The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Vivek’s Post Sparks Chaos, Panama Canal Debate & Dating App Deception

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

A fight breaks out online after Vivek Ramaswamy makes a pro-immigration post following Trump’s appointment of his AI Czar. A woman went viral for pretending to be a man on a dating app to see how difficult dating can be. Rep. Byron Donalds says Joe Biden doesn’t even know he granted all those pardons. A body is found in the wheel well of a United flight from Chicago to Maui. Should the US take control of the Panama Canal? Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary supports Canada becoming the 51st state. The Former FBI and CIA chief urged senators to sink the nominations of Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard. Grabien puts together the Top 10 Media Lies of 2024. Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comInnovation. Performance. Keltec. Learn more at KelTecWeapons.com today.PreBornhttps://preborn.com/danaEvery contribution counts.  To donate securely dial #250 and say keyword BABY or visit Preborn.com/DANA. 

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 or Dana Lash Radio are great ways to stay connected to her, to see everything going on for a very talented human being who has a few deserved days off. She will be back toward the tail end of next week. Let's do this first. I think this is pretty amazing.

There are two hit pieces or two discussions about Cash Patel specifically. that seemed to be designed to try to prevent him from having a role in, you know, the FBI. There is also a, at least one reference to Tulsi Gabbard and how she'd be a terrible person to be in charge of an intelligence community, the intelligence community as well. This is awesome. What this obviously means is that Trump is very much over the target, or these individuals are very much over the target, because the establishment is coming out to reject it.

specifically William Webster. William Webster is 100 years old. He ran both the FBI and the CIA at one point in his life. He actually ran the FBI and CIA for Reagan to a degree. He was in charge of one when Reagan was in office, and then Ronald Reagan pointed him to be in charge of the other one before leaving office. So as the only individual alive who's run both organizations, he says that he has differing issues with Patel and Gabbard.

He says Gabbard is simply not experienced enough to be the national intelligence lead. And then Cash Patel is too tied to Trump. So that's why he can't be the director of the FBI. However, and this is what I would say in response to any of this, beyond even just these two nominations, but anyone that they're saying experience is the issue, it's, you know, the lack of qualifications here is going to cause a problem. One, you've obviously never been to Washington, the amount of people who are put in positions of power that have no relevant experience to the world in which they're asked to lead. A great example is Buttigieg and the transportation department.

But so many of these things happen. And somehow, if it's the other side of the aisle, they claim things are just fine. You can also fire people if they fail, which is something that seems to be forgotten in D.C. These aren't supposed to be lifelong appointments. They're not even supposed to be terribly long appointments at all, typically lasting the course of a presidency or so, maybe longer. than that. But honestly, if you fail within a few months, uh, fired, uh, Trump knows all about that. I think he had a TV show that you might remember in which he fired people prolifically.

And he could do it that way too. But all of this establishment rejection means there's something they're afraid of. Sure, you can make the argument as William Webster tries to do, uh, that you need people that are independent of politics to be in charge of our, um, you know, systems that desire a lack of any sort of bias, but those systems are already incredibly biased. They're incredibly flawed. Lifelong employees of our government are overwhelmingly democratic in their beliefs, their positions. Somewhat logically, if that's the side that wants more government and more money funneled toward government, and you work in it. And then there's people who want less government and more money funneled away from it, and you don't want to see

that happen. But for a lot of reasons, the partisanship of our bureaucracy is well-studied, well-understood, and insanely to the left. And so to say that these outsiders might acquire these positions of power and the need for them to not have years of experience within a system that hopefully they're going to be questioning from the ground up and maybe changing from the ground up. It is important. You can't hire someone who has a 30-year career in a broken FBI if you want the FBI to behave differently. The New Yorker also did a hit piece saying how ridiculous it was that these are, you know, people that are being nominated for certain positions and that they assume that they're the kind of people who would immediately weaponize the departments that they're a part of

in order to go after the everyday American. I also laugh at that. And I probably laugh harder at that than anything else that people say. Because even if they did weaponize, and I'm not saying they will, I don't think they will. But even if they did, they're not doing it to go after the everyday American. They're doing it to go after other politicians that probably are guilty of terrible stuff

no matter who they are. And they want to pretend they being mainstream media or the politicians themselves, that you're the target. Because everything's all about how you're at risk, you're screwed. Trump becoming president is going to hurt your life, even though it's probably not.

even if you hate him and didn't vote for him, going to have much of an impact in your day-to-day life. Hopefully some, hopefully some prices get cheaper for you. But by and large, you're probably not going to feel all that different with Trump in the White House than you did when Biden was in the White House as far as your day-to-day experience goes,

again, outside of hopefully the cost of a whole bunch of stuff being cheaper and maybe some crazy discussions being less common in the world of politics and actual policy. But I digress. Like, you're going to wake up, you're going to go to sleep, you're going to go to your job. You're going to do certain things, and that's unlikely to change all that significantly,

immediately, if at all, during the next four years. But politicians talk all the time, and a lot of talking heads do, about how, you know, you are the true victim, you are the true person hurt in this way and in that way, and 99 out of 100 times it's them as the only target of the problem. And so, even so, even more so, it makes that just very amusing to me, that that's the narrative that's out there for us to deal with. There's another thing out there in the world of just crap that politicians say that I should have talked about earlier,

but I can't get over how ridiculous it is, to be honest. Kamala Harris put this out on Christmas Eve, and to be honest, part of me just doesn't care about the vice president anymore. That's probably part of the reason it took me this long to get to it. But also just the ridiculousness of this when you dive into any of the history of Kwanza. And I'm going to admit to you, I'm no expert. I'm not someone who knew a whole lot going in,

and I imagine a lot of people fall in the same boat I'm in. We actually kind of have to look it up to understand much of anything about it, something I've done relatively recently. One of the most significant things that you might not know about Kwanza, the guy who created it still alive. He created it in 1966, and he's someone that believed, among other things, that Jesus was insane.

That's something he said before, and that Christianity is a white religion that black people should shun. That's where Kwanza came from for him as something that he was giving to a specific community so that they could remove themselves from another community, that he sounds a whole lot like he hated. But nonetheless, people celebrate it today for all kinds of reasons. It's existed for 60 years. I'm not telling you what to do or not do about this holiday or made up holiday or whatever you want to call it.

I was invented in 66, though. again, that's important because Kamala Harris, who was born in 64, claims that she grew up celebrating it. It would be tremendously difficult for that to be true unless she comes from incredibly radical family, because the only people who really knew about this were black nationalists or radicals, as some people call them, people who believe in very, very significant versions of separation, segregation, whatever you call it, between, you know, individuals based on race. And this didn't become a more widespread thing until about 1980, which means at that point, Kamala Harris would have been much, much older than she's describing herself as being

in this video. You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanza. Every year, our family and our extended family, we would gather around across multiple generations. And we tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs. And, and we would, and, we would like the candles and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal. And of course there was always the discussion of the seven principles. All right. That makes me need a drink. No, I'm kidding.

This is actually an energy drink, not an alcoholic beverage, but I wanted to pop it open after I listened to that because that's insane. Because again, the only way that she's telling the truth that as a small child, she sat around on the floor as generations of her family came together to celebrate Kwanza, as if she is directly connected, which is something. some people said about her and her family to more radical individuals in certain spaces because otherwise she wouldn't have known about it until she was definitely not a kid anymore as most people didn't. It wasn't something that was even acknowledged by Bill Clinton until the 90s

and something that's got widespread levels of familiarity with the American people until even after that. So questions abound as to how exactly Kamala Harris's early childhood went. the things that she and her family were involved in, et cetera, et cetera. And I also just love the fact that she says generations and the elders, because they would be learning what it is for the first time, too, along with Harris, if this is something they celebrated quickly after it was created in order for her story to make any sense at all. All right, another thing out there that I thought was interesting and just silly and also kind of awesome, Trump is going to restore the Diet Coke button at the White House.

If you don't know what this is, when Trump was in, you know, the office last, he had a red button on his desk in the Oval Office that he could push that would have a butler deliver him a Diet Coke. That's all it did. It's the red Diet Coke button. It went away for Biden. And now it's going to come back for Trump before he's in the White House again after his inauguration day. And that's freaking awesome. I would think if I were president, I actually have a buddy in media who would do this as a question. question every so often. If you were king for a day is what he would ask me. I need to answer that

question and listeners would answer that question. And this is probably one of the littler things you might do if you had a unique position of authority and power in the world. If you get a button that just delivers you something you like, I might have mine be a steak button instead of a Diet Coke button. Granted, I'd use it less often than I assume the president's going to use his Diet Coke button. But it would still be amazing. Every time I press it, a medium rare steak, delivered to me would be incredible. What would you do? If you were king for a day or president, et cetera, et cetera,

I don't know why I keep using that a phrase, but what would you do? I think I would do steak for a day, and I'd be absolutely thrilled with that. I guess another way to say it is what would you do with $1.15 billion? Because if you win the mega millions that's going to have a drawing tonight,

you can probably also afford to hire a butler and install a red button on your desk, wherever it is you work, wherever you would definitely stop working the day after you cast your check for $1.15 billion. All right, quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana show.

