In this episode of Dana Lash’s Absurd Truth Podcast, we begin with a heartwarming story of human kindness as a shrimp basket cook in Florida goes out of his way to help a regular customer in distress. This segment reminds us all of the power of community and the impact a single good deed can have. Moving on, we delve into the latest in entertainment as Jimmy Kimmel faces a ratings dip post-suspension, highlighting the volatile nature of viewer engagement in today’s media landscape.
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SPEAKER 11 :
It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 05 :
This is awesome. I love stories like this, people helping people. So this is ABC3. A shrimp basket cook goes above and beyond to save an elderly regular from a dire situation. And this is in Pensacola. This cook at Shrimp Basket in Pensacola, his name is Donnell Stallworth. And they said that there was a regular. And when you scroll halfway down the article, then you get to the actual story. ABC3, you need to do a better job at that. So basically, they had a regular come in, a 78-year-old. And he said that the guy came in regularly and that he noticed that he stopped coming in. And then the staff actually tried calling him because he’s such a regular that they were concerned that he wasn’t showing up. And they even had like, by the way, they even threw a party for him at this restaurant to celebrate his 78th birthday. So Stallworth was like, you know what, I’m going to swing by the guy’s house because this is weird. And he said, I knocked on the door. Nobody answered. Third time I knocked. I didn’t hear anything. And he said, I stayed for a minute. And then I heard a weak voice say help. And I said, who is it? And he opened the door and he saw the guy laying on the ground. The guy was laying on the ground for like days. He had fallen. He had suffered multiple broken ribs. He had bruising all over his body and he was in tears. Stallworth called paramedics immediately. And now he’s been checking on the guy regularly. And the guy’s in physical therapy and he’s, you know, regaining his his function again. So that’s awesome. So he said he goes he was going to take him a thing, a gumbo. when he went to visit him next. So that guy’s awesome. What a great friend. And that’s just being a good steward or your fellow man. That’s what it’s about right there. You know, how many times would that happen in the real world? So shines a good deed in a weary world. So I hope many good things happen to Don L. Stallworth in his life because he deserves it. Oh, I don’t want that one. Not getting that one. Not doing that story. Oh, no. It’s a bad one, guys. I cannot. No, I am not following up that sweet story about Donald Stallworth helping the elderly man with what I just saw.
SPEAKER 11 :
Listen to you, Casey Kasem.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, my gosh. You can’t make me go into an up-tempo song after a dead dog story. You can’t do it. If you’ve never heard that, it’s one of the funniest things ever. A few other things. Jimmy Kimmel’s ratings are back in the toilet. You guys aware of that? His ratings fall off a cliff again after the post-suspension viewer bump. The ratings bonanza. So everyone watched him the first night that he was back, and then no one’s watching him again now. And Kane, what did you say? The ratings were lower than what they were going into this.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Going in, he had… He had like a four share. It was 129,000. And now it’s just a hair above 100,000. So he actually has lost viewers after everyone tuned in to hear him apologize, which he didn’t do. And now he’s lost even more.
SPEAKER 05 :
He lost viewers, and I think that they were, some people wondered if he was ever, maybe he’s going to finally be funny, and he wasn’t. So he ended up losing that. Not only that, but listen to this. This is from New York Post. Over 1.7 million users canceled Disney and then Hulu and ESPN. Now, here’s what’s funny. It’s like a combination of both. So a bunch of people canceled it because they were livid that Kimmel said the stuff that he said. And then after he was suspended, people canceled because they were mad because he got suspended. So Disney got hammered. This is a riot. The cancellations were recorded between September 17th and the 23rd. And that is according to an industry periodical that tracks this stuff. And they said that it was… The 1.7 million cancellations represented a 436% increase above baseline subscriber churn. Dude, that’s so bad. That’s so bad. And I am loving it because nobody deserves it more, Cain, than Jimmy Kimmel. Nobody deserves it more. Oh, yeah. A couple of other things here as well. We’ve been talking about the shutdown. We’ve been talking about some of the culture stuff. Can I touch on the Serena Williams cotton thing? I can’t believe that this is the thing, but it is. So Serena Williams, tennis star, right? She was at a hotel. Yeah, I think so. So she was at a hotel and she decided to take issue with… Like this vase and an arrangement of Hobby Lobby cotton. You know how like you see it everywhere, like these sticks with cotton on them. Do we have this? Can we play this real quick? Can we play this for the folks?
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, everyone. How do we feel about cotton as decoration? Personally, for me, it doesn’t feel great.
SPEAKER 10 :
So actually, it feels like no polishing for cotton. Natural.
