Nuclear Ambitions & Whistleblower Woes

From Carolina snowstorms to Capitol chaos, this week’s episode of Pardon the Politics is packed. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck dig into the icy fun at home before melting into a firestorm of whistleblower drama with Tulsi Gabbard at the center of an intelligence scandal that could shake D.C. to its core. The crew breaks down why Iran’s nuclear ambitions are heating up again and what role the U.S. and Israel might play in the fallout. Plus, we celebrate J. Cole’s ‘The Fall Off’ and discuss why body cams for ICE are stirring debate in Congress. Snowballs, spy games, shutdowns, and sharp bars—this episode has it all.

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Jeezy: Hello, world. Welcome to Pardon the Politics Podcast. This is Season 3, Episode 6. I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner in politics, Manny. My brother, how you doing on this beautiful day?
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Manny: Man, I'm glad it's not snowing or icing for, like, the first time on the weekend in, like, the last 3 weeks.
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Jeezy: Hey, man, we went through, we had a little bit of Winterfell going on a little bit for my Game of Thrones fans, man. It was… I think that might have been… I know this doesn't count for you, because you're from Colorado, but that might be the most snow that I have seen in a…
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Jeezy: a very long time. Like, we… in my yard, we still have a couple of… a couple of patches and little small piles of ice still accumulated, so…
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Manny: That was wild, bruh. That was a wild time. My family enjoyed it. Did your kids enjoy it? Oh, yeah. Did you have a play in it? Oh, yeah, I bought myself a snowblower 3 weeks ago.
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Jeezy: For that first goal.
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Manny: form.
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Jeezy: You might be the only person in North Carolina that own one on this side of the…
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Manny: Man, of the state.
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Manny: Man, and it was funny, so last weekend after the snow… the snow had started… stopped following, and I got out there, I was hype. I was like, yeah, I'm about to use this snowblower.
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Manny: I did my yard, my neighbor, and my two neighbors.
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Jeezy: Look at you. I was having a great time.
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Jeezy: You're good.
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Manny: My wife.
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Jeezy: You a good man, brother.
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Manny: Well, then my wife's like, are you planning to run for HOA president? I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Jeezy: Yup.
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Manny: I hadn't thought about that yet.
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Jeezy: Well, that conversation gonna come up. Like,
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Jeezy: Then you head through everybody's yard.
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Manny: They had a ball, man, and then my youngest, it was her first… it was her second time seeing snow, but her, like, first time actually being able to play in snow, and then my oldest's ability to be able to functionally play in snow, so she was, like, making snowballs, and I'm proud of myself.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I thought about, you know, Really hitting her with a real good snowball, just, you know…
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Manny: to build that resistance, but I held back. I waited. I said, you know what? I need her to be about 8 or 9.
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Jeezy: Oh, you good, man, because I tagged the heck out of my 5-year-old multiple times. I'm not ain't playing. She came up to me, and it took… it just took one time, bruh. She came up to me and threw some snow on me.
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Jeezy: That's all it took. It became personal? I don't know if it was, like, when John Wick, when they shot his dog or something, but something snapped at me, bruh.
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Jeezy: And bruh, I started getting my Patrick Mahomes on, she would run across the yard, and I'm like, there's not a distance that is too far out of your father's reach.
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Jeezy: So, no, I didn't… I don't believe in the… I like to give you life lessons as early as I possibly can.
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Jeezy: when I see the opportunity for that door to be open, I promise you, I'm gonna take it with mine, so…
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Manny: He's here right now.
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Jeezy: Oh, for sure, for sure.
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Manny: so fast.
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Jeezy: Now, I didn't hit her in the face, so…
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Manny: There we go. That's all we can ask for.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's the only grace I'm gonna give you. But you're gonna get that work. Well, I'm glad Georgia enjoyed it. Mine enjoyed it as well, especially my wife being from the Maryland area. She hadn't seen snow like this.
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Jeezy: In quite some time.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: She doesn't live up there anymore, so she was…
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Jeezy: thrilled. Me and baby girl came in, and I was like, yeah, it's too cold, I'm going back in the house to warm up, and got enough pictures with the kids and stuff, and then I came back in. My wife stayed out there for, like, another hour with my, with my middle baby, and they were just playing, having a ball, and came in and made hot chocolate and all this. I was like, yeah, y'all in y'all bag, I'mma let you have a…
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Manny: Cook.
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Jeezy: Yeah, so go ahead and cook. So our listeners, welcome…
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Jeezy: To the episode, and just in case you were wondering if we were of the absence of not having the, Chairman of Chaos with us, we actually do. He is, he is phoned in from the road, our brother is traveling, but still found a way to make sure that he was a part of the pod, so…
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Jeezy: Our brother Chuck, live and direct on the highways and byways. How you doing, my brother?
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Chuck: All my good brothers, I'm here.
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Jeezy: Operating in the traveling mercies of our Lord and Savior on today.
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Manny: B.
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Chuck: Appreciate y'all. I definitely had to tap in with you all. I might not be as active as a participant as I normally am, but I definitely wanted to tap in, and listen to y'all talk about y'all's snow stories got me,
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Chuck: A little bit of my feelings of wanting to have an attitude, because…
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Chuck: although I saw some flurries, there was no accumulation.
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Jeezy: Oh…
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Manny: Ugh.
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Chuck: highway, yeah, and so, you know…
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Manny: And they were hyping y'all up there for a bit, Chuck, like, y'all was supposed to be getting Raleigh level.
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Chuck: Well, here's the thing.
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Chuck: Probably about 25 minutes from my house.
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Chuck: They got it. Probably about 40 minutes from my house.
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Chuck: they got even more, like, they got, in fact, maybe 15, 20 minutes from my job, they were very close to the same levels that, Geez and them got in eastern North Carolina, and looking at, you know, people's Facebook posts and pages and…
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Chuck: The amount of snow that was perceived in eastern North Carolina was insane, man.
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Jeezy: Bruh, wild.
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Manny: It's like… What, geez, I think y'all got upwards of a foot or so?
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Jeezy: Yeah, bruh.
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Manny: And, like, in Raleigh, it just didn't snow at all. Until… until about 6 o'clock, and then we got 4 inches. Pause.
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Jeezy: I'm out of favor.
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Manny: Yeah, it was…
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Jeezy: I was saying.
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Manny: There's not a… there was not a non-pawsworthy way to say that.
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Manny: Right. But it's crazy how close you can be
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Manny: Two other places, and a dramatic difference in the snow accumulations.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, that's no form shifted, bruh.
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Jeezy: But I will say this, I will say this, Chuck. At the end of the day, you may not have been able to get the accumulation of snow that you may have desired, but I will say this. At the end of the day.
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Jeezy: The whole world is the veil, brother.
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Chuck: Hmm.
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Jeezy: Oh my goodness.
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Chuck: I wasn't… I was not gonna…
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Chuck: Yeah, go ahead. This ain't the space, but .
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Jeezy: The whole world of the meal.
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Chuck: Oh, dog, the villain.
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Jeezy: Ay.
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Jeezy: Shout out, shout out to Jermaine Cole, to, to our listeners.
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Jeezy: Chuck and J. Cole are from the same area known as the 26 here in North Carolina. So we, even though this is a political podcast, we all are here in North Carolina, or have roots here in North Carolina, and we gotta, before anything else, gotta salute
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Jeezy: Brother Jermaine on the Fall Off, coming out, the two-disc album. The boys have been spending.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: All weekend, and job well done, brother. That good and faithful servant.
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Chuck: Yes, sir, yes, sir. Not only are we from the same hometown, but we went to high school together. He was a… he was a freshman my senior year, at the good old Terry Sanford High School, and…
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Chuck: I actually, was in North Carolina, this past weekend, handling some, personal family affairs, and…
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Chuck: it felt good for me to be able to listen to and consume this album in my hometown. The album is very…
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Chuck: very much an ode to Fayetteville, it's an ode to North Carolina, so that was amazing, not to mention.
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Chuck: this was the first time in years that I've been able to
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Chuck: taking the Carolina Duke basketball game in North Carolina.
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Chuck: I wondered if it was gonna come up.
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Chuck: Well, I'm just talking about watching the game, I'm not gonna…
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Chuck: talk about anything else. I'm not gonna blow me in. But just observe… just… just that North Carolina, the feel of being home in North Carolina, man, was great. I mean, it had been a minute since I've been home anyway.
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Chuck: And, all of this going on.
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Chuck: while I was home was a great moment, man.
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Jeezy: Hey, man, for those of you that have never experienced North Carolina.
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Jeezy: I know that, and I could be biased because I was born and raised here and live here, but North Carolina is a very special place, that is near and dear to the group's heart, because we all met here in college, we all have lived here at some point.
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Jeezy: And it's always, man, you can't beat it, man. That good old, that good old Southern hospitality in North Carolina, you can't beat it, so…
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Jeezy: Shout out, shout out to North Carolina. Shout out to all those with the connection to North Carolina, too, because I love that Cole album had… when I heard Petey Pablo, bruh, and I know we gotta move on, but when I heard Petey Pablo, I was like, yes, sir, bruh. This is it. This is it.
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Jeezy: So, yeah. Alright, listeners, that's enough. If you're ever in the town.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Jeezy: Come pull up on the boys here at the pod, man, and we'll show you how we get down to North Carolina. But come to Eastern North Carolina.
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Jeezy: We ain't gonna talk about the West, but come to Eastern North Carolina. I remember when your boy Manny, when Manny boy came from Colorado and was talking about barbecue, and we was like, where you get barbecue? He was like, oh, this spot where we got off the plane, here in Washington.
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Manny: Absolutely not.
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Jeezy: And I was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
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Manny: Absolutely not. You just can't go everywhere.
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Jeezy: You can't go everywhere, bruh.
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Jeezy: But to our listeners, here we go.
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Jeezy: Here's our first segment. There was something interesting that happened, that we caught wind of this past week.
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Jeezy: Another whistle was blowing.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Chuck: And it wasn't two shorts.
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Jeezy: And it won't.
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Manny: It was not… it was not… it was not too short.
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Jeezy: Congress, they got… we got another issue with another whistleblower, man, and it's… it's surrounded around my homegirl, man, or our homegirl. I don't know how y'all feel about good old Tulsi Gabber, so I don't wanna…
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Jeezy: I don't want to put that on anybody, but…
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Jeezy: But, like, Tosa done jacked up again, man. She got an issue going on, bruh. What we got, man? What's in this complaint? What's going on?
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Manny: Oh, God. Alright, so the complaint. A little bit of background here. So, in mid… I think it's late spring, early summer.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: A complaint was filed.
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Manny: By a U.S. intelligence official, Communities Inspector General Hotline.
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Manny: Basically, they had picked up that there was very, very strange communication between an official very close to the White House.
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Jeezy: in the administration.
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Manny: Having communication.
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Manny: With a foreign intelligence person.
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Manny: I code that in my head as spy.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Or someone with spy-like abilities. They're spy-ish.
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Manny: And…
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Jeezy: I use.
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Manny: So this complaint came in, and there is a duty of notice that, that they have to notify Congress when there is a whistleblower complaint.
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Manny: Well, when we first heard about this, and this actually really started flowing out after we recorded last week.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Was that it was so secretive.
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Manny: That it was placed on a physical document and locked in a.
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Manny: And that no one knew what it was. So again, the details I just went through have now come out. But allegedly, even more things have come out about what's happened here. It turns out Tulsi, got it and took it to the old Ice Maiden.
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Jeezy: Oh, brother.
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Manny: And essentially said, What you want me to do with this?
