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are pouncing on a California sheriff who simply wants to make sure that ballots were counted properly. Which of course is an egregious affront to democracy. According to the libs, is ICE going to fix TSA and libs think you can scream your way to happiness? How true is that assertion? All that and more coming up. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now. When you're counting something, even if it's an unofficial count, what is a reasonable amount of discrepancy variance between the official count and the unofficial count? Is that number somewhere around 45,000? No? Okay, well then maybe some ballots should be recounted. That is the headline swirling around Southern California in which a sheriff has seized ballots. Of course, the prejudicial term. They're used by the live media. And that is the story that we'll get into in just a quick second. But first, I got to remind you, TPTOM is the email address if you'd like to send on your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms, even. All of those are welcome. TPTP usa. Com we read pretty much all of them and we get to several of those emails in our Mailbag segment towards the end of the show. And as always, in order to be considered for being mentioned in our mailbag segment. You have to send an email. So vile, gross, disgusting, downright nasty. That actually grabs our attention. We can bring it on the show. Tptpo, say.com is that email address. There is massive lib hysteria going on over a Southern California sheriff who says, hey, maybe we should recount some of these ballots. He's not even suggesting they're going to change the election. He's just saying there's a lot of evidence that would show the unofficial count and the official count have a pretty wide discrepancy. So he went through the proper channels. And because libs freak out over anybody trying to ensure that election integrity is a thing that we are upholding. These are some of the headlines. This was from the New York Times in which I where I want to start this. I really think this is very intentionally negative as far as the implication goes in California, I'm going to use my scary voice. A Republican sheriff seizes ballots, prompting criticism instead of, hey, there's a lot of criticism over the ballots. So the sheriff said, hey, hold on, let's go ahead and recount these before we destroy them in May. Because that is the typical way that ballots are handled. The seizure of the ballots feels very much like they're implying the whole fascism thing yet again in this very, very blue state where, remember, they don't have a lot of election integrity as we would like to see it. So here's what's happening in early 2026. Earlier this year, an election watch group alleged a massive discrepancy in Riverside County, California, where, just full disclosure, the sheriff of that county, Chad Bianco, is running for governor of the state of California. The handwritten ballot intake logs showed roughly 611,000 to 612,000 ballots received. Now, those are internal logs. They're not official, they're unofficial by nature, but they are kept by the temporary election workers that say, hey, here's how many ballots we have counted. We've absorbed, here's how many they are. These are hand records. They're unofficial. The problem is the machine certified and therefore state reported total was 657,000 votes. Now, you may be thinking that that that's a pretty huge discrepancy. How much of a difference is that? Well, it's somewhere around a 45,000 ballot difference. Look, I get it. Unofficial counts taken by hand, temporary election workers. There's not going to be an exact matchup. Everybody can understand that. But 45,000 ballots feels a little bit high. At the same time, it feels like something at least, at the very least looking into why is there a massive discrepancy of 45,000 votes from the unofficial handwritten logs from the county versus the state reported numbers? The Riverside County Registrars voters kind of chief, this guy named Art Tinoco refuted a lot of these claims as to why there's a lot of discrepancy here. He was at the supervisor board meeting trying to explain why there's such a wide gap between the unofficial records and the official records. Here was his explanation. Cut 12.
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Riverside County Registrar
So therefore you have a ballot statement per day that is completed by volunteers and also temporary staff at these vote centers. So you have a lot of folks touching these documents. The other document is the vote by mail ballot collection forms. At all 107 drop off sites that we may have throughout the county there will be folks that are documenting handwriting information. Counting ballots again, how many of us at times know that hand counting something will never derive the same number once, twice, sometimes even three times? It does happen. It will. There will be some unintentional mistakes. We're only human. All of this is prone to human intervention. So therefore as humans, we, we are not perfect.
