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pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com a California gubernatorial debate was suddenly canceled. I have the shocking details of of why that was the case. Also, Meta and Google were found negligent in making their platforms addictive. I think I have some pretty interesting thoughts on this. We'll get to that in get to the Point and Tish James, unfortunately being hit with more fraud allegations. The Attorney General of New York who erroneously decided to press charges against the President even though there were no victims in the crime that she made up. Uh, just so sad to see that another fraud allegation is being thrown her way. All that and more coming up on this episode of the show. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now. The very, very interesting gubernatorial race for California Governor has gotten even weirder with a debate getting canceled earlier this week. And the reasons those debates that debate got canceled may shock you or it will be entirely what you expected because it's just classic wacky California TPTP USA.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms all are welcome@tptp USA.com and remember, if those emails are gross, vile, disgusting and downright nasty, the chances of them being read on the show actually increase substantially. I would say, you know, the worse the email, the more likely we are to read it. Because of course that fits in with everything that we're doing here according to several of the libs. One more announcement. I will be in Anaheim, California April 16th. If you are in the area and you would like to figure out how to get some tickets, email the show tbt tv USA.com also that is preemptively announcing, you know, some more bigger comedy tours which will hopefully coming to wherever you live. Because I know we're all around the country and More dates coming soon, I think is what I'm trying to say. TPTP USA.com for any of the things that you'd like to discuss, information you'd like to get. That's the email to send your emails to California promptly and suddenly canceled a governor's debate that was supposed to happen this week for reasons that may shock you or they may be exactly what you thought it was. Because California, the nation's poopiest state, is also the nation's most ridiculous state. Now, there's a lot of people in the field for governor. There's two conservatives and a whole bunch of crazy libs. Now this is a problem for the libs because California has what's called a jungle primary in which the top two vote getters, regardless of party, get to advance to the next stage to the general election. Now, libs in California wanted this law because they figured, well, we can get two libs through the primary and not have to deal with any conservatives on the statewide scale. The problem is that there are now so many libs in the race that the top two vote getters, I kid you not, in California are staunch conservatives, which is hilarious nonetheless. So anyways, there's a debate that's supposed to happen in California and that debate was suddenly canceled. Now, I would assume that California libs would want the debates canceled because, well, they don't want to have to be put on the spot having to answer for all of the ridiculousness that's going on in California. If I were a lib, I wouldn't want to debate, especially on the record of my party in the state. That has been one party rule for the last several decades. I that's why I would want it canceled. But the reason it was canceled is actually even more hilarious. The reason that the governor's debate was canceled in California because all of the contestants were white. Yes, it is a racial thing. In the godforsaken hellhole that is California, there were, oh, too many whites on the stage. And that prompted backlash which led to the cancellation of, of a governor's debate. We're not talking about like a sorority club. This is the governor of the biggest state population wides in the union. Can't have a debate because the lack of racial diversity. There were four libs who complained about this, primarily who were left out of the race. They were among Latino, black and Asian. Among them were the former attorney general of the state, Xavier Becerra or Javier Got with an X. It's Javier with an X. Hispanic. Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Viragosa, also Hispanic, former Los Angeles mayor, sorry, State schools Superintendent Tony Thurman, Black. And former state controller Betty Yee, also maybe black. I'm not entirely sure what she is, but according to Fox News, um, one candidate, the former Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra, who was the former Attorney General, also HHS secretary under President Joe Biden, said this. He linked it the leaving him off the debate stage to when his father used to use to talk about the days when he would encounter signs posted outside establishments that read, no dogs, no Negroes or Mexicans allowed. Holy crap, dude. Interestingly enough, all of the other libs that were supposed to be on that stage, including former Congresswoman Katie Porter, AKA Batgirl, billionaire Tom Stier, Congressman Fang Fang, sorry, Congressman Eric Swalwell, all participated. All were going to participate in this debate, including the San Jose mayor, who also just got into the race, um, which is kind of a little bit of a problem, but we'll discuss that in just a second. Anyways, all of the, all of the whites on the lib side who were supposed to be on that stage, interestingly enough, all then joined in the criticism. They were like, yeah, this is totally unfair. Now keep in mind, none of them wanted to pull out of the debate. They, they, they all just wanted to say, yes, this is unfair and therefore racist and we condemn it. Okay, well, will you pull out of the debate and protest? No, no, I will not. I'm staying in. Got it. According to Cal Matters, which is one of the bigger political publications in California, usc, who is set to host the debate, then aired on abc, actually defended their position in not including those four minority candidates. They said that their selection formula was devised by one of their professors and, and it researched based on the. Using research data based on the candidate's viability, in other words, which of course should be the case. USC said no, this has nothing to do with race, is nothing at all to do with the racial diversity of the candidates. It has everything to do with whether or not the candidate has any choice of chance of winning. All of the people on stage are polling higher than all of the ones down below, which, you know, maybe, maybe be pointing out to California's racism. Maybe that's what it is. But regardless, all of those four candidates are polling very, very poorly and they haven't raised really any money. So no, we can't include them in the debate. Which of course makes sense, right? If you don't have any possibility of winning the election or really having any sort of impact on the election, you shouldn't just be let onto the debate stage and given free time to speak in front of everybody if nobody wants you to be in that elected office. Like, imagine if I, now of age, decided, hey, I want to run for president. I have no support, I have no backing, I have no financial investments in my campaign. It would be crazy if NBC then just allowed me to be on the debate stage. That would be insane. In other words, it makes total sense as to why USC said, hey, uh, these are the candidates, they're polling the highest, therefore they have the most viability and chance of winning the race. So we're not going to include anybody else. Why it just so happened to be all white people? I don't know. Ask the California voters. Ask the people who are in the polling organizations. That's not our problem, says usc. Uh, and they also went on to point out that all of the people that were, were not included. The superintendent, the former attorney general, the former state controller, and the former LA mayor, all of them are polling in single digits. So really a tough kind of sell to make. Nobody wants them and therefore we didn't include them in the debate. Right. Totally, totally defensible. Now, of course there's going to be backlash because, you know, libs are crazy.
