US/Israel/Iran: We At War. For Real This Time

The bombs have dropped. The Supreme Leader is dead. And Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are breaking down the most significant geopolitical event since the Iraq War in real time, unfiltered, and without the corporate media spin.

In this episode, the boys cover everything you need to know about Operation Epic Fury. The coordinated U.S. and Israeli military campaign that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wiped out dozens of top Iranian officials, and set the entire Middle East on fire. But this isn't just a news recap. This is three brothers who actually did the homework, sitting down and asking the questions nobody on cable news is asking: Why did we bomb a country we were literally negotiating with 48 hours earlier? Who's really pulling the strings — Trump or Netanyahu? What does regime change actually look like the morning after? And what does history tell us about what comes next?

From the Strait of Hormuz and the global oil crisis, to the girls' school that got bombed, to the War Powers Act debate heating up in Congress, to whether Iran might already have a nuclear weapon nobody knows about.

Plus: the Pickle of the Week, Spotlights, and the moment Manny drops the line of the episode: "The easiest thing in the world is to end a regime. The hardest thing is figuring out what comes next."

Trump says this can be over in two days. History says it's just getting started.

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Transcript

Jeezy: Hello, world, welcome to Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 3, Episode 9. I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and partner in politics, Manny. My brother, on this fine day, how are you doing?
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Manny: I'm doing fantastic. I cut my lawn, got my pre-emergent down, I went and sat in the hammock for a little bit.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh, you talkin', you, bruh, you talkin', what?
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Manny: Oh yeah, but…
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Jeezy: The hammock?
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Manny: We got the hammock going. Shout out to Amazon.
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Jeezy: What kind of… what kind of black boy joy is that?
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Manny: Look, man.
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Manny: It was 75 degrees, there was a lot…
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I would… Hey, bro.
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Manny: Rocket swaying back and forth.
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Jeezy: My kids were inside, being quiet for once.
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Manny: I was just like, it's kind of a peaceful moment, man.
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Jeezy: Bruh, my oldest daughter came home for a birthday, and
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Jeezy: After I dropped her off, I happened to notice, I was like, man, the weather is really nice here in North Carolina, eastern North Carolina to be exact.
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Jeezy: So I had to open the windows on the ride back home, and open the moonroof up, and let a little bit of that air do what it do, brother. So yeah, and apparently, the rest of the week, we're gonna get some nice weather, so, if you're listening.
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Manny: Supposed to be, like, in the 80s.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Like, high 70s, low 80s?
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: So if you're listening to this, as Drake would say, if you're listening to this and you're not getting that nice weather.
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Manny: Tough break, so… Look, enjoy it now, because we know the pollining is coming.
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Jeezy: Hey, oh, bruh, when that green monster come, it get rough, brother. Well, man, I'm glad to hear that you had a nice, a nice evening.
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Manny: And happy birthday to your daughter, man.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man.
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Manny: Time has flown, man.
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Jeezy: Hey, man, time moves swiftly, brother, and the older that we get, I realize that, the speed of time, it seems to accelerate at an exponential rate, so…
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: So, I'm glad to see…
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Jeezy: My baby see another trip around the sun, and continue to… I call her baby, but, she's a young woman, getting into womanhood, so, that's a transition if you're a father, and I believe that the chairman of chaos that we have here with us.
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Manny: A.
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Jeezy: more to that. I lean to my brother for guidance, because he's already experiencing that now, and I'll be soon joining him in those ranks. So, brother, how you doing?
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Chuck: Hey! I'm great, brother, man.
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Chuck: I have to echo the sentiment, minus the hammock.
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Chuck: Like you said, what kind of black boy do you… That's super wild.
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Jeezy: For our listeners that don't know Manny, Manny ain't the smallest man in the world now.
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Manny: Amazing.
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Chuck: No, Manny is legit the size of an NFL offensive lineman.
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Jeezy: I was about to say, he might be, like, the black… the big shoes.
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Manny: That's fair.
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Manny: Yeah, the big show, that's a good one.
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Jeezy: The black big shoe.
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Chuck: But, yeah, the weather is amazing here in Atlanta, very similar to you all. Mid-70s, you know, forecasting for 70s and 80s this week.
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Jeezy: Sweet.
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Chuck: Yeah, man, I'm just… I was out enjoying it,
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Chuck: Yeah, it's a beautiful day. Well… Yeah, it's a beautiful day.
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Jeezy: Nowhere, it's not a beautiful day at.
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Chuck: We definitely know where it's not a beautiful day yet.
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Chuck: A couple places.
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Manny: If it begin with middle, it ends with East.
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Chuck: If there's any kind of I in your name…
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Jeezy: Really?
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Manny: Not great.
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Chuck: Have a beautiful day.
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Jeezy: Bro, and for our listeners, as we get into this topic, you know, we're…
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Jeezy: Our job here at Partner Politics is while we do bring you information and details on what's going on currently, we certainly try, as we've stated before.
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Jeezy: To make light.
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Jeezy: Of those things, and if we can laugh to keep from crying, we definitely are the podcast that's gonna make sure we do it.
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Jeezy: So as we get into…
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Jeezy: our first segment, I believe, this, this would be…
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Chuck: Father Jesus.
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Jeezy: Sir?
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Chuck: I do want to put this out there at first.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Chuck: As my brother is stating, we are…
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Chuck: not insensitive to the casualties, we are not insensitive to the aspects of war.
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Chuck: However.
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Manny: It is.
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Chuck: We're gonna laugh.
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Jeezy: Mmm. Right.
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Chuck: We are gonna laugh. For those who are not familiar.
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Chuck: There are times in the black community where
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Chuck: We laugh at things that most people would think or deem inappropriate to laugh at.
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Manny: Good facts. We did.
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Chuck: So, that's gonna be the caution and the preface for everyone, but yeah, we're not insensitive to those who are dealing with what's going on. In fact, we have some people over there.
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Jeezy: Exactly.
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Manny: And to wrap a bow on it, everything we really talk about is accurate at the time of recording. Facts. We all know how fast the news cycle now moves, and…
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Manny: Two days from now, everything we could say could be completely wrong.
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Chuck: I don't know if the news cycle moves as fast as… well, slower than the speed of light, because good God, boy.
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Manny: Yeah, man.
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Jeezy: I don't see how you can keep up.
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Chuck: It's… it's something.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: as we, as we go in our, in our topic for this episode, I'm sure you guys are aware of, where, we are now, in, in the Middle East.
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Chuck: Done.
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Jeezy: A.
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Jeezy: Y'all, I believe… We at war.
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Manny: We, we are.
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Jeezy: Hopefully we're in war.
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Manny: And to be honest…
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Chuck: That one.
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Manny: It's a little bit later than… you know, we were talking throughout this week about… I think, at least for me, this was a category of when this was going to happen, not a if. Yeah. And talking with the boys before.
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Manny: I thought there was a really good chance
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Manny: that this was either going to start during the State of the Union, or immediately after.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Manny: So the fact that it's stretched out… I got a little bit optimistic that, hey, maybe… maybe my Doctor Strange feeling was wrong, and we weren't going to do this. Nope.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: It was 100% correct, we completely did it.
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Manny: And here we…
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Chuck: PR.
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Jeezy: To our listeners, I'm on February… the last day of Black History Month. Just had to.
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Manny: This is not… this is not the start of a good Black History year.
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Jeezy: Bruh. This ain't how you end it. This ain't how you end it, but I mean, hey…
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Manny: We're gonna go out with a bang, but this is not what we were trying.
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Jeezy: This ain't the bane that we were asking for.
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Chuck: Well, considering that he was trying to get rid of Black History Month, it's kind of apropos.
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Manny: facts. Yeah, this also…
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Jeezy: Very, very, very true. So, on the last day of Black History Month, the U.S.
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Jeezy: And their friend, Israel.
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Manny: That's probably the best way you could sum that up right now.
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Jeezy: Yeah, because I don'.
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Chuck: Calls before, bruh.
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Jeezy: They launched a coordinated military, offensive against Iran, or Iran.
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Jeezy: If you're… depending on which way you hold your latte.
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Jeezy: Which was widely described as Operation Epic Fury. Again, here we go with these names.
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Jeezy: I don't know Trump… I don't think Trump named this one.
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Manny: He looked real sleepy when they showed the pictures.
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Manny: it was late in Florida when this all popped up.
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Chuck: I was about to say, yeah.
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Chuck: He didn't get his daytime nap.
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Jeezy: And to those that I saw on social media before I continued.
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Jeezy: I was weak at one of the… those, individuals on social media that said that Trump has been trying to recreate that Obama…
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Manny: Situation Room.
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Jeezy: That's Situation Room. He has been trying to recreate that.
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Jeezy: And the funny thing was that the back of the phone that he had, that didn't have any cores connected, they had blotted out, like, the, I guess, the serial codes and stuff on it. And somebody said on social media, okay, you blotted out the serial numbers and whatnot on the back of the phone, but you didn't think…
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Jeezy: To blot out the map that was in the back that showed all our assets.
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Manny: Bruh, no.
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Manny: Priorities, y'all, priorities.
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Jeezy: So there, bro, we don't want nobody calling his phone, but we'll show you how to wear our assets are.
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Manny: Right.
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Chuck: His fascination with Obama is…
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Jeezy: Wild, bruh.
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Chuck: beyond wild and sickening.
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Jeezy: And it's getting worse.
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Chuck: Where I was about to say, I wish Eric was on here just to give the clinical diagnosis of what this is about, because it's… it's wild.
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Manny: It's not Trump Derangement Syndrome?
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Jeezy: Right.
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Chuck: Well, that explains everything else.
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Manny: Obama outfit. Obama directed.
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Jeezy: Obama Obsession Disorder. That's what we're gonna call it.
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Manny: Here we go.
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Chuck: O-O-D.
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Jeezy: O-O-B.
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Manny: OD.
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Jeezy: Obama obsession disorder. Bruh, at the rate Trump moved, bruh, I got a feeling that on his deathbed, he just gonna… on his last breath, he just gonna yell out, Obama!
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Chuck: Hussein! Hussein! Hussein.
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Manny: Just gonna rock a tan suit in the casket, just be like, I wore it better.
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Jeezy: I wore it better.
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Manny: It can't, bruh, because all that orange on that tan gonna show up too good. But anyway…
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Jeezy: The strikes targeted military, nuclear, and leadership infrastructures across
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Jeezy: Iran. So, Iranian state media and international outlets confirmed, the Supreme Leader
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Jeezy: Was killed in the strikes, among other top officials that were within the regime.
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Jeezy: Which marked a historic and what some have been categorizing as a destabilizing moment. The conflict has drawn quickly, some retaliation, obviously, because Iran have already said, if you hit us, we gonna hit back.
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Chuck: Listen, their return policy…
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Bruh, let me tell you.
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Chuck: It was…
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Jeezy: 90 days.
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Jeezy: They got the same return policy as Walmart, whatever, whatever.
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Chuck: It's facts, bruh. That return policy, well, no joke.
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Jeezy: mean. I don't think that… I mean, I know this is… we hadn't gotten to it, but have they even stopped yet?
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Manny: No.
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Manny: No.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Chuck: Nope.
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Manny: No.
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Jeezy: Let that chopper sing.
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Chuck: Sing.
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Jeezy: But, they've targeted, U.S. military in Israeli territory, as well as states hosting U.S. forces. So if you got U.S. forces in your area, you're getting it too.
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Jeezy: Which has been missiles and drone attacks as well. So, just to start out.
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Jeezy: With the death of Iran's supreme leader, what does this mean for the future of Iran's government and regional power dynamics? Does this even do anything?
