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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human the Masters is officially underway as golf's biggest weekend of the entire year takes shape. What can be learned from the tradition that is unlike any other? Also, if you're gonna major in something in the state of California, maybe you should major in hospice opening, because there's a lot of freaking money there and nobody has been held to account until now, thank goodness. Also, cleaning out the clips that we didn't use this week. Wiser by the week. Erica said something that I thought was super important, especially in modern times, that I'd like to discuss. All that and more coming up. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now. If you're not a golf fan and you don't think the Masters is at all interesting, especially as it relates to how we run our own society, stay tuned. I guarantee you're going to find something interesting about this. And if you are a fan of golf, chances are you're watching the Masters and not this program, so there's no need to pander to you. Anyways, tbt tpusa.com is the email address. Got to remind you of that. First off, on the front end of this, any emails you want to send are more than welcome. Tptposa.com we get some fantastic emails, which we probably won't get to a ton today because I did promise to tell you I promised an email. Or on Tuesday, I think, to tell the story about our Easter experience at the dog park with the bum that pooped in front of my kids. Uh, we will. That's gonna take place at our mailbag. I it It's a story worth telling just because of if you're not careful, the place where you live can become California, unfortunately. But generally speaking, we do our mailbag segment at the end of the show. And if your email is disgusting, vile, and just nasty and downright criminal even, we'll probably read it on the show because that fits in with the tenor of what we do here on this show. Tbt.com is the email. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns and or criticisms. I will be in Anaheim, California next Thursday, April 16th, doing a Freedom Comedy Night. I'll be in Moscow, Idaho at the University of Idaho with Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh on April 28, as well as many other dates to come. So stay posted. Stay tuned. If you want any information, Also email us tptpusa.com the Masters is a tradition unlike any other, both figuratively but also literally. It literally is a Tradition that seemed to be fleeting in this country. In a world where everything is increasingly busy, increasingly chaotic, increasingly noisy, the Masters, through a certain set of societal rules and then club rules, has stayed a serene, traditional golf competition, literally unlike anything else we see, not only in the sports world, but in our society at large. If you don't like golf, trust me, there is some insight to be gained from digging into what makes the Masters. The Masters. If you're not familiar, it's held at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia, and it is the biggest golf tournament in the world. Not necessarily in dollar amounts, not necessarily in importance, even though sometimes it is, but definitely in prestige. When you want to distill the game down to its essence, everybody points to the Masters. And yes, golf is the focal point of all of it, but it's the rules and the societal norms around the Gulf that I think we should really take a look at if we want to get a better picture of what our country maybe should be and even can be again. So the Masters, like I said, is a big golf tournament happening this weekend. If you're not a fan of golf, you don't know that. If you are a fan of golf, you're probably watching the Masters instead of watching us here on the tv. But I want to go through a couple different things that makes the Masters different than other golf tournaments. Generally speaking, sporting events is full of rowdy crowds, people chugging beer and just letting loose. And some golf tournaments, like Waste Management, that happens in Phoenix, Arizona, are like that. Bastards is the entire opposite of that. A very calm, quiet, serene on one of the most beautiful golf courses, if not the most beautiful golf courses on the planet. There are a bunch of quirky rules that are also instituted that make it and keep it the traditional golf classic that it is. A couple of those rules are as follows. There are no cell phones on the premise at all. Not like, oh, well, it's not polite. It is. If you use your cell phone or your electronic tablet on the grounds, you will be removed, and it could come with a complete ban from the facilities in the future. In other words, there is zero tolerance for this rule and this standard that they have set. There's also no running on the golf course. And if you be like, why would anybody run on the golf course? Well, the way the golf tournaments are set up, you want to see certain players, and sometimes you want to see certain players hit certain holes or play certain holes. So if you know your favorite player is coming up on hole seven and everybody wants to go there, you Want to get to the seat, you want to make sure you see it in action, but you can't run there. You have to walk. Also, if you're running and not walking, you could be kicked out entirely. The green jacket is the famous ceremonial jacket put on the winner. Not entirely relevant to my societal extrapolation from this, but it is also a tradition to the winner gets a green jacket. But also, if you don't know this, the green jacket stays at the facility. Fans or spectators of the Masters tournament are not called fans or spectators or customers even they're called patrons. The