The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Politicized Floods Response, Elon's "America Party" & Epstein Follow-Up

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

President Trump holds a Cabinet meeting over the Texas floods, tariffs, and Ukraine. Dana recaps the tragedy of the floods in Hill Country, Texas including personal stories from friends. Former Houston City Employee says you shouldn't care about the little girls who drowned at Camp Mystic because they're white. Ted Cruz gets criticized for leaving Greece immediately to return to Texas as soon as possible. Rapper Flavor Flav calls for a complete and total ban of US citizens owning firearms. Dana shares her reaction to the DOJ and FBI claiming there was no client list from Jeffrey Epstein and shares some harsh words about how Americans are being lied to. Dana praises Netflix’s new documentary about the origin story of Led Zeppelin. Dana reacts to Elon Musk wanting to create a third party called the “America Party”. Dana reacts to the new woke Superman film directed by questionable director James Gunn wherein he tries to emphasize Superman’s immigration storyline. Stephen Yates from Heritage joins us to discuss the Trump Administration cracking down on CCP/adversary purchases of farmland nationwide, Trump supplying more weapons to Ukraine and more. Dana praises the new TSA policy not forcing passengers to take off their shoes while going through security.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Angel Studioshttps://Angel.com/danaStream films that reflect your American values and claim your premium member perks.Allio CapitalDownload Allio from the App Store or Google Play, or text “DANA” to 511511 to get started today.One Skin https://Oneskin.coHealthy skin at the cellular level. Enter promo code DANASHOW to get started today with 15% off.All Family Pharmacyhttps://Allfamilypharmacy.com/DanaDon’t miss out on the BOGO Sale! Hurry—this limited-time offer runs from July 4th to July 13th only.Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. 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.comFind both the new SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews at Sam’s Club!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best

Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour here on this Tuesday. And of course, the president, you just heard some news there. He broke a bit of news because he said he's going to Texas Hill Country this Friday to view the catastrophic damage from these floods. I think the fatality count now, the last that I had heard, was 110. Many are still missing.

And it is one of the most terrifying things. I can't imagine. And this, we're north of Hill Country, so we're in North Texas. They're, you know, down near, I mean, it's basically near Austin, yeah, like in and around that area, kind of around that area. But for people outside of Texas to explain to them the geography. And the tons of camps down there, I mean, kids are out for summer. Church camps are a huge thing in the state. Everybody's kid goes to a church camp. That's one of the things that I learned. when we moved here from Missouri in 2013, everybody's kids goes to church camp. And it's like, what church camp does your kid go to?

And they go there, they go to these camps every summer for years. The families go. I mean, there are some instances where the parents have previously been campers. It's like a family thing. And it's a lot of fun, and they're in these beautiful areas. And this Camp Mystic, the one in particular that everybody's been discussing, that just was just horrific. It was in an area where they have not had flooding in over a century. So when you look at that record, you're thinking, okay, well, you know, it's kind of a safe spot for kids to go camping.

And I know what it's like when you have kids that are camping and you have tornado warnings and flood warnings. I mean, we've had kids that have camped. And I can't tell you the anxiety that you have as a parent when you're up at midnight and you're looking at weather reports and you're following satellites like a meteorologist just to make sure everything is okay. And that's just you being, you know, a little bit super careful and maybe a little neurotic about it. But this, in this instance, I mean, what I had read is, and what they were saying with the water measurements, they had multiple warnings that went out. We have a lot of friends that live in this area. And I had a number of them sending me screenshots. In fact, one of our friends, Kyle is over at the Babylon Bee, I believe,

was sending us screenshots and showing us all of the text, and I'd put that in Slack earlier, was showing us all of the texts that they had received that this is, there are a few hundred yards from that river. They were saying, and they had numerous text messages that they had, emergency alerts, rather, I should say, and he's not with, Papalambia, I misspoke, but works in media, saying these were all the emergency warnings that we had had alert, flash flood warning, flash flood warning, et cetera, et cetera. A lot of my friends were saying the same thing that they had gotten a lot of these alerts. Like days before meteorologists were warning that it was going to be like a, you know, a super rainy storm in layman's terms.

And what no one could predict, and I wrote about this in the newsletter over at Substack, if you subscribe to that, what nobody could have predicted was the way that the storm system behaved. And I noticed this because it rained all on us all Independence Day. And you know, when you're looking outside, you're going on, you want to go cook out, you want to go swim and you want to sunshine. And it was actually kind of chilly if you were in the water. And it was gray and it rained nonstop. What we had here was a continuous drizzle.

And it just drizzled nonstop. What they had there was a downpour. And that storm system stalled over the area. It did not go through the area the way that it was originally predicted to go through that area. I remember I watched all of this. I mean, we were watching all of this because sometimes what happens down there can kind of come up and, you know, you got eyes on it. And that's what was not expected. They expected the storm. They had the warnings out. They did all of this, but they did not anticipate the system getting, stalling out over that area. So what you had was, instead of passing

through in under an hour, you had that storm system sitting over this area for a couple of hours dumping gallons and gallons and gallons and gallons of water on the area. And, you know, you don't have to be a geologist to understand that Texas soil is a little bit different. Something else, you know, moving down here in 2013 from Missouri. You know, I always grow everything. Even when I was like in my early 20s, we always did this. And the soil down here is a lot more clay in it, a lot more clay. So it doesn't absorb the water as much.

It's very easy for things to get completely oversaturated and just spill over and flood. Because of that, when you have a storm system dumping that amount of, of water on the area. There's nowhere for it to go. The creeks are already swollen, the tributaries, et cetera, et cetera. It gets out of control really quickly. All of that up to the numbers that I was looking at leading up to this point. Over 26 feet in almost, almost 45 minutes. Not quite. It was over 26 feet. That's how much it swelled. That's how that's the flood in barely just under 45 minutes. That's insane and happening at night. And you have to also think, too, a lot of the warnings, a lot of the alerts, a lot of the sirens that are sounded. Can I'm going to ask you,

being in Texas, how many times have you been inside and you hear a tornado siren in the middle of the night? I don't. I slept through a tornado literally that was like on the other side of the highway from our house. I don't know how you could do that. Oh, I did. I was just like I didn't hear any of the sirens. I heard nothing. But you know what I mean? Like you kind of got to be listening. You're not expecting it at three in the morning. Right. That's what's, horrifying about this, even more so. And the, I think it's completely fair to ask whether or not they had cell service at these campgrounds. I think it's completely fair to ask that. I think it's completely fair to ask whether or not the campers were able to have their phones. I think it's completely

fair to ask what were the emergency plans like for these camps? What what plans did they have in place to anticipate or deal with something like this? I think that's completely fine to ask. I think it's fine to ask, you know, were they aware of the alerts that were being sent out? What really enrages me, especially when it comes from people who live in New York or people who've never even been to this part of the country, people who have no idea about the weather here, they have no idea about the geography here, they have no idea about anything here, is when they come in and they go, oh, well, it's probably Trump's cuts that did this. I'm going to be very clear when we were first reporting about all of the doge cuts, especially with National Weather Service and all of this. The cuts, and this was in story after story, and that it was further confirmed by what the White House had reported, or what they had released to reporters, is that the positions that they were targeting for elimination with NWS,

they were redundant bureaucratic positions that served no purpose. They weren't cutting emergency personnel. they weren't slashing any kind of funding for tech or monitoring. They weren't doing any of that. And I think it's completely acceptable to look at these agencies for waste, fraud, abuse, and blow. Now, that said, what enrages me is what I mentioned, these people from the East Coast that have no idea about this area, they've never even been here and they immediately waddle in, and they start pointing fingers and saying, well, it was because of these cuts to NWS.

This is exactly why this happened. It happened for this particular reason. This is why. And in fact, I think we have this. This is audio sound by what? 33. 33,000. Yes.

This was on ABC. They're doing journalism again there. Listen. Here it is. Maria, we're also learning that there were significant staffing shortfalls of the National Weather Services offices in the region. You know, George, as of right now, the local county officials really didn't want to address that just yet.

What they are telling us is they expected between four and six inches of rain. That is what weather experts told them, the National Weather Service as well. They also knew that in remote locations, they might get anywhere from 8 to 10 inches. But this amount of rate, in such a short amount of time, it was very difficult to navigate. And when the Department of Homeland Security Secretary was here just yesterday, she acknowledged this was an issue. She was going to take these concerns to the White House as well and try and see if there was anything they could do to revamp the system. She says the president is committed to it.

Maria, thanks very much. So first off, also, you know, the Wired magazine, which is not a conservative magazine at all, it's a leftist magazine that looks at tech, et cetera. Their headline was, meteorologists say the National Weather Service did its job in Texas. They said Doge did cut jobs at National Weather Service, but experts who spoke to Wired say the agency accurately predicted the weakened flood risk. They did everything correctly. there are certain things you can't predict. There's no guarantee to anything in this world. Nothing. Everything is a risk.

