#BecauseMiami: Delulu

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: #BecauseMiami: Delulu
Release Date: November 22, 2024

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Overview

In the episode titled "#BecauseMiami: Delulu," hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz delve deep into the tumultuous political landscape surrounding immigration policies, the impending administration changes, and the pervasive corruption issues plaguing Miami. The discussion is enriched by insightful commentary from guest John Morgan, a renowned Florida attorney and Democratic fundraiser, as well as American Citizen radio personality and comedian Britney Brave.

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Immigration Concerns and Future Policies

Fear of Mass Deportations

A significant portion of the episode centers on the anxiety within the South Florida immigrant community regarding the incoming Trump administration's promises of mass deportations and denaturalization efforts. Kat, an immigration attorney, provides a sobering perspective on the real fears of her clients.

Kat [38:35]: "Everybody's just panicked. And that's exactly what this administration wants."

Policy Implementation and Legal Challenges

The hosts discuss the complexities of implementing mass deportations, highlighting the legal hurdles that could impede immediate action. Kat emphasizes the stringent requirements for denaturalization, noting:

Kat [47:38]: "They have to prove that... when people apply to naturalize, [they] amount to material fraud."

Impact on Specific Communities

Billy Corben raises concerns about the economic and social ramifications of deporting individuals involved in critical sectors like agriculture and janitorial services.

Billy Corben [40:22]: "We have a lot of people who have been convicted of Medicare fraud... naturalized... Maybe Joe Biden would have won Pennsylvania."

Political Commentary and Election Analysis

Critique of Democratic Strategies

John Morgan provides a critical analysis of the Democratic Party's strategy during the recent election, questioning the choice of Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee and the lack of a broader primary process.

John Morgan [20:16]: "I didn't think that she would resonate to break through... independently elected."

Shift Towards Capitalism

Morgan advocates for a shift away from traditional party lines, suggesting the formation of a new capitalist-focused party to address the nation's challenges.

John Morgan [32:02]: "We are the capitalists. We believe in capitalism, and we also believe in taking care of those who can't take care of themselves."

Election Outcomes and Future Implications

The discussion highlights the surprising election results, with Kamala Harris securing a significant number of popular votes, yet many perceiving her candidacy as antithetical to Democratic values.

Billy Corben [25:28]: "I think this election was more about woke transgender swimmers and defund the police than it was about inflation in the war in Ukraine."

Corruption in Miami and Law Enforcement Issues

Golden Age of Corruption

Billy Corben laments the current state of corruption in Miami, drawing parallels to previous eras where law enforcement effectively prosecuted corrupt officials.

Billy Corben [55:09]: "We're in the golden age of corruption. The Miami Mafia is undefeated."

Lack of Accountability

The hosts criticize the recent legal outcomes where corruption charges against officials were dropped, indicating a breakdown in the checks and balances that previously held officials accountable.

Billy Corben [56:28]: "The lack of accountability is the major difference now... They just acknowledge that they're corrupt."

Upcoming Shows and Event Announcements

Live Show in Miami

Dan Le Batard announces his upcoming live show at the Adrienne Arch Center for Performing Arts, marking his first performance at the venue and his farewell show before relocating to New York City.

Dan Le Batard [07:00]: "I'm headlining the Adrien Arch Center for Performing Arts... it's a farewell show because I am moving back to New York City January 1st."

Britney Brave's Performance

Britney Brave is introduced as a special guest, bringing her comedic talents to the live audience.

Billy Corben [51:16]: "Catch Britney Brave if you're in town. For all the hilarity, this weekend, Saturday, one night only."

Final Remarks

The episode concludes with a blend of humor and stark political commentary, reflecting the show's signature style of tackling serious issues with levity. The hosts encourage listeners to stay informed and vigilant amidst the rapidly changing political climate.

Dan Le Batard [59:37]: "This is a reality show. If you're a criminal at this point, one of two things is happening. You're getting deported or you're going to join the administration."

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Notable Quotes:

• Kat [38:35]: "Everybody's just panicked. And that's exactly what this administration wants."
• John Morgan [20:16]: "I didn't think that she would resonate to break through... independently elected."
• Billy Corben [55:09]: "We're in the golden age of corruption. The Miami Mafia is undefeated."
• Dan Le Batard [59:37]: "This is a reality show. If you're a criminal at this point, one of two things is happening. You're getting deported or you're going to join the administration."

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This episode serves as a critical examination of the intersection between local Miami issues and national political trends, providing listeners with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and uncertainties facing the community.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy Corben]

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[Kat]

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[Kat]

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[Billy Corben]

They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime.

[John Morgan]

They're rapists.

[Billy Corben]

I don't know if you call them people.

[John Morgan]

In some cases, they're not people. These are animals.

[Billy Corben]

Okay.

[John Morgan]

Yo, DJ T, let's kick em. Showtime.

[Billy Corben]

We're Ice, Ice Baby. La Migra. Ice, Ice baby.

[John Morgan]

All right, stop.

[Billy Corben]

Put up your hands and listen.

[John Morgan]

Ice is back to stick you in detention. Trump mans Day one and you bastards.

[Billy Corben]

Sweeping South Florida like a natural disaster.

[John Morgan]

Will it ever stop, yo?

[Billy Corben]

Hell no.

[John Morgan]

You voted for this.

[Billy Corben]

Now you could go to the extreme we're shoving guns in your faces. Should have thought twice before you weren't.

[John Morgan]

Born Caucasian dads we're celebrating your doom.

[Billy Corben]

Taking your kids and separating them from.

[John Morgan]

You cages that's where where we're gonna stuff em right after we print and cuff em.

[Billy Corben]

Love it or leave it it's time to go away we're not around in this ethno state. If you got real problems we'll ignore.

[John Morgan]

Em We're Immigration and Customs Enforcement Ice, ice baby La migra Ice, ice baby now back with the homie Tom homie, it's time to get that new trailer.

[Billy Corben]

Tears up flowing Throwing mom and dad face down on the concrete Killing your dreams like you live on Elm street.

[John Morgan]

No hope gonna send you all back.

[Billy Corben]

You better make sure all your bags.

[John Morgan]

Are pa if you got dignity, we'll.

[Billy Corben]

Ignore it wear Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Ice, ice baby Lonely cry Ice, ice.

[John Morgan]

Baby yo man, get him out of here.

[Billy Corben]

Word to the furor.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ice, ice baby.

[Billy Corben]

Well, well, well.

[Dan Le Batard]

I smell a Grammy.

