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Podcast Host
This is an I Heart podcast. What do you think makes the perfect snack?
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Snack Enthusiast
Hmm. It's gotta be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient.
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Podcast Host
Could you be more specific?
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Snack Enthusiast
When it's cravinient.
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Joe Bob
Okay.
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Snack Enthusiast
Like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter, available right down the street at am, pm Or a savory breakfast sandwich I can grab in just a second at am, pm.
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Podcast Host
I'm seeing a pattern here.
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Snack Enthusiast
Well, yeah, we're talking about what I.
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Podcast Host
Crave, which is anything from am, pm.
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Snack Enthusiast
What more could you want? Stop by A and PM where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient. That's cravy. Ampm too much. Good stuff.
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Joe Bob
Comey is trying to get out of his indictment without going to trial, even though he said, I can't wait to have a trial. Also, truckers around the country, you won't believe how many of them can't speak English, which actually is probably pretty important to, I don't know, communicate to other people on the road. Read traffic signs, so to speak. Also, rioters, a firsthand experience in Portland. And so much more is the death of DEI upon us. All that more coming up on this episode of Turning Point tonight. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback, generally speaking, through the mockery of terrible lib ideas. This is Turning Point tonight. Now, I recognize big elections last night. Here's my I don't know prognosis of the show this evening. I am going to. I'd be willing to bet that over the course of the last 24 hours, you have seen punditry the likes of which only come around every two years when elections happen. Well, I guess we're in an off year right now, but bottom line, there have been a lot of people talking about elections, I'm assuming for the entire day. And while I do think those are important, there's also other important things going on that I think we should touch on here today. So for at least today, we're going to skip the election talk. Specifically, if there's anything notable that I haven't seen been talked about on all the other outlets on this channel. Specifically, you know, we'll talk about it maybe later on in the week because that's when you usually have a better idea of what actually happened, when exit polls become more clear, when all of these things become more apparent. But for now, there are things that I think are very, very important that are going to get skipped over because the elections happen. And I would take, guarantee you you've already listened to enough of that talk as of when you're watching this. So that being said, I thought this was so interesting. The New York Times, which I read and follow voraciously to punish myself for my sins and bring you the content that you wouldn't otherwise see. Because sometimes the New York Times accidentally tells the truth, because I do that. I come across stuff that I don't know, generally conservative media doesn't see or wouldn't talk about. And this particular interview I thought was fascinating from the New York Times. They interviewed Jennifer Lawrence, who is a movie star. If you don't know her act well, you're about to see her, and I would guarantee you're going to go, oh, yeah, I know who that is. But the New York Times interviewed her specifically about her talking about politics the other day. We talked about George Clooney, obviously famous actor who has delved into politics, wrote a big op ed that got Joe Biden out of the race and now is criticizing Kamala Harris. Uh, what did he say? The. The only problem is she had to run on her record. Bottom line, people in the entertainment industry are no strangers to politics, which is what I think made this interview so interesting. This particular part specifically. Uh, watch this clip. I believe this is cut to Jennifer Lawrence on the New York Times podcast being asked on whether or not she's going to continue being involved in politics. And just so you know, spoiler alert. Uh, she was very, very vocal about being super anti Trump in 2016, but has changed her tune, and I think that's a good thing. Watch this.
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Podcast Host
You have been politically outspoken in the past, in the first Trump administration. You know, you had a lot to say. I'm curious how you feel about talking out now. I don't really know if I should. I think, like, the first Trump administration was so wild and just how can we let this stand? Like, I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. And so then what am I doing?
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Joe Bob
So obviously I disagree with her on the Trump administration the first time around, being wild. And I don't agree with her, politically speaking. But that is a really astute observation made by an artist who doesn't believe in the same political philosophy as I do or as you do. What she said, though, is fascinating to see in the kind of the context of where we are. Jennifer Lawrence doesn't believe accurately, by the way. That celebrities, endorsements of politicians actually make any difference. And what she believes now, especially, you know, after she was very, very vocal in the first Trump administration about how much she hated the guy, is actually backed up by statistics and backed up by polling. Interestingly enough, there was a polling organization that was asking two specific questions, and this has been redone and reinforced many, many times. But just this specific poll asked the question of whether or not someone voting for Trump had their vote influenced by celebrities. Uh, the people that said it made no difference, 77%, uh, 9% said that they were more likely to vote for President Trump because of a celebrity endorsement. But interestingly enough, a celebrity endorsement made them less likely to vote for a particular candidate 12% of the time. In other words, insignificant whatsoever. Also interesting is when they asked the question about Kamala Harris, 70, 74% of people said, well, that doesn't make any difference. 10% of them said, it's more likely. Even more interesting than that, 14% of the of the people that responded said, well, the celebrity endorsement actually makes me want to vote for the other person, which is crazy. So it is a very good observation made by somebody who I don't agree with politically that, that, yeah, celebrities don't actually make much of a difference when they are vocal on the nose about their policy ideas. Now, here's where it gets interesting. With artists specifically, good art has to be based in truth, has to be based in reality. If you've seen a movie and you're like, that movie didn't really work and you can't really identify why it didn't work for you, the chances are that movie wasn't rooted in realistic outlining or realistic depictions of what real life actually looks like. Art that even I disagree with the outcome of it is still can be good if what they're doing is representing something that exists in real life. Which leads me to this next clip from Jennifer Lawrence, which I found even more interesting, especially considering someone who I disagree with recognizing the power of art and what art actually does. If you keep your mouth shut about political issues that you don't actually improve or move in any way, shape or form being a quote, unquote celebrity. Watch this clip. Cut three. This is the same interview.
