Thursday June 20 - Full Show

This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be here with you for the day. And actually, I'll be back again tomorrow. And then Dana is back next week.

Lots and lots of things out there in the world to discuss, including an absolutely awful song from the star of some Star Wars TV show or something that's out there. I'm going to play that audio a little bit later on. But let's go to this first: debate. Everybody's talking about what's going to be happening in the debate about a week from now. The president of the United States is holed up at Camp David, probably being prepped over and over again on the most basic of things, and then from time to time, maybe shot up with amphetamines or other stuff.

And then given practice rounds of said debate. But let's play this audio. This is CBS News prepping us for the shocks, the awes, the craziness that's going to happen a week from today. But I'm also told that we should expect some surprises as well because this is such a critical performance for President Biden, not only on the content, but on his physical performance. Yeah, if he says words right or if he says words wrong, if things go terrible, which a lot of people are expecting, it is interesting to think that in the first debate last year, or excuse me, not last year, last cycle, so 2020, you had Trump interrupting Biden a lot and people saying, I think even recently, that Trump even regrets how often he jumped in.

But I would think you'd want to do it a lot. I know they're going to cut off the microphones and make it impossible, but that would rattle the current president more than anything else would is just throw him off a little bit.

So we'll see if that happens. We'll see what else happens. I saw that it looks like Biden's plan, at least according to some, is to lean into January 6th, which will be annoying to a lot of people that don't care about that anymore. I don't think a lot of Americans put that high on their list any longer. And Biden, when he does that, might hear back from Trump about, well, Hunter and all the stuff Hunter's been going through.

Biden may also target Trump for being a quote-unquote convicted felon, which is a sort of ridiculous thing. And honestly, you don't have to be a giant Trump fanboy to admit that. And when I say it's a ridiculous thing, sometimes the people who are the Trump haters, the derangement syndrome people, they get out the pitchforks and they scream and yell and they go, how dare you? He's been convicted.

Well, he was found guilty in Manhattan of what is typically a misdemeanor crime. And most likely, if it is overturned at some point by a higher court, most likely to be found to be ridiculous that it was inflated to a felony charge.

So I hope Trump does well in responding to that. I think he might, but we will see. That debate is coming up a week from today, as I said, and there is a no-fly alert around Joe Biden and his seven-day prep time at Camp David. You know, if I was a real crazy tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist, I would be making sure that no one who looks eerily like Biden is sneaking into Camp David so that that guy can come out and do the debate. But I'm not that guy.

I don't think the doppelganger is a thing that we can really pull off in our society these days. I know some people do. I'm not judging you. I'm just saying if I see anybody that looks a lot like Biden, I might believe that much. Yeah.

RFK Jr. did fail to qualify for the CNN debate. He also wasn't invited. That was one of the president's rules. And I've said this a couple times.

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But anyway, to get back to it. I think in the third debate, the debate that Biden has said he's going to refuse, he's only doing two, and this is the earliest one we've ever seen in a presidential cycle, if that continues, if Biden says I'm only doing two debates, I won't do a third one with you, I think Trump should debate RFK Jr. I think he should put pressure on Biden to show up at that by demonstrating his differences from someone who may or may not cannibalize votes from both candidates, but also willingly have him in a conversation, which is what Biden is terrified to do. And I might assume that that would create pressure strong enough for Biden to show up at that third debate with RFK Jr. there, but who knows?

And if this first debate goes as terribly as some expect it to go, although we all expected the State of the Union to also go terribly and it didn't, shockingly didn't. And cocaine, I think is what Trump joked about recently being maybe the reason for that. By the way, real quick, before I play any other audio, the vice president is going to be traveling. For some reason, I'm not really sure why. She's hitting the road or hit the road earlier this week.

She has events in Maryland and Arizona. She's going to be talking about all kinds of stuff, probably also telling you again and again that we cannot be unburdened by what has been, and we have to be some blah, blah, blah on what the future will be. I don't remember the whole quote, but she says it so much.

So they're sending Harris out off into the ether, and they're putting Biden in a hole for a week, and they're really, really confident. In their capabilities. All right, another thing I have out there, I just thought this was interesting.

Now, this is going viral all over the place. And to be honest, it's actually kind of old. I think this might have been on TV yesterday because it was Juneteenth, but I think it was first on TV maybe over a year ago. It's an episode of New Amsterdam, I think. I don't watch this show.

And the premise of the episode is that a young black teenager has tumors that were caused by racism. I'm not making this up. It's going viral today, probably because people are finding it hilarious. The premise of this, the ridiculousness, the wokeness of this, I'll go ahead and play a little bit of the audio. I don't know how these actors don't laugh through this scene.

Like, I don't know how you can do this seriously unless someone has brainwashed you to think that this is actually something that could happen. Here we go. Make yourself comfortable. There's a couch over there. Is he okay?

Yeah, yeah, he's um he's okay. I had Cephas answer some questions from a Harvard test known as unrest. It is designed to measure someone's level of social resistance.

Social resistance. When people like us oppose the values and policies of the dominant culture.

Okay, by the way, that is a black actress that's playing one of the other doctors standing during this conversation with mom. And she says, people like us, we defy the non-woke that are out there in the world. This is what this is about. That's right. What does that have to do with this?

He feels threatened. You know, most of the audience watching that TV show was probably like, what does this have to do with this? And on a daily basis. like everything he's earned can just be taken away. He's disenfranchised.

Oh my god, no! But because his life is seemingly free from all this, because he can't name it, he's internalizing it. Oh my god, it's even worse. Like this is trick that might be. I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.

Racism gives people cancer, is what they're saying on New Amsterdam. They dive deep the entire episode into this. I think the medical community rejects their nuanced approach to treating someone. I would feel bad for anyone in that hospital if it were real, because you got to use actual medicine to cure people of things. I don't think that's actual medicine.

I just can't get over the fact that it's going viral now, probably a year after it was initially released. And maybe it went viral then too, and I just missed it. But that is insane. And it's catering. It's catering and it's pandering to whoever will tune in and be like, yeah, see, I knew that this could give me this.

And actually, I also have this song from a Star Wars actress, I think, on one of those Disney Plus shows now. She put it out just recently. It's all about how she is also subject to a lot of horrible, terrible treatment in her life. Even though she's now a famous actress who's probably worth a decent amount of money, this horrible world we live in has also ruined her and so many others. Although, I'll tell you.

Not that I like the song. There is a stanza. There's a portion of this song that I actually didn't hate. Not that I agree with how she's saying it, but I think that she's right when she criticizes journalism. But here we go.

Listening, I'm not Take something. Oh. And appropriate That's not a clone book.

Something will create as we do, keep an eye on free. All right, I don't know if you can tell what the words are being wrapped there are, but she's singing about how we have ruined the word woke. We took it away from the culture that created it, and now we're using it in order to attack those who disagree with us. I'll play a little more. Use it to scrap anything, dude.

But can we already? If they don't put it in the side, guys, yo, it's all about the people. Recognize me. bigotry the pal Okay, actually, this is the part I don't hate. When she says, speaking of which, journalism looking at you, you're supposed to tell the truth and you don't.

I'll stop playing it. I'm sure a lot of people don't love it. I don't know what happened to the days, and maybe this is why I've started to gravitate more toward country music than I ever used to in my life, where you just sing about your truck or you sing about, you know, losing somebody in a relationship or somebody you like that doesn't like you back. These were the things we used to sing about. And now she has to sing about how cultural appropriation of the word woke has further harmed her community, even though, again, she is a famous actress making a whole bunch of money in some sort of Star Wars TV show that I'm probably not watching.

But yeah, that's one thing out there. TV is telling us that you can get cancer from racism, especially if you're confused and don't know how racist the world is treating you, which is a premise of that show. You know what? I'm finally. Come around to the idea that AI could just wipe out the Writers Guild of America and just write these shows for us.

They might be as terrible, but at least we don't have to subject ourselves to, you know, all of this again and again and again. And we can just write it off as the computers being morons. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. This is the Dana Show.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Forgot about that. All right. Hurricane Alberto, the first named hurricane. Not sure that that's something you want as an achievement there.

Is moving through Mexico right now on its way to Texas. Heavy rain, heavy flooding in parts of Mexico and Texas. There have been three deaths so far.

So this hurricane is officially deadly and it's going to move throughout parts of the United States at some point. There remains a threat from tornadoes or two other things across the deep south in Texas.

So be prepared wherever you are if this is something that's going to go through your own area. Just a story that we hear every so often. And of course, a lot of people probably talking about hot weather and all weather-related stuff. And I'm not going to reposition it to be about something else. Weather happens.

This is one version of it. San Francisco has a new tourism pitch that is interesting. It's not that you could pick up some free needles on the ground if you want them, or there's some homeless people you can make friends with who are hanging out, or even that they've left some gifts along the sidewalks. That are human in nature and things you don't want. It's chillier there than in a lot of the rest of California.

They say they see temperatures in the 60s around now.

