The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - BONUS: Trump’s “Economic D‑Day” for Iran

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

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Welcome back to the program, Daniel Lash with you. Top of the second hour. And Trump has basically, I guess this is Scott Bessent, part of the economic shiv that he was making for Iran, that they were crafting, because POTUS this morning, basically anybody who's doing business with Iran has to choose between the IRGC and then having access to the entire West. Potus tweets this, quote, I almost have to do his voice, but I can't. No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a deal than me. Tragically, caps lock for them, they have failed to take it.

Therefore, today I am announcing the most, again, this is all caps, most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country. He adds, this will be economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale. Their navy is gone. Their air force is destroyed. Their military factories are now rubble. their currency is worthless and their countries hanging by a thread.

He says today, I'm also announcing that any country that allows its financial institutions, its businesses, its airports, its government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face, caps lock, tremendous economic consequences.

Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies, it all needs to stop. Capslock now. You know who you are? This will be in Capslock economic deed day. And we need POTUS rights all of our allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate and defeat the Iran threat. These maniacs are on the ropes and these, quote, are these caps like historic measures will cripple them and their ability to project terror worldwide. Cue the whole Caps lock sentence.

Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Well, you know, you're looking at Qatar. You're looking at Oman, who POTUS just shook his fist at at the top of the week. China, Russia, and maybe even the UAE to an extent. They've always been kind of a financial proxy, even though they've sort of been kind of friendly with the Saudis and that relationship there, but they're trying to help avoid sanctions. So we'll see. China's not going to, China's not going to mess with us. they do too much business with the U.S. They're not going to mess with us. Vladimir Putin?

I mean, what's interesting in the Wall Street Journal, let me pull this piece up. This, I thought this was fascinating. So the story is Trump's plan to squeeze Iran's economy will live or die in Dubai. The UAE, long to Iran's gateway to global commerce,

has pledged to crack down, but it's complicated. So when I look at this, this is more of really it seems like it's directed more towards Dubai than in UAE than anything. And that, I mean, per the Wall Street Journal, that seems to be the real, that's what he's really going after. So the UAE said that they've suspended financial and economic transactions with Iran, which the Wall Street Journal, which the Wall Street Journal, notes potentially threatens Tehran's access to a major source of imports and a financial backdoor to the world. And it follows weeks of the Trump administration, cajoling the UAE to crack down on the Iran financial networks operating in the country, telling the Emirati

officials that targeting money flows linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could have a greater impact on Tehran than the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports, according to people familiar with the matter. So if implemented broadly, the Wall Street Journal notes, the UAE could significantly curb Tehran's access to foreign currency and global trade networks as the Iranian economy buckles under soaring inflation and sanctions and wartime disruption. And the administration hopes that this could increase the pressure on Iran to strike a deal. Now, remember, it's a deal just to get to the negotiating table. It's not even the final boss of negotiations. I don't even know why we're still talking about a deal because you're never going to have any kind of negotiation or deal or acceptance or terms.

excuse me, or terms with the IRGC and good faith. Not ever. At this point, they just need to suffocate them economically and make it collapse. And that's the first step in doing this. Because this is about taking out the regime at this point. And if you're trying to do it without firing a single shot, then this is the way to do it. They're not going to be able, the U.S., for all the people who say, well, we need to have a regime change. there is not people in the U.S. will say that, but honestly, they don't have the appetite.

Nobody, everybody wants to write these checks with their mouths, but no one wants to cash it with their ass. Let's just be honest. Nobody wants to do it. They, and POTUS is constrained by the indecisiveness and the meekness of people who have no idea how to prosecute a conflict. That's the reality of it. If Trump had his way, I think it would be 11,000 times harsher. But he's got those post-liberals that want to do Bush-Lews. League 2.0 stuff that are pulling him back. That's how I view it. And you can't convince me otherwise. He was so hyper-focused when he started and all the post-liberals started clucking from their little think tanks, a bunch of pencil pushers. All that big, that too big to fail

BS, all the Forever War people that always like they stomp like they're not, but they are. So we'll see. But the thing with this is, though, is him doing this means you have to have a willing partner with the UAE. Can that be done? Can they count on the UAE for that? I don't know. I really don't know. Dubai really does.

U.A. Not as much as you've seen maybe Oman and some others, but Dubai, the UAE really does try to, they try to play both sides, not triangulate, but not just to kind of absolve themselves, not to control, but to get out. And they don't want to make Iran mad. And they also want to maintain influence in that region.

