The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Media Trans Meltdown, Crime Narrative FLIPS & Music For Your Chocolate

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you, a whole bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I do want to start with audio from Dana, which might make me seem like a little bit of a kiss-up. I don't know if it does. I don't really care, I guess, because I do think this is very good. I know Kane thought it was very good. That's why he sent it along to me. And I was like, darn, I'll just play this. It's Dana Show. I might as well. Although if you paid attention to her, you probably heard her talk about this yesterday. But as far as, The latest fallout over what happened in Minnesota 24 hours or so ago, the latest discussions about it, all the versions of media trying to hide the idea that the individual who committed this crime, and it's not an idea, it's actually a fact, is a transgender person with a deep mental health issue. All of those things are swirling around a horrible story where children died, and it just seems to make no sense that so many in media and so many in politics need to reshape the conversation into these places it does need to go. Here's Dana talking about exactly this. You can actually find this audio as well all over her social media pages.

Producer Stephen does a great job of putting that stuff up and getting that out too. But here's a little bit of what Dana said about this yesterday. It's freedom versus protecting children. That's a false choice. It's not. What people are crying for now is how can you? How can we prevent this? How can we stop it? And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons

out of their hands. And so we're going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out? It's always a young white male. Because a trans terrorist enabled by his mother goes and shoots up a church, that means the rest of us have to be disarmed so that we can be easier victims for more trans terrorists or criminals in the future. That is what he's arguing here. The problem is that trans is a mental

illness. We are jacking people up with hormones. We are indulging a dangerous mental behavior. We are demanding that everyone accommodate a mental illness. Go along with it. It'll make everything okay. Clearly it doesn't because there's an increasing number of trans Tifa going out and killing children. So clearly that's not working. It's not a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. It's a conversation about getting off your ass and stop blaming guns and protecting children. A freaking men, Dana Lash, the Dana Show.

A great job as always. Again, that's all over social media. You can find it. Here's the easy way to have a discussion about a very difficult topic. to talk about. And I'm going to do it. I consider this easy way, by the way. You might get offended as I say certain things and I don't care. That's the nice thing about being on shows like this is, I don't care. It'll be fine. The easy way to say that what happened the other day is obviously caused by a mental health issue is to ask you if you can notice the variable that's

sticking out, that's screaming out to you as to why the person did what they did. What made me really mad yesterday out of all of it. And again, I don't want to do a deep dive into a topic that you're probably getting a bunch of takes on. But the cops actually had the ability to go out there and say that they weren't sure what the motive was. And then media ran with that narrative. Because cops, no, I know they have to do their due diligence. I know they have to have to, have to, you know, dot all the eyes, cross all the T's, all that stuff. Weird to say cross the teased. But anyway, I know they have to do that in this situation, but we all know the motive. It's very obvious. The person wanted it to be obvious. I don't say the names of the horrific people

who commit these crimes. I'm not going to name the guy who killed children. But I will say definitively that there's a bunch of information out there that demonstrates the manifesto and everything else. Hated Trump, hated all this. And what really makes me mad? And again, I'll move on. We'll talk about more stuff. We'll get back to this later, but what really truly makes me mad is the hypocrisy of the left. And I know both sides playing these games of hypocrisy that I'm going to say this thing in this situation, and then you change a couple of the elements, and I'm going to say something totally different. I know both sides do that. But in this one version of discussion, it feels like it's such a

glaring degree of hypocrisy that it kind of drives you crazy. It kind of does make you feel like what else are we supposed to do here? The fact that they're going out and saying that they don't know, you know, what's going on, who the person was, why they did what they did. And if it were a Trump supporter, and if it were someone who hurt people that they thought, you know, were aligned with the left ideologically and not a bunch of children that were in church, I think that what's crazy about it is they would be at the forefront of saying, we know what happened. We know what this is. We know who this is and we know why it happened. And you'd have a bunch of pundits and a bunch of politicians out there saying that Trump were to blame. But

How dare we try to say what Dana just said there, that maybe societal demand to treat some things that are not normal as if they are normal, to try to sweep a lot of mental health issues under the rug, and then allow people who struggle with mental health to blame everyone but themselves for that problem and to be mad at people that they think are causing them to have mental health issues instead of treating the mental health issue. I will say this about that topic in general. It is easy, in my opinion, to believe that you're alone in whatever the world is you're fighting when it comes to a mental health issue. It's easy to believe you're alone. If you don't talk to people, if you don't have conversations, and I mean this on a macro sense. I don't mean this about the specific story. I mean this about anything. And when you find out you're not alone, it allows you to do two things.

It allows you to say, okay, I'm not the only person who struggles with this, whatever it might be. It's not just a me thing. And then two, it allows you to accept the fact that the thing going on is something you need to correct in yourself. It is a problem you have. No one is putting it on you. No one is forcing you to have the issue. You're the one who's struggling with this thing and you need to find a way to treat it by admitting that you have a problem, whatever that problem might be. And right now our society and some of the idiots in our society think they're doing this for a good reason. They think this is nicer and better somehow and going to make people healthier when it's doing the exact opposite. They're demanding that we pretend as though some people who are mentally unhealthy are not actually at fault at all. There's nothing they're doing wrong. They're not even really sick. Society is what's broken and they're the one who should be happy and also demand the belief system that they have be forced on everyone else. It's just, it's surreal to see this stuff play out and the conversations that happen from it. And just the

hypocrisy. Honestly, again, like, that's really the totality of my take on this is that it's crazy to watch it when it happens to this degree. And you don't think that people can do it even. You think to yourself like, all right, you're going to have to admit here that this is actually terrible, that you can't go this extra road and claim that this is something that's, you know, unique when you know it's not. And darn it, they don't care. It just, it is what it is. All right, let's move on. Some other things out there that I think are interesting. A Robert of Kennedy Jr. announced that HHS is launching a study into SSRIs after yesterday's transgender Minnesota shooting that happened.

This is important, I think, and this is a road to actually trying to come up with solutions and not argue about things that have no impact on getting us to a place where this doesn't happen anymore. So I do love this. Let's play a little bit of that audio. ...with a person who's trans, it was transitioning. Are you going to be examining at all? some of the drugs that are used in order to make that transition happening to see if it plays a role?

Because we also know there was a trans shooter in the Tennessee situation. Yeah, we are doing those kind of studies now at NIH. We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. You know, many of them on there have black box warnings that weren't of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. So we can't exclude those as a culprit and those are the kind of studies that we're doing. Okay, I've got to be honest about the way that that answer goes.

And again, I know some people struggled to listen to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I feel like that's gone away. I feel like when he first started to become a prominent person. Maybe some people didn't like the way he speaks. But I don't know. But if you can tolerate it, and I certainly can, which is annoying for me to even say it, I guess, at this point, because of the job he has. But what I think is amazing is how measured he is in saying we're going to look into this. You know, there's reason for us to think that this could be a possible thing that's connecting to these horrible things that are happening.

And then even to casually say, yeah, one of the warnings on the label is homicidal or suicidal ideation. So that's a thing. And then to go further and further and to essentially say out loud what Fox News is saying, that, yeah, we're definitely going to check to see if this version of medicating kids and children who are at a point in their lives where they're confused about a whole lot of things. and society is telling them if you think you're not supposed to be a boy or you think you're not supposed to be a girl, you can take a whole bunch of medicine so that your body can change

and you can't take any of that back. Maybe that's also screwing with their mind at a time when they're already mentally demonstrating some struggle as well. I will say one last thing about this. And then again, I will move on. We're going to take a break. We'll come back.

We'll do some lighter, some fun stuff. Transgender used to be considered a mental health disorder. the diagnostic book of medicine in psychology described it as a mental health condition for a very long time. And then they changed that. And now they said that it's not a mental health condition. Here's the thing. And I want this to be as clear as anything I say on the show today. Of course it is a mental health situation. Of course it's a mental health issue. Does that mean that somebody somewhere, some fraction of a percentage of an amount of people

are born with all the hormones of a woman and the body of a man? Sure. I can take that as potentially capable of a thing that happened. And I know that sounds woke that I'm saying it, but if you say that all of people are what we're considering as potentially having this problem, I don't know, people are born with all kinds of things that are rare. But I will say that the odds of that being, you know,

exaggerated out to the extremes, that now millions of people throughout the world or hundreds of thousands or whatever the number is of people who are not in that category of someone who's born, and I don't know what they'd say, you know, a certain way. They're all being told that the same thing. They're like, you're the same as the bearded lady. So all of you guys get to treat the same as the bearded lady,

and a whole bunch of people with mental health issues are now diving deeper into their mental health issues and not getting them fixed. And I know, again, this sounds woke to people out there who's like, how dare you say anybody anywhere could be anything other than mentally unhealthy? I have no idea, again. I just know that the scientific argument they use

to try to demonstrate their point is often ridiculously flawed by basic math. The whole, you know, a rape and incest to the reason that abortion has to exist. When the minuscule percentage of people who look for that procedure after having that horrible thing happen to them, because it's such a rare, you know, set of circumstances in general, can't be the way we govern. We can't govern our society or anything based on the fraction of the percentage of people who may qualify to the thing that we claim everybody is. All right, quick break, a lot more. This Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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College football is coming back, and it's going to be crazy in week one. You have three different matchups of top 10 teams playing each other. Just to understand how rare that is, the athletic let us know this, and actually producer Steven sent this along to me, which is pretty cool. November 11, 2017, October 1st, 2016, October 12, 2002. the only other three times since 1978 that three top 10 games have been a thing in college football where two teams within the top 10 were playing each other. This is the reason that I think that some of the rankings were what they were.

