Pardon the Politics

LXI Studio
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You didn't ask for the most chaotic political era in modern American history. But here you are watching executive orders fly, whistleblowers get silenced, world leaders get bombed mid-negotiation, and a president who apparently thinks Greenland is the size of Africa. Somebody's got to make sense of it. That's where Pardon the Politics comes in. Every week, co-hosts Jeezy and Manny, joined by the Chairman of Chaos himself, Chuck, bring you an unfiltered, unscripted breakdown of the biggest stories in U.S. and NC politics with the kind of honesty, humor, and cultural fluency you won't find anywhere on cable news. These are three brothers from North Carolina who cut their lawns, cheer for their kids, argue about the Patriots, and also happen to do their homework. Deeply. Season 3 has already taken listeners through it all: Trump's bizarre Davos appearance, the Epstein files and the accountability that still hasn't come, the Tulsi Gabbard whistleblower scandal, tariff chaos in the courts, the last MLK Day we may ever see, a world that went to war without a Congressional vote, and the death of a Supreme Leader while diplomats were still at the table. And they're just getting started. This is not a show for people who want to be told what to think. This is a show for people who want the context, the history, the real questions nobody's asking, and three real perspectives from people who live in the same America you do. Where chaos meets clarity. New episodes every week. 🎙️ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics

  1. 3d ago

    What The Flock Is Going On?!?

    Send us a message!!! This week the boys got some things to say. The main event is Flock Safety: what it actually sells, who's buying it, who's funding it (and what else that money funds), the competition, the technology's failure points, the cities walking away, and exactly what North Carolina signed up for when the SBI's camera pilot went statewide on 78% of the state's roads. From there: Karoline Leavitt steps down as press secretary with no replacement named and under 90 days to the midterms; the USS Abraham Lincoln passes 260 days at sea with sailors going overboard and the President calling it “not nearly long enough”; Trump signs a childhood-vaccine executive order that has doctors fired up; and the crew closes with a rare shared Spotlight on the Trump family's new bank charter.  Warning: the boys also take a minute near the end to talk about something closer to home. Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    What The Flock Is Going On?!?

  2. Aug 10

    Trump's Tantrums

    Send us a message!!! This week on Pardon the Politics: Michigan's Democratic Senate primary came down to a coin flip. Abdul El-Sayed, a 41-year-old physician who lost a 2018 governor's race, barely beat Rep. Haley Stevens despite Stevens carrying endorsements from Gov. Whitmer, outgoing Sen. Gary Peters, and Schumer himself, and despite more than $60 million in outside spending working against him. More than 1.5 million votes were cast. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck break down what a margin that thin actually proves, and Manny lays out a “duck-based messaging” theory of why Democrats keep misjudging their own base. Same night, in Michigan's 13th District, Donavan McKinney unseated incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar. Then: Trump's Tantrums. Three separate fights, one pattern a narrower birthright-citizenship executive order weeks after the Supreme Court struck the first one down; a revived push to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over the same allegations the Court already sent back; and a federal court blocking further construction on his $400 million White House ballroom, which Trump claims is a national-security necessity because part of it is a “fortified drone port.” PICKLE OF THE WEEK: Five months into the Iran war, the Pentagon is publicly asking weapons manufacturers to speed up production because the U.S. is running low on munitions. Jeezy's verdict: turning the world's largest military budget into the geopolitical equivalent of realizing you're out of toilet paper after you've already sat down. SPOTLIGHTS: Manny breaks down Flock Safety's license-plate cameras and North Carolina's new statewide ALPR law. Chuck goes deep on Iranian cyberattacks hitting U.S. water systems in half a dozen states and the CISA staffing cuts that left them exposed. Jeezy closes on Netanyahu rejecting Trump's own Gaza peace plan, plus a personal note: a beloved Houston spot from the crew's last guys' trip has closed for good. Links: linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | the1525studio@gmail.com | X: @PardonPolitics | Bluesky: @pardonthepolitics.bsky.social | IG: @PTP.pod Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    Trump's Tantrums

