The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Tucker's Brother's North Korea/USA Connections

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

Tucker Carlson hosts his own brother, Buckley, on his show and claims America is the “moral equivalent of not only the Soviet Union but also North Korea”. Meanwhile, Justice Ketanji Jackson is DEFENDING men in women's sports with an utter word salad at the Supreme Court.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…CovePurehttps://CovePure.com/DanaMake a New Year's resolution that sticks and improve your health with clean water. Get $200 off for a limited time.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.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 phone!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!WebRoothttps://Webroot.com/Dana Take your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection today!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 Info

Dana Lashes Absurd Truth podcast. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. I don't even know if I want to read this story, Kane. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh. The story. A Florida woman says that her toes were amputated due to spider bites. She sued the apartment manager. Her name is Patricia. shields. She has sued Grand Oaks apartment management. I can't even, why am I reading the story? Why? How does this happen? She's in Pinellas County. She's suing. She said that she had to have her two of her toes amputated. It was from 10 Tampa Bay News, Channel 10. She's seeking compensation. She said she noticed spiders within two weeks of, I can't talk moving into her apartment. This is the one thing I can't handle. I'll handle snakes. I can handle commies. I don't want to, but this I can't do.

anything you're fine with it oh my gosh oh my gosh i just want to curl up into myself and disappear she um she she she lost her home she had to move several months after she lost her home to hurricane helene so she moved into grand oak apartments in november of twenty twenty four she said quote i was happy and then kept getting bit over and over again it was always in the bathroom she's unable to been able to verify the type of spiders that have been biting her but medical she's been to the doctor all this stuff they told her she had to amputate her toes or she could lose her whole foot and then maybe her whole leg. She said she thought it was a joke. I don't even have words.

Okay. Would you not wear shoes? Well, yeah, but wouldn't you, I don't know, spray or step on them? Or set it on fire? Maybe, maybe. I'd be going in there with my judge. Bang, bang. I feel like Frank from Always Sunny. Too many way I start blasting. Oh my gosh. I can't. Oh, I'm so sorry you all had to hear that story because I had to read it. A Florida man was jailed for trying to claim that this $115,000 stolen lottery ticket was his in West Palm Beach. It wasn't.

His name is Jawweed Arrib. Yeah. 26 years old, Jawwed Arrib. He was trying to claim it himself. And they said, it's not yours. You can't. He handed over his ID in a ticket that was reportedly identified by. serial number, but then they started

the verification process and they noticed that it was actually not a legit ticket. And apparently he stole the numbers from the real owner. I don't even know how that it. So he's in jail. That's a big bad felony. You can't be doing that. You can't be stealing those.

Yeah, you can't do that. Let's see. Florida man was sentenced for a Fall River Bank robbery. He had a paper bag written bomb threat. He 41-year-old Domingo Agostini of Port Lucy. He's going to serve two years in state prison.

He was sentenced because he threatened to tell her last fall, or last year with a bomb. He wrote it. He handed a paper bag note. So it was a note on a crumply paper bag that said, I have a bomb. And he demanded $20,000. And then she handed over $5,000 and a red dye pack that exploded as he exited the building. That's actually super smart. I love those things.

I'm all about putting those in fake packages on your porges. If you have porch pirate issues, I'm just saying. So he was pulled over because they were able to easily find him. So good for that, good for that teller. Is that like a standard procedure with banks? I think so. Like, oh, you're going to take money from me. By the way, who always thinks they're going to get away with that?

It's 2026. Nobody gets away with bank robberies anymore. That just doesn't happen. No, that doesn't, that's never happens. I don't know. Let's see. A Florida woman was arrested. she spent more than $400,000 after she was accidentally overpaid by her employer.

How do you overpay someone by 400? I mean, it was a lot of money. Yeah, she was arrested after she spent over $400,000 that had been accidentally deposited into her bank by her employer. And then she didn't say anything. She just started spending it. She used luxury purchases. She bought a food truck. She sent $100,000 to relatives in Argentina. she purchased all kinds of luxury stuff. She thought she had just been blessed. She thought she had gotten a blessing. That's literally what she told prosecutors.

