The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Mike Waltz Departs, Hank Johnson's Home Depot Poetry & Military Overhauls

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

CNN’s Ana Navarro tried to compare illegal immigrants to slaves brought to America by force and holy crap did it not go well. Tim Walz tells a Harvard audience that Kamala chose him for VP because he could “Code Talk to white guys watching football and fixing their truck”. Mike Waltz is OUT as National Security Adviser following the Signal group chat leak fallout. Jasmine Crockett asks “How would it feel if countries sent people to our country” when talking about deportations. Dana follows up on the story of Texas voting to criminalize posting and sharing misleading political ads online. Rep. Hank Johnson tries to rhyme “Home Depot” with “Latino” when talking about deportations and it absolutely flops. Army Chief of Staff General Randy George and Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll join us to break down the immediate changes the Trump Administration is taking to modernize the Army including rebuilding our Army, restoring the warrior ethos, and reestablishing deterrence to achieve Peace through Strength.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/DanaCode Dana10 for 10% off your entire orderBeamhttp://shopbeam.com/DanashowSleep like never before—Beam has improved over 17.5 million nights of rest. Try it now with code Danashow for 40% off.Home Title Lockhttps://hometitlelock.com/danaProtect your home! Get a FREE title history report + 14 days of coverage with code DANA. Check out the Million Dollar TripleLock—terms apply.Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Goldcohttps://DanaLikesGold.com My personal gold company - get your GoldCo 2025 Gold & Silver Kit. PLUS, you could qualify for unlimited bonus silver on eligible orders—you may even qualify for a free 1/2 oz Ronald Reagan silver coin.Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaDon’t leave yourself or your loved ones without options. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://humann.comSupport your metabolism and healthy blood sugar levels with Superberine by HumanN. Find it now at your local Sam’s Club next to SuperBeets Heart Chews.  KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best

All right, there's a breaking news that happened in the commercial break. So you're looking at a photographs right now of Michael Waltz. He is the president's national security advisor, except for we just got news, that he is going to be leaving the administration, along with his deputy, Alex Wong. Of course, you might remember the story of Signalgate. I don't know if that's for particular reason, but there was some consternation among some people about Mike Waltz. who you might remember was a congressman, Green Beret, a long

history and career in foreign policy. And I believe... All right, welcome to the show. It's a busy day. We already got POTUS kicking it off, Day of Prayer. I thought maybe we'd get a little bit of time and he'd like kick in at the bottom of the hour. But no.

Huh? No waiting. No waiting. That's okay. That's okay. So welcome to the program, Dana Lash, with you. So Mike Waltz is out. That's like that just came in like an hour ago. We're going to dive into all of that. That's from the signal chat leak. And you knew something like this was coming. I don't. I think it happened probably a lot quicker than maybe anybody anticipated Kane, I think. Because we went from talking about it to, I mean, literally just like a week ago.

and then now Mike Walts is out. Other NSC national security staffers out as well. Waltz and his deputy are also out. I like Mike Walts and just to see you have a background as to who he is. I mean, obviously, you know, he was

a congressman and he ended up going into NSC. But he, Mike Walsh's district, that was one of the districts that they had that special election for. They had the special election to fill his district. And the, I mean, he was considered, I think, a pretty valuable house member. I was some of the

other individuals who were a little nervous about him taking, you know, waltz and, and others out of the house because, you know, just a little nerve-wracking. So, and that's the seat that, actually, Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, and I used to have that seat. They had the special election for that. And just, they just had it. And so I don't know what he's going to do now. I mean, I don't know he hasn't really i don't think he's released a statement or anything uh yet anyway but uh that's that's the latest that's happening a lot of fallout from that signal chat and it's it's interesting because i you know i don't think that the the signal chat honestly i mean am i downplaying it and you guys know i'm hardly a sycophant i think everybody can say you know that dana lash is

hardly i mean i i i like potis personally unlike a lot of the other people out there I know him personally, but I also call balls and strikes. And if it's, you know, if there's something bad, I'll say, oh, I think this is bad. Or, you know, this is not a good look for POTUS. You know, there's certain policies of his that I have not been a fan of. And some I really love. Anything that has to do with taxation, as you guys know, or anything, you know, two-way stuff, I always get very, very antsy on.

But with this, the signal chat, I mean, I feel like I'm not, I'm not trying to be cutie with it. But, Kane, am I downplaying it by thinking that it's overblown? I think it was overblown, the reaction to all of this. Yeah, I think it was kind of intentionally overblown. Well, yeah, the fact that other, the fact that they're out, because I just tend to think that if POTUS didn't want them out, they're not going anywhere. No, that's exactly right. And he's said as much with Pete Hegsa, where he, like, supports Pete to that degree.

I've never heard him talk about Mike Walsh that way. No, I mean, I think he likes Mike Wals, but I don't think, like with you. I don't think that it's, it's been, I don't think he's got that, that close relationship with him as he does, Heggseth. I wanted to say Seck Death, Seck Death, Heggseth. So that's the new news. Mike Walts is out of the Trump NSA. And also, POTUS right now is speaking at the prayer breakfast, or well, National Day of Prayer. They had a prayer event at the White House.

I want to be careful. It's not like, you know, a prayer breakfast per se. They had an event at the White House. Do we want to dive in and hear some of this? Is he, because I think right now he's just doing salutations and all that. So we'll touch in on it when he gets into some of the meat and potatoes of it. But it's nice that we have a National Day of Prayer. And do you know, by the way, here's a fun fact for you. National Day of Prayer, the bill to acknowledge this was initiated back in 1952 by Conrad Hilton of Hilton hotels. Do you guys know that? I have no idea how I know that, but I do. I remember reading it, I think, somewhere years ago. Yeah, the Hilton Hotel family. Yeah, like Paris Hilton's family. Like her family, her grandfather, grandfather was the one who initiated, was one of the people, one of like two people

who initiated this. Very interesting, is it not? So we have a packed show for you today. We are, we're getting into a lot, a lot of stuff. In fact, later on today, we're doing something a little different because I've never had on like, oh, I mean, I've had on, I think I've had on peak headseth before, but we've had on, you know, different members of the military, etc. There's a lot of stuff that's changing in terms of policies that regulate readiness, lethality, a number and acquisition, and a lot of that is changing. That's a big thing that's going to have to change. And we're going to have the Secretary of the Army is going to be joining us a little bit later on in our program.

We're going to dive into some of this because this has always been a huge issue with regard to, you know, one of my criticisms. I don't think that defense spending is the sacred cow, but simultaneously. So we're going to, you know, there's things that have to be done. So we're having General Randy George on his chief of. staff of the army and secretary of the army d and driscoll they're going to be joining us later on because they're going to get into exactly what is coming what they're doing what they're cutting what they're not cutting how they're redirecting reallocating and reinvesting and i this is based on a conversation that i had with them in person uh a couple of months ago because i was shocked at how

much of i mean my jaw hit the floor legitimately my i was shocked at how much waste in the military comes from really anachronistic acquisitions. So like if you make a, if you make a purchase for like a jet or something like that and then, you know, obviously technologies change. And then you, by the time it's delivered, you know, a decade on, then there's a lot of stuff that's outmoded. And yet because you have these lawmakers that have made these commitments to bring home that pork barrel, you know, to bring home these defense contracts, it's really, really hard for them to get rid of them. So we're going to talk, and that's just one of the things. So we're going to discuss a lot of that with them. But POTUS is in the rose. Yeah, this is the rose garden. They're in the rose garden.

Remember when Melania Trump redesigned the rose garden and everybody got mad and then Jill Biden made it look like a goofy thing again? So he's speaking right now. This is the National Day of Prayer. And I'm just, honestly, I'm just curious to see if he dives into, dives into some jabs and punches. There's a lot of stuff to today and as you know as we just I mean literally as we just started the show the announcement came in that heads did roll in fact and Mike Waltz is the one who is out

although I think the left is sad because they wanted Hegseth out I think this was about them eliminating Pete Hegseth and getting him out of the way but this was I mean it literally just came in I mean moments ago Mike Waltz is out and I'm curious because what

signals does this send as it pertains to foreign policy and direction because this is a very, I mean, obviously it's a purposeful, but it's a very interesting, I like Mike Walts. I've met Mike Walts. Mike Waltz, I think Mike Walts has been on the program. He's a very straightforward straight shooter. And I think a lot of people were upset because he had, what's his face? Jeffrey Goldberg, who was on the, on that, it got somehow inadvertently added to the signal chat. And I honestly think it was just an accident of somebody not checking. Now there are some critics

of Mike Walts and there's and we talked a little bit a couple of weeks ago about how there seems to be this it's a small schism but a schism nonetheless of people who are pro Iran like a more water down Obama Iran policy and people who are very much

in Trump and Heggseth's camp who are very much they don't want to empower Iran and they they don't want any part of that old failed policy that Obama Biden and even Biden Harris had as pertains to Iran. So we're going to dive into some of this because that's just unfolding. We have headlines on the way as well. We've got some cultural things to hit. And of course, you know,

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Check out the watchdog on Wall Street podcast on Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. Yeah, apparently they had a little earthquake, a 3.9 magnitude earthquake in Salt Lake City over and well, the KSLTV said it was 4.2. Somebody else said it was 3.9. So I don't know. I mean, there's this obviously a slight difference there.

