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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Is law enforcement sent into areas where hot crime is
high just a political stunt. Well, there's actually a governor
that really thinks that, which is crazy. Holy cow. There's
an official US police department that is now putting Arabic
on their badges. That's an insane story that we'll definitely
have to talk about. And the whole no tax on
(00:29):
tips thing is really really interesting because there's some occupations
that oh, maybe I will identify maybe my entire salaries
as tip. I maybe trying to figure out how to
exploit that myself. I mean, sorry, irs, I'm gonna definitely
play by the rules here. But the whole tax on
tip thing is very interesting. All that more coming up
on this episode of thirty Points Tonight. My day is
Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Together, we
(00:50):
are charting the course of America's culturalill comeback. This is
turning point tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
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before we get to any of those stories and to
our fantastic panel, got a really interesting panel today. Want
to talk about the PBS News. Now, we're all aware
(01:16):
that PBS, NPR and the other public public the super
hyper aggressive left leaning taxpayer funded media outlets, are losing
their money. Well, now we're finding out what they're actually
going to do. And some of the numbers have caused
me and hopefully you to question how much money were
(01:38):
these people making. So the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was
the kind of umbrella term that they kind of divvied
out all the money. Well, they were getting five hundred million,
half a billion dollars from US taxpayers to go divvy
out to organizations that would at intentionally promote incredibly leftis
propaganda that is going away. PBS specifically was getting about
(02:01):
two hundred and sixty seven million dollars that they would
redisperse to local stations in the form of grants. Then
those grants were used to rebuy the PBS programming. It
was this whole kind of convoluted thing. We're super excited
that President Trump got rid of it. Now the question is,
why then are they only cutting fifteen percent of their staff.
(02:23):
That's the number that PBS has put out. The New
York Times reported it fifteen percent, meaning about one hundred
people are now gone from PBS. Okay, well, that makes
me wonder if they were getting two hundred million dollars
and one hundred people is fifteen percent of their employed staff.
That means about six hundred and fifty people work there.
What the heck do six hundred and fifty people at
jobs need two hundred and fifty million dollars over the
(02:47):
course of every single year. So then I got curious. Okay, well,
what do they actually make there? According to the most
recent data in twenty twenty three, the CEO of the
Public Service Broadcast Company was making one point two million
dollars a year. The average salary over there is about
(03:07):
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All of that is
to say this, if you needed any more reassurance that
stripping federal tax dollars from these organizations was a good idea,
there you have it. Everybody over there was making an
insane amount of money. And for what So that Sesame
(03:27):
Street could call your kid a transgender toddler, I don't
think so. Here comments on that and so much more.
His host of The Hannah Fawkner Show, Hannah Faukner and
filling in is our wonderful producer Glenn Hendrickson, making his reappearance,
not his debut. He's done this before on The Brining
Point tonight's show. Guys, thanks so much for joining. Really
(03:50):
appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thanks for having me. Thanks so much, Joe, Bob, Hannah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You know, I this is this might be a little
bit of a spicy take, but so often right, especially
when you're talking, and I don't want to get two
into the weeds here about the pension obligation that places have.
The estates have they talk about, well, you know, we
have to entice people to work here because they can
go make more money in the private sector. Well, yeah,
(04:17):
at the top high levels that is often true. But
for most regular jobs, what government job is paying out
like breadcrumbs. Generally speaking, all of the people that I
know that work government jobs are paid pretty dang well
apparently including PBS. Again, the average salary over there is
(04:37):
over one hundred and fifty about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. I don't know. Again, I think we all
probably agree on this. How much has this emboldened your
supportive like, yeah, we got to audit these places and
strip them of taxpayer funding because it's it's going to waste.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, I know, it's it's absolute insanity.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And you brought up a good point of not only
are our hardware taxpayer dollars going to these news doubtlets
who have a very strategic goal of indoctrinating and just
pushing very specific narratives to the American people, like Sesame
Street telling your kid that if they feel like a boy,
that can become a boy, and vice versa, and whatever
lunatic idea that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
They're pushing that day.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Not only are hard working dollars going to that, but
it is absolute insanity that it was that high one
point two million, you said of a salary for someone
who is working at a broadcasting station. I don't know
a single person in the private sphere that's making one
to one point two million dollars working for a media company.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
So it's outrageous.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
But I'm so grateful for President Trump, who is eliminating
all of this waste, fraud of views. And I think
the people who may be against what we're saying right
now are the ones who just want these very specific
narratives to be pushed out to the American people, like
your kid, if he feels like a boy can become
a girl.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, to your point, I was a little hesitant to
bring this on because now Glenn knows what he could
be making if he worked over at PBS. Neither one
of us were doing very well compared to those folks, Glenn,
do are we at risk of losing you to the
public broadcasting company, which, again, thank god, is no longer
going to be getting American tax payer dollars?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Sorry, I was just preparing my resume there. What did
you say. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
No, I don't think you're at risk of losing me.
But I think that PBS long ago lost the American people.
It no longer serves or represents the public, which is
in the name it's supposed to be in the mission.
And you know, I'm not opposed to liberals sharing their viewpoints.
I think it's best if it's balanced, and clearly there's
(06:43):
no balance at PBS. If there ever was, it was
ages ago, it hasn't been for a long time. Balanced.
If they had right and left both sharing their views,
both with an equal ability.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
To present their viewpoints.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
That would be great, but that's clearly not the case
that they've abused it. No public or I'm sorry, no
private company that does what they do could survive in
the market, and I think it's about time that they
have to fight for their own in the market.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah. I kind of think that fifteen percent number of
layoffs that they're doing is kind of the edge of
the iceberg. I think there's going to be a lot
more coming up after that, especially if people are making
absurd amounts of money, including your one point two million
dollar CEO, which, by the way, get it was like
two or three years ago that that information. That's probably
gone way up from there, and probably we'll go down
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quite a bit further.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, when you get into the numbers of these
sorts of things, that's where things get really like, wait
a minute, this is a pretty high proportion of this
which brings us to this raid in this Georgia Hyundai facility.
This is also kind of unfolding. There's a lot of
things going on right now about you know, who is it,
what is it? Four hundred and seventy five people as
(07:57):
of right now, have been detained at this man manufacturing
plant for Hyundai, the automotive manufacturer in the South Korea,
the South Korean auto manufacturer. I was looking into it.
The plant actually employs about twelve hundred people, So, Hannah,
over a third of those people were here illegally, at
(08:18):
least allegedly as it stands right now. Okay, yeah, you
want to get the illegals out of the country, But
is the foreign corporation going to pay any sort of
a penalty for having again, possibly a third of their
workforce be here illegally. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, there's a lot of companies, especially in the blue
collar industry, construction companies, that employ a lot of illegal aliens,
people who have been here for decades, and I obviously
it brings up a lot of questions. That's a lot
of the debate is going on of people who have
been here for a decade, two decades, three decades, should
they be deported And at the end of the day,
like we have allowed so many people into this country
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illegally that we're going to have to deport all of them. Yes,
of these large manufacturing companies, blue collar jobs like construction industries,
they're going to suffer. But that's what's going to happen
in this golden age of America as we reclaim the
American dream and what it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Means to be an American.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And I know we're going to get into this in
a second, but I think in our country we have
a really big problem with determining.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
What an American citizen actually is.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
And so just because you've been here for three four
decades illegally, that does not make you an American citizens.
So we're always going to have to start over from scratch,
which is really unfortunate. But this is what happens when
you let an insane amount of people to come across
our country illegally.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, if you ask a lib, I think an American
citizen is somebody who complains very very loudly that they
want to be here despite how much they dislike the country,
which is again so ironic that it's difficult to comprehend. Glenn,
you know, I've never asked you're in the country legally, right,
that's you are a US citizen. It's crazy to me
(09:56):
how many corporations, it's turned out, seem to depend on
illegal labor. And I kind of think, yeah, we got
to crack down on the individuals, but also the big
companies that are employing all these people and not giving
those jobs to American citizens or at least people that
are in the country legally that could have those jobs.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I agree completely. I am a millionth generation American. I
have ancestors that came over on the Mayflower, and I'm
quite proud of that. That is something very interesting that
my dad told me, at least, so I'm trusting him
on that.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He did that work. Anyways. Yeah, these companies that not only.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Employ, but rely on the employment of illegal immigrants to
conduct business, it's very sad and sick to me.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's almost perverse that. You know, in the food.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Industry, that farms rely so heavily on paying people like
poverty wages like that, and I don't mean to use
a Bernie Sanders phrase, but they do.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They rely on on skipping out and saving a.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Buck at the on the backs of the workers in
the fields, uh to you know, pass those savings onto us,
and then the food is cheaper and more people buy it,
and that just cycle. It continues, it continues, it continues,
and they're doing this here with the production of their cars,
and we see this over and over again in different industries.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's so sad. It's so sad. I can't imagine the
lives of those workers where they not only are here.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Illegally and maybe they even regret that they're here illegally,
especially now that you know laws are being enforced, but
they now fear coming forward to say I'm being mistreated
in the workplace, all my wages aren't high enough, all
they're breaking laws here and there. Now the employer can
get away with doing things that are bad to people
just in general, regardless of legal status. And to me,
(11:49):
that's just a very terrifying situation that to find yourself in.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Darn you, Glenn, for suckering us into possibly even feeling
bad for the individual because it is you're You're right.
You actually bring up a very good point. Not enforcing
law not only hurts American citizens, but it hurts the
people that come to this country thinking oh this everything's
gonna be hunky dory. Okay, Well, now you've just upended
their lives as well. So just just cut it off.
Stop people at the border. If you can come in,
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you can come in. If you can't, you can't, and
everybody else you knows good luck elsewhere. We're not gonna
waste you know, however, many years of your life you
think and you're gonna live here and then send you back.
