The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - US submarine torpedoes warship for first time since WWII

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you, a bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I do live in Houston, Texas now. I used to live in the Midwest, so I know that it's a national story, but it's interesting. The conversations happening in Texas about this Senate race. I will get into those in just a little bit. Before I do that, though, let's get the latest update on the things going on with the air campaign in Iran.

I've been trying to debate what to call this, by the way. And D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. I think I forgot to say that. Always need to say that. Great ways to stay connected to her in this show. At Radio Craig Z. If you want to be one of the lucky 500 or so people who follow my account that I barely use. But anyway, to get into this, I don't think it's right to call it a war.

And what's interesting to me is that if you go back and look at precedent, this would be either Obama or Clinton and their air campaigns that also were wars, I guess. took several months to complete. They both had one in their terms in office. It's almost identical out of that stuff. Like, it's so easy to compare this to Yugoslavia or to compare this to Libya and say, how are people not being tremendously, tremendously hypocritical if they're against this one and they were for those, especially when the Iranian people seem to, by and large, be happy that we are giving them the opportunity to overthrow a regime they don't like.

So humanitarian cause and decision by a president to use an air campaign to attack a place that we don't agree with and do it without any sort of congressional approval and do it without any actual declaration of war. And by the way, Iran has declared war on us a tremendous amount of times. I think one of the most recent times was this past December. So they've been at war with us for a while. So a lot of that might should matter to you and maybe doesn't. Who knows? But anyway, let's get to it. This is Pete Hegzeth talking about a Mark 48 torpedo that was used to strike a Islamic regime ship.

We are tremendously efficient right now. And I know that almost seems like the political thing to say, like the conservatives on the right are all bragging about how efficient these military campaigns have been by Trump. But they just are. Whether you're mad about it or happy about it from a political stance, something is definitively. true about the technology we have now, the use of AI. I'm not sure what it is, but something is making us really, really good

at doing some things very, very quickly. Here's Heggs-up. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet, death. The submarine. By the way, I just love that clip that they use. I'm going to play the rest of the Fox News clip, too. But I love

the clip that he says, because it's terrifying. I don't love it because I'm trying to laugh at, death. A war has death. That's a thing. But if you wanted to intimidate the opponent, and if they're paying attention to any of the things our leaders are saying, to brag about this in that way is pretty ridiculous. Here's Fox News, though, explaining what the torpedo is. And it used a Mark 48 torpedo. The U.S. Navy's primary submarine launched weapon.

It carries a 650-pound warhead, uses advanced sonar to attract targets and is designed to destroy both surface ships, and submarines. In other words, you can't get away from it. Yeah, in other words, you're screwed if we are targeting you with something like this. And again, this echoes what I was saying a second ago, either the technology, which I know a lot of our military personnel have been saying openly in interviews, that our technology is quite a bit different than even the Iraq War. And so you're seeing a valuable demonstration of that capability.

Let's also play this. Let's play Lieutenant General Kellogg talking a little bit about how the president is going full speed at everything. Like every idea that they're throwing at him from a military standpoint, the president's like, yeah, let's do that. Let's do that to win and win now. Let's not just be an organization, a country and administration that says things. Let's not just have words, be the way we try to intimidate others. Let's demonstrate the whole, if you bleep around, you will. find out by causing some people to find out whether it's what happened in Venezuela as quickly as it did.

What's happening now with Iran, there's so many examples of our words are backed up by our actions. Here we go. Very much. Look, what this really tells me is something that I haven't seen in my generation on the rules of engagement is the president is going after everything. It's full speed ahead. They're taking out targets. Most of them have thought about. There's a huge target list out there, and there's no restrictions.

And the president's right about winning. There's no doubt in my mind that we're destroying every target we want to get to. And Brett just came on a minute ago, and he's probably the drone game of the world out there. And we're just using things that we hadn't used before and going after these targets, like the Lukas system, which is a drone system, that we reverse engineer from the Shad 136. That's got a basically a huge warhead on it that we're sending back to the Iranian. And so we took their design, reverse engineer it, and sent it in their back. All right. I got to highlight that, too, man.

How devastating is that as a thing? If you send drones at us and we're like, no, we're going to reuse these. We're going to do something different with these, and they're going to wind up exploding on your territory and your turf. We're going to use your own weapons against you. This is Iron Man and Marvel-type stuff to me. And I think this also matters because if you are capable of backing up the word, that President Trump has been saying

that this conflict won't take months and months and months like both of those other ones did, like Clinton's did and like Obama's did. This will be quick. We'll actually have a devastating victory relatively fast. That also does matter. And it causes a lot of ripple effects. Places like China would rethink being provocative with us,

even when it comes to Taiwan, if we have a tremendous military success in Iran as quickly as we do. and I know it's not just us. I do want to credit Israel. There was this story about how Israel found out that the leadership that was left over after the initial strikes took out a bunch of the leaders in Iran,

but they found out that there was leadership left over, and they were going to meet at a certain time in a certain place to pick the new leader, meaning all the high-ranking people that were left were in the same room, and Israel destroyed that room. Like there's something uniquely successful and interesting about the intel capabilities of us in Israel. And I will say this too, because I know a lot of people have been blaming the entirety of this conflict on the U.S. is just doing whatever Israel

wants. If you ever needed a example of a demonstration of why this is such an important ally for us in that part of the world or in general, it is the efficiency of Israel and their information. You remember, this is the same people that when Hamas was doing certain things, things and Iran was involved and others were involved that they had these cell phones that they had left in positions of power for enemies of theirs and they just blew them all up. So these people who were using their cell phones were all of a sudden, you know, unalived, as the kids would say on the internet, because Israel was capable of doing that. There was something ridiculous about that too. And so it speaks to the value and the intelligence of that partner. And I think that

does absolutely matter. All right. I mentioned that I want to get into Texas. I know we don't have a lot of time before we take our first break to do it now. I will say this. There is an absolute test going on between what I would call the Maga Texan and President Trump because John Cornyn is persona non-grata within the base of support for the president of the United States within the state of Texas.

He is not someone. that they like. And it's not just when Trump is in office, by the way. I think the one mistake that sometimes the president has is tunnel vision of what happens, what experiences occur with him. What do you do when I'm around you? When I ask you for something, do you deliver? Can I trust you when it's between you and I? And the reason Texans so much dislike Cornyn is that when Trump isn't in office, when anybody else is in power, he turns into a swamp thing. He turns into the guy who will work with the other side to get what he wants, whatever the cost, and do a whole lot of things that people in conservative places in Texas are not happy with. So there are a lot of people,

even though they think that Cornyn's the obvious choice to win an election against James Talrico, a person who is surprisingly interesting. And I will say this not just because of the stuff he says that Democrats seem to like, but the insane things that he says that conservatives seem to really hate. He's said a lot of really crazy stuff. A person who's trying to shape themselves as a moderate as someone who can attract conservative voters. He's crazy to those voters. He's certainly crazy. But nonetheless, I will say that Cornyn seems to be the person more likely to win because the other person who is in this runoff election, Ken Paxton has a whole lot of baggage, a lot of problems that can be used by the other side. But nonetheless, Maga just simply

hates Cornyn, and they hate him because of the way he behaves when Democrats are in power. So it'll be really interesting to see what happens. No, I don't think that support for the president goes away in places like Texas. I don't think there's any version of possibility of that there. And I do think there's a chance that Paxton becomes the new Pam Bondi that takes over her job, and that placates people enough that then they are willing to vote for Cornyn because none of these Texas Republicans would actually vote for a Tala RICO. But I'll tell you that the reason this is so interesting to me, and maybe the reason it's so fascinating on a national level,

is a narrative that's not completely understood. On a national level, people think, well, if Texas nominates a Democrat, then that means that the conservative message is failing now, and Democrats are winning over independence. No, I think what actually happens is people have a long-standing dislike of, John Cornyn and the way he's behaved at times

and they would like to see him go away and so a whole lot of people may just sit out in election if that's their choice and hope that it hurts their party so that they never have to deal with that again. It's not a smart way to think. It's not something I would recommend people do. I think you have to vote for the conservative,

not the Democrat when the Democrat's insane no matter who the conservative is. But I digress. I think that that will be the version of a fight we see or the the reason that people might sit out this election if their choice is Cornyn and Tau Rico. And it may cause a one-off win, not a tremendous shift within a very conservative state that I now happen to live in over the last year. All right. Well, take a break. A lot coming up. Thrill to be with you. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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Great ways to stay connected to her. A warm false spring is in the forecast. So is a polar vortex for the entire country. I find this to be hilarious. Not because I want you or myself to experience bad weather, but because very often when one thing happens, very hot conditions, you hear from all the people out there, saying all the terrible things about global warming and whatnot,

but then when we're immediately rocked by a horribly cold weather event, nobody is out there claiming that we have the next ice age. The killing of the dinosaurs happening all over again. and I want to be the one face of that. I want to be the one guy out there saying the opposite thing. I'm not trying to poo-poo anyone that believes in global warming, believes in the science of whatever that is. I don't care.

