The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: CNN Thunderdome Racist Olympics

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. Okay, I've got two questions for you about this story. First off, who steals a tricycle? And secondly, what is an adult tricycle? I'm thinking big wheels.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Why don't they make those? Basically, an unrelated third question. Those were amazing, right? And I didn't like it when the pedals got stripped, but man alive, that was big wheels were where it's at. Man, if I could get some with engines, I would blow everybody away. There was a big wheels race. Okay, where am I going? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:00:39 So this is an Arcadia, Florida. Here's why I asked this. Because there's a woman who stole an adult tricycle. I don't even know what that is. And she was in a tiger print onesie. They identified her, but they can't find her. Her voicemail's full and they can't find the tricycle. It's petty theft.
Starting point is 00:00:57 But they literally said, if you see something, somebody in a tiger one'sy on a tricycle, please call, you know, the sheriff's office. And I, I'm just trying to figure out what is an adult tricycle. I've never heard of this. One that's big enough. Is it like motor powered? I'm afraid of write adult into any kind of search engine. It might have an engine or a motor.
Starting point is 00:01:17 I guess, I just think it's larger. I mean, I look at, all it's showing me are bikes. I don't even know. It's just a three-wheel bike. That's like, really? That's, I would imagine, like, I would think it would have some fatty, fat, fat tires. you know like an engine something like a hemie i don't know can you imagine oh my gosh all right um oh this is crazy a doorbell camera there's the lady in the onesie she's the one who stole the tricy
Starting point is 00:01:41 now here's something if you see this chick you see that broad in the tiger onesie on an adult trike you know you holler at the popo uh doorbell camera catches a florida gator now they're progressing guys now they're walking a florida gator standing on two legs and literally knocking on the door. It literally gets up on its two legs and knocks on the door. Now, they can climb. I'm sorry. I love Florida, but one of the reasons, probably the biggest reason I could never maybe move there is this. They will climb up your fences, up your walls, knocking your doors. So it's on Reddit. It was on Reddit. And he said, meanwhile in Florida, and it shows two gators. One of them stands up on its back legs and literally knocks on the door, and it's all on camera.
Starting point is 00:02:29 They were able to call Florida Fish and Wildlife, but so far, by the time Florida Fish and Wildlife got there, because it was an emergency, it was not an emergency call. The gaiters kind of wandered away, but I wouldn't, like, you have animals? Would you feel comfortable letting your animal? I mean, there's gators, if there's like a little pond, there's a pothole in the road, there's a gator in it. I mean, it's that Juan is shown you. That's what it did.
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Starting point is 00:04:22 No, I know you're not. If you come to this country illegally, you are going home. Simple as that. We do not have unlimited resources in this country to take care of other people. There's a hell of a lot of people who were brought here as slaves who came to this country illegally. There are not the same as black people who were brought here against our will. They decided to walk their butts across the border. There's a big difference.
Starting point is 00:04:46 There is a big difference. That's exactly what I just said. Chair Michael and Anna. And Anna, we can act indignant. That's exactly what I just said. Yes, it is. You just heard me saying that's all the other than the black. Anna and Chermine has leased.
Starting point is 00:05:00 There are a lot of people from many of, many countries that came here illegally. I think you miss heard what she said. No, he purposely missed heard. She said. She said. So now you're in my brain. Listen to me for just a second. Is that where we're going?
Starting point is 00:05:12 You think I would say I would have advocated for black people my entire life and say something like that. Anna, because you've advocated for black people, great. Congratulations. Last time I checked, I'm black. you're not okay sure that's right i'm latino and my people are being racially pro-file it is and do you have to remind you the history of my people share i want to go there i don't okay we're gonna go to break raloreas thank you very much for joining us everybody else hang tight abby phillips cannot control the panel first off that was i collie that was a hot
Starting point is 00:05:43 mess i mean i expect to see you know a woman act like that and you know maybe a dollar store Waffle House at 2 a.m. or Waffle House at 2 a.m. drunk and slapping people with her flip-flot, but I don't expect to see her acting like that, you know, on a set. So that was Anna Navarro and Sir Michael Singleton. And I'm highlighting it for the specific purpose of identity politic Olympics. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you. So I, this I thought was one of the craziest things. Anna Navarro was just mad in this segment because she realizes that she loses authority by not being the only minority on set. That is where her soul, all of her influence and everything comes from. That's all she talks about every day. That's all she ever talks about.
