The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Alligator Alcatraz, Elon vs Trump Beef Pt. 2 and Mamdani's Grocery Problem

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

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50-50, the vice president just cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the big, beautiful bill in the Senate. So he came in last night as well because they thought they were going to be near, they thought they were going to be getting closer. So he's kind of been, for the lack of a better way, to put it on deck this whole time waiting. So he just cast the tie-breaking vote in this bill. So it passes out of this Senate. And remember, we also have to reconcile it with a few things in the House. But at this point, it's pretty much one and done because it passed by a little bit of a greater margin in the House than it did with the Senate. So welcome to the program.

Dana Lash, with you, we're at the top of this first hour. And I just were following all of this stuff as it happens. And if you just joined us, the vice president cast the tiebreaking bill. It was 50-50. And so with his vote, it pushed it over that threshold. and now that bill is going to, they're going to, it still has a little bit of a process to go through, but it needed 51 and the vice president was the 51 bill for, or the 50 first vote for that bill. And so it's going to go forward.

So that is the latest, if you're just joining us here. It's our Independence Day Eve Eve show. And we're going to get you set up because I'll be out until the eighth, and we're going to get you set up for everything that you need to know. today. So that just happened. Now, it's going to head back to the house because remember, they have to, they have to go through the reconciliation process. So there's certain things that they kind of have to meet together. But then upon that, Katie bar the door, then it's out there. So that is all of the latest that is just happening. And there was a lot of back and forth over this as well. Last night, I'm looking at some of the headlines. Last night, POTUS and Elon Musk kind of

were trading jabs, not kind of, they were back and forth. Podus said that he was going to send Doge after Musk. And I just, nobody likes to see allies fight. And I just think, I really wish that Podus would have brought that kind of pressure to bear on members of the Senate and the House and not on allies who merely just pointed out what the Senate and the House weren't due. very cowardly they weren't doing. So that's been a fight that's gone on for good heavens, like for, you know, all now weeks, but it kicked off again last night. So that's been some

of the latest. And of course, there's always, everybody's always watching to see what, what happens with Tesla stock and what's going to happen with fundraising. Musk said that he was going to form a third party last night if this bill ends up going through, which this bill is going to pass. It's going to go through. I mean, it's going to, it goes back to the house, but it's going to go through. It's just a fade accompli at this moment. So it's all done. So they had, they, they had to cut a lot of deals in order to get this bill passed. We went over some of it yesterday. The deal that Lisa Murkowski ended up having to cut, well, that she wanted to cut at the expense of everyone else. I don't think we got any kind of special carveouts in Texas. I'm pretty sure a lot of you in your states didn't get any kind of special carveouts. But that is some of the latest with it. So it goes back to the house. And then from there, they will have finish out the reconciliation process. They'll have their final vote. Most of it will be procedural up until the final vote to pass it as is, which I'm sure it's going to, I mean, at this point, there's been so much pressure that's brought on lawmakers to just get something done.

Doesn't matter how good it is. Just get past it and find out what's in it later. That it's, you know, it's all going to go through. One thing that I really wish that I don't hear, and it really kind of pisses me off when I hear lawmakers talk about this because they say, oh, my. gosh, if you don't pass this, you're going to get the biggest tax cuts in 60 some odd years. Well, if you guys would have written a better bill, it wouldn't have been an issue. If you guys would have listened to what some of the more constitutional members of the House were saying and pass smaller, you know, chunks of this, it wouldn't be the issue that it is now.

The problem is there's so much pork and wasteful spending that's still in this. There's so much Green New Deal. And you need to also reject the excuses that you hear from people who say, well, it's reconciliation. they can't cut that. The verb rule only pertains to it if it's not germane to specifically the budget. So these people have no idea what they're talking about. So just disregard them.

I feel like there's a bot army where they send out these talking points and they're just counting on you being too busy with keeping the country running that you don't pay attention to some of the smaller stuff. But I wish these lawmakers, every single time I see them on Fox, they see them on TV.

Every single time they talk about, oh, well, we're going to get these tax cuts. That's great and all. But make sure you're honest with people. and tell them that the tax cuts expire in 2028 and that we're going to be going into a presidential cycle. God knows what we're going to have on deck at that point. But that's one thing is for certain. Republicans are never more inclined to be more conservative or to cut taxes during a presidential,

during a general election. So this gets kicked to 2028 when all of this is set to expire. And then so you're going to hear the same talking points again in 2028. It's going to be the biggest tax bill ever, et cetera, et cetera. And you're going to see all kinds of heat being brought by the. the left in their press on the shoulders of lawmakers to pass something before the presidential election. So we don't have to take a narrative hit and a polling hit going into voting. It's going to be the same thing all over again. So these lawmakers that get up there and preying,

I just wish that they had the honesty. I wish they were being honest with you and telling you that these things were going to expire. No tax on tips. That expires in 2028. Additional child tax credit, that expires in 2028. Every aspect of this expires in 2028. Every business expires. Every of it. It is a temporary gimmick to lower the cost of what. They're not even cutting that much DM spending. You would be able to get giant permanent tax cuts if they actually cut some of the spending. And again, don't tell me that it's not germane to reconciliation because it literally pertains to the budget so it satisfies Byrd Rule rejected. All you had to do, all you had to do was pull back some of this. Where did the rescissions go? I keep hearing about this nine billion

recisions package. That's DOA. I haven't heard a single thing about that. that. We had a guy on who is advising the administration about pocket recisions. Haven't heard a single thing more about pocket recisions. Sometimes I wonder if it's just stuff floated out there to make you happy to just get you to the next square so that you could, oh, this is coming. This is, you're going to have this type of relief. That's what you'll have. So it's kind of hard for me to take seriously some of these lawmakers that criticize, you know, for instance, that man, Danny guy up in New York, because budgetarily, y'all ain't that much different. Y'all ain't that much different. Y'all ain't that much different where it concerns the budget. Some of these rhinos out there. So it's pretty interesting.

And I just want, I wish POTUS and Musk got along. And I really wish that the pressure that he would bring would be on these lawmakers that are dragging their feet and they're not willing to do the hard thing. They don't want to do the hard thing because then they're going to have to expend some political capital. Or maybe they don't have any political capital to spend. But either way, I just wish they were honest. The tax cuts expire in 28. They're all temporary. All of its, so you're only avoiding and you're not getting your taxes cut. That's the other thing. Promoting this as a tax cut is disingenuous.

You're not getting your tax cut. You're just getting a continuation of the status quo from 2017. All of Biden's big spending is in it. That's why the tax cuts aren't permanent because they didn't cut any of that stuff. And again, yes, you can. As it's germane to the budget with reconciliation, you absolutely can use a number of gimmicks in order to stop that funding. Anyone who tells you otherwise, either A, doesn't know the problem,

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podcast. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So apparently China has a coffee chain now that is going to give Starbucks a run for its money. Starbucks is under fresh pressure. They're saying China's biggest coffee chain opened U.S. locations with $2 drinks. It's called Luckin Coffee.

And it has, apparently they say, super low prices and a no-frials menu. And in China, it's already very competitive with Starbucks. Or you could just get a really nice coffee machine to make it at home. you know, there's also that option as well. This is a crazy story. So via CBS, a dad jumped overboard to save his daughter who fell overboard from a Disney cruise ship near Fort Lauderdale, and there's tons of video of it.

He jumped in to save his young daughter after she fell overboard. It was on its way back to South Florida. They had to have a dramatic sea rescue, and there's, again, like I said, tons of video about it online. It was on Sunday aboard the Disney Dream. It was sailing between the Bahamas and Fort Lauderdale, and a child went overboard during the final leg. father leapt in immediately after her. He treaded water for 10 minutes, for over 10 minutes. They had the emergency alert sounded. The crew members launched a rescue boat and life preservers into the water. And they said that the ship was moving so quickly that it was crazy how tiny they became in the sea.

And then you lose sight of them. And they said that they slowed the ship, turned it around, and deployed a tender with people on it to go rescue them. And they were able to get them out of the water. But no idea how she fell overboard, though. No idea how that happened or the age of but thankfully everybody's okay. They're trying to say now that the GLP1 the fat jabs could actually treat migraines

too. Apparently according, this is via Gizmodo. They're saying that people who have unresponsive chronic migraines received or experienced substantial relief after they started taking the GLP1 drug according to research from Italy.

