The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Maduro Captured, Tim Walz DROPS OUT & Mamdani's Early Failures

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Craig Collins sits in for Dana and shares his political commentary. The US captures Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro. Woke leftists protest the capture of Maduro. Tim Walz suspends his re-election campaign in Minnesota following the daycare fraud scandal. Zohran Mamdani says Venezuelans who are thrilled about the capture of Maduro are wrong. CBS’s Margaret Brennan gets embarrassed by Marco Rubio after trying to get him on the capture of Maduro. Tim Walz runs away from questions from reporters after his announcement that he is suspending his gubernatorial campaign. Whoopi Goldberg suggests no one voted for America to stand up and knock down dictators. Will Tim Walz be criminally prosecuted following the suspension of his re-election campaign? A cabinet member for Zohran Mamdani teases treating private property as a “collective good”.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTry Relief Factor's 3-week Quickstart for just $19.95—tell them Dana sent you and see if you can be next to control your pain!Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DANA or call 972-PATRIOTSwitch to Patriot Mobile in minutes—keep your number and phone or upgrade, then take a stand today with promo code DANA for a free month of service!Humannhttps://HumanN.comKick off the New Year with simple, delicious wellness support—pick up Humann’s Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club next time you’re there and see why they’re such a fan favorite!Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaMake 2026 the year you protect your family with solid options—Get the Byrna today.WebRootTake your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection at https://Webroot.com/DanaSubscribe 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 for just one more day. Dana is back tomorrow. I saw her tweet, I think, over the weekend that she's raring to go, and she's probably going to crush it out of the gate as she does so very, very much. So stay tuned in for her show tomorrow, this show, with her returning. But I'm here for the day, and I'm thrilled to be here. What a crazy weekend we had.

The United States captured dictator Nicholas Maduro. That is what he should be described as. Many, many countries rejected the position that he took in Venezuela, that would be Maduro, that he was, in fact, the president of that country. That is the basis of a whole lot of Democratic complaining about this, is that even though we, the United States, also rejected that claim, it actually was the Biden administration that said they didn't recognize Maduro as the president, rightful president of the country. Even though that's a thing, a whole lot of Democrats are saying, how dare we do something horrible?

How dare we, quote, break international law by capturing the leader of another country, even though, as I said, a whole lot of people, I think 50 countries, in fact, did not accept the legitimacy of Maduro's, quote, unquote, re-election. And I said that with the most aggressive air quotes you can possibly picture. I can play audio of some of the conversation happening in front of the U.N. or, you know, targeting the U.N.'s discussion about this and how the United States is one of many places that didn't see Maduro as a rightful leader of anywhere, much less Venezuela. We should note that over 50 countries, many nations, including the European Union, including a number of Latin American countries in the region, and of course the United States, again, over 50 countries rejected the legitimacy of Maduro's re-election following the disputed 2024

elections and do not, do not recognize him as Venezuela's legitimately elected president. Maduro unlawfully refused to peacefully seed power after the Venezuelan people voted him out of office. I thought that Democrats really cared about that. I thought that's a thing that they would scream and yell about whenever they also thought it was happening anywhere else in the world. Again, I disagree with them when they thought that was something that happened here. But they would scream and yell about that. And now apparently they're very upset.

I dove deep into a bunch of audio. And I thought it was so great. There's so much of it out there of idiot people protesting that have no concept of what they're protesting or why. Many of them, I assume, are just getting paid to be out there. At least I hope they're getting paid because I feel truly bad. Or I actually don't know if that's even the right way to say it for the absolute morons who are out there without getting a check for the thing that they're protesting. I have two pieces of audio that I landed on as my two favorites. First, this is New York 4 NBC, talking about the protesters outside the place where Maduro is being held currently.

And what I thought was uniquely funny about this one is halfway through, and it didn't make the television cut. You actually have to go to like the social media pages for Channel 4 in New York to see this because the television for some reason left it out. But their reporter is standing outside the protest and saying, you know what? I'm noticing nobody from Venezuela is here. No Venezuelan nationals are part of this protest. I wonder why. That's usually because they're celebrating in the streets right now that a dictator was taking into custody. The only way they saw freedom from this terrible person is someone like the United States intervening.

And Trump said, I'll go ahead and do that. No problem. Here, go ahead and hold my beer. But this is one of those two pieces of audio that just seems. to ram home the thing that Democrats often say that they absolutely don't seem to believe in this case, which is just

interesting. It's just interesting to hear their hypocrisy and their stupidity on full display. Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and his wife Celia Flores are being held, and we are seeing dozens of people right outside, chanting no bombing Venezuela and no war on Venezuela

demanding the U.S. to release the couple immediately. I think President Meduro should we returned to Venezuela and the United States should not meddling in the Caribbean. So far, I have not seen any Venezuela nationals in this protest. That's my favorite part. Actually, he also

at one point did talk to actual Venezuelans about it. This is stupid because they don't know what's going on in Venezuela. Yeah, that's my other favorite part. This is stupid. They have no idea what's going on. They're morons out here protesting. And the reporter is like, I haven't seen anybody from Venezuela that's a part of this. That's one.

The second piece of audio I really love is a YouTuber who goes out and confront some of these morons that are protesting. And you actually can hear the brain malfunction of the protester when he's confronted with the idea that Venezuelans are celebrating in the street. Because the protester doesn't know how to handle that. He couched all of his, we're here fighting for you, a version of a conversation in the idea that Venezuelans would be happy. he's out there protesting and they absolutely are not. So I just think this is so funny that you hear someone, what now?

You're saying who's celebrating? How is that going? Just trying to fight his own brain of I hate Trump. I hate everything that I think Trump does and I think I'm standing with victims even if I have no idea and don't care.

That's probably the most important part is the arrogance of these morons who are out there doing what they're doing actually demonstrate how little they give a crap of the opinion of the people they say they're supporting. But here we go. You should check out that communist flag over there.

What brings you out here today? I'm organized with the revolutionary communist of America. Terrified. We're out here to say hands-off Venezuela. And we unequivocally stand with the people of Venezuela against U.S. imperialist aggression. What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets? What?

What do you think about the people of Venezuela celebrating on the streets today? I saw images of Venezuelans being bombed after. the U.S., you know, bombed Caracas, so I'm not sure what you're talking about, but, yeah, I think show me the bombings that you're talking about? I didn't see any. I don't know. I just saw it on Reddit. It was on the front page of all the internet. So I don't know. What do you think? So your opinion is that Venezuelans are upset. You saw something on the front page of Reddit that you're claiming shows the United States, like mass bombing civilians, which didn't happen. That's not a thing. And so now you're standing outside in the street, less than 24 hours later with your

communist people, your communist friends, cheering and, you know, yelling and screaming that you need the dictator released that we took captive from Venezuela. I love every part of this. Let's let it keep going. Think about the people celebrating, the hundreds of thousands of people that are in the streets.

I know you're talking about it. I have yet to see it. Can you show me that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure. No problem. This is also my favorite part that you pull up the phone and you go video after video of tons of people throughout our country, throughout the world. The reason they're not doing more of this in Venezuela, by the way, is they'd be shot and killed. The other thing that's crazy about protesters here in our country, screaming and yelling that, you know, they think they're

standing with the Venezuelan people, and they're not seeing the Venezuelan people act more upset about the fact that a dictator was taken captive and removed from their country. The reason why is that Maduro was known to shoot and kill people. And the people that are in charge right now, although I think that is changing, would likely do the same thing. A protestant. protesters get, you know, unequivocally murdered in that other country. I don't know why our people don't know this. They're morons or they just don't care. Let's continue. There they are celebrating. Look at them. So happy. What do you think about that? I mean, at the end of the day, I stand with the people of Venezuela. Okay, but they're happy. U.S. imperialism. The U.S. has no right to bomb the people of Venezuela. The U.S. has no right to kidnap another. Why are they all celebrating? Why are they celebrating? Why are they celebrating? You know, I don't know. Do you have a correspondent there who can ask?

It just goes worse from there, by the way. He's so convinced his opinion is right without doing any research whatsoever. Like, this is the reason. This is terrible right now. Is there so many people who are headline people. That's what I'm going to call them. They read just a headline. They don't even read a good headline per se.

They go and look for one that backs up whatever their opinion is, wherever it's written, whoever wrote it, even if the Babylon B is the place that put it, it out, which is a satirical organization, that often gets fact-checked for some reason by Snopes, which is hilarious. And the Babylon Bee loves to be fact-checked by them. And actually, I heard from a listener of this show on my social media page at Radio Craig C that he has a buddy who also does satirical stuff that also was fact-checked at some point by Snopes and thought he was, that was like the best moment of his life. He's like, yes, they fact-checked my dumb joke that they took seriously. But there's so many people out there who are like this.

only people and they find the headline they like, they assume that that's the truth, and they just run rough shot over everything else and never face the consequences of being shown image after image, you know, actual story after actual story, in fact after fact, that they're wrong, that they're definitively wrong. They don't want to face that. How dare you say I'm wrong? I saw a headline. I don't even remember. My favorite part of that audio is that he's not even sure where on Reddit he saw the thing that he's claiming is real. And I'm probably just making it up. But nonetheless, like, that's the time we live in. The amount of people who can't do the part of clicking on the story and reading the stuff. I've told this story before. I'll tell

it again quickly before we take a break. One of my favorite things that ever happened to me in this industry, in this world, I shared something on my social media page. Again, not a whole lot of people go there. I think it's got like 2,000 followers on Facebook. I don't put enough stuff up on my social media pages at Radio Craig C. If I built an audience there, maybe I'd do more. But anyway, I put something up that was talking about the death of Charlie Kirk and some idiot in my comments got in a ridiculous debate about something else with me. And within the debate, I don't want to get into all the pieces of it. It had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk, unsurprisingly. But anyway, within it, they told me that something I was saying

wasn't true. So I shared a link to a story from the New York Times, which is not an organization that I always agree with, an organization that I think absolutely leans left, but it reinforced the thing I was saying is true. So I put it up in the argument. I'm like, hey, maybe read this article before you keep thinking that I'm a liar because you disagree with my side of political conversation.

