VP Debate Night: Policy, Puns, and Pickles

In this episode of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny break down the topics making headlines. First up, they tackle Kamala Harris’ new policy proposal—diving into what it means for voters and the political landscape moving forward. Next, the duo gives their take on the upcoming Vice Presidential Debate, analyzing the candidates and what they need to do to come out on top. Finally, in their signature segment, the hosts unwrap this week’s “Political Pickle,” exploring a sticky political situation that has everyone talking.

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Jeezy: Before we begin this week's episode of the part in the politics, podcast we would like to acknowledge those affected from hurricane Helene, especially those on the western part of our great State, North Carolina. If you would like to donate to disaster relief, you can do so @ www.redcross.org
Jeezy: Hello world. This is the part in the politics podcast season one episode 3. I am your co-host. Jeezy followed here with my partner in politics, Manny, what's going on? Manny.
Manny: What's good, man.
Jeezy: Hey, man! First, st before we go ahead and jump into the topics, we want to thank all the listeners who have tuned into episode one
Jeezy: and episode 2. It has been greatly appreciated. The feedback has been phenomenal. So we just want to say, Hey, man, keep sticking in there with us, share like, follow subscribe. As we continue to give you this political content with a little bit of comedy behind it, so
Jeezy: tuning in. Now welcome to our 3rd episode. So, Manny, how you how you feeling, man, how's how things been looking this week?
Manny: Man, I mean, outside of my toddler, only knowing to cough and sneeze directly into my mouth and nose.
Manny: Not too bad, man, so we're going to take our vitamins.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: We're going to drink our tea, and we're going to get through this. But
Manny: while we had action packed week, it wasn't nearly as action-packed as last week, but.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: I mean we got. We finally got that Kamala plan that we had talked about so.
Jeezy: You've been looking for it, and.
Manny: Man.
Jeezy: She delivered brother, and if I'm not mistaken, it was a 82 pages, detailing out what her plan is and what she'd like to do with her administration. And
Jeezy: hey, man, we we got it so I think we can. We can comb over and and look over it, and some what we, what we see and what we like and don't like in it, man. So
Jeezy: with doing that man, she she gave a lot of details, man and.
Manny: I am.
Jeezy: Thing I will say. She gave pictures, too. So for those of you
Jeezy: who don't want to do all the reading through the details. There are pictures, too, of just simple words to hopefully capture your attention as well, too. So I appreciated that.
Manny: And I think Floyd Mayweather might, you know.
Jeezy: Lord, would that.
Manny: Floyd Floyd would definitely appreciate that. So, looking out for everybody already trying to bring the people together with her stuff.
Jeezy: Look, look, man, this is what a President does man! It reaches from from Dr. Seuss to Harry Potter to
Jeezy: captures everybody, man, so already. She's off to a great start. But
Jeezy: as we look into it, man, she broke it down
Jeezy: into 2 sections. The 1st section that she had was
Jeezy: lowering cost for middle class families. So we'll start right there. At that at that section one. So would you. Would you like about this section man?
Manny: Man. There's
Manny: it's it's interesting.
Manny: So
Manny: as I started like tearing through it.
Manny: she even herself separates it out. So focus on cutting taxes for working people, lowering food and grocery costs, lowering healthcare costs, prescription drug costs which has been like this magical unicorn. We, the entire nation's, been trying to chase for the last at least 12 or so years, and lowering energy costs, and the piece that I,
Manny: and very intrigued about is lowering costs by protecting consumers from fees and fraud.
Manny: I
Manny: I'm excited to hear about it. I think if you if you look in just a text, so we'll just start with the text. She's looking to ban junk fees across industries like airlines, hotels, financial services, and
Manny: ultimately, per her numbers. It would save households around $650 a year.
Manny: So that's cool. There'll be some argument over that.
Manny: making subscriptions easy to cancel.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Because I think everyone everyone been caught up like, Hey? Oh, oh, I can one click sign up but to unsubscribe or unsign up, I gotta click a button. I gotta fill out a form. I gotta send that form. I gotta wait 48 h.
Jeezy: And then I got a call.
Manny: And talk to somebody through an automated system before I finally get to the person to to cancel it. So
Manny: I'll be intrigued about how that works out. And then, also continuing Federal efforts to eliminate scams, targeting vulnerable groups.
Manny: That is.
Manny: look, man, the scammers be scamming.
Jeezy: Bro.
Manny: The Scammers be scamming and.
Jeezy: At an all time high.
Jeezy: you know.
Manny: And I oh, God! I forget the it's it's like pig fattening or something, but like entire schemes that are set offshore, the Us. Where they lure these people in and take their entire life savings.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: That's intriguing. So that is the big thing of Lisa, that 1st section that I'm excited for everybody about. But we'll see how it plays out, the devil will be in the details when we look at that 1st section. What about you? What did you see in that 1st section that caught your eye.
Jeezy: One thing that I thought was interesting was the lowering prescription drug costs, and we know that from the Biden Administration they've been very big on capping insulin cost for seniors at 35 bucks
Jeezy: but in this plan she wants to go further than that, and not do it for just seniors, but for all. And I thought that was a pretty good extension again. I don't know necessarily how
Jeezy: how effective they will be in accomplishing that. But I do believe, when you look at the numbers and those that are just.
Manny: Oh, no! No! No!
Jeezy: Oh, sorry those that are affected. I'm sorry. Those that are affected by insulin, be it seniors, there are a lot of young people that have issues, or they're using insulin when it comes to diabetes. And I thought that that was pretty cool, that you you have that kind of that full encompassing of not just for seniors, but for everyone. So I'd love to see how that looks.
Manny: Yeah, no, I agree. A 100%.
Manny: what was interesting? I think it was either it was late last week or
Manny: earlier this week, where they actually brought in the makers of Ozempic and the other diabetes drugs. And one of the questions, I believe, was asked by Senator Sanders was like.
Manny: why is this? A 1,000 plus dollars per dose here per month here in the United States? But over Britain
Manny: and other places in Europe you can get that for under a hundred dollars in many of the countries.
Manny: and the answer that the CEO gave was very interesting because his comment was, We don't set the price. It's set by the insurance companies.
Manny: So I'm like, -oh, -oh, we are. We finally going to put, you know, Big Pharma against big health, and so it'll be really interesting to kind of watch how that ends up ultimately playing out as well.
Jeezy: Yeah, man, that's a that's a great detail, Manny, because that's certainly not beneficial for the American people. And also in this section, and I think we've talked about this and discussed she. She has appeared lowering food and grocery calls.
Jeezy: that's an interesting one to me. Because
Jeezy: they wanna they wanna cap the the kind of stop price gouging.
Jeezy: But that's that's a
Jeezy: that's a tough thing to to kind of accomplish, because if you
Jeezy: essentially. And this is, this is economics 101. If you put a cap on the thing on this thing, you're not allowing the market to be competitive. There is something that's called an equilibrium price.