It's unfair to really everybody involved. So that's that is
a good point and an interesting one to make. We
got to take a break, but I do want to
get to this tax on tip things relatively quick. We'll
(12:34):
do that after the break. Glenn and Hanna will be
back to discuss that. Talking about the the Arabic badges
on a United States Police Department's uniforms. Oh wow, don't
go away, We'll be right back after the break.
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In the last segment of the show, let's check in
with Turning Points. White House correspondent Monica Page at the
White House, which I'm told hasn't been renamed yet but
(14:17):
still possibly in the works. Because renaming, and I think
this is all positive, is a big point of priority
for the administration. I think everybody's probably aware of it.
But you're inside at the White House right now. Renaming
the Department of Defense the Department.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Of War it sounds pretty bad.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
I mean, this is something that I believe has been
a long time coming. I mean the President's kind of
tease this previously in the previous weeks, but this is
something that we'll re establish. The Warrior ethos that Defense Secretary,
or now seem to be called War Secretary Pete Hegseth
has really been trying to re establish, whether that's getting
people more excited about their military, more excited about survey
(15:00):
their country, more excited about physical fitness and serving, and
not worrying about wokeness or being or whiteness, as we
saw General Millie saying that there's toxic whiteness, or having
Lloyd Austin leave his post for surgery. We didn't know
where the heck he went all that time, and there's
nothing like that in this administration. We are re establishing
American pride, whether that's just a sense of patriotism within
(15:22):
our country but also within our military. And that's why
this is so important, because the President takes a lot
of pride in our military and wants to not only
establish this warrior ethos bringing that back again, but also
a toughness to our military, making us strong again, making
our adversaries look at us and say, okay, we don't
want to get into anything with the United States, because
(15:43):
they are literally the Department of War. And they're also
looking at changing the name of the Crest Briefinger into
like the War annex, which I think is also incredible.
All of this starts with rhetoric, Joe, Bob, and this
is a great step forward to re establishing our patriotism
and strength.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah. The only thing that I would quibble with if
the President happens to be watching. First of all, thank
you for watching, mister President. Always appreciate you tuning in.
I would say, let's also change the secretary, because the
Secretary of War sounds great. Maybe I don't know the
Master of War as Pete Hexath's official title would also
I think I like that better than secretary because secretary
just has, you know, its own different connotation. So, Monica,
(16:20):
what's what's the president up to this weekend? Going to
be headed to New York? What's he going to be doing?
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Yeah, so, as of tonight, he's going to be hosting
a dinner in a Rose Guard and he's got that
all set up in that new patio to good use,
that's for sure. But in the middle of next week
we're definitely going to see the President traveling to New York.
As we know, next week they will be commemorating the
twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven. This is something
that the President, of course, takes very seriously and keeping
our nation safe and honoring those who lost their lives,
(16:48):
and honoring those first responders who did everything that they
could to rescue those who were killed in that tragic incident.
And the President is going to be commemorating this incident
with a Yankees game in who'd be going to the
Yankees s game, I believe in New York City and
that's what he'll be for the week and meeting with
I'm sure first responders, firefighters, policeman and then he'll also
(17:11):
be spending an extended time there, going to the US
Open later that Sunday, So that's a week from now
just about. So he's got a lot going on. And
later this month he's going to the UK, so he's
got a very busy travel schedule ahead of the September.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, well, we'll I'll look forward to any and everything
that comes out of out of that, as per usual,
Monica page turning points, White House Correspondent, have a great weekend, Monica.
Thanks Jo Bob, you too, thank you. You know, earlier
in the show, we had a brief discussion of what
it means to be an American, I think and I
don't want to miss quote here, but I'm pretty sure
it was Pope John Paul the second that said, well,
(17:47):
language is the culture. Once you start up ending the language,
you've effectively lost the culture. Unfortunately, that's happening all over Europe,
and we're trying to not let it happen here, but
it is happening. We probably need to stop that. Let's
bring our panel back, Hannah and Glenn. Hannah, I would
(18:07):
like to let you go off on this. The Dearborn
Police Department. Everybody recognizes Dearborn is a famously very very
Islamic and also arab which are two different things but
kind of one and the same in the same sense,
putting Arabic on their police badges. Now your thoughts on
(18:29):
this new approach from the Dearborn Police Department.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, oh man, Well, for the longest time, a lot
of the left and most of the Democratic Party have
said that they're going to come here, They're going to
assimilate to our culture, it will be fine and dandy.
Much of these Islamic terrorists especially are not coming to
our country to assimilate. They're coming to take over the
United States of America. You look at what's happening in Europe.
It is a full blown Islamic takeover of the West
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of Europe, of the United States of America. It is
no coincidence that the Huti's logo, the Huti's flag says
death to Israel, death to America, victory to Islam. So
I don't think it's any coincidence that We've got Zorn
Mamdani about to be the first Muslim mayor not to
mention a communist in New York City. We've got Fata,
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this guy in Minneapolis about to become a mayor. He
is from Somalia. I mean, we've got people all across
the country that are being elected to positions of power
who do not hold ideas that are they are diametrically
opposed to what our founding fathers intended this nation to
be a nation founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness, which is not found in shurial law. So
it's crazy to see all these things happening, But I
(19:38):
don't think that it's in any coincidence.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
And until we as as the.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Conservative movement as Americans really define what it actually means
to be an American and who should be allowed to
be fit for office.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I don't think we're going to solve this.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
And for the audience listening right now, being an American
is not just a piece of paper. Being an American
is what your hard is saying, what do you believe
in your heart?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And for me, I believe in American.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Would be someone who believes in what our founding fathers
intended this nation to be a nation founded on biblical principles,
a constitutional public where we the people are representing the public.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So it's wild to see what's happening.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And dearborn Michigan, but I asked, I don't think it's
any coincidence, you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Know, Hannah, I appreciate your comment, but I do have
to correct you. I was watching MSNBC and they told
me that when they chit death to America, they're really
just protesting the patriarchal society and the homogenous I don't know,
I'm trying to make a joke here, but yeah, there's
no real way to defend that sort of language. Glenn,
you know, what are your thoughts here? Because again, like I,
(20:39):
you know, my parents and my dad immigrated to the country.
All of everybody in his family learned how to speak English,
everybody assimilated to the culture. Everybody, no, nobody in the
family is on welfare. Why is that not kind of
a common norm for other people that immigrate to a
place that is awesome, but then use the customs that
(20:59):
they came from the made the place they came from
not awesome, and try to do that here.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I think it boils down to one word culture.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
If you moved to America, you should not just move physically,
but you should move emotionally, spiritually, mentally, the way that
you live out the culture needs to change from where
you were to where you're going. And I think Dearborn
is an interesting example of just how incompatible Islam is
with American culture, with Western values, et cetera. I did
(21:33):
a little deep dive on this when I learned I was.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Going to be on today.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
And Dearborn has been getting or receiving rather immigrants from
Muslim countries since the nineteen twenties when the whole boom
of building cars was happening, with like Henry Ford and
his plant there.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
And you would think.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
If these cultures meshed and melded, Dearborn would be just
the most shining example of how how well that could
go and how to acclimate to a new culture that's
so different from the one that you left. And it
simply shows you how that's failing. It's a terrible failure.
You think they would have just hundreds of families saying
(22:15):
here's how to learn English, here's how they do things
in America. But they're fighting tooth and nailed to preserve
everything there they left behind in their previous country.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, I would wish anyone luck if they want to
go to a country in the Middle East and demand
that they put English on their law enforcement uniforms. I
can't imagine you'd get too far. Transitioning entirely to this
no tax on tips was a big talking point throughout
the campaign. It has been kind of now in case
(22:45):
in the whole big beautiful bill, sixty eight different professions
are going to be able to deduct their tax from
their income that is taxed at the federal level after
twenty five thousand dollars per year. Now, some versions on
the lister are kind of interesting. Hannah, plumbers, electricians, air
condition repairs. Who I am I supposed to tip those guys?
(23:07):
I don't think I've ever done that. I don't know
if I want to do that sort of thing. Okay,
not to take this silly, but is there a way
that I can identify as one of those specific job
titles and therefore get to deduct extra twenty five thousand
dollars because those are tips? In my world?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Hey, you know what we live in twenty twenty five.
I mean, you can identify as a furry one day,
cat the next.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
I don't even know what kids are.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
You'll be just fine identifying as an electrician or plumber.
But I didn't know we were supposed to to tip
those either. That's very interesting to me. Tipping culture is
kind of out a hand. I do you say so myself?
But the no tax on tips promise that presidential made
to the American people is absolutely incredible. As we're they're
following through on this right now, putting it into legislation.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I talked to especially waitresses, waiters at different restaurants that
they are just taxed to death by the IRS. It
is absolutely not what our founding fathers wanted to happen,
and so it's incredible to see.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I think it's common sense and most liberals can even
back by it.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
They'll try to find something to criticize Trump on the
no tax on tips. But this is very principle should
be bipartisan, and it's exciting to see.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But yeah, you know what, Joe Bob, I think you.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Should just go ahead and identify as electrician. People can
send you tips and not get taxed on those tips.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah. My employer actually does it too. They separate my
check from the tips part of it to the actual
salary part, so and I appreciate them doing that. Hopefully
I can write that off on my federal income text. Glenn,
these are except to expire in twenty twenty eight. Do
you think that's a good Do you think that's a
smart political move, because if people like this sort of thing,
you're going to say, hey, you know, if you want
(24:47):
to keep it, you got to you know, continue electing
conservatives that will try to lessen your tax burn. Is
that a smart political move or do you want to
see this sort of thing last forever.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
As much as I'd love to see a lot against
taxes or a law that reduces taxes last forever, I
think every law that involves anything to do with taxes
should automatically come with an expiration date, because clearly the
system is so convoluted and messed up that we need
laws like this that it isn't easy to survive on
(25:19):
just a basic simple plan of how you pay taxes
and how it has to differ so much based on
a thousand circumstances that all affect each other.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's the most complex thing I can imagine.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
So yeah, I think that it's good that it's expiring,
and I think that if anyone has sense, whoever has
control in twenty twenty eight will extend it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah. So with that in mind, just a reminder, you
folks at home, make sure to tip your snarky podcast
hosts and their producers and guests. We greatly appreciate it,
especially since we won't pay a dime of that in
federal income tax. Glenn and Hannah, thank you guys for
joining us. Really appreciate you taking the time. We'll have
you back, Thank you, thank you. I know we didn't
(26:02):
get to the governor saying that, Okay, well the law
enforcement doesn't it's just a political statement. It doesn't actually
help crime. We will talk about that in segment four,
but coming up next Alex Clark's Culture Apothecary podcast. You
can also email the show TPT at tpusa dot com.
