From Epstein to the Fed: When the News Won’t Slow Down

It’s the first episode of Black History Month, and politics wasted no time choosing chaos.

This week on Pardon the Politics, the crew goes rapid fire to keep up with a nonstop news cycle: newly released Epstein files with zero accountability, a controversial raid on 2020 Georgia election ballots, another looming government shutdown, and Trump’s surprise pick for Federal Reserve Chair. Somehow, all of it happened in one week.

The guys break down why the DOJ’s Epstein drops feel more like trauma recycling than justice, how election integrity keeps getting dragged back into 2020, and why Congress seems allergic to long-term solutions. Plus, there’s sharp commentary on FEMA failures, Homeland Security drama, and the political theater surrounding interest rates and inflation.

Fast-paced, unfiltered, and darkly funny, this episode is for anyone trying to keep their head to the sky while the headlines keep piling up.

🎙️ Buckle up.

Transcript

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Jeezy: Hello, world, welcome to Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 3, Episode 5, the first episode of Black History Month.
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Jeezy: And we gotta celebrate it, because we don't know how long we gonna have Black History Month, so you know what?
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Welcome, welcome, welcome to the podcast. I am your coach.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: G.
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Jeezy: Along with my brother.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: My brother and my partner in politics.
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Jeezy: Manny, Manny, what's good?
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Audio shared by Jeezy: You feelin' my brother?
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Manny: Man, I'm just keeping my head.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: into the sky.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: You know what?
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Audio shared by Jeezy: You can win. Thank you.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: You can win, brother. Hey, to the chairman of the KS.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: What's up, my brother? How you feeling, brother?
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Chuck: Man…
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Yeah, these tools right here, there's no way you can feel down, brother.
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Jeezy: Hey, look.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Let's go.
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Jeezy: Yes, indeed, yes indeed. Hey, welcome, welcome, listeners, welcome, welcome, bro. I felt like I was one of them old school, dish jockeys back in the day.
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Chuck: You better believe me.
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Jeezy: Shout out to Eastern North Carolina, sold 92.1 FM.
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Manny: Bruh, imagine being at a party when this song came out, sipping some E&J, and then this comes like…
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Manny: How does that change the dynamic of a party?
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Chuck: Oh, it turns it off!
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Jeezy: Right.
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Chuck: Imagine.
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Jeezy: be a mid-argument, somebody step on your shoe. Hey, brother, you stepped on my shoe. Then someone, come on. You know what, brother, don't even worry about it.
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Jeezy: Keep your head up, bro.
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Chuck: Where'd you keep your hand to the sky.
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Jeezy: You know what? Happy Black History Month, y'all.
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Manny: See, black.
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Chuck: Happy Black History Month. Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Yes, indeed, yes, indeed. To our listeners, welcome to another episode of Pardon the Politics Podcast. I'm glad to be here with my brothers.
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Jeezy: To sharing this chaos again, bro.
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Manny: Jeez, love we.
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Manny: It did not rocket start.
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Manny: Bruh, we were talking.
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Chuck: A rocky star. It stayed rocky the whole time.
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Manny: You're right. Yo, you're right, you're right. I had a conversation with somebody, and I was like…
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Jeezy: You do realize… This is… Only one month in the year, right?
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Manny: One month.
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Manny: And the person I was talking to just proceeded to put their head down and just say.
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Jeezy: Man, I don't know how we gonna make it.
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Jeezy: That's it.
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Jeezy: I don't know either, but the only thing I can tell you is this. You better find where to put your faith in, brother.
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Manny: Hold on to his hand.
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Jeezy: Look, when the ride get a little bumpy, we all do what? Make sure we got that seatbelt on, and across your chest, like my grandma used to say, put that belt across your chest.
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Manny: Well, and it's like the hits don't stop.
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Manny: Like, just for.
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Jeezy: Oh, man.
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Manny: Friday, Friday by itself, are individual events that historians will talk about.
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Jeezy: Yo.
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Jeezy: I'm just… we were talking to our listeners, and there were so many topics, and I want you guys to know, we're gonna play a game here today, but before I get into it.
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Jeezy: We were talking about how in the world
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Jeezy: We're going to cover all the things that happened in this week. And sometimes when we talk about topics, we know we can't cover everything.
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Jeezy: Well, we'll get the big rock, we'll get.
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Manny: big rocks.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll take care of the big rocks, and we'll let the little pebbles do as they may.
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Jeezy: But this week, there were so many big rocks… there were boulders.
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Manny: It's everywhere. It's weak.
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Jeezy: That we would talk about, okay, we'll talk about this, this, and this, and then somebody in the group chat would say, well, we didn't even talk about this. We were like, oh, we do have to talk about this.
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Jeezy: So, this is going to be a very interesting episode, because we have a lot of things to cover. So, when I thought about it, I said, you know what?
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Manny: Since we have so much to cover, we're gonna play a game this episode.
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Jeezy: We're gonna play a game this episode. Matter of fact, I got our theme music for the game.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: The name of this game is gonna be Rapid Fire.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: U.S. politics, The price ain't right. Get it, get it, get it.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Hit that button.
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Jeezy: peanuts.
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Jeezy: What we gonna do?
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Jeezy: We gonna try to cover as many topics as we possibly can. We're not gonna be able to go too far into depth, because there's just so much going on that if we did, and we were talking, this would be a 4-hour episode.
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Jeezy: And… that's a lot… that's a lot of… that we would be asking you guys to lend us your ear for that amount of time, so… we're gonna just play a game of rapid fire, and we're just gonna bring you the topics, we're gonna talk about as much as we can within a short period of time, and we're gonna move right on to the next topic, and to my brothers, when you hear this sound effect.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: What's next?
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Jeezy: Time to go to the next one.
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Manny: Alright, here we go.
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Chuck: Keep us together, brother. Keep us together.
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Jeezy: Alright, alright, alright, alright, so the first…
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Jeezy: First topic we're gonna talk about is the latest DOJ release on Epstein.
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Manny: There was a release of more…
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Jeezy: information, more documentation, videos, and photographs that were dropped in relation to, Jeffrey Epstein, and the big question that has been surrounding this even more, with all the things coming out.
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Jeezy: is, is there any new accountability of the details that have come out, or are we just, at this point, just, opening the womb even further and exposing just every single thing with no prosecution, no criminal action done whatsoever at this point? So, my brothers, on the latest DLJ release that we've seen from Jeffrey Epstein, what are your thoughts?
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Chuck: So…
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Jeezy: Well, before you say that.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: P.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: He a fan, he a fan. He definitely a fan. He definitely a fan.
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Manny: Definitely a fan.
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Jeezy: He ain't by herself, either.
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Chuck: No. It's a conglomerate of fans.
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Chuck: You think they want to trail ride all the friends? I didn't realize.
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Manny: I realized all these fans knew each other.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
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Manny: Like, like, knew each other from the standpoint they also knew they were fans. They were all fans together.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Chuck: It was a fan collective.
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Manny: A collection of fans.
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Jeezy: A collection of… bruh. What do you call a collection of fans?
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Manny: At this point, I…
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Chuck: disposal.
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Manny: I believe the Department of Jud… I believe the files are going to get worse. This is… this is the belief that I'm… I'm at now, is that it's just going to keep getting worse.
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Jeezy: And almost to the point, I think they're just going to numb us.
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Manny: Because if you look at…
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Manny: I think with this drop, it's a… I think with the first drop, we got a mix of files we had seen before, and a bunch of new ones. And I think we were so gung-ho-ho about that, we hit that with so much energy, that as an American public, we said, chill.
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Manny: We kind of step back, we're like, okay, whatever. There's more coming, we'll wait for this next one. Here we are, this next one, which is largely new things.
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Manny: And a whole lot more people implicated.
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Manny: But I think because some of that… and because also so much is going on right now.
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Manny: Like, our brains are all divided, so we can't really give this the energy mentally.
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Manny: M.
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Manny: I think there's probably gonna be a couple more drops, and they're all going to get worse.
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Manny: And it's gonna be one of those things…
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Manny: historically, where we're going to look back and say, oh, wow, how did we let that slide? Because at the end of the day, we're also still watching the Department of Justice release files, say, oh, we mean to let y'all see that one.
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Jeezy: Yo.
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Manny: Let's go ahead.
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Jeezy: I was about to say, that was, that was the wild take.
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Chuck: Yes. For me.
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Jeezy: Because they dropped the fouls, And…
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Jeezy: immediately started pulling some back, because they were exposing some stuff that was like, okay, yeah, especially when it got to Trump. Oh, yeah.
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Chuck: Well, those Trump files got snatched so quick, but this is the thing.
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Jeezy: If it's on the internet, I'mma say it.
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Jeezy: Bruh, within 5 seconds, bruh, you might as well… you might as well count your eggs done, bruh.
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Chuck: If you don't hit cancel and it successfully does not upload.
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Manny: Nope.
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Chuck: Denzo.
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Manny: It's a wrap.
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Jeezy: Bruh, you are done. And it's crazy, because to your point, Manny, and I think that it may be the tactic of the Justice Department, because they are throwing so much at you at… I think there was, like.
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Jeezy: three… I forgot, there was some crazy astronomical number of… amount of pages that they threw out. But they're throwing so much at the American people at this point, who has any time to even process anything? Really, it's just…
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Manny: People on Twitter.
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Jeezy: jokes.
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Manny: Yeah, like…
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Jeezy: Give me the Cliff Notes, and let me know what you saw.
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Chuck: Wait, it's like, it's the same folks who did the documentary, Don't F with Cats. It's folks at home that got time.
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Jeezy: There are some people who are very invested and dedicated to exposing this mess. We found out Elon is a part of this whole circus. I don't know if y'all saw the whole thing. I mean, I ain't surprised.
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Jeezy: what was it, the Ice Maiden? They said that she came out and said that, he got, like, an issue with ketamine, whatever, and he be… that's when he be tweeting and stuff at night. Ever since she said that, or that was dropped by Vanity, that she had mentioned that.
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Jeezy: If you go, and I just wake up sometimes in the middle of the night because I got a newborn, so, like, I might be up at 3 or 4 o'clock, and, you know, I'm waiting for her to finish a bottle, and I get on the socials, and I look, and I'm like…
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Jeezy: Brother, this fool Elon ever sleep? And I keep thinking exactly what the Iceman said.
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Jeezy: No, he, he, he, he sleeps. He's just up hot right now.
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Manny: This is his maximum processing time.
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Jeezy: Yeah, this is his mask. Him and Trump, bruh, Trump up getting his diaper changed, he up getting hot.
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Chuck: But, you know…
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Jeezy: I'm sitting here like, he has been the biggest, you know, advocate pushing for the release, and then he ends up being in the file, and then he drops a tweet almost like…
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Jeezy: Yeah, but ain't nobody been prosecuted, and until something's been said that's done wrong, then, okay. Like, bruh.
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Manny: And they keep… so, as of… as of this morning,
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Manny: The Department of Justice says there's not going to be any new charges filed by what's been in these files.
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Manny: And… I think…
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Jeezy: They should have been charged already.
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Manny: Should have already been charged.
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Chuck: I have a correction, real quick. It's no longer… since I've been renaming things.
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Chuck: It is no longer the Department of Justice.
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Chuck: This is the Department of John. The DOJ is the Department of John.
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Jeezy: We got the Cowards of Congress. Cowards of Congress?
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Chuck: Department of John. And that Department of John is a double entendre, don't even ask me how.
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Chuck: We'll take it how you want. Go ahead, Bandy, I'm sorry.
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Manny: But 3 million files is wild. And then building…
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Jeezy: That's what the number was, 3 million.
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Manny: Bill Gates is…
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Jeezy: Bruh, Bill Gates.
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Manny: Bill Gates?
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Jeezy: It's called a… caught that string.
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Manny: Bill Gates, the Giants owner…
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Manny: But see, okay, but we knew Bill Gates had something, because as soon as that.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: when Melinda came through, And…
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Manny: If you go back to the divorce between Bezos and his wife.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: there… it sounded like there was, like, a little bit of negotiating here, but Bill and Melinda won't know.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: It's like Bill said, what you want?
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Manny: Give it to her.
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Jeezy: When you gotta worry about trying to… you gotta go… first of all, you build gates.
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Jeezy: You had to go… you had to go beg Jeffrey Epstein? Yes.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Jeezy: You ain't no…
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Chuck: Hold on, hold on.
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Jeezy: Go back to the clinic.
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Chuck: Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's think about this, let's think about this from, from our thinking. Okay. Our vision.
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Chuck: Bill Gates was a dweeb.
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Jeezy: Very true.
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Chuck: Beautiful. Like… Super smart man, business took off, billionaire, you know, number of years, richest man in the world.
