The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Oval Office to Female Orbit: The El Salvadorian President, Katy Perry's Trip & Ken Paxton Joins Us

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

President Trump meets with El Salvador’s president in the Oval Office over immigration. The Blue Origin all-female flight crew including Katy Perry and Gayle King launches into Space for 11 minutes. A Socialist lunatic breaks into Pennsylvania’s Governor’s Mansion to commit arson and potentially harm Gov. Josh Shapiro. Taylor Lorenz idolizes Luigi Mangione in an interview with CNN. Green Day dedicates one of their songs at Coachella to the kids in Palestine. Texas AG Ken Paxton joins us on his recently announced Senate run, why Sen. Cornyn isn’t right for the job, deportation efforts & keeping men out of women's sports. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hides her face when a photographer tries to take her picture in the Oval Office. CBS somehow spins a story about a child sacrificial altar in Guatemala to be “non-violent” to not offend anyone. ABC’s Jon Karl asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick whether the reindustrialization of America will result in "a nation of cobblers". Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to discuss the tariff battle against China, Beijing threatening halting exports and the White House visit from El Salvador.Help us keep the lightson by visiting our sponsors…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 Weather the Roller Coaster! Get your GoldCo 2025 Gold & Silver Kit. PLUS, you could qualify for up to 10% in BONUS silverByrnahttps://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.comDana personally owns and uses Keltec. Innovation & Performance at its best!All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/DanaCode Dana10 for 10% off your entire orderPreBornhttps://Preborn.com/DanaDonate by dialing #250 and saying “BABY” or give securely at Preborn.com/Dana.Beamhttp://shopbeam.com/DanashowSleep like never before—Beam has improved over 17.5 million nights of rest. Try it now at with code Danashow for 40% off.Ancient Nutritionhttp://ancientnutrition.com/DanaCollagen and wellness, powered by Ancient Nutrition—get 25% off your first order with promo code DANA.

Pause because you know you have to show a little flexibility. We go back to what we have to do the markets have been Very strong once they got used to it, but we were losing two billion dollars a day There's no company big like this, but this is the biggest deal ever met now we're making three billion dollars a day We're a great country, but we had stupid people running this country and I can say it what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten it's a sin what they did and you are helping us out and we appreciate it thanks actually what you're doing with

with the border is remarkable it has dropped what 95% it's incredible as this morning 99% 99.1% to be exact why are those numbers not in the media well they get out with the fake news you know like CNN over here doesn't want to put them out because they don't like putting out good numbers. They don't like putting out because I think they hate our country, actually. But it's a shame, you're right. Isn't that a great question? Why doesn't the media, why don't they put out numbers?

Yeah, 99%. I mean, it's crazy, right? We're doing it. It's a crazy time. Christy, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing? Yeah, she's been absolutely. So the president is speaking with, well, our president is speaking with the president. president of El Salvador, Naib Buckelay. And I am fascinated by this exchange, especially when,

and the excerpt that you heard, it was literally, I mean, it's only delayed for like a minute. I mean, he just was talking about all of this. And the discussion that they were having centered on the reporting around illegal immigrationists. And this came after, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, I think this was after just to set it up so people, know what was happening. I think this was after Caitlin Collins asked a question about the legality of, you guys remember the dude that we talked about last week, who is an illegal alien and who was sent to the infamous prison in El Salvador. And he, they kept saying somehow that he was like a legal citizen and he wasn't a legal citizen. He's, he was always ever illegal here illegally. And they,

he was asked a question about that. And Pam Bondi answered as well. I think DHS spoke first and then Pam Bondi answered. And they gave a little bit more insight. They had, you know, three different, well, you had two different courts. And then you also had an entity in El Salvador that said,

no, this guy is this El Salvadorian national. And, you know, essentially, if the United States were to take him and bring him back again illegally to, you know, the United States, they would be kidnapped. him at that point. So that was a very interesting exchange. And I also loved the president because he said this like several times. He said after CNN asked that question, he's like, well, I don't really like the way CNN reports. You know, basically what did he say? They're trash bag. They're trash. They're trash people. It was hysterical the way he said it. And the El Salvadorian president,

Bougale, he's sitting right there next to him. Like, wow. He's like he was laughing the whole time that you could tell he, you know, he thought it was pretty funny. So welcome to the program. That's how we're starting out Monday. It's always fun to start out with a press conference when you have kind, well, kind of, it's not a press conference per se. It's a press availability. And they're there in the Oval Office and there. And again, POTUS is meeting with El Salvador's president, Bucolet, Na'i Bucle. And he, the way that he was just trashing the bad media was hysterical. So that, and, and they have a good. partnership. They have a very good partnership. I mean, I'm looking at some of, this is very

different than what we're used to. Cain, it's very different from what we're used to. I want to play this part here because even El Salvadorian's president is like, you guys are nuts. Listen to it's hysterical. Can President Buckele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him? Well, I guess I'm supposed to have suggested that I smuggle a terrorist in the United States, right? How can I smuggle? How can I return him to their latest? It's like, I, I'm supposed to smuggle him into the United States or whether I do it of course I'm not going to do it. It's like, I mean, the question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist to the United States? I don't have

the power to return him to the United States. But you could release him inside of the United States. Yeah, but I'm not releasing, I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists in a really good point. He's like, how am I going to be bringing, how am I going to bring this guy back into the United States? He's, you know, he's a, he's Al Salvadoran. He's not American. He wasn't there. legally. So I think that was a good, there was a very good exchange there that highlighted a lot of stuff for folks. So welcome to the program. We're at the top of the first hour and there's been a lot happening. We're going to get into all of it, including my allergies. So if my eyes look red,

it's not because I'm like a drug addict or something. It's crazy allergies in Texas right now. Your girl is allergic to nature. Well, specifically like cedar cats, ducks, you know, all kinds of stuff. I don't know, dude. I don't know. I'm just, I'm just here. I'm just here. So we're gonna, so if I start, it's, that's why, that's why. Not for any other reason. The, we'll keep monitoring this because they're still there. They're still there in the Oval Office and they're, uh, I, we'll bring you any other good press quips, but I do like the fact that he's sitting there, just trashing the press right in front of the president of El Salvador. And, and Bucolay's just sitting there like he's got this expression on his face it's hysterical so this is uh it's a good

you know it's a it's already a good start to the to the week uh like i said we're going to get into all of that also can we just i can't i was going to i was going to save this i don't even have it on the rundown for this first hour i was going to touch on the uh blue is it the blue origin somebody damn rockets going up in the air i don't care uh where you had uh forgive me i'm really going through my mental rilodex katie Perry, Lauren Sanchez, and who else? There's some other celebrity that nobody cares about. Gail King, that's right. So they

got up into this rocket and they were in, it was like, it took flight, it was like 11 minutes. They saw, how long were they kind of technically in space for? Just a couple of minutes, just a handful of minutes. And then they came back down. That's all great. They had, you know, other females.

Nobody was driving. That's how it landed without incident. So they landed. Do we have any of this audio where they were screeching, like, collar like cats like a basket of cats yeah play this because when it landed I had to turn the volume down on my monitor because I couldn't even hear them they were listen thank you so much we love you we love you bring us back safe we're so grateful we're counting on you we're counting on you we believe in you too like what are you doing you're just throwing up in the air for a little

It's a Highland fling up in the air. It's all it is. Where's Carrie Ann? They all have their suits. They all have their suits. The only one who could actually fly this thing, maybe would be Lauren Sanchez, because she is, she is an actual helicopter pilot. But the others, I don't know anything about, but it was like a total, what was the purpose of this?

To show that chicks can go up in the air? In a giant penis? Well, it was a capsule. It didn't look like a... It got up there somehow. Well, yeah. But I'm fascinated by why they felt like they needed to... What was the purpose of this?

Just show that... I mean, normally when you're doing like experimental spaceflight and stuff like that, you're trying to achieve something. Like, oh, we're going to set this record, or we're going to see how far we can, you know, go up here. I'm not trying to be mean or a naysayer. I think all this stuff is cool. I'm just curious as to what purpose was achieved.

achieved from this to show that broads can go into space. I mean, you got, you got to go up and see that the world isn't flattened, and then you come back down. Am I over, am I underplaying this? Yeah, I'm just, I don't know. I'm just, I don't know. I have questions about that. Not saying that I'm not excited about spaceflight or anything, but this is, this was all over the news. As Steve put it, it's the real, real housewives of the stratosphere. and yes, Lorraine and Kane

did not ever talk to each other because you guys say the same exact things Lorraine said in Slack exactly what you were just saying on air.

Yeah, she did, yes she did. Yeah, that's right. So you guys don't get to talk anymore

because you just feed off each other. So it's, it is a, and again, allergies, I'm not crying because I'm like

blown away. I could care less. I really, you know, actually I could not. I don't have any more cares to get. But I just don't

get the purpose of this. What is the purpose of going up into the air a bunch of women to show that women can go up in the air, that women are somehow underrepresented. The fact that you're having an entire, you know, uh, uh, test flight, I think kind of goes to show you that they're, they're not, women are not oppressed. I just don't get it. What's the purpose of it? It sounded annoying as hell when the capsule landed. This is why I don't like to do girls outings, because it's annoying. Everyone's like, yeah, I just would rather die. I can't.