But this kind of goes into this one, the first headline that I have in terms of earthquakes. It said a massive earthquake could sink parts of the Pacific Northwest Coast within minutes. And they said that a major earthquake along that fault line could have catastrophic consequences along coastal Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. Well, duh. I mean, it's all like sea level, super sandy marshy up there. I can totally see that. Pakistan may hit 120 degrees this week. it could be a new record. I don't think that that's a new record. I think I've honestly heard

other places getting hotter than that. They said the global record is 122 degrees Fahrenheit, but it is super hot in Pakistan, parts of India right now getting up there all the way up going towards Hindu Kush. So nobody plans on going there. I don't think so. Yeah, I'm like that. I'm like, it's okay here. It's actually cold and very British weather outside in Texas today. Declassified, ah, here's the meat and tatees. Declassified documents have revealed the CIA's true Area 51 purpose. They said that it's actually studying space, like not spacecraft, but different experimental flights, things like that, high altitude testing, reconnaissance planes. Sure, we'll go with that. I'll go with that. That's all right. We'll say that right now, wink. George Clooney's lawyer wife, Amal Clooney could face a ban from the U.S. amid sanctions.

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I think a lot of Americans. Take care of other people. There's a hell of a lot of people. Other than the black people who were brought here as slaves who came to this country illegally. They're not the same as black people who were brought here against our will. They decided to walk their butts across the border. There's a big difference.

There is a big difference. There's a big difference. Chair Michael and Anna. We can act indignant. That's exactly what I just said. Yes, it is. Let me just heard me saying that's all the other than the black. Anna and Chermine has been, there are a lot of people from many of, many countries that came here illegally.

I think you miss heard what she said. No, he purposely missed heard it. She said. So now you're in my brain. Listen to me for just a second. Is that where we're going? You think I would say I would have advocated for black people my entire life would say something like that. Anna, because you've advocated for black people, great.

Congratulations. Last time I checked, I'm black. You're not. Okay. that's right i'm latino and my people are being racially profiled it is and do i have to remind you the history of my people share i don't know i don't know i don't okay we're going to go to break row we're gonna go to break raloreas thank you very much for joining us everybody else sang tight edby phillips cannot control the panel first off that was i callie that was a hot mess

i mean i expect to see you know a woman act like that and you know maybe a dollar store or waffle house at 2 a.m. or Waffle House at 2 a.m. drunk and slapping people with her flip-flot, but I don't expect to see her acting like that on a set. So that was Anna Navarro and Sher Michael Singleton. And I'm highlighting it for the specific purpose of

Identity Politic Olympics. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. So I, this I thought was one of the craziest things. Anna Navarro was just mad in this segment because she realizes that she loses authority

by not being the only minority on set. That is where her soul, all of her influence and everything comes from. That's all she talks about. Every day, that's all she ever talks about. Every conversation that I've ever seen and not, it's not like I follow her. I've never gone to her for insight, sidebar. When I was getting into politics at the policy level back in 08, 09, you know, everything else from the Tea Party, she was there on the right.

She was always trying to get on Fox and she was always writing op-eds, but she never really had any traction. She was just kind of basic, right? And it wasn't until she decided to get TDS and go on a rampage and pretend to be a Republican while going on the view and then she got the slot on the view. I honestly don't know how she considers herself a Republican because she's on the left side of Republicans on every single issue.

And I tend to think Republicans, by and large, are pretty moderate. That's why I'm not one, because there's, too moderate for me. I just don't subscribe to any particular party because they're all stupid. That said, I don't know why she calls herself a Republican because she's so far to the left of any Republican policy and she has a problem with all of it. But that's like her and David Brock who started Media Matters, that's sort of their MO. They didn't get enough appreciation on the right. And so out of spite, they just decided to reject their ideology and go to the left because the left would use them. And they mistake being used with appreciation. They mistake being

played as influence and it's kind of embarrassing to watch like an older woman get played like that by you know producers and the left she's just mad because she sits on that panel and she's not the only minority she doesn't have any authority derived from being the only minority on set she does not want to share any intersectionality because that's all she brings to the table she's it's her whole entire grift and that's why she talks about it endlessly every response that she has. Like all of these videos that we've played before, I think in honesty, it's only been like a couple. But she always taught, well, I'm a Latina. I'm this. I'm, you know, blah, blah, blah. And she's constantly playing identity politics as a way to shut everyone up and sort of try to

gain an alpha position at the table based upon that. And what Kane and I were talking about on break is that play still on television, at least with the old crowd. It plays on television. because that's I mean clearly she thinks that there's a value in that and I think previously it used maybe people were to I don't think it was value I think it was bullying people did not want to be accused of a moral failing because they disagreed with a minority and so and that's how it was I mean ever oh my gosh my whole entire life in politics that's all it's been if you disagree with this you're a racist you didn't even have to have to have to disagree with someone who had a different skin color or back background. You could not want to vote for Hillary Clinton, the old white woman who fell down in Manhattan and lost a Tory Birch slipper, and you're called a racist. But that's a grift. It's identity politics. And so she's sitting there across from Sher Michael Singleton, who's a conservative. And he was accurate in calling out her super dumb comparison. And she did make a dumb comparison. And if she wanted to make it clearer, she should have spoken better. Instead of

mush mouthing and running all of her words together. I mean, nobody knows what you're saying when you're talking like the micro machine man and you're blah, like, I mean, you're not, you know, this is, this is not one too many mimosa's brunch. You're on a panel on a morning show. Act like it. You know, speak clearly. Articulate your words. Have like ideas. And the defense can't always be, well, I'm Latino so you can't disagree with me. No one gives a rat's ass. Spare us, you racist bitch. I'm so tired of this stuff. And that's exactly what it is. Oh, quote me. I'm so tired of it. I'm tired of the griff that these people have day in and day out. They're racists. And she tries to shut up a guy for being conservative by acting like she's the white adjacent savior of the black race. There was at one point in that. She's like, well, I've, I've defended, you know, blah, blah, blah, my, you know, my whole life, black America. Who cares? Are you supposed to get a special trophy for this? You're so, I mean, that's like an actual racist remark. So you get to shut someone else down and you get to demonize and diminish their background by making this

absolutely illogical and embarrassing comparison to criminal illegal entry and you compare it really awkwardly to slavery and then when he just makes a reasonable objection you lose your mind and become a stereotype that's embarrassing and I'm just tired of seeing this that's all CNN has CNN's like, okay, we got to, do we have the black commentator, the Hispanic commentator, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, let's make sure that we have ever, people, I don't think people care about it anymore because they were supposed, they were forced to make it a priority completely the opposite of how I was raised. Kane, when we were younger, no one cared about this.

No one cared about what race you were. I mean, you know how goofy this is when I was younger? I had friends, some of my very good, my very, very, very close. close friends were Hispanic. And I just, it never registered with me. It never, because no one obsessed over it. We just did our thing. Are you cool? Do you want to hang out? Okay. Oh, we like the same music. That's awesome. Yay. Oh, we're both in the same sport. Yay. That's great. We like some, I mean, that's, that's all it was. You just didn't. And it didn't matter if they were Hispanic or black or Asian or whatever or Indian. One of my very good friends was Indian. And we just didn't even care.

It's not, no one sat around and focused on, so you're Indian, talk to me about that or you're black, let's just, we just didn't do that. That was not a phenomenon until, I guess, when I started at college, and then it started becoming a thing. And I noticed that it was becoming a thing because people were putting that as their identity first and foremost above everything else. and my first experience when I was a freshman in college one of the people that I met and became friends with

she was a black woman and we got along really good you know we liked a lot of the same food you know and I mean obviously we clearly we had differences but it wasn't just it wasn't something that we really focused on and then I knew I saw kind of

going in my sophomore year that she started to be a little bit more identity forward she had joined a couple of groups in college and she started to be a little bit more identity forward. And then by the time, you know, I, we were leaving and graduating, it was, we just didn't really talk anymore because she had become very, very militant in that. And I started to see other people get very, very militant in terms of being, that's your, that is your identity first and foremost above anything else, above being a Christian,

above being an American, even above being like a woman. Like that, that, that became, and it didn't matter if you were black or Muslim or Asian or Indian or whatever. That became like the thing immediately like, okay, here's this. We're never going to be very close because you and I don't share this identity politic. And that's when I really started noticing it take root. And it was really sad because that was not anything that, you know, and then there were all of these manufactured, you know, victimization stories. I don't know. But I just saw this and I'm like, that is so, that was really bitchy to do to him to say that. And you can tell she got mad because he objected. She is not used to having.

her identity politic contested, particularly on a national stage. And I probably would say particularly by someone who, you know, if you really wanted to argue identity politics, probably has a bigger box to check than she does. I don't think that he was participating in it. I think that he was highlighting her absurdity with absurdity. And she just wasn't quick enough to get it. She's not smart enough to see it. That was one of the most embarrassing exchanges I've ever seen. If I was a producer, I'd be like, I can't have her back on the show. Because the, it turned into like kindergarten fighting. That was embarrassing, but that's what it is.