And you can't go through life living in fear of it because that's not living. The best thing that you can do is be prepared and you can acclimate. But what people need to realize, and that's what some of us who grow up in tornado prone states, flooding prone states, we've had to deal with this our whole lives. I was a kid. I literally had to evac from a fall. flood one time. This was in southern Missouri, in Iron County, Missouri. We had a crazy flood from Black River, and we lived yards away from the bank. And we had to literally pack up, and I will never forget being in my grandpa's truck. And I was watching the water rise. And I was

terrified as a kid, because I was worried that the water would, like, drown the vehicle. I was like maybe four years old. I remember that. It was terrifying. It happened so fast. People who don't live in these types of areas have no idea. Sometimes you can't predict things and sometimes horrible, horrible things happen. And it doesn't make it any less painful that horrible things happen. But what makes it more painful is sloppy reporting like what I just played for you and absolutely inexcusable finger pointing that's based on preconceived political bias and not science. We have a lot more to say on this and a ton of other issues to touch on as well as we roll towards the bottom of our first hour, our partners who help bring you the program. It's our friends

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What are you going to do with your millisecond? You got 1.3 to 1.5 milliseconds. What are you doing with that time, Kane? What do you do with it? Watch a movie? Yeah, I mean, that's good. I mean, there's like so much room for activities in that 1.5 millisecond. So I know that's very, most people are like, oh, wait, that's it.

I don't care. I know. I'm right there with you. But, you know, hey, it's good for numbers. It's good for facts and trivia. This is weird. A space capsule carrying the ashes of 166 people meets a very bizarre end. It's called the Nix, NYX, NUX, NUX, or Nix?

Nix, that sounds even goofier. It launched on June 23rd as part of an initiative called Mission Possible by a German startup company, and they were going to send their passengers on a final journey into space, and it was going to take the ashes safely back to Earth after the flights, fulfilling dying wishes to become astronauts. You're just dead. You're just, it's a burnt husk. That's burnt husk. That's like cracklings. That's, you know, and you sent it up into space. I mean, I don't mean to be like mean, but I just think this is such a stupid thing because they're dead and they can't appreciate it. So, you know, but they said that they did two orbits around Earth, but then an

anomaly occurred. Oh. And they ended up, the payload was powered as expected in orbit. They reestablished communication and it was supposed to splash down. But then, then it's splashed down, they lost communications. They have no idea what's happening. They have no idea. I mean, it makes you feel great, right? Do you want them back, though, really? I mean, just, you know, it's a one and done thing, I would think.

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But Julian McMahon, age 56, passed away. He was in Charmed and he was the mask guy in the Fantastic Four. He was the only good thing about it. He's been in a whole bunch of stuff. Nip Tuck, which I never watched. Passed away at a private battle, health battle, age 56. So now we got one more apparently. We got a lot more on the way.

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but Camp Mystic is a whites-only girls' Christian camp. They don't even have a token Asian. They don't have a token black person. It is a all-white, white-only conservative Christian camp. If you ain't white, you ain't right, you ain't getting in, you ain't going, period. And I think that context needs to be said in this matter. This is so stupid. So this woman, she, what is her name?

Sadie? Or is it spelled S-A-D-A. So it could be Chaudet. I mean, we don't know. Where are these people come from? These people are absolute monsters. Sadie Perkins, she had this, she decided that she was going to film herself being an absolute racist. I can't say it on air about Camp Mystic. And she clearly doesn't have any

familiarity with the camp. That's not a lie. But I bet she does vote Democrat. And I remind everybody that you've had not one, but two big time Democrats, including a sitting senator still. And then the former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, who were literal members of whites only golf courses up until the late 90s. And they only stopped when they got caught when the New York Times wrote a piece on it. So, I don't know. This idea that it was white only, I don't think she has any familiarity with it. Also, if it's open to everyone and only certain people go to it, whose fault is that? Stop it. This is so stupid. But this absolute trash of a female is obsessed with race because she has no other redeeming qualities except to constantly complain about race.

Well, she got the attention that she was seeking. She got the attention that she was seeking, for sure. And she wasn't the only one. I think she also, her boy, was it her boyfriend or her husband? I'm looking for this story. I thought I put it in here. But he's a pastor at some United, whatever, some probably kooky church. I don't know.

When you have a million names in your church, you're immediately a kook. But it is. It's true. That's scientific fact. But they. he apparently had to condemn her remarks. And she's a former mayoral appointee, apparently.

She was going to run for mayor one day. Good night. That gets even crazier. And she was saying it's a white-only conservative Christian camp, which is completely not right. And she just kept going on and on and on about it. I mean, I'm familiar with this campground. and but she she I mean she ended up getting she ended up getting fired and then I think it was her significant other came out and said that they can totally you know what she said was wrong etc etc how is that your first response how soulless of a meat sack are you that that's your

first response then you had a Texas pediatrician who was or this is the person who was fired. I know there were so many of them. I can't keep them straight. Dr. Christina Propst, P-R-O-P-S-T, went to Facebook and wrote this, quote, may all visitors, children, non-Maga voters, and pets be safe and dry. She said, Care County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change.

May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts. And the screenshots are all over. everywhere. Her workplace, Bluefish Pediatrics in Houston, issued a statement Saturday night disavowing her comments and they said that and they ended up letting her go. I don't know how you can, I think you need to have your medical license pulled. You have free speech, but what you don't have is freedom of consequences. And I don't know how you can practice medicine that hatefully. as a if you a hospital or a clinic would have to be terrified having someone like that on staff

because what if someone comes in with a red hat and they need life-saving care how do you know that this doctor is doing everything that they can to save this person's life if they harbor such hatred for people who merely think differently from them hatred that that brings them to not just think it or say it out loud, but go on Facebook and type it up because you want to humble brag about your hatred for the world to see. The clinic, Bluefish Pediatrics said, we want to be clear. We do not support or condone any statement that politicizes tragedy or diminishes human dignity or fails to clearly uphold compassion for every child and family regardless of background

and beliefs, blah, blah, blah. Then they later added, that individual is no longer employed. They removed her profile page from Bluefish website as well. And I don't know how you can be a pediatrician and cheer the lost, cheer dead children in the flood. I personally think she ought to have her license pulled because I think she presents a major liability. I don't know how anyone could hire someone like this and have them on staff and then

have people have confidence in the level of care they're receiving. This is why this obsession in society for everyone to rush to show their ass is mystifying to me. People are so eager. They are so thirsty for attention. Oh my gosh, they have to have a take on this issue. They don't exist if they don't have a take to offer up to the world on this particular issue. No matter how stupid it is, no matter whether or not they know anything about it, doesn't matter. Do they exist on this rock if they do not offer up a hot take?

And that's what she did. Running through, posting it on Facebook. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts. Oh my gosh. She sees children in her practice as a pediatrician. I wouldn't be able to take my child to anybody like that. This is why some things are best left to yourself.

You either like your, I mean, in certain professions, and this is just the way it is, you can't do stuff like this. when you're talking about treating and saving lives, spare the world your grievous take on politics. Please, just do your job. That should be a tradeoff, I think. You willingly go into it. You've got to willingly accept that there's just certain things you can't do. I wouldn't be able to go to anybody like that.

I'm glad that she was fired. I mean, words, stupid stupidity has consequences. That's an unfortunate aspect of it. that uh so lorraine found it's the her the lady who uh used to run for mayor her i guess boyfriend is reverend doctor jimony christmas colin boston are already doctor whatever i people who get doctor i'm sorry people who get a doctorate and they're not it's not about arranging guts i will make fun of you because i think it's such a it's an exercise in vanity it is the reverent he is at the big long lint name

Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston. Mm-hmm. Okay. Kane and I are about to get Pryor and Brimstone here a little bit. It's okay. So, but he came out. I was like, I disavowed her remarks. I don't know.

I think you got a dump her, dude. I mean, do you want a woman like that raising your kids? Hail, H-A-I-L-No. No, no, no. This is how nasty people are. And it doesn't help the fact that you've got, and we're going to get into some of this here coming up. some of the media reaction in the way that politicians have been approaching it.

Now, there's a lot more because while this was happening, you had Ted Cruz who went to Greece. Okay. I don't dislike Ted Cruz. I once endorsed him when he was early on in the primary in 2016, after Rick Perry. Because I liked Rick Perry in 2016. I always go for a governor. And then I was like, okay, well, he's a Texan, and he's got a record in 2016. And I was very nervous about the absence of record from the frontrunner because I had no idea what they were they going to

about two-way what are they going to and um ted cruz is like the he's like a real-life ned flanders he is he's a real-life ned flanders which is why i always thought it interesting that he really wanted to get into podcasting but i digress so and he's not a bad guy he just has horrible timing and it's not him it's the fates okay so he was on a pre-planned family vacation in greece all right And the moment that he heard about all of this, he started making arrangements to come back. I'm not defending him. I'm just telling you what happened. He started making arrangements to come back, right?

