Friday August 30 - Full Show

This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back after the holiday. You can find her everywhere, D-Lash or Dana Lash Radio on X, on Twitter. She's on the TV.

She's all over the place.

So you can find her on everything. Let's get right to it. The big thing that happened yesterday, what I was calling the Big Girl press conference or the Big Girl actually interview. And the reason I'm doing that, by the way, anybody that's going to get mad and already start yelling stuff about sexism and whatnot, is when Biden finally gave a press conference after a whole long time of not giving one, his own press secretary, Corinne John Pierre, called it a big boy press conference. She said it.

I could play the audio. I'm not going to waste your time with it. But so anyway, after taking a really long time to give a first interview, this feels like the similar version of the big boy press conference. That's the big girl interview.

Now, it was taped, so it was not actually live. It was edited. And then also the person who did the interview, tremendously friendly with Kamala Harris. And with Tim Walls. And even having Walls there was a big thing that people had debated going in.

Yes, at times, presidents sit down with their vice presidential candidates and do interviews. They also do them alone. That's something that seems to be lost in everyone that says it's sexist to even criticize her for choosing not to be alone in her first interview after getting the nomination. But here's one of the more talked about moments. This is when Harris said that she has no regrets in how much she defended Biden and his capabilities, his capacity to serve four more years, even though eventually he was killed Caesar-style.

That's at least the way I'll talk about it in the world of politics and removed. And then Harris was forced because she didn't actually win any sort of primary. That's something you and I both obviously know. But here is Harris talking about she has no regrets for the way in which she handled things up until now. Vice President Harris, you were a very staunch defender of President Biden's capacity to serve.

Another four years right after the debate, you insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong. Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people? No, not at all. Not at all. I've served with President Biden for almost four years now, and I'll tell you, it's one of the greatest.

Wait, have you? Because I feel like sometimes when people talk about this, they pretend you haven't been there at all and you'd like to get into the White House in order to do some of the stuff that are your ideas for how to make things better.

So I'm so confused. Have you been the vice president for four years or not? I'm kidding, here are the things that are. Greatest honors of my career. Truly.

He cares so deeply about the American people. He is so smart and. and loyal to the American people. And I have spent hours. hours upon hours with him, be it in the Oval Office or the Situation Room.

Wait, have you though? Because again, I'm sorry, I want to keep asking that question because it sounds like you're not at all involved in any of the decisions he made that are unpopular. But nonetheless, what I love about this. Is I would picture Biden, if he's capable of understanding what Harris is saying, which I'm not sure anymore, being upset to hear all these singing of his praises from Nancy Pelosi, from anybody, because it's the only world in which I think you have to deal with watching publicly. Maybe sports is kind of like this.

Everybody that evidently didn't want you to be in charge anymore saying how great you are after they get you fired. Like there's no other, I wouldn't have to deal with that in a workplace. If somebody or a group of people got me ousted, got me canned, you wouldn't have to like go somewhere and hear how great you were for all these people who were treating you like crap the whole time beforehand. And that's what everybody did to Biden. They absolutely, you know, at two brute, seizored him right out of his position when he demanded or was defiant that he wasn't going anywhere.

And then after that, said how great he was and that he deserves to be on the Mount Rushmore of presidents, it's insane. People are also doing another thing that I love. In response to the Dana Bash interview of Harris and Walls, because there's even a moment where Walls blames the fact that he's literally had some stolen valor issues during his entire political career on grammar, on just not being very good at the old grammar shucks, which is insane and probably borderline offensive if you're military to hear someone blame their pretending they went to a combat zone when they didn't as being a grammar mistake. But people are demonstrating the difference when Dana Bash sat down with J.D. Vance and the way that she not only asked questions, but then made statements either in response to things Vance said or before Vance spoke that demonstrated just how adversarial that conversation would be, utterly different than the way she just interviewed the vice president and her running mate.

And you can tell here, these are just moments of Bash talking to J.D. Vance. I don't even think there's a lot of Vance answers in here, but this went very, very Viral for, well, good reasons. A little bit. Kamala Harris has been calling the shots.

As who? There's no evidence that Kamala Harris threw him overboard, called you and Donald Trump, and that is weird. Sure. You're saying Tim Walls doesn't have affection for his wife. I don't even understand that.

They have done both. They have both policies and they are trying to define. You have been on the campaign trail questioning Tim Walls's military record. Governor Walls served 24 years. He even stayed after he could have retired because of 9-11.

More than. The country asked of him. Do you honor his service? I will say that the Harris at Walls campaign did say that the governor misspoke. That was a much, he did say that the governor misspoke.

He, you know, he owned it.

Now, Bash actually did ask that question to Tim Walls. One of the only questions that was asked to him, I think, during this, and it was only like 17 or 18 minutes, I think, that they spoke. The big giant sit-down interview did not last anywhere near as long as you probably think it should have lasted. But again, the moment that seems to be the most ridiculous to me and to a lot of other people, as far as Tim Walls' answers go, is saying that his stolen valor claim is just a whoopsie-daisy in the world of grammar. It's the kind of thing that should make a lot of people real, real mad to hear.

And then Walls does the thing that he, that often, I guess, a lot of politicians do, where after you say, you know, whatever your defense is for something, you then immediately. Move to all the ways in which you've been a victim yourself or you've been attacked yourself or whatever it is. But here is the moment where she does ask him and she has to ask him twice about his stolen valor or at least the accusation of stolen valor, where he said he carried a weapon in a war when he never actually was put in any sort of combat situation while serving in the National Guard. Governor Walsh. The country is just starting to get to know you.

I want to ask you a question about how you. I can't. I can't even already. Like, they're just starting to get to know you. J.D.

Vance is a big giant pile of crap, but we're just figuring you out and we're ready to listen. We're ready to understand if some things have been a whoopsie. You've described your service in the National Guard. You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke.

Did you?

Well, first of all, I'm incredibly proud. I've done 24 years of wearing the uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it's Congress or the governor. My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do.

I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves. No, I know a whole bunch of veterans in a whole bunch of military, and none of them make up if they fought in a war zone or not. I honor all of their service. I absolutely do.

I thank every single person, and everyone should thank every person that fights or signs up to fight within our military and gets deployed anywhere, gets sent away from loved ones, from family for months at a time. All of those things are hard. But I know nobody else that served our country who claims to fight when they didn't fight in a combat zone. You're the only guy I know that says it like that. I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns.

So I think people know me. They know who I am. They know where my heart is. And again, My record has been out there for over 40 years to speak for itself.

Okay, so I want to stop it right there. If Bash didn't push and ask this question a second time, Tim Walls thinks that's a good enough answer to the stolen valor accusation, essentially not answering the question at all. And it's not just because, and somebody on the left will tell you, oh, this is the latest conspiracy theory on the right. This is the latest horrible thing that we made up that we're obsessing about and attacking people on or attacking this individual on because it's the only thing we got. And he's such a great person or whatever the crap might be.

His career. He's been dogged with these kinds of accusations, that he overstates his rank when he retired from the National Guard. No matter what rank he might have achieved, if he didn't retain that rank when he retired because he didn't do all the necessary things to retain said rank, then that's not the rank he retired with. Beyond that, too, saying that you go into a combat zone when you didn't, that matters. And that's not a whoops a daisy.

That's not a, oh, I got it wrong or I misspoke or whatever the excuse is that Bash is literally feeding him, that she uses herself to defend him when he's not even in the interview. And she's talking to J.D. Vance or anyone else, but he tried to just not say any of that.

So she presses him one more time. And. The idea that you said that you were in war. Did you misspeak as the campaign has said? I said we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war.

And my wife, the English teacher, told me my grammar is not always correct. But again, if it's not this, it's an attack on my dog. I love the, hold on, let me finish. My children for showing love for me, or it's an attack on my dog. I'm not going to do that.

And the one thing I'll never do is I'll never demean another member's service in any way. I'll never demean another member's service as long as they don't lie about it. I feel like that's the one moment where military would actually challenge other military with, wait, what did you say? Is what you said the truth or not? But that's victimhood all over there.

Even saying that my wife, the English teacher, lets me know my grammar's not so good is an awesh version of, I guess I got it wrong. I didn't mean to say in war, but I said in war, and that was whoopsies and my bad. This is insane and it's infuriating. It should make people so angry who support this side of the aisle. Because of how defiant, how arrogant people are in the world of politics and saying, you know what?

I don't even care to take this seriously. You know what Tim Wall should have said? And I'll take a break after I say this. Yes, I exaggerated. Yes, whatever excuse he gives, which wouldn't be good enough, but anyone he gives about I was passionate in the moment thinking about this issue that I have a strong opinion on, that I utterly disagree with his opinion on, nonetheless, on what would make school safer.

It would not be trying to take everybody's guns away. But nonetheless, as you talk about that, that version of an answer at least would be the owning it or the manly way or honestly the way that a bunch of military that I know would handle this. They'll be like, yeah, I did that wrong. I shouldn't have done that. And I wish I hadn't done that, and I wish I could take it back and move on from that.

And yeah, the American people won't like you for it, but at least they won't listen to you and think that you're such an arrogant piece of, well, you know, that you think you don't even have to answer the question at first. And then when you do answer it, you can give yourself the rosiest explanation possible of how you're a great guy and the other side of the aisle is just real, real mean about everything, including my dog. None of that is relevant to whether or not you lied about your military career, sir. And that is something that's important to the American people, or at least should be important to the American people. All right, a quick break, a lot coming up.

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Let's get right to them. One, parents are naming their children, their newborn babies, after a viral trend on TikTok called the Demure trend, which seems to be popularized by one specific TikTok person.

