Mamdani's Inauguration Cringe, Drunk Andy Cohen's NYE Rant & Minneapolis Daycares SWARMED

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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, I actually don't want to talk yet. This is
so great. This, by the way, is a World War
Two veteran, Dominic Strelli, playing the national anthem at one
hundred and four years old at a hockey game for
the New York Islanders. This is so awesome here the
tym one. I feel like I shouldn't play all of it,

(00:58):
but I want to play all of it. But anyway,
say this is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana
Show a d Dana Lash radio on x on Twitter.
Great ways to stay connect to the show. One of
the cooler things I saw over the holidays that went
very viral. One hundred and four year old World War
Two veteran just crushing it on the saxophone before a
New York Islanders hockey game. This is the kind of

(01:20):
thing we should see more in our society. And I
figured out of all this stuff to talk about today,
it'd be nice to at least start on that note,
because it's uplifting and it's something totally different than what
the rest of this crap is. All right, let's get
to Zorn Mumdani, who was sworn in as the mayor
of New York and said horrible things, things that seem
very different from any of the I guess, core values,

(01:44):
belief systems, all the stuff that has made America great.
This seems like it's the opposite. Here is one of
those moments that went very viral where he said, what
is going to replace individualism? Which again seems bad. This
sounds a whole lot like communism, Baby. He calls it
social democracy or socialism's democracy, democratic socialist. I don't know

(02:05):
if that's what this is, and actually I do. I
will say this before I actually a plan this. I
do know that both are early similar anyway, so I'm
not even trying to pretend they're all that different.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Communities have existed as distinct from one another. We will
draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity
of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Whif our campaign, I love how only some people cheered
for that. There is a moment where a lot of
people were yelling something very different. But the warmth of
collectivism sounds a whole lot to me like the government
is going to take carry baby. Just let the government
handle everything, and then all of a sudden, you have
no rights at all, and all of a sudden, the
government is in charge of everything, controls all the means

(02:49):
of production, and we're full on communists that this is scary.
Some of the stuff he says as legitimately scary. I
will go a step further in my discussion here, though,
and a thing that you may or may not hear
a lot of places in news media talking about Zorn Mumdani.
I do want to wait to have the receipts match
the expectation. Very very often in news media, a lot

(03:11):
of people will tell you they do this a lot
to Trump. And I'm not pretending as though I think
things are going to go well in New York City.
I definitely don't. But I do want to dive deeper
into that after the failed experiment that is having basically
a communist in charge of the biggest city in our country,
because without the receipts, if it was a lot of
campaign promises that he doesn't attempt a lot of things

(03:34):
that don't actually happen, then all you're really left with
is talking about the stupidity of the voter to believe
that someone's going to do things that they can't do.
If it's the opposite. If these things are actually attempted,
what I think the nice aspect of a probably terrible
story will be is will hopefully be able to point
to it as a thing we shouldn't do. It hopefully

(03:55):
will be the opportunity to learn the lesson from the
mistake when it's made here in our country. Now. Granted,
I know a lot of that is expecting or accepting
something to happen that you'd rather not see happen. But
he is the mayor, he was elected, the people there
chose him. He's going to be able to wield that
power in unique ways, and how he chooses to do

(04:16):
it will demonstrate, I think, what the future of the
Democratic Party is, because I doubt very much that one
thing will happen that Democrats are probably hoping to happen,
that he does the things he promised to do, and
that good stuff happens because of it. It's either going
to be that he doesn't fulfill his promises or he
fulfills them in horrible ways for that society and for

(04:38):
our country, or at least that city. So we will see.
That's my expectation. But again, I'd really like for the
results to match the prediction. Let's do this here. This
is what people actually were chanting before Zorn even took
the stage and said things. I think he was sitting
on stage actually, but not actually speaking up at the
microphone yet. Because this doesn't sound bad at all. This

(04:59):
sounds total fine. That everybody sees the enemy of the
city as being anyone that's doing well tax the rich.
They just chanted it over and over again. That went

(05:21):
on for about thirty seconds or so, and Zorn was
smiling on the stage as he was hearing them do
that and point and yell and scream things. And guess
what the rich are gonna move? The rich are gonna move,
will be my response to that, because a distribution of
wealth isn't gonna work very well if that's one of
the main things that's they focus of the city of
New York, as we've seen a bunch of other places,

(05:42):
and in New York already, people with the means to
do it if you provide them no alternative, a meaning,
if there aren't loopholes created so they can continue to
avoid paying whatever ridiculous amount of money you're asking them
to pay. And yeah, of course the rich should pay taxes.
Everybody should pay taxes. But there's a difference between queen
designing a political platform around the idea that people who

(06:05):
are wealthy or bad, because that is essentially what the
left is doing. They're trying to say that people who
are wealthy is bad. Acknowledging that people are wealthy and
that some people might not be paying a fair amount
of their money into a system is just simply a
true thing. It happens. People skirt all kinds of laws
and figure out loopholes the way that we might not

(06:25):
want them to, but darn it, they have the money
and they have the employees the accountants to do this
sort of stuff. And I've said that before in every
regard is that when you create a avenue to circumvent
some of these control things, the people who are going
to have the most access to it are the people
who have a system of support in place that can
prevent it. So even when you say you're going to

(06:47):
tax the rich, actually doing it is much harder. But anyway,
none of that is actually the point, because just believing
that the bad guys are not you because they're over
here and they're successful, causes your society to chase them away,
and then you find out how bad things go when
none of those people live there. When everybody that was
creating the jobs in the first place leaves for some

(07:07):
other state, things go poor and poor. But I just
thought that was interesting because I do think a misconception
within this conversation is like some conservatives don't want the
rich to be taxed at all, like, don't make them
pay any money, let them keep all of it. And
that's not true. Although I'd actually love for everybody not
to be taxed at all. If I'm being truly candid,

(07:27):
I'd love for income taxes to go away entirely. And
President Trump has alluded to that being an aspect of
doing more tariffs, which to a lot of people is
a tax anyway. But hey, if you do the tariff
and then I get to decide what items I want
to buy or not, and you no longer just steal
part of my money, I think I feel happier about that.
I think if I have to choose between one of

(07:47):
the two, I go with the one where I get
more choice over who my money goes to and what
I spend it on than the one where I don't
and where a whole bunch of it is just spent
on fraudulent daycares in Minnesota that I'd rather not be funding,
and that a whole lot of other people would rather
not be funding. But I digress. As I said a
second ago, I think the misconception between the left and

(08:08):
the right, at least from the left's perspective on this,
is that the right doesn't want to tax the rich
at all, and that's not necessarily true. We want everyone
to be treated the same. We don't want people who
are successful to be treated uniquely unfairly, because it's not
going to be good for everyone if you do that,
because they're not going to stay. That's the most simplistic one.

(08:28):
That's usually the one that I say to a liberal,
like a friend of mine who's very liberal, that they
eventually acknowledged, like Okay, yeah, you know, the rich person
could leave, and they don't actually think it'll happen, But well, anyway,
I'll move on other things out there. I thought this
was really interesting. Producer Steven actually sent me a lot
of great audio today. This was one of those things.
Former CBS reporter Catherine Heritage talking about how weird it

(08:53):
was to work at CBS and have her story spiked
about Hunter Biden's laptop. Now, a couple things are really
important about this story. First, no one did the thing,
at least in mainstream news media that Catherine eventually did
before the twenty twenty two midterm election. No one did
this in twenty twenty leading up to the presidential election.

(09:14):
And by her admitting that you can find a forensic
expert to check the authenticity of the data that came
from the laptop, which of course you can do that,
the fact that you can actually do that is something
media denied for a while. So she starts there, and
then she goes on about how the story was buried
till after the midterm elections. So not only was it
prevented from impacting the presidential election of twenty twenty, CBS

(09:38):
News actively tried to stop it from being something that
impacted the midterm election of twenty twenty two, which is
just insane. But when you finally get a story on
the news at all, what's crazy to me is that
this reporter says it obviously opened the door to additional
reporting that CBS said wasn't important, partially because they had
buried the story for so long, it became something that

(10:01):
they could try to say with a straight face people
were no longer interested in. But here is part of
her description of just how odd it was to be
told no several times at a major news outlet, as
she thought she was doing some darn good journalism, and
I think she was too.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
We eventually broadcast the story about the Hunter Biden laptop
after the midterm elections in twenty twenty two. We commissioned
a forensic review. I got a copy of the laptop data.
I have it here still.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
I went to a lot of effort to get the
cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that
was provided to the FBI. Because I didn't want to
have any professional journalistic risk for CBS News. I wanted
this thing to be totally locked down when we did
the story. We did it after the midterms. I argued

(10:53):
against that because it was ready before the midterms, and
my training is that you should always do the story
when it's ready to go. You should not be dictated
by the political cycle. You should not be Once we
got the laptop story on the Morning News, I felt
that there was so much there that we could still do.
For example, in the text messages, there's unfortunately the use

(11:18):
of the N word, the liberal use of the N word,
And I thought this was worthy of a story, but
I was told that it was not something that interested
CBS News.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
It is crazy to hear that too, because if you
flip the sides of the political aisle, they're tremendously interested
in that. Any time of day, any time of year,
regardless of what's going on in the political cycle. They
would run that NonStop. If it's a member of the
Trump family using certain words instead of a member of
the Biden family. It's just surreal to hear her say that,
and how far she went to be, you know, at

(11:49):
the utmost of the integrity, you know, top of the
pyramid in the world of her profession, and they still
spiked so much of this. And she's just one person.
I can't imagine the other people, if they even attempted
this stuff, who were obviously also told no. But this
is what everyone is talking about when they say you
can no longer trust mainstream news media. This is why.

(12:11):
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to be the time that we pay attention, not the
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expected for you and the new year. Essentially, it might
guarantee you certain things. This is unsurprising. Social media influencers
are going viral with photos of themselves in their underwear
color of choice, which again not surprising, that's the kind

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means you might be lucky, end or successful, whether it's
wealth or not. A black means you might gain some power.
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and likely to continue to be indecisive into the next
year because you wore brown underwear. I did not know
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Speaker 1 (18:50):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins
filling in d Lash. Dana Lash Radio, on x on
Twitter are great ways to stay connected to her and
everything going on there. Nick Shirley is very hated by
a lot of mainstream media right now, very much liked
by a lot of people who think mainstream media lies
to you all the time, which of course they do.

