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This is an iHeart podcast guaranteed human the Global Gaming League is presented by Atlas Earth, the fun cashback app. Hey, it's Howie Mandel and I am inviting you to witness history as me and my Howie Do It Gaming team take on Gilly the King and Wallow $267 million gaming in an epic Global Gaming League video game showdown plus a halftime performance by multi platinum artist Travy McCoy. Watch all the action and see who wins and advances to the championship match right now@globalgamingleague.com that's globalgam league.com in partnership with Level Up Expo. Robot umpires in Major League Baseball I think will help lead to the fall of all mankind. Sounds drastic, but is it really? Also, a no Kings protest is scheduled for tomorrow. On Saturday, people from around the country will pretend that we have a king but then fight against it, effectively joining the rest of us who have been living for 250 years in the biggest, longest, best known no Kings protest. And the disgraced former Harvard president who resigned due to plagiarism is teaching again at the same school. All that more coming up on this episode. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now. That may have felt a little exaggerated or extreme on the analysis of the robot umpires, but trust me, this is actually quite interesting and I do think it is something that is worth paying attention to. Especially you know, it's a Friday. A little bit of more of a cultural feel as opposed to the hard hitting news of the day to send you on to the weekend. Actually maybe something to think about, especially when we look at the technology of the day effectively taking over a lot of human jobs. We'll get to that in just a second. Got to remind you TBT tpc.com is the email address like send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. They're more than welcome@tptp USA.com today in our mailbag segment, I think we're going to finally pay off the tease from earlier this week of telling the stories about my liberal neighbors. Maybe that'll be an ongoing theme because we've got we live in California, therefore we have lots of lib neighbors, so there's endless amounts of hilarious interactions involving them. We'll discuss some of those in our mailbag segment of the day, but that doesn't mean you can't send emails. Tptposa.com and if those emails break through the noise by being nasty, just vile, downright hateful, we actually have a better chance of reading on the show because that's what we do here, according to several LIB outlets. Also, I will be in Anaheim, California April 16th. I'll be at the University of Idaho April 28th. If you'd like any more information on those two events, very different events. One is a comedy show, the other is a Turning Point USA event. Email us dbtpsa.com will get you some of the information that would be necessary in order to attend those events. Tpt. Com the Major League Baseball robot umpire debate has been going on for quite some time now. Ever since cameras were able to, I don't know, get so ungrain grainy, whatever the become sharper. People have been complaining, hey, this looked like a missed call from the balls and strikes. Hey, this person looked like they actually touched the bag before the ball got to it. This whole debate has been going on for, geez, the better part of two decades now, maybe even prior to that. But finally, Major League Baseball has made the adjustment to, hey, we're not going to go full blown robot umpires. Instead we're just going to do challenges like they do in other sports. As I understand it, teams get two challenges per game, and if they are right, they get to continue challenging. If they're wrong, those challenges go away. Kind of like it is in football, kind of like the NBA has now done it. Now, you may be wondering, what does this have to do with anything really? It's a sport, it's just a game. And that game is, you know, changing, which is what happens. Yes, to an extent. There are some rule changes that exist in sports that are just rule changes. They're not really indicative of anything. But I honestly believe that the replacement of human umpires actually has a bigger, more philosophical impact than just, I don't know, a minor baseball change. Now, we haven't done this a lot on this show, but I actually would like to read a lot of an article from the Wall Street Journal. Their sports reporter, a guy named Jason Gay, had a really, really brilliant piece which I think kind of better summed up my opinions than geez myself. So I'm going to read a lot of that and we'll interject where it is appropriate. But the point being made here is that will balls and strikes be called quote unquote better Technically, yes. But is that good for the game, but also humanity? My conclusion is kind of no. I'm going to explain that again through this article. But it starts off as this. He starts this saying, look, everybody feels like they should say, yeah, we're or for this. Yeah, we want the game to be better and more official and more technical and that the, the approach to calling balls and strikes needs to be more official. But that's not the way that I feel. That's not the way Jason Gay feels. In the Wall Street Journal, he says it's not fun to be called a technophobe at the revolution. That's how you get branded as a dinosaur. Fuddy duddy, an inhibitor to march