She thought she received a blessing and as a result of it being blessing, a blessing she didn't think you need to be returned. That's actually a very clever defense. Well, I thought the Lord gave me this. You know, so who am I to question what he bestows upon me in the form of a blessing? Very clever, but no. That's not how we're doing it. You knew it was bad. You knew you were doing something bad, girl. You knew it. So now she's going to the pokey. And that's something. She's going to jail after all of this happened. So, yeah, you can't. Apparently it was reported in the local press over there.

Accidental deposits are not considered gifts. Not a gift. 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. And just, you mean, the advice sounds familiar. I mean, the advice sounds familiar. Max out your 401k and your IRA and hand your life savings to Wall Street. And just. And just, just hope that the market cooperates. If that were the only way, why do so many people then risk outliving their savings? Why does the inventor of the 401k call it a monster that should be destroyed? The time has come to hear the truth. Bank on yourself is a retirement plan alternative that provides guaranteed predictable growth and reliable retirement income. Current tax law allows you to enjoy tax-free retirement income while maintaining control

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I wasn't looking for this. It was in my mentions somehow. And I don't want to keep, you know, discussing it. But can I just, when I hear some, sometimes, and sometimes it comes from, you know, crazy places. When I hear some of this audio sometimes, I think, oh, my heavens, we have to address it because it's really that bad. So how do I set this up? I watched the thing for larger context. I just want to know why some people, I feel like they just really, when you hear stuff like this, you wonder, do they really like America?

I kind of have to ask that question. So Tucker was talking to his friend Buckley. And Buckley is a nice name. They really love the Uck names in that family. His friend or his brother? This is brother. Yeah, I mean, you can tell. They have like the same mannerisms.

They kind of have the same vocal tonality. Some of the same inflections, you know, I mean, Sibs, you know, you grow up. But they do love the Uck names in that family. And Buckley apparently is one that's like, I get, because it was what a brother, a son. I mean, everybody's Buckley in that family. Anyway, it's a nice name. Anyway, so they had a discussion about freedoms and press, the press and truth in the press. So it's in the context of the information that you can obtain in your country to determine the veracity of news, right?

So it's in that context because I'm not going to subject you to five minutes of this just for the meat and taters of the last 30 seconds. But let's just go ahead and play this because I heard this and I went, what? Go ahead. And specifically we used to also talk after the Iron Curtain came down, had the same attitude about North. Korea. Like, here are these poor emaciated captives who can't leave their own country, who don't, who think these terrible and untrue things about Americans. And it was only a couple of years ago that I suddenly realized I had this epiphany. We're North Korea. We are North Koreans. And so much of what the government has told us throughout our lives about big events

and small events are simply not true, not just massaged, but like a high. 180 degrees from truth. Okay. What the hell did I just hear? I mean, I don't understand. What did I just hear? So we're like, but in what way, though? I think you was talking about the media, possibly?

There has to be a better one than that. Come on, my dude. We got it. I want all of them. I'll explain what that means in a moment. Okay, so the soundbite is him telling his brother that America is the moral equivalent of not only the Soviet Union, but of North Korea because

of our news media well we also have I mean do they have X in North Korea? Let's just go ahead and ask the obvious I can't even believe we're doing this let's just ask the obvious do they have X and I mean they don't know they don't

have X in North Korea they all have the same damn haircut in North Korea everybody has the Kim they barely have electricity they get fed to dogs oh North Korea we are just like the North Koreans. We are just blinking like North Koreans. So I don't agree with that assessment clearly. I don't think that in any way we are like North Korea. Even our

meat, even though I've, look, I've criticized our media for years and years. But we also have the ability to push back and correct the record. And I have been a part of that for almost 20 years now. This idea, I mean, he's like, well, you know, we are blinking North Korea. You know, we are North Koreans. No, we aren't, though. We really are not North Korea and we're not North Koreans. Now, granted, our legacy press has been heinous for some years, you know, I mean, Cronkite, all of them. I mean, they've all been biased and partisan, et cetera. But it also presupposes that the media in this country ever began as this holy institution free of partisanship, which is such a retconning of American history.