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your podcast. This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Let's do a quick five. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. I saw that Netflix released its numbers for its Christmas games, and they were about

5 million viewers shy, at least the people who watched more than a few seconds of these games, other than the numbers from last year's broadcast TV numbers. That's a big deal. That's a big win for Netflix to be within 5 million of the broadcast television stats one year after it switched over to be a mostly Netflix thing. And also the amount of exposure that these sports are getting on an international

stage is way up comparatively because of Netflix use in all these other countries. Although there were still streaming issues and buffering issues and challenges. But I know that this is being somewhat used as a negative because the numbers were lower than television. But come on, it's on Netflix and it's crushing it. For some reason, Netflix wants to be TV, though. We're slowly turning it into what television used to be. And eventually people are not going to realize that we're paying more for the same thing. Once it has more live stuff and then more commercials and all that other crap. But all right, that's a big story out there as far as a quick five goes.

Another quick five that I thought was interesting. Florida is going to start using radioactive material for its roadways. I don't know how big of a deal this is actually going to be. I know that it's a heck of a headline, a lot of places. But there is some byproduct of phosphorus money. that might be used as roadway material that apparently as it, you know, starts to evaporate and break apart, actually does go radioactive. But hey, it's Florida, which is a place that I actually live.

And also we'll talk about Florida man in a little over an hour so. So darn it, this feels like it fits right in there. And it's only going to be in a small area for now. And we'll see how it works out and how many people start glowing before we roll it out to more places, I assume. Also, this story, which I thought was pretty interesting, scientists have discovered a pill that they think will enhance the lifespan of a dog, maybe a year, maybe more. They're not exactly sure. In the press conference for the product, I love that the people said, we're not making dogs immortal.

Not that people were asking for that, or who knows, maybe they are, but we are extending their life. The most exciting part of this, at least for some, is the pill might eventually be relevant to humans to extend our life. life to give us a longer lifespan too. However, you might doubt any efficacy there, and I wouldn't blame you for it. But for now, it is a beef-flavored daily pill designed for dogs that slows down their metabolism and some other signs of aging that allows them to have longer periods of time where they're, you know, healthy and in their prime before they start to get older. So we'll see how that works.

We'll see what good that does. It feels like it could be the beginning of a terrible set of stories. that involves some horrible things. And actually speaking of that, just quickly is another top five topic. Bird flu is the latest version of Be Afraid of this during the end of the holiday season and into next year because we might use it to shut everything down.

There are multiple stories about bird flu outbreaks, about mutations in the world of bird flu, pretty much everything, trying to scare, fearmong, or whatever, us back into some version of, well, we might have to hide inside for a few months. We'll see if they go that far. I imagine they won't. But this feels like the beginning stages of that as far as a lot of the reporting from Yahoo, CNN, pretty much everybody on this topic. I am zero percent afraid of bird flu right now. And I assume you are too. And good for

us to not be afraid of that. We'll see how the next year goes. One last thing too, just quickly, Bill Clinton was discharged from the hospital after being treated for the flu. I think it was just regular and not of the bird flu variety. And some things I love about the fact that the Diet Coke button and Bill Clinton are in the news together has made people wonder what the red button was that Bill Clinton might have had installed when he was in the White House and what it summoned for. I don't want to answer that question. You don't want the answer to that question. I have no idea what it is. I think maybe I do. Anyway, quick break. A lot more coming up. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Our partners who help make it so ready wise, they're always ready, even if you're not

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Dean Lash or Dana Lash Radio as well. There are two relationships that mainstream media, well, maybe three. I don't know if you want to call them two, but there are a few relationships. Let's go with that one. that mainstream media and a whole lot of politicians, a whole lot of people throughout the world, would like to see obliterated. One of the first ones is Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

They'd like that to go away. In any platform, any scenario that it currently exists, they do not want the world's richest man, a guy who on paper should be wildly popular with Democrats, but is not mostly because he's vocally opposed to them. That's a good reason not to be. and the most powerful man in the world from a position of president of the United States. That alone is a recipe that scares a lot of people because of how much can be done,

how much, you know, influence or how many things could be exposed via those two working hand in hand. And of course, ownership of X or Twitter is a big part of that too. I say three, because I guess Vivek Ramoswamy and his relationship with either Elon or Trump is sort of its own thing too. I don't think anyone is as threatened by Bavake's involvement of this stuff, but he's certainly the next most high-profile person. And then finally, the last relationship that mainstream media, legacy media, left-leaning media, whatever you want to call it, and a whole lot of politicians would like to go away, is our relationship with those people, specifically with Elon and his social media platform. They want you to hate him. They want you to hate him because they don't want his influence to wind up causing things like what happened with that spending bill. That spending bill was eye-opening to a lot of the people in places of power because Elon Musk and Trump single-handedly destroyed it,

pulled a lot of money out of a lot of hands and funded the government for a few months with a much cleaner, cleaner bill. So in response to that, the machine is at work or whatever you want to call it. Tinfoil hat, you know, if you want to call me that for saying this. The latest version, which might seem like a self-inflicted wound, Vivek and Elon went on social media, Vivek more so than Elon at first, and complained about a thing that they think needs to happen. That would be specific visas that allow tech companies to attract talent beyond the United States,

something that already exists, and maybe even expand it, because there's just not enough talent here for those type of high, and jobs. This caused an explosion on social media with a lot of people and a lot of media telling you that MAGA is turning on Elon and on Vivek Ramaswami because of their interest in not being America first or whatever it is. So a few things matter about this topic. First and foremost, it's simply true. It might make you mad to say it out loud. You might refuse to believe it, but the amount of talent for these types of jobs is less and less coming. from our country because less and less people educated in our country, born and raised here,

are the best of the best in that world. That's not a good thing. That's a thing we can fix. We can fix it in a few different ways. One of them is probably dismantling the Department of Education and rebuilding something that has a better focus on educating our young people in ways that matter and not brainwashing them in ways that don't. But the truth is that that system is broken.

in math alone, if you look at us compared to other well-developed countries, we're toward the bottom in test results and in achievement results. And that's just one caveat of what it would create, you know, the recipe needed to create a really, really good engineer or a tech sector employee. So this is simply a true thing. And I believe, actually, the intention of a Vivek Ramoswamy, or Elon Musk, in having this discussion via social media with the American people, was to get to that point, to get to the point of how you can reshape it and change it and make it different and, you know, make it better so that more Americans are getting these jobs and they're not being sent other places.

It's also completely devoid of any discussion about illegal immigration. A legal immigration is not bringing in the best of the best, as Trump famously said. It's bringing a whole lot of people that we have no idea who they are or, you know, what their intention is. Well, they're here. You can't pretend you know who they are because the whole thing about being illegal. as we don't. Even more so than that, this discussion about people who have high-end skills that we don't have here makes us a more innovative country. It makes us more capable if the best people, the cream of the crop, are being skimmed off the top of other places because they want to

live in our country. They want to succeed in our country because it's the best place for them to be. But beyond that, too, the other thing I keep thinking is this is just the beginning. The amount of discussions that are going to exist that will try to convince everyone, everyday Americans that you need to hate Elon and of a vague, which was already existing for a while and already convinced anyone that's on Blue Sky, which, by the way, that social media platform recently was found to be incredibly toxic and hateful, some deep dive into the amount of things that are allowed on there. Granted, they're all heavily one-sided, but like death threats and stuff. It all exists on Blue Sky. It's just all the things that liberals want to do to hurt Republicans, so that's allowed. And the other stuff isn't. I find that funny in just a very different way. But unless all these ways to try to vilify and change and destroy this relationship are all in intention that comes from the desire of the elite to keep doing their own thing in their own world and not have to deal with us, even though because we're the voters who put them in positions of power, we actually have power. And I'll say one other thing about this.

I don't mean to rant about this topic on a holiday show, but I can't help it. You probably know people in your life. you might even be someone who believes a version of this. I'm a gun owner. I believe in the Second Amendment. I do believe the reason the Second Amendment exists is partially because the founding fathers envisioned a world where the government turned on the people and the people would have to fight it. And that makes sense because they were currently fighting a group of people that were claiming to be in charge of them that they thought didn't have their best interest at heart. So, of course, they built that into the system of the country they were creating. But the reason I'm saying all this is because a lot of people will say, as you can,

complain about the system, the political world we live in, D.C., whatever it might be, people immediately stand up somewhere in the conversation and go, well, you're not talking about a revolution, right? You're not begging for people to take up arms and go attack, you know, D.C. or attack anywhere. How dare you say that that's horrible and terrible, and you'll start an uprising and we'll all be screwed. And I'm not saying that. I don't think we should do that. And I don't want to be confused to saying that. But this version of our voices being able to matter via a social media platform that's not overly censored and has a direct connection to the current guy in charge is the president of the United States. That feels like a valuable way

to quote unquote revolt without any danger, without any, you know, violence happening in the streets. And so you'd think more people would advocate for that. More people would be supporters of the idea that there's this platform and this leader of, you know, said platform or just richest guy in the world who's connected to a power structure and willing to change it. I mean, it's amazing that more people aren't thrilled that our spending bill went from 1,500 pages to way less pages and way less money just simply because it's a good thing. And if there is unique funding that's missing within there, as I said the other day, and I'll say again, that does things like benefit research that's tied to cancer and kids and trying to prevent it,

we're trying to fight it, then fund that. Then the American people will be okay with that, but fund that on its own. Don't fund that in a lump sum bill where you're hiding a lot of the stuff that we're not supposed to know about. But I just think this is fascinating. I don't know how you feel about the statement that the tech sector itself needs people to work in it that don't get educated or aren't from the United States. And I don't care actually how you feel because it's simply a fact right now and a fact we can change. And that's the point to me. The point is not to bash the United States for the sake of bashing it like so many liberal idiots do,

but to demonstrate that we have a unique power structure that allows us to make some awesome, awesome adjustments and look toward the future in a valuable way. All right, that was a long rant on that. I want to play one other thing. This is not serious. Let's call this a pallet cleanser because I definitely found it silly. A woman went viral for pretending to be a dude on a dating app. She asked her friend. She's like, hey, can I use your photo?

