The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: A $60 Thanksgiving??

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

The media wants you to believe that the costs of food for Thanksgiving have gone down but they're missing one very important detail. Dana Loesch also has a hot take about cranberry sauce. Meanwhile, A Texas father who tried for years to stop his ex-wife from allowing his pre-teen child, who now identifies as 'Luna,' to be chemically castrated has been dealt a blow in California court.Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaVisit today for 10% off and get the protection you need.  KelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comInnovation. Performance. Keltec. Learn more at KelTecWeapons.com today.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet a free smart phone with promo code FRIDAY.  Limited-time offer, or while supplies last.  PreBornhttps://preborn.com/danaHelp a woman meet her baby for the first time by donating to PreBorn!  To donate securely dial #250 and say keyword BABY or visit Preborn.com/DANA. ReadyWisehttps://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on your entire purchase.Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comDon’t mask pain, fight it naturally with Relief Factor.  Visit online or call 1-800-4-RELIEF today!

It's his last mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. I seriously don't even understand. Some of the headlines I see, I'm like, what is your damage? What are you doing? All right. So let me get this lady out of the way. So this is apparently, it was over at, I think this is over at law and crime.

There was a Florida woman who apparently stole from the, target self-checkout. And then, you know how she got caught? She bragged about it on TikTok. Yeah. Why do people do this? And also, hang on, I'm trying to pull this up and the story I won't pull up. What?

This is like the fourth or fifth story that I've had where somebody was posting about the stuff that they stole on like social media. And then they get caught and they're like, I can't believe I got caught. This is crazy. What did you think you were doing when you posted about it? And when you're at the target self-checkout, I'm curious as to whether or not self-checkouts experience more theft than not. But don't they have like a person there watching and like cameras and stuff? They do now more than ever.

Okay. I can't get this. I think there's something wrong with it. I can't pull this headline up. But I have a whole bunch of other stuff. So we're going to get right into it. Let's see. So in the meantime, I lost every.

I've lost everything. I've lost everything. I'll drop these in here. Yeah. I, well, I, I, I apparently accidentally closed out all my headlines, all my, uh, floor. You know what? Please forgive us because it's Monday and we're crazy. Uh, this, um, this Florida man survived.

This is an insane story. A 30 foot fall and over a hundred be stings. This is the second B sting story that we had. Uh, this one guy was, was, was, uh, he was doing post-horican cleanup. up and he fell 30 feet and hit a roof, rolled to the ground, and the bees were stinging him the entire time. He had to actually go to the hospital to be treated because he does have like some sensitivity to bee stings. That's kind of crazy. I'm glad he's okay. A guy in Central Florida, he committed home burglary in boxer shorts. That seems dangerous and gross. And he tried

to enter through a window in another house and a man with a firearm shot him. And, yeah, when the deputies approached him, began attacking the deputies. So, yeah, he was completely arrested, yeah. Can I go back to this thing that I can't, I don't like Frank Luntz. I think he's, I cannot stand Frank Luntz. I can't stand him.

I think that he is a giant meat sack of nothingness. I just, I don't like him. I think he's a dufus. His polling is ridiculous. And then he says stupid stuff, like the story that he's been pushing from CNBC. Oh, yeah, the average cost of the Thanksgiving dinner is that it's dropped 5% last year.

lowest since 2021. It's historic. $58.8. Wait a minute. Has anybody been to McDonald's? I saw someone saying that a family, a family four eats a McDonald's for like $60. You're telling me that an entire Thanksgiving dinner. No. I don't think Frank, Frank is bougie. Frank does not cook. Frank does not shop. Okay. He's very out of touch. you know i mean gosh turkeys alone are super expensive this year i mean they've been every year since we've had biden in office uh and then the uh pandemic made everything heinous yeah it's it's a lot more than that and i don't know they were saying and by the way that's fifty dollars for ten person

gathering is what they're saying it's like 60 bucks for a family to eat a family of four anymore at mcdonald with tax and all that uh 10 people eating for a Thanksgiving dinner for $58. Sir, you are moronic. That is such a, Kane's Jaws on the, yeah, it's not that much. It's not that much. It's more than that. They're saying 10 people?

