The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Charlotte Refugee Tragedy, Phillies Karen & Don Lemon HUMILIATED

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

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This is the Dana show. My name is Greg Collins, filling in for one more day. Thrilled to be with you. Dana will be back tomorrow. A lot of things to talk about out there in the world, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. The best way to stay connected to everything going on for Dana. I am going to start with the sad story.

The guy who stabbed Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte. There's a lot of crazy pieces to this. One of them being that the individual who committed committed this crime who's been arrested like 14 times prior to it. I usually don't name the people, so I'm not going to put this person's name out there. But he had like a GoFundMe available for a short amount of time. GoFundMe eventually took that down. President Trump did talk about this, the tragedy of the woman who was killed, stabbed to death, a Ukrainian refugee on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina. Of course, a bunch of questions as to why, what the motivation,

all of that stuff is, but it immediately becomes political for, I guess, reasons that exist here in our society. But Trump acted very presidential in how he spoke about this. I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed this morning or last night in Charlotte by a madman, a lunatic, just got up and started. It's right on the tape, not really watchable because it's so horrible. but just viciously stab. She's just sitting there. So they're evil people. We have to be able to handle that.

If we don't handle that, we don't have a country. I just... Yes, he's right about that, by the way. If we don't handle this, we don't have a country. We have to have evil, horrible people stopped. We have to have them taken off the street. We have to do everything we can to prevent this type of horrible action from happening again. Of course, the context to what President Trump is saying is that if I'm a

able to usher in law and order in more places by sending National Guard troops to help democratically run cities, that's a good thing. And National Guard troops are not doing the things that they claim they're doing as far as, you know, ushering in Nazi Germany and arresting innocent people of no crime whatsoever. That's not what's occurring, even if there are some protesters popping up in D.C. and how to, which is just amazing, by the way. It's amazing the left wants to fight the idea of preventing crime. I just, I can't get over that. All right, let's shift to some other audio, though. There's a lot of things that I said to get to. And I do want to have fun. There's a uniquely interesting, and I think kind of fun story

to talk about in the world of baseball, mostly because the crazy Karen woman, who did a horrible thing, and I'll get to it in just a little bit, looks a whole lot like Nancy Pelosi. She seems to model her hair the same way, has the same glasses. So if you squint a little bit, it kind of looks like Nancy Pelosi was a crappy person in a baseball game. And the internet has definitely enjoyed that. All right, let's do this. This is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. He is talking about April. He's talking about some of the things we've seen. The sky was falling with tariffs, of course, all of that stuff. And what's actually occurred on Meet the Press. I thought this was a pretty good moment.

and a pretty good demonstration of where actually, potentially, and I'll get into this too, the likelihood of economic fragility is coming from. It's not coming from tariffs, per se. It's coming from the challenge of tariffs and a couple other things. Here we go. Let's look back. Again, when I was here in April, the sky was falling with the tariffs that everyone is leaving the U.S. since then, the U.S. bond market has been the best performing bond market in the developed world and from Barclays Bank to Goldman Sachs to others are saying it is the tariff income and the fiscal improvement that we are seeing. And that's what President Trump... Yeah, he's doing great stuff. The biggest reason that we're still seeing economic challenges

is because of Jerome Powell and resistance to drop any sort of interest rates because he's a, you know, piece of crap that doesn't want Trump to succeed. If interest rates had been dropped sooner and they're going to be dropped. But if they had been dropped more and quicker, I think we'd be doing even better as a country. I think we would not see the stalling in the job market, et cetera, et cetera. I think there's a lot of reasons that we could have prevented that and that it seems that they maybe did that on purpose. All right, let's do one more serious topic, and then I will get to my favorite sport of baseball and the thing that happened there because I can't help it. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on

on Fox and friends talking about CDC vaccines and all kinds of stuff. I thought this was a pretty interesting back and forth. So here, let's play some of this audio. Yeah, I mean, that individual actually came to my attention because early on during the measles outbreak, I promised Governor Abbott to send some money down, badly needed money, and help down to Texas. And this individual blocked that money for a month.

I couldn't figure out what's happening. I gave the order. You know, I'm running this agency. How come nothing's happening? And then we tried to get the vaccine safety data link, which is the data that supposedly the CDC tries to use to make good decisions on whether vaccines are hurting people and whether they're side effects.

For seven months, he stonewalled us so that we could not get that data. He's also the individual. and runs the VAIR system, which is the surveillance system for injuries, that captures, according to CDC's own study, fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries. This is malpractice. These people are the people who ordered our children to walk around in mass. There's people who closed our schools.

They're the people who impose social distancing with no science. Shut down our businesses, and they need to go. We need new blood, we need new people who are committed to public. health and integrity and gold standard science. Yes, I agree with everything he said. He's talking about firing people at the CDC who blocked all kinds of stuff. The craziest thing is blocking money that went to Texas, because that seemed uniquely political.

That seemed to have nothing to do with science or anything, not that any of it does. It's all political. But saying that you're also not going to let any money go to a Republican state in Texas, well stonewalling information for being provided to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Because you know he's actually going to use it. He's going to do something with it you don't want. It's not going to get buried. It's not going to be hidden.

Look, I'll be honest with you. This is the reason that you nominate people like this for positions of power within government. People who owe nobody to anything. People who don't have careers in politics that, you know, have friends and whoever in certain organizations that they're going to protect, no matter what. All of this stuff, you know, and actually the way that government typically works, makes me think about the curiosities people have with the Epstein story and what individuals could eventually be harmed

by the inevitable release of information there and how significant they are in the power structure of DC because all of this in the other places that it's happening sounds like the person from the outside is finally bringing some level of accountability to the thing that hasn't had any accountability forever. And you name whatever it is, the CDC, etc.

there's a bunch of other things happening. All right, let's do the baseball story before we take a break. So a dad got a home run ball for his son at a baseball game. His son was there to celebrate his birthday. It was like two or three days before his birthday. And so the dad's, you know, where the home run's getting hit, not actually where his seats are. As very normally people do this in the world of baseball,

when a home run goes into the stands, you usually fight to get it and someone achieves the ball. Anyway, there's a woman standing there who does not catch the baseball. And then it seems to think because it got hit to her seat into her section, it's her ball, darn it. It's not yours. You can't have it. So even though the dad actually picked it up off the ground and got it, he didn't catch it.

But he picked it up off the ground and brought it to his kid. The woman chased the dude down, grabbed him and yelled at him, and people captured part of this audio, which is kind of amazing. So here, I want to play this audio. And just so you know, the woman. in this video also looks strikingly like Nancy Pelosi. It's not Nancy unfortunately, although

maybe it is, who knows, maybe it's her distant cousin. But she looks a lot like her. And this kind of thing is exactly what you feel like politicians sometimes do. They just take stuff that's yours. Your money, whatever it is, they show up and they're like, it's mine. You can't have it. And then they run away with it. Here we go.

That was in my seat. That was in my seat. She's yelling. And then eventually he gave the ball. to her. He just put his arms up. His kid is holding it in his glove, the young man, who seems thrilled that he has a home run ball just before his birthday. Anyway, there's a happy ending to this. The Phillies find out about it because, of course, television crews capture this moment. They send a woman up to the stands to wish the boy happy birthday and to give him a bunch of stuff. And then actually, in my favorite part, Harrison Bader also signed a bat for the guy

and gave it to him, which is exactly the kind of thing you expect someone like a Harrison Bader to do, but just absolutely incredible and fantastic things happening in the world of baseball. But the woman, she's amazing. And the big video shot that you can look up and see where she's running from her section to where he goes with his kid to hand the ball, it's the stuff of legend. This woman will be replayed as one of the jerks in baseball stands for years to come. and she will obviously regret this moment. Who knows what else happens?

But this woman so upset by what is typical baseball rules. You get the ball. It's your baseball. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. I like no gatekeepers and no big pharma.