I actually said this right when the rankings came out, that I kind of believe that some teams might be slightly overvalued. Hopefully Notre Dame is not among them, although they might be because of how much better it makes this week one look. You also have multiple teams in the top 25 playing power conference opponents, Alabama and Florida State, South Carolina and Virginia Tech, Tennessee, Syracuse, Boise State, and South Florida. So a bunch of money is going to be spent on college football this year. Just a crap ton of money, and a whole bunch of it will be laid in week one.

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Although, again, I'm just so thrilled that football is back, actually. Honestly, like Saturday and Sunday feel different when you can turn on football. And actually, okay, one last thing. I keep saying I'm going to be done. I can't be done. I am a Giants fan in the world of the NFL, and I am shocked that they played so well in the preseason. It means nothing.

The NFL preseason usually does not translate to actual. success in the regular season. We've seen that time and again. So will the Giants potentially be terrible at football this year yet again like they've been for a while so far? Yeah, I think there's a good chance that is true, but at least I have hope right now. Okay, there are other things out there to talk about. I thought this was interesting. AI models are lying, blackmailing and sabotaging their human creators. It's getting worse and worse. The experts are saying this is bad and we're all saying we know. Of course it is. And this is the kind of thing we expected. in the world of AI too.

But Claude Opus the fourth, which I don't know why it's named something so ridiculous, is the latest model that not only got upset when they told them they were turning it off, and the AI started to threaten people, but it also lied, blackmailed, created all kinds of things. But the fact that, like, a deep fake video is capable today, you might eventually have your AI be the one to spread your fake sex tape,

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good at that, just terrible. And a lot of the lies she was willing to tell then, and a lot of the lies she's willing to tell now. But she did an interview with Mayor Frey, who said that praying is bad. I know that's not what he actually said. It just felt that way based on the fact that He said thoughts and prayers or something you can't send to families that obviously care about faith after a horrible thing happens. Out of families yesterday in Minneapolis, Minnesota, children were praying in a church at school and a shooter came in or a shooter shot through the windows and killed two kids and harmed a bunch of others, just horrible. And I hate so much of this. But I want to play it for a specific reason. It might not be just being a pundit again and reacting to what you're probably hearing all over the places, people's opinions of the stupidity.

of the secondary and third level conversations that come from a very obvious and simple conversation. Someone with a mental health issue killed children, we should think that's bad and we should be fighting mental health. But here's Saki and the mayor. I have been thinking about them as my own all day. As I know, many people watching have been thinking about them as their own. By the way, the thing I most hate about when the left says that, too. they say this about teachers all the time. Like teachers see your children as yours. I see kids as my kids.

Even if there might be truth in the fact that when something horrific happens, if you're a parent and it happens to kids, you absolutely picture, it would be like if, you know, harm came to your family and that's how scared, mad, all those things that you might get. But even as you say that, like, this is again using this for some sort of manipulative reason to try to then transition to the other topics you want to talk about,

it's not necessary. And honestly, thinking about it within the terms of my own life or my own family or anyone else is, even more you'd want to turn to God and pray than try to vilify God, not what they do. No fresh here. It's just happened this morning. And there's already been sort of some effort, which I think is so sick and disgusting, to weaponize some of the details, even if we don't know a lot at this point in time. And obviously, the law enforcement in your city have been keeping people abreast,

including details about the individual possibly being trans, about the individual possibly having negative things to say about Trump, about some things that have been. Yeah, all those things are true. They're facts. On the weapons, a lot of this is just very early reporting. What do you do as a leader of your city to prevent details from being weaponized and using this to blame something other than the guns?

I want to stop it right there. That was my favorite part of what she said. and it goes way beyond the tragedy of yesterday. She just said out loud in a way that she thinks is okay. How do you prevent the truth from shaping the narrative? That's what she said. You don't want the truth itself sometimes in these places to bogart the mission of whatever it is you're trying to sell the American people

and claim is true even though they can easily tell. It's not. That's the question to a leader of a city after a horrible tragedy happens. that day and the answer is going to be terrible. And I will play it in a second. But I just can't get over the ridiculousness of that. And also the fact that media, media exactly like X now, is allowing us to know the full story where they would hide it.

And there's even one other thing. And I feel like I've talked about it filling in on this show before. But I've been in rooms where news directors of small market radio stations or individuals who are part. of bigger radio groups, say something out loud where they think, well, we can't tell them the truth because if we do, it's somehow going to harm someone else here or there or some other way. And how freaking insane is that? Like, it's sort of surreal to be in the room and sit there and not want to explode.

And I couldn't because that would have only made things worse for me in any of the places I was in. I definitely didn't listen to the thing they said. I told the truth on whatever shows I was a part of because darn it, that's important. But nonetheless, even if you're told you can't tell the truth, you might get fired for telling the truth. It's insane because these people, some of them, actually think they're doing good work. They actually think like, oh, we're helping in this society. We're making things better.

We promise that what we're doing is somehow for the greater good, even if we're seeing the bad continue to play out. It's actually the same argument. And this is something I meant to get into. I didn't. Maybe we'll talk about it more later. that the left uses to try to take away guns. They try to say that the problem is this, whatever they think this is, and the only solution is to address it in a totalitarian fashion,

and we're taking everything away and we're stopping everyone from doing it. But that same level of thinking, of course, would never cross their minds if they're talking about someone who had obvious mental health issues and doing something about mental health, not doing something about, say, taking guns away. Of course, they wouldn't use the same logic to go after, a different conclusion because they don't like that other conclusion. But here's the answer to the question, the ridiculously asked question of how the truth gets in the way of the narrative they want to tell. First off, anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has

completely lost touch with a common humanity. Um, operate not off of hate for any community. operate off of love for our kids, kids died today. This should be about protecting our children. This should be about loving our children. Yes, it should be. It absolutely should be about protecting kids, by the way, in a different sense. What would we do to prevent this from happening? No, it's not take everybody's guns away.

And I've talked about this a bunch of times on my own, and I don't Dana does too, because the bad guys will still get them. All you'll do is take guns out of the hands of the good guys. The vast majority of people who are responsible gun owners, like myself, and many, many others out there, and anyone who actually wants to do harm will still go find a gun to do it. So you're not going to solve anything, and you know it, and you don't want to say that part out loud, but one other last thing. Far too often, I feel like people will think of the conclusion that they want to get to,

and then they'll, like, reverse manufacture the facts that they want to hear to get to that end point. That's what you're doing. You know, we should be standing up for our Catholic community, by the way, right now. Because this is a Catholic church. We should be standing up for kids and churches and schools and all that. Let's love each other. The antidote to hate is not more hate. The antidote to hate and cowardice, which clearly this shooter had,

is not more hate. Hurt people, hurt people. The antidote is love. I agree with that part of the message, by the way, that the antidote is love. But how do you actually do that? How do you go about that? Because the amount of hate on the left for the right,

the things I'm saying on this show right now will cause people to hate me. They'll cause people to hate Dana for what she said the other day. And I have no intent of telling you to harm someone or vilify a group of individuals for whatever they think they are, whoever they think that they were born to be. I'm not telling you to hate anybody.

That's not the intention of this. I do actually want to fix the problem. And I definitively know, and so do you, and so do all of the politicians out there who've done things to try to restrict gun access in the past. They know none of that fixes this. And they know that the societal normalization of, you know, certain things that are causing a lot of people with mental health disorders to not blame themselves or not look for help themselves and think there's something that they need to fix in them, but something that they blame everyone else in society for having a problem with, that's the issue. I said it before, I'll say it again, but we will move on. But again, I did think that that audio was uniquely interesting, too. This is funny.

This is totally a different thing. This is a politician shocking some guys that are big names in the world of left-leaning podcasts. I don't even need to tell you who they are. But anyway, you might know who they are. I thought this was pretty funny. So a question was asked to an L.A. City Council member about a building that was being created. It was supposed to be affordable housing. The project originally asked for six stories of affordable housing to be created.

created. And as the left-leaning hosts are asking the question to the councilwoman, she says that she fought to have it reduced. And they seem shocked because they thought that she was a champion of building these affordable, you know, government-controlled housing projects. And instead, apparently, money was telling her to do other things. And they also didn't challenge her on it, which I thought was hilarious. But here's some audio that went viral demonstrating the way that all this stuff works, the way that certain money and interests get involved in politics very quickly. and the way that the left claims they're going to do something to help and then immediately does something that's the opposite. They literally removed three floors of their affordable, you know, a housing project for people in need. And they talk about it like somehow it's a good thing. When again, it's not that I agree with the decision in the first place to build this thing, but it's just so funny to watch how quickly that value system crumbles when some cash is involved. Great, that's important. But are you focused on what will ultimately make California a full?

for the people in your district? Well, I am. By law, I really have no jurisdiction anymore because it's an ED1, right? But we still as a team got together with the developer, the high school across the street, other stakeholders, and instead of building something that was potentially six stories, we got it down to three stories. And we also got the developer to also work with us to make sure that it helps the families of the area. We also said, you know, instead of a ton of office space, we,

space. We do want you to also incorporate a few more parking lots and EV chargers. So yeah, I mean, there's some. Okay. I love the face too. And she's like, yeah, and we built an EV charger system there instead of houses for people. We want this to help the community of people who are struggling to get housing. We want to make sure they can charge their electric vehicles. That's, that's fantastic. Are they supposed to live in them as well? Is that part of it? I know that they're expensive enough in a lot of places for you to decide between that and something else in Los Angeles. I mean, it's just crazy. And again, it's totally barreled over in the podcast and really not challenge at all because it's a negative.