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Manny: So she allegedly waited a day and told Tulsi, nothing to see here.
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Manny: And…
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Manny: They kept it moving, and we hadn't heard about it until essentially this last week.
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Manny: So, my…
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Jeezy: My question is…
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Manny: Who is it?
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Jeezy: Well…
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Manny: We'll cover the who is it first. We'll cover the who-is-it later.
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Jeezy: Well, the issue I see in this is… well, Tosi's already had problems, right, with something of this similarity.
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Jeezy: I believe when she was going through her confirmation, they were talking about how she was having certain communications with.
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Jeezy: foreign adversaries or people in foreign governments that was concerning the Congress to begin with.
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Jeezy: So to have this already, with her being, you know.
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Jeezy: national security, national intelligence, and I believe it's supposed to be given to Congress or transmitted within about 21 days?
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Of getting it, and we're just now hearing about this, what, almost 9, 10 months later?
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Manny: Well, and the Gang of Eight, you know, that group of top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: They just got the necessary intelligence clearance to be able to see it, so they've just started seeing it.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: So, it's real messy.
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Manny: And then, to the point… you remember how Donald Trump went on this whole thing about the enemy from within?
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Manny: That… it sounds like, Trump, you got it. You got someone trying to sell you out.
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Jeezy: In the middle.
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Jeezy: There's a mole somewhere.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: And, again, I think this is now just highlighting the bigger issue
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Manny: that we have with A, being able to trust the administration.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And then, on top of that.
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Manny: Trying to understand if they're… are they truly even acting in the best interests of us, the citizens?
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Jeezy: No, I think we can all handle that.
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Manny: Yep.
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Chuck: I got a question for… I got a question for y'all.
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Manny: Yep.
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Chuck: What direction does crap flow?
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Manny: I believe…
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Jeezy: Standing up.
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Manny: Direction of gravity, which would take it downhill.
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Chuck: It takes it downhill.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: This is… The sitting president has had an issue or a question Whoa.
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Chuck: compromise of… Foreign interference since the beginning.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Yep, yep.
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Chuck: Although there's new players in the camp.
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Chuck: There's still questions of compromise and interference.
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Chuck: from foreign entities.
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Chuck: It does… it should not shock anyone.
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Jeezy: That is…
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Chuck: discontinuing
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Chuck: with individuals and players in this administration. As we said before, when we talked about calling them puppets.
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Chuck: And I believe it was Jeezy who brought it up.
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Chuck: Oh, wait a minute, Manny, either way, one of y'all brought it up, saying, well, what are their individual
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Chuck: Goals.
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Chuck: There are individualistic.
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Chuck: Goals and individualistic opportunities that they are pursuing, and this is what this sounds like to me.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: Like you said, you got a problem within your own camp. Yes, we're playing puppets, but…
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Chuck: We know your weak spots.
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Manny: And I think that's part… that's part of the question here, is, like, what were y'all talking about?
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Manny: Because that part of it has not come out, is what country, or countries, was the person communicating with.
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Manny: And what was the, you know?
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Manny: get worst-case scenario, it's military, you know, nuclear sites, worst case scenario, maybe?
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Manny: Best case scenario… And wasn't it reported…
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Chuck: Wasn't it reported that it was of high national security, concern.
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Jeezy: Yeah. That… yeah, so…
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Chuck: Yeah, to your question, what was talked about, like, that's… that's crazy.
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Jeezy: For the level that they went to, when they had to put this in a safe.
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Jeezy: Right. That tells you how… That's true.
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Jeezy: how high of a level this is, and I think that they're in a really bad situation with this, because when you look at, Tulsi's response.
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Manny: You know, the thing that caught me off guard is she said that, she strongly denied any improper action, claiming that she swiftly.
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Jeezy: Swiftly, once informed of her obligations, she acted, and that the complaint was not credible and urgent under the law. Well, one.
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Manny: Who lets you make that, you know.
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Jeezy: Who lets you make the decision whether it's credible or urgent?
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Jeezy: Because if it got to be locked in a safe, it clearly is credible and urgent. And what do you mean, once informed of her obligation? You don't know what your obligation is, and you the head?
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Chuck: That shit…
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Manny: But that should surprise nobody.
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Jeezy: But that sounds to me like she went and talked to the Ice Maiden.
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Chuck: No, it does. Yeah. It does.
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Manny: The only person that I feel 100% understands the full detail of their job is Marco Rubio.
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Manny: Yeah. And that's the details of actually 8 jobs, so…
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Chuck: You got him back.
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Jeezy: And blended together.
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Manny: You got to. He's like, how many… if I do this, can I do these 3 jobs at once? Yes, I can.
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Jeezy: Well, I think… I think that… everything… Here, it just says that…
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Jeezy: Somebody lying. Hold on, what my, what my boy say?
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Somebody told a lie one day.
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Jeezy: Somebody clearly is lying, because… Under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.
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Jeezy: The law governs how intelligence personnel report concerns to Congress.
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Jeezy: The complaint is filed with an Inspector General that IG has 14 days to access their credibility. So, okay.
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Jeezy: If you assess the credibility, first of all, in those 14 days and didn't deem it so, how are we now, at this point, where it seems to be that it is potentially credible? That's… that sounds like a puppet move to me.
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Jeezy: And then, the urgency of it has to be reported to the oversight committee within another 7 days. If someone within the community is making a complaint.
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Jeezy: Having the person who runs the department
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Jeezy: assess whether it is credible, Tulsi Gabbard, seems to me it'd be a conflict of interest.
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Manny: Oh, no, it gets a little bit… so, it's also rumored, linked to that, on that same point, that…
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Manny: Christopher… I believe his name's Christopher Fox.
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Manny: just recently, confirmed to be over there in the Inspector General's office, he recently had somebody
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Manny: come over from Tulsi's organization, and was involved with this. This is… this is rumor and speculation.
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Manny: that somebody from Tulsi's camp moved from her office over to the Inspector General's, and then was in charge of seeing this, and said, they're good. They're good, keep moving.
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Manny: This screen is cover-up.
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Chuck: At this point. Oh, for sure. This is screaming it.
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Chuck: But, geez, to your question of knowing her job.
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Chuck: Okay, I'mma throw a little bit of grace. I'mma throw, the slightest piece of grace.
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Chuck: Say you don't know the full dynamic and parameter of your job.
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Chuck: There are aides who are hired To know the full spectrum Of your own.
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Chuck: That is why they have career people as part of the government. Exactly.
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Chuck: Exactly. So, even if you don't know the full scope of it, you know there is somebody within your purview.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Chuck: You can reach out to… to confirm, hey, what do I need to do next?
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Chuck: And I'm pretty sure… That wasn't done.
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Jeezy: Well, we read about grace in the Bible all the time, and I'm still working on it, so I'm not gonna give a name.
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Jeezy: Because whether you knew it and you had to get informed, you knew enough to go talk to the Ice Maiden. You knew something was, was, was, was, going on with this.
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Jeezy: whether you knew the extent of it or not, or the severity of it, if I think it's even a slight chance.
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Jeezy: Why not push it through the proper channel, and let the oversight committee say, yeah, no, this is nothing?
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Jeezy: Instead of put yourself in the position where you're in now, where we got a question which you already want shaky ground to begin with, we now are questioning you to say, okay, yeah, you probably… you still up to your same old games.
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Manny: Well, and to clarify, it was Chris Fox. Chris… Christopher Fox used to be a former aide to Tulsi Gabbard.
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Manny: who is now the Inspector General, who was one of the ones who reviewed this complaint and said there was nothing to see here.
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Manny: I'm not saying he did anything wrong.
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Manny: I'm just saying… This smells to… to… to the sky.
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Chuck: Oh, okay, so she…
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Chuck: She did know her job. She knew her job and knew I needed to put somebody in place.
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Jeezy: To cover my…
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Chuck: Oh, my failed!
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Jeezy: hindquarters at J. Cole.
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Chuck: Ironquarters.
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Manny: I… I…
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Chuck: Boss.
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Manny: I actually don't think it was her.
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Manny: I think it was the Ice Maiden. I think she came… I think she saw it.
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Chuck: Oh!
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Manny: oh, we gotta fix this. We… - -
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Chuck: And make it look like…
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Manny: Yep, let's stall it, let's get someone here to take it and kill it properly, and let's just hope nobody finds out.
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Jeezy: Well, see, this is my problem with all of this, then.
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Jeezy: Because when you sit here and say that once you are informed of your job.
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Jeezy: What are you actually doing, Tulsi? Because last week we discussed about how Trump got you heavily doing work into the 2020 election. Instead of you worrying about the votes that you didn't get, and you ain't gonna get, and you ain't gonna find anything from it, you should have been doing your job with this.
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Jeezy: You worried about what this man got you puppeting, instead of worrying about doing your job, you could have been… because if they got this complaint last year, then how long Trump been having you work on these 2020 elections? Maybe that's why you don't know your job and know what to do, because you're doing stuff you ain't got no business doing in the first place.
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Chuck: And not to pivot too much off what we're talking about in this topic, since you brought up the 2020 seizure, I actually got a little bit more information.
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Jeezy: I like that seizure.
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Manny: We got it.
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Chuck: A little bit more information, and… Tosi was doing some shaky stuff then.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: I fall in shock to hear this.
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Manny: Shocked, I tell you.
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Chuck: According to reports, after getting back to the Atlanta headquarters, Tulsi…
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Chuck: Proceeds to make a phone call, To none other than… Donald J. Trump.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Chuck: while talking to FBI agents, So then Donald Trump goes on to not, to initially
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Chuck: Sing praises unto them for the seizure.
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Chuck: But then starts asking questions, About what they took.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Mmm.
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Chuck: Sir!
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Chuck: Are you trying to take Your investigation and all legalities before it even really starts.
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Jeezy: Of course!
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Manny: shit.
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Manny: Yeah. That man's just moving.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: It, it's…
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Manny: Moving around.
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Chuck: It's crazy. It's crazy.
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Jeezy: But, so…
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Chuck: But then we found out why she was there. She was there.
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Chuck: To call him so he could…
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Chuck: To do his bidding. Yep. That's all he was there for.
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Jeezy: Well, you need to be doing what you got bidded to do, and that's to do your job as the Director of National Intelligence. So my question, Manny, is…
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Jeezy: Because I'm sure that by the time this got to the oversight committee, I believe I heard that it was heavily redacted, and I think you said somebody is now getting a clearance where they may be able to…
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Jeezy: Yeah, no, I don't…
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Manny: I don't even think it's at committee yet.
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Manny: I think that…
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Jeezy: skill.
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Manny: I think still the Gang of Eight is trying to, is trying to all see this.
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Manny: So, I don't believe the entire… so, let alone the committee.
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Manny: They… I need this group of people, of 8 people, to be able to see this, figure out what's next.
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Jeezy: So, do we, do we know any details?
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Manny: None. At least not… as of the recording, and as of, like, most things that we end up recording.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: As soon as we're done, all the details are going to drop.
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Manny: So, as of right now, you know.
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Manny: We… that… that is the extent that we know.
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Manny: And there's still a mix of speculation here and fact that I think everyone is still trying to navigate through.
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Jeezy: Do we have any word from the community?
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Manny: Shockingly, I haven't seen a whole lot, outside of… we've been telling y'all they've been doing this.
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Manny: So… And I think that's the big question now. If the communication is happening, is it still happening?
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: You know, what information was shared? What is it… what continues to be shared right now?
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Jeezy: And with who?
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Manny: And with who? You know, are we compromised? And if we're compromised, what has been compromised?