10 people. I mean, 10 people. The turkey alone's 40 something bucks, depending on where you get it. Oh, exactly. I mean, I'm looking at my, some of this, just the stuff that I have to pick up still. and I don't get like, you know, boozy green beans or anything. I get, you know,

I have same green beans that we all get, right? We all get the same stuff. And we have, we're going to have eight people. And yeah, we're already, like at eight people, we're over what it would be even for eight people. Yeah, I've spent 60 bucks on just me and my son, what my son and I are going to do already.

And that's just two people. Yeah. This idea that it's $58.8 for 10 people. How many pounds of turkey is that? Hang on. Hang on. How much? How what?

Let's get under the meal pie. This is important, guys. So the average weight of a family turkey for Thanksgiving? No, no, no, no, for 10 people. Right. We'd have to know what the weight. It'd have to be like what? 13 away over that.

What would you get for? Yeah, I'd get about a 14 pound bird probably. Yeah. Because you're, you got to figure maybe a little bit over a pound. of turkey per person. There are bigger birds out there. There's smaller ones, but there are bigger ones. And then, like, if you do anything, like, if you bacon wrap it, or if you do any kind of, like, if you're just doing your, you know, your typical base.

Because then you've got to factor in your other stuff, and then you got a factor in seasonings. Your herbs and spices, I don't know if you've bought fresh herbs, there's some stuff that we just can't grow and then some stuff we have just in spades. But if I have to get an herb at the store, oh my gosh. it is so much more I mean you could probably get what is it turkey's a little over oh let me pull this up isn't it over like a couple bucks a pound depending on like just like an average

turkey median price yeah depending where you get it you can get around two bucks a pound if not so finance buzz says it's like two dollars and eight cents a pound and so yeah you can get a 15 pound turkey. That's $31. That's $30 right there. So how in the hell are you spending $58, Frank Luntz and CNBC? How are you spending $58 in $8 for Thanksgiving meal for 10 people? Already a 15 pound turkey. And this was the median price of all the average pound. We're going to get no boosy turkeys, no artisanal turkeys, okay? That's $31 and that's probably not with tax.

That highly prized cranberry sauce in the can. Also is not free. You can't just shake someone's hand for that? Hang on. I got an ocean-crace cranberry slice. So, yeah, that's like, depending on how many cans you get, that's a couple of bucks. And you got 10. Yeah.

And that's without tax. So you're probably looking at easy almost, what? Hitting towards the $4 territory per can. So already, you're getting up towards $40 just for some cranberry stuff. Throwing some green beans. Throwing a couple cans of green beans. Taters aren't free. Yeah, taters aren't free.

You're already over for 10 people. And you haven't even gotten into like your sodies, your breads, none of that stuff. You ain't even gotten into dessert yet. So who is saying this? Like what kind of meal are y'all eating where it's only 10 people can eat for $58? I mean, is it pot luck? No. Everybody brings.

Where do these people get this stuff? I don't know. This is just, it's infuriating. So yeah. So yeah, easily 50 bucks. Because in 10, I can't believe the prices in McDonald's even are. Oh my gosh. Big Mac is 10.

Without tax. It's $9.29. A big Mac meal. Quarter pounder with cheese, 539. 10 piece nug, 919. What if I want to make Flurry? I don't even know, man. Don't ask.

The ice cream machine's broken. Don't ask. this is already. This is already. And everybody's been saying, oh, man, you know, this is, I mean,

the Big Mac went up 20%. And since 2019. So yeah, four people easily over $58. And they're trying to, they're trying to gas let you. And, oh, no, $58 for 10 people for Thanksgiving.

Tell me, you ain't ever been in the kitchen without telling me, you ain't ever been in the kitchen. I'm going to turn into my grandmother here in a minute. I'm going to wrap a kerchief around my head. Were they using Tofurky in their estimate? What the hell kind of turkey is this? This is some like artisanal Vermont turkey.

This is, yeah, this our artisanal turkey, our artisanal Thanksgiving turkey. Yeah, the turkeys listen to classical. Chopin is their favorite. And they relax and unwind and spend their days running through our meadows. which all shall double as the postcards we sell to help boost business. You know, the turkeys, they all have friends. That's what I expect for that, you know, a boogie turkey. I don't know.

