No Off-Ramp: Primary Reckoning, the Iran Scramble & Kristi Noem Gets Sent Home

Some weeks, you watch the news and nod. This was not one of those weeks.

Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are back, barely rested from the time change, and the week handed them more than they bargained for. Primary voters in North Carolina settled a score quietly, decisively, and in a way that should make every elected official in the country take notes. In Texas, something shifted. You felt it in the turnout numbers, and you'll hear it in how the crew talks about what it means.

Then there's the war. The crew doesn't sugarcoat it. Chuck has questions about the numbers the government is giving us. Manny has questions about the plan or the lack of one. Antonio keeps asking who this is actually for. Nobody has a good answer.

A major Cabinet secretary was fired after a congressional hearing that went poorly. Her replacement was announced the same day. The crew has thoughts.

Plus: the Pickle of the Week goes to someone who had every chance to do the right thing and chose otherwise. And the Spotlights: one race could be decided by 23 votes, a baseball story that accidentally explains the global oil market, and Antonio holding the line as the resident moon-landing skeptic.

This one ran long. The week earned it.

Transcript

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Jeezy: Hello, world. Welcome to Part In the Politics Podcast, Season 3, Episode 10. I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with my partner in politics, Manny, and the chairman of Chaos, Chuck. Joining me on this episode. My brothers, how y'all doing today? How you doing?
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Manny: Bro, I'm.
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Chuck: Yeah, I'm tired, too.
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Manny: Brad it.
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Jeezy: What's tired? What is that? Why are you wearing this tire?
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Chuck: Dire moments find me a delightful treat.
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Jeezy: Ayyyy! Here y'all go.
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Manny: It's wild that we are like… well, it's still most of the world. We gotta stop changing these… changing these clocks.
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Manny: We just gotta find something, and pick it, and stick with it.
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Jeezy: We don't actually change them, the government's changing it.
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Manny: That's true.
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Jeezy: We were proper people when we had to get that clock off the wall and spin the dial in the back to change the time either forward or back, bruh.
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Chuck: We were a proper people when you had to hold the button on that brown alarm clock.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
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Chuck: And go click, click, click, click, click.
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Manny: Quick, quick.
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Jeezy: Every black household had the same clock, right?
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Chuck: Same clock. Bruh. Exactly. Same.
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Manny: Even when we went from the flip clock to the digital clock.
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Jeezy: We all still had the same clock.
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Jeezy: Everybody had to say that brown and black.
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Chuck: Yeah, bruh.
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Manny: With the red numbers.
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Jeezy: With the red numbers.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: And that clock was… and I've never seen… and it always had a little spot in the back where you could put a battery, but nobody ever had batteries.
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Chuck: Yeah, nobody. No, nobody.
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Manny: that one.
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Chuck: First off, you hear our… well, not our, because mine does not beep, but you hear a lot of Black people's, smoke detectors beeping. A lot of those hold 9-volt batteries. That clock was a 9-volt battery.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: My cop, actually, from the house, went with me to college. So, yeah.
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Chuck: That's what we handle better for it. Who's behind 9 votes?
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Jeezy: First of all, in a black household, you may be lucky to have a… A 2A.
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Jeezy: You may have, you may have a AAA. Double A, but you ain't gonna have no 9-vote.
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Chuck: I mean, y'all speak free.
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Manny: it sells. As for me and mine, I got.
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Chuck: Man, you grew up in Colorado.
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Jeezy: I was about to say, you grew up in Colorado.
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Manny: True.
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Manny: Oh, I thought y'all were talking about now.
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Manny: Agreed.
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Chuck: Oh, no, no, no, no. Well, hold on. I don't have any non-volts now. However, I am at a very adult stage in life where I used to have batteries on subscription being delivered consistently.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: Oh, that's a whole nother level. That is a whole nother level.
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Chuck: So, you gotta think about it, neither one of y'all have boys. So, for me…
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Chuck: And my son, his race cars.
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Chuck: As he got older, and myself, my video game controllers, and as he got older and started playing video games and having his own system, he's burning through batteries. I'm talking about…
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Chuck: Every week, he's coming… Daddy, can I get some more batteries? I'm about to put you on…
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Chuck: Some kind of something, because I'm sick of you burning my matters. Yes, sir.
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Manny: I'm talking… and I was buying the good quality batteries, Duracell Luresium for myself. For myself.
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Jeezy: pay.
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Chuck: And then he started burning through the batteries, and I tried to buy him a rechargeable one, he breaks the base.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I do remember when I was a kid and they came out with the rechargeable batteries. I was like, yo, this is a game changer.
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Chuck: And we used to put them in the freezer?
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Yep. A little Ziploc bag, right there on the shelf.
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Jeezy: Hey, man. But listen, I'm right there with y'all, man. I'm tired, too, so to our listeners.
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Jeezy: I'm sure you're just as tired, and if anybody that's up in Congress is listening to this.
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Jeezy: Let this be the last time change.
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Manny: Bruh, let this be the last time.
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Jeezy: We don't… we don't care about them kids going to school in the dark.
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Chuck: At all.
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Jeezy: I don't care about nothing about no sleep expert.
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Chuck: So…
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Jeezy: It's all fake. You're gonna be tired regardless. If them kids go to school in the dark, they're gonna just grow up and go to work in the dark, so they might as well get used to it now.
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Manny: I mean, and shout out to Arizona, who's pretty much just like, no, we're not changing clocks. Right. We're staying locked in.
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Chuck: That's one of the few things that got him right. One of the few of them, because there's other things.
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Jeezy: Overshadow that.
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Manny: Yep. Yep.
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Chuck: No.
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Jeezy: To our listeners, welcome to this episode. We're gonna go ahead and jump right into our topics for this episode and for this weekend. We had some very interesting things take place.
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Jeezy: In the midterm elections that happened this past week. So, shout out to those who won, first of all. Shout out to those that lost. Because some people cause some mean issues.
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Manny: bills.
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Chuck: Nasty work out there, boy.
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Chuck: Lock him up!
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Manny: Lock them.
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Jeezy: So we're gonna start first at, in our great state of North Carolina, and, boy, North Carolina primaries revealed something very, very interesting. Couple of people were getting punished by their voters.
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Jeezy: Within their own party.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: decisions that they made. There were several Democratic incumbents that lost, primaries, and the main
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Jeezy: catalyst to this was that they were, basically punted for cooperating with Republicans on legislation, and it was sweeping across the board.
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Chuck: But let's clear this up, and it wasn't just a matter of bipartisan work to get a well-established, well-accomplished goal done. That wasn't this.
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Jeezy: No, not at all.
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Chuck: He's not even…
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Manny: No overrides.
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Chuck: Exactly.
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Manny: To which people had said, there's going to be a price to pay for this.
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Jeezy: And good.
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Manny: Guess what? That rooster always comes home to cook eventually.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Chuck: And the veto…
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Jeezy: Rome style, bruh.
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Chuck: Yes, and the veto overrides, what's crazy about it is, with each instance and each individual who lost, they were the sole individual.
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Chuck: Who stepped across the line.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: To help the veto override. So guess what? You're gonna learn now, go sit your time pass down somewhere, and sit down and be still.
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Manny: And also to look at the locations that these races were, two were just outside of Charlotte. So, Charlotte.
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Manny: very… Charlotte, the Mecklenburg area, until you get some… to some of the outskirts, Blue County. So, obviously, they ran… they had people running more to the left that… it made it easy to… to pick them off. And then the last person, I believe, was out of your neck, neck of the woods, Rocky Mountain.
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Manny: I say, hey, hey. Glad you extended it out. Yeah, yeah, it was…
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Chuck: Whoa!
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Jeezy: Okay, no receipt.
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Manny: Whoa, whoa.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: A.
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Manny: We're not even… we're not even 10 minutes.
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Manny: 3 down to 10 minutes in.
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Manny: But yes, out of Rocky Mount.
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Jeezy: My hometown. That was a mean… there was a mean L that was caught there, brother.
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Jeezy: You know, so…
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Manny: That veto was wild in general, because you wanted to have school teachers with handguns in the classroom.
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Manny: And… That… that's wild.
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Chuck: When that… when that whole… idea came about, not just in North Carolina, but throughout the country.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: It really befuddled me, because you have trained officers who struggle with the proper usage application and discharging of handguns. Now you're gonna put these scary individuals in the classroom.
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Chuck: With these handguns.
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Manny: You… you want… you want a teacher to go from talking to little Timmy and his three apples, trying to figure out why…
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Manny: Why this child keeps saying 10…
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Manny: to now being a truly functional, sharpshooter? Come on, now.
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Chuck: Well, part of it is they lesson plan, they're gonna have to incorporate cleaning their gun regularly, making sure that their clips are full, and that there's not one in the chamber when they walk into the classroom.
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Jeezy: With the stress that some of these teachers go through.
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Chuck: Listen.
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Jeezy: They don't use it on the students.
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Chuck: Which is a real fun!
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Manny: You know?
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Jeezy: Look, we've seen how some of these kids can get aggressive now, and, you know, some of the physical altercations they may have.
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Jeezy: You know, you're bringing in a whole nother, you know, slew of problems by having this. I don't understand why this was even imagined to be a good idea. Get more school resource officers. You know, there's other ways to tackle this. Actual gun laws…
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Manny: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Chuck: Whoa, hey, you're thinking too logical.
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Jeezy: Sorry, brother, sorry, brother.
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Manny: But I think you're right. Like, if this is truly, you think, the solution, why not put people there who it's their only job?
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Manny: Only job. They don't have to think about anything else but protecting the school.
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Chuck: Yep.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I don't get it.
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Jeezy: Common sense ain't so common from what I was told.
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Chuck: You were told good, brother. You were told very… You were told very good.
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Jeezy: I think also, too, when you look at North Carolina and the results that happened from the primary, what were your thoughts on
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Jeezy: our brother Roy Cooper, and the way that his race went down.
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Chuck: Before Manny goes, I'm just gonna say, why did y'all waste your time and money?
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Chuck: Even in this situation, like, why?
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Manny: So, I'll start with the simple, simple side. Let's start on the Republican side on that. Michael Watley, I think he won X with at least 64, 65% of the vote.
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Chuck: Yeah. That's already an extremely comfortable landslide. Yes.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And we were talking right, right before
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Manny: you know, returns started coming in, Geez asked me, he's like, how much do you think Roy's gonna win by? I said, oh, he's gonna be comfortably in the 60s.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Let me tell you.
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Chuck: If I…
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Manny: was running against Roy.
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Manny: As a single person, or a one-on-one race.
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Manny: And I would have seen Roy Cooper got 30… 92%, and I got 8, I'd have been upset. And the fact that that remaining 8% was spread against 4 other people…
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Manny: Me and Rory gonna fight.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Chuck: No, I'm fighting, I'm fighting…
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Manny: hacking.
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Jeezy: I'm not fighting Roy.
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Chuck: Whoever talked me into this.
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Jeezy: like Charleston White said, if I wake up and somebody knocks me out and y'all got them phones out, I'm going after y'all that's holding them phones.
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Jeezy: meant to me to go out here and knew I was gonna get beat like this? Oh, bruh.
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Jeezy: That watch party is about to get nasty, bruh.
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Chuck: Watch it.
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Manny: But, and Chuck was there when I lost.
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Manny: And I… I got blown out about 2 to 1. Yeah, if… Yeah, yeah, that was…
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Manny: But I won't… I won't happy. I won't happy at all. I was like, dang, I…
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Chuck: But to 92%.
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Manny: Yeah, bruh.
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Manny: Insane. Insane, bruh. Insane. And even from that one, you were talking about the comfortable.
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Jeezy: Lead or landslide that both of these candidates are gonna win by.
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Jeezy: When I saw Roy with 92, I thought, well, when it comes down to it, the Republican, candidate, I don't think he got a chance either.
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Jeezy: I mean, you want to see these numbers pretty… like, you know, I would think you wouldn't… you don't want to see them that extreme, but if I'm going against somebody who got 92.
