The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Jesse Watters Embarrasses Abdul el-Sayed | Political Commentary

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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Welcome to the program. You know, this Abdul al-Said guy in Michigan, his interview, you know, I, oh my gosh, he's just, he just bloviates. It's all he does. And he never really answered anything. The other thing I noticed about this too, because I was sitting there listening to the monitor and I'm like, oh boy, here we are. The other thing I noticed is that he, so first thing, he went in and he was, he was defending Sharia law as though it was an expression of Muslim faith. I know you guys saw that, right? It's an expression, just simply an expression of Muslim faith. That's all it is. And he, well, I'm going to

play this soundbite for you. But it was, he was, the way that he was talking about it as though he was defending the presence of Sharia in the United States. It was one of the things that Waters asked him about. Because he was saying that if you, El-Said had said prior that if you were for banning Sharia, that's a white supremacy, which I thought was asinine. And then he was asked about it. This is cut 13. Listen to what he says here. To getting rid of Sharia law's white supremacy, can you explain that one? Do you know what canon law is? Jesse, I assume you're Christian, right? Yeah, tell me. All right. So, Canon law. is the name for Christian law.

I don't begrudge you your right to practice your faith as you choose. I don't know why the idea. I'm sorry, he doesn't even, he's too stupid to even know what canon law means. That is not even what canon law means. First off, canon law literally only specifically deals with matters of church and religious governance. It literally only deals with like clergy and sacraments and like the day-to-day church, for the lack of a better way to put it, governance.

everything else is left to secular government. Everything else is left to government. He doesn't even understand what that means, first and foremost. Sharia is Islamic jurisprudence. He is trying to dodge what Jesse is really, I think, trying to ask him is the difference between Western and Islamic jurisprudence, right? So Sharia is Islamic jurisprudence.

Whereas Western jurisprudence is everything. law does not regulate the legal sphere here. That's not how we don't operate under that. That was a dumb. And I was listening to that thinking, that's not even comparable. This jackass doesn't even know what canon law means. He is one of those guys who's only been told kind of what to say, so he's not real well read. Abdul al-Said is not an intellectual, and that should come as no surprise. But he's not an intellectual. I mean, canon law is literally, this is something that is church authority, whereas Sharia is supposed to be like their profit inspired, you know, et cetera. And that's, and, and, and Canon is all about relying upon church hierarchy. I mean, I, you guys understand the difference.

But here's the big thing with it. You know, I, let me, because he was saying that, I guess, that it hasn't even been tried here in the United States. When we moved here to Texas in 2013, when I started working at the Blaze, and I was doing my radio program separately, one of the things that was the big news story was the community of Irving, Texas, was reeling. And I was working there, that's where the studios and all of that were with the Blaze,

the community was reeling because just a couple of years prior, this guy named Yasser Saeed, had murdered his two beautiful daughters because he, as a Muslim, thought that they were becoming too westernized. So he basically got them in a car, shot them dead, and went on the run, right? He was trying to be very clever in all of this, and his family was helping to cover for him and all of this stuff. I mean, it's, it's, is, I mean, it's a horrible story. He was eventually taken into custody and charged in 2020, and he was convicted in

2022. Now, that was an honor killing. And one of the defenses was that they, they are a family that practices that lives under Sharia. That's the same town in which a literal Islamic tribunal also tried at the same time period establishing a Sharia court. And the excuse was always, well, it's only going to be for civil matters. Only civil matters. Well, that's stupid. Here's why it's stupid. Women have absolutely no legal standing in Sharia court. Under Sharia, women have no legal standing. So if you're sitting here talking about family civil disputes, custody disputes, immediately those women are not getting due process at all whatsoever. They're not getting their day in court. They're not getting fair representation because they're not recognized legally under Sharia. That is garbage Islamic

jurisprudence. This is the United States of America. If you do not like our system of of laws, take your happy backside back to the sandpit from where you come. If you dislike anything I have to say, choke on it. This is about supplanting Western jurisprudence with Islamic jurisprudence, Sharia. So the two are entirely incompatible. Women don't even have recognition in the court under Sharia. So how are you going to claim, oh, just for a civil matter? You're talking about screwing women over. Nothing new in a community that, you know, where you had a guy who honor killed his two daughters. This is also the same community where you had Clockboy. This was all literally within the same like four year period. You remember the Clockboy kid who put a bunch of wires

