Friday August 30 - Full Show - The Dana Show with Dana Loesch

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Dana is back after the holiday. You can
find her everywhere d lash or Dana Lash Radio, on
x on Twitter, she's on the TV, she's all over
the place as you can find her on everything.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Let's get right to it.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
The big thing that happened yesterday what I was calling
the Big Girl press conference or the Big Girl actually interview.
And the reason I'm doing that, by the way, anybody
that's going to get mad and already start yelling stuff
about sexism and whatnot, is when Biden finally gave a
press conference after a whole long time not giving one.
His own press secretary, Karin John Pierre called it a

(00:37):
big boy press conference. She said it, I could play
the audio. I'm not going to waste your time with it.
But so anyway, after taking a really long time to
give a first interview, this feels like the similar version
of the big boy press conference. That's the Big Girl interview.
Now it was taped, so it was not actually live,
it was edited. And then also the person who did
the interview tremendously friendly with Comla Harris and with Tim

(01:01):
Walls and even having walls. There was a big thing
that people had debated going in. Yes, at times presidents
sit down with their vice presidential candidates and do interviews,
they also do them alone.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
That's something that seems to.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Be lost in everyone that says it's sexist to even
criticize her for choosing not to be alone in her
first interview after getting the nomination. But here's one of
the more talked about moments. This is when Harris said
that she has no regrets in how much she defended
Biden and his capabilities, his capacity to serve four more years,

(01:33):
even though eventually he was killed Caesar style. That's at
least the way I'll talk about it in the world
of politics and removed. And then Harris was forced because
she didn't actually win any sort of primary. That's something
you and I both obviously know. But here is Harris
talking about she has no regrets for the way in
which she handled things up until now.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Vice President Harris, you were a very staunch defender of
President Biden's capacity to serve another four years. Right after
the debate, you insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong
given where we are now, do you have any regrets
about what you told the American people.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
No, not at all, not at all not.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
I have.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Served with President Biden for almost four years now, and
I'll tell you it's one of the.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Great Wait have you?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Because I feel like sometimes when people talk about this,
they pretend you haven't been there at all, and you'd
like to get into the White House in order to
do some of the stuff that are your ideas for
how to make things better. So I'm so confused. Have
you been the vice president for four years or not?
I'm kidding her latest honors of my career.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Truly, he cares so deeply about the American people. He
is so smart and loyal to the American people, and
I have spent hours upon hours with him, be it
in the Oval office or the situation room.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Wait have you, though, because again I'm sorry, I want
to keep as question because it sounds like you're not
at all involved in any of the decisions he made
that are unpopular. But nonetheless, what I love about this
is I would picture Biden, if he's capable of understanding
what Harris is saying, which I'm not sure anymore, being
upset to hear all these singing of his praises from
Nancy Pelosi, from anybody, because it's it's the only world

(03:20):
in which I think you have to deal with watching publicly.
Maybe sports is kind of like this, everybody that evidently
didn't want you to be in charge anymore saying how
great you are after they get you fired, Like there's
no other I wouldn't have to deal with that in
a workplace, if somebody or a group of people got
me ousted, got me canned, you wouldn't have to like
go somewhere and hear how great you were for all

(03:42):
these people who were treating you like crap the whole
time beforehand. And that's what everybody did to Biden. They
absolutely you know, at two brute seizared him right out
of his position when he demanded or was defiant that
he wasn't going anywhere, and then after that said how
great he was and that he deserves to be on
the mouth rushmore of presidents.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's insane.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
People are also doing another thing that I love in
response to the Dana Bash interview of Harris and Walls,
because there's even a moment where Walls blames the fact
that he's literally had some stolen valor issues during his
entire political career on grammar. I'm just not being very
good at the old grammar aun chucks, which is insane

(04:24):
and probably borderline offensive if you're military to hear someone
blame their pretending they went to a combat zone when
they didn't as being a grammar mistake. But people are
demonstrating the difference. When Dana Bash sat down with JD.
Vance and the way that she not only asked questions
but then made statements either in response to things Vance

(04:45):
said or before Vance spoke, that demonstrated just how adversarial
that conversation would be utterly different than the way she
just interviewed the vice president and her running mate. And
you can tell these are just moments of Bash talking
to JD.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Vance.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I don't even think there's a lot of Van's answers
in here. But this went very viral for well good reasons.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
A little bit Kamala Harris has been calling the shots,
says who there's no evidence that Kamala Harris threw him overboard,
called you and Donald Trump, and that is weird. Sure
you're saying Tim Walls doesn't have affection for his wife.
I don't even understand that they have done both they
have both policies and they are trying to define it.
This you have been on the campaign trail questioning Tim
Walls's military record. Governor Walls served twenty four years. He

(05:32):
even stayed after he could have retired because of nine
to eleven more than the country asked of him. Do
you honor his service? I will say that the Harris
at Walls campaign did say that the governor misspoke.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
That was a month.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
He did say that the governor misspoke. You know he
owned it now. Bash actually did ask that question to
Tim Walls, one of the only questions that was asked
to him, I think during this and it was only
like seventeen or eighteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I think that they spoke.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
The big giant sit down interview did not last anywhere
near as long as you probably think it should have lasted.
But again, the moment that seems to be the most
ridiculous to me and to a lot of other people
as far as Tim Wall's answers go, is saying that
his stolen valor claim is just a whoopsie daisy in
the world of.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Grammar. It's the kind of thing that should make a
lot of people.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Real, real mad to hear, and then Walls does the
thing that often, I guess a lot of politicians do,
where after you say you know, whatever your defense is
for something, you then immediately moved to all the ways
in which you've been a victim yourself, or you've been
attacked yourself, or whatever it is. But here is the
moment where she does ask him, and she has to

(06:47):
ask him twice about his stolen valor, or at least
the accusation of stolen valor, where he said he carried
a weapon in a war when he never actually was
put in any sort of combat situation serving in the
National Guard.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Governor Wills, the country is just starting to get to
know you. I want to ask you a question about how.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I can't I can't even already like they're just starting
to get to know you.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Jd.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Vance is a big giant pile of crap. But we're
just figuring you out, and we're ready to listen. We're
ready to understand if some things have been a WHOOPSI you've.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Described your service in the National Guard. You said that
you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed
actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that
you misspoke. Did you well.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
First of all, I'm incredibly proud I've done twenty four
years of wearing uniform of this country, equally proud of
my service in a public school classroom, whether it's Congress
or the governor. My record speaks for itself. But I
think people are coming to.

Speaker 7 (07:45):
It to know me.

Speaker 6 (07:46):
I speak like they do, I speak candidly, I wear
my emotions on my sleeves.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I know a whole bunch of veterans and a whole
bunch of military, and none of them make up if
they fought in a war zone or not.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I honor all of their service, I absolutely do.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think every single person in everyone should thank every
person that fights, or you know, signs up to fight
within our military and gets deployed anywhere, gets sent away
from loved ones, from family for months at a time.
All of those things are hard. But I know nobody
else that served our country who claims to fight when
they didn't fight in a combat zone. You're the only

(08:20):
guy I know where that says it like that.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
And I speak especially passionately about about our children being
shot in schools and around around guns. So I think
people know me, they know who I am. They know
where my heart is. And again, my record has been
out there for over forty years to be for itself.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay, so I want to stop it right there.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
If Bash didn't push and ask this question a second time,
Tim Walls thinks that's a good enough answer to the
stolen valor accusation, essentially not answering the question at all.
And it's not just because and somebody on the left
will tell you, oh, this is the latest conspiracy theory
on the right, this is the latest horrible thing that
we made up that we're you know, obsessed about and

(09:00):
attacking people on or attacking this individual on because it's
the only thing we got and he's such a great
person or whatever the crap might be. His career, he's
been dogged with these kinds of accusations that he overstates
his rank when he retired from the National Guard, no
matter what rank he might have achieved, if he didn't
retain that rank when he retired, because he didn't do
all the necessary things to retain said rank, then that's

(09:23):
not the rank he retired with. Beyond that, too, saying
that you go into a combat zone when you didn't
that matters, and that's not a whoops of Daisy. That's
not a oh I got it wrong or I misspoke
or whatever. The excuse is that Bash is literally feeding
him that she uses herself to defend him when he's
not even in the interview and she saw talking to JD.
Vance or anyone else. But he tried to just not

(09:44):
say any of that. So she presses him one more time.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
And the idea that you said that you were in war,
did you miss speak? As the campaign has said, yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
I said we were talking about in this case, this
was after school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons
of war and my wife the English, she's tell my
grammar's not always correct. But again, if it's not this,
it's an attack.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I love the hold on, let me finish my children.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
For showing love for me, or it's an attack on
my dog. I'm not going to do that. And the
one thing I'll never do is I'll never demean another
member's service.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Any I'll never deman another member's service as long as
they don't lie about it. I feel like that's the
one moment where military would actually challenge other military with wait,
what did you say? Is what you said the truth
or not? But that's victimhood all over there. Even saying
that my wife, the English teacher, lets me know my
grammar's not so good, is an awe shucks version of

(10:35):
I guess I got it wrong. I didn't mean to
say in war, but I said in war, and that
that was whoopsies and my bad. This is insane and
it's infuriating. It should make people so angry who support
this side of the aisle because of how defiant, how
arrogant people are in the world of politics, and saying,
you know what, I don't even care to take this seriously.

(10:57):
You know what Tim Wall should have said. And I'll
take a break after I say this. Yes I exaggerated,
Yes I did. Whatever excuse he gives, which wouldn't be
good enough, but anyone he gives about I was passionate
in the moment thinking about this issue that I have
a strong opinion on that I utterly disagree with his opinion. Nonetheless,
on what would make school safer. It would not be

(11:18):
trying to take everybody's guns away. But nonetheless, as you
talk about that, that version of an answer at least
would be the owning it or the manly way, or
honestly the way that a bunch of military that I
know would handle this.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
They'll be like, yeah, I did that wrong.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I shouldn't have done that, and I wish I hadn't
done that, and I wish I could take it back
and move on from that, And yeah, the American people
won't like you for it, but at least they won't
listen to you and think that you're such an arrogant
piece of well, you know that you think you don't
even have to answer the question at first, and then
when you do answer it, you can give yourself the
rosiest explanation possible of how you're a great guy and

(11:52):
the other side of the aisles just real, real, mean
about everything, including my dog. None of that is relevant
to whether or not you lied about your military career, sir,
And that is something that's important to the American or
at least should be important to the American people. All Right,
quick break, A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins
filling in on the Dana Show.