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Manny: Literally, we have no idea.
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Manny: But I do have some people that I think… Might have been there yapping.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Alright, hold on, I got… I gotta pull up my…
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Chuck: Manny is the 104 community right now.
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Manny: Look… From this…
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Jeezy: Standing in the gap, brother, standing in.
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Manny: From this moment on, you put your trust in me.
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Manny: Alright, so, this is my, my top four, my Mount Rushmore.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: of who I think he was.
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Manny: First off, Cash App Patel.
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Jeezy: Okay, yeah.
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Manny: Need I say more?
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Cash App definitely, he give off the vibe that he'll be talking to somebody he ain't got a bitch talking to.
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Manny: Yeah. And then the one I have third is… it's Rick Grinnell. They are both…
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Manny: big Trump loyalists.
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Manny: They both have backgrounds in intelligence, and there's already things in the background with both of them about how they like to play, you know, kind of these shadow…
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Manny: shadow CIA agent roles.
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Manny: So, those are, those are my first two.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Movie… Moving up… actually, it was only top 3, I only did 3.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: The biggest one, who I think it is, I think…
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Manny: Actually, there is 4. Number 2. Actually, number 1.
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Manny: Whatever number I'm at.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Stephen Miller.
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Jeezy: Man.
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Manny: And also, need I say more?
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Jeezy: I was about to say. Stephen Miller. I'm not even gonna get on my Stephen Miller ring.
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Jeezy: My guess.
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Manny: And then the fourth one I'll throw out there is bearing Trump.
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Manny: Right?
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Manny: Think it was a Baron, man. Think it was a Baron.
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Jeezy: trying to pick him up a little Middle Eastern shorty and ended up talking a little too much. You can't pillow talk, bruh. You gotta learn, that's rule number one, bruh, you can't pillow talk, bruh.
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Manny: He got lost… he got lost in the sauce.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Manny: Now someone know all our secrets.
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Manny: That's…
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Jeezy: Those are my four people who I think… Bruh, you a fool, bruh. Stop man, bruh.
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Manny: Look!
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Manny: If you took… is it really that much of a stretch to think that Barron didn't have some level of knowledge of our national secrets?
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Manny: And then get…
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Jeezy: We don't know what rooms he's in, you know.
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Manny: take a trip out there with Jared Kushner, and I got lost in the sauce in the Middle East, and he can't really talk to her like that, because he knows how his daddy feels, and now the information's just out there.
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Jeezy: That's why you, hey, bro, you gotta, you gotta make sure you hide your, your passcode on your iPhone, bruh.
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Jeezy: When you in them streets?
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Manny: I don't know, I think Baron might be the one to just have his, his face as his ID, or he took his phone, took his phone, flashed the face, and like, got him.
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Jeezy: That's even worse.
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Manny: Either that, or he was trying to show off, like, oh, I know all this stuff, too, and everyone's like, oh, tell us more, Baron. I bet you don't know such and such, and just got off.
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Jeezy: What was that guy that was part of the FBI that he left? Bovito, or whatever his name was?
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Manny: Oh, I was gonna say Benzino, and that is completely not that man's last name.
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Manny: I was also gonna say DiGiorno, but that is also not that man's last name.
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Jeezy: Bruh, you know who I'm talking about, alright?
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Manny: Yeah, yeah, you take Benzino and DiGerno.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah. Slam those words together. Wasn't he a part of the FBI or something?
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Manny: He was, he was, second in command to Cash App.
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Manny: So it might be him, too.
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Jeezy: Well, no, I'm wondering if this happened sometime last year when he decided to leave the department.
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Manny: and heat.
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Jeezy: catch wind and was like, yeah, let me get out of Dodge before… Before this happened.
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Manny: Because he, he found out.
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Jeezy: Old Cash was doing some stuff.
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Manny: I wouldn't rule it out.
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Jeezy: Because, bruh, he left… he left real quiet, and everybody just kind of let it… he went back to doing his podcast, and everybody just let it.
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Jeezy: Cooling, just let things reside the way that they were. Maybe, maybe it could have been cash out.
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Jeezy: Or it could have been him.
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Manny: It could…
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Jeezy: I think the timeline might have to… you might have to add… add up the dates, bro, because it may be something there why he left, and if it was Cash App and Tulsi and all this going on, he could have said, yeah, let me… let me get…
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Manny: Let me get out of Dodge.
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Jeezy: Let me get out of here before this kitchen gets a little too hot.
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Manny: Because, you know, at the end of the day, someone's going up under the bus for this.
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Manny: Oh, bruh.
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Jeezy: Yeah, sure.
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Manny: So now it's a who.
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Manny: I think now that's where we are now…
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Manny: Going to, is who's going up under the bus because of this.
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Jeezy: Bruh, we… can we please get our first firing of the administration? Please?
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Manny: Bruh, it's been… it's been long. It's been a long, long time.
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Jeezy: Right. We have not got a firing. We keep getting close, we keep flying as close to the sun as we can, bro, but ain't nobody getting scorched, so… maybe it's coming, but I'm very interested to see the details that come out about this, and I hope…
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Jeezy: I believe that, you know, obviously the whistleblower's, blower's lawyer has come out and spoke, in regards to this, and, this is…
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Jeezy: this ain't gonna go away easy. No. At all. When we're talking about national intelligence and the threat that
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Jeezy: what we don't know, what could be shared, who we don't know it was shared with, and what the severity of that information. And when we're hearing that the complaint has to be put under lock and key because of how severe it is.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, no, we need details, we need clarity on what happened, and I think that this might be the one time that I don't think Donnie gonna be able to…
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Jeezy: To wiggle his way out of this one. Somebody gonna have to take the fall.
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Manny: Someone's gonna… Some… We're going to the chopping block.
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Jeezy: Yeah, bruh, when you get a whistleblower, hey, people listen. People listen.
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Jeezy: So yeah, man, we'll see what happens with Tulsi, and whom may be involved, and
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Jeezy: Yeah, good luck!
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Jeezy: Good luck! You might be out of a job by the fall, but good luck. Right.
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Manny: Great, probably a book deal coming up, though.
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Jeezy: I mean, yeah, yeah.
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Jeezy: How I… how… how not to talk to everybody. Everybody is not your friend. How not to share national intelligence information with foreign adversaries.
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Jeezy: Well, speaking of, foreign adversaries, let's segue over to our next… Next up.
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Manny: Right.
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Chuck: That was a pretty good transition, brother.
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Manny: Hey, bro, look, ay.
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Jeezy: Look, I had the Euro. I had to hit that Euro. But, the U.S. and Iran, we back at it again, bro. The situation seems to be getting,
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Jeezy: a little more tense than it has in the past, and it seems like the temperature's getting turned up a little bit. So what's going on, man? Give us an update on U.S. and, Iran.
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Manny: Well, where we're pretty much at is where we've been with Iran, and we are forever going to fight over this nuclear program.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Manny: But, you know.
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Chuck: Hold on, Manny, hold on, hold on. How are we fighting over something that we destroyed already?
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Chuck: liberated.
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Manny: Sir?
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Chuck: Congrats.
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Jeezy: We all know… Trump tried to tell us 2 plus 2 is 5, and we all… For those of us that actually paid attention and made it out of elementary school with our arithmetic, we know that 2 plus 2 is 4. We know that it didn't get destroyed. They said it was months, and what we got going on? A few months after that.
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Manny: Couple months.
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Jeezy: Talking about nuclear weapons.
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Manny: So, yeah.
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Chuck: Idiot.
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Manny: But here, shockingly, the two sides have come to the table in Oman.
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Manny: And, again…
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Manny: It's the first serious diplomatic conversations in our… about their program. The U.S. is holding still very strong that they don't want Iran to have a nuclear program.
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Manny: And Iran is standing very, very strong that they… they have nuclear aspirations.
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Jeezy: Those aspirations are peaceful.
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Manny: And… they don't… they want a program. They believe it's within their rights to have a program.
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Jeezy: Yeah, Iran has insisted its nuclear enrichment is a sovereign right.
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Jeezy: And non-negotiable in its entirety, is what Iran has said.
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Jeezy: When we talked in the big… in the podcast, and when we were looking over this topic.
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Jeezy: I was faced with a question.
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Manny: Why can't Iran…
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Jeezy: Have a nuclear program if we have one.
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Chuck: God knows us, there's many other countries.
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Manny: Oh, for sure.
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Chuck: Sure.
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Jeezy: I don't understand why… If… that's like me having…
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Jeezy: a gun, and then I come to you in a gunfight and say.
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Jeezy: Where you get that gun from? You ain't supposed to have that.
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Jeezy: Why… you brought a gun, why can't I have a gun? If we can have nuclear weapons, why… I don't… and maybe, Manny, you know, maybe this may be some of my naiveness in politics, and I just don't have an understanding of, if we can have it, why do we think that we can tell other countries, other nations, they can't have it?
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Manny: Because the U.S, in our current world order, acts as the world police.
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Manny: Let's start there. And in part of that.
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Manny: what I'm going to say here is… is strictly educational, not my own personal feelings, okay? So…
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Manny: We all know nuclear energy, in terms of producing energy, is one of the cleanest forms of producing a large amount of energy. To that, you need enriched uranium. Uranium.
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Manny: Now, the caveat there, to enrich the uranium, it is a process of… oh man, what a… it's turning you…
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Manny: 235 uranium into, I think it's U239?
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Chuck: Yes.
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Chuck: Something like that. Something like that, yeah.
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Manny: Yeah, so you have to enrich uranium to a particular level.
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Manny: For it to be able to be used in, like, a nuclear power plant.
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Manny: And I think that percentage is, like, in the 60s of, like, enrichment. So you get it up to 60, and you're able to, I'm sorry, it's not 60.
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Manny: You get it up to, like, somewhere between 5 and 20% of enriched uranium.
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Manny: That's good enough to run a nuclear program.
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Manny: Well… If you do that, you just keep enriching it.
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Manny: you can keep rising it all the way up to that 90% line. And at that 90% line, you can now have weapons-grade uranium.
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Manny: And it is my understanding that the concern, and I think it is concern.
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Manny: If you can get it up to that 20% for a peaceful program, what's really just stopping you from keep going?
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Manny: To… to now be able to make.
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Manny: nuclear… nuclear weapons. So I think this is a concerted effort for the U.S.
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Manny: to try to keep the global… the amount of, to Chuck's point, the amount of global players who are able to create weapon… nuclear weapons down.
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Manny: I believe right now there are 9, 10, 11 countries that have nuclear capabilities.
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Manny: And they're trying to keep that in check.
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Manny: So, that's why we're here.
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Manny: Currently, and I think it's… currently, Iran has, nuclear…
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Manny: is doing nuclear enrichment. Right now, they're at 60%, so they're definitely over the, the energy limits.
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Manny: But they're still well below… I won't say well below, they're still below that 90% threshold where that, nuclear fuel can be weaponized.
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Manny: And I thought that was a whole lot.
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Jeezy: No, thank you, first of all.
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Jeezy: But I still don't… I still… I still don't understand if we… I'm assuming we have those capabilities. We're one of those nine, correct?
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Manny: Boy, we… let's not forget, in the history of the world.
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Manny: Nuclear weapons have been used twice.
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Manny: Both by the United States.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: The first strike we did to end a war.
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Manny: The second strike.
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Manny: Was there to let the world know that if we did it once, we'll do it again.
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Jeezy: So, who are the other nations that have it? Do you know off the top… do you know off the top of your head, or…
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Manny: Let me, let me… the…
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Jeezy: I'm assuming all of these nine are in some way, shape, form, or fashion allies to the United States?
