The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Barbara The Builder

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

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Florida deputy's recovering. He was attacked at, uh, by a drugged out volunteer at the Vortex Springs Soul Fest. And Holmes County Sheriff's Office says that the volunteer attacked a deputy and bit a chunk out of his head while trying to grab his gun. The deputy was on walking patrol at the festival. He tried to fight off Anderson and tased him before he was restrained by several other deputies. Oh, they say Anderson, this guy who bit him, this James Anderson, was under the influence of PCP, LSD, ketamine, mushrooms, and ecstasy. Save some drugs for the other people, dude.

Good night. It looks like an extra on like Sons of Anarchy. I mean, look how huge he is. If you're watching the simulcast, Juan's big, good preparing this guy's, as his mugshot. And he looks like he's kind of smiling. I don't know what his expression is. He's a big dude. And he bit, literally bit a chunk off of this deputy's head.

He tried to eat that deputy. He tried to eat that NASPA patrol deputy. So he's charged with aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer and arrest. Wait, so you could bite a chunk of flesh off a deputy's head and it's okay. Aggravated battery. Just aggravated battery. I don't know. Is that, is there like an elevated thing you can put on it? Like he tried to eat someone. I don't know. Extra aggravated battery. Yeah. I mean, I just, you know, I got a, I got a question about that. So this

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industry. There are qualified women across Maine who belong in fields dominated by men, and I want to knock down the barriers that are keeping them from pursuing the these good paying jobs in construction with good Maine employers. There's already some work being done across the state to invite women to work in construction. Associated General Contractors of Maine helps run career day events for teens and a registered pre-apprenticeship through Maine Construction Academy. This year, as we reviewed the applications, we had almost 30% of our participants were female this year, which is a significant improvement over what we've seen for construction industry participation in the past.

Laura Leboe owns her own construction company called Sopo Cottage. She helps organize volunteer opportunities called Women Build Day through Habitat for Humanity. It gives women an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in construction. We have women of all different experience levels, but many are novices. They've never held a drill. They've never held a saw. And we teach them how to do that as part of the build day. And they get to experience the firsthand.

They don't know how to do anything. I just feel like that feeds stereotypes in a way. because you know you solve societal problems with more government that's the way you do it welcome back to the program Dana lash here with you top of the second hour you can listen coast to coast you can stream the radio program as well we're also an ex can find us on rumble YouTube Facebook all that good stuff so this was uh in main they signed this executive order they're trying to make the construction industry excuse me what they said is more inclusive it's exclusive like what

what do you mean like they're barring women from working so they have this this direct order this order is going to direct state agencies to collaborate with businesses and partners to identify opportunities and incentives

and they said that they are also with this giving out grants so this is government money you know, government grants to companies that incentivize hiring female construction workers. And she thinks, you know, the construction industry is dominated by men because of sexisms. Now, to, I, taxpayer dollars to incentivize this.

And then that's going to just be the panacea. government money government solutions for first off so much of this comes down to nature and what women want to do and what they don't want to do right there's a reason why for instance you have more female manicurists than male manicurists I mean there's like different there's there's like a reason why some it's it comes down to nature and what and by the way who cares and oh my gosh here's that crazy thought I know this is nuts no pun intended but just bear

with me. Instead of incentivizing hiring female construction workers, maybe incentivize hiring good construction workers. What? I know. It's kind of crazy. But maybe the emphasis could be on merit and not what your sex organ is. right does that

make sense it's kind of crazy isn't it it's a little crazy I get it you sound like a bigot is it bigoted

to say we should hire merit over focusing on whether or not the applicant has a vagina or is it bigoted to say we should focus on whether or not the applicant has a vagina

and not their merit because then it's I mean which which is actually bigoted that last one yeah that sounds like that's if you were going to be a bigot, that sounds like that's the way you would go with that.

I don't think that there's sexist barriers. Can I just be real? I know I got family at work in construction. I mean, it's hard work. And it's just, there's just certain things that are more appealing to dudes. And you know what? That's okay. That's not, why, I don't know why the measure of strength in a woman is always defined by male parameters. And it's not men who establish this. It's women who establish it. Women insist on defining equality by, whether or not a woman can operate the same according to a measure of a man. Instead of recognizing and celebrating the unique strengths of women, because there are a lot of things that women can do that men simply cannot do. And I'm not just speaking of biological functions.

So why isn't it, I mean, if it's about equality and if it's about empowering women, then why isn't it the measure of a woman ever actually applied and used as often as the measure of a man is to determine whether or not a woman is truly equal? That's such nonsense. It's a betrayal of the very movement that they, that they're pushing. They say that it's about empowering women and making things equal for women, but you're not going to make anything equal for a woman by always defining them by a man's characteristics, right? Like you're not going to sit here and measure not whether a fish and a dog are the same by measuring whether or not the fish can actually operate by the same parameters as a dog can or, you know, so on it.