I also know that the government is not the solution to any problem, especially not that one. However much you think it's real or not. But nonetheless, I just want to be the one guy who's like has the sign out yelling that it's too cold and that we're having a cold problem. Just because I think it would be funny. No one else wants to seem to join in with me.

I seem to be very alone in that mission, and rightfully so. A 25 country survey found that Americans are especially likely to view their fellow citizens as morally bad. 53% of adults said, yeah, the morals, the ethics on that side are terrible. Essentially, the sci-op is working. Hating each other is the goal, pushing each other to think that the things you believe aren't welcome to be said out loud in certain circles. All of this is working. All this is making people who you thought you liked at some point in your life now seem like people that you would rather, you know, have tard and feathered and thrown in the middle of the street and then, you know, scarlet lettered throughout town because of how much we disagree on some things and how much that's a focus of any conversation we have about anything else. I think this is largely a byproduct of Democrats trying to call Republicans Nazis.

but I digress. Again, that's whatever it is. And then one last thing, I do love this, a little bit of audio. A man's Taco Bell rant has gone so viral. It now has 11 million views. Let's play a little bit of this thing. If we can get this on before I take a break here, just because of how awesome it is.

Change these f***ing rappers to where you can open the son of a borgh without it ripping the casadea open. Multi-million dollar company, and y'all got these moisture-locking sacks. My favorite is moisture-locking sack, if I'm being honest with you, of things that people say. Because he's right about that. The rappers is Taco Bell. They do ruin the food.

You got these moisture-locking sacks. Oh, my God, they sound terrible, and they ruin everything. Your cassidilla, your cassidia is no longer as good as it once was because it went in this terrible Taco Bell rapper. 11 million views for this guy. I don't know if he monetized the video before he put it out there. but Taco Bell just made him a very wealthy man because of a rant that most of us should have been saying. He shouldn't be alone.

I don't have to be alone about Ice Age. He doesn't have to be alone about Taco Bell rappers being terrible. And the food being way more expensive now than it should be. I only want to spend $5 when I walk into Taco Bell. No longer possible. All right. Quick break, a lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

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J.D. Vance essentially nailed the democratic obsession with impeaching people, well, specifically impeaching President Trump. J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio are both, I think, on a weekly basis, proving themselves to be very capable of handling a lot of media scrutiny in a way that I think would attract a younger voter. And I say this before I hit play on the audio. I've been watching a lot of the pundits on the internet, the internet influencer people, not just the radio influencer people. Dana's both. She's on the internet. She's on a radio. She's everywhere. But I've been watching them. And they say one of the groups of people that they're worried about in this upcoming election

is the young man bro voter. Because that guy definitely dislikes the liberal media and liberal messaging that he's a terrible person. They're usually not a fan of that, that men are awful and horrible and they suck and all the things you think and want to do that you would consider to just be normal. They consider toxic masculinity. They're worried about this group now because they don't think Trump is doing enough to make that group happy. I don't know if that's true. I fall in that category. exactly a 40-year-old man that would be described, I think, as a not young, not old voter.

But anyway, I think that J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio are both people who speak the language a little differently than Trump. It's not that it's weaker. It's just, in my mind, a different version of the same thing. And so I think propping them up makes sense. Here's another version of J.D. Vance laughing off a question about Trump likely getting impeached again if Democrats get into power in the midterm elections. If the Democrats do win the midterms, is Trump getting impeached again? I'm sure he'll get impeached. Look, they have nothing to actually run on or govern on.

Their entire obsessive focus of that party is they hate Donald Trump. So if they ever get power, are they going to lower Americans' taxes? No. Are they going to make your life more affordable? No. Are they going to solve the crime crisis? No. What they're going to do is they're going to spend all their time and all of your money

trying to get Donald Trump. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous. That's what they're running on. But the American people are going to make this determination. I think the American people should vote for the people who want to make their life more affordable and want to make their neighborhoods safer. That's what we're trying to deliver. Yeah, I agree with all that stuff.

Here's the funny thing when I watch this and like play audio of this all the time as it's sort of a daily discussion too. I think it's the reason that Trump is so popular. It's sort of like the friend that you like a whole lot for a MAGA voter or even a conservative. voter that might at times not love everything that Trump does, but watching your friend get picked on but what you see is bullies. Too many of them. Too many people yelling crazy stuff. You want to defend the person that you think is getting attacked way too often. I know it's crazy to describe Trump as anything other than to some a bully himself. But nonetheless, I think that that's the big reason that a lot of people run to supporting this president

all the time in any scenario where the attacks are just so overwhelming. And it can be something he did that you like. It can be something he did that you're not sure if you like it. It doesn't matter. It's just so constant the version of attack from the left on this. And here's what I want to actually say. I think if they put the swords down, if they sort of tried to ignore that Trump's the president,

which is probably hard for them to do, they might actually do better. I'm not trying to coach them to be more successful. I'd like to see Democrats lose across the board in the midterm elections. I would like to see the president retain power in the House and the Senate so he can continue to do things that by and large I've liked that he's done so far. But unless I say all that, I want to be crystal clear that I think if they finally forgot about Trump as much as they could and made the messaging more what J.D. Vance says it should be. I think there's a tremendous chance they gain even more potential independent support on people who are just saying. sick of that discussion. I don't think that they can really get a lot of the people on the right

to vote on the left. It's just so polar opposite in today's society. But I think there are people in the middle who wind up saying like, come on, guys, you don't need every single comment, every single discussion to be about Trump is this, Trump is that, he's horrible and terrible. And here, case and point, I'll prove it to you. So something that just came out, the Department of Justice released these files, I think, today. They're Epstein files. They're a woman who made a bunch of contradictory statements about Epstein. So I want to fully and truthfully, this is all verbatim the information from the FBI files.

So you understand why it's not as big of a deal as left-leaning media is going to make it out to be. Some left-leaning media found out about it a week ago. They're like these files are being hidden. This woman is making a claim that Trump sexually assaulted her and abused her and that, you know, Epstein did the same thing. But the problem is that she kept getting stuff wrong about Epstein's life around the time she was accusing him of doing bad things. That would be in the early 1980s.

So she kept demonstrating how little she actually knew about the actual behaviors or whereabouts of Jeffrey Epstein. Like she was way off on a lot of the assertion she made as to even the possibility of them based on, again, the known location of Epstein and the claim of where she was or, or where she said something occurred, she seemed like someone who was incredibly unreliable, just because of the amount of time she contradicted unknown facts. Granted, she said bad things about Trump and about Epstein. So left-leaning media loves this story. They love telling you about this story.

They love accusing the DOJ of hiding these files. The Department of Justice, whether you believe it or not, says that they thought they were already out there. They thought they were duplicate files, so they didn't release them again. but it was basically a nothing a story or a nothing case

where the FBI decided there was no value pursuing this any further this woman is too unreliable and this is going to be the hallmark discussion I think about these files on the left especially today

when they finally get released to the public and they don't care about telling you the whole truth there's a bunch of other versions of that where honestly even Chris Rock in one of his recent specials made the I thought

intelligent joke that Democrats love leaving out bits of information. They love leaving out very important facts or context that allows them to sound credible when they're not. And this is another version of that happening where the obsession with Trump is so great and the assumption that you and I, whoever we are, are too lazy to go look ourselves for all the information to know better, that we won't do that. We'll hear, oh my God, the DOJ hid files about how tech terrible Trump is and how he abused a person. And then you'll just run with that and believe that. And you'll start putting up on your social media, you know, abuser in chief, President Trump. And you have no way to verify it as true. You don't care. You're not going to do the homework. Someone somewhere

said a thing to you and they left out valuable context and you're good enough now. It's horrible. It's sad that that does work for a lot of people on social media, but it also doesn't work for a lot of others because darn it, we're all not morons. I think that very often, I think I've said this before, filling in for Dana, so I'll just say it again, and then we'll play another bit of audio and we'll take a break in a few minutes, but I think very often most media assumes you're an idiot. Whoever you are listening to the show right now, Republican Democrat, I don't care. They assume you're a moron.

They offend you actively in how they talk to you, and the things they say, the things they don't say, there's meetings people have at all levels of media. I've been in them at certain levels of media, but I'm sure they have them at higher levels of media too, like national television shows and whatnot, where the discussion is, should we tell people about this, because we're worried they won't understand it, or, you know, we're worried we're going to radicalize someone by telling them this true information or that information. So they think you're dumb enough that they don't have to tell you all the truth. They'll just tell you a part of it, or they'll ignore a story completely and you won't notice.

They offend the intelligence of the everyday American often. And I think that that's a problem. I think that you need to respect your audience more, respect the capability, the technology available to your audience, respect a whole lot of things, and it would be better for all of us, and they absolutely don't do that.

