60 Minutes Meltdown, Trump's Venezuela Threat & More Epstein Files

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Danish show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about, including President Trump giving
a what I think is hilarious answer to the question
what are you going to do with that Venezuelan oil
that we took back on October or excuse me, December tenth,
I think it was. I'll play that answer, but I

(00:20):
actually want to dive a little deeper into that topic. Well,
there's a lot of stuff to get you today sixty minutes,
and everybody behind that show are up in arms over
something that actually seems incredibly reasonable for the brand new
leader of CBS News to do. I'll get to that
story in a little bit. Jamie Raskin is out there
being a moron, and then, oh yeah, Hunter Biden has

(00:41):
been doing interviews and doing certain things, So of course
we're going to play some Hunter Biden audio, no matter
how annoying that is. But here this is President Trump
being asked about oil that was seized and ships that
were seized earlier this month, and what's going to happen
with the oil. Now. A lot of people seem to
think that all of this fighting between Venezuela and the
United States is really just about us trying to gain

(01:03):
access to more oil. Their oil. One of the most
oil rich countries in the world. It's not I don't
believe that even remotely is what this is about. And
I'm sure some might call me a naive for that,
but I'll get into it. But here's how President Trump responded,
speaking of Venezuela oil, what are we gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Do with the oil that we have? I'm going to
do with what the oil that has been seized.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
The United States sees one point nine million barrels of
oil on December tenth.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
We're gonna keep it.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
We're keeping Where's it going?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Are we gonna sell it or put in a strategic mask?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Sell it and we'll keep it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Whatever wrong, we will use it in dar strategic reserves.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
We're keeping it. We're keeping the ship.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
So also, I love this answer, and I love this
answer so much because the question is designed as a gotcha.
It's designed as a hey, what are you doing with
that oil you took? And all the claims that you're
actually trying to essentially prevent Venezuela from being as awful
of a country as it is to both itself and
the rest of the world, and it's partnership with places

(02:02):
like Russia, China, the regulars in the world of people
who are not always friends of ours. But what I
think is really interesting about this is, instead of falling
for any version of the gotcha, Trump just blatantly said
the thing that the left is going to freak out
the most about and the right's going to laugh about.
I feel like this happens a few times a week

(02:22):
where there's a moment where President Trump might say or
do something, and if you have a lefty friend in
your life, they're going to go crazy about it. They'll
post it on social media. They'll say this is dictatorship
or whatever that is. And the funny part is, I
actually think it makes the president more attractive as a
political candidate to the side of the aisle that he

(02:43):
appeals to and the people in the middle, because a
lot of people are just fed up with crap. They're
fed up with all the inauthenticity that goes on in
politics in the world and all the gotcha questions and
the sound clipping or soundbiting out of certain things. So
this is amazing to me. To keep it I don't
know why you keep asking these questions and actually talking

(03:03):
about inauthentic I have some audio of Jasmine Crockett that
I have to play the Texas politician who's going to
try to be a Senator and hopefully very you know,
shockingly fail. Hopefully it's a ridiculous and utter failure. But
I'll get to that in a little bit too, all right,
I want to talk about the sixty Minutes piece for
just a bit. There was a piece that was supposed

(03:24):
to air this weekend. It had been previewed heavily by
CBS News in sixty Minutes where they were going to
take down the Trump administration and talk about some of
the illegal things, according to them, that are going on
and removing people from this country, people that shouldn't be here,
not giving them due process or whatever, not allowing them
to argue and fight before they're sent to some sort

(03:45):
of prison somewhere else in the world. That would be
the decision of the people who are getting these individuals
back the US. Is not like negotiating to make sure
that we put people in jails. Once we kick them out,
they have to deal with whatever the problem is. Wherever
they came from what I think is so interesting about
all of this, though, as far as sixty Minutes is concerned,
and as far as Barry Wise is concerned, all she

(04:08):
really wanted to do was make sure that the organization
that she's in charge of now tried harder to get
the other perspective from the current administration in power. It
doesn't mean it's never going to air. That's how a
lot of mainstream media is reacting to this. That's how crazy,
you know, blowing up of the topic and exaggerating of

(04:28):
the idea as they always do. This whole thing is.
But here, let me play a version of that. An
example of this, This is Jamie Raskin on MSN Now
or whatever the crap they're calling themselves, talking about how
this is yet another example of the authoritative, authoritative leadership
of President Trump and his state media ask control of

(04:49):
other media outlets. This is hilariously stupid. The only problem
with it not being, you know, funnier, is that it's
also something a whole lot of people believe. That then
radickalizes them even more. But here, let me play this first.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
Your constitutional law professor, in addition to being a member
of Congress, can you explain in non lawyers terms, why
it is a matter of national interest, a matter of
our governance and our democracy what happens at a privately
owned news organization.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Right, I got to step right there. That question, by
the way, annoys me because she was essentially trying to say,
you're so smart, and we all are going to struggle
to understand your smartness and how genius the words that
are coming out of your mouth are, so please dumb
it down as much as possible for us. The riff raff.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
Ruler in the world would love to be able to
control what private TV where private newspapers are publishing about them.
And Donald Trump is using his power over the Federal
Communications Commission to make it possible for him to have minders,
either formally denominated minders, or people like Barry Weiss, who
are just going to do is bidding and it's.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
So stupid, it's so great. Actually, airs in the coming weeks,
if the sixty Minutes producers who are up in arms
and trying to protest do the thing that Barry Weiss
was asking them to do Weese was asking them to do,
and actually go out and try to get people on
the record from the Trump administration and then inevitably still
air the piece. None of these individuals who screamed and

(06:20):
yelled that this was bad will admit that that means
nothing happened. News media is so obsessed with itself that
the only people who care right now about a piece
that's been shelved but not necessarily completely can forever are
the other news media people who talk about it. Because
as far as the general public is concerned, if and
when this is on television, it's still on TV, and

(06:43):
you know, essentially nothing changed. But here I want to
play a snippet that's now been making the rounds and
gone viral to demonstrate how one sided and ridiculous the
original version of the story was going to be. And
you can't find an easier fifteen second clip than this
one to show you how insane the conversation would have been,
and how ridiculous it would be to not try as

(07:04):
hard as possible to have credibility as a news organization
to get someone from the Trump administration to comment on this.
They're doing very little in that regard, if anything, and
the people that are now well the person in charge
of CBS wants that to change. But this was a
real part of the preview of the part of the
sixty minute story that did inevitably air.

Speaker 8 (07:26):
Rapid deportations have been a key part of the Trump
administration's immigration overhaul. The administration considers anyone who crosses the
border illegally to be a criminal. The cross things are
now at a historic loan.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Oh yeah, oh goa wait a minute. I want to
replay that one part back because it is the part
that most amuses me, just because it is like, full
on to me hilarious. They actually said in the report
that people who cross illegally into our country and get this,
this is shocking. They're thought of as criminals by the
Trump administration because they illegally came into the country, thus

(08:03):
committing a crime, and that is part of the reason
why we now have a historic low in people illegally
entering our country. It seems like they're missing the point
where dull is the reaction to this year. I want
to play it again.

Speaker 8 (08:15):
Part of the Trump administration's immigration overhaul. The administration considers
anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal.
Illegal crossings are now at a historic loan.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
You can't write something stupider than that if you could try,
and I don't think it would come out dumber then
the way that that came out there of them saying
it as if it doesn't make sense, it does make sense.
It is a crime. There are other crimes that people
commit once they're in our country having already done that
first part, and that is worse. And actually, I know what,

(08:47):
I'll play a little piece of audio I didn't even
intend to play till much later on, if at all,
on the show This is the Catch a Predator guy
Chris Hansen, he was behind the scenes at Fox recently
and he was talking about how whenever they do a
sting operation now and no, I'm not trying to paint
the picture that every single person who's in this country
illegally is committing this type of crime, for anyone in

(09:09):
the cheap seats who wants to pretend that's what I'm saying,
even if I don't care if you claim and yell
stupid racist stuff at me, or claim that I'm a racist,
whatever it might be. But nonetheless he's actually saying, Chris Hansen,
that every time they do a sting, it is now
someone who's here illegally, Like it gets so ridiculous. They
can't even do it anymore. To catch a predator Guy
is talking about how people who are in this country

(09:31):
without the right to be here are likely to commit
other crimes because they already feel like they're playing on
the house's money. This feels like it should matter. Of course,
it's going to be ignored by most of media.

Speaker 9 (09:43):
We have seen an increase in illegal immigrants being caught
in our stings across the country, and it seems today
that we can't do a sting whether we're in the
South or the Midwest, or West Coast or East Coast
without catching.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Somebody who's in this country illegally.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
That is profoundly important information from the Chris Hansen, you know,
catch a Predator Guy as he's often called called, that
you cannot do a sting operation for people that are
trying to root out pedophiles without catching someone who's here legally. Yes,
it is in fact the crime to come into our
country in and of itself when you don't have the

(10:20):
right to be here and to try to stay. But
there's other crimes you can commit on top of it
that do make situations even worse. I think it's ridiculous
The way that so much of this is talked about. Right,
one last thing before I take a break. I just
want to tease some of the Hunter Biden audio because
there's so so much of it out there, and it's
so so stupid, and part of me doesn't even want
to play it, but I have to because it's Hunter

(10:42):
and he's saying dumb things. He was asked if he
should have ever joined the board of Barisma, and of
course he said no, although he doesn't seem to understand
the reason why. And it's that it looked incredibly corrupt,
because it was corrupt, not that it just made for
bad pr But this is how Biden answered that question.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Was it a mistake to go on the board?

