The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Fraudulent Daycare List, Grows Tim Walz's Daughter Wines, & $400K Lobster Heist

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

Craig Collins sits in for Dana. The Somali daycare fallout continues as Republicans urge to deport the fraudsters. Ukraine President Zelensky bucked with Trump in his Fox News interview over Russia. Joe Rogan claims when Elon Musk purchased Twitter “he changed the course of civilization”. $400K of lobster was stolen in a seafood heist. A list goes viral of all of the fake daycares in Minnesota. TX Sen. Paul Betancourt joins us to break down the Texas Senate election chances, the elimination of property taxes, election integrity and more. Tim Walz’s daughter posts a video saying everyone is being mean to her dad. Police drones are being used more often to issue tickets.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/Dana  OR CALL 972-PATRIOTWhat are you waiting for? Switch today during the Red, White, and Blue sale. Use promo code DANA for a Samsung A16 5g smartphone.  Sale ends soon.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFDon’t let pain stop you from living the life you want with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! PreBornhttps://Preborn.com/DANAYou have the power to help save a life. Donate today by dialing #250 and say “Baby,” or give securely online. Make your end of year gift today.Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore Info

This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you, a bunch of stuff to talk about. This is just for the studio. I'm hearing myself coming back. I think I'm hearing an echo of myself somehow. If we can get that fixed. I think it's actually coming from the app we're using to connect on.

You might need to mute that microphone. But anyway, a couple things out there, some things that I think are interesting. First, there is a story about, of course, the Somalian fraud and how crazy it's getting, how ridiculous things are. how terrible everything this audio of Chip Roy and how he's discussing some of what's

likely to happen next. Removal, deportation, all this kind of stuff. All of it makes sense, and yet some people are trying to say that this would be a racist, horrible decision to a ridiculous amount of fraud that's occurring in our society. But here we go. Here's Chip Roy. I think this was on Fox News

last night. I'm talking about this sort of thing. It defies all logic and reason to believe that Governor Walt's was ignorant of what was happening in Minnesota. Yes, it does. Let's be clear. He was campaigning on it last year with respect to the campaign with Vice President Harris and her run for the presidency.

He literally was talking about it. Thank God that President Trump won that election. Thank God that we do not have a Harris-Waltz presidency because they would be encouraging this to continue, whereas this president is rooting out the fraud, securing the border, stopping the flow of people into our country. But this is what happens when you have massive welfare programs that are funding people that are coming into our country, whether it's illegally or

frankly, through legal channels that are being abused by the radical left and the Marxists who want this to occur. The Somali community knew full well what they were doing. It's a part of an enterprise-wide effort that's global, tied to the United Nations, tied to the world organizations, NGOs, our own taxpayer dollars that are being used against us while we import people to be put on the welfare state, to be put on Medicaid. and to take taxpayer money. It's fraud that has to be stopped,

and people need to be removed, deported, denaturalized, and sent back to Somalia. A freaking men, Chip Roy. That is a great take and a great position to have on this. Because, yeah,

if you've gone this far to abuse the systems that exist in our society, to do it much to the detriment of a whole lot of people, I mean, think about the things they're fraudulently taking advantage of, daycare, elderly care things, you know, autism sort of organizations, focus organizations. So many of these things are ridiculous to me that it feels as though the next thing that needs to happen.

And by the way, I could hear you snap. If you were trying to test something, I could actually hear it happen. The last thing I'll say, though, is the craziness of this entire system is how there are still people defending it and how deep and how far back this rabbit hole goes. a couple things there. Some people have put viral video out of 2018 and like independent slash also mainstream investigations and the ridiculous amount of fraud that gone on. Minnesota's fraud is likely to only be the tip of the iceberg according to people like Scott Jennings, who also see a whole lot of fraud likely to be coming out of places like California. And I'll also say this kind of quickly before I hit play on my next piece of audio. The U.S. assumes that fraud

against our government or the government programs that we run is in the neighborhood of 233 to $521 billion a year. That is based on a study they did between the years of 2018 and 2022. That range is insane. 233 to 521. And that's just an assumption. They can't actually definitively say that it's not more than that. When you're thinking about the amount of fraud in this one program in Minnesota, it's a drop in the bucket to the ridiculous amount of fraud that occurs in our society

year in and year out because of the leniency in our government programs that seems to beg fraudsters to do horrible things because they tell us all the time this is the only way to be a compassionate society is you have less checks and balances

on who you give money to. Here I'll play the Scott Jennings audio next. And then after that, I actually want to play something from the debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walls, because there's so many moments that show you that this is a long, ongoing thing that anyone in any sort of position of actual power should have long rooted out and fixed, and they're not fixing it because they don't want to fix it because of all the assumed kickbacks and

whatnot that exist here. But here, first let's play Jennings and how he says the tip of the iceberg. We're going to see a lot more of this, a lot more places. That nothing is being done, that no one is being held accountable, that this was just let to run rampant is completely false. Well, some people have been held accountable, but I think in the opinion of most Republicans, not nearly enough. And truthfully, until somebody in a position of power, until somebody in a position in Minnesota elected position who was in charge of administering this or having some oversight over, it goes to jail, it's honestly never going to stop. Look what's going on in

blue states across the country. Nine billion in Minnesota, 70 billion in fraud in California, cooking the crime stats in Washington, D.C. When is someone in a position? position of power going to go to jail for the rampant fraud. Hold on a second. What I am? Abby, I'm good. I didn't hold on for a second. He's absolutely right about that.

When is someone in a position of power? They're not even just talking about walls here. They're talking about anyone who was supposed to have oversight over these organizations. None of those people go to jail. You don't see anybody getting hauled off and thrown into prison because that's the tip of the iceberg another way. You hold someone accountable. They're going to point upward to who they were told to do it by.

And then it's going to keep going up and up. so that the system itself is protecting the fraudsters because they know who the fraudsters are connected to. And so, yes, it's never going to be enough until we get that far. But this has been going on for so long that the other thing that Abby Phillips said was literally insane, that, you know, it's not like this has been ignored and been a thing. There's stories from local news affiliates in Minnesota talking about Somalian fraud in daycare in 2018 and how parents that used to get money from the daycare organization that was fraudulent

would bring their kids by for like a few minutes at the beginning of the day and then bring their kids home. So everybody who was on the take was creating an illusion that this actually was a organization that was taking care of kids when the reality was all the kids wouldn't even stay there

and all the people were making money off of the scam and they got even lazier in the years since because now a bunch of those places as Nick Shirley showed you in his viral video that went all over the place that they don't even do that part that a bunch of these places

are just closed. And by the way, I'll just throw this out there before I hit play on any more audio. The quality leering center, the place that spelled learning wrong, actually had kids at it yesterday. A whole bunch of kids showed up

and people seemed like they were busing children in and cars were in the parking lot. And then there was a guy there that said that the hours of operation or like two to six. It was hilarious to watch them try to pretend as though that is a bustling business on other days

because of the same time as that was happening, you had politicians saying that it's been shut down for a while and the reason you didn't see anyone at it is that it's no longer an operation. So they didn't even coordinate their lie correctly. The Somalian people who are still getting paid money for the quality leering center pretended as though the business is an operation

and the politicians above them who are probably getting kickbacks pretended that it's been closed forever. But here is the audio of Tim Walls talking about some of the ridiculous things that seemed to demonstrate just how in on it they all were, like daycares in Minnesota

and the existence of daycare programs in Minnesota. This happened during the debate, long before the rug was pulled out from under him as far as the amount of people that know the insane amounts of fraud that have been going on forever or for a very long time in that state.

or go to the businesses and ask them. As far as child care on this, you have to take it at both the supply and the demand side. You can't expect the most important people in our lives to take either our children or our parents to get paid the least amount of money. And we have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that. We were able to do it in Minnesota, and I'm still telling you this. We were listed as the best state we're still in crisis on this. A federal program of paid family medical leave and help with this will enhance our workforce, enhance our family, and make it easier to have the children that you want. Oh, my God.

How horrible would that have been if they instituted any of the Minnesota policies on a national level? The fact that they do say that we are so, so lucky, that Trump was elected into office and that, you know, Harris was not elected along with walls. Like how much more ridiculous would this story be if it's the current vice president, knock on wood, thank God it's not. I shudder to say that out loud, dealing with the fallout of this amount of fraud, if we even knew about it. One last thing I want to play before I take a break, and this is just to prove how long this has been an ongoing knowable issue. This is audio, I think, from a local NPR affiliate in Minnesota. You can tell because there's the annoying, you know, narrative going over and the, you know, version of giving your opinion because of the way that you're saying certain things. But anyway, there's the annoying narrative over the audio of a town hall meeting in 2014 or 2015

where Minnesotans were complaining about the amount of Somalians that were disrupting their community, that they got no choice in the process of we're sending the refugees here, and that's where they're going to stay. And one of the politicians, who now is a very high-ranking member of Congress, seems to be very upset about the line of questioning it all, and the ridiculousness of it, because it all goes to human rights and whatnot, And this is probably the beginning stages of you scratch my back, I'll scratch your back, as far as fraud and kickbacks go. But Tom Emmer is the voice in this.

