The Texan Podcast - Weekly Roundup - November 28, 2025

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

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Howdy folks? It's McHughrie. Amazing. Brad, you seriously drink straight. Um, we're gonna start again. Oh, we don't want... We should leave that in there. You know, we should leave it in.

Yeah. Guys, here's what happened. Welcome. Welcome, folks. for the Jackson's Weekly Roundup. This is Mackenzie here in Brad, Cameron to Mary Elise. This incredibly graceful entrance into this podcast is due both to my incompetence and Brad's complete, um, just he tries to derail the train from the tracks and he did well this time because how this goes, we're recording remotely. There's a countdown that shows up

on the screen and when it hits zero, I know to enter in. Brad leading up to the zero as it counted down five, four, three, two one was saying, what I don't even remember you were saying now, Brad. I'm that thrown off. You said... You don't know how countdowns work. Apparently, you don't. Well, then you spoke it into existence. I was being sarcastic initially. Not being able to say, howdy folks. So,

happy Thanksgiving, everyone from this incredibly polished team at the Texan, always ready to bring you the news as it happens. And again, the most polished, polished way. Thanks to Brad. It looks like Brad and Cameron at the Austin office.

Mary Lisa and I are remote. I'm in Arizona with my. family, a lot of extended family getting to meet our daughter for the first time, which is so fun. And we're just loving the great grandparents being around and making all sorts of food and having just a delightful little time. So it's wonderful. And my mom got her to nap in like 30 seconds. And I'm like, okay, I really need to up my game. I really need to up my game here because apparently my mother is still the baby whisper. But that's what's going on over here. Um, Cameron, how's, how's the Austin office?

And I also want team, tell us quickly before we get into the news, this is an abbreviated version of the podcast, but I do want to acknowledge the holiday. Tell us like a favorite Thanksgiving food or a Thanksgiving tradition that is something your family engages in. Well, the Austin office is great. Um, I didn't make any coffee this morning. Um, I did bring my own name. Yeah, yeah, because there was a big, I got it from, I got it from H.

H-E-B, their branded gas station, you know, the big one, the 24-ounce. Nice. Pecan-flavored, extra splendor. Favorite Thanksgiving tradition. Don't have many traditions. You know, I live in a, with a mixed family. Parents split when I was young, so there's always different traveling to different. homes and negotiating, but usually when I was living back in California, we would always do

the Sacramento turkey trot. And a couple years in a row I would dress up as a turkey because I had a turkey onesie that I would wear for this run. Wait, I've seen a picture of this. You have the smallest social media footprint of all time, but I've seen this. This exists. I don't know. It was a Slack profile picture, I think you made. Yeah. And it's fun at the beginning for maybe like the first two miles, but then you start sweating

and you quickly realize that running in a one-z is not the most aerodynamic or wicking fabric. So when you're- Reasonable? Yeah. So when you're done, you're just drenched in sweat. But it's fun. Yikes. Well, that's also something we were talking about in the call this morning was turkey trots, and I'd not, I've never been a turkey trot person, but I've married into a turkey trot family. So, yeah, delightful. Mary Lees, what about you? Well, I'm glad y'all brought up turkey trots because that is something I couldn't quite call out a tradition, but something that my family strives to do the morning of Thanksgiving together. Since we live out in the country, we can just kind of do a couple miles. Usually by the end, there's,

maybe two or three still running. But we enjoy just kind of walking on the road with our coffee, those of us that are a little bit less athletic. And it's pretty fun. You have more room for the turkey later in the day. Totally. I understand the point. I'm just getting used to it.

We did two turkey bowls. Like we'd go play football on Thanksgiving mornings, which was super. That was super fun. And it doesn't feel as much like a grind if you're playing football. It's pretty fun. Do you guys play two-hand-touch or do you play tackle? Oh, no, it was too in touch.

It was a wide age, age range of people. And, yeah, we didn't want the college-age boys knocking over, yeah, knocking over the old gals. So, you know, we've got to watch it, watch out there. We would always do our football game. Since I hail from the Holy Land of Football, Ohio, we would play our football game at halftime. of Michigan, Ohio State, the biggest rivalry in all the sports. But on Thanksgiving, we, of course, would always eat a bunch of food and then watch the NFL games on, including the Lions, which through most of my life, the Lions got awful. So it's nice seeing them possibly win a game on Thanksgiving this time around.