We were talking earlier. I said I set X, well, the World War III is going to be over the people, over people's cranberry preferences. But I said slice can cranberry sauce is the only cranberry sauce. is the only cranberry sauce worth having. And it is. Because it sounds great coming out of the can. And I always feel an immense set, a lot of satisfaction, sliding that, this is exactly what it sounds like, too, out of that can.

And it's on the plate. And then when you're able to lay it sideways and it's just perfect, you can just slice it up. Your cranberry loaf, slice it up. It can be the moist maker on your sandwiches. It's Kane's favorite. word moist. That's so good. And I don't know the people who make the deer food, that is, the cranberry. That's not a sauce. That's like gobbly granola gloop.

The deer food. Yeah, it's like what I actually reindeer. It's what I respect reindeer to eat. It has like weird nuts and stuff in it. And it's bitter and nasty. And people are like, it's just tart. It's just tart. I had an aunt that would make it. Nobody ate it. Every damn year she'd make it. You think someone would want to go, Now, Glinda, you don't want to be making this. Nobody's eating this cranberry sauce. Nobody's eating. It's nasty. Everybody in our family was too polite.

So that woman would make it every year. One year I would, I actually put some on my plate and I dumped it in the trash, like immediately. Because I wasn't going to eat it. But I felt bad because no one was eating it. And I heard some people talking. We did, we, like, I don't know what anybody's anything around because it's disgusting. But, man, you couldn't get enough of that cranberry sauce. the slice version you couldn't get enough and then when you only had like that much left

and everybody wants some you got to slice it real thin got to get out the mandolin you know like do it crazy yeah that's the best way to do it but i don't know there are some people who prefer the gobble glasola grinole hippie stuff some people prefer that i'm not going to pretend to understand these people but it is the wrong way to have your cranberries it's the wrong you know you at it, the way that they harvest those is unbelievable. I feel like I'm turning into a cooking show and I don't mean to, but I just, it's very important for me that we have the cranberry discussion. You agree with that too, right? What, with what? Would that cans better than the make it yourself? Uh-huh. Yeah, I would say so. Yeah. I mean, it's how I grew up. Yeah. That's how I grew up.

Eating cranberries the right way. Also, maybe, I don't know, maybe that, can I just also say this? I always thought that the cranberry sauce that wasn't the sliced, that was rich people's cranberry. When I had grown up, that was rich people's, that's rich people food. I didn't even know what it tasted like. I don't even know what it tastes like. What? I don't even know what the real cranberry sauce tastes like.

Yeah, you're not supposed to know. It's horrible. Imagine like just straight cranberry juice with some more bitterness. It's just like that. They have like walnuts or pecans in it or something? Oh, yeah, and then you get a weird, like you're like, just as you're trying to understand this weird tasting, like hatefulness that you put in your mouth, then you, then it's like, here's some nuts. And you get to crunch on those. It's so bad.

Who eats the stuff? Some people put oranges in it. It just had a full stop. That literally was what you just did. Well, maybe one day I'll have the rich person's cranberry sauce. I've never had it. I think life has to be so good for you to eat that cranberry sauce that you give yourself that hell on the table. Just so you know what it's like for the folks who suffer.

Do they have the rich person's cranberry sauce in a can? Or is it like is it just the jello kind of one that just plops out as a cylinder? I know all the cylindrical cranberry sauce. Which is my favorite. That's the only way to go. want to know. Do they have the rich person kind in a can that comes out? I don't think so.

I've never seen it. Have you? That comes out like dear food? No, I don't think they do. They probably sell it in a kit in the salad section. But no, I legit was like, that is rich people's food. And I never, it looked pretty on the table. But that's, you know, jokingly.

That's, you know, people who are happy and have, you know, and they have no complaints in life. They're the people who invented that cranberry sauce. and they put it on the table because everything is so great. I just don't know what suffering's like. Let me have a bite of this homemade cranberry sauce. Oh, my gosh, the devil is real. And that's how that came to be.

You know that right? That's the story of that sauce. I do love those details in history. Well, it's a very important part of... I just feel like we don't know enough about it. American history. Right. It's important to know.

Yeah. You know, I mean, it's very, very, it was created, you know, like you would whip yourself on your bed. And I don't do that, but, you know, that's like a, that's why people have that so they can torture themselves. Oh. And remind themselves what good food tastes like, because that ain't it. All right. I'm almost done making fun of it. I'm going to get so much hate mail.