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Joe Bob
Which is fair enough. I can understand that argument, election workers being tired. It's all done by humans. It weird is that he said the human intervention and not human error. But we'll, we'll set aside that odd choice of wording there by that guy. Basically what he's alleging is that these handwritten logs are preliminary. They're not used for official certification. They were filled out by tired, long working, temporary staffed after very long election days. And again, I totally understand that. He goes on to say that the actual variance between the machine counts and the final certified counts submitted to the state was only about a hundred ballots. Well, the problem is that still doesn't factor in the unofficial count, which again was 45,000 ballots off. But all that being said, after his explanation, the conclusion is therefore four, no evidence of fraud. Because the official systems between the computer counting and what was submitted to the state match so closely. Now I'm not entirely sure why those didn't match exactly, but again, that's not exactly what we're talking about. We're talking about the unofficial handwritten quote or handwritten count. And even given the fact that they're not going to exactly correspond because one's official and one's unofficial, 45,000 ballots seems pretty crazily off. The California Secretary of State's office has called all of these claims unsubstantiated. Okay, fine. But then how do you explain the massive discrepancy? Sure, the lower number is an unofficial count, but 45,000 missing ballots seems a bit odd. Is it that crazy to simply be curious as to why? No, it's not. And also what the state doesn't want to mention is that the courts actually agreed with the investigation. The Riverside Sheriff's Office investigators prepped affidavits detailing the complaint and the alleged discrepancies as worthy of being probed. They then presented these affidavits and evidence to a magistrate judge in the county's superior court. Then the sheriff was issued two search warrants. They were signed and approved by a Riverside Superior Court judge. The first warrant was served and executed on February 9, 2026. The second warrant was on or around February 23, 2026. The sheriff's investigators then went to the Riverside County Registrar of Voters office, and they retrieved approximately 1,000 boxes of. Of ballots and or related election materials from the November 2025 special election. So it's not that crazy for the state. Sorry. It's not that crazy for the sheriff to go, um, this seems like it's worth investigating, especially if the court agrees. But the shape. The state sure is pretending that this is just some absurd wild goose chase that has no actual founding. In reality, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sent several letters to the Riverside county sheriff, one of which said, my office has serious concerns of whether probable cause existed to support the issuances of these warrants, which I mean by default. What he's effectively doing is not questioning the sheriff or the sheriff department's motive. It is calling the judge an idiot. Because, remember, the sheriff isn't acting of his own accord. He's saying, hey, we presented all of this to a judge, and the judge said, yeah, this is sufficient for a warrant. If the elections are so safe and secure, what is the problem with simply saying, I'd like to double check? Because like I said, There's 45,000 ballots as a discrepancy between the unofficial and the official counts. Now, it's interesting because libs use this sort of rationale all the time, right? Well, if you're not doing anything wrong, then surveilling you shouldn't be a problem, except for when it comes to election security. Uh, this is what libs assert. They are saying, effectively, that in a state where we have no voter id, where everybody is registered to vote, when they get their driver's licenses, also they give illegals driver's licenses, and they don't Purge the voter rolls, among many other problems. What they're saying is there is still absolutely no voter fraud. Now, just because I was curious, the state continues to argue that there's no voter fraud because it's exceedingly rare to, to investigate and then convict anybody for voter fraud. That is an assessment made based on the low numbers of cases and convictions at the state. The problem is that metric itself is. Is very skewed. Voter fraud investigations are handled in California by the office of the Secretary of State. Believe it or not, the most recent publicly available data that compiles all of the investigations in a given election year and is 2016. Why we don't have any more recent data, I don't know. But that's just the data that we have. In 2016, in the general election, in a presidential year, in a state with 40 million people and around 22 million registered voters, the Secretary of State who investigates Voter Fraud opened 89 investigations, which seems very, very small. And because California just insists that voter fraud is super, super rare, it never happens. Therefore, we don't need to allocate much of many resources to this. There's only an estimated two to four dedicated investigators within the Investigative Services Unit within the Secretary of State's office. Let me put this to you in practical terms. Imagine the Chicago Police Department, all of a sudden only consisted of three total police officers. As you could probably imagine, they would make very, very few arrests. This would inherently drive down the arrest statistics, and people would