March Badness Final Four & Championship Rounds

Have you ever wondered who the most corrupt politician is or who the most corrupt political party is?  Join hosts, Tim & Taber as they bring a close to the 2026 Pardon the Corruption March Badness tournament.  Who is the most corrupt?  Democrats? Republicans? All of them? In this episode the final four face off and we go right into the championship round because we have talked through this enough.  Please comment or send us a message on our social media @timntaber or you can find the full episode on YouTube @thecorruptionpodcast.  We would love to know your opinion.  

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Did you say we have Dick Nixon and Dick Cheney? We got Dick versus Dick. A couple of dicks. Either way, it looks like uh one of the other side's gonna be facing a dick. Kevin Newson would have had to literally start the fire. She could have prevented the fire, but she chose not to. She is literally Satan on Earth.

SPEAKER_03 0:22

Dick Cheney. Um he tried to blow his friend's face off. So he's an evil and a terrible shot. Even shot in the face is pretty damn bad.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

I guess for the gun wasn't loaded. Can you look down this barrel and tell me if you see sun or not? Oops, sorry, it went off there. How's that bird shot in your face? Welcome finally to the final four of the March Badness of Corruption. This tournament has been questionable, opinionated, and quite honestly pretty repetitive. But we're going to get through this. We're going to get through the final four. In the final four, we have Hillary Clinton versus Gavin Newsome. On the Republican side, we have Dick Cheney versus Richard Nixon. So let's start off on the Democrat side of the bracket, going with Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom. Who do you want to start with today, man?

SPEAKER_03 1:24

Did you say we have Dick Nixon and Dick Cheney?

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Oh, we got Dick versus Dick. Okay. A couple of dicks. I mean, you can't you can't. I mean, either way, it looks like uh one of the other side's gonna be facing a dick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

We have a good idea who it's gonna be. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Yeah. We got uh Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom. I'm gonna go ahead and say Hillary Clinton, moving on.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Let's just do sort of a recap of Gavin Newsome in the lens of facing Hillary Clinton and let's see who wins. So with Gavin Newsom, we have the homeless issues in California, we have the Palisades fire that ended up killing 30 people. His overall economic uh views have basically ran California into a multi-billion dollar deficit. We have the train to nowhere, the track was never built. Gavin Newsom had the French laundry thing where he went to the restaurant during COVID. The problem with putting Gavin Newsom up against Hillary Clinton is yeah, the Palisades fire indirectly, he indirectly killed 30 people. There is evidence that Hillary Clinton also probably indirectly killed people with Benghazi for sure.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Uh that was I would say that's more of a directly killed people. She indirectly killed a bunch of her best friends. She directly killed the people in Benghazi.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Yeah, because if you're not going to allow help to be sent, then you might as well be pulling the trigger yourself. So then of course with Hillary Clinton, we got all these questions around the Epstein files. We have the Fazzle Drip. Frazzle drip. Uh frazzled. We have uh which you know the frazzle drip thing included a conspiracy or a rumor that Hillary Clinton disgustingly potentially is a satanic cult leader. Yeah. Apparently there's rumor, uh evidence, uh conjecture that she wore a child's face. Um that's just horrific to even say. I can't even believe that that's a thing. But it's as horrific as it is, and and that alone really kind of puts Hillary Clinton way ahead. I uh I've seen some recent things with Gavin Newsom, and he's he's a big time flip-flopper. Uh you know, we we've pointed it out during this tournament that he is you know what he's everything to everybody. Any whatever crowd he's in, that's what he tries to be. I don't know if you saw a video of him recently, but he was at some event, a bunch of young people behind him, he's talking. He can't get a word out. It was like he was I don't know, like he he could not remember where he was and what he wanted to say. Um, you know, and that happens from time to time to people. I think that there's a lot of rumor for both. There's been no convictions. They're vaguely investigating the uh Epstein stuff, but it I think it's really for show. Just trying to show pol or trying to show constituents that, hey, look at us, we're out here asking the hard questions, and well, what are you gonna do about it? Nothing. We're gonna do nothing, but we ask them questions.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

Yeah, some things never change on that front. I don't think they're gonna do anything about anything. I mean, I don't know. It goes it goes down a rabbit hole when you start going down everybody who's saying the stuff they're saying in the news and not really following it up with anything, but it's like that with every topic. You know, we talked about the deal with uh Iran last week when it's like, oh, Iran's completely defenseless. And the next day after we did our last episode, it was like, oh, an F-15 was shot down by Iranian forces with what?

