The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - BONUS: Ken Paxton Dodges CNN Debate Invite

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

Scott Bessent slams the mainstream media for reporting false narratives coming out of the Iranians. Ken Paxton declines CNN’s invite for a debate. The Dana Show debates the new fascination with peptides as a formula supplement and what people get wrong.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Relief Factorhttps://www.ReliefFactor.comYou could be the next person sharing a Relief Factor success story. Get started today with the 3-Week QuickStart for only $17.76 and tell them you heard about them on The Dana Show. Ghost Bedhttps://GhostBed.com/DANAFor a limited time during Ghost Bed’s Labor Day Sale, they’re offering my audience an extra 10% off their lowest prices of the season with promo code DANA. Chapterhttps://AskChapter.Org/danaAsk Chapter today if you could be saving money on your medicare coverage. Alliance Defending Freedomhttps://JoinADF.com/DanaAlliance Defending Freedom is on the front lines defending the freedoms and values that matter. Join the fight today. Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTrusted by law enforcement, security professionals, and everyday Americans—defend yourself and your family with Byrna.HumanNhttps://Humann.com/DanaGet the limited edition HumanN Watermelon Flavor and find out how to get a FREE 30-day supply before they sell out.Patriot Mobilehttp://PatriotMobile.com/DANAMake the switch to Patriot Mobile today. Visit online or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code DANA for a FREE month of service.Webroothttps://Webroot.com/DanaSave 60% off Webroot. Protect your devices. Protect your family. Protect your peace of mind. Live a better digital life with Webroot. 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

And I will tell you that one of the best allies that the Iranians have on this is the media, because the media immediately publishes all the lies, all the lies that they say, there are no mines in the street. Two ships did not hit mines. This is Iranian Adjaprop, and everyone in this audience and every news outlet should be ashamed for publishing that. taking a lying regime at face value. Well, I think, look, they are panicked. I think we should put him in charge of most things.

I like how Scott Besson approaches. We talked about this yesterday. Welcome to the radio show, Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this first hour on this God-Forsaken, slow news day, because nothing's happening. I mean, at this point, I want an alien invasion because I feel like that's going to be more entertaining than waiting for these crusty old mullahs.

to figure out how they're going to respond for the umpteenth million time to whatever latest financial provocation the United States decides to implement against them. Do you know what I'm saying? It really, I just, at some point, waiting on these people is like, what was that kids movie where they had the sloth? Remember that? There's a sloth and it moved real slow. when my kids my kids always thought it was hysterical they thought it was the funniest thing ever it feels like that because now who's in who are they negotiating with even over there no one knows no one knows but i mean they're doing everything that they can they're look they're saying look all of this because it is there's a lot of adjut and what he's talking about is this propaganda

that's entirely designed to divide and make people question the what's happening with this prosecution of this conflict for lack of a better way to put it. And so this, and I've seen it all over. I've seen it and he said, and he's right in calling it out. He's absolutely right in calling this out. It's absolutely everywhere. He's like, look, they're in a death spiral right now. Beston says he's like, they're in an absolute death spiral.

And he is right. to put his shoe up the backside of all of these people in the press, all of these people in the press that keep promoting this stuff and repeating it. He's like, you guys are the best, they could have better allies, and he's right. They could not have better allies if they tried within the media. Because the media, anything, you know what it reminds me of? it reminds me of Gaza

and how the American media will repeat propaganda like you guys remember when they, oh, when they said, oh, it's the it's the Gaza Health Ministry. It's the Gaza and health ministry. And it wasn't the Gaza and health ministry.

It's Hamas because there isn't, they run everything over there. It's Hamas. We've talked about this a whole bunch. It's Hamas that does it. And our media would take whatever the quote unquote Ghazan health ministry

or et cetera, whatever they said, they would take that and they would run with it as a way to try to shame people here. Like when they were saying, well, the United States is supporting the murder of all of these. Look at the

it turned out it's, you know, people that Hamas themselves murdered or that Hamas, that Hamas murdered because they were launching a rocket off the top of a hospital. The press has not changed at all in that. They have not changed at all with it. They take whatever, you know, propaganda they get, et cetera, and they, without question, and they repeat it. And then, I mean, if you remember just one more time to compare it to Gaza, then it came out that there were all of these people in Gaza, all of these so-called reporters,