I mean, and I've seen people like this. I've seen people like this on the right, too. This identity politic, you know the phrase the woke right? That is a real thing. There are people on the right that use identity politics as kind of like a shield, simultaneously a shield and a cudgel, the same way that they do on the left. Identity politics is identity politics, and it doesn't matter what the rest of your politics are, if you subscribe to that, that is a communist left tactic. And you're,

practicing it when you subscribe to that. But that was insane. Can you imagine, you know, acting like, well, yeah, but I've defended black people. Okay. Like, oh, oh, yes, Massa, that means that you can be the ultimate authority over me. Oh, you've, that's like saying, yes, I have black friends. Isn't that the same thing of saying it? That's like, that's the exact same thing. Good heavens. That was just so embarrassing. It was. a very embarrassing discussion. It did not go well with him. I got a couple of other things to touch on as well, because we've been following this Mike Walt's stuff. But did you also see, and this went out in my prep email, if you get my prep email, that's all the stuff

that we discuss the next day, or that we discuss later on in the show. You know, the Maryland dad, you guys heard about this. Precious baby, Maryland, Dad. You guys know, you've heard about sweet, innocent Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia. He's so innocent, came. Sweet. He's like a little baby infant. You know how Hunter Biden's a baby?

I mean, he's pushing 60, but he's infant baby, Hunter Biden. Okay, so Kilmar-Abrego Garcia, apparently his ex-wife, ex-wife are going to be, apparently repeatedly petitioned for protective order against him. repeatedly and what's more he bragged to people that he could kill her and no one could touch him Jennifer Vasquez surah in a document that she filed with the district court of Maryland for Prince George's county said I also have a recording that he told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him we're going to talk more about this coming up because I mean this is actually very very smart for DOJ to do to drip drip this stuff because now you're seeing

They've had all this and they've just been waiting for the left to trip themselves up and keep defending this, this criminal, this wife beating criminal. But, you know, this Maryland man, yeah, he boasted that he could kill his wife and no one could touch him. And this was according to one of the, a request for a motion for a protective order that she filed in 2020. It is the second request and the, and second allegation of him beating her that she filed since they were together. Wow. our partners over at all family pharmacies is one of my favorite favorite people to work with and not just because I'm actually a customer it's like that hair club fermenting not only Mike I'm also the president well I'm not the president but I love what they do because medicines that

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It belongs to we, the people. Gosh, just, I'm so tired of this basic boilerplate. You know, this is our land, and this is your land, from California to the New York Islands. Yeah. So this land was made for you and me. not the White House I'm just so tired of this stuff it's so boring she's boring

her stupid speeches are boring I would be sitting there it didn't matter if I liked or not and rolling my eyes out of my head like be original the red meat platitudes and the stupid word salads I'm just golly she's such an embarrassment why is she even out there still giving speeches that you were put out to pasture

go you know I mean hell even the heifers know I'm going to eat some grass and they just move on yeah they're smart though. Welcome back to the program. Was that mean? I don't care. I just no holds bar today. None. None. The whole thing

is goofy. And then between if she's really going to try I will say if she did try for a Democrat primary for 2028, they're going to destroy

hurricane. Other Democrats will. They won't care. She's not protected anymore. Doesn't it even seem like the obamas have abandoned her because she was groomed by the obamas i mean from you know from the time she was agey going into senate so i feel like they've even kind of abandoned her yeah i i don't know i'm i cannot and then between her and tim waltz who said that he was like he would talk white guy code what is his damage he He needs to go also.

He was giving us, he was somewhere, I guess he was raising money. And he was, again, once again, embarrassing himself. He said, embarrassing himself. He said Harris chose him to talk to white people because I could code talk to white guys. Hey, Kane, Kane and Steve, like, what's white guy code? I feel like this is, we're going to have to explore this. We're running out of time. Yeah, let's, yeah, let's explore this later.

Like, how do white guys code talk to each other? Is that a thing? I don't know. We're going to discuss that here coming up. We've got this on deck. The latest with Kilmar-Brega-Garcia. Super nice Maryland guy, right? We got all of that and more coming up. Stick with us. Goldco is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form, no commitment, just free information. And then they'll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kit straight to your door. No shipping fees, no strings, just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can, fit into your financial plan. I'm a big believer in doing your research and this kit is a great

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quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football fixing their truck doing that, that I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say, look, you can do this and vote for this. And you look across those swing states, with the exception of Minnesota, we didn't get enough of the... Yeah, because people thought you were stupid, and they don't believe that you fix a truck. And they sure as hell don't believe that you go and shoot when you couldn't even figure out how to load your brand new shotgun that you said you used all the time. Tim Walls, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That's just, it tells you everything that you need to know about how Democrats of you,

uh, white dudes. Oh, that's all you guys do. Kane and Steve. It's all you guys do. You sit around fixing your truck, watching football,

doing white guy stuff. Well, Kane, white adjacent stuff for you, wink, wink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you only get half of it.

I'm forever white adjacent. That's right. Yeah. That's, you know, however it's situationally advantageous to the left to define you. That's how it'll go forward. Oh my gosh.

Welcome back. Dana Lash with you. top of the second hour, listen across the country. Channel 347 is the stream. If you're watching the visual of the radio program, X and Rumble, the chat is at, uh, yeah, rumble. That's right. The chat's over at Rumble. So, yeah, the code stuff, I, I just found that that's incredibly insulting. And I am not shocked that that's, but that's the view that Democrats have. of of white guys that's it that's how they view it only white guys talk about football and fixing your trucks yeah I mean you guys know that only white guys do that right and he

what did he say he he was the how did he put it the permission structure I don't even quite know what that means the I want to make sure I want to make sure that I got his quote right hang on hang on I got to make it all official he wanted to be yeah he wanted to be the permission he was the permission structure for that so what does that mean so a political messenger or a political strategist came up with that so he was the so they said you're telling me that democrats are like how do we talk to white people oh gosh i don't know we need a structure of permission until tim waltz came around to make it awkward i i they cannot they he cannot go away fast enough but that's that's how they view it and you know what they still lost i and

was really hysterical how he kind of had to admit that at the end. He's like, yeah, well, you know, in the swing states, and I felt like he was really thought he was going somewhere with that. And then he goes, oh, wait, we got our, got our butts kicked. Yeah, I can't use that as an example. Oops, can't do that. So, uh, some of the latest news, we've got Mike Waltz, who is out at, uh, NSC. And this was one of the latest, this happened like right when we were going to air and it's you know all from the signal group chat where he apparently accidentally added the Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg and you had the race president and sect up on this and they were talking about military plans for Yemen not anything honestly from

everything that he said it's not like he got secret code and numerous officials within the CIA and FBI have all said that they've had or sorry NSC and FBI have all said that yeah we we have the we have signal preloaded on stuff do you honestly think that if there is a government encryption app that it's going to be any better I mean think about all the stuff that's leaked doesn't matter if someone wants to leak information on you they're going to leak information it doesn't matter how secure you think it is that's been that is that is a lie that people tell themselves to ease their discomfort at being so reliant upon digital everything.

It's true. It's absolutely true. So whether or not he stepped down voluntarily, it seems like he was kind of forced out, though. I will say, you agree with me on that, Kane. You think he was forced out? Was he forced out as a way to not have to let go of Heggseth? They weren't going to let it go. They wanted a scalp. The left wanted a scout.

I see that, I think that they saw that there was heat building up on both issues. And the way to relieve the heat on both issues is to have to have. have one sacrificial lamb, and he already had backed himself and backed up Hegseth very strongly recently. So I think that was what they think they had to do politically to get some heat off of this issue. Yeah. I mean, it's exactly what, I mean, it's exactly what they had to do. So, yeah, I'm all, I find that just, I find it very, very interesting the way that that all happened. But it's him and it's also, from what I understand, Alex Wong, who's his deputy, also stepping down from this from from his position so I and I think that's probably I got the I get the

I get the I get the feeling that those are the only two that are going to go that's it that's all they're offering I get it that's all they're going to offer makes sense right that makes sense so we have been with this we because we've covered this gosh I I I I I don't really think that he should have had to get. I don't think that he should have had to go. And his deputy Alex, I don't really think that they should have had to. I think it was an accident.

I mean, I get it. And it's up to the administration's discretion, honestly, who serves and who doesn't. I don't know if POTUS is going to speak to it. Today's the National Day of Prayer. So I don't know if today's the day he's going to speak to it. I actually, that's one of the reasons why I was kind of went into, We were eavesdropping in on what was happening in the Rose Garden with his remarks on that.

But apparently anybody else that's removed from office is going to be announced because apparently there were some additional staffers that have not been made public yet that were removed. And Waltz, again, he was a Florida congressman. He actually took the congressional seat after Governor Ron DeSantis. It's DeSantis's district when he served in the house. And Mike Walts took that seat now. They had a special election for it. And Waltz took responsibility. He said, I built the group.

