The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Micro-Influencer Meltdown

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

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Not really. There's certain things that I will look at, like if I'm bored. I don't really doom scroll, I think, as much as the average bear. There's just, because so much of it

is just derivative of everything else. Like if you look at a lot of the influencer stuff, everybody's selling the same stuff. Right? Have you noticed this? Like everybody's selling the same things. You see it over and over again, especially the Amazon storefronts.

My gosh, everybody has the same stuff. You have interior influencers, fashion influencers, and apparently like food or lifestyle influencers. And so there was this, okay, I'm just going to read you the first sentence and we're going to have to talk about this after that. A TikTok micro influencer got a top San Francisco chef fired after saying she was left in tears by the restaurant tour's refusal. to give her free food because she wasn't famous. Full stop. Steve, you had asked a great question on break about a particular phrase that was just in that sentence. What did you ask, dear sir?

What makes someone a micro-influencer? Does that what you're talking about? Yes. She has 15,000 followers online, and she calls herself a micro-influencer. Micro-influencer, everyone's a micro-influencer. Her using that in this context means she isn't actually famous. and she only has 15,000 followers. So she said she was literally shaking.

I'm not making that up. She said that. She was invited to a collaboration at a Bay Area wine bar called Kiss Cafe, KIS. And she was expected where she was expected. She means she expected this. She thought she was going to get a free meal for her and her husband in exchange for a promotion video on her channel. But then she said, after she got to the restaurant, the chef, Luke, sung, ask, why was she invited?

How big is this place? Is it a small establishment? Cane? Will you find that out real quick? I will. Because I got a question about that, if that's true. So she says that she was invited and then when she got there, the chef was like, why are you here? So in response, her name is, it's car lab, L-A-B-B.

on whatever. She says that she was an advocate for micro-influencers. Okay, full stop. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You have 15,000 followers. You're not an advocate for anybody. You have no reach. I hate the word influencer. That's stupid. You're a marketer. That's all you are. You are a marketer. You're like QVC online. Stop. That's what it is. It's QVC online. But they act like it's like glorified because it's on social media. She goes, you don't need to have a million followers to be respected or feel like you're making a difference. Actually, you do. In this industry, in this QVC online industry, you do actually need to have a lot of followers in order to make a difference. You're not moving inventory with 15,000 followers compared to somebody who's got over a million. Now, she didn't name

sung or Kiss Cafe in her video, but she made it kind of obvious where she was. She said the confrontation made her leave in tears. And then she tried to try. to drag her audience in it by suggesting that her modest following meant that her fans likely could not afford to eat there anyway. She said his behavior was an a kiss cafe then fired him. They said on Instagram that his behavior was unacceptable and he was no longer part of the team as a co-owner or a chef in any way. I kudos to this chef, by the way. He's the real MVP. She sounds like a grifting brat who she's a welfare artist. She goes in and she demanded a free meal. I'll tell me. I'll tell me. I'll tell me. my 15,000 followers on social media. Do you know how many people do this to restaurants? I was at a

restaurant one time. Yeah, it looks like a very small place. So now you can see why she was quite, it was questioned why she was there. Look how many chairs they have. Think about the turnover. You have to make X amount of sales. I mean, in order to make a profit. So yeah, smaller restaurants, they do very zealously guard those reservations and guard those tables. I get it. I worked in I worked in food service, like in high school all through college. So I completely get it. So they, she was, I can't believe that they responded to this. That is so insane.

That's sane. It's just crazy that the restaurant actually responded to this. But she said that she was disrespected. You weren't disrespected. You met reality and you didn't like it and it hurt your feelings. That's not the same thing as being disrespected. You have like 15,000 followers. trying to find a way to milk this, be a victim so she could get more followers. I wouldn't want to

read anyone's opinion or read about anybody's lifestyle that gets their feelings hurt so easily because the chef was correct. And this restaurant is a pansy. And I don't want to eat at this restaurant now because they're idiots. This chef is absolutely correct. And of course, she got a ton of followers overnight because she made herself a victim. She played into this class warfare establishment and that's how it did. She's still a micro-influencer. Sorry. I've never gone anywhere and expected a free meal, ever.