Speaker 10 (11:04):
Yeah, Yeah, it was absolutely a mistake, not because of
anything that I did that I am embarrassed about or
in any way whatsoever feel conflicted about as.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
A swing and a miss. Right there, with that part,
let's let him continue.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Least to what I did for Parisma.

Speaker 10 (11:24):
But because of the political position that put us all in,
they used that as the as the toe in the
door to be able to call my family the Biden
crime family.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, and you are the Biden crime family and a bunch
of other things you did all seemed to land in
the same place as joining a board on a Ukrainian
energy company when you did absolutely no work for them
and got paid money. You didn't deserve a darn it.
I love the fact that what he actually says in
that answer is it just looked bad, it wasn't actually bad.
And I don't regret doing the thing that I did.

(11:54):
I just regret the fact that people found out about
it and we had to deal with a pr version
of a discussion instead of the real version, which is
all the other times that money seemed to get embezzled
and change hands, and the amount of Biden family members
who had bank accounts with crazy amounts of money in
them that just conveniently seemed to somehow also be tied
to Hunter Biden. But anyway, that's just a snippet. There's

(12:15):
a bunch more. He talks about the exit in Afghanistan,
the laptop. He actually claims the laptop's not real, which
is insane because the laptop was used as evidence against
him in a courtroom when his father was still in
the White House. But we'll get to that. We'll talk
about a bunch of this thrilled to be here filling
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(15:23):
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couple of things. First, there's audio about how great the

(18:29):
GDP is this time around four point three percent beat
the expectation of three point three percent in this quarter,
so good news as far as our economy is concerned.
This is something the President, of course, has talked about
a lot that he thinks the next year will really
demonstrate how many policies he's put in place or agreements
deals he's made because of tariffs and whatnot that actually

(18:52):
will wind up benefiting the United States of America. So
if you think things are bad, they're hopefully going to
get much better very soon. And some underlying numbers seem
to say that that's true.

Speaker 14 (19:02):
Here we go, welcome back to sclockbox, Rick see and
tell you here live c ME EHQ with some delayed
but very important data points. We'll be looking at October
preliminary durable goods, Philly FED and GDP. Second time around
the block. Delayed third quarter numbers, we're looking for three point.

Speaker 10 (19:20):
Three zoom, zoom zoom, four.

Speaker 14 (19:24):
Point three percent.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Four point three percent.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
That is a nice jump.

Speaker 14 (19:29):
And I know many may question data gathering, but on
the surface, this would be the strongest quarter going back
to the third quarter of twenty twenty three when it
was four point seven.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
That seems good. That seems like a good thing. I
love that the reference to data gathering is already out there.
To distrust it, to not be sure about this information,
you just have to live your own life and you
have to decide for yourself if things are good or bad.
Uniquely this time of year, people put a lot of
money on credit cards. Americans do this every holiday season.
Are worse than others for the amount that we depend

(20:02):
on debt to give people what we want to give
them over the holidays. But I do think that it's
interesting that this is a time of year where we
also hyper fixate on something like poll numbers for the
approval rating of the current president. Every president does bad
around this time of year. Trump is not alone in that,
and actually, as far as support goes within Republican places

(20:25):
or Conservatives, people who identify as voters of the president,
He's still doing real great. So it is interesting how
some of those numbers, I think, get misused or they
persuade you to think something different than what we see
all the time. He is not alone the president against
himself or against others that it does include the Obamas,
of course, the bidens of the world, and having a

(20:46):
pretty big dip in approval rating, especially in regards to
the economy around this time of year. I do want
to play one other thing. I'm not going to shy
away from it. I'm definitely going to talk about the
Epstein file drops and the information out there and all
the discussions about it. The biggest headline in mainstream media
about this is that Trump was on a flight with

(21:07):
Epstein and a twenty year old woman, not an underage woman.
That's something that I feel like the mainstream media outlets
are desperate to find. They want to find a way
to say that Trump is responsible for the horrible crimes
that Epstein committed. They don't actually want to protect anyone
from the criminals who co conspired with Epstein to do
all that horrible stuff to children. That's not really important

(21:30):
for mainstream media. They would rather just find a way
to blame Trump for something, So that is a headline
out there. There are descriptions of some of the more
ridiculous stuff that happened with Glene Maxwell and others in
how they coerced people to do some of the things
that they wound up doing with Jeffrey Epstein, and it's
really horrible and awful to read through some of that stuff. Again,

(21:51):
not in mainstream media, they're not focused on that. So
President Trump was asked a question about Epstein and he
gave a pretty interesting answer to this question. He said
he was friendly with a lot of people and there
are a lot of photos out there of Jeffrey Epstein
with a lot of individuals, not just President Trump or
president former President Clinton, who seems to be in a

(22:12):
ridiculous amount of photos with the known sex abuser. But
here is how President Trump responded to a question about Epstein.

Speaker 15 (22:21):
Thank you, mister president. Were you surprised by the number
of photos of Bill Clinton and the Epstein files? And
you can you commit to their full and were you
surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton in
the Epstein files? And can you commit to their full
release by the end of the year. Some of the
victims were protesting that too many of them were retacted.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
I know there are a lot of people that are
angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know,
but I think it's terrible. Look, I don't like the
I like Bill Clinton. I've always gotten along with Bill Clinton.
They've been nice to him, he's been nice to me.
We've always gotten respect him. I hate to see photos
come out of him. But this is what the Democrats,
mostly Democrats in a couple of bid Republicans are asking for.

(23:01):
So they give me their photos of me too. Everybody
was friendly with this guy either friendly or not friendly,
but then you know he was around. He was all
over upon Beach in other places. The head of Harvard
was his best friend, Larry Summers, that's true, and Bill
Clinton was a friend of his, but everybody was.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
I actually threw him out of Mar a.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Lago, and as that is also true, by the way,
I do like that that eventually comes up when Trump
talks about Epstein, that he became uncomfortable with Epstein and
threw him out of mar Alago because of the creepy
stuff that Epstein was doing, which inevitably was actually a
whole lot of horribly illegal things, but none the last.
What I think is most interesting about this is how
Trump says he likes Bill Clinton. And it's part of

(23:38):
the reason I wanted to play this because Trump is
at a point, not that he's ever really been anything
other than this, where he doesn't give a crap what
the potential fallout is for saying something here or there,
you know, having a sit down moment that goes viral
where he seems to be friendly with Barack Obama and
Obama has to somewhat crap on it, but Trump doesn't care.

(23:59):
He is just at a point where it doesn't matter.
None of this is important. All of these gotcha question
whatever they're designed to be things for media, just ignore them,
move on who cares And also correctly blame the left
for being the people that begged and pushed and are
still begging and pushing for more information from Epstein to
come out because they say we haven't seen it all yet,

(24:20):
and it seems like every time something does come out,
it seems to overly hurt Democrats and not Republicans, which then,
of course makes mainstream media not really care about it
because the goal again has always been and at no
point ever really was to protect people. It's just to
find Trump responsible for something anything, as best they can.
All Right, another piece of audio I want to play.

(24:41):
This is interesting to me. This is a conversation about
the insane amount of fraud that exists in Minnesota. It
is absolutely ridiculous the amount of discussions we're having right
now about how profound and how large the stealing is coming.
You know, the information about that ceiling is coming in.
It's credible, and there's no way that there aren't a

(25:02):
bunch of people that have to be involved in this,
and people that won't do anything about fixing it, because
darn it, the individuals who they're paying are people they
expect to help them continue to get elected in any
kind of political race. That is something that James Comer
actually talked about recently. So we can go ahead and
play some of that audio. Because Governor Walls and many

(25:23):
many other people have no interest in doing anything other
than preventing more of this crime. And the only reason
they're going to prevent more of it moving forward is
they've been caught now, so now they have to prevent
it moving forward or they'll get caught even worse, you know,
next time. But they're actually not going to harm anybody
that's in this country that's you know, taking advantage of us,
because they expect very much to be voted into power

(25:47):
again and again. As I said, by these people here
we go at the.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
End of the day.

Speaker 16 (25:51):
For Governor Walt to say Republicans on Overside Committee should
stand down, He'll fix it. I don't think Paine America
believes that he's not going to do anything because they
don't want to offend that population. And the early numbers
that I'm getting in on the Somalis in Minnesota is
seventy five percent of the Somalis in Minnesota are on
full government assistance, that's full welfare.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Seventy five percent of people that live there from Somalia
are getting full welfare from US. A whole bunch of fraud,
a whole bunch of abuse, a whole bunch of stealing
going on, and billions of dollars as far as the
number goes. You wonder at times how anyone could possibly
take walls seriously. And you easily can figure out why
Trump has started to say the word retarded tied to

(26:36):
governor Walls and of course also get media attention for that,
for the use of that word and all the different
weird things that come out about it. All of it
is just designed to play the game against people who
also play games. All right, One last thing I want
to do address here in the first hour, or at
least wanted to talk about a little bit, is the
discussion about the oil that was taken from Venezuela and

(26:58):
how recently Trump said we keep it, and that's really
designed to be a trap question for media. But more
than that is everything else going on between the US
and Venezuela, the armada as Trump calls it, that is
built up in that area. In case Venezuela decides or
thinks they can do anything tough or stupid, if they
did something unlike that, Trump says, it would be the

(27:19):
last time that they do something stupid, because the United
States would respond to any sort of action or any
sort of military strike taken by Venezuela. But what's this
all really about, might be the question a lot of
people are asking. And sure, there's been a bunch of
times in the history of this country where oil seems
to be a motivating factor in many of the things

(27:39):
we do, and so I think a lot of people
out there saying, now, it's just about oil. We're just
trying to take oil from that country, that's all it is.
The truth, though, is very different, because we don't need
the oil ourselves from Venezuela. That's not something that we
desperately need to be a more successful country. What we
need to do is prevent the trade in oil that

(27:59):
occurs between Venezuela, Russia, China, any of the places we
try to harm with sanctions. We need to make those
sanctions more effective. And this black market trade thing that
exists between some of these countries that definitely oppose us
helps them circumvent any of the financial penalties that we're created.
So instead of creating a world where we try even

(28:21):
harder on paper to win a fight you can't win
on paper, we're doing something away that actually does have
an impact. The more that we disrupt the exchange of
certain products between certain countries, especially when Venezuela is concerned,
which is ridiculously corrupt and incredibly poor a vast majority

(28:41):
of the country, because all that money goes to very
very few people who live there and pull all the
strings and control everything. But the more we do this,
the more we actually see the underbelly of the bad guy,
is the way I would say it, We see what
else there is that we have to fight. This is
I think a direct assault on one of the things
that most harms the United States throughout the rest of

(29:04):
the world. And I think that Trump is a genius.
And I don't say that lightly. I'm not trying to
be a Trump guy who loves and you know, thinks
everything he does is incredible. But I think he's a
genius in how he's waged this war and how he's
talked about it as a fight against drugs and the
amount of drugs that are brought into our country are
even honestly that go other places from Venezuela that harm people.