et cetera, that what? There were members of Hamas that were running around. They were pictured on bikes with rocket launchers on the back. I know you guys saw some of this because that was quite a big story at the time. I'm not saying it's exactly like what's happening with Iran, but this goes along with our media's great tradition of just taking and assuming because of their bias, against this administration because of their bias really against the united states they take this stuff and they run with it as though it's gospel truth and

now look we're all the worst for it so welcome to the show me and my top knot because it's elevety thousand degrees here in texas i'm going to get hate for this i will get hate for having a top not oh no i do i'm going to read it actually coming up uh i might do it tomorrow for a little early edition of mailback of hate. The last time I wore a top knot cane, I was told that I wasn't a serious news person. Yeah, and I needed to wear a nice church dress and never ever put my hair up again. So I'm going to wear it like this probably for the rest of the week, just, you know, despite, I'm joking. I'm not. I just think that there are bigger things to focus on, including this. This is pretty, this is pretty serious. I'm saying, y'all, pretty serious. No, it's 11,000 degrees in Texas.

And then also we've got a tropical storm coming through. And now it's going to get, and your girl is getting a roof replaced on the studio while we speak. So it's a little nutty here. So you're going to forgive us just a little bit. You're going to forgive us. Forgive our team. All right. So these, you know, I think that what Besson said is, look, he's like, they're not in control of the straight.

They're in a death spiral. We have control. I don't know why we're still arguing about this. You know how you can tell that we're in control? You know how we can know, because stuff's passing through. That's why. You can tell that we are in control because stuff is passing through. I mean, it doesn't get, it doesn't get more obvious than that.

That's, that's the basic, that's the gist of it. So I just, I don't know, a couple of, a couple of other things that we're going to dive into. Not only this, but we're going to talk about Texas coming up. because this, I get a little aggravated at people who don't live in Texas who are trying to lecture people about Texas and et cetera, et cetera. It's just fairly interesting to me. I, because we had this, I saw this thing. I talked about it a little bit this morning, but CNN apparently extended, I guess CNN's

trying to host a debate between Tala Rico and Paxton. And they keep saying, well, we've sent an invitation out and Tala Rico's the only one who's going to accept the invitation. I mean, of course he's the only one because they all think alike. And apparently Paxton has not agreed to do it. And so the left is trying to say, look, he's dodging debates. Let me tell you guys something. As someone, I think I can pretty reliably say this, as somebody who was once invited by this exact same network, to a town hall that was held at an arena that turned into a primetime nationally televised ambush,

why should Ken Paxton accept an invitation from the same network to what is absolutely not a debate but an ambush? You tell me, what do you think? I mean, it'd be stupid for him. It would be dumb for him to accept. this. But I also think, you know, you are, there's a couple of different ways to look at this. You got to weigh it out. I mean, is it, I mean, do you think it's going to be that detrimental? That's number one. Is it that, is it that detrimental? Is it something that, you know, he can go in with his background and finesse? It all depends on what Ken Paxton shows up that day. Is it the one who's

charismatic and does really well when he's talking to people and is a really good, you know, handshake an electioneer, retail politicker, or is it, you know, the guy who sits in front of the camera and thinks that he's got to be demure and quiet because that's the media training he got. I don't know. I don't know, but it can't be the latter. I don't think it would go well against a Tala RICO, but Tala RICO wants to stunt on him for sure. Absolutely. So why give in, why give into it? Why give in it? It wouldn't even be a question of consideration had the GOP if the GOP just stepped up. You know what? I wrote a piece about this yesterday over at Substack, and I, everybody needs to go and read this. Everybody needs to go and read this. My friend Mark Tyson and I disagreed on this a little bit

about the lay of the land in Texas and how there's no such thing as a safe seat anymore. Not in Texas. There hasn't been actually really anywhere. I think that's, you know, goes to show a lot of these seats where the electorate kind of gets apathetic and they think, oh, well, we're solid red. We don't have to do a heck of a lot. And then boom, the seat flips. I mean, I mean, look what happened to Colorado. I mentioned this often because it's important. With Colorado, you had 63 years of straight Republican governance. And within literally two election cycles, they were able to have, you had a little, a rag tag, I think it was like three or four of these Democrat operatives that went to Colorado and they completely redid everything.