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Podcast Host
I think I'm in a complicated recalibration because I'm also an artist, and I, with this temperature and the way that things can turn out, I don't want to start turning people off to films into art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don't like my political Opinions. I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I'm. What I'm doing, what I'm showing. And if I can't say something that's gonna speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature, some sort of solution, I just don't want. I don't. I don't want to be a part of the problem. I don't want to make the problem.
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Joe Bob
Worse in your head at home, by yourself, maybe whisper it to your spouse, maybe sitting next to you. What was one movie in the last couple years that had a big impact, that you were like, yes, this movie is awesome. We really appreciate it being made and we loved going to the movie theater to see it. Okay, now ask yourself, why was it Top Gun Maverick? Well, the reason is because Top Gun Maverick did something that the art world has not been doing for. For so long, and it depicted something that is real, that is American ingenuity. It is a compelling story of bravery and courage and camaraderie and loyalty, all within a Hollywood movie that was made. Well, what I'm trying to get at here is that art in its truest sense represents truth, whether you agree with the policy decisions or the policy outcomes or the political ideology of the artists making the art. Even Jennifer Lawrence, in the most recent movie that I saw her in, accidentally told the truth about something. No Hard Feelings is a movie that she starred in very recently. Actually 2023, I believe is when this came out. It was a comedy. It was kind of raunchy, but I did watch it. And the most interesting thing about it is it depicted a real life problem promulgated in this case by Libs. It was the not to give away the entire plot. The plot was she was a 30 year old bartender Uber driver whose mother had passed away. And because her mother had passed away, her property taxes got re.
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Ari Hoffman
Re.
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Joe Bob
Reevaluated and her property taxes went up. And so she had to scramble and find other jobs and deal with real life issues that are generally promoted by. By libs. In other words, even though I don't dis. I don't agree with her politically speaking, she made art in the form of a movie that depicted the real life problems that everyday Americans go through. And even if you don't agree with her, politically speaking, you'll watch that movie and go, yeah, property taxes are terrible. Now, is the entire movie premise based around property taxes and whether or not we should get rid of them or lower them or just outlaw them entirely in every specific municipality that enforces them? No, but it depicts a real life American problem that is only conveyed well enough through an artistic medium. So even though I disagree with her politically, it is interesting. One that she says one celebrities don't really have any sort of sway to begin with, and two, if she says I'm going to stick to making art, and if other celebrities and movie stars say I'm going to stick to making art, believe it or not, they're going to accidentally tell the truth more often than not if they are making good art. I just thought that was really interesting and I wanted to bring that to you because I can almost guarantee you nobody here is watching the New York Times podcast. I do it one to, you know, bring you stuff like that, but also two to pull punish myself for my sins. That being said, in an entirely different version of punishing myself for my sins, we have the death of dei, possibly. I thought this was a really interesting article from Andrew Stiles in the Free Beacon talking about Karine Jean Pierre and her new book that has been coming out. We've made a lot of fun of kjp, the identity hire that was also serving as the President's spokeshole for the last couple years. She was the first black, gay, lesbian, immigrant, queer, all of the things. She was the first of all of the things. And yet her book that has been released has been so hilariously bad that even people on the left thinks maybe the whole DEI thing is not exactly the best route to go with. I want to play you a montage of her on her book tour, which has gone disastrously hilarious for the rest of us to watch, especially if we didn't like the fact that you just she just got a job because of her race and gender and sexuality and immigration status. It has been hilarious for all of us to watch. So I want to play you a montage of that. It's a little bit long, but trust me, it's worth it. She does reiterate one single point a ton of times. Watch this cut 5 and for me.
