Speaker 1: 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 an incredible supercut from
Tom Elliott, the guy that puts together incredible supercuts in
just a second. But first before I play that, you
should follow him on social media because he's a great
follow at Tom Tom s Elliott and then actually at
Dana at Dlash, Dana Lash Radio and x A great
ways to stay connected to this show and to her.
Speaker 2: But New Jersey has.
Speaker 1: Announced that somehow, some way, and this was as recently
as twenty twenty three people accidentally got registered to vote,
including a whole bunch of people who were not US citizens.
It involved car software, motor vehicle systems and whatnot. A
serious quote software error occurred. This is hilarious to happen
a few days after President Trump's speech last week.
Speaker 2: I'll play this audio first.
Speaker 3: In June of twenty twenty three, nearly three years before
I became governor, a serious software error in New Jersey's
motor vehicle system led to the improper voter registration of
what we believed to be roughly sixty six hundred people
in our state. When New Jerseyans applied for a driver's
license or identification at the MVC, they were asked if
they wanted to register to vote. In the case of
this error, some individuals indicated that they weren't citizens and
weren't eligible to vote, but the software registered them anyway.
Speaker 2: Shocking.
Speaker 1: That is incredibly shocking. I'm amazed that that's something that happened.
I'm as sarcastic as I can possibly be as I'm
saying this again. All of this is just a few
days removed from President Trump saying that China stole a
bunch of data that they shouldn't have had, and then
the Left coming out and explaining it is a data
anybody can buy a China don't want to buy it,
so they stole it, apparently. And if they got something
a little bit deeper than whatever you can buy, no
big deal, it doesn't matter. They didn't do anything with it.
That is the definition of pushing the goalposts. But it
also seems to be a perfect time to play the
incredible supercut created by Tom Elliott on social media. Grabian
is the organization that he works for, or I think
he even like partially.
Speaker 2: Owns or something.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Tom is showing us all how crazy the
rhetoric was in twenty twenty when it comes to election integrity.
On the heels of some of these things we've learned.
I know that Jersey is twenty twenty three. I know
it's not the same time period. But if that can
happen a few years ago, what else could have happened,
especially in Sa Georgia, you know, six or so years ago.
I have questions. I don't think we have all the
answers quite yet, but here we go.
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty election. The most secure in American history, most
secure election in American history, the most secure in American history, most.
Speaker 5: Secure election in American history.
Speaker 6: Well secure election in American history.
Speaker 4: The most secure in American history.
Speaker 7: Cure election in American history, the safest, the most secure
election we've ever seen, Lina's election, the safest election, the
most secure election ever run.
Speaker 3: Most secure election in American history.
Speaker 4: The most secure election in American history, most secure in history.
What's the most secure election ever? The most secure election
in American history. Let's just be clear, this.
Speaker 7: Is the most secure election in American.
Speaker 5: History, the most secure in US history.
Speaker 7: Is in fact, was the most secure election.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was the most secure election in history, the.
Speaker 3: Most secure or the most secure election in American history.
Speaker 1: This is the moment where I'm tempted to Alwy's pause it.
We are forty eight seconds in to a minute and
forty six seconds of the same thing over and over again,
and part of me feels like I should keep playing
it at the same time so you truly understand how
ridiculous this was.
Speaker 2: And honestly, like, the other crazy.
Speaker 1: Thing about it to me is how often you can
do this Like Tom is one of the better people
at it in social media, but in the world of
news organizations, all saying the same thing, all getting the
same talking point points, and being lazy enough to not
change them a little bit. Like, that's the biggest question
I have as somebody who does what I do for
a living and nobody gives me any talking points. Producer
Steven gives me incredible amount of topics and stories to
talk about, but doesn't tell me how to talk.
Speaker 2: About them, as does no one else.
Speaker 1: That I've ever worked for, And if they did, I
would probably change it just a little bit. You know,
when they give you a script and they're like, make
it your own I'm a guy who always does that,
and then usually when I'm reading a commercial, they're like,
make it a little less your own, try to do
a little less, a little more of us, a little
less of you. But I can't help it. But here,
let's just keep going, because no one took that advice,
no one made it there wrong.
Speaker 3: The most secure election in history, most secure election in
modern American history.
Speaker 2: Bost secure election in our history.
Speaker 4: Goes, the most secure election in our history.
Speaker 2: The this most secure election we have ever had.
Speaker 4: The most secure in American.
Speaker 8: History, the most secure election in American history, most.
Speaker 2: Secure election in American history. Yeah, we got to Biden.
I think we're good enough.
Speaker 1: We still had like forty seconds left if I wanted
to keep going. My favorite part of that is they
really should have gone even deeper, like the best election
to date in the history of this country, the kind
of election that you'd love your daughter to take home
to meet mom and dad. That's what you're doing here
in the world of this election. Outside of some of
the potential fraud that might have happened. We're ignoring that stuff.
We're ignoring the ridiculous tattoo on the guy's face as
we say that he's a great guy to bring home again.
I'm just so good. Wait to go, Tom, I've praised
you enough. Now I'm going to move on. I often
follow and just play whatever he's got on the super cuts.
Speaker 2: Let's do this.
Speaker 1: This is Fox News talking about the mid term power rankings.
The US Senate remains a toss up. According to them,
the power balance in the House is likely to shift
as of some of the data right now. Although it
bears mentioning and you'll hear it pointed out within this clip,
I'm about to play that the difference currently in some
of the data that people are seeing some of the
A polling that I often dismiss is stupid because actually
the vast majority of polsters admit they get it wrong
right up until a few weeks before intelection actually occurs
of any kind. They admit that they have like a
thirty chance of being right about any of the predictions
they had up into that point, and then once they
get within the window of a few weeks, I think
their confidence rolls up to like sixty percent, which is
still basically a failing grade. And a whole lot of
schools you're getting at best a D in that scenario.
But anyway they're saying right now, this data seems to
point to Democrats doing well at least when it comes
to the House. And yet the difference in polling isn't
all that surprisingly, you know, changed from a few years
ago when Republicans did pretty well.
Speaker 2: But here we go.
Speaker 9: Beginning with the Senate forecast, Fox News is projecting that
control of the Senate is essentially just a toss up
right now, with the balance of power likely coming down
to Senate seats in four states that are all considered
coin flips right now. Those four states are yellow Fox
News projects at Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, and Maine all have
Senate races that are all toss ups, and these are
the matchups that will likely end up determining control of
the Senate now. Republicans are eying a handful of potential
Senate pickups in Georgia, New Hampshire, and Michigan, all of
which Fox News power rankings project as leaning Democrat, while
Democrats think they can flip Texas, which obviously leans Republican.