Jeezy: and at that at that price, and that that quantity is sufficient for the market, which is those that are buyers and those that are sellers. Well, if you put a cap on it, and let's say
Jeezy: that cap is lower than where the equilibrium is at then then the market end up, having shortages.
Jeezy: If it's too high, then it could be you know, you could have a lot of product that's just not being bought at all. It's it's very tricky because you don't allow the market to fluctuate. But that's the gray area, because
Jeezy: you do have price gouging as an issue.
Jeezy: So something needs to be done. But I don't know if in the details of it will they allow the cap or where they're going to have the get the gouging stop at? Will they be able to be adjusted by what is competitive within the market?
Manny: I mean when you, when you see Giant, and we see it in North Carolina every time a hurricane comes through from the coast, and it's playing
Manny: where where prices and stuff goes up. So I think you have price price gouging or price adjustments that happen to try to prevent people from taking more than they need. Yeah, sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't work. You know, you got to think about the vulnerable. So it's going to be real interesting to see how that's implemented.
Jeezy: Yeah, that's something that I'd be interested to see, because I'm gonna be honest with you, man. I like bacon.
Jeezy: and I'm tired of paying for the whole hog, and I'm only getting 16 slices of them.
Manny: As one of the great North Carolinians once said
Manny: the king, Curtis Bacon.
Jeezy: Really.
Manny: It's good for me.
Manny: I.
Jeezy: Man. Look, King, I would love to hear King Curtis now to say, Man, look! How do you feel about these bacon prices? Knowing that Bacon is such a a thing that is near and dear to your heart. He's got to be suffering.
Manny: We got to find out we got to find out for our listeners. Just know we're taking that as a takeaway. We are going to try to find King Curtis and ask him how he feels about the price of bacon.
Jeezy: That's what we're gonna do, man. So I'd be interested to see just how this plays out, because again, it is an issue. But it's a tricky issue to handle. So
Jeezy: those are some of the things that we had in Section one.
Jeezy: of the of the plan. Section 2 of her plan was to build an opportunity economy
Jeezy: to help Americans get ahead and build wealth. So tell me some things that you liked about about this plan section of the plan.
Manny: Man, and I'll just quickly run through all of them, helping America's buy a home through affordable and affordable rent, investing in small businesses that drive growth, innovation and jobs
Manny: investing in American innovation, industrial strength powered by American workers.
Manny: create security and opportunities for workers by building a care, economy, strengthening strengthening opportunities and communities across America.
Manny: and the last 1, 0, last 2, my bad protect Americans! Ability to retire with dignity
Manny: and to make our tax code more fair and promote growth.
Manny: So there are a couple things that you know.
Manny: I think we can hit on. That will that at least, that I liked. I will start with, you know, making our tax code more fair. And I,
Manny: Lord.
Manny: man, our tax code is wild.
Jeezy: One of them.
Manny: The more there's no reason.
Manny: That our tax code should have. As you keep adding complexity, you create more loopholes. Yep, so look and then shout out to oh, man, I can't remember his name. 999. Plan
Manny: Oh, man, I cannot think of his name. He ran for President as a Republican black man.
Manny: I'm gonna think about it later in this. Podcast but his thing was about
Manny: basically making a level tax plan. Everyone pays 9%.
Manny: I'm very much on board with that, but with a poverty line. Yeah.
Jeezy: Move.
Manny: So I think there's definitely room to obviously simplify the the tax code in that way. So
Manny: that was the one piece and the other piece that I was actually excited to hear about
Manny: is the focus on cutting red tape.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Man.
Manny: Every trump has talked about this. Republicans have talked about it. Everyone knows how complicated it is to do anything from a business standpoint from a tax standpoint, and it makes it confusing.
Manny: like what a great episode of the John Oliver show. He goes into
Manny: taxes like you should be right now, legally, you you are allowed to file your taxes electronically for free.
Manny: Yeah.
Manny: the government also looks to the companies like turbotax and such to provide those services. In fact, when you go online and start going through the process, you're like.
Manny: Oh, I'm gonna choose the free option. Everyone I know immediately chooses the free option.
Jeezy: Free option.
Manny: But by the time you get to the end
Manny: I'm I'm paying y'all something. Yep. So the focus on on cutting the red tape and simplifying those tax, those tax returns, and the tax code in general
Manny: is something that I think will appeal to a lot of people across the aisle.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: So those are 2 of the things that I'm
Manny: I liked in this section.
Jeezy: Okay.
Manny: What about you?
Jeezy: One of the things I like is the strength and opportunity in communities across America. As a a product of growing up in a rural America.
Jeezy: That's something that I would love to see heavily invested in. I don't think there's nearly as much investing in the rural area in the urban areas or communities as well.
Jeezy: and especially from from a infrastructure standpoint. We've all been in some of these areas that can definitely see that they're under developed. So I did like seeing that and supporting these local businesses and innovation hubs so that they can foster the local economic growth. Because in those areas. There isn't that fostering
Jeezy: of economic growth that's something that needs to be focused on. So I didn't like that aspect of her plan. And I think another aspect of it was helping Americans buy a home and afford rent. I think that's
Jeezy: very big. I don't remember who our brother was that came out, for the the rent is too high. Party.
Manny: Way too high.
Jeezy: The rent is way too high.
Manny: Where is he now? He was the hero we needed.
Jeezy: Brother.
Manny: Hey!
Jeezy: He. He was man. And so I did like seeing this, and I and I. I like the fact of
Jeezy: building 3 million additional affordable homes, because I think, as you build more homes and more are available that will drive hopefully the cost down. And for those who aren't able to maybe afford
Jeezy: down payments, having that down payment assistance for 1st time home buyers at 25,000. I thought that was pretty pretty interesting, and I would love to see that as well as them introducing incentives to rehabilitate homes that are in distressed communities. I think that's Major man. I've been in communities. I'm from Rocky Mount.
Jeezy: and I can tell you I can drive around Rocky Mountain, North Carolina, and let me tell you.
Jeezy: there are a lot of homes that are, as old people will say, they got some good bones, but they need some love.
Jeezy: So I love that this. There's a plan in here to not only create or build 3 million additional homes, but also for those communities that are just that have these distressed homes that have these homes that need some love, but have a good structure, but necessarily haven't had the tender love and care they need, having incentives to go in those communities and and build them up. So I thought that was that was pretty. Major man.
Manny: I agree
Manny: wholeheartedly with most of this. So the the 2 parts I'll just.
Manny: I like the theory of the 25,000. But I'm concerned, if that will just instantly add $25,000 on every single starter home across the country. So I think that is a consideration. And then, if we're we're looking at affordability.
Manny: Again, I love the idea of creating a system in which
Manny: people are incentivized to go
Manny: rehab communities.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: I think the concern that we have is that cool, if Person X goes by, buys $100,000. House
Manny: uses this credit to reincentivize us, and then re-puts it back up on the market for a million dollars. We've.
Jeezy: Seen it happen.