They recruited candidates. They did big time fundraising. They did all of this stuff. And what they ended up doing is flipping the state in just not one but two election cycles. That's it. They took control of the state legislature. They ended up taking control of some federal offices, the gubernatorial role, everything, into election cycles because they were out there electioneering. And I went out there, actually, I went out there towards the end of it when Magpul was getting ready to leave and was helping grassroots out there fight against some of this unconstitutional legislation that their Democrat lawmakers were trying to push through as it pertained to the Second Amendment.

And, I mean, people had been up into that point. I can say it confidently. They were apathetic. they just didn't think it could happen there. And a lot of people think the same thing with Texas. Well, it can. You know, I've told you before, and the reason I keep repeating it is because it's incredibly important, and it is mandatory for understanding how Texas could be flipped

in the lay of the land in Texas politics. The district I live in the county I live in, Tarrant County, the last large red urban county in the United States of America, meaning it's the largest red urban county. There are more Republican voters in this county than any other county in the United States of America. It's in a large urban county. We're right outside my county and compassus Fort Worth. So we live kind of more towards Fort Worth than Dallas. But huge county.

This, this, it was, you know, a couple of years ago, but Ted Cruz lost this county to Beto O'Rourke. Because Democrats in Texas, the same operatives, by the way that flipped Colorado came to Texas. they released a book called The Blueprint. They also launched a grassroots organization in Texas to try to flip the state. And they've been working. It's been a lot harder than Colorado because you have a dedicated group of activists here that push back against it. But they've been trying to flip the state forever. And they know that if they can flip this county, this county, the crown red jewel, the ruby red jewel in the Republic of Texas,

then they can flip the rest of the state. And I've warned you what that looks like should Republicans lose Texas. will never win another White House again. Hell, you may never have another majority in Congress, but you definitely won't ever win a White House again. That'll be gone for forever. It's like taking California away from Democrats. They can't win without California. Republicans can't win without Texas. And all of these little candidates, the ones like Wendy Davis and then Beto O'Rourke and now James Tolariko, these are all just different grades of the same tool to get them to that point. They knew they were never going to win anything with Wendy Davis. And they knew Bader or Rourke wasn't

going to get them there. James Teller Rico just might. And if he doesn't, the one after him, absolutely well. So you have to, you got to be plugged into this. I'm going to break this down for you because I disagree with all of the people who are blaming the voters. And they're just acting like, well, this is what happens when voters

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because I have a very fast metabolism, which is great until it's not, because it's not as it's not all cracked up to be, because when you, especially as, I think for women, particularly, especially as you age and you want to maintain muscle, it's actually kind of hard. And it makes it harder if you have that kind of workup. And it's just, it's a bummer for dudes, honestly, because, you know, my, my kids are all very, very thin. They're super tall, like six to and up. and real thin. And they work out, but they don't do, they're like, I don't want to lose weight, whatever we can do to add weight. So, Smorland for muscle, all of that,

there's all kinds of things you can do. Peptides for inflammation. I'm not going to turn into a health show, but yes, I absolutely do peptides. And Cain is just over here. Kane's the guy who makes bacteria tea. Or what is it?

Your Kobe? What is it? Your Scooby. You got your Scooby tea? It's scoby. But yeah. What is it? You're almost there.

I like it. It's fine. Scooby. Yeah, but I've abandoned that more for the, you know, just a different type. For a new thing. And then you'll abandon that for a new thing. You know, I'm pro-probiotic. What's wrong with that?

So I feel like you would be very pro-peptide if you did it. Yeah, these are all the ones you're showing me are all injectable. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I inject myself like, you know. And I know there are someone. You got like three weeks on, one week off for certain ones.

And I absolutely. I absolutely do this. you know, crazy you are with your research. So I trust that you've, you know, you've shared with us. Well, I actually, I did, I actually did go to my doctor and I did do blood work. And you guys know I'm crazy with health. So workout. I eat super healthy.

I do allow myself, like, some indiscretions, you know, I'm, you know, with. Yeah. It's like for sometimes like I'll be, like the other day I was in my kitchen and I'm like, I really need to make a lemon pound loaf because I love it. So I'm going to make it. I'll probably eat half of it. I'm not going to lie. So good.