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Jeezy: remotely to move, because I think Trump has said that this is what they want. They want regime change, and if you've wiped out your, you know, what is it, man, about 5 or 6 of their top officials?
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Manny: Bruh, yes.
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Jeezy: What does this mean for that regime change, or is it even going to… is there a future in it even happening?
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Manny: I mean… Let me first start off here.
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Manny: Iran's Alatollah was a brutal, brutal leader.
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Jeezy: Oh, fair.
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Manny: Who, even just this year, what, in the protests this year, 32,000 people had been killed.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So, you won't see me shed a single tear.
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Jeezy: Oh.
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Manny: for that brutal of a, not at all.
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Manny: But…
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Manny: We've never, as a country, as the United States being involved in a conflict, I don't ever remember a time where regime change was successful, especially in the Middle East. It's never been successful.
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Jeezy: No.
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Chuck: But in the United States in the past 10 years.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Also bad.
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Manny: So…
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Manny: I think it's interesting. One of our favorite phrases at work is, it depends. And I think this is another one of those situations, what does it mean for the Middle East? It depends.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: It depends on how much Iran's gonna lash out, how much they're going to continue to lash out, not only against the U.S, but against all the other Gulf states.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I mean…
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Manny: It's… it's real interesting, even as reports are coming out, that over the last couple months, not only Israel, and I'll get to that point in a second, but Saudi Arabia has been having calls directly with Trump, saying, hey, you gotta do something in Iran.
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Manny: So… and then, it's a keyword that you used.
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Manny: And that Israel being our friend, because we are very much in this because Israel is our friend. And why I say that's important.
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Manny: You got beef with somebody, geez, I got beef with them just how to connect.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Just out of it. And that's really how… how this is. Iran doesn't really pose any…
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Manny: to the U.S. mainland. Iran does not pose a threat to us. Iran can't send anything over here that we can't see, and can't shoot down.
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Manny: it… our assets, but guess what? Our assets in the area are as powerful, well, more powerful than what Iran has. So Iran was no real threat to the U.S.
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Manny: But very much a threat.
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Manny: to Israel.
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Manny: We see… we see with the funding… so I think the funding of the various terrorist groups in the Middle East. So I think immediately, it throws a lot of things into question.
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Manny: Because obviously you had a Middle East, you know, conglomerate that wanted Iran to stop.
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Manny: You also see with the people, with him being a brutal leader, they said when it was announced that he was gone, there was cheering in the streets. Now, there's also been videos that surfaced of people crying and mourning.
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Manny: So you have that piece. How do the people react to the Alyatollah been killed? Do we see people respond?
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Manny: like the Mexican cartel after their leader was killed last week? Or do we see them respond like Erica Kirk?
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Jeezy: Right. Ready.
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Chuck: Man… hmm.
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Jeezy: That was a mean straight.
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Manny: I'm just saying. How are they gonna respond?
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Jeezy: Yeah. And…
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Manny: So I think that's the first key thing. Then the other key then becomes who else decides to get involved?
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Manny: Obviously, Russia and Iran were close. Yeah. You know, and Iran has been helping prop up…
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Manny: Russia as it's been fighting this war in Ukraine.
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Manny: Well, now for Russia, their key relationship right there is essentially non-existent.
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Manny: Then on top of it, what's China gonna do?
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Manny: China's just hanging out? Like, how much of a player will that be? So those are, like, the immediate things that I see in the Gulf.
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Manny: But that… we gotta see play out. What you got, Chuck?
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Chuck: Well, first I want to say Ayatollah. I just like that word.
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Chuck: It is kind of smooth. It is so smooth. It's so smooth. I echo your sentiment a thousand percent. There is no… don't cry for me, Argentina, over the Ayatollah passing.
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Chuck: You know, the only one that I'll cry for is the reported granddaughter.
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Chuck: Who was killed in the strike.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: You know, if she's a child.
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Chuck: My heart goes out to the children.
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Manny: Absolutely.
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Chuck: But you bring up some very strong and valid points to the fact of…
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Chuck: Russia is a bit strained.
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Chuck: the battle with Ukraine has definitely put a hamper on resources. We've seen and talked about how they have troops coming from other countries, North Korea, and some troops coming from Africa, different countries in Africa, to try to assist them.
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Chuck: So, the level and extent that they can assist Iran Mmm, I don't know.
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Manny: Limited at best. At best. However…
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Chuck: China?
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Chuck: I think they… they have been doing some underhanded assisting, of Iran, in this. Now, I am seeing… I saw reports that,
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Chuck: the Ayatollah's son, may, ascend to power, but they're running right now off of a council, a leadership council, made up of the president, a judiciary chief.
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Chuck: And… .
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Jeezy: They may call.
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Manny: Someone from, like, the religious council, essentially.
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Chuck: Yeah, that, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Jeezy: They're like a council of experts, I believe they call them.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And, his… from what I saw, his son doesn't really have much holding within this.
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Manny: It does not…
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Chuck: Not in this space, no. They are… they're running things now as they figure out the transition of power, which has always been interesting to me, the different dynamic, I guess, in the structure, I guess you say executive structure of countries, particularly in the Middle East, because you see it
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Chuck: In Israel.
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Manny: With the Prime Minister having more power than the President, versus, you know, how it is here in the U.S, but…
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Chuck: It's gonna be interesting, man. We've never seen a successful regime change anytime that our hands was involved in it.
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Chuck: I don't care where it is in the world, it has not been successful.
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Manny: And…
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Chuck: Yeah, I think of the old, old song, sweep around your own front door, before you try to sweep around mine.
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Manny: Yes, Lord. Well, and one of the reasons why I think that regime change usually doesn't work when the U.S. is involved like this is because we're always trying to pick the successor.
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Chuck: Well, that, and you can't… this is not a plug-and-play system.
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Jeezy: Nope.
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Chuck: That you can just put in different areas of the world who have different philosophies, different religious outlooks, different…
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Chuck: communal and cultural structures. It's not possible, and we… we do it based off of who we like, not what's best.
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Jeezy: But how do you know who you like?
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Chuck: Whoever, whoever does what you tell them to do.
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Manny: Right. This is a clear, if I give orders, will you follow them to.
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Jeezy: But if you picking and popping people like this, I'm gonna make it seem like that I listened too.
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Chuck: Think about it like this. You take it to elementary school.
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Chuck: The… your friends in elementary school was the ones who agreed with you.
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Chuck: When they disagree with you, he won't my friend no more. Nope.
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Jeezy: Which is why we can't get changed.
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Chuck: You're fast.
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Jeezy: But I also don't understand, and you may, and you guys both have said this.
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Jeezy: You know, they can't directly impact us, Iran. You know, it's about our friends in the Middle East.
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Jeezy: And…
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Chuck: That's a loose-lip friends, too.
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Jeezy: Very, very loose. Associates. Acquaintance.
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Manny: The other people we're in class with.
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Jeezy: Why… with what we have, and this is, you know, my under… well, my concern, with so much that we have going here domestically.
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Jeezy: Why do we keep putting ourselves in this position of being the world police and doing this, when, if it's a problem for them, why don't they band together and do something about it?
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Chuck: Well, here's the crux of it, and our good brother Manny has given this play before.
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Chuck: When the economy is trash, What do you do?
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Jeezy: Ay.
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Manny: But, like, here's my confusion.
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Chuck: around that light.
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Manny: And that's how you know boomers are still in charge.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Is because that worked historically when everything was made here.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Now, for all… we need… we need rare earth minerals from China, we need steel from here, we need… we need… it may all be assembled here.
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Manny: But we… our supply chain is… is global.
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Manny: Yep. So, like, yeah, it helps, you know, our big military contracting companies, but…
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Manny: Well, man, you still get that trickle-down.
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Chuck: This is the same administration who went into a judiciary oversight
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Chuck: committee meeting, talking about the Dow Jones. So…
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Manny: Hey, look, we're not gonna get to By not doing nothing.
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Chuck: So, of course, you know, hey, we just gonna…
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Chuck: Blow something up and make it… Make it turn around.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: It's not gonna happen.
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Chuck: Not gonna happen.
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Jeezy: I think that, you know, when you look at all of this.
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Jeezy: you know, there certainly has been an impact that has happened immediately from this decision, and I think that we all… I don't know about you guys, but when I woke up, and normally, and I don't know if it's just because I'm conditioned because of us having the pod.
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Jeezy: But typically, when I wake up in the morning, and my eyes finally focus, and I realize that I'm where I'm at, I look and see kind
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Jeezy: It's just, what's the read for the day? Like, what's going on right now that's just, like, at the moment? And when I saw this, I was like, oh, brother, this is gonna have an immediate impact on things that are going on.
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Jeezy: And when we think about that immediate military and just human impact, the Pentagon confirmed after all this was taking place that, there were casualties.
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Jeezy: I believe there were some American troops that were killed, I can't remember the exact number.
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Manny: As of recording, 3… it's, 3 U.S. servicemen have lost their lives.
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Jeezy: I believe it was 3 that were killed, and there were 5 that.
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Jeezy: were severely wounded in the operation. And because of this strike, of course, as we've spoken of, Iran is gonna retaliate. So there were strikes involving missiles and drones across multiple Middle Eastern countries, which were
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Jeezy: Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and they've even, Israel has, mobilized their reservists and, have declared a state of emergency, because they're, obviously, you strike. You expect something to get returned. They've been getting hit. They've been, they…
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Maybe they need the Golden Dome, brother.
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Chuck: Where… Iran already showed them that they got the rust minerals to penetrate that iron.
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Jeezy: Brian Dome may do nothing.
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Chuck: And they're doing it now. To your point, GZ, in the retaliation, there's a couple other countries, particularly UAE.
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Chuck: and Cutter, who've been,
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Chuck: hit with missiles. It was very, peculiar to me, and very similar to yesterday morning. I woke up, turned the TV on.
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Chuck: And I have you… I ain't giving no shout-out. I have a TV streaming service.
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Chuck: And for some reason, the news was, like, already on, and I heard…
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Chuck: Yes, we have struck, did a joint strike with Israel on Iran. I'm like, oh my god.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: Oh. My. God. And to see… This is the most,
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Chuck: Yes, I say amazing. The most amazing aspect of 2026 and the proliferation of social media. We are able to see.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
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Chuck: so many things. Everything. And it's a good thing, and it's a bad thing.
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Chuck: To see the strikes, to see…
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Chuck: in other countries, the missiles hitting, I saw in Qatar where, no, in Bahrain.
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Jeezy: Yeah, by right.
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Manny: Irene.
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Chuck: They had intercepted the missile.
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Chuck: And then the capsule or whatever was just falling, and the people were in the street running to get away from it, as it's free-falling to the earth.
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Chuck: Excuse me. And it explodes on impact, and I'm like, man, that has to be insane. And then, the missiles that hit.
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Manny: In Dubai. Dubai.
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Jeezy: I.
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Chuck: in Abu Dhabi. Yeah.
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Jeezy: Yeah, high rise.
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Chuck: Listen, I've been to both. The Burj Alarab,
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Chuck: Being on fire because of debris falling out of the sky.
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Chuck: if I'm not mistaken, the reports were that they successfully had intercepted them, But…
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Chuck: the capsules and different pieces falling down, because depending on where it falls in Dubai, Dubai is very…
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Chuck: concentrated. The areas that you see in regards to the glitz, the glamour, the high-rise, the nice-looking things.
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Chuck: is very concentrated in a small area. It's already not that big anyway, because the island is small.
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Chuck: But then… You have the outskirts, which is…
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Chuck: Dubai that you're not gonna see unless you go there.