I don't know. Wall Street Journal notes that the U.S. sanctions orders in recent years show that oil revenues, foreign currency trades, and payments for Iranian entities have long moved through shell companies and exchange houses in Dubai, often without an Iranian name appearing on the transaction. Cutting off Iran would also require Emirati authorities to crack down much more aggressively on opaque financial and trading activity, which could hurt Dubai's role as a free willing global hub for commerce, capital, and exports. I've always, I've been honest, I've always wanted to visit Dubai because it looked very pretty.

I like harsh landscapes. But not if y'all going to be a sponsor and working with IRGC ain't never going to happen. Never going to happen. I mean, if they really want to do this, if honestly, I don't know how you, how the UAE can't be convinced that this is better for them and their influence and their ability to play in the market in the long term without the IRGC there. Why does everybody act like they're so damn afraid of these stooges? Why? It's fascinating. But this is, it looks like this.

is part of that economic passage or that economic plan that Besant, Scott Besant, was looking. Now, of course, you know, we also have the other

pipeline. Potus's proposed reviving Keystone XL. We talked a little bit about that yesterday. That would add a lot more to the world market in terms of crude. That would add a lot. So we'll see, there's things underway. I mean, the Saudis have been working

on, you know, different ways to bypass the straight. I don't think you're ever going to get, you're never going to get away from having the straight as a mode, obviously, for energy, but you can reduce the share of the market in terms of how much flows through there by bypassing with the pipelines, et cetera, like the Saudis are doing. Absolutely. And that's, in fact, that's one of the things that they already started doing. so we'll see but this whole plan with UAE they're I don't know I'm not in diplomacy as I'm not a diplomat

and I don't have the patience to baby people who should be making the right decisions and when they don't I want to rip their teeth out and make them choke on them so I'm not a diplomat I don't have that patience and that amiable quality that diplomacy requires my job My view is, oh, you're not, you don't want to agree. Smack your head on the boardroom table. Now you will. But they have to go along. They need to go along with us.

All right. Abdul al-Said, guys, he's like Jesus, but black. He says, this is cut nine. Can we just, oh, no, no, sorry, first let's do eight. Let's do it. Sorry, cut eight. This is Abdul al-Said. Oh, you know, Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, was considered radical in his time, too.

And there is a radical nature. to being willing to stand forthright in a time of corruption. So he's comparing himself to Jesus. Jesus didn't lie, though. Jesus was without sin. Jesus also didn't believe in the subjugation that your cult teaches. So no. And then cut nine.

He's like Jesus but black. You know, there's been an effort, I think, to divide people against each other. And unfortunately, you see that. the consequence of that to tell us that some group or another group have to be counterposed because there's not enough for all of us. I am Arab. I'm also African. My family immigrated this country from Egypt. I'm proud of my African heritage. I feel like he's appropriating. He's appropriating right now. He's trying to check every identity box possible. Every identity box possible. And I mean, he's doing, I don't know.

He barely won. I can't see this working. Well, I'm just like Jesus. You know, he was a radical. He was without sin. And he saved people. You want to subjugate people. There's no comparison.

There's absolutely no comparison at all whatsoever. This is going to be a very interesting midterm, isn't it? It is. The folks who make the program possible, it's the people over at Alliance defending freedom, who have been the tip of the spear for so many fights. They're on the front lines defending freedom and values, free speech, religious liberty, parental rights, sanctity of life.

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There's a lot of concerns over child safety. Look, I'm going to tell you this just like I would with everything. You're never going to get away from AI. It's here. You need to learn how to adapt and deal with it. Otherwise, you're going to be at a major disadvantage, and you're going to set your kids up for failure. And that's just ridiculous.

But that does not mean that you use this, just like with screen time or anything else as a babysitter, right? So they're trying to, open AI is rolling out chat GP for teens that they say that is going to provide additional safety protections for teen users. And that comes after they're dealing with all these lawsuits about inappropriate conversations with chat GPT and harm and all of that stuff. So like for instance, they nudge teen users to take a break if they've been active for 90 minutes. First off, if your kids sitting at the computer for 90 minutes and the AI has to nudge them

because the parent won't, you're a crap parent. If you're not checking in with your kid and they're having that much screen time, I don't care if it's homework or not. You're not checking in. If my words offend you, you're too sensitive for media, so you need to literally climb back into whatever the hellhole you came from instead of trying to police everyone else to make sure that everything we say is just attuned to your sensitivities because that's not how the world works. You leftist. So I say that because I always get something. But really, it's true. If the AI has to check in and the parent isn't, that's a problem in your house.

