Join us as we unpack the future of technology, from humanoid delivery robots to the ongoing discussion of natural gas’s role in meeting global energy demands. We also delve into the controversies that plague popular media franchises like Marvel and Disney, questioning changes that challenge traditional storytelling and characters beloved by fans.
00:00:52 Dana Lash’s Absurd Truth Podcast Sponsored by Kel-Tec
00:22:39 Marvel’s Black Panther and Disney Discussion
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SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, let’s see here. So where do we start? Well, we’ve got this story. Oh, goodness. Hang on, let me pull this up. I just lost it because I was looking at another Florida Man story. Florida Man attacked an officer because he refused to pay a restaurant bill. He was arrested. It was a $50 bill. Daniel Robinson also choked the officer, prompting another officer to intervene with force. He now faces multiple charges, including attempted homicide of a law enforcement officer and battery. They didn’t say which or which restaurant. They just said it was an Orlando restaurant. But he’s a 22 year old guy, I think, according to his mugshot. Looks like he got punched in the face a bunch, because he was trying to kill the guy. He was trying to strangle him. It was Orlando PD that responded, so he was taken into custody. Of course, he got treated for the injuries that he sustained after he tried to murk an officer. A plane crashed off a beach in Florida. Two dudes and a dog were rescued. I don’t know. And it was all, actually, because modern society, so much of it was on video. It was a Piper PA-23 plane. Thankfully, they made it to shore with the help of a good Samaritan Florida Fish and Wildlife in Brevard County. Brevard Sheriff’s Office responded. It was a single-engine plane. But two dudes and a dog. Everybody was in good condition. Can you imagine your plane crashes and you’re in good condition? Disney refuses to say if a guy who posted photos of women in the park bathroom is going to be banned. from the Federalist, a man dressed as a woman who, I guess you can do that, you can be a man, you can just decide to dress as a woman for the day and you can go in the women’s restrooms. He took photos of himself in 10 different women’s bathrooms all over Florida Disney World and he put it up on Instagram and it showed him ranking the bathrooms on a scale of one to 10 and it had all the other women in the background of his photos. And it’s the guy, the same guy who got mad because a server at Disney called him sir. He’s literally in the bathroom showing, invading all these women’s privacy. And he is taking photos of himself. He clearly looks like a guy. It’s almost like it’s a prank. and there’s women all in the background of these photos that are trying to use the restroom there’s a one woman who looks like she’s at a changing table with an infant i mean this is insane and they won’t say if the guy who’s violating these women’s privacy in the restrooms whether or not that you know he’s going to still be allowed there and he even like tagged disney was like thanks for letting me use the women’s bathrooms it was like he’s like it’s like he’s taunting them and And under the Florida statute, it’s a felony for anybody who intentionally uses or intentionally installs imaging devices to secretly view, broadcast, or record people without their knowledge or consent if they are in basically the bathroom. So what he’s doing is a crime. This is privilege right here that this guy can do this. And those are just some of the photos. There’s tons of ladies in the background of so many of his photos. Why does he get to do this? Because he’s he’s protected because he’s a dude who’s cosplaying as a woman. That’s awful. Our friends over at Kel-Tec, the PR-57. F-I-D-D-Y. PR-57. This is a great, it’s a great, a great gun. And it’s from Kel-Tec. And they’ve really changed the game on a lot of this stuff. And this is no different. The PR-57 rotary barrel pistol is the lightest 5.7 that’s out there. 40% lighter than the competition. Perfect for concealed carry. You can actually conceal carry this thing because it’s 40% lighter and it’s so thin. The unique top loading design. So get this. It doesn’t have traditional magazines. It top loads with stripper clips. That gives it a slimmer carry profile and a 20 plus 1 capacity. And that rotary barrel, that also helps redefine the size. And the MSRP is only $399. It is so ridiculously affordable. This is one that you have to have and you can have. Low recoil for ease of use and accuracy. Built to perform. And it’s just incredibly innovative, groundbreaking from Kel-Tec. All-American labor, all-American parts, family-owned Kel-Tec right here in the U.S. of A. It’s the new PR57 Chambered in 5.7 from Kel-Tec. Learn more at Kel-TecWeapons.com. Innovation Performance Kel-Tec. Tell them Dana sent you.
