The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: City-Run Grocery Failure

Episode Date: August 21, 2025

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I mean, it's a lot on the plate. So here it is. Ready? Florida Keysman, Mark's birthday. by doing meth, stealing conch train, picking up riders, fighting with cops. Yeah, like, it's one way to celebrate your birthday, I guess. They found him at the southernmost point buoy. He told officers, oh, wow, he looks crazy.

By the way, the conch train is literally like a little train. He stole it. It's a little train that's like a little scooter, like glorified golf carts all linked together and dressed up like a train in it says conch train on it. It's one of the very famous little vehicle. He faces three criminal charges, Jonathan Patrick Winslow. He's 57 years old. And he went to the Conc Tour Train Depot, stole it, and they tracked it because it's not like it can go that fast.

And he was also, quote, running it with rock music playing. So the little train that you're watching on the, that one's showing you on the simulcast, he was blaring music and running around the keys with that. So that's what he had. So anyway, he picked up passengers, like random people, while driving it. Like, I guess they had no idea that the guy driving it had stolen it. And when he finally was pulled, when they finally detained him, they said he exhibited rapid speech and appeared excited. Of course, I would be too if I was driving the conch train.

And then they said he was going to face charges because he stole it. And he was like, I just borrowed it, ossifers. Just merely borrowed it. So then they found a crack pipe on him. He told them it was a weed pipe or I guess a meth pipe. I don't know. And they're like,

I don't know if you, I don't think you use that to smoke weed, but okay. Anyway, and so he's in jail $60,000 bond. He has not bonded out. I told you it was a lot. We saw his photo, right?

It looked like he got tased. Do you see his hair? Yeah, his hair, or he went to the Magic House and put his hand on the thing. Maybe it was the breeze from the conch train that was blowing through his hair.

I don't know. Okay, speaking of, oh boy, A visibly highly intoxicated man was arrested. After he threw a concrete, after he threw concrete pipe and a machete. Again, another machete at a victim. Edwin Watts, 71 years old.

There he is right there. He looks like a sad prospector. Bless him. Bless his little hard. I hope he gets a help he needs. But he got charged with all kinds of stuff. He, I don't even know where to start with this. He threw everything.

Literally everything but the kitchen sink. Concrete metal pipes. He threw a whole machete at a dude. And this was in Marion County. They were called to a home over a physical disturbance. And they said that Edwin Watts was seated on his red ATV at the entrance to the property. He made an inappropriate hand gesture and blah, blah, blah. Basically, the guy was drunk as a skunk, noticeably agitated and acting aggressive.

He has no prior battery convictions, but he's in the pokey on a slew of charges. Let's see. Let's do the guy who got super drunk and drove into a sheriff's pond, if we have time. Do we have time? We have time. We may. Drunk Florida man. His wrong exit, he literally drove into a pond behind a sheriff's substation. It's in homes. He's from homestead. And he was apparently definitely under the influence. And he drove his truck into a retention pond right behind Martin County Sheriff's Office traffic division. So the pond arrested him. Did you know the whole higher thread count means better sheets thing is just a myth? Kind of like thinking that cold weather gives you a cold or that we only use 10% of a

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A rotten smell comes through the door and anywhere you turn, you'll see products that need to be restocked. No hot food or deli. I'll watch people walk in and walk out. The grocery store has received financial assistance from the city, but has been unable to keep those shelves stocked in an area that in the past has often been referred to as a food desert. Around here, a good thing don't last too long. And it would impact a lot of people and a lot of families. The city owns the Loonwood Shopping Center. A nonprofit operates the grocery store.

What does his shirt say? I need to go back and have a freeze frame on that fellow shirt. Juan, if you'd be so kind. The man's shirt who said, from the gutta to the butter. what does that shirt mean you I don't know what is that

Steve was the one to tell the suit Steve what's his shirt Steve was like Steve was like you guys need to watch his shirt We ran the clip We always the sketch was clip to run

And I was like Just pay attention to the sketch shirt From the gutta to the butter From the gutta to the butter It's like started from the bottom Now we're here You're in the gutta Now you got the butter

Right I kept thinking that there's going to be something I was like Uh oh I think I see butt And I just was like Man this is gonna be one of them stories Where We got

It's gonna be something inappropriate. I'm just saying like that's the shirt. I mean, you know, you know, they ask you in advance if you want to be on camera, you know, when they show up and do this stuff. I mean, good for him. I mean, if he made something of himself, but you know, I'm just at least if you're going to wear a shirt

like that, don't cover the bottom with your hands. Because then we're going to be all doing this. Like, wait, what does his shirt say? What does that say? Because it almost looks inappropriate. And you're on like, you're on TV, man, and it's a story that's going to go

national because of what they're talking about. I really want to know what the bot. Kane, look at see who you find. Not that I care. I don't need people. No, it's actually lyrics from old Goody Mob from 1998 back in the late 90s. Oh. Gotta butter.

