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February 13, 2026 3:38 pm

Florida Man has gone viral for frying up iguanas outside of Waffle House, sparking a discussion about the invasive species problem in the area. Meanwhile, a HGTV show host faced backlash for using a racial slur, and a group of middle-aged women are collecting and dressing up American Girl dolls to make political statements on Instagram.

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So he's been serving them up with the waffles in the Waffle House parking lot. He's a YouTuber. His name is Ryan is fishing with a Z. He marinated the iguana meat and buttermilk and pickle juice and seasoning before he fried it up and done served it with waffles.

Okay. I would not want to eat them. I would want to have it as maybe a pet. Right. It's almost cuddle, cuddle a bull.

I have a scale, like a scale of one to five. Like if it's cuddly, then I probably don't want to eat it. That's why I'm like, I don't know where I am with seals. but I feel like this one I don't like its legs but you know. I just don't understand how you can get away with it in a Waffle House parking lot.

They allow because they're the iguanas. Excuse me. The allergies guys. Please forgive me. The iguana problem there is so bad they just totally look the other way.

Really? That's how bad it is. They allow people to humanely kill iguanas on private property and I mean nobody Yeah.

So it's private property. And if Waffle House is allowing for it to happen, then there's nothing anybody can do. As long as they were providing the waffles, I guess. Yeah. That's how bad the iguana problem is there.

It's an invasive species, a species that in the pythons.

So that's how they that's how they deal with it. I mean, it does taste like chicken. I've been told I've eaten every I've eaten raccoon. I have eaten bear. I've I've eaten an old lion.

by the way people who hunt lions you only can go after the old ones and like like literally maybe you might only have two tags that you can get for the entire year in an area so people can just not freak out it's not good it was greasy um i've almost eaten every i've not eaten groundhog and i've not eaten iguana but i've eaten gator i've eaten squirrel i've eaten everything but i've never had iguana but i know people like my husband i think is eating iguana and he's like oh yeah it's like chicken i don't know though because i look at its face and i'm like i don't know if i want to eat you. Like a seal? You know, I want to go back to that because they look like chubby and huggable. And I'm like, I just don't know if I could eat you. I don't know.

Maybe. A Florida man was accused of driving 100 miles per hour while drunk and then he hopped away from deputies. He, by hop, I really feel like they're really overselling that word. It was kind of like he lumbered. It wasn't really a hop.

And a Spring Hill man was arrested to try to sell 11 pounds of ketamine hidden in 20 large candles. He went to the pokey. Obligatory? Obligatory, yeah. I heard that under good authority.

Wait, what good authority did you hear that from?

Well, if you want to go ahead and play that. Yeah, I'm curious. Where's this phrasing come from? Jill Biden? Is it Jill Biden?

No, not really. Let's hear it. Hot sauce moment.

Now, if you don't remember what that moment was, back in 2016, she was doing the obligatory round. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, yeah. I thought it was Joe Biden. Obligatory.

I'm curious how she pronounces bodega at this point. But wait, doesn't she have some other very creative pronunciations? What other words are you learning to pronounce differently now?

Well, for me, I've noticed that when she says, did you do the green barrette one? Do we have green barrette? because I know that that's important, too, to honor our green barrettes. An open genocide for starving people. You, in this moment, have retired green barrette and the former lieutenant.

Green barrette. Oh, oh, oh, green barrette is it. I've been saying it wrong this whole time. And apparently I've been saying wrong the word architecture. I haven't been saying it that way.

I've been saying it wrong.

So, yeah, listen, this is the right way to say it. But really, it was about the architecture. I want you to understand. I want you to understand. The architecture, like the texture of the buildings?

Yeah. That's not even a word. That's how I say it, right? Yeah, that's not a word. Don't try to delegitimize me.

That's a word. That sounds like a spell. He's not coming out of racist ideas, right? It wasn't because people were just trying to delegitimize him. Delegitimize.

That's like people who say, instead of saying converse, what is it that they, what is the word? Conversate. Conversate. Good night. I just, I want to hang myself with my seatbelt in my car.

Oh, man. Conversate. It's converse. That'd be a Maccabre moment. Um, what?

That'd be a Maccabre moment? You know what that is. That's wrong. There's a thousand ways you can honor Charlie. Stop telling us that it has to always be Miss Macabre.