in this pencil case and it looked like a bomb? And he was reported to have like told people that, you know, joking about it. And they ended up taking him because they thought it was, I guess, like an explosive device or it looked too much like one and they ended up detaining him they took him to the police station they were asking him questions his dad showed up and the family made a big to do of it they wanted all the police officers involved charged they came after the city council and they went after the then mayor at the time now congresswoman bet fendine but she was mayor of irving texas at the time she got so many death threats when i interviewed her and i was the first at the blaze to interview her i had her on set she came with like a

three or four person detail. I mean, that just was underscoring how serious the issue was for her. So Abdul al-Said can sit here and say, oh, well, Sharia, you know, no one's letting, it's not even happening in any way, or Sharia, it's about, you know, this is, you have canon law. It's not even remotely the same thing, number one, and number two. Sharia is literally a, it's a de-evolution of law. It is an actual de-evolution of law and order. So no, thank you. That's incompatible with the West. It's incompatible with the United States.

We have American Western jurisprudence. And if you don't like it, get out. You're not going to establish your own little court. You're not going to have two spheres of justice. We are not doing that. This is how we do it here. We're the biggest and we're the baddest. And if you don't like it, tough beans. We're running the show here in the U.S. of A because we can. As James Brown said, paid the cost to be the boss. So that was asinine. for him saying this. And then he kept talking about reparations. Dear heavens. Cut 14. He went on, because he has been saying this over and over again, that reparations are needed.

Listen to this. Reparations. Do you support that? I think we need to have an honest conversation about the incredible debt that was put upon black folks as a function of slavery that we have yet to pay. And I just think that's fair.

Like if people are enslaved, and forced into servitude, and then we don't actually have a conversation about all that was owed, that our own country agreed was owed. I just think that it's past time to have that conversation. That shouldn't be a crazy thing. I understand that, like, for folks who really want to inflame culture war, I just think it's important for us to think about how do we make sure that communities like the city of Detroit that have been segregated so that you have disproportionate number of people as a function of redlining

who are forced into certain communities, How do we make sure that their schools are made whole? Hmm. So let's have a conversation about reparations, because if we're going to have any discussion of reparations, it starts with Islamists. Because who was it that trafficked in slavery the most? I don't know, going from, like, what, mid-seventh century all the way into the 20th century,

it's been Arabs. You can get mad at me for saying the truth, but it doesn't make it less truthful. I mean, you had about what? How many people? Anywhere, I mean, I think the estimates are, because it's kind of hard. I mean, millions. I think the estimates are anywhere from like 10 to 18 million people. And that's just from sub-Sahara Africa alone taken in.

They operated all over the world. I mean, one of the reasons why Jefferson created the Navy and went to Tripoli was to deal with the Barbary pirates who were capturing merchant ships and taking our citizens. prisonry into slavery. It's been going on for a long time. They had the Trans-Saharan route. They had the Indian Ocean route. They had European raids. I mean, for crying out loud. They did quite a lot. So if we're going to have a discussion about Arabs or a discussion about reparations, let's talk about the Arab contribution to that because it starts with the origin, does it not? The origin of it. So let's think about it. Let's see. You had what, I think the Arab and

Barbary, pirates, I think, looking at my notes, it was about 1.3 million European Christians into slavery that was just between the 16th and 19th centuries, taking people from their homes, robbing them of their culture and of their identity. They were involved in a slave trade for about 13 centuries, and they had to be forcefully, it had to be forcefully abolished with them. But let's talk about the reparations, because I would love, let's have, let's have from the Arab slave trade, Abdul Alist. Saeed's own background. Let's have them pay reparations. The closest historical estimate we have for satisfying that debt owed is about, I don't know, it ranges from $5.2 trillion to $100 trillion. I don't know about y'all, but I want my reparations now. I think that we're owed that. I mean, you have to look at how many people were enslaved by that, and because there were so many different trade routes and because there were so many different, for the lack of a better way to put it,

sales avenues. You're looking at, I think the rough estimate was 720 billion hours of uncompensated labor. So Abdul al-Said's not interested in talking about actual reparations because he was, would owe the most in reparations for practicing it the longest, doing it the most and creating it. So trillions of dollars. So if we're going to have a conversation about reparations, let's start with Abdul al-Said's Islamist beliefs in origin. Because you created it. So you owe the most. Where are our reparations? Where are the reparations to Americans in the United States? States of America for the sin of slavery that were created by one ideology that is still doing it to people in Africa today. But everybody looks the other way because they don't want to get their

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You're talking about anywhere from 18 to 20 million people. Billions of unpaid hours of labor. trillions of dollars owed in reparations. And by the way, the Muslim slave trade continues today. Qatar's workforce is pretty much entirely enslaved people. And that's just one example. So if Abdul al-Said was really serious about having a discussion on reparations, open your wallet.