So you should go hang out in San Francisco because you can cool off a little bit and then also wind up in a trashed, very interesting version of a US city. But hey, ignore that stuff because it feels a little cooler. Another thing out there for a quick five, employers are trying to lure the remaining employees that don't want to go back to offices with fancy desks or just desk space or even maybe an office space of your own. They're also doing something called hot desking, which is where you sort of share spaces. Nobody has their own office.

Everybody uses other spaces occasionally. Apparently, this is a thing that people think is going to work. Maybe even some fancy coffee, some yoga classes, a DJ party in the office. I am glad I don't work in places that do any of these things because that is horrible. I would not want to see a DJ coming into a party during my workday.

I feel like that would throw a lot of us off. Another quick five thing that I thought was really interesting. An entire playground was stolen in Jacksonville, Florida. I'm not lying about this. An entire playground was taken.

And from autistic kids, too, which makes it even meaner. Here's an executive director, Melissa Kramer, talking about how you show up at school one day and the playground's gone. And you don't really know how to evaluate that. Let's try that out again. Here we go.

Girls were shocked. A couple of them got here before me and they were like, Melissa, what are you doing with the playground? And it was just gone. I don't know how you take a 30-foot playground. They took the swings.

They took the slide. They took the monkey bar, like everything. It's just gone. Why? Really bizarre.

Why do that? I don't know if you're selling it for metal. If there's all of a sudden now a playground at some sort of other spot that it shouldn't be at, like somebody's backyard where you're like, wait a minute, that really seems like the playground from that school. But nonetheless, yes, an entire playground stolen in Florida. These are the things happening in the world in which we live.

They are horrible. One last one for the quick five. That I like a lot. A brand new piece of advice for anyone to stay in shape, to stay healthy if you're older, if you're in late stages in life. Lift heavy, bro.

Really get swole. Really work out as much as you possibly can with the heaviest weights possible. They did a study. They had different groups of people do different kinds of workouts, all within a certain age range. And the people who lifted 70 to 85% of their total body weight for even less reps than anybody who was doing anything else apparently gained the most benefit from it.

So if you want to be healthy and you're elderly, hit up your local gym or maybe even your CrossFit place and lift the heavy weights with the guys in the corner and probably slam them and scream too, because that's pretty good. I'm not judging anybody that lifts heavy. I probably should do it more than I do. I'm just saying that I can't really see grandma and grandpa in that section of the gym going out with everybody else. It feels like it might be more risk than reward, but I guess there's.

Saying there's reward there, too. All right. I'm going to take a break. After the break, I have a whole bunch more information about debate coverage, CNN talking about Elon Musk. Lots of stuff to get to.

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This is an interview CNN was doing talking about how that platform is just full of conspiracy theory. It's terrible. It's horrible. It's all the things you don't want it to be, I guess. Here we go with their take first, and then I'll respond.

Oliver Darcy here with the details. Oliver. Yeah, John, this is quite the advertiser metamorphosis for Elon Musk. He was at Ken Lyons yesterday trying to convince advertisers, major advertisers, which have fled his platform X in droves to come back. And he's pitching this as a platform that is brand safe.

But of course, we know that there are major problems with X, and namely Elon Musk's own behavior. You know, John, he promotes conspiracy theories. He uses his platform as the most followed person on that site to launch ugly attacks on his critics. Yeah, I'm done. I'm good.

Here's the thing. I don't know why and when advertisers needed to be so obsessed with whatever they think they're associated with. Because if that's true, and I don't know that it is, because people didn't flee X or Twitter. The other things, the Facebook thing, whatever that was called, didn't take off. People are still on it.

They're still using it. All the people who did their viral quitting of the platform are still hanging around, still paying attention.

So, if you want to advertise to humans, to people, your products, and you don't have to say that you support what any one individual is saying on social media, then you can do that. And you can advertise on X and you can be successful. I honestly don't know when some companies even needed to assume that I would think like that. You know, like, I don't care what Elon Musk says. If I'm on X and I see an advertisement for a car I want to buy, I'm not going to think to myself, well, This car company is supporting Elon Musk somehow, and I'm supposed to hate him, so I'm not buying that.

It just makes no sense. The company's needing to have political positions is one of the biggest weaknesses of the society we live in now for their own sake. And choosing to still not advertise on X when the platform is absolutely full of eyeballs and full of humans is, well, stupid. All right, let's move on. This is in the news.

I thought this was interesting. Stephen Colbert does a lot of softball interviews with people on the left. He did a ridiculous interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci the other day. He had Jamal Bowman on his show last night.

Jamal Bowman, of course, is the guy who's famous for pulling fire alarms because he feels like it and then lying about those sorts of things, thinking that they're door handles. I would hate to live in any sort of place that Jamal Bowman is in all the time because you'd probably just have alarms going off constantly if we're to believe this man. But he said his wife got real, real upset that someone actually tried to run against him in a primary race. Politicians having to deal with politics is something that made his family, you know, just absolutely frustrated with this system that is designed to have checks and balances in it. Here we go.

Campaigning can be exhausting. Campaigning can be exhausted. It's sort of a never-ending when you're a member of Congress because you're running every two years. Do you involve your family in the campaign? Uh, this time around, yes, because my wife got really pissed off when they challenged me.

So she did. She got so mad, she was so upset about everything that how dare anybody try to challenge the great Jamal Bowman. Win this election, and we're going to have record turnout just like we did in 2020.

So my wife literally, like, for the first time ever, like, gave a speech at a Latinos from Bowman. Yeah, okay, I don't care. I already, I don't care about this. You've made me very bored very quickly. I love the fact that people complain about the most basic things that happen within the political system now.

The politicians, I should say, because most Americans do agree that they don't do anything that's in our benefit in D.C. Washington is not helping the everyday American. And so there's a certain level of arrogance, a certain level of how dare you? I am above this to not even want to be primarily challenged, which apparently is something the Bowman House felt very strongly about. All right.

Other things out there that I thought were interesting. James Carvel has been popping up. He pops up more often than I ever thought he would at this time in our lives, talking about how Biden's pull numbers are so, so bad, they're, well, like a very horrible mental photo or mental image. Here we go. I don't think people.

really appreciate how bad Biden's poll numbers are. When you look at him, it's like walking down your grandmother naked. You can't see him. Why does he say that so often? Why is that his go-to, James Carville?

That Biden's pull numbers or whatever it is you're talking about is the same as seeing a site you'd never, ever want to see and you'd want to have burned from your brain. But he's saying that yet again. It's out there. It's in the world, and you can find it if you want to. And he is right, by the way, that Biden's pull numbers are terrible.

And yes, I know there's a couple polls recently, including one out of Fox, that says that Biden is now tied with Trump on a registered voter scale. Trump is still doing well in states that are likely to actually decide the election, which I think is very interesting. Trump will likely, I assume, be doing well after this first debate. I can't imagine that Biden will actually be successful when he is Asked to respond to things and not just speak with some sort of canned speech the entire time. But we will see.

That is something that I guess will be determined about a week from now. And as I said before, he is holed up in Camp David, practicing everything he can possibly practice to be as good as possible for this individual. But again, I think that we will see a stark difference in the mental capability of two individuals, both of which who are in their 70s plus or 80s. But honestly, it's not just how old you are, it's how well your brain works. And I do love all the cheap fakes.

I loved a lot of what Dana was saying the other day about the cheap fake videos and how stupid all that is. And honestly, whether or not that was just an accidental misspeaking by Corinne Jean-Pierre, that she meant to say deep fakes, but her brain stopped her because they are real videos.

So what came out was cheap fakes, which is ridiculous because there's so, so many of them. All right. For some reason, CNN called Brian Stelter and put him on TV, the ghost of Brian Stelter, whatever you want to call this, since Stelter was fired by CNN. And he was talking about the cheap fakes himself. And of course, this is one of the fear monger stupidity far-left guys during the pandemic that told everybody how horrible they were if you decided not to get vaccinated.

And then, oh, yeah, it comes out that everybody was transmitting COVID, even if you had the vaccine. Again, again, all these things. And actually, Stelter hasn't had the apology tour, not that it's actually a full apology tour that Cuomo has had. Cuomo is now somebody who's vaccine impacted or has a long-term illness due to the vaccine by his own statement.

So the things he says are now more nuanced while not apologizing for the past. But here's Stelter being Stelter.

Well, the president's defecating in public. Imagine we're going to be by October. You know, the White House Party, I use the phrase cheap fakes, the idea of cheap fakes. Let me explain what that is to people. We're talking about this about AI deep fakes, that computer-generated images are going to trick people into something that's totally false.

Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler. They're cheap. They're just distorted, out-of-context videos, chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways. That's what we're seeing. That's what the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, is so worried about right now.

But make no mistake, they are worried about this. This is a real problem. This is not a real problem because it's a real thing that Biden does. My favorite one, actually, if I can talk about it for just a second, is the one with the parachuters. You probably saw this one, and you've probably now seen the debunking of this video.