Starting point is 00:06:33 Every conversation that I've ever seen. It's not like I follow her. I've never gone to her for insight, sidebar. When I was getting into politics at the policy level back in 08, 09, you know, everything else from the Tea Party, she was there on the right. She was always trying to get on Fox and she was always writing op-eds, but she never really had any traction. She was just kind of basic, right? And it wasn't until she decided to get TDS and go on a rampage and pretend to be a Republican while going on the view, and then she got the slot on the view. I don't, I honestly don't know how she considers herself a Republican because she's on the left side of Republicans on every single issue. And I tend to think Republicans by and large are pretty moderate. I'm,
Starting point is 00:07:19 that's why I'm not one because they're too moderate for me. I just don't subscribe to any particular party because they're all stupid. That said, I don't know why she calls herself a Republican because she's so far to the left of any Republican policy and she has a problem with all of it. But that's like her and David Brock, who started Media Matters, that's sort of their MO. They didn't get enough appreciation on the right. And so out of spite, they just decided to reject their ideology and go to the left because the left would use them. A name mistake being used with appreciation. they mistake being played as influence. And it's kind of embarrassing to watch, like an older woman, get played like that by, you know, producers and the left. She's just mad because she sits on that panel and she's not the only minority. She doesn't have any authority derived from being the only minority on set. She does not want to share any intersectionality because that's all she brings to the table. She's, it's her whole entire grift. And that's why she talks about it endlessly.
Starting point is 00:08:19 Every response that she has, like all of these videos that we've played before, I think in honesty, it's only been like a couple. But she always taught, well, I'm a Latina, I'm this, I'm, you know, blah, blah, blah. And she's constantly playing identity politics as a way to shut everyone up and sort of try to gain an alpha position at the table based upon that. And what Kane and I were talking about on break is that plays still on television, at least with the old crowd. It plays on television because that's, I mean, clearly. she thinks that there's a value in that. And I think previously it used, maybe people were to, I don't think it was value. I think it was bullying.
Starting point is 00:08:59 People did not want to be accused of a moral failing because they disagreed with a minority. And so, and that's how it was. I mean, ever, oh my gosh, my whole entire life in politics, that's all it's been. If you disagree with this, you're a racist. You didn't even have to have to disagree with someone who had a different skin color or background. you could not want to vote for Hillary Clinton, the old white woman who fell down in Manhattan and lost a Tory Birch slipper, and you're called a racist. But that's a grift. It's identity politics. And so she's sitting there across from Sir Michael Singleton, who's a conservative. And he was accurate in calling out her super dumb comparison. And she did make a dumb comparison. And if she wanted to make it clearer, she should have spoken better. Instead of mouthing and running all of her words together. I mean, nobody knows what you're saying when you're talking like the micro machine man and you're blah, like, I mean, you're not, you know, this is,
Starting point is 00:09:57 this is not one too many mimosa's brunch. You're on a panel on a morning show. Act like it. You know, speak clearly. Articulate your words. Have like ideas. And the defense can't always be, well, I'm Latino, so you can't disagree with me. No one gives a rat's ass. Spare us, you racist bitch. I'm so tired of this stuff. And that's exactly what it is. Oh, quote me. I'm so tired of it. I'm tired of the griff that these people have day in and day out. They're racists. And she tries to shut up a guy for being conservative by acting like she's the white adjacent savior of the black race. There was at one point in that. She's like, well, I've, I've defended, you know, blah, blah, blah, my, you know, my whole life, black America. Who cares? Are you supposed to get a special trophy for this? You're so, I mean, that's like an actual racist remark. So you get to shut. someone else down and you get to demonize and diminish their background by making this absolutely illogical and embarrassing comparison to criminal illegal entry and you compare it really awkwardly to slavery and then when he just makes a reasonable objection you lose your mind and