I have never, ever in my life got, I find it so distasteful. I have friends that joke with me and they're like, why don't you do this? I'm like, because it makes me gag. And Kane knows this. You know this all too well. It is so gauche to me to do that. There's no way. And this is one of the reasons, too, like on social,

media and again, Kane can attest to this, I have people who think I'm nuts because on Instagram, I have like a half a million followers and I don't really do anything with it. I had a candle company and they were really nice. And I actually used their, I actually bought their stuff. They're based in Louisiana. It's called Orleans Candles. And they were like, hey, we noticed that you said something nice about us. Can we send you some, you know, some free stuff? And I'm like, on one condition. I know you expect me to talk about you. And if you expect me to say anything about it,

I want a discount for all of the people that follow this account. So that if they choose to order it, they can get a discount. So it was a 20% off discount. And I had to explain to people in the comments. I'm like, this is not an ad. I'm not getting paid for this.

I was like, if you're expecting me to do something for you, what am I going to get out of it for the people to follow my account? So I got everybody a 20% discount. And people in the comments were like, I hope this isn't going to be an influencer account. I'm like, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. It doesn't matter, right? So I haven't done it again. But there are, there are tons of people that reach out all the time and entities that are like, hey, can we do a partnership and can we do

this product? And would you like to, you know, do you want to, do you want to, it's WIC. WIC is back. Wick's at the door. Hold up. He interrupted me. What are you doing? What are you doing? Not for puppies. It's not for puppies. He's literally in the, it's, this is, this is, Wick, it's not for puppies. I see you. He has no idea what's happening. He's like, this is a very bright room. Hi.

It's not for puppies, though. I know, you're such a good boy. It's not for puppies. Yeah, sorry, wiki woo. It's okay. It's live radio. It's Friday. Half the people are by the pool drunk.

It's okay. But my point is, is that, like, this chick was like, I love spotlighting small business. businesses. No, you don't. You like spotlighting yourself and getting fame for yourself. You're a welfare recipient. You're no different than somebody else who's demanding like, you know, you're, you're wanting food stamps and you're demanding free stuff at Walmart. You're like no different. You just try to glorify it by putting it on social media. I just find it so incredibly distasteful. It's distasteful because this is not, I mean, micro-influencers, there's no such thing.

you are either someone who is a marketer and you understand and you understand like leveraging social attention for to highlight like really good service which that's not what she's doing but long story short we get like this stuff all the time and I just find it do you guys find it distasteful I'm curious like I'm curious what the chat thinks because we get stuff like this all the time for social media and I say no it's actually kind of hurt us advertising wise because I've never included it as part of any kind of like advertising for radio or anything. And we have like our social, Radio America has some social media people and they're like, oh my gosh, Dana, what are you doing?

I'm like, I just, I feel like that everybody would find it distasteful, right? Wick is like, I definitely do unless it has to do with dog treats. And then no, I don't. So he's learned how to open gates with his, I almost said he has his paws. he just opens them. He just, you can't, can't, can't cage this guy. You can't contain them, not that we cage him. Taking charge of your health is easier with all family pharmacy. If you've been hearing about the latest in brain and cellular health, you're not alone. Methylene Blue is making waves for supporting focus, mental clarity, memory, and mood. RFK Jr. has been talking about

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but they messed up last night. Did you see what they did, Kay? No. They did. It was a big, bad thing. So they had an ex post. It's not up anymore because they had to delete it. They had an ex post wherein they were discussing the price of all of these things, right?

Oh, I saw that. Groceries and all kinds of stuff. And they were trying to slam Trump by saying the cost of these things had skyrocketed. It included this graph of soaring cheese, alcohol. I'm going on the list dairy, grocery produce, meat prices. And it went all the way back to October 2019. Now, the weird thing is the big inflection point on the graph. The point where everything started going up was right at the start of 2021.

