The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Gavin Newsom's Fake Poor Childhood

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

Gavin Newsom went on the “All The Smoke” podcast and debuted a new accent, fabricated a backstory claiming he was so poor while growing up that he had to eat bread and mac and cheese just to pay the bills. Meanwhile, Dana reacts to a musical called “Slam Frank” centering on Anne Frank seen through the lens of intersectional multi-ethnic genderqueer and Afro-Latin hip-hop.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Jones Road Beautyhttps://JonesRoadBeauty.comGet a free, Cool Gloss from Jones Road Beauty with your first purchase using code DANA.Bub’s Naturalshttps://BubsNaturals.comGet 20% off your order at Bub’s Naturals with code DANA. Support the show and tell them Dana sent you.PreBornhttps://Preborn.com/DANAAnswer the call and help save lives—dial  #250 and say “Baby,” or give securely online. Make your gift today.AmmoSquaredhttps://AmmoSquared.comDon’t get caught without ammo, and be sure to tell them you heard about Ammo Squared on this show. Keltec- KS7 Gen2https://KelTecWeapons.comKelTec builds every KS7 GEN2 right here in the USA with American materials and workers—upgrade your home defense today. Keltec- Peacekeepers Programhttps://KelTecWeapons.com/DanaThe KelTec Peacekeepers Program supports those who protect our communities.  Learn more at KelTecWeapons.com/Dana today.All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Don’t wait until flu season knocks at your door. Use code DANA10 at checkout to save 10%. Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana to receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://HumanN.comStart supporting your cardiovascular health with SuperBeets, now available at your local Walmart

Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. All right. So a Florida man threw a rock

through an ice agent's car window as his father was being arrested. Guess who also got arrested? Like father, like son. Look, they did a daddy son outing. Oh, it's so great. 19-year-old Pasquale Martin is the son of the man federal agents were arresting at the time. He's charged with one count of throwing a deadly missile, missile, and to an occupied vehicle, which is a second-degree felony.

So he shattered, apparently, the agent's car. It was a rock large enough to do it, apparently. It busted out the whole thing. So he's the son of the neighbor, of the guy that the agents were arresting. Velasquez Martin took off after, but he was arrested nearby. so he wasn't able to run away. Don't, don't play stupid games because you will absolutely win stupid prizes. A Florida skeleton strip show is rattling neighbors and sparking debate over Halloween decor, according to CBS 12. So in one Florida neighborhood, the front porch, it's a skeletal strip show that features the gar smoking, a beer drinking, a skeleton on a pole.

And some of the neighbors are upset. And I'm like, is this just, is this footloose part two? Because it's literally a skeleton just sitting on a pole. What is cane? This is not bad. No, actually, it's just hilarious to see. See, this is the thing about decorations for Christmas. There's a ceiling on how creative you can be for Christmas. With Halloween, there's no ceiling.

Yeah. And I love that because you can just do anything and it offends someone. It'll always offend someone. Oh, completely. They said that, I don't, someone said, I don't see stripping as an art. I don't want my kids exposed to that. you don't even know the skeleton doesn't have a ding or a dong you can't tell what's what it's a skeleton that you get at Costco there's nothing oh my god don't let your kids watch the halftime show yeah right let yeah don't have that

i mean if you're worried about a skeleton on a pole on somebody's porch where it's clearly doesn't show anything i mean victoria secrets window front show way more than this guy's porch does then i don't know I just feel like it's, it seems like it's footloose part too. People are getting upset with them. It's a gentleman's club. It's where people go to learn to be gentlemen. Okay, we'd go that far.

But, yeah, I don't know. A Florida man exposed himself to a child in the park and then urinated at the police station. Oh, my gosh. He's lucky he's alive because some kids' parents don't mess around with that kind of stuff. Just saying, this guy. I'm not going to log in to continue reading the story. There's the headline. But also, you know, it was also about paying the bill.

man and it was just like hustling and and so I was out there kind of raising myself turning on the TV started you know just getting obsessed you know sitting there with you know the wonder bread and five stacks of you know like the white stack five story come on macaroni and cheese is he talking about me you know why G YG, man, I do it. Every day in the backyard, just bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball is just like fraying, man.

