The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Harry DEI Potter

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

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Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. A Florida woman was attacked, well, she attacked a man

with her Pringles can, say deputies. That sounds like a song. Oh my goodness. This is in Florida WFLA. A woman, Florida woman was accused of attacking a man with a can of Pringles. Orange County Sheriff's Office. They got called to the 7-Eleven

for a reported fight. And a man told deputies that Shinnika Sirdal hit him in the eyes with a Pringles chip can, and then she ran off. So they said he had a significant cut on his right eyebrow, and he was actually bleeding. They did find her. She did have a Pringles can in her possession,

and she was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. So no hitty with Pringles. Don't do that. She kept the Pringles, though? Yeah, I'm sure it was probably confidence. It's probably taken into evidence. I mean, if they do all that, you know, I don't know. A Florida woman murdered her roommate and then poured Mountain Dew all of herself to prevent the police from getting

DNA and it doesn't work that way. They did also find a bloody knife and the cell phones and all this other stuff. So yeah, that Florida woman's probably going to spend decades in prison and she wasn't able to actually hide any of the evidence either. Lame. Have you guys heard about this situation? Let me pull this story up while we have it. Have you guys heard about the story regarding the Harry Potter? Do you guys heard about all this? So I

guess they are redo I mean I don't know why they've got to redo this series or do anything like this but they're shooting this series this is from Deadline Hollywood and then they have a thing with Forbes also. I'll write up over

at Forbes and I'll I think you have some of this may have gotten in some of your prep last week. So essentially so it's an HBO series it's the HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series

and it features younger versions of I guess like Harry Potter's parents and Snape and all of this other stuff right and it gets into the background of all of this

there's a lot of discussion as to the casting because they're saying that the casting is basically DEI and now one of the headlines, for instance, this is G.B. And they said Harry Potter fans fume at what they're calling blackwashing as HBO is closing in on an actor to play Snape. They're saying it's horrible casting. And this is because I guess John Lithgow is playing Dumbledore, which if that's true, that's a horrible. horrific casting. I like, not look, I like him, but not as that character. So apparently Snape is being played by a black actor. Now, I don't think in any, you know, realm where

you don't talk about the physical attributes of a character and that doesn't play into the character. I don't think it's important. But with this, it's a, it seems odd to me. The actor, his name is Papa Es Sadiou. He's been cast as Sufferis Snape in this series. He was in Gangs of London.

He's been in a couple of things as well. I don't know why that they would change the... I mean, again, it's like casting a blonde-haired blue-eyed person as a samurai. You know, it's like if you're gonna... It's like imagine you do imagine you do a

real life casting of say samurai chanplu and you have like all blonde blue-eyed white people that you have cast as the characters it's just weird you know what I mean? It's weird. It's like

I don't understand the purpose of it when you change the character that much and by the way the guy that they have that they've cast he's kind of a cool looking dude Snape is not a cool looking dude. Snape has been described as a pale, sallow, greasy hair, you know, blonde, black stringy hair, pale-eyed, pale, pale, pale, sickly almost. I mean, he's characterizes a weak goth, for the lack of a better way to put it.

And they cast this fit-looking black actor as Snape, and I'm sorry, but it's not working. It is not working. other than the fact that the character is very explicitly described in this series as not black, but the guy doesn't look like a dork. It's not going to work for me. You know who they said should have played it? And I agree with this casting proposal is Adam Driver. Adam Driver would have been a great Snape.

He would have been a really good Snape. Am I wrong? I mean, can you see this guy? You see this actor. he looks too cool and he's again Snape is a pale sickly sallow blonde or black stringy or blue eyed dude Apparently he got better

And he got fit Because he's described as none of those things In the book So I don't the whole thing is weird I just don't I don't I the casting is dumb This is just bad casting So they said apparently it's gonna go worse because the casting decisions just get

you know they so they cast this guy and now everyone's saying the backlash is racist which I think is lazy it's super super lazy and I don't know I I I don't know

I don't think that that's going to work it's like again it's like casting um oh I don't know Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan right exactly it's like it's like actually casting Kristen Chenoweth as Mulan. It makes the same amount of sense.

You know what I mean? It's just dumb. It's like, you know, hiring, I'm trying to think, who's the guy who plays Thor? Chris Hemsworth and having him play Black Panther. You see what I'm saying? It doesn't make any sense. Would you have Chris Hemsworth as Black Panther,

a leader of Wakanda? Would you? No. You know you wouldn't. So why is this casting choice okay? At some point, the character description does matter. And do you know why it matters with this case? Because the whole death eater lore is kind of, I mean, it intimates that it's Nazi-esque.

I mean, it intimates. They use words like mudbloods and they talk about it. It's like very 1930s kind of stuff. 19-40s, very much so. You rob it of that, that dark storyline, that fear by, ignoring the character's background and physical description. It was for a point. We love gold.

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Yeah, 18 miles. It's the fossilized remains of a wooden vessel is what they're saying. It's called, I can't pronounce this, the drubram for me. That's exactly what it's called. Sounds exactly right. 538 feet of geological structure made of iron ore called limanite. And it's, so that's what they're saying. They think it could be a Noah's Ark, which is totally believable. Very fascinating looking thing.

