean to keep comparing it to my relationship, but it's easy to do because one person is definitely trying to be difficult for the sake of being difficult and not just have an honest conversation to make things easier. But this is the moment, too, where you know that you're no longer arguing because there's a disagreement about the thing you're talking about. You're arguing because the person is kind of mad at you because they're starting to argue stuff that they normally would agree to. When you say, is minstrelsy itself racist? The answer is obviously yes, but for some reason the answer for her is that have been well documented.

Do you think that that's problematic, that Mickey Mouse also has those racial overtones? It's not for me to determine what's problematic, it's determined to me what's accurate. Is that right? Is it important to be polite? One last one.

Is it important to? Yes, sir. It's also interesting because the same mass action toolkit that your organization has been promoting references. Politeness as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am, are you a white supremacist?

Oh my God. Hmm, no, sir. I love my favorite part, too. The hmm, no, sir, because that's when you know she's actually absolutely so, so angry. White supremacist.

Hmm, no, sir. No, I'm not, sir. How dare you, sir? But that it's just funny. All of that to me.

I know that's a long play of a piece of audio that I thought was a brilliant takedown of the logic of a discussion because he's not actually trying to talk about race for the sake of race, which I think a lot of people do. He's not trying to talk about the way in which this organization runs itself for a political stunt. He's doing it because it's very easy to dive into the world of the actual thought process behind the things you choose to train your staff on and how they're flawed. And how it's odd to say that someone who is polite, who cares about accuracy and historical research and information, that those things somehow are also white supremacy. And that, oh, yeah, by the way, Mickey Mouse is a racist, which I've never felt from him.

I never got that gist ever. Watching the Mickey Mouse Club, it never hit me. I guess I needed the Smithsonian to tell me about it. Quick break, a little more coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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I want all the fraud to be found. I want all the fraudsters to be arrested. That is something that President Trump promised us. On the campaign trail, a doge and other people promised us that too. And guess what?

This is the most important part of what I'm about to say. It is happening. People are getting in trouble. They are getting arrested for fraud. A lot of fraud is being uncovered and a lot of it is being stopped.

And in some cases, we're even getting to claw back taxpayer dollars that were given to horrible organizations that do all this stuff. A case in point, Fox and Friends. I think that was this morning. They were talking about another foreign national who was arrested, one of the top wanted fraudsters, who I think is alleged to have billed half a billion dollars. in fraudulent uh Medicare charges.

$457 million. These are the people that make Dr. Evo look like he could actually exist in our society. For anyone that remembers the reference, that might be pretty dated now, and I can't help it. Here we go.

There was another person who was nabbed who's on this list. It's alleged that he has $547 million in Medicaid fraud. He's a fugitive overseas and he was apprehended in the Middle East. He was returned to the United States on July 21st yesterday. He was carrying a fake Mexican passport under a false name.

He has these labs and he's billing Medicare for unnecessary cancer genetic tests each. Each time he is fraudulent, he's charging the government $10,000 to $20,000. And now he is a. multi-millionaire because of this. Check out this list.

Yeah, go ahead. I mean, look at some of the people. I know it's television and not radio.

Well, I know I'm doing radio. They're doing TV, so I can't actually have you look at all of this, but they have a list of like 14, 15 people, all of them with millions of dollars and some tens of millions, and in one case, or two cases, actually, hundreds of millions of dollars that they defrauded from our government and mostly our medical, our Medicare industry. What's crazy about this, too, is that this is in the world of cancer. Like, I know that it's already horrible, but it's even more so when a person like this does something like this. The guy's name is Khalid Ahmed Satari, I think.

I might not be saying that correctly. But anyway, 2019, charged with healthcare fraud, conspiracy, allegedly stealing $547 million for years, then went on the run. We ignored him for a while, and now we have finally caught him, which thank God. And this is the thing. that I think you hear about sometimes.

For people that say that they're upset, that they're not getting what they want in the world of the current administration in power, that they voted for Trump and it's not lived up to the expectation. These are the scalps of the bad guys being caught. And I don't know why it doesn't get more pub. I know why it doesn't get more pub in the world of mainstream left-leaning liberal media, but more pub with the conservatives. Because I think we all need to acknowledge this and say, all right, there are some good things happening.

