The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Tim Kaine Forgets The Declaration, Ben Shapiro DOMINATES CNN & JD Vance Visits Minneapolis

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Craig Collins sits in for Dana. Kim Jong Un meets with Vladimir Putin. J.D. Vance gets heckled as he visits Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Ben Shapiro absolutely dominates the CNN Thunderdome as he outsmarts the entire panel. Sen. Tim Kaine clearly never read the Declaration of Independence. RFK Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill over vaccines and spars with Elizabeth Warren. Epstein survivors dropped Bill Clinton’s name and promised their own list. More on Shapiro. RFK Jr.’s Congressional Hearing was chock full of viral moments. Sen. Dick Durbin continues to blame the guns that came from red states for the crime in Chicago. A military veteran makes a viral TikTok comparing branches of the military to different religions.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Fast Growing Treeshttps://Fast-Growing-Trees.comGet up to 50% off select plants and an extra 15% off your first purchase with code DANA at Fast Growing Trees. Offer valid for a limited time, terms apply.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 using code DANA.HumanNhttps://HumanN.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale for $5 off at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best.All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Start today and take your health back with All Family Pharmacy. Use code DANA10 for savings and enjoy your health, your choice, no more waiting, no more “no’s.”

This is The Danish show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. My voice might not be as strong as it usually is because I wound up going to the Yankee game. Again, last night. Last second decision. And a terrible decision, actually, with how the Yankees got beat up at the end of that game by the Astros.

Anyway, you don't care about that. Let's get to some of the news that matters to you, to me, to everybody. Let's start with this. This is just a weird thing. and I don't know if I'm going to do a lot on it, but I wanted to mention it. And I think there's even audio of like, and there's video out there on social media

of people discussing this. Kim Jong-un, who traveled to China, the dictator of North Korea, he brought his own toilet. This is something I guess he does a lot, and I think we've seen stories about this before, but it's to protect the information regarding his health

from anyone else knowing anything about it. Which, by the way, if you're at a point in your life where you need to bring your own toilet along, you're probably not healthy. You know, like I can't imagine you do this same level of craziness if everything's fine with your health. But they say that it's important in the crazy place that is North Korea to protect the health information of the dictator. And so he brings his own toilet. And then here's the funniest part to me, not like funny, ha ha, but funny, oh, that's terrible. which is a weird way to describe it. He actually has staff members who have to clean the toilet

and remove the things in the toilet because, you know, again, it's a portable one that he brings along with him. It should be a porter potty that says Kim Jong-un only on it. That would be funnier to me than the fancy porcelain thing that they have. They really should just bring along, you know, a, I don't know, one of those John toilet things and have that be what he uses. But darn it, he brings.

his own toilet. He actually scrubs any place he stays in for hair and other things too. You know, so normal behavior. Not completely insane, ridiculous behavior, which is, of course, what probably happens when you become a dictator of some place. But nonetheless, this is all to make sure that you

don't know if he's healthy or not, which makes me feel like he's not healthy. All right. Other stuff out there, J.D. Vance took a trip yesterday to remember the people who were killed in the shooting in Minneapolis, the little kids who were shot at a church tied to a school. And look, mainstream media

hates J.D. Vance. They hate Trump, of course, but they hate Vance differently. Vance is very capable of saying things the way that other politicians say them. He doesn't always do it, but he's very capable. He's very articulate, eloquent. He's well-spoken, and they don't like that about him. He's well-educated, all those things, and he behaves that way. He did say what I thought was pretty moving stuff after a day interacting with the families of both the victims, those who lost their children and those who had their children injured in the shooting. And he said this is the kind of thing that stays with a person forever. And I bet you it does. So this is a very human but very interesting comment from the Vice President of the United States.

Again, mainstream media will not use this audio because they don't want to humanize other people that they want you to hate. But this is about as human as it gets from J.D. Vance. Here we go. I have never had a day that will stay with me like this day did because I really felt like these parents. In the midst of the worst grief of their entire lives, they opened up their lives and they opened up their hearts and they made me part of it. So I'd ask a couple of things, straight from the parents and straight from the families to my fellow Americans. First of all, while two kids lost their lives, there's still one kid that's in very serious condition. And every single family, the family of Lydia, who luckily recovered, but we visited her in the hospital, the family of the two who died, Harper and Fletcher, all three of those families said, please say a prayer.

So to my fellow Americans, if you're the praying type, say a prayer for this innocent girl who's actually in surgery right now, that the swelling will go down, that she will be okay. because she's still in a fight for her life, and every single family to a person is desperate that the death toll, which currently is at two, stays it two. And I think if you're a praying type, you ought to say a prayer for the citizen young girl. The second thing that I'd say is, look,

I'm speaking to my fellow Americans who are parents in particular, there is nothing that you can say that can take away the grief that these parents are dealing with. There is no word that can possibly describe the feeling or the emotion or the heartbreak. One of the ways that I'm going to try to honor these parents and the children that they lost is by being a better dad and hugging my kids tight tonight and making sure that they know that their dad loves them because there are two families who are not going to get that opportunity ever again. And if you do have kids, if you're lucky enough to have a son or a daughter, make sure that they know that they love you. Make sure that you hug your kids tight because there are families in Minneapolis who won't be able to do that ever.

I know it's annoying to have the plane behind him just going in the background, but that's incredible and heartfelt and honest. It's a lot of different things. And it's the kind of thing we probably all would feel if we interacted with the families of people in the situation that they're in. It's surreal in a way. And again, the biggest reason I play this and all of the different calls for prayers is because of the ongoing back and forth in media. and all the places, all the Democrats who say prayers don't matter and they don't do anything and they're not effective, whatever. The families are asking for them. The families are people of faith and they would like for you to pray for their families and their children and the little girl who was in surgery yesterday.

They want you to offer that for them. And so to say no, say it's inappropriate, no one should do it, is a unique slap in the face to people who are going through one of the most horrific things that happens to any family. anywhere in the world. It's something else. But again, I wanted to play the audio because I think J.D. Vance is actually quite good at that. If you remember during the debate, he kind of crushed his opponent, who was a fairly easy opponent to crush. But this is something that he doesn't get credit for. They shape Vance as some horrible, terrible person, just like they shaped Trump, but differently. And so I think it's important to play that audio today for a lot of reasons. All right. Something else I really love that's out there. Ben Shapiro

crushed CNN. It was hilarious to watch on a multitude of issues. Ben Shapiro was seen even just making faces sometimes when the Democrats were talking. But what I think is really funny is when you show up unprepared and you're going up against a guy like the Ben Shapiro and he has all the goods and all the receipts and you do not. It doesn't go well for you. And I'll play a couple of these pieces of audio.

We probably will play more of this throughout the show. But here's a couple moments where Ben Spard with Talking Heads on CNN. Those pictures around. It was about patriotism. It was about trying to get people excited about what could happen in this country. This president is trying to raise money by putting tariffs on our adversaries and allies alike in ways that don't make any sense. There is not. The two administration have nothing in common.

And FDR spent most of his administration ripping on what he called the malefactors of right well. You know, we're still living off of a lot of the public works. I wish we were building highway. Why are you against what Trump is doing? Because he's doing a much lesser version of what FDR. No, Trump, Trump has, again, the left hand doesn't know what the right hands doing. Let me give you an example. Shipp building. Shipbuilding. If you're competent, it would be better. Well, you're just, this is, this is rhetoric. But shipbuilding is a great. Okay, I really love that if he were competent, it would be better as opposed to being incompetent about how he's adding tariffs to society and how FDR himself very much believe the tariffs with the right road to gain money for the government,

not necessarily to take a whole bunch of our money via taxes, which is what Trump also believes. And by the way, I do love that everybody pretends as though this is all willy-nilly. Like it doesn't make any sense. But all of it is an aggressive, this is how I understood the math, an aggressive version of whatever our deficit is as far as trade goes with the country. we're going to go ahead and fix that by having a tariff that corresponds to that deficit. And then you're like, well, wait, some of the countries we added tariffs to, we don't actually have a deficit with them. Well, we kind of feel like we do in other ways, whether it's red tape and things that block the amount of goods that we think we should be sending into those countries that are not actually going there, the inability for our, you know, companies to make a lot of money when going into other countries. There's other ways that we do the math.

You can call it girl math if you want, which is a funny. from social media where you decide to buy something based on all the money you're saving by not buying it more expensive later down the road. Like if something's on sale, you have to buy it, is what I've heard is the version of GirlMath, because if you buy it when it's not on sale anymore, twice the cost. So really, you're saving the sale money. We could have done a version of that with tariffs. But who cares, by the way, too, because the effective part is that it's creating a bunch of deals, which is all Trump really wanted. And for anyone that's not doing a deal, we're raking in tons of money.

Hopefully money that the, you know, judicial system doesn't make us go ahead and refund and send back places. But I just love every part of that one. Here's another one. This is Ben Shapiro blasting CNN and their tone deaf stance on Trump's crime. Crackdown. This is something that even amazingly David Axelrod is all four. He's saying again and again, just accept the help from Trump.

