
In this episode of Nightly Scroll, Jobob Taeleifi break down this week’s most contentious controversies: Minnesota Vikings season ticket holders boycott their new male cheerleaders, the MLB’s first female umpire fumbles her first call, engagement ring-GATE & more
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B
Thanks for having me. I am now unfortunately scared to death after hearing that doctors could be missing small inflammations in my heart. But I appreciate you having me on despite that.
A
Yes, of course. And I, I was, I mean, I was meaning to ask you how to pronounce your last name before we started. So I, so I just called you Joe Bob. Like Madonna, Beyonce. You're, you're just one of these celebrities that doesn't need a last name, you.
B
Know, doesn't need is. Is. Yes, correct. But not because of a fame element, but instead because of a weirdness element. Joe Bob is legally on my birth certificate. One grandpa was Joe, the other one was Bob. And when you see a brown guy with all of his teeth not in Alabama named Joe Bob, you don't really need the last name.
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You're the only Joe Bob I know. So this is wonderful. Okay. I like that story, the grandparents. I like that a lot. All right, well, you're a comedian, so I want your take on the future of late night. Will we ever return to comedy that is not tainted by politics, do you think?
B
You know, one is carrying the mantle of comedian. Feels like I have to be funny. So I don't know, I wear that badge lightly sometimes, especially because I work in the political space and sometimes it's difficult to be funny about very serious things. But in terms of the late night comic stuff, you know what's fascinating to me? I so last week we saw Jimmy Kimmel have Greg Gutfeld on his show. Gutfeld has the highest rated late night show over on Fox and does really, really well, is really funny. And the, the reaction to that interview was, I think, super telling to me to kind of answer your question of whether or not things get back to its more, you know, Funny, light hearted, not so serious. Everything is bad with the conservatives way of doing comedy that is so prevalent nowadays. And what it said to me, what the reaction was, was, well, they're just doing it. Jimmy Fallon just did this so he could appease Trump and therefore not get his show canceled like Stephen Colbert, which I feel like was the biggest holy airball that I had heard in terms of analysis. The bottom line is yes. Do, does, does Greg Gutfeld disagree with probably most of the people in the audience and the writing staff and the production team at Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show Pro. But at the same time, they are missing half of the country. A majority of the country who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 is like, yeah, we don't really have anywhere to go besides Gutfield. So was it to appease Trump? Maybe there's a small element of that, but the bigger element is, okay, we're just missing on this massive audience. These shows are expensive to produce. They are take a lot of time and energy. And if we're going to just completely neglect half the country, that's probably not a good business strategy. Uh, so, yeah, to your point, just try to be funny. And I feel like that's a better way to go about things, especially when you're trying to appeal to a wider audience.
A
Yeah. And you're supposed to be a late night comedian, so being funny is supposed to be your bit and they haven't been funny for so long. And to your point about Gutfeld, I mean, I think a lot of these other late night hosts are seeing the writing on the wall and they're thinking, you know, we're seeing what's happening with Colbert. Maybe they're thinking, well, we've got a course correct and fast, or else our careers are going to look like him. So to your point about Jimmy Kimmel, he was recently on Sarah Silverman's podcast and he was talking about whether or not, you know, I mean, they're talking about the state of the world and how, you know, Trump is bad and all this stuff. And Jimmy Kimmel dropped that. He actually has dual citizenship and he didn't say that he was going to move to Italy, but. But let's play the video and then we'll react.
C
A lot of people I know are thinking about where they can get citizenship.
D
And I do have Italian. I did get Italian citizenship.
B
You do?
C
Oh, that's amazing.
D
I do have that. And what's going on is as bad as you thought it was gonna be.
C
Way worse.
D
It's so much worse. It's just unbelievable. Like, I feel like it's probably even worse than he would like it to be.
C
Probably.
A
Yeah.
C
I mean, I do. Every once in a while I'll Google Trump regrets or Maga regrets just to see all the people that, I'm not happy that they're upset and they're there, but I'm, it makes me hope that maybe people will, this will bring people together.
A
I mean, her reaction where she was saying, you know, it's so bad and that's so great that you have Italian citizenship. I mean, does Jimmy Kimmel have a career if he goes to Italy?
B
Well, I'm not sure he has a ton of career now. What I think is fascinating about this and I just wanted to double check that I was looking at my phone while we were watching that. Yeah, Italy has a quote unquote, far right prime minister right now. So I'm not sure how good that's going to do. But I just, before we get into any of that, I mean, this is, this is the same Jimmy Kimmel that did the blackface. Is that, is that the word I'm talking about is the same Jimmy Kimmel that hosted the Man Show? Okay, got it. I just wanted to make sure that the guy who hosted the man show and was probably extraordinarily sexist if you ask his fellow lefties. But. Okay, just wanted to make sure that that was the correct Jimmy Kimmel that we were talking about. Yeah, the. I, you know, I, the thing that I think is if you zoom out 30,000ft and you look at people like Rosie O' Donnell and you look at people that have left the country over this, the most fascinating thing about this from like an interpersonal standpoint is how much people think that others care like Rosie O' Donnell and I think Ella DeGeneres. Probably the same way like I left the United States, I'm taking a bold stance to the opinion of everybody. Was. Okay, I. Good. Don't let the door hit you on the way out as is, are we supposed to care more about this? Am I missing something? But I don't know. It's the, the, the privilege too all to have a dual citizenship. I just, you know, cisgendered white mailman Jimmy Kimmel. This. So I, I, you know, I wish him well if he does decide to move and if he doesn't, I don't care either way.