And this is so, so dumb, so, so stupid. But one person was very happy to show that her child, Demure Rain, has been born and is going to be very upset when they go to school and find out all the ridiculous reasons of why they're named with their name. But I guess the very simple cheat sheet of my own life would tell you, don't name your child after a TikTok trend. Not a good move, not a smart thing. Other things out there, Gator wine is now becoming very popular.

This is both Gatorade and cheap red wine mixed together. The actual social media recipe calls for Glacier Freeze Gatorade and anything $12. Or less of the red wine variety. Apparently, when mixed together, they taste way better than you think they're going to taste. There's at least one social media influencer who went viral saying the taste test lives up to the hype, baby.

It's not like anything I've ever tasted. If I'm being honest, I'd rather drink this than Barefoot or Yellowzale. I drink that on the rocks. The more I'm drinking it, the more I like it. The more I'm drinking it, the more I like it.

And he even will have this drink on the rocks. Gator wine. It's out there. It's in the world. It's making us professional drinkers.

Very, very sad for this current generation of young people. That doesn't mean that I was above these sort of things when I was in college. I drank a Keystone 30 with my friends. It's totally fine, but I never needed to mix Gatorade with cheap wine. If you're going cheap wine, just drink it, man.

You don't need to add that second item to it. By the way, I think tomorrow is International Bacon Day. Happy International Bacon Day. 60% of people said they would eat bacon every single day if they could. I love the fact that if they could was thrown in there, because guess what?

You're an adult. You can do this. You can go rogue if you want to. Live your life and live it as proudly as you can, as proudly as you so desire. And then probably, I guess, go to the heart doctor quite often.

71% of people said everything tastes better with bacon. I agree with that. I'm not going to have any exceptions to that rule. 43% of male diners say the quickest way to their heart is to prepare them bacon. And I thought about that because, well, it's usually easier.

to create bacon than some other food items out there.

So if you're with somebody and they're not amazing cook, but they make you bacon, that's going to work out quite well almost all the time. Even if you burn it, man, it's bacon. How do you really ruin that? But that's probably why. At least that's my guess as to why.

I don't need the fancy version of the grilled cheese and the bacon and the whatnot. Those items are fine just the way they are. And then finally, one last thing, and maybe I'll play some audio a little bit later on in the show, but a dude got a package from Amazon. This guy's in Colorado, and it had. Mm-hmm.

It had poop in it. I don't know how to say that different, so I'm just going to say it that way. He's very upset, and he asked for more information. He just wants answers as to who put this in the box and left it on his front porch and why. And I think out of everybody asking for answers in our world, he deserves them more than anybody else.

Tell John why Amazon mailed him poop. That is something that I stand by and honestly would be a campaign slogan if I were running for office in 2024. All right. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. A lot more coming up in a little bit.

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All right. First, a very sad story that broke this morning. I'm just going to play some of the audio from a local ABC affiliate on the East Coast talking about the shocking and tragic passing of a NHL star and his brother who were riding their bikes and were hit by a drunk driver in New Jersey. Here is that audio from this morning. News right now, we have just confirmed that NHL star Johnny Goudreau and his brother Matthew were killed in a bicycle crash in Salem County that we've been telling you about all morning long.

New Jersey State Police say 43-year-old Sean Higgins of Woodstown was under the influence when he hit the brothers with his SUV along County Route 551 in Oldsman, Town. Township last night. Goudreau was a local star before he made it big, graduating from Gloucester Catholic High School. And the tributes from the hockey world are pouring in this morning. We're going to have continuing coverage.

Again, the death. Yeah, there are a lot of people in the sports world reacting to this, of course, as we as a society often do when anyone who's this young with this much promise in whatever it is they do professionally, especially if it's something that reaches national attention and hockey players or musicians, athletes, actors and actresses, a lot of people can grab your attention. It's just such a tragic story and tragic passing of both him and his brother. You can't imagine what it's like to be their family right now going through any of this. But nonetheless, and I was wondering this kind of out loud to myself, and I'll just throw it out there to the massive audience of this show: why it's more impactful, even when you don't know someone, when it's someone as famous as Johnny Grudeau is.

As opposed to, you know, when this also happens in our own lives. And that also, of course, hits us very hard, hits us very deeply. But I imagine this loss will hit a whole lot of people that don't even pay attention to hockey because, again, it's essentially a star of a major sport in our country being tragically taken at such a young age. And there's other stories of other athletes and, as I said, other famous people who have something horrible happen to them too. But nonetheless, a big story and probably going to be talked about by a lot of people today.

All right, moving on to stuff that feels way less important, but darn it, is the stuff we talk about all the time in the world of politics. Kamala Harris did her interview with, and I love that some people are calling this her support animal or support buddy, vice presidential candidate Tim Walls. She addressed one of the more challenging things that she's going to have to deal with running for this office, and it's how crazy far-left and radical she's been a majority of her political career, even when debating in 2020 as a vice presidential candidate, kind of refusing to clarify her own positions on things and allowing whatever Biden's position was to be the position she was likely to take in some issues. But last night, she said that her positions haven't changed. It's you who've changed or something.

I don't know. Here we go. Dave, the most important and most significant aspect of. My policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. Senator Harris.

All right, hold on. I'm going to wait a second before I say that. Her values have not changed.

Now, there's a bunch of mashups of all the different ways that her values have absolutely changed since she was first brought into any office at all. And now that she's running as a presidential nominee and someone who's going to need to be more in the middle than she's ever been at any point in her career in California or anywhere else. And here is just a quick version of said mashup, which is excellently created. My values have not changed. Does red meat specifically?

Yes. Boston marathon bomber. They should be able to vote. I think we should have that conversation. Abolish ICE.

Would you ban offshore drilling? Yes, and I'm in favor of banning fracking. I am prepared to pass a Green New Deal. I support a mandatory buyback program. We're not going to treat people who are undocumented across the border as criminals.

The idea that more police equals more safety. That's just wrong. Policing, as we know, goes all the way back to slave patrols and that idea of-you are absolutely right. Stand on defund the police. We need to take a look at these budgets.

Do you ban plastic straws? I think we should. At 70 to 80 percent tax rate. I think that's fantastic. Chipping now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

How dare we speak Merry Christmas? Yeah, I am radical. I do believe that we need to get radical about what we are doing. I do believe we need to get radical about what we're doing. I am radical.

These are the positions she's been proud of. And the whole crazy screaming out loud, how dare we say Merry Christmas, it's insane. And honestly, as bad as whatever Tim Walls is trying to do in taking back any of his stolen valor behavior that existed during his political career, this version of Kamala Harris deserves to be talked about and at the forefront of everybody's minds when you're deciding who to vote for. Say what you will about Trump. If you love him or you hate him, the idea that Trump's somebody who for the last however many years has been fairly similar in his positions is evident.

And yeah, Trump at one point even donated to Democratic parties. He didn't necessarily run campaigns himself, but he wrote checks for people for who knows what reasons. And Trump has talked about some of that before. But this version of I'm going to be whatever I have to be to get elected wherever I am makes you have no idea what her actual positions are. And a lot of people would probably believe they're actually far left because you're sort of insane if you pretend that those are your positions at any point in your political career to be so radical in your policies.

I don't think that that's something that a lot of people decide to just fake because. But nonetheless, it's now caused you or I or anyone to wonder what's going to actually happen if she is in the office and what radical decisions would she make? How much money would it cost the American people? How bad would it be for our economy? All that stuff.

And I don't have to go as far as to fearmonger that it would be the end of the country as we know it, because I don't think either candidate would actually be capable of ending the way the country is built because of the checks and balances system that's in it. And that's such a stupid take whenever they say it about Trump. But nonetheless, she's got a lot of real crazy ideas. The Green New Deal, one of my favorite ones that she was a huge supporter of until the interview last night where she said, oh, I don't support that. How dare you?

But then I actually had to say out loud that my opinions haven't changed because the arrogance. I'll talk about it constantly, the arrogance of people in the world of politics. I don't know what it's like. You know what actually, let me say this. I wonder if you've ever walked into a room, I've done this before, especially in the industry I work in right now, where the person in power has decided you can't be right.

It doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter how you say it, it doesn't matter what you do over the next 20 minutes, you're wrong and you have to be wrong for whatever reason that the company thinks or whoever is in charge thinks it makes sense for you to be wrong.

So you could say all kinds of stuff. You could literally say the sky's blue. And this person in this meeting will be like, well, it's actually not. You're an idiot. It's real.

These are things that happen sometimes to some of us in certain situations. And I just love it because that's how politicians are about everything. about any like a caught a caught you moment where they're red-handed, the you lied about this or you said this or you did this, like you could literally find them robbing a bank in the middle of the night, you know, Harris and Walls with the mask on and everything, the ridiculous comical money sack and a bunch of money in it and they're walking out of the bank and being like, hey, did you rob that bank? We didn't. We did not rob that bank.

That is something that you thought you saw and something that our opponent said about us, which was horrible and terrible, and not at all what we were doing. What were you doing? That's not important. What we were doing doesn't matter. What does matter is who's attacking us for this thing that's not what you think it is?

It doesn't matter. They will never admit when they've made a mistake. And I don't know what that is in the political spaces because it would be so powerful to do the opposite. It would be so stunning. To hear somebody say, you know what?

Yeah, I got that reel wrong. I'm a human being. I made a mistake. I wish I could take it back. You don't have to forgive me for what I've done in the past, but it's not the person I am today.

And just see how that works. I'm not saying it would make us all forgive and forget everything, but at least it would be different than the arrogance and the treating us as stupidly as they do and assuming they can lie to our faces. And we'll just be like, all right, that's good. That's enough. By the way, another thing that seems to be a pretty significant lie that's out there now is the whole attack on Trump.

for what he do about uh women's health. It's been a long-running, disingenuous version of what actually happened to say that Trump or Republicans banned abortion. That didn't occur. There's a whole lot of states where nothing has changed in the rule of abortion laws. And then there's some states where things have changed because the Supreme Court, which, yes, I know Trump was deeply influential in creating the current version of it, but they voted that it's a state issue and not a federal issue.