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Manny: But 92…
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Chuck: He went…
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Manny: 92 from his own party. Like, this was expected. Like, when Roy Cooper stepped into this race.
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Manny: The only person I think that was vocally running was Wiley Nichol. And you saw Wiley, within, I would say, a week, grabbed his hat, and his coat, and made his way down to the
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Manny: district attorney race, because he's like, I don't want none of this smoke.
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Jeezy: Yeah. But Roy's already a name that, you know, from North Carolina as a governor, I mean, he's won those elections pretty well.
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Manny: Roy ain't never lost a… lost in an election.
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Chuck: So here's what I would say to that point, Geez, that you brought up, is where you… and I think Manny was alluding to this, you have to be careful
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Chuck: in the numbers, and as far as… we're looking at the percentage, but if it's 92% of, and I'm just throwing arbitrary numbers out there, if it's 92% of 100,000 were on the Democratic side, and Watley had 64% of 250,000 on the Republican side.
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Chuck: Yeah, I dog-walked my opponents, but they had a bigger showing
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Chuck: on their end versus us, and actually, we'll… We'll talk… address that.
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Chuck: dynamic again a little later. But yeah, it… you have to be careful with the numbers, and I saw a report that, primary voting actually was up, compared… comparable to previous years.
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Manny: It was. So, this… looking at this race being a midterm, non-presidential year.
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Manny: The turnout was about 19.6%. Still bad from a standpoint of how many people voted, but it is a new midterm primary record in North Carolina, with upwards of 1.5 million, people having turned out in the primaries.
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Jeezy: So, when you look at…
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Jeezy: how things shaped up, and I know we've said it before, Manny, you've spoken on it quite a bit.
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Jeezy: Of just how complex North Carolina is, and certainly you cannot look at North Carolina and look at any other state. We're a very unique state.
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Jeezy: and how we vote. Do you believe that the results of what you saw in the primaries in North Carolina, have there been anything that stands out to you as a signal of what may be to come?
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Jeezy: When we get to 2028.
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Manny: I mean, I think 2028 is far too far in the future. We gotta even focus on November. And from that standpoint, I don't know who's going to win in November.
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Jeezy: Sorry, that's what I meant to say, November, I apologize, brother.
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Manny: Yeah, I don't know who's gonna win… win this go-round, because of how strange North Carolina is, but the reality of it is that Roy Cooper.
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Manny: has won as governor, with Trump on the ballot.
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Chuck: Yep.
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Manny: That… that's going to be hard. Yeah.
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Chuck: And that was…
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Manny: In general.
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Chuck: And that was the.
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Jeezy: Big Trump hype train, yeah?
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Chuck: It's a…
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Manny: So, I… I… I can't pinpoint it. Now…
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Manny: if you look at money, cash on hand right now, Cooper has about $14 million, Watley has $2.5 million. This Senate race is going to be the most expensive in the country, and I think you'll… we'll get…
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Manny: It'll get real interesting to see how these party apparatuses come into play.
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Manny: I think on the Dem side, you're… you're going to see them having to make a choice about which Senate seats they're going to be in play with.
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Manny: You know, I think if you look at Texas, how much is the Dem leadership going to invest in there? Because every dollar you invest in Texas is a dollar that's going to be taken away from North Carolina, and North Carolina is a purple state. We swing back and forth.
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Manny: But this race was going to be tough. Here's where I think the big differential is going to be, is how the economy plays out in North Carolina.
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Manny: Because it was going to be a tight race, even if the economy was good.
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Manny: But now that the economy's bad, how does Watley navigate around this? Now, I know Watley, he is a very smart political operator, so he knows North Carolina, he understands some of the dynamics. He's gotta be able to step around this.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And you also see it with the attacks. This is why the state of this race and the primaries was never in question.
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Manny: Just because everyone knew Trump endorsed Watley, so that pretty much wrapped it up on who was going to be the nominee here. But it's gonna be a close one.
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Jeezy: It's gonna be interesting, man. I can't wait to see how it plays out, and I think that, you know, it'll definitely,
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Jeezy: produce some results that I think will…
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Jeezy: Give us some content to talk about, man, because North Carolina is a very, very unique state. I think that we are one of the only few that can go Democrat across the board and vote for a Republican president. I don't think any state has that type of motion, and I've had people ask about, you know.
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Jeezy: when I travel to Maryland, where my wife is from, and they're like, hey, you know, North Carolina, man, you guys can go either way, and I'm like, look, it's a very much red state if you live here, but it has its Democratic hotpots that are within the state that make it such a unique state when it comes to politics.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: You know, and what… where I think Roy has an advantage.
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Chuck: With him being in the governor's seat, and he has truly been a governor for the people.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: And for the people of North Carolina, although he was Democratic, there were many things that he did, and even before that, when he, Attorney General.
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Jeezy: Yeah, Attorney General, yep.
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Chuck: You know, he was about the people, and so that is gonna be a strong point of contention for Watley to get past in this race, but it's gonna be very interesting, for sure.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man, I definitely like the fact that when you look at Roy, he's the hometown boy. I mean, there is nothing flashy about Roy.
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Chuck: Oh, boy.
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Jeezy: His, his upbringing.
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Chuck: Excellent.
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Jeezy: last year. I think he grew up in, in rural, you know, Nash County, you know, not a, you know, I think… On the other side of the railroad. Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Mom was a public school teacher, like, he… there's nothing flashy about Roy. Roy is just a… he's a true Eastern North Carolina boy. Like…
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Jeezy: through and through. And that resonates well, and I think that's the only reason, to your point, Chuck, that he's done… he's had the record he's had, and been able to do as well as he's done. And it'll be interesting to see how Wiley tries to navigate that, because I don't believe that he can… that's not an area where he can get an upper hand on Roy. He's gonna have to try something else.
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Manny: You see a couple of things that are already trying to hang on Roy, because fortunately for Republicans in this standpoint, you have some type of record you can attempt to pick apart. Yeah. It's gonna be rough to do, but I think…
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Manny: with… if you look at Cooper's central message right now, he's doing this tour called Make Stuff Cost Less Tour.
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Manny: So he's really driving back to the affordability. Here is where I think Michael Watley has an opportunity, depending on how he plays it. First, I think his first decision is how close he's going to align himself with Trump. I think that is a question… That's a fact.
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Manny: an answer. And why I say that is because a poll that was done in, like, mid-2025, when he announced, said that two-thirds of North Carolinians had never heard of him.
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Manny: Which is a double-edged sword.
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Chuck: Yikes.
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Manny: Yeah, it's a double-edged sword, because again, 2025 is still a long time.
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Manny: It's still a long time. After you become the party's nominee, people get to know you. So he has an opportunity to try to introduce himself to the people of North Carolina in a specific way.
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Jeezy: But to that point, to that point real quick, but isn't that an issue that we said that Kamala Harris had?
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Chuck: But the difference is, he has time.
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Manny: He's got time.
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Manny: And he's not a black woman. Like, if we're being, like…
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Chuck: Like, we're just constantly calling.
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Jeezy: It's weird.
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Chuck: Come on!
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Manny: or grand.
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Chuck: No, no, no, you're a thousand percent correct.
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Jeezy: No, you're right, you're right.
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Manny: Watley is going to have that.
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Chuck: You're a thousand percent correct.
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Manny: That Kamla didn't have.
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Manny: So… We'll see.
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Chuck: To your point in how closely he aligns himself with Trump, and I won't delve into this too much, because it'll kind of steer us into another topic that we have, but
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Chuck: with Roy talking about, making things affordable in that affordability lane, and these gas prices going up.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Chuck: Can I get much higher?
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Jeezy: Bruh, them jumps and them gas prices is crazy. I swear, I was pumping gas and seeing it jump while I was pumping. I was like, bruh, let me get out of here.
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Jeezy: They got me for $349 on the first $20 I put in that second half.
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Jeezy: I mean, 3… 360 minutes?
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Chuck: Look, I have not paid $40 to fill up my car in years.
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Jeezy: Bruh. Just the other day.
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Chuck: I ended up paying $42 and some change and had an attitude the whole time.
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Jeezy: Man, making I ain't want to go nowhere.
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Manny: I saw gas when I went to work on Friday, right by my house, at $3.69.
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Manny: Over… and I was like, oh, I got a half tank, I'll deal with this towards the end of the week.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: I… I came home.
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Manny: And saw gas had hopped up to $3, and I said, -oh. Filled up my car, went, got my wife's car, came back, filled it up. When we went out the next morning, it was at 3.20.
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Manny: And the other gas station, a little bit deeper in was at, 349.
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Chuck: Yeah, that'.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Chuck: That's very similar. I, sunday, right after everything popped off, I stopped at Sam's Club and got gas, and it was 2.57, and I was like, boom, okay, boom, get my gas, go about my business, and the very next morning.
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Chuck: The very next morning.
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Chuck: It was over $3 by my house. Of course, Sam's is gonna have the lower gas of most gas stations, but the gas station right down the street from my house, where I normally get gas from, was at $3, and I was like, man… and then by midweek.
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Chuck: It was 3.30, and I was like, yeah… So, yeah.
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Manny: But we'll get to that piece a little bit later in the pot.
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Jeezy: Meh.
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Jeezy: Well, since we talked about North Carolina, I think it's only fitting that we, go ahead and head down to the big state of Texas, because I believe there were some… some of the biggest political shockwaves that happened in the state of Texas. First being that,
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Jeezy: Dan Crenshaw.
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Jeezy: Lost his primary.
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Manny: Yeah…
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Jeezy: to a Trump-aligned challenger after he criticized, which I believe he had heavy criticism of Trump and some of the things he were doing, and looks like…
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Jeezy: You went against the big chief?
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Chuck: He got the big X.
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Chuck: Yeah, yeah, that was… in Texas.
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Jeezy: It's a… Texas is an interesting state as well. It's becoming very interesting.
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Chuck: And very interesting, especially in the aspect of…
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Chuck: what pocket is still heavily fooling with Trump, and what pocket is not?
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Chuck: And so, yeah, it's very interesting.
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Jeezy: I think Texas is one of the few states that we can say that Trump still has a pretty decent stronghold, from the GOP perspective.
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Jeezy: not as strong as in some other places, and I think you see that when it comes to him endorsing. I think he realized that, because I think it was the last, election that we had, where Trump started nominating, or at least putting his name and endorsing people, and that didn't fare too well.
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Jeezy: But he seems to still have the ability to have that stronghold, in Texas.
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Manny: For me, that… the Crenshaw race…
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: against Toth. I think that's Toth… that's how… that's how I'm gonna pronounce it.
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Jeezy: You read the Bible.
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Manny: It was a purity test.
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Manny: it was strictly a purity test. You know, if you look over…
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Manny: Crenshaw's, like, record. There were only really a couple places where he, like, defected from Trump and the party. Ukraine aid, and then he also just criticized his, criticized other MAGA folks.
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Manny: And to see those things being weaponized so strongly against him, Should make some people nervous.
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Manny: Like, the name that pops into my mind immediately, where they're probably not feeling great after seeing that race? Thomas Massey.
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Manny: Now, Kentucky's a whole different thing, we'll cover that on another day, because we've got time before that primary.
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Manny: But at this point, he was… Crenshaw was the only Republican, incumbent Republican, in Texas that didn't have a Trump endorsement.
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Manny: And then Ted Cruz came back from Cancun and endorsed Toth late.
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Manny: And… yeah.
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Manny: You know? But one of the things Crenshaw said on election night
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Manny: And I think this is the attitude you have to take if you're really doing a principled run, but he said, I don't regret a single vote I took. I voted to protect this country, and I'll do it again.
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Manny: I mean… Yeah.
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Manny: But he's the first incumbent… GOP incumbent to fall this… this go-round.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's major, man. And I think we'll see how things turn out in Texas. Another part of Texas, and, I believe they have a runoff that's going between, John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, which I thought that was very interesting, especially when you think about all the…
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Jeezy: the dirt and all the issues and situations that, Ken Paxton has had. I mean, how in the world…
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Chuck: Listen.