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Chuck: But like Jay-Z said, you are who you are before you got here.
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Manny: Mmm.
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Chuck: They're okay, those are the queen!
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Manny: a bar.
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Chuck: So, in that…
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Audio shared by Jeezy: That's it!
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Chuck: You going to… you going to the cool kid… Air quotes.
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Jeezy: to ask for the help, because the cool kid invited you to the table.
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Chuck: Yeah, he brought me the problem. Exactly. So, so in that regard, you know.
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Chuck: I'm not surprised, and you mentioned,
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Chuck: Bezos and, McKenzie, I don't know.
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Manny: McKenzie, I knew it was an M, yep.
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Chuck: Yes, McKenzie.
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Jeezy: Shout out to Mackenzie, too, bruh, she be donating.
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Manny: Bruh, I'm about to sing her praises. I'm talking about…
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Chuck: Glory to glory, sing her praises. Looking at the contrast of those two, he…
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: Jeff is a staunch Trump supporter, and all things that Trump emits.
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Chuck: McKenzie is on the opposite end, and I am biased, I am biased, because my daughter got a McKenzie Scott Scholarship, but…
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Jeezy: Yay!
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Chuck: Yeah, she buzzing.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Chuck: Blessings.
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Manny: But…
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Chuck: Her, her, her philanthropy, as being major in our HBCU space. Like, I'm talking, she's dropped.
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Manny: I'm not.
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Chuck: Hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Jeezy: Stopping some, bread.
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Chuck: And to see the contrast, and, like, Melinda and Bill.
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Chuck: Belinda ain't want no spotlight and no hoopla and all this.
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Jeezy: No.
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Chuck: Give me my money, I'mma go do what I need to do, Cause you… yeah.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Melinda ain't contributing to the… she ain't contributing to the black community. Well…
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Jeezy: Her daughter is dating a black man.
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Manny: Yeah, I was…
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Jeezy: I'm about to say, I mean, that is… I mean, for what it's worth… That is a contribution.
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Jeezy: Might not be the contribution that we need financially.
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Manny: But…
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Jeezy: In other cases, yay!
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Manny: Well, and… again, it'll start to be interesting for… to see the fallout, because at least one piece of fallout that I think will be interesting is what the NFL does with the Giants.
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Jeezy: Mmm…
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Manny: Because you know if there's one thing the NFL hates…
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Chuck: Messing with them.
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Manny: PR.
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Chuck: I don't think they're gonna do anything.
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Jeezy: Really? I don't think nobody doing nothing, bro.
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Chuck: I don't. And I'mma tell you why.
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Chuck: Because there's gonna be something else that happens that washes this under the water.
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Jeezy: You're right.
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Chuck: We've said it here time and time again. The headlines pop out so fast.
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Chuck: But you don't have time to sit and dwell on it. Now, what could be a problem is if one of these newspapers in New York.
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Jeezy: Continues to dig and make it an issue.
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Chuck: Yeah. And that could be because we know how the New York media can be.
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Jeezy: If they, if they continue…
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Chuck: Then that's something totally different, but as long as they… You know, kind of have…
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Chuck: Rushed over it with the release of everything that's come out, and just, you know, leave it at that.
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Chuck: I don't… I don't see a whole lot happening, because…
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Chuck: A bunch of them are fans. I'm convinced. I'm convinced.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: Oh, for sure. For sure. You know, I think that…
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Chuck: Allegedly for our, protection.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I'll let you.
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Manny: Allegedly. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
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Jeezy: I mean, it's just… at this point…
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Jeezy: I mean, we already know the… well, I'm not even gonna say we already know, but we… the imagination can wonder the extent of how… how nasty and disgusting these… these Epstein files are.
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Jeezy: And I think in the way that they're dropping, even the more we find out.
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Jeezy: You already have them saying there's no extra charges coming out.
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Jeezy: There seems to be no response to none of this.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: even just from, you know, a public standpoint, there's nothing that's happening whatsoever. There's no, you know, charges, extra charges, there's no body losing endorsements, there's nobody… there's nobody losing anything of this. But yet, you still have the victims that are basically every other Friday, they're getting a drop.
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Jeezy: I mean, they don't… they're really the only ones that's really paying for all of this, because that womb is getting… that band-aid on that womb is getting ripped off every other day.
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Manny: time.
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Jeezy: off bi-weekly with these drops.
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Manny: Is this the week my name's gonna accidentally appear? Are they gonna redact my information properly, or are they gonna be able to copy and paste this?
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Jeezy: Even if it is redacted, you have the videos now. So even in the videos, they're covering, you know, they're redacting the people that sent the video, but think of it as a victim. I'm still seeing on the TV.
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Chuck: last night.
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Jeezy: I know that's me.
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Jeezy: You know what I'm saying? I know that's me that's in that, the world doesn't know it, but I gotta relive it, so if we're not bringing new charges on these people.
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Jeezy: But we keep making these drops, but we say that we care about the victims, but…
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Jeezy: 2 plus 2 ain't adding 4 to me.
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Manny: Agree.
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Jeezy: So what is the purpose of all these drops if nothing's gonna change?
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Chuck: Because the people asked for it, they claim they asked for it, they wanted it. And they did, not gonna say they claimed, they wanted it, but not realizing that there was no bite behind that bark.
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Manny: Right.
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Chuck: the Department of John, It's not gonna do anything.
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Jeezy: Yeah. I said this before. When they're gonna do something, they're just gonna be doing the wrong thing.
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Chuck: Okay, yep. You're right. Accurate, yep. You're right.
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Manny: Nothing is a thing to do in this scenario.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I know that… And, you know…
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Jeezy: Well, I sent you some of them videos.
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Jeezy: And with Jeffrey Epstein crawling over that aisle in that kitchen, chasing them girls around that kitchen, I said, bro, yeah.
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Chuck: Oh, I'm… I ain't even…
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Manny: I ain't watched the videos, man. Well, I didn't… well, I didn't intend.
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Chuck: I mean, if you're on Twitter is right in your face.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, I just happened to be scrolling, and I was like, oh, bruh, like… bruh, it wasn't.
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Chuck: He looked like one that would chase him across the counter and run around a little island in the kitchen.
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Chuck: Yeah. Fame.
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Manny: And here's ultimately, on your point on that, Jeezy, reliving it…
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Manny: no matter… How bad the files read, What actually happened is worse.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: These are just the files, these are the notes, these are the cliff notes. But the reality of what these victims went through is always going to be worse than what we will read in any document.
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Chuck: church, say amen.
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Manny: So maybe someone… it's going to take someone coming out with a picture, here's me and, person X,
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Manny: At the place who it is.
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Chuck: It's the Chappelle Show skit.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: That's what it is.
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Manny: But I heard, I heard the, I heard the note.
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Jeezy: Alright, let's move on.
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Manny: Here we go.
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Jeezy: New reporting has been revealed of a raid involving the 2020 Georgia voting ballots, raising serious concerns about election integrity. Your boy Donnie J,
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Jeezy: Had him go down to Georgia this week.
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Chuck: The FB…
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Jeezy: I think it was about 7 pallets of… It was.
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Chuck: No, it was 700 boxes, I know.
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Jeezy: 700 bucks.
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I think it was about… in my logistics mindset, I think that's about 7 or 8 pounds.
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Manny: So, yeah.
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Jeezy: They raided and took the ballots, and…
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Jeezy: Because he's still stuck on this 2020 election, but the odd thing about it, and I'll let you guys, further discuss it, but I thought it was very odd that we got a Tulsi Gabbard sighting.
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Manny: So… I'm gonna get to you, Chuck, it's your home state.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I'm about to say, yeah, you and you understand.
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Chuck: Yeah, and it was a very big thing down here, like…
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Chuck: I was receiving all kinds of alerts on my phone when it was going down.
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Chuck: The Tosy Gabbard sighting was… Very, very concerning.
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Chuck: Because it was the FBI who executed this search warrant and this seizure.
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Chuck: So, what the heck are you doing here?
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Chuck: This is not your… this is not your realm.
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Chuck: This is domestic.
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Manny: Yet.
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Chuck: Touche. Touche.
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Chuck: And in this, I gotta shout her out. One of the Fulton County commissioners, her name is Mo Ivory, and she has been heavy.
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Jeezy: Is that the lady that wear the glasses?
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Okay, yeah, I seen her, but didn't remember what her name was.
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Chuck: Yes, Mo Ivory. She has been heavy in, presenting information to the people.
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Chuck: kind of keeping them abreast of what's going on, where things stand. So salute to her in her efforts in providing
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Chuck: the best point of clarity that she can to the people, not just Fulton County, but everybody. But what was very concerning about this is, like you said, Geez,
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Chuck: It's the election results from 2020 in Fulton County, which Fulton County is the largest county in Georgia. It was the… or can be considered the county seat for the city of Atlanta, although Atlanta sits in 5 other counties, technically. But it's essentially the county,
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Chuck: where Atlanta's the county seat. And in this.
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Chuck: The seizure encompassed, not only ballots, it encompassed results, tapes, it,
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Chuck: Crap, I'm having a blank now. It also was, absentee ball, and the mail-in balance.
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Manny: voter rolls…
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Chuck: voter rolls, yes. And so, in this, like Mo Ivory said, the very concerning thing, yes, there is a question of tampering, and there is a question of…
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Chuck: Improprietary actions being taken on these items. But these absentee and mail-in ballots, you have people's names and addresses that you could harass.
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Chuck: That their privacy and safety and security have been compromised with this, because there's no level of transparency, there's no level of…
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Chuck: Understanding of what's going on.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: But the most egregious aspect of all of this is that there were… there was already…
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Chuck: judicial procedures in place for these to be audited. There was already a court order in place
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Chuck: Next month, for this to begin and happen, where there was transparency, there was what we call dual control, observation, and review for these audits to happen, so that everybody knew what was going on.
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Chuck: Now that they are under the…
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Chuck: Possession of the federal government, and it's behind closed doors.
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Chuck: Right. These local level… Who knows? These local levels are blocked out, and who knows? Who knows what's going on?
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Jeezy: Which is a trend we've been seeing happening, with locking the local government out of things, and letting the federal government be able to…
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Jeezy: do what they want to do, but my thing that I'm concerned about, Chuck, Amen, it is…
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Jeezy: There's already been investigations.
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Chuck: Already. After the election. Multiple.
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Jeezy: and… and more.
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Chuck: And cleared.
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Jeezy: And cleared, yes sir, cleared.
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Jeezy: But…
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Jeezy: Trump, you… first of all, Toast Gabbard, you got a lot more things that you need to be handling than worrying about this.
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Jeezy: Trump says she's been doing a lot of work on the 2020 election. Sir, that ain't her job.
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Jeezy: That is not her job whatsoever.
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Jeezy: So why is she doing that, too?
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Jeezy: Let's just say… You found out.
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Jeezy: That the election was rigged.
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Jeezy: What are we all supposed to do? Thanos snap and go back to 2020 and let you be president for the next 4 years?
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Manny: Like…
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Manny: That's where it goes into my point, my thought, Jeezy, and I was on the line about whether I feel like this is a conspiracy or not, or whether this is just a…
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Manny: Doctor Strange Manny prediction that I'm about to give.
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Jeezy: Is it, is it, is it worthy?
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Manny: Why not?
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Manny: So…
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Jeezy: Mmm!
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Manny: The fact that Tulsi was down there, and to Chuck's point, the Tulsi was down there, and this was executed by the FBI,
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Manny: Tells me that they're obviously looking into a larger coordinated attack.
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Manny: The conspiracy might be for them to figure out if there was stuff done, how they can reproduce it in their favor, but I think more so what is getting ready to happen is they are getting ready to link
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Manny: Whatever… they're trying to prove happened in Fulton County to some level of international actor being involved.
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Manny: Which would then propagate us.
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Manny: Kidnapping somebody else in the middle of the night, or doing something, attacking somebody.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Causing some other type of conflict of sorts.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Chuck: Because you're…
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Chuck: Since we get our conspiracy theory bag, Not as, intricate as Manny, not as… Full-level espionage is Manny.
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Chuck: But I think this may be a way for him to bring federal charges against Fonny Willis.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Hadn't.
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Chuck: I haven't heard about that one yet. Her charges against him.
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Chuck: was around, Election interference for 2020.
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Manny: Yeah, right. In Fulton County.
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Chuck: And what people are not… I ain't gonna say not realizing, but Georgia, although Atlanta is very blue.
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Chuck: although we have two Democratic senators, Georgia's a red state.
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Manny: Yeah. Your Secretary of State is…
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Chuck: Oh, hold on, hold on, bro.
