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I'm not at liberty to say which.
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Joe Bob
Let's just leave it at North Korea and cbs. Ah yes, the news organization or the TV channel. The network that canceled Stephen Colbert show who by the way, nobody also watches that show. They're, they are censoring free speech. You know, they're not making a business decision saying hey nobody likes this guy. And the numbers and ratings have been continually dropping year after year after year. That, that wasn't it. It was, it was censoring and free speech. And notice how he mentioned North Korea and a company in the United States of America didn't mention. I don't know what are some other big countries that really censor free speech? Oh, Iran. He might, he must have just forgot that Iran was in the news and could have very easily been swapped out to show and exemplify a country that does not allow free speech. But outside of all of that, you know, several instances of the wokeness at the Oscars are exemplified by these certain qualifications that you must meet to be considered for for the prestigious Academy Awards. A club graphic one. This is a screenshot from the Academy's website itself. Just going to read a couple of these because they are hilarious if you. They're hilarious on a lot of different fronts but specifically these, these, these requirements, these criteria that you have to fulfill in order to be even considered for some of the prestigious Academy Awards. At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors submitted for an Oscar consideration and must be from an underrepresented racial group or ethnic group. Now I assume they mean in the United States of America because if you look at it in the context of the entire globe, the quote unquote majority race. I guess white people make up a very, very small portion which would make them the minorities. But I don't think that counts here in situation. I think they're just specifically looking at people who are darker for some reason except Asians. The whole thing is ridiculous. But this may include and again might be a little bit small to read. So I'll read it to you. African American, black or African or Caribbean descent, East Asian about Western Asians Hispanics or Latin. Ah, O or X because the Wokies are the only people that use Latinx literally. No Latin American person that I've known has ever said that. And also they get mad at you if you say that. Indigenous peoples including Native American, Alaska, Native, Middle Eastern or North African, Pacific Islander. You know what? Now that I'm reading this in real time, I would be happy to accept a role as a leading character in an Oscar nominated movie that would actually make you eligible casting me. So maybe I don't hate this as much as I do South Asian, Southeast Asian, including Burmese, Cambodia, Philippines. It. The list goes on and on of all of the different minorities who effectively statistically make up a majority that you must include in order for your picture to be considered in the Oscars. On the second page of this, it says at least 30% of all actors not submitted for Oscar consideration are from at least two underrepresented groups. Women who make up the majority of the population, racial or ethnic groups who again probably make up the majority, statistically speaking, LGBTQ plus people. Also 30% of them, even though they represent 3% of the population, 30% can be LGBTQs, people with cognitive or physical disabilities. Now this one is actually kind of tough considering the fact that most people in Hollywood, most famous actors that choose to spout their political opinions on the stage of the Oscars probably do have a cognitive disability. And I don't want to make fun of them for that. I'm just saying that that's realistically probably the case. And again, the list of things go on and on. For those people to, to consider you as an Oscar Academy Award nominee, you gotta meet all of these requirements which, you know, back to the basis of this is that really art, if art is representative of things that are good, true and beautiful, or at the very least, let's just minimize it down to true, is forcing racial statistics actually representing what is in fact true? Of course not. Now, in light of the entirety of the Oscars and the Academy Awards and the ridiculous criteria that you must meet, I want to talk about the movie that won Best Picture. Now, we've talked about this before on the show. The movie is called One Battle After Another. But I just want to revisit and highlight the movie that received the best Picture award at the Oscars. One Battle After Another. Now, this was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who, if you didn't know, also directed There Will Be Blood, which is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Fantastic movie about the oil industries and what kind of it took, the grit that it took on the ground to start these oil companies. Fantastic movie. I think it was 2007 when that came out. Juxtapose that to One Battle After Another, which is so bad that I honestly thought it's a comical misrepresentation of what's going on in reality. Nevertheless, not only did it win Best