The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - The United States Soccer Team Is Doing Something Special

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:25 Start your free trial today. That's right. This is the Dana Show. Dana Lash. I'd get one of those flags too. I also like green chilies in my nachos. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with everybody on this entirely huge radio show that is the Dana
Starting point is 00:00:43 Show at D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X, a great ways to stay connected to her and all the awesome stuff that she and her team do in the world of social media. And then at Radio Craig C, if you want to see what a guy who does a radio show in Houston, at a Dana affiliate officially now, KSEV Radio, one of many proud affiliates of the Dana show. But anyway, if you want to see what I do without any of the team, any of the producer Stephen help. Dana does a whole bunch on her own, though. I should never discredit that.
Starting point is 00:01:12 She's awesome. But nonetheless, you can follow me and 400 or so people that do that. All right, let's start immediately with the World Cup because it's actually been awesome. I am not a soccer guy. I'm not going to pretend in this segment that I've been a soccer guy a long time. I've barely paid attention to this sport and oftentimes to ride it. But there's something about watching the U.S. get potentially deeper. And I think about to where they are right now is where people expected them to go.
Starting point is 00:01:39 A lot of people thought they would make it into the round of 16. But if they go any further, it would be amazing. So let's start with Andres Cantor giving you a goal call. If you don't know who this is, it's the Telemundo guy, the legend, the man, the myth, the legend. Here we go. Just getting started. He's not done. Go!
Starting point is 00:02:24 There it is. It's only 30 seconds into the call. There's another 20 seconds left, and I was contemplating not doing it, but darn it. I don't speak Spanish. I don't really know exactly what he's saying, but I know that goal is a word that he said for quite some time. I wonder how he does that,
Starting point is 00:02:57 how much he, like, breathes in right before just yelling goal until he's about to pass out. But, yes, the United States won just the other day in their round of 32 match, which I think is a new round within the world. of the World Cup. They added more teams, so they get one additional knockout round than they've had before. Someone who knows soccer better than me can correct me at Radio Craig C. If you want to. But anyway, this seems to be good. They will be playing Belgium next. Belgium is a much better team
Starting point is 00:03:26 than Bosnia, which is what I call that team. I don't need to use both names of the countries that are there. Bosnia, who I think ranked in like the 30s or 40s or maybe even deeper than that. The U.S. is ranked inside the top 15 of countries in the world in soccer. And I think Bosnia or Belgium, excuse me, is ranked higher. They're ranked at like 10. So we'll see if we beat them before. And I know some soccer guys who have told me that we have a chip on our shoulder because of Belgium and how they've defeated us at times in the past.
Starting point is 00:03:54 So that's that. That's out there. I also love this. This is certainly a lighter thing and hilarious. And it's making the rounds in social media. President Trump put up a post on truth social and then also on Twitter. where he used a, I don't think he made it, but an AI video of Dr. Donald J. Trump talking about Trump derangement syndrome. And then there's a bunch of celebrities. Now, granted, of course,
Starting point is 00:04:19 it's not really the celebrities. It's AI. Some of the voices seem off. I'll tell you who the celebrities are, since this is radio and everybody can't see it when they're talking. But all of this is fake and manufactured. It's hilarious, though. I truly love this. And my favorite part is the very end of the video, which we might jump to and not make you listen to everything, because of what the treatment for Trump to arrangement syndrome is. But here, this is President Trump on truth social and on Twitter, just absolutely your X, whatever I'm supposed to call it, absolutely mocking and, you know, trolling all of the people on the left who seem to hate him for reasons that don't even make sense anymore. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:04:59 For someone you know been diagnosed with TDS, the symptoms can be relentless. Again. Fortunately, I'm Dr. Trump and I have a treatment plan. Let's hear what some of my patients have to say. I have been suffering for over a decade. That's Rosie. And after listening to Dr. Trump, I can see some results. Nice. Man, I've been suffering for years.
Starting point is 00:05:21 I really didn't believe that was help out there. That was when I came across this video on TV. I really thought I was a lost cause. This was going to affect me for the rest of my life. But after using the treatment plan, I can see a difference. I really wasn't sure I could help some of these people. I don't think you need to know who this is. They were so far gone, I wasn't really sure.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Sad. I had no idea how much this was affecting my life. That's Ed Norton. My work is slowed down. I'm hardly recognizable anymore. I just needed help. I couldn't eat. Robert De Niro, of course.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Had to be in the video. Constantly angry. I made everyone miserable around me. Yeah. I feel like I've aged 20 years in the last two years. I've been so concerned. I was really starting to worry about my future. Me too.
Starting point is 00:06:19 The treatment is simple. Turn off. Fake news. Say your prayers and if you ever feel anxious, just have a Diet Coke like me and you're going to see a remarkable difference in your life. I love it. That's all you do.
Starting point is 00:06:30 You turn off the fake news. You relax as much as you can and you pop a Diet Coke. And as long as you do that, Trump to arrange your life. syndrome is healed, at least according to the AI doctor. That's so funny. And I love that President Trump shares that stuff, mostly because of how much it makes people mad that he would even do that. It's funny to me that people get so upset that he behaves like a person in our society. So many people in our society, in fact, while also being the president of the United
Starting point is 00:06:58 States. Because for some, that just seems completely disrespectful and wrong. And how dare he? How dare he function like that at all. But for the vast majority of the rest of us, and you're watching the Gavin Newsom's and everyone else try to do it in some fashion now, it's probably the most enjoyable thing about this person in that office is that they don't act, like some, you know, robot version of a person or some fake version that says things that they don't mean or uses couch language all the time. He just behaves the way that he's behaved his entire life, as someone who's been a celebrity and politician, rarely a politician, but celebrity for a long time in a place like New York. All right. Another thing I want to play, there is audio of first President Trump,
Starting point is 00:07:44 and you might have heard it talking about the investigations that will center around Hillary Clinton and some of the stuff that's going on and what Hills would like to not have happened as far as declassifying certain documents that I think are going to go a pretty long way. to give us some truth in some places that we haven't had truth for quite some time. So a Bill Pulte is investigating and then hopefully releasing a lot of information. After this Trump clip, CNN had talked to Hillary, and she said something that I think matters even more, or should scare you even more,
Starting point is 00:08:23 or convince you that what's going on is good because of the arrogance of this simple statement. I'm going to try to play just Hillary's piece of audio in this clip. Here we go. Oh, actually, let me make sure that it's on enough. And that might be too loud. And now here we go. There are career and even political appointees in various of the agencies that are slow walking or refusing to share information with Pulte. Okay. So she said, I hope there are. Let me actually go back to the beginning of that part because that's important. She's begging for the career politicians, the bureaucrats who've had jobs the entire time that aren't supposed to behave politically but often do. she's hoping they bury all the things that are bad that Pulte might be finding on her.
