The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: The Candace Owens Spelling Bee

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

Dana runs a montage of all the words Candace Owens has trouble pronouncing. Nicole Curtis the host of HGTV show Rehab Addict Nicole Curtis says the “N-word” on video and quickly tries to have it deleted. Meanwhile, Dana reacts to a trend where grown liberal women are dressing up their American Girl Dolls, posing them with F*** ICE t-shirts.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 Lash's absurd truth podcast. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man. A Florida man has gone viral for frying up some iguanas outside a Waffle House. It's like that Mexican radio song by Voodoo, Wall of Voodoo. So he's been serving him up with the waffles in the Waffle House parking lot. He's a YouTuber. His name is Ron Eiz fishing with his Z.

Z. He marinated the egg, guana meat and buttermilk and pickle juice and seasoned in before he fried it up and done served it with waffles. Okay. I would not want to eat them. I would want to have it as maybe a pet. Right? It's almost cuddle. Cuddleable. I have a scale, like a scale of one to five. Like if it's cuddly, then I probably don't want to eat it. That's why I'm like, I don't know where I am with seals. But I feel like this one, I don't like its legs, but You know. I just don't understand how you can get away with it in a Waffle House parking lot. They allow because the iguanas, excuse me, the allergies, guys, please forgive me. The iguana problem there is so bad. They just totally look the other way.

Really? That's how bad it is. They allow people to humanely kill iguanas on private property. And up here, I mean, nobody, yeah. So it's private property. And if Waffle House is allowing it for it to happen, then there's nothing anybody can do. As long as they were providing the waffles, I guess. Yeah. That's how

bad the iguana problem is there. It's an invasive species. A species that and the pythons. So that's how they deal with it. I mean, it does taste like chicken I've been told. I've eaten every, I've eaten raccoon. I have eaten bear. I've eaten an old lion.

By the way, people who hunt lions, you only can go after the old ones and like literally maybe you might only have two tags that you can get for the entire year in an area so people are just not freak out. It's not good. It was greasy. I've almost eaten every, I've not eaten groundhog, and I've not eaten iguana. But I've eaten gator. I've eaten squirrel. I've eaten everything. But I've never had iguana. But I know people like, my husband, I think, is eating iguana. And he's

like, oh, yeah, it's like chicken. I don't know, though. Because I look at its face. And I'm like, I don't know if I want to eat you. Like a seal, you know, I want to go back to that because they look like chubby and huggable. And I'm like, I just don't know if I could eat you. I don't know. Maybe a Florida man was accused of driving 100 miles per hour while drunk. And then he hopped away from deputies. By hop, I really feel like they're really overselling that word. It was kind of like he lumbered. It wasn't really a hop.

And a Spring Hill man was arrested. He tried to sell 11 pounds of ketamine hidden in 20 large candles. He went to the pokey. Obligatory? Obligatory. I heard that under good authority. Wait, what good authority did you hear that from? Well, if you want to go ahead and play that,

Yeah, I'm curious. Where's this phrasing come from? Jill Biden? Is it Joe Biden? No, not really. Let's hear it. Hot sauce moments. Now, if we don't remember what that moment was back in 2016, she was doing the obligatory round. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. I thought it was Joe Biden. Obligatory. I'm curious how she pronounces bodega at this point. But wait, doesn't she have some other very creative pronunciations?

What other words are you learning to pronounce differently now? Well, for me, I've noticed that when she says, did you do the Green Berrette one? Do we have Green Berrette? Because I know that that's important, too, to honor our Green Berets. An open genocide for starving people. You in this moment have retired Green Beret And the former lieutenant green barrette.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Green Berret is it? I've been saying it wrong this whole time. And apparently I've been saying wrong the word architect. Architecture.

I haven't been saying it that way. I've been saying it wrong. So, yeah, listen, this is the right way to say it. Really, it was about the architecture. I want you to understand. I want you to understand. The architecture, like the texture of the buildings? Yeah.

That's not even a word. That's how to say it, right? Yeah, that's not a word. Don't try to delegititize me. That's a word. That sounds like a... Was not coming out of racist ideas, right? It wasn't because people were just trying to delegititize him.

Delegitititize. That's like people who say, instead of saying converse, what is it that they... What is the word? Conversate. Conversate. Good night. I just... I want to hang myself with my seatbelt.

my car conversate. It's converse. That'd be a macabre moment. This is, I'm what? That'd be a macabre moment. You know what that. That's wrong. There's a thousand ways that you can honor Charlie. Stop telling us that it has to always be Miss Macabur like. Wait, can I hear that one more time? That audio? It's Macabur. Maccabur. That's wrong. There's a thousand ways that you can honor Charlie. Stop telling us that it has to always be Miss Maccabur. It's not macabre.

No, it's macabre. Yeah. It is, it's macabre. Yeah. I got some questions. It does sound like... Yeah, it does. We can only play three seconds on TV.

Maccabar. Sounds like that Jane song. It does. Right? Just sounds a very... That's not the way that macab is pronounced. It's not pronounced. It's macabre.