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And now all of the news you would probably it's
time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's right, it's the Quick five. This is the Dana Show.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in a thrilled to
be with you. Let's get right to them.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
One.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Parents are naming their children their newborn babies after a
viral trend on TikTok called the demure trend, which seems
to be popularized by one specific TikTok person.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
And this is so so dumb so so stupid.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
But one person was very happy to show that her child,
demure Rain has been born and is going to be
very upset when they go to school and find out
all the ridiculous reasons of why they're named with their name.
But I guess the very simple a cheat sheet of
my own life would tell you, don't name your child
after a TikTok trend, not a good move, not a

(14:46):
smart thing, other things out there. Gator wine is now
becoming very popular. This is both gatorade and cheap red
wine mixed together. The actual social media recipe calls for
glacier Gatorade and anything twelve dollars or less of the
red wine variety. Apparently, when mixed together, they taste way

(15:08):
better than you think they're gonna taste. There's at least
one social media influencer who went viral saying the taste
test lives up to the hype.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Baby, It's not like anything I've ever tasted. If I'm
being honest, I'd rather drink this than Barefoot or yellows El.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
I'd drink that on the rocks.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
The more I'm drinking it, the more I like it.
It's more I'm drinking it the more I like it,
and he even will have this drink on the rocks.
Gator Wine. It's out there, it's in the world. It's
making us professional drinkers very very sad for this current
generation of young people. That doesn't mean that I was
above these sort of things. When I was in college,
I drank a Keystone thirty with my friends. It's totally fine,

(15:47):
But I never needed to mix gatorade with cheap wine.
If you're going cheap wine, just drink it, man. You
don't need to add that second item to it. By
the way, I think tomorrow is International Bacon Day.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Happy International Bacon Day.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Sixty percent people said they would eat bacon every single
day if they could. I love the fact that if
they could was thrown in there, because, guess what, you're
an adult.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
You can do this.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
You can go rogue if you want to live your
life and live it as proudly as you can, as
proudly as you so desire, and then probably, I guess,
go to the heart doctor quite often. Seventy one percent
of people said everything tastes better with bacon.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I agree with that. I'm not going to have any
exceptions to that rule.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Forty three percent of male diners say the quickest way
to their heart is to prepare them bacon. And I
thought about that because, well, it's usually easier to create
bacon than some other food items out there. So if
you're with somebody and they're not amazing cook, but they
make you bacon, that's gonna work out quite well almost
all the time.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Even if you Burnett Man, it's bacon. How do you
really ruin that?

Speaker 1 (16:46):
But that's probably why, at least that's my guess as
to why I don't need the fancy, the fancy version
of the grilled cheese and the bacon and the whatnot.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Those items are fine just the way they are.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
And then finally, one last thing, and maybe i'll play
some audio a little bit later on in the show.
But a dude got a package from Amazon. This guy's
in Colorado, and it had it had Pope in it.
I don't know how to say that different, so I'm
just going to say it that way. He's very upset,
and he asked for more information. He just wants answers
as to who put this in the box and left
it on his front porch and why. And I think

(17:17):
out of everybody asking for answers in our world. He
deserves them more than anybody else. Tell John why Amazon
mailed him poop. That is something that I stand by
and honestly would be a campaign slogan if I were
running for office in twenty twenty four. All right, this
is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. A
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Speaker 1 (18:37):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins
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the holidays. All right, First, a very sad story that
broke this morning. I'm just gonna play some of the
audio from a local ABC affiliate on the East Coast

(18:59):
talking about the shocking and tragic passing of a NHL
star and his brother who were riding their bikes and
were hit by a drunk driver in New Jersey. Here
is that audio from this morning.

Speaker 12 (19:14):
Is right now, we have just confirmed that NHL star
Johnny Goudreau and his brother Matthew were killed in a
bicycle crash in Salem County that we've been telling you
about all morning long. New Jersey State Police say forty
three year old Sean Higgins of Woodstown was under the
influence when he hit the brothers with his SUV along
County Route five point fifty one.

Speaker 9 (19:35):
In Oldsman Township last night.

Speaker 12 (19:38):
Gaudreau was a local star before he made it big,
graduating from Gloucester Catholic High School, and the tributes from
the hockey world are pouring in this morning. We're going
to have continuing coverage again the death.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, there are a lot of people in the sports
world reacting to this, of course, as we as society
often do when anyone who's this young, with this much
promise in whatever it is they do professionally, especially if
it's something that reaches national attention, and hockey players or
you know, musicians, athletes, actors and actresses, a lot of

(20:10):
people can grab your attention. It's just such a tragic
story and tragic passing of both him and his brother.
You can't imagine what it's like to be their family
right now going through any of this. But nonetheless, and
I was wondering this kind of out loud to myself,
and I'll just throw it out there to the massive
audience of this show. Why it's more impactful even when

(20:31):
you don't know someone, when it's someone as famous as
Johnny Grideau is as opposed to you know, when this
also happens in our own lives, and that also, of
course hits us very hard, hits us very deeply. But
I imagine this loss will hit a whole lot of
people that don't even pay attention to hockey, because again,
it's essentially a star of a major sport in our

(20:54):
country being tragically taken at such a young age. And
there's other stories of other athletes, and as I said,
the famous people who have something horrible happen to them too. Nonetheless,
a big story I'm probably going to be talked about
by a lot of people today. All right, moving on
to stuff that feels way less important, but darn it
is the stuff we talk about all the time in
the world of politics. Kamala Harris did her interview with

(21:16):
and I love that some people are calling this her
support animal or support buddy Vice presidential candidate Tim Walls.
She addressed one of the more challenging things that she's
going to have to deal with running for this office.
And it's how crazy, far left and radical she's been
a majority of her political career, even when debating in

(21:37):
twenty twenty as a vice presidential candidate, kind of refusing
to clarify her own positions on things and allowing whatever
Biden's position was to be the position she was likely
to take in some issues. But last night she said
that her positions haven't changed. It's you who've changed or
something I don't know.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
Here we go, The most important and most significant aspect
of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have
not changed.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Senator har An hold On.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I'm going to wait a second before I say that
her values have not changed. Now there's a bunch of
mashups of all the different ways that her values have
absolutely changed since she was first brought into any office
at all, and now that she's running as a presidential
nominee and someone who's going to need to be more
in the middle than she's ever been at any point
in her career in California or anywhere else. And here

(22:27):
is just a quick version of said mashup, which is
excellently created.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
My values have non changed douce red meat specifically, Yes,
the Boston Marathon bomber. They should have been able to vote.

Speaker 7 (22:36):
I think we should have that conversation.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Abolish ice, yes, would you ban offshore drilling?

Speaker 11 (22:40):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
And I'm in favor of banning frack. I am prepared
to pass agreeing the deal, and I support a mandatory
buyback program. We're not going to treat people who are
undocumented across the borders criminals. And the idea that more
police equals more safety, that's just strong.

Speaker 13 (22:54):
Policing, as we know, goes all the way back to
slave patrols and that idea.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yes, you are absolutely right. Well, and on defund the police,
we need.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
To take a look at these budgets.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Do you ban plastic straws?

Speaker 7 (23:04):
And then who's the seventy to eighty percent tax rate?

Speaker 4 (23:06):
I think that's fantastic.

Speaker 12 (23:08):
Chipping now to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
How dare we speak Merry Christmas?

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (23:13):
I am radical.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
I do believe that we need to get radical about
what we are doing.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
I do believe we need to get radical about what
we're doing. I am radical. These are the positions she's
been proud of, and the whole crazy screaming out loud,
how dare we say, Mary Christmas? It's insane and honestly
as bad as whatever Tim Walls is trying to do
in taking back any of his stolen valor behavior that
existed during his political career. This version of Kamala Harris

(23:39):
deserves to be talked about and at the forefront of
everybody's minds when you're deciding who to vote for. Say
what you will about Trump, if you love him or
you hate him. The idea that Trump, somebody who for
the last however many years, has been fairly similar in
his positions, is evident. And yeah, Trump at one point
even donated to Democratic parties necessarily run campaigns himself, but

(24:02):
he wrote checks for people for who knows what reasons,
and Trump has talked about some of that before. But
this version of I'm going to be whatever I have
to be to get elected wherever I am makes you
have no idea what her actual positions are, and a
lot of people would probably believe they're actually far left,
because you're sort of insane if you pretend that those
are your positions at any point in your political career,

(24:24):
to be so you know, radical in your policies. I
don't think that that's something that a lot of people
decide to just fake because but nonetheless, it's now caused
you or I or anyone to wonder what's going to
actually happen if she is in the office, and what
radical decisions would she make, How much money would it
cost the American people, how bad would it be for
our economy, all that stuff. And I don't have to

(24:46):
go as far as to fear monger that it would
be the end of the country as we know it,
because I don't think either a candidate would actually be
capable of ending the way the country is built because
of the checks and balances system that's in it. And
that's such a stupid take whenever say it about Trump.
But nonetheless, she's got a lot of real crazy ideas.
The Green New Deal one of my favorite ones that
she was a huge supporter of until the interview last

(25:08):
night where she said, ah, I don't support that, how
dare you? But then actually had to say out loud
that my opinions haven't changed because the arrogance. I'll talk
about it constantly, the arrogance of people in the world
of politics. I don't know what it's like, you know what, Actually,
let me say this. I wonder if you've ever walked
into a room I've done this before, especially in the
industry I work in right now, where the person in

(25:30):
power has decided you can't be right. It doesn't matter
what you say, it doesn't matter how you say it,
it doesn't matter what you do over the next twenty minutes.
You're wrong and you have to be wrong for whatever
reason that the company thinks or whoever is in charge
thinks it makes sense for you to be wrong.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
So you could say all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
You could literally say, this guy's blue, and this person
in this meeting will be like, well, it's actually not,
You're an idiot.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
It's real.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
These are things that happen sometimes to some of us
in certain situations. And I just love it because that's
how politicians are about everything, about any like a caught
you moment where they're red handed you lied about this,
or you said this, or you did this. Like you
could literally find them robbing a bank in the middle
of the night. You know, Harrison Walls with mask on

(26:18):
and everything, the ridiculous comical money sack and a bunch
of money in it and they're walking out of the
bank and being like, hey, you rob that bank.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
We didn't.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
We did not rob that bank. That is something that
you thought you saw and something that our opponent said
about us, which was horrible and terrible and not at
all what we were doing. What were you doing? That's
not important. What we were doing doesn't matter. What does
matter is who's attacking us for this thing that's not
what you think it is. It doesn't matter. They will
never admit when they've made a mistake, and I don't
know what that is in the political spaces, because it

(26:49):
would be so powerful to do the opposite. It would
be It would be so stunning to hear somebody say,
you know what, Yeah, I got that real wrong.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm a human being. I made a mistake. I wish
I could take it back.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
You don't have to forgive me for what I've done
in the past, but it's not the person I am today.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
And just see how that works.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm not saying it would make us all forgive and
forget everything, but at least it would be different than
the arrogance and the treating us as stupidly as they
do in assuming they can lie to our faces and
we'll just be like, all right, that's good, that's enough.
By the way, another thing that seems to be a
pretty significant lie that's out there now is the whole
attack on Trump for what he do about women's health.

(27:29):
It's been a long running, disingenuous version of what actually happened.
To say that Trump or Republicans banned abortion. That didn't occur.
There's a whole lot of states where nothing has changed
in the rule of abortion laws. And then there's some
states where things have changed because the Supreme Court, which yes,
I know Trump was deeply influential in creating the current

(27:51):
version of it, but they voted that it's a state
issue and not a federal issue. That's not even banning
it at the Supreme Court level. They let states do
whatever they want. But now Trump is saying that if
he is made president that IVF treatments are something that
will be incredibly affordable one way or another. This is
the extension fight that happens where people say, well, Trump's

(28:13):
against abortion, and he's going to do all this stuff
to make it a federal ban, and then oh, also,
he's going to prevent people who struggle to have a
baby to have one because he's going to make IVF
treatments illegal or something that's not even a thing he's
ever said.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
But it's a way to further the.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Extreme version of talking about something to try to land
this topic within his policy, and so he went the
other way.

