Shooters, Scandals, and Showdowns

In this episode, Jeezy and Manny unpack the wildest political stories of the week. From the shocking assassination attempt on former President Trump to the mounting scandal around North Carolina’s Mark Robinson, no topic is off-limits. They also take a fun dive into the contrasting town halls of Kamala Harris and Trump, breaking down what went down at Harris’s Oprah-hosted event. With their trademark humor and bold takes, this episode serves up all the political drama you didn’t know you needed.

Transcript

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Manny: The episode discusses sensitive topics, including allegations surrounding North Carolina. Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson

Manny: and the second assassination attempt on former President Donald. Trump.

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Jeezy: Hello world and welcome to the part in the politics. Podcast this is season one episode 2. I am your co-host, jeezy. And I'm joined here by my co-host and partner in politics. Manny.

Manny: What's good? Everyone.

Jeezy: And welcome welcome to our listeners. 1st of all, before we jump into the episode, we just want to give a shout out to our listeners that tuned in for episode one. We greatly appreciate the support as we are getting this thing off the ground, and the feedback was was tremendous, and we greatly appreciate it. So we just want to give you a shout out and thank you for tuning in.

Jeezy: and there will be much, much more to come that will be enjoyed. So thank you for that, and buckle up because we have a action packed episode of today. Man, man! Oh, man.

Manny: You know, everyone when when we left y'all last week, you know, we were like, yeah, we're gonna hop in. We're gonna really start breaking down, talking about the vice presidential candidates and whatnot, and all those pros and cons

Manny: and the political season said, No, you no, you aren't. We? We got things to tend to, and

Manny: I can't. There's so many topics we could talk about, but we're not going to have enough time to get to all of them. So so we're going to hit on some of the key big big movements and big events that happened this week.

Manny: and we'll we'll just we'll just hop right into it. So

Manny: was it, was it. Monday, Monday, Tuesday?

Manny: There was a second planned attempt on former President Trump at his

Manny: Florida Florida golf course.

Manny: let's just let's just start at the facts. So what we know right now.

Manny: we know the who on.

Jeezy: It is.

Manny: Does Ryan Wesley? Ruth? Yeah, we know they found him with a Ak 47 style rifle.

Manny: We do know that there were shots fired to my understanding up to this point, and I believe all reporting is that the Secret Service spotted the end of a gun barrel? Yeah, and engaged the suspect, and he ran and fled, and I believe he was on the run for probably about 12 h. Oh.

Jeezy: Wow! I didn't know it was that long. Okay.

Manny: My! I'm sorry. Let me take a step back. He had been waiting 12 h for for to line up that shot

Manny: dedication.

Manny: Bruh.

Jeezy: 12 h, just like.

Manny: Pain like

Manny: that's.

Jeezy: How many, how many Slim Jims and dive mountain dew did he consume waiting.

Manny: And that's wild. That's very wild. So our understanding is that Secret Service spotted him in the brush, went ahead and fired the shot he ran they kind of closed out the area eventually were able to grab him.

Manny: and he is now sitting in custody.

Manny: Wow!

Jeezy: The 1st thing that came to my mind when I heard this. The 1st thing was when they said that they spotted the barrel of the gun like sticking out

Jeezy: out out of the bushes, or or whatever, and it made me think of like, what is what is this like? Looney tunes or something like.

Jeezy: did you not think somebody was? Gonna see that like sticking out.

Manny: At all.

Jeezy: Like, or at that point was he just desperate like, Hey, like I've been sitting here 12 h.

Jeezy: I gotta get something off.

Manny: One, and he didn't. He didn't.

Jeezy: They didn't even get a shadow.

Manny: Like. So the understanding for the reports is that he he was about 500 yards away from Trump, so definitely definitely close enough where he could have, he could have probably got a shot off. My understanding is trump was still a couple holes back.

Manny: First, st let's be thankful that no one was hurt, hurt, hurt, or killed. In this incident.

Jeezy: Very true.

Manny: but it it's it's tragic for the country that I think that we are now kind of devolving, you know, back into this it. It had been many years.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: Where? Where we had really seen

Manny: political violence to actual leaders of movements

Manny: that that we're running in for.

Manny: There's there's a lot of questions.

Manny: In terms of you know the motive. I know a lot of the family of of Mr. Ruth. Have come out and said, Hey, this, this is not who we knew like.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: And they're they're starting to tie him out to to various groups. There were points of saying like, Hey, he was campaigning to go fight in Ukraine.

Jeezy: Actually, if I remember seeing, I think that he's actually been to Ukraine once or twice.

Jeezy: and then oddly went to another country to solicit or

Jeezy: encourage or or try to recruit people to go fight in Ukraine. He

Jeezy: I don't know what his man pockets look like, but homeboy is like he's done a lot of moving over the past few months year, and I believe that he was a former supporter of trump. I believe he voted for trump. If I'm not mistaken in 2016

Jeezy: and really, just from the details that we've been able to kind of

Jeezy: put together, or just here in general. It seems as though he's been very

Jeezy: office rocker, if you will. Maybe maybe he's had a little bit more of the political punch that has been

Jeezy: cause him to be a little off again, like you said before, I'm thankful that

Jeezy: former former President trump is safe. But this is a very

Jeezy: different time. I don't recall in my lifetime seeing political violence to this magnitude, or at least in my remembrance of being a teenager young adult, the magnitude of our political violence being so so high.

Manny: Well, yeah. And and I think that just goes back to the the last time we saw actions against leaders. And to to do that you're going back to

Manny: in terms of a plots that were actually successful. Where, like, the the target was hit. Yeah, so you're going back to 81.

Manny: let me confirm. Yeah, you're going back to 81 when Ronald Reagan was shot. And then, even before that, you're going back to 1972, when George Wallace was also shot. And it's again. It's sad. It's sad that we've gotten to this point in political discourse, that

Manny: it's come down to to people like feeling like they need to take it into their hands to try to massively do something to change. Yeah, to change the current stances. And

Manny: I guess the the biggest question that's sitting in my mind about this entire situation is.

Manny: did you actually think this was going to help.

Jeezy: But yeah, I don't. I don't.

Jeezy: I don't see the

Jeezy: how you could sit back and say in your mind. And again, I'm I'm not in the mind of someone that would even do something of this nature.

Jeezy: But how do you believe that you, taking out this individual

Jeezy: helps in any shape, form or fashion.

Manny: Right?

Manny: So

Manny: I think. And so a lot of people, I think, will will tie it back to social media. And I, yeah, I think that that's part of it.

Manny: You know, when you you look at the the psychology kind of involved in all these situations

Manny: and how social media algorithms are designed to constantly feed you, what you think and what you enjoy. Yeah. And if you're digging and taking in and ingesting extreme polarized views, you start your world starts reconstructing, you start finding it hard to understand how people

Manny: can really not believe what you believe. You're like.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: How do they believe that the sky is red? And if everybody in my community around me believes the sky is red, I can't understand somebody who's like, Hey, the sky is blue, yeah.

Manny: And then.

Jeezy: That's that's the dangerous thing about these algorithms, because.

Jeezy: like to your point, it it

Jeezy: psychologically, it reconstructs your mind. Because

Jeezy: if if I'm if I believe the sky is blue.

Jeezy: but I'm constantly being fed, that the sky is red, the sky is red. How long

Jeezy: does does it take for an individual

Jeezy: to say, you know what.

Manny: In the bear.

Jeezy: Maybe it's maybe it's red.

Jeezy: Then

Jeezy: to say.

Jeezy: this guy can't be blue. It has to be red. Now you've been just reprogrammed, reconstructed, and that's a that's a good point, Manny, that I did not think about.