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Karine Jean-Pierre
As a Black woman, as a person who's also lgbtq, and as a Black woman being a Black woman, I understood as a Black woman, as a person of color, a Black person, as a Black woman, I'm a Black woman. As a Black woman myself, I am a Black woman. I am a queer woman. I am an immigrant. And so for me, I represent communities that make matter. Being a Black woman, someone in this skin and in this obviously part of, in this gender, being a Black woman, being part of the LGBTQ community I was the first black woman as White House, as White House press secretary, queer community, LGBTQ community. I'm a black woman. I can speak to that. I'm obviously, I'm speaking to myself. LGBTQ community as this immigrant, queer black girl who was told you I would never amount to anything. And I have my queerness too, which is very important to me. I know I say as a black woman, but as a person, I was like, wait, what's going on here? Why are we doing this? As a black woman who has walked through the walls of the White House, first I want to say I've always had an independent streak. If people who know me know that this book is probably not all that surprising. My mom would tell you when she was asked what was correct, like as a kid, she was like, oh, you know, Kareem would be in the room. If she couldn't figure something out, she would stay up all night trying to figure it out. So I am like innately that type of person.
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Joe Bob
Unconfirmed reports suggest that her mom was talking about trying to turn the nightlight off. Just stayed up all night with the light blaring in her face because she couldn't figure out how to turn it off. Also, she walked through the walls of the White House. I think that's destroying history, right? As deconstructing the White House. Just smashing through walls like the Hulk. But if you didn't catch it, cream John Pierre, the identity hire that served as the White House spokes hole, is in fact a black woman. A gay black woman immigrant did so many firsts. And because of that, even the libs are saying, yeah, the whole DEI thing may not be the trajectory that we want to stay on. I'm just gonna read you a paragraph from Andrew Stiles of the Free Beacon because I thought the writing was so funny. Kareem Jean Pierre can't stop making history. Earlier this year, the former White House press secretary became the highest ranking openly queer French born black woman with a hyphenated surname. To publicly renounce the Democrat party for being mean to Joe Biden. That's some great writing, Andrew. She is the only black female lesbian immigrant to publish a book about her time in the Biden administration is the worst political memoir ever written in the history of the English language, by the way. Not to gloss over the fact that she's no longer a Democrat. She's decided that now I'm going to be. What did he say? The first French board black woman with a hyphenated public name to not be a Democrat anymore. She's decided she is so fed up with people being mean to Joe Biden that she's no longer a part of that political party. But like I said, even libs are now saying, yeah, maybe prioritizing this lady because she checked all of the diversity boxes wasn't exactly the best thing to do. Andrew Styles writes in the Free Beacon, her egregious performance in an interview with the New Yorker. New Yorkers, Isaac Chanier, I think that's how you pronounce his name. A Democratic strategist likened that interview to Mike Tyson fighting a baby. In other words, even libs have had it with this type of nonsense. The bottom line here at the end of the day, and to tie both of these things together is that the theme of, you know, conservatism nowadays is accepting reality and accepting human nature for what it is. At the end of the day, reality bats last. Whether you are a celebrity endorsing a political candidate, recognizing, hey, this actually doesn't matter all that much, or if you're promoting yourself as the first whatever to do whatever along lines that don't actually matter, along characteristics that are immutable and literally could not matter less, uh, the end of the day, reality bats last. That is why I am optimistic about the conservative movement. That is why I think the conservative movement will prevail in the face of all of the adversity, because even the main libs who are against everything we do ideology wise, can't ignore reality in front of their face. We got a lot to catch you up on today. The truckers that are in this country illegally and two who don't speak the language. Fascinating statistics coming out of there that you may have heard, you may not have heard. Also, a firsthand glimpse at what it's like to be persecuted for writing in the Portland hellhole that we call a city in the United States of America. And then we'll also probably touch on the Affordable Care act because I think, well, a lot of things happen with the show today. That's why we're going to hit that. Specifically the Affordable Care act, which made healthcare unaffordable for most Americans. All that more coming up on this episode of turning point tonight. Tptpusa.com is the email. Also, go subscribe to our YouTube channel, where you get unseen content that we just can't cram in to the short amount of time we have here together with all of you fine folks. Go to our YouTube channel and subscribe to the Turning Point tonight. YouTube channel. We'll be right Back after the break. Don't go away.