But that's going to be easier said than done for
both parties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be way easier said than done in
the world of Republicans flipping Texas because some of the
insane people that they're running in the Senate, while the
only insane person, Tall Rico, that they're running here, has
so many beliefs that are so categorically against Owa Texans
believe in that I simply don't accept it. And I
live here. I live in Houston right now. I've actually
only been living here for about a year and a
half though, and when I moved here, the last thing
I ever would have expected is someone like tall Rico
to have a legitimate shot at winning a Senate seat.
So I'm really hoping, hoping, excuse me, that doesn't happen,
because it would add a little bit of, you know,
a scuff to the shine that has been living in Texas.
Speaker 2: By and large, I've enjoyed.
Speaker 1: It, but it would be a little the shoes would
get scuffed ever so slightly, or maybe more so with
the insanity that is Tall Rico.
Speaker 2: Another thing out there that I saw and like that.
Speaker 1: We'll play just before a break that will take in
a couple of minutes, will be this Brandon Gill clip
Gil is a representative out of Texas, and I think
that for a lot of reasons, most of them doing
with having to do with the way he goes viral
for how he questions people. He is becoming a fast
rising star on the Republican side of the aisle. And
this is the latest example of Man, you really did
that well in owning that crazy person that's sitting down
for some questions, and you have some really good ones.
Let's go ahead play on.
Speaker 4: That, right. Is it important to be polite? Excuse me soon?
Is it important to be polite? Yes, sir.
Speaker 10: It's also interesting because the same mass action toolkit that
your organization has been promoting references politeness as a defining
characteristic of white supremacy culture.
Speaker 4: Man, are you a white supremacist? No, sir, You're not.
Speaker 1: No, sir, I'm not, even though I'm putting it out
there all the time as something that I think is
a hallmark of being a white supremacist.
Speaker 2: This is great.
Speaker 1: I know this is almost petty to some people and
how simplistic it is, but sometimes that's where you have
to start the discussion with people that want to do
all the performative crazy things and act a certain way
and vilify people based on ridiculous sort of qualifications. I
want to play it again because it's so simple and
so good. Hey, do you think it's important to be
a polite person?
Speaker 4: Hmm?
Speaker 1: I wonder why you think that based on what your organization,
the National Museum of American History director is, the person
he's talking to, actually says about politeness itself.
Speaker 4: Is it important to be polite? Excuse me, sir? Is
it important to be polite? Yes, sir.
Speaker 10: It's also interesting because the same mass action toolkit that
your organization has been promoting references politeness as a defining
characteristic of white supremacy culture.
Speaker 4: Weird man, were you a white supremacist? No, sir.
Speaker 1: I do also like that hm that she puts in
there because she's not happy about the way that that
question in that conversation just went down, and she'd like
to slap him in the face. I'm assuming don't shoot
the messenger. This is my guess as to what's going on.
I much like this a Cubs fan slapped the guy
in the back of the head that I should talk
about in a little bit. But she'd like to hit him,
but she can't because the conversation is about politeness and
that wouldn't be the right way to go about it,
although I do posit that since he was asking her
if she was a white supremacist, because apparently they're all
very polite according to her organization, the best way to
prove she wasn't would have been to stand up in
will Smitham. If he had done that, then maybe people
would have been like, all right, fine, at least he's
not a white supremacist.
Speaker 2: She's just slap happy.
Speaker 1: But actually, i'll reference it now, and I was gonna
play audio, but really the audio is not as good
as just telling you it's out there and telling you
to go look for the video yourself. But at a
Cubs game, there's a dude standing behind a young person,
a young guy and an older guy, and the young
guy is sitting through the national anthem and the guy
behind him is not having it. He leans in, he
says some stuff. The kid says some stuff back, actual adult, not.
Speaker 2: A child, I say kid.
Speaker 1: But this guy has got to be in his twenties,
and anyway, the person who's probably in his fifties slaps
him in the back of the head. I think that's hilarious.
The guy does get up after that moment. I don't
know if anything happened. I know that you could probably
have him in trouble for some sort of legal thing
like assault, but nonetheless, much like Will Smith probably should
have been in trouble a few years ago. But nonetheless,
this is the kind of thing that a whole bunch
of people would actually love to see. And to be honest,
sometimes when you hear the ridiculous complaining for people that
probably were not raised ever.
Speaker 2: Understanding any kind of.
Speaker 1: Effect to their behavior, meaning their behavior had a cause
and this cause created this.
Speaker 2: Effect, meaning a punishment.
Speaker 1: People who are never punished at all don't expect it
to happen in the everyday world. And this was a
pretty significant example of you don't do what I want,
this bad thing happens to you, and I think it's awesome. Also,
I'm not advocating for us to attack each other. I
just probably have to say that for legal reasons, so
I'm not fired from ever doing the show again.
Speaker 2: But I was amused.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling
in on the Dana Show.
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Speaker 1: This is the Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. I do think this
is interesting. The president of the California Teachers Union is
saying all kinds of crazy stuff. Very much is reminiscent
of all the crazy things that Randy Weingarten used to
say on a seemingly daily weekly some sort of basis,
especially during the tail end of COVID when she was
trotted out all the time. They're having a convention, a
political rally, and here's part of the craziest things that
were said at said rally.
Speaker 12: To fight back against this fascist regime, we need to
be in the streets, wisely using our wallets, battling in
the courts, and winning.
Speaker 2: At the follil fox the center of our democracy. That's
not right.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: He's also wearing a shirt that says solidarity is the
lesson planned with a may Day showing in the book
that he's got on the photo as well. This is insane,
This is crazy. And here's the biggest reason why this
should matter to you or to meet anyone. These are
the people in the schools educating kids, and they're educating
kids in radical ways. They're absolutely injecting their political beliefs
into the discussions they have with children all the time.
When they say that they're fighting about fighting back against
a fascist regime regime, they actually think they're doing like
God's work or some sort of you know, fighting the
good fight against the evil, terrible people that are out there.
This is how the brainwashing starts, or the brainwashing happens,
or so many people complain about the ridiculousness that has become.