Jeezy: The dangers that these algorithms, because I mean, if if you choose, if you're choosing to see conspiracy theories 24, 7.

Jeezy: Your algorithm is take there, is there? Your your algorithm is? Wow, look like.

Manny: Me tell you about the birds that sit on the electrical wires so they can charge up so.

Jeezy: That's a.

Manny: Mail.

Jeezy: Like that's that's the route you go down

Jeezy: right. I I have been tripping out because there's some stuff out in as well ever since I heard that pigeons aren't real, and they're like spying on us. I started looking like I've never seen like a pigeon sleep. I've never seen like

Jeezy: it started making you think. But again, for that's just being funny. But you know, if that's all that you're getting fed constantly, and you know, to see the deterioration of this guy, you can tell from his physical appearance that his mental ways have been deteriorated by, you know, whatever he's been consuming.

Jeezy: and he thought that this was the right way to handle what we were, what we're going through. And

Jeezy: you know, I I just don't understand.

Jeezy: You know the wise, you know. Why. Do you think that this would help in any shape, form, or fashion, if anything? Now we have a moment where this is yet again gave his base a surge. You know he's eating it up. He's been saying, you know I'm taking a bullet for you. Even his tone in the 1st assassination attempt that happened in Pennsylvania, like his tone then, was

Jeezy: maybe a little more compassionate, maybe a little more. I say unifying. But that's that's a different definition when it comes to trump. But now it's been more

Jeezy: divisive and more dangerous, I think, in in my opinion.

Manny: And I think that's for 2 reasons.

Manny: First, st if you compare the I think if you compare the 1st attempt to the second attempt, the 1st attempt

Manny: the man got shot.

Jeezy: Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, he oh, he felt that Blinky on his head.

Manny: Right right like your worldview, like I've never been shot, so I can't. I can't speak to it. I hope never.

Jeezy: Have 2.

Manny: Shot.

Jeezy: Agreed, brother.

Manny: That is a streak I would like to continue.

Manny: but I would, I would assume, like especially getting shot near the head, around the head by the head like

Manny: a couple inches, either. It's not like getting shoot shot in the abdomen.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: A couple inches. Another way. We're having a far.

Jeezy: Far, different.

Manny: Discussion.

Manny: And so I think that

Manny: I think instantly like that human reaction is to be sympathetic is to be appreciative of life.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: In this. Go round. What what you now have is

Manny: he didn't get shot like.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: So, you know, and thankfully and thankfully he did not get shy.

Manny: But there was no physical harm to him.

Manny: and then you also, I would have to assume. And I'm not an expert in psychology for anyone listening. I have no degrees. I took no classes in college about psychology. I was in the computer lab.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Jeezy: but.

Manny: Like

Manny: you've broken that glass like. Oh, I now know what it feels like to have been shot or shot at.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: Like, so that I would assume that there is some level of fear.

Manny: That's probably gone, because you now know what it happened, what what is happening here.

Manny: and I think you're spot on like the biggest thing this has done is galvanize his base.

Manny: And you need that, you know, I think at the end of the day, when we look at this election cycle.

Manny: it's going to be all about turnout.

Manny: you know it is. It is my personal belief that there are not that many minds out there that are truly, truly undecided.

Manny: So it's really about driving turnout and events like this. Drive your base together, and it really puts us in, puts us as a country

Manny: in a horrible place. It puts us in a very much Us. Versus them kind of standoff.

Manny: and when you, when you lose the humanity.

Manny: For the person that disagrees with you or for the person on the other side, and you start seeing them as non-human, you lose that empathy and things crumble even more.

Manny: And I just think that we're kind of at at the point where we're starting to see that crumbling.

Jeezy: Yeah. And I think that also to

Jeezy: trump is grabbing his straws, man. He's taking whatever he can get that will

Jeezy: give him whatever serves that that he needs. We've talked about it in our previous episode that they haven't quite yet found a way to

Jeezy: to combat, or one up the the surge that Harris and waltz are having

Jeezy: and what better better thing to use, you know, than than a moment like this? So I think he's. You know he's taking it, and he's seasoning.

Jeezy: I think the thing that is weird, though, is that

Jeezy: that you have them saying, Well.

Jeezy: this is happening because of the rhetoric that the other side is using.

Jeezy: And I'm like, Well, wait a minute.

Jeezy: You are the the dawn of divisiveness like

Jeezy: Bro. This is like this is like your your bread and butter like there's nobody I know

Jeezy: from a political standpoint that is able to pit the Us. Versus them

Jeezy: a phrase

Jeezy: in any shape, form, or fashion, like trump, like he is. He is brilliant at doing it. So then, for you to say, well, I'm getting shot at because of them and their rhetoric and the the things they're saying about me. It's like Whoa, man. Now come on.

Jeezy: you know I'm I'm grateful that you you are safe. That things were were not of the latter, and you were harmed. But to say that this is the case. That is because of what they are doing. I think that's that's a little. That's a little bit of a reach.

Manny: Right? Right? And

Manny: we will see what happens. Obviously, the the legal system has to has to play out. We'll see what ultimately happens with with Mr. Ruth and for the person in the 1st incident, and how that kind of all plays out and plays together.

Manny: There's still a lot to go here. But one thing I think, you know, we're gonna be. What about 43 days

Manny: away from the election? Give or take?

Manny: there's not going to be any wasted motion.

Jeezy: Oh no!

Manny: Everything is going to be used.

Manny: good or bad, is going to be used for either to prop you up or boost up your your opponent. We are truly in that sprint to election day, and we'll kind of

Manny: we'll kind of see what we got there. So

Manny: yeah, that that was a trump trump attempted assassination round 2. Let's hope this, I pray. Oh, my.

Jeezy: That's the end of the round.

Manny: I don't want to be back here talking about this, you know.

Jeezy: Exactly, exactly.

Manny: They're they're way, more important things that we, as a country, need to be putting our like brains and mental power to to try to solve than people really turning violent against one another.

Jeezy: Agreed, agreed.

Jeezy: Well, with that being said, we're going to shift to another topic, and for our listeners I want to give you a chance to see if you can guess what our next topic is. You guys have been aware of a lot of the things that have taken place over the political landscape this week. So I got a song I want to play to see if you guys can guess this next topic. And it goes like this.

Manny: All right. Here we go

Manny: because he's

Manny: what

Manny: that.

Jeezy: Is your musical clue of what our next topic is, and if you aren't aware of what that topic is

Jeezy: manny, share with them what what this next topic is, brother.

Manny: Man. Oh, man! Oh, man.

Manny: you know for you, for everyone here who's new to North Carolina politics, we

Manny: we are a very, very interesting state, and then, and when the hits get to hitting, they they be hidden.

Jeezy: Baby hind.

Manny: So

Manny: on Thursday are the lieutenant Governor

Manny: of this State.

Manny: had an article dropped up about him from Cnn. From the K. Files where they had identified

Manny: the use of his username and email.

Jeezy: Hmm.

Manny: In in several different locations online under the same handle and the same email. The the email that was used has been confirmed by Cnn. Via a anonymous source within the

Manny: Robinson campaign.

Manny: But

Manny: are

Manny: the the lieutenant Governor got a little bit wild on on a chat board

Manny: for a adult entertainment site that I

Manny: did not know knew existed.

Jeezy: This is not one of for our listeners. This was not one of the top 10 sites that you may enjoy, if that is your your thing of pleasure during your free time.

Manny: And

Manny: he said some pretty.

Jeezy: Wild things.

Manny: And.

Jeezy: That is.

Manny: Probably the calmest way we can really define that they were pretty wild.

Manny: where? Well, and I don't know where to start like.

Jeezy: It's it's a lot if if you're not aware of it. Listeners, it's a lot we we got a very raunchy Mark Robinson.