Just saying, it's a problem in your house. A homeless man suits for 10 million after he breaks into a business and the owner shoots him three times. It is Oregon. This is why I want, look, Oregon, you're beautiful. I have friends that live there. They want me to come visit, but stuff like this is why I want. I'm not even doing it. This guy, yeah, a homeless dude, he broke into a Portland business in the pre-dawn hours.

And I love it. They go, yeah, to find something to eat and also possibly make off with some loot. And he thought no one was there. The owner, you know, he scared it. him. And then he had to go get his firearm and he returned. The guy still wouldn't leave, apparently, and he got shot three times in the arm and in the torso. So the guy who broke in and was stealing and was the one who was found to be innocent. And the business owner now has to pay $10 million. Yeah. That's what the circuit court judge, who is an absolute unit. That is what

the circuit court judge decided to rule. So they want to punish you for defending yourself. want to punish you for not being a willing victim. This is ridiculous. And the guys, you know, the business owner is an elderly man. So, wow, that's insane. And people were like, well, you know, did you have a right to be in your business? We'll come back to this because it is a crazy, crazy, crazy story. A study finds that seven and ten adults are obese. I think it's because people aren't getting as much. They're not as active as they used to be. I mean, think about it. If you look, I was reading this article about how, why is it that you didn't seem to have as much obesity in the 70s and like the 60s and, you know, people aren't just romanticizing the era and erasing that. It is dramatically different now than it was than a lot of it is food, a lot of its quality of food, but a lot of it is people just not wanting to take the time to make the right choices.

And also, nobody, people don't cook as much now as they used to. Like back then, everybody cooked, you cooked all your own stuff. So where you sourced your food really wasn't the issue. It was people aren't eating super high processed stuff. All of the, you know, basically instead of off the rack, it's out the fridge. So they didn't, you know, they people eat way more processed stuff. That's, you know, your body gets hooked on on that stuff. So that's part of it as well.

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I've been looking forward to this segment all week long. Actually, for like, I think since I said last week, we need to get Carol Roth on the program. Because the burrito economy is one of those discussions that I kind of want to yeat myself off my roof, break my legs down to nubbins, because it's that brain dead of a debate. But also, it kind of feels like, you know,

being more serious about it, it kind of feels like it's like the gateway to a larger discussion about all the post-liberal stuff that's happening. And I had a conversation with a very good friend of mine. He's a legal professor. And I said, he was back in the Tea Party days. And I said, do you remember when we were actually

like protesting side by side, like too big to fail and all of this stuff? And he goes, yes. And I go, are we back there? I feel like we're back. We're back at that. So I wanted to bring on someone who I absolutely trust, who's one of the smartest, I think literally like the smartest person in finance and understands, like she can do math. You know, she's got great hair and she's hysterical.

Everybody knows our very dear friend, Carol Roth. And I love how she describes herself because she has her newsletter. She's a recovering investment banker. It almost sounds like a dirty. She makes it sound like a dirty thing. Entrepreneur, TV abundant host. you go and get her newsletter at carol roth.com slash news and she joins us now via video. Carol, my good friend, make this make sense because this whole thing started with this comment

on a $20 burrito, which I don't even know how anybody could spend $20 on a burrito, unless they're getting a drink with it. I don't get it. And then it went from affordability is a crisis, therefore we must have more big government to fix it. Did I nail that right? That's kind of how that went. You did, and it's interesting timing because we just passed a milestone today, right? America's debt is $40 trillion, which means it is bigger than my hair officially, which is a bad economic indicator. But the reason I bring that up, Dana, is because government is at the root of this. And you talk about the Tea Party and you talk about things that, you know, have happened in yesteryear.

And every time we've had a crisis. over the past 15, 17, 20 years, you know, it's been the government hasn't let it sort of work itself out. The answer is what can we do to cover it up? And what they've done is they artificially suppressed interest rates for about a decade and a half. When necessary, they had the Fed print money. And all of these things have had two different effects, depending on where you stand in the economy. If you're somebody who holds assets, it is inflated those assets, at least nominally. It doesn't mean that the real value of them is more. But, you know, when you're thinking about inflation adjusted, but the headline number is more.