(29:26):
He's talked about it in terms that are quite different
than saying out loud the thing that everyone knows, and
it's that you want to prevent these countries from having
an outstretched ability to you know, go around any harm
we try to do to them, as sanctions that Democrats
and Republicans put on all of these places, because we
know that they're doing things that hurt us. We want

(29:47):
to prevent them from harming us, from harming our interest
throughout the world, and we can't seem to get that done.
This is an avenue to potentially actually take that you know,
control string back, and I think it's great. I think
it's a very important and very intelligent way, as I said,
genius way to go about doing this. And of course
mainstream media is missing the point and talking about it

(30:09):
in the most basic, the most simplistic terms and trying
to make it seem like a simple corruption. And I
guess I'll just say one thing in response to that.
If everything I said you don't believe, I like everything
that says like ah, I don't know. This guy's biased.
He's on his side. He's saying stuff about Trump that's
too nice. Whatever. The other thing that's interesting about the
actual oil itself is we could more easily buy it

(30:32):
then we can take it. It's cheap. It's something we
can very easily acquire if we want it by means
that are much different than means that involve ships, that
involve seizing assets and keeping them and keeping ships all
that stuff. We could do something much more cost effective,
and we're not doing it that way. So the goal
can't possibly be the thing that we could gain for
less money. It has to be something else, and this

(30:54):
something else that I told you is by far the
most obvious thing for it to actually be a way
to gain more control back that we've lost because of
the complexity and the partnerships that exist beyond us. We're
one of our quote unquote enemies, or certainly not someone
who's always trying to help us China, the most among
them is trying to work with other people to do

(31:15):
things that harm this country. All right, Well, take a
break on that note. A lot coming up. We'll have
some fun. It's almost a holiday. We have to have
fun on the Show. Craig Collins filling in on the
Data show.

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This is Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in.
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(32:26):
as well, and occasionally see tweets about the Yankees, which
is buy and large what I actually tweet about, if
I do that at all. All right, I do want
to play some audio quickly a few different things. First,
National National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is telling us
how great a four point three number looks for the
GDP in Q three. Just another example of them kind

(32:48):
of living up to the thing they're saying. This is
the Trump administration and the president telling us things are
going to get better, and things are getting better. Some
of the underlying numbers seem to demonstrate that this is
one of those things. Here we go.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Let's start with that GDP report.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
It's a great report. What made this happen?

Speaker 7 (33:06):
Kevin?

Speaker 17 (33:07):
Sure, well, you know, it's a fantastic report. Four point
three percent, that's just about as good as GDP numbers get,
and especially coming you know, on the heels of the
CPI report consumer Price Index report we got which you
actually showed some interesting data that consistent with this, showed
that quarter inflation is all the way down to one
point six percent. So I think that these numbers are

(33:29):
showing the President Trump's trade policy and his supply side policy,
which is really increasing a new factory production and so on,
is having a big, big effect, as is his trade policy.
So if we abstract from the reduction to the trade deficit,
then the four point three percent number would only be
two point six percent.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
So I have no idea what car is on doing
some crazy like truck thing behind him as he's speaking
from the lawn near the White House. It feels like
someone is picking up the trash, to be honest with you,
but yeah, those numbers are great. They are very good,
and they seem to demonstrate something that the President has
been saying and others have been saying for a little bit,
which is next year will be even better. Next year

(34:10):
will be more noticeable for the American people that things
are potentially going well because we are still we are
also still in record amounts of debt, just individually and
as a country. So it's not all roses. I'm not
trying to pretend that. But one of the most impactful
things here seems to be the way that Trump went
about creating trade deals through tariffs. The entirety of mainstream

(34:32):
media claim to you that it was going to be
awful and horrible and that prices we're going to skyrocket
because of tariffs. The exact opposite has happened so far. Surprise, surprise,
How shocking it is that they were so wrong. All right,
I delayed as much as I could. But Hunter Biden
did a podcast, and there's a bunch of audio out there,
and some of this stuff has to be talked about.

(34:53):
My favorite thing and producer Steven actually sent this along
to me, which is great. Is a promo for the
Pie cast in which Hunter Biden is claiming there never
was a laptop, but then also referring to the laptop
multiple times, making it sound like it definitely existed. And
by the way, of course it did. The government actually
even used it against Hunter Biden in a lawsuit. They

(35:16):
entered it into evidence in a courtroom. Be weird to
enter nothing into an evidence in courtroom, But who cares
about the truth if you're Hunter Biden. Let's go ahead
and say two things at the same time. This is
a minute of audio and he claims there is no
laptop and then claims there's a collection of social media
things that are the laptop, and then just says the
words laptop way more times than anybody should.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Here we go, there is no laptop. There was no laptop.

Speaker 10 (35:42):
I have no recollection whatsoever of ever dropping off a
laptop to John Paul mcguisigeh.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
By the way, real quick there, that's not proof of anything, sir.
The amount of drugs and things that you did, not
having recollection of dropping someone off to someone not exactly
going to be trusted. Continuing to.

Speaker 10 (36:00):
The laptop, but then he starts to read the files,
and he reads a file, and he sees files about Barisma,
and he says, the only thing that he can think
of doing is calling Rudy Giuliani. He's a laptop repair
shop owner in Wilmington, Delaware, whose store is three and
half miles at most from where everybody knows my parents live.
So if you had a laptop that he wanted to return,

(36:22):
he thinks that the best thing to do is call
Rudy Giuliani's lawyer, Buck Costello, and give it to.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
My sworn enemy. But there was no laptop story.

Speaker 10 (36:29):
They cobbled together all of this.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Okay, that's my favorite part too, when Sean Ryan, who's
doing this interview, is like, wait a minute, but you
said there's not a laptop, so why are you now
talking about who They decided to give the non laptop.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
To digital material It had been stolen from phones that
have been taken from the dark web, and they made
it out to do his thing.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Then this story.

Speaker 10 (36:47):
Doesn't become about the laptop at all, because there's nothing
in the laptop other than a record of me being
a degenerate at the worst moment in my life, smoking,
doing drugs.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Wait, but I thought there was no laptop. Yet again
he's referring to thing that he knows does exist, and
he doesn't recall who he dropped it off with or
how he forgot it. And by the way, my favorite
part in there, too, of doubting the legitimacy of the
actual story that existed surrounding that laptop, is that someone
would call Rudy Giuliani. Why would they want to just
deliver it to you, or to your parents, or to

(37:19):
anyone at all remotely tied to the you know, Biden
administration if it seems to be incredibly damaging to the
Biden administration, Who do you think is going to hide
it if you were turn it to them, you actually
do want to give it to someone that you think
will turn it into news and actually give the truth
of what's in there, not saying Rudy Giuliani has to
be that guy. But why would I ever bring it

(37:41):
to the Bidens if I find all this crazy stuff
on it that talks about Barisma and everything else and
the big guy, et cetera, et cetera. That's insane. Hunter
Biden also was asked a question about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Talk about a voice I don't need in that discussion,
but he actually admits that it was a terrible that
it was a failed exit. So I thought that was

(38:02):
at least interesting to play because Hunter seems to be
more willing to blame Pop for things that definitely the
president got wrong, the former president and President Biden got wrong.
The exit from Afghanistan probably one of the most significant
mistakes of the mistakes that he made. But then when
talking about himself, when referencing things like the laptop that

(38:23):
didn't exist a second ago, or even referencing being on
the board of Barisma, he continued to forgive himself like
only only a degenerate ken. But here he is talking
about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
What do you think some of those failures were.

