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Speaker 1: We are here, we are here. So much has happened, man,
Speaker 1: I've jade the last couple of weeks of Joseph ar
Speaker 1: Biden President Joseph ar Biden. Has it been a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks? Has been a month? It has happened so fast.
Speaker 1: Him getting out of the Buick, leaving the you know
Speaker 1: that's a joke that I said. You know he's riding
Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventy six Buwick. Him getting out of
Speaker 1: the buick, changing this entire race has been a whirlwind.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the zoom calls that they've had were
Speaker 1: welcoming Harris as the potential nominee. She is now according
Speaker 1: to the votes from the from the delegates that that
Speaker 1: did a phone vote, is she has enough delicates to
Speaker 1: actually be the nominee, but we won't see that actually
Speaker 1: take place officially until the DNC convention in Chicago, which
Speaker 1: I'll be there by the by the way, so that'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. But so much has happened
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, from the Black Women call,
Speaker 1: the Black Men call, the White Dudes call, the White
Speaker 1: women call, the Latino called, the Indian American calls, the
Speaker 1: wind with the Black Church that call was the other.
Speaker 3: Day, and cat Ladies for Harris, and they also had
Speaker 3: comedians for Harris as well.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm wondering if you think Pliz can get
Speaker 1: hip hop for Harris. I wonder how many in a
Speaker 1: hip hop community we would gather, Yeah, that'd be interested
Speaker 1: to see who will be interested actually putting their name
Speaker 1: on the line. So it's just been a big whirlwind.
Speaker 1: You know, we've been waiting to know who the VP
Speaker 1: pick was. I think the VP pick definitely through some
Speaker 1: people off. People already kind of had it their mind
Speaker 1: for Pennsylvania Governor Sapiro I did. I think I thought
Speaker 1: that's what she might pick, just because you know how
Speaker 1: I feel, and anybody listened to the show, you know
Speaker 1: how I feel about Swing States. That's all I've been
Speaker 1: talking about. That's all. I'm gonna keep talking about swing state,
Speaker 1: Swing say, Swing say. I'm not that confident in Michigan.
Speaker 1: We know that we're recording this on Wednesday, and we
Speaker 1: know that she's in Michigan right now, literally while we're
Speaker 1: recording this in Detroit. So good to see some you know,
Speaker 1: energy in that area. But I'm just not comfortable about Michigan.
Speaker 1: And even if we look at just as a side note,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the VP pick, but just to
Speaker 1: look at, you know, Hill Harper's race on yesterday that
Speaker 1: he was not successful Slotkin, who he ran against three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four thousand votes. Harper did eighty seven thousand,
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of his efforts was focused
Speaker 1: on Detroit. And so that you know how I kept
Speaker 1: talking over and over about the several different constituencies in
Speaker 1: Michigan that we have to pay attention to. One the
Speaker 1: labor union, who's been pissed, you know, because of they
Speaker 1: went on strike, you know, not feeling they have the support. Inflation,
Speaker 1: you know, affected them a lot. You have the students
Speaker 1: of Michigan State and there's a lot of young voters
Speaker 1: that they organized around, that we organized around when we
Speaker 1: worked on the ground in twenty fifteen. They still want
Speaker 1: college debt relief. They're also upset because of the war
Speaker 1: on Gaza is the Palestinian and the Gaza situation. They're
Speaker 1: upset about that. You have, obviously Rashiita Talib who won
Speaker 1: also last night unopposed. Nobody even raised their hand to
Speaker 1: run against her. So when I'm seeing all these conversations
Speaker 1: about apac apac a PAK, they come after everybody. Whatever
Speaker 1: she just leave is their greatest threat. She is the loudest,
Speaker 1: the most vocal, and also the most effective with organizing
Speaker 1: a ceasefire. She's done that in Michigan with a hundred thout,
Speaker 1: getting a hundred thousand people to go to the polls,
Speaker 1: and nobody even raised their hand. And it wasn't because
Speaker 1: a PAK wasn't looking for nobody to run against her,
Speaker 1: because they were. They were literally telling people, I'll drop
Speaker 1: twenty thirty forty million, just like they did in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and she was successful. So that is obviously
Speaker 1: a very strong demographic that is not pleased. At least
Speaker 1: they weren't pleased with the Biden administration. Now look like
Speaker 1: they kind of I don't know if they own Pauls.