Speaker 14 (28:37):
I'm announcing today in a major statement that under the
Trump administration, your government will pay for, or your insurance
company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated
with IVF treatment fertilization for women.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
IVF to.

Speaker 11 (28:59):
Because do you want more babies? To put it very nicely.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
I've gotta be honest, we want more babies is a
campaign slogan that does need to be a thing that
needs to be a shirt Trump Vance.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
We want more babies.

Speaker 9 (29:13):
Because we want more babies.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
To put it very nicely, we do.

Speaker 14 (29:17):
And for the same reason. We will also allow new
parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes so
that parents that.

Speaker 9 (29:27):
Have a beautiful baby will be able.

Speaker 11 (29:31):
So we're pro family.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
Nobody's ever said that before.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Nobody's ever said that before. We are pro family, and
we're going to do this.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
There's something interesting about Trump running in twenty twenty four
that I've noticed that maybe you've noticed, if you've been
paying attention, there is such a reason for him and
his own election team to believe that he cannot lose
the support of those who've adored him, loved him the
I guess they call a maga Republican, although I don't

(29:57):
even necessarily know what that means, and I'll define what
I'm saying there. There's a whole lot of Republicans who'd
vote for Trump that aren't the version of Republican that
Democrats say they are, and at the same time also
don't think it's all that bad if you do love
Trump as much as some people do. That's not as
horrible and terrible as people make it out to be.
It's just sort of ridiculous. But nonetheless, to get back

(30:20):
to it, what I think is so interesting is because
of that, because the core support is impossible to lose,
Trump can be more in the middle on some policies
than maybe any other Republican candidate can be, or at
least say he'll be more in the middle, and of
course probably most of the left won't believe him, won't
trust him. The same thing is literally happening with Kamala

(30:42):
Harris right now, claiming she's in the middle on a
whole bunch of stuff that she's not in the middle on.
But all the things that Harris is doing are to
benefit her and her campaign. None of them are looking
into the face of, say, a likely challenge in core
support and going that road anyway. And like him or not,
Trump is someone that at this point for sure, but

(31:04):
I think throughout the entirety of his if you want
to call it, political career, from when he first ran
for president twenty sixteen now, has been someone that likes
to be at the forefront of an issue, not someone
reacting to it and following the trend. He's a He
is someone who who decides to say things even in
the face of judgment from his own political side of

(31:25):
the aisle. And that's something that well leaders do And
that might sound like, you know, significant praise to those
who hate Trump, but it's simply true that if you
decide a policy is yours, no matter what your own
side of the aisle will think of it, then that's
something that is unafraid of being you know, judged, or
losing support from the core demographics, which Kamala is terrified

(31:48):
of and not going to do anything to put in
jeopardy even a little bit, and that's not what leaders do,
all right, quick break a lot more Craig Collins feeling
on the Dana.

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Speaker 2 (33:49):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins
filling in.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Follow her on social media on ex Twitter at d
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Rumble YouTube, face book, Direct TV channel three forty seven.
All this stuff the first TV. She's everywhere and she'll
be back after the holiday. All right, do not eat borshead?
Meat feels like Okay, it's an oversimplification, but it's essentially
a story out there. Apparently a plant that makes mostly

(34:15):
boor'shead has been linked to a deadly listeria outbreak like
steria outbreak, and several different items are impacted. The US
Department of Agricultural Agriculture went to the facility and found mold, mildew, insects,
all kinds of bad things. This is a plant in Virginia,
so a lot of stuff of boar's head is being recalled,

(34:38):
and I think fifty seven hospitalizations have taken place in
eighteen states that are linked to this recall. At least
nine people have died from these reports too, in South Carolina,
one in Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico,
and New York.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
This is the largest outbreak of this.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Kind since twenty eleven, when an outbreak was linked specifically
to cantalope, according to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention,
So be careful out there, specifically with a certain brand
of food that's usually very good, although I wouldn't really
recommend any of the stuff that's been recalled right now.
Another thing out there that I saw that I thought
was pretty interesting. Your voice may reveal if you have

(35:17):
type two diabetes based on the pitch of it. Researchers
in Canada, which I don't know if that means we
should trust it or not, I'm kidding, have found that
your blood sugar is tied to a slightly higher frequency
in your voice, meaning that doctors could try to detect
if you have type two diabetes based on how high

(35:37):
pitched you speak. If you've got a real, real low,
deep voice, you're probably doing well in the world of diabetes.
Although I'm sure this is not one hundred percent fool proof,
and the opposite is true if you do not have
that apparently, but this might be a test that has
further significance in the future. For now, they're probably going
to do other stuff and not do interviews and ask
you to speak to them, and then decide what illnesses

(35:59):
you have, and then finally one last thing. And I
like this a lot too. Is just a random story
that's out there in the world. More gen zers are
deciding to skip college completely and take either blue collar
jobs or launch their own trade businesses, and they're loving it.
They quoted several people in CNBC on a story in
CNBC's website about how smart of a decision it was,

(36:21):
how this younger generation has way more money because of
these moves they're making in the world of their education
and also their careers, and a whole lot of US
millennials wish we had done this. This seems like a
fantastic idea, but I love that it actually takes a
news report for people to belink. Man, maybe I should
also try that. Maybe I should also do that. But yes,
don't go to college, get a blue collar job. Seems

(36:42):
to be just okay for a whole lot of people.
All right, this is Craig Collins filling in on the
Dana Show. She is back, as I said, after the holiday,
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Speaker 1 (38:34):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins,
filling in a thrill to be with you. Find Danta
everywhere all over the place, a Dlash or Dana Lash Radio,
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on Twitter. A brand new Nate Silver five thirty eight
forecast shows Trump has a really good shot at winning
the election. The most recent one before this one. I

(38:57):
think back in August on August fourteenth, fifty six point
seven percent chants that Harris was gonna win that thing.
According to five point thirty eight, I don't think a
lot of people actually believe this forty two percent chance
that Trump was gonna win. Fast forward to the twenty
ninth fifty two point four percent chance according to Nate Silver,
the Trump's winning the twenty twenty four election forty seven

(39:17):
percent chance that Harris is. People are saying that Harris
is already peaked as far as the amount of support
and interest in her, because oh yeah, now she has
to start doing stuff. She has to start saying things,
doing interviews. Did her first one the other night, and
there's certainly things that you could object to or react
to as far as that goes. Also, just really quickly,
one of the dumber things being talked about is the

(39:39):
debate rules themselves.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
I don't even think Trump cares.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I saw Trump the other day say that he'd rather
have the MIC's unmuted, but it didn't really matter, And
the previous agreement with ABC was to have them muted,
so we can just go ahead and do that. But
ABC did reject Kamala Harris's attempt to unmute the microphones,
and the thinking in political circles was that unmuting them
it would make Trump seem like a big old jerk

(40:03):
every time he interrupted and talked over Kamala Harris. It's
just so stupid. I wouldn't want to win. You know
what's funny about this, at least in my opinion, what
I think is funny about this. And it's a weird
thing to equate this too, And I probably shouldn't think
of a presidential election the same way I thought of
a box car Pinewood Derby when I was a kid

(40:23):
in a and I promised to try to make sense
when I was a kid in the Cub Scouts or
the Boy Scouts. But it's the same thing. I remember
going to the Pinewood Derbies and building my own car,
and my car coming in dead last pretty much all
the time. I had a single mom as a parent,
so I didn't have a man in the house who's
going to help me build the car Fancier and my

(40:43):
mom didn't know anything about vehicles, so I built them poorly.
I did a bad job, and then I would watch
the kid who'd win the thing have like the mechanic
pop or somebody else who came in second place, have
like a very knowledgeable individual.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
I wind up helping them build it. I wouldn't want
to win that way, is what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I wanted to come in last, but I wanted to
do something that was really mine. And so if you're Harris,
I would want to win in a debate because you
say better stuff than the opponent, not because you can
make the opponent look like a big old many if
they interrupt you too many times. But as I said, anyway,
it was rejected, and ABC is going to mute the microphones,
which apparently, according to the left, will make Trump look

(41:24):
to presidential which is bad.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
But anyway, just to go back to it.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
As of right now, five point thirty eight is projecting
a more likely Trump win than a Harris win as
far as the presidential election goes, and a lot of
the battleground states go. Also, this is interesting. Colorado is
now dealing with a lot of viral videos of essentially
what appears to be gun toting illegal immigrants. I think

(41:48):
arm Venezuelan immigrants is what social media is reporting them
to be just taken over, like apartment complexes just being crazy.
And now signs are popping up throughout parts of of
Denver and other parts of Colorado calling them Kamala's legals,
and Kamala Harris is someone who very famously for quite
some time said we shouldn't make crossing the border illegally

(42:10):
a crime anymore. It should it should be decriminalized, which
is an insane take, and intake that would have even
more problems if enough problems didn't already exist. But you
see those sort of sort of things, and you wonder
to yourself how people can actually vote for Harris when
their life experience is telling them not to. And one
of the other really interesting things that's out there right

(42:32):
now is this interview that was given with voters, And
so what I found really interesting about this moment is
that these voters are speaking rather candidly about the things
they like or dislike about Harris, and a black man
is saying that he doesn't really think that she understands that,

(42:56):
you know, group of people as well as she's claiming
to understand that group of people, because her life experience
is not the same as his. Now, before I even
play the audio. This guy who's a black guy is
being attacked for this position for saying what he said,
which is sort of insane, And it was on MSNBC
of all places too, where they've played the audio. But

(43:18):
very often we talk about how life experience matters, and
how people that aren't anything like you trying to make
rules that impact your life are sort of inherently unfair
at times, and the ridiculousness of the wealth of the
political elite. This has been one of my favorite conversations recently.
I've had with friends where you talk to them about
the Democrats and they say, how they're the good guys.

(43:40):
This is usually the version of speak of someone who's
on that side of the aisle, and the Republicans are
the bad guys. They're the horrible Peopleugh, we hate them
as far as the politicians or anyone else goes, because
they love businesses and they're all just rich business owners
and whatnot. And you look at them and you can
very easily say, what Democrats do you know in the

(44:01):
political stratosphere of Congress or the Senate that aren't worth
hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, And they go, oh,
probably a lot of them and look it up like
Bernie Sanders is my favorite one for anyone who's really
not knowledgeable, and the millions that he's worth, and how
he made all of it in the public sector and
not the private sector.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And you wonder how that even happens.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
People like Rush Limbaugh used to give us some answers
to how they thought that kind of stuff would happen.
But nonetheless, that means that they're the political elite. They
don't have the same life you have, they don't have
the same experience, and they don't really care about you.
And this is something this guy is saying about Harris
specifically that is going to get him in hot water,
and it doesn't deserve it.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
But here we go.

Speaker 15 (44:40):
Don't think that Kamala Harris has anything vested in the
air finger quote black or Hispanic experience, insomuch as it
would be identified by anybody that lives in those communities.