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This is really strange. Burning man attendee decided to destroy an art car in some way. A Minneapolis man who was nearly killed last week after being run over by the cyber truck. Excuse me. Well, meditating in Nevada's Black Rock Desert was, I guess, something that shocked his wife as far as a news story. goes, a little bit of confusion with this one. Sorry about that. He's not going to be walking for months is something that his wife said, but we're so lucky that he's actually okay and fine, and that he probably won't spend any more time in the desert. He won't be any more,

I won't be doing any more meditating near Burning Man. There's so many stories that come out of that place that make it seem like an absolute horrible place to go. I would not in any way, shape, or form. I want to send even my worst enemy to Burning Man at this point. All right. A clock botching is a new term. No one agrees on exactly what it means, but apparently social media is using this story. A writer in the UK coined it last month and said it's when you work more hours than you should

because you can't get through all of your work in a typical eight-hour work day. That is clock botching. I think it also means you only take credit for eight hours of work, but you do more than eight hours. Other people are saying it's the opposite thing. It's the thing where you don't have enough work. work for eight hours, so you push the punch in, punch out further, and you potentially pretend to do things that you're not actually doing, whatever it is, whether it's someone who's working

hard or not working very hard at all. Apparently, all can be applied in the world of clock botching, which I'm not really sure why. This is a brand new term, but it is one of many out there. It'll probably eventually pop up in some sort of, you know, online dictionary, and then they know they've made it. Uber is testing a new payment method. Cash is the payment method. Uber says the idea is to expand access to people without bank accounts. Drivers are concerned they'd be a target for thieves. This definitely makes sense. Essentially in this system, Uber would tell the person jumping in the vehicle that this is what the ride costs and that they can pay the driver in cash. You can also choose to accept cash if you're someone who's driving for Uber,

Both of these seem terrible as far as decisions are made. And I totally agree with a first point being made by the drivers themselves about the danger of having a bunch of cash on you. Actually, in Houston, an Uber driver was killed just somewhat recently a week or so ago. I'm not sure if he was actually driving at the time or that just so happens to be his profession. And I think it happened fairly late at night in the south side of Houston in a neighborhood that's not exactly, you know, safe. But nonetheless, that's in the news currently. Within the last few days, Uber has had a driver that was shot and killed,

and now they're also rolling out cash for people. That seems like bad timing for this sort of thing. And there's a lot of people who seem to think it's not a great idea. Although, to be honest, it's just one more infringement on the taxi industry, too, because they took cash forever and still probably do take cash if you ride taxis at all. And so Uber trying to do this, I guess, is evening the plane. field. I will say one other thing about it, and it is interesting, at least to me, that sometimes I think people are skeptical of how much money they actually get paid compared to how much money

Uber is making. If you do a cash thing, it would be much harder for you to make less than whatever you're supposed to make of whatever the split is supposed to be. So I wonder if that is essentially a thing. As far as all this goes, is there a way in which what is actually occurring? winds up benefiting the drivers because they actually get a fairer percentage of the money that Uber charges. I have no idea. I doubt it. I doubt Uber would go that road for any reason whatsoever, but we'll see. But yeah, Uber drivers might have a whole bunch of cash is a strange new story that's out there in the world. All right, let's do one more. A quick five before we take a break. Let's do, I'm trying to decide. Let's do this one. Here's what your drink order says about you.

It was a Reddit post and other things. If you ask for water at a restaurant, the waiter will assume that you're there to save as much money as possible, and they might neglect your table as much as other tables. This is an interesting point. I don't know if it's true. A cosmopolitan is an order that means you're extra fancy. Maybe you're a fan of certain TV shows,

but the waiter is going to focus more on you because they're pretty sure they're getting a bunch of money at you. If you're coffee, you're there for business. You're going to be in and out. You're going to be quick. That's what they think. And then finally, hot tea is someone who's going to take a long time and also not be very worthwhile, worthwhile financially. I love all those.

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insightful analysis, whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana will be back tomorrow. First, I think this is hilarious. Oh, at D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter.

That's not what I think is hilarious. Great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on in the world of the Dana show, producer Steven. Everybody does a great job. Dana does a bunch of social media herself, of course. Check that out all the time. This is what's hilarious. President Trump celebrated West Point canceling an award for Tom Hanks.

I already love this story. So President Trump saw that West Point was no longer giving an award to the very Democratic Tom Hanks. And he put up on Truth Social, his social media platform, our great West Point getting greater all the time, has smartly canceled the award ceremony for actor Tom Hanks. Important mo! We don't need destructive, woke recipients getting our cherished American awards.

Hopefully the Academy Awards and other fake award shows will review their standards and practices in the name of fairness and justice. Watch their dead rating surge. is Trump talking about how it would be nice to award people for things other than politics, West Point deciding to go that road and make that decision. And that's wonderful. That is great. The other piece of audio that's viral, that's pretty hilarious, Don Lemon. I was walking up to people on the street and asking them questions. And it did not go well for Don Lemon, which is amazing. I do love this back and forth interaction where someone is like, oh, you're Don Lemon. You're a

piece of bleep and then it goes from there. Let's hear a little bit of that audio. How you doing, sir? Can we talk to you? Where are you from? You live in New York. Who are you? Don, Lemon. You're a fucking morrow, dude. Thank you. So are you. Yeah, that's very nice to say. Except you've never heard anything I've had to say and I've had a bunch of what you've got. I'm glad you why. Okay, here. First, I love that. An initial reaction to Don trying to say that some random stranger that he just approached in the street is as much of a bleep as he is because the guy goes, you know, it's funny about you

saying that about me is you know nothing about me other than I don't like you. And I know a whole bunch of the things you say. And so Don is now going to do the thank you for watching me thing. And that's going to go poorly for him. No, I don't. Why?

But you just get clipped everywhere. I know, but why don't you? You said you don't watch me, but you know who I am and I get clip. Before I realize CNN and MSNBC with foolish shit, every once in a while I'd see you're clicking. I watch all sorts of stuff

Yeah, but why do you say CNN and MS? Oh, why do you say that they're full of crap? Because they are. That's how the end part of that audio goes. They are full of crap. And you know it and I know it and everybody knows it. And so it's just sort of amazing that Don Lemon tries to deny it. Let me actually re-add that audio so I can get the entire clip to play.

And let's continue. An MSNBC with full of shit. Every once in a while I'd see you fucking. I watch your sorts of stuff. Yeah, but why do you say CNN and MSNBCC? see a full of s'i like. About what? Be specific. What's everything? They do. They do lie about everything,

by the way. He doesn't have to be specific. I love the challenge there. Don went all the typical roads that someone tries to go in response to not getting the reaction you want from someone on the street, being like, oh, you must watch me and love me all the time. And absolutely, I actually believe

this guy that says you get clipped everywhere because it's true. You play Don Lemon audio constantly in media, in what we do, in what I do, and what Dana does because of how much of a moron he is and how much they lie about everything. But you take your pick. COVID, the mental capabilities of President Biden. The list goes on and on about the things they lied about and got wrong on purpose to try to endorse a narrative that came from the Democratic Party and not at all from doing journalism well,

which is something they haven't done for quite some time. All right. Another thing out there, I thought this was amazing. So I lived in Chicago for a long time. And I still have a lot of friends in Chicago. Many of them are Democrats. I didn't really care whom my friends were in the world of what they thought of politically. I know that's weird.

And honestly, there's a lot of them that probably until I started doing more radio myself, I was a producer for a long time. And I tried to work in stories that people didn't want. But once I started to be on air, probably some of these individuals found out how I felt politically about things. Because sometimes you don't talk about it, especially to hardcore lefties, because it's going to be a terrible conversation. But anyway, the reason I'm mentioning this at all is my Facebook over the weekend lit up with people in Chicago saying they were going to fight a war against President Trump. And Trump had declared war on Chicago.

And that's not at all true. Trump is not going to war with Chicago. He is going to try to arrest people who are there illegally, even if Chicago tries to prevent it, because darn it, there's nothing they can do. ICE is allowed to do their job at a federal level in all the different states. But here's something I thought was interesting. Trump was actually asked about this this morning, the war with Chicago, and he crapped all over the idea of this story because it is fake news. You say that, darling, that's fake news. Why do you go to the Department of Defense?

Listen, be quiet. Listen. You don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second race. We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to clean them up so they don't keep.

five people every weekend. That's not war. That's not war. That's doing your job correctly. And yes, Chicago has a bunch of shootings on the south side, west side, other parts of the city too from time to time. And many people die every single weekend. And so doing something there, also sending an ice to round up a bunch of people who are there illegally, all of that stuff within the purview of the United States. He's allowed to do it. He's allowed to do these things. Chicago can't actually fight it. The only reason that the war is, narrative exists is because of the left and Pritzker and everyone's saying they will resist anything that Trump will do. They'll fight it. They'll fight it at all cost. That's the reason that they're

claiming that there's going to be a war between Chicago and the White House is not because of what the president has done. And honestly, a whole lot of people are saying, you really need to just accept this. You need to accept this assistance, accept this help. Because saying that you're the side of the aisle that likes, you know, horrible, violent crime occurring and we'll get to of the thing that happened in North Carolina again in a minute to demonstrate that. But you're the side of the aisle that's protecting criminals. That's not a good place to be with the American people. I want to quickly play this, though, to close this topic out. CNN is talking about how you really can't do anything if ice crackdowns happen, if certain federal moves are made because they have

the capability to do their jobs. And so you can't like go to court and try to fight this. Ice is allowed to be behave like ICE wherever they see fit, regardless of what the Democratic leaders of cities say. This was in relation to actually specifically some stories out of Massachusetts, but it's true anywhere. I know that the mayor of Boston has suggested there might be a lawsuit seeking to stop some of what ICE is doing, but there's really nothing that state and local authorities can do legally to prevent a federal law enforcement agent like ICE from doing its business. ICE like the FBI or ATF or DEA has essentially nationwide jurisdiction.