I mean, he was, he left out of Athens. He was in, you remember the ice when everything froze over and he was in, again, a pre-arranged. It's not like you just go, if you're, these senators don't just like fly overseas. I mean, they have to make sure that they're not in session. There's a whole bunch of stuff that has to happen. So anyway, they, so in 2021 during the Irish, That's a news in Cancun. So now he was in Greece and he said the moment that they, he heard from state officials,

he promptly booked a flight back home. And he left Athens on Sunday and he was back in Texas last night. So he left early yesterday morning and he was back in Texas late last night. And can I just say, what did they expect him to do? It's not like he's going to be able to go and plug a finger in the hole of the earth. earth and stop the flooding. Am I being, I'm not, I'm just curious. I just feel like, and a lot of this is driven by the left. Now, keep in mind, these people had no problem when Gavin Newsom was drinking wine, living his best life at French laundry, when we were all literally stuck in our

homes. And it wasn't even as bad as how badly they were stuck in their homes in California, right? Or Lloyd Lightfoot going to get her hair did when everybody was locked down. Or Andrew Cuomo, killing a bunch of old people. I mean, you know, they have no issues with any of this. They had no issue with the previous president who never was there. We don't even think it was him. Kane swears up and down that it was a it was a doppelganger. Hell, the man didn't even sign his own things. He had an auto pen. That doesn't bother them. But oh my gosh, Chad Cruz being on a pre-planned family trip to Greece when he could not predict that the storm system was going to stop. He couldn't even do with the meteorologist were able to do.

They weren't able to do it, but somehow Ted Cruz is able to do it. Predict that the storm system was going to stall out in this area, dumping gallons and gallons and gallons of rain. No, they demanded that he come back. So he came back. I don't know what they think he's going to do other than stand there as a president. He doesn't have that kind of jurisdiction. He is a senator. He goes to D.C.

He doesn't have like jurisdiction. Only in his district can he do stuff as a liaison federally. It's not like he can. sit here and, you know, talk to the city council and go into all the, I mean, that's, that's why you have other people in those positions because they fulfill those obligations within that role. So I don't know what people think that he's going to do other than, you know, they just wanted him to come back from Greece. Heaven forbid the man go on a damn trip, right? Heaven forbid, Ned Flanders, go on a pre-planned

family vacation and then all hell breaks loose and he's got to come back. People just, they focus on the wrong things. So he came back and he was there. He's been there at the, and that's fine if that's what he wants to do. But the left has been mad over that. The left is mad. They're blaming doge cuts and everything else. They're also, but wait a minute, the left is so busy blaming everything. Has the left stopped to address the ambushes of ICE agents that they have participated in over the past several days? We're going to be talking about that. Our friends over at Superbeats, the Superbrein product. And SuperBoreen is about healthy metabolism and supporting healthy blood sugar levels. And the Superbeats, as you know, is all about heart health. It's

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For, you know, this gun control thing, you know what I'm saying, to be under control, you know, because right now, gun control is out of control. You know, guns are falling into the wrong hands of the wrong people. You know what I'm saying? And the whole nine, and not only that,

but I'm not saying, I'm not saying to totally ban guns. I mean, you know, come on, police men, they need guns to do their jobs. Guns has been around since the Civil War. You know what I'm saying? In the whole 09, but my thing is this, you know what I'm saying? All of these school shootings that's going on right now, look at these massive shootings that happened this week, already in the United States, you know what I'm saying? And Chicago, 18 people getting shot.

shot. You know what I'm saying? I mean, it's a disgrace to the race. You know what I'm saying? He would know because he shot his neighbor in the early 90s and went to jail. So if anybody would know, it'd be Flav a Flav, which I still can't believe women competed to go on a date with him. But otherwise, no, it's not an issue of firearms. It's an issue of crap parents. Because I think he's specifically referring to a cookout that took place in Philly where you had 16 people shot, right? Right. Yeah. Okay, well, it's youths, people who are already prohibited from carrying pistols, especially within city limits because there are other further restrictions. I mean, you could sit here and pass law after law after law to make something that's already illegal, illegaler, but it doesn't solve the problem.

The problem is what in the hell is a mom and dad doing when their 16-year-old is running around the city with a handgun? Where are the parents at? Why is it that everybody else has to forfeit their rights because these people cannot get their acts together? That's the crime here. So, I mean, if I wanted a completely uneducated opinion on the matter, he'd be the first person I'd go to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just can't take seriously people who talk about this issue while ignoring all of the driving causes of said issue. Right?

Why do you think kids are getting it? Why is it only specific types of kids that are doing specific types of activities? drug and gang violence, which are driving crime. You don't have to take my word for it. You can go back. In fact, choose your president. Choose your party. Choose your ideology.

Because the Department of Justice, I will, can't even believe I'm using this word in conjunction with the DOJ. Consistently, and every survey done has shown time and time again that the main drivers of this illegal possession of firearms, which in phelonious activity, is it's always people who are between. like the ages of like 18 and 20, I mean really 23 and under, 18 and 23, these people who are running around, they already have records, but either as juveniles or something else. And it's drug and gang violence. Keep in mind when the CDC was trying to gaslight everyone into thinking that school fatalities were increasing, they were specifically looking at what they called children, 18 to 21 year olds who were driving it. It was the main driver of it. All of this stuff is available online where you can go and you can look it up. I've written about it. I've linked it a million

times so I'm blue in the face. But that's the that's the truth of it. And as Kane notes, I mean, he's a hype man. So he's hyping for gun control now, which I find incredibly ironic given public enemies previous statements against government and the quote unquote white man, how they would sit here and now be a hype man for an issue that was literally the progressive white man's issue. And it was all about disenfranchising free black men and women in the United States from being able to exercise their Second Amendment rights, which if you remember in history, was the very reason that Dred Scott's case was determined the way it was by racist Judge Robert Taney, who was a Democrat. So now they're schlepping for Democrats. There you go. We got more on the way. Second hour coming up. It's the folks

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So visit AllFamily Pharmacy.com slash Dana and get 20% off with promo code Dana 20 to save 20%. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of the second hour back on this Tuesday. I hope everyone had an amazing Independence Day weekend celebrating the birth of our republic. All right. So, I got a question. What happened to the Epstein stuff? I mean, I was told that we had it. I mean, in fact, where was this? This is audio somebody to live. $17,011 million. I mean, this is what a flashback of what now A.G. Pambondi said. She said she had this list. Listen. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the direct. of the president from all of these agencies. So, so have you seen anything there?

You said, oh my gosh. Not yet. Okay. I mean, you all remember, too, when they had all of those thirst trap influencers who went to the White House and they all had binders that was supposed to be, what was the binder of? Wasn't it supposed to be the Epstein list that they were handed? That's what I thought, too, right?

Didn't you guys also think that that's what they were given? they had a binder. What was in the binder if it wasn't that? And they had this big press conference. They had there. And they were at the table. And they had these binders. And then they went out and they were all posing with them. And this kind of goes to show you the difference between influencer and journalist because none of the people who got those binders did any stories on them. And they didn't talk about whether or not there was any information in it. And not a single one of them came out and said, oh, well, you know what? This is not what I thought it was. And here's a while. and you know nobody wants to blow the whistle on anything because they're worried that they might lose the next invitation or not receive another invitation. The binder, I think it was just like the public stuff that was in there, but there wasn't anything new, which is what everyone was led to believe. And not a single one of these people said, oh, well, this was stuff that we already knew. Where's the other stuff? No one did that because they didn't want to disrupt their access and adjacency to influence. So they didn't say anything about it.

That just goes, sometimes influencers on the right are as bad as the legacy press. That's a fact. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Never an exception. So we were told she had it. We were told by everybody from all the people at the FBI. We were told by the new FBI head. We were told by everybody that they were going to go and they were going to go get this list.

There's the, there's the influencer thirst trap photo op. Everybody had a binder full of not nothing. That was a lame photo. It was a lame stunt. So now we're told that, oh, no, there's no list and nothing's up. No worries. It's gone. Don't worry about it.

I'm sorry. What? How, King, how long have we heard about this? How long have we been talking about the Epstein thing? I was thinking about this when I first heard. I can't actually pinpoint when I first heard about it. Yeah, I'm 2017, 2018. It's been a long time, right?

We've been reporting on it, yeah, since at least then. It's been a long time. So where is it? We don't know. Apparently, I don't know. I guess Pam Bondi doesn't have the files that she said she had on her desk after all. And so now they're saying that there isn't anything. There's nothing there.

Don't worry about it. The FBI and DOJ, they announced that there's no evidence that he had a client list or that he blackmailed powerful people in a list. that they sent out. They said that they do not have any at all evident. It's from Axios originally. And they had a one and a half page letter. And they said, we looked at the footage and the conclusion is he died. Conclusion is Epstein died by suicide.

Further supported by video footage from the common area of the special housing unit, blah, blah, blah. And they're saying nothing was there. There's no there, Kane. That's what we're told. I saw that there was a press conference. You know, Trump was doing his, I guess it's the cabinet meeting. And Pam Bondi was asked the question, and he jumped right in and started criticizing the reporter. Listen to this.