Wait, can I hear that one more time? That audio? It's Macabre. Macabre. That's wrong.

There's a thousand ways that you can honor Charlie. Stop telling us that it has to always be Miss Macabre. It's not macabre. No, it's Macabre. Yeah.

It is. It's Macabre. Yeah. I've got some questions. It does sound like...

Yeah, it does. We can only play three seconds on TV. Macabar.

Sounds like that Jane song. It does. Right? Just sounds a very... That's not the way that macabre is pronounced.

It's not pronounced. It's macabre. What are you saying? Huh? What are you saying It not macabre I am today years old Just like it not how does she say it Bogota for Bodega That was Jill Biden.

I can't even tell the difference. She's like Black Jill Biden. I can't even tell the difference. Gal Sharpton is now Black Jill Biden. I don't know what, I can't even settle on a nickname because it's just too easy.

Don't you delegitimize me. That literally sounds like a spell. That's right.

Sounds like a spell. Just saying. Yeah, I we could sit here and probably spend some time talking about that drama. But I don't think there's enough liquor in the world to induce us to debase ourselves to the levels required to analyze that hot mess.

So, no, there's way more important things to talk about. But, yeah, delegitimatize. I can't even tell. I can't even tell. All right.

So we have... More obligatory news? I don't even know how... How do you say that wrong? I have to really work at it.

I have to think about it. I know. I can tell because you've paused. How did you say it? We have more obligatory news for you.

Coming up. I'm coming up. The word is obligatory. Wow.

Okay, so I don't, I haven't watched HGTV in a while. I think when it first came out, like everybody watched it. And then everybody now has, the whole thing about HGTV, isn't it all just home improvement every day? Every show is, here's this person. And I have never watched this.

It's Rehab Addict. have you ever watched rehab addict and apparently this chick who hosts it said a a no-no word oh boy uh she had to issue an apology because she apparently used a racial slur a video leaked of her using a racial slur what's can i ask what slur it was is it like the slur yeah yeah the n-word yeah but she said fart before it what yeah we can't play it obviously because we would did you censor it okay okay okay okay go ahead this 17 go let's try to understand this go ahead Why? It's my last one. Oh, farting. What the f*** is that that I just said?

Nick, you gotta, can you kill that? No, I'm not putting it on.

Sorry, it's live. F*** my life.

okay how in the world is that happen accidentally how does that happen accidentally i mean i don't know she doesn't seem like a hateful person i have no idea who i don't know how she her show has been canceled now was that that wasn't a live show How did it leak? Did somebody leak it out? Apparently.

Somebody delegitimatized her.

Somebody delegitimatized her.

It's so mockable. Wow.

Okay. I mean, now I've heard some creative cussing before.

So like my stepdad, whenever he would get mad at something in the garage, I don't think I can. Hey, can I say the word? I don't think I can say that word on air. I don't think so. It's unless, okay, so what did Sleeping Beauty do to the spinning wheel?

She pricked her finger. Oh, yeah, that's right.

So take the past tense ED off that. Gotcha. And just have the, you know, file, and that's what he would say. That's the only word that he would say, but he would say it was such force and volume that it felt like a weapon. It didn't feel like an exclamation, right?

It like almost manifest as a cudgel, legitimately tangible in hand.

So I just don't know how that is the thing that comes out of your mouth. I mean, it seems like she was also surprised as you about it. How are you surprised at what comes out of your own mouth? That doesn't even make any sense. Just a reaction.

Oh, my gosh.

So they said that the footage was taken about two years ago and never aired.

So why did it come out now? That was my question, too, because we all know that these shows aren't live, actually live.

So there's no reason for this to come out other than to damage someone's reputation. Yeah, somebody didn't like her, I guess, and decided that they wanted to go after her. And delegitimize. Oh, for the love. We're not making that word happen.

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Kane. How long have those dolls been around? Oh, gosh. Let me look. Let me look.

American. American. Late 90s? I'm sure. Like, how long have they been around?

And apparently they're, like, really expensive. Isn't it like Build-A-Bear, but for people? Like, Build-A-Person?

Something?

So the American Girl people, the dolls, oh, gosh, in the 80s. Because I remember them being around when I was a kid. That's why, but I was like, is it the same? It's the same thing. They've been around for a long time.