Where's our money that we're owed? I want my trillions. Y'all want your trillions? Yeah, says the audience. Kane, you want your trillions? Yeah, says Kane. This is idiotic. And by the way, they covered a 1,300 year history still going.

So this fool wants to get out there and run his mouth about reparations. Oh, we got to have reparations. He's not going to start it. I mean, you know, you predated everything. everybody else by almost a damn millennia, but the truth of the matter is, and he's still talking about this is flashback

El Saeed, cut 15, listen. And we owe the reparations of recognizing that this country was built on uncompensated labor of enslaved people. I believe we owe it to

engage in reparations. There are so many ways in which we need to have a conversation. about reparations. We need to invest in reparations. We need reparations in this country. Furthermore, you know how stupid this is? How are you going to deal with reparations? You know, aside from the Arab slave trade, which predated the Transatlantic one by almost, by over 800 years. And still today, they have people like, you know, Qatari workers are all indentured servants, et cetera, et cetera. They're still part of it when, and they owe, I think the estimate

is trillions upon trillions of billions and billions of hours of unpaid labor. When you get past that and you're specifically looking at the United States. Okay, so let's entertain this. What about the people who came here, I don't know, like Juan, if I'm going to use you as an example, Juan wasn't involved in the slave trade. Why should he have, why should he be involved? Or what about Kane's family?

Hell apart, Kane's family is from Mexico. What about the people that come over here from Ireland? I have Irish in my family. I got Irish and Scandinavian in my family. in my bloodline. I also have American Indian. So how are you going to divide all that up? My husband's family, they didn't come here until the mid to late 1800s. And they, right when they got here, they were fighting the Civil War for the North. So, you know what? The reparations, we paid already reparations, by the way. We paid. I just feel like Abdul Al-Said is ignorant of history.

he's very ignorant of history because we ended up we paid we paid with the blood of americans in the civil war that was the reparations you had what i think the total casualty is under it's what 1.4 1.5 million i'm going to look this up i want to be accurate and it was like it was over yeah it's 1.5 million total casualties and that includes killed wounded missing and captured So you're looking still at just under a million dead. Families completely gone, right? Family turned against family. You're looking at quite a lot of lives lost.

That's the reparations. That debt was paid in blood. So if Abdul al-Said is ignorant of the American history that he wants to suddenly try to claim so he can rewrite it, tough beings, this is the truth of the matter. But even then, just looking at it, you know, just exploring the ludicrousness of this topic. What about people who just like, let's say who just immigrated here in the past? What about one of my friends whose family's Cuban?

Her grandfather came from Cuba. Came from Cuba. Her mother was little bitty. She was the youngest of like nine kids. They immigrated, went to Florida, ended up in Houston. and then ended up in Dallas. So what about their family? How does that work?

Do have people thought about this? How does that even work with any practicality? Or what about African nations that sold other African nations into slavery? So are we going to trace everybody? So no, no, no, no. Just because you're black doesn't mean you get reparations. Because we have to look and see, are you one of the nations in Africa that were selling people that you raided in Congress?

to Arab slave traders or to later the transatlantic trade. Because if you are, why should you be eligible for reparations? How are we working this, folks? How are we doing it? Yeah, I don't think so. That's not how that's going to work. He didn't really think about this too much, did he? He did not think about that very much.

Yeah, Steve was saying that he had a great-grandparent that left Irish poverty in the 1890s. So how does that work? Does, like, what percentage of that is deducted? I love these people who think that their histories are spotless. Not even Jesus had a spotless lineage, which is kind of the point. So this is just a stupid conversation to even have. But that's who this guy is. I wanted to play Cut 9 as well, because this was really setting me off.

Abdul Al-C. talking about health care. I don't think he understands how health care. works. Listen. You know, I remember having great conversations with my conservative friends about right to try legislation. The idea that the government shouldn't tell you what kind of health care you should have. I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of health care you should have. Okay, well, but you support the exact kind of health care that you think where the government tells you what to have. He supports single payer. When people sit here and go, Medicare for all, Medicare for all, he said, by the way, we passed Obamacare. That solved all the problems we were told.

What are you people talking about? You guys got Obamacare. Everybody's fine now. It all works fine, right? Isn't that how it was worse? So what the hell are they talking about? They got Obamacare. Unless they lied and Obamacare didn't actually work.

