Vivek’s Post Sparks Chaos, Panama Canal Debate & Dating App Deception

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. D Lash or Dana
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being who has a few deserved days off. She will
be back toward the tail end of next week. Let's

(00:21):
do this first. I think this is pretty amazing. There
are two hit pieces or two discussions about Cash Pattel
specifically that seem to be designed to try to prevent
him from having a role in the FBI. There is
also a at least one reference to Tulsey Gabbard and

(00:42):
how she'd be a terrible person to be in charge
of an intelligence community the intelligence community as well.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
This is awesome.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
What this obviously means is that Trump is very much
over the target, or these individuals are very much over
the target, because the establishment is coming out to reject it,
specifically William Webster. William Webster is one hundred years old.
He ran both the FBI and the CIA at one
point in his life. He actually ran the FBI and
CIA for Reagan to a degree. He was in charge

(01:12):
of one when Reagan was in office, and then Ronald
Reagan appointed him to be in charge of the other
one before leaving office, so as the only individual alive
who's run both organizations. He says that he has differing
issues with Patel and Gabbard. He says Gabbart is simply
not experienced enough to be the national intelligence lead, and

(01:33):
then Cash Pattel is too tied to Trump, so that's
why he can't be the director of the FBI. However,
and this is what I would say in response to
any of this, beyond even just these two nominations, but
anyone that they're saying experience is the issue. It's the
lack of qualifications here is going to cause a problem.
One you've obviously never been to Washington. The amount of

(01:55):
people who are put in positions of power that have
no relevant experience the world in which they're asked to lead.
A great example is Bootage Edge and the Transportation Department.
But so many of these things happen, and somehow, if
it's the other side of the aisle, they claim things
are just fine. You can also fire people if they fail,
which is something that seems to be forgotten in DC.

(02:18):
These aren't supposed to be lifelong appointments. They're not even
supposed to be terribly long appointments at all, typically lasting
the course of a presidency or.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
So, maybe longer than that.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
But honestly, if you fail within a few months fired
Trump knows all about that. I think he had a
TV show that you might remember in which he fired
people prolifically, and he could do it that way too.
But all of this establishment rejection means there's something they're
afraid of. Sure, you can make the argument, as William
Webster tries to do, that you need people that are

(02:48):
independent of politics to be in charge of our systems,
that desire a lack of any sort of bias, but
those systems already incredibly biased, they're incredibly flawed. Lifelong employees
of our government are overwhelmingly democratic in their beliefs, their positions.

(03:11):
Somewhat logically, if that's the side that wants more government
and more money funneled toward government, and you work in it,
and then there's people who want less government and more
money funneled away from it, and you don't want to
see that happen. But for a lot of reasons, the
partisanship of our bureaucracy is well studied, well understood, and

(03:32):
insanely to the left, and so to say that these
outsiders might acquire these positions of power and the need
for them to not have years of experience within a
system that hopefully they're going to be questioning from the
ground up and maybe changing from the ground up is important.
You can't hire someone who has a thirty year career
in a broken FBI if you want the FBI to

(03:54):
behave differently. The New Yorker also did a hit piece
saying how ridiculous it was these are, you know, people
that are being nominated for certain positions, and that they
assume that they're the kind of people who would immediately
weaponize the departments that they're a part of in order
to go after the everyday american. I also laugh at that,

(04:14):
and I probably laugh harder at that than anything else
that people say, because even if they did weaponize, and
I'm not saying they will, I don't think they will,
But even if they did, they're not doing it to
go after the everyday american. They're doing it to go
after other politicians that probably are guilty of terrible stuff.
On No matter who they are, and they want to pretend,
they being mainstream media or the politicians themselves, that you're

(04:38):
the target because everything's all about how you're at risk,
you're screwed. Trump becoming president is going to hurt your life,
even though it's probably not even if you hate him
and didn't vote for him, going to have much of
an impact in your day to day life. Hopefully some
hopefully some prices get cheaper for you, but by and large,
you're probably not going to feel all that different with
Trump in the White House than you did when Biden

(04:59):
was in the Whe House as far as your day
to day experience goes, again, outside of hopefully the cost
of a whole bunch of stuff of being cheaper, and
maybe some crazy discussions being less common in the world
of politics and actual policy. But I digress, like, you're
going to wake up, you're going to go to sleep,
you're going to go to your job, You're going to
you know, do certain things, and that's unlikely to change

(05:20):
all that significantly immediately, if at all, during the next
four years. But politicians talk all the time, and a
lot of talking heads do about how you know you
are the true victim.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
You are the true.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Person hurt in this way and in that way, and
ninety nine out of one hundred times it's them as
the only target of the problem, And so even so
even more so, it makes that just very amusing to
me that that's the narrative that's out there for us
to deal with. There's another thing out there in the
world of just crap that politicians say that I should
have talked about earlier. But I can't get over how

(05:54):
ridiculous it is. To be honest, a Kamala Harris put
this out on Christmas Eve, and to be honest, part
of me just doesn't care about the vice president anymore.
That's probably part of the reason it took me this
long to get to it, but also just the ridiculousness
of this when you dive into any of the history
of Quansa, and I'm going to admit to you, I'm
no expert. I'm not someone who knew a whole lot

(06:15):
going in, and I imagine a lot of people fall
in the same boat I'm in. We actually kind of
have to look it up to understand much of anything
about it, something I've done relatively recently. One of the
most significant things that you might not know about. Kwanza
is the guy who created it's still alive. He created
it in nineteen sixty six, and he's someone that believed,

(06:35):
among other things, that Jesus was insane, That's something he
said before, and that Christianity is a white religion that
black people should shun. That's where Kwansa came from for him,
as something that he was giving to a specific community
so that they could remove themselves from another community.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
That he sounds a whole lot like he hated.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
But nonetheless, people celebrate it today for all kinds of reasons.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
It's existed for sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'm not telling you what to do or not do
about this holiday or made up holiday or whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
You want to call it. I was invented in sixty six.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Though again that's important because Kamala Harris, who was born
in sixty four, claims that she grew up celebrating it.
It would be tremendously difficult for that to be true
unless she comes from an incredibly radical family, because the
only people who really knew about this were a black
nationalists or radicals as some people call them, people who

(07:30):
believe in very very significant versions of separation, segregation whatever
you call it between individuals based on race, and this
didn't become a more widespread thing until about nineteen eighty,
which means at that point Kamala Harris would have been
much much older than she's describing herself as being in

(07:50):
this video.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
You know, my sister and I we grew up celebrating
Kwansa every year our family, in our extended family, we
would gather around across multiple generations and we tell stories.
The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders
would sit in chairs, and we would like the candles,
and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal, and of

(08:12):
course there was always the discussion of the Seven principles.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Right.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
That makes me need a drink now, I'm kidding. This
is actually an energy drink, not an alcoholic beverage. But
I wanted to pop it open after I listened to that,
because that's insane. Because again, the only way that she's
telling the truth that as a small child she sat
around on the floor as generations of her family came
together to celebrate Kwanza is if she is directly connected,

(08:37):
which is something some people said about her and her
family to more radical individuals in certain spaces, because otherwise
she wouldn't have known about it until she was definitely
not a kid anymore, as most people didn't. It wasn't
something that was even acknowledged by Bill Clinton until the nineties,
and something that's got widespread levels of familiarity with the

(08:58):
American people until even after that. So questions abound as
to how exactly Kamala Harris's you know, early childhood went,
the things that she and her family were involved in,
et cetera, et cetera. And I also just love the
fact that she says generations and the elders because they
would be learning what it is for the first time too,

(09:20):
along with Harris. If this is something they celebrated quickly
after it was created in order for her story to
make any sense at all.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
All.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Right, another thing out there that I thought was interesting
and just silly and also kind of awesome. Trump is
going to restore the diet coke button at the White House.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
If you don't know what this is.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
When Trump was in you know, the office last he
had a red button on his desk in the Oval
office that he could.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Push that would have a butler deliver him a diet coke.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
That's all it did. It's the red diet coke button.
It went away for Biden, and now it's going to
come back for Trump before he's in the White House
again after his inauguration day, and that's freaking awesome. I
would think if I were president. I actually have a
buddy in media who would do this as a question
every so often. If you were king for a day,

(10:10):
is what he would ask me, And you'd answer that question,
and listeners would answer that question. And this is probably
one of the littler things you might do if you
had a unique position of authority and power in the world.
If you get a button that just delivers you something
you like, I might have mine be a steak button
instead of a diet coke button. Granted i'd use it
less often than I assume the President's going to use

(10:31):
his diet coke button, but it would still be amazing.
Every time I press it. A medium, rare steak delivered
to me would be incredible. What would you do if
you were king for a day or president, etc.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Etc.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't know why I keep using that a phrase,
what would you do? I think I would do steak
for a day, and I'd be absolutely thrilled with that.
I guess another way to say it is, what would
you do with one point one five billion dollars? Because
if you win the Mega millions, that's going to have
a drawing tonight. You can probably also afford to hire
a butler and install a red button on your desk
wherever it is you work or wherever you would definitely stop

(11:05):
working the day after you cast your check for one
point one five billion dollars. All right, quick break, a
lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the data show.

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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins.
Filling in. Let's do a quick five.

Speaker 8 (13:37):
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It's time for Dana's quick five.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I saw that Netflix released its numbers for its Christmas
games and they were about five million viewers. Shy at
least the people who watched more than a few seconds
of these games, other than the numbers from last year's
broadcast TV numbers. That's a big deal. That's a big
win for Netflix to be within five. I have million
of the broadcast television stats one year after it twitched

(14:04):
over to be a mostly Netflix thing. And also the
amount of exposure that these sports are getting on an
international stage is way up comparatively because of Netflix use
in all these other countries, although there were still streaming
issues and buffering issues and challenges. But I know that
this is being somewhat used as a negative because the
numbers were lower than television. But come on, it's on

(14:25):
Netflix and it's crushing it. For some reason, Netflix wants
to be TV, though we're slowly turning it into what
television used to be, and eventually people are not going
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once it has more live stuff and then more commercials
than all that other crap. But all right, that's a
big story out there as far as a quick five goes.
Another quick five that I thought was interesting, Florida is

(14:47):
going to start using radioactive material for its roadways. I
don't know how big of a deal this is actually
going to be. I know that it's a heck of
a headline. A lot of places, but there is some
byproduct of phosphorus mining that might be used as roadway
material that apparently, as it starts to evaporate and break apart,
actually does go radioactive.