That's not even banning it at the Supreme Court level. They let states do whatever they want. But now Trump is saying that if he is made president, that IVF treatments are something that will be incredibly affordable one way or another. This is the extension fight that happens where people say, well, Trump's against abortion and he's going to do all this stuff to make it a federal ban. And then, oh, also, he's going to prevent people who struggle to have a baby to have one because he's going to make IVF treatments illegal or something.

That's not even a thing he's ever said, but it's a way to further the extreme version of talking about something that tried to land this topic within his policy. And so he went the other way. I'm announcing today in a made your statement that under the Trump administration your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for. All costs associated with IVF treatment, fertilization for women. IBF2.

Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely. And I got to be honest: we want more babies is a campaign slogan that does need to be a thing that he needs. That needs to be a shirt. Trump Vance, we want more babies. Because we want more babies, to put it very nicely.

We do. And for this same reason, we will also allow new parents. to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes so that parents that have a beautiful Baby. We'll be able.

So we're pro-family. Nobody's ever said that before. Nobody's ever said that before. We are pro-family and we're going to do this. There's something interesting about Trump running in 2024 that I've noticed that maybe you've noticed if you've been paying attention.

There is such a reason for him and his own election team to believe that he cannot lose the support. Of those who've adored him, loved him, the, I guess they call a MAGA Republican, although I don't even necessarily know what that means. And I'll define what I'm saying there. There's a whole lot of Republicans who'd vote for Trump that aren't the version of Republican that Democrats say they are. And at the same time, also don't think it's all that bad.

If you do love Trump as much as some people do, that's not as horrible and terrible as people make it out to be. It's just sort of ridiculous. But nonetheless, to get back to it, what I think is so interesting is because of that, because the core support is impossible to lose, Trump can be more in the middle. On some policies, than maybe any other Republican candidate can be, or at least say he'll be more in the middle. And of course, probably most of the left won't believe him, won't trust him.

The same thing is literally happening with Kamala Harris right now, claiming she's in the middle on a whole bunch of stuff that she's not in the middle on. But all the things that Harris is doing are to benefit her and her campaign. None of them are looking into the face of, say, a likely challenge in core support and going that road anyway. And like him or not. Trump is someone that at this point for sure, but I think throughout the entirety of his, if you even want to call it, political career, from when he first ran for President in 2016 to now, has been someone that likes to be at the forefront of an issue, not someone reacting to it and following the trend.

He is someone who decides to say things even in the face of judgment from his own political side of the aisle. And that's something that, well, leaders do. And that might sound like significant praise to those who hate Trump, but it's simply true that if you decide a policy is yours, no matter what your own side of the aisle will think of it, then that's something that is unafraid of being judged or losing support from the core demographics, which Kamala is terrified of and not going to do anything to put in jeopardy even a little bit. And that's not what leaders do. All right, quick break, a lot more.

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Do not eat boarshead meat. Feels like, okay, it's an oversimplification, but it's essentially a story out there. Apparently, a plant that makes mostly boarshead has been linked to a deadly listeria outbreak, Listeria outbreak, and several different items are impacted. The U.S. Department of Agriculture went to the facility and found mold, mildew, insects, all kinds of bad things.

This is a plant in Virginia.

So a lot of stuff of boar's head is being recalled. And I think 57 hospitalizations have taken place in 18 states that are linked to this recall. At least nine people have died. From these reports, two in South Carolina, one in Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico, and New York. This is the largest outbreak of this kind since 2011, when an outbreak was linked specifically to cantaloupe, according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention.

So be careful out there, specifically with a certain brand of food that's usually very good, although I wouldn't really recommend any of the stuff that's been recalled right now. Another thing out there that I saw that I thought was pretty interesting: your voice may reveal if you have type 2 diabetes based on the pitch of it. Researchers in Canada, which I don't know if that means we should trust it or not, I'm kidding, have found that your blood sugar is tied to a slightly higher frequency in your voice, meaning that Doctors could try to detect if you have type 2 diabetes based on how high-pitched you speak. If you got a real, real low, deep voice, you're probably doing well in the world of diabetes, although I'm sure this is not 100% foolproof. And the opposite is true if you do not have that, apparently.

But this might be a test that has further significance in the future. For now, they're probably going to do other stuff and not do interviews and ask you to speak to them and then decide what illnesses you have. And then finally, one last thing, and I like this a lot too, as just a random story that's out there in the world. More Gen Zers are deciding to skip college completely and take either blue-collar jobs or launch their own trade businesses. And they're loving it.

They quoted several people in CNBC on a story in CNBC's website about how smart of a decision it was, how this younger generation has way more money because of these moves they're making in the world of their education and also their careers. And a whole lot of us millennials wish we had done this. This seems like a fantastic idea, but I love. That it actually takes a news report for people to be like, man, maybe I should also try that. Maybe I should also do that.

But yes, don't go to college, get a blue-collar job seems to be just okay for a whole lot of people. All right, this is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. She is back, as I said, after the holiday, but a lot of stuff coming up, including some more serious things, I promise, right after this. Tax Network USA. Because the IRS just wants so much of your money.

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Find Dana. Everywhere, all over the place, D-Lash or Dana Lash radio, as far as two places to find her on X, on Twitter. A brand new Nate Silver 538 forecast shows Trump has a really good shot at winning the election. The most recent one before this one, I think back in August, on August 14th, 56.7% chance that Harris was going to win that thing, according to 538. I don't think a lot of people actually believe this.

42% chance that Trump was going to win. Fast forward to the 29th. 52.4% chance, according to Nate Silver, that Trump's winning the 2024 election. 47% chance that Harris is. People are saying that Harris is already peaked as far as the amount of support and interest in her because, oh, yeah, now she has to start doing stuff.

She has to start saying things, doing interviews, did her first one the other night. And there's certainly things that you could object to or react to as far as that goes. Also, just really quickly, one of the dumber things being talked about is the debate rules themselves. I don't even think Trump cares. I saw Trump the other day say that he'd rather have the mics unmuted, but it didn't really matter.

And the previous agreement with ABC was to have them muted.

So we can just go ahead and do that. But ABC did reject Kamala Harris's attempt to unmute the microphones. And the thinking in political circles was that by unmuting them, it would make Trump seem like a big old jerk every time he interrupted and talked over Kamala Harris. It's just so stupid. I wouldn't want to win.

You know what's funny about this? At least in my opinion, what I think is funny about this. And it's a weird thing to equate this to. And I probably shouldn't think of a presidential election the same way I thought of a boxcar pinewood derby when I was a kid in, and I promise it'll try to make sense, when I was a kid in the Cub Scouts or the Boy Scouts. But it's the same thing.

I remember going to the Pinewood Derbies and building my own car and my car coming in dead last pretty much all the time. I had a single mom as a parent, so I didn't have a man in the house who was going to help me build the car fancier. And my mom didn't know anything about vehicles.

So I built them poorly. I did a bad job. And then I would watch the kid who'd win the thing have like the, you know, mechanic pop or somebody else who came in second place have like a very knowledgeable individual wind up helping them build it. I wouldn't want to win that way, is what I'm trying to say. I wanted to come in last, but I wanted to do something that was really mine.

And so if you're Harris, I would want to win in a debate because you say better stuff than the opponent, not because you can make the opponent look like a big old mane if they interrupt you too many times. But as I said, anyway, it was rejected, and ABC is going to mute the microphones, which apparently, according to the left, will make Trump look too presidential, which is bad. But anyway, just to go back to it, as of right now, 538 is projecting. A more likely Trump win than a Harris win, as far as the presidential election goes, and a lot of the battleground states go. Also, this is interesting.

Colorado is now dealing with a lot of viral videos of essentially what appears to be gun-toting illegal immigrants. I think arm Venezuelan immigrants is what social media is reporting them to be, just taking over like apartment complexes, just being crazy. And now signs are popping up throughout parts of Denver and other parts of Colorado calling them Kamala's legals. And Kamala Harris is someone who very famously, for quite some time, said we shouldn't make crossing the border illegally a crime anymore. It should be decriminalized, which is an insane take, and a take that would have even more problems if enough problems didn't already exist.

But you see those sort of things, and you wonder to yourself, How people can actually vote for Harris when their life experience is telling them not to. And one of the other really interesting things that's out there right now is this interview that was given with voters. And so, what I found really interesting about this moment is that these voters are speaking rather candidly about the things they like or dislike about Harris. And a black man is saying that he doesn't really think that she understands that. You know, group of people, as well as she's claiming to understand that group of people because her life experience is not the same as his.

Now, before I even play the audio, this guy, who's a black guy, is being attacked for this position, for saying what he said, which is sort of insane. And it was on MSNBC of all places too, where they played the audio. But very often we talk about how life experience matters and how people that aren't anything like you trying to make rules that impact your life are sort of inherently unfair at times and the ridiculousness of the wealth of the political elite. This has been one of my favorite conversations recently I've had with friends where you talk to them about the Democrats and they say how they're the good guys. This is usually the version of speak of someone who's on that side of the aisle.

And the Republicans are the bad guys. They're the horrible people. Ugh, we hate them as far as the politicians or anyone else goes because they love businesses and they're all just rich business owners and whatnot. And you look at them and you can very easily say, what Democrats do you know in the political stratosphere of Congress or the Senate that aren't worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars? And they go, oh, probably a lot of them.