He said, I take full responsibility for it. And if it's a decision that, you know, a decision made that comes from the admin, quite frankly, I think that that's less of a concern than what's his face? The guy, oh gosh, the guy who ended up leaving his post over in, over at the Pentagon and just didn't tell anybody. remember and didn't tell a single person yeah Lloyd Austin when Lloyd Austin left he was he was gone for like over a week and he didn't tell a single person where he was at

I mean this guy's over at the penit are you kidding me he didn't tell anybody and they didn't let they didn't even discipline him yeah did they demand he'd be fired on the left did anyone on the left yeah he was oh sorry I I meant to say two weeks not just over

a week. He was out for two weeks. And a Pentagon watchdog said that Lloyd Austin's hospitalization quote unnecessarily increased risks to national security. And the administration acted like it didn't happen. They defended all the left defended that. They defended him. Just like they defended all of the people who ignored the fact that when Kabul was about to fall, the

Hamid Karzai International Airport that the Taliban was literally rolling through Afghanistan, you know, because they were, they're starting fighting season. They have seasons in Afghanistan. And, you know, like we have spring and summer and fall and winter. Well, they have, let's go harvest the poppies. Let's go stay in the mountains. Let's go kill everybody. Those are their seasons. And then heat. That's the fourth one. Heat. And they were rolling through villages in Afghanistan and using WhatsApp to get people to surrender before they even arrived. They would announce on WhatsApp. I'm not joking. They literally did this.

And our guys knew about it and nobody did. I mean, there was no condemnation from anyone in the Biden administration for that. I mean, we could talk about the nuke twink. Remember that dude? The nuclear twink who I mean, was stealing people's luggage and then wearing all of their clothes

to events around the country. I will never forget the story of the Sam Brinkman, the nuclear twink who I mean, literally had a class of clearing. He had security clearance and stole

this African clothing designer's luggage and then proceeded to poorly wear all of her clothes and jewelry to different events all over the country and then she finally got attention she was complaining about it like those that's literally my one of a kind dress that I designed

those are my one of a kind of earrings that I designed oh my gosh and he was wearing and she was using he was wearing materials that she used to pay homage to different parts of African culture and heritage, right? So they didn't mean anything to him, but to her, or to us, it would be like, you know, you're taking the American flag and wearing it like a pair of pants, you know? I mean, it's that, I mean, it was that egregious to her and her background.

And there was nothing from the Biden administration about that. They never said a damn thing about it. Not a word. What about that dude who ended up making gay porno in the Senate hearing. chamber. Yeah, you know, he's got, he moved to Australia and he's now he's trying to advertise his only fans, of course. They didn't say anything about that.

What about the cocaine that was found there? They didn't say, oh, but my gosh, they're so mad because something, they were discussing something very innocuously in a signal chat that's actually, you know, it's not like Hillary Clinton. This is actually okay to use on these devices. And they got mad because somebody inadvertently, and yes, his mistake was not. checking that it was Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic. He had meant to hire some or meant to someone else to the group, a lower level staffer and it ended up being like this. So yeah,

that's his problem. But they're trying to say it's infinitely worse than that and it's not. My whole point is, and I get a little Machiavellian about it. Yes, if we're holding to standards, maybe we would say, okay, we understand that there's a consequence, even if it was accidental and there was no ill will. There has to be a consequence. I get it. But at the same time, I want to go, you know what? He's one of ours.

Screw you. Look at all the egregious affronts that you presented to not only our NATSEC, but also the government function as a whole. Take a million seats. We're not going to, we're not doing this. I just, I don't allow my opposition to tell me who I have to sacrifice

at the altar of appearing like we are the better guys. Can I just be honest about it? don't allow the left to tell me what to do. Like with the Herschel Walker thing. Oh my gosh, people were falling out over that. Can you believe Dana said she doesn't care if you aborted baby eagles? You're damn right. I said it. And I still mean it. You're damn right. Because see, the left tries to hold you hostage by illogically and inaccurately presenting your standards against you and they try to weaponize that. But at the same time, they want you to ignore the fact that the consequence of that is going to be worse than the than the alternative of not

taking of not taking their directives so i don't know it's all about the ends so yeah i just i wouldn't have let him i wouldn't have jettisoned him i wouldn't have so that kind of signals to me that there was probably push back within the administration i think it was somebody within the administration that was telling potis he's got to go and if you don't want it to be hegg set then it's got to be this guy i think that they put waltz out there and alex wong and apparently a couple of other folks. I think that they put him out there so they wouldn't have to do Hegg Seth. Like, okay, we'll give you this, but you can't have this. But also, when is that ever satisfied the left?

Never. Do you think they're ever going to, do you think the left is going to go, okay, well, at least we've got something. I guess we'll leave Hegg Seth alone. No. Never. You're right. It's never worked that way. We have more to come. We have headlines on the way as we rolled towards the bottom of the second hour already. Good heavens of our partners that help bring you the program. It is our friends over at home title lock. Look, your title, your home, is actually your most, absolutely most valuable asset. And the problem, of course, is in today's AI and cyber world, scammers are, like, it's made

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apparently there's a new social revolution sweeping America. It's the hot new club called staying in. It's your house and your music and all your food in your fridge. What? Literally apparently like that's that's the thing it means avoiding nightlife what i think a lot of that might be driven

by the economy too if i'm being honest uh 72% of adults prefer their living room to night life can i be real though i've always been like this my whole life when i am out somewhere it is always reluctantly kane will attest to it i am a hobbit i am i actually could be happy being the only person on earth forever i think i'm one of the only people that could live like that I am completely fine. I'll entertain myself, do my hobbies, you know, whatever. I'm totally fine with it. As long as I have dogs, not that's different.

But they said that three quarters of Americans would rather stay home than go out. And that includes with friends, with or without friends. They would even rather stay in their homes and have friends over than even go out with people. So it's kind of interesting. I don't know. I think some of it, a lot of this is Gen Z driven. Gen Z are also habits because they were raised by us, Gen X, who are the original Hobbit. What are you now? What is this? Oh, Barbara Streisand is debut. I don't care. I literally

don't care. They're doing an album with a whole bunch of older people. I don't care. Robert. Can I just say I think she's overrated? Barbara Streisand is one of the most overrated performers on God's Green Earth. I don't get it. Like, yeah, that's news. I mean, you know, don't try to convince me. You're not going to. I don't get it. I just don't get her. I have a couple of friends that think she's so great. I'm like, you're young. What does the matter with you? Like, she's not. She has like one range. It's the same. I'm going to get a hate mail.

Bring it. I will not get as much hate mail for saying that I hated Abba, though. People wouldn't have light me on fire for that. Don't get me. I mean, it's just not my back. They're talented. I think they have more talent than her, so it's okay. What's happening on planes? There's a flight attendant had to wrestle a crazy chick to the ground because she tried to storm the cockpit on a plane to New York. Was she a New Yorker? That might make sense. she's an older Karen too and she tried to like get did she think it was the bathroom she it was called a strange coup attempt and she was mad it was an american airlines flight and she was upset that it was delayed and of course you know she's going to be facing charges because

you can't be doing that kind of you can't be like acting like a fool on the plane like that that's crazy i this is the honestly we've had one of these headlines every single day but it was a new york bound american airlines flight and for the first part of the video everyone just stands around very visibly confused. Like, are we being punked because she was so over the top? A home buyer mortgage demands drop further as economic uncertainty roils the housing market. That's to be expected. The average rate for 30-year decrease 6.8 from 6.9. But buyers are hitting pause all still. Stick with us more to come. Hard work, self-reliance showing up. That's what built this country. And it's exactly how our president leads. No excuses, no handouts, just results. But let's be

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against their civil rights, against their constitutional rights. And frankly, how would they feel if some other country, this, that they were going to just start throwing people randomly in our country. Like, that is absolutely insane. So, yes, all I got to say is, y'all need to get these fools out of here. But, I'm, but

I mean, does she have a point? I can't tell. I can't see her eyes because of the insane spider legs that are a thick glued to her lash line. I'm sorry. I'm going to get to the crux of her whole, or the meat and potatoes of her whole argument. But ladies, you don't need an 18 gauge all the way across. Literally,

roll that down, girls. Roll it down you don't need to do a hybrid all the way across like varied up make it a classy set right classy not trashy all right welcome back dana lash with you that's jasmine crockett if you couldn't tell so her remark was uh i'm just i'm trying to understand how that how she thinks this is happening that how would it feel of countries sent people to our country wait what yes you know kane all the americans that are trying to flee the united states and illegally immigrate into Mexico and Venezuela. I mean, it's just Venezuela

bemoans their problem of illegal immigration coming from the United States. So, woe is we? Nobody's doing that. Nobody's doing that. No, but that's not happening. You know, if I try to illegally immigrate into Puerto Rico or

the Bahamas or Dominican Republic or Turks and Caicos, guess what happens? They take you in. They do not even let you out of a part of the airport unless you present your documentation. And then it has to be the case and point. And then you got to fill it out when you got to get a fill out your form. You got to make your declarations and all that. And you have to use a certain kind of pen. Well, at least in a couple of the countries I went to. They won't take it unless somebody wouldn't

take something unless it's in black ink. And then I was there as a lady had red ink. And I borrowed her red pen to fill out one line. And they said that invalidates your whole form. You got to do the whole thing again because there's red on it. I'm like, oh my gosh. gosh, I mean, it's like a picky thing. So where's she talking about? And we're not just snatched. Trump is not just like running around the United States in a windleless van that says free candy and snatching up people. And then, you know, yeeding them back to whatever.

That's not happening. Does she know what is happening in these streets? And no one is leaving the United States to try to go to anywhere else unless it's on vacay. Rosie O'Donnell, but that's it. I can't believe they let her in there. I know. She went to Ireland. Maybe they, I mean, I guess they were like, oh, O'Donnell, and they just didn't even think about, oh, that one.