Speaker 10 (38:35):
I think the failure one of the failures was the
way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I
think it was an obvious failure. I think thirteen marines
are dead. I think that there was a better way
to do it. And I think that and I can
blame it on his generals. I can blame it on
the people the way in whish we did it. But
my dad always knew this also is that the buck

(38:57):
stops with him. I think that that was a failure.
I don't think, yeah, well, you know, hold on.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
What I think is amazing about that too, that he
says the buck stopped with him. Of course it does.
President Biden ran on certain things. One of those things
was ending the war Offghanistan, and he did it terribly.
He did it the way a politician does who only
cares about being able to say I made one of
my political promises come true. He didn't actually want to
do it to protect anyone. And even though Hunter Biden

(39:23):
references the loss of military lives, if you have listened
to the individuals that were actually impacted by it, whether
it's the family of some of those individuals who died
or some of the other military people who were injured
and survived. The way they talk about how Biden treated them,
how much he disregarded and didn't care about the sacrifice
made by the men and women in our military is

(39:45):
much more significant than the degenerate you know, drug addicted
son of the former president, telling us that he thinks
that's one of the mistakes that his dad made. Well,
his dad was the auto pen and president. It's just
it's ridiculous, and I can't believe that it's that's the
kind of thing that goes viral more places, because by
and large, I honestly just don't want to hear from
Hunter Biden anymore, but I have to play it, especially

(40:08):
that there is no laptop, and then he continuously references
the laptop that he claims doesn't exist. All right, Another
couple of things. First, this is out of Minnesota. The
Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota or in Minneapolis, excuse me,
will be suing the state in the city because of
public school decisions that were made that seem to be racist,

(40:30):
and they seem to be anti white things like the
black men teach fellowships and certain underrepresented populations being the
target employees of Minneapolis and their school districts. I just
think this is profoundly interesting because by and large, people
on the left will claim this stuff doesn't happen, it

(40:52):
can't happen, it's not true, and it's racist to even
talk about it. And yet there seems like there's going
to be at least a court case and in your
future one of several, to be honest, that demonstrate just
how much of a reality this is. And it does matter.
And if you're anti something, if that thing that you're
anti is quote racism or anything else, you should be
anti it across the board. You should be like, oh,

(41:14):
it's wrong, no matter who it happens to. And it
seems that we might have a demonstration of that. More
and more of what's going on in Minnesota seems to
be the most broken anywhere here in the United States.
Just a place that seems proud of the fact that
it's absolutely corrupt and terrible, and you know, fraud and
abuse and all kinds of things are happening to a

(41:35):
scale that seems to make no sense in a place
that shouldn't be capable of the billions of dollars of
fraud that they're capable of or allowing for it to
happen the way they have. There's also this Boston Mayor
Michelle wou talks about the accomplishments that she's had and
that it's all thanks to the Somalians who live in
her community. And this is sort of surreal. But hey,

(41:57):
if you're defrauding Minneapolis and Minnesota for tons and time dollars,
I guess you can donate some of those to some
of these other politicians. So they don't want that money
truck to end, so they'll give you an added Boy.
When they're speaking here we go, you.

Speaker 18 (42:09):
Cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston
has had in safety, jobs and economic development, in education
without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our
city up. We are proud and we are grateful for
our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors. Boston
and the country are clear that hate has no place

(42:30):
in our society.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Does yeah, has no place.

Speaker 18 (42:32):
Every attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
All right, So hate has no place in our society.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. End stop. You can put
a you know, pause at the end of that statement.
That's fine. But I also think this ridiculous version of
praise for the sake of donation dollars is also bad
and ridiculous. I do think it's insane for someone in
Boston to claim that the only reason things have gotten

(42:58):
better has to do with a specific community there and
nobody else. It's one hundred percent because of them, and
we're all grateful and praise be and all this and whatnot.
It's it's surreal, all right. I'll take a break on that.
I'm more coming up in a bit. I was really
really interested in Philip Rivers game number two in the NFL,
he played on Monday night last night. I wanted to

(43:19):
see what a forty four forty five year old guy
can do after a week of getting to play in
the NFL after being on the couch for the last
few years. And I think at least for half of
that game he didn't disappoint. So I got that more
coming up in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on
the Danish show.

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Now all of the news you would probably miss. It's
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Speaker 1 (45:30):
filling in thrilled to be with you, time for a
quick five on the Dana Show. Five lightning fire topics
to get you into the holiday spirit or whatever. This
one to me, I loved. This isn't holiday related, it's
just in general, although I guess it's the kind of
thing I wish I could get as a forty year
old guy for my Christmas, a chance to play in

(45:52):
an NFL football game. Philip Rivers has been living this
dream the last two weeks, after years, of course of
being a great NFL quarterback and then having to retire
and sitting on the couch for several years. I hear
he is calling a play something that was viral on
social media. I think a couple of people even said,
please inject this kind of thing into my veins, just
kind of how cool it sounds. And I think how

(46:14):
a lot of us of an age that's a little
older than what would be typical for a professional athlete,
see ourselves more in Philip Rivers than we do in
other people out there. Here we go, and he was
having to get the ball of Taylor for a first out, said,
what any hut hey, lick it up.

Speaker 10 (46:35):
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Speaker 13 (46:39):
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Speaker 1 (46:47):
For half of that game, it was a bunch of fun.
Philip Rivers and the Indianapolis Colts hung in with a
much better team in the San Francisco forty nine ers
for half, and then the other second half of the
game happened and terrible things occurred. Rivers didn't seem like
he could throw the balls downfield as he needed to
to really be competitive in the second half. But nonetheless,
I do think he's one of the feel good stories

(47:08):
of the NFL season this year. In the last couple
of weeks and especially in Indy, the show airs in
Indianapolis and WIBC, it airs a lot of places Indy
and the Cults looked like a team that would do
very well this year, and then a lot of things
fell apart. So just having the Philip Rivers story at
the tail end of the season is at least a
reason to keep paying attention to a team that's very

(47:30):
very likely I'm not going to be a part of
the playoffs. Some other things out there as far as
quick five topics go. The FDA approved the first GLP
one pill for obesity. It is from the makers of
wagov and it'll be interesting to see if it's as
effective or more effective or less effective than the shot
version of the GLP one, and also how cost effective

(47:52):
it'll be, how expensive for you to spend money on
this sort of thing. I know more and more people
that are on some form of of weight loss drug,
and it is sort of shocking to see how quickly
they drop weight. And actually saw sort of a tangential
story of this one. Chipotle has put out a GLP

(48:13):
one menu, which just is simply lesser portions of the
food you would normally get at Chipotle if you're not
on a weight loss drug and if your appetite isn't
curbed as much as it would be by taking one
of those, so it's more protein rich, less carbs, and
just less overall food. I thought that was interesting that
Chipotle wants to lean in to people who might not

(48:35):
be eating a whole lot because of some sort of
medication they're on, and claim that they're actually going to
overserve those people with less stuff. And I assume it
still costs about the same amount of money. A one
final thing and just quickly and we'll talk about it
more later. There are there's a viral story about Santa
Elves and a robbery in Montreal, not exactly a Disney movie.

(48:56):
I'll give you details for that in a bit. Craig
Collins filling in on the Danish Show.

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Speaker 1 (49:15):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about d Lash, Dana Lash
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(49:36):
or whatever it's at. I don't even know. By the
end of helping fill in on this show, I do
want to talk about the Republican infighting just a bit.
And so if you don't know anything about this, good
for you. America Fest twenty twenty five happened over the
weekend that is the turning point USA event, one of
the bigger ones, certainly something that the absence of Charlie

(49:58):
Kirk was a noticeable part of. But there were shots
taken by Ben Shapiro in the direction of some I
think Tucker Carlson took shots at Shapiro. People were firing
at each other. I think Megan Kelly got hit with
strays for some reason and then had to deal with
that the fall to that, and certainly Candace Owans was
criticized a lot, mostly because it's fairly easy to criticize

(50:20):
Candace Owans. She is right now one of the biggest
names in the world of I'm just asking questions. Even
if I have no proof or logical reason to ask
some of these questions, I'm still just asking them, which
by and large is the same as investigating Candace Owans.
Feels like to me, before I get any of the
rest of this going and play some audio for you,

(50:40):
like someone who's part of an investigative team. Maybe the
most recent person hired on a team of detectives or
cops who's just saying crazy stuff, and you're looking at
that person, You're like, I don't know if that's right.
I don't know if aliens did this or whoever it
has did that, and she's like, I'm just trying to help.
Every idea is a good idea. Sometimes those can have

(51:01):
a detrimental effect, and not in the sense that you
got to shut up keep saying whatever you want to say,
but in the sense of if you never have any
proof of them, you're going to convince people of things
without any reason to actually stand behind them, and that
seems bad. And I think by and large that was
Shapiro's point. Now, Shapiro certainly has a lot of things
you can criticize him for. Many people do, whether you're

(51:24):
on the right of the left or what have you.
So here let's start with this. Let's start with some
audio of Scott Jennings on CNN talking about Jade Vance,
what the Vice president said about this, essentially saying that
let's have the infighting within our party stop. Now. I
actually profoundly disagree with this, but not because I agree
with the craziness of some of what people are saying.

(51:45):
But here first, let's play the audio of Scott Jennings
and how he summarized what Vance's message was at America Fest.
But it was pretty.

Speaker 19 (51:53):
Stark when you laid out that way right when you
saw a Akramaswami and Ben Shapiro going directly at what
our of these conspiracy theories and anti Semitism, let's call
it what it is that are in some corners of
the movement. How do you see the way that jd.
Vance kind of threaded this needle.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
Well.

Speaker 18 (52:15):
Jd.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Vance was and is trying to appeal to the most
people possible because he anticipates being the nominee of the
Republican Party in twenty twenty eight, and he has had
relationships with a lot of the people whose names you
heard on the stage. You know, there's more information today
than we had yesterday.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
They took a straw pole.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Of all the people who went to Turning Points event,
So this is thousands and thousands of people, eighty seven
percent of them, and the straw pole said that Israel
was either a top ally or an ally of the
United States. On top of that, they asked the people
who were there, what are the biggest issues facing the
United States, Number one radical Islam. So when you look
at what the people who were in the audience think,

(52:54):
it sounds like they were really more with Ben Shapiro
than they were with some of the other people who
were attacking Ben Shapiro, rather clear eyed about who our
friends are and the difference between right and wrong.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
At least, Yeah, I agree with him on that they're
clear eyed. A lot of people seem to be clear
eyed and who's right and who's wrong, regardless of what
you think of the actual person of Ben Shapiro or
anyone else. And I know that there's been some shots
taken at the character of Shapiro and some of the
things he's done in the world of media to other
people in media. Candace Owan's among them who said that
she got, you know, fired by Ben, which she did.