He's now the minority whip in the House of Congress in the United States dealing with some of the complaints people had in 2015 in a town hall meeting in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Here we go. We did not ask for those Somalis. Nobody asked us if we in St. Claude want those Somalis. and we understand that social groups like the Lutheran Social Service and the Catholic charities, they're dumping them in areas like say cloud. Okay. And so the question is, how many more are coming? We didn't ask for these people. Everybody that you read about is talking about this. So that is a main issue in this city. There is no control. The people have no control

over any immigration. The mayor doesn't. I don't know. Congressman Emmer is like Like, what are you even talking about? Oh, how dare you, sir? Sorry, I'm going to let the voiceover continue. If someone's here legally, you don't get a saying whether they come into your city. And he fires a warning shot at the implicit racism here against Somalis, as if to say, don't go further down this road, you guys.

I wonder why he's really saying don't go further down this road. Tom Emmer, by the way, as a Republican. And if you're asking me how I feel about immigrant populations who are in this country legally and who are actually trying to find a better way for themselves and their families, I support it wholeheartedly. I mean, the Germans had the same problem when they came over. The Polish had the problem.

The Chinese had the problem. We have a different problem. That's a great point. They did it on their own, though. But anyway, this is from a 2015 town hall in a fight back and forth. And it's the typical version of defense that now you hear a lot of Democrats giving, which is this is just an everyday occurrence of life. And this is people trying to make their lives better and trying to do anything they can.

And no, of course, not everyone within a community is responsible for a crime. I'm not saying that. If you want to pretend I'm saying that, that's fine. I am not, though. But if it's a significant portion of a group of people that are all in coordination seeming to do something, you have to say that out loud. You have to be honest about this. And you can't say people are just trying to better their lives when they're ripping

off the American taxpayer in ridiculous schemes like daycare schemes and whatnot. We'll get to more of that later, but this has been going on for a long time in Minnesota. It's not a new story. It's just new to a whole lot of Americans. and feels like it's exactly the reason you voted Trump into power in the first place is to bring these fraudulent systems crashing down. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show, more coming up in a bit. The folks who helped make all of it possible, the great organization at Preborn,

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you, a bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Of course, the U.S. and Venezuela is a big deal. high, you know, headline news story, including the drone strike on Venezuela drug facilities that happened. The President Trump was fairly unapologetic about, in a good way, I was a fan of this. When asked a question about the strike and the explosion, he's like, yeah, no, that happened. We blew stuff up.

More stuff might get blown up in the feed. But it was a good thing for us. This was a thing that was loading up the drugs out of the boats, that then were coming into our country, and it no longer exists. That was good. That's a bigger deal story out there. Of course, ongoing discussions about Ukraine and Russia. And now there's accusations by Russia toward Ukraine that an attempt on Vladimir Putin's life was made and that has potentially harmed the peace negotiations. Ukraine is countered by saying that's not true. And Russia is doing its typical sabotage of certain negotiation things by attacking itself or even pretending it got attacked when it didn't. Here's the caveat there, and I actually don't want to spend a lot of time talking about this. It's a big story. I'm sure you're hearing about it, and maybe later in the show, I'll do a deeper dive into it. But to me, it's so hard to trust anyone.

There was even that interview with Brett Baer, where he sat down with Vladimir Zelensky, and Bear asked Vladimir Zelensky about all the different ridiculous fraud that takes place in Ukraine, that has taken place even during the, you know, a war, which demonstrates a pretty significant problem for Ukraine that people would be willing to steal at a time of war like this. But, of course, the fraudsters fraud all the time. We're learning that here in the United States. You learn that everywhere. But on that question, Zelensky gave a terrible answer, like a nonsensical, a Kamala Harris version of a cyclical. we're going to let the organizations that check on that do their work and check on it.

We're not going to stop them, yada, yada, yada, and not the, yeah, we have really bad fraud. So you don't know who to trust. Of course you side with Ukraine since they were attacked by Russia and since our country would not want to see Russia expand and take over, you know, neighboring countries. You don't want any of that. Of course you do. And of course, you want peace that's as fair to Ukraine as possible, even if inevitably they're going to have to give up territory just because that's the only one. way to get there. But as I say all that, I again remember the totality of the history of that country beyond this conflict, who it was and what it's been as far as, you know, fraud and

embezzlement and all these things are concerned and probably a country where the U.S. washed a lot of its own money. All these things are likely to be true. And so it's really hard to think that the one organization that you've been working with so closely, the one country, no matter how much you you side with it in this conflict is unlikely to be telling you the entire truth, that there are likely to be lies from that side too. But none of that is what I actually want to talk about. I'd actually rather talk about a clip from Joe Rogan's podcast that went very viral. This is on the heels of the Nick Shirley video that went, of course, very viral. And the reason Shirley was so important, independent journalist, a million, I think,

subscribers on YouTube before he put this video out, only like a million and a half views on YouTube, according to that platform, but a hundred million plus views on Twitter. And this is kind of, I think, where Rogan is going. The censorship of society at a time when technology allows all of us to, you know, rise to the top of the news totem pole and do something that mainstream media should have been doing, that local news media should have been doing and didn't do. visit all these locations that are potentially very fraudulent places in Minnesota, taking millions of dollars for child care and autism care and everything else

and not doing any of that work at all. A YouTuber was capable of doing more in 24 hours than media was willing to do, if not capable to do, for quite a bit longer. But here's part of what Rogan said. There's a bad word in here that we cleaned up, so we'll definitely have to skip over that bit. But a lot of really interesting stuff is, Here we go.

When Elon purchased Twitter, and I don't say this lightly, I think he changed the course of civilization. I really do. I think we were on our way to this weird dystopian censorship complex that was already moving. We had already had intelligence agencies that were contacting Twitter. We know this through the Twitter files. And they were banning certain people that weren't saying incorrect things, but they were saying things that were inconvenient. they turn out to all be accurate.

All the things that they were warning about, all the things that they're saying all turned out to be accurate. They stopped the distribution of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Yeah, and I'll stop it right there. He uses that as one example of what he's saying, that there's a lot of things that turned out to be accurate and true from the quote-unquote conspiracy theorists that were all getting silenced and having their platforms shrunk on social media. What's funny about that?

I wasn't deep diving into the world of conspiracy theory at the time. But I certainly was giving my opinion, and I was on a radio station in Illinois at the moment. My social media feeds, I think, were censored. And the only reason I think that is because in the last year, every time I post anything on any of my radio, Craig C, on social media, if you want to find me, not a huge following anywhere. But anytime I post anything like a picture, just, you know, text posts, something that's not even really valuable. Facebook and some of the other places tell me my reach has been extended. like, hey, just letting you know, we've expanded the reach you have because you're posting such quality content.

I need to take a photo of that and put that up on social media itself. It's happened multiple times this year, and I've probably been lazier than I've been in a while on social media, so I'm doing less. But somehow this is quality content, I think because of how long my platform and a lot of platforms that are very little, I got censored because we were saying, as Rogan calls it, inconvenient stuff, stuff that was inevitably true, but not necessarily favored by these

outlets. Rogan goes on, though, to talk about how big of an impact Elon Musk has had. Totally accurate story. And to stop that accurate story is wild. Yes, it is. That is scary stuff. Yes, it is. That, if Elon didn't purchase Twitter, we would have just had to deal with that kind of stuff. That would be, and it would accelerate. It wouldn't stay where it is. It would ramp up. It would get more. There were, they were started using the term, information. So there's misinformation, disinformation, and then malinformation. Malinformation is factual information that might cause harm. Yeah, that's crazy that they were using those terms

and doing that. But that is absolutely true. Elon Musk buying Twitter and allowing it to be a platform that was uncensored comparative to the other ones. There's still some censorship that exists there, but very, very little. And as Elon said when he bought it, he was essentially only going to censor out what would be illegal anyway, like full-on threats on other people's lives and things. There would be, you know, repercussions to that kind of behavior. But other than that, almost nothing. A mainstream media went crazy about it and told you how all of it was, you know, essentially allowing the worst of society and people who are white supremac Nazis or what have you. They got a voice back by Twitter. And Nick Shirley, a hundred million plus views on Twitter,

1.5 million on YouTube or something like that. And I know the views are calculated differently. I know that 100 million views on Twitter doesn't necessarily mean 100 million people watched all of that video or even all that much of that video. But they're at least aware of the story because they saw some version of it in their feed and some version of information there. Sharing information at that scale is vitally important to our society being able to protect itself, especially when that information winds up being true and valuable, which I think will be a byproduct of it being viral. Most people that I've talked to about this in response to all these positives and all the, what they call it, like MAGA media praise of Nick Shirley, which is hilarious that they call it that, because a YouTuber with a million followers put out something that is easily demonstrated to be true and easily demonstrated to be a horrible outing of the ridiculousness of fraud in Minnesota. that we all knew existed, but people are attacking it for being white supremacist or

some crazy thing, which is insane to me, but it definitely, it evens the playing field in a way that is necessary for the liars to think they can't get away with the lie. And our society only changes when the liars think they can't get away with the lie. It doesn't change when you catch a few liars, and actually the rest of them don't get caught, or you know that they did something bad, but you benefit so you keep silent on it. It's the fact that the future lie will not only be outed, but that eventually there will be, hopefully, consequences to pay. And that's something that I think that Scott Jennings and a lot of other people have been talking about now,

we can't just have this be the end of this story. You can't just have the depth of fraud, the amount of ways in which Tim Walls feels uniquely connected to it, or Ilhan Omar or anyone else. You have to have that fully investigated. And people have to go to jail. People have to be held responsible. This can't be a whoopsie, our bad mistake the way that, again, as I said, to open the show, there is millions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud that take place throughout the country every single year.