And your arms falling out. That's it, the whole thing. So just, and then, you know, then this student that was in the back with his head down, all of a sudden started throwing the baseball a little faster than everyone else and started, you know, make a few free throws because I was sitting there practicing 500 of them every damn night. And in high school, I look up in the stands, my dad's back up there. Okay.

And it's like, man, and then he's bringing his friends and your captain of the team and you're like, geez, you know, and it just saved me and it got me into college. Okay, I'm trying to understand Gavin Newsom is trying to sell us on the idea that he was raised poor. He goes on this podcast and because this is important to the left, the hosts are black Americans. And so I guess he figures that he's going to be less of an accessible or relatable character if he talks about his real past. And so he has to sit here and talk about how he ate Kraft Mac and cheese and did all these. Look, first off, welcome back to the program. Dana Lash, we're at the top of the second hour. The chats at Rumble.

You can watch us do radio channel 347. Who does he think he's fooling with us? Who does, for real, who does he think he's fooling with us? Because this is, this guy grew up one of literally like the richest people in one of the richest families ever. He grew up in one of the, like one of the five major families there in San Francisco. He was born to a guy who was an attorney for the Getty. family. His dad was the attorney for Getty Oil. He was a judge. The dad was a judge. His mom was like a debutante. His grandfather on his mom's side was at Stanford. And he's also, like they have the Pelosi,

like their, his aunt married into the Pelosi family. Yes, that Pelosi family. And they, he grew up with the Gettys and his dad was this very, very wealthy attorney. Who sits, who believes that he's on this NBA podcast and he's talking about paying his bills? I mean, we've, there's a photo of him, and we can throw these photos up where he's, I don't know, like maybe in his 20s and he's like visiting a ventnor and they're looking at like a bougie wine out in Napa. I mean, he grew up with the Getty family. His first house, was a multi-million dollar home. His first home.

This is him in his suit. You know, he's so poor. Look at him being all poor here on the left. He's so poor with his peroxideed hair. The mac and cheese is probably right off camera. You're right, Kane. You just can't see the mac and cheese there. You just can't see it.

You can't see it. His first wedding to Guilfoyle, who seems opportunistic. His very, his first wedding was like half a million. or something like that, a quarter of a million dollars. And that was back in like the 80s, because they're kind of up there. 80s are early 90s, I think.

This, he was the most, he's in a burberry scarf. That scarf is probably like a couple hundred dollars for a scarf. He was named Most Stylish. He looks like that dude. He looks like Blaine from Pretty and Pink. That's a burberry scarf. You know, he was so poor. He just wanted some mac and cheese, guys.

He's so poor. Can you believe it? Oh, my goodness. He had a wine business while he was in college. He went on vacation internationally when he was in college. You know, that's what people who are poor and can only eat mac and cheese. You know, he was hustling. Wonderbread and Mac and Cheese.

That's how I grew up, bro. I'm reading the transcript. I'll say it again. Wonder bread and mac and cheese. that's how I grew up, bro. Did it have like gold in it? Did it have gold dust in the mac and cheese? Because that's the only way that he was probably eating it.

Look, again, he grew up with the Gettys and the Pelosi's. And he was immediately, he did not have to worry about anything. His education was taken care of, everything. I don't know where he, and then he grew up running around with, Gordon Getty. And then he, with the investors in the Gettys, they started Plump Jack Wine. You know he kind of reminds me of Sidebar from Borderlands. Handsome Jack, but he's not handsome.

From Borderlands, doesn't he? Yeah, he totally does. So I don't know where he gets this. I love how the progressives. Hillary Clinton does this too. In order to be relatable, they have to refashion their growing or coming of age. stories. Oh, I was so poor. None of you people were poor. None of these people were poor. Oh my gosh. I would love to be the kind of poor Gavin Newsom it was, right? Cain? I'd take that