(53:25):
But nonetheless, here's what I think is more interesting than
that conversation and telling you whose side I'm on. If
I agree with Shapiro or I agree with the Vaku
or I you know, think the Tucker was right, all that, whatever,
it doesn't really matter. And honestly, if you listen to
the show and Dana she knows a lot of these
people way more than I do, so she might have

(53:45):
way more information and better things to say about some
of this infighting. So I encourage you heavily to listen
when Dana's back hosting the show to anything she says
about this. But my very simple point is I think
that the Republican Party, or at least the people who
are the most notable names and voices within it, continue
to demonstrate how they're different than Democrats in a good way.

(54:07):
And I'm not trying to echo any one of the
points that they make as being valuable in and of itself.
I'm not trying to be anti Semitic on this show
or anything like it. But I am saying that not
shutting up voices, not telling people that you're not allowed
to say what you think and you know, not allowed
to target people within our movement or within our side
of the political aisle, is exact opposite of what Democrats do.

(54:31):
Their hive mind monolith thinking is damaging. It's something that
I think is inherently bad in the world of politics
in general. And I'll give you a couple examples of
why I think this is actually kind of a good thing.
The first one Obviously this happened a while ago, but
I really enjoyed when it took forever for Republicans with

(54:51):
a majority to pick the Speaker of the House. I
didn't enjoy it because I thought that some of the
names being thrown out were good or bad. It was
even that complex. I enjoyed it because I think that's
what our political system is supposed to be. You're supposed
to have infighting, people who disagree with each other, who
raise these opinions or raise these voices and say I

(55:12):
don't want this or I don't want that. You don't
have to have people who all think and work in lockstep,
and Democrats demand it. Republicans don't. Even Republican voters and
supporters don't demand that everyone thinks exactly like them in
order to be a part of the party, part of
the movement to vote the same way. And I think
that was jd Vance's overarching message. But I do think

(55:34):
that part of this is also a lot of people
who think they're more important than they are. No offense
to Ben Shapiro or anyone else, I like him more
or less and some of the things he says, But
I will say that the movement is beyond any of
these voices, the movement, the political party, whatever you want
to call it, and people are going to have differing opinions,

(55:55):
and I think it will always be better to allow
those opinions to exist in the public square and to
essentially attack the ones that you think are horrible as
opposed to the opposite. So I think what Ben Shapiro
did on stage was fine. I think what Tucker Carlson
did was fine. I think all of them are doing things,
by and large that I think help demonstrate that this
party is is more complex, that it's actually all the

(56:16):
things that quote unquote woke people want to say they
are without woke people being any of this stuff, which
is what I find is kind of amusing. And I
know this is an unpopular thing to say, but I
can't help saying it when I'm around people who vote
like I do. I vote a Republican, I vote conservatively.
I've been doing it so I've been a registered Republican
since I was eighteen years old. So it's something that honestly,

(56:39):
my family has done for a long time too. And
there are notable people within my family and the party
that I won't reference right now, but Nonetheless, what I
think is interesting about this is when I'm around those individuals,
you can have a more complex conversation, like people can
heavily disagree with each other and call people a more
on an idiot in sort of a lighthearted way or
maybe a serious way, I don't know, but you can

(57:01):
talk about this stuff honestly the way you see Republican
pundits or Republican politicians being willing to do an interview
on any platform. You see people like Trump taking questions
all the time from the right, the left, the middle, whoever,
and honestly when they say that Trump's brain isn't working anymore,

(57:21):
I find that uniquely hilarious because of how often he's
willing to be challenged by anybody and let whatever the
results of that challenge are be something that speaks for itself,
be something that exists in the world. Biden was hiding,
and Biden was using a list of names to call
on when he did do any sort of interaction with
the press. That is much more damaging and demonstrates a

(57:42):
person whose brain is broken far more than any of
the crazy stuff they say about Trump. But here, by
and large, I guess the overarching message of what I'm
trying to say, and it might be something that you
care about very little. I doubt the American, the average
American person is sitting home at night thinking, man, why
is there so much fighting within the republic movement? As
far as some of the bigger names that exist within

(58:03):
this party, pundits and or you know, actual politicians. I
doubt that's something that runs across your mind very much
compared to what's going on this Christmas. But I will
say that if you do pay attention to it, if
it is something that you more closely monitor, I think
it further shows you what is supposed to be the
way that a party functions, a meaning that it does

(58:24):
have dissenting opinions, it does have outside voices. I'll credit
Dana Lash for sure as being a human being that
will challenge anybody on anything. And it's one of the more,
you know, fascinating things about how fearless. And I'm not
trying to kiss up to her. I know I'm filling
it on her show, but how fearless she can be
as I ask, screw it, I'll say what I think,
no matter who it offends, no matter who it hurts,

(58:45):
any of that stuff, and I think that is a
much more common not to the degree that Dana does it,
she's exceptional at it, but I think it's a much
more common principle of the right than the left. And
I think most people would agree with that and understand
where that comes from, because the left, that woke, crazy
ideology that they aspire to have is all also you know,

(59:06):
uniform hive mind thinking that seems to be much to
the detriment of everyone, and really the kind of stuff
that gets you further away from knowing the truth or
understanding a complex issue in the most valuable possible because
you just want the snippet version, the highlight version, or
the version that's a true narrative that you don't have

(59:26):
any sort of sense of what part of it is
is you know, being given to me for deceptive reasons,
and what part of it is actually authentic. It's just
amazing again one more time to see that all play out,
because I don't think you would have a democratic convention
quite like the one that Turning Point USA had or
fundraiser or whatever you want to call it, where so

(59:48):
many people on the same side of the oil aisle
excuse me, took pot shots at each other, and yet
you do have that with the Republican Party and the
Conservative Movement and MAGA or whatever you want to call it.
I still think that's good. Regardless of what the shots
are and the ones that I easily can say I
disagree with, at least they're still not being silenced the
way they do it on the other side. All Right,

(01:00:10):
I think I've made my point several times. But again,
that's the only takeaway I had from all of this
coverage and some of the media obsession and the reaction
to it. Pundits we're trying to tell you how this
is bad or good for the midterm elections. Is you
still want a party that seems inclusive. That's a very
woke word to use by being willing to have any discussion.

(01:00:30):
And that party is not the one that screams it
actually is, you know, woke and all this stuff because
they hate with a passion, and they hate their own
side with a passion. When the few that do seem
to speak out at times against them, like the John
Stewarts of the world, say one thing that they disagree
with and that side goes crazy on their own, it
is quite a bit different. Again, than the right, all right,

(01:00:51):
quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Danish Show. It's his laugh mission to make bad decision.
It's time for Florida Man. This is the Dana Show.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about.
D Lash, Dana Lash radio and x on Twitter. Great

(01:01:14):
ways to stay connected to her. It's time for Florida Man.
Of course, as the music tells you, there's three Florida
Man stories, all of them sort of crazy. I feel
like the anti gets lifted or gets upped with each
one of these, So let's do them in the order
of what I think are ridiculous. First, there's this one,
and I can't believe that I put this at option
three on the list. A Florida man was jailed after

(01:01:35):
he attacked an Eagle Lake neighbor who bought him a beer.
Has happened in Polk County. A courtesy beer run in
that area caused Sheriff Grady Judge to respond and say
how a scrum broke out. Apparently the person who was
given the free beer didn't like the type of free
beer provided or just in general some of the other
things that happened. It got so crazy that there was

(01:01:58):
a gun involved, but the guys mostly used their fists,
so I think the gun was just present. I don't
think it was used in any way. But that is
number three on my list of insane stories where people
get in a fight and somebody goes to jail over
beer and a run for beer. But that does sound
very Florida, all right, Number two on this list to me.
A man is accused of selling four hundred pounds of

(01:02:21):
avocados from the southwest Miami Dade grove. The guy's name
is Edel Perez. He's twenty nine. He faces charging of
trespassing on an agricultural site, third degree grand theft. He
doesn't own the avocados that he was selling. He just
wanted to try to sell them. So he's like, hey,
you see all these avocados. You see how great they look.

(01:02:41):
You can have all these if the price is right.
And everybody's like, do you own those? He's like, that's
not important. Let's not worry about that. Deputies on patrol
spotted a black Mercedes a park near the grove. The
man was in a black hoodie. He was actually picking
avocados himself and selling them. They estimated that he took
about four hundred That is a very very long thing

(01:03:03):
to do as far as the con goes, and it
only made him about eight hundred bucks. You can only
sell them for that amount of money, So it does
seem like the effort versus the reward not really there.
And then Perez now also faces a five thousand dollars
bond and probably a bunch of actual charges for a crime.
It seems it's going to be very easy to prove
he committed. But I just love the idea that you're like, hey,

(01:03:26):
I see avocados, I see them on a farm. They
seem like the kind of thing that I could make
some money off of, So let me go ahead and
do that. That happened in Florida. And now the number
one for the anti being the highest as far as
stories go. And this is just a sick person that
did a sick thing. Derek Jordan Wright Junior is the
guy's name. He is twenty six. He faces charges of

(01:03:48):
digital voyeurism because the first thing he did was he
filmed a woman in a South Florida Cole's fitting room
against her will, so he took a video like a
creep as one to do. This already makes him the
worst of the three people on my list, I think.
But then even more than that, he showed it to her.
So the creepy suspect of this crime, who had a

(01:04:10):
black iPhone fifteen, decided after he walked out to go
ahead and show the video to the person that was
the victim of the crime, even as I think she
had noticed that something weird was happening and was approaching
someone to talk about how bad of a look that
all was. But it also seems like maybe the guy
might sick, you know, or sort of pervertedly get his