It's okay. It's all right. I'm just going to eat my slats, cranberry sauce. Not rate any of it. That's what I'll do. All right. We've got more on the way. Now, all of the news you would probably miss.

It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Let's see here. So first, well, we told you the story. Harris is telling her advisors that they need to kind of keep her options open for her, whether it's maybe going for governor or going for Senate, something to that effect. This is crazy.

editorial four in 10 Chicago public school teachers were chronically absent last year. Their median salaries $95,000. Four in ten. Four in ten were absent. And that last year, the median salary is 95,000. I know, I'm without words. I don't quite, that's 21% more than teachers make in the suburbs. Yep.

The median pay there is $78,000. These teachers are making $95. And CPS in Cook County, Chicago Public Schools, pays its teacher more than any other, its teachers, more than any other large school district in the nation. It just proves throwing more money at it doesn't fix it. Completely. Totally not at all.

It does not fix it at all. A unique cemetery says grieving relatives must pay for VIP passes to visit graves. This has to, so this is in Britain. It's in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. and it's like a

I mean it doesn't look like it's anything but a normal cemetery. It costs five bucks to visit a graver cremation plot 10 to visit the rose garden and they're not going to come out and force with this. Well it'll be in January and they have electric gates so you have to have a VIP pass yeah. But if I paid to have them

buried there that's me paying to visit whenever I don't know if you get the VIP pass if you pay to do that have them I don't know but I mean I don't know of anybody who goes and acts unless it's like a veteran cemetery. People you don't know. This reminds me of like in-game purchasing. It's in-game purchase. So you can pay to have some of

a barrier here, but you have to pay for the access of getting to them. Yes. So this is, okay, speaking to dead stuff. Oh gosh. A Colorado funeral homeowner was accused of letting 190 bodies decay and they pled guilty to corpse abuse.

That's Oh my gosh. Apparently they begin storing their bodies in a decrepit building near Colorado Springs in 2019. And they gave families dry concrete in place of cremated remains. So somebody probably has like grandma in a jar on their mantle. And it's not grandma. It's just concrete. Yeah.

So they're in a lot of trouble. John and Carrie Halford. It's called the Return to Nature Funeral Home. They begin storing the bodies in this, and then they would give families the dry concrete. They just had the discovery last year that this was happening. They apparently spent extravagantly. They did laser body sculpting, fancy cars, luxury items, all that stuff. They pled guilty to fraud.

That is insane. This is an insane story, and I wanted to touch on this. I think I had it earlier in my rundown, but I wanted to bring this up. Have you guys heard about this case with... Jeff Younger. This is one of the wildest cases. I think that, I don't know.

He's a Texas dad, actually. Wasn't he in like Capel? Not too far from us. So this dad, him and his wife got divorced. His name is Jeff Younger. His wife is Ann Gorgulis. And they had

they have a 12-year-old son that they got, he got, he was going to get granted a full custody of his 12-year-old son and he wanted to, well, the ex-wife is. She was just granted that in California court this past week. He has twins, twin boys, and one of the boys apparently is, from what they talked about in court, the 12-year-old boy would dress as a boy and do boy stuff at his dad's house. And then when he was with his mom, it was like his mom was like pushing this stuff on him. And so the mom insisted that the 12-year-old be transitioned

because the mom decided that the son was transgender. And the 12-year-old, they wanted to put him, she wanted to put him on hormone blockers and all of this stuff. Chemical castration essentially is what she wants to do to him. And the dad had been fighting this for quite a long time, a couple of years. They've been fighting with him for a while. And so then she moved from Texas to California, and she's raising the 12-year-old boy. And again, he's a twins. So she's raising him as a girl. She's been claiming that he is a girl since, I mean, for several years now.

And when the dad, Jeff Younger, asked his son, you know, do you think that you're a girl? And like, what do you, you know, what do you think? and he was in the beginning when they were in court, it was like he, the son said he wanted to be a boy, and it was like he would only dress up when he was visiting, when he was at his mom's house and being with the mom. And so his ex-wife was wanting to do all of this hormone stuff and a court ruled that she could not seek transitioning treatment of their son previously.

And she acknowledged the order. And then the Supreme Court of Texas ruled in December that she lost. lacked the legal authority to consent to such therapy. But she's been pushing this this entire time. And now he said she was transitioning him when he was two, and the records support that. She put him in a gender clinic when he was five. And then she relocated to California so she could basically be in a better position to fight to have him transitioned.