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Joe Bob
Welcome back to Turning Point tonight, where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback, generally speaking through the mockery of terrible lib ideas. TPTPUSA.com is the email if you'd like to send us your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. Do you think more celebrities are going to start recognizing the fact that, hey, our political endorsements don't actually mean anything? And it's also interestingly because. Interesting enough because that really only happens on the lib side of the aisle. Uh, I guess in theory there are some celebrities that have come out pro Trump, but that actually does matter more, at least in my anecdotal observation of it, because a lot of those people are actually risking something. People. It's always funny to me when libs are like, I am putting my career on the line to say something that everybody in my industry already agrees with. Like, yeah, that. I don't think that really does much for you. It doesn't do anything for your circle and it especially doesn't do anything for the voting populace. As we've seen through countless polls that say, yeah, celebrity endorsements don't actually matter specifically on the lib side of the aisle. So let us know your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms, tbt@tpusa. You can also go subscribe to our YouTube channel which is growing by leaps and bounds. I believe in the group, the production group chat we had today, we passed a million views, which is fantastic and you don't want to miss out. So go to YouTube. Go to the Turning Point tonight, YouTube channel subscribe there. You get un unseen exclusive content only to the Internet because we don't have time to fit everything into this short hour we have with you here on Real America's Voice, our YouTube channel. Also Rumble x Facebook Rum. I already said rumble all of the social media platforms you'll be able to find all of that content. There's also a podcast that we're starting to roll out getting this in more like listening format. So be, be on the lookout for all of that. You're not going to want to miss any second of that. You know, I recognize this is sounds repetitive, maybe that I've found this interesting, but because everything that comes on the show I find interesting or else it wouldn't be on the show. Portland, we all know is a peaceful bastion of peace, prosperity, love and zero rioting. At least if you're a lib posting a picture of a park, I don't know, a midday on a Tuesday, look, there's no rioting happening in this camera shot right here. Meanwhile, behind you, these streets are ablaze and cars are on fire and smoke bombs are going off, especially when it gets dark outside. One of the reasons why I'm wow, tangent on tangent on tangent. This is why I'm such an anti daylight savings timeist is because it gets darker earlier and in places like Portland that means the crazies come out sooner. And you know, maybe if, maybe if the sun doesn't set until 7:00pm, you know, in the Pacific Northwest, which I recognize doesn't really happen until like the summer anyways, but maybe, just maybe if we can eke out a little bit more daylight, I don't know, the crazy people will be too high to leave their couch and go destroy taxpayer funded anything. And maybe that would be a good thing. But that's one of the many reasons why I'm anti daylight savings. But we don't need to get into that entirely right now. Bottom line is this. We've been talking about Portland for several weeks now. Prior to that, several years after they had their hundred consecutive days of riots and then took like a week long break and then had another hundred days of consecutive riots. Bottom line, Portland is flipping nuts. They have great coffee, but they're flipping nuts. One of the most interesting things though in the modern age of technology and video equipment and the broader Internet as a whole, is you get to piece together different stories that kind of culminate into a hilariously ironic video, which is like one we're about to show you right now. We have a firsthand experience of a brave rioter who is taking the task to the Trump administration and all of the evils that they are doing. However, thanks to the Internet and thanks to the ubiquity of cameras, there's been some discrepancies in what this guy is saying. There is an interview with him in which he, he details just, he's just an innocent bystander, but unfortunately for him, the video footage paints a different story. This is rather long, but I Do think it's very funny and very interesting and very ironic. Maybe we'll jump in when there's commentary space. But watch this and enjoy with me.
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Portland Rioter
I'm only 4 foot 6 and I can't see. What harm was I gonna do to them? Don't you tell me what to do.
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Joe Bob
You.
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Portland Rioter
You have no idea how much I.
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Joe Bob
Would like to beat the.
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Portland Rioter
I decided that I was going to sit. So I was sitting in the grass and my legs were just barely in the driveway and they came up, I think there were six of them, and they grabbed me and they started to drag me across the driveway on the ground. They put their foot or something on my back and something, some part of them on my neck. It was scary. There's nothing in my socks, dumbass.
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Joe Bob
My feet are too small.
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Portland Rioter
Being dragged across the ground when you can't see burning around you. They call Portland a war zone. The only people that's making it a war zone is ice.
