Absurd Truth: Fox News' Bret Baier Joins Us

And my granddaughter, who's playing college sports, I asked her about this when we had this two years ago and she said, you know what, if a trans woman was competing against me in the sport, and that just means if that person is better than me, I need to work harder. Oh my goodness. You know, had somebody told you back in the 80s that this would be one of the defining culture war issues of the day, I know you would be shaking your hand, say you're not, you're crazy, what type, what alternative universe you come from? No, that is the United States of America today. I'm Sergio Sanchez and for my friend Dana Lash, this is The Dana Show. We're reporting to you from South Texas, Rio Grande Valley of Texas, still Texas, north of the border. Attention all Dana Show listeners and family and friends and anyone that you can reach in your circle of influence. You want this madness, this cultural upheaval, this lunacy, this craziness. You want it to stop. What you need to stop doing is voting for Democrats. That was the voice of Wisconsin Democrat state representative talking about how girls getting beaten sports. They just need to work harder to catch up to the boys with thicker muscles and bone structure and just taller and have a longer reach with their arms and legs.

You need to work harder in order to beat them boys. That's just beyond stupid. I know that audio is going to qualify for the stupid audio of the day. Stick around for the next hour of the program. And if your affiliate does not carry all three hours of The Dana Show, then speak with the program director so that you do it and stay up to speed on breaking news of the day and great commentary.

Just a lot of fun on The Dana Show. Next hour, I got our friend Bret Baier from the Fox News Channel. Yes, time to sell more books. He's got a book that hopes to focus on how we can save the country, save through the Constitution more stories related to George Washington.

But I called Bret, yes, sell books, but I called him because I identify with where he is in life. He's got a 16-year-old. I have a 16-year-old. I also have an 11-year-old. He's also got a younger kid. Dana's babies are slightly older than mine, but also kind of there in the same neighborhood. Bret Baier's baby, his 16-year-old, went through four heart surgeries. He's doing real good these days.

So I get an update and listen to that update coming up next hour of The Dana Show. All right, Steve, let's do some Florida Man. It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

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From Fox News Channel, he's the anchor and director, and he's the face, the voice of Special Report Weekdays. Brett, appreciate your time today. And I know we just have a- Thanks for having me back. Yes, sir. We have just a few minutes, but you know me. Every time I see you, brother, every time I see you, I think of your son, Paul.

And that's why- I know we got to sell books. We got to sell books, but I want to get an update on Paul. How old is he now? 15, 16? How old is he? Thanks, Brett.

Yeah, thank you for asking. He's 16, and he is 6'4 surgery. I am really happy that he looks like me.

Otherwise, I would say, who is this child? But he's doing fantastic. He plays on the varsity golf team, and he's thriving.

So I really appreciate you asking every time, and I love coming back to your show. Yeah, I ask Brett. You guys know Brett's been very public, he and his wife, his family, of Paul's heart issues. As a baby, he survived like four surgeries, right? At least four, right? Yeah, four open-heart surgeries and ten angioplasty. Yeah, he's doing awesome.

Terrific. All right, so in the deep dive that you did in order to get some more information on George Washington, what was new that you learned in all the research? Yeah, listen, it's called To Rescue the Constitution, George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment.

And Sergio, you remember these books. This is the fifth one, and I take kind of a soda straw look at a moment in history and then bounce back and show how a leader gets there. And this look is after the Revolutionary War, beat the British. However, the country's kind of falling apart. They have the Articles of Confederation that are supposed to link everybody together, but it's not working. And everybody's fighting each other, and they're fighting tax collectors.

And some people are saying, let's go back to British rule. And at that moment in the summer of 1787 is when the Constitutional Convention starts in Philadelphia and they call it off and they need somebody to run it. And they turn to George Washington, who was the steady, thoughtful presence. And he was really the reliable voice that tries to find common ground and eventually gets these dissenting voices to gather around this document. But honestly, it's still the best legal document in the world, providing liberty.

And this is a narrative that puts you in the room. And hopefully it'll, it'll show some, shed some light back on how we were found. Yeah, we're so far removed from just the basic truths and ideas that were very well researched by our founding fathers. We're, I mean, I could argue that many of the people were a shadow of what we were meant to be. We got all these federal agencies and departments passing policy, which in essence is law, all these edicts, all that unconstitutional stuff taking place.

The power of the Supreme Court over pretty much everything, which was kind of flipped early on, I think early 1800s and early decisions. I don't know, man. You know, we've been through hard times before. Obviously, the bloodshed and division, you know, civil war, the Great Depression, all the stress, world wars, communism, 9-11. I think I've asked you this before, but I want to hear from you again, because we see the nation so divided right now. From the effort of herding cats up in DC in the US House to try to get a new speaker to overall the cultural and moral, what else, political, military, economic stress that we're under.

For our kids, for your boys, for my boys, I got a 16 year old and an 11 year old. Do you think our republic survives to the end of the century? Or is there a new world order? And I'm asking some pretty big stuff right now. Yeah, it is a big question. But I actually think that this book helps get your head around that. I know we're super divided.