say, wow, there's no arrests today. It would be unimaginably then misleading for Chicago leadership to then say, well, crime is exceedingly rare. Look at how few arrests we've made. However, this is exactly what it should sound like when the most populous state in the union claims that we shouldn't even consider voter fraud as a possibility because of how rare it is investigated, it is prosecuted, and therefore it is convicted. Now, included in one of the letters to the Riverside County Sheriff, the California Attorney General said they must stop the the count. And rather than say to the state attorney general, no, we're not going to stop pound sand, the Riverside Sheriff's Office made an even further effort to ensure the validity of the investigation. A separate Riverside Superior Court judge then appointed a special master or a court appointed overseer to supervise the hand counting or recounting of the seized ballots or of the acquired ballots, because I don't like that term seized. Uh, now basically what I'm pointing at here is the state is freaking out over this and they're calling this completely unfounded this is a complete absurd waste of time. This assertion being made is crazy. And yet the local courts agreed with issuing a warrant. And in spite of, in light of the Attorney General saying you have to stop, the courts then said, okay, no, no, we're not going to stop. We're actually going to make it even more secure by appointing a court appointed observer. Now it's very possible that nothing comes out of this, that that's entirely possible and I'm willing to accept what the Riverside County's Sheriff's office comes out with. But it's also possible that there is some sort of discrepancy because if there isn't, what you're basically saying then is well, people can randomly be 45,000 ballots off. The simple fact that the state itself doesn't want anyone to question the highly questionable discrepancies should therefore solidify the case that well, you need to make sure elections are as tight and actually safe and secure as opposed to this illusion of well, we don't have very much fraud because we don't prosecute any fraud, therefore everything is safe and, and above board. Now the ballots remain in the sheriff's possession which is fortunately preventing the routine destruction that is scheduled somewhere around May 2026. Currently there are no results from this. There's no physical count result, there's no arrests made, there's no charges, there's no substantiated fraud findings that have been announced. The only thing that we're trying to say here is that the state losing their mind and lives around the country losing their mind. Putting articles in the New York Times called seizing ballots to imply that this is some sort of fascist takeover in the blue state of California is absurd. All of the evidence to at very least probe this seems to be in place. The courts agree on a number of different, different levels. The only person that is high, highly, highly skeptical of this are the people that preside over the weakest election security state in my opinion in the union. Tptpc.com is the email address if you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns. Are you in the godforsaken state of California behind enemy lines where you're witnessing some of this sort of stuff happen? If you are, you happen to know that they never purge the voter rolls and people who have been dead for years still get ballots in the mail. I know some very, very close and personally tptbc.com if you have anything like that happen to you and maybe you can be one of the 89 open investigations out of the 22 million registered voters. Let us know TBT tvc.com We'll be right back with official business. A lot of stuff going on around the news media of the day. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away. Foreign.
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Joe Bob
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Joe Bob
a violation for someone failing to yield for a pedestrian. A partner will issue either a citation or provide education to this motorist. All right, big supporter of law enforcement here. But also unmarked crosswalks. Just anytime there's two sidewalks on either side of the street, they're just, that's an unmarked crosswalk and people can just cross the street. I mean, okay, fine. But also I would like a refund for the two jaywalking tickets that I've gotten in my lifetime because I was just in an unmarked crosswalk. Holy cow. That's wild. Um, all right. Hey TPT tbc.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns throughout the show. It is time for us to take a look at what is going on around the world as relative to the news of the day. It's time to get to the point. Get to the point. Get to the point. Alright, first up here in getting to the point we got this from the New York, sorry, the Washington Post. Sometimes it's difficult to differentiate the lib outlets from one another. ICE agents arrive at US Airports amid TSA staff shortages, funding fight, US Immigration Customs Enforcement agents have been begun arriving at several major US airports as of March 23rd. I believe Tom Tom Holman said 14 airports earlier today is the amount of airports that are going to be seeing ICE agents. But more are coming. I mean we've talked about, we talked about this extensively last week. The libs have shut down the government because enforcing the laws that we have in this country that they themselves had agreed upon in the 90s because it's been around for a very long time. Uh, but because they don't like enforcing those