But now she wants to come back. Did you hear that? Now she's thinking about coming back because it's hard to live out there. It's hard to live in rural Ireland. So this is the woman who's never lived in a rural area. What did you think was going to happen? What did you think is going to happen? You went out there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Google that because she didn't, she doesn't want to be, she doesn't want to be there anymore. She wanted to come back. She moved out there. wasn't uh it wasn't like she thought it would be apparently i i don't know this that's just too funny it's too funny but no that's not the policy the policies if you enter illegally then that's democrats clearly know the difference between legal and illegal immigration they just think it's all the same it doesn't matter because brown people that's how they look at it they

They think that everybody who immigrates the United States, well, they must be brown. Now, think about the amount of racism and bigotry. It takes to come up with that as a response to any kind of debate on immigration. Because, you know, on some of those yard signs, I don't even want to know the conversation that the White House gardeners had. You know they were mad about them yard signs. You know they were. But did you know on those signs? There were like blonde hair, blue-eyed people on them signs because not everybody that comes here illegally is,

all from Central or South America or from Haiti. That's just not, not, you know, some of them are Chinese, some of them are white, some of them come from, you know, a ton of different places. But it's this idea that there, it's just all the same and there's no delineation at all, illegal and legal, is, I feel like that really has contributed to such a problem with this debate. this discussion on immigration. It's really, it's, and it's all on purpose. Oh, they're just snatching people. They're just, you know, yeah, Trump's going out there as windowless candy van. Why don't you come in and get some free, I got some tacos here. Let you come get some free tacos and

then snatches them up and then yeats them to wherever the hell he wants. It's not how that works. People are so goofy. She's just dumb. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Tool nonetheless, but not the, not the sharpest one in the shed. All right, a couple of other things. Oh, oh, oh, so I had, we talked about white guy code and we've been talking about the story with Mike Waltz, who's out. Can we also, I've got a million things here that I want to make sure we're hitting on. Can we also talk a little bit? We need to get touch on some of the red state rhino hunting. We had a big bad one yesterday with the meme police.

which is pretty crazy. You can go ahead and kick it, Juan. See, we're getting there. Look at our intro. The creepy music. It's real nice, isn't it? So a couple of things with the Red State rhino hunting. Yesterday, we talked about the political memory.

So the rhinos have been trying to, they've been working really, really hard to defend this. And there is a major, major problem, not just in Florida, but also in Texas and we had this discussion with banning political memes and giving people like a year in jail for failing to attach a disclosure

there's a I feel like the rhinos trying to defend this while I don't feel they are they are really trying to muddy the discussion they want you to think that this is only applicable to political advertising

that is a problem it's not true and the reason it's not true and I read the language to you yesterday from the bill is that there isn't enough there is no distinction and and it's written i feel like it's written purposefully vague so that there is no distinction with whether it's an ad or you are sharing something whether it was an ad or not on your own personal social media uh whether it's facebook or instagram or x or ticot or wherever there is no distinction in the wording

of the bill. And so as a result, because of the vagary, absolutely, you can be, it's actionable under the wording of that bill if you share it. People aren't being stupid and they're not being deceptive when they tell you that, yes, you could be jailed for sharing a political meme if you didn't go and beg the state of Texas's permission by way of a disclaimer that you would affix to your meme. And by the way, the disclaimer would have to be X amount size on the meme itself, a certain font, a certain font size, everything. Like all of these little things just to make it to where you are ensnared no matter what you do. Oh, I'm sorry, you were one point below on the font size. And keep in mind that even though

those requirements are listed in this bill that we talked about, even though those requirements are listed, they don't actually tell you like, okay, what font and what font size. I don't know if that has been determined or not. I don't know, but that's all in there. So all of the people who are saying that it's inaccurate, and again, I don't want to relitigate it, but I read the bill, that portion of the bill to you on air yesterday. but the people who are saying that it's inaccurate, that's a lie because the wording of the bill is such. And I've consulted actually a ton of lawyer friends of mine and I have my own reading comprehension, but just to be sure. And every single one of them are in agreement. Yes, because of the wording of this bill, yes, you actually could have an action and against someone for sharing it. So it doesn't necessarily just have to be an ad. Like, say Kane sees a political ad on Facebook, right? Because you know whatever algorithm or whatever, it'll pop that up like an ad, like a promoted thing, right?

And he takes it and shares it. It doesn't matter if it's not just applicable just to the people who decided to design and run that ad. It's also applicable to him because there is no distinction. there's no exemption, it is just if you share this regardless if it is political advertising or not. And I think that was done on purpose. I think that they wrote it like that on purpose because it's a Motte Bailey argument. They're saying, no, no, no, we're just talking about AI generative things for advertising, right? Because that can be with some moderates. I think it's a First Amendment violation, but whatever, for some moderates, right? That might be a reasonable thing

to argue, Kane, right? Like, oh, it's just for the ads. Okay, I get it. Oh, the FEC rules. I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand. But that's easier for them to defend than, oh, it's for everybody who shares it. That's a little much. So they pretend that, no, no, no, it's this more easily defensible thing. But in reality, the language of the bill means that even if it is an ad and you share it. There's no distinction between you and the ad. And again, they did it on purpose because the guy who did it, Dade Phelan, he's the guy who shepherded this through. And he is the one that they did all these drunk Dade memes on and he was livid. I have friends in Austin. I have some friends in the state capital. That was a big thing with him. Now here's a common trait that all these

Rhino share, whether it's that Alexan Drady, who's like, Alexan Drady, who's like the Beto or Rourke of Florida. It's embarrassing. All of these guys. They all share the same trait. They have egos and their mouths love writing checks. They're asses can't cash. All of them.

And it's, it's, it is, it's very, they're very, very sensitive. And Lorraine just bought or made a really good point. And I didn't even think of those. She said the font needed on memes in Texas, better not be a font. you have to buy. I did not even think of that. Like, is it going to be, you know, like Helvetica, Ariel? Like, because they say font. I didn't say font. That's what it says. Like, you're going to have to have a certain font, certain size, all of this. And I, I don't know, Texas is notorious. In some ways it's good and in some ways it's bad. They're very notorious in adding these,

like, little things onto bills. So, for instance, in Texas, if you go to a business and they, it's very specific if you're a business, if you are a gun-free zone and they are barring concealed or open carry, you have to have the exact signage for it to be considered legal signage and for it to be obeyed. It does not count as a, it does not count as, I can't think of the word for it, basically for trespass. Like it doesn't count as a warning against trespass if it's not legal signage. So if you are on private property and you're carrying, they can ask you to leave. The first time they're asking you to leave, the second time they can get you for criminal trespass if you don't fall, if you don't heed the first, uh, the first warning. So in Texas, the signage is it has to be a

certain size sign. The gun and all the imagery have to be a certain size. The font has to be a certain size. Uh, it has to be a certain type of font. It has to be in English and Spanish. It has to have the statute cited so we it's like the the they have very interesting names for the for because the statute's like 30 out whatever and it has to be in a particular spot on the door like X amount of feet away from the door if not right on the door anything one thing off and it's not considered a legal signage and you don't have you you can just oh it's not legal it's not legal so it doesn't and I can't tell you how many businesses try to be gun free and they have that on there and I'm like that's not a legal sign it's not a legal sign it's not a legal sign.

you got to do it right if you're going to the law is the law right and what is the strength of the law the equality of the of the uh enforcement that's not legal signage so my point is is that that was those were some conservative Texans that were able to make that happen but this is goofy for for it to have this is just to ensnare people who are criticizing the rhinos that's all it is it's just you know they're criticizing the rhinos i've even heard of stories where people try to, some of these rhinos try to enact lawfare against private citizens for expressing their opinions on certain things. That's a real thing. That's a story that might come out someday. I just have a suspicion that might come out someday because there's a lot of lawfare

that goes on behind the scenes too where they try to chill speech. Pretty unbelievable, huh? How bad would that be if that came out and name names? I will always carry a firearm and I have no problem using lethal force. I, and I live in Texas and I don't really like to go to gun-free zones. Unfortunately, I have some I have some friends. who unfortunately live in gun-free areas because they have to. They're big kids and they've got to go to work, right? One of my friends lives in D.C., and they went and got that very difficult to get licensed to carry.

But even then, they can't carry hardly anywhere because you've got all of these municipal restrictions. And then on top of it, you'll have private party or private property restrictions that ban the people from taking a firearm to protect themselves. And so my friend, by the nature of their work, and yes, they do work with the press, you know, they're pretty late at night filing stories. And at 11 o'clock, you know, going back to their car, they don't want to become a statistic. So they went and got a Berna SD. Now, Burna makes different models. The SD, I think, for this purpose, is the one that I highly recommend. Because if you're barred from carrying, you want to make sure that you diversify your weapons. I mean, for crying out loud, you carry blades and you have different calibers. Why not something like this? It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. And like I said, there's different models. There's different projectiles. The SD is the most popular. one and for good reason it's you know pistol uh and uh you can carry it i mean it's uh carried on your person it's there's no recoil uh it's easy target acquisition you have five rounds as opposed to like

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It's time for Florida Man. Okay, I've got two questions for you about this story. First off, who steals a tricycle? And secondly, what is an adult tricycle? I'm thinking big wheels. Why don't they make those? Basically, an unrelated third question. I just love this.

