The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Chicago Makeover

Episode Date: July 5, 2024

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Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. All right, Kane and I are really trying to figure this one out. So the headline is this. A quadriplegic YouTube star. First off, YouTube star. Makes me laugh.

This dude who's on YouTube, who's a quadriplegic, went to court and was charged. charged somehow with striking a Miami cop with his wheelchair. And even the judge is like, I've never seen a case like this. 32-year-old Brian, Brian Amastha is facing two counts of battery on a police officer. Despite being unable to utilize his limbs, Amastha is accused of hitting the officer. The guy on YouTube, I'm not saying YouTube star. Amasa denies the allegations against him.

The quadriplegic YouTuber was charged with striking a Miami cop with his wheelchair. In a bizarre incident, the likes of which the judge has said he has never before seen, Bryant Amastha, known as recording artist El Valiante, is facing two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer. But he apparently is accused of using his motorized wheelchair and allegedly spitting on the officer. Well, we did wonder how this was going to, I can't, dude, I cannot with the screen grabs of his videos. The YouTuber boasts a substantial following.

He's amassed nearly 100,000 followers and somehow shares music videos featuring himself singing surrounded by dancing women and bikinis, who were clearly being paid. When asked if he spit on the cop, Amasta told Local 10, I absolutely did not. He said, she bumped my wheelchair because I was standing in the driveway, and the driveway is thin. And he said, so I suffer from acid reflux, and I normally spit. And I spat in a totally different direction. Wow. I don't know, man. Kane, you want to?

I don't. I have absolutely no desire to comment on this particular story. Thank you, though. Appreciate the offer. But no. Oh, my gosh. I just can't even with the screen grabs. There's no body cam footage of the incident.

So it's like he said, she said, but still. But how do you get two counts? You're quadriplegic and you get two counts of battery. A mess. This attorney told the judge, obviously my client is not a flight risk. But wait, there's more. A Florida man was arrested for carving his name into a deputy's patrol car.

I just wanted to go back to prison, said the Florida man. Enderlin, Leonce, 33, was arrested on a April 29th, booked in a Broward County Jail on criminal mischief. Now, according to Margate, police department's arrest affidavit, a witness reported seeing Leonce vandalizing the patrol car before taking off. They noticed that the suspect had used a metal tool to etch, quote, the name is Enderlin Leonce, end quote, on the driver's side, on the driver's side hood of the patrol vehicle. Wait.

Yes. What's that name? Enderlin Leonce. Probably took a while. Carved that into the car. And the officer, well, wait, there's more. The officer met with Leonce at his home. And when he asked if he did it, Leonz allegedly said, quote, I did it. I committed a crime and I should be going to jail.

End quote. So he was first taken up to the hospital because they're like, you're crazy. And then they took him to jail. So there's a $1,000 damage to the patrol car. So they got, yeah. Oh my gosh. Let's see. We've got a shirtless Florida man with Wendy's beef caught on camera, threatening to rob a Wendy's,

a man accused of trying to set his girlfriend on fire. We also have a Florida man who plants tracking devices on his roommate's van. Oh, yes, there's tons, tons. We have a naked woman, what, naked Florida woman who broke into her neighbor's house. And, yeah, we got somebody who took a bite out of a deputy's head. That's all coming up tomorrow because... Mercury and retrograde? No, Mercury's out of retrograde.

This is just Florida. Is it a full moon or something? No, it's just Florida. It's Australia of America. That's what it is. That's what's happening here. So, oh, and then we got this one real quick. A Florida man crawled through floorboards during a getaway.

Wanted Florida man, 19-year-old Gage Dennis, your name is backwards, faces charges of attempted first-degree murder and burglary. He's got a nice tat above his eyebrow, and he tried hiding under a house. But guess what? That didn't work. The police found him. I agree with Annie O'Cocke. who said, quote, I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know

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she went to a salon when everything was locked down and she came back out looking the same she's like i got standards i got to maintain on the face of the city so you have chicago mayor brandon johnson guys he spent $30,000 on personal grooming in one year on makeup he spent $30,000 on makeup. I as a girl who is on television five days a week and I do my own hair and makeup, I don't even spend $30,000 a year. I don't spend anywhere near $30,000 a year on hair and makeup. What is he doing? He's a man. Have you seen him? How is he spending $30,000 on hair and makeup a year? So he My first thought was

He had to hire makeup artist Like a full-time makeup artist So he spent Oh my gosh He spent $4,000 on hair appointments At a beauty salon A man Can I say something?

I don't really know if I feel like dudes Should be going anything but a barber shop You know what I'm saying? I'm a little old school Like I don't want to be at my lady salon And look over and see you a man I just don't I'm not being ignorant

I'm really sexist about this stuff. I am admittedly sexist. I, just like I think men control the yard and the thermostat and the car stuff and women control like the food stuffs and the interior, right, and the family schedule. That's how this works, right? That's how this all works. So I'm saying, like, I don't even put gas in my own car. I have not put gas in my own car.