Speaker 1: They waiting to see what she gonna do. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the Biden Harris administration is very similar to Harris administration.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how that all plays out. So that's
Speaker 1: that's one issue. And then I talked about the black voters,
Speaker 1: you know, wanting to see how involved they were, how
Speaker 1: engaged or where. Obviously this was not a presidential election yesterday,
Speaker 1: it was a primary, but still it kind of gives
Speaker 1: us an indication of people's appetite, you know, for voting.
Speaker 1: All of those things said, I'm not that I'm not
Speaker 1: that confident in Michigan for Democrats, but you know, we
Speaker 1: shall see. But I'm tilling all those demographics. So I
Speaker 1: thought that that picking Governor Sapiro would be a good plus,
Speaker 1: you know for Philadelphia being a state that they needed.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he can guarantee get it, but he does
Speaker 1: have a sixty one percent favorability rate. He can still
Speaker 1: try to deliver the state. But it is different when
Speaker 1: your governor's running. It is different. The energy there is
Speaker 1: going to be much different, the investment is going to
Speaker 1: be much different. To send their governor to the White House,
Speaker 1: so I thought she was gonna go with him, but
Speaker 1: she did not. She went with Governor Wats from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And already there's been a lot of positive Progressives are excited.
Speaker 1: They feel as if they got some type of concession.
Speaker 1: Not really sure how because he feels the same way.
Speaker 1: His position is very similar to Sapiro when it comes
Speaker 1: to support of Israel. But I do know they did
Speaker 1: not like the comments that Governor Sapiro made about, you know,
Speaker 1: comparing protesters to the KKK, and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: they were really hung up on that. That was a
Speaker 1: big thing. But but if Governor Wall still supports the war,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess language now is okay. I guess
Speaker 1: it's all a matter of the language. I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But progressors definitely looked at it as
Speaker 1: something to celebrate. So now, based on how progressors have responded, Jay,
Speaker 1: this is now a we got a progressive on the ballot,
Speaker 1: so of course, and they're literally saying it, guys, be
Speaker 1: proud you did this. You progressives did this. So the
Speaker 1: right loves it. They love it. They love nothing more
Speaker 1: than running against anything that is perceived as far left.
Speaker 1: So now they're pushing that narrative out.
Speaker 3: What's your thoughts we in my opinion, just generally speaking
Speaker 3: about progressives, I mean, I think that they are a
Speaker 3: pretty much a minority within a Democratic Party. I will
Speaker 3: say that I do see that the Minnesota Governor Tim
Speaker 3: Wallace is being painted by the right as a communist.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering how this news is gonna go over. There
Speaker 3: were some financial disclosures from government. Tim Wallas, who is
Speaker 3: VP Harrison's running mate we're talking about it, says that
Speaker 3: he owns no stocks, he owns no bonds, he owns
Speaker 3: no real estate. And so I'm wondering how that, you know,
Speaker 3: how that will be received by business owners, entrepreneurs, etc.
Speaker 3: And folks who are really really big one big business
Speaker 3: and follow the economy.
Speaker 1: We see that his you know way before, we just
Speaker 1: won't pass that you had. Let's stop there and deal
Speaker 1: with that. So most business owners are broke. Like being
Speaker 1: a business owner just saying I'm a business owner. That
Speaker 1: don't mean I'm rich. It don't mean I have extra
Speaker 1: disposed with income for real estate or extra dispposed income
Speaker 1: for stock. Most business owner, which I was having one
Speaker 1: on our colleagues today Michelle about entrepreneurship is like, why
Speaker 1: does this have to be so hard? It's hard most
Speaker 1: business owners, especially small business owners, they're not large enough
Speaker 1: to have. And I'm not saying him, but you're saying
Speaker 1: how with that land? And I don't know about him
Speaker 1: and what he's at access to and being a governor,
Speaker 1: I know, being elected officials, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: times hard for them to do business outside of you know,
Speaker 1: because everything they do is scrutinize. I can't speak for him,
Speaker 1: but I can certainly speak on what it means to
Speaker 1: be self employed in the Midwest for the last and
Speaker 1: in the South sometime. In the South for the last
Speaker 1: seventeen years. I've won Orlando Business Journal twice. I've sat
Speaker 1: on two boards African American Chamber of Commerce Ambassador for
Speaker 1: Central Florida, also the Central Florida the Central Florida Regional Chamber,
Speaker 1: the Young Professional Committee, an ambassador chairs there. And last
Speaker 1: year I won twenty twenty three US Department of Commerce
Speaker 1: Minority Entrepreneur of the Year. So it's pretty much established
Speaker 1: that I'm a business owner and I can tell you
Speaker 1: I absolutely relate to that. Absolutely. I don't have stocks,
Speaker 1: I don't have bonds, stocks and bonds. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: make payroll. I had three hundred employees in Orlando. I
Speaker 1: didn't have extra resource. That's when people get confused by
Speaker 1: business owners. Like most business owners are broke because they
Speaker 1: try to make payroll. They trying to pay taxes. They're
Speaker 1: robing Peter to pay Paul. Like, that's the reality of
Speaker 1: a business, which is why over fifty sixty percent of
Speaker 1: business owners actually go out of business to actually be
Speaker 1: in business, you know, and get a contract and self sustain,
Speaker 1: especially if you single, or if you got kids or
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, that that that's actually pretty pretty relatable.