People infusing their thoughts and beliefs into everything they do
in a way where politics is just unavoidable. Then so
many people seem to be devoid of the ability to
put politics aside for even a few minutes. And I'll
tell you this as somebody who does what I do
for a living. I host a show on a Dana
affiliate station KSV in Houston, Texas. And then actually also
of course do fill in gigs like this in other places.
Speaker 2: So I talk about politics a lot.
Speaker 1: It is something that I'm actually, even if I didn't
want to, you know, forced to look at every single
day and pay attention to all the time to bring
the best possible product to you.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a chance to interact on anything like as
fancy of a show as this, I just want to
make sure people understand. I understand right now I'm driving
a Maserati and it's awesome to be on this show
and on you know, this entire network. But nonetheless, even
people like me and I assume data and everybody else
out there who does this, you can get away from it.
You're thrilled actually to get away from politics. And I
kind of think we also need to get back to
that in our society even a little bit. And one
of the best examples I can give to this, and
I know this is sort of a stupid, soapbox type
of speech, reacting to a crazy teacher at a crazy
conference and a crazy thing, but part of me, when
I really think about it, is like, how often I'll
give you a concrete example, I have a friend of
a friend who has apparently no idea what I do
for a living, which I find hilarious.
Speaker 2: Every time this person.
Speaker 1: Comes up and we've hung out with them, my wife
and I have been places like I went to a
ballgame and I knew this dude was there, And apparently
he's told people, including even my wife, like how much
he hates Republicans, how much he hates people who would
have voted for Trump, like all this stuff, and he's
said at times, if I ever found out that somebody
in my circle had done some of that stuff, I
would immediately remove them from said circle. He's never said
it to me, so I feel like if that ever happens,
I might just rip the band aid off and then
we're probably done hanging out with this person. But I
just find that so amusing that I've now been in
multiple social scenarios around this individual and other people in
which nothing bad has happened. Everybody seems to like each other,
everyone seems friendly enough. Politics luckily barely comes up, I think,
somewhat because my wife is trying to avoid it so
that I don't have.
Speaker 2: An argument with some people.
Speaker 1: But nonetheless, like It's just it's in the back of
my brain so amusing that I don't care that he
happens to be someone who politically profoundly disagrees with me
and seems to think I'm the enemy and he does.
And I think so often, if you're you know, anywhere
where you see somebody who's got like a crazy fight
Trump shirt on or something, I think the vast majority
of conservatives may giggle, may laugh, may make fun of
you behind your back as they leave, but they're not
going to care. They're not going to demand that a
plane not land at an airport because it's been changed
to be the Donald Trump Airport.
Speaker 2: Like none of that matters.
Speaker 1: Who cares if someone names things after Obama? Actually, I
lived in Illinois for a long time and there's stretches
of road that are named after him.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to refuse to be on them.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I agree with any of his politics,
but it doesn't it doesn't matter. It's just so amusing
to me that this happens so often, that people are
so motivated to behave a certain way and then to
influence as many people around them as possible. Part of
the reason I think I know this about the person
I'm talking about is because at some point he seemed
to want to say that to my wife.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he got an.
Speaker 1: Inkling that maybe there was a political disagreement or something
whatever it might be, but at some point he just
sort of announced that to her and she was like, okay,
all right, good and then tried to move on. And
I was told about it later and have been amused
about it since.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I'm not trying.
Speaker 1: I guess this is the silliest part to say, but
it's the part that I feel like is always arguing
with the other side and the crazy stuff that they're saying.
I'm not trying to force anybody to think anything. I
like the opportunity to be on a radio show and
to share my opinion, and maybe some people like it,
maybe a bunch of people don't. That's fine, But truthfully,
my day to day life, I'm not actually forcing you
to think things you don't think unless those things somehow harm,
like kids or something like.
Speaker 2: There are places that you could go.
Speaker 1: Where I think that the ma growth statement I just
made is not true, but by and large it is.
Speaker 2: But anyway, as you say that you.
Speaker 1: Wonder if the other side understands that same concept, and
you see constantly how they don't. You see so many
examples of ways in which they seem to be saying
out loud exactly the opposite. Now, granted, as I say
all this, I'm about to play some audio that I
found wildly amusing that is not in fact necessarily a
reflection a you know, not, Actually, i'll hold it. I'll
wait on this audio for a little bit, but not
in fact a reflection of the ideals I was just
talking about. To quickly preview it now, and I'll probably
play some audio in about ten minutes or so. There
was a Chicago Cubs game that went viral because of
two fans in the stands, a young man that seemed
to be sitting during a national anthem and a dude
behind him who was not okay with it.
Speaker 2: And I thought that was.
Speaker 1: Hilarious because it's ridiculous. It's stupid to think that you're
protesting in that moment in that way by just sitting
in your seat when everybody else is staying for the
national anthem. So is this trying to encourage someone to
think differently?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 13: It is?
Speaker 2: Did I like it, Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have done it if
I were someone who served in our military. I think
i'd even find it more offensive than I already do
as a person who cares about the national anthem. But nonetheless,
this is the kind of thing that mostly amused me.
Amused me, excuse me, because it also happened in Chicago,
a place that you don't exactly expect a lot of
people to reinforce the ideals of the Republican side, even
though this really shouldn't. This shouldn't be a left versus
right issue. Being someone who's proud of the country in
which you live, which most of us actually are, because
we continue to choose to live here, and if you
go try out living somewhere else, inevitably you discover how
bad of an idea that actually is compared to here.
Because of that, just stand the heck up seems to
be the approach, all right. I'll play some of that
a little bit later, because I was amused by it.
The Michigan Senate canidate who's getting talked about a lot,
who's a crazy person himself, Abdul l said, I was
recently talking about how great Marjorie Taylor Green is in
an interview. The reason I'm so amused by this is
that it's incredible to watch the left wait for anyone
that they can claim as someone on the right that
they can claim is now thinking like they wait for
this as much as they can, and they're thrilled to
pounce on it when it happens. The only problem, in
my opinion, for them, and this would be compared to
the times where I'm amused to say, play Bill maher audio,
is that by and large the people they gravitate towards
are no longer at all representative of the values of
the party that they were once a part of. Meaning, essentially,
Marjorie Taylor Green has abandoned the vast majority of the
things that made her electable when she ran as a Republican.