How does that? Someone makes sense of that. You all remember this argument. You all remember it. We got to pass Obamacare. We've got to pass Obamacare. We've passed Obamacare. And then we're able, now everybody's got health care.

We're all covered. except we're not now. It's weird because I ended up losing my son's allergist when we had Obamacare. I ended up losing also one of my doctors. I had a switch. I had a friend who lost a specialist in oncology who had to switch. And it just got worse and worse. It's like three times more expensive than it was. My premium is astronomical. It's insane. But when you have single payer, when you have single payer, it gets even worse. And we have single payer. But I mean, it's pretty it's all that but a name really it is it's single pair and one of the reasons it's so expensive is so that they can say that everybody's covered but they ration the care as well

so if it's if everybody can access it it it's got to be rationed remember the unelected bureaucrats that we're going to decide on a case-by-case basis whether or not people received care how long do you think a process like that takes me look at canada people are struggling just to even go in and get basic checkups or follow-ups. I had a friend who ended up coming to the United States. It's going to be a year, first week of September. She had gotten an abnormal scan. I don't want to divulge her health, but she had gotten an abnormal scan. And she's from the United States, married a Canadian, moved to outside of Toronto, moved to Canada. And dealing with their health care has been

asinine. And so they were so worried about it. Her and her husband just came back to the United States. And she ended up actually having to, she actually ended up having to have surgery. She's not going to have, the surgery is not going to take place until next month, but she's got to have surgery. She's got to, had to go back to Canada to get some of her stuff, and she's coming back here for surgery. And they're going to have to pay out of pocket. Because she was only going to be able to go in and get her

follow up the first week of September. almost a year after the abnormal scan. Now, I thought that that was a fluke. I mean, I know that Canadian health care is horrible, and I've heard about it. But when I first mentioned that story on this program, the number of people who wrote me, who either had family in Canada,

there were actual Canadians that wrote me who listened from way up north, and they were like, that's exactly how this happens. That's exactly how the system works. To the letter. That is, they were like, no, Dana, that's not unusual. That's how it works. I'm like, wait a minute, you mean to tell me that you can have an abnormal scan and live in fear and they make you live in fear and it gets worse in a year's time?

That is not health care. That's not care. That's not even prevention. We don't do anything preventatively. I really do think that one of the great things that's going to come out of the Maha movement is more focus on preventative care, if anything. And I'm happy for that because that's what's needed. I think there's more money in prevention than there isn't just remedy than anything else. So again, he has no idea what he's talking about. I love these people that drop here in like a second and then they're just, they want to sit here and remake the country. You don't get to do that.

I really think that we need to start barring people from serving an elected office until they've been here X amount of times. I believe with Hamilton and some of the other founders and the federalist papers on that. Absolutely. They had a point. And as Cain notes in Canada, it's easier to get. What is that called? It's the maid, but what does the maid stand for him too lazy to Google? Medical assistance in dying?

Medical assistance and dying. Well, what amides do? They clean it up. They clean stuff up, right? Take care of things. Clean up messes. It's very appropriately named up there, don't you think so? It's sad.

It's just incredibly sad. And so, I don't know. I, the whole thing is the fact that he can say this stuff. And then Hillary Clinton, the audio that we played of her last seven, we're just experimenting. No, you guys aren't experimenting. You're negotiating your surrender. You're not experimenting. Now, you're in the final steps of negotiation of your surrender.

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it must be real because it's on the internet it's how it goes so i'm i'm amazed at this because, I mean, there were so many people over, I mean, it was like, actually, it's over 17,000 comments at this point. There are so many people out there. And I was wondering, why in the world is Texas Roadhouse trending? Because it was trending yesterday, or yesterday evening. But no one ever, I mean, they said it was a group chat. there, nobody was named.

There was, and I'm not saying that there probably aren't nut jobs out there. There's always a nut job. But I don't know. Texas Roadhouse says it was unfounded. They said that they looked into it and it was unfounded. Because apparently they couldn't actually find anything. There was like one, like screenshot of one thing that only had two comments on it. And it named.

named a Texas Roadhouse and a Logans. And it's just the one post from some like person with the last name Smith. Oh, that's so not. That's totally not easy to make up. And it's one post that has literally two comments on it. You can't actually tell what it's from. So, you know, forgive us if we're asking questions about this. This just seems completely fake.