SPEAKER 05 :
I don’t know. You know, she’s wearing cotton. Like, is she? This is so stupid. By the way, I don’t know why she’s. Doesn’t she have like she has like a sculpture of that includes cotton in her home. Somebody posted on social media. Is she, Kane, is this her trying to be woke or is this her like this sculpture is just trash or this display is trash?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, she’s trying to be woke.
SPEAKER 05 :
You think it’s trying to be, I was really trying to give her benefit of the doubt there for a moment. I’m like, maybe she’s just like, what is with it in this fine hotel? What is with this arrangement? But you think it’s because she’s like, oh my gosh, it’s cotton and I feel triggered.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, I guess there’s room.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, white people pick cotton, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, I just want to throw that out there. I know you’re not supposed to say that stuff, but like we literally have like our we have a family friend whose family they worked in sharecropping and they were white. So I just wanted to throw that out there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, that’s an important little point there. But you’re reaching to be upset at something when you look at a display that actually looks good in the room. If you look actually at that display. It works well for that room. You having that sort of reaction or that meaning or whatever you’ve defined cotton as now, you can’t because of, I guess, black people picked cotton back in the day. So now today, cotton triggers you. I mean, that’s more you than the about the hotel.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why did she pick it off the branch? I just why do people do this? She’s gotten drug on social media for this. And she did have this like sculpture that has cotton on it in her house. It’s like a like a donkey pulling a wagon of cotton. And it’s she apparently she has in her house. I just don’t. Stop it. You’re getting upset over something that you never did. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER 11 :
And then she acted cringy when she used the cotton appropriately on the nails. And it was like, ooh, like she got the shivers from doing it. It’s like, is that really? Are you doing that for the camera or is that really how it is for you?
SPEAKER 05 :
I just cannot stand drama for the sake of drama. I am allergic to drama queens. Like I get ragey no matter what it is. You’re just like creating drama so you can be seen as a victim and people baby you. Just stop it. That’s so stupid. If you’re that upset over that, then ditch the blonde hair, ditch the wearing cotton, ditch all the fake nails, ditch all that stuff because all of it’s appropriation. And if we’re going to go that far, let’s go all the way. This is so stupid. Stop trying to create drama in a nation that is completely just already overdosing on it. Stop it. Our partners that help bring you this hour, our friends at Caltech, the KS7 Gen 2 shotgun. This is a shotgun to have. I think it was this one that was in one of the WIC films. I was actually trying to remember because I know that they had, or maybe it was a KSG, but this is the KS7. It’s awesome. Absolutely awesome. It’s the next evolution in home defense and innovation. And the KS7 Gen 2, you got tons of upgrades on this. First off, you got five slot Picatinny style accessory rail. So you can add vertical grips. You can add lights, you know, keep it flush and sleek if you want, whatever, however you want to do it. It’s a smooth pump action for faster, cleaner cycling. You’ve got enhanced durability, but it’s ultra light. I mean, it’s like 6.8 pounds unloaded. It’s a compact bullpup design, so you’ve got lots of maneuverability in tight spaces, ambidextrous downward shell ejection, a 7 plus 1 capacity, so you have serious stopping power. It is a go-to for home defense. Range days, fun. I mean, if you’re seasoned or if you’re a first-timer… The KS7 Gen 2 Defender is for you, and the Defender package ups the game as well. You’ve got Vortex, Crossfire, Green Dot, Extended Butt Pad. You’ve got the Magpul RVG Vertical Grip, all kinds of stuff. And you can get it classic Helltech Black or as a part of the Defender series, totally kitted out and ready to rock. MSRP, $639. I know. It’s performance within reach. It’s from Kel-Tec. KS7 Gen 2. Everything is made right here in the U.S. of A. American materials, American workers, everything. Learn more at Kel-Tec Weapons dot com. That’s K-E-L-T-E-C Weapons dot com. Tell them Dana sent you. Now, here’s where Trump made made Chuck Schumer really mad. This is a video. I can’t believe you guys know it’s a real actual real video. Watch it. Audio soundbite for.
SPEAKER 03 :
Look, guys, there’s no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bulls**t. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.
SPEAKER 01 :
Even Latinos hate us.