SPEAKER_02 5:25

I thought we had air superiority.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

Yeah. Like, how do you how do they shoot down an F-15 where they like with a nine millimeter? What are you talking about? Like how how did this happen?

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Yeah. He came out later saying that it was a handheld uh heat-seeking missile, which is possible, you know.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

The whole thing is they're all investigating themselves and checking themselves and meanwhile, nothing's getting done. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

You know, and that's that's where I have the biggest issue with Hillary Clinton, and it's really, really hard to just after we've just driven this into the ground for three episodes, uh, it's really hard to keep digging deeper. I'm sure we're not investigative journalists, not even close.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

No.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

We do we try to be informed, but we're not gonna get that either. Winging it. Okay, it's opinion. I'm sorry. Uh but we hate her. If you base it just on even though a lot of it is alleged, you know, like Gavin Newsom's got things on his side that's killed people, Hillary Clinton's got things on her side that killed people. That was probably more direct than I mean, I guess in the same scenario, Gavin Newsom would have had to literally start the fire. And that's what Benghazi was for Hillary Clinton. She could have could have prevented the fire, but she chose not to. And the only explanation could be is that she had beef with somebody because why? Why why would you deny help and want to deal with that shitstorm? Why don't you just send the help if the same result happens? Well, at least you sent help and you tried, but you never tried, you never cared enough to try. So how are you going to not be directly responsible for that? And that that's that's really the that and the Epstein files, which again is all alleged, but I I just don't see how you get more disgusting than Hillary Clinton. I mean, she is literally Satan on earth, in my opinion. Like she's just a miserable, horrible, like, oh, you're a bunch of deplorables. Oh, pot kettle. I don't know. But like, like really, that's that's what either side does in politics. Yeah. They may they demonize their opponent, but whatever they're saying that that opponent is doing, they're probably doing it. So it covers up for them. You can literally see the demonic nature of her. Like she is literally, literally miserable. And I I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

I I I think that it's actually just she hasn't like been laid in years, you know. She needs Bill's banging everybody but her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

And that might have been her only option, and that's probably out of obligation.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

Her daughter is nothing to look at either. Chelsea could use a a makeover.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

Well, the apple doesn't fall too far, especially in these political families. I don't know anything about Chelsea, really don't care about Chelsea uh from the sense of even talking about her, but you know, good luck in life. But uh I'm just saying that don't think that just because she's not Hillary Clinton, that she doesn't have similar ways of thinking. Gavin Newsom was a Cinderella story, and I think that there his Cinderella story has come to an end. And that means that Hillary Clinton is going to the championship. So there you have it, folks. On to the Republican side of the bracket. This should be a tough one. It is Dick versus Dick, and I mean Dick Cheney and Richard Nixon. So let's start off with whoever the hell. I don't care.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

All right, Dick Cheney. Um, he tried to blow his friend's face off. Uh so he's a he's evil and a terrible shot.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

So he would he really would have been worse than Gavin Newsom or Hillary Clinton because well, the things they did were indirect. Getting shot in the face is pretty damn direct.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Yeah. Oh, I was just uh making sure the gun wasn't loaded.

unknown 9:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

Sorry about your cheek. Sorry, can you look down this barrel and tell me if you see sunlight?

SPEAKER_02 9:39

Yeah. Please. Please? Oops, sorry, it went off there.

SPEAKER_03 9:44

How's that bird shot in your face? I think that I don't know. Richard Nixon was uh obviously did a bunch of unconstitutional things. I think that uh Dick Cheney did uh did far worse because he got innocent people. He got innocent civilians killed in Iraq, I think. I'm not 100% sure about that. He got innocent soldiers who should have never gone to Iraq killed in Iraq for sure.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

Yeah. So Yeah, I think that he there was a there's a lot more death surrounding Dick Cheney now.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Yeah, and there's some conspiracies too, where like some of the people who like Nixon himself said I didn't do anything that everybody else wasn't already doing. I was basically set up, and there's some potential truth to that. You know, a lot of the intelligence that was used against him was from recordings in the Oval Office, which should have never happened. That should be like a private place. So yeah. The fact that there were recording devices suggests that he may have been set up by our own government. Um, and he didn't, I mean, he what he did was still wrong, but he didn't kill anyone. He's like, let's wiretap my opponents and see if we can get some get some dirt on him. He wasn't like, you know what, I think we'll invade this country and kill like three or four thousand people uh because it was really gonna help my stock portfolio.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