Amazing. Well, all good traditions, you guys. um happy thanksgiving to everyone happy thanksgiving to you all and i hope you get your fair share of um delicious sides and turkeys it'll be amazing and sourd or cornucopia's if you know you know okay well let's go ahead and hop in to the news here brad um where do things stand going into this thanksgiving week um on this redistricting case and let's also preface this with we're recording sufficiently before the holiday so this will go out friday and whatever news happens between now and then we'll update folks on next week.

But as of now, Monday, Brad, where do things stand? Seems like we just did our lengthy podcast on Friday, recently, which went out on Friday where we ran through all the nuances. So I'm not going to do that now. But there was an update on Friday evening. Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary stay of the panel's ruling, which means for the moment, the new congressional map is in place. that matters because we're currently in the filing period which ends on i believe

December 8th and so this thing's kind of going back and forth back and forth and now we wait and see what scotus says now first of all this was always going to go to scotus there was whichever way the district panel ruled this was going to get appealed straight to the Supreme Court and that's where we are now Republicans think Republicans have an advantage in terms of the court makeup but also the there's always the question about whether the court wants to overrule the lower court and so there's various competing factors here but given the fact that Alito did issue the stay which from what I understand normally requires from there normally requires excuse me three more justices

to sign on to make it permanent pending appeal. That seems to be a pretty good sign for the Republican side of things. For the Democratic side of things, they won in the lower court. So we'll find out which ways more. As far as the scenarios going forward, the court can uphold the ruling quickly, uphold the panel ruling, which would reinstate the 2021 maps as the map for 26. It could reverse the ruling quickly, which would affirm the basically decision to stay and then issue the new maps for next year.

They could also issue a permanent stay pending appeal, so not issue a final ruling on this yet, push the appeal back until the point in time I'm hearing about is possibly after Callais is ruled upon which is the Louisiana case that's ongoing that is that concerns the other part of the Voting Rights Act and so they could because this map deals with all of that they could push it back to them the other thing the other scenario potential scenario is some combination of the above while pushing the primary back and if we get get to that point. The question is, do they push all the primaries back? Do they just push

the congressional primaries back? Because those are the ones affected. Those are the maps with the maps that are a map that is in question. So there's a lot of a lot of variability, potential variability at play here. But the overall, I think Republicans are going into this feeling better than they were last week, certainly, after the ruling was issued. So lots of hypotheticals, lots of questions, we'll see where it all ends up, but a lot of different ways that this could go and we'll keep an eye on it. Bradley, thank you. Mary Lees, coming to you here. I have a second question. Oh, sorry. I don't know. It's Thanksgiving week. It's Thanksgiving week. I'm doing a really great job of hosting this podcast, and if any of you come from my job, you'll probably get it. So I'm putting your applications now.

Bradley, you know, I have a question for you. I don't know if you have time to answer it. Oh, you know, that's kind of why I wrote it out. I do have time to answer. Okay, yeah, this is just coming like straight to my head. I don't have any reason to ask you this question. Surely not reading off of a paper. No, definitely not writing off of a paper.

Whenever it reaches Scotis, what are the big talking points? Sticking points. Oh, my gosh. My gosh. My gosh. Okay. I'll take it from here. Don't worry, Mac.

So obviously we have the big theme so far has been the DOJ letters invocation of racial considerations versus the 2019 Rucho decision stating that partisan gerrymandering, partisan redistricting is a non-justiciable question. It's not up for the courts to decide between. We've seen some amicus briefs filed so far. One of the most interesting one of which I think is the DOJs, the Trump administration, where they basically downplay the DOJ letter's significance. You know, they write this letter, kind of trying to probe or prod Texas to redraw the map,

citing, quote, unconstitutional racial gerrymandering of the 2021 maps. But now they're in court saying, actually, we said this, but it wasn't determinative. It wasn't a directive. Well, it was a directive. The question is whether Republicans followed suit because of this. And there's various points of evidence to the contrary of that. The dissent from Jerry Smith actually elucidated quite a bit of that, going through the evidence of, you know, what districts remain the same.

For example, CD27, which is not one of the pickups, is still a co-op. coalition district so question is if the DOJ letter was determinative why did the Republicans in their new map keep a district that is quote illegally unconstitutionally racially gerrymandered so there's a lot of evidence both ways there the DOJ letter says what it says and I talked about last week how much of a self-owned that turned out to be for particularly administration but The court will have to pick one, you know, in making this decision, do they side with Jeff Brown that the DOJ letter was authoritative or do they side with Jerry Smith that Rucho is the operative question here above everything else? The next sticking point will be the credibility of Adam Kincaid.