Manny: We it? It happens every day, every day in every major city, you they're flipping these houses, building 1 million dollar houses where they where where once a $250,000 house starts.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: So it becomes in the details. The other. PI concur with you around the the investment in rural America. And hey, it's politics. People are going to say what they need to say to try to get the votes, but especially when you think about North Carolina
Manny: again, you look across the entire nation. We are classified as an urban state, but of all the urban states in the nation we are the most rural. So this we really see a lot of these these infrastructure challenges and investing in this infrastructure being a challenge, you know, especially just around broadband. You go back to Covid and hitting that switch
Manny: from everyone being in class to everyone being at home. And then you got kids trying to trying to go to class on Aol online, and they only got 50 min. So they got to burn through 12 Cds. That infrastructure is important.
Jeezy: Very much, is.
Manny: And if you're talking about bringing everyone along, you can't forget about these rural areas.
Jeezy: And Manny. That's a great point, because I did not realize the
Jeezy: the state in as as that the rural community was in until Covid came. My wife is a is a 4th grade teacher in a in a rural community. And when they switched and said, Okay, you know, schools were closed and kids had to.
Jeezy: Be virtual, the amount of people that were like. We don't have Internet
Jeezy: and and there's not a the service that comes in our area is
Jeezy: a company I've never even heard of.
Jeezy: It's I mean, there is just no it. It's it's like satellite Internet or something.
Manny: Oh!
Jeezy: Yeah. And and even if they were able to purchase the hotspot there they live in a community where the signal is so terrible that most of the kids can't even get on, because it's just. It's bad, you know. But then, if you go 10 miles into the city oh, you have fiber, you have this, you have that, and it's like, Wow.
Manny: Whole new world.
Jeezy: A whole new World man. And just how many people don't have it, not necessarily because they don't want it
Jeezy: is not available in the area or what what is available, isn't substantial enough. Is worse than dial up. If you, if you're if you're one of our listeners that remember, dial up. Maybe say something about the Aol. Cds. Everybody's been in it. If you're around our age, you you grew up in the dial up Era. This, the Internet is worse than that, you know. So having
Jeezy: a plan that that these people don't need to be forgotten about either, that you know, if you're gonna have it available in areas that already have the infrastructure really to support it.
Jeezy: We gotta do just as much to get it in the rural communities that don't have a way to have it at all. So.
Manny: Absolutely.
Manny: And so what I think what we'll see with this plan over the next couple of weeks a couple several of these nonprofit groups are getting going to start tearing through it and doing some numbers. So ahead of this I went searching for what some, what some experts were saying around this and from Penn Wharton at the University. So the University of Pennsylvania, Penn. Wharton. They're.
Jeezy: Isn't.
Manny: School.
Manny: and I'll give this disclaimer everyone. Donald Trump is also a graduate of the Wharton School of business out of Penn, so.
Jeezy: Okay.
Manny: Do with that information what you will. But I'm I'm just going to read some key points that that's in their messaging.
Manny: We project that spending increases by 2.3 trillion over 10 years, while the conventional tax revenue increases by 1.1 trillion
Manny: for a difference in primary deficits of 1.2 children. Sorry. 1.2 trillion
Manny: accounting for negative economic feedbacks. Primary deficits increased to 2 trillion.
Manny: So this stuff doesn't come at a cost.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Other note, you know, when you start talking about this, and you start talking about the investment in manufacturing that she wants to do, and how she wants to do it.
Manny: They're saying relative to current law, that the Gdp will fall by 1.3% by 2034, and by 4% within 30 years, by 2054 capital investment and working hours fall, thereby reducing wages by 0 point 8%
Manny: in 2034, and by 3.3% in 2054
Manny: low and income low and middle income households, households in 2026, and 2034 fare better on the under the campaign proposals on a conventional basis.
Manny: While households in the top 5% of income distribution fare worse.
Manny: These conventional gains and losses do not include the negative impact of the additional debt burden on future generations who must finance most of the spending increases.
Manny: So I mean bottom line. This is going to be expensive.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: But anytime it's like it's a strange thing anytime government gets involved in. Something just gets a little bit more expensive. So
Manny: you know
Manny: there, there have been talks, and their focus is their focus around. Hey? We're only going to increase taxes on those making 400,000 plus.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: There's been concerns around that about how does that ripple? How do you tax unrealized gains? So there are a lot of questions that still kind of remain around this and what they're looking to do. So y'all we're here at the pod. We're going to keep digging through this stuff as it comes in and
Manny: and looking at it. But
Manny: it's a great 1st step. The one the one piece I want to keep at the top of everybody's mind is that when you look at everything she wants to do.
Manny: you got to legislate most of it.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: And if you currently look at the Senate and how it's projected.
Manny: If Democrats were to pick up every toss-ups, they still would not win the Senate, so you don't have the Senate.
Manny: and then housewise, it's a little bit of toss up right now. It's like kind of 2 0, 7 to 2 0, 7, so the house could go either way.
Manny: But
Manny: you're going to have to try it. You're going to have to try to figure out a middle ground on some of these.
Manny: Some of these are going to fly. Some of these are definitely not going to fly at all. So then you have the question about what what you're able to get through Congress versus what you can do by executive order, and I want to be clear.
Manny: I
Manny: don't believe this country should be governed by executive order.
Jeezy: I agree.
Manny: We're made to go through a process as messy as it is to to get to some type of middle ground agreement. So I didn't like when Obama, legislated by executive order. I don't like it when Trump did it. I didn't like it when Bush did it.
Manny: I don't like it when Biden do? I don't. You're stepping around the process, I agree. So we'll see what she's able to do. You know, in the event that she she's elected about how you're how she'll get it through a divided Congress.
Jeezy: Yeah, that that's that's gonna be interesting. Because if if she does have to go through, as you pointed out, go through legislation.
Jeezy: It's gonna be a challenge. It's gonna be a challenge of how this is. Gonna look. And to your point. And I agree wholeheartedly, I'm I don't believe
Jeezy: that we should be governed through the executive orders as well, too. It just. It's just not right, you know it's not. It's not something that we should be doing. And it I love, and I'm just old school. Maybe I love bipartisanship. I love to see 2 people come together and find a common ground.
Jeezy: and we see a lot of that
Jeezy: not happening.
Jeezy: and we need to get back to to seeing that happen. And that's why I was. I was excited when we when they had the bipartisan border deal. I was like, Oh, my God!
Manny: We got some.
Jeezy: Yeah, we maybe we're getting back to bipartisanship. And then it was like, Ha, Nope, not brother.
Jeezy: but any. But at any rate, guys, I would encourage you. This plan is out there on the Internet. So go out there, read it, dig through it, see what you like. If you guys have anything you want to give us that you have anything you want us to talk about on the pod pertaining to the plan, let us know. Reach out to us on our on our social
Jeezy: platforms and and let us know, and we we'd be greatly honored to do it for you. So with that being said, we're gonna move over into our next topic, which we have coming up this week. So Manny.