(01:04:32):
kicks from this sort of thing. But that story was
also out there that in Miami a guy chose to
record someone else in a fitting room and then eventually
had to share the creepy thing he did with said person.
The judge imposed bond restrictions and other things, and this
person is likely to find himself in a whole lot
of trouble too. I've never seen this occur someone trying

(01:04:55):
to do a video thing of somebody else, but I
imagine a bunch of people like me would react if
you saw that and try to, like, you know, do
something to the crappy person that's doing this sort of stuff.
By and large, they're not usually intimidating people, so whether
that's get physical with them or something else. But I
just wish that more people would have that instinct when

(01:05:15):
this sort of thing happens, because you can't imagine that
the guy in South Florida tried to video record someone
in a changing room that she's not aware is doing it,
and no one else noticed anything strange, Because I do
think a lot of these people just need to get
the crap kicked out of them in the regular world
more often for this to stop happening. I think that
a lot of the people who do know certain scummy

(01:05:38):
stuff in our society, mostly with technology, I deserve to
have an immediate version of justice provided to them so
that they stop. Although this being in the news, in
this guy's name being out there seems to be the
kind of thing that's probably also going to be a
decent tournent at this guy's in absolutes, come back, all right,
quick break, A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in
on the Danish show This is the Dana show. My

(01:06:01):
name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with
you at d Lash Dana Lash Radio, on X on Twitter.
I'm Merry Christmas and happy holidays everybody out there. By
the way, I thrilled to be a part of this
show today at radio. Craig c. If for some reason
you actually want to follow me on social media, which
is fine, There's not a lot that happens there. I
probably should do more, all right. Hunter Biden did an interview.

(01:06:23):
There's a podcast that's making the rounds, that's everywhere. A
part of me wanted to give the Christmas gift to
both you and me of not playing any of us,
of just continuing to hope that Hunter Biden will go away.
But the man is such an arrogant piece of bleep
that he can't seem to fathom himself going away, regardless
of all the things he's already done to demonstrate how

(01:06:44):
he is the head of the Biden crime family. Case
in point might be the answer he gave to the
question about joining a Beresma board, an energy board of
a company in Ukraine that raked of all kinds of
corruption and ridiculous paying off of a person related to
a person in political power to get favor and do

(01:07:06):
all kinds of things like every part of it's terrible,
And Hunter was asked about this. He was also asked
to be critical of his dad, and he took several
opportunities to grapple over his father, But when asked to
say just one thing, to honestly be critical of himself,
what came out was nonsense. What came out was ridiculous.
Here is Hunter Biden saying that it was a mistake

(01:07:26):
to join the Barizma board, but not because it actually
in and of itself was a demonstration of corruption, just
because it looked like that, because it couldn't possibly have
been anything other than that. But here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Is it a mistake to go on to board? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:07:42):
Yeah, it was absolutely a mistake, not because of anything
that I did that I am embarrassed about or in
any way whoever feel conflicted about as it relates to
what I did for Barisma.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Yeah, I need him to say even more clearly that
in his opinion, he did nothing wrong.

Speaker 10 (01:08:02):
Continue, because of the political position that put us all in.
They used that as the toe in the door to
be able to call my family the Biden crime family
without any evidence.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Except the fact that you were on the Bereisma board
and had no right or no reason to be there,
and the work you were doing seemed to be non existent.
Those are potential proof. But here's the thing that I
love about this. It is exactly the type of thing
you might get from a friend or a family member
who doesn't know how to apologize or ever admit that

(01:08:35):
they did anything wrong. This is the kind of i'm
sorry you were hurt by that a version of a
response to something, as opposed to I'm sorry I did
something to be a jerk. This person could literally shove
you off a cliff and as you're plummeting to your doom,
like I'm sorry this upset you, as opposed to I
wish I didn't do it. But anyway, that was Hunter
Biden being self reflective. He also at one point claimed

(01:08:57):
that the laptop didn't exist before the referencing the laptop
multiple times seeming to indicate that it definitely did exist.
That was a funny moment for me. There's also this,
when asked about illegal immigration and how negatively it impacts
our society and our country, he essentially ripped his father
a new one by saying that it is terrible to

(01:09:18):
let people into this country illegally and to give way
too many resources to those who shouldn't be getting them
and to people who don't seem to deserve them for
any reason whatsoever. This, again is a surprisingly critical statement
to be made. But it's not Hunter about himself. It's
Hunter about.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Pop vibrant immigration.

Speaker 10 (01:09:40):
But we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally,
draining us of resources and also in being prioritized above
people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home,
that are still recovering from twenty twenty years of endless war,

(01:10:02):
or anybody else in our society.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
Great, Yes, the answer is right that. I love that
Hunter even pauses, like, am I supposed to say?

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
Is this something that's okay? Can I crap on my
father like everyone else has crapped on him? And absolutely
he's right about that. I'm not disagreeing with Hunter Biden
in what he's saying. It's just amazing to watch him
do it, because if you've learned anything about the relationship
between those two people, Hunter and his father, Joe Biden,
or Autopen and President Biden, it's how little Hunter cares

(01:10:34):
about his father. He does not give a crap about
him whatsoever. The things he did that made Joe Biden's
life more complicated as a politician, again and again and again,
even when President Biden was actually in the White House,
not that I think he was aware he was there
and the autopen was running our country, but him selling
artwork and stuff was just unapologetic versions of continuing to

(01:10:56):
be someone who wants to profiteer from the position of
politic power that you find a family member in, not
even yourself. Hunter also was critical of the exit in Afghanistan,
again something that of course you should be. We all are.
It makes sense to be. But it's just one late
or last example. I'll move on from this of how

(01:11:16):
much he was willing to be critical of everybody but him.
He is the worst kind of selfish person that exists
in your life or the lives of all kinds of people.
It's the one person in the room who's willing to
blame anybody else for stuff and never see any fault
that they have in anything. They're essentially always the perfect person.
What do you think some of those failures were.

Speaker 10 (01:11:37):
I think the failure one of the failures was the
way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I
think it was an obvious failure. I think there's one
Marines are dead. I thought that there was a better
way to do it, and I think that and I
can blame it on his generals. I can blame it
on the people the way in which we did it.
But my dad always knew this also is that the

(01:11:59):
buck stops.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Yeah, and you don't have any problem going after your
dad as much as possible, which it's just sort of surreal.
It's just gross. I will criticize a present Biden. I'm
not anywhere near a fan of him, as you've probably
noticed any time I've ever filled in the show. But
it's just amazing to watch Hunter do it as much
as he's doing it because of anyone who you'd think

(01:12:20):
would be loyal. It's the son of a guy who
continued to defend his child, even though his child was
a ridiculous drug and all kinds of other things criminal
that was getting caught time and again, embarrassing the family,
and Joe Biden and all of the media that protects
democrats stood by him and said things like, yeah, it's
got to be tough being the father of Hunter Biden.

(01:12:43):
You gotta love your kids. It seems like a Hunter
has very little love for his own father. Again, I'm
not disagreeing with most of the things he's saying. It's
just sort of crazy to see it out there, to
say the very least. All Right, some other things just quickly,
new complaints are being made by the Clinton camp as
far as the releasing of certain Epstein files and not others.

(01:13:05):
They're demanding that the DOJ released more stuff. I'm going
to tell you something that you probably already know. Democrats
will never move away from there are files you haven't seen,
regardless of what happens. If every file in the history
of mankind that even says the name Epstein, even as
Jasmine Crockett and others claim that people who aren't this

(01:13:26):
Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile who maybe hung himself in jail,
but some other guy named Jeffrey Epstein, even if they
use those files the claim that there's a secret, the
whole point is to convince you that there is some
sort of cover up afoot. Democrats had all the power
to do this themselves, release all these documents. They didn't
do it. They waited, and now they're going to attack anything.

(01:13:47):
I'm not saying that doesn't mean there should probably be
more documents released than have been put out so far.
The dj dropped even more after missing the deadline that
was put in place by aipartisan vote on it and
a signing of a law by the President of the
United States saying to put all this information out into
the public now. Granted, they are allowed to still protect

(01:14:08):
victims and protect ongoing cases by redacting some things. Do
I think there's still more to see here than what
we know so far publicly?

Speaker 7 (01:14:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
I do. Do I say that because I agree with Democrats?

Speaker 14 (01:14:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Do I care if it winds up agreeing with Democrats also?
The answer is no. But I think the main message
that I'm trying to get across is, regardless of how
transparent the DOJ inevitably has to be on this issue,
Democrats will swear to you there's a secret because they
want Trump in trouble for his association to Epstein. And
if they don't get a smoking gun, they have to

(01:14:42):
pretend one still exists. It's what they've been doing this
entire time. It's what they'll do again and again and again.
So this is the gift that sadly keeps on giving.
You will probably hear this in two months, five months,
eight months, that there's still documents that show how terrible
of a person Trump is because from jump, the Democrats
have never been after protecting victims or children that were

(01:15:06):
exploited by a ring of people that seem to all
be interested in sex trafficking of minors, you know, people
that are really horrible individuals that most of society, if
you vote Republican or Democrat, would like to see get
in trouble. The mainstream interest in this has always been
justifying Trump responsible, just to somehow get him into some

(01:15:27):
sort of position that makes him look bad. That's all
it's ever been, which is truly truly sad, because there
are a lot of very significant aspects of this story
that have already started to come out because of these
new releases that show just how prolific of a you know,
operation Epstein and those around him had to exploit children,

(01:15:48):
to exploit victims, things like Maxwell Glain Maxwell excuse me
saying and convincing people that it was totally normal to
be like topless around because she would do it and
convincing these young women that they could act more and
more provocatively and then pressure them to do it, and
trying to make her self seem as described by some