[Billy Corben]

It's been, it's been. Did he do a Ninja Turtles rap as well? We should do that. Go ninja Go ninja Go ninja go. Except for not saying FBI, open up. Ay yos mio. So this is what happens. You give us a couple weeks off on because Miami and we come back guns a blazing. So on today's show we will be talking to a veteran South Florida immigration attorney because there's a lot of confusion about who about who of our friends is going to be going adios. We'll also be talking to John Morgan, the legendary Florida attorney and a major duty Democratic fundraiser and donor about how the Democrats could up a two car funeral. In the meantime, joining me live in studio is American Citizen radio. Radio personality, podcaster, comedian and future handmaiden. Please welcome baby machine Britney Brave.

[Dan Le Batard]

And then I even did the iud, which I hated that thing, the little metal thing they put in your uterus and it's how the Supreme Court tracks you.

[Billy Corben]

So no.

[Dan Le Batard]

Couldn't go to the beach in Miami without an old man coming by with a metal detector. He was like, be oye mommy. I was like, hey, it's not a poppy. You know. He was looking for gold. But all I had was copper. Hi Billy.

[Billy Corben]

Hi Britney. Hi. What the hell are you doing here?

[Dan Le Batard]

I am here to hang out with you and commiserate about our terrible nation.

[Billy Corben]

And oh you know what? You women just you women always bitching about something. Always with the nagging and the whining and the bitching and the talking and.

[Dan Le Batard]

The wanting Fundamental rights.

[Billy Corben]

Hang on, hang on. White man talking. White man talking. Please say that now.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you're mean to tell me that I can't role play with my Hispanic boyfriends and be like, deport me, puppy?

[Billy Corben]

Well, I don't. I don't. I don't think you're gonna have that problem. I think you might. Your boyfriend may. May have that problem.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know, but that was part of it. That was the role reversal. I was like, you be the IM Immigration officer and I be the Trump worshiping Cuban citizen. Cuban. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Actually, moving forward, when I. When I do hook up with straight men, all of my. Wait, if and when. Yes, you have questions.

[Billy Corben]

No, no, you keep. You keep unpeeling the onion. I'll go back later.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, well, I'm saying that I don't know if I'm going to be able or strong enough to engage in the 4B movement, which is complete abstinence, but I will, moving forward, enforce that all straight men. The dirty talk in the bedroom needs to be historical and empowering for women. I don't want to be called baby or bitch or any. I want to be called Ruth Bader Ginsburg, my lady. I want you to pull my hair and being. Call me Hillary Clinton and demand I show you the emails like, you know what I mean? Jesus Christ, smack my ass and call me Nancy Pelosi. Okay, I'm sorry.

[Billy Corben]

I feel. I feel like we're getting a little sneak preview of the show this weekend. You have a show this weekend? Is that why you're in Miami?

[Dan Le Batard]

I forgot. My biggest show in Miami ever. Yes. I am headlining the Adrian Arch center for Performing Arts. The first comedian to do it. A woman in Trump's America. I know. Is it up? But yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Can we still call it the Adrian Arch Center? I mean, we're gonna put a woman's name on the building. I know. She wrote a check. One check for $30 million, by the way. Adrienne Arch did. But name it after Corollo.

[John Morgan]

Little Billy Corbin maybe called a Little Billy Corbin Center.

[Billy Corben]

How about the Little Billy Corbin Center?

[Dan Le Batard]

That sounded like John Morgan. That's hilarious.

[John Morgan]

This is your little Twitter account.

[Billy Corben]

Little Billy. Sweet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Seriously, I don't know what you're doing here because as the mayor would say, in Miami, we are definitely not woke.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, everyone's pronoun is bro in Miami, everybody's.

[Billy Corben]

By the way, by the way, this is because Miami has gone way unwoke now. I hope you're aware of that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, yeah. Have you really?

[Billy Corben]

This is a Minefield of misogyny and racism and jingoism.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

And. Yeah, like, that's just the way it's gonna be from now on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I feel comfortable because I've been dealing with that since birth, so at least throw me something that feels familiar. Am I right? Okay. But, yes, I'm at the Arch center this Saturday, November 23rd. First comedian to do it.

[Billy Corben]

Is that right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. First local comedian. At least they don't really do a lot of standup. And they. They reached out to me because I pretty sure all the.

[Billy Corben]

You're the first local comedian to do Adrienne Arch.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. To headline.

[Billy Corben]

Is that allowed?

[Dan Le Batard]

Is that for you to.

[Billy Corben]

For you to do Adrian Arch?

[Dan Le Batard]

Actually, after the election results, they tried to revoke the weekend, but I said, I got too much invested in this. I will be checking voter registration at the door. No, I kid. Yeah. It's this Saturday, and it's a farewell show because I am moving back to New York City January 1st, because I gotta go somewhere where we can be gay. And the cream pies are reversible.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Le Batard]

And people are smart and literate.

[Billy Corben]

Reversible.

[Dan Le Batard]

Common sense.

[Billy Corben]

Reversible. Cream Pies is my new band.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's actually what Eric Adams platform was for a moment. No, I'm kidding. Reversible cream pies actually sounds like somebody that would. That would headline Coachella. That sounds like a band that would headline Coachella.

[Billy Corben]

Can you imagine that? Like, we live in a world in which. In which Eric Adams got indicted before Francis Suarez. Like, how is that even possible?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's. Well, I think, you know, three Americas, actually.

[Billy Corben]

Well, three Americas, yeah. Well, first, he's a Democrat. Second, and I haven't been able to confirm this. I heard he's black.

[Kat]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

I think that might be why we were able to indict him earlier.

[Billy Corben]

Is that true? I just want to let everybody know I have a few black friends. I mean, so is that. Is that why he won. Is that why he won the race to indictment? Because it strikes me that they've done basically the same things. Like, they're essentially like, the same guy. I think Francis Suarez has a lot more outside employment and employers. But I don't really understand Street Team, how that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, street team. Yeah. Yeah, they put. Yeah, it's. I do think that that was his advantage, was being a black man. That's where the indictment came in a lot quicker.

[Billy Corben]

Is that how he found himself in handcuffs before. Before anybody else?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that'll do it. I don't know if you. You forget this about yourself, Billy, but when you're white, like, you could do whatever you want, and it's for. No, by God.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, no, by. I have not forgotten that. Yeah, I have not forgotten that. In fact, I've embraced that wholeheartedly. I mean, honestly, getting a tax cut and some of y'all deported. I mean, that's what I won this election. Don't worry about getting a ticket. Small.

[Dan Le Batard]

Amazing. Don't have to worry about your safety when you walk down the street at night.

[Billy Corben]

That's entirely true in this town.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is true.

[Billy Corben]

But I would. I would say that everything's coming up Milhouse, as far as this election is concerned for me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it's nice to know that everybody around me hates women. Been really comforting everybody in this country.

[Billy Corben]

It's not everybody around you, but it's mostly everybody. It's certainly over 53% of the women around you is what I would say. Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

And they also. They also were very dead in the eyes as well, too.