Unlike I think a lot of the Democrats like Fetterman,
who say occasionally reasonable things but by and large still
a line with a lot of what the party believes,
the left wants to glom onto the people who are
the least currently like the people that they're trying to
convince that see, one of you has changed the rest
of you can change doo. And it's just so funny
because all the time that Marjorie Taylor Green was saying
profoundly different things, they hated her. They hated her as
much as they hate everybody else. And then once she
flips entirely the other way, like, Oh, she's great now
now that she agrees with us, we love her and
we want to make sure to mention her whenever we can.
Speaker 13: So I talked to a former congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Green
on this podcast in April, and it's kind of remarkable
how similar some of your positions are.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 13: She also has condemned a PAC's influence in politics, called
for no more US taxpayer dollars to Israel, said that
the cost of health insurance needs to go down. Do
you think you could build this new coalition with people
like MTG?
Speaker 14: Look, she sattled lot of things I disagree with too.
I'll just say this that I wouldn't be surprised, right.
You know what, when you asked me about why establishment
elite Democrats are so worried about me, it's because there
are a lot of people who listen to her who
are going to vote for me in the general election.
Speaker 4: They're not afraid I'm going to lose.
Speaker 14: They're afraid I'm going to win.
Speaker 1: I actually don't believe that that a lot of people
who listen to her before would vote for him now.
I think that a lot of people who listen to
her now might vote for him now. And that's because
they've been listening to people like him for a long time,
and they're just suddenly starting to listen to the Marjorie
Taylor Greens of the world because they're finally saying things
that the other side likes. It's sort of similar, and
I know that Dana talks about this all the time
the podcast to stand crazies of the world who are
just selling out do whatever the current version of conversation
is that they think will benefit them in the world
of social media. So you know, Megan Kelly's or the
Tucker Carlson's of the world, who you can pull audio
tape after audio tape or example after example online of
them saying something profoundly different than something they're saying now.
They seem to you know, have one eightied on a
vast majority of topics, and they're just doing it because
they think that's where the money is currently, and they
expect a lot of people to be dumb enough or
a gullible enough to go along with, Oh that's what
they really think now.
Speaker 2: Oh and what they.
Speaker 1: Thought before was what they really thought before. And this
is one of the reasons I'm just gonna randomly praise Dana.
I know that some people listening to the show will
probably think I'm kissing up and hey, who cares, Maybe
I am, but it's actually true. I absolutely believe this.
I love the fact that if you listen to a
show like this, the thoughts are the same. It's not
that she doesn't involve she does. But by and large,
you can go back a certain number of years and
hear something relatively similar belief wise to where she is now.
There aren't a tremendous amount of topics where you're like, wow,
that's a complete one eighty.
Speaker 2: And the thing that's funny about that is.
Speaker 1: Those are the people who show you that they've actually
been honest the whole time. If you don't see their takes,
their beliefs, where their main positions or their main guiding forces.
If that's what the left wants to call this stuff
in the world of how they talk about and make
certain decisions in the world of politics, if you don't
see those radically alter. Then you know that you're listening
to someone who actually is authentic, who actually is genuine,
regardless if you agree with them, which I think is
probably the most important thing and something we get less
and less of now, whether it's social media's fault or
what have you. The performative fake version of the world
in which we live is so ubiquitous, and the ability
to find someone who's saying something that seems to actually
be a belief of theirs is rare. So I love
people who do that. And one of the big reasons
that I'm thrilled that data is a part of the
station I work at at KSV in Houston, mentioning it
for the second time there, so the boss is like me,
I quick break a lot more.
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All Right, I want to play a piece of audio
that I thought was interesting in which a Democrat was
pretty much saying that you should never talk to a
Republican because how dare you have a conversation with somebody
you disagree with things you don't believe in.
Speaker 2: This is crazy.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Welsh, of course, is the person that's talking and
saying that you just got to leave them on their
own side of the aisle and act like they don't exist,
and she goes into a bunch of different avenues that
seem even more insane than just the basic premise of
the talking is not good, and it's the exact opposite
of what I liked so much about Charlie Kirk and
why it's such a tragedy that he was killed for
this belief. But he said that talking prevents violence, that
when the talking stops, the violence starts. So you need
to communicate with each other, and that is profoundly, profound
only true. So not only is this ridiculous, it's also
inherently wrong.
Speaker 2: But here we go.
Speaker 5: To get Republicans to vote for Democrats. They never will.
Republicans are a personality type that are incapable of critical thinking,
that cling to money and racism as they're driving ethos
and to shield from their greed and to shield from
their just abject immorality. They god Christian signal, Oh family values.
Oh my god, these trans people. So that's why you
hear Donald Trump saying all the time, it's trans everything,
It's transgender for everybody. I mean, this is the guy
Donald Trump who thinks the CHIPSAC has transistors, and he
thinks whenever he hears the word trans that that means
trans people. But it works with the base. It works
with the base because these people are terrified Trump and
him cabal of submissive wives are terrified of drag coins,
of books of diversity, of black people, of women, of lesbians,
of gay people, of trans people.
Speaker 1: No, it is my first reaction to everything she just said,
especially the end there. I am, in fact a member
of the party that she's disparaging right now. And I'm
not terrified of any of the groups she just threw
out there. I'm not even remotely scared of them. What
I am scared of is a brainwashing a child to
think that they're going to be better off if you
change their body profoundly. The word usually used is mutilate
their body. And then a few years after you've convinced
them of that, and they're not any happier than they
were before. They regret the fact that they've changed their
body forever, and they were a child when you did this.
That all seems very wrong. I'm afraid of that. I
think that's uniquely horrible and the way that so many
things like that are done to people to convince them
of something. But here's the thing that I think liberals
that Democrats always fail to understand about Republicans, about actual
people on the right. We don't care if you're an
adult what you do with your life, but it doesn't
mean that we have to agree with you on anything
that you say or do. Just because you do something,
just because you believe something, that's fine.
Speaker 2: You do you, I'll do me.
Speaker 1: The problem with the Democratic side of the aisle is
they demand that I say that I agree with them
whatever the topic of discussion is, and if I don't,
I'm the horrible person they just described. I'm someone who
clings to money and racism as my driving ethos and
not critical thinking, which, by the way, is the most
ridiculous part of the statement. If I'm being truly honest,
because I think critical thinking is the foundational aspect of
some of the discussions that happen on the right and
not on the left. I think that's why I'll say this,
there were a lot of young voters who in twenty
twenty four punched the ticket of Trump, maybe because they
did or didn't actually like the individual, but more some
of the crazy stuff that gets talked about. I have
people in my family that are just becoming the age
to vote. A couple young men that I talk I
don't identify exactly who they are because I'm not sure
that their parents would want me to, but nonetheless, like
I have nieces and nephews, I'll go that far. That
I've talked to that have said some of this stuff,
and some of the craziest woke things, they laugh about them.