And there's no legal way that the mayor of Boston, for example, can stop ICE from coming into Boston and making immigration arrests any more than they can stop DEA from coming into Boston and making drug arrest. So I understand there's political issues here and issues about public safety. But legally, there's really very little that the locals can do. They can't do anything is what he's saying there. Now, granted, when you're actually talking about the National Guard, if they behave in a way that is, similar to how police are supposed to behave. There's a potential for some conflict there. Also, of course, if they don't have a good reason to activate the National Guard,

which is what the Democratic cities will argue, there's legal avenues for debate there, which will wind up in courtrooms. But as far as ICE goes, they have the ability to go wherever they want. They have the chance to do their job, regardless of who's saying yes and no. All right. Let's dive a little bit deeper into the story at a North Carolina. The story of the person who was stabbed and killed, a Ukrainian refugee, someone that the left obviously would normally care about if they didn't also

unfortunately care about the career criminal that did this. So the individual who did this is 34 years old, diagnosed with schizophrenia, history of violent crime, multiple, I think something like 14 or 15 arrests. And the problem is that they kept letting him out of jail. Even his own mother said that the man is insane, that he's crazy, and that he really should be locked up for his own safety. That's his own mom, saying that the longest they could get him institutionalized was a couple weeks because of decision-making of Democratic leaders in certain parts of our country. This is an absolute failure for the American people. This isn't political on purpose, meaning we're not injecting politics.

into the discussion about what happened here and whether or not it was the right or the wrong thing politically, in which side of the aisle deserves to take a win here. This woman would still be alive if this person had actually gone to jail for any of the 14 other times that he was arrested for doing something horrible. Career criminal, violent crimes, schizophrenia, schizophrenia, mental health disorder, everything about it. And the mom's saying that he's got mental health issues for years. She believed what happened Friday night was a failure by the system and that the killing could have been prevented. She even said, my heart goes out to the victim's family. What he did was atrocious. It was horrible. It was wrong over the phone. He started saying

weird things years ago. She also told local news. He started saying that he wasn't in his own body, that other stuff about him was not right. He became homeless, whatever it might be. But this is some other, excuse me, the system utterly failed this guy. And that demonstrates for you exactly what the problem is when you think politics first and not the safety of the American people. These individuals that run these cities, these democratic leaders, they only care about what they say in front of a camera because they think it's a political win for the people in the suburbs or the people that are going to vote for them in the cities, not necessarily the people who are actually struggling with the problem. problem or the people who can see the problem from afar, like most of the voters in the suburbs actually feel or people throughout the country feel. It's just amazing to me that the political win is more important and has been for a very long time than the actual health and safety

of our country. And I think this is why President Trump is pointing his finger this way and starting this war, or whatever you want to call it, it's not actually a war, against crime because he thinks the American people will be easily won over as the Democrats will be exposed for what they actually care about, which is not protecting you and protecting these cities. They want them to be as dangerous as they seem to be because it offers a constant reliance on them. If they cleaned up the cities,

they would have less to talk about, which I think would be great for all of us and not so great for them. But anyway, a horrible, awful story about a man who just went crazy on a train and killed a woman, stabbed her to death, that should have very much been in jail a long time ago and for a very long time and not out on

the street capable of harming more people. All right. We'll take another break. We do have fun stuff as well as serious stuff to get to throughout the show on a Monday because darn it, we can't do serious all day long. So we have more coming up, including a story about a good news story about ice cream sandwiches that I promise in no way at all is tied to Joe Biden. But I'll talk about that more in just a bit.

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My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back tomorrow. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to be one of the very select, very few people who follow my account on social media that I barely use. I need to use it more. But at Radio Craig C because I've sold it to you now by telling you it's almost not functioning. All right, about half of Americans would pay a bunch of money if their vacation was scheduled to include a bunch of sleep. That is a real story. Several places

demonstrated this via a study where they asked if you were going on vacation and some of the packages offered included sound therapy, sleep coaching, sleep tracking, aromatherapy sleeping, sleeping outdoors, or digital detoxing involving a lot of rest. People are like, yeah, I want to do all those things. Because apparently we do not get enough sleep in our day-to-day lives. I think the biggest reason for that is the cell phone. I'm going to keep saying that and not just the stress of your life in general. If you put the cell phone in another room when you go to sleep,

all of a sudden your bedroom becomes a place that actually lets you go to bed when you go in there and not sit on your phone for a while. So that's the biggest recommendation I have, and a lot of these vacation things, maybe people assume they're going to be further from their phone, and they don't even really think about that being the real cause of all the greatness. But you would pay extra money about half as much, half, you know, an increase of 50% is an easier way to say it than how they wrote it here. In order to get rest while going on vacation. That seems to be a broken situation in our society to say,

the very least. Another story out there, and this is fascinating to me. So, Xi Jinping was having a conversation with Vladimir Putin about the longevity of human life. And apparently within the conversation, both men were talking about how humans can easily live, well, not easily, but that could live with their technology to be about 150 years old, or medicine or whatever it might be, that that should be the lifespan of a human being. And this apparently was something China did not want public. So after this story, I think AP and some other places ran it, sent it to a bunch of affiliate stations. China actually used their own news media, since it's their clip, to demand that this get pulled down everywhere and anywhere that it existed, that it had to be removed, that it had to be taken down, because they don't want this information to be public.

And I don't know why. It sounds like, though, Putin and Xi Jinping seem to believe, or at least Xi Jinping, more so than anyone else, that we are at a point where 150 would not be a big deal if you live to be it.

Exceedingly rare for someone to live anywhere near close out of that age in our current society. But nonetheless, something that, again, for whatever reason, the powers that be in China, desperately didn't want you to know about. And so they use the ability to own their media to tell you to take it down

and remove it. And we already know about it now, though. So I have more questions, not more answers. One final thing that I thought was interesting, and this is just a quick, silly story in the world of ice cream. Some hikers in Colorado got a nice reward for reaching the top of a trail near Aspen the other day. Some guy had hiked up with a 60-pound pack of ice cream sandwiches and was there handing them out to anybody else who made it up there. I don't think that this reward was as good as media said it was. Mainstream media seem to be very proud of this and several people reported this is a good story but if I'm hiking up a giant trail

and the only reward I get is a ice cream sandwich and not more, I'm a little bit disappointed. I feel like the minute you hear that someone is giving out something up there, you're thinking it might be money, it might be cash, maybe they're one of the two people who won the Powerball over the weekend. And by the way, I don't think this is a real thing. So please don't take me seriously with that. this, I definitely mean this silly. But how disappointing would it be to win one of the largest

power balls in the history of this country and find out you're one of two winners? So you've got to split the billion dollars, $1.7 billion. I'm kidding again. Of course you're related to make as many dollars as you're going to make it all this, but some part of the back of your mind's like I kind of wish I want alone. It's just how human nature is. So I'm assuming that they both felt that way, but two winners over the weekend. Powerball finally gave out some money. All right, a quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. It's our friends over at all family pharmacy.

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how that is something that's actually also described within the Declaration of Independence, even if some Democratic politicians seem to be unaware of that recently. Trump talked about inviting a lot of faith communities to pray for our nation together, and this is great. This is exactly in defiance. Of all the things the left is screaming and yelling about how prayers don't matter or how dare you send your thoughts and prayers, whatever their version of a narrative is. So I thought this was a really interesting thing to say and to have go viral this morning. It is a bit of a troll job from the president, but I think he also authentically means that prayer is important, does matter, and is a good thing. Unlike what they seem to think in the world of any sort of democratic politician again and the ridiculous rhetoric they used to go after prayer.

of all stuff and to try to protect criminals. These are two things the left is doing right now. Here we go. When you have over just a short period of time, 50 murders and hundreds of people shot, and then you have a governor that stands up and says how crime is just fine. It's really crazy. But we're bringing back law and order to our country.

And I began my remarks today by noting that the reverence for our creator of me. We have reverence for our creator, and it's inscribed into our Declaration of Independence, a copy of which I have very proudly hanging in the Oval Office, an original copy, very old, beautiful copy. Next year we will celebrate 250 years since that declaration was signed as part of the grand,

well, this is really a commemoration like, I think we're gonna do, we're gonna try and do a commemoration like nobody's ever seen it. for, but... You know, by the way, I could fill out the blanks if we did a madlib of President Trump all the times where he says this is going to be something that no one's seen before. It's the greatest thing in the history of the country.

But yeah, I'm all for everything he just said there. And the idea that the creator is an important aspect, not only of the foundation of our country, but in general, it's where your rights come from. Again, something the founding fathers seemed deeply acutely aware of when they wrote the thing that, again, Democrats seem to now ignore. I can't believe I just called the Declaration of Independence the thing that they wrote. All right, let's do this. This is President Trump talking about the amount of money that's going to be invested into our country

because of the sweet, sweet trade deals he's been getting, which are directly tied to all the tariffs that he rolled out everywhere throughout the world and how people did like the fact that they had to pay us a bunch of more money, and they still are paying us money. The funniest thing about the tariffs is they're still right now in effect. So we're gaining even more dollars and people seem to think this is a great thing on a world stage as far as the economy of the United States is concerned. But here's what Trump said about the trillions and trillions of dollars that are about to be invested right here in the United States. Happy about that, but I'm really happy when you see almost $17 trillion will be invested in this country over the next few months, actually.