Stop saying that you love the crime that exists in cities. So we'll go ahead and play. the Shapiro clip now. We'll probably play Axelrod a little bit later on in the show today, but here we go. What is to stop that, Ben? I mean, I think that to be fair, the exertion of more power by the executive branch has been an ongoing process for the course of the last 20 years minimum. And you saw the Obama administration declared national emergencies, something like 12 national emergencies are under President Obama, something like nine under Joe Biden. Now you've had President Trump declare a wide variety of national emergencies. This isn't a unilateral problem. I think

It is a bilateral problem. With that said, I think that we should separate a few strands here. One is the legal that Eli was talking about. One of the other things here, though, is I think what Van was referring to, which is President Trump does have a habit of wrong footing his political opponents in a unique way on this sort of stuff. There are 574 murders in Chicago last year. And you can make the argument, I think a plausible argument, that National Guard troops should not be on the ground enforcing crime, both legally and just as a matter of general policy.

But if the position you end up taking is that there is no serious. is crime emergency in Chicago on rhetorical level, not on a legal level, on a rhetorical level. Or you make the case that actually crime in Chicago just isn't that big of a deal, which seems to be the mistake that many Democratic politicians are making right now. Trump is going to win that battle all day long. I mean, I hear you, but I also think. I hear you, but I don't want to listen. I hear you, but I don't want the thing you said to be true that's evidently true.

There is the rhetorical level, which we could focus on. But, I mean, I also want to focus on the reality, like the actual things that are happening. And even to that point, I mean, voters are not, I think we treat voters as stupider than they are. You ask them as goals and they say, we think crime is a problem. We don't like the way Trump is handling it in the way that he is sending the National Guard. Yeah. Why do you think some voters are saying that? Not all the voters, by the way, just some of the voters.

It's because of the way Democrats are reacting, pretending as though this is some sort of authoritarian takeover. When the reality is that if you just accepted the help, if the National Guard came in, assisted Chicago, assisted all these places, in whatever fashion that looked like, worked with the police there instead of working instead of the police in certain places, whereas Shapiro is starting to talk about the legal problems in that world. Yes, there are laws, there are things that prevent military from behaving like local police forces, but it doesn't prevent them from assisting local police forces. So a willingness to accept help, which again, even David Axelrod is begging Democrats to start doing,

makes all of this problem go away. It's the defiant fight, the refusal to take the support that is the only problem in this entire situation as of right now. And it is something where the American people definitively believe, I'm not a fan of crime. I want less of it wherever I live. All right, quick break. A lot coming up.

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Quick Five. That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter to stay connected to all things, Dana. Active, very popular page. Or at Radio Craig C. If you want to hear about the Yankees occasionally and be one of the 400 chosen that are on that social media app or page. The NFL is still incredibly popular as it's about to kick off this weekend. I love when they put a poll out that they didn't need to put out.

UGov did this one. 48% of people said their favorite sport to watch. or their favorite sport in general is football. 29% actually said baseball. It came in right after football. I'd actually tied with basketball at 29% as well. And then hockey was pretty distant 12. Actually, soccer also inched up to now tie with hockey, which is sad to me.

I'm not a huge soccer guy. I know a lot of younger people are into soccer now. But ice hockey is a wonderful sport, and it's never gotten its due in our country, which is fine. It's okay, but I'm sad. But I love that baseball actually came in at number two. I think that only happens this time of year. I think during the off season for baseball, it probably plummets

and how much people think they like it because a whole lot of people go to games. I don't know that they watch them as much as NBA or NFL. But yeah, 48% of us say the football is the favorite sport as it kicks off tonight. And there's going to be a whole lot of great things that happen in the world in the NFL. Maybe for the New York football giants. I am a little bit excited about this season, which I haven't been in a while. for my favorite team, and I'm pretty sure they're going to disappoint me quickly out of the gate like they normally do. All right. There's a TikTok trend called the Great Lock-in. It's not COVID shutdowns, which is what I thought it was when I read it. You lock yourself in willingly, like they forced us to be locked in a few years ago. This is where you lock in a change in your life. You say you're going to actually commit to doing it, go to the gym every other day, whatever it might be that you do, and you lock it in until the end of the year, because there's only so much time left.

already, surprisingly, in 2025. The great lock-in is something a lot of people are celebrating. I think that's totally fine. One other thing that I thought was pretty funny, publishers clearinghouse used to give those forever checks to a whole bunch of individuals. The company went bankrupt this past April. The forever checks stopped.

Some winners got very few forever checks. It was always exciting to see them at the door with the check, very happy. Pretty sad if you didn't pick the lump sum, though, payment. if that was an option because apparently these companies can go out of business, which, of course, they can, publishers clearinghouse, not going to be cutting those checks for everybody the way they used to before. I never won one, so I guess I don't care. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Are you tired of doctors telling you no? Can't get affordable off-patent medications?

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and her team does to stay active on social media. I used to check that stuff out. Producer Stephen crushes it every day. A bunch of stuff goes viral. Let's do this. A sitting U.S. Senator, who at one time was a vice presidential candidate, and actually a lot of people think is surprisingly similar to Tim Walz

and how weird and dumb he seems to be. But Tim Cain, who you probably forgot about, just demonstrated that he has not read the Declaration of Independence. This is real big. as far as the look goes, real casually stating what he does. I'll play it first, and then I'll whip out this document, again, called the Declaration of Independence, and refute some of the stuff he's saying, at least one of the things very easily.

Here we go first, though. Tim, Walls, Kane, whoever you are, go ahead and speak. The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator, that's what the Iranian government believes. It's a theocratic regime. that bases its rule on Shia law and targets Sunnis, Baha'is, Jews, Christians,

and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their creator. Okay, just a quick thing. I want to play that first part again. Let's just make sure he said it the way you thought he did. The notion that rights don't come from laws

and don't come from the government, but come from the creator. That's what the... That's bad. That's his saying. He's bad. Let me roll out this document again called the Declaration of Independence. Let's see how this puppy starts. Let's see what's at the beginning of this thing.

I, again, I'm already sad that I just called the Declaration, this puppy. My bad. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Well, that's weird. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If I were Biden at this point, I would say, you know the thing. And I would just move on, which is hilarious too. But I can't believe that you say that.

And that you actually use the word, the creator. You can say God if you wanted to. I'm fine with that. Whatever you say, because that's in the text, bud. And that's insane. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. We consent to this.

We actually give you the ability to do certain things to govern us. but the rights, you don't give them to us. We have them anyway. This is terrible. All right, let's watch other politicians be idiots in front of a bunch of people. This is Elizabeth Warren. She decided to have a sparring match with Robert of Kennedy Jr. about Big Pharma, especially about the COVID vaccine and whether or not the government is going to keep paying for every vaccine for every American when we don't even really want them anymore. Not many of us are showing up to get punched and jabbed still. That doesn't matter to Elizabeth because she's got to make her pharma money, which Robert of Kennedy Jr. did a great job of throwing out there during their back and forth sparring. They do talk over each other, but nonetheless, I think we can make it out.

Here we go. Denying people vaccines. We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication. Is that what I should be doing? What you should be doing is honorably. your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job. You're going like this. And that is you promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them.

You just changed the classification of the COVID vaccine. I'm not taking them away from people, Senator. It takes it away if you can't get it from your pharmacy. Well, most Americans are going to be able to get it from their pharmacy for free. Most Americans will be able to get it from. from their pharmacy. The question is everyone who wants it. That was your promise.

I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication. When you said. And I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, Senator. Did you hold up a big. Oh, my God, that was great. And they're going to go back and forth and keep you on each other. But talking over Elizabeth and how angry she is about the changes to COVID and whatnot. And she's pretending this is for you, for me, for the American people.

Again, as I say this, I'm not getting a COVID shot. I doubt many people listening to this show are getting one. No interest is what a large amount of Americans have. Even the ones who took 75 jabs already, I have no interest in more of them. But I love that he eventually says Robert of Kennedy Jr., I know you've taken almost $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies. I know that's why you're actually screaming and yelling about this because they cut you the check and they're waiting for you to go defend them on Capitol Hill, not because you

care at all about any of us. That is excellently done, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. All right, let's play this. This is interesting, too. Marco Rubio talked about a couple different things. I love the way that this is summarized online. He made the leftist cry because Trump blew up some narco terrorists. Here's what Marco Rubio said about blowing a boat out of the water that's uniquely cool. I know other people have said some things that they don't like about this. I think Rand Paul was on Newsmax talking about what he does and doesn't like about blowing up a Venezuelan drug boat. I'm fine with this, across the board, fine with this, because I don't want drugs in this country,

and the United States is capable of targeting and blowing to smithereens a boat that's carrying a bunch of drugs and a bunch of people that want to do bad things. Here we go. The United States has long for many, many years. established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drugboats. And we did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're going to lose, you know,

2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of it. The President of the United States is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations. This one was operating in international waters, headed towards the United States to flood our country. with poison and under President Trump those days are over. That is fantastic. I'm a big fan of that because yes, any version of, you know, slowly and painstakingly trying to prevent some of these drugs from getting into our country without

just blowing stuff up and terror and causing terror for the people that are doing this, terrorizing the terrorists is what I wanted to say there a second ago or the, you know, drug cartels or whoever they might be. This is great. This is an actual deterrent that makes me think twice before I hop in a boat with other guys to try to drive some drugs in the United States because there's a chance we might get blown to smithereens.

And that is entirely fine and exactly the way we should defend this country from horrible, terrible things that are brought into the country that make people do horrible, terrible things. All right, one last thing I do want to play. I mentioned this earlier and I do want to play it. This is David Axelrod.

you know him, media and political consultant guy who did a lot of things in the Democratic Party for a while. He is begging, absolutely begging Democrats to work with the president on trying to rid crime from cities, not fight against him as adamantly as they are because they don't like Trump. They hate Trump and they don't want anything to do with Trump. This is stupid.