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Jeezy: You're able to maintain strong enough that you can make it to a runoff, but…
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Chuck: This man is like a cockroach in the political space, I'll tell you. There's nobody who is more… Corrupt.
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Chuck: than Donald Trump.
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Chuck: than Ken Paxton.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Chuck: Like, if you ask me the top two names of corruption.
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Chuck: It's Donald Trump and Ken Paxton. Like, it's crazy.
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Manny: He said, like, 1A, 1B? He even Nixon, man? Yes. You gotta know what Nixon?
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Chuck: Because I have a 10-foy situation on that Knicks and stuff, too.
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Jeezy: Yay!
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Manny: Whoa.
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Chuck: He… Nixon was more of a fall guy than a bad guy.
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Jeezy: Yeah, God.
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Chuck: But that's… we'll save that for another day.
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Jeezy: Yeah, we were having… Did that work?
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Chuck: We'll say that for another day. But Ken Paxton, very much like Trump, was impeached.
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Chuck: Fought with the charges.
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Jeezy: He beat him! I forgot that he wa- he did get impeached.
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Chuck: like… in the security's fraud. Hey, guess what?
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Chuck: Trump needs to be brought up on security for us.
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Chuck: Oh, there's a… he was… Ken Paxton had a federal investigation go up against him.
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Chuck: Guess what? Trump needs a federal investigation to go up against him.
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Chuck: There was a whistleblower lawsuit. Guess what? Trump… Trump, I'm pretty sure, has some whistleblowers that are scared to come… come forward. Like, get back… that's just the political side.
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Jeezy: Because his wife left him because of scandal, right?
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Manny: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Yeah, okay, I'm tired of remembering that, yeah.
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Chuck: Because guess what? She was also a state senator. Yup.
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Jeezy: And I think, like, she tried to cover her, she tried to do something with voting demand.
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Chuck: Oh, bruh, I remember it all up now. She covered for him for years, and then finally got fed up and tired of… yeah, that Ken Paxton.
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Chuck: That, that guy.
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Jeezy: Yo!
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Jeezy: Hey, Texas, y'all get… hey, y'all need y'all moral compass check, bruh, bruh.
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Chuck: This? It's broke. That is broke.
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Manny: This Senate race was interesting, because… for a couple reasons. First, on the Republican side, Trump didn't endorse.
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Chuck: Hold on, Manny, real quick, real quick, hold on.
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Manny: Yeah, yeah.
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Chuck: We forgot to mention, wasn't Ken Paxton AG? Or is AG?
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Manny: I think he is.
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Chuck: Yeah, he is aging. Aging. The top law of the state.
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Chuck: It's so corrupt.
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: Bruh. What happened to that swamp that was supposed to get drained?
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Jeezy: What are we supposed to do something with corruption?
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Manny: Hey, I mean, it's evolving from a swamp.
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Jeezy: Corruption is only bad. What'd that guy said, corruption is only bad.
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Manny: involved.
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Jeezy: I'm not involved. But if I'm involved, I defend him.
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Manny: pendant.
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Manny: But this race was…
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Manny: was already interesting, because again, it was… I won't say it was a three-person… it was a three-person, but it wasn't at the same time. We had Corrin versus Paxton versus Hunt.
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Manny: Trump didn't endorse and, like, signaled that he liked everybody.
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Manny: Supply.
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Jeezy: I'mma let the puppets fight it out.
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Manny: Bruh, this race, up to this point, over $100 million had been spent.
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Manny: Via the campaigns and outside link groups.
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Jeezy: I knew who was on the short end of that bill.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Manny: But this is… this is one of the races… the Texas Senate race is going to be the race… it was the race I was referring to, you know, when we were talking about the Cooper Watley stuff. How much…
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Manny: Are they going to fight for Texas? Either side.
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Chuck: Yeah, because…
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Manny: Because if we're talking about 100… they're saying $100 million in a primary, they're forecasting that there's going to be another $100 million spent between now and the runoff.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: $200 million for a single Senate seat.
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Jeezy: That's crazy.
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Manny: And that's even before… the actual general election. 200 million set ablaze.
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Jeezy: You can give me a quarter of that, and I promise I'll go to Washington and do the right thing.
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Chuck: You know what I mean? But while we talk about it, I want to kick dirt on somebody while they're still down.
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Manny: Hey, we love it!
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Chuck: Wesley Hunt, you sex face bum.
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Jeezy: I'm glad you got the results you got. That's what I was talking about, I got the short end of the bill.
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Chuck: Done. Go sit down somewhere with you, Tim, all the rest of the…
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Jeezy: The Coon Avengers. The Coon Avengers.
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Chuck: Cool Invengers, go… go sit down somewhere, I'm so glad you got embarrassed.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Chuck: Alright, I'm sorry, brother, go ahead.
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Jeezy: Hey, hey, man, you know how we do here, man. You gotta kick a man while he damn. This runoff is gonna be interesting. Very.
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Manny: Because…
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Manny: you are… you already are fighting to get people out for a normal primary. So now you're trying to get the entire state.
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Chuck: And yeah. To come back out.
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Manny: Yeah. For another election.
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Jeezy: I was gonna ask you about that, Manny. How does the… from the numbers, and just from, you know, how typical elections go.
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Jeezy: Do you see…
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Jeezy: a decline when you have those runoffs versus… Absolutely. I would assume you would, but I've never seen numbers, but it's gotta be hard to go into a runoff and ask people to come out a second time.
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Manny: Unless they're really engaged, they're really plugged in, like, that's… that is… these primary runoffs are for your really hardcore voters.
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Jeezy: That's…
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Manny: Listen.
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Chuck: Exactly who it's for, yes.
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Manny: So, it's going to be hard, because you have to have something that motivates them.
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Jeezy: Yeah. To come back out.
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Manny: And…
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Manny: You know, the other problem is, it's easier to get people to come out in a general election for a runoff, because you usually have someone you like versus somebody you hate. So now we're talking a primary, where it's someone you like versus someone you're probably kind of okay with.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: and you're just like, I'll let the cards fall where they may.
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Chuck: Did you know…
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Manny: But you would see some level of falloff.
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Chuck: No, not some level. I'm about to break it down for you.
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Manny: The runoff is like that second service on Sunday.
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Jeezy: Oh, bro.
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Jeezy: After you don't left going corral, and you just sat in the recliner with your.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: and rub your feet together like a cricket.
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Chuck: Yeah, yeah, it's that second service. Only the true, dedicated church money coming back.
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Jeezy: Those that truly love the Lord.
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Manny: Bye.
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Chuck: Outside of that…
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Jeezy: You knew that the person doing?
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Chuck: If you was at that first service, that's how you chalking it up in the book, folks.
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Manny: Mehr.
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Manny: Look, the Bible's saying to not forsake the assembly. It didn't say assemblies. He's a singular.
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Jeezy: I came to win.
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Chuck: It's hard enough you try to get me out here Wednesday night, servicing.
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Jeezy: Hey, look.
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Chuck: service on Sunday.
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Jeezy: If the Lord… you know the great excuse? If the Lord needed all that heat, just tell me.
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Chuck: If he wanted me to come to this service, he would call me right now and tell me to go get myself down there. He ain't called me yet, y'all. I got what I needed.
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Jeezy: Firstly.
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Jeezy: I won't land for the second one.
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Chuck: It ain't in my spirit.
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: I know, I know something else that won't land in the spirit, those voters that show up for our great sister, Jasmine Crockett.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Chuck: Ehh…
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Manny: You know?
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Chuck: Hmm.
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Manny: Damn.
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Chuck: Hey.
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Chuck: Hold it.
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Manny: unaware.
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Jeezy: Our sister here, Jasmine Crockett, we gotta give a shout-out to Jasmine, because, you know, we fool with Jasmine. She cool with us. We ain't got no beef with her.
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Chuck: I fool you with that.
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Jeezy: I believe a great sister of, Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority Incorporated.
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Jeezy: She showed up, did her thing, but unfortunately she fell short, to James Telarico. So, my brothers, what's your thoughts on the race that she ran and ultimately lost in the primary, to James?
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Jeezy: Hold on, first of all, hold on, what nationality is James? Because…
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Chuck: Ambiguous.
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Jeezy: The name gives me Hispanic, but I ain't never met no Hispanic named James.
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Manny: That's Juan. What brought you up.
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Jeezy: Is he doing one of them Cash App Patel things?
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Manny: And same with him.
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Jeezy: I've been lucky to know why y'all discuss.
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Chuck: James Telarico is very ambiguous, like Pat from MADtv.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh. Yo, I used to die laughing at the pack as soon as they try to figure out which bathroom they go in, lights go out.
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Manny: Man… Look… We had a saying.
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Manny: That proper preparation.
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Manny: It's a piss-poor performance.
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Chuck: Indeed.
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Manny: And… I… look, geez, you said that, you know, we ain't got no beef.
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Manny: With her… well, Jasmine Crockett might have beef with me after this.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: I think this was a winnable race for her.
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Manny: But from my understanding, what I've heard from people down there, is that the race was not well put together.
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Manny: So… You know…
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Jeezy: Did she have some people from Kamala Harris' team on her,
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Jeezy: Helping her with her campaign?
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Manny: It wouldn't shock me.
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Manny: But also, you know how we've also felt about the team that helped Kamala Harris run.
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Jeezy: That's my point, exactly.
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Manny: But, I think… Were the numbers there for her to win? Yes. I think they were.
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Manny: I just think it… it was a poorly planned campaign that was really just kind of surrounded on hype.
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Manny: And not well executed.
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Manny: You know, I think she came in… first, she came in late.
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Manny: So, Telerico and Allred, I think they declared back in September of last year, she didn't hop in.
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Chuck: August… I believe it was August. August, okay.
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Manny: So, late summer, very early fall, so they had been running for a while.
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Manny: And she hopped in, was it November, late November, early December?
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Chuck: December. It was December. The last day to declare.
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Manny: There we go. So she came in, obviously, with the highest name ID, I mean, you're Jasmine Crockett.
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Manny: you know, you've been in Congress, you…
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Manny: just having name ID does not win elections anymore.
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Manny: It can in certain races, but if you're going to do that, you have to file early.
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Manny: So, I think the fact that she came in late, she did a horrible job of raising money.
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Manny: You know, I think she would… Telerico raised $20 million, she raised, what, like, $8?
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Manny: And that's a… this piss-poor numbers for someone who was as popular as she was.
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Manny: And just didn't do it, like…
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Manny: Poor job. I also think her focus on the campaign was very limited, from my understanding, were just major counties trying to drive out that vote.
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Chuck: Okay.
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Chuck: I was gonna allow you the floor, and not cut you off so abruptly or rudely.
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Manny: Thank you.
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Manny: For our listeners.
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Chuck: Jeez.
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Manny: We've been planning on this conversation for a couple days.
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Chuck: We have. We have. This has been a…
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Chuck: I gotta say, it was a light discussion in the group chat, because we did not want to show our cards to either one. I'm not sure the level of poker player my brother Manny is, but I am a very high-level poker player, so I definitely didn't want to show my cards until it was time.
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Manny: To hit the river.
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Chuck: Oh… Jeez.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Chuck: Manny made a comment earlier about…
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Chuck: the good sister Kamala Harris, and her plight. And what was that comment?
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Chuck: Do you remember?
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Jeezy: I don't, brother.
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Chuck: Because she's a black woman.
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Jeezy: Yes, yes. I was about to say, we said a couple of things, but yes, black woman for sure.
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Chuck: So, my first thing is, Manny, those people, those insiders, were they black that you talked to?
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Manny: One was…
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Chuck: Just one.
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Manny: Yeah, one was.
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Chuck: Gotcha.
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Chuck: So, here's my… here's my… I went to the dry cleaner the day to pick up my cape for Jasmine.
