The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: The San Quentin Prison Day Spa

Episode Date: April 3, 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. So I'm going to share with you this story about a Florida man

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It's just going only now So he was accused of endangering He was intoxicated He said he endangered the safety Of another person's property caused a public disturbance. They only just now released the arrest report. And so that's why all the stuff, along with the court action, is now why it's making headlines.

But he was, um, Disney security notice he was trying to relieve himself into the bushes on the walkway between Epcop and Hollywood Studios. And then he stripped down to his bridges and broke the $1,000 sales kiosk. And then he was told to leave and not come back and you refuse. So it was third degree felony mischief, two misdemeanors for, drunken disorderly and then trespass. So yeah, apparently that's not the first time. There were two people, two remember just like months prior, New Jersey sisters who were fighting and then ended up tearing each other's clothes. It was ridiculous. This is all so silly. A man accused of a DUI falls asleep in a Taco Bell drive-thru before he woke up and then hit a parked car.

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code Dana 10 to save 10%. Can I share with you a really stupid story from California? San Francisco Chronicle. You're going to like this. California is a. about to spend, you know, California has a major multi-billion dollar deficit right now, they are about to spend $239 million to turn San Quentin into a Scandinavian-style rehab center. They are planning for sweeping changes, says the Chronicle, for San Quentin State Prison.

They're remaking it, Kane. It's going to be a Scandinavian-style heaven, complete with a rehabilitation center. It's a pharma's market. A podcast production studio and a self-service grocery store. It sounds like a boogie apartment in D.C. Are you telling me this is a prison? Uh-huh. Yeah.

It's a prison. $239 million. $239 million. Destruction was on track to finish in January of 26. It's in California, really. You think that's going to actually happen. They've been plotting the same track of, train for 10 years.

The first, now this is, I love how they say this. You could just say prisoners, but they say incarcerated people. Like they're people who just accidentally got incarcerated. How can we get like ex-carcerated? It was on track to finish in January 26.

And now they've, they said that they've begun using the revamped facility within months of completion early next year. So it is a little behind and that's not surprising considering I mean it's California how long it wasn't even a mile right

that that track that they built for the train that was supposed to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco they didn't even finish that yeah so I mean they say in 26 but we oh no it's not true but I'm trying to understand what is this going to do Newsom called it California's most notorious prison and that he had declared a moratorium on executions. He began dismantling death row, per the San Francisco Chronicle.

He ordered state officials to start the process of transferring the prisoners to other state facilities, and he announced plans to turn the whole prison into this Nordic-style center. So they can reinter life outside prison. he's hired Kane's the Danish architecture from Schmidt-Hama-Larsen to help reimagine the maximum security prison

I'm not joking that's actually in the piece I'm reading from it directly The point of prison was you know You don't get to do stuff That you do when you're not in prison But a prisonist Kaine But podcast studio

We're a self-service grocery store What? The influences They're taking from the Scandinavian incarceration system where a prisoners live in detention centers designed to approximate life outside of prison. Yes, because that's the problem. Sure, good grief. So they say that they've successfully reduced prison populations and recidivism by focusing jail time on preparing people for their release back in society. Let's look at some other jobs you can do

besides killing and people and selling them drugs. Let's just, so they said they want, um, the prisoners to have access to so-called normalizing spaces like the self-service grocery store, a cafe food truck, staffed by other incarcerated people. I don't know about this. They're spending $239 million on it. Is it all going to be like IKEA? Now what Juan is showing you is like a mock-up. Is it like family all visiting incarcerated dad?

And that looks like corrugated metal on the side of the buildings. I'm sorry. That just looks so trashy. assisted living facility. It looks, why does it look so junky? Why is it? It's like weedy and overgrown and it's like, why is it? It looks.

It's nature. No, it looks trashy. Who decided to do, look at those stupid, squaddly little trees over there. They didn't even look healthy and properly trimmed. I mean, you just think, you know, if you're doing a mock up, you know, maybe sell it. It's $239 million. Sorry, we spent all our millions.

We couldn't better, we couldn't render any better trees. them, sorry. The vegetation's in prison, too. I'm amazed at this. So they've got this very expensive Danish architecture. They're going to solve all the problems with the jails, Kane. $239 million. I'm going to have an IKEA inside.