What happened there? In 2021? Well, let's see. Biden was in office in 2021. Yeah, because it's the election. Yeah, Democrats were in charge of the White House. 2020. So like if it started kicking up in 2021,

I don't think Trump was in the White House then. Nope, he sure wasn't. So that was Biden. So they literally posted a graph. They called it Trump's America. and it literally shows in 2021, that's when everything kicked up. It was low and stable going into 2020, 2019, going into 2020. And then 2021, boom, skyrocketing.

They thought they were dunking on Trump with this. You can say, okay, Juan's showing you right now. Look at the graph. So you see on the bottom left of your screen, it's really low. all the way down. And then it right there, 2021, if you're looking at the very bottom numbers above where it says cheese, alcohol, grocery, that third to the right is 2021. That's where it starts kicking up. And then that's all Biden in office. They literally put that out there to try to slam Trump. All of the high parts were Biden. I cannot believe. That's like the dumbest post I've ever seen in the

history of political posting. Well, one of. Oh my gosh. I was looking at those. I could not even believe it. And then they had to delete the tweet. There's the graph that explains it. You can see where Trump was out of office at that point where you see where it was. They put that up. They literally put it up and said Trump's America. And they were like they were trying to slam Trump acting like he was the one who calls all this stuff. And then when people, Oh my gosh, it got ratioed. Do you remember what the ratio was? I've never seen a ratio like that.

It was like hundreds of thousands of comments to it. Even Democrats were like, I don't think this shows what you think it shows. Yeah. So they deleted it. They deleted the tweet. They deleted it. And then they just try to pretend, what do you mean? What tweet?

We don't know. What are you talking about? It wasn't our. internet's forever. That's why we have, you know, the screenshot of the tweet because the internet's forever. Oh my gosh, this is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. They, we, they rates, the inflation rate under Biden. I think it peaked at an annual rate of like 9.1% and that was just a little over a year after he took office. It peaked about 17 months because it takes a little bit for things to work or not work. And by the end of his term, the cost of food had exploded to

like 22% by more than, actually by more than 22%. I think it was actually round up, I think it was 23% from the time that he took the oath of office. And that is federal data. And I have, let me pull this up on my, pardon me, I'm pulling it up right now off of my bookmark. So this is the federal data from the St. Louis Fed.org, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. And it shows all of this, all of this stuff. And it shows literally how it, I mean, you can see everything with it. So that's where the information is coming from.

I just cannot believe that they are so stupid that they actually posted this. It is one of the dumbest. And then they deleted it. Like, no one's going to know that we deleted us. Nobody will know. Maybe they won't notice. Like, isn't that kind of a pattern with them? like when they switched out Biden, maybe no one will notice. But yeah, that was from the St. Louis

Federal Reserve and you can see completely when all of this started. All of it started. Yeah, look, look after the election. You had coming out of COVID, COVID was rough. So, yeah, they did this with Biden too when they switched out Biden. Actually, when they were pretending that Biden could actually president, if he couldn't. No, maybe no one will know. Oh, maybe they won't know that Biden doesn't know where he is. And maybe they won't know that he can't even remember his own life story, Kane. Is it just me or are they horrible with graphs and social media? Because remember that three cents that they were trying to brag about when it was talking about gas prices?

Yes. And they made it look like there was this big dip in gas prices. Yes. And it wasn't even three cents. Yeah, they're horrible. They're really bad with it. Yeah, you're correct. They're really bad with it.

they're bad. It's bad at memes. They're bad at a lot of stuff. I mean, our expectations for them were low, but oh my gosh, this was, you know, this was a lot. Then they posted this whole, then they posted this thing. Hold up. Let me, I don't know if you got this one. I didn't. I don't think I put this in Slack earlier. My apologies. They posted this and it's, they said it's time to give Americans a raise. And so, it's, it's, it shows, you know, what the minimum wage was all these years from 2009 going to 2025. Kane? Who was president more? What party was president more from 09 to 25?

Like over 70% of the time that was Democrat administration. Definitely Democrats. So, yeah, here's the, they posted this. They literally posted this. And also after they deleted the first thing. House and Senate majorities as well. Yeah. They said it's time to give them.