They were modeled after, this is all going to make sense here in a moment. They were modeled after 18 inch dolls that were made in Germany. And so they became very popular. 1986 is when they were introduced. And they're very popular.

I know I have friends that have girls that have these American Girl dolls. I had Cabbage Patch Kids, but I didn't really have an American Girl doll, probably because I was poor. And Cabbage Patch Kids were already expensive, and American Girl dolls are very, very expensive. And so the, what is it, the price? They're steeped in history.

so they have historical characters that are based on i guess like you know female characters of the late 1800s mid to late 1800s like they have kirsten as a swedish immigrant and samantha as a well-to-do edwardian era orphan i mean that's hard that's super specific merry christmas here's your well-to-do edwardian era orphan doll that's very very specific is it not yeah And it was designed to educate through storytelling about American history, right? And the lady who came up with it, she went to Colonial Williamsburg, got the idea, etc. Anyway, let's fast forward to current era, shall we?

So, I saw this with Rolling Stone. Headline. Meet the American Girl Doll Influencers Protesting Ice.

Some may find it surprising but for those creating the content it makes perfect sense So there a story in Rolling Stone where they talk about they apparently dress their American Girl dolls up in F t And they take pictures of them and put them on Instagram. Like, so these are grown people playing with dolls, from what I'm understanding. Why? Why in the world is this a thing? And there's a story about it.

And it's these middle-aged women who are taking American Girl dolls. They're posing them and posting about them. And they get into this, I don't know, like these aren't even funny memes. They're not even funny. The left cannot meme.

And they say, we've been radicalized since the 90s. And if you're not, you're not experiencing the historical side of American Girl and what they take. and they're talking to these grown women who collect dolls.

So I had a great aunt. I actually think she was my great aunt or maybe, I don't know, we had such a big family. And in her house, she was like a very elderly lady. She collected dolls. Not like regular dolls, but like the China dolls with the weird faces and the eyes that could peer through and burn your soul.

And she kept them all in one room. I think it was her dining room. My memories of this are hazy, but I remember it was like a dining room that she didn't use. And she was like married into the family. Nobody in the family had money.

She married into the family.

So it's like my first time, I think, really seeing a legit china cabinet. And instead of dishes in her china cabinet, they were all the dolls. And she would have the dolls sitting in the seats. I mean, they couldn't like sit up at the table, but she would place the dolls in the seats. It's like she was making a vignette in the room, right?

And they were terrifying. And I thought that was weird. I get it that they were like China or porcelain or something. And they had the hair that was in the... It was weird.

They weren't to play with. You were not allowed to play with them. It's kind of like that now. I think that's progressed to now you have these middle-aged women collecting American girl dolls. and now they're dressing them up and staging them to make political statements on Instagram.

That is weird. That's like you're a single adult going to Disneyland. Weird. Right? Cain, if you met a woman who collected American Girl dolls like this, would you still be like, I can fix her?

No. I do say that is my first default thing I say. But no, in that instance, you just have to know when to give up. You got to know when to throw the towel in. You know what, though?

It makes sense. I just realized. I think you made this point. These are the dolls that get possessed. Yeah, they are.

These are the dolls that all the movies are made about. Yeah. Right? Yeah. So maybe that explains why these women are so cray.

Today is Friday the 13th, you know, which I love. I love Friday the 13th. I is not afraid. But I'm just saying these are the dolls that get stabby. Makes some sense, man.

It makes some sense. I've. Yeah. I don't know. I they do.

But I feel like that that's what maybe that's part of the problem with all these women up there because they have these dolls and they're possessed. I don't know. I'm just like thinking out loud. They're expensive. But who'd like dress it?

First off, how do you even find a don't Google it? But how do you find a doll T-shirt that says blank ice? That's I don't know. Oh, and then. OK.

No, that would mean they have to craft them, take time to craft them themselves. Craft talk, craft talk.

So Lorraine says now there are modern era dolls that are meant for the adult collectors and they're putting out novels to go with the grown up. This is, you know what, it's still a doll. It's still a doll. If I, no, no. like they're talking about this 25 year old woman who collects dolls and she has like the whole thing oh my gosh there's but this is like too much guys this is way too much these women need lives sorry but it's weird it is just as weird as that family member i had that collected the little porcelain china dolls it's just as weird it's weird thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast.

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