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Joe Bob
Here's actually what I think is happening here. Uh, I think that's ableism. Whatever news organization decided to bring that guy on. What is he, 4 foot 6 and I think he's blind. Which, you know, unfortunate circumstances. Don't, don't wish that to befall anybody, even our enemies. But they say, hey, describe your experiences. Well, I was just sitting on the grass, which by the way, if we were to play that back, there's no grass like anywhere near him. Even the planter was like dirt. I don't know what grass he was talking about. I was just sitting on the grass and my leg happened to be just a little bit in front of the driveway. Maybe, maybe benefit of the doubt, he didn't know that he was sitting in front of the driveway. That's the only benefit of the doubt that I think we could give this guy. But at the same time, shame on those reporters, whoever that news station was that was like, hey, let's bring this guy on camera, he'll give his side of the story. Maybe they are kind of like old school reporters that don't know that the Internet can dredge up all of this stuff and go, oh, yeah, that guy that you put on your channel who happens to be blind and it's holding a teddy bear for some reason and also happens to be very, very short. All of the things that he said on your news program was a lie. So either there is, I don't know, some sort of modern times incompetence to where the news organization that had him on didn't know or didn't understand that the Internet has all of these things and will happily stitch it together to make this guy look foolish or they did know and therefore it's ableism and I, I don't I disavow that entirely and wholeheartedly. That's very, very mean of those news station people to do and it was very, very funny. I hope you appreciated that as much as I did because I just, I thought that that was fantastic. And good job Internet for stitching all of that stuff together to kind of prove the point that hey, generally speaking, if the rioting lunatics libs are speaking, good chance they're they're lying. Kind of like we saw with what was her name Cat Boogs was the person that was politically being prosecuted for just protesting. Now you're standing in front of a car, you dumb dumb silly. We got a lot more to get to today. We're going to talk to Ari Hoffman about Comey. He's trying to get the trial dismissed even though he said I am ready for a trial. I that is coming up next. TPTPUSA.com is the email go subscribe to our YouTube channel where you get unseen content that we can't fit in the show here only on our YouTube channel. We will be right back after the break. Don't go away. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback. You can email the show anytime you want. Tptpusa.com we love each and every one of your emails. Doesn't matter if you you agree with everything we've ever said on the show or you're wrong. Send those thoughts to tptp USA.com youm can also go subscribe to our YouTube channel where you get exclusive segments never before seen on this show because we don't have time to fit in all of the awesome things that we want to talk about specifically here. So you got to go to social media, our YouTube channel specifically, which is growing by leaps and bounds. Also Rumble, Twitter, x Instagram, all of the platforms. Just, just type in job. You'll be able to find it. Joining us again is Ari Hoffman, show favorite to talk about some interesting elements going on. Ari, I do want to ask you about the world's tallest communist, who I used to think was Bill de Blasio, but I now think is actually James Comey. But before that, for that interesting story, I'd like to ask about remote work. You in fact are in an office. Without divulging too much information, I am in fact in an office. There seems to be a lot of people returning to work across the country after the Foushee fever sent out everybody home and outside of the office space. That being said, a bunch of bosses around the country have been like, hey, yeah, we don't work as well together remote than we do in person. So we actually do need to come back to the office. That has stoked a revolt from the workers saying, hey, we want to work at home, but we'll take way less money or just baseline right. Be out before we get into kind of the nitty gritty statistics of it. Your thoughts on working from home versus working in the office. Where are people actually more productive in your anecdotal view of it?
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Ari Hoffman
I like to work in the office, but the tech people in Seattle like to work from home. And I hope they stay there because ever since they've been ordered back to the office, traffic here has been an absolute nightmare. I got this gig during COVID and I was able to cruise into my office in about 15, 20 minutes. Now it's taking 30, 40 or longer because of it. But here's the thing. Yes, people do not work as well when they are working remotely. Depending on the industry that they're in. There are people who are very, very productive and can keep their attention on their computer and not Netflix and chill or whatever else they're doing at home. We do their work from home, but certain people need to be an environment. Look, Joe Bob, I don't know about you, I am not a multitasker. If there are things happening around me, if my kids are running around or anything else going on, I cannot concentrate, I cannot get anything done. It's not unreasonable to say this job, we hired you in the office, that because of this world changing event, you had to go home for. We want you back now. Where the problem is, is especially in the tech world where they said, okay, we're going to adapt to this new normal. And what they did was they said, you can have X amount of days at home, but they're still figuring out they're not as productive there. You have a problem because you made a deal with your own employees, we're going to let you do this stupidity as opposed to saying, no, you want to work for us. When this stupidity is over, you, you're coming back. And a lot of people here actually moved elsewhere or got jobs elsewhere or got laid off for a whole bunch of reasons here with Amazon and Microsoft possibly bailing on Washington and have now adapted to an entirely new schedule where they could have those demands over a different employer.
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Joe Bob
Ari, I'll be completely honest with you and the audience. I was planning on pretending to be texting as a joke and say, I'm sorry I missed that kind of highlighting the fact that people are not productive. But then you talked a little. I was doing this for a little bit too long and the audience is probably going, what the heck is going on here? And I wasn't. I wasn't able to sufficiently land the joke. So I appreciate your in depth analysis. Also, keep it shorter next time or I can't make the joke that I want to make. So here's why. Here's what?
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Ari Hoffman
Shorter? Joe Bob, that just ain't gonna happen, man.