Can I pretend to be you? Because you complain all the time that dating apps are hard for guys and you can't meet women and no one has interest in you. And she is an attractive woman thinks dating apps are really easy. You must be doing something wrong. I'll play the audio. She'll say all that. But I love it. She's probably an eight, a nine out of ten as far as physical attractiveness goes in a young woman.

So I imagine dating apps for her, not much of a challenge at all. But she says that she surprised her friend who she gave her. gave a six out of ten that's got a hurt, would struggle a lot just based on her three-day experience. Here we go. Some of my guy friends gave me permission to make a hinge account for him because I was telling him how easy dating is with dating apps. And he was telling me that it's incredibly difficult. And I was like, Pete, you must be doing something wrong. Silly Pete.

And he gave me permission to create an account for him and just run the account. I've been a virtual boy for three days, and I've never felt this bad about myself. I feel like a freaking loser trying to get these girls to like me. And I'm starting to hate women because I'm like, when I say I, I mean Pete, because that's the account I'm using. Pete's about a six, but I'm so desperate, I'm liking the twos and the threes. And even they won't like me back, Pete, which is a six. So what level of delusion has entered women's head? Oh, that's a harsh critique.

That's from a woman toward women. Don't send the hate letters to me if you want to send them in. I love that. She took two shots at Pete, calling him a six twice. Didn't need to happen. But she said she's liking the twos and the threes, and they're not giving him time a day. If there's ever a conversation or the potential for one,

and I don't know how valuable this actually is compared to everybody's experience, but I do think it's important to at least enter into the psyche of what could be going on. But there's ever a discussion about how challenging some things have gotten in our society because of social media, because of technology for both men and women. It's this. A lot of women feel pressure to look a certain way, to have a certain level of popularity online. And it says it's causing a lot of depression in young women. The need to, I don't know what it would be, get a lot of likes and follows and things based on being physically attractive. And then for a lot of dudes who can't get time of day with most people who are now dating on apps,

it seems like it's also a pretty significant problem that's causing a whole lot of depression and other issues. So for whatever reason, the society we live in and the technology of it is doing a lot more harm than good to a whole lot of us. And this lady went viral for admitting how challenging it was for her to get anybody to like her. Although if she turns on the app again and gets to be herself, not that hard at all. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. And our partners for the program, new to the show, they're pre-born. It's a great organization that works with women as they determine how to handle an unexpected unplanned pregnancy. And pre-born gives women the opportunity to meet their babies to have an ultrasound, to hear their

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Get the lowdown on the latest news with a side of laughs. Whenever you want, subscribe to the Dana Show podcast on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I'm thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I do love the story of the Peruvian cop who was dressed up as a Grinch and actually led a drug bust. I love a couple things about it. The first thing I love about it is that the cop said he had to do it, had to be undercover. There was a festival going on. I got a dress like the Grinch so I can make my way through the festival and then get to the area we're doing the drug bust. He then is given a sledgehammer.

So there's a video of a Grinch guy, a sledgehammering his way through a door, and then arresting people, putting people in handcuffs while navigating the giant paws he has for hands. All of it amazing. And two things I'll say about it. First, the criminals will never forget the day they were arrested by the Grinch. And this police officer will probably never forget the day that he got to be the Grinch and arrest a bunch of people and how much fun he had doing that. And and I imagine he's going to ask to have that assignment again in the future at some point. Who knows? But I'm just assuming that's going to be a thing because it seems awesome.

Other stuff out there that I thought was kind of interesting. Of course, the Mega Millions Jackpot is at $1.15 billion. I'm probably even going to creep up a little bit higher than that. So a whole lot of people are buying tickets and hoping that you're going to win a whole lot of money. And what would you do with that money is typically the question that people ask. The only thing I'll say in response to it, my favorite idea is that a whole bunch of people think they could remain anonymous. And not just because whatever state you're in might allow you to be anonymous and a whole lot don't. And only a few do.

But what world are we living in where you and most of the people you know wouldn't spend some of that money and obviously be someone who won a whole bunch recently if you were given a billion dollars or well, 400, 500 million, whatever the lump sum payment is? I don't know anyone who wouldn't start to make some life decisions that would make me aware relatively quickly that they just want a whole lot of money, especially if like the anonymous winner was in my state or even in my hometown area. But I love that everyone assumes you could just walk through life and be a guy who all of a sudden has a billion in the bank and nobody knows about it. The only people that can do that have a tremendous amount of money in the bank already. If you're someone that doesn't have a lot and you win a whole lot all at once,

here's my little piece of information. People are going to know you won. They're going to know and no one's going to care. Well, a lot of people are going to care, actually. I should take that back. But they're not going to, you know, act as though the thing you did was somehow something that they couldn't figure out because why would you want them to?

Why would you not buy some stuff? I would buy a lot of things. And actually, I had one friend tell me this, and I love this too. He said that he heard an expert talk about if you win a whole lot of money that you should get buying out of your system, like set aside a few million dollars, whatever amount it is, buy some crazy stuff, and then you'll probably not need to do that again. I don't know what kind of world that person lives in either.

Because if you let that, you know, a cage or animal out of the cage, if you let that situation go loose, I feel like you're going back to the well over and over again. And you're only telling yourself just one more million. Luckily, in the world of a. billion dollars or you know a half a billion if you do the lump sum not a lot of ways to spend all that all at once you're not going to be poor as quickly as some people who win the lottery sadly wind up being because it's just too much money for most of us to spend no matter how many people come out of the woodwork asking for a little bit of a cash benefit of their own but anyway what

i would do just to further this discussion i'd buy at least one fancy vehicle at least one fancy home and maybe some other things. But that would happen relatively quickly. And all of a sudden, you'd come over to visit me and I'd be in a much nicer place and not really all that worried about paying those bills. And you'd think to yourself, uh, you definitely have more money than you used to. It would be that obvious that quickly. I also wouldn't do regular chores. I'd have people doing some chores for me. You know, like the lawn would no longer be mowed by me ever again. And that's something that might be a bit of a hint, not a whole lot of one, but a little bit of one, especially when my lawn tripled in size overnight.

But all right, on that note, we can take a break. We can talk about some serious stuff and some silly stuff coming up. There's a really crazy story about a body found in the wheel well of a flight from Chicago to Miami. We still don't have a lot of information about who or why that happened. I will discuss as much as we know about that and quite a bit in the world of politics in just a bit. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Black Rifle Coffee has a new roast, their freedom roast. It's what the founders would have drunk, would have drank.

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Dana is found on D-Lash or Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to or Dana Radio.com. Byron Donald's went viral for something he said on TV, that a lot of us probably agree makes sense. Because when you commute the sentence of 37 out of 40 people who are on death row, only three people in your mind are people who didn't deserve that, which it's still life without the possibility of parole, but it's not the same punishment.

Part of you might wonder if the person actually signing that piece of paper understands what they're doing. And Byron Donald said there's probably a real good chance that he didn't, and it was just the latest thing that they forced Biden to do, since they basically control this man. Oh, and now he's also on vacation up until the end of his presidency, basically, because why not? I take one more vacation on the taxpayer dollars. He spent more time on vacation than working over the – well, who knows if he was working on the days? He wasn't on vacation.

I think he might have been shoved in the closet somewhere. But anyway, he supposedly spent more days on vacation than working, according to a recent analysis. But here's what Byron said. Look, I think what's happening with Joe Biden, nobody thinks he even knows about these clemencies or these parties. This is the radical left staff that has been running this administration for the last four years. And so I agree with President Trump and what he said about these 37 individuals who've been granted clemency. This is outrageous. They should not have a Merry Christmas to be perfectly blunt with you.

And they can go to hell. It's something else that Trump said, by the way. But this is because we have the radical left doing all the things they've been wanting to do for a very long time on their way out the door, while Joe Biden's at the beach or taking a nap or whatever it is, he's doing. Yeah, and he might even just be signing some pieces of paper that are being put on his desk and then getting to go back outside, which apparently is the case. There was also the story about how Jill Biden had a big plan. Dr. Jill, Dr. Biden, I think as I'm contractually have to call her that,

the doctorate is not in any sort of medical field. Also important to mention. But nonetheless, she had her own, like, revenge tour that she had planned that she wanted Biden to go about completing before he was done with his time in office. And she's probably chit-chatting it with him about that as they're sitting at a beach somewhere. Another story out there that's terrifying for a couple reasons. And I'm going to play some audio from WGN TV in Chicago where they interview someone that talks about just how uniquely hard it would be to get into the wheel well of a plane. Plains that are typically supposed to be inspected every

time they land in any kind of airport, a wheel well that you'd only have access to from outside, meaning that essentially someone would have to approach this plane before it took off, climb into this area of the plane, maybe unaware that it's not connected to the rest of the plane, which means you can't get in to any of the other parts of the plane, and after the wheel gets pulled up, you freeze to death. This is the type of story we've sadly seen before in places where people are desperate to flee from some sort of other country and make it to places like here. But it's it's something that happened. A plane flew from Chicago to Maui. I think this was right around a Christmas day. And a body was found when the plane landed in

Maui. Here is some of that coverage from WGN News at Chicago and them talking to an expert about how difficult this would be someone who worked with the airline. We look at all the flight services and especially in the gear well, we make sure there's no personnel or anybody in there. Every aircraft has to be inspected right before flight. After all the ground equipment is clear of it, and after all the ground personnel are clear of it. A tragic discovery on Christmas Eve, a body found inside of a will-well of a United Airlines flight. Yeah, we have very little information right now as to who the person is or anything about it. Maui police have told me, or have told not me, I've told the world they're going to investigate this.