You can have people committing crimes so they can have this life. That's what's going to happen. Can I just say I hate the, and I don't say this is an insult. It's just not my style. I loathe the Scandinavian modern stuff. I can't stand it. I cannot stand it. My version of hell is literally what this is describing.

You don't have to threaten me with prison. Just threaten to send me to IKEA. Right? Just let me go there. And I'm scared straight, taking her to IKEA. The holistic initiative leverages the best practices to improve the well-being of those who work and live as a prisons, Kane. I don't,

they said that they wanted to make, in California, now here's the kickers, we wrap those. They want to make prison life less punitive. I am not making it up. That's literally a quote. It is literally a quote.

This is, are you mean? This is literally a quote. It's San Francisco Chronicle. They've dubbed the effort the California model with the aim of making prison life less punitive.

The point of prison is to be punitive. So mean, Kane. What is? Oh, don't you like our Nordic jails? This is Hans. He's going to get you checked in. Bend over. I just.

I can't. Where's the nearest bottle of scotch? Where's the nearest bottle of scotch? So basically, you had some California moron go up and convince Newsome. Like jail, but like less jailier. So we're going to put the prisoners in. jail, but it's going to be like way less jailier. Like, hear me out, right? Going to have the in-skeeping and a podcast station because they can do podcasts,

um, self-service grocery store. Ah! This is so dumb. This is California. What, California? I know. Now, I will say you could because IKEA is like a big thing here. It's a very big. A lot of people have IKEA furniture. I don't like to put things together because I like to disregard tools. I look at the instructions. They see them and I'm like, nope.

And I try to do it. My husband says it's like I'm doing women's math. And it is true. Do you know that women can measure the size of something with their hands on either side of something? And then they can keep their arms totally still like a robot and then go to a different part of the room and put their hands down. And it's that's perfect measurements. Wow.

It's amazing. I did not know that. Yeah. It's truly amazing. Or when a woman says I can eyeball it. Just totally believe it. Just totally believer. My favorite thing to do when I want something done in the house is to ask my husband,

I'm like, where's the hammer? I'm not even allowed to have that. Evil reverse psychology that you do. And I'll want to go hang something. And he, I'm just like, Use a Hercules hook for everything, right? Sorry, Hercules, the Ozarks coming out. Hercules.

I'm like, just Hercules it. Get a Hercules off. My younger son's like, there's a U in there. You know that. And you just put it in there. And my husband's appalled. He's like that. He says it's trash and that I'm doing it.

I'm being trashy by doing that. And he's like, no, you got to. And then he gives me a thing where it's a nail and then the thing, like all these things for the nail. And you got to just what? Use a hook. Look, what's so wrong? And it just kills his soul.

Kills his soul. I don't even know where the tools are. If I have to hammer something, I got to get a flashlight and beat the thing with it because I'm not allowed to have the hammer. That's the deterrent that you offer your husband. And that's what prison should be. It should be a deterrent. But it's not a deterrent if you're podcasting. Kee creeds my own prison.

Can you be podcasting from prison? Yeah. Welcome to the prison podcast. Today we're talking about I that's Oh man But you know what? I would listen to a prison podcast

If it was the prisoners talking smack about You know each gang has a prison podcast, right? In today's prison podcast files And it's like all the dirt on this prisoner I would totally listen to that You'd get some good to like move over Real Housewives Which I totally don't watch anyway But I would actually

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Stick with us. I have an update about a story that we had yesterday that has to do with the, you guys remember the dad. who left his kids in McDonald's and he went the way that everybody said it he went for a job interview guys remember he went for a job interview well there's more so let me lay it out the police say the guy lied about being at a job interview next door the new york post covered the story and they had a follow up on this along with not the bee Georgia police find inconsistencies and job-seeking dad's whereabouts. Remember, he left the kids at McDonald's and then 10-year-old, the youngest was one. There were three kids, 10, 6, and 1. He left them alone at the restaurant and told police that he went to a job interview, right? And he was looking for work at the time. That's what happened. The mom showed up, a concerned customer saw what happened and called police. And he said he had filled out an application at the West Bank Inn next door. And he was just waiting for a callback. and he was, you know, doing, they noticed as they were questioning the dad that there were holes in his alibi.