[Billy Corben]

Internalized misogyny going on, I think.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Big time.

[Billy Corben]

What are you most looking forward to? We asked this question of Uncle Luke last. Last show because everybody's. Oh, glass half empty. Glass half cream pie half empty, you know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, that's still not as reversible. Go on. I'm sorry. Not to get into my question.

[Billy Corben]

So what are you looking forward to from the next four years of American history? I'm just glad that didn't come out the other end. It did.

[Dan Le Batard]

It did, Roy. We need to clean up.

[Billy Corben]

Janitor for that.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what I'm looking forward. You know what I'm most looking forward to? I was actually thinking about this, and this is the one upside to this election. I think we have a sound reason to refuse to ever engage in a group photo ever again. I'm not sitting in there.

[Billy Corben]

What does that mean?

[Dan Le Batard]

Because I can't take photos and be associated with people. I can't be standing next to people that voted my rights away. And I hate group photos. I hate group photos. I think they're cheesy. After a comedy show, after an event, after a wedding, after a funeral, after an orgy, it's like, what do we need this for? You know, after, like, riding Tower of Terror at Universal Studios. So I've always hated group photos, and now I have a reason for not engaging and for refusing them. I can say I don't know who the I'm standing next to, and I don't want people to assume I associate with them. Yeah, I said it.

[Billy Corben]

Statistically speaking, Though you are going to be walking around even in New York, by the way, walking around among people who, as you say, voted your rights away. What are you going to do about that? It's like almost, I don't know where the popular vote count is now. It's almost, what, 49 point something percent of the country. So the thing is, I could just.

[Dan Le Batard]

Be myself more in New York. So even if I'm walking around people that didn't vote the way that I wanted them to, I can yell, I'm having a gay abortion with Joe Biden. And the way to get rid of it is the vaccine. And they're like, God, New York comedy is amazing. Like, it's just so. And it worse comes to worse, if I, if I hate my life in New York, it's only a matter of time before a random man comes by and punches me in the face. I hope they bring that back. Take me out of my misery.

[Billy Corben]

I would think, I would think that anybody in this country, 100% of the country would respect and admire Joe Biden. Impregnating you at that age, being able to get it up.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro did that though, right? Robert De Niro just like knocked somebody up.

[Kat]

Al Pacino.

[Dan Le Batard]

Al Pacino. That's who it is. I get my racist Italian uncles confused.

[Billy Corben]

Wait, who said.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm just kidding.

[Billy Corben]

Who said they're racist?

[Dan Le Batard]

They're Italian. My uncle literally said the other day, and he thought he was being so woke and progressive when he said this about immigration. He goes, well, you know, you can't, you can't deport everybody. It's like, who's going to clean my house? That's my uncle. His name is Vito.

[Billy Corben]

No, those are the black jobs that.

[John Morgan]

Trump was talking about.

[Billy Corben]

That's going to, that's going to be problematic, by the way. There's no doubt about it. The impact that immigration or mass deportations will have on the economy will have on people's help. One thing we'll have is fewer fire alarms in the middle of podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think we just got, I think.

[Billy Corben]

We got too woke and I think immigrants are. Keep pulling the fire alarm is what I think is happening. We can say that now. Peloton has what you need to keep you on track to your goals, no matter what season of life you're in. Friends, we're all different. We have different schedules, we have different needs. Some of us are injured, recovering from stuff. Some of us are young parents, young ish parents. We just don't have the time we're at different fitness levels. That's why Peloton's perfect for you. You can challenge yourself anywhere with Peloton's all access membership. You can work out where you need to, like at home, on your bike, tread or row. Or you can take your favorite classes to go and take them at the gym with the app. No need for a personal trainer. You got Peloton. And Peloton is perfect for mindful moments during the sports season. Your favorite team just lost. You don't know what to do. Hey, guess what? Take a breather, lay down and take a mindful meditation class on Peloton.

[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

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[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

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[John Morgan]

With [e-mail] Harris brings a lot of great things to the table. Women. She'd be the best speaker on abortion, but is she the best messenger? Is she the best person? And for me, I don't think so. You know, every year people gather to play fantasy basketball or fantasy football or whatever. And we were playing fantasy basketball. We would pick in one second, all of us, probably LeBron James. Well, we have that type of opportunity, but they seem to be squandering it by taking a lesser pick. And I don't like, who's your party's LeBron James then, John? Who would match that? Well, there's probably LeBron James is retired. His name was Barack Obama. So that was our LeBron James, and Bill Clinton was our Michael Jordan. Those are once in a generation players. But there are people like Andy Beshear from Kentucky, Shapiro from Pennsylvania, Kelly from Arizona, Whitmer, and even, you know, Michelle Obama, if somebody wanted to see if she's up for it.

[Billy Corben]

Sports had to come with the sports metaphor there, Roy. Who's the James Harden? We're gonna. We're gonna.

[Dan Le Batard]

All these sports metaphors make my dumb lady brain hurt.

[Billy Corben]

All right, settle down, baby machine. So we can say that now. So that was a flashback Friday, by the way. That was July 23rd of the year of our Lord 2024. That was Florida attorney John Morgan really calling the game before it even started correctly, no less. And I was going to introduce John as one of the most famous lawyers in the south. But then I went to LA a few weeks ago, and sure as shit, I'm driving from LAX to my Hotel. And what do I look out my goddamn window and see? A giant Morgan and Morgan billboard right in Los Angeles. And I'm like, holy shit, 3,000 miles away. I can't escape this guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Move over, Pitbull. It's the new Mr. Worldwide.

[Billy Corben]

Yes, absolutely right. What area code are you in, John? Right now?

[John Morgan]

Right Now I'm at 407.

[Billy Corben]

Right, so he's gone from Mr. 407 to Mr. Worldwide. That's. Or Mr. USA. John Morgan is joining us. John, there's been a lot of, we call it, but Monday morning quarterbacking, a lot of autopsying here, post mortem ing here on this election. But you were pretty well ahead of the curve. And you were also an insider. I mean, you are a very prominent Democratic fundraiser and donor. You had raised a lot of money for your friend Joe Biden at the time. And you kind of saw the writing on the wall, the way I looked at it at the time. And we didn't really talk about much about this publicly. Democrats, I'm now an npa. But you did talking about the fact that if we're gonna. The President of the United States, the anointed successor has to be what I'd call a napalm candidate. It's got to end the election right then and there. And when Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee, it was still a tied score. And that did not bode well, obviously for the, you know, the incumbent administration. So, John, what did you see at that moment in time that troubled you and you in fact actually pulled out as being a donor to a Kamala Harris campaign?

