The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: The Gay Games

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

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However, that's not really what the dealership is saying. They're saying that, no, no, no, or the repair shop. He stole it. This Florida man, he's accused of stealing a vehicle. It's from a Winter Haven repair shop. Christopher Rodriguez, he's 27 years old. He claimed that his friend Bubba told him that the repair shop puts vehicles at the location so homeless people can use them. No, that's not the case.

Rodriguez was charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle, possession of method. amphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while his license was suspended or revoked. So it's been quite a bit. And he stole the vehicle. So there was no Bubba. And no, he did not have the ability or the permission, rather, to take the vehicle from the repair shop. He thought it was like public transportation, I guess. Yeah, actually, that sounds right.

A Florida deputy captures the gator from a pole and straight up buckles it in a patrol car. I'm not going to lie. If I lived in Florida. Now, I know I say that, oh, gators. But if I saw one chilling in my pool and it was just small enough, maybe it's still a little chunky. I'd take it and it'd be a free pet for me. Free pet. So this is in St. John's County.

A Florida deputy helped capture a gator from a backyard pool in St. Augustine before buckling him into the back of his patrol car video posted from the St. John's County Sheriff's Facebook page shows the deputy wrangling the gator out the pool with these bear. Oh my gosh. large gator. Yeah. So he's he the deputy told the gator I know you're super mad because it was hissing at him. And then he buckled it in the back of the car. Everyone was saying obviously you grew up here. And he told the he told the gator.

He goes, you know what? Let me buckle you in. And the gator was hissing. He was mad at him. And he's like, I know you're super mad right now. But you've got to get in this car. Is that a pet size for dana? Yeah.

See, I feel like when I, I have some friends that make fun of me and they're like how you've never been gourd bit. or whatever is beyond us. Did I tell you guys the time that I almost took home a coyote? What? Yeah, that almost happened. Good Lord.

Well, it was like, the coyotes down here are a heck of a lot smaller than the ones in Missouri. Like in Missouri, you're like, that's a coyote. Right, down here you're like, ooh, is that a sick dog? You know, it's just like they're very, eh. And I saw when I was like, ooh, sick dog, you need some treats.

And no, it was a coyote. And literally after I almost tried to get this dog, or sorry, coyote in my car, Glenn Story who owns Patriot mobile he lives like down the road from us he texted he's like did you all see there's a coyote running around in the neighborhood and he shared a picture of it I'm standing

I'm standing there looking at the picture that Glenn's story shared and then looking at this coyote that's like a mirror like feet away because I'm trying to lure him to my car and I didn't have anything but like a couple pieces of beef jerking an old bag that I found in the back and I'm like trying to get the you know it didn't the coyote

didn't come obviously but We were that close. I don't know if Chris knows that. He's not anywhere in here. We had all of our guests leave. So I think he's outside. So he didn't hear that. We'll just not tell him that part.

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know that they had these. You heard about this? The gay games. Oh, they do. Denver is wanting to host the 2030 gay games. I have a lot of sports with balls on here. Gay games 2030. The gay games in 26 are going to be apparently in Spain. And that's in Valencia. Spain and yeah they're Denver's inching closer to hosting the gay games cane what are you couldn't wait to do this could you this is a news story it's part of the news I'm just here's my question what makes the gay games different than other games that was going to be my question are they still doing things like shot put what would you like to know what some of the gay games are high jump artistic swimming

What? Mm-hmm. Makes sense. I don't know what the hell that is, but it's a thing. I was trying to find out more about it on their website, but they literally don't tell you. Synchronize swimming? I think it's pink speedos from what I can understand.

I think we all understand that's probably... And body paint, and I don't know what else. That's, I guess that's what that means. The swimmers are doing body paint? I don't know. Artistic... Let me look. I feel like it's a synchronized swimming thing, right?

Like it would be... That is pretty gay. So, let's see. The artistic gay games, this gay swimming or the, sorry, artistic swimming. Oh, yeah, I guess it's formally known as synchronized swimming. Okay, so yeah, it makes sense. It's a cultural event that promotes inclusion and diversity. You know.