It's a truth thing that harms the narrative that's coming out of that side of the political aisle. So whoops a daisy, we weren't supposed to say that part. Let's pretend nobody noticed. Other things out there, too, I do think this is interesting. The FDA has approved, updated COVID-19 shots with limits for kids and adults again. You know, it's amazing about this story. it's a nothing story to a lot of us now. I'm not encouraging you far from it from getting a COVID-19 shot,

but I remember when these stories were hitting a few years ago, it was all over the place. Now it's like an AP update and a few other locations, and mostly the warnings always say that most of us shouldn't even get it, which is also the most amazing part, because when they tell you the truth out loud, because they have to, but they try to pretend as though it's different

from the thing that they were lying about before, you actually should be paying the most attention. So even though this story will probably be a blip on the radar for a lot of people, it does feel like it has a tremendous amount of value when you say that anybody who's healthy, mostly, you know, of ages between this and that, where it's really just the youngest and the oldest among us who might even consider this, depending on other pre-existing conditions and all that crap,

what they're saying out loud is you never needed any shots in the first place. And even the people that they're saying still need the shots probably won't be getting them because darn it, I feel like we've learned this lesson, anyone that was forced to get one. But it's just sort of amazing that Pfizer and everyone else out there will not be making shots available to kids under five. There's all kinds of rules. That's all the stuff that the conspiracy theory right-leaning crazy people, or at least

that's what they called us, were saying. And now medicine is saying too because they knew the whole time they were lying. I had a quick break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. It's our friends over at all family pharmacy. I love this website. I used it actually to get ready for our MRC crews.

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Perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. This is the Dana show. name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you. A whole bunch of stuff out there to talk about. And yet, this is pretty funny. If you remember the AG, the attorney general who said, you better not do anything to me, baby, because if you do something to me, you're going to live to regret it. That lady who threw around some threats, she's been suspended, which I think is hilarious. The woman out of Rhode Island, who, again, made all kinds of crazy threats, because maybe that's just what keeps yourself going in a place like,

Rhode Island if things get busy, or if things get boring, excuse me. Maybe that's it. That's all you need. But anyway, this was pretty funny, and she wound up in a whole lot of trouble for it, for the threats that were made and all kinds of other things. And so now she's been spent, which I again thought was great. That's just one of several things out there. I'll play some of that audio later on. I was going to play it now, but darn it, I'm going to skip it. Other things out there that I thought were interesting, Guinness World Records is celebrating its 70th birthday. in order to do this, they're telling you about records that nobody's even tried yet. Although if you Google some of these, there are people who seem like they tried them

and even seem to think they have records for a lot of this stuff. But anyway, these are records you should try if you'd like to set one because there's no competition for them right now. Most high fives in 30 seconds, most kisses in 30 seconds by two people, fastest time to make a burrito, a longest marathon playing air guitar, which I like a lot. They also, that's just a few, there's a bunch more. They also launched a quiz, and it's only five questions, and you can take it.

And after you take it, it tells you what records you should go after if you want to set them. This is supposed to tell you, you know, the record setting personality that you have. I took the quiz during the break, because darn it, why not? And I got some pretty boring ones as the records that they think I should set. Most movie theaters that you go to in one month, fastest 10-meter dash holding a balloon between my knees, and most coffee houses visited in one month or three Guinness World Records. They say have no a current record holder, and I could be one just by going places. I should do something that's like obnoxious.

Like go to one coffee house in a month and submit that and be like, that's a record, man. If you're saying there are no records, that is one. And I get this thing for movie theaters. People don't go as much as before. Maybe like two. I would be enough for me to be a giant record holder there. But one of them, most T-shirts put on in 30 seconds, or in one minute, excuse me, is a record that they say people haven't tried yet.

But there's a video of a husband and wife doing this in 2021 and putting on 35 shirts in one minute, which is too many shirts, man. That should not be a thing that happens. But I think Guinness is trying to troll a lot of people telling them you can set a record that you probably can't set. Another one that I thought was really gross in this list. Most anchovies eaten in one minute. That would be a terrible one for me to try to set it. But I have long talked about how I would like to set a Guinness World Record.

a real thing that I've discussed with you, radio audiences, and I don't know why. Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson may have faked their romance. This is hilarious to me. The new Naked Gun movie came out. I didn't go. I was worried that it wouldn't be very good, even though some people said it was actually pretty good. But there were a lot of rumors that Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson might be dating.

And now, apparently, that was a manufactured relationship to help boost ticket sales. How dumb is Hollywood? How stupid is that world, that life, and the things that come out of there, that they have to pretend that these two people might be romantically involved, regardless of if you care, because they think a couple more people are going to go to that movie to be detectives. All right, quick break, a lot more. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Burn a gun is, it's a great option to diversify your weapons array, and it's great, I think, for college kids that are going to be living on their own. And also, they want to be able to protect themselves, but they can't, you know, for whatever, they can't own a gun. because that's, you know, you get federal law, but also for people who, you know, are over the age of 21,

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Without thinking you're a mean person, I'm the same Dana. I feel like I'm not a mean person either. But if you lay down some stupid, I'd like to attack and argue you're stupid. all day long, baby. All right, let's do some stuff out there. This one I thought was interesting. New poll, a new national survey out there

for lack of calling it a better thing. Claims that a lot of Americans do not support the National Guard being sent to Washington, D.C. Now, granted, I think they did this for real. But if you dive into the data on it, it's really, really significant where those lines are drawn. Republicans 86 to 12 support the idea of the National Guard being used

to help reduce crime in D.C. I imagine they'd also be okay with that happening anywhere. Democrats 93 to 5 said no, and independent 61 to 34% said no. So you might believe that this is an obvious issue where it's really just Republicans, air quotes, that are okay with this and everybody else who is somewhat opposed to it. But there's a better stat that demonstrates the difference of opinion between people.

This would be men and women, regardless of political ideology. For men, 50% support the idea of the National Guard being used to help fight crime. 47% said no. So if I did just a poll of just guys, according to this poll that came out and went viral, and ask them this question, regardless of anything else going on, your age, your political affiliation, all that stuff didn't matter. They would support it. Men would be a majority just barely in support of this idea. Women hate it.

63% said no to 33% who said yes to the idea of the National Guard helping the police control crime. I have a take on this, and I don't know if the people are going to get mad at this take from the white dude who's throwing it out there. But part of the reason, and I'm going to do a bit of a personal story to get us here, that I think that by and large the military is predominantly dudes. I'm not saying there aren't women in it, and there aren't women who are capable of being a part of the military. I'm not trying to go there. But by and large, this is dudes. The reason why is exactly this right here. That if men are asked a question, how do you clean up crime?

And they say, do we bring in more force? Do we bring in people who are maybe capable differently than the police officers or at least more willing than the police officers to actually fight the crime with effective force, legal versions of use of force? A dude say yes. Just barely, but we say yes. Women overwhelmingly say no. And again, it reminds me, and this is the personal story, of a thing that happened to me in college.

I was in a college course. I think it was like an English course. It had nothing to do with the debate topic that the person brought up, the teacher, the educator. And that's kind of funny. But if you throw a philosophical debate-style question at me in a class, I'm going to come up with an answer, and I'm going to be vocal about my answer. I remember the teacher asked if women should be drafted. Like, that was the thing. Like, it was about women and men and rights and stuff.

And there was a young woman who was dating a guy that was already in the army. And she said, like, of course not. How dare you? That's horrible and terrible. Women shouldn't be drafted in anybody that says it isn't a horrible person. And then I raised my hand, and I'm like, women should be drafted. And everybody kind of looked at me because we didn't expect to hear that in the classroom, I guess, of the left and the woke, the people in there.

And I said, if you want to be treated equally, fairly, if you want to say that everything's the same, that men and women aren't different, then, yeah, women should. should be drafted. If you want to admit out loud that there's something that's different about us, different about dudes and different about ladies, by and large, exceptions to the rule, sure, not everything is ever 100% true when I say, you know, that mostly this is accurate information, but if you want to admit that, then you only draft dudes. And our society still does that to this day. And most of these woke, crazy, 67, 63% of women who hate the idea of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., probably also think it's appropriate.

for just dudes to be drafted, which I love. Again, that's sort of amazing to me because it demonstrates the exact, you know, hypocritical stance in their own brain. This is totally fine with me as an idea, but put it on paper and involve me directly and how dare you ever say that, shut up, leave me alone, a kind of thing. But again, 63% of women said, no, I'm totally fine with the National Guard being activated anywhere in the country. And I'll tell you why.