towards efficiency and greatness. For the record, he writes, I like a lot of the changes baseball's made. I like the pitch clock. I like the pitch clock. I'm not aghast at the automatic innings, extra innings, runner, which, yeah, is different, but you know, helps speed up the game just a little bit more. In other words, there are some things that can change in the realm of sports, but other things you may accidentally relinquish the soul of the game. He goes on to say, this is his first issue. Baseball is going to inevitably phase out the plate umpire, one of the most soulful theatrical characters in all of American sports. I know that sounds super baseball pretentious, like he's wearing a straw hat and a bow tie, he says, but I don't care. He quotes another guy in his article. As Brian Walsh wrote in Vox, once you've conceded that machines are the final authority on whether a call is right, you've quietly eliminated the case for having a human there at all. Which is exactly correct. Jason Gay goes on to say, pretty soon everybody is going to be asking the obvious question. If we're relying on the tech to make the important call, why aren't we relying on them to make every call? If the plate umpire goes with it goes one of baseball's most entertaining, maddening presences. A puff chested judge and jury, a baked in villain, an essential part of the game's pacing and flow. How much of baseball culture revolves around the homepage umpire? A lot, he argues. Nobody screams at a digital umpire to go to the optometrist. Norman Rockwell didn't paint digital strike zones. In other words, you lose a fundamental part of the game of baseball. Maybe you're not a baseball fan. And if that's true, well, stay tuned. We'll get to more of the human element in just a second. But if you are a baseball fan, what are some of the iconic moments that exist in your mind? Yes, certain home runs happening in the World Series. Yes, Hank Aaron running around the bases and those two guys jumping out of the stands to, to pat him on the back. But to me, and I Don't know. Maybe if this says something about my personality. One of the more fond, memorable memories that I have of baseball is people getting ejected. I used to mimic the umpire in my house. The wind up, the throw out. Get out of here, you're gone. I've seen, not necessarily entirely in my time, but Lupinella, clips of getting thrown outta games, Bob Cox, Earl Weaver, just getting tossed. That doesn't happen with a robot umpire where you can't argue over balls or strikes because the system and the computer have technically made it all accurate. What I'm saying is, will the calls, I guess, quote unquote, get better? Yeah. But will eliminate one of the most fundamental human elements of the game also? Yes. And is that worth it? Baseball has been described as tradition disguised as a game, which is 100% true. And in a society where we are unfortunately losing tradition after tradition after tradition, we are seeing the ramifications of that. If the tradition of baseball, which again is disguised as a game, continues to lose its own human elements, unfortunately that'll just be another component of society being lost by way of losing the tradition that we once held so dear. Jason Gate continues that his second point is the trickle down effect. It's going to be grim. One of the most pernicious side effects of video review challenge culture is going to be its effect on school and youth sports. At the highest level, we've reinforced the idea that every call is important, or worse, that the standard should be 100% accuracy, when not even the robots themselves are going to be 100% accuracy. He says this, the pursuit of perfection flies in the face of critical lessons that sports should teach, which is in competition, stuff happens. Sometimes people get it right, sometimes people get it wrong. But eventually it all evens out. Which if I were to interject, would say that's also just a life lesson. Sports in so many ways teach the youth, teach kids what life is like. Sometimes things go your way, sometimes they don't. Sometimes you put every single drop of effort that you have into this pursuit. And sometimes it doesn't work out. In sports, you're allowed to regulate your emotions based on things that aren't exactly and entirely in your control, which is exactly how life is. Through sports, I and hopefully you may be, you people that you know have learned that sometimes things just don't go your way. And learning how to deal with that is a much more important lesson to than any lesson that you could learn through a textbook. Sports does that in a very, very real way. And if everything is based on the 100% technicalities, where there's no arguing on whether it's right or wrong or technically a strike, technically a ball. It eliminates the ability for the kid, for the player, whatever age they are, to have an opportunity to be able to regulate the emotions that exist not only just in sports, but throughout life in general. Gay goes on to continue saying, learning to accept the rhythm of this is a critical part of being an adult. Which is exactly correct. Perfectionism also reeks in gambling culture. Sports have allowed their most inconsequential moments to be commodified into betting opportunities with already perilous results. If money is on the line, nobody is interested in the rhythms of something. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong. I can go on a whole screed about gambling here, but the fact that you can gamble on balls and strikes in a particular inning of a particular game has effectively, in a lot of ways necessitated the complete 100% total accuracy from robot umpires. And if that's the case, then you've eliminated, like I said, the human component, which, you know, one can draw the conclusion. Gambling is going to be a net negative. Is it a freedom? Yeah, technically. But should it be done at the cost of relinquishing the human component of one of America's most valued traditions? I don't know. Probably not. And this, again, is just one instance. Gay goes on to continue the last point that he makes, and I think this is the most important one here. It says this. Sports underestimates their human elephant element. In many cases, the ticks and oddities that make them the unique. The fact that the strike zone was not static, that it changed umpire to umpire, it changed batter to batter, changed, you know, sometimes pitcher to pitcher, depending on how much the ball move. There's a lot of different variables. The fact that those things were in existence was one of those ticks of life, one of those things that weren't exactly static. Now, baseball has coldly defined the strike zone is 17 inches of the plate width, 8 inches, 8 1/2 inches of plate depth. Depth passing through 53.5 and 27% of the heights, which, again, is a very technical term. That is not, you know, it doesn't. It's not entirely necessary to understand specifically what that means. It's a percentage of the height of the batter, the plate depth, all that sort of stuff. But more broadly speaking, he's talking about the very, very specific technical grounds of which balls and strikes can be called. He goes on to say, well, what's the big deal. Almost every sport has electronic reviews. Why worry about the occasional clarification from the robot umpire? Tennis has moved away from line judges in the planet did not stop spinning, which very, very short. Side note. Name a tennis player in your head. If you're not a tennis fan, name a tennis player. And why is that tennis player? John McEnroe. And why do you only know John McEnroe from his famous outbursts against the line judges? But the small side point, he says, I'm probably not going to notice abs, which is the new robotic balls and strike calling system. He's probably not going to notice it after a few months. Still, in our endless chase of machined refinement, I think we're missing the value of human irregularity. This is something that gets lost in the conversation about AI and creativity. There's little doubt that AI can capably produce content, but it also introduces a sameness, effectively a monotony, a homogeneity in which nothing is too good and nothing is too bad. In outsourcing the human, it strips out the soul that connects with the audience. I'm not saying there's virtue in an umpire being wrong. He's just saying there's perfection that might be overrated. Here's what I can basically boil this down to. Imagine your grandmother or your mom's signature meal, the meal that you looked forward to every Easter, Thanksgiving, or even just every Sunday that you were just excited about. Grandma's home cooking, Mom's home cooking. Technically speaking, every single ingredient, every single process of that meal can be mimicked by a machine. And ask yourself, would it be as good? And why? Is the answer no? Because there's a human element that is missing. There's something about humans doing things that robots don't and can never replicate, which is the reason why grandma's home cooking, made exactly to the table, is done better by you having been taught by your grandma than some robot that can replicate it exactly to a T. For, I guess, baseball fans, maybe the best depiction can be this. Can you imagine the World Series ending on a robot challenged strike? How, how depressing would that be on so many different levels? It is incredibly human to make mistakes, I think, is what we're ultimately getting at here. And maybe that's the reason philosophically why some of our most important texts are not line by line. Yes, no, absolutes do and do not. Maybe the idea of human discernment, the need for human prudence, is why the. The Bible even is situational literature and not just a list of things that you can and can't do. Maybe the reason that stagnant yes or no answers aren't ubiquitous throughout human culture and society, even though we've come up with our own systems that kind of emulate that. Maybe it's because the human element, to discern, to show prudence, to show that even though it's not technically perfect, it still is human, is unbelievably important in the idea of life, in the idea of humanity. I recognize this might be weird to have extrapolated from a sports change, but I genuinely do think this is emblematic of a, an odd direction that we are going in society. I think in many ways sports can be a gateway to the human condition. And my fear, I think, in all of this, is that removing the human, yes, may further precision, it may further technical accuracy, but at what cost? And my hope is that the cost ultimately isn't, in baseball's instance, the beauty of the game, the understanding of how to regulate those emotions, and the consequences of what happens when the umpire winds up his fist and throws