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Chuck: My good sister, Jasmine Crockett.
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Chuck: Although a very formidable individual for this race. A very qualified individual for this race.
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Chuck: The odds were stacked against her, and she never had a chance.
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Chuck: I don't care what anybody says, she never had a chance. The number one reason why she never had a chance? Because she's a black woman. And what did they… what was the…
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Chuck: Adjectives always used about Jasmine Crockett.
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Chuck: She's fiery. She's contentious. She's combative. Aggressive. Aggressive.
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Chuck: No, she stood up for the people.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: She stood up against this administration who
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Chuck: Countless times over and over, steamrolled
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Chuck: People in their own party, forget the opposition on the other side of the aisle.
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Jeezy: They steamrolled people in their own party.
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Chuck: So she already came in with that against her. Now, by no means am I saying that she ran a flawless, top-tier campaign. Number one problem.
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Chuck: Coming in the last day, to declare. I truly believe she was coerced into running?
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: Number one reason the name recognition, the name ID.
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Chuck: Hey, go ahead and do it. Go ahead and do it. Because I truly don't believe that was her plan, because if this was a part of her plan, she would have jumped in a lot sooner.
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Chuck: Without question. So I think somebody kind of talked her into it. Who that was? Don't know, need to have a conversation with them, because, as my good brother Manny said, proper preparation would have had her in place before that point.
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Chuck: But now I want to talk about TED Talk Telerico.
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Chuck: Because… Ted, talk Telarico here.
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Manny: a TED Talk.
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Jeezy: No, that's… That's… That's pretty… that's pretty good. That's pretty accurate.
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Manny: That's right.
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Jeezy: Pretty accurate, bro.
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Chuck: He is going to talk your head down in the most ambiguous and love and kind…
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Chuck: way. And what's interesting is him and Jasmine are very much similar in many of their policies, many of their ways of going about it. There's very little differentiation between the two.
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Chuck: In those aspects. The biggest difference is how the nomenclatures and adjectives used to describe them. Yep. Now, where Telerico is…
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Chuck: a… a… I don't want to say a far more formidable opponent, but a more… revered, or…
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Chuck: Endearing opponent
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Chuck: against whoever runs from the Republican Party is because he's leading with love, he is on his kumbaya tour. We're all here together in this populist mindset, and we're here to work together.
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Chuck: Yes, he outraged her.
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Chuck: But if you look at… if you break down the percentage of time
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Chuck: from when he started to when Jasmine started, that $20 million looks a lot smaller than that $8 million.
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Jeezy: If we break it down.
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Chuck: In that regard from timeframe. But one of his donors was very interesting to me.
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Chuck: Do we all know who the co-founder of LinkedIn is?
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Chuck: They're the co-founders?
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Chuck: Well, people, if you don't know, Mr. Reed Hoffman is one of the co-founders of LinkedIn.
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Chuck: Who is Reed Hoffman, you ask?
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Jeezy: people, brother.
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Chuck: One of Jeffrey Epstein's good buddies.
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Chuck: Not only has he been to Epstein Island, but he's been to the condo in New York and the ranch where we're at.
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Jeezy: There's several email exchanges and different things in the files between.
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Chuck: Reed Hoffman, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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Chuck: And Mr. Reed Hoffman dropped a $500,000 donation to the Telarico campaign. Now, Reed Teller… I mean, James Telarico had gone on to say, I'm not taking any corporate PAC money.
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Chuck: commendable. You know, he's a man of the people. And, honestly.
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Chuck: He can draw a lot of comparisons
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Chuck: to the good aspects of the Obama campaign.
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Chuck: And… about the people, grassroots fundraising.
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Chuck: But there were a bunch of corp… not corporate, but other super PACs.
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Manny: the chairs.
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Chuck: Yes, who donated to his campaign. And I bring those up not as an indictment against him, but an indictment
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Chuck: To my point that… Jasmine had no chance.
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Chuck: They were not looking to push forward or back.
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Chuck: a… sassy, Spicy, contentious black woman.
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Chuck: Regardless of the level of qualifications, regardless of all that she's done, regardless of her degrees.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: Like, she has all the qualifications, and what was real funny is they pick and choose when they want to ask, are you qualified?
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Manny: This is true. Very much true.
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Chuck: So, so in that, that, that is my… my pushback, because, quite honestly, she…
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Chuck: To her, to her and her campaigns,
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Chuck: I guess you could say green check mark.
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Chuck: They had some of the highest level of voter registration in the history of primaries.
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Chuck: And the turnout.
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Chuck: was historic numbers.
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Chuck: 2.3 million people.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: Excuse me, turned out…
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Chuck: for a primary is amazing. She, by herself, not even Tallarico, she by herself garnered more votes than Kamala Harris did in the general election
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Chuck: for, president. And my last point, and I'll yield back to you, Manny, because I know you're ready to rebut.
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Chuck: is… in fact, I'm gonna hold this, because I know you're gonna rebut, and I have another point that I can make in regards to TED Talk Telarico.
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Manny: Well… I think everything you said, Chuck, was spot on.
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Manny: I think the point that I now come back to
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Manny: is… was… was I wrong in my analysis that I gave a couple months ago when she hopped in? Did she actually have a chance? And I don't know.
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Manny: Because, to the point that you said that, hey, she didn't… she didn't declare to the last… last date and was convinced. I think it's an important thing to remember that she had been drawn out of her district, so her district is.
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Chuck: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: So, she had nothing to do. In terms of being coerced, there is a rumor going around right now that some of the last
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Manny: polls that were run before the filing deadline. There's specifically one that came out two weeks before the filing deadline that had her up, that had her with the most name ID.
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Manny: But what that also showed, and that didn't really come out, is her unfavorables.
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Chuck: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: Unfavorables was 40%.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Manny: You step into an environment, Where 40% of the people have already made up their mind about you.
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Manny: it's hard to… it's hard to turn over from that. Yeah. So, I think if you look at that as a precursor to everything else.
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Manny: And she likely didn't even have an environment where she truly even stood a chance, to your point.
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Manny: that she didn't run. Now, at that point.
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Manny: You gotta be prepared, though. You gotta come out here and put on your best showing. And I think my point is that I've… from what I've seen and what I've read.
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Manny: it could have been done better. I think when you're looking at a primary, yeah, turnout is a major piece, but it's not the only piece. And I think she…
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Manny: Really focused on turnout and didn't get it.
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Manny: So, if you look at Dallas, she won, she needed to win that by 40%, by 40 points, she didn't. And Harris, where she won, but she needed to win that by somewhere between 15% to 20%.
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Manny: Fort Bend was the only county in Texas where she exceeded her expectations.
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Manny: And Travis and the county, Travis County that has Austin, Texas, she needed to hold him under 65%.
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Manny: And that… that didn't happen. She lost by an additional 10 to 15 points.
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Manny: So, to the other point of that, if you understand the reality of the situation that you're up against.
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Manny: I understand what your brand is, but understanding Texas, if you're trying to win, you have to be able to turn your messaging around.
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Manny: Yeah, I think she… to your point, very much a fighter, very much, hey, I'm out here campaigning and talking about the things that my people, my constituents need, and I'm going to fight for that.
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Manny: it's Texas, so that message is not going to necessarily land the same as a kumbaya message. And I think if you look at it, Democratic insiders, when looking at Telarico versus Crockett, this is not just a turnout game. I think those voters said, we're not worried about turnout.
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Manny: people are going to come out. Who's going to flip more R's to D's in terms of voting in the general election? And I think that's the mindset a lot of people went into this with.
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Manny: Not to mention.
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Manny: I think there was a bet from her side that people of color across the board, and that the across the board is a key point in this, people of color across the board would turn out for her.
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Manny: That… it didn't… that we have consistently seen over these last couple cycles.
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Chuck: I was…
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Manny: Not… is not going to happen anymore.
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Chuck: If that was a conversation in her camp, they failed from the beginning.
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Chuck: They felt terrible from the beginning, because like you said, as we've seen, For the past 20-plus years.
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Chuck: in voting. Texas, kind of, but more so, the biggest example is Florida.
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Manny: Nope.
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Chuck: the colored people across the spectrum are not coming out for the black candidates.
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Chuck: And… to that, and I was gonna,
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Chuck: Essentially, okay, we're gonna say this is a draw, because we essentially agree… We essentially agreed.
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Chuck: point counterpoint with each other. We just stand at a different angle in the room. But to tell a Rico, and where he… I don't know if he's turning anyone, because… and I've seen somebody online say that,
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Chuck: swing voters,
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Chuck: and I'll touch on two different swing voters. The Hispanic… no, not Hispanic, the Mexican voters, because we're talking about Texas here. We're not talking about Florida, where Florida, you could have several different dynamics of Hispanics, Cuban, Dominican, Haitian, and Texas is about the Mexicans.
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Chuck: Let's be honest.
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Manny: Yep.
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Chuck: Where he won them over, Is his…
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Chuck: I don't… I don't want to sound like I'm diminishing this, because by no means am I, but his religious faith and his religious walk is saying, because for those who don't know, I think he's very close to finishing his Master's in Divinity…
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Manny: Divinity, yeah.
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Chuck: Yeah, and has gone to seminary, so… and he op… not saying that Jasmine isn't, but he openly brings that as a part of his package.
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Jeezy: And…
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Chuck: like I said earlier, the spread love. And so, as we know, Mexicans are very religious.
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Chuck: although it's not Christianity, some of them are Christian, some of them are Catholic, but they're very religious. So, in this… that was a Trump playbook, because Trump, when he went down there talking to them.
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Chuck: He didn't come… even the goofy evangelicals who rubbed up and loved up against him.
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Chuck: They were drawn into that.
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Manny: And so, I think that is a strong play for him.
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Chuck: again, not diminishing his walking and where he stands in his faith. I can't speak for that man. I don't… I can only speak for me.
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Chuck: But I think it's a solid ground that he's standing on that is allowing him to attract those who may be swing voters in that Mexican community, and the white
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Chuck: moderate to… Slightly conservative?
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Chuck: where he can draw those in. And the other swing voter is the black voter.
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Chuck: And when I say swing voter, I don't mean swing voter in the sense of, are we gonna vote Republican or Democrat?
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Manny: Are we gonna vote at all? Are we gonna vote at all?
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Chuck: and make them earn our vote, or are we just gonna be slaves to the Democratic Party and give them our vote?
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Chuck: off of tradition and history. That is a conversation for another time, but this is a strong conversation that has to be had.
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Chuck: Not just in Texas, but in many states for that, that vote.
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Manny: The only follow-up I have for that, because you're… I think you're spot on, but don't no one publicly love Jesus and the cross as much as a politician running for election during… on an election?
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Manny: So no one publicly loved Jesus like that.
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Jeezy: I will say with Telarica, Chuck said earlier, just for clarity, he has earned his Master's in Divinity, so he has already earned it, and he's very active, in the church in all
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Jeezy: I think that, again, to your point, Chuck, plays into his favor, because not only is he, you know, he's mastered in this, but he's very active in the church that is in the local area. So, that's a plus for him as far as convincing those
649
Jeezy: That are very, religious in that… in that form, but… When we talk about earlier.
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Manny: I was curious.
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Chuck: Hold on, I'll say, before we go… move on, I did have another point, but go ahead, man.
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Manny: Yeah, I think we'd be remiss if we… if we look at Texas on a whole and not mention the chaos that happened in Dallas.
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Manny: with…
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Chuck: Yes.
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Manny: a.
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Jeezy: originally…
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Manny: people could vote wherever they wanted. In this election, they now said, across the board, they said, you have to vote at your precinct. So now you got people pulling up to precincts that… I've been voting here for the last 43 years, and now you're telling me I gotta go across the… and there was cases…
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: So, it caused them to open polls for an extra 2 hours, per the Supreme Court. But then, our good friend Ken Paxton, yeah.