Starting point is 00:09:06 I hope there are career and even political appointees in various of the agencies that are slow walking or refusing to share information with Pulte. What I mean by yes is yes, this is real. That's a real thing. That's not AI. That's an actual public statement that Hillary Clinton is making, begging the bureaucrats who corrupt our political system and have for a very long time. time to continue to fight and do everything they can to resist the desires of the current president and the administration in power right now. That's disgusting in all honesty. And it's crazy that that's the kind of thing you say publicly. Like that's what you say when you're doing a friendly
Starting point is 00:09:48 interview with the CNNs of the world because we can't even fathom. Well, some of us might be able to, but for the most part, probably can't fathom the things they say behind closed doors and the way that they actually get involved, not just begging people to do this publicly, but the things they do privately, the reminders that people give to how scary the Clinton family can be politically and or otherwise, if you don't do the stuff they want. It's just sort of surreal, again, to hear that and see that out there. I hope that Pulte finds a bunch of things, and I hope he makes a whole ton of stuff public and declassifies all kinds of information because we deserve to know it. and I don't know how many, I guess I'll say this last thing about that topic,
Starting point is 00:10:30 and then we'll play a little bit of audio at Alarico out of Texas, which is where I live, and then after that we'll take a break. But the last thing I'll say about all of this in the world of Pulte and Hillary Clinton is just how amazing it is to me that as these people say these things, the people that are interviewing them or maybe the people that are actually voting, these types of Democratic people into positions of power, they're nodding their heads like, yeah, I hope so too. Like, I hope we bury this stuff.
Starting point is 00:11:00 It's crazy. And after everything that was Biden's mental health and the insane version of mainstream media hiding so much from you, that was so evident. Like, it was so obvious. It was not the kind of thing that they were successfully hiding. It was too difficult to hide a guy who was getting lost on a stage like a Roomba. But nonetheless, as they're doing all that, you would think it would inevitably alienate voters that they'd say, you know what, they've lied to me too much in too many ways.
Starting point is 00:11:30 It got too ridiculous. I'm going to look for something else, but of course not. Of course, that's not what occurs. All right. One last thing. This is out of the Texas Senate race. This is James Tala Rico, who is the crazy lefty that is trying to become a senator out of a state that has not put anyone like him in a position to be a senator and doesn't often, it's been a while since a Democrat has won a statewide race in Texas. But this is just the latest example of the craziness that is Tallarico. He craps all over Christians, even though he claims to be one. And he believes that if you don't agree with him that transgender mutilation of children is good and not bad,
Starting point is 00:12:14 then you are somehow a Christian fascist. Or he makes up a word to try to merge all that together. here we go. You saw it in the anti-LGBQ legislation, including the bill that would have denied gender affirming health care to trans children. And then of course, famously, infamously, we saw it last session with the most extreme abortion ban in the country. All of these, all these ideologies stem from this, this Christofascism movement. Yeah, he calls it Christophascism, even as more and more Democrats, a Democratic socialist, just sound like communist and fascists themselves.
Starting point is 00:12:54 He's claiming that the people who follow Christ, the Christians, which is a person he claims to be, are somehow the actual fascists. And he uses the example of transgender mutilation of children as the thing that you should be standing by, which is just absolutely insane. And he's trying to win a Senate seat in Texas, and most of mainstream media is cheering him on.
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Starting point is 00:15:16 one of several great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on with this fantastic, gigantic radio show that is the Dana show. Columbus and Buffalo both raised the Somali flag over their city halls to celebrate Somali Independence Day. Social media had a field day with this. Ilhan Omar was also in what people are calling the Islamic Republic of Minnesota to celebrate Somali Independence Day there, probably paid for by a bunch of our stolen tax dollars. Or maybe just they, you know, did it without even apologizing for. They just blatantly stabent our money on this.
Starting point is 00:15:52 But yeah, this is disgusting to raise the flag of a country that we're also told all the time is so terrible that we have to take refugees in from that place. It's weird to celebrate their so-called independence if what they actually are is horrible and terrible, so much so that people can't live there. Again, that's the narrative we are given. This is just a weird, weird story. Also in related, although I guess somewhat unrelated news, but it is Tim Walls, so it feels very related to me. He decided to pardon an illegal alien who also is a child rapist. The evil alien that I'm not going to give his name out there, he's from Laos. He assaulted a 10-year-old child.