I just read it. And my favorite thing happened, the person said, we can play this link game all day. And they shared the exact same link to the same story. Because they thought the headline meant that they were right. And my response was, hey, read that article that we both just shared

with each other. And once you read it, you'll realize the thing I'm saying is true, and the thing you think is a fact, isn't. But that was my favorite moment with the stupidity of people out there, especially people on the left, and people who are drunk with Trump derangement syndrome

or whatever you want to call it. They're so convinced of their opinion, they're profoundly arrogant in how they go about thinking it's a fact. The amount of people I've seen on social media, too, say that no American stands with Trump, and the decision he made to remove a dictator from Venezuela,

I've seen that multiple times. Americans don't agree with this. They don't stand with this. Yeah, we do. A whole lot of us think this is totally fine and absolutely the right decision because this person is awful and horrible. And not just that.

I think that the people of Venezuela will inevitably be in a better place if, say, their oil industry actually benefits all of them and not just the very small amount of communist dictators who were running that place, which is exactly what was happening before.

They absolutely ramped down, production and just screwed a bunch of things up in general to give money to themselves and no one else because they didn't care about anyone else. And most Venezuelans live in poverty. And I think 20% of that country has left has fled because they couldn't afford basic necessities like food. All of these things would be things people are happy to have changed because the dictator is in jail. It's just crazy that we're having this argument. But all right, I'll take a break. A lot coming up. It's not just this. There are some other things out there. Mamdani is all over the news and some of the people he's choosing to be in positions of political power are terrifying because their beliefs are terrifying. So we'll get to that. We'll also try to have some fun. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. Our partners that help bring you the program. It's the folks over at Superbeats. You guys are familiar with human and their superbeats. What makes them different is where it began. Human was founded out of the UT Health Science Center built on real cardiovascular research around blood flow and nitric oxide. And unlike,

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. My name is Craig Radio, Craig C. If you want to find me, Craig Collins, filling in. The ending of the Raven Steelers game was amazing.

There were back and forth moments all the way up into the last few seconds of the game and then a horribly missed field goal that ends this thing. Really cool for the stakes of the game to be so important and for the final kick to be so potentially meaningful. I do have the call.

I'm going to play the call real quick. But this wasn't the most ridiculous part of the game. It was everything leading up to this. It's the fact that the Ravens got within field goal position that they were only down two because of a weird, you know, missed extra point, et cetera, et cetera. Like, everything about it was drama-filled, and then this happened.

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Pretty good call in a pretty good moment. And definitely a kicker. now is going to have a lot to think about for a long time coming because of that just very, very ridiculous end of the game miss. But anyway, I thought that was a really good game. And I think the NFL playoffs are going to be a bunch of fun, probably more fun than the college playoffs are. Yes, there have been upsets in the world of the NCAA playoffs, but some of these games have

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And I love the way that Walls said this, that he couched it. He goes, you know what? I'm suspending my campaign for re-election because I want to try to address this fraud that I should have been dealing with the entire time. I've been in office and probably tremendously benefited from. I almost said transmendously. I didn't even mean that the way it would have come out. Tremendously benefited from because of all the crazy things that I said in support of a group of people

that probably hand over fist gave me some of that stolen money that I was thrilled to take. I think that's really the reason he's probably suspending the campaign is the more you look into the donations for him, the worst it's going to get for him. But let's go ahead and at least play some of the alerts out there since today is officially, today he did the speech and said it was over, at least for him in political office. political news out of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tim Walls will not seek re-election as governor. What a fall from grace this has been for him.

Yes, and that. You might recall, in the spring of 2023, he pushed through several progressive ideas to the state legislature that caught the attention of Barack Obama, who went to Twitter to give his endorsement for the programs, which eventually caught the attention. of people like Kamala Harris, who chose to do his, her running mate as the vice president. Introduced in Chicago at the convention in August of last year, a debate that was an absolute disaster with J.D. Vance at one point called himself a knucklehead, but after reportedly billions of

dollars have been stolen from taxpayers, by way of the state of Minnesota, Tim Wall says he will not seek a third term. Yeah, he's out. We'll do a montage a little later in the show. Arms of an Angel will play. We won't do the Scott Jennings version because he puts in bad words in his. But nonetheless, we will wish Tim Walls well in whatever career he goes into next to steal money from people, I assume. I imagine that's the biggest reason he was so attractive to Democrats is his unapologetic ability to just steal people's money. Speaking of which, there's another person out there who seems very okay with stealing things. That would be the brand new mayor of New York, Zoran Mumdani. I think that one of the most amazing pieces of audio that went viral over the weekend and you probably haven't heard comes from the new tenant director in New York

appointed by Mumdani, who seems absolutely insane in the most simplistic of ways. Like she says something that even the founding fathers wholeheartedly disagreed with when she says that your own property isn't yours

and the government should do everything it can to take the property that isn't yours when our founding fathers are very much on record for saying the government should protect the individual things in which we all own. Our government should be used to keep our rights secured, including our ownership of property. But that's not what this person believes. And she is now in a position of political value and power within New York and working directly for the communist leader of New York City, which is what I think I'm going to start calling a Mamdani, not just because of some of the crazy stuff he's saying, but the crazy human beings he's putting into positions of power. But here, in case you think I'm exaggerating,

is part of this discussion from this individual who's now in charge of something, she should not be in charge of. I think the reality is that for centuries we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to and transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.

That is a really terrifying way to say we're going to take stuff from people. and we're going to take stuff mostly from white people and screw white people basically is also in there. But this is a real human who's in a real position of power now who believes that our relationship with property needs to be changed. It is crazy that the backdrop and the location of the individual that's going to be tried for horrible communist dictatorship things in Nicholas Maduro is New York City

and is this individual in charge of the city now. It's crazy that those two things are meshing together. And of course, Mamdani was asked about the freeing of Venezuela, which is another thing I could call it. Many Venezuelans are very, very happy that what happened over the weekend occurred. And I don't know how to say that more times than I intend to say it today. So I'll just keep repeating it. And no, was Trump's only goal or even, you know, on the high end list of goals, the freeing of Venezuela in and of itself? No, I'm not going to pretend that that's true. I think there's a lot of things that Trump did.

He wants to hold somebody accountable to the crimes they committed against our country would be at the top of my list of reasons you did this, a person who has harmed us tremendously via all different kinds of things, including narco-terrorism, essentially a terrorist. That's the biggest reason to apprehend this person. And he also dared us to do it. That's another part that I might get into later. But anyway, here is how Mamdani talked about this

and seemed to think that all the people in Venezuela who are tremendously happy right now are well wrong. And all the people who even live in his city from Venezuela, they're probably also wrong. Because Mamdani's own personal opinions, even though he has nothing he can do about it, in the position he's in against a federal case, are

that this is all terrible. Happy New Year. I got two quick questions. So the first one is about Maduro. You said you called the invasion and the arrest. I could just pull up real quick. You said it was a violation of federal international law. You plan to use

any of the city's resources to interfere with the prosecution or anything like that? This is a federal action on a federal timeline, and I owe it to New Yorkers to deliver for them across the five boroughs, and also to be honest and straightforward about my own thoughts on this. Yeah, by the way, no, it's not going to be against any of those. The biggest thing that you can say as far as international law is that you're not supposed to go into a country and take captive the leader of the country. But many, many places, including the United States, and that was under Biden, did not acknowledge the value of Maduro saying he was president. We essentially rejected that claim and said he was not the leader of that country.

And instead, he's a narco terrorist that's in charge of a wide ring of other narco terrorists who are harming our country and harming the world, among other things that they're doing. But so we rejected that claim. And that wasn't even the Trump administration that did it. So it's just sort of insane that these are the arguments that people are going to make and people are going to have. have, I think, couched in this debate. And it's amazing that it is a debate. I'll say that, too. And I don't mean for this to be the entirety of the show today, but it's hard to move on to

something else being as candid as possible with you because of how ridiculous this one is, how there's so many people in the street, in New York, and other places, and they're not hundreds of thousands. I don't want to pretend it's a tremendous amount of people, but it's a lot of people that are in the street with no understanding whatsoever of what's going on and how people. people feel that actually no longer have to have a dictator in charge of their country. And they don't even care. Like, what's crazy is so many people don't even care.

They don't want to know the reality of this. And as the UN debates any of what happened and what they think will occur next, I think the biggest point that the U.S. will keep making is we weren't alone in feeling that this person was terrible for both that country and for the world as a whole. So saying anything else just seems a really, really insane. And we're going to see a whole lot of that. There is one other story out there that I think has a lot of value right now. It is a discussion about the seditious six.