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Joe Bob
Here's. Here's why I think this is interesting. There's. The Wall Street Journal had an article about how much less people are willing to take in order to work remotely. So from several studies conducted between 2017 and 2025, people were willing to accept between like 5 and 10% less to work at home. And that includes throughout the entire Fauci fever scenario in 2020. Nowadays, people are willing to estimated take. Take an estimated 25% less in order to work at home. What does that say? Right? Does that. Does that say, hey, I'm actually aware of the fact that I'm going to be distracted by my kids running around or by my wife asking me to do the same chore that she's been asking for six months. And even though she's been asking for six months, I'll get it done eventually. She doesn't need to keep reminding me every other week. Aside from that, is that, like, built into the pricing nowadays for employees? Do you think that there's a built in 25% lower productivity, therefore I'm willing to accept 25% less money? Or is it just the convenience of wanting to work at home?
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Ari Hoffman
I think it's a little bit more than that. There's also the economics of working from home. Now. You don't have to necessarily get the childcare. Now, you don't necessarily have to have the car or the gap or anything else that factors into it. So they're probably doing their math in their heads. Wait a minute. If I can be home on a more flexible schedule and my wife's going to have the honeydew list for me, and the kids are going to need this and I'm saving the money. We'll do a little quick math here. Hey, I'm coming out ahead or I'm coming out a little behind. But now I have the flexibility in my schedule, my wife's not going to kill me anymore. Those. That's part of the equation as well. And I think also we have a generation where these kids coming out of college and you deal with them all the time, they think they are ripe for the corner office, fresh out of college. They think they're entitled to everything, and they think, well, it's my schedule. My employer's lucky if I show up today because I'm here for them. I'm doing them a service. Especially the ones who've been brainwashed by this communist propaganda to think there's no company without the worker. Not that this guy founded it in his basement or his garage and created this massive tech tech company selling textbooks. So you factor all that in together. In addition to the people who are my age and a little bit older who are going, you know what? I worked my tail off for years. I'd rather just take my Fridays off. You factor all that in. That's what you're looking at with those numbers.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, it's so true. On the. The college kids coming out say, I should be the COO of this country. I know I'm 22 years old with zero experience, but everyone should treat me as royalty. Ooh, that's a. That's too common, unfortunately, in the college graduate world. Also, everybody needs to pay my student debt. It's not that I signed up for it. You should pay it. Um, so, okay, buried. Not. Not buried the lead, but definitely saved this for the end. Uh, Jim Comey, James Comey, former FBI director, who was indicted by a federal grand jury, put out this video. You know, of course he is. He is the epitome of what righteousness and justice is. He said in a video that he posted the day that he was indicted, I'm ready. I'm not afraid. Let's have a trial. Well, since then, him and his team have been doing everything they can to get out of having a trial by filing a bunch of different motions and making it so that super difficult to ever actually go to trial. And I think he's probably trying to push this until after Trump is out of the White House or, you know, he's died of old age. And I think that's his strategy. But one of the interesting parts about that strategy is this. Uh, Comey seeks to have indictment Time. This is from CBS News. Comey seeks to have indictment tossed, arguing that senators questions were confusing and ambiguous. In other words, Ari, Jim's Comey's best defense here is. Well, Ted Cruz confused me with his questions, I was not smart enough to answer them. Therefore, I should not be liable for the things that I said. Do you think, Ari, that this is gonna stand? Do you think a judge is going to toss the case over Jim Govey being confused by Senator Cruz's questioning?
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Ari Hoffman
God, I'm stealing that phrasing from my show and giving you no credit. That is just excellent way to put that. It's amazing to me that the Democrats are going along with this narrative. It's on video.
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Joe Bob
We all.
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Ari Hoffman
What he did. The fact that I still have to say allegedly because of journalistic integrity kills my very soul because it's on video. Video of him being a moron. I'm sorry, but being a moron is not an excuse for breaking the law. And if he is the guy who actually leaked all this information, or he's the one who ordered the information be leaked, he has a major problem. Look, Joe, Bob, I don't know how much investigative journalism you do, but here in Seattle, when I'm doing these pieces and I have to reach out to the FBI for comment, I always get the same response every time. The FBI does not comment on ongoing investigations. And the reason they say that is because the second somebody is said to be the subject of an investigation, we all assume that they are guilty, and that's the public perception. And James Comey made that happen in what he did, and he may have intentionally done it, but lying to Congress, I don't think there's any question that he did that. There's a video of it. I'm sure somebody can go watch it on YouTube right now.
