The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Kimmel Back In The Toilet & Serena Williams' Hotel Experience

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings have fallen even further than before following his non-apology over Charlie Kirk as Americans continue to bail on Disney. Serena Williams calls out a New York hotel for cotton plant decor in their corridor. Hakeem Jeffries freaks out over Trump sharing an AI video of Jeffries in a sombrero. Pete Hegseth announces a new twice-yearly PT test for top brass in the US Military in a fierce Patton-esque speech in Quantico. Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…ChapterFor free and unbiased Medicare help from my partners Chapter, dial #250 and say keyword “My Medicare”Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand-alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently, we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options.Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comKelTec builds every KS7 GEN2 right here in the USA with American materials and workers—upgrade your home defense 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%. Fast Growing Treeshttps://Fast-Growing-Trees.comGet up to 50% off select plants and an extra 15% off your first purchase with code DANA at Fast Growing Trees. Offer valid for a limited time; terms apply.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.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale for $5 off at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!

Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. This is awesome. I love stories like this,

people helping people. So this is ABC3. A shrimp basket cook goes above and beyond to save an elderly regular from a dire situation. And this is in Pensacola. This cook at shrimp basket in Pensacola, his name is Donnell Stallworth.

And they said that there was a regular. And when you scroll halfway down the article, then you get to the actual story, ABC3. You need to do a better job at that. So basically they had a regular come in, a 78-year-old. And he said that the guy came in regularly and that he noticed that he stopped coming in. And then the staff actually tried calling him because he's such a. regular that they were concerned that he wasn't showing up. And they even had, like, by the way, they even threw a party for him at this restaurant to celebrate a 78th birthday. So Stalworth was like,

you know what, I'm going to swing by the guy's house because this is weird. And he said, I knocked in the door. Nobody answered. A third time I knocked, I didn't hear anything. And he said, I stayed for a minute and then I heard a weak voice say help. And I said, who is it? And he opened the door and he saw the guy laying on the ground. The guy was laying on the ground for like days. He had fallen, he had suffered multiple broken ribs. He had bruising all over his body. And he was in tears. Stallworth called paramedics immediately. And now he's been checking on the guy regularly. And the guy's in physical therapy and he's, you know, regaining his, his function again. So that's awesome. So he said, he goes, he was going to take him a thing of gumbo when he went to visit him next. So

that guy's awesome. What a great friend. And that's just being a good steward or your fellow man. That's what it's about right there. You know, how many times would that happen in the real world. So shines a good deed in a weary world. So I hope many good things happen to Don L. Stalworth in his life because he deserves it. Oh, I don't want that one. Not getting that one. Not doing that story. Oh, oh, no, it's a bad one, guys. I cannot know. I am not following up that sweet story about Donald Stalworth helping the elderly man with what I just saw. Listen to you, Casey, case him. Oh my gosh. You can't make me go into an uptempo song after a dead dog story. You can't do it.

If you've never heard that, it's one of the funniest things ever. A few other things. Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are back in the toilet. You guys aware of that? His ratings fall off a cliff again after the post-s suspension viewer bump. The ratings bonanza. So everyone watched him the first night that he was back and then no one's watching him again now. And Kane, what did you say?

The ratings were lower than what they were going into this. Yeah. Going in, he had like a four share barely. It was a 129,000 people, and now it's just a hair above 100,000. So he actually has lost viewers after everyone tuned in to hear him apologize, which he didn't do. And now he's lost even more. He lost viewers. And I think that they were, some people wondered if he was ever, maybe he's going to finally be funny.

And he wasn't. So he ended up losing that. Not only that, but listen to this. over this is from New York Post over 1.7 million users canceled Disney and then Hulu and ESPN. Now here's what's funny. It's like a combination of both.

So a bunch of people canceled it because they were livid that Kimmel said the stuff that he said. And then after he was suspended, people canceled because they were mad because he got suspended. So Disney got hammered. This is a riot. The cancellations were recorded between September 17th and the 23rd, and that is, according to an industry periodical that tracks the stuff.

And they said that it was, the 1.7 million cancellations represented a 436% increase above baseline subscriber churn. Dude, that's so bad. That's so bad. And I am loving it because, you know, nobody deserves it more, Cain. than Jimmy Kimmel. Nobody deserves it more. A couple of other things here as well. We've been talking about the shutdown. We've been talking about some of the culture stuff. Can I touch on the Serena Williams cotton thing? I can't believe that this is the thing, but it is. So Serena Williams, tennis star, right? She was at a hotel. So she was at a hotel and she decided to,

take issue with like this vase and an arrangement of hobby lobby cotton you know how like you see it everywhere like these sticks with cotton on them do we have this can we play this real quick can we play this for the folks all right everyone how do we feel about cotton as decoration personally for me it doesn't feel great so actually it feels like no polishing for cotton natural. I don't know, is she, you know, she's wearing cotton. Like, is she, this is so stupid.