By the way, sorry about the buzz there and that audio couldn't. fix that. That was the version we got from C-SPAN, or I got from C-SPAN. So yes, that is Trump talking about how in a few months we're going to have a bunch of money. And Scott Besson also talks about how good things are going and how Democrats seem to be completely avoiding this topic or just straight up lying about it on a daily basis. Here's a little bit of that. Chris, if things are so bad, why was the GDP 3.3 percent? Why is the stock market at a new high? because with President Trump, we care both about big companies and small companies, and you're quoting big companies, but the big company index, the S&P, is at a new high.

Hasbro says they're going to have to increase their prices. Goldman Sachs says 86% of the tariff revenue collected so far has been paid by American businesses and consumers. So just bottom line, Mr. Secretary, do you acknowledge that these tariffs are a tax on American consumers? No, I don't. Even though you have companies saying they are going to have to increase. increased prices and given the fact that 86% of these tariffs so far as you're quoting Goldman Sachs. Yes, Goldman Sachs, correct. I made a good career of trading against Goldman Sachs. Oh, that's so good. By the way, the fact that he goes, you know, you're not actually quoting some

independent source here. You're quoting a very specific source that I have done quite well in disagreeing with on a personal level and beyond that. But here's what's really interesting to me. I want to back up this audio for just a second. Because there's a part of this that's so lost on the everyday American when we talk about it. And I don't know how. Like it's the most basic aspect of this conversation and yet it's missing. But one of the things that Welker says in her trying to attack Scott for everything he's saying is going well is a quote about who is paying for the tariffs. But you notice there's something in there that she says.

and then she doesn't acknowledge the fact that it's part of the equation. Asborough says they're going to have to increase their prices. Goldman Sachs says 86% of the tariff revenue collected so far has been paid by American businesses and consumers. She says American businesses and consumers, not just consumers. She actually says American businesses as well. So you're going to push as much of that price onto the consumer as you can. But this is the part that nobody talks about. We don't have to buy that stuff, depending on what it is, how necessary you,

your life it is, you can decline. You can choose not to upgrade your cell phone and keep your older phone for a little longer if the new price is crappy and if you don't like it. And if things start to be created here in this country with no tariff costs and the price of them is significantly less, that'll be good for everybody. It'll be good to create jobs, good for the entirety of our society. And businesses won't keep pushing prices to consumers if they can't sell them things. Like that's how business works. Supply and demand is a very important part of it. And so if the demand goes away and the supply is significant,

the businesses will find other ways to deal with the rising cost of tariffs, which do not involve giving money or taking money from us. The funniest part of that narrative from the left is it's absolutely assuming that we're idiots, that we're dumb and we don't know how to act as consumers who don't like the price of something as a collective. And we obviously do. That's basic economic 101 kind of stuff. And it's just amazing that it's not there. Because it's just the assumption Americans have to buy whatever they have to buy,

regardless of what the cost is. We are a country that consumes a lot. I'm not ridiculing us for that. I am very happy to be in the type of country that we're in. I don't want us to be anything other than what we are. But we do. We consume a lot of things. We buy a lot of stuff.

It's one of the big reasons that Trump is so right in trying to let. leverage the American economy to get better deals from everyone else in society. The American consumer is unique. There's places throughout the rest of the world that are developed like we are to a degree, maybe not the degree quite like us, that consume way less. China, for example, is a hilarious demonstration of having a lot of people who consume very little that live in a country that's very large and has a lot of success. Their economy is not as valuable to the rest of the world as ours is, as our society is because of how much more we buy. And so if we bought less, it would make these businesses actually transfer the costs a different way

or demand a lower price from, say, the people supplying them the product in the first place to counter the tariffs. Giving the – or passing on the cost to us is a first step move for a business. If it fails, they'll make other decisions, and we would like to see those. All right. One last thing. I've belabored that point as much as I can. Chris Christie went berserk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I think this was on ABC over the weekend. Of course it was because Christy. And here's what's amazing. When you see someone like this blow up exactly the way he does, and Chris Christie is not exactly the picture of health as far as a human being goes. But what I think is interesting is it shows how over the target Robert F. Kennedy actually is, how successful he's been at outing a lot of the lie and a lot of the hiding of

certain facts that has been the people in positions of power and health in this country for a long time. Firing certain CDC individuals because they're trying to subvert your authority is a good move. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to make some more information public that they have buried. But here is Chris Christie going crazy talking about how much of a grave danger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is to our country, which again means that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is very over the

target that people have been missing for a while or that they've avoided other people being over because they had control of people on the inside. Robert of Kennedy Jr. is on the outside, and that is a very good thing for people in positions of power in this country. Here we go. You looked at that appearance before Congress, and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades. Robert of Kennedy Jr. is a foolish man, full of foolish and vapid ideas. And that was on display again this this week in front of Congress. And I really don't want to hear about Bill Cassidy because he is a co-conspirator with the President of United States for putting this wholly unqualified man in charge of 25% of all government spending.

Without Cassidy's vote, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would not be it. And maybe he's feeling some guilt from what he did. But I'll tell you this, the president did this. He knows. The president is smart enough to know RFK Jr. isn't belonging that job. But after he won, he wanted to show everybody, I can do whatever I want to do because this Senate will be compliant no matter what I do. And I'll put the greatest vaccine and public health denier of the last 20 years in charge of public health America.

It's a human middle finger, George. Okay, okay. One, I want to make sure that this is understood by Christy and everybody in the back rows of the seats here. a lot of Trump voters like the public middle finger to the organizations that have been basically giving the American people a middle finger for quite some time. And two, one of the things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is talking about a lot is just getting transparency with data that's been buried by the CDC. Christy couldn't be further from the truth in saying what is and isn't valuable to the American people about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., what isn't valuable to say President Trump or anyone else, because Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actually does want. more of these studies to be public that are being buried, that are being hidden. A specific one and one that's causing a bit of commotion within certain parts of our country because of who the

subject of it was, I was a study on young black men that found that certain vaccines actually did cause a rise in issues like autism. And that was buried. That was just absolutely hidden from public health information because the people in charge at the time didn't like the end result of the study and they wanted it to go away. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it something that's publicly available now. That's a good thing. Regardless of what you think of it, knowing more is never bad. And thinking that if we know too much, we make the wrong decision is uniquely disrespectful to the American people of anybody in charge. We can collect more information. We deserve more information all the time. And that seems to be the main goal of Robert F. Kennedy,

Jr. with his role in our health as the health secretary. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Our partners over at Patriot Mobile, it's the only Christian conservative cell phone service. That is in existence. And when you work with them, you're working with a like-minded company that's not going to betray you by spending your money on things like CRT and, you know, the Trans-Tifa alphabet stuff, none of that stuff. And they, they, they, have a 100% U.S.-based customer service team. It's seamless switching. So if you want to keep your number and keep your phone, you can or you can upgrade. It's entirely up to you. They have plans that they can tailor for singles and families of all sizes, businesses of all sizes, dinks,

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at an A's baseball game because a husband seemed to be getting extra friendly. with the misses in the stands. At least we hope so. I don't think there's any other version of this that's gone viral where somebody's cheating on somebody else. But here's a little bit of that audio. I go for one of them too. Well, it's it?

It's it? What's that? What's an it? Yeah. On behalf of, you are a handful, Chris, let me tell you. Why? Balls Center. That'll in the inning.

A's down by a few. All right, I love the fact that they're very awkwardly talking about certain things. There's an ice cream treat in the Bay Area. It's it is what it's called. That's what they're talking about first. And then they see the husband get extra grabby. And then they laugh and then they turn away from that. So that audio went very viral.

And then also this. I have one other piece of viral audio. This is a woman who's breaking down a target pair of pants that has gone viral because the nether regions of said pair of pants have an unfortunate fleet that makes it look like something on a woman's body in exactly the area It's in. So again, the unfortunate pleat makes people not like these pants. Here is someone talking about this, I think a doctor, Dr. Marsey on TikTok, breaking some stuff down.

I would like to know why. Champion at Target, a center pleat. Why? And I'm talking to you. This is what you see. Hey. Do better. That's Dr. Marcy on TikTok.

I don't know if she actually has a degree showing you the pleat area of the pants. and how it looks like something other than pants while you're looking at her. So again, this went viral as well. Not a great look for anybody, champion, whoever created the clothing, not exactly the kind of thing you'd probably want to buy. But nonetheless, I think a problem that many people have struggled with. All right, another story out there quickly. Gen Z employees need more praise than other generations. A survey of 76% of managers, I found that Gen Z complains they don't get praised.

enough. They like praise, that they want to know they're doing a good job. I have to be honest, even though this does feel the same as a lot of other stories involving Gen Z that it's such a hassle. Why do you need this? Just get over it and be a adult person who works their job and doesn't need to be praised by others. At the same time. And this is my forgiving of this generation a bit or any generation, really. I do think that praise in the workplace has a uniquely valuable motivational factor to your, your, you know, mental health or just in general, your ability to do a good job

day in and day out. I think if you have a boss that heaps praise on you when it's deserved, not for any reason whatsoever, that you actually are probably a more productive employee. So regardless of if this is a Gen Z thing or not, I do think employers could do a better

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He wants to do that by sending in the National Guard. This is something you know about. You're familiar with. A whole lot of people in Chicago have decided that this means he declared war on them. I know that Trump puts stuff up on social media. But no, the United States is not going to war with Chicago. That's insane. A reporter actually asked Trump this question, and he called her second rate to her face, which was amazing. Here's part of that back and forth.