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Joe Bob
Now. Well, first of all, already answer your question of how much investigative journalism I do, the answer is zero. Secondly, I apologize for the deadening of your soul. I'm sorry that you have to go through that. It's a very traumatic situation for us, and I'm sure for you. Lastly, I wonder if that sort of defense would have worked for President Trump. Did he accidentally spend a ton of money and a ton of time and a ton of his life fighting these cases when he could have just said, I. Sorry, I know. Too smart. I dumb, dumb. Uh, please throw away the case. Uh, if that would've worked, you know, maybe, you know, maybe. Maybe Trump unfortunately wasted a ton of his own time, which he could have been spent, you know, playing golf, playing. Being with his kids, being with his grandkids. Uh, I don't know. I just. I. I have to believe that this is not going to work, and I hope that it's not going to work. But you know, never underestimate the stupidity of people in the position of ruling on whether or not stupidity is the actual reason for what it is that they're doing. That was convoluted, maybe stupid in and of itself, but Ari Hoffman, thank you so much. Your commentary is always well appreciated. Appreciate you taking the time.
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Ari Hoffman
Always a pleasure to be here, buddy.
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Joe Bob
Thank you. TPT is the email tptp USA.com send us your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms. Do you think James Comey will get off by being too stupid to understand Senator Cruz's questions, or do you think he will actually have to stand the trial that he was so excited for in his video to social media? We will be right back after the break. Don't go away. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback through the mockery of terrible lib ideas. Tptpsa.com is the email if you'd like to send us your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms, even. How much, how much did we all enjoy that irony in the little cut that was put together? I got to find I was found that video floating on X. I got to find whoever put that together and give them credit because that was fantastic. And that probably took a lot of combing through footage to get to that putting all that in place. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel TBT or TurningPoint tonight on YouTube, Rumble X, Facebook, all of these social media platforms. You can find us there. Let's see, I thought I got to figure out a new phrase because I thought this was super interesting is kind of the standard. Like yeah, of course it's super interesting. That's why we have it on the show. But for some reason I'm a one trick pony and that's the only thing I can say. I thought, I thought this was interesting. Well, of course it's interesting. We are unfortunately not unfamiliar, better way to phrase that. Very familiar with the trucker problem in the United States of America. About 10 years ago, there was a big panic of not having enough truckers. That kind of died down. And unfortunately it died down because truckers were being hired who don't speak the language, can't read traffic signs and we're here in the country illegally. We've covered extensively the idea that California is giving out commercial driver's licenses, specifically in Yuba county, which is the thing that we dove into a while back that we don't necessarily need to rehash right now. But overall, truckers in this country are A problem. Not your American English speaking truckers whose crash rates, I'm sure are much, much lower than the illegals who can't speak the language. But the federal government thankfully is taking action on this over the weekend. A couple days ago, Breitbart reported that 145 illegal alien truck drivers were arrested in the state of Indiana alone. Not across the country, not in, you know, the biggest state in the Union, but in one state in Indiana not known for being the most populous state in the union, 145 people who are driving trucks, trucks, effectively weapons right on streets, next to families in minivans were arrested who are not in the country legally. And we're still for some reason driving big rigs. On top of that, in the last couple of weeks, the federal government has yanked 7,200 over 7,000 truck drivers licenses because those people can't speak English. If you remember the insane story, the horrific story that happened out of Florida where the guy made some random U turn in the middle of a highway and tragically killed three people. Got like a 30% on his English testing, identified like one out of four traffic signs. That cannot happen in this country. That is an insane way to run the most powerful country on the face of the earth. That being said, it is unfortunate. I, I'm thankful that the federal government is cracking down. But unfortunately, videos like this have become too commonplace on the Internet for my comfortability. Uh, watch this. It's again, rather lengthy, but I think it's fascinating. Some guy is driving the wrong way. And by the way, thankfully there is a an American English speaking truck driver who says what the hell are you doing? Check this out. Cut four.
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Truck Driver
You have got to be kidding me. I mean, what the are, dude, what. What are you doing?
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Joe Bob
I'll go the other side.
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Truck Driver
Let me ask you a question, man. Okay, you are going the wrong way down the freeway. You are committing a felony right now. Okay, what I'm doing? Well, one, why the going the wrong way down the freeway?