All right. There you go. Interesting. All right. So welcome back to the show. That's how, uh, and that, by the way, was how, oh, I mean, of course you are. Lorraine found the shirt. She did?

Yeah, she did. She literally found it already a minute ago. She's a robot. She's like, wait, here's the shirt right here. I got it. For purchase, if you want to... So that's what the shirt says. From the gutta to the butter, you make the choice.

Good for him. There you go. That's hysterical. All right, so this was... This is in Kansas City. Hold on. I'm ordering a shirt. Are you serious? What?

You're ordering the shirt right now. This was in Kansas City. All those store shelves were... We're bare. Can I get a shot of the store shelves real quick? City funded grocery store. It's a city funded grocery store. And I have never seen, I have never seen, that's a store that's like open. I have never seen, uh, I have never seen shelves like that.

That's crazy. That's, look at that. There's nothing in the middle. There's nothing in the in caps. There's nothing. There's no fruit. There's no onions. There's no nothing.

There's nothing on them shelves. And it's a city. What is it? The sun fresh. And they're saying it's in decline. Well, you think it's in decline? It's already failed. It wouldn't even open that long, honestly.

So this sun fresh market, they're still going there, but I don't even know what you can, I don't even know what's in the bottom. This is one of Mom Donnie's desires for New York. Well, I'm getting there. Oh, sorry. I'm getting there. They have not stocked vegetables or eggs in two weeks. empty coolers

and they said everyone said it smells rotten when you walk in and apparently they say it goes through ups and downs so like within a 30 day period they'll get stuff in and then it just they don't have anything anymore and it's ugh

that's what happens when you have a city run grocery store who would have thought that would have happened and you know what's crazy is Kane said this is literally what ma'am danny wants socialized grocery store that's what you get with it

it's like the DMV of the it's the post office of the grocery store it's the it's what it is by the way our mail it takes if we send something to like cane if I send something from here to St. Louis it takes a month to get there

one of my kids that had our birthday this spring just got their birthday card a couple weeks ago. Not kidding. So this is like the USPS of the grocery stores. Wow. They said it smells like rotting corpses in there. Oh, how would you know what that smells like? But also, ew. Wow. Oh, that's so bad. This is what they're going to have in New York City. This is what they're going to have in New York City. Well, the city runs it. So if the city runs it and it's entirely, you know, they don't have to be dependent upon, they don't have to,

they don't have to ensure good customer service or anything like that because they don't have to meet a specific standard. There's no demand for that standard. Totally shocked. It's already failed. When do they get more food in? I was trying to find that on social media. It doesn't look like they're going to get anything. I mean, food desert.

We need food deserts. Or maybe you just, I don't know, need to have an environment that grocery stores that already operate on tiny margins can actually operate in. it's not the government's fault. I love these people that, like it's in downtown St. Louis. Let me just talk about downtown St. Louis. And I don't want to hear no smack from nobody. My husband worked and he did a lot of historic renovation in St. Louis and built a studio. He got blacklisted in his industry by a bunch of jealous drug addicts who ended up.

They were all Marxists. But they ended up in St. Louis, a beautiful city. Like St. Louis is known as brick city. I mean, a beautiful architecture that German wire cut brick, which is so valuable. And St. Louis made tons of it, exported it around the world. It's incredibly valuable. People wanted, they want to buy it. We lived in downtown St. Louis for a number of years because of work, homeschooled our kids. And I never understood the disconnect that people had. They all bitched and moaned about not having like a supermarket, supermarket downtown you remember this cane like the closest supermarket when i lived downtown in st louis

was i would have to go to um like uh near the bevo mill area i'd have to go down what i can't remember what highway it is the schnucks on the snooks yeah on ninth street that is schnucks there and then the the one you're talking about is another schnucks down but the but the but it was a tiny almost like wine and cheese super it wasn't like a full on supermarket it's where you would go if you were having some wine and cheese let's maybe make some chakurry and let's get some hors d'oeuvres. Let's do that. That's the kind of store it was. There was one in Seulard that had a lot of stuff that they've closed. And I used to go there and get some things. It was a tiny little market. But people complain. Well, you know why? Because supermarkets already

operate on such small margins. You, St. Louis had an earnings tax. They had all kinds of taxes, all kinds of fees, crazy structures that you had to, you know, weave yourself through in order to even operate a business in the area. And then, you know, the property tax, taxes, everything else. They made it so inhospitable. And I just couldn't get over the disconnect from the people that would joyously go and vote for the individuals that put up all these barriers to creating your wonderful supermarket in the middle of the city. And then they would bitch about, we can't believe these people that said they were going to do all the stupid status stuff when they were campaigning. And we voted for them or doing all this stupid status stuff. It's like, I voted for the leopards eating faces party. And I can't believe that these leopards broke into my house and they ate my face in my kitchen. Like they are shocked about this. It's like, well, what did you think was going to happen, right? You voted for this. You created this environment. It's not a food desert. You are just a moron that votes for moronic policies and moronic status lawmakers. That's what you do. Good night. So that's, you know, it just blows the mind with all of this. They can't, stores can't stay open. They're not there just to be charitable. It is a business. People work there.