So it looks like, you know, your 401K is up, your stock portfolios up, your house is worth more, and things are going well for you. But if you're somebody who happened to not hold assets and, you know, you're trying to pay for, education or you're trying to pay today for everything, including apparently a burrito, the cost of day-to-day living has become just absolutely exorbitant. And so what is happening is that that is then turning around and getting blamed on capitalism instead of decisions that are being made by the government, sometimes in conjunction or enabled by the Federal Reserve. And that's not capitalism.

That is cronyism. That's central planning. That is sort of, you know, socialism in many, many, you know, many aspects of socialism. And so, like you said, that the solution that they're saying is, hey, let's fix this by having more government. Let's let the fox guard the henhouse. Let's have the arsonists who burn our house down come help us with the rebuilder to put out the fire. it makes absolutely no sense. But when people are desperate,

and there's an argument to be made on whether, how much of that desperation is lifestyle and expectations and that. But I think we all agree that upward mobility, the ability to have the American dream and get into a house, to have reasonable access to education that doesn't turn you into a communist and all of those kinds of things are more expensive, are more difficult, particularly for young people.

And desperate people with nothing to lose will turn to desperate measures even if they don't make any sense. I mean, I think the argument we're talking with Carol Roth, if you're just joining us, she's the author of You Will Own Nothing, Your War with a new financial world order on how to fight back. It seems as though they, because I've seen this discuss, there's so many economic, there's so many things economically, domestically that we can do. Big government causing, you can't use big government to fix problems caused by big government. But they also say, and I've seen these, these, these, that they don't want to wait the time that it's going to take for all of those measures to kick in organically.

Like, okay, this is the problem, Carol. This is the problem right now. They don't want to wait. They just think that if government does it right now, it can do it faster. And then government come back off because, Carol, you know that government, when it makes bad policy, it goes, wow, that was bad. I'm not going to do that anymore. It's done that over and over again throughout history.

Yeah, I mean, they always, the government's really known for acting quickly for getting good results. and then from backing off when something's that always happens with government. I totally understand. You know, part of the problem is just the way that we are moving through society now, right? Everything is on demand. You want something delivered to your house.

Amazon can deliver it not just the next day anymore, but sometimes within hours. You're on social media. You can have access, you know, in your pocket through your phone to all the information that's ever been created in the world and a lot of misinformation as well. We are living in.

in a minute by minute, I mean, people won't even go to pick up fast food anymore. People are door-dashing fast food and making something that probably is, you know, should cost $3, probably cost $9, cost $20. And so, you know, there is this immediacy that we have kind of fostered in society that's problematic. But, you know, we have also rampant financial illiteracy, which has been frustratingly done intentionally. I mean, we pay for government-funded education, and this is what's coming out of that K-12, let alone then, you know, the college loans that we're backing so that

everyone can become communists and demand these things. So, you know, there is sort of a fundamental problem, and there's also a messaging problem, and there's been a bastardization of words like capitalism to mean something that they don't and conflation. So, you know, it's very difficult when people are fledgling. And I know I'm just kind of going off your data. No, but it makes sense because you have a great editorial that this dovetails into that's up on Fox. And I'm going to let you continue, but I wanted to point out to people that her editorial, if you haven't read it, it says government made your burrito more expensive and socialism will make it worse. I mean, that goes right into it. Yeah. And this is why, you know,

and obviously I'm rooting for the current administration. I like a lot of people in the current administration. But I'm so frustrated with them because the reason they were put into office was to fix affordability. And like we said, they're not going to be able to do it overnight, but there's some clear, low-hanging fruit. I mean, the administration said they were going to go after the colleges to be able to restructure how education is paid for on a secondary level, put the colleges on the hook, create a bankruptcy process, have some recourse and responsibility, stop selling, you know, multiple six-figure educations that get you a $50,000 job. They could have done that.