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Manny: Okay.
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Chuck: Hollow, hold on, hold on, hold.
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Manny: Okay, we…
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Chuck: Not just the Secretary of State, the Governor.
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Manny: The Lieutenant Governor…
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Jeezy: and the Secretary of State are all Republicans.
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Chuck: the Secretary of State Did the… led the investigation that Jeezy mentioned earlier.
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Chuck: The Secretary of State is the one who was on the phone
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Chuck: Asking for the extra 11,000 votes, who told him no?
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Chuck: So, in this, it's not like it was… blue…
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Chuck: you know, one side, or a mix of both. This was a red-dominated state in that… in those areas and capacity. So that's what leads me to think…
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Chuck: Finally get your lawyers up, baby.
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Manny: Yeah…
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Jeezy: Hey, I will say this as we move on to the next topic.
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Jeezy: is that Chuck made a point about, saying that, you know, with the ballots and information and all the things that they, rated in Georgia, they have the addresses and names.
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Jeezy: Didn't y'all get in trouble… didn't y'all get in trouble with trying to intimidate folks?
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Manny: It didn't shut me.
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Jeezy: Trying to go to they house, trying to call them. Did y'all play that game one time? Ain't that why Rudy Giuliani broke?
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Jeezy: Hey, y'all, y'all gonna try that again?
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Chuck: hear that.
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Manny: If at first you don't succeed, keep on trying.
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Jeezy: Keep on trying. Maybe we… maybe we intimidated the wrong person.
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Jeezy: We're going to our next topic.
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Jeezy: We have, with Congress, once again.
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Jeezy: Running against the clock, there is something…
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Chuck: Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. -Oh.
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Chuck: I feel like I've seen this before.
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Chuck: I feel like I've lived this before.
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Jeezy: Brother, brother, I think you have.
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Chuck: It's almost like Groundhog's Day.
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Chuck: Okay.
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Jeezy: He did that.
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Manny: Come up.
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Chuck: I had a, I had a, that's a, that's a Rave moment.
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Manny: Raven moment?
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Jeezy: It seemed like, it seemed like every, every season, Here we are, with another…
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Jeezy: Government shutdown, and folks, I want y'all to know that I've been waiting to play this for a long time. Since the last government shutdown that happened a couple of months.
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Jeezy: Shut the government now.
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Manny: Down, down, down.
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Jeezy: Again, it looks like we're headed to, to a government shutdown, fellas. And it sounds like that Schumer, and Schumer got to go, bruh.
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Chuck: Germany cricket is…
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Jeezy: he got to go. He struck a deal with the White House, and…
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Jeezy: You're talking about, oh yeah, we're gonna be good. I think the Senate ended up voting… yay? Nay. Nay.
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Manny: Yeah, my friend.
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Chuck: That's why it was an A.
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Manny: Atlanta?
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Jeezy: I know that Hakeem said that when they come back here, the Democrats will not help you anymore.
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Manny: Well, yeah, no.
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Jeezy: What's your thoughts?
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Manny: Hakeem was like, yeah, oh, I'm not… I'm not playing this game.
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Manny: fi…
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Manny: Let's take a moment here. How… we are now in election season, so the House has to now play different games than they were when, hey, we could chill coming up, so they gotta be a little bit stronger, a little bit more principled on both sides, because at least through… at least through Super Tuesday, people gotta get through primaries.
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Chuck: But…
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Manny: you know, when it came out that a deal had been struck, I texted the boys, and I was just like.
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Manny: How do I know the Democrats have already lost with this deal before I even read the deal?
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Manny: And I think the original deal, and you guys correct me if I'm wrong, stripped out… basically just stripped out Department of Homeland Security money.
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Manny: And they're like, hey, we'll vote on this, but gave it, like, a two-week, or a month.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it was like.
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Manny: So they could try to figure it out, and figure out what rules…
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Jeezy: We played that game before, we're trying to, you know, we'll kick the can and we'll vote, and then when it came, we're like,
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Manny: But look, it appears to me that Schumer learned a little bit.
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Manny: Because, you know, last time, they got that promise of a vote.
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Manny: to maybe have something, you know, if we get the votes, the opportunity to talk about it. Here is at least a little bit more, you know, concrete, so I'm glad after Schumer's… how many years in Congress, he's finally learning how to… how this place.
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Jeezy: to do it.
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Manny: Great.
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Jeezy: What, Navigator's job?
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: But yeah, here we are again. We'll see how long this goes.
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Chuck: And I'm.
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Jeezy: When are they supposed to reconvene on it?
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Chuck: I believe Monday. Monday. Yeah, I believe is that?
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Manny: It's on and poppin'.
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Chuck: But here's the thing for me, and I will give them…
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Chuck: I will give them a little credit.
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Jeezy: Who's them? Specify.
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Chuck: The Dems. I'm not gonna give Chuck Schumer no credit, but I'll give the Dems a little credit.
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Chuck: because… and y'all… I can't remember if I was on the pod or not, but anyway, it was brought up here that, okay, the deal was made.
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Chuck: But there's a chance that we have another shutdown.
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Chuck: In January. Y'all put that out there for the listeners. But what I'll give them credit for is…
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Chuck: They took the bite out of it.
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Chuck: Because this time, SNAP benefits and food assistance programs are not affected.
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Chuck: And so, in that regard, that being extended out through September.
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Chuck: means I can put your feet to the fire, I can continue the fight, and not be impacted, or not impacting my constituents and having to decide if I'm gonna eat.
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Chuck: Or if I'm gonna live.
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Chuck: And so, I'll give them a little credit in that regard, that that aspect has been removed, where they're not feeling that pressure, but.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: I'm not… I don't have faith that they…
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Manny: The side part about that, Chuck, they've now pushed that to September, and September is the.
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Chuck: Oh, oh, I agree.
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Manny: This is now…
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Chuck: The thing about that, though, is…
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Chuck: with that being pushed to September.
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Chuck: We can make our fight a lot louder.
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: Yeah, we can run on that.
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Chuck: It's a riddle.
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Jeezy: that.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: If they learned anything.
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Manny: If they learned it.
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Jeezy: Bruh, that if is heavy, bruh.
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Jeezy: I think that, man, just… we're gonna see what happens Monday.
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Jeezy: How it goes… I don't know, Democrats, maybe… maybe third time's a trial. Third… is this the third time?
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Manny: I…
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Jeezy: Second? Third?
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Manny: I think it's the second time this… this administration.
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Chuck: Yeah, this is the second time this administration.
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Jeezy: Maybe, though.
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Manny: What we're not hearing about is them furloughing and firing people.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's true.
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Manny: At least at this juncture, as we sit right now, this seems to be a more quote-unquote normal shutdown, where people are going to be furloughed, and then they'll come back.
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Manny: We still have a lot to… a lot to have.
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Jeezy: I think they learned… I think the government learned from that first one.
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Chuck: Oh, yeah. Well, the Republicans knew that they can't stand a second round.
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Jeezy: Right, yeah.
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Chuck: They could not stand a second round of that leading into the primaries. Like, there's no way we would survive.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: heading into that, a lot of those incumbents would then lose their seats, or lose their races to those who are challenging them, and as Manny has attested to a lot here, it's hard to beat an incumbent.
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Manny: It is.
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Chuck: Unless they give you a chance… unless they give you a chance. Unless they screw it up. So in that, you know, you open the door for them to, present that opportunity right… right there in those moments, so… But what really irks me about this is the toying with FEMA
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Chuck: funds.
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Chuck: Like, it makes no sense…
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Chuck: Okay, we know there's scams. We're dealing with all kinds of scams here and there, left and right.
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Chuck: the FEMA funds… People who are asking for FEMA funds, 97% of the time, No. 99% of the time.
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Manny: Right, it's like…
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Chuck: needed.
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Jeezy: Needed.
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Chuck: Now, there are moments, and I ain't gonna call nobody out on it. I know some people who might not have needed FEMA funds, but since the FEMA funds was available, and I, you know, I might put my hands on some, I'll take some. It's not like it was millions of dollars, maybe I cut a couple hundred dollars.
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Jeezy: Nothing crazy.
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Chuck: Nothing crazy. However.
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Chuck: those who are requesting FEMA funds, number one, you have to be in an area that's declared a state of an emergency. That's number one. There are things that have to be done that you have no control over, that you… like, it has nothing to do with you that even puts it in place for those funds to be released. So…
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Chuck: The fact that they want to toy around with these funds and not have them enough in the coffers to be able to assist people. Like, right now, we're dealing with a major winter storm across the country.
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Chuck: Many, many places are without power. Many places, people are suffering in the storm. And these…
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Chuck: Governments need these funds to assist them in getting
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Chuck: what the insurance world says, indemnify putting people back to their base. That's not even talking about putting you up, putting you back to your base, and y'all are playing around with giving them funds. Meanwhile…
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Chuck: Let's give ICE this absorbent budget.
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Manny: Blank check.
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Chuck: Blank check. That's the perfect way to put it, man. It's a blank check to run around and be terrorists.
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Manny: Well, and then…
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Jeezy: My thing is, is that…
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Jeezy: And I'll talk about it later, but even when it comes to the FEMA funds.
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Jeezy: the budget and what is needed for FEMA, why does it matter when the person that runs FEMA isn't even doing their job to make sure the assistance is getting to where it needs to be?
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Manny: Geez, I was going the same… same point, and our good friend Tom… well, I'll call… I'll say my good friend Tom Tillis.
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Chuck: Yeah, don't say
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: Sorry. He's got some time today since… since he's on a retirement… he's on his retirement, Tori. He had some thoughts about this.
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Jeezy: Hodo, ho, ho, ho.
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Jeezy: We're getting ahead, brother.
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Manny: No, no, no, this is… this is… this is his comments about FEMA.
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Manny: Oh, okay, okay, sorry, sorry. Yeah, comments about FEMA, here it goes.
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Audio shared by Manny: Homeland Security job is disaster response, and I cannot tell you enough how incompetent, based on the facts, that she is on that score as well.
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Audio shared by Manny: The people of Western North Carolina, the people of eastern Tennessee, the people of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida who were affected by Helene deserve better.
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Audio shared by Manny: No reasonable business person would accept this in the C-suite.
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Audio shared by Manny: She needs to get out of the C-suite. It's not a…
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Manny: And I think, to Chuck's point, people are suffering. Like, this is not a game. Like, of all the departments.
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Manny: This is one of the ones that I've always believed, Homeland Security and the Department of War.
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Manny: Well, sorry, Department of Defense.
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Jeezy: I was about to say, bro, don't tell me…
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Chuck: We grew up outta here.
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Jeezy: I go ahead and rate them coals up on you.
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Manny: I was making sure y'all were away.
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Jeezy: Like, department to department.
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Manny: Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Those are two of the roles that I would like to not have amateurs in.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Jeezy: I completely agree.
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Manny: real lives, and I think this goes… to hit very quickly back on the shutdown, they can't afford to have people going hungry
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Manny: When FEMA's not giving out benefits that people need to survive.
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Chuck: Man?
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Chuck: And the fact that they are still…
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Chuck: there's still people in those areas that Tillis was talking about who are still struggling, still trying to get it together. All this time later is further emphasizing the point of ridiculousness that has happened with the…
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Manny: And it's not for a lack of trying.
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Chuck: Because… Oh, yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
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Manny: All these states have done everything that they could to help what they… they need these.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: a distance.
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Jeezy: They're not out here not trying, but they need the federal government to kick in.
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Chuck: And that's the whole point of FEMA!
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Jeezy: Right, like, that's…
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Chuck: That's your whole purpose. It's not like… I need y'all to do what you said you were gonna do, right? What you were trying to do. Yeah, it's not like we ask you to go outside the job, the scope of your job. Listen.
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Jeezy: Yeah, because I'm asking you to do what you're supposed to do.
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Chuck: Your job application said this. These are the duties of your job. You accepted this job, now you don't want to do your job.
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Jeezy: Nuh.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Should show you the amateurness that surrounded this department, bro.
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Manny: But also, Christie Dome.
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Manny: Governor of which… what? One of the.
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Jeezy: We don't care.
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Jeezy: I don't care.
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Jeezy: And I'm just like, do not care.
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Manny: Did your state just not deal with disasters?
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Jeezy: Right, sure.
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Manny: Understand the need of having disaster response from the federal government?
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Jeezy: When's the last time you seen somebody from one of the Dakotas saying, hey, man, I'm struggling.
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Manny: They're used to it.
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Jeezy: That's how life is, bro. What's in Dakota, bruh
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Jeezy: Buffaloes, stuff roaming around, weird animals, weather, mountains.
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Chuck: Let's see.
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Jeezy: snow, rocks, your next neighbor is 27.