And look it up. Like Bernie Sanders is my favorite one for anyone who's really not knowledgeable and the millions that he's worth and how he made all of it in the public sector and not the private sector. And you wonder how that even happens? People like Rush Limbaugh used to give us some answers to how they thought that kind of stuff would happen. But nonetheless, that means that they're the political elite.

They don't have the same life you have, they don't have the same experience, and they don't really care about you. And this is something this guy is saying about Harris specifically that is going to get him in hot water, and it doesn't deserve it. But here we go. Don't think that Kamala Harris has anything vested in the air finger quote black or Hispanic experience in so much as it would be identified by anybody that lives in those communities. You're saying you don't think that she can help black or brown people?

No, I mean going to Howard don't make you black. Yeah. There's something amazing about that sentence at the end. But I love the first part, the thing that says, if I'm in one of these communities and I'm paying attention to this person and the things they say or the way they've lived their life or whatever it is that I'm noticing that maybe someone who's not in the community doesn't notice, I'm not pretending I myself see all these things that this guy is seeing, but as he sees those things and says it out loud, he's like, you know what? I just don't see someone who's invested enough in a community I'm in because she doesn't.

feel like she's a part of it. And that is horrible and racist and terrible to talk about, but it's also a very logical conclusion for someone to come up with. And it happens, as I said, in a lot of other places: it's an attack on Trump. He's just a rich businessman who doesn't understand what it's like to be an everyday American who doesn't have the things he has. I mean, the Democratic National Convention, which was obsessed with Trump, said several times how everyone else in society fails and they go bankrupt or they don't get a second chance or a third chance.

And Trump, because of his family, had so many chances to succeed. That's so unfair. That's taking a shot at his life experience and saying how it's detached from anybody else's. But you do this to Harris and it's racism. I want to play the first part again because I really think it's interesting.

And this is a black man as part of a voter panel on MSNBC saying he feels this way. I just don't think that Kamala Harris has anything vested in the air finger quote black or Hispanic experience in so much as it would be identified by anybody that lives in those communities. As so much as it would be identified by anyone who lives in those communities is a brilliant way to say that. And I love the fact that the interviewer goes, oh, so you're saying you don't think that Harris can help those. Communities.

No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that I don't think the person that's running for office and whether she's saying it or other people are saying it about her, touting her connection to certain minorities, minority groups or Democratic groups of voters, that she doesn't actually understand that demographic as well as she's pretending to. Bats. What's being said. And I think that that's a pretty powerful and, as I said, a valuable thing.

One last thing, I think it's interesting. This is a moment where Dana Bash actually did push Kamala Harris on a question. Why haven't you done more stuff since you're in the White House as the vice president right now? Why isn't this something that you could get done, whatever the issue is, whatever the policy that you're talking about is? Because after you walk out of this interview, You're currently in a position of power, and especially with Biden now being on the beach all the time, you'd imagine that position got even stronger.

I love that this question was asked because it needed to be asked, and I don't think the answer was very good. I don't know if Bash would agree, I don't really care. But here's part of that back and forth. My proposal includes what would be a tax credit of $25,000 for first-time homebuyers so they can just have enough to put a down payment on a home, which is part of the American dream and their aspiration, but do it in a way that allows them to actually get on the path to achieving that goal and that dream.

So you have been vice president for three and a half years. The steps that you're talking about now Why haven't you done them already?

Well, first of all, we had to recover as an economy, and we have done that. I'm very proud of the work that we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3 percent. The work that we have done to cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Donald Trump said he was going to do a number of things. Yeah, you're not answering the question.

I think you know that. I think I know that, that I asked you why you haven't done any of this stuff, and now you're just rattling off other stuff that isn't a part of the answer. Including allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, never happened. We did it.

So now, as I travel in the state of Georgia and around our country, the number of seniors that have benefited, I've met, I was in Nevada recently, a great- I don't care. She's a good keep going. You know, it's interesting. There's this headline out there. I think PBS is one of the places that put this out.

Kamala Harris's election would defy history. Only one sitting vice president has been elected president in the last 188 years. That is a true fact. That is an important fact. And here's what's most relevant about it to me or you or anyone else out there is this administration is deeply unpopular with the American people.

The decisions they've made, the way in which life has changed over the last few years.

So it wouldn't only defy history. If it's something that she were capable of doing, it would ignore the situation that we're very much living in on a day-to-day basis, where she is in a position currently to change all the stuff that America doesn't like about the world we live in today, and she's campaigning like she's not. And every time she says anything. As far as a policy promise goes, that should be the response. Why don't you do that now?

Why don't you and Biden do that right? Why don't you try to do that now? That should be every single moment of a discussion about that. And the fact that she's acting as though she can't do it is ridiculous. She's running for reelection, just like any president has run for re-election before.

And they already decided that the current president is unelectable for a variety of reasons, not just his mental incapability, which she said in the same interview was actually much better than we think it is, but also very obviously because things are terrible right now and Bidenomics is awful. All right, we'll take a break. We'll get to some sillier stuff in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. Our good friends over at Bernaga.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right, time for the Quick Five. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. This is the Dana show.

First, a guy fell asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla, and cops had to struggle to pull him over. The dude completely never woke up.

So the cops eventually get their vehicles in front of the Tesla to engage its stopping functions. This was on US Highway 70, by the way. They then had to wake the dude up.

So the cops get this car to stop and then they're like, hey, dude, you got to wake up. You can't drive asleep. And he finally is awake and they realize he's probably not sober.

So they searched his vehicle and found all kinds of drugs in it. They found ecstasy, marijuana, all kinds of stuff, tons of vape pens, a lot of illegal substances. Unsurprising, I guess, if you have to wake a dude up after you get him to stop. That's the part I'm so surprised in, that he didn't wake up after the cops were, you know, flashing the lights and trying to pull him over and then eventually getting in front of and stopping his vehicle. He's still just snoozing.

Probably the easiest version of, yeah, we should probably test, check this car that the police have had in a while. Another one out there, McDonald's finally reveals the Big Arch, its biggest burger ever. If people aren't going to McDonald's anymore and McDonald's is wondering why, I guess their solution is let's just make a bigger burger. It doesn't have to taste better or be any different. And actually, I'm not a hater of McDonald's.

I kind of. Much like the Mickey Mickey D's, but nonetheless, this is going to be a giant, ridiculous item. I guess it's going to debut in Canada and Portugal and might eventually be available in a lot more places here. But the Whopper, screw that. We don't even need that.

We don't need any of these things. Or the Big Mac, I guess, from actually being appropriate to the brand.

Now we're doing the Big Arch, and maybe it's going to be big. That feels weird to say. One other one out there that's a silly story. There's an Arkansas city filled with abandoned homes. You can buy a bunch of them for $400 a pop.

There's no real jobs or not really a significant population there. But Pine Bluff, a bleak metro that saw its population drop from 49,000 to 41,000 and even much further since then, is trying to get people into these houses.

So come on, guys, swing by, get a vacation home, which is like a one-floor home for $402.74. and go to the beautiful, pretty much desolate Pine Bluff in Arkansas. I don't know why I like that story so much. And then finally, one last quick five. A doctor is in a whole lot of trouble.

He had a dispute with some other professional that he sold his practice to. This happened in Florida. I probably should have saved it for a Florida man story, but darn it, we'll do it here. He soaked the office of the guy that he sold it to. In P.

I don't know why you do that. I don't know how you do that. I know that doctors might have access to stuff the rest of us don't have access to, but I can't imagine when you're driving over with that stuff in your car that you're not thinking to yourself, man, I shouldn't do this. But anyway, he did it and he is in trouble. He got arrested.

He put a $5,000 bond to get out of jail and he's going to be tried for criminal mischief and other stuff. That's a weird version of some sort of a fight between doctors that ends with a, you know, a urine attack of some kind. I don't know why I just said that, but it's true and it's out there and you can find it. It's all over the place. That's the quick five.

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My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. You can find Dana everywhere on TV, on Rumble, and YouTube, all over the place. Also, D Lash or Dana Lash Radio on X or on Twitter. My next guest is named Drake Scott.

He is one of the two founders of something called the Resilience Project. And I just love the idea of this organization. It is to help veterans acclimate to returning home after being deployed, after being away from their family. And there's a lot of things that Drake, who's a veteran himself, has identified as some of the struck stuff that veterans struggle with when they first come home and how it might take years and eventually might even cost some of these veterans their lives and how hard it is to reacclimate back to society.

So, Drake, thank you for being on. Welcome to the show. Give me a little bit more of your own personal background on why this has become such an important issue for you. Yeah, thank you for inviting me on.

So connected Six years in the Marine Corps. I was a machine gunner, served in Okinawa, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, all over the cu all over the world, Afghanistan, and then end up rotating back home in 2014. um find it to be very difficult, right, if you're you go from uh civilian life to being in the military where they're forming you into what you know, you got to be uh the front line and the the nation's defense and then you try to get thrown back into the civilian world can be a very um tough transition, especially not knowing that there's anything going on or having no real support system.

So it took me years and years to really kind of get my footing and actually kind of get out and tried the VA Um, for my mental health struggles, they had me in upwards of like 12 different meds a day, just wasn't working for me.

So, um, eventually, I just hit the lowest point. You know, I was overeating. I was not doing that. I was terrible. I had like 300 pounds.

So one day I decided, all right, this has got to be enough.

So I quit it all and started on my own journey, my own way. found it through the more the physical approach, the the mental and physical kind of Um Exercising, suffering, getting out there and and doing some hard things, kind of get control of my mind.

So, a few years out, that was about 2020.

So, I managed to drop about 100 pounds myself.

Now, I do some triathlons and I You know, do some raising some money for some cool things. I got some marathons I'm doing this year, raising money for other organizations.

So, just some stuff like that.