official language reinforces the respect and refinement of the overall event. You're not a paying customer, even though you are technically a paying customer. Instead you're a guest of the club. There is a championship dinner that is paid for and bought by the winner of the previous year where all of the previous winners are invited and the winner gets to pick the menu and then also has to pay and then makes a speech. And the bottom line here is overall, at the Masters, if you're unaware or unfamiliar, they are strict with all of their rules and their traditions. So strict that even this tournament, the tournament that's happening right now, they've already had to enforce several of the rules that you may think are not really common among many public engagement at all. Uh, recently a 13 time majors champion, Mark Cal. Cal Vecchia, I think is how you pronounce it, was ejected from the Masters for breaking the very, very strict Augusta rule of not having any phones. Now, on top of the rules rules, there are societal rules that the patrons themselves have effectively set up that aren't really enforced by the clubs, but they follow them in order to maintain the dignity of the tournament. There is an honor system for your chair. If you set up a chair, that chair is not touched or moved by anybody, even if it's in the best spot on the best hole with the best players coming up. Nobody touches your chair. There's a sense of quiet, respectful demeanor. Nobody yells out, get in the hole. When people tee off, nobody yells, obviously profanity that could actually get you kicked out. But everybody remains quiet. The clapping, the applause that you hear. Except for on the very last hole when the winner generally wins. There aren't eruptions of crowds like they are in other sport. The dress code, yeah, there is a dress code for the actual club itself, but a higher level of dress is usually adhered to by all the patrons. They're required collared shirts. You're only allowed to wear front facing hats. You're not allowed to wear backward hats. But traditionally speaking, a much more polished golf look is assumed by the patrons. Obviously the course itself says hey, no littering. But generally speaking, nobody even considers doing that. There's a mutual courtesy for the course and the grounds as a whole. The bottom line here is the Masters is an example, a depiction of of what a rail run society could be. Now you may think, well, all of these rules and regulations and the enforcement and the strict adherence to these rules might be somewhat authoritarian. And the obvious rebuttal to that is well, you don't have to go, you don't have to be a part of this. Authoritarians generally speaking have walls to keep people in, not walls to keep people out. What also is really interesting about the Masters is when you're in, and again the demand to get into the Masters is unbelievably high. When you're in, you're treated like royalty. Like really anybody should be treated in common polite society. Those who attend generally notice something very odd about the concessions. Mostly that they're famously affordable and and almost frozen in time. Since 2002, the $50 pimento cheese sandwich has not changed very much resembles the Costco $50 to which the outgoing CEO, if you remember of Costco said if you change the price of the hot dog I will kill you to the new incoming CEO. Anyways, sorry, tangent. The tickets and the badges are also reasonably priced relative to the scale of of demand for these sorts of tickets. Face value tickets are about 160 bucks for a tournament day and a full four day pass is about $525. Just for the record, resales hit between 20 and 20 thousand and $55,000 overall. The vibe the crowd self regulates and if anybody steps out of line of those self regulations, the tournament comes in and the, the, the facility, the course, the club comes in and enforces all of those rules. Okay, why, why does any of that matter other than you know, you like the sport of golf or the tradition of the Masters specifically? Mainly, and I'll keep this as brief as possible, there's a societal parallel that I believe, and you might also come to agree with this, that we can emulate here in the United States. Imagine America operating the the same exact way. Prioritizing high standards, prioritizing a refined culture with limited but exceptional access. Instead of a race to the lowest common denominator, imagine a country that prioritizes quality through restraint and tradition. Which is exactly what the Masters golf tournament does. Obviously the benefits are a higher quality of life for everybody. They're stronger communities. They're sustainable success for anybody who chooses to be involved, and real prestige that cannot be bought. What I'm getting at ultimately here is that the Masters and the Augusta National Club has cultivated a tradition in which, one, there's massive demand for, and two, anybody that is able to get in those gates doesn't dare break the social contract. That is what America can be, and in a lot of ways, what it used to be. A group of people who have come together to design a certain set of rules, prioritize the highest standards, and hold everybody to those high standards. Because we had standards in this country at one point, we were able to achieve things that. That no other country can do. And in a lot of ways, we still are doing that today. Unfortunately, though, in many factions of our current American society, we are letting those standards slip, something that the Masters has never done. And when we let those sanders slip, then the quality of life slips and everything else turns to utter chaos. So, ultimately, what I'm saying here is that if you're watching the Masters this