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This is, I think, so indicative of where we are as a society as well. It feels like the season finale of MAGA. I don’t know if they’re going to make up or not. That may change, but it feels like we were watching this, you know, it’s like you’re watching a reality show and you have the season finale of it and you’re taking it all in and, oh my gosh, mom and dad are fighting. I don’t know if you follow me on Instagram or not, but I found this most amazing thing Amazing AI image ever. And it’s of like a 70s Trump and he’s in this just one of the most horrific jackets I’ve ever seen in my life. And Elon Musk. And it’s like mom and dad. It feels like mom and dad are fighting. And I don’t know who’s going to get custody of us. Who gets custody of the nation? I don’t know. Who gets custody? Those are the most bitching glasses I’ve ever seen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Juan’s putting that up right now.
SPEAKER 04 :
I need those sunglasses. Oh my gosh. I would actually knock him down and rob him for those sweet Jim Jones sunglasses. This is my favorite. I put it to the tune of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together. And all of you out there were so disturbed by this. But can I just appreciate that jacket is… So loud. But the hair is so sweet. And, I mean, it works. I would believe that.
SPEAKER 07 :
I can smell the cigarette smoke.
SPEAKER 04 :
Dude, can’t you? And the leather seats, the Corinthian leather seats, the cigarette smoke, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Is that Olin Mills?
SPEAKER 04 :
It feels like it’s an Olin Mills photo, right? I need to see, like, you know, that’s the nation’s parents right now. I don’t know. I don’t know who gets custody of us. I just hope that I get willed those sunglasses, those sweet shades. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 07 :
That jacket’s mine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Golly, you can have that jacket. That jacket is like Ronald McDonald’s 70s French fries, crusted ketchup. That’s what that jacket is. But the glass, I mean, it’s just loud and in charge. I don’t know who gets custody of the nation. I don’t know what happens. It was so awkward. It was so awkward looking at all of this. I don’t know if we have all of these, these, the tweets that they have. Is it tweets or is it, I don’t even know what the hell it is. Tweets, posts, whatever. I don’t know. I want to kick with Audio Soundbite 1 because this is when… This is when I knew they weren’t playing because we’ll get into that. The 11DD chess, whatever. This is when I knew that they weren’t playing. Audio Soundbite 1.
SPEAKER 01 :
He’s upset. Remember, he was here for a long time. You saw a man who was very happy when he stood behind the Oval Desk. And even with the black eye, I said, you want a little makeup? We’ll get you a little makeup. But he said, no, I don’t think so, which is interesting and very nice. He wants to be who he is. So you could make that statement, too, I guess. Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don’t know if it will anymore. I was surprised because you were here.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you have two titans that are clashing and everybody else can get hurt in the process. And that’s what we don’t want to happen. And they, yes, you know, I said this when I was on Ingram last night. Yes. These are two people with outsized egos. And you have to have a large ego to be where you are at the level where they are because you can’t survive if you don’t. I mean, that’s kind of like this commonality with all of these people. I mean, you kind of have to have an outsized ego to survive, right? So we had the… The tweets started. I don’t even remember. There were so many. At one point, I lost track. We were going to go through all of them and throw them up. But they kept doing it. And Musk was like, yeah. And then he said that he was going to decommission Dragon X. I don’t even remember. Juan, there’s so many of them now. They would not stop. We were going to go through it. And you guys, there’s so many. go through, just go through. He said, whatever, keep the EV solar incentive cuts in the bill, even though no oil and gas subsidies. And remember, Elon Musk is actually on record as saying that he wants all of that to go away. I mean, he literally sat there and he’d said over and over again, yes, I, we, we need to get rid of this. We need to get rid of all of these things. Um, and then the Epstein tweet happened and I don’t even know it, it, it went into the Epstein tweet, uh, I don’t think that he is really saying that Trump’s a pedophile. I can’t even believe I’m having this conversation right now. So nuts. Did we accidentally get drunk or high? Like what happened?