out a coach for not being able to regulate those very human emotions. What happens to the sport of baseball, but more broadly, humanity as a whole when we eliminate the possibility for the human element? My guess is nothing good recognizes a little bit heavy, maybe a little bit deep for a Friday, and maybe a little bit odd that we're using baseball in order to analyze the condition that humans are now in, in trying to defend the human condition. But again, it's Friday. I know there's a lot of news going on. I know there's a lot of stuff that will probably happen over the weekend that is worth talking about, but we'll discuss that on Monday. I do think these things are incredibly important, but I would love to hear your thoughts and your feedback. TPTP USA.com is the email address. What do you think about ABS, the baseball computer systems? How do you think that plays into the overall human element role, not only in baseball, but in life in general? As we march further and further towards this hyper accurate, precision technical society, what does that look like going forward? If we remove the human element from one of the most human things that exists in this case baseball, but in so many other different areas? TPT calm. I would love to hear your thoughts on that. Maybe we'll discuss those on Monday. There are several points from around the news media that it's pertinent and important to get to and we will do that next segment. When we get to the point, we'll be right Back after the break. Don't go away. I am so sick of these people coming over here not speaking English. Like, not a lick of English. My lift driver just left me at my second stop. I had two stops. He left me at my second stop, came outside, he was gone. If you don't speak English, I feel like you should not be qualified to do anything pertaining to customer service, like lift Uber. I'm tired of it. How are y' all maneuvering without speaking English? They just look at you or they make noises like they understand you. It's so irritating. It's so annoying. LOL based. True. Also. Yeah, can confirm. Very, very annoying. Very irritating also, too. It is the law, right? Like, if you participate in transportation, you're legally required to know English. Like, that's. That's federal law. I mean, it kind of started top down from, like, airline pilots who are required to know English because every airport in the world speaks English in order to discuss, you know, landing procedures. Yeah, every. Everybody in transportation is required to know English. So maybe we should start enforcing that. Just a thought. All right. Hey, Lots of points to get to, including the no Kings protest, which I think is our first point that we're getting to today. It is time to get to the point, Glenn. We didn't play the Zinger. Producer Glenn just come. And this is one of the first and most egregious missteps of producer Glenn on this show pulling up the headline before we play the Zinger, which I know several of you have emailed saying that they're called Stingers, so we can try that again. Hey, live tv. What are you gonna do? It is time to get to the point. Get to the point. Get to the point. Now, the question is, did I do a very elongated pause to see if I can get Glenn to jump off sides and play the Zinger before I was ready for it. Yes, I did. Unfortunately, in my attempt to provide a reason for myself to yell at the staff after the show, he didn't take the bait. So here we are, going back to schedule, planned as usual. Uh, it is. Yeah. We're getting to the point, and this is a point that I think is. I'll. I won't bury the lead here. I think this is a full blown lie. I don't think this is true at all, which is why I think it's important to talk about. Ap, the Associated Press reporting suburbanites embrace anti Trump resistance before no Kings protests, saying, this is our fight. Alex. I'll take things that aren't happening for a hundred uh, this from the ap. Suburban residents in traditionally Republican leaning neighborhoods and areas such as Maplewood and Summit in New Jersey are increasingly organizing and participating in anti Trump advocacy advocate activism. No, they are not. I can. They're just not viewing his second term as a threat to democracy, describing it as an authoritarian nightmare. No, they are not. They talk about. Organizers with the indivisible movement are preparing for nationwide no Kings protest this Saturday. Tomorrow, with over 3,000 demonstrations planned. Good luck. If I were able to purchase some of your time, I would. They say this again. The AP reporting 2/3 of them in suburban areas expecting a turnout exceeding 9 million people, potentially the largest single day protests in US history. I doubt it. I just, I think yesterday we were talking about the. It's 3 million people. That's only 1% of the population. Even if it was 9 million people, which it will not be, it's 3% of the population. Minuscule small fraction. And I guarantee you it is not. Former Trump voters. Like there are zero percent. Yeah, maybe they're a little bit frustrated. Maybe affordability stuff is a problem. Maybe they're not for what's going on in Iran. Those are, those are all. They are not protesting. No Kings. I can guarantee you that. Let's see. Well, here's why I think they're doing this. Here's why I think. So Rachel Maddow went on. Was it. It was either Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert a couple months ago and said the quiet part out loud. Hey, if we can get a certain percentage of people to believe that this is this nationwide protest, then they actually will start to buy into our cause. That is what I think is going on here in this AP article. A hundred percent can tell you with full confidence that there is not a massive groundswell of conservatives who voted for Trump like three times now saying, you know what, I'm going to go protest. I wholeheartedly think that, that these types of articles are to try and gaslight lefties, center lefties, lefties that are on the fence into thinking, oh yeah, conservatives are against him too. No, they are not. £sand AP. Yeah, there might be some things that conservatives may be a little frustrated with, but to the, to the extent of going and protesting in the street for the stupidest named protest, no Kings, which, thank you, America has been doing for the last 250 years to say that people who voted for Donald Trump are now taking to the streets. Get out of town with that. Associated Press. Um, all right, cool. So, jeez, at the cost of time, you know, we talked A lot about baseball earlier. So let's try and jam through these things as quick as we can. Next point. This from Fortune magazine, I believe. Social Security insolvency. How six figure how a six figure cap to flatten benefits for the ultra wealthy could buy the seven program seven critical years. Let me just summarize this very briefly. The Social Security retirement fund, the trust fund is that is Social Security is completely insolvent. The CBO I think predicted two years ago that it's got 10 years left before it's just not workable or functionable. But the the new fix is now, hey, because this is insolvent, maybe we should start taking more from people who make more who by the way also probably aren't going to use it. No, no mention of okay, so what is the return been on been like in the Social Security fund? Has it been good or has it been one of the worst performing funds in the history of humanity? And I know there's probably some of you who are retired and probably screaming at your TV saying you can't cut Social Security. We paid into it. Fair. Fair point. Also, maybe it should have been governed a little bit better by everybody who was paying into it because it has not returned nearly the investment that was put into it by all the folks who were forced to pay into it and saying that well, we're just going to take more from the rich people who again aren't going to use it. Even if that were the case. Let's say scenario where all this stuff goes through. Okay, cool. So bought the program seven years. What happened? What about after that? We need to the whole system needs to get revamped in some way that makes sense where it doesn't just eliminate all of the folks who are in retirement now, doesn't eliminate that but also finds a workaround that can make it so it doesn't collapse in eight years. Why this is such a big issue. I don't know why this is such a big problem. How it's become such a big problem. How it's become such a big problem. I totally understand the government is not good at really doing anything. But I believe we've got a clip about this later coming up. Another live with a bad idea. But again I repeat myself. Uh, next clip. Next point to get to an appeals court lets the Trump administration this from CBS News Appeals court lets Trump administration hold many immigration detainees without bond because this is like couched in the way that CBS well CBS interesting one. Barry Wise's CBS better than other mainstream not perfect but Better, even though the ratings haven't quite reflect that as of yet. But a three panel, three judge panel. The U.S. court of Appeals in the 8th Circuit ruled 2 to 1 on March 25th in favor of President Trump administration allowing immigration detainees who entered the United States without inspection or admission to be held in mandatory detention without bond hearings. Because if you don't, they'll just disappear into the country. That just seems like duh. Bondi is claiming it's a massive court victory, which it is. But it's also just one of those obvious things like, hey, if you snuck into the country illegally and you were arrested and detained, no, you shouldn't be able to put up a bond that you don't have or something. I don't know. Those bonds will probably be what, $10? All right, cool. Here's a thousand pesos or whatever the currency crossover would be. No. Yeah, of course not, because then there's. They'll be gone forever. You'll never see those people again. Okay, let's see. From the New York Times. I honestly just thought this one was funny. Jury. So let me just set this up really quick. Chance the Rapper, who you probably have never heard of. I happen to be a big fan. Former manager was sued him and then he sued the former manager back first guy sued him for $3.8 million in unpaid commissions royalties under their informal handshake agreement which dated back all the way to 2012. Chance the Rapper then sued for $1 million alleging breach of fiduciary. Fiduciary duty, which, you know, the manager handles a lot of the finances. This whole thing gets just crazy. Going on years long, battle in court, five year battle in court. Ultimately comes out jury awards Chance the Rapper, the person who sued Retro or in response to the first lawsuit