The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Weight Stigma Czar

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

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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. That's the most of the stories. I'm starting off like that. So a guy, a Florida guy, nickname Shroom,

decided to settle $150 debt by going to an apartment to, I guess, to collect $150. And they call the guy the victim, I guess, the victim who owned, who supposedly owed him money. He was just there playing video games. The three dudes, including Shroom, was among them, busted on his door. They roughed him up. The victim got pistol whipped. And then the victim recognized one of the masked men.

And that was his old buddy Shroom, who's Lasroo Gonzalez Gonzalez. I don't know why he has two. of the same name, but he does. Well, I don't get that. He kind of looks like a Shroom, I guess. And yes, the victim did owe $150, but instead of working out a payment plan, he declared that the three men destroyed $150 of his own property,

so they decided that that was even. But Shroom did go to jail for assault. That's just one of the, I'm trying to get over his name. That's the biggest offense in this. piece. Florida man lost the drone to an alligator after flying it too close to the water. We need to get some of these gators up in Jersey. Dron operators, I never heard of that, of where a gator got it. And this story, by the way, that's written by a website called Motor Biscuit, they don't know how to write stories because they bury the lead, four graphs down. But a guy in

Florida obviously flew his drone way too close to a gator. He was trying to get a good shot of it. and I guess he didn't realize that Gators can actually propel themselves up out of the water with their tails. And that's exactly what happened. The Gator just like jumped up like a great white shark would jump up. He jumped up out of the water and grabbed the drone and then went into a death roll. So that guy's not going to get his drone back. Kane, I don't think that guy's, I think that's a loss. Yeah, that's definitely a loss.

Yeah, that's not. That ain't never coming back. It's never, ever coming back. Let's see. This guy stole a rolls, Royce and crashed it into a checkers. Now I had to stop here because I haven't heard of that place in a long time. That's the hamburger place, right? Yeah. The rallies and checkers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The rallies and the Chuckers. Because didn't Chuckers buy rallies or something like that? Okay. The role, it was a

Rolls Royce SUV and it was stolen from a valet at a Fort Lauderdale hotel and they crashed it into a checkers at 2.15 a.m. A Rolls Royce, I don't even know. It's an SUV. I mean, maybe he was like super hungry. By the way, the restaurant where he crashed it was barely six miles away from the hotel. And the punishment in Florida for Grand Theft Auto is actually based on the value of the property stolen. And the top tier is any vehicle over $100,000. And this is even more than that. So this guy is looking to face up to 30 years in jail for taking a six-based.

barely six-mile joyride, stealing a Rolls-Roy's SUV and crashing it into a checkers. So, I don't know. The guy who, by the way, the Rolls-Roy's owner, he told CBS News Miami that he was sleeping and the valet went and knocked on his door or the hotel did, and they said it was stolen from the valet. So, yeah, it wasn't found at the checkers. It was found inside the checkers because he ran it in there. Let's see.

This guy. I'm not reading that. Because it's gross. I'm not doing that. Can we just not with the stories about everybody exposing themselves? What is up with that? Is it just because it's humid down there? I don't know. A Florida man was arrested during a treehouse robbery. Yeah, I don't know. And there's crack cocaine involved. Florida authorities arrested a guy because police said he stabbed a man to death during a robbery and a tree house.

It stemmed from a crack deal. Of course it did. Monroe County Sheriff's deputy say the victim, 59-year-old Matthew Bonnet was trying to help a dealer or trying to help a neighbor who's being robbed by two maskmen. The female victim lived in a treehouse in the trailer park. So she didn't have a trailer in the trailer park. She had a tree house in the trailer park. And I guess they climbed up there and the deal went sideways and they stabbed her. The guy's being held in Monroe County jail. Well, there you go. San Francisco has a new government position. Do you hear about this? No. Yeah. It is a consultant. I'm not going to play this whole video because it's stupid.

Well, maybe I will, actually. This person is supposed to be the checks notes. Weight stigma czar. What? Mm-hmm. Now, Kane? Yeah. I want you to tell me if the person whose image I just placed in Slack is qualified

to be the checks notes. Weight stigma czar. Well, she'd No. I almost went on a tangent there, but no. Juan's going to be putting up a quick little video of her inaction. What is weight neutrality? I think that's in space, right?

You're weightless? We'll play this when he gets it. It's that ridiculous. She's working with a team. at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, it says here, as a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality. What is weight neutrality? What is that? Is that a thing? When someone's neutral. Does it have a flag? I guess if you're just neutral about the idea of weight or extra weight, I, your guess is as good as mine, but Juan's ready if you're ready.

