The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Zohran Mamdani Needs ID To Shovel Snow??

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

NYC Mayor Mamdani says the city has increased pay to $30/Hr for emergency snow shovelers, but…you only need TWO forms of ID to get paid. NYPD officers got booed and hit with snowballs in Washington Square Park. Meanwhile, Candace Owens plans to release an evil documentary about Erika Kirk called, “Bride Of Charlie”, to get attention and clicks.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. WebRoothttps://Webroot.com/DanaTake your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection for a limited time.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 Lashes Absurd Truth podcast. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida man. All right. So where to start? Let me start with this dude

because he fell into a stranger's pool. Hmm. A Port Charlotte man was arrested after he fell into a stranger's pool. It's just Port Charlotte, Florida. He was arrested. I'm probably. I'm not even saying his last name. What the heck is that?

One Y, okay. You got two Y's and a ton of consonants. That's too much. Shorten it up. Save some Y's for the rest of us. Christopher Zibbzork. He claimed to be a CIA. C.A.I. I don't even know what's happening. CIA agent after drinking vodka Thursday afternoon and forgetting where he lived. And it led him, oh, I love the name of the street that it's on. It led him to a stranger. home on Monet Avenue. You know, like the painting, he is like a Monet, like far away. It looks nice and up close. It's a mess.

And a couple living on Monet Avenue said there was a stranger that was knocking on their door asking to stay a few days. And they told him to go bother someone else. By the way, that's so Floridian. Go bother somebody else. Like, that's it. So he ended up making his way inside of their Lanai, which I only know how to pronounce because I grew up watching Golden Girls with my mother.

the resident This name came This is a whole show This name Rusty Simplex That's the resident Rusty Simplex Sounds like a wrestling move That sounds like a character

From Eastbound and Down That's what it sounds like He says he remarked Quote This is a real quote I would shove my boot so far Of his expletive He would be tisting leather

The couple called 911 Then they heard a splash As he fell through their pool cover into the water. And then he climbed out of the pool, knocked on the back door, and asked for French fries and a towel. Rusty Simplex question.

Was he naked? No. No, thank you, God. I don't want to be seeing oh, my gosh, I can't say what he did. Oh, almost said it. Can I say that quote? Can I say the word? Can I say that? It's what he said. I want to say yes because it's news.

Okay, so woodpeckers. Imagine that. He goes, no, thank you, God. I don't want to be seeing them. Woodpeckers. They're in your backyard. Deputies found Zabrikerbriker sitting on a chair by the pool. And then when they came over to him, he was bragging about how he could hold his breath underwater for three minutes.

They arrested Zaburker for trespassing, disorderly intoxication, and resisting a deputy without violence. That is the whole show. Then those people, what they just went through. Oh, my gosh. Uh, okay, let's do, I want to, I need another one. Oh, you need another. Okay, let's do 7-Eleven with the box cutter. I mean, you can kick that out of somebody's hand. You can. You know, I'm not afraid of no box cutter. I'm going to kick it out of your hand. I'm going to break your jaw. So this guy walks up into a 7-Eleven and Circle K and call your county

and was threatening people with a box cutter. 30, he's 38. Right? Dude, evil and dumb make you look old. 38-year-old Stephen Sacco entered the store. He said he was hungry. And the clerk pointed towards the food items and said, you can buy food. And then Sacco goes, how about I steal it? I'm not kidding.

That's what the sheriff's affidavit said. So then Sacko raised a box cutter in the air and said, I'm a C-U-B. And then the clerk said he feared for his life. Surveillance footage showed Sacco, holding the box cutter near the counter area. And he left without stealing anything. Then he went to Circle K, tried the same thing. According to police, he had six four locoes in his possession. Wow. That seems bad. He was totally taken into custody. So I've been paying attention to what's

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Due to the historic nature of this blizzard, we've increased pay to $30 per hour. You can walk into any DS&Y garage until 8 p.m. this evening and it's starting again at 9 a.m. tomorrow. All you need to bring is two forms of ID to ensure you get paid. Oh, two. I feel like the count from Sesame Street. Two, ah, ah, ah, ah, forms of ID. How many forms of ID do you have to have to vote?

None. Wait. What? None. Oh, you know why? I get it. It's way more important to protect the integrity of shoveling snow than it is to protect the integrity of voting. What do you mean integrity of voting?

What? What is that going to be about? What? Welcome back to the program. Bottom of this first hour. He's, oh, yeah, and he's taking it from the NYPD budget for $30. $30 an hour for snow removal. that's your job that's you should already have that figured out slick this is what happens when you put

a nepo baby with zero life experience in charge of a city in charge of the biggest city in the United States of America wow I can't even believe what I'm about to say but I actually think poop booty juice would do a better job than this I'm gonna choke I almost choked you to I, dude, I, right? I would say the job would be equal. It'd probably be equal. Okay, full stop right now. I feel like there needs to be an award created for the joke I did not make just now.

