The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Nicki Minaj's Two-Syllable Insult For Don Lemon

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Dana Loesch reacts to Nicki Minaj looking directly at the camera  and calling Don Lemon a c*cks*cker on Katie Miller’s podcast. Meanwhile, Dana shares her thoughts following the death of legendary Actress Catherine O’Hara.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Bank on Yourselfhttps://BankOnYourself.com/Dana Bank on Yourself offers tax-free retirement income, guaranteed growth, and full control of your money. Receive your free report.Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTry Relief Factor's 3-week Quickstart for just $19.95—tell them Dana sent you and see if you can be next to control your pain!Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DANA or call 972-PATRIOTSwitch to Patriot Mobile in minutes—keep your number and phone or upgrade, then take a stand today with promo code DANA for a free month of service!Humannhttps://HumanN.comKick off the New Year with simple, delicious wellness support—pick up Humann’s Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club next time you’re there and see why they’re such a fan favorite!Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaMake 2026 the year you protect your family with solid options—Get the Byrna today.WebRootTake your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection at https://Webroot.com/Dana  Noble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaThis is the year to create a more stable financial future.  Open a qualified account with Noble Gold and receive a 3 oz Silver Virtue coin free. Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

Dana Lashes of Surr Truth podcast. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. So Florida Man robbed three stores at gunpoint, and then as he was fleeing, crashed right into a telephone pole. He didn't get very far. Not at all. WFLA says a Florida man led law enforcement on a chase, Marion County. This was on Tuesday.

He entered a family dollar appointed. Why do people rob family dollars? family dollar for crying out loud. He pointed a gun at the store clerk, demanded money, left the store, entered shoe station. I guess they shall sell shoes. And then he entered a Murphy Oil gas station. And then again, he held that person at gunpoint, held the shoe store person at gunpoint to rob them. And then try to flee the scene and ran right into a pole. Karma. That was a, nature helped, right? There's a little bit of a godsmack right there, I would say. Let's see.

Ooh, that one's nasty. Let me do this one real quick because that one, this is the saddest headline ever. A Florida man bought a stripper flowers and chocolates with fake money. That's everything about this is sad. It's like the, what is it, the world's shortest story. Wasn't it, Hemingway, it said baby shoes for sale never used? Right. Yeah.

World's saddest story. Or is it? Florida man buys stripper flowers and chocolates with fake money. That's probably going to be the world's shortest story now. Alexander DePue thought he could buy his way to a dancer's heart. 32-year-old spent $300 in movie prop money at a Clearwater Forest to get a spread of chocolates and flowers for a woman at Oasis Cabaret. Mr. DePue handed over 15 counterfeit $20 bills to cover $288. And then it wasn't until he left that the florist saw that the bills were marked replica and not legal tender.

Yeah. So he headed to the strip club. He tried to pay his bar tab with some more of the fake money. They were a little wiser, though, at the club. And they're like, yeah, we're really good at spot and fake stuff, whether it's on stage or this cash. And they weren't falling for it. They immediately called the police. And when the police arrived, they found another. $400 in fake cash in his pockets. And so he said that, yeah, I did it because I wanted to give this dancer flowers and chocolates. When they looked in his car, too, they found all kinds of methamphetamine and everything. So he's being held on a $21,000 bond. But did the stripper get the chocolates and flowers, though? Or was that, like, evidence? I'm curious. Did that, did it ever make it to her? Whatever happened to that? You think? Yeah. Oh, mm-hmm.

So that's the saddest, probably the saddest story. Let's see. Oh, ex-husbands, plural. Florida woman is accused of killing ex-husbands across Tampa Bay. Man, she looks like she'd kill you. I was looking at this lady's mugshot. I just need to start a service where you send me a photo of a woman, and I'm going to tell you straight up whether or not she's crazy just from one photo.

Just have her look at the camera, have decent lighting. And I'll tell you if she's crazy by looking at her. I should do that as a service. I'd save a lot of people a lot of time and money. But she's accused of murdering her ex-husbands, plural, two of them. She was Susan Avalon. She's 51. She's a hell of a lot older than that.