But I do be very healthy. And, you know, I, you know, maybe have, have, like, drink moderately, like, if we're out, you know, things like that. I can't do a lot of sugar because it makes me sick because I'm not used to having it. But very healthy. So I went in and I had, I did a panel just for peptides and wanted to make sure that, you know, check for, you know, copper and all this stuff and talk to my doctor about it because there's certain things that my doctor, they're being very, I mean, and smart. methodically, you know, very methodical in introducing it into their practice and work with my doctor on that. Like so just like not to be totally TMI, but I deal with hypothyroidism. So I'm, I have to be, I want to be completely like tuned in as much as I possibly can be as naturally as possible. And,

like, I don't like taking pharmaceutical, as much as I can avoid it. You know what I mean? So with peptides, you know, I talked to my doctor about it. I do, like, like, the copper peptide, I do NAD plus, the buffer I do, which because NAD plus without that can actually, like some people, they get like an digestion and it can trigger some things and that kind of helps the severity. That kind of help not really, I don't really notice anything severe, to be honest. The Samoralin, there's, you know, there's all different kinds of peptides. Women, I think, have, there's peptides that women can do that meant you hear about the wolf stack. So there's like the wolf stack, but for women, it's like the glow or the cloverlough.

with a K. But there are peptides that do with inflammation, all of it. And you've got to be careful with the number of companies out there because I'm sorry, but if they're asking you to just pay them in crypto and text them, I'm not doing that. That's nonsense. And most of them are either Russian or Chinese. There's very, very few, if any, that entirely do it in the U.S. of A. I mean, honestly, whether or not the precursors are USA's questionable, but in terms of putting it together, there's very few in the USA that do it, but the Maha thing has been changing it. I just think that people, I get very classical liberal about this, back to that conversation, back to Tocqueville. I think the government should be a neutral presence. I don't think the government

should be regulating all of this because I've been taking them and I'm telling you, and this is just my experience, I've noticed a mad crazy difference, mad crazy difference. I'm, I wanted, the one thing that I did do differently is I, and I haven't tried it yet, So I'm not going to tell you the companies because I don't, I just don't feel comfortable doing that. I don't want to sit here and be like shilling for them. Like I was telling you guys behind the scenes, you know, with some of this. But I don't want it to seem like I'm, because it's not an ad. And I don't, you know, but there, some companies are better than others.

Do your research for sure. I've done hours of reading on this stuff. And I've distilled everything down to three different companies. The things that you need to understand when you're looking. for peptides is, first off, if they're not taking credit cards and they don't look legit, then they're not legit. Or you may not get the full strength of what you're getting. And that's where that COA, the certificate of analysis, I think there's two things you need. Third-party testing and certificate of analysis and they need to be public on the website for you to access,

not something that you have to beg for an email that's sketchy to me. So there's things that, because that tells you what's actually in the vial that you're getting. But I absolutely do this. I get my peptides. I get my backwater. I constitute it. I have a little pen that I do. It's super easy. Boop, bo, bo, that's it. And I do, the NAD plus is done in the morning, but the other ones are done in the evening. And, but the copper one, so I've been doing the GCU, which is amazing. And now I'm doing what they call the clothes stack, which includes the GCU. And then also something for inflammation, but it helps with hair and skin and nails and all of that stuff. And as I was telling everybody, I've always had

like really fast growing hair anyway. That's why my hair grows so fast because some of you watching are like, did you, are you, it's not a wig. I've never one, I've never had extensions. That's how fast my hair grows. And it's crazier now. With that, I've noticed it. And I've been doing these for probably about 10 months now. Oh yeah? Yeah. Yeah. I've noticed a major difference. And I've definitely noticed a difference. Absolutely. And when I went into, because I would, My health crusade also includes doing two annual skin checks, even though I'm more olive-toned and I don't really not, I mean, I still want to go and check things out. And my dermatologist was even like, what are you doing differently?

And I'm like, because of my mom-down-that's just, you know, has been my experience. But the other thing I'll have you guys know is you guys, for those of you who have watched me, for or have listened to the show for any period of time. You guys know that I used to get, you know, sinus infections constantly. How often would you guys see me here dealing with, you know, strep throat? I've done this show with strep throat and 101 degree fever more times than I can count. And Kane knows it. All the time.

When's the last time you remember me doing that now, Kane? Being sick. You're right. It was well in last year, early last year. And I've always eaten well, and I've always, you know, I get a minimum. I can't sleep a full eight hours because I just can't. But I always get six and a half hour's sleep. I always do, you know, whatever.