with $35 in damages. In other words, a bunch of attorneys made a ton of money of these two former friends suing each other for only the jury to decide. Yes, we agree that this guy's in the wrong. This guy's in the wrong here. This guy's in the right here. 35 bucks is the penalty. And that made it into the New York Times. Okay, I just thought that was funny. Of all the things. Millions of dollars in lawsuits and countersuits, 35 bucks. Okay, speaking of ridiculousness, to be our last headline for the week here. Washington Free Beacon. You remember Claudine Gay? Lot of people with the last name Gay in the show today. Probably nothing, nothing, nothing to extrapolate out of that. Just coincidence. Ousted Harvard president Claudine Gay. To teach Harvard course on politics in higher education. Two years after resigning in disgrace. If you remember, Claudine Gay was wrapped up in the plagiarism scandal among many of the other scandals. Remember she also testified on behalf of like the Hamas protesters who said some ridiculous things in those hearings. I think it was Elise Stefanik who was grilling her at the time, said some awful stuff there but then also was found to have plagiarized a bunch of stuff and therefore had to resign. Well, the resignation didn't last long. She is now going to be teaching politics in higher education starting fall of 2026. A course titled what is a University purpose and politics in higher education. The small application only tutorial which is capped at 16 students will use Harvard specific cases to end histories to examine the data. But yeah, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what the course is. The bottom line is ton of controversy around Claudine Gay which led to her resignation of which included a bunch of Jewish racism, racism against Jews and plagiarism and she forced to resign. Now she's working back at the institution. So that just goes to show you the steadfast commitment to integrity that Harvard has. All right, those are all the points that we got to today. My fit My favorite Official Business is my favorite segment of the show but on Friday specifically the clip cleanout of Official Business or I guess other clips have made it into Clip Clean out is my favorite segment of the week. Time for the clip Clean out coming up right after the break. TPT tbsa.com is the email address. We'll be right back. Don't go away. New alarming images across south la. This looks like it was a mattress or something just blocks from where a woman was found living in a store. Storm drain. I'm from Guatemala. Yeah. How does this area of LA compare to Guatemala? Oh my God. My area in Guatemala is better of this. There were people living in the storm drain next to your house. Okay. You don't seem that surprised. It's south la. It's kind of like normal. I guess that that's the worst thing anybody has ever said hey, there's a person living in your storm drain and that's kind of normal. Unfortunately I, I kind of have the same sentiment when it comes to the normalcy of the ridiculous nature that we've put ourselves in in California. I will the one big contention I have is do they pay property tax? The guy who built a three story tree house on the sidewalk in Los Angeles and was like let allowed to Live there. Is that guy paying property tax? The people that are camping out on the beach, are they paying property tax for their beachfront property? I can't afford to live by the beach. I would love to live by the beach. But among the many factors involved with me lot not living by the beach is, is property tax. And are those homeless bums and junkies who are taking up public space because they decided to and we've allowed them, are they paying property tax? Of course the answer is no. To which case, maybe they should go to a property auction, and maybe I'd be able to bid on that ocean from property. All right. The risk of laboring on too much about that point, it is time for my favorite segment of the week. It is time to clean out the clips. It is the clip. Clean out the clips we didn't use this week. It's the clip. Clean out. All right. Hey, again, that's my. I like. I feel like doing the. The Carlton dance from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Clean it. I'm not gonna sing it. Okay, so cleaning out the first clip. Clip cleaning out. This is Lib rep or lib Representative Steven Cohen reluctantly admitting that President Trump's crime crackdown has made the city of Memphis a lot safer, which is true, and libs hate to admit it. This is cut six. I just last. I want to ask you, Trump is taking some credit for bringing down the crime in a district that you're well familiar with there in Memphis. Do you give him some credit for that? Give him a little bit of credit. We need. We need more police. We'll stop right there. Nope, There's a. There's 16 seconds left in this clip. We're gonna stop right there. Perfect. Thank you, sir. Congratulations on joining us in normalcy. Perfect. Cool. Yes. Crackdown on crime leads to less crime, and that's good. Thank you, President Trump. Booyah. Moving on. This is Senator Cory Booker, also known as Spartacus, also known as Timu Obama, talking about ICE and TSA and just so mad. And we've all seen how that's played out, actually, fantastically. ISIS doing a great job in supporting TSA during the lib caused shutdown. But still that cry, libs cry. Senator Booker, right