The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Labubu Madness

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Dana reacts to the “Labubu” trend where celebrities are wearing “Beanie Baby” like Teddy Bears, causing the price to skyrocket and contributing to theft. Meanwhile, Dana praises Kristi Noem’s changes to the TSA including removing the shoe policy and hinting at rolling back restrictions on liquids.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Angel Studioshttps://Angel.com/danaStream King of Kings, check out fan-picked shows, and claim your member perks.Allio CapitalDownload Allio from the App Store or Google Play, or text “DANA” to 511511 to get started today.All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Medical freedom is American freedom. Use code DANA10 to get 10% off your order.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 receive 10% off.Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANA.HumanNhttps://humann.comFind both the new SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews at Sam’s Club!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its best.

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Madison County, Florida. A Waffle House employee called 911 to report an attempted robbery. The suspect was unarmed and left simply after grabbing some napkins. Edward Rodriguez, as was identified as the assailant, he entered the Waffle House, wearing a gray hoodie. He had a little dog. And then he shouted, get on the ground, y'all getting robbed. And then he stated later, he was high and drunk,

grabbed Mapkins, and walked out. He got into a vehicle and left the parking lot. He did not appear to have a weapon, but he did raise his hands in the shape of a finger gun. Yeah, you can't go and throw hands, finger guns or otherwise, at a Waffle House. I'm surprised that the employees didn't, like, go into, you know, octagon mode and leap out from behind the counter and beat him down in the store.

But also, I mean, would you not know that that was kind of a stupid joke? What would you do? Somebody walked in and was like, you're all getting robbed and had finger guns. I think there's a couple factors here we need to know. How drunk was this person? How late was it? I don't know. I don't know.

I don't think I'd put up with any of that. Would you call 911? I don't think I'd call 911. Yeah, I mean, I would just have my shotgun like, well. For napkins? Yeah, for napkins? I don't know. I don't know.

Uh, let's see here. We also have, um, a, uh, oh, a Florida man was arrested. He was trying to poison his ex's liquor bottle with bleach. Oh. Why? You can tell that stuff. I mean, even, unless you're drinking, what am I thinking of? Everclear. Oh, gosh. Then maybe. You could run vehicles off of that stuff. You can run the planet off of a bottle of Everclear. What are you talking about? I feel like always sunny in Philadelphia when they're like, what's the fanciest, like liqueur that you can think of and they're like oh gold schlocker yeah because you know

yeah it's got flakes of gold in it and then that's when they did the nickel schlacher and okay anyway uh they deltona beach attempted poisoning attempt investigators see the victim went to her ex-boyfriends home to get her stuff her friend went with her she and i don't know why but the two decided to take a shot from a bottle of tito's to calm their nerves and apparently uh the uncle that went with the girl uh realized that something was really wrong and that the drink was tainted with bleach and they called the police and he admitted it and he said he also put it in her facial products. Well, that's just an astringent at that point, you dummy. Let's be honest,

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I'm not even kidding. It is a. I don't know, a plush toy. I don't know how else to put it. It's like a monster toy and it was created by this Hong Kong Belgian designer. And it's sold exclusively at a Chinese based real retailer, Pop Mart. So that's I, because I don't do Chinese stuff. So that explains a lot of it. The CCP probably loves it. So when I heard teddy bear made of human skin, I immediately thought of a Lubu. Now, they're not all like teddy bear looking things. They are, they're, someone said it looks like a Mesopotamian. demon. Yeah, that's accurate. It's, but, and apparently a K-pop, Lisa from Black Pink War one on her purse, and it, like, exploded. It started in Thailand, Southeast Asia and now grown women.

So the woman, it's a friend of a friend. So I don't feel bad that I'm talking. And she's kind of a moderate, so I don't feel bad. She had a grown, the grown woman. She was like 50-something. I don't know why I'm whispering. like she was like 50 something and she has like had like a huge you know fancy bag and she had this thing on it and my first inclination is is to go w tf is that you know and just be real but i didn't i was

looking at it and so i asked um another woman i was like why did she have a toy on her bag and she was like oh that's a laboooo-booboo like i was supposed to know what that was i'm like oh louis would she's like oh that's a laboo-booboo i'm like what that was a laboooo it's like a don't know. Is it like beanie babies? Remember when adults, I will never forget this old photo that I saw. And it was a photo of this couple that were in divorce court in the 90s and they were dividing up their beanie babies and their divorce settlement. They were literally on the floor of the courtroom with piles of beanie babies by each of them. And I thought, my first actual thought was, well, why wasn't this the moment that society was declared dead? I don't know. So,