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found in 12 states. Everybody freak out because it's measles. Measles, measles, everyone freak out. You know, just every single week at something. What was it last week? It was measles last week, too. A week before that bird flu. That's right.

Everyone's going to die bird flu. Now they're saying U.S. measles, it's jump by over a third. This is kind of the same fearmongering that we saw. with Rona. However, like I've said, I don't think all vaccines are bad. I just don't like experimental government injections that are really therapeutics and their mask or their cosplay, their trans vaccines. They're transcines, Kane. We just created something. Yeah. So I just, you know, I mean, use common sense. But I don't believe that the government knows better than you. I thought it was your

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Tell them Dana sent you. I told Kane over the week, or actually on break, and I had this realization, and this is part of it. because there are people who read this stuff or they see that sound bite and they're like, oh, that's right. It's totally right. This is Trump's economy. I'm already seeing it from people.

You can't even do math. And this is when I realized, you know what? I really do believe that the internet is the greatest mistake that humanity ever perpetuated against itself. I'm not kidding.

I think it is the worst mistake. And I say this as someone who actually leveraged it to have the career that I have now. And I've definitely used it for a lot of good. Way more good than bad. Some bad, but more good than the bad. Very enjoyable bad, but way more good.

Lots of the good. I fully recognize that. I would probably not be sitting here behind a mic, hanging out with you on a Monday afternoon had I not had the internet. I tried to argue with you about it. You did. And I'm like, no, no, no. I still, even knowing that, even being fully aware that that's my

I still think that it's the greatest mistake that's ever, that human, that humankind's ever perpetuated against itself. And then I said, what would, what would make the internet good for you? And I said, take the people out. No people. What that is the internet. Yeah, that, well, that's it. So you don't, you know, like, internet is bad.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, I think you got to look at, what am I thinking of? The sum total of it. Okay. You got to look at the sum total. Think about how they, I really feel like there are more dumb or dumb people now than there were.

That I agree with. Or, or, hear me out. It's just that with the internet, you can see it more. Actually, maybe that's it. I don't know. I mean, I know that there were dumb people back in the day, whatever the day was. You and I, and I would imagine most of our audience grew up without the internet. We know what life is like without the internet.

And now we- But then I got email in high school. Yeah, see. But I used to enter chat rooms playing like Slayer. Like they code it in there and it like, oh. So, it's so stupid. It's so cringed. But we understand that life can go on without the internet, which is why we can recognize

the internet for what it is. Right. And it's why it aggravates us. We were a weird generation because we were like right in the middle of it. We had a childhood free of it. But then when we got to be. teenagers, we had it. What was your first computer when you?

IBM something. I don't know. It was secondhand something. And I played a lot of games on it. I had a friend that had a like an apple. Of course I did homework. Yeah. But we got like a VIC-20 and then the Combo. I don't even know what mine was. Remember the Commodore 64? I do remember that. Had that. Mine was so old and it was like a great value version of whatever you just said. And I don't even know what it was. Don't even know.

But it had a dot matrix printer and DOS and everything. else. It was wild. Wild. The screen was green. But I felt so fancy because it was mine, you know, even though it was like fourth hand. I don't even care. It was mine. The first computer I used in school was a K-Pro. And it looked like a suitcase. Like the- kind of a K-pop band. The handle was actually the bottom of the keyboard. And the keyboard would attach to the face of this like box. Sounds like a could be. And you would take the keyboard off and then there would be a tiny little green screen there with the floppy disks right there. And I don't know. Gosh, floppy disks. I would have been maybe nine. My kids didn't even know what those are.

They're like, what are these weird things? Remember the floppy disc and the sleeves? Yeah. Gosh. Those are the days. And then got into high school and Apple started being everywhere. Right. And then when I got into college, it was that the big thing in college was the different colors.

of the Apple computers, where you could get like the orange and the blue and the green and that. You could, yeah, that's, we had some of those in college and the newspaper staff. But, but yeah, so anyway, long story short, internet, horrible. Great, worst thing ever to happen to humans. Horrible. Horrible. It's so mean to us. And we're mean to ourselves with it. But then I completely understand that there's some great things, but I think in some total, I would forego the great to get over the bad.

And again, I say this is somebody who knows I am sitting behind the mic because of the internet. you know i mean i that's how i got i had the internet and got i we squatted literally in an old abandoned building off of washington avenue downtown st louis and did like a web zine and it was and then got started that i mean that's seriously yeah so long story short you know ignore the squatting part that had nothing to do with the internet but um i just i look at this stuff because i you know hecim jeffreys puts this out and there are people who are like well it's hekeem jeffreys And their reasoning is Hakeem Jeffries is a Democrat. And he's a Democrat with influence in the Democrat Party.

And he's elected. So what he says must be true. It's like believe by association. It's the weirdest thing. You're confirming your bias just by association alone. I mean, I don't know. The whole thing is I still maintain that the internet is making everybody absolutely stupid. Okay, so a few other things.

And I think that's also extending to some of the, we're going to have to do some house cleaning. We've got to do some house cleaning. Thanks for tuning into 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.