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It's time for Dana's Quick 5. This is a wild one for me. It says Gen Z job seekers have their parents write their resumes and apply for gigs and bring them to interviews according to a shocking news study. It is a report from resume templates and they said that they were even shocked

that 77% said they brought a parent to a job interview when they were job searching. What? What? I don't get this. Really? Do you know anybody who's kid brought a parent to a job interview? No, I don't personally, but I'm also not surprised to hear this. I am stunned. Okay, we're bookmarking this. Wow. I'm actually stunned. Okay. So the Mount Fiji spotting place. They're a viral spot that everybody goes to take photos.

And there's like a gas station right in front of it or like a Quick Mart. They have barriers now low enough to allow views, but they prevent dangerous behavior like jaywalking in the area. They said it's become a huge tourist attraction because it's like just like the most picturesque spot. One of the best spots to get it. But there's like this Quick Mart. Although a lot of people like the idea of the roof of the Quickmark and the Mountain. and over it, but they said they had to put, because people were getting hit.

We've been talking about this on and off for like two years, the spot. They've been having so many problems. I had a friend that just went there and they said that it was so crazy. They were on their way somewhere else and they were driving by this. And they said it was so crazy. They just bypassed it. And they were there last month. They just bypassed it and just like went on through. That's it right there. And then Mount Fuji is over the top of it. But yeah, that's just wild. So they're putting barriers in because I don't know, people want selfies and they wouldn't get these photos and then they end up getting run over a fall off cliffs or something, I don't know. A crew in Long Beach rescued a hiker trapped behind a waterfall for two days.

He was treated for dehydration. Kane, what was he behind? A waterfall. 46-year-old Ryan Wardell, he went into the 17 cups and he was going to repel off the waterfalls in Kern County. But then two days he was gone and they deployed search and rescue and they found him stuck behind a waterfall. and he was dehydrated. And I'm like, I would have been drinking the water and the waterfall, but okay.

All right, you know, each to their own thing. He's safe now. He's a little dehydrated. Canadian cities are canceling concerts of right-wing musicians, and I don't care because it's, I love my conservative Canadian friends, and I like some of your conservative lawmakers,

but this is so stupid. I don't even know who this musician is, but they cancel this guy because apparently he's a Christian. Heaven forbid. He was a, he was a, They revoked his permit. Parks Canada revoked his permit in Halifax. They said safety concerns. Quebec City also canceled his concerts because there are a bunch of sissies.

Because truth hurts people. It slapety slaps them, K. And that's what happens. Just so mean, the truth. Government forces air Canada, flight attendants back to working into arbitration. Ooh, Delta and United Airlines can face lawsuits over windowless window seats. Don't be selling people no window seats and there not be no window in that window seat. You know, people get very sensitive about that. Coming up, Kristen, Whiten is going to join us to help break down. What does this mean? Article 5, like, adjacency. So there is this article that I saw, and I sent you guys this earlier, the headline over at New York Post, travel influencer faces backlash after he tossed his seven-year-old son off a cliff for fun.

Oh, this sounds horrible, right? The headline sounds so bad. It sounds like he was at the Grand Canyon and just threw his son off a cliff. Wow. Garrett Gee, a former tech. founder turned adventure journalist posted a video and videos viewers were equally horrified and impressed. They had four million views. His seven-year-old son, they were on top. Oh, they were getting ready to jump into some water. Oh, okay. Well, it's a good thing that the headline totally just eliminated that as a possibility. It was at Lake Powell. That's the reservoir between Arizona and Utah. And they were on a rock ledge and his son seemed a little apprehensive, but his dad had a hold of him and threw him into the water. And the son came up and fine. And then all the other kids were

jumping in. And he said, eventually baby eagle needs to leave the nest or be tossed out. And he like had this very, very ridiculously long disclaimer saying that this is not something I advise you try. We don't do this with all of our kids. Every kid's different. Blah, blah, blah, blah, because people are stupid. And I'm sorry, that's not a cliff. That is not a cliff. It's a rock. They're on a boulder jumping into some water. And people are losing their. minds losing their ever-loving minds. No, they would have never made it in like the 80s. They would have never made it as like latchkey kids. Oh my gosh. You want to hear so. Okay, imagine it's 1989. You're in sixth grade. This might be about me, but or not. It's 1988. You're in

sixth grade. And you are leaving Black River in Iron County, Missouri. And you're riding in the back of your uncle's pickup. The, uh, little, the doors down. And you're literally sitting on the edge of it on windy highway. You just shook your head. Yeah, no. The ledge was down, you know, we sat on the edge of it on windy highways. That's how we dried off after we left the river. And we'd go back to Grandma's house, right?