So, I'm proud of myself, get my footing. And because I've been able to kind of on this side of the needs for the help to transition. I me and another Marine, Chris Thornson, decided to start the nonprofit here and try to start giving programs back to get our hands on them as soon as they come out of the military. We can kind of get them involved in programs, get them in the community and get them active, keep them active and just kind of keeping eyes on each other.

So Yeah, you know, ResilienceProject.net, by the way, for anyone who wants more information about this or anyone who wants to help them out with their cause, it was so interesting when I first started talking to you about this to realize how effective your strategy is at helping veterans, helping people who return, because in some ways, you're finding little micro experiences that are similar to the time you serve. You're finding a community of other people to be around and physical fitness, obviously a very important part of being in the military itself.

So creating those different atmospheres to bond with people. Can you talk to me a little bit about the importance of that? Because all the veterans I've met, all the veterans I know, the most common thing I hear is how close that brotherhood is and how devastating it is when you leave it to not have it in whatever walk of life you're in after serving. Oh, absolutely.

So and like a big theme of the military, it puts you in very lack of very uncomfortable situations and very tough and mentally, physically, very, very tough situations. And when you go through things like that with other people, men, women, whatever it is that you're with, you see who they truly are, you see how they can push through things, you see how they show up next to you and you kind of push through these things together and it creates bonds that are Forever lasting. I daily talk to all the guys I deployed with. Still to this day, it's been almost 10 years. It creates those kinds of bonds.

So, trying to replicate, trying to, you know, get some events and get some different things out there that'll kind of help bring that kind of feeling back to us. We do the, well, it's just coming up in October. We do what's called the 4x4x4A. You know, run four miles every four hours for 48 hours. Pretty difficult mentally.

I did it, and the first year I did it with Chris and some other psychos. Yeah. Close is about as close to that feeling of going through some really tough things with some other people, seeing them push through it, and we all just came out the other side, that kind of feeling of a little bit of camaraderie.

So, that replicating that kind of environment for others to kind of come out and enjoy. And, you know, if they kind of, I got a lot of people I got to call in this year, especially a certain radio host that said he would do it too.

So I got a lot of people to do this year.

So I'm going to be calling names up here soon. Cool. That's fine. Yeah, I did say I'd do it. It's not going to look good.

Do you put this stuff all up on social media and whatnot? Is that one of the ways you raise awareness for it? Or is this something you guys are doing? Yeah, go ahead. No, social media is a big I mean, big platform for everybody.

We use social media. Our website too, we keep that up there if you ever want to come. We do a lot of other things too. Every month, we're going out to a different nursing home. We're getting all the vets there.

We feed them, give them free lunch, talk about their experiences. It really brightens Bob and here is we give them some handmade items from some other vets that do some woodworking.

So there's a lot of different avenues you can get involved in. But one of the other programs we're putting out here soon is I'd like to get some vets obviously back in the gym back physically, you know, get them back physical.

So one of the programs putting together is pairing up vets with trainers free of cost, get them out there, get them into some personal training, get that foot going. As they start kind of progressing, they'll start to be able to go on their own. And then also pay for some disabled vets, gym memberships, just kind of get them out there, get in the community.

So putting those programs together and they should be going live here soon. Yeah, I know you've only been at this for about a year that you started and it's a passion project for you because of your own personal experience in it. Have you had any conversations with people that you've helped so far about not even realizing that these are the kind of things that they needed in order to get back whatever sense of some of the things that have been hard for them or have been challenging for them since coming back from their service are now sort of like flooding back? Have there been any conversations about the benefits of this stuff? Oh, 100%.

I'm a real estate agent by trade, so I work with a lot of clients. I work a lot with veterans too, helping with the real estate purchase side. And I was just speaking with one of my clients, too, who was just, she was just telling me about how, you know, she's just struggling mentally. She just, and she brought up on her own. She said, I need to get physical again.

I'm struggling so bad mentally. I'm in such a bad place mentally.

So it just carried over, like, all right, perfect.

Well, here you go. Here I am. Here's the solution. Let's get you out here. Let's do this thing.

So it really carried over. And that's been multiple times. I've had a lot of clients call me and just go over and check in on them. They'll start kind of talking about, hey, we're struggling here. We're doing this.

Like, they'll just kind of break up alone. Do you know any trainers? Do you know any way to get in the community? I want to get around some other vets. I want to help out.

So it just kind of become a very easy conversation because I run into it every day with my business. Yeah. One other thing that I notice a lot too, and I love the way you describe it, like you do stupid stuff to help people, whatever it is, running four by four by 48, which again, what is that? What is the exact challenge there? Yeah, it's just running four miles every four hours for forty eight hours.

It's more of a fundraiser we do for the night the resilience project, but it also offers I have had people that do it. You know, when you hit a real low point, you just need to do something very difficult, kind of remind who's in charge, you or that voice.

So I did it more for so for that challenge and I really found great value out of it.

So I'm trying to give that opportunity for other people. You know, the we've had some people that do it just like they kind of feel like they've hit a little bit of rock bottom, they need something really, really difficult. And when you come out of the other side of something difficult, right, you just You feel a lot better, right?

Well, that's that's what I mean. Exactly. That's what's so cool about this, and why I hope you're doing a whole lot more things with a lot of people. And whether it's on social media or however you reach those people, you do it. Because I imagine, and I've noticed this a lot about veterans that I've talked to and gotten to know, that helping other people is a huge component to giving them a personal sense of value, of helping defeat some of those demons that are in people's minds.

And you do that. Not only do you help people get active themselves or visit nursing homes or whatever it is you're doing, but it seems like you're giving a lot of these guys that you're getting to know another thing that they're fighting with you to do or trying to help with. And so it's interesting to merge the physical with the philanthropic to find that meaning for these guys who defended our country, who protected us, and come back home and wonder, what am I supposed to do now? You're giving them that sense of purpose and pride. Absolutely.

And it it just kind of care like you know, we in the in the Marine Corps or in the military, they kind of force you to stay physical and but when you get out, you can kind of lose yourself, right? You can kind of you're not around the same people, you're not around the same and then civilian life's so much different than military life. It can feel a little bit overwhelming how it feels like everyone's just kind of maybe money driven or everyone just kind of own own their own little world. You don't really have anything.

So it can be a little tough transitioning back. It can be very tough. I've lost. I got many tattoos on my arms from many from men I served with that weren't able to transition back correctly.

So I don't want to keep adding more names.

So doing my own kind of way to here to try to help mitigate that. That's awesome. One last thing before I let you go, and I don't want to put you too much on the spot because I didn't tell you I was going to ask you about this, but it's a political thing. It's in the news. And I just want your basic reaction.

There is an accusation of stolen valor by a politician on one side of the political aisle to a politician on the other side. As military, I know you guys all support each other. I know you guys all say anyone that's going to put on the uniform and serve has value, has importance. But what is, in your opinion, some of the things that make people mad if you exaggerate that service, if you say you're in a combat zone when you're not, or if you say you left with a certain title that you didn't actually retire with, are those things that make military mad at each other or no? Yeah, I mean, you just like, there's nothing to be ashamed of.

Like, you served your country. I think a lot of it comes down to like some people kind of will feel ashamed that they didn't do enough, or I don't know, they just don't feel like, you know, maybe the comparison thing, you did your time, you did it honorably, your respect. There's nothing like, I'll tell you what, I've never met so many Navy SEALs as I have in the civilian war that I did in the military. There's quite a few people walking around saying they're Navy SEALs, but it is what it is, right? I just think it comes down to like a, you know, they just didn't feel like they did enough, or they maybe the sense of pride wasn't there, but you serve, you did your time, be prideful, and be proud, did honorably get out, and there's no reason to be anything else but proud.

So, right. And there's no reason to talk about it in ways that you didn't do it. Thank you so much, man, for everything you're doing to help veterans, to help a community that, as you said, you're a part of and you understand the struggle of because it's really important. And I love the 440-48. I am going to do it this year, and I'm not in the shape for it, which is probably going to be great.

But we'll do it on social media. We'll have people see it. We'll do videos, yeah. We'll do it. All right.

I appreciate it. Awesome, dude. Thanks so much. Drake Scott, he's part of the Resilience Project. Check out more information on the Resilience Project, resilienceproject.net, to get involved.

They've only been doing it for about a year, but the merging of those ideas of getting people back in shape, especially military who lived a life of having to be in shape for a while, getting people active and getting people within a community are all things that do help fight the horribleness of some of these stats out there, like veteran suicide, 22 veterans a day. commit suicide. That's a a real stat, a day. And what I think Drake is doing is a great way to fight some of that. All right, quick break, a lot more.

Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. That's right. This is the Dana Show.

My name is Craig Collins, filling in for Dana Lash. She will be back after the holiday, and it's time for Florida Man. I got a couple Florida men that I really like. The first guy is a machete-wielding Florida man who is trying to yell at people at a store in Key West, Florida to buy his meth. I don't know what would be the crazier part of that experience.

You're walking up to some store and you see a dude standing outside wielding a machete. And he's also like, buy meth, buy it from me. It's going to be great. You're going to love it. You get arrested for that, even in Florida.

That's not legal. It's definitely going to be a problem. He was also throwing beer bottles at one point at someone. No one was seriously injured. That's the good part.

They did find 15 grams of meth on him. They found a scale, some pipes, and oh yeah, the machete. That's not going to be a good look for somebody. I just can't. It's sort of, I don't know why my nerd brain went here, but it's sort of like the thou shall not pass wizard guy holding the staff.

Just a very different version of it. The Florida version of a nerd thing. 46-year-old dude telling you to buy his meth while wielding a machete. I don't even know if anybody's going to get that reference I just made, but darn it. I made it.

It's over. It's done. All right. Another one out there that I saw as Florida is a Florida man. A Florida man was accused of stealing over 120 gallons of cooking oil from a restaurant.

