TURNING POINT TONIGHT, WITH JOBOB, MAY 18TH, 2026

Summary

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Podcast Summary: TURNING POINT TONIGHT, WITH JOBOB

Real America’s Voice • iHeartPodcasts • May 18, 2026
Episode Theme:
An unfiltered deep-dive into recent political, cultural, and current events shaping the American landscape—grounded in conservative principles, a defense of Christian values in America’s founding, ongoing partisan battles, foreign policy updates, and culture war flashpoints. Host Joe Bob and his co-host approach the week’s headlines with satirical analysis, raucous debate, and direct listener engagement.

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Main Theme and Purpose (01:03–01:54)

• The episode focuses on:
  • The backlash to the narrative of America’s Christian founding.
  • President Trump’s recent settlement and media response.
  • Current global headlines: Ebola, U.S. airstrikes, Cuba/Iran relations.
  • Domestic education/cultural debates and congressional redistricting.
  • Satirical “Meltdown Monday” on race, history, and left-wing reactions.
  • Direct audience engagement through emails and listener responses.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "Christian Nation" Narrative and Leftist Backlash

(01:03–13:44, 17:04–17:56, 42:29–43:01)

• Media Coverage:

  • The New York Times and liberal outlets criticized the Trump administration for doubling down on America’s Christian roots at a major D.C. rally.
  • Joe Bob: “The reason that the administration is pushing that narrative is because… that narrative is true.” (05:00)

• Historical Argument:

  • The hosts provide a brief history of Christian denominational conflicts, such as the 30 Years’ War, explaining why America’s founders separated church and state without discarding the Christian moral base.
  • Key point: “Freedom at large would not be a thing in this country had we not been founded on a Christian moral structure.” (13:18)

• Argument Against “Christian Nationalism” Fears:

  • The hosts mock concerns about theocracy, citing First Amendment protections and noting early state constitutions required statements of Christian faith to hold office.
  • “The only way that you can institute maximum freedom… is if the individual exercises restraint, sets up moral guidelines.” (12:45)

• Left’s Criticism (Al Sharpton):

  • Sharpton calls the administration’s stance “exclusionary theology;” Joe Bob quips about excluding ideas opposed to Western/Christian values.
  • “Yeah, I want to exclude them—not necessarily from conversation… I'd like to exclude their ideas from polite society.” (15:11)

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2. Mailbag Segment & Listener Engagement

(03:35–04:19; 17:04–17:56; 48:43–51:27)

• Direct audience feedback through emails ([e-mail]) is read and discussed, inviting both agreement and disagreement.
• Notable correspondence:
  • Ron’s joke on California prisons: “Politicians… making the prisons as nice as they can… someday they may have to go there for stealing and misappropriating all of our tax money.” (03:51)
  • Disagreement around requirements for foreign language in schools: “Foreign languages are amazing… you are wrong to say that it should not be required.” (49:18)

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3. School Library Religious Content Debate

(18:07–19:04)

• Interview reveals a Texas junior high has a Quran but not a Bible in its library, stoking claims of anti-Christian bias.
• Joe Bob: “It actually kind of does make sense that libs would want Qurans in schools because they glorify political violence in order to get what they want… It’s also true.” (19:04)

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4. Foreign Policy Roundup: U.S. Strikes & Cuba Tensions

(19:28–21:32, 25:13–26:51)

• U.S. Airstrikes Against ISIS in Nigeria:

  • Celebratory tone over the death of ISIS leaders.
  • “We don’t know the extent of all this… but bottom line: ISIS leader dead.” (21:30)

• Cuba Drone Allegations:

  • Cuban President denies threat; hosts skeptical, comparing to previous broken assurances from Russia and others.

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5. Trump’s $10-Billion IRS Settlement

(21:38–23:45)

• Trump sued the IRS for tax return leaks, settles with a fund ($1.7 billion) for other targeted individuals—not for personal gain.
• “President Trump… didn’t really benefit from it, but instead put the money into a fund that is going to benefit those who were targeted… which is great news.” (23:12)

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6. Ebola Outbreak Declaration

(23:45–24:54)

• WHO declares new Ebola outbreak a global health emergency; skepticism is expressed toward the medical establishment and its credibility post-COVID.

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7. Culture War & Redistricting Battles

(32:15–40:34)

• Tennessee Redistricting Irony:

  • Liberal outrage over changes that remove a white Democrat representing a majority Black district, after beating a Black conservative.
  • Joe Bob: “So they’re trying. The conservatives are trying to silence black people by… redistricting a white guy out of office who beat a black guy.” (34:36)

• Pete Buttigieg & Stacey Abrams’ Reactions:

  • Buttigieg: Claims of “systematic effort to dismantle black political representation” after changes in legislative maps. (35:47)
  • Abrams warns about losing up to 191 state legislative seats, impacting minority influence in schools and healthcare.
  • Joe Bob: “She pointed out… [redistricting] also affects state legislatures… Wonderful.” (39:36)

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8. Satire: “Meltdown Monday” & Cotton-Picking Economics

(40:34–47:27)

• Ayanna Pressley’s Comment:
  • “There are people in this hostile, anti-black administration that would rather black Americans pick cotton than pick the president.” (43:12)
• Host’s Response:
  • Satirically calculates that replacing machines with manual labor would cost the cotton industry $8 billion/year—“makes no economic sense.”
  • “All of this is ingest… Nobody actually wants this to [happen]; to accuse us of doing so is ridiculous on its face.” (46:32)

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9. Culture Notes: Paul McCartney’s “Hey Jude” and False Unity

(27:01–28:44)

• McCartney’s hope that “Hey Jude” will unite Republicans and Democrats is met with skepticism.
• Joe Bob: “…a perceived moment of coming together that actually means nothing may be worse than… having good faith debates.” (28:19)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (w/ Timestamps)

• On Christian Foundations
  • “Freedom at large would not be a thing in this country had we not been founded on a Christian moral structure.” —Co-host (13:18)
  • “I want to exclude them… I'd like to exclude their ideas from polite society.” —Joe Bob (15:11)
• On Prison Reform in CA:
  • “The libs are hell-bent on making prisons like resorts so one day, if we regain power… they might end up there.” —Joe Bob (03:58)
• Skepticism Toward Media and Institutions:
  • “WHO and the general medical community… took their reputation during COVID and then lit it on fire.” —Co-host (24:57)
• Satire of Race Rhetoric:
  • “So they're trying. The conservatives are trying to silence black people by… redistricting a white guy out of office who beat a black guy.” —Joe Bob (34:36)
  • “All of my black friends are taller than me… I think you would really want a shorter ethnicity of people picking the cotton.” —Joe Bob, tongue-in-cheek (47:07)

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Important Timestamps

• Main theme intro: 01:03–01:54
• Christian nationalism debate: 05:00–13:44
• Sharpton/Pressley criticism & host pushback: 13:45–17:56, 43:12–47:27
• School Quran/Bible debate: 18:07–19:04
• U.S. foreign actions/Trump IRS: 19:28–24:54
• Redistricting satire: 32:15–40:34
• “Hey Jude” unity segment: 27:01–28:44
• Mailbag & audience engagement: 03:35–04:19, 48:43–51:27

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Tone and Style

• Irreverent, sarcastic, and deeply skeptical of mainstream/liberal narratives.
• Frequent callbacks to historical context, founding documents, and conservative lingo.
• Direct address and dialogue with listeners.