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Manny: 1.3 million.
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Jeezy: miles away from you, bruh. If you scream, nobody'll never hear you. What am I gonna say?
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Jeezy: You governing over… you governing over 1,500 people in a state that's as big as…
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Chuck: And canyons.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: You go hiking and you don't make it back, nobody come looking for you. They just already know, bruh, you're dead. We ain't no rescue.
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Jeezy: That's who she covered, bruh. We don't know nobody. Matter of fact, if we have any listeners from one of the Dakotas, let us know.
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Manny: No, we don't. We don't.
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Jeezy: See? See?
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Jeezy: They probably, bruh, they all probably still got flip phones, bruh.
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Manny: Pardon the politics has been heard in all but three states.
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Manny: Wyoming, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
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Jeezy: T?
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Jeezy: See? If they don't come by landline, or in the newspaper, they don't hear about it, bruh. Unless they can listen to the podcast over the phone, they're not hearing it, bruh.
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Manny: Too much data for dial-up.
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Jeezy: If they did have a data plan, by the time they opened up, and by the time we got to Hello World, this is part of the… their plan would be exhausted, bruh.
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Jeezy: You have now reached your data limits.
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Manny: They're already getting them feet.
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Jeezy: I wonder why they get a bill of data for, like, $200… $275, $100. Yeah.
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Manny: Bruh, 17-year-olds just trying to stay up on politics.
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Jeezy: I ain't… bruh, matter of fact, now you got me thinking, when we finish recording, I gotta go look, bruh. Do anybody in any of the Dakotas, do y'all even have social media? Do anybody… what do y'all post? You… because you can't do food reviews. Y'all got two restaurants in the whole state.
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Jeezy: Bruh, hold on, bruh, never mind, bruh, look.
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Jeezy: Somebody's starting to do a random.
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Manny: Look. Bruh, they caught us straight for no reason. They caught us straight for no reason.
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Chuck: The only thing that Dakotas ever had going for them was the movie Fargo, and ain't nobody… that was a weird movie.
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Manny: That was… man, let me, let me move on. Anyway… We're moving on.
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Manny: Moving on, bro. Next.
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Jeezy: President Donald Trump announced his pick.
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Jeezy: for a new Federal Reserve Chair.
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Jeezy: Sparking debate over the Fed's independence and what it could mean for interest rates.
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Jeezy: and inflation. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right now.
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Jeezy: I don't know the new dude.
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Jeezy: But I'm… one thing about me, I'm gonna always ride with mine, and die with mine. I'm a loyalist. I ride with my boys.
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Jeezy: It's Jerome.
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Jeezy: Big, big drone. We rollin' with you, dawg. I don't know what the next dude is. I don't know who the next dude is, I don't know what he talking about, I don't know what his game is, I don't know any details about him.
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Manny: We ain't cool like that.
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Jeezy: We goo.
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Jeezy: Kid, move around.
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Manny: What are your thoughts? This is one of your spotlights.
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Chuck: It was. It was, my good brother.
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Chuck: Yeah, so, interestingly enough, the gentleman who Trump has tagged as the next
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Chuck: Federal Reserve Chair. Name is Kevin Warsh.
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Manny: the R. It'd be, it'd be the.
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Chuck: Yeah, I wanna say Walsh, dude.
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Chuck: wash.
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Chuck: And he's a former banker and Federal Reserve governor himself, so he is not coming in to this role naive of the, happenings in the Federal Reserve Committee.
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Chuck: He, he has some… some understanding and workings in there, which is…
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Chuck: A positive from the standpoint of, you don't want…
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Chuck: someone incompetent as, coming in, as there are in many other different spaces in this administration, as Tom Tillis, eloquently pointed out the other day at the Trump called him a loser. But anyway, so in that,
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Chuck: It's gonna be interesting. He was actually an economic advisor to George W. Bush as well, and Trump, so…
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Chuck: He is one who has qualifications.
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Chuck: That is something that I can't speak to,
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Chuck: there were thoughts that Trump would go in a different direction, and…
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Chuck: I am… I will say I'm relieved that he did not go in the original direction that many people thought he was gonna go into.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: However.
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Chuck: I'm gonna hold… I'm gonna hold a little bit of trepidation, because… Jerome Powell's a Trump pick.
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Jeezy: I thought the same thing, brother.
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Chuck: Yeah, but that was a…
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Manny: He's… he was a Gen 1. There's a Gen 1…
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Chuck: Take in the gin, too.
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Jeezy: But to that, Manny.
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Jeezy: The guy that, that he picked now, he was, I believe, the number two guy, like.
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Chuck: He wasn't second choice. Yeah, it was his second choice.
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Jeezy: So, I mean, if you pick Jerome, that's kind of what I thought about the other day, like, okay, you picked Jerome, and we've seen how he's done.
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Jeezy: Maybe this guy may not be too far away from the tree?
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Manny: So here's… here's what I found interesting about ol' Kevin.
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Manny: is when he was on the Federal Reserve.
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Chuck: I was gonna speak today, yeah. Go ahead, go ahead.
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Manny: He was one of the ones that was just like, yo, interest rates way too high, way too low. Like, we need to raise interest rates. Like, that was his thing. Like, he was the guy that always believed, hey, we should keep interest rates or raise them.
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Manny: So I'm just like, so you still believe that? Like, what is this version of Kevin that we have coming back?
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Manny: Because… That's real interesting. And he's also alluded to being kind of very much pro-tariff.
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Manny: I don't know how… Whatever, he's pro-tariff.
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Manny: So I think I'm with Chuck on this one, where it's like, okay, you're… I know you're qualified, I know you are aware of what to… what needs to be done.
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Manny: But what are you also going to do?
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Manny: But also, here comes the interesting thing of all of this, is…
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Manny: I don't know when and if you'll get approved.
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Chuck: Yeah…
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Manny: Because you already have…
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Manny: You already have… you gotta get approved. Tom Tillis, again, Tom, on his retirement tour, he's got plenty of time.
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Manny: has said that, hey, I'm not entertaining any type of vote for a new Fed chair until this whole legal battle with Jerome and the FBI has been dealt with
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Manny: handles.
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Chuck: That's all good.
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Manny: resolved. We're not… So, until then.
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Manny: we… Jerome is still going to be the, the chair.
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Chuck: No, his term is actually till May.
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Manny: Yeah. But he'll stay in place until a new Fed chair is confirmed. So, you have that piece, and then to a point that we had talked about earlier here on the pod.
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Manny: they went ahead and stacked the board. The board is set for at least the next year, so in terms of our monetary…
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Manny: How long?
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Chuck: It's 5, it's 5-year terms.
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Manny: Well, there we go. So, our monetary policy is very locked.
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Jeezy: For, at least in terms of these bodies.
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Manny: So I think that'll be interesting to watch how it plays out. And then, on top of that, you still have the court case with the Fed rep that Trump tried to fire because of the whole mortgage thing that's still looming over everything.
676
Manny: It's a very not fun time to be at the Fed, or at least a very interesting time to be at the Fed, and we'll see what happens.
677
Chuck: And quickly, a point that I was gonna speak to as well, the market reaction.
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Manny: Yay!
679
Chuck: So…
680
Chuck: for those who don't know, gold, and particularly silver, has been on a meteoric rise over the past few weeks. I'm talking…
681
Chuck: Crazy numbers. Silver…
682
Jeezy: Hmm.
683
Chuck: Just a few weeks ago, was at, like, 30-something dollars an ounce.
684
Chuck: It ran up to, like, $1.15 an ounce.
685
Jeezy: Wow.
686
Manny: Yeah.
687
Chuck: Gold was over $5,000 an ounce.
688
Chuck: At one point.
689
Chuck: well, they… they plummeted when this was announced about Kevin Warsh. And it was a decline in the stock markets because he was seen, as many was pointing to, as an inflation hawk, meaning he cared about rates more than he cared about jobs.
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Chuck: We're already showing to be losing jobs.
691
Manny: Yep.
692
Chuck: In an economy that shows no signs of getting better.
693
Jeezy: And so, in that…
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Chuck: Yeah, and so, with this, this appointment.
695
Chuck: And nomination, has provided a market correction in precious metals because of what
696
Chuck: he has been known to stand for, and even recently, they say that he's probably become a little bit more moderate in his stances, because he's echoed the sentiment of being critical of the Fed, but also, like Manny said, supporting tariffs.
697
Chuck: Well, if you're supporting terrorists, you see where he has gotten us so far.
698
Manny: But you're supporting tariffs and being so focused on inflationary measures. I… I don't know how you reconcile that, but maybe we find out? Maybe we don't?
699
Manny: Because, again, I think what everyone forgets from time to time with these nominations, you guys still agree to go through this process.
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Manny: And there have been people who have dropped out of the process because it's taken too long. So what is the appetite of a person to now, every political appointment.
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Manny: is that much more politicized, and I think there are some… there are fantastic people that would be great at doing these jobs who are just like, I absolutely don't want to deal with this nonsense. So, no, take me out.
702
Chuck: That's like… that's like some of these job interviews, and you going through 4, 5, 6 interviews. Do you want me, or do you not? Right.
703
Jeezy: It's like the coach of the Browns. Bro, look, every time I hear people talk about that, when they talk about, like, going them extra rounds, I'm like, well, pause.
704
Jeezy: I think about that video, that guy that was, like, he was, like, in prison for, like, life or something, and was like, but had that possibility for parole. And when he came to the parole hearing, they were like, do you have anything to say about your parole? He was like, look, y'all gonna free me or not. Like, I'm not gonna sit here and beg y'all. I've been in jail 30 years.
705
Chuck: If y'all ain't gonna free me, then I'm going back to my cell, like…
706
Jeezy: I ain't about to sit here and go through all this.
707
Chuck: Right.
708
Jeezy: All this apology, all this… I ain't about to go through all this politics, brother. Y'all gonna free me or not? We deny it. Alright, then I'm going…
709
Chuck: This ain't my first time a friendmate.
710
Manny: Yeah, I don't apologize the first 7 times to see here.
711
Jeezy: If I done done… if I done done 30, another 30 ain't… look, hey, what's another 30?
712
Jeezy: But yeah, bro.
713
Jeezy: That's ridiculous. We'll see what happens. I agree with Tom Tillis. I mean, if you got this process going on with Jerome that needs to play out, I believe it wholeheartedly needs to play out, and that might have been…
714
Jeezy: You might have bit off a little bit more than you can chew, because you maybe, instead of trying to be fun and intimidate Jerome.
715
Jeezy: You might should've held… I run off your guy. Let him go ahead and run his course, and then you pick your guy, and we'll pick up from there, but…
716
Jeezy: I mean, because… What happens?
717
Manny: If you're watching what now the Trump administration is doing.
718
Manny: to the guy the Trump administration put in there.
719
Manny: How much more does that change your appetite for whether you want to do the job?
720
Jeezy: Look, I ain't about to play them games.
721
Manny: Aye, -oh.
722
Jeezy: I can do something better.
723
Jeezy: So, we'll see what happens. That's gonna be a long process, and we don't know when that process will happen, because, if Tillis is speaking that, I'm sure that there are multiple people that are within the chamber that believe that same sentiment as well. So, we'll see what happens.
724
Jeezy: for the next… Speaking of Tom Tillis…
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Chuck: Old Tommy. Tommy made some… Tom made some noise this week, boy.
726
Jeezy: In a very short amount of time, he's definitely made a lot of noise, man. He's definitely made a lot of noise, and he particularly has been, going at our lovely, cosplay individual known as Christy Noem, and
727
Jeezy: they've been going at it and clashing publicly, so we can only imagine what Tom is saying about Christie behind closed doors, so…
728
Manny: Boy.
729
Jeezy: What's your thoughts on… what's your thoughts on this, brother?
730
Manny: Well, first I want to play the clip. Chuck alluded to it earlier, and I was like, we just gotta play the clip. So I'm gonna play the clip. Here we go.
731
Audio shared by Manny: I have no intention of voting until the, legal matter's resolved, for anybody. So, what message will it send to the country if Christine Noel continues as Secretary of Homeland Security? That we're allowing incompetent people
732
Audio shared by Manny: roles in the cabinet. I mean, because the president doesn't seem to be willing to get rid of her. He has confidence in her, he says. I don't have any confidence. Look, we're about to map out the, something I've tried to work…
733
Audio shared by Manny: Diplomatically on, but she's a complete failure on a disaster response. There's no comparison between his Homeland Security and President Trump's first term and this one. They're asleep at the switch. They're pushing paper and doing Doge shit, and causing people not to get badly needed resources down there. She clearly doesn't know how to manage, she's never managed a large organization, and she's failed
734
Audio shared by Manny: at every possible measure of the job. And it seems like Stephen Miller's not going anywhere either. Well, you know, again, I'll leave it up to the president. Stephen Miller was the one who got out in front on Greenland.