By the way, um, I don't know why she's, doesn't she have like, she has like a sculpture of that includes cotton in her home. Somebody posted on social media. Is she, Kane, is this her trying to be woke or is this her like, this sculpture is just trash or this display is trash? No, she's trying to.

be woke. You think it's trying to be, I was really trying to give her benefit of the doubt there for a moment. I'm like, maybe she's just like, what is with, in this fine hotel, what is with this arrangement? But you think it's because she's like, oh my gosh, it's cotton and I feel triggered. I mean, I guess there's room to have that. You know, white people pick cotton, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I just want to throw that out there. I know you're not supposed to say that stuff, but like we literally have, like our, we have a family friend whose family, they worked in chaircropping and they were white. So I just wanted to throw that out there. Yeah, that's an important little point there. But you're reaching to be upset at something when you look at a display that actually looks good in the room. If you look actually at that display, it works well for that room. You having that sort of reaction or that meaning or whatever you've defined cotton as now,

you can't because of, I guess, black people picked cotton back in the day. So now today cotton triggers you. I mean, that's more you than the about the hotel. Why did she pick it off the branch? I just, why do people do this? She's gotten drug on social media for this. And she did have this like sculpture that has cotton on it in her house. It's like a donkey pulling a wagon of cotton.

And it's, she apparently has it in her house. I just don't stop it. You're getting upset over something that you never did. What are you talking about? And then she acted cringy when she used the cotton appropriately on the nails. And it was like, ooh, like she got the shivers from. doing it. It's like, is that really? Are you doing that for the camera? Is that really how it is for you? I just cannot stand drama for the sake of drama. I am allergic to drama queens. Like I, I get

ragey, no matter what it is. You're just like creating drama so you can be seen as a victim and people baby you. Just stop it. That's so stupid. Just, I just, if you're that upset over, over that, then ditch the blonde hair, ditch the wearing cotton, ditch all the fake nails, ditch all that stuff. Because all of its appropriation. And if we're going to go that far, let's go all the way. This is so stupid. Stop trying to create drama in a nation that is completely just already overdosing on it. Stop it. Our partners that help bring you this hour, our friends at Caltech, the KS7, Gen 2 shotgun, this is a shotgun to have. I think it was this one that was in one of the WIC films. I was actually trying to remember because I know that they had, or maybe it was a KSG, but this is the KS7.

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We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bull-boh. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English. So they won't realize we're just a...

bunch of woke pieces of you know at least for a while until they they learn English and they realize they hate us I think this is you know I you know I thought this was a real video I mean it's a real video because hey if a man can demand that you recognize him as a woman this is a real video prove me wrong it's a real video that was a real Jeffreys was yeah yeah it's a video that identifies as real yeah that's that video identifies is real so we're going with that absolutely. Now, Hakeem Jeffries, should I wait on this? Do we have time?

Eric Swal, it's like everybody from everybody on the left. They're livid over Sex War and Trump talking about military, right? And first you had Swalwell, who got mad that Hegseth said F-A-F-O. He goes, quote, if necessary, our troops can translate that for you. And Eric Swalwell retweeted it, not too long ago and said only a weak and secure man would use the acronym, you know, because their new thing is cussing. And I just retweeted and said, you banged a Chinese spy. And then you had John Harwood, who I barely remember who he is. He is, I think he was like a token, like whatever, filler. He was like

a regular, like a Marxist, filler Marxist on CNN and B.C. or whatever, I don't really know. I just remember he's like an old dude who's always been on TV forever. And he goes, he tweeted this, he tweeted this, quote, Pete Huggseth has made clear that if he had

his way, the U.S. military would have no blacks in leadership positions and no women at all. Are they not seen as an industry? First off, Hegseth literally never said that. And I asked, I go, why are you such a sad and weak little male that you have to fabricate things for drama. This is what the left reverts to.

They hear something that they don't like and they think that they can just make up something and invoke black America and that black America is going to go to war on behalf of their Marxist ideals. That's what he did. That's why he tweeted it. That's why he put that out there because he thought, I'll just make something up and get black Americans on Twitter all mad and they'll go to war for me. That's like, I'm sorry, but John Harwood.

thinks he's a slave owner in 2025. Like, no, that's not how this works. You crusty old thing. That's not how this works. That's disgusting. Just to make up something like this. Just to make this stuff up. So, you know, the AI video that Trump retweeted that everybody was mad about.

