The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Influencer-off

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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police officers recalled it was just after 10 a.m. I mean, he ran right into this glass wall with his Chevy Tahoe and then ran away from the scene and they identified him Simon Aguilar of Fort Pierce, Florida. He was a guest and he originally, he said he allegedly moved the SUV to nearby business after the crash. They recovered the vehicle and arrested him. No injuries, thankfully. Chargers are still pending. You know, you're not going to run away from something like that.

just FYI. Okay. A man survives a bear attack in Gulf Breeze. What? People like to, there are a lot of bear in Florida. And you may not really think that because you're like, Florida, what? But there really are. And wildlife officials say that a man let his dog out early Thursday morning when a bear bit him on the leg. He called 911.

Dispatch arrived to control the bleeding until the ambulance then arrived. Our dispatchers helped him control until the ambulance arrived. The neighbor who lives a few homes down caught video. two bears walking in their driveway 20 minutes before the attack happened. Florida Fish and Wildlife is investigating. They say traps have been placed around the property and the bear will be humanely killed if caught. They say that relocating the bear is not a viable option because it will put another community at risk. So that's kind of the danger of that.

So it's not an endangered species. It's just one you've got to control. That's it. But good night. Oh, another day, another gator in Florida, this time in Sanford. they love like walking up to doors and knocking on them there's one gator we talked about last week that had a folding chair on its head well now these these gators walked up to another neighbor's front door the alligator raised its head at one point and uh video shows that officers approach because

they immediately called florida fish and wildlife and they were trying to use a rake they were assessing the situation and the alligator growled at one of the officers they were finally able to kind of get him under control and they relocate him to a retention pond. But they didn't have a trapper there with him, but they were able to get it. It took a little bit of time. And they said,

one of the neighbors said that cops were banging on my living room window and they asked me if I had a stick. And then I checked my ring camera and I saw a giant gator. I thought my doorable camera. She couldn't even open her door. And she was like, I think you're going to need something more than a stick. So she gave him a big old rake.

But she said, thanks to the Sanford PD because they had the situation handle, but they're most active gators from dusk until dawn. So basically, if you walk out at night in Florida and you're near water, you're probably going to get your feet chewed off by a gator, and then you're just going to be stumpy. And then you're going to have your stumps chew off until nothingness. Then at one point, you're just going to be walking around on your knee stumps.

And it just keeps going, right? It's like a Monty Python scene. Just be aware of this. Just be aware of it. Let's see here. This, oh, I don't want to, this is so gross. Okay, so a Florida woman was locked into, she broke into a locked bathroom and attacked her boyfriend with a kitchen knife because he was texting some other ladies. Mm-hmm.

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Her name is Kate Max. I know nothing about her. I used to run the mile and two mile when I was like in high school and college and I have not ran for fun. I would only run if I'm like running from a killer. That's the only way I'm going to be running anymore. I hate cardio. I just like heavy weights.

Cardios. Cardios is what you do in between sets. that's resting in between sets and getting your heart rate back at an optimal level. So I didn't, I didn't know there was this running influencer and they're mad, people are mad at her because she was at the White House and she did like a little, a short interview with the White House press secretary. So what this lady does is she does interviews with famous people and then runs while they do them. She did one with Tim Walts before.

But people are mad at her because she, featured Caroline Levitt in one. And I guess that and people were saying that's disappointing. We can't even believe that you did this. And it's so horrible. And why are you platforming this? And they were just going on and on and on. And I, it was kind of wild to see this.

Because she's interviewed, from what I understand, I had to look into it. She's interviewed Tim Waltz, a number of Democrats, Hollywood celebrities, like actors in that. but nobody objected until she featured Caroline Leavitt, right? So Tim Walts's daughter blasted her for platforming Leavitt. And in her video, she said she was disappointed and that because the administration's keeping people away from joining the running community by not combating climate change and cutting social funds, federal social funds.

this is what her her quote is oh my gosh should we just play it i mean this woman is is she's not the brightest tool or brightest bulb in the box but she had said that you're sending people away without due process villainizing minorities i don't know what she's talking about and she said you're preventing people from getting into the running community like what the hell does that even mean no one's preventing it you stupid half-brained snowflake no one's def no one's preventing it So because she talked to Caroline Levitt, that's like somehow magically physically stopping people from going to run. What a stupid remark? And she said, it's damaging to society.