[John Morgan]

That's right. I saw her. I saw her in the primaries when she ran for president. She got no delegates. She got 8% of the vote in her own state of California. She was beat badly. And while I like the idea of a woman president, you know, if you say if you were against her, it's like all of a sudden you're a misogynist because, you know, you're calling balls and strikes. Had nothing to do with that. I wanted. Listen, nobody fought harder for Hillary than me, but I thought two things. One, I did not think that she would resonate to break through what had to be broke through, which was the independents. That's who elects people now. I mean, 35% of the voters are Republicans, 32% are Democrats, 34% are independents. That's. That's the game. And most of those independents are really Republicans or Democrats and really like 6%. I saw that. Plus I didn't like the idea of running on this whole campaign of, you know, let's protect democracy when we don't have an election to pick our own candidate. It was hypocritical.

[Billy Corben]

You mean the lack of a Democratic primary?

[John Morgan]

Right. Or a convention, A mini convention, something. You could have gone in and picked Meg Whitmer from Michigan and Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania, and that would have been one hell of a ticket. That would have taken care of Michigan, that would have taken care of Pennsylvania, maybe. And if you save Wisconsin, you may be okay. But they didn't do that. Not only did they not do that, I believe she picked the guy from Minnesota because she didn't want to be challenged by somebody sharp like the guy from Pennsylvania. In business, a lot of times, businesses go down. A's hire B's because they're intimidated by A's, and then B's hire C's. You know, to build a great company, A's have to hire A's, hire people better than you, smarter than you, make you better. She got this high school assistant coach who didn't even carry his own district in Minnesota. I mean, look, I know my high school assistant coaches, and I don't see them as vice president.

[Billy Corben]

So you were talking, of course, about Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

[John Morgan]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, who was, of course, Kamala Harris's running mate. I want to get to the nitty gritty here. I mean, I feel that, in all honesty, Joe Biden probably would have won at least Pennsylvania. I'm thinking Joe Biden probably performs better than Kamala Harris performs if he made it to the finish line here. But, I mean, I just really thought that everybody talking about how, like, the vice president is next in line. How can we leapfrog a woman of color? And I'm like, first of all, the vice president is not next in line. Okay? Is not the presumptive nominee. And I'll tell you how I know. 2016 is how I know, because Joe Biden didn't run for president in 2016. And had he run for president in 2016, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation, because he would have won, okay, in 2016 against Donald Trump. And it strikes me, and I just. I feel like we have to have this conversation quite openly because, Brittany, let me just tell you, as a young woman in America, you can be anything you wanna be. Dream big, grow up, and you could do anything except be president. Let's be perfectly real about this, because it was 2016 all over again. But worse, they're like, we're not just gonna nominate Hillary Clinton. We're gonna nominate a woman of color in this country. I have to say it because we.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can say that now.

[Billy Corben]

I mean, this just seemed like doomed.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stand a chance.

[Billy Corben]

Doomed from the start. And what do you think, Jonathan?

[John Morgan]

100%. Look, I think what happened is we know what happened. Pelosi thought there was going to be a convention. Obama did not endorse her for five days. Here's the dirty little secret. Obama didn't want her. Pelosi didn't want her. But Biden I believe. And look, I'm going to be at the White House tomorrow for a dinner. I think Biden was pissed that he was pushed out. And he said you. And when he said you, there's Harris. And Obama waited for five days, you know, and then all of a sudden everybody had to coalesce around it because they're running out of time. And with Harris, it looked like, here's how the election went. People who voted for Harris were voting against Trump. People who voted for Trump were voting for Trump. When they're not voting for you but against your opponent, that's a tough climb. And she couldn't make it. She didn't make the case. The other problem she had is she could never untether herself from Biden. It's Harris, Biden. It's the Harris, Biden, Biden, Harris economy. And she couldn't go out. And she wouldn't go out and say, look, I think Joe up. Let me tell you what I'd do different.

[Billy Corben]

Right. I also think, though that you're talking about issues now. I don't think this election was about issues. It was not about competency or character.

[John Morgan]

This election was about this. And it began with defund the police. It began with transgender swimmers. This election was more about woke transgender swimmers and defund the police than it was about the inflation in the war in Ukraine.

[Billy Corben]

But, yeah, but those culture wars are not Democratic culture wars. Those are Republican culture wars. Democrats don't really give a shit about them. They're just like, where are these people gonna go to the bathroom? Like, can we just have. Like, where are they gonna go? They gotta go somewhere. Republicans wanna run on those issues, but those issues and day one, mass deportations do not help the economy. In fact, quite the opposite. So that's why I'm saying this wasn't an election about issues. This is the wwe and that's what the Democrats keep missing. This isn't about competency or character or commitment to the Constitution. As far as I'm concerned, the Democrats should have nominated Tom Hanks and Mark Cuban or Oprah and Michelle Obama. Anybody who could win. It didn't matter who was competent, who was next in line. The bullshit petty politics of we can't leapfrog this person and the Vice President, that was a losing proposition.

[John Morgan]

But don't forget this. If they had leapfrog Harris, she would have thrown a shit fit. A shit fit. And she would have been saying the things that we know. She'd be saying.

[Billy Corben]

Like what, brat?

[John Morgan]

This is racism. This is misogynism.

[Billy Corben]

This is about winning. This is about winning an election is what it should have been.

[John Morgan]

But all she. Listen, she cares about her, not about us. And that's why she would have done it. Because she had one chance at the brass ring, but then she was right there. And by the way, don't forget, she thought she was going to win.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, course. Shit.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I think she did as well, too. And I think she.

[John Morgan]

All you got to do is watch her in these rallies. She didn't walk. She pranced. You know, when you walk, I mean, you know how people walk with confidence, when, you know, when somebody's getting ready to come up and give a speech or sing a song like, hey, that mot can sing. And then he sings, you know, by the way they walk. When she was walking with Oprah, she was walking with confidence. She thought she was going to win because they told her she was going to win. Yeah, they had $200 million. But listen, you guys are in Florida. I'm in the Wall Street Journal today being quoted. They were running tons of ads in Florida. That was like, as I said in the Wall Street Journal this morning is like filling a wheelbarrow full of millions and millions of dollars and just catching it on fire. I mean, Trump was not going to lose Florida. He won by 13 effing points. But who was buying these ads? Who was running this campaign? There needs to be a colonoscopy on the waist.

[Billy Corben]

How about an audit and an audit.

[John Morgan]

And they end up with $20 million in debt at the end of a $2 billion campaign.

[Billy Corben]

Jesus.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, how can it be?