And the American people don't like crime. We're not fans of it. We don't like bad things that happen in our cities as often as they do. It's not a hard issue to understand. Here's Axelrod and what he said about it. I would be careful about playing 28 politics on this issue because the right answer is we'll take all the help we can get as long as it's appropriate help, as long as it's stuff that will really help.

I mean, these National Guardsmen aren't even trained to do that work. They're not authorized to do that work. So, you know, send us the resources that we need. We want to work with you. If there are criminal, if there are people doing violent crimes here who are illegal immigrants, we want them out of our city. We'll work with you on that. I think that's the appropriate position.

Right. We want to work with you on that. I do like that he craps on the one resource that actually is making a difference in Washington, D.C., by the way, military men and women, a National Guard, men and women, and asking them how they can help to defend from horrible people doing terrible things. But yes, they can't actually act like police. They're not supposed to. I get that.

I understand the law. And so I just think it's fascinating that the way in which Democrats are going about arguing this is essentially rejecting any help at all and basically saying we love crime. We're big fans of crime. Bring your crime to our sanctuary cities of crime. And we'll do everything we can to protect you, the criminal, from the big, bad people that want to stop crime, which are actually everyone else in our society. It is crazy. One last thing. I'll play this too because I mentioned it, so I might as well.

This is Rand Paul talking about the Venezuelan drug boat and how it's hard to have sympathy for drug dealers. But at what point do we stop once we start blowing stuff out of water? And I don't think ever. I think it's totally fine to do a lot of this, to put more resources into blowing up as many boats as it takes for people to decide. They don't want to keep trying to come into our country that way and bring their drugs. into our country that way, but here's what Rand Paul said on Newsmax. ...of that cartel boat, which, you know, I personally think that's a brilliant deterrent to this kind of activity. Is that how you see it? You know, I guess, you know, it's hard to have any sympathy for drug dealers, you know,

trying to import product into our country. But at the same time, I guess you might ask the question, you know, where does it end? Are we the world's policemen, the international policeman, are we going to be blowing people up off the coast all around the world trying to interdict. Really, I'm not sure we have the finances to be world's policemen. So on the face of it, sounds good. Nobody's going to have any kind of lost love for a bunch of drugs going down in the ocean and killing some gang members. At the same time, really, where does it end? And is it really the constitutional duty of our government to be policing international drug trade everywhere around the world? No, it's not. I think we just police it here in the United States. If you're coming,

in here with any of your drugs, we blow you up. I think that's it. I think that's enough. And I'm totally fine with that and fine with spending whatever the money is to do that and also entertained by the idea of it that we demonstrate the strength of our military in a very unique way, on a very, you know, small scale operation kind of way. But it should terrify anyone and everyone that would ever want to mess with us. It's a deterrent in two ways. It not only stops the drugs from coming into our country in a way that we can easily detect it happening, But it also demonstrates the precision of our ability to strike anything else we want to strike. So I think there's a two-fold demonstration of strength there that we should be doing.

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All right, let's do this real quick. A couple sillier things out there. First, the New York Giants are selling 10% of their organization to the Koch family, specifically Julia Koch, who inherited a whole bunch of money when her husband passed away and control of that organization. And yeah, $10 billion is the evaluation for the Giants. The 10% is $1 billion. dollars. That's insane.

That they only get that amount of control or that amount of ownership of an organization like the Giants for a billion bucks. But if I were, you know, anybody else involved in this decision, if I'm the Mar family or whoever else, then I'm like, yeah, sure, give me a billion, you get 10%. I'm going to do some partying this weekend. That'll be great for me. Actually, I can't see that happening with that family either. But yes, that's a big deal in the world of sports.

I thought this was funny. There's a trend online that is called date them until you hate them. This means that you stay in a relationship that you feel is slowly going under until you truly despise the person that you're dating because when you hate them, it's easier to break up with them. I don't know why this would be a trend that anyone would actually do. But here's a TikTok influencer telling you why this is the best way to go in your dating life. Get ready with me while I tell you how I ended my four-year relationship. and wasn't totally heartbroken after. The reason I was able to walk away from my four-year relationship

is because I dated him until I hated him. Now, I know some people are about to come for me and be like, oh, you should just end it. It's not always that easy. Some people make it really hard for you to walk away from a relationship, or maybe you're really, really comfortable with them. You've been with them for forever,

and it is hard to walk away sometimes. So, again, date them until you hate them. This is horrible. This means that you're mostly done with a relationship, but you stay until you hate them even more. You know what's funny about this, though? This has probably gone on for much longer than the old social media and the internet, I believe it has. I remember my first girlfriend.

This was early on in my dating life. I think I was a freshman in high school. I went ahead an official girlfriend. I broke up with her once, and I was working with her at a grocery store. That's how we met. And she didn't seem to get it. I think I was too nice about it. I did all the things wrong that the social media people would tell you you'd do wrong.

But I was new to this. So I broke up with her. The next day she came into work, kissed me on the cheek and told me that she was happy to, you know, have lunch together that day. And I was like, I broke up with you yesterday. I didn't say that to her. I just was thinking that in my brain. And I remember that I asked her after work to chat again. And I broke up with her much, much harsher.

I think I said things like I want to make the basketball team. I think you're taking up too much of my time. I made it all about her. The first breakup was all about me. The second time she was the problem. and she hated me after that day. So break up with them to make them hate you is another version of a thing you could go through.

She would complain about me constantly at that job until eventually I just quit after the breakup. But I think that young people, for some reason, do struggle with the whole breaking up thing. Just rip it off like a Band-Aid, man. I live that life, tell people what you think, how you feel. Don't be afraid of any of that. It seems like there's way too much fear

in so many of those areas now. All right, moving on from my own personal stories about breaking up with women twice. I still apologize to Claire to this day, if I ever knew her or anything about where she is, because the second breakup was mean. I didn't do it on purpose. Anyway, moving on. Taking your phone to the bathroom ups your hemorrhoid risk by 46%. The reason why is you're sitting on the toilet for too long.

This is something that can cause issues that eventually cause problems. words like tear are in this article. I don't want to say all those words in conjunction with this story, but they're there. You can figure out what's tearing and how that's happening. But anyway, if you leave your phone with you, you reduce your hemorrhoid risk by about 50%. The exact opposite, of course, and that seems like a good thing.

But I don't know who can do that now. You used to have things to read inside the bathroom. You put like a little rack of magazines or whatnot there. We all did this. all know this, especially if you're going to take a longer trip, you want to read an article, something, maybe something from an airplane magazine. Now that doesn't exist. No one has any of those because we all have cell phones. So I think that has to come back. I think you have to put the rack back in the bathroom, put some random magazines on it, whatever you find, wherever you're

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This is the day in a show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrill to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. I do think this is kind of interesting. It's off the beaten path. We'll get to more of the big news in just a second. But this is Rob Lowe and fellow actor,

I think Adam Scott, talking about how corrupt California is, even when it comes to how they treat Hollywood and how so many things now are filmed places other than California, because of the ridiculous level of costs that are added to all the different productions of things. I just thought this was interesting

the way in which money and criminal organizations are words that get thrown around by Hollywood elite actors when they're talking about California. It's cheaper to bring 100 American people to Ireland than to walk across the lot and Fox. Right. Pass the sound sages and do it there. Crazy.

Do you think if we shot parks right now, we would be in Budapest? 100% we would be. We'd be in Budapest. We would be. It's so weird. There's nothing shoots in Los Angeles. Nothing.

Nothing. I had a, my next show already done scripts, deals closed. Yeah. And they said, we're shooting this in New York. And I said, I'm not moving to New York to do this. And then it went away. The show's done. I'm not doing it.

Wow. Yeah, it's terrible. It's crazy, apparently, for the Hollywood elites. But he goes on to call California criminal. and he wants leadership fired there, this guy in his, you know, fancy job and life. But I just thought that was interesting, because there is obviously a time when maybe you scratch my back, I scratch yours, was more common in the world of L.A. and Hollywood and still feels like it's mostly there. So maybe Rob is just not working the right gigs to get the sweet, sweet kickbacks that they used to get before.

But talk about a breakup that would be interesting to watch happen if it truly does, and you start getting more behind the scenes information and more of those Hollywood elite people start realizing that they've been victims more so than anything else of all the different things they do with certain law and certain politicians and, you know,

breaking bad on them would be amazing for us and the insight we'd get into it. All right, let's talk about real things of things that actually matter. I played some of this audio yesterday, but several Epstein survivors came forward and spoke at a press conference, said a lot of things. One of the more important takeaways for me, not mainstream media, is that they consistently seem to say that Donald Trump was not involved in any of the things

that they would think are horrible and terrible, all the things that happened to them. So there were several moments where the accusers or the victims, whatever you want to call them, of Jeffrey Epstein, came forward and seemed to exonerate President Trump of any wrongdoing and involvement in this, even though. know that's the kind of thing that gets talked about a lot in mainstream media, those moments easily ignored by those same pundits, talking heads, politicians, everybody. So I figured I'll mention it. But this audio is not about that. This is about something else. They did also seem to admit there's no official list, meaning Epstein didn't write names on a piece of paper and put

them in a lockbox somewhere. But there might very well be a way for them to put together the list of frequent individuals that they saw interacted with or even were victims of as well. That's what one of these survivors is saying. Into the microphone, let's go ahead and play that. Transparency is justice, release the files, and the secrecy, and stand with us in declaring that no one, no billionaires, no politicians, not world leaders, is above the law. I agree with that. That sounds great.