Pete Hegseth has started a process and proceedings against Senator Mark Kelly and others over their remarks and videos in which they told members of the military to disregard anything and everything that they thought was, quote, illegal that the president was telling them to do. They had no examples of anything that the president had asked members of our military to do that they thought were illegal. And of course, the basic sentiment itself is a real thing, that if anyone, any person in position of power orders you to do something that is truly illegal, you have every right to say no to that in a position of, you know, even not that much power within our military. You can look someone in the face and say, no, that wasn't happening. And the whole point of the video was to tell members of the military to disregard legal orders from the current president of the United States because of how much they hate Trump. So that legal proceeding, that potential to hold people accountable for the terrible things they did is happening.

And of course, Democrats are once again up in arms about this. Because just like with Tim Walls in Minnesota, you don't ever want to be judged for your actions if you're a Democrat. You want to be capable or even your words in some cases. You want to only be judged based on what you think you're allowed to be judged on. Not everything. The law doesn't apply to me, essentially, is the position that many people on that side take while screaming and yelling that the law needs to be applied equally to everyone. They themselves hate that idea and hate it profoundly, as it might actually happen in the case of the seditious six. Then actually, one other quick thing that I'll mention before we actually take a break, the Ohio home of J.D. Vance was a target of vandalism.

over the weekend. Someone attacked it. Someone was put into custody there. This is obviously a big deal attacking the home of the current vice president. He wasn't there. It wasn't a thing that actually put anyone in jeopardy of being harmed because no one was there. But nonetheless, this matters. And so someone who broke a window and who tried to get into the property has definitely been arrested. And it's just more of the same. And I hate to say it that way, but it feels true at this point that the people you see acting out in the most violent ways, whatever they might be, trying to invade and attack the home of the sitting vice president, hoping he's there, or whatever the other intention of that was, whether it was actually to harm him or not,

I'm sure a lot of people will say it is and we'll see what the proof is, because I think there might be some proof of that, too. But nonetheless, the people who are actually committing these crimes right now, the people who are profoundly angry and attacking are by and large the people in the side of the aisle that say you have to fear the other side. There are people who scream and yell that MAGA needs to be feared or conservatives, Republicans, whatever we actually call ourselves. And I don't think a lot of us actually call ourselves MAGA per se, but anything that you say on that

side of the eye, anyone who is willing to vote for Trump is a bad guy. And it should be feared, should be thought of as the enemy of the people. That's the left's messaging, and they keep attacking the right. So I have to ask you, who does it seem is more likely to be the person. to harm someone else based on political beliefs and opinions and thoughts and not actually actions. No harm, you know, potentially coming to someone and they go crazy. It seems like it once again is the left. And this does matter. This does deserve to be a conversation in and of itself too. So maybe we'll get to that later on. But we'll also get to some more fun things.

Like I said, it is just after the holiday. Dana is back tomorrow. So it's the last day that you'll here for me on this show in a while, I assume. And so why not? Let's have some fun, as she often does. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. We want to thank our partners over at WebRoot for making it possible because WebRoot, let me tell you something.

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going to save it till the end of this segment because it's somewhat adult in nature. And I usually like to run at a time when I talk about adult things. But the most embarrassing stuff we get stuck in parts of our body in 2025. They do this every year. They put out the list of horrible things that people put in places they shouldn't have gone. So again, I have that. I'm going to talk about that. We're going to wait a little bit on it. So I purposefully run at a time during that segment and hopefully don't get fired from ever filling it again on the show for telling you some of those things. Before I do that though, I thought this was funny. A jelly roll made the cover of Men's Health magazine. He seems as surprised and happy as anybody else. A jelly roll has lost

275 pounds. That is a ton of weight. That is a human being, at least several human beings actually to some. He is 265 now. He used to weigh 540. He says that a lot of things have gone into to place to make him capable of this amount of weight loss, whether it's certain drugs that people take now as a part of it, who knows. But nonetheless, I just thought it was kind of funny that he was so happy about this. And other people were so happy to see him as a fitness guru in 26, things that you didn't expect to happen this year, things that you didn't see coming. That seems like one of the things that deserve to be on the list, too. But nonetheless, jelly roll, interesting guy, beloved by a lot of people, which is surprising. Not in a bad way.

I like Jelly Roll too. He's just not the guy that you think would have as much of a media darling surrounding to him as he does, but he gets talked about a lot. All right. Another thing out there that I had referenced quickly, but I'm going to do some more of, are jobs that pay incredibly well. These are things that people don't expect to have huge paychecks connected to them, but they do. Number one in the list of money you make compared to people are surprised you make that much is a septic tank installation and repair man. they make a ton of money because that's something you definitely want operating correctly in your home. Also, a nuclear station security guards, which I think this does make sense.

If I have somebody in a security position in charge of something like this, I think I want them to be well paid and to be happy and doing a good job. So that was number two on the list, I think created by Reddit, a lighting designer and directors for private events or even broadcast of some kind, make a ton of money. Elevator, electricians, excuse me, and technicians, make a ton of money. And then finally, casino dealers, many people claim they make over six figures, but it's heavily, heavily reliant on tips.

So essentially, you've got to be a dealer at a casino where people are winning money. If that happens, maybe they're feeling generous, they throw some tips your way. And the nice thing about being a dealer in a casino is you're not tempted to play the money that you're not making during gamble. people who gamble and win usually gamble more. I imagine the people who are working in the place where the gambling is occurring are likely to walk out. All right, very quickly, and with very little time left, which was absolutely the intention, some of the worst items we stuck in parts of our body.

I don't even want to tell you necessarily what parts of the body these items went into, which feels better for me than going through it in more detail. But items that people had removed in hospitals in 2025 at that. the top of the list, a turkey baster was placed somewhere. It shouldn't have been a wine stopper, a shampoo bottle, nails and screws, which seemed horrible. A highlighter went a place that shouldn't have gone. A number six on the list of most awkward things that went into people's orifices and shouldn't have gone there. A baseball. The guy who put it where he did said he just wanted to see what it felt like. And then guess what? It felt horrible, as I assume the reason or the

reaction to that. A doorknob, a light bulb, a vape pen, two pencils. You think you'd stop after the first one there, a corn cob pipe, no button nose, a rock, an egg, a part of a nose hair trimmer, and a bunch of uncooked pasta. These are all things that went inside the body, and then someone professional had to take them back out. Horrible decisions. Don't make them in 26. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. You guys are familiar with Relief Factor. want me to tell you about this guy named Travis Clark, and he told the folks at Relief Factor that it took him an hour to walk a mile, and he told them that today he can walk four miles now in that same hour, and he even began running again for the first time in a

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Less than a cup of coffee. Don't wait. Visit Relief Factor. or call 800, the number four, relief to get started today and take your first step toward feeling better. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you, a bunch of stuff to talk about. Producer Stephen just mentioned to me something that I had forgotten that was a big talking point just a couple days ago. It's exactly 36 years to the day, January 3, 1990, that we successfully ended the dictator manual Noriega's control over Panama that we also took in Nicholas Maduro into custody for crimes

against this country, narco-terrorist specific crimes and others, but 36 years, exactly, from one to the other of what just happened a couple days ago. That was not intentional because the administration said, and several people who dove into the actual very incredibly well-run operation to remove Maduro from Venezuela. They wanted to do it days earlier, but weather made it impossible up until skies parted and gave them a perfect opportunity to do this operation when they did it. So it wasn't intentional to do it, 36 years to the day, but it did happen. As far as some of those aspects go of the operation itself to capture Maduro, it's kind of

amazing. If you deep dive into any of that, I know Axios did it. I know some other places did portions of it, but essentially, and part of the most valuable conversation is that Russia gave the anti-air defenses that Venezuela depended on to them. So these were Russian technology pieces. They were supposed to be as good as the Iron Dome or anything else is they absolutely are not, as the United States proved and turned them into hunking piles of a destroyed metal. Part of how they did that is they flew low enough with helicopters,

and an expert force of well-trained military men and women from this country. But they flew like 100 feet over the Caribbean Sea to be below any sort of, you know, radar. And then they fired missiles that stayed low enough that they couldn't be detected until they blew up the anti-air defenses. And the last thing they did, and this was kind of cool to me, they used Raptors and other jet and, you know, vehicles aircraft to fly through and scramble. all of the logistic capabilities of these anti-air defenses, essentially by even blasting static at them,

so that they got very confused. So even if they had detected anything, it was too late and stuff was blown up. So a apparently unbreakable anti-aird defense system was literally destroyed within seconds by the United States. Then they get into the country. They remove a person from political power that they did not acknowledge having political power,

as did many other places, not acknowledge the political power of Nicholas Maduro. So even though people are forgetting that now, it seems important to remember then. And one of my favorite pieces of audio out there is a discussion that happened with Marco Rubio about why we didn't take other people. Why is it that you just stopped with Maduro

and didn't take other members of this organization of this administration that's wrongfully in power in Venezuela? And it's an incredible and strange thing to go back and forth. And this happened with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation because it seems like you want them to be wrong on both sides of the discussion. And Margaret Brennan does a very sloppy job of trying to say you should have done more as her proof of why you should have done less. But that is actually her logic. Her logic is if I can prove that Rubio didn't go far enough, then I can also prove that they shouldn't have done anything at all. and Rubio expertly through this in the trash where it deserves to go.