Speaker 1: And his career he's spent being a teacher. Teachers don't
Speaker 1: make no money. He's a teacher for thirty years.
Speaker 2: Well, so he's living on his pension from being a teacher.
Speaker 3: And just so we're clear, his current salary as a
Speaker 3: governor is one hundred and twenty seven thousand, six hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty nine dollars a year.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money.
Speaker 3: And he opted out not to accept the race last
Speaker 3: year that would have that would have increased his salary
Speaker 3: to one hundred and forty nine thousand, five hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: So we got a whole governor that's making a hundred
Speaker 1: that Oh yeah, that's relatable as hell. Jay, I was
Speaker 1: surround you to say out a good load. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what label's hell. One hundred and twenty five thousand. Even
Speaker 1: when I had three hundred employees, I didn't bring that home.
Speaker 1: I had a payroll of fifty to sixty thousand a month,
Speaker 1: but I didn't keep any of that that went out
Speaker 1: to actually paid. I'm done better independent, you know, like
Speaker 1: going to get a job for maybe one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand as a comm person, and I've ever done
Speaker 1: for a business owner, but sure, especially in the government,
Speaker 1: so he's not used to a high salary. That absolutely relates.
Speaker 1: One hundreds of five thousand iss not a lot, especially
Speaker 1: to be the governor. Commission fifty is sixty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: like public service. Don't add to tell that to our colleague,
Speaker 1: our mutual colleague today. Well, I thought if I won,
Speaker 1: I would be able to parlay, parlay what you was
Speaker 1: gonna make twenty thousand dollar? What do you think it
Speaker 1: was about the parlay? Are you watch? Was you watching
Speaker 1: scandal or something? There wasn't gonna be some major lifestyle change.
Speaker 1: Parlaying your government position is called actually called a felony,
Speaker 1: which is what Donald Trump is in trouble for. Like
Speaker 1: there's no I don't know what you thought this was
Speaker 1: or some you know, I'm gonna be in government and
Speaker 1: I'm the millionaires that are in Congress and Senate senators
Speaker 1: because all of them are millionaires. They were millionaires before
Speaker 1: they ran. They made their their wealth and their money.
Speaker 1: They actually say you should do that, that you should
Speaker 1: make your wealth and get your money somewhere else before
Speaker 1: you get into public service, because when you do, everything
Speaker 1: will be scrutinized. Everything you do will be looked at.
Speaker 1: You obviously know there's a candidate that you know that
Speaker 1: I have supported, and I'm very an elected official. I'm
Speaker 1: very disappointed and what's going on with her now? Won't
Speaker 1: say any names, but she's about to go to jail.
Speaker 1: You know, behind using somebody's name for a house loan.
Speaker 1: You gonn watch she had to do that if she
Speaker 1: did do it allegedly, she said she didn't. She said
Speaker 1: the woman gave her permission. But because she doesn't make
Speaker 1: any money, she makes fifty thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Her credit is bad.
Speaker 1: All of her time is spent serving that district. She
Speaker 1: needed a co signer in her sixties. This is the
Speaker 1: reality of being a public servant that people be thinking
Speaker 1: getting twisted. They think it's some Now Congress, you make
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five thousand in Congress. I believe
Speaker 1: that's a salary. There are perks, there are certain things
Speaker 1: you might be able to get. You try to help
Speaker 1: your family if you can. We see what that happened
Speaker 1: with Corey Busch, don't we When she hired her boyfriend
Speaker 1: at security they and he actually did security. That was
Speaker 1: one of the ads that they put out about her,
Speaker 1: saying she's trying to hire her family. So, yeah, one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand ain't no money you in DC. You should
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I definitely know that.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about the voters, especially like Republican voters or
Speaker 3: voters who are independent but typically lean read but are
Speaker 3: tied of Trump that would possibly be open to voting
Speaker 3: for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: I was I was just.