A
Yeah, doesn't really make a difference. Right. I don't know where these people live anywhere. I'm assuming it's a massive bunker in LA somewhere or in the Hollywood Hills, and I don't care where they live. So I'm. But I want to talk to you too about south park, snl, these other late night shows that, you know, it's funny because I, I'm scrolling on, you know, right wing Twitter because my algorithm is obviously right wing Twitter. Right. And conservatives love when south park, you know, is on our team or if like SNL makes fun of Biden or something and then they're back to hating on them when they call out the right. I like that these shows can call out both sides. I just wish it was more equal and not so lopsided on the left side. But I like that they can call out us too. I think it's funny when they make fun of us.
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Well, I think the south park guys do a pretty good job. Obviously, they're not going to be down the middle necessarily. They're definitely not going to lean to the conservative side of the aisle, but they do a pretty good job at lampooning their own side too. And yeah, like you said, that's something that is appreciated. I think. Another guy, Seth MacFarlane, that does a Family Guy similar kind of concept. I, I would imagine, politically speaking, and I, I don't actually know, but I would imagine if I were to place money on it, he's probably a pretty big lefty kind of guy, but Family Guy takes a bunch of stabs at pretty hilarious content that has to do with race, that has to do with gender and sex and all that sort of stuff. And, you know, that's what I think the, the country used to be. We're so segmented off into our own, like, little, like sectors of things which, you know, is, is a problem on, you know, left wing media, obviously, but also conservative media too. There's, there's no, there's, there's a, we've lost the sense of kind of communal understanding of cultural phenomenons. There is, I don't know, you look back to like the, not to go down the rabbit hole too far, but the, the season finale of. Or the series finale of mash, right? Like, everybody in their mother knew what happened. We're talking about it around the water cooler nowadays, right? Like, I go to go, go anywhere. You, you talk to another couple and they say, oh, have you guys seen this show? It's, it's our favorite thing. We've, we've, it's the best thing we've ever seen. And I'm like, I never even heard of that.
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Totally.
B
And so, yeah, it's, it's a problem, I think. And I, I, I enjoy the fact that there still are some outlets that will take stabs at both sides to kind of have this, like, common ground, because, unfortunately, it seems like it's vanishing. And I don't think that's necessarily a good thing ultimately for us.
A
Yeah, it's interesting that you brought up that point, because you think about these streaming platforms, and I think the most recent example I can think of is a mostly HBO shows where it's Game of Thrones or White Lotus, where a new episode comes out and everyone goes and rushes to watch it so that they're, like, up on what's. What's happening. But for the most part, people stream what they want to stream when they want to stream it. So there's this lack of community in terms of what people are watching now because to your point, everyone's watching different stuff.
B
Yeah, and you're right. Those, those shows that are still semi ubiquitous, I think Game of Thrones is probably, like, the last show that, like, everybody watched. Doesn't matter. Your political stance, it doesn't matter anything like that you watched that. White Lotus has kind of gotten there. Are we allowed to spoil White Lotus Season 3 yet? Because I feel like if you haven't watched it already, I can't imagine you're going to. Did you notice how the only relatively sane person in that entire, that entire season was the Trump supporter? Like, and I don't even know if they did it on purpose, but the blonde lady with the bob haircut who was like, yeah, I did. I voted for Trump. Or whatever, Whatever she said. She actually, I don't think she answered the question officially, but she clearly made it clear. And it. Her character did in the episode, she was the only one that, like, had, like, a sane lifestyle the entire season.
A
Yeah, no, totally. And I, maybe they did that on purpose, but I don't know. I mean, everyone else had, you know, they were cheating on their husband or they were a drug addict or something. I mean, there was something going on with everyone. But, yeah, it's. It, it's very interesting to see how this is all changing. Speaking of streaming platforms, Netflix, the. They have done deals in the past with Harry and Megan, and now they're extending their deal, which is odd. I mean, we don't know how much it is, so we don't know how much the deal is for, but they did sign a $100 million deal back in 2020. Whether or not it is on that level, we don't know. But she had this show With Love Megan, where she, you know, cosplayed as a trad wife, even though she's nothing of the. And she had all of these. I mean, it's so forced. She's all these, like, famous friends come over, and then they cook together. I mean, it's just. It's forced. Anyway, it didn't do that well. The With Love, Meghan thing. It was not even in the top 300 shows on Netflix. So has Netflix learned nothing? I mean, what dirt does the royal family have on people at Netflix? I don't understand why they keep doing failed business with them.