We'll be right back after the break.
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So, speaking of wellness brands and controversies, what is going
on with my girl Carlin called just Ingredients being called
out for this Prop sixty five stuff?
Speaker 11 (26:38):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (26:39):
I mean Prop sixty five is weird like Pandora's box?
Is this a scam? Prop sixty five is definitely not
what people think it is. So what at first glance?
Prop sixty five is a law that's just in the
state of California that says if your product tests high
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and lead or higher in lead than their standard, it
must have a label on it that says that this
product contains more lead and it could be linked to cancer,
and you're pretty much putting yourself at harm for consuming
the supplement.
Speaker 11 (27:11):
But people don't.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
Know is that there really is no proper regulation for
sixty five, meaning that let's say, for example, I am
consuming a brand, I can go test that brand in
my kitchen and if it doesn't test what the brand
is claiming that it does, I can just put a
lawsuit in and it's up to them now to fight
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me with all the proof.
Speaker 11 (27:36):
That means they have to go back to the science.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
They have to prove to me in a court of
law that their product is actually great, which for many
brands that can cause that could be hundreds of thousands
of dollars. The second aspect of that is you don't
need to be a professional, so it doesn't have to
be a professional lab. So what this is created is
the Prop sixty five has actually been nicknamed the bounty
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hunter law. So you have all these law firms in
the state of California that just do this and they
make hundreds of thousands of dollars just suing pretty much
wellness brands. Why wellness because they're using natural products. Which
comes to the third loophole is that Prop. Sixty five
doesn't decipher between naturally occurring heavy metals versus stems that
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some that could be contributing be contributed from, you know,
pesticide use, So they don't separate the two. So if
something is naturally occurring that's high in heavy metals, like
for example, salt, like we've seen so many salt brands
be like hit with you guys are high and let
we live on a floating rock, Like where do you
think the metal is coming from? Like obviously things are
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going to be high in heavy metal. Prop sixty five
is so low that most products in the supermarket, most
produce in the supermarket right now exceeds the level of
PROP sixty five. So how is this an accurate baseline?
Speaker 12 (28:56):
So you think there is a witch hunt essentially to
go after just ingredients and that they're using unbelievably unfair
standards to hold up against her brand, Well I don't.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
I think there's just a witch hunt against Walness brands
in general. Like I almost never see these people testing
lead testing, you know, the crappy brands like the Doritos
and the Cheetos, you know, you know. I mean also
they probably are testing low because there's no real ingredients
in it anyway, So maybe that's why. But I think
there is just like a massive witch hunt with just
Walness brands in general. So if you can't decipher, another
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crazy thing is Prop sixty five doesn't apply to fast
food chains and vaccines.
Speaker 12 (29:36):
Well there you go, and that tells you everything you
need to know. So what really aggravates me is you've
got people that are allegedly on our team that are
not disclosing the information.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
That you just said.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
This context within the prop sixty five conversation, and then
they're saying, you know, just Ingredients is lying to you.
They're heavy metals and blah blah blah, and you shouldn't
you shouldn't purchase from them. And I just feel like
there's a little bit of an unfair conversation kind of
being waged here.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I think for any brand in the wellness space, they
should be obviously cognizant of what types of products they're creating, right,
because we always have to be aware of heavy metals.
But most people that are touting heavy metals don't really
understand how they work in general, Like, for example, tuna,
Like everyone's like, don't eat tune because it's high in mercury,
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But tuna's also high in selenium, which naturally competes for
mercury in the body, so it's made perfectly.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
You know.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Obviously you don't want to like douge yourself in tuna,
like tuna only diet, you know. But nature is always
made perfectly. So that's why heavy metals in isolation through
pesticide use.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
Can be really harmful.
Speaker 13 (30:48):
Where in a natural setting with optimal minerals, they naturally
push out heavy metals.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
So this is why.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
Like for me, I always advocate for a mineral rich
diet so we don't have to fear monger heavy metals
all the time, right, Like it's great to have a
CoA and it's great to have a standard, but at
the same time, when you know that there's a lot
of money involved in potentially suing people over something like that,
when sweet potatoes have more heavy metals than most protein powders, like,
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we really have to think about where we're getting our
information and what we're actually scared of.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
So, you know, do you trust a brand like just
Ingredient still?
Speaker 13 (31:23):
Of course, I mean every brand, Like most of the
brands that I work with personally, and I get to
talk to many of the CEOs like regularly. I trust
our brands, like I know that there's good people behind
brands and they're not doing it on purpose. They're not
like I'm sprinkling, you know, heavy metals in our products.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
You know.
Speaker 13 (31:42):
So I love I love Carolyn and she's great, and
it's just really unfortunate. I've seen so many brands get
slammed and sometimes they can't beat the allegations, they can't
beat the rumors, and you know, once you get a
PROP sixty five warning. There's so much legal action that
goes on behind the scenes, so much money, and it
could be really detrimental to a small business.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
Is it truly too expensive to be healthy in America?
Speaker 13 (32:08):
It depends like you're either going to pay the cost upfront,
you're going to pay the cost later. So it's like
you get to choose. But I think most people, we
keep telling them that it's too expensive to eat healthy,
it takes too much time to eat healthy. It's don't
even bother pretty much like we see it all the time.
Just eat whatever you want. It's not a big deal.
It's you're here for a good time, not a long time.
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And people don't even bother looking. I mean, I just
post the price of eggs at Walmart, basic eggs, right,
I'm not talking pastories, organic.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
Just basic eggs.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Right.
Speaker 13 (32:37):
It was like under three dollars and people are like,
I've never seen those prices in years, And they go
on to check and they're like, oh, it is it
is that much Like are you guys even walking through
the produce section.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
No, they're not. You know my hot take is they're not.
Speaker 12 (32:50):
Yeah, they just automatic go straight to the cheeto aisle,
go to the cheetah, they go to the frozen aisle
more specifically, and or they go fast food or they
door dash, and they're not actually walking the perimeter of
the store and buying the real food. And what I
like is that you are still going to be eating
healthier and living healthier if you are buying the non organic,
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non pastur raised version, non grass fed version of your meats, eggs,
you know, cheeses, milks, whatever, It's still better to have
that than it is to just have, you know, soda
and pizza roles.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
Yeah, I mean, an egg breakfast is always going to
be better than cereal sugar.
Speaker 12 (33:30):
I just I feel like sometimes people use it as
an excuse. Well, I can't afford organic or pastur rays,
so I'm just eating what I want anyway. I'm like,
you can still eat real food on a budget. You
can go to all d They have organic produce, now
can they even have grass fed meat?
Speaker 11 (33:44):
And they've got Passua raise eggs.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You can go to Walmart.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Walmart is the largest distributor of organic food in the country.
I mean, so that is a massive budget And of
course going to your local farmer's market is going to
be the best too. Yeah, but I don't know, I
guess how except do you think it is or unaccessible?
Speaker 11 (34:01):
Are there changes that need to be made?
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Well?
Speaker 11 (34:03):
I just found out recently.
Speaker 13 (34:04):
I was kind of going back and forth with a
follower of mine and we were looking into this, and
actually ninety three percent of Americans have access to some
sort of food delivery system like thank you technology, you know,
like we're if you're able to get Uber eats, you're
able to get your your groceries uber to you, you know,
if you really don't have access to a supermarket. Right, So,
(34:25):
I think we're not even looking at how much technology
has evolved over the years because I think if you're
able to get Amazon, you're also able to get you know,
a lot of non perishable items off of Amazon, right, Like,
I think I see people all over social media touting
how much how much garbage they're getting off of Amazon
so they could organize their house and their refrigerator looks
(34:46):
like something out of you know, I don't know, a
Barbie Doll house, but you can't get you know, a
bag of rolled oats. Yeah, you know, like what are
we talking about here? So of course there's going to
be you know, food deserts in America, but the research
that we have right now doesn't really add up. Because
if ninety three percent of Americans have access to food
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delivery systems, but then we're being told seventeen percent of
Americans live in a food desert. The how does I
don't know. I'm not really that good at math, but
I feel like that the math a math in.
Speaker 12 (35:16):
What is your rebuttal to people who say, okay, so
you care about, you know, people in poverty being able
to have access to food, but then you're also involved
in the Maha movement. In the Maha movement is trying
to cut Snap soda off of Snap.
Speaker 11 (35:29):
What's your response to that?
Speaker 13 (35:31):
I mean, I feel like, at the end of the day,
if you can afford soda or like, then you should
want that on your own dime. Like the whole point
of Snap is to support families through nourishment. If you
can tell me the nourishment that you're getting from a soda,
by all means we should keep it. But there's zero
nourishment in any type of soda, like even the healthier ones.
(35:53):
I would say, probably don't even need to be on Snap,
Like a SODA's a soda. We should be giving water,
we should be prioritizing organic fruit, fruits and vegetables, like
that's what should be on SNAP. And I feel like,
why wouldn't everybody want that?