They could have not gone in the direction of tariffs and put in barriers for small business. They could have opened up things and tried to cut red tape and made it easier. They could have made mortgages. They could have made those assumable. They could have worked to help make those portable. There are things that they could have done. It wouldn't have fixed everything, by the way. But at least, okay, we see, because that's the thing with the immediacy, you want to at least see, like,

okay, we're moving in the right direction, and then maybe I'll let you continue in the right direction. But instead, we got these side quests, these roadblocks and things that didn't make a lot of sense. And that's why, you know, I said from day one, the choreography here was so important. So now that they haven't seen that be put in process, they're like, well, we tried it this way. What's our other option? I guess, you know, it's Zoran Mamdani, which is, you know, the polar opposite direction with all these insane policies and just letting the government. control everything and destroy this country. But for the people who are feeling like they maybe tried this or they're at least are seeing that it didn't work, we're not moving in that

direction. They've now given up. We live in an immediate gratification society and so I'm going to look elsewhere. Yeah. And it's true. And they, they are. One last quick thing on this and then a couple of other discussion points. Because I think so much of the rights been talking about the socialist rise on the left, understandably, obviously, it's terrifying. Now there, they're just getting rid of all formalities. It's official now. But it's also rising. Maybe I'm conflating it a little bit with authoritarianism, but it is rising on the right as well, like with the stuff that we're talking about. I mean, it's like these, you know, these, you know, like the Trump accounts and things like that. Those, these are socialist policies. Some of the stuff that, you know,

the vice president talks about with getting rid of the dollars, the world's reserve. I do not understand that. I also wanted to get your quick take on that because that's, that seems insane. And he gets into, well, the buying habits of Americans, and it is a resource curse. And I never thought of the strength of the dollar as being a curse, Carol. Well, so I'm going to get a little wonky on you. Stay with me, class. But basically, when you are the holder, the issuer of the World Reserve currency, there's always a tradeoff, right? Because there's a demand for dollars. And if you're going to manage that, you have to sometimes make some choices and say, well, are we going to create stability for that on the global market for all these people who want to buy it versus at

home? And sometimes we have to make tradeoffs there. The Fed has absolutely managed to mismanage this so that there has been a lack of stability on the global market. And there's also been a lack of stability at home. So congratulations for doing neither federal reserve. But having access to affordable things, I don't think is the issue. And I also think, you know, tying into our discussion, this really lets the government off the hook. Because, you know, as the holder of the world's reserve currency, the flip side of this challenge is we had something that was called the exorbitant privilege. And the exorbitant privilege means that we have cheap financing. There's demand for dollars. And that means that we have cheap interest rates and the government can finance

cheaply and then that flows through the rest of the economy. I mean, businesses can finance cheaply and they can go out and, you know, continue to invest and to grow. And yes, consumers can put things on their credit card more cheaply. Maybe not as good, but, you know, that's their own problem. I'm not going to step in the middle of that. The challenge is, is that as we have not managed the dollar well, you know, on a global stage, the Biden administration fully weaponized the dollar.

when they seized Russia's reserve assets because it basically said, well, you can hold, you know, treasuries, but we can come back and take them back anytime we want, which doesn't really create a big sign of like, hey, okay, I want to do this. So, you know, it's been a challenge, and we've had countries throughout the world say, well, we're not really that interested anymore

in, you know, financing the U.S. at this lower rate. We're going to put some more of our money in gold instead of doing this. But this has been the government's fault. You know, this is the fact that we're racking up $2 trillion in terms of deficits a year. This is the fact that we have $40 trillion of debt. This is the fact that when these bad times have come about, we've printed money and destroyed the value of the dollar here in the U.S. Like, he's completely letting the government off the hook and the fact that they've had

this privilege that has been absolutely obliterated by fiscal mismanagement and political mismanagement. management, that's the issue. And the reason that Vance wants us to move away, he wants this cheaper dollar, is this pipe dream of, oh, we're going to resure all of our manufacturing. But the reality is that it's not just about the cheap dollar. It's about access to labor. It's about our laws and our legal system. It's about the cost of energy. And the idea that all of a sudden, oh, and by the way, we don't even have like the wherewithal and the know-how right now. that all of a sudden, okay, well, if we get rid of the dollars, the world's reserve currency, that, you know, we're going to go back and, you know, start making, you know, T-shirts and, you know,

toys, like it's an insane, unrealistic dream. So we should be looking forward and figuring out how we can get our house in order, because at the end of the day, the call is coming from inside the house just like it does in every other horror movie. Amen to that. Carol Roth, who should actually be advising everybody on the white. White House, honestly. I would take a Scott best as Carol. I thought you liked me, Dana. No, I know, I know, but we need

you. Your country needs you. Oh, my gosh. Carol Roth, you need to go and get her book. You will own nothing, which is a horror story. You're talking about horror stories. This is a scary story. Your war with new financial world order and how to fight back and her newsletter, carolroth. com slash news. Carol, I wish we had more time. Would love to have you back.