Speaker 12 (44:51):
You're saying you don't think that she can help black
or brown people.

Speaker 15 (44:53):
No, I mean going to Howard, don't make you black.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
There's something amazing about that sentence at the end.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
But I love the first part, the thing that says,
if I'm in one of these communities, and I'm paying
attention to this person and the things they say, or
the way they've lived their life, or whatever it is
that I'm noticing that maybe someone who's not in the
community doesn't notice. I'm not pretending I myself see all
these things that this guy is seeing. But as he
sees those things and says it out loud, he's like,

(45:21):
you know what, I just don't see someone who's invested
enough in a community I'm in because she doesn't feel
like she's a part of it. And that is horrible
and racist and terrible to talk about, but it's also
a very logical conclusion for someone to come up with.
And it happens, as I said, in a lot of
other places. It's an attack on Trump. He's just a
rich businessman who doesn't understand what it's like to be

(45:41):
an everyday American who doesn't have the things he has.
I mean, the Democratic National Convention, which was obsessed with
Trump said several times how everyone else in society fails
and they go bankrupt or they don't get a second
chance or a third chance. And Trump, because of his family,
had so many chances to succeed. That's so unfair. That's
taking a shot at his life experience and saying how

(46:04):
it's detached from anybody else's. But you do this to
Harris and it's racism. I want to play the first
part again because I really think it's interesting. And this
is a black man as part of a voter panel
on MSNBC saying he feels this way.

Speaker 15 (46:18):
I just don't think that Kamala Harris has anything vested
in the airfinger quote black or Hispanic experience insomuch as
it would be identified by anybody that lives.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
In those communities, as so much as it would be
identified by anyone who lives in those communities.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Is a brilliant way to say that.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
And I love the fact that the interviewer goes, oh,
so you're saying you don't think that Harris can help
those communities.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
No, I'm not saying that at all.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
I'm saying that I don't think the person that's running
for office, and whether she's saying it or other people
are saying it about her touting her connection to certain minorities,
minority groups, or democratic groups of voters, that she doesn't
actually understand that demographic as well as she's pretending to
that what's being said, and I think that that's a

(47:02):
pretty powerful and, as I said, a valuable thing. One
last thing, I think it's interesting this is a moment
where Dana Bash actually did push Kamala Harrison a question,
why haven't you done more stuff? Since you're in the
White House as the vice president right now? Why isn't
this something that you could get done? Whatever the issue is,

(47:23):
whatever the policy that you're talking about is. Because after
you walk out of this interview, you're currently in a
position of power, and especially with Biden now being on
the beach all the time, you'd imagine that position got
even stronger. I love that this question was asked because
it needed to be asked, and I don't think the
answer was very good. I don't know if Bash would agree.
I don't really care. But here's part of that back

(47:45):
and forth.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
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twenty five thousand dollars for first time home buyers so
they can just have enough to put a down payment
on a home, which is part of the American dream
and they're as inspiration, but do it in a way
that allows them to actually get on the path to
achieving that goal.

Speaker 9 (48:05):
In that dream.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
So you have been vice president for three and a
half years. The steps that you're talking about, now, why
haven't you done them already?

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Well, first of all, we had to recover as an economy,
and we have done that. I'm very proud of the
work that we have done that has brought inflation down
to less than three percent, the work that we have
done to cap the cost of insulin a thirty five
dollars a month for seniors. Donald Trump said he was
going to do a number.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
You're not answering the question. I think you know that.
I think I know that that.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
I asked you why you haven't done any of this stuff,
and now you're just rattling off other stuff that isn't
a part of the answerings.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Including allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, never happened. We
did it so now and as I travel in the
state of Georgia and around our country, the number of
seniors that have benefited I've met. I was in Nevada recently, A.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Great I don't care, she's a good keep going. You
know what's interesting, there's this headline out there. I think
PBS is one of the places that put this out,
Mala Harris's election would defy history. Only one sitting vice
president has been elected president in the last one hundred
and eighty eight years. That is a true fact. That
is an important fact. And here's what's most relevant about
it to me or you or anyone else out there,

(49:15):
is this administration is deeply unpopular with the American people,
the decisions they've made, the way in which life has
changed over the last few years. So it wouldn't only
defy history if it's something that she were capable of doing,
it would ignore the situation that we're very much living
in on a day to day basis, where she is
in a position currently to change all the stuff that

(49:37):
America doesn't like about the world we live in today,
and she's campaigning like she's not And every time she
says anything as far as a policy promise goes, that
should be the response, why don't you do that now?
Why why don't you and Biden do that?

Speaker 16 (49:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Why why don't you try to do that now? That
should be every single moment of a discussion about that.
And the fact that she's acting as the so she
can't do it is ridiculous. She's running for reelection just
like any president has run for reelection before, and they
already decided that the current president is unelectable for a

(50:11):
variety of reasons, not just his mental incapability, which she
said in the same interview was actually much better than
she been. We think it is, but also very obviously
because things are terrible right now and Bidenomics is awful.
All right, we'll take a break. We'll get to some
sillier stuff in a bit. Craig Collins filling in on
the data show our.

Speaker 9 (50:29):
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Speaker 8 (50:31):
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and you have to think about not diversity the bad way.
I mean diversity in terms of self defense right, self
defense options, and you have to be smart about how
you diversified to outwit the state.

Speaker 9 (50:48):
Like I carry.

Speaker 8 (50:49):
I tell people to carry all the time, and friends
who carry in DC and in New York and even
in Chicago. But you know, we all work in one
way or another, in industry or in an area where
you're not able to carry everywhere, especially my friend who
lives in DC. Even though they go out and get
those they're very coveted, you know, chls, they still can't carry.

(51:11):
But they need to be able to defend themselves, particularly
considering the high crime rate in the areas in which
they live. So this is where burn a gun comes in. Now,
it's the interesting name burn a gun BYRNA. It's a
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there's no background check, there's no waiting period, there's none
of that. It's legal in all fifty states. But what

(51:31):
it does is it shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can
disable threats from up to fifty feet away. And I
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Burn's most popular model, the Burna SD, has a five
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Speaker 9 (51:48):
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Speaker 10 (52:17):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
That's right time for the Quick five. My name is
Craig Collins filling in. This is the Dana Show. First,
a guy fell asleep behind the wheel of a tesla
and cops had to struggle to pull him over. The
dude completely never woke up, so the cops eventually get
their vehicles in front of the tesla to engage its
stopping functions.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
This was on US Highway seventy, by the way. They
then had to.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Wake the dude up, so the cops get this car
to stop and then they're like, hey, dude, you got
to wake up.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
You can't drive asleep.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
And he finally is awake and they realize he's probably
not sober. So they searched his vehicle and found all
kinds of drug. They found ecstasy, marijuana, all kinds of stuff,
tons of eight pens, a lot of illegal substances. Unsurprising,
I guess if you have to wake a dude up
after you get him to stop.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
That's the part.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
I'm so surprised him that he didn't wake up after
the cops were, you know, flashing the lights and trying
to pull him over and then eventually getting in front
of and stopping his vehicle, he's still just snoozing. Probably
the easiest version of yeah, we should probably test check
this car that the police have had in a while.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Another one out there.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
McDonald's finally reveals the Big Arch, its biggest burger ever.
If people aren't going to McDonald's anymore, and McDonald's is
wondering why, I guess their solution is, let's just make
a bigger burger. Doesn't have to taste better or be
any different. And actually I'm not a hater of McDonald's.
I kind of very much like the Mickey De's. But nonetheless,

(53:50):
this is going to be a giant, ridiculous item. I
guess it's going to debut in Canada and Portugal and
might eventually be available in a lot more places here.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
But the whopper screw that we.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Don't even need, that we don't need any of these
things or the Big Mac, I guess from actually being
appropriate to the brand. Now we're doing the big arch
and baby, it's going to be big. That feels weird
to say. One other one out there, that's a silly story.
There's an Arkansas city filled with abandoned homes. You can
buy a bunch of them for four hundred bucks a pop.

(54:21):
There's no real jobs or not really a significant population there.
But Pine Bluff, a bleak metro that saw its population
drop from forty nine thousand to forty one thousand and
even much further since then, is trying to get people
into these houses. So come on, guys, swing by, get
a vacation home, which is like a one floor home

(54:42):
for four hundred and two dollars and seventy four cents,
and go to the beautiful, pretty much desolate Pine Bluff
in Arkansas. I don't know why I like that story
so much. And then finally, one last quick five. A
doctor isn't a whole lot of trouble. He had a
dispute with some other professional that he sold his practice to.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
This happened in Florida.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
I probably should have saved it for Florida Man's story,
but darn it, we'll do it here. He soaked the
office of the guy that he sold it to in
p I don't know why you do that. I don't
know how you do that. I know that doctors might
have accessed to stuff the rest of us don't have
access to. But I can't imagine when you're driving over
with that stuff in your car that you're not thinking
to yourself, Man, I shouldn't do this. But anyway, he

(55:24):
did it and he is in trouble. He got arrested.
He put a five thousand dollars bond to get out
of jail, and he's going to be tried for criminal
mischief and other stuff. That's a weird version of some
sort of fight between doctors that ends with a you
know you're in attack of some kind. I don't know
why I just said that, but it's true and it's
out there and you can find it. It's all over

(55:45):
the place. That's the quick five. This is Craig Collins
filling in on the Dana Show. More serious stuff and
other stuff coming up, including a conversation about the Resilience
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in a thrill to be with you. You can find
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the place. Also das or Dana Lash Radio on x
or on Twitter. An next guest is named Drake Scott.
He is one of the two founders of something called
the Resilience Project, and I just love the idea of

(56:58):
this organization. It is to help veterans acclimate to returning
home after being deployed, after being away from their family,
and there's a lot of things that Drake, who's a
veteran himself has identified as some of the struck stuff
that veterans struggle with when they first come home, and
how it might take years and eventually might even cost
some of these veterans their lives, and how hard it

(57:21):
is to reacclimate back to society. So, Drake, thank you
for being on. Welcome to the show. Give me a
little bit more of your own personal background on why
this has become such an important issue for you.