That's interesting. I read that there's apparently, I don't know how that reconciles with all of the side effects they say these things have, but that's what this research says. A 92-year-old British man who was convicted of rape and murder in a 1967 cold case, finally got convicted, actually. Can you imagine? Since 1967, a cold case, and they finally figured it out the individual, 92 years old now, Ryland Headley, he was found guilty by the Bristol Crown Court in Southern England. He raped and murdered a woman, and she was 75 years old when he killed her six decades ago. And the case was unsolved for 58 years. And he was told during sentencing

that he committed a pitiless and cruel, pitiless and cruel act. The Dalai Lama is going to pick his successor. And China's watching that one very closely. Kind of interesting. But they said he's addressing a three-day gathering. It's the Buddhist religious figures that are all and ahead of this, ahead of his 90th birthday. So some international news there. And additionally, scientists reveal six attributes that mean you might be cool. Well, what is cool? How do you define cool? Doesn't it change culturally? Like, isn't it, doesn't it depend on like culture to culture? But they said there's a new study. International consensus when it comes to what it means to be cool. They conducted experiments with about 6,000 people from around the globe and they found that people have surprisingly

similar personalities. And they said that they rated them on their taste, their personalities. they said cool people are way more extroverted and autonomous and adventurous. So that's some of the stuff that fits into it. We have a lot more on the way as we rolled towards the bottom of this hour. The bill, the latest with that fight. Alligator Aquitraz and Moore, stick with us. The folks who won't make the program happen. Angel Studios.

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Are there parts of the bill or amendments that you think cut too much? We're going to have to see the final version. I don't want to go too crazy with cuts. I don't like cuts. There are certain things that have been cut, which is good. I think we're doing well. We're going to have to see it's very complicated stuff. great enthusiasm as you know and I think in the end we're going to have it what do you think

Caroline? I don't want him I don't want to hear him say that he doesn't like cuts that makes me nervous I mean we like cuts I mean we like less government spending right I mean that's kind of the thing so I'm like when he says I don't like cuts oh my gosh no potus what are you doing don't do that welcome back to the program Dana Lash with you I will say that you know I've been having this conversation about the Senate parliamentarian with a, oh my gosh, a number of different people about this whole issue with the Senate parliamentarian because you had still, you know, a number, for instance, Medicaid and people who enter the country illegally still being on Medicaid. That's a major issue. And that's, you know, the parliamentarian trying to argue that

certain things, oh, well, that we can't take that out because that violates the bird rule. That literally does not. You're an, you're not, you're an unelected. bureaucrat who was appointed by a Democrat. Stop it. Stop it. And these Republicans in the Senate need to grow some balls and stand up to this parliamentarian. They're the majority. They literally have the power to stop her. And they're just not doing it. They're using her as a scapegoat. So the illegal aliens that are still on Medicaid, that are still on Medicaid, that's because of a lack of spying by Republicans. It's not the Senate parliamentarian. They're using her as a scapegoat. They don't want to do it. Just like they didn't want to take suppressors and SBRs out from NFA classification. They acted like, oh, well, you don't have to pay a tax stamp because the idiotic parliamentarian was saying, well, it's not germane to the budget. It's literally called a tax stamp. You absolute waste of a meat sack. It's called a tax stamp. That's the only way that they could structure it so that it didn't violate your constitutional rights. They had to, oh, they had to protect it as a quote unquote tax because if they made you pay for it, they were.

weren't going to be able to defend it in court. If they, if they made it just a fee, they weren't going to be able to defend it in court. So this is their unwillingness to stand up to the parliamentarian. And I got to be honestly, I know POTUS has to sell it because, you know, he's Republican and it's the Republican Party and it's all on him. But I got to tell you, man, they did him dirty with this bill. They did POTUS so damn dirty with this bill. The amount of ridiculousness that is still in this bill, that they're acting like you're too stupid to understand the process for them to remove is insulting. This is why I want to pull my hair out when he fights with Elon Musk. That is an ally to you. Here's, this is, I think that he's measuring some of this wrong. He's measuring this wrong. He's

wanting, loyalty is not the same thing as having a, subjugation is not loyalty. It's not. Subjugation is not loyalty. You want to know what subjugation is? Subjugation is about those happy, greasy, fat rhinos that ran down there at Alligator Alcatraz. You know, the one that the governor and A.G. James Oathmeyer just unveiled where they're housing illegal entrance into this facility that's surrounded by a swamp and, you know, presumably gators. And you had a slew of politicians, Florida rhinos that attacked them for their six ways to Sunday. You had the guy that was trying to get one of the state lawmakers trying to try. trying to rob the governor of the authority to enforce immigration law so they could enact amnesty statewide. They criticized the Florida governor for enacting Trump's immigration policies while pretending that they are like all quote unquote maga or whatever.

And then they show up. They could not beat feet fast enough to get there all breathless and sweaty to get there to pose for a photo op because they want some of the shine from that achievement. to rub off on them. They weren't there for the fight. They actually fought, and the ones that were fought against it. But oh my gosh, they can't get there fast enough. They heard there's cameras that are going to be there to alligator Alcatraz. Oh my gosh, they've got it.

They can't get there fast enough. Oh, they got to get there now. They couldn't get there fast enough. And I just, you know, you got to appreciate those do nothing rhinos down there in Florida that attacked the governor. and attack the Attorney General non-stop about immigration, non-stop. But they got down there.

They got down there to get that photo. Did they not? Boy, you know, I know y'all saw them. They were down there. He had all of them. The ones that we've tried to get out. We've tried to get on the show. They didn't want to come on the show.

One of them did. Randy Fine came on the show. I'll give him that credit. But man, the rest of them, they actually, I mean, in fact, three of the people that were there opposed the creation of Alligator Alcatraz which I thought was weird

like why are then are you right? Oh it's right because there's cameras there that's right that's that's because their cameras there yeah they had a number of them that showed up that actually had opposed the opening they said it was not feasible they said it was not realistic

I'm just don't trust me I'm just reading their actual tweets you know it's not a big deal. So, but then, man, they got down there and they got a photo with it because they were hoping. In fact, Byron Donald's even said, quote, it's a pipe dream, end quote. That's Gulf Shore Business.com. What? How was that a pipe dream?

It happened now. At least, I will say, at least Donald's didn't attack it for him to say it was a pipe dream, though, I thought it was a little bit off base. But these other cats out there, they were attacking it right. and left. So it's very interesting that they all ran down there so they could get their photos taken with it. Oh, you had all of them done. You had all of them. I mean, it's, you know, this, I will say, I got to tell you, like, Desantis welcomed these other Florida lawmakers there. And, and, you know, it was just happy because he genuinely believes, I think, a rising tide raises all ships.

I don't. If you wrong me, I will come at you six ways to Sunday and try to knock you out. so this is why I should not run for elected office. But I thought it was very nice that he wasn't as petty as I would be. Absolutely. I think without any argument. And I think some of you out there, too, if you're being honest with yourselves, come on. So he just wants the job to get done and he just wants to get the ball down in the end zone. That's all he cares about.

So that's a good thing. But back to the back and forth with POTUS and Musk, I need them to stop fighting. I really need them to stop fighting. POTUS said that maybe he's going to turn Doge onto Muck. Musk. I didn't want to tweet it, but I'm like, well, then hell, we know nothing's going to happen because Doge wasn't allowed to really cut anything, were they? I mean, they wanted to, they identified over. One of the big problems isn't the identification. It's how to actually cut the spending without giving Democrats an opportunity to raise your taxes. That's the big thing. That is like, that's the, the biggest aspect with this is how do you, how do you then you have to find, you mean, you can find waste, fraud, and abuse. It's not the big issue. The big issue is how do you cut it? And I'm just like looking at some of the stuff on the kind of.

How do you cut that on the Senate calendar? How do you cut that? And then you go into Congress and then you've got to, you've got to defend your cuts. And then you've got to find other, like big waste, fraud and abuse that you have to cut so that you can protect the decrease in the cut in taxes. And that's, you know, the needle that they have to thread. The problem isn't finding the waste fraud and abuse. The problem is getting for these Republicans to act.

actually do what they said they were going to do on the campaign trail and vote to cut it. And or fight. There's a million different tactics they can employ. It doesn't matter that it's the reconciliation process. If they're smart, they're going to realize there are a handful of tactics they can employ, whether it's withholding funding, whether it's like, for instance, the rescissions. Where do the pocket recisions go? We heard a great game. Where did the recisions package go?

Where did all that go? We keep, we keep being told. to pass this thing as there's tax cuts in it. All the tax cuts are temporary. They all expire in 2028 next. So, interesting. But I need, I really wish that POTUS would bring as much pressure to bear on these lawmakers that are trying to do him dirty as he does his allies. And this is what I said. Subjugation is not loyalty. Elon Musk, why, I mean, if I were Elon Musk, there is no way in hell I'd want to buy Twitter. Why would you want to do that? You have more money than anybody on Earth. Why do you need to do anything?

Why do you need to prove yourself more? Why would you need to purchase a social media company for the free headaches? Like what? You're paying for aggravation at that point. You are paying to get aggravated to death. You are paying for petty partisanship. Why would anybody in their right mind do that? You don't need to do it.

He didn't need to do it. And he did it. He didn't need to go and work with the administration. and have all this bad press about Tesla. But he did it. So there's an issue, like I said, the difference between subjugation and loyalty. Someone who throws in when they really have nothing to gain from doing so at all whatsoever, that to me is significant.