Manny: So I'm for for our people, who maybe haven't heard. I'm just going to read the name of the Cnn. Article.

Manny: Again. These are not my words.

Manny: I'm a black Nazi pause. We're going to stop there. I didn't even get through the entire title. What.

Jeezy: Wow!

Jeezy: But that's not something I wake up in the morning, you know, when I look in the mirror. I say, you know I am a black king. I am a black father.

Jeezy: I am a black husband. I am a black brother.

Jeezy: Never did I do. I wake up and say, you know what? Today I'm a black Nazi.

Manny: And it. So from that to

Manny: comments he made about members of our global community that.

Jeezy: That.

Manny: Were transsexual. There were comments on that.

Manny: and

Manny: it.

Manny: I think, the biggest shock for me here

Manny: is.

Manny: why are you commenting on a chat like a chat, a porn chat, chat, arena

Manny: about the like. Look either either Mark Robinson has lived a wild life. Yeah, or he writes some of the best fan fiction, fan, erotic fiction

Manny: of any political official in history.

Jeezy: In history, and it's wild, because when I'm you know, it was some of these things that he, he 1st of all his activity on here was way too heavy for of an individual that has something to do for a living like I'd expect you to be like

Jeezy: somewhere sitting in your mama's basement eating doritos and drinking mountain dew all day, playing video games to be having the activity that he's had on these discussion boards. But he's I mean, he's talking like it's almost like this discussion Board, was his journal, like he's talking about his day to day activity like

Jeezy: dude.

Jeezy: Don't you got something to do.

Manny: But apparently not, and then.

Jeezy: You know.

Manny: If you

Manny: for those of you who don't follow North Carolina politics as closely. A couple weeks ago there was a report coming out of Greensboro from the owner of an adult entertainment store that reported that when Mark got done working at a pizza place, that he would come over there

Manny: and enjoy some of the

Manny: the things that they had in that building. And and but before we continue down, I do want to just make one thing clear

Manny: a good portion of this stuff that we that we're talking and chatting about right now

Manny: that is not illegal. It's not illegal to enjoy it. We are not shamming him in terms of that like. If that's your thing, then that's your thing.

Jeezy: Hey? It's it's your thing.

Manny: That it's it is consenting. It sounds like this is everything was consenting, adults doing, consenting, adult behavior.

Jeezy: But what we will joke you on is the magnitude of how freaked out you get

Jeezy: while it is while it is legal.

Manny: As well.

Jeezy: Attitude of how much freak that you consume in a week

Jeezy: might need to have an interview.

Manny: So we need to have a sit down.

Manny: Hey, hey? I need go ahead and look. Go ahead and pull up to the red table like, because Mark.

Jeezy: Smart man.

Manny: That's why.

Jeezy: Getting off a late night at a pizza shop, when you've been flipping and pressing dough all day, and the 1st thing that you think of is not to go home and wash off the flour that's been caked up on your pants, or, you know, not to take a shower, because you've been touching Pepperoni and sausage all day.

Jeezy: Your 1st thing to do is let me hit the private booth

Jeezy: at the end. No story.

Manny: Bruh.

Jeezy: Go home, mark be.

Manny: Home and be a family man.

Jeezy: Go home, Mark. Go home, Bro. Like you got kids at home, which I'm sure at that time we're we're a young age. Go home.

Manny: Go home.

Jeezy: You didn't tell you all, mate.

Manny: Nope, Nope.

Jeezy: Come in there smelling like like a cheese pizza.

Jeezy: Hey! You come in.

Manny: Break it out.

Jeezy: Bruh like. No, Mark, you've been touching way too much meat to come in here and look at meat.

Jeezy: It'll probably.

Manny: Hey!

Jeezy: Right.

Manny: The the other thing that's kind of that's concerning about it is for someone who has been on the record.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: About being very anti-transgender. Anti Lgbtq. Community

Manny: anti smut! You know that the comments are are very not that. Now I think this is also a point that we have to call out

Manny: that

Manny: before the

Manny: article dropped on Cnn.

Manny: Mark Robinson hopped on. He did a twitter video

Manny: and said, and categorically denied the the allegations. Yeah.

Manny: that he was involved with any of these. My understanding is that Cnn. Reached out as early as Tuesday

Manny: to get feedback on. Hey? Do you have any comment on this?

Manny: And it took him 2 days to get back, and all overwhelming, denying. I heard there was a smaller interview that took place between Cnn and Mark Robinson earlier.

Jeezy: Yes.

Manny: After the article drop, where

Manny: he again denied it.

Manny: and and said, Hey, this was not me. This was an attack on me.

Manny: and we'll get to that piece in a second.

Manny: the the biggest thing.

Manny: not the biggest thing. There's far bigger things.

Jeezy: Far bigger, bad.

Manny: But the thing about this that I was thinking about is, okay. Let me let me sit down for a moment. Yeah, and think about

Manny: all of the impacted people here.

Jeezy: -

Manny: And

Manny: I will say this, for as as a former candidate, I will say this as knowing other candidates, families

Manny: like the life of a politician's family is rough. Yeah, because at the end of the day the candidate we sign up for this. We sign up for the attacks. Yeah, they don't.

Manny: They are very much bystanders. Yeah. And

Manny: the the

Manny: breakdown of who was who's been considered on and off limits has just been trending down and down over years, so I very much

Manny: feel horrible like. Imagine, imagine his wife and kids.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: Light

Manny: just chilling going about their day. Bloop gets that. Get that Cnn alert like Whoa.

Manny: what's happening?

Manny: So I immediately think about them and how their lives have drastically changed overnight.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: And

Manny: so that that was 1st thought, next thought that came around this, I'm like, okay. So he's denied it

Manny: in my head.

Manny: Is it possible

Manny: that this could have been some type of AI hack job?

Manny: It could be? Look.

Manny: you know it, this site. We I you know we did some research on it from the registrations and standpoint. It has been up since 1998. So it's been around for a while.

Manny: and my understanding is the site

Manny: is not a very modern site. Yeah. So

Manny: what level of security and protocols they might have? You know, it's like, okay, is it possible that someone with direct database access was able to get access and put the stuff in there and fake the conversations.

Manny: Yeah, yeah, I you know, crazier things have happened when we talk about technology and hacking. So could that have happened? Absolutely.

Manny: But what I'm not hearing

Manny: is all of the additional follow up that I would expect to hear. Yeah, if there was a hacking like

Manny: the the website is registered out of Florida. So I've not heard about any potential legal action by Mark Robinson of his and his team. Yeah, I've not heard the owner of the site come back and say anything, and

Manny: you know I know one person who was probably having a really really rough day is whoever controlled the it support on this particular site.

Jeezy: Because.

Manny: To go from. Probably the traffic they were getting to the traffic.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: Got after this article drop.

Jeezy: Oh, yeah.

Manny: Probably booming that I hope they've upgraded from windows. Xp. On that server

Manny: struggling, struggling, and this is wild. This is wild.

Jeezy: Wow!

Jeezy: And I think the thing that's just

Jeezy: with with this drop.

Jeezy: It couldn't come at a worse time for mark.

Jeezy: This is not

Jeezy: what you

Jeezy: would love to have on your Bingo card for September, going into the last few weeks of of the campaign trail, and Mark has already, and I think I think we've talked about it before, too, is he's already been struggling a little bit, as is

Jeezy: I believe that.

Manny: Might have been the nicest way to put this.

Jeezy: Well, you know he's been. He's been beat. He's been beat down a little bit this week, so I'm trying to. I'm trying to do with what would Jesus do? It'd be nice to my brother.

Manny: But.