kind of poor. Gavin Newsom poor. Yeah. Today I would. Yeah. I mean, absolutely. We'd take that kind of poor. That's a good poor, man. No, he's never, he's really never had to work super hard at anything. He's been a part of those families. Look, I don't, this is America and Americans can work hard and they can pass off whatever they want to their kids. You know, I don't mind anything. Like, I don't care. That's why you work hard. But don't sit here and blow smoke up everybody's backside and act like, you know, you're basically on food stamps and you're living off government cheese when you ain't. Okay? Let's not. This guy would not know poor. He has no idea what poverty is. He has no idea what being poor is. And I can't believe these hosts didn't even call him out. That's really

lame. You have this guy in your show and you're allowing yourself to get played like this because you want access to him. That's the only thing I can think of. The only reason that people don't call out other people is because they want access, right? That's the only reason. Or they fear. They have fear. It's usually one of the two. No, I would love to be poor like him. Good night. Gavin Newsom, you know, just saying, he just, he had all those vacations and, you know, your first house was multi-million dollars came, right? That's how all of us are. All of us poor people, our first homes were multi-million dollar homes in the Pacific Heights with ocean views. You know what I'm saying? We all know. We all know that. Goodness. Goodness. So that is, I mean, he's really trying to, I mean, he's really trying to, to reinvent himself reinvent himself is that his hip hop is that hip hop Gavin I think so yeah got a lot of different Gavin Newsom's here that's so that's hip hop Gavin it's about paying the bills it's about hustling he's even doing the I'm watching the video on my monitor he's even doing the

whole yeah I'm hustling I mean mac and cheese I got white bread what he's doing that whole thing with his arms I've never it looks so awkward It looks like he tore something as he's doing it. It just looks weird. There's another article, Susan Crabtree found it, where it's a picture of him and it's Bill Getty and Andrew Getty. He's there with the Getty brothers. He's in the middle and they're getting ready to launch an upscale liquor shop.

And do you know what the headline on this article is? The headline on the article is Old Money Backs New Liquor Shop. Hmm. old money came it talks about how he's partnered with the gettys to open up uh well this is the first sentence if you're the sign of a wealthy privileged old money family what do you do for a living well you might try opening a high style liquor store that's what several of the next generation of gettys newsome and pelosies are doing this is from 1991 and it mentions it's Gavin newsome involved It's also Bill Getty, who's the...

Bill Getty and then who's Andrew Getty. So, his partners. Hmm. Oh, and it gets into some of his other partners, too. You got a Pelosi in there. Who else? Oh, we got... Oh, some more Getty cousins.

There's some silent partners. Plumpjack, yeah. Isn't that interesting? Old money. But, you know, white bread and craft mac and cheese. That article didn't mention. mac and cheese and You know, I'm looking at it right now.

No, they're talking about valets and I'm looking at it. Let me scan it. Do we see anything about white bread and mac and cheese? No, no, no, no, I don't. No, I do, they did say that they're going to have valet parking with purchase.

That's actually not bad, you know, for a liquor store. But still, how funny is that? They're old money. Back in 1991. So how was he going on the show, this NBA podcast? And he's saying this and these guys aren't going, wait a minute, hold up. You literally grew up with the Gettys. You're like a member, not like you are a member of one of the most wealthiest families, not just in the United States, but specifically one of the wealthy families that run San Francisco. How did you grow up? I mean, you grew up with a cook. How do you have white bread and craft mac and cheese? I mean, you literally have people in your kitchen cooking for you every day. I mean, you live in a mansion in San Francisco. What are you doing? This is so crazy.

I can't stand it when people do this stuff. Just be who you are. But it just shows you. He, first off, how stereotypical is that? That he goes on an NBA podcast hosted by Black host with probably not an audience that is very San Francisco white bread. And he says this stuff. Isn't that, aren't you, isn't you playing into a trope?

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The prosecutor, prosecutor in Paris, their office said that one of the men had been taken into custody. He was apparently trying to leave the country and board a flight from Charles de Gaul airport. They had, I mean, I think it ended up being over $102 million, the estimated value or the, not estimated the measured value of these jewels. They knew how much they were worth. They said that the security protocols failed, and now the country has a terrible image. Yeah, it's kind of true.

We're going to talk more about that here coming up. Tropical storm warning issued along the U.S. coast as Melissa explodes into a category five. So this is the storm that's coming up, the east coast. They have the alert issued for stretches of water from south of Bermuda to east central Florida. and the winds are building in strength, rough seas, and it reached a cat five status this morning and is expected to make landfall as it barrels towards Jamaica.

