The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: RIP TikTok

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

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Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast, sponsored by Keltec. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. I love how there's just randomly a cow in Florida Man.

I mean, there's something about that. I love how there's just randomly this. Oh, all right. So our favorite Florida Man. So first up, this, okay, I got to get to this and I don't have this on my list, but I have to. Florida man was arrested for installing a tracking device on his ex-girlfriend's car in the hopes that he could just pretend to randomly run into her somewhere. That's really,

that's creepy. He's a 22-year-old Chipotle worker from Florida, Tyler Strack. He used a tracking device to keep her, to keep tags on an ex-girlfriend that he had dated years ago. And he was hoping to just run into her. So he got charged with a felony. She discovered a cube tracker affixed to her vehicle last August and went to the police. And they tracked it and his email address came up and she told him that they had a brief relationship years ago and they haven't really had any contact. And they, he, he installed this somehow. He, he placed it on her car because he was hoping to, oh, it just, you know, oh, it's serendipity. I just happen to come across you here. How crazy is that? So now he's, he was arrested and so

now he's got to go to court. But that's wild. That's not, that is really weird because you can stick that stuff on people's cars and this a Florida man suspected of a DUI when he was asked for his information he gave cops his debit card instead of his license Marion County

William Asbury 52 he's passed out in his vehicle slumped face down in the driver's seat and when they asked to see his license upon approach he handed them a debit card so he was arrested taking to Marion County jail he gave a breath sample of 0.91

No, uh, yeah, I did. Point. 9.1. Wait a minute. What? That's 91%. I don't know. Is that?

How are you alive? Because 0.91 is almost one, which means a whole, which means almost all your blood's alcohol. That can't. Am I doing that? That's what it said. That's what it says. Are we figuring this out right? I don't know.

That doesn't sound like he should be alive. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I'm, yeah, a million questions. Million questions. All right. There was also a Florida man caught smuggling marijuana wrapped in Christmas paper at St. Thomas Airport. I guess he was trying to say that it was a gift.

I don't know. But he told law enforcement that he was smuggling pot as a way to dispose of a shop's old inventory. He's just helping him out. Yeah, three suitcases that came off of Spirit Airlines flight. And they had anomalies and they were all wrapped in Christmas paper. And I guess that and then they found out, oh, look, it's all marijuana. So he was arrested, charged with intent to distribute. Let's see this.

Oh, a Florida man was arrested because he tried to steal not one but two lawnmowers. And then he fled and lied about his identity. Flaker County. Willie, I mean, W-I-L-E. They really wanted to make sure it was said right. Willie Parker. The man is 42, but he don't look 42. That dude looks 60.

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Dana. You always have to air. on the side of more freedom and less regulation. If you don't know the answer, then don't do it. If you don't know how it's going to turn out, then don't do it. I don't like TikTok and I loathe the CCP. But I also realize that the CCP is not the only entity that's spying on us. Our federal government spied on us.

And I'm not saying this to bring. We literally have a guy who's running the auditing department of the government now who was creating a database of everybody who got the vaccine and was going to track it in a giant database. And he ran for president on the Republican side and is super popular amongst Republicans. I'm not saying that to be mean, I'm just saying that some people's perspectives might be a little skewed. I mean, you either hate surveillance entities and products that are designed for surveillance

or you want to make the people behind them, president of the United States. I mean, you know, I just don't know. And like I said, I realize it's not just the CCP that's spying on us. It's our own damn government that's spying on us. The FBI was using the first thing we messed up, the Patriot Act, to spy on parents, parents, people who would like go to Walmart and pick up dog food and pick up their kid from, you know, football practice or baseball practice or cheerleading or whatever. And they would go to the parent-teacher meetings and do all. this. Well, they got very upset. That age inappropriate material was being presented to their children through a taxpayer-funded library without parental consent. And when they spoke up about it,

they were tagged as domestic terrorists. The dad whose daughter was raped, was raped, like actually raped in a bathroom by a male student who decided he wanted to be female for a while. That guy was considered a domestic terrorist by the FBI. Oh, the FBI doesn't like it. They think it's bigoted if parents want to keep their kids from getting molested. How bigoted are you? These parents are labeled. The government surveilled them.

I, as I said, no, it's not just the CCP that is spying on us. As a firearm owner who was once declared by a sitting member of the House of Representatives to be a domestic terrorist, a terrorist along with all of you terrorists. I've covered the stories where you would have the ATF show up an actual legitimate, you know, legitimate gun shows, people who are not doing anything wrong, taking plate numbers. So the federal government only dislikes surveillance when they're not the ones doing it.

And I don't want to hear, I can already hear some contrarian building up an argument, but the United States isn't the CCP. And that's the point. We're trying to keep it from being that way. Now, the tricky issue in this whole debate centers on the fact that it's China. Now, I agree with both of these positions for and against the legislation. I also don't think that foreign entities should be afforded any consideration of our republic's rights. I don't think you're, you are, they're a foreign entity from a foreign adversary. I think that our federal government, should be able to tell them no. So there's the one little wrinkle in all this. Because the CCP hates you.