Those were amazing, right? And I didn't like it when the pedals got stripped, but man alive, that was, big wheels were where it's at. Man, if I could get some with engines, I would blow everybody away. There was a big wheels race. Okay, where am I going? I don't know. So this is an Arcadia, Florida.

Here's why I asked this. Because there's a woman who stole an adult tricycle. I don't even know what that is. And she was in a tiger print onesie. They identified her, but they can't find her. Her voicemail's full, and they can't find the tricycle. It's petty theft. but they literally said

if you see somebody in a tiger onesie on a tricycle please call the sheriff's office and I'm just trying to figure out what is an adult tricycle I've never heard of this one that's big enough is it like motor powered I'm afraid of write adult into any kind of search engine

it might have an engine or a motor I guess I just think it's larger I mean I look at all it's showing me are bikes I don't even know it's just a three wheel bike that's like really that's I would imagine like I would think it would have some fatty, fat tires and, you know, like an engine, something, like a hemmy. I don't know. Can you imagine?

Oh, my gosh. All right. Oh, this is crazy. A doorbell camera. There's the lady in the onesie. She's the one who stole the tricycle. Now, here's something. If you see this chick, you see that broad in the tiger onesie on an adult trike, you know, you holler at the popo.

A doorbell camera catches a Florida gator. Now they're progressing, guys. Now they're walking. A Florida gator standing on two. legs and literally knocking on the door. It literally gets up on its two legs and knocks on the door. Now, they can climb. I'm sorry, I love Florida, but one of the reasons, probably the biggest reason I could never maybe move there is this. They will climb up your fences, up your walls, knocking your doors. So it's on Reddit. It was on Reddit. And he said, meanwhile in Florida,

and it shows two gators. One of them stands up on its back legs. and literally knocks on the door, and it's all on camera. They were able to call Florida Fish and Wildlife, but so far, by the time Florida Fish and Wildlife got there, because it was an emergency, it was not an emergency call. The gators kind of wandered away, but I wouldn't, like, you have animals? Would you feel comfortable letting your animal? I mean, there's gators, if there's like a little pond,

there's a pothole in the road, there's a gator in it. I mean, it's that one has shown you, that's what it did. That's from his ring doorbell camera, this Florida man. The gators are evolving. So it's happening. Third hour on the way. We've got a lot to discuss, including new military tech. Stick with us. Goldco is making it easy to take that first step toward protecting your savings. Just fill out a quick form, no commitment, just free information. And then they'll ship you your free 2025 gold and silver kit straight to your door. No shipping fees, no strings, just a free info kit to help you understand how gold and silver can fit into your financial plan. I'm a big believer in doing your research, and this kit is a great place to start.

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You know, first, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depot's trying to get work so that they could feed their families. And I didn't say anything about it because. I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot. Now, that was the only, like, mildly entertaining part of what's his face? Hank Johnson, Guam tip over his remarks, because it all fell apart. He couldn't rhyme anything else after that. And I, what is that even from? This is like some cat in the hat, green eggs and ham.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this. third hour coming up our get we're going to have two guests simultaneously general randy george who is chief of staff of the army and secretary of the army dan driscoll who uh i've met before i told you this uh you know a few months ago sat down with him and was talking to him about a number of things including recruitment and then of course tech and drones drone warfare there's not there's several things that make me nervous uh hunting wild hogs

because they're terrifying and drones and also crickets but that's a whole other story made me very nervous because they fly your face it's crazy anyway so he's going to sit down and talk with us because there's a lot of changes coming through DOD and they're going to discuss and that's coming up at the bottom of this hour so welcome dana lash listen coast to coast the chats at rumble if you're not listening terrestrially in one of our hundreds of stations you're probably watching the stream on channel 347 or on facebook or on x or like I said over at rumble so um uh

king that was downright poetic from Hank Johnson don't you agree I feel like that man's going to receive a Pulitzer yeah so so artful the Latinos at Home Depot

you ever hung out at a Home Depot just you know as an observation racist as hell oh yeah oh so bad racist is how it's so bad but did you see the look on his face, like right before the clip ends, the way he's like wistfully looking at the people

watching him. I honestly, he's got this look on his face of smug cleverness. He thinks that what he's doing is really smart. Yeah, he thought what he said was clever. He's a new beat poet. He thought what he said was clever. Woman. Latino. Whoa, man. So I married a nice murder. Really underappreciated. That is racist as all get out. and Home Depot. You know, there are a lot of other people at the Home Depot. I like going. My husband doesn't like it.

Because I think, you know how sometimes men will go and they want a man trip, like a man errand, a quest. They want to go on their own man quest, and they don't want their wives to go along with them because I will completely distract you from everything. Guys do get new ideas on how to build stuff when they walk through. So do women. Yeah. When we walk through, don't let me near the garden center.

It happens. Because I'll be creating chores right and left, right and left. but um you know other people besides latinos like to hang out at home depot you old racist this just i mean i when i i i kind of i want to laugh because he thought it was real clever when and we it goes on forever but it falls apart after that because then he can't rhyme anything else and it looks so dumb but he thought that that was a great oh this is my sound like this is from the party that says they don't like stereotypes yeah they don't like stereotypes but the latinos at the home depo you know everybody likes to go to

you know, a home improvement store, whether it's Lowe's or Home Depot, they all like going, right? I mean, like I said, I like going. I like going down the aisles that have all the doodads in them. Like, I just want to go look for the, all the men are dying. I just like looking at the sign. I'm like, where is the doodad aisle? Because I'm sure there's something that I don't have. Every aisle is the doodad aisle. Yeah, but there's like things and stuff. It's crazy. And then when you go to like the science experiment aisle where they have their tinctures and their, I don't know, like their cock and.

The glue and glue guns. Are we still talking about Home Depot? Huh? Are we still talking about Home Depot? Yes. Yes. Tinctures? I don't know.

There's like things that you can do with it. There's stuff that's dangerous probably if you got it in your eyes. And if you've got it, you can do stuff with it. I don't know. I just like going and I'm like, there are so many things here. I am, it's amazing. I like going to the Home Depot and Chris goes with me. He goes and he's like, there's a couple things I want to go.

Maybe I'll look around, you know. And I'm like, let's look at all the things. And then I tell him, did you know that they have this? And he's like, yes, I know. I'm a man. I know these things. For several years now, when I walk by the plywood and the lumber and all that, I'm like, man, that price of wood.

Right? I didn't even know what the price of wood was before because I don't build stuff regularly. But I look at it now. I'm like, whoa, that's crazy. But there's just all kinds of things, fun things to look at, right? And like great inventions that you think, why didn't I think of this? this is a great idea. This is a great product.

And then what I do is I take like a photo of it, like a psycho. And I'm like, that's a great idea. Just because I want to remember how good of an idea it is. I'll take a picture of it. Does anybody else do that, me? No, I don't know. And I like the way it smells in there because it smells like wood shavings and paint. And I love that.

Oh, I love the smell of gas. Can we run that club again? I have something for that. Okay, yeah, go ahead. The home, the Latinos and Home Depot? Please. The Hank Johnson? Okay.

Yeah, Steve's begging. you know first they came for the latinos outside of the home depots i don't think the tv trying to get work audiences hearing that they could feed their families we're we're playing the home depot and i didn't say anything about it because i'm not a Latino at the home depot oh there it is that's like an ad i mean that is an ad I mean I

like you're where can you go to find Latinos at the Home Depot and it's just Hank Johnson for Home Depot man that is like

such an identifying riff isn't it though yeah it's iconic by the way I asked Grock I said can you write a story about Latinos at Home Depot

Good Lord. I did. You didn't. Yep. Are you ready? Hold on. Here we go. It's called.

Do we need this again? Yeah, we're going to need that. The Home Depot on Caesar Chavez Boulevard buzzed under the Texas sun. It's parking lot, a mosaic of pickup trucks, low riders, and minivans, blasting everything from bad bunny to classic Tejano. It was Saturday morning. And the store was a second home for half the neighborhood.

Among the aisles of lumber and paint cans, three Latinos, Javier, Marisol, and Diego crossed paths each on their own mission, but bound by the unspoken rhythm of community. Javier, a wiry contractor in his 40s with a faded Astro Cap, pushed a flat bag cart piled high with two-by-fours and drywall. He'd been up since 5 a.m. bidding on a remodel job in East Austin. Mira, I'm telling you, this gentrification's got everyone wanting shiplap, he grumbled to his cousin Diego, who trailed behind with a back of concrete mix, slung over his shoulder.

Diego 25 and fresh off a landscaping gig laughed. Shiplap, man. Two shiplats? Labelators house had that in the 70s. Call it vintage charge double. Javier dropped the tool corral. I'm in a new DeWalt drill. If I win this bid, I'm upgrading.

These clients want artisan by my wallet screaming bargain. Diego smirk, tossing a roll of painters' tape under the cart. Oh, it goes on. Marisol navigated the garden center. Her toddler, Sophia, giggling in the cart. I mean, it goes on. It's amazing. At Home Depot, an employee named Carlos spotted her puzzled look and strolled over

orange apron swinging. And there it is. Any more mentions of Latinos at Home Depot. Latinos at Home Depot. Courtesy of Hank Johnson. By the way, this song on the internet is called Let's Do It. there's a word for the name of this song, and someone uploaded an hour continuous mix of this.