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I. Well, first things first. Haley, you do a great job at weaving things in the blending transition from south park to Netflix. It's just superb. The audience should be grateful that you're able to host in such a spectacular fashion. So I will say this in full honesty. The only thing that I want to see is a new Meghan Markle show of Prince Harry and Meghan are my. Actually, I lied. The only other thing that I want more than that is a book from Kamala Harris. I think those two things are at the top of my priority.
A
Joe Biden, too. I mean, you could just stack up your bookshelf with unneeded unwanted novels and memoirs from people who are failed.
B
You know, I think I might have buried the lead there. I don't actually want to watch them. I want to mock them and make fun of it, because that's easier to do. The. Sometimes when libs kind of aren't in power and they aren't really doing a whole lot, the fodder for humor tends to dry up. So it's. If. If I could get my hands on another season of whatever. Meghan Markle's show is on Netflix. And a Kamala Harris book. And a Joe Biden book. And a KJP book. Holy cow. We are. We've got some jokes loaded up in the can and ready to fire away. So I, as far as, like, will Netflix like, figure it out? Like, I, you know, this is. I don't know if this is going down the conspiratorial rabbit hole.
A
Let's do it.
B
I would imagine. I would imagine there's some, like, sort of tax maneuvering that makes, like, sense to them. Right? Because, you know, if you're Netflix and you're just a streaming behemoth, you're bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars. And so to a certain point, it kind of makes sense for you to stay in the news by paying people that nobody wants to see an exorbitant amount of money to gain the attention and get the tax write off for paying them that exorbitant amount of money. Now is it worth, yeah, whatever $100 million that it was last time? I don't actually know, but I would imagine that the finance department at Netflix knows what they're doing at least enough to have an understanding of like, okay, they're going to, we're going to talk.
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About it on the world. Yeah, they're getting something out of it.
B
Yeah, they're getting free publicity, earned media because of how much people don't like these folks and whatever they're paying for them, you know, it's worth it. Yeah, it's worth it because like Netflix didn't buy, Netflix didn't buy ad space on this program as far as I'm concerned. But yet we're talking about it. So maybe they, that's why they decide, hey, we're going to cut a check to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry and hopefully, hopefully we get some earned media, some free publicity for Netflix.
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I wonder if the Obamas have anything to do with it. I'm trying to think back to Harry and Meghan's wedding where the Obama's invited. Were they there? I have like a vague memory of that. I'm not sure. But the Obamas are producers at Netflix. They produced the Leave the World Behind, a movie about, you know, this post apocalyptic world where everything goes to shit and you know, the Republicans and their bunkers are the crazy people. And then I think Michelle Obama also produced like a dating reality show with old people or something. So they're definitely, they've got their hands in the Netflix pot and I'm wondering if they're like throwing their, their rich elite friends a lifeline like a here, we'll save you, we'll give you your money. I know that the royal family doesn't want anything to do with you anymore. Like we'll be your royal, I'm sure.
B
Yeah. You know, and I'm sure the Obama Netflix partnership has nothing to do with the fact that the former president probably has deep inroads to the people that are either going to allow Netflix streaming services to do their thing or regulate them in any way, shape or form. I'm sure that has nothing to do with it. Some sort of like fake lobbying attempt, but probably all above board. Definitely def. Nothing to see there. I, I would be curious though if the Obamas orchestrate like throwing lifelines to people because. Okay, so, and sorry for being like incredibly cynical about this sort of stuff. But, like, I can see a situation where, let's just say Democrats libs aren't doing so hot. People. People aren't really loving them as much. Polls have said so much. I wonder if the Obamas would be cynical enough to throw one of their friends or people they know under the bus so that people talk about something else. Right? Like if Harry and if Harry and Meghan get a TV show and the news media is talking about that instead of how bad Democrats are currently in Congress, I think that might be actually a win for libs.
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Unfortunately, I wouldn't put it past them. I think this is something that the media does all the time, and the media and the Democrats are in bed together. So I would assume that they do this kind of stuff all the time. I remember when Hunter Biden was on trial. That's when the Titanic submersible thing happened and there was a whole conspiracy. I remember because they knew right away that the submersible exploded. I think they knew within seconds of hearing those bangs. And I mean, people at that company knew. The Ocean Gate company knew. And then I remember they had us all in a tizzy for like three days. CNN had an Oxygen countdown. Like, they're going to die, you know, because CNN loves a death count and they love a death toll and they love this stuff. So I remember Hunter Biden was on trial. And I'm like, looking back, they were distracting us. They knew that they were all dead, but they were trying to distract us from Hunter Biden. So I think that they do that. Speaking of what everyone is watching, are you on TikTok?