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For Listeners/Newcomers

This episode offers a multidimensional critique of the week’s news through a conservative, values-driven lens, doubling as both an explainer and a satirical roast of perceived left-wing overreach. It is as much about defending traditional American principles as it is about mocking modern political rhetoric and identity politics.

[Ads, breaks, and promotional segments omitted from summary.]

Transcript

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[Co-host]

Over the weekend, the libs accused the

[Joe Bob]

administration of pushing a narrative.

[Co-host]

And the reason they're so upset about the administration pushing said narrative is because that narrative is in fact, true.

[Joe Bob]

What is it?

[Co-host]

We will get into it in segment number one.

[Joe Bob]

Also, President Trump settled a lawsuit in which he himself did not benefit at all. Actually, he set up a fund to benefit other people.

[Co-host]

But the libs are obviously still very upset about that.

[Joe Bob]

Ebola is back, baby. We're it's large and in charge.

[Co-host]

Check your orifices in case they're leaking any bodily fluids. I'm sorry, that was probably too graphic

[Joe Bob]

for this show and probably the best

[Co-host]

meltdown Monday we've ever had on this show.

[Joe Bob]

Which makes us ask the question, how much would it actually cost if black people were to pick all the cotton?

[Co-host]

Believe me, that makes sense a little bit later on in the show.

[Joe Bob]

Thanks so much for tuning in. My name is Joe Bob up.

[Co-host]

We're gonna have a good time tonight. Thanks for tuning in. The show starts right now. In their big scary headlines. Using their deep, scary voices, the libs over the weekend said the Trump administration and just the federal government as a

[Joe Bob]

whole tried to push a narrative that

[Co-host]

this country was founded on Christian values. And the reason that that's so scary

[Joe Bob]

to the libs is because. Because.

[Co-host]

Well, it's true. We'll get into the brief history, but

[Joe Bob]

why it needs to be true and

[Co-host]

why the country needs to have a moral underpinning that obviously is based in Christianity.

[Joe Bob]

Very, very quickly.

[Co-host]

TPTB say.com that's what I gotta remind you of first is the email address. If you'd like to send along your

[Joe Bob]

thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. Did you participate in the weekend's festivities

[Co-host]

in Washington D.C. the rededication to 50 uh, if you were there, let us know how it was. Anybody who I've talked to have been there said it was absolutely awesome and told the story of how America was founded. Why a country that maximizes freedom needs to also be settled and grounded in a moral truth. Let us know TPT tpusa.com if you agree. If you disagree, that's totally fine. We accept emails that are wrong. But no, that's all. Anything you want [e-mail] and if those emails are gross, vile, disgusting and downright nasty, we actually may read them here on the show, including the one from Ron Ron wins our five Star sticker Highlight Email of the Day in the conversation last week that we're having with Governor Newsom making sure that all the prisons in California are just the nicest, most vacation resort getaway type facilities on

[Joe Bob]

the planet, Ron chimed in, said this there's another way to look at the prisons.

[Co-host]

The politicians who are doing everything they can to make the prisons as nice as they can are doing so because

[Joe Bob]

someday they may have to go there

[Co-host]

for stealing and misappropriating all of our tax money. Ron, I could not agree more. The libs are hell bent on making

[Joe Bob]

prisons like resorts so that one day

[Co-host]

if we were to regain power and effectively our cojones, they might end up there.

[Joe Bob]

Which, hey, you know, it's not so bad.

[Co-host]

The tennis court needs repaving, but other

[Joe Bob]

than that, this prison is great. I've got my tablet to watch illicit material on. What? What more can you ask for?

[Co-host]

Great point, Ron. If you would like to be featured in our email segment TPT tbsa.com and get to more of our emails later on in the show. In our Mailbag segment, leave a comment to wherever you're watching social media or what you're whether you're watching on social media. And chances are producer Glenn may pull those comments and bring it on to Mailbag as well. Okay, over the weekend I'm gonna use my scary voice because I'm gonna pull up graphic one which is the headline from the New York Times that they posted on their social media Trump Administration Pushes Narrative of Christian Founding at the Rally. Now the reason that the administration is pushing that narrative is because hold on

[Joe Bob]

to your seats here.

[Co-host]

Fasten your seatbelts. Folks.

[Joe Bob]

That narrative is true. I recognize that that may be like

[Co-host]

a mind bending problem for libs, but in fact the country was founded on Christian values. We've played the clip of of Charlie, my favorite clip of him totally dismantling this idea that the American founding was not based in Christian morals and Christian virtues. We won't play that again. If you do want that clip, send us an email tbtba.com I'm more than happy to send it to you. It's about five minutes of probably the best

[Joe Bob]

memory exercise, but also truth that

[Co-host]

I think I've ever seen displayed in a speech.

[Joe Bob]

But the libs obviously had a full

[Co-host]

blown meltdown over the rededication 2:50 event that happened in Washington D.C. here's a brief clip from Al Jazeera that kind

[Joe Bob]

of highlights some of the concerns that folks have where before we briefly discuss

[Co-host]

why it's necessary and maybe this is

[Joe Bob]

a reiteration, but I do think it

[Co-host]

should be at the forefront of our minds when we're having discussions with our friend, friends and family, you know, in everyday life. Here is a clip from Al Jazeera talking about the concerns that many people have. Cut 15.

[News Clip Narrator]

Now, this is an event that has not taken place without pushback from, and criticism from interfaith groups and from civil liberties organizations who have said that events like these do not accurately reflect America's religious diversity as well as concerns over the growing influence of Christian nationalism in American politics.