SPEAKER 07 :
When mom and dad fight.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s so confusing because he drops this and he’s like, haven’t I stayed DJT? I don’t really, because he’s had little X hanging out with POTUS, right? He’s had little X on Marine One with POTUS. I mean, I don’t think he believes that. I think he’s just trying to make it all very uncomfortable. This is, we have a society where everybody flexes online. This is part of it. So he’s saying, he said that, you know, he’s in the Epstein files, et cetera. Then from this tweet, before we go to the next, from this tweet, there was like an Epstein off, like who can get more photos with Epstein? And I’m pretty sure that halfway through most of them were AI generated. Like I really, I saw a picture of Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Epstein apparently chugging from a champagne bottle. And I’m like, pretty sure that’s AI. Cause I don’t think that Elon Musk was that old in the eighties. Anyway, uh, It just went crazy. And then POTUS went back at him. Musk went back at POTUS saying that he was going to then decommission Dragon SpaceX. And then Musk said Trump would have lost the election without me. I do believe that this is true. I believe that’s true. I think that Trump needed Musk to win the election. I think that technology needs Republicans to progress. So it’s kind of like, you know, tit for tat. I think that both of them need each other and the nation needs both of them. Look, ta-da! Look, can we all get along? I love fighting, but this makes me nervous. It makes me incredibly nervous. Is it 11DD chess? I don’t think it is. I think that this is just the sign of the times. I think this is what happens when you have two titans who come together in this fashion and they duke it out. And it all is played out very publicly for a society that loves the public fight. It’s like our new gladiators. This is what we have progressed to. It’s our partners that help bring you the program. It’s our very good friends over at Gold Co., Gold Co. Precious Metals. Gold and silver have stood the test of time. Hard assets offer real security. It’s not like paper. You know, we love the gold standard. And you can get educated with Gold Co. before you invest. With Gold Co., they’re offering a free 2025 gold and silver kit. You can qualify also and get unlimited bonus silver, real silver. instantly matched to your account, tax and penalty free, which are my favorite things. Unlock that exclusive bonus silver and walk through the whole nine yards. They break it all down, everything that you need to know about precious metals and investing and how it works with your financial strategy. And you understand gold and silver. For generations, smart investors have turned to precious metals as a hedge during periods of economic instability. And even now, in times like these, that wisdom still holds true. Visit danalikesgold.com and join the thousands of people like me who’ve called Goldco the number one rated gold company. And right now you can get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit. On top of that, you can also qualify for and get unlimited bonus silver. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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I feel like this is scary. This is like a horror film. Amazon is apparently developing software for humanoid robots that could perform the role of delivery workers and spring out of the vans. It’s a $2 trillion technology company. They’re building a humanoid park to test the robots. And they said that they could eventually take the jobs of the delivery workers. And does that mean that, because I got some really great Amazon delivery workers, but then I have some of the other ones that are like, I feel like I threw the box close enough to the driveway that counts. But they said that they’re developing the AI that’s going to power the robots. I don’t know how I feel about this. Yeah. People think that there’s a serial killer prowling Texas. 38 bodies have been pulled from a lake in the past three years. Oh, sounds like it’s Glock o’clock. The discovery is there’s another… It was Lady Bird Lake in Austin. A teenage boy missing since Sunday was discovered by a paddle boarder. And they think that the rainy street ripper… They think that there’s renewed fears that this mass murderer is loose in the city. And police insist the killer’s not roaming the streets. And they said only one of the cases was a homicide. But still, I’m ready for Glock o’clock. All the same, just saying. A crew was charged with taking nearly… $32,000 worth of candles from a store in Fairfax, Colorado. How do you spend that much on a candle? It’s a string of thefts. I guess, what, they’re going to resell them?