I learned so much whenever we talk and you're so good at this. So thank you so much for your time, my friend. Always look fabulous. Smart. And you understand math. I wish we could clone you, or at least we could have you teach America. I don't know, something. Good to see you, my friend. God bless you. Anytime you're the best. How much of your financial life exists as a number on a screen? Your savings, your retirement accounts, and investments are all digital assets.

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A few things. We've got first up this Florida man faked a coma and was arrested. He was trying to cover up $190,000. $190,000 that he stole. from his employer. That's insane. This coming from the IBT Times.

Yeah, IB Times, sorry. He stole $190,000 from his employer and to try to get off. He pretended that he was in a coma. How do you fake a coma? Stay asleep? I mean, how do you think that you're going to fake a coma

to the point where you're going to fake out law enforcement? Right. So apparently his employer's got a text saying that he was in a coma after a severe accident, but then IT personnel learned he had logged into his work computer. People in commas don't log into their work computers remotely.

You know that? It's really wild. Yeah, he faked it. The company began questioning his absence at work, according to police. They noticed the money missing. According to court documents, he frequently missed work, asked to work remotely. He had all kinds of excuses. And then his wife was, someone, a woman claiming to be his wife, said that, oh, he was in an accident.

He's in a coma now. But then he kept logging, like the day that he was allegedly announced to be in a coma, he logged into his work computer. This doesn't make any sense. So guess what? He got arrested. Good, because he's a, not only is he a liar, but he's a bad liar. I don't mean, it was just a mer.

Let's see, a couple. Florida man is accused of dragging a bicyclist and running over his foot in a road rage incident. Road rage. By the way, I like how Steve said of the coma or coma story that he didn't know McConnell lived in Florida. It's funny. This is from Coral Springs Talk. A Coral Springs Cane that mug shot?

Coral Springs driver is accused of dragging this bicyclist running over his foot. They said that Kenneth Hurley was arrested just a few days ago, charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, stemming from an incident that began regarding an aggravated battery. Upon arrival, bicyclists told police they were traveling in the bicycle lane

and a man driving a black Lexus began honking and yelling at them before trying to run them off the road. I'm sure that the bicyclists were all just total angels and that we're sharing the road responsibly, right? And they were just keeping to the bike path, right? No one believes that. So he apparently, they said he got out of the vehicle.

He stopped, got out of the vehicle, and cited a confrontation. They said that turned violent. Another writer tried to record it. He slapped the phone from the hand, blah, blah, blah. I mean, look, he shouldn't have done it, but I don't like bicyclists. And maybe it's because every single bicyclist I've ever been around has been horrible. There's a road that we have that we drive on to church in the morning. And there's a bicycle path, literally is a path.

And they refuse to ride the path. No one's on the path, but they won't ride the path. They ride in the road. But then if you're going to ride in the road and act like your traffic, the law dictates that you must follow the rules of the road. You have to follow traffic. They do not. One morning, I literally watched a bicyclist almost get killed because he blew through a stop sign

at a four-way stop. So I loathe bicyclists because I have yet to see a responsible one. I'm sure they exist, but not in Texas. Sorry, they don't. Get a car or stay on the damn path. That's it. And if you're going to ride in the road by guide, you better follow the rules of the road. Otherwise, I'm not going to feel bad for you when a guy with the skullet stops his car and gets out and slaps your phone out of your hand. The end. I think everyone can, I think everyone that can agree with that. Yeah. So let's see. I don't want to read this one.

Cain, the woman. A Florida woman was arrested for fraud, and she had stuffed thousands of dollars inside of her. Oh, inside her purse? Sure. Her prison purse. This woman, 31-year-old Monique Love, Turnbull, don't be a monie loving. Don't be doing, don't be putting that. Crime on Moni Love's name from Miami, Florida.

was arrested by police after she was accused of scheming up. That's an actual singer from the 80s, Money Love. Schaming a Floridian senior out of money. Turnbull poses a rep for a bank saying that the victim's account was compromised, saying, I'll take their card off your hands to do with a matter. She still $3,000. Literally had hundreds of dollars inside of her prison wallet. There you go.

That doesn't. We're done. We're done with Florida mayor right now for today. Stay with us. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Would you be a good president? We'll see. I don't know. But would you think you were?