Picture, it also won Best Screenplay Adaptation, for which the director and screenplay adapter, Paul Thomas Anderson gave this little speech. This is cut 13. I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world we're handing off to them. But also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency. He wrote the movie to say sorry for the mess that is just the entire mess that is just the movie itself is an apology. Now, as we said many times on the show, good art reflects things that are true, which then clearly is that bad art displays things that are not true. Want to just briefly summarize the plot of one battle after another for you? The country is run by white supremacists. They have full dictatorial power over the country. But also those white supremacists fantasize about having wild and crazy bathroom sex with radical black terrorists. I'm. I'm being serious. That is the plot of the movie. I. I actually watched this movie, as I've mentioned before, and that is the exact plot of the movie that won Best picture. And when I say radical black terrorists, I literally mean terrorists. The movie starts with a terrorist plot to free a bunch of illegals from an immigration facility. And those guys, the renegade anarchists that want to jailbreak a bunch of illegals out of a facility, are portrayed as the good guys then. And sorry if I'm spoiling this, but chances are if you haven't already seen this, you're not going to. Then the good guys who are the anarchist radicalist extremist terrorists get caught robbing a bank, you know, because that's what good guys in movies do. Then what happens? Which can. I realize this is. This might be a little bit too far fetched, but I kid you not, this is what the actual movie is. Then it's portrayed that the reaction to those good guys robbing the bank is the police headed up by the black radical terrorist fetishizing white supremacist goes and just shoots all of the co conspirators. W W which is. Is not only just bad, it's just dumb. If good art is supposed to reflect truth, I don't know what this movie was trying to do. We simply should just reject the premise on all fronts. No, the country's not run by white supremacists. And, and even past that, if it were, I don't think their greatest fetish would be to go, like, do marital activities. Sorry for being coy here with radical black terrorists who are seeking to undermine their power. Like, what in the world are we even talking about here? If art is supposed to reflect things and celebrate the good, the true and the beautiful, then the winning best picture movie in Hollywood proves that Hollywood itself no longer knows how to create or judge what art is actually good. Now, I will say this. There is an element of truth in this movie, despite the ridiculous premise that despite the entire plotline being so bad that it should have gotten laughed out of any pitch room that it was in. What I do think is interesting is one of the main characters who's played by Leonardo DiCaprio is married to. Or I guess they don't do marriage. I don't know. Partnered with the radical black terrorist lady and they're like a couple. And he's trying to do everything to impress her at the beginning. The movie fast forwards like 14, 15, 16 years later and then depicts Leonardo DiCaprio's character, who was a radical terrorist agitator who is trying to be a revolutionary. It depicts him as a paranoid, crazy, pothead, bad dad individual, which I will say is probably true. Which highlights the point. Even bad movies that have a bad premise, a terrible plot, and a message that just factually isn't true, even those movies have some minimal amount of truth to them in showing that, yeah, crazy radical terrorist revolutionary extremists end up being kind of fat, lazy schlobs who sit around and do nothing with their life. Now, Sean Penn, also in this movie, who actually is a good actor if the role calls for it. One Best supporting Actor, which is crazy because this is, if you've watched this, unfortunately, we can't play clips for you here. This is the most overacted piece of acting I think I've ever seen. He's supposedly portraying this white supremacist character and the performance itself is unbelievable. Now, that being said, maybe it is that the character was so horribly written that what other option did he have but that character? Again, displaying what they think all of us are. One Best supporting Actor. Because the denial of truth and denial of reality permeates so far down into deep Hollywood that that is what they think truth is. Art not based in truth is just stupid. Which honestly is how you get speeches from stupid people saying silly, idiotic things like this. This is David Borenstein accepting an award for whatever it is that he was doing, echoing the untruth, unreality that one battle after another displayed and taking it, taking it for face value, this is cut 14. Mr. Nobody against Putin is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage that you. It's that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity when we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities. Now, obviously what he's saying is not true and obviously requires a bunch of nuance and bunch of investigation and a bunch of contextualizing