weekend, which I strongly encourage because it's a great cultural experience, remember that it isn't just golf. It is proof that saying no to the lowering of standards creates something better for literally everyone, which is exactly what the United States can do. The way that the Masters is run is how our society as a whole should be run. It creates demand. It honestly creates a certain amount of equality for those who choose to participate and get into, especially when you talk about the prices and all of the stuff that they do in terms of merchandise and ability. And it creates structure that we are so deeply missing in our country at this point, which I'm sure you can all tell. Now, I don't want to jabber on about this, but the bottom line here is that the tradition that has created the most prestigious event in sports, in my opinion, is something that we can emulate in this country. And we should. Let's not lower standards because we want to feel inclusive. Let's keep the standards high, and anybody willing to participate in our experiment and adhere to those high standards is more than welcome. There's probably way more golf talk than I think we ever anticipated doing. I just. I felt like that was necessary and appropriate for today's show, especially going on into the Masters weekend. But we do have some. Well, some more downtrodden news. I'm sorry to do that to you on Friday, but it is kind of necessary. But then in the clip, clean out, which is the section of the show where we clean out all the clips that we didn't use this week. We'll get back to our whimsical silliness and try to stop trying to dissect and find social parallels between golf events and society at large. TBDVSA.com is the email address. Are you going to watch the Masters this weekend? Are you going to watch it with a different perspective relative to our discussion here today? Let us know tptpsa.com we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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That's a swear jar. Every time someone swears, you put a quarter in it.
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Who gets the money?
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I don't know. We'll use it to buy something for the office, like a case of Bud Light or something.
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You, Bob, You, Jim.
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Eric, I have a bag in line three for you. Can I borrow your pen? Can I borrow your pen?
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We're gonna go down there and we're gonna some. We're gonna some.
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We're gonna do whatever we have to
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because we're gonna some. Poop doesn't count. Shut the up. I am so proud of you, mother suckers.
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Hear, hear.
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That is. That is some great advertising. If only Bud Light had not gone the way. Talk about that commercial versus their Dylan Mulvaney in a bathtub commercial. They used to be a proper company also too. Maybe we can do that sort of thing. You know, I'm not a guy that likes to use profanity, especially publicly much. But if you were to promise me every time I dropped a bad word, an illegal would get deported. Golly, I'd be a modern day sailor and like a normal sailor, not like a Somali pirate. I don't know if they speak English. All right. Wow, that took a turn. Uh, hey, we got a lot of points to get to and you know. Cause I promise, I promise some, some depressing stuff. And this. This surely is depressing, at least at the front end of this. It's time to get to the point. Get to the point. Get to the point. All right, first point up, this is from the ap and obviously this hits very close to home and I something necessary and worth discussing, although it's a little difficult to discuss, obviously. Um, the era of political violence, according to the Associated Press, means higher costs for candidate security. A new report says federal political committees are spending almost $40 million over $40 million explicitly labeled security expenses during their 2023-2024 cycle. So that's the prior cycle. And obviously the coming cycles are going to be just as much if not more. The surge in spending includes a digital security costs, which remember that big story we did on Anthropic? That's also probably necessary. The digital security costs rose from $50,000 in the 201516 cycle to $900,000 in the 2023, 2024, and nearly $1 million on home security measures such as response companies, window bar surveillance cameras. All of this was not necessary a while ago. Obviously this is even more heightened in the wake of Charlie's assassination, in the wake of the attempted assassinations on President Trump, and an unfortunate necessity in the modern political age. I what I would hope is that libs tone things down a little bit. You know, not to get super philosophical about this, of where this comes from, but when you're misaligned with reality but also determined to make reality what you think it is or what you want it to be, unfortunately, generally speaking, those people have no other place to turn to other than violence because you've tried hammering your ideas of what reality should be so much for so long at so many different inflection points and it just doesn't work because you're trying to fit a square peg into a circular hole. It's not your sense of what you want does not coincide with human nature, does not coincide with reality. And what happens to those people is they tend to get angry and unfortunately, they tend to get violent, as unfortunately