It's just so goofy, right? This is so dumb. Like, why is? And it's a, and it actually betrays, I think, the, the, the, the motive of what this whole movement is. This isn't about equality. It's not about any of those things. Just make it, how about, you have it based on merit?

I would hate, and I say this as a woman in an industry that is absolutely dominated by men. Dominated. Talk radio is dominated by men. And a lot of people say it's an old boys club. And there's things that women won't get invited to because it's dudes. I don't ever look at it. I don't look at everything through the lens of sexism. I look at it through the merit.

it. And I get really, I'm probably snottier and more braggadocious than a lot of the dudes in the industry. Oh, I freely admit this. In fact, one of them got really mad at me because I joked that my cigar was bigger. And they got mad at me, and they're like a talk radio host, and they will not talk to me anymore

after years of being friends. I was like, dude, I did not realize you were so sensitive. I was just joking with you. Well, I asked him I asked him why he was being such a female copulatory organ about it. And this is me, though. This is just how I am.

But I, you know, I'm joking about it. And it's very tough. I, one of the things that I've always maintained is that I don't ever want any achievement, any recognition, or any accolade because I'm a chick. That, to me, is the most insulting thing you can do to me professionally. because I got to where I got in my career, not because I'm a woman. Now, does being a woman help? It sure as hell does. It's an interesting give and take.

It benefits you in some ways to be unique, and it kneecaps you in other ways to be unique. Like, for instance, this microphone that I'm talking to on right now, this is a specially constructed microphone. No one else in the business has a mic like this. Kane's dad actually played it. it's my platinum mic. It's not my golden mic. It's my platinum mic.

But we had to have it wired differently because when you are in talk radio, one of the ways that they gauge your audience and your reach terrestrially is they basically now have devices that can, you know, pick up your voice. But a woman's voice is pitched naturally higher than that of a man's voice. And a lot of these, you know, these readers, do not pick up female voices. So it actually will penalize your voice. And so my husband actually rewired this whole mic. So it forces my voice to be registered by these readers. It doesn't lower my voice.

I mean, this is the timber of my voice. But it actually makes it to where, in layman's terms, it can be picked up. So there's, I'm in an industry that's already dominated by men. I mean, this industry that I am in is more dominated by men than the construction industry is dominated by men. If you look at, you know, go down to the actual numbers. There aren't a lot of ladies in talk radio. And most of us, we all know each other. And I would never want to have any kind of anything given to me because I'm a woman. I want to earn it. I want to know that I am the best because I am the best. I want to be

number one in my day part because I get the most ears and eyes. I want to, I want to know that I've earned everything and didn't have it given to me. because that's a false achievement. And that doesn't go towards building you up. It doesn't give you an accurate measure of how well you're doing professionally or anything else. It's a lie. And then you're lying to yourself.

And then you're betraying yourself, which is that not the complete antithesis of what all these feminist claim that they want? So why would you do that? I can't stand it. I've had people refer to me and say, oh, she's the number one female talk radio. I just want to be number one. So we're number one in our day part in this in this time slot which we've occupied you know for years now.

And so when I see stuff like this, I feel like I'm pretty, I'm in a pretty credible position to say it's nonsense to say that you don't need to have these like bumpers in the bowling in the bowling alley. You don't need to have this. Just be good at what you're doing. We don't live in a society anymore. And again, I can say this and I will fight anybody because I've lived it. being in a male-dominated industry.

We do not live in an environment to where you have to have these crutches anymore, ladies, in order to succeed in your industry. If you are good and you are tenacious, you will last. I've been in boardrooms with dudes who were twice my age that have, you know, and I don't get offended if someone's like, oh, honey, or whatever, because I can punch back as soon as I, as good as I can get. And I actually enjoy it. so I don't ever take no offense to it.

And I don't look to constantly be offended. But a lot of chicks today do. And they look at that as though it is, they look at that as a way to leapfrog themselves forward instead of just relying on their merit. If you can make someone feel as though that they have wronged you, then they will give way to you. That's not a true victory.

Maybe it's a sciop, but it's not a true achievement. Because I hate all this stuff. Chicks are so manipulative. Oh my gosh. They are. We are. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. So an Amazon delivery driver, this is WDBJ, this television network.

There was an attempted carjacking, an Amazon driver shot and killed an armed carjacker Saturday evening. Cleveland police said the driver was working in the area just after 4 p.m. when they were approached by somebody who was armed. the Amazon worker told police that the person held them at gunpoint, and while they were trying to steal the vehicle. Guns save lives, by the way. Guns save lives. So this driver was like, yeah, it's not happening. You're not going to do this.