what he is actually talking about. But if you exist in a world where the art that is celebrated by the artistic community, one battle after another, Best picture at the Oscars, if you exist in a world where something that detached from reality not only exists but is celebrated amongst your entire community, then, yeah, I could totally see how you might come to that conclusion in your own mind, making things up, as delusional as you might sound, I can totally understand why somebody like that would say something so idiotic. Now, I think this basically proves the point as to why the arts are important because they do have an effect on people. You know, facts may not care about your feelings, but feelings do exist. And unfortunately, we see a huge portion of the American electorate acting on feelings as opposed to facts. And so while we should continue to point out the factual errors of our friends on the left, we also should compete in the cultural space which Turning Point USA is doing. I want to wrap this up by playing a joke from Conan o' Brien's opening at the Oscars. Conan o' Brien hosted the Oscars and made this joke which a bunch of conservatives got mad at. But I actually think proves that really the only winner of the night was Turning point. Let's cut 15. I should warn you, tonight could get political. Okay. And if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. Yeah. Now, one, I will say this. It's a funny joke. I totally within bounds of what you're, you know, joke, what you're able to joke about is a cultural thing, and that was a funny joke. At the same time, what is actually happening there is that Turning Point USA and the halftime show, we'll, we'll call it that for legal reasons with another organization that didn't really like. The halftime show is so disruptive to the woke lib mainstream media culture that they put a joke in the biggest stage on the. In the movie entertainment world and every single person in that room knew exactly what he was talking about. In all reality, just being mentioned in the context that Turning Point USA was mentioned in. I think is a massive victory. If you're going to compete in the cultural space, you know you have to do stuff that makes waves. And clearly as evidenced by Conan's joke saying oh, there's going to be an alternate Oscars shows and proves the turning point USA is making the dentist that all of the libs are scared about. And then this may be just me seeing this anecdotally, but I also felt like a lot of those laughs were kind of nervous laughs. Oh there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock. Everybody goes hahaha. I really hope they don't do that because that might lead to millions of people seeing it. So yes, I do think the arts as a part of culture are important. I think it's unfortunate that the Academy Awards and the people that choose the movies that win Best Picture have such a deluded sense of reality that they choose a movie that is so far detached from reality that it's almost comical. And if we are going to compete on the creative cultural front, I'm excited for the future. What I would say to all of the lib mainstream media people watching that and going, ha ha ha, we really landed one on those. All I would say is thanks for watching. Nobody would have known about it otherwise. And stay tuned for more. Got a lot to get to here on the episode tonight. Tptpsa.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. We've got getting to the point all the different points around the media space got official business coming up next, which again is super, super unbelievably official, as well as a new segment we're trying out today called Meltdown Monday, which I think you'll be excited to see and hear about. Tptpsa.com is the email address. Don't go away. I'll be right back after this.
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Our regime is oppressing women, taking away abortion rights, taking away women's rights in like 26 countries, 26 states, some states where they're trying to have the death penalty for having an abortion. They also oppress women there. They have the highest rate of women who are in STEM careers. We're kicking women out of the military, out of university. We're saying that DEI means women can't be hired for high positions in the sciences. So we're marginally better. And we're doing it for Christianity, they're doing it for Islam. Right? Wow, that's Don Lemon there saying that the United States is only a little bit better than Iran. Unbelievably oppressive country that doesn't allow any sort of dissent, and if you protest in the streets, they'll kill you. And here he is live streaming something and saying, well, I can't do this. Except for the fact that he can. I'm sorry, producer Glenn is waving me down. Who? Oh, this is not Don Lemon. I. Shoot. I guess it's Joy Reid. Huh? They look surprisingly similar. Maybe it's the haircut. All right. Hey, lots of stuff to get to today. Getting around the media horn. It is time to get to the point. Get to the point, get to the point. First point to get. I'm so gonna get emails on that. I can't believe you said that about Don Lemon or Joy Reid or Whoever that was. Tptvsa.com if you have any thoughts on that. First point to get to