Speaker 7 (57:33):
Yeah, thank you for inviting me on. So I did
six years in the Marine Corps. I was a machine gunner,
served in Okinawa, Curse tank actent all over the cut
all of the world, Afghanistan, and then end up rotating
back home in twenty fourteen. Time to be very difficult, right,

(57:53):
if you go from civilian life to being in the
military where they're forming you into a you know, you
gotta be the front line and the nation's defense, and
then you try to get thrown back into civilian world.
Can be a very tough transition, especially you know, not
knowing that there's anything going on, or you know, having
no real support system. So it took me years and

(58:14):
years to really kind of get my footing and actually
kind of get out and tried the VA for my
mental health struggles. They had me in upwards up like
twelve different me as a day. It just wasn't working
for me. So eventually I just hit the lowest point.
I you know, I was overeating, I was not doing that.
I was terrible. I had like three hundred pounds. So
one day I just sat, right, this has got to

(58:36):
be enough. So I quit it all and started on
my own journey, my own way, and found it through
the more the physical approach, the mental physical kind of
exercise and stuffer and getting out there and doing some
hard things kind of get control of my mind. So
a few years that that was about twenty twenty, so
I managed to drop about one hundred pounds myself. Now
I do some triathlons and I, you know, do some

(58:58):
raising some money for some cool things. I got some
marathons I'm doing this year raising money for their organizations.
So just some stuff like that. So I'm proud of
myself get my footing, and because I've been able to
kind of see on this side of the needs for
the help the transition, I mean, another Marina, Chris Sornson,
decided to start the nonprofit here and try to start
giving programs back to get our hands on them as

(59:20):
soon as they come out of the military. We can
kind of get them involved in programs, get them in
the community, and get them active, keep them active, and
just kind of keeping eyes on each other.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
So yeah, you know, Resilience Project dot net by the way,
for anyone who wants more information about this or anyone
who wants to help them out with their cause. It
was so interesting when I first started talking to you
about this to realize how effective your strategy is it
helping veterans, helping people return because in some ways you're

(59:49):
finding little micro experiences that are similar to the time
you serve. You're finding a community of other people to
be around, and you know, physical fitness obviously a very
important point part of being in the military itself. So
creating those different atmospheres to bond with people. Can you
talk to me a little bit about like the importance

(01:00:09):
of that, because all the veterans I've met, all the
veterans I know, the most common thing I hear is
how close that brotherhood is and how devastating it is
when you leave it to not have it. In whatever,
you know, walk of life you're in after serving, Oh
absolutely so.

Speaker 7 (01:00:27):
And like a big theme of the military, I put
you in very you know, lack but very uncomfortable situations
and very tough and mentally physically very very tough situations.
And when you go through things like that with other people, men,
when whatever it is that you're with you, you see
who they truly are. You see how they can push
through things. You see how they show up next to you,

(01:00:47):
and you kind of push through these things together, and
it creates bonds that are forever lasting. You know, I
daily talk to all the guys I deployed with most
still to the day. It's been almost ten years. So
it creates those of the bond. So trying to replicate,
trying to you know, get some events and get some
different things out there that kind of help bring that
kind of feeling back to us. We do the well

(01:01:08):
it's just coming up in October. We do what's called
the four by four by forty eight. You know, run
four miles every four hours for forty eight hours. Pretty
difficult mentally. I did it, and the first year I
did it with Chris and some other psychos. It was close.
It's about as close to that feeling of going through
some really tough things with some other people seeing them
push it, and we all just came out the other

(01:01:29):
side that kind of feeling of a little bit cornery.
So that that that replicating that kind of environment for
others to kind of come out and enjoy, and you know,
they kind of I got a lot of people I
got to call in this year, especially a certain radio
host that said he would do it too, So feeples
to do this year. So I'm going to calling names
up here soon.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
That's that's fine. Yeah, I did say I do it.
It's not going to look good. Do you put this
stuff all up on social media and whatnot? Is that
one of the ways you raise awareness for it? Or
is this something you guys are doing?

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
No, social media is a big, I mean big platform
for everybody. We use social media our website too. We
keep that up there if you ever want to come.
We do a lot of other things do Every month,
we're going out to a different nursing home. We're getting
all the vets there, we feed, I'm giving free lunch
to talk about their experiences really brightens about and here
as we give them some handmade items from some other
vets that do some wood working. So there's a lot
of different avenues you can get involved in. But one

(01:02:19):
of the other programs we're putting out here soon is
you know, I like to get some vets obviously back
in jam back physically, you know, getting back physical. So
one of the programs putting together is pairing up bets
with the trainers for your cost. Get them out there,
get them into some personal training, get that foot going.
As they start kind of progressing, they'll start to be
able to go on their own, and then also pay

(01:02:40):
for some disabled bets genlemanerships, just kind of get them
out there, getting the community. So putting those programs together
and they should be going live here soon.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
I know you've only been at this for about a
year that you started, and it's a passion project for
you because of your own personal experience in it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Have you had any conversations.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
With people that you've helped so far about not even
realizing that these are the kind of things is that
they needed in order to get back whatever sense of
some of the things that that you know have been
hard for them or have been challenging for them since
coming back from their service are now sort of like
flooding back. Have there been any conversations about the benefits
of this stuff?

Speaker 7 (01:03:14):
Oh, you know, I'm a real estate agent by trade,
so I work with a lot of clients, and I
work a lot with veterans too, help them with the
real estate purchase side. And I was just speaking with
one of my clients too, who was just she was
just telling me about how, you know, she's just struggling mentally.
She just and she brought up all on her own.
She said, you know, I need to get physical again.
I'm struggling so bad mentally. I'm in such a bad
place mentally. So it just carried over like all right, perfect,

(01:03:35):
well here we go. Here I am, here's the solution.
Let's get you here here, let's do this thing. So yeah,
it really carried overnight. And that's been multiple times. I've
had a lot of clients call me and just hug
over and check in on them. They'll start kind of
talking about like we're struggling here, we're doing this, like
they'll just kind of bring up alone. Do you know
any trainers, Do you know anybody to get in the community.
I want to get reround some of the bests. I
want to help out. So it just kind of it's
become a very easy conversation because I run into it

(01:03:58):
every day with my business.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
So yeah, one other thing that I noticed a lot too,
And I love the way you describe it, like you
do stupid stuff to help people.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
It is running four by four by forty eight, which again,
what is that? What is the exact challenge there?

Speaker 7 (01:04:12):
It's just running four miles every four hours for forty
eight hours. It's more of a fundraise that we do
for the Resience Project, but it also offers that I
have had people that do it. You know, when you
hit a real low point, you just need to do
something very difficult kind of mind who's in charge you
or that voice? So I did it more for so
for that challenge, and I really found great value out
of it. So I'm trying to give that opportunity for
other people. You know that We've had some people that

(01:04:34):
do it just like they kind of feel like they've
hit a little bit of rock bomb. They need something
really really difficult. And when you come out of the
other side of something difficult, right, you just you feel
a lot better.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Right, Did you say, Well, that's that's what I mean exactly?

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
That's what that's what's so cool about this and why
I hope you're doing a whole a whole lot more
things with a lot of people, and whether it's on
social media or however how you reach those people, you
do it because I imagine, and I've noticed this a lot
about veterans that I've talked to and gotten to know,
that helping other people is a huge component to giving
them a personal sense of value of you know, helping

(01:05:05):
defeat some of those demons that are in people's minds.
And you do that not only do you help people
get active themselves or visit nursing homes or whatever it
is you're doing, but it seems like you're giving a
lot of these guys that you're getting to know, another
thing that they're they're fighting with you to do or
you know, trying to help with. And so it's interesting
to merge the physical with the philanthropic to find that

(01:05:30):
meaning for these guys who defended our country, who you know,
protected us and come back home and wonder what am
I supposed to do? Now you're giving them that sense
of purpose and pride.

Speaker 7 (01:05:42):
Absolutely, and it's just kind of like you know, in
the in the Marine Corps or in the military, that
they kind of force you to their physical but when
you get out, you kind of lose yourself, right, you
can kind of you're not around the same people. You're
not around the same But and then so their life's
so much different than military life. I can feel a
little bit overwhelming how it feels like everyone's just kind
of maybe money driven, or everyone's kind of on their

(01:06:02):
own little world. You don't really have anything, so it
can be a little tough transitioning back. It give me
very tough I've lost. I got many tattoos on arms
from many from men I served with that weren't able
to transition back correctly. So I don't want to keep
adding more names. So doing my own kind of way
to hear to try to help mitigate that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
One last thing before I let you go, And I
don't want to put you too much on the spot
because I didn't tell you I was going to ask
you about this, but it's a political thing. It's in
the news, and I just want your basic reaction. There
is an accusation of stolen valor by a politician on
one side of the political aisle to a politician on
the other side, as military, I know you guys all
support each other. I know you guys all say anyone

(01:06:39):
that's going to put on the uniform and serve has value,
has importance. But what is in your opinion some of
the you know, things that make people mad if you
exaggerate that service, if you say you're in a combat
zone when you're not, or if you you know, say
you left with a certain title that you didn't actually
retire with. Are those things that make terry mad at

(01:07:01):
each other?

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
Or no? Yeah, I mean you just like there's nothing
to be a shame that, like, you served your country.
I think a lot of it comes down to, like
some people kind of will feel ashamed that they didn't
do enough, or sure, I don't, they just don't feel like,
you know, maybe the comparison thing you did your time,
you did it honorably, your respect. There's nothing like I'll
tell you what, I've never met so many navy feels
I have in the civilian world that I did in

(01:07:21):
the military. There's there's quite a few people walking around
saying their Navy ses. But it is what it is, right.
I just think it comes down to like a you know,
they just didn't feel like they did enough, or they
maybe the sense of pride wasn't there, But you serve
you did your time. Be prideful and and be proud.
Did honly get out And there's no reason to be
on anything else but proud.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
So right, and there's no reason to talk about it
in ways that you didn't do it. Thank you so much,
man for everything you're doing to help veterans, to help
a community that, as you said, you're you're a part
of and you understand the struggle of because it's really
important and I love the four forty forty eight. I
am going to do it this year and I'm not
in the shape for it, which is probably gonna be great.
But we'll do it on social media.

Speaker 7 (01:08:00):
We'll have people say we'll do it all right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Awesome, dude, Thanks so much, Drake Scott. He's part of
the Resilience Project. Check out more information on the Resilience
Project Resilience Project dot net to get involved.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
They've only been doing it for about a year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
But the merging of those ideas of getting people back
in shape, especially military who lived a life of having
to be in shape for a while, I getting people
active and getting people within a community are all things
that do help fight the horribleness of some of these
stats out there, like veterans suicide. Twenty two veterans a
day commit suicide. That's a real stat a day, and

(01:08:36):
what I think Drake is doing is a great way
to fight some of that. Quick break a lot more.
Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

Speaker 10 (01:08:47):
It's his life mission to make bad decisions.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
It's time for Florida man.