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Manny: Oh, absolutely not. Nope, no, no, none. Not at all. Nope.
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Jeezy: Look, educate, brother, educate me.
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Manny: So, right now, the nuclear states…
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Manny: the United States, Russia, China, the UK, France.
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Manny: And these are, like, well-known UN
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Manny: them. Other nations that have nuclear weapons, but they've, like, never signed some treaty to say that we won't really use them? Israel?
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Manny: India, Pakistan, and North Korea.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: So… And to put into context, in terms of nuclear weapons.
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Manny: Israel… Israel, unconfirmed, is allegedly somewhere between 80 to 90, warheads. India is 160… India and Pakistan are both, respectively, 160 to 180. North Korea allegedly has 40.
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Manny: The UK and France have in the 200s, China allegedly has 500, but they're building out their capacity.
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Manny: The United States has 5,200 warheads.
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Manny: Active.
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Manny: That are ready to go.
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Manny: And then Russia has 5,800.
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Manny: So basically, it's the U.S. and Russia that have all the weapons that are now just like, hey, all of y'all chill.
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Manny: Because this is bad. This is bad. Because if someone triggers off a nuclear war, my understanding of the U.S. policy is that, you know, we have the nuclear sniffing planes that fly over the world at all times. My understanding of the U.S. policy with nuclear weapons…
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Manny: Is that if a missile is fired.
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Manny: an intercontinental one. Not like a tactical nuke, but one of the big boys that we dropped.
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Manny: If one of those is fired.
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Manny: The U.S. is emptying the clip.
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Manny: We're gonna put… Thousand plus of our nuclear warheads up.
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Jeezy: Jeez.
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Manny: It's a mutual assured destruction if someone fires a nuclear warhead at us.
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Manny: Because someone fires it off, we have to assume that one of our big targets is in play, so we're just going to take out all of the targets.
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Chuck: And that's part of the, delicate fabric of India and Pakistan.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: And knowing that they both have them, and… alright, trip, if you want to.
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Jeezy: I love that.
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Chuck: Yeah, so, yeah, everything Manny said is spot on. But to your question, Jeezy, how can… we say.
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Chuck: They can't have it.
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Chuck: But we can.
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Chuck: Part of it is because we built them up, And then lost control.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Chuck: Iran was…
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Manny: History.
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Chuck: Fran was our friend.
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Manny: Till it wasn't.
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Chuck: Until.
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Manny: It wasn't.
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Chuck: But part of that was because of U.S. policy.
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Chuck: and the things that the U.S. did after they used Iran
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Chuck: essentially what it boils down to. You use them.
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Chuck: there was someone who came in power and was like, okay, y'all not gonna use us. Either we gon' be friends.
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Chuck: Or… we won't. And if we won't, It's up and it's stuck.
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Manny: Yep.
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Chuck: As history shows, we used… Iran and Afghanistan, we used Iraq, like, all of these people were…
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Chuck: Buddies of ours at some point in history.
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Chuck: Until they were not, because of our actions. Not because they said, okay, we don't want to be friends with y'all anymore, I'm gonna take my ball and go home.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: No, we kicked their ball over the fence being buttholes.
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Manny: Yep.
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Chuck: Yep.
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Manny: That is 100% what we do.
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Chuck: So, it's very mind-boggling. It's a control thing.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: It's a controlled thing.
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Jeezy: So, my thing is, you're at this critical junction.
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Jeezy: Where… where do you go from here? Because…
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Jeezy: Iran has said, obviously, that this is their sovereign right. They have a right to do this.
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Jeezy: And you haven't… you know, they seem to be very firm in their stance, and I know this past week, I believe,
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Jeezy: Jared Kushner and… Wyckoff, I believe his name was?
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Jeezy: Steve Wickoff? Steve Wickoff went to go, you know, talk.
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Jeezy: to Iran, and have some discussion, and…
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Jeezy: But, obviously, it seems like that Iran is very firm in their stance.
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Chuck: Well, first off, real quick, Manny, anywhere Jared… anywhere Jared Kushner is going.
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Manny: Shenanigans are coming.
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Chuck: Shenanigans are following.
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Chuck: Plain and simple.
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Manny: Well, and I think it's also… it becomes a…
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Manny: It becomes a regional standpoint, because we've had deals with Iran before, and with the UN inspectors to make sure… make sure that somebody was there as they were enriching, uranium to not pass a certain point.
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Manny: And it seems like every time we've done this, that, you know, Iran's been like, okay, we're not gonna let them in, or they start shielding them from seeing, like, how much uranium they're doing.
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Manny: Yeah. And to what Chuck pointed out, I think what else the U.S. and again, it is not the U.S. alone who is trying to
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Manny: who doesn't want this to happen. I think this is a bigger, kind of, global thing.
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Manny: Where they don't want Iran, because in terms of what we've seen between Pakistan and India, where it is a constant standoff and everyone's on pins and needles.
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Manny: if that takes off. What I think you could see… let's say Iran is able to get to a nuclear weapon.
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Manny: Well, now you have the same… now you have a nuclear Israel, And a nuclear Iran.
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Jeezy: That's exactly what I was about to say. I was about to bring Iran into it. I mean, Israel, excuse me.
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Manny: But then, you also… remember, Saudi Arabia and Iran, like, they cool, but they not cool-cool.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: So, if they get a weapon, the Saudis are about to get, go after nuclear capabilities. If they do it, Egypt's gonna hop on it. If they do it, Turkey's gonna do it. So now you have this giant, like, race.
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Manny: to…
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Manny: to produce weapons. And then on top of that, you have Iran's constant funding of terrorist groups. There's the security aspects of nuclear enrichment. So if Hezbollah
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Manny: Who has an ode to destroy Israel and the U.S. if nuclear capabilities now get to them in some capacity.
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Manny: What do we do? How do we handle that? And I think that it… I think they're trying to keep everything stable.
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Manny: While very much being unstabilizing. But again.
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Jeezy: Well, you could have been stable when y'all were friends, and then we wouldn't have this problem.
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Jeezy: Don't be a terrible friend and then try to control me. Right.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: But again, If the program is peaceful.
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Manny: it can do a lot for a country, in terms of helping them build out that infrastructure. I am a person… now, if… when nuclear facilities go wrong, they go wrong real bad.
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Manny: They go… and we saw that with the tsunami, we've seen that with Chernobyl.
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Manny: We've gotten better.
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Manny: But in terms of being able to provide energy at very, very large scale, nuclear capabilities are very important to be able to do that. And I actually think that is something we should probably be investing in as a country, A, to make it safer to run these plants, but also to
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Manny: To expand the power and modernize the grid.
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Manny: So… I understand, at least from the peaceful standpoint, why they want to do this.
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Jeezy: Yeah. But I think from a terms of…
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Manny: I think this is also purely a protecting U.S. sovereignty, protecting American people.
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Manny: Iran becoming a nuclear power is a problem for us, from a security standpoint as well.
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Jeezy: Well, you know, after the talks, it was reported that, we've ramped up at least our presence, or reinforced our presence in the Middle East. I believe the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft?
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Jeezy: carrier has been deployed to the, to the sea as part of a carrier strike group operating near Iran. So to me, if you're trying to have these talks, but then you're kind of trying to ramp up your pressure and your presence in the area.
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Jeezy: I don't think Iran's gonna take that quite well. I think this intimid… I would think that they would take it as intimidation, and…
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Jeezy: This may hamper any type of conversation or negotiation that they're trying to have.
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Manny: Well, this is 1000% going to do that. Like, that part is clear. They're going to try to force them into it. And then on top of that, you then have the Trump rhetoric of, hey.
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Manny: We bombed y'all once, we'll do it again.
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Manny: And that rhetoric keeps rising.
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Jeezy: Amen.
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Manny: And it tends not to make situations like this better.
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Jeezy: It ain't gonna get anywhere. You can't tell me you want to negotiate, and then after every negotiation, you come with the intimidation and the threats.
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Jeezy: Like, we've already shown you, we don't take well to it.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Jeezy: Like, you can't tell me, hey, I want to be peaceful, and I want to come together, and let's work a deal, but then when I get back home.
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Jeezy: I'm talking that big toe, like, yeah, don't play no games with me. Yeah, you won't talking like that behind closed doors at a table.
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Manny: One-sided deals don't tend to last very long.
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Jeezy: Oh, for sure.
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Manny: So you could force somebody into their deal, but if you need someone to be acting on part of that deal, which any agreement is going to require Iran to do something, and if they just decide not to comply, then they don't comply.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But this ain't their first time on the block, and this ain't their first rodeo.
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Manny: Well, and here is my biggest concern in looking at this situation.
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Manny: If the U.S. strikes Iran.
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Jeezy: I… and let's say they even do it in similar capabilities as they did last time when we obliterated their nuclear capabilities.
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Manny: My concern is that Israel is gonna say, oh, The U.S. needs our help.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man.
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Jeezy: Amen.
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Manny: And just go on… and then you have an entire regional conflict.
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Manny: In a matter of hours, likely.
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Jeezy: You bet, you better chill out, Big Benny.
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Jeezy: You better chill out.
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Manny: I mean, but it's really one of those situations, like, oh, my friend… my friend needs help. I'm gonna… I'm gonna rush to go help him. The U.S.
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Manny: In most situations, against most countries, Does not need help.
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Jeezy: Do not need your… do not need your help at all, look.
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Manny: At all.
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Manny: Okay.
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Chuck: Israel won't say my friend needs help. Israel will be that friend that say, oh, this friend is fighting, it's one-on-one, but I'mma sneak a licking.
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Manny: Yep. Big facts. Big facts.
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Jeezy: Israel goes to hell.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Big Betty, you need to be sitting in a jail cell somewhere for the crimes that you done did to them Palestinian people and what happened in Gaza. You don't need to be worried about trying to get in no fight with nobody.
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Manny: You still got a war in Gaza!
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Jeezy: You still got a war going on, and we ain't heard… look…
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Jeezy: He quiet for a reason. While all this other attention going on, he getting to do exactly what he want to do, and ain't nobody saying nothing.
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Manny: Well, I think right now in Israel, they're trying to go through, like, some weird process about who's going to help rebuild Gaza, so I think that's going on in the background, but…
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Jeezy: Yup.
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Manny: I… Chuck, you are… you are spot on that they're definitely gonna run through and go, yeah!
647
Manny: And here goes… and here goes the problem with that.
648
Jeezy: And then when I ran said, hey, weren't you the one that hit me when I got in that fight last week, and I come hit you, now you wanna say, U.S. help, help, help!
649
Manny: I believe, at this juncture, the U.S.
650
Manny: If they do strike, it is going to be…
651
Manny: a… I don't… I don't… this first strike, I don't believe, will be meaningless, but it won't be impactful.
652
Manny: Like, I think there's a chance we blow up stuff, but it's blow up stuff of, like, military installations. I think it could be leveled to that standpoint.
653
Jeezy: But if it…
654
Manny: When Al Hobson, I don't know what they're gonna hit.
655
Jeezy: Because you know Israel gonna be wanting to hit for a different reason, pause. Right.
656
Manny: like… We've seen Israel strike City centers.
657
Jeezy: Yep.
658
Jeezy: So, Israel is at a hospital.
659
Manny: Right, hitting a military installation and hitting a city center of people provokes two completely different types of reactions.
660
Jeezy: You know what, you know what, since we already on this, this wild road
661
Jeezy: Rod, you know what I wanna see?
662
Manny: Here we go.