And I do have that audio. We'll go ahead and play the back and forth and the stupidity of the left and some of the media on the left in trying to do anything they can to validate their claim. They don't care what it is. They want to go any road possible to say, see, this is why we're right and you're wrong. Here we go. I'm confused. Are they still wanted by the United States? Why didn't you arrest them if you are taking out the narco-terrorist regime?

You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing to you. They're still in power. It's very simple. We're not going to go in and wrap up. You're going to, but yeah, but you can't go, you're going to go in and suck up five people. They're already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to capture four other people.

We got the top priority. The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not. And he was arrested, along with his wife, who was also indicted. and that was a pretty sophisticated and frankly complicated operation it was it is not easy to land helicopters it is not of the largest military base in the country the guy lived on a military base land within three minutes kicked down his door grab him put him in handcuffs read him his rights put him in a helicopter and leave the country without losing any american or any american assets it's literally incredible what happened um the fact that this operation was so

successful so expertly run that both um nicholas maduro and his wife are a lot of that they weren't killed in any sort of conflict that no Americans lost their lives. Like, every part of it's amazing. And the position that Brennan's trying to take is why didn't you do this five more times at the exact same time? Why didn't you apprehend so many more people?

The fact that you didn't do it means you shouldn't have done it at all, darn it. Here we go. That's not an easy mission. And you're asking me, why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time? I mean, that's absurd. I do think this is one of the most, you know,

daring, you know, complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous credit to the U.S. military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable and tremendous success. And today, an indicted drug trafficker who was not the legitimate president of Venezuela, who we don't recognize, the Biden administration didn't recognize, 60-something countries don't recognize, the European Union doesn't recognize, and many countries in Latin American don't recognize.

He was a convicted, he was an indicted drug trafficker. He was arrested. his wife was arrested also indicted and the others who are also indicted are still the others who are also indicted are still in place they're still there how dare you by the way our intelligence told us that there will be turmoil within the leadership right now of venezuela because we took the serpent's head that it's likely that there will be a fight for power and that fight for power might create an opportunity for us to get someone in power that is much more deserving than the people who are actually in charge right now. You don't have to remove every individual at the top of a totem pole in order to disrupt the power structure that exists somewhere, especially when a dictator like Maduro covet so much power for just himself. There is a way to cause our version of desired chaos within the political power structure of another country by removing just one individual from said equation. We've already heard a tremendous about-face from the new president, the former vice president of Venezuela,

who right after this, demanded Maduro be returned and wanted proof of life and all this stuff, and now has gone on record as saying that she's willing to work with the United States because of all the other things that are still in place.

The last thing I'll tell you about this scenario and the reason that it's going to work as profoundly well as it does is the U.S. hasn't backed down from its control within the, you know, borders of Venezuela, within the waters that surround Venezuela, of preventing it from doing things we don't want it to do, like oil trade that doesn't make sense, et cetera, et cetera. We still have the same power structure in place, the same

outside control that was causing Maduro just before he was taken into custody to say he wanted to sit down and talk to the United States. That was his position. Just a couple days before we removed him totally from the country was that essentially they were desperate enough to try to have a conversation. We knew the conversation couldn't be had effectively with someone like this. So he's not there anymore and he is in jail and will be in trouble for the crimes he committed against our country and against the world. And it is the kind of thing, I'll just say it this way, before I take another break, that mainstream media would normally celebrate. If it were a Democrat in power right now, the way this topic would go was that it took

extreme courage. It took, you know, an expert operation by the military, which these things are true, the things I'm saying, but they would say them about the other side, is that it was the kind of thing that no one saw coming, that maybe no one else would do. But darn it, we have to praise the powerful leader who did the thing that no one else could do, because it was exactly what we needed in this moment to make the world a better place. And then you'd see video after video in mainstream media of Venezuelans celebrating the removal of Maduro because that actually is happening. But that's the way they'd cover it if it were a Democrat in power.

They would spin it, even if they disagreed with it. There'd even be people out there in media places to be like, well, I don't know if I would have done this, but it's amazing that they did it. And I'm purposefully not saying Biden or anyone else because I can't picture a single Democrat that could have pulled this off to begin with, that actually was capable of any part of this, in all honesty. But nonetheless, that is the difference. And because it's Trump and they hate Trump,

everything has to be filtered through. This can't be good. That's the first thing they say. They hear something and they see Trump's name at the top of it and they say this can't be good. And then they have to figure out, they have to, you know, rebuild their thought process around how it's not good

because nothing he does can actually be thought of as valuable or helpful or, you know, doing something no one else would do in a moving way, in a way that you aspire to act in that leadership role, not the opposite. It's just, it's amazing. I truly thought that there were certain things in our society and call me naive for thinking this, that eventually people would relent on. They'd be like, you know what, this position that I'm taking makes no sense, and I could acknowledge it makes no sense, and I'm taking this position out of anger or something else,

and I need to at least set it aside here. But no, this story over the last few days seems to prove that there is no line for the people who hate Trump at all costs. They'll say and do anything and they'll continue to say and do anything even when faced with the exact opposite thought from the people who were actually living in the country and the 20% of the population that had fled because they couldn't afford basic food. That's a true thing. Look it up if you don't believe it.

but it's just crazy that this is the kind of thing we're debating at all. It feels very similar to discussions about how men should not be in women's locker rooms or you name the topic. There's so many just simple matter-of-fact, obvious discussions that we could have about some of this stuff. And people celebrating in the street, the removal of a dictator, and that somehow still being a bad thing, feels right aligned with all those other, how are we arguing this, a versions of conversations we have in our society?

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That would be me and I do nothing. I keep saying it on this show while filling in, and I'm getting followers, which is awesome. Maybe eventually I'll actually start doing stuff. But anyway, some things out there that you might not care about, but I did. A TikTok trend is calling for people to have an analog bag or a purse that's filled with all kinds of stuff

that are not in fact technology. This is to better your mental health. There are many people who do this anyway. Twitter didn't need to or TikTok didn't need to tell us to do it. But here is a woman talking about the new trend for the young people called the analog bag of stuff that is not in fact, you know, iPhones and iPads and everything else. Crossword is so fun to pull out at your coffee shop in lieu of your phone. You need another thing to replace a bad habit. I have to have something else to grab and knitting is really good for that.

Polaroid flip and some extra film. Do I really want to take a picture? picture. Usually it's like, I don't actually need this. 16,000 photos I have. Portable watercolor set. So fun. One of those things that she was referencing was an actual portable camera, which makes you less likely to take a photo of something if it's something you actually have to go get developed compared to something you have in your phone. Crossword puzzles, knitting apparently is her thing. Anything else out there. Young people apparently doing this more and more. Another story that I saw that I thought was great. McDonald's is facing a class action lawsuit over the McRibb.

apparently people are saying it has no rib meat in it, which I'm not remotely surprised by that, and do not care. I personally will not be adding my name to the class action lawsuit because I like the McRib the way it is, whatever mystery meats are in there. I'm totally fine with that. This has caused the very first McRib commercial to go viral from 1981, which I find also to be uniquely hilarious, just because as people talk about the McRib, they nostalgically remember when it first took over as far as the, The best thing McDonald's puts out occasionally in the world. Here we go with the original McDonald's McRib commercial. What did you say this was again? McDonald's calls it the McRib sandwich.

It's a new kind of cue. McRib, I don't see any bones. Hey, who wants bones in a sandwich? Not bad. McRib is all meat, lean pork that's grilled and simmered in a hickory smoke-flavored barbecue sauce. And put on a home-style roll with pickles and onions. Well, how about it? Mm-hmm.

The make rib sandwich, a new kind of cue. It's delicious. By the way, it's not just a new kind of cue. It's a new kind of amazing. And it has no actual rib meat in it, which even that commercial seems to admit back in 1981, when people didn't care. When people cared a whole lot more about the deliciousness of something than anything else. One last story that I really liked that went viral online, a young woman said that she

witnessed this. She saw a guy, his girlfriend, and another. woman sitting on a flight together. They did not seem to know the third woman, or the second woman that's a part of this group of three. And during the flight, the guy's girlfriend falls asleep. And instead of falling to her left and landing on the shoulder of boyfriend, she falls to her right and lands on the shoulder of the stranger.

And apparently people are up in arms and upset that no one moved the woman's head that the boyfriend didn't actually like accept the fact that it should have been on his shoulder or not the strangers. And it caused an awkward end of flight situation. I think that's hilarious. And even beyond that, I personally think the boyfriend made the right move because 99 times out of 100, she's going to land on your shoulder and sleep there.

If she's sleeping the other way, and I get a flight where she's not falling asleep on me, and the other person who might seem grumpy is not actually waking her up and stopping her, I'm just going to lean into this moment. I'm not going to do anything as the boyfriend didn't do. And then when eventually the person woke up, there was embarrassment, there was anger, all that stuff. You just put your arms up and like, what?