735
Audio shared by Manny: It's not working the way he said it was. He got out in front and told the president, before he'd even taken the time to understand the incident that happened in Minneapolis, that a terrorist had been killed and was brandishing a weapon.
736
Chuck: bar at the bar.
737
Audio shared by Manny: amateurs in the strictest… Some give you the ether beat. Do you support that?
738
Chuck: Please!
739
Audio shared by Manny: this bill that's pending on the floor right now, the funding bill, in order to pass us on the front line. My heart, I feel badly for these. You know, you're talking about a few who are involved in the incident, but they're…
740
Manny: Okay, I'm gonna find the other clip, the shorter version of the clip, and we'll come back to it, but Tom's clearly got time.
741
Manny: And he's really fed up with Christie now.
742
Chuck: Fit, fade.
743
Manny: Ugh.
744
Chuck: Sick of her. Hey, Tom was out there dropping bar after bar.
745
Jeezy: She will.
746
Chuck: Well, you would think it was Freestyle Friday.
747
Chuck: Absolutely.
748
Jeezy: Yeah, 103.
749
Chuck: Yes, sir. Let it ride.
750
Jeezy: Yes, sir?
751
Chuck: Yeah, and I'm gonna be honest, in full disclosure.
752
Chuck: I've never been a fan of Tom Tillis. As a former resident of the great state of North Carolina, as y'all know, this is my home state, I love home. North Carolina born, no Carolina bred.
753
Chuck: but… What do they say, a broken clock could be right at least twice a day?
754
Jeezy: Twice a day, brother.
755
Chuck: That's the one… that's the… that's his fir- one time being right.
756
Manny: Like, okay.
757
Chuck: Drop, drop that, drop that beat, man.
758
Audio shared by Manny: The President called you a loser, I believe. I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security Secretary and Senior Advisor to the President.
759
Manny: Walk-off. Walk-off time!
760
Jeezy: Great man.
761
Jeezy: I wish I had, bro, I wish I had the gunshots out, bro.
762
Chuck: Hold on, hold on, run that back, man. Run that back. The emphasis in his voice, he was like, I was… I've been waiting on this one.
763
Chuck: Just read it back, ready to use.
764
Audio shared by Manny: The President called you a loser, I believe. I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be Homeland Security Secretary and Senior Advisor to the President.
765
Jeezy: Bam!
766
Chuck: I ain't thrilled about that.
767
Manny: Damn, it's the walk-off.
768
Chuck: They'll walk down That reporter, the smile on that reporter's face.
769
Chuck: makes it look like the Wade to LeBron Alley, and Wade looking at the camera like, yeah, I threw that. That's what that smile was, like, yeah, I set that up.
770
Manny: He said, that clip about to do numbers.
771
Jeezy: Oh, yeah. That's one of the guys that knew… that knew Tom Tills personally. He said, oh yeah, I know you got something to say. I got you, bro.
772
Manny: At the heart of it, Christy Noem, Has been horrible.
773
Manny: Terrible. Like, this has been a horrible two-week run for her.
774
Manny: like… Minnesota has been chaos.
775
Manny: Chaos from the get-go.
776
Manny: Yep. And it's clear that they have no real plan there.
777
Manny: Then you got the whole beef between Christie and Stephen Miller.
778
Manny: And it's going to keep getting worse. So at some point, it is still shocking to me that we are a year into this administration, and we've not had a major firing.
779
Manny: Like I, they keep getting close.
780
Jeezy: They flying closer?
781
Manny: We keep getting so close, and then something else happens, and it distracts everyone.
782
Jeezy: I just knew Chrissy was gonna get fired, because when Tom sent… when they sent Tom, to Minnesota, I was like, yeah, it's about time, brother.
783
Jeezy: by time to wrap it up and give him the Marco Rubio package. Go ahead and start merging planes together, you border czar and head of the Department of Homeland Security.
784
Manny: Right. And for all we know, the only reason that, Christy Noem still has a job is because Marco has said, hey, I can't.
785
Jeezy: I can't do no more.
786
Manny: Look, I'd uncharted my hours, task by task, and look, they're… it's a 40-hour work week. You already got me working 97 hours.
787
Jeezy: Marco sitting the meetings and heard him talk about releasing Chrissy and letting him take over for the time being. He said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
788
Chuck: Maddie, mad it. Maddie.
789
Manny: ew.
790
Jeezy: I can't do this.
791
Chuck: Oh, and I have a theory real quick about Marco Rubio and all his jobs. It's not music-worthy. It's not music-worthy. It's just that… this is punishment.
792
Chuck: This is all punishment.
793
Jeezy: True.
794
Manny: Trump is like, okay, I'm letting you in.
795
Chuck: But you're gonna do all this work, because…
796
Manny: You want more?
797
Chuck: When we was on that first, first, campaign trail and battling each other, Oh, it was ugly.
798
Manny: You said some stuff about me I didn't like.
799
Chuck: I ain't like, so you want to join this gang? You gonna do everything.
800
Jeezy: Bruh, I've never been.
801
Manny: looked at it like that. He's straight up punishing that man. He's punishing this man.
802
Chuck: Because Marco looks miserable.
803
Jeezy: He do.
804
Chuck: He looks miserable, you know?
805
Jeezy: Like, you don't want to die.
806
Jeezy: He like… he do. Two things can be true.
807
Manny: He thought he was gonna be a… he… I think Rubio, in his head, thought, hey, this is gonna be, like, the Trump-first administration. Oh, yeah. We're just gonna run that back, and cool. He thought that…
808
Jeezy: If he thought that was the case, he clearly can't read the room.
809
Manny: Bruh.
810
Jeezy: We all knew that this one was gonna be like that.
811
Manny: I'll do it.
812
Jeezy: You can't be that bitch.
813
Chuck: The signs were clear.
814
Manny: We try.
815
Jeezy: Yeah, man, this whole thing with Christy Noah, man, and Tillis is completely right. He's completely right. Because,
816
Jeezy: Well, you have so much, and that's kind of what I was alluding to in our previous topic.
817
Jeezy: You have so much disaster going on.
818
Jeezy: There is so much that is going on in the country, and your assistance is needed. And I think that people forget that that is part of the head of the Department of Homeland Security's job.
819
Jeezy: Yeah. Is to worry about that. That is a part of their job, and clearly, she's out cosplaying an agent. I don't know if y'all seen that video where she made, posted when she was standing with the agent, and she literally had the rifle pointed at her head.
820
Chuck: Buh.
821
Jeezy: That'd be the bell right at home in here, and she goes.
822
Manny: It's also clear that this administration does not care about gun rights.
823
Manny: They… That over the last two weeks.
824
Jeezy: So…
825
Chuck: How to handle one properly. I'm like, what?
826
Jeezy: Bruh, so, tell us is 100%, and I mean, I said this in the group chat, but…
827
Jeezy: Tills, I would have loved for this energy to be there from day one.
828
Jeezy: And I feel some type of way that we get this energy on your way out, when you're closer to the exit.
829
Jeezy: But I mean, hey, go ahead and drop the gems in the bars while you're there, but to anybody else coming in.
830
Jeezy: Come with that energy starting out, bruh. We need that.
831
Manny: Let's start there. Don't work your way out there.
832
Jeezy: Don't, don't be…
833
Jeezy: You need to come in and show us something that we can change your name from the cowards of Congress.
834
Jeezy: We gotta change it from that.
835
Jeezy: If not.
836
Chuck: I don't work.
837
Jeezy: People take a whole heap, and if they stay in the South, a whole heap.
838
Chuck: A whole.
839
Jeezy: Whole heap of chains.
840
Chuck: Yes, sir.
841
Jeezy: Getting to get that done.
842
Manny: As we get ready to wrap on this one, I think the one thing that will be interesting going forward with the expanded discussions that are supposed to be had around the Department of Homeland Security, A, how loud will Tillis' voice be?
843
Jeezy: Mmm.
844
Manny: And how will that impact what the future of the Department of Homeland Security looks like?
845
Manny: Because…
846
Manny: Is it plaus… is it plausible that they start spinning off ICE completely out of Homeland Security to have someone else run it? I think it's…
847
Chuck: Guess what that is? More bureaucratic bull.
848
Jeezy: Yep.
849
Manny: That's okay.
850
Chuck: What happened to small government?
851
Manny: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This administration doesn't like bureaucracy when it's someone else's bureaucracy.
852
Chuck: But when it's.
853
Manny: It's like that, it was that one policy.
854
Manny: You know?
855
Manny: Corruption is bad. But if I'm part of it, I defend it.
856
Jeezy: Right, right. That's one of my favorite clips.
857
Jeezy: I defend it. If I'm part of it, I gotta defend it, bro.
858
Manny: Huh.
859
Chuck: Oh, man.
860
Jeezy: Hey, man, we'll see what happens, man. On to the next topic.
861
Manny: Right. So this week.
862
Jeezy: That was another kidnapping, brother.
863
Manny: Brad, what are we doing? That's perfect. That's exactly what it was. Kidnapping. In the first degree.
864
Manny: Right.
865
Jeezy: And I want y'all to know, when I read this, I'mma let y'all into my world just a little bit, how my mind operates when it comes to politics.
866
Chuck: Welcome to Dairy.
867
Jeezy: Welcome.
868
Manny: So I was sitting there listening to all this that happened, to our listeners.
869
Jeezy: What I'm talking about, the U.S. Coast Guard spent weeks chasing the oil tanker across the Atlantic. We talked about this in previous episodes. And then the crew, literally paints a Russian flag on the back of the ship as the U.S. was closing in.
870
Jeezy: Well, the ship eventually ends up near the United Kingdom waters, Scotland specifically, where things got a little messy legally. So, the Scottish court tries to step in to stop the U.S,
871
Jeezy: From taking the ship's captain.
872
Manny: And it's first officer.
873
Jeezy: So the lawyers are filing motions, judges are still deliberating, and then late at night.
874
Jeezy: Late in the midnight hour. Late in the midnight hour. The U.S. moves in anyway.
875
Jeezy: The captain and his first officer are quietly taken off the ship, transferred onto a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, just hours after that court order kicking off accusation of jurisdiction shopping, legal overreach, and one lawyer straight up calling it an abduction. And when I read this.
876
Jeezy: Chuck, you may appreciate this, this is what came to my mind, brother.
877
Chuck: Hey, you thought you lost.
878
Audio shared by Jeezy: Good on that shift, huh?
879
Jeezy: I said that Russian flag, you thought you was gonna get away, huh?
880
Audio shared by Jeezy: Yeah, you thought you'd get back to land, huh?
881
Jeezy: Here we come and sat you like Maduro did in the middle of the night, huh?
882
Chuck: They don't whip you, huh? They don't punch you.
883
Audio shared by Jeezy: Yeah, huh?
884
Jeezy: I heard that beat straight up in my head when I was listening, I said.
885
Jeezy: The U.S. is wild, bruh. You thought you were safe when you got over it in them waters, huh?
886
Chuck: Pretty wild wood.
887
Jeezy: Yo.
888
Chuck: straight away.
889
Jeezy: The U.S. and I was watching the clip of the Scottish, court.
890
Jeezy: Literally.
891
Chuck: Listen.
892
Jeezy: Like, they were going like, bruh, how did y'all just come and abduct me?
893
Chuck: Little dude with the red head, the little ginger.
894
Jeezy: Glasses on?
895
Chuck: Glasses on!
896
Manny: What?
897
Chuck: Listen, he was spittin' his illest 16, ever. Yes, sir!
898
Jeezy: Yes, sir!
899
Manny: Here's…
900
Jeezy: And then the guy after him came up and just was like…
901
Jeezy: I know, but we're still trying to just leak…
902
Manny: He, like.
903
Jeezy: When y'all, y'all are here?
904
Manny: Dude!
905
Jeezy: zone! They go home!
906
Manny: Here… here's where I think every country around the world is probably concerned.
907
Manny: the… I feel like if you have to stack rank the armed forces in terms of, like, their perceived, like, oh, they're coming.
908
Manny: Coast Guard is near the bottom.
909
Manny: Lightning.
910
Manny: But the Coast Guard…
911
Chuck: Depends on what you're doing.
912
Manny: This is true. This is true. But this… All of our military branches, Have the ability.
913
Manny: To kidnap people.
914
Chuck: Listen, so let's put some respect on the Coast Guard name, though, because… Them chokers…
915
Chuck: It is the Coast Guard, in conjunction with other meteorological entities, that's flying in the middle of these hurricanes.