Sorry, it just seems fake. Because I can't like 500, what, 400,000 people in the, I don't, I just, what? And everybody's losing their minds over something that isn't, can't be substantiated. So Texas Roadhouse came out

and they had to respond because some randoes said something online. So Texas Roadhouse has to respond. That's where we're at now. So they said that they looked into it. They said they were blah, blah, blah, committed to creating an environment

where every guest is traded with respect and blah, blah, blah. They said, we're aware of the video. We believe it to be completely unfounded and we take every accusation towards our brand seriously. But, you know, apparently the damage is already done because the mob is still out there.

The rage mob guys still is very much a thing. And they are out there going crazy. So they flooded the Facebook page, even though no one's, can say anything you want online and not have to provide a shred of evidence. And people are like, oh, must be true because it's online. They lose their minds. I blame Gal Sharpton and the softening of the mind. That's what I blame. Smoothen it out, right? Smoothen out the wrinkles in the brain. That's what I blame Gal Sharpton from that kind of stuff for that. It's just an anecdote. It's just

an anecdote. That's right. Macabre. Macabre. I can't even say. say, I have to really work hard to say it improperly. Oh, man. So Texas Roadhouse told the New York Post, they said they used a third-party firm to even investigate, and they said that the whole thing is a hoax. That's what Texas Roadhouse said. They said the entire thing is a hoax. And that they even hired an outside firm to run it down, and they could not find anything.

So someone, I feel like there should be repercussions. I think people who do that, and I realize that this sort of, stuff is very expensive to litigate, but if you're Texas Roadhouse, you have the money. This is why I should never, like, if I ever sell out, you'll know, because I will be suing everyone under the sun. I will be making lives all manner of hell. I promise you. That is like, I know, yes, donate to my church, pay money to the church. Oh, yes, you know, money to abuse dogs.

All that's a, but I feel like Steve Martin and S&L and all the children of the world join hands. and they sing when he talks about what he would like for Christmas. No, I will hire the most rabid law firm, and I would go and litigate people endlessly into bankruptcy for the duration of their lives if I ever sold out, because I would have to sell out for the amount of money that it would take to do that. And I would just sit back and just motion after motion,

let's file it, and let's drag this out. That's what I would do. That's how you would know I'd sell out. I would almost sell out for all of the, to be able to do that, like in perpetuity for the rest of my. life. That to me makes my heart almost beat again. It's wonderful. So Texas Roadhouse lies about this. One person made a viral video on TikTok and everybody goes crazy and Texas Roadhouse is besieged with this stuff. I don't know if that says more about, actually I think it does. I think that says more

about our society and people in America than anything else. It makes me feel bad for Texas Roadhouse. why would you do that to Texas Roadhouse? Have you not had one of their rolls? What's the matter with you? Have you not had that brown butter that they got? Oh my gosh. And you put it on the roll? Oh my gosh.

The peanut. I mean, it's just good. Why would you not, why would you do that to Texas Roadhouse? The hate that is in someone's heart to get everybody all amped up. And I'll be damn. Not a single person is like, excuse me, can we see some evidence of this? Oh, no, they didn't need any evidence. they just wanted to just completely turn on an entity just because, I don't know, maybe that,

maybe, maybe in our efforts to be so digital and live so digitally, we crave that sense of belonging that you only can find in meat space in the real world. And maybe that's one of the reasons why people get so amped up and they go off and they they join the rage mob and they do all of this stuff. Maybe that's why. So that they get a sense of belonging. I don't know how else to explain it. Have you ever noticed that most laundry detergent smells like something you'd use to scrub a toilet? I mean, no thanks. Nobody wants that. This is why I love and personally use laundry sauce because it doesn't just get your clothes clean. It makes them smell absolutely incredible for days. Like I smell myself right now. It's so good.

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they ended up, he put out a video statement discussing it. And age 80, she had had an appearance at Dollywood that, when was this? Like just the other day that she had canceled. And she was telling people, she was having health issues. She was pretty transparent about it. She was having some health issues since her husband had passed. She's going through it. And she ended up canceling this one.

appearance, which was rare for her at Dollywood. And good heavens. They confirmed it today, Instagram video posted by her nephew. And age 80. And like I said, she had some health woes. I think she, because she had to cancel, like what, a year ago, she had to cancel a string of concerts and things of that nature. But my heavens, that's, that is going to be a big, oh,

you know, that's going to be a big old funeral down there. There's one thing that, I'm going to tell you all, there's one thing that Southern folks do real well. It is having them visitations and having them funerals, I'm saying. So age 80, crazy. So now the tributes are coming in. Her husband, Carl Thomas, Dean, only passed away just recently. She's just always, has been one of those staples, always been out there. She's married for, what, over 60 years.

and they got married in 1966 and she did a documentary where she was talking about how they met and all of this but we got the video from the nephew who was announcing it this is what they just posted to Instagram Hey everyone my name is Brian Seaver

son of Cassie Parton and I'm representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean sister, sis, aunt granny to one one generation and Gigi to the next. This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than

two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment, but haven't truly felt it until now. It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus surely met by Carl, her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens. I first went on the road with Dolly as a kid, getting a taste of the road life in the early 1980s. Dolly opened doors not just for me, but for her entire family to reach the potential we didn't even know was possible. Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent. By her example, we believe that anything was possible.