That's a difficult question to answer. I mean, it's so I've no idea. I would like to think I would be. But that's for others to determine. By the way, I think I was a pretty good mayor. I think I'm pretty good. But people have different opinions. He's not going to be the nominee.

I just, I'm just telling you now he's not going to win it. Because they don't think that he's leftist enough and he's too cringe. and I don't think any of the younger, I don't think any of the more socialist Democrats actually like him. I really don't think that they do. I know that, you know, maybe six months ago, I thought it might be, it could happen.

But if you see everyone's going the way of Abdul al-Said and Mamdani and he doesn't fit the mold, it's not because he doesn't, it's not because he disagrees with them on policy. He just is a dork. Not that, and I think Mamdani is a dork as well, but Newsome, has been in office for way too long, and it's very, very difficult to disengage from that

perspective that you're part of the Democrat establishment, which he is. Really? He's been, how long has he been in office? He's been in office for forever. I say 20 plus years? Oh, my gosh, like a really long time. I could make a joke about how long he's been in office, but I'm not going to because it's really petty and it's a dig at somebody else.

So not going to do it. But I will tell you on Bright King because it is funny. Look, it's not a new year and it's not a new me. I'm just, I'm just being generous today. So he's just not going to do it. He's not, I don't think, I don't, I, there's no way that after they promote all of these far left stooges that they're going to be like, oh, yeah. Let's go ahead and have a more moderate guy as like the top of the ticket. They're not going to do a moderate top of the ticket.

It's not going to happen. It's never going to happen. He's going to be crushed because his whole life has been, like, for this purpose. He has, his, like, whole life, this is what he's gotten ready for. And it's just not going to happen for him because he's tried too hard. Even when he gets mad and tries to cuss, it just looks so performative. Not that I don't think that he has that kind of vocabulary, but whenever guys that you know are weak try to act tough, it's so obvious.

And he's one of those dudes. It's inauthenticity. And at least, you know, there's something about the inauthenticity. Like, Man, Donnie is authentically a terrorist-simping bigot. You know, Abdul al-Said is, you know, quite literally also a terrorist simping bigot and a fake doctor. So just, you know, just saying, by the way, we'll get into all of that. Abdel Al-Said is like, I'm also African. And now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Dude, Banana was like the 80s. That was 80s summer. So that was like all my older cousins. That was their jam. And I borrowed it. I appropriated that because Kane was like, because it was the 80s.

They were a great band. I was in kindergarten. I'm like, man, I was way older than that. Yeah, no. I wouldn't have that song come out. We'll Google it. I mean, you were right. Because there's a difference.

I love when the stuff that we're talking about on break. We're like, no, no, no, we're not done. We're just going to still talk about it on air. So Amazon is expanding drone service to 500 cities after targeting a million deliveries this year. I just watch, though, like somebody's package get dropped in their pool on a video today. It was Amazon. I don't want my stuff dropped in no pool. I don't like the, because I want to shoot it out of the sky.

Stop telling me that it's a federal offense. If you're, shut up, if you're over my airspace and I see you, I will get your drone out of the sky somehow. It will get hit with something. I don't know what, but I will, I'm going to. get one of those giant Acme, like Wiley Coyote hoops and just snatch it. Snatch it a drone. I don't want it

over my house. It's the thing. So I don't want a drone delivery. Am I the only person that is freaked out by a drone? I see a drone coming at me and I just have I want to shoot it. It's like skeet. I just need to get at it because I just don't like it. I don't like the way it sounds. It's creepy.

I don't care if it's bringing me something I ordered. No, don't like it. Anyway, they're expanding so the skies are going to be full of those little doomed NASA space telescope is set for uncontrolled fall to Earth after a failed rescue mission. Okay, so also going back to myself, talking about myself today, if this falls in my yard, finders keepers. Falls in Keynes Yard, finders keepers. I don't know if you guys know that, but that's the rule of America.

I joked about this to a European friend and they had no concept of anything I was just saying. They were like, what do you mean, finders keepers? I'm like, we find it, we keep it. And they're like, no, no, no, you don't. find and keep keep they don't get it so this do is it what is it going to hit somebody's house 30 million it'll probably burn up it's just going to be probably some debris but it's uh nice it's the link it's a slow tumble they said that's a dry heat they said Harvard's going to pay 53 million after a morgue manager sold body parts Harvard is a super rich school why would they need to do this