Yeah, if we have it, let's play that. Yeah, sure. Did I just enter up a little bit? Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking, we have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people still talking about this? guy this creep, that is unbelievable.

Do you want to waste the time and do you feel like answering? I don't mind answering. I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration. But you go ahead. Sure, sure. First to back up on that, in February, I did an interview on Fox and it's been getting a lot of attention.

because I said, I was asked a question about the client list, and my response was, it's sitting on my desk to be reviewed, meaning the file along with the JFK, MLK files as well. That's what I meant by that. Also, to the tens of thousands of video, they turned out to be child porn downloaded by that disgusting Jeffrey Epstein. Child porn is what they were. Never going to be released.

never going to see the lighted day. To him being an agent, I have no knowledge about that. We can get back to you on that. And the minute missing from the video, we release the videos. Do you know what makes this even more problematic is you have the vice president of the United States who has repeatedly tweeted about this going all the way back to 2020, 2021, saying, oh, why would the U.S. government want to keep these clients a secret? And he also tweeted at one point, quote, if you're a journalist and you're not asking questions about this case, you should be ashamed of yourself. What purpose do you even serve? I'm sure there's a middle class teenager somewhere who could use some harassing right now, but maybe try to do your job once in a while.

So that reporter, by the way, all of those people at that table campaigned on it. They all campaigned on the Epstein stuff, every one of them. Pam Bondi literally was pushing for AG as that. The vice president of the United States literally campaigned on Epstein stuff. That's like one of his tweets on it. One of a ton. I have a bunch here. I mean, they're all pretty much the same thing, but you get, but the point of it, you cannot start a fire under your base and say Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, and promote it and act like, well, one of the reasons you don't have the answers that you're looking for is because we're not in power. Get us in power, and then we'll make sure that all of this is out in the open. And then you get in power and you

turn around and tell everyone, nope, never mind, nothing to see here. Parks closed. The moose out front should have told you. You can understand why people are raging right now on the right. it's completely inconsistent. It is completely inconsistent. And you have people like, you know, Cash Patel and Bon Geno and all of this stuff. I, I, um,

you can understand all of these people have all campaigned on this. And you can understand the questions that people have when they were told that this absolutely exists. And now it doesn't. And now the base is angry because a lot of people were motivated by this. they really thought that they were getting involved to protect children, to protect innocent. So there's only one or two ways this can go. Either it is exactly what everybody has said it is, and it is a big, horrific criminal enterprise,

and this guy had, you know, all of these connections, and there are a lot of very powerful people compromised by the op that he had on them, and that this is the system protecting power, and that this is really kind of, you know, the rubicon for whether or not the system can ever be affected to change, or it's a nothing burger, and he really did kill himself, and there's nothing to see here. It was just exactly as that. But in order to believe that first part, you have to think everybody, from Bondi to Trump, to Cash Patel to everybody that they've all been lying to you. So only one of these, actually both of them mean that people are lying to you.

Did they lie to you when they said that this stuff existed? Or are they lying to you now when they say this doesn't exist? But either way, you were lied to. And now everyone is told, stop talking about it. Don't bring it up anymore. There's no point. What do you mean? There's no point.

Of course there's a point. And all of these people that went along with this, I'm really mad at the people that were super thirsty and desperate for a headline that went to the White House to get a binder. I'm really disappointed in some of those people. Because that was shameful. It was just public stuff that everybody already knew and they were acting like they had something new, which further propelled this whole thing. So again, I go back to, you were lied to, just pick the lie.

You either lied to in that nothing was there ever and they just created something as a way to agitate you or now they're lying to you and they're protecting everybody that is in power that is affected or in any way compromised by this. I don't know, Kane. I don't know which way I tend to think it is. But they're saying, some are saying, well, her little black book is going to remain a secret. Maybe it's a part of an ongoing investigation and they're in. I've been hearing that forever, too. I don't believe that either. They're keeping it quiet so they can investigate people.

Wait a minute. You're telling me the same deep state that worked to come up with fake information about Donald Trump and Russia is, and especially because people are saying, well, it's being kept quiet because Trump's involved. You really think that you wouldn't know that if he was? Seriously? I mean, what lie are we going to believe? Do you see how stupid this is? This is the sloppiest spin I've ever seen. And they're thinking that all of them, even some people on the right, think that you're stupid.

And that you're just, okay, well, they told us now we don't have to worry about it. I don't know. I honestly don't think that some of the people, I don't think that the heads of the FBI or the CIA, I don't think that they know. I really honestly don't think that they're, they know. They can run the departments, but I don't think that they have the stature to be privy to this. Do you, Kane? No, I don't think they do either. So I don't know.

I mean, not a single one of these politicians that campaigned on this now that this is all being said, not a single one of them are questioning it now. I think at every level there's just so much speculation on the suicide, the missing video, the pictures of the cell doors at the time it happened compared to what they're releasing now. There's, I mean, Jelaine Maxwell's trial wasn't even allowed to be televised. There was apparently a deal during that trial that the little black book would never get released. There's just so much speculation here. There's no way we're going to get to the bottom of anything, ever. I mean, and Lorraine brings up a good point, too. Are we to believe, especially with like, because we know Bill Clinton, for instance,

are we to believe that he didn't take advantage of any of this? Are we to believe that, no, I mean, come on, you guys know some nefarious things were happening. I, who are they protecting? Because now, by the time I get interested in it, it is a full-blown conspiracy theory. because I'm not a conspiracist, but by the time I get interested in it, it's already blown up as a big old giant conspiracy theory. Now I'm interested in it. So you're, we're all being played. So who's pulling the strings? If you've noticed dry skin or changing texture that comes with time, you're not alone. And that's exactly what one skin is here to help with. Healthy skin starts at the cellular level. Taking care of your skin isn't just about looks. One skin's topical supplements make it easy for you to do something practical for your skin. They're designed by a team of women's scientists and they use the proprietary OSO1 peptide to target

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. Man, of course, that was one of the Steelers' Wheels songs stuck in the middle with you, one of the best scenes in Reservoir Dogs, which is by one of my favorite directors, Quint Tarantino. know, and you can't get out of Michael Madsen's character for that. And he passed away also over Independence Day break. He was 67 years old. Apparently was heart failure. And he had fought with drugs and alcoholism for years, but they said he was sober before he passed away. And he was

making, quote, consistent and valiant efforts on his sobriety. And he was really working and fighting hard to get everything under control. So just that, because he was a fabulous actor. And I mean, some of his lines, especially in Kill Bill, you know, like when he, just, just a phenomenal actor. So very, very sad indeed. Also, let me pull this up. All right. So in addition to that, can we stop like seeking wild animals to take pictures with? That would be really great if we could do that because there was a tourist that was killed by a bear.

He was trying to take a selfie with a bear. in Romania. And he was mulled to death because he took a selfie with a bear cub. Oh my gosh, you cannot do that. He was riding on his little motorbike along the Carpathian Mountains. And a vicious bear attacked him, dragged his body down a ravine after he tried to take a selfie with a cub. You can't be doing that. Let's just stop.

Don't pet bison. Don't take selfies with bear cubs of all the things to take a selfie with. Maybe not that one. Tourists are shunning Sin City over what they say are abysons. absolutely ridiculous, ridiculous prices with this. I'm trying to pull this link up and Google Docs. It's not being super helpful. Everything has gone up, though.

And I would imagine even more so in Vegas. Like, for instance, one Taurus said that she had to pay $33 for a coffee and a bagel. Yeah, well, also you're kind of captive when you're there. You know what I mean? It's in the middle of a desert and you're like, you have those choices that are there on the strip. Those are the choices you have. Millions of flies are going to be dropped over Texas to combat. It's just this is so gross.

Flesh-eating maggots. What? I thought all of them kind of were, to be honest. Yeah. The U.S. government wiped out this screw worm flies, but now they're back again. And that is a particular type of species that I don't want to get into the details of it. It's nasty. That's all you need to know.

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I can't believe I'm saying this to describe a record deal but maybe one of the most beneficial deals for a band that you maybe ever I mean, for sure. You'll never see a deal like that. No, they had total artistic control everything

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I don't think anybody in Rock can touch him as a vocalist. I will fight everybody on this belt. Nobody can touch. Nobody can touch Robert Plant as a vocalist. Sorry, but they can't. And what was funny, one last quick thing is in the documentary, he was like, you know, and I knew starting out that there were people that had better chops than I did. I'm like, what?

You're probably what? No. It's so good. We guys got to watch it. I think it's called Becoming Zeppelin, but it's on Netflix. And it is, I rarely get excited about something and tell you to watch it. But you must watch this. It's so good.

