This is the Tom Hartman program. Creetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers, and peace, freedom in the American way

Tom Harbin here with you. Well, Donald Trump does it again. I gotta tell you

there's there's just this amazing dynamic going on.

Matt Taibee has a new newsletter.

It's a subscription newsletter.

It's called Hate Incorporated.

If you just plug in a Matt Taibee newsletter, hate ink, H-A-T-E-H-E-H-E-H-H-E-H-H-E-H-H-E-H-E-H-E-H-H-E-H-E-H-E-H-E-B, you know, the penny completely dropped for me. It was just extraordinary.

When I was a kid, I mean like, you know, eight, nine, ten years old, a guy who lived down the street from me a boy who was my age his name was Dennis he was sort of the neighborhood bully and he and I had sometimes we were friends and sometimes he'd chase me down the street and beat the

crap out of me.

And his dad was a pretty rough character.

But what we used to do when I was on good terms with Dennis, we'd all go over to his house and we watch wrestling on TV,

on his black and white TV.

My parents would not have it on in my house, but I used to watch these wrestling shows and you know for a while we thought it was real you know and

There is and this is what Matt Tuybee's pieces about it's called controversy creates cash which is the title of a book about how to make money in the wrestling business.

And wrestling is actually theater.

It's theater done by big muscled steroid-laden guys, but it's theater.

And there are two basic roles that are played

in the theater of big-time wrestling.

One is the baby face, the good guy, the short

contraction for that that's used in the wrestling world is face. And the other is

the bad guy who is known as the heel.

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