Starting point is 00:11:10 become a stereotype that's embarrassing and I'm just tired of seeing this that's all CNN has CNN's like, okay, we got to, do we have the black commentator, the Hispanic commentator, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, let's make sure that we have every, not people, I don't think people care about it anymore because they were supposed, they were forced to make it a priority completely the opposite of how I was raised. Kane, when we were younger, no one cared about this. No one cared about what race you were. I mean, some of, you know how goofy this is when I was younger. I had friends. Some of my very good, my very, very close friends were Hispanic. And I just, it never registered with me. It never, because no one obsessed over it. We just did our thing. Are you
Starting point is 00:11:55 cool? Do you want to hang out? Okay. Oh, we like the same music. That's awesome. Yay. Oh, we're both in the same sport. Yay. That's great. We like some. I mean, that's, that's all it was. You just didn't. And it didn't matter if they were Hispanic or black or Asian or whatever or or Indian. One of my very good friends was Indian and we just didn't even care it's not no one sat around and focused on so you're Indian talk to me about that or you're black let's discuss we just didn't do that that was not a phenomenon until I guess when I started at college and then it started becoming a thing and I noticed that it was becoming a thing because people were putting that as their identity first and foremost above everything else. And my first experience, when I was a freshman in college,
Starting point is 00:12:47 one of the people that I met and became friends with, she was a black woman. And we got along really good. You know, we liked a lot of the same food, you know. And I mean, obviously, we had, clearly we had differences. But it wasn't just, it wasn't something that we really focused on. And then I knew, I saw kind of going in my sophomore year that she started to be a little bit more identity forward. She had joined a couple of groups in college and she started to be a little bit more identity forward. And then by the time, you know, I, we were leaving and graduating, it was, we just didn't really talk anymore because she had become very, very militant in that. And I started to see other people get very, very militant in terms of being, that's your, that is your identity first and
Starting point is 00:13:29 foremost above anything else, above being a Christian, above being an American, even above being like a woman. Like that, that, that became, and it didn't matter if you were black or Muslim or Asian or Indian or whatever, that became like the thing immediately like, okay, here's this. We're never going to be very close because you and I don't share this identity politic. And that's when I really started noticing it take root. And it was really sad because that was not anything that, you know, and then there were all of these manufactured, you know, victimization stories. I don't know. But I just saw this and I'm like, that is so, that was really bitchy to do to him to say that. And you can tell she got mad because he objected. She is not used to having her
Starting point is 00:14:10 identity politic contested, particularly on a national stage. And I probably would say particularly by someone who, you know, if you really wanted to argue identity politics, probably has a bigger box to check than she does. I don't think that he was participating in it. I think that he was highlighting her absurdity with absurdity. And she just wasn't quick enough to get it. She's not smart enough to see it. That was one of the most embarrassing exchanges I've ever seen. If I was a producer, I'd be like, I can't have her back on the show because
Starting point is 00:14:39 it turned into like kindergarten fighting. That was embarrassing, but that's what it is. I mean, and I've seen people like this. I've seen people like this on the right, too. This identity politic, you know the phrase the woke right? That is a real thing. There are people on the right that use identity politics as
Starting point is 00:14:58 kind of like a shield, simultaneously a shield and a cudgel. the same way that they do on the left. Identity politics is identity politics. And it doesn't matter what the rest of your politics are. If you subscribe to that, that is a communist left tactic. And you're practicing it when you subscribe to that. But that was insane. Can you imagine, you know, acting like, well, yeah, but I've defended black people. King. Like, oh, oh, yes, Massa. That means that you can be the ultimate authority over me. Oh, you've different. That's like saying, yes, I have black friends. Isn't the same thing of saying.