It's where Biden is turned around and all the other world leaders are pointed at just one person, one trooper who's parachuting into an area where world leaders are. Yes, there are other people parachuting into that area, and Biden seems to be paying attention to them. But the problem with understanding the dynamic of all this, you're a world leader, you're in front of the world. Of other world leaders, you know, there's a camera rolling because they do that on purpose whenever they do any of this stuff, and everyone else is looking one direction at one person, and you're the only guy off in the corner doing your own thing, and you don't notice that seems to be mentally bad, no matter what you're saying. And yes, the internet made jokes that he was just looking at ghosts or just veering off into the nethers and didn't know at all what was going on.

But even in the real context of the video, it still looks horrible. And he has to be grabbed and turned around in order to pay attention to what he's supposed to be paying attention to.

So, this refuting of cheap fakes is just the most ridiculous new Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation thing. Because that's the thing too. When mainstream media And the left, which I guess you can also just call mainstream media, but when politicians on the left are in uniform in rejecting something and telling you it's a lie. most likely that's the most true thing you're seeing right now in your life. And all those videos are real, and there's so, so many of them.

And even if it's just a few moments, and I think I heard that said on Fox and Friends, either this morning or yesterday. But you all have somebody in your life, or at least a lot of us do, someone who's getting older, someone who you start to worry about more, whoever that might be. And these little moments, these little reflections of things not being what they used to be. At least for the person mentally, are the things that you obsess about, the things you tell their doctor about, because they're the signs that you know everything's not okay. And we're seeing these on world stages from our president, even if it's for a few moments, and even if people like Barack Obama are helping pull him off a stage somewhere, the recovery doesn't matter.

It's the moment itself that's terrifying because this guy is in charge of the entire country. I don't. how to say that differently, actually. I do love the fact that people say At least I hear them say that the far-right media, the conservative media, the crazy media is what the left wants to call it essentially, is over-inflating these issues when the person we're discussing is the president of the United States. It's not like you're picking on your boss who's showing up at work and getting confused every so often.

That wouldn't be great. I'm sure you'd want to discuss that with the other people in your office, but that's not something that needs to be national news. This should be. These are the kind of things that news should be reporting to us. Should be telling us that this is what we're worried about.

They should be peeling this onion back, not pretending it's an onion that no one should be talking about at all. That's why people lose so much trust. In the media now, news media is so transformatively different than what it used to be. If you saw a President do any of these things that Biden has done and you were wanting the clock, I don't know, maybe 30 or 40 years, a news media journalist would be all over this. They'd be talking to doctors on their T V shows, asking what are these signs of?

How bad does this look to you?

Now they're simply admonishing those who discuss it as if they're some sort of giant conspiracy theory out to trick you into thinking a genius is actually a moron. Because that's the other thing. They oversell the cognitive abilities of Biden to a degree that's laughable. And that's why so many of these videos wind up going viral on social media because of how different they are from the narrative and how easy it is to disprove the narrative this time along. I don't know if they just expect us to all be lazy and all not really try that hard.

I know a lot of people who listen to this show probably try much harder than people out there who don't. But nonetheless, just using your eyeballs, Jon Stewart famously said it, and your brain should help you figure out what's true and what's not. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. You don't need a disaster to prepare for any kind of major emergencies.

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Dana will be back on Monday. Women are shelling out thousands of dollars for ladies-only camping trips this summer. They're swapping out, quote, juice boxes for wine boxes, which I find to be hilarious. Apparently, this is a trend mostly going on on the East Coast. $600 for two-night stays in the Poconos or wherever you're going.

I don't blame anybody for wanting to do this. I don't blame women for wanting to take the girls' trip out and hang out with ladies and get hammered in the forest or in some sort of camping ground. I feel like that might be something that you want to make sure you take certain precautions on. But nonetheless, I think the reason this is going viral is both the cost of it and then also how it's a response to, quote, epic loneliness that a lot of people are feeling.

So take your friends out to a campsite and get hammered on boxed wine. That doesn't sound so bad. Another thing out there that I saw that was interesting, a woman in New Zealand decided to take her boyfriend to court because he, quote, failed. Failed to show up to pick her up at the airport. I didn't know you could do a lawsuit over this.

She's suing him. She said that she wound up in a horrible situation and had to figure out for hours how to get from the airport to whatever place she wanted to be at. No news and if they're broken up or not. I assume they are after the lawsuit came out. But the woman wants compensation from her boyfriend, not just because he stayed in her house and took care of her dog.

I guess she wants to get paid for that somehow, but also because, again, she had a horroring trip trying to get home when he didn't show at the airport. I like when people take their fight to the internet just because I can kind of enjoy reading about it. You know, like somebody goes to Reddit and tries to figure out who the jerk is and who's not the jerk. I like watching from afar. I don't know that the courtroom is the right venue for that.

I feel like the court of the internet was good enough and never wins you an argument, but certainly it needed to go no further. Another one, call this an all about ladies segment all of a sudden. But a lot of these stories are out there today, so I can't help it. And this is salacious in nature, just a tad.

So I'll tell you, I'll warn you up front: adult topic. Apparently, according to a brand new study, An often thought of misconception is obviously wrong. Most people think this is right, though. Depending on the size of a woman's. You know, her upper area, her, well, her boobs.

I'll just go ahead and say it. She sweats less, not more, which is what people thought. The reason this is out there, and I don't ever judge mainstream media for what, no, that's not true at all, for what it gives us as far as tips to deal with the heat. Apparently, if you're larger chested and a lady and you're sweating less, you might be retaining more heat, so you might be in more danger.

So, literally, one of the pieces of advice out there, not just check on your elderly neighbors, but check on any of your larger female neighbors of a certain variety to make sure that they're doing okay. And I'm sure there's a whole lot of dudes listening to the show that are like, I can do it. That's no problem. That one I got. I'll be on board to make sure that no one is overheating because of size of something.

It's a real study. It's not just me trying to be a juvenile. I think this came from the University of Southampton. I don't know what scientists they have there and if they're, you know, just the creepy. Of dudes or not.

And also, it was published in the Journal of Physiology, which I hear has a great swimsuit issue. All right, I'll take a break. I'm kidding. A whole lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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The First TV, Direct TV channel 347, YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, at The Lash, or at Dana Lash Radio, on social media, on Twitter, on X. Fox News interviewed one of the guys who caught the horrible individual, illegal migrant or immigrant, or just a legal alien, whatever you want to call him, who raped a 13-year-old girl and videotaped it.

So a group of dudes decided if justice isn't going to be served in New York, we're going to go ahead and serve it ourselves, which I think a whole lot of people would absolutely be on board for. And as I said, they sat down with Daniel Ramos, one of the guys who decided to take matter into his own hands, essentially to act like Batman, you know, in the best of ways, along with his buddies. I thought this was one of the more interesting parts of the conversation where they were asking just how many of you guys were there, all willing to go ahead and beat the crap out of this dude, this, you know, piece of, I can't say that word on the radio, but I want to. Here we go. This is what it sounds like when you're like, well, there's like 10 of us.

And he knew better than to even put up a fight. Daniel, how many were you at the? I'm going to say like 10, 10 of us. 10 of you. And did he put up a fight or did he say anything?

He knew better not to put up a fight. He couldn't really put up a fight because he was outnumbered. And it probably would have gone worse if he did. It was better that he didn't. And he was just trying to cop a plea, like trying to say, you know, let me explain.

Okay, explain. At first, he was trying to say he didn't care what he did. And then he tried to say, let me explain. But we wasn't trying to hear any of it. And there was nothing really to explain.

What he did was horrible. Right. And he did that to a 13-year-old innocent little girl.

So we don't condone that. Not for a while. We don't condone that. We don't accept that. In New York, sometimes we go ahead and just out our own punishment.

I love this. I'm a huge fan of this. They called him a hero as they interviewed him and the other guys who helped apprehend this dude, this piece of crap that shouldn't have even been in this country, not just because he snuck in illegally, but because just like a whole lot of other people that you're hearing about in the news now, he was caught and put within our system for other things that he did on more than one occasion and still wound up out and available in order to do something horrific again. I hope that we see more of this. I hope that if you continue to see the failed version of giving us our most basic protections in this country, protections from the truly wicked and horrible of the world, that something else happens.

That again, the American people demonstrate that they're not going to tolerate this. And so I thought it was absolutely incredible, to say the least. All right. Another thing out there that I saw was this video from 2016. The reason I think this is so interesting, and you've probably forgotten if you even remember this existed at all, is as we barrel toward the debate.

And as we barrel toward the election, There's a likelihood that if the Democrats lose, They'll somehow say something about it was stolen, just like they criticize the Republicans or Trump for doing. And honestly, trying to imprison your political rival does seem like you're trying to steal another election, but this is sort of amazing. In 2016, a whole bunch of Hollywood people begged the Electoral College to not vote for Trump. And I do love the way they did this, because if you remember, they didn't even tell you to vote for Hillary. Just vote for anybody and understand that you can't let a demigogue or whatever else they called Trump back then wind up taking control of the country.