And I think that those people need to be treated a little bit better than demanding, you know, subjugation like you would with one of these fat and sassy rhinos down there in Florida. it's just a little different because those people are true allies and they're not going to backstab you. They're not going to tell you one thing and then let you wither out there as they watch you not be able to perform

because they misdirected you. They're going to be honest with you. And sometimes it's hard to hear the truth. Sometimes it's hard to hear it straight from those people. But that's where a little humility comes into play. Like there are people up there that will tell POTUS whatever he wants them to hear or whatever they think he wants to hear

because they're all about their bottom line. That's a lot of these lawmakers in Congress right now that are doing everybody dirty, including the administration with this bill. Telling them one thing, the reality is something way different. So I wish that he would bring to bear pressure on these lawmakers with the same intensity that he does his allies. Like going after people like Thomas Massey doesn't make any sense. First off, Thomas Massey is incredibly popular in his district. And I'm not saying this as a way to be petty, but I'm just saying you need to make sure that you get more votes than the guy that you're attacking in that district before you threaten to do something to it. That doesn't serve

anybody. You got to have people like Thomas Massey holding down the constitutionalist line. And for the people who go, well, what does he do? I would invite them to pay a little bit more attention to what happens in Congress if that's a question they really have. This man proposes stuff right and left. He tries to push things through committee right and left. The problem, if you're going to judge by not having it go through, then you need to ask why won't it go through? The stuff that he and Chip Roy proposed are straight no-chaiseer constitutionalist items that I think that a lot of people say that they want. I mean, they want lower taxes if they're not an abolishment of the IRS outright.

They want secure borders. They want more domestic production, manufacturing, more sustainability here, unleashing the energy sector. These are all things that people claim that they like. And then when you get lawmakers in D.C. that actually have balls big enough to do it, Then people turn on them because it makes it inconvenient and uncomfortable for the rhinos like Lisa Murkowski and the thunes and everybody else. That didn't make any sense to me. And then people get mad at the very people who most embody what they claim that they want at the ballot box. So either people are getting misdirected or a lot of people are lying their butts off about how conservative and constitutionalists they are come election season.

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What I don't like is when celebrities are really anyone immediately discounts someone else because they disagree with them. And it's not because they're disagreeing out of ignorance or an absence of information, but just because they have different, different, you know, ideological. markers, whether they like smaller government or what have you. And that drives the dissent. And I can't stand when these celebrities discount all of that nuance and just think, well, it's this because they're insulated from facts. FACKS. It's because they're stupid. It's because they don't know. I can't stand when celebrities do that. Do you know how self-aggrandizing that sounds? How elitist, like a self-appointed elitist that sounds. Everyone who does, it's like the same as everyone who doesn't agree with me is Hitler or something. It's just stop it. Or how third and fourth way feminist,

everyone who doesn't agree with me is a sexist. Or you're just wrong. There's also that. Because I don't think that he's, he's not as rude. He's not rude like some of the others are. But I don't know if I was having polite conversation at an event and someone said that to me. I don't think that I probably would react a little abrasively, I think, to that, because his sister is very open-minded. His sister, Justine Bateman, is very open-minded. And I don't like it how the media is so eager to pit them against each other as a way to punish Justine Bateman for daring to be an original thinker and an era where original thought is demonized. But for, you know, her brother or for anybody just to say, well, it's big if they disagree, it's because they're insulated with facts. million people, 80-something million people are not insulated from facts. They have a fundamental

disagreement with you about the size and purpose of government. That's not because they're insulated from facts. I mean, if we really want to have the discussion about insulation from facts, then what we could say is that, well, you seem to be insulated from the fact that the founders disagreed with you on the role and size and scope of government and its power. They didn't believe in all of the things that you support and vote for. They didn't believe in the government having this type of ability over individuals everyday lives. They didn't support any of that stuff. If, you know, you really wanted to have a discussion about who is and who is not insulated from fact, it's just so snotty. It's so incredibly snotty. I have another snotty celebrity coming up.

Charlize Therrant. What is, what was her soundbite? I don't want to hear it yet because we're going to talk about it coming up. She's mad over Trump's deportation. and somehow decides to mix in with it, trans issues, because I don't know, why not? She's always been a little kooky, I think. She adopted a boy. I think she adopted a young, she adopted a young boy and is raising him as a girl. Hmm. Yeah.

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And don't worry, he's not going to run away with anything. I think he's, frankly, I've heard he's a total nut job. I think the people of New York are crazy. If they go this route, I think they're crazy. We will have a communist in the, for the first time, really, a pure, true communist. He wants to operate the grocery stores, the department stores. What about the people that are there? I think it's crazy.

Do you want an update to his, that man, Dammy's plans, how bad his plans are? Oh, my gosh. So he has this plan that he talked about for his grocery stores, right? He had this plan where he wanted to have government-run grocery stores and I guess offer like, I don't know, free or discounted food for everybody. It's the craziest thing. The problem is he didn't know when he was like reading this government website about funds available in subsidies. He did not read it correctly. so his plan is even worse than you ever thought it was.

Welcome back to the program. Dean Alast your theater at the top of this second hour. His plan for the city-owned grocery stores, he wanted to tap in to a $140 million bucket of subsidies for quote-unquote corporate grocery stores, but that money doesn't exist. Oh. Oh, yeah.

It's not real. It doesn't exist. So, okay. He thinks that it would cost $140 million. I mean, he would have to almost, and this is from Washington Examiner, it would require like 20 years for him to build a one government-run grocery store in each borough. Washington Examiner has the whole story.

His whole plan is based on a huge misunderstanding of the current, grocery subsidies. The money that he plans to use to pay for the city-owned grocery stores is actually money that the city doesn't have. He thinks that the city is spending, he actually thinks that the city is spending $140 million to subsidize private grocery stores. And he talked about this before. And one of the videos that he had out, he said, we're going to redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. And then he went into, he did an interview, uh, this. He said that we're going to, this is how we're going to pay for the entire agenda. And he said that the, he said that that should be compared to the city's existing program called city fresh, where they spend 140 million subsidizing corporate grocery stores. So we would take less than half of the money. The city's already set to spend and actually deliver results. So the fresh, the fresh, uh, city fresh, what New York has. it is the food retail expansion to support health. So F-R-E-S-H. You know what it, do you know what it means?

It's literally just a bunch of tax breaks and regulatory, a suspension of certain regulations in certain areas that make it easier for grocery stores to open up in what they call quote-unquote food deserts. It literally is not like a pot of money. it's a bunch of tax breaks and suspension of regulation. He thinks that that means the amount of money that it regulates is the amount of money that they actually have in a pot somewhere, that he can just go stick his hand in. I am not making this up. The subsidy includes tax breaks, building taxes stay at pre-improvement levels for a few years, land taxes are abated.

They have some tax breaks for building the store, some transfer taxes are cut, etc, etc. zoning relief, regulatory relief, all of that's included. And they saved the grocery stores about a few million a year. Wow. And I don't know how his brain thought that that meant that's $140 million in hard cash. What they said is the city's Economic Development Corporation estimated that grocery stores have of their own money invested $1,4,4,000. million thanks to that city fresh program. He is counting the $140 million that grocery stores invested of their own money, private money, as government money. It's literally described, quote,

the amount of money invested into New York City's economy through Fresh. So the money was invested by the quote unquote corporate grocery stores and not by the city. He is one of the stupidest people who has ever lived. Oh my gosh. He literally does not understand this and he thinks he thinks that he's he just read that oh wait 140 million that's probably hard cash somewhere that I can get my hands on. But what he doesn't realize or what he misunderstood is that this is the money, the amount of money that's been invested into New York City's economy by these stores through this program. It's not money for him to take. Like every other communist, this guy is also illiterate, not just like in terms of reading comprehension, but mathematically

illiterate as well. Oh my gosh. But this is what happens when you're a nepo baby who has never, ever, ever worked a job. And the closest thing to working a job that he's ever come is when he was a failed rapper and Mommy directed his rap videos. Not even kidding you. And they're so cringe, I could die. I don't understand how someone who is a millennial and should have a little bit better sense is that cringe. But here we are. I mean, he's 30-something years old and he's never, ever worked, ever. So I don't know. It's like, I think the guys that's in the movie Stup brothers, John C. Riley and Will Ferrell had like better ambition than this guy does. So he had no idea what he was reading. And he literally went out in front of the nation and pitched this plan based on his

inability to understand what he was reading on a government website. But what's more is apparently he does not surround himself with anybody that corrected him. Nobody was like, dude, you're reading this wrong. That is not what that means. There's not a $140 cash sitting somewhere in a bucket for you to get. That means that's how much money has been reinvested into the city through the city fresh program by the stores. And he thought, oh my gosh, that's money I can take somewhere. So now we're back at square one. He's proposed big-o government grocery stores. Where is that money going to come from? By the way, this is another reason why you don't hate the press enough. Of the press, only one entity, only one entity actually wrote about this. That's Washington Examiner.