She waved her arraignment, entered plea for jury trial. Manatee County, they arrested her after she was masquerading as a Panera food delivery driver. She shot one ex-husband, and then both of them in December. 9-1-1 was called on one of them and the guy before he passed away told law enforcement he described the way she looked and when they go well do you know who it could have been he told he said quote

possibly my ex-wife Susan so and their 15-year-old daughter was there at home when she shot and killed her ex-husband her daughter's father that's crazy so they and the daughter's super traumatized so the mother's taken into custody but yeah she does look nuts.

I'm telling you, they all have a look, dudes. They all got a look, every one of them. And a Florida teen was arrested after a high-speed chase ended with a crash into a mail truck, like M-A-I-L, M-A-L, not like a mail truck for Don Lemon. Yeah, he's in trouble, this dude. Are you being lied to about your retirement? I mean, the advice sounds familiar. Max out your 401K and your IRA and hand your life savings to Wall Street

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Hang on, let me look at those. Because I am dying laughing if it's what I think it is. Typing this in here. They said, oh, yeah, they're all mad at her. She doubles down on homophobic slur at Don Lemon before his arrest. Well, what was the slur? I think she just said, no, she, no, she, they asked her, they go, there anything you'd like to say to Don Lemon? And she laughed and I don't know how to say this,

Kane. Um, a male copulatory organ consumer. Oh, that's as close as we're getting. She said that stop. That's what she said. Um, yeah. Yeah, that's as close as we're going to get. Now, yeah. Question. She called him the noun for. or an activity. Yes. Er. Now we're all confused. Now we're all confused.

Well, this is the news. How do I do this? If a lollipop was made out of rooster. Yeah. Okay. You don't need to go further with that. Okay.

I think that does it though, right? Okay. We're good. Yeah. Okay. Er. So. You called for Don Lemon's arrest

over his church stunt in Minneapolis. He since called you racist, unhinged, homophobic, and out of your job. death. Anything you'd like to say to Don Levin? Sucker, stop. Now my question is this. How is it a slur when that's what

you do? I mean that's like saying, Dana, are you a I'm a casual gamer, but like, are you a gamer? Well, yes, I am that er, because I do game. So if So he does that. That's not a slur. Really looking for an off ramp here. There is none, Kane.

But the ticket, take it. That's not a slur. Oh, do you like writing skateboards? Yes, you're a skateboarder. Yeah. So how was that a slur? It's an observation? Yes.

A slur? Unless you think that you, being an err of that activity, is a bad thing. Then and only then could you misconstrue that as a pejorative, right? Yeah. Do you like beating wives?

You might be a wife beat er. See? Do you like engaging in this intimate practice with a male copulatory organ? Then you might be that er. I'm just saying, you know? That's not a slur. It's an observation.

Don't sit here and act like there's hurt feelings now. these people that act so big and bad gonna bust up into church and go after you know why because no Christian's gonna cut your head off that's why although I wish that they had better security there I gotta be honest

but no Christian's gonna like go and cut your head off for that you want to be real big and ballsy try busting up into a mosque and see how well that goes for you now try that let's do that let's take let's have John Lemon buy that ticket and take that ride let's do that Muslims don't like those kind of errs oh man I can't even

all right, the people in the chat are not helping because I'm not going to say that. Really want to. Not going to do it, though. They're not helping with these things that I really want to say on air because they're clever. Where can people see the chat, Dana? Well, right now it's at Rumble,

but I don't like Rumble. Because they suppress us because we're not one of the owners. So it's a true story. Yeah, they just want to go after Nikki Minaj because she was at the White House. That's all. they're going after her because she was at the White House and now she's got to pay so they're going to come after her.

What are you going to send the rainbow people? Have you heard her music? Because pretty sure she doesn't care. Just saying, pretty sure she doesn't care. And also pretty sure that her base doesn't care either. You know, don't think her base cares. You're not going to guilt her into this. So now we're going to gatekeep.