All right. We got a lot of other things we got to hit today because it's been, you know, we've been off and it's been everybody's going back to work. getting back into it as it pertains to with with the bill and immigration. Oh, my gosh. I wanted to play, hang on, because where are we at? I have so many things on the list for you today, and I want to make sure that we're getting to all of it, although I don't know if we're going to be able to. I really want to talk really quickly about the Musk v. Trump fight because they were fighting again, Kane, over the Independence Day weekend. And I don't know. Musk had said at one point he was like, Oh, the Second Amendment is sacred. I mean, I'm excited that he seems to be going to that position.

I'm not excited that he still has tweets up talking about how they need to, quote, unquote, ban assault rifles and register all of this other stuff. I'm all for persuading someone, but I don't think that I want someone that I have to persuade to be in charge of the things that I'm advocating for. If I have to persuade you to support them in the first place, really don't want to put you in charge of administration. mastering them. Do you know what I mean? So I think everybody kind of needs to slow the roll. I'm all I will always be encouraging. I get kind of mad because there are people who think that the entire, they will forget the fact that you are writing a series of posts on X and they will only focus on one thing that you said. And I'm like, yeah, this is a good move that he's moving to this position. And I have people like, Dana, don't you know? Yes, I do know. But have, have you, do you like everything else that I've said?

I mean, it's a series of posts on X. It's a series. It's a threat. That's how it works. but I'm looking forward to seeing him evolve. Do I trust him on it yet? Oh, hell no. Oh, my gosh. No. Oh, my gosh. Oh, no, no.

I mean, this is a guy who said some pretty crazy stuff about, you know, I mean, he has gun control language in his past. And by past, I mean, you know, a few years ago. That is, I think, pretty much exactly like what Joe Biden has said before. So I think that you've got to be cautious over that. Now, I did, they were going back and forth fighting over stuff and, uh, I, Musk is upset, obviously about the bill passing the house, which it is what it is. You know, I mean, you know, you have, the impermanence of these tax cuts.

We have to have this fight over tax cuts again in 2028. Uh, there's a, we still have the green new deal spending, all of this stuff. I've not heard anything else about pocket recisions. Have you guys? when we did a whole segment on it, we talked about it for days like last month, nothing else said about it because they're not going to do it. I told you guys they're not going to do it. They're not going to come back with a rescission package. They had a $9 billion rescission package that you're not going to hear anything else about.

There is that 90-day window where they don't have to address it because it will expire. And there's a lot of those on the book, you know, that are coming down right now. So September 30th is the end. So we're actually getting into that 90-day. once we're into that 90-day period, there's a lot of those spending cuts that can happen because it just drops off the books. If they can do it, I mean, if they do it, I'd be, I'd mean, I'd welcome it. I mean, we need a little bit more than $9 billion. But, you know, I don't want to be like, oh, yeah, that's great. We'll take that win. And then they're like, oh, we convinced them that they had a win. We're not going to do anything else. I like what Ron DeSantis had to say here. This is audio, soundbite. I don't even know.

22, yes, the 22,000. He was remarking on, because Musk's, what did he call the party, sorry, new American party? Or? American person, right? I don't care. It's a different part. I don't know. But this is what DeSantis offered as a suggestion instead.

Listen. What he's done. The problem is when you do another party, especially if you're running on some of the issues that he talks about, you know, that would end up if he funds Senate candidates and House candidates in competitive races, that would likely end up meaning the Democrats would win all the competitive Senate and House races. And so, look, I'm a Republican. You know, I don't want to see that happen. I think if you want to, you know, get involved and hold accountable, you know, we do have a problem in the Republican Party with these D.C. congressmen, they always run saying there's

out of control spending and they're going to spend less, and they never do it. And so there's a gap between the campaign rhetoric and then the performance, Elon was doing Doge, and a lot of Congress didn't want anything to do with actually adopting the Doge cuts, just like they didn't want to, they haven't wanted to adopt the Trump executive orders on immigration and all these other things, which I think you have to adopt in law if you want them to have staying power. So I think there is a lot of frustration with the gap between the rhetoric and their district and the performance once they get into DC. But the way you do that is expose that in a primary and show that there's another way forward. Honestly, if you're concerned about the debt, I wouldn't even worry about that because I don't think

just electing a few better people is going to change their trajectory. We need the incentives in Washington are going to lead to these outcomes, really regardless of the outcome of elections at this point. So you need to do a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He said a lot of lot of good things there. I mean, the balanced budget amendment is a great point, but one of the things that he said that stuck out to me the most was that you can't just switch out a couple of the politicians. You have to have incentives. And he's absolutely right. And I think that that did not get as much play as it should. Because it's true, you cannot just simply switch out an elected official and think, okay, now all of our problems are solved because you have a bunch of other elected officials.

and it's a lot easier to incentivize momentum towards the goal that you want instead of switching everyone out immediately. That's going to be a more insurmountable task. Go and switch out the easier seats and then create incentives for people to govern the way that they need to govern. And that's the best way to go about it. And the balanced budget amendment, my gosh, it's never going to happen, though, not with these critters that we have in D.C. It's not going to happen. But that is, I mean, if you're really wanting to affect change, that's the best way. way to do it. People are already, I think people are in a binary mode. It's either or. It's not either or

and or also. It's either or with a lot of people. And I especially think that with politics being as chaotic as they are and the government being as big as it is to the point where you have no idea what your government is doing on any given day, that should be an easy question for you as a taxpaying citizen to answer. But unfortunately, government is so large that you can't, that everybody has to make it simpler for themselves, they've just defaulted to either or. And in this construct, I don't think that you're going to get a viable third. I mean, you're not. I mean, look what happened with Ross Perot.

I mean, I like Ross Perot. I thought he made a lot of sense, but we ended up with Bill Clinton. I mean, granted, I was a kid, but I paid attention. You know what I'm saying? I mean, you got to be careful with that stuff. And I think that's what DeSantis is warning about here. I also respectfully don't think that while he has spent a lot more money in an election cycle than most of us will make in our lifetimes, I think that you need.

I think that you need more than that. It's what the cost of being at the table is, it comes with two things. Consistency, consistency and time. That's what it takes. Time to prove your consistent and also a consistent record. Those are two things that you can't buy your way into. And that's why people got, especially on the right, because on the right, everybody is so desperate to find the next Messiah. And then the Messiah after that one and after that one.

when they themselves are really the agents of change. You got to be really, really careful with this kind of stuff, or you're going to find yourself in a bad position with bad leaders. So I like what he was saying there as a suggestion. I liked that. But whether or not they're going to do it, I know. That's another thing entirely. So coming up, Superman apparently is so bad.

It's bad. Bad. I don't even know how it's to say. I'm also so completely done with the superhero genre. it's oversaturated. We need new material. But apparently the new Superman is heinous and woke and we're going to have to talk about it. So we got that. We got Florida man on the way as well as we move. Let's be honest, big pharma profited off of your fear while silencing your voice. They controlled the narrative, blocked access to real treatments and then told you what you could and could not take all to protect their bottom line. Medicines like Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and bendazole were all labeled dangerous. and dismissed, even though millions found relief and recovery from them. This Independence Day, all-family pharmacy is standing up for your freedom with their biggest sale of the year. You get buy one, get one free on these critical medications with a doctor's prescription included, shipped fast and direct to your door.

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buffet and you're getting stuff on your plate, you're at the cookout and you're getting all the stuff and you got to get the potato salad. Then you got to get, I mean, it's a lot on the plate. So here it is. Ready? Florida Keys man marks birthday by doing meth, stealing conk train, picking up riders, fighting with cops. Yeah, like, it's one way to celebrate your birthday, I guess. They found him at the southernmost point buoy.

He told officers, oh, wow, he looks crazy. By the way, the conch train is literally like a little train. He stole it. the little it's a little train that's like a little scooter like glorified golf carts all linked together and dressed up like a train and it says conch train on it it's one of the very famous little vehicle uh he faces three criminal charges jonathan patrick winslow he's 57 years old and he went to the conk tour train depot stole it and they tracked it because it's not like it can go that fast and he was also quote running it with rock music playing so the little train that you're watching on the that Juan's showing you on the simulcast. He was blaring music and running around the keys with that. So that's what he had. So anyway, he picked up passengers like random people while driving it.

Like I guess they had no idea that the guy driving it had stolen it. And when he finally was pulled, when they finally detained him, they said he exhibited rapid speech and appeared excited. Of course, I would be too if I was driving the conch train. And then they said he was going to face charges because he stole it. And he was like, I just borrowed it, ossifers. Just merely borrowed it. So then they found a crack pipe on him. He told him it was a weed pipe and, or I guess a meth pipe.

I don't know. And they're like, you don't know if you, I don't think you use that to smoke weed, but okay. Anyway, and so he's in jail $60,000 bond. He has not bonded out. I told you it was a lot. We saw his photo, right? It looked like he got tased. Do you see his hair?

Yeah, his hair, or he went to the magic house and put his hand on the thing. Maybe it was the breeze from the conch train that was blowing through his hair. I don't know. Okay. Speaking of, oh boy, a visibly highly intoxicated man was arrested. After he threw a concrete, after he threw concrete pipe and a machete, again, another machete. At a victim. Edwin Watts, 71 years old.