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Chuck: And, but to see…
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Chuck: I think that it was reported that it was one of Trump's properties over there that was on fire.
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Manny: I mean, if I was Iran, that would be… that had been my first target.
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Manny: Yeah, as close as I can. I'm trying to take every Trump property that I can. Before I even start with military institutions, I'm golf course, hotel, for…
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Jeezy: I gotta get that, I gotta get a video that I, that Trump, that Trump…
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Jeezy: sign on fire outside the building. That's what they trying to do.
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Chuck: Yeah, but it… and then there's a video of a drone strike on a high-rise. I can't remember what country it was in.
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Manny: And it's just, like, flying first.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: view, right into… Bruh.
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Chuck: Like, and then somebody in the high-rise was filming it from a lower level.
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Chuck: And to see, like… they look like some college.
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Jeezy: Call of Duty type stuff.
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Chuck: One of those missions. Very much so. Like, we… the access that we have to the videos, to the information.
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Chuck: is… is wild, man. It's wild.
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Jeezy: It is, man, and when you talk about it, Chuck, like, even…
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Jeezy: Not even the access… I mean, that's one thing. Access.
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Manny: and distribution.
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Jeezy: Bro, that's another thing. I'mma tell you what was very wild to me, is the reaction of people.
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Jeezy: If I think of my normal day-to-day, if I was walking at, you know, I'm gonna say the grocery store, and I looked up at the sky and saw, like, a missile.
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Jeezy: like… I probably would freak out, because I've never seen that in real time.
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Jeezy: I've seen a couple of videos where people were, like, literally in the street just filming it, like, oh, hey, look at… there's this thing coming
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Jeezy: I'm like, yo, do you know how.
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Manny: I'm yell at him.
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Jeezy: You have to be, as an individual, that you see missiles coming out of the sky, and you're not running for safety?
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Jeezy: Like, that video that Chuck is speaking about, the guy with the high-rise, if I was at my balcony at my high-rise apartment, and I see a drone coming towards me, bro, I am running for cover. He got the video all the way to impact, like…
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Chuck: All the way to impact.
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Jeezy: Like, he's… they're raining down fire on top of him, and he's, like, recording it. Like, the conditioning of that is insane. And it also made me think just how blessed I am that I don't live in a country where that's even a thought that I gotta even be worried about.
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Manny: I think one of the things that came out is Dubai doesn't have public bomb shelters?
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Chuck: No, they don't. No.
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Manny: So…
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Jeezy: Oh, bro.
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Manny: because it's known for being so peaceful, as compared to some other areas, so, like, a lot of their people are dealing with this the first time. Yeah. I'll let y'all into a little piece of my world. I really enjoy when I get to break the news in the group chat.
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Jeezy: Fresh.
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Manny: So when I got up and… I went to… I saw that… that we'd already had a whole bunch of notifications, and I'm like, oh, what's happening? Okay, who's got the jokes this morning? And when I seen that, geez, you broke the news, and y'all had already started… I was low-key pissed. I was like…
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Manny: I decided to sleep in, I was like…
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Jeezy: And I broke it in the most casual way, Paul.
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Manny: It's very casual, but extremely.
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Jeezy: I'm like, well…
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Manny: Welby, here we go.
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Jeezy: Here we go.
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Manny: But we should have known. We should have known when Mike Huckabee said, hey, everyone in Israel, y'all gotta leave today.
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Jeezy: Bruh, we talked about that, bruh, that was crazy.
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Chuck: No, that's not the point we should have known.
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Chuck: We should have known, when Trump was so laissez-faire at the State of the Union, Talking about it.
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Chuck: Like, in retrospect, when I look back, Mike Huckabee was the…
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Chuck: Oh, that's why he just glossed over this.
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Chuck: He was very… he was very casual.
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Jeezy: I think y'all brought that up in the group chat, too.
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Jeezy: move about July.
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Chuck: He's very smooth about it. Like, normally he's so braggadocious.
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Jeezy: It just popped.
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Chuck: popping this tag, and I'mma… he was just like, yeah, you know, we'll see how it goes.
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Chuck: Whole time. Put it in Spades perspective.
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Chuck: That other team think they got you sick?
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Chuck: You know, you got… you're sitting over here with the big joker.
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Manny: Big Joker?
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Chuck: And look, y'all coming down to your last four.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I was about to say, everybody got about two cars listed. They started looking around, like, who got the big joker?
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Chuck: Yeah, that's one thing.
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Jeezy: Why?
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Chuck: The one that smooth. Yep. And that's how he was acting at the, at the State of the Union. Yep. So, then Mike Huckabee
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Chuck: It was like, okay, this getting real.
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Chuck: But, guess what, y'all?
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Chuck: This administration is… filled With holes and buffoons.
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Manny: loose.
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Jeezy: No, you know it.
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Manny: sink ships.
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Chuck: Because…
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Jeezy: They bring their pillows out to talk in public.
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Manny: In public. In public. In public, y'all.
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Chuck: If you have not heard, there was a gentleman, and his name escapes me, and for good reason, because I'm not, that gossip news organization that breaks news, not giving them no light either, dropped a bombshell that…
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Chuck: there were individuals in the Trump administration.
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Manny: In a restaurant.
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Chuck: Talking about… Oh, we're gonna strike Iran in a few hours.
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Jeezy: Boys went to… the boys went to Cheesecake Fatter and were talking out loud.
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Chuck: And he was like… he was talking to Harvey, and he was like, no, I heard… I just heard this, like, a few minutes ago. They're… they're sitting at the table behind me, and they're just openly talking about it.
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Manny: That's wild, man.
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Jeezy: Brad, if that was part of politics, bruh, and we were sitting at that table, how would y'all respond hearing that, bruh?
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Chuck: You know, you know how that little kid that's…
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Chuck: A nuisance that's in the booth behind you?
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Jeezy: Yup.
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Chuck: And they're standing up, they're looking over in your booth, they're looking around.
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Chuck: I'd have got a…
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: What?
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Chuck: I won't know anybody else.
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Chuck: Y'all want me by y'all around to drink?
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Jeezy: I would've ordered… I was just about to say that. I'm about to order around and see what else y'all gonna talk about.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Manny: The, the amount of… I'm about to be the whistleblower.
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Manny: The other peop… the amount of people.
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Chuck: Whoa.
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Manny: probably heard.
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Jeezy: Halls, yes. Oh, yeah, that was… That was egregious. That was egregious. That was egregious. That was wild, bro.
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Manny: The amount of people in that restaurant that probably also overheard that and went to, was it, Kalshi? Where you can make bets on…
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Chuck: Will?
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Jeezy: everything, probably.
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Chuck: Will?
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Manny: If I say, what do numbers look like?
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Chuck: Well, there were, some bets where people made, like, $1.2 million.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: That we would strike with the exact date.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Chuck: More insider… more insider trading, of course. It's Barron, it's John Barron from Virginia.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Get them racks.
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Manny: the… there was another bet out there. Would the Ayatollah be out of power before April 1st?
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Manny: I remember seeing stuff where… We should have seen.
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Jeezy: Money on that, bruh.
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Chuck: Manny, you are… you are dropping the ball, Manny. That is your lane.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's… yeah, bro.
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Chuck: You are… you are our…
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Manny: I said it on the pod.
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Jeezy: Go put the money down on the books, brother.
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Chuck: As many predictions, as many predictions as given out on this pod, Manny, you dropping the ball, bruh.
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Jeezy: I'm supposed to be the political bookie.
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Manny: See, here's the thing. Y'all know from my sports betting.
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Jeezy: But that ain't…
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Manny: You know.
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Jeezy: Ministry. That ain't your ministry, though.
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Chuck: It's not sports betting. No ministry, it's politics. It's political betting, and you go through a vetting process with us. Yep, for sure. Your sports betting, you just be willy-nilly
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Chuck: Yeah. That'd be with you, Ruby.
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Jeezy: your feet together like a cricket, and make it…
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Manny: I can make it…
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Chuck: In his hammock.
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Jeezy: That hammock is where you be making a bad sports bet. But in politics, you be in a different space, brother.
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Manny: Here… here was kind of my shock around this, is… with the Iran response.
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Jeezy: We had talked about it on the pod.
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Manny: I don't know if we… if it came out,
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Manny: we're gonna… we're gonna say pre-pause, just in case, that it had been reported that Iran had already said that if they were attacked by the U.S. and Israel.
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Manny: They know they would lose a fight with the U.S, and they're just going to hit everybody.
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Manny: Yeah. And so, the clutching of pearls of, like, oh man, Iran's attacking all these other places.
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Manny: if I was running a country in the Middle East, oh yeah, we would've been queued up already. We're like, alright, we know they about to respond. Oh, we got a U.S. base? I'm on the phone with the Pentagon saying, hey, we need some more stuff to shoot down the stuff that is coming our way.
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Manny: If you do something.
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Chuck: Yeah, well, shoot, the Iranian response from when they dropped the bombs and the bunker busters.
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Chuck: the first time, and how they responded, you should have known what was gonna happen. And then, there was also,
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Chuck: a report that, Iran… the Iranian said that we have a video of Iranian hackers
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Chuck: Have a video of Trump.
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Chuck: I got an attitude about that.
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Chuck: It's, it's about 3 days now.
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Manny: I, I…
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Chuck: She knows.
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Manny: video yet.
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Chuck: Y'all playing with our emotions like student loan, cancellation.
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Jeezy: If you got it, release it.
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Manny: in… in the.
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Jeezy: pole.
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Manny: to the… Wow, man.
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Chuck: Manny gave you the pre-pause.
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Manny: It hadn't been used yet.
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Jeezy: Hey, I tie the ends up, brother.
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Manny: But in…
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Chuck: Dang it.
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Manny: So I was briefly, you know, optimistic about this, that it wasn't going to happen, because Thursday, or Thursday or Friday, it had come out.
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Manny: that at the negotiating, it was Friday.
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Chuck: Friday, yeah.
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Manny: dating table.
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Manny: that they had made a major breakthrough in regarding the stockpiling of nuclear material that was not in the original Obama deal. And it came out that Iran had agreed not to stockpile, and the consensus from leaving that room was that
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Manny: The next time they met, they were going… they were going to get a deal done.
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Manny: And even now, they're saying, they're like.
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Manny: this is a repeat of last time, when we were at the table, we were close to a deal, and then there was an attack. I also think it's wild that, this all started about a nuclear program that we said we obliterated 8 months ago.
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Manny: Little hammers. Brother, you know, I was gonna definitely say that, because that has literally been the caveat that has pissed me off.
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Jeezy: I said it was obliterated, why are we doing this if you said it was done?
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Manny: I mean… If it was obliterated.
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Manny: kudos to the Iranian people that were able to build a U.S.-threatening.
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Chuck: Listen.
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Manny: program in 8 months. They got Tyran Stark in there.
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Chuck: They got to work. They got to start industry loaded up.
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Manny: Like, okay, because if you were able to go from an obliterated program.
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Jeezy: They hit the wrong bunker.
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Manny: to a threatening program, y'all might be the most innovative people in the world.
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Jeezy: Hey, look!
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Manny: Yes, you are… you might be a threat to the United.
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Jeezy: Ayatollah already told you, he said, hey, this is our sacred right, bruh.
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Jeezy: We have the right to do this. They got more than enough resources to do it, but I thought about that, and I said, well, Iran might have been telling the truth, because they said, you just set us back a couple of months.
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Chuck: It's about listening.
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Jeezy: Pretty valid. A couple of months later, here we go.
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Manny: the arm.