That's worse than going to like a spa cane to be on a, base capsule with a bunch of broads is worse than having a spa day with a bunch of women. You go to space to get away from that stuff. You go to space to get away from it. But you're all in matching suits. The hell, you're not a family of like twins. What are you doing? Like, why is everybody in matching outfits?

They're on the same team? I don't know. I don't know. We're going to come back to this. Also, a number of other things because we also have the ongoing, well, just with China, really. I'm looking at my headlines here. the ongoing battle, the tariff battle with China. So they're at 125% we're higher. We're going to see how it goes. I've been hearing from people with suppliers and supply chains, etc. I do think that none of this stuff makes any sense until you actually start deregulating and making it easier for business to do business here. Does that make sense? So that you can have like, you know, these, you have a hospitable environment with which to, in which you can make these products. and be sustainable with our supply chains.

Until we do that, and all of this stuff is stupid. I read two pieces today this morning. One of them was that Wall Street Journal. It talked about how you have to make, you have to have tariffs. You have to have tax cuts in order to have this system because it's one or the other. It's either you're implementing these tariffs to raise federal revenue in place of an income tax, or you are doing it just as a tactic for long-term. strategy, which right now it seems like it's the latter, like a short term, especially with

these other European nations. Like we were telling you on Friday, Marlone, Georgia Maloney, the Italian Prime Minister was meeting with POTUS to talk about trade and make a deal, etc. But so far, I don't know what Congress is doing, and we're going to update on all of that and follow what they are. We're going to, I'll have some headlines about that here later on. So a busy day. And then, of course, we're going to have AG Ken Paxton, coming up at the top of our next hour. And then we have Stephen Yates. We had Greg Abbott,

but Greg Abbott canceled on us. I had a lot of, huh? He's not feeling well. He's not feeling well. Is he feeling under the weather? Yeah. And he apparently lost his voice, too. See, I'm not the only person dealing with allergies right now.

Well, he needs to ban allergies. Yesterday was a bad day for everybody. Oh, my gosh. I'm on a struggle bus. I don't mean to complain about it, but you guys comment otherwise. It'll be like, why are your eyes so red day? And I'm like, I got to tell you guys.

Someone's like, are you doing drugs? I actually have had people ask that. if I have red eyes on camera. Guys, I am not Fox. I don't have five or six makeup artists standing in the side, making sure I don't look like I'm strung out on pot. Or I don't even think you can be, right? I don't know.

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Now they say that being married, this is by they, I mean the independent, says that being married has been linked to an increased risk of dementia. I would think it's just the men because the women are there to tell you exactly what to do and what to wear and where to go and when to be there. And you don't have to remember anything. So, you know, you get dementia. That's my scientific, you know, that cane, that's my scientific assessment. of it. Yeah, that makes all the sense in the world.

They said that married people are generally thought to have better health, and we do. But they said that, I like reduced risk of heart disease, all this other stuff, but they said that, well, dementia, I'm telling you, that's the reason why. Low-level drinkers have increased cancer and cardiovascular risk, according to a

study. So, become a high-level drinker. That's the news that I'm getting out of this, Kane. That's the lesson, you know? I mean, maybe it'll make your stupid eye allergies go away, which I'm going to complain about all the show. low level drinking they said increases your chances of cancer and cardiovascular disease it was done by this british group that i don't care and uh i would say that well i guess that means boys you got to drink more uh low level is unacceptable so become a high level drinker doctors are reattatching reattaching reattaching a decapitated illinois woman's head after she suffered a horrific fall while exercising uh wow this is crazy

so the story says she was 16 in 2005 she left in the air to catch a soccer ball drink in gym class fell to the ground, damage her right ankle and spine, tearing the muscle off of both shoulder blades. She had to spend a year on crutches. Everything was bad. She underwent 22 surgeries and on her shoulders and shoulder blades. They couldn't figure out why it didn't heal, but apparently they discovered she has a genetic disorder that stops collagen from forming properly and leads to joint instability. So she had to like have her whole head, like stitched up. I mean, the back of her looks like Sally from A Nightmare Before Christmas. Like she's all sticking. up, but it's working, apparently.

The Trump family going all in on crypto, I don't care about that headline. California's drought has returned. They said it's already bad. It's almost like they didn't know that, you know, it's going to get hot in the summer in California. It's happening again, you know, it's crazy the drought in California, how this

happens, and they just can't predict it at all. They said that the California, Nevada River Forecast Center, they said it's considered to be in a state of drought. They said that the drought areas have seen dryness intensify. falling further down the U.S. drought monitor scale from abnormally dry to an exceptional drought, exceptional drought, and 44% of California, Nevada are in some stage of dryness or drought.

That's what they're suggesting here. Hmm. I don't know to say. So coming up, we're going to get into, get some RFK stuff. There's a piece that's out over at Substack, if you haven't read it yet from Lorraine about JFK, RFK Jr. I'm also so JFK, and autism. We have the latest with the economy tariffs, oh, and the arson at Josh Shapiro's.

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Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you allow men to play in women sports? Do you allow men to box your women and boxers? I know you have a lot of boxes. That's violence. That's abuse of women. It's abusable. But we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women's sports.

And some of those sports, it wouldn't matter much, but it still matters. But some of them are very dangerous for women. Some years ago, some of them, like we said, a decade ago or so, women rights movements were pressuring so that we enact a specific loss to avoid men abusing women. And I think those loss were great because there were a lot of people. man, abusing women. But now some of the same people are trying to backtrack and actually trying to make new laws, allowing men to abuse women in a sport. So actually, that doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. You know, the El Salvadoran president there in the

Oval Office talking with POTUS. Daniel Lash here with you and my giant allergies and watery eye at the bottom of this first hour. I'm going to complain about it the whole show. You know how it is like when you've got allergies and you're miserable? And then people are like, why is your eye weird? what's happening. So I'm letting you know right off the bat. So there, I love, he's like, yeah, you know, you got men beating up your women, you know, wanting to fight your women, wanting to box your women. I just love the response of the president of El Salvador. He just like laughs at everything. It's been a very interesting, very interesting, very interesting, whole press avail. Also, one of the things we're watching that happened over the weekend, a socialist that hated Josh Shapiro, Josh Shapiro, Try to say Josh Shapiro fast. This guy who is believed to have set his house on fire on the first night of Passover admitted to authorities that he, quote, hated Shapiro and that he would have beaten him with a hammer if he had found him, according to a criminal report, which is, that's pretty wild. Cody Balmer, 38 years old, was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated arson, burglary terrorism. Oh my gosh.

Aggravated assault, there's like a million other charges. Per the Harrisburg Police Department and a criminal complaint that the New York Post obtained on Monday. And the dude was admitted to the hospital to be treated for a medical event. The police say was not connected to his arrest per the piece. They, he admitted to authorities that he had removed gas from a lawnmour, poured it into two Heineken bottles. He was going to use him as homemade Molotov cocktails. He walked an hour for. from his home to Governor Josh Shapiro's home before he scaled the perimeter fence,

breaking two windows with the hammer, throwing the cocktails inside. I mean, the damage is really bad. They said that he forcibly entered Shapiro's home early Sunday, just hours after the governor had guest over for Passover, and then he set fire onto the house as the governor and his family slept, said the Pennsylvania State Police. They said he clearly had a plan. He was methodical in his approach. Now, they're like, well, the attack was targeted, but, you know, we don't know the motive. I can pretty much guess it's because he's shmooish. It reminds, it rhymes with he's shmooish. How much do you want to bet? Because this is a violent lefty. Violent lefties hate Jewish people. That's one of the things we've obviously seen throughout all of history. And he, in a separate case, he was, he's expected to be in court for a whole separate case stemming from a 2023 assault charge. So he pled guilty in 2016 to forgery and theft.

And after his arrest, his mother, Christine Balmer, said her son is mentally ill and then he went off his medication. Or, you know, it's because he's socialist. Also that. Or maybe what comes first? Socialism or the mental illness. I don't know. But, and Juan's showing you some of the photos. The entire house on the inside, that room is just destroyed.

They're going to have to gut it. Kane, they're going to have to gut that damage. all the damage from that. There's nothing that's, I don't think there's anything that's salvageable except for the, except for the bones

at the house at that point. You can't see how bad it is on the inside. But they said that if he was trying to terrorize the family, you know, they said that,

you know, they celebrated their faith last night probably. Do you think it has to, I think it has to do with some of that, honestly. I think it has to do

with part of, because he's, he's Jewish. Because he's been receiving, he's receiving, He's received a lot of criticism, and we've seen attacks against, you know, Jewish people from the left that have, that have increased over time. And I also think, too, you know, you had an administration that kind of tolerated all of it. Kind of, they did.

I mean, thankfully, no injuries were reported in this. This guy did turn him into, turn himself into police. And he was just freely was like, I was going to beat him with a hammer if I found him. That's terrifying. I mean, absolutely terrifying. POTA said that, you know, it's inexcusable. They're investigating it. Pam Bondi had mentioned and said something to that effect as well because he was asked about it in the

Oval Office by members of the press and he was there meeting with the El Salvadoran President. And there, I mean, the motive to me that, I'm saying, it just, this was audio, this is Shapiro's response. This is Audio Soundbite 13 first. Listen to this. Here's a third truth. If he was trying to terrorize our family, our friends, the Jewish community who joined us for a Passover Seder in that room last night, hear me on this. We celebrated our faith last night proudly, and in a few hours we will celebrate our second Seder of Passover again proudly. no one will deter me or my family or any Pennsylvania from celebrating their faith openly and proudly. And I mean, you kind of, to me, that sort of addresses what the motivation was, right, that this guy had.