We're super partisan. There are really talk about a lot of issues there that, you know, people are really concerned about. And there's a feeling of decline and almost dread at some times. Researching and writing this book, I'll be honest, it really did give me a sense of hope, not because the birth of our nation went so smoothly, but because it didn't go smoothly. And it was chaotic and driven by dissent.

And the whole thing almost collapsed numerous times. And that's what you see in this book. And the lesson is, you know, we shouldn't fear dissent. It's a valued principle, an open exchange of ideas, and dissent is baked in our cake.

And so is union. Our job is to kind of mesh dissent and union. And that's what Washington taught us. And hopefully, you know, I have hope, but it's a dark time. It can be. Well, we need solid leadership too.

We need a George Washington of these days. Thank you, Brett. Best to you, your wife, and your babies, your big boys. Thank you, Brett. All right.

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Yeah, the first one is to figure out who you want as leader. Welcome to The Dana Show. I'm Sergio Sanchez and for my friend Dana broadcasting to you from what I refer to her for her is her Southern Command here in South Texas.

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Yeah, that's Steve Scalise taking his name out of the running. It's like the test right now for any candidate that wishes to be the next Speaker of the House, any Republican who wishes to be the next Speaker of the House, you need to prove immediately that you can herd cats, that you can bring in what is it like just a little bit over a handful of the ultra conservative and I agree with them by the way, the mega minded, America first minded conservatives, you know, cut spending. I'm okay with shut down the government for a certain amount of time. We need to rein in spending when we need less government. I'm good with all that.

I'm good. The thing is, and I know Dana has been addressing this and same thing on my show. We just we never had the numbers. We don't have the Senate. We definitely don't have the White House. I don't even know if Democrats have the White House.

Some leftist communists have the White House. Joe Biden ain't running things. He's just the puppet. He's just the meat puppet.

In the US House, we have what is it like half dozen, maybe eight? In transition conservative, we're not going to budge, we're not going to move. And my goodness. Now, when I saw this thing that Matt Gaetz did, and see, Kev Mac, as I lovingly referred to him, Kevin McCarthy, when he agreed with the the super right of center, super conservative lawmakers that some of our neighbors sent to Washington, D.C. and thank you for sending them because they need to make an argument on behalf of our children, our grandchildren, all this crazy spending that's taking place, you know, rein in government. That's good.

The thing is, we never had the numbers. But, you know, Kevin Mac agreed. Okay, we'll put a poison pill in there.

One lawmaker can call to remove me if you guys want. And he did. It was Matt Gaetz.

And for a moment there, I saw what Matt Gaetz, you know, he just threw everything into chaos. Okay, fine. Let's see where this goes. And then everything blows up in Israel because of the anti-Semitic Hamas group attacking Israel. And now, you know, some of the legislation I hear that they're working on two billion dollars for the Iron Dome.

They need to put some more missiles in that Iron Dome to blow these Hamas missiles out of the skies are coming inbound or some of the missiles coming in from the North from Hezbollah as well. They kind of need to hurry up on that, which I just said. They can't even decide who's speaker.

They can't even decide when they decide on the rules. Okay, let's go for Steve Scalise. And then at the time when they want to bring everything to the floor vote. So, oh, I'm not voting for Steve Scalise after all.

Guys, you need to get it together. And I'm just going to throw this out there because the Democrats always do when it comes to Republicans. In rare form, the Republicans sometimes stay together. Let's say Obamacare, for example, not a single vote, things like that. Well, you know, the Democrats will say, well, they're not working on behalf of the American people. Look at, you know, how they not a single one of them voted to protect Americans when it came to providing health care options, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Well, same thing on the Democrat side. Hakeem, not the dream, the actual nightmare Jeffries, Hakeem the nightmare Jeffries telling his Democrat lawmakers not to, don't you dare stray from this reservation. Not a single one of you, don't you dare vote with the Republicans and don't you promise not to vote.

See, some of this will be solved right now. If a few of the purple district and some of these Democrats who know they belong to swing congressional districts, about 30 or 40 different lawmakers who belong to swing districts, the ones that are most purple-ish, maybe leaning towards red. I think some of those should consider their political skin and forget what Hakeem the nightmare Jeffries wants. They should say to the Republicans, you guys decide on one person. You guys get close, I'm not going to vote because that's all it would take. It's just going to take a few Democrats to say we're not voting.

Okay, don't worry about us. You guys can decide the new speaker on just the majority. But they're not doing that.

They're not thinking of America. They're not thinking about the process that needs to be restarted up in D.C. about, I don't know, $2 billion for the Iron Doman and negotiations on government spending or cuts. You know, it's not going to be cuts, but spending where the clock is ticking is not down to what, 30 days now?

And less than 30 days for the next, which more than likely will be a continuing resolution on spending up in D.C.? Jim Jordan pulls, supports Steve Kelis. Steve Kelis can't hurt cats in a hurry.

Steve Kelis pulls. Matt Gaetz, you own it, brother. This is your mess. You own it. Congratulations, Matt. Congratulations. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.