Because, Kane, I was going to say, hold up everybody, I was going to say, you know, if it's about, then booty juice is the great. He's really good at that. That would be accurate. Yeah, especially, see, I can't tell you guys because, it's, you guys. because it's, you know, a little blue. It is science, though. It's just science-based. $30 an hour. Thou must have.

If you get the newsletter, you saw this headline for those of you who subscribe over at Substack, chapter and verse, my newsletter. You would have seen this. You would have seen this headline. Not one. Let me get the full array of requirements out because there are a lot. So 18 plus, and I'm going to read right from,

literally it's from NYC.gov. So you have to be 18. plus, you must bring two small photos, 1.5 inches square, two original forms of ID, and your social security card to a registration appointment. So if you're going to shovel snow in Manhattan, you have to bring all of these things in. You have to have the two small photos, two original forms of ID and your social security card. You have to be able to perform heavy physical labor in cold wet conditions, and it goes up to anywhere from $19 an hour, up to $28 per hour after 40 hours.

Yeah. So again, not even just two forms of ID. You also have to bring in two small photos and your social security card. That sounds really oppressive. That sounds racist. That is so racist. You know, what's even worse is that every government system that's ever been created, there's somebody who can take advantage of it and can actually make things worse than the intent that that whole policy was meant in whatever context it was meant.

Now, Juan's got something for you here. Look what New Yorkers are doing with this program of $30 an hour. Because by the way, he upped it. He upped it from, what was it, 28. Yeah, to 30. So a couple bucks extra. This is now how they're handling the system in New York. Hey fellow New Yorkers, I'm here in the snow and listen to this.

So Mom Donnie here in New York, you know, he wants us to shovel and he'll pay you up to $29 an hour. Okay, listen to this. So they want you to have two forms of ID including your Social Security. Funny, huh? And guess what? You go there. All right. This part we all know, but the bottom line is they actually sign up.

They get their shovel. They pretend to work. They don't, they just go home. They don't shovel any snow. They just go home and they get paid $30. What do you mean they get a shovel? I don't know. They just hand them out shovels?

Yeah, they're handing the city's giving out shovels to people that sign up. People in Radio Land is not seeing the face you're making. I Wow. So they're fake shoveling even just to get the money. Yeah. And so they're taking advantage of a system. They're logging hours of shoveling snow that they didn't shovel.

And they're just getting paid out of a budget that is clearly already strained. I mean, I would think the city would have people that do that. I mean, you have like entire dots, Department of Transportation that deal with that type of stuff. And I guess they don't have that. Manhattan. Or it's not that they don't have it. It's because they're all ridiculously statist morons and they can't figure out. This is what happens if you put a nepo baby in charge. He has no idea what he's doing. Meanwhile, his wife out there is preening at Fashion Week and sitting front row, well, he's going out and getting monogram jackets made so he can act like he's doing something

about the snowstorm. I'm telling you, like it's exotic Joe, Joe Exotic all over again. That's exactly what it is. 13, cut 13. This was New York PD. officers getting booed and hitting with snowballs yesterday in Washington Square Park. Listen to this. So they're pelting them with snowballs. I guess it's better than like what the left usually does. They're not using bullets this time or vehicles or SUVs. I can't believe. I mean, they're throwing snow at them. They're throwing snowballs at them. So don't bitch and moan about not getting your snow shovel. I wouldn't want to shovel snow for any of these people either. Hell, I'd spray the sidewalks with more water. while it freezes. I wouldn't want to help anybody. Good heavens. No, make them all, make them all do it

themselves. And, oh, what did you say? Can they put rocks in them sometimes? The left is so cruel. Of course they do. They'll throw frozen water bottles. They'll throw these snowballs, which looks so innocent, right? But they'll put, like, rocks in them. They'll put, like, heavy objects into the snowball. And then when you get hit with it, it's devastating. And then they're like, oh, you're just, you know, you're weak because you got hit by snow. The left, does not play fair. I don't believe in playing fair either. I mean either.

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had its best month ever, they said. So it's a lot of people that, maybe a lot more that tuned in. You know what? I bet a lot more would tune in if some of these athletes just tried to stop being polemicists and, you know, politicos and just decided to be the athletes they are. You know, I don't walk over and knock the skis of somebody else's hands. So why, it's not the example that I want to give. But, oh, gosh, I'm telling you, I'm not going to be able to get over the looks maxing segment

that's coming up. Democrats introduce the, wait, if it's an average, Act, I should be able to say it. No. It's news, Kane. No. It is the Go Do Something Sexually Unfattering to Yourself Ice Act that starts with an F. That's what they introduced in the New Jersey General Assembly.