here. Cut seven. And so what's happening today in America that should outrage everybody? He's taking the very same agency that has been bursting into our schools, into our churches, into our hospitals, into our courts, and even into the homes of Americans. He's taking that agency that is reckless, out of control and bringing them to our Airports under the lie that somehow this is going to help deal with the long lines that he created in the first place. This is an outrage. We should not have an agency that America doesn't trust, an agency that literally has seen violence against Americans, an agency that is tearing away American families, tearing apart American families and arresting and detaining Americans and violating due process rights and civil rights. Okay, here's my only. Here's my only quibble with this is that. Is President Trump sending Don Lemon and his production staff to the airports? Cause he said, oh, the same agency that is breaking into our churches. President Trump is sending the airports. Is Don Lemon required to go to the airports and facilitate security processes? I totally unaware. Also, too, it's deliciously funny how this has not not been a clip that ages. Well, considering the fact that TSA has benefited greatly from ICE being the airports. All right, speaking of libs and crazy people Tang it. This is gonna be all. We're gonna have to clean out some more clips. Maybe Monday. Can't not get to Governor Newsom just out. It's a code red situation that people who are allowed to vote are gonna be verified that they are allowed to vote. Cut eight. But right now, you've got to deal with the fact this guy is trying to nationalize the federal elections, that this guy is trying to do a save the Save act, which is about literally wiring the elections as he said it, for the next 50 years. He's quite literally. I mean, this is the cronyism, what you're saying. House is on fire. Now this corruption story. The house is on fire. Rewriting history, censoring historic facts. Yeah, but in terms of the renewal, I mean, the other. This is. But this is code Red. So we have to meet that moment. You have to meet the moment. It's code Red. Who. All hands on deck. This is the worst thing that's ever happened. What is it that you're talking about, Governor Newsom? The fact that people in this country have to prove they are eligible to vote in order to vote. Actually, Governor Newsom, that doesn't seem like very big repro. No, it's a code red. Sound the alarms. I just. I don't know. I think the best and most effective response is just laughing at them, making fun of them, which I think we will continue to do here on this show. You have my word. Hey, coming up next segment being wiser. But what did we learn this week and what stories did we learn it from? Coming up right after the break. Tptbz.com is that email address. We'll be right back. Don't go away. Would you like to sing now? Yeah. Thank you. I. This. I. I hate that type of content. Like, people go up to random folks, they're like, I can sing. And then they start just. Just go walking up to you. I'm gonna sing to you. And like, what happens? What happens if that happened? Now I gotta listen to you sing a song. I don't want to hear you sing a song. There are plenty of good singers. You're not special. Somebody goes up to John Cena. He basically says what I would say. I'm not. No, I'm. No, thank you. Please. I don't. I don't want to sit here and, like, have to listen to a minute and a half of this and then like, pretend like, wow, I've never heard this before, dude. I. 15,000 great singers on the Internet that you can go listen to at any point in time. One of the good things of the Internet, it is removed the barrier for recognizing talent. Now, dude, who can't sing at this point? Okay, what do we. Oh, it's. Jeez, man, I am the worst. I am as bad at time management on this show as my wife is with time management in real life. Don't tell her I said that. But we are getting wiser every single week. It is time for what we learned this week. Being Wise. It's wiser by the week. I wish that was. I wish that actually happened when I would either pray or meditate. If I could actually levitate, that'd be fantastic. All right. Hey. The story for this week, Being wiser by the Week comes out of Los Angeles in which an all female group finishing up brunch at the lounge at a restaurant named Zaya, which is one of your posh new hip places. Hold on. This is according to. They were finishing brunch around 5pm on Sunday. The hell kind of brunches at 5p? Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch. Who eats that at 5pm unless you're waking up at noon. Even then, 5pm still kind of late. What kind of night did you have on Saturday anyway? Well, maybe that's why this. Maybe the Saturday night is what led to the Sunday 5pm brunch vicious fight that broke out over the check in a terrifying escalation, two people ended up stabbed and another one had a bottle smashed over their head due to the check being picked up. What is the point of wisdom that we can take here? Take away from here, I will say this. I can Understand that people would be upset if a check was dropped off. And then let's just say, hypothetically, we don't know the specific reasons why of a group of four women, two people were stabbed and all were sent to the hospital over the bill. I can only imagine that somebody did a little