I mean, he waited to do this the first night of Passover. Come on. Don't tell me that it doesn't have anything to do with him being Jewish. It absolutely does. these are this a bit but the left they idolize these people audio sound by 15 i can't stand playing those 50 year old woman's audio sound bites but she's lied about our age so many damn times nobody knows how old she is really it's like don't be ashamed of it just good grief but she's like 50 something and she tried to pretend she was like a 20 year old taylor swift fan i don't know but she uh let's give you some insight this is why you have like all of this stuff on the left

that you know violent violent crazy people on the left Listen to how they idolize individuals like, for instance, Luigi Mangione. Listen to this. You're going to see women, especially, that feel like, oh, my God, right? Like, here's this man who's a revolutionary, who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a person that seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find. Whenever I look at her cheeks, I think a squirrel's storing nuts. I wasn't, I said it on, like, when the video was playing.

you guys couldn't see. A man who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. She doesn't even know this guy. I mean, I get being desperate for a man in your life, but focusing on, like, that guy and having that guy because you think that there's nobody else. I'm sure there's better looking crazy women than her that are writing them letters in jail right now. Can you, like, dumb-ass broads stop fetishizing stupid beta males like Luigi Mangione, who runs out in broad daylight to kill an insurance executive because he's a dumb, rich kid, trust fund socialist moron who doesn't understand our insurance works. Can we stop lionizing these stupid people? Stop making stupid people famous. Stop putting stupid broads on television to talk about stupid people and how they think that they should be exalted the way that she was doing here. This is so, he's not a revolutionary. He's a female copulatory or who tried to gun down someone in broad daylight. He would have been pistol whip within a inch of his life and only identifiable by his teeth if he tried to do that anywhere else. And I say that with a promise, not like as an example, that would have happened anywhere else other than Manhattan where everybody's been brainwashed into thinking they can't defend themselves from homeless perps on subway platforms because they'll be the bad guy if they do. Nonsense. Absolutely nonsense.

I hope they string this guy up and throw all the book at him. I hope they throw all the books at them. I mean, just bring him out in the square and have all the people who are mad about this stuff. Beat the hell out of them like they did Mussolini. Let's just do it like that. You guys want violence. We'll satisfy the left's just lust for violence and a sense of justice by allowing the left to beat him to death hung up in Times Square. How about that? There, I solved everybody's problems. Me, the soothsayer of the era, I solved everybody's problems, just like that. But for real, though, more seriously. what is what there is something psychologically wrong with people who exalt this stuff right but time and time again that's what you see on the left and it canne how long is this like i do you remember all the occupy wall street stuff when people would get arrested at occupy wall street and they were like oh that person was just protesting they're such an icon every single person that got in trouble i remember in the early days they like made an icon of them but not only that they didn't even require them to get the proper permitting like everyone else was required to do. Like Occupy Wall Street was just given this green light and open door to do whatever the hell they wanted without permits, without anything, like everyone else was required to do. Yeah. So they were definitely a protected class. I remember that. I remember having to pay for a

port-a-potty for a Tea Party protest 2009 downtown St. Louis. And then Occupy literally got to put up tents in the park and live there for a couple of weeks. And they didn't have to get permits for anything because the rat bastard Democrats that run my hometown, that's how they tried to, it was situational fairness. It's exactly how that, exactly how that all worked out. So I don't know why we're elevating this type of stuff. And that's why the left thinks that violence is okay. This dude, I don't know, you know, his whole backstory, he looks like a nut job. But he also is like apparently, you know, anti-Semite. I don't like saying that someone's like, you know, a crazy person unless they actually. are legitimately mentally imbalanced because that is so that's that's purposely conflated with evil by the left and they're two very different things just because

someone is evil doesn't mean that they're crazy and just because someone's crazy doesn't mean that they're evil but the left needs that conflation I don't know it's it's it's unfortunate and well then you got this wait too I have time for this because I have a whole thing on media then we've got this this is a Radio Soundbite 16. Listen to this spin from the media. About a third of the building has been blown away. And while America's roots are soaked in bloodshed, violence in the country today is mostly from right-wing extremism. From Oklahoma City to Charlottesville to January 6th.

New York will not replace up. There is simply no equivalent on the left. Hmm. Well, okay, first off, that's absolutely insane. And I think that there's been a lot of debate as to whether or not Tim McVeigh was actually a person on the right. Notice how they don't go back to like the weather, the weatherman, that group. They don't go back to the weathermen. Do they?

Weather Underground. Oh, weather underground. Whatever. Same people. A bunch of dippy, hippie, meteorologists want to be terrorists. That's put it like that. They didn't go back to that. They stopped at Tim McVeigh, who, you know, was not a Republican or a conservative or anything like that.

They didn't include Occupy Wall Street. They didn't include BLN. They did include chas chop. They didn't include any of the, any of the left's protest. And that is CBS, who is that? That's Andrew Sullivan from CBS. Or, yeah, O'Sullivan. Yeah, from CBS.

Who's saying that America's roots are soaked in bloodshed, sorry, CNN, and violence in the country. It's mostly from, that's absolutely assinine. Every bit of violence that I've ever seen perpetuated has been from the left. people who have tried to come to my, and this might be anecdotal, but there's police records to support it. People who come to my house to try to hurt me have been on the left. People who have tried to get me in public have been on the left. The reason that I had to have a security detail when I was advocating for Second Amendment rights was because crazy asses left, tried to kill me. They wanted to kill me. They wanted to kill my family. We had to get security at my kids' school. We had to like assure other parents. We had to do all of this stuff because of the crazy left, the crazy violent left. The people, who sent death threats to my house were on the left. The people that our police actually were looking at for said death threats, they, they, everybody, it was all agreement. These people were motivated because I didn't think like them. And it's not just me. Look nationally. Look, look,

look, who are the people in the red hats that were getting their, their faces punched in? Because they went out in public. Again, we had another protest outside of Tesla in our town square this weekend. You know, the old violent leftist hippie boomers that were out there. And those are the bad boomers, and I swear to you, if I have to delineate this one more time for drive-bys, if you think that I'm talking about you and you're a boomer, then I'm talking about you. If you understand the nuance because you have multiple brain cells and you realize that I'm talking about the bad communist boomers, do I need to write a picture book for these drive-bys, then you understand that I'm talking about them.

I'm not going to sit here and tickle everybody's jimmies and make sure that they all feel cupped and embraced. Okay, stop it. I don't give a rat's ass about people's feelings that are driven by a complete lack of listening comprehension. Are we established that? Okay, great. So that being said, everybody that I've ever seen that have ever been violent, they've always been on the left. They've always targeted people on the right. Trump supporters get together and they have a rally and I'll be damned. People open fire and try to kill the president. That guy was on the left. The other guy tried to kill him again

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a musical and educational deficiency. You have not lived enough, nor have you listened to enough music. Do not insult the punk genre by calling these pop crap posers as punk. I mean, at this guy's 60 years old and he's out there bleaching his hair. Like, it's not the 90s anymore. Frosty isn't a good look, especially when you're like 60 years old and you're still trying to chase your youth. Good night.

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That's dana likesgold.com. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour and, or no, sorry, second hour. You can listen. It's just one of those Mondays. Allergies, crazy. The heat's back. God bless America. So welcome. You can listen Coast to Coast. Channel 347, direct TV as well is the simulcast. Joining us right now, he made his announcement. I can't remember. Was he going to announce on our show or not?

That's a good question. I think he may have said something. I think he may have said something like that. So I feel like I got him done to rights on that. So the attorney general is going to be the next senator, Ken Paxton. He joins us now from a very impressive looking library. Sir, it's good to have you. Thank you for joining us. Congrats on the launch. We were, we were waiting for this announcement for quite some time. Well, look, I'm excited about it. It's time for a change. She's been there 23 going on 24 years, and he wants to be there another six, which would be 30 years. Even people that I talk to that are his friends don't really believe that he should run for a fifth term, and they think it's time for him to go. And so even even his supporters, they won't openly acknowledge it, are ready for a change. And I would guess that

that most Texans are ready for that same change. Yeah, I would agree with that. And of course, we're talking about Senator John Cornyn, who now the AG is challenging. I think this is like the first big challenge that he's had. It's from, in my opinion, it's been far too long in the making. What is your biggest complaint with how he has, has represented people of Texas? That's it, that he hasn't represented the people of Texas, that he hasn't represented our views, that he has taken on issues like restricting gun ownership, uh, fighting, the border wall, fighting President Trump's elections, both of them. And then just generally being Mitch McConnell's, you know, lap boy. And now suddenly he's Johnny come lately and he's all in on

Trump and all of his agenda. But that's just, as I said, that's Johnny come lately, not not the real John Cornyn. So we'll see the real John Cornyn again as soon as he, he, if he got elected, he'd be the same old John Corny that he's been for the last, you know, 40 years that he's been in office. I just feel like with him being, I mean, that seat, that Senate seat, you have so much potential to do so much with that seat because you come from, you know, it's, I mean, Texas is viewed as being a red state, even though it's kind of purply in some parts. But there's, I feel like he's never fulfilled the full potential for the lack of a better way to say it for that seat and has played it very safe. And that that has really underserved people. Like for instance, you know, where concerns Second Amendment stuff, which I know that you follow. incredibly closely. I just don't know how you can go out and you can present a gun control bill and shepherd it through, get it signed under Joe Biden and then come back and say that you want national reciprocity when you have a Republican in the White House. I just feel like that sends two contradictory messages. Well, he's only doing the rest of the process. He's had that bill for,

you know, six years, I think, and has done nothing with it. He definitely participated with Joe Biden in restricting gun ownership rights. And it actually created litigation for us because in the ATF, expanded their power and tried to do more with John Corners bill than we believe they could. So we had to sue ATF. We actually sued him twice. But that's really thanks to John Cornyn because he was the one that expanded the definition of dealership, dealers and tried to restrict gunner rights. And look, that's Joe Biden was proud of him and he said it.