There he is right there. He looks like a sad prospector. Bless him. Bless his little hard. I hope he gets a help he needs. But he got charged with all kinds of stuff. I don't even know where to start with this. He threw everything.

Literally everything but the kitchen sink. Concrete metal pipes threw a whole machete at a dude. And this was in Marion County. They were called to a home over a physical disturbance. And they said that Edwin Watts was seated on his red ATV at the entrance to the property. He made an inappropriate hand gesture and blah, blah, blah. Basically, the guy was drunk as a skunk, noticeably agitated and acting aggressive. He has no prior battery convictions, but he's on.

in the pokey on a slew of charges. Let's see. Let's do the guy who got super drunk and drove into a sheriff's pond if we have time. Do we have time we may? Drunk Florida man. His wrong exit, he literally drove into a pond

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Switch today and defend freedom with every call and text you make. That's PatriotMobile.com slash Dana at 972 Patriot promo code Dana for that free month of service. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour. where we got a lot of stuff to get into. We got TSA stuff to hit. We got immigration stuff to hit with the ambushes. Can I just get this out of the way? Because it's like summer...

You're supposed to have summer blockbusters that come out, right? Oh, by the way, real quick. Chats at Rumble. You can stream also the radio program, Channel 347 Direct TV. Okay, anyway. Isn't this the time that... For the summer blockbuster? I'd explain to my kids what Blockbuster meant.

Blockbuster is like... Isn't that when they stood around the theater, like lines around the theater, like everybody wanted to go in and see the film? And so it was a blockbuster because they were lined up around the block. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Has, I don't know, has there really been one? Like, I watched The Last Mission Impossible, and that was great. And I went and watched ballerina. And then I watched it again.

I've seen it twice. It's fabulous. And I appreciate it. I told you how she's not like a woke, Mary Sue. It's like Linda Hamilton type, Ripley type female, like a heroine. and that's, I will want to get back to those days. I don't really know if there is one. I think they were wanting Superman to be like the next one and it's not going to happen.

Are you done with superhero movies, Kane? Yeah, there's so many. There's, you know, I think they've extended it. They went even into the anti-hero portion of it and I think they've exhausted that too. Like I see it advertised. I'm like, yeah, I'm not you again. You know, I just saw you. Go away.

Well, if you look at the statistics of the highest, grossing movies so far in just 2025. It's Lilo and Stitch. It's like number two. Well, after the horribleness with Snow White and everything, I don't know. I don't know why people decided, let's do this

with Superman. Let's have Superman be woke. I don't know, y'all, but it's getting absolutely savaged in some early reviews. And I think it really does. It deserves it. So James Gunn is directing this film.

He was Guardians of the Galaxy. James Gunn had his own problem. Let me just give you some insight a little, some little bit of time ago. He got fired because he had some really nasty posts on Twitter. And this was back in like 2018. He, I don't even know if I can read. some of what he said. I don't think I actually can't.

It's like he said, oh, how do I, how do I? Just really inappropriate stuff. He had one tweet where he talked about boys. And another tweet where he was mocking, like literally rape, like saying, oh, the best thing about rape is when you're not being raped anymore. Like, he actually tweeted that out. I don't know.

And he had a bunch of these. So he had said, you know, my words at the time totally failed an unfortunate. I was trying to be provocative and I fail, blah, blah, blah. And he was like, I'm so, you know, I take full responsibility, whatever, whatever, whatever. And remember, they were firing, they were going to fire him off a Guardians of the Galaxy. And everybody, like, pitched in and they were all defending him. All the actors, everybody, even Chris Pratt, everybody was defending him. So he was kind of quiet for the most part, just doing his job.

And then he's behind the camera for Superman. And it's supposed to be, it's supposed to be out when July 11th, I think is when it comes out. And it's woke, apparently. Apparently even more so than Snow White. Well, how is that possible? So he's decided to make the story about immigration. He said, quote, well, let's go ahead and hear what he has to say. This is audio sound by $11 million.

Go ahead and play this. It is exactly what the movie is about, I think, that like, we support our people, you know? We love our immigrants. We love, yes, Superman is an immigrant. And yes. This is his brother. Is this not his brother, Sean? That we support in this country, our immigrants.

And if you don't like that, then you're not American. So that was his brother. also said, quote, he did an interview with the Times of London. He said that Superman is the story of America, an immigrant that came from other places and populated the country. And it says, it's a story that for me says basic humankindness is a value in something that we have lost. Okay, well, I don't, I don't know if he's read the room. When you look at polling on this issue, especially, I mean, when you're looking at Democrats, you're looking at Republicans, people have no problem with immigration, it's illegal immigration that they have a problem with. And whenever you have

Hollywood celebrities or politicians that pay lip service to this issue, no one cares enough about the issue, apparently, to offer that nuance to provide that distinction when discussing it, which then, I think they do that on purpose as bait, so that they can say, look how mad you are talking about immigration. No, you're conflating two separate things, legal immigration and illegal immigration. They're two entirely separate things, and you're conflating both of them. And so that's, what we're seeing here. I really don't want to go see it. I don't even know who. I mean, the majority of the country feels this way about immigration. And it, I don't understand why you would make a movie that intimates that if you don't support their vision, then you're

somehow, yeah, a bigot. I don't, I wasn't going to go see this movie just because I was, I'm like, I'm so tired. I don't like Superman. I'm not a big. DC guy, right? I mean, I'm not a very big Superman fan. And I get it that, how was it put? That Superman is essentially almost kind of a mockery of humanity because he has to pretend to be weaker and lame in order to fit in with everybody else, right? And has to hide who he really is. It's really like an exposition on humanity. But I just, I don't know, I've never been in, I don't know. I've never been into it. Even as a kid, I find it hard to believe that just a pair of glasses somehow keeps him from being noticed as Superman. Okay, can I interject on that? Not to interrupt you. I'm

going to let you. So I've been to events and if I have my hair pulled back, nobody has no idea who I am. Seriously? Nobody has any idea. What? Yep. I don't know. Nobody has any idea. It's hysterical. I don't know. But I didn't, I've never, even as a kid, I'm like, this makes absolutely no sense. How do you not know that's not Superbent? It's Clark Kent, sure. But does he not lower his glass? asks us once? Like, can you not? Oh, there he is. There he is. You look just like, like none of that ever? I went, I will never forget, I went to an event somewhere. I was supposed to speak at the event, and I got there the evening before, and they were doing some kind of reception. And I had my hair pulled back. You know, I was, you know, I was going to style my hair for the next day. And they weren't going to let me in,

because they had no idea who I was. And it was the keynote. And it was hysterical. And then I was like, wait a minute, it's me. And I undid my hair. And they were like, oh, my gosh. I look totally. I swear to you this happened and I have always been endlessly amused by this. And then I thought maybe I should be a spy. Maybe I could have been a spy. If I could just like, you know, hide my appearance that easily, maybe I'm in the wrong line of work. I don't know. So that's not the only one, apparently that they're having problems with the Superman reboot. I mean, first off, I just think that you're, you're immediately running a foul of the majority of the country and how they view this issue. but apparently

Where's this other story? So apparently They also have the issue of What one is this? Pixar. Let me pull this up. So this is Toy Story From what I understand.

It's Disney. So are you shocked? So fans are upset Because Disney got woke And they said that It's supposed to be Disney and Pixar They left fans in a panic.

It's the fifth one. This is the fifth one, really? and it is a snap if I can pull this up which I'm having a little difficulty doing they said that I guess like Jesse the cowgirl or something is missing in this story I don't know I don't care

it's a damn kids animated movie why are we making anything woke Mr. Mrs. Potato Head are out no potato heads Buzz and Woody are back let's see there's and I guess people are mad because it's a binary I don't know

Kane. Didn't some of those voice actors die? Probably. Maybe that's why they're not coming back. Probably. I still am upset at the fact they can't originate something new. They can't create something new. Why are we always redoing stuff? That's literally everything.

It makes people mad when they redo those. I saw a thing on streaming services where it was Anne Boleyn and it was a black actress playing in Berlin, which, okay, then have a blonde Norwegian play Mulan. care. If that's what you're going to do, then go ahead and do that. Let's go ahead and, like, completely remake Black Panther and make it all pasty, pale, white, blonde people. Right? Go ahead. Let's just go ahead. I mean, also, we just need more original content. I mean, there's so many great stories from so many different corners of the globe. Like, why are we rehashing the same stupid stuff over and over and over again? I just, it's so frustrating at this point. So I don't know. I'm not going to go see. I probably, I don't even know when I'm going to go back

to the theater to see another movie. I don't see everything I want to see. I don't suspect it's going to stay in the theater as very long. If they're not going to get the revenue from it and they see that it's just falling off a cliff, you know, immediately, they may pull it like snow white. Didn't that get a theatrical release and it came and went? Yeah, exactly. Now it's gone. It'll be on net. Lorangos, to be fair, Superman is an undocumented alien. Lorraine, he's a Martian. Undocumented alien. He is literally like from space.