I don't know why people think that. I don't know
why people believe that that's so crazy. And by and large,
if you're talking to, say in eighteen, to a maybe
thirty something young man, something they've all acknowledged is that
they're usually to blame for stuff. When society or social
media's version of it complains about things, it's usually a
dude's fault. Specifically, most of the time a white guy
who's in trouble and who has to be the most
disliked in the room. So if you're a young white man,
what do you think of that? Well, you certainly don't
think you're bad. You certainly don't accept the idea that
I'm a terrible person because people said it, especially if
you don't actually behave in any way terrible, and then
you gravitate to the side that's saying that you're an
okay person too, that you're a good person too. They
don't understand that. And the fact that it's two women
talking about this topic and saying how terrible Republicans are
sort of amused me even more. I'm not saying that
everybody thinks a certain way with how you look or
how you are.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what the Democrats do.
Speaker 1: But I kind of wish that there was a twenty
something dude who might be producing this show who might
have those same reactions as they continue to blame certain
people for problems. Because she said towards the end there
that you hate drag queens and black people and women
and lesbians and gay people and trans people. And you
notice she left a group out, the only group that
she thinks conservatives don't hate is straight dudes, and so
it's interesting to think that they then have to be
the bad guy because that is the entire collection of
the side of the aisle they don't like. You can't
hate all of those groups if you're one of them.
So that's part of the problem there in that way
of thinking. I don't think she's saying out loud that
the black Republicans hate black people, but who knows, maybe
she in fact is actually saying that too. Another piece
of audio that I do want to play that I
really thought was interesting, and it's kind of like a
two parter Scott Jennings. I play audio from him a
lot I enjoy, and I don't actually I should admit this.
Speaker 2: I don't actually watch CNN.
Speaker 1: I don't sit down and turn the show on and
watch Jennings debate these people. I just consume the clips
that go viral on the internet because a lot of
them are really great. And this is a two parter,
so that context is in here. But one of the
talking heads on CNN was apparently blaming Donald Trump for
the attempted bombing of an ICE facility in Manhattan, which
is crazy. That's the version of all right, you think
Trump has to be responsible for every bad thing that
happens in the world, because this can't possibly be connected
to him at all, and yet you're trying to do it.
And not only was Scott first mystified by the argument,
but he later had a really great response to it.
Speaker 2: We can play both of those things.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the issue itself of how is this
Trump's fault?
Speaker 2: Guy?
Speaker 12: Donald Trump is responsible for some of the worst, most
insinior and most political and violent rhetoric in our country.
So I don't accept this the statement from Scott at
all violence. Political violence is wrong, Yes, whether it's left
or right. The problem is, I don't know president on
the Democratic side in my lifetime who's ever encouraged political violence.
In fact, I don't know any Republican president in my
lifetime has ever encouraged political violence until Donald Trump. We
have crossed the proverbial standard here. We've passed the point
of no return with Donald Trump, and if we don't
call him out for his responsible activity, activities and encouraging this,
we're responsible as well.
Speaker 8: You have any Do you have any comment on the
actual news story I just.
Speaker 12: Said, I condemned political value.
Speaker 2: I was right there.
Speaker 1: I love that part where he's on this long tirade
about Trump. It's all Trump's faulty, the terrible person, and
the very simplistic version of do you actually want to
comment on the person who tried to bomb the ICE
facility in Manhattan that's radically to the left, not to
the right. And then he continued a little bit later on,
this was probably the best part of it personally.
Speaker 8: Make sure I understand this deranged anti Ice leftist tries
to blow up the federal office in New York today,
and that's Donald Trump's fault. Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: He just gave a.
Speaker 1: You said, a generalized version of a thing that is
designed to be tied to this because the actual conversation
you were supposed to be having was about this topic,
was about the attempted bombing, and your answer to a
specific question was to macro the topic and make it
about Trump. So he's totally right Jennings and saying you
basically just ranted that this is all Trump's fault.
Speaker 4: Joe Biden.
Speaker 8: Joe Biden doesn't enforce immigration laws and that's Donald Trump's fault.
I'm trying to identify the end of the Chooser Route
Adventure book, where it doesn't end with it's Donald Trump's fault.
Speaker 2: Stephen is right, they did not enforce the law.
Speaker 8: And you know, people will tell you that. Anybody that
works for ICE today will tell you when they were
working there under Biden, they were told not to enforce immigrational.
Speaker 1: We have to just ignore it, just to pretend that
none of this exists. Simply enforcing the law can't possibly
be anything other than good. It can't be racist, it
can't be any of that, because it's the law. It's
the things that we're supposed to be doing and that
they're choosing not to do in the first place for
political reasons. But my actual favorite part of that back
and forth, and just the way in which it's exposed
on CNN, is how often this is the thinking of
the left. They do love to attack President Trump for
his version of rhetoric, for the things he says and does.
And I'll be honest when he claims the guest that
no person on the left has ever said that.
Speaker 2: Please, there's so many examples of that. Maxine Waters.
Speaker 1: One of the easiest ones that comes to mind, Chuck Schumer,
But a bunch of people who say like, we're not
sitting down anymore. We're fighting now, We're getting in your face,
we're making it impossible to ignore us, like it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure they would.
Speaker 1: Say the catalyst of that rhetoric from the left, from
the politicians on the left, is also a response to
what Trump has been saying.
Speaker 2: But there's got to be an end to that circle.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: There has to be a point where you find where
you actually say, all right, this is originating over here
and more important than that. And something that I say
a lot is that if you're going to accuse one
side of something, you have to own up if you
also do it. It's that you can't throw stones at
a glass house. Thing that was a lesson that was
pretty good that we were taught is that if you
behave a certain way, it is the worst possible position
to take that the other side is doing it and
they're bad for it because it's just so devoid of
the reality of who you are and what you're doing.
Speaker 2: All right, one last thing I do want to play.