Speaker 12 (36:06):
I don't think a lot of people realize too, because
I just found this out recently. Most states you can
use your WICK program, your food stamp program at the
farmers market.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
Yeah, so that's something interesting.
Speaker 12 (36:16):
And you know, they've got organic fruits and vegetables and
grass fed meat and all that kind of stuff. And
usually all farmers markets have a sign that say we
accept WICK.
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So thanks, Johanna. Donnie said this, I thought this was
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Liberal donors paying for her security. That can happen more.
She could pay for it for herself, Donnie said. The
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she promised to run for president again. That's probably too
I could probably rally some conservative donors to pay for
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twenty twenty eight, she will probably lose forty nine states.
I think that would be hilarious. Donny, thanks for the email.
David also said to us an email about I can't
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to this. This is Governor of Massachusetts Maura heally talking
about look now, sending more law enforcement agents into crime
real dilapidated cities is not does it nothing to do
(40:17):
with crime and has everything to do with politics. I
kid you not, she actually said that. Watched this and
we will.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Discuss you know.
Speaker 14 (40:24):
Look, Jen, as you know, I'm a former prosecutor, former
attorney general, and as governor, I put public safety first.
And unfortunately, what I continue to see week after week
is a Trump administration using the National Guard in an
effort to politically intimidate or try to politically intimidate certain opponents,
(40:45):
certain states, certain cities. It does nothing to support or
further public safety.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, so sending the National Guard is just a political point.
It's kind of like Governor Newsom, we played a clip.
I'm not even sure if we play it on the show.
If we haven't, we should, but he said, yeah, they're
trying to intimidate people like ICE is going to show
up to polling stations to try and chill the vote. Which, Kevin,
why would Ice be? Why would Immigration and Custom enforcement
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being at polling stations intimidate citizens who are on their
way to vote. That seems like a weird thing. But
that's not what we're talking about necessarily. But that's the
whole thing. They're trying to intimidate people, you know, or
trying to uh force people to understand, Hey, more law
enforcement and actually enforcing laws makes things safer. I don't
(41:38):
know why libs are choosing to die on this hill.
I mean again, I've said this over and over again.
There's you don't know why they're choosing to drive to
die on the trans Sports Hill, no idea why they
chose to die on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Hill. There's
so many Hills that they've decided I'm going to haul
myself up on this and choose to defend it till
my last and dying breath. People want to be safe.
(42:01):
If you look at anybody in Washington, d C. Who
is any amount of reasonable sensibilities, they've gone, Oh yeah,
it actually is safer to walk around the streets at nights.
We don't feel the threat of people coming to commit
a crime against us. So, no, Governor Heale, it's not
(42:21):
a political statement in that or trying to intimidate their
political rivals. No, it's a political statement in the fact
that we're gonna make it better. We're gonna actually use
our power to do things for the public goods, something
that she herself should be doing along with everybody else
in positions of power. That's gonna do it for us
here at turning Points tonight, Charlie is gonna take us out,
have a fantastic weekend, and we will see a Monday,
(42:43):
same time, same place. God bless America.
Speaker 8 (42:55):
I want to talk about politics, in particular elections. What
did we learn the state eight of like what's happening
right now, the state of the r n C, the grassroots,
the establishment so much happening. So first, Tyler, how you.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Doing, Charlie, it's gonna be here. I got to match
Alex's energy here.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Good luck.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
That's ma And I'll tell you what's my energy.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
But I'm actually following a lot of those protocols.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
You look great, Tyler's great, doesn't he.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
I'll tell no more fast food, no caffeine.
Speaker 8 (43:21):
That's that's big for you.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, huge, that would That was into the last election.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
The number one advice I can give everybody is you
got to quit Celsius, all the caffeine, all that.
Speaker 8 (43:31):
I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
It just kills you.
Speaker 8 (43:33):
So if you don't know what Celsius says, don't stay
away from that stuff that monsters. So, Tyler, what you
ran the largest ever ballot chasing operation in Republican Party history,
one thousand full time people. I was able to take
credit for it and kind of watch it from afar.
But you hired the people, you sourced the people. What
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did you learn through that entire process we had?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I mean, for all those that are listening, the run
a business that housed hundreds of people in a business,
you know that that comes with a lot of a
lot of struggles. The hiring process alone. Identifying the right
people to be able to accept, adopt a culture and
then get into the job is what's part of building
(44:18):
the business. That's what we've done a Turning Point so
well on the backs of a lot of really great
advisors that have helped us for along the way. So
it's great that at Turning Point we had a brand
that we could attract people to, and that we had
a culture that we could attract people to.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Political operations don't have that, and so we've been really
blessed because people could look at Charlie and see the
Charlie kirkshow every single day and go I want to
be part of that. They could see the brand that
Turning Point USA had built and say, I want to
be part of that. That's unique and that's what I
think enabled us. I mean you and you and I
sat down and talked about this and we said, we
looked around and we said, there's nobody actually doing the
(44:54):
whole political operation the right way. Cfoce packs. They've for
years just kind of come in at the last minute,
raise a bunch of money from donors, and then they
just throw whatever they possibly can in the sloppiest way
possible at an election, and that's not enough to win.
You have to do it the way that the left
(45:14):
does it, which is the left has for years been
talking and harping about the community organizer model, the relationship
building model at every customer that's out there that's a voter,
you know, trying to get them over the line to
vote for maybe the first time in a long time
or for the first time ever. Especially when we talk
about the youth voters and why we had so much
(45:34):
success in such such a dramatic increase with youth voters
is because when you focus in your conversations that right way,
then it works. And for us, that blends with the
hiring process because anyone that understands that and actually gets
drills deep into the process, the brand, the culture of
what we're trying to do, it becomes easier.
Speaker 8 (45:55):
But hiring a thousand people, what period of time did
you have to hire a thousand human beings to go
chase ballots and the Arizona Sun.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Well, we were very lucky because we have again a
lot of people who are already near, near and dear
to us.
Speaker 8 (46:07):
College students, but college students, volunteers, members.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Of staff that people who used to work for us,
people who used to work for us, their parents, uncles,
and siblings. So again, that's why it's so important to
establish long term, credible organizations in places that matter, like Arizona,
like other places, other swing states. We need a turning
point esque operation in every swing state. Yes, but to
(46:33):
the point is, you still have challenges. You still have
to vet every single one of these people individually. You
have to look at their entire social media background, you
have to pull all of their their past there to
do a background check on every single person. You can't
just hire willy nilly and then when they got hired.
You know, as you know you're aware of many of
these issues. Is you have people who do crazy things.
Speaker 8 (46:56):
Why the full time model? Why, Tyler, did you not
say let's just hire people part time and use volunteers.
Why did you make the argument that full time labor
was essential for this operation, the successful operation.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
It wasn't even us that made the argument. The left
made the argument for us, right, because the left actually
years ago, about twenty five years ago, started putting full
time people and.
Speaker 8 (47:17):
Everyone print was part of that here in this state.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Yeah, So where we are, right, now in Colorado, this
is where it was born. You have the combination of
Arabella and Democracy Alliance. And without getting into all the details, well,
Arabella's essentially the funding mechanism that's able to go out
and do a bunch of special projects, that enables the
left to do a bunch of crazy things.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Whenever you see something crazier.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Like how did that enter the zeitgeist, it probably came
from Arabella's infrastructure. And we have full presentations on this,
but here in Colorado is where CODA started, the Colorado
Democracy Alliance, and that was intended to replace the Democrat
Party in Colorado because what the Democrats realized early on
that the Republican Party still hasn't figured it out, is
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that the party itself, the apparatus, is actually pretty useless.
It actually is worse than useless. It gets in the
way more times than it actually helps. And so what
the the Democrats here in Colorado did was they realized, oh,
we are going to create an alternate party structure outside
of the party, and again we're going to call it
Democracy Alliance. And this is this is the permanent infrastructure
(48:22):
that we're going to build because we can't count on
the Democrat Party to actually show up and do all
the right things. And they did that, and they did
it very well, and they did it so well they
were able to spread it across the entire country, and
Colorado Democracy Alliance became Democracy Alliance. And our side is
still kind of going, oh, well, we got to check
in with you know, with you know again, not to
throw Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell, all, all of the McConnell fans,
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establishment establishment checkpoints before you find it.
Speaker 8 (48:49):
So but this is an important point. So the Democrat
infrastructure was always outside of the party, and one of
the reasons we were able to win in twenty sixteen
twenty twenty four is not because of infrastructure we help,
but because Donald Trump is a once and a hundred
year candidate, right would you agree?
Speaker 9 (49:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (49:06):
It was just so outrageous, so in a good way,
like so overwhelmingly positive and popular that it forgave all
the sins of the Republican infrastructures.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
So this is the most important point, Charlie, is that
you have to have a candidate that enables that outside
organization organism to actually survive. So if you don't have
candidates that are actually exciting for those people to come
take the job and work. For those people to show
up and knock the doors and build relationship to two
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years out, you can't do it. Donald Trump actually unlocked
something because for the first time in a long time,
maybe ever, the general populace was like, I want to
go work for that guy. And that's what enables that
relational organizing, community organizing model to work
Is law enforcement sent into areas where hot crime is
high just a political stunt. Well, there's actually a governor
that really thinks that, which is crazy. Holy cow. There's
an official US police department that is now putting Arabic
on their badges. That's an insane story that we'll definitely
have to talk about. And the whole no tax on
(00:29):
tips thing is really really interesting because there's some occupations
that oh, maybe I will identify maybe my entire salaries
as tip. I maybe trying to figure out how to
exploit that myself. I mean, sorry, irs, I'm gonna definitely
play by the rules here. But the whole tax on
tip thing is very interesting. All that more coming up
on this episode of thirty Points Tonight. My day is
Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Together, we
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are charting the course of America's culturalill comeback. This is
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before we get to any of those stories and to
our fantastic panel, got a really interesting panel today. Want
to talk about the PBS News. Now, we're all aware
(01:16):
that PBS, NPR and the other public public the super
hyper aggressive left leaning taxpayer funded media outlets, are losing
their money. Well, now we're finding out what they're actually
going to do. And some of the numbers have caused
me and hopefully you to question how much money were
(01:38):
these people making. So the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was
the kind of umbrella term that they kind of divvied
out all the money. Well, they were getting five hundred million,
half a billion dollars from US taxpayers to go divvy
out to organizations that would at intentionally promote incredibly leftis
propaganda that is going away. PBS specifically was getting about
(02:01):
two hundred and sixty seven million dollars that they would
redisperse to local stations in the form of grants. Then
those grants were used to rebuy the PBS programming. It
was this whole kind of convoluted thing. We're super excited
that President Trump got rid of it. Now the question is,
why then are they only cutting fifteen percent of their staff.