And so when people are asking, how do we get back to a place where you trust each other, where things get better, you hold the bad guys responsible, you demonstrate to the other bad guys that they won't be allowed to do this, and that if they do it, they'll actually have to go to jail. It's very similar to the deterrent that exists right now for people who are here illegally by sending people back home. You are demonstrating that the country is no longer wide open to whatever you want, and we have severely impacted the amount of people who are showing up at our border right now. That is a deterrent that's goal is to change the way things are happening in society. We have to do this as far as the people who are doing bad things and defrauding our government in all kinds of ways, defrauding us, the taxpayers, even if those people are eventually the government itself

and all the ridiculous kickbacks that we all think they're getting. One last thing before I take a break. I love this story. Producer Stephen sent me this. President Trump hosted Pope Leo's brother at a private party last night. Hilarious. Pope Leo has gone out there and said some things that are easily described as woke, especially for the Catholic Church. In recent days, Pope Leo's brother, who's from Illinois, is a big fan of President Trump.

So Trump invited him to, and apparently had a party. that he was a part of at Mar-a-Lago, which is just, it's just so funny to me that that sort of thing happens because you have a U.S. president, you have someone, or excuse me, a U.S. Pope, a born Pope, and you have someone who has access to some of the family members. And so why not do it? Why not throw a party? Why not have a bit of an interaction that involves the brother of the guy who's currently in charge of the Catholic Church in one weird way? And maybe saying and doing some things that make a lot of people who are followers of the church, not all that happy. All right, quick break, a lot more.

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I love the fact that Trump is so happy to have the guy there, as the actual Pope is saying and doing some anti-Maga, some woke things, some things that feel like they might not necessarily be aligned with the Catholic Church, which is crazy to say, because the man's the Pope. and I was taught by my grandmother a long time ago, may God rest her soul, that every Pope is to be accepted, because that's the role. The Pope is the Pope,

and you're the Christian or the Catholic, so you're supposed to listen to the things the Pope says. Sometimes it's harder than other times. But anyway, here's Trump saying welcome to Pope Leo's brother and why Trump likes the guy so much. We have a man here, a special man. He is the brother of the Pope. And his wife, Deborah,

and they're just incredible people. And you know why I like him? Because when the Pope was selected, they showed a picture of his brother standing in front of the house with MAGA all over it. So I said, I love this guy. So it's great to have you, Lou, and Deborah, it's great. We appreciate it. And let's all have a great show to you. Yeah, let's have a great show.

Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody, for doing a great job. Thank you to the Pope's brother for being here. I love that. I love Trump saying, and I liked him because he was MAGA and mainstream media tried to attack the brother of the Pope. from being MAGA, which is weird in and of itself to somehow think that that's a bad thing that someone, and actually he won the popular vote for so a lot of people voted for Trump in the last presidential election. Also, this story is hilarious from producer Stephen.

$400,000 of lobster was stolen in a seafood heist that sounds really difficult to execute. It sounds like the kind of thing that's more hassle than it's actually worth, even if it's 400 grand, because the lobsters were all live, but here is a news report talking about a thing that really happened in our society. It's $400,000 worth of live lobsters headed for Costco were stolen from a Massachusetts shipping facility last week. The CEO of a logistics industry trade group says the thief posed as a trucking company worker, and this is likely part of an organized cargo crime ring.

Of course it is. TVs, things like that have serial numbers. Again, those are targeted as well, but a little bit easier to track. obviously you know lobster doesn't have a QR code on it or lobster meat doesn't have QR code on it to you know track it down and this isn't the first time this has happened it's the second major seafood theft in December alone that is crazy that's crazy that we have so many different organized versions of theft and chaos and other things going on not that we don't know about this in our society but that it's gotten so bad that people are stealing 400,000 dollars of live lobster

by posing as members of a trucking company and again I feel like the hassle that there. I'm not telling the criminals how to commit crimes better. That's not the goal. That's not my intention. But the hassle can't be worth it in that, in that grand scheme of things, unless you're dropping them off very quickly somewhere else. I wouldn't want to house the live lobster for any amount of time before I exchange them to some other place. I am trying to be a little tongue-in-cheek about how I joke about this, because it's terrible. It's awful to see that level of crime in so many places in our society, but it's definitely there. And also, again, on the list of things that I would ever steal, which I'm not intent on stealing anything, live lobster would be way at the

bottom for things that you'd actually want to deal with a post theft. Other things out there that I thought were kind of interesting, a bunch of New Year's Eve events have been canceled around the world. A lot of them for security concerns, many people are saying after the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney or things like it, that they're concerned that the New Year's Eve parties themselves will be targets for individuals. I've always said this, and I'll say this here, it is much better to keep the event and secure it, and there's a whole lot of ways to do that, then cancel the events and let the bad guys win. The bad horrible people out there who do bad horrible things want our society to have to choose between hosting events and not hosting them,

essentially handing power to the people who do the bad things. When the reality is that what we need to do is have a few veterans stationed outside of places, security teams paid to protect places, and if someone goes after something, it needs to be a hard target, not a soft target, and the person who goes after it needs to regret it. If we have enough of that happen in our society, these things, will stop. These things will at least become less commonplace. That is always the problem that stares us in the eye that so many people want to ignore, is that you need to make targets harder and you need to make people, you know, capable of being harmed for trying

to harm others without having to be worried that at some point, say, you know, the cops show up. You need to have people in place in positions of capability with training necessary to do it to immediately stop threats that just needs to happen. More of our society needs to be like that. That is acceptance of the reality of the world we live in, not this, not the canceling of events, because we're too afraid of trying to do the right thing and protect them the way that we need to.

But it's uniquely a shame that I saw that story out of the UK and in about a bunch of places about how many events this time of year are being canceled and how many people might be afraid to even go places in general because of that threat risk. I'm afraid to go nowhere because I'm armed and I think you should be too. A quick break, a lot more.

Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff to talk about. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio, and X on Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on from her social media team.

She's all over the place, though. You can find her everywhere, the first, whatever you look for. Dana is very, very famous. So it's very easy to find her at Radio Craig C. If you want to find someone who's way less famous than her and occasionally gets to babysit this very cool show. I do love a viral chain of tweets, a viral list of things on X, in which a whole bunch of

these organizations that are the fraudulent places in Minnesota are simply pictured. You can see how close they all look and some of the ridiculous names of some of the organizations. So I'm going to get to that in a little bit because I do really like. that. But there's another story out there that seems like it's starting to grow in scope. The amount of people who got fraudulent federal rental assistant payments, at first I think they told us something like 30,000 dead people got some sort of payment. 5.8 billion dollars in questionable disbursements went out in the fiscal year of 2024 from the Biden rental assistance program. Now there's an assumption that there's like 200,000.

dubious rental assistant recipients, a whole bunch of people who might have never lived in any of the places in which they were claiming to live at, P.O. boxes, all kinds of things to demonstrate how this money is getting stolen and then moved other places. But at least 30,000 dead people apparently needed rental assistance in 2024. That's got to be tough to be not alive and then also have to still pay your rent. That's got to be crazy to deal with that as only somebody can if they're defrauding the government. All right, let's go through it, this list of all the different tweets on here that I found pretty amusing. A.O. Children's Center is one that definitely is not operating. It seems lucky child care center, which doesn't seem lucky at all, as they

have a ton of overgrown grass in the area. A mother, motherly love daycare, Inc. is another one. It is connected to a meat and grocery market, which, you know, that feels appropriate. You're going to go get some motherly love child care right next to grabbing some groceries from the halal meat market. Star Children Care Center. Apple Child Care Center is also one that exists. Future Scholars Child Care, which seems like it's people that are definitely hoping for a lot of great results to their non-existent child care. ICare Child Center was one of my favorite ones that was out there. And also Rising Stars Children LLC, which has Apple.

no building whatsoever. The address appears to be close to a listing for a home that was for sale online, but not actually at it. So it seems like someone adjusted the address based on what they saw online to a place that doesn't exist at all. So when you zoom in, you just see an empty street and nothing. So really, hopefully, rising stars are going to be, you know, cared for and groomed on that busy highway street that they're claiming as an area. But the list goes on and on. There's so many crazy ones, and it just seems like the kind of thing, and Minnesota has known about this for so long, that you couldn't possibly have believed, like, you can't possibly think that the amount of government people necessary to okay this believed these

things were real. And by the way, one of the other crazy things that happened recently in Minnesota, they have taken down the child care licensing page that was publicly available information that allowed for a lot of people to look into these places and allowed for Nick Shirley the YouTuber to visit a bunch of the places that were likely to be fraudulent areas and fraudulent child care and whatnot. It's now completely down. And the statement on the page says that there's a high amount of volume and traffic and so they're working on getting the website back up. But it definitely seems like they're hiding things and they're terrified of what is to come with more and more people potentially looking into this.

All of this is to set up audio of the owner of the quality leering center, the infamous place that misspelled its learning in its name, and then didn't fix it, even though they've gotten millions of dollars in money from the government.

They thought that it was fine with the one sign that's misspelled, that nobody cares, not a big deal. That guy didn't interview. Not only did that establishment have kids at it yesterday, which felt like a immediate response to the news coverage and an attempt to pretend as though what happened on Monday is what you can assume is happening all the time, even though the reality

is that probably wait a couple weeks and no one's going to be showing up there again. And many of the people in the neighborhoods that they've never seen kids there. But anyway, somebody showed up, said he was the play, the guy who runs it, says they operate all the time, says where are the people that are checking to see if this is legit, et cetera, etc. I'm not afraid of playing the news and playing anybody on any side of it. So this is a guy saying all this is lies. All this is crazy. And the YouTuber is just targeting Somalians because of racism or something. But here we go. Here's the way he goes about trying to say all this. He does sound somewhat reasonable in the things he's saying. But that's the point. He's doing this on purpose

because he knows how ridiculous it is to try to pretend the place he's in charge of, air quotes, which is actually a real establishment taking care of kids, even though it's been in trouble a tremendous amount of time in the last few years for definitely not doing what they claim they're doing. But here we go. What would you say to Nick Shirley, the YouTuber, if he was standing in front of you right now?

