The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Cracker Barrel

Episode Date: July 4, 2024

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There's a gator in it. A 34-year-old man was rushed to the hospital because he went for a swim in a Florida lake and guess what? An alligator bit him in the face. Bid him in the face. And Hillsborough County Fire and Rescue, transported the man. They didn't identify and they just said he had injuries. And he was taken to the Tampa Hospital. But that's like, I'm telling you this, got to be careful, this stuff.

How do you get bit in the face, though? Were you just like, do you not see it? Does not see it coming to you? I don't know how that happens. This, really, a man was stopped at Miami. International Airport with snakes in his pants. I mean, we've all joked. I mean, we have. Is that a snake in your pants?

Or you just know it is a snake, officer. It's an actual physical snake. They said that they detected a literal bag of snakes in this dude's pants. And they turned them over to Florida, fish, and wildlife. I mean, I don't even, I get weird about putting certain things in my pockets, much less like having like a bag of snakes. in my, they turn them over to Florida Fish and Wildlife. And earlier, we had the story last week where a dude tried to get a machete through security.

So yeah, you don't, don't bring, and it was in a, they were in a sunglasses bag. I literally, oh, you can't see my arm, but I legit got chills from that. I just, oh, well, all right, moving on. I don't like anything in bags and pants like that. Like, just no. They're just future politicians. A Florida man was accused of flinging hot coffee at a McDonald's drive-thor employee because he was overcharged by one cent.

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The 64-year-old was charged with felony battery, and they, yeah, so they, and he was on surveillance. 64-year-old. Goes into what you say all the time. Old people are not innocent. That's not, come, that's not what I say. I say not all old people are innocent. I know.

I was saying that. A Florida, okay, a Florida man who is taking photos of property that he wants to buy was beaten to a bloody pulp by. guy with a broomstick, said police. St. Petersburg property, they don't give the identities, but they said that he was, he was, he was bludgeoned by this dude. I guess it was a property owner nearby. And of course, that guy was taken in for assault.

They didn't really, they didn't give the identities of the guys. But you do have to be careful with that kind of stuff. Like you can't just like, just, you know, just be mindful because other people are very, you know, they're mindful of property. And it does look weird. if you're out, you don't, in the neighborhood and you're just randomly taking pictures of, you know, somebody's house, it does get weird. Let's see. They've, they have been, let's see, do you guys remember the boat photo of people dumping trash? They were illegal, they were juveniles engaged in illegal trash dumping.

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That's what I think of. My grandpa loved Cracker Barrel. Loved it. But apparently since the pandemic kind of killed all that off, like a lot of elderly were not going out. They, because when everything shut down, they stopped going to Cracker Barrel. and apparently now they haven't recouped their consumer base yet. And so they said now the company has lost some of its shine.

They have to have a transformation. And they have to continue to appeal to its current customer base. They have to draw new diners. Their sales have flatlined. And they said that they're not, they said that they're inflation-weary customers. That's part of it is inflation. But they said we're not leading in any area. And they said, we've lost a lot of markets here, particularly at dinner.

So they're trying to refresh. And they're looking at changes. So they want to roll out new dishes. I don't know if any of these dishes are going to do it, if I'm being honest. Isn't this fascinating? Isn't this like a generational restaurant? When you think of your parents and grandparents, don't you think of Cracker Barrel? Like my grandparents love Cracker Barrel.

They loved Cracker Barrel. Loved it. And I remember being in there when I was younger with my family. And they had those giant jawbreakers. Remember those? Those big old white speckled jawbreakers? They had those. And then they have like a little store in there and all that.

Oh, yeah. They still do. It's like an Ozark chain. It's like an, like if you pictured a restaurant that would be an Ozark restaurant, it would be Cracker Barrel, right? Right. But my grandpa loved Cracker Barrel. Whenever he came up to the city, you know, from the Ozarks.

whenever he came up to the city, he had to stop at a cracker barrel. Love Cracker Barrel. But they said that they're testing out new items. And I'm just wondered if the new dishes are going to do it. Is it? Is it new dishes? Is that how you do it? I don't know if that's the way you do it, right?

Because they're doing pot roast, Shepherds Pie, chicken and rice. Really? Do you think people are going to be like, oh, I haven't been in more Cracker Barrel in like ever? or that chicken and rice dish may tempt me to do it. Really? Oh, they've got chili cornbread. Green chili cornbread.