All of the New York press, nobody touched it. No one in New York looked at it, like had the idea of going, wait a minute, this guy literally messed up and he does not know what he's saying. So, are we going to write about the story or not? No, no, shh. This is so embarrassing. But these people can't do math.

He doesn't know how to do math. You know what's also embarrassing? Can I share with you the Jaguar story? Do you guys hear about Jaguar? So, I guess, when did they come out with that ad? Was it like a year ago? Remember the ad that they came out with? It was people that were in

like monochromatic colored onesies like red and yellow and purple and they had like these they did this ad where it had like a dude and no dress trans and they were all like in red and yellow

and pink clothes and they had their like some of them had their eyebrows completely you know makeuped off their faces you had no idea it was a car ad they came out and they're like we're different it's jaguar creating zoo That's not even an actual sentence. It's not an order even. Create exuberant. What does that even mean?

Le vividly. You mean there's a reason why you can, you know, conjugate verbs and you have different adverbs and adjectives. So they did this ad. Their sales have plunged. Plunged. In Europe, Jaguar sales dropped by over 95%. In all of Europe, in all of Europe. for the entire month of April, they only sold 49 cars. Their Europe sales plunged from 1,961 units in April of 24 to 49 in 2025. And this is from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. This is the ad that they did that Juan's showing you. I mean, you don't even know what's about a car. You don't even know what this is about.

they're like copy nothing and it's just these jaguar you have no idea what it's about jaguar was a cool brand it was like a heritage brand it was like old money heritage brand and then they decided to twink it up and i don't even know what this is i mean it would make that's cringe it's so cringe like here's our typical old guy and he's trying to be andy warhol this is just so tired look we're trying to look weird we put foundation on our eyebrows to make it look like we don't have any look we're all in the these, we're all sitting awkwardly and we're not, we just ran the tape backwards to make it look like we walked awkwardly. They try so hard, it makes me hate it.

You don't even know what this is an ad for. You wouldn't know unless we were telling you. Yeah, they are, their sales, their rebranding was disastrous. So their whole effort at rebranding killed their brand. It killed it. And it, you could say, well, they went woke. It was like even a soft woke. It was just tone deaf.

It was tone deaf. And they did this ad and you have no idea what they're even talking about. Nobody knows what they're talking about in this ad. It's so bad. So they really just shot themselves on their foot here. We have more on the way as we ruled awards headlines. If you're one of those people that deal with aches and pains and you're just done with it, you're done dealing with it.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. So Home Depot is going deeper into the building supply business, a $5 billion acquisition that they made of GMS. That's of Tucker, Georgia. They distribute specialty building products like drywall and steel framing and things like that and supplies that are used in residential and commercial projects. It's a subsidiary of Home Depot's SRS distribution that got in. So that's interesting. So some moves being made right there.

This, let's see. Oh, so you know the spare and the redheaded spare, the winging spare in his briefcase, suitcase, whatever girlfriend. She's in a lot of trouble because she has all of these. Like it's a weird assortment of really runny jam that's not actually jam. She has a really runny spread and some other stuff like a rosé and all the stuff that she's doing. Well, all of her products are actually like sourced, not even in the state of California. her raspberry jam is made on an industrial state 2,000 miles away from where she lives. It's actually the same thing that provides the Bridgerton stuff for William Sonoma.

So it's mass produced. She's just white labeling it and charging three times the amount that you would be able to just get either direct from Amazon or through from like wholesale from the distributor itself. Wow. Wow. Rosie O'Donnell is mad because she didn't get an invite to Jeff Bezos's wedding. So she's been running her mouth about it. and she said that she called out Oprah for attending it.

I don't know, maybe people are grown and they can do whatever they want to. It just sounds like a lot of people are mad that they didn't get an invite to it. That's what it seems like. Rosie O'Donnell, like, did anyone wake up this morning and go, wow, I wonder what Rosie O'Donnell thinks about Jeff Bezos's wedding.

Was that an anybody's bingo card at all whatsoever? Because it sure as hell wasn't on mine. Yet here I am. No, she, I think she and others have been seeing people criticize them for it. What I get, what gets me is they try to say that it's, oh, it's just so tone deaf to just be that ostentatious. Have you seen the way that they're ostentatious with everything else that these people do? You can be ostentatious in other ways, like wanting the state to exert full control over you and to cut off any opportunity because you've made it.

Now you're going to cut off opportunities for everybody else. That's pretty ostentatious if you want to have a discussion as to what that word means. Cracker bail fans are heartbroken as the chain is getting rid of its old, timely decor. So they're going for a more sterile, soulless makeover, trying to remain relevant. So they are, I mean, they're getting, they're changing a lot of stuff, apparently. They said a lot of people are criticizing it. They're opening the walls. It feels like colder and more industrial modern.

They, uh, I mean, I guess they're getting rid of their rocking chairs and everything else. That's so lame. Like, stop, you know what? A lot of what they, what people are, when they do these refurbishments or these redecorations, it ends up being like a soulless imitation of some Instagram garbage is what it is. It's just brain rot as decor. Thousands of Norwegians were mistakenly told that they'd won life-changing sums in a lottery error. They apologized.

They were apologized to. Players were told they won large sums in the Eurojackpot because of a coding error. I mean, lots of money. You're talking millions and millions and millions of dollars. So they had to break the news to them. And they said, we're so sorry, we're sorry. And I think they gave them like a free ticket or something. like that as a consolation. Is that really a consolation? It just seems like you're rubbing salt in the

wound, honestly. We have a lot more on the way, including but not limited to, the latest with the bill. We also have some culture stuff as well, Hollywood whining and getting involved. Stick with us more in store next. Make some common sense of the crazy headlines with the Dana Show podcast. You're on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple or your favorite podcast platform. Did you get any clues on the floor about what time this night rat? Oh my God, I just want to go home. I've missed our entire trip to the beach.

My family's going to be back before we. So, and again, I'm going to vote no. There's no drama. The votes are going to go. In fact, the only interesting votes are going to be on the margin, whether that's Collins or Johnson and those. but all the Democrats, we all know how that's going to go. And I think, I don't think it's really helpful to put people here

until when someone godly hour, and again. Thank you, sir. I think everybody is John Fetterman right now. He was mad because he's like, we've missed our whole vacate. Because you had Schumer who wanted to make it to where, well, they actually wanted to read the bill. So they were working to actually read, they were reading the bill. yesterday, which I don't know that they've ever done that. Have they ever done that? Or they sat and they read the bill? I'm not quite sure. So, welcome back. Dana Lash with you, and we are at the bottom of

this second hour. I think everybody's John Fetterman at this point. I wanted to play this as well. This was funny from Audio Sambite 7 from Trump earlier when he was down there talking about alligator aquitraz. I just thought this was funny. This is the detention facility in which they're putting in criminal illegal entrance. Listen to this. 27, sorry. Is this a dream come true for you, sir? Well, I was thinking about that, I must say. It was meant more as a joke, but the more I thought of it, the more I liked them if you want to know the truth.

And they were seriously, they were actually crocodiles. They were crocodiles from Africa. They are a step beyond. But no, that was really meant as a joke, but a lot of people liked it. And a lot of people think we should do it, frankly. He was saying out, you got to run. You know, if you're running, you got to run. like this, then he was doing a zigzag, because you got a zigzag, zigzag. That's hysterical.

That's, yeah, and that's audio somebody, yeah, listen to this. This is audio somebody for, listen to this. Thayer's a thing. The idea that it's the idea that it's not a nice business. I guess that's the concept. This is not a nice business. I guess that's the concept. If you, you know, the snakes are fast, but alligator is a big. We're going to teach them how to run away from an alligator, okay? they escape prison. How to run away. Don't run in a straight line. Rug like this. And you know what? Your chances go up about 1%. Okay. It's not a good thing.

That's funny. You got to run. You got a zigzag. Zigzag. They're already, that's all ready to go. It's climate controlled in there. They have AC in there. They have air conditioning in that thing. So last night, the Senate going back and forth over the big, beautiful bill and a little bit ago, J.D. Vance had cast the tie-breaking vote for it. Now, one of the things that I've been telling you, I really wish that these lawmakers would be honest. And I get it that they're trying to score a win. But I think you need to be honest now so that you can prepare for it going into the general election in 2028. Not just that, but in midterms because the tax cuts, they're not permanent. And then that's going to be at some point that, well, that's going to come up in 28. And everybody's going to be talking about that. What plan do Republicans have? my concern about lifting the debt ceiling, raising the debt ceiling to the extent that they've done it. And now this goes back to the House and they have to go over certain things where they send it to Trump.