B
Okay, I'm glad you said TikTok. I thought you're going to say Love island because I think I'm a pretty attuned to pop culture and I enjoy that sort of stuff. TMZ is my favorite website to read, which I don't know how well that bodes for me as a conservative commentator. But yes, I am on TikTok. I am not watching Love island, though, in case that was missed.
A
No, I was not going to ask you about Love island because I am also not watching it. But now that everyone is watching it, I'm like, should I get into that? Maybe I should. I don't know. But I don't really watch tv. So I scroll on my phone and what everyone's talking about are sorority girls, because they are back. They are back and there are a bunch of girls. They are dancing. They're making their. This is what we call Rush talk. And every August we see this. But I'm seeing people online saying, we are so back. Conservatives are saying, we are so back. But the thing is, this has been a thing. SEC Sorority girls have been hot. They've always been hot, though. They always will be. And they do their recruitment videos. This is really nothing new.
B
Well, I mean, all I saw in that video was Nazi propaganda, clearly. And evidently that's. That's. I mean, that's what blonde.
A
Blonde girls are.
B
Yeah. Are Nazi propaganda. I think that's. That's what everybody's been telling me the last couple of weeks. I. You know, this is not to go down this crazy rabbit hole of things, but did you ever watch that documentary? I. It might have been on HBO or Max or whatever. The new iteration of their streaming platform.
A
Is about this stuff. Right.
B
The sorority stuff about rushing sororities in the south. And it is like cutthroat. And I think. I think that documentary gave it kind of a bad rap. But I'm looking at it like, hey, this feels like the tenacious nature of the free market at work. And what better way to give college students the opportunity to understand the. The. What life is, like, fair or definite? Not fair as it's portrayed kind of. On that sorority documentary. I wish I could remember the name of it specifically, but it is super fascinating to see how seriously all of this stuff is taken. Like, people who get chosen by certain sororities and don't are crying at the end of it. Some parents are suing the schools. It is wild. But I mean, back to. Back to kind of the cultural point. Like, yeah, like. Sorry, that for some reason, tangent on tangent on tangent. Haley, we have to figure out a name for that period of time, the last couple, like, three or four years, where the entire country just effectively lost its mind.
A
Yeah, it was like a mind. It was just like a memory hole. I don't know what it was. I mean, obviously all because of COVID I think people truly were locked in their houses and went totally batshit insane because people weren't hanging out with each other. They were FaceTiming with their friends or they were masking up or whatever. It made people just become these recluses. And it was insane. I mean, the whole. Yes. The whole world went inside insane. That's when the companies were pushing the body positivity stuff. That's when the Black Lives Matter happened. I mean, that is when companies went so overtly woke. I think we're now seeing just a course correction.
B
Oh.
A
Where these companies are realizing, okay, people aren't giving us money when we Push these ugly people or these trans people. We need to make money again. And they learned the hard way.
B
Oh, totally. And that's the thing is we gotta come up with a name for that, like, period of three or four or five years where just people went nuts. But I think to kind of your. Your broader point about the sororities is like, yeah, this is. This has happened. This has been. This has been happening. It's kind of coming to fruition now because of a jeans commercial for some. But this is what. I don't know. This is what Greek life has always been about. And sorry that we, like, deviated down a term of like, okay, we only want to buy jeans from and advertise overweight black lesbians. But, you know, I guess that was just a weird blip in time that we had to figure out a name for. I'm going to brag.
A
It wasn't because we had the Great depression in the 1900s. This was like the great Psyop. I don't know. I mean, we were all depressed, too, but it was. I mean, yeah, it was just a propaganda scop. I don't know. But, yeah, we have to think of a better one.
B
There's got to. Yeah, there's. That's going to be. My task for the next. For the foreseeable future, is coming up with the term because I feel like you. We can coin that term. Like, that can be like. There can be a term here that is used. Maybe people in the comment section want to, like, give suggestions.
A
If you guys ask Grock, if you can come up with a name for the. The 2020 PSYOP where everything went rogue, we'll rogue. We'll ask Grok what he thinks or she. Whatever. Grock is a man of, I don't know a thing.
B
Androgynous being.
A
Well, so I wanted to touch on this because it seems like in some aspects of our society, things are going better, but then at the same time, we're still pushing. I guess sports are still woke because the MLB had their first female umpire. And I saw you did a video on this. So for my viewers who haven't seen this yet, let's just see this. First female umpire. This was her first call. Watch this day.
B
Joey Witts is ready. We hope you're ready. And here we go. Joey Wentz likes that first call from Jim Powell. He'll take it.
A
Okay. At least she's a woman.
B
Yeah.
A
And she's not, you know, a man pretending to be a woman. But maybe if this was a man pretending to be a woman. He wouldn't have made that mistake.