Jeezy: He, he taking a beating, he taking a beat in the polls, is definitely double digits from from the last thing that I've seen and this isn't gonna help this isn't gonna help at all. I believe that

Jeezy: former vice. Excuse me, former President Trump was in North Carolina. This weekend

Jeezy: mark was nowhere to be found.

Manny: No, no, no, no, it's not just nowhere to be found. To my understanding. They said. Oh, no, no, no, you are not well, there's no room at the end. Please do not.

Jeezy: Nice to hear.

Manny: Sees.

Jeezy: Taken.

Manny: I'm sorry. No.

Jeezy: Gave him that Forrest Gump Treat.

Manny: Who.

Jeezy: Ain't no way for you.

Manny: Brett.

Jeezy: So this couldn't come at a worse, a worse time.

Manny: And I think that so the

Manny: I think why, it also blew up as big of a thing, not not only because of what it actually was is the importance of that Thursday date. So for those of you who are who are may not be playing as close attention. Thursday's deadline when this article came out was the deadline that you had

Manny: to remove your name from the ballet.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: And from my understanding there had already been discussions about how bad he was hurting everybody.

Manny: I would say, it is pretty. It's been pretty apparent the entire time, like I don't know if they're

Manny: I see one, poll. If I'm looking back at several of the polls.

Manny: I see one poll that was taken May 29, th

Manny: through June second.

Manny: where Robinson was up 2.

Jeezy: Wow!

Jeezy: So he's been down down bad for a little while.

Manny: Since since summertime.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: And even at that point he was up to.

Manny: and then.

Jeezy: Looks high.

Manny: The the largest gap that I've seen is a poll that was taken by High Point

Manny: in the beginning of May that had him up 5.

Manny: So wow.

Manny: and looking looking at Stein's numbers. Yeah, right now.

Manny: if we we look at not just recently again, double digits.

Manny: So I think

Manny: I think it would. It was an opportunity, and I think this is where you know everyone has. Everyone could get real conspiracy theorists, of course, Cnn's not Cnn. Got tipped off on this. I think that's that's kind of apparent that you know. Somebody told them where to go. Now the question of who and who was that direction we may never know.

Manny: but they're.

Jeezy: When?

Jeezy: Oh, yes, how long? How long did Cnn hold this? And it took because to you, to what you just said a minute ago

Jeezy: Thursday was the deadline. It seems mighty convenient.

Jeezy: Had this dropped. Had this dropped last week.

Jeezy: we we might be having a little bit of a different discussion as far as the replacing of the candidate and someone that would maybe have a strengthen the ticket a little bit better.

Jeezy: But when you come out, you know, Thursday morning, you know, in the deadlines Thursday evening.

Jeezy: It's pretty calculated.

Manny: Extremely extremely like. So again, you give a week to somebody like that's enough time to kind of it to happen there to be damage control. And then a really a really strong reassessing of what we need to do here

Manny: with one day. You don't have that.

Jeezy: You can't do that. You can't do it.

Manny: You know, because you don't know how the I think, you know, even though he was alerted to it on Tuesday. You don't really know how hard it was actually going to hit.

Jeezy: Yep.

Manny: Because, let's say.

Manny: let's say that. So this scenario didn't play out. But let's say that the article drops. But let's say, an hour later the Us. Gives permission to Ukraine to use their missiles deep within Russia.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: That that story dies the Robinson story. We're maybe talking about it a little bit here, but we're all eyes on us, us, Russia, so like you don't.

Jeezy: It's a hard pivot.

Manny: Super hard pivot, and then also

Manny: the

Manny: who is going to be, who would be willing to even step into that that seat and try to actually put together

Manny: a campaign with 43 across State 100 County campaign

Manny: to try to pull a campaign that was down

Manny: double digits to a winning side. It's it's a hard pill for anyone to swallow. Would somebody been found to do it? Yeah, would they.

Jeezy: There we go!

Manny: Excited about it? Absolutely not.

Manny: And I think you see it from Tom Tillis's.

Manny: You know statement. He's like, well, this race is lost. So let's focus on all the other down ballot races that could be that that are going to be impacted.

Manny: Yeah, yeah.

Jeezy: We're at this point. We're nurturing something that's that's already dead at this point. It's not, is. There's no life in this is not. Gonna

Jeezy: there's certainly not a win in this category. And, like I said before, you know, this couldn't have come at a worse time. And we've seen this before in North Carolina, when we saw Cal Cunningham.

Jeezy: you know, on on October 3rd of 2020,

Jeezy: you know, he had a bombshell. Now, the difference between Kyle Cunningham and Mark Robinson is that Cal was leading. You know he was leading in the polls. It was looking good for him, you know. His could not have come at a worse time, and you know the the allegations now granted

Jeezy: consensual.

Manny: You know, 2 adults agreeing to do what they were going to do.

Jeezy: 2 adults doing what they want to do. You know, it was very consensual.

Jeezy: but he was married. She was married. Her husband came out and made statements, finding out that his wife had done this, and it was not just, you know, you know, sexting. It was 1st it was sexting. And then we found out that it was actual

Jeezy: physical.

Manny: Room.

Jeezy: Relations.

Jeezy: and we've seen a a total shift where he was up to, you know he he lost, you know, and I think that when you look at Mark, you know he was already down.

Manny: Right.

Jeezy: And this and this broke. So this is only going to make make his the numbers and the performance in which he's going to do on election day even worse. I think that I'm not a crystal ball man by any source of the imagination, but I would probably bet everything on the house, saying that this is done, and there's no way in the world he has a chance of winning.

Manny: Look, you shouldn't make that bet. And here's why I tell you you shouldn't make that bet. You shouldn't make that bet, because there is no sports book

Manny: in the world that would even allow you to make that bet at this time

Manny: like it.

Manny: It's impactful. And I think so. It was funny, the the immediate aftermath.

Manny: Yeah, of what was happening.

Manny: What you saw was everyone scrubbing, scrubbing.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: Script. And

Manny: when I look back on how this broke and everyone's like, Oh, my gosh! There are a couple people

Manny: who feel extremely vindicated.

Jeezy: The first.st

Manny: Yeah, slow. So when we talked yesterday, jeez, I was like, I'm definitely feeling the most vindicated. I realized that I'm not.

Manny: I'm not. Oh, no, there is a. There is a large list of people who feel far more

Manny: than I do the first.st Oh, yeah. So the first, st the first, st probably most vindicated person that probably had them a deep like I'm talking about deep in the diaphragm. Ha! Ha! Nikiki would be former representative, Elan Hawley.

Manny: whom she lost to yeah.

Manny: to mark for lieutenant to be the 1st black lieutenant Governor. Oh, she probably had a good deep.

Jeezy: What else do.

Manny: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Manny: yeah. And I don't. I don't know this. You know, Yvonne Holly is probably one of the nicest people in politics that I've ever been fortunate to meet. You know, when I ran she

Manny: was always there for me to talk to and give me guidance, just as another young African American stepping into the arena of politics, and I will always hold that close in the conversations that we've had in that time. Yeah.

Manny: But the next I'll say group of people, because I don't know if I can. I'm not going to individually call them out. Yeah, is, I think we have to remember with Mark Robinson

Manny: how he even got here.

Manny: So Mark Robinson won a primary

Manny: with a little bit over 30%

Manny: of the primary vote. Yep.

Manny: So 70%

Manny: of the Republican primary voters and your primary voters are going to be your voters. That are your Diehards. Yep, that that are super involved.

Manny: 70% said you, ain't it?

Jeezy: You, ain't it? Bro?

Manny: And because because of this, 30% rule.

Manny: yep.

Manny: you won so. And I get it at the end of the day. Them the rules.

Jeezy: -

Manny: But that group.

Manny: that group.

Jeezy: Your day has come. The 70 percenters.