You say that, darling, that's fake news. Why would you do the Department of Defense? Be quiet. Listen. You don't listen. You never listen. That's why you're second race. We're not going to war.

We're going to clean up our cities. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend. That's not war. That's common sense. Yes, it is common sense. It's the kind of thing we need more of. Absolutely. And I love the way he speaks about this.

By the way, anyone that says that President Trump's brain isn't working, which is a narrative coming out of the left now, they're trying to say that he's not a mentally, all there. The crazy thing about that is how often he interacts with media. On a daily basis, he'll take questions even from people that he heavily disagrees with. Biden was being hidden in a closet for a majority of the time he was both running for and then actually the president of the country. That shows you who actually had a mental decline and who doesn't. Trump is not struggling with that. But all right, on the heels of that story, so we're talking about Chicago right now and

Trump wanting to send troops there or maybe New Orleans or all. kinds of places and that the effectiveness of what he's done in Washington, D.C. is on display for the entire country to see and how much we'd like to see crime go away in other places. There's another story that's out there, and it's just a horrific story. I do not recommend anyone watch this video. There is a video out there that's graphic in nature that shows a man sitting behind a woman on a light rail train in North Carolina. The man is a career criminal in his 30s, someone who's been arrested multiple times, had gone to prison before, but because of the Democratic policies of the city in Charlotte in which he lives,

he was out. He was not in jail. His own mother has described him as someone who is not mentally well, who is not safe, who is the kind of person who should be institutionalized, but the system has failed this person, mostly because Democrats believe that a leniency that goes above and beyond any sort of common sense, for people that commit crimes is somehow attractive to certain voter blocks, that it somehow makes you less racist as a political party or whatever it might be that they claim. And again, this is just being lenient to all kinds of criminals and all kinds of horrible things.

Yes, it's a black man. Yes, he stabbed and killed a white woman. So if you want the race narrative to be there, it is. And maybe it's one of the many reasons that media is ignoring this story. The woman is also a Ukrainian refugee, 23 years old, who was killed. The man sitting behind her just stands up and stabs her three times, once in the neck. By the time that authorities arrive, she's gone. And so the value of this story is to say that people like this, broken, crazy, deranged, evil,

whatever word you want to use for it, mentally unhealthy humans who would sit behind someone on a train and just choose to stab them for no reason whatsoever and kill them, and then casually get off the train, which you also see in the video. stuff like that needs to be stopped. We need to fight against it. And if that includes National Guard troops being stationed on or near trains so that a person like this is fearful of this type of action that they would commit against someone else, good.

That keeps a safer. That keeps tragedies like this from happening. A bunch of people are saying that this is being overly politicized, that politics are being added to it, which of course always becomes a thing. I'm not going to pretend there's some version of that that's not at least partially true. But politics are the reason this person's dead,

democratic politics specifically. They're the reason that someone acts this way as often as they do in as many parts of our country on a smaller scale level. And what I mean by that is national media, liberal media, and liberal politicians are great at diving into the one-off stories that happen in our society,

however frequently they do, where someone takes the life of a lot of other people. a mass shooting, a mass killing, they're great at that. They're great at discussing those stories and adding politics to it. Not great as in I agree with them, but they're great at focusing on it. They are terrible at focusing on the one-off things that happen constantly. Chicago, for example, as Trump said in that audio there, sees multiple deaths every weekend, multiple shootings in the 30s and 40s, every weekend of people that could shot, some survive, some do not.

This would be the type of story that would dominate headlines if it happened all at once. And if media was, you know, believed or suspected that the individual was somehow a Trump supporter who did something. But the fact that it happens mostly in minority neighborhoods on the south side of the city of Chicago means that you're not allowed in mainstream media to talk about it as much or point to it as a problem. Both the victims and the people who cause these crimes actually all live in the same community, by the way. by and large. It's not quite the version of story you see in North Carolina where a complete stranger kills a complete stranger, which is just awful and horrible. But again, these stories deserve to dominate headlines the same way because they back the reason that Trump is doing what he's doing. And when I see people in Chicago, I live there for a long time. I have a bunch of friends still,

although who knows, after I talk about this in this way, maybe some that hear about this will remove me from their social media accounts. But I saw all over social media over the weekend how Chicago was going to fight against the war that Trump was bringing to their city, that Chicago was going to do everything it could to defy Trump and what he wanted to do, which was eliminate the ridiculousness of murder and violent crime that exists in that city. And by the way, one of my other favorite discussion points, favored in a dark way, I guess, on this entire issue. And issue is the claim by J.B. Pritzker and others at Illinois that Chicago actually isn't that violent, that it doesn't top the list as far as violent cities in our country. When you're

talking about murder, it actually does. When you add all kinds of other violent crime, assault, rape, other things, yes, Chicago falls further down the list than you might expect, although there's still a significant country or a significant city in this country as far as the totality of horrible things that happen there. But murder specifically, they're not. number one. And if I were going to send the National Guard somewhere as the president to try to get a handle on something, I would probably start with the number one place that's dealing with murder, dealing with killings, and say that, hey, we can probably help you do a better job of fighting this if you want to do it. And Chicago says no, the stupidity of the left sometimes,

of the ideas that they, you know, want their supporters to rally around and that supporters actually do it is sort of the most amazing thing to me I've ever seen. And I was so tempted to comment on more of these posts I saw on social media. I may have commented on some that defending crime itself seems like a weird position for people to be taking. Because no, the innocent individuals are not getting arrested in D.C., but people are doing a lot less harming of others because of the presence of an authority, a group of people that make individuals like the guy in North Carolina more fearful of being an absolute piece of crap and taking the life of a 23-year-old woman because he's a giant, you know what?

I can't say that word on the air, even though I want to. But yes, this is the kind of thing that we should talk about more because it further demonstrates the need for something to happen in our society that isn't happening. It is simple common sense, as Trump calls it, and it's just amazing that these are the kind of debates that we even have in our society. To be totally honest, I feel like this is a narrative that a lot of people in conservative media say often, and I'll play some audio that proves another version of this in a second. But I am

sometimes floored when prepping for a show like this, filling in a nationally syndicated a radio show for someone like Dana Lash, a big name in the world of media, that I'm going to talk about whether or not Chicago should accept the help of the president to fight horrific crime that happens there. And then you have the backdrop of the North Carolina story. Like, I'm dumbfounded that these are some of the conversations you have. And I assume the vast majority of this audience of this giant show utterly agrees that it's ridiculous that we have these discussions and see these things in our society when we could easily fix them by allowing authorities to help. All right. I want to play one last piece of audio and then we'll take a break.

This is Chris Christie complaining about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It's a similar version of we don't like how over the target they are, so we're going to bash them and attack them as much as possible when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been putting out information that the CDC had tried to bury and has been firing people that, you know, were subverting his desire to have more transparency at the CDC, both bad things and both good things for us that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. actually values them, telling us more about vaccines and whatever else is out there. It's good to have a skeptic in a position of power sometimes because of how it makes the entire industry or the entire organization validate itself, which is something that I think the CDC

is struggling to do in response to Robert F. Kennedy's. Jr. But here's Chris Christie going nuts. You looked at that appearance before Congress, and it just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a foolish man full of foolish and vapid ideas. And that was on display again this week in front of Congress. And I really don't want to hear about Bill Cassidy, because he is a co-conspirate. I don't want to hear it. With the President of the United States, we're putting this wholly unqualified man in charge of 25% of all government spending.

I don't want to hear about anybody. I don't hear about anything. He goes on to describe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his position of power as far as the health of our country goes, as a middle finger to that industry. Well, a lot of Americans would feel as though many industries, many people in Washington have been giving the middle finger to us for a very long time. So why not throw it back a little is probably the response of many. All right.

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On X, on Twitter, great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. First, a wild boar. got into somebody's home in Florida. You actually hear a deputy on his camera talking about how it's crazy to see a bore in somebody's house. You actually also hear the woman who called authorities saying she's never seen this before.

The giant boar is just standing in the living room, just kind of chilling, hoping not to be bothered. And the deputy has to actually bother this bore in Lee County. And this goes about as well as you thought. But I do love some of the audio for this. He's bringing a kid. I've never heard of that. Giyosh.

Right? That's a big, mean, feral animal. Just came through, busting through the back door? What's here for? Just advise Aggie, and it's... Hey. It's like a 300 pound, Sal. Oh my gosh.

Easy. Easy. Easy. Easy. You better stop it. Hey, bring me that rope. It's crazy. crazy. This is what the deputy has to do this day in Lee County. He's like, easy. Easy as the boars going nuts and attacking him. And then he's like, hey, bring me the rope. I need to get him. But I just, I love the beginning of this video and how he walks in and he's like, geish, the minute he sees what he's going to have to handle. He's bringing a kid. I've never heard of that.