this from Breitbart. Former Obama campaign managers warn the lib party is a mess. Oh, no, you hate to see that happen. This is just a tragedy. Jim Messina, who ran Obama's campaign in 2012. David Pluth, big time lib consultant campaign manager, warning that the. The libs are actually currently in a mess, especially when it comes to the 2028 presidential election. Messina stated that the midterms, which, you know, are, are coming up and they are going to be a very, very tough political battle. Shows the polling around there shows that 85 to 90% of voters are voting in opposition to President Donald Trump, which I don't know if I believe that on the lip side of the aisle. I think that that's totally true. They're. They're voting specifically solely because they oppose Orange Man. Bad. Just the worst. Um, but the concerning part for libs, and again, we hate to see concern in liberal camps is that only 15%, 10 to 15% actually approve of their own party's platform. Their own side's platform. In other words, we hate this guy. Okay, well, what do you actually. What do you not hate? What are you for? I don't know. We. We just hate this guy. Like, cool. I don't know if that's a political strategy that is sustainable, but good luck on that. Ploof criticized the party's lack of readiness to compete in effectively red states, which again, oh, no. My only hope, my only fear is that they will recognize this incorrect course. But if history proves to be any insight here, my guess is, no, they probably won't. Speaking of blue people in, well, not in red states, blue people at large. Governor Newsom, who I think the markets currently have as the lib nominee for President in 2028, which I, as a, as a cynical political mind, I, there's a part of me that hopes that happens because I think he will lose 48 states, maybe 45. But just Cal, we hit Governor Newsom a lot, and California is a walking billboard for conservatism. Hey, look at, just, just look at all this. Don't really need to make an argument, just, you know, homeless guys smoking crack that you're given a hundred thousand dollars to and paying a million dollars for an apartment for stab somebody in the street in broad daylight. Oh, yeah, that, sure, that's what we want our state to be. Um, but aside from Governor Newsom's presidential ambitions, his staffer, one of his staffers received $50,000 in a payout despite leaving in disgrace amid a corruption pose. Dana Williamson, who we've talked about on this show in the corruption of California, was the former chief of staff to California's Governor Newsom. She received roughly a $50,000 payout the state claims as unused vacation time after resigning amid federal fraud investigations, which included about $30,000 of worth of accrued leave on the state's payroll and a $22,000 lump sum payment for remaining hours. Shockingly, specifically on the numbers there. But I, I, I'm just, I'm curious. Okay. Got a $50,000 payout, roughly $50,000. All of that is for unpaid vacation time. How many of you have $50,000 worth of unpaid vacation? I just, I'm just curious about that. Right. I'm just curious to know if that's like a reasonable number or if, I don't know, maybe somebody's getting paid off maybe to keep her mouth shut. Also, this person is in a federal investigation right now for corruption. I just quit curious. I don't know. I just, I don't know. Williamson is facing a 23 counts federal indictment for allegedly stealing $225,000 from an inactive political campaign committee and diverting funds to a friend. But $50,000 in unused vacation total because obviously she's workaholic so never took vacation there. And obviously this comes in after broad criticisms in California accruing leave and liabilities. Basically Cali California has five and a half billion dollars statewide with half a billion dollars being paid out to employees that are leaving to catch them up on their vacation. By the way, if you work for the state of California, my guess is you probably get like what, eight weeks of vacation per year and they probably on top of not actually doing any work at your quote unquote job. So yeah, I don't know, investigate that heavily if, if possible. Wild stuff they're going on in California. I'm excited to hear more about that going forward. Point three. This from cnn. Again, another just, just tragic piece of news and information. A lib fight for the Illinois Senate seat is testing the sway of Governor J.B. pritzker. Now pro crypto forces and anti ice messaging. Now I think if Governor Pritzker sits on anything, the amount of sway that will have is almost none. If you're looking to stop sway in any sort of physical thing that is getting blown by the wind, just plop good old JB right down on it. No sway, no sway whatsoever. That thing is staying there. Uh, but I don't think that's what they're talking about here. I don't think they're talking about the weight of the current governor. Um, they're trying. They're talking about his political weight being thrown around not as actual weight being thrown around, which would be incredibly dangerous to anybody in the vicinity. But the retirement of longtime Illinois senator Dick Durbin triggered a very expensive three way fight to go replace his seat featuring the lieutenant