And again, workout, eat right. Even with that, I was still getting sick. But then changing it. And I'm just telling you, I've noticed a difference. So I think it's worth checking out. And this is one of the things that I love about the Maha movement is they are so, focused on prevention. And that to me is so key. And I've been through health scares. I went through a crazy, terrifying health scare like three years ago. And I had to have major abdominal surgery, which

was life-changing for me. And I, even before then, I was still pretty crazy about health. Now I do body scans every year. I do the whole nine yards. Everything. Allergy shots. Body. scans, all of it, because I want to run optimally, and I never want to have to go through anything like that again. And I also want to make sure that I am just at the healthiest that I can be. And that includes, you know, looking and making sure that what I'm actually injecting with peptides is legit. So, and I've shown everything to my doctor that I order. I'm like, hey, what do you think about this? What do you think about this? And sure, I thoroughly aggravate them. But I'm surprised that the doctors even engage you in conversation about stuff.

Because they know, well, I tell them, you can either answer me out. I'm going to do it anyway. You can either help me or not. That's how I put it. So what are they going to do? And I wonder how much my doctor, for example, would even know about it, honestly. Well, and that's the other thing. Like so many, so my doctor's office, they literally went and did this for like two months.

They went, there was a thing, like a symposium. And then they do this training. One of them went to Sweden and all. I mean, they really study this stuff. So, long story, long, just look for those things. Do your research. Some are more legit than others, but they need to have that third-party testing. They need to have that certificate of analysis.

And obviously, I'm not a doctor. I'm just telling you what works for me. Just be smart about it. But I think that it absolutely is, I think it's been life-changing. I want to switch gears here because this Texas thing, to close this out, We were talking about a piece that I have up at Substick. If you haven't read it yet, go read it. It's called Stop Attacking Voters for the Texas Senate matchup.

And I, aside from everything, how I was saying that this has never been a safe seat, and I explained why. And I went into how it's not Trump's influence because Kornick got more votes than Trump in 2020. It's not, Trump didn't go in and just bulldoze everything and pick a candidate. Corny did not help himself. He sponsored the gun control package in 2022. two, big issue, you know, and if he was such a safe bet, then how did he get beaten the primary? If he was such a safe bet, then why was he neck and neck with Tala Rico and every pre-primary matchup for a, you know, possible general? It just doesn't make any sense. And it was never a

safe seat because Ted Cruz lost the largest red county in Texas, the largest red urban county of the United States to Beta or Worc in 2018 by nearly 4,000 votes. So it was never a safe seat to begin with. These are all things that people who do not know Texas politics, what they say. So here's the thing. Republicans have a 53 seat majority currently. 31 are GOP held seats. They're not up for re-election. 22 are on the ballot this November. Republicans can only lose two seats to maintain a majority. Of the 22 Republican-controlled seats, two of are up for special election, but still doesn't matter. It's November. Twelve are considered battleground races. nine of them are Republican.

Texas is considered a battleground state now because it was reclassified as lean's Republican to toss up. They were actually considering political report was actually considering having it leaned down, but it's a toss up. They're within the margin of error, Paxson and Tala Rico. The matchup

between Paxson and Tala Rico is exactly what was envisioned during the primary and Cornyn was no different. The Cornon-Talorico surveys pre-primary were the exact same as Paxton. I looked at all of them. I wrote about it and screenshot it. That's how I know. Texas is a state that was plus nine for Trump in 2020, plus 13, almost 14

in 2024. This is, you go to war with the soldiers you have. And this is a race that can be won. And I don't buy into the scarcity, the scarcity economy of the election spending. Because, like, Like I said, Trump has hundreds billions of dollars in his war chest. Their NRC has money. Other donor groups have money.

That's a lie that they're telling you to make so that they can wash their hands of this race. And that's fact. So it's a race that if the party wants to win it, they can win it. But you can't sit here and go after Texas voters who, and call them morons and all these other names because they, look, we had Cornyn for a long time. The straw that broke the camel's back. was the gun control bill of 2022. So Cornyn did not help himself. People are out there saying, well, Paxton's a bad.

Cornyn did not help himself. He was also a bad candidate, guys. This is stuff that people who don't live here in Texas, who have no familiarity with Texas politics, that's what they say. It is a winnable race. If people stop being cowards about it, it's a winnable race.

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I mean, if you're going to steal something, don't steal, but if you are. So a South Florida U.S. Border Patrol arrest, I did not know there was a mystery, but apparently people were wondering why in this area did hundreds of cinnamon rolls disappear for days. They didn't make it to a farmer's market, right? So this guy named, who has way too many names, Ivan Dario, Rico Milano. Too many names, Ivan. And what is up with the Dario Rico Milano, but your first name's Ivan?