And let me announce now, several of us, Epstein survivors, have been discussing creating our own list of names. We have us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names. We all know we're regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and four survivors. I think that's a really interesting thing that she's saying. And actually, Bill Clinton's name came up yesterday at the press conference. people saying that he was on planes and went certain places,

which is something that a whole lot of people believe is absolutely going to be a part of any of these eventual, you know, discussions of the terrible, horrible things that these people went through. And so, you know, it's just so interesting to me, too, about this, is that if they don't get Trump, a lot of mainstream media feels like they don't actually care about this story, which means once again they don't actually care about people, they don't care about women, they don't care about any of the things

that they say they care about. after justice for the sake of justice or for the sake of, you know, helping the victims get some sort of a win after a lot of bad things happen to them. They only really care about the target they have on one guy's back. And so that's what's kind of fascinating to me. There were several moments. And again, I was playing some of this audio yesterday where people seem to indicate that Trump will not be a name that the victims put on a list in any way where they say that they had,

you know, actual interactions. that turned out bad with him. If anything, the biggest mention of Trump was that Jeffrey Epstein bragged about knowing him, not actually saying that they ever saw or interacted with him, but just that Epstein claimed to be really good buddies with the current president of the United States. That doesn't feel like the kind of damaging information that mainstream media seems to be hoping for as far as that person is concerned. And again, it's just kind of sad.

It reminds me of something odd, but I'll tell you what it is, and you decide with me if you think it's odd too. But my brain first went to, I remember when Brittany Greiner was imprisoned in Russia. And eventually we wound up trading like the merchant of death was the name of the guy we gave back to, or the nickname of the individual we gave back to Russia to get the WMBA player out of lockup

for bringing marijuana with her on her playing while she was playing in Russia. But here's what I thought was really interesting about it. There was a moment where Griner was going to call, I think, her wife or somebody here. in the United States, and the Biden administration was setting this all up, and they were bragging about how woke and, you know, important it was, and they were LGBTQ and all this other stuff. The Biden administration was behaving as though they cared about all the things that they think some of their voters care about, and one of the reasons they try to virtue signal to their

voters to get them to vote for that side of the aisle. And then nobody showed up to orchestrate the phone call. I like the wife showed up at the White House. There was nobody there. She couldn't get in. The call didn't happen. A Griner was making it from a prison in Russia, and, like, they let it happen. Russia organized their side, and we didn't organize our side. And not that I'm trying to advocate for all the crap and things that I think are stupid within this story and all the false versions of pretending that you care about this or that.

It's just hilarious to watch that happen, to see it on display, where people actually go, oh, wait a minute, this is not the political win part anymore. this is some other part of the equation. This is the part I can ignore and not care about. That feels like what will happen with the Epstein story if Trump isn't actually harmed by it. If he's not actually someone who's substantially a part of it, I think mainstream media will quickly lose their interest in it.

And that's a shame. I actually feel uniquely bad for all those victims, all those survivors who are looking for this sort of media attention, not to take down any one person specifically, but to take down the whole, the entirety of that, you know, horrible thing that existed.

But we'll see what happens there. All right, let's do this. I really enjoyed this. Ben Shapiro popped up on CNN. He's doing a book tour. I think there's probably a chance that you'll be hearing Ben Shapiro

from Ben Shapiro in the near future on the Dana show with Dana Lash right here. But anyway, I do think what's kind of amazing about this is all the moments where CNN just looks so stupid and where Ben Shapiro looks, so much smarter than those individuals. Here is one of those moments. There are a lot to choose from, though, in some of the back and forth discussions they had. Our national debt shot up significantly

after 9-11, after we started invading countries in the Middle East. You should look at a track of national debt in 2008. We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Israel, on Ukraine. I mean, honestly, these foreign conflicts have a lot more to do with our national debt as opposed to us. Pay into you. You think Israel is a bigger portion of our budget than Social Security. I think we spend way too much money on military aid for foreign countries. You think Israel is more. Do you think that Social Security is more of an issue compared to how much money we just shell out for conflicts abroad?

As a matter of both entitlements and I like that Scott Jennings and Ben Jepiro are both laughing at this comment as it's being made. Because, yeah, we definitely spend a whole lot more money on Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. Here's Ben continuing this conversation. When you're talking about the government paying, you're talking about Social Security, which is people's money. Well, it is, it is, well, it's not the money you paid in here. It's a system that they pay into it. Well, no, you're never paychecks up. Yes, but believe me, I pay a lot.

I know, I'm paying Social Security. I don't know if I'm trying it. The amount that people are taking out is not the amount that is going in, which is why we are going bankrupt. Okay, but it's not the government just handing out a blank check. No, it's the government borrowing money to pay, well, you pay in X dollars and then you get multiple times X dollars when you retire. That is how the system works. It is not a lockbox.

This is what Al Gore was arguing about in 2000. I love the lockbox thing from 2000, by the way. I love referencing that being like, how many people have any understanding of the history of any of this stuff? We do not pay enough in Social Security to afford all the money that comes back out. This is actually one of the bigger reasons, too, that they say that as a lot of baby boomers retire, the current system is incapable of spending money to support them. because the people who are still going to be paying into it, people like me,

I don't number the amount of people who will be getting payouts, meaning not only did all the money the baby boomers put in, well, they were working all their way towards Social Security. Does that not amount for enough money to afford their retirements? But we can't even do it with the current money going in. So yes, the government constantly borrows money from itself and creates more debt in order to pay Social Security. It is amazing that the CNN people don't seem to understand that.

And Ben Shapiro does. it's actually uniquely pretty sad. All right, let's do one more. Why not? Let's do this. Predictable. I mean, I think this is the problem. Everybody knew that this was what Putin was going to do. They said so from the get-go.

The only people saying that Trump was a genius and that this was going to be all totally different were folks like you two and Donald Trump, perhaps. Well, I mean, to be fair, I'm not sure that even President Trump said things were going to be totally different. He said that he was giving the opportunity for things to be totally different.

But let's be real about this. Six months ago, everybody would have celebrated, on the left and in the center and on my part of the right, if President Trump had said, we're going to maintain arms shipments to Ukraine and we might consider further sanctions on Russia. And actually, we're not going to force Ukraine into a bad settlement. Okay, so Trump hasn't done any of the things that everybody thought he was going to do in January of 2025. And now we're ripping him for what, not being hawkish enough. It's kind of funny how they have the gold post move every time Trump moved. Trump is heterodox, but he is responsive to reality.

Yes, that's amazing. That's a fantastic thing. And I love that Abby is about to say, I don't think the goalposts move, the main thing we do constantly and the way in which we're significantly and consistently hypocrites. All of that is irrelevant to what you're saying Ben Shapiro. But yes, how do you criticize someone for fearing he's going to be too strong on an issue? Then when he actually gets an office and is more measured, you criticize him for not being strong enough. That's the I can't win no matter what I do thing that Trump has talked about a lot. And actually, it's kind of funny in my own personal life, especially since I do what I do for a living and certain people in my life know about it or I work with them in some capacity,

you do feel often. Like no matter what you say, the person that you're communicating with is going to tell you that you're the problem, you're the jerk in response to whatever you say, whatever you're trying to do, whatever fair treatment you're looking to get. The response back is going to be, you're horrible because of this, because they just don't want to treat you fairly. All right. A lot coming up.

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One and eight Americans are overthinkers according to a brand new survey. 41% of us say that our daily decisions are second-guessed by us that we're not really sure what we're doing there. But one in eight of us dives real deep into all the different things that we contemplate if we did right or wrong. Second-guessing is kind of normal, as I said, almost 50% of people do that part. But I think that more often than not, your first decision is usually the better one.

Whenever I've gone to the second-guess decision after doubting my first decision, things end up worse, not better. 27% of people admit that they're regularly stressed over simple decisions. That's stuff like anxiety at the supermarket on what you buy there. There is also a portion of society. I'm not saying it's just younger people, but it feels like it is a lot of younger people who are stressed by things that everybody else isn't stressed by. Maybe because you're less conditioned to work in the real world and more conditioned to see the internet version of society as some portion of the real world.

I really think that's a problem or that's the cause of some of the issues we see. You shouldn't be nervous when you say order a meal at a restaurant. Just pick what you want, man. And if it doesn't go well, pick something else. Order a second thing. Do life however you need to do it in order to survive. Other things out there, a man bug sprayed a couple.

This is because they had cut him in line. 65-year-old guy got upset. He was cut in line. He was like, how dare you do this to me? his name is Daniel. He actually was in Florida. I should have saved this as a Florida story, but I'll do more of those later. But he was in line at the public's grocery store, and after they decided that they weren't going to change, he just started whipping out and spraying him with bug spray right in their faces, too. He then ran off, which is my favorite part of the

aggravated battery and bodily harm assault. One of the victims was actually hospitalized. They're both going to be okay, but bug spray to the face is not usually a good idea. Daniel seemed to think it was appropriate after he got cut in line. And then finally, I'm going to play a quick game with you. I know we only have about a minute to do this, and I know you can't actually respond as well as I hoped you could. The game is called Is It TikTok or Medieval Health Tips? I have a list of six medieval health tips and a list of like 10 TikTok tips.