B
That's. That's funny. That's a good joke. I, you know, I. I'm glad. That's actually better than I was expecting to have happen. I was kind of expecting for the pitcher to throw the ball, catcher catch it, and then nothing happens from behind the plate. And then they go, what's. What's wrong? And you're like, you know, you. I'm not. I don't need to tell you.
A
Yeah. And then the game would go, you know, what's wrong?
B
Yeah. Then the game would meander in discrepancy, and that would have been. That's what I expected to happen. So at least there was a call made. Now, just. Just so we're being fair here, like, her scorecard was, like, just under the average of most umpires across the league. It wasn't, like, terrible. It was just the optics. The, like, look at how great this is that it's a woman behind the plate. I don't actually care if it's a man or woman. Like, I, Like. I don't actually. None of that actually has any different. Makes any difference to me. But if you're going to. To. To drag out the fanfare, I'm going to be critical. And the first pitch was just. It wasn't like, on the cusp. You know, he got a full, like, six inches off the plate there, and she calls it a strike. So how are we not supposed to make fun of it? I. You know, this is one of those where she's like, nobody cares what you are, what you claim to be, what you. Well, I do care what you claim to be. If you're just objectively wrong. Like, you're a man pretending to be a woman. But. But you know what I mean? Like, culturally speaking, I don't really care if it's a man or a woman doing whatever job is. Can you do the job? And I think ultimately, if they just didn't mention it at all, I don't think I would have cared. It was all of the fanfare. Like, look, it's the first woman. Yeah, it's the thing.
A
It's not historic. If you're below average, then it's just embarrassing.
B
Totally. And that's. There's. There's this. There's this thing with, like, I don't know, the racial component about things, and I'm straying away from the MLB woman umpire, but Tulsi Gabbard is Samoan. I'm Samoan. I've met her a Couple of times. She's very, very lovely in person. I, I don't think I would care if she was Samoan and I happened to be Simone. Also, if I hated everything she did. Like, that doesn't make right just because, just because we're the same race or have the same sort of family origin or lineages or whatever. If she's making dumb decisions and I hate her, then that, that doesn't play into it or factor in at all. It's great that, you know, she happens to be Simone, I happen to be Simone, and I really like the job she's doing and what she's stood for over the last couple years. But that's just like a brief example of, like, there are some people that that's the only thing that matters. Like, oh, we're from the same small town in wherever. Actually, that's even more defensible than like a, a generic race element. But you know what I mean? Like it's, it's like that sort of thing. The people that care about that sort of stuff. Like, all right, I don't know what to do with you, like Democrats.
A
The Democrats use these like DEI checkboxes, I call them, to excuse bad behavior. Like, it's okay if you're a bad politician. It's okay if you're a failed candidate because you're the first whatever, gay, trans, woman, black, whatever. Like you're the first something. Therefore nothing else matters. And what conservatives say, you know, they'll call us racist or homophobic for saying this. What we say is, no, the job matters. It doesn't matter what you know, box you check. It matters that you do the job. Which brings me to my next topic, which is the Minnesota Vikings and their new male cheerleaders. They have reportedly replaced two of the female cheerleaders. Now they have male cheerleaders. So let's take a look at these new members of the team. The hair flip. Okay, I will say I'm gonna give my take. I, I actually don't care about this and I know that this is, this is an unpopular opinion amongst, you know, right wing Twitter and, and everyone who gets all riled up about this. They're not wearing dresses, they're wearing shorts. Yes, he does the effeminate hair flip and all that, but they're flamboyant gays and clearly they're good enough to make the team. So if we claim to be proponents of merit based accomplishments and opportunities, if they took the places of two women on a co ed team, then that means they were better than them or more useful than them, and they deserve the right to be on the team.
B
Unfortunately, Haley, you are 100% wrong in this particular instance. Not for the reason that you might think.
A
Let me have it.
B
I think. I think you're wrong because unfortunately, there were only two men on there. Tim Walls has been fighting to be a cheerleader for a Minnesota franchise for his entire career. Look at how the guy waves. He. He's like. That's like he's made for cheerleading. The fact that he was not included in this roster, to me, is just an abomination of the sport of cheerleading. To overlook someone with that skill and talent and lives in that city. That, to me, is the biggest issue. Uh, to your point, I don't actually care either. It's just fun to make fun of. But justice for little Timmy. He wants to be a cheerleader to Vikings. Do what's right. Make Tim Walls a cheerleader. He's been training for this his entire career.
A
Seriously. And all he's been. He's not only been fighting for that, he's been fighting for the tampons in the boys bathrooms. I mean, yes, this is Tim Walls, his space. This is his. His domain. And I do agree. I mean, his dance moves with Gwen, they're very cringy. But maybe he can work on it, and maybe we'll. We'll see him on the sidelines next year, you know?
B
Yeah.
A
And he touts his football career being an, you know, an assistant high school coach or whatever. I mean, maybe he can make it big as a. As a cheerleader.
