Ep 379: Political Ponzi Scheme

Join Dave Roberts and Ken Pullin for Episode 379 of Let Me Tell You Why You Wrong, where they blend backyard reality with political insider drama. They open with life in Pike County under blistering summer skies—Ken’s just marked his 22nd wedding anniversary while juggling his daughter's  Georgia Tech orientation (an $85 registration fee!) and the sticker shock of a $700 parking pass (Uber to the rescue, maybe). From there they steer into Atlanta’s frenzy—$400-plus tickets to the MLB All-Star Game, Beyoncé’s surprise country-music stop, and a preview of Whiskey Myers in Macon—before diving headlong into Georgia’s next big showdown.

Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones finally threw his hat into the governor’s ring after the filing deadline, self-funding a $10 million launch video that features a surprise walk-on by Donald Trump and fond memories of his days kicking around the Bulldog football field. Dave and Ken unpack Jones’s platform—abolishing the state income tax, fighting fentanyl, barring trans girls from girls’ sports, and ending movie-industry tax credits—and compare it to Attorney General Chris Carr’s $3.5 million war chest, the ever-teasing Marjorie Taylor Greene, and other potential contenders like Brad Raffensperger and Mike Collins.

No Georgia episode would be complete without scandal, and this week the Frost family of Newnan steals the spotlight. Once major Republican donors, Brandt Frost 4 and his son Brandt Frost 5 now face an SEC civil suit accusing them of fleecing roughly 300 investors out of $140 million through their “Patriot Funds/Dollars” program, promising implausible 12–18% returns on risky loans while allegedly funneling $19 million into their own pockets (including a $320 000 rental home) and dumping $570 000 into political contributions. 

They round out the show with a look at federal policy and public-health alarms: DHS’s sudden end to the 19-year shoe-removal rule, Pam Bondi’s flip-flop on the Epstein “no list,” an “activist judge” stay blocking Planned Parenthood defunding, and the routine—but controversial—purge of 478 000 Georgia voter-registration records. On the home front, one in three U.S. teens now carries pre-diabetes, a Delta A330’s engine failure led to a 30-hour layover in the Azores, and Washington County’s DUI cover-up—where private hires of a certain public defender triggered wholesale dismissals—remains a cautionary tale. Unfiltered, unapologetic, and undeniably Georgia, it’s another roller-coaster hour with Dave and Ken.