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Chuck: But, Manny, to your point, and talking about the deal, the Amman foreign minister
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Chuck: pretty much was saying that the deal was done. They were just meeting up next week to sign the paperwork.
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Manny: Get the little ceremony going.
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Chuck: They hear the usher. I'm gonna sign them papers.
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Manny: Well, yeah.
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Jeezy: In the words of Andrew Caldwell, that deal been deleted.
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Manny: Delete it.
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Chuck: And what's my girl name? Ain't nobody got time for that.
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Jeezy: Hey, nobody got that?
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Jeezy: But when you think about the response that, you know, the immediate military and…
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Jeezy: The human impact that this has had.
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Jeezy: Bringing it back home, how significant are U.S. military casualties in shaping the domestic opinion on this war? What do you feel like as far as the first response that we're getting from a domestic perspective? What do you feel like that, response is, especially knowing that we had these casualties? And I think President Trump got, made a speech saying…
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Jeezy: That was… That speech was nasty, bruh.
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Jeezy: Nasty word. It's a sacrifice.
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Manny: I'm willing… we watched Shrek today.
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Manny: Yeah. And heard the prince on there saying, it is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Which is essentially what Trump said.
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Manny: He's like, some people will die.
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Manny: And… I…
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Manny: I think that is key to remember for anybody who's stepping into a… a war-like situation, that there are going to be casualties. But this is what I hate about every time we enter war.
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Manny: It is always… The less economic, impacted individuals here.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Manny: All the time. Are there people that come from families that are well-off, that are part of the military? Yes, absolutely. But if you look at the greater and larger makeup of the military, these are not… they are not coming from well-off families.
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Chuck: not even so much well-off families. The day and age of, I am serving
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Chuck: For patriotic reasons, and my family members served, that percentage is a lot lower today than it was years ago.
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Chuck: like you said, a lot of people are serving to make a better way for themselves and their loved ones. So, in that, and I actually have a niece that is, just left early February to go to basic training for the Navy.
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Chuck: So, it is very endearing.
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Chuck: To… to those who have loved ones and dealing with that, and to Trump to be so cavalier with… there'll be… there'll be casualties.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: You didn't even get permission to go to war.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Chuck: Now, as a commander-in-Chief, no, you don't have to get permission to… Do strikes and operations.
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Chuck: But this is war. This is not a strike and an operation, bruh. Don't play it in our face. The one thing that I really wish…
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Chuck: would happen, and we required of any individual who is president
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Chuck: If you have a child that is of age, and you want to go to war.
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Chuck: Your child must enlist?
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Chuck: And go to war as well.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I've heard a lot of people floating that around, bruh.
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Chuck: They… listen, the sentiment, to answer your question, the sentiment is not high.
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Chuck: there are a lot of people who are not happy about this. From those in Congress to the everyday individual, good old Thomas Massey boy, he…
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Jeezy: Brother Massey.
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Chuck: Brother Massey letting that yap and Yapa sing.
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Manny: Him and Ro Khanna.
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Jeezy: Bruh, Ro Kama B.
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Manny: G.
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Chuck: tattoo.
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Manny: a legacy.
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Chuck: Tag Team Champions.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir. The deli boy. Indeed.
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Manny: that are working.
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Manny: Why are you listening?
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Chuck: They have not stopped working. You're not doing anything? Like… I have not.
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Manny: kudos.
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Jeezy: I thought y'all was at home, I thought y'all was on recess. I didn't.
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Chuck: Not them.
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Chuck: But, yeah, and to that, you know, people have put it out there, oh.
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Chuck: Trump want to send our sons and daughters to war. Where's Barron going?
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Chuck: And what…
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Manny: NYU.
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Manny: NYU and the board.
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Jeezy: to that D-look.
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Manny: talk.
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Jeezy: apartment in the sky.
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Manny: So, one thing I do want to make known for our listeners is how some of this is…
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Manny: Some people have said this is an illegal war.
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Manny: And I'm on the fence on if that is a correct statement.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Because, let's talk about the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
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Manny: What that essentially says, Is that the president can attack another country.
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Manny: Within 48 hours, The President must notify Congress.
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Chuck: Yep. And it is my understanding that the hardest-working man in America, Marco Rubio.
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Manny: Had calls with the Gang of Eight today.
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Manny: And more… a more official breakdown will happen, Monday morning.
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Chuck: Hey, Manny, real quick, speaking of Marco Rubio, there were images of him floating around on the internet, saying that he was the next Ayatollah.
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Jeezy: Ew.
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Manny: Y'all gotta stop wasting our good water.
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Jeezy: Nope, nope.
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Manny: For these issues.
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Jeezy: You had me crying, bruh.
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Chuck: I had Marco wrapped up his… Turban.
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Jeezy: But I had him like a McDonald's snack rep.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Manny: Like, so, the president can't continue
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Manny: Attacks for up to 60 days.
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Manny: After…
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Jeezy: After notifying? After notifying?
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Manny: After, after they've started.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: We are in day 2 of the 60-day counter.
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Manny: After 60 days, Congress has to either declare war, authorize action, but the third option is they can extend it for another 30 days.
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Jeezy: I feel like that's a flawless system. If that's…
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Manny: If that 30 days is needed for a safe withdrawal.
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Manny: There was, an expert, I forget who it was, but there was an expert that news officials, I think from Al Jazeera were interviewing, and the comment was, there is absolutely, to your question, Geez, that there is absolutely going to be regime change because of this.
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Manny: But…
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Manny: there is a better chance that that regime change that happens is in the US, rather than in Iran.
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Manny: Because, going back to another point of how complex this is.
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Manny: I know I can't adequately explain the relationship of Sunni and Shiite Muslims, which is part of all of this that's going on, so I know.
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Manny: that Big Donnie T has no idea.
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Chuck: Completely.
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Jeezy: The shattuties, and the…
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Manny: Like, no idea.
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Chuck: She says, Hootie.
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Jeezy: Now, who do you.
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Manny: You have those same…
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Jeezy: Bottom piece.
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Manny: breakdowns between Saudi Arabia. And, like, so you're not just dealing with a policy standpoint, you're dealing with a religious standpoint.
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Jeezy: Religious goal.
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Manny: vastly different. And we're not talking, like, Baptists versus Protestants, no, we're like, core…
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Manny: you know, comparison. Like, poor fundamental beliefs. Right.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Manny: So… Wait… Yeah, go ahead, Chuck.
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Chuck: I was gonna say, to your point, Manny, and you provided
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Chuck: the facts on some of his powers, but there are individuals in Congress who, as we said, Thomas Massey, Ro Khan, and a few others, good brother Rand Paul, I'm sure, has issues with this as well, and this is coming off the back of the operation in Venezuela.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And I think that's where…
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Chuck: They're fed up with you just doing things
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Chuck: and then coming to talk to us. And so, this War Powers resolution that he's looking to present.
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Chuck: and try to force a vote when Congress reconvenes. I think a lot of it is based off of the back of that, and then this whole notion of America first. Someone who…
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Chuck: shocked me with the level of venom that he had against this was that doof Nick Fuentes, and how…
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Chuck: But he… he went to the point of saying, hey, I'mma vote Democrat.
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Chuck: Because… he… he was…
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Jeezy: He went crazy.
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Chuck: Right. Click Crazy.
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Manny: went crazy, that clip of Charlie Kirk.
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Chuck: Resurfacing, yes.
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Manny: change.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Manny: Nothing about this is America first. No, no. Like, and, you know what?
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Chuck: Nothing that has happened since January 20th of last year has been America First.
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Manny: Like, you could… you know… Back in the old days.
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Manny: Back, you know, the U.S, or, you know, if we go straight tinfoil hat community here.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: Wait, wait, we're gonna wait for it.
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Chuck: Ayyyyy.
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Jeezy: Like, I thought we were gonna go the whole episode without it, and I was like…
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Oh no, oh no. We gonna…
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Manny: White…
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Manny: we used to have a government that would at least fake an attack here in the U.S. to get everyone riled up before… like, something would happen to us. Yeah. We… in a lot of our earlier things, there is a… there is something that happened, so everything that we did was retaliatory.
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Chuck: Yep.
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Manny: there's…
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Jeezy: Whether we instigated that to happen. Yes.
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Manny: Yeah, so it's like, in this one, we are clearly the aggressor.
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Jeezy: And what?
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Manny: Iran has been… Two weeks away from a nuclear weapon since 1996?
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Chuck: For 30 years.
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Jeezy: Go ahead.
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Manny: Two weeks away, and… So, it is very interesting that now.
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Manny: Now, also to add to the timing.
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Manny: It is clearly an election year.
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Manny: And I would say we are likely looking at a lame duck president right now.
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Manny: where I think he… I think in the administration, if they're smart, or if they're planning.
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Manny: They're looking at this year as all we got. So anything that… anything that we have to do, we gotta get it done now.
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Jeezy: Roll it out. Roll it out.
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Manny: Because at this point, if you look at, polls on the administration.
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Manny: Republicans are hurting, and you keep losing your base. Why? Because everything's affordability, everything's not affordable, now we're taking what money we do have.
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Manny: And just going to start using that to drop it over there? For what?
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Manny: For what?
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Chuck: And I'm gonna tell you what the nail in the coffin's gonna be.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Chuck: When those gas prices rise.
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Manny: Oh, look!
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Manny: According to, let me pull up… according to CNN, as of right now, U.S. crude has risen about 12%.
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Manny: Already, and this is Sunday, it's Sunday evening.
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Manny: So, already, who knows what's going to happen tomorrow? Yep.
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Jeezy: What's.
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Manny: going to happen overnight.
697
Chuck: And it's put us in a position.
698
Manny: that wasn't great to begin with, because I think Iran has already put out messages that the Strait of Hamuts, I think I said that right.
699
Chuck: Great.
700
Jeezy: Yeah, they shut it down.
701
Manny: they shut him down. And for those of you who are like, what is that? It is a… I believe it's a 21-mile straight in… in the Middle East that can… that… of which you have about 20% of the world's oil flowing through.
702
Chuck: Facts. And my understanding at this point.
703
Manny: Is that not only have you had tankers hit, at least one tanker has been hit and attacked.
704
Manny: That has now freaked out insurance companies.
705
Chuck: Oh, yeah.
706
Manny: Who has raised and tripled prices of these ships going through.
707
Chuck: And not just that, some of them have dropped coverage.
708
Manny: So, now you've just made it infinitely more expensive.
709
Manny: And all of this…
710
Chuck: For what?
711
Manny: It… now… and it's like, you're not even telling me the correct lie right now.
712
Chuck: Bruh.
713
Jeezy: It used to be a point where we could get a decent lakh.
714
Chuck: At least make me feel good with the lion. At least make me feel good.
715
Jeezy: Boy.
716
Manny: Well, and I think that's the problem here. I think the problem here is they're telling us the truth. The truth is they were going after that nuclear program and regime change. If they had went and did this after it came out and said that, you know, Iran had killed 32,000 people, usually that's the go mark for us.
717
Jeezy: Yeah.
718
Manny: They're killing innocent people. We ain't do nothing!
719
Manny: For the $32,000.
720
Jeezy: sat back for weeks.
721
Manny: and chill. I always say.
722
Jeezy: was, hey, y'all stop doing that over there now. We did the dad mode when you're watching the kids. Hey, y'all, y'all quiet down in there.
723
Jeezy: Going in there.
724
Manny: That's what we did! So, it's like, you guys aren't even using… that's how you also know this administration is out of touch with the American people. Yep. If you're going to try to pull the wool over our eyes, pull a… at least try to pull a wool that we're comfortable with.