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But hey, it's Florida, which is a place that I
actually live.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
And also we'll talk about Florida Man in a little
over an hour or so.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
So darn it. This feels like it fits right in there.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
And it's only going to be in a small area
for now, and we'll see how it works out and
how many people start glowing before we roll it out
to more places.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
I assume.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Also this story, which I thought was pretty interesting, scientists
have discovered a pill that they think will enhance the
life span of a dog, maybe a year, maybe more,
they're not exactly sure. In the press conference for the product,
I love that the people said we're not making dogs mortal,
not that people were asking for that, or who knows,

(15:48):
maybe they are, but we are extending their life. The
most exciting part of this, at least for some, is
the pill might eventually be relevant to humans to extend
our life, to give us a longer life span. However,
you might doubt any efficacy there, and I wouldn't blame
you for it, but for now, it is a beef
flavored daily pill designed for dogs that slows down their

(16:10):
metabolism and some other signs of aging, allows them to
have longer periods of time where they're you know, healthy
and in their prime before they start to get older.
So we'll see how that works. I will see what
good that does. It feels like it could be the
beginning of a terrible set of stories that involves.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Some horrible things.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
And actually, speaking of that just quickly as another Top
five topic, bird flu is the latest version of be
afraid of this during the end of the holiday season
and into next year, because we might use it to
shut everything down. There are multiple stories about bird flu outbreaks,
about mutations in the world of bird flu, pretty much

(16:49):
everything trying to fear you know, scare, fear monger, whatever,
us back into some version of well, we might have
to hide inside for a few months. We'll see if
they go that far. I imagine they won't. This feels
like the beginning stages of that. As far as a
lot of the reporting from Yahoo, CNN, pretty much everybody
on this topic. I am zero percent afraid of bird

(17:11):
flu right now. And I assume you are too and
good for us to not be afraid of that. We'll
see how the next year goes. One last thing too,
just quickly. Bill Clinton was discharged from the hospital after
being treated for the flu. I think it was just
regular and not of the bird flu variety. And some
things I love about the fact that the diet coke
button and Bill Clinton are in the news together has

(17:33):
made people wonder what the red button was that Bill
Clinton might have had installed when he was in the
White House and what it summoned for. I don't want
to answer that question. You don't want the answer to
that question. I have no idea what it is. I
think maybe I do. Anyway, quick break A lot more
coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

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Speaker 1 (18:57):
This is the Dana Show. My name is Collins, filling
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to her and everything she's got going on Dan Lash
or Dana Lash Radio as well. There are two relationships
that mainstream media, well maybe three.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I don't know if you want to call him two.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
But there are a few relationships let's go with that
one that mainstream media and a whole lot of politicians,
a whole lot of people throughout the world would like
to see obliterated. One of the first ones is Elon
Musk and Donald Trump. They'd like that to go away
in any platform, any scenario that it currently exists. They
do not want the world's richest man, a guy who

(19:37):
on paper should be wildly popular with Democrats but is not,
mostly because he's vocally opposed to them. That's a good
reason not to be and the most powerful man in
the world from a position of President of the United States,
That alone is a recipe that scares a lot of
people because of how much can be done, how much
you know, influence, or how many things.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Could be exposed via those two.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Working hand in hand. And of course ownership of x
or Twitter is a big part of that too. I
say three because I guess vivik Ramaswami and his relationship
with either Elon or Trump is sort of its own
thing too. I don't think anyone is as threatened by
a Vik's involvement of this stuff, but he's certainly the
next most high profile person. And then, finally, the last

(20:23):
relationship that mainstream media, legacy media, left leaning media, whatever
you want to call it, and a whole lot of
politicians would like to go away. Is our relationship with
those people, specifically with Elon and his social media platform.
They want you to hate him. They want you to
hate him because they don't want his influence to wind
up causing things like what happened with that spending bill.

(20:46):
That spending bill was eye opening to a lot of
the people in places of power because Elon, Musk and
Trump single handedly destroyed it, pulled a lot of money
out of a lot of hands, and fun to the
government for a few months with a much leaner, cleaner bill. So,
in response to that, the machine is at work or

(21:07):
whatever you want to call it, a tinfoil hat, you know,
if you want to call me that for saying this.
The latest version which might seem like a self inflicted wound,
avecan Elon went on social media of a ake more
so than Elon at first, and complained about a thing
that they think needs to happen. That would be specific

(21:28):
visas that allow tech companies to attract talent beyond the
United States, something that already exists and maybe even expand it.
Because there's just not enough talent here for those type
of high end jobs.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
This caused an explosion on social.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Media, with a lot of people and a lot of
media telling you that MAGA is turning on Elon and
on vivike Ramaswami because of their interest in not being
America first, or whatever it is. So a few things
matter about this topic. First and foremost, it's simply true.
It might make you mad to say it out loud,

(22:01):
you might refuse to believe it, but the amount of
talent for these types of jobs is less and less
coming from our country because less and less people educated
in our country, born and raised here, are the best
of the best in that world. That's not a good thing.
That's a thing we can fix. We can fix it
in a few different ways. One of them is probably

(22:22):
dismantling the Department of Education and rebuilding something that has
a better focus on educating our you know, young people
in ways that matter, and not brainwashing them in ways
that don't. But the truth is that that system is broken.
In math alone, if you look at us compared to
other well developed countries, we're toward the bottom in test

(22:43):
results and in achievement results and that's just that's one
caveat of what it would create. You know, the recipe
needed to create a really really good engineer or a
tech sector employee. So this is simply a true thing.
And I believe actually the avg Ramaswami or an Elon
Musk and having this discussion via social media with the

(23:05):
American people was to get to that point, to get
to the point of how you can reshape it and
change it and make it different and you know, make
it better so that more Americans are getting these jobs
and they're not being sent to other places. It's also
completely devoid of any discussion about illegal immigration. A legal
immigration is not bringing in the best of the best,
as Trump famously said, it's bringing a whole lot of

(23:28):
people that we have no idea who they are or
you know what their intention is. Well, they're here. You
can't pretend you know who they are, because the whole
thing about being illegal is we don't. Even more so
than that, this discussion about people who have high end
skills that we don't have here makes us a more
innovative country. It makes us more capable. If the best people,
the cream of the crop, are being skimmed off the

(23:49):
top of other places because they want to live in
our country, they want to succeed in our country because
it's the best place for them to be. But beyond
that too, the other thing I keep thinking is this
is just the beginning the amount of discussions that are
going to exist that will try to convince everyday Americans
that you need to hate elon and of evague, which

(24:11):
was already existing for a while and already convinced anyone
that's on Blue Sky, which by the way, that social
media platform recently was found to be incredibly toxic and hateful.
Some deep dive into the amount of things that are
allowed on there. Granted they're all heavily one sided, but
like death threats and stuff, it all exists on Blue Sky.
It's just all the things that liberals want to do

(24:33):
to hurt Republicans. So that's allowed, and the other stuff isn't.
I find that funny in just a very different way.
But nonetheless, all these ways to try to vilify and
change and destroy this relationship are all in intention that
comes from the desire of the elite to keep doing
their own thing in their own world and not have
to deal with us. Even though because we're the voters

(24:53):
who put them in positions of power. We actually have power.
And I'll say one other thing about this. I don't
mean to rant about this topic on a holiday show,
but I can't help it. You probably know people in
your life. You might even be someone who believes a
version of this. I'm a gun owner. I believe in
the Second Amendment. I do believe the reason the Second
Amendment exists is partially because the founding fathers envisioned a

(25:16):
world where the government turned on the people and the
people would have to fight it. And that makes sense
because they were currently fighting a group of people that
were claiming to be in charge of them that they
thought didn't have their best interest to the heart. So
of course they built that into the system of the
country they were creating. But the reason I'm saying all
this is because a lot of people will say, as
you complain about the system, the political world we live

(25:38):
in DC, whatever it might be, people immediately stand up
somewhere in the conversation and go, well, you're not talking
about a revolution, right, You're not begging for people to
take up arms and go attack you know, DC, or
attack anywhere. How dare you say that that's horrible and
terrible and you'll start an uprising and we'll all be screwed.
And I'm not saying that I don't think we should

(25:59):
do that. I don't want to be confused as saying that.
But this version of our voices being able to matter
via a social media platform that's not overly censored and
has a direct connection to the current guy in charge
as the president of the United States, that feels like
a valuable way to quote unquote revolt without any danger,
without without any violence happening in the streets. And so

(26:22):
you'd think more people would advocate for that, more people
would be supporters of the idea that there's this platform
and this leader of you know, said platform, or just
richest guy in the world who's connected to a power
structure and willing to change it.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
I mean, it's amazing that.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
More people aren't thrilled that our spending bill went from
fifteen hundred pages to way less pages and way less money,
just simply because it's a good thing. And if there
is unique funding that's missing within there, as I said
the other day, and I'll say again, that does things
like you know, benefit research that's tied to cancer and

(27:01):
kids and trying to prevent it or trying to fight it.
Then fund that, then the American people will be okay
with that.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
But fund that on its own.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Don't fund that in a lump sum bill where you're
hiding a lot of the stuff that we're not supposed
to know about.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
But I just think this is fascinating.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't know how you feel about the statement that
the tech sector itself needs people to work in it
that don't get educated or aren't from the United States.
And I don't care actually how you feel, because it's
simply a fact right now, and a fact we can change.
And that's the point to me. The point is not
to bash the United States for the sake of bashing it,

(27:36):
like so many liberal idiots do, but to demonstrate that
we have a unique power structure that allows us to
make some awesome, awesome adjustments and look toward the future
in a valuable way. All Right, that was a long
rant on that I want to play one other thing.
This is not serious. Let's call this a palette cleanser,
because I definitely found it silly. A woman went viral

(27:58):
for pretending to be a dude on a day she
asked her friend. She's like, hey, can I use your photo?
Can I pretend to be you? Because you complain all
the time that dating apps are hard for guys and
you can't meet women and no one has interest in you,
And she is an attractive woman thinks dating apps are
really easy. Know that you must be doing something wrong.
I'll play the audio. She'll say all that, but.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
She's probably an eight and nine out of ten as
far as physical attractiveness goes, and a young woman, so
I imagine dating apps for her not much of a
challenge at all. But she says that she's surprised her friend,
who she gave a six out of ten that's got
a hurt, would struggle a lot, just based on her
three day experience.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Here we go.