Americans are raised and they posted this image. So of those years that Democrats were in charge, that was like over 70% of the time they were the ones in charge. Yes. It's only the Trump term that they weren't in charge. I think. Yeah. And even when they lost the House in 2010, because we worked so hard to take the House back,

they still kept the Senate. And then they ended up getting the House back later. but they were controlling they controlled Congress it wasn't just the White House they were controlling Congress so over 70% of that time

they were in charge so I don't know they posted that right after the other one good heavens it's just crazy the minimum wage I think is stifling

but that's a whole other that's a whole other discussion but this is where, I mean, it's just one of the dumbest things I think I've ever seen. I think it's like one of the biggest self-owns on social media from that party. And there's quite a lot of them on there. Like Hillary Clinton has a bunch, but this is a really bad one. And they don't get it. I mean, do they not understand, did they just not expect any kind of accountability for their own actions?

I literally have no idea what to make of this. What do I make of this? I don't even know what I even know. This is so goofy. I can't even believe this is the thing. It's so ridiculous. Oh, my gosh. but that's the way it is.

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It's time for Dana's Quick 5. All right. So first up, this is sad. My friend Jeff Donuts, who was the proprietor of Yid with Lid and then did Lid blog later, passed away, age 67. Then for a while, it was kind of like the uncle of the, one of the uncles of the movement in the early

aughts, like right when the conservative activism online really kicked into gear. And he was in he'd worked in advertising and marketing, publication marketing, but he passed away at age 67. He had some health struggles, but

Jeff was, he would always say, you're a mensch. He would always, he was, he's such a nice guy. So our condolences to his family and prayers to them, I'm sure that he had a wonderful wife and two kids. and we're praying for them. Also, moving, moving to this,

this, apparently a scientist believes that bread makes us sad. I like some bread. And I'm so tired of these headlines. It says if you're feeling depressed, avoid gluten. If you're feeling this to avoid gluten. I told you guys that one of my doctors was saying that, because I see nutritionists

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and all of that. I don't have the same issues. And so I started getting flour and actually importing flour from Italy to make our stuff. I don't have any of the issues that I used to have eating all that stuff. It's the chemicals that people are reacting to. It's not bread. People ate bread for centuries. Now, all of a sudden, we're like, I can't

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flagellin. Have you heard of that one? Yeah. You hadn't heard of that. I thought you would have like known all about this and like co-signed this study. I thought you said flagellens. Flagellens. Flagell. It triggers the release of the hormone P-Y-Y, which activates the Vegas nerve. That sounds weird. I feel like we're talking about that made up thing called the donglefish. That's online. Vegas nerve's surreal. Kind of feels like that a little bit. Just, you know. Let's see, food, not lack of exercise fuels obesity, according to a study. I'm going to tell you guys something.

We work out not like we used to. I used to work out six days a week and I kicked box four days a week. And diet is 98% of it. Not kidding. I do intermittent fasting religiously. That is a game changer. So this study, I completely get behind it. It is diet, diet, diet, diet.

I watch that South Park episode. You haven't seen it yet, Kane, have you? No. Why did POTUS respond to it? I don't know. Well, I shouldn't say POTUS responded to it. Yeah, they, yes, I shouldn't say POTS did. Technically, it was the White House that did.

And I'm like, why is it? Just ignore it. Because they, I watch this. And they intentionally, now keep in mind, for the people who are at South Park. They have trolled everybody for forever. It doesn't matter. They are the original poo posters. I can't say what that's really called on social media, the fecal posters, but it starts with a, shush your mouth. They are the original ones. They did everything possible to try to get a response out of him. So I don't even, the White House need, the White House doesn't

even need to respond. That's goofy. Nobody needs to respond to this. There's literally no reason because it's this is what they do this is this is it's south park for crying out loud it's south park but um he did have what did he say he said that they hadn't been the white house a variety reported that the uh they said this show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and can't derail trump's hot speak well i think that's or hot streak sorry sorry sorry sorry that's a dumb response the best thing they could have done is not respond. They're not relevant, but they got a billion dollar deal from Paramount for five years and 10 new episodes. No, no, no, no, no.