So I'm going to throw one out there, wait for a second for you to decide which it is, and then move on to the next one. You should shove garlic in your nose. Is that medieval or is that TikTok? The answer is actually that that's a TikTok trend And it also is quite dangerous That you should put a vinegar mask on your face For glowing skin

Is that medieval or is that TikTok? That one's actually a medieval trend Apparently they used to rub vinegar, flour and oil on their face To make it better Finally, and this is my favorite one Dead vulture to cure everything You decapitate a vulture after you catch it in the wild And then you use every portion of it to do certain things

One of them tie feathers to a woman's leg to induce labor. Yeah, okay, fine, that one's medieval. Maybe I'll do this more later. Quick break, a lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. So many young individuals are not allowed to carry, which I think is an unconstitutional aspect under age 21, but that I'll digress. But I think the Burnagun fits this niche, particularly for these college kids that are living on their own and want to be protected,

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where every update comes with a little dash of Not-So-Surious. On YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. A thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying in front of senators, and they're playing a game of ridiculous gotcha that seems very stupid.

J.D. Vance, a vice president, Vance, actually tweeted this out a little bit earlier. When I see all these senators trying to lecture and gotcha Bobby Kennedy today, all I can think is you all support off-label, untested, irreversible hormonal therapies. therapies is in quotes for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You're full of bleep and everybody knows it. That is J.D. Vance today. Let's play a couple of these clips. First, let's play this moment demonstrating how unsurious Democrats are in the way

they're questioning and handling Robert F. Kennedy sitting, Robert F. Kennedy, sitting in front of them and having a discussion about how maybe it doesn't make sense for our medical experts or the medical people in charge. our country to advocate for a bunch of untested pharmaceutical things that we probably shouldn't be taking. Look, two young ladies in Las Crucese, New Mexico to town hall recently gave me this starfish pin. I was going to give it to you today, but after your questioning today, I don't think you deserve it. Because what this represents is to remember that every one of us can make a difference, sir, something as small as a starfish on a beach that maybe got washed up, you throw it back

in the ocean. You might not save them all, but you can. save one. I'm sorry that you're not worthy of this. Nice little pins, sir, is a nice reminder. I'm going to pray for you, Secretary Kennedy. I hope we do better. I want you to do better. But today was a failure for you, man. I'm not giving you my pin, man. That's

what I'm not doing. This is so dumb. You can't have my starfish pin. I'm sorry. I'm taking my toys. I'm going home. I'll see you guys next time. You're also not invited to my birthday party. It feels like that's a version of things. I hear as Elizabeth Warren going back and forth with

Bobby Kennedy about a variety of topics. But among them is her demand that he go back on some of the changes that have happened with COVID, even though the vaccine is available for almost anybody still, even though very few Americans want any version of this anymore, even the ones who got a multiple jabs a couple years ago. I no longer have interest, but Elizabeth Warren and the money she makes from pharmaceutical companies, I mean, she has to be irate. And Bobby calls it out at one point. Here we go. You are effectively denying people vaccines. We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication, which is that what I should be doing? What you should be doing is honoring your promise

that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job. You're going like this. And that is you promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them. You just changed the classification of the COVID vaccine. I'm not taking them away from people, Senator. It takes it away if you can't get it from your pharmacy. Well, most Americans are going to be able to get it from their pharmacy for free. Most Americans will be able to get it from their pharmacy free. No, the question is everyone who wants it.

That was your promise. I never promised that I was going to recommend products with which there is no indication. When you said, And I know you've taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies. Oh, did you hold up a big... Hold on. You know what? You know what's amazing about this, too?

And this is something that I think Vice President Vance was trying to get to in the discussion. The Democrats want you to believe two things. They want you to believe that Republicans are the bad guys, whoever they are. President Trump, of course, is the big, horrible bad guy. He's the devil himself. And then everybody else is also a bad guy. And they want you to believe that Democrats are fighting. the bad guys. That's the whole job of the Democratic Party. They're the good guys. They care about you.

They want to give, you know, money and support to you through the government. That's the entire narrative that they want. And so when they get mad and yell at a bad guy, a Republican, you're supposed to like whatever the thing is that they're yelling about. However, the problem with that is when you actually look at the topic itself. You remove the assumption of bad guy and good guy and do what every American should do as a, you know, intelligent, well-thinking individual, not bite-in-brained human being is the best way to say it. You should think about the topic first. And in the discussion here, what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is saying is that he would not like to recommend things that have no medical basis as a treatment for whatever the issue is

that you're trying to treat. Meaning there's no test, there's no information. Nothing proves that there's a value to this medicine being put in your body. That's a very simplistic, a line to draw. It's actually one that a lot of people would ask would be even harsher than if you can give me some medical studies that prove the value of this. I can go ahead and continue to advocate for it. That's all he's saying. When Trump is trying to send National Guard troops into cities that have huge problems with crime, all he's saying, and it's very simplistic is, I'd like crime to be eliminated. Here's a way that I think we can do it. And again, all these other avenues where you go down this road and that road, the question itself or the conversation, should men play women's sports,

should men be able to go to the bathroom in women's restrooms, all of these topics. If you remove bad guy and good guy and just think about the conditions and the context of the discussion, you can't support the Democratic position. They know it. We know it. You should know it if you pay attention closely at all. It's just not a position that's supported. So instead of that, you're not supposed to think about the topic itself. You're not supposed to think about the, you know, which side of this common sense issue do I deserve to be on. You're just supposed to perceive the Republican position is bad and the Democratic position is good and nod and say, thank you. More of that, please, even if what they're fighting for is medicine to be readily

available for free through doctors where pharmacies get a ton of money for it that has no medical reason to be given to you and no proof that it's going to help you at all for whatever the issue is COVID or other things that you're being treated for. Let's play this audio. This is Dick Durbin from the other day talking about the amount of guns in Chicago. This is another version of what Lori Lightfoot and others have been saying trying to claim that the problem is not that people use guns to kill other people, but that red evil states, the bad guy, which is the conservative again in this case, is doing something that's causing the good guy to struggle. He's causing the problem. It's not really us that has an issue. It's them. Here we go. It's great when the

numbers go down, but people don't walk around saying, I feel 22% safer. What do you think people feel like is happening in Chicago? Well, I tell you one thing they feel like. They feel like they're too damn many guns in Chicago and they're coming in from other states. like Indiana. Federal government want to help us stop this flow of weapons into our city of Chicago and state of Illinois. We know they're coming in from state with lax laws when it comes to firearms and the federal government can do something about it. What is this president done about it? He's eliminated, dramatically eliminated the people who are supposed to make sure these gun dealers are held to the law. Hey, let's stop it right there. So here's what's interesting about it. Right now,

the Democratic plan is anything and everything that involves, violence blame guns and by an extension blame Republicans. That's how it works. So right now, if there are guns that are in Chicago, they have to have come from red states. There's no way that they could exist in Chicago. There's no way that a lot of police find, you know, unmarked even ghost guns is what they call them a lot of times, which are guns you create yourself to a certain degree. None of that at all could be possible. It's just got to be the evil, horrible red states who for some reason don't see the same amount of violence going on, even though they have more lax gun laws. Yes, Indianapolis has issues. For sure it does. But other

parts of Indiana, closer to, outside of Gary, closer to Chicago, don't have the same issues. And yet they have the gun laws that the people are complaining about being, quote, the problem with how guns are getting into Chicago. Maybe what they should actually think about are the reasons that Chicagoans, especially on the south side and west side of the city, seem much more likely to shoot each other and kill people than other parts of this country. And maybe one of the big reasons for that,

and this is coming from someone who lived in Chicago for a very long time. And actually, for a very short time, I lived on the south side of the city. This was toward the end of my run in Chicago, actually, just to see. That wasn't the only reason we did it, but it was a reason. But anyway, and it was terrible. But anyway, I'll tell you this, that there's a lot of cops who would like to do more to protect some of these communities and no,

they can't. They don't have political support. If they go into a certain community in order to try to fight some of the crime that exists there, and there's rampant amounts of it in parts of Chicago, if they come out of it with something that optically isn't right for the Democratic politicians in charge, meaning they arrest somebody who looks different than them, they're a white person, they arrest a black kid, they arrest a Hispanic kid. There's a, chance the politicians are going to turn on them if the narrative from the community is the cop did something wrong, even if it's not the truth. If the truth in all the video backs that the cop did everything right behaved exactly the way you're supposed to. And actually, a lot of times when you

see this video where it becomes a nothing story, the cop went over and beyond anything you'd expect of them in order to behave as, you know, understanding as possible to the people doing bad things while eventually arresting someone, like overwhelmingly calm. Like they do this to a degree that's sort of saintly. Those are the only people who don't wind up with any sort of backlash and problem for the back and forth of some of these issues. If you're a police officer in Chicago, you know you can't handle that. You know you can't on your own take a risk that could endanger your family when the narrative

becomes that you're a racist or you're something else just because you went into an area where people don't look like you to try to do some good. It is crazy, but it is absolutely a byproduct of how police feel like they can't do certain things. By the way, all of this is terrible. At least it's not Canada, is something that kept bouncing in my mind. We could do more. We could protect our cities better. President Trump has demonstrated that in D.C.,

but if you look at what Canada is up to today, the Canadian police chief was urging residents to surrender to home invaders and never resist or fight back. We've seen this before when they do it, but it's crazy. And actually a quote from what he says is uniquely horrible sounding. It's the kind of thing that is so anti-American, anti-free society that you think to yourself, man, things got bad to our neighbors in the North over the last few years, that you would say this and actually speak the words exactly the way he speaks them when trying to tell people that you should never fight an intruder coming into your house, which is also insane. here we go in the unlikely event that you find yourself the victim of a home invasion we are urging

citizens not to take matters into their own hands while we don't want homeowners to feel power powerless we urge you to call 911 and do everything you can to keep yourself and love one safe until police arrive and be the best witness possible yeah no that's not everything if you're going to comply and give up entirely this could mean locking yourself in a room away from the perpetrators hiding fleeing the home but don't engage unless absolutely necessary. But as it stands, we know the best defense for most people is to comply, as you've just heard, a number of safety recommendations.