Hakeem Jeffries reacted to this video. He wasn't happy. Cut five, please. We're going to see it. They'll see it in other ways. It's easy to find. But it is absolutely. disgusting in every way it is a lie it's the the man you met with has now lied

about what you said after that meeting could you give us your reaction to that Trump posted video tonight that's a disgusting video and we're going to continue to make clear bigotry will get you nowhere we are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face by demanding illegal get better health care Republican assault on all the things, Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, Republicans...

Lawrence O'Donnell, his mouth... Oh, gosh, how do I say this? How do I do this? You know, because he's an older individual, but not so old that he should have that shape of his mouth. My... One of my

grandmothers. who was not my, not on my mom's side, just a mean woman. And she had that mouth where she was always in a scowl. And it, for the lack of a better way to say it, it turns into like sphincter mouth, right? She's just, that's what he looks like. He looks like that worm actually from Star Wars, you know, on tattooing where the huts are, the same worm that comes out. Like that's his whole mouth.

He's just mean and me like that. And he starts this thing. it horrible that he said this? He's so horrible. Blah, blah, blah. I'm in a monologue for five minutes question. And then Hakeem Jeffries, I'm going to repeat everything that you just said in your monologue. Repeat, repeat, repeat, not really answer your question. See, who watches that stuff? That's just so boring. It's brain rot. It's absolute brain rot. It just, it's, it's, blah. But they're, upset. What they're really doing with this shutdown is they're fighting for things. for illegal immigrants

harder than they are for the American taxpayer. And that's Kayne, that was the point that you were making as well. And that's true. That's exactly what they're doing, to your point. That's using parity to essentially expose the truth. There is always in comedy.

A little threaded truth in there. Absolutely. Completely. Absolutely. A couple of things still, because we're watching, you know, we got the government shutdown that's going to happen and it's all going to happen because Democrats are wanting things that they didn't get because they lost an election. They're wanting things that American voters don't want because if American voters wanted these things that Democrats wanted, then they would

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And they wouldn't take him because he had knee surgery. Is that crazy? Is this wild, right? I mean, that's the standard I'd expect. Yeah, that's exactly. That's what you would expect. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash, with you at the bottom of this first hour. The military is not supposed to be like a place for you to go and have your ego stroked and your feelings held tightly and caressed. If that's what you think it should be, get out because you're going to make us lose wars and you're going to get our sons and daughters killed, our husbands and wives killed. I just think immediately you are invalidated.

you should be ineligible for consideration if that's your, if that's your purpose, if that's your your priority. And, you know, it was, it was the, uh, the media was livid. Audio sound bite 14. They were so mad this morning, guys.

Listen. And my, let's talk about this. We, we know there actually are I'm sorry. So full stop. Full stop. What the hell was the hair that I just saw? Can we, Juan, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to do that to you. One's like, dear heavens. Can I just get

like you don't have to do any of your awesome editing thing. I just want to pause for a moment. Okay, I did see what I saw. I thought is that what I saw? I mean, you're like a 60 year old woman. Am I being mean when I say that? I mean, look, I don't care. When I get old, make fun of me,

I don't care. But I'm just saying, like maybe don't dress like a peewee's playhouse contributor. Okay, go ahead. Full video. I'm sorry. Sorry. About this. We know there actually are some serious things are just being discussed in this meeting as well. There's some new Pentagon policy directives about perhaps de-emphasizing true presence in Europe, making more of a focus on the homeland and the like.

But that's the kind of stuff that's going to happen behind closed doors. It will come out in the hours and days ahead. What we were there for full display for the cameras was a political speech. And it was an anti-woke, you know, something you'd hear from a Fox News host. I guess that's appropriate, rather than someone who is, you know, the Secretary of Defense. What are you talking about that you would expect you hear from a Fox News host? I feel like this guy wouldn't be able to do a pull-up to save his life. What is the problem with what Hegseth said?

Hmm? My tax dollars that I'm bent over a barrel and for for don't go towards rearranging somebody's junk below the waist to make them feel better about their affirmed cosplay. That's not what we do. The military is about, I mean, quite literally, kicking ass and winning wars. That's it. What's the purpose of it otherwise? If you want a scientific experiment, I mean, you've gotten the schools, you've gotten arts and entertainment, you've gotten all this stuff. So if you wanted, you know, any of this, then you already have those fields in which to experiment.

The military is not one of them. It's lives are at stake here. I mean, imagine being so self-obsessed that you're actually willing to, you're actually willing to, endanger the lives of other individuals because you want to do it your way. Honestly, those are like the worst of the worst of the people. They're so, Audio Sundbite 15, this NEPO baby,

she's like, just, you know, her, I don't know, her mom was this big author and that's this chick's claim to fame. So her mom was an author, and so the 60-year-old,

whatever, got her job on MSNBP, because she's a NEPO baby. Audio Sambite 15. This is, This is stupid analysis. I'm sorry. You're going to talk to some author,

Nepo baby, to analyze the military, somebody who dress like Joker? They dress like Joker? Seriously? No, I'm not going to be nice. Everyone can literally go to hell. I'm not going to be nice about this.