Starting point is 00:16:34 And Tim Walls has decided to pardon this person and let them out of jail, which is disgusting and horrible. And of course, there seems to be some sort of political. and a racial component to who the person is and why this would happen and everything else. Mark Wayne Mullen and others put up information about it and it went viral on the internet. But that's the people that they are. Those are the individuals that they are. That's horrible. And again, I hope that any investigation into people like Walls demonstrates the thing that many of us think is coming,
Starting point is 00:17:05 which is a whole lot of proof that they're corrupt pieces of crap and that they also get thrown in the host gap. Apparently, and it should be with people like the person he just parking. Another story out there, and this is getting a lot of traction, is something that Marco Rubio did. He terminated the legal status of a communist Cuban operative who was part of a group that helped bring Hassan Piker out of Cuba. This is getting some coverage in left-leaning media for being bad somehow, even though, again, I want to describe to you the person who had their legal status terminated. They are a communist Cuban operative that, of course, worked with people like Hassan Piker. it's not remotely surprising. This really shouldn't be controversial,
Starting point is 00:17:48 but for some reason on the left it is, here's how Fox News covered the story. The department is now investigating Piker and Code Pink, who hosted his trip to Cuba. The feds are looking at funding for the trip, which some think is tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Also under scrutiny, American businessman and social activist Neville Roy Singham,
Starting point is 00:18:05 who has donated to Code Pink in the past and has alleged ties to China through his business dealings. The investigation is looking at his trip, which involved as many as 40 American citizens, citizens who joined was being called a Marxist convoy to Havana. The Trump administration wants to know if Piker and Code Pink violated U.S. laws and sanctions in support of Cuba's communist government. For now, nobody has been charged.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Yeah, although we have terminated at least the legal status of one communist Cuban, who's getting sent back where they came from. It's crazy. This kind of stuff, honestly, and I just keep using that word today, or variations of it, insane, because almost everything you see in news media sometimes, that lands on that side of the political aisle where people seem motivated simply by their hatred of the right to do things that would make no logical sense if they separate it out from it, you know, and just rationally thought about whether or not this is a good idea or this doesn't have some sort of negative component to it.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Even the Wall story about going ahead and pardoning someone who is a child rapist is the kind of thing that if you take a step back from whatever motivated these individuals, politically to do these sort of stunts, you'd say to yourself, like, as a human person devoid of politics, this can't be a good decision. This can't be something we do, and yet they do it. And when I talk about how brainwashed and insane people are based on their political affiliation and whatnot, I feel like it bears using this audio, or it bears being the next topic that we talk about Hillary Clinton. She is certifiable, according to many, many people. Some of the things she's saying recently. She says that it's time to throw out the electoral
Starting point is 00:19:46 college. I guess this is her take. She's also someone that is hoping a whole bunch of bureaucrats and lifelong political activists who have political jobs that are not actually elected based on being on a political side of the aisle. Barry stuff that they are trying to declassify that involves Hillary Clinton. That is her actual public sentiment, is that she hopes that people are slow walking and hiding things from investigations going on by this administration and this government because she doesn't like the fact that they're looking into her and anybody else around her. But here's what she said about the electoral college. You recently, I think, called for the abolition of the electoral college, which would be a really good start. Actually, I called for it in 2000.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Oh, did you? I did. You know, when I won my Senate race and Al Gore won the popular vote and lost the electoral college, that's the first time I did. said, this is, you know, this needs to go because this is not reflective of one person, one vote. And we shouldn't be hanging on to an anachronism that was designed for slave-owning states. Let's re-envision it for the 21st century, as you said. Take a look at popular vote. I mean, the popular vote movement is going state by state, and, you know, they're getting
Starting point is 00:21:03 closer to a... I'm going to stop right there. I'll play the rest of it so you can hear the rest of the insanity. but I feel like I could do like a checkbox. She mentioned slavery. She's trying to go a certain road with any sort of a racial component there. She's just going to try to say that it's outdated. It's terrible and bad for this reason and that reason.
Starting point is 00:21:21 And she's going to motivate you based on something that has nothing to do with the topic she's talking about. Continuous. You know, 270 electoral number that might, you know, feel possible. But let's figure out what legislation in Congress could protect that. so that it's a it's a structure that would be blessed by federal legislation so that when we reach perhaps the number of states we need so that the you know state's electors vote for the winner of the national popular vote it's protected against Supreme court you know interfere it's protected against everything you know what that sounds like that sounds like a
Starting point is 00:22:02 whole bunch of dictatorship type of behavior this is the thing that president trump doesn't do that people accuse him up. He just had a bunch of losses against the Supreme Court. So I love the fact that she goes that far and saying, we got to make sure this is protected from anyone ever trying to circumvent it. But the other thing that's being unspoken there, that's definitely the reality of the Democratic Party and what they hope to accomplish, is that states like California that want to let a ton of people who are here illegally vote, and they're trying to make it something that's just, you know, not even hidden, just a blanketly acceptable thing there. But they want these individuals to help persuade or change the outcome of the election. They want a whole bunch of people in a whole bunch of places that are big cities that, how can we figure out if that person's a citizen or not, even though it's not that hard? They claim that. They do that. They let them have a gym membership as a proof of ability to vote in an election. And then they throw them into the pile. This is why the Save America Act, or the Save Act, as it was called, is so important because of this, because of this plan. by the left to find a way to get even a larger disproportionate impact from the people that they
Starting point is 00:23:14 know shouldn't be voting that are voting in these elections. When you talk about election fraud, in general, when you discuss how Democrats try to get something done that people claim isn't happening at all, which is hilarious because there's people in jail that are guilty of, you know, election fraud crimes. But anyway, as they say all that, this is, this is the playbook. The playbook is flood the country with a bunch of people who don't have any legal right to vote, convince them that the only people they should be voting for because of all the rights they'll be randomly given are Democrats, and then let them vote before they have any of those rights. That's exactly the playbook. We're seeing it play out. It is a big part of why the birthright
Starting point is 00:23:55 citizenship decision was also so disappointing. And I absolutely believe that the Supreme Court did get it wrong. I do believe that the intention of the 14th Amendment and specifically specifically, one very short phrase within the 14th Amendment, was designed to make sure that people who were born in this country that became citizens were people that were loyal to the United States. That means essentially citizens, and this was, of course, because you had slaves who had children that weren't thought of as citizens of the United States that should have been. And so their children, Trump and others have talked about this, that was the intention of the amendment itself. And within it, it says that you're supposed to be someone who, and I'm
Starting point is 00:24:39 paraphrasing the way that it's written, but the way that I perceive it is loyal to the United States of America. And you can't be loyal to any other country, any other place. And if you are, well, then darn it, you don't actually get a chance to have a U.S. citizen. If you're someone who's a foreign national who answers to another country, that's a problem. And it should be a problem. And so it's just, it's crazy that they basically ignored that aspect of it because it's, it's, they're on purpose. And anybody, and you go back, I'll say this last thing about it. If you go back and listen or read, I guess is the right way to say it, the people who argued about while they were authoring the 14th Amendment what to put into it, the big argument about the 14th Amendment and about
Starting point is 00:25:27 clauses protecting loyal citizens were all about making sure that people from foreign enemy countries couldn't come into our country and have a kid that was a citizen. Like 100% this was intentional. And it's the argument that Clarence Thomas and others made and that for some reason, some seem to not be capable of understanding, even if it was so obvious to so many of us. But anyway, that's the reason I think that they actually got that wrong. if you're wondering what the actual phrase is and subject to the jurisdiction thereof was the way that it was written within the 14th Amendment. But to many, many people, myself included, that means people who are only answering to the laws of our country because they're not a citizen of another place.
