The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: DEI Tornado Siren

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida, man. Well, I mean, it's not a bad place to fall asleep. If you're going to fall asleep drunk in your car somewhere, why not a Popeye's? I mean, that's what this one dude thought. It was in Port St. Lucy, a man's late-night food run ended up with jail time instead of some Popeye's chicken. I mean, they do have some good chicken.
Starting point is 00:00:27 officers say that his name is love floriel no it's not passed out behind the wheel and the Popeye's drive-thru while the restaurant was closed now the car was still running and in drive open liquor containers and drugs all in plain view apparently Mr. Florial
Starting point is 00:00:49 not to be confused with L'Oreal Mr. Love Florial was coming from a night out he's wearing a club wristband he was arrested and taken to St. Lucie jail where he's charged with a DUI in possession. So, I mean, maybe he's just waiting for them to open. You know, I'm just going to pull up and had a little nap, wait for them to open, you know, get me chicken and a biscuit. I don't know, maybe. Just saying. Apparently, Rockstar changed one of their GTA6 characters after a Florida man wanted money.
Starting point is 00:01:16 Gosh, this is like so perfect. Grand Theft Auto fans are convinced that one of the characters in GTA6 was changed after Rockstar games got called out for money over likeness. I don't even know because I don't play this game at all. I've never allowed my kids to play it. I'm like, no, we're not. If you're going to shoot baddies in the face, that's one thing. But you're not going to get to play as a gangbanger with a prostitute.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Not going to happen. But they had, like, fans have been really, like, obsessing over trailers and screenshots and they think that there's one character that's based on this TikToker. And the guy said that he used his light, that Rockstar used his likeness and wanted to get paid. And so they, it looks like they took him out of it. So welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you, we're at the bottom of this very weird second hour. So, as you know, Kane and I both come from the illustrious city known Kane as St. Louis.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Yes, ma'am. Not St. Louis. That's just in a song. St. Louis. St. Louis gets a lot of tornadoes. or, as my grandmother would say, tornadoes, sounds really similar to tomatoes now that I'm thinking about it. But anyway, also delicious. But they had a lot of storms and a lot of people are cleaning up. And I mean, some towns have been really just ransacked. I think what, there's a town in
Starting point is 00:02:39 Iron County, Missouri, does Ark Missouri, which was obliterated by not this last tornado, but the one before that. And I think they got some fallout from this last one, too. So a lot of storm damage, a lot of recovery, a lot of destruction. Well, then there was this story that came out because there was a lot of questions as to, you know, preparedness and response, right? Very important. You know, there's a reason why you got tornado sirens and alerts and things like that. Like, for instance, the town that I live in, they send you out text messages with inclement weather. A lot of them. Sometimes you don't need to send out that many, but I digress. Well, something bad happened in St. Louis, and it had to do with this very DEI-ish commissioner.
Starting point is 00:03:32 Five people were killed in these tornadoes that happened last week, and the DEI commissioner of the city emergency management agency and her staff, they were at a workshop and they just totally forgot to activate the tornadoes sirens. Oh, sorry, the commissioner uses they, them pronouns. Yeah, they just got thrown out on their they-thems because they didn't press the button alerting everyone that there was a tornado, which you have to be near a button to press to tell everybody, hey, there's a tornado. We don't have the technology to do it like remotely, but anyway. So I wanted to, this is, that's what happened. After the devastating storm, the emergency management director, they them, Sarah, they-them, Russell, they-them.
Starting point is 00:04:20 failed to activate the tornado sirens and residents had no idea whiskey tango fox trot was happening now they place they them they them on paid administrative leave I know that sounds like vacation more time for her to go to Texas Outback or Outback Steakhouse or Texas Roadhouse or whatever
Starting point is 00:04:45 here's the audio She, they them. Seema, they them. Audio somebody, 27. Here's some audio on this. Listen. The Seema office is very small. And the majority of the time, we work closer to business hours unless the need arises, such as what we're doing now or special events.
Starting point is 00:05:06 A lot of that work takes us out into the community. So we aren't necessarily in our office space at all times. We do have a very small staff. I have received reports of people that did hear it. I've heard from a lot of people that said they haven't heard it. Hmm. Hmm. Excuse me, it's ma'am.
Starting point is 00:05:23 So, it is ma'am. The CEMA director was placed on paid administrative leave. And in a statement, the mayor, Kara Spencer, said that Cima, quote, failed to alert the public to dangers. Let me see. your agency is called checks notes city emergency management
Starting point is 00:05:50 agency so you manage emergencies as an agency for the city it's pretty self-explanatory you have one job
Starting point is 00:06:03 uno jobs one cane uno jobs unjo jobs on jobs that's all you have? And she couldn't do that. She couldn't hit the button because they were at a workshop.