So we'll see what result that is. it is hard to not guess that this is a situation involving someone who's in Chicago that might not be there legally, since there's a whole lot of people living there right now that are not there legally, that would have been desperate to go somewhere else, somewhere warmer than it is in Chicago right now, and Maui would have sounded like a good destination. Unfortunately, climbing into the wheel well of a plane does not give you the opportunity to land safely somewhere. you die and you usually die of freezing to death if you actually successfully make it up into that area safely somehow, which again is tremendously difficult to do and probably happen. But they'll do more

research into that. We'll eventually probably, who knows, no more. But it won't, I assume, inspire conversations about one of the many reasons, however rare that it's bad that we have so many people here without the right to be here and they shouldn't be here for a variety of reasons. All right. One other thing I want to play. Scott Jennings has been going viral a lot recently while on CNN. He talked about the Panama Canal and Trump's reference to maybe taking it back from Panama, Trump's concern about Chinese influence in that area or throughout a lot of places that might impact the United States. And Jennings was definitely okay with how Trump is making this a topic in a lot of people's brains. And CNN seemed very much upset.

with Scott being fine with this. Here's a little bit of that back and forth. Over the Panama, walking out. Well, I tell you what is very serious, and that is pushing back on the encroachment of Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere. Yes, I do. I think Donald Trump is trying to send a message to the Chinese,

and he's also trying to send a message to everyone else in the hemisphere that I'm not going to put up with this encroachment. Now, what is true is that China is having encroachment in this hemisphere in Africa, all over the world. They are trying to act like the world's leading superpower. They are trying to exert their values and their way of life all over the world. They used to be our job. And I think what Donald Trump is saying here is, I don't want this in my backyard.

America is the world's superpower. More America is better. And I'm sending a message that I'm not going to put up with this sort of creeping Chinese influence. And by the way, sometimes the steps to do that involve telling the people who are cooperating with China that it will harm you if you keep cooperating with China. in some way that feels like what's happening with the Panama Canal. If Panama keeps doing things that seem to benefit people that are not us, we might take our gift back of the Panama Canal that we gave you a while ago, or at least threatened to do it, so fees get lowered, and so relationships change.

That essentially is a good move. I love how CNN, though, seemed to really hate, as I said a second ago, this kind of answer because they push back even harder, being like, well, what about Panama? That relationship is tremendously important, right? It's in my own backyard. But help me with this thinking, though, really quick. And Karen, I'll bring you in a second. But if it angers Panama, if it hurts relations with Panama, the calculation is it won't and it doesn't matter?

Do I care if Panama is angry? What is Van Halen going to come and feed upsetter? Okay, I got to stop that. Panama, not exactly a country we need to fear, but definitely a great reference to Van Halen. I love this. There you go. Van Halen pops up to have a say in the Panama discussion. I'm all for it. By the way, that song's about a car, not about the country or the Panama Canal, but nonetheless,

just a great, honestly, a drop I should have just set up for shows that I do in general. Ah, really good stuff. But anyway, yes, just Scott Jennings point. We don't really care what Panama thinks of us and if they get all mad at us because we're powerful enough to not care about that. And they'll probably do what we want if we just exert a little bit of authority or even the threat of authority, which is something that is tremendously scary on the left. I love that about a lot of these discussions. You don't empower, you know, allies by treating them like they're more intimidating than us. And that's something that we do a lot when the certain side of the aisle is in charge and running things in our country. We act as though we're equivalent to all of our allies when we're

simply not. And it doesn't make them appreciate the relationship they have with us as much as it should. It doesn't make them fearful of us, you know, deciding that, wait a minute, there are certain lines you can't cross. Ukraine is a great example right now. Ukraine is a country that was attacked, that was invaded, that had every right to defend itself. And we had a lot of reasons to want to help prevent Russia from taking more territory in that area and even fight a quote-unquote proxy war with Russia through Ukraine. There was a lot of value in doing that, writing blank checks to that country, telling them they can wage that fight whatever way they want to whatever degree they want,

and that if a solution could be found that involves giving up contested territory, that we never would have helped them defend, a territory that they've been fighting to defend for years after the annexing of Crimea. But we're allowing them now to try to fight and even say out loud that they're going to try to take Crimea back with our weapons and our money, and acting as though they're allowed to make those decisions and we'll just keep signing the checks, that's terrible. That doesn't allow us to be equivalent partners or any version of actual partners the way the power dynamic exists. Instead, it allows them to call the shots. And that has gone poorly for Ukraine.

It's gone poorly for the world. And I think that if there is inevitably a peace agreement, and even Zelensky has said this recently, it will involve surrendering some of that contested area in the Donbos region or wherever to Russia. something that could have happened, say, a year ago and didn't because of who was in charge and how we were writing those checks then. And the things that we were allowing Ukraine to say with our might and our money being the thing they'd wield to back up those words. That does matter, no matter what you think, and I'm not pro-Russia taking any of Ukraine. It's just a byproduct of a way to get a peace agreement that is going to exist forever because Ukraine can't fight endless war with Russia and win. They just can't do that.

But anyway, as you talk about these topics, as you see these things play out, you just wish that we had more powerful people in positions that matter, stronger-willed individuals. And this is one of those examples of someone who's at least exerting the potential to be strong-willed. If someone doesn't listen and play ball the minute we start throwing out the threats. All right, quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. On the go and need a quick news fix with a fun twist. as absurd truth podcast for bite size and formative episodes, perfect for your busy schedule on Apple or wherever you get your podcast. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in.

Let's fire off a quick five. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Not one to ever miss an opportunity. This politician, a New Hampshire, a Democrat, Annie Custer, said that she's leaving Congress. And the reason she's doing it is because Trump tried to kill her. In 2021, on January 6th, of course, she took a while to actually get over that and decide to leave. But she's doing it now. She also had said several times she didn't want to make a life out of being a politician. But that's not why she's doing it because of Trump. That was one story out there that I found uniquely dumb.

Applebee's in Times Square in New York is charging a crazy amount of money per person to have Applebee's for four hours. Well, you watch the ball drop from about a block away. You can actually also get escorted to be a little bit. closer to the ball drop, if you don't want to stay in this fancy Applebee's up until midnight, $729 per person if you bring a party of eight. If you go all the way down to a party of just two, it's about $1,000 per person. And if you want the super exclusive private table experience that two people can get there, I have no idea what additional benefits Applebee's throws at you. It's $2,299, which is insane. And honestly, out of all the places,

you could go in Times Square to be a part of the ball drop. Dropping a grand on an Applebee's experience just seems wrong. You could do better and you can do better for about the same amount of money, I'd imagine. Probably part of the reason Applebee's is still not sold out yet when most of the other surrounding places are. So maybe that's the problem. Just plan ahead and go next year, not now. A person went viral for trying to bite through a jawbreaker for an everlasting gobstopper,

as it's also called, and actually broke their jaw in two places. places. The person wound up in the hospital. It's a teenager. She said, do not try this. Do not do this. It's not a good move. I feel like you just got to read that box. And when it says, Jawbreaker, you can take them seriously. And even if you didn't take them seriously, I don't know why anyone would try to chew through that heart of a candy without at least enjoying some of the delicious flavor of said Godstopper by just having it in your mouth for a day and a half, however long it takes for it to soften up. I would not go that road at all. I'm just putting it out there. One other thing, And this is another story.

I do like it too. Apparently a woman bought herself a ton of Chipotle for Christmas and then bragged about it online. And when I say a ton, I mean like 1,500 forks from Chipotle. And a lot of people online actually genuinely seem jealous of her decision to buy herself plastic forks. Some people seem to believe that the Chipotle fork is better than other plastic forks out there. And it even makes food specifically from Chobolay taste better. but she said the hack is just walk up to Chipotle and seem like a crazy person who wants to buy a box of their forks

but you can do that. Anybody can do it. 1,500 Chipotle for Christmas seems like a very boring gift to me but to about half a million people who viewed her video and reacted to it. It seems like it's a good gift for some. If you know anyone out there that wants a bunch of plastic Chipotle forks,

you can make their holiday so much better even after Christmas by just swinging in and purchasing it. And then one last one last one last, one I saw. One last quick five topic. Children in Poland are being taught how to assemble and disassemble guns, including assault rifles and even taught how to use them, age 13 and up. This is because of their fear of being attacked by Russia, that children of that age or just slightly older would be more than capable in the world of guns. I think that's actually cool. And I wish I had grown up there at that time to have been taught this when I was 13 as someone who just got into

gun owning over the last couple years and is still probably not as good of a shot as some of these kids are going to be in just a short amount of training. A ridiculous videos though online, a lot of reactions to it. And nonetheless probably also an intelligent move in order to protect yourself in a unique way at a unique time. And again, something I'm jealous and wish it happened to me. Quick break, a lot 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

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Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank guy, Canadian, actually, by the way, expressed his support for the idea of turning Canada into the 51st state on television. I thought this was pretty funny. Some of the stuff he said and how many Canadians he thinks actually would love this idea too. They would love to be welcomed into the open arms of the U.S., something that Trump has joked about and actually also kind of threatened if Canada doesn't understand how much they need to value us and how much value we bring to them.