Did that happen? I barely noticed. This is pleading ignorance and pleading stupidity, which us men do all the time. It's a great move by the guy. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Brighten up your timely news consumption with a Dana Show podcast,

where every update comes with a little dash of not so serious on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A lot of stuff out there to talk about. the biggest reason Tim Walls is suspending any sort of campaign for re-election in Minnesota is because he doesn't want to answer questions about the horrible, terrible fraud,

no good, very bad day, whatever you want to call it, that's going on right now there that he seems to be very much connected to, the odds of a bunch of money having landed in his campaign and other people's campaigns like Ilhan Omar from the groups of people that were stealing Billy. billions of dollars of taxpayer money tremendously high. Just one of several questions at the end of his announcement that he's suspending his reelection campaign and that his fall from grace is now complete and ridiculous because the man was a moron every time he was on a stage even bigger than the ones they put him on in Minnesota. But nonetheless, he ran away at the tail end about

taking questions from people and people in the audience reporters were screaming at him. How dare you? How pathetic of you to not even answer our questions right now because he's terrified of them because an idiot is really bad at answering hard questions. But here we go. Thanks a lot. Good morning, Marl. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Wow, we're done. I love, here's the thing. And most of this audio is just stuff you're probably going to struggle to make out, and I can tell you what it is. But I love the very first part where they're shocked that he turns and leaves as soon as his announcement is done. What? What just happened?

Why did you leave? You said we're going to take questions. Why didn't you? Thank you all. We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you all. We'll be back tomorrow. You said you were going to take questions. Why didn't you? And then someone saying, Tim Wall's pathetic as they're walking out of there. Wait, what is the other reaction to it? Yeah, he's terrified of questions. He's terrified of all of it. He wants to now slink into, you know, being a guy that just disappears, even though I doubt very much. that'll happen because he's a giant moron and he's the kind of person who will do or say something again that gets him in some amount of trouble. But just to reiterate, the ridiculous amount of fraud

going on in Minnesota feels like the tip of the iceberg. And I've heard a lot of people say exactly those words when describing it. This might be people that, you know, you actually know in your own life or people you see on television, a bunch of individuals are saying this has to be the beginning of something that we're going to see more places. because it feels like the kind of template that the Democratic Party would use to do the same thing somewhere else. And it's not surprising to me

that once Tim Walls got connected to the Kamala Harris campaign, that they raised a tremendous amount of money, more than anyone ever raised and also ran out of money. I'm not saying that it was alone created by any sort of connection to finances that Walls might have had,

but it probably didn't hurt, and it was a big reason why people like Obama might have prayed, raised him walls before he gets elected to be the vice presidential candidate to another moron who couldn't say or do things that made any sense when asked basic questions. All right. I want to play some other audio. Whoopi Goldberg is one of several people out there questioning the legality of removing

Maduro from Venezuela. I want to make sure for the seats in the back that this part is understood, we do not acknowledge the, and many, many countries, the United States among them. and it was Biden who did this. We do not acknowledge the presidency of Maduro. So if you accept that idea that we didn't see him as a rightful leader of a country, we can definitely take him, and it's not illegal.

The only way it could possibly be against any sort of international law is if you thought he was the legitimate leader of the country, which a whole lot of places didn't, us obviously included. We see him as a narco-terrorist who is harming our country. We extracted him, we removed him. We're not at war with Venezuela.

We left other people there for now, even though Trump has said that if you don't do what he wants, he's got no problem coming back and doing some other things. But nonetheless, as far as the legality of this move goes, and the likelihood of Maduro and his wife facing charges in the United States, which is happening, of course, all of those things do not seem, at least to a lot of people, to be illegal in any way, shape, or form.

Whoopi Goldberg, not among them, people who aren't sure if you as an American even voted for this, which he's also saying a lot. Many, many people on the left are claiming that the right is going to be upset by this or that Trump voters are going to be mad about this. And then if you're not mad, they tell you that you're the bad guy. But here, let me play the Whoopi Goldberg Audio first. So while perhaps no one is going to miss a tyrant like Maduro.

No one will. Is this an illegal thing? I mean, who voted for this? Who said, hey, yeah, go on in there and do this. We did. Originally, wasn't it? He was concerned about the drugs coming in and out, and yet he pardoned, like a giant king pen. So what is, what?

Okay, by the way, that's a thing that a lot of people are going to compare it to. And I've seen that a lot that Trump used a pardon over here and then went and apprehended someone over there. And why did he do one? Why didn't he do the other? These, to me, feel like desperate attempts to not say out loud the one part of the, the conversation that you don't want to say out loud, that Maduro being removed is a good thing for Venezuela. And when you say who voted for this, when people actually ask that question, I often say I did. No matter what the conversation is, oftentimes the idea that I would have

voted for something opposite or something different comes from the people who never wanted Trump in a position of power in the first place. Almost all of those arguments are so stupid. They're not things that actually seem to hold any water because by and large, what I find is that people on the left cannot possibly put themselves in the position mentally to think like someone on the right. And in order to ask that question, who would have voted for this? Who would have wanted this? You actually have to try to put yourself in the position of the other side. You have to think about the things that they've liked that have happened so far that you also said the same thing about. For example, the amount of people being removed from this country who are living

here illegally. This is one of the first ones since Trump came into the White House, came into power again, where the left says, who voted for this? And a whole bunch of people out there go me, I did. And it doesn't, but here's another thing. And I contemplated not doing this on the show for Dana today. But I'm going to, I'm going to say it, because it's my own opinion of this thing. And it doesn't mean that it's anybody else's opinion of anything, just because I happen to be in this chair today and talking to you on the radio. There are a bunch of places right now, Chicago among them, that are reporting a decrease in violence, a decrease in murder, a decrease in all kinds of things. The Trump administration has said that part of it's

probably because they put people like the National Guard into positions of authority in some of these cities, although people like Chicago, places like Chicago, rejected that and stopped them from having an impact. So I'm not sure that that truly is the thing that caused a change. But there's another component to all this that feels like it's being missed when people are trying to guess as to why this year for the first time in a long time, we've seen a significant down-kick down trend in violence. And one of those things could be the people we're apprehending that are here illegally. No, I'm not trying to blame all crime on people who, you know, are here illegally from other countries. I know that that's usually what the left will do, like racism and yell

racist, but if you're removing people, and if the Trump administration has particularly focused on people that are doing bad things and try to apprehend as many of them as possible, and then you see this huge downkick in the amount of crime and the amount of violent crime happening throughout the country. Most U.S. cities are seeing a decrease in violent crime this past year compared to years before. And what's the big thing that's different? That's what everyone's asking themselves. What could possibly have changed? This feels like the big thing that could have changed. And I'll go even a step further. The New York Times is one of many places that has documented this before is true. You don't have to shoot the messenger and say

that this is some crazy, you know, right-leaning conspiracy theorist guy's opinion. The amount of violence that happens in most communities in our country happens with a small handful of people. They're usually the same individuals that the cops expect of doing something over here, that they expect of doing something over there. No, I'm not saying that all those people are are here illegally. But I am saying that it's the same subset of individuals who do bad things. It's, you know, a handful of people within a community who are by and large the most likely to be doing the, you know, a significant amount of the violent crime. And if you remove a few of those people, if you take a few of the people from the handful and send them back

wherever they're supposed to be, if they're not supposed to be here, the amount of crime that you'd remove from these cities is tremendous. And it seems to be seen because, again, Again, you're not talking about having to remove tons and tons of people or arrest tons and tons of people to have a huge impact on the amount of violent crime you see in most of the major cities in the country. You're talking about a much smaller group of individuals. And so I couldn't help it as I'm reading that Chicago is so proud of its numbers. And Brandon Johnson, the mayor there, is claiming he's done something when almost nothing he's done seems like it could have possibly had any kind of impact on any of the, you know, you know, any of the down numbers and crime, the declining information about crime. And many experts are seeming to say that out of Chicago, not that I care about the expert

opinions, I just thought that was interesting. So what's the one variable that is easily agreed upon throughout the entirety of our country right now that is happening? And especially in major cities, especially places like Chicago. Our most of the people in that city that are hardcore lefties are screaming and yelling, get ice out of here. We need to remove ice from here. And yet it seems as though one of the potentially connected aspects of this is a really good thing that's happening.

And so I say to you the same way that I say Maduro being captured and removed from Venezuela will inevitably be a great thing for the people who live in that country. They will inevitably have a much better life because one individual who was not providing anyone with a good life except himself is no longer in power there. and that hopefully the rest of that power structure will crumble, which is, I think, the expectation of our, of our intelligence community. But nonetheless, as I say all that, I can't help but think of the other ways that the exact same thing is playing out. We're seeing the benefit of certain moves by this administration, and no one is willing to say that part out loud.

I haven't seen a lot of people with the take I'm putting out there that one might easily be connected to the other. And that's sort of shocking to me. But, of course, saying it out loud means you have to be racist. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, on X, on Twitter, great ways to stay connected to everything she's got going on. Two of these are post office related. One's a real post office worker that probably is no longer a post-office worker. and the other one's a guy that was claiming to be one. But two of my three Florida stories for some reason involved mail.

The first one, a U.S. PS driver in Florida is facing criminal charges for trying to run over a child. This is a real thing. The post office worker saw a package that he had delivered to one address. He had picked up by a 10-year-old on a scooter. The 10-year-old was then using his scooter to move the package somewhere else. So the U.S. Postal Service worker thought this was a porch pirate. And his decision for what he thought was a person stealing something was to try to run the person over, even though it's a kid. The aspects of the story that this guy was unaware of, he had delivered the package to the wrong place.