I wasn't going to go before, but now I am. Right? And what CEO says brand isn't relevant? This one. Their CEO is totally honest about it. But brand is everything. I know. She goes, we're not just as relevant as we once were.

That's what she said on a May 16th conference call. So that's the perception you need to put out there as the CEO. I just, I don't know. Like I, I mean, I don't want Cracker Barrel to not do well just because I know so many older folks in my family enjoy it. So I'm looking at this from a purely, you know, selfish lead. That makes the older folks in my family happy. Don't they got a lot of these? They got a lot of these in Texas.

Yeah, they know they got a ton of them. Yeah, they do. Oh, Juan's like, yeah, they do. They, uh, I love the old timeers. Wait a minute, Juan, do you go into a Cracker Barrel? Yeah. Juan goes into a Cracker Barrel? Why wouldn't they?

I don't know, because he's not an old. folks, Steve, wait, well, hold up, but let me check something. You don't have to be an old folk to go in the old. I know, I'm not saying, don't get mad at me, people. Steve, do you go in a while? I haven't in a while, but I've been to them my whole life, yeah. Huh. What do you like it? Or do you just go with family? Damn, they're cheesy hash brown casserole, though. Yeah, their breakfast is undefeated. I mean, they have the U.S. breakfast. That's good stuff. That is true.

They had Uncle Herschel's breakfast. They had an old-timers breakfast. I wonder what's still on their menu. They've got like a classic American breakfast, which is nice. Because you don't get that kind of breakfast unless you're, you know, Juan, is you like the breakfast? Is that what it is? No. Pancakes, he says. The pancakes.

Because do they still do the real maple syrup in the little jars when you order pancakes, you get them little tiny jars of maple syrup? Like then they're glass. 100% real maple syrup. Their glass jars. Yes. Maybe that's like the way they go about it. Like in an era of everybody's eating bugs.

I hope they're listening right now. This one's for free. And like an era where everybody's eating bugs, you know, and everything's processed and everybody's getting high. cancer and all this other stuff like heinie cancer is real cane is it yes is that the medical term for it it's like an epidemic that's what everybody's saying so maybe

they're like hey this is where that stops and it's you know we're not serving y'all know bugs not serving y'all know bio-mut whatever engineered food this is like the like the stuff that like the old folks you love used to make now see that's that I'm like what and that makes me me interested.

I'm just saying that makes me like, I think I want to go. Like, wait, you just talk about the maple syrup on a glass jar reminding me of that makes me, because everybody else that's all in plastic, right? We don't serve our stuff in microplastics that get in testicles, apparently, because that happens too. It's everywhere. It's been about two years since I've been to a cracker barrel. Gosh, it's been like 15 years. I remember loving the coffee, loving the bacon.

Like their breakfast was just amazing. I don't get what the CEO is doing. I only remember the jawbreaker because I almost broke my head in half on one and I loved it. But yeah, I don't know what to see. But that's how they got to do that. That's how they need to like refashion themselves. You know what I mean? Let's do it.

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according to the latest federal data. And that's, people are, are weary of inflation. And so because 35% per the Federal Reserve Bank of Philly, 35% of Americans are worried about making ends meet. That's up 29% from a year earlier. You know that 186,000 number is going to only increase as inflation worsens. So Gen Ziers are so disillusioned with the economy that they think it's okay to commit fraud. This is a new article from MSN. And it talks about the latest online fraud trends and consumer behavior making purchases online. Like they talk about where they dispute a purchase with their payment provider, despite the purchase being legitimate. I've had people do that to the newsletter sometimes because they forget that they sign up and they don't

read the fine print and all the other stuff where it's like you are the only person that controls your stuff like i can't sign you up all this stuff they forget that they sign up then they don't recognize substack and then they try to say it's fraud and it costs like $80 every single time they do it uh they said that uh this is this is that's not gen z they said it's uh gen z respondents them know somebody who's participated in payment fraud or have done so themselves that's kind of so they'll dispute those like third party purchase. It's kind of crazy. Let's see. Thousands of homeowners are about to get slain with higher monthly payments because adjustable rate mortgages are adjusting upwards. Yay. Thanks, Bidonics.