Horrible. Horrible advice, horrible discussion and sort of uniquely crazy. Of course, there's all kind of gun laws and things that prevent you from being capable of defending yourself the way you should in Canada. And now you have the police chief saying, just go ahead and comply with the home invaders who come in. honestly, don't even lock the door. Just swing it wide open. Maybe make a nice home-cooked meal for them as they rob you and harm you in whatever way they choose to do it. And then go ahead and wave goodbye and thank them for the time that they spent robbing your home. Crazy, crazy thing. So no matter what we have here, I keep thinking to myself, hey, at least it's not Canada. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. As we do so, our partners over at Patriot Mobile, it's the only Christian conservative cell phone service.

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A boy was found at a Chick-fil-A in Florida. So this is Florida boy, I guess. He's going to grow up to be a great Florida man. He's five. He decided to leave his house in the morning to get breakfast at delicious Chick-fil-A. So, smart kid. He knows value. Video went viral. Audio went viral of this because cops got the kid at the Chick-fil-A and brought him back home. And he had a, quote, adorable reaction to the fact that cops had to pick him up and bring him back to the house. Again, starting a trend that hopefully doesn't exist for the less of this young man's life, although he does live in Florida, where police bring him back home. Here we go. We arrived on scene. Hello.

And as we walked in, we see a little kid sitting at the table, eating his breakfast with one of the managers. We asked where he came from, and he kept saying he walked to Chick-fil-A. You know where your house is, right, honey? It's right over there. I walked him to the back of my patrol car. I'm going to get me in jail. No, I'm not going to put you in jail.

And we started checking here. He had a white fence. That's where it. Right here? Yeah. And that's when we pulled it up in the driveway. Oh, my wife. He had a son and Lee.

Brilliant. Yeah, a little boy? Yeah, he was down at the Chick-fil-A. Are you kidding? No, we haven't in our police car. You could just see the look on his face. It would be for any parent, including myself. It's disbelief.

Yeah, what do you mean? My kid was at the Chick-fil-A. Yeah, he got a free meal because a five-year-old walks into a chick-fil-a by himself, and managers take care of that, call the police. The police get the kid back home. I do love the little boy being like, am I going to jail? I hope not. I don't know if I am, but also this Chick-fil-A is delicious.

Again, I agree with him entirely. Some other Florida stories, more the typical version you expect during this segment. A Florida woman was recently in a court case about losing her legal license. She might be disbarred because she missed a meeting. She is a divorce lawyer who skipped out on a divorce lawyer hearing, which is not usually a good thing. The reason why, and this is probably what makes it so Florida, she actually was in jail because she wasn't paying alimony to her ex-husband after her divorce. So a divorce lawyer by the name of Dorothy Huffnagle decided that she doesn't have to pay her own alimony

that someone else got on her, and that causes her to miss a hearing for another, you know, person that she's representing in a divorce. I got to think that her advice is going to be terrible. You probably don't listen to anything and everything she says. All right. One last one, this one just interesting. 29-year-old Michael Hudak was recently arrested in Florida. he stole a $16,000 Rolex from his neighbor's home while his neighbor was traveling.

The negative for Michael is that he's actually a television reporter for an ABC affiliate in Miami, Florida. So the guy who got arrested and was talked about on television is a reporter who used to work at that station. I imagine you get fired after you steal a Rolex out of your neighbor's home when you're pretty sure they're not catching you, even though I guess they have surveillance video that showed what happened. He was suspended without pay. And again, I'm pretty sure he's getting fired. A way to report on the news by making the news, bud. Quick break, a lot more.

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Thrill to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X, on Twitter. Two great ways to stay connected to her. and everything going on with this show. Producer Stephen does a great job with social media. All the social media platforms. You can check them out too.

And then at Radio Craig C. If you want to see what it looks like when I do social media myself, to about 400 people, which would be nice if you like my Yankee tweets. All right, we'll move on. J.D. Vance recently visited the victims of the Catholic school shooting that happened in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were lost.

One other is fighting for her life still. there is a lot to digest in everything going on with the families, the horribleness of this. And honestly, how it's easy for almost all Americans to be on the same side of the discussion on how terrible this is and how good it might feel for the parents of victims to see someone in a position of power showing up and demonstrating the importance of this. J.D. Vance then also called for prayer, which is something the left hates and thinks is inappropriate. and he told us why. And it's kind of amazing to still push back on this idea if this is the reason that J.D. Vance thinks you should say a prayer for these families. Oh, yeah, they're asking for it.

Here's a little bit of the audio of J.D. Vance and what he said, he took away from this interesting trip, this life-changing trip to see families that are dealing with a horrible, horrible tragedy. I have never had a day that will stay with me like this day did, because I really felt like these parents, in the midst of the worst grief of their entire lives, they opened up their lives and they opened up their hearts and they made me part of it.

So I'd ask a couple of things, straight from the parents and straight from the families to my fellow Americans. First of all, while two kids lost their lives, there's still one kid that's in very serious condition and every single family, the family of Lydia, who luckily recovered, but we visited her in the hospital,

the family of the two who died, Harper and Fletcher, all three of those families said, please say a prayer. So to my fellow Americans, if you're the praying type, say a prayer for this innocent girl who's actually in surgery right now, that the swelling will go down, that she will be okay, because she's still in a fight for her life. And every single family to a person is desperate that the death toll, which currently is at two, stays at two. And I think if you're a praying type, you ought to say a prayer for this innocent young girl. The second thing that I'd say is, look, I'm speaking to my fellow Americans who are parents in particular, there is nothing that you can say that can take away the grief that these parents are dealing with.

There is no word that can possibly describe the feeling or the emotion or the heartbreak. One of the ways that I'm going to try to honor these parents and the children that they lost is by being a better dad and hugging my kids tight tonight and making sure that they know that their dad loves them. because there are two families who are not going to get that opportunity ever again. And if you do have kids, if you're lucky enough to have a son or a daughter, make sure that they know that they love you, make sure that you hug your kids tight, because there are families in Minneapolis who won't be able to do that ever.

Now, again, I can't imagine actually visiting and being around people with this level of loss, this level of questions, people of faith who would look to God, but then also be curious or, like, you know, demand answers from God, might be a better way to say it as to why this happens. You have a certain evolution of stuff you go through when you struggle in any part of your life. And this one, I can't even remotely fathom. But also the things J.D. Van says, pray for these families because they're asking for prayer,

hug your kids tighter. These are the bad guys, according to mainstream media, the people you should hate, the people who are horrible. And he says something uniquely human. And mainstream media, left-leaning media, will refuse to humanize him because they want you to keep hating him. So I thought it was really important to play that audio. He also said this about narcotics and a narco-terrorists being blown out of the water and a reporter who wanted to ask a really dumb question. Here we go.

On the Venezuela vessel, you know, vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under and will there be an after report on the strike? Well, I'm sure there are going to be an after report. I mean, the legal authority, and I want to talk about these kids, is that there are people who are bringing literal terrorists who are bringing deadly drugs into our country and the President of the United States ran on a promise

of stopping this poison from coming into our country. Another question? I do love that. Next question. You want to move on? What's our legal authority? Our legal authority is that we don't want drugs here, so we're going to blow up people who are trying to bring drugs into our country. It's that simple. Do you want

more on that? We're going to blow them up more. I don't know what to say. All right. Let's move on to the testimony that Bobby Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving to senators and some of the ridiculous things that are being said back and forth. I find it kind of amazing. These are the questions that the senators are bringing or the

conversations they want to have and how easy it is for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to, you know, Perry, to, you know, fight and counterpunch a lot of these things because it's just ridiculous. Here we go. clearly you have an agenda uh it is a threat to the public health of the american people it's clear that uh you are carrying out your extremist beliefs uh which is why you attempted to fire sir on the world i'm not i'm sickest people on earth i'm speaking how am i am i i i love that response we are the sickest people on earth how am i a threat how is what's

going on right now working uh we have some of the most most expensive health care in the world and some of the least effective health care in the world. We have tons of treatments that don't succeed. You know what's funny about this? This isn't relevant. It doesn't really compare all that much. I have a hernia in my stomach. You don't care about it. I'm only saying it within the context of this story, I promise. I got it treated like twice medically where people did surgeries on it and stuff and they promised it was going to work. And it failed almost immediately. The hernia is still in my belly button. I know this is not blaming the medical system for my own unique health thing.

It's very anecdotal what I'm mentioning here. But I find that sort of funny, that you sit down with the doctor here in this country and they tell you how great they are, how they're the best person around, how it's going to be easy for them to fix it, how there's not going to be any issues, even if I have to sign a paper that says there's a unique amount of risks. They're very confident that it's going to go well, and then it immediately fails. I don't think I was healed for any days in the fact that I tried to get the hernia fixed. And that, I think, is the experience a lot of people have with medicine here in the United States, is even when you can afford to go and get it, it doesn't actually give you the level of treatment success that you were hoping for.

And you wonder why that's a thing, because in other parts of the world, they are less sick. The medicine costs less, the treatment costs less, and they're not struggling as much with dying young like we are. Young people now, I'm a millennial, have uniquely bigger risks in the world of certain cancers that generations before us never had, things like colon cancer. And essentially, the answer from the medical community is, we don't know, seems bad. Seems like it might be diet-specific. Robert if Kennedy Jr. seems like the kind of person that actually wants to figure out what the reason is for this stuff is and try to stop it. That actually does seem good.