916
Manny: This is true.
917
Chuck: And it's providing a…
918
Jeezy: with this data.
919
Manny: This is true.
920
Chuck: These ain't no chumps now. Right. Like, the Coast Guard…
921
Manny: But you usually don't hear… You don't hear about…
922
Chuck: Think about it.
923
Manny: Guard.
924
Manny: Doing operations like this.
925
Chuck: It's not like this.
926
Chuck: But if they're brave enough to go and save people who are in the middle of the ocean, drowning, locating them, like…
927
Jeezy: Yeah. A helicopter literally in the middle of the ocean, dropping down, trying to pull something, yeah, you gotta be a tough dog to do that.
928
Chuck: Yes, sir.
929
Manny: But it's also, like, the Coast Guard is also the firefighters of the U.S. military.
930
Manny: You hear the Coast Guard is coming, it's usually, hey, something has gone wrong, a ship just capsized, here come the Coast Guard to save them.
931
Chuck: I was about to cause a controversy on y'all… on this show, but I ain't gonna do it.
932
Chuck: I ain't gonna do it. Salute to the Coast Guard.
933
Manny: But like I said, Every single one of our military branches has the ability
934
Manny: To come get you if we need to.
935
Chuck: Yeah.
936
Chuck: Shout out to the firefighters, too. I got mad love for the firefighters.
937
Manny: I'm a fight.
938
Jeezy: Or volunteer ones, too.
939
Chuck: No, no, no, no, no, no, I don't… that's not a pause, that's respect. That's legit respect. And my controversy had nothing to do with the slight of a firefighter. Salute to Manny's comment, salute to the Coast Guard, salute to the firefighters. Firefighters and Coast Guard are probably some of the bravest individuals
940
Chuck: ever in life, besides those who work on, this, there's, fishing boats and crab boats in Alaska.
941
Chuck: That's wild.
942
Manny: Do it in daily as cage. Dale is C, man.
943
Jeezy: But I will say… Some of them volunteer firefighters can be a little annoying, though.
944
Chuck: No, no, no, I'm talking about those who are employed, who get a check.
945
Jeezy: Ayy.
946
Chuck: I just gotta clarify, because you… they don't see that V. They don't see that V in front of Firefire. I'm just… that's why I gotta clear…
947
Jeezy: Some of them just see firefighter, and they say, oh, okay, no, you gotta be in front of you.
948
Chuck: They couldn't pass the test. They couldn't pass the test, but they want to help out.
949
Jeezy: Yeah, you, you still…
950
Chuck: You a volunteer, bruh.
951
Jeezy: Yeah, you still loading stamps at the post office in that vending machine. Chill out.
952
Jeezy: With that annoying wild pager that you walk around Home Depot with.
953
Chuck: Look, your light sit on your dash of your truck.
954
Jeezy: Right.
955
Chuck: Chill out.
956
Chuck: Ain't nothing official about your vehicle, bruh.
957
Jeezy: Bruh.
958
Chuck: If you put that little light, you put that little light on the top of your car with a magnet, like the police cops from the 80s.
959
Chuck: Not good.
960
Jeezy: so mad when there'd be an accident, there'd be a volunteer firefighter directing traffic. I'd be wanting to yell out the window, can one of y'all officers please come over here and replace him? You about piss me off. Tell Jim Bob to go ahead and go back home and get started on something.
961
Chuck: Whoa!
962
Chuck: You can't eat turtles.
963
Chuck: You can't even turn on a faucet by yourself, bro. You're a volunteer. Chill out.
964
Chuck: Just a mean strain. Because you know what?
965
Manny: Probably just had to catch that straight, bro.
966
Chuck: Since leaving eastern North Carolina, I have not seen as many volunteer firefighters as I do.
967
Jeezy: be able to do.
968
Chuck: in North Carolina. It's a whole bunch, a whole heap of them.
969
Jeezy: I got about 25 living around me right now. I hope they listen to this episode and know how I feel about it. Y'all got to chill. You ain't real.
970
Chuck: Bruh, they… I was watching the show, speaking to that, it reminded me, this girl's gonna yell out citizen arrest. If you don't get the hell out of my…
971
Jeezy: Ew.
972
Jeezy: Don't let that citizen's arrest get you hemmed up.
973
Chuck: Right?
974
Manny: you arrested and developed.
975
Chuck: Bruh, I'm sorry. Yeah, that wasn't me.
976
Jeezy: You scrambled.
977
Manny: Bruh, I love it, I love it.
978
Jeezy: Well, another straight-up happened this past week, as we move on to our next topic. And actually, we've reached our final, final topic of the rapid-fire, game that we're playing on today. The boy, the homie.
979
Jeezy: Depending on…
980
Manny: Shout out to Eric if.
981
Jeezy: According to Eric, he'd be a real one. Don Lemon.
982
Jeezy: The Unlimited was arrested.
983
Jeezy: This past week.
984
Jeezy: Along with other, journalists, in connection to the protests that took place.
985
Jeezy: At a Minnesota church, I believe it was this past week.
986
Jeezy: I seen them circulating online.
987
Jeezy: They had, they had Don Lemon's, face on Donnie T's mugshot.
988
Chuck: Yes. And I…
989
Manny: On a side note, we need to take AI from a lot of hell.
990
Chuck: A lot of people.
991
Manny: People don't be having access to AI.
992
Chuck: Yeah.
993
Jeezy: There should be a rule that if you are using AI,
994
Jeezy: And the amount of water you are destroying is not equal to the amount of water you consume.
995
Jeezy: See, you don't need to use it, because I know a lot of y'all that use it don't drink water.
996
Manny: Don't drink enough water.
997
Chuck: Got an ammonia peanut
998
Chuck: Ammonia urine. Take the paint off the urine. And you wanna destroy other people's water source.
999
Jeezy: Yep, if you can't consume the amount of water that you wasting no AI, then you don't need to be using.
1000
Jeezy: Go ahead, brother.
1001
Manny: Man, I don't think… I was not shocked.
1002
Chuck: Hold on, Manny, hold on, Manny, hold on.
1003
Chuck: Jeezy, you are a renowned musician, for the listeners who don't know. My brother is very astute in the musical realm. When I first met him, he banned the whole nine, the brother is very gifted.
1004
Jeezy: isn't.
1005
Chuck: Yes, sir, yes sir. What was my man's name? It's Black History Month, and I should be ashamed of myself for not knowing the…
1006
Jeezy: I might be ashamed too now.
1007
Manny: Was it Fats Domino?
1008
Chuck: With the…
1009
Jeezy: Vance Domino played the, piano.
1010
Jeezy: Okay. You ain't talking about, lesbian.
1011
Chuck: Yes, Dizzy Gillespie.
1012
Jeezy: Yeah.
1013
Manny: I don't even know how you got to that answer.
1014
Chuck: I just gave the man his praise for a reason.
1015
Manny: Like, I…
1016
Chuck: I'm trying to figure out…
1017
Manny: the question, I was like.
1018
Jeezy: Look, I don't talk about music much, man, but if you ever get me in my bag now…
1019
Manny: I know what you're talking about.
1020
Jeezy: Meg, I… I know some stuff, bruh.
1021
Manny: For our listeners who were trying to understand what Chuck was asking, just know that…
1022
Chuck: That's why I prefaced everything with the praise, because that wasn't bad. Like, it wasn't no joke. But I just want to get my Gillespie on and toot my own horn, because this is another one of my spotlights.
1023
Jeezy: I'm just saying, but yeah, go ahead.
1024
Manny: Again… I was not surprised… sorry, I was shocked. I was not surprised by that.
1025
Manny: Because it is the tune that this administration is now taking towards news and news media. So this should not be shocking… this should not be surprising to everyone. It is still shocking that they actually did it.
1026
Manny: And…
1027
Chuck: The shocking part is because… To your point, Not surprised… It's shocking, but not surprised.
1028
Manny: Yeah.
1029
Chuck: Because… oh, Harry said it. Because… They had a court order.
1030
Chuck: or not a court order, they had several prosecutors who turned it down. There was an appellate judge
1031
Chuck: Who turned it down in filing charges, but the pettiness of this administration…
1032
Manny: Bruh.
1033
Chuck: to what Manny is speaking to, this is what they show you, their level of petty, okay?
1034
Jeezy: They had to find somebody.
1035
Chuck: We go, we go tour.
1036
Manny: intimidation.
1037
Chuck: Yeah, that's what it is, because the same people that they arrested are the same ones that the appellate court said, no, that's not enough to charge them, we're not gonna move forward, leave them alone. Every last individual.
1038
Manny: Because I think the administration also knows, Don Lemon has access to the money to fight it.
1039
Chuck: Without question, on many.
1040
Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
1041
Manny: It'll be fun, but if…
1042
Jeezy: That's why he was up there grinning the way he was, bruh. He is not worried.
1043
Manny: but I'm.
1044
Jeezy: You're like, real young.
1045
Manny: If I can get these other people, who don't have the resources, that are able to be… Don Lemon walks into an event, people know who Don Lemon is.
1046
Jeezy: Oh, fax.
1047
Manny: you know, new reporter from local Newsbeat, they may not know that, so that person may be able to get video and access and see things, and be able to share that. So this is not about Don, this is about the other reporters, they're trying, like, hey, he had the money to get out, what you got?
1048
Jeezy: Well, I think the tone that Don has taken when he had his little, I guess you can call it, press conference after his release or whatnot.
1049
Jeezy: I think that he sees this as… as his, as his, I'm gonna say, quote-unquote, calling.
1050
Jeezy: to preserve that for independent… because Don Lemon is not under CNN, not under anything. He is strictly independent in what he does now.
1051
Jeezy: And I think that.
1052
Chuck: And I think that came from…
1053
Jeezy: To your point, I'm sorry for cutting you… No, no, no, you're good. But no, to your…
1054
Chuck: That's exactly his mindset.
1055
Chuck: Because CNN cut him for speaking.
1056
Chuck: So, yeah, but yeah, go ahead, brother. You're spot on.
1057
Jeezy: So, I think that he is now seeing this as his moment, and I think that with the amount of resources that maybe this administration
1058
Jeezy: And those that are pulling these strings have maybe neglected or are not aware of. He most certainly had the resources to take on this fight, not just for himself, but just in the name of independent journalism, because
1059
Jeezy: This is an attack on that.
1060
Jeezy: This is an attack on that free speech, because if this was, flipped and done another way, this wouldn't have been a problem. But the thing that gets me about the administration…
1061
Jeezy: Is you act like… You care about protecting these religious spaces.
1062
Jeezy: You act like you care about religion, period.
1063
Chuck: Facts.
1064
Jeezy: So, let's stop, let's stop playing games.
1065
Jeezy: And call it what it is. You're just trying to intimidate this man, and hopefully if you can make him… it's not even intimidating this man.
1066
Jeezy: If you are trying to intimidate the process of those that say, hey, look, if I want to cover and speak ill against what the administration is doing, you better beware, because we'll come after you.
1067
Manny: Well, and it happened here, though. Like, Don Lemon is the big name that was grabbed a part of this, but there was another reporter also captured, Georgia Fort, who livestreamed all of this. Livestreamed her arrest, and it was, like.
1068
Jeezy: Early in the morning.
1069
Chuck: Early in the morning.
1070
Jeezy: Like, down, like, she was upstairs, they had, like… Upstairs.
1071
Manny: Yeah, and had feds at her door. She's trying to talk, it's like, what am I supposed to do?
1072
Manny: And what did you do?
1073
Chuck: The kids in there scared.
1074
Manny: Right, the kids are scared, she's scared, all for doing something that is constitutionally protected.
1075
Jeezy: Bingo.
1076
Manny: But who's enforcing the protections of this at this point?
1077
Jeezy: Well, I mean, the administration is telling you they don't care about that.
1078
Manny: Right.
1079
Jeezy: We seen last week about how, hey, your gun rights come with an asterisk.
1080
Jeezy: Your, your… what you can say about the government and your journalism, that's, that's coming with an asterisk, too.
1081
Chuck: Yep.
1082
Jeezy: That's the thing that gets me about Americans that are in support of this administration. They're literally ripping your rights as if they don't matter.
1083
Jeezy: And there was a time, and you heard us say it here on the podcast, make American politics boring again. Where this was okay. If you wanna… if you wanna listen to… I hate the left-wing and right-wing crap.
1084
Jeezy: But if you want to listen to right-wing stuff, you wanna listen to all that, you know, Republican hoopla and whatever, go watch these other channels, don't listen to these. If you want to listen to this left-wing crap, go listen to them, and you don't have to listen to these. And it was okay. They both can coexist in the same place.