Geish. Right? Yeah, exactly right. This is crazy. That's a feral animal that broke into the back door of your house and is just kind of standing there and it doesn't go well. But honestly, this is the reason that police deserve so much praise everywhere in the country, maybe even uniquely in Florida, is that they show up for this stuff and they have to handle everything. A Florida man was accused of placing cameras in a victim's home, tracking devices on the victim's vehicle. This is a crazy story. Jared Levi McDaniels, 38 years old, was overly obsessed with somebody that he lived near, so much so that he put a multitude of cameras into the woman's room and is, or into the woman's home and has been charged with a whole bunch of stuff in reaction to this.

There also were stalking complaints. The dude looks uniquely creepy, by the way, his social media photos and his inevitable mugshot have all went viral. And he looks like an interesting dude. Inside, well, a scary dude. Inside the guy's home, they also found a bunch of crazy things. LSD, crystal meth, mushrooms, THC gummies, various inhalants. They found a bunch of guns and whatnot.

The dude just seems to be insane. He is going to be charged with a bunch of different crimes. Installation of tracking devices, video voyeurism, possession of psychedelics, possession of crystal meth, LSD substituted other things, like just crazy, dangerous inhalant chemicals. You would not want to live next to this. guy is, I guess, the end result of this story. Florida has a unique amount of people that you probably would not want to live next to. This is one of them. If I had to pick between a wild

bore breaking into my home for a small amount of time and this guy being next door neighbors with me, you pick the bore every time. You pick it multi, he could break in a couple times a year, and I'd still rather that than this other dude. A Florida man living underwater won't resurface even after breaking a record. This is another story out there from Key Largo, Florida. A university professor who broke a record for how long he has lived underwater in the undersea lodge, which is bad for you, by the way. There's certain things that happen to your body when you're underwater for that long and pressurized containers and whatnot. He should leave the previous record of 73 days, two hours and 34 minutes, which was set by two Tennessee professors,

has now been broken. And the guys like, I'm not giving this up. I'm staying down here. I want my record to be unbreakable, even if it means that my body becomes very easily breakable once I eventually resurface. At least that's the story so far. A weird record to be proud of breaking. And weird that it's university professors who all want to be the ones to do it. They want to test themselves, as opposed to run other tests and other things, which is fine. I'm good with that. Go ahead and keep testing yourself. But Joseph Detoury, he's 74 days underwater, proud of his accomplishment and going to keep going. What's crazy about this story is I actually think it was sent to me recently,

but I actually think the original version of it is actually kind of older. Excuse me. And so I wonder if actually this guy did eventually come up. So I'll put that out there. I know that this was sent as far as some prep stuff that we had. And so I definitely wanted to cover it. But I just noticed the headline for it says May of 2023. And I feel like I remembered this story about this guy.

So I'm curious if maybe he has actually resurfaced. Otherwise, it's definitely a heck of a record. But all right, quick break, a lot more. That was a Florida man from the past. Why not do one of those? Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. As we move, our partners that help make it happen,

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And then at Radio Craig C, if you want to see what it's like to be a one-man band who does very little on social media and has a very small following, you can follow me at Radio Craig C. Thank you for anyone that's been doing that the last few days. I'm not doing better on Twitter. I promise I'll try eventually. All right, let's move on. America has always been a nation of prayer, a nation of believing in the creator. That is according to President Trump, who right now, I just want to do this quickly before I hit play on any of this audio,

is trying to make America, excuse me, America safer and trying to make America a country that believes more in its creator, which is in the Declaration of Independence. these are good things. He also wants health systems to be more transparent. That's a good thing. The CDC, and I have audio of Robert of Kennedy Jr., uniquely talking about how they were trying to prevent transparency. Those things are all good. They're not one-sided good. It's not like there's a political side of the aisle that should say these things are bad. And whatever your faith would be, believing in something, I think in and of itself, has been demonstrated to be a valuable thing for your own. mental health. This is something Trump has talked about recently. It's just sort of amazing that these are the back and forth disagreements. It feels like if you were President Trump,

if you were to imagine yourself living a life for a day in the body of Trump, and you woke up and you're like, man, what could I go after today? That would be uniquely odd for people to say, I shouldn't be trying to do, whether it's crime or, you know, trying to connect more with the faith in the country, whatever it might be. and watching as Democrats say this is the newest, worst thing they've ever seen in society. Because it does feel that way, regardless of what the goal is to remove, and crime is a thing that most people in this country should be anti. There's somehow a group of people that rise up and say, no, leave this thing alone.

But here is Trump announcing that 70 faith organizations and churches have joined together to participate in America praise, which is something that does seem to be a shot at Democrats and what they've said about how prayer isn't important and doesn't matter, which is just a very weird thing to do. But here is President Trump announcing that he, in fact, cares as we get closer to the 250th birthday of this nation and the Declaration of Independence that actually specifically references the creator. I'd like to ask a very good friend of mine, Secretary Scott,

Turner to come up and say a few words about some of the things we're doing. And, Scott, please, take it away. By the way, he does also bring in Scott, so I'll go ahead and play that audio, too, of Scott making the announcement as well. So I'm grateful to be here. What an honor it is to stand with this commission and with our president. Y'all, we're in the nation's capital. We're at the museum of the Bible. We're together, and we're talking about faith. Did anybody else pick up on that? I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. We're right here. So thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor to serve under your leadership, sir. and to be a part of this tremendous cabinet.

How many know we have a godly, faithful cabinet? It is amazing. The smile of Secretary Turner, as he's talking about this, the 19th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, who's like, hey, faith matters again in Washington, and matters to politicians, and this is a nice thing. He goes on to announce how many organizations will be involved in it. And again, President Trump himself says that we are,

a nation that believes in the power of prayer. America has always been a nation that believes in the power of prayer. And we will never apologize for our faith ever, ever, never, never. We will never surrender our God-given rights. We will

defend our liberties, our values, our sovereignty, and we will defend our freedom. And with the help of amazing faith communities across the land, so many are represented with us today, we will truly make this the golden age of America.

That's what we're doing. We're at the very beginning of a golden age. That's great, sir. No, I absolutely agree with him, though, that this is the kind of thing that matters. You know what's interesting about this, too? There are people in certain communities. The Secretary of Urban House Development,

a black man who might be speaking to specific communities in his mind when he's talking to all of America, that actually respond well to this discussion, that are typically thought of to vote democratically on other things. The black community specifically does seem very responsive to the idea of faith, to the idea of prayer. And so I think it's very interesting to watch this happen,

to watch this be discussed by the president and to focus on it. At a time when a bunch of people are yelling out loud, how dare you offer thoughts and prayers after a horrible tragedy happens to kids in a church? And kids that I think families would actually value prayer in the families ask J.D. Vance, the vice president, to request prayers from the American people. All of that is just trying to go after the narrative that the left wants to, you know, make the most popular reaction to a story like that, which is how they won't help restrict gun access because they actually care about God or faith or something, which is a weird thing for them to be anti in trying to go after

their right to bear arms. All right, another story out there that I thought was interesting. A national Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez said that they're actually enforcing the law and that some politicians in certain cities are trying to fight them like Karen Bass from enforcing the law. And it needs to stop because it's hurting agents. It's hurting the country in a lot of ways. And as the border is finally much safer than it's been in a while, these ICE agents, these Border Patrol people, they're just trying to keep that going. And the people that are fighting them now are exactly the same people who discourage cops from doing their job well. I just think if you're a police officer in one of these cities real quick and you would like to go

fight whatever the crime is, wherever it exists, even if it's in a minority community in your city. And you know that the minute you do that, the optics of it would cause you to be bashed. Even if you do everything exactly right, you have the body cam footage to prove that you were the picture of what is expected of someone to put them. self-endanger long before actually fighting whoever a criminal is that they're around. As you do all that, you know that the politicians are just waiting to turn on you to use it as a political points thing. This sounds like what the National Border Patrol Council President is talking about in saying that we shouldn't be fighting authorities when we're just trying to do

our job and trying to enforce the law. They're enforcing immigration law as it is on the books. you know, these are targeted enforcement actions. You know, we use a number of factors to determine where we're going to go and who we're going to go after. And many of these people, they run as soon as our agents and officers get there. So that as well is an articulable fact that can be used for reasonable suspicion. And we can go after them. We can chase them down. And then our investigation begins to determine whether this person's legally or illegally in the country.