[John Morgan]

I'll tell you how it can be. When you pay Oprah's production company $2.5 million for the production. When you pay to put her on the sphere in Nevada, when you spend tens and tens of millions of dollars in Florida. But the most effective ad that Trump had was the transgender ad, and they never pushed back on that. I talked to Bill Clinton about that. He said, they've got to answer it. They never did. They never did. And that ad ran 60% of the time because that pisses people off. Why does it piss. People don't care about transgender. Look, whoever you are is who you are and who you should be. But parents believe it's unfair for a biological male to be playing with their girls and competing with their girls. There's a unfairness, and it resonated with the voters.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I would agree. And I think that's like, one of the main criticisms I heard as well, too, is her emphasis on social issues versus real issues. But to your point, about everybody internally and everybody around her really thinking that she was going to win the election, a friend of mine who works in politics and is a Democrat and was a big Harris supporter, I had asked her, I said, how are you feeling going into this election? And she was at a Harris waltz rally in D.C. the day before, and she said, my God, the energy was amazing there. And I was like, well, that's. Yeah, I would assume it is. Everybody who was there was a supporter of her and planning to vote for her. But that tonality and that vibe, if you will, is not necessarily reflective of everything else across the nation. And I did vote for her, obviously, but because it was choosing between the lesser of two evils. And even, I can tell you, the celebrity endorsements, the brat lingo, it was lost on me.

[Billy Corben]

But let me. But let me see, that's how they filled arenas. But. But let me. But let me say this, though. Is that. Is that to be fair, looking at the numbers, then Kamala Harris is going to have the third most popular votes of any presidential candidate in history. Biden is safe at number one. Donald Trump will come in with second with, I think he's inching above 49 to 50% of the popular vote. She got votes. And as John said, perhaps those were people voting against her opponent rather than voting for her, which is problematic. But I wanna leave on this thought, John, because we are in Florida. We are Florida men. And I wanna talk about the money that was wasted here, but it was literally lighting it on fire. I agree.

[John Morgan]

Every time I saw. Every time I saw Harris ad, I'm like, what are they? What are they doing?

[Billy Corben]

It's like, spend it in a real swing state. Yeah, yeah. So. So my question is, though we heard a lot of. I resigned from the Miami Dade Democratic Executive Committee and switched my. I've only been a Democrat in the state of Florida from or period from 2018 to 2024. I'm now back to where I was, for the first, you know, 30 years of my life, thereabouts, in NPA. And because of the grifting, because of Nikki Fried's big lie, Florida is in play. And I will tell you, all year long, every time I heard it, I played Whack a Mole with it. And I retweeted, I said, florida is not in play. We need to stop gaslighting ourselves and our donors and our voters. This is a rebuilding year. I'm a Dolphins fan. I know a lot about rebuilding years. That's all you do is rebuild. Absolutely. So what I'm saying is, what does Florida do when you got these grifters running the party who were. That Florida and Play thing, you know what that was? That was to get money from the National Party so they could pay their consultant cartel that has held this party hostage down here for basically 30 years. The Democrats have been a nonentity since the turn of the century, since Jeb Bush was the governor.

[John Morgan]

Lawton Chiles was the last of the Mohicans.

[Billy Corben]

Yeah. And they're telling us Florida is in play. That was insane bullshit. So what do we do down here? Because I believe in competition. I'm a capitalist. I believe in a robust, you know, challenging each other on parties.

[John Morgan]

It's funny you should say that, Capitalist, because today I'm an MPA also, and have been ever since the squad and the socialists came. They started putting the word socialist at the end of Democrat Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialist. But Phil Levine, who's your mayor down there, he and I are.

[Billy Corben]

He's not anymore. He was a former Miami beach mayor.

[John Morgan]

Right. But he and I. He wrote me today, and I said, I've got a. If we're gonna have a third party, you know what the name of my party would be? The Capitalist. Just own it. The capitalists. Not the socialists. Not the Republicans, not the Democrats. We are the capitalists. We are the capitalistic party. We believe. We believe in capitalism, and we also believe in taking care of those who can't take care of themselves.

[Billy Corben]

That's the American way.

[John Morgan]

That's the American way. We don't listen. The MAGA people are mad because they're mad. They're mad because they're falling behind. But listen, I got news for the MAGA people. All these illegal immigrants you're worried about, find me one American that lost their job to an illegal immigrant. They don't. Because Americans aren't going to pick fruit. They're not going to wash windows 50 floors up. It's going to be a small Guatemalan up there. You're not going to ever see, you know, some corn fed guy from Nebraska up on a, on a scaffold. We need the illegal immigrants. The economy would crash without the illegal immigrants. And so. But the MAGA people think that they're their problems on the, on the right and on the left. They just want, you know, free money.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think they also just think that having them here is just tarnishing what they believe. True. What they believe. America is like, it's embarrassing.

[John Morgan]

By the way, what's interesting, the Venezuelans and the Cubans, they were, they were moved toward Trump because they're like, I'm in. I got mine. Keep everybody else out. Once we get ours, I got mine. I understand the frustration. I don't know the actual solution, but, you know, we need these 13 illegals to do the work that will not be done by Americans. They'll be done by Mexicans. They'll be done by, you know, the lady who takes care of my place is from El Salvador. She's here illegally, so don't need to send ice up here. But. And she is a. I'm on my.

[Billy Corben]

We have a narc here in the studio.

[John Morgan]

Yeah, they're not going to get rid of them. They're going to go through and make a lot of Eye Watchers. Not going to be a wall. They're not going to get rid of them because guess what? They can get rid of them tomorrow if they want it. You know how. Make it a third degree felony, $100,000 fine to hire one. You do that and they're all gone tomorrow. All the farmers, all the janitorial services, they're all paying illegal immigrants. If you want to get rid of the illegal immigrants in this country, it's a felony. You go to prison for a year and you pay $100,000 fine. And you don't need ice.

[Billy Corben]

John Morgan for the People.com See? Adios, amigos. Not the ice.

[John Morgan]

No. Go to Abu Garden. I'm there too. For the people.com class action.com hurricane lawyer.com John Morgan.

[Billy Corben]

Thank you so much.

[John Morgan]

Love you guys.

[Billy Corben]

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[Dan Le Batard]

You're undocumented and you support Donald Trump. I support Donald Trump for the.

[Kat]

If they let in hundreds of thousands of people who already have criminal records, if deporting them creates a mass deportation.

[Billy Corben]

I'm all for it.

[John Morgan]

But what if rounded up in all.

[Kat]

Of that are people who work on a farm?

[John Morgan]

If you're doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do, does that worry you?

[Kat]

That wouldn't be fair, of course. You know, they need to make sure that they don't throw away, they don't kick out, they don't deport people that are. That are family oriented.

[Dan Le Batard]

If you get deported, would you regret your support to Donald Trump? He's saying that he wouldn't regret supporting Donald Trump. Do you have a plan in case you get deported?

[Billy Corben]

I respect that decision.

[Dan Le Batard]

I leave the country.