(01:16:10):
victims as the cool aunt, which is really terrible when
you think about how she was coaching and essentially grooming
these people to inevitably do something in a closed room
with Epstein that they didn't want to do. And it's
just it's truly ridiculous to think that there's so little
interest in dissecting that and talking about the people who

(01:16:32):
made this possible as opposed to trying to see if
Trump is or isn't in the next batch of files
that get dropped. But all right, we'll take a break
on that note. I do also want to mention a
little bit maybe later on than here, that the Trump
administration has up to the amount of money that they
will give people to self deport. They were paying people

(01:16:53):
one thousand dollars to leave. I think one point nine
million people have deported themselves because of that offer. That
number has changed just in time for the holidays. If
you're someone who's here illegally and you'd like to get
out on your own before you get kicked out, you
get even more cash. And so I thought that was
interesting that that came out and probably not going to

(01:17:14):
be talked about a lot, but the President of the
United States is offering a quote unquote reward for people
that are willing to finally admit something they're doing is
in fact the crime and leave. All right. We'll talk
about that more and other things in a bit. This
is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

Speaker 13 (01:17:29):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Of course, it's time
for quick five. A couple of these topics I think
are really interesting and a couple of them make me
very mad. So why not for the holidays, give you
a little bit of both. First, a consistent Trump critic,
George Conway, the ex husband of Kelly and Conway, has

(01:18:00):
filed to be a candidate for Congress in Manhattan. He
of course, has filed as a Democrat. He is an
incredibly annoying individual in the world of politics, and I
couldn't fathom someone worse to actually get a position of
political power than George Conway, just because of how much
it would annoy me. I'm sure there's even worse scumbags

(01:18:20):
out there in the world in our society, but just
as a person who can't seem to do anything that
can at all be thought of as authentic or real
or in any way you know, even mildly worth paying
attention to, he is going to be running for political office.
Another thing out there that I thought was interesting. Americans
have no idea what day it is between now and

(01:18:43):
New Year's Eve. Because you're likely on vacation, if not today,
tomorrow or the day after, and then staying to some
degree on vacation between now and the end of the year,
you're more likely than ever to forget what day it is,
to feel like every day's a weekend, or to feel
like it's over before it actually is. This is both
a good and a bad thing, according to research, but

(01:19:06):
also likely a reason for someone to maybe screw up something,
not show up, not be on time, whatever it might be.
So it seems as though the real point of this
is to just ask people to be more forgiving as
your friend might totally forget all the plans you made
with them, and also forget what day it is. Speaking
of things that are inspired by the holiday. I did

(01:19:26):
also think this was interesting that most people checked out
on December fifteenth, so a full week ago. Most people
were like, I'm done with this month and just focus
more on the holidays. So even if you are rolling
into a gig somewhere, the odds of you giving your
best effort are incredibly low. I would say something about
people like us, people here at this station, who are

(01:19:49):
doing a lot of things to make sure that you're
having I'm just looking for a pat of the back,
I think is all I'm saying here. I'm making sure
you're having the types of quality of product you're used
to on the Danish show. We all are in the
extra effort. None of us are checked out, which I
think again is just my very indirect or very obvious
way of trying to pat myself on the back as

(01:20:09):
hard as I can. Two other quick things I thought
this was interesting. A recent power outage in San Francisco
that killed a bunch of street lights actually also killed
a bunch of robotaxis. A row of taxis throughout the city.
I just sort of stopped. It didn't matter if they
were in the middle of an intersection or anywhere, or
several of them next to each other. They just stopped moving.

(01:20:31):
And the power outage, which lasted for a while over
the weekend, demonstrated how bad it would be to have
robots in way too much control of too many things,
and how easily it could be to upend our society
if and when that ever does happen. There is one
other caveat to this story, though, I have a solution
to the problem. I think if a car that is

(01:20:53):
driving by itself dies for an extended amount of time,
sort of like you get your pizza free if it's
more than thirty minutes late. If your car stops operating
for ten, fifteen to twenty minutes, free car, you get
to keep it. It's yours now. This would definitely encourage
the rich companies in Silicon Valley maybe to pump the
brakes just to tad and creating driverless vehicles everywhere. If

(01:21:16):
you get it for free, if you're sitting in the
backseat of it, or even if nobody's in it and
you notice that it's sitting there dead in the middle
of an intersection. You get to open that thing up
and it's now your car and do whatever you want
with it. That seems to me to be the best
prize in all of this. If a lot of things break,
then a lot of things are allowed to be stolen.
California is totally fine with that. They've created all kinds

(01:21:37):
of laws to let smash and grabs be okay, and
they seem to have a degenerate amount of violence or
at least a thievery going on there, so I feel
like they lean in to this, but who knows. We'll
see and then finally when last thing and I'll run
out of time to mention it. The only place that
people like to turn for adult advice on relationships now
is AI because it won't judge you. I thought that

(01:21:59):
was hilarious. More on that may be coming up in
a bit. Craig Collins filling in on the Danish Show.

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Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Felise Navidad. This is the Danish show. My name is
Craig Collins. Filling in at d Lash or Dana Lash
radio on x is a great way to stay connected
to her. She's on Facebook, she's on everything Rumble. You
can find her a bunch of places at radio. Craigsy
If for some reason you want to waste your time
with the very small amount of people who follow me
on social media, I need to get that up. I

(01:22:39):
need to make that larger. Said, I look more credible
in this industry. Regardless of where I host radio places.
You need to have the social media. That's what I'm told.
But anyway, let's do this a few different things. First,
the President of the United States talked about the massive
armada as he called it, that is formed around or
near Venezuela. This is something that we be important for

(01:23:00):
a variety of reasons, and mainstream media would have you
believe so that the US can steal oil. That's all
it's about. It's about getting as much oil from an
oil rich country as we can possibly get. That's a
very very overly simplified, naive, and wrong version of a story,
in my opinion. But first, let's play the audio of
Trump talking about how much of a mistake it would

(01:23:23):
be if Venezuela tries to be provocative with us in
response to our armada. Things will go poorly, and the
brand new Trump ships would be at the forefront of that.
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
He can do whatever he wants.

Speaker 4 (01:23:33):
I mean, we have a massive armada formed, the biggest
we've ever had and by far the biggest we've ever
had in South America. He could do whatever he wants,
all right, whatever he wants to do, if he wants
to do something. If he plays tough, it'll be the
last time he's ever able to play tough.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
That is a very way, interesting and very trump way
to say that that if he plays tough, it'll be
the last time he ever plays tough. What is this
really about. I want to quickly give you my opinion
of that. It's actually about controlling the trade of oil
between countries that are no fan of us, between Venezuela, Russia,
you know, China, as much as they are involved in

(01:24:14):
so many things, when we sanction certain countries and try
to make life harder for them as a reaction to
anything they do that makes life harder for us, and
China is at the forefront of a lot of those
types of behaviors. We want it to work. We want
the paper to be an effective deterrent, and it's not.
As Biden woefully demonstrated while he was in office, that

(01:24:35):
when you threaten Russia with sanctions, they don't give a
crap about that. They've found ways to mitigate it. One
of those ways is to a trade in oil with
places like Venezuela. And so I do think that having
a response to this, having a version of we're not
only going to sanction these countries, We're not only going
to try to harm the corrupt, ridiculous and horrible place

(01:24:58):
that is Venezuela. So many people living in poverty there
because of the ridiculousness and how their you know, dictatorship
actually works in a country that really does have a
dictator or an insulated version of a leader. What I
think is so interesting about this, though, is this will
actually work, and this is why it's making so many
people mad and why I think it's causing so many

(01:25:18):
people to complain about the President and to claim it's
about oil or racism or whatever it must be. It
can't possibly be about actually having an effective version of
a deterrent play out in our society, and also a
sort of you know, a kind thing in our society,
too emotionally valuable, whatever the word should be for a thing.

(01:25:40):
Even if the drug trade we're disrupting doesn't go from
Venezuela to us directly, and if the boats are in
our waters, hey guess what, it's us for a small
amount of time. But even if it inevitably puts those
drugs somewhere else, by blowing the crap out of these boats,
we are preventing that from being a problem wherever it
was intent to go. This is a good thing, even
if the mainstream media outlets seem to scream that it

(01:26:03):
isn't I referenced racism. Of course, that's one of the
things they accuse Trump or conservatives of whenever they do anything.
Jasmine Crockett is the latest embodiment of accusations of racism.
She is someone who says and does things that seem
to make her unelectable in the world of her actual
political positions or the way that she carries herself. She

(01:26:25):
just seems like someone who would never be a senator,
certainly not in Texas, but really in a lot of places.
But she is running for the US Senate in the
state that I live in, and she's acting as though
she's one of the most authentic candidates, and anyone who
doesn't vote for her is doing it just because of
racism or sexism, or some combination of both. Jasmine Crockett

(01:26:46):
is a black woman, very similar to how people said that,
you know, Kamala Harris didn't get elected because of things
that had nothing to do with her terrible political positions
on stuff, or her inability to distance herself from the
administration she was a part of, and how many horrible
mistakes they were making. Those were just some of the reasons.
Or the fact that Kamala Harris couldn't give an answer

(01:27:07):
to a question without it sounding like we all got
lost in a word vomit circle. But here's Jasmine Crockett
demonstrating authenticity by having two very different accents. I thought
this was a great one minute video that a couple
people put up on social media. A moment's in her career,
mostly early on, where she sounded one way, and then

(01:27:30):
later in her career where she sounds very different, where
she's trying to make the way that she speaks a
focal point of getting her elected, because she's trying to
appeal to people who think that this is a representation
of her, or of black people in certain communities, whatever
it might be. It's just sort of crazy to hear
the polar opposite in both of these. And I'm sure

(01:27:51):
Jasmine Crockett would give the excuse that she knows how
to speak one way, even if it's not how she
authentically sounds, and she thought she had to do that
at a point in her career to be elected. But
now she's just being herself. I'm sure she tell us
that I much like Harris or anyone else told us
that the radical things they believed at one point aren't
radical things they believe anymore. Here's the problem having your

(01:28:14):
authenticity and the lack of it on full display, whatever
way it is one way or the other, as far
as this is the real me or that's the real me,
to have a fake version of yourself at all makes
an impossible claim that you're actually an authentic human being,
that there's actually anything we can believe in trust because
it was so profoundly different than what it was a

(01:28:35):
short time ago. Once you show us, show us that
the performance aspect of your career is something you focused
on at some point. We can't put that genie back
in that bottle. Essentially, here we go.