Starting point is 00:26:13 But all right, well, we'll take a break. A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. If you're a parent or grandparent, you already know what's going on. Our kids are being flooded with messages about gender ideology, sexuality, and sexual exploitation from social media, Hollywood, and even their own schools, often without parents knowing. So that's why I'm grateful for the work of concerned women for America. For more than four decades, CWA has been fighting for faith, family, freedom, and parental rights, and the protection of our kids. And they're taking the fight to state legislatures, to Congress, and even the Supreme Court to defend our girls and preserve common sense. This title nine month, CWA, has launched its Defend Our Girls campaign. When you give $20 or more, you'll receive one of CWA's educational resources on gender identity or sexual exploitation. Give $35 or more, and you'll receive both. These are practical tools to help you navigate today's culture with truth, confidence, and clarity.
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Starting point is 00:27:56 Her social media is great. I even follow her on TikTok. So check it out. The jobs report came out and did fall well short of expectations. So easily described as a disappointing jobs report to a lot of people. 57,000 new jobs created well under the 115,000 expected. The jobs reports have been really good quite a few times in a row. So this one being less than is I guess not as surprising to me as it sounds like it is to a lot of other people. But there is good news buried in this. One of the biggest pieces of news that I think the White House is promoting is the boom that it seems to be is taking place within the world of construction.
Starting point is 00:28:36 And then also job growth, or excuse me, salary growth specifically, how salaries for people are currently rising faster than inflation, probably catching up to the years in which that was definitely not true under the Biden administration. but I have a little bit of audio from Fox business talking about some of those more valuable data points along with just the simple overarching message that might not be great of the jobs report not meeting expectations. But this does deserve to be said, especially if you're trying to find a good thing within a pile of bad stuff. This is an economy that really has been on fire. And as inflation is coming down and it will continue to come down. Trump is exactly right about that.
Starting point is 00:29:16 You are going to see continued real earnings. growth. The one kind of positive thing that Cheryl was talking about is it looks like we're continuing to see good payment for people and their salaries are going up faster than inflation. That's going to continue. Yeah, we need that, by the way. A lot of people need that. A lot of people who haven't seen those kind of raises match inflation for quite some years now. Really need a lot more of that right there. And it was within the jobs report. So, hey, not all bad, just somewhat bad. But another story I thought was interesting, and this goes to a piece of audio from Laura Trump that I actually also kind of wanted to play for you today.
Starting point is 00:29:56 But President Trump announced that he's going to do a midterm convention, the first of its kind, in Dallas and Texas. I live in Houston, kind of close by, but for Republicans. And I think the main intention of this, whether you think it's a good idea or a bad idea, is to try to get more enthusiasm within the party. The party is struggling, and it often happens when you're in charge. charge that some people lose enthusiasm and sometimes don't show up to the amount that you need them to at the polls to win elections. And so this might be a way to attempt to do that,
Starting point is 00:30:28 what it exactly look like, who all will be involved that's still actually being figured out. But I do think it's an interesting idea to have a midterm convention that hopefully brings more eyeballs and more people into, and especially in Texas, because of the crazy fight between Tala Rico and Ken Paxton and all the insane things that James Telerico says, and yet the left still loves him. He seems to hate Christians and call them Christo-Fascists. That's a real quote that's out there that I might play in just a few minutes for you, too. But so many things in the world of really just even Texas politics deserve to get people excited. Paxton is winning in any sort of polls that are coming out now.
Starting point is 00:31:10 So it's not what it was a few months ago that was being used by Democrats to say. that Texas will flip blue, which sounds like it can't possibly happen. I've only been living here like a little over a year, and yet I can't see that actually occurring, knock on wood. But I do like this from Laura Trump. She's talking about the Tucker Carlson's of the world and the people who flipped on her father and are anti-Maga all of a sudden, are anti-Trump, and how different it is than just a couple years ago, as far as the unity within the Republican Party and the people who seem to be capitalizing. Not so much, I think, think on actual Republicans, you know, having this level of change of heart that they claim
Starting point is 00:31:50 they're having. But also the platforms that these people are on, Tucker needs to appeal to the left and to young people that are on the left in order to get the valuable numbers he wants in digital media to still look relevant. He has to do that. Megan Kelly, all these people, they have to do that when they're not on traditional platforms that might have a different makeup demographically of audience. When your audience is predominantly younger, and I know that it's it's everybody that goes to these platforms, but they skew younger. You have to start appealing to them in ways that completely obliterate your credibility. They demonstrate that you're really only after numbers and not after telling people the truth,
Starting point is 00:32:29 which is horrible. Essentially, they're all selling out. But here's what Laura Trump said about. It makes me really sad. You know, a lot of these people, I feel like our family got to know very well. And Tucker's not the only one. But it makes me really sad to see that this is kind of where things. have ended up. At least this is where they are right now. I hope this is not where they ultimately
Starting point is 00:32:49 end. But, you know, I think that the people out there who are consuming content online need to be very aware of what they're consuming. I've had people in my own family who have kind of fallen for some of the more crazy talking points out there by some of these individuals. And then they come to me and they say, well, is this true? Is that true? And I'm like, oh my gosh, what is it? You're watching? where you're getting your information. That's kind of insane to think that the Trump family has people inside of it, although actually we've seen some of the people that are inside of it that are crazy. I'm thinking about the Mary Trumps of the world who would believe stuff that they hear on some podcast
Starting point is 00:33:27 and then go ask Laura or anyone else, hey, is this true? Did our family do this? But she's right in the sense. And she goes on to say that there was so much unity before when her father was winning the popular vote in the 2024 election that seems like it's being purposefully broken apart now. It purposely gone after in a way that absolutely benefits Democrats. All of these people who claim that their lifelong Republicans couldn't possibly be selling out to this degree and have that be a truth. Have that be something that's genuinely accurate about them because of the harm they have to know they're doing to the party and to the outcome or likely outcome of the midterm elections if they keep doing this stuff.