I don't even know. I mean, I know how to do it. I just choose to not. I just don't do it. Like, I will not even if I, and my kids will die, if I'm out, because I'm the only girl in my family, I won't even open my own door. I will stand in front of it and stare at it like a helpless Jedi trying to use a mind trick. And I will wait for a male in my party to open the door. Not because I'm helpless, because I'm not touching the door. I don't, I am sexist. I have freely admit it. I freely admit it, right? Just like if I walk past the thermostat and I feel like it's cold, I'll turn and look at my husband. I'll go, what's the temperature? I ask him what the temperature is. Instead of just, see, that's the give and take, right? I don't have to put gas in my car. That's the

give and take. Anyway, I don't want to be in a salon and looking over and seeing you a man in the salon, right? Is it weird? Like you wouldn't want to be at the barbershop and look over and see a woman. Right? I feel like the barbershops where the men go. Is that sexist? I don't care. Anyway, he spent $4,000, going to the salon. He hardly has hair.

We're in a world where we wouldn't expect to see men and women's bathrooms, let alone. Well, true. Lady salons. Lady salons. I don't think you got to say Lady Salon. I think that's redundant. It's salon and Barbershop. That's it.

So he hired this lady. Her name's Denise Malloy. And she runs like a makeup. I guess she does makeup. She does a makeup company. Let's see. Oh, Malloy's makeup magic. It made JIC. All right.

Sounds right. Yeah. And the payments are listed under candidate makeup for TV, makeup retainer, candidate makeup makeup for debate. And then apparently he, after he was elected, he has tons of payments to make up magic that fall under like a very general catch-all campaign expense description, right? And he apparently used financial contributions from his supporters to foot the bill. Can you think about this from it? Imagine that you donated to this man's campaign and you found out that your donation went to a

foundation for a man. I'm just saying. He spent that much money. I just can't. I thought I was donating to a foundation. You mean I was buying foundation? Yeah. And then so some of his supporters are going,

well, his expenditures are supporting black and woman owned businesses. $40,000. Y'all, that's insane for a man to spend on makeup. It's insane to say that a man has spent money on makeup. I mean, I get for TV, they, they, they,

touch you up and they do that stuff. Although can I just say sidebar real quick. When I was a CNN, I was the token conservative back in the day when I was like the only conservative there besides Ari Fleischer. And we did, it was in, it was a debate, something debate. It was like a Republican primary or something that CNN was hosting. And Herman Kane was there. And they were going to put a bunch of makeup on Herman Kane because apparently like he was super shiny or something. And he just stopped and looked at them. And as they reached over to him, His head leaned away as they were. And I was in the makeup room when this was happening. He was like, nope. And then they finally were like, oh, Mr. Kane, you know, can we?

And he did relent. But it was hysterical. He walked in there and was like, yeah, I don't think you're going to be doing that. He's like, I'm not doing a commercial. And I'm like, well, you are on television. And, you know, it just, it was a riot. But this guy, the mayor of Chicago, $40,000 to tell you what. We got a lot more, huh?

Yeah. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time. for Dana's Quick Five. So North Korea publicly executed a 22-year-old dude for listening to K-pop. That happened. It's part of Pyongyang's ruthless crackdown on outside information and culture, according to South Korea.

They said that the young man was publicly executed because he had listened to 70 South Korean songs, watched three films, and apparently distributed some of them. So they killed him. I mean, that's the country where you can only literally have, like, one type of haircut, right? You know, you only get one, or, like, for dudes, you get, like, one or two types of haircuts for women. You get, like, four or five. I think that's about it. I don't know.

Texas hospitals, reportedly the first in the U.S. used holograms for doctor-patient visits. It's the Crescent Regional Hospital 13 miles south of Dallas. They've installed a hollow box 3D system. It projects a hologram of a doctor so they can perform real-time consult, consults. consults with patients at a clinic 30 miles away. You know, you could just do a DM Zoom thing or a Skype call or a FaceTime. It does so that way you don't have to go to their hollow box. If you're just sitting there in front of a damn hologram, it's not like they can sit here

and, you know, what's the point of that? This is stupid. Am I wrong? Yeah, like they can't do. They're like, oh, my gosh, we're so happy to bring some of this tech to you. They can't do anything more than if it was a FaceTime. So goofy. I don't know.

I don't get it. Am I being too harsh? No, never. I would just think if you eat something called Uncle Frogs mushroom gummies, something's going to happen to you. This company is apologizing

to people who have been hospitalized across Australia. They said, it wasn't our intention after you had unexpected toxicity and all kinds of hallucinations. It's called Uncle Frogs Mushroom Gummies. What did you think was going to happen?