Speaker 3: Thinking about that demographic, or an elitist demographic. Less She's
Speaker 3: go ahead and say folks who do have money and
Speaker 3: who are a big one those.
Speaker 1: Of the people that already may not be on their
Speaker 1: side because they're talking about having people pay their fair share,
Speaker 1: so that the Democrats platform is not about being rich.
Speaker 1: Democrats platform is to them the working man, which Trump
Speaker 1: and them have taken that now and they say they're
Speaker 1: looking at for the working man, but actually it's for
Speaker 1: the rich. So nobody's trying to recruit the rich. That's
Speaker 1: you know, that's not the they're trying to They're positioning
Speaker 1: him as coach. Coach Waltz, you know, been a public
Speaker 1: serving his whole life. If he wasn't serving in school,
Speaker 1: he was serving as a veteran, an honorable man. You know.
Speaker 3: I want to get to that veteran piece and just
Speaker 3: the moment test, but I also want to add one
Speaker 3: more point about this financial piece. In twenty nineteen, Walls
Speaker 3: and his wife sold their home in Macato, Minnesota, for
Speaker 3: three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars after they purchased the
Speaker 3: home in nineteen ninety seven, and at that time they
Speaker 3: purchased it four hundred and forty five thousand, So they
Speaker 3: sold their home. They made a profit off of it,
Speaker 3: of course, and since then they've moved into the governor's mansion.
Speaker 3: So they also don't own any real estate, and so
Speaker 3: they're definitely definitely branding him as a blue collar worker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you must think I'm a leaders or something, because
Speaker 1: before we started the show, when you was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're a really girl. I'm bro I'm the working man.
Speaker 1: I'm broke, you.
Speaker 2: Know how much up to I'm all for the I'm
Speaker 2: well for the workingman.
Speaker 3: My dad, you know, I come from a very blue
Speaker 3: collar labor union household. But I'm also thinking, I'm just
Speaker 3: thinking about these swing voters, right, folks who are probably
Speaker 3: in the middle, who may not Those are.
Speaker 1: People that don't have money though they are the working man.
Speaker 1: That's why they thought he would be good, having come
Speaker 1: on with his little hunting had and that's why Joe.
Speaker 1: That's why Joe Biden was brought to the ticket in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight because Barack Obama presented the college,
Speaker 1: the attorney, the elite, if you will, or the whatever,
Speaker 1: and Joe Biden was, hey, let's sit down, let's have
Speaker 1: a beer. He's doing That's exactly what the assignment is
Speaker 1: supposed to do. Okay, got working class guy. Even though
Speaker 1: Joe wasn't technically working class, but he presented as that,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, let's have a beer. In the Midwest,
Speaker 1: those swing states, not a lot of money, didn't come
Speaker 1: from much, you hear Midwest. You know, Ah, my father
Speaker 1: worked in the steel mial. I always joke about that
Speaker 1: because who was the candidate on the Republican side that
Speaker 1: ended up getting a ran for president got in trouble
Speaker 1: for having an affair with his wife when she had cancer,
Speaker 1: Johnny it Wards. Oh I remember that with and yeah,
Speaker 1: John Edwards. He's always saying this speech. My dad worked
Speaker 1: in the steel mills, you know, right here in the middle.
Speaker 1: Like it's always about working in the steel mills. And
Speaker 1: that's one reason why I get offended when people think
Speaker 1: that Oklahoma City is in the South. It's not as Midwest.
Speaker 1: Depending on who you ask, they'll say they may say
Speaker 1: the South, but it's certainly not the deep South. Or
Speaker 1: they may say the West, or they may say with Midwest.
Speaker 1: But Oklahoma's in the center of the country. Is why
Speaker 1: they call it the heartland. It's in the center of
Speaker 1: the country, and it is very much Midwest values of
Speaker 1: the Missouri, the Michigan, the you know, all of that area.
Speaker 1: It is not Texas. It is not Louisiana. It is
Speaker 1: very in Oklahoma City. The only thing you knew to
Speaker 1: grow up to do was either go serve in the military.
Speaker 1: That's all they had. It was either serving the military,
Speaker 1: work at GM you know, a government job at GM.
Speaker 1: Our certain military are get caught up in the streets
Speaker 1: in the nineties and sell dope like that. That was
Speaker 1: the option then it wasn't. So it's very Midwest. It's
Speaker 1: not the Bible Belt, but very similar to the routine.
Speaker 1: Was my dad's side of the family Catholic, because you know,
Speaker 1: everybody in Louisiana's Catholic, and so they came they migrated
Speaker 1: from Louisiana. So it was all about go to math.