Starting point is 00:34:10 even like the Nick Fuentes of the world, the really truly insane people have been saying that you should vote for Democrats at midterms. You can't possibly say that stuff and claim that you actually overwhelmingly support Republicans a little bit more from law. So sadly, it is having an impact. But what we need to be doing as a party is not allowing people to divide us up, not having different factions. We need to be united. We need to coalesce together. I continue to think about how things felt two years ago right now. as we were leading into the 2024 elections, man, I've never seen a more united Republican Party.
Starting point is 00:34:46 I've never seen. Here, I'll say something about this, though. I do like diversity of opinion. And I think the Republican Party is much more willing to have that than Democrats. So I never would call the way that she's doing it. And I'm not necessarily accusing her of doing this on purpose, but to say we just need to be unified. We don't. We need to believe in enough things that unify us and think that they're actually being achieved by the people that we're voting into office, within whatever party it is, to have that become a byproduct of the value of the positions that people take that represent us. Like, I shouldn't just vote a certain way because I say I'm a Republican, but trashing the party to the degree that you're actually going to side with the left and their insanity and
Starting point is 00:35:29 how much more damage they would do than any of the damage you think you're seeing or the promises you think you're seeing unfulfilled, to have it go completely the other way would be categorically worse. And most of us know this. It's actually quite obvious and easy to figure out. And so watching, as she mentions, Tucker and others, truly go this insane rabbit hole way, the podcast to stand people that are out there doing their crazy things. Like to watch this happen in real time, it does make me wonder one other thing. And I know Dana talks about this occasionally. It seems like it could potentially benefit someone who tries to rise from the ashes. if that's what they're calling them or trying to make them into,
Starting point is 00:36:13 of whatever bashing of Donald Trump they do, President Trump, that might be successful on the right, and claim that they're far enough away from him, but also within the party. And one of the things that I find interesting is most of these people, these crazier individuals who just seem jarringly different than they were a couple years ago, like Tucker or Megan Kelly to name a couple again.
Starting point is 00:36:35 They all support J.D. Vance. That's something that's somewhat surprising to me. They all interview and support him. I personally do like J.D. Vance as a 40-year-old guy that would like to see a younger person represent Republicans. Not that that has to happen. I want the best person for the job. I don't really care how old they are. But part of me likes the idea that someone closer to my own age might potentially be elected an ex-president of the country.
Starting point is 00:37:00 But it also confuses me that all of these individuals who are crapping on not just President Trump, but also crapping on a lot of whatever they think is, the establishment. version of the Republican Party also happen to support a guy who is at the forefront of some of the things that they're claiming they don't like. Like the Iran deal right now, he is at the forefront of it. He's the face of it more so than President Trump is. So if we don't get what we want in whatever the length of negotiations that actually take place are, if that none of the promises that are being made to us are fulfilled if the deal doesn't involve a way to make sure that Iran does what we tell them to do, and if we give them money that we shouldn't give them, if they're not
Starting point is 00:37:41 doing what we tell them to do, if all those things don't happen, it's Vance, who deserves more of the blame there than President Trump, because he's now at the heart of the negotiation part of the process, and he's the one who may be giving in. I'm sure that people would blame the administration, the team all involved, but it's just amazing. Again, for that to be one of the most significant attacks by the podcastistan people in the world of the current president and the MAGA movement or whatever you want to call it, the things they claim are dead, but then also to be supportive of someone who might be the catalyst to making things even worse, at least in that one vein. And again, this is not coming from someone who dislikes Vance. I actually don't. I'm just, I'm surprised
Starting point is 00:38:21 in it. There's, there's an hypocrisy in it or a confusing nature to it that you can't really explain. But Tucker recently said how much he loves Vance. And Megan Kelly sat down and interviewed J.D. Vance and seemed to like him as well, too. And of course, J.D. himself at one point, point was fairly anti-Trump as well. And that seems to be something. He's certainly not behaving that way anymore. That might be something a lot of these people in podcastistan seem to like. But I really think, and I'll say this just quickly before taking a break and then coming
Starting point is 00:38:52 back and doing something more fun just before the holiday before we get out of here, I think there's a lot of people and a lot of talking head people fall into this category who want themselves to be the ideological, you know, a next person in line to take the mantle from Trump. They want to ideologically control the right, the conservative movement. And they seem to think that the right way to go about that is to crap on Trump as much as possible and then try to take the mantle from him before pivoting back to whatever the hell they want to pivot back to. It seems that there are a lot of people for, I think, arrogant personal reasons
Starting point is 00:39:30 who want to make themselves the focal point moving forward that are attacking the current president for gentlemen. that reason. They're finding whatever avenue they can to do it. I'm not pretending there are people who aren't dissatisfied with some things that have happened compared to what the expectation was, even though the war itself. I get the people who wish we had never gone to it. I still defend the necessity of it and the hopeful likelihood that will get something better than what we had before. I still believe that that will happen. But nonetheless, as I say all that, I understand the frustration there, but I think the way that it's being manipulated and changed, and Democrats are certainly throwing their support behind it in whatever fashion that might be, is truly sort of amazing
Starting point is 00:40:14 to watch. And it's interesting to think that one of the people that seems to be immune to it is someone very, very close to the current president. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. And our partners that help bring you the program, it's our friends at Ghostbbed. If you want to sleep on a pile of hobo trash and, like, have it impact your health and age faster and maybe die sooner, then, you know, go ahead. You keep on doing what you're doing. Ghostbed doesn't do that. Ghost bed actually makes pieces of health equipment, right? These are mattresses that are treated like health equipment because when you go to sleep and you lay down in your bed, what is, why are you sleeping?