You're, you know, doing great things, John. And of course, President Trump came out and criticized him as a rhino because that's effectively what we have here. And you're right to note, by the way, that we have an example of a pretty darn good senator, Ted Cruz, that people of Texas appreciate that and they want somebody like him serving alongside of him. And it may be fine for John Corrin if he were coming from Maine or Vermont, but it's not fine for him to be in the positions that he's in and not represent people of Texas as a Texas senator. As a matter of fact, if you think about it, he spent more money. I want to make him Senator of Ukraine because he spent more money protecting their border than he has ours. That's a very good point because he has met with Zelensky almost every single time that Zelensky has been in D.C. as well. We're talking with the Texas Attorney General Kahn also declared for Senate challenging John Cornyn.

And on the issue with the border, because we've seen, and I've seen various reports, especially now with Trump in the White House. You know, obviously illegal crossings are down. Texans have, I mean, Texas did something very unique in doubling down, securing its border. So everybody, all the illegal crossings went elsewhere. They went to more Democrat states. It sounds bad to, I don't mean to chuckle over it, but they left Texas. They were going to California and everywhere else. In terms of securing that ability to be as strong on the border as possible, what would you do as senator in a Trump administration to make it, to give our government here even more muscle and allow them to, and partner with the federal government and that?

It's pretty simple. I think we saw when Trump is in office the first time that the border, the laws that we have related to immigration, illegal immigration, are affected because he, President Trump implemented those laws well. And you can see the difference between him and other presidents, including Republican presidents. And then you saw Joe Biden come in and say, no, the laws are not enough. So I'm not going to enforce the ones we have. We need more laws. And we saw what happened. We had an influx of millions of people and the cartels were making billions. And then President Trump comes back in. and starts implementing the same laws. And guess what? Illegal immigration comes to a trickle relative to what it was. So I would say as a senator, I would instead of criticizing the border wall, I would help Donald Trump build that wall. I would not only fund it,

but I would be out promoting it because guess what? We all know that walls work in the appropriate places and given that Senator Cornyn is not a fan, he said it many, many times, and I'm sure he'll change his position on that. For a very long time, he has fought that idea.

and we need a center that cares about Texas more than he does, Ukraine. There you go. We're talking with Attorney General Ken Paxton. I wanted to ask you two quick things. First on the Tesla stuff, the protests, the different Tesla. So few of them are actual protests and they descend into like vandalism. And, you know, I mean, it's the left and you know how the left operates. What are your thoughts on these leftists, these violent leftists targeting Tesla drivers, Tesla dealerships?

I mean, I have friends on the right left in the center general that all drive Tesla's. And even my friends on the left are terrified that they're going to be targeted by members of their own ideology because of the car they drive. It's crazy. Look, it's like the old days when I had Democratic friends that love Chick-fil-A, but they couldn't get caught with a Chick-fil-A leftover Chick-Flai wrapper in their car. So that's what this is like. I mean, look, it's a great product. You would think the left will like it because, you know, they're electric and you would think they'd love it. No, we don't like it now because we don't like Elon because he's doing these other things.

We don't like it. So we're against it. So it's very contradictory. And of course, it just highlights the hypocrisy of the left when you've got a great product from a guy that's doing a great job. And just because they disagree with him politically, they're willing to sabotage innocent people who are driving really well-made cars. Yeah. The Title IX, I'm reading this post that you had on, I almost said tweet that you had on X. You secured an agreement with Dallas ISD to ensure that the district is not violating Texas law by allowing boys to play in girls sports.

And you underscored with so many of us here are thinking biological males have no place in girls sports. Any Texas public schools doing it otherwise will be held accountable. This is one of those issues, General, as you know, where you've gotten people in the middle and even people on the left that are like, Republicans are the most normal people in the room now. This is the most normal position to have. and the left still doubles down and being abnormal about it. Talk to us about this about the penalties for disenfranchising women in athletics in the Republic of Texas. Well, think about it. This is our educational system in Texas.

This is Texas. We're not in like New Hampshire or Vermont. We're in Texas. We've got school districts that are promoting illegally. It's illegal in Texas to promote this idea that men participate against women in sports. You can't do it. It's not allowed. and it's very clear. And yet we have these

Dallas Ice Steve, which we just got in agreement that they will not do this anymore. And we have others like Richardson and Hutto and Irving that we've investigated and we've got, we're going to force the same thing, which is force these school districts, which should want to follow the state law, which should not want girls to be

disadvantaged. And yet here we are fighting with them over the most common sense things that you would think we wouldn't even have to have a fight out, but we do. And we're in the middle of that fight and we're going to win it. And we're going to make these people stop promoting boys and girls sports. It's just not fair. It's wrong. Are you going, are you planning to debate John Cornyn for your seat?

I have no problem debating. I have no problem debating John Cornyn. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know how that's all going to work out. It's my first cent race every. It's a new thing for me. But, you know, look, you know, he's going to focus on personal attacks because he's on a record to defend. He doesn't want to talk about his record. He's going to run for. it. And he's kind of try to adopt my positions and Trump's positions and make it look, this is the fraud that we have. He's excuse me of being a fraud. It's, it's pretty fraudulent to come out now and adopt all these new positions that he's never had. And we all know it. I have quotes from him about all kinds of different issues that we all, as Republicans,

agree on, but not John Cornyn because he's aligned with the, you know, whatever you want to call it, swamp in Washington, D.C. And, you know, last quick point, you know, General, this is something I've noticed, whether it's in Florida or Texas, especially some of the rhinos that were going after you, completely without substance, just, you know, an absolute witch hunt because I guess they thought that all the drama surrounding Trump and that witch hunt in New York was going to give him cover. But there's a real problem with Republicans that aren't actually Republican. And they're really Democrats cosplay as Republicans. It's trans-publican. They're not actual Republicans. And just one, your last quick thought on that, because I think that's why there's so much friction between you and some of these rhinos out there. It's disgusting because they pretend to be one thing. They go do different things that don't represent us. It's like how I started this. He doesn't represent us. And here's the guy that was a Supreme Court judge in Texas who accused Trump of being basically insinuated that he was guilty and basically insinuated that I would be in prison. What about the Constitution, John? What about believing as a judge and as a U.S. Senator in the Constitution, innocent until

proven guilty? Due process. Not for John. When it's political, he'll throw that aside and and start accusing Donald Trump and me or insinuating that we're guilty and we should go away. Well, guess what, John? Fairness, due process, and the truth actually matter. You do. There you go. Attorney General Ken Paxton running for U.S. Senate. Good to see you, sir.

We'll have you back. Thanks so much for your time. All right. Thank you. Have a great day. Of course, you too. And that is true. I mean, you got these really soft Republicans out there.

And one of the reasons that I get so aggravated about the Senate seat is because you have a chance to be a real, a real fire brand, you know, in this Senate seat. And it's, and I don't see that from the current representation. I don't see bravery. I don't see, you know, sitting on national reciprocity for however many years and not doing anything with it and then only coming out with it. I mean, it just doesn't make any, it doesn't make sense. And I get very frustrated about it, as I'm sure a lot of you out there do. If you work long hours and struggle to wind down at night, you're not alone. Tossing and turning and waking up exhausted doesn't have to be the norm. Beam dream powder helps you fall asleep faster, sleep soundly through the night and wake up feeling refreshed.

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as a place to temporarily hold illegal entrance. It's actually a pretty big section. I was actually, I was shocked when I saw on a map how much land this is, but that means they're going to have the military down there, and it's going to be a no-go zone, no Bueno right there, and that section of the border. Measles cases have risen to 700 now, and some are saying that that's more pressure for RFK Jr. I don't know why it's more pressure for RFK Jr.

Texas has the highest number. I mean, I've got some theories. I've got theories. Sure, it's 712 approximately. new cases being discovered in Kansas, Ohio, and Indiana also now, according to the CDC. They say it's an outbreak and it's spread to 25 different states now. Denmark has a new, oh, interesting. A recent study out of Denmark has raised a very troubling question.