What? Was arrested during a traffic stop by Border Patrol. He's Colombian. He came to the United States illegally. He's here illegally. And apparently he stole, apparently $3,000 worth of cinnamon rolls from the roll and dough bakery in Sunrise, Florida. Julie Pierre, the 21-year-old owner,

had sent these to a farmer's market with an Uber courier, which she shouldn't have done. And she thought maybe the courier stole it, but apparently they never left the vehicle. A family member, after Milano's arrest, the family member picked up the vehicle, the cinnamon rolls were inside. They weren't discovered until days later.

They actually never left. So they had to throw them away. that's horrible and I feel like this guy should be hung and then his body deported for wasting all those cinnamon rolls I'm very particular about this let's see a black widow was accused of poisoning a Florida man after meeting him on a dating app what? Yes this is she's got crazy eyes

what I tell you guys every time I don't care how desperate you are no a Florida woman is accused of poisoning a man she met on a dating app and deputies think there's more victims 39 year old crazy eyed Samantha Adams was arrested She agreed to meet with a 69-year- If you're 70 years old and you're me, sorry, she is not into your romance, heart or spirit, y'all.

Sheriff Grady Judd called her a potential black widow, saying that other people could have been victimized as well. I mean, she's not even that cute. Ew. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. So I think this video is moms trying to, jokingly explain how nervous they are after postpartum and like this is the stuff that they're

worried about every day that's going to happen. And I get it. If you're tired and sleep deprived, you know, you're like, oh my gosh, did I, you know, did I do this? Did I do that? Like I, you know, you always think about that. I just think the timing of it looks bad because it's the lens, not everything is related to the Lindsay Clancy stuff. I had two of my friends that were talking about these videos, one of whom is pregnant and has young kids. And the way that those videos started, it was supposed to be the new mom brain drain and how, you know, you, there's certain things that you forget. Like, one of my friends was like, yeah, I left my diaper bag on top of the car, driving down the street going. She was like going to literally Costco.

Thankfully, it was still on top of her car. How does that happen, by the way? I mean, she doesn't live that far from it. But the other thing is like, nobody said anything. I would have been honking. Although, is that, that's probably considered aggressive now, wouldn't it? If you were trying to honk at someone like, lady, lady, and especially if it's a new mom and you got your newborn,

you're probably freaking out already. So, you know, it's probably not the best thing. But the video was supposed to be like what sleep deprivation, the postpartum acclamation is, as opposed to these are dark thoughts I have, inspired by Lindsay Clancy. I think we need to be a little bit nuanced when we're looking at some of this stuff. Because not everything is that. But definitely some of it out there is.

Like the whole crack and the egg on the kids. What is that even? I don't know. I don't know. But I feel like we're getting into crazy territory here with all of this. People are just too damn online. They're way too online. I mean, I just can't.

And now all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Elena Smorecette, who cannot play a harmonica to save her life, says that her, she's being blackmailed because of a calculated blackmail campaign orchestrated by her former tour manager. Well, that's no fun. Boo. So she, apparently it's, she says that while she was temporarily employed, that while temporarily employed by her as a tour manager, the person that she had hired admitted to the British board.

force that a bag seized at an airport that had marijuana and non-opioid animal tranquilizer belonged to her and he threatened a reporter for it and all this stuff and so she's like I'm not going to get bullied so now she's suing so there we go that's kind of crazy you got to be careful the people that you hire honestly I don't want to read this guy this guy sniffs people in the store and a serial sniffer and now he's back in jail because he's done it at two different stores he's a registered sex offender and one girl recorded him he gets on his knees and he gets

behind people and sniffs them. That's what he does. Milo, is that you? And it goes back years. And one woman actually recorded it and so he's going, why are we letting people like this walk the street? Sorry, we're going to shuffle you off forcibly this mortal coil because you're too gross

to live. Bye. Let's see, some Gen Zeman are pheromone maxing. So that means they're staying disgusting and allowing their B-O. Yeah. That's gross. That just means you're stanky. Let's like, let's not, that's not, stop saying maxing with everything.

Moron. Stop it. Golly, that just means you're gross and you need to go wash your A double snakes. Nasty. Like, there's a difference between having like a musk for dudes and just being also gross. Stop it. Nobody wants to smell you feet McChese. Get out.