(19:10):
But CNN tried to go after him. They tried to
do a gotcha segment with him where they asked him
if he believed the things he was saying were the truth. Now,
I want to be really specific about this. Nick Shirley
and someone who I think is a follower of his
that must watch his YouTube show and had the goods
as far as the information printed off from government websites

(19:31):
to track down a lot of the facilities that seem
to be fraudulent daycares and whatnot. He put up a
video where all he did was visit them, and he
asked the people in the places if they answered the door,
if they were there at all, if they were legitimate businesses,
and he let you decide if what was happening was
real or not. He didn't actually go as far as
to say, without any proof whatsoever, that these businesses are

(19:53):
one hundred percent fraudulent. He just decided to try to
visit them and see how many of them looked legitimate.
That's exactly the thing mainstream media is supposed to be doing,
and of course, like local news media is supposed to
be doing, and be honest, it's something that Minnesota news
media has done before. It's just been years. You can
find video from twenty eighteen of them talking about some

(20:14):
stories involving Somalian communities in daycare fraud and how ridiculous
it got so this is something that media at times
has been willing to discuss, of course not recently for
whatever reason. But here is CNN trying to get you
with Nick Shirley, and I love the second half of
this audio because it's somewhat more hilarious. It's entirely more
hilarious than CNN intended for it to be. But here

(20:36):
we go.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
I mean, they would say, look, these rodcases have been
going on, but they've already done like eighty indictments. The
cases have been going on, you know for years.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
Why did I show up one day Minnesota and go
to all these daycares, no children, They're receiving millions of
dollars be encourage one hundred and ten million dollars in fraud.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
In one day. How do you know that all the
allegations that you're making are true?

Speaker 8 (20:55):
How do I know that they're true? Well, we showed
you guys that We showed you guys what was happening,
and then you guys can go ahead and make your
own nuns were coming.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
Yeah, so we can make our own analysis. Are you
one hundred percent sure you're true?

Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
I am a hundred percent sure I'm true. That's a
weird way to say that. By the way, for both people,
are you one hundred percent sure that the things you
depicted in your video are legitimate? I could have been
the way to say it, but she didn't want to
say it that way, because of course they are. He
put things in a video where they walked up to places,
knocked on doors, showed them and so again. One of
the biggest takeaways from Nick Shirley's video is the amount
of places that didn't answer the door at all, that

(21:27):
were supposed to be operating but weren't. That we're taking
millions of dollars in childcare. This is the part of
the video that's hilarious, though n.

Speaker 7 (21:33):
Is looking into Shirley's claims.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Hi, my name's Whitney Wild.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
I'm a correspondent for CNN. We reached out to several
of the daycares featured in the now viral video. Only
one daycare facility answered and said, they are right.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
That's my favorite part. And she tried to breeze right
through that. She goes we called a whole bunch of
the places we didn't go knock on their door, which
is exactly what Shirley did and what you should have done,
but you let it be one step lazier, one step
more removed, and one place answered the phone. And when
you asked that place, hey, are you a legitimate daycare?
They said, yeah, we are. Is that it can? We

(22:07):
be done now? CNN And then she even went further
on one of those vulner called legitimate business.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
Have you seen that the videos, you know, purporting that
some of these daycares don't have kids inside Minnesota Republicans.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
I love that they didn't let the answer to that
air that she asked one of the daycares, the only
one that answered that there's no kids there, and the response,
we don't know what it is. We have no idea.
She asked somebody their opinion of how terrible this whole
thing is with Nick Shirley, and who knows what the
answer is. Maybe the answer was, yeah, there's no kids
at ours right now, but we have an excuse for that.

(22:39):
By the way, my other favorite thing that happened on
the internet over the holidays was the group of people
the Somalian daycare center leaders, one of the daycare centers
whichever that said that they got broken into and only
all of the paperwork was stolen. This is the funniest
story out there. There's even now a video of wc

(22:59):
CBS in Minnesota going through with newspeople to show the
hole in the wall that somebody apparently created to then
get into the business, to then steal a bunch of
documents that say what teachers work there, what students go there,
and for some reason stole some of the checks but
not all of them out of the checkbook. The reason

(23:20):
I find this so funny is many people who've seen
this video say the hole created in drywall could only
have been created as cleanly as it is if it
was made from the inside of the building. If you
were making that hole from the outside of the building,
it wouldn't look as nice. He would have broken more
of the drywall. So hilarious that they might have even
demonstrated away that they couldn't recreate of how the people

(23:43):
quote unquote broke into the business in the first place,
going above and beyond to try to prove that, even
though they're not going to pass an audit now, that
it's not their fault that some big, bad guys stole
things from them. All right, let's do something that I
plan to do later in the show. But I might
as well do now. CNN is very proud of it's
very drunk New Year's Eve show that it's been doing

(24:05):
for years. Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper are the two
main hosts of it. Andy Cohen at one point broke
real bad with Mayor Eric Adams, who is leaving the
well now has left the office of Mayor in New
York so that zoron Mumdani can be sworn in over
a Koran, which is also crazy that that happened and
not a Bible. But nonetheless, here's what Andy Cohen had

(24:27):
to say about Mayor Adams when the rest of the
show seemed to be begging him not to say stuff,
but he said things about pardons and you know, don't
let the door hit you where the good Lord splitcher. Basically,
he didn't say those words, but they're basically the tone.
And I'm no defender of Eric Adams. I just think
it's weird. CNN is so proud of their New Year's
Eve show that's so uniquely terrible. I don't think that

(24:51):
many people watch it, but a whole lot of us
see clips online of how bad things probably got during
the show. Here we go, I watch the final moments
of the mayor or are we going on at the
block style? I just want to say, I mean he

(25:14):
got his Pardens.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
Cut you off.

Speaker 9 (25:19):
No, I've seen this.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
No, I'm just saying, great, you got your Martins, go off.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Will will fiddle with what we have, with what you've
left us. A thing with this is so weird. And
again they're they're proud of this. They put this on
every year. And yes, at some point Cohen whenever there's
an outgoing mayor in New York also breaks bad in
that mayor. But they just get absolutely blitzed on television
for some reason. There was another another moment that went

(25:49):
very viral. A lot of people on the left are
up in arms. They're upset about this. Both of the
hosts seem to not like this joke, but Amy Sedaris
made what I thought was one of the best jokes
of the night and asked a question about where the
best place would be to find a man in twenty
twenty six. Of course, she's standing there with two gay
men who are the co hosts of this show, and
the joke she made uniquely hilarious in the world of

(26:13):
all the things we talk about about men, saying that
they're women and then going to women's restrooms and whatnot.
I'm burying the lead here, I'm ruining the joke for you.
But a lot of people all over the internet, and
a lot of the people on the far left, thought
this was deeply insensitive and wrong. I don't know, if
you're going from the rules of humor, this is genuinely funny.

(26:34):
I thought, where's the best place to meet a man
in twenty twenty six?

Speaker 9 (26:38):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (26:39):
Really, Well, where's a good place to meet a man?
I'd say in the ladies room, But I don't know
where can you meet a man?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Maybe silent? And I like that. You actually even see
her cheeks get a little rosy. She's a comedian, so
she probably didn't care that much about the swing and
the miss. With the audience that was there, that's a
great joke. That's all the levels of a thing that
you want in the world humor. It is surprising and
not what you were expecting the answer to be, and
it's definitely grounded in a lot of the conversations people
have been having over the last couple of years, one

(27:08):
of the biggest one being that people on one side
of the political aisle would rather not have people be
able to declare that they're women and then go to have,
you know, go to the restroom in the women's room,
even if they're actually biologically a dude. That feels like
that's wrong somehow. That's controversial in the society we live
in to say that though, and the left things are
mean and terrible, which of course they thought Amy was

(27:31):
during that part of the show. I thought that was
really a good and funny moment on the show that
again I didn't actually watch, I would saw later via
all the reruns. I actually saw headlines of news articles
talking about that joke, which is kind of funny because again,
the CNN audience itself, I don't think is that large,
so most of the other people who wrote about how

(27:52):
offensive it was probably also saw it as a clip
and not as a real thing they watched at on
television at like live. But when I read the headlines,
I then went to go search for the clip, saw
it and was like, now, that's hilarious. Every part of
that is exactly what humor's supposed to be. One last
thing that I thought was kind of interesting, and I'll

(28:12):
get into it in more detail a little bit later
on but Tim Walls, who of course is potentially going
to be in a whole lot of trouble for the
amount of fraud that's going on in Minnesota, that he
was at best asleep at the wheel, at worst benefiting
from as many people, I think, assume it's going to
be the ladder that's going to be the problem. He

(28:33):
went viral online for giving us a fit check over
the holidays. He was out in the snow. He said
he was wearing a Brooks hat, some winter windproof pants,
excuse me, a Nike zip up thing, and other crap.
And it's just hilarious to me to hear a guy
like this try this hard to separate himself from the

(28:56):
biggest story in the country, I think, in the world
of politics of the last several weeks by doing something
uniquely stupid and woke the quick fit check that this
guy probably had some younger person on his team tell
him he should do. But he's a uniquely desperate individual
when it comes to the performative things he does, the

(29:16):
political ways in which he outs himself as being just
a giant piece of crap, stolen valor whatever you want
it to be. There's a litany of things he does
that show how disingenuous, how inauthentic he is as a human.
And this is the latest one when he is surrounded
by one of the biggest controversies we've seen, even though
I think it's probably just the tip of the iceberg

(29:36):
as far as stories like this that we'll see in
twenty twenty six, but he's certainly surrounded by something bad
and he's on the internet doing a fit check in
the snow. All right, quick break a lot more. Craig
Collins filling in on the Danish show.