With Dick Nixon, it's stupid what he did. The problem with Dick Nixon is now with with these two dicks, we have Dick Cheney, who says, uh, I shot somebody in the face. Okay, we know that. That's proven, it happened. Richard Nixon you know, did all the stuff that he did, spying on DNC and and all that stuff. That happened. That's proven. But not even Richard Nixon was convicted because he left office before he could be impeached. But we do know that that happened, right? So for for sure we know that that happened. But it might have been said it by Gerald Ford. That's that's that I mean, honestly, he wasn't really a crook. I mean, he just he was uh what do you call it when somebody watches other people? He's an idiot. Um voyeurism? Voyeur, yeah. So he's he he was a voyeur to gain information that would help him. So on one hand, you have somebody who shot somebody in the face who's responsible for maybe an unnecessary war. I like how you lead with the shot somebody in the face.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

Like that's you know, supposedly an accident, and you're like, Yeah, let's be clear. He shot his friend in the face with a shotgun.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

I've never shot a friend in the face. I haven't either. I've carried a lot of guns, I've never shot anybody in the face. It's not a best practice. No. So I don't know what generally frowned upon. Now, but here's the thing, though, this is a corruption tournament. So was what Nixon did more corrupt than what Cheney did?

SPEAKER_03 12:46

More corrupt than telling three hundred and five million people that we definitely have weapons of mass destruction that we found in this country? No, I think that Dick Cheney's got the uh but he was the vice president, you know?

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Like we all know that the vice president may be in on stuff, but what can he do? He can't really object. All he can do is follow orders, right? So I mean the vice president doesn't run run around in any scenario making decisions on his own. Period. So yes, Dick Cheney was involved with all that, and yes, he was probably corrupt, but we don't have any proof. But we do have proof that Richard Nixon was corrupt because we know that he did these things in the Watergate Hotel and all that. So even though neither one of them were convicted of anything, one of them is actually more one of them, one of them is worse, the other one is corruption.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

Does that Yeah, one of them's worse because but it's still speculative. I get what you're saying, it's still speculation. And we're supposed to be going off of what's proven. So I guess it would have to be Nixon, but we also know there were no weapons of mass destruction, so we kind of know But Chaney was uh he kind of has an out because he's like, I'm not the guy who gathers the intelligence.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

He was directly involved with the group of people that were making this argument with no objection.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

He did not object, he didn't going to war and destroying the place we went to war with helped both his stock portfolio and his KBR construction portfolio.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

Yeah. And so money is always typically the motivator for corruption, and I'm sure that Dick Cheney ended up with a lot more of it than Richard Nixon did, and there's a lot more death surrounding Dick Cheney. So my vote would be Dick Cheney in the finals with Hillary Clinton.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

I agree, Dick Cheney. Do we feel like we're being fair in what's provable? Because with the the frazzle drip thing is susp uh No, because I don't like Hillary Clinton.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

So I like it.

SPEAKER_03 14:56

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

I love it. So on to the finals. So I say that we just jump right in to the final matchup uh with Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton. Let's battle it out, let's declare a winner, and let's move on. Okay, Hillary Clinton, because I don't like her and she's an evil bitch. I like Dick Cheney's name better. Um I like Dick Cheney's name better. This may may be a shocker, but still I think that even though I believe that Hillary Clinton is responsible for a lot of death, I don't know if she's as responsible or if she's responsible for as much death.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

I don't think she's as yeah. Even if you include like all 50 of her friends, even if she personally killed them. Her entire friend group. Right. Yeah, all of her friends. I think that Cheney not only shot his friend, so he's kind of equal to Hillary because you know he took it upon himself to just shoot his friend in the face, but he also, you know, sent thousands of soldiers to their demise and killed a bunch of people with bombs.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

Yeah, I'd say I think Cheney's probably got the with all that said and all that debate, we are going to go in this matchup and the winner of the first ever 2026 Pardon of Corruption March Madness Tournament of Corruption, that's a mouthful, is Mr. Dick Cheney. So, ladies and gentlemen, that is the conclusion of this March Badness tournament. Not extremely sure if any of you get to this point in the video, uh, if it was even worth it to do. It was quite repetitive. So for those of you who have watched, those of you who have paid attention, thanks for tolerating the repetition. But most of all, thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. If you feel like this podcast is uh worth it, if you feel like you're getting something from it or somebody else would, please like, share, subscribe, follow. We would really appreciate it. It helps the show a lot, and we hope everybody has an awesome week.