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Starting point is 00:41:58 thrilled to be here at D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X. A great way to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow a guy that works at one of her affiliate stations at KSTV Radio. I do keep mentioning that. Anyway, moving on, this I think is pretty interesting and a good news story. And darn it, we need those. A 43-year-old Venezuelan security guard was found alive after eight days of being trapped in the rubble of one of the collapsed buildings after the horrible earthquake that happened there. I think this was a collapsed shopping mall. And Fox and others covered it as they're taking the man out on the stretcher alive, which is incredible, because I know that after, I think it's something like 72 hours, the assumption is that more and more people are not savable, even if they
Starting point is 00:42:45 survived the initial collapse of a building. So eight days later is remarkable. Here we go. Fox News live for you here. This is in Venezuela. And you can imagine the elation that after eight days, a man was found alive in the rubble and he was brought to safety. He was 43 years old. His security guard and he was in the rubble after a collapsed shopping center had fallen on top of him. They've been trying to reach him since Saturday. And now it's been more than a week since those twin earthquakes struck Venezuela. Can you imagine, and it's a horrible thing to imagine, but I can't even really say anything other than to put it this way. Could you imagine being this person? and like screaming for help or whatever you're doing to create noise so they know that you're there
Starting point is 00:43:31 and they're trying to get to you for eight days and you're trapped and praying that you survive long enough for them to get you out and then eventually they finally get you out. And also this story reminds people to stop or to not give up to keep going when you think that maybe all hope is lost for a good news story like this to ignore that thought. It's sort of just a genuine like the humanity that we all have is incredible, the way in which we choose to try to help each other. All those things are amazing at these times of extreme need. And then we go to politics here in this country and we immediately get mad again because things are crap.
Starting point is 00:44:08 But I just love that story. I wanted to start with that story because of how amazing it is and how rare something like that is with that amount of time being stuck and being able to be freed and saved and he'll be okay, relatively okay, I imagine. The president of the United States, I crapped all over Democrats in a talk he gave yesterday while talking about Theodore Roosevelt and the presidential library. Trump gave a dedication to it. I really loved, I don't have this audio. I have it. I have it actually, because I played it on my radio show at Houston.
Starting point is 00:44:41 But I loved a story he told about Teddy Roosevelt shooting a bear, a grizzly bear, and how he joked that his sons had to convince him President Trump, his own son. that bears are probably dangerous. Like, it is really funny to me. Some people would use it as an example that Trump is losing it or missing a step. But to me, it's the perfect way to be like, do you know who this guy was, Teddy Roosevelt? He used to hunt grizzly bears. And then also demonstrate as a guy who's almost been murdered multiple times. People are trying to kill him.
Starting point is 00:45:13 The President Trump fears very little. It includes apparently wild animals. But here he is actually talking about the left and how crazy they are and how he refuses to lose the country to them. This is more politically relevant than the story about the Bears and about Theodore Roosevelt that I overly liked and then instead
Starting point is 00:45:31 of playing for you, just summarized, which was probably the worst. I'm now telling you a joke without playing you the joke, but Darnit, let's go ahead and play the other thing. American Liberty for two and a half centuries and we're not going to lose it to this group of losers. How can you imagine?
Starting point is 00:45:47 Have you seen newspaper? Go, sir. Have you seen this? Have you seen these people. The press is just building them up. They're losers. They're nasty people, but they're losers. We'll teach them. We're going to teach them. They're not going to hurt our country. They're not going to hurt our country. They're not going to win elections, which is what I hope actually happens. I'm terrified that they might actually win some more elections. Winning primaries is very different than convincing people who are hopefully more reasonable in the middle and on the other side
Starting point is 00:46:19 of the aisle that your brand of basically just communism is not the kind of thing that's ever worked and will not work here. So we don't want any part of it. When he says that these people are losers, it made me think of two other stories in the news right now. One connected to Ilhan Omar. Yet another Minnesota fraudster seems to be closely tied to Ilhan Omar, even exchanging emails with odd headlines. The subject to one of those emails, was Ilhan's office. But here's Fox, quickly talking about that. And Omar is under scrutiny yet again over her alleged connections to Somali-based individuals arrested for fraud. The most recent individual was found in Somalia after being on the run for
Starting point is 00:47:05 four years. He was allegedly a central figure in the feeding our future fraud scheme that stole close to $300 million in COVID-19 pandemic relief programs. The suspect allegedly exchanged emails with convicted ringleader Amy Bach that had the subject line Ilhan's office. That's weird. That's strange. If Ilhan is not involved at all in any of this stuff, I also love the song that Fox chooses to play under some of its news reporting. That was a pretty good one. I was jamming to that. But anyway, you would think that these sort of things would make it fairly apparent as we continue to investigate this, that Ilhan was deeply involved and hopefully eventually thrown in the who's cow. We'll see what happens there. But that's an obvious.
Starting point is 00:47:49 subject line for an email. To be like, hey, just checking in real quick about Elon's office, how they're doing, what's going on over there, how much money we've handed them, all of these, the kind of things, I assume, but don't know, are in some of this stuff. And then also, as far as these terrible people, as Trump called them are concerned, Gavin Newsom apparently is going to try to ignore the Supreme Court. He thinks that men should be allowed to play in women's sports. There was an update on this one, too.
Starting point is 00:48:16 California Governor Gavin Newsom is now weighing in after the first. Supreme Court's historic ruling to uphold state bans on transgender athletes and girls' sports. Since 2014, the Golden State has allowed students to compete based on gender identity and has no laws in place protecting girls from competing against biological boys. Now, Governor Newsom's office says that the ruling has no impact on his state, saying, quote, the Supreme Court's decision does not affect California's laws. The state remains committed to ensuring every Californian, including the LGB. BTQ community is met with dignity and respect.