SPEAKER 03 :
So we need new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can’t even speak English, so they won’t realize we’re just a bunch of woke pieces of s**t. You know, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think this is, you know, I thought this was a real video. I mean, it’s a real video because, hey, if a man can demand that you recognize him as a woman, this is a real video. Prove me wrong. It’s a real video. That was a real sombrero that Hakeem Jeffries was. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s a video that identifies as real.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that video identifies as real. So we’re going with that. Yeah, absolutely. Now, Hakeem Jeffries. Should I wait on this? Do we have time? Eric Swal… It’s like everybody from everybody on the left. They’re livid over… Sec War and Trump talking about military, right? And first you had Swalwell, who got mad that Hegseth said F-A-F-O. He goes, quote, if necessary, our troops can translate that for you. And Eric Swalwell retweeted it not too long ago and said only a weak and secure man would use the acronym, you know, because their new thing is cussing. And I just retweeted it and said, you banged a Chinese spy. And then you had John Harwood, who I barely remember who he is. He is… I think he was like a token, like whatever, filler. He was like a regular, like a Marxist, filler Marxist on CNN and NBC or whatever. I don’t really know. I just remember he’s like an old dude who’s always been on TV forever. And he goes, he tweeted this, he tweeted this quote, Pete Hegseth has made clear that if he had his way, the US military would have no blacks in leadership positions and no women at all. First off, Hegseth literally never said that. And I asked, I go, why are you such a sad and weak little male that you have to fabricate things for drama? this is what the left reverts to they hear something that they don’t like and they think that they can just make up something and invoke black america and that black america is going to go to war on behalf of their marxist ideals that that that’s what he did that’s why he tweeted it that’s why he put that out there because he thought i’ll just make something up and get uh black americans on twitter all mad and they’ll go to war for me that’s like i’m sorry but you john harwood Thinks he’s a slave owner in 2025. Like, no, that’s not how this works. You crusty old thing. That’s not how this works. That’s disgusting. Just to make up something like this, just to just to make this stuff up. So, you know, the video that Trump retweeted that everybody was mad about Hakeem Jeffries reacted to this video. He wasn’t he wasn’t happy. Cut five, please.
SPEAKER 06 :
going to see it. They’ll see it in other ways. It’s easy to find. But it is absolutely disgusting in every way. It is a lie. It’s the man you met with has now lied about what you said after that meeting. Could you give us your reaction to that Trump posted video tonight?
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s a disgusting video, and we’re going to continue to make clear. Bigotry will get you nowhere. We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault on all the things, Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act.
SPEAKER 05 :
Lawrence O’Donnell, his mouth. Oh, gosh, how do I say this? How do I do this? You know, because he’s an older individual, but not so old that he should have that shape of his mouth. One of my grandmothers, who was not on my mom’s side, just a mean woman. And she had that mouth where she was always in a scowl. And it, for the lack of a better way to say it, it turns into like sphincter mouth, right? She’s just, that’s what he looks like. He looks like that worm actually from Star Wars, you know, on tattooing where the huts are, the sandworm that comes out, like that’s his whole mouth. He’s just mean and mean like that. And he starts this thing. Isn’t it horrible that he said this? He’s so horrible, blah, blah, blah. I’m going to monologue for five minutes question. And then Hakeem Jeffries, I’m going to repeat everything that you just said in your monologue. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Not really answer your question. See? Who watches that stuff? That’s just so boring. It’s brain rot. It’s absolute brain rot. It just… It’s… But… They’re they’re upset. What they’re really doing with this shutdown is they’re fighting for things for illegal immigrants harder than they are for the American taxpayer. And that’s okay. And that was a point that you were making as well. And that’s true. That’s exactly what they’re doing to your point.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s using parody to essentially expose the truth. There is always in comedy a little thread of truth.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Completely. Absolutely. A couple of things still because we’re watching, you know, we got the government shutdown. It’s going to happen and it’s all going to happen because Democrats are wanting things that they didn’t get because they lost an election. They’re wanting things that American voters don’t want because if American voters wanted these things that Democrats wanted, then they would have voted for Democrats. So there you go. All Family Pharmacy. This is one of this is probably one of my most favorite sponsors that we have. So I literally I was getting sinusitis after we went to the memorial for Charlie Kirk. I started getting sinusitis and I overnighted medications to me that were waiting for me at my door when I got home. And I’ve had look. It’s doctor’s prescription, all the inputs, all the precursors, everything, every bitty bit of this medicine is made in the US of A, right? Anything you want, antibiotics, your everyday meds, emergencies, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, which I took, all kinds of stuff. And you can get it in two to four days. You can get it overnighted in a pinch. It’s affordable. You don’t have to go through a million gatekeepers. You know your body. I know I’m getting sinusitis. I had it a million times. Had my meds. And guess what? I was able to be well on my birthday. Because you guys remember, I was getting sick last week. Y’all remember. Well, All Family Pharmacy helped a sister out. You can stock up now at allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use code Dana10 at checkout. That saves you 10%. Allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana. Code Dana10 to save 10%.