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Speaker 1 (31:10):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, Thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff
out there to talk about d Lash, Dana Lash Radio
on x on Twitter, great ways to stay connected to
her at radio. Craigc. If you want to follow someone
who still calls it Twitter and barely tweets it all,
that would be me and my five hundred or so followers.
I'd love to have you be there too. I don't

(31:33):
promise any content remotely valuable compared to Danas, though I
think that's about as good as I can do. All Right,
a couple quick things out there that I thought were interesting.
Alex Earl is the name of a social media influencer.
Not that it matters normally, but I'll go ahead and
throw it out there. She's worth about twenty million dollars
according to the Internet. She is twenty five, and she

(31:54):
spent her holiday in Saint Barts with Tom Brady, who
is forty eight years old, three years her senior. Tommy's
worth three hundred million dollars at least I made more
than that during his NFL career, but that's the latest
a net worth projection of Tom Brady. People are upset.
At least some people are that the forty eight year
old would spend time with the twenty five year old,

(32:16):
even though, as producer Steven pointed out, Bill Belichick older
than Tommy by a bit, as a girlfriend who is
younger than Alex Earl. So there's that out there. I
love when people get mad about this stuff, mostly because,
come on, is usually my response to it. I even
had a family member go on a long rant about
how disgusting it was that Bill Belichick would be attracted

(32:36):
to a woman in her twenties and dater, when I
think the reverse is probably the thing that's grosser, or
the thing that's less likely to be true, that the
young woman is actually attracted to Bill Belichick. No offense,
Bill not trying to be a jerk, just assuming there
might be more challenges in that department. Anyone who doesn't
get it when a older than twenty something dude dates

(32:57):
a woman in her twenties is simply tending the world
isn't what it is, or life doesn't exist the way
it does, or that almost all people who are models
are models of a certain age, just like most people
who are athletes, or only athletes up until a certain age.
Tommy's staying in the NFL longer than most, by the way,
But all these things are things we know but don't
often speak out loud. All right. Also, this, I thought

(33:20):
it was interesting, a list of the words that should
be banned in twenty twenty six. This isn't your typical
woke whatever university trying to say for a certain dumb
reasons we shouldn't say these words anymore. This is just
a school that wants words banned because they're annoyed by them,
which I thought was funny. Six seven, which is not

(33:41):
a word, but that phrase was at the very top
of this list because so many people think it's so
funny whenever it's said and do the stupid six seven
juggling thing. It just became such a viral moment for
so many that it became annoyingly done all the time,
similar to six to seven. Demure is also something that
people would like to have banned, because the Internet became

(34:03):
obsessed with that word and often described a whole lot
of things that are not demure as demure because they
were just using the word to basically mean anything instead
of reserved or modest in manner, which is what it
actually means. So I love that people are up in
arms about the use of that one. And then two more,
cooked is a word that people think they should stop using.
That's when you're essentially screwed. I think that one is

(34:25):
far less annoying than some of the other ones I've
already mentioned. And then finally, one of the ones I
thought was interesting that made this list full stop. I
don't know that that many people that often in the
actual everyday life in which we live use full stop
to a ridiculous amount, But that's fine. I'm okay with
that also going away, even though where it comes from

(34:46):
is a much better place than internet slang that I
find just so much stupider. I find internet slang to
be some of the dumbest stuff that we deal with today.
I'm the guy yelling for the kids to get off
my lawn, for sure. But that's because I think the
exist since of Internet slang is the convenience of using
it while typing on the Internet, not the ability to
speak these words in public around other people. Or someone

(35:08):
wants to slap you. They're probably not going to slap you,
but they do want to. I'm just letting you know
that's true. Someone in your vicinity, when you're saying a
bunch of the Internet slang words out loud to them,
would like to hit you. All right, other things out there.
Door dash driver was caught doing the unthinkable. According to
the Internet. At least, the DoorDash driver was accepting orders

(35:29):
and then creating AI photos that seemed to demonstrate the
orders had been dropped off at the locations that they
were supposed to be delivering the mat and instead just
eating a bunch of stuff. So every delivery that this
guy went to, he picked up the item, he went
online to find the address, added the item into the photo,
and then sent it to someone. Caught very quickly, mostly

(35:51):
because some of these photos were very dated as far
as the locations were concerned, and the photoshopping the AI
did was not exactly convince for some of the food
items that were put in front of some of the doors.
This was a con that was snuffed out pretty quickly,
but also probably one you're going to see more of.

(36:11):
I imagine that more people might use AI to make
the fake photo, especially in this world, and then just
keep a bunch of stuff. One of the funnier things
is that a guy did this when someone only ordered
one food item from a store, I meaning he really
just wanted that one burger or whatever it was. Wasn't
even really a terribly expensive purchase to begin with, so
stealing five to ten bucks from someone and losing your

(36:34):
job over it seems like it's not worth the risk there, Bud.
But nonetheless, the guy did it, and he got caught
because again easier to figure out than the criminal had hoped.
And then one final one. I waited till the end
of the segment to mention this because it's a delta nature,
but I found it uniquely amusing. A brothel manager was
interviewed by I think the New York Post and described

(36:55):
how festive her establishment gets in Europe over the h holidays,
how they have Christmas trees and presents and all the
things you'd expect at any sort of heartwarming, family friendly location,
and it just so happens to be at this location,
and that part of that story went viral, is that
everybody decorates for Christmas. Everybody decorates for the holidays. You

(37:16):
have the inflatable decorations outside. I don't worry. I wasn't
going to get more selacious with that. All the things
you're expecting, you just so happen to have them at
an establishment like this. And then she also mentioned how
some of the clientele they get that time of year,
some of the customers just uniquely don't want to be
anywhere near their family. Because it's not a whole lot
of people who come into places like that over the holidays.

(37:38):
It's only people who really don't want to be around
any of their loved ones, which probably isn't great, but hey,
at least they have somewhere to go. At least there's that.
I'm not advocating for it. I'm truly just interested and
amused by how everybody decorates for Christmas. Bah humbug. If
you don't quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on the Danish show. This is the Danish show

(37:59):
name Ms. Craig Collins filling in thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff to talk about. CBS News new
Evening Anchor Tony Dekoppole talked about hold on Tony, I
talked about how honest he's going to be about, you know,
reporting the news to you, and he said how many
people have talked to him about how dishonest Amedia was
before it. So let's go ahead and play on his

(38:20):
big intro to being the new anchor of CBS Evening.

Speaker 10 (38:23):
Mod has changed since the first person sat in this chair,
But for me, the biggest difference is people do not
trust us like they used to. And it's not just us,
it's all of legacy media yep and I get it.
I get it because I've been hearing about it from
just about everybody for more than twenty years, as I've
traveled America on this assignment, or that my mom's neighbors

(38:45):
in West Virginia, my own neighbors in New York City,
thousands and thousands of conversations in between.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Sometimes, by the way, it is interesting that he admits
his own neighbors don't fully trust him. That doesn't sound good.
I know that he was hand picked, and many say
that he has much more integrity than the average person
at mainstream or legacy media. Right now continues, So.

Speaker 10 (39:05):
People want to talk to me about our coverage of
NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times it's all about
Hillary Clinton's emails, or Russia Gate, or more recently, COVID lockdowns,
Hunter Biden's laptop, or the president's.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Fitness for office.

Speaker 10 (39:20):
The point is, on too many stories, the press has
missed the story because we've.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Taken it right there. By the way, I'm pretty much
fully on board of them. The press has absolutely missed
the story. They neglected it, they ignored it, they purposefully
silenced it. There's a bunch of ways to change the
word miss to be the honest version of what's happening,
but missed. The story is fine. Now he gives some excuses.
I don't love as much.

Speaker 10 (39:44):
Getting into account the perspective of advocates and not the
average American, or we put too much weight in the
analysis of academics or elites and not enough on you.
And I know this because at certain points I have
been you. I have felt this way too. I felt
like what I was seeing and hearing on the news

(40:07):
didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my
own life, and that the most urgent questions simply weren't
being asked.

Speaker 11 (40:15):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (40:16):
So here's my promise to you today and every time
you see me in this chair, you come first, not advertisers,
not politicians, not corporate interests, and yes that does include
the corporate owners of CBS.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
I report for you.

Speaker 10 (40:34):
Which means I tell you what I know, when I
know it, and how I know it.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
All Right, here you go. Here's the thing about that
I don't love when he counches it on some of
the misses and news media of not in evolving enough
the opinion of the everyday person. He says that you know,
we didn't often enough rely on your version of events here.
And I know he's not necessarily trying to say it
that way, but I just want the truth. I just

(41:01):
want him to tell me the things that are real,
which is the promise that he makes at the tail
end of this video. I don't need him to couch
it in any kind of opinion by anybody, or any
version of narrative from anyone. I just need the version
of events that is accurate. And the problem with mainstream
media is so very often you can get a more
thorough description of the actual things going on by going

(41:23):
beyond it, by going to some independent news person or
person who claims themselves to be an independent journalist who
is actually showing up and knocking on doors at places
that news media isn't going, people like Nick Shirley. And
you get to judge for yourself when you see the
totality of the video, even though you know they've edited it,
and even though Elon Musk has now just recently said

(41:44):
that they're going to up the amount of money they
give to their content creators on x which might actually
be more money than you make per video on something
like a YouTube. And sure, money will always corrupt people
there are people who will just one hundred percent try
to get things that go viral for the sake of
that and won't necessarily be reporting anything new to you.

(42:04):
It's easier to corrupt one individual than it is to
corrupt a whole organization. The problem, though, is these organizations
are already fully corrupt, like none of them actually are
independently capable of preventing this, and I think it'll wind
up that CBS is still among those groups. I think,
no matter how much good intention, how many people are
involved from the higher levels, desiring to make things that

(42:28):
are not as one sided as they've been in the past,
you'd have to do a full bottom up version of
recreating the employee structure at these places, because for so
long they've hired people on one side almost entirely. I've
told this story before on this radio show of filling
in for Dana Lash and other places I've worked at
organizations like this. Organizations were a decent amount of the people,

(42:51):
no matter what the product was on air, all had
a differing opinion than the on air product, and all
crapped on it constantly. There were people that, even though
you know the strategy of the company seemed to be
one way that behind closed doors would tell you how
much they hate it, how terrible it is, And you
don't think those people end up having an influence on
the inevitability of the product that gets put on your platform,

(43:15):
whatever your platform might be. Please. I've even told the
story several times of a meeting. I was in a
large meeting with a lot of people in it, where
one of the leaders of the group said that they
were no longer going to hire any white people, especially
any white guys, to be producers, which is the job
I held at the time. And I looked around at
the other people there and I'm like, that's a weird

(43:35):
thing to say out loud. Now, granted it was woke
and it was probably popular with the people who weren't
white dudes I like myself, but you shouldn't say that
out even if you do it, which I think is
still wrong. You should just hire people who have the
most merit for the job. You should hire people who
are deserving. I don't care what you look like. I
don't care who you are, man, woman, you know, white, black,

(43:55):
None of that should matter. If you're the best candidate
for the job, you should get the opportunity to have
the job. That's the right way to say it. The
wrong way is I'm going to be racist against some
employees or I'm going to be unfair in some way.
And yet it's so commonplace, so many places do it,
and when you hear leaders say stuff like that, you
know that there's a certain amount of things you might

(44:16):
say or believe that are not going to make them happy,
and so at places like CBS, the whole point of
telling you my own anecdotal experience is to convince you
that it's not going to matter. If someone at the
top of the food chain is willing to have the
product be something that maybe it hasn't been before. You
need all the levels to go and I know that

(44:37):
that means that Bari Weiss or anyone else can just
spike down story after story and just say no to
this and no to that, and keep going that direction.
But it won't matter. At the end of the day.
It won't matter because you're going to need a whole
lot more people to create the product you want. And
Tony might be the start of it for CBS Evening News,
but he won't be the end of it. He won't
be the tell all and a version of demonstrating this

(45:00):
by something totally different in the news is this topic
to me? Eric Swalwell is trying to be the next
governor of California, and in an interview on MS Now
he said something unique about how he's going to go
after members of ICE who try to hide their identities
in public. These are people who are just doing their job.
Their job is to remove people who are in the

(45:20):
country illegally or at least detain them, arrest them, all
that stuff. They're being told by the federal government who
they work for, not for you if you are a
state leader, but the federal government how to do their job.
And they're doing it, and for some reason, Democrats want
them to be uniquely held responsible. It's part of the
game they play. The Democratic message to their supporters is

(45:43):
to be up in the face of Republican voters, the
MAGA movement, whatever they want to call it, whatever the horrible,
terrible thing out there is. Of course, they try to
make the guy that's the face of the party, whether
it's Trump or someone else, evil incarnate. But they also
want you to pretty much hate everyone who votes on
that side of the aisle and criticize them. Of course,

(46:04):
we saw a bunch of that during COVID. As far
as the things you should do to your friends and
family who weren't doing what you think they should be doing,
this is just another version of that. This is not
something the right advocates for, the same way they do
not tell you to harm other people or desire for
you to have the ability to know who someone is
so you could harm them, which is at the heart

(46:25):
of this whole conversation. I just think it's amazing how
willfully ignorant or maybe not ignorant at all people on
the left are to the own radical harm and violence
that comes from that side of the political aisle. But
here we go. Here's Swalwell saying how he's going to
punish those who are just doing their job and also
trying to protect themselves and their family from being attacked

(46:47):
for it.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
What would you bring to the table as a governor California.