governor, a state rep whose name I did. There are 30 letters in this person's name and another state left state rep, which really is a key insight into the political sway, not the, you know, tangible weight sway of the governor. How much does, how much of an effect does he have? Now what's interesting about Governor Pritzker is so many libs are basing their entire political ideology of eat the rich, the rich are the problem, we hate the rich. They're buying elections. Which is exactly what Governor Pritzker looks like he's doing. Uh, he is heavily backed the Lieutenant Governor Giuliana Stratton with personal dominations to PACs. In order to get her through to become Illinois's next senator, he gave him $5 million. It's, which is, you know, again, that may sound like a lot of money. That's really only about a meal or two for Governor Pritzker. But you know, a lot of money. Nonetheless, I wasn't expecting to make this most about his weight. Mostly, you know, the actual interesting component here is that a lib governor who's, you know, tax the rich, the rich are the terrible people is throwing $5 million behind somebody. That's actually interesting point. And I, you know, I, I criticize you at home for laughing at any of those J.B. pritzker insults. That is just uncalled for. All right, continuing on around the news of the day, getting to the point, filling up more and more time because there's so much to talk about here in these. This again from CNN. More airport disruptions expected as TSA agents quit amid first weekend without full pay. More than 300 TSA agents have quit since the partial government shutdown began in mid February 2026. Did you guys know that we're in a shutdown? I forget. Oh no, we're in a shutdown. Uh, but, well, relative to the numbers here, I don't think this is as big a story as CNN would like to have you believe. Obviously the lib position is trying to pit this on conservatives who are saying, hey, we want people who are in the country legally to be deported. Libs for some reason are willing to die on the hill of protecting criminal illegals, making sure they're able to stay in the country. Therefore they put out a bunch of stories like this. Many airports are expecting delays after TSA hasn't been paid for one paycheck. Mind you, they get all of that money in back pay after all of this is resolved, which is being held up by the libs. So again, the premise here is, is ridiculous. But then when you get into the numbers, 300 TSA agents have reportedly quit after not being paid once, despite having guarantees that they will be paid immediately after. Now, 300 TSA agents quitting might sound like a lot, but I guarantee you if you go to a major airport, that is the number of TSA agents that are sitting around bothering people and actually participating in any of the screening. In other words, I don't know how much that number is actually going to affect things. Now they go on in this article to talk about a lot of disrupted flights, some of which aren't even related to the TSA DHS strike or shutdown, citing a bunch of weather problems too. So I'm not sure why that's relevant to the story, politically speaking, but CNN decided it is. Last one wrapping up. We usually do a funny one here, but this is actually, you know, somewhat serious Newsmax reporting Trump not ready to declare victory yet in Iran. We're following this story as much as possible. The, the stance from the administration has been the country should be entirely decimated, their military, their leadership, their whole regime be entirely decimated. And many people are thinking like polling pressure is gonna get President Trump to go, okay, you know, we've, we've won, we've done exactly what we've came for. Now, whether or not, you know, they have, the U.S. military has, we have, remains to be seen. But I continue to be on the train of I trust President Trump on this matter. I, I know for a fact he does not want war, which is the exact, ironically the exact kind of person you would want leading a war or military intervention. A guy who wants it to be over as quick as possible as President Trump is, that's the guy you want in charge in this particular, particular situation. Trust the president on that front. Especially if he says, ah, we're not not quite done yet. The whole people that are all talking to about the, this forever war, it's been like two and a half weeks. So let's, let's chill out on the whole forever war. Now. We're not talking about, you know, the decade, more than a decade in several of these Middle Eastern countries. We're talking about like a couple weeks here. Give it some time, let it work itself out. If I know anything, it's that President Trump does not like war, does not like conflict, and therefore if you don't like those things, you're, you're gonna get, get it over with and done as quickly as possible. Holy cow. That was a long point. But we've gotten to all the points or at least the points that we've collected for today's show. We will be right back after the break. Tptpsa.com where we get to official business. My favorite part of the show with officials and bureaucrats and appointed officials saying official things in official business. We'll be right back after this. Don't go away.