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Some one of my guy friends gave me permission to
make a Hinge account for him because I was telling
him how easy dating is with dating apps, and he
was telling me that it's incredibly difficult, and I was like, Pete,
you must be doing something wrong.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Silly Pete, and he.

Speaker 9 (28:54):
Gave me permission to create an account for him and
just run the account.

Speaker 10 (28:58):
I've been a virtual boy fors and I've never felt.

Speaker 11 (29:02):
This bad about myself.

Speaker 10 (29:04):
I feel like a freaking loser trying to get these
girls to like me. And I'm starting to hate women
because I'm like when I say, I mean Pete, because
that's the account I'm you see, Pete's about a six.
I'm so desperate. I'm liking the twos and the threes,
and even they won't like me back Pete, which is
a six. So what level of delusion has injured women's head?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh that's a harsh critique. That's from a woman toward women.
I don't send the hate letters to me if you
want to send them in I love that that.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
She says.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
She took two shots at Pete, calling him a six
twice didn't need to happen. But she said she's liking
the twos and the threes and they're not giving him
time a day. If there's ever a conversation or the
potential for one, and I don't know how you know
valuable this actually is compared to everybody's experience, but I
do think it's it's important to at least enter into

(29:54):
the psyche of what could be going on. But there's
ever a discussion about how challenge some things have gotten
in our society because of social media, because of technology.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
For both men and women.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
It's this a lot of women feel pressure to look
a certain way to have a certain level of popularity online,
and it says it's causing a lot of depression in
young women, the need to.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I don't know what it would be, get.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
A lot of likes and follows and things based on
being physically attractive. And then for a lot of dudes
who can't get time of day with most people who
are now dating on apps, it seems like it's also
a pretty significant problem that's causing a whole lot of
depression and other issues. So, for whatever reason, the society
we live in and the technology of it is doing
a lot more harm than good to a whole lot

(30:43):
of us. And this lady went viral for admitting how
challenging it was for her to get anybody to like her.
Although if she turns on the app again and gets
to be herself, not that hard at all, All right,
quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Data.

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Speaker 1 (32:26):
stuff out there to talk about. I do love the
story of the Peruvian cop who was dressed up as
a Grinch and actually led a drug bust.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
I love a couple things about it.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
The first thing I love about it is that the
cop said he had to do it had to be undercovered.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
There was a festival going on.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
I got a dressed like the Grinch so I can
make my way through the festival and then get to
the area where doing the drug bust. He then is
given a sledgehammer, So there's a video of a grinch
guy sledgehammering his way through a door and then arresting people,
putting people in handcuffs while navigating the giant pause. He
has for hands all of it amazing, and two things

(33:07):
I'll say about it. First, the criminals will never forget
the day they were arrested by the Grinch, and this
police officer will probably never forget the day that he
got to be the Grinch and arrest a bunch of
people and how much fun he had doing that. And
I imagine he's going to ask to have that assignment
again in the future at some point. Who knows, but
I'm just assuming that's going to be a thing because
it seems awesome. Other stuff out there that I thought

(33:30):
was kind of interesting. Of course, the Mega Millions jackpot
is at one point one five billion dollars. I'm probably
even going to creep up a little bit higher than that.
So a whole lot of people are buying tickets and
hoping that you're going to win a whole lot of money,
And what would you do with that money is typically
the question that people ask. The only thing I'll say

(33:51):
in response to it. My favorite idea is that a
whole bunch of people think they could remain anonymous, and
not just because whatever state you're in might allow you
to be anonymous, and a whole lot don't, and only
a few do. But what world are we living in
were you and most of the people you know wouldn't
spend some of that money and obviously be someone who
won a whole bunch recently. If you were given a

(34:13):
billion dollars or well four hundred five hundred million, whatever
the lump sum payment is, I don't know anyone who
wouldn't start to make some life decisions that would make
me aware relatively quickly that they just want a whole
lot of money, especially if, like the anonymous winner was
in my state or even in my hometown area. But
I love that everyone assumes you could just walk through

(34:35):
life and be a guy who all of a sudden
has a billion in the bank and nobody knows about it.
The only people that can do that have a tremendous
amount of money in the bank already. If you're someone
that doesn't have a lot and you win a whole
lot all at once, here's my little, like, you know,
piece of information. People are gonna know you won, They're
gonna know, and no one's gonna care.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Well, a lot of people are gonna care.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Actually I should take that back, but they're not gonna
you know, you know, act as though the thing you
did was somehow something that they couldn't figure out, because
why would you want them to. Why would you not
buy some stuff? I would buy a lot of things.
And actually I had one friend tell me this, and
I love this too. He said that he heard an
expert talk about if you win a whole lot of money,

(35:17):
that you should get buying out of your system, like
set aside a few million dollars, whatever amount it is,
buy some crazy stuff and then you'll probably not need
to do that again.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
I don't know what kind of.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
World that person lives in, either, because if you let
that you know, cage or animal out of.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
The cage, If you let that situation go loose, I feel.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Like you're going back to the well over and over again,
and you're only telling yourself just one more million. Luckily,
in the world of a billion dollars or you know,
half a billion, if you do the lump sum, it's
not a lot of ways to spend all that all
at once. You're not going to be poor as quickly
as some people who win the lottery sadly wind up being,
because it's just too much money for most of us

(35:58):
to spend, no matter how much people come out of
the woodwork asking for a little bit of a cash
benefit of their own.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
But anyway, what I.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Would do, just to further this discussion, I'd buy at
least one fancy vehicle, at least one fancy home, and
maybe some other things. But that would happen relatively quickly,
and all of a sudden, you'd come over to visit me,
and I'd be in a much nicer place and not
really all that worried about paying those bills, and you'd
think to yourself, you definitely have more money than you
used to. It would be that obvious that quickly. I

(36:27):
also wouldn't do regular chores. I'd have people doing some
chores for me, you know, like the lawn would no
longer be mowed by me ever again. And that's something
that might be a bit of a hint, not a
whole lot of one, but a little bit of one,
especially when my lawn tripled in size overnight. But all right,
on that note, we can take a break. We can
talk about some serious stuff and some silly stuff coming up.

(36:48):
There's a really crazy story about a body found in
the wheel well of a flight from Chicago to Miami.
We still don't have a lot of information about who
or why that happened. I will discuss as much as
we know about that and quite a bit in the
world of politics.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
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Speaker 1 (38:15):
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Byron Donald's went viral for something you said on TV

(38:37):
that a lot of us probably agree makes sense because
when you commute the sentence of thirty seven out of
forty people who are on death row, only three people,
in your mind are people who didn't deserve that, which
it's still life without the possibility of parole, but it's
not the same punishment part of you might wonder if
the person actually signing that piece of paper understands what

(38:59):
they're doing, And Byron Donald said, there's probably a real
good chance that he didn't. And it was just the
latest thing that they forced Biden to do since they
basically control this man. Oh and now he's also on
vacation up until the end of his presidency, basically because
why not I take one more vacation on the taxpayer dollars.
He spent more time on vacation than working over the well,

(39:20):
who knows if he was working on the days he
wasn't on vacation. I think he might have been shoved
in the closet somewhere. But anyway, he supposedly spent more
days on vacation than working, according to a recent analysis.
But here's what Byron said.

Speaker 12 (39:31):
Look, I think what's happening with Joe Biden. Nobody thinks
he even knows about these clemencies or these pardons. This
is the radical left staff that has been running this
administration for the last four years. And so I agree
with President Trump and what he said about these thirty
seven individuals who've been granted clemency. This is outrageous. They

(39:52):
should not have a merry Christmas. To be perfectly blunt with.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
You, and they can go to hell. Is something else
that Trump said, by the way.

Speaker 12 (39:58):
But this is because we have the radical left doing
all the things they've been wanting to do for a
very long time on their way out the door, while
Joe Biden's at the beach or taking a nap or
whatever it is he's here, do you.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Think, Yeah, And he might even just be signing some
pieces of paper that are being put on his desk
and then getting to go back outside, which apparently is
the case.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
There was also the story about.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
How Jill Biden had a big plan doctor Jill, doctor Biden.
I think, is I actually have to call you that
the doctor? It is not in any sort of medical field.
Also important to mention, but nonetheless, she had her own
revenge tour that she had planned that she wanted Biden
to go about completing before he was done with his
time in office. And she's probably chit chatting it with

(40:39):
about with him about that as they're sitting at a
beach somewhere. Another story out there that's terrifying for a
couple reasons. And I'm going to play some audio from
WGNTV in Chicago, where they interview someone that talks about
just how uniquely hard it would be to get into
the wheel well of a plane. Planes that are typically
supposed to be inspected every time they landed any kind

(41:01):
of airport a wheel well that you'd only have access
to from outside, meaning that essentially someone would have to
approach this plane before it took off, climb into this
area of the plane, maybe unaware that it's not connected
to the rest of the plane, which means you can't
get in to any of the other parts of the plane,
and after the wheel.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Gets pulled up, you freeze to death.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
This is the type of story we've sadly seen before
in places where people are desperate to flee from some
sort of other country and make it to places like here.
But it's something that happened. A plane flew from Chicago
to Maui. I think this was right around a Christmas
Day and a body was found when the plane landed
in Maui. Here is some of that coverage from WGN

(41:44):
News at Chicago and them talking to an expert about
how difficult this would be someone who works with the airline.

Speaker 13 (41:50):
We look at all the flight services, and especially in
the gearwell. We make sure there's no personnel or anybody
in there. Every aircraft has to be inspected right before flight,
after all the ground equipment.

Speaker 8 (42:02):
Is clear of it, and after all the ground personnel
aren't clear of it.

Speaker 12 (42:05):
They tried to discovery on Christmas Eve a body found
inside of the will well of a United Airlines flight.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yeah, we have very little information right now as to
who the person is or anything about it. Maui police
have told me that, or have told not me. I've
told the world they're going to investigate this, so we'll
see what result that is. It is hard to not
guess that this is a situation involving someone who's in
Chicago that might not be there legally, since there's a

(42:32):
whole lot of people living there right now that are
not there legally, that would have been desperate to go
somewhere else, somewhere warmer than it is in Chicago right now,
and Maui would sounded like a good destination. Unfortunately, climbing
into the wheel well of a plane does not give
you the opportunity to land safely somewhere. You die, and
you usually die of freezing to death. If you actually

(42:55):
successfully make it up into that area safely somehow, which
again is from tmendously difficult to do and probably happened.
But they'll do more research into that. We'll eventually probably
who knows no more, but it won't I assume, inspire
conversations about one of the many reasons, however rare, that
it's bad that we have so many people here without

(43:17):
the right to be here, and they shouldn't be here
for a variety of reasons. All Right, One other thing
I want to play. Scott Jennings has been going viral
a lot recently. While on CNN, he talked about the
Panama Canal and Trump's reference to maybe taking it back
from Panama, Trump's concern about Chinese influence in that area

(43:38):
or throughout a lot of places that might impact the
United States, and Jennings was definitely okay with how Trump
is making this a topic in a lot of people's brains,
and CNN seemed very much upset with Scott being fine
with this.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Here's a little bit of that back and.