[Co-host]

Now, the first thing I'd like to address is the fact that I still don't know what Christian nationalism is. I am a nationalist. I am pro America. Unashamedly, unapologetically, I'm also a Christian.

[Joe Bob]

What does that, does that mean that those two words are what they think they mean? Now they of course are trying to

[Co-host]

push this idea that. No, no, no, no. What it actually means is that there's going to be a theocracy and we're going to eliminate all the branches of governments and the church is going to rule the. But of course, that's what the First Amendment says. Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion. Effectively, that's.

[Joe Bob]

That's what it says.

[Co-host]

And the way that libs have interpreted that over the course of, well, since the, well, not since the founding, they've been reasonable up until probably like, I don't know, the 50s and the 60s when they went off the deep end. Now, what they believe that it means

[Joe Bob]

is, well, nobody in government shall be religious at all. But here's the thing that I think

[Co-host]

is fascinating about this and just giving some context to what the framers, what the founders, what the people in the country understood that they were signing on to when the Constitution was ratified is

[Joe Bob]

the history around Christian interdenominational Bloodshed. I don't know why, but the last week or two, I've gotten really into the 30 Years War. If you're not familiar with the 30 Years War,

[Co-host]

rewind a little bit before that. 1500s, Martin Luther, 95, theses, we've all seen that nailed to the Church's walls. Obviously then a big kind of conflict happens between the Protestants and the Catholics

[Joe Bob]

which culminated in the thirty Years War. And what the thirty Years War effectively

[Co-host]

was, and I realize I'm summarizing a very, very big global event into, you know, 30 seconds here, is that the

[Joe Bob]

Catholics and the Protestants basically fought over

[Co-host]

whether or not they could be Catholic or Protestant.

[Joe Bob]

In other words, if the leader of a particular territory in Europe decided, well, we're going to be Catholics or we're going to be Protestants or Reformed or

[Co-host]

Calvinists or Lutheran, whatever it was that

[Joe Bob]

they were, then everybody in that area, that geographical territory also effectively had to be what their leader was. The problem is, well, when leaders changed,

[Co-host]

the religion of the people changed. Not the religion of the people, the denomination of Christianity of the people changed.

[Joe Bob]

And so what you have is then a 30 year war, which is why it's called the 30 years war of

[Co-host]

People squat squabbling is about killing each other. Germany in some areas lost about half of its population.

[Joe Bob]

The overall population of Europe didn't recover

[Co-host]

for another like 150, 200 years.

[Joe Bob]

And what I say, why say all of that is that would have been fresh in the memory of the Founders. Hey, the idea between the Church of England, the Protestants, the Catholics, the Presbyterians, all of these things, we need to get rid of it.

[Co-host]

What we can all agree on in the west is that Christianity is the true religion. We want to be more ecumenical about this.

[Joe Bob]

We want to have an ability to

[Co-host]

cooperate regardless of which denomination. Now, what we of course all agree this is Christianity, we don't need to plainly put that in there. But you know, in the west, you know, we're built on a Christian civilization. We may have disagreements on the perpetual virginity of Mary or stuff like that,

[Joe Bob]

which you know, can be important if

[Co-host]

you want to get into the theological weeds of it.

[Joe Bob]

But at the same time, what we're really focused on is the base principle principles of Christianity. And so the Founding Fathers, having understood what can happen if the Church picks a side of Christianity that, well, bloodshed

[Co-host]

can occur, they said, hey, we are

[Joe Bob]

not going to decide as a government which sect of Christianity is the best. Now, of course, they probably opened it

[Co-host]

up more broadly because they understood that not everybody was going to be a Christian. But the bottom line here is that everybody at the time understood that Western values were based in Christianity. Uh, not wanting to reference that entire video from Charlie, basically outlines all of the different state constitutions that required a statement of faith in order to serve in the local government.

[Joe Bob]

The basically the idea that the Trump administration is pushing a narrative implies that, well, this isn't true, when in reality is very, very true.

[Co-host]

And the reason that the founding fathers put the first amendment in place and said Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion is because what

[Joe Bob]

they fled was the Church of England. What they fled was the inter stitching of the actual church, the state run church and the government. They said we're not going to pick sides. But what we do understand is that the individual, it's themselves need to have

[Co-host]

some sort of moral grounding Christianity in

[Joe Bob]

order for this whole freedom experiment to work. Although the government itself isn't going to say, hey, this is the state religion, you do need individuals to have some

[Co-host]

sort of guiding principle. John Adams was famous for saying, the government that we've designed here is solely for a religious and more people. Other than that it's, it's wholly inadequate. If we were to boil it down, imagine you're setting up a system of,

[Joe Bob]

well, really trust or freedom.

[Co-host]

And specifically at my church, for whatever reason, we've decided that any new coming members, you know, generally speaking, you get a brand new Bible, you get to sign up, you get some cool parking at the front of the church, all of the standard things, for whatever reason, our church has decided, hey, we're going

[Joe Bob]

to give a loaf of fresh homemade sourdough bread, which is great. But guess what? If you don't have a system set up on the individual level, there's nothing stopping me, who've been attending this church

[Co-host]

now for like five years, years from going up and getting a free loaf of sourdough bread.

[Joe Bob]

What I'm saying is in order to

[Co-host]

have maximum freedom at the government level, at the federal government level, you can

[Joe Bob]

only do so if the individual exercises restraint. If the individual sets up parameters, sets up moral guidelines, that is the only

[Co-host]

possible way that you can institute maximum freedom, which is what this government was designed to do.

[Joe Bob]

More broadly speaking, 30,000 foot view.

[Co-host]

And the only thing that I've been attempting to explain here in the last

[Joe Bob]

couple minutes is that the idea that

[Co-host]

the country was not founded on Christian

[Joe Bob]

values and Christian morals is ludicrous to the extent that if it weren't, we

[Co-host]

would not have this country, we would

[Joe Bob]

not have the freedoms that we've been

[Co-host]

afforded, we wouldn't have any of the economic success. And again, freedom at large would not be a thing in this country had we not been founded on a Christian moral structure. Now, having said all of that, I would like to play you some clips from Ms. Now, this is Reverend Should I use air quotes around Reverend Al Sharpton? I mean, because he's a race baiting charlatan.

[Joe Bob]

I like I should, I should I.

[Co-host]

Reverend Al Sharpton, when asked about the Trump administration or just the federal government at large, recognizing what is obviously true, that this country was founded on Christian morals. Cut 16.