She never saw a door she couldn't open, and the doors she opened made and changed history. My family and I have shared a lifetime of beautiful memories with Dolly, but so of you. She has always been on your television, your record player, your CD, and on your phone playlist, becoming an extended part of your family whether you liked it or not. Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently to ensure her spirit will live with us forever. Dolly was a farmer, just like her daddy. He farmed the soil, she farmed songs and happiness.

Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest. Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly. Aunt Granny, Gigi. May God bless Dolly Parton, and may God bless you all. She will always love you. that's awesome

you could tell he's getting a little choked up there towards the end of it god love him i wonder if i was like how many i wonder how many takes he had to do of that wow queen of country music one of the things that i think that so many people i think recognized in dolly parton is that she knew the assignment she understood the assignment She was an entertainer. She was a performer. She was a songwriter.

I think it was one of my kids or one of their friends. I made the remark of some song that they liked. And I was like, oh, yeah, Dolly Parton wrote that. They're like, what? I'm like, yeah, Dolly Parton wrote that song. She wrote Whitney Houston's, I Will Always Love You. She wrote that after she, I think she was splitting from Porter Wagner, who they were working together. And she, I think that's the story behind that song.

And he was not her manager, but like a business partner. And when they went their separate ways, she was inspired to write that song. And she was talking about, she said at Glastonbury, she had made mention of how the song Jolene came about because everybody always wondered, I think, with Jolene, you know, which is such a great song. And she said that it was kind of, I was reading this story on, actually it was quoting her here. she said it was kind of a running joke talking about her and her husband she said there was this woman she said that the song jolene was inspired by a local bank teller who used to flirt with her husband her late husband carl dean this isn't 23 she told the story she said she's got this terrible

crush on my husband and he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention and she added it was kind of like a running joke between us when i was saying hell you're spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't believe we got that kind of money. And then years later, she told the crowd at Glassenberry, she said, you know, he spent a little more time with Jolene than I thought he should be. And so she says, I put a stop to that. I got rid of that red-headed woman in a hurry.

I love it. And her song, I will always love you. She wrote that after she split in Porter Wagner and then it was re-recorded by Whitney Houston in the early 90s. That was a huge hit. She

famously refused to allow Elvis Presley to record his own version. And this was after Colonel Tom Parker had demanded that she signed over half the publishing rights for it. And she said, I just couldn't let, you know, the colonel do that. I just, she's like, I just, I had to say no. And she said that Elvis had loved the song. And she said Priscilla had told her that after she and Elvis were divorced, that Elvis sang that song to her when they were walking down the steps of the courthouse together after they got divorced. Interesting.

She's a powerful songwriter. And yeah, she said that, she said that Colonel Parker told her, quote, well, you know, we don't record anything with Elvis unless we got publishing on it or at least half the publishing. And she goes, well, because I had a number one song on it, that's the most important copyright my whole publishing company, and I can't do that, which is, you know, understood. But she said that she was heartbroken because one of her wishes was to always hear Presley, was to have heard Presley sing that song.

and you know he would have just oh Elvis would have just turned that out oh my goodness but ended up Winnie Houston recorded it gorgeous song there's certain songs that I can't listen to because they just I don't know certain some people I think can they're very I don't know some people you just kind of makes you immediately feel something

one way or the other like I don't listen to ballads and I don't but that song and then the Celine Dion song the Titanic one I'm like no can't listen to it Stevie Nix landslide Nope, those songs are band in my home. I don't play them in my home. They're not allowed. Don't allow them.