Starting point is 00:06:24 I mean, in St. Louis, it's a little bit different from Texas. Texas, you'll be outside. It's a sunny day and all of a sudden the fates conspire to kill you out of nowhere. Big clouds roll in before you can run screaming to your car and raindrops as big as animals just pelt you to death. And in St. Louis, you can see it coming from a mile away. It is a buildup. It doesn't really come out of nowhere. Born and raised there. It doesn't really come out of nowhere. I mean, you see
Starting point is 00:06:54 it coming. And you have time to at least think at least. Maybe we should activate that good old emergency management system as a part of the checks notes. City emergency management agency.
Starting point is 00:07:11 And they them, Sarah, they them didn't do that. so people were not alerted to the public danger now that's your one job that you have so they're placed on leave and they said that it comes they're launching an internal investigation into the actions of sarah they them sarah her on the day of the tornado because the sirens they did not sound as a tornado busted up major parts of St. Louis. There was no siren.
Starting point is 00:07:46 None. You have one job. She was at an hour. A workshop. So Russell contacted the fire department to activate the sirens later, but apparently the unclear communication, nobody really, you have to do
Starting point is 00:08:03 all of that. There's not like, you know, I mean, hell, you have a life alert button. You can fall down somewhere and laugh alert and people will come get you you don't have nothing like that for a tornado in places like st louis in the spring you basically have to wear one to just oh there's a tornado i mean it's like that there's so many when i sidebar when i was a little kid i was in a tornado i've been in i've been near a tornado once and in a tornado once and it was it hit our daycare and i watched so we had giant concrete tubes that you as a kid i could stand up and an adult would have to crouch down but the tornado
Starting point is 00:08:38 rolled those things. I've never seen anything like, it didn't bother the chain link fence for the playground, but it rolled the concrete tubes that we would literally roll in play. I've never seen anything like that happened in my life. Crazy. And then another time, uh, when I had just had my second son, there was a tornado that came through and we lived in rural, uh, near outside of Festa's. And, uh, I saw a tornado from my backyard. I saw the funnel cloud from my backyard and we all had to go get in the basement. And I had to break open my collectible mason window figurine to keep my old son from crying his head off was never got over that loss but
Starting point is 00:09:11 remind him of it frequently but um it worked the uh why was there any kind of ambiguity that's one of the things that they cited there was ambiguity in the directive to act Kane let's play a game
Starting point is 00:09:26 okay you're a fire department yeah I'm the they them city whatever management management emergency person that authorizes these warnings yes go ahead bring bring bring Fire department I think there's a tornado Can you press the button?
Starting point is 00:09:42 We'll do Thanks Tadda And scene That's how it works You know this person I do actually You got a photo
Starting point is 00:09:51 With they them they her Yeah years of doing radio Did 28 years of radio In St. Louis You do these emergency Preparedness segments On occasion And we brought her in
Starting point is 00:10:03 Every year For the St. Louis Emergency Management preparedness messaging that they're, you know, to do. Did you find her competent? I didn't find her incompetent. I don't, you know, at this stage. It looks like you have a picture with a small boy.
Starting point is 00:10:19 Yeah, she's short. I mean, I'm tall, but she's short. Like a small boy short. I see what you're doing. I'm just saying. But, yeah, I didn't particularly find anything incompetent about her at that point. I mean, these are some major mistakes. This is kind of a job.
Starting point is 00:10:36 There's five people dead. No, for sure. And this is something that she's going to definitely have to answer for. Like, I don't know how you get on paid administrative leave after this. Especially when you're a DEI hire. Right. Like they put, Kane is with this small child. Juan's throwing the photo up.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Look at that. Yeah. There's five people dead and you can't do it. But they send out all of this other pride stuff all the time. That's 2015 right there. So they send out all this pride stuff all the time. So I sent you guys have, it says, prepare with pride. And they're talking about, I guess, when you go out for Fourth of July or something
Starting point is 00:11:10 like that. And it says, prepare with pride. Hydrate during the festival. We're like, like, what does that have to do with, why does it happen to be like a pride thing with the trans stuff on there? Why does that have to, I don't know. Like, it just seems like there's a lot more emphasis placed on like, this is how we have sex. And we have to make sure it's incorporated even in how we hydrate. hydrate with how we have sex Make sure you stay hydrated Like a lot of that was just an effort to make You know the agency itself seem
Starting point is 00:11:41 I mean why is it why do you have to have this DEI stuff Like does the tornado button get pressed less If it's a straight person as opposed to someone who's they then Apparently not I just like what is it does it If I don't care what your intersectionality BS whatever is Unless it means you can press that button faster if somehow being a they then gives you gives you like a speed buff then fine whatever this isn't
Starting point is 00:12:09 damn dark tide this is not like oh let's see i got a blessing now on my weapon i get to have this you know endurance buff and i have you know stamina buff and ooh i got a boost in arm this is like that's not how this works they act like their add-ons that like improve somehow function and instead it doesn't it doesn't at all It ignores so many times we have seen well-qualified people get ignored because they didn't check an intersectionality box. Well, yes, sir, we see that you literally lassoed tornadoes single-handedly and submit them. But again, you're applying for this emergency management position. But how do you have sex, though?