(02:23):
That's the number that PBS has put out. The New
York Times reported it fifteen percent, meaning about one hundred
people are now gone from PBS. Okay, well, that makes
me wonder if they were getting two hundred million dollars
and one hundred people is fifteen percent of their employed staff.
That means about six hundred and fifty people work there.
What the heck do six hundred and fifty people at
jobs need two hundred and fifty million dollars over the
(02:47):
course of every single year. So then I got curious. Okay, well,
what do they actually make there? According to the most
recent data in twenty twenty three, the CEO of the
Public Service Broadcast Company was making one point two million
dollars a year. The average salary over there is about
(03:07):
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All of that is
to say this, if you needed any more reassurance that
stripping federal tax dollars from these organizations was a good idea,
there you have it. Everybody over there was making an
insane amount of money. And for what So that Sesame
(03:27):
Street could call your kid a transgender toddler, I don't
think so. Here comments on that and so much more.
His host of The Hannah Fawkner Show, Hannah Faukner and
filling in is our wonderful producer Glenn Hendrickson, making his reappearance,
not his debut. He's done this before on The Brining
Point tonight's show. Guys, thanks so much for joining. Really
(03:50):
appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Thanks for having me. Thanks so much, Joe, Bob, Hannah.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
You know, I this is this might be a little
bit of a spicy take, but so often right, especially
when you're talking, and I don't want to get two
into the weeds here about the pension obligation that places have.
The estates have they talk about, well, you know, we
have to entice people to work here because they can
go make more money in the private sector. Well, yeah,
(04:17):
at the top high levels that is often true. But
for most regular jobs, what government job is paying out
like breadcrumbs. Generally speaking, all of the people that I
know that work government jobs are paid pretty dang well
apparently including PBS. Again, the average salary over there is
(04:37):
over one hundred and fifty about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. I don't know. Again, I think we all
probably agree on this. How much has this emboldened your
supportive like, yeah, we got to audit these places and
strip them of taxpayer funding because it's it's going to waste.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah, I know, it's it's absolute insanity.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
And you brought up a good point of not only
are our hardware taxpayer dollars going to these news doubtlets
who have a very strategic goal of indoctrinating and just
pushing very specific narratives to the American people, like Sesame
Street telling your kid that if they feel like a boy,
that can become a boy, and vice versa, and whatever
lunatic idea that.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
They're pushing that day.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Not only are hard working dollars going to that, but
it is absolute insanity that it was that high one
point two million, you said of a salary for someone
who is working at a broadcasting station. I don't know
a single person in the private sphere that's making one
to one point two million dollars working for a media company.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
So it's outrageous.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
But I'm so grateful for President Trump, who is eliminating
all of this waste, fraud of views. And I think
the people who may be against what we're saying right
now are the ones who just want these very specific
narratives to be pushed out to the American people, like
your kid, if he feels like a boy can become
a girl.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, to your point, I was a little hesitant to
bring this on because now Glenn knows what he could
be making if he worked over at PBS. Neither one
of us were doing very well compared to those folks, Glenn,
do are we at risk of losing you to the
public broadcasting company, which, again, thank god, is no longer
going to be getting American tax payer dollars?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Sorry, I was just preparing my resume there. What did
you say. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
No, I don't think you're at risk of losing me.
But I think that PBS long ago lost the American people.
It no longer serves or represents the public, which is
in the name it's supposed to be in the mission.
And you know, I'm not opposed to liberals sharing their viewpoints.
I think it's best if it's balanced, and clearly there's
(06:43):
no balance at PBS. If there ever was, it was
ages ago, it hasn't been for a long time. Balanced.
If they had right and left both sharing their views,
both with an equal ability.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
To present their viewpoints.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
That would be great, but that's clearly not the case
that they've abused it. No public or I'm sorry, no
private company that does what they do could survive in
the market, and I think it's about time that they
have to fight for their own in the market.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah. I kind of think that fifteen percent number of
layoffs that they're doing is kind of the edge of
the iceberg. I think there's going to be a lot
more coming up after that, especially if people are making
absurd amounts of money, including your one point two million
dollar CEO, which, by the way, get it was like
two or three years ago that that information. That's probably
gone way up from there, and probably we'll go down
(07:35):
quite a bit further.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You know, when you get into the numbers of these
sorts of things, that's where things get really like, wait
a minute, this is a pretty high proportion of this
which brings us to this raid in this Georgia Hyundai facility.
This is also kind of unfolding. There's a lot of
things going on right now about you know, who is it,
what is it? Four hundred and seventy five people as
(07:57):
of right now, have been detained at this man manufacturing
plant for Hyundai, the automotive manufacturer in the South Korea,
the South Korean auto manufacturer. I was looking into it.
The plant actually employs about twelve hundred people, So, Hannah,
over a third of those people were here illegally, at
(08:18):
least allegedly as it stands right now. Okay, yeah, you
want to get the illegals out of the country, But
is the foreign corporation going to pay any sort of
a penalty for having again, possibly a third of their
workforce be here illegally. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Well, there's a lot of companies, especially in the blue
collar industry, construction companies, that employ a lot of illegal aliens,
people who have been here for decades, and I obviously
it brings up a lot of questions. That's a lot
of the debate is going on of people who have
been here for a decade, two decades, three decades, should
they be deported And at the end of the day,
like we have allowed so many people into this country
(08:57):
illegally that we're going to have to deport all of them. Yes,
of these large manufacturing companies, blue collar jobs like construction industries,
they're going to suffer. But that's what's going to happen
in this golden age of America as we reclaim the
American dream and what it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Means to be an American.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
And I know we're going to get into this in
a second, but I think in our country we have
a really big problem with determining.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
What an American citizen actually is.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
And so just because you've been here for three four
decades illegally, that does not make you an American citizens.
So we're always going to have to start over from scratch,
which is really unfortunate. But this is what happens when
you let an insane amount of people to come across
our country illegally.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, if you ask a lib, I think an American
citizen is somebody who complains very very loudly that they
want to be here despite how much they dislike the country,
which is again so ironic that it's difficult to comprehend. Glenn,
you know, I've never asked you're in the country legally, right,
that's you are a US citizen. It's crazy to me
(09:56):
how many corporations, it's turned out, seem to depend on
illegal labor. And I kind of think, yeah, we got
to crack down on the individuals, but also the big
companies that are employing all these people and not giving
those jobs to American citizens or at least people that
are in the country legally that could have those jobs.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I agree completely. I am a millionth generation American. I
have ancestors that came over on the Mayflower, and I'm
quite proud of that. That is something very interesting that
my dad told me, at least, so I'm trusting him
on that.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He did that work. Anyways. Yeah, these companies that not only.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Employ, but rely on the employment of illegal immigrants to
conduct business, it's very sad and sick to me.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It's almost perverse that. You know, in the food.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Industry, that farms rely so heavily on paying people like
poverty wages like that, and I don't mean to use
a Bernie Sanders phrase, but they do.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
They rely on on skipping out and saving a.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Buck at the on the backs of the workers in
the fields, uh to you know, pass those savings onto us,
and then the food is cheaper and more people buy it,
and that just cycle. It continues, it continues, it continues,
and they're doing this here with the production of their cars,
and we see this over and over again in different industries.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It's so sad. It's so sad. I can't imagine the
lives of those workers where they not only are here.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Illegally and maybe they even regret that they're here illegally,
especially now that you know laws are being enforced, but
they now fear coming forward to say I'm being mistreated
in the workplace, all my wages aren't high enough, all
they're breaking laws here and there. Now the employer can
get away with doing things that are bad to people
just in general, regardless of legal status. And to me,
(11:49):
that's just a very terrifying situation that to find yourself in.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Darn you, Glenn, for suckering us into possibly even feeling
bad for the individual because it is you're You're right.
You actually bring up a very good point. Not enforcing
law not only hurts American citizens, but it hurts the
people that come to this country thinking oh this everything's
gonna be hunky dory. Okay, Well, now you've just upended
their lives as well. So just just cut it off.
Stop people at the border. If you can come in,
(12:13):
you can come in. If you can't, you can't, and
everybody else you knows good luck elsewhere. We're not gonna
waste you know, however, many years of your life you
think and you're gonna live here and then send you back.
It's unfair to really everybody involved. So that's that is
a good point and an interesting one to make. We
got to take a break, but I do want to
get to this tax on tip things relatively quick. We'll
(12:34):
do that after the break. Glenn and Hanna will be
back to discuss that. Talking about the the Arabic badges
on a United States Police Department's uniforms. Oh wow, don't
go away, We'll be right back after the break.
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In the last segment of the show, let's check in
with Turning Points. White House correspondent Monica Page at the
White House, which I'm told hasn't been renamed yet but
(14:17):
still possibly in the works. Because renaming, and I think
this is all positive, is a big point of priority
for the administration. I think everybody's probably aware of it.