All right. Let's move on to another breaking story. Ice agents are going to surge into Chicago for a immigration crackdown. DHS has actually also requested the National Guard. So National Guard troops are going to be mobilized in Chicago, too. These things are interesting. Apparently Mexican Independence Day parades are coming up in the city, too. So they're wondering if there's going to be uniquely viral videos of cops showing up at parades

and arresting people there or whatnot. But ICE agents are going to disregard anything that Jelly Bean Pritzker, and Brandon Johnson and the leaders in Chicago have said, and not care and actually try to enforce the law there, even if Chicago wants to fight them on it. It's not just the National Guard, multiple sources telling Fox News that ICE agents are set to move into Chicago for an immigration crackdown.

Now, that city's Democratic leaders are expected to resist, but many locals, like our next guest, say, is a long time coming. But Sean Tunsell will join us in a moment, talk about the resident sentiments in a moment there in Chicago. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I won't play that audio actually of the guest. I forgot to take that part out. But I will say that you hear it a lot of places.

And this is a black guy who's a guest on Fox News, talking about how a lot of people in certain communities think that the support being given to people that are there illegally is unfair. These are communities that say that they've long felt like they're not given enough of what they need to survive. Now, granted, I don't have to agree with them on their position that they need more government handouts to do better. But I understand the position they're taking when they're like,

hey, we've been asking for certain things for a long time. You're not giving them to us, but all of a sudden you're giving them to people who have no status to be in this country legally. That makes no sense. You're alienating your core voter now by demonstrating how little you actually care about them. That seems to be a decent version of a conversation

to go down that rabbit hole of, man, you're pushing away even more voters. All right. This is also interesting to me. This is Tim Kane, a one-time vice presidential candidate, who's often been compared to Tim Walls, because they seem very similar in a lot of ways. I think SNL even made fun of that one time.

Anyway, Tim Cain apparently has never read the Declaration of Independence because he said a thing and even used certain words that seemed shocking to everybody else in the Senate today. Here is this audio. The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator, that's what the Iranian government believes. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.

So Senator Kane said in this hearing that he founded a radical and dangerous notion that you would say our rights came from God and not from government. I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair. Because that radical and dangerous notion, in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. It is. It absolutely is. Way to go, Cruz. Way to take him down for that. I can read it. I can dust off this document that maybe Kane has never seen before the Declaration of Independence in Congress, July 4th, 1776. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator. with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty,

and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, derived their just power from the consent of the governed, et cetera, et cetera. Again, if I was Biden, I would have very quickly into that reading, said,

you know the thing and just moved on. But yes, this is literally word for word in the Declaration of Independence, even the use of the word creator, not God, which I would have been fine with either one, apparently to Tim Cain, radical, horrible things. The founding document of the country in which he is a political representative couldn't be more slap in the face moment for him.

I'd have said that out loud into a microphone, an absolute moron. Thank God he was never the vice president of this country. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. It is time for a quick five on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C.

If you want to be kind enough to follow me and follow my very random, very seldom Yankee tweets. A man was covered in mud wearing only a speedo while he was running from police. When I saw the headline to this, I was pretty sure it was going to be a Florida man story. It is not. This happened in the Denver area. But the dude, a lot of unanswered questions. Why were you covered in mud? Why were you only wearing a speedo? Was this your deterrent for cops to not arrest you?

They chose to go ahead and do it anyway. Here is some of the audio of the cops chasing down the guy. His name is Alec, who's running from them again. All muddy and speedoed up. The kind of person that if I were a cop, I would rather just let go than actually apprehend. But darn it, we got to uphold the law, I guess. Here we go.

He's running. Mertesio. White male covered in mud and underwear. No, man, you had a chance. You had a choice. I was scared, bro. Yeah, no, you were more than scared if you run away. I love the end part of that audio where they're actually talking to him.

And they're like, you have a choice. You could have done whatever you wanted to do. And he chose to run in the speedo because you did not make the right decision. You're scared, bro. Why were you covered in mud? Why were you wearing only a speedo? I was scared, bro. Yeah, you were.

Denver guy arrested, probably also. high, I imagine. I'm guessing there. I don't know. But we'll find out more information about that later. A college football fans are gigantic fans of the sport and their favorite team. A recent survey found just how far they'd go to watch the game, especially like say a rivalry week game instead of doing other things in their life. A third of people said they would skip a friend's wedding if it meant they had to miss out on the rivalry week game for their favorite college football team. That's hilarious to me. Because there's ways to get around that, by the way. And it even was like a best friend in some questions. Just bring the phone and watch the game on the

phone at the event people. Do it the old-fashioned way. At least listen to the audio with a, you know, earbud in your ear as you have the phone in the pocket and occasionally glance at it. Go to the bathroom a bunch of times. Do whatever you need to do so you understand what's happening in the game without actually looking like a complete jerk and skipping it. People would travel. over a thousand miles to see these games. We do all kinds of things. College football fans, and we're not upset about that. We don't mind. You'd even give up coffee.

Not forever, just for a few days, in order to see your favorite football game. Doctors warn that pickleball is a drug. Players are going to wild lengths to make sure that they keep playing, even if they get injuries, all kinds of other things. The reason, I guess, that people love pickleball is that even though it is somewhat difficult to be very good at the sport, it seems fairly easy to be decent at pickleball. It's a sport with a large net for those who feel like they want, you know,

to get in shape again or be active again, actually even act like they're, you know, playing sports again without having to do something harder than pickleball. So that's the reason it's a drug. You feel like you're good at something without it being as taxing on your body. So inevitably you let it beat the crap out of your body. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Keep your finger on the pulse with a Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis, whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrill to be with you, a bunch of stuff to talk about. I like to do these things called pallet cleansers on another radio thing that I do. They're brought to you by El Bandito Yankee Tequila. I have a tequila company that actually sponsors by, you know, talking about things other than serious news. Producer Stephen just sent me something that absolutely is a pallet cleanser to me. I love this. This is a military guy comparing branches of the military to different types of churches, different church denominations. This is funny.

Please put your funny pants on to not be offended. by any of this because this dude is definitely kidding and he's actually a person of faith himself, which is probably the reason he can make these jokes. I think those are the rules. But here we go. I do like a whole lot of this. If you served in the military and you're wondering which denomination of church you should go to, this will narrow it down for you. Now the Marines and Baptists go hand in hand because we're number one in God's eyes. We don't work well with others. We're pretty much right and you're wrong. Also, we're extremely uptight. Now the Air Force will be like Presbyterians. They got all the money. They're highly educated. And

I'm pretty sure you have to pass a written test to join. And it's comprehensive. Methodist Church is going to be like the Navy. It's going to be a lot of women leading it, and there could be some other questionable things that they're okay with now. Catholics are going to be most like the Army. They've been around the longest. They got the most members.

They definitely got the most money. And they have a lot of secrets they don't want you to know about that could threaten national security. National Guard be non-denominational. It's full of a whole lot of washed-up Marines slash Baptist. They don't really care if you go to church full-time. Congregation is normally full of other branches. or denominations. Not a whole lot of rules to follow.

Definitely not a dress code. I'm not really sure who's in charge. But they're good people. In Church of Christ, like the Coast Guard. They're a real small group. A lot of them are half crazy and we just kind of let them do their own thing. I don't send me any hate letters if you're from the Church of Christ. I like everything about that because the guy is trying to add some humor, some levity to also encouraging you to have a faith of some kind, especially if you're former military and you can find out what your past life and future life will look like if you join a certain type of church. Now, I'm not saying everything he said was absolutely correct, but I also don't mind that as a

Catholic, I was put into the army. My grandfather served in Korea and fought in the army. So again, I kind of feel like that's a cool branch to be put in. My uncles are all Marines, though. I don't think they'll be as happy with the fact that they didn't land in the Catholic Church. But I think they will like the description of the Marines that they're right and everybody else is wrong and that they're difficult to work with. That part is pretty funny. At least one of my uncles definitely jumped off the page at me as someone that fits the description. Although you love them, you know that it's going to be tough if you have more than a five-minute conversation with him on something you disagree on. Luckily him and I agree on a lot of stuff. All right, other things out there,

I do love this now that the palate cleanser and the shot of the day is over. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was going back and forth with senators. I've played a bunch of different pieces of this audio today. There's a lot of it out there. Go check for yourself. A lot of it's very good. But this unique moment seems pretty important. This is a back and forth that starts with Senator Ron Johnson in which there's a discussion about how CDC, a chief scientist in 2002, buried some things he shouldn't have buried that seemed to be uniquely impactful, not just to people and health in general, but actually to, you know, a specific minority of individuals, to black kids that were a part of this study.

And so, again, Democrats claim to be the party that's fighting for, you know, disenfranchised groups. It seems like they're doing a whole lot more than fighting for them if this is to be believed. Yeah, I mean, I'll just tell you one example. And I could sit here and give you thousands. But in 2002, CDC did an internal study of Atlanta, a general study of Atlanta, a general. in Fulton County, Georgia children, and looked at children who got the MMR vaccine on time and compared those to kids who got them later.