Manny: Emily.
Jeezy: Let you leave there, brother.
Manny: So going down on Tuesday.
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
Manny: The the the master of the mattress versus the Minnesota Mongoose.
Manny: JD. Vance
Manny: versus Tim. Waltz.
Jeezy: Yes, indeed!
Manny: Are going to have a have them. A debate on Tuesday, hosted on Cnn. I believe.
Jeezy: I see you, sir.
Manny: I never really know at this point who's hosting it until I turn it on, because it's run on every on every channel.
Manny: But it's going to be interesting. So
Manny: there's a lot. I I think, before we get here, let's quickly hit on how we got here. Okay, so let's let's take a step back into how the vps were selected.
Manny: and
Manny: I think both Trump and Harris were both looking for particular things. Yep, if you start with trump
Manny: loyalty over everything. Yeah, yeah. Loyalty he needed. He was looking for someone who was aligned on the issues.
Manny: They needed to have some type of electoral appeal. So he, you know, he couldn't go completely an outsider. So a Ramaswami we, you know he was not going to be an option.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Because he needed someone who could at least prove have some level of provenness in the political arena. Again, they needed to have that experience to still offset Trump's
Manny: experience.
Manny: They needed someone who was media. Savvy had some unity in the party.
Manny: And yeah, those are the big things. And
Manny: Jd. Vance hits most of these. The one piece where I'm I'm kind of like, maybe not. So much is that political experience. He was just
Manny: just recently, and when I say, recently, I'm talking about in the last 6 years elected in Ohio.
Manny: So that that's something.
Manny: So Jd Vance basically lined up to all those. There were some other names out there. A name that I liked was Marco Rubio. I think Rubio would have been a little bit too focused on doing his thing
Manny: and shying away from trump, and not really able to be as controlled as well.
Manny: So I think Vance lines up very well to trump. And then, you know, you're looking for Kamala some of her key things.
Manny: She was looking for diversity and representation, and while
Manny: he doesn't get waltz, doesn't give that to you in terms of the diversity in terms of representation, that Middle America, Middle Belt Line that helps there electability. They needed someone who was going to have that electability across all the ages.
Manny: and I think waltz has shown very early on that. He has that connect ability, for, you know, boomers, Gen. X. But then also carries some of that same relatability for Gen. Z. And millennials from more of a Hey, I'm a dad like figure like, hey? Come, ask your dad for advice on how to
Manny: how to change the carburetor on my 72 mustang.
Manny: Yeah, they needed the the progressive credentials. I think Kamala was always walking into a situation where she was going to have to keep the party together, especially with everything, and how the fallout from the biden decision.
Manny: Strong communication, and then geographical. We hit on those. So I think, Walter, very well, kind of fell into those to make those selections.
Manny: Now let me be clear. I'm saying this as a Republican.
Manny: I as a North Carolinian.
Manny: Very much wanted. Roy Cooper.
Jeezy: Hey, Bro.
Manny: Be the selection. That's because, you know, Lover Hayden, no matter what state that you're listening to this from, I will say, this North Carolina
Manny: is the center of the national political
Manny: universe, and largely and largely just because of that dynamic of us being a super urban and super rural state.
Manny: So I think Roy Cooper would have been a
Manny: great selection. But that's because I also always loved North Carolina, getting some shine.
Jeezy: Hey, man! Look! You know how we feel about Roy Cooper, the Hooper.
Jeezy: We're gonna always ride with Roy Roy, the Homie.
Jeezy: But man, great great points, man, of how we we got here. And I think when you look at it, and to your point, how you how you well placed it. Man I think it was a no brainer.
Jeezy: Why, these these 2 presidential candidates picked the people that fell within those categories of what they actually needed. I think that
Jeezy: as we go forward, you know we we understand how they got here. But who are
Jeezy: these 2 candidates? People may not be familiar with who Jd. Vance is. Again Jd. Vance has not been on the landscape. Political landscape for a long time, and people may not be familiar with Tim waltz as well, either. So give us a little bit of detail of who Jd. Vance is.
Manny: Man. So Jd. Vance, and you know we'll just. I'll just hit kind of like his political journey. So he wrote a book, Hill, the hillbilly Elegy Elegy.
Manny: published in 2026, that really just focuses on his working class family and how they dealt with social issues.
Manny: And then he went to law school. It was a venture capitalist, but
Manny: very early on. So in 2016 he was a big backer around Ted Cruz's candidacy, and then in
Manny: 2022 ran for the Senate.
Manny: to, and he was seeking to replace Senator Rob Portman. So that was another primary that was really crowded, I think any time where you have like almost a guaranteed seat for a party
Manny: that you're going to get a lot of people running. That's how North Carolina got Mark Robinson as lieutenant Governor, because there was a bunch of people running in that, and he got the needed 30%
Manny: so he ended up winning in that general election. They were facing a Democratic candidate that Tim Ryan was pumping very hard. But again, that's a hard message in Ohio, especially when you need those rural. You need flip rural votes.
Manny: So yeah, he won in November 22. So he has been there. And I think here is a very interesting point. Senate. Terms for those of you who may not know Senate terms are 6 years.
Manny: so if he catches this L.
Jeezy: -
Manny: He's still going back to Congress. Yep. So
Manny: that is how he he's got here. Tim. Waltz a little bit different, definitely, definitely, a longer career before he was in politics, as I think most of us know, is this moment. He was a teacher, a football coach in high school.
Manny: and what I did not know is that he served as the Executive Director of the Minnesota State Alliance of the Boys and Girls Club.
Jeezy: When I saw that detail I was like.
Manny: Okay.
Jeezy: I like. I like it.
Manny: So, you know, well driven. But his career really started in 2,006 when he decided to run for the house in the 1st in the 1st Congressional district he was reelected 3 times while he was in Congress. His focus was around veteran affairs.
Manny: healthcare and education obviously having
Manny: some level. I think that's 1 of the questions that we'll see come up on Tuesday when they talk. You know the the talk around his military experience and trying to get a clarification on that
Manny: So that makes sense. So then, in 2,018, he ran for Governor against the incumbent Jeff Johnson, really focusing on education, healthcare, and the economy.
Manny: And let me also just say this across the board.
Manny: I don't believe we are ever going to have an election, where the economy is not the top thing that people are running on.
Jeezy: Agree.
Manny: So
Manny: he was elected and then, you know, really seen as somebody who helped lead that state through the through the Covid crisis, and
Manny: really during his time as governor, he did a lot of the same things he did when he was in the house. You know, it was focusing on education, public health reforms. And he became more focused on tackling climate change. So that's a little bit about a little bit about both of them, and how you know who they are.
Jeezy: Yeah. Man. I think also, too, with with
Jeezy: Tim is, if if you are familiar with the social issues that were around the death of George Floyd.