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I mean, we all should know that. But what. Where it got really crazy and where this story starts to take a turn is when the California legislature got involved. Yeah. This is not just like bloggers on the Internet or social media influencers saying, hey, this is clearly racist. Which, by the way, side tangent. Yeah, USC and California are totally known for just their blatant racism. Right. Cause that's what you have to be alleging here. If you're calling this leaving off of these candidates from the debate stage racist, then you have to imply, you're inherently implying that the University of Southern California or the University of Spoiled Children, depending on how you look at it, they're racist. And also the state itself is racist in California, which again, is a crazy assertion to come to or a crazy conclusion to come to. But on top of all of that, on top of the social media influence, on top of the candidates balking themselves, oh, this is totally, incredibly unfair. The state's legislature got involved. The Cal State Senate Pro Tempore Monique Limon, speaker of the California State Assembly, Robert Reese Reavis, and a handful of other libs within the state legislature wrote a letter in opposition to usc. Even though USC says nothing to do with race, it's only candidate viability. The government of the state wrote a letter saying, hey, this, we don't like this. In the letter they said if usc. I kid you not, this is an actual quote from the letter. If USC does not do the right thing, we call on all California voters to boycott this debate. Which, small side note, nobody's gonna watch anyway, so trust me, it would have been boycotted, but not for the reasons that you wanted. It's just apathy. If the university will not give voters a fair shot at evaluating everyone running for governor, voting voters should find other ways to learn about the candidates. Which leads to my earlier point. Maybe I should run for California governor. I, I'm a Brown. Not that that matters at all, but maybe I can get the state legislator, legislature to advocate on my behalf of being able to stand up on that stage and ridicule all the other ridiculous libs. But this is a letter that included the letterhead with the logos of about half a dozen on the left side party's caucus in Calif. Which of course implied some very, very bullying and intimidation tactics, which unfortunately is not super uncommon in the poopiest state in the nation in California. Okay, well then what happened was this letter gets sent by elected officials, then usc, who's been defending their position, which correctly and rightly so, finally goes, all right, shoot, we're, we're going to cave. This, this is too much. We don't want any of the people that are regulating the university system that have oversight on our university to get involved. We don't want to make them upset. So fine, we'll cave. So then USC capitulating to the one party rule in the state of Corruptifornia goes to kabc, who was supposed to air the debate, the news channel in California that was supposed to air to the debate. And KABC goes what? Hold on. We have this whole thing set up. We have all of our timestamps brought out. We have this whole thing fleshed out, ready to go. USC says no, no, no, now we have to include all of the minorities because apparently we're being unfair in kabc. Effectively said pound sand, we can't air this. Then this doesn't make. We just, we can't have like this 90 person. So where do you draw the line? Effectively, is what KABC said. So, okay, to broaden my earlier point, if I decided to announce my campaign for governor, does then USC going to advocate for me being on that stage even though I have no money, no backing, no support. Well, it's racist if you don't have me up there. This whole thing is crazy and can only happen in A ridiculous state like California. Now, like we said, like I mentioned earlier, I just want to kind of reiterate the potential optimism that I see in California and honestly as the only way forward. You know, me personally as a cynical political analyst in many ways looks at the polling going on in the state of California, understanding this jungle top two primary that we have, and looks at it very optimistically considering where the polling sits now. A party sponsored poll from the Democrat state chair Rusty Hicks interestingly reiterated what many of the polling is showing. Two conservatives running as Republicans, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco are still leading the race with 16 and 14% respectively. Meanwhile, Porter, Swalwell, Styer, all white. Cause that's supposed to be very, very scary and that's not allowed in California, which again is clearly racist because there's only white people on the lib side, uh, are all tied at 10%, well below what the top two leaders are at. All of the other libs are very, very low single digits. 