Speaker 1: And you know, my grandfather served two tours, you know,
Speaker 1: on the military, and he worked at the post office.
Speaker 1: It was all about getting a good job in the
Speaker 1: post office. My grandmother worked. He has a school bus
Speaker 1: driver and the cafeteria lady. That was always about the
Speaker 1: other side of my family, my mom's side, two entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: My grandmother always had her own beauty shop, my grandfather
Speaker 1: always had his own mechanic shop. Christian the Christian side
Speaker 1: church three times on Sunday Sunday school, never missed main
Speaker 1: service and BTU at six o'clock prayer meeting on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: never missed, and something on Saturday. She was the church
Speaker 1: secretary as well. She was a deacon s he was
Speaker 1: a deacon. They both were in you know, both ushers
Speaker 1: all of that. Those our Midwestern modery, conservative like value.
Speaker 1: So anytime what's happening in swing states and particularly or
Speaker 1: when people are trying to win over, it's always a
Speaker 1: battle for those voters those votes.
Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha, I was sticking the opposite. You know, Folks
Speaker 3: who are trying to move up the ladder financially or
Speaker 3: or move between socioeconomic classes are typically the swing voters,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But they're struggling, they can't move up, so they identify
Speaker 1: with somebody that hasn't made a lot of money. They
Speaker 1: identified with somebody Trump has done very well with coming
Speaker 1: from money, but pretending as if he doesn't he he
Speaker 1: didn't get it out the mud. HM. So when Harris
Speaker 1: and Walters are talking about, hey, Harris was actually raised
Speaker 1: by single mother. Barack Obama raised by single money. They're
Speaker 1: showing the values that you're typically gonna see on the
Speaker 1: on the left side. But Republicans have that to those
Speaker 1: rural voters. So Walts is able to come in and
Speaker 1: have that conversation over a beer. Let me put on
Speaker 1: my I'm a fisher, you know, a hunter, Let me
Speaker 1: put on that. Now of a sudden, Democrats is pushing
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment, which is hilarious because you know, they
Speaker 1: normally don't talk about that, but they're literally now selling
Speaker 1: hunter hats that has walls. Did you see it? That
Speaker 1: has walls and Paris and it's the Hunter hat. You
Speaker 1: would never have seen that in that But they realized
Speaker 1: they have to pull some of those voters. Those are
Speaker 1: those I don't really like Trump, but I will if
Speaker 1: I need to, but I need something I can relate to.
Speaker 1: He is absolutely that military working in the school forever.
Speaker 1: Don't make a lot of money, only trying to take
Speaker 1: you know, just service service service. I don't need a raise,
Speaker 1: give it back to the state as long as I'm
Speaker 1: able to keep a roof over my head and food
Speaker 1: in my family, you know, pocket And I'm good that
Speaker 1: Democratic leaders you're talking about money, education, Princeton, all of that.
Speaker 1: That the swing voter is exactly who Walts is in
Speaker 1: the Midwest and those Midwestern states.
Speaker 2: Thank you for clarifying that.
Speaker 3: Now, the other thing you brought up that I do
Speaker 3: want to extrapolate on a bit is that Walts is
Speaker 3: a military veteran, but so is JD.
Speaker 2: Vance.
Speaker 3: And the story circulating that JD. Vance reopened a line
Speaker 3: of attack into Walls's military record as the two are
Speaker 3: now buying to be vice president.
Speaker 1: And what is that? Because I saw that run across
Speaker 1: the Tika? What is that?
Speaker 3: So basically JD. Vance accused Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas of
Speaker 3: dodging service in I Rock, claiming without evidence that Walls
Speaker 3: abandoned his unit to run for Congress in two thousand
Speaker 3: and five, and so these false claims were about combat service.
Speaker 3: Vance alleged that Walls falsely portrayed his military service, suggesting
Speaker 3: he claimed to have served in a combat zone while
Speaker 3: in the Army National Guard. Walts actually did serve twenty
Speaker 3: four years in the Army National Guard and retired in
Speaker 3: May of two thousand and five, just two months before
Speaker 3: his unit received alert orders to.
Speaker 2: To deploy to Iraq.
Speaker 3: So this is a story or narrative that's going viral,
Speaker 3: But these are unfounded claims, and the timeline does not
Speaker 3: actually line up with reality.
Speaker 2: It's something that you know, which.
Speaker 1: One don't line up what Vance is saying or what.
Speaker 2: It doesn't line up with? What Advancing.