Oh, please, let's hear this. I'm sorry. Hi, my name is Virgie Toefer. I'm the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, as well as a few other books on fat positivity and body acceptance. When I think about what people might be surprised by or what you wouldn't think of when you think of eating disorders, I immediately think of being a kid. I was a kid in a larger body, a teen in a larger body, and also I'm an adult in a larger body. And the message I always got from my doctor was, shrink your body by any means necessary.

And it really felt like there was a sense of adult. ask, don't tell. So because I truly, truly, truly believed, right, and this is where I think the surprise comes in, I really believed that this was about my health. I really believed that my doctor was right, because why would I believe anything? That's real. Um, that's real. Your doctor was right. And it's not, let's not do fat positivity. I don't believe in fat shaming people unless, you know, the calls for it. But people pointing out that your obesity is a comorbidity is a health issue. That's not people trying to be mean.

And I think people need to stopping victims. Stopping a victim. I mean, come on. Seriously. It's, I really don't understand this, like, idea. Was this a backlash to the heroin sheik of the 90s? Is that what we're living with still? What I don't get is imagine any other health concern, you know, whether it's diabetes or whether it's just anything health-wise.

Would you encourage people to continue behavior that would exasperate or make that health problem worse? Would you do that? Would you affirm them knowing that it would make their problem worse? Why would you do that? When she says, you know, I have a right to, you know, you have a right to, you know, be fat or whatever, you don't. And here's why. After you don't, absolutely blank and do not. And here's why. After Obamacare passed and we all had to pay higher insurance premiums to pay for people who didn't or couldn't want to pay, oh, I get to have a say in all of that. So you don't get any rights because you invited my tax dollars in. And where my tax dollars go, I follow with a boot in the door. That's what happens. So, no, I get to be involved. in it. Yeah, you don't. My body, my choice. No, no. It's not my choice to pay your damn bills, so it's not your body to make

a choice of. No. If my money goes to it, I'm the boss of you. I will go and knock that zinger right the hell at your hand and I'll put a carrot in its place, okay? Oh, you want to have a little, you want to have a little Debbie's fudge round? Eat some

cucumber or broccoli. Stop it. I have a right, too. I have a right to go where my taxes. dollars go. And if you're sucking up more of my tax dollars because you can't get a handle on your weight, then that's a problem for me. I shouldn't

have to subsidize that. No one thought of that when they were pushing for the expansion of Obamacare and jacking up everybody's premiums so that we would have to pay for everyone else's care. So no. And everyone's like, oh, Dana, look, I work really hard to

stay in shape. And I eat healthy and I do intermittent fasting. I do all of that stuff. I've always worked out. I've always been athletic. I've always maintained. And it's not because a privilege just decided to, you know, a fairy godmother operated out of the ether and was like, I'm going to make you like this forever. It's you actually, it's an effort. And I don't want to hear about anyone else's problems or excuses. I don't care. Make the effort. And don't expect me to pay your medical bills because that's the situation we're all in and as a result no one can say that they have a right to be this or that.

Since you wanted, you asked for this, we warned you. Don't say that we didn't warn you because we did. But back to my first question, what the hell is weight neutrality? What is that? Like I'm trying to imagine. So you know, we have a lot of truckers that listen.

God love them. Is that like when, do they do that for the weight on your truck? You know, like if you go in and you're a way station and they're like, oh, you're weight neutral to a truck and they're low. Do they say

that? Yeah, I don't know. I'm pretty positive. No. I'm just fascinated by I've never, I'm today years old. I've never heard of that phrase. The whole weight neutrality thing. Right. Now, I will say this. I do think that some chicks can go way far the other way.

Like, I always bring up Madonna as an example. She at some point, as you age, my grandmother always said, at one point in her life, a woman has to choose between her face or her body. Now, I've already told you guys, maybe I haven't been in public about it, what my goal is. Because everyone always thinks, I've never had plastic surgery or anything like that for the love. But I do have a plan to combat wrinkles when it starts setting in. I mean, I got a little bit here and there. But I got a plan. You want to know my plan?

I'm going to get fat. It's natural filler. I'm just going to, because I choose face. That's it. I choose face because you can't hide ugly. That's why. Do you have the right to be fat then at that point? Well, I'm going to do it in like a healthy way.