725
Jeezy: Well, this is the thing I don't understand, Manny, that you said, a point that you just said, recently, is…
726
Jeezy: If Republicans are bleeding already going into this midterm election.
727
Jeezy: I mean, at this point, are you… you've cut them off at the ankles. I mean, right now, you got them at the knees, I mean, darn, were we going to the hip, too? Like, if you're trying to do something.
728
Jeezy: You know, we've heard that Trump was gonna try to spend affordability. He called it a hoax at first, and now he's trying to find a way to make housing affordable, which we don't have much trust in that. But, I mean, are you literally sabotaging the GOP?
729
Chuck: No, he's not sabotaging, he's living on the glory of yesteryear. He is still in the delusion of, my name carries weight, my name is gonna… all they need to pull through, and…
730
Chuck: It's not happening.
731
Chuck: It is not…
732
Jeezy: I realized that in the last election.
733
Chuck: But… but… we are seeing… The fruits of the…
734
Jeezy: Mmm.
735
Chuck: Unlabor.
736
Chuck: It ain't the other labor, it fates of the unlabor, where we spoke on it before, the different special elections that are vastly turning.
737
Manny: Yep.
738
Chuck: So, now that you are further pushing them away, what do they call it? Trumpublicans? Yeah. His followers?
739
Chuck: And there is… there are those in the GOP who are over it.
740
Chuck: They want to get back to…
741
Chuck: the Republican Party that they once knew.
742
Jeezy: get back.
743
Manny: Like, what…
744
Jeezy: As I've said before, all of this needs to get back to the center again, because right now, it is crazy.
745
Manny: Make politics boring.
746
Jeezy: Warren, again.
747
Chuck: I'm gonna tell you what, they want the Reagan Republicans back. That seems like to be their gold standard of Republican time.
748
Jeezy: Did I ever tell y'all about that time we had a culture meeting at work, and we had to tell…
749
Jeezy: How there was… name one person that inspires you.
750
Jeezy: Excellent.
751
Chuck: Sounds like a bad idea.
752
Jeezy: And this is the crazy part, I led the little meeting, bruh.
753
Manny: Oh, that sounds like…
754
Chuck: What was it?
755
Manny: trap. That sounds like it was a trap. So you know, I'm sitting here, and people are saying…
756
Jeezy: you know, hey, my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, my mother, my father. There was this one… there was this one kid in there, man. I'mma call him a kid, because he was, like, fresh out of college, and he put…
757
Jeezy: Ronald Reagan.
758
Manny: Bro, you weren't even alive when eating.
759
Jeezy: And I'm like, bro, you have no knowledge.
760
Jeezy: Of the Reagan administration whatsoever. But Reagan was his figure. I'm like, bruh, you really…
761
Jeezy: Bypass your mama, your daddy.
762
Manny: Jesus. In Jesus Christ.
763
Chuck: But Republicans love Reagan Wool.
764
Jeezy: Hey, brother, man.
765
Chuck: Feel some rain.
766
Jeezy: love him to death. I'm still trying to figure out why, but…
767
Jeezy: Maybe one day I'll find out.
768
Jeezy: I doubt it. I doubt it.
769
Manny: I do want to hit on one other thing that's being reported out of all this.
770
Manny: And I'm not gonna say a whole lot about it, but allegedly.
771
Manny: Big Netty is not in Israel.
772
Chuck: Oh, no.
773
Jeezy: Of course not!
774
Manny: allegedly, he was in a plane flying around the sea while all this was happening, allegedly tried to get in Cyprus, they're like, - you're not coming here. And allegedly, right now, he is in Germany.
775
Manny: There's journey in that.
776
Jeezy: Interesting.
777
Chuck: Jameis.
778
Jeezy: I don't trust them either, bruh. You seen there were some reports that some of the missiles…
779
Chuck: No, it's not a report. I saw the photo.
780
Jeezy: Oh, oh, there was actual photo of it? I just…
781
Chuck: Yes. Yes. Some of the missiles that landed, the, I want to call it fuselage because of a plane, but the capsule, you see the innards of it, and it's a German company, yeah.
782
Chuck: Yeah.
783
Jeezy: Boy, boy, boy, boy, boy.
784
Manny: The one thing I'm real thankful for in all this is that I got to go to Israel
785
Manny: before it… it all went bad. And you know what? Maybe it's my fault, because… It was bad.
786
Chuck: all within.
787
Jeezy: How about the… I was about to say something that was gonna get us canceled.
788
Manny: See, on…
789
Jeezy: Hit me up.
790
Manny: On the day before we were getting ready to leave is when Trump announced that he was moving the embassy from, Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
791
Manny: And then we left the next day, and…
792
Manny: Israel hasn't been the same since then.
793
Chuck: of the Lord on your side.
794
Jeezy: If, if Big… if, Big Nettie…
795
Jeezy: is so confident in his Iron Dome, why he fleeing?
796
Manny: Because there's things harder than iron.
797
Chuck: Iron Rust.
798
Manny: Oh, bruh.
799
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Chuck: Go!
801
Manny: Like, let's also be clear here. This thing can still get worse than it currently is.
802
Jeezy: Apparently, it's going to, because I don't think Trump said that he doesn't… he plans more.
803
Chuck: He don't play no stopping, no time stop.
804
Manny: So…
805
Jeezy: I don't plan on stopping the tariff soon.
806
Manny: Well, I'm not even talking from the U.S. doing stuff to Iran, I'm just talking about Iran, like, here is something that is… if Iran is as close to these nuclear weapons as the administration claims.
807
Manny: Iran could have a nuke that we don't know about.
808
Jeezy: You may say something about that.
809
Chuck: They already got, hypersonic missiles? Hypersonic missiles. They probably got from China.
810
Jeezy: So…
811
Manny: So, they… they launch one of… it doesn't even have to hit… hit…
812
Manny: a people center. They could find an empty place in the desert and just nuke that empty place, and that is dramatically going to change the reality of the entire Middle East forever.
813
Chuck: Well, then what's…
814
Jeezy: Go ahead, Chet.
815
Chuck: I was just gonna say, I don't know if they have a nuclear weapon or the grade to put it on a warhead at this point, because, like you said.
816
Chuck: Big Netty has been saying that, they're 2 weeks away for 30 years, reminds me of the old folks in church who try to scare you and say, Jesus is coming back any day now.
817
Chuck: And I'm about to be 15.
818
Jeezy: Therefore, honey, you…
819
Chuck: No man knows a time or the hour. Facts.
820
Jeezy: But it coming? Hour 5 when you told me. I'm 38 now.
821
Jeezy: If he's coming, let him come.
822
Manny: Let him come.
823
Jeezy: Come on in! Pause.
824
Chuck: But the Bible told me he opened the door. I mean, he knocks. He waiting for me to open the door, so if he show up, I'm gonna know he gonna knock on the door first.
825
Manny: it…
826
Jeezy: He's knocking on the right door.
827
Manny: To add to the chaos of all this, there are rumors floating around that, again, allegedly.
828
Manny: Israel's already starting to do the pat on its back, and starting to… to potentially look at other… other targets they want to hit. And to that, I was just like, if y'all could just sit down, and…
829
Chuck: Many. And stop touching things for a while. Many.
830
Chuck: Wasn't Geppetto proud of Pinocchio before he became a boy?
831
Manny: He was.
832
Chuck: The puppet master's always gonna be proud of his work, when it works.
833
Jeezy: Always.
834
Chuck: That's when Pinocchio became a boy and started to be awry. He wanted to be a real boy against what Geppetto wanted. That's where the problem came in at.
835
Jeezy: That's where the problem came in.
836
Chuck: That's what it is.
837
Jeezy: That's big facts, bruh.
838
Chuck: Like, yeah, let's talk about something else before I get.
839
Jeezy: I'm sick… I'm sick of it, bruh, because at the end of the day.
840
Jeezy: as the American people, we don't want this.
841
Chuck: We don't need this.
842
Jeezy: We don't like seeing… we don't need this. We certainly don't like seeing our purse being spent on this, while you continue to ask more of me.
843
Jeezy: You ain't… you ain't giving me a refund on them tears.
844
Manny: Bruh.
845
Jeezy: Right now, the quality of life for the American people, and I know there's been jokes that have been, when it comes to MAGA, to say, hey, look, if you… you voted for this.
846
Jeezy: But I think at this point.
847
Jeezy: They didn't even vote for this.
848
Manny: Oh, no.
849
Jeezy: They haven't even voted for this, and I think we all are in a bind, because we all didn't… most of us didn't ask for this, and the ones that did ask for at least this administration, are having second thoughts. Maybe now third, which I don't know what third thoughts feel like.
850
Chuck: Really?
851
Jeezy: Some people having third thoughts at this point.
852
Chuck: You do. Yes, you do.
853
Chuck: Now, I haven't had a chance to vet this, but I seen something on the socials where there was, speaking of people who didn't… who may have voted for this or asked for this, there was a guy who has a gas station, and he's a Trump supporter in America.
854
Jeezy: Ruh.
855
Chuck: And he wanted to prove… make Trump not look like a liar, and took his gas prices below $2 a gallon.
856
Chuck: Now he's filing for bankruptcy.
857
Jeezy: Clothes! Clothes!
858
Manny: But, Geez, you asked another question, is how does it Hit the home front.
859
Manny: Well, depending on when you all listen to this podcast, we have primaries.
860
Jeezy: Mmm.
861
Chuck: squeegee-ly.
862
Jeezy: Yeah.
863
Manny: Texas.
864
Chuck: Yeah.
865
Manny: North Carolina and Arkansas.
866
Manny: Yo, Texas has the Senate primary with John Korn facing Ken Paxton.
867
Jeezy: Is that the guy from, King of the Hill?
868
Jeezy: Oh, that was John Redcorn, sorry. That was John Redcorn.
869
Manny: My bad, my bad.
870
Jeezy: The master I just…
871
Manny: You have Jasmine Crockett versus James Tallarico.
872
Manny: Intent.
873
Chuck: That's something else.
874
Jeezy: Bruh.
875
Manny: In North Carolina, you got the… there is a Senate primary, but I believe that race is already locked in of Michael Watley versus Roy Cooper.
876
Manny: And then you got all of the other House races. Then, in Arkansas, all of the primaries are contested. What is the impact to those primaries now? If you're an incumbent, how do people who haven't voted…
877
Manny: Take this.
878
Jeezy: I would have definitely been…
879
Manny: roads.
880
Jeezy: I definitely would've… and seeing that we were striking Iran, and definitely would have… Had a face-to-face-to-forehead moment.
881
Jeezy: I mean, hand to forehead moment, because… If it is tight, Paul's.
882
Jeezy: The race and the polls, I don't… I didn't… I don't need my constituents to see this.
883
Jeezy: I don't need this happening right now.
884
Jeezy: Because certainly… An overwhelming majority of Americans do not approve of this.
885
Jeezy: So then, what's the messaging that you put out there as a candidate, or an incumbent? I mean, you're still a candidate, but you've been in that seat. Where do you position yourself
886
Jeezy: with a president, That you don't agree with doing this right now, in this moment.
887
Jeezy: And how does that flip in a very short amount of time? Because we know people are late to the polls.
888
Jeezy: I would love to see, because I think early voting ended, what, Saturday?
889
Manny: In most places, it ended Saturday. Well, North Carolina, it ended Saturday.
890
Jeezy: Yeah. I would love to see that data.
891
Chuck: And that's also part of the reason, Thomas Massey's trying to push this resolution.
892
Chuck: To get voted on.
893
Jeezy: Mmm.