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Manny: There is a list of reasons about why… why you can extend voting past the time, and it was ruled that… that… that because people didn't know their precincts or know the law, I forget the official wording that he… that was used.
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Manny: that that's not an eligible reason. So you had people who wanted to vote.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: that were not allowed to vote, or their votes did not count because they were either casted at the wrong place, they went to the right place and casted those ballots after the time.
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Chuck: 7 o'clock.
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Manny: They were not in line at the proper time.
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Manny: And that's something that Texas is going to have to get a hold of.
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Manny: before this general election, because the chaos that now you're going to see, this is going to be a very expensive, we'll say, Senate race, that's going to spin off into something crazy, Florida-esque in 2000 kind of situation.
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Chuck: And to that, Manny, and I meant to make that point when you were talking about the turnout for Crockett.
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Chuck: I believe that played a major factor in her turnout.
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Manny: not just… and I know the reports are saying that it was, like, 2,300, votes.
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Chuck: That did not count. But what people cannot quantitate.
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Manny: is those who say, forget it, and I'm going home. Yep.
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Chuck: And so, I believe that definitely played a factor into it. You can't…
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Chuck: file a lawsuit on, hey, y'all made these people go home and they didn't vote. Right. So… so it's gonna… but we can't quantify, you know, how many of those individuals, but I truly believe it had an impact, because like you said, these people, for years, countless years, been able to just pull up
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Chuck: place their vote, go about their business. This polling site's right down the street from my house. It's 5 minutes from my house. You're telling me I gotta go 10 minutes the other way just to vote?
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Chuck: Why? And so…
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Jeezy: 10 minutes, because with Texas traffic, ain't no telling. It could be 5 miles away, but it could take me 35 to get there.
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Manny: When we got into… when we got into Houston, the amount of time it took us to get from the airport that's in.
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Chuck: From the airport.
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Manny: to our Airbnb, that is also in Houston. Why?
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Jeezy: No, dude.
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Chuck: blew up.
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Jeezy: Definitely not come out the house, bro. It is much too far away.
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Chuck: And we can finish this off by saying I want to shout out our good brother, Freddie Haynes III, who was elected to replace Jasmine Crockett.
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Chuck: excuse me, for the House of Representatives. Not only is, he's a… he's a preacher. Interestingly enough, he's Jasmine Crockett's pastor, so… Oh, okay. But he is a member of the illustrious Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated.
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Manny: Ayyy.
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Chuck: And he's a staunch, very strong brother, and a staunch… staunch advocate
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Chuck: of getting Israel out of our business.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I seen a couple of clips of him talking, and I was like, oh yeah.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Jasmine may, be gone, but the man that will be…
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Chuck: The spirit there.
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Jeezy: Fair, brother. That brother is on fire, and I was like, okay, yeah.
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Chuck: Although I got my grasp against Jasmine, because she has taken, donations from APAC.
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Jeezy: But at this.
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Manny: At this point, who in Congress hasn't?
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Chuck: Freddie Haynes III?
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Manny: Okay, well, alright.
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Chuck: Fight on, my brother.
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Manny: Him, Thomas Massey.
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Chuck: Yeah, it's a low number.
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Jeezy: Very low number. But I will say this, I said it at the beginning, I have never met someone with the name, Telarico. I've never seen them with the first name James, and it appears that Telerico is not his real last name.
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Chuck: -Oh.
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Jeezy: His name is James Dale Collins.
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Jeezy: He was born to a single mother.
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Jeezy: Who was a pastor, who…
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Manny: Who worked too hard, who loves her kids.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: It never stops.
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Chuck: You're lit.
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Jeezy: So she later on, now, I'm not making light of this aspect of it, his father, birth father, was abusive.
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Jeezy: So she raised Tallarico and his sister on his own, and she later got married, to a guy named Mark Tallarico, and she changed,
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Chuck: Let me click the name, okay.
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Manny: Okay, GE.
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Manny: When you started that off, you were…
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Chuck: I was about to fire them coals up.
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Jeezy: That's why I had to get a full look when I seen it, because at first, I was like, Collins, and I was like, mmm… had to keep digging a little bit deeper, and I was like, okay.
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Chuck: You were about to send Tallarico to the Lions game.
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Chuck: Hey, he was about to replace me, Shadrach, and the Indigo.
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Manny: Bruh, bruh. Look…
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Jeezy: I was reading.
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Manny: I was ready, but then I was like, okay.
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Jeezy: So, but he does come from a family of faith with his granddad being a pastor in the area, and later on, obviously, finding his roots as well.
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Jeezy: In, in the ministry and the work that he's done. So, we'll see what happens. He has done a lot of work, from the education perspective, public school, I believe 16.
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Jeezy: Of the bills that he has worked on, centered around, education and child, healthcare and childcare service. I believe 6… 16 of them have been passed into law.
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Jeezy: He was a 6th grade school teacher, so, I mean, he certainly has his roots within the community, so, depending on who he is, faced up against once the runoff happens.
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Jeezy: It'd be very interesting, especially if it's Ken Paxton, because you got kind of like, you got…
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Chuck: Angela and the devil.
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Jeezy: Like a heaven and hell type of fight, bruh.
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Chuck: Angel and a dome.
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Manny: I think the thing to watch here is, at least in Texas, how long before the Republican Party starts swinging on, on,
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Chuck: As soon as they know who… Like, when…
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Manny: But, no, I think that's the question. Do they wait until the rahm is over, or do they.
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Chuck: They can'.
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Manny: Swinging, swinging that.
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Chuck: They can't afford to. They can't afford to. He is too endearing to too many people. Like, I feel like he'll start off the debate, hi, friends.
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Chuck: Like, he's…
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Jeezy: with a Mr. Rogers intro.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Jeezy: Won't you be my neighbor?
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Chuck: Yeah, bro. Oh, man.
742
Jeezy: Will…
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Jeezy: The primaries were the primaries, and that is our coverage of it. Certainly, I'm interested to see what's next for our good sister Jasmine, as her time…
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Jeezy: comes slowly to an end. She said that she's dedicated and committed to getting Democrats, around the country, elected in positions that they can, make real change, not just for Texas, but for, the United States as a whole. So, it'll be very interesting. I'm sure a book deal will come out of somewhere, and…
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Manny: I actually don't think so.
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Jeezy: Okay.
747
Manny: I don't think she'll get… I don't think it'll happen right now.
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Jeezy: Oh, no, no, no, no.
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Manny: I think if there's a prediction for her.
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Manny: Gavin Newsom has probably already made a call to start gauging interest.
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Jeezy: as…
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Chuck: As a VP candidate?
753
Chuck: I pray to God not… because I don't… I promise y'all I don't want Gabby News.
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Manny: Now, making the call and making a decision are two different.
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Chuck: Oh, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
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Manny: But I'm almost certain that she.
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Chuck: Definitely a filler.
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Manny: several people's list of people that they would like to have on a ticket with them.
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Jeezy: That, or get her on board so she can start a tour around like, Bernie Sanders and AOC was doing.
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Jeezy: But with who? It's for those votes. I don't know.
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Chuck: And you know what's funny?
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Jeezy: I mean, some of those votes, because you gotta think, Gavin, in all my honest opinion.
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Jeezy: I don't think Gavin has the support that people think he has.
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Chuck: He does not. He does not.
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Jeezy: I just really don't. And especially with black people, I'm sorry. I just don't.
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Manny: Hence why Jasmine Crockett?
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Jeezy: So that's why I said maybe send her on tour. I'm not saying it works, but it's a lowball that you can throw out there and say, okay, let me see if it'll catch any traction. I can see him making that play, because he got to think that he's not… he doesn't have the support that he needs to make that.
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Chuck: And I just want to throw this out there real quick, if Jasmine was from New York.
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Chuck: she would not get labeled the same way she gets labeled being from Texas. Texas? I just wanted to say that. Her and AOC are very similar. Very similar.
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Chuck: But, yeah. Anyway, yeah, I agree with you. They're definitely gonna put her in a position
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Chuck: I'm not gonna say a position to stomp for, whoever.
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Chuck: But they're definitely gonna utilize her. I can see her on TV.
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Chuck: More than anything, coming up.
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Manny: What will be interesting is now she's heading back to Congress without a race.
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Manny: essentially a lame dunk. A lame dunk. So, it'll be interesting to watch some of these committee hearings, the legislation that she'll try… that she'll try to file during this time. Now, knowing you don't have a race to run, what are you going to do with this last year in office?
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Jeezy: I would hope to see her still just as fired up as she has been before, because if we see you lose a little bit of that flame, I think that's certainly…
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Jeezy: Doesn't bode well for what you're trying to do. And, I mean, her future's not over in politics, so it's not like she… Absolutely not. It's not like you took the last kill, like, you know, you still have a future in this, so I hope you don't go there and lay down and,
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Jeezy: we don't see those, typical attributes from her as we've seen in committee hearings, or just in the House in general.
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Manny: Agreed.
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Jeezy: So… Man, that coverage of the primaries… Was, quite a bit.
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Manny: Can we…
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Jeezy: I realize that.
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Manny: Still got more to go.
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Chuck: This next one doesn't have to take long at all.
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Jeezy: Well, I don't know if you guys… well, I saw it, and I don't know if this would classify as breaking news, but I just saw that there has been a report of some action going on at an airport, I want to say in Arizona, that they are saying is a potential threat.
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Jeezy: That could be going on?
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Chuck: No…
788
Jeezy: I believe it was. I saw it in the middle of you guys going back and forth on it, and I lost my notification, but it…
789
Jeezy: Something's going on where there is a potential threat that has been labeled at an airport, and I believe it was in Arizona. I'm trying to pull it back up, but…
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Chuck: I know there was a… I was gonna say, I know there was a flight that was diverted… I know you're talking about something different, but there was a flight that was diverted yesterday to Atlanta, because of what they suspected was a potential bomb threat, which I know is completely different from that, but just in the line…
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Jeezy: Sorry.
792
Chuck: Okay, Kansas City.
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Jeezy: Kansas City International Airport evacuated amid reports of a potential threat.
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Jeezy: Don't know what that potential threat is tied to, but I know that there had been some heightening of security at certain locations in the country due to the war that is going on between
795
Jeezy: U.S.-Israel versus Iran. We're very much a partner in this war at this point. But right now, it's been, what, over a week that the war started?
796
Jeezy: There's been strikes targeted on nuclear facilities.
797
Jeezy: that… again, I don't know why reporters aren't asking Trump when they're talking about him today. He said that these were obliterated, so I don't know why we're hitting things that are already done.
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Jeezy: missile systems, and even, Iranian, leadership, which we know was the killing of the Supreme Leader, which at this point, they have not, at the time of this recording, they have not,
799
Jeezy: I don't know if elected is the right thing to say. They haven't selected another Supreme Leader, but they have stated that that one is closely approaching, that they're coming to a decision.
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Jeezy: But Iran has responded with missile and drone attacks across the region, and a number of just…
801
Jeezy: attacks between, countries that are affecting the shipping routes, the oil market, and even their neighboring states. So my first question to you guys, since we're over a week into the war, from the first strikes that were launched until now, do you think that, this war turned up, is it quick?
802
Jeezy: what we've seen, how this war has escalated. Do we think we get here where we're at this fast?
803
Manny: if…
804
Manny: If the escalation that we saw from Iran is a shock to anybody in the administration, they've clearly been asleep at the wheel.
805
Manny: Like, because…
806
Chuck: It's massive.
807
Manny: Exciting.
808
Chuck: We…
809
Manny: You said it here, that it… there were reports that if Iran… Iran said if they were attacked.
810
Manny: They… they spraying everyone. Everyone's catching them.
811
Jeezy: Yep. Which is exactly what we saw happen this week. Yeah.
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Manny: is that they had smoke for everybody. So much smoke for everybody, that Iran on Saturday came out and said, you know what? We kind of wildin'. We ain't mean to hit all of y'all like that, but we.
813
Jeezy: They let that thing ride.
814
Chuck: I don't know why they were still hitting everybody like that. Everybody.