Sounds effective. Yeah, it sounded like they did the job. Like it was, you know, but all these people have had to go to the hospital. They've recovered, but they had to issue an apology. We're sorry that you didn't know our mushroom gummies. We're going to make you just trip beans. We didn't. We're sorry. What do they think is going to happen? Let's see. Oh, a New Jersey man trying to war beachgoers about a storm got struck by lightning and it killed him. That's so

get off the beach when it's lightning and thundering. Just get off the beach. Get off the beach, get off the beach. That should be a warning to you. Stick with us. More to come. An iconic L.A. landmark still in the dark, almost six months after thieves stole nearly seven miles worth of copper wiring that illuminated the Sixth Street Bridge. In fact, they're waiting for us to repair them. They want us to repair them because every light post to them is an ATM machine. It's pure cash. So when we go and repair, what do they do? They go and they steal again. Council member Kevin Day Leon helped create a task force to crack down on the copper wire thefts plaguing the city. More than 6,000 incidents were reported citywide last year.

Repairs exceeding $17 million. The task force also working on ways to prevent a costly repeat of the crime along the famous bridge, since repairs there are expected to top $2 million. We need to come up with creative ways to reinforce the metals, the cement that protect and safeguard the wires. so thieves can just walk up. The picture-ass bridge has been besieged with problems since it's unveiled. What the hell? This guy is so clueless. He's Kevin DeLeon. He's a council.

He's in California government. He's in state government. And he's the guy when they held the, that held the, as a California elected official, he held a press conference with DOJ in California and ATF. And they were talking about quote unquote, what was it? He was talking about ghost guns. and he was talking about, what was it, was it pistol braces? Yeah.

And he sounded like an absolute moron and that video went viral. So it's, he's still as goofy and dumb as he was. I mean, there's a consistency. This is the, yeah, play this if we have it. This is the same guy. He was out there with a rifle and he's, he's holding it. And he's like, you know, this is, gosh, you're going to kill some brain cells without alcohol. Here's how.

Watch. This is a ghost gun. This right here has ability with a 30 caliber clip. Oh gosh. To disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. What? 30 magazine clip. What?

What? Oh my gosh. Shut up. It's not a ghost gun, you epic moron. And by the way, people can make stuff at home for their own personal use. What is sends out 11? cajillion bullets in a second. Yeah, that spits out 30 whole bullets in a half second.

Like all at once? Or does it... See, this is why I couldn't just be a member of the press press and sit and ask these people questions because I would be an absolute troll. Like, it's one of the reasons why I love Peter Ducey so much and he does such a great job. But you mean, do they spit them out council member all at once or individually? in half a second. That's what I would ask. Anyway, this guy, so he's sitting here going, we need to figure out a way

to, you know, reinforce the concrete for the copper. Or, I don't know, maybe you can just send people to jail and start prosecuting when they do stuff like this instead of going, no, we don't have the, we just can't. We just can't do it. Because that's what happens. That's why people are doing it more and more because no one's getting prosecuted over it. And so...

The government is so great at making everything so cost prohibitive. Why don't they do that with the fines like these? It's say, hey, you know what? If you're ever convicted of anything like this, here's the fine. And it's like 10 times whatever you stole or whatever the case may be. Make a deterrent. Make it happen.

Why do you keep letting these people out in the streets for this type of stuff to happen? And then to be lectured by a guy. I mean, the average, I think it's what? The average, it's 600 RPM. So it's like, 10 rounds, it's 10 rounds a second. That's the average machine gun. And what he's talking about

is the semi-automatic who says he says that the clip, the 30 round magazine clip, shoots 30 bullets in half a second. He doesn't even, does he even know, I don't even know if he knew he was holding a gun until someone

told him what it was. Nor does he know the measurement of time. Can we talk about the heroic amount of will that it took for the cop standing next to him to keep a straight face, as he was saying this, as Kevin DeLeon was saying this stuff, he's holding it. You could tell he didn't even know how to hold it either. He's like, this, this is, it's a ghost gun. And it has a magazine clip and it shoots 30, 30 bullets and a half second. I could make fun of this guy all day long. The cop that's standing behind him is

just looking at him like, my gosh, I can't even believe I'm sitting here listening to the I cannot. Just, you know, why did they, is this, was this the most knowledgeable guy that they had to talk about that at the time? It's a 30 caliber magazine clip that delivers all the rounds. Have a second. With a 30 caliber clip. Caliber clip.

To disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. All the bullets in the clip magazine come out of us. A 30 magazine clip. Holy cow. I'd love a 36. What's the math on that? Let me think. Wait to see.

At 3,600 RPM, guys. I cannot get, I can't, I can, oh my gosh. Oh, I can't deal. I can't deal. So that guy sitting here lecturing about the bridges. You know, they're going to reinforce the copper, the wires with the copper in the concrete. It probably took them 10 minutes to strip that bridge or that area that he was in at that. But I don't know.

You've got to start prosecuting for this stuff. But they don't do that. That's why this keeps happening. Because they don't do any of that. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.