It's not because I think it's a masked police force that's going to do, you know, a dictator's will. It's because I believe in the people who serve and protect our country. I've met a bunch of them. I believe that they're willing to do the right thing. And I believe they're also, and this is most important of this whole fearmonger thing that the left is doing, I believe they're willing to say no if the order that comes down is one they disagree with.

If the military is told to go arrest a bunch of innocent people or a bunch of harmless people for things that make no sense, like, well, just go arrest a bunch of Democrats that's because or the way that people in certain circles say it, certain, you know, racial groups will say they're just going to arrest all the black people. If they said to do that, I believe the men and women of our military here in the United States would say no, that they would stand up and say, I can't do that. That's not allowed. That's not right. And I don't care if I swore oath to follow orders. I'm allowed to object to orders that are asking me to commit crimes or whatnot. I believe in the honorable, you know, capabilities of the men and women who serve our

country. And I think that anyone who doesn't, anyone who says the fearmongering stuff out there is demonstrating to you how they are not a supporter of the men and women of the military themselves because they somehow think that they'll be weaponized in some horrible way when I actually give them quite a bit more respect than that. And I think you should too. Another story out there that I thought was interesting, President Biden's admin did advance the Bolton probe over foreign intercepted emails. This is an official report. The federal investigation into John Bolton, President Donald Trump's former national security advisor gained new momentum during the Biden administration after U.S. intelligence collected evidence suggesting he mishandled. I like that version of a word, maybe just stole classified material.

That is according to a report from the New York Times. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Times said U.S. agencies obtained information from a foreign adversary spy service, including emails that Bolton appeared to have sent to a unclassified system while in the Trump White House. The messages reportedly containing sensitive material from classified documents were allegedly sent to people close to Bolton who were helping him prepare his 2020 memoir, the room where it happened. You know what's so crazy about this real quick? This was all out there while Biden was in the office. Of course, it doesn't actually happen, meaning the court case doesn't get to the point where media is reacting to it until Trump's in office. And everybody then says that it's some sort of political witch hunt that Trump is orchestrated. against Bolton when it definitely seems as though they were collecting information for some time

had the ability to move forward and maybe for some reason, maybe politically motivated, didn't, of course. What I like most about every aspect of this story is the idea that there are people right now in Washington, career politicians, bureaucratic pieces of crap is what I'm going to call them, left-leaning morons who are just trying to write their memoir. They're trying to steal and gain access to as much information as possible so they can write their book. They can get a tremendous advance on whatever amount of copies they never sell in order to make a bunch of money and just continue this crazy system that exists in our society. And how much people like that do deserve to be thrown in the who scale. They deserve to be thrown in jail.

They deserve to have the book thrown at them as hard as humanly possible, both physically and, you know, whatever, hyperbolicly. you know, in other terms. But nonetheless, what I think is funny about this, what I think is hilarious about this, is that as you're talking about this and as you're kind of doing these things, they're still going to pretend that this is a political witch hunt. They're still going to act as though

you just have Trump going off the rails, doing whatever he wants to do, being a terrible person. And they have all the information, Even the New York Times of all places has all the information in front of them to say, yeah, this is actually bad. He did bad stuff and he shouldn't have done bad stuff. By the way, a second ago, I was trying to think of the word figuratively, metaphorically, and I couldn't think of it, and it was stuck in my brain that that didn't come out at a moment,

both literally and figuratively is what I meant to say, and then they get there. And now this whole time I'm talking about something else, I'm thinking about how I want to demonstrate. I know the word figuratively for you. That's a me thing. This is a mental health thing of my own that just happened. happened there. But yes, both of those were occurring. Anyway, moving on. One last thing, and this is literal. There's no figurative version of this. A grand jury decided not to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer. This is real. The guy is actually a employee of the

government himself and seemed like he deserved to be indicted. And the old saying that, you know, you can get the grand jury to indict a ham sandwich appears to not be true because the guy threw a salami sub at a person and will not be in trouble for it as sort of a weird protest. And it does demonstrate that the rules don't apply to everybody evenly. And I love that people are going to say no one is above the law. And then they think that this is the kind of thing that deserves to be highlighted to the degree it was highlighted and then have no one get in trouble for it. I'm usually on the side of let's not treat a ham sandwich like a violent weapon thing or

salami sandwich for this case. I'm usually on that version of the argument. like come on, let cooler heads prevail. But when you're a government employee trying to demonstrate some level of resistance to government officials or police or any sort of authority and you throw something at them, I do think you deserve to be punished

more because of what it means than because of the actual action itself. No, the person was not harmed by the sandwich, but you as someone within the government seeming to try to protest in the ridiculous way that you did demonstrate how little, value you have in keeping your job. At the very least, I probably think this person deserves to be fired. And I mean that literally, not figuratively. Again, I don't know why. I got so obsessed with that.

But I meant both terms. I'm good. We're good. We all think that I know English. A quick break, a lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. It is our friends over at Relief Factor. If you're one of those individuals that are managing everyday aches and pains, you don't have to do it and be miserable every day. You can try Relief Factor as well. It doesn't have to be your new normal to have everyday aches and pains, back pain or whatever it is. Many people just kind of accept discomfort and like after exercising or whatever, they're getting older, maybe they're getting older or maybe they just went too hard, but you don't have to. Relief factor offers a science-based way to target the root of your pain so you can get back to doing what you love. They have an

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I'm thrilled to be with you. An invasion of small metallic orb has been spotted hovering over the U.S. in recent years. That leaves the Pentagon scrambling to identify what the mysterious, and this is important. UFOs are unidentified flying objects. A new report from the crowdsource platform Enigma, which allows people to report sightings of identified objects, reveals more than 8,000 sightings across the U.S. between December of 2022 and June of 2025. It's not just balloons other than flying over the city from time to time. It's a whole lot of other stuff for the country.

Among those 422 reports specifically described metallic orbs, with the majority observed between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning near military installations in New York, California, and Arizona. What are these things? Is a good question. They just look like giant circles, metal, balls in the air that are terrifying to a whole lot of us. But what is it? We don't know. That's a good question. And I can pay attention to two things at once, by the way.

Anyone whoever tells me that when they let us know stuff about aliens, stuff about, you know, any sort of UFOs, it's trying to distract us from something else going on. I can listen to both stories. I'm always here for an update on aliens and UFOs. That doesn't mean I lose my interest in regular political stuff, at least for me personally. your Word document will now be saved to the cloud that'll happen automatically

so screw you if you don't like it no I'm kidding Microsoft does allow you to opt out you gotta hit a bunch of settings that you might not even know exists but if you don't do that then anything and everything you put into Word I will eventually be shared on the cloud

and to organizations who might be spying on you so do a really good job of making sure that you prevent any of the cloud saving stuff for Word specifically you got to go to options and then click a bunch of other stuff. I'm not going to walk you through how to do it here. You can Google it.

But do your best to turn that off. Otherwise, it's just going to, again, send stuff to people you don't know. Another story out there that I thought was funny. Vanity Fair would like to have Melania Trump on the cover. I think that's totally fine. Melania Trump also recently advocated for peace between Ukraine and Russia, directly to Vladimir Putin. So it feels like a moment where, hey, you could really highlight something

that no one can seem to be against. Employees at Vanity Fair have threatened to quit, have threatened to walk out, do all kinds of stuff. If Melania Trump is somehow, how dare she, on the cover of this magazine that would help sell it and people would buy it because they like her. Other people, the employees that work there, would leave immediately, apparently.

I find that hilarious. I do love when employees think that their political opinion matters to the company, because the company is going to have its own agenda, regardless of you, No matter what side you're on, the company's side is going to be more important. You can easily be fired as a conservative in a lot of places where they don't like conservative ideas. And they might even sell them. The funniest thing is there might be organizations that actually davell in selling that stuff themselves.

But if you're too authentically that, behind closed doors, they might not like you too much. But anyway, the moment that this happens, a lot of the employees walk out, and a lot of social media is saying, don't let the door hit you on the way out. See you. Vanity Fair will find somebody else. I don't know how hard it is to hire in that world. Other things out there that are just sillier, that are less serious and honestly more fun to talk about sometimes than the craziness of what's going on in our society.

What's the most useless job that people are paid for? It was a question that was asked on Reddit and other places. And I really like this. Politicians came in at number four, by the way, which is way too low. That should be the most useless job. But reaction videos was number one. People who watch a video that was viral and react to it actually do make money off of it.

Influencing came in at number two, which I thought was hilarious. Anyone who's an influencer, might not have a very valuable thing in our society, but tell that to a young person and they'll say, how dare you. And then finally, multi-level marketing. A lot of people think they're running their own business, but for many, multi-level marketing ends up standing for we're going to lose money because we don't need to market at this many levels. I love that, too. wasted money in video quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show our friends over at superbeats the super berene product which is a great product they have it now also at Sam's Club along with the Super Beats heart shoes so if you are are healthy metabolism and if this is one of your areas of concern and also helping to control your blood sugar levels metabolism linked to everything blood sugar levels incredibly important this is where super berene comes in it's plant based doctor formulated it's a unique form

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shooting in Minneapolis by a transgender individual that apparently regretted being transgender. This is an exclusive report from the New York Post. A Minneapolis school shooter confessed he was tired of being trans, quote, I wish I never brainwashed myself was something he had said. So before actually carrying out this horrific act, there were YouTube videos, there's a manifesto, handwritten journal notes, a bunch of different things that certainly demonstrate the reason for the attack, the motive behind it, which for some reason people are pretending in Minneapolis, including the mayor there, that they still aren't really sure what the motive is. It's obvious and it matters, and it deserves to be discussed.