[Podcast Advertiser]

But the US is home to millions of many, many different faiths. So emphasizing the Protestant facet of this, that may unite those people. But was it, what does it do to people who don't share that belief?

[Guest or Contributor]

Well, it certainly says that they have an exclusionary theology and that they're not trying to pray for or pray with everyone.

[Co-host]

Now, the second part of that is obviously incorrect. Anybody of Christian faith should be praying for and with anyone in hopes that they, you know, come to the faith. Now, the first part that he said is, well, it's an exclusionary, he says theology. I'm just going to use broadly exclusionary, which I would say correct.

[Joe Bob]

I would like to exclude a bunch of things that people decide to do

[Co-host]

who don't have a moral system structured in the West. If somebody's entire moral system is set

[Joe Bob]

up to advocate for the downfall of

[Co-host]

Western values and of Christian values in the country, the very thing that propped us up to be the greatest country in the history of the world.

[Joe Bob]

Yeah, I want to exclude them from,

[Co-host]

you know, not necessarily from the conversation. I'd like to exclude their ideas from polite society. And again, I recognize that they have

[Joe Bob]

the free speech ability to promote those ideas. But I would like our arguments to

[Co-host]

be so good that effectively they're ineffective. He also says this continuing on, which also I think is fascinating.

[Joe Bob]

What it shows here is the lack

[Co-host]

of argument that they actually have. If this is the thing that they're continuing to talk about, even though we thoroughly rebuffed it when it happened in real time. This is cut 17.

[Guest or Contributor]

I don't know how faith leaders can go to the mall and not address the fact that the sitting president just less than 30 days ago had a meme out that he posted where he was posing like Jesus. He tried to say later he was doing a doctor. A doctor does not have his hand over someone healing them with a light of the universe in his other hand.

[Co-host]

Yes, Al, that was a misstep, both morally and politically.

[Joe Bob]

And guess what? All of us said, don't do that. In fact, so many of us said, not great that he took it down.

[Co-host]

President Trump is notorious for never taking anything down.

[Joe Bob]

But the Christian nation, the Christians in

[Co-host]

the nation that we are said, nope, not having that one. So if that's the argument that you're

[Joe Bob]

going to use, something that we have

[Co-host]

thoroughly denounced so much that the president took it down, I think that's a good thing. I think it shows that they don't have really any better arguments. Yes, of course they're always going to push back against Christianity, but they can't change and rewrite history.

[Joe Bob]

And as long as we understand where

[Co-host]

we come from and the moral underpinnings of our society that made this country great, ultimately I think we'll win the day. And therefore I'm optimistic. TPTP USA.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your

[Joe Bob]

thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms.

[Co-host]

I guarantee you there's a bunch of stuff, there are a bunch of little

[Joe Bob]

tangents, side roads that we could have

[Co-host]

gone down that we didn't for the sake of time. But I'd love to have that discussion in the email. [e-mail] hopefully that was cohesive enough to

[Joe Bob]

at least make a little bit of sense as to why the individuals in

[Co-host]

a free society need to have a moral foundation. That moral foundation in this country has been Christianity. TPTP USA.com we'll be right back with some. A lot of the points we gotta get to, actually. Fascinating. President Trump drops a lawsuit against the irs and the libs are super mad that, well, he didn't benefit from it really at all.

[Joe Bob]

We'll be right back after the break.

[Co-host]

Don't go away.

[Interviewer]

Is it true that your school, your school's libraries offer Islamic literature like the Quran and other things?

[Interviewee]

Yes. So McMillan Junior High in Wiley ISD offers a Quran but no Bible available.

[Interviewer]

But no Bible. So there's a Quran but the Bible's not allowed.

[Podcast Advertiser]

Correct.

[Interviewer]

Is that true in multiple libraries?

[Interviewee]

From what I know. Confirmed it's McMillan Junior High is one that I know of. I can look at the other libraries and submit them to you if I find any other findings.

[Interviewer]

Okay. Have you talked to the school about why they would allow a Quran but not a Bible?

[Interviewee]

So I don't. I haven't. The principals actually run away from one, run away from me and hide. So I can't have a discussion with my principals because I act like an adult and they act like children.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, well you very much are acting like an adult. They probably don't want to be on the record with that policy given how egregious it is.

[Joe Bob]

Yeah, I mean, okay, so, so 30,000 foot view.

[Co-host]

It actually kind of does make sense that libs would want Qurans in schools because they glorify political violence in order to get what they want. Which may be a statement that gets me in a little bit of trouble, but that's okay. It's also true.

[Joe Bob]

Alright, so let's see when the. Lots of points to get to.

[Co-host]

We do have to do this thing called getting to them, which is what

[Joe Bob]

we're gonna do now. Get to the point, get to the point,

[Podcast Advertiser]

get to the point.

[Co-host]

Happening over the weekend. Lots of the conservative media outlets covering it, almost none from the libs, at least that I could see. And I scour a lot of lib news outlets. The US Nigeria strike an ISIS fighter. Sorry, Strike ISIS fighters again from the air after killing their senior leader.

[Joe Bob]

So was it Friday or was it

[Co-host]

Saturday that President Trump came out and said, hey, we got another one of those ISIS leaders. I guess we continued to hit them with kinetic strikes against ISIS fighters in northeast Nigeria on Monday according to US Africa Command. These strikes, as we just talked about, come days after US Nigerian operation killed some ISIS dude. I'm not going to attempt. Actually, you know what? In our email, it does. There was an emailer and we'll read it in mailbag that says you should try to pronounce every name. All right.

[Joe Bob]

Abdul Abu Bilal Al Minooki, which is like a name that I would make

[Co-host]

up if I were trying to create the villain in Lion King.

[Joe Bob]

I think. I'm not, I'm not sure I like some Disney movie. Uh, all right. President Trump decides, described as ISIS is

[Co-host]

second in command globally. Um, all good things.

[Joe Bob]

You know, we can go back to

[Co-host]

the discussion that we've been having on the right, the argument, if you want to call it, of how involved should the United States be around the world?

[Joe Bob]

Uh, this is, this is kind of

[Co-host]

one of those examples of. Look, there's no real way to know enough about this to make collectively on a popular opinion basis decisions about this sort of stuff. This is why you kind of have to trust the people we put into power. Which has been my stance on President Trump's foreign policy is like we elected the guy. I think he's got the American interest in the best at the forefront of his mind. And our best interest at the forefront is mine. So, you know, one of those.