laws, they've decided to not pay TSA workers, which is causing crazy lines. And I think the biggest concern right now, politically speaking, is that we all make sure that people know that this is their fault. Right. Whenever anything is a disruption from a governmental standpoint, it is incumbent on the chattering class, myself, any of the colleagues in this space, but also you at home. Make sure that anybody that you know or talk to is aware that all of this is happening because libs don't want to enforce the law. Right. This is entirely hinged on libs holding up the government in this specific DHS funding capacity saying, we don't like that ICE can go into polling stations even though illegals don't vote. They can't be there because Orange man bad. But also, it is obviously lines are crazy. They keep highlighting the Atlanta airport and we did on the show last week, Atlanta always has long lines. Again, I'm not saying they're not. They're not bad. Obviously, they're bad. But Atlanta. I've flown in and out of Atlanta a number of times, and the lines are always bad, regardless of whether or not there is a TSA strike. They are not getting paid. They're not showing up to work. Regard. Atlanta's always long lives, but the alliance are substantially long. And I think it's the most important thing here is for us to make sure that everybody around us knows that this is their fault. They are deciding to do this. They are deciding to not pay government employees because of their, I don't know, hatred for enforcing laws, which is crazy, crazy hill to die on. So there's that. All right, this is interesting. This is from. What is this? NBC News Senators. Okay, so I have a lot of questions about this, and none of those have really been answered because this is an entirely unregulated market, at least to my understanding. Senators introduced bipartisan bill to ban sports betting on prediction markets. If you're not familiar with the prediction markets, they're like Calci Poly Market. All of these prediction markets, they're gambling, but they're not technically gambling. What you're doing effectively is you're buying stock in the possibility of something happening or not. And their markets for anything and everything. And some of those markets are absurd. For example, I put $50 into Kalshi buying the no proposition that the United States government this year will confirm that aliens exist in Other words, that market is fluctuating between 20 and 25 cents. So, so everything is out of 100 basically out of a dollar. 25% of the people in this market think that the United States government will confirm that aliens exist this year. Obviously that feels like free money to me. But what my question around this is what, what is regulated and what isn't? Obviously the stock market is regulated. Sports betting is regulated, gambling is heavily regulated. This is not technically any of those things and therefore what is okay and what isn't. And also too now people with insider information, how do they factor into this? Obviously insider information when you're trading securities is very illegal and the SEC will crack down on you. But in this, because you can pretty much vote on it, somebody, somebody can create a cow sheet or poly market prediction market on how long I will spend on one particular point in the get to the point segment. And if I know that that market exists and I bet heavily knowing that I'm going to stretch, you know, this get to the point for a very, very long time. And is that allowed? Is that insider trading? Am I allowed to make money? Am I allowed to profit off of that market? Somebody should set that up by the way and send it to me because I'd like to bet heavily on what I will or will not do. But the question is what is the regulation regarding these prediction markets? Anyways, back to the point of this. Senators introduce a bipartisan bill. Freaking. This is one of those where you know, you can, you can agree with the idea but the guy putting it
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Joe Bob
Senator Adam Bulshiff and John Curtis of Utah have introduced bipartisan bill, a bipartisan bill to amend the Commodity Exchange act and prohibit prediction markets like Cal or Polymarket from offering or listing contracts related to sporting events or casino style gambling as slot machines, video poker, blackjack and bingo. Basically these markets are based, you're allowed to buy, effectively bet on literally anything. And because a lot of that's regulated by the government, they are saying well the government should be involved here too. Uh, as a guy who is not a big gambler and tends to think that gambling should be restricted in order to, I, I hate to say it, protect people from themselves. And I don't generally have that opinion except for the fact where a massive social welfare state exists. In other words, if you want to gamble all of your money away and grow old in destitution, that is none of my business. I don't care however, if the government is going to take my money to pay for you once you've made that decision. I don't want that to happen. Therefore maybe we should restrict some of these abilities so that I don't get foot with the bill. I don't I I'm not paying for you. You're in your bad decisions. All that being said, this is an Open ended question tbt tbsa.com actually very curious to see any and all thoughts on this because it's going to be really interesting to see how this prediction market stuff pays out. Right now it's entirely unregulated, the wild wild west. And even as a small government guy, I can see the very very big