Because I hear them and I'll be like, and I am not a crier at all. But when I do cry, it's ugly. It is, I am the world's ugliest crier. And I think it's because I try to keep a bearing and I'm like, ugh. Anyway, beautiful song. We're not playing it at all because it's just so beautiful

and it would be horrible right now. But she's amazing. She was just, she understood the assignment, like I said, and I think she never really got, political. I think some people had ideas as to where she was, but she was really, really devoted to maintaining this accessibility and a practical accessibility. You know, she had her thoughts on things, but she always knew how to diffuse this situation whenever they would try to bring it to her. And I can't tell you how many interviews I've seen of her where they were trying to, like,

get her on a particular issue or who she was voting for. And she expertly diffused it. And before the host even knew what was happening, had already turned that interview around and moved on. She was actually a very brilliant communicator. She really was. I mean, if she wasn't, you know, an artist, artistic genius in this regard, my word, that woman could have run PR for the world. But I also loved how she was a maximalist. Because I love it. I think if I had more sense of style, I dress more maximally,

maximistically. But she was always extra. Every accessory, the hair, the makeup, the nails. And there's something I like about it, because when we went through the 90s, and I came of age in the late 90s, going into the early odds,

remember how everything was like simple, and it was the Calvin Clod. minimalism and it was the super nobody had waves in their hair nobody had every nobody even had layers cut in their hair it was just all straight straight straight minimalist and it was boring and no fun it was like a huge departure from the 80s and here was dolly partn out there maximalist just dolly maxing dolly maxing right but man so i literally who did i just say this about yesterday can i was like me we got to protect some our older older americans here we got to protect some of these older icons i said this just yesterday what what do we say that i what do we say that about you guys remember

you all out there watching remember i swear i said yesterday it was like oh my gosh we got a Guard our people. And I'll be dang this with Dolly Parton. But she was just, she was so consistent. Yeah, as Kane said, she was consistent to the end. Always with how she treated people, with her kindness. You never heard about anybody ever beefing with Dolly. Ever.

Ever. I mean, this woman predated social media and then went on to dominate social media. she was just one of the smartest business women you're not going to hear a bad word about this woman from anyone because she was one of those rare people who really loved what she did and enjoyed it and enjoyed sharing her talent with everybody and she talked about Jesus she kept country country even when you had all of the the super hyper popularized country and then the kind of swung back to outlaw for a little bit, but I think it's swinging back the other way. She was consistent and kept it country. Oh my gosh. So I got to tell you. So my husband, when they get, they have their

big-o family, they, they're, these people are obsessed with karaoke. I love them so much. They are obsessed with karaoke. You can't get together and do a family thing at all with everybody, I think it's a prerequisite to marry into their family and have a karaoke machine. And one of my favorite things is Islands in the Stream. Kenny and Dolly. Oh, man, you got to get that harmony. You got to get that harmony right. Oh, my gosh. All our stuff was so fun, though. She just is a great. She's just a great performer. Great. You know, she's just great all around. My word. But Dolly Parton, age 80. I have so, I remember being a little kid and I had a denim skirt. a flouncy skirt, a Dukes a Hazard T-shirt, and red cowboy boots.

And I remember running around in my grandparents' gravel driveway while my grandfather was playing Dolly on his old truck radio. I remember that, like, as clear as day. I sound like I grew up like in the Great Depression, don't it, doesn't it? As we move, the folks won't make the program possible. It is our friends over at Superbeats. You guys know the company, Human, behind Superbeats. This is the most trusted beat brand in the market for very good reason, right? One of the reasons is that it was founded at a UT's Health Science Center.

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It's time for Dana's Quick Five. All right. So first up out of the gate, this, let's see. I had this pulled up. All right. So POTUS is talking about renaming the lake, renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. that's going to make the little song that people have to sing to remember all the Great Lakes really upset. It's like homes, you know?

Like if you change it, then that's going to mess all that up. We all learned that in school, an elementary school. I'm going to get all messed up now. Oh, well. I'm just saying. He says he's doing that. We're going to talk more about this as like a pushback to Canada because we're fighting with Canada. We're terrifying.

Kenyon farmers apparently are turning to bugs as organic demand grows. Just where's the asteroid? I don't ask for a lot. My birthday's next month. Can we just all die by asteroid? That's all I want. Because this is disgusting. This is why aliens don't visit.

Kenyan farmers are saying that, well, they're growing things like redworms and other bugs. They say the soil degradation that's caused by chemical fertilizers that the red worms are helping to rescue their land. So, I mean, they're using them not just as a way to help soil, but also they're literally also farming them. It's like a delicacy. that's just would you eat bugs that was a scene from lost boys you know that it's maggots Michael

am I the only one it's almost spooky season let's see a celebrity on restaurant says no under 30s thanks to new riffraff rules I don't hate it I'm not gonna lie I just don't they say the under 30 ban came after

a series of incidents where police had to be called or just don't let trash into your restaurant you know there are people who aren't trash that you know can go out that are 30s and they can go out and they can have a nice time and the do you know who owns this? Rapper Yogadi owns this.