[Billy Corben]

So clearly there's a lot of confusion, even from supporters of President elect Donald Trump about what is going to happen with the promised denaturalization and mass deportation plans that have been promised basically from day one of the new administration, which is right around the corner at the end of January. And if we make it, I think we'll make it. I think we'll be okay. I think this reality show is going to last. I think this reality show is going to be a blast. What are you worried about? World War Three? Yes. Fair point.

[Dan Le Batard]

I need a lobotomy.

[Billy Corben]

Adipose, though. Another one?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Adipose, though, is a Veteran immigration attorney here in South Florida. You can find [e-mail] and Ada, I guess I should right off the bat is I imagine you've been getting telephone calls from concerned residents, clients, both naturalized and not naturalized. And what seems to be on the forefront of everyone's minds right now that you are hearing from, what are their fears, their concerns and what are you telling them?

[Kat]

Yeah, Billy, unfortunately my phone's been ringing off the hook and everybody is just panicked. And that's exactly what this administration wants. I mean, Tom Coleman has said it himself. Shocking off, that's what they want. They want to come in on day one, bring in massive police presence, even bring in the military, to just round up everybody who's here illegally and deport at least a million people in his first year. That's what he says he wants. So everybody's panicked. They want to know, is that going to be me? What are the priorities? Who are they going to try and deport first? But what if I have kids? Those are all the questions I'm getting on a daily basis. And it's very sad. It's people are here in South Florida. People in Florida are wondering if they should leave the state because we know very well that our governor is going to cooperate fully with whatever Trump would like him to do to help deport people. So it's just a mass panic right now is what I'm hearing from all my clients or potential clients that are calling me off.

[Billy Corben]

So Tom Homan is the President elect's incoming border czar. He served as the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE during the first Trump administration. And he's been making the rounds on News 60 Minutes talking about, as you said, the shock and awe on day one. And that really, I guess, is the question, right? What is the criteria going to be? I have a lot of immigrant friends and neighbors. I guess it's not my problem. I can say as a white man born in America, whose parents were born in America. America, whose their parents were born in America, their grandparents were born in America. I don't know how far back they're going to go to denaturalize here. But is that the question? What is the criteria going to be? Where are they gonna start first? What do we know? I think we do know that they have said they're going to target so called criminals or people whether they are naturalized or not, people who had been convicted of crimes. Right.

[Kat]

The easy one to say is criminals. I think everybody agrees if you've been convicted of violence Violent crimes that you should be put in deportation proceedings. So that's the easy one. But the other thing that President Elect Trump is saying they're going to prioritize is people that have final orders of deportation. Most people with final orders of deportation in this country are not criminals. There are a lot of people that didn't go to court, so they ended up with an order of deportation and absentia. There are a lot of people that maybe lost an asylum claim, but have been here for many, many years and are working, paying taxes and have no crimes. So it's not just people that are criminals that are going to be deported. It's going to be the lowest hanging fruit, because we know he wants the most massive ginormous deportation that this country has ever seen. And it's going to be the easiest people to deport, which are people with final orders of deportation and yes, also people with serious criminal convictions.

[Billy Corben]

Now you see violent crimes. But, you know, down here in South Florida in particular, we have a lot of people have been convicted of Medicare fraud. A lot of people have been convicted of drugs, drug related crimes that may be considered nonviolent but are pretty serious felonies in the face of defrauding the taxpayers and the federal government in terms of poisoning the streets with drugs from Latin America into this country. And some of those folks are naturalized. That's the thing too, is that people hear a lot about illegal immigration, but they're talking about. And Stephen Miller, who is going to be beyond the border czar, he really is Trump's guru of immigration, has said quite openly that denaturalization is on the table, which means that people who have become citizens. Right. Might not be citizens anymore and then might be deported.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Kat]

I mean, we saw this in a smaller scale during Trump's first administration. It was Operation Second look where they went back into the naturalization applications of people and see if there was any kind of fraud that was committed and they tried to denaturalize people. Didn't get very far, but they've promised that this time it's going to be Operation Second Look. Turbocharged is the term that they use, that they're really going to go after people to try and see if, for example, when on that citizenship application, when people apply to naturalize it, ask if you've ever committed a crime for which you have not been arrested. People answer no. A couple years later, they maybe get convicted of a crime and it turns out that they were involved in that scheme before they naturalized. That would be grounds to denaturalize someone. But the whole process is in a federal court. This isn't something Trump can come in and say, you, you, you, you're denaturalized. There is a process in federal court and this process, though, has no right to counsel. So if you get put in a denaturalization process and you can't afford an attorney, good luck, you're going to have to represent yourself against the United States government trying to take away your citizenship.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is, it appears like as if he's just going to do whatever he can to meet this quota of deporting 1 million Americans or 1 million self quota.

[Billy Corben]

It's a self made quota.

[Dan Le Batard]

Self made quota, right. Per usual, he's gonna make up all of his own rules.

[Billy Corben]

I think if you look at day one of the previous Trump administration with the Muslim ban, it was like chaos. So, I mean, there's no telling. He's already said that he's going to use the military to enforce this policy, whatever this policy may ultimately be. So, I mean, we very well could see soldiers on the streets of American towns rounding up immigrants. We have, the state of Texas has volunteered, I think, what, thousands of acres of property to build deportation camps, you know, a place for people to go and think and really concentrate at these camps, if you think, even concentration camps, you know, if you think about it. And so, Ada, where do we keep talking about? Where do we begin? But like they've already said that TPS is also, this is a. TBS is a policy that Congress created back In, I think 1990 for temporary protective status. It's a humanitarian effort for people whose countries are in tumult of which there are countless Haiti among them. And so people are not going to be protected anymore by these laws. And I'm kind of wondering, though, about the Cuban Adjustment Act. A lot of my Cuban friends feel that they are safe from these policies. And I have to wonder. We talked about Stephen Miller, who of course is like, has been an authority on immigration policy for Donald Trump through all these years. Katie Miller, of course, is his wife. She's a Florida woman. She was a communications director for the vice president. And I'll never forget what she said back during the first administration when people were concerned about the family separation policy. Listen to this. Katie Miller, she was spokesperson at DHS during the family separation crisis. A vocal, unwavering defender of what we were doing, taking these kids away from their parents. Katie Miller told Jacob, sober off, quote, my family and colleagues told me that when I have kids, I'll think about the separations differently. But I don't think so. Homeland Security sent me to the border to see the separations for myself, to try to make me more compassionate.

[Kat]

But it didn't work.

[Billy Corben]

End quote. Sounds like Jacob responds, quote, it didn't work. I will never forgot what I saw. Seriously, are you a white nationalist? He asked, exasperated. No, she said, but I believe if you come to America, you should assimilate.