[Joe Bob]

Glad it's happening. I, we, we don't know the extent

[Co-host]

of all of this sort of stuff. I'm sure that will come to light sooner or later.

[Joe Bob]

But bottom line, ISIS leader dead. Uh, speaking of President Trump, this from

[Co-host]

CBS News, but it's been reported everywhere.

[Joe Bob]

President Trump settles $10 billion lawsuit against IRS over leak of his tax returns. If you remember, President Trump, I believe

[Co-host]

in January filed a lawsuit against the IRS because in 2000, well, forget the year was specifically. But somebody at the irs, a contractor who the IRS no longer works with and I think is serving a five year prison sentence, leaked President Trump's tax returns in 2019 and 2020, I believe. So President Trump filed a lawsuit and in typical President Trump way, he didn't file it for, you know, a normal amount of money.

[Joe Bob]

It's $10 billion, which is, which is excessive. Just so we're clear on the excessiveness of that. $10 billion is a lot. But anyways, he has dropped the lawsuit.

[Co-host]

President Trump and the Justice Department reached

[Joe Bob]

a settlement regarding the president's $10 billion

[Co-host]

lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Services and Treasury Department. According to documents filed today, Mr. Trump has accused the agencies of UN. Yeah, I could just put all that stuff out there.

[Joe Bob]

Um, basically, though, the settlement involved a

[Co-host]

$1.7 billion fund to allow for. Do I want to use the term reparations?

[Joe Bob]

Recouping of costs, actual costs, reprieve, we should call it reparations just to off the lips. I think that would be very, very funny. Uh, but in or for all the people that got politically targeted by the

[Co-host]

Biden DOJ, by the Biden IRS. Hey, look at this. You owe another $50,000 in taxes. Like, hold on. What? Oh, because I am a conservative. Um, because that was happening under the last administration. President Trump, as a part of this settlement, didn't really benefit from it, but instead put the money into a fund. Put money into a fund that is going to benefit those who were targeted by an adversarial doj, which is great, great news. Not so great news, though, is Ebola,

[Joe Bob]

which you don't want, objectively you don't remember in. I think it was like 2012, 2013,

[Co-host]

Ebola was like a big thing.

[Joe Bob]

A check your orifices, bodily fluids oozing

[Co-host]

out of all of them.

[Joe Bob]

But today or yesterday, this from the

[Co-host]

New York Times, who, the World Health Organization, which is a arm of the Communist Party, declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. Oh, no. Like I said, check your orifices. Which I think is the third time I've said orifices on the show, try to use some different terminology going forward, but the World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a global health emergency on Saturday. The outbreak caused by the. Oh boy, here we go with the pronunciation.

[Joe Bob]

Bundy, Bundy, boo yo.

[Co-host]

Species of Ebola for which there is no approved vaccine or therapeutic, which is not good, was first identified in the Congo where 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths have been reported.

[Joe Bob]

So not good, just generally speaking.

[Co-host]

But also, you know, the WHO and the general medical community is taken their reputation during COVID and then lit it on fire with the blowtorch. So what do we know to be

[Joe Bob]

true out of this freaking.

[Co-host]

I don't know. Unfortunately, what I do know about folks who continue to lie consistently is that what Cuba's president is saying is a lie. Cuba's president, this CBS News yet again

[Joe Bob]

Cuba's president says the country poses no

[Co-host]

threat to the US after report of the island's alleged military drones.

[Joe Bob]

So if you missed that last week,

[Co-host]

we didn't talk about it here, but big reports from the Department of War saying, hey, there's some cheaper drones that Cuba can be positioning in order to launch attacks on the United States, you know, if they don't get their way on the embargo.

[Joe Bob]

This is a bunch of different things

[Co-host]

going on in Cuba, but rest assured, the Cuban president said there's no threat.

[Joe Bob]

Kind of like in a similar way

[Co-host]

that Vladimir Putin said, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not going to invade Ukraine. I'm just, you know, amassing hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of troops along the Ukrainian border.

[Joe Bob]

Kind of like in the same way that a bunch of military assets of the United States were moving towards Venezuela

[Co-host]

during a certain time of this year.

[Joe Bob]

And President Trump said, eh, you know, it's fine now, obviously when it's us

[Co-host]

it's good and when it's the bad guys, it's bad. But bottom line here, and we don't need to belabor this too much, is that who believes the Cuban president when he says da, da, da. Don't worry, this is, this is not an actual threat. Um, obviously the heightened tensions should cause the Department of War to be on high alert. Uh, and then if anything tragic were to happen, that would be horrible. And we're not taking your word for Cuba, that would be bad.

[Joe Bob]

You know whose word we should take with full, full heft is Paul McCartney. I don't know if the transitions today

[Co-host]

let us know TBT tv USA.com if you approve of the transitions. But Paul McCartney, actually, according to Breitbart and according to him, I think can fix the world.

[Joe Bob]

Paul McCartney believes that hey Jude can

[Co-host]

unite both Republicans and Democrats. And optimistically, I hope it can.

[Joe Bob]

I have my doubts, I have my

[Co-host]

suspicions, but I hope that this is true. The legendary singer Paul McCartney, formerly of a band, little known band called the

[Joe Bob]

Beatles, expressed hope that his song hey Jude can help unite both the right

[Co-host]

and the left in America. In an interview, McCartney said he loves seeing the entire audience singing hey Jude together, noting that in Trump's America, where conservatives and libs are at each other's throats, the song brings people together in harmony. Okay, uh, um, okay.

[Joe Bob]

You know, I don't even necessarily know that that's a good thing if, you

[Co-host]

know, conservatives and liberals are gathered together singing.

[Joe Bob]

I don't even know if that's exactly a good thing. Yeah, they're singing the same lyrics to a song. But I kind of think a perceived

[Co-host]

moment of coming together that actually means nothing may be worse than actually kind of coming together and discussing things in good faith and having good faith debates over which way the country should go. I think it's worse to kind of have like a facsimile of togetherness in the form of singing a Paul McCartney song.

[Joe Bob]

I guess it's a Beatles song. I don't know.

[Co-host]

I think that's actually not, not, not great, Sir Paul, which I think I have to say. So there's that.

[Joe Bob]

Lots of points. Those are fun, fun times.

[Co-host]

Getting to the point, what's going to be even more fun is when we get to official business. And even fun, more fun than that. I almost said more or funner, which I don't think is grammatically correct is Meltdown Monday. Trust me. Well, we'll be dissecting the meltdown of the weekend on Meltdown Monday. But before that, we got to get to official business. Tptpc.com is the email address. If you have any thoughts, comments, concerns on any of the stuff that we talk about here, let us know. TPTP USA.com we'll be right back after the break.