Speaker 1: I should take a break when I'm going to play
this first, just because it's hilarious. The mayor of Chicago
A Brandon Johnson, who is a black man, was speaking
at an N double ACP event and he misspelled N
double ACP And that's hilarious. That's just genuinely a hilarious
thing to hear someone do. And I'm not going to
pretend that he's such an idiot he doesn't actually know
what it's supposed to be. I am going to say
that it's my belief that he doesn't care as much
about the thing that he's pretending to care about for
political reasons, which is surprising because again, he's a black man,
so you'd think that this would be an event that
he would care about enough to get the letters right.
Speaker 12: And that is the legacy aa e PC ECP here.
Speaker 2: That legacy.
Speaker 1: What is that organization? I've never heard of that or
been involved in that. I wonder what it is, and
I wonder what they do, and I wonder why Brandon
Johnson is speaking.
Speaker 2: To the NAA E CP.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling
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Speaker 2: Anyway. I think this is interesting.
Speaker 1: CNN has had to admit on air that Donald Trump
is incredible when it comes to endorsements within the Republican Party,
and then they were further forced to admit the reason
why this is about Darlene Graham, the sister of late
Lindsey Graham, who will actually be running for the Senate
seat that she has been appointed to to finish out
Lindsay's term in office. She will be running for the
full six year term after that point. This is incredible
data and I don't know that CNN loves to talk
about it. I'm thrilled by the way that Darlene's actually
gonna run, mostly because of the family dynamic of Lindsay
and Darlene. He raised her, and it's a really emotional
type of story that I think anybody, whether you hate
the politicians or like them, can respond to. Their parents
died when she was still a kid, and Lindsay was
in his twenties and he raised her. He you know,
finished up bringing her up in this life and turning
her into the woman.
Speaker 2: That she is today.
Speaker 1: And she's grateful to him for it, and it's sort
of a kind of cool thing from an emotional perspective.
If she were to actually win the race, least two
other candidates who have said that they will run, but
Trump has endorsed Darlene, and apparently that's going to go really,
really well.
Speaker 2: According again to CNN.
Speaker 7: Jarlene Graham's chances have rocketed up because rarely has the
power of one man and his endorsements and primary has
been as strong with Donald Trump. Why don't we take
a look here, okay, chance to win the South Carolina
special Republican primary Darling Graham. On Friday, she stood at
just a fourteen percent chance according to the Casher prediction markets.
Speaker 4: As I sat up like.
Speaker 7: A rock right now, an eighty percent chance as the
Trump endorsement is coming again the power of One Man,
and Graham herself saying that in fact, she is going
to run full the third term, So we're seeing an
eighty percent chance, Like, that's not one hundred percent, but
it is way way higher than fourteen percent chance.
Speaker 1: She love the fact that he's like, it's not one hundred.
I mean, it really could be one hundred. The other
two candidates that have jumped in the race are pulling
it like ten and nine percent. I think Darlene actually
has an eighty one percent chance according to the most
recent market predictions, to win this seat. And I think
that a lot could potentially change either good or bad,
And there's not a lot of good to go as
far as how much more up she can go than
that percentage based on how she does the job. Like
the interesting thing about the scenario that she's been thrust
into is that she'll actually get to wield the power
of the Senate seat as the junior Senator at South
Carolina for a while before inevitably seeing what happens within
the race itself. And that could be because Lindsey Graham
would have been a showing to be reelected. That could
be the kind of thing that helps her, you know,
set in stone her ability to actually win the seat outright.
But CNN went on further to talk about something that
is even more significant in the world of President Trump
and his endorsements. He is still wildly popular with Republicans.
Everyone everywhere in the world of media, including some crazy
people in podcast to stand places, will tell you that
Trump and Maga is over, that the appeal is done,
that people don't like him anymore, that you know, everyone's
moved on to something else, and some even advocate and
this is crazy, and I've seen it like voting for
Democrats because that's the best way to show Republicans that
you're actually fighting against them for a short time and
then hopefully they wise up and then you'll vote for
them again. Let the other more terrible side win an election,
which is crazy, But anyway, it's a thing that's actually happening.
Here is CNN saying, you know, when we compare Trump
to Obama to Bush, to anybody, he has this one
thing that they didn't even have, to a degree that
they didn't have it. That probably demonstrates why he's doing
so well in primary endorsements.
Speaker 7: One reason why is because Trump is still very popular
with Republicans. Just take a look here, okay, twenty first
century own party approval rating about at this point a
second term. We got Trump, we got Obama, we got Bush.
Look the real fairly popular. But the one who is
the most popular, and we have seen this time and
time out, no matter when you look.
Speaker 4: Is Donald John Trump.
Speaker 7: He's the only one who's over eighty percent. Eighty three
percent of Republicans still approve of the job that Donald
Trump is doing as president. He still has that magic.
We'll see if it carries over to South Carolina. But
we've seen it in primaries this year cent A primaries,
and is because he is still a very popular man,
historically popular when it comes to his own party.
Speaker 1: I wonder how hard it is for them to say this.
I don't think it's hard for Harry Enton at this point.
He said stuff like this a ton on CNN. But
it does seem very often like it's hard for the
people that he's on the TV with to hear it
as they say it. But yes, President Trump is still
wildly popular according to the polls with people who identify
as Republicans now. Granted, one aspect of this that you
might throw at your radio or say and I can't
hear you if you do it is that maybe more
and more people are not identifying as Republicans now and
are identifying as independents. I'm sure there's their own study
out there that disproves or proves that, and I think
from the data I've actually seen, because I have seen
some of this, there's a small amount of people that
would fall into this category, but not the sizeable amount
that people would say. But I think this really is
a sort of a demonstration of the likelihood of who
runs in the next few years. I fill in on
other radio stations throughout the country. I'm going to shout
out another DANTA affiliate, WIBC in Indianapolis, because I happened
to work for them quite a bit and I was
doing a show recently and I saw someone in their
social media chat say that they don't want JD. Vance,
they want Marco Rubio, And what I thought was interesting
about that and how that kind of relates to the
discussion I'm having right now, is that I do think
the heir apparent to President Trump is in his orbit,
whether that is someone who is behaving a way that
they'd like or someone that might be misbehaving, And we're
not really sure how far that goes. There are certainly
a lot of people who think that JD. Vance is
already trying to stake his claim on the future, and
in doing so might not always be playing completely aligned.