Yeah. The suspects were charged with burglary and traveling across state lines because I guess he was trying to get the cooking oil to some other state for some reason. You know, I have to be honest. Not that any crime is more acceptable because of the challenge that's involved in it, but this is a uniquely dumb one to attempt. I would think that if you want to steal stuff, if you want to go the road of trying to bring stuff across the state line to sell it somewhere else, you don't want 120 gallons of cooking oil.

You can find the machete guy and help sell his meth. If you take him across the state line to somewhere else, that seems more portable. That seems easier. These guys had a van that was tricked out with a giant hose in it that apparently collected all of the cooking oil and then tried to transport it. Here's the worst part about this story, too.

The value of the stolen goods is only about 430 bucks.

So, all of that, all the effort, all the hard work, and if you had succeeded, you're only $400 richer.

Now, you're arrested and have some other issues as far as legal things you're going to have to deal with.

So, not really good. Not exactly a good move in the world of Florida men and Florida decision making, but nonetheless, it's hilarious. I love it. I don't know why I want these two people to meet, the cooking oil guy and the machete-wielding meth guy, but I feel like they could come up with some sort of interesting business plan together. I don't know what it would be.

I'm sure it's illegal, and I'm sure they'll get arrested for it, not do a good job of hiding it, or whatever that might be. But nonetheless, I'd like their two brains to work on something collectively because I do think that'll be a pretty interesting thing. All right, those are my Florida man stories out there that I enjoy quite a bit. I do have one other one. That's not a Florida man, but just in general story out there in the world.

If you have a Jaguar, apparently they're warning you that it might burst into flames suddenly.

So 3,000 vehicles that people own, you're being told, I think a local Channel 7 ABC affiliate was telling people about this, that you need to make sure to protect yourself and park the JAG outside just in case it randomly bursts into flames. I don't know why that amuses me. I think Jaguar is a cool vehicle. I would want one, even if it could potentially, although not likely, burst into flames. But that would be an upsetting day.

That would be a sad day to come home to the car outside and on fire if that's what's going to happen there. But I love that that's the other part of the suggestion. Like, yeah, it's been recalled. Yeah, you should probably bring it in and get it fixed. But if you can't do it, just in the meantime, go ahead and park it on the street just in case it's going to get worse for you.

That's a unique piece of advice. I would think that you'd even go a little bit further than that and say, you know what? Don't be lazy. Don't park it on the street. Go ahead and bring it in and we'll try to fix it because we shouldn't probably allow you to keep driving a vehicle that might suddenly become a bonfire.

That feels like something that might be bad to be out there in the world. All right, those are Florida men plus an extra bonus story. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana show. My name is Greg Collins filling in.

Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. It can't be allowed. We can't accept it. Like it's got to somehow be something that gets rejected by the majority of Americans to talk about Harris as if she's going to bring in something new.

She's the vice president currently. I don't get this. It's probably the reason that only one vice president, one active sitting vice president has been elected the president of the United States in the last 180 whatever years that's out there online. Because if the administration isn't doing well, you don't elect the number two to take over for the number one. You just get the whole system out.

That's what change is. Even if Trump has been in the office before, he is easily described as changed from what's going on as far as decision-making right now in politics. But here it is again, one of the Harris spokespeople popping up on CNN saying how this campaign is all about new. It's all about change, baby. It's all about getting something different.

So we're going to put someone that's currently in power in power. You know, it's always interesting when you kind of go up through the food chain of politics when your positions do differ from where they were. The reality is all of us change in some way from when we first get a job to when we've had it for a long time. The vice president said last night that one thing she's seen is that we can have a robust green economy and not ban fracking.

So that's something that she learned over the course of time while she was in the water. She learned it because people weren't going to vote for her if she says the other thing. And I think that she's kind of owned up to that.

So I don't know now that there are a lot of voters outside of maybe a few of them in Pennsylvania who will make their choice about President of the United States because the vice president has had a position for five years now. She's had it for four years. She's had it since 2020. She's had a position for four years that now we're asking her questions about. When I think she's really the face of change in an election where people really are tired of the Trump era, and as she said last night, they want to turn the page to something new.

They want to turn the page to something new. Trump is not in the office right now. He's not the current president of the United States. Kamala Harris is the vice president right now, and Biden's on a beach somewhere for some reason. I just, I love this.

And honestly, I'll keep saying the same thing over and over again because I hope it does sink in. If anyone that's out there listening often doesn't feel the same way as I do or maybe others do in the world of politics, they're treating you like you're dumb. They're treating you like you're so stupid if you're on that side of the aisle and you vote a Democratic and you hear them say that Harris is the face of change. Like they actually do have little, very little respect for you. I don't know how to say that better, and I don't really care to.

All right. Another thing out there that I thought was interesting. If you were on one side of the political aisle and you watched Harris and Tim Walls give their answers to questions last night, you said they did a really good job, or you at least said they did no harm.

However, one of the most significant things that deserves to be talked about and isn't being talked about. Is the stolen valor accusation against? I mean, I know it's being talked about, but on a certain side of the aisle, they're dismissing it as though it's just ridiculous, as though this shouldn't even be discussed to begin with. And it's a conservative attack against an awsucks, nice, you know, Midwest politician. It's crazy to feel that way about this topic.

Tim Walls lied about being a person who held a gun in a war zone. He was never deployed to any sort of combat situation in his 20-plus years in the National Guard, something that we should easily praise in general. And he leans on in his answer to a question from Dana Bash. But nonetheless, when you lie about your service, when you say that you reached a rank when you retired that actually you didn't get to keep because you didn't do everything to retain that rank when you retired from your military service, and you also retired probably knowing that your unit was getting deployed to Afghanistan. And I don't know for sure, but there might have been a desire not to go and to do something else.

That's a ridiculous thing to claim that he didn't know. There's a bunch of people from his own unit that said, oh, yeah, we pretty much knew we were going. We were just away. Those orders officially, and Walls decided to run for office and not remain in his position in our military, in the National Guard. But here, I want to play this because yet again.

It's treating you like you're so stupid that you'll follow whatever the answer is to this question, and you'll even attack those on the other side of the aisle who keep asking these questions of Walls, even though they deserve to be at the forefront of a conversation about his honesty, his trustworthiness, his reputation for being awhile, just an awesh good guy. I want to ask you a question about how you've described your service in the National Guard. You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?

Well, first of all, I'm incredibly proud. I've done 24 years of wearing the uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it's Congress or the governor. My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do.

I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves. I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns.

So I think people know me. They know who I am. They know where my heart is. And again, my record has been out there for over 40 years. And I have to stop it.

Yes, your record has been out there for over 40 years, including all the times that you've done things like this before. You've had people write letters to you, people you served with, saying, please stop saying you reached a rank you didn't reach, or please stop saying these things about your military experience that weren't actually things that happened for you. We applaud you for what you did do. Just stick to that. Just talk about those things and not anything else.

It's sort of insane, again. But here, a little bit more, because that wasn't answering the question. And Dana Bash did try to make him answer it. But he at first seemed to think that was good enough, that we're fine. I mentioned a few things that make me a victim of the horribleness of the other side of the political aisle.

And that's all I'm going to talk about. And let's continue.

So speak for itself. And. Okay. The idea that you said that you were in war. Did you misspeak as the campaign has said?

Yeah, I said we were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife, the English teacher, told her my grammar is not always correct. But again, if it's not this, it's an attack on my children for showing love for me or it's an attack on my dog. I'm not going to do that. And the one thing I'll never do is I'll never demean another member's service.

Okay, there's something I have to say, and I'm sure to a lot of people in the audience, I'm preaching to the choir when I say this, but I can't help it. The biggest reason. That politicians feel like they can do this stuff is us.

Some of us are to blame, not all of us, some of us are to blame for allowing politicians to treat us like we're idiots, like we're morons, like what we think doesn't really matter. They can shape it however they want. We have to demand real answers. from these politicians to get them to be real people. And she tried, Dana Bash, who definitely gave a friendly interview to Harris and to Walls, but she at least tried to force him to give a real answer.

And the second answer was still, oh, I misspoke the grammar, something about it. My wife told me that I got it wrong. I didn't even realize it. That's how little of a thing it is or not a big deal. Whatever this is, it's so aggravating.

It's so infuriating. It's so ridiculous. And I will say this: whether you believe it to be true or not, Trump is absolutely challenged by the media. A lot of the media challenges him constantly. And whether you think he's lying or telling the truth in his answers, there is no denying that he gets a very different style of treatment than how they treat the left.

And even J.D. Vance gets that style of treatment quite often compared to the left. And actually, one of the better examples of that is J.D. Vance talking to Dana Bash and how very, very different that conversation goes. I thought this was a pretty interesting thing to go viral because JD just sat down with her a little time ago.

And if you want an obvious demonstration, of how less friendly The people are if they think they're attacking the side of politics that they don't agree with, that they can't hide their own emotions, they can't put them in the back and leave them without you and I being able to easily see them. This is what that sounds like. Governor Walsh served 24 years. He even stayed after he could have retired because of 9-11. More than 30%.

Country asked of him. Do you honor his service? Well, of course, Dana, I honor his service. And I've never criticized what Tim Waltz did when he was in the military. I criticized his retirement decision.

And most importantly, Dana, I criticized his lying about his own record.

Okay. This is a guy who was captured on video saying, I carried a gun in war. He never went to war. This is a guy who's been captured on video as other people say he's an Afghanistan veteran. He's a veteran of a war, nodding along in agreement instead of saying, no, no, no, I did serve my country and I did it honorably, but I never went to a war zone.

I'm not criticizing Tim Waltz's service. I'm criticizing the fact that he lied about his service for political gain, Dana.