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
That's right, this is the Dana Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in for Dana Last. She will be
back after the holiday, and it's time for Florida man.
I got a couple of Florida men that I really like.
The first guy is a machete wielding Florida man who
was trying to yell at people at a store in
Key West, Florida to buy his math.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
I don't know what would be the crazier part of
that experience.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
You're walking up to some store and you see a
dude standing outside wielding a machete and he's also like,
buy meth.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Buy it from me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
It's gonna be great. You're gonna love it. You get
arrested for that. Even in Florida, that's not legal. It's
definitely gonna be a problem. He was also throwing beer
bottles at one point at someone. No one was seriously injured,
that's the good part. They did find fifteen grams of
meth on him. They found a scale, some pipes, and
oh yeah, the machete. That's not gonna be a good
look for somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I just can't.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
It's sort of I don't know why my nerd brain
went here, but it's sort of like the Dowshall Not
Past wizard guy holding the staff, just a very different
version of it, the Florida version of a nerd thing,
forty six year old dude telling you to buy his
math while wielding a machete. I don't even know if
anybody's gonna get that reference I just made, but darn it,
I made it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
It's over. It's done, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Another one out there that I saw as Floridas a
Florida man. Florida man was accused of stealing over one
hundred and twenty gallons of cooking oil from a restaurant.
The suspects was charged with burglary and traveling across state
lines because I guess he was trying to get the
cooking oil to some other state for some reason. You know,
I have to be honest, not that any crime is

(01:10:27):
more acceptable because of the challenge that's involved in it,
but this is a uniquely dumb one to attempt. I
would think that if you want to steal stuff, if
you want to go the road of, you know, trying
to bring stuff across the state line to sell it
somewhere else. You don't want one hundred and twenty gallons
of cooking oil. You can find it. Bet you can
find the machete guy and help sell his meth if
you take him across the state line to somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
That seems more portable, That seems easier.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
These guys had a van that was tricked out with
a giant hose in it, that apparently collected all of
the cooking oil and then tried to transport it. Here's
the worst part about this story too. The value of
the stolen goods is only about.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Four hundred and thirty bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
So all of that, all the effort, all the hard work,
and if you had succeeded, you're only four hundred dollars richer.
Now you're arrested and have some other issues as far
as legal things are going to have to deal with.
So not really good, not exactly a good move in
the world of Florida Man and Florida decision making, but
nonetheless it's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
I don't know why I want these two people to meet,
the cooking oil guy and the machete wielding meth guy,
but I feel like they could come up with some
sort of interesting business plan together.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
I don't know what it would be.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
I'm sure it's illegal, and I'm sure they'll get arrested
for it, not do a good job of hiding it
or whatever that might be. But nonetheless, I'd like their
two brains to work on something collectively, because I do
think that'll be a pretty interesting thing. All Right, those
are my Florida Man stories out there that I enjoy
quite a bit. I do have one other one that's
not a Florida Man, but just in general story out

(01:11:56):
there in the world. If you have a Jaguar, apparently
they're warning you that it might burst into flames suddenly,
So three thousand vehicles that people own, you're being told
I think a local Channel seven ABC affiliate I was
telling people about this that you need to make sure
to protect yourself and park the Jag outside just in

(01:12:17):
case it randomly burst into flames. I don't know why
that amuses me. I think Jaguar is a cool vehicle.
I would want one even if it could potentially, although
not likely, burst into flames. But that would be an
upsetting day. That would be a sad day to come
home to the car outside and on fire, if that's
what's going to happen there. But I love that that's
the other part of the suggestion, like, yeah, it's been recalled,

(01:12:38):
Yeah you should probably bring it in and get it fixed.
But if you can't do it, just in the meantime,
go ahead and park it on the street, just in case.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
It's going to get worse for you. That's a unique
piece of advice.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
I would think that you'd even go a little bit
further than that and say, you know what, don't be lazy,
don't park it on the street, go ahead and bring
it in and we'll try to fix it, because we
shouldn't probably allow you to keep driving a vehicle that
might suddenly be I'm a bonfire.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
That feels like something that might be bad to be
out there in the world. But all right, those are
Florida men.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Plus an extra bonus story, Craig Collins filling in on
the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff to talk about. It can't be allowed.
We can't accept it, like it's got to somehow be
something that gets rejected by the majority of Americans. To
talk about Harris as if she's going to bring in

(01:13:27):
something new. She's the vice president currently.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
I don't get this.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
It's probably the reason that only one vice president, one
active sitting vice president, has been elected the president of
the United States the last one hundred and eighty whatever years.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
That's out there online.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Because if the administration isn't doing well, you don't elect
the number two to take over for the number one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
You just get the whole system out. That's what changes.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Even if Trump has been in the office before, he
has easily described as change from what's going on as
far as decision making right now in politics. But here
it is again one of the Harris spokespeople popping up
on CNN saying how this campaign is all about new
It's all about change, baby, It's all about getting something different.
So we're going to put someone that's currently in power

(01:14:12):
in power.

Speaker 18 (01:14:14):
You know, it's always interesting when you kind of go
up up through the food chain of politics, when your
positions do different from where they were. The reality is
all of us changed in some way from when we
first get a job, when we've had it for a
long time.

Speaker 7 (01:14:28):
The president.

Speaker 18 (01:14:28):
The Vice president said last night that one thing she's
seen is that we can have a robust green economy
and not ban fracking. So that's something that she learned
over the course of time.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
While she learned, she learned it because people weren't going
to vote for her if she says the other fight.

Speaker 18 (01:14:42):
House, and I think that she's kind of owned up
to that. So I don't know that there are a
lot of voters outside of maybe a few of them
in Pennsylvania who will make their choice about president of
the United States. Because the Vice president has had a
position for five years now, she's had it for four years,
she's had us in twenty twenty that she's had a
position for four years, and now we're asking her questions
about well, I think she's really the face of change

(01:15:03):
in an election where people really are tired of the
Trump era, as she said last night, they want to
turn the page to something new.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
They want to turn the page with something new.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
Trump is not in the office right now, he's not
the current president of the United States. Kamala Harris is
the vice president right now, and Biden's on a beach somewhere.
For some reason, I just I love this, and honestly,
I'll keep saying the same thing over and over again
because I hope it does sink in if anyone that's
out there listening often doesn't feel the same way as

(01:15:32):
I do, or maybe others do.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
In the world of.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Politics, they're treating you like you're dumb. They're treating you
like you're so stupid. If you're on that side of
the aisle and you vote a Democratic and you hear
them say that Harris is the face of change, like
they actually do have little, very little respect for you,
I don't know how to say that better, and I
don't really care to. All Right, another thing out there
that I thought was interesting. If you were on one

(01:15:57):
side of the political aisle and you watched Iris and
Tim Walls give their answers to questions last night, you
said they did a really good job, or you at
least said they did no harm. However, one of the
most significant things that deserves to be talked about and
isn't being talked about is the stolen valor accusation against it.

(01:16:18):
I mean, I know it's being talked about, but on
a certain side of the aisle, they're dismissing it as
though it's just ridiculous, as though this shouldn't even be
discussed to begin with, and it's a conservative attack against
an aweshock's nice Midwest politician. It's crazy to feel that
way about this topic. Tim Walls lied about being a

(01:16:41):
person who held a gun in a war zone. He
was never deployed in any sort of combat situation in
his twenty plus years in the National Guard, something that
we should easily praise in general, and he leans on
in his answer to a question from Dana Bash. But nonetheless,
when you lie about your service, when you say that
you read to rank when you retired, that actually you

(01:17:02):
didn't get to keep because you didn't do everything to
retain that rank when you retired from your military service,
and you also retired probably knowing that your unit was
getting deployed to Afghanistan, and I don't know for sure,
but there might have been a desire not to go
and to do something else.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
That's a ridiculous thing to claim that he didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
There's a bunch of people from his own unit that said,
oh yeah, we pretty much knew we were going. We
were just awaiting those orders officially, and Walls decided to
run for office and not remain in his position in
our military, in the National Guard. But here I want
to play this because yet again, it's treatingly treating you

(01:17:43):
like you're so stupid that you'll follow whatever the answer
is to this question, and you'll even attack those on
the other side of the aisle who keep asking these
questions of Walls, even though they deserve to be at
the forefront of a conversation about his honesty. His trustworthiness
is reputation for being awe just an aweshuck's good guy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
I want to ask you a question about how you've
described your service in the National Guard. You said that
you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed
actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that
you misspoke, did you Well.

Speaker 6 (01:18:19):
First of all, I'm incredibly proud I've done twenty four
years of wearing uniform of this country, equally proud of
my service in a public school classroom, whether it's Congress
or the governor. My record speaks for itself. But I
think people are coming to it to know me. I
speak like they do. I speak candidly, I wear my
emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about

(01:18:41):
our children being shot in schools and around guns. So
I think people know me, they know who I am,
they know where my heart is. And again, my record
has been out there for over forty years.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
And I have to stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Yes, your record has been out there for over forty years,
including all the times that you've done things like this before.
You've had people write letters to you, people you served
with saying please stop saying you reached a rank you
didn't reach, or please stop saying these things about your
military experience that weren't actually things that happened for you.
We applaud you for what you did do. Just stick

(01:19:14):
to that. Just talk about those.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Things and not anything out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
It's sort of insane again, but here a little bit more,
because that wasn't answering the question, and Dana Bash did
try to make him answer it, but he at first
seemed to think that was good enough, that we're fine.
I mentioned a few things that make me, you know,
a victim of the horribleness of the other side of
the political aisle, and that's all I'm going to talk about,
and let's continue.

Speaker 6 (01:19:37):
Such just for itself.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
And the idea that you said that you were in war,
did you miss speak, as the campaign has said.

Speaker 6 (01:19:44):
Yeah, I said we were talking about in this case,
this was after school shooting, the ideas of carrying these
weapons of war and my wife the English you telling
my grammar's not always correct. But again, if it's not this,
it's an attack on my children for showing love for me,
or it's an attack on my dog. I'm not going
to do that. And the one thing I'll never do
is I'll never demet another member's service.

Speaker 7 (01:20:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Okay, there's something i have to say, and I'm sure
to a lot of people in the audience, I'm preaching
to the choir when I say this, but I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
I can't help it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
The biggest reason that politicians feel like they can do
this stuff is us. Some of us are not all
of us. Some of us are to blame for allowing
politicians to treat us like' idiots, like we're morons, like
what we think doesn't really matter. They can shape it
however they want. We have to demand real answers from
these politicians to get them to be real people. And

(01:20:32):
she tried Dana Bash, who definitely gave a friendly interview
to Harrison to Walls, but she at least tried to
force him to give a real answer. And the second
answer was still, oh, I misspoke the grammar. Something about it.
My you know, wife told me that I got it wrong.
I didn't even realize it. That's a little of a
thing it is, or not a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Whatever this is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
It's so aggravating, it's so infuriaty, it's so ridiculous. And
I will say this, whether you believe it to be
true or not. Trump is absolutely challenged by the media.
A lot of the media challenges him constantly, and whether
you think he's lying or telling the truth in his answers,
there is no denying that he gets a very different
style of treatment than how they treat the left, and

(01:21:15):
even JD. Vance gets that style of treatment quite often
compared to you know the left. And actually one of
the better examples of that is JD Vance talking to
Dana Bash and how very very different that conversation goes.
I thought this was a pretty interesting thing to go
viral because JD just sat down with her a little
time ago. And if you want a obvious demonstration of

(01:21:39):
how less friendly the people are if they think they're
attacking the side of politics that they don't agree with,
that they can't hide their own emotions. They can't put
them in the back and leave them, you know, without
you and I being able to easily see them.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
This is what that sounds like.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Governor Walls served twenty four years. He even stayed after
he could have retired, I heed because of nine to
eleven more than the country asked of him. Do you
honor his service?

Speaker 19 (01:22:06):
Well, of course, Dana, I honored his service. And I've
never criticized what Tim Waltz did when he was in
the military.

Speaker 16 (01:22:14):
He has.

Speaker 19 (01:22:14):
I criticized his retirement decision, and most importantly, Dana I
criticized his lying about his own record. Okay, this is
a guy who is captured on video saying I carried
a gun in war. He never went to war. This
is a guy who's been captured on video. As other
people say, he's an Afghanistan veteran, he's a veteran of
a war, nodding along an agreement instead of saying no, no, no.