B
Yeah. And he was. He was discriminated against and left off of this list for what I can only imagine is. Is ageism. That's the only reason that comes to my head of why Tim Walls was not on this list. He is a. A younger man who looks incredibly old. But because of that look, I think he was not included. And I. I think it's just a. Just a travesty to see him left off of such an auspicious roster on the Vikings cheerleading. I don't know how longer I could take this serious gambit. Yeah, I think you're right. I don't. I don't actually care, but it is fun, especially considering this is in Tim Walls's backyard.
A
Because I actually don't think that men really care about the cheerleaders at the football games. I'm just gonna throw it out there. I think if you are going to the game. And there have been some season ticket holders for the Minnesota Vikings that are so Upset over this. They are canceling their season tickets or they're boycotting the game. And it's not just the Minnesota Vikings. The Eagles have male cheerleaders. I think there's a trans cheerleader on the Panthers. So this is like an NFL wide thing. So again, I feel like conservatives. Every few years there's like, calls to boycott the NFL altogether, but I don't know, I just don't think it's really that big of a deal.
B
I agree with you. I don't actually. I mean, if you really want to go down that rabbit hole, and I feel like I've said go down that rabbit hole a million times this episode, but sorry about that. It's kind of hard to make the case, really, for cheerleaders at all in the game. Like, I mean, and people will be like, no, they're part of the game. And that's all great. Okay, when do you go to the bathroom? Do you go to the bathroom when the game is gone, or do you go to the bathroom when it's a TV timeout or halftime or in between quarters when there's nothing to do but watch the cheerleaders? Like, you know, it does. It's. It's kind of a. Well, geez, man. I. I probably give you an actual reason as to why they still have them, because the NFL, like the NBA, has kind of a domestic abuse problem that they kind of want to not be seen as that. And so, hey, look, we also employ some of these women, so that's good for us. We're supportive of feminism and whatever that's. I think that actually is. But overall, just like from a product that is the NFL, you know, it doesn't really make a difference to me one way or the other. If they got rid of the entire cheerleading team in Minnesota, it wouldn't affect my life whatsoever. I'd probably still watch the game.
A
I'm only arguing because I will argue in defense of women's sports until the day I die. Like, I. This is an issue that I care about. I care about protecting women. In this case, though, there. There have been male cheerleaders for decades. Like, this is not new. So for me, if it's a co ed team and the women trying out know that there are also men trying out, it's not a surprise they're not being hurt. If anything, these men are stronger. They could protect them, throw them, whatever they have to do. Totally different, in my opinion, than, you know, the Riley Gaines of the world swimming against Lia Thomas or these track athletes or whatever. Where their bodies, they're competing against one another and their bodies are putting the women at disadvantage. I think that it's different. But speaking of effeminate and football players, did you see Travis Kelsey's new GQ shoot?
B
Yes. And I'm, I'm kind of concerned about this topic as a whole because I am a pretty dang big swifty and I can defend that too. I, I, where are you on that, like, line? So I know where to gauge where I'm coming from at this particular instance.
A
I don't yuck anyone's yums, but I.
B
Don'T like, there are some yums that should be yucked. I'll tell you that right now. I, as a Christian man, I can tell you a couple things that God would forbid in every corner of the earth. But I understand your point. Well, what do you want? Like, I am so into this story just from every single angle one. I mean, it's been said over and over and over again that Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift ditching kind of mealy mouthed, weak men who probably could get knocked over if a child sneezes and going for like the big hulking football player. Like regardless of what she says politically, that's like beneficial to the conservative side of the aisle. What's the, you know, actions speak louder than words. Like, yeah, Taylor Swift can be like, yeah, the patriarchy and all that sort of stuff. Then she goes and dates one of the biggest manliest dudes on the planet. And like, all right, well, that's a better example than, you know, what you were doing in the past. So I mean, I like this relationship as a whole also too. I've brought this up and into the weeds of my Taylor Swift folklore knowledge or whatever. Not the album folklore.
A
I was just gonna say I'm not even a swiftie, but I picked up on that. So, so well done.
B
Taylor. Taylor Swift in her, in, in Anti Hero, the song, it's, you know, it's all over the place. Everybody's heard it, has the most based lyric I have heard in the last decade. It's like, did you hear my covert narcissism? I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman, which is like, yeah, dude, right, left, center. Like, yes, like Congress. A bunch of narcissists in so many cases. There's obviously a few good guys in there and we like to see that. But yeah, they're, they're disguising their narcissism as altruism and they're in Congress. I like, it's so hard for me to hate Taylor Swift. And I hope there are some people in the comments that disagree because I love seeing the takes there. But you know, overall, Travis and Taylor, I'm a, I'm a big fan of. I hope they get married. I think Taylor Swift maybe a two because I'm optimistic. I think Taylor Swift is one kid away from starting to become a conservative of like, oh, oh, man. This is actually, this is actually what we were meant to do.
A
Yeah, maybe she'll go mama bear.