815
Jeezy: Y'all know…
816
Manny: Well, they're like, y'all know why we gotta do this, right?
817
Manny: And I think the reaction…
818
Manny: for all the times that we've entered into the Middle East, and for all the conflicts that we've had for… with Iran.
819
Manny: no one should be shocked that Iran started shooting back. No one should be shocked that they closed the Strait of Hamutz.
820
Manny: Like, that shouldn't have been shocking to anybody. And if it was shocking to anybody in the administration, y'all haven't been paying attention. Like, even at a minor sta- like, I would say we follow the news far deeply than the average person.
821
Manny: But in comparison to how we follow the news versus how people in the administration should be following this information.
822
Manny: And y'all didn't know that? Y'all have failed.
823
Jeezy: I think it's… I think it's… you're exactly right, Manny. You know.
824
Jeezy: the way that this happened, and I've read something, earlier this week where they were talking that Iran had been prepared for this for years. Like, they knew that if this was coming, they had their plan of how they were going to respond.
825
Jeezy: I don't think it's in a matter of even defending, they're just like, look, if I'm going down, everybody getting hit. Everybody getting hit.
826
Chuck: I've never seen a switch on a missile silo until…
827
Manny: I ran. Start letting that yapa sing, boy.
828
Jeezy: We were like, okay. We were like, we saw a strike, then we were like, okay, more strikes. Like, have y'all stopped? What's that game where we do the mission of Call of Duty, and you know you're shooting the gun on the back of the tank, and you gotta stop at some point because it's getting too high?
829
Manny: But…
830
Jeezy: Are they open? Warzone?
831
Manny: war zone.
832
Jeezy: Yeah.
833
Manny: But it's like we… but the A…
834
Manny: Israel has been saying that Iran was weeks away from a nuclear weapon since we were in elementary.
835
Jeezy: I was about to say, before I… I was 3.
836
Manny: So, I'm like, at this point, like.
837
Chuck: Y'all about to make sure I ran.
838
Manny: You have…
839
Chuck: I was in high school.
840
Manny: But, like, if you're Iran, you had to have a plan, you had to have known that they were going to attack your leadership, so you needed to have something in… set up and together for what you guys are just executing. You're not…
841
Chuck: It looks like… it looks like Iran was the only one who had a plan.
842
Jeezy: Bingo.
843
Manny: Look.
844
Chuck: If we look… if we really… if we really look at what has been going on, and sadly enough, there… we are in a propaganda age of media,
845
Chuck: And thankfully, and we said this before, thankfully to social media, we are afforded the ability to have access to information that we normally would not have access to.
846
Manny: Yep.
847
Chuck: So we are seeing the strikes. We're seeing the bombings where 20 years ago.
848
Chuck: We have to see what the news is telling us and showing us.
849
Manny: We would have had to wait for what the U.S. government gave to the news.
850
Chuck: Facts.
851
Manny: show us.
852
Chuck: And in this, we see… Iran launching missiles from underground.
853
Chuck: the U.S. has no idea where these missile sites are coming from, because they're underground, and they're just letting off, and…
854
Chuck: like…
855
Chuck: many… spot on. They've been planning for this. You've been talking for 30 years that we need to strike, and there's been administration after administration saying, no, you know what, well, while y'all talking? We prepping with the aid of Russia and China. It's not…
856
Chuck: negating…
857
Jeezy: his buddy.
858
Chuck: That aspect. They are not… for them to have this many missiles, and to still be firing off, they have received this from somewhere.
859
Manny: This many missiles, this many drones, Allegedly painted.
860
Manny: Thermal painting shapes of helicopters…
861
Chuck: That was wild.
862
Manny: Spider jets, so we would strike them.
863
Manny: It's insane, and I think here's the other piece of this.
864
Manny: is Iran is firing off these missiles of, what, 100,000… not to diminish the cost, $50,000, $100,000 apiece.
865
Manny: And then you look at a lot of people.
866
Chuck: With a million dollar missiles.
867
Manny: That are not only us targeting with million-dollar missiles, but our missile defense systems.
868
Chuck: Yes.
869
Manny: And here's the crazy part of it.
870
Manny: Iran can shoot out 100 rockets.
871
Manny: If one of them hits, they win.
872
Jeezy: Yep.
873
Manny: The U.S. missile defense systems cannot fail.
874
Manny: Like, if it fails in any capacity, that means you've lost… and we've already seen it. We've seen it from our partners in the region, and yeah, Iran was prepared for this, and we're not.
875
Manny: we're… the country is not prepared for it, not only just with a stockpile, but from a support standpoint. When we ran up into Afghanistan and Iraq after 9-11, the people of the United States, largely, were unified in that you don't have the
876
Manny: support the American people. Sending gas up 27% in a day
877
Manny: Is not something we signed up for.
878
Manny: Nope.
879
Chuck: Not a fatigue is high.
880
Jeezy: Right.
881
Jeezy: have an omelette, and I can't go nowhere.
882
Manny: Right.
883
Chuck: I can't go to the store to get the eggs and get the omelette.
884
Manny: So, no one should be shocked by this, no one should be surprised, but here we are, being shocked and surprised, and I think it is going to be interesting to see what happens over the next week.
885
Manny: Because now that you got all the oil being held up in the Strait of Femuse.
886
Manny: Gas prices are gonna shoot up. It's… I think it's at $100 or so, where you start making everything more expensive.
887
Manny: You know, the Saudis have said… Saudis have said that they're gonna start increasing output
888
Manny: But how long before that hits the market? The U.S. is talking about releasing some of the sanctions on Russia to get more… I'm just like, y'all were not prepared for this. What are we doing?
889
Chuck: Further point, to prove that they were not prepared, we did not refill our reserves.
890
Chuck: Before going to war.
891
Manny: Message.
892
Chuck: Why do you not… you have reserves, you went through the reserves for your other foolish reasons, we won't touch on that, it's a whole different subject.
893
Chuck: But you didn't even think to refill your reserves.
894
Chuck: Before going out, To attack someone else.
895
Chuck: In an oil-rich region.
896
Jeezy: Yep.
897
Manny: But, oh no, let's add some… I think this administration is dumb enough to have thought, oh, well, we just took over Venezuela, so we have access to their oil. No, we don't have the facilities to really deal with their oil and the quality that comes out.
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Chuck: Nobody wants that, Ubi.
899
Jeezy: Nope.
900
Chuck: Nobody wants that old. That's why we're still sitting there.
901
Manny: Yay.
902
Jeezy: Or just sitting on the boot, bro.
903
Chuck: But to the point of propaganda, what is not being… what is not being… divulge
904
Chuck: by the U.S. to the U.S. media, but is being talked about on social platforms.
905
Chuck: They've told us there's been 3 to 6 deaths.
906
Chuck: Reports are there… the deaths from American soldiers are close to 1,000.
907
Chuck: There have been failed operations where special ops
908
Chuck: particularly the Delta Force, may have been captured. About 173, Delta Force, agent… not agents, soldiers and some officers in a failed operation at a nuclear site may have been captured and or killed.
909
Chuck: This is coming from many different aspects. Again, hard to verify if the… Home country is not telling…
910
Chuck: accurate information. There is no way
911
Chuck: Absolutely no way. We only have 3 to 6 deaths, depending on the report, with the amount of…
912
Chuck: strikes from drones, from missiles, on U.S. bases, on other areas where Americans and American soldiers are. There's no way.
913
Chuck: Absolutely no way. And Trump is talking like, oh, we got this, guys, this is… we're up 21 in the third quarter. It's about to be over.
914
Jeezy: as a great coach from Hay Arnold said, hey.
915
Jeezy: We down, but we not up.
916
Chuck: Facts.
917
Jeezy: And I saw somebody make a very good point. I mean, from what we've told, we've seen with four faces of the soldiers that, known soldiers that, that have died already from this war.
918
Jeezy: Has the president even made mention of them?
919
Manny: Well, yeah, so alleged… I won't say allegedly, he went… I say alleged because there's some controversy about the video of that, but he… Trump left…
920
Manny: the Shield of America and came back over to attend the dignified transfer of the six soldiers' bodies in Delaware yesterday… on Saturday.
921
Jeezy: Okay.
922
Manny: So, we've gotten that much, but I think Chuck's spot on. We're clearly missing something here. We're clearly acting unilaterally.
923
Manny: And very much, to a degree, some people will say we are acting like a proxy of Israel. Because the question is, what U.S. interests are we… are we serving by doing this?
924
Chuck: None.
925
Jeezy: Bannigan, what do you want?
926
Manny: What's the plan?
927
Chuck: There is nothing.
928
Jeezy: There ain't.
929
Manny: how do we get out of this? And… so…
930
Manny: You know, this is the point in the episode where we talk about how… I talk about how I agree with Tucker Carlson here.
931
Jeezy: -Oh.
932
Manny: And he's like… apparently he went up to DC and was trying to convince the president, find an off-ramp, get us out of here. Yeah.
933
Chuck: No, before that. Before that, no. He was the sole voice
934
Chuck: Of saying no. There are reports that JD was like, I don't know, but if you're gonna do it, go big.
935
Chuck: And then all his other… puppets. Oh, yeah, let's do this. And this is where the irresponsible and…
936
Chuck: idiotic decision-making of firing
937
Chuck: the, the Joint Chiefs… Sorry about that. The Joint Chiefs, early in his administration, coming back the second time.
938
Chuck: Good Brother Brown would have definitely advised you against this, and the many other top officials that were in place
939
Chuck: To help make such sound decisions.
940
Chuck: Would have been against this, but you got them out of the way so you could do what you want to do.
941
Manny: But it was my understanding that there was still not unified appeal around.
942
Chuck: It was not unified appeal, but he did not have enough people.
943
Manny: Saying…
944
Chuck: No. The ones who were saying, no, it wasn't a resounding no, it was, yeah, I don't think we should do this, you know, this is not a good idea, you know, the ammunition is not at a…
945
Chuck: level that where we can sustain a prolonged… and this is… this is, again, where I think the operation back in June and with Venezuela
946
Chuck: kind of put rose-colored glasses over his eyes, him thinking, oh, big, bad, strong American military, we're gonna… in conjunction with Israel, we'll drop a couple bombs, they'll shoot a couple back, we'll drop a few more, and then they'll go running with their tail between their legs.
947
Chuck: No, no.
948
Manny: We went in here with the same plan that Russia had when they stepped into Ukraine.
949
Jeezy: I was just about to say that.
950
Chuck: Yes.
951
Jeezy: And I think that's the scramble that's going on behind the scenes, because there is no off-ramp.
952
Jeezy: There is no plan. The plan was for Israel… I mean, not Israel, excuse me, for Iran to, as Chuck said, run with their tail between their legs and be done. That's not happening. They are… hey, look, if we gotta go down, we're going down and we're going down swinging.
953
Manny: Yep. And when you see the targeting of…
954
Jeezy: Energy infrastructures, to me, that signals that we're gonna be in this for a little bit.
955
Manny: Oh yeah, there are
956
Manny: there are already reports that this is gonna… this is not gonna be a week's operation, that this is gonna last until the fall. And then, I think as of today, Israel was targeting oil facilities in such a way.
957
Jeezy: that the explosions are sending oil into the sky, so it's now raining. Yeah, it's raining.
958
Manny: literally raining oil around Terra.
959
Manny: I don't.
960
Chuck: No, I was in Congress.
961
Jeezy: Ain't said a word.
962
Jeezy: But I don't know. Yes, they did. Yes, they did.
963
Chuck: They rolled out the red carpet for Trump to continue and do this when they blocked that resolution, that war.
964
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
965
Chuck: When they blocked that and did… oh, here, Trump, just do what you wanna do. That's essentially what they did.
966
Manny: Yep.
967
Jeezy: Boy, there's a whole lot of folks who have some explaining to do.
968
Manny: Well, and now, at this point, you see, you know, Trump House say, oh, Iran wants to make a deal, Iran wants to make a deal, where the Iran foreign minister.