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Starting point is 00:17:10 that's that's the thing it means avoiding nightlife what I think a lot of that might be driven by the economy too if I'm being honest 72% of adults prefer their living room to night life can I be real though I've always been like those my whole life When I am out somewhere, it is always reluctantly. Kane will attest to it. I am a hobbit. I actually could be happy being the only person on earth forever. I think I'm one of the only people that could live like that.
Starting point is 00:17:37 I am completely fine. I'll entertain myself, do my hobbies, you know, whatever. I'm totally fine with it. As long as I have dogs, now that's different. But they said that three quarters of Americans would rather stay home than go out. And that includes with friends, with or without friends. They would even rather stay in their home. homes and have friends over than even go out with people.
Starting point is 00:17:58 So it's kind of interesting. I don't know. I think some of it, a lot of this is Gen Z driven. Gen Z are also Hobbits because they were raised by us, Gen X, who are the original Hobbits? What are you now? What is this? Oh, Barbara Streisian is debut? I don't care. I literally don't care. They're doing an album with a whole bunch of older people. I don't care. Robert. Can I just say I think she's overrated? Barbara Streisand is one of the most overrated performers on God's Green Earth. I don't get it. Like, yeah, that's news.
Starting point is 00:18:30 I mean, you know, don't try to convince me, you're not going to. I don't get it. I just don't get her. I have a couple of friends that think she's so great. And I'm like, you're young. What does the matter with you? Like, she's not. She has like one range.
Starting point is 00:18:42 It's the same. I'm going to get hate mail. Bring it. I will not get as much hate mail for saying that I hated Abba, though. People want to light me on fire for that. Don't get me. I mean, it's just not my bag. They're talented.
Starting point is 00:18:53 I think they have more talent than her, so it's okay. What's happening on planes? There was a flight attendant had to wrestle a crazy chick to the ground because she tried to storm the cockpit on a plane to New York. Was she a New Yorker? That might make sense. And she's an older Karen, too. And she tried to, like, get, did she think it was the bathroom?
Starting point is 00:19:12 She, it was called a strange coup attempt. And she was mad. It was an American Airlines flight. And she was upset that it was delayed. And, of course, you know, she's going to be facing charges because you can't be doing that kind of, you can't be like acting like a fool on the plane like that. That's crazy. I, this is the, honestly, we've had one of these headlines every single day, but it was a New York-bound American Airlines flight. And for the first part of the video, everyone just stands around very visibly confused. Like, are we being punked because she was so over the top?
Starting point is 00:19:41 A homebuyer mortgage demands drop further as economic uncertainty roils the housing market. That's to be expected. the average rate for 30-year decrease 6.8 from 6.9. But buyers are hitting pause all still. Stick with us. More to come. You know, first, they came for the Latinos outside of the Home Depot's trying to get work so that they could feed their families. And I didn't say anything about it because I'm not a Latino at the Home Depot.
Starting point is 00:20:17 now that was the only like mildly entertaining part of what's his face Hank Johnson Guam tip over his remarks because it all fell apart he couldn't rhyme anything else after that and I what is that even from this is like some cat in the hat green eggs and ham welcome back to the program Dana Lash with you we are at the top of this third hour coming up our get we're going to have two guests simultaneously general randy george who is chief of staff of the army and secretary of the army dan driscoll who uh i've met before i told you about this uh you know a few months ago sat down with him and was talking to him about a number of things including recruitment and then of course tech and drones drone warfare there's not a there's several things that make me nervous uh hunting wild hogs because they're terrifying and drones And also crickets, but that's a whole other story. It made me very nervous.