Speaker 20 (01:28:46):
And that is actually what they are fearful of is
my authenticity because it rings true with every single American.
You know, no one could have told me that when
I went down to Austin now looks like a little
bit over a year ago, that I would be running
for Congress. Maybe because these people they are crazy, because
they always talk about how Christian.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that
side I getting.

Speaker 20 (01:29:09):
Divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their coworkers, staffers,
and turns all the thing that's.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
So different, that's so odd. Let's let it continue this mailboxes.

Speaker 20 (01:29:19):
And at that time, my school hires the Cochrane Firm,
and there was a lawyer who graduated from University of
Houston who was assigned to me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
You're not you're not we done picking kit.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
We are.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
You can't pay us enough to find a plantation.

Speaker 20 (01:29:38):
On the American people to know that when you stand
up to a bully, you win. Do not back down,
do not bend. And I'm gonna be the first one
you and your little friend off of Twitter, y'all about
to find out, all right, But at the end of
the day, I am who I am and I am authentic.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Yeah, you are very authentic. Two totally different people at
different time times, depending on who you're in front of
when you're speaking, or what you're selling at that moment.
As far as the personality that you think can get
you elected, and again, it probably will be a losing message,
profoundly so. In Texas. Texas hasn't actually nominated a Democrat
for a statewide race in a very long time. It's

(01:30:19):
been since the nineties that we've seen that happen. So
the odds are against someone who also wants to pivot
from a role in Congress to a role in the
Senate because she's unelectable in the redistricted version of Texas.
So she wants to take her biggest shot and then
claim racism and sexism when she inevitably loses, which I
think is what she's expecting to happen. But nonetheless, I

(01:30:40):
just think it's amazing that so many people out there,
Hillary Clinton definitely among them, two who would throw on
an accent or something of some kind depending on who
she was talking to that claim that they're authentic when
they're anything. But I think the biggest thing that Trump
has in his toolkit of things he can say about
himself is that he's been the same guy the entire

(01:31:03):
time he's been a public person, whether it was a
politician or even just like a person in New York
that people wanted to talk to, a person that seemed
like at one point he supported Democrats on the left
and very much obviously seems to be the focal point
of a lot of messaging and position positions that are
taken on the right. He's been the same guy the
entire time, which is to me the most interesting thing

(01:31:26):
about him. And also when you talk about Trump, and
many people that talk about knowing him behind cameras or
off of microphones say he's the same guy there too,
which is why I think when he gets to asked
certain questions, the way he answers them is uniquely amusing,
not to the left and all the Trump arrangement syndrome
people out there who go crazy when that sort of

(01:31:48):
question or whatever they are sort of answers happen. And
I have an example of one of those. I do.
I really like this so don I guess I'll play
this too before I take a break. This was Trump
talking about oil and whether they are keeping the oil
that they took from Venezuela back in I think December tenth.
I just think it's so funny that a reporter is

(01:32:10):
trying to do a gotcha where they're trying to demonstrate
that it's all about oil and all we're doing is
trying to take it from Venezuela by any means necessary.
And you know he's going to admit it because I'm
going to ask him this question, and Trump's like, now, yeah,
we're keeping that, and didn't even care to point out
the how, because he's so far I think, in my opinion,
at this point in his life, beyond worrying about any

(01:32:32):
of this, he doesn't seem to care about the fallout
of any answer he gives, which actually makes him less
likely to actually get fallout from some of these discussions.
But here we go.

Speaker 21 (01:32:42):
Fully roast us with most peaceful that media. You just
reference the lower amount of illegal drugs that are coming
by sea, and you just said that you're going to
start that same program on land soon. Are you just
referring to Venezuela or are you referring that to others.

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
Anywhere drugs are boring in anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
Not just v Way to go, mister president. Continue Venezuela oil.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
What are we going to do with the oil that
we have? I'm going to do with what the oil
that has been seized?

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
The United States sees one point nine million barrels of
oil on December tenth.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
We're gonna keep it?

Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Where's it? Are we going to sell it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
In the strategic may? Maybe to me?

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
I know that that might seem like an exaggerated amount
of laughter. I promise it's not. And I've played this
audio multiple times today, actually filling in at other radio stations,
other shows I work sometimes at WIBC in Indianapolis, shout
out to them they're a Dana affiliate, while also working
here in places that used to be Dana affiliates in Houston, Texas.
But nonetheless, what I think is so awesome is he

(01:33:43):
doesn't care. Both of those questions you can tell are
designed to somehow get him in a gotcha version of
a back and forth where mainstream news media shapes Trump
Is as poorly as they possibly can. In response to
why did you steal oil, sir and his answers, we're
keeping it. We got it. They came into our water water,
they didn't let us do what we wanted to do

(01:34:05):
to make sure that this boat was on the up
and up. So we took it and we're going to
keep doing that. And good luck Venezuela and trying to
get it back. I think there's something that's just chef's
kiss hilarious about that version of back and forth, to
say the very least. And I think it's why Trump
is popular with a lot of people, even if they
disagree with him on some things. Not that I do,

(01:34:26):
but I'm just saying out loud for anyone that does.
The people who can appreciate the humor of Trump oftentimes
seem to be like, I guess I don't care about that,
no matter what it is that they think has happened.
All right, quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on The Dana Show.

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Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
This is the Danish show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in just before the holiday. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
Everybody out there thrilled to be jumping on for the day,
filling in for data A couple quick things before we
get out of here. Much like the Warrior Dividend, was
wildly popular that President Trump announced he gave one seven
hundred and seventy six dollars to members of our military

(01:35:17):
active members of our military, they are now floating even
more and more a two thousand dollars quote dividend for
all of us. The American people get two thousand bucks
because of how effective tariffs have been at raking in
money for our country. This would and has to be
thought of as popular if it actually happens. But Secretary

(01:35:40):
Hassett and many other people are saying, or National Economic
Council Director Kevin Hassett excuse me, and many other people
are saying that this is likely to occur in twenty
twenty six. Whether it's buying votes, I don't know. If
people do this just before the midterm election and Republicans
take credit for it, I don't care. I want my
two thousand dollars check. That's how I feel. About that,

(01:36:00):
although I probably would prefer money actually goes to paying
down our debt, but maybe we do both. It sounds
like we could possibly do both. I just love when
these things happen that seem wildly popular. Though, to everybody
on either side of the political aisle is how do
you have a more negative response? I get two thousand
dollars than what I just said, I'd rather go somewhere else,

(01:36:21):
but I'll take it. If you give it to me,
That'll be fine. That's how everybody will respond, especially the
Democrats who hate Trump with a burning fire in their belly.
They will certainly admit that they're happy to get a check.
Other things out there that I thought were interesting. Gen
z is saying that they're very worried about losing their
jobs to AI. Every generation I think is worried about this.

(01:36:44):
The intriguing part for and I think some millennials, which
is the generation I'm a part of. But a lot
of people they're also still finding many of their jobs
by using social media. This can be anything from excuse me,
a friend is posting that they have a job they're
looking for someone to fill, etc. Etc. Or working in
social media, working in digital places is something that's very

(01:37:06):
attractive to young people, but they're afraid that, you know,
the Internet and the computers can take over that gig
relatively quickly, and they're probably right about it. I will
say that it does feel like in our society that
you need to know somebody more than ever to get
a job or even an interview, more so than a
gig itself. Maybe you just need a foot in the
door to be, you know, called back. I know some

(01:37:30):
people who are looking for gigs right now with good
resumes that tell me they can't even get past that
first barrier. I think by and large that barrier is
actually created by AI. So there's a lot of people
whose resume never winds up on the actual desk of
someone to be considered for a job because of the
tools that have been given to these recruiters and these

(01:37:50):
companies that they use, and these platforms they use to
accept resumes from anywhere, and you get resumes from all
over the place if you have a job that's open
in the same vein. I've talked to people who recruit
for positions that say, we open a job and we
get thousands of resumes instantly, So it's almost impossible for
us to even deal with the volume of applicants we
get in the first place. But it definitely seems bad,

(01:38:12):
So I get the whole. I'm using social media to
find a gig thing, and then I do understand the
idea that that means my gig might be more easily automated.
All right, one last thing before I get out of here.
Chipotle has unveiled a GLP one friendly menu, which is
essentially just less food. It would be a smaller serving size,
the assumption being that anyone on GLP one and there

(01:38:33):
is now a pill that has been FDA approved that
would allow you to take a weight loss drug without
having to inject it in yourself. But Chipotle wants to
lean into that by telling you that you can come
in and ask for the GLP one menu and get
just less food, which seems to scream to me that
a solution to a problem in the world of having

(01:38:54):
more weight on your body than you want it would
also be to just eat less and deal with feeling hungry.
Easier said than done. I get it, but it is
interesting that some companies are like, now we're with you, man,
We'll sell you less for the same price. That's it.
I'm out. Happy Holiday, Merry Christmas. Craig Collins filling in
on The Dana Show

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