SPEAKER 07 :
Bunch of candles, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
30. Oh, my gosh, that’s insane. Let’s see. Also, oh, this is so gross. So a baseball player. This is in New Mexico, Rio Rancho. They’re not pursuing charges against a teenager who is accused of urinating in a rival baseball team’s water jug. It happened between two high schools, and one of the principals sent a letter to the JV baseball family saying that a Rio Rancho student admitted to it, and the players and coaches drank from it. Oh, my gosh. They said that there are no statutes that make it illegal to interfere with someone’s food and battery consists of unlawful touching or application in a rude and insolent manner. They said, so technically, the conduct isn’t criminal. Really? Seriously? Seriously? Seriously. I mean, that is absolutely ridiculous. I think he should be kicked off the baseball team. Barred for the rest of his career. Oh, high school career. Yes, absolutely. That’s a serious thing. That is a very serious thing. Yeah, it absolutely is. I couldn’t even believe that that. I don’t know. Apparently, it says this is a stupid study by a horrible British communist newspaper, The Telegraph. And it says that women should drink no more than six glasses of wine a year. A year. Was this written by beer people? I’m like, did a can of beer actually write this? I’m curious. I’m just, you know, I’ve got some questions. Also, let’s see here. Oh, we got this. The fix for parched Western states recycled toilet water. Isn’t toilet water kind of recycled already anyway? I don’t know, but they’re saying that in California, I mean, they live by a sea. They could have a desalination plant, but they decided to waste billions of dollars on a high-speed rail that was never built. So instead, they’re going to just recycle toilet water for everybody to drink. Yay! Speaking of that, water flow was restored to residents of one town after a sewer main led to interruption. Oh, that’s not the time that you want to have that issue either. This was in Rowlett, Texas. There once again, they had to tell people, don’t flush your commodes. They had a sewer main that collapsed. How was the sewer main collapsing? Like, how is this happening? I had to kind of laugh when I saw this headline. Black Panther’s son looks white. I don’t know if you guys saw this story. So apparently Marvel has a new Black Panther. per a lot of sources, all the comic reporting sources. And they’re saying that the new Marvel Comics, Today’s the World to Come, the first one, it features a new Black Panther because T’Challa gets, you know, he’s old, right? And everybody’s like, that dude looks white. And they now they’re I don’t know. There’s a lot of questions about it. And a lot of people are up in arms. I don’t know anything about his like backstory. Like, you know, who is the new Black Panther’s mom? Why does he look like, you know, I don’t get it. I mean, but people are upset when he took off his mask and he had blonde hair and blue eyes and apparently pale skin. So people are like, well, how was the future king of Wakanda white? It’s like mean girls like if you’re from Africa, how are you white? Gosh, Karen, you can’t just ask that. They think that his identity is going to even be hidden on the cover of the third issue of The World to Come. And that’s the the upcoming issues of, you know, the Marvel story. So they’re saying that the art appears to show T’Challa with shows him with two sons, the original Black Panther with two sons, hinting that the one who beat him in battle was actually mothered by the character. who first appeared in the 1970s, Avenger number 77, the Avengers number 77, and was apparently romantically linked with the original Black Panther when he was studying in the United States. So now there’s like a lot of challenges over this legacy character who is celebrated for, you know, being a character in black culture. And there’s a lot I was reading a piece. I was actually reading a piece about Wakanda and Afrofuturism came and how that plays into this, you know, Black Panther and Marvel history. Is this going to be a big deal, though? Is it going to? Yeah. Is it going to be White Panther? It’s Albino Panther. Albino Panther doesn’t really have the ring to it, does it? No, nobody. Nobody. I just seems that’s like saying hairless cat. It’s just weird. I just I don’t know. Like, I don’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do you get superhero vibes after the mask comes off? It’s so funny seeing the reaction, though, because you know how the woke left has been doing weird things by making Snow White and midgets and stuff. Can we say midgets? Oh, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t think you can. Thanks. Now we’re canceled. Now we’re canceled. Bye, guys. Bye. And that’s the show. Gosh, you can’t do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
But they’re changing everything that we once knew traditionally.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean, I’m ready for a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Mulan. Right? I mean, that’s going to happen next. That’s going to be the next thing that happens. I just, as long as things are faithful to the story. So Juan’s showing you simulcast. That’s the new, that’s like the guy, that’s the new white panther.
SPEAKER 07 :
Is this canon though? Is this like something?
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re asking, I don’t know. I don’t, I mean, it’s.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because if it is, that would be astounding.
SPEAKER 04 :
His mom is canon. His mom comes back from the, his mom’s from the 70s apparently. Right. So there’s a lot of people that are a little mad about it.