[Kat]

Why do we need to have, like, Little Havana?

[Billy Corben]

Why do we need to have, like, Little Havana? Because our neighborhoods are segregated down here. Well, that's true, but, you know, it makes me wonder, you know, we had talked about this on the last show about the English only ordinance that was passed overwhelmingly on a referendum in Miami dade County in 1980. This after the county Commission had acknowledged that we are already by the late 70s, a bilingual community. And we are, in fact today, now, 40 years later, we are a minority majority community. And it makes me concerned about the culture of and future of this community. Otto, what do you make of that? Is anybody safe? If TPS doesn't protect anybody, does the Cuban Adjustment act of 1966 protect any?

[Kat]

Well, the Cuban Adjustment act is not really going to help a lot of people anymore because we don't have wet foot, dry foot. So ever since wetfoot, dry foot got taken off, then when a Cuban tries to enter the United States, they're not given any kind of admission, they're not given a parole document, which is what used to happen when they would come in under wet foot, dry foot. So now when Cubans come in, they're never technically admitted into the United States. They're placed in court proceedings without being admitted. And the Cuban Adjustment act requires that the Cuban national have been admitted a year and a day ago in order to qualify for residence. So we've seen a watering down of the Cuban Adjustment act since wet foot dry foot has been taken away. The only Cubans that really benefit nowadays from the Cuban Adjustment act are the ones that are managed to come over here on a parole, which we know the humanitarian parole is going to be gone now under Trump. The ones that come in with that parole, or Cuban nationals that happen to have another citizenship, for example, that also have citizenship from Spain, and they enter the United States on an asta, a visa waiver, then they're able to apply for residence under the Cuban Adjustment act, but those are really the only Cubans that can use it. Now. It's been watered down a lot, and I suspect that it's going to be watered down more when now we're not even going to have the option of the humanitarian parole for Cuba.

[Billy Corben]

But that is. That is forward facing, though. I'm talking about backward facing. Meaning you have naturalized Cuban immigrants, but is it possible to see some of them denaturalized and deported?

[Kat]

Well, they would have to. The United States Supreme Court did find that in a unanimous decision that in order to denaturalize someone, there has to have been a material fraud that was committed. So it's not just. So the Cuban Adjustment act is no longer here. We're gonna take away your residence? No, it has to be that. They have to prove that that Cuban national, or any other national for that matter, in denaturalization proceedings, committed a material fraud, lied about something on their application that had they told the truth, they would have likely been denied. That's what the government is going to have to prove to denaturalize anyone who has already become a United States citizen in this country. Now, is it going to become harder to become a U.S. citizen? I believe so. That. Absolutely, it's going to become a lot harder.

[Dan Le Batard]

So obviously, in your line of work, you had mentioned up top that naturally you're experiencing a lot of panic from clients or potential clients and paranoia. And then I'm curious about the other side of that perspective, which we run into often in Miami, which is Cuban Americans or Cuban people idolizing Trump blindly and idolizing this administration. So what's the ratio between people that are legitimately concerned for themselves and their family versus people that think that they are invincible? Quite like. Like President Elect Donald Trump. Like, are you seeing a lot of a lack thereof of rightful paranoia and people thinking, oh, it won't happen to me, because that, to me has always been the most disheartening and confusing sentiment is. So many individuals fight so hard to get to come into this country. And they speak like, as if they're proud of their culture, and they speak like, as if they're proud of their nationality. And then the second that they are able to achieve some level of citizenship, they turn to their very brothers and sisters of Cuban descent and they say, okay, none.

[Billy Corben]

No, no.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like a Miami nightclub list is full. Nobody else can come in. You know, so I'm wondering, you know, obviously you're seeing the panic, but are you seeing the dulu, for lack of a better term?

[Kat]

I think I saw a lot more the DULU before the elections. I think now that plans are becoming clearer. It's. People are starting to go, oh, wait a minute, we messed around and now we're going to find out. I mean, I've had people sitting in my office before a couple where the husband is a United States citizen, the wife is undocumented, and I tell them, look, we have to, you know, it's, things are probably going to change with the election, so you might want to file now in their league election. If Trump doesn't win, I'm leaving. I'm like, well, no, I don't mean that they're going to change and make it easier for your undocumented wife. Oh, well, no, no, no. She's married to me, so everything's going to be fine. There still is a lot of that level of. But I think that the more and more we start seeing the video of the military or law enforcement, ICE agents and people getting picked up and families getting separated, I think that that's going to go away pretty quickly.

[Billy Corben]

If Trump doesn't win, I'm leaving voluntarily now. If Trump does win, I may be leaving involuntarily. Wild times coming up and the busy season for you. Ada. Go to Ada. You can find [e-mail] I know a lot of people out there are going to need some help and better to catch your consult on now. Yeah, then, then, then later can you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Help me relocate to Italy? I actually volunteer to not be a citizen anymore. I'm pretty sure I'll live anywhere else, so.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, man, I gotta tell you, being a white man right now, this is our golden age too. I mean this golden era and I mean we have had it too hard for too long. And finally, finally white men in this country are going to get a chance to get a leg up.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can say that now. I hear that next summer in Miami they're going to throw a straight pride parade and that you're going to be leading the pack.

[John Morgan]

You're goddamn right.

[Billy Corben]

Meatball Adipose. Oh, thanks so much for being here. I hope that you will, you will join us again because I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people with a lot of questions and needing a lot of help in the new year, next year in Rome, I guess.

[Dan Le Batard]

I hope so. I hope so.

[Kat]

Thanks for having, having me.

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[Kat]

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[Kat]

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[Kat]

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[Kat]

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[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not gonna lie. When you were saying they indicted them, they arrested them. I thought the next one rule of threes was going to be and then they let them run for president of the United States.

[Billy Corben]

Well, actually, what happened was Ron DeSantis removed or suspended Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz Laportilla from office, and then he ran for reelection, like a couple months later. And lost to Miguel Cabela, who's Now the District 1 Commissioner in the city of Miami. But this guy. I can't. This is the thing. We are in a golden age of corruption. And like, as I always say, the Miami of today is the America of tomorrow. So all of these red flags and all of these indicators and, like, you know, you were saying red flags, red flags.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know them so well. I actually gravitate towards them, actually. It's like, man, if he's got a beer gut and he smokes American spirits, sign me up. Anyways, I like that you said the goal. We're in the golden age of corruption. Like, that's. That's notable, given the fact that it's Miami. Like, every year feels like the golden age of. How do you. How do you determine?

[Billy Corben]

Because it's. It's cyclical, certainly. But, like, the only analog of this in Miami history is from about 1997 to 2001, where we had, like, where the corruption just got so out of hand. You had the arrest of multiple city officials, multiple county officials, and it all culminated in 2001 with the arrest of then Miami mayor Joe Corollo on domestic violence charges.