(01:22:37):
I did serve my country, and I did it honorably,
but I never went to a war zone. I'm not
criticizing Tim Waltz's service. I'm criticizing the fact that he
lied about his service for political gain. Dana, Now, I
served in the United.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
By the way, it's sort of ridiculous that you have
to point that kind of thing out in a conversation
that is adversarial. You can't just say out loud, yeah,
I am criticizing the fact that he may have not
told the truth about some of the things he's done.
Some of the things he's done, I'm not criticizing those
other things. The only reason you have to give an

(01:23:09):
answer like that, or you have to behave a certain way,
is because of the attack or whatever it is, the
version of speak that's coming from the person doing the
interview with you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
You can't just be honest about it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
But this is one of a bunch of moments where
you know, Dana Bash just absolutely demonstrated a very different feeling,
a very different sentiment for someone on the opposite side
of the aisle of sitting down and interviewing Walls and
interviewing Harris. And it's just it's just ridiculous, Like, I
don't know, because I have way more audio, I could

(01:23:41):
play way more of it if I want to. And
there's so many moments where she accused him or challenged
him in ways that she should have, but didn't challenge
a person sitting down for their first interview in forever,
in a very long time, and certainly first interview as
actually being the presidential candidate for the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
And it's just a shame. I don't know, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
Part of me, part of me is getting mad as
I'm playing this myself and watching it, because it's just
sad that this is the state of affairs for so
many in the place of you know, our political thing.
But you know what, actually, Ard, fine, I'll play a
little bit more of it because if I don't play
more of it, people will think, oh, it's not real.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
She didn't try that hard.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Here's a full mash up of all the ridiculous ways
she articulated questions to JD.

Speaker 9 (01:24:29):
Vance seemed to be struggling a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
Kamala Harris has been calling the shots as who There's
no evidence that Kamala Harris threw him overboard, called you
and Donald Trump, and that is weird. Sure you're saying
Tim Walls doesn't have affection for his wife. I don't
even understand that they have done both. They have both
policies and they are trying to define it that you
have been on the campaign trail questioning Tim Walls's military record.

(01:24:52):
Governor Walls served twenty four years. He even stayed after
he could have retired because of nine to eleven more
than the country asked of him. Do you honor his service?
I will say that the Harris at Walls campaign did
say that the governor misspoke. That was a month before
the National Guard even announced that it was possible that
they would deploy to a rock and it ended up

(01:25:14):
being too much.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
Oh my god, that's so much defending of him. And honestly,
many people that served with Walls said that they knew
it was not a well kept secret that they were
likely to get deployed to Afghanistan at some point.

Speaker 2 (01:25:26):
And then Wall's retired.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
But again it's just sort of crazy to hear that
difference so blatantly out there, because it's so easy for
so many of us to see. All right, quick break
a lot more. Craig Hollins filling in on the Danish.

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Speaker 10 (01:26:26):
And now all of the news you would probably miss.
It's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
This is the Dana Schelle.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in and it's time
for a quick five. First, I thought this was interesting.
There's a story about a grandma eighty nine years old
who was lost in the Alps for five days. She
said she survived by befriending a fox.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
This is her claim.

Speaker 1 (01:26:49):
She said that she became dizzy, tumbled twenty feet into
a gully, and then a fox wound up helping her
out a whole lot. This sounds like a Disney movie,
or at least it's got to be a Disney movie
in the near future. The wild fox approached her at
a curiosity several times that sort of became friends. Every
evening she recited the Rosary. She knew every day she

(01:27:10):
could not be here anymore, but because of the interactions
with the fox, she stayed aware enough to be rescued.
I don't know why I love that story so much,
but I do. But an eighty nine year old woman
says me, and this fox friend I made it out
of here together. Tattoo inc that you buy on Amazon
might not be safe. I feel like that's the most
obvious of the Quick five I've ever done. Tattoo ink

(01:27:34):
sold there has high levels of weird and rare bacteria
in it. There's a recall announcement for the germs that
cause a present and serious health condition for anyone that
buys tattoo ink on Amazon, and then things out as
will be fine, This will be good. You don't want
to save money on some things. People, Sure, on most
things you want to save money, but there's a reason

(01:27:55):
why some stuff is very cheap, especially when you're buying
it certain places that would be one of said places.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
You don't want to do that, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Some other things out there that I thought we're interesting
as far as Quick five stuff. There is a story
about Richard Simmons now and his autopsy revealing that there
were drugs in his system.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
When he died after a fall.

Speaker 1 (01:28:17):
The only thing I really think about with the very
famous fitness guru Richard Simmons is the podcast that wound
up going viral about him too, Finding Richard Simmons. If
you've never heard of it, if you're not aware of it.
It's a long form narrative storytelling podcast about what happened
to him, about why he disappeared off the face of
the earth kind of for a while as someone who

(01:28:38):
was definitely very famous for quite some time, and it
might have been a mental health related issue and whatnot.
You can listen to that show to figure out more
about it. A weird thing to promote, but darn it interesting.
And now after he passes away, they find out that
there were certain although they were prescription drugs that were
in his system likely to treat insomnia. So exactly was

(01:29:00):
going on there and how significant of an issue this
was is something that people are now asking more questions
about in light of the autopsy information becoming viral for
whatever reason. And then finally, one other thing, a major
US discount retailer might go out of business.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
A Big Lots is struggling.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Fourteen hundred stores are under threat as shares have dropped
a low fifty percent, so many brick and mortar places
that used to exist no longer exist. Big Lots seems
like it might be in jeopardy of being the latest
version of that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
But hey, get your tattoo ink from Amazon and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
You'll be just fine. That's how the world will work
in the future. I don't think Big Lots sells Tattoo, Inc.
But anyway, kind of a sad story for a lot
of people who might like that tale.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
A real company that a retailer company. There it is.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
I'm taking a break. A lot coming up in a
very little amount of time left. Craig Collins filling in
on the data show.

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Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Creig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about out there in the world. You
can find Dana everywhere, by the way too, all over YouTube,
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places to find her an x on Twitter First. I
love this. This is just fun kind of short audio.
Trump at a rally in Michigan the other night, brought

(01:31:26):
up the auto workers for Trump guy. His name is Brian.
He organized a Facebook page that kind of took off
and became a thing. And anyway, he's called him up
a few times. Brian said. The last time he was
called on stage was right after the assassination attempt, and
he was sort of speechless even though he was asked
to speak. He said some things that wound up going
viral though, because they're well, very logical and awesome. Three

(01:31:47):
point nine million views for this bit of this speech.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
Here we go.

Speaker 13 (01:31:52):
Listen, Chrysler and General Motors have already gone bankrupt once.
But if we allow electric vehicle mandates to be put
on this industry by the federal government, they're going out
of business again. We got to fight against that, and
this guy standing right here is the only person who
will do it. We cannot allow the federal government to
put mandates on the auto industry to build electric vehicles

(01:32:17):
when the consumers do not want them.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
Yeah, that's got to feel pretty obvious to a lot
of people if you're mandated to build something that consumers
don't want to buy because they're too expensive or a
lot of other reasons, especially if you live in any
sort of cold weather part of our country and you
saw the videos like the last extreme cold snap that
caused a whole bunch of Tesla's in Chicago to just
be sitting bricks for a while, mostly because even the

(01:32:42):
charging stations weren't functioning well enough to get these cars charged.
Those are few of very many reasons that people shouldn't
be doing this. But I love that guy went viral,
his passion, the fact that Trump calls him up for
a couple minute speech, and also that you say something
that's simple, that obvious. I'm going to take a turn
away from politics for a second. I do want to
talk about something that's been viral for a couple days now.

(01:33:04):
There's a guy by the name of Marquise who went
viral on Facebook I think on the twenty seventh originally,
but it's certainly still getting talked about. He said he
went to a Chick fil A, a Chick fil A
that he goes to a lot. He gave his name
in the drive through, and somebody wrote monkeys on his receipt.
He's a black guy. He was offended by that. I
don't think I blame him for feeling offended by that. However,

(01:33:27):
the position I think of the Chick fil A is
that this was all an accident, and whoever it was
that was working the drive through line when they heard Marquise,
they thought somebody said monkeys, and so that's what they wrote,
and whether or not again that makes any sense to
you or anyone else out there, it's certainly a lot

(01:33:47):
different than of say, somebody's name was like Bob and
then you wrote monkeys on it. And by the way,
before even hit play on this audio, this video the
guy shot when he goes into the chick fil A
to complain and he wants to confront the person who
was working the drive through. Half of the staff inside
this Chick fil A is young Black people, like half

(01:34:07):
of the staff. So if I was just guessing on
a fifty to fifty shot here, there's a chance that
the person who was working the drive through is also black.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
I don't know that that's true or not.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
I'm just saying by a simple mathematical statistic probability here
there's a chance. And even more than that, before I
hit play on this, if someone were this wild of
a racist that they would write something like that to
reflect their their racist ideology on a receipt, you would
think they'd have problems with a bunch of their coworkers
who are also in fact black. But everybody seems shocked

(01:34:39):
when this guy comes in and he's complaining because they
don't seem to have any idea what's going on. And
he's holding the phone up and he's talking about who
he's gonna go viral. But here's some of that audio.

Speaker 18 (01:34:47):
Nobody can't ask my question, good question, I ask them.

Speaker 7 (01:34:51):
They ignore me.

Speaker 18 (01:34:52):
I said, is the guy who rode monkeys on my
receipt to see available?

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
I want to tell to.

Speaker 13 (01:34:57):
Him, No, sir, I can't have his speak.

Speaker 18 (01:34:58):
Right now, still here, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
I'm gonna make sure that this video goes low.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
This is unacceptable.

Speaker 7 (01:35:07):
Yesterday, I agree.

Speaker 20 (01:35:09):
I'm sorry that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:10):
So I just want to make sure I got your
on camera too. So who I'm putting down monkeys?

Speaker 4 (01:35:15):
Did you?

Speaker 7 (01:35:16):
Would you feel offended by that?

Speaker 19 (01:35:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:35:18):
I understand that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
Okay, So I'll stop the video there.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
And it's fine if you if you feel offended because
you think something is intentional but you're not completely sure
that it is. And again, the sound of Marquise, well,
I don't think I ever would think that someone's name
is monkeys. Doesn't sound so dissimilar to the other word.
That's impossible for someone to hear one word instead of
the other one. And again, a more powerful version of

(01:35:44):
this story would be if the guy's name didn't at
all sound like the other word, although I would tell
you that if it were my experience and I were
working a checkout and I thought someone kept saying the
word monkeys as their name, especially if you can see
someone and it's a black guy, I would have just
put M. If I didn't know what the name was
and I thought I was here in monkeys. If I'm
being as as honest as they're saying, these these individuals

(01:36:06):
involved are being, I would have just put the letter M,
been like the orders for him, and that that's all
I understand.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
I didn't really understand the name. I don't know though.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
But more importantly, again, as I'm talking about this video
and all the reactions to it and the people on
both sides and all the anger and whatnot about it,
I'm just looking at the staff and it's a Chick
fil A. I think everybody in the video shot is
probably in their twenties, maybe teens some of them, and.