And I, so I don't understand why it's, it's, the intimation is that it was once this like glorified and holy institution where no one had their own opinions and they only just wrote about the truth. That's never how the media got started in this country. Go back to the days of the founders and the penny presses and Ben Franklin writing under all of these different, you know, acquired names, whether it's silence, do good, or whatever else. I mean, they beat each other up senselessly in the, in pulp, in penny presses, in handbills and whatever, all the stuff that they passed around. I mean, the early days of the

press was propaganda. It was for the purpose of propaganda. Now, I don't think it should be. I think you need to be able to have free people to freely write about what is happening in their nation, because that practice holds people accountable, not a professional class. But the practice, the practice and exercise of writing about your government is the action of a free press. Just like I think everybody's a member of the militia, I think everybody's a member of the press. I am very much subscribed to that whole Cole Campbell version of public journalism, which was laughed out loud back in the early odds. They ridiculed him for that. And then he used to be the editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch left.

I think he went to Florida. He was, I think he was killed in a car accident. This was like, you know, a couple decades ago. But the idea that everybody could write about what was happening in their own communities and the people who could best tell those stories were the people in those communities. And that was really looked down upon by the folks in their Saramans and their ivory towers that were looking down on the proletariat and saying, no, no, no, you have to have us professional class, free press people write about what's happening in your communities.

the idea that this is somehow like a sacred priesthood of scribes is literally like a new invention of culture. This is not something that this is not based in any kind of historical reality. And so I think we got to correct that presupposition immediately because the people are the free press. And it's the practice of telling those stories and holding your government accountable that is the actions and exercise of a free press. So that being said, to act like that we are all North Koreans because there's some kind of chokehold on information, well, if that were true, then why did we learn everything that we did about COVID? Why were we all sharing information about the zero efficacy of these injections that they had the mindlessness to call vaccines? I mean, we were holding them accountable even then. You had whistleblowers coming forward based on the support that they were getting in social media.

social media has done so much to actually make the exercise of press be fair and be free. You don't have that in North Korea. So to compare us is just kind of asinine to say that we're like North Koreans in that regard. You don't have substacks in North Korea. You don't have X's. You don't have Instagram. And even with, and I say this is someone who actually has been professionally negatively impacted to the point where if I wanted to spend a boat load of.

money and litigate, I would probably win. In fact, and it was not a probably I would, but these are very difficult cases to prosecute. They take years and years and years and they drain you of cash. That's why so few people pursue them. It's not for a lack of support. It's that lawyers charge you money and it's very expensive. And it's even for a wealthy person, you're looking at millions of dollars in litigation expenses. That's for a lawyer that's worth it. That's what you look at. So even with, as somebody who has dealt with being de-platformed, I've had my accounts throttled on YouTube and X. It's one of the reasons why.

I mean, when I was with the NRA, I was pretty much obliterated digitally. That was my punishment for working as a spokesperson for a Second Amendment organization. I was so negatively impacted and so completely throttled. Every opportunity dried up. Everything, I mean, because of my association with guns and I was just throttled. say this is someone that has dealt with us with these platforms and these institutions, even with that, you are still able to get news, facts. You're able to get the story free of spin. You're still able to get it. And you also have the discernment for intellectual people. You have the discernment

to be able to determine whether or not a piece that you're reading is factual or not. You don't even have those opportunities in North Korea. I know that it's a cuty little soundbite to say, I get that. But it doesn't translate into any kind of realness when examined it falls apart. So why say stupid stuff like this? I don't get it. Like why say something like that? I don't get it. Unless it's just like, you know, one in a successive string of missives where it's just deucing all over the United States. What's the purpose of putting it in that context? without proper context. Wouldn't that make someone know better than the so-called gatekeepers that they're criticizing

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All right here. So first, up. This is Americans across three U.S. states were told to stay indoors because the air was filled with toxins that were carcinogenic apparently. That's somewhat frightening. Thousands of Americans, apparently

they were told beginning yesterday, Georgia, South Carolina, Oregon, stay indoors because they had elevated levels of PM2.5. I don't even know what that is. Microscopic particles that were toxic organic compounds or heavy metals emitted from vehicles, industry, and woodbring.

creating hazardous conditions. I didn't even know. So are we breathing in metals, cane? The heck. It's because the planes are spraying them in the air. Oh my gosh. Stop it. What's happening?