What is the journalist? Do you remember back when, um, let me go back. was back when Ashley Biden left her weirdo fetish diary and the mattress of a flop house, a drug flop house, remember that? And somebody found it. And then somehow James O'Keefe got a hold of it. And then the FBI was like, that's not, or the Biden kept saying, that's not Ashley Biden's diary. But here's the FBI to raid your houses and take it anyway. Remember when all that happened? Where was the, where was the defense? You literally had journalist homes who were raided by law enforcement for on behalf of drug addict.

actually Biden. So where was the cries for the free press and free speech and fascism then? They actually had to use Secret Service and FBI to babysit

his middle-aged drug-addicted kids. That's what part of our tax dollars went for. These walking scabie meat sacks, that's what they, I mean, they're sentient scabies.

They had to have FBI and Secret Service babysit them. but they rated journalists' homes. Oh my gosh, chat. I can't say that either. Well, the other one I might be able to work that in. Might be able to work that one in. The Richard one?

Yeah, sounds formal. Sounds very formal. That, dare I say, that almost sounds respectable. Smoker, Richard Smoker. Oh, man. What if that's a man's name? Separate from the Don Lemon being called a slurter by Nikki Minaj. I'm just saying.

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So visit noble goldinvestments.com slash Dana. That's noblegoldinvestments.com slash Dana. And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Well, this Justin, and this is horrible, horrible news. Catherine O'Hara has passed away. Catherine O'Hara, the brilliant and iconic actress from every, the mom from home alone.

She's been in every Tim Burton movie. Beetlejuice, Home Alone. She was in waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, a mighty win for your consideration, Frankenweeney, Over the Hedge, Nightmare Before Christmas, Moira Rose in Schitts Creek, she's been in everything, passed away at age 71.

There isn't, so page six was the first out with it, they're saying so far, there's, they, cause of death, they don't have a cause of death yet, but it was announced that she has passed away age 71. Wow, that one hurts. That one hurts. because she was amazing.

Good night. She's such a great actress. Oh, where do you go after this? Man, all the good ones. None of the people that you want to die. It's always the ones that you don't want to die. What? It's true.

I'm just saying what y'all are thinking. A Waymo hit a kid near an elementary school. What? Yeah, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is investigating. It struck a child, the Waymo car, near an elementary school. in Santa Monica, California. Now in a separate incident

in Los Angeles, is this like a Waymo, the Zekers? Zeker vehicle operated in manual mode, sped through a one-way residential street near Dodgers Stadium. If you were like at the airport and you got like a

called a ride share service and it was a driverless car that pulled up, I wouldn't get in it, would you? I wouldn't either. No way. So now they're investigating. They said that the child was struck by the Waymo, that the, according to National Highway Transportation Safety, they said that apparently it was coming from, the kid was coming from behind a double parked SUV towards the school, and that's when they were hit by the Waymo. So we don't have any other information than that, but that's also sad. This is just stupid.

Men are embracing, this is a dumb study. They're saying men are embracing beauty culture, and many of them refuse to call it that. And they're not. This is called grooming. Shut up. Shaving, making sure your eyebrows don't look like caterpillars. That's just called grooming. Stop it.

So tired. People think the stuff began the day they were born. Wow, when did men start, like, cleaning themselves? Well, they've always done that. It's called grooming, people. Jeline Maxwell claims 29 friends cut secret deals with the DOJ and an Epstein twist. I find her disgusting. Everything about them.

Like, they just look nasty, like nasty, like nasty, gross people. She said that 25 men reached undisclosed deals and four alleged co-conspirators that were known to investigators but never charged. She doesn't name them. But she said there were a lot of deals that were being cut. I would like to know who those people were. Just saying,

Apple sales surge, 16% staggering iPhone demand. I didn't go out and get the new iPhone because I think it's ugly. I think it's dumb and I don't want the whole top half of my phone to look like that. So out of spite I'm not going to do it until they make it go back. I'm not going to get the new because it's dumb looking. It's dumb. So they said

at the company, though, people are going out and buying them. The camera, there's nothing different with the camera. There's nothing different. They just, let's move this over here and act like we boosted the power. 16% though, staggering the iPhone demand. They found the strongest results in China where they love ugly stupid phones. So that works. And Hong Kong, sales in the region, surge 38%.