B
Yeah, dude. I, I think we're close. I think we're close. Especially with Travis's brother. What? He's got four kids now too. So like there, there's got.
A
He's a girl dad all the way. They're all girls.
B
Yeah, there's that itch is coming. I just, I, I'm holding on hope for Taylor Swift. Not necessarily coming out like, you know, maga, right wing extremist, but like more sensible politically speaking and especially with the actions that she's displaying, you know, being anti mealy mouthed nothing men.
A
Yeah. If you guys can bring up the Travis Kelsey GQ shoot just so we could find some pictures of it. I mean, I made a video about this earlier this week that he is cosplaying blue collar men. It is almost offensive the way that he is wearing their culture as a costume, where he's wearing the construction vest, he's wearing, you know, you know, the fishing boots. And it looks like he's outside of alligator Alcatraz, but then he's also carrying an Hermes bag. I mean, it's very odd. And I, I made the point that they're trying to take back Americana and that culture from the right. They see that we're gaining some speed in the culture department, kind of winning the culture war in so many ways. And they're trying to regain this, like, toxic masculinity is over. Like, we can also do masculinity. We'll just have, you know, Mr. Pfizer do it and we'll put him in some fishing trunks and whatever. And they just did a really bad job. So I think they're, you know, here he is. This is like alligator Alcatraz.
B
That's funny.
A
It's odd, right?
B
Okay, you want to know my take on this? Just like looking at this. Ah, okay. So you're right. Like you have. That is a great point and a great observation. It's kind of cosplaying Americana. And it's not like the best look, if you're in that field, that line of work and that's kind of like making fun of your culture. Men aren't looking at that. Right? That is like, I, I understand GQ is kind of a men's magazine, but what man there is searching out Travis Kelsey pictures. That is all women that are looking at that. And if women around the country are looking at, again, a just hulking figure of a dude and saying, I want that. Of course not lustfully. Nobody wants that to happen.
A
Right.
B
But I want that in a husband, boyfriend, you know, fiance, whatever. I just, I feel like that's a win. Like, I get what you're saying. You're right, by the way. But I just think the audience is. Is such that, like it. The women that see that attractive and then want that in men, and therefore men adapt to be something like that. I feel like that ultimately is a win down the line.
A
Yeah, they might come over to our side.
B
Yeah, yeah, I'm all for it.
A
Actually. Alligator Alcatraz isn't a concentration camp. They'll just start to come too.
B
Yeah, Travis Kelsey is there. It seems fine. How do I get there? I would love to go if Travis is there.
A
Well, speaking of husbands, fiancee's, all of this, I'm sure you saw engagement ringgate break out on again, conservative Twitter, where we'll play the video. But this is Sarah Stock. She's a conservative girl, as they call her. She was excited, she got engaged, she got a very nice ring, and other people in the conservative world just came and started trashing on it. So watch this, guys.
E
Some of these conservative influencer girls need to be stopped. The other day, I shared my engagement photo, showed off my ring. Not because the ring is what matters, but because it obviously signifies the fact that I'm going to be spending the rest of my life with my favorite person in the world. And that's something I'm excited about. And so I want to share with my followers. And who decides to show up. Our favorite. Pearl Davis is now hating on me for doing exactly what she tells young women to do and trying to say that me announcing my engagement is trying to build my brand or something. As if I would get engaged and commit to spending my entire rest of my life with someone just for the Twitter clout or something. But it's not Pearl's post that shocked me the most.
A
Okay.
E
Emily Gold digs America, shows up in the replies and thinks she can clown me for my ring size, which I picked up, by the way, because I love it. Even Pearl Davis says it's not about the ring size. And Emily saves America responds with size matters.
A
So it actually got a lot messier than that. But I. My take on this is if you're shaming someone for an engagement ring, you're on the wrong side of history. The only thing that you should say is congratulations.
B
You know, it's, it's super interesting. I'm, I'm like, trying to figure out how I look at this sort of stuff, and what I'm noticing retrospectively in real time is that I know all of the juicy gossip in the celebrity world. I know none of it in, like, the conservative media space I'm ever hearing about this at all. It is, it is really interesting. But I think that the point to be made here is, you know, as a guy who's been married with my wife for very, very long time, I have enough experience to know that there seems to be a, an inverse correlation between amount of money spent on the ring, the wedding, the honeymoon, and divorce rates. As in, like, the less money that you spend on all of that sort of stuff. The, the, the higher chance your marriage has of succeeding. And obviously the. Seems to be true. Again, that's anecdotal. I'm sure somebody's done some sort of a hard study on that with the numbers wise, but I, I just, I don't know. This is, this is super interesting. This is the first time hearing about it, but I'm also like, fascinated that somebody would actually care about, like, I don't know, is great. You're getting married. Getting married is a, is a positive thing.
A
Totally.
B
And, you know, one can make the case like, you know, thank God your husband, boyfriend didn't spend $50,000 on a ring that, that would, that I wouldn't marry that guy. Yeah.
