Hosted by LXI Studio · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 88 episodes
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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
LXI Studio hosts Pardon the Politics, a news show with 88 episodes published.
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 wha
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
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
Send us a message!!! The Chairman of Chaos and Manny held it down this week, and this one covers alot. RECONCILIATION 2.0 | The Senate passed a $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding bill at 4:47 AM after an 18-hour V
Send us a message!!! Trump Caught an L in Every Room: The Heritage Foundation says 1,055 out of 1,913 Project 2025 recommendations have been put in place, and they’re giving Donald Trump the credit. That means 55% of the
Send us a message!!! We sat down with Tamika Walker Kelly, the six-year President of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), the state’s largest professional organization for public school employees. Tamika i
Send us a message!!! Season 3, Episode 21. The chaos was in a crockpot this week, and it came out fully cooked. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are back to break down one of the most brazen moves in recent political memory: Trum
Send us a message!!! They said it was a quiet week. They were wrong. This week, Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck break down three of the biggest stories shaping America right now: TRUMP IN CHINA: Donnie T touches down in Beijing
Send us a message!!! It's Mother's Day weekend, but Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are still on the job. Season 3, Episode 19 of Pardon the Politics starts with the guys giving a salute to moms and mother figures everywhere, ma
Send us a message!!! Season 3, Episode 18 opens where it needed to: with North Carolina's teachers. This past week, thousands marched on Raleigh in the biggest public education demonstration in state history, and the rea
Send us a message!!! We were 30 minutes from recording when the text came in: "they shootin'." Saturday night, someone took a shotgun to the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. One Secret Ser
Send us a message!!! Jeezy and Manny are holding it down this week for what might be Season 3’s most spiritually grounded episode yet. This week: Trump declared war on Pope Leo XIV, calling him "weak on crime and terribl
Send us a message!!! The 21-hour Iran peace talks in Pakistan just collapsed, and before the news could even settle, Trump posted a Truth Social declaring a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. "Effective immedia
Send us a message!!! Pam Bondi is out, Todd Blanche is burying Epstein, and Trump's already threatening Iran's power plants on Easter Sunday. Season 3, Episode 14 breaks down the second cabinet firing, Day 37 of Operatio
Send us a message!!! Chuck and Manny hold it down without Jeezy, and the world did not slow down to be polite about it. Day 44 of the longest DHS shutdown in U.S. history, Trump's legally shaky presidential memorandum to
Send us a message!!! Episode 75. Manny's back. The boys are back. And the world was not waiting. Mullin's confirmation hearing gave Rand Paul the confrontation he'd been holding for years. The Iran war hit a new threshol
Send us a message!!! Manny's sick. The war isn't. Jeezy and Chuck come in two-handed this week and don't slow down. Week three of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war and they're asking the question everyone's dancing around: how de
Send us a message!!! Some weeks, you watch the news and nod. This was not one of those weeks. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are back, barely rested from the time change, and the week handed them more than they bargained for. P
Send us a message!!! The bombs have dropped. The Supreme Leader is dead. And Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are breaking down the most significant geopolitical event since the Iraq War in real time, unfiltered, and without the
Send us a message!!! Team USA brought home hockey gold, but back in Washington, it was the Supreme Court delivering the real overtime shocker. This week on Pardon the Politics, the crew breaks down the 6–3 SCOTUS ruling
Jeezy
Rap star
2 appearances on this show
Manny
Senior UX Designer · Skretas Family Cymbal Company
1 appearance on this show
Chuck
pastor · Tri County Contracting
2 appearances on this show
Xi Jinping
President of China · none
1 appearance on this show
Donald Trump
presidential debate participant · United States
1 appearance on this show
Melania
former First Lady
1 appearance on this show
Antonio
triathlete, run club leader, Puma muse · Silver Screen Club
1 appearance on this show
Tulsi Gabbard
United States Director of National Intelligence · Director of National Intelligence
1 appearance on this show
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