So it's China, Kami Chinese, that are buying these ugly, grody phones. Let them buy the new ugly Apple phones. Apple could get rid of all the ugly 17s, and then they can go back to making decent-looking devices. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour. We can talk about a lot of stuff. I'll get into the Don Lemon thing.

And, of course, journalism being the latest with Minnesota, and then you got the government shutdown that looms Saturday. And then it came out today that Catherine O'Hara passed away, 71 years old. That's a shocking thing. She was the mom in Home Alone. She was the voice of Sally and Nightmare Before Christmas. She was in Schitts Creek. She was also in, oh my gosh, everything.

All of the Christopher Guest films, Christopher Guest is Jamie Lee Curtis's husband. So he did A Mighty Wind and all that stuff. She was in all of his movies. She did, I mean, gosh, all kinds of stuff. I'm like trying to think of what she didn't do, waiting for Guffman, all the Beetlejuice movies, Home Alone.

what else, Frankenweeney, where the wild things are, everything. And then she was in that sitcom. And she got started through Second City, which was like a comedic company. And it's like all of the really good people

out of the 80s got started at Second City. Because you had Eugene Levy, Joan Rivers, John Candy, Mike Myers, John Belushi, Akroyd, Cedacus,

Steve Carrell, Bill Murray, all these people got started out of Second City. So she's had a really long career. She used to be the understudy for Gilder Radner on SNL too. But yeah, that's, wow, 71. So now Kain and I were talking, Rule of Three? How does that work? Yeah.

Well, typically celebrities, and this is a... This is my grandmother's role. Yeah, it's kind of an old wives tale, but it's kind of true. I mean, I've experienced it as true many, many times. where a celebrity passes away and then within two weeks of that celebrity passing, two other celebrities die. So within a two week period, typically the rule of three is that three celebrities will pass away.

So Catherine O'Haret today? Yeah, I'm looking at... Because you have to know that they can't just be like a celebrity that somebody else knows that you don't. Right. So who possibly could qualify was the Grateful Dead guy that passed away recently? Scott Adams, probably. I would say for me, Scott Adams, Valentino, and Catherine and now,

Catherine, so we're going to start over another three? Yeah, because the Bob Weir guy, I mean, I guess that sounds, but the grateful of it, I didn't really know. I was the saying. Like some of these slide down bar, I'm like, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, the rest of them are celebrities. Some drag queen, I don't know. Some other dude, I don't know.

This dude, maybe the guy who was in Scorpions. Right. But so I think there's probably been already the three because everybody else is like a nobody. Sorry, but they are. They're nobody. It's true. It's true. I mean, if you're looking at the level of Catherine O'Hara, then we're looking at two more beyond her.

But yeah. Maybe the drummer for Susie and the Banshees. When was that? This year. Yeah, it was like beginning of this month. Huh. But I would say Scott Adams, Valentino, and Catherine O'Hara. All right.

So there's another three then. I think that's the three. because I'm looking at all the celebrity dust and I'm like, no, no, no, this is for nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, I'm scrolling, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, mm-mm, nope. Maybe the Scorpions guy, maybe the Susie and the Banshees drummer,

but then that would just leave us with one more unless you put Bob Weir in that and then it's three again. So either way, I think it's the three are tied up. I think it's tied up, so now it would start over again. Hmm, got that. Man, 26 is already picking them off in it. I know.

Good night. Good night. So, yeah, she was great. She was in every, almost every movie of my childhood, right? Almost every movie of my childhood. She's in everything. This isn't everything. All the Beatles, she was really great in Beetlejuice and the last Beetlejuice, too. I thought that was very good, too. But she was a very kooky. Moira and Schitt's Creek was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. When she did the fruit wine commercial, if you love fruit wine as much as I do, you're going to love her fruct buying nurse.

Fruit wine. So great. So rule of three, satisfied. 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,

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