Speaker 1: Are you saying? You think Vance live, what are you
Speaker 1: making playing?
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah, Advance falsely accused Tim WALLSIP of of abandon
Speaker 3: naing his unit to run for Congress in two thousand
Speaker 3: and five, right months before you know, his unit was
Speaker 3: deployed to Iraq. Walts had already retired after serving twenty
Speaker 3: four years in the Army National Guard. So it's completely unfounded.
Speaker 3: So well, let's going to get us in debate.
Speaker 1: I'm looking as we're talking, I'm looking at the ticker
Speaker 1: now and saying Vance a text Wallas record as two
Speaker 1: veterans by for VP. So yeah, that's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: I bet the Well I do, like the Wats, know
Speaker 1: how to cast some clack backs. You know, they need
Speaker 1: somebody on the team to got some clapbacks, So Advance
Speaker 1: the Well. So that's gonna be it's gonna be interested
Speaker 1: in watching that debate.
Speaker 3: We just wanted to also point out that I just
Speaker 3: said that Wall served twenty four years you know, of
Speaker 3: service in the Army National Guard. But just to compare
Speaker 3: his record in the military to JD.
Speaker 1: Vance.
Speaker 3: JD Vance served four years in the Marine Corps as
Speaker 3: a combat correspondent, deploying to Arrive for about six months
Speaker 3: before leaving as a corporal in two thousand and seven. So,
Speaker 3: you know, I do like the fact that both of
Speaker 3: these candidates are veterans. But yeah, let's just tell the
Speaker 3: truth about people's records. So, of course the Dems and
Speaker 3: Republicans are going to go back and forth on that point.
Speaker 3: The White House has already responded. Press Secretary Karine and
Speaker 3: Jean Pierre defended Walls, highlighting his long service and background
Speaker 3: as a teacher and coach, stating his record also in
Speaker 3: the military speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: Well, it ain't be speaking for itself. He need to
Speaker 1: speak for it and they need to do it. As
Speaker 1: the At the debate, and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Trump said that he I guess he will be debate
Speaker 1: and he said, I don't know. He really may not.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm looking forward to it. They
Speaker 1: said it to be in September, so I'm looking forward.
Speaker 2: To it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I could beat one thing that JD. Evance
Speaker 3: would bring up in the debate, is Tim Watts's wife
Speaker 3: when is getting a lot of pushback and criticism for
Speaker 3: a comment that she made during an interview that she
Speaker 3: kept her windows open during the George Floyd riots to
Speaker 3: smell burning tires.
Speaker 2: Did you hear about that test?
Speaker 1: I heard about that. I haven't looked that up to
Speaker 1: see if that's true or not. But actually didn't make
Speaker 1: that statement.
Speaker 3: But she was saying that she thought that it was
Speaker 3: a monumental moment in our country's history, but not that
Speaker 3: she was, you know, celebrating the riots. I didn't get
Speaker 3: that impression from that statement. But it's something that folks
Speaker 3: should look at for themselves and make their own determination.
Speaker 3: I know that it is not going well on the right.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is to make a determination about.
Speaker 1: I mean, what does she like to smell of tires?
Speaker 1: I mean, she's not the governor. I mean, I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, I don't know. If they want
Speaker 1: to find whatever they want to find, that that's fine.
Speaker 1: I will say hearing the things that he's actually done,
Speaker 1: the free lunch, and I will say, with working on
Speaker 1: the George Floyd, you know that's a matter. I talk
Speaker 1: about it all the time, way before I knew Wals
Speaker 1: that any of this was going to happen. So this
Speaker 1: ain't me cappin for no Walts. You know how I
Speaker 1: feel about George Floyd's family that has become family to me.
Speaker 1: And I do know had he not appointed Keith Ellison
Speaker 1: and taking it out of local and allowed the state
Speaker 1: attorney to do what he did and then Keith Ellison
Speaker 1: brought in assigned special prosecutors, I just don't believe Derek
Speaker 1: Shovin would have been convicted. So I just I like
Speaker 1: how that was handled. And there's some misinformation about that.
Speaker 1: So every time somebody bring up tires and opening up
Speaker 1: the window, I'm gonna bring up, you know, the fact
Speaker 1: that had he not had his leadership that I don't
Speaker 1: believe uh Shavin would have been convicted. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that, that's to me what's the most important. And
Speaker 1: in addition to that, some of the most progressive police
Speaker 1: reform policies have changed that actually have been implemented implemented
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. And that's the stuff that people don't hear about.