What are you saying? Huh? What are you saying? It's not... Macabur. I am today years old. Just like it's not, how does she say? Bogota for Bodega. That was Jill Biden. I can't even tell the difference. She's a, she's like Black Joe Biden. I can't even tell the difference. Gal Sharpton is now Black Joe Biden. I don't know what I can't even settle on a nickname because it's just too easy. Don't you deal it. Don't you de-legitimize me.

That literally sounds like a spell. That's right. Woo. Sounds like a spell. Just saying. Yeah, we could sit here and probably spend some time talking about that drama, but I don't think there's enough liquor in the world to induce us to debase ourselves to the levels required to analyze that hot mess. So, no, there's way more important things to talk about. But, yeah, de-legitimize. I can't even tell.

I can't even tell. All right. So we have... More obligatory news? I don't even know. How do you say that wrong? I have to really work at it. I had to think about it.

I know. I can tell because you pause. How did you say? We have more obligatory news for you. I don't understand what that is. Coming up. Coming up. More obligatory news.

The word is obligatory. Wow. Okay. So I don't... I haven't watched HGTV in a while. I think when it first came out, like everybody watched it. And then everybody now has a, the whole thing about HTV, isn't it all just home improvement every day?

Every show is, here's this person. And I have never watched this. It's rehab addict. Have you ever watched rehab addict? And apparently this chick who hosts it said a no-no word. Oh, boy. she had to issue an apology because she apparently

used a racial slur a video leaked of her using a racial slur what's can I ask what slur it was is it like the slur yeah yeah the N word

but she said fart before it what? Yeah we can't play it obviously because we would Did you censor it? Okay okay Okay, okay. Okay, go ahead. This 17, go out. Let's try to understand this. Go ahead.

Bye. It's my last one. Oh, farting. What the fuck is that that I just said? Nick, you got to, you got it. Can you kill that? No, I don't put any five. It's live. My life. Okay. How in the world is that happen accidentally? How does that happen accidentally?

I mean, I don't know. She doesn't seem like a hateful person. I have no idea who, I don't know how she had. Her show has been canceled now. Was that, that wasn't a live show. Like, how did it leak? So somebody leaked, did somebody leak it out? Apparently.

Somebody delegititized her. Somebody delegititized her. It's so mock of her. I, uh, I mean, now I've heard some creative cussing before. So like my stepdad, whenever he would get mad at something in the garage. His, I don't think I can, can I, hey, can I say the word, uh, I don't think I can say that word on. I don't think so. It's unless, okay, so what did Sleeping Beauty do to the spinning wheel?

She pricked her finger. Oh, yeah, that's right. So take the past tense ED off that. Gotcha. And just have the, you know, file. And that's what he would say. That's the only word that he would say, but he would say it was such force and volume that it felt like a weapon.

It didn't feel like an exclamation. right it like almost manifest as a cudgel legitimately tangible in hand so um i i i just don't know how that is the thing that comes out of your mouth i mean it seems like she was also surprised as you about it how are you surprised at what comes out of your own mouth that doesn't even make any sense just a reaction oh my gosh so they said that the footage was taken about two years ago and never aired. So why did it come out now? That was my question, too, because we all know that these shows aren't live, actually live. So there's no reason for this to come out other than to damage someone's reputation. Yeah, somebody didn't like her, I guess, and decided that they

wanted to go after her. And delegitimitize. And do, oh, for the love, we're not making that word happen. We are not making delegitimateize happen. It is not something that we're going to do. Not happening. I was talking with Colin Plum over at noble gold investments. And we were discussing how no one really knows what 2026 is going to bring, elections, markets, wars. But one thing we do know, gold and silver have outlasted every empire. And that's why gold keeps coming up as a steady, reliable option. Every crash, every currency. And at the end of the day, it's about that peace of mind. Having a little gold in your strategy can make those wild market swings a lot easier to live with. Because real wealth isn't flashy. It's being

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arrest, but they have about 150 rescue dogs that are now at an ASPCA recovery center. They're getting behavioral therapy, veterinarian care, all of that. Dallas Animal services and one of the best, by the way, animal rescue organizations in Dallas, Operation Kindness, we help support them. They're right there helping with some of these dogs. They're so awesome. If you're going to donate to somebody, Operation Kindness in Dallas is a great organization. Dallas Animal Services also does a good job. But they said that it was a big operation and there was a lot of animals. And I think that everybody who's involved in this should be put to death by firing squad. and you can do it right there.

I mean, good heavens. We can just go right by the Trinity River and make a festival of it. Those people need to be dragged. Hopefully it's a felony. I mean, in Florida they did it. Democrats are revolting against funding Homeland Security triggering a likely shutdown.

This is what we have to look forward to, everybody. The Senate has so far failed to advance a full-year appropriations bill for the DHS. This was yesterday. Democrats were saying they were going to withhold their votes until the party's demands about stopping immigration enforcement were met. They voted 52-47 to advance the House past Homeland Security measure, falling short of a filibuster-proof majority.