Speaker 11 (46:53):
You have immense powers as governor of California, and your
responsibility is to protect those vulnerable in the States. So
if the President is going to and ice agents to
chase immigrants to the fields where they work, what I'm
going to do is make sure that they take off
their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification,
and if they commit crimes, that they're going to be
charged with crimes. If it's falsely imprisoning people, if it's kidnapping,

(47:16):
if assault, battery, they're going to be held accountable. I
also think if the governor has the ability to issue
driver's licenses to people in California, if you're going to
wear a mask and not identify yourself, you're not going
to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California. There's
a lot and you can do, but most importantly, you
have to go on offense. Otherwise the most vulnerable in
our community will always be on defense.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
This is insane. The last one, the most punitive one
in all of it, is truly insane. You're going to
take driver's licenses away from people who are just doing
their job. Again, whether you like the job they're doing
or not, I think the conversation you have to have
is with the people in charge of the individuals who
are carrying out those orders. At a federal level, you
can't try to go after the people on the lowest

(47:57):
level of the totem pole. But you're doing that on
purpose because you see them as the most accessible. I
mentioned before some of the issues I've had in some
places I've worked because of the absolute difference in opinion
from the people who were in positions of power and
the product that inevitably was being created on air. I
think one of the reasons that I wound up being

(48:19):
embroiled in some of those issues is because I was
an easier target that people higher up in the food chain,
wherever they might be at these other places are harder
to reach. They're harder to get to. So the same
is true in the fight between democrats and conservatives, since
these democrats don't want to fight any differently than they're
fighting now the powers that be in the positions of

(48:39):
authority who are making the decisions. They want to try
to up end the system from the ground up. They
want to harm the people at the lowest level of
the totem pole because that's the way they forget what
they want, and this works far more often than the opposite.
This effectively allows you to get whatever you actually want
wherever you want it, instead of going from top down

(49:01):
where it would be much harder. All right, quick break
a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
That's right, It's time for a quick five on the
Dana Show. A d Lash, Dana Lash Radio and x
on Twitter, a great ways to stay connected to her
and everything going on. Anthony Joshua's driver has officially been
charged with four different crimes in the crash that killed
two of Joshua's coaches and injured him. The person who
was responsible for driving the vehicle has been charged with

(49:35):
negligent driving, dangerous driving, driving without due care, all things
about just driving and excess speeds and driving in ways
that are truly reckless, and then finally driving without a
valid driver's license, which seems like that's a bad thing,
but this is the driver of the vehicle, the cause
of the accident that Anthony Joshua was in the backseat
of a car and it actually killed two of his friends.

(49:58):
Just sort of a shocking store coming out of Nigeria.
A days after Anthony Joshua had beaten the crap out
of Jake Paul in a fight, he then wound up
in a pretty horrible car accident that injured him and
took the lives of two of his coaches and two
of his it appears a best friend. Another story out
there that I saw that I thought was interesting. People

(50:19):
are doing a California sober January, which is different than
a dry January. A dry January is where you drink
no alcohol at all and you remain sober the entire time.
California sobriety is where you're high instead of drunk the
entirety of the month. Apparently a lot of people plan
on having a whole bunch of pot if they're not
going to have any sort of actual alcohol this month,

(50:41):
and they think that's a pretty good thing. They're saying,
this is better than the drinking. I'm not going to
weigh in and tell you which one is better or
which one is worse. I just don't think you can
call yourself sober if you're not sober, and any version
of being intoxicated and or high feels to me to
be the antithesis of what sober is supposed to be.
So I just think it's kind of interesting that people

(51:02):
want to take that version of what other people are
doing and change it ever so slightly so that they
can also feel good about themselves, even if the reality
is you're doing a profoundly different thing. And some of
the people who claim that they're going to do this
actually barely ever smoke, so they're going to do this instead.
I guess another thing that I thought was interesting. I

(51:22):
mentioned it very quickly earlier, but one in eight Americans
have now tried or actually being treated with a GLP
one drug. This is causing a lot of things to
be surprising within our society. One of those is the
amount of people who are spending way less money on groceries.
There are more people who are just having, you know,
far less appetite than they had before because of GLP one,

(51:45):
that are buying less at the grocery store. I think
the version of a take on this story that I
don't necessarily need to go down, but it's out there,
is that this might mean that grocery items become more
expensive because you know, there's not enough demand and there's
too much supply, and then grocery stores are trying not
to lose money from all the wasted product. Unlike other industries.

(52:07):
We're saying when items don't get bought, prices go down.
In this world. In the world of certain food products.
Since things are finite and they go bad, the expectation
might actually be that some of the costs go up,
which seems weird because the fly and demand usually goes
the other way. How about that to take again that
I'm not committing to. I just thought it was out
there as a thing, and then finally one last one

(52:27):
that I thought was amusing. Rock star Mick Jagger's workout
has gone viral. The man does a whole lot of
stuff to keep himself in shape. I've seen the Rolling
Stones in the last few years in concert, and I
can tell you Mix still behaves a lot like the
guy you heard of him being when he was in
his twenties, even though he's now in his eighties. These
include ballet lessons that he still takes, yoga, pilates, meditation,

(52:52):
all kinds of stuff, and then just regular workouts too,
a few sessions a week at the gym. He also
does swimming and kickboxing. So the man stays in about
as good as shape as anybody in their eighties can
stay in, who's also lived a heck of a light.
I think Mick Jagger has also done some things and
maybe had some California and Januaries himself that may have

(53:12):
taken a different tole in his body. I'm but apparently
still doing okay. I'm still doing fine. I'm proud of it.
And many people now would like to do the fitness
routine of one Mick Jagger, which I find amusing because
I don't think you're going to do everything that Mick
does in his life. Oh, you're just going to do
the working out, and I would actually go even a
step further. I don't care how good a shape I'm in.
I'm not doing ballet. It's not something I'm doing. I'll

(53:34):
do some of the other stuff. I'm not going with
the ballet thing. It's not for me. Quick break a
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Speaker 1 (53:53):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole bunch
of stuff out there to talk about. One of the
funnier things out there in the news at least funny
to me, but I have a dark sense of humor sometimes.
Is the group of people that are saying that their
daycare got broken into. That's not funny. If I actually
believed that it happened, it would be the opposite of money.

(54:14):
But since it really doesn't seem as though it happened,
it seems very amusing. So what they're saying now is
that someone actually tunneled in from the outside of their daycare.
I think WCCO actually reported on this in Minnesota, that
would be a CBS affiliate there, showing the new evidence
of the new things that seem to show that not
only are some of these businesses that Nick surely visited

(54:39):
actually legitimate businesses, but that they've now been hit with horrible,
terrible things in response to the stories going viral and
the people who think that these places are fraudulent. But
my favorite part, as I said, is showing the whole
that seems to be cut in the wall that some
people say people use to break in to the facilit

(55:00):
The problem is that the drywall on the inside of
the building stayed too well intact, meaning it looks almost perfect,
whereas the drywall on the outside of the building is
the part that seemed to crumble. If you were cutting
a hole into drywall, you would think the side that
you were putting the knife in through is the side
that would be cleaner, and the side that you weren't

(55:21):
actually trying to aim through is the side would be
more broken. That's just one of a few things that
seemed to demonstrate that this story is ridiculous. But if
you have some of the audio of them showing how
it worked. Now granted I know you can't see this,
so just please picture an incredibly clean hole from inside
of the business and a much more damaged exterior version
of something which makes you wonder how exactly that occurred

(55:43):
that way, how it didn't wind up being messier on
the inside of the facility somehow, And you don't have
a question, You don't have answers, You just have questions.

Speaker 12 (55:51):
But here we go of what they say vandals did. Now,
this is where they say the vandals got into the
daycare through cinderblock and appeared to be on six sucessful
when trying many other ways. Daycare says it appears that
vandals first tried to saw into the door of the
family dollar next door in the shopping center, but that
didn't work. The manager claims those who broke in when

(56:12):
straight to the office, stealing information of the many children
who are taken care of here.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
We are not a part of any harmful things that
are being said. We are. We have no problem with
see keV and our licensings has been good.