  3. Aug 3

    A Hundred Fifth Amendments

    Send us a message!!! The boys are back from a much-needed break, and the world absolutely did not wait for them. This week on Pardon the Politics: Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death on July 11 touches off a fast-moving story with three threads: a memo to rename Joint Base Charleston to "Joint Base Lindsey Graham" landing just six days after his death (and a day before his own funeral), his sister Darline Graham stepping into his Senate seat by gubernatorial appointment, and a real debate between Jeezy and Chuck about the fiscal responsibility, and the timing, of the renaming push, tied back to the ongoing Department of Defense-to-Department of War rebrand. From there: Todd Blanche's stalled path to a permanent Attorney General post. His committee vote has now been postponed twice, blocked by GOP Sens. Cornyn (TX) and Tillis (NC) over Trump's $1.776 billion IRS settlement fund. A new vote is set for Tuesday, August 4th. Then Dr. Anthony Fauci's marathon Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times rather than answer a single question about COVID's origins — setting up a contempt-of-Congress vote on August 5th and a genuinely novel legal fight over whether a pardon for past conduct can strip your right to stay silent about it. PICKLE OF THE WEEK: Ken Paxton is trailing Democrat James Talarico in a new Fox News poll of the Texas Senate race, and 36% of Republicans say they're worried about his character. SPOTLIGHTS: Manny digs into Ken Paxton's second headache, a Texas AG investigation into LinkedIn's "ghost job" listings. Chuck takes on Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins' refusal to answer questions about his son-in-law's documented white nationalist ties. And Jeezy closes it out with genuinely good news: Maryland and New York stepping up with expedited admissions and financial credits for hundreds of Howard University students disenrolled weeks before move-in. Links: linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | the1525studio@gmail.com X: @PardonPolitics | Bluesky: @pardonthepolitics.bsky.social | IG: @PTP.pod Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    A Hundred Fifth Amendments

  4. Jul 13

    We Down, But We Not Up

    Send us a message!!! NATO wrapped up its Ankara summit claiming unity, but only 5 of 32 members are on pace to meet the new defense spending target, and nobody can say what "winning" in Ukraine actually looks like. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck break down the real numbers, Trump's clashes with Spain and the UK, and the Greenland push that won't die. Plus: Graham Platner's Maine Senate campaign implodes, and the Democratic Party scrambles toward a special convention. Breaking news hits mid-record, an update on Sen. Mitch McConnell's health, and the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham at 71. This week's pickle of the week: Rep. Ro Khanna gets surrounded by armed settlers in the West Bank, and it raises a bigger question about U.S.-Israel accountability. And three spotlights: a housing bill that became law without Trump's signature, the gutting of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of the midterms, and a fatal ICE shooting in Houston. Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    We Down, But We Not Up

  5. Jul 6

    Happy 250th, America. We Need To Talk

    Send us a message!!! The Supreme Court closed out its term with four rulings in a single week.  Trump v. Barbara upheld birthright citizenship 6-3, striking down the executive order. West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox left transgender athletics to the states. NRSC v. FEC struck down coordinated party spending limits 6-3. Watson v. RNC upheld mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day, 5-4. The boys break down what each one actually means — and the constitutional thread connecting all four.   Then, America turned 250. 850,000 fireworks, a Sail Force in New York Harbor, and a Great American State Fair that the internet did not let live down. Jeezy and Chuck ask whether the country can tell its full history without flinching, and what the next 250 years are actually going to require.     Jeezy’s Pickle of the Week goes to Paul Pelosi and every driver over 70.  Manny spotlights North Carolina’s $34 billion budget, the first in three years. Chuck salutes an Air Force major who protested the Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela strikes on the Capitol steps, in uniform, knowing what it could cost him. And Jeezy closes with a direct word for men who’ve never had the space to say they’re not okay. Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    Happy 250th, America. We Need To Talk

  6. Jun 29

    There’s No Catchphrase

    Send us a message!!! NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three congressional candidates, and all of them won. Two current members of Congress lost their seats, including one backed by Hakeem Jeffries. The hosts discuss what it means for a first-term mayor, just six months into office, to outperform the House Minority Leader in a congressional primary, and whether this has any impact beyond Brooklyn.  The Supreme Court released three major rulings in one week, each decided by a 6-3 vote. Damon Landor, a Rastafarian man in a Louisiana prison, had his 20-year dreadlocks forcibly cut. The court agreed his rights were violated, but said he cannot sue. Another ruling ended legal status for 350,000 Haitians under TPS. Manny highlights Clarence Thomas’s comments, and Chuck explains the significance. In the asylum metering case, the court ruled that people standing on the Mexican side of the border have not technically “arrived” in America. Chuck reads the official definition of asylum.  For Pickle of the Week, they look at North Carolina’s public school system, which is now the seventh-most-economically segregated in the country, 72 years after Brown v. Board.  In the Spotlights segment: Manny covers North Carolina’s tampon tax bill, Chuck talks about Africa’s World Cup run in Atlanta, and Jeezy, a devout Christian, shares why he opposes Texas requiring Bible passages in public schools: “Faith is not faith if it’s forced. It’s just compliance.” S3E26. Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    There’s No Catchphrase