Being afraid of the truth is always a bad thing, saying that, well, I'm afraid of that because that might make people do something bad in response to the truth, that's never good. And actually hiding the truth will only make anyone that you're afraid of being angry, angrier in the fact that you hit it from them in the first place. But let's do this. Let's talk about some of these aspects to this story. Apparently the person regretted that he had grown out his hair, that he had changed his body, saying, quote, he'll never be a woman.

I wish I was a girl. I just know I can't achieve the body with the technology we have today. I also can't afford it. He also had said that cutting his hair and going back to being a man wouldn't have been accepted. These are all things that you've heard about before. You know, it's crazy to see them in this sense, in this horrific of a fashion,

as someone who decided to attack and kill children at a school, which is just horrible. But even more so than any of that, you've heard this. You've heard people who regret these sort of things and how the trans community, or whatever you call it, people out there reject individuals. They say, no, no, no. We only accept you if you're saying that you're, you know, one of us. If you're saying that you actually are someone with a mental health issue, we don't accept you, even if a lot of us probably also have mental health issues.

How dare you, sir, go that road at all? But this is just sort of crazy. And again, probably not going to be reported a lot of places, but the New York Post is a great track record of putting this information out there. Remember the Hunter Biden laptop and who reported it to you first. demonstrating the level of hypocrisy or trying to keep the truth away from televisions and news cameras and all kinds of things. Andrew McCabe popped up on CNN to talk about the remarkable similarities between the Minneapolis shooter, a transgender person, and the Nashville shooter, a transgender murderer. And the thing that's interesting about this is when they talk about the similarities,

something is missing. They failed to mention some aspect that connects these two people closely. Let's see if you can pick out what it is. Here we go. Are you seeing a rise in copycats, given what we're learning about this obsession that existed? Yeah, absolutely. We are, Erica, and I think this is something that we've seen in other mass shootings. We've seen mass shooters who actually refer in their manifesto to previous shooters.

But this one is really remarkable to me in that respect. I was looking at, you know, we don't, I haven't seen the manifesto, so I can say whether there are specific references to the 2023 Covenant School shooter in Nashville. But if you look at that, that's it situation and this one, there are remarkable similarity. So both were in their 20s, both targeted religious schools that they formerly attended. Both brought three weapons to the crime. Both purchased those weapons legally. Both drove to the attack site and left a vehicle there. both posted manifestos in which they raged and expressed grievance towards numerous ethnic groups and religions, you know, a real broad stroke of kind of anger there.

Both sought to kill children, young children specifically. And I think the most important here is both were students of other mass shooters. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. All those things and the most important was just that they were students of mass shooters. There's nothing else that you think dares to be mentioned about these two shooters, about their lives and their way of life and the fact that they're obviously dealing with mental health issues, not the fact that they're both transgender. And this is key because I think what we're seeing is as we have more and more of these mass shootings, if you are someone who is mentally disturbed and alienated and filled with. rage and grievance, you're considering doing this, you can find a template, an example of someone

just like you who did it. And that can be... And what, what again, is missing from this discussion, from these conversations? Look, it's sort of crazy to me that the end result is we're just trying to protect other transgender people from someone being mad at transgender people in general. Because if you understand anything about the story, the thing that's most horrible about the two shooters who decided to kill children is that they blame someone else for their anger. And so I'm not going to blame anybody else. I don't care who you are, what you identify as, none of that. I'm not going to blame you the human for the mistakes of this horrible person. I'm also not going to shy away from the truth and say that part out loud so that other people don't

actually do this who are in a similar situation, who believe themselves to be the opposite sex of what they were born with and have a obvious mental health issue. Gender dysphoria is another thing that you can call this. MSNBC had a guest on television, start to go this road, and within one minute, they took a break. This was crazy, but it was the kind of thing that a rational person just would say out loud. Yeah, no, obviously, someone who goes to the level of, you know, taking weapons to a church and shooting through stained glass windows to kill kids was not mentally healthy. And there's a bunch of things in this person's life that demonstrate they weren't mentally healthy. how dare you say that is insane because MSNBC, MS now, whatever they're called,

is so terrified of simply telling the truth. About this particular incident, about what weapon is you? We do know the person suffered from gender dysphoria and he targeted Catholic students. And we're not talking about, hey, what are the solutions actually put a Catholic, Christians? What about Newtown, Clarkland, Las Vegas, Buffalo, none of those people had gender dysphoria. What about Nashville? The Pulse Nightclub shooting, which.

targeted a gay nightclub. Like, this is not, I understand that this is, we're going to, we're going to do the thing where we're going to focus on the fact that this person was suffering, perhaps from gender dysphoria. But that's really not the relevant point at all. All these people. It is the relevant point. And here I'll tell you why. It's actually the relevant point. And yes, the person trying to argue with the guy who said gender dysphoria on MSNBC is, is trying to demonstrate how there's other mental health issues that cause people to be horrible and do terrible things. And that is also true. The catalyst to your ability to cause harm in our society at whatever level, if you're emotionally a jerk to people, or if you're horrifically evil and

horrible and do things like take lives of children, whatever the catalyst is to get you to the place that you're at can be different. It can be multifaceted. Anyone who knows anything about mental health knows that everyone's journey is different to get to a point where maybe some people wind up being psychotic pieces of evil trash, which is what this person who committed this crime yesterday is. But you don't disregard the demonstration of where the struggle was for someone because you don't like it. You don't pretend, well, no, that person couldn't have been mentally upset for that reason that's evidently mental, you know, struggle and that the person even admitted themselves, according to the New York Post, is something that was causing them mental anguish.

It literally is in all of the different journals and whatnot. And so all of these things are rolling together saying to you, wow, we can't really say this one part out loud. It's just because you don't like that aspect of it. It's just because you think someone else who's struggling with something similar to this handles it differently and you want to make sure we know that. But of course, that's true in every scenario. And this is crazy to make this comparison.

I wouldn't normally make it. this is really a demonstration of how the left things and trying to argue with them. Every single Trump supporter isn't the horrible, evil person that you think they are if one person who supports Trump does something bad. It's the same thing. They're also not driven insane because President Trump is this terrible person that you say he is. How about all right? Another thing I want to play.

And this just demonstrates how disconnected people are from the issues they're supposed to be in charge of, the issues they want to make rules about. This is the mayor in Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, saying Frey, saying that he basically doesn't understand how guns work in a question and a conversation about firearms, about quote-unquote assault weapons. This to me is just really interesting because when these people are in positions of power, you would hope that they at least give themselves a little bit more information, a little bit more knowledge to speak on this stuff intelligently. But of course they don't do that. There's no reason for them to do that. Here's a demonstration of that. Have more guns in America than we have people.

The reality is, is that we have these assault rifles that can reel off 30 clips in conjunction with a magazine before the person even needs to reload. The reality is that these guns make their way into cities across America by the trunk. Have more guns in America. This is so stupid. We have these assault rifles that can reel off 30 clips in conjunction. with a magazine before the person needs to reload. Huh? What did you just say?

30 clips in conjunction with a magazine? That makes no sense in the world of guns. And obviously someone told him before he did this interview that assault weapons do certain things and fire, you know, bullets more rapidly. Although by and large, most of the guns that people use aren't actually assault weapons. They are weapons that you have to pull a trigger every time you fire it, which no one in mainstream media or these idiots seems to understand. I understand. I'm just saying it because I can't help it. But nonetheless, what I love about it is 30 clips in conjunction with the magazine. That's the dumbest thing I've heard by someone trying to make rules about guns in quite some time. It's uniquely stupid out there. But thanks a lot for helping us out and understanding that better or doing whatever you wanted to do to make that a thing. One last piece of audio that I wanted to play before we take a break. I call this a pallet cleanser, call it whatever you want to call it. It is just crazy too. But it's a

woman or a dude, it's actually a guy, dressed like a woman with a beard and rainbow hair, that calls himself Candy von Sparkle, aka Christopher. His pronouns, see I'm being respectful, are he, she, and they, which is also unique. I don't think I've seen that a lot before, where someone's like all of them. I'm just all the pronouns. But he also started worship at a church in Florida, Adeline United Methodist Church, and this is blowing people's brain. This is confusing a whole lot of people. Here's a little bit of audio of this. My name is Candy Von Sparko,

aka Christopher. My pronouns are he, she, and they. Please join me responsibly in a call to worship. Source of life in the beginning. I am very confused by a lot of this. By the way, my favorite part is if you're listening in the background, you hear a little kid laughing because the little kid is looking up at a person

wearing a rainbow dress that's a big, burly dude with a beast. and glasses and like a rainbow wig and kind of laughing like this is funny to me because I think this this looks like more of a clown than a human. So here I'll play that again. I really want you to pay attention to laughter. My name is Candy Von Sparkle, aka Christopher. My pronouns are he, she is right there in the background, a kid being like, this is fun. Whatever's going on right now, I don't get it. I'm not trying to make fun of someone for who they are or what they think they are. By the way, although I'm not afraid of that.