I have nothing against him himself, but I do have something against the rhetoric. If you're going to be a journalist, just be, have a moral compass. Like, do what you do correctly. Crazy. If you catch business that are fraud, no one here is with that.

like we don't support that as a community. I don't support that myself. I was born and raised me. I'm not for fraud. The notion that, hey, a certain batch of somebody's got caught, so all of them support it, it's like, no. No one, in any community,

any mishaps that happened, the rest of the community obviously doesn't want that to happen. It's a stain on all of our names. I love that he called it a mishap, by the way, because if you're trying to dive deep into the things that this guy is saying and how he's defending himself and saying, of course it's not fraud, a bunch of kids here, look at the performative thing

that we've set up for today to make everybody, and we've invited news and media here because we want them to know that we're a real establishment and we're anti this. But then he calls it a mishap. Billions of dollars of fraud feels like it's a bigger thing than a mishap. And I love that he says, I'm not for it.

Who supports fraud? What version of a conversation would come out there and say the opposite? I mean, what moron ever admits to their crime, even when they're super caught in the crime? when it's definitively obvious that they're lying, what people out there actually plead guilty? Very, very few of them, if any.

He's definitely going the other road, and it's ridiculous. Let's let it continue. You guys can see, we don't want that to happen. We don't take part in that. We don't like that. We don't want that in our communities. But just to say, hey, I start a company got caught,

so they must all do it. And I feel like that's what he's doing. That's, I'm not offended. 2.10 p.m. may not be your typical daycare hours. So can you explain why it is the wrong during these hours? The reason for that is, were after-school hours. So most of our clients, not most of our clients,

all of our clients is after-school hours. So school's earliest dismiss would be 2.15 to 2.30-ish. And the latest dismiss would be up to like 4.30-ish. 4-40-ish. So that's when our kids come to us. You don't have anyone in the morning. I wish they went even further with that.

They're like, we are 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. Those are our hours. I don't know why anyone's not coming during our regular hours. We are the overnight child care service that helps people who need to change. checking their kids overnight. The other thing that's funny about this as he's saying it and as there is activity at the quality leering center, he did say the reason for the lack of changing the sign is just that they didn't think it was a big deal and the graphic designer was the one

who made the mistake. But nonetheless, the thing I love is it's still not 99 kids. As Nick Shirley pointed out when he confronted the business and no one was there to open the doors, it's supposed to be 99 children that are being taken care of daily according to the government. information that makes them get millions of dollars in funding. And it's just one dude, one dude in a T-shirt with a coat on because it's Minnesota, standing there and describing how his business is legitimate. If they are making millions of dollars off the government, you would think that they would actually have a ton of employees, that there'd be a bunch of people there to take care of the 99

kids, and then there'd be a bunch of different other services, you know, food and whatnot that comes in. And a bunch of the places that cater to these businesses that say they're taking care of children or the elderly are actually family members of the people who are running the facility in the first place. So that's pretty convenient that the catering service I get is just my relative, who apparently is a really great cook and deserves to be paid their millions of dollars for the food they're making for our, you know, establishment or our organization. It's just crazy. The unapologeticness of the this fraud, and now the stupidity of trying to attempt to pretend as though it's not happening.

Like, they're offending the American people multiple times in the short span of time that this story has been a thing that's been in the national consciousness and not just something that was more locally something people talked about. As I said, they've been doing reports on this occasionally in Minnesota for years. They haven't been talking about it recently. Apparently, no one in mainstream media cared if any of those problems they noticed in 2018 or 19 ever got fixed. But the other thing that's so offensive is how they think this will work. They think people will believe it.

And they've seen this before. One of the child care places that got in a lot of trouble in Minnesota years ago actually did have performative versions of parents coming with children, pretending to drop them off at the child care facility, and then coming back shortly after the drop off to pick them back up. And the thing they found out was that many of these parents were also getting money from the child care company. essentially the quote unquote employees who were just pretending as though their kids went there

in case someone was watching. The occasional visit, the drop in, you know, to check and see if something is going on, if something is legitimate. That's how this works. If you think there's attention, you might do it for a couple weeks and then they'll go right back to having absolutely nobody there when they think anyone is no longer paying attention. The bad news for them because of Nick Shirley's of the world is someone probably will always be paying attention. Who that is might change, but the fact that, you know, everyone's going to forget this story seems highly unlikely. 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 Show. DeLash, Dana Lash Radio, an X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Bees now have legal rights. Not here in the United States. This happened in the Amazon. Stingless bees, specifically, one of the oldest bee species in the world, needed to be protected, according to some of the people who live there

in one of the dumbest things I've read in this year, as far as news goes. The bees now have the right to a healthy habitat, to certain life conditions. And here's my favorite one. The ability to lawyer up. If the bees feel, and I don't know how you'd assess this, that something has happened that's unfair to them.

Or I guess someone who wants to speak for the bees feels as though they need to sue somebody. They can now do it in the Amazon. It is a world first, the first animal or species of animal that is capable of getting its own lawyer to defend itself and speak for the collection of bees that can take a class action lawsuit

against, I don't know who, the neighbor for being a jerk. This is a real thing, an actual story somewhere beyond stupid. And the people who are a part of it are saying they hope that it's the first of a whole bunch of other animals getting legal rights and lawyers just finding a new way to make a ton of money. I love the amount of times that I get an email saying I was a part of a class action lawsuit because of Facebook or something

and I'm about to get $10 in the mail, which I don't even think it's actually come all that often. I don't think I get the check. Probably because I don't actually give them my information to get the check because I'd rather skip the $10 than give an organization. I don't know who it is of this kind of stuff. But now apparently the stingless bees in Amazon can be added to that list. If their Facebook pages are screwed up, man oh man, how those lawsuits are going to grow, how stupid this is. Other things out there that I saw were interesting. Beyonce is now a billionaire. I don't care about this story at all, but someone out there might. Beyonce is the latest person to reach a billion dollars, which means that California now officially wants to tax her because they

want to cover up their own fraud. Good luck to all the people out there that now want to take more money from Beyonce because she's too rich. She's terrible. We've got to make sure to take all her money away because of the success she had. I think that's the narrative on the left, right? Defenceless Uber Eats robot was attacked

by two people. The people were dressed as a cow and a Pikachu, which would be the Pokemon. There's so many stories about this, about drones and other things and Uber Eats robots and stuff that get attacked. that get taken down.

I guess they're going to need their own legal defense team too at some point, which, God forbid, we ever get there. But I do think that this is pretty hilarious. There's a viral video of two costumed individuals taking out an Uber Eats robot and somebody who didn't get their food, because this will be the inevitable byproduct of a whole bunch more robots and drones in our society. And by the way, one last thing about the drone delivery,

I know Amazon's a big fan of this. I know they've been touting the ability for it to happen in places like Dallas or parts of California and whatnot. Arizona, I think, is doing it. And more and more places are going to have it. The whole point of immediate delivery by drone to me is that as a married man, I forgot something. There's an anniversary that I screwed up on some sort of event that I was supposed to buy something for that I have to look the misses dead in the eyes and go, of course I bought you that thing for that thing that you want to go to. And then I have to order it by drone. and you pay the extra money for it to fly into the backyard.

My favorite idea in that thought is that I'd also have to distract the misses while while the drone delivers the thing that I claimed I've had for a while. And that feels challenging. So maybe the first thing I buy via drone is like the 3D goggle headset so that I can tell her to watch a movie in the 3D goggles, and then that's where I get the other thing delivered by drone. But by and large, I think I can wait the extra day for whatever my item is if I'm not going to get in trouble from the misses,

because I've forgotten something. I think I can wait one or two days for someone to deliver it the old-fashioned way and not have to fly drones everywhere in the country. It feels like it's a step unnecessary, and again, the only time it's valuable, likely to also be the time I get in trouble for definitely have forgotten that thing.

Quick break, Senator Paul Benton Court out of Texas coming up next on the Dana Show. Craig Collins filling in. Make some common sense of the crazy headlines with the Dana Show podcast. You're on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple,

or your favorite podcast platform. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I will welcome a guest to the show. He is a state senator in Texas out of Houston. His name is Senator Paul Betancourt.

He is also a host of one of the most influential radio shows in the state, as I've heard him and some of his co-host describe it. The Amigos, which is one of the longest running radio. radio shows at a KSCV AM in Texas, often all three of them describe and discuss some of the craziest things going on in the world of Texas state politics and beyond. Welcome to the show, Senator Betancourt. Betancourt, how are you doing? Doing great, Craig. Steven's got us all cranked up on the Rolling Stone, so let's get moving. Yes, he does. It sounds great. I want to ask you about the thing that you put out yesterday, a big story in the world of Texas, and probably a bigger story

within the context of some of the other types of fraud that are being outed at a national level, whether it's, you know, insurance fraud and whatnot in places like Minnesota. But before we get there, I would be remiss if I didn't ask about the state Senate race going on in Texas, identified as one of the ten big races this year, one that will determine the power of the Senate in the future. This race is against quite a few different politicians, but one of the biggest names, sadly, in the race.

is Jasmine Crockett. What do you want to say about John Cornyn, Ken Paxton? Wesley Hunt, who's my favorite, personally, by the way, or anybody running for the Senate spot that's open in 2026? Well, first off, you're right, Craig. This is a blockbuster race, and this is going to be much closer to, like, how competitive things can get in Texas in 2018 than it is to a Trump runaway victory

like we had in 2024. The Democrats, as you said, Jasmine Crockett is the frontrunner. However, the guy that is probably the strongest crossover vote is a guy named James Hallorico who has quite a following, even with like Joe Rogan and others. So it's the question of whether the super leftist progressive comes out of the primary, which is what you would predict in Democrat politics at this point, or a more moderate liberal. Well, let's drop the word moderate. Let's say liberal. Sure. You know, Tala rica.