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
Half of the individuals are black.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
And so would someone actually do this and be this
much of a a racist to do it on purpose
in a situation like that and have not conflicted with
any other staff people, any other fighting at any point
other than that, that's a question I ask because the
reality of a situation is when you interpret a one
off moment and you think you know what happened, but

(01:36:53):
you don't actually know what happened because you weren't on
the other side of whatever it is. You aren't on
the other side of, and it could be anything. It
doesn't have to be this specific situation. There have to
be other things that back up that belief other than
this one off moment. And yes, it's unlikely, but it's
not impossible to hear one word and say something different. Yeah,
I'm a thirty something white guy and I'm not intentionally

(01:37:15):
trying to defend you know another way, I don't even
know the color or anything about the person who was
working the checkout count I don't know their ethnicity.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
I know nothing about them. I don't know if they're black,
if they're white, if anything, man, woman, nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
All I know is that Chick fil A didn't think
that it was something that someone did on purpose, and
why would they. I also don't understand, like, why would
they if you're someone who actually does hate people, And
I think there's a lot less individuals in our world
who hate people for these sorts of reasons than mainstream
media wants to tell us sometimes, although I'm not going
to pretend that there's no one out there that's not,

(01:37:50):
you know, a person that has feelings for reasons that
I don't understand or agree with. But nonetheless, when I
say that, why would this be the way you'd tried?
You offend somebody? Like, just from a rational standpoint, if
you did this purposefully, intentionally, you're definitely losing your job.
But more importantly, like what is the intent? What is
the win here? And so it's just interesting. And I'll

(01:38:13):
say one last thing about it. I don't mean to
rant about this topic, and I'll move on because it's
probably easier and safer to move on, but to me,
and actually, I don't care that much, so I'm gonna
go ahead and risk it for the biscuit. Why not
make sense? It's a phrase I say very often, especially
when I play audio, that I'm not sure if there's
bad words in it or not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
You got to risk it for the biscuit sometimes.

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
And I have an incredible producer and fill on this
show that'll protect me anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
And I'm sure he loves to have just heard that.
But I'm not. There's nothing bad I'm gonna play here today.

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
But anyway, nonetheless, when you talk about all this, and
when you think about all this and you wonder what
the real story is and the anger behind all of it,
you fail to give people the benefit of the doubt
like that. That's what I think is so important in
our society now. And honestly, even when people are doing
stuff where you're like, I really don't understand this at all.

(01:39:02):
Even when people talk about how politically you could support
somebody that I don't support, you just envision them as
this horrible, terrible human when the reality is they're probably nice.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
They probably you know, go to the park and coach
their kids little league team.

Speaker 1 (01:39:15):
I think that's something that Obama actually said at the DNC,
and a lot of people have said it's true, and
so that benefit of the doubt stuff is just gone. Sure,
I wouldn't blame somebody for seeing this and being mad
about it, but actually being definitive and positive that what
happened wasn't a dumb mistake by a person that thought
they heard a word that they didn't hear, and definitely

(01:39:37):
a racial attack on someone that they might not even
been able to see I don't even know if you
could see the person, but all those things are just
sort of ridiculous. And then there's all these reactions on
social media again to it, and so many people saying
they're also offended, and no one giving anyone a chance
to think that, hey, maybe this didn't happen for the
reason you think, and maybe it's better to realize that

(01:39:57):
maybe not as many people out there in the world
or is hate as we want to envision them as being.
I feel like there's this assumption that there's a lot
of people out there who are horrible, racist, sexist, whatever
it might be in our society, and you're just waiting
to catch them. You're waiting for them to make that
mistake that shows who they really are, because every other
moment where they're actually being someone that would seem to

(01:40:20):
be not hateful, not racist, not sexist, not any of
that stuff, none of that counts.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
Only the one moment.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
Where we think we got youa in whatever it is,
that's the thing that matters. And this is that moment,
I guess for some and you don't even know anything
about the seventeen year old individual outside of that fact.
I guess We do know that was working that day
in the drive through, So how do you know for
sure that they did something and didn't do some other
thing like when Starbucks writes the wrong name in a cup.

(01:40:49):
No matter again, how offensive you think it is, you
can't be as sure as this Kai is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
And I don't think it's risky to say that. All right,
I'll take a.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
Break on that. I ranted about that for way too much.
A little bit more coming up. This is Craig Collins
filling in on the Dana Show.

Speaker 11 (01:41:05):
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Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
This is the Danish Show. My name is Craig Collins
filling in. Dana is back after the holiday. You can
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A homeowners association in South Carolina delivered a cease and
assist to families in a community that we're allowing their
kids to play in a grassy field in the middle

(01:41:40):
of the neighborhood. There are both sides of this heated
debate on this piece of audio. I do love this
so much for one reason, and I'll point it out
in a second. But kids playing in an area of
grassy field in a neighborhood. That's pretty kid one on
one stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
All of us did that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:57):
We find the area that nobody owns, the little tiny
piece of you know whatever in the middle of everything,
and you play home run derby there or something, and
the neighbors just sort of tolerate it. Not these neighbors, baby,
not this homeowners association.

Speaker 20 (01:42:11):
The best way to parent my kids is allowing them
to be outside, be healthy, be active. This is absolutely
not in organized sports. The only thing organized about it
is these five, six, seven, eight year old saying, hey,
do you want to go play football?

Speaker 16 (01:42:24):
They have coach, they have whistles, they have tens, they
have water and daved taking over the circle.

Speaker 7 (01:42:31):
Well, before you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
Know what, the Carolina Panthers will be playing there.

Speaker 16 (01:42:34):
It's so great to see the kids out toy. But
these people, they push it from ten to now thirty people.

Speaker 11 (01:42:40):
This might be it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
They sucked at sports when they are kids.

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
That last part, by the way, is the social media
influencer raising awareness on the story, giving their own take
on what they think is happening. I love the dude
who thinks the Carolina Panthers are moments from taking this
field over to That guy's the best. He is the
slippery slope argument to a degree that I hope actually happens.
If I was living in a neighborhood where kids are
organizing sports to the degree that they have their own
coaches and whistles and water stations, and then professional athletes

(01:43:06):
start showing up, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
I do way more of that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:09):
If the Yankees will play a game in my backyard,
I'll try very hard on my lawn moving forward.

Speaker 16 (01:43:13):
But one more time, coach, they have whistles, they have tents,
they have water, and Dave taking over the circle.

Speaker 2 (01:43:20):
Well, before you know what, the Carolina Panthers will be playing.
It's happening. It's very quick.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
It's just that little snap of the fingers and then
it's all over for us. But come on, guys, even
if the kids are very well, you know, organized, and
even if some adults who are showing up it's a
grassy field in the middle of your neighborhood, let them
play sports.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
Let them do that. That's the thing the kids do.

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
I don't have a problem with this, and I am
annoyed by the homeowners association that's involved here, and I
don't care about the rest of it. I will say
one thing, just a personal story, not exactly a good story,
but my friends and I from high school still talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
We used to play football in a part of a park.
We all get together, we'd play tackle football.

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
We had no equipment. Probably wasn't a smart idea. One
of my friends, who wound up being a quarterback for
the high school football team, had a couple injuries, a
couple concussions that actually happened there. In retrospect now with
how you talk about football, I'm sure it was much
more serious than we took it then. But we even
like nicknamed the field concussion field, and we'd go play
at concussion Field and no one cared.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
They just left us alone.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
And we were just a bunch of at that point,
like high school kids playing a game and being left
to do that, because that's what people do, especially if
they're eight, nine, ten years old. Even more so that
seems to be true. Two hundred and twelve million hot
dogs are going to be eaten from right now until
after the Labor Day holiday, so by Tuesday, Americans will

(01:44:42):
have consumed two hundred and twelve million of these items.
Eight hundred and eighteen hot dogs are eating every second
over the Memorial Day weekend holiday.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
That's an awesome stat.

Speaker 1 (01:44:54):
I don't know who who figures that out, by the way,
because I imagine it just is the amount of hot
dog that are sold. And if you've gone to a
barbecue or several, you don't finish all the hot dogs.
You cook too many, some of them don't wind up
making it into anybody's face. But so I'm not sure
if that number is completely perfect, but I love it
nonetheless for existing at all. Eight hundred and eighteen excuse

(01:45:16):
me hot dogs a second. I can't even fathom that
kind of hot dog movement. Washington, d C. Is the
city that's going to be hit hardest by the hot
dog craze, I guess, which is hilarious to me, Sue,
And that's.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Hilarious to me as well.

Speaker 1 (01:45:30):
And this might be because there's not the amount of
supply in a DC that there is some other places
for the hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:45:37):
I know, we know people who live in the area,
so they could let me know if when they're rolling
into whatever their local convenience store is, if hot dogs
are even there, or maybe they're completely gone. I'm not sure,
but I imagine they're fine everywhere, although there are some
that are much better than others.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
We all know this is true.

Speaker 1 (01:45:52):
There's absolutely a mount rushmore of hot dogs, and Nathan's
is on the top end of that list, not the bottom.
I don't even want to name the ones in the
bottom because I don't to take away any potential sponsorship
opportunities for this show or any other one. But that's
just an amazing amount of food that's going to be consumed.
A right, one last thing that we usually do toward
the talent of every show I know for Dana, So
I'm just going to fire one off.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
This is today in Stupidity I do.

Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
I really love this moment because it's a back and
forth on Fox News with a representative for Kamala Harris,
a Democratic strategist who gave the worst answer to a
question I've heard in a while, because he was like, please,
why would you even ask me that?

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
And it's sort of amazing what the topic is here.

Speaker 21 (01:46:34):
We go five hundred and forty million dollars raise eighty
two million in one week.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
But what we were talking about it, there's will you
acknowledge that there's no policy page on her website?

Speaker 21 (01:46:44):
And so how do when we shot care about policy
pages on websites? When every single time sends for time?

Speaker 3 (01:46:51):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
When did we start caring about the policies of these individuals,
about the things they'd want to do if they were
in a position of power.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
When did that become important to any of us?

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
Why don't we talk about the money she's raising or
the popularity that we're manufacturing behind her campaign for a
role that she wasn't actually nominated to go into but
has been pointed into because we forced the other guy out?

Speaker 2 (01:47:11):
Why would we talk about the things she wants.

Speaker 1 (01:47:13):
To do in that position? It's so good I kind
of want to play it one more time. When did
we start talking about.

Speaker 21 (01:47:18):
These heresion dollars raised eighty two million in one week?

Speaker 5 (01:47:20):
But what we were talking about it, there's will you
acknowledge that there's no policy page on her website?

Speaker 21 (01:47:26):
And so how do we shot came about policy pages
on websites when every single time since.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
Since all the time since anytime. Anybody who runs for
anything usually tells us what they're going to do in
that position. Not having a page on your website seems
like a really weird decision to be made for whatever reason,
But I love that so much. That is today's moment
in stupidity or today and stupid so so good. All right,
everybody out there that's listening, have a wonderful holiday, have

(01:47:52):
a safe holiday. Eat as many hot dogs as you
possibly can, especially in DC apparently where there might be
a run on those. But enjoy the Labor Day weekend.
As I said, Dana is back on a Monday. But
my name is Craig Collins. I've been filling in for her.
You can find me Radio Craig CE on social media
all the forms of social media. I have none of

(01:48:13):
the following Dana hats, so helped me have a few
more followers on any of those pages, and I'd love it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
See you guys next time.

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