problems with that going forward. And as much as I freaking hate that Adam bullshit is heading this up, it is something worth looking at. All right, next point to get to this. Geez. Wow. Bad news after bad news. How's your week Starting off fantastic. Monday Google Search Is Now Using AI to Replace Headlines this is coming from the Verge. Google is now conducting a small narrow experiment in its traditional search results where it replaces the original news headlines and sometimes other webpage titles with AI generated versions to better match user queries and improve relevance or engagement. Freaking what now? Okay, if I were to play devil's advocate against my own horrific reaction to this is okay, well if other people are using AI, if the news outlets themselves are using AI to predict what's going to be the most engaging to their audience, how is this much different? Okay, if I'm the triple reverse, I'm arguing against myself. Arguing against me. Okay, well Google though is a platform that is not regulated because they fall under what is that category. You can team email us tbt tbsa.com section whatever saying well we're a platform, we're not a publisher. This, this feels like it makes you a publisher, which therefore you would relinquish several of the rights of platforms. So the not often used triple argumentative reverse against myself leads us now to a I don't know what to do with this. And to say that I have a definitive answer on what this is going to look like going forward is I would just that would just be dishonest. I don't want to be dishonest with you folks. I will say as an individual looking at this holy crap, I don't know how this is going to work. If we were to take a look at it 30,000ft I think and I'd be open to your emails. TPT us tptpc.com we are going to have to as a society struggle through how we deal with the inevitable this sort of stuff is inevitable. Google changing headlines and doing what is in the best interest of their bottom line is going to happen. The solutions from a government restrictive standpoint are not going to stop them. It is going to take a whole of society reckoning with the idea that this is just going to happen and we need to get through that process on our own. That's just what it's like when you scroll through Facebook and you see a bunch of AI videos. It takes all of us to just reject that, just go, AI slop. I'm not going to look at it. I don't actually care what this says. I will not engage. And there's no regulation that's going to institute that. There's no company that's going to, out of their own, you know, the goodness of their own heart say, no, we're not going to. They're going to do it. And the government regulation against it is not going to be effective. It's going to take a personal effort from me, from you, from everybody, to say, absolutely not. We will take our dollar elsewhere and vote with our wallets. How's this for a Monday? How about this? Hey, we'll, we'll end on a, on a. This is not a positive note, but it is kind of funny, especially if you like making fun of libs. This from the Associated Press, is an official article that I got in my notification feed over the weekend. Scream your way to happiness question mark. Maybe not, but Scream Clubs promise some relief. I will repeat myself. Scream Clubs, which, if it wasn't evident by the verbiage, used to call to title the clubs. It's when you get together in a group of people and scream. Scream Clubs have emerged as an informal group gathering in at least 17 US cities, including Chicago. See, I don't need to name all the cities where participants collectively scream to release pent up stress, grief, frustration or other emotions often held outdoors near parks or bodies of water. All right, this my standard reaction to this is is there a way that scientists, physicists, can get together to figure out how I might be able to purchase the time that is being wasted by these crazy people? If you're going to use the limited amount of time on God's green earth to get together in a group and scream to air your grievances? I would like to bend the laws of physics to purchase some of that time, because clearly you are wasting it. I could use that time substantially better than you and I will be willing to pay top dollar for that time. So the call is out to anybody who can bend the natural universe to allow me to either purchase or seize the time being wasted by the scream club enthusiasts. That would be greatly appreciated. They go on in this article to talk about this was invented as as if this was like a thing that screaming. We know who thought about this. Well up until the 1960s nobody had ever screamed before. Inspired by the 1960s primal scream therapy, experts note that the practice can serve as a strong stress reliever to it doesn't matter. I just get Get a life. Get a. Get a Get some amount of responsibility. I don't know what. Go to the shelter and adopt a dog. Like give yourself some amount of responsibility in life so that you don't meet with other people in a park and scream. That's what my toddler does. That's not for adults. Can I purchase some of your time? Alright. Wow. Lots of points around the news media today coming up. My favorite part of the show is where we discuss the official business that is officially being officiated by the official office holders in official business tbt dbsa.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns, if you'd like to if you'd like to air your grievances by text screaming in an email, you can do that@tbtpusa.com we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away Foreign.