Now, if someone shoots to Earth and a rocket from space for the purpose of studying him, I'm going to let him cook, okay? Let him go. But if she's right, I haven't seen any Superman. What in the world is chat talking about? That's what they're coming up with.

I haven't seen any Superman paperwork. She's probably right. He's undocumented. I haven't seen any Superman. paperwork. It's Clark Kent. I'm an American name Clark Kent. That's what it is. I don't know. And so they, I, he's a, he's an alien. That's like saying,

are we really doing this? That's like saying Predator is a movie about undocumented immigrants. Are we really doing that? We really, because let's take it to the full and final. The Predator was also from space. This is, the Predator was a movie about undocumented immigrants. Kane. Look at all these ignorant people that were fighting him and being rude. Predator didn't have any paperwork either. He didn't. Did he have special predator paperwork?

No. Did he have a special predator light? No. He was an undocumented emigrant Kane. Alien. Alien. Whatever. Undocumented alien. Literally an alien. Or what about the actual alien? Well, they were in space. Aliens, aliens. The xenomorphs were in space. I have no idea how I know that.

The xenomorphs. But they were in space. But you know what mean? Like, just saying, there's, we got a lot of, uh, what is it, uh, what was the one that Richard Dreyfus was in? He made the mashed potato mountain. Oh, yeah. Close encounters. Yes, yes, yes.

Those, that was a movie about undocumented aliens. They were just snatching people up to be friendly. Like, how dare you? You see what I mean? Like, this is so stupid. It's a movie about a guy who flies with a cape and he wears an adult onesie. Okay? Stop trying to be like, it's a movie about immigrants. Just shut up and make a

Stupid movie, one of a million about your superhero dude. Stop trying to make this about a political issue and sucking the joy of life out of everything that we know. Just quit. Please. We have more on the way. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I need a karaoke zeppelin for the rest of the show.

I'm telling you, I'm such a... Then I got to tell you about my soft-serve thing that I got. It's just so weird here today. I have no idea what's happening. All right. First stop. Oh, Poland has reintroduced border control. Border controls with Germany.

Now remember, let's go back like a year real quick. When you had different European Union nations that were freaking out over the absolute deluge of people coming in from North Africa, et cetera, and they were going to go into Germany. And Germany was like, we're not going to respect borders. We're just go ahead. You're part of the EU.

We're just going to let everyone filter through. So Poland has reintroduced border controls with Germany in a crackdown. Their president said it's a polls first agenda and they are not messing around. Carol Nalaki ran on the slogan of Poland first, polls first and defeated the more liberal candidate. And now they're taking a very, very tough approach similar to what Italy's been doing on immigration. So very interesting. A man's in custody after he made a bomb threat on a plane that was leaving St. Petersburg in Clearwater International Airport. Yeah, you can't do that, right? Have you ever watched Meet the Parents?

Because you can't even say the word, bomb, bomb, bomb. Can't even do it. You can't, but not like that. 27-year-old Taj Taylor told another passenger that his laptop was a bomb during the flight. Clearly, they didn't watch Key and Peel either. Because that passenger immediately went and told one of the airline attendants. I mean, you would, right? You would be like, this guy's got a bomb.

This is, like, really crazy. And they were getting ready to take off. Guys, 27 years old, told the passenger's laptop was a bomb. And like I'm just saying, I really... We're going to drags. And I'm sclounced. They're not talking about no Terry Bradshaw or no Terry Cloth. I'm just saying, you know, you got to drag them clown.

A man setting off fireworks. This is in Boston. Killed himself. I mean, I was just telling the show. Congratulations. Everybody got here with all their fingers and toes intact. Seven-year-old Robert Spagnolo. Well, he was apparently.

killed by a firework Friday night, according to Channel 10 Boston. It was a fireworks incident, and it was Plymouth County District Attorney's Office. They confirmed it, and they said that he was identified, and it was directly involving fireworks. They didn't say like what. They didn't say if it was, you know, a rum and candle or what it was, but you just do, yeah, it was a big one. You got to be careful out there. I do not want to talk about the eel one. Can we just not? Are you going to meet me? You can read it. Share this one. This is yours.

No, I triple dog dare you. Well, scientists have found, the doctors have found a live eel swimming in a man's abdominal cavity. It was in him. Swimming around in the abdominal cavity. You're welcome. Okay. This is so gross.

The world's largest time capsule. I love how that was just the story. Open to Nebraska 50 years later. we know what's in it? Probably Cornersker stuff. I don't know. What's in it? No, they just said it was the world's largest head. Pet Rocks, artwork, a teal suit, Chevy Vega, all that good stuff. Stick with us. We've got a lot more in store. Ice agents being ambushed and more. The Dana Show podcast. Your fast, funny, and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. I want to know who owns the land

around our bases and strategic bases and getting an understanding of why foreign entities, foreign companies, foreign individuals might be buying up land around those bases. That's something I should be paying attention to on behalf of the American people, on behalf of my department, and on behalf of the president. It's common sense. And so food security, just like energy resilience, just like where we get our water, that's all national security, especially in a contingency. So we would be asleep at the wheel if we were not fully a party to an effort like this to

ensure that our nation had the food supply it needs. But specifically our troops have what they need on our basis so that in those moments you can rely on us here in the United States to provide that security. I mean, what is saying makes sense. I don't even know how that's ever been allowed that we have one of our, I mean, our greatest geopolitical foe that's able to, you know, look at some farm. land across the, you know, example, across the street from a military base and just buy it all up. And there's, I was looking at a couple of different maps online. And it's actually way more than I

thought. I gotta be honest, it's a lot of land that they owe. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the bottom of this third hour. Joining us now our very good friend, Mr. Stephen Yeh, too, is the Senior Research Fellow for Heritage. He covers China, all kinds of issues. He served in not one, but two presidential administrations who, and he guided them on foreign policy. He joins us now via video. It's good to have you, my friend. I was actually really shocked at how many, the acreage that China owns. And it's not just a couple of examples. Like in Texas, there's like a number of bases that the CCP owns land right by. And when you look across the nation and you see the proximity of the land that they're purchasing and how close

it is to these, you know, the proximity to military bases, there's a trend there. I mean, it, it, it, it, it, that's not accidental. It isn't accidental, and it's been going on for a long time. I've spent the last several years going to different state governments, to governors and legislators, trying to get them to pass things in our states to try to build up a structure to guard against this. There are a couple of different big challenges with it. Number one, we are Americans, we love our freedom and free enterprise, and we think farmers

own their land. should be able to sell it who they choose, but they also need to be able to have what economists would call perfect information. And there's just no way that our farmers and local authorities can have sufficient information to know who's coming for the land, who are they really. And that's where the federal government has to do a bigger job of helping to train and equip the states and localities to be able to deal with this. And the states are kind of the experiments for how best to do.

to deal with this and there are, I think, more than two dozen states have passed legislation along these lines. And it's good to see basically half the cabinet in unison talking about the importance of this, but it's not the quantity, it's the quality and location that matters on this and who's behind it. And there's been too many people in our country that have been reluctant to say that we're in a new Cold War with China, but China has no hesitancy and behaving that way. And in the meantime, I think from what 2019 to now? the percentage by which that's increased in terms of CCP buying land is like over 30%.

That's significant. I mean, that's a short amount of time where they have really, really amped up their purchase power. Yeah, and it's not to make the next best new product that's going to feed the world and make it healthier. It's not really to innovate or do anything significant in our markets. And so this is buying up ag land with no discernible ag benefits. that anyone's been able to point to.

And when it comes to the proximity of these things, Secretary Heggseth is right to point out concerns in a time of crisis along a number of lines. But if you look at what Ukraine was able to do to Russia, what the Israelis were able to do to Iran, a lot of that depends on having things proximate inside other countries. Well, what would these parcels of land be useful for them, but for those contingencies?

So I think it's an overdue item. I don't, it's not a criticism of the current administration and only six months in. And there have been several administrations who could have and should have done things along these lines. And to that, because we have a process, I know if you're, depending on what industry it's in, if a company is selling to a foreign entity or if we're purchasing something for an entity, there's a congressional review process that it has to go through. That's one of the reasons why Hillary Clinton got into so much trouble with the uranium enrichment stuff, was it uranium one in Russia. I mean, it would just seem like particularly land near military basis selling that to a foreign entity, be it Canada or China. I mean, it just kind of shocks me that there isn't in the name of national security. The one thing our government has the authority to administer, that that's not a covered process.

Yeah, there is this committee on foreign investment in the United States, sometimes. called SIFIUS. So there's some government won't talk for you. But they tend to look at investments in the United States that would affect strategic assets. So ports have been issues of controversy over the years. Any kind of strategic mining and technology could fall under Sipheus review. But sort of unassuming parcels of land has not typically fallen under that purview. And there was legislation, I think in the last Congress, that added agricultural land to that list of consideration. The talk of adding the Secretary of Agriculture to that committee formally to participate in those reviews. So there's some baby steps moving in the right direction.