We can show them in a very different way. Here's O'Leary. There's 41 million Canadians, basically the population of California, sitting on the world's largest amounts of all resources, including the most important energy and water. Canadians, over the holidays, the last two days, have been talking about this. They want to hear more. And so, you know, there's obviously a lot of issues, more details, but what this could be is the beginning of an economic union. Think about the power of combining the two economies, erasing the border between Canada and the United States, and putting all that resource up to the northern borders where China and Russia are knocking on the door. So security.

that, give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board, get everything trading both ways, create a new, almost EU-like passport. I like this idea, and at least half of Canadians are interested. The problem is the government's collapsing in Canada right now. Nobody wants Trudeau to negotiate this deal. I don't want him doing it for me, so I'm going to go to Mar-a-Lago. I'll start the narrative. The 41 million Canadians, I think most of them would trust me on this deal. I love that. That he's like, I'll do it. I only trust myself to go ahead and sit in the room and negotiate with Trump about the purchasing and or acquiring of Canada to turn it into our 51st state.

That's hilarious. I love how many people have been on board if you actually ask people in certain sectors about the desire to acquire Greenland, the desire to take back the Panama Canal, any of these things, all of them people resoundingly say who look at it as just a, you know, business move, like, oh, good, good call. Good decision there. Wonderful idea. You're seeing a lot of that. I thought this was interesting, too. This went viral. This is a few different people on a stage in Canada, debating what they think the biggest business successes of 2024 were. And actually, everybody seemed to be of a similar opinion that the biggest business winner of this year is Elon Musk, and the biggest success is X or Twitter, so much so that this is the way these guys, answer the question, what is your biggest business win in 2024? I think the biggest business winner of

2024 is the business of speech. And what I mean by that is I think that we have made freedom of speech a very successful business model. Yes. It seems to have worked. Who's your biggest business winner, Sacks? Well, I wanted to be original, but I really could and I thought it was so obvious this year. It has to be Elon Musk. Yes, he's worth even more money. Elon Musk, that's always a safe choice. Anybody else? Who do you have?

It's SpaceX, Starlink. Elon, everybody involved over there. They're the business winners, free speech and acts and Twitter, whatever it might be. Just winner after winter all over the place. For Elon, unless you live here in this country, and pay attention to our mainstream news media that somehow says that things are terrible for him or terrible across the board when they're obviously not.

All right. that's one big thing out there. There are some other giant topics of discussion and something I'm going to get to a little bit later on, but I love a lot. And I'll just recommend you check it out now because I'm going to try to pair it down a little bit. But Tom Elliott Agrabian put up a great, the biggest media misses are the most embarrassing media moments of 2024.

It's like 10 minutes long. It goes through a lot of things that definitely are exactly on target for what he's talking about there. And like I said, I'll play it in a little bit, but he's right again. And that's a guy you should be following, a guy you should be paying attention to on social media because of all the expert things he does to mash these videos up. All right. One other thing that I do like that's out there. And this is Byron Donald's. Byron Donald's talked a bit. And I played some of this audio before about President Biden, maybe not being aware of what he was doing, the stuff he was signing, and the people that he was commuting the sentences of. Lyon Donald's also had a pretty strong opinion as to what's gone wrong over the last few years as far as the Democrats being in power and why it became so obviously important to put someone else in as far as the power dynamic in this country. And I got to say, I can't argue with anything. Here's a little bit of what he said on Fox News. I mean, no, we're not heard much from the Democrats.

They're too busy licking their wounds and trying to figure out which way they need to conduct their party. But look, are they happy about the fact that Kamala Harris was blown out? No, they're not. But is anybody thinking that they're going to do anything about it? No, they're not. Donald Trump's going to be the president of the United States. He's going to get these elections certified on January 6th. He's going to get inaugurated on January 20th.

The Democrats aren't going to like it, but those are the breaks because they had an opportunity to run this country. And what they did was they ran it into the ground. Massively open borders, foreign policy that's a mess, massive inflation, censoring the American people. The list goes on and on. And the list is bad. The list is not good. And I agree with him wholeheartedly that for that reason, more than anything else, things have happened the way they have. You know, I've said this before, and I had a friend asked me this recently,

what do you think the big change was this year compared to four years ago that caused Trump to win so candidly, or so handedly, not necessarily the cheating stuff? But what else might have changed? Do you think a lot of votes went from one side to the other? And there's proof of that, especially younger voters. But I think a lot of Democratic voters are just disenfranchised with their own party. And I think there's a chance that a whole lot of people just didn't vote because they didn't care enough to vote this year on the Democratic side of the aisle. And that benefited Republicans fairly significantly in winning the popular vote, winning everything that they did. Granted, I can just as easily be convinced that it was simply a surge of people switching their vote from one side to the other.

but if you actually believe the turnout of 2020 and how remarkably unique it was and how much bigger it was than any other election we've ever had or probably ever will have, then part of the issue too is a whole lot less people cared enough to vote. And that is because of how crushing it must have been to have voted for Biden and watch him screw up so badly on so many issues. I'm just assuming that. I luckily didn't vote for him.

But nonetheless, something that I think would probably make you at the very least, show up, if not go ahead and punch the other ticket. One last thing that I wanted to discuss kind of quickly here, Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbert feel as though they're two of the most important people that Trump has put forward as names to run unique parts of our bureaucracy. Cash Patel, of course, would be nominated to run the FBI, and then the top spy would be Tulsi Gabbard, the top spook or national intelligence

would be run by her. so much so these two names being important, not just in the way in which they have a critical eye toward the departments they'd be in charge of, but also enough outsider detachment from any of that corrupt crap that might exist there, that they're not going to owe anybody favors. There's not going to be anybody that they know well,

any friends of theirs, that they'd feel bad getting in trouble for something, at least I hope not, so that they'd be better at this than someone who say a career long, FBI agent who's risen the ranks, maybe somehow been like the, and I think I've said this before, the James Gordon of the industry where he's the only person who's not corrupt around a lot of corrupt people, and yet he's still going to try to rise to the top and even out that playing field, well, owing a lot of people, at least something, I'd assume. That won't be the case

for either of these individuals, so much so that a former FBI and CIA head, who's 100 years old, stepped forward to say that he thinks this is a terrible idea. He gave different reasons for both, and he's the only living person to have run both the FBI and the CIA. His name is William Webster. He actually ran one for Ronald Reagan and then was put in charge of the other one right before Reagan left office. So interesting that he would have unique experience with specific politicians.

But he says that Cash Patel is too close to Trump and too likely to do favors for Trump and that Tulsi Gabbard is just too inexperienced to be in a leadership position in her role because it would weaken our CIA. I think that's insane. And I think it's insane for a lot of reasons, but I'll keep saying the most obvious one out loud first,

we could fire people. If people are put in positions of power, if they don't work out in those positions, if all of these shortcomings wind up being true, you would think we'd know this relatively quickly, and we can remove people from these positions if they're failing at their jobs. It's not that hard. The president can do it.

I don't know why we pretend like you can't do that at all. But more importantly than that, if these individuals are put in a place of power to upend some of the system, then of course the system is coming for them. It feels like you're the most over the target you've ever been when you find someone who's 100 years old, who hasn't put out a lot of political positions in recent years. that's willing to sign a letter that says neither of these people deserve these jobs. You also have the New Yorker out there saying that Cash Patel is definitely going to weaponize the FBI to hurt everyday Americans.

And I always laugh that off for a variety of reasons. But the biggest one being that if government is infighting, if Trump is putting people in positions of power to go after corruption in government, or even if the other side is doing something to corrupt some more things or harm some more people or whoever is doing whatever on both sides, it's usually only themselves, who are the target. It's actually kind of weird to equate this to what I'm about to, you know, compare it to, but I can't help it. If you were ever to live in Chicago, and I lived there for many years, you know that the south side is essentially a very dangerous part of the city where a lot of bad things happen

and where people get the impression that all of Chicago is wasteland. And if you live on the north side, you feel like you're as safe as in any other big city in the world that's not necessarily any more rampant with a crime than, you know, you feel like you are because it's a very different place. So essentially, sometimes the problem exists in just smaller cones of society and not in society at large. And so in the world of infighting and corruption and, you know, people being held accountable to stuff they did or accused of stuff they didn't do for political reasons, the target are just going to be other politicians. They're never going to be us, everyday Americans.

I'm not going to be hauled into a courtroom somewhere because of something I'm accused of doing, well, maybe for what I say on this show, but not in general for some of my other actions in life, because I'm not the target on either side. And right now it feels like Trump is very much circling the things that matter, or at least the people he's recommending to be in charge, would be circling the things that matter

because of the way the system is trying to knee-jerk reaction and kick them out of their position of power. And one last thing, too, and I'll just say this and maybe dive into it a little bit more later on in the show. But all of the discussion about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Vivek, Ramoswamy, Doge, all of that stuff, whether it's trying to convince you that you need to be anti-Elon and Vivek or that MAGA is turning on them or that Trump and Elon are fighting or whatever it might be, I don't care.