But you're inside at the White House right now. Renaming
the Department of Defense the Department.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Of War it sounds pretty bad.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
I mean, this is something that I believe has been
a long time coming. I mean the President's kind of
tease this previously in the previous weeks, but this is
something that we'll re establish. The Warrior ethos that Defense Secretary,
or now seem to be called War Secretary Pete Hegseth
has really been trying to re establish, whether that's getting
people more excited about their military, more excited about survey
(15:00):
their country, more excited about physical fitness and serving, and
not worrying about wokeness or being or whiteness, as we
saw General Millie saying that there's toxic whiteness, or having
Lloyd Austin leave his post for surgery. We didn't know
where the heck he went all that time, and there's
nothing like that in this administration. We are re establishing
American pride, whether that's just a sense of patriotism within
(15:22):
our country but also within our military. And that's why
this is so important, because the President takes a lot
of pride in our military and wants to not only
establish this warrior ethos bringing that back again, but also
a toughness to our military, making us strong again, making
our adversaries look at us and say, okay, we don't
want to get into anything with the United States, because
(15:43):
they are literally the Department of War. And they're also
looking at changing the name of the Crest Briefinger into
like the War annex, which I think is also incredible.
All of this starts with rhetoric, Joe, Bob, and this
is a great step forward to re establishing our patriotism
and strength.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah. The only thing that I would quibble with if
the President happens to be watching. First of all, thank
you for watching, mister President. Always appreciate you tuning in.
I would say, let's also change the secretary, because the
Secretary of War sounds great. Maybe I don't know the
Master of War as Pete Hexath's official title would also
I think I like that better than secretary because secretary
just has, you know, its own different connotation. So, Monica,
(16:20):
what's what's the president up to this weekend? Going to
be headed to New York? What's he going to be doing?
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Yeah, so, as of tonight, he's going to be hosting
a dinner in a Rose Guard and he's got that
all set up in that new patio to good use,
that's for sure. But in the middle of next week
we're definitely going to see the President traveling to New York.
As we know, next week they will be commemorating the
twenty fourth anniversary of nine to eleven. This is something
that the President, of course, takes very seriously and keeping
our nation safe and honoring those who lost their lives,
(16:48):
and honoring those first responders who did everything that they
could to rescue those who were killed in that tragic incident.
And the President is going to be commemorating this incident
with a Yankees game in who'd be going to the
Yankees s game, I believe in New York City and
that's what he'll be for the week and meeting with
I'm sure first responders, firefighters, policeman and then he'll also
(17:11):
be spending an extended time there, going to the US
Open later that Sunday, So that's a week from now
just about. So he's got a lot going on. And
later this month he's going to the UK, so he's
got a very busy travel schedule ahead of the September.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, well, we'll I'll look forward to any and everything
that comes out of out of that, as per usual,
Monica page turning points, White House Correspondent, have a great weekend, Monica.
Thanks Jo Bob, you too, thank you. You know, earlier
in the show, we had a brief discussion of what
it means to be an American, I think and I
don't want to miss quote here, but I'm pretty sure
it was Pope John Paul the second that said, well,
(17:47):
language is the culture. Once you start up ending the language,
you've effectively lost the culture. Unfortunately, that's happening all over Europe,
and we're trying to not let it happen here, but
it is happening. We probably need to stop that. Let's
bring our panel back, Hannah and Glenn. Hannah, I would
(18:07):
like to let you go off on this. The Dearborn
Police Department. Everybody recognizes Dearborn is a famously very very
Islamic and also arab which are two different things but
kind of one and the same in the same sense,
putting Arabic on their police badges. Now your thoughts on
(18:29):
this new approach from the Dearborn Police Department.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, oh man, Well, for the longest time, a lot
of the left and most of the Democratic Party have
said that they're going to come here, They're going to
assimilate to our culture, it will be fine and dandy.
Much of these Islamic terrorists especially are not coming to
our country to assimilate. They're coming to take over the
United States of America. You look at what's happening in Europe.
It is a full blown Islamic takeover of the West
(18:56):
of Europe, of the United States of America. It is
no coincidence that the Huti's logo, the Huti's flag says
death to Israel, death to America, victory to Islam. So
I don't think it's any coincidence that We've got Zorn
Mamdani about to be the first Muslim mayor not to
mention a communist in New York City. We've got Fata,
(19:17):
this guy in Minneapolis about to become a mayor. He
is from Somalia. I mean, we've got people all across
the country that are being elected to positions of power
who do not hold ideas that are they are diametrically
opposed to what our founding fathers intended this nation to
be a nation founded on life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness, which is not found in shurial law. So
it's crazy to see all these things happening, But I
(19:38):
don't think that it's in any coincidence.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
And until we as as the.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Conservative movement as Americans really define what it actually means
to be an American and who should be allowed to
be fit for office.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I don't think we're going to solve this.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
And for the audience listening right now, being an American
is not just a piece of paper. Being an American
is what your hard is saying, what do you believe
in your heart?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
And for me, I believe in American.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Would be someone who believes in what our founding fathers
intended this nation to be a nation founded on biblical principles,
a constitutional public where we the people are representing the public.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
So it's wild to see what's happening.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And dearborn Michigan, but I asked, I don't think it's
any coincidence, you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Know, Hannah, I appreciate your comment, but I do have
to correct you. I was watching MSNBC and they told
me that when they chit death to America, they're really
just protesting the patriarchal society and the homogenous I don't know,
I'm trying to make a joke here, but yeah, there's
no real way to defend that sort of language. Glenn,
you know, what are your thoughts here? Because again, like I,
(20:39):
you know, my parents and my dad immigrated to the country.
All of everybody in his family learned how to speak English,
everybody assimilated to the culture. Everybody, no, nobody in the
family is on welfare. Why is that not kind of
a common norm for other people that immigrate to a
place that is awesome, but then use the customs that
(20:59):
they came from the made the place they came from
not awesome, and try to do that here.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I think it boils down to one word culture.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
If you moved to America, you should not just move physically,
but you should move emotionally, spiritually, mentally, the way that
you live out the culture needs to change from where
you were to where you're going. And I think Dearborn
is an interesting example of just how incompatible Islam is
with American culture, with Western values, et cetera. I did
(21:33):
a little deep dive on this when I learned I was.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Going to be on today.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
And Dearborn has been getting or receiving rather immigrants from
Muslim countries since the nineteen twenties when the whole boom
of building cars was happening, with like Henry Ford and
his plant there.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
And you would think.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
If these cultures meshed and melded, Dearborn would be just
the most shining example of how how well that could
go and how to acclimate to a new culture that's
so different from the one that you left. And it
simply shows you how that's failing. It's a terrible failure.
You think they would have just hundreds of families saying
(22:15):
here's how to learn English, here's how they do things
in America. But they're fighting tooth and nailed to preserve
everything there they left behind in their previous country.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, I would wish anyone luck if they want to
go to a country in the Middle East and demand
that they put English on their law enforcement uniforms. I
can't imagine you'd get too far. Transitioning entirely to this
no tax on tips was a big talking point throughout
the campaign. It has been kind of now in case
(22:45):
in the whole big beautiful bill, sixty eight different professions
are going to be able to deduct their tax from
their income that is taxed at the federal level after
twenty five thousand dollars per year. Now, some versions on
the lister are kind of interesting. Hannah, plumbers, electricians, air
condition repairs. Who I am I supposed to tip those guys?
(23:07):
I don't think I've ever done that. I don't know
if I want to do that sort of thing. Okay,
not to take this silly, but is there a way
that I can identify as one of those specific job
titles and therefore get to deduct extra twenty five thousand
dollars because those are tips? In my world?
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Hey, you know what we live in twenty twenty five.
I mean, you can identify as a furry one day,
cat the next.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
I don't even know what kids are.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
You'll be just fine identifying as an electrician or plumber.
But I didn't know we were supposed to to tip
those either. That's very interesting to me. Tipping culture is
kind of out a hand. I do you say so myself?
But the no tax on tips promise that presidential made
to the American people is absolutely incredible. As we're they're
following through on this right now, putting it into legislation.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
I talked to especially waitresses, waiters at different restaurants that
they are just taxed to death by the IRS. It
is absolutely not what our founding fathers wanted to happen,
and so it's incredible to see.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I think it's common sense and most liberals can even
back by it.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
They'll try to find something to criticize Trump on the
no tax on tips. But this is very principle should
be bipartisan, and it's exciting to see.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But yeah, you know what, Joe Bob, I think you.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Should just go ahead and identify as electrician. People can
send you tips and not get taxed on those tips.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah. My employer actually does it too. They separate my
check from the tips part of it to the actual
salary part, so and I appreciate them doing that. Hopefully
I can write that off on my federal income text. Glenn,
these are except to expire in twenty twenty eight. Do
you think that's a good Do you think that's a
smart political move, because if people like this sort of thing,
you're going to say, hey, you know, if you want
(24:47):
to keep it, you got to you know, continue electing
conservatives that will try to lessen your tax burn. Is
that a smart political move or do you want to
see this sort of thing last forever.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
As much as I'd love to see a lot against
taxes or a law that reduces taxes last forever, I
think every law that involves anything to do with taxes
should automatically come with an expiration date, because clearly the
system is so convoluted and messed up that we need
laws like this that it isn't easy to survive on
(25:19):
just a basic simple plan of how you pay taxes
and how it has to differ so much based on
a thousand circumstances that all affect each other.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It's the most complex thing I can imagine.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
So yeah, I think that it's good that it's expiring,
and I think that if anyone has sense, whoever has
control in twenty twenty eight will extend it.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah. So with that in mind, just a reminder, you
folks at home, make sure to tip your snarky podcast
hosts and their producers and guests. We greatly appreciate it,
especially since we won't pay a dime of that in
federal income tax. Glenn and Hannah, thank you guys for
joining us. Really appreciate you taking the time. We'll have
you back, Thank you, thank you. I know we didn't
(26:02):
get to the governor saying that, Okay, well the law
enforcement doesn't it's just a political statement. It doesn't actually
help crime. We will talk about that in segment four,
but coming up next Alex Clark's Culture Apothecary podcast. You
can also email the show TPT at tpusa dot com.