Now, I served in the United States. By the way, it's sort of ridiculous that you have to point that kind of thing out in a conversation that is adversarial. You can't just say out loud, yeah, I am criticizing the fact that he may have not told the truth about some of the things he's done.

some of the things he's done. I'm not criticizing those other things. The only reason you have to give an answer like that, or you have to, you know, behave a certain way, is because of the attack or whatever it is, the version of speak that's coming from the person doing the interview with you. You can't just be honest about it. But this is one of a bunch of moments where, you know, Dana Bash just absolutely demonstrated a very different feeling, a very different sentiment for someone on the opposite side of the aisle of sitting down and interviewing Walls and interviewing Harris.

And it's just, it's just ridiculous. Like, I don't know because I have way more audio. I could play way more of it if I want to. And there's so many moments where she accused him or challenged him in ways that she should have, but didn't challenge a person sitting down for their first interview in forever, in a very long time, and certainly first interview as actually being the presidential candidate for the Democrats. And it's just a shame.

I don't know. Like, part of me, part of me. Part of me is getting mad as I'm playing this myself and watching it because it's just sad that this is the state of affairs for so many in the place of our political thing. But you know what? Actually, it's fine.

I'll play a little bit more of it because if I don't play more of it, people will think, oh, it's not real. She didn't try that hard. Here's a full mashup of all the ridiculous ways she articulated questions to J.D. Vance. Seem to be struggling a little bit.

Kamala Harris has been calling the shots as who? There's no evidence that Kamala Harris threw him overboard, called you and Donald Trump, and that is weird. Sure. You're saying Tim Walls doesn't have affection for his wife. I don't even understand that.

They have done both. They have both policies and they are trying to define you. You have been on the campaign trail questioning Tim Walls' military record. Governor Walls served 24 years. He even stayed after he could have retired because of 9-11.

More than. The country asked of him. Do you honor his service? I will say that the Harris at Walls campaign did say that the governor misspoke. That was a month before the National Guard even announced that it was possible that they would deploy to Iraq, and it ended up being too much.

Oh my God, that's so much defending of him. And honestly, many people that served with Walls said that they knew it was not a well-kept secret that they were likely to get deployed to Afghanistan at some point. And then Walls retired. But again, it's just sort of crazy to hear that difference so blatantly out there because it's so easy for so many of us to see. All right, quick break, a lot more.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in, and it's time for a quick five. First, I thought this was interesting. There's a story about a grandma, 89 years old, who was lost in the Alps for five days.

She said she survived by befriending a fox. This is her claim. She said that she became dizzy, tumbled 20 feet into a gully, and then a fox wound up helping her out a whole lot. This sounds like a Disney movie, or at least it's got to be a Disney movie in the near future. The wild fox approached her out of curiosity.

Several times that sort of became friends. Every evening, she recited the rosary. She knew every day she could, you know, not be here anymore. But because of the interactions with the fox, she stayed aware enough to be rescued. I don't know why I love that story so much, but I do.

But an 89-year-old woman says, Me and this fox friend made it out of here together. Tattoo ink that you buy on Amazon might not be safe. I feel like that's the most obvious of the quick five I've ever done. Tattoo ink sold there has high levels of weird and rare bacteria in it. There's a recall announcement for the germs that cause a present and serious health condition for anyone that buys tattoo ink on Amazon and then thinks, ah, this will be fine.

This will be good. You don't want to save money on some things, people. Sure, on most things you want to save money, but there's a reason why some stuff is very cheap, especially when you're buying it certain places. That would be one of said places. You don't want to do that.

All right. Some other things out there that I thought were interesting as far as quick five stuff. There is a story about Richard Simmons now and his autopsy revealing that there were drugs in his system when he died after a fall. The only thing I really think about with the very famous fitness guru Richard Simmons is the podcast that wound up going viral about him too: Finding Richard Simmons. If you've never heard of it, if you're not aware of it, it's a long-form narrative storytelling podcast about what happened to him, about why he disappeared off the face of the earth kind of for a while as someone who was definitely very famous for quite some time.

And it might have been a mental health-related issue and whatnot. You can listen to that show to figure out more about it. A weird thing to promote, but darn it, interesting. And now, after he passes away, they find out that there were certain. Although they were prescription drugs that were in his system likely to treat insomnia.

So what exactly was going on there and how significant of an issue this was is something that people are now asking more questions about in light of the autopsy information becoming viral for whatever reason. And then finally, one other thing, a major U.S. discount retailer might go out of business. Big Lots is struggling. 1,400 stores are under threat as shares have dropped below 50%.

So many brick and mortar places that used to exist no longer exist. Big Lots seems like it might be in jeopardy of being the latest version of that. But hey, get your tattoo ink from Amazon and everything will be just fine. That's how the world will work in the future. I don't think Big Lots sells tattoo ink.

But anyway, kind of a sad story for a lot of people who might like that real company, that retailer company. There it is. I'm taking a break. A lot coming up in a very little amount of time left. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. You can find Dana everywhere, by the way, too, all over YouTube, Rumble TV, D Lash, or Dana Lash Radio, or two places to find her, an ex on Twitter. First, I love this. This is just fun, kind of short audio.

Trump at a rally in Michigan the other night brought up the Auto Workers for Trump guy. His name's Brian. He organized a Facebook page that kind of took off and became a thing. And anyway, he's called him up a few times. Brian said the last time he was called on stage was right after the assassination attempt, and he was sort of speechless, even though he was asked to speak.

He said some things that wound up going viral, though, because they're, well, very logical and awesome. 3.9 million views for this bit of this speech. Here we go. Listen, Chrysler and General Motors have already gone bankrupt once. But if we allow electric vehicle mandates to be put on this industry by the federal government, they're going out of business.

Business again. We got to fight against that. And this guy standing right here is the only person who will do it. We cannot allow the federal government to put. Mandates on the auto industry to build electric vehicles when the consumers do not want them.

Yeah, that's got to feel pretty obvious to a lot of people. If you're mandated to build something that consumers don't want to buy because they're too expensive or a lot of other reasons, especially if you live in any sort of cold weather part of our country, and you saw the videos like the last extreme cold snap that caused a whole bunch of Teslas in Chicago to just be sitting bricks for a while, mostly because even the charging stations weren't functioning well enough to get these cars charged. Those are Few of very many reasons that people shouldn't be doing this, but I love that. That guy went viral, his passion, the fact that Trump calls him up for a couple minute speech, and also that you say something that simple, that obvious. I'm going to take a turn away from politics for a second.

I do want to talk about something that's been viral for a couple of days now. There's a guy by the name of Marquise who went viral on Facebook, I think on the 27th originally, but it's certainly still getting talked about. He said he went to a Chick-fil-A, a Chick-fil-A that he goes to a lot. He gave his name in the drive-thru, and somebody wrote monkeys on his receipt. He's a black guy.

He was offended by that. I don't think I blame him for feeling offended by that.

However, the position, I think, of the Chick-fil-A is that this was all an accident. And whoever it was that was working the drive-through line, when they heard Marquise, they thought somebody said monkeys. And so that's what they wrote. And whether or not, again, that makes any sense to you or anyone else out there, it's certainly a lot different than. Of, say, somebody's name was like Bob, and then you wrote monkeys on it.

And by the way, before I even hit play on this audio, this video the guy shot when he goes into the Chick-fil-A to complain and he wants to confront the person who was working the drive-through. Half of the staff. Inside this Chick-fil-A is young black people, like half of the staff.

So, if I was just guessing on a 50-50 shot here, there's a chance that the person who was working the drive-through. Is also black. I don't know that that's true or not. I'm just saying, by a simple mathematical statistic probability here, there's a chance. And even more than that, before I hit play on this, if someone were this wild of a racist that they would write something like that to reflect their racist ideology on a receipt, you would think they'd have problems with a bunch of their coworkers who are also, in fact, black.

But everybody seems shocked. when this guy comes in and he's complaining, because they don't seem to have any idea what's going on. And he's holding the phone up and he's talking about how he's gonna go viral. But here's some of that audio. Nobody can't answer my question.

I'm sorry, sir. What was your question? I asked them, they ignored me. I said, is the guy who wrote monkeys on my receipt? Is he available?

I wanna talk to him. No, sir, I can't have you speaking to me right now. Is he still here? You should be fine.

Okay. I'm going to make sure that this video goes viral. But this is unacceptable. Yes, sir, I agree. I'm sorry that that had to happen.

So I just want to make sure I got you on camera too.

So him putting down monkeys. Would you feel offended by that? Yeah, I understand. Yeah, I'm offended.

Okay, yeah. All right, so I'll stop the video there. And it's fine if you feel offended because you think something is intentional, but you're not completely sure that it is. And again, the sound of Marquise, well, I don't think I ever would think that someone's name is monkeys, doesn't sound so dissimilar to the other word that it's impossible for someone to hear one word instead of the other one. And again, a more powerful version of this story would be if the guy's name didn't at all sound like the other word.

Although I would tell you that if it were my experience and I were working a checkout and I thought someone kept saying the word monkeys as their name, especially if you can see someone and it's a black guy, I would have just put M. If I didn't know what the name was and I thought I was hearing monkeys, if I'm being as honest as they're saying these individuals involved are being, I would have just put the letter M, been like, the order's for M. And that's all I understand. I didn't really understand the name. I don't know, though.

But more importantly, again, as I'm talking, About this video and all the reactions to it, and the people on both sides, and all the anger and whatnot about it. I'm just looking at the staff, and it's a Chick-fil-A. I think everybody in the video shot is probably in their 20s, maybe teens, some of them. And half of the individuals are black. And so would someone ask?