894
Chuck: He even stated, your constituents need to see where their representatives stand in this matter, in opposing this war forward. So, you're spot on, brother.
895
Jeezy: Brother Matthew.
896
Jeezy: I completely agree. You know, this…
897
Jeezy: If… it don't matter what you believe in, whether you're right, left, Trump, not Trump, maggot… Normal person.
898
Jeezy: At the end of the day.
899
Jeezy: you have to, and it should be, this administration should be held accountable. This Congress should be held accountable.
900
Jeezy: You are in a position
901
Jeezy: to make my life better. That's what I send you to Washington for, that's what I hope I voted for this administration for to do, whether you believe it or not. And even if you didn't vote for them, you would hope that as a decent person, that is the driving objective that you have in holding a public office.
902
Manny: When I see what is happening.
903
Jeezy: This in no shape, form, or fashion makes my life any better.
904
Jeezy: This doesn't make anyone's life better.
905
Jeezy: I think we've already seen that there's been terrorist activity that has happened in, what, Texas already?
906
Jeezy: That they've blamed or deemed?
907
Manny: Allegedly, yeah. Allegedly, allegedly. I ain't buying it? That's a little shaky.
908
Chuck: It was shaking it.
909
Jeezy: You know, he might be one of them…
910
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911
Jeezy: A little bit of that.
912
Chuck: That's kind of like the Blade Runner in the Olympics.
913
Manny: But at the end of the day, this is something that…
914
Jeezy: Again.
915
Jeezy: For it being… going into midterms, and you're already hanging on by a thread, you sure do love playing with scissors.
916
Manny: Man, I look at all this.
917
Manny: And where are they at? Over a hundred, you know, I've… 100 girls are dead after that school.
918
Jeezy: I was just about to say that, brother.
919
Manny: 3 American soldiers are dead. Oil tankers are stranded, you know, and somewhere, somewhere in the Middle East.
920
Manny: Is a group of kids.
921
Manny: Who are sitting and watching all of this unfold.
922
Jeezy: Yep.
923
Manny: And you talk about where extremism begins.
924
Jeezy: We've talked about it on this pod, man. How do you think that terrorists are breed?
925
Manny: Right. This is… you have created problems. Regardless of how this plays out, you have created problems.
926
Jeezy: 20, 25, 30 years from now.
927
Manny: And then beyond that.
928
Manny: The easiest thing, just rolling back to right now, so ignoring what's gonna happen 20 years from right now, let's look at right now, today. The easiest thing to do is end a regime.
929
Manny: This is the easiest thing to do.
930
Manny: The hardest thing
931
Manny: is figuring out what comes… what comes next, what happens next, and Trump is… is on his campaign, oh, this can all be over in two days. History.
932
Manny: Has just told… is told us that that's not the.
933
Jeezy: That ain't the case.
934
Manny: This is very much just getting started.
935
Jeezy: Well, and this is the best…
936
Manny: out of the Middle East, so we're about to be there another 20 years.
937
Jeezy: It's about to be there again. But this is the thing, and…
938
Jeezy: Trump, this decision that has been made, and that's when you was talking about the War Act.
939
Jeezy: I was saying that it's flawed to me.
940
Jeezy: Because… That should come… that approval should come beforehand, in my opinion.
941
Jeezy: It should come beforehand.
942
Jeezy: Because the ramifications of what you just spoke of, and this decision that has been made by a president who we can… some can question the competency of this president, he has made a decision that the effects of that
943
Jeezy: will be felt long after he is cold in the ground. Let's just be real. He's an old man.
944
Jeezy: He'll be dead and gone.
945
Jeezy: And we'll be living with the ramifications of a decision he'd made, because he has, by some act, the power to do this without the approval beforehand.
946
Jeezy: The damage is done. By the way, you say? He has, what, he has to notify Congress in 48, and then, what, he has 30 to 60?
947
Manny: We've got 60 more days.
948
Jeezy: And, brother, do you know how much damage you can do in 60 days? He did it, we seen him do enough damage in 2 hours!
949
Jeezy: I mean… 60 days before anybody can say yay and nay?
950
Manny: I won't go that far. Well, it's complicated.
951
Jeezy: It's very complicated, because There could be an argument, in some cases, you need to act now.
952
Manny: Right, and.
953
Jeezy: But when you got the right person in mind, and the right person at the head, that you know is competent at making that decision.
954
Chuck: Yes.
955
Manny: And I think that's what makes this as messy as it does, is because we never anticipated, as a country.
956
Manny: That we would see the rules being used and flexed in the way in the capacity that we're seeing it done now.
957
Jeezy: Because most presidents, even though they had that power, there was a decency about the power.
958
Manny: They knew… they knew the letter of the law of what they could do, but they knew the spirit of the law that we can't… we can't move unless we have American citizen support.
959
Manny: And here's the crazy thing. Trump had an opportunity to get that support during the State of the Union, and did not.
960
Manny: Yep.
961
Jeezy: You are 100% right. Definitely could have got that.
962
Jeezy: But he chose not to, but he's also shown us that he doesn't care to have that at all. As long as he has that within the… as long as he feels in his inner circle he has that capacity, that is all that matters to him. But, again, that's when I brought up in past episodes.
963
Jeezy: the puppeteering that's going on. Yeah. Because while he is the commander-in-Chief.
964
Jeezy: There's somebody that is speaking and talking in his ear that's saying, yeah, we gotta do this, we gotta do this, we gotta do this.
965
Jeezy: And…
966
Jeezy: there's an ulterior motive of those that are pulling the strings that he's not aware of because he's Trump.
967
Jeezy: And the… and again, back to the ramifications. The ramifications that will be felt Will be… enormous.
968
Jeezy: And… I just find it odd…
969
Jeezy: That we always call for regime change, but what do we do when people call for regime change for us?
970
Manny: But who is big enough to force us to make us do regime change? We've mentioned it on the pod before.
971
Jeezy: Well, apparently we ain't big enough to do it because.
972
Chuck: It don't never happen.
973
Chuck: Which is…
974
Jeezy: We just breed new terrorists. We just breed new extremists. That's all we're doing. It's a factory.
975
Chuck: That's it.
976
Jeezy: It's always good!
977
Jeezy: But why, but why? There was a president. I can't remember, there was a class I took a year or two ago, and I can't remember if it was George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, but they talked about…
978
Jeezy: Why Americans should not have allies.
979
Jeezy: Because they put us in situations…
980
Jeezy: That do not benefit us domestically.
981
Jeezy: when it comes to what is needed for the American people, we should be focused solely on what is needed for America, because what if the ideas, what if there's preconceived notions of what your allies are trying to do? Like, we look at Israel.
982
Jeezy: Israel is trying to do something that they feel is right. What if we don't agree with that, but in the name of Ally, we get drug into it? It's just like.
983
Manny: This is not in the name of Ally at this point.
984
Jeezy: It's not.
985
Jeezy: You ain't paying attention in class, boy. Manny, it's just like you said about the whole friend thing, and we use that loosely. Yeah, we friends.
986
Jeezy: But if I say, hey, Manny, this person over here's bothering me, and we need to go do something about it, you also, as my friend, can say, hey, you tripping, you need to go somewhere and sit down, and leave that person alone.
987
Manny: This is… the movement that I'm seeing here is very conducive of, you got dirt on me.
988
Jeezy: It, bruh… Mmm.
989
Manny: I'm not gonna go any further with that one, but…
990
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991
Manny: That's how I see this You very much have dirt on me, so I need to roll with you.
992
Jeezy: I don't like it, bruh.
993
Jeezy: I think that all of us can agree.
994
Jeezy: It's not the best thing, especially when I heard that we…
995
Jeezy: there was a strike, and I believe you already mentioned a minute, that there was, like, a girls' school that was hit, and there was, you know, there was a large amount of these children that died in this strike. The first thing I thought of is, sounds like what Israel was doing to Gaza.
996
Jeezy: And now our name is tied to it.
997
Manny: Yep.
998
Jeezy: Yep. What we gonna do about it?
999
Chuck: just for those who are wondering, my good brother, he… he was paying attention to class, it was George Washington who said it in his farewell address.
1000
Jeezy: Indeed.
1001
Chuck: The exact quote was, it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
1002
Manny: No.
1003
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1004
Chuck: Which… makes sense.
1005
Jeezy: It makes a whole lot of sense.
1006
Chuck: Because Kenny Kissinger even said it, that America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
1007
Chuck: Good God.
1008
Chuck: And I was having a conversation with my loctician, because I got a fresh retwist.
1009
Jeezy: Bruh, look, I'm due for one, bro. I'm due for one.
1010
Chuck: I don't like nobody love me. But she, she was trying to,
1011
Chuck: She was speaking on us bombing them, and she was like, yeah, you know.
1012
Chuck: we should've did this… I said, whoa, slow down. Slow down. Let me… let me put you on game, because obviously, you're… you're speaking from an uninformed place about this, and… yeah, man, we… we are…
1013
Chuck: Allowing ourselves to be puppeted And it definitely gives…
1014
Chuck: You got… you got some dirt on me.
1015
Jeezy: But if you don't have no dirt, you sure got a shovel in your hand.
1016
Chuck: But…
1017
Manny: Chuck, we could do an entire series
1018
Manny: on the things that George Washington warned the country about in his farewell address that we are dealing with right now.
1019
Jeezy: Bruh.
1020
Chuck: Dude.
1021
Chuck: I mean, get he one of the plays he got?
1022
Manny: Foreign… He ain't say nothing about that, though. Look, hey, Aramic… Oh, yeah, I mean…
1023
Jeezy: And to that, brother, I say… To that, I say, brother, every man got a flaw.
1024
Chuck: But he had a couple that we… Did they have him teeth? Including… I was about to say, include them teeth in his head, but…
1025
Manny: But yeah.
1026
Chuck: George made some valid points in that farewell address.
1027
Jeezy: And I will say this, and if you guys have anything else, we can continue, but…
1028
Jeezy: the nastiness around this, because I gotta call out Nancy Mace.
1029
Manny: Nancy Mace.
1030
Chuck: Please, please.
1031
Jeezy: For speaking on two republic… Two representatives.
1032
Jeezy: Saying, oh, I wonder how they feel now that the Ayatollah is dead. And then, I don't know if y'all seen, at the Homegirl from Minnesota, rebuttal about that comment, Nancy came back with another one.
1033
Chuck: Yes, I saw that, I did not see the.
1034
Manny: Come back.
1035
Chuck: Oh, the contact that that was, after she came and, you know, what's her name from Minnesota?
1036
Jeezy: I don't wanna say a name.
1037
Chuck: Amar… Amar? What's his last name?
1038
Jeezy: Y'all read about them.
1039
Manny: Yeah, y'all know who we're talking about.
1040
Chuck: I have a name in a second.
1041
Jeezy: After she came back with her rebuttal, then Nancy had the nerve to say, well, how is it like being married to your brother?
1042
Chuck: Yes, that's right.
1043
Jeezy: And I thought it might…
1044
Manny: What?
1045
Jeezy: Now, what the representative from Minnesota said made me think even more valid, because that was a weird… that was a weird comeback.
1046
Manny: You know what?
1047
Chuck: Yes, she drunk.
1048
Jeezy: Yeah, she… that's why I said when I read that, yeah, she drunk.
1049
Chuck: And it was Ilman Omar. Ilhan Omar. Ilhan… Ilhan Omar. Sorry, baby.
1050
Manny: Chuck, I think you said it best in the group chat. We were our proper people.
1051
Jeezy: Bruh, Jesus.