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Joe Bob
Bobby Bones from the Bobby Bones Show. You know, Eddie and I recently stopped by. Yeah, in Nashville. It's an incredible nonprofit empowering kids through music education. Thanks to Hyundai, we recorded a special podcast episode while we were there. Check it out.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, in the next few years we would love to have more consistent programming during the weekend. Our Rock Block program is dependent on funding venues that are available to host band based programming. We would love to extend the camp
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Joe Bob
kids can go a little bit deeper into what they've created during the first week camp. And we'd love to expand our programming to offer more industry related skills like audio, lighting, production, recording so that kids can be on a track to see where what they may create with an instrument can lead, but also to welcome those that may not want to be
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on stage but lack the opportunity at
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Joe Bob
school to have an entry point into music. The full episode is out now, presented by the Hyundai Ioniq 9. To donate and learn more about Yaz mission, just visit yahrocks.org this episode is
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Joe Bob
That constantly reaffirm Israel's right to exist because people like me are constantly attacked by politicians for standing up for Palestine and you are constantly defending the right for Israel to exist. My family is in Palestine right now, constantly under attack and I'm hearing you say free Palestine, but also Israel has the right to exist. Don't be hypocritical. Don't be hypocritical and say free Palestine when you're also defending the right for Israel to exist. It does not have the right to exist. It does not have the right to exist.
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Golf Instructor
Exist.
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Joe Bob
It's not your land to say it has the right to exist. You know, I mean, I obviously don't agree with the side that this guy is on, but I if you're just listening to this, some random dudes yelling at Zoron mam Danny, which I do think later on in the mailbag segment we have some more submissions into the pronunciation, the correct pronunciation of his name, which again, I have no idea. Some dude yelling at him. And obviously he's not correct in what he's saying, but he does make some points that I also would make of just like, yeah, dude, these two things that you're saying are entirely incompatible. Like you can't say these, you can't say the sky is blue and it's also not blue. Like, that's, that's what you're effectively saying. I happen to be on the side of the west and the countries that most identify with Western values. I want those people to take over in the region. Not to get into a whole discussion about that. But again, you know, another, another thing that you hate to see, you hate to see libs fighting with libs and tearing down the massive lie that they all seem to be under the spell of. Just, just tragic situation there. All right, hey, Official business is when government officials, elected or appointed bureaucrats say things which make it official business. This is official business. Sometimes I get myself into some verbal mazes where I'm leading up to the point, but a holy cow, I've already said that word several times and now I have to say it again because that's the title of the segment of the show. Anyways, first up in Official Business is Jake Tapper, cnn. Very, very fake news. But even he is calling out some libs, in this case Senator Booker for the ridiculousness, ridiculousness of the shutdown that I forgot that we were in. Here is cut six, Senator Booker on Jake Tapper show. Isn't it time for Democrats to Reopen and refund dhs.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, they want the whole agency fund.
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They want the whole agency.
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Joe Bob
What I love about that is as if Senator Booker is making a case, well, you know, conservatives want this, and therefore. And Tapper goes, well, yeah. Is that an argument. The argument should be based on the principles of the policy, not, hey, they want this thing. Clearly they. That's why they're fighting for this thing. I don't. Well, they want it fully funded. Yeah. Correct. Thanks for that one, Senator Booker. He is Spartacus. If Spartacus is a room temperature IQ idiot. Uh, all right. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia is also making the rounds on this shutdown. He was discussing this on Face the Nation in official business and says some things that are factually, again, just untrue on the facts. The Senate failed to advance that Homeland Security funding for the fourth time yesterday. We have airline CEOs faulting Congress for not paying TSA agents. I've got video TSA workers on food lines because they just missed their second paycheck. Half paycheck last time, full paycheck this Friday. Why can't your leaders break this deadlock? Margaret? I think we should. And what we have offered is, let's pay tsa. Let's pay fema. Let's pay the National Guard. I'm sorry, the Coast Guard. Let's pay cisa. I'd even say let's pay Customs and Border Patrol. If we can't agree on ICE reforms, let's pay everybody else. See, the problem is the things that they're asking to agree on re ICE reforms. Really, it's just one thing. The one thing, as we've talked about a number of times that Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been saying, is that we just don't want ICE to be able to go into polling stations because not only do illegals not vote, we also don't want anybody to check in case that they're voting. But it's almost comical. And, you know, I hesitate to make jokes about, you know, the number of people that live paycheck to paycheck in the government. Blows my mind, considering that most people in the government are massively overpaid, missing a single paycheck. If that leads you to need financial help, there's a much, much, much bigger problem. But that's. I might get some flack. I might get some flag from the right from saying that that's just me. I don't know. If I miss one paycheck, I'm not going to sell my house or, you know, get. Okay, especially. Especially if that paycheck is then guaranteed after all of this is sorted out. Give me a break. Because we rambled on and I say we, but it's mostly me on the Oscars and get to the point. That's all the time we have for today in official business because I do want to get to the new segment of this show called meltdown Monday. Tptpc.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. What do you think? If you miss a paycheck, should you be in food lines? Let us know. Tptpc.com we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Joe Bob
No. Oh boy.