[Joe Bob]

Don't go away.

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[Guest or Contributor]

I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. It's a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually, I worked all day and can't feed my family.

[Joe Bob]

Yeah, you know the thing about the

[Co-host]

last thing that he said is I worked all day.

[Joe Bob]

And you know, most throughout pretty much

[Co-host]

all of human history, people have been able to figure that part out.

[Joe Bob]

One, I mean, I'll revert back to

[Co-host]

an argument I've made on this show a number of times.

[Joe Bob]

Just try to try to starve to

[Co-host]

death in this country.

[Joe Bob]

Like just, just try. You can't. It is, it would literally be impossible

[Co-host]

for you to starve to death.

[Joe Bob]

So somebody would call some hotline and get you, force feed you probably against your will, like you can't starve to

[Co-host]

death in this country.

[Joe Bob]

So.

[Co-host]

But on top of that, you know, the government. Yes.

[Joe Bob]

The, the governments of the type of

[Co-host]

systems that he is a fan of are substantially more dangerous than the current economic situation. I don't know, you can look at communist China, communist Russia, you can look at all of the massive failures of, of those collectivist societies that have led to hundreds of millions dead.

[Joe Bob]

But yeah, no, no, no, what you should be concerned about is the made up.

[Co-host]

We will starve to death in this country.

[Joe Bob]

You can't do it. I think I was on a college

[Co-host]

campus a couple months ago telling them like asking somebody like, hey, if you

[Joe Bob]

tried to starve to death, do you

[Co-host]

think you could do it? And they didn't understand the question. They were like, no, no. Well that's, People are starving. I'm like, no, no, no.

[Joe Bob]

What I'm saying is you physically cannot

[Co-host]

do it in this country.

[Joe Bob]

It would be impossible given our structures

[Co-host]

and the amount of care that would be afforded to. But sure, sure, Zamdam Mohany, good luck with that. All right, this, you know, I, I wanted to get to this very quickly

[Joe Bob]

because this is, this is one of

[Co-host]

the best ironies and hilarities I think in current modern politics. Coming up in official business. But before we get to that, I got to do the zinger. It's official business. Let me start off by playing the clip.

[Joe Bob]

Here is, here is just one of

[Co-host]

the most delicious ironic clips I think that has come up, especially given the context, especially given the national attention to Tennessee redistricting, their congressional seats. Watch this. Cut six.

[Steve Cohen]

They're colonizing Memphis. So he doesn't have an interest in helping. He thinks he's helping by being benevolent. That's horse manure. The fact is there's a chance for one Democrat, Jazz Muller, and maybe one Democrat and nine, London Lamar, state senator, who could win and legislate and have concern for Memphis. But the odds are, no, it's not going to happen. And that's why I didn't run.

[Joe Bob]

So, okay, this is Steve Cohen. So the hilarious part about this, just to fill in some gaps here, is we talked about, you know, how the

[Co-host]

Tennessee legislature, whenever something semi controversial gets brought up, they do, you know, the adult thing is. And they take over the floor of the legislature and riot. The most recent iteration of this is when Tennessee redistricted because the Supreme Court

[Joe Bob]

said, hey, you don't.

[Co-host]

You don't have to be racist. And Tennessee was like, okay, cool, so we just. We won't be racist then. And they split up districts more evenly instead of based on race, which is what libs wanted them to do.

[Joe Bob]

So Tennessee libs lost their mind over

[Co-host]

this because, well, look, this. This majority black district is being taken away, and they're trying to crush the

[Joe Bob]

voice of black people who are represented

[Co-host]

by this white guy.

[Joe Bob]

That's the guy in the district. Representative Steve Cohen, an old white dude, was representing the black people. And to make it more ironic, he ran against and beat a black guy who happened to be a conservative. Like, it's. Okay, hold on. So they're trying. The conservatives are trying to silence black

[Co-host]

people

[Joe Bob]

by kicking a guy. Not kick. Redistricting. A white guy out of office who beat a black guy.

[Podcast Advertiser]

I.

[Joe Bob]

Can I talk about the ideological components of it?

[Co-host]

Like, sure, make that case.

[Joe Bob]

But the race case literally is for dummies. Like, the only people that buy the

[Co-host]

race stuff are, I don't know, toddlers

[Joe Bob]

and paste eaters, I think. So that's just.

[Co-host]

That's just fun.

[Joe Bob]

Um, now, a lot of people think,

[Co-host]

though, the libs do have some great hopes. Now, I've. I've said on the show a number of times, and I think it'll come up in mailbag. The deep bench that the conservatives have, which is 100% true. Having said that, the libs think that they have a deep bench. One of the people on the deep bench for the libs, especially when it comes up to national elections happening in

[Joe Bob]

2028, they think is one Pete Buttigieg.

[Co-host]

Here is Mayor Pete.

[Joe Bob]

Just.

[Co-host]

Here's Mayor Pete.

[Podcast Advertiser]

Last month, you called Republican efforts to redistrict cheating.

[Joe Bob]

Are Democrats also cheating?

[Guest or Contributor]

Let's be very clear about what's going on right now, which is a systematic effort to dismantle black political representation in the House of Representatives. What we're seeing amounts to the biggest reversal of black political power since the Voting Rights act itself. It is wrong, it is unfair, and we never should have been here in the first place.

[Joe Bob]

Yeah.

[Co-host]

Oh, man, that's.

[Joe Bob]

That's just too good. It's too good. We are.

[Co-host]

They're dismantling black representation that we're trying to do by not voting for them because they're conservatives.

[Joe Bob]

I get out of here with the race thing. That's just. It's just silly.

[Co-host]

But also, too, I do like the question there. I feel like she's been. Is that Dana Bash there on cnn? She's been. She was the one that also checked Katie Porter last week, the governor candidate in California who. Whose temperament is not great.

[Joe Bob]

She said, hey, a couple things you said here. Not great.

[Co-host]

And then posing the question to Mayor Pete, hey, so if Republicans are redistricting, it's cheating, but if Democrats are doing it, it's not.

[Joe Bob]

Does that make sense?

[Co-host]

No, it doesn't. And I'm glad she's pointed it out.

[Joe Bob]

All right, hey, let's. Let's see.