So it's going to hit Jamaica first. And then they said, I mean, still kind of seems weird because after that you could either go up into the Bahamian archipelago or you could go more towards Cuba. There are several ways to go. So it is going to hit Jamaica, though. They are convinced of that. That's terrifying. category five. Also, this car play,

I keep hearing more and more about this, this does not want to open. The General Motors decision to get rid of car play, they announced that they're going to exit from that and Android Auto from all of their gas vehicles and a lot of drivers on Reddit are

trashing it. I think it's, there's a lot. Why are you nodding like that? Kane doesn't have his Robert Evans a class. Because they're going to to use this as an upcharge. You're seeing these new cars now where they're like, oh, you want heated seats. That's going to be 10 bucks a month. You want access to this? You want access to that? It's going to be this much a month. This is them attempting that upsellers. And at purchases with a vehicle. That's annoying. Like you just and this, so the car play, that's like

when you plug your phone in and then it will show up, you know, or it'll, it'll, it will connect wirelessly. And it shows up on your car's display. And then you can access your maps and messages and your music and all of that stuff. But some, I feel like this is a lame excuse. Ford CEO said they don't like the execution of it. And they said that some of the concerns were that it gives Apple deeper access into their hardware so it can see too much control. That's lame. I don't believe that.

You just plug your phone. That's so stupid. That's dumb. So I don't know. I agree with you. We don't need the in-app purchases with this stuff. That's goofy. Third person, I should say this for Florida, man.

but it's not a Florida person, but it has to do with a death at a Disney resort in Florida. This is like the third person in two weeks. So that's why I really can't have this. It's not really a Florida man story per se, but it happened. This is what, three times now in two weeks. And the deceased man,

they haven't determined his cause of death yet, but it was at the contemporary resort hotel, literally two weeks ago where another woman passed away. And wasn't like one of these a suicide, I think? They were told for this guy, it was a medical emergency, and that's all they know. Then nobody else knows anything else. It's kind of weird. It's going to be totally haunted there.

I'm saying, like the happiest place in that may be deadliest. A strange UFO-like aircraft is being tested in secret experiments at the U.S. weapons base known as Skunk Works. So that's interesting. They said that the testing facility has been known for housing secret objects and has developed a lot of classified technology. and some of these people on YouTube have been camping out near the land and they look out over it and they've been watching

like these, the tests of some of these things and they said that they caught a mysterious UFO-like aircraft. Look, I don't want to see that be leaked out into the public. Although I think that it's probably planned. I think that the military wanted it to leak out like this

honestly because how are you, I mean, for crying out loud, you can't even get to that what area 51 in New Mexico or not New Mexico, sorry, that's in Vegas or Nevada, right? Yeah, go up there. You can't even get near there. They have you in their sites.

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I actually saw this over the weekend, and Steve's got the video to this. Are we going to get hit on YouTube if we play this, by the way? I hope not. So if you don't know what Slam Frank is, first off, it's a musical. And I don't like, I'm immediately predisposed to dislike it, no matter where it comes from, because it's a musical. I'm just not into musicals. I just don't have that suspension of disbelief to think that everybody, except maybe with the,

with the exception of the original West Side Story and the Sound of Music, I just, I have a hard time with it. This is supposed to be a musical satire in which Anne, Frank is rewritten as the Netflix Wunderkin, a Latinx pansexual girl named Anita. Here's a glimpse of Slam Frank as Kane dies. Ambitions will be clocking out with vast precision.

Organize every thought and dot all these eyes till I finish after I've read it all in. Revision and baby I'm a until the publishers are hiring me. She said Fenna. I'm a let out this fire. me. I'm fin or rewrap my diure.

Ah, this sounds horrible. So it's called slam frank. And I don't even know the way that it's, there's a lot of controversy about it. It centers on the rewritten Anne Frank called Anita through the lens of intersectional multi-ethnic gender queer Afro Latin hip hop. Kane. Slam Frank. What do you think of Slam Frank?