So the post office worker had done something wrong. And the kid who lived at the house where the package was delivered by accident was deciding to deliver it to his neighbor, the place the package was actually supposed to go. So the kid was doing his job for him. the guy chased him in his car, I drove at his scooter, and the kid eventually jumps off the scooter and into a neighboring yard, so he can't be run over,

and the postal worker runs over the scooter. Several charges, and very, very likely the end of his post office career have come from this. But how insane to be a person that's delivering mail that sees a 10-year-old that you assume is stealing something, and the part of your brain that thinks you should come up with solution tells you to kill the person,

or at least to run them over? That is truly insane in and of itself. I thank God the guy failed. I thank God the kid's okay. And then when you find out he also delivered the package to the wrong place and the kid was doing a good job and not stealing anything at all. Even more, it tells you how much of a moron this person is. But that's a Florida mailman doing something terrible. Another guy in Florida, this was in Orlando, was seen breaking into an apartment complex and then actually breaking into the mailboxes of the apartment complex and stealing people.

mail. When he was arrested and he had a bunch of different equipment that showed that he was absolutely stealing stuff, he claimed to be a mailman. I love that part of this story. There's the cops are arresting the guy who's got like a flashlight on his head and a bunch of items that he's using to break into things. They're asking him what he's doing. He's like, I'm just a mailman. This is just how I deliver my mail. I don't do it the traditional way during the day with the bag of stuff. I do it at night. And it's really reverse mailman because I'm taking all the stuff with me. His charges mostly stem from the fact that they found a bunch of stolen things in his vehicle, not just the fact that they caught him in the act of stealing additional

stuff. So the guy's going to be in a whole lot of trouble. But 39-year-old Sean Cronin was caught breaking into both an apartment complex and in the mailboxes just to take people's stuff. This guy is the kind of guy that should probably be chased by a mailman in a car, not a 10-year-old on a scooter. Alas, this guy was also caught, thank God, so that's very good. And then finally, and this story is nuts. A 20 year old guy in Florida was arrested after he fired his gun into the air in celebration of New Year's Day and New Year's Eve. And the reason it's so insane is the bullet that he fires, what goes up must come down, wound up in a bedroom of a woman under her pillow. Luckily, she's totally fine. But somehow the bullet did its own version

of the tooth fairy in a terrifying way. I even have one of the homeowners talking about the scariness of all of this. This is a simple fact for a guy that very much loves my own guns and loves our right as a society to have guns. Do not do the celebration thing. If you fire something into the air and responsible gun owners don't do this, you should understand that it will come down and horrible stuff happens. When you do that, people get hurt. And in this case, something sort of shocking happened. Here's some of that audio. About 1158 is when all the gunshots happened around the neighborhood. By 1215, there was bullets flying through our house. My four-year-old, He normally sleeps in our bed, and just by the grace of God, he wasn't in there that night.

The bullet was right there by my pillow. I remember it being very hot, and that's when I grabbed my son, and we went into the other bedroom because we didn't know what else was coming in. Yeah, thank God, by the way, for all those variables that took place there. But how crazy to lift the pillow on your bed and see a bullet, just sitting underneath it. Thank God everybody's okay, and this guy's a moron in Florida. Quick break, a lot more. filling in on the Dana show. That's right. This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins

filling in for just one more day. Dana is back tomorrow. I saw on social media. She said she's very much ready to hit the ground running when she comes back tomorrow. It's going to be an amazing show. I highly, highly suggest you listen to it and everything that she says. But I'm here to be not as talented as her for just one day and thrilled to be here. At D. Lash, at Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig's If for some reason you want to follow me, I keep putting that out there as far as your ability to follow another social media page goes because I'm selfishly self-promoting and then maybe eventually I'll actually do good things. So I don't know. Anyway, let's get right to the news. First, Marco Rubio has been out there crushing a whole bunch of interviews with mainstream news media. Yes, I still think about Trump saying little Marco anytime I see Marco Rubio out there and doing stuff. Of course, President Trump put him into a valuable position of power. They have long since put aside any sort of problems they might have had.

But the back of my brain, every time I see Marco Rubio... Little Marco, little Marco. I just, I hear that, I think about that. And I laugh about it. And it also reminds me of how much Trump can be a person that absolutely works with you, even after he's at some way, shape, or form maybe destroyed a part of your career by being an effective opponent of yours. He can absolutely turn a corner and 100% be fine with you.

and even support you, as long as you're doing stuff that helps him. And that is what Marco Rubio is doing right now. Two of these interviews that I want to play for you are just really great. He was on Meet the Press. He was on ABCs this week. How he handled the moron that is George Stephanopoulos, I was pretty amazing. This was one of my favorite moments when George continued to press

by asking the same question over and over again, even though Marco Rubio was answering it, and George just didn't like the answer. that's what the president was asked yes legal authority is the court orders that we have when the president was asked yesterday he'll be running Venezuela he said it was you he said it was the defense secretary he says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are you running Venezuela right now George I explained again that the leverage that we have is the leverage of the

quarantine so it that is a Department of War operation conducting in some case of law enforcement functions with the Coast Guard on the seizure of these boats I'm obviously very intricately involved in these places policies. And by the way, very intricately involved in moving forward. And what we hope to see some of these changes being addressed. Unfortunately, the person that was there before who was not the legitimate president of the country, was someone we could not work with. Was someone that we could not, he had already suckered the Biden administration a couple of years ago on a deal he didn't keep. And this is someone we simply couldn't work with. We are hopeful that there are people in

place now. We're going to find out the proof will be in what they do or fail to do that will start making some of these changes that will ultimately lead to a Venezuela that looks substantially and dramatically different from what's been in place for 15 years. But our number one objective is America. We care about Venezuela. We wanted to do well moving forward, but our number one objective here is America. No more drugs, no more trained out Agua gangs coming our direction, and no more an area of the country in our hemisphere that becomes a crossroads for every single adversary we have around the world. Hezbollah, Iran, all of the them have turned it into the playground that can't and will not continue under this administration yeah

i've explained it i'll do it again uh we have incredible leverage uh mostly leverage that even maduro was aware of uh because of our blockade that exists right now that's preventing them from doing some of the oil trade they want to do we're doing this until we get what we want we're also removing the narco terrorist who was at the top of a a totem pole and was not actually the president of the country according to us the biden administration and a bunch of other people he was not in fact, in charge that we arrested a narco terrorist. He does the same thing on Meet the Press as Marco Rubio is out there doing the press tour and just dominating left-leaning morons all over the television. Here we go. If the purpose of the operation was to capture Maduro and bring him

to justice, why does the United States need to take over the Venezuelan oil industry? Well, we don't need to. First, let me go back up. We don't need Venezuela's oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States. What we're not going to allow is for the oil industry in Venezuela to be controlled by adversaries of the United States. You have to understand why does China need their oil? Why does Russia need their oil? Why does Iran need their oil? They're not even in this continent. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live. And we're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors and rivals of the United States. Have specific oil. Here, I'm going to jump in for a second. He exactly is right. And it's said

something that I've been saying for a little while filling in on this show and other shows, and that the reason that Iran, that Russia, that China trade in Venezuelan oil is because it allows them to circumvent sanctions that we put on all those places. We put it on Venezuela. We put it on Iran. We put it on Russia and China. Famously, Biden said that he was going to ramp up sanctions in Russia to prevent them from getting Ukraine, and then they did it just a couple days after he said that. So yes, this is actually taking the heart of the problem and attack. And trying to address it, trying to not allow our adversaries to have a significant piece of control of an asset very close to us and then also put their own, you know, terrible people in positions within that country to potentially do horrible things to the United States at some point. Continue, little Marco, please. We also want to see that oil and the proceeds from it. Hold on. We want to see the oil proceeds of that country benefit the people of Venezuela. Why have eight million people left Venezuela?

8 million, the single largest mass migration, probably in modern history, left Venezuela in 2014 because all the wealth of that country was stolen to the benefit of Maduro and his cronies in the regime, but not to the benefit of people of Venezuela. You know how destabilizing 8 million migrants is? The number one fear that Brazil has, that Colombia has, that all these countries in the region have about what's happening in Venezuela and our involvement is they're afraid of another mass migration event. That's what they fear. This is deeply destabilizing stuff. it's not going to continue to happen. They are not going to come from outside of our hemisphere, destabilize our region in our own backyard and us have to pay the price. Yes, amen to that. They're not going to do any of that stuff. We want Venezuelans to return home.

We want them to be happy to go back to the country. They want to go back to the country. They're celebrating in the streets that Maduro has been removed. And you have a new president, the former vice president of the country, saying she wants to work with the United States, which is exactly what Trump was saying recently in an interview where he said that Marco Rubio was talking to her and that the likelihood of some sort of working agreement between the United States and Venezuela was being developed, which then eventually causes us to say remove some of those blockades and other things that are causing Venezuela to be desperate to work with us in the first place. The thing that was working, we captured Maduro because it did

further destabilize that leadership, that illegitimate leadership group of the country, but also because he's a narco terrorist and he's in charge of things that we don't like and we'd like him to face charges and he will face charges here in the United States because of it. And that's really the reason. It wasn't to try to take over the country, even if that's what the left is going to have you believe. Now, by the way, as far as other things out there that I just really liked on this topic and then I promise we'll move on. A Democrat, Chris Murphy, was talking big and saying how bad this stuff is. CNN, of all places, reminded him that in 2019 he wrote an op-ed and he called for the removal of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. And that's got to be

embarrassing to sit down with who you think your friends are. Tell them how mad you are about this horrible thing that happened and be reminded that you're on the record for saying you wanted exactly this to happen, but you wanted Democrats to do it, not dirty, horrible Republicans that inevitably wound up doing it. Here we go. In 2019, you wrote an op-ed and you called for Maduro to be gone. You said, let's get one thing straight. There should no longer be any debate about Maduro's lack of democratic legitimacy. The Trump administration, is right to put restoring Venezuelan democracy at the center of our approach to this crisis. A return to a stable democracy is in the interest of the Venezuelan people and the United States and the hemisphere.