We shouldn't normalize these people. Oh, heaven forbid you act like a grown up and talk to people whose opinions you don't share. If you are so scared of your inability and intellectual vapidness that prevent you from articulating the defense of your ideals, then that's on you, not on anyone else. Listen to this. This is so stupid. To be in a good mental state, to be able to run. All of those things are hard to come by.

And if you have them and are a part of the running community, that is a privilege. And that, again, was the first thing he taught me. So I don't really understand how platforming and administration that cuts mental health services, cuts, you know, funding and literal shipments to food banks is entirely hurting the climate because you can get into running in the climate. That's a whole other thing. But it's cutting, cutting, you know, funds to climate initiatives and actively hurting the planet in that way. Sending people away without due process, villainizing minorities. All of those things are preventing people from getting into the running community, which is what I thought

Kate's platform was for, but it's also just damaging to society as a whole. We should not be normalizing these people. I'm not going to tell anyone what to do with their page, but I think it's insulting to my dad to leave a certain video pins. Oh, shut up, you stupid half-witted Nepo, baby. I'm so, this like girl clearly has been told that she's special when she's not. First off, can you stop seeing stupid things like the running community? That sounds so stupid. You're, you sound like a snotty, entitled trust fund brat when you say the running community. You're just a Shut up. You're just a runner. The running community. You don't have to sit here and create a construct that you can appoint yourself as gaykeeper of. That's why they use those phrases because they want to gatekeep people from participating in it. So you're just a runner. There's no like running community. Shut up. It's so stupid. And her platform is that this chick can do whatever she wants with her platform, this Kate Max or whatever her name is. She can do whatever she wants. She's interviewed Democrats and Republicans. I think it's hateful and bigoted for her to say that you can't people that don't share your viewpoints. That's a signal of weakness. You're signaling absolute

weakness. You want to be accommodated and you demand a seat at the table. But by God, you don't want anybody else that you don't agree with to have a seat at the table. It's not because you object to their ideas. It's because you're too stupid to articulate an actual educated defense of your own ideas. That's the first thing I think. Actually, that's really what it is. It's not what I think. that's what it is. When they want to silence you, it's because they are too afraid. And this has been, gosh, I've seen this from big companies. I've seen this when they want to silence you because they're afraid of you.

That's what it is. They're afraid of you. And they're not smart enough to articulate a defense of their own perspectives. It's pretty unbelievable. And I just, this stuff that she's like, what is it, climate running? What the hell is that? It's just called weather. You know, people have too much time on their hands.

They create these super complicated issues where you don't have to have complicated issues. Like, this doesn't make sense. No one told her she can't run. I mean, no one went out there and told his daughter, you can't run. Running community. I don't even know what this means. but it sounds like it sounds like peak privilege is what it sounds like it sounds like peep privilege but the whole thing we should not be normalizing these people is bigoted and it's hateful running

it's she goes running as an act as political is what she said i mean it's just it's an exercise Shush up. And she says that apparently, I guess, what it's privileged, you're privileged to have the time to run, access to funds to buy the gear. Okay, hold up. I was a runner, like varsity. I set records. What gear do you need? I think she's a fake runner.

If you're talking about needing gear, you need a pair of tennis shoes. That's it. What are you talking about gear? Stop acting like a gatekeeper for something that anybody. can do. There's no community for you to protect, but this is how they try to, this is how they try to grift power by creating these little constructs to which they appoint themselves gatekeeper. Then that gives them some kind of a power and authority. Like there's, it's not privileged to run. You just run. I could go out and run right now. Kane was telling me about a stunt that they used to do

back in his early days in radio and they would have chicks running high heels. Anybody can run. I mean, it's very simple. So I don't know what she's talking about here. I don't want this family plaguing us for the rest of our lives. I'm so glad that they lost. Can you imagine this chick? She would be all over the place elevating herself as like some sort of White House influencer. Gag me.