They would love to see you subjugated. They would love to see what was the line from Conan the Barbarian? My enemy's right before me, blah, blah, blah, all that. They would love to see that. It's a CCP. There's a, the Republicans are not even on the same page on this, and this is a major problem. I get that everybody's so eager to flex and, either show their muscles or show their ass on social media.

You know, everybody's thirsty for clicks now that it's all been monetized and incentivized. And everyone is a insufferable individual brand. I get it. But it's one thing when you have an epic butt ton of elected officials out there saying, oh my gosh, this is so bad. It's so bad. We shouldn't have the CCP. We can't have the CCP on this.

This is just so bad. We can't. They can't be able to operate in here like this. And then the vice president of China. is attending the inauguration. The CEO of TikTok is going to be actually on the dais, not even an actual American, but somebody who's from the geopolitical foe is going to be on the dais.

I mean, there are some of you who aren't even going to be on the dais, but CCP people are going to be on the dais. And there's been a proposed reduction in tariffs from 60 to 10% against China. So they're not on the same page. and you have the president himself who used to dislike TikTok, but now he's a big supporter of it. No one's on the same page, so no one knows what to do. Republicans are all over. They're all over the place on this.

predictably, I have never seen any party so damn stupid and so eager to throw its own self under the bus. We talk about the idiocy of the Democrats, and it's deserved. But we have to, for one moment, in the name of accountability, as your God-given right, as an American taxpaying citizen, talk about the stupidity of the GOP for a moment. This is all over the place. They hate China. They love China. They hate China.

They love China. They hate TikTok. They love TikTok. Would you like to be on the dais for the inauguration? I'm confused. We're going to talk to Jim Jordan about all of this. Like I said, I'm not, I understand all of these arguments. It's very rare that I meet an issue that I've read so much about and I've followed it and I've been waiting until this decision for us to throw ourselves into it.

And I see, but there's the little wrinkle that I mentioned. I mean, it's the CCP. Why the hell should I give communists any consideration? Why? Partners out bring you the program, Keltech. They got a new, they got a new 5-7 they're coming out with. I know. And it used, it's, I think George Kemp.

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Phafaces, according to the Guardian. So these are the forever chemicals. I'm trying to actually get away from all things plastic. But they said that smartwatch and fitness tracker bands, but what if they're silicone? Really? Paffaces. Is Paphases?

are Paphases in... In the silicone bands? Probably. Well, I wear metal now. But, I don't know. They said, or like rubber, they said that the natural rubber won't likely contain Paphases. But the chemicals are likely in the synthetic to prevent sweat stains and dirt buildup over time. Rain, hiking gear, waterproofing agents.

I mean, is it that big of a deal? I mean, we're all going to die from something. Is it that big of a deal? I don't know. I don't know what to think about it. Let's just all wear armor and everything metal. Oh, guess what? Then we'll get metal poisoning or something will happen.

Just wait. Let's see. Modern solutions sometimes require medieval. Modern problems require medieval solutions. Blood lighting has been recommended for New Jersey residents after Pafas contamination. Their private drinking water, it was polluted by the use of firefighting foams that contain forever chemicals.

And now they've been literally recognized. recommending bloodletting to reduce high concentration of forever chemicals. So it's a thing. Like, isn't that what the leeches can do? Yeah. I'm going to bleed you. I'm going to put these wee little slimy bugs on your arms and legs. They're going to eat all your blood and get the professes out.

That's what's going to happen. They, uh, here, let me try to read this sentence. Quote, private drinking water supplies in New Jersey were polluted by the use of firefighting films contained pathases per and polyfluobelic. substances. Sounds good. Polyfluylalalcaly. That's the correct pronunciation.

What are they like stuck in your lymph nose and you're just letting out blood that's good? Oh, that's a great point. Escape cow. It drops by Kansas State University campus. An escaped cow. It was tagged. It was just minding its own business, you know, was wandering through. It was there.

They were able to get it and take it back. but they got it under a trailer. Man, horrible news, horrible news. Welcome back, Dana Lash. At the bottom of this second hour, David Lynch has passed away. The legendary director, writer, I think most people knew him from Eraserhead and Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, obviously, which is how I, Mulholland Drive, lost highway.

Oh, my gosh, he's one of my favorite directors. I've seen everything that he's done. He's crazy. And I loved it. He's so, my kids are like, we do not, especially the second Twin Peaks. They're like, it's David Bowie's voice as like a machine ghost. What in the world? But he had been diagnosed with emphysema.