Starting point is 00:12:55 I'm sorry, you don't have sex the right way, so you're disqualified. We're going to go with this young they, them over here. Instead, who can't press a damn button to warn people that there's a tornado barreling down the highway towards them to kill them all. And mind you, it's not just about pressing a button. Like, let's say she's out and about like she was. You can call the fire department and they'll activate the sirens. I feel like they're trying to blame the fire department. It could.
Starting point is 00:13:21 I mean, it's not like, wow, the weather's sunny today. We're going to go out to a workshop. That's not how St. Louis weather has ever worked on God's green earth ever. In the history of humankind. in the history of dino kind it's never worked that way ever you know it's bad weather
Starting point is 00:13:38 it's going to be a bad day when you wake up you know it because the weather's going to just blow it's going to be horrible let's go to a workshop I'm going to get her I mean I also can we talk about why do you have to be physically near a button well St. Louis did put a statement out they said moving forward that they'll explicitly
Starting point is 00:13:55 now that these five people are dead the city policy now will explicitly be the fire department issue the warnings So Five people had to die So they could remember Who could issue what warnings
Starting point is 00:14:08 Bang up job guys Man that's rough Well yeah Man Not as rough as finding Five dead bodies In the rubble of a tornado That they weren't worried about
Starting point is 00:14:18 That's what I'm talking about That's I'm just trying to rant my mind around this This is insane This is insane Somebody in the chat goes Now The new pronouns now
Starting point is 00:14:29 Or has been That's right They got thrown out on their they-themes. Now it's a has-been. Good heavens. So they suspended this. And I mean, the devastation is just crazy. I don't know. They're like, oh, there's a breakdown in communication. How in the hell is there a breakdown in communication on this? Wow, what's that big funnel in this guy? It's a tornado. Sound the alarm. How do you get that wrong? It's not like there's a lot of steps. It's not like the Hadron Collider. You're not running anything
Starting point is 00:15:00 crazy. This particular agency didn't have a lot to do at all. And the thing was that the bar was so low for what you had to do. Nothing was required of you until it was and then you failed. Right. You have one job. One job. One job. That's it. That's it. I'm so done with this stuff. I mean, clearly this broad, they them, they them, them, they is, I don't care about your stupid pronouns. Just do your job. Do your damn job. Unless a Again, any of your cosplaying gives you a buff of speed or, you know, anything else? No, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Stop it. And aside to this, how weird is it that we actually think about that when you're hiring for diversity? Well, wait a minute, how do you have sex?
Starting point is 00:15:54 And the manner in which you get it on, how does that help you do your job of pushing buttons during emergency weather systems. I'm not kidding you. That's literally, you're like Dana that sounds absurd. Yes! Because it is absurd. The whole damn thing is absurd. You are so correct.
Starting point is 00:16:16 Just do the job. Just do it. I just can't. I can't. I just, I'm done. All right. We have more on the way. So we roll the words Florida. Maybe Florida man will sit. You know what?