I'm not going to be like morbidly obese. That's totally my plan. All right. My grandmother was like, and she said the age is different. What she told me was this. She was like, at some point in her loss, a woman has to choose between face or body. And I'm like, why? And she's like, you won't know until you get there. And then she looked at me and she was like, I chose face. And she was like, that's why she was like very proud. She's like, that's why I chose face. That's why I don't have hardly no wrinkles. That's what she would say. And I get it. So that's my, that's my, I'm kind of joking, but not really. That's my whole goal. But not like morbidly obese. Just, you know. I'm just saying it's all natural.

or how. But there's a difference. You don't want to be like visceral and tawny like Madonna, right? I don't want to see like your your ligaments and stuff. Like I don't, you, a woman shouldn't look like beef jerky. You know what I mean? Like you're supposed to be soft. I don't, don't be brainwashed by these, you know, fourth way fembots into thinking

that you can't have any fat on your body. Women need it. And especially as you get older, you know, you need that extra, especially, if you get older because, you know, it helps you when you're an older age. So anyway, I still don't understand what weight neutral is. I'm going to hear from every trucker who listens to us. I am going to get treaties on it. That's what's going to have like big essays on it. I can't wait. All right, we got, we got a lot more to come as we roll towards where are we at? Oh, my gosh, are we already in headlines? Is this already the third hour? I feel like Christmas is coming up

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TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to block a law that could ban the app. I do think it's weird that we can't convince people because people are sheep. We can't convince people to stop using TikTok. So we're just going to have the government ban it. because we can't, we apparently telling them that you're literally being a prostitute for the CCP and having your information harvested by them, that's not enough to appeal to people's common sense, good nature, or brain power. So we're having to have the Supreme Court.

We're begging them to come and block it because people are stupid and asteroid should come and obliterate this rock. Merry Christmas. That's just dumb to me that we do this. Ban everything. We're going to talk about this coming up. Friendship after 50, apparently, I don't care about this headline. I don't really care. Moving on.

Blamel. Nobody cares. I don't care. I don't care. Go make friends or don't. Don't bitch about it to me. I don't care. It's like Monday for some reason.

I'm just done. Start up that puts ammo. Oh, now this one. Ammo vending machines and grocery stores? Let's investigate this. Yes, please. I need to get it. Hang on.

Wait, everybody hold up. Pause the show. I need to make a note of who this is so I can buy into it. In Franchine. Okay. Just anyway, back to the headline. ammo vending machines and grocery stores.

There's a startup that plans to grow this and expand it can. It's based in Dallas. American Rounds rolled its first automated retail ammo. It's in a grocery store, but it's in Pell City, Alabama. Why are you going to Bama?

Why can't you come do that here? All kinds of ammo. That actually is amazing. And then, of course, you have people who are like, you have a social responsibility to make it possible, blah, blah, blah. Or no, you don't.

don't. Other people do. When I was younger, I had a friend that had a soda machine in his garage, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I would love an ammo machine in my garage. I want one in my garage that someone can just come and they serve it. Service it. I love this.

But this idea that companies have a social... No, they don't. Shut up. That's you. That's when people are too lazy. I'm too lazy and stupid to have my own responsibility about society. So, I'm going to ask the companies that make products I purchase to do it Shut up. Let's see here.

Moving on. Because that's a good one. Species in Chernobyl of fungus is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation. That's actually kind of cool. Maybe we can send that out on the drone since we lost nuclear I mean, great job, Biden, great

job. You literally have one job. But it's mutating to feed on nuclear radiation. I feel like this is some kids crazy science experiment in a way, right? And they're trying to say that X has a declining user base, and that's from Mashable, which is the same, it brings you the same journalistic news and literary value as smearing feces on a dive bar bathroom wall.

Same thing. I almost can believe this when I saw it. I don't know who this Clarissa Ward is. People keep saying that she's an actress, and I wasn't familiar with her. She's like decided to, She's a British person with CNN. I guess she was, I don't know. She started at Fox and I don't know why they say that she's like this, like an actress or something, but she's, I don't know. She's very dramatic, as you will, if you've watched any of this footage when she's gone and saved this dude. So they had this segment on CNN where Closer Ward was a woman. over there in Syria and she's reporting on the collapse of the Assad regime and, you know, all this

stuff. And she saves, they save this, save this guy who is apparently, and it was all staged. They acted like they were rescuing him from a prison. And as it turns out, he was actually an intelligence officer in the Assad regime. and I guess he was acting like he was a prisoner. And he was acting like he had been kept prisoner. And he's really putting on this like big show of being freed. And it turns out he was not only an intelligence officer with the Assad regime,

but he also was one of his main torturers. Yeah. The main torturers. one of the big guys that Assad used. And they brought him out. And he's like hugging. He hugged Clarissa Ward and he acts like he's so relieved. Like I can't believe it.