1085
Jeezy: Why are we now trying to make it to a point where there is only one side that needs to be heard, and that's it?
1086
Manny: Because that's how you build empires.
1087
Manny: You gotta quiet the dissension.
1088
Jeezy: You got it.
1089
Manny: You gotta quiet this.
1090
Jeezy: You're trying to build something that's gonna fall.
1091
Jeezy: That's why I'm glad my house is not on sinking sand.
1092
Chuck: Mmm, Luke.
1093
Manny: Mmm.
1094
Chuck: Oh, they're right.
1095
Chuck: Sure, you're right, as Michael Jackson would say.
1096
Chuck: Yeah, it's very disturbing, number one.
1097
Chuck: Where was this, high level of ill-repute and disregard for the individual who killed those kids and shooting into that church?
1098
Jeezy: Man…
1099
Chuck: That was during this administration.
1100
Jeezy: They ain't care about it?
1101
Chuck: Then, like, since it's… since there's so much… Quote-unquote, about the disturbance of… religious parishioners.
1102
Jeezy: Yep. Like…
1103
Chuck: the hypocrisy, like Jeezy said, man, it's not about left and right.
1104
Chuck: I'm… I'm an independent.
1105
Chuck: Alright, and funny enough, we did a little, test, whatever that was that.
1106
Manny: Yo, yeah.
1107
Chuck: what side of the aisle you lean, and I…
1108
Chuck: I lean a little more to the Republican side in many different aspects, probably more so from the fiscal standpoint.
1109
Jeezy: Yeah.
1110
Chuck: than anything, than the Democratic side. I've been a registered independent for doggone 10, 15 years now.
1111
Chuck: But this is not about politics.
1112
Chuck: This is… this is merely about right and wrong.
1113
Manny: Yeah.
1114
Jeezy: Yep.
1115
Chuck: Plain and simple. And right and wrong has no political name. And so, for them to continue to echo a message of wrong to try to dress it up as right, I take it back to,
1116
Chuck: what's my girl name from Alaska who is the VP candidate?
1117
Manny: Sarah Palin?
1118
Jeezy: Sarah Palin.
1119
Chuck: They're Palin.
1120
Jeezy: Shout out to Sarah Palin.
1121
Chuck: Lipstick on the pig.
1122
Jeezy: Mmm.
1123
Chuck: A pig was lipstick on it, still a pig.
1124
Manny: Nope.
1125
Chuck: I don't care how you dress it up.
1126
Jeezy: She was kind of… nevermind.
1127
Manny: Anyways, that's another podcast for another day. That's a whole…
1128
Jeezy: Fairmont, I'm gonna keep mine.
1129
Chuck: That's my gripe. Right and wrong, man. Right and wrong. Simple as that.
1130
Jeezy: And the moving of the goalpost and the needle is just… it's ridiculous, and the American people should wake up and see this as a problem.
1131
Jeezy: But what we're seeing is becoming accustomed that
1132
Jeezy: These things happen, and nobody says nothing.
1133
Manny: Nobody. The question for this week is going to be, so they went after the First Amendment this past week, and the Second Amendment the week before that, so what amendment are we going after?
1134
Chuck: And the 14th before this.
1135
Manny: Yeah, so what amendment are we going after this week?
1136
Jeezy: We tear them amendments up, boy.
1137
Manny: Bruh.
1138
Chuck: It's probably gonna be the 4th.
1139
Manny: Yeah.
1140
Chuck: Beautiful. Yeah.
1141
Chuck: Yeah, that's sick.
1142
Manny: So… Well, we made it. We made it to the end. We made it to the end!
1143
Jeezy: Well, you guys know, as we cover our topics, we can't leave without giving you,
1144
Jeezy: Two of our last segments of the show, and that is… The pickle of the.
1145
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1146
Audio shared by Jeezy: We bout your pickle!
1147
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1148
Manny: -Oh, who's in the brine?
1149
Jeezy: I think this person may be new to the brine, bruh. Mmm.
1150
Chuck: Cool. French Brian.
1151
Jeezy: Yeah, I think we've done a lot of episodes, so sometimes it's hard to keep up, brother. But I think that this might be a new pickle.
1152
Jeezy: But, this week's pickle goes to… None other than… Melania Trump.
1153
Chuck: Now, Melania!
1154
Manny: I don't think she's ever been a pickle.
1155
Jeezy: I don't think she has either.
1156
Chuck: Yeah.
1157
Jeezy: This might be a new… I think this might be a new one.
1158
Manny: Okay. But, yeah, Melania, she's in the pickle this week.
1159
Jeezy: Because, following the release of her new documentary.
1160
Jeezy: Melania, a project that was meant to redefine her public image.
1161
Jeezy: But it didn't work, because…
1162
Audio shared by Jeezy: Ain't nobody coming to see you, Otis.
1163
Jeezy: Melania.
1164
Manny: Well, no one… I might see you.
1165
Jeezy: Goodbody coming to see you.
1166
Jeezy: I wanna talk to you as if you… as if I know you.
1167
Manny: You're right here with us on the pod.
1168
Jeezy: Baby girl, don't nobody cared.
1169
Manny: Not a soul, not a soul.
1170
Jeezy: Documentary.
1171
Jeezy: Ain't nobody.
1172
Chuck: gotta come to see you.
1173
Manny: that documentary outside of the folks that you brought to that movie premiere with you.
1174
Jeezy: That movie gonna tank… worse than anything you ever seen. Rotten Tomato already got it so low.
1175
Chuck: Bruh.
1176
Jeezy: It ain't even… it ain't even a tomato plant. It might just be a seed. Baby girl, that movie is done. That documentary is over. Nobody cares about what you think.
1177
Jeezy: Because you already own some BS anyway. Because I heard in the documentary, because I'm not gonna give you the time of day to go watch it, you didn't address nothing about your immigration status, because you've been very, very strong, spoken.
1178
Jeezy: about your immigration policy, even though you seem to be an immigrant of yourself as well. Seeing what's going on within this country, I don't know what she'd do as a First Lady, but dropping a documentary… Michelle Obama… do Michelle Obama got a documentary?
1179
Manny: Yeah, it's on Netflix.
1180
Jeezy: Okay. For coming.
1181
Manny: There's actually an effort right now via social media to try to make becoming one of the top movies on Netflix to counter this.
1182
Jeezy: Oh… Petitiveness. I love petitiveness.
1183
Chuck: too, but I don't wanna… I don't wanna…
1184
Manny: I'm not gonna watch either.
1185
Chuck: I mean, I'm not gonna watch it. Oh, I'm definitely not watching it, I don't care, I don't care.
1186
Jeezy: I didn't even know it existed, so that should tell you what my stance is.
1187
Jeezy: If I'm gonna watch a documentary, I'm gonna watch something like Don't F with Cats. Like, I want something that's gonna grab my attention. Yes, sir. I don't want to hear about how you got mad that Trump soils itself, and you've been cleaning his diaper for the past 15 years. We don't care. You signed up when you made that old fart anyway.
1188
Jeezy: So, unless you're gonna talk about in this documentary, about them, new magazine photos…
1189
Chuck: I'm not the savior.
1190
Chuck: You're talking about how you're a sex worker.
1191
Jeezy: I was about to say, now, if you want to get in, how you… you the first… you the very first First Lady that used to be an OnlyFans model before OnlyFans was an OnlyFans.
1192
Jeezy: Unless you gonna talk about that in the documentary, and how you became to be this modest fashion woman, because I got… I ain't gonna lie to you, Milani, you be dressing. You be… you be popping out with your…
1193
Manny: The outfits be out…
1194
Jeezy: Combat hats, and… you do your thing.
1195
Jeezy: Unless you're talking about that in that movie, in that documentary.
1196
Audio shared by Jeezy: We don't wanna hear it. Nobody come to see you, Otis.
1197
Jeezy: Baby girl, you in a pickle. You wasting your time. They had on the, what, the NASDAQ, or the New York Stock Exchange, ringing the bell on Monday with the background, and we don't care, we don't care, your husband trash, your stepkids is trash, you trash, Barron ain't Trump's son, that boy is too tall, y'all keep peddling that he saved a woman from an abusive relationship, we know y'all lying, y'all got to stop, nobody cares.
1198
Manny: I think Carl Quinn from Australia… I'm on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay. Gave the… I think, what is probably the most ac… my current view of it.
1199
Jeezy: Okay.
1200
Manny: He says, it's impossible not to feel that the real purpose of this portrait is not insight.
1201
Manny: But rather, distraction from the awfulness and corruption of her husband's regime.
1202
Jeezy: I can dig it.
1203
Manny: I mean, but it's got a 10 on Rotten Tomatoes.
1204
Chuck: But you know what's interesting? And I just came across this…
1205
Chuck: The director of the film appears in photos
1206
Chuck: with Jeffrey Epstein, that was released by the DOJ.
1207
Jeezy: They came… maybe that's why they came out with a story this week that,
1208
Jeezy: They had, Mabdani as a baby, and his mom.
1209
Manny: Oh, his mama…
1210
Jeezy: posted there with, like, Trump and Bill Clinton with some Epstein stuff. They say his mom was tired of that stuff, bruh.
1211
Jeezy: It had the baby picture and everything. I said, brother,
1212
Chuck: They wildin'. That's a… that's a sore. Was it a Sora, or whatever that…
1213
Jeezy: Yeah.
1214
Chuck: And that's it.
1215
Chuck: They laugh at it.
1216
Manny: Yeah, indeed.
1217
Manny: I'm on a unit.
1218
Jeezy: Good, babe.
1219
Jeezy: Now, Trump gonna beef it up, and he gonna tell y'all that this movie did numbers like Star Wars when it first was released.
1220
Jeezy: I'm here to tell you.
1221
Chuck: He can't do that. They already reported that it's set to earn $7 million, and it cost upwards of $75 million to what Amazon paid for and promoting it.
1222
Chuck: And they're already taking down the billboards. I seen the video the other day, or yesterday.
1223
Jeezy: Just released it already.
1224
Chuck: They flipped the billboard from the picture to the black side, just blank.
1225
Jeezy: Go ahead and put up Zootopia 4.
1226
Manny: Here's what I will say. If you all could somehow… if y'all at home can make this episode
1227
Manny: The top episode.
1228
Manny: for the podcast.
1229
Manny: over the next week, then you know what? I'll… I'll get Jeezy and Chuck together, we will… we will all livestream our response and watch this movie live.
1230
Jeezy: Brad.
1231
Chuck: I'm with it. I'm with it. If y'all pop this off to be number one, number one listened to episode, I'm with it.
1232
Manny: We will set up a live streaming event where we watch this movie and give you our insight live.
1233
Jeezy: I better do it.
1234
Chuck: Expression is advised.
1235
Jeezy: Because from what Chuck's telling us, they already taking down some posters. Y'all ain't got much time.
1236
Manny: Yeah, it might have, like… It'll be on Amazon Prime Video.
1237
Chuck: They don't pay that much money on it, they're gonna put something behind it.
1238
Jeezy: Alright, well, that is my pickle of the week, Melania, baby.
1239
Jeezy: Dang. Godspeed.
1240
Manny: That's all I can tell you.
1241
Jeezy: Godspeed and Jesus whip. Anyway, spotlights… We've reached the conclusion of our episode, and as you guys know, at the end of our conclusion, we always love to give you our spotlights of the week, so my brothers, what spotlights do you have, for this episode?
1242
Chuck: So, I'll go first.
1243
Jeezy: Alright.
1244
Chuck: My spotlight, initially, was the good sir… he kind of pissed me off, too. But Gavin Newsom…
1245
Chuck: was set to file a civil rights complaint against good old Dr. Mehmet Oz.
1246
Manny: Hmm. Over…
1247
Chuck: Some claims of fraud and improprieties with,
1248
Chuck: Healthcare, what is the exact terms? Sorry, y'all, I have it.
1249
Chuck: Dropped it.
1250
Chuck: filed complaint against Medicare head on baseless and racist allegations when Oz was going through on a visit in LA, and he took some video and posted about a 4-block radius, you know, just…
1251
Chuck: Leaving disparaging comments.
1252
Chuck: So… Gavin was like, nope, we…
1253
Chuck: When we talk about level of petty earlier.
1254
Jeezy: And we've said it before… Bruh.
1255
Manny: Having his pay.
1256
Chuck: play the petty game. Gavin's gonna play the petty game. So, he filed a complaint, with Health and Human Services, in regards to this.
1257
Chuck: Then I thought about it.
1258
Chuck: My spotlight needs to be informative, it needs to be impactful, it needs to be educational.
1259
Chuck: So I'm gonna give the good people a couple of, in honor of Black History Month, a couple of Black inventors and inventions…
1260
Chuck: That is very little known. I mean, some may know it, but overall, you don't know it.