A
I would say, hey, he's physically irresponsible.
B
Yeah, yeah. I'm not, not sure that's the, the best approach to this sort of thing, but I don't know. That's interesting. I'm, again, I'm learning a lot about myself here. I appreciate you opening me up to this new world. Now, I will say that I'm not sure I like it. I, I much. I'd much rather, you know, people that I agree with on 97% of things not be infighting.
A
Right.
B
That, that is a fascinating insight.
A
Wow. Well, I think you brought up a really good point about the correlation between the big lavish wedding, the huge ring, and having the marriage not be that successful versus a smaller ring, a more conservative party, if you will. I think it just goes back to conservative values where if you place the Importance on the marriage itself and not the ring in the wedding. You're probably in a better spot than the people who throw the big, you know, they go into debt over the big wedding day. I mean, you can't care more about the wedding day than the marriage itself. But, yeah, I mean, this totally. I would encourage you to go look up this controversy because it got very, very messy and very dirty. I mean, people, Pearl was saying, you know, oh, this person. I mean, oh, it was it. I can't even really say it on the show like it's that inappropriate. People were accusing of Emily Saves America, getting engaging in some kind of unsavory behavior at Turning Point. Conferences and hotel lobbies in front of families and people were just slinging insults back and forth. So I won't get into it. I'll let you do your research on your own time.
B
Apparently, I am missing a fantastic reality show. I'm completely aware of all of these things. I, I will say that I, I know a couple of the people involved in this, and I've never had any problem. I, I've ran into Sarah at, I don't know where I ran into Sarah last. And I also ran an Emily at Charlie thing a long time or, I don't know, not all that long. Bottom line is I, I feel like I've met these people in real life and everything seems kosher and fine and apparently other people hate each other. This goes to show you, this is why I, I, I am so not a thing on X or Twitter. I just, I don't know, I can't bring myself to use, use it as much as I probably should. But apparently I'm missing out on, like I said, the Jersey shore of the Internet.
A
It really is. But to your point, it's better when the girls are not fighting. So we'll just, we'll end it on that. I, I like being. People ask me all the time, haley, why aren't you at this conference? Or why aren't you at this thing? Or I've never seen you here or whatever. And I'm like, I kind of like staying out of it. I like kind of being on an island by myself and not fighting with people. I'm not confrontational. I'm not going to be, you know, the next Charlie Kirk. So I'm cool sitting here. I'm cool being friends with you virtually and, and just keeping to myself. So I wanted to thank you for coming on the show. This was a lot of fun, and we'll have to do it again sometime.
B
I Appreciate. I would love to be that. I love, I love the pop culture slash not so hyper political world. Yeah, no, it's a good time.
A
So where can people find your show? Where can they follow you? Where, where do people support you?
B
Yeah. Real America's Voice each and every weeknight at 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern. You can also just type in job OB pretty much anywhere on the Internet you'll be able find me if it's a brown guy with all of his teeth. Like I said, that's me. That's the only Joe Bob that is again has not needed dental procedures. But yeah, that's, that's pretty much it. I don't know. What do I call the. The Internet's most lovable right wing extremist. I think is my Instagram bio at the moment. Yeah, that. There you go.
A
I love that. Thanks so much.
B
Thank you. I appreciate it.
A
I always love talking to Joe Bob. It was the first time that he was on my show. But I join him all the time on Real America's Voice on Turning Point tonight. So if you wanna, if you want more of me, you can get more of me and Joe Bob over there as well. So always fun to talk about all these viral moments of the week and I hope you enjoyed it. Of course you can follow me at Haley Karania on most social media platforms. Instagram, TikTok X and Truth Social, Neverthreads, not Facebook. But everywhere else I am there and I will see you right back here on Monday. See ya.
Episode 113 – “Male Cheerleaders, Female Umpires… it’s Freaky Friday with Jobob Taeleifi”
Host: Hayley Caronia
Guest: Joe Bob (comedian, host on Real America’s Voice)
Date: August 15, 2025
In this energetic and irreverent episode, Hayley Caronia welcomes comedian and commentator Joe Bob for a fast-paced tour through current pop culture and political headlines. From the evolution (and devolution) of late-night comedy, to the latest viral controversies about cheerleaders and umpires, to conservative Twitter dramas, Hayley and Joe Bob blend humor, critique, and unapologetic conservative viewpoints as they dissect the week’s wildest stories and social media obsessions.
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Brimming with sharp banter and cultural criticism, this episode blends humor and no-nonsense commentary on today’s polarization—pointing out the absurdities and excesses of both mainstream liberal and occasionally conservative culture. Both Hayley and Joe Bob strike a balance between poking fun, defending traditional values, and calling out performative wokeness and identity politics. Their conversation is especially rich for listeners interested in media, pop culture skirmishes, and the ongoing battle for the cultural center in American life.