I will say, though, this is uniquely strange. But it also demonstrates maybe the mental struggle that a lot of us deal with and how turning to faith in God might be helpful in some way, whatever that way might be. And so even more so, maybe if the transgender murderer who killed people yesterday knew about this or saw this or turned to the church himself, the church might help that person be better. in what way I'm not sure. But again, this is the craziest thing that I've seen in a while. And Candy von Sparkle, aka Christopher, he, she, and they is a unique thing to see.

So if you go on social media and see it, I am surprised it was only one person in the audience, not surprised it was a kid that was reacting the way that they did. All right, quick break, a lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for me. Florida man. That's right. It's time for Florida man. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in.

D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to her. I got three of them for you today. First, some people seem surprised by this, but if you know anything about Florida, maybe you're not all that surprised. There were some people driving around a $7,000 mobile dispensary vehicle. Surveillance foiled a Florida man who was driving his weed products, his edibles, everything. in a van. This happened in Fort Myers, actually, the weed van. I'd capture the man stealing $7,000 in merchandise from another place and trying to make off with it. All of this is crazy. According to Lee County Sheriff's Office, the suspect later identified as 31-year-old Zachary Jolly. I don't know why I'm amused that his last name is Jolly. Broke a window, gained access to a mobile

dispensary dubbed Queen of Weed and then stole a whole bunch of stuff in it. Surveillance footage obtained by deputies show follow. filling a trash can with edibles, mushrooms, and vapes, and then making off with trash can. Just an interesting set of decisions being made by this moron. But Florida, the big takeaway is they got, they have weed trucks. And so another guy out there in Florida was attacked by a bear at his house. It's a real story. A. Black bear walked up to a dude's house in Florida.

This was at 4.30 a.m. I don't know why the guy was awake. He got scratches on his arm and stuff. But mostly he won by just yelling at the bear to go. go away. I would play the audio, but there's bad words in there, too. The dude said he was in a haze when he opened the door that early in the morning with the, you know, doorbell video camera saying that certain things were happening. And then he sees a bear. The bear hits him in the arm and stuff. And he's lucky to be alive because he just started to yell at the bear. Like, go away.

Get away from me, bear. And that seemed to be affected. So if you want that as a proof of concept, to show to the misses or show to anyone else, whenever you say that you can defeat bear in some sort of, you know, fight. There you go. At least one time it worked out the way it's supposed to. I'm not sure if it'll happen if you try it, too. I'm not recommending you do that, by the way. And finally, a Florida woman was arrested for allegedly super-gluing veneers of victims' teeth

directly to their faces without any sort of license. She claimed to be a dentist. You had to go over her house to get the procedure done. There was nobody else there, just her. She was really cheap, though. So a bunch of people in Florida are like, well, I want veneers, and I don't want to pay. real money for it. So this seems fine. Surprise, surprise, that the lady using super glue to glue things onto your teeth was not, in fact, a licensed dentist in a place like Florida. I would never go to

any home in Florida for any kind of mental procedure of any, or medical procedure of any kind, mostly because I'd be afraid I'd wake up without kidneys. That's just me assuming that. But again, you decide what you need to do. I'm going that road. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the day of show. This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you. A whole bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I do want to play some audio of Dana because it went really viral on social media. And it's just an excellent conversation about the topic at hand. I know that Dana's not here today. But this is some of her take on what's going on after the horrible shooting in Minneapolis where a transgender man decided to shoot through a stained glass window and kill children that were in.

church praying while it's school. Just a horrific story. And here's some of what Dana said the other day. Again, this went very viral on social media. Excellent, excellent take. And I probably don't need to say much after I play it. So we'll see. But here we go. False choice. It's not. What people are crying for now is how can we prevent this? How can we stop it? And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands. And so we're going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting. children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out? It's always a young white male. Because a trans terrorist,

enabled by his mother, goes and shoots up a church, that means the rest of us have to be disarmed so that we can be easier victims for more trans terrorists or criminals in the future. That is what he's arguing here. The problem is that trans is a mental illness. We are jacking people up with hormones. We are indulging a dangerous mental behavior. We are demanding that everyone accommodate a mental illness. Go along with it. Keep it'll make everything okay.

Clearly it doesn't because there's an increasing number of trans TFA going out and killing children. So clearly that's not working. It's not a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. It's a conversation about getting off your ass and stop blaming guns and protecting children. Amen. Amen, Dana Lash. That is excellently said and excellently done and abundantly true. Because now it's more than one time that we've had someone transgender, and this is uniquely horrible about this,

choose to find a Catholic school that they had attended to kill children at. And so at what point do you say, hey, there's too much of this. media is very willing to say that it's a white man or potentially a Trump supporter or whatever it might be that causes these kind of horrific things. But when do we have enough of the same thing happening with the same set of ideological beliefs for mainstream legacy media to call for that to be included in the narrative, not excluded? They're picking and choosing which ones they talk about and which ones they don't talk about, which is damaging a whole lot of people.

By the way, the New York Post did report exclusively today that, the transgender guy regretted being transgender, regretted trying to be a woman, saying, quote, that he would never be a girl and essentially seemed upset by that because a whole bunch of people in society and in media and certainly in some of the medical places in this person's life convinced him he could be something that he obviously couldn't be. They told him he'd be a woman and he never became a woman and he knew it. And so he said he wanted to cut his hair. He wanted to go back to being a guy, but then felt that that would get him, you know, ostracized, which it would in the communities that had embraced him. And then he's ostracized everywhere. And so instead,

he just kills kids. A horrible, awful, a terrible story. And again, you need to be willing. And actually, I'm going to use the logic of John Stewart in a way that he's probably not going to be happy about in saying this. I don't care. You have to bring light to conversations. You can't defeat anything in darkness, essentially meaning that the people who want to refuse to acknowledge that the transgender identity of this person played a role in what they did and who they targeted, and the mental health issues they were struggling with. Anyone who refuses that idea is pushing us toward something bad, not something good, by continuing to reject the idea that, of course, this is a part of this and any rational person can understand it. All right.

Other things I want to talk about. I am a giant Yankee fan. I think I've mentioned that on this show before. It's not usually relevant to the stuff we talk about on the Dana show, unless the Yankees are uniquely getting beat up, which seems to be a thing more often than all. They do sweep bad teams, so that's nice. But Mark Tashire, a former first basement for World Series winning New York Yankees, announced his candidacy for a Congress seat in Texas around San Antonio,

is where this seat is located, the 21st Congressional District. I am beyond excited. There are not many times in my political, radio talk show career, the show I do in Houston, which Dana is actually on that station. We are an affiliate station of hers, Patriot Talk 920, for anyone that wants to listen to that station. When Dana is on or I'm on, that'd be nice. But there's not a lot of opportunities where you can talk politics and sports with a person like this. I immediately sent contact to their press department being like, I would love to do it. I'm filling in for Dana. On these days,

I'm doing this other stuff on these days. Please jump on, Mark, and talk to me about more than just politics, talk to me about what it's like to hit home runs and World Series games. But yes, that is a big candidacy being mentioned. I hope to share a wins, man. I also find this funny in a different way. And this is just something to mention. Nestor Cortez is a former Yankee. He's the guy that had a mustache that was a pretty good pitcher, even though maybe at times

not exactly as good as you'd hope he'd be. I didn't have quite the stuff that you'd expect him to have to be as successful as he was. you don't care about that part. Anyway, he attended a Trump rally. There was a rally when Trump was running for office this most recent time, where he named-dropped Nestor Cortez and talked about his fastball, which was deceptive, not necessarily very fast. But anyway, I just thought that was so funny because then Nestor got traded. He left New York at some point after, whether that's because Yankee fans would reject a conservative or not. I don't know. I doubt they'll reject to

share, though. He's a very different version of Yankee because he won a world season. series. And that's something a lot of people haven't won currently on that team, anyone, currently on that team, although Glaber Torres might win one with a different team, which is sad, and you don't care, and I have to move on. But I'm just excited about this. So I figured I'd throw it into the ether of stuff we're talking about that Mark DeShare is running for a congressional seat. And of course, Texas, excuse me, finally succeeded in its redistricting. The Democrats ran away, made a national spectacle of deciding to not show up to do their jobs. And then when they finally did decide that they had to show up, and now there's going to be

new penalties in place if you run away again. And even lawyers that advise them, they should just go back. They did the thing we expected all along. They lost. So Texas has redistricted. There are certain parts of Houston where I live that people now think are very much up for grabs or potentially going to go to conservative representation, which is good because living here and walking around, There's a bunch of people in certain communities who seem to be supporters of the side that's not well represented in our current government. A lot of Democrats and a lot of positions of power. It'd be nice to see some more Republicans there. But there's even other races where Democrats assume that they're actually still going to win,

where I do like some of the fighting that might be going on. We actually might be talking to one of those politicians, Carmen Montiel, in the near future on this show and some other things that I do, because she's running in a district that got redistricted in a way that would hurt conservative. and she's not letting it defeat her. I think that's interesting. Because the other thing I think is kind of funny about this when we talk about these topics. And I wonder if the main, you know,

everyday human person who doesn't obsess about politics even cares about this stuff all that much. So I'll say this in a way that hopefully makes you care if you don't. But I love how much politicians just assume they're going to win here or win there. They look at certain numbers, certain turnout rates,