All of those things are designed to break apart a system that is scary as heck, serious hell, I should say, to politicians and to all the people that like to do things behind closed doors. Because having a connection between everyday Americans and a social media platform that's not going to censor them, and the person in charge of the country, as cleanly as it exists, you change things like a spending bill, is something that terrifies the elite and terrifies the establishment, and they want to destroy any way they can. So most of the news you're going to hear in one way, shape, or form is designed to do just that. And so a lot of it deserves to be ignored.

But I'll talk about some of those things maybe a little later on in the show. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. I decided I'm going to do something special for today and Monday. I'm going to do some of the best Florida man stories of 2024, not maybe the newest ones,

but the best ones in honor of the end of the year. A few for today. Not my fault. That truck don't surf was the answer a Florida man gave after getting arrested for driving his car into the ocean. This happened back in February of this year. The guy obviously seemed to think that, hey, maybe it does float.

Maybe it doesn't. We'll all find out together. The answer being no, that's one of the best Florida man stories of the year. Another one that made my top 10 list, if that's what we're doing here, and maybe again on Monday. Florida man impersonated his security guard to get into a Taylor Swift concert. He was arrested for trying that road. Apparently, the 44-year-old guy who described himself as an absolute swiftie. This happened in October of this year, by the way,

didn't do enough to convince people that he actually was, in fact, a security guard. Many people noticed him as someone that didn't seem to belong, eventually turning him over to authorities. Another Florida man that made news in 2024 had an hours long junk food feast inside a closed Walgreens, according to cops. This happened back in July. The Florida man was arrested as he indulged in all kinds of things after being accidentally locked into the Walgreens. Seamed he thought that that was what was allowed then. You know, you're in the bathroom for five hours. You get locked in because people do not still know you're in there. And then once you open the door and you're alone. Now everything's free, at least until they open the door and arrest me.

That would be a problem. Dr. Pepper, Newport cigarettes apparently were smoked, Reese's candy, spinach dip, all kinds of things used. Dear, deli chocolate consumed in mass quantities. The guy thought, I'm making the most out of my time. Locked inside of Walgreens, another of the legendary Florida men of 2024. And then one last one for right now, a Florida woman stormed, you know, into an area after going into a gas station and buying a mask, then trying to rob a bank across the street from the gas station. All of that caught on video because darn it, how stupid you have to be to be like, they're not going to see me over here. I'm going to do this and then go

over there. I'm easily cracked case. Not something that you should try yourself if it's something you're thinking about doing. Maybe just bring the mask from home. I don't know. It's probably not going to make it better, but it might make it better. But that story happened back in June of this year. Those are some of my favorite Florida men and women of 2024. We'll do more of those on Monday as part of the end of the year, Florida men's stories. There's a few other great ones out there involving chicken and all kinds of serious plans and actually alligators as well. That's all coming up again in about a couple days. A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. I do want to touch on

the latest controversy, or at least we're supposed to think it's the latest controversy between Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Vivekram Swami, and us, especially people who use X or Twitter, and especially people who voted for Donald Trump. But I'll get to that in a bit. I do want to talk about this other thing first. It was an op-ed in The Hill a couple days ago. Now some very left-leaning lawyers are begging Congress to actually do this. It is the nuclear option. It is the option that begs them to prevent Trump from actually being made the next president of the United States. The argument from a far-left individual says that he has disqualified from office because of the 14th Amendment and his quote, engaging in insurrection. Not that he was ever found guilty of

insurrection, by the way, and actually the Supreme Court overturned a decision to try to remove him from a ballot for exactly this reason. But darn it, now liberal lawyers want the, you know, Congress to do whatever they can to try to prevent the confirming of the votes and essentially a plain God and not allowing the American people to decide who the next president should be in at least that one regard. This is insane. And it's the exact kind of thing that Trump said they would try to do, or at least the kind of thing that was talked about a few years ago that caused the amount of problems that people still try to bring up today and the fear that the government would do whatever it wants, regardless of what the American people want. They gave

a definitive answer to the question of who they'd like to be the next president of the United States when they elected, they, we, whoever voted, decided that Trump was going to wind up being the next president of the country to make any move whatsoever to prevent that is full on insane and yet it is actually being talked about. So much so that I even saw Fox and Friends a debate a topic as to whether or not, and this is different to a degree. This is talking about the Speaker of the House and if he could be replaced sometime in the near future, Mike Johnson. And the biggest problem with that potential scenario trying to replace him is how long of a process it might take if they do it soon or if they take a while to actually get that done.

and would it delay any sort of process in making Trump the next president of the country, delaying inauguration, delaying any sort of certification, whatever those questions might be. And I would definitively say, as Fox and Friends actually also landed on this answer to that question,

I don't do that. You have a whole lot of time, especially once you have people in all the positions of power and Trump in the office of president. I don't give Democrats any version of what they're already contemplating or already say they want by, you know,

delaying a process that should not be delayed. It is amazing that Trump is already behaving like the president, and there's two reasons I think that's happening. The first one being the guy actually in charge hasn't been in charge the whole time. Now that Trump's actually in charge, a whole bunch of people have disappeared that were probably pulling the strings for Biden and left him to just do nothing and left Trump to have more of a voice before he even gets into that office. And the second reason why you definitely don't want to do this,

and this is crazy, is, again, you're opening Pandora's box when you don't have to, when you have a whole lot of time in the very near future, to do whatever you want. I want you to have everybody in a position of power, but we'll see if that even occurs. All right. The big thing that I want to talk about, and I know that I'm seeing voices on the right, voices on the left, kind of an agreement, which is probably a problem, which is usually an issue on this topic, about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami, and what they said about the text sector specifically.

Vivek actually put out a long post on social media yesterday. Elon seemed to agree with it and say his own version of it, but both saying that tech struggles to find talent. The reason tech struggles to find talent within the United States is it simply doesn't exist. There is more talented, you know, coders, people, high profile, high value individuals for this exact part of our society that come from other countries. of a vaikwin a step further by saying our culture is mediocre and that it actually

salutes people who are the valedictorians excuse me and not the mathematicians but the athlete and the cheerleader he actually even praised corey from boy meets world which is a swing and a mess it's sean from boy meets world as a millennial who grew up remembering that show a zach and slater from saved by the bell as people that are an example of people we highlight and praise that we shouldn't over screech, and then Stefan over Steve Urkel, which was another weird reference that was made, but darn it, at least an accurate one in what he was trying to say. Here's the part that matters about this discussion. It's true. You can get mad at the idea of it. You can desire for the government to do something to prevent us from acquiring talent from other

parts of the world, or the better option, I think the more consistent solution is find a new system that educates, excuse me, that's bad to fumble on that word, are people well enough to actually be the most valuable employees in this sector? Because that's the problem. When you look at just our math scores on an international level, we're toward the bottom of developed countries, or something like 28 out of 36 of the countries that get ranked on these sort of things by some independent organizations that do it. And that sounds about right. And our education system seems to be failing people in a lot of ways. And certainly there are other countries in the world where, say, some kids are raised being told your best opportunity is to be absolutely at

the top of your game in this field or that field and go get a job in the United States. And, you know, how much of a challenge is it us is it for us to compete against the rest of the world in that regard when they want to come here, when they want to benefit from being a part of the best country on earth. And part of what actually makes us a great country is attracting that type of talent to want to be here. But I understand that the desire to do more that benefits Americans and doesn't necessarily benefit people coming from other places in the world.

But we have to change systems to get that goal done. But it is interesting that so many people are coming for Vivek and Alon, at least Elon, at least according to the Internet or according to mainstream media. I don't necessarily believe it's as true as they're saying it is, simply because that message is not being received well. That's the point, or that's the intention of it, and that we'd like to see more done to prevent certain visas from being expanded and more American talent, you know, winning out.

I would just say that I think the most American response to this, and I felt this in every part of my life being born and raised here, is I want to win by being the best. I don't want to win for any sort of technicality. We talk about that in a lot of other spaces in our society. I'm a millennial. At times, I was raised as someone, not by my parents necessarily, but by, you know, the society I lived in at the time to be given a participation trophy when I didn't deserve one.

And those things are crap. You don't want to win. When you lose, you want to lose. So then you can motivate yourself to win in the future. You want to push yourself to actually deserve any and every thing you get in this life, a meritocracy, which is exactly what we live in. which is what we want to keep living in. So I don't understand, and I don't believe for that same reason,

that as many people are upset about this as media is telling me they are, but there's a whole lot of people out there saying that this was the big misstep. And the other thing I will say is that this won't be the last time that they'll tell us that the connection between Trump and Elon, Elon and Vivek, Vivek and Trump, or any of those individuals in us, everyday Americans, is broken or tarnished, or needs to be severed because they desperately want that to happen. I can't tell you how excited I've been, I guess I'm going to try, to watch some things happen right now, and the system that's going to exist for the next few years already play itself out in preventing the spending bill from being a ridiculous omnibus bill.

That was an incredible win. Across the board win, win for Trump, win for Elon, win for X and Twitter, or just Americans in general. Granted, it was a punt because they're going to have to revisit that in a few months, and they're going to have to figure something else out. And all of the narrative crap that's come from it of, like, you know, conservatives don't want to fund research into prevention of childhood cancer is insane and something that can be done on its own. And I've said this before and I'll say it again. But nonetheless, that scared the system.