This MIT becomes the first, this is huge. They become the first elite university to ban these stupid diversity statements. This is being described as a watershed moment. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has officially ended the use of diversity statements. for faculty hiring, making it the first elite private university to backtrack on the practice that's been roundly criticized as a political litmus test. So consumer reports is petitioning to changes for cars because they say there's cancer-causing chemicals in car seats.

So basically, they're acting like if you've ever sat in a car, been in a car, whatever, you could have the cancers. They say it's a safety feature. They found 99% of car seats are covered in this flame retardant chemical. that contain carcinogenic stuff. Great. Everything is going to kill you. Everything's going to kill you. Everything will kill you. This is a great story.

Actually, let's start this one. This is a dealership in Southwest Michigan. A man stabbed himself at a dealership in Calhoun County, Michigan. This was just on Monday. Sheriff's deputies were called to this dealership. They said that this 48-year-old guy entered, asked about a vehicle donation, became confrontational, and then presented an exact. knife and stabbed himself in the abdomen several times. They called nine, dude, I mean, that's like the worst way to commit Sepaku.

They called 911. Deputies were dispatched. He was taken to the hospital. Obviously, they're going to seek mental health treatment for him because good night. That sounds, yeah. And a Wisconsin eighth grader took the wheel of his school bus because the driver lost consciousness. Wow. So this was in April, A.C. Holland the third, eighth grade in Glendale, Wisconsin.

him. He got on the bus to go home. The driver was fine, apparently, said all the students. And then Holland said, Holland said that put on headphones, things took a bad turn. This, I mean, this is such a crazy story. Holland said the bus driver all of a sudden looked sick or tired and her head dropped. So he had put, when he got in, he put his headphones on. He was sitting there, you know, going for the right home. And he happened to look up and he saw the bus driver. head kind of start to droop. You know how some people are sitting up and they kind of start going to sleep? And he said that then she flew by the street that normally she's supposed to turn on to let kids off. And he said she turned the corner. There's another street that we turn on and she just

went past the corner. And he goes, and I look back at her. She didn't respond. And he goes, I was scared. He goes, he rushed forward. He tried to get her foot off the gas and apply the brakes and then safely park the bus. He told the other students to call their families. He contacted 911 and his grandmother, who was a nurse. And so he's, I mean, wow,

think about that. Like this 14-year-old sprung into action, stop the bus, then had the presence of mine to be like, I'm going to call 911, that my grandmother, the nurse. All you kids, you need to be calling your families and letting them know

that you're not going to be getting home on the bus. They're probably going to need to come. I mean, he was like already, like, stage and everything. That was great. I feel like this 14 year old's got a bright future ahead. I'm just saying that's the kind of kid

you want to foxhole with you. Disney Plus and Star Wars. Golly, they just really want to ruin all this, don't they? So apparently there's an animated series called Tales of the Empire that is on Disney Plus. And the show

features a non-binary character that uses they-them pronouns. And I don't know why that's essential to the story. And it's this, this, I haven't, I have not read anything about this. I just kind of avoid the Star Wars stuff anymore. But it's this character that has a lightsaber and we got a clip of it, but they use they them pronouns. Yeah, let me know when we have this.

And it's, I just don't know. why this is necessary for a kid's show. Like, oh, we can't actually play it because they'll sue us. That's right. I don't know why we, I, I, so they have this, how funny is that? It's news and it's fair use. Yep. But they are such litigious bastards at Groomer, uh, mouse kingdom that they will demonetize

everything we do and give us, they'll issue a C&D and all this stuff. YouTube and Facebook are happy to do it. Yeah, and YouTube and Facebook go right along with it. to fight this stuff every single day. You don't even know how many notices we get a week. Even if it's like fair use, right? It's crazy how all of this, it's just gotten so litigious and so ridiculous. It's wild. Like what was it the, what was the thing that we got the notice about? And it was in the background. Oh, yeah. It was, remember when the guy was waking up those protests? Oh, yeah. The guy, this was at one of the, it was a Columbia and one of the guys used

good morning Vietnam and then they had like a rooster call and all of that well they demonetize the whole thing and gave us a strike and send us in all of this because it that was part and we had to contest it that's like what we have to do like every week multiple times a week we got to deal with this stuff even though it's fair use but you know heaven forbid so this I don't know why they put this in there why the hell do you need this stuff in here see this is why people are like may the fourth may the fourth be with you oh by the way here's her pronoun stuff Why do you have to have a character that has they, it's episode five of the series, and they have like six shorts. and this character is about to surrender to this Jedi hunter.

It's an inquisitor. And another inquisitor strikes down the Jedi with a lightsaber. And the inquisitor goes, they're still alive. We need to help get them to the ship. We can save them. And they keep going, let them die. It's not worth of trouble. They were about to surrender.