[Dan Le Batard]

You need this. You need a Grammy. I mean, the music.

[Billy Corben]

I need an enema.

[Dan Le Batard]

You need both. You need a Grammy. The. The musical commentary is a plus.

[John Morgan]

You're goddamn right, meatball.

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel like you keep body shaming me with that, meatball. It's because I'm Italian and illegal. Midget. That's rude.

[Billy Corben]

Okay, here's the thing, though, about that 97 to 2001 era, people were arrested. People were convicted. Some people weren't. But the most important thing is that law enforcement did their job. Now there are no checks and balances. Now somebody gets arrested, and the state attorney's office, the prosecutor's like, oh, no, our bad. They're actually cool. Everything we said that they did that was illegal. Everything we described as bribery, money laundering, psych, like, we're just playing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Every time you walk into the office, they're like, it's opposite day.

[Billy Corben]

So this is the problem. So when you say, how can you tell this is the golden age of corruption in Miami? It's because of the lack of accountability. That's the major difference now than I think ever before, because we did see people not only indicted, but we didn't see the charges dropped. We saw cases either end in guilty pleas or in convictions. And now what we're seeing is the very people who are supposed to be holding these folks accountable in law enforcement, in the state attorney's offices, they're just, like, up and sort of acknowledging that they're.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're aware of it.

[Billy Corben]

Yeah. And by the way, if these guys did nothing illegal, how did they get arrested? How did they get indicted? How did they get charged like that?

[Dan Le Batard]

You sound like me after I left my very abusive ex, and everyone was like, is he really that bad of a guy? I was like, you know, he did get arrested. You do have to do something bad sometimes to get arrested.

[Billy Corben]

That's. Yeah, but that's my. Like, that's the relationship here. This is a very abusive, I feel, relationship. That. Where the government really does victimize its residents, and they weaponize government to victimize the residents, and then the police and prosecutors go, that's kosher.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Well, I mean, I think that they're trying to set a precedent of a lack of accountability, because it's only a matter of time before their own transgressions rise to the surface.

[Billy Corben]

And here's the thing about that. We've been talking about the floridification of America. You know, Miami and the Florida of today is the America of tomorrow.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're kind of ahead of the curve.

[Billy Corben]

Full Florida. We're going full Florida. It's always. It's T.D. ullman, the Magic City. Rest in peace, T.D. ullman. Like, that's where, like, the concept of the Miami of today is the America of tomorrow comes from, that every challenge we'll face or crisis that will befall us as a nation in the years or even decades to come all happened in Florida, and particularly South Florida. We're the guinea pigs first already, right? Already. And we export the nationwide, and we. And we really have this time. But Florida, or I should say America, is getting a little less Florida this week when Matt Gaetz announced that he is not. That he's withdrawing his name from contention as United States Attorney General. You're asking us, Matt Gaetz, which I, for one, am kind of bummed about.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. You were bummed. I was. I mean, Roy and I got the news in real time, and we felt like we manifested it because we were just talking a whole bunch of. About him.

[Billy Corben]

You up?

[Dan Le Batard]

I know. Again, like I said, a black man and a white, young, bicurious woman just up the country. Up the country. Trump is right. We. We need to be deported. But we were celebrating.

[Kat]

And then.

[Dan Le Batard]

Billy, we can say whatever we want now.

[Billy Corben]

God damn right, Meatball.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right. At least call me Marinara, like the other girls.

[Billy Corben]

Because she's spicy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because I'm spicy. Thank you. That's. That spicy is like a euphemism for a bitch.

[Billy Corben]

But I apologize. Sorry.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I accept. We can say that now. We were rejoicing and Billy walks in and Billy's a much smarter than I am. And Billy goes, no, no, no. Just whiter and penisier, which equals smarter and superior.

[Billy Corben]

Goddamn right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. And he walks in, he goes, this is bad because if you thought he was terrible, it's about to get worse. Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

But it's not only that. It's all downhill from Matt Gaetz is that like, Matt Gaetz is fun. Like, this is a reality show. President. We're getting a reality show. If you're a criminal at this point, one of two things is happening. You're getting deported or you're going to join the administration. And I just, I don't know. I think there's, as Uncle Luke would say, like, grab the popcorn. Like, this is what the voters wanted and this is what we shall get.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have to say, whoever the casting director for this season of America is deserves an Emmy.

[Billy Corben]

I love it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Rushing it.

[Billy Corben]

I just love it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just heard too, that the Trump is going to create the department of Vibes and a Point P. Diddy as the social chair.

[Billy Corben]

Grab the baby oil, Roy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, please, we have some in the closet. And I think the Department of Interior might be JD Vance. Sponsored by El Dorado Furniture.

[Billy Corben]

That's, that's, that's. That is a super South Florida joke. Speaking of which, catch Britney Brave if you're in town. For all the hilarity, this weekend, Saturday, one night only.

[Dan Le Batard]

One night, two shows. Seven and 9:30. Adrian R. Center.

[Billy Corben]

Where can we find you and buy tickets, et cetera.

[Dan Le Batard]

WWE Live. Not Brittany Brave dot com. Because in the brief moment that I had to change over my domain, a hater, as the kids would say, bought brittanybrave.com and it is now I what looks like either an Asian sex trafficking site or gambling platform. I'm not kidding, Roy. Like you can pull it up on your phone. Don't pull it up here. It's embarrassing.

[Billy Corben]

Britney, Britney, brave dot com. They're coming all over the place.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's what I get for buying my domain off Truth Social.

[Billy Corben]

It's like it was like those Wicked toys and wicked dot com. Don't, don't go, don't go. They meant Wicked movie dot com. I know is what they meant.

[Dan Le Batard]

But here's the thing. I think parents are growing increasingly tired of having that sex ed talk with their kids and discussing repro rights and birth control. So if you think about it, the upside to that QR code they're going to learn today. Yeah.

[Billy Corben]

Do not.com Britney brave they're coming all over the place.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, speaking of coming all over the place. OnlyFans.com Britney Brave as well too.

[Billy Corben]

Oh, seriously?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I just know I do like jokes and photos of, you know, my. It's like a telehealth appointment. Yeah, the old men really respond to it. Yeah, and the old men also think only Fans is a sports betting platform. But that's okay. It's fine.

[Billy Corben]

Billy's Shocked Cocaines.

[John Morgan]

Howdy loyal listeners. It's Mike Ryan and we're getting pretty close to wishing folks happy holidays. I'm sure many of you are already in the planning stages of opening up.

[Billy Corben]

Your homes and hosting holiday get togethers.

[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

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[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

Oh, what a logo. That sparkling white label.

[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

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[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

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[John Morgan]

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[Billy Corben]

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[John Morgan]

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