Contrails. Drivers are divided on the wild American automobile plan to pull speed limits on highways. I mean, I'm okay with that. Why wouldn't we? Some of the roads, I'm like, why is this 55? This is like, it's anti-American and it feels communist. I mean, I really, I get very particular about my

driving. They said that they want to turn eligible highways, not every highway, but certain ones, into American autobons, Kane. So Fon to get the results of speed limits. We all like to test. We all like to test the limits of our vehicles every now and again. I have a story of when the first time I ever went to California as an adult and drove, I rented a charger. It was my rental car. And I was like, ooh, moon, like, get ready to tear out the highway. And it was traffic. It was heinous. just killed my soul. Anyway, the bill's called the reasonable and prudent interstate driving act. It would set speed limits at 80 miles per hour and derestricted and derestricted speed zones after nightfall.

But I want it to be all the time. Not just a night, I want it all the time. That's what I would like. I'm okay. I'm all right with that. Beef tallow is risen to the top of the food pyramid. I like the new food pyramid. Beef tallow, new dietary guidelines are based on how humans actually eat. Isn't that nice? And apparently jumping 50 times each morning could apparently approve your health. Well, it's called exercise for a reason. People forevermore. Stay with us. Supreme Court getting into the trans stuff. I can't believe it's even this far. Can I just cannot believe it's this far. Okay, guys, we got to go to the Supreme Court. If you have a penis, you can't play on a sports team where all the

players have vaginas. Okay. It's very good. You got a lot of differences. And I was listening to this one woman tried to argue that. Well, you know, it's actually bad for ladies who are big and they don't, and they don't have testosterone. And I'm like, those are dudes that are literally hormonally suppressing what nature gave them, what they have been endowed with by their creator. Okay, you're artificially surprise. Don't stop it. Stop it. It was just weird. And then I always cringe whenever I hear Cantanji Brown Jackson speak, because it's just like, if you wanted to know what DEI sounded like, it's that. And she makes, and I used to think Elena Kagan was not the most reasoned one on the bench, but she makes Elena Kagan look like a Mensa member.

And Elena Kagan's not dumb. Some of the arguments that she's previously made, I've kind of scratched my head over. But Sonia Sotomayor has been surprisingly moderate. I can't believe I'm saying this. I mean, we're not best friends. Don't misunderstand me here. But Kantanji Brown Jackson,

whenever she asks a question, she feels like a pick-me girl. She's like the kid in class who's so desperately wants to improve. press the teacher doesn't really care how ridiculous she sounds or even if she's entirely correct she's just pick me pick me but whenever she gets in there she sounds you can almost hear i swear you can almost hear the other justice is going it's something else some of the questions that she asks oh my gosh do we want to do this to these sweet people listening here

today i do go ahead and listen here she is i don't somebody explain what this means. I heard this law. I just go ahead and play it. This is a Kamala level salad. And so to the extent that you have an individual who says what is happening in this law is that it is treating someone who is transgender but who does not have because of the medical interventions and the things that have been done who does not have the same threat to physical competition and safety and all of the reasons that the state puts forward, that's actually a different class, says this individual. So you're not treating the class the same, and you're not, how do you respond to that?

In other words, the as-applied challenge essentially redefines the class, or one could think of it as that. And so what's wrong with that? We're all drunk. I feel like that's what drunk sounds like. That's what it feels like. You trying to make sense of what she just said is that this is bananas B-A-N-N-N-N-A-S. She's defending men in women's sports teams.

And she's trying to say that, well, the cosmetic intervention, whatever, whatsoever, whatsoever, such as that MAPS girl sounded way smarter than Kintanji Brown Jackson. That because they created the situation, therefore they should be a protected class. It's the best thing I could muster. Right?

That's kind of, yeah, that's kind of. I think she was saying that before all of the hormonal and other things that, that these transgender go as far as treatments, that somehow they're disadvantaged or not a threat when they haven't done that yet. I'm trying to give a grace. That still sounds ridiculous. What? That's stop it.

That sounds so nuts. No pun intended. Say, oh my heavens. 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.