None of the fear-mongering stuff they told us was going to happen did happen, even though they're telling us it's going to happen all over again. Just as a reminder, here's how Democrats responded in 2016 when they lost an election and how the Hollywood elite responded. I love these demonstrations of the hypocrisy that exists in the world of politics. Republican members of the Electoral College, this message is for you. As you know, our founding fathers built the Electoral College to safeguard the American people from the dangers of a demagogue.

Okay, hold on. I got to stop it right there. What he means to say is that they developed this, in his opinion, to prevent the American people from having a voice in who actually gets to be president. Continue. That the presidency only goes to someone who is to an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

An eminent degree.

someone who is highly qualified for the job. The Electoral College was created specifically to prevent an unfit candidate from becoming president. There are 538 members of the Electoral College. You and just 36 other conscientious Republican electors can make a difference by voting your conscience on December 19th. Oh, I love it.

They're like, oh, the Democrats are going to do this.

So if you guys do this too, we're in. To be honest, I would like to replay this video. If somehow, some way Biden wins reelection, which I still don't think is possible. I know some of the polls coming out say it's closer. You just gotta look at this guy.

You gotta look at the level of lack of popularity he has within his own party. Those are things that matter quite a bit. And once you can't keep putting Trump in courtrooms and he gets to be out on the campaign trail again, where he's wanted to be the entire time he's been in courtrooms, he will do better and better and better with just his core group and also, I think, a lot of independents. They are shocked, they being legacy media or politicians on the left, at just how much Trump has mobilized and gained support from, say, minority communities or communities of younger voters that typically Republicans don't gain. But again, I'd just like to play this audio.

If Biden's, even honestly, right now, I know it wouldn't be the Electoral College that would remove him, but if you're trying to say that for the greater good of our society, we need to remove those who are incapable of doing the job as soon as we realize they're incapable, that would be Biden and that would be now cheap fake videos or not, whatever it is they're calling them. But again, I just thought this was so interesting. I find a little more. And thereby shaping the future of our nation. I'm not asking you to vote for Hillary Connect.

No! I'm not asking you to vote for Hillary Clinton. No one is. I'm not asking you to vote for Hillary Clinton. Right.

As you know, the Constitution gives electors the right to vote for any eligible person. Anyone they want. I want you to vote for Kanye West. I want you to vote for whoever you feel like. Put yourself in there.

Put a fictional character in there. Whatever you want to do. Just do something that's not Trump. That was 2016. That was Democrats and Hollywood.

And now they get up on the high and mighty bandwagon and say, How dare Donald Trump ever question the integrity of any election? This is something we would never do. By the way, Dr. Anthony Fauci is continuing to do a media tour of his own. There's a book out.

Fauci is quite happy about whatever. You know what I'll say about Dr. Anthony Fauci? And you've probably heard all this before, outside of all the making stuff up and definitely lying in ways that more and more we're learning he absolutely knew what he was saying was not just a bad guess, but utterly untrue, but how much he loves the camera. A Fauci wouldn't be.

The discussion point he is today, if he didn't choose to be everywhere during the pandemic. He wouldn't. Even if he had done that in a few of those press conferences where he stood up, well, quote unquote, stood up to the former president and disagreed with him in that public forum. If he didn't go about it by then trying to be on every radio station, every television station, I don't know, in maybe the airport talking to people as much as he could, we wouldn't all have strong opinions about him. And he gets so upset and he says it's, you know, the objection to science itself to question this man who made himself the face of COVID willingly and intentionally and is now all over the place just before this first debate.

But here's a little bit of what he said on the view, talking about Trump, talking about the CDC, talking about everything. And again, just go away.

Well, I mean, I would like to see him get in trouble. I would like to see Congress continue to haul him in and ask him questions that we need answers for. But other than that, I don't think he needs to be out there anymore. And if he continues to complain that people hate him or people, you know, want to see bad things happen to him, you think that his response would be to not be everywhere again and put his face on every television he can get it on. It's very threatening, I think.

It's in jeopardy. It's in jeopardy. So you dedicate a chapter in the book to your dealings with Trump. The chapter's called He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. And you describe some angry, ranting, expletive-filled phone calls where he would berate you and flatter you in the same breath.

I'm wondering, you just said you worked with seven other presidents. Did anyone, any one of them, ever speak to you the way he does or did? No, of course not. Not even close.

Okay, let me stop him right there. First, no one that he worked for had anything quite like the pandemic that was shutting down businesses everywhere happen during that tenure.

So would other presidents have gotten mad at Fauci and some of the stuff he was saying, especially if they had information that demonstrated that Fauci was providing an opinion and acting as though it was a medical fact? at a time when medical facts were not possible. In all honesty, like if you really talk about it. Right at the start of the pandemic, anything they told us we should have questioned, and a lot of people did question simply because you didn't have enough information yet. No matter what you were saying, no matter how well-versed you were in these sort of things, you needed more time, more data to study it.

And all that data that's come out has only told us we made a tremendous amount of mistakes. But would other presidents have gotten as mad as Trump did if he even really did get that mad during this moment with this amount of undercutting his message to the American people? Of course they would have. It's ridiculous to say they wouldn't. Let's hear a little bit more from the annoying Fauci.

You know what I meant by love me, loves me not. Early on in the beginning, you know, he is an engaging character and we have a certain rapport with each other. I was trying to figure out what it was, I think is that two guys from New York City. You know, he was from Queens, I was from the Bronx, and we kind of had that, you know, New York. He calls it swagger with each other.

That was fine. And all that was really.

Okay, I got to stop it right there, too, actually. I love how quiet the view goes when Fauci says anything nice about Trump. Because mainstream media also likes to take everything Trump says as if he means it 100% seriously. He's trying to say it the way that boring, stiff, Non, you know, Trump people say things, not the way that a guy at the end of the bar might say something, which is how Trump does a lot of his, you know, debates or a lot of his appearances, a lot of his rallies.

So I understand what he's saying right there and believe it. But then he started to crap all over him publicly, again and again and again, question his message, tell businesses to stay locked down, tell people to keep masks on, tell people to get COVID vaccines at times when we probably needed more information about all that stuff, and then also resoundingly reject, although you claim not to have rejected it now, the idea that the Wuhan lab is where COVID came from. And Trump said it in a few of those press conferences, and you got real mad about that. That is probably where the swagger went. That's probably why it stopped.

But again, I just thought it was interesting that he would actually say something like that. And then his forceful opinion being pressed on a president of the United States is what caused the. Disconnect between the two. And then, well, a whole lot of American people, right, finding out just how many things he lied about. All right, I'll take a break.

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it going well for at least him. Other things out there for a quick five. I think I forgot to say that this is a quick five. A basketball tournament at a high school in Jersey has been canceled. Barstool Sports and a bunch of other places reported on this thing.

I thought it was really interesting because school's out for the summer, of course. You can play the song if you want to, but school's out for the summer.

So they're setting up this event not for the school kids themselves. Not that that makes it really all that much better, but for, I assume, paying adults. It was called the nothing but AZZ basketball tournament, where four teams of Thonged women, this is a real thing. I'm not making any of this up, would have competed for $10,000. The top team, the winning team in the basketball tournament, $10,000.

Ticket prices for each game or maybe for the weekend of events ranged from $50 for standing room only to $500 for floor seats to watch women play basketball in thongs. The craziest part about this is that the school approved it. It was a thing. It took the marketing campaign for the parents to react in outrage for the event to then be canceled. And I think that's in favor now of a community basketball night.

Which hopefully is sort of like what they do late at night when they're trying to get troubled youth off the streets, and they just have like a youth pastor somewhere and they play basketball and talk about stuff, a transformatively different event than the one that had been planned. I don't know why anyone would have thought this was a good idea to hold this in a school. I'm sure there's a whole bunch of people who might have bought tickets and wanted to go to this. And I assume the nothing but as people will find a different venue for their basketball tournament that's not actually one that's often populated by people under the age of 18. Another story out there that's just so crazy, and I guess I'll have to get to more of it later, is a guy from Wales claiming to have been rescued by wild boars.

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And Tom Cruise in a helicopter saved the day. It has gone viral. The dude's name is Johnny Turnip. He says that he's got a nickname for Cruz and everything. Tom Cruise has not confirmed this story, but if you find it, it's one of the most incredible.

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His name is Luke Rosenbaum. He is the president and CEO of the Greater Peoria Honor Flight, which is one of several different honor flights within a network that exists within our country. Welcome to the show, Luke. Hey, thanks for having me, Greg. Thrilled to have you on.

So the reason I asked you to do this is one, I got to go on an honor flight with you and a group of heroes just this past week. And also, we just had the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the beginning of this month, June 6th. You saw a lot of veterans, if you were watching TV, anyone out there showing up and being honored. And if you look at the age of veterans of World War II, you know that we have a finite amount of time left to be around heroes and to hear stories from heroes who fought in that conflict.