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Joe Bob
And the idea that I have to get up here and say that trans women are women and that's what I have to use my time to do is absurd. Shame on you. Shame on all of you. And shame on you for using lesbian politics politics as a front for your transphobia because this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises. Okay, moving on. It's time for official business because I just. I can't. What do you what are you supposed. What am I supposed to say to that? I this lesbian has had many Girlfriends with penises which would effectively make you then straight. But because you don't know what a man or a woman is, you're then now good luck with your life. Now another person that probably participates in the scream clubs and who of which I'd love to purchase some of her time. It's official business time. All right, we're turning the corner. Turning the corner, having some fun. Because you know, making fun of lib politicians is one of my favorite things to do. Especially when they are as dumb as Senator Maisie Hirano from the great state of Hawaii. She is unfortunately the. The self censoring that I do on this show to preserve my own career trajectory is immense. So I won't say what was in my head. Maybe you send us an email. Dbtbsa.com I will tell you what was just in my head just now. But the she possesses an IQ that resembles the room temperature in your kitchen on a cool day. This is Senator Mazie Hirono discussing why the SAVE act is not necessary. Cut 6.
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Joe Bob
It is a federal crime. If a non citizen illegally votes in a federal election, they come could be
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prosecuted and even sentenced up to five years in prison.
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Joe Bob
Who is going to commit this kind of fraud knowing that they could be
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in prison for five years?
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Joe Bob
Yeah. So we shouldn't even create any safeguards that that makes total sense. I would like to also advocate for the fact that the IRS doesn't need any investigators because you know, breaking the tax code is already legal. Especially in any instance that I may be involved with. There's no reason to investigate because it's already illegal to not pay what you owe in federal income tax. And therefore I, nor anybody I would ever know would ever at any point not pay every single penny to the federal government that we owe. Therefore, you know, there's no need to invest. It's already illegal. This is the same rationale that Senator Hirano is using to ensure that the integrity of our elections is upheld. And I for one would like to extrapolate that to all of the different federal government interactions that I and many of you have. Of course I would never. I always pay every single penny that I owe to the federal government
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Riverside County Registrar
and
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Joe Bob
nobody should question it because of course it's illegal. And why would I not? Moving on, in official business, this is Representative Maggie Goodlander talking about the DHS claims. Hey, we Our highest priority is the thing that we are currently avoiding. Cut 7. There have been concerns since the start of this war about potential Cyber attacks. Is the US Infrastructure potentially prepared for that possibility? Look, keeping our country safe, defending the
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homeland, I have no higher priority in Congress.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, let me, let me think for geez, roughly around 15 seconds here before we answer this question. What'd you say? So cybersecurity is a big problem. Yeah, Well, I have no bigger priority than making sure that that isn't a problem. And also I refuse to vote for anything that solves that problem. Great, thank you. You know, moving on, we're just kind of, we're like, we're climbing down the ladder of intelligence and rationale. We move on to the Mayor of Albany, New York, the capital of the state of New York. 1 Mayor Dorsey Aplers Apple applers. I don't know. It doesn't matter. You know, she was asked, how are we going to fix the city's budget problem, a massive budget problem, as there is in most big blue cities. And her answer rivals the pageant participant contestant that says everywhere like such is like Iran. And like such as everywhere and like the map. And people don't know where maps are. And everywhere like such as see, see if this resembles that clip in any way, shape or form.
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Mayor of Albany
Cut eight Mayor looking long term, what
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Joe Bob
structural changes need to happen to prevent Albany from facing similar financial issues?
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Mayor's Assistant
Again, that's a great question. And that's why we're pulling together that team, that interdepartmental team that will really go under the hood, open up the cabinets, really get into the weeds on our budget, the process. Some of our systems, you know, it is government, there's a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of systems, and sometimes those systems do not work. And so you have to get under the hood to first understand what's not working. And so that team, in short order will start the process of examining all of those things to then in turn provide me with recommendations on how to improve those systems to prevent something like this from happening.