24% of people remain undecided. All of that is to say this. If the libs in the race can't swallow their pride and drop out, which honestly I hope they don't, then the jungle top two primary orchestrated by libs so that only libs would be electable in the general election would entirely get wiped out and turned on its head. The two conservative candidates may get through. Now, right now, not that this is get this super deep dive into California politics, but right now as it stands, there are a lot of people on the conservative side in California. Remember, there are more conservatives in California than in any other state. I know they're still a minority, but just population wise that's what it is. There are a lot of people tearing each other apart over these two conservatives. Why support yo Hilton because this or I support Bianco because of this. In my opinion as a cynical political observer, why don't we cut it out and let those two guys win after the primary after all the libs are cast aside by the top two system that we now have. Sure, fine, go ahead. Go, go, go at it conservatives. But at the very least we get them through. And if you're interested in winning as a conservative, this is the only way. Yeah, it's, it's very likely that given the circumstances right now, given the polling, at least one of them will make it through. If Dems consolidate around somebody, if libs decide, hey, we're going to drop out so that we can at least have a shot with one person and that person is going to win. I mean, that's just the case in California, unfortunately. I don't like it, but that's just the reality. The only way that there is a practical possibility of a conservative being the governor of the state of California, which again is hilarious to even think about, is that if these two guys make it through and if this sort of shenanigans keeps happening on the lefty side of the aisle, it seems to me that there might not be any sort of consolidation, which is what we all should be rooting for. We should all be rooting for the fact that the libs can't swallow their pride, can't decide, hey, I'm not viable in this race so I'm gonna drop out. If they don't do that and they continue to split the vote on 13 different ways, conservatives in California have a shot not only at just some random state elected office, but the governor of the state. Now, is that gonna change the ideology of the state overnight? No, absolutely not. Is it going to be, you know, a technicality? Yeah, it probably will. But inching the needle bit by bit in the right direction I would see as a massive win. That is the story of the most ridiculous debate cancellation I have ever heard of and I can only hope that it continues. Tptpc.com is the email address if you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms even. I don't know, maybe, maybe you criticize the analysis here. Maybe you're like, no, I support this conservative in California. No, I support this concern. That's fine, doesn't matter who you support. Let's just get them both through and let the chips fall where they may. TBT tbsa.com if you have any thoughts on that coming up after the break. Actually possibly a very interesting take, especially from a more free market conservative on get to the point with this jury finding Meta and Google negligent. That's a very, very interesting story of which my thoughts might not align entirely with the conservative point of view, but we'll see. TPTP USA.com will be right back after the break. Don't go away. Foreign.
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Let the record show that I didn't say it. He said it. He didn't really say anything. But he did. But I didn't. Just so we're clear. All right. Hey, lots of points to get to. Lots happening going on around the world. Actually, some very great news happening on several different fronts. But before we talk about that, got to talk about the very interesting case coming out of California. Before that, we got to play the zinger. It is time to get to the point. Get to the point. Get to the point. I've gotten A couple emails TBT tv USA.com saying hey, they're called stingers, not zingers. Sorry. I actually think you're right. But I like zinger better. Zinger sounds more zippy and fun and jivey and cool. Stinger sounds like this sucks and not. They don't suck. I think they, I think they're fun. Anyways. All right, time to get to the point. First point up. This from Breitbart. Jury finds Meta and Google Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial now this is different than the verdict that was reached in New Mexico in which the jury found or the whatever the proceeding was. I don't know if it was a jury and arbitrator, whatever found that they did not do enough to prevent minors from being contacted by potential child predators. That's a different entire story. This is coming out of Los Angeles entirely talking about negligence regarding addictive behavior to a social media platform. Here's might get some flack for this. Let me know tptpca.com I think I hate this from a free market, freedom loving, individualistic society person. I think this is not good. And that shouldn't take away from the fact that I despise both of these companies, right? I despise what social media just as a whole has done to society. And I find this really, really, really troubling when it comes to what the ramifications of this are going to look like. A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in the design of their social media platforms after a landmark trial determining that addictive features such as Infinite Scroll Auto Play notifications were a substantial factor in causing mental health problems for the plaintiff who began using YouTube at the age of 6 and Instagram at the age of 9. Basically this person who is now 20 years old said, I just keep scrolling, I'm addicted to the platform. Um, interestingly enough, the, the attorneys for this person came out and said, well, yeah, you now can definitively not blame the parents for letting their kids scroll through social media. To which I say, why? Why can't you blame the parents as a parent who's not letting their kids use social media or really screens at all? I think it's totally justifiable to