Speaker 13 (56:29):
You could even the.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Inspections, even the inspections. Okay, I want to say, no
intimidation is going to stop us. We're not going to
stop the work we're doing and potentially the fraud that
we're doing here, and no one's going to get us
to not do it. It's hilarious that this story, to me,
is a claim that someone broke into the building, stole
checks out of their checkbook, not the entire checkbook, but

(56:50):
just some checks, and then stole all the documents that
would be necessary in some sort of audit to prove
that they're a legitimate company. It's just sort of amazing.
And here, you know the best way for me to
say it. There are going to be times in your
life where you know people are lying, where they're lying
to you, and it's not that you think they're lying,
you know they're lying. And the thing that's crazy is
the people on the other side who are telling the

(57:12):
lie don't want to believe that part. The people in
this fraud thing in Somali right now, all the people
tied to it, don't want to believe that you know
as much information as you do. They want to believe
they can still trick you, so they'll still do as
many things as they can to demonstrate that what they're
saying is true, even though you know it's not. And
that is the saddest part of the interaction between those

(57:34):
who lie and those who tell the truth, or at
least those who know the truth. And this has happened
before at times when these daycares have been caught, they
did exactly what you're seeing now. They flooded the daycare
with kids. They made it seem as though they're very active,
and they waited a few weeks to see if anybody
came by to check on them, and then everything went
away again. And this was back in twenty eighteen when

(57:55):
they caught people for doing this. Before they had surges
of activity and versions of defending themselves from claiming that
things are not fraud. Liars don't admit they're lying. Very
often almost ever. Actually it takes quite a bit because,
and I'm guessing here more so than anything else, the
biggest reason people when confronted with being told that they're

(58:17):
lying and say that they're not they don't want to
admit it is Now, that's two sins. It's not just
the sin of whatever the thing is that they did
in the first place, in this case, the fraud or
whatever it might be. It's the second sin of lying
about it. Actually, I even further don't understand it when
really the only big deal is the lying. That to
me makes even less sense when there actually isn't any
other sin. But I digress. I won't even dive there,

(58:40):
because that, to me is even more complicated and convoluted
to get through. But in this case, a lot of
these individuals who are trying to convince you that the
thing you already saw with your eyes isn't true are
really hoping you're stupid, That's essentially how it goes, and
really hoping that you will believe the new version of
the narrative, and all the people screaming and yelling, how
dare you believe the other version? Ever, when the reality is,

(59:02):
of course that's not at all what makes sense in
the society in which we live. All right, I want
to play this audio. This is interesting to me. This
is an Israeli cybersecurity billionaire who is saying that we
need to take away the First Amendment, essentially we need
to control social media platforms. What people are saying, I
don't care who you are, I don't care where you
come from. I don't care if you're on a certain

(59:24):
side of a conflict that I support. In all honesty.
Anybody who's saying get rid of the First Amendment is
someone I disagree with wholeheartedly. And that seems to be
the message here. And actually I saw in response to
this video a bunch of people that we're commenting that
America and X are the only things standing in the
way of what people want, which is control over everything,

(59:45):
and what people have, which is no control over us,
and we need them to keep not having control over
the totality of this country and at least some of
the social media platforms out there. But here is someone
saying that we really really need to do away with
free speech in the First Amendment because it's bad at
least for his business, or bad for business in general. Actually,

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there's good.

Speaker 9 (01:00:08):
To hear, but it's time to limit the First Amendment
in order to protect it now and quickly before it's
too late.

Speaker 10 (01:00:16):
What do you mean.

Speaker 9 (01:00:17):
I mean that we need to control the platforms, all
the social platforms. We need to mate thank the authenticity
of every person that expresses themselves online and take control
over what they are saying based on that ranking government,

(01:00:40):
the government.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Should know that is a horrible idea. That is a terrible, terrible,
horrible idea. Again, I don't care who you are. I
don't care if you're the person you know providing this message,
and I just happen to agree with you want a
bunch of other stuff or not, I definitely disagree here.
It is a couple things if it's even meant in
a genuinely good way, and it's never in a good way.

(01:01:00):
I want to make sure you understand that. But if
someone thinks they're well intentioned when they say this out loud,
what they think they're doing, and this is my assessment,
this is my assumption, This is not what I think
reality is. I want to make sure again people understand
I'm trying to describe the psychology of someone I fundamentally
disagree with, because this is where I usually go in

(01:01:21):
this discussion. But they think what they're doing is protecting
society from people who have no interest in doing things
you know good. They have bad ideas, bad actors, bad
intention want to convince everybody of fake lies, whatever it
might be. You want to silence the people that you
think are harming society, And the best way to actually

(01:01:43):
confront those ideas is to give them daylight and argue
with them, not to tell them to shut up and
they're not allowed to talk anymore. That's the thing that
those people don't understand. Who ever believe that they're well
intentioned while saying out loud that we need to restrict
things like the First Amendment and freedom of speech, they
again think that they're only going to silence the bad guys,

(01:02:04):
even though, of course we know that once the government
is capable of silencing people, they'll silence anybody they disagree with,
regardless of who's good or bad, and inevitably silence a
whole lot more of the good guys than any of
the bad guys, as we saw during COVID and other times.
But beyond that too, the other thing that I think
is so important is the people who believe they don't
even need to have these arguments. And I think there's

(01:02:25):
two reasons for that. There's a lot of arrogant people
in our society. I don't think that you're necessarily one
of those people who's ever listening to the show, So
don't take this as an insult to you. But there
are a lot of people out there who think that
it's not worth it to argue with people that they
think they're much smarter than, like, Oh, I'm much smarter
than this person. I know more than this person does.
How dare I even have to have a conversation. That's

(01:02:46):
one of the reasons I think they want to silence
people that they think are saying things that aren't true.
Whether or not they're right or wrong, or the other
person's right or wrong, it's irrelevant. Some people are so
convinced with all of their opinions that they're confident enough
to believe that everybody else needs to shut up. So
you're just more arrogant. You think you're more intelligent than
everyone else in the room. The other reason you want

(01:03:07):
to do that is you think there's no value to it.
You think that inevitably you won't convince the other person
of whatever the thing is you're trying to convince them of,
So why even have the argument in the first place.
And when you're talking about the town square, whether the
town square is twitter x, social media or anything else,
the value isn't to the person you're arguing with, it's

(01:03:27):
to everyone else watching. That's the other thing that I
think mainstream media often does not understand is that sometimes
in an interaction between two opposing viewpoints, the value is
everybody witnessing it from the outside. I think that Charlie Kirk,
of all people, really understood this and really understood the
value of this because oftentimes when he would go and

(01:03:49):
argue with people in college campuses, and it's still awful tragedy.
I think in a lot of ways from just a
simple conversation standpoint in our society that Charlie Kirk killed
for what he said and believed. But his message was
let's have this conversation out in the open. And often
Charlie Kirk would say, when people stop talking, that's when

(01:04:10):
violence starts. And so anyone who wants to take away
the ability for someone to speak is only begging them
to become more violent. When the reality is that all
you need to do is allow them to speak, you
speak in response to them, and at the end of
the day, maybe you didn't convince the person with the
strong opinion that they're wrong, But a whole lot of
people whose opinion wasn't fully shaped yet, who heard the

(01:04:31):
two of you interact with each other, are much more
likely to have been swayed by one of the arguments
than the other. Than the person that's crazily out there
saying the horrible thing, no matter what it is, no
matter how terrible, anti Semitic, whatever the thing might be.
And I imagine that's part of the thought process here
for someone who's Israeli cybersecurity. But when you see those things,

(01:04:52):
being able to confront them and talk about them is
much more powerful to the people that are unlikely to
be convinced by the moron in the room that what
they're saying is right. Then telling that person they're not
allowed to talk and they need to shut up, because
then you seem to be hiding something. And the more
people seem to be hiding things, the more people that
are trying to expose whatever it is that they claim

(01:05:12):
is being hidden seem trustworthy, and the more the people
who are trying to hide something seem like the people
lying to you. It's the same thing you've seen all
the time, and you see it all the time, even
with kids. Like you can't tell a kid not to
do something because then they're going to go do it.
That's not the way to get them to not behave
in a way you want. What you need to actually
do is tell them why they should do something a
certain way, get them to understand it, get them to

(01:05:34):
believe it themselves, and then your kid will act the
way you hope they want to act, or you're hoping
they're going to act, instead of doing exactly the thing
you told them not to do simply because you said,
don't do it? All right, quick break a lot more.
Craig Collins filling in on the Danish Show. It's his
laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.

(01:05:59):
That's right, it's time for Florida man on the Danas Show.
Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig, Craig Collins.
I will be here today and Monday, and then Dana
will be back on Tuesday. A couple Florida man. Stories
out there that I thought were interesting. The first one
a guy robbed a meat market. There are two things
about this story that make it Florida man, and not
just anybody somewhere in the world trying to rob a

(01:06:21):
meat market. First, he was naked. He showed up there
naked for some reason and tried to rob the meat
market in the nude. A Second, he wasn't completely naked. Actually,
he was wearing a face mask. I don't know why,
and I don't know what the health benefit would be
to the exposure of the rest of the human and
the protection of the face and the nose, but he

(01:06:41):
went that road. He thought, you know, I might as
well respect people who knows what people might think I
have as far as illnesses go, who knows what illnesses
other people might have. I might as well cover up
my face while leaving everything else out and into the world.
So I thought this was uniquely funny. Dude, terrible guy.
I wouldn't want to interact with him myself personally, but
I just think that his version of masking is the

(01:07:04):
most unique I've heard so far. And of course the
guy is in Florida. Another story out there that I
thought was interesting. A Florida man was arrested at a
public's store, a grocery store, because he attacked the manager
of the store with his Salvation Army kettle. For some reason.
At some point, a man who was volunteering to collect

(01:07:26):
money for the Salvation Army outside of the publix got
in an argument but with the manager of the facility
and then attacked him with the donation kettle that you're
using to actually accept the donations. I'm assuming there wasn't
a lot of money in it for you to start
swinging in at somebody, But nonetheless, that seems like a
bad decision to be made just across the board, especially
if you try to go back from the attacking of

(01:07:47):
the guy with the kettle to putting it down again
and asking people to put donations in it. Because now
it's a weapon. It's been used in a crime, so
they're probably going to have to confiscate it in some way,
a shape or form. But nonetheless, I just thought that
was funny. The guy was like, now I'm sick of this,
I'm done with you. It's me versus you, mono omano,
and I'm using the only weapon I have at my disposal.

(01:08:08):
My kettle that people are putting donations in a one
fin final Florida man story. And this is certainly the
most ridiculous of the three that I found. And I
feel somewhat bad about this in even telling you about it,
because my assumption is the person involved, I don't know
what they look like, is going to be a pretty
big person, because there's not a lot of ways that

(01:08:29):
this story ends the way it does if it's a
smaller guy. But anyway, a guy in Florida I went
to a restroom at an outback steakhouse and said he
got injured. This story actually happened at the very beginning
part of this year, like the first few months of
the year of twenty twenty five, not twenty twenty six,
excuse me, of last year, but it didn't really become

(01:08:49):
a giant news until recently. The guy said that the
toilet that he sat on at the outback steakhouse shattered
beneath him when he sat down on it, and it
injured him a couple different ways. This has also got
to be a shocking thing to have happened when you
sit down on the toilet. He said he was severely injured,
and he was suing for fifty thousand dollars plus damages.

(01:09:11):
The man's name is Michael Green. Outback Steakhouse in Florida
has said that it was not their issue, that the
toilet should have operated just fine, etc.