Manny: Right. It's here, it's here, and so I've I'm sure they felt vindicated. And then I put myself 3, rd because

Manny: if

Manny: for 2 reasons.

Manny: the 1st being there was a time. And you and I had talked about this in that lead up where I debated running. Yeah, and opted not to, because just coming off of my house run. And just in life, like I needed to woo saw. Yeah,

Manny: but to to see, to know in 2018 that he wasn't it? Yeah, he wasn't it, either.

Manny: Just be. And that's before I knew anything about him personally. Yeah, it's it was really from a policy standpoint.

Manny: you know you can. You can yell about policy, because at that point he rose to prominence because he showed up, and I won't say showed up, but he spoke at a I believe it was a Greensboro City Council meeting very passionately about guns, and that really. And look, I'm not gonna.

Jeezy: Attention.

Manny: Look, and I'm not. The man can speak. Oh, yeah, man can speak when.

Jeezy: It's wrong.

Manny: When you talk about the prototype voice and energy level.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: That a North, especially a black North Carolina politician gives. Yeah, he's got a spot on. Yeah, nailed it, nailed it. But like there's nothing behind that like. Okay, you can speak. But tell me what? Tell me about your policy thoughts like, what do you want to do?

Manny: And it just wasn't there. So

Manny: this this is going to be painful. I think North Carolina always was going to be one of those States

Manny: where it was completely possible, because it it's happened before it happened. This last go round

Manny: where Trump won the State.

Manny: But Dems took the took the governorship. It was completely possible that you could have Vice President Harris win the State, and Mark Robinson win that, or vice versa, with Stein winning the State and trump win. And

Manny: but now to see the focus now shifting to all the down ballot races, especially when you look at all the Congressional races. Yeah, you look at all the North Carolina, General Assembly, State Senate and House races, and I'll just kind of make a blanket statement there

Manny: if you are a Republican running in a majority urban county.

Manny: Good luck! Good luck! I think it is extremely possible at this standpoint that the that the Democrats are able to break the Republican super majority just from that. And then, when you look at the Council of States State races.

Manny: Hal Weatherman, running for Lieutenant Governor on the Republican side, tied himself very closely to Mark.

Jeezy: Yep.

Manny: And

Manny: I saw an ad today that is like, Hey, Mark and him tied right together. Every every Republican is going to be bolted up to Mark Robinson, and and before anyone goes searching there does exist a photo of me and Mark Robinson together

Manny: because I had to go. Look, I was like, I don't think one exists, but one does exist, and.

Jeezy: They say photos.

Manny: There's a photo. But it's like a group photo from the 4th Congressional district. So yeah, look, I'm gonna I'm gonna hop out here and jump on the sword 1st before. What about that? What about? I said that.

Jeezy: I love that I love that you did that, brother get get in front of it first.st

Manny: We. We are on separate sides.

Jeezy: And like for our listeners, I can attest that that my brother here is, does not align himself, nor has ever aligned himself, and I think if he did align himself with Mark Robinson, this podcast wouldn't even have started because we would have had to get our personal

Manny: Our personal.

Jeezy: Little Brotherhood together, today.

Manny: You can check.

Jeezy: Something like this.

Jeezy: and I'll.

Manny: Also to note. You can tell my serious seriousness of the event, because I have a tricolor polo on.

Jeezy: Oh no!

Manny: Oh, yeah, and shorts and sperries.

Manny: I don't remember what the event is, but I'm not dressed like, I'm really trying to do something. Yeah, so.

Jeezy: You ain't there for business right?

Manny: I'm like

Manny: I stopped by, because, you know, I got someplace to be.

Manny: but I think so. I think Lieutenant Governor, like Hal Weatherman, has got a fight there, I think, when you look at the Attorney General's race between Dan Bishop and Jeff Jackson, that was already going to be a hard race, just because of the historical connections that both of these individuals have from either work. From their time in the General Assembly, Dan Bishop also went to Congress for a while, and has now come back to be Attorney General. You got a battle there.

Jeezy: Yeah, I.

Manny: You know, auditors, the race that's going to be a toss up

Manny: if if I'm being 1,000% honest.

Manny: I think there are a couple races that might already be done.

Manny: the 1st being the Nc. Secretary of State, Elaine Marshall has been the North Carolina Secretary of State for years. I don't even remember

Manny: when she got elected. I would. I want to say it was like in the early 2 thousands

Manny: just from raw name Id. It's gonna be hard for anyone to unseat her

Manny: point point blank.

Manny: And then same person, other same type of person other side is, you're going to have Steve Troxler, Republican as the the Commissioner of Agriculture has been the Commissioner of Agriculture for years.

Manny: I think he's fine.

Manny: but we are going to see

Manny: this drag. And so to kind of go into a little bit into the keys that I expect to be out there.

Manny: For election night.

Manny: If you guys look at that race, and how that race is starting to play off with the votes. If that if that race is close, then Republicans are going to have a bad night all around.

Manny: So.

Manny: but I think every other Republican is is going to have a have a rough time, especially if you're running statewide.

Manny: And definitely those who are local.

Jeezy: I I agree, Mark, in in doing this. Mark didn't help the team out at all.

Jeezy: It didn't help the team out at all. So we'll we will definitely keep you guys posted on how this turns out, because North Carolina is gonna be very big in in November.

Jeezy: There's gonna be a spotlight on on this state on this great state. So we're definitely gonna be doing a lot more coverage of it and talking about some of these things as as time draws close. So

Jeezy: Mark Robinson, man, hey.

Jeezy: you gotta you gotta stop freaking out, man.

Jeezy: it's true.

Manny: Man, just chill man like.

Jeezy: But hey for him!

Jeezy: Your freak out has been exposed. So now what do you gotta lose right now? You.

Manny: He's doing, old man. He's free.

Jeezy: To live now. So I mean, hey, brother, you've been exposed.

Jeezy: There's got to be some relief that comes to being exposed. Now that everybody knows you can go to these porn sites and

Jeezy: these stores freely, without without prejudice.

Manny: Maybe sign some autographs.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: Yeah, we could go and do.

Jeezy: Hey? Maybe maybe get an endorsement from only fans.

Manny: There's opportunity.

Jeezy: There's opportunity now. Political opportunity.

Manny: Oh, no, there's none of that.

Jeezy: Opportunity.

Jeezy: opportunity.

Manny: You got a half? Gotta look at that glass is half full, but half full. I think we are. We are very safe in saying that Mr.

Manny: Robinson will not become the 1st black governor of North Carolina.

Jeezy: Nope, we're gonna have to try again later.

Manny: Yep, yep, yep, so absolutely.

Jeezy: Well, that's it for Mark Robinson. We want to shift now to our next topic, which goes back to our candidates for President. We both actually witnessed, as you have as well listeners, that both candidates, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, had 2 town halls that went on in Michigan

Jeezy: this week. Trump was on Thursday, and Kamala had one on Thursday.

Jeezy: So I just want to share you some details. In regards to those 2 town halls. So, Manny, I'm sure you've called the

Jeezy: Trump in his Town hall, so so give us a little bit of details about that.

Manny: Yeah, man. So I think before we start, let's remember why they were both in Michigan, Michigan is going to be very much a toss up state with 15 electoral college votes on the line. So it's it's a big boy. Yep. So I think a lot of people. And I say a lot of people.

Manny: both trump and vice President Harris.

Manny: a lot of their paths to victory include winning Michigan. So Key State Key State

Manny: where do I start with this. So first, st you know, this town hall was moderated by Sarah Huckabee standards, and you know his former press secretary. So it is someone that he is already comfortable with yep, great, great for him. Great! So like if I'm on his team and advising him to do this, I'm doing this

Manny: pretty much every day of the week, and now that she's governor, she now has some political credentials to roll with. Absolutely. That's the pick I make

Manny: so that's the 1st thing that was impaired. The second thing is.