So are they good at... synchronizing their swimming or are they not? What does this have to do with diversity? No clue. I mean, do they... Do they... Hang on. I got to ask a question.

I got to pull this movie on. Do they stop, you know, for, and have breaks for... I just want to know. Yes, no? I don't know, and I'm glad I don't know. I'm not going to answer that. Just curious. Okay, so the artistic, sorry, synchronized women, why is it not called synchronized women anymore?

Right. That's kind of dumb. Sorry, but that's pretty gay. So stop calling it synchronized women and call it artistic swimming. That's gay. You know what? It's totally gay. Totally gay.

But you know why they would not call it synchronized women anymore? Because there's very little synchronizing going on is probably why. So instead of calling it horrible swimming, they'll call it artistic swimming. All right. Well, they got that. They have all the stuff with balls. bowling basket, badminton, beach volleyball. They got all that cheerleading.

The gay games, they got cheerleading. It's pretty gay. They have dance sport. Oh, dodge ball. I would be rocking at dodgeball, but not in the gay games. Let's see, kickball. Again, all the balls. Pickleball, soccer, rugby, softball.

Let's see, what else do they got? Wrestling. It's going to be a popular one, the wrestling. It's going to be a popular, popular sport. I basically you got to wear pink. Everything I see, it's like all a variation on pink. But do they not have straight sports that do things like basketball and beach volleyball and things like that? Yeah.

Are those? Are those? Do they, I'm just curious. Like, why do you have to have like a whole, we have to have a whole sports competition based on how we have sex? But yet, sex isn't a part of the competition. It's weird. I mean, that's, you know, it's the gay games. Like, you've got to be gayer than everyone else.

That's what I'm assuming. who is the gayest. That's what the gay games is supposed to determine. Who is the gayest one of all? And I'm looking at this. And I don't see Bader or work competing in here. So I don't even know how you can even have a competition without competing against one of the gayest people in politics. But, you know.

Oh, man. Well, tell me that I'm wrong. Steve, you were the one who was very excited about this story. Shouldn't it be who is the gayest person ever? It does sound like. This is just boring. I don't want to go see basketball. Because honestly, it's going to be people who can't play as well.

If I wanted to watch it, I watch WMBA. Come on. Which, by the way. Why is that, Dana? Well, maybe, you know how they do? I'm surprised Cornhole's not on here. Do you know how they do? Well, that's a competition.

It's like ski ball. I can't believe that's not on here. That's an actual competition. Ever won in commercials. Anyway, it's not going to happen. We still have like 10 other minutes. It's not going to happen. Not going to happen for you.

Sorry, I'm going to run this right up to the clock. Not time for the break yet, Steve? No, no, we got time. So anyway, my whole point was, like speaking to WNBA, they've been throwing like intimate items made of silicone, I think, whatever, onto the court. Neon green ones. Now it's like a, it's a meme now on social media.

That could now, you could have that as a part of the competition. The fallace throwing onto the court. It's like javelin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like how far can you throw this fall as under the WNBA court? Now, that would be, I'd be like, you know what? That is a competition for the gay games. I get it.

I get that, right? Not a game. I mean. That's not a competition. Otherwise, this is just like JV stuff. I'm so bored. Like, don't sit here and be like, it's the gay games and then give me basketball. Okay?

What? Don't do the gay games and be like, well, here guys, here's some cycling. Well, yeah, cycling's pretty gay. But that's, you know, I was thinking more than that. You know, I'm just, come on. What? Is this triple jump still a triple jump? Figure skating.

That's already gay. That's already a gay games. We just assume. Johnny Weir? Hello. Wait, too long for this one. Are we going to get sued for that? Yeah.

No, it's only on radio. It's the gay games featuring. Badminton, the fallist throw, cornhole, and. Esports. They have esports. Those people are going to just not be good at esports. Oh, my gosh. Esports, they're going to have it a whole on for the love.

Maybe straight people should take it over and just be really good on the sports. So that way they get, you know, then just how men are taking over women's sports. Oh, no, it's the straights. They're coming in. Are the gay games where women can outperform the men? I really don't know. Like, I just imagine there's like a lot of glitter and pink. That would be.