blame, at least partially the parents for allowing them to do so. Now, on the point of being addictive, I will say, yes, that that is exactly what they're trying to do. Is that a crime, right? Or is it exactly what the businesses are kind of built to do? Being addictive? Well, one, we don't necessarily have a definition of addictive, but let's just say it's building a platform or a product that you want users or consumers to use. If you do that too well, that's a problem. And again, this, this comes from me saying, like, I don't like the idea of scrolling constantly and endlessly through social media. I, I try to not do it myself. I encourage other people to not do it. And if that is the whole product, if the product is building something that users at the end of the interface like, but you do it too well, all of a sudden, now you're in trouble, which it kind of concerns. Every company in the history of the world has tried to do this. You build a product, then the user or customer uses that product and you want them to use the product more and more and more so you can keep selling them that product. It goes for food. It goes for, in both good food and bad food. It goes for cars, right? You manufacture a car, you want that person to like that car so they come back to your manufacturer the next time they are in the market for a car. Every single product that has been developed by a business for a consumer has attempted to do exactly this. And now Meta and Google, or again, are companies that I do not like are effectively being punished for doing that very, very well. Right, okay. We can hold two thoughts in our head at the same time. I don't think people should scroll. I think it's bad for you. Okay, we have that. Also, this seems like a really weird kind of subjective piece that only really applies to social media platforms, which leads to the bigger problem, which unfortunately, I could see this going off in a very bad direction of attorneys now thinking, okay, this is a cash cow, we're going to bleed these companies dry. And again, I'm not in defense of the companies. What I'm saying is more broadly speaking, okay, so where do you draw the line of quote, unquote, addictive behavior? The stuff that I spray on my lawn to kill the weeds, but not the grass. That company wants me to, quote, unquote, be addicted to that product and keep buying it over and over again because it works and I like it. That's the whole point of developing the product. And so if that is now bad, what does that open up for attorneys down the line to say, hey, this has clearly already been decided. This jury in Los Angeles awarded Mike this client $3 million because Google and Facebook are addictive, which again, is the goal of every company ever to develop a product in the history of the world. But because they have a ton of money, I'm just going to go ahead and cash checks by suing them over and over and over and over again and ideally settling out of court. This marks the first time a US Jury jury verdict has held a social media company or companies liable for addiction related harm. I don't know, I don't need to reiterate the point, but that not again, this is not in support of those companies. It is just a deep concern with where this ends up going. And I also think, you know, the bigger, broader point of, well, look, yeah, you can't blame parents. You still totally can. Like, that's don't let your kids use social media. It's plain as that. Simple as that. Oh, it's easier said than done. Yeah. Being a good parent is hard. Maybe not hard is the right word. Challenging may be the correct word. That's the whole point of parenting. It is very easy to sit your kid in front of a screen and have them scroll through. TikTok. Don't do it. Sorry. All right. Anticipating some blowback on that. Tptbusa.com if you have any thoughts on that. Time for something that everybody, especially watching this show, will agree on now. Now that we've probably divided people into factions, which is again, totally fair. This is discussion. This is what the free market, the open discussion society that we have is built on. But now get every, you know, we'll, we'll get back together here. This from NBC, but it's headlines everywhere. Transgenders, transgender women banned from Olympics entirely, which is a new rule issued by the ioc. This actually isn't even the most poignant headline. I think there's a, there are several headlines, obviously from conservative ones. They're going to be a little bit more brash about it. This is actually putting it politely. Did transgenders just as a whole. Nope. Olympics says IOCs is absolutely not, not at all going forward. That's going to start with the 2028 U.S. or Los Angeles Olympics. And they say the Olympics committee correctly says it's designed to protect fairness, safety and integrity in female categories, citing physical advantages, which we will get to a video of some crazy lunatic talking about the lack of physical advantages that don't exist. We'll play that video a little bit later. On in the show, the IOC is restricting female category participants to biological females, which again, is redundant. Biological female means the same thing as female. You don't need to add a second word in there. So there's that. So great. Congratulations. Tptpsa.com if for some reason that you have a problem with that, which I highly doubt. Oh, and you know, get to the next point. This is just so sad. We just, we hate to see things like this happen. New York Attorney General Letitia James, the person that made up a crime to prosecute Donald Trump with because that was her entire purpose in serving as the Attorney General, has been hit with two more criminal referrals alleging possible insurance fraud. Remember, she was, it was some alleged mortgage fraud which looked pretty clear and evident that she committed. But again, I guess we'll see. We'll see how any of that plays out. But two more criminal referrals alleging possible insurance fraud. The house. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte filed two new criminal referrals against New York Attorney General Tish James alleging she may have committed homeowners insurance fraud on applications in Norfolk, Virginia, which a property that she purchased in 2020. And also I believe, told the mortgage company that, oh yeah, this is my primary residence, even though the Attorney General of New York State needs to reside in New York State as per the New York Constitution. But I'm going to get a cheaper rate if I say this is my primary residence. Shoot. Let's see. Well, let me just add here that the attorney or the Attorney General, Latish James has called these baseless. But that'll all play out as it plays out and looking at the clock, making sure we gotta keep on moving. All right, let's see, let's see, let's see. Let's go to. Okay, this is actually kind of interesting. This from the Census Bureau. Slow growth impacts nation's largest cities the hardest. The US Census Bureau released its 2025 population estimates on March 26, and it shows the nation's population reached 341 million as of July 2025, reflecting a slowdown in annual growth of just 0.5% from the previous year's 1%. The growth slowed across most geographic areas, with metropolitan statistical areas increasing by 0.6%. Micropolitan areas. That's the first time I've heard that term by point zero two percent. By point two percent. Okay, so what does that all mean? Population gains remained concentrated in South. Skip down to the bottom. The overall US population grew by 1.7 million people to reach the 341 million. The metropolitan areas added 1.7 people. The let's see, where's the culmination of this? Okay, here let me just summarize this for everybody. The slow growth is impacting the high density places the most. That is where they're going to have the biggest problems. Interestingly enough, you could probably extrapolate out of that. Well, because the people that live in those types of places don't want to have kids the most. So yeah, it's as a whole nationwide a bigger problem, but also specifically in those locales a massive problem. Now obviously the it's going to be a bigger problem when you try to factor in all of these social services of people not having kids to be able to pay into those social services when they become employees or taxpayers. But the bottom line here is yeah, this is impacting the locales more or sorry, the metro, major metropolitan areas more, but it's going to impact the country more. We don't have necessarily the time necessary to get into the discussion of how that's going to look, just our decreasing population. So I'm trying to read and talk at the same time. Decreasing population going to be a much bigger problem. Currently it's a problem for the big metropolitan areas and will continue to be a problem if we continue to let that slide. All right, got to cut it off. They're going to get to official business mostly. We spent a lot of time discussing that meta negligence, Google negligence thing which that again tpt you have any thoughts on that? I would love to hear your take on that. Am I right? Am I completely wrong? Where do you stand? Kind of a litmus test of can we hold two thoughts in our head at one time? TBT. TBSA.com is the email address. 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Martha Stewart
is Martha Stewart from the Martha Stewart Podcast. Ever wonder how to make hosting look effortless? Here's a secret Getting ahead of the mess with new Reynolds Kitchens Countertop prep Paper Just lightly wet the counter beforehand so the paper grips and stays in place. Then lay down the Reynolds Kitchens countertop prep paper so drips and spills stay on the paper, not all over your kitchen counter. You can roll out dough, prep a party spread, or cook alongside family. When you're done, cleanup is as simple as as lifting the paper and revealing that clean counter underneath. Effortless. You can use it for cooking and baking, prep and even crafting, especially when you need extra working space. Because when the mess is already handled, you can focus on what matters the food, the people, and the moment. It may look effortless, but now you know. It's Reynolds Kitchens Countertop prep paper. Take a tip from me. Wet it, set it, prep it, done. Make it easy. Make it with Reynolds Kitchens Countertop prep paper available now in the Reynolds Wrap aisle and Walmart. People at work supported me while I was going through treatment by not treating me like somebody who was going through treatment.
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Joe Bob
Treatment sucks. Cancer sucks.
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Martha Stewart
Being engaged with work really helped.
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Joe Bob
Oh, I just knew I was going
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Martha Stewart
to beat this thing.
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Joe Bob
Research shows there is a significant connection
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Martha Stewart
We're 98% down.
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Joe Bob
98%.