We'll be right back after the break.
Speaker 12 (26:27):
So, speaking of wellness brands and controversies, what is going
on with my girl Carlin called just Ingredients being called
out for this Prop sixty five stuff?
Speaker 11 (26:38):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (26:39):
I mean Prop sixty five is weird like Pandora's box?
Is this a scam? Prop sixty five is definitely not
what people think it is. So what at first glance?
Prop sixty five is a law that's just in the
state of California that says if your product tests high
(26:59):
and lead or higher in lead than their standard, it
must have a label on it that says that this
product contains more lead and it could be linked to cancer,
and you're pretty much putting yourself at harm for consuming
the supplement.
Speaker 11 (27:11):
But people don't.
Speaker 13 (27:12):
Know is that there really is no proper regulation for
sixty five, meaning that let's say, for example, I am
consuming a brand, I can go test that brand in
my kitchen and if it doesn't test what the brand
is claiming that it does, I can just put a
lawsuit in and it's up to them now to fight
(27:34):
me with all the proof.
Speaker 11 (27:36):
That means they have to go back to the science.
Speaker 13 (27:38):
They have to prove to me in a court of
law that their product is actually great, which for many
brands that can cause that could be hundreds of thousands
of dollars. The second aspect of that is you don't
need to be a professional, so it doesn't have to
be a professional lab. So what this is created is
the Prop sixty five has actually been nicknamed the bounty
(28:01):
hunter law. So you have all these law firms in
the state of California that just do this and they
make hundreds of thousands of dollars just suing pretty much
wellness brands. Why wellness because they're using natural products. Which
comes to the third loophole is that Prop. Sixty five
doesn't decipher between naturally occurring heavy metals versus stems that
(28:22):
some that could be contributing be contributed from, you know,
pesticide use, So they don't separate the two. So if
something is naturally occurring that's high in heavy metals, like
for example, salt, like we've seen so many salt brands
be like hit with you guys are high and let
we live on a floating rock, Like where do you
think the metal is coming from? Like obviously things are
(28:43):
going to be high in heavy metal. Prop sixty five
is so low that most products in the supermarket, most
produce in the supermarket right now exceeds the level of
PROP sixty five. So how is this an accurate baseline?
Speaker 12 (28:56):
So you think there is a witch hunt essentially to
go after just ingredients and that they're using unbelievably unfair
standards to hold up against her brand, Well I don't.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
I think there's just a witch hunt against Walness brands
in general. Like I almost never see these people testing
lead testing, you know, the crappy brands like the Doritos
and the Cheetos, you know, you know. I mean also
they probably are testing low because there's no real ingredients
in it anyway, So maybe that's why. But I think
there is just like a massive witch hunt with just
Walness brands in general. So if you can't decipher, another
(29:30):
crazy thing is Prop sixty five doesn't apply to fast
food chains and vaccines.
Speaker 12 (29:36):
Well there you go, and that tells you everything you
need to know. So what really aggravates me is you've
got people that are allegedly on our team that are
not disclosing the information.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
That you just said.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
This context within the prop sixty five conversation, and then
they're saying, you know, just Ingredients is lying to you.
They're heavy metals and blah blah blah, and you shouldn't
you shouldn't purchase from them. And I just feel like
there's a little bit of an unfair conversation kind of
being waged here.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (30:08):
I think for any brand in the wellness space, they
should be obviously cognizant of what types of products they're creating, right,
because we always have to be aware of heavy metals.
But most people that are touting heavy metals don't really
understand how they work in general, Like, for example, tuna,
Like everyone's like, don't eat tune because it's high in mercury,
(30:28):
But tuna's also high in selenium, which naturally competes for
mercury in the body, so it's made perfectly.
Speaker 9 (30:35):
You know.
Speaker 13 (30:35):
Obviously you don't want to like douge yourself in tuna,
like tuna only diet, you know. But nature is always
made perfectly. So that's why heavy metals in isolation through
pesticide use.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
Can be really harmful.
Speaker 13 (30:48):
Where in a natural setting with optimal minerals, they naturally
push out heavy metals.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
So this is why.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
Like for me, I always advocate for a mineral rich
diet so we don't have to fear monger heavy metals
all the time, right, Like it's great to have a
CoA and it's great to have a standard, but at
the same time, when you know that there's a lot
of money involved in potentially suing people over something like that,
when sweet potatoes have more heavy metals than most protein powders, like,
(31:16):
we really have to think about where we're getting our
information and what we're actually scared of.
Speaker 11 (31:20):
So, you know, do you trust a brand like just
Ingredient still?
Speaker 13 (31:23):
Of course, I mean every brand, Like most of the
brands that I work with personally, and I get to
talk to many of the CEOs like regularly. I trust
our brands, like I know that there's good people behind
brands and they're not doing it on purpose. They're not
like I'm sprinkling, you know, heavy metals in our products.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
You know.
Speaker 13 (31:42):
So I love I love Carolyn and she's great, and
it's just really unfortunate. I've seen so many brands get
slammed and sometimes they can't beat the allegations, they can't
beat the rumors, and you know, once you get a
PROP sixty five warning. There's so much legal action that
goes on behind the scenes, so much money, and it
could be really detrimental to a small business.
Speaker 12 (32:04):
Is it truly too expensive to be healthy in America?
Speaker 13 (32:08):
It depends like you're either going to pay the cost upfront,
you're going to pay the cost later. So it's like
you get to choose. But I think most people, we
keep telling them that it's too expensive to eat healthy,
it takes too much time to eat healthy. It's don't
even bother pretty much like we see it all the time.
Just eat whatever you want. It's not a big deal.
It's you're here for a good time, not a long time.
(32:30):
And people don't even bother looking. I mean, I just
post the price of eggs at Walmart, basic eggs, right,
I'm not talking pastories, organic.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
Just basic eggs.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Right.
Speaker 13 (32:37):
It was like under three dollars and people are like,
I've never seen those prices in years, And they go
on to check and they're like, oh, it is it
is that much Like are you guys even walking through
the produce section.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
No, they're not. You know my hot take is they're not.
Speaker 12 (32:50):
Yeah, they just automatic go straight to the cheeto aisle,
go to the cheetah, they go to the frozen aisle
more specifically, and or they go fast food or they
door dash, and they're not actually walking the perimeter of
the store and buying the real food. And what I
like is that you are still going to be eating
healthier and living healthier if you are buying the non organic,
(33:11):
non pastur raised version, non grass fed version of your meats, eggs,
you know, cheeses, milks, whatever, It's still better to have
that than it is to just have, you know, soda
and pizza roles.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
Yeah, I mean, an egg breakfast is always going to
be better than cereal sugar.
Speaker 12 (33:30):
I just I feel like sometimes people use it as
an excuse. Well, I can't afford organic or pastur rays,
so I'm just eating what I want anyway. I'm like,
you can still eat real food on a budget. You
can go to all d They have organic produce, now
can they even have grass fed meat?
Speaker 11 (33:44):
And they've got Passua raise eggs.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You can go to Walmart.
Speaker 12 (33:47):
Walmart is the largest distributor of organic food in the country.
I mean, so that is a massive budget And of
course going to your local farmer's market is going to
be the best too. Yeah, but I don't know, I
guess how except do you think it is or unaccessible?
Speaker 11 (34:01):
Are there changes that need to be made?
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Well?
Speaker 11 (34:03):
I just found out recently.
Speaker 13 (34:04):
I was kind of going back and forth with a
follower of mine and we were looking into this, and
actually ninety three percent of Americans have access to some
sort of food delivery system like thank you technology, you know,
like we're if you're able to get Uber eats, you're
able to get your your groceries uber to you, you know,
if you really don't have access to a supermarket. Right, So,
(34:25):
I think we're not even looking at how much technology
has evolved over the years because I think if you're
able to get Amazon, you're also able to get you know,
a lot of non perishable items off of Amazon, right, Like,
I think I see people all over social media touting
how much how much garbage they're getting off of Amazon
so they could organize their house and their refrigerator looks
(34:46):
like something out of you know, I don't know, a
Barbie Doll house, but you can't get you know, a
bag of rolled oats. Yeah, you know, like what are
we talking about here? So of course there's going to
be you know, food deserts in America, but the research
that we have right now doesn't really add up. Because
if ninety three percent of Americans have access to food
(35:06):
delivery systems, but then we're being told seventeen percent of
Americans live in a food desert. The how does I
don't know. I'm not really that good at math, but
I feel like that the math a math in.
Speaker 12 (35:16):
What is your rebuttal to people who say, okay, so
you care about, you know, people in poverty being able
to have access to food, but then you're also involved
in the Maha movement. In the Maha movement is trying
to cut Snap soda off of Snap.
Speaker 11 (35:29):
What's your response to that?
Speaker 13 (35:31):
I mean, I feel like, at the end of the day,
if you can afford soda or like, then you should
want that on your own dime. Like the whole point
of Snap is to support families through nourishment. If you
can tell me the nourishment that you're getting from a soda,
by all means we should keep it. But there's zero
nourishment in any type of soda, like even the healthier ones.
(35:53):
I would say, probably don't even need to be on Snap,
Like a SODA's a soda. We should be giving water,
we should be prioritizing organic fruit, fruits and vegetables, like
that's what should be on SNAP. And I feel like,
why wouldn't everybody want that?