So in other words, kids who got them before 36 months and kids who got them afterward. The data from that study showed that black boys who got the vaccine on time had a 260% greater chance of getting an autism diagnosis than children who waited. The chief scientist on that, Dr. William Thompson, the senior said, vaccine safety science at CDC, was ordered to come into a room with four other co-offers by his boss, Frank DeStefano, who's the head of the immunization safety press, in order to destroy that data. And then they published it without that fact. That is insane.

Did you just hear what he said there? A study into, of all places of Fulton County in Georgia, which made the news a lot for going after President Trump, did a study where they found that young black babies who did not get the vaccine. You heard all the stats of it, the measles vaccine, at a certain time versus a different time, that if you got it the way that you're currently recommended to do it, a 226% increase in the likelihood of autism. Now, a lot of people say that any of those claims that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes are not, proven. They're not verifiable fact. And there's a reason why. And this seems to be an example of that, that any study that would actually verify the things that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others are saying is being entirely buried and thrown out. It's being destroyed in a room of people who are bullying you to make it go away. It is tough to verify that fact now, of course,

because of the idea that the data is actually destroyed. But nonetheless, this is a unique question. And certainly one where your own rights is both a parent and a person come into play. Should you be allowed to choose what to do when it comes to the health and safety of your children, of yourself? The answer to most people is rationally, yes. You should be able to choose to do that. For some reason, for Democrats, the answer apparently is no, which is odd. All right. A couple other things quickly. Odd is a good word for it. Horrible is a better word for it. John Thune, says that the Senate is preparing to clear the backlog of President Trump's nominees. This is good. This is something we want to see. It's been a while since a hundred plus people

were nominated for positions and then were buried and not allowed to actually pass the nomination process. We're going to kick this thing in a high gear, baby, and get these all through the Senate. This sounds awesome. Let's hear him talk about it. We just had a very productive meeting where our conference talked about clearing the nominations backlog. And we are where we are right now because of the Democrat obstruction, which is historic and unprecedented. We have never seen a time where the opposition party has literally blocked and forced the president and his team, and us here is the majority in the Senate, to go through all the machinations of trying to get a nominee across the finish line.

It used to be done that these were done largely by unanimous consent or voice vote. And this president is the only president at this point in his presidency, going back to Herbert Hoover. We went back all the way to the Hoover administration, who hasn't had a single one of his noms confirmed either by voice for or unanimous consent. So this is of the Democrats making. It's not something that we can sustain. This business model doesn't work. This president was duly elected by the American people. He was.

And they expect him to be able to put his team in place to govern the country and enact the agenda that they voted for. Yeah, all that stuff is true. By the way, whenever President Trump claims that anything going on, even some of the stuff involving the Epstein case, is disruption, is conspiracy, is, you know, distraction, whatever he calls it, is a game being played by Democrats to undermine the authority of the office of president. you could very easily point to this as a demonstration that that's probably true because they're doing it in a myriad of ways all the time, always. Democrats want to run as much counteroffensive as they possibly can the moment that Trump gets into office a second time voted by the American people rightfully into that position of power. And actually, I do want to mention this.

And I know a lot of people certainly question the validity of the 2020 election based on even new. data that comes out sometimes a new accusations of voter fraud on individuals, even in our most recent presidential election. But I will say that as a sitting president, he got the most votes anyone has ever gotten. So he was wildly popular even in the year where he lost. And I might have used air quotes. As I said that in the election. So you decide how important it is for him to actually be able to do the things he wants to do to run the country the way he sees fit. Is it a reflection of the desire of the American people. Obviously, the answer of that should be yes. The majority of people chose to put him in a position of power. He even won the popular vote,

which is often something that Democrats usually point to to say, see, people don't actually want this person to make decisions, even though they do. All right, one last thing. I just find this amusing. David Axelrod, of all people, is begging Democrats to take the high road or the, yes, thank you for the help road when fighting crime in certain cities. You should not say no to federal government assistance in things that are absolutely a problem. Every single major city that Trump would like to send National Guard troops to does have a crime issue, a crime issue that most Americans would like to have fixed. It's like a 90-10 issue, as far as people say.

And I imagine the 10% are people who are committing the crimes. Like, no, we don't want this fixed. We want to keep going here. But here's how Axelrod said, please at least pretend to be, you know, accepting assistance, reject the National Guard, which makes no sense to me, but accept any other form of help, because saying no across the board looks bad for you, it looks like you're now the party of criminals. Here we go. I would be careful about playing 28 politics on this issue because the right answer is we'll take all the help we can get,

as long as it's appropriate help, as long as it's stuff that will really help. I mean, these National Guardsmen aren't even trained to do that work. They're not authorized to do that work. So, you know, send us the resources that we need. We want to work with you. If there are criminal, if there are people doing violent crimes here who are illegal immigrants, we want them out of our city. We work with you on that.

I think that's the appropriate position to take. Yeah, Democrats are not taking that position, by the way, bud. They're not taking anything near that position. They're taking the same position they take on getting Trump's nominees through on anything that involves President Trump. He said it, it's terrible. We can't possibly do it. You know, it's also amusing about this? I remember when Barack Obama was in office, a big complaint of a lot of Democrats and the Democratic

Party and the talking heads that exist within that party was that Republicans played opposition and refused to do anything that Obama wanted in any capacity. And what's amusing about that, whether or not you think that's actually true, I'd rather not debate that. I don't really care to debate something that's that old. I just think what's interesting about it is Democrats are now doing exactly the things. they accuse Republicans of doing because they don't like the person in a position of power.

It's not even that they actually fundamentally disagree with some of the things that Trump would like to do. Because if they do, as Axelrod is saying, disagree with cleaning up cities from crime. That's a bad take to have. That's a bad position with the American people. It's simply that we hate the fact that Trump wants this thing to happen. So we have to say no, no matter what it is,

because his name is tied to it, which is bad, you know, governing. to say the very least. All right, quick break. A lot more coming up in a very little amount of time left. This is Craig Collins, filling in on The Dana Show.

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filling in. Thrill to be with you. So much stuff out there to talk about. Real quick, the NFL kicks off tonight, baby. You got Dallas. You got. Philadelphia, the Eagles are going to be playing. You really wish for a better, I think, opening game.

The point spread is like eight and a half points, so they're favoring the Eagles by more than a touchdown. Mike has gone, which means Dallas's defense is questionable across the board, especially considering the fact that disgraced former Chicago Bears head coach, Matt Eber Fluse is actually their defensive coordinator. Someone easily to blame if things go horribly awry in this game, and also the Eagles have a very good offense. that's going to be tough to contain.

If there's one area of interest for anyone who actually cares this much about sports analysis from the guy filling in for Dana Lash on Dana Show, it is going to be the Eagles secondary, and if they can contain the wide receivers for the Dallas Cowboys, they have some very, very good quarterbacks, but they do have some question marks, and Dallas has some good players. So we'll see there,

but I definitely expect the Eagles to win and win significantly in this game. They're calling it a opening game statement for the defendant. champions. All right. We'll move on from the world of sports. As I understand, I'm not a sports anchor on the show. Reality stars are sharing dating tip hacks that apparently help women steer clear of misogynistic, terrible men, men who like them for their bodies and not for anything else. Here's my favorite part of these tips. The woman, one of the women who is giving them, her name is Abby, has a bunch of really scantily clad photos she put up on her dating profile in order to try to entice men with her looks. She wants people to look at her the way anybody

on a dating app does swipe right because they think she's hot and then maybe send her some kind of message about how hot she is. She says that in order to defend yourself from these horrible, terrible men, you engage in conversation with them and you let them truly show you how interested in you they are, how dirty and horrible they are and the things they say. And then eventually you just you block them all. guess. And also if you reject them a little bit, you see if it makes them go crazy. Those are her tips for dealing with misogynistic men. Again, as she also puts on very little clothing and takes a bunch of photos of herself and puts it up in social media because she is someone who's standing

up for all the things that you'd want to be in the world of, you know, feminine ideals, feminine ideology on her dating app profile. I'm not talking about if she just like, where's this stuff out and about in her everyday life. If you're advertising yourself a unique way, to a unique place who you want to date you and what they want to be thinking about when they're dating you. And then you ridicule them and post the messages that these guys send you on social media when you are much more scannily clad than the average person on a dating app. I think there's a problem and I think it's partly on you. I will say, though, that as I said, as I mentioned that, I know that people might have pushback and whatever to it.

The men don't look good. I'm not defending the dudes who send like six messages to someone you don't know. We're like, man, baby. I'd love to do bleep, bleep and bleep to you. I don't think that usually works. I don't think you wind up having a lot of successful, you know, back and forth. Unless it's the kind of person who's interested in that kind of thing. And then good luck to you, kids. Be safe out there, as I guess the rest of my advice.

One last thing that I think is interesting. There is a hunched and hideous digital model that has created what life will look like as we get older because of how hunched over we are by digital media, by our phones and whatnot. By 2050, the expectations that will all be hunchbacks or all be people with weird, craned neck things, strange faces, just a lot of bad stuff going on in the world of our bodies caused by the technology that we have, maybe some skin issues to. Giant lips seem to be a byproduct of this. And I don't know where that came from, but that is a social media trending thing that AI

says humans will become. Let's hope not as far as the answer to this question goes. but by 2050, man, I'll be old enough that I won't care, that it'll be well past my time to worry about my own hunchback and whatnot. But let's hope for the best here. Let's occasionally do things where you don't bend over and look at your phone so that your body doesn't start to contort in a way that you don't want because darn it's evolution and the things it does to us.

All right, that's it. That's the show. Thrilled as always to be a part of this with you. Dana's going to be back on Monday. My name is Craig Collins, filling in on the Dana show.