1052
Chuck: Oh, well, but real quick, I gotta shout her out, because even though we're not talking about this, and because this strike…
1053
Chuck: Watch this play on words.
1054
Jeezy: Yay!
1055
Chuck: That was terrible. But at the State of the Union, she was yelling at Trump, you killed American citizens.
1056
Chuck: And so, just wanna shout her out on that.
1057
Manny: do.
1058
Manny: Look, she stay with smoke for everybody.
1059
Chuck: the entire.
1060
Jeezy: And I love it. If I send you to Washington.
1061
Jeezy: That's what I expect. I expect… I expect hell on wheels.
1062
Jeezy: You don't need to be… I don't need you quiet, I don't need you just being all formative. No, I need you to cause a ruckus, because that's what I sent you there to do. And she certainly is doing the best she can in that capacity.
1063
Manny: Now, Al Green, that… Let me chat on the other side.
1064
Chuck: Shout out to Good Brothers. Shout out to Good Brothers.
1065
Jeezy: No, I've come hip, and I'm sick of Al, because I know what I… I picked up on what Al doing.
1066
Manny: -Oh, I paid you.
1067
Jeezy: Nothing went out doing. First of all, I had to check myself, because I felt like I was a Republican the way that I.
1068
Manny: That's it.
1069
Jeezy: When he held up that sign, bro, I got… I started to… I hit the little… the little sucking of teeth, the little…
1070
Jeezy: Okay, here he go again, but then I thought about it, I said, no, I outsmart.
1071
Manny: I don't want to sit there for no 2 hours and hear that. Right, he's trying to beat traffic.
1072
Jeezy: So you know what I'mma do?
1073
Manny: I got home.
1074
Jeezy: Look, all that traffic that came…
1075
Jeezy: I'm about to head… I'm about to head out.
1076
Manny: got marked as attended on the attendance sheet. Yup, it didn't go.
1077
Chuck: Keep that.
1078
Jeezy: He back in the crib before it all is said and done. I say, yo, I'm picking… because he get kicked out of everyone? He done got kicked out, like, the past two or three.
1079
Jeezy: I said, oh yeah, I'm picking up what he puttin' down. I don't want to be there, but he can't leave, so the best thing for me to do is just let me get kicked out.
1080
Manny: Immediately.
1081
Jeezy: It's my man.
1082
Jeezy: He don't wait about 15 minutes, he don't need to hear.
1083
Chuck: Oh, on the walk-in.
1084
Jeezy: I'm gonna walk in, he'd get…
1085
Chuck: Hey, Trump, Trump, ring entrance music start playing, I'll start cutting up.
1086
Jeezy: Hey, but listen, I'mma tell you something else, though. He got a co-conspirator in there with him, though.
1087
Jeezy: Because who was at that angle to get that picture of him holding that sign while Trump was walking by?
1088
Chuck: You ran.
1089
Jeezy: That wouldn't have been a Democrat that was in that space.
1090
Chuck: You're right.
1091
Jeezy: I'm just sayin'!
1092
Chuck: You're in?
1093
Jeezy: I'm saying? Somebody playing… hey, he gotta connect in there. Hey, I'm gonna go…
1094
Chuck: Somebody played a spy one day.
1095
Jeezy: Hey, brother, look.
1096
Manny: Man, and…
1097
Manny: And geez, one more time before we leave the subject, if you wouldn't mind… Oh, brother. I have a thought for the people.
1098
Audio shared by Jeezy: Yes, sir, brother. Anytime.
1099
Manny: So… My question is, how did Israel know
1100
Manny: where all of these people were. Like, I know Mossad has some great intelligence.
1101
Manny: But y'all wiped out a whole bunch of their leadership 8 months ago. They put new people in. And in 8 months, y'all already had…
1102
Manny: I'm not.
1103
Chuck: The way they…
1104
Manny: It was an inside job.
1105
Manny: Y'all get that tea. Hey, bro. But y'all get that tea.
1106
Manny: Fresh.
1107
Jeezy: I ain't saying it's an inside job, but it ain't outside.
1108
Manny: For sure.
1109
Chuck: At all.
1110
Jeezy: This is something ain't right, bruh, because I thought about it, I said…
1111
Jeezy: How in the world do y'all just be pinpointing?
1112
Jeezy: With accuracy.
1113
Chuck: When you moving? How you moving? What time you moving?
1114
Manny: That's… that's… me.
1115
Jeezy: I'm looking around at everybody. Hey, if somebody… if I'm over in Iran, and somebody say, hey man, what you doing this evening?
1116
Jeezy: Don't worry about it, bruh.
1117
Manny: - I'm gonna worry something. You're not worried about it.
1118
Jeezy: Man, I'm thinking about me and my family got reservations at this restaurant at 7.
1119
Jeezy: Bruh, if I look at my TV at 7.30 and that place get obliterated by a missile?
1120
Manny: Yep.
1121
Jeezy: You?
1122
Jeezy: We know who it is. Y'all stay with Moles over there.
1123
Manny: But yeah, man, I think that, you know, it's gonna be interesting how this is going to play out, because… Yeah.
1124
Jeezy: Trump has said…
1125
Jeezy: That he doesn't… you know, there's gonna be more strikes, but somehow that we're still gonna negotiate, and we talked about it in a previous episode. I don't understand how you…
1126
Jeezy: you smack me in my face and say, now let's talk. Let's talk. There ain't no talking, like, it's up and it's stuck. Yeah.
1127
Jeezy: You just… you just hit me, like, and that's… I don't understand the strategy, and it makes me question, because for Trump to talk about he's such a negotiator, and he get deals done.
1128
Jeezy: Sir, I hadn't seen you get no deals done.
1129
Jeezy: Ain't my damn deal done.
1130
Chuck: I ain't gonna tell you about them same 8 that he was on the… A lot of them Democrats laughed at y'all, they sick people. No, you sick? Yeah.
1131
Jeezy: Keep talking, here come grandpa with these same war stories, bruh, we ain't seen no evidence.
1132
Chuck: At all.
1133
Jeezy: rug, you gotta get out of here, but Trump just… This is gonna get…
1134
Jeezy: This is gonna get worse, man.
1135
Manny: Yeah. And it's…
1136
Jeezy: As we know, it's gonna get better. I mean, it gotta get worse before it get better, but I don't know what better looks like at this point, because it's just terrible.
1137
Manny: Who knew? Yeah.
1138
Jeezy: There'll be another war. Cuba, y'all ain't off the map either now.
1139
Manny: Cuba's still on the clock. Greenland ain't…
1140
Jeezy: I was about to say, for Greenland, don't you think that you…
1141
Chuck: Look, that hospital shit was just a holdover. Oh, yeah. Look…
1142
Jeezy: We come nowhere, but man, it's crazy.
1143
Jeezy: I just…
1144
Jeezy: Hey, man, I don't… I think for the American people, there is no comfortability that we feel like we, as Americans, have the right administration
1145
Jeezy: In place to steer us to being great again, quotations, but…
1146
Jeezy: This isn't what we voted for. I know it ain't what I voted for, and those that have voted for this, I'm sure this is not what you voted for.
1147
Jeezy: And… there's gonna be a whole lot of people sitting at home, Come, midterms.
1148
Jeezy: So, enjoy.
1149
Jeezy: There's a place in DC.
1150
Jeezy: I believe it's in Northwest, called Hitch and Post. That sells the best fried chicken you've ever had in your life.
1151
Manny: It's so good.
1152
Jeezy: The menu tells you, you gotta wait about 30 minutes, or it come…
1153
Manny: That thing's coming out.
1154
Jeezy: Pipin' hot.
1155
Manny: I ain't never been at a restaurant
1156
Manny: Where everything came out blazing high.
1157
Jeezy: You gotta wait about 10 to 12 minutes just so you can start eating it.
1158
Manny: Look, that's why I think that place is good to go if you gotta have a meeting, because you're gonna sit down, you gotta figure out what you're gonna eat, then you gotta put it in, and then you got 30 minutes to get through your meeting.
1159
Jeezy: So, so for those that, that may be,
1160
Jeezy: Becoming vacant in the next few months.
1161
Jeezy: for the GOP, I would advise you, while you have your time in DC,
1162
Jeezy: To go over and enjoy some of, good ol' Hitchin' posts.
1163
Jeezy: Right in Northwest. They got some of the best fried chicken you've ever had. Some other soul food, too, but I don't know if y'all ready for that, but… go ahead and enjoy, because I got a feeling that come, after these midterms…
1164
Jeezy: home.
1165
Jeezy: Will be your new residence.
1166
Chuck: As they say in church, and heaven will be your home.
1167
Jeezy: So, man, look, we'll see what happens.
1168
Manny: It's gonna be a long week.
1169
Jeezy: It's gonna be a long week, and as stated before in the beginning, the casualties we are certainly not making light of. I was very devastated to hear about the girls, because I've seen this action.
1170
Jeezy: happen with Israel and the way that things have gone in Gaza.
1171
Jeezy: And to hear that something like this has happened in Iran, and the U.S. name's attached to it…
1172
Jeezy: Certainly was not something I was proud of, certainly as being an American, which made me also think, too, is that we need… we might need an update on what's going on in Gaza, because.
1173
Manny: We ain't heard nothin'.
1174
Jeezy: And I know there ain't nothing not going on, so… Right.
1175
Jeezy: That made me very concerned, but I think with the U.S. getting, baited or puppeted into this, this war.
1176
Jeezy: Certainly is gonna have a stain of bloodshed on us that I don't believe, we should have or need, and that's on children, but American casualties as well, too. And, when you hear the president say that there's gonna be more, like… I'm not feeling that at all.
1177
Chuck: Yeah, so cavalier with it, it's disgusting.
1178
Jeezy: Yeah, we… especially when it's something we don't have to do, like, okay…
1179
Jeezy: Yeah, you might wanna… you might… you may have to say that in a much better tone, especially when you think about people's families.
1180
Jeezy: for something that we HAVE to do, but we… this is certainly not something that we believe we HAD to do.
1181
Jeezy: So…
1182
Jeezy: Yeah, man, that's our coverage on that, and we will keep you posted on it, because obviously, this is just the beginning.
1183
Jeezy: So… With that being said…
1184
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1185
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1186
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1187
Jeezy: No. We got in the brine.
1188
Manny: Besides all the…
1189
Jeezy: Nice.
1190
Manny: Everybody.
1191
Chuck: I got…
1192
Manny: I'm floating, brother.
1193
Jeezy: But I'll give you a quick pickle of the week, and just to kind of get us away from the war. But the pickle of the week is, and I'm probably gonna butcher his name, but…
1194
Manny: He's in a pickle, so it don't matter how I say his name. Alberto.
1195
Jeezy: Carvalho. Carvalho.
1196
Jeezy: He is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is…
1197
Jeezy: I believe the largest, or second largest school district, in the United States. He's been put on paid leave after being raided by the FBI. His home and his office have been raided. Now…
1198
Jeezy: We don't know why.
1199
Jeezy: He's being raided.
1200
Jeezy: We don't know why he's on leave, exactly.
1201
Jeezy: But those two things… Led me to a very simple.
1202
Jeezy: math equation that I learned at a very young age.
1203
Jeezy: And that was… 2 plus 2.
1204
Chuck: Equals 4.
1205
Jeezy: And I know that if these two things happen.
1206
Jeezy: There has to be something there.
1207
Manny: Something up. Something else.
1208
Jeezy: Well, there's smoke, I believe, brother, there's fire.
1209
Jeezy: So I'm not gonna keep you long, because I don't have much detail, but I think that if… as you leading either the first… the largest or second largest public school district in the country, and this has happened, and the details of it have not been yet revealed.