Jeezy: He! He was the governor of Minnesota at that time, and having to navigate not only, like Manny, said to the to the covid crisis, but having to deal with that sensitive time in in society and having to try to navigate his State
Jeezy: through that Minnesota had a spotlight on them, that is, if you know anything about Minnesota, that's not. That's not them. You know. You could tell by the way that Tim carries himself. They're not a big spotlight type of people, man. They're very much modest and humble, and having this national spotlight put on them. He he had to navigate through that, be it how successful or unsuccessful you you deem him to be during that time! So
Jeezy: Tim, Tim is is somebody that definitely seems to be one of those guys that you run into at the home depot when you're trying to figure out like what size nail do I need? He comes up and started talking to you about how he, redid. He re finished his deck, and he's done this and done that, as Manny said before, man, I had to deem him with the nickname the Minnesota Mongoose, because he's just
Jeezy: certain people just need a nickname. He just comes off to me as one of those but 1 1 last point I want to make to that. I saw in his notes of of Who Tim is is that the bipartisanship
Jeezy: that he's been able
Jeezy: to do? And I think that again going back to what Manny was saying about what Kamala is going to have to accomplish through legislation. Having somebody that has experience in bipartisanship, I think, is is a plus, and somebody that does not mind reaching across reaching across the aisle.
Jeezy: I think we've had enough of
Jeezy: this division.
Jeezy: so I would love to see someone that is able to do that and be able to drive that that togetherness, that unity, that bipartisanship, even if you have difference of opinions. So that is our 2 Vice President candidates Tim Walsh and Jd. Vance.
Jeezy: So we've talked about how we got here. We talked about who they are. So with Tuesday coming up. What do we believe we will see in the debate when it comes to the style in which both of these candidates debate.
Manny: Man. That that is that is the question. Because this could go 2 ways. Do we see a more conventional elected official debate? Or do we get more into
Manny: 2 people cutting wwe like promos for for an hour and a half?
Manny: And I don't. I don't think we know. Yeah. So
Manny: I'll kind of go through some of my thoughts in terms of what do I think? Their keys to victory are but to know
Manny: this could go sideways, and this could all be wrong. So
Manny: all right. So if I'm Tim Waltz, these are my, my 4 keys to victory for him. He's got to highlight his experience in government. Yep, gotta highlight that command and control.
Manny: The next piece is to what you what you alluded to emphasize that bipartisanship. Yeah, like, Hey, I'm going to work together with people appeal to progress before I step away from the emphasized bipartisanship that is going to be key and trying to flip some of those on the fence voters, and those what's called a weak Republican or.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: A Republican more likely to to flip and vote on the other side. He's got to appeal to progressive values. You got to keep the base. You got to do what you need to do to bring people out, because there's a contingent of people on both sides that are committed to a candidate, but may not vote.
Manny: So you gotta he's got to say something to help bring them out. And then I think he's got to challenge Vance on the populism.
Manny: Yeah, flat out like you. Gotta I think he has to challenge him on that
Manny: and really hit him on the rhetoric and different things that, he said, while he's run.
Manny: When I flip the flip the script, I look at Jd. Vance.
Manny: He almost has to kind of dig for him to win he, a victory for him, would look like really talking to his base, which means talking more to the Populist agenda and talking about those themes, talking about the issues with working class voters, and how and and really that Us. Versus them mentality.
Manny: I think he's got to attack waltz on on where he's failed in policy. You know.
Manny: talking about crime, talking about the civil unrest that happened in the immediate aftermath with George Floyd.
Manny: And then, you know, Critique, the economy during the pandemic, and how it's framed. I think he's got to attack him there
Manny: for him. Also number 3 for him is he's got to focus on what made Ohio makes Ohio important. So really talking to those rural midwestern voters and talking about those issues, those are what you have to talk about when you run for Statewide office in Ohio. But that's also what you now have to do. He has to do as a vice Presidential
Manny: candidate, and then the the last key that I have for him is they? He's going to have to continue to push this kind of view. They're trying to paint the Harris campaign as elitist. You know. They're people entrenched in the swamp. We don't want, you know. If we want something new, we need people who aren't in the swamp. I think you gotta. They gotta keep pressing that message to to claim a victory.
Jeezy: I agree, man, and at any rate, I think that the approach of both of these candidates will be very key. We talked already about how the Presidential debate went, and I think
Jeezy: we know how it played out for or helped Kamala, and how it may have hurt hurt Donald trump. But I think that with these 2 now, it's like, Okay.
Jeezy: we've had Harris. We've had trump.
Jeezy: I feel like this is the debate that really needs to be viewed. I feel like this is the one that's like, okay, we already know we've had 4 years of Kamala. We've had 4 years of trump.
Jeezy: What can you tell us? New? What can you promise us that? You know your identity will be as the Vice President? Where do you stand? How do you. How? How are you approaching? What the state of the country is in at this point, and how you plan on governing us forward, how pushing us forward
Jeezy: from the times that we've been in the past 4 years, or the 4 years that people remember under the trump administration. So I'm personally very excited to see these 2 debate. I know that Kamala has thrown out that invite for Donald Trump to do another debate on. I believe it was like October thirties already, like, I'm not doing that.
Manny: No, I'm good.
Jeezy: You know I'm not. Whatever the date was, I'm not doing it.
Manny: I'm busy. I'm busy.
Jeezy: So you know, he he busy throwing out chicken, chicken nuggets and chicken tenders at football games. But hey, trump!
Jeezy: And I just want to say
Jeezy: trump is so comical because I have flashbacks of when he was in Puerto Rico throwing paper towels, and he has. I've said it before in the episode. I will not take away from Trump how he won.
Jeezy: how he can move a crowd, and how he can connect with a crowd but 2 we got to start respecting Homie form
Jeezy: the L. The elbow.
Manny: Elbow. Bro. Like the elbow.
Jeezy: Little wrist form pull up.
Jeezy: It's magical, but at any rate, anyway.
Jeezy: I'm very excited to see what we will get from Tim Walsh and Jd. Vance, and we will be tuned in. You know us here. Pardon the politics, podcast will be sitting down glued to the TV with the getting the Deets that we're able to provide you on this. Podcast and I would encourage all of you, hey, tune in, give us your thoughts. Let us know how you feel about the debate, and how it went, and and tag us at our socials on pardon the politics so
Jeezy: tune in, and that will be our segment on the Vice President. So
Jeezy: with that.
Jeezy: thank you.
Manny: I'm so excited about this.
Jeezy: Got a
Jeezy: I got a treat
Jeezy: for my brother, my brother Manny.
Manny: Oh, man!
Jeezy: And I, just before I start this, I just want to let you guys know 1st
Jeezy: the name of this new new segment that we're going to introduce from this episode. Going forward
Jeezy: is our
Jeezy: political
Jeezy: pickle
Jeezy: of
Jeezy: the week.
Manny: We got your pickle
Manny: we got your pickle.
Jeezy: So our
Jeezy: political pickle of the Week Segment will be
Jeezy: based on who we have seen
Jeezy: on the political landscape
Jeezy: that is truly
Jeezy: in a pickle.