we've seen firsthand. So hopefully, you know, libs move back to the realm of sanity. I don't know if I see that happening anytime soon. I think the 2028 election is going to be a big litmus test of whether or not libs are able to do that because that's really where this starts from and culminates from if they nominate someone like Rahm Emanuel. And you might be thinking, who the heck is Rahm Emanuel? Former Obama administration official, former UN Ambassador to Japan. Disagree with him a lot, but he's. He seems like a sane guy. Or they go with the Governor Newsom route and the full blown. I'm trying to make reality reflect what my own opinions are, which is what his wife has talked a lot about. We'll, we'll see, we'll see how libs kind of what their trajectory looks like coming up in the next presidential race. My hope is that they come back to sanity because I would love, I would love for the political discussion to be between the right and like the moderate center left. I don't want this hyper large gap. I think we're better arguing people who at least can acknowledge what reality is anyways the lot of time spent on that. But is necessary. And I think it's. I, yeah, it, I hope it gets better that that is the hope that libs recognize that they're not winning any numbers trying to force their own narrative onto people. But also I, I could be cynical and say they won't ever get that message. Uh, let's see. Speaking of not getting the message. I didn't get the message when the message was hey, open a hospice care facility, you'll make a gajillion dollars. Um, the most connected hospice doctor in California. I believe he was just arrested. Is that, is that where this article goes? I think. 55 year old physician was listed on Medicare claims for 2700, almost 2800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024 alone, generating $71.7 million in reimbursement, making him the her. The third highest paid reimbursement hospice doctor in the state. Holy cow. That was only the third. Wow. In one year. Okay, Imagine the number of patients you have to see in one year if you're billing for 2800 of them across 126 different locations. Wow. Geez. That's either the. He's the Santa Claus of doctors being able to visit all of those patients and all that time just in, out, boom, boom, boom. Or he lied about it. Which of course seems to be the case. His extraordinary high patient volume, 20 times higher than the average California hospice doctor raised red flags. You don't say. As few as 2% of the patients died in the year that followed. Which. Yeah, you would. Wow. He's not only incredibly effective at seeing patients, he's also incredibly effective at saving them. Wow. 98% survival rate in this guy's hospices. Following the CBS News investigation, Dr. Oz, CMS administrator confirmed his ability to bill Medicaid was revoked as of March as part of a broader scrutiny on California's hospice. So he's not even necessarily arrested yet. I'm super curious to see how this gets placed, gets played out. Yes, he's been barred from billing Medicaid further. Okay, great. Let's, let's see some arrests and then I will be, I'll be happy. Until then. Geez, I might as well go get my license, start doing some hospice fraud. Obviously that's a joke. Strictly for entertainment purposes. All right. Speaking of not a joke. This is. I thought this was just interesting from a number standpoint. This from CBS News, why they felt the need to run this is beyond me. And also I'm not even entirely sure if this is all that interesting, which makes it interesting in and of itself. See, see what I'm saying is I'm not sure this story is interesting or noteworthy at all, which makes it interesting to me as to why did you run this from CBS? US military consumed 950,000 gallons of coffee and a lot of nicotine in quotes, during the Iran war. Kane says during the nearly six weeks long Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the US military consumed 6 million meals, roughly 950,000 gallons of coffee, 2 million energy drinks and a lot of nicotine according to Dan Kane, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yeah, and I mean I would expect that to be the case. Yeah, I don't really know much about the nicotine component but. Well, people need to eat 6 million meals. Makes sense. Coffee. I seem like kind of an understate. I don't know if you drink a gallon of coffee a day. Is that normal people's coffee intake? I know that's producer Glenn, he drinks about 2 gallons of coffee a day. So you know, he, that's. He would account for a pretty large percentage of that. That doesn't seem, this doesn't seem remarkable at all. And yet for some reason CBS News decided to run this as a headline. Uh, it says General Dan Cain shared the consumption figures during a briefing, an hours long briefing or sorry, during a briefing, hours after President Trump had announced the fragile cease fire. Which again it's very kind of interesting in and of itself, uh, why that was announced and why it made news and whether or not the President was briefed. Mr. President, in light of all of this new information, I just want to make sure, you know, we've consumed about nine, about a million gallons of coffee. And if that were the case, did the President go. Thanks. I, I guess, I don't know. Let me know if that takes a toll on my ability to consume Diet Coke. If not, I. Great. I just thought that it was interesting in the fact that it was. It's not really interesting. That's why I thought it was interesting. So anyways, okay, let's see. Oh, this from CNBC will discuss the validity or the actual potentiality of this automatic US military draft registration planned by December filings show. I think this is. Let's scare everybody. Considering