If you have a problem with it, dying an AIDS fire. I don't care. I'm so tired of this stuff. Play 15. Sorry, thank you, Juan. I mean, I think we're going to see push back to this. I think a lot about the Vietnam War,

which was sort of, a moment in, you know, the, the end of discriminating, you know, there was much, the white, the army really focused on making an anti-discrimination and they ended up really helping the army in a lot of different ways because people were a lot, you know, it was just a much more egalitarian. Can you like articulate a sentence? And it ended up what the hell is she saying? I mean, woke doesn't come from recent.

It comes from experience in the military. So I do think this is kind of bizarre. And if you think about like, you know, Winston Churchill, the idea that people have to be thin in order to run the military seems kind of wild. Molly Jong Fas is one of the stupidest old broads that I've ever had the misfortune of hearing. It's not about being thin. Good heavens. Clearly the ability to comprehend things that your mother has didn't pass to you.

so it's evident that you got your contributor ship strictly based on your genetic lottery, which by the looks of it isn't a great haul. That being said, it's not about thinness. It's about fitness. I'm embarrassed for these people. Don't ask me to unify. Don't ask me to be courteous. I've spent 20 years being courteous.

I'm out of give a dams. I'm out of courteousness. I'm out of all of it. That is such an asinine analysis. It's not about thinness. It's about being fit. can you do what is required physically? Can you meet the standards, the performance standards physically? That's what it's about. It's not about being thin. Like, oh my gosh, no. It's not about whatever ozimic dreams you have, lady. It's not about that. It's about physical fitness, something that clearly escapes most of the roster on any of the left-leaning alphabet. networks. It is about fitness. It's about stamina. It's about endurance. It's about health. And it's also

about mental strength and mental fitness. That is the point. You have a bunch of these, these pencil pushers who have, you know, they have all of these, you know, things on, on their pin to their, their, their uniforms. They're pencil pushers that have never won wars. And yet they're like all, they're all wokeery. Millie comes to mind. Some of the individuals in charge during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan come to mind. That's what it's about.

What are you talking about invoking Winston Churchill? What in the Kamala Harris hell word salad did we just hear? Just talk. See, if I was the host, I'd slap somebody. I'd be like, can you just spit it out? Golly, you're killing my soul because you're so stupid. You cannot articulate a simple

a simple sentence. Heaven help us all. And he said this. He added this to add. This is so great. 16. Listen. This administration has done a great deal from day one. To remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dress. no more climate change worship. No more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said before, and we'll say again, we are done with that.

Now see, that's what I want to hear for my SAC war. I want to hear that. By the way, did you guys know he did the Patton with the stage setup, right? George C. Scott, when he did in Pat, which is a great film, Patton, the big flag behind him. Yeah? I mean, I don't think that. that was by by accident. I got to say. So what's wrong with anything that

Hegseth said? It's rhetorical because nothing's wrong. There's literally nothing wrong with it. My gosh, have we gotten so soft and pansified as a nation that we're expecting people to be physically fit? Oh my gosh. So mean. Okay, well then be fit. This is military we're talking about. This is, this is, this is exactly it. This is what it's all about. Audio Sambite 12. Trump nailed it. right here, listen. But as leaders, our commitment to every patriot who put on the uniform is to ensure that American military remains the most lethal and dominant on the planet, not merely for a few years, but for the decades and generations to come for centuries. We must be so strong

that no nation will dare challenge us, so powerful that no enemy will dare threaten us and so capable that no adversary can even think about beating us. It's called Peace Through Strength. The left thinks that strength comes from how many times that you can be victimized. Oh, well, I'm like a Latino, trans, gay, manses, whatever, furry. Who's also maybe Indian and also like Ukrainian and whatever. Like, add, how many labels can you add? The more labels you have, it's supposed to be like the more powerful you are. That's progressive mentality.

We all know in real space that that doesn't work. This is peace through strength. And this is exactly what our military is supposed to be for. This is what our defense posturing should be. You want to be friends with us and you don't want to make us mad, right? It's peace through strength. We don't want to go to war. But we want you to know that if you provoked us to the point where we had to

protect ourselves, we won't just take you out. we will burn a scorch mark in your family tree that will go all the way down into the ground beyond the roots. That's what needs to be understood. And just so long as they know that that's a potential risk with doing something that could potentially alienate or make angry the United States, and they don't do anything to alienate or make angry the United States, then we're good, right? I mean, that's the way What the hell do I care What another country does with their defense?

I'm only concerned about where my tax dollars Are forcibly taken and used here. This is what literally the only job of the government Is defense. The only job of the government is defense. That's it. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast.

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