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Joe Bob
Before it just kept going. I'm sorry, I was trying to keep a straight face during that entire process, but it just kept going. The systems that we have are not the systems that should be what we have. So we in the system of systematically sustaining this system need to systematize. All right? That person is an elected official with power in this country, and that's all there is to say about that. We've got plenty more that will probably make it into our clip clean out on Friday, which is, which is great. If you're not, if you don't watch on Friday because you're doing, I don't know, family things. You should because we clean out the clips that we didn't use this week and we have a very fun jingle to that. So there's that. My second favorite zinger slash jingle is coming up next On Meltdown Monday, TBT. TVSA.com is the email address. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Cancer Patient
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Mayor of Albany
It is what we decide now that will define the rest of humanity's future. And whether we choose to do that or not, if we don't, it will be a death sentence to countless of people. And it is already a death sentence to countless of people living on the front lines of the climate crisis today. We need to talk about what's happening in Cuba right now. As the Trump administration is waging illegitimate wars across the world, killing canvas of people, it is also also strangling the Cuban people deliberately, methodically and openly. The pedophile Trump himself bragged about it, saying there's an embargo, There is no oil, there's no money, there's no anything. He said it like it was something to be proud of.
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Joe Bob
So there you have it. Ringo Starr, who was against all oil because climate change is now mad that President Trump is cutting off the oil to Cuba to hopefully help collapse the communist regime in one of our closest neighbors. Then honestly, the Cuban people probably would be very allied with the United States way of doing life because they've experienced life under communism. They're like, this sucks. Uh, wow. You got, you got it. Full circle climate. Using oil will kill us all. And also, how dare you not let these people use oil. Now I need to get back to drumming for the Beatles because my haircut resembles Ringo Starr. All right. Okay. That's right, favorite singer. It's Monday. And you know, over the weekend, libs love to melt down. And some of the reasons they melt down are Some of the videos that will play you coming up here in Meltdown Monday. Meltdown Monday. Meltdown Monday. Happy Meltdown Monday today. All right, before we get to an actual Lib actually melting down in the form of metal song, here's a reason why libs are melting down. This is the President of the United States. When talking about ice, in syntax wise, only Trump could. Could be this Trump. Cut 11.
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Donald Trump
We're dealing. Really? Mine. That was mine. That was like the paperclip. You know the story of the paperclip. 182 years ago, a man discovered the paperclip. It was so simple. And everybody that looked at it say, why didn't I think of that? Ice was my idea.
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Joe Bob
I called.
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Donald Trump
First person I called was Tom Holman. I said, what do you think? He said, I think it's great. Then I saw today there was some masks on. I didn't think the mask masks were appropriate. I put out a statement and I asked them, would it be possible to take off the mask because they should wear a mask when they're dealing with the murderers and the thugs left and let into our country.
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Joe Bob
I mean, talk about lib freak out. Like, oh, my gosh. I think Hakeem Jeffries that. Which clip we didn't get into an official business that ice is going to go to airports and kill people, which is absurd and insane. But of course, it's a meltdown. So from the Libs now, wanted to make sure we leave enough time here for an actual meltdown in the form of song. This. I don't know who this is. Fantastic. I just. Somebody sent this to me, and it was just too delicious and perfect to not be played here on Meltdown Monday. Here is. Well, this is cut 13 trying to take away my choice, my power, my voice, my freedom. Not going to lie there. Take it. I'm gonna stand with my sisters. All my sisters. We're gonna raise our voices. Fun. And we will not be silenced. Yeah. I mean, also, we know you guys never shut up. I. That is my favorite lib trope during, like, Meltdown week, when they're like, we will not be silenced. Yeah, dude, we know you people never stop screaming. You have clubs that you get together and scream. It's like, part of your identity. You don't need to tell us that you won't be silenced. We freaking know. I love that. All right, hey, that was a short and sweet Meltdown Monday. But it is. We're gonna leave some. Some good time for Mailbag. Coming up after the break, TPT tbsa.com. if you'd like to be included in mailbag. We'll be right back after this. Don't go away.