So it's not all the way there yet. But it's, you know, fate accompli it pretty much is. My issue is that by only making tax cuts temporary. And that was a, this is not something that is unusual. It is a tactic that they used so that they could get the assertive. CBO scoring because as I've told you this before and a lot of you have asked me about this, the Congressional Budgetary Office only tabulates exactly what you give it and it doesn't look into the motivation. So if you say, okay, well here's this bill with tax cuts set to expire in

28, it reads that like a cost or a gain. That's how it looks at it. And so it reads, even though I agree with you, tax cuts are not a cost. Government spending is it reads tax cuts. It reads tax cuts as a cost to itself, itself being the federal government. And therefore, you have to present more cuts to federal spending in order to offset that. So they made it temporary, expiring in 2028 so they could get a more neutral reading from the Congressional Budgetary Office on this. Now, this is not the first time that this tactic has been used, and it is not only used by the right, it's used by the left. In fact, this is how they were trying to get Obamacare. Obamacare they were trying to say was under a trillion dollars and it really wasn't. And the reason that it really wasn't is because the way that they prompted the CBO to spit out a score, they did all of these, you know, this fuzzy math and all of these tactics to try to get a readout that said it was under a trillion dollars. But in reality, it wasn't. So this same thing with the tax cuts that are in this. You're going to have tax cuts for four years. I mean, it's not a lot. And it's not a cut. The only new.

things are like no taxes on tips and like an increase in child tax credit, but everything else is just a continuation of 2017. And that wasn't even set to expire until December of this year. So we had time. It was a completely arbitrary deadline of July 4th because they were trying to rush this stuff through. So there isn't actually a cut in here. It's a continuation of 2017, which also wasn't permanent. And you might remember if you listen to this show with an irregularity, that was my biggest criticism of the president's bill back in 2017 is that the tax cuts that were included were not permanent.

And that really needed to be so. I think the corporate tax rate needed to be lowered a hell of a lot more than it was. And then I also think that, you know, these deals that Murkowski and others signed, insane. I mean, I would have,

you should have been smaller, it should have been separate bills, but it is what it is. The, and like I said, this goes back to the house. you're going to see increasing debts, raising the debt ceiling, higher deficits. I just don't, the government has never spent less when you give it more. Does that make sense? It doesn't

spend less when you give it more. When you raise the debt ceiling, the government doesn't start spending less. And the, whether it's corporate tax rate, all kinds of stuff, I mean, the individual tax provisions, again, I want to just note that they, are, again, all temporary. Really would have loved it if it had been made permanent. But for that to happen, they would have needed to cut so much. And remember, these are the same Republican senators who refuse to stop the parliamentarian from ruling that they could not remove illegal immigrants off of Medicaid. So that's, you're also limiting the value of itemized deductions. There's some tradeoffs with this, for sure. You still have a lot of green energy stuff, a lot of

green energy stuff that's in this. The, there really should be more. They're really, I mean, there's, there's, there's, there should be more cuts. There should be, uh, more exemptions, uh, more deductions, all of this. If you're not going to get rid of the IRS all together. So I'm not happy with it. It's just the way it is.

I mean, and it's weird that, you know, this is what Republicans are celebrating as a big win while also simultaneously criticizing the illiterate Marxist. in New York who didn't know how to read a government website and then thought he could just had a grab bag of $140 million in cash to pay for state-run grocery stores, which, no, you can't, that's not going to work. By the way, I wanted to share with you this piece. This is from City Journal in New York. I know you're going to gag, but just bear with me. I thought this is interesting. It says that Mamdani turned his campaign into a lifestyle brand with today's influencer-driven economy.

Young voters couldn't resist the quote-unquote vibe and voted for what Mam Danny was selling them. What? What would, can they actually say what he was selling them? What is he promising you? What is this guy actually promising you? Can they even say it?

I mean, it's not enough to have a bunch of Instagram followers. It's not enough to have a bunch of Instagram followers. It's not enough to have. you know, your little viral videos and your camera filters and all of this stuff. He had an entire agency behind his run. He has an agency behind his run. It's called melted solids. And they've worked with Bernie Sanders and all that before. And this is what gets me. They're all about focusing on narrative authenticity and cultivating a vibe. Gag me.

How, by the way, the Irish. hiring a PR team to focus on authenticity and cultivating a vibe. If one is authentic, wouldn't one argue that the vibe has already been cultivated, right? I'm just trying to understand this. This is so ridiculous. So he's like advertised as a candidate of choice for the culturally fluent. So they're going to try to make socialism cool. And they want this to, the sub-battle to this is they want this ma'am dami guy they want him to be the yardstick for democrats coming up right they want him to be the yardstick for all the democrats coming up they want him to be are you as leftist as this guy is that's he's the new measure of vibe what does the vibe get you can a vibe pay your bills

can a vibe pay your mortgage can a vibe pay your rent, kind of vibe, pay your medical bills, kind of vibe by your groceries. I'm so tired of this nonsense. Ooh, the vibe. But the other thing too, he, the left usually had to tell people, no, we're not Marxists, we're not socialist. Do you remember when Bernie Sanders was running and his past, like being a Democrat socialist came out and everyone was talking about democratic socialism and how it's a stupid made-up term? And the left, had to like go to great lengths to convince people. No, we swear he's not socialist. We swear it. He is just a regular old Democrat. You remember how hard they had to, they like bent over backwards.

Like him and Elizabeth Warren and everyone else. No, no, no, they're not these words. They're just Democrats. Then you have Mandani that gets out. And he's like, hell yes, I am a socialist. Hell yes, I believe in state-run everything. Hell, yes, I want to tax white neighborhoods more. I mean, all of the efforts that the left is made over the past decades to try to convince you that they're not what they are, and he just kind of blows all their cover. There is a certain satisfaction to it.

And he's doing incredibly well with women, young, progressive women. There is a major problem with white communist women. And as Juan told us on break, we can't call them Karen's. Because a British court ruled that that was a smear. When I hear the word Karen, I think of white Marxist women. That's what I think of. But that's who's driving this. They're going to be the death of us all.

That damn third and fourth wave feminism, they're going to be the death of us all. But that's what's driving his popularity. these bras out there like oh my gosh it's so cool I also love cultivating vibes and like authenticity and stuff like yeah like let's have state run grocery stores I don't know where money comes from what that's his whole base that is his whole base I don't it's his life mission to make bad decisions

it's time for Florida man So a, no, I don't really want to do this one. Oh, I don't want to do this one at all. A nurse found drugs in a Florida man's back door during surgery for a stab wound. Just going to leave it like that. Florida man involved in what police believed was a drug dispute ended up behind bars because during surgery, because he went in to seek medical attention because he was stabbed, It was at St. Petersburg's Bayfront Hospital last month.

The injuries required surgery. 43-year-old Michael O'Neill was had a nurse was, well, she found that he had been using his prison wallet, for the lack of a better phrase, to store drugs and drug paraphernalia. It was smoking gunpiece. And they said, while in surgery, she located it. And it was round tin foil with cocaine, along with. a glass crack pipe and a lighter. I can't even deal. And he posted $5,500 bond was released from custody, pled not guilty to the charges. I don't know how you can plead not guilty to these charges. This was not his first arrest either. So next story. Moving on. Let's see here. We've got a Florida

man's cross necklace blocks the bullet from piercing his heart. This is coming from WFLA. He shot in the chest, he credits a cross necklace for saving his life. 20-year-old Aden Perry and told it in his friend, he was showing off a firearm. He accidentally fired it because he's a moron. It ricocheted off his gold necklace and became lodged in the fatty tissue of his chest. The doctor said that his necklace saved his life. So I think there's probably something to be said for wearing big gold chains, maybe. But it ricocheted. It had to just hit perfectly. They said if he hadn't been wearing it, it would have pierced his lungs or his heart. So maybe, maybe he got it as a Christmas gift last year from his dad.

So just saying, maybe that's a giant sign to this dude. Just FYI. Also, let's see here. I got drug trafficking, drug trafficking. We also have a guy in Zepharillas, Florida, an argument that began a man opened fire on a garbage truck while chasing it through Zephyrillas. And this was early Friday morning that led to the guy chasing him. while firing shots and a collision that sent two men to the hospital, another to jail, according to Zephyrilles, PD. They went to Advent Health Zepharalis. The man showed up. He had a gunshot wound to his right forearm.

He was shot by, I don't really care about the backstory of this, but a guy just was running after a garbage truck and just firing all crazy. You had to know. His name is Quinson Crozen. You have too many sounds in your name, sir. You got to give one of them up. Nobody's allowed to have that many consonants. I know it's America, but come on. a man in whittie tides his pepper spraying his sleeping neighbor over noise complaints another one it is shockingly not a village's story

it's Lodderhill they said that this man was arrested he broke into his neighbors upstairs apartment pepper sprayed him in the face while he slept because apparently he was snoring so loud and being loud

that the guy had lived like right below him he could hear him so he couldn't startle him awake so he ended up climbing up into his apartment and he pepper sprayed him in the face it just feels like maybe he could have used your phone

instead. Just, just the thought. We have a lot more on the way here as we rolled awards the third hour of the program, including some of the details, the scoring about that bill. We also have some of the latest with WNBA and some of the childishness that's happening there. We've got some culture as well for you. We're going to get into all of that and a lot more as we roll out. More of the program coming up. Passes. What's your reaction? You guys famously tangled in the White House. I admire Elon's leadership on rockets. I will take care of the finances.