Could tattoo ink play a role in the development of certain types of cancers? Interesting. Comes from future sciences. It's this that cites this study from Denmark. they say the particles can travel to lymph nodes or even other organs, the skin to body's protective barrier. Some are wondering, is it toxic? Is it, could there be like a chronic immune response that may lead to abnormal cell growth over time? And they say that the tattoos cover in large areas bigger than the size of your palm may be linked to a higher risk. And that supports

the idea of what they say is a dose effect, meaning the more ink that's injected, the greater the change of triggering an inflammatory response. Black and red, even common ink colors could contribute to this. Researchers caution that if the body doesn't tolerate the ink well, it could lead to long-term inflammation. I believe that, but I also

think it extends beyond that. I think it's the products that, like you use lotion, do you use hand lotion? Anything that you put on your skin, sunblock, all that stuff. I think all of that stuff is, you know, is part of that. This, let's see, police officers dress up as Batman and Robin in a bizarre

undercover sting. Oh, well, if you thought, Dana, is this have to do with Britain? Yes, it does. It does absolutely. They are doing the sting operation to catch con artists on Westminster Bridge, very popular area for tourists. So they had Metro Police officers running through swarms of

people, reprimanding suspects, catching suspects. They are using creative tactics because criminals begin recognizing the police from afar. And so it's the Lambeth Met Police. They started dressing up as literally masked superheroes. and it's pretty interesting.

They've actually been caging these people running these schemes there. And it's funny. That's actually hysterical. Although the bucket hat makes me think it's not legit, but you know, and the man was a... Oh, gosh, why? This is in Japan.

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Oval Office. She's there to make deals for Michigan and talk about tariffs that she supports in a targeted way, et cetera, et cetera. But photographer comes in, all of a sudden she's like trying to hide behind a notebook. I mean, you didn't do this, so you don't need to jump. justify a congresswoman, but what's going on with your party? Like, what is that? Well, I mean, I can't believe I'm saying that that's actually a decent question to ask. It was Jake Tapper on CNN talking about this. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you.

That's, I mean, that's weird. I mean, you're there. No one thinks that the governor of a state isn't going to talk to the president of the United States and meet with them. No one thinks that. And I would, would just think she why is she so sensitive about having her photo taken there when she had no problem you guys remember the weirdo influencer thing that they did during the election cycle where she did this interview with this weirdo podcaster and she fed this podcast and the podcaster got on her knees and as one's showing you right now and Whitmer fed her Doritos out of a bag while we're in a Tim Wall's hat. And it was just so weird. It's just weird. She didn't feel like hiding her face from that, but she feels like hiding it inside of the Oval Office. I would have been like, look,

if you don't want to be here and be a grown-up and talk about things that you need for your state, then you can march your happy, a little white ass right outside, you know, the Oval Office. And you can walk right back down the hall and right out of the White House and you can get in your little car and right back to the airport. That's where you can go. you know, unless you want to be a big kid. This is also performative. Grow up. You're in the Oval Office.

No one expects you. Well, except I think that's maybe more your party than anything else in the world. No one thinks that you shouldn't, you're a governor. They're not going to think it's weird if you are talking to the president of the United States. It's not a weird thing. You are there advocating for the people of your state. it doesn't right no one thinks it's weird cane that a Democrat governor is going to talk to the the U.S. Republican governors that went and met with Biden and Obama. Only mentally ill Democrats will do

things like this. Stay in there, put a binder up. I can't tolerate that stuff. Nothing sets me off faster than just performative nonsense. It is I have several things that are pet peeve. That's like my number one, like over dramatic people. I cannot stand dramatic people. It is my biggest pet peeve. I cannot stand it. I can't stand drama seekers. I can't stand drama queens male or female. I cannot stand it. That is drama. That is such drama to stand in the Oval Office and put a binder over your face because you don't want the White House photographers. They already know you're there, girl. They know you're there. You should have hit your face when you were feeding Doritos to a podcaster on our knees, like with all the sexual innuendo.

That's when you should have hid your face. Instead, she looked right at the camera with that goofy Elmer Fuddcap on. This is so weird. I don't understand the laugh. Why are they so weird? They're weird. It just doesn't make any sense. That's the kind of stuff that makes it to where we can't have nice things.

We can't get anything done because you guys are too busy thinking that you're in theater. They all are theater kids. Okay, I got some media stuff that I didn't get to. So first and foremost, let me pull this up. I saw this over at Red State. This is funny. Headline, archaeologists find a child sacrifice altar in Guatemala, and CBS really, really spun it in a very special way. So archaeologists excavated this altar that, I mean, around modern, from a people from modern day Mexico City that showed that they really had traveled, you know, deep into Mayan territory.

And the altar, apparently, they found the remains of three young children. And they said they were not older than four years old. They were found on three sides of the altar. And apparently they were like a child sacrifice type of people. And that was a child sacrifice altar. They said that they were used for sacrifices, especially of children. And CBS, they could have stopped at that story right at that. They could have stopped right there.

That's enough. You got enough from that, right? From that story. You're like, wow, that's really messed up. Wow, stuff that people believed in back then. Right, move on with your life. Nope, nope. Not if you're CBS.

So they had to go and find an expert. Now here's, this is how they put it. Quote, Maria Belen-Manendez, an archaeologist who was not involved with a project, really has no idea what the hell's happening there. It's never been there. Doesn't know anything about it. Anyway, she was involved with the project. Said the discovery confirms that there had been an interconnection

between both cultures and what their relationships with their gods and celestial bodies was like. She said, quote, we see how the issue of sacrificed exists in both cultures. It was a practice. It's not that they were violent. It was their way of connecting with celestial bodies. Kane. Is there any way to spin child sacrifices being nonviolent? I don't see how.

I mean, they didn't succeed. if it has to do with like pushing some sort of left leftist narrative then yes it's not i mean it's not violent the violent thing about killing kids on the altar you know to appease some gods apparently that's not that's not violent good night freedom of religion it's this noble savage mytho i so i'm so can we just disregard the noble savage that's like a phrase the ideology that everyone in south america in the united states was perfect until you damn dirty white Europeans came here, you horrible people. So I have half of my ancestry that was totally fine here in the United States as indigenous people. And then my white European

people came over and they intermingled and ruined everything. They ruined all of it. How did they messed up the child sacrifices and everything that we had good going on here, Kane. I'll be damned. But that's the whole thing, right? Like Native Americans, American Indians. were completely peaceful people that just were super helpful and never engaged in any kind of war monger. I mean, forget the fact that they would butcher each other. So I was laugh when the Lakota are like, wow, you guys stole Mount Rushmore for us. Who the hell did you steal Mount Rushmore for and from? And who did they steal Mount Rushmore from? Every nation exists on the back of the conquered today. There were a people before them and a people before them and a people before them.

And only and only if you disregard that, are you an a historical, just absolutely a liberal moron? So this idea that was all known, they could not just say, wow, that's pretty messed up. They were killing kids on altars and sacrificing four-year-olds. Crazy. How crazy is that? They have to go, no, no, no. They have to go with the noble savage ideology. No, no, no, no.

This mythology that leftists surround themselves with. No, no, no, they weren't violent because it was about connecting with celestial bodies. That's what it was about. So see, how dare you assume the worst of these people killing children on an altar of child sacrifice? It had to do, Cain, with connecting to celestial bodies. If your God requires you to, like, cut up kids, multiple children and fulfill that at the altar, don't cite Abraham, because that was testing Abraham's faith and God intervened and nothing ever happened to his son. disregard anti-biblical illiberal snotts. But if your God's like, yeah, go ahead and bring all these

babies up here and cut them up on the altar, your God sucks. Sorry, your God sucks. I'm not sorry about it. You just need to, you need to be made aware of this because apparently no one in your life loves you enough to tell you this. Then that's weak, right? That's weakness. So this idea that, no, it's all noble and it's all until the Europeans came over. I'm not saying the Europeans did everything great, obviously. But this idea that there is like some perfect group of people that existed and never and were sinless and problemless, even up to the point that no, their child's sacrifice is just about connecting the celestial entities. That is an, that's absolute, that's a historical. That's what's not based in science or history or reality. But CBS, they had to go through that.

see they weren't when they took guys when they took kids and they were cutting off their bodies and ripping their hearts out on these slabs of stone they were just trying to connect to their celestial bodies and you not understanding that is white privilege Kane if you don't understand that that's your white part hmm you're being bigoted against yourself sorry to hear that so mean right I mean you know I mean white they were just like trying to connect to their pagan gods it's like Planned Parenthood today. Planned Parenthood are their modern-day stone tablet, Mayan Aztec sacrifices. That's exactly what they are. Literally typing that just. Planned Parenthood is these buildings that exist in all, you know,

different cities around the country, Plain Parenthood is nothing more than the modern day child sacrifice altar of ancient Aztec and Mayan peoples. That's exactly what it is today. And people would like it more if, or they would actually have less, they would have more of a problem with the, abortion if it was done with AR-15s and if it was done with people who said that they were there

not to hurt like nurses, physicians, things like that. This is the reality of the life that we live. It's true. You guys know it is. I said it purposely because you guys know it's true. So this, I just think that's how CBS, they couldn't just report that. CBS had to go, oh my gosh, this sounds mean. We've got to go figure out a way to make this more acceptable and palatable for our audiences. Let's bring in rando expert who has no idea about any of this. Well, they were just connecting, as you see, to celestial bodies. I mean, what are the excuses over at Planned Parenthood? What celestial bodies are they trying to connect to? See, same altar, just different purpose. This is the same thing every time. So I, how dare those Europeans come in and colonize

that? Colonize that child sacrifice right the hell out of culture. Just amazing, right? So mean. So that's one bad media. Then you got this, one bad media. example. ABC's John Carl asks if Trump tariffs are going to turn American workers into a nation of cobblers. I guess I got to give them a point for no one of cobbler is, right? They had Howard Lutnik on with Stephanopoulos and they were talking about Trump's tariff policy, right? And they were also discussing, yes, discussing U.S. Customs and Borders. This notice that they posted Friday that includes the items of exemption from these tariffs, the smartphones, computer monitors, various electronic parts, et cetera. And there was some confusion because

POTUS had said there were not going to be any exceptions made of the announcements. Nobody's going to see an exception. And then there were some exceptions. But Lutnik, he joined. And then Jonathan Carl said, you know, he was joined by Lutnik. He says, I appreciate your time. He says that, you know, asked why the exemption. But then he like got really snotty about it. And he said, you know, why are these exempt from these reciprocal tariffs? And then, you know, he like kept going up about it and he said this he was discussing jobs and uh you know well who else is going to again who else is going to do these jobs this is what he said he said quote i mean we buy a lot of shoes in this country 99% of them are made elsewhere are we going to become a nation

of cobblers again were we ever a nation of cobblers and what's so bad about cobbling right are we when were we ever a nation of cobblers that just seems like uh well shoes these days you can't just cobble them anymore They're just kind of like... He doesn't know that. He just goes to the store and he's like, shoes. Oh my gosh, shoes. Old.