Yes, he's the one who's like, uh-uh, under 30 band. He knows better. Can you believe it? I never, like, I was like, well, who's the celebrity that owns it? It's Memphis. Who's the celebrity that owns it? It's a fine dining bar and lounge. I mean, it's white tablecloth. It's a

nice joint, right? But apparently they're tired of it. So he's like, yeah, no, we're not doing this stuff. If you're under 30, you got to stay out. That's actually hysterical and it mendeers him to me a little bit. I've got to be honest. A Chinese robot runs a 100 meter sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record. And didn't it also run into a wall and then break at the waist?

Okay. I just wanted to, you know why? Because it's a Chinese bot. And the only way that the Chinese, the CCP ever get any kind of technologies is if they rip off all of the superior cultures around them because they're a bunch of communists that hasn't allowed themselves to grow spiritually or intellectually over the past, I don't know, 70 to 80 years. And so they have to steal everybody else's IP.

and then they horribly scale it up and it never works right. Steve Venezuela. A bear attacks and conflicts with humans, conflicts with humans and bear attacks. Because we actually, I had another headline that I thought I was going to put in here. There was a bear attack. There was a black bear attack, which is odd. But a bear attack and bears and humans not getting along has reached historic levels in Colorado.

Probably because there's so many damn progressives there and they don't like them. If I was a bear, I'd be like, you, I'm not going to eat you. I'm just going to rip you up real well and just leave you out here. for all of the wildlife to feast on. I have a dark sense of humor today. So, yeah, they record high. Also, ex-Abrec-I-I-Can-I-can-bel. Does this store still exist?

Abercrombie and Fitch? You can never see in the store, it was all, even like when I was young, it was darkly lit. I mean, younger, but it was like super darkly lit, and you couldn't, right? Abercrombie and Fitch store, you couldn't even see the wash of the jeans you were looking at. Anyway, their CEO, they said,

is mentally fit for a sex trafficking trial because, of course he is. Oh, he hasn't aged well. We got a lot more on the way. Stick with us. One of my favorite things is when I say something on air and people are like, no way. And then they go Google it and they're like, oh, my gosh, the men of Kenny Rod, men who look like Kenny Rogers is one of them. Have you ever looked at that?

You all ever looked at that? I told you all, I was like men who look like there's a whole website. It literally is an entire website. And it looks at men who look like Kenny Rogers. And it's just random dudes. And then you realize there are a lot of dudes that got that look. Huh, it works. So welcome back to the program.

Tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit, a little bit about these surveys. It's interesting. These surveys that come up when people start hearing correct information about data centers, and then the minds change a little bit. It's very interesting. So we'll dive into that tomorrow. I have a piece coming out later today that dives into post-liberalism. And I kept telling you this is something we're going to be discussing more and more as we go towards midterms

and eventually roll on in. in to the next general election in 2028. You're going to be hearing a lot about it. And I think it's important to have familiarity with these goofball classifications. It is what it is. But it's going to be an explainer. Gives you some examples. That'll be out here shortly over at Substack chapter and verse.

So if you haven't yet gone to subscribe, you should do that. So we're going to have that. And we'll talk more about the data centers tomorrow as well. And some of the alternatives, some of the different ways, like the, like for instance, the water and the power. We're going to start looking at a lot of the stuff that said and evaluate just how true it is and how false it is. In the meantime, today's stupidity came.

And to think at the beginning of the show, you were like, man, this is a slow news day. Well, slow news day. Well, let's go to Canada here because Lake Ontario, Trump wants to rename Lake America. And, of course, gets under the skin of Ontario's premiere, Mr.

Doug Ford. And this is cut 22 on this one. Well, he can kiss my ass as far as I'm concerned. We need to throw everything in the kitchen sink at him. He's arrogant. He's cocky. See, here's the thing. The only thing Canada has is a kitchen sink. And some maple syrup. A little syrup. Yeah, you know. A little syrup. Well, his brother was the one I liked more. Yeah. Paul. Yeah, he was like Chris Farley, like a real one. Like a real Chris Farley. They look similar, but he was like, he was more goofy and just. Doug? Yeah. He was the one who was on all the drugs, though. He was nuts.

He is, yeah. Anyway, folks, that does it for us today. In the meantime, make sure to find the podcast. Find us on YouTube and Facebook, like and subscribe, and as well as chapter and verse on substack. I will be back with you tomorrow. Have a great night.