Are you serious? That's actually amazing. A continuous one hour. I think my kids made this the ringtone for Pawpaw because he worked at Home Depot for a while. My stepdaddy, when he retired, he got bored to death on day two of retirement. And he's like, I'm going to go work at Home Depot

because he's Forklift Certified, which, why is that a big thing with you, dudes? Yeah. Is that a big thing, Steve, Forklift Certification? I don't think so, not with me. Okay, maybe DJ Funn Uncle is like an outlier here. Yeah, I mean, you have to be able to operate large equipment, right? So you need some sort of certification. Apparently, Gen Z thinks that's a measure of a man is whether or not you can drive a forklift.

Yeah? But, and he, you know. Fair. Yeah, so he, and he liked Home Depot. He liked working there. And then he got bored and he wanted to change it up because, you know, he had all the seniority going in there. But I think that was his ringtone for a while. Papa's ringtone was Home Depot.

Yeah, I've looked up the guy that actually wrote. that. Can you imagine me the dude that wrote that little riff? It's very simple. It's almost like Peter Gunn. It's this very simple little guitar line. That's all it is. How do we get on that subject? I have no idea. Anyway, okay. So, uh, yeah, Hank Johnson. Damn you, Hank Johnson. At least we're not talking about Guam tipping over, rolling over in the ocean like an iceberg or something. Good heavens. That is Democrats for you. It's Democrats. That's, you know, that's what it is. But I think they're still rolling with this. But after all, all of the information that's come out.

Okay, so let me, let me, let me, uh, let me go to the story. So that gangbanger, right? Because all of this is because of this, dumb ass gangbanger, uh, the Kilmar Abrago Garcia. I'm going to turn into AOC. Kilmar Abrago Garcia. So he apparently, I'm going to, we got to ask our brother from another mother, same father down in KURV.

That was good, right? Good role of the ours. So apparently there's like several protective forms. that his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, had filed against this guy. You know, sweet infant baby, Maryland dad, Abrago Garcia. And he apparently, you know, like a good sweet Maryland man would, dragged her out of a vehicle by her hair, broke her son's tablet, broke down her doors, shoved her against a wall, broke all of her television and phones,

and ripped her out of a car by her hair and drove off, leaving her in the street. That was in 2020. sweet Maryland dad and oh okay there's more like he threatened to kill her and then he bragged about threatening to kill her saying you know even if he kills me she was saying even if he kills

me no one can do anything to him and he told her that repeatedly doesn't that really just remember Chris Van Hollen sat down Chris Van Hollen by the way there is an inherent racism on what Chris Van Hollen did this crusty old white dude goes down there like oh well this guy's probably you know

he's disadvantaged because you know, he's, that's what he thinks. He thinks that this guy is immediately the victim because he's Hispanic. That's the, that is the inherent racism of how the left looks at this stuff. Sat down, had a damn margarito with a guy who dragged his wife out of the car by her hair and left her in the street. This man only married her because he was trying to boost his asylum claim. They weren't even taking it seriously because he wasn't married. They considered, and that was in the court documents, they actually considered him a greater flight risk because he wasn't married.

so that's the reason why he married her he didn't love her he didn't want to have anything to do with her he married her during the whole court battle because he kept trying to stay in the u.s claiming all these things oh my gosh bigfoot's after me oh my gosh uh you know the window goes after me oh i miss their ever all gangs are after me oh my family's been uh so he got he was rejected at every turn numerous court appearance appearances that was his due process and when they said oh well no he's further a flight risk because he's not married he has nothing whole holding him here. That's when he married her. That's the only reason that he married her. So, I mean, it's so bad that now Jeffries is telling everybody, okay, can you guys stop going

down there? Can you stop going down there and trying to see this guy? You act like he's like this two-headed calf. Stop going down there and trying to get a photo off with it. Stop doing this. This is, it's actually, they realize that it's actually making them look bad. Because remember, they had all these other Democrat codels that we're going to go and now none of them are going. They've stopped. And that's because this is hurting them bad. Well played by the admin. As we move our partners, Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the country, I think they're actually in D.C. for the National Day of Prayer, if memory serves.

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So New York is banning smartphones in their schools now joining a national movement. Schools across the country have actually taken these steps. they say it cuts down on disruption, distraction, screen time, and even bullying. So these are smart things. Agatha Christie, really? They're doing an AI enhanced BBC maestro writing course.

According to, I've seen this kind of stuff before, according to Hollywood Reporter. So they're using AI to bring Agatha Christie back to life and other authors, not just her, to lead writing workshops. A.I. is now teaching human writers how to write. That's actually kind of terrifying. In other AI news, an AI test is diagnosing arthritis in mere minutes with 98% accuracy. I do think that AI in medicine is going to be amazing, but it's everything else. It's also, it's going to be incredibly troubling. There's a new AI power test that can diagnose osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, with a 98.1% accuracy, and it uses a small sample of joint fluid, which sounds like that's painful to get. But okay, they said that it's going to help doctors tailor treatments and remedies

a little bit more effectively, which, you know, that makes sense. Fears over a chilling new sonic weapons used on protesters in Europe. This is something that we've seen Serbia is actually using this for protesters. And a flagellant spray is responsible for people fleeing a Connecticut Beach carnival, according to police there. Stay with us. We have Chief the staff of the Army and Secretary of the Army, Randy George and Dan Driscoll, respectively next. Hard work, self-reliance showing up. That's what built this country. And it's exactly how our president leads. No excuses, no handouts, just results. But let's be honest, even the most dedicated Americans can't run on empty. Real sleep isn't a luxury. It's essential. And that's

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hundreds of markets terrestrially, or if you're not listening torestrily, you're probably watching the stream. Channel 347, DirecTV. You can also find us on X, Facebook, and Rumble, where the discussion always happens. So welcome back. One of the big things that happened today, and we've got a lot of breaking news today, and this is one that I've been watching very closely. We have military history my family, and you all know that we love our veterans, we love our war fighters, and we also love smart spending, and we love making them the most lethal fighting force possible. Let these people do their job because it's what they're best at, right? I know what I know. I know what I don't know. They know what they know, and they know that you don't know what they know. So this is great,

and we need them to be able to make these decisions. Two headlines for you, and we're going to go to our guests. Army leaders to Musk, this is from NBC. Don't doge us. We're going to doge ourselves. Top Army officials are proposing to eliminate unneeded spending and modernize. That's one. Second, Wall Street Journal. U.S. Army is planning a massive increase in its use of drones. There's a shift to small unmanned aircraft, and it's all based on modern battlefield lessons. So with this, joining us right now, and we have

two people on at the same time, and this is a retreat for us, we have General Randy George, who is chief of staff of the Army, with him, Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll. Mr. Secretary General, it's good to have you both. Welcome. Thank you for having us. Of course, you've all been very busy talking about this. And I'll start, first off, I'll start with you, Secretary Driscoll, this. And then I'm going to go to the general and ask him about this as well. This is huge. The first and foremost,

the doge, the dogeing of the military. And you said, you know, we're ahead of the game on this. We understand what you're doing. But we know exactly where we need to go to cut unnecessary spending and redirect resources to make us a strong fighting force and the most lethal force on the planet. Tell us a little bit about this because I know that you met with the president recently and you had these conversations about how to best do this. I think that's right, Dana. So what the president has done, his leadership has given us the air cover to go do the right thing that soldiers like General George, who've been in 35 plus years, they've known these changes need to happen for a long time.

And what President Trump did by putting Secretary Hegg Seth in charge of the Pentagon is he gave us the air cover to go do the right thing. And if you look at what Doge and Elon have done in different parts of the federal government, when we met with them, we basically said, hey, look, we know what to do. We are willing to have the hard conversations. Give us 60 days to come up with a plan. We will present it to you if that matches your intent, which we hope it will. Let's announce it. we are today. That's huge. And especially with, you know, some of these previous contracts in general, I'll ask you about this, because, you know, just for the practicality of war fighting, you want to have

the best of the best, the most modern equipment, the most modern technology. And this has been a bit of a struggle for our military. Talk to us a little bit about these struggles and how you're overcoming them now with these proposals. Yeah. Well, thanks, Dana. You kind of said this up front. The battlefield's changing. We know we need to change and actually transform ahead of it. And this is about eliminating equipment inside of our formation and not spending money on things that we know we're not going to be winning technologies that we have going forward so that we can also spend that money on the things that we know will make a difference for our this is all about for the secretary and I making our formations much more effective and we're reducing headquarters

we're we're cutting senior positions consolidating in a complete effort just to make sure that we are supporting our formations down where it matters. And Dana, the Pentagon for the last couple of decades has contorted like a pretzel, it's decision-making process. And I know you know this. And when you talk to senators and congressmen, everyone has their favorite procurement story that's preposterous, that this thing that should have cost,

we have an example of one thing that should have cost $1,400, and we were quoted $40 million by our own team. And then once we proved it work with the $1,400 example, still told us to go use the $40 million example. And what I don't think people realized is at scale, these things had calcified into the system for so long that we needed the leadership of President Trump to basically say, enough is enough. The American warfighter is what matters. Lethality is what matters. Go do the right thing, no matter what it takes. And a lot of this, too, is, you know, we have a lot of legacy contracts for things that when the order is placed, just to put it in layman's

terms. You know, you place an order for a piece of equipment, whether it's a jet, whether, whatever it is, a tank, by the time you get it, you know, after all of those years in production, it's outmoded by the time it actually, you know, can hit the battlefield and actually be, you know, to be deployed. General, tell me a little bit about this, because that does affect how effective, honestly, our military can be. And then you look at, you know, drone swarms and you think, well, why can't we have this instead of this big, oh, heavy outmoded tank? Yeah, so we're looking at, you know, there's a lot of things that are dual-use technologies that we can just adopt right off the shelf. We're working with a lot of companies. We've seen that with what we've been doing. We have an effort that's called transforming in contact. We're getting bottom-up innovation from our troops who are telling us, you know, what's most effective and they're the ones that are fighting these formations.