You know they don't do that. I know they don't do that. And I just hear it all the time in the way they cover stories, and it annoys me. And I hope it annoys more of you. All right, let's play this. One last thing. Another one where valuable context just seems to be a desired thing to ignore if you're on the left. This is Virginia Senator Mark Warren. He's asked a question about a horrible murder of a woman, stabbed to death by an illegal alien, 40 prior charges, someone who definitely shouldn't have been in our country, much less loose on the streets. These are people that should at least be in jail in our country, if not deported to live somewhere else. And the Democratic response to any of these examples is they don't matter. Let's not

talk about that again. Let's talk about something utterly different. They just assume you're stupid. They assume you can't do two things at once, and they can distract you with the shiny object in their hand. Here we go. Hi, Senator Warner. I have a question pertaining to ICE. So, Governor Spanberger is telling ICE and you to obtain judicial warrants to detain illegal aliens, but we recently had a case here in Virginia or an illegal immigrant with an extensive and violent criminal history has been released back into the community several times due to this rule and is now stabbed and killed another woman. In cases like this, where is the line and should Virginia cooperate with ICE more freely in order to protect the lives of Americans? Well, by the way, before he answers, the answer is yes. Like that that's all you have to say.

You listen to that question with that context that we released somebody from jail with 40 prior charges who shouldn't have been out on the street. who took somebody's life, all these things are bad. Should we cooperate more to fix these problems before they get to the moment where ICE has to go into a neighborhood, a community, try to arrest someone, deals with people that are going to assume they're not a bad person,

even if the person that ICE is looking for has a rap sheet like this that they don't know about the crazy protester people. So all of these things could be avoided is the question. The answer is yes. Of course, if someone has a history of violent crime, they should be arrested and deported if they're here illegally. But I'll point out that over 80 percent of... You were good there. You could be done. You don't need to keep going, sir.

The individuals that have been picked up by ICE in Virginia as they try to hit their daily quotas have had no criminal history or record other than coming. into our country. And many of them, even having come in undocumented, were going through a process that would bring about legal status. So they're trying to play by the amnesty rules or other rules who are put... So I'll stop it right there. So here's what's interesting about that excuse to, real quick, before we take a break. The Biden administration changed something that allowed people to

start a process to ask for asylum, that likely wouldn't have worked. Like the assumption is that you get at the beginning stages of something where eventually a lot of people are caught and released, which means that they disappear. They never show up to any of their court cases. But nonetheless, this politician is pretending as though that opening up that door to more people the way they did it, not by changing laws. So essentially, a lot of these people who were in the pipeline probably weren't going to have success within that pipeline if they ever got to the end of it now means that they were likely

to get status. That's the way he shaped it. He goes, they were in the process. They were all very likely to have their status change and become Americans. That's not true. That's definitively not true. And also very much would be argued by the administration and by ICE itself, the amount of people who had been arrested had no prior charges whatsoever. Democrats very, very often ignore the rap sheets of people and pretend as though they don't exist because he had to pivot it that way. You can't possibly have a conversation on just the one thing and saying, hey, dangerous people shouldn't be allowed in our country. That is bad.

And these are the ways in which they create what is a fake assumption that people who support the other side are immoral. They're terrible people. They're horrible. They want to deport moms and grandmas from this country. That's how they do that. stuff like this. I quick break, a lot more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show. Burn a gun. You guys know, I have no problem using lethal force to defend my life for those

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio on X on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected to her in this show and all the cool things that they do. A guy with a nickname of Hot Tubb.

I don't know. I can't help it. I laugh immediately. I don't know why he's got the nickname Hot Tubb. It's not described in the Fox 4 story about this guy in Lubbock, Texas. I feel like that's a missed opportunity. I assume he likes to go to the hot tub a lot. I don't know if he invites women to the hot tub with him.

The guy's name is Stephen Glenn Riles, 74. He is the president of Bandito's motorcycle club. He was recently arrested for having tremendous amounts of meth andphetamine, like three pounds of meth and other things found in a raid on his office and his house and other things. Just crazy stuff found. but the thing I couldn't get over, I think he faces like 20 years in jail, is the guy's nickname is Hot Tub, and no one tells me why. You got to tell me why in the story.

Like, what's going on here? Does he just love them? Or is it more than that? Were the drugs found in the hot tub? Did he like the hot tub with his meth? I don't know, but I do really like that. I don't think the guy would love the nickname in jail. I think that that's probably not something he's going to like other people to know about him,

but nonetheless, guy caught with tremendous amounts of drugs. usually a bad move, especially a bad move in Texas. I will tell you that. Southwest is now cleaning only the premium seats between flights. If this is something that you actually do, by the way, don't tell people. I feel like so often the companies that admit stuff that they shouldn't admit could have done much better by keeping it a secret. It's like the stuff my wife shouldn't tell me that occasionally she does about myself, about the amount of weight I've gained, about all kinds of things. We would have been happier if you left this off the conversation sheet. But Southwest says that in between flights, because of how quickly they want to turn things around, they will not be

cleaning everything. They'll only be cleaning their premium seating and that other seating will get cleaned less often. So essentially they're telling you that if you're in the back, you have to deal with the trash and like it, which is a terrible stance for a company to take. Quick break. A lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Chapter. Chapter, great organization, great entity-grade organization and they want to help you with Medicare because you're you know you're supposed to trust the system but you know whether it's the government side or some like insurance agent but then you know you find out that your plan doesn't actually cover what you need so here's the thing uh medicare's confusing on purpose and that's how people end up on the wrong plan and they're

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She's awesome. She's back next week. I just happened to be needed for a quick shift here today. And thrilled to be in on the show. at D-Lash, at Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. A great ways to stay connected to everything she's up to, all the video and other things. And then I'll keep saying it at Radio Craig C. If you want to make me look like a respectable professional,

which I have like 500 followers there and need to do more on social media. That's all say about it. Gas prices are terrible. They're not as horrible as they were when Biden was in office. So they're terrible by comparison to what they were a short time ago. There was a gas spike. I will admit this. Anybody who has a brain will admit this, they're awful. Hopefully they're not awful for very long. And I remember all the times that Democrats told me that some pain was going to go away quickly, that inflation was transitory, et cetera, et cetera, and none of those wound up being true. And I know that President Trump seems to be a tiny bit on the defensive about the need for the air campaign that's going on in Iran and the obvious connection that it has to gas prices. But I want to play a little bit. some audio. This is CNN.

They're not talking about gas, but this is a retired general David Petraeus and he is saying the stuff that you're not supposed to say on CNN about how successful this campaign is in Iran so far because it's very likely that this might be over

sooner rather than later and maybe gas prices will go back down and we'll all be happy. I don't know. But I just thought within the context of some of the things that are going to make this less popular with the everyday American, this deserves to be played and especially if it was a guest on a far left

leaning place like CNN is often even though they're trying a little harder to not be that all the time but here let's play this I thought this was interesting. The case I actually see the military missions being accomplished fairly steadily here. The trajectory is very good. First

and foremost of course they went after the air and ballistic missile defenses took those down whatever had been reconstituted after the Israelis took them apart in the early days of the 12-day air camp pain. And that's crucial because we don't want to be restricted to just the F-35 stealth fighter bombers and the B-2 stealth bombers. We want to bring in the big ones, the B-52s, the B-1 bombers, and they are flying now almost at will. I would argue that we have actually achieved air supremacy, not just air superiority,

but again, I think people are cautious in making that declaration. He's not cautious in making that declaration, by the way. This is essentially telling you the thing that President Trump is saying from someone who's being interviewed on the other side of the aisle, that things are going well as far as the reality of the campaign and the likelihood that it's not going to be a month's or year-long conflict like anything that it's being described as on the left by Democrats. Another thing out there that I saw that I thought was pretty interesting. I think Twitchy is one of the prices. That's a great place to go. And I think Town Hall is a part of that place.

But unless, they cover some things that maybe you don't see anywhere else. And they have an article about a Federman and why he is who he is. Fetterman is someone who, Senator John Fetterman, when he first got into office, I think a lot of conservatives, rightfully so complained about him or criticized him or mostly just said that it seemed like for health reasons, he probably shouldn't be in the position he's in. And yet now, as he's someone who has, by and large, it seems, recovered from the early health issues he was struggling with getting over a stroke, he oftentimes will say things that other Democrats won't say. And what I love about this, his Democrats are trying to figure out why.

Like, where is this coming from? How is this horrible person doing these terrible things? And why are they saying it? And now they're blaming Federman's brother. They're saying that he's connected to a Fox News watching brother who's manipulated him and said horrible things. And I love that you can't just accept that a Democrat doesn't hate everything that Trump does or is willing to say out loud that some things that Trump does aren't terrible. But here's the reality of it. And this is according again to Twitchy and others. He also is a reflection of his actual constituents, which think about the rarity of that

in our society. Right now you have a lot of Democrats out there still claiming that voter ID is racism. And yet most Americans, most Democrats, most people that they say are the ones being racially unfairly treated, black people and minorities, other minorities, say they have an ID. They can vote. It's not a problem. Let's move past this. The constituents are saying one thing.