They're better than what we've seen before. And they do deserve some level of, I voted for that. I wanted that. I'm glad this is occurring. No, it's not the high-profile names yet.

No, I don't think that we'll actually respond the way that we should to the success that's going on in the world of fighting fraud until a name that you and I know. Actually, it gets thrown in the huskow, whether that's Tim Walls or Ilhan Omar or whoever it might be. But for now, I think it is important to at least point out. the amount of things that are going well in the world of fighting and trying to prevent this, especially Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

is doing a great job in outing a lot of the medical fraud that exists. All right, let's play some audio of Senator or Secretary, excuse me, Marco Rubio. He was talking about how the U.S. does not want to become a communist country. Of course, we don't want that.

Many, many Democrats, including several that are running for office in the midterm elections, seem hell-bent on the opposite. And they want to call it. Democratic socialism, but inevitably, we all know, even Bill Maher knows what it actually is.

Well, again, what the president put out on Thursday was the declassification of documents from our intelligence community. That's what he put out. He declassified intelligence assessments from our intelligence community. But your question was about communist influence. Yeah, the United States doesn't want to be a communist country.

We're never going to be a communist country. And we're not going to allow communist influences to undermine our politics or our society.

So I don't know what the inconsistency you're referring to is. It's very clear. Obviously, we understand the Chinese system and other systems. But I can tell you our system doesn't want communism. And we're certainly not going to allow communist efforts to undermine American society and drive wedges into our country.

And that's what we're seeing. And by the way, one of the leading culprits of that for many years, the intellectual authors, particularly in our hemisphere, is the Cuban regime, which was of course. Cuba is one of a few historical and terrible examples of how bad communism can be. What I think is really interesting and obvious to a lot of us is how often the people that are doing the bad thing accuse the other side of doing that thing. Like the communists are the ones that are yelling, stop being communist to President Trump, stop being a dictator to a person who struggled to get a ballroom built because of how little he actually is, in fact, a dictator in this country currently.

And they're the ones who are also advocating to buy up all the resources. They want the government to own all of the. Production mechanisms, all of the different industries in ways that would be devastating to the actual version of society we live in, the capitalist society we live in. And more importantly, it would consolidate power in a way that would make them even more dangerous and terrible. They all know that, and they all keep saying that they want that.

And they're telling you it's to protect you. from the bad guys who are in fact the the Nazis, uh even though At least one of them actually had a Nazi tattoo. That's the craziest. I always think about that. I shouldn't.

And I know that Graham Plattner is now finally gone. It took Democrats a while, but just like apparently Zoran Mumdami admitting that he can't arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, it took a bit. For Democrats to acknowledge the thing that was obvious to the rest of us. But that is the craziest thing. Like if you get in an argument with somebody on the left and they start calling you a fascist or Trump a fascist, and in the back of your brain, you're thinking about how close they came to trying to elect someone with a literal Nazi tattoo on their body.

Like that's, it's just nuts. All right, I want to move on to this. Texas Representative Brandon Gill is quickly becoming a pretty, I think, big name in the world of politicians you might not have heard about, but maybe you've heard a little something about. He's a rising star, I think, within the Republican Party and certainly within Texas politics. And the reason why.

And you've seen this before. Other politicians have done a great job at this in the past. He just absolutely annihilates people in these hearings. The latest person to wind up in a conversation with Brandon Gill that she probably didn't want to have. Was the Smithsonian, excuse me, director of, I think, American History.

Dr. Athea Hardig, and some of this stuff, and I'm actually going to jump in because there's a point where he asks if being polite is white supremacy, because a document that the Smithsonian Institution of American History has long championed and used, and training staff has been kind of forced to read through it. But this document that they're very, very pro says a lot of insane things. And it seems to make almost anything into something that's a vehicle to being a white supremacist.