That's an oldie. And what is... I would love to be as high on myself as these people on the left are. I mean, where are we going to turn into a nation of cobblers? What? Just they have no idea where products come from. They just magically appear for these prince and princesses in the store. It's amazing.

They don't know where shoes. John Carl came from the elves. The elves, they whittle the wood and they make these little shoes. And then they set them right there. Just give them the tasks. That's all they require. They don't require a lot, you know. On trees or anything?

What? I thought they grew on trees. They don't grow in trees? No, no, no. Well, the elves might live in the trees. But we all know that the elves, they cobble together all the shoes, right? As you sleep. That's where they come from.

I'm just going to let him think that. a nation of cobblers again. What in the hell does that even mean? He's talking about what a nation of being able to be self-sufficient, a nation that after we were bombed without provocation by the Japanese and World War II, that turned around and immediately had its fleet repatriated back into the ocean with all U.S. materials and all U.S. labor force, that kind of nation of cobblers, the nation of cobblers that not only funded our requirements during World War II,

but all of Europe's requirements and kept our eyes on the Pacific Theater and made sure that we had everything that we need to handle various fronts. That kind of nation of cobblers, the kind of nation of cobblers that after World War II, everybody went home and they were able to afford a home

and raise a family and create the greatest economic powerhouse that this planet has ever seen. That kind of nation of cobbler's. I need these Tupperware fresh, self-obsessed, academic activists to stop celebrating themselves and maybe start paying a little bit more attention to American history and celebrate these achievements that you look down so poorly upon now.

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It's time for Florida, man. tell you about this hairy caterpillar. Okay. So Florida, you got not just Florida, I mean, a Florida woman to look out for. You got the Florida Tosok. Tosok, which is it? Moth Caterpillar. They're emerging, looking for a place to cocoon. They are all over everywhere. And they, if you see them, don't touch them. Don't look at them because they can give you a rash. There are these hairy worms, caterpillars, whatever, and they're trying to find a place to make their cocoons. If you do come in contact with one of these hairy caterpillars, you're supposed to

remove hairs with tape. Just shoot the damn thing. Remove hairs with tape. Watch the area of soap and water. Apply ice or baking. Why do we have these? You know why? Flynn throwers were invented? Well, yes, to get fire over there without going over there. But also to kill these things. Oh, people burn their houses

down, dude. Sorry, but there was a hairy caterpillar. I didn't know what to do, officer. Well, we understand that, ma'am. We get it. Boys, she set her house on fire because she was trying to set a light. furry caterpillar. And a Florida man was arrested for illegally renting out a home that he didn't own. A man with a high and tight that's so tight. His mouth is all pulled back. I don't understand what's happening here. This dude, this woman moved to Florida. She walked into a nightmare. She discovered

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The average American sees chaos. The American people see chaos. It's total chaos. You brought chaos. It's just complete chaos. Unleashed and economic chaos. They unleashed chaos. They are creating chaos.

This chaos. There's too much chaos. Total chaos. And amidst the chaos. I'm going to see chaos. After seeing all the chaos. The chaos is unleashed on America. Continue to see the chaos.

Economic chaos. A lot more chaos. Trump's chaos. This is chaos. With such chaos. The chaos. Because of this chaos. Chaos.

All of this chaos. Chaos. Uncertainty and chaos, given all that chaos, when it's chaos. All the chaos. Chaos and confusion grows. More chaos dysfunction. The chaos is the purpose. The chaos is the goal. It's chaos. Oh, I mean, it almost sounds like a K-Pod man. Chaos. So much chaos. So much chaos. So right. Talking points went out.

It's like the points, yeah, it's like the points went out. The talking points went out. about, you know, the chaos. Welcome back, folks. Dan Alash with you. We're at the top of this third hour. In case you can't tell, that was Democrats trying to figure out how to make that catch, how to just describe everything that's happening with this administration as being total chaos.

And it doesn't feel like total chaos, although that is part technically of the Sun Tzu, his art of the deal or art of the deal to Sun Tzu. And that's kind of, you know, the approach. Welcome back. again, top of this third hour. You got the talking points. The talking points are out. But that's not how everybody's seen it.

Voters aren't seen it that way. I saw a couple of other polls. Let me pull this up. I sent one to myself and I was looking for it actually on break. Where did I send it? That's the great thing. Don't know. I see this.

And I'm testing different online bookmarking systems that I keep track about anything with. And I sent, I just randomly like, sometimes I accidentally send like you or Chris, stuff that I meant to send just me. And you guys are like, what is this? But I saved this. There was a couple of new surveys out showing that people are just very, they're pleased.

They're very pleased with the way things are going right now. And the chaos and the narratives of the left, that's not really, not really taking. It's not really taking at all. Very interesting stuff. Can I talk about the blue origin thing really quick? I know everybody loves space. travel. And we mentioned this at the top of our first hour. Katie Perry, because you know that they went up with Lauren Sanchez. Lauren Sanchez is the only one of the celebrities that can actually fly chopper.

Then you had three crew members, Gail King for some reason, and Katie Perry for some reason. And she is so overdramatic. It's tiring. Women like that exhaust me. It is exhausting. Men, how do you put up with it? For real, I don't get it. I was talking to a girlfriend of mine over the week and I'm like how do men deal with like dramatic women we hate them like normal women hate over dramatic women she's vowing to put the a ss and astro not she thought that sounded i guess i'm not kidding she said that uh that's something that she had said a part of blue origins all female crude mission that went up this morning and she gets out of the well they went up in the air in a giant phallis she told l magazine, space is finally, space is going to be finally glam. If I could take glam up with me,

I would do that. We're going to put the ass an astronaut. Those were her quotes. That is a grown 40-something-year-old woman's quotes to a female magazine about going to outer space. Wow. What did you say, Kane? We have cuts 21, 22, and 23. No, we don't. No, we don't. Are you serious? Okay. I don't. I don't know. We did 21 already. We can do Gail King here. Cut 22 if you want. No. It's 23 when they were all screaming.

Is it? I think that's the one. Oh, gosh. I'm sorry, guys. I've got to play it. Oh, it is. Oh, gosh. There's the phallus.

Into the air. The giant space song. Going into the air. It's what it is. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize. I mean, what else is what about, guys? No, that's not AI.

No, that's not AI. It's a giant space song. they're going up in the air. When they landed, they were all screaming. That might be the crew. There was one when the capsule landed right as it touched down in Texas. And when they went in, when they took the mics of the women inside, all you could hear, and it was, it actually was distorting.

All you could hear was, if you find that, you, I don't, I mean, it's so loud. All it sounds is just like shrieking. But they went up and, and those were. the Katie Perry's not getting blowback because they're saying that she was try too hard. Duh. She left, she got out of the space dong and came out and she

held she held a Daisy up to the sky and kissed it as a tribute to her daughter named Daisy and then she got down and she like kissed the earth. You're so dramatic. I have never gotten that dramatic over anything in my life. Nothing in my life have I ever been that dramatic about. It's so performative. And it doesn't mean

that those people feel more than you or I would feel. It just means they're they're ridiculous. That's all it means. But they, uh, I just, I don't understand like those quotes that she gave. Those were, I'm not making any of that out. That's actually what she said to media when they were asking her about this. And she said, I'm, we're going to put the ass an astronaut. Like the astronauts before did not have backsides. Like, what are you going to be jerks in space? Like I don't know. What does that even mean? Why didn't they, why didn't the report? I would have said, Katie, hold up. Does that mean you're gonna, you're gonna, like,

bitches on space? What does that mean? Like, I don't, when you say things like that, what does that mean? Or when space is going to finally be glam. And they go, well, what could you, what would you take? Because they, they, they went up in full makeup. You know, you know, if it's only 11 minutes, they're going to be, I'm not begrudging that, but it's just so dramatic, Kane.

It makes me not like space. Yeah, this is, it's weird. Why did they have to come back? I mean, I like Lauren Sanchez, but why did, and the crew members? But why did this other two have to come back, especially her? I think that's the design of this particular flight. Isn't this like something that they're going to offer now people for a certain price where they can just go up, check out space? For a little bit, and then come back home screaming.