Speaker 14 (43:53):
Forth over the Panama Canal.

Speaker 15 (43:55):
Well, I tell you what is very serious, and that
is pushing back on the encroachment of Chinese influence in
the Western hemisphere, Yes I do. I think Donald Trump
is trying to send a message to the Chinese, and
he's also trying to send a message to everyone else
in the hemisphere that I'm not going to put up
with this encroachment. Now, what is true is that China
is having encroachment in this hemisphere, in Africa, all over

(44:16):
the world. They are trying to act like the world's
leading superpower. They are trying to exert their values and
their way of life all over the world.

Speaker 13 (44:24):
That used to be our job.

Speaker 15 (44:25):
And I think what Donald Trump is saying here is
I don't want this in my backyard.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
America is the world's superpower.

Speaker 15 (44:31):
More America is better, and I'm sending a message that
I'm not going to put up with this sort of
creeping Chinese influence.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
And by the way, sometimes the.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Steps to do that involve telling the people who are
cooperating with China that it will harm you if you
keep cooperating with China in some way that feels like
what's happening with the Panama Canal. If Panama keeps doing
things that seem to benefit people that are not us,
we might take our gift back of the pan A
Canal that we give you a while ago, or at

(45:02):
least threatened to do it, so fees get lowered and
so relationships change.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
That essentially is a good move.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
I love how CNN, though, seemed to really hate, as
I said a second ago, this kind of answer, because
they pushed back even harder, being like, well, what about Panama.
That relationship is tremendously important, right, it's in my own backyard.

Speaker 14 (45:21):
But give me help me with this thinking though really quick,
and Karen, I'll bring you in a second. But if
it really if it angers Panama, if it hurts relations
with Panama, the calculation is it won't and it doesn't matter.

Speaker 15 (45:32):
Do I care if Panama is angry?

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Okay, I gotta stop that.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Panama not exactly a country we need to fear, but
definitely a great reference to Van Halen.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, I love this.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
There you go, Van Halen pops up to have a
say in the Panama discussion. I'm all for it. By
the way, that song is about a car, not about
the country or the Panama Canal.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Well, but nonetheless just a great honestly a drop.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
I should have just set up for shows that I
do in general. Ah, really good stuff.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
But anyway.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Yes, just Scott Jennings's point, we don't really care what
Panama thinks of us, and if they get all mad
at us, because we're powerful enough to not care about that,
and they'll probably do what we want if we just
exert a little bit of authority or even the threat
of authority, which is something that is tremendously scary on
the left. I love that about a lot of these discussions.

(46:31):
You don't empower, you know, allies by treating them like
they're more intimidating than us. And that's something that we
do a lot when the certain side of the Aisle
is in charge and running things in our country. We
act as though we're equivalent to all of our allies
when we're simply not. And it doesn't make them appreciate

(46:53):
the relationship they have with us as much as it should.
It doesn't make them fearful of us, you know, deciding
that wait a minute, there are certain lines you can't cross.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Ukraine is a great example right now.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Ukraine is a country that was attacked, that was invaded,
that had every right to defend itself, and we had
a lot of reasons to want to help prevent Russia
from taking more territory in that area and even fight
a quote unquote proxy war with Russia through Ukraine. There
was a lot of value in doing that, writing blank
checks to that country, telling them they can wage that

(47:26):
fight whatever way they want, to whatever degree they want,
and that if a solution could be found that involves
giving up contested territory that we never would have helped
them defend, a territory that they've been fighting to defend
for years after the annexing of Crimea.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
But we're allowing them now.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
To try to fight and even say out loud that
they're going to try to take Crimea back with our
weapons and our money, and acting as though they're allowed
to make those decisions, and we'll just keep signing the checks.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
That's terrible.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
That doesn't allow us to be equivalent partners or any
version of actual partners the way the poweredynamic exists. Instead,
it allows them to call the shots, and that has
gone poorly for Ukraine, it's gone poorly for the world.
And I think that if there is an inevitably a
peace agreement, and even Zelenski has said this recently, it
will involve surrendering some of that contested area in the

(48:15):
Donbas region or wherever to Russia, something that could have happened,
say a year ago, and didn't because of who was
in charge and how we were writing those checks then,
and the things that we were allowing Ukraine to say
with our might and our money being the thing they'd
wield to back up those words. That does matter, no
matter what you think. And I'm not pro Russia taking

(48:37):
any of Ukraine. It's just a byproduct of a way
to get a peace agreement that is going to exist
forever because Ukraine can't fight endless war with Russia and win.
They just can't do that. But anyway, as you talk
about these topics, as you see these things play out,
you just wish that we had more powerful people in
positions that matter, stronger willed individuals. And this is one

(49:00):
of those examples of someone who's at least exerting the
potential to be strong willed. If someone doesn't listen and
play ball the minute we start throwing out the threats,
all right, quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on the Dana Show.

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it's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Not one to ever miss an opportunity. This politician a
New Hampshire, a Democrat, Annie Custer, said that she's leaving
Congress and the reason she's doing it is because Trump
tried to kill her in twenty twenty one on January sixth.
Of course, it took a while to actually get over
that and decide to leave, but she's doing it now.
She also had said several times she didn't want to

(49:57):
make a life out of being a politician, but that's
not why he's doing it because of Trump. That was
one story out there that I found uniquely dumb. Applebee's
in Times Square in New York is charging a crazy
amount of money per person to have Applebee's for four hours.
Will you watch the ball drop from about a block away?
You can actually also get escorted to be a little

(50:17):
bit closer to the ball drop if you don't want
to stay in this fancy Applebee's up until midnight. Seven
hundred and twenty nine dollars per person if you bring
a party of eight, If you go all the way
down to a party of just two.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
It's about one thousand bucks per person.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
And if you want the super exclusive private table experience
that two people can get there, I have no idea
what additional benefits Applebee's throws at you.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
It's two two.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
Hundred and ninety nine dollars, which is insane and honestly,
out of all the places you could go in Times
Square to be a part of the ball drop, dropping
a grand on an Applebee's experience just seems wrong. You
could do better, and you can do better for about
the same amount of money, I'd imagine. Probably part of
the reason apple Bees is still not sold out yet
when most of the other surrounding places are. So maybe

(51:03):
that's the problem. Just plan ahead and go next year,
not now. A person went viral for trying to bite
through a jawbreaker for an everlasting gobstopper, as it's also called,
and actually broke their jaw in two places. The person
wound up in the hospital. It's a teenager. She said,
do not try this.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Do not do this. It's not a good move.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Feel like you just got to read that box and
when it says jawbreaker, you can take them seriously. And
even if you didn't take them seriously, I don't know
why anyone would try to chew through that heart of
a candy without at least enjoying some of the delicious
flavor of said godstopper by just having it in your
mouth for a day and a half, however long it
takes for it to soften up. I would not go
that road at all. I'm just putting it out there.

(51:46):
One other thing, and this is another story.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
I do like it too.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Apparently a woman bought herself a ton of Chipotle forks
for Christmas and then bragged about it online. And when
I say a ton, I mean like fifteen hundred from Chipotle,
and a lot of people online actually genuinely seem jealous
of her decision to buy herself plastic forks.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Some people seem to believe that.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
The Chipotle fork is better than other plastic forks out there,
and it even makes food specifically from Chipotle, taste better.
But she said the hack is just walk up to
Chipotle and seem like a crazy person who wants to
buy a box of their forks, But you could do that.
Anybody can do it. Fifteen hundred Chipotle forks for Christmas
seems like a very boring gift to me, but to

(52:30):
about half a million people who viewed her a video
and reacted to it, it seems like it's a good
gift for some. If you know anyone out there that
wants a bunch of plastic Chipotle forks, you can make
their holiday so much better even after Christmas by just
swinging in and purchasing it. And then one last one
I saw one last quick five topic. Children in Poland

(52:50):
are being taught how to assemble and disassemble guns, including
assault rifles, and even taught how to use them age
thirteen and up. This is because of their fear of
being attacked by Russia that children of that age or
just slightly older would be more than capable in the
world of guns. I think that's actually cool, and I
wish I had grown up there at that time to

(53:11):
have been taught this when I was thirteen. As someone
who just got into gun owning over the last couple
of years and is still probably not as good of
a shot, as some of these kids are going to
be in just a short amount of training. Are ridiculous videos,
though online a lot of reactions to it. Nonetheless probably
also an intelligent move in order to protect yourself in
a unique way at a unique time. And again something

(53:32):
I'm jealous and WHI should happen to me? Quick break
a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
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Speaker 1 (53:49):
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great ways to stay connected. Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank Guy,
a Canadian actually by the way, expressed his support for
the idea of turning Canada into the fifty first state

(54:13):
on television. I thought this was pretty funny some of
the stuff he said, and how many Canadians he thinks
actually would love this idea too. They would love to
be welcomed into the open arms of the US, something
that Trump has joked about and actually also kind of threatened.
If Canada doesn't understand how much they need, the value
was and how much value we bring to them, we

(54:33):
can show them in a very different way.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Here's a leary.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
There's forty one million Canadians, basically the population of California,
sitting on the world's largest amounts of all resources, including
the most important energy and water. Canadians over the holidays
the last two days have been talking about this. They
want to hear more, and so you know, there's obviously
a lot of issues, more details.

Speaker 16 (54:56):
But what this could be is the beginning of an
economic union. Think about the power combining the two economies,
erasing the border between Canada and the United States and
putting all that resource up to the northern borders where
China and Russia are knocking on the door. So secure
that give a common currency, figure out taxes across the board,
get everything trading both ways, create a new almost EUO

(55:20):
like passport. I like this idea, and at least half
of Canadians are interested. The problem is the government's collapsing
in Canada right now. Nobody wants Trudeau to negotiate this steal.
I don't want them doing it for me. So I'm
going to go to.

Speaker 6 (55:34):
Mar A Lago.