I'd watch that. I'd watch that. Like, this is a basketball court, sir. Speedos are for swimming. No, Speedos are for everything. It's the gay games. I'm just, it's like a South Park episode. Flag football, that is gay.

So, all right. Some of these are, you know, I get. But I don't know. I just don't understand why it has to be its own thing. That's like saying, here's a bunch of, well, let me just throw out something. You know, like this is, it's the redheaded sports. Only redheads. Redheaded Eastports.

Redheaded beach volleyball. Red-headed artistic swimming, red-headed badminton. You know what I mean? Or like people that have four-toes. It's the four-toed games. Four-toed ice hockey. Four-toed rugby. Four-toed tennis. I mean, things like that. You know what I mean?

Why? Why do this? It's the stupidest thing ever. The way the humans try to silo themselves off, I'm a part of this click. I'm a part of this click. They're so desperate to be seen as being included into something that they would actually participate. I just don't get it. I don't get it. Is winning bronze in the gay game something to brag about? Yeah, I do wonder about those trophies. Yeah. I mean, did they give medals? You get a trophy? The things I think about when you do. Denver's going to host it? Denver,

where you immediately step off the airport and you are consumed by plumes of pot. And then there's like questionably looking homeless people outside of every street corner. The last time I was in Denver, they were literally questionably looking homeless people outside of every street corner. And everywhere smelled like stank. It smelled like a skunk's anus everywhere. It was horrible. Or Hineken, one of the two. I mean, it's the whole city smelled like Hineken.

No, we're not going to break yet until I say we're going to break. That's just how it's going to be. We're going to roll in this, Kane. Pretty sure it's time. You guys are going to regret ever bringing this story to me, ever. So, yeah, you can embark on the journey towards inclusivity, empowerment with the G.G. DIN 2030, that's the gay game. Whatever. Let's make history. Like, how are you making history? And celebrate the spirit of unity, diversity, and progress. Progress with what? You're all still wearing pink. I mean, it's just dumb. You know, like, why? Our friends over at Keltech who make the program possible, the PR 57, you can actually have this as your daily driver, the PR 57. It's a rotary barrel pistol chambered in 57. It's actually a the lightest 5-7 that's out on the market. They achieved this in a couple of different ways.

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Little warning to some European tourists near Slovakia. Apparently a man wandering around wearing nothing but a bala clava and plastic clogs. Actually, he's wearing crocs. He's wearing crocs and he's an bala clava and nothing else. And he's carrying an intimate times toy on a stick has been scaring tourists while wandering around this historic castle in Slovakia, the unidentified intruder opposed for a picture carrying his bizarre prop Monday

near Giamis Castle and that's according to Slovakian television. He apologized to the female hikers who he scared the living daylights out of. Yeah, that's about it. So he apparently was at the WNBA court and picked up one of them fallacies and taped it to a stick and that's what he's doing.

I'm not even making this up. That's an act. Juan can't even show you the picture because it's disturbing and I bleached. Well, we haven't, I don't think we're allowed that anymore. Also, we have Francis Ford Coppola rushed to a hospital in Italy. I read this last night. They don't know whether or not he's having surgery or not, but he was, he was there because one of his films, he was in Calabria with, I think it was Megopoulos that he was doing a screening of. And he was also scouting locations for a new movie, which he was going to start shooting in autumn. But he apparently, some of the reports are saying that he was taken in for a planned

operation in Rome, but then he was rushed to the ward earlier with an irregular heartbeat. So he's, hopefully everything is okay because we really like Francis Ford Coppola. Also, global outbreak fear surge is a virus in China. Once again, prompts quarantines and thousands of new cases are reported. We're not doing it. I don't care. Moving on. I don't care. It's a virus. We have viruses. Stop eating bats. super easy. Aging spreads through the body like an infection. Now they're saying a protein could be to blame. It's protein HMGB1.

And what do you say? Uh-oh for? It's a protein. Well, like a protein, not like a protein that you eat. But maybe manipulating this could be a key. I'm all for that. Yeah, totally are for that.