They're incredibly relevant. It's the second longest running show in our history, I think, next to Simpsons. They're very relevant. Just don't say anything. Just don't say anything. They go, just like the creators of South Park, the left has no authentic original content, blah, blah, blah. Matt Stone and Trey Parker are not on the left. I think a lot of people think that they are because they'll joke at Republicans and

conservatives expenses, but they also joke at progressives expenses. I mean, they trolled the left pretty all so hard in that episode. I mean, they made fun of the left freaking out over stuff. But people who are too stupid and don't understand that miss the point. I'm like, good gosh, are we in an idiocracy right now? Is Brondo already on the shelves? What plant's crazy? There were certain parts.

that episode I watched it was like, oh my gosh, they just skinned the left alive. And then they went after the right too. Every episode's always been like that. They're not leftists. They just hate everybody. They're more libertarian and more centrist, but they are not far left and they're not woke. And they made fun of wokeery and they made fun of all this stuff. And Cartman was the big woke guy. Cartman is always the avatar for everything that the left does, right? Like they were making fun of NPR and they're like, the president cut funding for NPR. And Cartman's line was, because one of the kids goes, well, what's NPR? And he goes, oh, my gosh, it's where all the gays and Jews go to complain about everything. That was his line.

Because he's like the big leftist nut job on the show. That's like his, that's the role that he was filling in that episode. So it's funny. So I don't know. It's, it is what it is. Is it, it was purposefully over the top for a reason? They just don't even need to say anything about it. But like I, you know, said yesterday, and I know that this was on social media. and I'm not going to go relitigate it. The whole point was, and I think people on the right are missing, some on the right are missing this entirely. Their point wasn't to criticize Trump.

They went over the top for a reason, but not for Trump's sake. They didn't go over the top for Trump's sake. Although I think him commenting, they were baiting him because that's part of the performance. South Park doesn't end just when the credits roll. People who are unfamiliar with that show don't realize this. The show continues in the real world. The show didn't conclude until they were able to make the point that the left and Colbert were morons for claiming that they were canceled for censorship. Because what South Park set out to do was to try to be more ridiculous than Colbert to prove the point that he just sucks.

that's the reality of it. So I need people to not get lost. Don't lose the nuance in this. And also, there's certain things that are just funny. And there's certain things that you're like, I can't believe they just did that on there. Oh my gosh, I cannot believe that they just did. It's not for everybody.

But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be for anybody. So, yeah, and they had AI on it, although the AI looked, you know, like they made him a Canadian. I made him say a boot and gave him a Canadian hedge. because, but they don't need. Now, South Park responded to some of the backlash.

And I think they said, oh, we are very, very, very, very sorry, which they're not. They said, we're terribly sorry. They're not. You know that that means. Where should they be? Yeah, that's not them. These are the people that, that, didn't they get

canned from Comedy Central because they went after Muhammad after Charlie Hebdo? Or they got, they got, they got punished severely for it. They were going to run. A lot of people forget this. South Park, this was after Charlie Hebdo was targeted by Islamists for drawing Muhammad. And South Park did a whole episode where they drew Muhammad doing, you thought last night's episode,

or you thought this South Park episode was over the top, y'all ain't seen nothing. Apparently these people did not watch that episode. They had to blur it out. Comedy Central made them. They would not let them air it. South Park, they forcibly, like, censored it. Remember that? They literally put a black bar and fuzzed out all this stuff.

It was wild. And South Park wrote it into the whole series or wrote it into that episode that they made it a part of the joke that they were being censored by Comedy Central. So just so you know, this is like par for the course here. but they've yeah they've been and that's when and then Islamists were threatening to kill them and they were like me that was crazy do you remember that whole time that was wild yeah no one talks about that they're like trump can't say okay try Mohammed see how that goes well for you see the differences Republicans aren't going off cutting off people's heads right why don't they ever come to it when don't they ever realize

that and stop and realize that these people they're like they're they're they're fake victims. They're such fake victims. 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.