Manny: The old man.
Jeezy: Now, what's going to make this segment of our podcast episodes? Great is that
Jeezy: my brother Mandy has no clue.
Jeezy: Who's gonna be our political pickle
Jeezy: of the week, so we will get his, his 1st take, his, his raw feel and emotions on who our political pickle of the week will be.
Manny: And before we hop. Me and Jeez talk constantly through the day as news is breaking, we have a whole pre-production meeting that's in some cases longer than the podcast as we're going through. So while there's a chance that I've heard what he's going to bring up, we have not explicitly talked about this. I have no talking points
Manny: method. I'm just going to learn this as he as he's given it. So pause.
Jeezy: Thank you for that, brother. That's our political pose.
Jeezy: So for my brother, the political pickle of the week is none other.
Jeezy: The New York City, Mayor
Jeezy: Eric
Jeezy: Adam, up Adams.
Manny: Oh, no! He is our.
Jeezy: Political pickle of the week, as many of you may know, or have already seen, on your news networks or socials. Eric Adam of Adams was indicted this week, and his indictment was announced on Thursday
Jeezy: by a man that I'm going to deem him as Brother Damian Williams, and I'm going to call him Brother Damian Williams, because 1st I want to shout him out because he is the 1st Attorney General of the Southern District of New York. So that is to be applauded. He is the 1st black man of Jamaican descent to hold this position.
Manny: Shout out, Jamaica! Shout out.
Jeezy: That's my.
Manny: People in Jamaica.
Jeezy: Shout out of Jamaica, and also, if you, if for more detail, you may be very familiar with Brother Damien Williams, because he was the one that broke the news a couple of weeks ago
Jeezy: about a term that we heard called freak calls.
Manny: No, that's the same dude.
Jeezy: The dude that brought him.
Jeezy: Hey, man! So he so he 2 for 2 on homies, for, like the past couple of weeks he had, he had the diddler
Jeezy: a couple of weeks ago that he brought the news of the freak off that we saw his his conversation about the 1,000 bottles of baby wool.
Jeezy: so.
Manny: If he's on your case.
Jeezy: You're done.
Manny: This situation.
Jeezy: You in a pickle. So you see where I'm going with this. So he broke the news about the diddler, and now he has brought forth information as far as the indictment against Eric Adam up Adams, and just to give you some details on, he was indicted Thursday, and
Jeezy: the 57. Page indictment was released on Friday for our reading pleasure.
Jeezy: So Eric Adam of Adams.
Jeezy: Has has 5 counts against him, facing up to 45 years.
Manny: Yikes in.
Jeezy: Prison.
Manny: Yikes.
Jeezy: Those charges are one count of bribery.
Jeezy: 2 counts of soliciting campaign contributions from Listen to me, foreign nationals.
Manny: Come on, man.
Jeezy: One count of conspiracy
Jeezy: and another count of wire fraud. So that's his 5 charges, or the 5 counts that have been brought against Eric Adam of Adams, and
Jeezy: gets better. So he solicited and knowingly accepted illegal campaign contributions from a foreign donor, and foreign corporations from the Turkish Government, from a Turkish government, official and businessman.
Manny: Did they say anywhere in the indictment about how much he allegedly took.
Jeezy: Oh, brother, I got that for you as well
Jeezy: accepted. Well, over a hundred.
Jeezy: a thousand dollars, but.
Manny: Okay.
Jeezy: Accepted them in luxury, travel.
Manny: Bro. People gotta stop this. People gotta stop this.
Manny: No, no, it it didn't work for the Senator. It barely worked for Clarence Thomas. No.
Jeezy: But but this is the thing, though. So so he got free international trips. So what they do is he? He did get on the Turkish airline right? And then just somehow magically be upgraded to business class.
Jeezy: So they would. That was one way
Jeezy: he was staying at luxury.
Manny: Wait, wait, wait! Maybe he had status man.
Manny: Maybe that status, you know. You got that like elite diamond member. But oh, come on, come on.
Jeezy: He was, I remember correctly. He paid like $600 for a flight like, that's how he was covering this up. He'd be like, okay, I'm about like the economy ticket.
Jeezy: magically, like a a day before or 2 days before he'd be bumped up to this top business class that was estimated to be like a like a $15,000, like seat.
Manny: So my man's was booking the ticket where you can't bring any carry-on.
Jeezy: For nothing, for a.
Manny: 100 and $56. You don't even.
Jeezy: Get a bottle of water. Bro, you don't even get water with it. He's in a he's in group Z when he when he board.
Jeezy: but somehow he go from Group Z to now. He's like he's getting on with the pilot. So it's like, Okay.
Jeezy: then
Jeezy: that ain't it, brother?
Manny: But I know.
Jeezy: Bro. Oh, brother! Oh, brother! So
Jeezy: he was also accepting this because he was while he was going on these flights, when he would get over to Turkey he would get luxury hotel accommodations in these foreign cities.
Jeezy: So, for instance, he'd get, I'm a for our for us to to relate. He'd get the best presidential suite that you could get in Vegas
Jeezy: for the Lows.
Manny: Hmm.
Jeezy: He was paying holiday Inn prices
Jeezy: for for these rooms one of the rooms, and in the indictment they had a picture of it. It was called the Bentley Room, and, brother, let me tell you.
Manny: Well.
Jeezy: Well, there's.
Manny: Was it nice?
Jeezy: What?
Jeezy: Oh, man! Amazing! So! And this was the way he would get these flights for his staff. He would get these accommodations for him and his partner.
Manny: Look, man, at least he was sharing. He was like, look! Let me share the love man.
Jeezy: Probably what messed them up, because you know that you start. You know, when you start talking to people, people get to cracking, and it's over.
Jeezy: So
Jeezy: he had a duty, as I'm sure you know, from a political standpoint he had a duty to disclose these details, but he hid them through deleting messages and creating fake paper trails. And one of the things that I read that he did is that when they came to like seize his phone.
Jeezy: He he didn't have it.
Manny: He'd do the Tom Brady.
Jeezy: He didn't have Bro. He didn't have it. So then when he get the next day, when they got the phone, the pass code was was changed on it, and he was like, Oh, I changed it, because since I know all this stuff was going on, I didn't want nobody from my staff to try to delete stuff. And then they said, Oh, okay, well, what's the password? He said. Well, since I changed it a day ago, I don't remember.
Manny: Old folks. I don't forgot my password.
Jeezy: Bro. This man is hitting. Jv. Moves Bro. In the pros. Even one of them, when when they had a meeting with some of his staff.
Jeezy: She was like, I gotta go to the bathroom.
Jeezy: She went in the bathroom and tried to delete
Jeezy: stuff in the case.
Manny: Even sat back, down like.
Jeezy: The fact that they know all this was just crazy. So he did all these things. So, of course, and what they were doing with the the Turkish official and the government businessman, the Turkish Government official and the Turkish businessmen were funneling this money through straw donors.