Speaker 6 (01:09:21):
Etc.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
I think this case is still going to be played
out in court somewhere for the foreseeable future, And certainly
a part of me was amused by the idea that
someone shattered a toilet, and I don't know why. It
would be probably juvenile reasons that I would laugh at
this in any shape or form, But I also do
feel terrible for a person who might go to the
restroom in a public place and have this be the outcome,

(01:09:44):
because that can't possibly be a thing that you're going
to have any sort of good memories of after that.
And the only thing about it that would have made
it worse for me, and I apologize for making this
low hanging fruit joke, but I couldn't help it was
if it was someplace like a taco bell. Outback Steakhouse.
Is only so bad a taco bell, you would think
would be even worse as far as shattering a toilet goes.

(01:10:06):
In his defense, the man said that the toilet was
just a terrible condition. It was something that seemed like
it was very much destined to break, and he just
was the unlucky last guy to sit on it that
caused it to shatter into a million pieces. Again, I
think that's something that the restaurant is actually going to contest.
What's crazy about this story to me, though, is that

(01:10:26):
it first happened way back in March, and it's only
really been a case that's in the news now and
in a courtroom at the tail end of last year.
So it's really something where someone I don't mean to
say it this way, this is not the pun I
intended to be, sat on this story, or sat on
this case for a while before inevitably trying to make
it a thing where they're making some money in a courtroom.
And I guess that's the last thing that went through

(01:10:48):
my brain about this topic. You know, sometimes people see
because they see an opportunity for a lawsuit, say somebody
who gets burned by coffee, pretending as though they shouldn't
have thought it was hot when it was obviously going
to be really, really hot. And then there's people who
copycat that too and try to make money somewhere else.
Whether this is the person doing it the first time
or someone who thought they saw an opportunity for a lawsuit,

(01:11:11):
I'd be really afraid if copycats, I'll go this road.
So I guess I'm telling anyone out there at any
sort of restaurant, if you see a customer come in
ask to use the restroom and you're pretty sure they
have a sledgehammer hidden on them somewhere, that they're going
to try to shatter another toilet and then sue you.
So if this guy makes a lot of money, copycat lawsuits,
I feel like are definitely a potential risk of all involved.

(01:11:34):
But yeah, I couldn't get over that. It's not very
often you see a headline in the news where someone
went to the restroom and shattered something like a toilet,
and so again, I just feel bad across the board.
That's me being as nice as I can be about
a story that I also find hilarious. Quick Break a
lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Data Show.
This is the Data Show. My name is Craig Collins,

(01:11:55):
filling in Dan Lash Dana Lash Radio and x on Twitter.
A great ways to stay connected to the very awesome
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and a whole bunch of other places to find Dana
and Dana Lash Radio. At Radio craigse if for some
reason you want to follow me in my very small
following on social media, that I probably shouldn't poo poo
all this much on a show this big, because I'd

(01:12:16):
love to have more followers, then maybe i'd do more stuff,
but right now, not a whole lot there. But anyway,
at Radio craigc if you want to help me I
get over that hump. Other things I saw out there
that I will get to. One of them is fairly hilarious.
More people are showing up at the Quality Leering Center
now actually with the correct signage to say Quality and
Learning Center. They're also trying to enroll their children in

(01:12:39):
the daycare that has been somewhat synonymous with fraud in
Minnesota that is all based on daycares that don't actually operate. Now,
there's a funny part to this video where a guy
is standing in the parking lot looking for people. It
seems that someone finally pulls up gets out of the car,
including the guy that we saw in the video. Defending
the place in the first place, the person saying that

(01:13:01):
it is a legitimate operation, that it's hours of operation
are two o'clock to eight o'clock at night, and mostly
they're just having kids that go there that are at
after school hours. It is hilarious the way that this
interaction goes, because it seems like we have a new
potential weakness in that story. Here we go go to
the papers to come to come.

Speaker 13 (01:13:24):
Duck to us when we were open on regular hours
and we're more focus.

Speaker 10 (01:13:28):
It's it's three on a Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
This is not I love that it's three forty eight
on a Tuesday. This ain't business hours. I thought you
guys said you were two to eight o'clock. This is
not those hours. But they're like, no, no, man, just come
back some other time. We can get you some paperwork,
we can figure it out. Maybe we'll send you somewhere else,
because there's obviously no daycare that's actually operating here, or
at least there appears not to be one. That is

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the influence that Nick Shirley will have on these places
is not that there will be prone to having violence
occur there, but that more people will also in person
check on the validity of the story that's being told
on mainstream news outlets that are allowing for people who
seem to be fraudsters to continue to pretend they're not
and then barely fact checking the information beyond it, which

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is something that now more and more people have every
right and every capability of doing. Nick Shirley, by the way,
continues to say that he's being trashed all over social
media and all over actual television news media for not
being a person in the journalistic hierarchy. I don't know
whatever the bubble is that they want you to be in.

(01:14:36):
He doesn't work for any of the main news outlets,
so how dare he do our job for us? They're
incredibly mad about that, when at the end of the day,
it is still up to you and me decide how
much we believe the stories that are being put out there.
The arrogance of most news media is that they still
think most, not all of them, some of them, that
we believe them simply because of the credibility that was

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once a big part of the organization they work for,
even though that credibility has long been destroyed and obliterated.
In a whole lot of these cases, they still want
to behave as though that's a more credible thing than
the person who's showing up at the places, knocking on
the doors and showing us what happens next. That is
most credible when we get to see with her own

(01:15:17):
eyes what's occurring now. A person who's gone viral a
couple times recently, and this is after some of the
changes that have happened at CBS CBS is Catherine Heritage,
a heriage, excuse me, who is saying a bunch of
different stuff about the terrible time she spent at CBS
and the stories they spiked down. One of my favorite

(01:15:38):
of the things that has gone viral now is her
describing why CBS said no to an interview with Elon
Musk and how confusing it was to this actual journalist
that an organization that would claim itself to be of
the utmost in journalistic integrity was really afraid of not
having control of where the conversation went. That's it seems

(01:16:00):
terrible and awful. And here we go as far as
yet another story damaging to CBS News from a person
who used to have a pretty high profile gig and
work there.

Speaker 14 (01:16:09):
I had conversations with some of the reporters connected to
the Twitter files, and I was in my head thinking
that there might be an opority to tell that story
on CBS News. We had a number of topics under discussion.
They didn't go as far as we had hoped, but
at the end of the day, this opportunity to interview

(01:16:29):
Elon Musk was developing. So I went to the CBS
executives and I said, this is the opportunity that we have.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
He's saying, I want to do it live and on
my platform. He's one of the most influential human beings
on the planet. And the reaction from the executives was, well,
we can't do it live. And I was like, what
do you mean we can't do it live. It's like, well,
we don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:51):
What he's going to say. I was like, okay, I think, isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
That the point of journalism. You don't know what the
person's going to say.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
Yes, that's the point of journalism.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Well, you know, we have to it has to be taped,
we have to have the ability to edit, it has
to be on our platform. We have to control the platform.
We talked at one point about whether we could do
it sort of like a simulcast between the streaming network
and maybe X.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
All Right, this is the biggest weakness to mainstream news
media in today's society is how easy it is to
go viral and be someone who's live and in the
moment that allows for the least amount of editing to occur. Now, granted,
I'm not pretending as though a whole bunch of editing
doesn't actually occur with people who are quote unquote independent journalists.
It does, and there's a lot of reason to be
very skeptical of anything you see from anyone and what

(01:17:35):
motivates them to put it out in whatever way they do.
But the strength of some of these platforms, the places
like Twitter and YouTube and whatnot, is the ability to
be uninterrupted and fully viral or fully live excuse me,
and thus viral and something that media in other places
could easily do. But doesn't you know what's funny about this,

(01:17:55):
totally shifting gears in a way, but landing in the
same atmosphere is story. I work at a few different places.
One of the places I work is branching into digital
media at a time when everybody else has already been
in it forever and just the people happen to be
less familiar with some of this because they've never really
done it before, even though they want to. And some

(01:18:17):
of the conversations you have, even with well intentioned people
who want to do good things, they're so far behind
where the conversations being had about the technology that exists
today is with the people at the forefront of these platforms,
people who are now much more influential than even some
of these media outlets. Are a lot of the television

(01:18:39):
shows that we have on TV right now that think
of themselves as being the most impactful have audiences that
pale in comparison to some of the biggest digital media
audiences that exist out there. They're tremendously bigger. Nick Shirley's video,
for example, got millions of views on x and at
least a million plus views on YouTube. There are a

(01:19:00):
bunch of stories that exist on most of the news
platforms out there that won't get that kind of reach,
especially when you're talking about the one hundred and fifty
million supposed views on something like Twitter, which I know
is also a flawed barometer because I think anyone who's
feed the story pops up on will be counted as
a view, even if you watch a few seconds of it,

(01:19:20):
or you watch a whole lot of it. But still
there is a ability for influence to go way beyond
what is typical of mainstream news media. And to be honest,
most of those news media outlets to get real reach
from their stories will inevitably put it on the platforms
where the other people are. And so this is the
way I've had the conversation. I'm just going to have
it with you. It might be a little inside baseball,

(01:19:42):
I guess, I don't care. It is fun for me
to have this discussion, and darn it, it's just after
the holidays, so let's go ahead and do it. What
I tell people in legacy media or older forms of
media that are contemplating getting into the digital game is
there's no reason not to be there. There's none. Everything
that you do, everything that you create, is quote unquote content.

(01:20:03):
The way that people in other places say that they
make stuff, you know that you're already making things, why
not put the things in these other places? And that
sometimes is the hardest thing for someone to understand, but
is really the way for them to increase their reach
the most. I think that people who tune in to
mainstream radio, television, what have you, are probably doing it

(01:20:24):
mostly because it's habit, it's something they've done before, whatever
it is that they're listening to whatever station you're listening
to the show on the odds of us getting a
whole bunch of new listeners just from the platform alone
is becoming harder and harder. But the odds of us
getting a whole bunch of new consumers of our information
by finding it somewhere else, which is why data is

(01:20:44):
uniquely so prolific. By having stuff so many places is
much much higher. It's much much higher to have influence
and value in our society by being in all the
places that people normally go to see the small stippets
of whatever the things are that a lot of people
miss when they're live. So I just I think it's
so amusing that sometimes people in the mainstream media places
do not understand that. They sort of think that, well,

(01:21:07):
it's got to be on our platform. I've even had
conversations with someone that says, I don't know if I
want to be on those other platforms, man, it might
distract me from the thing I'm doing on the platform
that I'm supposed to be on. I meaning, if I'm
doing a radio show, I don't want to think too
much about what's happening in the video that I'm creating
the radio show, and that's fine. I actually think that
a lot of that objection makes sense. I would just
say turn it on in the corner and forget about it,

(01:21:29):
because it's better to have something exist somewhere else than
nothing at all. Nothing at all in today's society is
a pretty bad move and a whole bunch of times.
And to get back to the topic at hand, with CBS,
they refuse to do things simply because Elon was leveling
the playing field by allowing for his platform to live
stream something that CBS wanted full creative control of. Later,

(01:21:51):
they wanted to be able to edit it and manipulate
it however they saw fit, and not have the long
stream version out there, which is absolutely bad our society
no longer accepts that reality because too many of us
are capable of creating an unedited thing on our own
that some social media outlets will no longer take down
or bury in censor. Some will still do it, but

(01:22:13):
some like Twitter won't. So the importance of Twitter, the
importance of X and Elon purchasing. The platform has skyrocketed
mostly because of how easy it is now for anyone
to get a truly important message to the rest of
the world without the censorship version that used to exist
in our society. That was a long rant on a
very specific topic, But I just thought it was amusing

(01:22:35):
that as I see these people in these other platforms
talking about the way that they were censored, whatever their
job is, inevitably maybe one of the reasons that they're
no longer at the gig they're at. I see so
many parallels with what people are still worried about in
some of these legacy media places that is pushing them
so far behind the places that now are at the
forefront of where we go when we're looking for information.