bit of an aggressive order. And then when the bill came, they said, hey, let's go ahead and split this check. No, no, no, no, no. I got water and a salad. You got a $400 bottle of champagne and the most expensive steak on the menu and an appetizer and a dessert. We're not going to split this bill. My bill was $15. Yours was 900. This is not an equal sharing. That is what possibly could lead you to, I don't know, be in a stabby mood. Well, what is the wisdom that you extrapolate this from this? Being cheap and cost effective in many ways is in many ways a virtue. That is the wisdom that we should extrapolate from this situation. One, buying expensive things for the sole sake of them being expensive is not cool. Nobody appreciates it. Especially if you're going to try and split the bill with them. And to being mindful of your costs, some may call them cheap is also a virtue. Two pieces of wisdom to take from this week as you head on into your weekend. And lastly, if you find yourself in a situation where one, you're trying to save some money and to your friend is being completely insane with the spending, uh, don't stab them. There's also. There's three. Three points of wisdom this week. In wiser by the week, we'll get to. Oh, not mailbag. We're gonna get to the payoff of the neighbor stories, which may be an ongoing thing as I live in California and have several lived neighbors. Um, but let me leave some time for that. Hey, we'll be right back after the break. Tptpusa.com don't go away. Ugh. This paycheck's a bunch of brouh. Are you guys tired of getting paid like crap, too? Yeah. Heck, yeah. $10 an hour is not enough. We deserve 15. Yeah, yeah. It's time to stop letting the big boss man be so greedy. We're three men who are totally heterosexual with distinct style and personality. What's going on here? We're poor. Yeah. We need more money. Sorry, big boss man. We need $15 an hour or else we're not working. I understand completely. Anthony, Malcolm, here are your paychecks. And Michael, you're fired. What? I can only afford $30 an hour of payroll, which means I have to let one of you go. And, Michael, you are by far our worst employee. But, sir, I need the money the most. This is the best job I could get. Please. I'll work for $5 an hour. I'm sorry, but thanks to the minimum wage laws that you wanted, I can't afford you anymore. Oh, okay. I guess I shouldn't have petitioned for workers to get more pay. All right, boys, you know what to do. That's perfect. As a perfect example of libs and how they think, which at the risk of taking too much time and wanting to leave sometime, transitions into how libs think. In the place where I live, I've teased stories about my lib neighbors. We've got several lib neighbors, and several of you in the email have been like, hey, give us some examples of what happens. Oh, I'll tell you. So let me just preface it like this. There are people in our neighborhood we see walking, and we're very cordial. We're very kind to people because conservatives are very kind. They're polite to everybody, and they don't hate people based on their political affiliation, even though libs and their political affiliation are more worth hating than others. But there's this couple that walks by her house fairly frequently walking their dog. They're nice enough. They're. They're. They're kind. But we struck up many a conversation with these folks, and we've learned that they do not see the world the same way that we see the world. They have mentioned on multiple occasions that while we were going to have to leave the country if things get bad, there are those types of people. They also have apparently taken multiple steps to actually moving out of the country. To which I say good riddance. Obviously, I'll continue to be polite and say hello, but one thing led to another, and because they're wanting to move out of the country, they invited my wife and I to go see their house with the possibility of potentially buying it from them. I do not. And we don't need to get into the reasons as to why I do not want to buy that house. But on the home tour, we realized just how tds there. They opened up the garage to show what was in the garage. I kid you not. There was a Donald Trump punching bag in the garage. Now, there's lots of things that can be said about this, but what I think is the biggest, broadest, most expansive takeaway is how lib's think that their ideas are so ubiquitous, so shared and how confident they are to assume that, well we just clearly have the same belief now in the minimal amount of time we have left here. I would like to actually encourage conservatives to do the same thing. My wife and I. My wife doesn't like that I do this but I assume that everybody I talk to now is conservative and, and mind you, libs are doing this all the time. In other words, when we meet people I don't ask them like kind of tiptoe questions like how do you see the world? I say oh what church do you guys go to? With the assumption that they go to church. Which then puts them in sometimes an awkward situation or it lets me know, hey they're church going people that we can trust and hang out with. Bottom line, libs are going to be take assumptions on everybody around them because they have a very narrow worldview. We should do the same. Have a great weekend. Try asking people where they go to church. See you on Monday. God bless America.