And they're like this poor innocent man that we've saved. We saved him from the presence. And he was just kept against his will. And he was one of the baddies. I mean, they're all baddies at this point. But he was one of like the legit baddies. over there. So now CNN had to admit, this was a headline that they had, quote, freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer,

locals say? He was actually a literal lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate. Oh, oh, they helped free this guy. He's known for harassment and extortion and all kinds of stuff, all kinds of stuff. You know, CNN, the guy who literally looked at this Syrian interrogator, this

baddie, and they thought he was an innocent torture victim. Oh, he's leaning on her. Oh my gosh, she's like, I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I can't believe. I can barely walk. Someone getting a chair, this poor man. CNN has a member of the Assad regime, that they are

state and here's the other thing. They take the guy out of the prison cell. What does she do? They sit him down and they immediately go into an interview. They weren't even, even if he wasn't a torture, they were not concerned about getting him to a hospital or anything like that. She's like, oh no, I've got to sit

you down and I have to interview you for my program. Let's do that now. And then he acts like he's shaking and he can't eat. He was jailing people. He was torturing people. he's one of the baddies.

He's one of the baddie-baddies. And he acts like he's, I'm just yet but a simple man. I just can't, I'm just so sad. I can't believe you freed me, CNN, you bastion of reporting, the giant of international journalism. Can you imagine being her and then waking up after you've done like a Pulitzer level story and this happens? because you know that's what she was thinking.

She was just like the way, I watched this. I watched that whole thing. She's like, let's get you sitting. I mean, she was just, but at the same time, it barely masked her glee at being able to have a story like this. You know, oh, let's get you for an interview. They pull the guy right out of a cell. And they're like, okay, let's sit you down in a chair.

Now it's time for an interview. I mean, at least she was thinking business first, I guess. You know, that's what CNN likes. And I mean, this may not be a popular opinion, but to me, she's like the female Charles Jaco. Don't. He's going to sue the internet again, Kane. Good luck, Charles.

Do you guys know who Charles Jaco is? He is a sentient skin tag who has some hair on it and he came from St. Louis. What you said's worse than what I said. No, I mean, that you said that. I was like, burned. But no, I. So Charles Jaco is the sentient, he's a sentient skin tag. It was the couple of stray hairs on him.

And it started reporting for CNN. And he like apparently faked this whole report about being in Iraq or something like that. And he was on a set. Shelled and bombed. Yeah. And he acted like he was getting bombed and shelled. It was the worst acting I've ever seen in my life. And then later, this was like 13, 14 years ago.

He, people on the internet were making fun of him. And he legit threatened to sue the entire internet. And I was here because when I started on radio, I started. at a station in St. Louis, and he used to work, it was a cluster, he used to work at one of the other stations there. And the story goes is that he would go take his coffee cup of, you know, coffee that he drank. And to warm it up, he would go, he would pour it into the coffee pot, swirl it around and then pour it back into his mug. And he got caught like a couple of different times, according to numerous people that worked. I was only told this. I didn't say this.

Other people did. And that's nasty. It's illegal. It's illegal. It's illegal. isn't it? I don't know. I mean, this was back in like the early aught. So I don't know. I was it. I don't know. I think when he was there, it was like the late 90s. I was totally not there at that time. But he's, oh, and he was so nasty towards me. But I was felt bad for him because he was, you know, a skin tag. And, you know, I don't know what kind of future they have. So sad. But yeah, she reminds me of him. They have the same look in their eyeballs. They have the same work ethic it appears. And people respond to them the same way. And I've seen all these videos on Ms. Ward getting approached by different nationalities, different people, just scolding her over their misrepresentation and reporting. Yeah, the guy was like, I'm a civilian. And he was like, my captors have beaten me. And you could just see she, they'll look on her face. She was trying to hide it.

Like, this is too good to be true. And as it turned out, then there was a news outlet that published a photo of this guy. He gave her a fake name and everything. He said his name was Adele Gerba. That, that dude does not even exist. They found out that he has first lieutenant Salama Muhammad Salama of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, literally the agency that runs the prison.

He runs the prison. She thought she was getting this poor victim and said she got literally the guy who was running the prison. And what gets me is that they didn't even bother verifying anything. They're like, oh, let's take this man out of, let's take this man and put him in a chat interview him immediately got to have the exclusive you noticed something about him in slack what did you say in slack about him oh yeah that he was perfectly manicured and he wasn't dirty that jacket looked pretty all right yeah he didn't look like he was starved or nothing either you know like a prisoner would want to look like prisoner would look like yeah so and people were saying that they did not trust her story and and there were apparently even some syrians there like what cina what you're doing what what what what What? This is, no, this is not how you do the journalism. Not. And they said, it came to your point. They said he was too well-groomed and did not act like someone who was locked in a dungeon for three months.

And that is per number of people on. That's why. I have to wonder, because Charles J-Co was with CNN back in the late 80s, early 90s. And so now we have Clare Sir Ward, CNN, all about faking wartime stories around. times of tension. Is that intentional by CNN for decades now? That just seems weird. It's a good point that you make. I don't know. I'm just saying. But I don't think she's going to get that pulitzer, though. 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.