And they, it stands, this is literally what they're saying. It's called the fight, unlawful conduct and keep individuals and communities empowered act. fight unlawful conduct and keep. I am going to start doing this all the time now. They want to establish state level civil cause of action. Basically, it's a bunch of dummies that have nothing else to propose and this is all they got. That's literally it. Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays and video rental shops are recording record months and membership numbers.

I don't even know why, but I actually love it. It is the new vinyl. Well, physical media sales declined only 9% in 2025. Previously, it was like 20% and 25%. So it's a dramatic shift. Younger customers are citing frustration, and they have subscription fatigue, and they're mad about having content scattered across platforms. And they view physical media as like a form of cultural rebellion.

There is something, you know what? There's something magical about being a kid. Today's like, you know, today's younger Zoomers and Alpha, the kids who are still in school, they will never understand the joy of a Friday night walking with your family into a blockbuster video getting some candy rent in a movie oh you know it's going to be a happening Friday night what those were the days but so I'm I'm happy for them that they're bringing that back we have a lot more on the way some interesting stuff with the GOP stick with us his guest tonight he announced it earlier is Erica Kirk Charlie Kirk's widow is going to be there So I feel like it's gone on long enough, and I'm so tired of this, all of this nonsense that I keep seeing this. And I hate giving people oxygen that I don't think deserve it. Candice Owens is a DEI hire for the right. The right got super excited as they do with unproven people who are brand new to the principal and have no intellectual mooring for some reason. And they just get super excited like this is going to be, this person is going to be the savior of the movement. This is going to be. And it's not. I mean, the savior. you, you know, I mean, well, I'm going to rise, but, you know, for politically speaking, it's everybody. And I think Erica Kirk, I'm mystified by some of this stuff. I was talking about,

I think we mentioned it a little bit of it last hour. And I am mystified by some of the stuff that I've seen. I was looking at, for instance, like, oh, I think without TPSA and without some of that, the drama, I think Owens goes away because her entire being is wrapped up in that. I mean, how long has this been going on now? For real, this has been going on, like, since Charlie was murdered. It's been going on that long. It's insane. And I, I mean, the whole, I don't even have words for it anymore.

I really don't. I don't have, did you see the image? I guess she's, I don't watch her program because I have a life. I don't watch it. And she's apparently doing a special, I'm pulling up something that I can have for myself here. She's apparently, I guess, doing a special on Erica Kirk. How is this not demonic looking, by the way? I just, this is absolutely demonic. And Erica Kirk is going to be a guest to POTUS tonight. So I just think it's already gone way too far. I think Candace is a demon who is

scorned because Charlie picked his wife over her. You know, that's, I think Candice thought she was going to be able to run TPSA with her questionably. heterosexual British husband. And that's not what happened. She acts like a bunny boiler. She acts like Glenn Close from fatal attraction. And that's honestly what this is about. That coupled with her very desperate need for attention, which has been her entire life. She is very consistent in the cringe level need for attention and clicks. And I'm going to tell you, may God have mercy on the souls of people who persecute widows. I mean, I shouldn't have to list

all the instances in Scripture where we're called to care for widows, no matter whether or not you like how they look. Anybody who has a need of self-aggrandizement that overpowers God's command on bearing false witness and God's command on the treatment

of widows, may God have mercy on your soul, too, because this is just, this is insane. And it would help if some of the grifters and the dime a dozen that were clinging on to Charlie's orbit, they are all so eager and shameless to make a buck off of him, but they are silent when it comes to defending his widow. They're complicit in this as far as I'm concerned. But, you know, I was thinking about this after I saw that image. And maybe some of the people who said, well, Candace isn't going after his widow directly. Well, yeah, she is now. What are you going to do

about it? What's good? She's going directly after her. I realize that But, you know, not everybody's perfect and not everybody's perfect in faith. But I don't have any discernible evidence that this woman's a Christian. I have no discernible evidence that Candace Owens is a Christian. Do Christians race hustle? That's how she started out. Race hustling with the NACP is suing white teenagers. That's how she started out.

Baring false witness? Is that a Christian thing? Is that what Jesus would do? Or what about persecuting widows because you're scorned and jealous? Is that a Christian hallmark? Judge them by their fruits. You know, I think of in Matthew. What is it, Matthew 7?