That's the same version of terror that I think you're hearing in some of the nominations that Trump has put forward and some of the ways they're trying to tear those nominations apart because predominantly they're outsiders who would upend the power structure of a system that is broken. And we would also be able to help upend a power structure of a system that's broken. And we do it entirely online and entirely with our voices, which by the way seems much better than us doing it with any sort of, you know, physical version of that same upset being manifested. to say this very bluntly, and I think it's the kind of thing a lot of people talk about. And right now, oddly thought about on the left, when you look at the case of the person who killed the United Healthcare CEO and the praise for it and the jokes about doing that, this is real, the jokes about doing that to other people in positions of power because of how mad people are at what is candidly a broken health care system or other things, that version of society is, one that terrifies a lot of people, where the way in which you gain power back is through,

you know, force or through fighting or through something that gets tremendously a messy and is also weird because I would never praise a murderer myself. And I think that's sort of insane that they are praising someone who shot someone else in the back on a street in Manhattan. But if instead of upending that system that way, you upend the system by enhancing the voices within our society through a platform like X and a person in charge of it like Elon Musk, I think we have a much better version of change potentially happening in the world. And I do think that everyone's not just going to be sheep and listen to whatever Elon or Trump or anyone else has to say, if it's something they disagree with, they'll voice that opinion.

And maybe that is happening as far as this visa is concerned in the world of the tech sector. I just don't think enough people are that passionate about that topic to be that mad about this. And if there's something else they say that's wrong, I will stand up and say that that's not how we feel. And we'll see how that winds up getting reflected in any sort of policy decisions and whatnot. But we're in a unique time in the world where I think we have a unique amount of power as just a society based on social media platforms that don't overly censor us. All of that seems good. And the people in charge, just to repeat myself one more time, hate it. And we're seeing them hate it every way they can hate it.

All right. Quick break, a lot more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Keep your finger on the pulse with a Dana Show podcast, delivering timely news with insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Let's do a quick five.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. This is hilarious to me. young people think they've developed a brand new hack to make their love life better in the new year. You eat 12 grapes at midnight, one for each stroke of the clock, and at the end of that process, you are guaranteed to have a much better year romantically in the following year. It's actually a centuries-old tradition out of Spain, where people did this, one grape for each stroke of midnight. Uvas de la Suerte.

I don't know if I've said that correctly. I know that someone in my life, in my family, my wife, will be able to correct me on that as she's from Mexico. But this is something that a lot of people in a lot of countries do. But TikTok apparently thinks that it created recently and young people are doing in order to guarantee themselves a boyfriend or girlfriend in the new year. Several people put up a video of themselves doing this last year, along with a successful relationship that apparently they found during 2024. Another story out there that I liked a lot, a woman went on a dear asses of a year. Abby Page and asked if her boyfriend is a terrible person or if she's maybe asking for just a tad too much. She said she's been unhappy with the way that he's celebrated her birthday in the past, and he knew it.

She had told him about it. So he decided to splurge on a vacation this year for her in honor of her birthday. They went on a trip. Here's the problem, according to the woman in this scenario. He didn't plan anything when they got there, darn it. He paid for the vacation. They went to the new place. and then he didn't have any idea of what they should do and was willing to, you know, make up decisions along with her instead of having it all planned out.

That made her mad again. She sounds like someone that's very difficult to please. Then they got back from this trip that he paid for and didn't have planned correctly by her own standard. And she said he upset her because her actual birthday was the day they were turned. And he didn't do anything for that day, darn it. It sounds like a couple that might need to break up. and a woman that, I don't know, needs Prince Charming in order to be happy in this world. But nonetheless, the internet was divided on whether or not he did anything wrong or right,

depending on who you ask. And also, a lot of people wanted to know how he had failed on birthdays before, but that information not out there. I say good luck to this dude, if he's going to keep, you know, staying in that relationship. He did say in response to her demands that everybody doesn't get a birthday week. You get a birthday day, and he took her on a flight, and darn it, that should be enough. And I agree with him, by the way. I have no idea if that'll turn the internet against me, and I don't care. Two other quick things.

I thought this was interesting. Research has revealed that women are much more likely to quit a workplace than men because of being treated poorly. And it's not necessarily just by, say, employees or employers, but also customers. More and more young women are saying that they're having issues in some way, shape, or form mentally at work. They're more likely to call off for mental health days, and they're more likely to just leave in search of a new job. They would actually treat them better for employees or employers or, you know, customers that would treat them better. This is something that people are saying they should look into deeper to see what that issue is that's causing women to do that and men not to. And I'm not sure exactly what that is other than maybe the way men are treated on dating apps being the beginning of them being able to tolerate being treated like crap other places.

I'm just guessing. I don't know for sure as a married guy, but I've heard some things. One last one, and this is just kind of an interesting one to me, because most people don't even know what this is. But apparently natural wine is all the trend for the holidays this year. That's wine with the least amount of preservatives and additives in it, and a whole lot of wine companies claim to make natural wine

that may or may not do it. But here's the thing, I don't care. I think we're all missing the point of drinking wine during the holidays for alcohol during the holidays, and it's not about making sure it's as healthy as possible. That's never been my goal. It'll never be my goal.

Ba humbug to anybody that wants that to be that goal. A quick break, a little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Not able to catch the full Dana show? Follow Dana's absurd truth podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes. Ideal for your busy lifestyle on Apple

or wherever you get your podcast. This is The Dana Show. my name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. One of my favorite people to follow on social media is Tom Elliott. He works at Gravian. I think he's actually in charge of Gravian.

They put together a whole bunch of viral videos and other stuff. They have a bunch of services that you can use to access all kinds of media. But these are incredible. He has put together his top 10 lies, media embarrassing moments of 2024. I've tried my best to paris. this down to something I can play a lot of on the show. The full tweet is 10 minutes long or post on X. So you should go check it out. Follow him. This is incredible. I've left in most of the voiceover, too, as they count down the numbers 10 through 1. But let's play part of this.

We'll react to it as we go. The 10 biggest lies that media told us or the biggest embarrassing moments from media in 2024, according to Graebian and the great Tom Elliott. Ignore your eyes. Those are cheap fakes. There's a growing and insidious trend in right-wing media, broadcast, print, and social media. It is to take highly misleading and selectively edited videos of President Biden. They're doing terrible things. They're making Biden look like a moron because he's not one, and we promise he's not one. There's several other clips to prove that.

That was number 10 on their list. CNN thinks America is a democracy. That's number nine in their list that CNN thinks to America is America's democracy. You have a guy on the street asking questions. and people correcting him, and then him going back behind the scenes at CNN and saying this. I've heard a lot of conspiracy theories. I hear a lot of things out on the road. But to hear Americans, people who would describe themselves as patriots, say that America is not a democracy. That stopped me in my track.

It stopped me in my tracks, even though America is a republic and not a democracy, and that's an accurate statement that you can say. That's number eight, number seven. Number eight. Oh, excuse me, this is number eight. Now, there we go. Beyonce is performing at the DNC. There are rumors. There are rumors.

I love this one. Beyonce might make an appearance. I personally think that that's true. Is the United Center going to be turning into the beehives tonight? I don't care. I really don't care. That was number eight on his list. Number 10, number nine, number eight, all excellent so far.

Beyonce did not make an appearance. She was bumped or something. I can't remember what happened there. She did speak, but she didn't perform anything at the DNC. Number seven. The media tries to scare people about. Project 2025. This happened.

Media tries to hype up the amount of missing. Hold on actually. You know what? I don't even care about that one. I skipped most of it because of how insane it was. But everything about Project 2025 was telling us how awful and horrible and definitely Donald Trump's plan this was, even though it wasn't his. And he actually also condemned portions of it saying there's things that he definitely didn't agree with in it. But there are things that didn't seem like all that bad of ideas too.

But again, not his plan at all. That was number seven. their list absolutely happened like crazy number six media tries to hype up the amount of misinformation on X after Elon Musk took over in 2022 most of its fact checkers were fired now the site is rife with trash yeah with trash talk and all kinds of other things a number six in the list are they're still trashing Elon they're still trashing Twitter they're still trying to convince you that you should not like him at all or be on that platform or be anywhere near the people who are on that

platform because darn it, it has a unique amount of influence on our society right now. That's an exceptional first half of the list of top 10 things that media embarrass themselves or lied about. This is again from Tom Elliott and Gravian, a long post 10-minute video you can watch in its entirety on social media, Joe, showing you just how many people repeated these same ridiculous lies. Let's keep going. Number five, Tim Walts is the best.

J.D. Vance is the worst. Midwestern dad, like super clean. So great. Fibre. Nobody likes them. Right. So plain spoken and relatable. Pretty moderate Democrat.

Very moderate ragged. A new moderate is right down the middle. He's not just an old white man. Tim Wall speech is American, you know. And J.D. Vance is weird, extreme. The worst. Utter humorlessness. It's hard to believe that J.D. Vance could be any more extreme.

Okay. I can't. I can't take it. Tim Walls was a weird dude. Is a weird dude. Is a very forgettable dude. but a dude who definitely didn't embody masculinity or new masculinity, whatever they told us that he was embodying. And J.D. Vance has been incredibly articulate in the time in which he's been on television.