The inquisitor argues. And they keep using day, then they them. And then apparently it came out that J.J. Abrams, who's apparently like just an absolute SOB, was saying that the, he had bragged that the rise of Skywalker would include like a scene between like a gay same-sex kids or whatever and then and then he said it was important that you know alphabet including the T's be represented and so I guess and then they they they said that for the trans day of visibility the official Star Wars Instagram account had they were unveiling and highlighting two trans non-binary

Jedi. Seriously? Two trans non-binary. By saying you're non-binary, you're binary. Because now you're saying that there's binary and non-binary, which is binary. Your Jedi Mind Tricks won't work here. But it feels good. Yay, all the feels. Oh. I, but that's, that's, yay. Now, one other thing. Our Department of Interior, speaking of culture, they, Interior Secretary Deb Halland was asked because they have this thing where they keep talking about sustainable recreation.

What does that mean? If you hear sustainable recreation, I don't know exactly what that. They talk about increasing outdoor access and proving recreational opportunities. Why is the government doing anything like that? why they have a they had this uh sustain a whole sustainability subsection on their website and they talk about improving social economic environmental performance and access are they trying to argue that like minorities can't access the outside i mean at just to boil it all down that's what it reads as wait so they don't even know what computers are or what the outside is what so in one week

the left is arguing that not only do minorities not know what a computer is they also don't what the outside is. What the heck have they been paying attention to if they haven't been outside? Good thing that Democrats are there to help. Democrats, they're there to help those dumb minorities who don't know anything about technology or the outdoors. That's what it sounds like. But how much more blatant does the racism have to be before people recognize it for what it is?

I don't know. Again, Trump literally ate a taco salad and said happy Sanco de Mayo. And the left lost their ever-loving mind. Hitler that day. Oh my gosh. No, he was worse than Hitler that day. People are actually saying this. You guys remember that? They lost. He ate a damn taco salad and was all happy

Cinco to Mayo and everyone's like, wow, he's a racist. Well, I can say they know nothing of the outdoors or of computers. And everything's fine. I just, I don't understand these people. I don't understand. I don't get any of those.

Yeah, I was looking at, proactive, sustainable and environmental practices, and then access like socioeconomic. What does it even mean? What is this all word salad? Hunting. Hunting is considered a way to... I'm all for getting more people to hunt.

Sustainable recreation. Yeah, that sounds like, you know, such a, these buzzwords. And Deb Howland was asked about it. She's like, I have no idea. I don't know. I can't define what it is. She can't define what that is.

Did you guys hear this story? And I came, this is one of those like, It's almost like a guilty pleasure story to read about. It's not really political, but it is cultural. I am fascinated by people's fights on social media. I usually don't get in them, but I do like watching it. And there was this big thing that exploded on Instagram where this chick who married this billionaire's family. And this dude looks like he's kind of soft.

Catherine Asplunda. Very interesting last name. A billionaire family. She married the heir of this family. And she found this lady on Instagram who has the same name as her, Catherine Aspland. And she went viral because she started harassing this chick, demanding that he, demanding that the chick give up her Instagram name. And her, like, her messages to her went everywhere.

She said in her messages, hi, I was wondering if I could purchase your username for you. Just got married and this is my new name. And the lady goes, oh, congratulations. that's my name too. I googled it and it said selling my username would get me banned from Instagram. And the Asplen lady goes, well, I purchased my username in the past. And actually, that's not true. Celebrities do it all the time.

That's how they have their names. So weird. I didn't know there were any other like, you know, named families out there. And then she goes, is there anywhere I can get you to change your username one more time? And the other lady says, no. And then she goes, I don't believe that that's your actual name. Like, who would make that their actual name? I reported you to Instagram and they're able to tell me your real name.

really hope I don't know you because that's going to be really embarrassing for you. And the other lady is just not entertaining it. She was like, you're going to report me. And she goes, just did. And my fiance is too. And she's like, well, you're asking me to do something to get my account banned. And she goes, well, you're pretending to be someone you're not. She's like, my name is actually Catherine Aspland also.

And she goes, well, which is illegal? She's like, no, you're trying to harass me about purchasing my name. And so then she demands that this lady give her proof that that's her actual name. name and she says, I mean, apparently the other lady is not even American. And now the story is everywhere. Now imagine you're this chick. You hit the jackpot. You marry this softy billionaire's family. And then you acting like an ass to strangers is just right after your wedding is out there for everybody to see. I mean, that's like really, you know, you can't just act like that. And oh my gosh, Like, what's wrong with these people?

I had to share that story with you because I was greatly entertained. It was one of those things that just took me away from the horrors. That is the economy. The horrors persist and so must die. All right, we've got to get moving. Steve wants to know what C3PO's pronouns are. Beep-pop. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast.

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