The politicians are saying something very different than that. But Fetterman reflects the very complicated base of people, or maybe not complicated, just different than our society expects, that actually do think things in the middle more than anyone else does. If you want to get elected in a place where a Democrat or Republican both have a decent chance of getting elected, where the base that votes for you

has a lot of independence in it, you do have to occasionally say things about the other side that are not crazy and terrible. And I love the fact that mainstream media can't handle that. They need to find a villain, a bad guy, a human, to blame. Someone else that you can vilify and say, terrible and then picture whoever it is in your own life who seems to to be within the description of this person they've said is awful. You have to hate the person in your own life too.

You have to hate the people that are tangible to you as well as the people that are used as the excuse to hating someone that maybe is behind you in a grocery store line. I don't know. It's just crazy to me. But I love that that's out there and I love that the website tried to tear it part. Also, Ilhan Omar has expressed concern. This was beyond tone deaf as a thing. Ilhan Omar went on social media on X on Twitter and said that she's worried about the amount of money that the American taxpayer may be spending in the operation going on in Iran, the air campaign against Iran within its first few days. I think Ilhan said it was something like a billion dollars that were being cost a day. Talk about the wrong politics.

to be out there saying stuff as loudly as she's saying it about wasting taxpayer money. It's the kind of thing, too, where someone hopes that they've drowned out their own fraud, their own ridiculousness, that they turned it into ice being bad guys and things happening on the street that you needed to focus on and don't remember about any of our fraud here. They hope that that's worked so well that they've brainwashed you so successfully, that now they can say the exact opposite thing of what they probably should be saying and that you won't even notice. You won't be like, wait a minute,

you're the person that helped lose billions of dollars in your own state to a tremendous amount of fraud, not a campaign that might actually do good down the road. This is something that might actually have benefit in the relatively near future if things go as well as they've been going so far, and yet you want to be out there complaining about the money. Obviously a bunch of people on. on X on Twitter attacked her and ridiculed her for it, but it doesn't matter.

Like, the bigger thing it shows me when this happens and it happens so often, and this is such an obvious take, I imagine most of you have thought it, but it annoys me, the arrogance of the people in politics. Like the, I'm so great, you're so stupid, I'm so smart version of behaving, that you would absolutely not interact with someone, even a friend of yours, if they acted this high and mighty, this much more elite or better than you. Essentially, it's the I want to walk on top of you as I walk into a store because you need to be my red carpet sort of thing. This is how these people are. This is how they contemplate what they put up on social media. This is how they live their day-to-day life.

They enrich themselves by getting these positions in political places. And then after all of that, the thing they can never accept is that they don't matter as much as they think they do. This is why actually in Texas right now, and I'll talk about this more in a little bit, Jasmine Crockett is actually sort of trying to claim that there's election fraud that's gone on. She's trying to say that she was prevented from winning the election because of some weird things that happened in Dallas County that were the fault of the Democratic Party, not the Republican Party. But nonetheless she's going the road of my win was taken from me, it was cheated from me by the system that she thinks is broken somehow amazing.

To hear a Democrat like that say that when they ridiculed Trump for saying the same thing and they protected Hillary Clinton for saying the same thing, a lot of it is just arrogance. There's a lot of people in politics who, when they lose, can't accept that they lost, like a Jasmine Crockett, who need it to be something else and then scream and yell about it

and then immediately denied it if it's someone else. They're so full of themselves, these people in our political system, that they're the worst version of the social media influencer. Somehow, the annoying person, by the, okay, real quick, just because I thought this was wildly entertaining. I went to a donut shop in Houston, Texas. I don't want to tell you which one.

It's not a famous one. It's, you know, a one-off, I think family-owned business. And I went in, and there was this young 20-something girl that was on her phone constantly. I think she was trying to be an influencer. She's taking photos of herself with the donuts. like doing dumb stuff. She's also probably supposed to be the person taking orders

because no one else is up front, just her. But she looked up for her phone for maybe a five-second window to take an order for me to give us some food and then hand it to us and that was it. But other than that, like that's as far as she could be separated from the thing she was doing that was about her and not about the job she was asked to fill. I'm guessing by her family.

And yet she's still less full of herself than politicians. Like, I kept thinking that the whole time. I'm like, you took all of five seconds to pay attention to me in a what should have been one to two minute polite interaction. You couldn't even give me that. You had to be focused on you too much.

And still, she'd probably be a less terrible person than the people we currently have in political positions of power because that's how special they think they are. That's how important. That's how much they think they matter compared to you. And it should annoy the crap and more of us. I guess that's my message for the day is we should just be annoyed. Don't be

annoyed with your fellow American the way that people tell you to be. I mean, you can't if you want to be, but I don't think that's winning anything. Be annoyed in the right places. Be especially upset with the politicians who are ruining your life in my life with all these selfish things they're doing and get them

out of office. And oh yeah, a lot of them, I think, are Democrats. A quick break. There's Republicans, too. I'm not going to pretend there's not. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Superbeats. You guys know the Superbeats hard chews for all-day energy and stamina. It's a great product from a great Texas-based company. But they also have their turmeric chews, which I take every day, and I cannot recommend them enough.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to everything she has going on. An upstate New York cop and also a former Dare officer, a drug abuse resistance education, as many of us remember that, was caught selling drugs.

That's not a good look. To be a dare officer and to tell us how terrible drugs are and everything that you could possibly do is a gateway to you being in prison and attacked by people, that essentially he's also doing the thing on the side. That's not a great move.

I do have some audio of a sheriff talking about the investigation into the case and thinking that maybe they educated this officer too well on all the different ins and outs of drug trafficking and drug trade. In order to push other people not to do it, which is also kind of a genius business thing. If I want to have all the drug selling of a certain area,

if I want to own my markets, I definitely probably should also be a dare officer, but here we go. Mr. Tapscott's phone, myriad of evidence and information, one of the largest forensic downloads that the investigators had ever seen. like tons of evidence on there.

We have so much evidence because the guy never thought he'd get caught. He had the perfect cover as a dare officer. I do wonder about the chicken and the egg there too, which came first. Was the guy a devout fighter of drugs who then realized he could do it better? Did he go breaking bad? Or was he someone who was doing the drug selling furs that eventually was like this would be hilarious? Let me also become a dare officer.

United Airlines new rule says that you can be kicked off. a flight if you listen to technology without headphones. People are saying that this is crazy, this is insane, that it shouldn't happen. I kind of love this. I've got to be honest, this is kind of a thing that I think is great. There's a online

etiquette expert. Her name is Jacqueline speaking about this, and this is how this story first went viral. I have that audio too. Let's go ahead and play on that. It is about time. I think that we need to pack our manners whenever we go on an airplane, whenever we travel. And

the violators of this, ironically, are parents, parents who don't put earbuds in their children's ear or headset. So I see it all the time when I fly. Yeah. No, parents who've gone ear-deaf or nose-deaf, the terrible things that their kids are doing are smelling like in public. This is true. I do hate people who play loud things in public in places that I'm trapped in with them. So I do think it'd be great to kick more of these people off flights. I'm totally fine with that. It might seem extreme, but I think it's the right move. And I think it would be celebrated by some of us who are very, very annoyed with these things. But I digress.

Also, I love this story. Wendy's is now hiring a chief tasting officer. The job pays $100,000 a year, so it's a good gig. You probably have to have a lot of social media followers to have a shot at it. But it really feels like sort of a not-so-veiled insult at the McDonald's CEO, who seems like he definitely doesn't want to take. taste his own food, a viral video of a McDonald's CEO promoting their new big Archburger and taking the smallest bite known to man and then seeming to put it away and claiming

it was going to be his lunch, but no actual proof of that. Wendy's now wants to hire someone who just eats stuff and eats stuff in front of a camera, which to me is hilarious. I love the way that all of these companies have sort of responded to each other because, yeah, I assume if you make enough money and have a fancy enough job and are in good enough shape, one thing you don't like consuming is Taco Bell or McDonald's or any of the fast food stuff, even if you're in charge of it. I don't blame the guy for being reticent to have a giant burger. If he's in decent shape as a guy of a certain age, as a guy in my 40s who struggles with that.

I don't blame him. I just think it was a terrible look for a video as most do. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Allen's filling in on The Dana Show. Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile is the only Christian conservative cell phone service, right, that's out there. There's nobody else that does what they do. There's nobody else that thinks like you.

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Sorry, I just sit playing some audio that you didn't get to hear, and I don't want you to hear Alex Jones saying they're turning the frogs gay. Here, this is the reason why. So there's something that actually happened today. This is a politician asking a Biden State Department admin about money we spent. We spent money trying to, quote, queer up some maps, queering maps. That's a real thing. I'll let the politician and the person that was formerly a person of, power in a, you know, the previous administration actually say this stuff out loud.