Lububu's are apparently really, it's hard to get the one that you want because you, you, usually have to get them in what they call. I don't even, you know who explained this? Me, Carol Roth. Carol Roth knows all about them. I don't know why Carol does. She, it's a funny, I don't know. They're incredibly expensive. So some of them are like, can be like $90. And then the more valuable ones can go for thousands. And when you purchase them, if you want a specific one, it's going to be super expensive. Or you do just what they call a blind box purchase and you just buy Ella Boo Boo and they give you whatever one they want to give you. That's, and it works. That kind of abusive marketing works on dumb women. I don't get it, but that does. And you ought to hear

about some of the stuff. It's, it's insane. It's, like, some of them were like, one of them was like $10,000. I'm not kidding you. They're, and they look like giant teddy bears that people hang on their bags. And there are stories of people that are stealing them in the street. They have safety issues because people are fighting over them. They had a human-sized libibu that was like $200,000 that sold. They had a limited edition release one, a regular-sized one that was $31,000. All these celebrities like Rihanna and everybody else are wearing them. So now everybody else is wearing them. I mean, we, aren't we just talking about inflation and the cost of eggs and now people are walking around with expensive little Mesopotamian demons on their handbags? Like what in the world?

world is wrong with society right now. But if you think that's dumb, you haven't seen all of it. So do you guys know what Stanleys are, right? The Stan, a lot of people I feel like went to Stanleys after Yetty stepped in it. Remember when Yeti was really popular and then they got real dumb after Parkland and real weird about Second Amendment stuff. And then I think even before then, because I had friends that work in the outdoors industry and they were kind of turning on Yetty because Yetty was partnering with all of these outdoorsmen and women. And then anytime time anybody did anything firearm related, they like would pull sponsorship or something like that. That's a big, it was a big controversy. And I feel like people started gravitating towards Stanley's.

Now, Stanley was what my grandpa took his coffee in when he would go hunting. And it was just like a giant green thing with a twist off. That's how I remembered it, right? Now they have the tumblers. Now, full disclosure, I have one because it keeps my stuff cold and it has a handle on it. And I almost hate carrying it out in public because I don't want to be like one of those. people. But I have to have my adult sippy cup. I have to have diet sooty or ice water in my in my tumbler at all times. It's a Texas thing. You've got to have one. Otherwise, the world stops spinning if you leave the house without it. I'm saving the earth. So Stanleys, the, the tumblers that they have they make, I can't even believe I'm saying this, accessories for it. Have you heard of a

Stanley pack? So you have your, your Stanley, right? and you would put a backpack on it. It has its own backpack. There's one showing you right now on the simulcast. That's a stanny pack. Now, there's different kinds. They make designers stany pack. This is what, we're a smod.

Where is the sweet meteor of death? They make all kinds. They have a carrier bag for them. So you can get like a neck carrier. Like a, you know how you would have a baby, Bjorn for your baby. It's like a Stanley Bjorn for your Stanley. And then you put your Stanley in it and you wear it on your neck and it has a

Stanley pack. Oh, but wait, there's a Stanley pack. There's more. Oh my gosh, there's more. You can get entire skins for it. Strapes for your Stanleys. Oh my gosh. There's like charms. Now you might think, oh, that's real sweet that little girls have that. No. Guys, for whatever reason, fashion has convinced women to infantilize ourselves and do this stuff because there are women I like that do some of us. I don't get it. And I'm mad

because I didn't invent it. That's what I'm mad about. Why didn't I invent a stany pack? I mean, that's a stupid idea that is making boo-ku bucks for somebody out there right now. Right? Like they get them personalized and all this stuff. What does this say about society that it's these, what I don't, I I'm trying to understand the psychology of it. Like there's, especially in Texas, it's a big deal. You get your Stanleys and all the girls go to,

and the guys have them too, but the guys usually have guy colors. The girls want pink and they have their names on them. They have their Stanny packs and they have all this stuff. And it doesn't matter what zip code you're in. It does not matter. That's the thing. It is unifyingly ridiculous.

I don't get it. What is, Kane, would you ever walk around with a thermos that had a little fanny pack on it? No. You wouldn't. No. No. No.

Matter of fact, those old Stanley thermuses that you referenced that your grandpa had and your dad. Well, listen, I had one and it fit right in the top of that lunchbox. That was the accessory to my Stanley back in the day. Yeah. I had one of those big old lunchboxes that the Stanley thermos would fit right in the lid. Yeah. I mean, and I like, I mean, yes, it keeps it cold.