Would you go see it? I immediately hate it? No, hell no. I've already seen too much. I mean, and people are like, it's satire. Okay, then what is it satirizing? If it's satire, what is it? Where is the satire?

Like, what is the satirical aspect? What is the thing that it's? Is it satirizing rap? That's the thing. No one can answer that question. What is it satirizing then? anybody here's daily mails headline

Holocaust victim and frank reimagined as pansexual latina with non-binary lover and neurodiverse family what is this even and she's got one leg and she's gluten intolerant and colorblind

and deaf in one ear what she wins I just want I should do it what is it what is it I mean, it's almost to the point where it's satirizing itself. It's so cringe.

Oh, I've seen enough clips. I don't need to go see it in the theaters because there's not enough liquor in the world. This is how bad it is. Somebody first had the idea. Then they wrote it down, convinced others that it was a good idea. those others agreed to it, then they executed it as written, and here we are.

It bypassed a lot of, a lot of stops there in order to get on stage. It began as an Instagram parody, and the guy who created it was joking about making this production to make, quote, Latin ex-girlies feel included in the Holocaust. cost. Now, like, wait a minute. Is it serious or? Because you can't tell anymore. And then they did

like a full, it like inspire like a full production built around it. And that's how it, they said it was a fictional theater troop trying to decolonize Anne Frank's story. And then it went to this absurdity of characters, et cetera. Is it satirizing wokery or is it satirizing non-wokery to the point work. It is a joke. Kane. I can't break. Steve, what is your thought? My head is hurting. You wouldn't go see this.

As we know on the show, I am not a, I'm not a hater of musicals like you are, but. I know. I appreciate that about you. Yeah, no problem, but it's just, uh, Anne Frank was a tough person and tough life. And I don't know if we should be making light of that. I know. See, that's what I'm like, I'm like, hasn't, Kelly, hasn't the girl been thrown off? I'm like, come on.

I just, I think that. this is where people try to get too smart and over their skis and they create something that does not hit the mark and someone I think what they were trying to do was like a Hamilton a Hamilton style thing and they wanted to incorporate characters that were like discovering marginalized identities which is a phrase I don't believe in because I think if in this day and age if you, if any, you, you can marginalize yourself. But I don't think that people have the power anymore to marginalize you. Unless you're talking about critical race theory, marginalizing it's non-adherence.

It's the only thing I can think of. But they sold out 34 performances and either people think it's daring satire or just deeply offensive. Like Reddit is full of they hate it or they hate the people who hate it. That's it. There's no in between. There's no in between here. How big were these rooms they were selling out? Do we know?

No, we don't know. Like the Book of Mormon they were saying was set. When I think of satire, I think of space balls. I think of Mel Brooks, who was the genius. I think of Christopher Guest and like Best in Show, right? That movie is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Spinal Tap. That's what I think of when I think of satire.

I don't think of rewriting Anne Frank as like a gender, queer, whatever, Latin X doesn't know what she is type of thing. How does that, that doesn't make it modern. What the hell does that even mean? Someone said they're trying to modernize. How do you modernize Anne Frank? That's so stupid. Shut up.

She's a historical figure. She was a real person and you are deothering her. You're, or othering her by stripping her of her identity. That's, that's actually the, irony in this whole thing. I mean, were they trying to do unintentional irony? That's a lot. That's a long journey to get to that end with us. Of course, this is, it's like they Netflixed her.

Like how, you know, Netflix changes and ruins everything. Oh, my gosh. Like they're, I think they're doing another pride and prejudice. Can you stop it? We don't need another damn pride and prejudice. We don't need another damn Jane Austen story. Stop! Oh!

We don't need any of it. It's all annoying. Othering her, though. That's what this is. So I just, let's not. Let's say we did. Let's just, and they called it Slam Frank. That was cringy.

That clip that we played. That's why I hate musicals. I can't sit there in a theater and hear that kind of performance and go, wow, that's really good. I can't. I can't. It's just the cheesy over-the-top delivery. I'm sorry, theater kids. It's just not my jam.

sorry. Just not. Just not. So I don't know. They said it sparked controversy. I think the guy did it. Maybe it might be a left us. Otherwise, they would have burnt the theater down already. 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.