Now, the Republican side, it's a Donnybrook. Now, when this all broke, I was one of the first people that stood up and said, if I had Cornyn's popularity numbers, I would not be running for re-election because they're low, okay, by any measurement, whether it's 28 or 33%. Now, General Paxon, who's the state attorney general, came in with a bill. big head of steam and some polls close to 50 percent. He's down to roughly about the same percentage. And then, as you mentioned, Wesley Hunt decided to throw caution into the wind by throwing his hat into the ring. And he is running third place. And his strategy is

obviously waiting for one of the other two to make a mistake or a circumstance so he can get in the runoff. We're clearly there's going to be a runoff on the Republican. side. Right now, you'd have to say it's the incumbent Corny and the incumbent attorney general Paxton. But anything can happen in Texas politics. That is absolutely true. And by the way, if people don't know this, the runoff would then extend this race all the way until I think May of next year for us to even know who the candidate would be on the Republican side of the aisle. That is hopefully likely to win the state of Texas. A Democrat has not won a statewide race in a very long time. But as you said, unfortunately, whether it's name-recognized,

with the insanity that is Jasmine Crockett, or James Talrico, who to the left is moderate, as you also describe it, is likely to put up a better fight? Is there any other reason you think that would exist? Is it just the unpopularity of the two leading candidates for the conservative party? Like, I really do like Wesley Hunt. And I want to say that again, he's a black man, which doesn't matter, and he says it doesn't matter. And I just mention it because for some reason a lot of liberal idiots care about it. But then also he's a, you know, a member of the military, just a really interesting candidate as far as Texas Republican politics go.

So is the reason that it's such a close race, just that the candidates being put forward on the right or not really that strong? Well, everybody has a lane. You've got a problem that in a race like this that gets jammed up. See, one of the problems that Wesley has, And this comes to no surprise to a national Republican audience. Quite frankly, the federal Congress doesn't do a lot. You know, I mean, Craig, you know, we did pass that one beautiful big bill.

It's a beautiful bill. It's a beautiful bill. Thank you for passing now. Right, but it's a tax bill. So it doesn't go into effect immediately. You know, I pass the largest property tax kit in the nation's history is about $22 billion. That stuff doesn't immediately go into effect. So you don't really have anything your question.

quote, running on, okay? And so it's hard to have a differentiator, and that's the same problem in all these races across the country, because the House of Representatives margin is razor thin, and they rarely can get anything big done. Now, Cornyn's claim to fame would be, you know, bringing in Republicans, you know, judges, and then preventing, you know, bad ones during the Biden administration. And, you know, Paxton, you know, had an 80 to 85% win rate against the federal government during Biden's administration when Texas was suing to stop everything. So it's a race worth watching, but no chance, in my opinion, that it's not a runoff.

So you'll have this, you and Dean, and we'll have this for the grist mill for at least six more months. Her mostly, me only so little. But anyway, you only occasionally When Steven let she in, okay. That's exactly correct. Yeah, I just wait outside the door all the time, Senator Betancourt, and see when they let me in. Other things, just quickly, you mentioned it,

so I do want to address it, because Texas is not the only state that has started doing this. I think Indiana is in the news for trying to do this, too. But Operation Double Nickel is, I think, what it was actually called in Texas. You found a way to save a whole lot of taxpayers' money over their property taxes. These are the kind of things that might not pay

dividends in the course of, say, the next election cycle. But this is probably the reason why a lot of people, myself included, are moving from Democratic states like Illinois to Republican states like Texas. This is a big win in the world of life in Texas, correct? Right. Look, when you look at property taxes, which is a hot topic nationally, Texas used to be the third highest state by rate. People might think of it as a millage rate. It's a percentage, whatever. It was New Jersey, Illinois, is in Texas. Now, with leadership of Lieutenant Governor Patrick, we have plowed $51 billion into property tax relief,

and we've fallen from the third highest to we're now in the teens. Nice. But it also starts with big homestead exemptions that people can move from one property to the next so you don't end up with a locked-up system like California that you can't buy property. and the double nickel is kind of a recognition of the obvious, which is right now people, they get to retire at 65, so they get extra, you know, property tax savings.

Well, why not 55? Okay. So the idea is to, why not? Right. So why not move that retirement age for property tax purposes down to 55? That's what I call the double nickel. It's actually Lieutenant Governor Patrick's idea, but it's a great idea, so we're pushing it hard. Awesome. Now let's get to the last thing. And this is the thing that made the news just yesterday for you, probably in the state more so than at a national level, although I feel like the hyper focus after what's going on in Minnesota, in any kind of fraud. Certainly voter fraud feels like something that's been on the forefront of people's minds for a bit. But, you know, health care fraud, all these kind of things. There's a potential for this to be a topic that takes national attention. You had previously, I don't know if the word is accused, but, you know,

you know, told people in Houston that there were some problems with some voter registration things there that essentially PO boxes were being used as legal places, which they're obviously not, for people to live, who were then registering to vote. At first, the people that you said this to defended themselves, said, how dare you? I'm paraphrasing, Senator Bettencourt, this isn't true. Anita Ramirez, among them. You've just filed an additional accusation, which definitely proves that this is actually going on, that there are people who are legally registered to vote in Houston, and this feels like a tip of the iceberg moment again on a story.

Tell me more about this. Well, two things. You always want to recognize the obvious in politics. If you do, you're actually going to fix a problem. Now, you mentioned fraud real fast. Yeah, Minnesota, billions of dollars of fraud. We've had $14 million here in Texas. Yeah, it's open season on any.

anything connected with the federal government giveaways and people are scamming it. And 35% of the calls in the Social Security Administration are fraudulent, probably coming from Lagos, Nigeria, or whatever. Okay, you know, so you have to know that fraud exists. Now, on voters, yeah, this is a national issue, American Legislative Exchange Council, you know, excuse me, Alec has looked into this and there's problems all over. You know,

you know, several hundred thousand dead people on the rolls in Michigan. I can go down the list. And Harris County, I call them blueberries because in every red state, there are blueberries. Okay? Yes.

Now, and the difference is the blueberries in the blue states are so crazy, like New York with Mendami or San Francisco, you know, their lost causes. So what happened is we passed law four years ago that said you can't register in a P.O. box because nobody lives in a two inch by three inch P.O. box. You get your mail there.

But, yeah, pick some other physical address, okay, and register. Well, sure enough, our blueberry voter registration group at the time ignored the law, okay, for three years. Of course. And then this year, we discovered the. was up, so I used some of my laws, and I passed a lot of voter integrity legislation in Texas, and basically said, it's not an allegation, it's a fact. We found 120 people registered in P.O. boxes in two of the same places that were, what we use as examples to pass the law four years ago in the first place.

That means there's thousands of them in a town like Houston, because for national listeners, think Wisconsin electoral votes Harris County, it's the same size. Okay? So, so you're right. The first response was, yeah, the first response is it's not happening. Here's what's interesting to me about this. I think what we're learning out of places like the Nick Shirley, Minnesota thing, and I don't mean to keep comparing them, but I feel like I have to, is that people have an appetite for how, not what we think is happening, but how it's happening. A lot of people believe that voter fraud exists within our country. They obviously think that it's something that unfortunately is capable of being done in a lot of ways. What I think you're opening people's eyes to through this set of, you know,

actions is demonstrating the how, which might be going on a lot of other places in way worse, you know, numbers than what you're seeing here in Texas or in Houston. You say you found a hundred examples within the addresses you used to pass a law three or four years ago. That sounds as unapologetically fraudulent as the stuff we're seeing other places in the country. This version of, I can do whatever I want, even when I'm caught red-handed, has to stop. And I feel like the actions are taking, at least with voter fraud in Houston, are a demonstration of understanding that the American people want this to happen. Craig, huge point, huge point, okay?

I'm doing the Trumpster on purpose, because, yes, that's the problem. people get away with it okay now in texas i passed the law because our elections administration office was so corrupt in houston third largest city in america fourth largest county that we closed it and gave it back to democrat elected officials because that's who get elected in a blueberry okay because they were going to be more responsive to the public okay now and we but we said quoting an old Ronald Reagan, because I'm an old Reaganite, that said, trust, but verify, we passed the law that said, anybody could write a complaint if it's real, the Secretary State upholds it and tells them to do the work, or they don't get paid or they get audited

or they get busted, okay? And that's the type of stuff we should be doing around the country. Because you, Craig, this is an enormously important point. It's time to stop putting up with what's happening. The fraud exists and how to stop it is the right answer. Yeah. And that's what we did in Texas. Absolutely. One last question for you.