Starting point is 00:48:53 Yeah, and that their sports are terrible because they're unfair to all the actual biological women who are competing against dudes in California. Is he technically right that the decision by the Supreme Court didn't force states that have laws that allow for these sort of things to change the laws? Yes, he is. I'm not going to tell you that that's not true. But the thing that I think is amazing is when you're ignoring the obvious message that comes from some of this stuff, the obvious sort of glaring sign in the room that's begging you
Starting point is 00:49:22 to go the other way and see if you actually do go the other way. And I assume the next step will be trying to get something in front of the Supreme Court that actually does control the outcome of this sort of decision at a federal level instead of a state level to make sports fair to actual biological women who compete in them. Because I don't know many people. I know some, I guess, or I see them on social media more than know myself, but I know some who claim that a biological men don't have an advantage against women in sports, but by and large, most of us seem to agree now that that's definitely not true. And that you see it again and again. You don't need a high profile example. You just need to be
Starting point is 00:50:03 a dad or a mom at a high school track meet cheering on your daughter, who's been working on this part of her life, you know, trying to compete in a sport for her entire life since she was a little kid and getting her absolutely obliterated by a guy that's just defeating her in the sport and has no right to be there. And then your kid comes to you after that and says, I don't know what to do different. I tried as hard as I could. I came in second, third, whatever it might be. I was competing against people in a fair way and there's this other person out there that just seems like it's inherently unfair for them to be here. I don't know what you say. As a parent to a kid saying that, all you say is yes, this is bull crap. And I think it changes your opinion. The more and more that
Starting point is 00:50:43 people experience the reality of this political discussion, the more and more I think it will become a one-sided issue. But it already feels that way after the Supreme Court decision too, even though people in some places are up in arms. And the other excuse I hear all the time from some is it barely ever happens. Like we can't even think of any examples really outside of again, a couple high-profile names where this occurs. But I promise you it occurs much more than you think in a lot of places, and especially at the high school level, more so than the college level where you're seeing people win things that aren't going to be reported on nationally, but devastating the families of people who kids are participating in these sports.
Starting point is 00:51:25 And I know devastating seems like a strong word, but I don't think it is one, devastating people in these sports who are competing fairly. And they're playing against someone that it doesn't seem as fair to be there, to begin with. One last thing to play, as far as news, topics go, just before a holiday. And I've joked before, and I'll joke again. I'm so sick of news. A part of me is just in general, so sick of it. I know that it's important. I know that I have to tell you about it. And I need to know about it. I don't want to be uninformed. That would be bad. But so often it feels like Groundhog Day. So often the stories and the topics and the discussions, they feel like
Starting point is 00:51:58 the same crap all over again. And it feels more and more like the left-leaning side of media, the majority of media out there that's controlled by Democrats is lazy about how they're even trying to argue certain points or ignore certain topics. Like they don't even seem to be doing it well anymore, which makes me uniquely annoyed too. This is John Brennan on Miss Now saying that he's going to fight the Trump administration. He's going to go after them for politically prosecuting him for what I assume is going to be something that he'll inevitably plead guilty to because we've seen this movie before. but the former CIA director who was pretty deeply tied in one of the catalysts of the Russia hoax that was tried against Trump in the public square, not necessarily ever proven behind any sort of closed doors.
Starting point is 00:52:48 That didn't matter. But he's saying he's now being politically prosecuted. Here's what he told Ms. Now. He just wants to continue this, this drumbeat of that we were, you know, corrupt. We were, you know, abusing our authorities. Well, in fact, it's the opposite. and that's why I'm going on the offensive here. I told my lawyers, I don't want to sit on our hands because if he gets away with me,
Starting point is 00:53:10 he's going to continue to do this against others. They're individuals, professionals, who have given their lives and have sacrificed so much at the country, believing that a president, an administration, is going to do the right thing as opposed to the wrong and corrupt thing. I love that his microphone was breaking up because it seems like even the microphone didn't enjoy the lies. and it's like I really don't want him to be spreading these. But now he's saying that he's the real victim, that he needs to go after the Trump administration and sue them for political prosecution and see if he actually wins.
Starting point is 00:53:41 And I doubt that that'll happen. We'll see. Again, as I told you before, Bolton's a recent example. This movie usually ends the same way with this person inevitably admitting they did do something wrong. It was discovered and enough proof is there. So they'll go ahead and plead guilty, although I'm not sure. And actually, it does remind me of something else.
Starting point is 00:54:00 else quickly before I take a break. The woman who put her fist on the neck of Caitlin Clark. Alyssa Thomas is her name. She's actually in a relationship with another woman who also was fighting with Caitlin Clark during some of those WMBA basketball games. People don't seem to know that, but she's an openly gay black woman with a, you know, a fiancé who also seems to hate Caitlin and they were fighting her. Again, I'm just repeating the truth of that topic.
Starting point is 00:54:27 But anyway, she's now saying she's also a victim. She said she got death threats or something for the way that she tried to punch Caitlin Clark in the neck and kick her in places. She shouldn't be kicked or need her in places. If you're a dude and you get need there, they'd be terrible, by the way. But anyway, it's amazing to listen to this person say that they're a victim. And she's also a dirty player. There's been other times where she's elbowed people, you know, done all kinds of things on the basketball court that demonstrate that it couldn't possibly have been an accident what she's doing and the fist of the neck, which is uniquely dangerous. but of course, everybody's avenue to get away from whatever amount of attention they don't like in the negative on them is to claim that they're actually the victim, no matter what it is, to look at the story and be like, you know who's actually being treated unfairly?