Starting point is 00:21:20 They fly your face. It's crazy. Anyway, so he's going to sit down and talk with us because there's a lot of changes coming through, DOD, and they're going to discuss. And that's coming up at the bottom of this hour. So welcome, Dana Lash, listen coast to coast. The chats at Rumble. If you're not listening terrestrially in one of our hundreds of stations, you're probably watching the stream on Channel 347 or on Facebook or on X or, like I said, over at Rumble. So, um, um, uh, king.
Starting point is 00:21:45 That was downright poetic from Hank Johnson. Don't you agree? I feel like that man's going to receive a Pulitzer. Yeah, so, so artful. The Latinos at Home Depot. Just, uh, you ever hung out at a Home Depot? Just, you know, as an observation. Um, racist is hell.
Starting point is 00:22:05 Oh, yeah. Oh, so bad. Racist is hell. It's so bad. But did you see the, look on his face, like right before the clip ends, the way he's like wistfully looking at the people watching him. I honestly, he's got this look on his face of smug cleverness. He thinks that what he's doing is really smart. Yeah, he thought what he said was clever. He's a new beat poet. He thought
Starting point is 00:22:28 what he said was clever. Woman. Latino. Whoa, man. So I married a nice murder. Really underappreciated. That is racist as all get out. and Home Depot. You know there are a lot of other people at the Home Depot. I like going. My husband doesn't like it. Because I think, you know how sometimes men will go and they want a man trip, like a man errand, a quest.
Starting point is 00:22:54 They want to go on their own man quest, and they don't want their wives to go along with them because I will completely distract you from everything. Guys do get new ideas on how to build stuff when they walk through. So do women. Yeah. When we walk through, don't let me near the garden center. It happens.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Because I'll be creating chores right and left, right and left. but um you know other people besides latinos like to hang out at home depot you old racist this just i mean i when i i i kind of i want to laugh because he thought it was real clever when and we it goes on forever but it falls apart after that because then he can't rhyme anything else and it looks so dumb but he thought that that was a great oh this is my sound by just remember this is from the party that says they don't like stereotypes yeah they don't like stereotypes but the latinos at the home depo you know everybody likes to go to you know, a home improvement store, whether it's Lowe's or Home Depot, they all like going, right?
Starting point is 00:23:44 I mean, like I said, I like going. I like going down the aisles that have all the doodads in them. Like, I just want to go look for the, all the men are dying. I just like looking at the sign. I'm like, where is the doodad aisle? Because I'm sure there's something that I don't have. Every aisle is the doodad aisle. Yeah, but there's like things and stuff. It's crazy. And then when you go to like the science experiment aisle where they have their tinctures and their, I don't know, like their cock and. The glue and glue guns. Are we still talking about Home Depot? Huh? Are we still talking about Home Depot?
Starting point is 00:24:15 Yes. Yes. Tinctures? I don't know. There's like things that you can do with it. There's stuff that's dangerous probably if you got it in your eyes. And if you've got it and you can do stuff with it. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:24:24 I just like going and I'm like, there are so many things here. I am, it's amazing. I like going to the Home Depot and Chris goes with me. He goes and he's like, there's a couple things I want to go. Maybe I'll look around, you know. And I'm like, let's look at all the things. And then I tell him, did you know that they have this? And he's like, yes, I know.
Starting point is 00:24:43 I'm a man. I know these things. For several years now, when I walk by the plywood and the lumber and all that, I'm like, man, that price of wood. Right? I didn't even know what the price of wood was before because I don't build stuff regularly. But I look at it now. I'm like, whoa. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:25:01 But there's just all kinds of things, fun things to look at, right? And like great inventions that you think, why didn't I think of this? this is a great idea. This is a great product. And then what I do is I take like a photo of it, like a psycho. And I'm like, that's a great idea. Just because I want to remember how good of an idea it is. I'll take a picture of it.
Starting point is 00:25:19 Does anybody else do that, me? No, I don't know. And I like the way it smells in there because it smells like wood shavings and paint. And I love that. Oh, I love the smell of gas. Can we run that club again? I have something for that. Okay, yeah, go ahead.