And then I'll tell you, I googled. How do you make a map gay? And I, I love Google's answer to this, but here we go. Can you tell me, what is queering the map? So I think we were trying to make the maps more gay. Literally? Well, why do you make a map more gay? I mean, especially or gay at all, you know, since the age of cartography, we've had pretty... When I first hit play on this, by the way, I really thought it was fake, like AI something. And I'm like, I can't play that on Dana's show. And so I had to look it up and find a bunch of places that we're saying that this is real. Let's continue.

Good maps, but maybe they weren't gay enough. So I know also I took critical theory in college. I think sometimes we use queer as a verb. I do understand that the maps that we were trying to make gay were, I think, of Czechia and Slovakia. So maybe those countries asked for it. I doubt it, but I don't know. We do have real things to work on in Congress, like what's going on with the imminent threat of Iran. There's a couple people behind this politician, Brian.

mass as he's asking these questions actually laughing. Like they're smiling and laughing at the answer. It's embarrassing that we have to talk about the fact that things like this were funded, non-binary and trans- Francophones, linguistic attitudes and ideologies towards inclusive French in Montreal, Canada, these things. I'm going to give you a list. My time has expired. I'm going to give you a list of these. Any of these that you can provide me.

The receipt for, the Facebook link to where they want. context, anything about it at all. But again, the very beginning, what is queering the map? Because we spent money to make maps more gay. And I won't play the Alex Jones audio of him yelling about the frogs being gay. It's immediately where my brain went, but it

didn't have to go there. But here's the thing. I Googled how you make a map gay. And I love the answer that Google gave me, because it's twofold. One, you mention more LGBTQ, whatever alphabet people locations on maps. This is to

them seem more friendly out of someone who might be looking for that. I feel like you need to have a straight map and a gay map now. There's the straight one for guys like me, and then there's the gay one for somebody else out there who might need their gay map for some reason. But then the other way you do it, and this was uniquely hilarious, is you just make it look gay. And this is not me.

Do not shoot the messenger. This is the internet speaking. It said you use vibrant colors. You use, you know, the rainbow flag somewhere on there, rainbows on there, and you just have a regular map with colors that make it seem like it's in the pride parade. And that's the real answer that Google gave, and apparently a real decision that the Biden administration made to do something that's tremendously odd, tremendously strange. And here's my favorite part. If I want to find something, I don't go to the traditional

places that these politicians might have spent a bunch of money on. I just go to the internet. and I Google the thing I want. And I'm never going to find the game app stuff because I'm not looking for that stuff. I'm finding the things that are for me. You know, I actually told producer Phil off the air about a recent trip I had to a Twin Peaks and how nice it was. How, you know, friendly and well served I felt. And the coworkers I was with felt after our experience there. I doubt Twin Peaks is on the game app.

But nonetheless, it was something I found because I put it in to my Google machine and it spit out what I wanted. I don't think I need these other suggestions. I also love this. I'll say one last thing about this, and I probably should just move on, but I can't help myself. I love how someone somewhere in the position of power

in these administration places thinks they're the right person to like open your eyes. Whoever you are, whatever. I'm not talking about just like gay maps and whatnot. I mean anything. They think that the thing you don't know about yourself will be discovered because of them.

like you've always looked at straight maps and you've never thought about anything else. And then all of a sudden the administration gave you a gay map for the first time in your life. And man, oh man, did you think some things differently than you thought before? They think that they're the arbiters of who you are and what you believe and how you live your life. And it's tremendously arrogant, as I've said before in this show today. This is just another version of it. But I love that somebody in that office was like, yeah, we need to help people figure out who they are. We need to turn the maps gay, and then maybe the frogs.

I'm not going to play. I'm so close to playing the Alex Jones audio, and I'm not going to do it. All right. Another thing out there I saw, I have no idea if this is gay or straight, you've got to tell me, and I'm sure the Biden administration wanted to. The Pokemon company is upset with the Trump administration for memes that the Trump administration has been using on social media. The White House recently put a Make America Great Again thing up that actually looked to be the backdrop of it, from a Pokemon video game or something like that.

And so the company's upset. And I didn't think I saw that coming. No, I know I didn't see this coming. As far as a 2026 storyline, the Pokemon Company versus the Trump administration. But we're living that time of our lives, people. It's a great time to be alive. Apparently, the White House has found a lot of success.

Using Pokemon images in their memes to maybe reach younger people. who don't even care about anything other than the Pokemon meme. I don't know. I don't know why this is a thing. But the company that owns Pokemon has said they're going to take legal action if the White House doesn't cease and desist in using their images in their political messaging. I find that hilarious. I don't know how to see anything different about that.

There's a lot of times, I'll say this, about myself and about a lot of political stuff. and I think that this might actually even lean into a flawed belief that I think a lot of Democrats have in how reachable someone like me might be. And they probably don't think I'm reachable. I fill in on shows like this. But someone who fits my profile. I'm a 40-something-year-old guy. I grew up on a certain level of brainwashing, whether it was actually in school or social media or non-versions of it, you know, what we saw on television. So I think they believe I'm susceptible to a very big.

basic message that everything's terrible, but we're the best of all this horrible stuff. Because I see that a lot. Let me try to explain that differently. There's a belief that there's a lot of voters who are so disenfranchised. And I think most people actually fit this category, conservative or Democrat, but so disenfranchised with how little Washington does to make your life better that even when you get motivated, like maybe a lot of younger men who voted for Trump were to put someone in office because they thought it would be something different than what they saw before,

that when their day-to-day life doesn't change enough, they immediately give up or they get mad or they blame all politics across the board. And so there's a belief that these people are reachable by the left right now, that you just lean into how upset you are, that things aren't going better for you, promise that they're the snake oil salesman who's going to make it better, and then that's essentially all you need to hear to switch sides again. and there are influencers out there like Andrew Schultz and Theo Vaughn

who have said they regret stepping into politics because the thing they wanted didn't happen and those voices are easily heard by some people of a certain age more so than people of other ages. And so I just think it's so fascinating. And maybe the Pokemon thing, whatever it is, is a version of this to me. But I find it so amusing that your core beliefs

could be so easily challenged according to these people in positions of power who think that they can create campaigns to reach you because your core beliefs are just very basic. There's not a lot of them. You don't believe that maybe abortion is bad or these other things that some traditional voters believe cause you to go from one side to the other,

one side to the other. And I think that's the big mistake they make because the messaging is still overwhelmingly the same. The people who tell you that young men are bad, that you should hate yourself. James Tala Rico, the latest it guy in the world of Democrats, the Mumdani in some ways of Texas, Texas's own version of a crazy socialist person. But anyway, his basic overarching message is simply that, is that if you're upset with things,

trust me, I'll do better than anybody else will do, give me a chance to turn the keys in this machine, and I'll make all the right decisions. And you already know going in how horrible and terrible it's going to be, He's said that he doesn't like himself. He says that he's had to deal with his whiteness. He's had to deal with his masculinity. He hates white men, and he's a white guy. And so I just love the fact that that message never goes away for these people

who try to win you over with their stupidity. And then on the other side of the aisle, you have the Trump administration using a Pokemon meme that I think they're trying to reach younger voters with, and then Pokemon gets mad about it because they don't want to be involved, although I doubt they'd complain if it was a Democrat for whatever reason. I might have lost myself in the weeds there, and I explain if I lost, I actually,

I apologize, if I lost you too. But I just keep thinking about it. It's just on my mind all the time. Right now, as we get closer and closer to the midterm elections, is what it seems to be, both parties planning indicates

that they believe will be their message of success to the independent voters they think are out there or the right-leaning voters in the past election who might change back and forth. Trump won the popular vote. So a Democratic plan to win an election goes through at least some Trump voters in most places. And the way that they think they can win is telling you the exact same thing Trump said to you, that politics are broken, that people who are in positions of power don't care about you,

and you need to trust us more. And yet the side of the aisle that wants more money, more power, more everything to go to the government that doesn't care about you is the side that's now promising they can fix it. And they have no interest in doing that. it sort of be like someone that's selling you something, claim that if you buy more of the thing they're selling you, eventually it's going to get better. They're like, just keep buying this thing for me

that's doing terrible things in your life, and I promise at some point it's going to go great. Here, let me give you a more concrete example. The guy at the donut shop telling you that if you eat enough donuts, you'll actually lose weight. Just trust me on this. You're not eating enough donuts yet. Eat more and eventually lose weight.

That never works. It doesn't happen. even though I wish it did. All right. I'll take a break. We'll get to some Florida craziness coming up in just a little bit because we do our Florida man stories. And I got some pretty good ones. This is Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. American financing. If you looked at your credit card statement lately, because I know you're working a lot of hours, but then, you know, you're also having to pay like 20% interest when you put stuff on your credit card. A lot of people are putting a lot of stuff on their credit cards. And the way that it's handled is designed to

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That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Danaash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow me on social media and occasionally hear about the Yankees. speed crash was caught on video. This was actually in Australia because a Florida man was driving behind the reckless people. And I love the fact that they say the guy from Florida just decided to record. Most of us might have thought that the crazy driving of people around us would cause you to want to be away from those individuals driving recklessly and potentially about to get into a

ridiculous crash. Cars were flying in the air. Like it was a bad scene. I'm not sure if everybody from it was okay or not. I don't even think it's in the story that I saw, but there were people that were pulled out of vehicles. But nonetheless, the Florida man caught everything on camera and put it up on social media. And when asked about it, the guy's last name is actually McDonald. He's like, I felt like something was going to happen. And I figured I needed it on my camera, on my phone, because that's the only way you know it's real. Just like voting and how you need to make sure you voted by posting the photo of you with the I voted sticker. This guy wanted the crash to be legitimate, so he put it on his social media.