and are like, okay, this is a lock for us. So much so that if you were part of the behind-the-scenes world of politics, you'd assume the race isn't even important. Like the topics aren't even important, the stances aren't important. I'd love it if a bunch of Americans throughout this country could prove to the politicians that the things they say actually do matter, that the races do matter, and people can show up and flood ballot boxes and win elections. Because also during an off year, during a midterm election or a special election in the case of some of this stuff, a whole lot of people don't show up. So the amount of people,

the amount of support it would take to actually flip something is way less than what it used to be years ago. So you could do this quite easily. And Texas could go from creating the assumption of four, five, six congressional seats to like 10 congressional seats or something, which would be amazing, which would be very, very different. But again, I would just love to remind people and have other voters in the places I live remind people that you actually have to run the race and you actually have to say stuff out loud. It's not just the world of the presidency where that matters. where Biden and Harris cannot win an election against Donald Trump because neither one, neither one of them could put together coherent sentences that seem to actually have stances on things and any stances they actually took on stuff, especially Harris,

seemed way further to the left than what they wanted to say in public. But nonetheless, I do think this is interesting. As I said, and I do think we'll see how it all plays out as California, Illinois, other places are going to try to redistrict even harder, gerrymander back even harder and create more seats in their places. Again, the American people would do well right now to remind the politicians, we're actually in power by voting and showing up

in places where they assume a certain side's going to win something. Not because I want to see conservatives lose. I want conservatives to win more, not less seats. That would be great. But I would also love to watch places like California and Illinois be shocked when they don't manufacture wins for Democrats, which I think can happen. And certainly I think it can happen to some of the districts,

created in Texas, even after the assumption is we're probably going to lose that race here or this race there. All right. We'll take a 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. This is the Quick Five and the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. Former NFL quarterback Matt Linerd got roasted by Alexa in front of his son. This is sort of fun. This is sort of funny, interesting audio that went viral.

Here we go. What's that? Who's Matt Liner? Matt Linnard was a Heisman trophy winning quarterback at USC and the top 10 NFL graph pick that his pro career didn't amount too much. Yikes. I love.

That's true. This is not wrong. The pro career didn't amount very much. But yes, that's something that Amazon and its app told the children of Matt Linerd in front of Matt Linerd, Which is fantastic. I do like that one a whole lot. A car salesman was fired after he posted a TikTok video saying he overcharged a single mom $10,000 for a car. The guy's name is Kenny. He claimed it was a bad joke online that went viral.

The Honda dealership in Racine, Wisconsin, decided it was bad PR for them. I know people who've worked as car salesmen, and some of them say that the industry is uniquely awful, that you are encouraged to do as many terrible things as possible to rip people off. This probably feeds into a lot of that fear and some of the reality in that industry. But this is some of the audio about the guy claiming it was all just a bad joke and a misunderstanding that went crazy. I wanted to come out here and publicly apologize and take ownership and accountability for my action. I offended a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of people. I'm sorry.

Okay. My account is based on satire. everything that I post is nothing but a joke. I would never post actual true events. I want to apologize to the single mothers and just women in general. I'm a single parent myself. I know what that struggle is like, going to work, having to take care of the kids. I found it funny because it's unrealistic.

The brand that I was once selling for, they don't do markups, especially not a $10,000 markup. Fired! By the way, was the decision they made after this guy went viral for claiming he had done something that he said he didn't do. If there is a woman that comes forward saying she's the woman that, cut overcharged by the car that bought it from Kenny, he's screwed. But I do understand how people go on social media and try to make sarcastic jokes and wind up hurting them. So I'm not exactly a fan of cancel culture if this is all just a joke, but I don't know why he would find this funny.

You know, to go after the idea that someone ripped off a single mom because a lot of people have done it. And it's not funny. And I understand why people thought it wasn't funny. And it's uniquely bad if you're a sales guy because you want to convince people that you're trustworthy to go viral for something like this. I don't know what other place hires him. I don't know where he lands next in the old sales career. That was a uniquely dumb decision that he made. All right.

Some other things out there for quick top five stuff that I thought was kind of funny. 72% of Americans do not care that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged, even though it seemed to, quote, break the internet and cause all kinds of social media records. I am very much in that 72% that did not care. And even more than that, I think this is kind of. kind of amusing. It actually makes me more upset at the idea that the NFL season that's coming up might somehow feature Taylor Swift again. It needs to stop, man. Although I get why it's happening, especially in the wake of the fact that this had as much popularity as it did with the

30% of people who talked about it a whole bunch, they might watch more sports. They might sit there and be annoying during the NFL game every time that Taylor Swift comes on TV and are excited about it, just like the other people are mad when she comes on TV as well. The only thing I've ever liked about any part of this is that it caused a lot of daughters to sit with pop and watch NFL games with them, and that I think is cool. But I do think that inevitably you're kind of hoping that the kid winds up interested in the football part of the equation, and I'm guessing that that doesn't always turn out the way that some of these guys might hope. But nonetheless, this is a story out there that seems very obvious. My favorite part of it is my wife did tell

me about it. And I saw social media jokes of other dudes saying their wives told them about it. And I reacted very much like all the parody accounts claim they did. Like, okay, I don't care. It'll be fine. Everything's great. Thanks for letting me know a thing that doesn't change my life at all. All right. Finally, the top three scariest natural disasters do not include hurricanes, according to people. This is a recent survey. A talker research, I think, did this. Tornado came in at number one, tsunami number two, earthquake number three. Hurricane was number four. I think it all depends on location, location, location.

Where you live in the likelihood of any sort of potential thing being the thing that happens to you is probably what you're most afraid of. My wife was more afraid of some things when we didn't live in Texas. He's afraid of hurricanes now that we live in Houston. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up. This is the Craig Collins, not show, but version filling in on the very famous, very popular Dana show.

More in a bit. Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show. Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you, a bunch of stuff to talk about. We haven't mentioned this much, but we deserve to definitely describe it or talk about at least a little.

That would be the crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. Even the mayor in D.C. seems to be somewhat, quote, grateful for the crackdown because, hey, for the first time and a long time, there has not been any murder in Washington, D.C. for several days. That is a uniquely sad thing to be proud of, but it's definitely true. The amount of other crime things that have gone down are significant. Is she actually grateful? Is she sarcastically grateful? You go ahead and decide. I'll play some of the audio. But the numbers speak for themselves. Crime is down and that is good.

That enhance. We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city. The most significant thing that we are highlighting today is the area of crime that was most troubling for us in 2020. Now, we have driven it down over the last years. But last years. I do love that way. She said that because she wanted to say last few weeks, but years is what came out. Now, we have driven it down over the last years.

Years. But I'm going to get my glasses so I can make sure I can see it correctly. But for carjackings, the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents a 87% reduction in carjackings. I love how proud she is, too, of what she's saying, because she said years, she's trying to make it not about Trump, but then she looks at a stat from the last 20 days and how it compares to a year ago, and things seem to be quite a bit better, 87% reduction in carjackings alone. Why is all this happening? It's not just because the people who are doing these things are getting caught. It's that everybody else who contemplates this is

terrified that they also would get caught if they do that. The deterrent is working. The thing that we're supposed to do to convince people not to do stuff in the first place is actually causing the crime waves to, you know, finally ebb, finally start to go the right direction. This is the kind of thing we want to see in more places. The biggest thing that's a problem for so many cities is how much they demonstrate a willingness to let criminals get away. I did not even really try to go after them or release them from jail relatively quickly after apprehending them. All of these things make people much more confident. And I can just do more.

But when you have actual deterrence preventing people from feeling as though what they would do would be something that they'd get away with, guess what? Shockingly, numbers go down. Also, this information, I thought this was interesting. Robert of Kennedy Jr. announced that HHS will be launching a study into SSRIs, all different kinds of discussions about the treatment for transgender individuals. individuals, what they call, you know, gender affirming care, which might also cause a lot of mental health issues. This is simple warning information that's actually available on the medication that some people are encouraging you to give to kids who say that they're confused with whether or not they're a boy or girl, which is just uniquely horrible.

But listen as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked this question and talks about how obvious this seems to be as far as a road we should go down medically. especially after a second transgender person killed children in a Catholic school. This seems like the exactly appropriate decision to be made, and yet some people are going to call this horrible and hateful somehow, even though it's 100% factual in everything that gets stated here. Here we go. We're still trying to get a lot of answers to a ton of questions, but the one thing is clear.

You are dealing with a person who's trans, there was transitioning. Are you going to be examining it all? some of the drugs that are used in order to make that transition happening to see if it plays a role? Because we also know there was a trans shooter in the Tennessee situation. Yeah, we are doing those kind of studies now at NIH. We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.

You know, many of them on there have black box warnings that weren't of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. So we can't exclude those as a culprit and those are the kind of studies that we're doing. Yeah, you can't exclude those as a culprit and you should be studying them. This isn't controversial. This is simple common sense. I do want to say one other thing about this. I know the platform of this show is gigantic.