Speaker 13 (55:34):
I'll start the narrative.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
The forty one million Canadians, I think most of them
would trust me on this steal.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I love that that He's like, I'll do it.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
I only trust myself to go ahead and sit in
the room and negotiate with Trump about the purchasing and
or acquiring of Canada to turn it into our fifty
first state.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
That's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
I love how many people have been on board. If
you actually ask people in certain sectors about the desire
to acquire Greenland, the desire to take back the Panama Canal,
any of these things, all of them people resoundingly say,
who look at it as just a business move? Like, oh, good,
good call, good decision there, wonderful idea. You're seeing a

(56:14):
lot of that. I thought this was interesting too. This
went viral. This is a few different people on a
stage in Canada debating what they think the biggest business
successes of twenty twenty four were. And actually everybody seemed
to be of a similar opinion that the biggest business
winner of this year is Elon Musk, and the biggest

(56:34):
success is X or Twitter, so much so that this
is the way these guys answer the question what is
your biggest business win in twenty twenty four?

Speaker 17 (56:43):
I think the biggest business winner of twenty twenty four
is the business of speech. And what I mean by
that is I think that we have made freedom of
speech a successful business model.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
Yes, it seems to have worked.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Yeah, who's your biggest business winner?

Speaker 13 (57:06):
Sacks?

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Well, I wanted to be original, but I really could
and I thought it was so obvious.

Speaker 13 (57:11):
This year it has to be Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Yes, he's worth even more money on Musk, that's always
a safe choice. Anybody else do you have? At Stay, Sex, Starlink, Elon?
Everybody evolved over there.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
They're the business winners free speech and acts and Twitter
whatever it might be, just winner after winn all over
the place for Elon, unless you live here in this
country and pay attention to our mainstream news media that
somehow says that things are terrible for him, are terrible
across the board when they're obviously not all right.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
That's one big thing out there.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
There are some other giant topics of discussion and something
I'm going to get to a little bit later on,
but I love a lot and I'll just recommend you
check it out now because I'm going to try to
pair it down a little bit. But Tom Elliott a
graby and put up a great the biggest media misses
or the most embarrassing media moments of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
It's like ten minutes long.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
It goes through a lot of things that definitely are
exactly on target for what he's talking about there, And
like I said, i'll play it in a little bit,
but he's he's right again, and that's a guy you
should be following, a guy you should be paying attention
to on social media because of all the expert things
he does to mash these videos up. All Right, One
other thing that I do like that's out there, and

(58:23):
this is Byron Donald's. Byron Donalds talked a bit and
I played some of this audio before about President Biden
maybe not being aware of what he was doing, the
stuff he was signing, and the people that he was commuting.
The sentences of Byron Donalds also had a pretty strong
opinion as to what's gone wrong over the last few
years as far as the Democrats being in power and

(58:46):
why it became so obviously important to put someone else
in as far as the power dynamic in this country,
and I got to say, I can't argue with anything.
Here's a little bit of what he said in Fox News.

Speaker 12 (58:58):
I mean, no, we've not heard much from the Democrats.
They're too busy licking their wounds and trying to figure
out which way they need to conduct their party. But look,
are they happy about the fact that Kamala Harris was
blown out?

Speaker 13 (59:09):
No they're not.

Speaker 12 (59:10):
But is anybody thinking that they're going to do anything
about it? No, they're not. Donald Trump's going to be
the president of the United States. He's going to get
this these elections certified on January sixth, He's going to
get inaugurated on January twentieth. The Democrats aren't going to
like it, but those are the breaks because they had
an opportunity to run this country and what they did
was they ran it into the ground. Massively open borders,

(59:31):
foreign policy that's a mess, massive inflation, censoring the American people.
The list goes on.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
And on, and list is bad. The list is not good.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
And I agree with him wholeheartedly that for that reason,
more than anything else. Things have happened the way they have.
You know, I've said this before, and I had a
friend to ask me this recently. What do you think
the big change was this year compared to four years
ago that caused Trump to win so candidly or so handedly.
Not necessarily the cheating stuff, but what else might have changed.

(01:00:02):
Do you think a lot of votes went from one
side to the other, and there's proof of that, especially
younger voters. But I think a lot of Democratic voters
are just disenfranchised with their own party. And I think
there's a chance that a whole lot of people just
didn't vote because they didn't care enough to vote this
year on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that
benefited Republicans fairly significantly in winning the popular vote, winning

(01:00:23):
everything that they did. Granted, I can just as easily
be convinced that it was simply a surge of people
switching their vote from one side to the other. But
if you actually believe the turnout of twenty twenty, and
how remarkably unique it was, and how much bigger it
was than any other election we've ever had or probably
ever will have, than part of the issue too, is

(01:00:43):
a whole lot less people cared enough to vote, and
that is because of how crushing it must have been
to have voted for Biden and watch him screw up
so badly on so many issues. I'm just assuming that
I luckily didn't vote for him, but nonetheless something that
I think would probably make you, at the very least
just not show up, if not go ahead and punch
the other ticket. One last thing that I wanted to

(01:01:05):
discuss kind of quickly here. Cash Battel and Tulsi Gabbert
feel as though they're two of the most important people
the Trump is put forward as names to run unique
parts of our bureaucracy. Cash Betel of course would be
nominated to run the FBI, and then the top spy
would be Tulsa Gabbert. The top spook or national Intelligence

(01:01:29):
would be run by her. So much so these two
names being important not just in the way in which
they have a critical eye toward the departments they'd be
in charge of, but also enough outsider detachment from any
of that corrupt craft that might exist there that they're
not going to own anybody favors. There's not going to

(01:01:49):
be anybody that they know well, any friends of theirs
that they'd feel bad getting in trouble for something, at
least I hope not so that they'd be better at
this than someone who, say, a career long FBI agent
who's risen the ranks maybe somehow been like the and
I think I've said this before, the James Gordon of
the industry, where he's the only person who's not corrupt

(01:02:12):
around a lot of corrupt people, and yet he's still
going to try to rise to the top and even
out that playing field well, owing a lot of people
at least something. I'd assume that won't be the case
for either of these individuals, So much so that a
former FBI and CIA head who's one hundred years old
stepped forward to say that he thinks this is a

(01:02:32):
terrible idea. He gave different reasons for both, and he's
the only living person to have run both the FBI
and the CIA. His name is William Webster. He actually
ran one for Ronald Reagan and then was put in
charge of the other one right before Reagan left office.
So interesting that he would have unique experience with specific politicians.

(01:02:54):
But he says that cash Bettel is too close to
Trump and too likely to do favors for Trump, and
that Telsea Gabbert is just too inexperienced to be in
a leadership position in her role because it would weaken
our cia. I think that's insane, and I think it's
insane for a lot of reasons, but I'll keep saying

(01:03:15):
the most obvious one out loud. First, we could fire
people if people are put in positions of power, if
they don't work out in those positions. If all of
these shortcomings wind up being true, you would think we'd
know this relatively quickly, and we can remove people from
these positions if they're failing at their jobs. It's not
that hard. The president can do it. I don't know
why we pretend like you can't do that at all.

(01:03:37):
But more importantly than that, if these individuals are put
in a place of power to upend some of the system,
then of course the system is coming for them. It
feels like you're the most over the target you've ever
been when you find someone who's one hundred years old,
who hasn't, you know, put out a lot of political
positions in recent years, that's willing to sign a letter

(01:03:59):
that says neither of these people deserve these jobs. You
also have the New Yorker out there saying that cash
Mattel is definitely going to weaponize the FBI to hurt
everyday Americans, and I always laugh that off for a
variety of reasons, but the biggest one being that if
government is infighting, if Trump is putting people in positions

(01:04:20):
of power to go after corruption and government, or even
if the other side is doing something to corrupt some
more things or harm some more people, or whoever is
doing whatever, on both sides, it's usually only themselves who
are the target. It's actually kind of weird to equate
this to what I'm about to compare it to, but
I can't help it. If you were ever to live

(01:04:40):
in Chicago, and I lived there for many years, you
know that the South Side is essentially a very dangerous
part of the city where a lot of bad things
happen and where people get the impression that all of
Chicago is wasteland.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
And if you live on the.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
North Side, you feel like you're as safe as in
any other big city in the world that's not necessarily
any more rampant with Crome. Then you know you feel
like you are because it's a very different place. So essentially,
sometimes the problem exists in just smaller cones of society
and not in society at large. And so in the

(01:05:13):
world of infighting and corruption and you know, people being
held accountable to stuff they did or accused of stuff
they didn't do for political reasons, the targets are just
going to be other politicians. They're never going to be us,
everyday Americans. I'm not going to be hauled into a
courtroom somewhere because of something I'm accused of doing. Well,
maybe for what I say on this show, but not

(01:05:34):
in general for some of my other actions in life,
because I'm not the target on either side. And right now,
it feels like Trump is very much circling the things
that matter, or at least the people he's recommending to
be in charge would be circling the things that matter
because of the way the system is trying to knee
jerk reaction and kick them out of their position of power.

(01:05:54):
And one last thing too, and I'll just say this
and maybe dive into it a little bit more on
in the show, but all of the discussion about Elon Musk,
Donald Trump, Vivak Ramaswami Doje, all of that stuff, whether
it's trying to convince you that you need to be
anti Elon and Vivek, or that Maga is turning on them,

(01:06:15):
or that Trump and Elon are fighting, or whatever it
might be.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
All of those things are designed to break apart a
system that is scary as heck.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Sari as hell, I should say.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
To politicians and to all the people that like to
do things behind closed doors, because having a connection between
everyday Americans and a social media platform that's not going
to censor them, and the person in charge of the
country as cleanly as it exists to change things like
a spending bill is something that terrifies the elite and

(01:06:48):
terrifies the establishment, and they want to destroy any way
they can. So most of the news you're going to
hear in one way, shape or form, is designed to
do just that, and so a lot of it deserves
to be ignored. But I'll talk about some of those
things maybe a little later on in the show. This
is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
It's his laugh mission to make bad decisions. It's time
for Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Man, that's right, It's time for Florida Man on the
Dana Show. I decided, I'm going to do something special
for today and Monday. I'm going to do some of
the best Florida Man stories of twenty twenty four, not
maybe the newest ones, but the best ones in honor
of the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
A few for today.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Not my fault that truck don't surf was the answer
of Florida man gave after getting arrested for driving his
car into the ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
This happened back in February of this year.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
The guy obviously seemed to think that, hey, maybe it
does float, maybe it doesn't. We'll all find out together.
The answer, no, that's one of the best Florida Man
stories of the year. Another one that made my top
ten list, if that's what we're doing here and maybe again.
On Monday, Florida man impersonated a security guard to get
into a Taylor Swift concert. He was arrested for trying