But, and that's why I have, because I, drink tons of water. I take allergy medication too, so it dries out, you know, it dries everything. So I have to, I drink tons of water anyway. But I don't put like, like, they have charms on them. And so I'm like, okay, you have looboos and Stanle's. I've yet to see in the wild a woman with both of these things. If I do, I'm so taking a picture of her. I don't care if I get beat up in the process. I'm so going to do it. I'm just going to be like, wait a minute. Don't kick my eyes until after I get the photo. So I can put it on Instagram and be like, what in the world? I've never, I haven't seen both of them in the wild at once, but I have seen them singularly. in the wild. And I don't understand this at all. Is this, so is this like the Beanie Baby craze thing? Is it like that all? But Beanie Babies, wasn't that something that little kids were in? Or adults really into it. I mean, what does an adult do with a Beanie Baby? You don't play with it? What do you do with it? I don't get it. Put it on the adult shelf. What? With all the other adult beanie babies. What?

I do not understand this stuff at all whatsoever. I get it that some people have the things that they like to collect. I get you. But hear me out. It's weird. Okay. It's weird, right? It's weird.

I don't know. But I felt like that when I saw that teddy bear made of human skin, my first thought went to the Lubbubu. And then I had a friend tell me that their daughter had asked for a stany pack and stany accessories. and I didn't know what that meant and I literally had to be explained to like I was five because I didn't understand that oh you buy things for your cup like you would a child oh now we're accessorizing our drinkware why did I invent that guys we are all in the wrong

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Aw, yeah. All right, so first up, NASA, there's more to this, the METCI. NASA apparently discovered a super earth called T-O-I-1846, right? And it's supposed to be a super-earth due to its size. but with a temperature of about 600 degrees Fahrenheit, I don't think that anybody could live there. I myself love a dry heat,

but this might be a little much, just saying. It's not likely habitable. There is a similarity in terms of size, but they said there were some weird signals coming from it, but the weird signals apparently are a starlight dip from transit. I don't even know what that means. So it's just customary. It's just like a, I still am going to cross my fingers

and hope that they're all wrong. They could be. Popular zero-calorie sweetener could impair brain blood vessel cells according to a study. I don't care. Actually, it's erythritol. Which, if you're like,

you know, keto, that's like a popular sweetener, it's horrible. And isn't it the one that has a taste? It's horrible. I can, if I, oh my gosh, this chemical needs to dine in AIDS fire because it's,

One of the worst things, it's like, I'm going to bake something nice and defecate in it. That's what this does. It is one of the worst artificial sweeteners. It tastes like a plague. It's that horrible. I don't, I hate it more than anything else I've ever hated in my life, actually. Except the devil. Hate him more.

Beyonce's unreleased music was stolen from a car in Atlanta. I really don't care. Do we care? I mean, what is it from the Cowboy Carter niche album? I don't know. But apparently, it was a... a car used by her choreographer. How did he get music, though?

How does the choreographer get unreleased music? Unless I guess he's, you know, choreographing her. But still, you would just, like, let him. Don't they have, like, a, kind of a skiff for this stuff? I don't know. I'm just, just guessing. A robot, robot, no. Nope.

Nope. Don't want this. Nope. Robot umpires are going to make an all-star game debut, debut. They're going to use this in regular season. Robot umpires. Robot umpires MLB has been

When you say robot umpire I look for that little short little robot To run up awkwardly on the field That's what I'm looking at They've been experimenting with automated ball strike systems In the minor leagues And now they're going to use it in the All-Star game For the first time this summer

They said that Pitchers think everything is a strike And then you go back and look at it And it's two or three balls off They said, you know Yes they want to challenge it Steve said that they used it last night It worked well

Yeah the All-Star game was last night It's essentially not a robo-ump. It's just an automatic system. Well, why are they saying a robo-ump then? Yeah, it's not a robot. It's a replay system. A replay system. See, this is misle.

This is fake news. It's fake news because it's not even an actual robot. Like, if you're telling me a robot empire, I'm expecting like an actual robotic person-looking thing. Staying there on the field. Heavy rains and flash flooding across the northeast. This has been the rainiest summer, I think I can imagine. imagine. It has been, it rained pretty much all day yesterday. Well, all, like, basically after

3 o'clock, it rained all night. And, uh, heavy rains, flooding, stranded vehicles, uh, all kinds of stuff, New York, Pennsylvania, et cetera. And then, uh, last but not least, New York City saw its second wettest hour in history. They had a terrifying freak flash flooding yesterday. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lashed with you. Bottom of this third hour. So TSA, you may, may, it's being a hinted. The next big rollback might be liquid restrictions on flights. Department of Homeland Security suggested Wednesday that they're pushing for the TSA to ease up on its liquids, aerosols, and gels rule. Now that the airport security has ditched these shoes off policy, holloroo, by the way.