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Golf Instructor
Yeah, I know my golf swing is off today.
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Joe Bob
It's just a lesson. Loosen up, champ. Can't. I think I might have gotten away
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Golf Instructor
with something I shouldn't have.
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Joe Bob
What the heck are you talking about? Okay, you see that brand new Hyundai
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Golf Instructor
Santa Fe over there?
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Joe Bob
Yeah. Well, I only paid
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Joe Bob
Finish that bucket of balls on your own. I. I gotta run. Well, Santa Fe's coming. Green, right? I love green. What? No. What?
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Golf Instructor
To come back.
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Joe Bob
I paid for the full hour.
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Joe Bob
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Joe Bob
Tired of ice? I'm tired. You got guys.
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Dude, I'm gonna say it.
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Joe Bob
Guys.
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Yeah, they keep asking me to work Saturdays and I'm like, no, dude, I'm not. That's where I draw the line
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Joe Bob
as good. That's a good joke. There's a good twist at the end. All right, let's get into the brand new segment. On this show, it is Monday and libs like to melt down. Now, those two things are entirely exclusive. They're entirely separate from one another. But today we will combine them on Meltdown Monday. Meltdown Monday.
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Meltdown Monday. Happy Meltdown Monday.
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Joe Bob
Today. That was a fun one. Maybe we should put some graphics that kind of show the Meltdown Monday. But I also do think it's been encapsulated by the crying AI Libs. Also, that's AI in case we needed to say that. We're just making jokes here now. We could pull real footage, but it's hard to get that many of them crying at one time. And I really wanted to portray the blue hairedness. And I'm not gonna say that. Never mind. Anyways, Meltdown Monday. You know, for this Meltdown Monday, I want to pick on some. I'll say it. I'm Picking on them. Pick on some Facebook page that I've been following, not for any other reason that I would like to bring it to you folks. And I can almost guarantee you this won't make it into your feed. Liberal Jane illustrations posts some hilarious illustrations which really exemplify the idiotic lack of nuance sloganeering that the left unfortunately is able to do because their voters are incredibly stupid. The. The one liners, the political one liners have made their way into the quote unquote art world with this profile. And I'd like to show you some of the things that unfortunately sway lib voters because they're just oh so compelling. Graphic two is first up. These are some of the art pieces that are created by this page. It is risk capital. Rest. Capitalism is exhausting. Yes, capitalism. That. That system that has afforded you the ability to have a CPAP machine which the cat for some reason is wearing, which would be frivolous capitalism, the system that allows for frivolity is so tiring that we need to use our very capitalist driven iPhones to post on the capitalist driven connection communications platforms and the capitalism communication, the Internet we need to do. All of these things are so bad. They're created by capitalism, but it sure is just exhausting. Let's move on to the next one of these. The. This. Oh let me. I. This is my fault. These are too small for me to read and I didn't put them on my screen. If you're, if you're activism isn't aggressive. Aggressive and inclusive. Oh, sorry. Accessible and inclusive. Who is it for? If we're not including everybody, which should include conservatism, then who is it for? I wonder how inclusive it is if the policy suggestions are not in the liberal wing of things. Libs tend to get very not inclusive whenever you interject some sort of right leaning or conservative messaging. So let's see graphic number four again from Liberal Jane illustrations. Housing is a human right and we are going to depict that human right with birds. I mean, just look, I get it, I get it. It's like it's art, but also like, come on, it's a human right that we will