(01:08:03):
that road. Apparently, the forty four year old guy who
described himself as an absolute swifty this happened in October
of this year, By the way, didn't do enough to
convince people that he actually was in fact a security guard.
Many people noticed him as someone that didn't seem to belong,
eventually turning him over to authorities. Another Florida man that
made news in twenty twenty four had an hour's long

(01:08:26):
junk food feast inside a closed Walgreens. According to cops,
this happened back in July. The Florida man was arrested
as he indulged in all kinds of things after being
accidentally locked into the Walgreens.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Seemed he thought that that was what was allowed.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Then you know, you're in the bathroom for five hours,
you get locked in because people do not still know
you're in there, and then once you open the door
and you're alone, now everything's free. At least until they
opened the door and arrest me. That would be a problem,
Doctor Pepper Newport. Cigarettes apparently were smoked, Raese's candy, spinach chip,

(01:09:02):
all kinds of things used, geared Deli chocolate consumed in
mass quantities. The guy thought, I'm making the most out
of my time locked inside of Walgreens. Another of the
legendary Florida men of twenty twenty four, and then one
last one for right now, a Florida woman stormed into
an area after going into a gas station and buying

(01:09:23):
a mask, then trying to rob a bank across the
street from the gas station. All of that caught on video,
because darn it, how stupid do you have to be
to be like, they're not gonna see me over here,
I'm gonna do this and then go over there. I'm
easily crackedcase. Not something that you should try yourself. If
it's something you're thinking about doing, maybe just bring the

(01:09:45):
mask from home.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
It's probably not gonna make it better, but it might
make it better. But that story happened back in June
of this year. Those are some of my favorite Florida
men and women of twenty twenty four. We'll do more
of those on Monday as part of the end of
the year Floor to Men's Stories. There's a few other
great ones out there, involving chicken and all kinds of

(01:10:06):
serious plans and actually alligators as well.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
That's all coming up again in about a couple of days.
A quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in
on the Dana Show.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
filling in. I do want to touch on the latest controversy,
or at least we're supposed to think it's the latest
controversy between Elon Musk, Donald Trump, of ak Ramaswami and us,
especially people who use x or Twitter, and especially people
who voted for Donald Trump. But I'll get to that
in a bit. I do want to talk about this

(01:10:38):
other thing first. It was an op ed in the
Hill a couple of days ago, and now some very
left leaning lawyers are begging Congress to actually do this.
It is the nuclear option. It is the option that
begs them to prevent Trump from actually being a maid
the next president of the United States. The argument from
a far left individuals says that he has disqualify from

(01:11:00):
office because of the fourteenth Amendment and his quote engaging
in insurrection, not that he was ever found guilty of insurrection,
by the way, and actually the Supreme Court overturned a
decision to try to remove him from a ballot for
exactly this reason.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
But darn it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Now liberal lawyers want the Congress to do whatever they
can to try to prevent the confirming of the votes
and essentially a playing god and not allowing the American
people to decide who the next president should be. In
at least that one regard. This is insane, and it's
the exact kind of thing that Trump said they would

(01:11:36):
try to do, or at least the kind of thing
that was talked about a few years ago that caused
the amount of problems that people still try to bring
up today and the fear that the government would do
whatever it wants, regardless of what the American people want.
They gave a definitive answer to the question of who
they'd like to be the next president of the United
States when they elected. We whoever voted, decided that Trump

(01:12:01):
was going to wind up being the next president of
the country. To make any move whatsoever to prevent that
is full on insane, And yet it is actually being
talked about so much so that I even saw Fox
and Friends a debate a topic as to whether or
not And this is different to a degree. This is
talking about the Speaker of the House and if he

(01:12:22):
could be replaced sometime in the near future, Mike Johnson.
And the biggest problem with that potential scenario trying to
replace him is how long of a process it might
take if they do it soon or if they take
a while to actually get that done, And would it
delay any sort of process in making Trump the next
president of the country, delaying inauguration, delaying any sort of certification,

(01:12:45):
whatever those questions might be. And I would definitively say,
as Fox and Friends actually also landed on this answer
to that question, I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
You have a whole lot of time, especially once you
have people in all the positions of power and Trump
in the office of president. Don't give Democrats any version
of what they're already contemplating or already say they want
by delaying a process that should not be delayed. It
is amazing that Trump is already behaving like the president.
And there's two reasons I think that's happening. The first

(01:13:16):
one being the guy actually in charge hasn't been in
charge the whole time, So now that Trump's actually in charge,
a whole bunch of people have disappeared that we're probably
pulling the strings for Biden and left him to just
do nothing and left Trump to have more of a
voice before he even gets into that office. And the
second reason why you definitely don't want to do this,
and this is crazy, is again you're opening Pandora's box

(01:13:39):
when you don't have to. When you have a whole
lot of time in the very near future to do
whatever you want. Once you have everybody in a position
of power. We'll see if that even occurs.

Speaker 14 (01:13:48):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
The big thing that I want to talk about, and
I know that I'm seeing voices on the right, voices
on the left, a kind of an agreement which is
probably a problem, which is usually an issue on this time,
about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami and what they said
about the tech sector specifically have Avek actually put out
a long post on social media yesterday. Elon seemed to

(01:14:11):
agree with it and say his own version of it,
but both saying that tech struggles to find talent. The
reason tech struggles to find talent within the United States
is it simply doesn't exist. There is more talented you know, coders,
people high profile, high value individuals for this exact part
of our society that come from other countries. Of Avik

(01:14:34):
want a step further by saying our culture is mediocre
and that it actually salutes people who are the valdicts,
who are not the valedictorians, excuse me, and not the mathematicians,
but the athlete and the cheerleader.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
He actually even.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Praised Corey from Boy Meets World, which is a swing
and a miss. It's Sean from Boy Meets World as
a millennial who grew up remembering that show, a Zach
and Slater from Saved by the Bell as people that
are example of people we highlight and praise that we
shouldn't over Screech and then Stefan over Steve Rkle, which
was another weird reference that was made, but darn it
at least an accurate one in what he was trying

(01:15:10):
to say. Here's the part that matters about this discussion.
It's true you can get mad at the idea of it.
You can desire for the government to do something to
prevent us from acquiring talent from other parts of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Or the better option, I.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Think, the more you know, consistent solution is find a
new system that ed that educates. Excuse me, it's bad
to fumble on that word. Are people well enough to
actually be the most valuable employees in this sector? Because
that's the problem. When you look at just our math
scores on an international level, we're toward the bottom of
developed countries. We're something like twenty eight out of thirty

(01:15:46):
six of the countries that get ranked on these sort
of things by some independent organizations.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
That do it, and that sounds about right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
And our education system seems to be failing people in
a lot of ways. And certainly there are other countries
in the world we're say some kids are raised being
told your best opportunity is to be absolutely at the
top of your game in this field or that field
and go get a job in the United States. And
how much of a challenge is it us? Is it

(01:16:15):
for us to compete against the rest of the world
in that regard when they want to come here, when
they want to benefit from being a part of the
best country on earth, And part of what actually makes
us a great country is attracting that type of talent
to want to be here. But I understand that the
desire to do more that benefits Americans and doesn't necessarily
benefit people coming from other places in the world. But

(01:16:39):
we have to change systems to get that goal done.
But it is interesting that so many people are coming
for Vivek and Alan at least Elon, at least according
to the Internet or according to mainstream media. I don't
necessarily believe it's as true as they're saying it is
simply because that message is not being received. Well, that's
the point, or that's the intention of it, and that

(01:17:00):
we'd like to see more done to prevent certain visas
from being expanded and more American talent, you know, winning out.
I would just say that I think the most American
response to this, and I felt this in every part
of my life being born and raised here is I
want to win by being the best. I don't want
to win for any sort of technicality. We talk about

(01:17:20):
that in a lot of other spaces in our society.
I'm a millennial at times. I was raised as someone
not by my parents necessarily, but by the society I
lived in at the time to be given a participation
trophy when I didn't deserve one, And those things are crap.
You don't want to win when you lose. You want
to lose so then you can motivate yourself to win

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in the future. You want to push yourself to actually
deserve any and every thing you get in this life
a meritocracy, which is exactly what we live in, which
is what we want to keep living in. So I
don't understand, and I don't believe for that same reason,
that as many people are upset about this, as media
is telling me they are, but there's a whole lot

(01:18:00):
of people out there saying that this was the big misstep.
And the other thing I will say is that this
won't be the last time that they'll tell us that
the connection between Trump and Elon, Elon and Vivek Veveke
and Trump or you know, any of those individuals in
US every day Americans is broken or tarnished or needs
to be severed because they desperately want that to happen.

(01:18:24):
I can't tell you how excited I've been. I guess
I'm going to try to watch some things happen right now.
And the system that's going to exist for the next
few years already play it safe self out in preventing
the spending bill from being a ridiculous omnibus bill, that
was an incredible win across the board. Win win for Trump,

(01:18:45):
win for Elon, win for X and Twitter or just
Americans in general. Granted it was a punt because they're
going to have to revisit that in a few months
and they're going to have to figure something else out,
and all of the narrative craft that's come from it
of like, you know, conservative don't want to fund research
into prevention of childhood cancer is insane and something that

(01:19:05):
can be done on its own. And I've said this
before and I'll say it again, But nonetheless, that scared
the system. That's the same version of terror that I
think you're hearing in some of the nominations that Trump
has put forward, in some of the ways they're trying
to tear those nominations apart, because predominantly they're outsiders who
would upend the power structure of a system that is broken.