This is, so, I mean, I think that that's, I think it's kind of petty to discount him just because of the rocket. Just, oh, he can do rockets, I'll do this. I mean, you don't have to be an economist or an investment banker to know that spending money you don't have is bad. spending money that you don't have raising the debt ceiling these are all bad things so why are we saying well he could just i mean he's built a pretty sizable business i think that his opinion is worth a listen welcome to the show the radio program dana lashed with you you can listen terrestrily you can watch

the radio program channel 347 direct tv as well and the senate bill this is what we been kind of like going back and forth on for, you know, they've been going back and forth on it. They've been, Chuck Schumer said, we're going to read, we're going to read every single page of this. And, uh, which I'm actually, I wasn't against because it's like the first time, you know, don't threaten me with a good time, right? You're, you're going to sit here and you're going to, you're going to read a whole bill. Finally, you're going to read a whole bill. But they did not terminate the Green New Deal in it. They did not, I mean, they still have all of the wind subsidies. They still have all of the solar subsidies and all of this stuff.

They've got, you know, every bit of it. And they've had 12, I mean, they've had a lot of time to deal with us and they just haven't for some reason. Just because they're spineless. This, let's also, I got some other audio here that we're going to play because there's a bunch of stuff to go. We're going to talk more about, where's this other audio? Here it is. Getting into this, this is audio sound bite three. Listen to this.

Who? What happened? The Elon buzz? Nothing. You know, he's upset. He's losing his EV mandate. He's accepted. Yeah, he's very upset about things, but, you know, he could lose a lot more than that.

I can tell you right now. Elon can lose a lot more than that. Hmm. So that's disingenuous because he's always said that he wants all the mandates to go away. does, are not mandates, but all of the subsidies. He doesn't want subsidies for EVs. He said, yes, I want it all to go away. I don't want to have subs. I don't even want to have subsidies. And you have to remember, he also has a lot of people on his board that I like to take this stuff too. And he's like, I don't want this stuff. It all has to go away. He's been very,

very consistent on that. So to say that this, to imply that this is he's mad over subsidies isn't accurate. That's not in any way accurate. Why are they doing this? I wish Trump would go after these rhinos that are in the Senate and in the House as hard as he does some of these allies. Because, you know, as we were talking last hour, Musk is an ally. And there's a difference between loyalty and subjugation. And he didn't need to get in this fight. He didn't have to get in this fight. And he chose to anyway because he really believed in what was happening. And I just think that, you know, you give those people the benefit of the doubt because they're not there to try to get something off of you. They're there to actually contribute. And I just, you know, I think that that

deserves a little bit of attention. All right. So a few other things to get into this. Where's this? I have, let me find my other story on this. Because this, I have too many windows open is my problem on my giant four and a half foot wide screen. And it's a, it's a Tuesday before a long break. This whole issue with the WNBA, I don't know if you guys saw some of the scoring on this. they had uh it was trending last night so they were ranking players in a w nba and katelyn clark's all-star ranking got a lot of people talking about player bias she was ranked ranked ninth among guards by her peers which is one of the dumbest things i've ever seen the way that they they're like oh she finished first in the fan vote and in the players vote she was ninth

because they hate her is why. That is pure jealousy. Pure jealousy. Have you ever seen them? How many players they send out to guard the ninth best guard on the court? They send out a million people to guard her. A million. She's the, they actually, they like go after her.

Someone said they guard her like she's Prime Jordan. Yeah. I mean, I'm so tired of the hate from this. She's a once in a generation player. I'm so tired of the hate that she's getting. It makes me, there's rivalry and then there's this. There's rivalry and then there's just blind pettiness. You know, like even other players in the NBA, those men would give each other their due.

Women are bitches. They will not give them, they will, I'm going to tell you, every place I've ever been, I've only had one issue with a dude. Everything that I've ever seen in the workplace has been from women. It has been from women. They're nasty. They're petty. I don't like them.

They're aggravating. Look at this. They can't all celebrate that she's bringing all these eyeballs in. So they got to rank her really low because they're jealous bees is why. The ninth best guard. Every time I've ever seen her on the court, they've got a million people around her. A million people. And you would just think that they would,

Instead of wasting all this energy and all this time doing this, you think that they would be able to celebrate it. Like, oh my gosh, we're getting eyeballs. We're getting, you know, we're getting this. We're getting chartered planes now. We have merch opportunities, you know, all of that. I mean, it is crazy. She's number, so she's won in fan favorites, ninth amongst players. I will, you know, I wish they'd guard her like she was the ninth best guard in the league. They ought to. Guard her like she's the ninth best then. If she's the ninth best, then don't send everybody to guard her. Just give her that ninth place treatment.

She's, I think that the WNBA allows this. And I think that part of the reason why they allows it is because they, why they allow it is because they want, they're misinterpreting this as getting the same kind of eyeballs that a regular rivalry would get. And it's not the same. This is just as, nobody likes to see somebody getting beat up on just for the sake of getting beat up on.

Like they're mad at her because she's white and she's not a lesbian. and she's not whatever. I don't know whatever these Marxist broads think, but they're mad at her because she's just good. And she came in good and she's been, and the only time anybody pays attention is when she's on the court. This is not unlike

policy in real life, by the way. Where the people who succeed and put in all the work are sidelined and knee-capped, overburdened and over-regulated. It's a lot of problems. A lot of problems with it. So that's

the latest, ninth place. I feel like I need to be a male basketball player, though. Here's why. Jell see the payday this dude's getting? Payday. Everybody's talking about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, but they're not talking about Shy Alexander. He got a four-year, $285 million super maximum contract extension. Steve, is that like an actual thing, a super maximum contract extension? Yeah, there's a difference in a super maximum contract extension. Yeah, there's a difference in a supermax so essentially you get paid out for as long as you possibly can in your term deals in the collective bar it's a cba thing but he can't you can't i mean you can raise the amount of money because there's no salary cap but he can get paid to you know that many times per that many years

wow wow that's pretty see i need to be a male basketball player then i need to be able i need because i wanted we could do that we could i could i could learn how to play ball i won't be very good I mean, I can play ball. I'm just never good. I couldn't even make varsity in school. I did like soccer and track and everything else, though. But, yeah, 285. I would, I will literally stretch my bones. And I will pretend to be a dude for that kind of money, man. I mean, just on the court anyway. SGA put in one of the most impressive seasons in basketball history ever. He had the finals MVP, the regular season MVP, took Oklahoma City to their first ever NBA title. I mean, it was impressive. Wow. Wow.

285 million with Oklahoma City Thunder all the way from 2030 to 31. That is the richest annual salary for a player in the league's history. Holy cow. I'd say so. I wouldn't even know how to spend all that money. I wouldn't even know. So clearly we are in the wrong industry. We need to be selling.

We need to be like working in basketball. All right. I had to get into this. So Lulu Lemon fired a lawsuit, filed a lawsuit against Costco. And they said the company is selling dupes of some of its crappy products. Lulu Lemon stuff is just made so horribly. I'm sorry. I don't understand the worship of this brand.

I mean, there's like Beyond Yoga and others that are just like much better quality. And there's stuff on Amazon that's like much better quality than this brand. Lulu Lemon, they filed this suit in district court. They're saying that they unlawfully traded on the wrong. reputation and sweat equity by selling unauthorized and unlicensed apparel that uses knockoff and frending versions of its patents. Like what? It's their little Kirkland brand that they have. Kirkland's a good brand. What, they're your leggings? Are you going to get mad because someone else is selling leggings? Leggings, but I got to say them the way my grandma did. Legans. They said, well,

they're making duplicates. Our scuba hoodies, our defined jackets and our ABC pants. You know, other people use the scuba, like a neoprene type material to make products, not just Lulu Lemon. In fact, there are entire brands based off of that material that make those. It's not just Lulu lemon. And you're mad over a windbreaker? They're like, but are high-tech menscuba full zip? And they said Costco's is 1997. Lulu Lemons is over $100. Huh. so Lulu Lemon wants a jury trial

and they got into a fight with Peloton as well and then they ended up becoming a partnership afterwards they resolved it amicably but I mean I don't know I just I think that it I just think that I don't think they're infringing

I just don't look at it as an infringement it's a stupid windbreaker what do they think that well if they're using the scuba material there are so many brands that use that material. Veronica Beard makes stuff out of that material. Leisureware and others. But it's our popular, but Costco's.

I mean, I was looking at them, and they have like their high-tech men scuba fools up. Costco's been having to take them down. I, um, I mean, I don't think that it looks the same. I mean, it's just a, it's like a wind breaker. I'm looking at some of that. It's just like a windbreaker. Why are the, it just doesn't even,

so they have the Lulu Lemon. Their neck is different. You can have a similar color. The zipper's different. There's all kinds of stuff that looked at. The pants are different as well. To me, it just seems like they're, I don't know.