Speaker 12 (36:06):
I don't think a lot of people realize too, because
I just found this out recently. Most states you can
use your WICK program, your food stamp program at the
farmers market.
Speaker 11 (36:15):
Yeah, so that's something interesting.
Speaker 12 (36:16):
And you know, they've got organic fruits and vegetables and
grass fed meat and all that kind of stuff. And
usually all farmers markets have a sign that say we
accept WICK.
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(38:27):
nice little boost when you read those sorts of things.
So thanks, Johanna. Donnie said this, I thought this was
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(38:48):
the LA tax payer. We're talking about rich Democrat donors,
Liberal donors paying for her security. That can happen more.
She could pay for it for herself, Donnie said. The
Koch Brothers would happily pay for her security detail if
she promised to run for president again. That's probably too
I could probably rally some conservative donors to pay for
(39:10):
her security. If she promises to run for president in
twenty twenty eight, she will probably lose forty nine states.
I think that would be hilarious. Donny, thanks for the email.
David also said to us an email about I can't
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(39:32):
tampon's in boys bathroom being used for alternative purposes that
may happen if you listen to too much liberal news.
I'll leave it there. He was a very funny emailed David.
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TPT at TPUSA dot com. I promised I would get
to this. This is Governor of Massachusetts Maura heally talking
about look now, sending more law enforcement agents into crime
real dilapidated cities is not does it nothing to do
(40:17):
with crime and has everything to do with politics. I
kid you not, she actually said that. Watched this and
we will.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Discuss you know.
Speaker 14 (40:24):
Look, Jen, as you know, I'm a former prosecutor, former
attorney general, and as governor, I put public safety first.
And unfortunately, what I continue to see week after week
is a Trump administration using the National Guard in an
effort to politically intimidate or try to politically intimidate certain opponents,
(40:45):
certain states, certain cities. It does nothing to support or
further public safety.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, so sending the National Guard is just a political point.
It's kind of like Governor Newsom, we played a clip.
I'm not even sure if we play it on the show.
If we haven't, we should, but he said, yeah, they're
trying to intimidate people like ICE is going to show
up to polling stations to try and chill the vote. Which, Kevin,
why would Ice be? Why would Immigration and Custom enforcement
(41:15):
being at polling stations intimidate citizens who are on their
way to vote. That seems like a weird thing. But
that's not what we're talking about necessarily. But that's the
whole thing. They're trying to intimidate people, you know, or
trying to uh force people to understand, Hey, more law
enforcement and actually enforcing laws makes things safer. I don't
(41:38):
know why libs are choosing to die on this hill.
I mean again, I've said this over and over again.
There's you don't know why they're choosing to drive to
die on the trans Sports Hill, no idea why they
chose to die on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Hill. There's
so many Hills that they've decided I'm going to haul
myself up on this and choose to defend it till
my last and dying breath. People want to be safe.
(42:01):
If you look at anybody in Washington, d C. Who
is any amount of reasonable sensibilities, they've gone, Oh yeah,
it actually is safer to walk around the streets at nights.
We don't feel the threat of people coming to commit
a crime against us. So, no, Governor Heale, it's not
(42:21):
a political statement in that or trying to intimidate their
political rivals. No, it's a political statement in the fact
that we're gonna make it better. We're gonna actually use
our power to do things for the public goods, something
that she herself should be doing along with everybody else
in positions of power. That's gonna do it for us
here at turning Points tonight, Charlie is gonna take us out,
have a fantastic weekend, and we will see a Monday,
(42:43):
same time, same place. God bless America.
Speaker 8 (42:55):
I want to talk about politics, in particular elections. What
did we learn the state eight of like what's happening
right now, the state of the r n C, the grassroots,
the establishment so much happening. So first, Tyler, how you.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Doing, Charlie, it's gonna be here. I got to match
Alex's energy here.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Good luck.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
That's ma And I'll tell you what's my energy.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
But I'm actually following a lot of those protocols.
Speaker 8 (43:17):
You look great, Tyler's great, doesn't he.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
I'll tell no more fast food, no caffeine.
Speaker 8 (43:21):
That's that's big for you.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, huge, that would That was into the last election.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
The number one advice I can give everybody is you
got to quit Celsius, all the caffeine, all that.
Speaker 8 (43:31):
I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
It just kills you.
Speaker 8 (43:33):
So if you don't know what Celsius says, don't stay
away from that stuff that monsters. So, Tyler, what you
ran the largest ever ballot chasing operation in Republican Party history,
one thousand full time people. I was able to take
credit for it and kind of watch it from afar.
But you hired the people, you sourced the people. What
(43:54):
did you learn through that entire process we had?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
I mean, for all those that are listening, the run
a business that housed hundreds of people in a business,
you know that that comes with a lot of a
lot of struggles. The hiring process alone. Identifying the right
people to be able to accept, adopt a culture and
then get into the job is what's part of building
(44:18):
the business. That's what we've done a Turning Point so
well on the backs of a lot of really great
advisors that have helped us for along the way. So
it's great that at Turning Point we had a brand
that we could attract people to, and that we had
a culture that we could attract people to.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
A lot of.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Political operations don't have that, and so we've been really
blessed because people could look at Charlie and see the
Charlie kirkshow every single day and go I want to
be part of that. They could see the brand that
Turning Point USA had built and say, I want to
be part of that. That's unique and that's what I
think enabled us. I mean you and you and I
sat down and talked about this and we said, we
looked around and we said, there's nobody actually doing the
(44:54):
whole political operation the right way. Cfoce packs. They've for
years just kind of come in at the last minute,
raise a bunch of money from donors, and then they
just throw whatever they possibly can in the sloppiest way
possible at an election, and that's not enough to win.
You have to do it the way that the left
(45:14):
does it, which is the left has for years been
talking and harping about the community organizer model, the relationship
building model at every customer that's out there that's a voter,
you know, trying to get them over the line to
vote for maybe the first time in a long time
or for the first time ever. Especially when we talk
about the youth voters and why we had so much
(45:34):
success in such such a dramatic increase with youth voters
is because when you focus in your conversations that right way,
then it works. And for us, that blends with the
hiring process because anyone that understands that and actually gets
drills deep into the process, the brand, the culture of
what we're trying to do, it becomes easier.
Speaker 8 (45:55):
But hiring a thousand people, what period of time did
you have to hire a thousand human beings to go
chase ballots and the Arizona Sun.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Well, we were very lucky because we have again a
lot of people who are already near, near and dear
to us.
Speaker 8 (46:07):
College students, but college students, volunteers, members.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Of staff that people who used to work for us,
people who used to work for us, their parents, uncles,
and siblings. So again, that's why it's so important to
establish long term, credible organizations in places that matter, like Arizona,
like other places, other swing states. We need a turning
point esque operation in every swing state. Yes, but to
(46:33):
the point is, you still have challenges. You still have
to vet every single one of these people individually. You
have to look at their entire social media background, you
have to pull all of their their past there to
do a background check on every single person. You can't
just hire willy nilly and then when they got hired.
You know, as you know you're aware of many of
these issues. Is you have people who do crazy things.
Speaker 8 (46:56):
Why the full time model? Why, Tyler, did you not
say let's just hire people part time and use volunteers.
Why did you make the argument that full time labor
was essential for this operation, the successful operation.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
It wasn't even us that made the argument. The left
made the argument for us, right, because the left actually
years ago, about twenty five years ago, started putting full
time people and.
Speaker 8 (47:17):
Everyone print was part of that here in this state.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Yeah, So where we are, right, now in Colorado, this
is where it was born. You have the combination of
Arabella and Democracy Alliance. And without getting into all the details, well,
Arabella's essentially the funding mechanism that's able to go out
and do a bunch of special projects, that enables the
left to do a bunch of crazy things.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Whenever you see something crazier.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Like how did that enter the zeitgeist, it probably came
from Arabella's infrastructure. And we have full presentations on this,
but here in Colorado is where CODA started, the Colorado
Democracy Alliance, and that was intended to replace the Democrat
Party in Colorado because what the Democrats realized early on
that the Republican Party still hasn't figured it out, is
(48:00):
that the party itself, the apparatus, is actually pretty useless.
It actually is worse than useless. It gets in the
way more times than it actually helps. And so what
the the Democrats here in Colorado did was they realized, oh,
we are going to create an alternate party structure outside
of the party, and again we're going to call it
Democracy Alliance. And this is this is the permanent infrastructure
(48:22):
that we're going to build because we can't count on
the Democrat Party to actually show up and do all
the right things. And they did that, and they did
it very well, and they did it so well they
were able to spread it across the entire country, and
Colorado Democracy Alliance became Democracy Alliance. And our side is
still kind of going, oh, well, we got to check
in with you know, with you know again, not to
throw Mitch McConnell, Mitch McConnell, all, all of the McConnell fans,
(48:45):
establishment establishment checkpoints before you find it.
Speaker 8 (48:49):
So but this is an important point. So the Democrat
infrastructure was always outside of the party, and one of
the reasons we were able to win in twenty sixteen
twenty twenty four is not because of infrastructure we help,
but because Donald Trump is a once and a hundred
year candidate, right would you agree?
Speaker 9 (49:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (49:06):
It was just so outrageous, so in a good way,
like so overwhelmingly positive and popular that it forgave all
the sins of the Republican infrastructures.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
So this is the most important point, Charlie, is that
you have to have a candidate that enables that outside
organization organism to actually survive. So if you don't have
candidates that are actually exciting for those people to come
take the job and work. For those people to show
up and knock the doors and build relationship to two
(49:37):
years out, you can't do it. Donald Trump actually unlocked
something because for the first time in a long time,
maybe ever, the general populace was like, I want to
go work for that guy. And that's what enables that
relational organizing, community organizing model to work
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