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And we would also be able to help upend the
power structure of a system that's broken. And we do
it entirely online and entirely with our voices, which, by
the way, seems much better than us doing it with
any sort of you know, physical version of that same
upset being manifested. To say this very bluntly, and I
think it's you know, the kind of thing a lot

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of people talk about and right now oddly thought about
on the left. When you look at the case of
the person who killed the United Healthcare CEO and the
praise for it and the jokes about doing that, this
is real. The jokes about doing that to other people
in positions of power because of how mad people are
at what is candidly a broken a healthcare system or

(01:20:09):
other things. That version of society is one that terrifies
a lot of people, where the way in which you
gain power back is through force or through fighting, or
through something that gets tremendously a messy and is also
weird because I would never praise a murderer of myself,
and I think that's sort of insane that they are
praising someone who shot someone else in the back on

(01:20:31):
a street in Manhattan. But if instead of upending that
system that way, you upend the system by enhancing the
voices within our society through a platform like X and
a person in charge of it like Elon Musk, I
think we have a much better version of change potentially
happening in the world. And I do think that everyone's
not just going to be sheep and listen to whatever

(01:20:53):
Elon or Trump or anyone else has to say. If
it's something they disagree with, they'll voice that opinion. And
maybe that is happening as far as this visa is concerned.
In the world of the tech sector. I just don't
think enough people are that passionate about that topic to
be that mad about this, and if there's something else
they say that's wrong, I will stand up and say
that that's not how we feel. And we'll see how

(01:21:14):
that winds up getting reflected in any sort of policy
decisions and whatnot. But we're in a unique time in
the world where I think we have a unique amount
of power as just a society based on social media
platforms that don't overly censor us. All of that seems good.
And the people in charge, just to repeat myself one
more time, hate it. And we're seeing them hate it

(01:21:36):
every way they can hate it. All right, quick break,
A lot more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on
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filling in. Let's do a quick five.

Speaker 8 (01:21:58):
And now all of the news you would probably miss,
it's time for Dana's Quick five.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
This is hilarious to me.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
Young people think they've developed a brand new hack to
make their love life better in the new year. You
eat twelve grapes at midnight, one for each stroke of
the clock, and at the end of that process, you
are guaranteed to have a much better year romantically in
the following year. It's actually a centuries old tradition out
of Spain where people did this one great for each

(01:22:28):
stroke of midnight uvas de la suert day.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
I don't know if I've said that correctly.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
I know that someone in my life, in my family,
my wife will be able to correct me on that,
as she's from Mexico. But this is something that a
lot of people in a lot of countries do. But
TikTok apparently thinks that it created recently and young people
are doing in order to guarantee themselves a boyfriend or
girlfriend in the new year. Several people put up a
video of themselves doing this last year, along with a

(01:22:55):
successful relationship that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Apparently they found.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
During twenty twenty four story out there that I liked
a lot, a woman went on a Dear Abby page
and asked if her boyfriend is a terrible person or
if she's maybe asking for just a tad too much.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
She said she's been unhappy with.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
The way that he's celebrated her birthday in the past,
and he knew it she had told him about it,
so he decided to splurge on a vacation this year
for her in honor of her birthday. They went on
a trip. Here's the problem, according to the woman in
this scenario, he didn't plan anything when they got there,
darn it. He paid for the vacation, they went to
the new place, and then he didn't have any idea

(01:23:33):
of what they should do and was willing to make
up decisions along with her instead of having it all
planned out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
That made her mad. Again. She sounds like someone that's
very difficult to please.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
Then they got back from this trip that he paid
for and didn't have planned correctly by her own standard,
and she said he upset her because her actual birthday
was the day.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
They returned and he didn't do anything for that day.
Darn it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:56):
It sounds like a couple that might need to break
up and a woman that I don't know heads Prince
Charming in order to be happy in this world. But nonetheless,
the internet was divided on whether or not he did
anything wrong or right, depending on who you ask, and
Also a lot of people wanted to know how he
had failed on birthdays before, but that information not out there.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
I say good luck to.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
This dude if he's going to keep staying in that relationship.
He did say, in response to her demands that everybody
doesn't get a birthday week, you get a birthday day.
And he took her on a flight and darn it,
that should be enough. And I agree with him. By
the way, I have no idea if that'll turn the
internet against me, and I don't care. Two other quick
things I thought this was interesting. Research has revealed that

(01:24:38):
women are much more likely to quit a workplace than
men because of being treated poorly.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
And it's not necessarily just by.

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
Say employees or employers, but also customers. More and more
young women are saying that they're having issues in some way,
shape or form mentally at work. They're more likely to
call off for mental health days, and they're more likely
to leave and look in search of a new job
that would actually treat them better, or employees or employers

(01:25:07):
or you know, customers that would treat them better. This
is something that people are saying they should look into
deeper to see what that issue is that's causing women
to do that and men not to. And I'm not
sure exactly what that is, other than maybe the way
men are treated on dating apps being the beginning of
them being able to tolerate being treated like crap other places.
I'm just guessing. I don't know for sure as a

(01:25:27):
married guy, but I've heard some things. I want last
one and this is just kind of an interesting one
to me because most people don't even know what this is.
But apparently natural wine is all the trend for the
holidays this year. That's wine with the least amount of
preservatives and additives in it, and a whole lot of
wine companies claim to make natural wine that may or
may not do it. But here's the thing, I don't care.

(01:25:50):
I think we're all missing the point of drinking wine
during the holidays. For alcohol during the holidays, and it's
not about making sure it's as healthy as possible. That's
never been my goal. It'll never be my goal. Bo
humbug to anybody that wants that to be that goal.
A quick break, A little bit more coming up. Craig
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stuff to talk about on One of my favorite people
to follow on social media is Tom Elliott. He works
at Grabyan. I think he's actually in charge of Graviyan.
They put together a whole bunch of viral videos and
other stuff. They have a bunch of services that you
can use to access all kinds of media, but these

(01:26:44):
are incredible. He has put together his top ten lies
media embarrassing moments of twenty twenty four. I've tried my
best to pare this down to something I can play
a lot of on the show. The full tweet is
ten minutes long or post on x go teck it out,
follow him. This is incredible. I've left in most of
the voiceover two as they count down the numbers ten

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through one.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
Let's play part of this. We'll react to it as
we go.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
The ten biggest lies that media told us or the
biggest embarrassing moments from media in twenty twenty four, according
to Grabian and the Great Tom Elliott.

Speaker 13 (01:27:19):
Ignore your eyes. Those are cheap fakes.

Speaker 18 (01:27:21):
There's a growing and insidious trend in right wing media, broadcast, print,
and social media. It is to take highly misleading and
selectively edited videos of President Biden.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Now they're doing terrible things.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
They're making Biden look like a moron because he's not one,
and we promise he's not one. There's several other clips
to prove that. That was number ten on their list.

Speaker 13 (01:27:42):
CNN thinks America is a democracy.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
That's number nine in their list that the CNN thinks
to America is America's democracy. That you have a guy
on the street asking questions and people correcting him, and
then him going back behind the scenes at CNN and
saying this.

Speaker 19 (01:27:55):
I've heard a lot of conspiracy theories. I hear a
lot of things out on the road, but to hear Americans,
people who would described themselves as patriots say that America
is not a democracy.

Speaker 13 (01:28:08):
That stopped me in my track.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
It stopped me in my tracks even though America is
a republic and not a democracy. And that's an accurate
statement that you can say, that's number eight, number.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Seven, number eighty. Excuse me, this is number eight.

Speaker 13 (01:28:20):
Now eight. Beyonce is performing at the d NC.

Speaker 15 (01:28:23):
There are rumors, there are rumors this Beyonce might make
an appearance.

Speaker 13 (01:28:27):
I personally think that that's true.

Speaker 8 (01:28:29):
Is the United Center going to be turning into the
bee Hive?

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
I really don't care. That was number eight on his list,
number ten, number nine, number eight, all excellent.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
So far.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Beyonce did not make an appearance. She was bumped or something.
I can't remember what happened there. She did speak, but
she didn't perform anything at the DNA three seven.

Speaker 13 (01:28:48):
The media tries to scare people about Project twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
This happened.

Speaker 13 (01:28:52):
He tries to hype up the amount of missing hold on.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Actually, you know what, I don't even care about that one.
I skipped most of it because of how insane it was.
But everything about Project twenty twenty five was telling us
how awful and horrible and definitely Donald Trump's plan this was,
even though it wasn't his, and he actually also condemned
portions of it, saying there's things that he definitely didn't
agree with in it. But there are things that didn't

(01:29:15):
seem like all that bad ideas too, but again not
his plan at all. That was number seven on their list,
absolutely happened like crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Number six.

Speaker 13 (01:29:23):
Media tries to hype up the amount of misinformation on X.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
After Elon Musk took over in twenty twenty two, most
of its fact checkers were fired.

Speaker 13 (01:29:34):
Now the site is rife with trash.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Yeah, I've with trash talk and all kinds of other things.
A number six on the list. They're still trashing Elon,
They're still trashing Twitter. They're still trying to convince you
that you should not like him at all, or be
on that platform, or be anywhere near the people who
were on that platform, because darn it, it has a
unique amount of influence on our society right now. That's
an exceptional first half of the list of top ten

(01:29:58):
things that media embarrassed themselves or lied about. This is
again from Tom Elliott and Grabian, a long post ten
minute video you can watch in its entirety on social
media showing you just how many people repeated these same
ridiculous lies.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Let's keep going.

Speaker 13 (01:30:15):
Number five Tim Walls is the best. Jd Vance is
the worst.

Speaker 20 (01:30:19):
Midwestern dad, like super clean, normal, so plain spoken and relatable,
pretty moderate democrat, very moderate ragor moderate is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
Right down the middle, not just an old white man
Wall spats America, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
And JD.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Vans is weird, extreme utter humorlessness.

Speaker 18 (01:30:39):
Hard to believe that JD. Vance could be any more extreme.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
Okay, I can't, I can't take it. Tim Walls was
a weird dude, is a weird dude.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
Is a very forgettable dude, but a dude who definitely
didn't embody masculinity or new masculinity whatever they told us
that he was embodying.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
And JD.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Vance has been incredibly articulate in the time in which
he's been on television. I'm not trying to say that, like,
you know, he's he's perfect or everything about him is great.
But honestly, that debate between them crushed this narrative. But
this narrative was being used quite a few times. That's
just number five. So many left to go, so many
good demonstrations of just crap being told to us.

Speaker 18 (01:31:17):
Let's continue, all of our access to healthcare goes away.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
Oh right, oh sorry, this one is a Trump apparently
being a dictator and doing horrible things in our society,
and a few of these clips are amazing too.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Number four in his list, All of.

Speaker 18 (01:31:29):
Our access to healthcare goes away next Tuesday. The stakes
literally are life and death for every woman in America.
It's not hyperbole, it's not an exaggeration.

Speaker 13 (01:31:40):
His promise to be a dictator on day one.

Speaker 20 (01:31:42):
That's up a network of camps, extraordinarily erratic foreign policy
in the Middle East being profound and possibly permanent damage
to American demark.

Speaker 1 (01:31:51):
Yeah, there's no camps. I haven't seen any camps yet,
and I don't think we'll see any camps even when Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
Actually gets into office. This stuff is also just so insane.

Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
And Trump been saying himself if he was at all
a dictator on day one, which originally came from an
interview with Sean Hannity and which he only talked about
the border being something he'd fix. Hannedy told him, you
don't have to be a dictator as the president to
do that. He said, whatever, that's fine, a Trump in response,
and then they moved on because he's absolutely not going
to try or going to in any way, shape or

(01:32:21):
form a be an actual dictator of immedia didn't care.
That was Number four. Let's continue if historians in the
future a little bit more this one.

Speaker 13 (01:32:31):
That question has opened this ridiculous number three. Joe Biden
would never pardon his son because he is such a
great guys.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Welcome prom is to put the law.

Speaker 11 (01:32:41):
Before a family. The President has ruled out pardoning his son.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
Definitely not happening making this art.

Speaker 12 (01:32:47):
If he believes it, you would respect the outcome of
this case.

Speaker 13 (01:32:51):
This was a good day for the system, good day
for uh.

Speaker 18 (01:32:55):
We promise sort of of sort of America as an
example of how the rule of law should work.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
We're coming on the air of this hour with breaking news.

Speaker 11 (01:33:05):
President Biden has just pardoned his son Hunter number two.

Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
You know, to be honest, I really thought that should
have been number one because of how hilarious it was
and how long lasting it was. I'm not trying to
rethink the genius of Gravy and Tom Elliott, but that
was a lie told to us pretty much all year
long that wound up being absolutely inaccurate and relatively quickly.
And I just love that edit there where you go
right to the breaking news announcement that yeah, okay, he

(01:33:29):
did the thing that he told us all He wasn't
going to do Number two.

Speaker 13 (01:33:32):
Media gets caught editing interviews to help Kamala Harris.

Speaker 15 (01:33:36):
We talk about bringing down prices, I'm making life.

Speaker 11 (01:33:40):
More affordable for people. Yeah, what are two specific things
you have in mind for that? Well, I'll start with this.
I grew up a middle class kid. Oh no, my mother,
my sister, and very hard.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
She was able to finally save up enough money to
buy our first house when I was a teenager. Yea.

Speaker 11 (01:34:00):
I grew up in a community of hardworking people.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Getting nervous and susual workers.

Speaker 11 (01:34:04):
And nurses and teachers.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
And I try to explain to some people who may
not have had the same experience.

Speaker 13 (01:34:11):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:34:11):
Aha, but a lot of people will relate to this.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:34:15):
I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who are
very proud of their lawn. You know.

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
Well, I talk about bringing down prices and making.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Sorry, I love that at it too. They're very proud
of their lawn, you know. And then let's see the
others talk about bringing down prices and making life more
affordable for people.

Speaker 6 (01:34:34):
What are one or two specific things you have in
mind for that?

Speaker 3 (01:34:37):
So when I talk about building an opportunity economy. It
is very much with the mind of investing in the
ambitions and aspirations and the and the incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Yeah, that was an answer to a different question, as
you probably remember and as I remember, and they just
added that answer in and acted like it was actually
the thing she said in response to the question she
was asked, and not the stuff about people being proud
of her launch. That was number two for a Grabyan
and Tom Elliott for ridiculous media embarrassing moments of the year.

Speaker 13 (01:35:07):
This War to end number one. There's no cognitive decline.
In fact, Biden has never been better.

Speaker 1 (01:35:13):
Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell
you the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
This version of Biden is so best.

Speaker 17 (01:35:23):
Knows.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.

Speaker 13 (01:35:28):
He is sharp, intensely probing and detail oriented and focused.
President Biden has a photographic memory, but he's totally focused.
He's very sharp.

Speaker 11 (01:35:38):
They say he's sharpened meetings and so on.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
He's so good for him.

Speaker 12 (01:35:42):
He's older, that doesn't mean that he is unfit.

Speaker 20 (01:35:45):
He can clear a dementia bar and that's probably a win.

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
More wild speculation from I love that idiot too. It's
probably a win that he can clear a dementia bar,
that'd be great. But those are the top ten most
embarrassing moments in media according to Tom Elliott and Gravy
and just excellently done. And as I said, there's a
much longer version you can check out on social media
on x on Twitter. He's great at those mashups and

(01:36:10):
those highlight things, and that probably does deserve I'll admit
it now. I thought number three, not pardoning my son,
I deserve to be number one, just because of how
egregious that lie was and how long lasting it was.
But this lie was worse. That Biden's doing fine, everything's okay,
nothing to see here, and then he tanks a debate
and they finally admit he's not okay because they know

(01:36:31):
they're not going to win with him, and for some reason,
they thought they were gonna win with Harris, but that
didn't go well. And so I think if that actually
hadn't occurred, they never would have admitted how broken Biden
was if they actually thought he could have beat Trump.
But when they finally admitted, then a bunch of other
stories come out Wall Street Journal and whatnot about just
how broken he's been and just how significantly that has

(01:36:53):
impacted his time in the White House and how little
decision making he actually did. But anyway, one more time,
I'm not trying to overly promote it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
I just took a whole segment to play it. But
it was that good and that worth it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Go check out Tom Elliott and Graviyan online to see
the whole thing for yourself. A quick break, A little
bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The
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filling in. Thrilled to be with you over the holidays.
Dana will be back just after the New Year. I'll
be with you one more time next week, and then
you'll hear from her on a few best of You
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way to stay connected to her. A couple quick last

(01:37:45):
topics that I like. First, an influencer went viral in
Alaska for demonstrating just how expensive stuff is in his
very remote town. Things like a loaf of bread costs
over nine bucks, a carton of orange juice ten, a
box of cereal eleven. A butter is on sale for
seven or eight dollars. The big takeaway, other than people

(01:38:09):
being shocked how much more expensive things are in remote
parts of Alaska than they are in the rest of
the country, even though stuff is still ridiculously expensive, is
that it can always be worse, which I guess people love.
It'd be a weird campaign slogan for the Biden administration
to say, Hey, you could be living in Alaska, in
a remote part of that state where things are even worse,

(01:38:30):
so be grateful that butter is only six dollars or
five dollars and you're paying way cheaper prices than the
most remote parts of some of the remote state remote
states in our country.

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
That's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (01:38:42):
And actually, if Trump gets what he wants and eventually
turns Canada into the fifty first state, I imagine some stuff
is expensive in some remote parts of that country as well,
and that person can go viral and say that, hey,
it's worse for me than you feel bad for me.
Another topic I thought was interesting. A woman seem to
be bragging about being a expert catfisher. This is someone

(01:39:04):
who makes herself look differently or in some cases, just
totally pretends to be someone else until they meet you.
She gave a tutorial for how you can also catfish
dudes into first dates, involving a lot of tape. She
tapes the back parts of her face to make it
look better, and then takes pictures of herself with all
this tape applied so that you can't tell. But essentially,

(01:39:27):
I guess she doesn't need to use any sort of
app to perfect her face. She does it mostly with tape.
I will say it is shocking the transition from the
before and after photos of her totally looks like a
different person. She claims it's still actually her and that
photoshop isn't used as much as just.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Tape on your face.

Speaker 1 (01:39:45):
But there's something about being proud of this that seems
terrible to me, and even more so not just being
proud of it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
But I don't know what the goal is.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
I assume the goal is to get a bunch of
first dates with dudes who are too nice to get
up and say you look nothing like your photo. I
think I've been lied to. I'm gonna go ahead and leave,
which I think you have every right to do. By
the way, if you're someone that gets catfished into a
first date with somebody that looks totally different than what
they look like online, I don't think it's rude to
say I don't want to start off a brand new

(01:40:16):
relationship or whatever this is supposed to be with a
pretty significant lie, and you've already lied to me once
since you know you don't look like your photos. So
I'm gonna go and I wish you well, but it
don't talk to me anymore. I know people are gonna
say that's rude, but you got to have whatever the stones,
let's go with that word for him to say that
in person if someone does this to you because they're

(01:40:38):
a crap person that understands that part of the reason
you went out with them is you were attracted to
the photo and that's not actually them in real life,
and that matters. But anyway, I just thought it was
funny that she was so proud of herself for being
so good at this, because if she's really that great
at concealing all the tape in her face. Maybe she
should go out and live in the regular world with
a face of tape, or maybe just go and get

(01:41:00):
those surgeries to do whatever the tape is doing to
the face, because again, the transformation is significant. It is
kind of surprising she does all that, and I maybe
not She's already lying about some stuff. Maybe she is
using photoshop and lying about that too. One last thing
that I saw out there that I thought was interesting.
I don't know how many people remember and remember the show,

(01:41:21):
you know, fondly or well, but The Nanny was a
TV show that was on for a while. Fran Dresser,
of course, was the star of it. Fran Dresher is
uniquely known for having a terribly annoying voice, but much
more than that, I guess, she was also known on
the show for having an interesting sense of fashion. Apparently
gen Z, specifically in New York, loves it. They are

(01:41:43):
doing all of the Fran Dresser outfits as part of
their outfits for the holiday season and apparently bragging to
other people about how many great looks Fran Dresher had
on that show, so much so that the actress herself
has even you know reacted and thanked people for rediscovering
her television show now and rediscovering what she said she

(01:42:05):
had a lot of fun making, which is all the
wardrobe decisions the only thing I remember about that. And
I haven't seen The Nanny since I was a little kid,
and I don't even remember why who and my family
would watch that show, but I remember thinking that her
outfits were always ridiculous. That's all I thought whenever I
saw them, is like, Wow, that seems insane. I don't
think anyone would wear that in public. And now apparently

(01:42:26):
young people are so smitten with the show and with
the fashion decisions that they are copying a lot of
the looks and trying to find other ways to buy
more or create more.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
Of these things. And that's amazing to me. At least
they're giving credit to it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
Though oftentimes on social media, when people figure out things
that are very old, they think they've created them the
first time. One of my favorite examples of that is
when people were so excited that post Malone had given
a platform to some guy named Ozzy Osbourne that they
thought was a has been or an unknown and that
it was really cool that this old dude was getting

(01:43:00):
a chance to be in a song with post Malone,
which was uniquely sad to see a lot of people
not know who Ozzy is, which actually also seemed remarkably
incapable of being true. But this at least they're given
credit to fran Dresser, credit to the show and telling
people to watch The Nanny for wardrobe suggestions and selections,
something I would never tell anyone I care about to do,

(01:43:20):
but darn it, young people, at least in New York
are doing it. See you later, Happy Holidays. Creig Collins
filling in on the Danish show

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