663
Manny: Hey, Trogon, good.
664
Jeezy: Go on and get one of them senior military officials out of Iran in the middle of the night. Go kidnap somebody.
665
Jeezy: And bring him on to Abraham Lincoln.
666
Manny: Bruh. I won't see, since you want to talk big.
667
Jeezy: Go snag one, go snag one of them boys.
668
Manny: Meh.
669
Chuck: So also, also what I see happening, We strive.
670
Chuck: Israel throws a little jab in there.
671
Chuck: And like you said, a couple weeks later, Iran's like.
672
Chuck: Oh, y'all wanna get in there? Well, you remember what happened to you last time? Shout out to y'all.
673
Jeezy: Get a little iron dough!
674
Chuck: Iron.
675
Jeezy: With a copper penny.
676
Chuck: No, it was a… it was a stranger. It was a high strainer. But the holes. Keep playing with us.
677
Manny: And… cause I think the U.S. and…
678
Manny: Largely has said, we really would like to see regime change.
679
Manny: And I think they… they were hoping that the people of Iran would just rise up and take over.
680
Manny: And that ain't happened.
681
Manny: I mean, because also, Iran was going ahead and chopping down… Yeah. Because we'll never get that.
682
Manny: Yeah, we'll never get the final numbers of how many people died during this uprising. We know it's…
683
Jeezy: It's too many to count.
684
Manny: Yeah, we know it's in the tens of thousands.
685
Jeezy: When they chopped down.
686
Jeezy: They chopped that situation right at the knees, that is not happening.
687
Manny: Yep, so I think that's what the U.S. wanted to happen.
688
Jeezy: Yeah.
689
Manny: But I think it is clear they… the U.S. wants regime change.
690
Jeezy: Yeah.
691
Manny: And it would be… it would…
692
Manny: It would not shock me if the U.S. stepped in those negotiations and said, cool, you can have a nuclear program, but they gotta go.
693
Manny: I think that is a likely scenario that could be happening right now that we just don't know about.
694
Jeezy: But… I mean, I guess, but what does they gotta go mean? Just cause that person's not sitting…
695
Jeezy: Sitting in the seat don't mean that they ain't pulling the strings.
696
Manny: Blue.
697
Jeezy: So, we can dress the pig up as pretty as you want, it's still swine. It is, in fact, swine. I mean, so hey, we've seen that in Venezuela.
698
Jeezy: We… just cause you got Maduro don't mean that the game ain't still the game and it ain't gonna get played.
699
Jeezy: Put the game on pause, just pass it on.
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Manny: Bruh.
701
Manny: Hand over the sticks.
702
Jeezy: That's a bar right there, bruh.
703
Jeezy: That was a bar right there, bro. Shout out to my boy Jared in New York, bro. We used to say that all the time in Jarvis Hall back in the day at ECU. But yeah, bro. I don't,
704
Jeezy: I don't know, man. We'll see how this goes, with the reinforcement of the presence in the Middle East, where these negotiation talks will go. Iran seems to have a stronghold on their position of where they are and what they believe is their sovereign right.
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Jeezy: And I don't believe they're gonna allow the U.S. to intimidate them.
706
Jeezy: In any shape, form, or fashion, so this… this may get tense, and… depending on how it's handled, because you… you gotta… you gotta account for the… for the orange band. He's… he's gonna throw… he's gonna throw a wrench in something.
707
Jeezy: And he's gonna say something that's gonna mess up something that's already… this is a very tense and delicate situation, and you can't go in there…
708
Jeezy: just doing what you've done to these people that, you know, how you talk to the EU, how you talk to those in the UK, Greenland… This ain't this, buddy.
709
Jeezy: This ain't… this ain't that, so you might want to be careful, and I don't know who would be advising him, and I don't know what he would say, but I think that he might want to take a back road and sit this out before he mess anything up. Send Rubio. Send Rubio.
710
Manny: Cause you…
711
Manny: I'm gonna remix a deep quote by a great philosopher, but sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone and showcase your abilities.
712
Manny: And if some people start deciding that they want to step out of showcasing their abilities, we're gonna have a problem.
713
Jeezy: A big problem.
714
Jeezy: Well, we're gonna see what happens. We'll keep our eye on, the U.S. and Iran, and
715
Jeezy: Jared Kushner, sit down somewhere, bruh.
716
Jeezy: I don't… I don't… I…
717
Jeezy: All I'm saying is this is not what I would be doing if I was a billionaire.
718
Jeezy: It would…
719
Manny: There's not… Like, this seems like a lot of work.
720
Manny: To be a billionaire.
721
Manny: and do this. Like, you could be having book drives.
722
Manny: Yeah. You could be…
723
Jeezy: While you over there delegating and trying to negotiate at the table, what Ivanka doing?
724
Manny: Bruh.
725
Jeezy: Yo, you might, you might want to keep… hey, might wanna keep your eye on your primes, brother.
726
Manny: You're worried.
727
Jeezy: You worried about the wrong prize, my friend.
728
Jeezy: Hey, that's all I'm sayin'.
729
Jeezy: There's still pool boys that exist. Look…
730
Manny: Yeah, we already know that she's the smartest one of the bunch.
731
Jeezy: She very much is. She very much is. Stop letting your step… stop letting your father-in-law puppet you around the… around the globe, bruh.
732
Jeezy: Go home, be a family guy. Be a family man. Be a family guy.
733
Jeezy: Raise your family, man.
734
Manny: Bruh, please.
735
Jeezy: Hey, man. Well, we'll keep our eye on Iran and see what happens. We are sure that things may change by the time the release of this episode comes out, so…
736
Jeezy: we will keep our eye on that and keep you guys informed. So, our last topic of the day, something that…
737
Jeezy: Has taken place this past week.
738
Jeezy: I'm sad, man.
739
Jeezy: I'm saying? Because I can't play… I can't play my song no more, man, but I'ma play.
740
Manny: I don't know, man.
741
Jeezy: We, we may…
742
Manny: If?
743
Jeezy: We… we… we very much might, brother, but I got…
744
Audio shared by Jeezy: Shut it down.
745
Jeezy: I'm just gonna play it short, bro.
746
Jeezy: A partial federal government shutdown began on the 31st of January, and it looks like on February the 3rd, they passed the funding bill to end the shutdown.
747
Jeezy: Very narrowly, with 217 to 214, if I have my numbers correct. 21 Republicans voted against the funding, but 21 Democrats voted for,
748
Jeezy: of the funding.
749
Jeezy: So, I believe that… In this funding.
750
Jeezy: There is one part of it which I believe gets kicked down the road a little bit, and that is the funding for the Department of Homeland Security, if I'm correct, right, Manny?
751
Manny: Yeah, so DHS, and everything under this, so the immigration ads, the border wall, those have all…
752
Manny: They were all pulled out of this funding deal.
753
Manny: And I'm gonna be honest, I, for one am shocked.
754
Manny: Because I thought it was almost guaranteed that somehow they were going to slip this DHS, but you know what?
755
Manny: I don't congratulate them enough. So, you know, I'm gonna take this moment to congratulate the Democrats for successfully
756
Manny: removing the Homeland Security funding from this extinction. Now, it wasn't completely removed, so the deal that was signed actually funded them.
757
Manny: through the 13th, so it gave them 2 more weeks of funding. So, we are in the final week.
758
Manny: And they are… there's still a lot of hills to climb.
759
Jeezy: Yeah.
760
Manny: from my understanding right now, while it's about funding, it's not fully about funding. This is more about the policy of how the… in the wake of everything that's happened across the U.S, specifically what's happened in Minnesota.
761
Jeezy: Yeah.
762
Manny: there are some things that they want. The Democrats want ICE agents to wear body cameras, which I believe now in Minnesota they're going to start wearing it, but now they want that to be standard.
763
Manny: You know, standard issue across the… Across wherever they're at.
764
Chuck: A waste of time?
765
Chuck: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, brother, go ahead.
766
Manny: It's better than nothing. It's better than nothing.
767
Manny: But…
768
Chuck: But, but, what's the point of wearing a body cam when there's no repercussions for, number one, illegal activity?
769
Jeezy: Number two.
770
Chuck: You have, essentially.
771
Chuck: all automatic autonomy to do and act how you want to act. Yep. But anyway, you were on.
772
Jeezy: Chuck, maybe that'll be negotiated in this, in this thing.
773
Chuck: I don't have… I don't have.
774
Jeezy: confidence.
775
Manny: Not either, but…
776
Manny: Well, on top of that, they also want, limits on warrantless enforcement and stronger oversight mechanisms. So they are asking for a series of things,
777
Manny: to… Be put in place to kind of control their,
778
Manny: control what's going on. Sorry, I'm…
779
Jeezy: Which, I mean, I can agree on, because I think something needs to happen, because…
780
Jeezy: First of all, DHS has blown through a crap ton of money.
781
Manny: Crazy.
782
Jeezy: that first.
783
Jeezy: They have blown through a crap ton of money, and if we're going to fund them in the capacity that they're operating in, something has to change. There is no way, shape, form, or fashion that we're going to give the funding to this department, and they out here acting like…
784
Jeezy: a word that this administration loves you, or the president loves you, acting like pure thugs. That is exactly what they're acting like. So no, if you're… if we're going to fund, not only are you… we'll give you money, but it's gonna come with some conditions, and I think the Democrats are absolutely right.
785
Jeezy: I don't know if I have the confidence in them
786
Jeezy: To… though they have been able to move this can a little further down the road, and that decision will be made.
787
Jeezy: I believe that they ultimately will not get the conditions that they desire, because we've seen it happen time and time again. They're gonna put the pressure that, these things need to be done, they need the funding, which I still don't understand why we're not… why they haven't talked about the funding as far as how they've already blown through so much money.
788
Jeezy: and they're asking for more. Yep. But…
789
Jeezy: I don't believe that they will ultimately get the things that they need from this, and will get a… and somehow or another, DHS will get what they want, because Democrats are Democrats.
790
Manny: Well, and I think that's the other piece of it, you know, that was just the Democrat side. On the Republican side, they want, obviously, more money.
791
Manny: to run this shadow army for the, for the U.S.
792
Jeezy: Shadow Gang.
793
Manny: That's ultimately what it is.
794
Jeezy: It's a game, bruh.
795
Manny: It is a, you know, there are rules that govern how the Army is able.
796
Jeezy: To engage on the streets.
797
Manny: None of those rules really exist for ICE.
798
Jeezy: Nope.
799
Manny: So, one of the other things, they want to kind of lift limits on where ICE can operate.
800
Manny: And they want tighter asylum policies.
801
Chuck: But, but, man, there are… there are rules for ice.
802
Chuck: They're just not following them.
803
Manny: Yeah, this is also true.
804
Chuck: Go back to yours.
805
Manny: your point, Chuck, that, like, what good is a rule? And we've said it here on the pod on numerous subjects. What good is an unenforceable rule?
806
Chuck: Big Facts.
807
Manny: What do we do with it?
808
Chuck: But, to y'all point, and Gigi's saying it right, they're operating as a gang, and they're spending money as if they sell drugs.
809
Manny: Bruh.
810
Chuck: like… It's insane how much money they're blowing through, not to mention.
811
Chuck: These folks are not getting the bonuses they thought they were gonna get.
812
Jeezy: Do we even know… how the money is being properly allocated within the DHS?
813
Jeezy: If you're just asking for money, but how do we know that what you're asking… you have not… you have not managed what you had already, and you want me to give you more?