Manny: the race is on, for who will win

Manny: women voters? Specifically white women voters.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: You know, I'll say this, you guys will hear me say this, countless times throughout this podcast. And other podcast. Other other episodes that we'll do

Manny: every presidential like, I won't say every yeah. But a lot of presidential elections

Manny: are really driven off of who wins white women. Yep.

Manny: I think by and large.

Manny: You white male voters will vote Republican.

Manny: African American women and most minorities usually vote Democrat

Manny: immigrants. We've seen some shifting tides, but I think of last count. It is usually 60% Democrat with 30% going to the Republican party, and that demographic is still shifting. So they are slowly becoming also

Manny: a larger voting block. But they're also progressing more and more to a 50 50 sand. So when we're talking about the changing dynamics and demographics of the United States. That's going to be a very major block of votes somewhere in the next 12 to 16 years. But for right now

Manny: we are talking about about white women. So I think that's

Manny: partially why, you see a lot of focus, a lot of him trying to bring out his his team, especially his female supporters. Because, yeah, you lock up that base. It's going to help win.

Manny: Yeah,

Manny: And then you're in Michigan.

Manny: Okay, what do you care about you care about vehicles. You care about manufacturing? Yeah, like that.

Manny: That is what Michigan is largely known for outside of you know, their football team and the Detroit lions

Manny: and the Detroit red wings like

Manny: manufacturing. You think, Detroit, you think either the lions or vehicles?

Manny: Yeah. And then

Manny: man, trump trump is interesting man, because

Manny: so one of the things that I think you candidates here a lot like when you know, we're getting talked to by advisors and consultants. It's like, Hey.

Manny: take the if you get asked a question, take the question that they asked you.

Manny: And flip it, and answer the question that you really want to answer

Manny: and trump does that?

Manny: It takes some time.

Jeezy: Boy.

Manny: Very much long form storytelling, but he gets there. It gets. He gets there eventually.

Manny: and.

Jeezy: Hmm.

Manny: Is. Some people will say it's rambling. Some people will say, Hey, it's it's long form storytelling.

Manny: he himself pointed out. He's like, Hey, it's it's complex. He's like, I connect every dot.

Manny: and if you sit and you focus long enough you can trace the dots where he kind of gets back.

Manny: But it's a

Manny: it's you lock in, man, because you're going to be there for a couple minutes to get to to get the entire answer.

Jeezy: Is long. It's very long.

Manny: But the focus was around. You know again what his big things and you keep hearing it over and over and over again, is manufacturing. What do we need to do for manufacturing to bring jobs back here? What are we going to do about tariffs? And that's largely

Manny: what he was talking about the big thing that I saw really, really interesting about this is, and I did not have time to really dig into it like I could like I really wanted to.

Manny: But he talked about reciprocal trade agreements and at a very, very high elementary school level, and I'll keep it at that, because I don't feel like I can explain it any better than that at this standpoint. Basically, you know. Geez, if you're you're China, and I'm the Us. If you're you're you're taxing me 132%. Well, I'm going to tax you 132%.

Manny: Why, I thought that was interesting is

Manny: from the debate. It is probably the 1st time that I've remembered since the debate where he's really spoken specifically to a piece.

Manny: Existing legislation. Again, reciprocal trade agreements currently exist. I believe it was 1932 was the the 1st kind of hearing of it.

Manny: so I think he he's he is now taking that feedback of like, Hey, you can't, you can't no longer say, Hey! I have concepts of ideas like.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: He he's starting to. He's starting to drill down so he talked about bringing back manufacturing, and I think when you look at the numbers, and I went back and looked specifically at the numbers

Manny: while he was in office.

Manny: and in terms of employ, people employed

Manny: in the manufacturing business.

Manny: In 2017,

Manny: 22.6 million people were in manufacturing jobs in the Us. In 2018 it hopped up to 12.8 in 2019 it was 12.8 as well. In 2020

Manny: it went down to 11.7. Now, of course, you also have the the pandemic.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: But in those 1st early years of his 1st year you did have

Manny: expansion of manufacturing.

Manny: Now you also kind of see it consistently if you look in the Obama years

Manny: meant the the. He came in in 20 sorry, 2,009 12.5 2010 12.7

Manny: the highest it hit during his term was in 2013, where we hit 13.4 million people employed in manufacturing jobs.

Manny: and for those of you keeping track at home for Senator for President Biden.

Manny: He took office 2021. It started at 12.1 in 2022. It went to 12.5, and in 2023 it was 12.6. So he's also seen

Manny: it grow, or essentially the rebound back to the levels that it had pre covid. So I think a lot of this time has been like the recovery of all manufacturing.

Manny: But he kept it really focused on those points? And then also bringing back to climate change.

Manny: I won't go as far to say as he is a well, yeah, I don't believe he believes in climate change and the exact quote.

Manny: not that the ocean is going to rise in 400 years an 8th of an inch. You'll have more seafront property if that happens.

Manny: I remember.

Jeezy: And I was like.

Manny: Isn't it a good thing if I have a little bit more property on the ocean, sir?

Jeezy: Yeah, sure.

Manny: People have their houses.

Jeezy: That was wild when he said.

Manny: Then his focus was like, Hey, I want to protect American jobs. So that that was his big message. And I think that is a message that resonates in that state because it had has been historically so manufacturing, manufacturing driven.

Manny: The last point that I'll have on this, and I will say this about trump

Manny: every time he speaks to a crowd.

Manny: because he is one of the best that does it. The the top, the top 3 people

Manny: that have been able to do this.

Manny: No, I'll just do. Top 2, the top 2 people that I feel like as politicians do this the best and the this that I'm talking about is to have that personal connection with a voting base is Donald Trump and Barack Obama.

Manny: They connect with crowds in ways that a lot of politicians don't.

Manny: If you listen to any time trump starts a speech, and they're cheering.

Manny: What he will always tell the crowd is that he loves them.

Jeezy: Yeah.

Manny: And it is usually some of the most genuine parts of his speech of him doing that personal connection to the crowd.

Manny: And I can tell. You can tell by the reaction in a lot of cases that they connect very strongly with.

Jeezy: They believe.

Manny: They believe it, they.

Jeezy: Believe it.

Manny: Obama did the exact same thing. And that's so so powerful when you step into an election election, Booth, and you have to cast that vote, and you're asking, I believe, at the end of the day, if you're a toss up voter, and you ask yourself, does this person truly care about me?

Jeezy: Bingo!

Manny: And that's how people cast their votes.

Jeezy: And I think for to that perspective that

Jeezy: the person can do right, they can do wrong. They may implement things that may be better for me. They may make things worse.

Jeezy: but if I can feel that I've been captured, that okay.

Jeezy: you might do. You might not do the right thing every time, but at least I know you cared. You're trying, because nobody's perfect, and that personable connection that at the end of the day you really truly care. And if you look at these rallies when they talk to, you know. Trump supporters.

Jeezy: you know, is is not necessarily the big key that they talk about his policies

Jeezy: is that they feel as though he's going to fight for us. He's going to do this. He loves, he loves us, and he loves our country. He's captured that. And you're you're completely right. And that's 1 thing I will never take away from Donald Trump. Is that the way that he can take his supporters, and in an arena, or in a rally, or wherever they may be, how he can make them feel like he has his arms around everybody in that building.

Jeezy: It's an incredible gift. I will. I will never take that from that man. He he has.

Jeezy: He has it

Jeezy: so, you know. I.

Manny: You, you you tuned in to to the aunties.