He's the guy with the National Republican Redistricting Trust. He's the one that actually drew the map. And if you read through the dissent, you can actually read through a lot of his, His testimony that detailed how he drew the map. And I thought it was pretty interesting, you know, the different things he did to it and the way he responded to, you know, moving a line here and how that compensated. So just from an intriguing perspective, I thought that was interesting to read. But he's the one who drew the map.

He took the map and handed it to Todd Hunter. and that is an important set of testimony in determining whether this thing was drawn with racial considerations, right? So Jeff Brown didn't really, he just pretty much dismissed Kincaid's testimony. Jerry Smith, meanwhile, in his dissent, said that found that Kincaid was incredibly persuasive. So which way does the court go on that? Do they agree with Brown or they agree with Smith when we get to that point? And the last thing I'll mention is one of the ones I mentioned on Friday's podcast, which is the Purcell precedent, which is the idea that a court should not change the rules of an election close to the election.

So since we're budding up against the end of filing period, that may come in pretty big in one way or the other on this. Jeff Brown ruled and part of his ruling was about the Purcell precedent saying that this thing has come so far, so close to the filing deadline that we need to just go with the

map that we already have and let's not worry about this new one. Well, in the dissent Jerry Smith pointed out that we would have two weeks back had the corn break not happen and therefore two weeks further from the filing deadline.

So there's a lot of place still, and the court, who knows what the court will do, whether they decide to stick with their more ideological priors, which is probably in the form of Rucho, or do they decide to back the lower court ruling? I have no idea which way they're going to go. That was a great run out of the sticking points that just want to say. Thank you, Mac. You're welcome. Well, wouldn't you say it's been a recent trend with the Supreme Court? court that they've been favorable to the Trump administration and the Trump administration was encouraging this congressional redraw.

And so that could shed some light on how they might end up on their ruling here. And then also, they've been, again, a certain trend of ruling against these lower court rulings, you know, with the caveat many of those lower court rulings being these, quote, universal injunctions affecting the entire country, where is this lower court ruling only affects the Texas map? I don't know if that plays into your analysis and how you see this thing might shake out. I mean, I think the ideological makeup does favor the Republicans. But I think there are so many other factors at play that complicate it versus just a, are they friendly to the administration or not, right?

Like, redistricting law is so extensive. There's so much to consider. And also, let's not leave out the Kaleas factor that the court has a massive ruling to make on that. And maybe that is enough for them to punt on this and either require the 2021 maps to remain in place or allow the new map, the 25 map, to go in place for next year. And then we'll just... Because if Kaleas goes Republicans' way, then we're going to see probably another redraw.

And another redraw that doesn't just include the congressional maps. So maybe they have the inside information, knowledge on that, like how they think that's going to go. If they think that's going to go in the GOP's favor, then they're like, well, we're going to be here already, you know, All this stuff's going to get thrown out in the wash anyway, and we're going to be doing this again. So, yeah, there's stuff that's unknowable for us, far more than just friendliness to the White House. Yeah.

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but won't last long. Head to the texan.News to claim your 50% off annual subscription. Now back to the news. Mary Lisa, it's come to you. ICE announced a large amount of arrest recently. Give us those details. Yeah, they announced how many illegal aliens they had arrested during the federal government shutdown, which of course was record long shutdown. So they said that they arrested over 3,500. The exact number was 3593.

Whoa. Yes. Criminal illegal aliens. And this was in Houston. And so this was, they said during the shutdown and they made a point of kind of saying, you know, our agents weren't being paid during this time. And this is how many individuals were arrested. Some of the different charges that these individuals have been given include murder. There were several individuals who were arrested for child sexual assault and then other sexually related offenses and then 23 different gang members.