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With physical fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of War can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops. Likewise, it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look. It is bad, and it’s not who we are. So whether you’re an airborne ranger or a chair-borne ranger, a brand-new private or a four-star general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and pass your PT test. And as the chairman said, yes, there is no PT test. But today at my direction, every member of the joint force at every rank is required to take a PT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year, every year of service. Also today at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day. Should be common sense.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why is this such a big deal? Why are people freaking out over a SEC war saying that this is just one of the things that you should have to do this? I remember back when if you had flat feet, you weren’t admitted. You weren’t admitted into the military. There was somebody I knew that had a peanut allergy that wasn’t able to enlist that tried to. It was a friend of mine in high school. It was a grade above me, and his brother went in, and he was going to go in, and he was allergic to peanuts, and they wouldn’t take him. Can you believe that? Flat feet, I know. Well, my husband, he tried to enlist. He had knee surgery because he blew out his knee during football in high school, and he had knee surgery when I think it was like his junior year of high school, and they wouldn’t take him because he had knee surgery. Is that crazy? That’s wild, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s the standard I’d expect.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that’s exactly. That’s what you would expect. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you at the bottom of this first hour. The military is not supposed to be like a place for you to go and have your ego stroked and your feelings held tightly and caressed. If that’s what you think it should be, get out because you’re going to make us lose wars and you’re going to get our sons and daughters killed, our husbands and wives killed. I just think immediately you are invalidated. You should be ineligible for consideration if that’s your purpose, if that’s your priority. And, you know, it was. It was. The media was livid. Audio Soundbite 14. They were so mad this morning, guys. Listen.
SPEAKER 04 :
And Maya, let’s talk about this. We know there actually are some serious things. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 05 :
Full stop. Full stop. What the hell was the hair that I just saw? Juan, I’m really sorry. I didn’t mean to do that to you. Juan’s like, dear heavens. Can I just get, like, you don’t have to do any of your awesome editing thing. I just want to pause for a moment. Okay. I did see what I saw. I thought, is that what I saw? I mean, you’re like a 60-year-old woman. Am I being mean when I say that? I mean, look, I don’t care. When I get old, make fun of me. I don’t care. But I’m just saying, like, maybe don’t dress like a Pee Wee’s Playhouse contributor. Okay, go ahead. Full video. I’m sorry. Sorry.
SPEAKER 04 :
about this we we know there actually are some serious things are just being discussed this meeting as well the policy new pentagon policy directives about perhaps uh de-emphasizing uh true presence in europe uh making more of a focus on the homeland and the like but that’s the kind of stuff that’s going to happen behind closed doors will come out in the hours and days ahead what we were there for full display for the cameras was a political speech and it was an anti-woke you know something you’d hear from a fox news host I guess that’s appropriate rather than someone who is the secretary of defense.
SPEAKER 05 :
What are you talking about that you would expect to hear from a Fox News host? I feel like this guy wouldn’t be able to do a pull up to save his life. What is the problem with what Hegseth said? Hmm. My tax dollars that I’m bent over a barrel and and forcibly taken. Four, don’t go towards rearranging somebody’s junk below the waist to make them feel better about their affirmed cosplay. That’s not what we do. The military is about… I mean, quite literally kicking ass and winning wars. That’s it. What’s the purpose of it otherwise? If you want a scientific experiment, I mean, you’ve gotten the schools, you’ve gotten arts and entertainment, you’ve gotten all this stuff. So if you wanted any of this, then you already have those fields in which to experiment. The military is not one of them. Lives are at stake here. I mean, imagine being so self-obsessed. that you’re actually willing to endanger the lives of other individuals because you want to do it your way. Honestly, those are like the worst of the worst of the people. They’re so – Audio Sunbite 15, this Nepo baby. She’s like just, you know, her – I don’t know. Her mom was this big author and that’s this chick’s claim to fame. So her mom was an author and so the 60-year-old whatever got her job on MSNB because she’s a Nepo baby. Audio Sunbite 15, this is stupid analysis. I’m sorry. You’re going to talk to some author Nepo baby? To analyze the military? Somebody who dressed like Joker? They dress like Joker? Seriously? No, I’m not going to be nice. Everyone can literally go to hell. I’m not going to be nice about this. If you have a problem with it, die in an AIDS fire. I don’t care. I’m so tired of this stuff. Play 15. Sorry. Thank you, Juan. I mean, I think we’re going to see pushback to this.