So, your organization, the organization and network itself. Focuses on bringing individuals from World War II, from Vietnam, from any of those wars where health is a concern, and getting them on a trip that seems to transform them. Tell me a little bit more about your experience with this organization and what you do.

Well, so I'll preface it with this.

So, I am a veteran myself, you know, and Knowing why I serve and knowing What I went through, you know, I'm an Afghan-Iraq kind of guy in my service time. These are right now we're heavily in the Vietnam guys and For most of these guys, part of our honor flight, we take them out to DC for their day of honor, is what we call it. And it doesn't matter how many flights I go on, they come back and we give them a big welcome home. These guys look at me and most of them have tears in their eyes and they're saying, This meant the most getting a welcome home because we know how bad it was for them coming back through the West Coast when they were coming back and getting shipped back home. After their time in Vietnam, and it's like they were called horrible things, and now they're getting thanked, now they're getting that kind of gratitude they deserve.

And what's great about that is we get to be a part of that and we get to experience that. Yeah, I'll tell you that getting to go on one of those flights with you, very kindly inviting me to be on it, it was so moving to see these individuals slowly, I don't know if crack is the right word, but slowly softened throughout a day that seems to just have so much meaning to them. At the beginning of the day, before you're getting even on the plane, very early in the morning, a lot of these guys seem to not know what to expect, seem to be very happy that they're getting to go on their flight.

Some of them wait five, six, seven years, especially in mid to smaller markets like the Peoria area. I know you've told me before that you have a tremendous waiting list and a lot of fear that the health of some of these individuals might not allow them to ever take one of these honor flights. Maybe you can talk to me a little bit about that, about what the goals are for organizations like yours to make sure that everyone gets this day that veterans so deserve and so seem to be changed by. Yes, so we are taking every flight when we're doing about three flights a year, we're taking a veteran and a guardian.

So for the seat capacity, we're sitting at by the time a veteran falls out for health reasons or whatever, we're taking on average seventy five veterans to DC on each flight.

Well The sticker price is $109,000. We are charging the ve or not the veterans, the veterans we fundraise for, the Guardians, we charge $550 for their seat.

So, you know, it does offset a little bit of the cost. And Where I'm sitting at right now is I have 1,400 Vietnam veterans on our list.

Now, I'm going to go, you know, we go through that and try and see if there's some duplications, right?

So even if I sat there and said, you know, there's a hundred eager guys that signed up, you know, a couple times, I'm still sitting over a thousand veterans just to Korean veterans. Is it too late? No, it's not too late. Like, you know, you're on for September. You know, but what does that mean for those?

Guys that have signed up, we're working on guys that signed up in twenty seventeen. You know, you lose two years of COVID and you have more people signing up. Our lead recruiter for our and only recruiter, if you ever meet Bob Reed, if you're a veteran, you've probably met him in the Central Illinois area because he's trying to get everybody signed up. But he's like, should I just stop signing up? I said, no, Bob, that's not our problem.

We need to fundraise more. The problem is we need more seats, more flights. That doesn't mean we stopped recruiting because What he's not, what also he's doing is, even if it's a veteran that's already signed up, oh, yeah, I'm signed up. He's like, okay, well, then where's your health at? Do we need to prioritize you?

Because that is where we are at right now. We are prioritizing health.

Well, and I wanted to talk about that a little bit more, too.

So, what's interesting to me, I was on this flight, as I said, and I met Norm Lusher, who was one of the guys, one of the veterans from Vietnam that you took on the flight. Norm has health issues because of Agent Orange, which a lot of guys from that era have, which makes their health even more scary in the sense of: do you have enough time to get all these guys on a flight if you have 1,400 waiting and take about 300 a year? And there is a way to donate to Honor Flight or even a greaterpeoria honorflight.org. They have an online donation, and it wouldn't take a tremendous response to this conversation to even facilitate a few more veterans getting to take this trip. But Norm had some bad health news recently.

Norm's not sure if he'll be here a lot longer. And the other thing that really sort of moved me about him is he had to be convinced by his brother to even take the flight because he didn't really want to do it. He's like, I don't really want to do it. And then by the time we got To the Vietnam Memorial specifically, he seemed to have been so impacted by it. And claiming he's not a hero, and the heroes are the guys that lost their lives fighting in the conflict he was a part of.

It just moves you so much. And so there's something about. The specialness of being able to demonstrate to any veteran, like we did on D-Day this year, but like society should all the time. Just how important they are and just how grateful we are. And as you said, specifically to Vietnam veterans, out of everything you've done now running in part of the honor flight, what are some of the things that jump out to you as far as the experiences you've had with these veterans or even the school kids in DC who come up and say hi to the veterans and ask them questions?

What are some of those moments that jump out for you? You know, so we're sitting in this real divisive world right now where everything's political, everything's this or that. And if you don't like one thing I like, then we must be enemies and we got to be mad at each other, right? We've got generational gap right there where you've got grade school kids or eighth graders, freshmen or whatever that are on these DC tours. And the tour guides.

I had three different tour guides. I thought I was talking to one because, you know, it's all DC, you know, sell numbers. I'm like, Didn't I already send you a text and let you know what time? And it's like three different tour guides just somehow got my number from Honor Flight Hub, which I loved because you saw the faces on those veterans when they walked that line and all those grade school kids were saying thank you for your service.

Now do does an eighth grader or a freshman in high school know what you know, this means right now, no. But they got to see an impactful response from those veterans. And as they grow up, that'll be in the back of their mind playing: like, this mattered to somebody. And then they can start building on that. Because the biggest thing we need to make sure we have in this country is.

Unity, right? You know, and unfortunately, it's always a conflict that causes this. But if we can utilize this organization to say, hey, the past veterans Honoring them with the younger generation, or the younger generation getting to honor them, maybe that instills a little bit of patriotism in these, you know. Younger generation to where they say, you know what, even if I don't serve in the military, I need to serve my community. I always say if you want to solve a problem, start in your community first because you can't make a big blanket policy for everybody.

And just getting to see these kids show up and help, like maybe that'll instill a little bit of I want to serve somehow for my community. No, you say something really powerful there, and I kept thinking about my grandfather who fought in Korea and how little he talked about any of the experience he had, but how meaningful that day would have been for him if he had gone on an honor flight. I don't think, I don't know if the organization was around before he sadly passed away years ago. But what I keep thinking about is how moving it would have been for me as a little kid to watch my grandfather break or have an emotional response or tell me a story about his time in conflict and how it would have instilled patriotism, as you just stated, in me. And this younger generation, the 20-somethings who are on college campuses protesting the ongoing conflict between Israel and a terrorist organization and saying death to America, it's so devastating.

It's so upsetting. And I think that something like the honor flight, even with all the impact it has on the heroes, the most deserving people who please, they deserve more than one day to be honored the way that you guys do it and the way that the organization does it. But the kids who. get to see them. Get to see the compassion of them, get to see the joy in the interaction of the older veteran with the young person.

It does. It promptly transforms everybody. And so there's something that's really moving about it. Why do you think it's hard to get people to buy in, at least to some extent, to supporting stuff like this, to making stuff like this? Like, I would think that if you told any community, Peoria or any other one, that Veterans need more money so more of them can be honored before they pass away.

That you would get flooded with millions of dollars within a week, and yet that's not what happens. Why do you think that is? You know what? And maybe it's branding. Maybe it's getting the message out.

And so I've always so I think of some of the Hollywood series that we've done for war conflicts where they got the stories from the person and then built built a a storyline and you know tied the Tried to reenact. That's great, right? I've always, in being a Peoria guy my whole life, obviously moved around for the military a little bit, but, you know. born here, raised here and still trying to make a difference here. And the biggest thing that I have learned about just our Peoria area is we're not good at telling our story very often.

We do lots of amazing things. Yeah. And so I've always said I've never Other than, you know. Needing a million dollars, right? Other than that, if I've ever asked somebody, Hey, I need something, we need to do this for the veterans.

It's not, hey, can you go do this?

Somebody says, Hey, I can help you with that.

So we have it's it's just kind of getting everything aligned. And like I've been a part on this more administrative side for the kind of learned everything or tried to learn as much as I could last year. And this is a year where we're actually I'm taking some steps into figuring out, okay, wh where's the next ten years, starting to map out these plans because You saw the the day we had, you know, all the different memorials we stopped. By the time we get to my generation, We're not going to be stopping at some of the memorials we do now. We're going to be stopping somewhere else, and maybe we've got to factor in more time at Arlington.

Yeah, so just Just as much as things have changed in the last 10 years, I think we've got to revisit that message of these are your veterans in your community. These are some of their stories. This is the impact this organization makes.

Now tell me you don't want to open up your checkbook, you know? Because it is that it that I've got so many stories, like some of them I've shared with you, like the guy with the narcotics story. You know, and to be fair, to be fair. I love that as you know, you could, I love that as something you just say without explaining. The guy with the narcotic said, go ahead, real quick, tell me about what a veteran told you during an honor flight.

So to be fair, this veteran had to go to or join the service because it was jail or service because he got in a few too many scuffles in his small town. Then it turns around and he gets sent to Germany.