So, Brandon Gill just asked her the question. He goes, This is in one of the things that you seem to most promote within your organization. Do you actually agree with the assessments being made by it? And I love, I'll say one last thing before I hit play on the audio. I love when someone on the left is caught.

Or someone crazy is caught in a logical argument like this, because they have to make one of two decisions, it's always the same. The first decision is pleat ignorance. They pretend they have no idea what's being talked about. They pretend it's not a big deal, that no one actually uses it. It's not theirs, some version of that.

Or two, the opposite, they try to defend it, which you see a lot less of. You definitely see a version of: I'm going to try to fight fire with fire. Way less often because it's so much harder. But in this case, in this example, it seems that this person, this left-leaning leader of the Smithsonian, Actually, did try in her brain to fight the argument that Brandon Gill was making in a way that seemed surreal. Here, I'll show you, we'll play it, and then you'll get what I'm saying.

Here we go. Is Mickey Mouse racist? Yeah. Mickey Mouse is not racist. It's not racist.

According to the Smithsonian Institution, one of your exhibits referenced Mickey Mouse is representing, quote, vestiges of long-standing traditions of blackface minstrelsy. Would you describe that as racist? No, the historical trajectory of the origins of Mickey Mouse tied directly in racism. Is that your testimony? Minstrelsy, and you don't think that black-faced minstrelsy is racist?

And it's certainly an obvious racial overtones.

Okay, that is my favorite part because there were other moments in this conversation where she was trying to just pretend she had no idea what the stuff was that he was referencing, where he was getting his information, essentially trying to discredit him and not have an argument at all. But in this one topic, she went the other road. She went the road of, well, I don't really know. I'm smarter than you. It's kind of a complicated issue.

And I love this last part of it where he goes, are you sure that you want to say the thing that you're saying right now, the way that you're saying it? Or do you kind of want to take it back? Mickey Mouse, is rooted in racism. Is that your testimony? Sure, it's rooted in minstreling.

Minstrelsy, and you don't think the blackface minstrelsy is racist? The right answer to that question, by the way, yes. It is. Is Mickey Mouse racist? No.

We could have avoided this whole thing if I said no at the beginning. But now that we're here, I probably should say yes to this. That'd be a no from her. It had certain unobvious racial overtones that have been well documented. Do you think that that's problematic, that Mickey Mouse also has those racial overtones?

It's not for me to determine what's problematic, it's determined to me what's accurate. Yeah, but then you actually had a whole thing at the Smithsonian that talked about how this was not exactly okay and it was bad, et cetera, et cetera.

So there's just so much of that, honestly. You see this all the time. The left gets caught in their own logical loop and how failed and terrible it is, and they get mad when you point it out to them. This is the version of like women shouldn't play in men's sports that for some reason is a bigger issue than it is. And here, I'll say this before I take a break.

Sometimes the left gets obsessed with the way that the right or the way that conservatives argue their topics. Essentially meaning they accuse us of obsessing about something that they only care a little bit about. Like, come on, we don't need to debate this all the time. You're sexist because you're the one who keeps bringing it up. The reason it gets talked about so much on the conservative side of these discussions is because it's so easy to prove how ridiculous it is.

It's like arguing with a child some of the times when you're doing it. And there's a temptation in the back of the mind to just keep going because you're like, I just, I don't know how we've even gotten here in the world in which we live and the logical ways in which we're hoping your brain also works, but apparently it doesn't.

So I think that's why some of those topics to the left seem like they're an obsession of the right. And to the right, they're just the easiest path to go to demonstrate that we all need to come back to the world of sanity. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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There's a lot of home anyway. It doesn't matter. Not a sports show. 22% of people never use AI in a study that came out recently. A whole lot of people, way more than 22%, say that they're incredibly worried about AI being used.

in the dating world. Essentially, a lot of people are scared that they're interacting with AI until they actually get into a place with a human. And I don't think it's just like a catfish version of being afraid, like that the person you're talking to is going to be way less attractive than you thought they were going to be. They're also just not going to be as smooth. Although I'll tell you, anytime I've ever been told that like AI is good at something, when you inevitably go look, there's reasons to think that they're not exactly great at it yet.