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think a lot about the Vietnam War, which was… sort of a moment and why do you think of that you know the the an end of discrimination you know there was much the white the army really focused on making an anti-discrimination and they ended up really helping the army in a lot of different ways because people were a lot you know it was just a much more egalitarian articulate a sentence and it ended up what the hell is she saying military I mean, woke doesn’t come from recent. It comes from experience in the military. So I do think this is kind of bizarre. And if you think about like, you know, Winston Churchill, the idea that people have to be thin in order to run the military seems kind of bizarre.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wild. Molly Jongfast is one of the stupidest old broads that I’ve ever had the misfortune of hearing. It’s not about being thin. Good heavens. Clearly, the ability to comprehend things that your mother has didn’t pass to you. So it’s evident that you got your contributorship strictly based on your genetic lottery, which by the looks of it isn’t a great haul. That being said, it’s not about thinness. It’s about fitness. I’m embarrassed for these people. Don’t ask me to unify. Don’t ask me to be courteous. I’ve spent 20 years being courteous. I’m out of give a dams. I’m out of courteousness. I’m out of all of it. That is such an asinine analysis. It’s not about thinness. It’s about being fit. Can you do what is required physically? Can you meet the standards, the performance standards physically? That’s what it’s about. It’s not about being thin like, oh my gosh, no. It’s not about whatever ozempic dreams you have, lady. It’s not about that. It’s about physical fitness. Something that clearly escapes most of the roster on any of the left-leaning alphabet networks. It is about fitness. It’s about stamina. It’s about endurance. It’s about health. And it’s also about mental strength and mental fitness. That is the point. You have a bunch of these pencil pushers who… They have all of these things pinned to their uniforms. They’re pencil pushers that have never won wars, and yet they’re all wokery. I mean, Milley comes to mind. Some of the individuals in charge during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan come to mind. That’s what it’s about. What are you talking about invoking Winston Churchill? What in the Kamala Harris hell word salad did we just hear? Just talk. See, if I was the host, I’d slap somebody. I’d be like, can you just spit it out? Golly, you’re killing my soul because you’re so stupid you cannot articulate a simple sentence. Heaven help us all. And he said this. He added this to add. This is so great. 16, listen.
SPEAKER 08 :
This administration has done a great deal from day one. To remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division, distraction or gender delusions. No more debris. As I’ve said before and will say again, We are done with that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, see, that’s what I want to hear from my sack war. I want to hear that. By the way, do you guys know he did the patent with the stage set up, right? George C. Scott, when he did in which is a great film patent, the big flag behind him. Yeah. I mean, I don’t think that that was by by accident. I got to say. So what’s wrong with anything that Hegseth said? It’s rhetorical because nothing’s wrong. There’s literally nothing wrong with it. My gosh, have we gotten so soft and panzified as a nation that we’re expecting people to be physically fit? Oh, my gosh. So mean. OK, well, then then be fit. This is military we’re talking about. This is this is this is exactly it. This is what it’s all about. Audio soundbite 12. Trump nailed it right here. Listen.
SPEAKER 01 :
But as leaders, our commitment to every patriot who put on the uniform is to ensure that American military remains the most lethal and dominant on the planet, not merely for a few years, but for the decades and generations to come for centuries. We must be so strong that no nation will dare challenge us, so powerful that no enemy will dare threaten us, and so capable that no adversary can even think about beating us.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s called peace through strength. The left thinks that strength comes from how many times that you can be victimized. Oh, well, I’m like a Latino, trans, gay, man, cis, whatever, furry. who’s also maybe Indian and also like Ukrainian and whatever. How many labels can you add? The more labels you have, it’s supposed to be like the more powerful you are. That’s progressive mentality. We all know in real space that that doesn’t work. This is peace through strength. And this is exactly what our military is supposed to be for. This is what our defense posturing should be. You want to be friends with us and you don’t want to make us mad, right? It’s peace through strength. We don’t want to go to war, but we want you to know that if you provoked us to the point where we had to, to protect ourselves, we won’t just take you out. We will burn a scorch mark in your family tree that will go all the way down into the ground beyond the roots. That’s what needs to be understood. And just so long as they know that that’s a potential risk with doing something that could potentially alienate or make angry the United States, and they don’t do anything to alienate or make angry the United States, then we’re good, right? I mean, that’s the way, what the hell do I care what another country does with their defense? I’m only concerned about where my tax dollars are forcibly taken and used here. This is what literally the only job of the government is defense. The only job of the government is defense. That’s it.
SPEAKER 02 :
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