the fact that the lib media has been just. We're losing. This is the worst thing ever. I'm thinking that's not. Especially since a lot of the military had like the highest recruitment over the last year. I I. I really don't think that. That we're gonna institute a draft. I. I'm not really buying that. The Selective Service Systems plans to automatically register all eligible. Oh, that's where. Okay, read the article, Joe. Bob, that's. There's your problem. Plans to automatically register all eligible American men age from 18 to 26 for a potential draft starting by December 26, detailed in the government filing submitted to the Office of Information and regulatory affairs on March 30th. Okay, so this isn't even. This doesn't even say, hey, we're going to a draft. Just says, yeah, you're going to get registered. If this were to ever take place. Thankfully, we are a professional military service, obviously thanks to our service members who bravely volunteer and willingly serve in our U.S. armed forces. But I kind of. Yeah, just. I'm not, I'm not buying. I know this is trying to scare us here, but I'm not buying this as. As it. Like, we're going to a draft. Ah, nah, probably not. All right, let's see. Oh, here's one. This is. This is. This is what I'm talking about. This is some Good Friday content. It's Friday. We're headed onto the weekend, hopefully. So this is. This is complete non sequitur. My roommates in college and I have since college, 15 years now, have been texting each other about the perfect nap. This weekend is among the possible times in which you could take a perfect nap. You might be on your couch, the windows open, the breeze blowing through, the Masters, golf announcers whispering on air. It. It sets the stage this weekend for the perfect nap. And I say that because this is the type of story that sends you off into that weekend in which you may have the perfect nap. A Texas family reunited with their missing cat after five years. The Texas cat named KitKat, owned by Angelique. I'm not even going to try and pronounce that last name. Went missing for five years before being reunited with their family after she was brought home from the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in late March. The reunion occurred when the shelter scanned KitKat for a microchip, which revealed the owner's information, prompting an email and a text to the owner. Why wasn't that done before? I don't exactly know. Bottom line, five years. Cat reunited with the family in good spirits. Very friendly. Happily cuddled with the owners upon reunion. That is the type of story that can send you on into the weekend. And if you're going to participate in me and my college roommates quest to have the perfect nap could lead you into that scenario. I hope that you can get the perfect nap. Geez, you know what? We got another one. We've been putting this one off for days, so I might as well. Might as well get this one on here. This is point six, Texas. I did this out of order that I sent you off into the weekend with a nice, heartwarming family story. And now we'll bring you right back into the things that matter. Texas Ways. Adding Bible stories to school reading lists. Ways should be ads. Let's just skip the. I don't know, the consultation around whether or not this is a good idea. It is a good idea. Go ahead and do it. Texas education officials are considering adding Bible stories and passages such as David and Goliath 2 section and a section from First Corinthians on love to the required reading list for middle schoolers and high school students. What? Take religion out of it. Take. Take the spiritual component of religion entirely out of it. I don't think you should, but just for the sake of argument, take it out. The Bible and the stories within the Bible, whether you believe it or not, are an integral part of the Western canon of literature at large. So many of the greatest works that students are required to read in high school are built around the stories in the Bible. Why the Bible isn't at the focal point of our government schools is beyond me. You have to read Steinbeck, for example. You've got to read Grapes of Wrath in high school. And I think in my high school is required. We read east of Eden as well. Those are stories specifically around stories in the Bible. In other words, if you're gonna make kids read other stories. Well, really, anything from the Western canon, all of that has some way of connecting back to the Bible. So why you wouldn't have kids reading that already is beyond me. Now, Texas. Great. Good job. Weighing the option of putting Bible stories back into classrooms. Why that isn't already a thing blows my mind. All right. There's something in this Newsmax article that talks about critics of the proposal. Now, the critics are wrong. You're just wrong. Shut up. That. That's my argument. Can it, lady. I assume it's a lady. Oh, look at that. It is a lady. Uh, one of the progressive groups headed up by some lady says that, well, this might lag. Nah, just. Now, this is what the west was built upon. Put it in our schools. They need it. All right. Hey, Coming up after the break, we're going to. What is it? Oh, the clip. Clean out. It's the clip. Clean out all the clips we didn't get to this week as explained in the Zinger, or Stinger, as it's probably more appropriately called in the TV world. Coming up after the break. Tptbusa.com is the email address. What do you think about Bible stories going into schools? Are you as shocked as I am that they're not in schools? TBT tbsa.com with answers to those questions or thoughts on anything we talked about. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away. Is there anything that you think government does well?