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Joe Bob
Maybe women, but whoever's on those boats is very brave or doesn't watch television. And there's the President United States talking about, hey, drugs coming in from the sea. Water, the Ocean, highways down 98%. I wonder why that is. I I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that they're blowing narco terrorists out of the water because they represent a threat to The American people. Maybe that's it. I, you know, who knows? It's anybody's guess. Also I love how he like jokes about it like, hey, you know, there might be the bravest people in the world. That last 2% cause likelihood that they go boom is, is strong. All right, hey, official business is when officials elected or appointed bureaucrats say things in their official capacity which culminates in the segment on this show that we call official business. All right. Senator John Fetterman who I just, I can't, I can't get enough of this guy in terms of just the stuff that he's saying that is totally on point. Emails TPT tbsa.com if you have any thoughts on Fetterman that you haven't already expressed in our email inbox. But he admits the reason why the libs are continuing to keep the government shut down. And I think he is accurately assessing where the actual people in the United States are in terms of voters, in terms of left, right, center, right, center, left. He just, he says the thing that is true out loud on is this on Hannity. I think it is klet6 do the right thing, put the country ahead of the party. Now there is a huge rally, you know, another no Kings kinds of protest. So now it's also probably motivating some people in my party that not they might be afraid to reopen now because they are demanding these kinds of extremes in what they think is the solution that there was ever going to be a solution. So he basically saying, look like elected libs are very, very, very afraid of the far left extremists, electorally speaking. Now I think, I don't know if I want to tell them this. I think that's a mistake. Right. Let's just say hypothetically that 3 million people across the country show up and protest at the no kings protest, which again, thank you for joining us. We've been doing it for 250 years. If 3 million people show up, that would be the biggest protest in the country's history and it would still be about a percent 1% of the entire population showed up at the biggest protest, the 3 million people. It in other words, what he's saying is, hey, these guys are all afraid of the far left. But in reality that doesn't really make up a huge contingent of people. We're talking like 1% of our party. So maybe we shouldn't be beholden to these crazy far left wokies and maybe we should, I don't know, act like normal people and understand that Normal people actually vote. And it's not just the far left lunatics. Not everything revolves around the loudest people on the Internet. And again, Johnson, John Fetterman coming in. Coming in is the most surprising and shocking lib that I've ever seen. Uh, all right, this is a official business. This is a state senator in Pennsylvania talking about. Well, what did we talk about earlier? The. Well, the ioc, the Olympic Commission said we're not, we're not going to allow dudes to beat up on women because there's clearly physical advantages. We all know this. Apparently nobody told Pennsylvania State Senator Lindsey Williams, or at least she's never experienced this in her life. I kid you not. This is a real person saying what they actually think. Cut. 7. Female bodies are just as strong, as fast and capable as male bodies. For what reason other than political gain are we spending time and taxpayer dollars on a completely made up issue? There are 8 million high school athletes across the country and maybe 160 of them are trans. This is the fifth time we are voting on this bill that targets less than.002% of high school athletes. I was a three sport athlete in high school. Participating in sports gave me the confidence, time management skills and ability to work collaboratively that led me to run for office. Absolutely nothing, nothing about having a trans teammate or competitor would have taken those things away from me. All right, Senator Lindsay, welcome to earth. Clearly this is your first day. I'd like to let you know something. None of what you said is true. And also she's conflating two arguments against each other. One, she's saying, well, there's clearly no advantage. And two, well, it doesn't really happen. Right. There's this very, very small percentage of people. So why is this even a thing? Okay, well, those arguments clash against each other. Either it's not, it doesn't make a difference at all, or it's not happening. Both things can't happen at the same time. But again, what do you expect in terms of argumentative intelligence from a lady? I think. I don't know, maybe I'm misgendering. They them who doesn't believe that women and men are physically different? It's just. I mean, obviously this is evidenced by all the women in the NBA of which there are none. Or the women in the NFL also none. Or the women in Major League Baseball, also none. But again, again, there's no difference at all whatsoever. Speaking of differences, probably wrap up on this one, the difference in electricity costs. Let me preface this with saying I was literally several Years ago, one click away from buying a Tesla, big fan of Elon, wanted a Tesla, thought, hey, you know, gas prices are crazy. Which they are. But obviously if you have a, like, it's cheaper to drive a Tesla, even though it might be a little bit pricier. That was at least the financial rationale I was making in my head. The problem is that on the Tesla website, they show you what it'll probably cost per month based on the national average. I, if you don't know, live in California where the average price of electricity is literally triple the national average. To which then I plugged that formula in and saw, holy cow, I'm honestly not saving any money in gas because California electricity is just as expensive. So unfortunately, well, not unfortunately, I didn't end up buying the Tesla, ended up going. We went the total opposite way. Now we have like two massive gas guzzling cars. But that's beside the point. Bottom line is there are differences with electricity and where the electricity costs are varies. Varies place to place. AOC unfortunately, was not aware of this and therefore is blaming President Trump for high electricity costs in New York City. Cut eight much as, you know, as much as we'd have. As I personally have differences with this administration, I would want them to be successful in reducing the energy bills of American people, but people aren't feeling it. It's not working. In New York City alone, there are some families that are getting electric bills that are $600 a month as high as some people were paying in rent not too long ago before our housing costs skyrocketed as well. So. So, you know, I, I don't think those efforts are working on behalf of the administration. That's interesting. That's about as much in California. It's again, this might seem crazy to you, but that's about what we pay in electricity costs per month in California. I, granted, we run the air conditioning because I refuse to be hot, but I. That's just, that's what it is. And aoc, for some reason is blaming the Trump administration, even though several of you at home in states that don't have outrageous red tape are going, holy cow, you do. Also side note, who in New York city was paying $600 a month in rent? I call BS on that. All right, hey, want to get to the Thursday tribunal? So we got to cut it off there. Tptpsa.com do you have any thoughts on that? What is your electricity costs wherever you live and is that number $600 cross crazy? Likely, Probably. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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- [51:13]
Martha Stewart
how to make hosting look effortless? Here's a secret Getting ahead of the mess with new Reynolds kitchens and countertop prep paper Just lightly wet the counter beforehand so the paper grips and stays in place. Then lay down the Reynolds Kitchen's countertop prep paper so drips and spills stay on the paper, not all over your kitchen counter. You can roll out dough, prep a party spread, or cook alongside family. When you're done, cleanup is as simple as lifting the paper and revealing that clean counter underneath. Effortless. You can use it for cooking and baking prep and even crafting, especially when you need extra working space. Because when the mess is already handled, you can focus on what matters the food, the people and the moment. It may look effortless, but now you know it's Reynolds Kitchen's countertop prep paper. Take a tip from me. Wet it, set it, prep it, done. Make it easy. Make it with Reynolds Kitchens countertop prep paper available now in the Reynolds Wrap aisle in Walmart.