use to. We'll show you how humid it is by using birds. The least human of the animals going on to number five, pro fat is not anti health. And by the way, what's with the armpit hair? Like, okay, fine, look, you want to be accepting of fatness, that's fine, that's okay. And I'm not saying, you know, I'm talking about like morbid obesity, not like the little pudge that we all have that we're all trying to, you know, work off to before summer hits. I'm not talking about that, just objective. Obesity is not healthy, no matter what you're saying. And to add the armpit hair is just an insult to injury. Talk about squaring with reality. Oh, want to get to the last two before we run out of time? Which is again, my fault. But you can't heal in the place that made you sick. I actually firmly approve of this one. If the place that made you sick is this free market capitalist society that is the United States, I would recommend moving to another place in order to heal. I will even personally help pay for the plane ticket to another land. So long as you relinquish your what right to vote in this country as for some reason we allow people who don't live here anymore to continue to vote. Different conversation for a different time. Gotta leave room for this last one that I thought was the most interesting and fun Abortion Providers are Magic okay, first of all, that hinges on the fact that being magic is a good thing. Biblically speaking, magic is always warned against. I mean, the Bible is fraught with many verses and circumstances like, hey, beware of the people that use magic. They're sorcerers and wizards and they're not good. So there's that. So maybe that makes this accurate. Maybe it is that the abortion providers, the people that willingly kill children, are bad people. I don't even in the context of this being good, I don't even know what that would mean. Abortion providers are magic. Like a kid's magician pulling rabbits out of a hat. Like that's, I don't know, ridiculous on all fronts. Anyways, that is Meltdown Monday. Maybe. Maybe we'll play some more video clips next Meltdown Monday, but I don't know. I had fun. Tptpc.com is the email address. We will be right back after the break with Mailbag. Don't go away. If you think that women shouldn't have abortions because that's the natural consequence for
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having sex, then I think we can
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Joe Bob
both agree that the natural consequence for somebody should be having their cut off. I think that that's a fair. I think that's a fair argument to make. We, the right wing pro life conservative extremists, agree with this message. Hold on. You're saying that you'd be willing to outlaw abortions only if and only if rapists have their genitalia removed. Perfect. I was. Yes. Amen. Thank you. All right. Wow. Left very little time for mailbag here. First up, starting off, getting into the week strong, are some suggestions with the mayor of New York's name. Rich says scam, damn me, moron. Scam damn me. I don't hate that. That's actually pretty. That's. That's a contender in the running. Myron and Joe separate emails say both say great minds. Think like moron. Zamboni. I like it. Rich says say salami. It rhymes with mom dummy. Okay, see, the problem is that's actually too close to what several other people thinks. Also rhymes with commie. Okay, that. That. That makes sense. Paul says moron bang. Danny also good in consideration. Kimberly says moron, dumb, dummy. I like that. Let's see. Ooh, last one I'm gonna be able to get to in time. Several other emails tbt tbsa.com that are fantastic. But I do want to get to this from Kenneth. As I said, I come in for a kicking. He says, enjoy the show, but you really need to ditch those boy earrings. Now, I've got plenty of comments on the earrings thus far, but Kenneth takes it in an entirely different direction. If you insist on being fruity, go right on ahead, but punch some real masculine holes into those lobes. I don't know if I could do that, Kenneth. I'm sorry. I think my wife would take great exception to me getting the gauges. That's. That's. I don't know. But I do like that that came from the entirely different side of the. The folks that usually are not appreciative of the. Very well. I've got earrings. That just is what it is. Several. You don't like it? That's okay. We don't have to agree on everything, but I appreciate that different point of view and perspective from Kenneth. TBT tbsa.com is the email address. Thanks so much for tuning in. We will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. God bl. Bless America.