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I think government is a necessary evil. I think it's necessary for providing for the national defense because that is something that, whether we like it or not, you have to delegate some of our personal freedom to have some sort of a civil society. But government by its essence, if you read what Milton Friedman has said, they're incentivized to be inefficient. They're incentivized by definition to not be able to provide the best possible good or service for the individual. So look, the private sector does everything better, whether it be the inefficiency. The public post office or Medicare is bankrupt. Social Security doesn't serve the people, you know, effectively. Everything government touches goes to crap. And the private sector is by definition more efficient because if you don't do it well, you're not going to exist much longer.
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That is so perfectly put. In addition, if you want to add anything to it, it's so many government institutions are ineffective because if they were effective, it would result in their own abolition. It would result like if somebody, if the LA homeless advocacy whatevers actually succeeded at their job, it would eliminate their job. They have no incentive to be good at what they do because if they were good at what they do, what they do would no longer be a problem. We'd eliminate it. Which is I could go on a whole thing about maybe we should just do like flat contracts instead of like if you're going to put out a contract to somebody, say, hey, you get this amount of money to solve this problem. Any money that you keep over the over the top of it, that that's yours. Go ahead, take, take that money. It, I think would be genuinely cheaper than the ongoing persistent problems we have. Like, hey, here's a dollar figure, you solve it, solve it for anything. You solve it for whatever price you can and anything over the top you get to keep. It would incentivize people to solve problems in the most efficient way because then they get to keep the rest of the money and then the problem is solved. Onto the next problem. But again, probably longer conversation for a different time. Maybe we'll do a full segment breaking down what that idea would actually look like. But right now it is Friday. There are clips that we haven't used. They're, they're, they take up space in the clip cabinet, which you can't see it on screen, but we have a, we have a cabinet here that sometimes collects dust. And at the end of the week, we gotta, we gotta get all the clips out. We gotta, we gotta clean out the clips. So that's what this is. It is the clip clean out.
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Cleaning out the clip. It's the clip clean out.
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I also do my carlton dance behind the scenes when that clip is playing, because that's what I feel like should be appropriate. Up first in, in the clip clean out. As a clip from earlier this week, which features a House Minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, which I am just learning, doesn't mean it's a person who is a minority. It means, it means the party that has less votes in the House. Again, you learn something new every day. I kind of figured, wow, that's an odd thing to call him. Just because he's a minority doesn't mean you should call him the minority leader. But actually it means his party has less votes in the House. Representative, you learn something new every day. And in case that gets clipped, I'm clearly kidding. I was just making a joke about he's a minority and minority leader. Anyways, clean out the clip here. Here is Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader.
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Well, I'm thankful that a second U.S. airmen has been rescued heroically by our special Forces. And we, of course, continue to pray for the safety, the health, the well being of all of our men and women who are in uniform in a very dangerous theater of war. Of course, Donald Trump has gotten us involved in this reckless war of choice without any plan, any strategic objectives, and no clear exit strategy. Instead, billions of dollars are being spent every day to drop bombs in the Middle East. When Donald Trump as a candidate promised to never get us involved in this type of conflict.