And Thune said he flipped his vote in order to bring the legislation up for a vote again, a procedural trick. So we're going to go back and forth and we're going to see, and then maybe we'll have a shutdown. I mean, we're getting close. Also, we talked about walls, but aerobic exercise rivals. rivals antidepressants. Duh. How many studies do we need for those? Stick with us. We've got more in store. Did you see the American girl doll influencer story? Kane? How long have those dolls been around?

Oh gosh. Let me look. Let me look. Look. American. I'm sure. Like how long have they been around? And apparently they're like really expensive. Isn't it like build a bear but for people? like build a build a person something so the American girl people the dog oh gosh in the 80s

because I remember them being around when I was a kid that's why but I was like is it the same it's the same thing they've been around for a long time

they were modeled after this is all going to make sense here in a moment they were modeled after 18 inch dolls that were made in Germany

and so they became very popular 1986 is when they were introduced and they're very popular I know I have friends that have girls that have these American girl dolls

I had cabbage patch kids but I didn't really have an American girl doll probably because it was poor and cabbage patch kids were already expensive but American girl dolls were are very very expensive and so the

what is it the price they're they're steeped in history so they have historical characters that are based on

I guess like you know female characters of the late 1800s mid to late 1800s like they have

Kirsten as a Swedish immigrant and Samantha is a well-to-do Edwardian-era orphan I mean that's

that's super specific Merry Christmas here's your well-to-do Edwardian-era orphan doll. That's very, very specific, is it not? Yeah. And it was designed to educate through storytelling about American history, right?

And the lady who came up with it, she went to Colonial Williamsburg, got the idea, etc. Anyway, let's fast forward to current era, shall we? So I saw this with Rolling Stone. Headline Meet the American Girl Doll Influencers protesting ICE Some may find it surprising

But for those creating the content It makes perfect sense So there's a story in Rolling Stone Where They apparently dress their American girl dolls up in F Ice T-shirts And they take pictures of them And put them on Instagram

So these are grown people playing with dolls from what I'm understanding. Why? Why in the world is this a thing? And there's a story about it. And it's these middle-aged women who are taking American girl dolls. They're posing them and posting about them.

And they get into this, I don't know. Like these aren't even funny memes. They're not even funny. The love cannot meme. And they say, we've been radicalized since the 90s. And if you're not, you're not experiencing the historical side of American girl and what they'd teach. And they're talking to these grown women who collect dolls. So I had a great aunt. I actually think she was my great aunt or maybe, I don't know, we had such a

big family. And in her house, she was like a very elderly lady. She collected dolls. Not like regular dolls, but like the China dolls with the weird faces and the eyes that could peer through and burn your soul. And she kept them all in one room. I think it was her dining room. My memories of this are But I remember it was like a dining room that she didn't use. And she was like married into the family. Nobody in the family had money. She married into the family. So it's like my first time I think really seeing a legit China cabinet. And instead of dishes in her China cabinet, they were all the dolls. And she would have the dolls sitting in the seats. I mean, they couldn't like sit up at the table, but she would place the dolls in the seats. Like she was like making a like a vignette in the room, right?

and they were terrifying and they would all. And I thought that was weird. I get it that they were, they were like China or porcelain or something. And they had like the hair that was in the, it was weird. They weren't to play with. They were not allowed to play with them.

It's kind of like that now. I think that's progressed to now you have these middle-aged women collecting American girl dolls and now they're dressing them up and staging them to make political statements on Instagram. That is weird. That's like you're a single adult going to Disneyland weird, right? Kane, if you met a woman who collected American girl dolls like this, would that be, would you still be like I can fix her? No.

I do say that is my first default thing I say. But no, in that instance, you just have to know when to give up. You got to know when to throw the towel in. You know what, though? It makes sense. I just realized. I think you made this point These are the dolls that get possessed

Yeah They are These are the dolls that all the movies are made about Yeah Right So maybe that explains why these women are so cray Today is Friday the 13th you know Which I love, I love Friday the 13th

I is not afraid But I'm just saying These are the dolls that get They get stabby It makes some sense man It makes some sense It gets stabby I've

Yeah I don't know. They do. But I feel like that that's what, maybe that's part of the problem with all these women up there because they have these dolls and they're possessed. I don't know.

I'm just like thinking out loud. They're expensive. But who'd like dress it? First off, how do you even find a, don't Google it, but how do you find a doll t-shirt that says blank ice? That's, I don't know.

Oh, and then, okay. Yeah, go ahead. No, that would mean they have to craft them, take time to craft them themselves. craft talk craft talk so Lorraine says now there are modern era dolls that are meant for the adult

collectors and they're putting out novels to go with the grown-up this is you know what it's still a doll it's still a doll if I know no like they're talking about this 25 year old woman who collects

dolls and she has like the whole thing oh my gosh there's book this is like too much guys. This is way too much. These women need lives. Sorry, but it's weird. It is just as weird as that family member I had that collected the little porcelain

china dolls. It's just as weird. It's weird. 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 Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.