(01:22:58):
A quick break, a lot more Creig Collins filling in
on The Dana Show.

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
That's right, it's time for a quick five on the
Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in Dash
Dana Lash Radio and x on Twitter. A great way
to stay connected. A six point five magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico.
This is crazy in Central Mexico. Actually caused the president
there to have to postpone a press briefing that she
was planning. I think that there is not a big

(01:23:30):
amount of loss of life yet reported from this. Maybe
one person died so far. Just a huge earthquake that
jilted part of central South Mexico happened just the other day.
Another story out there that I thought was interesting. This
is the craziest food trends that were part of twenty
twenty six. Is a very different thing than the last story.

(01:23:51):
Twenty dollars strawberries became a big deal a Los Angeles
grocery stores, stun shoppers by selling a single strawberry for
twenty bucks. Has caused people that are idiots and social
media influencers to buy the strawberries and try to eat
them to see if there's anything about them that tastes
special or different than a not twenty dollars strawberry and
guess what, No, it's exactly the same. Everything tasted the

(01:24:13):
same as the other strawberries, just ridiculously overpriced. Also, I
love this. There was a story on social media about
luxury water. This is high end restaurants that would sell
a glass of water from anywhere to from eleven dollars
all the way up to ninety five bucks. A gen
z specifically, which is drinking less alcohol and drinking other things,

(01:24:35):
whether it's alcoholic things or not, there's other stuff. In general.
I've seen the most amused by luxury water and trying
out other kinds of water that might be again overpriced.
And then, finally, one of my favorite things that apparently
became a trend via social media is taking in a
whole bunch more protein without necessarily trying to eat a
whole bunch of more food. These are people who are

(01:24:55):
overloading on protein items because somehow they are convinced that
protein you'll fill you up, and then you won't want
to eat other stuff and you'll lose weight, which is
not exactly how that works, although it could be if
you're also working out and then dieting in other ways.
But if you're just eating a protein bar on top
of all your regular food items, I feel like we
saw that in the movie Mean Girl, but that doesn't

(01:25:15):
actually go well. It goes terribly. And yes, I just
decided to reference Mean Girls on the Dana Show because
why not darn it. It felt like the right thing
to do. And then finally, one other thing that I
saw This is also uniquely sad, another awful story out there,
but certainly a story deserving of at least mentioning a
little bit. There are families still looking for people from

(01:25:36):
the Swiss Ske resort that burst into flames over the holidays.
Several people were injured, several people lost their lives, but
some families say they're still looking for members. One American
family says they're still looking for a missing teenager and
they are desperate for any news about it. Unfortunately, the
likelihood of good news coming from that story is probably

(01:25:56):
very low, but there are still people in search of
family members. Over two days after, a shocking explosion happened
inside of a ski resort in Switzerland, in which I
think Sparkler's attached to champagne bottles is believed to be
the likely start of a horrible explosion and then a fire,

(01:26:17):
which actually tells you a couple of different things that
you probably already knew in the world of this specific holiday,
We just celebrated that it is uniquely dangerous to celebrate
some of this stuff on your own and to have
certain things, just like the Fourth of July is that
you use as part of the celebration. There definitely need
to be sober people that are involved, maybe professionally in

(01:26:39):
some of this, and not necessarily just a lot of
people doing things, you know, recreationally.

Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:44):
It's uniquely horrible story, though, to say the least. And
family still looking for family members is awful. Quick break
a lot coming up in a short amount of time.
Craig Collin's filling in on the Dana Show.

Speaker 6 (01:26:55):
Brighten up your timely news consumption with a Dana Show
podcast where every update comes with a little dash of
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your podcasts.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
filling in a thrill to be with you. A whole
bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Let's do
a little bit more on fraud in Minnesota, because it's
the story that keeps on giving. I don't mean to
keep talking about it. There's just so many aspects to
it here. The latest version is the Family Leave program.
The Tim Wallas is going to start putting in place there,

(01:27:28):
which sounds just so ready for fraud. It gives you
multiple weeks vacation, It puts the onus on the employer
of the employee to verify that the person is a
real worker who deserves all the vacation, et cetera, et cetera.
It just seems insane. Fox News was talking about this
earlier today, and I figured I'd play some of the
audio of just how ridiculous this latest program is, and

(01:27:50):
just another awesome candidate for incredible fraud, and then I
assume a whole bunch of ridiculous kickbacks. Here we go,
leave this new.

Speaker 15 (01:28:00):
Program officially launching. Whistleblowers in Minnesota were apparently sounding the
alarm about how people were already planning to scam it.
The state's paid leave program allows for up to twenty
weeks of paid leave a year for almost every resident,
with it being for medical leave or to take care
of family, and taxpayer dollars will pay out a percentage
of a person's salary up to fourteen hundred and twenty

(01:28:22):
dollars a week.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
As for how much this program is going to.

Speaker 15 (01:28:25):
Cost, the estimates have already gone up since this bill
was passed, and it's now projected to be between one
and one and a half billion dollars a year. Shocking,
But we've seen another state programs now being investigated for fraud.
How the expected cost skyrocketed within just a few years,
and state Republican lawmakers are warning that could happen again

(01:28:46):
with this program they say is ripe for fraud.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Of course it is. By the way, I do love
the fact that it says a percentage of whatever your
net income is, and if you lie about the income
that you make with which is something they're also doing,
you can make that fourteen hundred bucks a way, which
is the equivalent of about seventy thousand dollars a little
bit more than that a year that you'd be making
during these weeks that you were on paid leave for
the job that you don't have and the things that
you're not doing, And just so so ripe with fraud

(01:29:12):
once again, just great, great stuff. By the way, there
is audio out there that's gone viral, multiple versions of it,
for multiple different versions of essentially the same thing, which
is all the people who've claimed that this Minnesota fraud
with daycares has been going on forever. There's even audio
of a guy back in I think this is twenty
fourteen or twenty fifteen. His name is Jason Lewis, a

(01:29:35):
previous representative talking about how this is happening, how people
are leaving some of the daycares with just tons of cash,
putting them in suitcases, smuggling them into other countries at
the Minneapolis airport, like it's crazy, the ridiculousness of the story.
And remember this is ten plus years ago that they're
talking about this being a thing, and now we're talking

(01:29:57):
about it all over again. So obviously the people in charge,
like Tim Wallas, have done a really good job going
through and weeding out this fraud that they definitely have
known about and has existed for a very long They've
done so great at trying to fix the problem. Of course,
I'm kidding as I say that. Here we go on
this audio too.

Speaker 16 (01:30:15):
Situation in my home state of Minnesota, where we've got
a number of daycare providers that are openly violating federal
and state laws and regulations, taking money for personal use,
using the money to set up a fraudulent childcare client,
and then providing a kickback has been reported. This is
a major issue. There are allegations that well not just

(01:30:36):
several you've got twenty three childcare daycare centers either closed
or under investigation.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
The fraud may go.

Speaker 16 (01:30:43):
As high as one hundred million dollars. Now, think about that.
In fiscal year twenty eighteen, Minnesota received one hundred and
twenty million in federal funding. The state contributed about fifty
million and matching and maintenance funds, and we may have
a fraud case of nearly one hundred million in this state.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
With I misspoke, I guess it was eighteen, so a
few years, less than a decade ago that they were
talking about this, and now it's in the billions of dollars.
So way to go there catching that hundred million dollar
case that has only gone worse and worse and worse
and not better. Tim Walls needs to be fired, is
what it looks like. He needs to be prosecuted. All
kinds of things seem like they need to happen, not
just to him, but to anybody follow The money feels

(01:31:20):
like it's screaming from every part of that state, every
part of that city, every part of the entirety of
the country. I guess to tell people to do a
better because of how ridiculous the entirety of this thing is.
It is truly crazy. And there's audio I played earlier
I can play it again of some of the individuals
who are accused of this kind of stuff that are

(01:31:41):
now fighting back in weird ways. My favorite one is
probably the daycare center that says it was robbed, says
somebody broke in and for some reason, the person stole
a whole bunch of paperwork that proves who the kids
are that go to the daycare, who the teachers are,
who are employees of the daycare. And then this was
the best part, ripped checks from the checkbook without actually

(01:32:02):
taking the entirety of the checkbook. This is, I assume,
so that they can steal money from the daycare, with
the daycare being capable of tracking down exactly what checks
it was. That's very nice of them to leave the
checkbook so you know what number to not look at
and what number not to go past. As far as
what fraudulent checks have been written, it's very good that
the accounting department can check up on that. Once the

(01:32:24):
fraudulent checks that they stole inevitably get cashed or might
have been cashed a long time ago, that's probably going
to be part of The problem with this claim is
when those checks were written and when they were cashed.
But darn it, it's all there. This is a very
sloppy version of trying to pretend as though what's going
on is somehow getting fixed. You know what. Actually, here,
I will play the audio of the guy who tells
the story as it first broke a couple days ago.

(01:32:47):
Because who would do this? Why would anyone break into
a place and steal just important business records and not
a whole lot else that you be the judge, of course,
I don't think this happened at all.

Speaker 10 (01:32:58):
Well, I'm the only Somali who speaks English.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Oh hold on, Actually, that's an edited version. I'm gonna
go ahead and edit that one out. That one is
not the correct one. That's an AI version. That is
not the thing. We're just gonna skip it because I
think that's the only one I have in front of me.
I apologize for that. That was a parody version of
that story, not the actual version of the story. But
people are saying that they do not believe any part
of this at all, because it's absolute crap.