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Well, that's not true. Just there's so many things that aren't true with that one. The President has stipulated a number of times, hey, here's our objectives, here's what we're wanting to do. Second, he promised no more forever wars, which if he wraps this up in the timeframe that he's talking about, is far from a Forever war. That then a war of choice. You know, if you have a terminal illness that can be treated, is treating it considered a choice? Because many, including several libs, would say, well, yeah, Iran getting a nuclear weapon is not a part of the equation at all. There's no way. Well, they were marching towards that. So stopping it before they become a bigger power seems to have be kind of a necessity, not exactly a choice. But I don't know, such is the way guys like him look at the world. I want to. There's more that we can comment on there, but I want to stop here because I want to get to this. This I thought was my favorite clip of the week that we didn't get to. This is a very old clip from 1993. This is so racist. It's the most racist thing I think I've ever heard. And of course it comes from a lib. Uh, Harry Reid, a Democrat senator, introduced a bill in 1993 to end birthright citizenship, which I've been told is very, very racist. I think it kind of makes sense a lot. But again, again, if I'm being told it's racist, what am I supposed to do other than believe the people that are calling it racist? Here's him calling for a very, very, very racist policy.
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If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee a full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that's a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at country county run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers? Just when the American people think nothing can be more absurd than the way we deal, or rather don't deal with illegal immigration, they discover that we have a political asylum system that would qualify us for the. For Senator Proxmire's Golden Fleece award a thousand times over. I don't know why he didn't make this award. He should have.
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Yeah, I just. It's hard to even stand the racism there because clearly that what he's saying is abundantly and objectively racist to its core. Also thoroughly reasonable, I guess. I don't, I don't know. Uh, hey, we didn't really get to clean out as many clips as I want, so let me just, let me just end it off with this secretary of state of Maine one Shanna Bellows. This is, she is a, she's from the party of democracy. Remember, democracy is the will of the people. And not trying to curtail that will, just letting the people express what they want. That, that is democracy. They are the party in the side of democracy, except for when they aren't. Cut 8.
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I heard both sides. I listened to the evidence and I determined that in fact January 6th was an insurrection. And so I ruled that Donald Trump was not eligible for the ballot. We don't have kings in America. We have a democracy. After I threw Trump off the ballot, I was touring polling places. I was in Bucks for Maine. That's represented by a Republican House of bring a Republican senator.
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I just, I mean the irony is self evident. We have a democracy in this country. We do not have kings. Which is why I, as an effective king, get to instruct you how you can do democracy. This lady says, I'm going to kick the guy that everybody wants off the ballot and brag about it. It's one of those things too where it's like I can, I can at least understand people being disingenuous. But I don't know how you deal with these types of people, like the, the room temperature IQ people that just don't, I don't even think she knows how ironic what she just said was. And that I think is the actual problem. So, hey, cleaned out a lot of clips. We're gonna get wiser by the week. Very, very briefly before we get to I, I might regret the promise of telling the story about the dog park on Easter, but several of you emailed, said, hey, just do it. So I said, okay, Friday, Friday in the mailbag segment, that's what we'll do. So that's what we'll do. After several breaks, TPT if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms, even all welcome@tptpoza.com we'll be right back after the break.
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English language is racist. Black in front of a word, even a good word, it makes it worse. That's messed up, right? Like mail. I love getting mail. Blackmail, crime. Market. I love going to the market. Black market. Crime.
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Ice.
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Put it in my drink. Black ice. Very dangerous. Ice.
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Hole.
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I can deal with a hole. Black hole. That's the most dangerous hole in the universe.
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I mean, that's, that's funny. That's objectively a funny joke. But I can, I almost guarantee you that like Ibram x Kendi or Henry Rogers, who we'll talk about next week because he has a Book out. He's the guy who wrote. He's the super, super racist guy that wrote how to be an Anti Racist. He's got a new book out and he's hilariously stupid. He is stupid enough to look at that and go, yep. See, this is proof. There's a proof of systematic racism. That's a funny joke, though. Hey, all right.