And then in 21, excuse me. me, the judge in California gave her full custody over the 12-year-old boy, including his medical care. But they said that the control did not extend to the hormone suppression therapy and the puberty blockers and the reassignment surgery. They said the boy's dad had to sign off on that. Well, the mom didn't like that. And they kept, they were, they were pushing it. And now, he lost all parental rights over him. And I read, because I think that they did, I, IVF. And apparently, that's not even her biological child. Because they, I think she had like a donor. I read a story where they had one of the reports it was in Texas media. Yeah. So I don't know.

That's what I, the whole, this is an insane story to me for a number of different reasons. The California judge was the one who, who granted the mom all authority. And the dad was, You know, he was a super involved dad. And then they had like an acrimonious divorce and then the mom's doing this. It makes me wonder if she's not doing it to get at the dad. I don't know. But he says that, I mean, he was supposed to have supervised supervision or supervised, sorry, visitation. He said that he sends letters and stuff to his sons, but his ex-wife is not required to make sure that they receive them.

But now she's been released. She's free to go and seek. the experimental surgery and chemically castrate him and all this stuff, which is wild. I don't know. Of course, she has her medical picture where she's wearing a cross necklace, which even the devil can quote scripture. That's, it's so sad to me. This kid's 12 years old. She's been brainwashing this kid since he was a toddler. Before he even understands, you know, concrete concepts or abstract concepts, she's pushing this stuff on him. To me, I feel like that that's a form of abuse. I can't believe courtrooms don't see that.

especially when it involves, you know, a mom and a dad that are not on the same page, wouldn't you want to err on the side of caution as opposed to just giving the mom the green light for chemical castration and then experimental surgery? I just feel like you would want to err on the side of caution with us. That just blows the mind that that's not what's happening here. So that's, I mean, it's just so sad. It just, it makes, because it's just so sad. and they got divorced and then apparently it sounds like she's just like she had purchased all girl toys for the for the son so when he was at his mom's house he's playing with girl toys he's got girl clothes it really sounds like she was put i mean you're two years old this is this is entirely an adult concept that they're transposing on to kids and then saying that the kids are actually choosing it because they feel like they have some greater purpose to help this child affirm who you know they think they are it's abusive it's incredibly abusive i feel so bad for this dad i mean what i'm curious is to where some of the texas leadership is on this and a lot of i was told by a friend that some of the churches in the

in our area uh since he's in capell that's that's considered part of dfw dallas fort worth and uh there were apparently like churches that are afraid to speak out on this care or help the dad because they don't want to lose any kind of tax exempt status i think a lot of things a lot of things need to happen here. But I'm just curious as to why I never saw. I mean, this feels like something Ken Paxton should be. I think Ken Paxton has mentioned this before. But a lot of these other lawmakers out there, where are they?

Where are some of these lawmakers with us? I mean, I can't, can you imagine not being able to really have any kind of parental control over your child? and you know that they're going to be chemically castrated and it's not something they've ever had the freedom to come to a decision that they chose. They didn't have the freedom to choose it. It was pushed on them from toddlerhood. It's so abusive. Speaking of like related to this.

So remember they've been trying to cancel J.K. Rowling for I don't know how long now. How long they've been trying to cancel this woman? I mean years now. Ever since she spoke up in favor of. sanity in favor of women protecting women's spaces and on sports teams and stuff. They've been trying to cancel her or something fierce. So HBO has been forced into defending her because the woke scolds were demanding that she be removed from her own Harry Potter TV series. That seems a little, yeah, maybe not.

that seems a little much. So HBO, to their credit, they're actually standing by her. That's kind of impressive. Because they had not, that was not something previously that I thought that they would, I mean, it's because it's Disney. But, or, because they've got the Disney, they have the Disney Harry Potter theme park. Apparently her name's on it, HBO. I guess everybody's standing, or she has blank you money and she can't be canceled.

and blink you power because she's like a factory of stories yeah they said that because they they still have her name up on the stuff at Disney they haven't taken her name off that and HBO said that they're not taking her name off of the series

because people were upset that she stuck up for women interesting thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast if you haven't already made sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts Spotify, wherever you get your podcast.