I know we're just about out of time. We've got to take a break and hit a hard break at the end of the hour. But I will ask you this. I've seen Nick Shirley, again, we'll bring him up, start to reference the amount of security he needs as he outs the fraud and the problems that exist in our society. are you concerned as you go after fraud in places like Houston, Texas, that there's some sort of safety issues that you might have to deal with or anybody else that's outing these issues, wherever they might be throughout the country? Are you worried about your own safety? Look, the problem right now is that we're in such a frothy environment that the minority whip in Washington got shot at a softball game practice, okay,

by a Bernie, you know, by a Bernie supporter, okay? Now, yes, there's always going to be trouble out there. But what Nick did is just go in 20 minutes with a video, demonstrate the fact that these are fraudulent companies, taken fraudulent, you know, claims, and it's at least in the tens of millions of dollars per location, billions across the state. And people are moving in from Pennsylvania,

Pennsylvania to get part of the action, okay? Now, come on. Yeah, it absolutely makes sense. But the voter rolls, same thing. You know, why did Michigan not delete 200,000 dead people? Well, because of the percentage of them were voting. It's just like in this P.O. box example, yeah, people were voting. They shouldn't have been voting. They don't live in the county, they're living in the state, you know, anymore. Look, I'll leave you with this, Greg. I got elected as a tax assessor for a tax cut and cleaned up the voter rolls 25 years ago, pick a number. And I found there was 50,000 dead people and felons on our rolls.

Wow. Wow. We're voting, okay? And that was 500 votes. And back in those days in 2000, that's the margin of victory that Bush had over Gore in Florida. We regularly have races in Harris County, which is mostly, blue. There's a streak of purple. Republicans have been winning, you know, 10 judicial seats out of, you know, picking number, you know, 40, whatever. But when they do, they win by less than a

point. And that means a few hundred votes or a few thousand votes. So all this matters. So whatever community you're in, the how of fraud matters because that's the legislation that needs to get passed to stop it. Yes, and the people that need to be held accountable and caught and, you know, thrown in jail or whatever it might be that actually facilitate it. Thank you very much. State Senator Paul Betancourt for joining the show, one of the three hosts of the amigos, one of the longest running radio programs in the state of Texas on KSEV radio

from 4 to 6 o'clock every Friday. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. It's his life mission to make bad. Decisions. It's time for Florida man. It is time for a very quick Florida man on the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in.

My favorite Florida man is a dude who got arrested for attacking a gambling machine with a sledgehammer. The guy said the losses were just too much, how ridiculous the machine was obviously rigged or something, not the fact that it's a terrible idea financially to throw a bunch of money into a machine, a gambling machine. So the guy pulled out a sledgehammer. I assume he brought it with and then went after the machine that definitely did not work out for his benefit

and not allowed to do that you find out. This is one of the things where you feel like I could be the Seinfeld episode where someone says, I thought you were allowed. Is that not something we're allowed to do? The answer is no. You can't try to pry open the machine and attack it when you don't win enough. Craig Collins

filling in on The Dana Show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I'm thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff. out there to talk about. President Trump answered a question in front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about some of the things that have been happening

recently between America and Venezuela and some of the things that might have exploded in recent days and whatnot. He also talked about the potential for Iran to be more provocative in what it decides to do, whether it tries to re-engage

with its nuclear arsenal program and whatnot. Like there's certain things that Trump is no nonsense on. And some of these questions dove right into that. So I'll play a little bit of the audio of him answering a question about Iran, about quite a few different of the organizations that the United States has deemed are enemies of ours right now. And Trump will do whatever is necessary to prevent those enemies from having any kind of success. We don't want them to have. Look, he's a wartime prime minister. He's done a phenomenal job. He's taken Israel to a very

dangerous period of trauma. Israel with other people might not exist right now if you want to know the truth. That's a pretty big statement, but it's true. I feel that you had the wrong Prime Minister. Israel right now would not exist. Crazy. Because they were met with a force, the likes of which very few countries could have handled. And we worked together and we were extremely victorious, to put it mildly. Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again and if they are we're going to have to knock them down we'll knock them down we'll knock the hell out of them

I love that we'll knock down out of them if they're trying to build up again if they're trying to be a force that's potentially trying to threaten our friends in Israel and the prime minister who's standing next to me a prime minister that obviously Trump feels has done a good job

even if he's not terribly popular inside of Israel anymore that is its own thing but I do think that's interesting as far as that goes Trump was the same version of unapologetic and matter of fact when asked questions about any sort of action the United States has taken in Venezuela, including blowing up a facility that, as Trump described it, would load up

the boats with drugs to send them out toward our country. These are things that are just happening. And if you continue to act a certain way, there's likely to be more of this. I think there is an appropriate way to wield the incredible might of the American military. And I think this is potentially that way. I say that as best I can, not knowing the inevitability of the outcome of some of these things. I'm not necessarily advocating for war with Venezuela, if that's what inevitably happens in the ongoing conflict. Although I am saying that being afraid to use our might in any capacity whatsoever makes you the version of a paper tiger leader that Biden was, that means people do whatever they want, that they don't believe anything you say. They don't care about what

sanctions you attempt to put in place to harm someone, and they just ignore you. They act like you're the loudest but not strongest person in the room, and so you have to behave the opposite way. You have to at times show how strong you are. And I think Trump is just much better at doing that than a whole lot of people, not because of the action itself, but also the way he responds when questioned about whatever the thing is that might have happened. There's also this story out of Russia. Russia is accusing Ukraine of trying to kill Putin

of an attack on him and his residence. Zelensky has said that it's not true at all and it's typical Russian disinformation you know it's an attempt to try to move away from a peace deal

and let the conflict continue to go between the two countries. The problem for me, no matter how much I want to believe Ukraine and how much I understand that support of Ukraine is important and prevention

of Russia from expanding its country is also important, even if they're going to wind up acquiring some parts of contested areas between Ukraine and Russia that are currently Ukrainians, but truthfully have been contested for quite a long time and not exactly the most, I think, successful parts of the country like the Donbos region. But nonetheless, I really don't know who to trust. I want to trust one side of the equation, but I would be easily convinced that either side is lying to me, mostly because of the history of both places. Ukraine and also the amount of corruption you're currently seeing go on and the amount of corruption

that they're actually indicating happen, the times that people are getting caught for some of this stuff, for stealing money during war. You can't be a more unapologetic piece of crap in the world of politics if you steal money that's being sent to your country to defend itself in a war where your military men and women are dying. That is the height of the piece of crap that exists in Washington. or just anywhere in the world as far as politics go, and you're actually seeing it on display in Ukraine.

And so then you're wondering to yourself how you can fully believe the things they say, because Ukraine doesn't want peace on the terms they're being asked to get peace on. They're being forced to do it. Ukraine has to abide by the positions of people like the United States if we say that the alternative is less help, and then a likelihood that they would lose that conflict more rapidly than they're losing a long war right now. So it is something that's being done by force. And so you wonder if there's an attempt to try to subvert that. But you also can easily believe that Vladimir Putin, a guy who constantly makes his enemies disappear and is definitely like

the hitman of hitmen that seems to exist in the world, also would do horrible, terrible things. Like it's very easy to believe that all parties involved might not necessarily be telling us the truth for a variety of reasons. So it's a difficult thing to parse, but it is what it is. All right. Another piece of audio I want to play, this is crazy. This is the daughter of Tim Walz. Her name is Hope Walls. I would normally shy away from this stuff. Producer Steven sent it to me, and if this weren't a person who was trying to be a public person, who didn't like try to have a following on social media and talk about politics and stuff, and use her connection to her ridiculously fraudulent father and at one time, thankfully, a failed candidate for the role of

vice president of this country. If she wasn't trying to be herself a pundit, I wouldn't go after somebody out there because she's saying that everybody's being mean to her and the direct messages she's getting her mean. But the funniest thing about it is she goes on a platform in which she has a following to tell the platform of people that she's a private person. She's doing that publicly. Usually when you say I'm a private person, leave me alone, you're doing it at your front door to a news microphone and camera, if news still did the job they're supposed to do, where you're saying, I don't want to be in public, please leave me alone. I'm a private person. You can't turn the microphone and the camera on yourself. Go on your social media platform with a following and say, how dare anybody? I try to talk to me. I am a private person. That is stupidity. That is people believing that they can have it both ways. But here is the daughter of Tim Walls saying how bad things have gotten for her as her public, you know, persona is now getting attacked and now getting messages about how terrible her crime family seems to be. In the name of transparency, because I think that is what people appreciate about me and my content, and it's something that I'm really proud of and, like, stand by and thing is important regarding posting on the internet. I'll be honest and saying, having the entire right-wing infrastructure launch a hate and bought campaign against you and your family

really sucks, especially because I'm a private citizen. Like, I pay my rent, I work multiple jobs, I do my thing as a private citizen. I am a private citizen. How dare you? Why I'm laughing so much at the ridiculousness of this. She has like 100,000 followers on Instagram or something. She has other followers, I think, more significant on TikTok. and she puts out content in which she reacts to videos.