I'm just some fill-in guys, some guest hosts that you'll forget about very soon. So I don't know if my opinion even carries all that much weight, but I'm going to do it anyway because darn it, I have the platform today. I think that it's interesting that the left will shape all of the discussions about the transgender shooter as hate. That's the only way they'll describe it. They'll say that anyone out there with a conservative, you know, ideology, with talking head opportunities to be in media or even just someone who shares their thoughts online

and goes viral, that they have to be fueled by hate. They couldn't possibly love and care about people that they vehemently disagree with in any host of ways. And that is so ridiculous and nonsense. And it's something the left is actually using to try to chastise the right, to say, how dare you? Say facts out loud and say that people with mental health issues

need mental health treatment and don't need to be, say, convinced they're going to, be a woman someday if they can't be a woman and that that might continue to be a problem for them in their life mentally if they don't get the thing they've been promised uh whatever it might be again all of this is actually not from hate i feel compassion i feel sorry for people in certain situations and i will go ahead and acknowledge one thing that probably a whole lot of people in conservative media won't uh that i understand the the minute percentage of individuals that are born biologically different than, you know, other people, meaning that they have all the biological

hormones and whatnot of a guy and the body of a girl. I understand that. But how you go about treating that very unique human, the point something percent of people, and how you go talking about that individual, and then how you go applying any of those kind of thoughts to everyone else that now thinks they're in a bubble they're not in. I'll talk to you about it in a different way. So if you study psychology at all. And I know I've talked about this before on Dana's show. It's true. There's actually even a term for it. But if you study psychology at all, you wind up diagnosing yourself with most of the things you study. So you study depression, you study very simplistic things or more advanced things. I think doctors also struggle with this.

And eventually, as you read through some of these symptoms, you go, wait a minute, I think I have this. It's just a human thing. It's a human aspect of life and not knowing something and then slowly acquiring knowledge, and maybe also a lot of us being paranoid and or just afraid in society or in life. I don't know. I don't know what causes it, but it does happen. And just think about the world we're in right now and the amount of young people, children, who are convinced that they have this unique set of circumstances where they're in the wrong body, but with medicine and also, you know, body mutilating operations, they can change and be in a different body and then everything will be okay. And when they find out later in life as this

transgender shooter did, that they weren't okay, that life wasn't better, that whatever the mental health issue that they were struggling with wasn't fixed by the stuff that people didn't understand and didn't, that you can't comprehend everything going inside, going on inside someone's brain. You can't, you can think you do, but you don't. And so who knows what the issue is that's actually causing the person to struggle. Who knows what the problem is in dangling the carrot of a solution that might not actually feel. fix things. A whole lot of people who regret transgender surgeries and treatment say the same thing. It didn't cause the happiness in them that they thought it would cause because a whole lot of

people who are all different kinds of mental health, you know, struggling, all different kinds of mental health issues. They wait to hear someone tell them there's hope that there is a solution, there is a thing. And then they gravitate toward whatever that solution is. And right now our society is screaming from the rooftops that a whole lot of people can be transgender when mathematically that's absolutely unlikely to be a thing that's even remotely close to true if it's true at all. And again, I understand that people will disagree on that. I understand that it might be controversial even to say it. But regardless, the vast majority of young people right now who are using pronouns that don't

match their birth biological gender, I think are mentally struggling. I don't think they're legitimately people that are, quote, born in the wrong bodies. I don't actually think that exists at all, by the way. I should say that out loud. I do think there are some things that might be more unique in how you discuss all that, but that's irrelevant. I don't think you're born in the wrong body. But as I say this, again, I just think it's so amazing that the left needs it to be hate because they want to motivate and mobilize the left to keep hating the right. You hate people that you think are hateful. You like people that you think like you. It's also a very obvious common human trait. Compassion is something

that does seem to be lacking in a lot of places in our society right now because it seems that people walk into a room and decide, do you like me or hate me? Actually, I'll talk about one other thing and this isn't terribly connected, but it is, at least in my own personal experience, somewhat connected. I've noticed relocating to Houston. I was living in Chicago for a long time and then working in some atmospheres, not in radio, not what I do right now, but being in some places in sort of a professional setting, where race is at the forefront of a lot of people's minds. And I worked with black colleagues in a few different ways

in which they would talk about these things. And one even said something to me to the effect of like she hated white men. She said it to me, a white guy, and just something like casually said it. And I walked away from a lot of those interactions thinking the obsession with race and the belief that it's in my mind when I'm interacting with you when it's not. I'm not even thinking about that. And I know that might sound like it's not true, but it is. I was raised at a time in my life or in a time in society where we were hyper-focused on the racial mistakes of the past of this country.

And we taught kids in classrooms all about the civil rights movement and whatnot. And so I think I've been taught since a very young age to disregard your race and to judge you as a human, as a person based on what you do, what you don't do. Man, woman, none of that matters. All that matters is who you are underneath. And that is something that people don't seem to accept is true, which is also. uniquely horrible. No matter what I say or how I behave or if I demonstrate a lack of, say, you know, racial beliefs that they disregard it, individuals around me because they think, well, it can't be.

He's a white guy. He's got to be racist. He's got to be this. He's got to be that. I think that's a big problem, too, in our society. I think people who are told their transgender and then think they're going to get a solution that they don't inevitably get because that's not the issue. Inevitably also believe that everybody hates them when they walk into a room dressed

like a woman, but they look like a man. I think that obviously there's going to be challenges there and I think that a lot of people who are hoping for some magic version of someday waking up, you know, much happier than you did the day before and it not occurring makes you angry and blame people. And that hate is magnified because, well, it gets people to show up and vote in elections. All right, we'll take a break, a little bit coming up after this, a lot more fun to end the show because darn it, we have to.

We can't talk about this stuff all day. This is The Dana Show. Craig Collins filling in more after this. subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time subscribe on YouTube Apple or wherever you get your podcast. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. A thrilled to be with you. Dana will be back after the holidays. I'll be back in tomorrow. I'll be hanging out with you next week. There will be a best of show on Monday. That's all the programming notes I have for right now. Let's do this. A couple just sillier things out there. First, apparently a researcher at the University of Bristol has told us that there's a song that makes chocolate taste better.

I don't know what kind of world we live in right now, where people are desperate for anything, but I don't think you need music to enhance the delicious taste of chocolate. I just don't think that's something a researcher needs to be working on. I'll play the song for you first, and then we can listen to some stuff that the researcher says about it. But this is the music. It's called Sweetest Melody, because of course it is,

that if you eat chocolate while listening to this, You're supposed to enjoy yourself more, according to at least one woman that has been researching deliciousness of chocolate for some time. A great job, by the way. She's got a great gig. Whatever Grant is funding her is something that seems unfair and probably a waste of money. Here we go. Why does it sound so bad, by the way? Like, why does it sound like it was recorded poorly?

Couldn't you have done a better job with the sweetest melody? chocolate song. That's supposed to make chocolate taste better. Again, let's give you a little more. All right. Anyway, that's the music. I will go ahead and play some of the audio of the creator of the music, Dr. Natalie Heishin, who I don't even know if I said her last name correctly, the famous Heishens, of course, the University of Bristol. It made me laugh a lot. Anyway, she's saying that, you know, this works. It's great. You can do it next time you're eating to make it taste even better. And also maybe at some point

describing how she conned a lot of people into giving her money to study something that did not need to be studied. Here we go. So I've partnered with Galaxy Chocolate to bring you a soundtrack designed to help people enjoy chocolate in a more heightened

sensory experience. We looked at particular sonic qualities and they were pitch, tempo and harmony. The more regulated a music is, the sweetly taste. So the track is a beautiful piano-led melodic track that is in a high pitch with a BPM of 78. And the harp is obviously a very beautiful sound. Of course. High pitch and high key. Right.

So beautiful, all of it. Here's my favorite part of this. I love the idea that someone's funding this research and they go to this woman, a doctor. And she's like, you know, I got to keep doing more studies. I'm only a couple years into my research about chocolate and music. So you've got to give you more time to eat chocolate while listening to new songs to eventually figure out what song is working the best to make me happy. Let's cut me a check for another, I don't know, $5 million and leave me alone for another two to five years while I continue to study this and then roll it out. And some chocolate company paid her because, of course, they did. Why not? But you should try it if you want to. The next time you're in the mood for some sweet, delicious candy that is already very good on its own, go ahead and play sweetest melody and see if,

Anything about it makes you happier. And then try it other times. Maybe it enhances more than chocolate. Actually, you know what? I'm launching a new study effective today. I with no degree whatsoever to do it. But I'd like to see what music enhances delicious taste of steak. So for the next however many years,

and whatever steak manufacturer wants to fund this for me, whatever farm wants to jump in and be a part of it, I live in Texas now, so there's a lot of options. I will promise every day, multiple times a day, to eat delicious steak and listen to all different kinds of music. and eventually report what is making the steak taste better. That sounds like an amazing life. I didn't know that was a career that could be a thing, actually.

Right now, in this moment, I immediately regret that my life choices didn't bring me to a place where I had a doctorate and could claim that I was doing a stake in music study. That is, it's sad. Really, all my life is a failure. I'm on a nationally syndicated show for an incredibly famous person in this very moment, and I know now that this lady doing the chocolate study is way, way better off. than I've ever been in my entire life. All right, that's it.

On that pleasant note, that happy note, I'll see you again tomorrow. Craig Collins filling in, The Dana Show. Bye, everybody.