Jeezy: You know I did. I went. I went over, and, you know, went over to the auntie's house and late, and watched the aunties talk, and see what they had going on. You know they had a little something, something going on at the Auntie's house. So

Jeezy: I tuned in to Vice President Kamala Harris event with Oprah that happened in Michigan, and the theme that they had on this event was unite for America.

Jeezy: And just to kind of give you some details. There were 400 people in person. It was very intimate. It wasn't like that was a contrast between her and trump. It was not like rally based per se. It was more personable.

Jeezy: very intimate, town Hallish and it was hosted obviously by by Oprah.

Jeezy: but they had 400 people in person, but virtually they had

Jeezy: thousands of people.

Jeezy: and just to kind of name they've had. All these various groups of people that were there virtually, and A lot of this transpired from, if we we remember 3 h after. She was Biden was was dropping out, and Kamala was taking over. We all are where these zoom calls started going on.

Jeezy: and out of that it. It empowered and ignited about 47,000 women, and now that has led into at this virtual event, they had very. They have these groups now

Jeezy: of supporters that are for Kamala, and I'm just gonna run down the list of these groups that were there. There were cat ladies for Kamala.

Jeezy: rural Americans for Harris, caregivers for Kamala, train lovers for Harris, waltz, chefs for Kamala, Republicans for Kamala, swifties for Kamala, white dudes for Kamala win with black men.

Manny: Wait! Wait! Hold on! Hold on! Is literally white dudes for Kamala.

Jeezy: White dudes from for Kamala, and they had a spokesperson from that is the, I guess, the chair of the group.

Jeezy: and he got up and spoke about how you know they they had all this, this energy and how they were doing everything they possibly can. And the last group that was recognized was South Asians for Harris.

Jeezy: and not only did they have these groups, but they actually had a star studded cast, too. They had, Brian

Jeezy: I believe his name is Carson

Jeezy: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Lopez Tracy, Ellis Ross, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep.

Jeezy: I.

Jeezy: They had some. They had some hitters, man, and each one of them those celebrities talked on different things from excitement to race, to

Jeezy: voting, to reproductive rights. And it was. It was a. It was a lot of energy

Jeezy: in the room, and I think one thing that Harris did

Jeezy: she kind of, and I I wrote it down as a con is that she? She kind of regurgitated some of the things she's already said before.

Jeezy: So I wouldn't say there was nothing necessarily new per Se. But it captured the energy that they've already been having as far as the surge.

Jeezy: They spoke a lot about the unity. They spoke about the border

Jeezy: abortion. They actually have one of the girls. The young lady excuse me, that were was involved in the school shooting that happened in Georgia.

Manny: Oh, wow!

Jeezy: And they had her and her mom and dad, and they spoke, which was that moment man.

Manny: Powerful.

Jeezy: Powerful, the 1st 1st of all, just for this young girl to even just share. As she sat there still with bandages from, you know her wounds that she had from being shot. I believe, she said. She got shot twice one of the shoulder and one in the arm, and just the mom, just you know. They asked him. Oprah was talking to the mother, and

Jeezy: I mean the mother barely could even speak. She was just in tears so much, and you know that, of course, set the alley-oop of emotions for Kamala to come in. And you know, really push this thing about. You know, some of the comments that you know Trump and Jd. Vance have have been criticized for saying that it's a it's a part of life they really worked that in

Jeezy: but they just talked about those things abortion. They had a mother that was there. And again, and this is genius by her staff.

Jeezy: They're they're this momentum. They have this energy, these emotions that they're being able to hit. They had a mother that was there whose daughter died.

Manny: Oh, wow!

Jeezy: From an abortion well, from the lack of not having one. She was having some issues with her pregnancy came to the emergency room. They didn't perform the abortion. I don't remember how long she was as far along as she was in her pregnancy.

Jeezy: but because of the stipulations of things they waited about 20 h before they performed the abortion because they were worried about legal ramifications. And you know all the things that was going on. Once roe. V. Wade was turned away well in them, waiting those 20 h, and finally doing it. The mother lost her daughter.

Jeezy: and the thing the mother kept saying was that I felt like it could have been prevented if

Jeezy: XY. And Z. Hasn't. Hasn't you know this this Roe v. Wade thing has gone the way that it has. So then, that moved this room that I believe, was, I want to say the room might have been predominantly women.

Jeezy: So going to the point that you said

Jeezy: you in Michigan, you in this room with women.

Jeezy: You just had a mother

Jeezy: and a teenage daughter. Talk about being involved in the school shooting, and how that has to be handled differently. You have a mother here who's saying that I lost, and her mother was there with her daughter. So there's they're talking about her, their sister

Jeezy: the room, I mean. People are crying in both of these 2 occasions, and Kamala seizes that moment to to that empathy I believe you spoke about in episode one that we did. She captured this. So I felt like in terms of

Jeezy: her town hall. It really just was emotional. It really captured just, I'm human. But I care about everybody. This doesn't have to be about Dems or Republicans. This would be about just people caring about people.

Jeezy: And really, I think just capturing the the move of how Tim Waltz has been, how you know, we just care about everybody, and whatever you have going on is none of our business, but we can still care for one another. So I think that allowed her by capturing those those moments of emotions. It allowed her to skirt away

Jeezy: from policy talk when I watched it. This was not a time that I felt like they came in trying to talk serious policy.

Jeezy: This was, let's let's get everybody emotionally in the room. Let's capture that. Let's put it in a bottle, and we're going to sell that to the American people and and and talk about this unity, which is an opposite tone of what what we heard from trump.

Manny: That that's not what I'm bringing Oprah on stage to talk about is hard is hard policy. That.

Jeezy: No.

Manny: Not at all.

Jeezy: And let me tell you, Oprah, Oprah, you know we've there's been conversations before in the past about her political ambition.

Jeezy: and let me tell you she she worked it. She worked it. She worked a room.

Jeezy: She talked a lot about Michelle Obama, you know. They brought the homie out big grudge.

Jeezy: Then Gretch came out. You know she did her thing, and even came out to the soul. You know

Jeezy: all Big Gritch, you know. It was a lot of high energy and a lot of enthusiasm, and just a lot of empathy. And this discussion of unity was just, I mean, just pumped throughout the entire. I believe it was an hour and 50. Oprah came out, did her thing, for, like the 1st hour that 1st 50 min Kamalo did. Kamala won't even out there like

Jeezy: Oprah was out there like getting getting off her like, okay, like, just in case I want to get my political bag going. Let me test the room to see how I do. And she worked it and brought big Gretch out. And then, you know, Kamala did her thing, for I want to say the last 50 min

Jeezy: the 55 min. So that that was what I got out of it again. No hard policy, but I don't believe that that was the case. I think it just wanted to capture on what what momentum they've had, and

Jeezy: in a in a key state like Michigan.

Jeezy: and to the point that you made about women. I think that that was the objective, and I would. I would say that

Jeezy: I think they did a good job of trying to do it.

Manny: It. It's going to be a we said it last week. I'll say it again this week. It is going to be a crazy sprint.

Manny: Yeah.

Jeezy: It is.

Manny: To the finish line.

Manny: And my, I think

Manny: the piece that I still want from from Vice President Harris is.

Manny: I would like.

Manny: and I get it. I'm a different breed. But I want to get into some policy. What are you trying to do

Manny: like? And I

Manny: when I when will we get it, we'll we'll see. And again.

Manny: you can only do so much policy as President. Yeah, yeah. You know, I am a firm believer that a President, a President, no matter, the party should not govern by executive order. Yeah. Yeah.

Manny: And

Manny: because you also see what happens with it now, with the attempts that Biden has made that have gone right to the Supreme Court, so I hope that at some point over the next 40, some odd days, we might get to some real good policy discussion.

Manny: But I'm not not very optimistic. I give it a plus plus 3 50 that will get some deep, deep policy.