We don't know what's going to happen with regard to the civilian leadership there. Tom Cotton, which is here saying that he hopes that there are democratic elections. Isn't that what you want? Well, the rest of that article was a criticism of President Trump's early, moves to saber-rattle around regime change. Yeah, so I didn't mean the thing that you just read because the other stuff I said, I was trying to criticize Trump and say how Democrats should actually be the ones that do something good because I care about the political points because I want the win.

I don't want the loss and I'm upset about it. It's hilarious that that's the thing that's out there that's happening. And I love that CNN asked the question because they're not one to do that all the time. All right, one last thing that I want to play before we take a break. It is Tim Walls saying that he's outy, that he's done. He blames everybody but himself because, of course, he does. Tim Walls is the worst version of a corrupt Democrat that you're going to see. He's the fakesest, the most ridiculous, the most performative, and also the type of person

who, when the chips finally fall, refuses to acknowledge any sort of guilt whatsoever for any of the things happening around him, and then runs away from the press. He said he was going to answer questions. He definitely did not do that. But here he is, blaming Republicans and everyone for the distraction that is the billions of dollars that was stolen on his watch in Minnesota by certain fraudsters that he had at one point campaigned for and had said, you know, he wants to defend and he wants money from them so that he can run his campaign and Ilhan Omar and others want money from these communities. These are the communities stealing from him and he refuses to blame anyone that actually seems to deserve blame for his. inevitable and not at all tragic end of his political career. Here we go.

It was an extraordinarily difficult year for our state, and it ended on a particularly sour note. For the last several years, an organized group of criminals have sought to take advantage of this state's generosity. And even as we make progress in the fight against the fraudsters, we now see an organized group of political actors seeking to take advantage of a crisis. I don't want to mince words here. Donald Trump and his allies in Washington and in St. Paul,

and online, want to make our state a colder, meaner place. They want to poison our people against each other by attacking our neighbors. And ultimately, they want to take away much of what makes Minnesota the best place in the country to raise a family. That's crazy to hear someone refer to Republicans as people that are trying to separate you and the good people on the other side. When the people that are on the side of the aisle that he's attacking don't like fraud. They don't like billions of dollars of fraud and they're trying. They don't care who did it. The point is not, I would be so, you know, much less upset by this argument.

If by and large, they could just acknowledge, the left could just acknowledge that it doesn't matter who it is stealing. If people are stealing, Republicans are going to be mad about it. A fraud in our government is something that we believe is happening, that we all know is happening on both sides of political aisle, billions and billions of dollars all over the country, trillions of dollars, in fact, are stolen every single year. And we don't care who it is. We want the bad guys caught. And when we watch you defend any bad guys for any reason, saying it's racism or something else that makes, you know, a certain side of the political

aisle obsessed with these stories, it furthers the ridiculousness of the discussion and the ridiculousness and the inability to have any sort of common ground because you're refusing to acknowledge the most basic premise of the debate, which is that fraud is bad. You don't want to have that part of the conversation because you immediately want to spin it out of something else, which is, again, so, so annoying that it makes people tear their hair out of their head trying to have a debate of any kind. All right, quick break, a lot coming up. 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.

Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X, great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on as far as the show is concerned. A woman set fire to a Walmart. This didn't happen in Florida. It happened in Illinois. The 21-year-old was trying to celebrate New Year's Eve because she decided the best way to do that at about 7 o'clock at night, for some reason, was to drive to her local Walmart and set it on fire. She caused about $5 million worth of damage. Luckily, no one was hurt. The woman has been arrested because that's not something you're allowed to do. To celebrate New Year's Eve, she didn't seem to be aware. Everyone else around her begged her probably not to do this. Did it anyway. She's going to spend a lot of time in jail. Mr. Bubble will be selling a bubble bath-flavored soda, just in time for National Bubble Bath Day, which I guess is this Thursday, the stupid, non-existent fake holidays

that exist in our country via some of the internet claims. I always get amused by those. This one is weird, though. For $3.50 a can or $25 bucks for a 12-pack, you can get the experience of, quote, drinking your own bath water, something that for some reason has been in the news before when very good-looking, you know, influencer people sell their own bath water to really disgusting people out there who want to buy it. And now you can just have your own. Now you can have a soda in the bath that tastes like the thing you're doing. I don't know why anyone would want this, but again, it's out there and it's available to the world. And then finally, one last silly national holiday celebration.

A national popcorn day is also coming up, apparently. I think it's on either the 18th or the 19th of this month. I don't know which one, because a few different movie theaters will allow you to celebrate the day on either one. I think it might officially be the 19th, but it doesn't matter. You can bring your own bucket to, I said bucket, to the movie theater and fill it up for five bucks with as much popcorn as it can hold, which is crazy. People are pointing out that you can get, you know, giant buckets from places like Lowe's and other hardware stores, five-gallon buckets, show up to the movie theater on the 18th or 19th and leave with a ridiculous amount of popcorn. That's totally fine. I absolutely support everything about this.

And it's actually a way for movie theaters to desperately try to get people back in. Dropping the prices on the snacks at the movie theater might be a thing that people would actually pay attention to. A lot of us don't go to the movie theater at all right now. So maybe if you lower that price a little bit or let us bring a five-gallon bucket from lows and fill it up with popcorn regularly, maybe more people are in. I'm not sure. It might be possible. All right, we're going to take a break. After the break, I do want to totally shift gears. I'm going to talk about the Honda Rodeo festival, which will be going on in New Orleans later this year. Tickets are uniquely inexpensive right now for this thing. I loved everything about it when I read about it. I knew I was on the fancy national show. So I said, you know what, I'm going to promote this festival on Dana's radio show to have fun within the holidays because it seems like a thing you've got to go to for a variety of reasons. Find out what they are after this. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. This is the day and a show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in for the day. I do want to take a detour at some point if we do get a guest on the line to talk about the Hondo Rodeo Festival, which gives a million dollars to the winner of a rodeo and then also celebrates Western culture. I thought it was a cool thing. And I thought it was a fun thing to discuss, mostly because I have a buddy who's obsessed with Crete.

And Crete is headlining one of the three nights as far as the musicians go. It'll be playing at the Hondo Rodeo Festival. But if we get that guest on, we'll pivot to that. If not, I'll talk about other stuff. I thought this was interesting. The views Anna Navarro was one of a few people that is willing to say that she's happy that a dictator who's been in power for a while in Venezuela has been removed from that position.

And it's okay to say that. She actually even said she was brought to tears when she found out that Nicholas Maduro had been arrested. Unlike most of the rest of the panel on the view, she said positive things about this. and it went viral, and people were, quote, shocked by it. So let's hear Navarro say that it's not completely bad, which is not the take most of the left has, that a dictator has been arrested and removed from power,

that they did not deserve a power that most of the world and many, many of our, you know, friendly ally countries agreed with us. He was not the rightful leader of the country. All of this matters, but here we go. Your question, who voted for this? The people in South Florida, The Venezuelan community, the Cuban-American community, the Nicaraguan American community voted for this.

And for us, this is a very, very happy day when we see a dictator who has been part of oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for 25 years. When we see him in handcuffs and held to some sort of accountability, it brought me into tears. It brought me great joy. And, you know, I live in South Florida. But there's these. Are you okay with the way that it was done? But you can, I think both things can be true. Okay.

I think you can criticize and ask questions and have concerns about the way it was done and what this means in the future. Right. And I think you can still celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, sadistic son of a bleep. Is somebody who's been arrested in Venezuela and taken to the United States. Yes, she's quite happy about that. And I do think that the only reason you separate the two things complain about one while being a huge fan of the other is because you can't possibly say, anything positive about the human being that is in charge of this country. And so you have to have a negative to whatever it is out there.

But again, Anna Navarro, one of several people saying she's in Nicaraguan, that this is a good thing and that people are happy to see it happen. And they hope that anyone else left within the regime in Venezuela is also toppled, whatever that might be, whatever that might look like. And it does seem that the new president, the former vice president of the country, is immediately signaling her willingness to, work with the United States after being fairly, I think, what many people would describe as as defiant within the hours after Maduro was captured and brought to the United States.