1210
Jeezy: has to be something that's very alarming. So, Alberto?
1211
Jeezy: You're still getting paid, but you shouldn't be.
1212
Manny: Hmm.
1213
Jeezy: You're still getting paid? I can't stand that paid leave stuff, bruh. That's just like, if you did something, oh, take it. Take the chance.
1214
Manny: Excuse me.
1215
Jeezy: Take the chick!
1216
Manny: Give me the money.
1217
Jeezy: Give it to the kids!
1218
Jeezy: Give them some… buy them pizza, and stop splitting one slice of pizza into three slices, and giving them… But y'all, you are a proper pizza.
1219
Jeezy: Listen… Bruh, well, you could get just a slice of pizza instead of getting it sliced into three, bro. We were proper people.
1220
Jeezy: But, Alberto?
1221
Jeezy: We gon' find out what you did.
1222
Jeezy: But for now, until we find out, brother, you in a brine. You in a brine, you in a pickle.
1223
Jeezy: So yeah, that's my pickle of the week. We'll keep an eye on it, and I'm sure it may end up being a spotlight once details are revealed, but…
1224
Jeezy: Certainly, can't be anything good that's going on, so peace be the journey. You're still getting paid, so you ain't in that bad of a bind, but we will see.
1225
Manny: You might need to dust that resume off.
1226
Jeezy: you…
1227
Chuck: Have a movie.
1228
Manny: But that might be the lesson.
1229
Jeezy: I about to say, you might have to go, yeah, Arizona…
1230
Manny: attorneys.
1231
Jeezy: Maine, somewhere.
1232
Chuck: Charter school, something.
1233
Jeezy: Yeah, don't go into daycare.
1234
Chuck: In Minnesota, with Somali hits.
1235
Chuck: Sorry.
1236
Jeezy: They say… they said, bruh, they be having to sign on an empty building.
1237
Manny: Wild.
1238
Chuck: That's crazy, bruh.
1239
Jeezy: If you call the school, the daycare, and you say you're looking for, you know, a daycare for your kid, they said if you stand outside, or you're in the parking lot, that immediately they'll just pull up with a van full of kids and just put them in the building to make it look like it's an actual daycare.
1240
Jeezy: Why these kids ain't in school?
1241
Manny: Why they ain't in school. Why?
1242
Chuck: Oh, man!
1243
Jeezy: Shut it down.
1244
Jeezy: But yeah, that's my pickle of the week. So, at the conclusion of our episode, we always bring you guys, our spotlights of the week, so my brothers.
1245
Jeezy: What's your spotlight for the week?
1246
Manny: Chuck, you wanna go first.
1247
Chuck: Yeah, I'll start off. My spotlight is…
1248
Chuck: I hate to take it back to the… to the war, but Anthropic… Versus…
1249
Chuck: the U.S. government, and the Pentagon, and…
1250
Chuck: Pete Kegseth and those idiots. So those who don't know, on Friday, Trump made a big, boastrous, claim that…
1251
Chuck: the U.S, he banned all individuals in the Department of Defense from using Anthropic, AI. And for those who don't know, Anthropic…
1252
Chuck: has the AI service Clawed, and if you watch the Super Bowl…
1253
Chuck: Manny is… yeah. We're gonna leave Manny over there.
1254
Chuck: But, if you watched the Super Bowl, and you saw the, ad for Claude, and it's not Claude from the movie Life, but,
1255
Chuck: It is an AI service, and what they were doing, the military was using it
1256
Chuck: For, weapons and different things of this nature.
1257
Chuck: Some very, very interesting, things as we ran up on it. Use cases. Yes, very interesting use cases. But the, the…
1258
Chuck: I'll give Anthropic some credit, and what the issue…
1259
Chuck: was over, is Anthropic wanted some… some… hardline…
1260
Chuck: guidelines of usage of their AI in weapons, in autonomous weapons. They wanted some kind of human oversight, some guardrails, basically.
1261
Chuck: And as many things with the Trump administration, they didn't want any guardrails, because things seemed to go off the rails a lot with them, and they wanted to use,
1262
Chuck: this AI, capability.
1263
Chuck: at their full discretion, with no guardrails, no restrictions. So, as many times over, Trump
1264
Chuck: being the petulant child, you know, take his ball and go home. And so… Then it was reported.
1265
Chuck: That, guess what?
1266
Chuck: they still use Anthropic's AI.
1267
Chuck: software in some of these strikes with Iran.
1268
Manny: So…
1269
Chuck: Yeah, this is gonna be very interesting. Now, and those, just to give you a little more context, Anthropic's, rival, OpenAI,
1270
Chuck: the parent company for ChatGPT, said that they would be willing to work with,
1271
Chuck: the Pentagon, because what's up to grab is a $200 million contract.
1272
Manny: And OpenAI is hemorrhaging money.
1273
Chuck: Left and right. And Manny is part of the cause of it.
1274
Manny: Bro.
1275
Chuck: But… but at the same time, they said that they are… once the report came out, that, they still used, the AI software at… without permission.
1276
Chuck: OpenAI was like, well, we are… we stand in solidarity with Anthropic in regards to…
1277
Chuck: Using, you know, their proprietary software without their permission, particularly after you just said they're banned across the board.
1278
Manny: Right.
1279
Chuck: And nobody can use them, so why are you using it? So yeah, this is gonna be a very interesting,
1280
Chuck: An interesting fight, especially in the…
1281
Chuck: the push and age of AI usage, and as Manny could tell y'all better than I could, the…
1282
Chuck: scope and depth that Claude functions and operates.
1283
Chuck: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting, man.
1284
Manny: Yeah.
1285
Manny: Man, so… so my spotlight… I'll do a couple very quick ones. Bill Clinton and Hillary did their depositions before Congress.
1286
Chuck: Yeah.
1287
Manny: to which…
1288
Chuck: Bill's still lying.
1289
Manny: Look, there was a couple of those comments… The Mantics Man. …where I was like, now William.
1290
Manny: Now, the one photo with him and a young lady in the jacuzzi…
1291
Manny: I looked at him and said… I looked at that quote where he's like, I did not have sex with that woman. I'm like, we've heard this one before.
1292
Chuck: He uses recycling the same lines.
1293
Manny: Right.
1294
Manny: But that's not what I'm here to rant about. I'm here to rant about Team USA men's hockey. Because when we recorded, they had just won.
1295
Chuck: Get just one.
1296
Manny: But then the fallout, I have never seen…
1297
Manny: A sports team, or any group of individuals, so quickly, Destroy all of the goodwill.
1298
Chuck: And they got a lot of goodwill at first.
1299
Manny: Right, and destroyed it in less than 24 hours, from…
1300
Manny: from what happened with them leaving Kashab Patel down into the locker room, to the jokes that they were making in the locker room, to them showing up at the State of the Union address, essentially being used as pawns, to Connor Hollabuck getting the Congressional Medal of Honor for being a goalie.
1301
Manny: To then being shocked and clutching their pearls.
1302
Manny: I, like, I don't… I don't know how this got political. Well, a couple of your players were wearing Make America Great Again hats in your Team USA uniforms while you were in the chamber, so miss me with all that. Also, miss me with them whole infotizing these grown-ass men.
1303
Manny: Like, oh, they're just… no, no, some of these guys are around the same age as I am. They knew what they.
1304
Chuck: Right. Yep, exactly.
1305
Manny: So, I've just never seen a group of people lose so much will with…
1306
Manny: And then, here's what's wild about all this for me.
1307
Manny: a good portion of some of these members of Team USA play on Canadian teams.
1308
Chuck: Hmm.
1309
Manny: I'm like, I get the Olympics every four years, I get you wanna have country pride, but at some point, you gotta think and make a business decision, be like.
1310
Manny: I live and work in Canada. Do I really want to be talking junk like that?
1311
Jeezy: The locker room is gonna be real tense when they get back to work.
1312
Manny: Oh, no, like, in Toronto, where… so the captain of Team USA, Austin Matthews, is the captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and Toronto has the harshest…
1313
Manny: sports media, reporters…
1314
Manny: In terms of hockey, it's probably comparable to New York. I would say it's comparable to New York. And there were people saying, trade him, there were people saying, taking away his captaincy.
1315
Chuck: What? Sheesh.
1316
Manny: they… they weren't having it. And I'm just… and then them still acting shocked. I'm just like, why are you shocked by this?
1317
Jeezy: Win dumb games, win dumb prizes. Right. Yep.
1318
Manny: it's me, I'm the problem. So, yeah, that's wild, they're trying to paint themselves out of it. But, yeah, those are my two spotlights, and I just want the Trump… Trump and the Trump administration to be aware that, we still want them… them files.
1319
Jeezy: bro.
1320
Manny: We still want them files.
1321
Jeezy: Ro Khanna?
1322
Manny: Ro Khanna?
1323
Jeezy: Comment fancy? Don't let up.
1324
Manny: None.
1325
Chuck: Oh, no. They just put it at number 2 on their docket.
1326
Chuck: We're gonna get his… we're gonna get his war resolution, situated, but we're coming back to them fine.
1327
Manny: We, we coming back.
1328
Jeezy: Give us a Thursday.
1329
Manny: Yeah, listen, we'd be back at it by Wednesday.
1330
Manny: And Homeland Security still isn't funded, so that's a thing that's also going on.
1331
Jeezy: Oh… Yeah, that's right.
1332
Chuck: That is… you're right.
1333
Jeezy: Hmm.
1334
Manny: We still got problems here in the homeland.
1335
Jeezy: Hey…
1336
Manny: While we're trying to be the world police abroad, Right.
1337
Jeezy: Ay.
1338
Manny: It's more militia now than police, but, you know… Semantics.
1339
Jeezy: Okay.
1340
Jeezy: Well…
1341
Chuck: The redcoats are coming.
1342
Jeezy: By the minute.
1343
Jeezy: Sound very red coatish to me.
1344
Jeezy: Well, to our listeners, this is the conclusion of our episode, and we appreciate you tuning in and listening.
1345
Manny: to this episode. Again, we'll keep our eye on what, transpires with the war, and in all actuality, don't hold us accountable to the fact that when you hear the release of this episode, a… Could all be wrong.
1346
Jeezy: Good name.
1347
Manny: Could be all wrong.
1348
Jeezy: Because I saw some couple of updates come in as we speak, so, we will, we will keep up with the war as best as we possibly can, and you do the same. Don't, don't, don't just rely on us, because we only come once a week. Pause.
1349
Manny: Whoa.
1350
Manny: Whoa.
1351
Chuck: That's a sad life.
1352
Jeezy: We only released an episode. I felt like I had a Michael Irvin moment.
1353
Jeezy: But do I lose?
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Jeezy: We appreciate you listening, we really do, and as we, again, try to bring you the content that we do while sharing a little bit of laughter, we do take this serious, and so any of those families that are impacted by the war, the casualties that have happened, whether it are American lives or those that are innocent civilians.
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Jeezy: Thoughts and prayers to you, because honestly, this is something that…
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Jeezy: You know, we all hate. But it's a part of… Unfortunately.
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Manny: The reality right now.
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Jeezy: It's a reality of life. So, wherever you are here in this episode.
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Jeezy: Both home and abroad. We hope it finds you in the best place possible, and just know that the boys here at the podcast, if don't nobody love you, just know the boys know that they love you. We love you, we love you, we love you. So thank you for tuning in, thank you for lending us your ear for this episode, and we hope
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Jeezy: That you'll join us at the next one. So, take care, world.
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Manny: Peace.
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Chuck: Peace.
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Jeezy: Baby?