Jeezy: So

Jeezy: yeah, I'm not gonna hold my breath on it. She she talked about things that she's already talked about. You know, the 1st time home buyer, you know, down payment assistance. I think one thing that I did hear mentioned that I didn't. I haven't heard her say before is is, and I can't remember it really in detail.

Jeezy: but

Jeezy: helping with the red tape of of construction of new homes

Jeezy: and allowing it to, she actually gave a figure. I believe it was 3 million

Jeezy: was the number she gave creating or building, constructing 3 million new homes

Jeezy: on top of having the credit for those individuals or the the assistance for those people, and I believe that what she, when she spoke about it, it was to

Jeezy: alleviate the market. Yeah, bring the bring the calls down. I think that's the 1st time I've heard her actually give a number figure in that area.

Manny: So we're getting there. We're getting there, but we.

Jeezy: We getting there? I don't know how much we're gonna get there, but we we getting baby steps so.

Manny: Well, cool, so.

Jeezy: Well, y'all, I think that we've hit some great topics, and I think that we have had

Jeezy: a pretty detailed field episode. So.

Manny: But but before we get out of here.

Jeezy: Yes, sir.

Manny: We got a we got next week. What? What are you looking forward.

Jeezy: 2.

Manny: Next week.

Jeezy: So we're going to detail this part of our episode, the spotlight of the week. So

Jeezy: what I'll be looking for, and this will be next week, and

Jeezy: going into the election.

Jeezy: There were some details that came out. I want to say that it was Monday or Tuesday.

Jeezy: There was a poll that was done in the State of Iowa. You may be familiar with Iowa if you watch sports, and you know Caitlin Clark, the great state that she's played basketball for

Jeezy: they had a poll came out, and the poll showed that Donald Trump was

Jeezy: at 47%, and Kamala Harris was at

Jeezy: 43,

Jeezy: and you may say, and you've heard us say it before, like polls are, you know. Polls are polls. They could, you know. We all are very aware that how the polls look when Hillary Clinton was running, and then how that just flipped on his head on election night. But the reason why this is is very important is because this poll has been very who it came, who has come from? It's been conducted by Seltzer and company, and they have been very, very accurate. 9 times out of 10 what they have polled

Jeezy: the results on election night look very, very accurate.

Jeezy: So. If you're not familiar. With those details. And of course

Jeezy: Iowa has always been, to my knowledge, has always been red. So what I'm saying here. I'm not saying that we need to be on a flip alert, and that the State will swap or flip to the blue. But just to give you some numbers in 2016

Jeezy: Donald Trump won 51.1 to Hillary, at that time winning 41.7, and in 2020 Donald Trump won 53.1, and Biden had 44.9, so still double digit. But if this turns out that in 2024

Jeezy: we would be looking at trump, winning Iowa at 47%, and Kamala Harris winning at 43.

Jeezy: That could be an indication that things may may end up being a problem particularly.

Jeezy: and how things will play out in the neighboring State of Wisconsin.

Manny: Yeah.

Jeezy: Because generally, if you look at the numbers,

Jeezy: Wisconsin flipped in 2020 trump won Wisconsin in 2016, with 47.2, and Biden came and flipped it, and it was very narrow. Biden wanted 49.4 over trump, winning it 48.8. But if you remember the numbers, as I said previously.

Jeezy: Trump won Iowa by double digits.

Jeezy: If he, if he wins Iowa by within the margin of error, within 3 or 4 points

Jeezy: that could be indication that Wisconsin

Jeezy: could be pretty strong for Harry's. And now we we could be talking about how the blue wall may look.

Manny: Right.

Jeezy: And I think that's something that we need to keep our eye out on. If those numbers are accurate and hold until election, those are the closest numbers in margin that Democrats have had in quite some time. So that's my spotlight of the week. Keep an eye out on Iowa, and let's see what what happens with that.

Manny: Man. So so from my spotlight, I'm gonna hit 3 things very quickly.

Manny: So the 1st is the 79th United Nations General Assembly.

Manny: you're bringing all these global leaders together. So they're covering everything from climate change to human rights to economic development, to emerging technologies and global conflict and security.

Manny: So some really high profile discussions. It'll be interesting. Why have it as a list

Manny: to watch to my knowledge right now?

Manny: vice! President Harris is not planning on attending again that could change at any moment. Nor is Donald trump.

Manny: I do. Could I see a world where it could really help vice President Harris to show up to that, to help really bolster that Foreign Foreign Affairs credentials? Yes, so. And then just other decisions. You know, you still have the world trying to work together, try to figure out a solution for Ukraine and starting to figure out the issues and at the Gaza strip. So that is the 1st thing that

Manny: I'm watching from global impact.

Jeezy: Just just a really quick manny. If I'm not mistaken.

Jeezy: this event is taking place, I believe, starting tomorrow. Correct.

Manny: Yep, the for

Manny: essentially that 24, th it's gonna be the 24th through the 30.th

Jeezy: Okay. All right. Yeah.

Manny: So

Manny: that's the that's the 1st thing. The the second thing that I'm watching very closely is Nebraska.

Manny: So for those of you who who aren't aware Nebraska allows some work to be done within their how they hand out electoral college votes. And right now

Manny: you can

Manny: right now a lot of the the polling and the projecting has

Manny: 4 of those electoral college votes going to trump and one going to Harris.

Manny: And you guys might listen to them be like, okay, it's 1 vote.

Manny: Yeah. But when we're talking about margins of error here, I've been able to produce a couple different scenarios that could happen that could send us to that 2, 69, 2, 69 electoral college count.

Manny: Not saying, that's super likely. But it's plausible right now. So if if they do go to a winner, take all state, I think that changes up the math a little bit.

Manny: And kind of changes some of the objectives. So that's the other thing that I'm watching.

Manny: And then the 3rd thing that I'm watching. And again, this is very early on

Manny: in New York.

Manny: 4 people were shot last Sunday in an incident when a man jumped a turnstile

Manny: and not paying a $2 and 90 cents fare, and 4 people were shot by by police, and I believe there was also a police officer that was shot as part of this.

Manny: and there, there's a lot of controversy, and as this is growing, more details will obviously come out.

Manny: But

Manny: Your man, Eric Adams might might find himself in a pickle.

Jeezy: And a little bit of a pickle.

Manny: A little bit of a pickle, so.

Jeezy: Hmm.

Manny: At this point no one who has been shot has died. But it.

Manny: Yeah, I think one person is in critical condition. So I think there are a lot of questions that have to come out, and maybe this fizzles up into something larger. Maybe it fizzles out. I don't know. But that's something, you know, being this close to the election.

Manny: any event can suit can become a political event very, very quickly agreed. So yeah, so those are the 3 things that I'm watching this next week.

Jeezy: All right. Well, that's our spotlights of the week. So we got a quite a few things to keep our eyes on. And hopefully, the the political guys will be calm this week, and we won't have so much. Because, you know, we we came into this episode when we ended the last one thinking like, Okay, well, this is where you know, we're going to go. And we really had to do a mean pivot, because I mean listeners. There was so much that's gone on this week that we had to address, and we haven't even addressed all of it in this.

Manny: Right.

Jeezy: So. But we've hit on a little bit of it so hopefully this week won't be as crazy. But you know, if it is, we're gonna come here and bring you the content that we believe you need with the laughter that you all want. So.

Manny: Ride the wave. We're gonna ride the wave.

Jeezy: Wave like always, man. So that is our episode, guys, we thank you for listening. Manny, it's a privileged brother.

Manny: Hollywood.

Jeezy: We'll we'll see what happens. And, guys, we'll see you next time on pardon the politics.

Manny: See y'all peace.

Jeezy: Peace.