Speaker 13 (01:33:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
One other thing I want to play something different. This
is borders are Tom Homan talking about the amount of
children who were smuggled into this country under Joe Biden
and how they lost track of so many of them,
and the Biden administration has done or excuse me, the
Trump administration has done a very good job of trying
to figure out from many of the problems they had,
how to fix this. This is just one of many

(01:33:42):
things that Homan is actually working on. So let's play
a little bit of that audio.

Speaker 13 (01:33:48):
That's thing that brother Trump had me focused on.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
This.

Speaker 13 (01:33:52):
Half a million children were smuggling in this country and
Joe Biden they lost track at three hundreds aves and
couldn't find them. As of this week, we have located
over one hundred and twenty nine thousand of these kids,
kids that last administration wasn't looking for.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
One hundred and twenty nine thousand out of three hundred
thousand kids have been located by the Trump administration. You
feel like this is the kind of story that if
it happened the other way, if conservatives were the reason
that the problem existed and liberals or Democrats or the
reason that the solution existed, that it would be plastered
all over media, that people will be talking about this

(01:34:28):
you know, night and day, how great it is that
the Democrats came in to save the day, and how
they're the good guys and the horrible bad guys that
are the Trump administration or wherever it might have been
lost all these children. But since it's the opposite, since
it's the reverse version of that scenario, this is a
story you probably haven't heard yet, And this is a
claim being made by the borders Are himself that no

(01:34:49):
one is really taking seriously in any sort of mainstream
media outlet, which is incredible because once again, that's all
it takes as far as proof of something. If you're
someone on the left saying a thing and news media
wants to run with that story, whatever it might be,
they will absolutely tell every single version of those events
to as many people who will listen, and their credibility

(01:35:11):
will be this is what the administration told us, as
opposed to the opposite. All right, one last thing I
want to play. Jd Vance did an interview with Jesse Waters.
A lot of different stories or topics came up. Some
of them I thought were pretty interesting as far as
the types of discussions that are still being had by
a lot of people that mainstream media outlets probably aren't

(01:35:32):
focused on. One of them was the militant transgender movement
as described by Vance, and some of the ways in
which people validate violence, validate all kinds of behaviors because
they say that they are initially the victim. They don't
care if in the scenario they're defending themselves in they
in every way, shape or form or anything other than

(01:35:54):
a victim. They're certainly not a victim. They're in fact
someone who maybe killed someone else or did something horrible.
But now no, No, the whole reason they did that is
because at some point they were a victim. So obviously
we need to think of this differently. Here's how Vance
talks about this issue. I thought, hold on, I thought
it was a really good job either way, to try
to handle this discussion transgender movement. Is that a domestic

(01:36:18):
terrorist threat?

Speaker 17 (01:36:19):
If you are encouraging people to commit acts of violence
against the United States government or against your fellow Americans,
absolutely you're involved in a terrorist movement. I don't know
enough about that particular organization, but what you increasingly see,
Jesse is you see people in the trans community and
other members of the far left who are saying they
are so threatened by negative rhetoric that they must take

(01:36:41):
arms and attack people. If your movement is telling you
to commit acts of violence against people for speaking words
that you don't like, number one, you're evil, and number two,
you are engaged in a terrorist movement too. And that's
part of what we have to root out in the
White House. And this is very important. Jesse talk to
a lot of people about this. I talked to you know,
Stephen Miller probably seven times in the past two days.

(01:37:04):
We are working very hard to ensure that the funding
networks for left wing violence, that the radicalization networks for
left wing violence. That if you encourage or fund your
fellow Americans or anybody else to commit acts of violence
because you disagree with political speech, you are going to
be treated like a terrorist organization.

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
That is what you are. By the way, I do
fully and wholeheartedly believe this, and I don't care again
what the you know, starting point is for where you
inevitably get to the radical position you're in. And if
you think that starting in a certain way can make
you claim that what you're doing is actually totally fine,
it's in fact even worse. And so many people out
there will say this till they're blue in the face.

(01:37:46):
They'll behave as though, No, no, no, how dare you accuse
me of being the bad guy? I was in jeopardy first,
and then I chose to commit this action against someone
simply because of the words they were saying, and how
much I didn't like the things they were saying, because
I thought that maybe those words might inspire someone else
to hurt me. All of these are taking a bunch
of steps down a rabbit hole that doesn't exist to

(01:38:07):
claim that it's okay for me to harm someone else.
And of course this feels like it is somewhat couched
in the thing that happened, the murder of Charlie Kirk.
That would be at the forefront of Jade Vance's mind,
a lot of people's minds as we go through that
court case over the next I think few months. All right, well,
take a break, we'll do a little bit more when
we come back. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana
Show makes.

Speaker 6 (01:38:26):
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Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A lot to
talk about, very little time left to do it. D Lash,
Dana Lash Radio and x on Twitter a great way
to stay connected to her. Megan Kelly has shared a
list of some of the meanest celebrities she's ever encountered
in her time as a famous person herself. I thought
this was really interesting. One of the people at the

(01:39:01):
top of the list for Megan Kelly was Jane Fonda,
who she said was a complete piece of crap to
her on several occasions. Unsurprising, I guess, considering Jane Vonda's
very strong political positions that would run in contest to
things that Megan Kelly might think. Another one that was
on this list that I thought was interesting was Ellen DeGeneres,

(01:39:21):
someone who took more than enough crap from a whole
lot of people. Because it sounds like she also is
a big load of poop as far as a person goes.
A lot of people criticized her for being a jerk.
Megan Kelly seems to echo that statement and say that
Ellen DeGeneres is in fact a giant piece of poop.
I love the way I'm saying this. That's not what
Meghan said. By the way Megan Kelly used different words.

(01:39:42):
I just enjoyed the words I'm choosing to use. There
were other names on the list. You can go check
it for anyone that Megan Kelly says she had bad
interactions with herself, which is the only way that we
can judge any of this stuff as people who are
a jerk to us. Another person out there that I
thought was interesting to be in the news, I was
Ricky your vase. Years ago. He had said that one

(01:40:03):
thing he wanted was for his body to be fed
to the lions at the London Zoo when he died.
I think he said this to Conan O'Brien. He wanted
to give back any way that he could that included
allowing himself to be fed to lions. At the time,
the zoo reacted seriously to what was probably just a
joke and said that they couldn't do it. They were
financially struggling. They'd love to have some sort of financial

(01:40:26):
donation from Ricky Gervais sent to them, but they were
incapable of using his body for food. I love that
Ricky Gervais has now responded years later to that by
saying that he's seen some of the lions and how
big they are and thinks that they really absolutely could
still use him and eat him, and he thinks it's
the easiest way to go about this. So even though
they're not going to use his body for food, he
thinks that's the shame, because Ricky Gervais does still think

(01:40:49):
that it's an appropriate I love that when I saw
that the first time, and I remembered how viral it went,
because to me, that is as funny as anything else
people say that you should do after you pass away
way with the body to make it pretty apparent that
once you're gone, you're gone, and obviously, I, as a Catholic,
think you're in a better place. I've always talked about

(01:41:10):
how I wanted the Viking funeral where you push me
out into the ocean in the little rickety boat and
then you use the arrow and you shoot it and
you light it on fire. That has always been a
cool idea to me. It's not something that is likely
to happen easier than getting myself after I've passed away,
to be fed the lions and certainly less graphic than
that situation, but nonetheless still a thing that's probably not

(01:41:31):
gonna happen, and really it's a shame for both of
us Ricky and I that are dying wishes cannot be fulfilled.
That's really a thing that's society itself and needs to
answer to. Two other quick things I saw that I
thought were interesting. Snopes has once again debunked something in
the Babylon B. The Babylon B went on social media
to celebrate the fact that Snope seems really invested in

(01:41:54):
debunking things on a satirical website that itself admits the
stuff it's saying is comedic and not act really true.
Once again, Snopes has taken one of these stories. It
was about Tim Walls and a tremendous amount of money
that he was stealing from the government, because well he's
probably stealing it, we just don't know how much. But
that is something that was debunked by Snopes. They said

(01:42:15):
there's no proof that Tim Walls took I think it
was like four hundred million dollars from a few of
the government programs that, again a satirical website, The Babylon
B claimed was true. And my favorite part of the
shared photo by the Babylon B and social media is
that in the corner of the article on Snopes, it says,
this comes from the Babylon B, a place that we

(01:42:37):
have debunked many times. I don't know why they feel
the need to keep doing that. I don't know if
Snopes has continued to bunk debunk excuse me, the Onion,
or any of these other satirical places in news. If
they're on the left, they probably don't care. On the
right as the only place that they care about it.
But that's hilarious. Babylon B feels that they've succeeded once again.

(01:42:57):
And one last one's a horrible aspect to this story,
but it is a unique headline for out. Twenty twenty
six is probably going to be a terrible year. Someone
on not the Bee, another funny website on social media,
said they saw the worst headline already of twenty twenty six.
It says that Oakland man woke up from a drunken
nap surrounded by child porn investigators, police say, and then

(01:43:21):
the bottom part of it says suspect has already been
released from jail, and that seems bad that seems like
something that you shouldn't get out of jail quickly for
if it happens. The story goes that the man apparently
was taking photos of a young person inside of his house,
a cousin I think or relative of his girlfriend. It
so horrible a child was photographed when they were unaware

(01:43:43):
they were being photographed. The girlfriend found the photos in
the phone after the guy passed out while he was drunk,
and then informed the authorities. So when the dude woke
up from his drunken stupor, he was immediately arrested. And again,
the worst part of the headline, the part that makes
it feel like bad things might keep happening in twenty
twenty six, is the man who is already out on

(01:44:04):
bond and already out of jail and back just wandering
around in the world until eventually, hopefully he does actually
have to serve time in prison for a really disgusting
thing that he did. But nonetheless, this does seem to
indicate that twenty twenty six will be no better than
twenty twenty five, at least this early on for a
story like this to hit the news so quickly, So
I do agree with the not the B and with

(01:44:27):
the Babylon B actually that we're seeing a lot of
bad signs early on already in this year, and one
more time. I assume at some point, since it's a
headline on a website, that he's even somewhat closely mimicking
that of the Babylon B. Although this is a real
story that Snopes will have to get involved because Snopes
will be told that there's some headline out there somewhere

(01:44:48):
that involves a website with B and the title, So
they're going to have to do everything they can to
check the validity of this claim. And bad news for
them is that it is absolutely true. You can find
it in a bunch of other news sources. That is
a thing that definitely happened. But Happy New Year, I guess,
is the reaction to that for all of us. God
bless us all, and let's hope for good things, not
terrible things for the next year. Craig Collins filling in

(01:45:10):
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