This is from a press release that ICE put out on Tuesday, last Tuesday. And this is sort of representative of how the Trump administration has been saying they're going to be going after the criminal illegal aliens first in terms of this mass deportation effort that they're trying to institute, right? Yeah, and I think that's kind of one of the reasons they're highlighting this is showing, you know, we're look at these individuals with these different. alarming charges or some of them convictions and yeah i mean some of their they have a publication that they'll put out i think it's every week where they'll do worst or the worst that they captured that week and they're saying worse to the worst because they're saying that these are individuals who have committed the worst of the worst crimes and they'll usually include like sexual assault with a child or murder you know some of the worst crimes you might think of

And Houston has been one of the top locations for these arrests and these operations. It was with this one, and we've talked about a couple of times on the podcast, but Houston is almost always in their worst of the worst releases. Houston is almost always, at least one of the cities listed as being a location for a couple different arrests of individuals who have been charged with different crimes. I mean, there was another large operation that we talked about before that was made in Houston, and that was during the government shutdown as well, so that was factored into this. But it was 1,500 criminal legal aliens that were captured in Houston over the span of 10 days, so it's from October 22nd to October 31. And there were 13 different sexual predators is how they described them,

and then 17 documented gang members. So the numbers are relatively high there. One of them was an alleged Mexican mafia gang member, and he had some really disturbing convictions, one of which was sexual assault against his minor sister, and he's also wanted in Honduras for murder. So there's a reason they put worse to the worst at the top of these releases. But one of the individuals, and this was the case for several of them,

this is one of the individuals that they highlighted, has been deported several times previously. this individual from Mexico had been deported five times, and he's been convicted of, they called it, continuous violence against his family members, making terroristic threats, resisting arrest, and then possession of a controlled substance on four different occasions. So there's quite a number of different charges, and some of them are convictions that we laid out in this article, but again, just a very large number of criminal legal aliens, over 3,500 arrested during the government shut down so i i'm sorry it i don't know if you've mentioned before but is there a total number of deportations so far that the trump administration has put out i'm sure there is a number that's out right now i'm not up to date on what it is but i would imagine i believe i've seen that before in either the dhs website or the white house or at least an estimation of how many deportations have happened okay yeah wild

I encourage folks to make sure to get up-to-date info for Mary Lisa's coverage at the texan. Dot news. Cameron, another big story in the news this week, and it's kind of just snowballed into multiple, multiple iterations, but over the past week, the governor's taken a very aggressive stance against some Islamic groups in the state. Give us the rundown. That is right. On November 18th, Governor Greg Abbott moved to designate the Muslim Brotherhood and

care, which stands for the councilman. on American Islamic relations as foreign terrorist organizations. And using provisions under the Texas Penal Code, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, and the Texas Property Code, with this proclamation, both the Muslim Brotherhood and Care will be unable to acquire land in Texas, and also this proclamation grants authority to the Office of the Attorney General to enforce legal. penalties against them if they attempt to. While on the same day that proclamation was issued, there was a letter from care that was sent to the governor that contended that, quote, the real reason

the designation was issued was because of the organization's, quote, steadfast advocacy for Palestinian rights. They also filed a lawsuit alongside side another organization, the Muslim Legal Fund of America, where they argue the proclamation mischaracterizes care as a Hamas front and it, quote, identifies no criminal conduct committed by care. And what's interesting is as this proclamation was put out, there was, and prior to the lawsuit being filed, there was a statement that there was. was preparations for a lawsuit to be filed, and Governor Gray Abbott welcomed it. And he said that

the Attorney General will have a heyday, is what he wrote, because due to a lawsuit, it would open up care to discovery and allow them to look at their financial transactions. That's important because there was additional actions taken by the governor, one of them being a call for investigations into, quote, Sharia law. He identified entities in Kahn and Dallas counties that, quote, may be masquerading as legal courts staffed with judges issuing orders that purportedly carry the authority to bind individuals to Islamic codes, thereby preempting state and federal laws. And he specifically identified the Islamic Tribunal in Dallas, and people are interested.

interested in checking out our coverage on that. I go onto the website and pull out some of the quotes and things that this Islamic Tribunal actually does in regards to managing the affairs of people who go to them for counsel. So if people are interested, they can check that out at the texan dot news. But in addition to all those things I just mentioned, Abbott also directed Texas DPS to launch criminal investigations into care and into the Muslim Brotherhood. He sent a letter directly to DPS Director Freeman Martin, where he alleges that both the Muslim Brotherhood and care, quote, support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment, and are unacceptable and have no place in Texas.