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Joe Bob
I think when you're diagnosed with cancer, you crave a semblance of normalcy and control and so work allowed me to be me. So I think it's really important that companies stay flexible. Cancer in a diagnosis can be all consuming, but it doesn't have to be. Research shows there is a significant connection
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Joe Bob
Until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its knees, let us not lose sick night of the enemy. Where every US Military base that crumbles over, every US Soldier who returns home in a casket, we ch. Wow, do you hate America? Yeah. Arrest every single one of them. And that's not at all like a. Hey, violation of free speech. Nope, that's a threat. That's just a full blown violent threat and an attack on, on the country that you live in. Again, totally free speech is that you're allowed to say that you dislike the country. You're not allowed to say that we want to topple through violence the United States of America because that's a threat and therefore you should be arrested and prosecuted. I don't know. I hope somebody finds out who that is and does exactly that. All right, hey, before we run out of time here, because honestly it was, it was the first point and get to the point. Talked a lot about it, but I also think it's a necessary conversation. Um, so anyways, gonna get right to this. It is Thursday time for the Thursday Tribunal or Justice Thursday
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Joe Bob
All right. On the docket for this Justice Thursday, if you're not familiar with this, I act as the prosecutor, the jury, also the judge and executioner if needed when I pass judgment which is binding on the defendant here on Justice Thursday. Let's play this clip. It's been making the rounds. This is, I think this is a dude from Waters show who's out on the beach during spring break asking college students political questions. And I don't know, there might be some indictments coming after this one. Cut 11 issue. Facing America is the most important to you. What bikini I'm going to wear next? Obesity is terrible. Ice. Not personally. I'm legal. Getting a tan on the beach, that's the most important thing in my life right now. I'm thinking about Starbucks, to be honest. I'm thinking about Starbucks. What I'm going to get for today. The elevators don't work. You got 43 floors. The elevators don't work. I could take this little glass of
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Martha Stewart
That's the end of the elevator.
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Joe Bob
What have you heard that Donald Trump has been doing recently? Gulf of America. That's the last thing I kept up with. We're going to war with Iraq. That's been crazy. What do you do in Colombia. You got Maduro out. You must be happy. I'm very happy. The ayatollah is dead. I'm so. What? Who. What. What is that? Who the is Ayatollah? I've never heard that word in my life. Louis. What's ayatollah? I haven't heard. I found out about Chuck Norris yesterday.
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Joe Bob
He was the supreme leader of Iran. He's dead. We killed him. You. You did. You killed him. All right, well, for the sake of time, yeah, we're gonna issue some indictments being incredibly stupid and uninformed. But the thing is, I'm gonna offer some grace here. I, I. College students sometimes aren't exactly attuned to the news of the day, even though they are eligible to vote. So because I am a lenient and benevolent judge. Well, sorry, first I gotta. Yeah. They're indicted. Jury myself found them guilty. Guilty of being dumb college students. What. What is the punishment? Not the punishment. What is the consequence of being dumb and ill informed? Actually, I got a good one. I sentenced each and every one of those college students who don't know anything about anything to join a Turning Point USA chapter on campuses. I think that'd be great. That actually probably learn a lot. And honestly, again, I'm showing grace here because that not is not at all a punishment. That's an opportunity to grow and learn and be a contributing member of society. And if you don't do it, then we'll. Yeah, we'll have to deport you. So that is Justice Thursday. Appreciate you being on my side of things as you always are. Which, thank you so much for doing that. TBT DBSA.com if you disagree with my ruling. Mailbag. Coming up after the break, lots of lots of talking. Ms. Rachel, did we do a good job? Is that. Was that worth doing yesterday? You'll find out. Tptpsa.com we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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- [58:21]
Martha Stewart
is Martha Stewart from the Martha Stewart Podcast. Ever wonder how to make hosting look effortless? Here's a secret. When prepping for cooking and baking, get ahead of the mess with new Reynolds Kitchens countertop prep paper. Just lightly wet the counter so the paper grips. Lay it down and drips and spills stay on the paper, not on your counter. Cleanup is as simple as lifting it away to reveal clean counters. Effortless. It is thanks to Reynolds Kitchen's countertop prep paper. Wet it, set it, prep it, done. Available in the Reynolds wrap aisle at Walmart.