Speaker 1: They hear about a lot of well, why did George
Speaker 1: sloy justin Peace Act. Then yeah, I know I'm pushing
Speaker 1: for that too on a federal level. But again, over
Speaker 1: one hundred cities have did some level of police reform
Speaker 1: in Minnesota as one, and so we can't take that
Speaker 1: away from somebody's record. Yeah, and say, well, he let
Speaker 1: it burn for several days without bringing in the National Guard,
Speaker 1: And I'm okay with that too. I don't believe the
Speaker 1: National Guard should have been brought in to police citizens,
Speaker 1: So I'm okay with that. They're not gonna like it
Speaker 1: on the right. You know, I'm gonna be asked about
Speaker 1: it when I go do commentary, right, And I'm based
Speaker 1: on my military training, I don't think they should be
Speaker 1: in there because we don't need to be militarizing. Now.
Speaker 1: If you want to bring in other police or you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: want to, but the military shouldn't be policing our citizens.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I believe I stand on that. Bands should
Speaker 1: also stand on that. He knows how we would train
Speaker 1: train to kill SODA's walls. So yeah, the military is
Speaker 1: not designed the police's own citizens. That's my opinion, and
Speaker 1: I'm standing on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. I was one of those people out
Speaker 3: there day after day after day. In DC, documenting a
Speaker 3: lot of what was going on down by the White House,
Speaker 3: et cetera in twenty twenty. Now, the other thing that
Speaker 3: I want to say really quickly about Walls, he's his
Speaker 3: immigration record.
Speaker 1: Hold on, we get into immigration. I want to say
Speaker 1: one more thing, moving real fast, it was it was
Speaker 1: riots all over the world, you know, all over the country.
Speaker 1: It was not just in Minnesota. Now they can focus
Speaker 1: on just Minnesota, but it was everywhere. There was an
Speaker 1: outrage everywhere. This was not just one government, you know,
Speaker 1: just one governor. So they got to keep that in
Speaker 1: mind too. But again, people have to find something to
Speaker 1: talk about, and that's fine. They can talk about it,
Speaker 1: but we just have to just remember to keep setting
Speaker 1: the record straight. Like it also happened in some Republican
Speaker 1: states as well. There was outrage everywhere. The response to
Speaker 1: what watching somebody be murdered. It trickled down in a
Speaker 1: couple different places. So I just won't say.
Speaker 3: That, but go ahead, sorry, no, no, yes, yes, that's
Speaker 3: absolutely right. And then also you're right, there were a
Speaker 3: protests also happening internationally, you know, in the name of
Speaker 3: George Floyd as well.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Okay, Walls is also being being heavily criticized on the
Speaker 3: right for being soft on immigration for some people. For
Speaker 3: some voters, that is a deal breaker. He has, you know,
Speaker 3: advocated for them to get free universal health care as
Speaker 3: well as driver's licenses. I also read that he is
Speaker 3: a proponent of gender farming care for young people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and I mean if it's if Hey listen,
Speaker 1: governors elected officials, Uh, they do what the constituents tell
Speaker 1: him to do. And so apparently he's in the state
Speaker 1: that's pretty progressive that believe in gender firman care. They
Speaker 1: voted this man in. They said, it's one of the
Speaker 1: happiest places to live, according to the you know, to
Speaker 1: the record, and they're fine with that. The Republicans say,
Speaker 1: leave it to the states. That's what they decide in
Speaker 1: the states. I don't mean, what else can we say
Speaker 1: about that. If that's not something you want, then move
Speaker 1: to the Great State of Texas because the definitely because
Speaker 1: the governor of Texas definitely ain't going for moved to
Speaker 1: the Great State of Georgia because the governor MP definitely
Speaker 1: ain't going for This is why y'all talk about the
Speaker 1: states rights. So that's that, So okay, so Jay, we
Speaker 1: hey Democrats have a vice president of nominee. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see how this plays out. I think the honeymoon season honeymoon.
Speaker 1: They're still in honeymoon right now. Things stuff is gonna
Speaker 1: start getting a little a little more heavy in the
Speaker 1: weeks to come. Still ninety days of probably eighty nine now,
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at my time clock with eighty nine days. Now.
Speaker 1: At some point we need a debate at some point,
Speaker 1: I would agree.
Speaker 2: I know JD.