So they went to the inn where they spoke with an employee and they confirmed that he had filled out a job application about 130, but he was not expecting a return call for an interview. Or they weren't, but that, apparently that's, you know, they weren't going to call him. And then there were, there was security footage showing him walking around the hotel at 1.30 p.m., but not 4.30 p.m. That's when he allegedly left his kids at McDonald's. customers saw the three kids inside the restaurant at 4.30 as he was talking to someone on the phone. They heard him say that he needed to drop something off. He left the store. The kids were there by themselves for about 90 minutes. And that's apparently when they call police. Now the daughter, who's 10, said she and her family had walked to McDonald's from the apartment complex that they live in less than a mile down the road. And apparently the girl said that, yeah, dad leaves us alone frequently when he's watching us.

Like he leaves them alone. That's according to the kids. The kids told police that he leaves him alone all the time. The 10-year-old girl said, told police that our dad had a backpack, was supposed to give it to their mom. They contacted the mom or the daughter contacted the mom, told her to go to McDonald's. Police were here. Come meet us.

And apparently the dad said that he was at the apartments looking for the mom, but he couldn't deliver this bag that he was supposed to deliver to her. And then while he was there, he just happened to lose his ID and all this stuff, Kaine. So the sheriff's office is standing by the arrest. They're like he was not at a job interview when this happened. And they said there's tons of camera footage, witness statements. And they said, you know, they determined it was a misdemeanor charge of deprivation of a minor. And that the intervention was appropriate to ensure welfare, right?

Okay. And you got former NFL player Antonio Brown. He set up a go-fund me for him, all this stuff. Oh, wait, there's more, though. There's a lot more. Oh, I know, because now we've got the Augusta press. It came out and said, oh, there's even more details now about this. It just gets more.

Because people were defending them. And I'm, you know, and I, and we talked about him on the show. If he's going to a job interview and he left his kids at McDonald's so he could go to a job interview and someone called the police that's really, that's really crummy, right? You know, maybe help somebody out. That's the position that we all had. but it sounds like first off the timelines is different every article i read the timeline's different the amount of time that he left the kids there changes every single time they talk to him whether or not he was hunting for a job or dropping something off that also changes i just think that

if you're just doing one thing why is your story changing if you went to go fill out a job publication and you left and you were doing an interview and you left your kids at play place at McDonald's then why is your story changing and the time changing dramatically as you're telling the That doesn't make sense. And they're saying that there's a lot of inconsistencies about his whereabouts. And they can't even place his whereabouts in a couple during certain times. So what does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like he was doing more than a job interview at this point.

I mean, they did admit that he went next door and filled out. But if you're just going next door to fill out an application, how long does that take? I mean, it doesn't take 90 minutes. You can actually grab it and take it back to the McDonald's and fill it out there. Yeah, I mean, he didn't sit down for an interview there, and he wasn't going to get a callback. So how long does that take you if you're just, you know, getting an application? It doesn't take 90 minutes. And then that was just at one point when he left him.

He left him again. So apparently he came back and left and came back and left. So that's changed from what was initially being reported. You know, when cops get a call, about unattended kids, they have to follow up. And you can't, I don't, I'm not angry at the police. My initial question yesterday was, who calls the police if you see a dad that needs help and he's just going, you know, that was my whole thinking.

But if he's there and one of the witnesses says that he like went and came back like two different times, okay, then there's something else that's happening here. What is happening here? And I don't like it when good people who need help. help don't get it because it's overshadowed by bad people who do stuff or who maybe people who do bad things or who are doing questionable things that call into question everybody. That's not fair. So what's the truth of it?

What do you think he was doing? Was he selling drugs? I don't know. They don't actually tell you what was what's the backpack. I saw some other witness testimony talk about how this wasn't the first time that he's actually done this at that McDonald's. So when he gets visitation. He drops his kids off at playplace.

Yeah. And they just think, and the dad thinks that, well, with the chaos of playplace, nobody's going to know that these kids are unintended. Well, there are some customers who did. So this is good, because the left has been trying to turn this into a class warfare thing, but I don't really think it's a class warfare thing. This doesn't sound like a plugged-in dad. Right.

And also be careful about jumping on GoFundMe's like that. You never know. So we need, we need, I still have questions. 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.