Like there's cracks in the armor, I guess is the right way to say it.

So I feel like, and I'm a guy who's been married for a while and hopefully not chatting in a romantic way with AI without me knowing. That'd be something if the missus has been using it. But nonetheless, like, I feel like you could figure it out. I feel like if it was AI all the time talking back to you, you might eventually be like, all right, this, this isn't a person. But who knows?

But people are worried about that. A lot of young people are worried about AI and its impact on the workplace. I do find it interesting. Anyone I work with who's a twenty something, and you have producers in that range of age in the world of radio, a lot of them are very proficient in AI already. And a lot of the rest of us, I think, are getting much better at it or use it enough.

But all the people in the world that most say that they're afraid of it taking away their opportunities also seem to be the people that are best at using it.

So I don't know if that means that they've embraced the thing they don't like and they're just capable in a world where nobody else is. But for example, I work with somebody who's not in that age range, who's a little bit older. I won't say how much older. And anytime you make anything, they look at you and you're like, oh, you told AI to do that? And it's like, well, no, I actually created this thing on my own.

I should have gone to AI is what I think is a 40-year-old man, but I didn't. I actually know how to mix some audio and things myself. And I find that funny too, that there's this gap. Of people and discussions in the world of it. And honestly, one last thing I'll say about it.

A ridiculous amount now of videos have a very obvious AI thumbnail, which is fine, but we're all doing the same thing. We're all doing the face of one, two, three people, and then some sort of image in the background that AI created and like a phrase. And I wonder how impactful that'll be if every video all over the internet has the same thing as far as the thumbnail goes. And ChatGPT is working overtime to create them all. But we'll see.

It's not too, I like them. It's just interesting they're so out there. The nostalgic smell of video stores is something that people were talking about on the internet. I think Mental Floss had this story, and I thought this was hilarious. The things that you most remember from walking into like a blockbuster to rent a movie on a Friday night, stale popcorn was one of the things, if your movie theater even had it, and they didn't just sell like the thing that you go microwave at home in the bucket.

Overheated plastic is another thing that a lot of people said that you could smell often when you walked into the video store, which I agree with, and a bunch of young people have no idea what this is like. Carpet cleaner and vacuums. They did seem to carpet clean and vacuum a lot. Which I never wanted to know the reason why. And then finally, like printed paper is something that they said that people could smell a lot when they walked into the video store.

I don't remember that one as much, but I feel like it kind of makes sense that, yeah, maybe they're just doing some things. They're printing out some covers for all of the different movies that you're actually selecting, going back and watching. But I love that that went viral because nostalgia is something I'm always a fan of. And then finally, one last thing that I thought was interesting. A recent social media post went viral because it asked a very simple question.

Are uh women beholden to certain water bottle brands? Like the water bottle brands have a hold on the ladies and not the men in our society. Whether this is Stanley, Hydro Flask was mentioned here. And actually, they even went back into it and looked at like previous generations and how maybe people gravitated, at least throughout the early 2000s, to specific brands and even further than that. And I do think that's funny because I'm a married guy who occasionally gets confused as to why we have another water bottle in that.

Like I don't know how many we need. I feel like it's very similar. I'm going to get in trouble for saying this on the radio, but to my confusion sometimes at the amount of shoes that wind up in my house because I've always felt like we had enough shoes and somehow, someday, there's more shoes. And they're not mine. None of them are mine.

The same seems to be true about water bottles, just less so. I think it's only a couple that get added a year, but I don't know how much water we need to drink. It's just my wife and I. But I do think that there might be a stranglehold there. And by and large, I like that my wife buys the cheap ones.

She's not buying the super fancy. Fancy $40 water bottle. She's finding the cheap one at the like thrift store or something at the Marshalls. But still, from personal experience, and that's all I can go on here with the question the internet is asking that a lot of people virally are answering: yes. It seems that there is some sort of control.

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I keep mentioning that I also follow her on TikTok. And I have like five people that I follow on TikTok. She's one of them. I barely do the TikTok because I just called it the TikTok. At Radio Craig C.