And then we take them into custody based on, you know, the answers. that they give. So, you know, Karen Bass and those other Democrats that are demonizing our agents, they need to stop because it makes it a lot more dangerous for our agents to do the job that they were trained and swore to do. Yeah, they're just upholding the law. The weirdest thing about this is if you don't like the law, if you don't like what's going on in society, the way to fight it isn't to try to demonize the actual people executing that law so that they get harmed and they try to get to a point where they're discouraged and afraid of doing their job, which is the whole goal. And it's been the goal the whole time. And it's what the Democrats would like. They would

like cops to stand down the way that some feel like they have to in cities like Chicago, because they know if they go into the wrong neighborhood and simply uphold the law that they'll be used as a scapegoat and called a racist or anything else. All right. One last thing. And this is Robert of Kennedy Jr. defending firing a guy who is the chief CDC vaccine officer, because He was one of several people subverting the authority of the person in charge of the health department. So it makes sense that you would fire somebody like this. Of course, people are going to demonize Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And say he's a moron, which is crazy because he's an outsider with different perspectives than our health community typically has,

who is willing to add transparency to certain decisions he makes to fire people. This is a good thing. Listen to him to talk about it. This can't be bad. Honestly, the left saying it's bad is demonstrating how very much over the target Robert F. Kennedy is in the administration or the, you know, the department that he's been put in charge of. Yeah, I mean, that individual actually came to my attention because early on during the measles outbreak, I promised Governor Abbott to sends money down, badly needed money, and help down to Texas. And this individual blocked that money for a month. I couldn't figure out what's happening.

I gave the order. I'm running this agency. How come nothing's happening? And then we tried to get the vaccine safety data link, which is the data that supposedly the CDC tries to use to make good decisions on whether vaccines are hurting people and whether they're side effects. For seven months, he stonewalled us

so that we could not get that data. He's also the individual that runs the VAIR system, which is the surveillance system for injuries. That captures, according to CDC's own study, fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries. Yeah, he's terrible at his job, and intentionally so. And also preventing money from going to Texas seem to be designed and trying to make a measles outbreak worse,

to try to point to it as somehow a problem of policy and politics, instead of being a thing where Robert of Kennedy Jr. was trying to help. It's amazing that these individuals are in all these positions of power through every part of our government, that the bureaucratic versions of our government are so one-sidedly political, politically motivated, doing horrible things that hurt the American people, and that putting outsiders in roots out that corruption, and then it attacks itself.

The media people saying how horrible he is for rooting out corruption that exists, because that's the end goal, more so than, say, you know, getting every single decision right, you would like to see people that are actually from the outside that aren't beholden to whatever the power structure is that exists for people who rise up from the bottom that can actually remove people who are doing terrible things for the American people.

Yeah, this guy's crazy, horrible. Ah, the worst, according to left-leaning media. And I'm thrilled that he's in the position of power that he's in genuinely. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. And now, all of the news, you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana's show. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio, and X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to her and all

the things that she puts up on social media and that producer Stephen does as well. Awesome job by both. A guy broke down the different types of women based on ice cream flavors. I'm going to get to that in a second. I don't want to do that first, but I like that a lot. Before I get there, though, and the reason I want to do this story first is I'm curious who the Phillies Karen will be as far as ice cream flavors go, in your opinion. If you don't know anything about this story, a woman, now being dubbed Philly's Karen, was crazy at a baseball game the other night. A dad very fairly got a baseball, a home run ball that was hit into the stands.

I landed on the ground. He picked it up. He brought it over to his kid who was there to celebrate his birthday that was in a couple of days. And the Karen runs from her section over to him. Very upset that the ball got hit in her direction, that she did not catch it, that it landed on the ground. And she's claiming that it's hers,

even though she didn't get it, and that he took it from her somehow, which means that she doesn't go to many baseball games and doesn't understand the rules of the home run. And she's also a horrible Karen Burson. But anyway, the dad and the son talked about the experience. The dad eventually relented, gave the home run ball to the woman,

and then the Phillies gave him a whole bunch of stuff in response to it, including even a signed bat. Here is part of that story, though, and the way that son Lincoln and dad Drew reacted to being interviewed by NBC affiliates in Philly about their experience at the game. As soon as it cracked off the bat, it was starting to head our way a little bit. It fell and kind of bubbled between the two armrests. And I picked it up and I just walked away and held the ball up high and put it in Lincoln's glove.

And then she showed up. As she reached from my arm, she just yelled in my ear. That's my ball. Like super loud. I was jumped out of my skin. Then she's like, those were from our seats. I said, there was nobody in that seat. I pretty much just wanted her to go away and be dad and show him how to de-escalate the situation.

So that's where I went. I wasn't very happy that we had to give it to her, but we can't win. She was going to get it anyways. Oh, my God, I love the kid. He's like, I wasn't happy that we had to give the ball away. But that woman was nuts and crazy, and I got to learn from dad. How did handle something? But again, the team actually gave him a lot of other stuff, including a signed bat by Harrison Bader,

which feels like a pretty good win. The other funny thing in this story is the amount of people who've been misidentified as Phillies Karen so far. There was a woman who was identified as Phillies Karen that is not her, that was not at the game, that said she's actually a Red Sox fan. And then also a teacher at a jersey who was also misidentified as Karen. The school decided to defend this one by saying that anyone who had gone to the game from our school would have caught the ball barehanded avoiding the situation entirely, which is hilarious. because yes, if a baseball isn't caught on the fly and it lands in the stands, it's fair grabs. Anybody who gets it comes away with it gets to keep it. This is something you know whenever a very important home run, say one that's going to be worth a bunch of money.

I get hit into the stands and somebody comes away with it after a scrum. Philly's Karen completely unaware or at least doesn't care about those rules. Terrible persons. One last thing, I just thought this was funny and I set it up a second ago. This is the guy talking about different ice cream flavors. and how he thinks that some women are best described via ice cream. If she eats high and nods, she wears nothing but loo of lemon, and she is very classy.

If your girl eats Ben and Jerry's, she's a stoner, hands down, Mayfield and Briars. If she's eating these two, then that means that she has come from a spot, a place in her life where she's trying to do better, and she's letting go that negative energy. She's in her soft girl ever. She's hitting right now.

Anytime you see this blue bell, you got you a Southern girl. Good old Southern girl. She's going to cook for you. She's going to clean. I love that the preference in the brand of ice cream describes the type of woman that you're getting. And to start it off, he said Hagenas is the fancy Lulu Lemon type, which apparently I think would best reflect the Phillies Karen types out there.

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My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you, a bunch of stuff out there to talk about. South Korea will bring home 300 workers that were detained in a massive Hyundai plant raid in Georgia. All 300 people had at the very least overstayed visas, done a lot of other things. Here illegally, South Korea immediately went up in arms about how, you know, they were being unfairly treated or something, yada, yada, yada. Now they're going to take everybody back because they're not allowed to be here and they probably should go.

This is the kind of thing where you talk about, man, these people are victims, they were unfairly treated or, I don't know if you talk about that. Somebody does. And yet now, 300 new jobs exist in Georgia at a Hyundai plant that didn't exist before for people who work here or live here legally. So it seems that there might be some good that comes to this inevitable. story, and South Korea is also taking all of its people back. That's an interesting story out there to me for sure, and just how sizable that whole bust wound up being. I wonder if going in they knew

it was going to be that big, or if it just started to a roll into something more and more significant as they kept going. Another story out there that I thought was funny, the Spectator World put a article out. They put out a magazine, and the cover is Trump's drug war. It actually has a President Trump or a drawing of him at the machine gun in a Humvee with a bunch of other masked members in the military around him. ICE loves this. They put up their own version of this photo saying that this is a way to recruit people to ICE.

Several different other people seem to react saying how cool the photo was or drawing was, not for the reason they wanted it to be cool, but because they think it's uniquely patriotic and demonstrating that Trump is anti-drugs, anti a lot of things that probably everyone should be anti. My favorite was someone who tweeted that not only will they be hanging it in their home, they'll also have it be a focal point when people walk into their house. They'll make sure to have dinners under this framed photo. And they also will be romantic with the misses with this photo hanging in the balance.

So pretty awesome, pretty hilarious responses, not what the spectator wanted in reaction to their thing they put up there. But it is cool. His tie is flying. Air is flying and the guy is standing at the top of the turret being like, I'm taking down drugs. How is this bad? CBS News put out a poll of what Americans think about the National Guard being deployed in both D.C. and other cities as far as the value of it.

I think UGov helped them build this. There's something very interesting in this data, which you'll notice very quickly. First, as far as D.C., 43% of Americans favored the idea of National Guard troops being deployed there. 57% opposed it. Other cities, it was 42% that favored it. 58% that opposed it. Here's what's really interesting, though. When you look at Democrats, 93% of Democrats oppose this thing that's happening.

The reason they oppose it is because mainstream media has told them to oppose it. That's why they hate it. Independence, it's 64-36. 64% oppose, 36% approve. That's, you know, a 2-1 odds, which doesn't seem so bad. And then as far as Republicans go, it's 85% approve, 15% disprove of the idea. I think what matters is the context of what happens, which very often mainstream media doesn't care about. They care about telling you what they believe is going to happen.