Ark of the Covenant mystery was blown open. They discovered oh, I think I talked about this yesterday. They discovered a biblical relic. Also, Tesla handed Elon Musk $29 billion. They didn't want him to leave. He wants more control to make sure it goes in a good direction, so they handed him a big fat water cash. Hey, what if I want to leave Tesla too? I want to leave Tesla. Hand me $29 billion. That'll work, right? Across the nation, those couple of summers in a row. Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash with you, bottom of this third hour. Joining me on this, great Texas governor, Greg Abbott, who joins us via video. Governor, I saw that you have laid down the law.

on this, you have ordered these Democrats that are in dereliction of duty have abandoned their post, have abandoned voters, and they fled to New York and Illinois, the most gerrymandered states in the union, governors, you're well aware, to complain about something that Texas does every 10 years. Governor, I moved down here in 2013 from Missouri, and y'all were having this argument then. Now it's finally happening because this is what states do. If they're unhappy with the results, Governor, shouldn't they just win more elections? One, they need to win more elections for another. A reason why reducing is happening the way that it is, is because we are ensuring that the voters in the Senate, Texas,

are going to be able to vote for their candidate of choice. And four of the new districts we are creating are predominantly Hispanic. It just turns out those Hispanic voters chose to vote for President Trump. Those four districts will ensure that those who voted for President Trump are going to be able to vote for a Republican for the United States Congress. And so Democrats are losing the state of Texas to all bullers, white, black, Hispanic, and their frustration is to losing. Second, let me go back to the way that you begin. You talked about a knife fight or whatever the Democrats are thinking or talking about they're doing. You cannot have a fight if you run away.

They have run away. They can't reach us with a knife because they're up in Illinois, in Chicago, of all places. I don't know, there's a more gerrymandered state in the country than Illinois. So what a bunch of hypocrites they are? They're not fighting. They're drowning as we speak right now because they're going to be held hostage and they're going to be criticized by the people of this state. The people of this state, they have to go to work every day.

If they were to break quorum at their job and say, listen, I'm not coming here to work this week. I'm going to go up to Illinois, New York. They would lose their job. these House members who are Democrats, some are going to be losing their jobs because they're not showing up to do the work of the people in the state of Texas. That's right. And they need to lose their jobs. What is there any, I realize that, you know, if they're absent from their seat for so many days, there's certain things that come into play and certain things that can be done. In terms of defining what throwing the book at them over this would look like, what would that look like, Governor? What would be the absolute limit in terms of penalties that you could levy against these lawmakers? So we've dealt with quorum breaks before, and we've never thrown as much of a book against them as we are now.

Here's what we're doing. One is we have arrest warrants out for all of them. If there are some in Texas, which I understand that there may be, the Texas Department of Public Safety is searching for them, we'll find them, and we'll arrest them and take them to the Texas Capitol. those who are out of state think that they are beyond the reach of Texas law enforcement and that they may or may not be. But for one, when they come back, they're not going to go to their cozy home. They will be arrested and taken to the Capitol. But know this. It's my understanding that the FBI is going to search for these derelict Texas House members in whatever state they may be in and help identify for them and maybe work with us to bring them back.

Point one. Point two is these Democrats, they have received money and benefits at their request to support them while they're gone. It is a direct violation of the Texas Constitution as well as Texas robbery laws for them to receive a benefit to skip a vote. They could be charged with second degree felony for committing bribery in the state of Texas. Third, and it happened yesterday. I filed a petition in the Texas Supreme Court that begins the removal process of these absconding Democrat members. And the Supreme Court responded immediately last night and told the leading Democrat in this cause, his name is Gene Wu, that he has to respond to my petition by Friday, where we're going to begin the process of trying to remove these absconding Democrats from office. This is all good to hear because you mentioned that they've done this. This is the third time they've done this in less than a decade. I think what was it? A couple of years ago, this is the last time they fled. They fled the state, which is part of the pattern for them. We're talking to Texas Governor Greg Abbott for those just joining. You mentioned something that's incredibly important, the demographic of these districts because they are predominantly Hispanic districts. And one of the things that we've seen, more than any other voting block governors you're well aware of, those voting blocks that are going towards Republicans, Hispanic Americans are really leading the way on that more so than black Americans, more so than even

women, college age, et cetera. It is a huge shift in this voting in this voting block. Obviously, that poses a threat to Democrats. They think that somehow by disenfranchising those voters, that's like a good way, that's good politicking. And there are reasons for the shift that thankfully for Republicans, the Democrats have not yet figured out. It turns out, it turns out Hispanics in Texas actually do not like open borders. Hispanics in Texas don't like men playing in women's sports. They don't like transgender surgeries. They don't like all the leftist crazy ideas that the Democrats stand for.