I think the key is just being modular and open system, so it's got to work into our system. We know things are going to change, and I'm confident industry can come along with us. We've had a bunch of great, very innovative. I mean, United States is the innovation leaders in the world, and we can get this inside of our formations. And Dana, you are absolutely right, but it's even worse than you think. So it used to be that it was okay or at least survivable if it took you a couple of years to get through procurement, a couple of years to get the thing going, and then you manufactured it at scale, on it finally hit units, and maybe it was a couple of years out of date then. The problem now is

if you look at what's happening in Ukraine, drones are being updated every two weeks. So we probably, without the old systems before President Trump and Secretary of Excess leadership, we would have had a hard time updating within two years. And we are very optimistic with that with the changes announced this morning, we're going to be able to get even faster than two weeks and start to lead the world again. And isn't this really the future of warfare to unmanned air aircraft and drones particularly. And I can't imagine how difficult that is navigating that. It seems like, you know, when you're in the military, you know what's best, but then you also have to balance it with the politics and all of the asks and the contracts and the special

interests, which is almost antithetical to what you're doing as warfighters. How do you navigate that? Secretary, I'll start with you and then ask the general. This is kind of the whole crux of the issue, is that President Trump, Trump and Secretary Hayek-Seth have given us the air cover to go say, our decision-making from here on forward optimizes for one thing. Does this make the American soldier more lethal? If yes, we are doing it. And if no, you can send as many lobbyists into this building.

You can make as many calls as you want. You can threaten us as frequently as feels good. We are not going to concede, and President Trump and Secretary Hex-Seth are going to stand with us. And that is a totally different way of doing business. going to make an incredible difference in how the American soldier is ready to go fight and defend our country. Yeah. In general, with the use of drones as well, you know, the Swastry Journal article talking about the plan to incorporate, well, actually have a massive increase in drones.

I mean, this really, I mean, previously, I think maybe, you know, years ago they were more for, you know, some resources, surveillance, but now they're, you know, they're right there with these units and we're relying upon them more and more. Talk to us about the future that you see for the incorporation of drones within the military and exactly what you're asking for. Yeah, Dean, it's certainly on the drones. We're seeing that. You know, we're going to have a formation that's down. We're getting ready to, you know, do another combat training center rotation.

It'll have more than 300 drones. But we're also seeing autonomous systems. You know, we're going to send, what we want to do is send a, if you can send a robot or an autonomous system in a place you would normally send a human. we're going to do that. And our soldiers are so good and they're adaptive. We're having the companies that are down there with our formations. We have engineers. You know, for us, this is about putting users and developers together

that can help us advance what we're doing and make sure that we're staying ahead. And this is, I mean, it's really about modernizing fighting and modernizing our military. Have we been behind in that? of the bureaucracy, Mr. Secretary. I'll start with you. Unequivocally, yes. We are a couple of years behind that. That is not as scary as it seems. We have incredible, amazing soldiers. I've been on the job today's day 66. Probably spent about half that time out of the building with soldiers with General

George. And the American soldier is innovative. They are smart. They are disciplined. They are ready to face this challenge. And the other good thing is the American innovation engine, that is people typically talk about Silicon Valley, but it's all over the country, have created solutions and tools and software that we just need to go get and allow our soldiers to use in the formation, and it is going to catch us up incredibly quickly. So Dana, one of the things we talk about is we need our people to be able to talk to each other over the Verizon, talk to our things, and talk to our sensors all in near real time, creating this kind of web of activity and action and aggressiveness.

and we will get there. I think we need six months and we'll start to start, this will start to transform our formations and soldiers will start to feel it in their everyday activities. And then maybe 18, 24 months from today, we will have a transformed army. General, what is this doing? Sorry, go ahead, sir.

Yeah, I was just going to add, you know, back to your earlier comment about, you know, where drones are doing resupply, they're doing logistics. I mean, they're doing, you know, they're everywhere, they're ubiquitous in the battlefield. And again, having the people out there that understand,

we're trying to be really simple also in what we explain that we want. And this gets back to the procurement process where it's not this drawn-out, you know, requirement that takes years to come. If they're out there in our formations, talking to our soldiers, I mean, we've gotten to see that up close and personal. They're telling the engineer, here's what it needs to be able to do, and here's how it needs to be able to do it. And we can adapt that quickly and make those kind of changes.

is because of the innovation we have at the soldier level. What is this doing for recruitment, General? Well, recruitment is, you know, I think the best we've had in a good long time. Recruiting is going great. I think we're over 90% right now. And, you know, for what we had hoped to get this fiscal year. And we have our biggest recruiting months ahead of us. So the Army is a great place to be right now.

And one of the things we look at, too, in addition to new soldiers being recruited in is our retention. And General George and I look at those numbers, both because some of our best soldiers are the ones that are already trained and we want to keep them. But also, it is a trailing indicator of how we as a leadership team are doing on behalf of the soldiers. And right now, we are thrilled to say for our 12-month goal

of retention, we hit the entire goal. in six months. And so we're taking that as a positive sign that the president with his leadership is making a huge difference. And we're following his commander's intent. Well, and that's been kind of the big issue with military and recruitment and spending because, you know, the previous years, if I'm being honest, you know, haven't been too kind to the military and the headlines. And that's why we saw a drop in recruitment. There have been a lot of questions about spending legacy, DEI legacy contracts. I heard, you know, stories about even just, you know, meals, to obtain meals for our warfighters and the contracts for that kind of blew my mind.

This seems to all have really just done a 180 with the new administration, the new Secretary of Defense. Secretary, what are, how has that affected? I know we're just, just beyond the first 100 days, but a lot of stuff can change dramatically in those 100 days. What has that difference been like? Because it seems like these, these changes that you're talking about normally would take a long time, but now it seems like you guys are hitting the ground running pretty quick. Dana, it's all about the backing and the air cover and the command climate that they are setting. What Secretary of Defense Hegg Seth has told us is go figure out what we need to do to care for our soldiers, to care for their families, and most importantly, to stop wasting our time on things

that are just performative. We as a United States Army for the previous four years in the previous administration became this social experiment that was performing as if there wasn't a big scary world out there. And Secretary Hegsteth has told us that will no longer do. You figure out what you need to do for soldiers. And then you have my full authority and backing to go do it. And very importantly, Dana, and this is what makes all the difference and has allowed us to do this in day, 105, go do it regardless of the consequences to people that are adjacent to the core mission. The portion to the decision making had been for people adjacent to the actual soldier. And that is, there has been a complete reset under the president. And I love that you

mentioned, too, you know, social experimentation, because that just seems like a distraction, you know, honestly for our war fighters. You know, you have the, you know, the general who knows how to, you know, how to prosecute conflict and knows what needs to be done and the soldiers know what they have to do. And it's, now it seems like we can finally get back to, what the military is, you know, very soberly, it is a very lethal fighting force. And that's the reality of the world in which we live. In general, I'll give you the last word on this. What are you hoping to see here within the next few years as we barrel towards, you know, this brave new world here? Yeah, I think in the secretary and I've had a lot of comments on that.

I mean, I think we got to get into the habits where we're, you know, so for us is like, make sure that the processes are right so that we are on a road of continuous transformation that we're getting the bottom-up innovation. And, you know, you mentioned, you know, there's things that we're focused on as well that didn't come out this morning and making sure that we're building cohesive teams, taking care of our soldiers and families,

how we build things because, you know, we're struggled. We struggle a little bit with the cost for military construction and how we, you know, we go about, you know, providing food service to our soldiers. So I think we're just getting started and looking forward to the way ahead. I have to say, this is one of the most transparent things I've ever seen from, you know, our Department of Defense and our Pentagon. this is very unusual to see and it's very refreshing because I feel like we used to have this

relationship with our military leaders and, you know, our war fighters and it's just been obscured by, you know, all of the stuff that we just mentioned, you know, all of the petty politics and everything else. And now it just seems very streamlined, very refined, and very transparent, which is incredibly refreshing. And I can imagine very encouraging for those military families and future war fighters as well. So thank you gentlemen so much for what you do. We would love to have you back and keep a surprise because we follow all of this closely. And we appreciate exactly what you do. Secretary Driscoll and General George as well. God bless you both. We appreciate your time and your service to this country. Thank you for having us. Thank you, Dana.

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