Speaker 1: Vans ran up on the tarmac today at once on
Speaker 1: Air Force two saying that VP Hairs is avoiding the
Speaker 1: cameras and in the basement like Joe Biden. So I
Speaker 1: think they need to, you know, need to address that.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and you know you've had a couple of rallies,
Speaker 1: but you needed to get you know, VP. They need
Speaker 1: to get. But they need to speed it up, like
Speaker 1: you got your candidates. Let's get it going. Let's set
Speaker 1: up some interviews, let's start doing someone on ones. Let's
Speaker 1: get the debate popping. You know, you can't just keep
Speaker 1: you know, I get it. You want to spread it
Speaker 1: out and get the shorter time the candidate has to
Speaker 1: run the better because it's less you know, less, I
Speaker 1: guess pushback or things. You got a debate and things
Speaker 1: you got to wear. But you can't just strength, you know,
Speaker 1: run this out with ninety high. So everybody gotta get
Speaker 1: into it. I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a hell of a race and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: So we'll continue to keep covering it right here on
Speaker 1: Straight Shot No Chaser and trying to keep up with things.
Speaker 1: But I'm really ready for that debate that's gonna be
Speaker 1: oh man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we shall see how they go. I'm really excited
Speaker 3: to see me p Kamila Harris's first interview or I
Speaker 3: would like to see her do some sit down interviews.
Speaker 1: Yep. I'm ready for her to sit down and get
Speaker 1: it in and you know, the media picks it apart
Speaker 1: and says what they like and didn't like and go
Speaker 1: from there. Meanwhile, people that are supporting BP hairs better
Speaker 1: get the knocking on those doors because as you can
Speaker 1: see with the campaign, you were just involved with every
Speaker 1: day matters knocking on doors. So we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: how it all get going. We'll keep covering it right
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Speaker 1: you know, as we keep covering this. I did have
Speaker 1: an interview with Governor Moore that went really well. I
Speaker 1: also had an interview with Representative Jasmine Crockett that went
Speaker 1: really well. We're getting ready to a town hall. I
Speaker 1: won't put that person's name out there yet until we
Speaker 1: get it confirmed, so that's to be pretty good. We
Speaker 1: got another debate coming up, another political versus coming up,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to the DNC, So a lot that's
Speaker 1: gonna be going down in the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and I hope you guys follow along. Follow me on
Speaker 1: Instagram as usual. Jay, Thank you so much for being
Speaker 1: my partner in this not just my partner in this podcast,
Speaker 1: but all things that I'm doing, because we're really doing
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm trying to do as much as I
Speaker 1: possibly can. I'm really enjoying doing local radio. I popped
Speaker 1: in with Atlanta last week's shout out to them, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know that I was recording for also Milwaukee, Orlando,
Speaker 1: and North Carolina, I believe. So when I was in
Speaker 1: there doing that one thing, he was like, Oh, do
Speaker 1: a drop for here? Do drop. It was very excited
Speaker 1: about Orlando because you know, this is my stomping ground,
Speaker 1: So very excited about them, Memphis doing radio there V
Speaker 1: one hundred tapping in with them for a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: you know, every Thursday, tapping in every now and then
Speaker 1: with DJ Quicksilva and Baltimore, you know, your area, and
Speaker 1: Detroit adding Detroit to the mix. So very very excited
Speaker 1: about just all things I'm doing. Girl, I'm just excited.
Speaker 1: And it would not be possible without you. I told
Speaker 1: Michelle that today, like, never minimize being a partner on
Speaker 1: a team. It is not We were talking about changing
Speaker 1: lives and what roles changed life, and I'm like, partnership
Speaker 1: and who you have on your team. Absolutely none of
Speaker 1: this would be possible, not be possible without you. And
Speaker 1: so I just can't tell you that enough. I tell
Speaker 1: it every week but I always just like, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you that because it's the truth.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tess.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, and keep going out there standing on business.
Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am, standing on business. I don't know what that
Speaker 1: means in the long end, but hopefully God is pleased.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all guys, And just so you guys know,
Speaker 1: every Thursday, there's always a guarantee we have content every
Speaker 1: single Thursday. This is a weekly show. We did add
Speaker 1: in we started doing Tuesdays and Thursdays, you know, just
Speaker 1: adding in some additional content, but it is definitely every Thursday.
Speaker 1: I travel a lot on the weekend, so it's been
Speaker 1: kind of hard Jay not to you know, get together
Speaker 1: to do Tuesday. But don't think I'm shortening you guys
Speaker 1: or anything like. I am actually responsible contractually with iHeart
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Speaker 1: The Tuesday was just a bonus that we were doing
Speaker 1: to try to get in as much as possible. But Jay,
Speaker 1: gonna keep me back on track. We're gonna get back
Speaker 1: on that. But just bear with me again. I've been
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