Jeezy: So basically they were having regular citizens saying, Hey, I'm.
Manny: You 5,000. Go ahead and pass it through.
Jeezy: Pass it through, acting like it's their own money, but it's not so. Then it came to a point where the Turkish official said.
Jeezy: you guessed it. It's time for him to repay us.
Manny: -Oh.
Jeezy: We. We've done all these things. But now we we need repayment. So, of course, what does Eric Adam of Adams do?
Jeezy: Sure, Buddy, what you need.
Jeezy: So what he did is
Jeezy: he intervened in the New York Fire Department's inspection of a Turkish owned building
Jeezy: so that it could open, even though it had not passed inspection.
Jeezy: so he pressured them to go ahead and go ahead and push it, pushed it through, even though that they knew the fire department knew
Jeezy: that the building was not not at code, it would not pass inspection. But the 2 individuals who pass this through said, Well, if we don't do this. We're both screwed. We're both gonna lose our job.
Jeezy: So he intervened on this, and the reason he did this and why the Turkish official asked him. This was because there was an upcoming trip by the Turkish President.
Jeezy: So they wanted this building that they had.
Manny: They need. They need the pictures.
Jeezy: You had to have the pictures and the publicity. So this all started in 2018.
Manny: But.
Jeezy: But but this is this is how I believe Eric Adam of Adams got caught is that
Jeezy: he started back, raising money
Jeezy: for his 2,020. Excuse me. He started back, reaching out to them in 2023
Jeezy: to rekindle these relationships, getting ready for his next campaign. So he reached back out, agreed to take these contributions from several Turkish businessmen, and then he even directed his staff to pursue these funds, even though he knew that they were illegal. So he did it his 1st mayoral campaign.
Jeezy: and then he started back in 2023, trying to start it up again to reach back out to these people again, and you know what happened.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Well.
Manny: That's just that's just dumb. So here's that's dumb on a lot of a lot.
Manny: The entire thing about this is dumb.
Jeezy: Go.
Manny: So now, after you become an elected official, every message you send and I'm assuming they probably weren't smart enough to to use like, hey? This is, am I hidden@gmail.com? They? They're probably using official official email channels.
Jeezy: You got.
Manny: So so wide open for freedom of information. Act polls on them. Yep. And Bro. What what do you think.
Jeezy: So so
Jeezy: well, brother, when when excuse me not, brother.
Jeezy: When Eric Adam of Adams got on TV and said.
Jeezy: Oh, man, they just trying to attack me.
Jeezy: No, brother, you set yourself up.
Jeezy: and they got details, and I will say for our brother Damian Williams if he get on the TV, and he tell you he got the he got it.
Jeezy: He got it
Jeezy: so.
Manny: But that's any Federal case.
Jeezy: Any family.
Manny: Feds are on you, and they indict you.
Manny: They they already know.
Manny: and they already know.
Jeezy: And the title of Brother Future from from Atlanta has a song on his album that says the Feds did a sweep.
Jeezy: They did a sweep, brother.
Jeezy: it don't matter. You didn't have. You can go change that passcode or that iphone all you want to, brother. We already got what we wanted.
Jeezy: We just bring you.
Manny: In to see if if we're going to have to spend some more money on a trial, or whether you're just going to admit.
Jeezy: How hard are you? Gonna make this for us? But but, like Drewski said, we got him.
Manny: Bruh.
Manny: So so in the end. So as you're you're going through the indictment. And whatnot did it say anything about how this came up? Did someone just discover it
Manny: like was this, did he send an email to Diddy? And they're like, Oh, let's look at this like.
Jeezy: From from what it sounds like. It looks like through paper trails. Stuff started. He's creating fake paper trails and stuff just ain't adding up, plus he's he's now. You know how people get
Jeezy: when they get when they get a, you know, when they got a good thing they they.
Manny: In this case.
Jeezy: They can't act right.
Manny: Can't leave well enough alone.
Jeezy: He's he's in Turkey.
Jeezy: going ham like Bro. He doesn't been to Turkey 20 times in the past 6 months. Bro.
Manny: Pop him bruh.
Jeezy: It's to the point where, like his partner is like, Hey, I wanna go I wanna go to this country. And he's like, oh, can we just use our our hook up at the Turkish airline like Bro. Come on, man!
Jeezy: It was to the point where it was like
Jeezy: we don't even got to go this way. Why are we using like, what? Hey, man? We gotta hook up. So if we gotta go around, we gotta go to Turkey and then leave Turkey to go here. We can just use them, and we ain't got to worry about Bro.
Jeezy: so he's exploiting it, creating fake paper trails, and that's how he got caught up, because stuff just wasn't adding up.
Manny: So Eric Adams has had issues since he went into office.
Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
Manny: Like from the from the the rat bounties to reinstating, stop and frisk like. Yep.
Manny: but man's has had issues for a minute and and 2. So while you were talking 2 things, I went to go look up
Manny: 1st was, how much is Eric Adams worth?
Manny: And he is somewhere between one and 5 million dollars
Manny: a lot for us in North Carolina, probably not as much in New York.
Manny: Then I also went and looked up the salary of the Mayor of New York City.
Manny: It is $258,000 a year.
Manny: so.
Jeezy: Not enough for you to be going to Turkey 20 times in 6 months.
Manny: But like, why are you also going to Turkey
Manny: like?
Manny: But that's not even.
Jeezy: If if you if I told you, hey, Manny, I'm going somewhere. International, I'm gonna give you 10 tries the name where I'm going. I don't think Turkey gonna be one of them.
Manny: At all at all
Manny: like Turkey just.
Manny: and I'll denote I've never done research into going into Turkey, not saying that I wouldn't want to go. I've just never thought about going there.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Nor nor I want to say a lot of the people that I talked to. You know what we're gonna run that as a poll later on this week. How many of y'all will be intrigued with going to Turkey.
Jeezy: Going to Turkey.
Manny: And so.
Manny: But Turkey, like Italy got you?
Manny: France got you?
Manny: Rio? Got you? Tokyo makes sense. Egypt. Okay, Israel. Yes, Spain. Yes, Russia. I can see why you would want to go.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Maybe not. Now. Yeah, China, I can. I want to go to China. Yep, maybe not. Now. Yeah. But you wild man, Eric, you you wild.
Jeezy: So Eric Adam of Adams, that is, his indictment that has been brought forth by Brother Damian Williams. So that is our political pickle of the week.
Manny: Man.
Jeezy: Good luck, Eric. But
Jeezy: hey, man, you might want to get comfortable.
Manny: But so one thing, one thing I also looked it up now, so if he gets if he gets
Manny: charge, he's got to give up the mayorship definitely. So.
Jeezy: Oh, man, I already know you're going with this.
Manny: Yeah. So I want to know who's next in line. So, according in New York City's line of succession.
Manny: the next person who comes in is the public advocate. I'm going to say this name wrong. Jumi Williams.
Manny: who is the public advocate. He's been serving as a public advocate since 2,019.