I don't see any discernible Christian discipleship and the behavior that I see from Owens. And it's just nonstop for months and months. And anybody that comments on it for the first time, they're like, why are you attacking her? What are you talking about? She's been doing this for six months. this is insane it's demented I don't understand the

the group of women that fall all over everything she said are you that unfulfilled in your lives that this is what you do I mean if online behavior is anything to go by no wonder you have all this free time on your hand your husbands don't want to have anything to do with you oh if it's if it cuts then it's meant to be

I'm this has gone on way too long it's ridiculous and I do wish that you know you see some of Charlie's real friends out there defending her, but then all those grifters, that promo code banon, you know, all those grifters out there, they're more eager to make a buck off and then defend the widow of their so-called friend. It's ghastly. No, there's nothing Christian and Owen's behavior here. Nothing at all. There's nothing that would lead you to indicate or that would indicate or lead

you to believe that she is in any way some sort of disciple. This is the type of person that puts it on for clicks. That's it. I mean, going after someone, and I hear people say all the time, well, she's creepy, she's put together. I don't care what your objections are. Who are you? How dare you? You judge mental jackwagons. You need to question your walk with Jesus too. We've talked before. She's a pageant girl. I shouldn't even have to explain any of this. I've met her a couple times. Is her aesthetic mind? No. But what does that matter? Good is good and evil is evil. What does someone's appearance matter to you in that context. Oh, she walked out. I actually had someone say to me, she walked out in a sparkly dress. That's your objection? Go pray because you need Jesus.

I'm so tired of this stuff. And some of this is from people who don't even know these people. This is why I really, I pray legitimately that we get just hit by an asteroid and obliterated because we deserve it. I mean, you know, Jesus is Jesus because he did something that I wouldn't do for anybody. I don't love y'all enough to do it. Sorry. It's mean to say, but it's true. I'd be lying otherwise. I mean, good night. All it's these people who don't even know and they jump in gleefully to gossip about a widow that they've never even met. How sad is that of an existence? No one holds their tongue. In order to be seen in society, everybody has to have a hot tape. It's disgusting.

It's it is not an attractive quality. And she's going to be the guest that's State of the Union tonight. I'm wondering if she's even, you know, the left is going to sit down when he acknowledges her, they're not going to stand up and applaud. And then all of the,

you know, the, the, the, the woke Reich is going to go crazy because they've been fed this diet of conspiracy theories. It's just shameful. You know, I imagine it. It's not difficult to grieve in public for someone who was such a presence as Charlie was.

I can't even imagine how difficult it is with young kids to grieve in public and to continue going on. That's not suspicious. It's called strength. And a lot of the people commenting on her lack it. And I'm wondering if one of the reasons that some people are so jealous and have this crazy, you know, idea is because they're seeing what's deficient within their own lives. whether or not you like how someone dresses or dabs their eyes or has extensions or whatever is irrelevant to what you are called to do scripturally as it pertains to treatment of widows. And if you can't agree on that, then you take your fight to God.

Good luck with you because they ain't going to happen. But I am so tired of this fake Christian packaging and this fake trad, all of it. I mean, it's, and I hate even commenting on it because I feel like it cheapens what I do. It cheapens the content here. It cheapens the nature of commentary to even have to comment on this ridiculous nonsense. It is embarrassing for the right. And if the right had self-awareness, they'd cringe to death. It is so embarrassing.

That's why I always avoid it talking about it. But this stuff has gone too far. This is absolutely demonic. And I rarely say that. But this is evil. And I don't care if you don't like the way Erica Kirk looks or not. I don't care if you approve of how she mourns. I don't care if you don't approve of the pyrotechnics that they had at the memorial I attended that the drive-bys didn't. That's something Charlie liked. And he viewed that as a measure of how big a movement was, by the way, whether or not you could fill a room big enough to have pyrotechnics. but nobody in their zeal to join the gossip stop to even consider or even look for themselves as to why that was present. I hope you feel convicted for those who did it. Scripture doesn't ask for you to like the person that you're supposed to love.

It's easy to like people that are easy to like. People who are always nice to you, never object. People who never challenge you in any way. I mean, it's super lazy and easy to do that. Even the weakest person can do it. But I'm just really shocked by a lot of what I've been seen on the right. A lot of godlessness that's dressed up as fake faith. Now, I'm just pointing it out because I'm not the one that you all got to worry about.

I'm not the one that they got to be concerned with. The one that they got to be concerned with is the one that's going to be meeting them at the gate and calling them to account for every idle phrase they said. every time they lied, every time that they dragged a widow's name through the mud, every single time. And you know what? You're not going to tell God, oh, well, I was doing it for clicks. That just makes it worse. I was doing it to chase clout. That just makes it worse. So those people are going to, I'm not the one they got to worry about. They got to worry about availing themselves. They always say Christ is king, but they don't live it. And it shows.

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