  7. Jun 22

    Surrender at Versailles (Again)

    Send us a message!!! Happy Father's Day, Bloc. Season 3, Episode 25 is live. The boys open with some real talk for the dads: present, active, and fighting the silent battles nobody sees. Then it's straight to work. This week on Pardon the Politics: 🌍 G7 SUMMIT - ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE The world's richest democracies gathered in France, and by all accounts, nobody flipped a chair. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck break down what 'smoother than expected' actually means, and why the G7's unity is as much about survival as it is about solidarity. Ukraine gets public backing. China emerges as the quiet giant nobody wanted to talk about loudly. And Manny lays out why the rest of the G7 have started doing business without first asking Washington. 🇮🇷 US-IRAN WAR UPDATE -  THE $300B QUESTION Talks are happening in Switzerland. JD Vance is there. Iran treats the whole thing like a game, and Chuck makes the case that they're winning it. The 14-point MOU gets a full autopsy: when compared side by side with Obama's JCPOA, Chuck calls it 'the biggest signing of surrender at Versailles since Versailles.' Manny breaks down the Strait of Hormuz toll — what it actually means for your gas prices, your groceries, and your healthcare. Plus: Lebanon is the war inside the war, and Israel keeps Homer Simpsoning into the bushes. Subscribe, share, and find us everywhere: linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics Follow us: X: @PardonPolitics Bluesky: @pardonthepolitics.bsky.social Instagram: ptp.pod Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    Surrender at Versailles (Again)

  8. Jun 15

    I Love Inflation

    Send us a message!!! The crew is back at full strength. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are all in the room for a packed S3E24 that centers on one question: the economy is “good,” but good for whom? We start with the number that set the week on fire. Inflation hit 4.2%, which is a three-year high. When asked if he was worried, the President said the words no campaign wants on tape: “I love it. I love the inflation.” Things got even stranger with a claim that the U.S. has quietly been pulling millions of barrels of oil out of Iran. We break down what is actually driving prices—energy, with gas up about 40% this year—why core inflation at 2.9% tells a calmer story, and why new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh faces a tough situation. He was brought in to cut rates, but now he is looking at numbers that suggest a hike. Plus, the reality that hits at the kitchen table: inflation has now wiped out the wage gains of this entire administration. PSA: it is no longer acceptable to show up to the cookout with sodas. Bring sides. Then we take a step back. Elon Musk crossed a trillion dollars after the SpaceX IPO valued the company at about $2.1 trillion. The gap between him and the world's number two is now bigger than the gap from number two down to everyone else. Chuck predicted this in last week's spotlight, and we discuss what is real, what is just on paper, and why a fortune built on government contracts and an AI bet might be more fragile than it seems. This all happened as Friday became the worst market day since the 2025 tariff shock. Topic three is the chaos inside the intelligence community. After bipartisan backlash, the White House removed Bill Pulte and nominated Jay Clayton for permanent DNI. Manny's prediction from last week was almost exactly right: the whole situation was a distraction to move Todd Blanche. Meanwhile, the fight led to the failure of Section 702 FISA reauthorization, and Chuck asks the episode's sharpest question: as a Black man in America, what liberty did I ever get to give up? Support the show 🎤 Listen: https://pardonthepolitics.com/  | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube

    I Love Inflation
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You didn't ask for the most chaotic political era in modern American history. But here you are watching executive orders fly, whistleblowers get silenced, world leaders get bombed mid-negotiation, and a president who apparently thinks Greenland is the size of Africa. Somebody's got to make sense of it. That's where Pardon the Politics comes in. Every week, co-hosts Jeezy and Manny, joined by the Chairman of Chaos himself, Chuck, bring you an unfiltered, unscripted breakdown of the biggest stories in U.S. and NC politics with the kind of honesty, humor, and cultural fluency you won't find anywhere on cable news. These are three brothers from North Carolina who cut their lawns, cheer for their kids, argue about the Patriots, and also happen to do their homework. Deeply. Season 3 has already taken listeners through it all: Trump's bizarre Davos appearance, the Epstein files and the accountability that still hasn't come, the Tulsi Gabbard whistleblower scandal, tariff chaos in the courts, the last MLK Day we may ever see, a world that went to war without a Congressional vote, and the death of a Supreme Leader while diplomats were still at the table. And they're just getting started. This is not a show for people who want to be told what to think. This is a show for people who want the context, the history, the real questions nobody's asking, and three real perspectives from people who live in the same America you do. Where chaos meets clarity. New episodes every week. 🎙️ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | linktr.ee/pardonthepolitics

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  • Creator
    LXI Studio
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    95
  • Rating
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