969
Chuck: Right, no we don't.
970
Manny: Yeah, he was like, there's no request for a ceasefire. We are continuing the… we are… we need to continue fighting for the sake of our people.
971
Manny: And even if there was, how do you step into that conversation with the U.S.
972
Manny: and try to negotiate a ceasefire, when the last two times you've been at the table with the U.S, they've launched missiles at you in the middle of negotiations.
973
Jeezy: Little negotiation, yup.
974
Chuck: And let's not talk about the warship that y'all sunk, coming from Sri Lanka.
975
Jeezy: That was…
976
Chuck: International.
977
Jeezy: water.
978
Chuck: Which was, forget international, it was unarmed. A part of the requirement for them to go to that summit, and all the countries that went to that summit, all your vessels had to be unarmed.
979
Manny: had just finished marching next to U.S. troops.
980
Jeezy: Wow.
981
Jeezy: Yeah, this is terrible.
982
Chuck: It's very terrible. Dramatic.
983
Chuck: Except him, get out there.
984
Jeezy: You got… you're such a big negotiator. I hope you… is this your tactic? Yep. The kicksteps get out there and want to… oh, for the first time since World War II, a torpedo has sunk a warship.
985
Chuck: Get your…
986
Jeezy: That don't make no sense.
987
Chuck: Get yourself out of here.
988
Jeezy: That don't move me.
989
Chuck: Yo.
990
Manny: Okay, except better, man, look.
991
Jeezy: As you guys have already said, we're nowhere near to the end of this conflict. I don't believe, that that's the case, and it's sad to see, and I saw so many things on social media where
992
Jeezy: Big Benny has been trying to get a U.S. president to do this for years.
993
Jeezy: And even in Trump's first administration, tried to get him to do it, and he didn't then, but I mean, he had people around him that knew that…
994
Chuck: There you are real.
995
Jeezy: Now…
996
Chuck: in the…
997
Jeezy: out of all these presidents, and think about it. You're the one that he's finally got to do this?
998
Chuck: Well, my brother.
999
Manny: -Oh, do we have one?
1000
Chuck: Let's play the game.
1001
Jeezy: I thought we were gonna go the whole episode without one.
1002
Chuck: Well, you know, we… many of us speculated and thought.
1003
Chuck: Big Benny must have something on Trump from the Epstein Files.
1004
Jeezy: -Oh.
1005
Chuck: It's possible.
1006
Chuck: Not to mention the DOJ just dropped those files.
1007
Jeezy: Accusing…
1008
Chuck: Trump of a bunch of nastiness that we…
1009
Manny: thought. We kind of believe… Yeah, yes.
1010
Chuck: Very much so.
1011
Chuck: However… There is another avenue, or another…
1012
Chuck: play here, where I believe… Good ol' Big Benny.
1013
Chuck: played into Trump's emotions, just like anyone else who gets him to do what he wants them to do. Mondani did it?
1014
Manny: Bruh.
1015
Chuck: Anybody?
1016
Jeezy: Playing him like a fiddle, bro.
1017
Chuck: A fiddle. I know what it takes, and I'm going… Geppetto!
1018
Jeezy: Yep.
1019
Chuck: So, remember… I don't know if you remember, and then there were reports that there were plans of assassination against Trump
1020
Chuck: Last year.
1021
Chuck: by Iran.
1022
Chuck: And… Israel wanted to strike last year.
1023
Chuck: And Trump pushed back and said no.
1024
Chuck: as we… and I think that's… anyway, that's… I only want to go down that path.
1025
Chuck: As we continue on… We get into June, And the strikes happen.
1026
Chuck: And it's thought to be… Big Benny was like, hey, Trump, remember they tried to kill you, man.
1027
Chuck: It was them.
1028
Jeezy: Mmm.
1029
Chuck: They tried to kill you. They tried to take you out of here. Because if you notice, I think he made mention of it,
1030
Chuck: A few days ago.
1031
Chuck: or reports where there was conversation of beefing up or making some different changes because of the potential threat, and then before, the Ayatollah was taken out, the Supreme Leader was taken out, he made a point to say, when we say death to America.
1032
Chuck: It's not to the American senators, it's to Donald Trump.
1033
Manny: Fun person.
1034
Chuck: In, in them.
1035
Chuck: And this is where… where I believe it truly…
1036
Chuck: Jump-started him and put that battery in his back.
1037
Chuck: for him to join Big Benny in Israel in bombing them. They tried to take you out, man. You gonna let them do that to you? Not Big Trump.
1038
Chuck: Not D… Big DT? Not you.
1039
Manny: Oh, I think he also probably invoked the bushes in the… remember when he came out the bush, how they had to play…
1040
Chuck: You know what's funny?
1041
Manny: Full sell on that.
1042
Chuck: You know what's funny? And then I was listening, I can't remember what I was listening to, but it brought back to my remembrance
1043
Chuck: big Benny and Trump had some falling out, because…
1044
Chuck: Big Benny was…
1045
Chuck: smooshing up with Biden when Biden was elected and saying, hey, this is the real winner, when Trump was saying it was, you know, a fraud and a farce, and he felt some kind of way.
1046
Jeezy: Had to come to Florida and kiss the ring.
1047
Chuck: Yeah, so…
1048
Manny: My bad, man, I ain't mean it like that.
1049
Chuck: You know I gotta play the game, man. I gotta do what I gotta do. You my homie? Yeah. So…
1050
Chuck: I think he pulled, he poured at those, ego strings.
1051
Chuck: that you got to pull that to get Trump to move how you want him to move.
1052
Jeezy: Man, well, him pulling those strings put all of us in a bind.
1053
Chuck: Are we the pickle?
1054
Manny: See, yeah, yeah.
1055
Jeezy: We might be.
1056
Manny: We might be. I know.
1057
Jeezy: Well, yeah, for our listeners, we'll keep you posted on the war, and remember, as we've said before, we've been covering the war that's going on right now. At the time of this recording, this is what we know, this is what we have, and by the time this episode is released.
1058
Manny: Who knows?
1059
Jeezy: Ain't no telling. Ain't no telling.
1060
Manny: To circle back on a point that you made, the terminal in Kansas City has now reopened.
1061
Jeezy: Okay.
1062
Manny: whatever happens.
1063
Jeezy: Whatever's going on, let's clear it up. Okay.
1064
Chuck: People pick your bags up and take them with you.
1065
Manny: Right.
1066
Chuck: I've seen you back now.
1067
Manny: Please do. It's not the time to leave your bag unattended.
1068
Jeezy: Well, I know somebody else that, left their bag unattended.
1069
Chuck: What a segue. What a segue.
1070
Jeezy: Oh, Christy, no.
1071
Manny: pray.
1072
Jeezy: She reportedly had left her bag, down at a restaurant in DC, well…
1073
Jeezy: No need to worry about that now, you'll be taking that bag over back to Dakota with you, because you have been fired. We have our first casualty. Major cabinet casualty. As,
1074
Jeezy: She's lost her job, man. She has been replaced and been reassigned, and… see, that's what you… that stuff to be pissing me off.
1075
Jeezy: If you didn't do good at this job, why am I gonna re-sign you at another one? Just go home.
1076
Manny: Because… because I got dirt… dirt on the person who fired me, and if I don't get reassigned to a cushy position, I'm gonna… I'm gonna let everyone know.
1077
Jeezy: They… I seen no…
1078
Chuck: I disagree. I disagree.
1079
Chuck: I don't think it's a matter of having dirt.
1080
Chuck: She is my true champion. This is my boo. I'm not just gonna… I gotta… I gotta make it look like…
1081
Manny: I'm just doing this publicly. Yeah, you…
1082
Chuck: I said this out loud to them, but you know I got you, dawg.
1083
Jeezy: Look, I know somebody was, was excited to hear that she was, getting reassigned and not coming back home.
1084
Manny: Boy…
1085
Jeezy: That's the note.
1086
Chuck: You stupid.
1087
Jeezy: They said… they said what they… I saw social media, they said when they… when her dogs at home found out that she was coming back.
1088
Manny: So they've been whining, bruh.
1089
Manny: This one. Oh, man.
1090
Jeezy: She had to, bruh. She had to get fired. She had to. Trump was calling around from what it was reported, from that congressional hearing.
1091
Jeezy: She, I mean, she tanked. You know, it looked just as bad as everyone thought it was and more.
1092
Chuck: Well, see, I… I believe it was the congressional hearing, and… go ahead, Manny, because I don't want to…
1093
Manny: Oh, no, no, no, you go ahead, you cook…
1094
Chuck: Okay, okay. So, here's the thing. She stunk it up at the congressional hearing.
1095
Jeezy: Yeah.
1096
Chuck: But she's not the only one who's ever stunk it up at the congressional hearing recently here. Oh, sure, for sure. Like, there's been a litany of them.
1097
Chuck: But what I think truly got her fired, was…
1098
Chuck: Senator Kennedy out of Louisiana.
1099
Chuck: When he did his questioning, And he is a big Trump supporter.
1100
Chuck: a huge Trump supporter, and it wasn't the suspicion of…
1101
Chuck: misappropriation of funds with this shale company who's never done any work with the government, but got a $140 million contract that had only been incorporated for 8 days.
1102
Jeezy: 8 days.
1103
Chuck: That didn't get a fire. It's not… it's not Americans, being killed and shot by ICE agents, who are under your direction and discretion. No, because you… I was preaching the message of the great President Donald J. Trump.
1104
Chuck: Wasn't that. What got Christie Noem fired, in my opinion, is when Kennedy asked her about her commercials.
1105
Chuck: That she was shot.
1106
Manny: McCoy.
1107
Chuck: Upwards of $200 million. And it wasn't even the fact that they cost over $200 million, because Trump blows money. We see that non-existent ballroom in that gaping hole on the White House.
1108
Manny: How much money have we spent in Iran in the last week?
1109
Chuck: Talk about that.
1110
Chuck: But when Kennedy asked her, Hey.
1111
Chuck: Did Donald Trump know?
1112
Chuck: You spent this amount of money?
1113
Chuck: And she kind of tried to dance around it at first, and he said no.
1114
Chuck: Did you get approval?
1115
Chuck: from President Trump to spend $200 million on campaigns that centered around you. You. Because she was the face.
1116
Chuck: She was front and center.
1117
Jeezy: Front-facing, all of it, bro.
1118
Chuck: All of it.
1119
Chuck: And she said.
1120
Chuck: Yeah, he knew. He gave me the thumbs up. And it's just paraphrasing her words, but yeah, he gave me the thumbs up on it.
1121
Jeezy: And the reports are…
1122
Chuck: That Trump was pissed off.
1123
Jeezy: Hell ever. I ain't kidding.
1124
Chuck: The hell you talk about. Don't be telling people I told you you could spend that money.
1125
Jeezy: We already got a problem with money being allocated the right way.
1126
Manny: Trump?
1127
Jeezy: Please.
1128
Manny: Trump told Reuters, and this is the quote, I never knew anything about it.
1129
Jeezy: Bruh.
1130
Manny: That's exactly…
1131
Jeezy: Well, you don't even want to hear that from your president, bruh.
1132
Chuck: Bruh. But here's the thing, here's the thing.
1133
Chuck: We've heard Trump say that before about stuff that we heard come out of Trump's mouth.
1134
Jeezy: True.
1135
Chuck: I do believe he knew about the money.
1136
Chuck: But what you can't do is throw Trump under the bus.
1137
Jeezy: Nope.
1138
Chuck: He can throw you under the bus.
1139
Chuck: And that's where it became a problem, because Kennedy even said himself, when I talked to Trump, President Trump, and asked him about it, he was hot as a firecracker, and vehemently denied knowing about that money.
1140
Chuck: In those ads.
1141
Jeezy: And I believe it, bruh, because Kennedy, he be having me rolling, bruh.