Starting point is 00:25:32 The home, the Latinos and Home Depot? Please. The Hank Johnson? Okay. Yeah, Steve's begging. you know first they came for the latinos outside of the home depots i don't think the tv trying to get work audiences hearing that they could feed their families we're we're playing the home depot and i didn't say anything about it because i'm not a Latino at the home depot oh there it is
Starting point is 00:26:00 there it is that's like an ad i mean that is an ad I mean I like he's where can you go to find Latinos at the Home Depot
Starting point is 00:26:17 and it's just Hank Johnson for Home Depot man that is like such an identifying riff isn't it though yeah it's iconic
Starting point is 00:26:29 by the way I asked Grock I said can you write a story about Latinos at Home Depot Good Lord. I did. You didn't. Yep, are you ready?
Starting point is 00:26:40 Hold on. Do we need this again? Yeah, we're going to need that. The Home Depot on Caesar Chavez Boulevard buzzed under the Texas sun. It's parking lot, a mosaic of pickup trucks, low riders, and minivans, blasting everything from Bad Bunny to Classic Tejano. It was Saturday morning, and the store was a second home for half the neighborhood.
Starting point is 00:27:04 Among the aisles of lumber and paint cans, three Latinos, Javier, Marisol, and Diego crossed paths, each on their own mission, but bound by the unspoken rhythm of community. Javier, a wiry contractor in his 40s with a faded Astro Cap, pushed a flat bag cart piled high with two-by-fors and drywall. He'd been up since 5 a.m. bidding on a remodel job in East Austin. Mira, I'm telling you, these gentifications got everyone wanting shiplap, he grumbled to his cousin Diego, who trailed behind with a back of
Starting point is 00:27:36 concrete mix, slung over his shoulder. Diego 25 and fresh off a landscaping gig laughed. Shiplap, man. Two shiplets? My belators house had that in the 70s. Call it vintage
Starting point is 00:27:50 charge double. Javier dropped the tool corral. I'm a new DeWalt drill. If I win this bid, I'm upgrading. These clients want artisan by my wallet screaming bargain. Diego smirk, tossing a roll of painter's tape under the cart. Oh, it goes on.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Marisol navigated the garden center. Her toddler, Sophia, giggling in the cart. I mean, it goes on. It's amazing. At Home Depot, an employee named Carlos spotted her puzzled look and strolled over orange apron swinging. And there it is. Any more mentions of Latinos at Home Depot.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Latinos at Home Depot, courtesy of Hank Johnson. By the way, this song on the internet is called Let's Do It. There's a word for the name of this song. And someone uploaded it in our continuous mix of this. Are you serious? actually amazing a continuous one hour I think my kids made this the ringtone for paw paw because he worked at Home Depot for a while my stepdaddy when he retired he got he got bored to death on day two of retirement and he's like I'm gonna go work at
Starting point is 00:28:52 home deep because he's forklift certified which why is that a is that a big thing with you dudes is that a big thing Steve forklift certification I don't I don't think so now with me okay maybe Steve DJ Fun Uncle's like an outlier here I mean, you have to be able to operate large equipment, right? So you need some sort of certification. Apparently, Gen Z thinks that's a measure of a man is whether or not you can drive a forklift. Yeah? But, and he, you know.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Fair. Yeah. So he, and he liked Home Depot. He liked working there. And then he got bored and he wanted to change it up because, you know, he had all the seniority going in there. But I think that was his ringtone for a while. Papa's ringtone was Home Depot. Yeah, I've looked up the guy that actually wrote that.
Starting point is 00:29:30 Can you imagine being the dude that wrote that little riff? It's very simple. It's almost like Peter Gunn. it's this very simple little guitar line that's all it is how do we get on that subject i have no idea anyway okay so uh yeah Hank johnson damn you Hank johnson at least we're not talking about guam tipping over rolling over in the ocean like an iceberg or something good heavens that is democrats for you it's democrats that's that's you know that's what it is 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
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