814
Chuck: Well… I'll say this, and this is gonna be my forever sticking point for anything on a monetary
815
Chuck: basis for any aspect of government. Until the Pentagon can pass an audit, and we find out where all this money is at for them, I won't hear nothing nobody else gotta say about no spending.
816
Chuck: Period.
817
Jeezy: Bruh, that's.
818
Chuck: Period.
819
Jeezy: That's a fact.
820
Jeezy: Yeah. When's the last time the Pentagon been able to pass an audit?
821
Manny: Oh, God… who knows at this point?
822
Jeezy: Was it before I was born?
823
Manny: That's… it might… may very well be, but it's been a hot minute.
824
Manny: Let you mess up on your tax return, Uncle Sam coming to get you with the quickness.
825
Manny: Like… What's the…
826
Chuck: unless the states ain't spend all them years in jail for the Pentagon not to be able to pass their orders.
827
Jeezy: Bruh, facts.
828
Manny: Well, here's what I know DHS is not spending their money on. FEMA.
829
Jeezy: Oh, bruh, for sure.
830
Jeezy: How are you?
831
Jeezy: Y'all want more money, how much of that… how much of that money's gonna be allocated towards FEMA resources?
832
Jeezy: If you can't answer that, then don't come ask me for no money.
833
Manny: And again, I think we have a luxury in our country where…
834
Manny: Our rounding errors could be the budgets, major budget lines for other countries.
835
Jeezy: The money that they can't account… they can't allocate for, bruh, I would… I would love it to somehow fall into my savings account.
836
Manny: Right, just a… just a… just some crumbs…
837
Jeezy: Right.
838
Manny: Let it find my account for it.
839
Jeezy: This is the equivalent of watching a movie, and that Brinks truck door flies open on the highway, and dollars just go flying everywhere. That's what our government looks like every day.
840
Chuck: Look, they can't cancel student loan debt, but they can just brush off
841
Chuck: These easy rounding errors and, you know.
842
Chuck: Billions of dollars we can't account for, but it's an outrage to want to cancel a student loan debt.
843
Jeezy: It's insane. It's insane.
844
Jeezy: Oh, bruh, it's so much… bruh, the allocation of the money is so crazy. Remember when they were trying to, with the first government shutdown?
845
Jeezy: And they was trying to fund all these things, but it was like, okay, yeah, we gonna take money from here to there. Oh, yeah, no. We're gonna take probably about $18 million from here, sir, we only got about $7.5. What? Bruh, we don't know where the money is, how much we got, where it got lost at. Somebody is sitting somewhere in Bali, living the lifetime.
846
Jeezy: All the money that got missing and around in there.
847
Jeezy: Bruh, I don't get it. I don't get it,
848
Jeezy: I think they got, what, too, Mandy, the 13th?
849
Manny: Yep, the 13th.
850
Jeezy: Yeah, to the 13th.
851
Jeezy: Wait, what?
852
Manny: And it'll be interesting.
853
Jeezy: your prediction.
854
Manny: I think… I think another extinction happens.
855
Manny: Just because I think this is the game that we play now. I think…
856
Jeezy: I hate extensions. The only time I ever enjoy them is when I was, when I was slightly poor and I didn't have enough money to pay my bills.
857
Manny: But, because I think…
858
Manny: the environment right now is favoring the Democrats, so I think this plays out for the Republicans to… because, honestly, if we look back, how much have we heard in the news this week?
859
Manny: about what's happening in Minnesota.
860
Jeezy: I think I saw was that… I think they had, what, 700 officers get out of Minnesota? Everything seems to be in a de-escalation phase.
861
Manny: So, and you have to de-escalate it, because, A, temperature got way too high, and they needed to address it. It was poorly managed, and it looks like Tom came in there and appeared to get it under control. But if you're trying to pass funding, you can't have negative…
862
Jeezy: press lines…
863
Manny: All day, every day.
864
Jeezy: Yeah, you can't…
865
Manny: So, I find it no coincidence that they've calmed down as they're trying to figure this out, but I think it's in… probably in the… I think they're gonna get probably one or two more extinctions, and then it's quietly going to happen.
866
Manny: at some point in mid… mid-March.
867
Chuck: Well, I have a… I have another reason why they're gonna do an extension.
868
Manny: Mmm. Hit us.
869
Chuck: Because they don't want to be with their significant other.
870
Manny: For Valentine's…
871
Chuck: So, if we do an extension, I have to stay in Washington.
872
Manny: I gotta stay, I gotta work.
873
Chuck: I gotta work, because we're trying to hammer out this deal.
874
Chuck: And then they could be with their little side piece.
875
Jeezy: Bruh.
876
Manny: And Jesus…
877
Jeezy: Or their, or their app finder.
878
Manny: Stop.
879
Jeezy: You're not a map, you're not a maps go-around.
880
Manny: So, I went and looked it up.
881
Jeezy: Okay. The Department of Defense began its first full audit in the fiscal year 2018.
882
Manny: It has failed every audit since.
883
Jeezy: Jeez, Louise.
884
Manny: They ain't never passed an audit. Some would say, hey, let's check these numbers, and they're like, oh, these numbers.
885
Jeezy: People get fired for stuff like that, bro.
886
Manny: Bruh.
887
Jeezy: On a regular scale, people get fired for that. How in the federal government is that not… those actions not, not accounted for, bruh?
888
Chuck: Never passed an audit is insane.
889
Jeezy: That is insane, bruh. I've heard of some maybe felon one here or there, but you can't…
890
Chuck: Yeah.
891
Jeezy: can't pass one? Like, you can't pass it?
892
Manny: Not name one.
893
Jeezy: Even ones that you may not pass, it may not be…
894
Jeezy: It may not be far off, but bruh, you can't get nowhere.
895
Manny: And it's billions of dollars!
896
Jeezy: Bruh.
897
Chuck: Every time! Billions of dollars every time.
898
Jeezy: That is wild, bruh, that is wild. Somebody need to be sitting in a jail cell. You make an example of somebody one time because of that, it won't happen no more.
899
Jeezy: Sit somebody in jail for that. It won't happen no more.
900
Jeezy: Bruh, it's just… bruh. What, what, never mind, I ain't even gonna go into that.
901
Jeezy: Brad.
902
Jeezy: We'll see what happens, but I'm with Chuck. They gonna probably give an extension. They gotta get home for the holidays.
903
Jeezy: Be with that little boo, and we'll figure it out on Monday. And that's sad, because we send you there to do the bidding.
904
Manny: To figure this out.
905
Jeezy: Oh, to figure this out, bro.
906
Jeezy: Not to get off early so you can carry your Buddha Cheesecake Factory.
907
Manny: No.
908
Jeezy: No. Or meet your side boo in a side hotel room.
909
Jeezy: I heard the Citizen M in DC be popping.
910
Manny: Stop.
911
Jeezy: But yeah, we'll see what happens, bro. But, you know… So far?
912
Jeezy: you know, they got it… they got it partially back open. We'll see what happens, with DHS funding in the coming weeks, so…
913
Jeezy: With that being said… We have got to that point of our episode.
914
Jeezy: Well, you guessed it.
915
Jeezy: It's pickle of the week, bruh.
916
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
917
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
918
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
919
Jeezy: Alright, this pickle's a little unusual this week.
920
Manny: It's not a particular person.
921
Jeezy: It's a situation.
922
Jeezy: That is the pickle of the week.
923
Jeezy: This past week… There was a clip that was circulating around.
924
Jeezy: that depicted… President… former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
925
Jeezy: as monkeys in a clip that the president…
926
Manny: Insane.
927
Jeezy: that the president… Reposted on his social.
928
Manny: The president.
929
Jeezy: As of…
930
Manny: of this United States.
931
Jeezy: I ain't talking about the president of a… the president of a small company, I'm talking about THE commander-in-chief.
932
Jeezy: of the United States reposted this image of
933
Jeezy: former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as monkeys, and whatever the clip was, and I didn't even watch the whole clip, I just seen… I kinda kept seeing screenshots of it.
934
Jeezy: But… Trump has now, I believe, has been deleted.
935
Manny: It's been deleted.
936
Jeezy: It's been deleted.
937
Manny: But.
938
Jeezy: the stance of all of these people, Trump saying, I'm not gonna issue an apology.
939
Jeezy: First of all, doing this during Black History Month ought to be agreeing.
940
Manny: wild.
941
Jeezy: from the beginning.
942
Manny: wild.
943
Jeezy: that's just wild, just… just in general. On Black History Month, you decided to do this and think this was okay. Then you had Lil' Lip Lovett.
944
Jeezy: Who tried to come out and somehow clean and walk it back.
945
Jeezy: And make it seem like it wasn't that big of a deal, even saying we should be talking about things that are a lot more serious than this. Ma'am, racism is serious.
946
Manny: I… but that's one of those rare points, I do agree with her. We should be talking about things…
947
Manny: that are more serious than this. But we're talking about it because your administration did something. If your administration would stop doing stupid stuff.
948
Jeezy: It stopped, like…
949
Manny: We wouldn't be talking about this, and we could be talking about why people are still struggling to eat.
950
Jeezy: Yep.
951
Manny: why people can't afford healthcare. I would love to be talking about that, but we're not.
952
Manny: Because your people are idiots with wild things.
953
Manny: And we gotta talk. Like, they… to be able to finally pull Tim Scott out of his new, happily loving marriage…
954
Manny: For him.
955
Jeezy: I want our listeners to know that we got, we got quotation marks around there, man.
956
Manny: Like, to… to… Talk about, like, we haven't heard from Tim Scott in a while.
957
Manny: And… first…
958
Chuck: Since he was walking around without a hard hat in the construction zone.
959
Jeezy: Yep.
960
Manny: Right.
961
Manny: Right.
962
Manny: it… .
963
Jeezy: Even he said it.
964
Manny: This is the worst thing I've seen out of this administration.
965
Jeezy: out of this administration, and I said to myself, the worst.
966
Jeezy: How they been treating you?
967
Manny: It should be pretty… you, not other… your other people, you personally.
968
Jeezy: You see Obama, the way they been, have you out here?
969
Jeezy: Like, like a pitching boy.
970
Jeezy: And you sit here and this the worst you've seen? It took you to see Michelle Obama and Barack Obama faces on monkeys for you to finally say, yeah…
971
Manny: This is a lie. This is a step too far.
972
Jeezy: Yeah, Tim.
973
Jeezy: No, we're not buying that, bruh. It's the walkback, bruh, and it has… it caught some wind, and the thing that was funny to me…
974
Jeezy: once again, which I love about social media, I love when I find people that I didn't know were MAGA, and, supporters.
975
Jeezy: Because when I started seeing people trying to defend this, I said, okay, thank you, didn't know you were one. Let me go ahead and get rid of you, too. Because the walk back was crazy, but I just want…
976
Jeezy: regardless of the depiction, and I want people to know, and we talked about this in the group chat, while this is viewed heavily offensive, y'all were using Monkey 40, 50, 60, 70 years ago.
977
Manny: This is not a trope that is…
978
Jeezy: You're gonna try to offend me, you're gonna have to come… you're gonna have to come a lot… now, now, don't get it twisted.
979
Manny: offensive.
980
Jeezy: You still can get hands put on you for it. Right. But you didn't offend me, I'm just gonna correct you with these hands, but you didn't offend me, you gotta come a lot more… you gotta come with something a little heavier than that if you're gonna offend me. But the fact that we are in a position
981
Jeezy: where…
982
Jeezy: the president does not see… this president who claims that he's gonna be a president of peace, is gonna bring people together, and we see that you thought that it was a good idea, or you thought it was funny, or whatever, that you could post this on Black History Month about 2,
983
Jeezy: people that, though you may not agree with them, I would say you even envy them in some shape, form, or capacity. You know that these people were supported by people that were citizens of the United States, and you thought that that was funny, it was not gonna be offensive, and let alone you don't have the wherewithal to apologize for that? Yeah.