I love that. I love that they call him a Florida guy. He did, by and large, probably what a lot of people do in our society now, but darn it, it's technically a Florida story. I'm going with it. The second one out there that I like, this is a Florida governor, a gubernatorial candidate who is running for office, James Fishback there. He said that he wanted to sit down for hot coffee and warm waffles with people all throughout Florida.

He actually said this on Tucker Carlson's show. in January. And he picked the Waffle House, of course, in Florida to do that because darn it, why not? If you want to have a conversation about politics and then watch a waitress fist fight somebody, the Waffle House is a place to do that. They banned him. They said no. They didn't want the craziness. The Waffle House didn't want the craziness of a politician having a political conversation in their establishment. And I thought that was great. The politician complained. He said that he was upset, that they said he wasn't allowed to do this. But nonetheless, again, they're like, no, no, no, we're held to a higher standard.

We are the Waffle House people. We are not going to have any sort of bedlam and craziness happening here. That's amazing, again to me, that they would go that road. And then finally, and this is probably my favorite Florida man story, as are the ones we found today, a Florida guy who was caught breaking into a woman's car, trying to steal stuff from her vehicle, really creepy dude. claimed that he just had the worst luck ever when he got arrested.

I believe I have some of this audio. We can try to play it if the commercials don't actually play along with this thing on News Channel 8, which I assume is always on your side in Daytona Beach, Florida. But they caught a guy. They actually arrested him in the woods near a parking lot. They made him like, you know, lay down and they had a police dog and stuff.

He definitely had a negative experience with police after committing a crime and doing a bad thing. but then they're walking him back to the police cruiser, and they're asking him if the crime he was committing is one he's going to admit to. And he's like, no, man, I wasn't even there. I don't know what you're talking about. Here, let's play a little bit of that. If we pull video from this parking lot,

you're not going to be in this parking lot at all? No. Why did you lie to me about being in this parking lot? I know what's going on, man. I didn't know what was going on, and your best course of action was the lie to the police? No. All right.

Hop in the car from him. Damn, man. Worst luck in the world, man. Come on. Man. Worse luck, man. I got the worst luck, man. How dare you?

Why are you rest of me for doing things that I was doing that were bad? And then he got me caught on camera doing those things that I was doing that are terrible. I love every part of that. And I love that the guy just keeps complaining and saying like, man, come on, man. Why would you do this to me? Man, it's the worst luck ever because, yes, he does seem to have a terrible, terrible luck in the fact that the place that he was trying to commit a crime, had a video camera of him committing the crime,

so he got caught doing it, and he couldn't lie his way out of it. That's how it goes in Florida or in general. And just to go back to it again, because the police officer said it, if you get caught doing something and you're not sure what the police are going to hold you responsible for, the worst possible decision is to choose to lie to the police.

That's not going to go well. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the show. Relief factor. A lot of people, whether it is, whether it has to do with sports injuries like my husband or maybe you're just like sore after your workout, whatever it is. Relief factor has a way to deal with those everyday aches and pains to deal with the soreness, to deal with the stiffness, all of that. And they have it with a 100% drug-free formula. It's all about supporting your body's natural inflammatory response, right?

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did the same thing. And those took several months for those conflicts to actually end. By and large, from the early days of this, it seems like our military has been so efficient that this will not take a very long time. But Caroline Levitt popped up on Fox News to have a conversation about some of this. I thought it was interesting. There also was a report that Russia has been giving Iran intelligence information to help it target U.S. troops. The White House seems

to be pushing this off to the side. Here we go. Let's play this. Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to help it target U.S. assets in the region. I'm sure this is something that does not please the president whatsoever. Has he spoken to Putin about it? Well, look, I'll

leave that to the president to answer himself. But what I will tell you, John, we don't comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press. Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter because President Trump and the United States military are absolutely decimating the rogue Iranian terrorist regime. We are now on day six of Operation Epic Fury. The United States military has impressingly established dominance and air superiority over the skies of Iran.

We have sunk and destroyed more than 30 of their Navy ships. And of course the goals of this operation have been laid out and very clear. Completely annihilate Iran's Navy, which again we are well on our way to doing. Their Navy has now been deemed combat ineffective. Secondly, take out their ballistic missile weaponry arsenal capacity, which we are very much doing. In fact, their retaliatory ballistic missile strikes against the United States and our allies in the region have decreased 90% just over the course of the last six days. And of course, the overall mission... Hold on a second, Caroline.

seems pretty good. That seems to be fairly effective so far. It is interesting, though, that the lead conversation there and Caroline Levitt saying, you know what, I'll let President Trump speak to it himself on this issue, and I'm not going to talk about it beyond saying we don't care because we're winning anyway, even if Russia is helping Iran, and maybe that'll have some sort of other problem down the road. President Trump has also made several references to Cuba and how we're going to send Marco Rubio there to make some sort of deal that. bad things don't happen in other parts of the world because people bleeped around and found out that you shouldn't mess with this president. That does seem to be a good thing. But nonetheless,

I thought there was an interesting breaking story from Fox that so far has been sidestepped by the White House. Because honestly, when you're in the actual process of destroying an enemy that you think you're absolutely winning as effectively as we're winning right now against people that declared war on us back in December. I like to continue to remind people of that. Whenever someone says, like, Iran's not our enemy, it's only Israel's enemy, and we're doing whatever Israel says. They declared war on us a bunch of times,

most recently, just a few months ago. And so now we're giving them the thing apparently they wanted by fighting them. And we're doing it in a ridiculously effective and efficient way, nonetheless. But I digress. I think what's interesting about that is saying, we're going to prove how much more capable we are than maybe even these other countries like Russia. Russia is struggling to fight Ukraine still,

years into a war that Russia said would be over in months or days that is nowhere near happening the way that they claimed it was going to happen. It seems pretty interesting to compare those things in a way that definitely matters for which country I'd be afraid to tangle with between the two moving forward. I'm not saying I want conflict with Russia far from it. I'm just saying that right now there's pretty stark differences in the

believability of our strength. Not just the talking about it, not just the on paper version, but the actual demonstration execution-wise of how good we are things in the world of our military. It seems like right now is the right time for everybody to leave us alone. Or at least if you don't want to have things happen to you to leave us alone. Trump has also said that we need to be involved in picking the next a leader in Iran because we need them to stop hating us. By and large, that's really what it is.

We need the people in charge to not view the United States as enemy number one or enemy number two. We need that to be a thing. And the Iranian people need to be happy and freed and all the stuff that is humanitarian or claimed to be humanitarian about this conflict. but we we want decent input into who that person is. And I'm sure we want some sweet, sweet gas deals to be a part of it too. And we want the gas infrastructure for our enemies to be completely upended. I will say that. And I know it's been more and more talked about, well, not really noticed right at the beginning.

Most Americans, I think, understand that Iran is a unique player in the world of gas, in the world of oil, and that Venezuela, less so. I think maybe Americans know this, but certainly still a valuable partner to Russia and China, we are upending all of that system. All of the things that forced us to not be capable of letting economic sanctions and other things harm those countries that we want to press our will upon or tell them what they're doing is wrong, get them to behave differently, get Russia to not invade Ukraine, for example, is one thing that the Biden administration wanted to do through financial sanctions.

Those didn't work. And a big reason they didn't work is the oil infrastructure, the gas trade that existed between Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, et cetera, et cetera. We're upending all of that. And I think it'll have tremendously good, you know, impact on us and on our society. I know gas prices have gone up a bit kind of quickly. I hope that they do actually go down. I hope that this is actually transitory, unlike all the times Democrats told us pain was going to go away quickly. I'm not sure if it will be.

We can reassess this a few months from now. I'm not promising you anything, but I very much hope that if this conflict ends and if we have a person in power that we can trust more, that things go well, not worse for us. I want to talk about the latest in the Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, Texas, GOP, Senate race, mostly because I'm surprised someone who's now living in Texas that this is such a big story nationally. And I think there's two reasons for it. I think there's a reason the left wants to. it to be a big story, and it's all about changing Texas to be liberal, believing that James Tala Rico, the Democratic candidate, can actually win a statewide race, something that hasn't happened in Texas in about 30 years. But I think that's the big reason the left and most media's obsessed with it is they think they see weakness in the water when it comes to conservatives, when it comes to, you know, the Trump support in a place as assumed supportive of Trump as Texas

actually is. And I think a big reason that the right wants to talk about it and that there's a conversation about what the correct steps are is because how many people in Texas actually don't like John Cornyn. Now, President Trump recently said that he will make an endorsement. Whoever he doesn't endorse should drop out of the race to limit the amount of spending and the amount of stuff that gets thrown at each other, the amount of war that gets waged in the political sense. in order to tarnish a politician who then has to fight a democratic politician in the actual election, the actual, you know, a process to pick our senator. So I think that's interesting.