Starting point is 00:16:31 Florida man would have press a button. Probably with a gator, but he would have pressed the button. Maybe he would have had left a meth fingerprint behind. He'd have pressed a button. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not big pharma,
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Starting point is 00:17:56 related to domestic violence. Where's the wooden spoon? Because I feel like wooden spoon beats fork all day long. Wielded properly, wooden spoon may be the most dangerous weapon in a human's arsenal. And if you disagree, then you were never
Starting point is 00:18:12 disciplined as a child, ever disciplined as a child. So anyway, this person's getting, they're going to court and they've been arranged. So 35 years, 35 years old and you're trying to stab your mom with the fork. What's the matter with you? What's a matter? You didn't get the wooden spoon enough. An activist sat 80 feet up in a tree near Port Angeles for two weeks. For what? We don't know. Well, I mean, we do, but no. It's something to do with the trees. It's the
Starting point is 00:18:38 Olympic Forest Defender Network of Conservationists, and this dude lived two-thirds up a fir tree. What an address. Yes, can you send that to two-thirds up the fir tree in Port Angeles, protesting the sale of a swath of forest by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. They call it apparently a legacy forest, blah, blah, blah. They're protecting the trees. They said it doesn't make financials. I don't know, but I'm just, I wouldn't camp in a tree. No, I toss and turn.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Did he bring two weeks of food in diapers? Like, what did he do? Well, I mean, I guess you could just hang over the side and, you know. Oh, come on. Pray and spray. I don't know. Like, I'm just assuming. No, I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:19:17 I even asked. Well, you did ask a question. question, Kane, and I did, in all of my knowledge, answer your question to the best of my ability. I'm sorry that it made you uncomfortable over there. I'm both thankful and sorry. Mm-hmm. A bearded dragon saved its owner from a house fire. I've heard of some things before. I kind of want to call shenanigans. So a bearded dragon, apparently his name's Spike, he woke up his owner, Donald from a nap, because he jumped on his face, insisting that he wake up. Now, I would just think that this is shenanigans from a lizard.
Starting point is 00:19:47 Donald opened his eyes and saw his bathroom was on fire. He extinguished the flames before they spread to the rest of the home. He apparently slept through the smoke alarms, but not through his bearded dragon jumping on his face. Do you think that that's what the lizard was doing, or was the lizard like, I hate you, and I'm going to try to suffocate you to the best of my ability? I'd like to believe it's true.
Starting point is 00:20:09 I mean, now he's got salmonella all over his face. That's my first thought. I'd be like, ew. A man was attacked by a swarm of bees, and it killed him. This is horrible. He was in Eastland, Texas mowing the lawn, and apparently he made a hive quite angry. This is so sad. He was, again, mowing the lawn. Officer did finally pull up to the scene. They said that they had reports of a collision, and it caused all kinds of stuff. The guy was being swarmed by bees because it all had to do with this guy mowing the lawn. grown over hive his face swelled up he could hardly see it was just anaphylactic it killed him so sad so sad we have a mourn store state folks over at Caltech they have this I mean they have different versions of the fold in half carbine but now you have it chambered and all kind of stuff including brand new
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Starting point is 00:22:16 So budget airlines are considering launching these controversial, I'm looking at the name of Sky Rider 2.0 standing seats. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:32 And I don't know what the ticket price would be. They are being introduced by a manufacturer. They want to increase passenger capacity by 20%. and they unveiled it at the Aircraft Interiors Expo several years ago. And they said it's an innovative seat.
Starting point is 00:22:50 It allows an ultra high density in the aircraft cabin. And it opens up the traveling experience to a wider passenger market. Okay, Kane. And I know Juan has the video of how I watched this guy struggle with a bag in there. You, okay, so if I'm flying, I do work typically unless it's on vacation. And I don't know this guy, if you're watching the simulcast. How in the world do you even open your laptop or anything to work in that? You don't.
Starting point is 00:23:24 How do you uncompress your spine? You don't. Next, they're going to be we're strapping passengers to the wings to increase our capacity and open up a whole new market of passenger class. Yes, you're going to get buckled and you've got to hold onto your suit. case tight. We're going to strap you to the wing. Wing straps are only 10 bucks with budget airlines. With budget airlines. And you get extra leg room if you're strapped onto the wings. Fresh air, no drinks or bathroom, but you won't notice because you'll probably defecate your
Starting point is 00:23:58 bridges before we even leave the ground. I, it looks like hell. I think I don't like being enclosed in small spaces and I think I would riot. I think I would. I think I would immediately. I barely want to be on a plane when I'm seated comfortably. It's like you're sitting on the banana. Uh-huh. Even if I'm seated comfortably, I hate being on the plane. Like this is what, do I want now two additional people closer to me?
Starting point is 00:24:28 No. And people are weird on planes. I mean, this fellow can't even get in. He's trying to squeeze himself in. I love it. You knew that you know, you know that when they unveiled us at the expo, they were like, okay, Bob, why don't you just slide in there? and let's see if you can get all, you know, situated.
Starting point is 00:24:45 And he's, you know, they were trying to show how easy and nice these seats were. That guy was on the struggle bus, like instantly trying to wedge himself in there. Now, the first chick, there's nobody in front of her so she can sit in it fine. Her legs are even extended out further than this guy. Look at this guy. He can't even get in the seat. He's struggling to even get in the seat. He can't even get in it.
Starting point is 00:25:05 I thought we were moving in the direction where we need bigger seats because, remember those people that with the large bottoms that they're just huge butts and they have to buy two seats you know what I mean? Like that's the direction we were moving. What is this? So what happens if you're one of those individuals?