984
Jeezy: Screw you, Trump. And those that support you and thought that that weren't a problem, screw you too.
985
Chuck: Well… The man who… put out a newspaper hit on 5 teenage black boys.
986
Jeezy: Talk about it.
987
Chuck: Reposting a racial trope in 2026, Doesn't shock me.
988
Chuck: What shocks me is… the… The rhetoric around…
989
Chuck: the dressing of the situation. And I've seen people try to say, oh, y'all take it out of context, you didn't know the full story, because apparently, this wasn't part of a larger…
990
Chuck: video or depiction that had several individuals on animal bodies.
991
Manny: It had the entire Democrat leadership in various, like, various animals you've seen so far.
992
Chuck: But it just so happened… that Barack and Michelle… We're on the monkeys.
993
Manny: It just so happened. And it wasn't.
994
Chuck: You know.
995
Manny: It wasn't up there long, but still, these debates.
996
Chuck: I don't care, I don't care how long it was up there, the fact that that was your mindset.
997
Chuck: tells me everything that I need to know.
998
Jeezy: Why couldn't you put Nancy Pelosi on the monkey? Why couldn't you put Ron McDonney on there? Like, you could've put.
999
Chuck: Wasn't he on the hyena or something?
1000
Manny: I think so, yeah.
1001
Chuck: Yeah, I've been doing a hyena.
1002
Chuck: Somebody else could have been on the monkey.
1003
Chuck: Yup. You could've had Chuck Schumer on the monkey.
1004
Manny: Yep. You were trying to send a message.
1005
Chuck: Very much so. And the fact, like Gigi said, the fact that people are defending this
1006
Chuck: in that capacity tells me everything I need to know about you.
1007
Manny: Yep.
1008
Chuck: It tells me everything I need to know about you. And I'm not offended.
1009
Chuck: Not offended at all, because it just shows me you still… you still lack creativity.
1010
Jeezy: Yes. If you think in 2026, calling a black person a monkey.
1011
Jeezy: is somehow offensive and creative. Oh, bruh, y'all are… y'all are so out of touch. If you're gonna be racist, step your game up.
1012
Chuck: And my last one on this.
1013
Chuck: who actually looks closer to season?
1014
Chuck: We are you.
1015
Jeezy: Hmm.
1016
Chuck: They got little lips.
1017
Manny: It's almost like they're trying to provoke a reaction out of black America at this time.
1018
Manny: And… Again, you're gonna have to be more creative.
1019
Manny: To get that reaction.
1020
Manny: So…
1021
Jeezy: Yeah, bro.
1022
Manny: When I saw this, my immediate thought was, man, this is a distraction from the Epstein files.
1023
Jeezy: Hey, hey, for Black History Month, I know this. I know one person that ain't in them I've seen 5.
1024
Jeezy: Obama.
1025
Chuck: And real quick, let's clear something up.
1026
Chuck: Jay-Z and Pusha T We're not in the Epstein files, people.
1027
Jeezy: Oh, bruh, that…
1028
Chuck: What's your theme?
1029
Jeezy: haywire.
1030
Chuck: Pusha T and Jay-Z was a part of the dump of information, and they were an anonymous tip called in.
1031
Chuck: They were not a part of… what people are failing to realize, what are the true Epstein files, are the things that got
1032
Chuck: Maxwell marked the… that got him to…
1033
Chuck: Agree to a plea deal that can help email communications and things of that nature.
1034
Chuck: There's not no tip line!
1035
Chuck: From 2019!
1036
Chuck: Like, them people aren't… the Epstein files are the things that came up that caused him to be, allegedly, murdered, or killing himself in his cell, and Maxwell to be locked up.
1037
Chuck: something from 2019 was not in those court cases. So I want y'all to just… To wake up.
1038
Jeezy: Hey, man, you know they've been trying to come at the hove ever since that elevator mess, so…
1039
Chuck: Listen, and I'm not… I'm not saying this to defend him as if he's some infallible individual, but I'm bringing this point up because there's a level of ridiculousness that people are throwing out there, and not understanding, again, seeking understanding, then to be understood.
1040
Chuck: And they fall in that category. Like, what are y'all talking about? Y'all just want to make talking points and clickbait. It's ridiculous.
1041
Manny: Yep.
1042
Jeezy: Hey, bro. I couldn't agree more, brother. I couldn't agree more.
1043
Jeezy: Well, that's my pickle of the week, man. Y'all, like I said, if you're gonna be racist in 2026, at least be creative with it.
1044
Jeezy: It's time out for all that. It's time out for being… ain't it exhausting for you to be like that? Y'all… y'all… that's one thing I never understood about racist people. You love every quality about the people that you hate.
1045
Jeezy: Except the person.
1046
Jeezy: Y'all hate… y'all… y'all don't want… y'all don't want Mexicans here, y'all want them out of the country, but y'all fill up they restaurants on Taco Tuesday every Tuesday.
1047
Jeezy: Spanish words, eating up all the guac. Y'all… tell Mexican restaurants up.
1048
Jeezy: Y'all love everything that deal with Black people as far as culture, creativity… Just joy.
1049
Jeezy: Y'all want that.
1050
Jeezy: But hate the people. I don't understand. You could just be a part of it, we love everybody.
1051
Jeezy: We're the most accepting people in the world.
1052
Chuck: X.
1053
Jeezy: To a degree.
1054
Jeezy: I would agree.
1055
Chuck: Oh, we'll accept you, we're gonna clown you, but we'll accept you.
1056
Manny: Oh, yeah.
1057
Jeezy: And see, that's all you gotta get used to. We gonna rate them colds on you, but after that, we eat your egg. Grab your plate.
1058
Jeezy: And sit down and don't say nothing stupid.
1059
Manny: It's just…
1060
Jeezy: get them hands put on you, but you come in and sit down. Be quiet.
1061
Jeezy: Well, man, that is the conclude… well, we've reached the end of our episode, and you guys always know that at the end of the episode, we like to give you our spotlight of, the week. So, brothers, any spotlight that you guys want to highlight on this, on this, on this episode?
1062
Manny: Man, I will. Some interesting things came out of the state of Nebraska. Yeah, the legislator on February 5th made some changes to their state minimum wage law. So right now, Nebraska has a $15, minimum wage.
1063
Manny: that is also, at the time, was tied to inflation to go up, progressively over time. Well, they've made two changes to that.
1064
Manny: The first, changes the annual increase to a fixed 1.75%, and not tying them to inflation.
1065
Manny: So, I don't remember when's the last time we saw 1.75% year inflation, but okay.
1066
Manny: And then they also created a quote-unquote youth wage.
1067
Manny: basically giving business owners the ability for workers aged 15… 14 and 15 to have a minimum wage of actually $13.50, starting in July.
1068
Manny: And then that worker's aged 16 through 19 can be paid $13.50 for their first 90 days at work, called a training wage.
1069
Chuck: Actually, I don't have a problem with that part.
1070
Chuck: As far as the youth and segmenting An incremental difference between
1071
Chuck: The adult minimum wage, because, quite frankly, at…
1072
Chuck: 14, 15, 16, even… 17 to 18.
1073
Manny: Yep.
1074
Chuck: Like… You don't have the same level of responsibility
1075
Chuck: on average, as an adult, so I can understand Incrementally, you know.
1076
Chuck: paying them a difference. You know, we don't want to pay peanuts. There's no reason that they should be making $7.25.
1077
Chuck: Good.
1078
Chuck: But I can agree with that part. Now, that 1 point whatever percent increase, Overtime…
1079
Manny: Dirty.
1080
Chuck: That's nasty words.
1081
Jeezy: That's the…
1082
Chuck: Nasty workbook. Goodness.
1083
Jeezy: Hey, Chuck, you made me think of a story, bro. When I was, when I had just got out of high school.
1084
Jeezy: For a summer job, I worked at, QVC.
1085
Jeezy: And I'm gonna say his name was Mr. Charles, but I can't remember his actual name, but Mr. Charles was a forklift driver.
1086
Jeezy: And had been working there for, like, 10, 15 years.
1087
Jeezy: And I had just got on, and bro, Mr. Charles found out…
1088
Jeezy: What I was making compared to him?
1089
Chuck: Who's hot.
1090
Jeezy: It didn't want nothing but a dollar off, and I'm sitting here, ain't got no kid, I'm young, I'm, like, 17, 18. Boy, Mr. Charles was so hot.
1091
Jeezy: He's been working all them years, all them hours, and I'm making $1 more than me. I was like, yeah. So I can see exactly what you're saying, and it should, because my level of responsibility don't compare to, you know, an adult who may have kids and other responsibilities, so I can get down with that. I can definitely get down.
1092
Chuck: Yeah, when I… when I was in, high school, I barely…
1093
Chuck: Work if that's a little bit.
1094
Chuck: I remember the first time… my first job was at Popeyes. I was making minimum wage. Then I got a job doing telemarketing.
1095
Chuck: And I was making $12 an hour.
1096
Chuck: You couldn't tell me I want mine!
1097
Chuck: And I'm in high school?
1098
Manny: Bruh.
1099
Chuck: And the only… and I'm about to age myself, I'm about to age myself, because the only bill I had was car insurance and a beeper bill.
1100
Chuck: And my beeper bill… It was, like, a month.
1101
Chuck: And then my car insurance, sometimes I didn't, because I only had liability, because I had an 88 Buick Regal.
1102
Manny: But…
1103
Chuck: you know, those are my responsibilities, and make it $12 an hour, and I think I work maybe…
1104
Chuck: Maybe 25 hours a week?
1105
Jeezy: Bruh.
1106
Chuck: High school, the car and constant income, and I was still working at Popeyes on the weekend.
1107
Chuck: With a constant income?
1108
Manny: Oh, I lived like I was selling drugs.
1109
Jeezy: Look, I know it, bruh. I remember every Friday, I'd go to the gas station down the street from my grandma's house. Dollar was, gas was $1.04. I put about $16 in that Nissan Altima.
1110
Manny: Couldn't tell us nothin'.
1111
Jeezy: And I put on that… and that's when I had the Walkman, where you had the little tape joint you had to put in, and then put.
1112
Chuck: The adapter?
1113
Jeezy: Yes, sir. I put on that Marcus Houston, we be up in the club. Man, Friday night riding down Sunset Boulevard in Rocky Mountain, you couldn't tell me nothing, bruh. With a pocket full of cash, and I get paid every Friday, and I ain't got nothing to say.
1114
Jeezy: I got a prepaid cell phone, and I was throwing a little money, my mom away. And it's free nights and weekends with that prepaid, so you already know it's up, and it's stuck on a Friday night.
1115
Chuck: Hey, I ain't gonna… I ain't gonna… I ain't gonna expose myself too much, but yeah, it was a good… hey, you trying to go to the movies and go get something to eat?
1116
Jeezy: Yep. Yep.
1117
Jeezy: Easy word.
1118
Chuck: What do you do?
1119
Jeezy: Oh, man.
1120
Chuck: I'll go next with my spotlight. My spotlight is coming out of Washington, D.C.
1121
Jeezy: Okay.
1122
Chuck: and the Washington Post Dismantling and shutting down a third of their organization.
1123
Jeezy: Man.
1124
Chuck: If I'm not… if I remember correctly, the number was, upwards of 300 individuals losing their job at the post.