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Joe Bob
If that doesn't scare the living crap out of you, I don't know what will. Furthermore, I think there's a really interesting argument here and I'll connect these. Well, it's pretty self evident why they're connected for not driving EVs. Not because, you know, you hate the environment or you don't like Elon or all of the dumb reasons about EVs are, are very, very small and subtle when you actually put this into context. Do you want to be driving a small little Nissan Leaf? And sorry to pick on the Nissan Leaf when there are people driving thousand pound thousands of pounds down the highway at very high speeds who have no idea what the actual rules are. Which brings me to an interesting topic of the fact that Americans, for this reason among many do not want evs or specifically small cars. Just to read off the top selling vehicles in the United States because I think this all ties together in the the idea that Americans want to feel safe on the road and don't currently because all of the illegals are driving trucks. The top selling vehicles in the United States are the Ford F1 Ser or the F series. So F150s, F250s big trucks. Second to that are the Chevy Silverados. Then going down the list, Toyota RAV4, Honda CRVs, Ram pickup trucks, then a Tesla Sneaks in the Model Y, then the GMC Sierra before we finally get to a small sedan in the Toyota Camry. The bottom line here is that nobody wants to be in a small car. Nobody actually wants to be in an electric car. Despite how the lib media says well you gotta drive green and clean. And all of the things that the lib media says, did you know that all of those top selling vehicles are big cars? Why? Because Americans want to feel safe on the road and they currently don't. All of these things are tied together. The fact that the libs are trying to push illegals driving trucks and at the same time push these small electric vehicles don't make any sense. And to tie it back to the broader theme that we've been talking about today on this show is that the end of the day reality bats last. The American people don't feel safe on the roads because the truck drivers in this country don't speak English for some reason at way too high of a volume that I think surpasses our comfortability level. And they don't like EVs because for many other reasons, the fact they don't feel safe in them. People want big cars. Big cars save lives. Personally speaking, I am a huge testament to this. We only drive big cars in our household because of, well, many reasons, but in part because so many people have been led in this country and for some reason given driver's licenses to make the roads more dangerous than I am comfortable with and therefore the bigger the car, the better in my household. TPTP USA.com is the email what what kind of car do you drive? Do you feel safe in that car knowing that there are thousands of truck drivers that don't speak English for some reason? Because well, we can get into the reasons why the Obama administration rolled back that licensing feature. The Trump administration thankfully is like, no, you have to speak English, but bigger, longer conversation for a different time. Tptpca.com is the email. We will be right back after the break. Don't go away. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback through the mockery of terrible lib ideas. Tptpsa.com is the email address. If you'd like to send in your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms would, would be warranted probably today I, you know, I wrestle with whether or not we want to give you a peek behind the scenes of the curtain. But a lot of tech issues today, not, not anyone's fault, not necessarily even trying to complain. But if there was a little bit of haphazardness that you might have noticed, especially in my performance, maybe that's an example as to pop up possibly why. So if you have criticisms, I understand. Well deserved. TBT PSA.com you can also follow us on social media. The Turning Point tonight, YouTube channel is growing by leaps and bounds. Thank you to all of those of you who have subscribed. Quick announcement. I will be in Jacksonville or, sorry, Jackson. Yeah, Jacksonville, Florida tomorrow with Megyn Kelly. Also Megyn Kelly, Miami on Friday and then the Atlanta area in Georgia, Duluth specifically I believe at the Gas South Arena. If you happen to be in the neck of the, in that neck of the woods and you happen to be attending any of those events, would love to see you, shake your hand, say hello. So keep an eye out. If you live in the Jacksonville or Miami or Atlanta area, if you see me, say hi, we'd love to see you. You know, this, this type of video that I want to play. Well, at the risk of going on into some crazy diatribe about people faking their way into victimhood, we've all seen it. The, the, the SNAP program, the food stamps that people are screaming about on the lib side of the aisle that are either paused or delayed due to the quote unquote shutdown, which probably most of you didn't even know was happening. Uh, the biggest problem, the standard conservative response is, okay, so 40 million people are having their food stamps delayed. The standard conservative response is do we really think that 40 million people absolutely need that? Because if you're looking at it from an objective standpoint, the people that need it, I'm willing to have that conversation. Personally, I would like for charity to be done through the church and not through the nameless, faceless government that people can take advantage of. But at the end of the day, I can understand the people that actually need it to say that every single one of those 40 million people need food stamps. I'm going to call BS on that. I guarantee you there's a high percentage of people that are just flat out lazy and, well, that needs to be reckoned with. And that is no further exemplified in this video. That is a bunch of guys laughing, which is, you know, accurate because it's, you know, kind of funny, but a guy who I guarantee you libs will die on the hill of. We need to help this poor gentleman, when in reality, he may not be as truthful with his. His disability as one might guess. Watch this and we'll very briefly discuss.
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Snack Enthusiast
I give you $5, you walk over.
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Truck Driver
Down here faking like.
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Joe Bob
I'm glad he's laughing because I am a little bit furious. As you probably are as well. We will be in Jacksonville tomorrow, Miami Friday, and then Saturday in Duluth, Georgia. We will see you tomorrow right here, same time, same place, on Real America's Voice. Don't. Or we'll see you then. God bless America.
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Podcast Host
This is an I Heart podcast.