But we've had this barn door wide open for a long time, and it's going to take a bit to catch up and get things right. Yeah, you say baby steps in the right direction, too. It's hard to think of baby steps after what we watched with how Israel was able to get through all these explosive drones into Iran and watching that drone warfare and watching drones with Ukraine. And then you think, well, that, I mean, of course that could absolutely happen here in the U.S. And how would anybody know if China was smuggling an explosive drones and launching them from a site that it created near a military base, maybe with the help of the cartels? I mean, who knows? I mean, I can't even believe that people aren't rushing to better assess this in D.C.

No, it's hurt my head for a long time. And, you know, you couple it with the, wildly open border for several years, not having any idea who the people are and what they bring, put it together with drone technology, aerosolized fentanyl or whatever else. We've got a whole host of nightmare scenarios that people should be concerned about. And of course, we want to protect American liberties. We don't want to go back to the worst of the worst of the post-9-11 structures, but the bad guys of the world have had a lot of access and this land issue is not a small consideration of that context. No, I completely agree. Talking with our friend Stephen Yates at Yates comes on X. Trump is

announcing steep tariffs on 14th, beginning on August 1st. Japan, South Korea, got a lot of Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia, and then, of course, he's targeting Serbia, South Africa. Japan and South Korea, particularly are interesting to me, because with everything that's so unstable right now with China, I know that we need to make sure that we're keeping those alliances strong, a little worried about how that's playing into this and wanted to get your thoughts on it. Yeah, I'm not a super fan of trying to throw spanners into friends, sort of bike wheels as they're going through tough political times. So South Korea's got a brand new government.

It's really important time to settle in the right way. Let's get the leaders to meet and get a sense of where they're going. Japan has an upper house election on the 20th of this month. The prime minister has a lot riding on that. It's a really distracting time. Now, America's America and the needs of the world are what they are. We don't need to walk around those kinds of things if there's real imperatives. But I don't know if there's any magic to this timing.

But at this point, no one can be surprised that tariffs are the tool of preference the Trump White House is going to use. The primary objective is to push people to negotiate, maybe negotiate in greater earnest. And the best way out of this unpleasant golden letter that was received by two important allies today is to make a deal. And so hopefully, despite the political controversies, they are able to see through the forest and to make a deal sooner than later. But this current round has not been well received in Tokyo and Seoul. Yeah. Well, I was happy at least to see that Taiwan wasn't on the list. And I don't know, I mean, I guess Taiwan, I don't even know if we need a deal with

them, considering that they are basically where the chips come from. Yeah, well, they are trying to negotiate a deal. It is not progressing as fast as it should. Frankly, I would put a little bit of that on both sides. But, you know, there's, I think, also a priority in the administration to try to set some terms with China. And who knows, if people see an early harvest deal with Taiwan as helping or complicating that. I, for one, would take any good deal as soon as possible, and that is good leverage to press for real, results with China, which probably will take a long time and I'll believe in when I see them. And Bricks isn't doing anything in response to this. I mean, at least from what I've read,

Brazil, in terms of the terror, Brazil, Russia, India, they're not pursuing any kind of confrontation. I don't think that they can after, you know, witnessing something. But that was kind of interesting. I at least thought there would be some sort of saber-rattling or a mean tweet, something. Yeah. Well, I'm sure that there is probably some jibber jibber out there, but it's kind of hard to get people to listen to you when you're called the Bricks, but the Russians and the Chinese don't even show up to your confab. And so what's left of your coalition of who's going to do what? What's your new reserve currency going to be?

So, I mean, I still don't like it. That is actually one of the tariff announcements I was entertained by with Trump, where he said there's going to be a BRICS tariff. You know, you want to mess around and try to create an alternative to America. Well, here's your tariff. That's one I can actually stand up and salute and say, yep, they deserve it. They deserved it. That's the F-O part of F-A-F-O. Yeah, absolutely. That's where it is. Our good friend, Stephen Yates, you can find him on X, and I suggest you go follow him at Yates Com's 2M's. I hope you had a wonderful independence day. Good to see you, my friend. We're grateful for your time and have a good rest of your week. Always. Thank you so much, Dana, take care. Good to see you. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast, because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast.

The one place that I have not gotten over my germophobia is going to the airport. Because I told you how COVID ruined me. And when you tell me I can't do something, I want to do it. And when everyone was saying, like, don't touch things and wear masks, I wanted to lick door knobs and breathe everything out of spite. Because I'm so anti-authoritarian. But you'll die. But at least I won't be under your thumb. Anyway.

So the security line at TSA, going through TSA, has always been heinous. And the thing that I hate most, oh my gosh, I'm not going to make it through this. Oh. It's when people take off their shoes. Oh. Oh, it's when they take off their shoes. Oh. Oh, my gosh.

I always will wear socks. I don't believe in socks and sandals except when you go through TSA. And I hate having, I'm a woman. I hate having to tailor a whole outfit around my TSA shoe policy, you know. The worst is, when you're behind somebody and they take off their shoes and they're standing on the tile floor. And then when they move, you can see the heat and sweat imprint of their wet socks on the floor. And you're like, then they make you stand.

Oh! I used to, they used to pull me out all the time. When they make you stand on the thing and they're like, put your feet on the yellow footprints. And I'm just like, I don't think your machine is going to break if my feet aren't on the yellow footprints, you know. So, and you're going to put your feet where. their feet were. It's so bad. Anyway, apparently

you're not going to be required anymore to do that. Thank God. Why were we required to do it in the first place? Was it because of the shoe bomber? That guy? I think it was the shoe bomber guy. Pretty sure. So they're ending the requirement to remove shoes during airport screenings, and I guess it's effective

immediately. This is my favorite. Someone said, quote, I flew through LaGuardia this morning, and when I went to take off my shoes, the TSA agent yelled at me like I was a crazy person doing something totally unexpected. What's the font you used to get that kind of accent? I don't know. It's the girl accent.

Everything's a question. Oh my gosh. Welcome to my home. But, um, I, I, the, because you would have to take off your shoes and put them in a bin that you were supposed to put like your phone and wallet and stuff. stuff in. And so I don't know. Did it work? Did it actually stop anything? I don't know if it's stopped anything. But I do think some TSA is really nice. Like Dallas has some real nice ones.

Some of the TSA agents are, I think it's a completely useless agency that should be abolished and all those people relocated elsewhere. But that said, there's some really nice agents in Dallas. But what I don't like, and I have noticed whenever I would go through New York, it's like this. remember when they have some machines where you don't have to take out your laptop and then they have other machines where you do and you're just supposed to magically know this when you go through security line and they're like, what are you doing? Don't take that. And they're like yelling at you and you're like, I don't know what the rules are because that machine, they're all taking their stuff out. I don't know that I don't got to take it out of this one. It's just, you know, you're supposed to magically know this stuff. So I don't know. But it is so nasty because that was the nastiest thing ever. I will never forget I almost ripped a man's arms off and beat him to death with him. One time in the security line, because he took his dirty shoes off his nasty feet and he put them on top of my blazer. I was going to like for a business meeting. And I took his shoes and I flung them across the thing.

I'm not even kidding. It's probably on camera. And I go, there was a spider is what I said. It's totally lied. But I was and I looked at him again. I was like, don't. I go get your own Ben. And he was like, oh, I was going to put them.

I'm like, I will literally break your face off into dust. Don't. I will murder you. right here. Let's not. I just can't deal with it. It makes me sick. I'm not sure since they implemented that policy of taking your shoes off. Did they discover shoes that had bombs in them ever?

No. Not one. Now I'm going to wear them. Not one time. Don't get me, CIA. No, I don't know. I just, maybe we should just get rid of the TSA altogether and have privatized security. Oh, no.

Sounds like it would be the best answer. but Congress can't even cut 9 billion, so I don't expect them to do this. All right, today's stupidity game. Oh, it is our very own representative at the national level, Representative Eric Swalwell. What's your favorite name for him?

Smells bad. Fartswell? I think it's Fartswell. So here he is. Look, this is all authentic and right off the cuff and avant-garde guys. He's got a camera guy waiting for him to pretend ambush him. Look and listen to how authentic this is. Hey, Congressman.

What's going on? Hey, Congressman. What's up? Hey, Congressman. What's happening? You're everywhere, man. Hey, Congressman. What's going on?

Hey, Congressman. Hey, what's happening? Hey, Congressman. What's going on? Hey, Congressman. Oh, that's up, man. Train takes. Hey, Congressman.

What's happening? I know. Excuse me, Mr. I mean, it's, it's like the intro of a sitcom where everybody stops individually and they look at the camera. Like, here's candid. Candid moment. That's so cringe. folks make sure you find us at subsection reverse facebook youtube like and subscribe back with you

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