[Co-host]

Let's get to one more here. On official business here is, uh, you know, Producer Glenn and I have discussions about this often about who gets. Who qualifies for official business, because generally

[Joe Bob]

speaking, officials are in some sort of

[Co-host]

official capacity or at least were in at some point. Uh, Stacey Abrams is some random lady.

[Joe Bob]

She's yet to concede the gubernatorial election

[Co-host]

for the state of Georgia. That happened, I think, eight years ago.

[Joe Bob]

I think she still has yet to concede that race. Uh, so technically speaking, as she's not official in any capacity, but because she

[Co-host]

runs her mouth consistently, I guess, you

[Joe Bob]

know, she fits in with the mockery.

[Co-host]

I think that official business, really. The tone that we're hoping for here. Here is cut 8. Stacey Abrams on Libs and the legislative

[Stacey Abrams]

seats, your ability to use those same Democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps, we know that analysis policies by Fair Fight and Black Voters Matters show that we could lose 19 to 20 congressional seats, but we could lose up to 191 state legislative seats. And in the south, those state legislators draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts, and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you want to Know if your child is going to have fair and equitable access to education. That will be diminished if your families can't participate in elections and elect leaders who value your education. If you want health care in the south, it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access. All of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color will now be decided by people who disproportionately dislike and vote against the needs of people of color. But what we have to remember, and this is why I started the 10 Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It may serve start in the south, but has national implications. Progress that serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But if we do not do so, if we allow the suppression of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors and we're harming the US and that's why we cannot allow the south to be left behind. We need national intervention because they are starting in the South.

[Co-host]

Okay, I thought she was going to get to something fun, but I want to cut that off. I probably let it run too long to begin with, but holy cow.

[Joe Bob]

Um, that's fantastic news. Again, I wasn't expecting for Stacey Abrams

[Co-host]

to deliver great news to us, but

[Joe Bob]

she pointed out the fact that, hey,

[Co-host]

this doesn't just affect Congress and the

[Joe Bob]

federal government, it also affects state legislature

[Co-host]

legislations, SCOTUS when it comes to districting,

[Joe Bob]

said that now the states, even in

[Co-host]

their own legislative bodies, can't do it

[Joe Bob]

based on solely on race to which they may lose even more. And as she mentioned, wow, that's going

[Co-host]

to affect, you know, indoctrinating your kids in government schools.

[Joe Bob]

This is great news on. This is fantastic. I know she was talking, she was using her scary voice, but I'm liking this more and more and more. It's not just the federal government that

[Co-host]

we can dominate, it's also all of the state governments. Wonderful. And then she obviously goes back to the whole race thing, which is stupid and we could just roll our eyes at that. But fun. All right, hey, coming up next, we got Meltdown Monday. I almost said woke Wednesday, but the thing is that these are semi interchangeable little themes here. But Meltdown Monday in in which we

[Joe Bob]

will discuss the actual economic costs of

[Co-host]

the accusations being thrown around of whether or not we want black people to pick cotton. A spoiler alert doesn't actually make economic sense. And yet for some reason that is still getting pushed upon us.

[Joe Bob]

Tptvsa.com is the email. We'll be right back after the Break.

[Co-host]

Don't go away.

[Podcast Advertiser]

Come with me while I take myself out on a little solo date in Los Angeles, California. I found this cute little spot in Burbank that has a kind of retro arcade sort of vibe. I stopped in and got a salad, and I really loved the toppings that were just kind of raw. Dogging it on the ice in the salad bar. So delicious. These dishes were left on the table next to me the entire time I was there, and I think it really completed the ambiance. For dessert, I got the churros that came directly from the case, and they were chewy. Finally, I decided to play some games. My favorite one was Dog Pounder, where you just have to pound a dog. Had a little celebrity sighting and he was so cool and so attentive. I highly suggest the spot in Burbank, California. It does cost like 60 to $70 per visit, but it is so worth it.

[Guest or Contributor]

Ah.

[Joe Bob]

I have so many thoughts that I. It's. I. I feel sad because Chuck E. Cheese was like an institution, a staple of my childhood. And also, it has gone so far downhill to, like, it's like, it's like a hockey game.

[Co-host]

Like, I went to a hockey game, I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.

[Joe Bob]

Like, it's like we went to a

[Co-host]

Chuck E. Cheese in a.

[Joe Bob]

And like, you expect a fight to happen. And it's. I. All right, let's just get into the Meltdown Monday, because there's too much. There's too much dissecting that we could

[Co-host]

in theory do regarding the downfall of Chuck E. Cheese, the hilarious satirical takes on the Internet. So it is Monday. And if it's not MAGA Monday, that must mean it's Meltdown Monday.

[Guest or Contributor]

Meltdown Monday. Happy Meltdown Monday today.

[Joe Bob]

All right, this is.

[Co-host]

I. I hope I didn't oversell this.

[Joe Bob]

Regarding the correct depiction of the nation

[Co-host]

starting as a Christian nation, here is Ayanna Pressley, Representative D. Having a full blown meltdown on pms. Now, this is cut eight. I cut nine.

[Podcast Advertiser]

I believe I have to just tell the truth. There are people in this hostile, anti black administration that would rather black Americans pick cotton than pick the president, then pick their congressperson, then pick a senior.

[Co-host]

Okay, so there's a lot going on here. First of all, we can't bypass the. This anti black administration, you know, despite black people in the administration.

[Joe Bob]

Uh, is anybody told them?

[Co-host]

I'm just, I'm curious. I'm not sure that anybody has. Um, but she did bring up a point that Libs, you know, like to talk about for whatever reason, they think we want black people to pick, pick cotton.

[Joe Bob]

That's just not true. But it's not true fiscally. I did the math and did a

[Co-host]

little bit of research and a little bit of homework on whether or not that would be a good decision, economically speaking.

[Joe Bob]

Not even just black people, just people in general.

[Co-host]

You may not have known this, but

[Joe Bob]

a hundred percent of the cotton, statistically

[Co-host]

speaking, in the America, in the United States of America, is picked by machine.

[Joe Bob]

So, okay, well, what would it actually cost if people were to pick cotton instead of the machines? Well, interestingly enough, if you adjust for

[Co-host]

like an average minimum wage based on state to state, not the federal government minimum wage, which is what, seven something in the states that actually grow cotton and therefore harvest cotton, if you were

[Joe Bob]

to have people do that labor instead

[Co-host]

of the machines and then pay them on an average basis, like a minimum wage based on the state, around $12,

[Joe Bob]

um, that would cost an estimated $8 billion more for the cotton industry in

[Co-host]

the United States of America.