I'm not trying to say that, like, you know, he's perfect or everything about him's great. But honestly, that debate between them crushed this narrative, but this narrative was being used quite a few times. That's just number five. So many left to go. So many good demonstrations of just crap being told to us. Let's continue. All of our access to health care goes away. Oh, wait. Oh, sorry. This one is a Trump apparently being a dictator and doing horrible things in our society. And a few of these clips are amazing, too, number four in his list.

All of our access to health care goes away next Tuesday. The stakes literally are life and death for every woman in America. It's not hyperbole. It's not an exaggeration. It is. It is an exaggeration. Trump has fulfilled his promise to be a dictator on day one. That's up a network of camps. extraordinarily erratic foreign policy in the Middle East.

Doing profound and possibly permanent damage to American democracy. Yeah, there's no camps. I haven't seen any camps yet. And I don't think we'll see any camps even when Trump actually gets into office. This stuff is also just so insane. And Trump even saying himself, if he was at all a dictator on day one, which originally came from an interview with Sean Hannity, in which he only talked about the border being something he'd fix.

Hannity told him, you don't have to be a dictator as the president to do that. He said, whatever, that's fine. a Trump in response, and then they moved on because he's absolutely not going to try or going to in any way, shape, or form a B, an actual dictator, but media didn't care. That was number four. Let's continue. If historians in the future are allowed to write books. And by the way, that question is open this one. Ridiculous.

Number three, Joe Biden would never pardon his son because he is such a great guy. President will promise to put the law before a family. The president has ruled out pardoning his son. not happening. Keep making this argument. I know if he believes it, he would respect the outcome of this case. This was a good day for the system.

Good day for, we promise. Sort of America as an example of how the rule of law should work. We're coming on the air this hour with breaking news. President Biden has just pardoned his son Hunter. Number two. You know, to be honest, I really thought that that should have been number one

because of how hilarious it was and how long-lasting it was. I'm not trying to rethink. think the genius of Gravian and Tom Elliott. But that was a lie told to us pretty much all year long that wound up being absolutely inaccurate and relatively quickly. And I just love that edit there where you go right to the breaking news announcement. But yeah, okay, he did the thing that he told us all he wasn't going to do. Number two, media gets caught editing interviews to help Kamala Harris.

When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. What are one or two specific things you have in mind for that? Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle-class kid. Oh, no. My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager.

Yeah, yeah, okay. I grew up in a community of hardworking people. You're getting nervous now, construction workers and nurses and teachers. And I try to explain to some people who may not have had the same experience. You know, but a lot of people will relate to this. You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who are very proud of their lawn, you know? What? Talk about bringing down prices and making...

I'm sorry. I love that at it, too. They're very proud of their lawn, you know? And then let's see the other version. When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind for that? So when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible.

Yeah, that was an answer to a different question, as you probably remember, and as I remember, and they just added that answer in and acted like it was actually the thing she said in response to the question she was asked and not the stuff about people being proud of their lawns. That was number two for Agrabian and Tom Elliott for ridiculous media embarrassing moments of the year. For this word, Ann. Number one, there's no cognitive decline. In fact, Biden has never been better. Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth.

This version of Biden is the best Biden ever. So good. She knows so long as he's denied. In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been. He is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused. President Biden has a photographic memory. But he's totally focused. He's very sharp.

They say he's sharp in meetings and so on. Very lucid, well informed. He's older. He's older. That doesn't mean that he is unfit. He can clear a dementia bar, and that's probably a win. More wild speculation from me. I love that, idiot, too.

It's probably a win that he can clear a dementia bar. That'd be great. But those were the top 10 most embarrassing moments in media, according to Tom Elliott and Graeby, and just excellently done. And as I said, there's a much longer version you can check out on social media, on X, on Twitter. He's great at those mashups and those highlight things. And that probably does deserve.

I'll admit it now. I thought number three, not pardoning my son, I deserve to be number one, just because of how egregious that lie was and how long-lasting it was. But this lie was worse. That Biden's doing fine. Everything's okay. Nothing to see here. And then he tanks a debate.

And they finally admit he's not okay because they know they're not going to win with him. And for some reason, they thought they were going to win with Harris. But that didn't go well. And so I think if that actually hadn't occurred, they never would have admitted. how broken Biden was if they actually thought he could have beat Trump. But when they finally admit it, then a bunch of other stories come out, Wall Street Journal and whatnot, about just how broken he's been and just how significantly that has impacted his time in the White House

and how little decision-making he actually did. But anyway, one more time. I'm not trying to overly promote it. I know I just took a whole segment to play it, but it was that good and that worth it. Go check out Tom Elliott and Gravian online to see the whole thing for yourself. A quick break, a little bit more coming up. 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 Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you over the holidays. Dana will be back just after the new year.

I'll be with you one more time next week. And then you'll hear from her on a few best of. You can find her everywhere, though, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter, Dana Radio.com. Another great way to stay connected to her. A couple quick last topics that I like. First, an influencer went viral in Alaska for demonstrating just how expensive stuff is in his very remote town. Things like a loaf of bread costs over nine bucks, a carton of orange juice, 10, a box of cereal, 11, a butter is on sale for $7 or $8. The big takeaway, other than people being shocked how much more expensive things are in remote parts of Alaska than they are in the rest

of the country, even though stuff is still ridiculously expensive, is that it can always be worse, which I guess people love. It'd be a weird campaign slogan for the Biden administration to say, hey, you could be living in Alaska in a remote part of that state where things are even worse. So be grateful that butter is only $6 or $5. And you're paying way cheaper prices than the most remote parts of some of the remote states in our country, that's wonderful. And actually, if Trump gets what he wants and eventually turns Canada into the 51st state,

I imagine some stuff is expensive and some remote parts of that country as well. And that person can go viral and say that, hey, it's worse for me than you, feel bad for me. Another topic I thought was interesting. A woman seemed to be bragging about being a expert catfisher. This is someone who makes herself look different. differently or in some cases just totally pretends to be someone else until they meet you.

She gave a tutorial for how you can also catfish dudes into first dates involving a lot of tape. She tapes the back parts of her face to make it look better and then takes pictures of herself with all this tape applied so that you can't tell. But essentially, I guess she doesn't need to use any sort of app to perfect her face. She does it mostly with tape. I will say it is shocking. The transition from the before and after photos of her totally looks like a different person. She claims it's still actually her and that Photoshop isn't used as much as just tape on your face. But there's something about being proud of this that seems terrible to me. And even more so, not just being proud of it, but I don't know what the goal is. I assume the goal is to get a

bunch of first dates with dudes who are too nice to get up and say you look nothing like your photo. I think I've been lied to. I'm going to go ahead and leave. which I think you have every right to do, by the way, if you're someone that gets catfished into a first date with somebody that looks totally different than what they look like online, I don't think it's rude to say, I don't want to start off a brand new relationship or whatever this is supposed to be with a pretty significant lie,

and you've already lied to me once since you know you don't look like your photos, so I'm going to go. And I wish you well, but don't talk to me anymore. I know people are going to say that's rude, but you've got to have the whatever, the stones, let's go with that word for them, to say that in person if someone does this to you, because they're a crap person that understands that part of the reason you went out with them

is you were attracted to the photo and that's not actually them in real life, and that matters. But anyway, I just thought it was funny that she was so proud of herself for being so good at this, because if she's really that great at concealing all the tape on her face, maybe she should go out and live in the regular world with face of tape, or maybe just go ahead and get those surgeries to do whatever the tape is doing to the face. Because, again, the transformation is significant. It is kind of surprising. She does all that.

And I may be not. She's already lying about some stuff. Maybe she is using Photoshop and lying about that, too. One last thing that I saw out there that I thought was interesting. I don't know how many people remember and remember the show, you know, fondly or well. But the nanny was a TV show that was on for a while. Fran Dresher, of course, was the star of it. Fran Dresher is uniquely known for having a terribly annoying voice, but much more than that.

I guess she was also known on the show for having an interesting sense of fashion. Apparently, Gen Z, specifically in New York, loves it. They are doing all of the Fran Dresher outfits as part of their outfits for the holiday season and apparently bragging to other people about how many great looks Fran Drescher had on that show, so much so that the actress herself has even, you know, reacted and thanked people for rediscovering her television show now and rediscovering what she said. She had a lot of fun making, which is all the wardrobe decisions. The only thing I remember about that, and I haven't seen the nanny since I was a little kid,

and I don't even remember why who in my family would watch that show. But I remember thinking that her outfits were always ridiculous. That's all I thought whenever I saw them is like, wow, that seems insane. I don't think anyone would wear that in public. And now apparently young people are so smitten with the show. and with the fashion decisions that they are copying a lot of the looks and trying to find other ways to buy more or create more of these things. And that's amazing to me. At least they're giving credit to it, though.

Oftentimes on social media, when people figure out things that are very old, they think they've created them the first time. One of my favorite examples of that is when people were so excited that Post Malone had given a platform to some guy named Ozzy Osbourne that they thought was a has been or an unknown and that it was. It was really cool that this old dude was getting a chance to be in a song with Post Malone, which was uniquely sad to see a lot of people not know who Ozzy is, which actually also seemed remarkably incapable of being true. But this, at least, they're given credit to Fran Drescher, credit to the show and telling people to watch the nanny for wardrobe suggestions and selections, something I would never tell anyone I care about to do, but darn it young people, at least in New York, are doing it. See you later. Happy holidays. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.