And I think it's smart if Noam is going after all this stuff. I mean, she should. Like I said, I'll give her a pass on however she wants to look at any of. event or whatever she wants to do, whatever, you know, aesthetics she wants to tweak. I don't care. I'll give her a pass for everything. You make this a thing that happens. Girl, I don't care if you wear a fur to the, to the border, as long as it's ethically sourced. I don't care. So, because right now you can only have 3.4 ounces of liquid with you. And this is what I don't, you know how stupid this all is? First off, when you're going through airport security. And this is all because of after

9-11 and you had the shoe bomber and I guess what was it somebody else that tried to set off some kind of bomb with a liquid so they banned like regular size liquids and you had have 3.4 ounces which as everybody knows is teeny tiny and it is so infuriating because you can't hardly get like the stuff that you use doesn't always come in travel size and then you have to put it in these stupid little travel bottles and it's a pain in the backside it's like a science experiment gone wrong in the bathroom it's horrible to try to make it all happen so um I was thought it was weird that you know you would have to ditch all your liquids or water bottles or anything. Everybody throws everything in one trash can right there when you're going through security. And it's like, well, if that's suspect and you have

to get rid of it because of potential explosiveness, you're all putting it in one trash can at your choke point. Now, if I'm playing a strategy game, you know, like, you know, with a family the other day, you're playing Earth Defense Force, right? You know, you want to get a choke point. And then and you set off an explosive, you know, at a choke point, you know, you get everybody going through there, you take out the enemy. I'm just saying that's, you know, it seems bad. I always get nervous when I, I'm always nervous going through TSA because of that reason. It's a choke point. I am never most heightened in terms of awareness as when I'm going through TSA. Because if I was a baddie and I wanted to do something, it would be at that choke point. It's right at the entrance,

right in front. And that's everybody's in a line. Everybody's, everybody. is waiting there. It's just like I, it's the most mind-boggling insane thing I've ever seen. Anyway. And then the 3.4 ounces. My gosh, that's not enough for anything. What if you hate checking your bags like me? Because Murphy's Law, in terms of lost bag, would always happen to me. So I don't check a bag. I can get everything I need in a week unless I absolutely have to. And if it's work related, if I'm like on a work trip and it's like a week-long thing, maybe. But I don't know what I'm Speaking of those crews that we're going, the MRC thing, I have no idea what I'm going to do then, because that's international. I've got to have three.

Oh, and that's the other thing. If you're flying international doesn't mean that they're all going to reduce their restrictions. That's just if you're flying domestically. So I don't know. But still, they give a few exceptions for a medication and infant formula in that. But if you want to fly with higher volume liquid, you have to put it in your check bags and then pray it doesn't get lost or wrecked. because I've had airlines crush my suitcase before. I've had one busted suitcase where it was just,

I don't even know what happened. It looks like a Velociraptor got a hold of it. And then I had one where they put it up and you get it on the jet bridge. And I mean, it literally crushed my suitcase. My wheels were busted. I had to like pick it up and carry it through. And that's when I got one of those super strong suitcases. and then they're just like, well, we'll give you $50, hope nothing and it was broken, you know.

So I don't know. I would hope, because I hate having to carry everything in like my one personal item bag. And that's what I have to do. So I don't know. But the shoe thing is good. But taking out the liquids and all that stuff. I mean, aren't they also getting to, the way that I understand it, they have like new scanners. So some airports have new scanners.

And I also wish that TSA at these security checkpoints would let people know in advance with a sign whether or not the x-ray machine or the machines that you're putting your stuff through, if you have to take that stuff out or not. Because I have flown where some of the newer machines, you don't have to take your liquids out. You can keep it in your bag and they just notice it. But then if you take it out, I mean, I've had agents like scream at me for taking it out of my bag. and I'm like, there's literally no one to, this has always been the rule. When was it not the rule? You know, it's like, please be kind to your travelers when you're going through because not everybody knows that you've switched up machines and that they don't have to take this out or they do have to take it out. I have literally flown through the same terminal and went through one time and they were like,

don't take your stuff out. And then the next time I went through that, they had exact same terminal. I got a different machine. I was in a different line. And then they're like, take your stuff out. why is your stuff not out of your back? It's like because I didn't, well, that you, they need notices for this. That being said,

I really hope, I really hope that they do this. To fly domestically and be able to carry like, you know, a regular, not that I have giant, you know,

super value-sized bottles of shampoo, but just being able to take like regular stuff. That would be nice. Sunblock is super important like when you're trapped for vacation because it's so upmarked everywhere else. That's a big thing. It would be nice.

It'd be nice. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lashes 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.