Now, Del C. Rodriguez, is her name, has been saying that she'd like to find some sort of path to work with the United States, which is exactly what Trump said would happen and exactly what is happening. So it's just sort of ridiculous again that is out there and that's the thing. All right, I don't think we'll wind up getting our guest from Hondo Festival on the show. which disappoints me because I really didn't want to talk to this guy about a festival that's only been around for a couple years and it's mostly, I think, been in Phoenix, Arizona

and it's supposed to celebrate a lot of what Western culture is. One of the headlining acts on the 10th of April at Caesar's Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, is Jason Aldeen, who has been a big fan of President Trump, actually, vocally quite a bit. And then Leonard Skinnerd are also playing that event. On the 11th, it's Cody Johnson and Old Dominion

And then on the 12th, it is Creed, along with Bailey Zimmerman who is playing. And as I said, I have a friend who claims to be a fake fan of Creed. But then any time you begrudgingly accept an invitation to go to a concert with this dude and see Creed, he is singing every single song and cheering pretty hard because they have a cult following. To say the very least, he is a giant fan of them. So I was inspired to try to interview the Hondo Festival or the Hondo Rodeo Festival. there also, I think, is a $1 million prize for the rodeo part and then a big, quote, celebration of Western culture

all under one brand and one umbrella. I'm sure a bunch of festivals like this exist out there. This one caught my attention, so I figured I'd promote it a little bit, but we got stood up by the person that was supposed to do the interview, which is too bad. I still promoted the thing, though. Look at me.

Filling in on a nationally syndicated, a radio show without anybody calling in that said they were going to call in, and I still say that I want to go to this thing because it does look like a whole lot of fun. All right. Other stuff out there before I do take a break. Of course, another conversation going on is Tim Wals and his resigning or his effectively,

not resigning, but his effectively ending his reelection campaign. There's a lot of audio that talks about how shocking people seem to think this is on the left, at least even as recently as a couple months ago. they said they couldn't have seen this happening and now it definitely is happening and it's definitely over. I think it's amazing

the way they're downplaying the crazy amount of fraud but my favorite of all of those and this is all I want to say about Walls was on CNN where they claimed that part of this fraud stuff is just old news because of how long it's been going on and how the rest of the country

wasn't as aware of it as Minnesota was when I would think a demonstration of how long this fraud has been as ridiculous as has been, is a perfect reason for Walls to finally be stepping away when he's been in power for a while and has failed to stop it. If it's something people have known about since the mid-2010s, or at least been talking about since then, basically since right after Somalian refugees were brought into Minnesota without Minnesotans really wanting that to happen, since that's been

a conversation for that long, you would think the person in charge of the state would take a huge brunt of responsibility, not be somehow excused for failing to act by any mainstream or cable news television. But darn it, of course, that's not the case because we know how this works. Here is CNN trying to downplay the absolute, at least part of them, their expert that they bring in, a downplay a aspect of the ridiculousness of the fraud in Minnesota and how it obviously impacts and should impact Governor Wals. big breaking political news out of minnesota governor tim walls who of course was the democratic nominee for vice president in twenty twenty four has ended his re-election bid for governor shocking he is not going to run for re-election this comes as pressure has been growing around this widening welfare fraud scandal now waltz has not been accused of any wrongdoing but it has been a growing political headache let's get right to see in chief national affairs correspondent jeff seleney This is a wow this morning, or at least would have been if you had said it was going to happen, what, two or three months ago?

That's right, John. Good morning. Even perhaps two or three weeks ago, the reality is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had been insistent on running for a third term, which would have been unprecedented in and of itself. Minnesota has not elected a governor for three consecutive terms, but it is that deepening federal probe as well as this widening scandal. said he is not implicated in this at all. This is actually somewhat old news in Minnesota. This has been going on for years and years. Yeah, I love that couching of it, saying as if, you know, Minnesotans don't even care that the fraud is as bad as it is, even though they've been complaining about it for a while, and they've been told up until recently, it's not as bad as you think, even though it's definitely as bad and way worse than they thought. And Walls was basically running unopposed. He was going to easily become the governor a third time in Minnesota.

and even more than that. What's kind of crazy about this is that he's saying he's stepping aside to focus on the job and actually root out all the corruption and all the fraud, but that can't possibly actually be true. It just seems so impossible

for that to be his need at this moment because the reality is that he's probably going to hide a whole bunch of stuff along the way because he has to. Because any sort of increased scrutiny, not just on the money that was being stolen

and the people who were stealing it, but on where that money was inevitably landing is a huge component to, I think, what will inevitably be Tim Wall's getting in a bunch more trouble about this. We'll wait and see. There's more variables, more pieces to fall. And as many people have said, this essentially is the tip of the iceberg, as a lot of people think that we're going to find a version of this fraud in other places. And you're already seeing some semblance of that, whether it's a different type of government program that's getting outed in other parts of the country, a Washington state, one of the places.

is being outed for some ridiculous corruption that went on with a Biden program to help people pay for the rent that was massively abused. All of these things just seemed like additional demonstrations of how flawed and terrible policies are. And as I say all that, and there's one other piece of audio I do want to play that's disconnected, but I probably should feel more connected, is this person who's been put in a position of power in New York by Mumdani, by the brand new mayor of New York City, a person who believes that you don't actually have the right to property, that property is something that we all have to have a different opinion on in the near future,

which is a terrifying stance for a person to have on any topic whatsoever, but especially on this topic, and there's a whole lot of reason to be, as I said, tremendously worried about what the immediate changes are in a New York City and how far down the rabbit hole certain people may inevitably go because I just think that they want to go these ways. It just seems to be a desire of so many people to push further and further until things truly break and fall apart. But as I said, a brand new person who's been put in a position of power within New York City seems to think that property is not yours,

it's not buying, it's not anybody's, that it has to be a rethought and change the way that we approach it all of the like honestly i can't probably say this a different way um because it's it's the kind of thing that as you hear someone describe their position on it you immediately know what uh the next say few years could look like you you immediately know all the hurdles all the variables all the horrible things that would have an impact on society the things the founding fathers would outright reject of this position but i will play it it's see a weaver is her name. She is a cabinet member for Mayor Mumdani that will be in charge of, I think, certain tenant and rent things within New York City. Here she is talking about what she believes

to be the difference between individual property and property for the collective good, not owned by you or me. Again, the founding fathers died to protect the rights of the individual. One of the rights individual was ownership of things like property. She seems to be on a aware of this or scarily informed about the opposite position, the thing that we fought against in the revolution. You feel like that's kind of a fight we shouldn't be having anymore, but here we go. I think the reality is that for centuries, we've really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good. And we are going to transition into treating it as a collective of good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently,

and it will mean that families, especially white families, but some POC families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have. That is terrifying. She thinks it's a good thing, obviously. She's convinced her position is somehow going to benefit the world. This is the beginning of Manduro's type of leadership in other parts of our own country, which is terrifying in a bunch of ways. Of course, I think this will fail. Of course, there's a bunch of reasons why I think this wouldn't even be implemented. But the fact that people with these types of ideologies

are going to be put in powerful positions within New York City is exactly the kind of reason that I think the midterm elections will resoundingly be won by Republicans. Because as this thought is adopted beyond a place like New York, and as it fails profoundly there, we will know all the reasons that communism is bad. And I say that bluntly because I'm surprised I even have to say it, and yet people like that make you have to say that out loud. A quick break, a little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist. Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast for bite size and formative episodes, perfect for your

busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for just a few more minutes here. Thrilled to be with you. Dana is back tomorrow and it sounds like from the things she's been putting up on social media, it's going to be an incredible show. Dana does a great show every day, but I highly recommend you tune in tomorrow for everything and anything that is Dana Lash returning to the radio airwaves. Quickly, a couple things that I saw out there that I thought were interesting. Greenland's prime minister is saying enough now to Trump about fantasies of us taking over Greenland. At least that's what Greenland is calling them. I will say just quickly, and I don't intend to do a long rant here at the

end of the show about this, that anywhere within our vicinity, within our hemisphere, I think there's a likelihood that if we feel bad things are happening and if people like China and Russia are gaining a foothold, we will have different responses, escalating ones that hopefully demonstrate our seriousness and having that removed as a factor and something that puts in jeopardy, the safety and the ability for our country to not have those threats be that close to us. I'm not saying that is or isn't Greenland. I know that people believe certain things on both sides of that. I, again, don't really want to get into it here. I just think that truthfully, the message sent, and the thing I've been talking about all day, as far as Venezuela is

concerned to the rest of society is the U.S. is no longer going to let you bleep around and find out. Or if you do do that sort of thing, you will in fact find out things will go incredibly poorly for a whole bunch of people. Another story out there that I saw that I thought was interesting, a high-ranking adult website apparently had a data breach, a whole bunch of information was stolen from it. The thing that would be most worrisome to anyone out there, and this is odd to me to say at the end of the show, but an adult topic at the end of an hour is something I like to do. It would be if you had

like a user profile on an adult porn website, then you're likely to now be embarrassed because you had a user profile on said website. The only question I have is why would anyone create a profile on these sites? I know that some people maybe who put

videos up there, might actually be people that might need something like that. But by in large, I would imagine a vast majority of people who traffic these websites don't go ahead and sign in like they do to their email account. But that is a real story that's out there, that apparently there was a data breach and anyone that has a username, password, information

on these types of websites. Now will be found in some sort of database and be embarrassed by being found in some sort of database and maybe also rethink the decision to make a profile in the first place. That, again, is just a part of it for me that I can't get over. And then finally, one last thing that's gone viral

and I have almost no time to talk about it now was a very old plan to nuke the moon. This is a thing you can Google and look up if you want to during the Cold War. There was a secret plan that was developed and obviously never actually executed that involved a nuclear weapon blowing up the moon. I find that hilarious to go viral now.

Not that we actually wanted to do it at any way, shape, or form, but that that story would be unburied in 2026 to kick off the year right, baby. All right, I'm out of here. Dana's back tomorrow. I talk to you later. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.