Okay, so he lucks out again, not going to Vietnam. Then runs his mouth to a German general, and then not shortly after that gets shot. Yeah, I think it's a very good idea. While he's there, and mind you, he became a military police. Uh That was the job they gave him.

I'm like, oh, so the guys you used to get in a fight with, now you're getting to be the one fight? And he's like, Yeah, it was kind of funny how that works. But then he's telling this story, or this young group at DC is like, these kids come up, thank you for your service. Can you tell us how your experience went? And he's like, well, it was terrible.

And then the teacher's like, oh no. And then they're like, well, can you tell us a story about your time in Vietnam? Yeah, so there was this time I was. I was buying heroin and cocaine, and the teacher's like, okay, kids, move along. Yeah, let's get away from this guy.

Yeah, go ahead. Exactly. And then he's like, because I was an undercover. Officer, or I was working undercover to try and find out where the drugs were. Amazing.

Try and eliminate it. And, but it's like, I was like, you had a pause for effect, didn't you? He said, Absolutely.

So, most of the stories I get from these guys, and maybe it's because I'm a veteran, they will dig into those. Like, so there I was, and the first sergeant had to fail me out, or there I was, and the MPs almost arrested me, but because I was shipping out, you know, they left me alone. But, you know, you mentioned something about the stories and how they're a little harder, you know, a little reserved on talking. I know one of my old commanders, his dad and him went, and you're talking about a service member who has a father who served in Vietnam, never heard stories about Vietnam from his dad all those years, and he served in Afghanistan. He served And the dad still never told him until after he shared a few stories.

During the day, and that's what I always call to them to do. I'm like, share your stories, we have to know your stories.

So, your legacy can continue. And then he turned around and he's, and I just saw him the other day, and he said, My dad still talks about that. And he's like, There's just something a little different. And he's like, And it's a good thing.

So, I mean, That's what we're here for. It's all about the veterans and making them feel good and getting awesome stories from these guys. Amen. And honestly, man, just one last thing because I know I got to take a break and I got to go. The veterans are guys that really respond when you show them.

You don't say things. Words are only so meaningful. Actions are so much more meaningful. And this day is just full of actions that demonstrate the I love how DC responds to veterans when they land there, which they do every single day at that airport for honor flights that are being scheduled from all over the country. They applaud, they cheer, they say thank you for your service.

The same thing happens when these veterans go home to wherever they're going in their community. It's just, it's a meaningful day.

So, again, whether you're donating to the Greater Honor Flight Network or Greater Peoria Honor Flight, which has a long list of veterans that they need to get on flights before it's too late, you can do that at greaterpeoriahonorflight.org. There's a donation page there. This is something people should be looking into and paying attention to because. Of how meaningful it is and how those actions matter and are just demonstrated through a day of gratitude. Thanks, man, for everything you're doing.

All the work to help veterans out. Luke Rosenbaum, the CEO and president of the Honor Flight, the Greater Peoria Honor Flight. We got to take a break. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. More coming up next.

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Dana is back on Monday, and you can follow her, of course, all over social media: DanaRadio.com, D Lash, or Dana Lash Radio on social media on Twitter. Just a bunch of ways to stay connected. Direct TV channel 347. All right, let's talk about some things out there. First, I wanted to play this audio that's been unearthed by the guy who actually started one organization, then got kicked out of it, and now is doing his own thing, James O'Keefe.

He is very, very good. At creating conversations with leaders of companies, including a senior vice president at Disney, which is what this audio is, and getting on the record and stuff you can share with the world about how crazy and woke and insane some of these people are. And here is a real conversation happening with someone undercover for O'Keeffe Media Group, talking about how Disney out loud says. We're not hiring white people for this. We're not hiring white people for that.

Whatever the thing may be, the job in question may be, it's going to somebody that's not a white dude at the very least. Here we go. Certainly, there have been times where, you know, there's no way we're hiring a white helper. It's kind of unspoken. There are times when it's spoken.

How would they say it? There's no way we're hiring a white helper. Wow, it's so nuanced the way they say that, by the way. There's no way we're hiring a white dude to be in charge of whatever this thing is because we got to have somebody else to do it. You know what's interesting about this too, by the way?

And that's Michael Giordano, a senior vice president and team lead at 20th Century Television, the Walt Disney Company. I sat in a meeting one time. In a radio place that I was, and heard a boss say out loud that the next gig they were hiring for a role at the company would not go to a white dude because we had too many white guys in a part of the company. This person said that out loud. And in a Chicago or in a New York or in a California for Disney, I think that a lot of the staff winds up not really reacting to that, being like, oh, okay, it's fine.

That seems right. Whatever you want to do, that seems appropriate for us too. And then you hear about this throughout everywhere else. And I'm sure there's a lot of people in those places who do react. I am someone who thought that it was insane that I was hearing it when it was said in a room that I was in.

But nonetheless, there's a lot of people throughout the rest of the country that think to themselves: why would anyone not only say this out loud, but also think that this is a smart way of doing business? Just hire the best person for the job. Whoever the best person is, just hire them. It also undercuts the, I think, significance of people who get jobs sometimes to say that, well, we weren't going to hire a white guy for that role because it makes you and everyone else question, well, hold on, was there somebody better out there that just so happened to be the wrong skin color or the wrong sex? And so you didn't hire them other than this individual that we're now praising and saying is the right person for the role?

It takes away from all, but it's insane. And James is so, so good at getting that audio.

So that's the newest one viral earlier today. Also, I should mention just quickly, sad news for anyone who's a fan of him for sure, but Donald Sutherland passed away earlier today at the age of 88. He had two Golden Globe Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, Primetime Emmy Awards to his name, someone who became very well known as being an anti-war activist, among other things, of course, famous for stuff like the Hunger Games movies or Bash. But he passed away earlier today. I would be remiss if I didn't at least mention that during the show.

All right, let's move on to this. This is Dr. Anthony Fauci. On the view, talking to the ladies on the view about how Republicans are dirty, dirty people. and investigating him for well, what seems to be a whole bunch of lies he told.

His emails seem to indicate that he was very aware of the reality of the Wuhan Lab not only being a place that likely leaked COVID-19, but also a place where money was going. from organizations that Fauci was in charge of to study coronaviruses and whatnot. All these things were true. All these things were denied as conspiracy theories by Fauci and others. Even if he says now he never outright rejected that theory.

He often called it a conspiracy theory while discussing it. But here's a little bit of the back and forth and the view with Fauci.

So good to see you. Before retiring from government in 2022, you served under seven presidents of bipartisan administrations fighting diseases like AIDS, Ebola Zika, and of course COVID, where you and I got to know each other. You had addressed so many of these ailments before and never faced the backlash that you did from part of the country when you were working on COVID. Did you see that coming? We watched it in real time.

No. No, it was really unexpected because as Alyssa said, I served and advised seven presidents, Democrat and Republican, both sides of the aisle. And there's always been disagreements. I mean, that's why our country is a great country. You have people who have different ideological views, but the disagreements were always associated with civility, with respect for each other, and for respect for institutions.

Okay, here's one thing about that. When you say that the disagreements were more respectful back in the day than they are now, I think part of the reason why is more of those disagreements happened behind scenes. Fauci was openly disagreeing. with the president of the United States on an almost daily basis while trying to couch it, and I'm not exactly doing that, but absolutely that's what you were doing, which almost seemed intent to embarrass him. The amount of respect for the office seemed to have completely evaporated, not just for Fauci, but for a lot of the anti-Trump, the Trump derangement syndrome people out there, which is laughable then to hear him say these sort of things.

It's sort of like equating it to a sports team. And how, you know, back in the day, any of the drama that's going on for the team, no matter how well they're playing, it's not happening in front of the fans. They're doing it at practice. They're doing it in ways where it's not heavily reported on. And that keeps something in-house.

And I think that gives you the ability to fix some sort of friction that exists within members of a team better than if it's all out there and being covered on the tabloids and whatnot. But Fauci was willingly throwing himself anywhere he could and saying things that seemed to fly in the face of what Trump was saying at the time. A little bit more from Fauci. In the government.

So you could have a disagreement, but at the end, you try and compromise. What happened with COVID? as I think was represented by the hearing a few weeks ago, was just pure ad hominem and vitriol. And that really took me by surprise. I thought that it would be that kind of give and take and respect each other's disagreements.

And that's the thing that worries me not only about what I have to face, but about the direction of the country and the social order and our democracy.

Okay, this is coming from the people that were telling individuals who didn't want to get a vaccine that you were the problem and you were killing grandmothers. That group of individuals was saying that you need to do your patriotic duty. The duty to your fellow man to go ahead and get yourself vaccinated because otherwise we're never getting through this horrible pandemic that's taking lives, and it's 100% your fault. These same people are now saying civility needs to return to society, even as information has come out, information that they knew that said that people who were vaccinated were transmitting COVID just as much as people who were not vaccinated.