The Trump asked for that. Ken Paxson said, no. He's like, if you don't endorse me, I'm not dropping out because there are a lot of Texans, no matter the baggage of the politician that would like to see anyone other than John Cornyn become our next senator. And the reason for that is that John Cornyn is all these stereotypical things that the base MAGA supporter doesn't like. He's squishy. When Democrats are in power, he leans with Democrats. He does things in Texas like restrict gun rights. He does this ever so, you know,

simplistically or ever so slightly, and he does it after Yuvaldi, but nonetheless he does it. He does things that the left likes that right leaning voters and MAGA voters or whatever you want to call them don't like. And he seems to be a typical 20 plus year politician who's basically a swamp a creature, more or less, although he does oftentimes vote with his constituents and vote with Donald Trump on things. So he's certainly much better than a Tal RICO or a Democrat. But I just think that the reason that it's so fascinating is there's this fight for identity and the left is hoping that that means that the political position of a state like Texas is weak. And then they can assume the political position of every state is weak or every city is weak.

and they're seeing elections like Mumdani and thinking that this is a mirror image of that, and it couldn't be further from the truth. I think out of all the people that I know in Texas in just the year that I've lived here, that would tell you that they really don't like John Cornyn, they really want to see someone else win that race in the attempt to become our next senator.

If it was Cornyn versus Tala Rico in the actual election itself, there's no chance they're voting for Tala Rica. It's just not happening. So Cornyn would win by default because he's the better of two things that one is evidently much worse. And that's the part that I think mainstream media is missing out on and not discussing enough because they don't want to admit that. They want to pretend as though Texas is in play. And you know what?

I'll say one very simplistic thing about this too. Because I think about this a lot when I see stories like this. Let's talk about the reason why media has a conversation, especially on a national level to a lot of people who cannot vote in the race, who don't actually care about the race, who don't know all the things I just told you about the beliefs that Texans might have of or the politician who's been in power for a while and the other one, because it's a very simple message. They want a lot of liberal people walking around this country thinking to themselves, well, Texas might vote Democratic. That's all they want you to say is Texas, to most people,

especially people on the left is one of the, you know, glaring along with Florida, Republican states. And they just want you to think, well, you know what? We're doing so great now. Our party is changing so many opinions that Texas might actually turn and vote for a Democrat. And that's simply not going to happen, in my opinion. Go ahead and put egg on my face if I'm wrong about this. But the insanity of the stuff that Talariko has said, he is called God non-binary, for example, in trying to, Curry favor with LGBTQ people and mesh is what he claims to be Christian, I think Catholic faith, with a message to the gay community, which is a weird thing to choose to do. Like you feel like you could have separate conversations and not try to merge that conversation together, but nonetheless he does it.

But anyway, the big goal of all of this is for you to walk around, be motivated to vote, because if Texas can change, maybe my city, my state can change too. And it's just such a flawed, failed, lacking context and purposefully simplistic message that they're trying to get across to a lot of the voters, especially maybe liberal, independent, or potentially some Republican voters to sway your opinion and make you vote in your election a certain way to join in and the change going on in Texas. And it's so far from the truth. I know I'm belaboring this point.

I just can't help it. That it amuses me as someone who just recently over the last year moved here. and has had a tremendous amount of conversations now with people who absolutely would vote for Cornyn over James Talrico, but really do not like him and really don't want Trump to essentially throw his weight behind someone who feels like part of the swamp. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the day and a show. Superbeats. You guys know the Superbeats, Hartchews for all-day energy and stamina.

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Don't shoot the messenger. A group of scientists decided to study why humans have bigger breasts, especially women, than most other animals. I love this. I love that especially women is in there too. Some guys might fall into this category. And apparently it was to protect babies. This was to keep babies warm while holding them close to your body.

That's why boobs have disproportionately grown in human beings and not others. But I love everything about this study, mostly because a group of scientists pitched this somewhere, got funding to do this, and then, you know, looked into it as to why also silicone might be a part of the issue or a part of the reasoning. But nonetheless, I just love that we now know definitively why something is the way it is. And I'm glad to have that information now in my back pocket. I do also like this story a lot. A couple from Amazing Race are now suing because they feel that CBS made them look bad

because they were bad at the show. Jonathan and Anna Towns, who struggled and believed that some of the editing was false or highly damaging to them, but struggled on the show also might have been depicted as, quote, morally depraved, brutal and abusive, or at least one was abusive to her spouse. All of this they said is untrue. And yet they did things in front of the camera.

As most people who do things in front of the camera have come to regret them, they did things they now regret. And so I just think that's interesting. The towns are asking for $8 million in damages and a public apology. They also want the show to be re-edited to remove some of the things that they think were uniquely damaging to the misses in this relationship. Just one question.

whose idea was the lawsuit. I feel like it might have been Anatoon and not Jonathan's idea, and that might say a whole lot about this too. But hilarious that they're upset in their portrayal, and so they want money, a whole lot of money. They should have just done better at the show. Quick break, a lot more. Greg Allen's filling in on the day and the show.

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I assume a lot of you feel the same way. Christy Noem is trying not to just go away. The former Secretary of Homeland Security has been using allies, according to the Daily Caller, to push back on some of the things that have been said about her or some of the narrative that exists right now as to why President Trump has decided to go another road and not have her in that position anymore. One of the things being claimed is that Noam wasn't receiving enough support from the president at the end of 2025 and that potentially he has lied about some of the things that he has said in the wake of it being announced that she's no longer going to get that job.

Here's what I find so interesting about this, though, is it would be so much better for all if you just went away. Like even if some of the stuff she's saying isn't fake, and I don't know. I have no idea. When you say that there's behind the scenes conversations, it's a he said, she said version of a thing, and you never know who's telling the truth. I assume I know who's telling the truth, but I don't know for sure.

Be honest about that. But nonetheless, after somebody gets fired, they don't take it well, especially in places where they're uniquely arrogant, as politicians often are. And so this is the thing now. And left-leaning media loves this. They can't wait to have a discussion with you

about Christy Noam saying Trump, about something. So you're feeding, you're doing the, you know, Marjorie Taylor Green version of feeding the beast because it's getting you a few more minutes of attention when you realize the gig you've been doing for a while is now over and that's a hard pill to swallow. As a guy who's lost jobs and been in radio for, well, my entire adult life now, I can tell you that the best thing to do is just move on. It's the same in relationships. Just find somebody else that's usually better than continuing to wallow and claim that the other side was bad. It's usually better to just move on.

All right. I want to play this. This is CNN. They are traveling in Iran and they're trying to tell you that things in Iran are actually pretty good, even though occasionally some bombings and some other things are happening. This strikes very similar to when Tucker Carlson, excuse me, was criticized for going to Russia during the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the U.S. financial sanctions that were supposed to have crippled the economy there and claiming they hadn't.

The strikes very similarly to that, but it is, however, different. And I'll tell you why in just a second, but let me play some of this audio first. Taking a quick break for a coffee along the way. We've been driving for several hours. There's a couple of things that we've noticed. Number one is that, first of all, all the shops are open. All the shops are really well stock, even with fresh things, like, for instance, fruits and vegetables. Coffee, obviously, also available as well. And then also the gas stations.

There's no long lines as gas stations. Fuel seems readily available. And you just don't see any sort of degree of panic anywhere. Yeah, so there's no war is essentially what CNN is trying to say. And then at the same time, Democrats are saying there's an endless conflict going on that's terrible and horrible. I think this is so odd that this happens because where exactly on the road they are in Iran, I think would have a big thing to do with how much of the potential strikes they're at. actually seeing whether or not a strike is occurring or not in that moment probably also plays a part in it.

But to say that life is normal anywhere in a country that is dealing with a conflict is such a stupid version of quote unquote news being like, look, we're telling you the truth. Because we found a spot where things seem calm and normal and nice and the coffee is apparently delicious as the guy was trying to say there. I just find that to be such a dumb version of evident fighting. It's evidently trying to, it's not trying to tell you the truth. It's evidently trying to fight a narrative they don't like by creating a new narrative in whatever way they can, whether it's a legitimately valuable way or in this way a fairly performative version of,

see how great things look over here. And that was the biggest complaint with Carlson. And I think that the reason why Tucker did it was because it would be popular on social media. As someone who had lost his job in television and needed to rebuild his audience in a new place, going viral is a good thing. And his trip to Russia and a Russian grocery store definitely got a lot of eyeballs and clicks. To be honest, and I know I haven't mentioned this much on the show today, the Candace Owens thing, the ridiculousness, the continued insanity of it,

and the things that I see on social media where people react to it and the, I don't know, just insane message that she's trying to get across with no real proof that it exists. It has benefited her in the amount of attention she's getting, but not all attention is actually good. It is good in the world of what I do, what she does, what people do who want, you know, broadcast or excuse me, advertiser dollars to go into their broadcasting. The more eyeballs, the better. But it doesn't mean the things I'm saying are legitimate or that the people I'm talking to believe the message I'm giving them. them. They might just be interested in hearing what I'm saying because they heavily disagree with it.