So, like you mentioned in the lead-in to this topic, it's been a snowball of different actions taken by the governor. There's been lots of reactions online to what the governor is doing here in the state in regards to taking a more aggressive stance towards these Muslim organizations and the alleged uses of Sharia law at some of these entities. So we'll be interesting to see what the fallout is if the investigations by DPS, actually come up with anything, or if the enforcement mechanism that the governor is attempting to use here is upheld in the courts. So there's lots still to come. Cameron, thank you. As you said, lots still to come. This is just an evolving story. I feel like each day. So definitely also go check out Cameron's coverage. This is like multiple iterations, all sorts of stuff to go read and get up to date on. Mary Lee's, let's talk about,

several suspected gang members you got quite quite a beat those these last couple weeks here mary lees um i mean multiple different stories about this but especially this podcast and other illegal aliens arrested any a recent operation give us those details yeah this is kind of on the same topic here in arrest um in operation where there it resulted in the arrests of over 150 illegal aliens in san Antonio, and 27 of those are suspected at Trende-D-Ragua gang members, TDA gang members, which is, of course, recognized both in the state and then federally as a foreign terrorist organization. So this was an operation that happened on November 16th in San Antonio, and law enforcement

rated this after-hours. They called it an illicit nightclub in San Antonio, and they said that they had intelligence that indicated that it's frequently attended by TDA members and other illegal aliens, which is how they were able to arrest 27 of these potential members of the gang. Some of the individuals that were arrested are under investigation for human smuggling, cocaine trafficking, and other felonies. He's some bad boys. Yes, yes.

Among the members is one individual from Venezuela. And, of course, the gang is a Venezuelan gang. So this is a Venezuelan national, and he's been convicted of larceny. There's another individual with different forms of theft on his criminal history. And it took a couple, well, it took several agencies working together to do this operation. They said there were 14 state, local, and federal agencies that collaborated to arrest these individuals involved the agencies you probably think of in a case like this. the DHS Homeland Security Investigations, and then, of course, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE was involved as well. And they kind of highlighted in this case as well in this operation,

saying, you know, our agents have been facing increased attacks. As we've spoken about, Cameron has covered different attacks on ice facilities. So they said, you know, we've been facing attacks and we went through the government shut down, but they kind of were. focusing on that point that we've kept operating and that we were able to get these gang members, these recognized as a foreign terrorist organization, members of this. I believe it was in September 2024, the governor Abbott declared them a foreign terrorist organization in Texas. And then it was about a day after President Trump took office that he signed an executive order that declared all cartels and a couple different gangs

including TDA as foreign terrorist organizations, so kind of allowing more resources to go towards tracking them down, getting them out of the country. So since then, when we've seen several operations involving TDA gang members, which I highlight in the piece, you can go check that out for more info. Well, in this- Thank you. Go for it. Go for it, Cam. Well, I was just going to say this story is really interesting because of the geopolitical impacts it could potentially have, because as the Trump administration has floated over the past few weeks about committing military operations or CIA operations in Venezuela, with the ramping up of the focus on TDA, them being affiliated with Venezuela, that could provide justification since they are

designated as a foreign terrorist organization. If they're working in concert with the Venezuelan government, you can see how these justifications are being put in play over the preceding months to provide the justification for the Trump administration to commit those sorts of actions inside Venezuela so lots of geopolitical implications to the story yes exactly absolutely Cameron thank you I also like you know Cameron's in the zone when that's in that position he's in yeah Somebody in all the brainpower, he can.

Literally. Literally. It's just coming out of his ears. Thank you both. Bradley, quickly before we move to the tweeter section, let's talk about an interview that we, or not an interview, a smoke-filled room podcast episode, that kind of masqueraded as an interview that you took care of this week.

You're muted. Bradley. It's my turn to help you for a poor podcast etiquette. I got too excited to, make a snide remark at you. I can tell because your face showed it, and I'm so thankful that this is what happened. Yes, it was, it didn't just masquerade as an interview. It is an interview, though I would say more jocular than most.

It was good. I enjoyed it. We had Luke Warford, former Democratic candidate for office, now inoperative, full-time, and got his perspective, the more democratic perspective on things right now. And the last few smoke-filled rooms, we've had more right-of-center people on. But this was left-of-center, and I thought it was Luke's an interesting guy. He's got, he's well-thought-out and got a lot of good thoughts that I think people will find interesting on what's happened to this point and what we should look at next year.