So they lied and they lied again and again and they turned Americans into the enemy of fellow Americans. And now they're saying, how dare anyone target their anger at me? It's so self-serving, it's insane. Like I would actually diagnose a lot of the people in the world of our political system or celebrities, any of them as clinically insane. for the thoughts and things they say, how willing they are to be all about themselves and how they're doing this.

Fauci seems almost indignant to the idea that people would still like to challenge him and his assertions during COVID when again, he basically told half of the country that you're evil in killing people and the other half of the country needs to make sure you know that and treat you as such. And now those individuals want this to all go away. They don't want us to talk about any of this anymore because how dare you? Have this conversation now that you were having years ago when your freedoms were being taken away, when stores were being shut down and livelihoods were being taken away, and people couldn't put food on the table for a variety of reasons. And absolutely.

One of the after effects of all of that shutting down is the inflation we see today. Absolutely, you could tie those things together fairly easily, and it's making the lives of so many Americans very, very hard. The Supreme Court will release a lot of decisions this week. I think Friday is when we're likely to hear a lot of them. The Supreme Court did uphold a Trump-era tax on foreign earnings.

This is something that seems to be somewhat praised by the left right now. It's interesting the things that the left seems to like that Trump was actually responsible for, and there's a bunch of those. But there are likely to be more decisions on quite a few very important cases, whether it's low-profile abortion rights cases, social media cases, and of course the Trump ability to prosecute or his ability to have presidential immunity case. Those are things that we'll probably be paying attention to and looking out for over the next few days. The Supreme Court continues to make news.

I usually say it this way in some other places that I do this gig. You don't know about, because mainstream media doesn't tell you about. the decisions that this current makeup of the Supreme Court decides that are actually on the left, that benefit what the rhetoric is from that side of the political aisle. And the reason why you don't hear about it is it makes it much harder to shape those decisions that lean to the right as being politically motivated and you got to stack the court and everything's so terrible and people need to recuse themselves. But this Supreme Court actually has a fairly interesting track record of making quite a few decisions that are not all over the news that wind up leaning the way that, say, the Democrats would like them to go.

Yes, they overturned Roe versus Wade. Yes, they did things that wind up being the giant screaming points and even the stuff that the president attacked the Supreme Court for during his State of the Union. But if you pay close attention, you will see that there are many more decisions than most people know about that actually demonstrate the ability for this court to operate on both sides of the political aisle, which I think is obviously an intentional thing that we're seeing done in order to continue to bring a narrative to the forefront of conversations. But keep your eyes on a lot of the things the Supreme Court decides this week, because I'm sure some of them and not all. Will be talked about ad nauseum on the Talking Head Places.

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My name is Craig Collins filling in Danoradio.com. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast on iTunes if we ever get your podcast. Let's do a quick five, shall we? And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five. I do love this segment.

All right, first, a European millionaire who recently won the lottery. She's 23 years old, decided to haul off and beat the crap out of her boyfriend, even using a wooden chair during what is called a furious, drunken argument. Her boyfriend's name is Jack. She apparently got very, very mad Harper for some reason about something. I have a genuine question, and I'm going to not answer it.

I'm just going to ask it. How many dudes would stay in the relationship as long as you weren't hurt too badly by a woman acting like a WWE fighter and breaking a wooden chair over your back if she's got a million bucks? She's not the best looking woman in the world. Not trying to be mean, just saying. I know it's a factor for some, but do you stay with this level of crazy?

Because the money is there. I don't know. I don't have an answer. I'm just throwing it out there, but that's a crazy story in the news. Also, this, there's a New York City mystery.

A Porsche fell off of a, this was surprising to me, target parking. Lot, a second floor level of a target parking lot, and flipped upside down. Cops not only found the broken Porsche, they also found tons of money in the undercarriage of the vehicle, along with a cell phone that seemed to be hidden there too. No answer as to why the Porsche was pushed off of the second floor of the Target parking lot, who it belongs to, why there's money under it. Authorities have a lot of questions.

They have no answers. The Porsche was stolen at some point. They're saying at least they know that. Crazy. You're definitely looking for somebody that's probably connected to some other people, maybe someone that looks like a character on the Sopranos.

I don't know. This is coming from an East Coast Italian, as I'm saying this, but a Porsche with a bunch of money in it, that feels like something you should figure out. I have a little bit of audio. This audio is of a woman who's very upset that her coworkers took her very fancy pens off her desk. I'm going to play just a little bit of it.

She starts getting salty and using some bad language toward the tail end of this viral video, so I can't play all of it. But there's something about how upset she is over people taking pens that I'm pretty sure she should have expected going in. Here we go. I need somebody out there to tell me if I am missing an office life social cue here. I went and I bought myself some very nice and very unique pens on my desk at work.

Yep, shouldn't have done. And of course, within a couple of days, they start disappearing. Yep. And I very casually mentioned to some of my coworkers like, hey, if you see my pens, if you could bring them back, that'd be great. You know, maybe give somebody an out of like, oh, they took one and they don't want it, but they took it.

I got you. They're not going to do that. I found it on so-and-so's desk. Yeah, they're not going to tell you that. And by the way, they probably all made fun of you when you walked out of whatever room you were in for trying so hard to get your pens back that you spent way too much money on.

Didn't need to go that road, but she went viral and she's upset. People shouldn't take your stuff. I'm not trying to advocate for it. I'm just saying this is the world we live in, lady. I don't know how you didn't know that.

One last quick thing: a study found out recently that women who answer questions in surveys that say they prefer taller guys, typically because they say there's some shoulder-to-hip ratio thing that's out there. When they say that, they also seem to evaluate themselves as rather attractive. The study found that they said, I want a guy this much taller than me. And then, how good are you? How good looking are you?

Excuse me. And they said, I'm pretty good. I feel pretty good.

So, ladies who demand height also apparently think of themselves in very positive terms. Just putting it out there. Don't shoot the messenger for the message. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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Follow Dana on social media, D Lash or Dana Lash Radio on X, on Twitter, all over the place. Watch her on TV, Direct TV channel 347, YouTube, Rumble, everything. All right, real quick, one of the debates going on, yet again, this is not new. You've heard this before. Actually, a lot of politicians seem to bring this up every year.

Whether or not women should be drafted.

So I think it's Senate Democrats are right now trying to make the latest argument that women indeed need to also be subject to forced enrollment in a draft. And if we ever needed to draft individuals for a conflict again, both women and men would be at risk of being drafted. This is often something that never makes it all the way to actually becoming a law.

However, there are interesting variables to this. And I always remember Chip Roy, I think it was last year, whenever I talk about this, saying fiery things on the house floor in which he claimed that if anyone tried to draft his daughter, they'd have to do it over his dead body. And I'm sure a lot of fathers agree with him. They're like, yeah, no, that's not happening to my kid. But the reason I'm mentioning this is because of some other viral audio from the other day.

This is not talking about the draft specifically, but this is Senator John Kennedy talking about the difference between boys and girls. And at some point, I think he actually broke out some crayons to help in his demonstration of how biology, in fact, does demonstrate that we're not all the same, no matter what some in certain places of our society are trying to tell us. I will play some of this audio. And as I said, at one point, there are crayons. I know it's the radio, so you can't see it.

But I think it's a really interesting way to tie two topics together. The right for women to compete in women's athletics, not against biologically superior athletes who are men that are saying they're now women, but also the idea of this draft and why, in fact, it does make sense that it's just men who get drafted. But here we go a little bit with Senator Kennedy. between biological males and biological females explode during puberty. Girls during puberty develop 14%.

smaller hearts. Their lungs are 12%. smaller than girls. You cannot debate that. That's just A biological fact.

Yes, it is. One of many. Helps boys take in oxygen and pump blood more efficiently than girls can. That gives boys a clear edge. in endurance sports like swimming, for example.

Cycling. Right. Rowing. Or, I think, actually fighting and protecting our country. It's one of several things that's obviously different about men and women.

But here's the thing: so often in our society, there are people who want it both ways. They want you to say, yes, absolutely, we do things in this certain way with this certain set of rules. If it makes sense to us for whatever woke reason, we want it to make sense. But then when we flip the rules, when we change the rules, we don't want to abide by all the same things. It's not to say that women can't fight in our military.

I don't want anyone to run with whoever that idiot was filling in for the Dana Lash on the Dana show said that women shouldn't be in our military. Of course, they should be, especially in a world where it's a voluntary service. Those who want to fight and protect our country, I admire all of them. I don't care if you're a man or a woman. If you want to do that right now, if you want to put your life potentially on the line for my freedom, I support you, I respect you, and I've seen people do amazing stuff with the right training, regardless of who they are.

That might sound woke to say, but I've seen it. I've actually seen it on military bases before. And so as you say that, you then realize that there is an utter difference between forced service and the opposite of that, voluntary service. And then even more so with this conversation, the willingness to admit that, okay, in some circumstances, men and women are in fact different. Actually, this is my probably favorite group to target this question with.