Actually, do this and be this much of a racist to do it on purpose in a situation like that, and have not conflicted with any other staff people, any other fighting at any point other than that. That's a question I ask. Because the reality of a situation is when you interpret a one-off moment and you think you know what happened. But you don't actually know what happened because you weren't on the other side of whatever it is you aren't on the other side of. And it could be anything, it doesn't have to be this specific situation.

There have to be other things that back up that belief. other than this one-off moment. And yes, it's unlikely, but it's not impossible to hear one word and say something different. Yeah, I'm a 30-something white guy, and I'm not intentionally trying to defend another white. I don't even know the color or anything about the person who was working the checkout counter.

I don't know their ethnicity. I know nothing about them. I don't know if they're black, if they're white, if anything, man, woman, nothing. All I know is that Chick-fil-A didn't think that it was something that someone did on purpose. And why would they?

I also don't understand. Like, why would they? If you're someone who actually does hate people. And I think there's a lot less individuals in our world who hate people for these sorts of reasons than mainstream media wants to tell us sometimes. Although I'm not going to pretend that there's no one out there that's not a person that has feelings for reasons that I don't understand or agree with.

But nonetheless, when I say that, Why would this be the way you'd try to offend somebody? Like just from a rational standpoint, if you did this purposefully, intentionally, you're definitely losing your job. But more importantly, what is the win here? And so it's just interesting. And I'll say one last thing about it.

And I don't mean to rant about this topic, and I'll move on because it's probably easier and safer to move on. But to me, and actually I don't care that much, so I'm going to go ahead and risk it for the biscuit. Why not? Makes sense. It's a phrase I say very often, especially when I play audio that I'm not sure if there's bad words in it or not.

You got to risk it for the biscuit sometimes. And I have an incredible producer and Phil on this show that'll protect me anyway. And I'm sure he loves to have just heard that. But I'm not, there's nothing bad I'm going to play here today. But anyway, nonetheless, when you talk about all this and when you think about all this and you wonder what the real story is and the anger behind all of it, you.

fail to give people the benefit of the doubt. Like that's what I think is so important in our society now. And honestly, even when people are doing stuff where you're like, I really don't understand this at all, even when people talk about how politically you could support somebody that I don't support, you just envision them as this horrible, terrible human. When the reality is they're probably nice. They probably, you know, go to the park and, you know, coach their kids' little league team.

I think that's something that Obama actually said at the DNC. And a lot of people have said it's true. And so that benefit of the doubt stuff is just gone. Sure, I wouldn't blame somebody for seeing this and being mad about it, but actually being definitive and positive that what happened wasn't a dumb mistake by a person that thought they heard a word that they didn't hear, and definitely a racial attack on someone that they might not even have been able to see. I don't even know if you could see the person, but all those things are just sort of ridiculous.

And then there's all these reactions on social media again to it, and so many people saying they're also offended, and no one giving anyone a chance to think that, hey, maybe this didn't happen for the reason you think. And maybe it's better to realize that maybe not as many people out there in the world are as hateful as we want to envision them as being. I feel like there's this assumption that there's a lot of people out there who are horrible, racist, sexist, whatever it might be in our society, and you're just waiting to catch them. You're waiting for them to make that mistake that shows who they really are because every other moment where they're actually being someone that would seem to be not hateful, not racist, not sexist, not any of that stuff. None of that counts.

Only the one moment where we think we got you, and whatever it is, that's the thing that matters. And this is that moment, I guess, for some. And you don't even know anything about the 17-year-old individual, outside of that fact, I guess we do know, that was working that day in the drive-thru.

So, how do you know for sure that they did something and didn't do some other thing, like when Starbucks writes the wrong name in a cup? No matter again how offensive you think it is, you can't be as sure as this guy is. And I don't think it's risky to say that. All right. I'll take a break on that.

I ranted about that for way too much. A little bit more coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Make some common sense of the crazy headlines with the Dana Show Podcast. Your on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories.

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Dana Lash Radio, two great ways to stay connected to her on X on Twitter. A homeowners association in South Carolina delivered a cease and desist to families in a community that were allowing their kids to play in a grassy field in the middle of the neighborhood. There are both sides of this heated debate on this piece of audio. I do love this so much for one reason, and I'll point it out in a second. But kids playing in an area of grassy field in a neighborhood, that's pretty kid 101 stuff.

All of us did that. We find the area that nobody owns, the little tiny piece of, you know, whatever in the middle of everything, and you play home run derby there or something, and the neighbors just sort of tolerate it. Not these neighbors, baby. Not this homeowners association. The best way to parent my kids is allowing them to be outside, be healthy, be active.

This is absolutely not. Organized sports. The only thing organized about it is these five, six, seven, eight-year-olds saying, Hey, do you want to go play football? They have coach, they have whistles, they have tents, they have water. And they've taken over the circle.

Well, before you know it, the Carolina Panthers will be playing this. It's so great to see the kids outside. But these people, they push it from 10 to now 30 people. This might be it. They sucked at sports when they were kids.

That last part, by the way, is the social media influencer raising awareness on the story, giving their own take on what they think is happening. I love the dude who thinks the Carolina Panthers are moments from taking this field over to. That guy's the best. He has the slippery slope argument to a degree that I hope actually happens. If I was living in a neighborhood where kids are organizing sports to the degree that they have their own coaches and whistles and water stations, and then professional athletes start showing up, that's awesome.

I'd do way more of that. If the Yankees will play a game in my backyard, I'll try very hard on my lawn moving forward. But one more time. They have coach, they have whistles, they have tents, they have water. Dave taking over the circle.

Well, before you know it, the Carolina Panthers will be playing. It's happening. It's very quick. It's just that little snap of the fingers, and then it's all over for us. But come on, guys.

Even if the kids are very well organized, and even if some adults are showing up, it's a grassy field in the middle of your neighborhood. Let them play sports. Let them do that. That's a thing that kids do. I don't have a problem with this, and I'm annoyed by the Homeowners Association that's involved here.

And I don't care about the rest of it. I will say one thing, just a personal story. Not exactly a good story, but my friends and I from high school still talk about it. We used to play football in a part of a park. We all get together.

We'd play tackle football. We had no equipment. Probably wasn't a smart idea. One of my friends, who wound up being a quarterback for the high school football team, had a couple injuries, a couple concussions that actually happened there. In retrospect, now, with how you talk about football, I'm sure it was much more serious than we took it then, but we even nicknamed the field concussion field.

And we'd go play at Concussion Field, and no one cared. They just left us alone. And we were just a bunch of, at that point, like high school kids playing a game and being left to do that because that's what people do, especially if they're eight, nine, 10 years old, even more so. That seems to be true. 212 million hot dogs are going to be eaten from right now until after the Labor Day holiday.

So by Tuesday, Americans will have consumed 212 million of these items. 818 hot dogs are eaten every second over the Memorial Day weekend holiday. That's an awesome stat. I don't know who figures that out, by the way, because I imagine it just is the amount of hot dogs that are sold. And if you've gone to a barbecue or several, you don't finish all the hot dogs.

You cook too many.

Some of them don't wind up making it into anybody's face. But so I'm not sure if that number is completely perfect, but I love it nonetheless for existing at all. 80, 818, excuse me, hot dogs a second. I can't even fathom that kind of hot dog movement. Washington, D.C.

is the city that's going to be hit hardest by the hot dog craze, I guess, which is hilarious to me, Sue. And that's hilarious to me as well. And this might be because there's not the amount of supply. In a DC, that there is some other places for the hot dogs. I'm not sure.

I know we know people who live in the area, so they can let me know if when they're rolling into whatever their local convenience store is, if hot dogs are even there, or maybe they're completely gone. I'm not sure, but I imagine they're fine everywhere. Although there are some that are much better than others, we all know this is true. There's absolutely a Mount Rushmore of hot dogs, and Nathan's is on the top end of that list, not the bottom. I don't even want to name the ones in the bottom because I don't want to take away any potential sponsorship opportunities for this show or any other one.

But that's just an amazing amount of food that's going to be consumed. All right, one last thing that we usually do toward the tail end of every show, I know, for Dana.

So I'm just going to fire one off. This is Today in Stupidity. I do, I really love this moment because it's a back and forth on Fox News with a representative for Kamala Harris, a Democratic strategist, who gave the worst answer to a question I've heard in a while because he was like, please, why would you even ask me that? And it's sort of amazing what the topic is. Here we go.

$540 million raised, $82 million in one week. Will you acknowledge that there's no policy page on her website? And so, how do people get to know that? But when do we start caring about policy pages on websites when every single time she's every time she I love that. When did we start caring about the policies of these individuals, about the things they'd want to do if they were in a position of power?

When did that become important to any of us? Why don't we talk about the money she's raising or the popularity that we're manufacturing behind her campaign for a role that she wasn't actually nominated to go into, but has been appointed into because we forced the other guy out? Why would we talk about the things she wants to do in that position? It's so good. I kind of want to play it one more time.

When did we start talking about these? Million dollars raised $82 million in one week. Will you acknowledge that there's no policy page on her website? And so, how do we do that? But when do we start caring about policy pages on websites when every single time since all the time, since any time, anybody who runs for anything usually tells us what they're going to do in that position.

Not having a page on your website seems like a really weird decision to be made for whatever reason. But I love that so much. That is today's moment in stupidity or today in stupid.

So, so good. All right. Everybody out there that's listening, have a wonderful day. Wonderful holiday. Have a safe holiday.

Eat as many hot dogs as you possibly can, especially in D.C., apparently, where there might be a run on those. But enjoy the Labor Day weekend. As I said, Dana is back on a Monday. But my name is Craig Collins. I've been filling in for her.

You can find me, Radio Craig C on social media, all the forms of social media. I have none of the following Dana has.

So help me have a few more followers on any of those pages, and I'd love it. See you guys next time.