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That's the way it is, or it's never going to go away. But they said that, yeah, the Italy is at the top. Italy is one of them. It's not an actual grocery chain. It's more like an Italian market restaurant. There is, now I will say, there are times for holidays if I want a certain type of Italian meat. I get it at Italy because there's certain

like a there's certain like when I have family in they're certain I can't get some of that anywhere else and so I will get some of that at Italy but otherwise it's been pretty

Whole foods though can I just be really I think whole foods is kind of overrated except for their fish sometimes they get really good fish in if you like we will do actual sushi at home sometimes

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I get real weird with this. But those are like real niche items that you need for stuff you don't do every day. I reserve Whole Foods for that. But your everyday shopping? What the heck? Like it's $11,000 to go shop there. Dana don't even do that. Let's see here.

A woman was caught making a PB&J sandwich during a Zoom court hearing. The judge scolded her because she was also in a bathrobe. She was in a bathrobe. This is in Atlanta. a in a making a P.B.N.J. sandwich. And the judge is like, you're late and you're not even dressed. What the hell? And you're making a sandwich? She literally had the phone on the counter and she was looking down at it. And you can see the peanut butter jar. It's these, I don't even know. What in the world? And China's turning to robots for elderly care with a national private, a national pilot program.

Sure. Elderly care. And a woman was beaten to death by a robot. Culture. We have another fight. with the J.K. Rowing trans stuff. So they're doing a Harry Potter reboot because Hollywood's out of ideas. And they have a new Harry Potter series that they are doing. And we've talked a little bit about it

before. And they were casting, it's the HBO series. And they have a new batch of actors playing all of the original roles. And they think like John Lithgow is Elvis Dumbledore. And they have

Mark Rylance, who's apparently going to be, and he's really good. He's in Wolf Hall. He's really good. He's apparently going to be cast in it. And I think you've got a couple of British actresses. I think Rachel Weiss is taking over as well. She's going to be, I think she's going in, I think she's taking a role in it too. And Nick Frost is Hagrid.

That's a good cast. And everybody was critical of the guy, Papa E. to do that they cast to Severus Snape. And it's not about race. It's because Severus Snape is, if you're not familiar with the story, Severus Snape, he was a baddie in the beginning, and he was running around with Voldemort and the death eaters. And the death eaters are basically the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazis, and all, it's a archetype of every bad guy ever, right? And they all look a certain way for a reason. So it's, you know, an archetype of every bad guy. and it all comes down to the worst identity politics, right?

Identity politics is putting race and all of that above everything else. The death eaters were considered pure. And everyone else who wasn't pure were called mudbloods. And it was very important that Severus Snape looked the way he was because that was part of his identity. It's like having Dave Chappelle play a clan member, right? Like in his Chappelle show. I mean, that's a joke. So they have an African actor who is playing Severus Snape and it completely

takes that whole huge part of Severus Snape's moral compromise out. And it ruins the character because he is pale and he's this. That's like very emphasized in the story. Not as a positive. He uses it as a cudgel against everyone else who is less than. So you are rewriting her story by blackwashing that character. It's like having Mulan played by Paris Hilton. No offense, but you see what I'm saying? You're retconning something about a character that makes them who they are. And that is actually offensive to the original story.

And it it dumps down why he's so scary, why he's so shifty, why he's so untrustworthy, why he's so dangerous. And that was one of the, she's reacted to that. And he's just decided, I guess he's going to go into this full jack wagon because he has signed this letter on trans rights. It was an open letter supporting trans rights against J.K. Rowling. And he's already really feeling his oats, right? Like he's, you know, he signs this letter and he like they went directly against. I'm not saying you don't have your own viewpoints. but to immediately spit in the face of the person who created your living is an entitlement that only certain people, it's an indulgence, an entitlement that's an indulgence for only certain people.

And I think some people, when they do stuff like this, they wrap themselves in identity politics as a way to deflect accountability for their stupid decisions and rudeness and ridiculousness. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to watch this series. It already sounds like trash. And it's sad because some of the cast is good. But that's one of the cast members that his story and his appearance play very much. It's like, it's like redoing the story of Hitler and having like a, and kind of an, and having somebody that that personified everything that he was against. him. You undercut the dangerousness of the bad guy and you dole down the redemptive arc that he has

later. I just think it's stupid that they're doing this stuff. 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.