Jeezy: -
Manny: And then right behind him is the city Council speaker, Adrian Adams.
Manny: She became the 1st black women woman to serve as the speaker of the New York City council with her tenure starting in 2022.
Manny: So she's leading that, and they would serve as leaders until, if the mayor were to step down they would serve in that position until there was a new election, or until the term ends. Yep.
Manny: but, Eric, you gotta do better, man.
Jeezy: Hey, we? I saw that there was a name thrown around on socials that said that he'd be interested.
Jeezy: and coming back Bro.
Manny: Oh, Como! He's like, Oh, I was good in, Governor. Let me come run! New York.
Jeezy: Come on. Say, baby, did you miss me?
Jeezy: But we will keep our eye on
Jeezy: how all of this plays out for the pickle
Jeezy: known as Eric
Jeezy: Adam. Up Adams.
Manny: But best of luck.
Manny: because it's the Feds because they got you. They got you.
Jeezy: Fans did a sweep.
Manny: Man, all right. Well.
Manny: we got an we got an exciting week ahead of us.
Jeezy: Yes, we do.
Manny: So geez! With that being said, what are the things that you're paying attention to
Manny: heading into next week?
Jeezy: All right. Well.
Jeezy: my things that I'm keeping an eye on, or, as we call it, in our, in our segment of the spotlight of the week.
Jeezy: I have 2 things that I want to point out. One is, I want to keep an eye on Vice President Kamala Harris's tone and approach to the border. This past week she was in Arizona, and had an event where she spoke very strongly
Jeezy: about the border. I think a tone that we have not seen in recent years from her or from the Biden Administration, and I believe that this is her 1st time at the border in quite some time, so I'll be interested to just see her approach as we go through next week. In the last final weeks leading up into election day.
Jeezy: Her approach and her tone of how she's going to handle the border. I believe that this issue she knows. 1st of all, it's a it's a serious issue is one of the top issues. So I'm interested to see how she separates herself from Biden. I think this is a great opportunity for her to separate herself for biden and paint a picture of how she will be more strict, more serious
Jeezy: about handling the crisis that we have at the border. And, secondly, I want to give a shout out to our brother Kai over at the brotherly fox who sent a message this past week that I want to bring into the spotlight, and that is North Carolina, North Carolina voter registration. If you're in North Carolina, you may have already seen this, but want to make you aware that
Jeezy: over the past 20 months about 747,000 registrations have been removed? In the system? So I would just say now, granted
Jeezy: of most of them, they are due to the natural circumstances of why they should be removed, which would be death. Felony, convictions out of State moves, or people just personally requested to be removed, but in all of that, with it being 747,000.
Manny: A Congressional district.
Jeezy: That. Yes, it is. I just want to bring this as a spotlight to tell those that live in North Carolina that if you believe that you're registered to vote that your registration is good in North Carolina. Check it this week just to make sure everything is up to par that you you weren't accidentally removed, because.
Jeezy: as I as I spoke to Manny and told him, we are human.
Jeezy: and if somebody's removing 747,000, I'm gonna tell you, if I'm doing it, and it's about 5 o'clock, and it's time for me to go home. I might have pressed the button wrong.
Manny: At least 3 people.
Jeezy: Yeah, I can't. I can't believe in my mind that maybe there won't 1 mistake, and it and it could not be. But I just wanted to bring that to a spotlight to say, Hey, if you're registered in North Carolina, think all your registration registration things are in order just double check this week, because we know that this election is going to be tight.
Jeezy: Yep, and North Carolina is going to have a a great spotlight on it, and we do not at this point know how North Carolina will turn out. I believe that from polling we may still be within the margin of error.
Manny: Yeah, we're absolutely within a margin of error.
Jeezy: And if you remember, in 2020 it was. It was close as well, too, so double check your registration. Make sure everything's good to go, and those are my 2 spotlights. That I'll be looking for going into next week.
Manny: Man. So me the the things that I'm looking at heading into next week.
Manny: And I'll just start with the big one
Manny: earlier, I believe, was on Friday. Israel killed the Secretary General of Hezbollah so, and what people have called, you know, cutting off the head of the snake of the the group in Lebanon that's heavily supported by Iran. So
Manny: bit
Manny: big moves, big moves, and I think at the end of the day, if you look across the entire world. No country stands on business like Israel. If Israel says they're going after someone, they do it.
Jeezy: Oh, yeah, they don't play. They don't play any games.
Manny: So it'll be interesting. So the the real complexity around this is going to be, how does Iran act.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: From my understanding. Their leaders have now gone into hiding in different places. So they decentralize themselves.
Manny: yeah, you know, we know Iran supports a lot of terrorist organizations over in the Middle East. So understanding, understanding their tolerance for this is going to be interesting, especially as you watch the situation in Gaza still play out the situation in Lebanon, now growing.
Manny: how they act, how they respond to that. So I think that'll be a key thing that happens. And while usually you don't see
Manny: global issues really fall into issues around a presidency. Yeah, if something were to drastically escalate over the next 30, some odd days. I think that then also becomes an issue in our election.
Manny: and on a happier note on October first.st
Manny: Oh, our America's peanut! Farmer Jimmy Carter is turning 100. So happy birthday.
Jeezy: Jimmy.
Manny: Carter.
Jeezy: Happy birthday. Jimmy.
Manny: Yeah, turn. Turn up, man. I I don't know what you're gonna do. But
Manny: you know, hundreds, a long time you've seen a lot of things.
Jeezy: Get a man to get that man just a single scoop of butter, pecan ice cream.
Manny: But you know the the folks love that buttered pecan
Manny: so happy birthday, Jimmy Carney, the 1st Us. President to reach the age of 100. So we're wishing you nothing but a happy life and much vitality in your years. So enjoy that.
Jeezy: Thank you for the service that you did for this company.
Manny: Absolutely from not only just serving as the President, but everything he did afterwards, you know, with humanitarian outreach habitat for humanity.
Manny: just really leveraging that power, leaving the office to stay involved on the global scene. I think that that can be saluted, no matter what side of the aisle that you're standing on. So thank you for that, Jimmy Carter, and happy birthday.
Jeezy: Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed!
Manny: So with that, you know. Y'all, that's that's the pod. This week we appreciate y'all tuning in.
Manny: and we'll be back next week for more of your information and laughs, and
Manny: you know I think me and jeez have learned from the 1st couple episodes we're not going to tell. Y'all what you were talking about, because we don't know what we're going to talk about until it happens.
Jeezy: We have not a single clue. The political landscape changes every day, multiple times a day. So we're just going to try to do our best to stay informed, but most importantly, just bring you the laughter that we get out of just seeing how these things unfold. So in the world and the landscape that we live in. What fun is it if you can't laugh a little bit so.
Manny: Absolutely.
Jeezy: That's what we're going to do. And we thank you for listening. This is episode, 3 of the pardon, the politics. Podcast take care world, and we'll see you next time.
Manny: We'll see y'all next week.