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Joe Bob
I think when you're diagnosed with cancer, you crave a semblance of normalcy and control and so work allowed me to be me. So I think it's really important that companies stay flexible. Cancer in a diagnosis can be all consuming, but it doesn't have to be. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work
- [59:24]
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- [59:25]
Joe Bob
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Joe Bob
pledge at working with cancer pledge.com. Turn a hoe into a housewife. Okay, but women are supposed to turn felons, cheaters and liars into kings. Nope, nope. No, that's not at all. What. Is that what you think we're saying? That's not what we're saying. Do you think that. No. Problem solved. Next question. All right. Hey mailbag tptp USA.com it is time to get some of your emails. Beth on the topic of Ms. Rachel wrote said actually you know, let's start with this. Start with Edward. Frequent frequent correspondent viewer of the show. Really appreciate you sticking around said don't care about Ms. Rachel segment more significant things going on Islamic issues, NYC illegal Sharia law, voter ID not passed Iran. You're right, there are totally very important issues going on around the world. My take Edward, and again I appreciate you watching is that you probably already heard that if you watch Rav the whole day You've heard about all of those things. I think there is significance in our children being subjected to communist propaganda via a child YouTube content creator. Which again, don't respect it. Totally get it. Maybe not your cup of tea. I do think it matters. And here's. Here's some reasons why Beth wrote us regarding Ms. Rachel. We've now become a no Ms. Rachel home for my grandson. No more commies, no more criminal protectors wanted here. I appreciate that. And if this show was the catalyst of you banishing Ms. Rachel from your home, awesome. That's. That's fantastic. Donna also says this as well. Thank you. The information about warning Ms. Rachel. My grandkids love her. My daughter thinks she's wonderful. My kids I know are conservative. Oh sorry. She says my kids know I'm conservative and they're liberal. We don't discuss politics to keep peace in the family. Will now make sure that Ms. Rachel is no longer at our house. She does ask Donna asked for a Christian conservative alternative. I don't know of one quite yet. I was kind of disappointed that the Daily Wire, who did have some really, really good programming for kids, I think discontinued that. I hope that they reboot that going forward. I'm not entirely sure that they are, but as of right now, sorry, I don't have any recommendations. But as we find those out, email us if you have any recommendations. Tptvsa.com Veggie tales probably as maybe there's your recommendation. But if you do have any recommendations on Christian alternatives to Ms. Rachel, let us know. TPT@tpusa.com Quinton on the topic of being the center. Sorry Quentin, we'll try to get your email but I did just see this right now. Amy, Amy's friends pronunciation of the NYC mayor because. Because that is an ongoing theme. If you don't know, I have no idea how to pronounce this goofus's name. I also don't know if goofus is a word. I think I was trying to blend goof and doofus. Maybe. I don't know. TBT tbsa.com does goofus work as a word? Anyways, Amy on pronouncing Monday call Ma' am Danny man Dingo said my friend Walter also love the show Mandingo. That's a little bit of a stretch. I'm not gonna lie. Walter. I appreciate the input but that's. That's a. I don't know if that one works man Dingo alluding to the Australian dog like creature. Alright, so Quinton promise we'll get to this one. Had a question on the term of the use of center. Assuming the right of center comment yesterday. I know right and left are, but how do you define center? There are a lot of issues to consider. You're absolutely right. Center is a very not vague term. But the way I define center is normal, right? So. So my center is probably considered very right wing in the modern day. But remember, like Bill Clinton said, hey, no more illegals at the border. I got to stop there. We're really hard. Break on time. We'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place, tbsa.com God bless America.
- [63:36]
Martha Stewart
This is Martha Stewart from the Martha Stewart Podcast. Ever wonder how to make hosting look effortless? Here's a secret Getting Ahead of the Mess with New Reynolds Kitchens Countertop Prep Paper Just lightly wet the counter beforehand so the paper grips and stays in place. Then lay down the Reynolds Kitchens countertop prep paper so drips and spills stay on the paper, not all over your kitchen counter. You can roll out dough, prep a party spread, or cook alongside family. When you're done, cleanup is as simple as lifting the paper and revealing that clean counter underneath. Effortless. You can use it for cooking and baking, prep and even crafting, especially when you need extra working space. Because when the mess is already handled, you can focus on what matters the food, the people, and the moment. It may look effortless, but now you know it's Reynolds Kitchens Countertop prep Paper. Take a tip from me. Wet it, set it, prep it. Done. Make it easy. Make it with Reynolds Kitchens Countertop prep paper available now in the Reynolds Wrap aisle in Walmart.
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Joe Bob
When I was diagnosed, all I wanted to do was get back to work. I wanted to get back to that trajectory that I was on. Prior to the cancer.
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Martha Stewart
I always felt like I had value.
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Joe Bob
I had a place on the team to just be treated with dignity. It means everything. Research shows there is a significant connection
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- [65:12]
Joe Bob
We can make work a better place for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com.