And I remember this. I was in a college course, and I had a nutty professor or whatever you want to call them, who was going on this long rant about all the woke stuff. And I'm in my late 30s, so this was almost 20 years ago now. But it was the same rant that probably happens on college campuses throughout the entire country about how there's no differences and this and that and everything. And I remember I just raised my hand in that classroom just to ask the question.

I don't think I intended to troll everybody as much as it happened to do it. And I asked about this. I was like, well, if we're not any different, Why are just men the ones who get enrolled to potentially be drafted? And chaos erupted. And a bunch of the woke women in my class that were eating up all the things the professor was saying were upset with me.

They were so, so angry. How dare I say something like that? And I think that's where these conversations can be destroyed. I think that's where the ideology of some can crater. And I do think it'd be a lot of those, say, suburban house moms who would be on the same team I'm on in thinking that it would be wrong to draft their daughters if they don't want to go fight in a conflict to go fight in a conflict.

And yet at the same time, there are a lot of those very loud voices in certain places in our society telling us we have to do this different and that different and everything has to be, you know, a certain way and it can't be any other way. It's just interesting to think about when those ideas start to crack, start to break, and start to profoundly change. Other things out there in the news, I thought this was interesting. Russia, I think very desperately, has turned to, of all places, North Korea, not exactly the partnership that's going to make as big of an impact on Russia as it will on North Korea, and signed a partnership of mutual aid, saying that if either of them are to face aggression of any kind, the other country would step in and act, similar to the NATO agreement that exists between the United States and our allies. This is something.

Vladimir Putin turning to Kim Jong-un, the tiny man, I think as some have described him, out of North Korea as one of the only people, China, of course, a much more significant threat in partnering with Russia to stand in and fight if there were ever to be a more significant conflict. And I wonder if there's a... Aspect to this, because you've been hearing a lot in the news that United States weaponry has been used to attack. Things within Russia, something that the U.S. had claimed they would not allow Ukraine to do, but is happening.

And could that be interpreted, as Russia has alluded, to an attack by the United States on Russia? And then would that kick in any sort of desire, say, for North Korea to be in direct military conflict with us? A military conflict that oftentimes Trump himself, who did also say he had a good relationship with Kim Jong-un, would say would be an absolute horrible mistake. And obviously it would be by North Korea because they cannot fight a power as strong as ours. But what I think this really screams.

And I know this might be a repetitive thought. I know you might hear it a lot, but it makes sense to actually back it up with those things that happen in the world that show us what people are saying to you are, in fact, true. Just how weak Biden is. There's no fear between Russia and North Korea to make a pact like this, an agreement like this, make it public, demonstrate a willingness to fight off whoever it is that they were to be in conflict with. And I do think that the reason we haven't seen things like this before was a belief that the US military would act.

And it's not that our military has gotten weaker. It's the commander-in-chief is someone that people know as a paper tiger, if he's even someone who's aware of what's going on at all. And so I find it absolutely fascinating and utterly important. To again point out how rare these kinds of moves were by China, Russia, North Korea, China insinuating that it might at some point invade Taiwan and even having military operations that surround Taiwan. All of these things are things you saw far less often just a few years ago.

It's not just the economy that was better. There were other things that were very different, and it might be good. If this is the right way to say it, to think that the person in charge in our military is unpredictable as opposed to utterly predictable and utterly weak. But we have yet another example of that here. All right, one last thing.

I just thought this was interesting. Tom Elliott of Grabian, who's a great social media account that you should absolutely follow. He puts out these supercuts that are hilarious and demonstrate a lot of ridiculous things that happen in the world of media. But he used his service to look up how many times in the last three days corporate media has talked about cheap fakes. White House cheap fakes claimed that these videos of Biden, which are real, are edited in some sort of way to make you more convinced that his brain is broken than it really is.

Typically, I think they just zoom in on Biden. Or they are shorter than they should be, but they're all real.

So you can't call them deep fakes. You can't say they don't exist. You're just saying that it's inappropriately edited, which is to me hilarious. That's the weakest win anyone is ever trying to get in the world of political back and forth. But 49 hours have been spent discussing cheap fake talking points on mainstream media in the last three days.

49 hours collectively, they've done segments and conversations about how it's terrible and it's awful, and society and the political system that we have is being absolutely upended by those who do not tell the truth and lie to you. It's. Interesting because this feels very similar to the Hunter Biden laptop stuff. Where media and the left were in lockstep on telling you that it was fake, that it was Russian disinformation, that Rudy Giuliani was horrible and he's the one who found it, so you can't trust him. They shot the messenger, not the message, and they're trying to do that again.

They're trying to say that the people putting out these videos that again they're admitting are real, have a dastardly purpose. They have a horrible, terrible purpose, and that purpose is letting you know that the brain of our current president is broken. And it's not getting better, it's getting slowly worse. And if you were a human, which all of us are, you would want for his own mental health. the guy to go away.

But if you're also mad at the political system we're in and lying, you would want them to at least admit the fact that he doesn't even know how to get into an SUV. That's the newest one. It takes him way too long to get out of a plane, walk across a platform and get into an SUV. That's the current guy in charge of the country. That's the guy that's so unintimidating that he allows Russia and North Korea to have a joint press conference announcing their support of each other from a military standpoint and North Korea to say that they want a lot of help from Russia in developing nuclear weapons.

That's the world we're in because of the person that we put in the White House.

Well, I know a lot of people don't think we did that legitimately, and that's fine with me, but the person currently in the White House who has so, so many. Individuals and countries looking at him and thinking, yeah, this guy's not that scary, and that's bad for us. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Don't let FOMO get the best of you.

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All right. I love this very quickly. A Jen Zier, a woman who is admittedly rather attractive. Her name is Emily. You could look her up if you want to.

Emily Webb, I guess. She's 25. She lives in Australia. She had a hot take recently on the internet where she said, if you're attractive, as attractive as she is, of course. There's no such thing as being homeless.

She has not had an apartment for quite some time. She said that even though she's got a high income from some website she works on, she can't find the right spot in Australia. But luckily, because of her looks, every single night that she goes out, she's got somewhere to stay because of some very kind guy that's letting her, I assume, crash on the couch. We all know what I'm actually saying there, what she's saying. But she said this is something that all hot women need to know.

That you're never homeless. There's always a free place to stay. There's always a free evening to be had.

So just live that life. She no longer has any interest in finding a home quickly. She'll just keep going out into the evening. People have other names for this, by the way, but she just calls it pretty privilege, I guess.

So that's what that is. I find that interesting. It was a hot take. Not everybody agreed that being attractive means you're not actually homeless if you don't, in fact, live anywhere officially. Also, this story was just strange.

The oldest wine ever discovered apparently contains a horrifying ingredient. It's humans, it's cremated human remains. This is from the Journal of Archaeological Science. Amazing swimsuit issue for that journal. I'm kidding.

Nobody has a good swimsuit issue anymore. Anyway, the University of Cardoba recently found that this wine had really, really creepy, soylent green type stuff in it. We don't know why. We don't know what benefit that provided to anyone. Anyone that consumed it, but it made it even more horrific or just stranger that this is the kind of thing that existed at some point in our world.

I guess things can always be worse, is a lesson you might learn from that sort of story: is that no matter how bad society seems to be getting, at least we're not drinking a wine that is soil and green. All right. I know that with just the last minute or so here left, we do some news of the stupid. Let's go ahead and fire that off. Hey Greg, how you doing?

Jumping in here. Anthony Fauci's on the view, so he had a lot of cuts there, but I think this is the best one so far. He was talking about his disagreements with Trump. This is what his quote was: it was. Is that when the CDC came out and made the recommendations that when you're indoors, we should be wearing masks.

That was at the time that the infections were going like that. And when he got up and said, well, it's a recommendation, but I'm not going to do it. I choose not to do it. I considered that a missed opportunity to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to get people to do things. Yeah, I remember that one.

To use the bully pulpit of the presidency to get people to do stuff that he wants you to do. Also, in fact, all the studies came out to say that wearing masks was incredibly ineffective at helping any of this.

So that is today and stupid. Dr. Anthony Fauci still defending himself. I think he's one of the only guys that was a face of COVID or one of the only medical professionals that is admitting the fewest mistakes. Even Dr.

Deborah Burks in her book said there were things they oversold, things that they misrepresented to the American people. By and large, Fauci says everything they told us was science. And it was backed up by science. But yeah, so that is today and stupid. I have one too, actually, if I can play it real quick.

A bank robber walked into a wide open bank during noon and found that he could steal stuff.

So he did that. This was in Florida. He actually got caught because of cameras and whatnot. But open door, open bank. Hey, man, this is my free ticket to money.

Here we go. We don't know whether at noon when the bank employees left, if they accidentally left it unlocked. We don't know if a cleaning crew came after the fact and left it unlocked. We don't know. Why blame the cleaning crew, by the way?

That was a mean shot by the Martin County Sheriff. His name is John. We don't know who left the door open. We know that at least one Florida man tried to take all the money. Luckily, he failed.

All right, that was today and stupid. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. Talk to you tomorrow.