And get this, Danny, you probably have covered this. The member from the U.S. Congressional delegation from Illinois, who went to another country and said, I think it was Guatemala. She was more proud to be a Guatemalan. than in America. Right. Americans and Texans are fed up with that attitude by so many Democrats, whether they support Somalia, Guatemala, whatever the case may be.

They need to be supporting the United States of America, period. And if not, they shouldn't be a member of Congress. And why the Texas delegation, dealing with a congressional-based issue, is up hanging out with members of Congress who are leftists like that, that's damning for them and their future. Yeah. I would even imagine, too, that their refusal to come back and do their jobs. I mean, this is one way to put it, because you got property tax relief that's up to special session.

You have recovery for Texas Hill Country, you know, for flood survivors. I mean, they're putting all of that in jeopardy getting that done this session. Is I mean, that correct? So that is correct. Dana, FYI, I am running ads in each of these districts of the missing Democrats talking about how we need to be solving the flood-based challenges our fellow Texans are facing, but we can't do it right now because the candidate in whose district we are running to add has left the state. And so their constituents are hearing about this as we speak right now. But as you point out,

it's more than just dealing with flood victims, is dealing with trying to cut property taxes. And there are so many issues that are so relevant to our fellow Texans. Our Texans care about those substantive issues having their taxes cut more than the way the lines are drawn for Congress. And these, the gerrymandering that they, the accusation that they use, Governor, I was looking at these districts. And of the five most gerrymandered, I mean, it's silly to talk. When you look at the map, people, when they see this map, they, they laugh out loud. They can't believe it's real. Five of the most gerrymander districts in the United States, 33rd and 35th districts in Texas, Democrat run, they look ridiculous, Governor.

They look like a child's drawing. That does not look like a district. I mean, I don't know how anyone can make the argument that continuing to have a district gerrymandered is gerrymandering. I just wanted to get your last thoughts on that. So hopefully sometime you'll be able to show your audience what District 35 looks like. Oh, it's ridiculous. We've shown it before.

Throw it up one. So here's the deal. It's very appropriately named. So this is District 35 and is drawn down the line of Interstate 35. It connects Austin and San Antonio through I-35. That could not be a better name district. But it is what the Democrats have in District 35, which is a Democrat district, is a horrible example of gerrymandering. And what we're trying to do is to fix that to consolidate the district, make it so that the voters in that district are a whole lot closer to each other.

Yeah, that makes sense. That's a very sensible solution to all of this. So hopefully these Democrats, if they don't come back, will, governor, you'll have law enforcement that will bring them back. Actually, I should say this is my last quick question. Can we just take, I mean, we can just remove them from office. Can we not? I mean, I know state's laws differ. Missouri's is different from Texas, different from Oklahoma's.

We have that authority, though. So, and the authority exists is under a legal proceeding called quote war in tow. My point, and I made this earlier, I began that process yesterday with a filing that, that a filing, I made in the Texas Supreme Court to bring the quo warranto to remove them from office. But let me just make sure that you and your audience and the Democrats know what I'm about to tell you. And that is, regardless of all these different proceedings, we know one thing for absolute fact. We're going to get these maps passed. It could be this week, could be next week, could be next month, could be in a couple of months. They are wasting their time and harming their own

families in harming their constituents by failing to show up. We are going to get these maps past. Get your tail back in the state of Texas. Do your job like every other Texan has to do their job and stop embarrassing yourself. There you go right there. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, he laid down the law. They can either come back or they'll come back one way or not. They're going to come back.

It can be easy or real easy. That's how it's going to be done. Governor, always a pleasure. Thank you for fighting on behalf of voters. We appreciate it. God bless. Thank you. You too.

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