It's the Howard Stern rule, as we've heard multiple times play out. And this feels like another version of this. I want to subvert a narrative at all costs because I think it'll get me some success in the places I want success, not because I'm actually after telling people the truth. All right. Another thing out there I saw, this is Caroline Levitt, talking about the Save America Act. And my favorite objection, before I hit play on this audio, of all the objections to this act, is that it's not necessary because people who are here illegally don't vote in elections anyway. That is my favorite objection. Oftentimes, when someone tells me that the reason we shouldn't do something is that it's unnecessary, that's my favorite thing. Because why not do it anyway?

Is always my response. When you tell me, you know, it's not necessary to do this. We're not really having this problem. So we don't need to do this thing where you're trying to make a law that doesn't need to fix a thing that's, that's, you know, something we can just ignore because it's not happening, then why not do it? How much easier would it be? This is something I've learned as a man who's been married for over 10 years now. It's very easy. If you don't want to fight a battle because you know the battle is pointless, do not fight it. Let the other side win this battle because it's better to move on to the next thing, the thing that might be more important.

It's better to just lose because it's not a loss in all honesty if you really think that nothing is changing. And they know that that's not true. But here, let me play Caroline Levin a little bit and how important this message has become that we need the Save America Act that makes it hard to vote in our elections without proving that you're a citizen.

And you can do this multiple different ways, whether that is, you know, a driver's license and some other documentation, or whatnot. There's a lot of routes to demonstrating that you're actually a citizen who deserves the right to vote in this country and most Americans support this

and yet they're trying to fight about this and claim it's racist or something else. Here's what Levitt said. Thank you, Caroline. The president had a July 4th deadline for the one big beautiful bill. Does he see a deadline for the State America Act? As I know that's a priority of his to get passed. As soon as possible, I know the president

would say this is a huge priority for the president. It remains one I know he has added on some priorities to the Save America Act in recent days, namely no transgender transition surgeries for minors. That's good. We're not going to tolerate the mutilation of young children in this country and no men and women's sports. Yeah, those two things are good. I know that it's bad audio because for whatever reason the person didn't point their microphone at the person they asked a question to. That's a rookie mistake.

But nonetheless, yeah, I think that passing a bill to secure our. elections does not need to also have stuff about men playing women's sports or trans and kids. It seems like those things could be separate issues. You talk about differently and maybe, you know, human discussion causes you to realize a lot of it is ridiculous and political and dumb to fight about. But nonetheless, to get back to it and the thing that actually matters, she goes on to say that the vast majority of Americans agree with this act, think that it should happen, and believe that there's no reason for it to be taking this long.

And I understand the frustration you have in the world of our political system when something like this can't seem to get passed, and the left wants to tell you it's bad and horrible and racist when you evidently know it's not. But here's the more interesting thing to me too. And again, this goes back to the whole excuse that we don't need this, so why pass it, why take time? Our political system is so,

slow. They do so many things that take so much longer than they should take that if you had the ability to breeze something through, they're like, yeah, no, we don't think that anyone who's illegal is voting in this country anyway, and just breeze it through, baby. Just go ahead and pass that to at least tell people you're doing stuff. Here's the way that I'd like to do it. I'd like to force our politicians to be the person at the office that you know is not doing any work. You know they're not doing work. Everybody in the office knows they're not doing stuff. They might occasionally work from home, whether you know they're not even really looking at their computer. And occasionally they put in a report of some kind. They pass something through that everybody sees

and they're like, oh, look at this. Look, Bob has done something. That's what our politicians need to at least be. They need to have the desire to prove that they're working to keep their job. And they don't even have that. They don't even have any version of, I think I need to demonstrate to the American people that I deserve my paycheck right now because they don't give a crap about you or me. as I've said a thousand times, certainly many times in the show, but I think just that little, that smidge of wanting to demonstrate

that you're doing something, would be so great. So go ahead and do it for that reason. Pass the Save Act to show us that you're doing any work at all and deserve some version of a paycheck. They won't do it. It would be lovely if they at least did.

All right. I want to take a break, but before I do, I do want to mention that I have Britney Spears news. I know I usually talk about politics, take a break, stuff, but I can't help this man. Britney Spears might be facing jail time.

There were pills found that were probably laced with narcotics or possibly, I think is the way TMZ said it. I remember when my wife got really into the Britney Spears stuff, which is a thing that happened. I think a lot of people, especially a lot of women, got into this. They thought that the conservatorship was bad, that Britney Spears was being treated poorly, which may still very much be true. and because of that she needed her freedom.

I talk about someone who you just kind of stop paying attention to if you're in that group. I think a lot of people in that group don't follow up on all the issues that have arisen since Brittany has been given control of her life back. I'm not saying that the same people need to take control again because they probably abused it. I am saying there was probably a reason

that Britney Spears was dealing with some of the legal limitations she was dealing with, and she kind of keeps proving it. So it's out there again. I know that many people don't actually think that Brittany will go to jail for this, because she's well, famous and other reasons. But nonetheless, like, that's the latest in the world of Britney Spears is that there was pills found that possibly were laced with some illegal things, and she might be facing some jail time and some other issues.

And who knows what's happening next? I feel bad for Britney Spears. To be honest, I don't know what it's like to have that level. of fame at that young of an age in your 20s and essentially just be thought of as a sex symbol and then to not be that by 2025 or 2026 as it is now. But nonetheless, like some issues around Brittany and I wonder when the next documentary is coming out for free Britney again, but this time from herself. All right, quick break, a lot more, well, a little bit more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people

while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. This is The Day and a Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. It's a little time. I left to do it.

I do like this study of Vice Magazine. I actually put this story out just the other day. People getting way more fatal car crashes on days when new music drops, or very popular new music, I should say, drops. The study at Harvard Medical School looked, into the most streamed tracks on Spotify or, you know, Apple products. And then from 2017 to 2022, looked at the amount of car crashes and car deaths that occurred and found there was a 15% spike on days when some of the, you know, top streaming tracks were released that people

died in car accidents. That is terrible. It's not actually proof of anything, by the way. correlation is not causation, as it says, within the study itself. But a 15% jump is this uniquely big jump. And yet my brain could only go one road. As I'm reading about all these, you know, famous new songs that come out, Taylor Swift, Drake, whoever it might be, and how they might be causing new car accidents. The thing I couldn't help but wonder is when did a really good song actually come out. And I know this is a bah humbug thing from the wrong generation a guy, but music's just not the same as what it used to be, I guess. So I can't think of like a truly marquee.

Like, oh my God, this song is amazing. Corresponding to or comparing it to like the Rolling Stones of the Beatles putting something out and being like, this is everybody's got to listen to this. This is causing car accidents throughout the country right now. It just doesn't seem to be the same. But granted, that's me. And as I was just talking to producer Phil off the air, a person, both of us who don't recognize most of the Grammy-nominated artists that are out there.

Maybe we're the wrong crowd for this. I don't know. I'm just saying that whatever the new music is that's been released between 2017 and 2022 that may have caused more distracted driving, I was luckily immune from it. I was luckily capable of making it just fine without being distracted by this stuff because it's really not that good. Bah humbug, that's me. That's my take in it. I also found this. Another study that I thought was interesting. Researchers, excuse me, tracked thousands of older adults for up to 12 years and found one thing that. that consistently improved their livelihood, and it was thinking positively about getting older. The opinion you have on whether it's terrible or not to get older might make you actually much happier and then more healthy in life as you, in fact, get older. I love the brain bleep that that is, like the brain confusion that was caused in me in reading this.

Because I definitely complain, as a newly 40-year-old man at the tail end of last year, at the things that don't work as well as they used to work my body. The pain you have waking up and getting out of bed that you shouldn't have had because all you were doing was sleeping in between when you didn't have pain and when you do have pain. And I know to some I'm young, to some I'm old, depending on who you are out there. But I love the fact that they're telling me that's all wrong.

If I'm just happy about it, if I just think good things about my inability to keep up on the basketball court anymore during a pickup game with young people, that it'll make me a better, healthier person. But bah, humbug, I like being angry. I like being mad sometimes. I think I like complaining. Don't take that away from me. I think it would actually make

me a sadder person. I think they needed to study that, how much you like complaining as to whether or not it made you better or worse to be positive about the bad things happening to you. If you like complaining, I think you might enjoy to continue to say that this isn't fair and that might actually make you healthier somehow.

I don't know. It doesn't matter. All right. I'm out of here. That's it. That's the show. Thanks as always. Have a great weekend.

Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.