They care about sensationalizing a story as much as possible to get your eyeballs on it right when the first moments of something occur. but then as it progresses, the job of journalism is to find out the truth, and that's harder. That's harder than instant reaction than predicting something. If you actually have to tell me the details of what occurs where, you have to do work that a lot of people seem in media to not want to do for a variety of reasons, mostly political, but probably laziness among them too. What I think is amazing is DC has seen a tremendous benefit from the National Guard being deployed there to help. a crackdown on crime. And if your city were to experience this, if something like the horrific story at a North Carolina from over the weekend, where a woman was stabbed by a man sitting behind

her on a train that had a long rap sheet, should not have been in public in the first place, should have been in jail still, or at least institutionalized, but it's out in the streets because of Democrats and capable of taking the life of someone. A Ukraine refugee, by the way. There's a lot of aspects of the story that you think mainstream media would gravitate toward, but they don't like the optics of a black man with mental health issues, stabbing a white woman, so they're not talking about it, as much as they should, and killing her, which is crazy. But again, if you live in a place like that, and the National Guard comes in and makes things safer for you,

Americans are going to overwhelmingly approve of it. They're going to be very, very happy about it. What I thought was interesting about all of these studies and surveys is they didn't keep it specific to the people in Washington, D.C. They asked you what you think of Washington, D.C., you know, having more troops in their area, not with the people who are living there and seeing the impact of this decision, actually believe. And what I think is even more interesting about it is the idea that our men and women in our military who are supposed to be supported, celebrated, there's so many different versions where,

and I think veterans might say this to you, or at least maybe some veterans have said this to me, I don't want to put it on them necessarily. The, you know, thank you for your service can fall hollow if that's the extent to how you actually say thank you to military men and women for the sacrifices they make to protect our freedoms. That might not be enough. A society needs to do more. There's a lot of ways that veterans are neglected and treated poorly by our government, by our people, once they come back home, which is tremendously sad. But I couldn't think of a more harmful way of also demonstrating. what you actually think of our military

by behaving as though they would institute martial law if they were sent to a city to fight crime. If they were sent to help fight crime in whatever capacity that would be, it is amazing to have that level of distrust for the military men and women that were all supposed to patriotically support because it couldn't be further from the truth

for me to feel that way. If the National Guard were activated in Houston where I live, I would be thrilled. I would be buying these people cups of coffee at Starbucks, the way I do for police officers, officers sometimes, because I know what they'd be doing would be hard, and I would think that they're good people. I know that there's exceptions to every rule out there, and honestly, whenever someone does something bad in uniform, the other people who wear that uniform are usually

the most mad. If something happens in the world of military, the military men and women I know are the ones who are most upset with the decision-making of someone that winds up in the news, the same for police. So I feel like this is one of those moments where a cliche thing from the internet can be used to demonstrate a point. Tell me how you feel about the military without telling me how you feel about the military is the version of what's happening right now where people are saying they'd hate to see the National Guard activated somewhere because it would somehow be bad for the American people. That means you don't have a high opinion of the military men and women who serve this country. And even more than that, you're saying that you believe they'd follow

an order that they think was wrong and they think would hurt civilians and innocent people, which I don't believe the military would follow. Not that they're going to be given an order like that, but the idea that they'd follow it is something that's, I think, absolutely not true for almost anyone I've ever met that served any sort of role in the military. These are honorable people who are volunteering to defend the freedoms of this country. They're not going to harm those people, you know, in that process. And so it's just amazing to see the comparisons to Nazi Germany because it's ridiculous.

All right. One last thing that I thought was really funny. Brian Kastenstein, Krasenstein, excuse me. I like to mispronounce his name. He's a moron. He's one of several people out there who annoy you with his political take. So he tweeted something at the vice president at J.D. Vance, trying to attack the vice president.

And what's hilarious about this back and forth is eventually J.D. Vance said exactly what he thinks of the individual. And for some reason, the social media, whatever you want to call him a person, seems to think that this is an impeachable offense. So I'll tell you exactly what occurred. J.D. Vance said that killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military, meaning if you have a boat from another country that's trying to haul drugs into the United States,

we're going to blow it up. Krasenstein responded to that by saying killing the citizens of another nation for civilians without any due process is called a war crime. Again, I don't necessarily think that anything he says has value, as J.D. Vance also feels this way. JD's response is, I don't give a bleep what you call it, because I don't care about you. This is when Krasenstein started to go crazy,

claiming that J.D. Vance deserves to be impeached and that he would testify before Congress for the mean tweet that was sent his direction. Talk about a fragile human being with a 24-hour meltdown all over social media because the sitting vice president told him exactly what he thinks of his opinion, which is fantastic. Again, these are the reasons that I think we put.

put certain people in positions of power versus how Democrats do this sort of thing. Because man, oh man, does it seem great when someone like this, some moron trying to get a social media clicks gets put in their place and then cannot handle it, which is exactly what's happening right now for Brian Krasenstein. He cannot accept the idea that his opinion means absolutely nothing out of the vice president. And he wants some sort of ridiculous amount of harm to be the byproduct of a disagreement where someone was not exactly nice to him about it. It is hilariously fragile and probably one of the must-watch things on social media right now going on. One last thing for you, as far as a roundup of other news.

Chicago is, quote, fighting back against having the National Guard sent into that city to clean up crime. Chicago is number one for murder in our country as far as highly populated cities go. So obviously a place that would deserve some assistance. But anyway, New York and Mumdani are also out there saying, you better not come here, you better not help us. It's going to be an interesting mid-cycle election. It'll be an interesting set of elections happening throughout this country to have some people say, hey, I don't like crime. And I would like crime to go down.

And having Democrats in a lot of these races in the midterm elections say, I love crime, essentially, by telling you that I don't want to do a better job of policing it through our, police force and or the use of the National Guard. I hate the military and I love crime. It's essentially what Democrats are saying out loud. Just listen to them is I think what I'd be saying to a bunch of constituents throughout the country. When they tell you what they really think, you need to listen, this is one of those moments for sure for Americans to say, hey, wait a minute, I'm not a fan of crime and I am a fan of our military. I think that's a very small ask of a lot of us and I think we can do it.

All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in and The Dana Show. Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you.

A bunch of stuff to talk about out there, very little time to do it. This is all stuff I should have gotten to today that we didn't cover yet. Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea are disrupting Internet access in Asia and the Middle East. Microsoft said the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts that happened in the Red Sea. It's interesting to think how easily the Internet can be knocked out for people. We forget about that sometimes and then stories like this occur where it's like, oh yeah, if you have the technology to go underwater and cut a cable, you can actually knock out the internet for a whole bunch of people. Cut a few cables, I guess is a probably more accurate way to say it.

But that's a thing that happened that seems weird and definitely a reminder of what else could occur other places in our world. Postal traffic into the United States has plunged by more than 80%. This is after the Trump administration ended in exemption, saying that certain low-cost shipping of goods isn't necessarily impacted by tariffs, the way that a larger value items would be, anything $800 or less in value. You might actually still have to pay a tariff. The reason this is shut down is the postal office didn't have a way to process this, meaning that the government once again demonstrates that just because they run stuff doesn't mean they run it well or efficiently or do anything good with your money

because all they had to do is institute a way to calculate tariffs for lower cost items and they wouldn't have to shut down 80% of all the items that were being trafficked by them. But that has happened. Their traffic has plunged because they have no system in place to do a thing that you would think they should at least have a system in place to try and do. But darn it, who cares about that stuff? Other things out there that I thought were funny. 1990s cars are skyrocketing in value.

There's a few different ones that collectors are specifically interested in. This was an article that popped up a couple places. Mostly, I think it's just nostalgia. You have people around my age. I am almost 40 years old who very fondly remember some of the vehicles they had in the 90s in the 2000s and would want those ones back. Some of the ones listed here are in 1990s to early 2000s, Mercedes AMG C-43, a 1990 Toyota Land Cruiser, which is an awesome car. And then finally, a Chevrolet Caprice was also listed. listed here, the classic station wagon from the mid-90s,

but several other cars that have become collector's items, including an early 90s Ferrari that I think is pretty cool. I would very much like to get my cars back, ones I owned when I was younger, including a Jeep Cherokee that actually I recently had and then lost because it definitely needed to go the way that it had to go for a long time, a 96 Jeep Cherokee that I loved.

But yes, some of these cars just feel like they're not made anymore. and you'd definitely love to have them. And so I get it. And I'm not alone in that. I know producer Kane and others sent me notes to some of the cars they'd like back. I think that's a part of the rise in the cost of these cars is just that we're the right age now to be buying vehicles that we remember fondly from years ago. And we're paying more for them than we should, which is what my wife said to me several times every time I fixed on my 96 Jeep Cherokee that I shouldn't have fixed as much as I did because I was paying more than I should. Another story out there that I like,

if you're mean to other people, it might be a sign of high intelligence, according to a new study. There's got to be a good reason for you being mean and, quote, judging or hating others. It's because you believe that they can actually change the thing you hate about them. If you hate people because of the color of their skin, that's low intelligence, according to this study,

because they can't change that about themselves, and it really doesn't matter. But if you hate people based on certain things that you believe you could actually convince them, them to think differently on, like say their politics, this actually is a sign of high intelligence, which I love, the idea that thinking that someone can change and being mad at them or hating them because they're making a bad decision when you think more information could make a better decision is way different than hating someone who looks or acts a different way

in some sort of way they can't change. I just love that study, that hating people can in fact be a demonstration of high intelligence. Being rude can be a demonstration of high intelligence too. There you go. Definitive proof that people like me are great. A quick break. We're done, actually. Greg Collins filling in. Dana back tomorrow.