Speaker 2: With President Trump.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I always agree with that, but
I can see it. There's times where I can see
certain interviews that Jdvan SIT's down for with people who've
said that Trump is the most horrible person ever, and
I don't think Trump would actually care. But I don't
what the optics of that look like as far as
the vice president entertaining these spaces the way he does
and also not trying to hold the feet to the
fire of the people who've crapped on his boss. Now,
but I also understand the appeal of a Marco Rubio specifically,
because I think, much like Vance to some of us,
not all of us, and maybe more people feel this
way about Rubio. There's that ability to say the same
stuff that President Trump has said, just say it in
a different way and seemingly get around, at least for now,
at least while they're comparing these people to the devil incarnate,
as they've told us Trump is for so long, get
around the level of attack that Trump gets when he
says something slightly differently. Now, granted, I am also curious,
and I know this is twenty twenty six before a
midterm election, so it's probably premature to say this, but
I am curious, much like you saw in the short
window of time when some believe that Ron DeSantis actually
would have a show at defeating Trump and being the
candidate for the presidency. In twenty twenty four, media turned
on him like crazy, Imania attacked him, said he was
worse than Trump Trump two point zero, all that stuff,
all the things that inevitably they still did to President
Trump before he got elected, they were doing to Ron DeSantis,
and then eventually that whole thing cratered. Anyway, and so
I do wonder how long the pause is, because I
don't think it's all that much longer till people start
viciously attacking these other potential candidates. And the reason I
say this, and it's not shocking at all, it's fairly
obvious that the heir apparent to the current president is
probably someone within his administration. That's much almost always the
case in the world of who we see inevitably run
for the position next. But what I think is really
interesting is if you look at the left and the
people that they're likely to run, and I know that
Harris still does surprisingly well in the world of some
of those polls that are out there, which is crazy,
and I'd be thrilled to watch her try to run
again because I think it would be historically terrible, Although
if she actually has to win some primary races, I
think even the Democrats will tell her that they'd rather
not have her be the candidate, as they've told her before.
But Democrats are essentially searching for someone at a left field.
They'd like to have someone out of nowhere. The haircuts,
Gavin Newsom, whoever, the other band aids that they've popped
around all have a myriad of ridiculous problems. And so
it's really interesting to think about the side of the
isle that's going to bring in someone that you probably know,
that you're probably familiar with, and over the next couple
of years might see even more often, whether that's Rubio
or Vance or anyone else. And then the side of
the aisle that's going to essentially look for their Barack
Obama all over again, someone who has a meteoric rise
throughout the party during a primary season and winds up
being the inevitable candidate that they thrust forward and hopefully
win an election with. I say hopefully for them, not me.
It would be terrible to see someone win on that
side again. And of course I actually do believe, and
maybe partially this is a weird thing to just keep
talking about, but I can't help it. My brain has
fallen into this hole and now I'm here. I partially
think the reason that it seems so likely to a
lot of us that a Republican could win in twenty
twenty eight is because Trump is a split term president.
I think that if we didn't have the horribleness of
Joe Biden for four years in between the two Trump presidencies,
there'd be a higher likelihood that a race between these
parties might be closer. Even though you say the bench
on the left is terrible, that you can't really identify
who on it has any value in a national race,
and you can find several people on the bench on
the conservative side of the aisle.
Speaker 2: But I digress.
Speaker 1: I really do think a portion of it is the
fact that you had a four year reminder that's going
to be much more recent than it would have been
if Trump had served consecutive terms telling you that if
you go this road, things get way worse, not better.
One last thing that I do want to play before
I take a break, and I just thought it was interesting,
and it is a Trump audio. He was asked several
questions today about Iran about what's going to happen next.
In one point, he said that they might even be
trying to recreate some of their nuclear sites and those
are going to get blown up again, and that essentially,
as you've heard for a while with Iran and the President,
they've failed to come to the realization that they inevitably
have to come to, which is that they're profoundly losing
this conflict against us, even after very tragically, there was
a loss of a US military lives very recently. By
and large, the US is not losing. They're winning this
fight on the ground or in the air, wherever you
want to say, they're fighting it. The only way in
which they're potentially losing anything, or we this country is
losing anything is in the world of our media and
the way that our media wants to shape this discussion.
But Trump said one thing which he's said before, which
I wonder if it will inevitably actually be the projection
of what does occur. That'll probably quiet all that noise.
Whether they'll scream and yell that he's a horrible person,
which they'd probably do even louder. This might be the
hand being tipped that something different is coming and coming soon.
When asked about our actions in Iran, he described what
we've done so far as being nice.
Speaker 6: If we left today, it would take them decades to rebuild,
and I don't believe they could ever rebuild, and honestly,
they haven't seen anything yet. We've been nice. We've been nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Because there have been discussions about what infrastructure moves
the US could make to take out certain things, and again,
of course take them out in a way that we
would validate from a military standpoint that would cripple them
even further. And Iran seems to be demanding we do
that as they continue to reject every scenario that seems
to accept the world that acts surrounds them as reality.
They seem to very much be in denial about that.
And unfortunately, in things like this, and I know that
Dana has talked about this before too, you have to
step up at that point and do more to hopefully
make the whole rest of this thing quick and easy
and over all. Right, quick break, A little bit more
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Dana Show. D Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X a
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Let's move on other things out there. A Jimothy the
raccoon is taking over social media. It's a raccoon in
Seattle that's got a weird hump, like a weird spinal thing,
so I guess it's kind of like a quasi modo raccoon.
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freaking out that they're seeing Jimothy, at least that's what
they've named him, the raccoon with a short spine syndrome.
I'll go ahead and play it, why not, and then
we'll o that's way too loud. Let's go ahead and
fix that audio first before we do that again. Sorry
for anyone's years that I broke.
Speaker 2: Let's am I looking at you?
Speaker 5: Have the strangest body, buddy cow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went viral because somebody found him and said
he had the strangest body, and then other people seem
to find him again and now he's a celebrity. The
thing that depresses me, the thing that I most thought
of when I saw this story is how much money
Jimothy could be worth if he had his own social
media profile.
Speaker 2: How much more money than me.
Speaker 1: I think is the right way to say it, that
he would be worth. These always upset me, these types
of stories.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It's not about me, it's about Jimothy. But nonetheless, like
that's all it takes. You just DoPT this raccoon. If
that's something you can do. I don't think you can
do that legally. I'll start pumping out the social media
videos and boom, all of a sudden, you live in
a mansion. That's how the world in which we live
currently it works. And that's probably not good. But ah,
who knows. I might be going there and trying to
catch Jimothy in the near future for his sake, not
for it's for mine. Another story that I had referenced before,
and I'll actually pay off here. Colorado police arrested a
guy from Arizona who for some reason, was in Colorado
surfing a train.