I hate calling it content, but that's what people call it. She puts out her videos in which she talks about politics. She gives her opinion on stuff. She's become a pundit. Right now on this radio show, I am not a private person. In this moment, I am a public person. Anytime I do anything in the public square, I become a public person, especially when the attention is focused on me. As she does, all of her content, of course, being focused, all of her videos on.

her. So it's insane to go out there and say, how dare you? How dare you say things that I disagree with about me or my family to me now that I've given you an opportunity to do it because I've created my own platform online? What would be amazing is if Nick Shirley was doing the same thing. The YouTube guy who got a lot of attention for a video he put out there going after the crazy amount of fraud in Minneapolis and in Minnesota. If he was now saying, how dare everybody paying attention to me, I'm just a private person, the left would lose their minds. They'd be insane about it, but they also try to say that when it's their side of the aisle and their people that don't like things happening. And speaking of Nick Shirley, I thought this was interesting. On Fox News,

he was asked a question about Tim Walz, the father of the person you just heard there, accusing him of being a white supremacist, accusing everybody in the bot campaign, as insane as that thing is, because I do think a lot of actual people actually care about this. I don't think it's a whole bunch of bots like you seem to believe it is, the daughter of Tim Walz. But nonetheless, what I think is interesting is the very good response that Nick Shirley had to, of course, trying to turn this into a race issue and not just admit that the things we're talking about are real.

It's the truth. I don't care if it's a Somalian group of people or if it's a group of people from any other walk of life. I don't care where you're born. I don't care where you, you know, currently live. I care more about the facts and whether or not you or a group of people are doing something wrong. And I will tell people what those facts are, regardless of who the people are. Meaning that I won't hide the fact like mainstream media does that a transgender person did this or someone with a trans manifesto did this or whatever the story may be.

I don't care how inconvenient or how many people scream and yell at me that you're going to, get somebody hurt by telling the truth. Because that's insane. The reason people get upset, I guess I'm just going to rant about this for a second, about the truth inevitably coming out in these stories. And the reason that some of these people feel as though they're in danger is because the truth was being hidden by those same people for so long. If you didn't think someone was blatantly lying to you again and again and again, you wouldn't get mad when you learned the truth. At least that's my position. And this happens even in your own everyday life. When people that you know are lying continue to lie, it upsets you. It makes you emotionally mad because of course it does. There is a

moment when people have to admit that the sky is blue. And a whole lot of people in this conversation on that side of the political aisle want to tell you that the scry is red and how dare you ever say it's blue, you horrible races. But here's how Nick Shirley again responded. to the accusation that he's just a white supremacist and all this is just to go after somalians because of race so it sounds to me nick that uh governor tim walls is saying that you and others that are out there trying to expose this you know you're doing it because you're white supremacist what is your response to him yeah tim wants votes there are entire apartment complexes where white people have been pushed out of these apartment complexes because somalians have taken over in their inside of these

towns like minneapolis yeah where they can go and go get votes from these people. And if you have 100,000 people that will vote for you because you're going to enable and let this stuff happen and because you're going to call white person racist for calling out facts, this is what's going to happen to a state like Minnesota. Minnesotans, they say Minnesota nice, but they are very upset. And I totally understand why they're upset because they don't have a governor who's actually working for them that he's actually working against them. Yeah. And he's stealing their money and doing it blatantly and fraudulently and in all kinds of ways where he's unapologetic about it, which is just insane. But this is

absolutely true and absolutely an issue to watch play out in front of everybody because of the lack of censorship that exists on X. If that social media platform were still as censored as it used to be before Elon bought it, there's a really good chance a whole lot of people wouldn't know about this story that know about it now. All right. We'll take a break. A crazy story about a Patriots wide receiver is in the news. I definitely have to touch on it a little bit. They did try to bury it and get the police report to not be made public, but some of that stuff has been. It is hard to know what is fact and what could be an accusation that's not actually substantiated, and that is something that the defense of this athlete is saying. But nonetheless, it's pretty bad stuff

that they are being accused of, and there's a potential financial settlement that's being made, too, which never screams that someone is innocent, even if it cannot scream that you're guilty. The whole point of the statement or the financial thing is to make the issue go away. So you can't assume guilt when you see one of those. But again, it's hard to assume innocence. But we'll talk about that in just a bit. 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. We're going to do a rapid-fire quick five on the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Patriots wide receiver, Stefan Diggs. It seems like he's embroiled

in a controversy. His private chef has accused him of not paying her for about a month's worth of work. And then she sent a text saying that he's going to give her the money. He sent a text back, saying no, I'm paraphrasing.

There's some other words used in that. And eventually this got to the point where allegedly, Stefan Diggs choked her and also, you know, hurt her. Whether or not that actually happened is something I can't tell you. I don't know.

This is an allegation. an allegation that Stefan Diggs' own attorneys tried to get buried. They tried to make that part not available to the public. This has potentially happened back at the beginning of December. And there is a potential for a financial settlement that Stefan Diggs lawyers mentioned when trying to get this whole thing to go away that is being worked on between Diggs and the chef, whether or not that has actually transpired since. Who knows, the next arraignment in this potential case is,

on the 23rd of January, which is just two days before the AFC championship game if the Patriots were to get there. And Stefan Diggs's lawyer has asked that we get this push back to March if it does keep having to be worked out through the court system. But a pretty crazy allegation, pretty significant story out there for one of the better receivers on one of the better teams in the NFL this year, one of probably the best teams in the NFL this year. Also, entertainment and media layoffs are up 18% over 17,000 jobs have been cut and slashed because Hollywood and entertainment continue to not understand being one-sided is bad for business. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make

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on D. Lash, but check it all out. It's all awesome. Anyway, I saw a few different stories that I thought were interesting toward the tail end of the show here. First, a 10-year stain is what Pam Bondi and Cash Patel are calling the Obama-Biden-led

politicization of our legal system, lawfare, criminal conspiracy, law enforcement, you know, and intelligence cooperation with political agenda. This is something that goes back to the Russian collusion case. Cash Patel is saying that arrest will eventually be made more or less and saying that it's really going to be bad as we dive deeper into this. These are all the reasons that you voted people like Trump into a position of power, voted Trump specifically into the office of the White House, you do want people to be held accountable for the terrible, awful bad things they were doing. Simply put, there's no other way to say it. No matter what the good or bad is,

no matter what the ebb and flows of the approval polls are, and what people scream and yell, although I think by and large they're not conservatives who are screaming and yelling the things that are bad or maybe the midterms are in jeopardy for this and that. All of that pales in comparison to outing fraud. And whether it's in Minnesota and whether you feel that that's somehow connected to Trump being a position of power, or whether it's within the federal government and some of the other things we're seeing, the lying about the amount of violence in D.C. compared to what was actually going on to make the numbers look better than they were, and then fixing a whole lot of that by actually bringing in the National Guard to help,

and then some of the tragedies that happened in light of that, even more so, further demonstrate the need for a system that's being put in place to actually tell the American people, how long and how bad things have been in a lot of parts of the country that claim things aren't so bad. Another big thing out there, President Trump absolutely laughed off the way he would, which is without actual laughter, a question about Venezuela and an explosion that happened there as saying, yeah, it's no longer around. It's gone. Next question. I have that audio. I referenced it earlier. Let's go ahead and play it here. Well, it doesn't matter, but there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.

They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats, and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where they implement, and that is no longer around. Anyway, I'll move on. No longer around. It's gone. It's been destroyed because people who do bad things now have to deal with the might of the American people.

and with our military in doing said bad things. It's so unapologetic. The thing I laugh about, not the fact that someplace got bombed. That's not uniquely funny to me, although it doesn't have to be something that I'm upset about either. If bad guys are getting removed from planet Earth,

good, I'm happy about it. But nonetheless, just the fact that these questions from reporters to the reporters feel like we got them. We're about to get him to say something horrible and terrible. And Trump comes back with the most simplistic version of, yeah, I did that, and then moves on. And this does seem to be a nothing story very quickly for a lot of those same people who are trying to make it seem worse, because it's not actually going to harm the president at all, or the impact and the belief that what he's doing to a lot

of people is the right thing. I know a lot of people think that the ongoing fight with Venezuela is not a good decision. I'm not going to pretend as though the poll numbers don't seem to demonstrate that by and large a substantial amount of people don't want to see war with I get that. I don't want to see that either or either, honestly. At the same time, I also don't want us to be so weak in the face of what we think are bad things happening that we refuse to do anything. There has to be a middle ground in that world of what we should do and what we hope doesn't occur. And I think that we're trying to find that middle ground will also potentially trying to disrupt the biggest avenue, as I keep saying, filling in on the show to how people

circumvent the financial sanctions, the financial impact the United States tries to have on other parts of the world. Whether it's Russia, China, what have you. Venezuela is a big component of that, and we are trying as best we can, I think, to actually get involved in a way that stunts, some of that circumventing us. All right, another thing out there that I think is interesting. Adam Kinsinger went viral on the internet, as only the annoying, I think Cryin Kinsinger, as some column can do, saying that in three years, all the buildings, federal buildings and whatnot,

that have had Trump's name added to them, or even other names that Trump has created for these buildings, they'll all be taken down. According to Kinsinger, all of these signs will be put in a giant bonfire, a national TV, and they'll burn it all. They'll burn all the stuff that Trump, you know,

has put in place. This is a weird thing to go out there and rant about. And I'll tell you what it actually. could do. Nothing good, nothing valuable, nothing Kinsinger wants it to do. But it might cause us to have a new version of every person who gets elected into the position of the White House pushes a whole bunch of like executive orders to change the names of stuff. We might have, because we already have a version of executive order that happens in other ways, that forces like these agenda pieces that I don't think are ever going to get through our government

channels. I'm going to try to get them done. Biden, of course, tried to forgive student loans via executive action that didn't work so well. But whatever it might be, that's already a thing happening. This feels like the latest dumb fight in that world where now I want to rename all the buildings. I want to make sure they're all something and I want to go as woke as possible. And then Trump goes back to whatever he goes or who's ever after him, of course, changes it. But this, it would be so stupid and so beyond anything the American people would actually care about. But to Adam Kinzinger, it's a big deal. So he's a big deal. So he's a He wanted to go out there and fight the good fight by saying, we're burning all of these signs, which is beyond stupid.