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Hey.
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Oh, this. You know, I. I feel weird using the zinger. Ah, let's go ahead and use the zinger. We're getting wiser every single week. It's wiser by the week. I. Yeah, I still don't know about that little stinger there. You know, this week I was thinking about something that Erica had said that I thought was so important in today's especially political commentary world. And she said something. It's not an original thought, but she brought it to the forward of my mind, said, you need to grow down before you grow up and out. And she's talking about, you know, the way a tree develops. Right. The root system needs to be so grounded, so ingrained, that if you grow up and grow out, which is what, you know, you're supposed to do, ultimately you don't get blown over by the whims of the. Whatever the day's news is. And I felt like we just need that reminder. I feel like a lot of us, especially in the political climate that we're in, but especially like now with so many things happening, a reminder that, you know, get your root system down in the ground first. There's so many people, even in the political commentary world that just. It. It's hard. You can't judge the hearts of other people, but seems like we got some pretty flimsy roots here, and you get blown really fast, really quick. And I think that idea of growing down before you grow up and out is something that is a necessary reminder. And if I were to think of one of the, I think most admirable qualities that Charlie had is, is that not it. So grounded in what he believed. He can't. It's hard to get swayed in one extreme direction to another. It's just, you have to grow up, you have to grow out, you have to go out and do. Do the work. But before you do any of that, you need to be grounded in what you think. And I. Eric had mentioned that at some point, might have been even last week, and I just thought that is such a. Such a needed reminder, especially in the political climate now, especially among the commentating class. So that's how we're getting a Little bit wiser this week, remembering stuff like that. Coming up after the break, I'll very, very briefly tell this crazy story from Easter, which many of you emailed about. Tptpsa.com we'll be right back after the. I might need to watch that again. I don't even know what happened. I think I'm going to die. Producer GLENN I can't. What. What did that say? Oh, it said ice and vending. That's funny. Okay, I. I had trouble seeing it, but that's. Yeah, that's. That. That's funny. Um. Hey. All right, so I stupidly promised some of you hecklers. I think in the email box that. I think I was about to go off on a tangent of a story that happened in the poopiest state in the nation. California, mentioned a thing that may or may not. Well, it happened to our family. Easter, Easter this weekend. Hopefully you made it to church this past Sunday. We did not. We were. We were all just in bed, just sick. Just as sick as sick gets. Every single one in the family. And the afternoon we had to cancel Easter. We didn't have anything. We didn't have her family over was. They were all expected to be over, and it was. We go to this dog park in the afternoon. Everybody's kind of mourning boogers of sorry. Kind of cleared out. We go to a dog park in the afternoon. We kind of think, hey, this is great. Nobody's here. Everybody's celebrating Easter with their family, and we're the only people at this dog park until, you know, a typical Californian walks up. And if you live in California, you know what I mean, you got the meth mouth, you got the everywhere hair, you got two different shoes on. And we're sitting at this park, and I think, God dang it, man, that now I have to be. Now I have to watch out for wherever this guy is, is. Can't just sit there and enjoy an empty dog park with the dog running around, wife and the baby, toddler on the floor running around with the dog. Now I have to be worried about this probable meth head comes up. You kind of think, ah, who knows? Then he starts yelling at himself. Great. Then he starts lowering the pants like, this guy's gonna poop in this park. He didn't. He didn't end up doing that, but he start. He started the motions. At that point. I said, wife. I told my wife, just call. Call the cops. Just, you know, let's have him deal with it. Cops show up, talk to him for a second. Clearly he's out of his mind. But the way that we govern ourselves in California is they can't do anything about it. So he just walks away off into this nice community and the cops go, well, what are you going to do now? Granted, I guess the good news is he left the park. But holy cow, this is not how a serious people run their society. Also, too, there's a. I, I don't know. I'm glad. Had he pulled down his pants in front of my daughter, I might be in jail. I just, I'm just saying as a protective father could have been the case. Anyways, that's the story. TBT TV USA.com have a great weekend. Try to take the perfect nap while watching the Masters. We'll see you on Monday. God bless America. This is an I heart podc.
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Guaranteed human.