If for some reason you want to follow me as well, not going to be as good as the social media for her, but I'd love it if you do. It'd make me feel good about myself. Anyway, and these fill-in shifts. Anyway, a couple quick things. The New York Post is a place that I often go to find what I describe as lifestyle topics.

And while one of these is pretty funny, the other one is very emotionally hard-hitting.

So, just warning you going in for anybody that's ever had an experience like a part of it. Like, the New York Post came out of nowhere with one of their topics that I found for today. But, first, during an outbreak of explosive diarrhea, in which I think authorities, the FDA, I like that I just called them authorities, have. Probably pinpointed it to lettuce as the culprit and maybe Taylor Farms lettuce, although some tests have said no, and probably the Taylor Farms people are saying no. Who knows?

But anyway, as all this is going on in the world of your health and your bowels, apparently a list of the safest foods to buy at the store has gone viral. These are things that are very unlikely to ever contain any sort of trigger to explosive diarrhea. I'm never going to simplify my diet to the point of the items that are listed here because a lot of great stuff is missing. But I did find that funny that if someone's really terrified of this and they didn't hoard enough toilet paper during COVID to get through it, that maybe they go the road of just buying these things at the grocery store. A dry pasta.

Oats, breakfast cereal, flour after it's baked or cooked. Crackers, pretzels, bread, and sugar. We're all at the top end of the list, not sugar that goes in certain stuff, but just sugar in general. Continuing on, these are the things safest to consume that won't, in fact, have explosive diarrhea likely to be tied to them: salt, honey, cooking oils, vinegar, shelf-stable canned soups, shelf-stable boxed milk, and finally, pasteurized dairy products. That's it.

You probably thought I wasn't going to do the whole list, but I decided to because if it didn't get mentioned there, then apparently the list that's going viral on social media says. Odds of explosive diarrhea are at least not zero. And so it's up to you if you want to take that risk, if you want to go that road. I definitely do, because all that stuff alone is not enough for me to be happy. There's a whole lot of things missing that I love a whole lot.

But anyway, I just thought that was funny that at a time when people probably overly concern themselves with what's in the news, including even stories like this, that the way they're trying to go about it is a tad extreme. And then here's the other one. I mentioned this a second ago. It's a New York Times article that came out, I think, yesterday. It says: one-third of parents.

uh that have estranged children. believe that therapy is to blame. For that problem, a survey of 7,000 parents who said they are estranged from their kids, whether they have one or more than one kid, said that at some point they believe a therapist working with their child gave them the advice to stay the heck away. From mom, dad, or both in any variety, and say that that's a problem.

Now, if you dive even deeper into this story, it says that a whole lot of people now, young people, are estranged from their family. Like it's a pretty common thing, especially estranged from your parents. And the article goes on, I think from a study out of the University of Minnesota to say that part of it is a, quote, hyper-fixation on trauma. And this means essentially that people feel harmed and that maybe your therapist is telling you that it's all your parents' fault.

So because of all of that, you just cut everybody out.

Now I'll say something as a person who's had kind of a unique life. In the world of family and whatnot, and I won't get into it here, that there are reasons that this does make sense and reasons that this don't. And so I've always believed that even though family is family and by and large, you should try to find a way to work things out, that there is a point where people can step over a line and that line might be one that you can't get your way back from. But I do think it's interesting that the numbers are so high and that so many people believe that some therapist said, well, if they're hurting you, just never talk to them again. Because I feel like at least attempting to resolve some conflict is probably a better road than never trying that at all.

At least hop on the phone, have the conversation, maybe tell the person, whoever they are, that you might be done with them, as weird as that might be to say, but give them a shot first. Don't just essentially disappear into the ether. That seems odd to me. But talk about a hard-hitting story popping up in the lifestyle section of the New York Post. Thanks a lot for that, guys.

And if my advice and advice you thought was terrible, that's totally fine. I take it with a grain of salt like I do everything filling in on the show. Thanks for being here. Thrilled to be with you. Actually, back tomorrow, Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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