1261
Jeezy: I'm like.
1262
Chuck: that, I'm gonna give you 5. 5 is a fantastic number. Number one…
1263
Chuck: The Ice Cream Scoop. In 1897, invented by Alfred Carlisle Carl, excuse me, C. R. Crail, C-R-A-L-L-E.
1264
Chuck: So yeah, when you go to Ben & Jerry's, shout out to Ben & Jerry's, because they're for the cause.
1265
Chuck: And you got an ice cream scoop?
1266
Chuck: Thank a black man.
1267
Jeezy: The hairbrush.
1268
Chuck: patented by Lydia Newman, shout out to you, in 1898.
1269
Chuck: one that I might… I appreciate, especially when I became an adult, because as a kid,
1270
Chuck: I had to do the opposite of this, the clothes dryer.
1271
Chuck: It was developed by George T. Sampson. Growing up.
1272
Chuck: Had to hang up clothes on the clothesline.
1273
Manny: That's right.
1274
Jeezy: Them summer clothes smell like outdoors.
1275
Chuck: Yes, sir.
1276
Manny: You accidentally get hit with one of those random North Carolina 3 o'clock summer rain showers?
1277
Jeezy: Gotta run out of eggs.
1278
Chuck: Yes, sir.
1279
Chuck: One of my favorites, that many people do not know about,
1280
Chuck: the improvement of the traffic light by Garrett Morgan. He… there was… there were lights before, but they were not the…
1281
Chuck: ones that we know as the day of the three-position traffic light, with the red, yellow, and green, although many of you non-driving individuals do not adhere to the laws and guidance of these traffic signals. Yeah.
1282
Chuck: Then we have… that's that, it was 4, right?
1283
Manny: Yep. Yeah, I think that's what…
1284
Chuck: The last one, is one that is a little more personal.
1285
Chuck: The inventor of the Super Soaker.
1286
Manny: And…
1287
Jeezy: It's good.
1288
Chuck: Personal on many levels. Growing up, had countless super soakers.
1289
Jeezy: Yes, sir!
1290
Chuck: of the summer, especially growing up in North Carolina, in those summertime.
1291
Manny: I don't wanna say, bro.
1292
Chuck: the super…
1293
Manny: Joker is a pause, bro. Right.
1294
Jeezy: I don't know if it's a pause, but it… Just go ahead, brother.
1295
Manny: Cause if we talk… if we talkin' about…
1296
Chuck: If we're talking about that bachelor party that.
1297
Manny: So my brother had an EP3.
1298
Jeezy: Hey, look.
1299
Jeezy: Brother, that's all I'm about to say. It depends on what life you talk about it in. Hey, look.
1300
Jeezy: I shall not and will not incriminate myself, so continue, brother.
1301
Chuck: That's why I stopped.
1302
Chuck: But… It was a water gun. There we go.
1303
Jeezy: Hell yeah.
1304
Manny: There we go.
1305
Chuck: -Oh.
1306
Jeezy: You know, nobody in Dakota don't know nothing about no Super Souls.
1307
Manny: But it's too cold in the Dakotas to properly use a super soap.
1308
Chuck: Yo.
1309
Jeezy: Have a… or have a childhood.
1310
Manny: Yeah, Dakota… no, no, Dakotas, we mad at y'all.
1311
Manny: Every state but y'all, but okay.
1312
Jeezy: list.
1313
Chuck: Oh, boy. But anyway, 1989, NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented the Super Soaker Water Gun. But, not only from my childhood.
1314
Chuck: But I've had the pleasure of meeting and engaging with Mr. Lonnie Johnson, who is still alive.
1315
Manny: Whoa.
1316
Jeezy: Yay!
1317
Chuck: He lives here in Atlanta, and I guess I got a little black history fact myself, because my daughter and his granddaughter were teammates and partners in the, international debate competition at Harvard.
1318
Manny: Oh…
1319
Chuck: 2024, and for the listeners…
1320
Manny: Awesome, man.
1321
Chuck: They were top 8 out of 150-plus teams. So yeah, he's an amazing gentleman, always trying to pour into the youth and help, even, like I said, even to this day. But yeah, that's my spotlight.
1322
Manny: I remember not too long ago, I don't know if it was a documentary or an interview I watched where they gave a tour of, like, his lab, and the stuff that he's doing in that lab is wild.
1323
Chuck: But yeah, they have it. If you want to bring your, come down, bring your kids, we can get that set up.
1324
Jeezy: Oh, bet, okay. I'm interested in that. That's dope, bro. Manny and my brother, what you got?
1325
Manny: Man, well, it is… it is clear that Trump has been spending far too much time on the phone with Putin, because he is, pulling up his Ukraine playbook.
1326
Manny: And… but this time, in Canada.
1327
Manny: So…
1328
Manny: The Trump administration has had multiple meetings with a Canadian separatist group called the Alberta Prosperity Project, which is seeking independence from Alberta.
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Manny: And you would be shocked, I know everyone here's gonna be shocked to hear that Alberta
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Manny: Has a lot of oil.
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Chuck: So… Yep.
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Manny: None of us saw that coming.
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Manny: So, the… the talks are around that if, you know, they were able to get a referendum together and succeed from…
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Manny: from Canada that they are planning to ask the U.S. for a very large credit line of around $500 billion. Now, where are we gonna get that from? We ain't got it. Where we getting it? So…
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Chuck: Where we get everything else from?
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Manny: Oh yeah, good point. Good point.
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Manny: So yeah.
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Manny: Canada's not happy about it, obviously, but it is… It's more of Trump's expansion.
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Manny: So, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. You know, we have these things pop up every… every now and then. We've heard them coming out of Texas, we've heard it coming out of California about trying to secede, so I don't envision that this will likely be,
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Manny: successful, but if you look at the ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Canada, it's adding more gas to the fire.
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Manny: So, we'll be watching this play out in the ongoing side quest, side battle of the U.S. versus, Canada.
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Manny: And that is my Spotlight of the week.
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Chuck: That's still a wild notion to think about.
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Manny: Bro.
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Chuck: It is.
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Manny: part of Canada. He's given up… it seems like he's given up on the dream of all of Canada.
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Chuck: No, I'm just saying, I'm fighting with Canada, period. Like, you're fighting with your first cousin.
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Manny: Yeah, right.
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Jeezy: Don't make any sense.
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Manny: While we got other fights to be fighting.
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Jeezy: Mama wouldn't be happy.
1352
Jeezy: No, it's… Nobody wins when the family wins.
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Chuck: Philippines.
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Jeezy: Bro, well, my spotlight is, taking us down into, Texas.
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Jeezy: Christian Menifee, a former Harris County attorney and Democrat, won in a special election runoff in Texas' 18th Congressional District this past week.
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Jeezy: Capturing nearly 68% of the votes against its fellow, Democrat, Amanda Edwards. Now, this seat had been vacant after the death of Sylvester Turner, and this now narrows the Republicans' majority in the U.S. House to.
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Manny: 218, the 214.
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Jeezy: And… just want to make note that the, Texas 18 seat has been vacant for nearly a year due to delayed scheduling by the GOP leadership. So him winning this seat, and he will now look to compete,
1359
Jeezy: March 3rd Democratic primary in a redrawn district, likely facing incumbents like Al Green and others. So, this could signal for something pretty big shifting, down in Texas, and I also say that because there was a flip that happened, this past week as well with Taylor Rettman.
1360
Jeezy: Romet, excuse me, a Democrat won a special election for Texas State Senate District 9, a seat once reliably Republican and previously cared by Donald Trump by 17 points in 2024.
1361
Jeezy: He defeated the Republican by a double-digit margin, which is, about 14-plus points, in the runoff.
1362
Jeezy: He is a, Air Force veteran, union leader, and aircraft mechanic who flipped a seat in a county-long-dominated GOP
1363
Jeezy: voter. So… There's… there's a… as a good old gospel song says, there's a storm out.
1364
Jeezy: On the ocean. And it's moving this old way.
1365
Manny: Well, and here's what's really interesting about Veggies. They have taken the numbers from that state, Tennessee
1366
Manny: And weighted against the new maps.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
1368
Manny: And if Dems were to perform.
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Jeezy: Along the…
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Manny: Same lines that they did in these two races.
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Manny: that this whole redrawn Texas that they did will actually give them… 3 additional seats.
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Jeezy: Emmy.
1373
Manny: You did all that to potentially give Dems 3 more seats.
1374
Jeezy: Wham, whammy! Bruh, I think, I think it's very possible, bruh.
1375
Jeezy: I said it before, and I believe we said it here on the podcast, bruh, that this was gonna be a bad idea, and it wasn't gonna work out in the way that they thought it was.
1376
Manny: So…
1377
Jeezy: Hey.
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Manny: I, for one, am shocked to see that this is not working out the way they thought it would.
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Chuck: And if I'm not mistaken, they reported that the largest shift in the voting was Hispanics.
1380
Manny: What, what do you…
1381
Jeezy: What do you think would have caused that?
1382
Chuck: Yeah.
1383
Jeezy: Whaa?
1384
Chuck: Maybe you're…
1385
Manny: Let me get them to…
1386
Audio shared by Jeezy: Oh, and while this is playing, since we're just rapid-firing…
1387
Manny: The, the person who started Latinos for Trump was.
1388
Jeezy: Pointed.
1389
Audio shared by Jeezy: You'd…
1390
Jeezy: Run it back, run it back!
1391
Jeezy: Y'all gonna learn these games, man. Y'all gonna learn to stop playing these games, man. So yeah, that's my spotlight for the week, so…
1392
Jeezy: We have reached the conclusion.
1393
Audio shared by Jeezy: Of our game.
1394
Audio shared by Jeezy: And I'm so glad that y'all have come to join us for the episode prior.
1395
Audio shared by Jeezy: American politics? Ain't rude.
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Chuck: Break it down, then.
1397
Chuck: Take it down, man.
1398
Jeezy: It was a pleasure playing this rapid-fire game with you brothers, because I don't know, and we still left, as the old folks say, some meat on the bone.
1399
Manny: Some heat on the bone.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
1401
Jeezy: Bruh, we still left some out there, man. There's a lot, going on in the world, and I hope that it'll die down and we don't have to do this every week, but if we got to, we'll do what we have to do to bring the partner politics commentary to our American politics, both home and abroad, to your front door. So, brothers, as we conclude this episode.
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Jeezy: All hearts and minds clear? Anything? Everybody good?
1403
Chuck: Good is subjective, but…
1404
Jeezy: Everybody, let me bring it up, everybody okay?
1405
Manny: I mean…
1406
Manny: Trump just said that if there's no deal reached with Iran, the world will find out if a U.S. strike would spark a regional war, so there's that.
1407
Manny: There's that. But, yeah, I'm good, Ben.
1408
Jeezy: He gotta be the only old man I know that I don't ever see nap during the day. Like, bruh, go to sleep.
1409
Manny: Bye.
1410
Jeezy: When Trump gonna fall? That's what I'm waiting on.
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Manny: They can't, because they always got… they always got him sitting down.
1412
Chuck: Listen, they gotta sit down, because Mitch is the prime example of what happens when you…
1413
Jeezy: Bruh, they ain'.
1414
Chuck: Can't have them on the move.
1415
Jeezy: Yo, I see, man, that video, it kinda, it kinda resurfaced itself on my, on my timeline last, this past week.
1416
Jeezy: Hey, brother, wait a minute.
1417
Manny: fell out.
1418
Chuck: They went circuited when he was walking in the hallway.
1419
Jeezy: Yup, yup, he will grab it for that… Grab him for that.
1420
Jeezy: Yo, anyway, man, look, listeners, we appreciate you tuning in, and we thank you for lending us your ear here at Pardon the Politics. We hope this episode finds you in good spirit. If you're being impacted by the winter storm that has taken over the Southeast.
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Jeezy: We hope that you're safe, we hope that you're warm, and you have everything you need, and if you need something to occupy your time, if you're bored because you can't get out of the house, run back some of them old episodes and catch up with us.
1422
Chuck: Yes. You can be like, them guys knew what they were talking about a long time ago.
1423
Manny: I never did.
1424
Chuck: Literally on that.
1425
Manny: Look at.
1426
Jeezy: Boys might be short of being prophetic, I'm just letting you know.
1427
Jeezy: This ain't what I've been calling it.
1428
Chuck: Look at me now.
1429
Jeezy: The hand is hot, the hand is hot, so we thank you for listening, we thank you for tuning in. Spread the word, like, share, follow to anybody that you know, and we will catch you at the next episode. Take care, world.
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Chuck: Yeah, yeah.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.