He smoked all his life. And he wasn't able to direct anymore. And then he announced that he was going to be leaving his house. His family announced on Facebook his passing. They said, quote, it is with deep regret that we his family announced the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would appreciate privacy. I love this. They said, there's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us, but as he would say, keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. They said, it's a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue

skies all the way. He has, on X, he would announce that it's Friday every day or every week. It's Friday in his, you know, his typical style. He was, and he wasn't awoke. He was not a woke scold. I think that he was actually pretty libertarian. He was not a woke school at all. And he never got super political. He was just very practical and common sense. But he did some really crazy stuff. I mean, film noir, he was able to put together like thriller and who done it.

And, you know, the film noir horror, all of it into one thing, like an amalgam. And he really, I think, uh, defileged. fight a lot of the rules of various genres. He's just, he, Quentin Tarantino, these are some of my absolute favorite directors. And he worked as, I mean, he did stuff as an artist

too. He painted a whole bunch of stuff. Eraserhead was his first, the first thing that he did. And it was, it was like a, it's like a, it got a cult following over the years. Mahal and Mahal and Drive was crazy and Lost Highway was almost impossible to follow, but it was

still really well done. He just did some really great stuff. And Twin Peaks, from everything from the music to the casting to the story, as crazy down into the wormhole as you got with Twin Peaks, it still made sense. And you wanted more at the end of every episode. I mean, Agent Cooper, Kyle McClanahan played Agent Cooper brilliantly. And Sherilyn Finn was always amazing. I mean, the way that he handled that whole series, my parents let me watch that when I was a kid because that was like, I think I was in sixth grade when it came out. The first. because it only ran for two seasons.

And I think I was in, I was like in six going into seventh grade. And my parents let me watch Twin Peaks. And I was just riveted. And my mom, like, we watch whatever. And then I had to go and see everything that he did. But he also did, he worked with Mel Brooks on a film about the guy who was the elephant man. I can't remember the guy's name, who actually was the elephant man.

He's done all kinds of stuff. But, and then Dune. he's I mean what hasn't I mean there's Twin Peaks is the thing that he he's like memed for I think and then Bob Euker passed away like Bobby so remember my grandma's rule of three guys so my grandmother if you're just joining us welcome back Dan I'll ask with you my grandmother has a rule with celebrity deaths it's always in threes God love her rest her soul she was a crazy morbid woman loved her but that was her rule. And whenever you would, if anybody, if they're like, oh, so-and-so passed, like a famous person or even someone that wasn't famous that she just knew, she would go, well, that's one or that's two. Like she was heaven's, you know, she was the one keeping track for heaven. It was funny. So who got in the death pole, man? Who's next? There's going to be a third. That's going to be a third. It's morbid. It's the way the world works. I don't make the rules. To even ask that is morbid.

Bob Euker, who, by the way, hasn't he been alive for forever? Yeah. Can I just, I'm not saying this to be mean. Bob Yucer was an old man when I was a kid. Yeah. And he's still an old man, was, you know, until just like now. But, wow. So who's the third?

Steve, you got any ideas? Oh, man. I hope it's not a musician. There's always the worst for me. Yeah, musicians are bad. I mean, if they're like, these two are I mean I didn't follow Bob Euker but he always seemed good

nature and he made stuff fun but man David Lynch that's gosh dang I loved his it's a Friday I loved his oh I'm sad now but there's got to be a third one I don't want to like Google like for old six celebrities but

yeah who's going to die next dot com I feel like I have to deliver everything for the rest of the show and a David Lynch style now. Who's going to die next? Oh, keep your eye on the donut, not the hole. I think I need to cross-stitch that.

That's actually sage. Yeah, that's sage advice. That would be, you know what, for the patch ops, guys, that would be a good patch. Keep your eye on the donut, not the hole. That's so great. But you know that if you wear something like that at Shacho, everybody there's going to take it the wrong way on purpose, joyously so. You know that, right?

Oh, all right. So we had David Lynch has passed away. Variety, they announced it on Facebook and then Variety confirmed it because I don't think a lot of people were believing it. And just the famous, like one of the great, 78 years old. And then, of course, you have Bob Ugar and everybody, I think everybody knows who Bob Ugar is, but he's passed away. How old was Bob Ugar?

He was 90, right? Yeah, he was like 90 years old. But he's been around for forever. I mean, I remember him from major leagues. And he was, he's always been the same age. Well, he was born with gray hair. I'm positive that he was born like a 50 year old man. I feel like he was because he's never, literally never changed.

I've looked back at pictures like when you see old professional football player photos from when they were in college. Yeah. And they looked like they were 45 in college. Like, how does that happen? Oh, man. Oh, so that's, yeah, so that's some of the latest. Well, gosh, dang, I'm going to miss his Friday announcements.

Those are the best. And I like Bob Euker when he was broadcasting. But he hadn't broadcast a lot, though, the last year of his life, I don't think. Last couple of years of memory serves. 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, wherever you get your podcast.