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Mayor of Albany
Stack.
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Joe Bob
What are you doing? Well, Riley's going to her first dance, so I'm showing her where her date is allowed to touch. Inside the circles. Wait, inside the circles and below the wrists. I think that's about right.
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Mayor of Albany
What about her waist?
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Joe Bob
Nope. Off limits. Oh, her hands and her shoulders. So he can do this or he can do this. I think that's perfect. Do I go like this then? Nope, nope. Your hands are in your pockets. Perfect. Agreed. That's. That's some good dad. And right there, that's fun. All right. Hey, let's get to some some mailbag. Tptpsa.com is the email address if you'd like to participate in the comments, concerns, even criticisms, which I come in for a kicking on this one. This is, this is interesting user who I will remain nameless because I don't want to make fun of folks was very, very frustrated at the Chuck Norris facts that I was stating last week and I will double down on that. But just a quick taste of what the email said regarding those ridiculous messages about Chuck Norris on the day of his death is disgusting and out of line. And what you actually think of any of those were funny only leaves me wondering how and why they weren't funny at all. But there's something truly just something disturbing about it. It's disturbing and is a frustrated viewer. Now, the person that sent this email, first of all, thank you for watching and we don't want you to leave. I think I would just like to simply explain what apparently was missed there. Chuck Norris facts, some call them jokes, I call them facts were a huge pop culture thing in like the mid 2000s, like 2005 to like 2015. And for the record, Chuck Norris himself not only endorsed them, but but participated in them as recently as his birthday. That happened like two weeks before he passed away. And I think the best way to honor him is to celebrate the awesome things that he did. For example, on his birthday, I think it was his 86th birthday, he posted a Chuck Norris fact. Again, some call them jokes of him. He posted a video of himself boxing and said every year on my birthday, I don't have, I don't get a year older. I level up. Which is a classic Chuck Norris joke or fact. So I understand the frustration if you don't quite understand the dynamic that all of us had in Those early those 2000s, those mid 2000s years. But also remember that it was all fun and games and we were celebrating the life that Chuck Norris lived and he himself participated frequently in the Internet lore that was created around him. He enjoyed it. So the best way I think to celebrate the life of a good dude is participate in the enjoyment of life that he himself had. So there's that. On the topic of let's see, this is from Van Wyck. Happy Friday. I've been watching show for a while now. Your show has become a very, very useful it's been a great cringe o meter allowing me to learn practice and control and not only blurt out objectives at inanimate objects. I don't know if that is a criticism or an actual genuine, genuine note of praise or thanks. Is is this show being the cringe o meter the way for you to decide what you think is cringe or not? Or is it this show is cringe and therefore it gives you an example of what not to do while out in public. I would love a follow up, but I appreciate that. On the topic of Chuck Norris, again, Chad says this. Google said you don't find Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris finds you. Correct. Let's see, Tom says this. I'm not entirely sure why, but he says job of every time I see you, I'm reminded of Jeff Dunham's peanut character. Jeff Dunham the ventriloquist comedian and he his character the peanut or peanut is what I remind him of. He said. Not sure why, just thought you should know. I again don't know this is the theme of these com or these emails today. I'm not entirely sure what to make of them other than say thank you for emailing and remember, more gross, more disgusting tbt tbsa.com last one. Nice nice note from Bri. Love the show. Loved Charlie. As do we. God bless. Thank you for all you do. Hey I appreciate it Bri. Ending on an ending on a kind and nice note. Oh man. You know, I really want to tell this story about my lived neighbors. Maybe we'll get to that tomorrow. Maybe. Is it okay if I suck up some mailbag time tomorrow to tell you about my absurdly lib neighbors? And because I live in California, they feel like they can say anything they want. That like demeans conservatives because of course nobody here is a conservative and me and my wife just nod and smile politely them having no idea what I do for a living. Maybe we'll take some mailbag time tomorrow to tell that story because it is. It's very. It's quite funny and probably not as uncommon as many folks think, but we're out of time. Tptpc.com is the email address. We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Thanks so much for tuning in. God bless America.