So we're at, we're at Cambridge, Black River, at there all day, right? Family, you're out there with your cousins. You know, people are listening to Skinner. They're grilling, you know, doing whatever. And then everybody climbs in. All the kids get in the truck. The little one's got to get in the back towards the window. And then the older kids can sit, you know, on the end.

And it took me a while before I could graduate and sit on that end, right? And it was like a big deal. It's like a ride of passage. And then Juan showing you the video. It's a rock. That's not a cliff. Anyway, 1988, right on the back of the truck, on these windy highways, on these windy country roads going back to Grandma's house. And that's what we did.

This is nothing. He jumped off a rock into the water. We would go and jump out. There was one thing I think it was called Cutter's Point. This guy, the last name of the family's cutter. And they had a big, it was a big. like this, but there was a rope swing on it and you could swing on the rope and launch yourself out into the water. We did that all the time. Why are people freaking out about this? They're losing their

minds. These people that are losing their minds over this, they would have died at how Gen X was parented. They would have died. That's not a cliff. These are the people that freak out and they call the cops if they see somebody's kid walking a block away from the house to go to the playground down the street. Yes, Kane. But at the Black River, there's actually quote unquote cliffs you can jump from that are taller than that one in that video. Oh, yeah, totally. Oh my gosh. People would jump off the bridge.

They would jump off K Bridge into the river. And it was way taller than that. That's a boulder. Outrage online is, it's more than exaggeration. These people are ruining children. You are destroying childhood and you're raising children that are terrified of the world. All they want to do is stay inside and talk to their little AI way food. That's all they want to do.

They just want to stay inside. they wanted to talk to their, these people are happy if their kids just talk to AI companions, I guess. Right? I guess so. What did you do today? I was talking to my little AI weight though. That looks like me. So from death note?

That's what I was doing. That's not a cliff. That is not a cliff. And this guy, I mean, people were losing their minds over it. And the kid could swim, by the way, really well. And all the other kids later on, like, started, you know, jumping off the cliff. as well of the cliff jumping off the rock as well i mean it's a rock these people have no idea what a cliff is and i don't know i mean it looked like fun right that looked like fun to me steve was like

the water's gorgeous it's like powell my dude it's so fun out there it looks so gorgeous right i've always wanted to go to lake powell ever since i saw what was this this movie oh my gosh charlie sheen was in it I'm sorry guys, bear with me. It was like ghost car or something. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Sherilyn Finn was in it. It was an old movie, and I remember seeing it like one night. One of the Cassavats was in it too.

Hang on. The Wraith! It was the Wraith. So the Wraith was set in Arizona, and parts of it, like they were in and around, like Lake Havasu, and then there was like some parts of Lake Powell. And I was like, that water is beautiful. Where is that? Gorgeous out there.

It's absolutely beautiful. So that's where that is. to answer Steve's question. How fun does that look? I would go and do that now. Yeah, I would too. I mean, that's like super fun. Also, is no one paying attention to the look on the kid's face

after he was tossed in the water? No, because everybody's trying to flex. Because the kid was like, oh, it's this fun. And he could see it on his face. He's like, oh, my gosh. He got over his fear and he was like, wow, that was fun. I'm discovering new fun now. I cannot tell you how many times I've had uncles throw me into the water.

Uncle's cousins. Like, yeah. And get over it. Kids do not need to be coddled. They built, look, what's the phrase? What's the phrase? Boats were, uh, boats weren't made for harbor. I mean, they could stay in the harbor, but I'm butchering this phrase, but you know what I mean. The harbor is safe, but that's not what boats are meant for. So this, I, these are the people that freak out if, oh my gosh, you know, if a 12 year old has to stay like for an hour or two by, I stayed home like all afternoon by myself when I was 12. Lashki kid. That was a legal agent you could do it in the state of Missouri at the time. It's just sad. This is just, I, like, it's like they don't want kids to have any fun at all anymore. And good for that dad. That dad's involved in his kid's life.

That dad is helping his kid build confidence. I think that's, I thought that was a great video. I thought that was, there was nothing wrong with that. And kudos to him for sharing it. And all the people that are freaking out over it need to go and touch grass. My gosh, their kids are going to be the ones that are going to be inside, you know, planning a mass murderer with their AI wayfood. That's what's going to happen.

Good grief. All right. We got more to come. And I don't say not all tech kids are like that before the people weep and gnash teeth at me. Stop it. 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.