1125
Chuck: They completely shuttered their sports division, a significant portion of their international journalists and their editorial,
1126
Chuck: portion. And what's alarming about this for me
1127
Chuck: Is we understand and know the importance of, of… Unbiased, independent journalism.
1128
Chuck: Journalists…
1129
Chuck: Are the voice of those who don't have access, or don't know where to look to get the right answers.
1130
Manny: Yep.
1131
Chuck: And… For those who don't know.
1132
Chuck: the owner of the Washington Post.
1133
Chuck: There's none other than Jeff Bezos.
1134
Chuck: And just Bezos bought it back in 2013, 2014, sometime.
1135
Manny: Yep.
1136
Chuck: And there were… there were some hopes back then that, you know, maybe he could provide a bit of innovation and bring it back to life, and the Washington Post had a moment of resurgence, because although the name carries weight, it's a regional newspaper.
1137
Chuck: And in this, I think the real turning point for the Washington Post was…
1138
Chuck: in 2024, the election coming up for the year. Now, most newspaper publications
1139
Chuck: like the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, the… was it Chicago Herald, I believe?
1140
Chuck: These major name newspapers, their editorial team generally endorses a candidate for president.
1141
Chuck: This has been… Here's decades history of this.
1142
Chuck: Well… As the Washington Post editorial team was gathering and ready to…
1143
Chuck: published their op-ed of who they were gonna endorse. There was a company policy change.
1144
Jeezy: And good ol' Jeff Bezos says.
1145
Chuck: We will no longer… endorse any Canon.
1146
Manny: Yep.
1147
Chuck: Meanwhile… What is Jeff Bezos doing?
1148
Chuck: We're spending.
1149
Manny: Spending $75 million on a bad movie about Melania?
1150
Chuck: Yes.
1151
Manny: Sorry, I said that out loud.
1152
Chuck: This, of course, caused an uproar, across the country, and most importantly, to their subscriber base.
1153
Chuck: I'll give you a little economics lesson here. For the digital age of the internet and access to all the information we have, the lifeblood
1154
Chuck: of a newspaper, particularly in today, is their subscribers. Yes, you can want ad money, things of that nature.
1155
Chuck: But they need that guaranteed revenue Or… or income coming in.
1156
Chuck: Well, reports are that the Washington Post, when this happened, lost a little more than 10% of their subscriber base. Upwards of 250,000
1157
Chuck: Subscribers cancel their subscription.
1158
Jeezy: Which…
1159
Chuck: Which, in turn, started the downward spiral of revenue. After making some money over the past…
1160
Chuck: Saved 5 or 6 years.
1161
Chuck: So, it's very interesting to see What's gonna happen next?
1162
Chuck: With, you know, print media, even though they've turned to the digital age, and we know it's an aging,
1163
Chuck: Aspect of media, but it's a very important aspect of media.
1164
Chuck: And… I'm just… I'm concerned where… We will get these independent.
1165
Chuck: Unfiltered and unbiased bits of information.
1166
Chuck: In our country, with the control of many different aspects in the social media space.
1167
Chuck: So yeah, that's my spotlight, man.
1168
Jeezy: Alright, well… For mines, just want to bring some attention, not necessarily political.
1169
Jeezy: Or anything of that nature, but, my spotlight of the week is, Savannah Gun3. Her mother, if you've been watching the reports, her mother, was reported being kidnapped from her home.
1170
Jeezy: And Savannah and her, siblings have been pleading for the return of her mother, I believe, at the release of this episode.
1171
Jeezy: It'll be Day 7.
1172
Jeezy: there were, details that they're still searching for. The FBI was offering $50,000 for any leads. I believe there's a video that's come out that she has, they're willing to pay, I believe, a $6 million ransom.
1173
Manny: Yeah.
1174
Jeezy: For her mother's return, her mother was on medication, life-saving medication, she couldn't go 24 hours without. She did not, obviously, being kidnapped, she didn't have this medication, take this medication with her. So she is without the medication she needs, and it's going on now day, 7.
1175
Jeezy: Of, of her kidnapping. So just don't really know, you know, we don't have any details of why or what, but it really just, you know, seeing the toll it's taken on her and her, her siblings of the law… of her, the kidnapping of her mother, certainly has been shocking,
1176
Jeezy: Don't know if it's any political ties to it, if it has anything to do with her position in the media, or whatnot, but certainly a situation of this magnitude, is definitely troubling, and just wanted to bring it as a spotlight that hopefully her mother.
1177
Jeezy: will be returned, safely, and as soon as she possibly can. She was in, the Arizona, state of Arizona, I believe, Tucson, area.
1178
Jeezy: And police are actively trying. Donald Trump has even came out and said, I believe he said a couple of days ago he was gonna call and talk to her.
1179
Jeezy: You know, hopefully, whatever they can do, if there needs to be more agents sent to try to help, it looks like they're pulling in some of everybody to see what they can do, and as fast as the time that they can do it to try to find her mother and get her return home, so…
1180
Jeezy: Just wanted to bring that as a spotlight. Hopefully she is returned well, safe and sound, and that she, comes back home safe. I can only imagine.
1181
Jeezy: Being in New York and having this happen across state, that your mother has been, abducted and kidnapped out of her home in the middle of the night certainly, could be troubling. So, that's my spotlight, just wanted to bring that as attention, and hopefully…
1182
Jeezy: It's resolved as soon, as quick as possible, so…
1183
Manny: Yeah.
1184
Chuck: Yeah, that is… that's… that situation is crazy, man, because you think about it.
1185
Chuck: that's something you see on a show, in a movie, and I'm sure different people are abducted all the time, they have ransom situations, and we may not hear about it, but to…
1186
Chuck: actually see it, you know, at this scale, it's crazy. It's definitely crazy.
1187
Jeezy: And at that point, Chuck, I just want to say this, because certainly, Savannah's family is not the first family to experience this whatsoever. I know that one thing, whenever I go into, like, Walmart or something, there's a board, a slew of children and images of kids that.
1188
Chuck: Oh, yeah.
1189
Jeezy: gone missing and families have not seen. So, as a spotlight, I want to add that to this, that, you know, though her situation is troubling, there are other families as well, that have missing loved ones.
1190
Jeezy: children, elderly, of age of all kind, and certainly, I can only imagine… I can't even imagine,
1191
Jeezy: and the toll that takes on the family, and just want to shine a spotlight on that for anybody's family who's dealing with a loss of someone that has been kidnapped, abducted, a family member they can't locate. Certainly troubling. I think there was an issue this past weekend in Georgia, where the little John, his son had went through.
1192
Manny: His son.
1193
Jeezy: And he was… they were looking for him, and found him, deceased.
1194
Jeezy: Yeah. So, it's just a troubling thing. I can only imagine that you can see the toll it's taken on Savannah. I'm sure the…
1195
Chuck: I'm.
1196
Jeezy: and, you know, you can just tell the weight of the situation on her and her family. So, hopefully it's resolved, and anyone who is dealing with a missing loved one that has been kidnapped or abducted, that may be resolved, and you can find peace in whatever shape, form, or fashion you need to.
1197
Manny: Absolutely.
1198
Jeezy: So yeah, that is the end of our episode.
1199
Jeezy: Brothers, any, any, any, any more comments? All hearts and minds clear?
1200
Manny: Man… I'll denote this for you. It's the Olympics.
1201
Manny: And it feels a little strange this year.
1202
Manny: Usually, I go very quickly. Look.
1203
Jeezy: You heard how quiet it was once you said that.
1204
Chuck: No, I'm actually… I'm with… I'm with Manny on this one.
1205
Jeezy: And I normally enjoy the Olympics, but it does feel like… like, I saw it, and I'm just like.
1206
Manny: Yeah.
1207
Jeezy: It just… it doesn't feel… you know, feel right. The excitement is gone.
1208
Jeezy: And I don't know if it's just because of the condition of the way that our country is right now, that it just has made it feel like, this normally… the Olympics and the World Cup are the two times that, even if you don't agree, you rep. You rep the country, you rep…
1209
Manny: Whatever it is.
1210
Jeezy: Yep.
1211
Jeezy: You can go…
1212
Chuck: Marta… part of what's going on is, and I don't know if Mandy was gonna speak to this.
1213
Chuck: All the other crap that's going on around us.
1214
Manny: Yeah.
1215
Chuck: The news cycle has completely muted
1216
Chuck: the fanfare of the Olympics. Like, normally, you hear a bunch of fanfare, yeah, meh, nothing.
1217
Jeezy: I ain't… look, I didn't even know about it until Manny said something in the group the other day, because it's just like… it's just gone.
1218
Jeezy: Only thing I know that has been circulating about the Winter Olympics is, Lindsey Vonn, and how she, what, ruptured her ACL, but still go compete, well, that was… I'm talking about before it even happened.
1219
Manny: Yes, it's.
1220
Jeezy: And broke a leg.
1221
Manny: Oh, it's a broken leg, okay.
1222
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, they said…
1223
Manny: Last I saw it…
1224
Jeezy: Yeah, she had surgery, I believe, this morning on her leg, I believe that… yeah, from her broken leg. But, you know, before it even started, though, she had an issue with… she had an issue with her, with her ACL being ruptured.
1225
Manny: Yeah.
1226
Jeezy: So, in…
1227
Chuck: Well, the first issue is… the first issue is her old tail shouldn't have been out there the first time.
1228
Jeezy: I was just about to say that.
1229
Chuck: You had your floor.
1230
Chuck: You… 41. She's 41 in numerical age.
1231
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
1232
Chuck: she's 101 in Olympic age. Like, you've had your years of glory and runs.
1233
Chuck: Enjoy that, enjoy life! Like, you had nothing to prove to anybody. You are Lindsey Vaughn.
1234
Jeezy: Well, you know, if I ain't mistaken, you know.
1235
Manny: Nope, nope, don't… nope.
1236
Jeezy: with Tiger Woods.
1237
Chuck: And.
1238
Jeezy: How'd that go?
1239
Jeezy: Huh?
1240
Jeezy: I'mma leave it at that. I'mma leave it at that.
1241
Jeezy: But anyway…
1242
Jeezy: Listeners, we thank you for tuning in to this episode, another episode of Pardon the Politics. Thank you to our brother Chuck, who is traveling, that has called in and joined us on this episode.
1243
Jeezy: We, we appreciate the chairman of Chaos, whatever his presence is, is here on the podcast, and brother, as you continue to travel, make travel, grace and mercy be with you, brother, and you get to your destination safe. We appreciate you potting on the road and doing this, this episode with us, brother.
1244
Chuck: I appreciate you, brother, and I'm gonna say this.
1245
Chuck: Go Pets!
1246
Jeezy: Ayyyyy! For y'all that don't know.
1247
Jeezy: I'm a Patriots fan in the Super Bowl, I'm about to go get ready for the Super Bowl, so…
1248
Manny: Hopefully.
1249
Jeezy: I'm gonna be on the other side. I wish bad luck and misfortune on the Patriots for every play. Thank you, thank you. The man and curse, the man and curse.
1250
Manny: Hey, but Drake thinks y'all gonna win, too, so…
1251
Jeezy: I know, so we gonna see how that… we're gonna see.
1252
Manny: And all of the curses.
1253
Jeezy: That's what I was about to say, the battle of the Curses, man. We… listeners, we appreciate you, we hope this episode finds you in a good space, and that you will join us at the next time when we, bring you another episode of the Pardon the Politics Podcast. Thank you for tuning in, and we'll see you later.
1254
Chuck: Peace.
1255
Jeezy: Ayy.