Starting point is 00:25:24 Oh, you need that damn whole row and the one in front of you. Yeah, and you're trying to like get and then what happens then? Because are they going to have to come and I'm going to pull up this. What happens then? If that's you, if that's you, if that's you,
Starting point is 00:25:38 if that's you, then what happens? And you're, you know, or you're sitting next to someone that they can't, in a, like a normal seat, they would take a couple of the seats. I can't, I can't even believe that this is a thing that we're all considering. So, I mean, I don't know. In Turkey, it might not be a problem. Did you hear what they're doing in Turkey? Uh-oh, what? So, overweight people are publicly weighed in order to slim down under new rules in Turkey.
Starting point is 00:26:06 And they have inspectors patrolling public spaces. wait a minute is that what this is without actually weighing people without actually weighing people they sell this isn't in turkey this is a separate story no i know but to think about that this is what they're doing instead of weighing you they're making these tiny seats that make it impossible so you look at them you're like well i can't go in there i'm too big for that boom now fat people aren't flying they rolled out a nationwide plan to stop and weigh people in public with inspectors telling them to slim down if they're found to be overweight health workers in Turkey have been deployed across each of the country's 81 regions
Starting point is 00:26:42 with weighing scales and tape measures as the drive to assess 10 million people by July 10 is underway. Passer-by are stopped by medical examiners for spot body mass index checks. What if you don't want to do it, though? I don't think that's probably going to be an option for you to not do it, but they said, yeah, they, everybody, everybody that, and then they're asked, they're told to go to a dietitian or whatever, and then they have to lose weight. But yeah, they're in shopping malls, they're out in the streets.
Starting point is 00:27:16 There are people who've been posting pictures all around Turkey shown that they're being guided onto weighing scales, having their height measured, and then they're weight calculated. And they're told to slim up. And they go, well, like, drivers are warned of speeding traps. You know, they're warning people about being overweight. Can you imagine?
Starting point is 00:27:37 It's an anti-obesity campaign that officials describe as a national fight, and they're running it under the tagline, know your weight, and live healthy. It started on May 10th, and they're going to survey one in eight Turks. Anybody with the BMI over 25 are referred to a state-run family health center and a healthy life center where they get nutritional counseling and follow-up services. Now, the Turks are mad. They're saying that this is the government being out of touch with the daily realities
Starting point is 00:28:02 of soaring food prices and wage stagnation, and the impact this has on healthy eating. et cetera, et cetera. And the Erdogan government has been criticized because they're like, it's super public. They're weighing everybody in public. They're like fat shaming you in public. Now, I'm all about being healthy. And I don't like the whole body positivity campaign that celebrates morbid obesity. But I also think, I don't like the government walking around at all, like saying, hey, get up here, Sally, on this scale, and we're going to weigh you. Tammy, Karen, Yamish, get up here on this scale. we're going to weigh you and and then everybody sees it now the world health organization if
Starting point is 00:28:44 whatever you want however you want to take this they estimated that 30% of people in turkey are obese and so they said that uh yeah that's how they're they think that this is they think this is going to work how would that work in the united states I would imagine somebody's scale would get broken somebody tried doing that I think I would knock the scale out of their hands in Like, get away from me. No, you can't because of HIPAA. I mean, there's no way you could do something like that. But I'm totally less bothered by weighing people before they get on the plane than those damn seats you first are showing.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Oh, King's not over the seats. No, I'm not. Well, they don't weigh you before you get on the plane. This is a whole other plane in Turkey. No, I know that. I know that. But there's no possible way that I could ever, ever think of flying on a plane like that. There's no.
Starting point is 00:29:26 Like, think about it. Now you're fitting how many more people in the plane? 20, 30, 40. So now, now we have an issue of a weight problem. We have now more people in the plane. Now I'm concerned about... How many times have you heard, too, where they have to adjust the weight of the plane?
Starting point is 00:29:40 Yeah. And they have asked people to get off. And I'm like, wait a minute, you're only asking like four or five people to get off. So you're telling me whether or not this thing sinks or flies, falls out of the sky or not is dependent upon four people beyond this plane. Makes me worried. Physics is still a thing.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Oh, a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah, physics is a thing that bothers me. So I don't know. But they said that one of the things that the, the Turkish people were hitting back at is they were saying that a lot of the professional athletes they have technically qualify as overweight based solely on their BMI because they have much more muscle mass, which weighs proportionally more than fat, which is true.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Is that so, yeah, they wouldn't be taking that into consideration, would they? Do you see how stupid these government, like a government run program like this is? It's so dumb. 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.

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