I mean, we don't even have to have the giant space dingling to do that. We can just like yeat them into the stratosphere for free, you know? You get a powerful enough trebushet, get a nice counterweight on that. You can just, you know, eat, and they're gone. Yeah, it's science. Science. Love science. I noticed that Lauren Sanchez was the most normal one that got out and the crew members.

The crew members in Sanchez were just like, whatever. And Gail King was, oh, my gosh, I got it. And I don't know if Oprah was there. She was buying from Oprah. I don't know. Kissing the ground, really. Yeah, they're kissing the ground. Like, you were out there for 11 minutes.

Or the whole thing lasted 11 minutes. She were up there for like two. Come on. Calm thyself, ladies. So this is why I don't like writing roller coasters with women. That's why I don't like, I wouldn't get on the giant space phallus to go to, you know, space with women. I just can't. I can't even, I don't know.

But to say that, like, that's the, those are the quotes that you give to it. So you imagine you're a young girl and you're, like, interested in being an astronaut or maybe working for SpaceX and you see Katie Perry who had a really failed last album, but whatever. And, you know, she, you know, is doing an interview about this. And she's like, yeah, we're going to put the ass back on astronaut and take glam up with me. What does it even mean take glam up? It's space. Who are you trying to impress in space? No one's going to buy her album there either.

Sorry. I'm not sorry. It's true. What else do I have here? Yeah, why do they have to come back? Like, send them up there, but just leave them there. You know, I'm except for, I like Sanchez. I know she gets a lot of gruff.

But she flies a chopper. She does all this other stuff. She actually has some skills. So, you know, but yeah, why do they have to bring them? Why do they have to bring them back? A few other things as we move here. Let me get my rundown. I just don't know where I went. I disappeared. So we got Stephen Yeats coming up. We're going to be talking to him about some of the latest with China, et cetera. So I know you're not going to want to miss any of that because I have a million questions for him. This all, let's see, what else do we? I wanted it. I wanted it up. I'm looking for one particular store. Oh, here's this, by the way,

Here's the survey, one of the surveys that I had. I'm pulling this up. I saw this over. RCP cited it. And it is a survey that gets into how Americans believe Republicans care more about people. And Democrats are the party of people no more. And the crazy thing is that this was a CNN survey. And you could tell.

So I watched this. I want, and we don't need to play this video. I watched it. And they were not entirely. sure of their own results. They were shocked by their own results. You had Harry Enten, who was talking to Capell Dan, and they were discussing this new survey that says Americans are split. They're not really split. That's the first spin. They're split when they're asked which party cares most about their needs. Well, it's actually not, they're actually not split. In fact, it shows that more Americans

than not believe that the GOP cares more about, you know, the average everyday American worker, the average everyday American and Democrats definitely do not. And they tried so hard to spend this. So Harry Inton went all the way back to like the early odds to try to be like, well, you know, to offset this jarring fact for them. But they never actually got into why that was, why those results were the way they were. they didn't actually touch on any of that or they and they didn't dive into what they thought Democrats could do to make any of that better they just were in in disbelief and they it almost

felt like they were they felt betrayed by American voters and you could just sort of sense this animosity building as they talked about this story it was very interesting my my point is my point is is that the the sentiment of the American public, part of being so out there in front of everybody all the time and having all of this information out there is that people are seeing that they're reacting to it. That is a great way to counter all of this narrative like the chaos. You know how we came into this hour with all the chaos sound bites. This is a really, that's a great way for them to counter all of that because you can't lie about what these people are seen in front of their face every single day,

whether it's on Facebook or X or or true social or, you know, television wherever. They, you, they see it. You can't lie to them about it. And that's what's good about always being up there in front, in front of people. And I also think it's easier for Trump to arrest the headlines this time around because the media, even though they hate him, they didn't have that with Biden at all. And I think that they've, they've been starved. And they're eating this up. I mean, great. Yeah, of course they're going to try to spend everything that he does is horrible. But the fact is that what they're saying isn't reflecting, it doesn't reflect what. It doesn't reflect what you're seeing from Trump or any of the admin. So it's been fun to watch. What does living better mean to you?

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Or visit Relieffactor.com. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I feel like I got to do the Dut-Duts whenever we play Duran Duran. Like, you know, hungry like the Wool. If you got to do the Dut-Duts, like you got to, I don't care. You got to air karaoke it. Air-carri-or-just karaoke it.

You know what I mean. All right, anyway, moving on. We got Stephen Yates coming up. So I had this story. I'll go down this one. National Park Discovery has rewritten human history. They said there's an evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles hiding beneath the sand. I'm sorry, what?

Yes, vehicles. They said that it's White Sands National Park. And they said that there's been some things that they found. You know, like the largest collection of Ice Age footprints. some other activities. And then apparently like a primeval vehicle that they said looks a little bit like a wheel barrel without the wheel made with long sticks in a basket or net.

And it has lifted handles that move the basket attached to sticks. You can glide heavy cargo across the sand. And I don't think that's a vehicle. Sorry. They're two sticks. that you cross and then you this is, we've seen this before, it has been doing this forever.

And then you put the, whatever, across the two sticks, and then you put your cargo here and it's tied. So it's like an A or an X and it's tied. And, oh my gosh, seriously? That's not a vehicle. I get that they really want to find

some of the stuff, but at the same time, that seems a little bit over the top, I got to say. Let's see. Moving on. Oh, to escape the grind, young people are turning to many retirements came.

Many temporary retirements in order to escape the grind. It's a new article that's out saying that people in the U.S., they're just trying to take little retirements, micro-retirements, in fact. And then they take some micro-retirement, and then they go back to work. Oh, we had a name for that. It sounds like a vacation.

What is up with Gen Z? Gen Z is like, we are doing cafes at home. You're just making your coffee at home. We are taking micro-retirements. You're just literally taking a vacation. This is the Megan Markleine, elevating everything with flour sprinkles. Stop it. Cannot deal.

Let's see. Minnesota proposal would impose attacks on social media platforms based on the number of fall of users. That's so goofy. They think it's the first of it's kind of the company. A company that has more than one million users would pay six figures and you also pay something per person on each of the sites. There, or maybe you guys could spend less and you wouldn't be so desperate for revenue. Stephen Yates to join us next. If you work long hours and struggle to wind down at night, you're not alone. Tossing and turning and waking up exhausted doesn't have to be the norm. Beam Dream powder helps you fall asleep faster, sleep soundly through the night and wake up feeling refreshed. Beam

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Joining us right now, a very good friend, Stephen Yates, as you know, Mr. Yates worked in not one, but two presidential administrations. He is an expert on all things, foreign policy, particularly China. He's a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He joins us now. I wanted to ask him, I'm going to get into the Ukraine

stuff, and then we're going to talk about China. But the president of El Salvador, that seemed like a good partnership. Him sitting there with POTUS, and they were talking about, you know, how he's not, he can't repatriate in El Salvadoran who was in America illegally. And I just thought that their report was very good. They're on very good terms. What did you make of the way also that he kind of pushed back on the press, especially when

CNN was pressing him, well, why can't you just send this guy back? And he's like, well, why can't I? He doesn't live in the U.S. Well, number one, I thought that this was a great representation for the new movement that's in our hemisphere. We have in several different places, leaders who are not buying woke, they are going ahead and owning their Latin-based language, which makes clear that there are things male and things female. I thought that he dealt very, very effectively with the president and with the press and had something to say. And even though the press might hate it, he said in very simple terms what this proposition is. If you have someone who's a citizen of my country, who has illegally gone to yours, is part of a, a person. A citizen of

a gang that is illegal and gets sent back. No, I'm not giving him back. He's going to prison. That's just the end of it. So, you know, it really might wreck a lot of galaxy brains, but I think a lot of the Spanish-speaking world gets this pretty clear. That's, is that, do you, I'm hopeful, but I, yeah, I don't want to be naive. Am I right in thinking that that might be a trend for countries and maybe the, you know, the Caribbean, the South American, you know, the Central American, where, I mean, yes, we got a lie. And now we also have this president in El Salvador. I mean, is this going to be something that we're seeing more conservative administrations in some of these Central and South American countries? Yeah, there's going to be elections where the center right, libertarian, conservative,

whatever the new flavor name is for candidates that come up. But it's also, to be fair, it's going to depend on the United States, really keeping up its commitment. We need to make sure that resources go in, that that crowds out in a positive way, the malign influences of China, the cartels, and the others who've taken unending advantage for far too long. A lot of families in these countries are just pining away for the opportunity to just be themselves in their own country. They'd rather be at home and be able to thrive at home. And they want to see, the security that's come to El Salvador or be something that's sustained.

So it's one thing to have a pause in the chaos, but they want to see if I make this bet and we risk our country, is the U.S. going to stay and is this security and economic opportunity going to be real? For now, I think it is. But I thought this was a young leader,

spoke clearly, good-looking guy on camera. I mean, he's got a lot of future if he can hold this stuff together, and I think he will. If he can hold it together, that's the key thing. talking with our friend Stephen Yates. I wanted to switch gears and I asked you about China, particularly as it relates to the terrorists, because I saw something from the Brooking Institute

where it shows that the CCP is flooding world markets. Well, I mean, it looks like they're flooding world markets with subsidized goods. How do you interpret that? Well, this is what the experts call non-tariff barriers, which in talking to ordinary Americans, you might as well be making barking noises from the corner because it doesn't make any sense. What are you talking about? This is just something that is not what trade lawyers are negotiating on the, are we having a 5% or 50% or 140% tariff. These are the things outside of those negotiations that get in the way of goods moving or are putting them out there at prices so far below market that it's just nuking your industries. I'll just take one example of something that's in the headlines of the rare earths. We actually have mines in the United States that have the rare earths that we need and can mine them, can refine them without having to send them to China.