Starting point is 00:55:14 Me, because you're using the truth and telling facts to the world, and I don't like those facts of the video proof that shows that I'm a complete piece of crap person. All right? Quick break, a lot more. Greg Collins filling in on the day of show. We have more on the way. We have headlines coming up as we move. The folks who won't make the program possible, Superbeats, the cholesterol health daily from the makers of the Superbeats Heartchees. You guys are very familiar with us. And you guys know that cholesterol should not be taken for granted. Diet and exercise matter. Nearly 80% of your body's cholesterol is produced internally. So supporting your body from within is key. Cholesterol isn't the enemy. It plays an important role in cellular health, hormone production, even vitamin D creation. The goal is supporting the right balance that healthy HDL cholesterol. level. And with Superbeats, the company, Human, with their cholesterol health daily, it's a simple science-backed, an easy thing to add to your routine.
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Starting point is 00:56:41 Do more to support your cholesterol health from the makers of superbeats. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. It's time for Quick Five on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X. A great way to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to give me more legitimacy in the industry I've been in for a while, that's a desperate way to say that.
Starting point is 00:57:03 Let's do some quick, stupid criminal stuff. I like these. A traveler hid a smoke grenade inside of a jar of peanut butter and tried to get through TSA. This isn't like a firework that shoots out smoke. It's a legitimate actual weapons grade version of a smoke grenade. The guy thought it would be fine. You put it in the peanut butter jar. Nobody can see through that.
Starting point is 00:57:24 luckily it was a fairly easy thing for them to figure out. They dug into the peanut butter and then, hold on, don't talk about that right there. That's just playing some random audio. But anyway, they dug into the peanut butter jar. They got the thing out and boom, the guy's been arrested. So don't try that. Another stupid criminal out there, a guy in Wisconsin apparently had police called to a wedding reception. He was one of the groomsmen.
Starting point is 00:57:48 The reason why is that he chose to eat a meatball or several meatballs at the reception with his bare hands. That wouldn't, in fact, have the police called, although it seems to be an odd thing to do, until it led to gunfire. People started fighting and yelling at each other, and then somebody whipped out a gun and started firing. I think a couple people were injured,
Starting point is 00:58:08 but no one was seriously hurt. Everyone, at least from the report I saw, was going to be okay. That is a ridiculous upping the stakes to go from, I don't know what we're fighting about. I don't know if you're mad that we're taking too many pictures and nobody's eating any food yet. You get desperate enough to put your hand into the,
Starting point is 00:58:23 meatballs, and eventually it ends with gunfire. That feels like a bad kind of thing. And I was also shocked that it happened in not Florida, anywhere other than Florida, was just surprising to me. Another story that I saw that I think shows that even though I'm happy, people from foreign countries are coming to the U.S. and loving the U.S., they have a tiny bit of rose-covered glasses. They said the friendliest city in our country is New York.
Starting point is 00:58:49 Second friendliest is Boston, third is Philly, and then Seattle and Atlanta rounded out the top five. I love that they're celebrating our culture. I love so many things that are going viral, that are showing Americans who hate America, how great our country is, but New York's not the friendliest city. You know that, I know that.
Starting point is 00:59:06 We all know that. Boston's not number two. So that part's a little insane. They're experiencing something that might be a tad exaggerated because of how great of a time they're having, especially if their teams are winning in the World Cup. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
Starting point is 00:59:21 This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio. X, great ways to stay connected to her. So many platforms to find her on at Radio Craig C on Facebook and then also X, if you want to follow me. Not the same as far as social media significance goes. Let's do this. A couple interesting things. A set of small towns across the country are claiming that they're canceling their Fourth of July
Starting point is 00:59:48 fireworks show because either they can't afford the fireworks, or they can't find enough of them. Those feel like very different problems. Some are saying that bigger communities, cities in their area have bought up too many of the things or too many of the professionals that are going to fire these fireworks off, so they just don't have the capability to do it. One of these small towns that went viral is Ferguson, Missouri,
Starting point is 01:00:10 that said that it has to cancel its fireworks show. This is uniquely terrible. I'll say that. The 250th anniversary of the country, and some places are like, yeah, this is the year. We're not going to have a fireworks show for our community. I feel like you've got to figure out how to get this done. To some degree, it doesn't have to be as ridiculous as every other place around you.
Starting point is 01:00:30 But at least something. To do nothing seems wrong. But again, here's audio from people in at least one community claiming that they can't afford to do it. I don't think it was the right decision. We come as a family, do all our festivities, and then we watch the show. We're like, okay, y'all is ready. There was definitely some tariffs this year, but we're going. We actually did not raise our prices at all.
Starting point is 01:00:53 As the owner, I'm going to eat the tariffs this year and not mark anything up for my customers. I love that you even interview a firework guy, a guy selling fireworks, and he says, we're not raising prices. Whatever the tariff issue, whatever the other issues are, I'm swallowing that because darn it's the 250th. I feel like this is also a way for some communities to try to convince people to continue to hate America. I'd like to pretend as though this is a problem because it just makes no sense. And honestly, I also thought of the classic viral video from it must be like eight years ago now of the back it up Terry guy, the guy in the wheelchair who couldn't get his wheelchair backed up quickly enough from fireworks they were lighting off. He's fine. He's okay.
Starting point is 01:01:31 I think he was even like a guest of honor in a parade here in Texas one year. But it's a shame that guys like him won't be able to celebrate fireworks in certain communities because those communities are bah humbugging the entire thing. Do it for Terry is what I'm going to say. bag up bang on tear put it in revert tear oh lord that's a unique family too by the way
Starting point is 01:02:14 I know that that's old I know you've probably heard it many times before to laugh at a guy as he's getting fireworks raining down on him but do it for Terry is the thing that I'm saying small communities figured out I get that family to fire off some fireworks and let Terry be one of the people to light him
Starting point is 01:02:28 he's got a much fancier wheelchair now that gets him out of that danger one last thing that I saw the perfect hot dog in time for the holiday is being debated. What city, what place has them? New York, of course, always at the top of the list. New York absolutely has the best pizza. The best hot dog is in Chicago.
Starting point is 01:02:45 I will tell you that. I don't care how much of a controversial take that is to some. The overloaded, all the stuff on it, no ketchup hot dog in Chicago, is far superior than the simplistic one made in New York, even if the pizza is way better in New York City. That's the show. See you guys next time. Greg Collins filling in.

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