Speaker 2: He had broken a.
Speaker 1: Window on a non commuter train, climbed up to the
top of it and was caught trying to surf it
or enjoying being up there. And I guess the part
that made the story go viral naked and I asked
this question before, and I'll ask it again.
Speaker 2: The guy's name is Daniel.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you incorporate the nudity stuff. Daniel,
apparently being arrested, this was my favorite part of the story,
expressed his love of end I quote, vodka, beer and
playing the banjo. I don't know if they were in
order or if that was an out of order version
of a list, but vodka, beer and playing the banjo
all seemed like things that the naked guy in the
train probably loves. I don't know if he also loves
felony and misdemeanor charges because he's gonna get some of
those he was arrested. This is something you should not do.
But one more time, I guess, just for the cheap
seats in the back. I would love to know the
answer to the question. I would love a psychologist to
study it. I don't want to be the one to
do it and tell me why people in the news
also occasionally get naked.
Speaker 2: What is it that's happening there.
Speaker 1: Is it just mental health problems that caused them to
strip the clothes off?
Speaker 2: Is there other reasons?
Speaker 1: And I think I've said this on this show before,
but I know I've said it filling in on Radio
America content before. It's actually the most intimidating thing that
I could witness a stranger do. Like if I was
around to stray who was armed, as a guy who
lives in Texas and is armed myself, I would be
less intimidated. That's a situation where I'd be like, well,
one of the two of us is surviving this situation.
But a situation where a dude is acting crazy and
then is also totally naked, it hits me in a
different way, Like it causes a different set of fears
I think to take over for a lot of us,
And so to me, that actually would be more intimidating.
Speaker 2: And I don't know why that is.
Speaker 1: And I've admitted that in the past, and I've been
sent messages where people say they don't think that that's true,
but I promise you it is. Man, I think I
could better handle someone armed who was threatening me than
I could handle someone who's just randomly naked, acting in
a way that I would really like them to stay
on their side of the street and not come over
to mine. Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on the Dana Show. This is the Dana Show.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in with you. Thrilled
to be with you at d LASH or Dana Lash
Radio on x Great ways to stay connected to her radio. Craigsy,
if you want to make me look more legitimate in
this field is what I usually say. I'm a thrilled
to be in here, and I need to just try
harder on social media in general. All Right, A couple
quick things before we go. Gen Z is going broke
because they're not telling their friends they need to be
paid back. A new study found that when you go
out as a group and somebody offers to cover the tab,
that person might not actually be able to afford it,
but it's just easier than splitting up the bills. So
one person does it, maybe the same person does it
a lot, and then nobody's actually paying them back. I've
been on both sides of this equation, which is crazy
because I've never really been a person who should be
picking up the tab all the time. That's not something
I should do. I think that Dave Ramsey would tell
me no in that world. But nonetheless, what I think
is interesting about this is that when you do it,
no matter how big the group is, even if it's
only a few people, it does feel a little awkward
to be like, hey, you know that money that I
threw down on you that you said you were going
to pay me back.
Speaker 2: It's been a few days.
Speaker 1: So usually the best way to hand handle this I
have found as an adult person who can have a
conversation with other adult people is to do it in
the moment. If you're the one throwing down the credit card.
We all have electronic ways to pay each other. Just
get it done. I don't let it sit around. Don't
do it that way. Just have some people send you
some money. Have it done by the end of the
night or the next day. Like, don't let it live
out there in the ether for longer than that, because then, yeah,
it gets harder to bring it up. And your friends
are also terrible people if they don't just pay you
back on their own And maybe they're doing it because
they assume you're wealthier than they are. And that's a
problem in a whole different way, especially if you're not
You're just the one that's usually most honest about being
like a I'll just take care of it if none
of you people can do math. I always like to
split a bill, not with my wife. Actually, I will
say that for this topic. I pretty much paid for
everything the entire time we were dating. And what I
like about that is even now and all our money
is shared, everything goes into the same bank account, I'm
the one who gets to pay, and so I feel
good about that.
Speaker 2: Although once we go home, if I.
Speaker 1: Ever brag about it, she reminds me that it's her
money too, and I'm like, okay, fine, But I just
like the dynamic of that. I think I always will,
and I like that I trained us to do it
that way when I was actually spending my own money.
Another story out there that I liked before we get
out of here for the day. This was a Dear
Abbey that a married woman sent about her husband. I
think they've been married for a while. They're both in
their late fifties. She said that she can no longer
tolerate a long car trip with her husband, and she
defined a long car trip as anything that's an hour
or more. She says it takes at least that long
to visit the grand babies and that she really really
needs to find a way to do this on her own.
Many many people have done the bedroom divorce, I think
is what it's called, where you split up the bedroom
into two places and you both sleep in your own place.
My wife and I don't do that. I like that
we don't do that for ryety of reasons. I'm not
going to get into on the radio, but I know
the people that do. My wife somehow deals with my snoring,
and I'm impressed that she's figured it out. I think
earplugs is probably a big part of said solution. But
nonetheless I think that this is probably the next step.
Like I don't want to spend this time with you,
now I don't want to spend that time with you.
It might be a time to consider that maybe the
relationship as a whole isn't going well. If you can't
be trapped in the car for an hour with someone,
maybe there's some other challenges to have. But I just
really like the way it was written, because a lot
of it seemed fairly amusing and to be honest. If
I was the dude and I was in a healthy
relationship and I read this or saw this being said
about me, I'd find a way to fix it. I'd
find a way to do whatever you need to do.
Maybe talk a little less, I'll play a little bit
different music, whatever it might be, whatever the complaint is,
I might find a way to placate the person in
my life, as opposed to allow them to drive separate
because I.
Speaker 2: Can't be tolerated.
Speaker 1: But again, that really depends on how much of this
is fair for how much of this is unfair complaining
because and I'll just admit this, and I kind of
love that this is a thing that gets said about
my wife and I all the time. If you've ever
seen the movie Up and the very beginning of the movie,
where the two characters are established, one that talks a lot,
one that doesn't talk at all, we are the reverse
of those characters. I am the very talkative person. She
is the very quiet listener person. And it works great
for us. Sometimes I got to learn to shut up, though,
See you guys next time.
Speaker 2: Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show