SPEAKER 07 :
So this is true to the storyline then?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, for the most part, it seems. There’s going to be a lot of… Meltdown? Yeah, it’s not going to… If he’s on the throne of Wakanda, I don’t think people are going to react… I mean, if it’s canon, that’s one thing. And if it’s integral to the storyline, I get it. But at the same time, I don’t like it either way, doing something just because you’re trying to seem inclusive. Like if Black Panther is supposed to be like a Black Panther, then don’t make him White Panther. Like, you know, let’s not. The same way you would not change Mulan. That’s like part of their story. Or like Harry Potter, you know, with Snape. Because him being a pale, sickly-looking white dude, that actually plays into… kind of the the playoff that jk rowling was making about bigotry and all of that stuff so i i don’t know i i i’ve got some questions of course this is disney disney ruins everything that they touch i mean you remember this is audio somebody 20 their corporate president carrie burke remember when they did this like video call and she was talking about having all the alphabet characters in their stories like even when it was completely unnecessary listen
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m here as a mother of two queer children, actually. One transgender child. She’s so proud of that. And one pansexual child. She talks about it like she has Birkins. And that was the thing that really got me because I have heard so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple weeks in open forums and through emails and phone conversations and I feel a responsibility to speak, not just for myself, but for them. To all of us. We had an open forum last week at 20th where, again, the home of really incredible, groundbreaking LGBTQIA stories over the years where
SPEAKER 04 :
She talks about her, by the way, she talks about her kids. This is the corporate president, Carrie Burke, the way she’s like, well, one of them’s pansexual. It’s like she’s going, I have two Birkins and one is a Himalayan Birkin, which if you don’t know that that’s like the priciest thing that you can get. And only the super richest people that have super yachts in Monaco can afford to get those things. But she talks about it like they’re accessories. And mine, I don’t… My kid’s not just queer. It’s a special queer child. Yours is just plain, boring, broke, basic, target, great value queer. Mine’s pansexual queer. I mean… How many other words can you put in front of it? But that’s the kind of stuff that they focus on. So are you shocked that Disney’s deciding to ruin something? I mean, you saw what they did with Star Wars. Now, I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s canon or not. It just seems part of the trend. Let’s ruin things. Let’s ruin stories. Let’s do all of this. Of course, it’s not affecting Bob Iger’s paycheck. He made $41.1 million in 2024. Now, I don’t mind people being rich. I don’t mind people being capitalists because if you’re a capitalist and you become a multimillionaire, it gives hope for all those other poor bastards out there. It gives everybody some hope, right? Like they can do it too. Although I feel like he’s being rewarded unnecessarily because Disney has sucked out loud lately, like for a while lately. not just completely oversaturating everything with Star Wars and ruining it, but also the comic after comic after comic movie oversaturating that and then ruin a lot of these characters. So does he deserve it? I don’t know. I mean, he’s still living the fairytale life at Disney. I guess at least somebody is now. Somebody is. I mean, to say nothing of the trans influencer. We did a short on that, about that individual getting misgendered. They like whole trans adult culture at Disney. Check this out real fast.
SPEAKER 05 :
Looking cool.
SPEAKER 04 :
The bottom is from Thailand.
SPEAKER 05 :
Coconut bread from Thailand. Yes, sir. Cool.
SPEAKER 02 :
Ma’am.
SPEAKER 05 :
Ma’am.
SPEAKER 01 :
And the other one is from India.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s a papadum with a ginger and chutney.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the folks from Brazil, he’s just mad. He’s big mad. That does it for us this Friday, folks. Thanks for watching. Like and subscribe and find us on Substack Chapter and Verse as well. Dana Lash here signing off. Back with you Monday.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks for tuning in to today’s edition of Dana Lash’s Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven’t already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
SPEAKER 03 :
This is Chelsea Handler from Dear Chelsea. Picture this, you’re on an important virtual interview answering that make or break question and suddenly your screen freezes. Not the impression you want. Good internet has never been more important. I’m constantly doing podcast interviews, video calls, and important work on my computer, so I have to have a solid connection. That’s why you can’t take slow for an answer. And with Optimum Fiber, you won’t have to. It is the fastest, most reliable fiber internet in the New York Tri-State with 99.9% network reliability so you can stream, work, and game seamlessly. Plus, get a five-year price lock and a $400 prepaid card. Don’t take slow for an answer. Call 888-4-OPTIMUM. Visit your local Optimum store or visit Optimum.com today. Terms apply. See Optimum.com for details.