um so check it out about an hour long and uh chock full of good stuff i think talk full love it more jocular than most let's move on to the twittery section um cameron why don't we start with you um for some reason people have been posting and reposting clips of tucker carlson's appearance on dancing with the stars I'll just say the the video is hilarious because there's points where Tucker is wearing like a blue sequenced like shirt and like posing in it and like doing weird dances and trying to learn the cha cha it's just funny I don't know it's not really related to anything politics even you know Texas politics or anything it's just a funny clip I came across. well and that's just i've seen a lot of those resurfacing to you well i was going to say that's just the risk of being a commentator like that if um you know you're so much in the public eye people just dig up your past and i'm sure tucker is really enjoying that well i'd much rather it'd be

my appearance on dancing with the stars than anything you know i want buried in my past don't want it brought up again. Dancing with the Stars is, is it still popular? Do people still watch it? I'm so glad you asked, Cameron. Oh, gosh. Yes. I'm so glad you asked. It is, it is a show. I feel like so many people grew, like I grew up watching it and then took a huge break and just didn't care about it. It has, in the last two years, it has had this incredible resurgence in popularity. It is, it's one of the top watched shows on television right now, which is crazy. Yeah. super crazy um and it's basically all my four you pages is dancing with the stars which i think is hilarious and i'm kind of scoffed at first and i'm absolutely eating it up i'm in like very invested

in the season of dancing at the stars so yeah you know it's it's incredibly popular again i was never someone to sit down and watch dancing with the stars but that was dancing with the stars is part of this larger like reality show competition style of show that popped up maybe like a decade ago like there was america's got talent there was last comedian standing there was american idol like those types of shows were like super popular and then they sort of died down so i'm really glad to hear uh dancing with stars this having to come back yeah i could write a dissertation about why i think gets had a resurgence over shows like America's Got Talent and things like that. We'll say that for another, well, we probably won't say it for another episode.

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Mary Lisa, what are you got? Oh, this is a good one. Oh, this has been so interesting to watch and fold online. X rolled out this new feature where you can see where which country that accounts are based in. It's been entertaining for a number of reasons. There's been a couple very big accounts exposed for operating out of places that you wouldn't have imagined and allow people to Google that. But some of them have been funny, just different political influencers where you find out that they live in what was one. And someone lives in just countries that are not remotely anywhere near the United States,

different individuals where they'll be talking about Trump and they'll be, you know, a couple of MAGA accounts and they're talking about what America needs to do, et cetera. And then people will be in the comments is pretty funny saying, well, you're actually not from here. So you don't have to weigh in. But it's been entertaining to say the least to see everybody's. I need a current revolt story. on this cataloging how many of the library bots are actually located here in america i need tony

to get on that that's an interesting idea oh bradley and muted i thought he was going to say something i totally i'm reading this podcast so like so poorly thanksgiving edition bradley why don't you share your your your tweet are you with us uh So I broke some massive news over the weekend while I was at my final Little League game of the season. The Shamwow guy is running for Congress in Texas. His name is Vince Shlomi, which I didn't know until I saw his filing. But he literally has, on his filing, Vince, quote, shamwow, Shlomi. So he will be running as the shamwows.

It's amazing. As, in addition to this, interesting twist, it was discovered that he filmed a music video and it was called the wokebusters, Ghostbusters theme song only changed to wokeist language. And it is quite a production. You can see it on YouTube. Go watch it. It also has a cameo from one of his now opponents, Valentina Gomez. Yeah.

And that race is shaping up to be one of the weirdest of the cycle, that Congressional District 31 race. So, yeah, everyone go vote for the sham wow guy, I guess. I mean, we'll see if he has any interesting, interesting, uh, Brad's first endorsement on the podcast. I was going to say, that's, that's, that's a wild, it's a ringing endorsement ending in, I guess. Rather, you're really going to watch it. You can't, can't be out there endorsing candidates.

You know better than that. And you're right. My bad. Yeah, watch it. Um, well, folks. We need a sham wow to clean up this podcast. Yeah. I was just going to say, and we briefly mentioned it, Cameron made sure to mention it.

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Thanks for dealing with my ineptitude. No, tweet a refute. No. Oh, okay. We're already past time, so I'm trying to speed it up a little. All right. Yeah. Let me think.

I feel like I had plenty of, my Nancy with the Stars commentary. You kind of, you know, loop that in there. Yeah. Yeah. Robert Irwin's on this year, and he's, you know, so fun. Who's that? And Steve Irwin's son. Oh.

Crockettile Hunter. They're really getting the top tier stars for this. It sounds like. Actually, Cameron, he got an absolutely insane social media following. It's kind of, it's kind of wild, yeah. He does the same sort of thing? It's kind of wild. He does, yeah.

Okay. He does. So, wild. Wholesome content. It's very wholesome. He's a content creator like me. Just like you. Yep.

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