The Boston Celtics ownership group plans to sell the majority stake. It's led by YGrews Speck. They're planning to make the franchise available for sale. They purchased the team in 2002 for $360 million. And homesteading is growing. Why? Because the economy has. so heinous. Stick with us because I have a headline about Biden that I can't just say like this. We need more time with it. Stick with me. A couple of things. What is the man versus bear stuff and why

will it not get out of all of my social media feeds? Have you guys heard about this? The man versus bear thing. It's like a stupid, like a feminist thing. Is it feminist? I don't know. So apparently women were asked

if you were alone in the woods would you rather encounter a bear or a man? Now, I'm always armed. So I'm going to have, you know, a 9mm. That's not going to handle a bear. So I would feel better meeting a man because if you try to get weird, I'd just shoot him. So who has this?

People are picking bear? Yeah. Is that the whole thing? Women are picking bear? I think so. Someone wrote bear. Man is scary. I, why?

Why aren't bears and men being asked the question of, what would you do if you encountered a woman in the forest? Men should be asked if you encountered a woman or a bear in the forest. What would you do? If you encountered, who'd rather encounter in the forest and why? A bear or a woman? I'd seem more right to encounter a bear. Yeah. Because I don't know.

There's trouble. You encounter a woman in the woods. You better run away, like right away. Because you'll either A get blamed for something or be just here nonstop nagging about being in the woods. Yeah. And you can't correct them, it's mansplaining.

Yeah. Steve, would you rather encounter a woman or a bear in the woods? I was asked this question on Saturday, and I think. He was not. You were not asked that question. I was, because someone was on Twitter when we were at the bar,

and I said, I said bear. You said bear. See? There it is. Now, why would you rather encounter a bear? Because I've never seen one like that in a while. I know.

What? That's what he picks. He picks a bear because he's never seen a bear in the wild. Not at a zoo. Because you got to love how like wholesome he is. Wait a minute. There's nothing to do with how you don't want to encounter a woman in the woods? Maybe.

Oh my gosh. That's the part that I'd like to explore a little. So he's not endorsed in the woman. He just said never seen a bear in the wild. And so he wants to. That'd be a real treat. That's, I love it. I love it.

it that's if I had to encounter if I had to pick a bear or another woman I could well I just look at what can I overpower right so I pick a woman yeah yeah I could just you know she tried to get weird too I just you know same nine millimeter or I just whipper you know one of our one of our contributors in Slack made a good point about some different way of putting this situation uh-huh oh you can read it for yourself but I'll let you read it oh you know you're gonna read it wait what is this the Foster Brooks? No. What? You're talking about the quote in general. The quote in our side channel. That's one of our contributors put that. Okay.

I was like, I don't know if the chat's dying now. Oh yeah. Well, a bear would just kill me. A man would take advantage of me first. That's what the premise is that men would like apparently rape the woman first and a bear would only kill,

blah, blah, ladies, not every man wants to have sex with you. I just don't want to burst your bubble. But, you know, you're not all that. The fact to be dedicated, four and a half minutes of broadcast time to this subject is ridiculous. I think it's hysterical.

It says everything that there is about culture. That there, I just, who walks around like, everybody wants to get with me? Everybody wants to, like, have the sexes with me. Like, it's just all the men's everywhere. Who walks around things like that? Not every man is a predator. Not every man is a predator. Just like, well, not going to say that part.

But you know what I mean? come on see i don't know now maybe i would rather encounter a bear than a woman in the woods because a woman would drive me absolutely back crap insane women drive me nuts i'm a woman these third is it a third wave feminist because i think that's important what wave are we on 11th i think we're in like the fourth wave this the fourth turning i don't know we're somewhere way beyond susan b anthony that's all i know if it's a second or third wave feminist then yeah i'd definitely prefer a bear wait you got to do you're going to check their, wait a minute now, lady, you tell me, are you, which wave feminist are you? And then I'm going to, and then I'll either pick hanging with you or get mauled by despair.

So, so. Thumbs up to the first wave. All the other waves, you're just, you're horrible. Well, I mean, I like the equal pay. That's, you know, for, I like meritocracy. But aside from meritocracy, you know, to hell with everything else, about all I have a patriarchy, though, isn't it? Huh?

Heritocracy. Meritocracy is not patriarchy. Oh, that's what they say. Who says that? Oh, the left. Oh, there are a bunch of bitches. Who cares? Who cares?

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