I get making sure that you're protecting your IP, but this also just seems kind of dumb and petty. And again, Lulu Lemon, I maintain. I've never seen Seams fall apart faster than Lulu Lemon wear. It's just like it was stitched by. squirrels in a sweatshop. I don't know. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.

Oh, boy, a Chris Brown lawsuit. I can't think of anything else. I'm more excited to talk about than a guy constantly gets himself in trouble with his own actions. Oh, my goodness. TMZ says Chris Brown, the tequila attack lawsuit was settled. I didn't even know he had a fight. Doesn't he just always fight? I think the bigger question is to ask when he's not in trouble. But Blahler

blah, blah, demisive prejudice, can't refile it, moving on. I just pampered celebrities. Older patients are overprescribed, according to medical economics.

They're saying that cutting back is safe, but results might be tricky according to the paywall that just blocks the content. But they said that I believe people are overprescribed everything. I absolutely do. I think people are on too many medications as it is right now.

Guinness Book of World Records. Ooh, now here's something. The Jenga blocks. So a guy with stacking skills with cards and Jenga blocks has earned four world records. And he's known as the card architect. His stacking skills broke four Guinness World Records in a matter of days. He stacked 3,149 jenga blocks on one single block placed vertically. Who has the time to do this?

This guy does, I guess. So he claimed the title for Tallis House of Cards built in eight hours, and it was 62 layers. Can you imagine getting to, like, your top layer, and then you mess one thing up, and it all falls apart? That would be really, that's, good for that guy. I have goals in life, I guess. Yeah, that's this tower that he made. That's on a single block. That's actually super impressive.

Also, I think he might be a witch. I don't know. Just saying, like, that's not normal. Massachusetts police are using crackers to capture a loose. pig. That sounds like there's a free pet running around. Orleans Police Department said that the pig named Pua had ambushed its pen and taken itself out on a guided tour of New Orleans. They responded to the scene. They're trying to get the perpetrator in a pursuit. They were trying to lure it with its hawk Pua. That's so stupid. That's its name. The name of it is,

are you serious? They called him Pua. But I'm like, what in the world? But the pig, they said, was on the run and they were trying to lure it with crackers. I mean, I want that pig to run free. Run pig, run. And let's see this. Associated Press. This story. Pull this up. So this is China's humanoid robots are generating more soccer excitement than their human counterpart. So they have robot playing soccer players. Wong, would you play a robot in soccer? No. I wouldn't either. of but they've they've been playing in China and it they look honestly it's like they have autonomous three-on-three matches and it's empowered entirely by AI they look kind of clunky and awkward I mean it's not like they're fast moving you know

and they can stand up on their own after they fall over clearly during the match they still had to be carried off the field on stretchers by staff that's just so funny I don't know they and they're a little bitty they're not like the size of people they're like little robots but we have a lot of more on the way. Josh Hammer, who is the editor at large over at Newsweek, he was one of the people who was rescued in that op

and by the Florida governor. We got him and more coming up. Stick with us. Brighten up your timely news consumption with a Dana Show podcast, where every update comes with a little dash of Not So Serious on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. A reminder, I will be out from tomorrow until July 8th, but you can still find us Facebook YouTube substack as well, chapter and verse. I was, uh, I really like the idea of alligator apatraz and I was trying to think what we could have that would be similar in Texas. We don't, I mean, we have some gators when you go out east, but I think everything else is just like scorpions and dirt. I don't know. I think that's all we have. That's not very scary. I don't think. Uh, there's a lot to talk about with my next guest,

He was one of those individuals who was rescued. When you had Jay Collins, Florida Governor Ron DeSanta, Senator Jay Collins and everyone, Grable Rescue, everybody went over. We're helping Americans that were trapped due to the conflict from Iran to Israel. And my friend was over there with his family. And then he comes back and now he gets Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, Josh Hammer, who is the editor at large over at Newsweek, joins us. His book, Israel and Civilization. You can see it behind him. Always good to see you, my friend.

Welcome back. Let me start with that because, wow, that was pretty harrowing. Tell me about your experiences with that because you were one of those individuals who had to be evacked. Yeah, so Dana, we were there for primarily personal reasons. So my wife was born Israel. She was raised here in Florida. We went over initially for her cousin's wedding. We had a surprise 60th birthday party. It was very kind of innocent, anodyne stuff. Eventually, I did try to tack on a book event at a think tank in Jerusalem for my book, Israel and civilization. but it was initially really just a purely personal trip. And it was on the fourth or fifth night that we were there

that we woke up at 3 a.m. in the morning, in the overnight hours, to the sirens going off outside. And, you know, you wake up there in the middle of the night and you're very confused. You're kind of groggy. You rub your eyes. And my instinct is to hop on Twitter to see what the heck is happening out there. And what we learned was that the sirens actually at the time, typically Israel does these sirens for incoming missile fire.

This was actually a rare instance of a preemptive warning to the Israeli people that the IDF had launched their operations inside of Iran and to be on high alert for any potential retaliatory response. So long story short, that that day came and went, that Friday, and many of us expected that Friday night is the Jewish Sabbath, Shabbat, and many of us expected that the Jewish Sabbath is when the Iranians would strike. And sure enough, around 8, 8.30 local time, I was quite literally in the middle of my Sabbath prayers to welcome in the Sabbath.

Then we had to the sirens went off outside, I took my wife and daughter. Our six-month-old baby was with us, Dana. So we rushed to the bomb shelter. That's essentially what we did for the next three or four days, was to live on edge, knowing that at any moment the sirens could go off, at which point you have roughly 90 seconds,

maybe two minutes, if you want to stretch it out a little bit, to get your butt to a bomb shelter. Now, there are a couple of things to bear in mind here. One is that, first of all, most importantly, is a terrible way to live, an absolutely terrible way to live on pins and needles, knowing that the world's number one state sponsor of jihadism could be raining down 2,000-mile atmospheric ballistic missiles at any given moment.

Second, these bomb shelters were constructed primarily to deal with these lower-level rockets and mortars from Hamas, now of these 2,000-mile ballistic missiles. So too many missiles were getting through. Too much damage was being called. And that is when I decided that I had to get my family the heck out of there. We had to get out of Dodge. So I did a little research. I came into contact with Jay Collins, an amazing state senator from here in Florida, who was on the ground.

He was on the ground, former Army Greenberry volunteering to get Americans home safely there. And we ended up being part of the first 300 people evacuated there. We took a bus to the Jordanian border, did a night in Ammanjourans, flew to Cyprus, did it a night in Cyprus by surprise. Then flew on this DeSantis charted flight to Tampa International Airport where the governor DeSantis actually met us at 5, 5.5.30 in the morning. That was a surprise as well.

So Dana, I know the governor a little bit, as I know you do as well. He saw me, and he surprised me by then asking me to join him at this impromptu press conference after not having slept for essentially a week there. So I did the best I could. And we got home. The whole thing took about three and a half days. It was about a three and a half day ordeal

from when we left the home to the bus evacuation to get back here in South Florida. It was a long, long time. And to your point, thank God that we are all safe at home. And we are all glad that you're safe at home as well. Good heavens, three days. Talking with our friend Josh Hammer from Newsweek, his book is Royal and Civilization.

You can get it where books are sold. Because one of the things that that I thought was an interesting point that was made is that when the IDF was striking, very specific targets in Tehran, which, by the way, I don't know how you are a, you know, IRGC warlord and you know something is going to happen. Everyone on social media news, something, something is amiss. You stay in your high-rise apartment in the middle of a city that you're just like advertising, like come work me now. And I was so impressed because the strikes were so precise, like just this one little window was blacked out.

The rest of the building's fine, and that's where this one baddie was. You know, and here's another guard and his high rise. I mean, it's amazing the precision. And then you contrast that with what Iran was doing. And it was like they were just lobbying missiles over randomly to hit wherever. They didn't care if they hit civilians. They didn't have a specific target. They just wanted to inflict damage.

Yeah, it's arguably, I mean, it's arguably even worse than that. I was actually reading an essay just this morning by Madi Friedman, who lives over in Jerusalem as a great writer and reporter on these things. One of the facilities in Israel that took a direct strike from one of these missiles is arguably Israel's number one cancer research facility. 300 to 500 million dollars in estimated damage, live human tissue that had to be preserved, that's gone, all this data that's been collected for years or not decades, gone. They had a hospital in Bereshava, the largest city in the Nege of the desert in southern Israel. there, thank goodness that winged the hospital. They had actually had the foresight to evacuate it to the bombshilt already there. But, I mean, talk about indiscriminate fire there.