[Joe Bob]

So just fiscal basis, no, we don't want that to happen. We are free market capitalists and believe that the best system should be used when you're developing a product, in this

[Co-host]

particular case, any sort of cotton products.

[Joe Bob]

It would cost an absurd amount more to have humans do the picking. So when Representative Pressley says for whatever

[Co-host]

reason we want black people picking cotton

[Joe Bob]

and not the president, I mean, obviously

[Co-host]

from a humanity standpoint, that's obviously not true.

[Joe Bob]

But even if you pare it down

[Co-host]

to an economic basis, that it doesn't

[Joe Bob]

make economic sense would cost 8 billion more dollars. You know what that would do to the prices at Old Navy? They would skyrocket. I, I, you know, I'm no fashionista, but at the same time, I, I'd

[Co-host]

like to, you know, not have the most baseline clothes. I like our clothes to, you know,

[Joe Bob]

be a little bit. In other words, if the cotton industry in the United States were to, I think, 10 increase by tenfold the cost of picking cotton, that would, that would inflate prices of clothing to an astronomical level. And if you can't understand the satire

[Co-host]

in this, I 1 pity you. But even on a, on a real

[Joe Bob]

basis, that would be ridiculous.

[Co-host]

Obviously all of this is ingest, considering the fact that nobody actually wants this to, to it so to accuse us of doing so is, it's ridiculous on its face, which is probably why she said it in a meltdowny type fashion. But just even economically, it doesn't make sense. I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop Before I get myself in trouble because I also did look at the general height of cotton plants and given the mature cotton plants somewhere around four feet. I, I don't know. All of my black friends are taller than me.

[Joe Bob]

Like, what I think you would really

[Co-host]

want is like a shorter ethnicity of people picking the cotton.

[Joe Bob]

Again, even if we were to go

[Co-host]

that direction, which doesn't make economic sense, you know, taller folks probably not the best in order to be picking those

[Joe Bob]

plants, if that's what you think we

[Co-host]

want, which we don't.

[Joe Bob]

DVDcom did this get too far off the rails?

[Co-host]

Let us know.

[Joe Bob]

TPT USA.com will finish strong here with Man Mailbag.

[Co-host]

Coming up after the break. Don't go away.

[Questioner]

What is the best country in the world?

[Joe Bob]

What is the what?

[Questioner]

What is the best country in the world?

[Joe Bob]

Mexico, definitely. For sure. Mexico, Mexico.

[Guest or Contributor]

Mexico.

[Questioner]

So why do you think these people don't want to go back?

[Guest or Contributor]

I think it's because we sacrifice a lot to be here. And, you know, there's. We all want people to come in the right way as well. But, you know, things are better over here in America and they're going to

[Joe Bob]

try their best to be here.

[Questioner]

You just said Mexico is the best country in the world.

[Podcast Advertiser]

It is.

[Guest or Contributor]

It is. But I think that.

[Joe Bob]

Oh, sorry. Okay. I.

[Co-host]

No, no further commentary. That's that. I mean, that she just did it.

[Guest or Contributor]

She.

[Joe Bob]

This is why. I think, this is why I'm such

[Co-host]

a fan of aoc.

[Joe Bob]

I think the more we give that

[Co-host]

woman a microphone, the more she makes the case for us.

[Joe Bob]

We don't really even need to respond. There's no response necessary here. It's just obvious.

[Co-host]

So great.

[Joe Bob]

All right, mailbags. TPTP USA.com first email. We're gonna.

[Co-host]

I've mentioned that disagreements are welcome.

[Joe Bob]

It's okay to be wrong.

[Co-host]

In our inbox. TPTP USA.com first email comes from Chase

[Joe Bob]

regarding our comments around education.

[Co-host]

He said, I'll summarize briefly. We're talking about last week that the American education system, if you were to start from scratch, you would not design it anywhere near what it currently is. You probably get rid of 70% of what the education system from the government level actually is now, and you'd probably rebuild it in something that is actually more beneficial to the students going out into the real world.

[Joe Bob]

He says, though he disagrees.

[Co-host]

Such as foreign language.

[Joe Bob]

No foreign language.

[Co-host]

Foreign languages are amazing. They're a wonderful way to learn. You are wrong to say that it should not be required. I think required is actually the hinge point. There, Chase. And feel free to email back if you disagree. I didn't say that they should be banned.

[Joe Bob]

I shouldn't be required. If you would like to take Spanish class, you should be able to do

[Co-host]

so in government schools.

[Joe Bob]

The problem is, and I think you

[Co-host]

might agree with me on this one,

[Joe Bob]

is that the folks who do like to learn foreign languages are consistently held back by the people in that same class who are required to be there. In other words, if you just had a.

[Co-host]

Take, for example, Spanish class, and you love foreign languages, and that's totally fine,

[Joe Bob]

but all of the people in that Spanish class chose to be there, the amount of learning that they would do in that class would be astronomical. Rather than also having, you know, 70%

[Co-host]

of the class, 80% of the class going like, I'm here because it's a requirement and I gotta fill out my, you know, general ed whatevers.

[Joe Bob]

Right? If.

[Co-host]

If those people weren't in the class because they weren't required to be there,

[Joe Bob]

the actual people who wanted to learn

[Co-host]

the foreign language would probably excel greatly,

[Joe Bob]

which I think, to your point, would

[Co-host]

help people who think foreign languages are, in fact, amazing. So there's the response there. Mark, who's a regular emailer, is the one who said, I want to encourage Jobob to pronounce all of the names. I tried doing that today. I'll.

[Joe Bob]

I'll try that.

[Co-host]

I'll reference you, Mark, every time I do in case I get myself in trouble for mispronouncing somebody.

[Joe Bob]

Um, let's see. King Flamingo, on the topic of whether or not I'm gay, says, honestly, I

[Co-host]

was totally surprised you're married with kids, too.

[Joe Bob]

I don't know if that's a complaint or not. I, like all of the people that I know are gay, are very well

[Co-host]

dressed and handsomely groomed.

[Joe Bob]

But also, you know, there's some downfalls to that as well.

[Co-host]

I don't know if I'd want to be seen as that. To wrap it up, Paul says, Rubio vance. Vance Rubio, 28. Ticket looks pretty great.

[Joe Bob]

More than we can get to.

[Co-host]

Maybe we'll do it tomorrow.

[Joe Bob]

TBT. TBSA.com is the email address. We'll see you tomorrow.

[Co-host]

Same time, same place.

[Joe Bob]

God bless America.