But when China dumps those things back into our market at way below cost, these mines go out of business and can't operate. So that's done by subsidies, not by tariffs. And so I think we've had the shock of the world that we're going to have a conversation about tariffs. But the next dose of spinach on your plate is there are these non-tariff, barriers that China has been playing with to a fairly well for a generation. And that actually gets in the way of more of what needs to happen with trade. That makes sense. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates, at Gates comes on next. Because this, I was reading to Politico saying that they're choking off U.S. exports. They're trying to any way they can to juice this trade war.

I tend to view it as more of a defensive move and not an offensive move. And not an offensive. offensive move from China. But I mean, you, I trust your judgment on this. Is that the correct way to view it? I mean, it doesn't, I don't think that we're winning yet. I think that, you know, we're putting up a good fight. But I also think that these moves from China, that doesn't, I just feel like a truly economically healthy nation were in that, we're, we're facing off with the U.S. on this issue. They wouldn't be making the decisions and the moves that China's making right now. No, I think that this is a short-term power move by them. And the power isn't as big as they think. As Trump might say, we have the better cards, but at the same time,

we're digging out of a generational bet that was bad. And so there are going to be disruptions. There's going to be costs. Markets are going to fluctuate. They are bio rhythms. They are not prophecies for where things are going. And so we have, we're going to go through this painful period of adjustment. But this is the pain that we created for ourselves by just going along, getting along for too long. And now, as they say, the chickens have come home to roost. And China is basically forcing the issue. They could get a deal. They could smooth this stuff out if they wanted to. Now they're forcing the decoupling. And that's going to be a challenge. But we can do it. We have the resources. And if they want to deny access for a lot of those goods, what it's going

mean is like I said about those rare earths or even the car parts that are going to Europe, all of a sudden those things are going to be affordable for us to make for ourselves again. And those industries can get back to normal and don't take this bad bet. Correct. One of the narratives that I've heard floating around as it relates to tariffs and China's reaction, because I see so many people on the left trying to state that, well, Japan ends up, Japan's actually siding with China on this. And this is forcing Japan to entertain a more, you know, peaceable relationship with China because of what Trump is doing. I don't read it that way. How do you read Japan's response and all of this in their relationship with China? Well, people who make this

argument must just get their wisdom from the price package at the bottom of a box of cracker jacks because this is not real world news that they are citing. There is not a single example of Japan going along with China on a trade negotiation with the United States or anyone. for that matter. It just doesn't exist. And in fact, Japan was first in the world to come to the White House and say, we heard the announcement, we don't like the announcement, but we're your friend, we're your security partner, and we're here to negotiate, and let's make a broad deal that works for both our countries. And so there's an immense amount of empirical evidence that that assertion just has no legs to stand on, but it just doesn't stop the chatter boxes for.

from saying it. Who's going to last longer in this battle? The United States or China? Who has the advantage here? Well, we have a tremendous advantage. Our economy is larger in reality, not just on paper and imagination. Our consumer market is the oxygen that allows them to exist at all. But we do have political classes that are very short-sighted and will faint at not even a stiff wind blowing in their direction. And so we have to have steel. I think in Trump, we have steel. That might be why some people don't like them. It's going to be why other people do like them. But they're going to have to really have fortitude to see this through. And I think it's economically and strategically the right thing to do. And even as hard as it is, as I've said repeatedly, China's making us have to do this anyway. So we might as

do the right thing for ourselves and our allies now. That's a great way of looking at it. Like they're going to make, they're doing the, this is the, I mean, there's no way to look at it. This is just the best time. Really, there's never a best time to do it. But this is a great time to do it. We've got to be self-sufficient with all of this as well.

One last quick thing for you. In reading all of this, I caught that there's concern from Hollywood. And Mike, I immediately thought, well, the CCP is going to lean on the acting world to try to make its case in the United States, but they're upset about the ability to access all these movie screens in China. But then I read a smaller, it was like a piece on substack. I just happened to run across it when I was reading about this, where they've been doing, coming out with so many domestic films that foreign films aren't playing to the same audiences that they were 10 years ago. And so it's hard anyway for foreign films to now anymore get access to Hollywood screens,

to say nothing of their whole censorship brigade that they got to go through. What is your thought on this? And I don't think that's a concern. I mean, we don't have to have Chinese movie screens for films to do well. No, it was a financial play for a dying industry for a time.

But, you know, that industry made a choice to fall out of love with America and try to chase those screens in a different country. And for all the crap they want to say about the right wing in America or President Trump and his supporters, they embraced a totalitarian system that engages in genocide

and does horrible things to its people, its neighbors, poisoned the world, all the stuff. And they just embraced it with open arms to put filthy lucre in their pockets. Now, if the Chinese are going to say, I'm not going to let you have that filthy looker, I'm still not going to look at these people

and see them as moral storytellers for the current golden age, but they might want to think about falling back in love with America. And if they don't believe it, fake it till they make it by doing some things that work for the rest of the world. And maybe the country they live in. And that, again, might reawaken them to the power of the U.S. consumer market. So I hope against hope. I get laughed at by friends when I get too optimistic about people reacting in these ways. But I got to be optimistic about something, Dana. There you go. I share your desire to be optimistic about

something. So I stand with you in that. good friend Stephen Yates at Yates comm's always a pleasure. I mean, you can ask even anything and he knows that. He's a walking encyclopedia. So we are grateful for your expertise and so is the country. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, Danny, take care. Your body is a powerhouse. It heals, it builds, it keeps you moving. But as you age, those natural processes slow down. And that's where ancient nutrition's collagen comes in. It's like backup power for your body. It helps you stay strong, radiant and ready for anything. Ancient nutrition blends ancient wisdom with modern science. to create high-quality supplements, and their multi-collegin advanced lean features 10 types of

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Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. These are sick people. Mark, do you have something to say about it? Yeah, I mean, Stephen Eyeland, I don't understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country.

That's where you deport people back to their country of origin, except for Venezuela. That wasn't refusing to take people back of places like that. I can tell you this, Mr. President. No, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the President of the United States, not by a court. And no court in the United States has a right. to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. It's that simple. End the story.

And that's what the Supreme Court held, by the way, as a Markle's point. The Supreme Court said exactly what Marco said, that no court has the authority to compel the foreign policy function of the United States. We want a case 9-0, and people like CNN are portraying it as a loss, as usual, because they want foreign terrorists in the country who kidnap women and children. But President Trump, his policy is foreign terrorists that are here illegally get expelled from the country, which, by the way, is a 90-10 issue. Well, Mr. President, Mr. President, you said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed to be returned, that you would abide by that.

You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago. And they said it must be facilitated. Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country? Why can't you just say that? Why do you go over and over? And that's why nobody watches you anymore. You have no credibility. Please go ahead.

He's sitting over there. His smile just keeps getting, if you watch him, he's just going, his smile gets bigger and bigger and bigger. That was good and good on Marco Rubio. I haven't always, you know, agreed with him or his approach on stuff, but I really do feel like I've said before that he's really coming into his own and his position as Secretary of State. And he's exactly correct there. I think that's, you know, that's completely accurate. It's interesting. Coming up tomorrow, one of the things that we're going to discuss is this big New York Times piece about ADHD and then also this phrase,

autism epidemic that I keep hearing about. We have a piece. Lauren's got a piece up on chapter and verse substack about that if you want to check that out for you subscribers out there. But the New York Times came around. They basically were admitting that the ADHD diagnoses were

a scam, basically. I've always been pretty caustic about all of that stuff because I think it was just for the longest time, I think it was just about punishing boys being boys. growing up, I cannot tell you the number of boys who were in my class that were on Ritalin in the 90s because they were just energetic. And you are in a system that is not designed for that.

You're in a system that is, it's a system that's built for basically, it's a system that's built for girls. And you have boys that they're saying you've got to keep still and you have to sit. Boys are energetic. Anybody who doesn't think so is literally never raised them, clearly. They're energetic. They have to get their energy out in order for them to sit and do lessons. When we homeschooled in elementary, one of the things that we always did is we made sure that they got their energy out. And they had a lot of time to play and a lot of time to, you know, kind of tire their minds out enough to the point where they're willing to sit, practice cursive or, you know, do some of their lessons.

But we'll talk about that tomorrow. Anyway, today's stupidity came. Oh, my Lord. Lord. Okay, sorry. Oh, my Lord. You know that space mission that those ladies went up? Well, apparently you can't say mankind now because it's bad.

So listen. So explain to our audience why even a trip like this one, all the trips that we take in the space benefit mankind. So it benefits humankind. And I'm going to keep correcting the mankind and the man-made. the man missions because this is exactly what this mission is about. But it was a manned mission. It was manned by women. Well, and I, you know, that they had men in the control room as well. And there's man in the word human. Why is that such a thing?

Stop making, nobody cares anymore, feminist, nobody cares. Just Katie Perry needed a promotional vehicle for her album. I'll be on Fox tonight, Fox business as well, back tomorrow. God bless.