I mean, it's just absolutely appalling horrific stuff there. And to the other side of the equation, as you said, this really was a brilliant tactical operation by the IDF and arguably even more so than the IDF by Mossad, by their intelligence services there. Look, Masad between this and the beeper operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon last year, They've really done a lot, I think, to restore their credibility after the catastrophic intelligence failure that was October 7th there. Mossad has the entire country of Iran essentially on a grid. Israel has incredible human intelligence on the ground there inside of Iran.

And it's really just mesmerizing stuff. I mean, it's frankly kind of spy movie material. If it doesn't become a movie, I'm going to be so upset. If this does not become like a Tarantino-esque and glorious bastards kind of thing, I just don't know if I'm going to ever be able to forgive anyone in movie making. No, totally. I mean, it's really incredible stuff, right? I mean, Mossad, again, for a very long time, Massad, I think, had this total, just badass reputation. And it was really damaged on October 7th. Then we should not be afraid to say it. It was unequivocally damaged. They did a lot to restore their credibility with the Hezbole-Beeper operation. But frankly, what I think went on in Tehran during that 12-day war, not just Tehran, but all throughout the nuclear sites there, a lot of it, Dana, frankly, makes the beeper operation look like child's play.

And then you kind of throw in the B-2 bombers and the massive ordinance penetrators there. I mean, look, I'm a sports fan. I think of what happened in that 12-day wars, essentially being the old kind of Kobe Bryant to Shaquil O'Neal Ali-oop, where Israel kind of lays the groundwork. They take out the air defense. They take out the missile launchers. They start bombing for Donatan's Ichfahan. They take out the nuclear scientists.

They do all these incredible stunts. Like apparently they had a prank phone call to the heads of the IRGC Air Force and said, you guys, at an emergency meeting, have to go congregating this room. And then obviously, yeah, and then they blow up the whole room there. So, I mean, they laid the ground work quite nicely for America to kind of come in there for the final coup de garra, the final death blow. It was a brilliant tag team operation. I think in many ways, Dana highlights the U.S. Israel relationship. One more question in this realm.

Then I want to look at domestically. What are your thoughts on Syria potentially signing on to the Abraham Accords? I've been pretty amazed at everything that's happened in the past. I mean, let's just say six months. Because when you had the new regime come in, I mean, you're choosing between the lesser of two evils. We're like, we don't know much about this guy, except he was a literal jihadi. I mean, this guy was a jihadist leader. And okay, he's coming in.

But then they, it was a really weird response. He closed airspace to Iran. No Iranian military commercial use of their airspace. And then when POTUS went over and was speaking to leaders in the Middle East, and he was talking about easing up sanctions on Syria. And then MBS gets up and applauds. And then now they look like they're indicating towards signing with the Abraham Accords, all these other Abraham Accords signatories were, we're applauding this. And now it seems like

Iran and any of that regime that may have had any remnants of sympathy or support left have been completely iced out. And I kind of wanted to get your thoughts on all that. So Syria has been one of Israel's foremost arch enemies since modern Israel was found in 1940. I mean, I mean, Syria is up there with the worst of the worst, as far as the recurring enemies of Israel, literally going back to the country's founding. They invaded in 1940. 48. They invaded in 1967, 1973. They've been on the wrong side of Israel time and time and time again. And you're totally right, by the way, that this guy who called himself Al Jolani, now he's calling himself Al-Shara, literally a former al-Qaeda jihadist. So I was among those who was deeply skeptical.

Again, probably the lesser of two evils. I agree with that. I mean, this was a major blow for Iran that Assad was gone and went to go exile in Vladimir Putin's Russia, probably the lesser of two evils. But I was very skeptical. And I'm not going to say that I'm ready to fully eat crow because a lot of bad stuff is still happening inside Syria. There was this horrific slaughter of Christians at a church in Damascus. There's a lot of stuff happening that a normal or remotely normal country should not be happening there, let alone a regime that has still some ambiguous ties to HTS and various other foreign terrorist organizations. Having said all that, this would be a big freaking deal, a big freaking deal if Syria were to normalize

become part of this Iranian containment alliance, that is the Abraham Accords. The news that I saw just a day or two ago was that apparently Syria, is ready to renounce and forego its claim on the Golan Heights, which is the disputed land between Israel and Syria. Israel got that back in the 67 war. Syria has never formally let it go. If they're finally willing to let the Golan go almost 60 years later, Dana, that is a big, big deal there.

So again, if Donald Trump can get that done, it's another example I think of Donald Trump just doing what no other president frankly could do. Why is it seeming like things are moving on the right track in certain areas there? And then here domestically, you have Mandani, this guy who has, he's refused to condemn the globalized the infantata phrase. I mean, he endorses it.

He dances around it, every interview that I've seen. And a guy, a Nepo baby, who's never worked a job in his life, who only became his citizen seven years ago, who's a failed rapper and his mom directed his videos, who clearly has a religious problem with certain people. This guy could be mayor of New York? I mean, it's just so appalling that I sometimes struggle to know even what to say on this, on this topic. I mean, Dana, I grew up in New York area.

I grew up in the suburbs there. Most of my family still lives in the area, not in the city, thank goodness, but the suburbs. But, I mean, New York's days, in my opinion, are clearly way, way, way in the past at this point there. To me, that seemed obvious by the time that COVID-19 came, by the time that the George Floyd 1619 riots came, by the time that the whole Zoom work-from-home culture started to pick up there. But you're just going to see an astounding exodus of human capital, political capital, economic financial capital. I mean, I think you're looking at a world where literally the New York.

stock exchange, like the actual physical bull on Wall Street, that bull could essentially proverbially get on its hind legs and start walking southward, start walking to the Sunshine State here in Florida or the Lone Star State in Texas. But do you want that, though? Because you escaped to Florida from all of that, New York. Do you really want, do you really want that, though? So here's what I will say. On the one hand, no.

On the other hand, Dana, I used to live in Texas, too. I used to follow Texas politics super closely. I remember pouring over the 2018 Texas Senate exit polling data. That's when Bado O'Rour came within about two and a half three points of knocking off Ted Cruz. Thank God that didn't happen, obviously. And I remember seeing a very crazy thing in the cross tabs that poll, which is that native Texans, if memory serves according to the CNN exit poll that year, actually voted for Cruz at a lower rate than non-native Texans.

A lot of people do actually vote with their feet. This is actually a real thing that happens. So it's a mixed bag. I'm not entirely sure which way it ultimately shakes out there. But yes, let's be very careful there. And DeSantis is talking about an entry tax for New Yorkers. I'm definitely down with that. Only for New Yorkers.

Like maybe if Texans come there, you know, no entry for them. Josh Hammer, always so good to see you, my friend. I am so glad that you and your sweet family got back safely. I can't imagine how terrifying that was and that you're able to share some insights on that. So we're glad that you're back, state-side and safe and back in the good sunshine state of Florida. The book, make sure you check it out. You can see it, Israel and Civilization, a really good. great read. And I think you need it for historical and future perspective. Josh, God bless. Happy

Independence Day, my friend. Good to see you. Happy 4th July. God bless you, Dana. Thank you. Of course. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast. Because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. But if I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book? The book I know says, I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick. I was in prison

and you visited me. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. Inasmuch as you've done it to the least of these, you've done it also under me. The book that I love says learn to do good, seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.

Speak out for those who cannot speak for the rights of the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously defend the rights of the poor and the needy. My book says, whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full. But what he misses, what he misses there with this, and this is Raphael Warnock, who just goes to show you that even the devil can quote scripture, what he misses is that it's voluntarily, it's voluntarily done, and it's voluntarily done for edification. Welcome back to the program.

I'm so, you know what? Everyone's like, oh, Jesus was a socialist. No, he was, and he actually fed people. People would be, he questions what book they're reading. I question if he's ever read the good book. I mean, good heaven, second Thessalonians, 310. I mean, if any would not work, neither should he eat. The Bible is incredibly clear.

And Grace Canceled, I have an entire chapter that dives into the scriptural destruction. of socialism. I mean, you realize, by the way, that simply by saying, thou shalt not steal, there is the presumption of private property ownership, which completely just guts Marxism, guts socialism. I mean, the scripture is full of discussion about working and making sure that you are contributing and that you are doing good work. And I don't think that, I do not think that Raphael Warnock has read the Bible. But if he really wants to get specific, let's look at life. Let's look at coveting. Let's look at life. Let's look at theft. Let's look at all of these things, especially life. He would find himself

most precariously opposite as I would think that he is on most things. This is a guy who endorsed abortion up until the moment of birth. All right. So today in stupidity, we've got a real banger for you. It's another annoying Hollywood celebrity, right, Steve? Everyone's second favorite South African, Charlie's Theron. She tried to tie in deportations

and something else cut 26-1. We're moving backwards fast. immigration policy is destroying the lives of families, not criminals. Women's rights are becoming less and less every day. Queer and trans lives are increasingly being erased, and gender-based violence is on the rise. What does she mean women's rights are becoming less every day? That's not even a full sentence.

Folks, happy Independence Day to you. God bless. I'll be back on July 8th.