All right. Another story I saw out there, and I thought this was interesting, and I might not have addressed it in this segment, might have waited to like a quick five. But I think it's interesting enough. Police drones are being used more often now to issue tickets. There's a story in the Wall Street Journal about this happening in Miami, that police are remote piloting drones around like the beach when it's supposed to be closed. and seeing if people are on it and then somehow capturing those individuals, you know, via camera and whatnot, and then inevitably issuing them a ticket, there's a likelihood that these law enforcement drones are going to be used in more and more ways, whether it's to catch

you speeding, running a red light, whatever it might be, that more and more often your ticket may be issued via drone. And the immediate complaint is that this is just more versions of gouging the American people, of doing everything you can to find the most. ways possible to essentially, you know, corruptly take money from us in ways that you shouldn't be doing it. That is the easy, I think, a reaction to this. And I think there's truth to it. I wouldn't say it out loud if I didn't think there was any truth to the idea that all of this is just more financial schemes, more than anything else being done by the government, to take

your money when you don't need to be giving it to them that often. I would say another thing, though, in response to this, outside of it just being that. The other thing I would say is don't do the crime, and that's the obvious thing, not just the extortion part and the extortion racket part, but also if I want to avoid the drone from issuing me a ticket, then don't do the thing that's ticket worthy, whether that's going on the beaches of Miami, when you shouldn't be there, or running the red light, whatever that might be, if that actually stops that stuff from happening, and I know there's a fine line between being on both sides of this issue, which I absolutely am,

people getting tickets for like five miles over the speed limit issued via drone is insane. And if that happens a lot of places, that is rightfully thought of as insane and extortion and racketeering, if people are going 20 miles over the speed limit and it's a drone that catches them instead of a police officer, there's a reason to think that that might actually be okay,

that there might be a benefit to society in that being a thing. But by and large, a whole lot more places being, you know, policed by a version of Big Brother is potentially out there, and that's not good. That sounds definitely more bad than good if I had to guess which one it is.

I would err on the side of not doing this. Let me go that far into say this, as opposed to it being a thing, but it also does sound like inevitable reality of the development of technology. Of course. There's already speed traps that exist in our society. There's already a bunch of different ways

to try to circumvent those speed traps. And so getting drones in the air that do a certain things to issue petty tickets to the American people, it feels like an inevitable result of the government having access to the technology that gets them that chance. Like it just sounds like it'll occur, and it'll occur a whole lot of places and it'll be terrible more so than good for us, but the best circumvention of it, the best way to prevent it for you and me is to follow those rules and to fight the hell out of tickets that are

complete crap that get sent to us that make no sense at all. One last thing, and I might mention this more after the break, but I did think it was interesting, a surprisingly successful treatment for lower back pain, according to two brand new drug trials and studies, which I'm guessing may have been funded by organizations that work in this field, pot, THC, specifically cannabis, not necessarily just straight up, you know, smoking pot, but THC based extracts may help reduce the amount of back pain for more and more. Americans. There are a lot of studies coming out, and President Trump did do something recently on a federal level that seems to be paving the way for the ability for more companies to do more things in the world of cannabis. But anyway, it seems like there's more and more studies all the time coming out saying that there are benefits. I happen to be in the minority on this when I talk about it, and it's not that I'm unaware. I'm a person who has in my lifetime tried this exact drug. I've tried pop before. Just put it out there. I'm not telling you when.

I don't admit to any sort of crime. But anyway, it's something that I'm not unfamiliar with, although I never really did a lot of that. And I do see the impact negatively it has on people who get addicted to it. I've seen it multiple times. It's not necessarily the same as someone who's even addicted to drinking and the amount of havoc it has in your life. But it certainly has an impact. And there's certainly people I've known professionally who probably would be way better. I laugh at that because I think about them and the way they behave, way better at their job if they weren't smoking pot all the time or high all the time. So it is what it is. I do believe that there might be value and our society might continue to barrel toward the

inevitable ubiquity of people using it, much like people drink alcohol, since one is obviously much more legal throughout the entirety of the world, or at least the country than the other one. But nonetheless, I do also see the danger, especially for younger people. The younger you are, there actually are studies that say that you might have your mental growth stunted, meaning you'll be a less intelligent person depending on when you first start consuming pot and marijuana. So there is an age issue out of this thing, among many other studies that say there is bad that comes with the good. So I just think it's interesting that it's out there, that it's another version of, hey, it might help in this way. but people who pretend that there is no side effect,

there is no negative, there is no bad side to the coin, might be the best way to say it, they're lying. If either they're doing it on purpose or by accident, but they know that they're ignoring that other part, and usually the excuse is, well, drinking is bad for you.

Well, this is bad for you too. Well, sure. But that doesn't mean the thing that you're defending just got better. It means it also has a negative component to it. I don't love how people discuss that and won't admit that part. again regardless of what you think should happen legally um i do think that it you do have to add all

the variables into the equation before having an honest discussion about it all right quick break a little bit more coming up craig collins filling in on the dana show not able to catch the full dana show follow dana's absurd truth podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short easy to digest episodes ideal for your busy lifestyle on apple or wherever you get your podcast this is the dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you. Just a little bit of time left on the show just before the holidays. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio, and X on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected to her and all the very fancy stuff that she's doing all the time on social media at Radio Craig C. If for some reason you want to follow me and the like 500 people on Twitter

that follow my very seldomly active page, feel free. That'd be awesome. Maybe if I get to like a thousand, I'll promise to start tweeting all the time. still pales in comparison to the tons and tons of people that follow, and you should too at D-Lash at Dana Lash radio. Let's do this. Naked flying is a social media trend. You're not getting naked and showing up at the airport. That would probably get you arrested.

You're showing up without any luggage of any kind. Not even a backpack. This is just you, your cell phone, maybe a charger in a pocket, a wallet, whatever. But you're doing nothing else. You're going wherever you're going. Maybe you'll acquire some items there, depending on how long you're staying and you'll leave them all because when you're coming back, you're not bringing any of that stuff with you. I love this idea. I feel like I've done it before

on like a day trip somewhere, especially when like I'm working for somebody and they make me fly somewhere for 24 hours and then fly back, which has happened a few times. But by and large, like, of course people don't do this. I will tell you that whenever I have done it, people look at you like you're crazy. When you show up at the airport and you're getting on a flight and you got nothing. they look at you in the security line like you're definitely the bad guy even though you're obviously not you're just a guy that's traveling light

but there is something freeing about doing it too so I highly recommend more people try this my favorite version of this in my own life is whenever my wife and I travel back to Mexico which is where she was born and raised she's now a U.S. citizen but whenever we go back there

she's still got a room in her parents' house she still has her clothes in the closet all that stuff they've left it for her it'll probably be there forever and we're in our 40s. So it's not like this is a thing that's only been around for a little bit of time.

But every time we go to Mexico, the wife packs a full set of stuff. And I always think to myself, you have stuff there. If anyone were ever to go with nothing and show up and have everything you need and then come back with everything you need, it's her in that place.

And yet it doesn't happen. You've got to pack other things. There's usually presents for all the nieces and nephews. So how dare I suggest that you could travel? with nothing. It is kind of awesome, though, to watch it happen. Another story out there, also a trending viral thing, probably mostly that young people are doing. It's called embracing the soft life era of your life. This means to other people, the lazy part of your life. This is

where you're rejecting, quote, hustle culture. So you're not trying that hard to do more and whatever it is you're doing maybe is your daytime gig. You're not trying to push yourself to succeed in any more places. You're doing enough, essentially, is the idea. And I think even if you're doing very little, some people still say that's doing enough, you're prioritizing, quote, mental health over everything else. So you're relaxing a lot. You're enjoying your time away. I find that to be somewhat hilarious, because of course there's good that can come from that. Occasionally, you need a break. We all need a break. But too much break seems bad. And this seems to be the defense of that. That someone who's being yelled at that they're spending too much time not doing

anything is probably the person that claims they're embracing their soft life era. All right. One last thing, producer Stephen made me aware of this, even though it's a viral video from almost a couple years ago now. But I was chatting with him off air about plans for New Year's Eve. If he has fancy ones, if I do, I mentioned to him that I'm actually going to Galveston, Texas. We're going to stay at a beach, you know, hotel and stuff. My wife has come up with this whole plan, our first year in Texas.

And it sounds like a lot of fun, even though I'm working a lot more than her. so part of me also feels like I will be tired at 10.30 at night, regardless of what party I'm at. But anyway, Charles Barkley, famously, who played for the Houston Rockets at one point, crapped all over Galveston's beaches. So now I get to think about this

while I'm at the Galveston Beach. Here we go. You're here for Kenny the Judgment, what? Disappointed noise. Where they going, Chuck? Galveston. It's that dirty-ass water. They're not even going to go, we're not even going to sit in the Cancun. We're going to sit in the Garveston. No. No. No, man. Don't.

Watch it up on the shore. You people think they're in the beach. Y'all are going to sit y'all to Kanko. Y'all drive, y'all, and y'all quit. Drive your hand down to Galveston. Yeah, Galveston is the non-beach beach beach, according to Chuck. That happened a couple years ago, as I said. People in Galveston, politicians and whatnot tried to defend themselves.

But the look of the water is as described, even if you scoop it out and it seems cleaner. It does seem like a punishment beach. So that's where I'll be in a couple days. Thrill to be on with you. a Dana back soon. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.