1142
Manny: But Chuck, I disagree. Okay. You know, I think this is one of those rare cases where he ain't really… he legitimately had no idea.
1143
Chuck: And you're like… Okay, he might not have known how much they cost.
1144
Manny: I think he knew an ad was being shot, and he was like.
1145
Chuck: Yes.
1146
Manny: And then when that bill came through, you're like.
1147
Chuck: Okay. I can rock with that.
1148
Manny: You were popping bottles. Ain't no one told… you said you were getting something to eat. I thought you were getting, like, a McDonald's double cheeseburger. You went out here and got two 25
1149
Manny: Filet's.
1150
Jeezy: Hey, man, I ain't 8, you mind getting me a meal? You order what?
1151
Manny: This is what…
1152
Jeezy: And it's not even only that. I mean, they raked her around, on the Kohl's about the $300-plus million she did on the private jets. Like, the lavishness upgrades of the jets and all, and she was like, oh, that's not.
1153
Chuck: Correct.
1154
Jeezy: picture. Even if it's not, if it look any… anything like this.
1155
Manny: I think… I think Trump also knew, at this point, she was starting to take too many heats, too much heat, from Republicans.
1156
Manny: And it was going to be.
1157
Chuck: Yes.
1158
Manny: and more toxic, so it was time for… he's got enough problems he's gotta worry about. She won't gonna be another one when I can easily swap him out.
1159
Jeezy: Well, they said that he called around after that congressional hearing and talked to a few of them, and was gauging, you know, the temperature in the room and how, you know, everyone felt, and I think you're exactly right. At this point.
1160
Jeezy: she has way too much. I mean, minus the, you know, the killings, the way the department was running, they were asking for more money to do what they needed to do, and you have these reports of you just blowing money.
1161
Jeezy: How much did that horse cost for that commercial? Bruh, bruh. Trump was like, man, I did a commercial on Trump watches last week, and it only cost me about $200,000.
1162
Jeezy: How many complaints.
1163
Manny: How do you spend $2.20 mil?
1164
Jeezy: How you spend $220 mil on a commercial? Like, did you buy… was this a Super Bowl?
1165
Jeezy: And then it got to a point, even with the alleged allegations with the dude, Corey, Lewandowsk.
1166
Chuck: Corey Lewandowski.
1167
Chuck: Listen, Trump… court… what was crazy about that, they're asking…
1168
Chuck: blatantly asking, did you have sex with this man? And her husband right over her shoulder.
1169
Manny: Bruh.
1170
Jeezy: If she can't say yes, she can't even say a yes or no?
1171
Chuck: No, she did not even come close to saying a definitive no.
1172
Jeezy: I would've been like, bruh.
1173
Chuck: No, I ain't had sex with this man.
1174
Manny: But also, our congressional.
1175
Jeezy: I'm not lying, though.
1176
Manny: congressional members be messy. Between that piece, and then watching, them question Hillary at the Epstein pieces…
1177
Chuck: Yeah.
1178
Manny: How did you feel when you saw…
1179
Chuck: But it was an appropriate…
1180
Jeezy: questioning… Yeah.
1181
Manny: It was.
1182
Chuck: Christy, because of all of the crap that Cory was already in.
1183
Jeezy: Yep.
1184
Chuck: and the access, he was no more than what Elon Musk was as a special federal employee. But you sitting here and, questioning,
1185
Chuck: DHS agents over here firing people, you don't have any power! Who are you?
1186
Jeezy: letting you just run amok, and you don't even have the power to do it. Plus, you've come with a litany of accusations and things that you have done. Facts. And now you found another back-end way to just have him in the department? Yeah,
1187
Manny: Dominic.
1188
Jeezy: That was a wild conversation after… that was a wild ride home after testing here.
1189
Chuck: That's why when Manny was like, oh, you know who's happy she's not coming home? I thought… well, you said that. My first one was her husband.
1190
Jeezy: Oh, no, bro.
1191
Jeezy: But the dogs as well. Shout out to the dogs, man.
1192
Jeezy: And Drake safe for all the dogs.
1193
Chuck: Do all dogs go to heaven?
1194
Jeezy: Ay.
1195
Manny: I don't know.
1196
Jeezy: Hey, me.
1197
Manny: Ugh.
1198
Manny: Hey, but at least, you know what, at least you failed up, or at least sideways, because, cause now…
1199
Manny: She's on the Shield of Americas.
1200
Jeezy: I, too, would like to be a part of the Shields of America.
1201
Chuck: I wanna be on the Board of Peace. Yeah. They got $10 billion.
1202
Manny: Oh yeah, yeah, they got money to blow.
1203
Chuck: That money the boat.
1204
Jeezy: Yeah, send me with the money at. If y'all can just spend $220 million on commercials, I don't even need all that. Like, just give me one, and I can make it shake.
1205
Jeezy: We in D.C? Oh, yeah.
1206
Manny: Oh, yeah.
1207
Jeezy: You ain't gotta worry about me. But I will say, so we… just to close this out, that Trump has selected her replacement.
1208
Jeezy: And, before I name her replacement, I just want to ask you guys a question.
1209
Jeezy: When it comes to being qualified for a position, I want to describe two people to you.
1210
Jeezy: And I would like for you guys to let me know which one is qualified and which is not.
1211
Jeezy: Person 1, behind Billboard. Wait, wait, wait, before…
1212
Manny: But who are we selecting for? Ourselves personally, or for the country?
1213
Jeezy: the country.
1214
Manny: Okay.
1215
Jeezy: For the country. To do anything for the country.
1216
Jeezy: Okay. In a, in an official federal capacity.
1217
Chuck: Would it be…
1218
Jeezy: manager hat on. Would it be the person behind door number one?
1219
Jeezy: Graduated top of their class at Harvard.
1220
Jeezy: And top of their class at Harvard Law School.
1221
Jeezy: was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, has 20 years experience as a lawyer.
1222
Jeezy: And 10 years' experience as a federal judge.
1223
Jeezy: That's person number one, behind door number one. Person number two… Okay.
1224
Jeezy: Person number 2.
1225
Jeezy: High school diploma, Two-year community college degree in construction management.
1226
Jeezy: No military or law enforcement experience.
1227
Jeezy: Was a cow-calf rancher?
1228
Jeezy: And, inherited a plumbing business, from his father.
1229
Jeezy: That's personality.
1230
Chuck: Let me get this straight.
1231
Manny: What are we hiring them for?
1232
Chuck: That's what I was about to ask, is this for Hood?
1233
Manny: The Department of Agriculture, Infrastructure.
1234
Jeezy: Let's, let's say… Option one would be to run Homeland Security.
1235
Chuck: Okay.
1236
Jeezy: Person 1 or Person 2.
1237
Chuck: if I'm doing the interviewing and looking over the resume, and I'm not using LinkedIn, because Hoffman is a creep.
1238
Chuck: Oh… I'm definitely gonna pick the credentials of person number one. They know the law.
1239
Jeezy: Manny?
1240
Manny: I'm gonna pick, person number 2, because I just think it is what the people of America deserve at this point.
1241
Jeezy: What about if it was for the Supreme Court?
1242
Manny: Oh, well, you know what? No one…
1243
Manny: Oh, yeah, it's person number one, so I… it's gotten so bad, I can't even turn that into an appropriate joke.
1244
Jeezy: Well, the reason why I asked you guys is because, person number one is Ketanji Brown Jackson.
1245
Chuck: Which, at the time when she was nominated for the Supreme Court, she was, named a DEI hire.
1246
Jeezy: Person number 2… is Mark Wayne Mullins.
1247
Jeezy: who Trump has named.
1248
Jeezy: as head, or his nominee for head of the Department of Homeland Security.
1249
Jeezy: Now, I don't understand.
1250
Jeezy: This goal post has wheels on it.
1251
Chuck: No, it doesn't.
1252
Manny: No doubt.
1253
Chuck: This goal post is just like they had in the SEC to keep them from getting torn down. It's retractable, and that joint can go down to the ground when they want it to.
1254
Jeezy: How in God's name could a person with the credentials of Ms. Jackson be considered a DEI hire, and the man that Trump has named
1255
Jeezy: I may say that he's just as less qualified as Christy Noem was.
1256
Chuck: Yeah, before you go, before you go, Manny, before you go…
1257
Chuck: It was stated at the very beginning of this podcast.
1258
Chuck: She's a black woman.
1259
Chuck: Number 2!
1260
Chuck: All three of us.
1261
Chuck: Or more qualified.
1262
Manny: This is also factually correct.
1263
Chuck: Oh, boy. Go ahead, man. I mean… I mean…
1264
Manny: I just have a couple of questions for Mark Wayne. First off, how did y'all parents come up with the name Mark Wayne? I got questions.
1265
Manny: Straight.
1266
Chuck: Because his daddy loved John Wayne.
1267
Manny: Oh, okay.
1268
Jeezy: Or his mama didn't know who his daddy was, and it could have been between Mark or Wayne. Mark or Wayne.
1269
Manny: So here's why the move doesn't make sense to me.
1270
Manny: Absent all his credentials.
1271
Manny: First off, the process of getting…
1272
Manny: 60 votes to get anyone confirmed?
1273
Manny: Is going to be interesting.
1274
Manny: If not impossible, because I just don't… See how it happens.
1275
Manny: So that's, that's problem one with doing this.
1276
Manny: Problem 2 is now, in doing this.
1277
Manny: Trump, you have now created a vacancy in the Senate where you already had fleeting numbers to get.
1278
Manny: anything done.
1279
Manny: it would have made a whole lot more sense to me if he nominated somebody who was not in Congress.
1280
Jeezy: Yeah.
1281
Manny: So, to pull from the Senate, where you have, what, a margin of, like, 1, maybe 2? Yeah. Depending on the issue?
1282
Manny: To… you now take that down by one for someone who was… Always on your side.
1283
Manny: You want to do something crazy? You nominate Rand Paul, because at least that's somebody who's not completely on your side, that you're…
1284
Manny: So, you now put that into play.
1285
Manny: And Oklahoma's still very much a red state, but with everything going on, and within 30 days, the governor has to appoint somebody who is a Republican. Now, obviously, there'll probably be forces at work to figure that piece out.
1286
Manny: But I think he has a path, a long path to get conf… confirmed, and it just further throws…
1287
Manny: you know, Congress into a standstill for the next year, in a year where we kind of need them active, if they're going to serve as some level of check or balance in this three-way balance we have between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
1288
Chuck: Allegedly.
1289
Manny: Allegedly.
1290
Chuck: Manny? Go ahead, Geez, I'm sorry.
1291
Jeezy: I was gonna say, well, just for knowledge.
1292
Jeezy: He came up, Manny, with the name, his parents came up with the name Mark Wayne, because he's named after, his uncles.
1293
Jeezy: And his mom put both of his uncles' names on his birth certificate, intending to later…
1294
Chuck: Pick one of the names.
1295
Jeezy: But she never did.
1296
Chuck: I ain't gonna put a smut on a name.
1297
Manny: All I'm saying is nothing you've just told me.
1298
Manny: dissuaded anything you said previously about why he's named Mark Wayne.
1299
Manny: That's all I know.
1300
Chuck: What I was gonna… what I was gonna say.
1301
Chuck: Is, Manny, you're a thousand percent correct in the assessment of why would you pick him.
1302
Chuck: And how it… how it hinders and hurts the objective.
1303
Chuck: But you're thinking logically.
1304
Manny: Oh, God, I gotta stop doing that, man.
1305
Chuck: You're thinking logically, because what he sees is another mouthpiece for my agenda. Yep, yep. Which is very interesting, because you're starting to sway.
1306
Chuck: on this agenda, because on Friday, look good buddy here, you were out on this podium talking about how, oh, you know, there's illegals here, but, you know, there's some good ones here that, you know, we love. We love these good illegals, they just gotta…
1307
Jeezy: our farms, and I'm linking it.
1308
Chuck: What is a luncheonette?
1309
Jeezy: Still trying to figure that out.
1310
Chuck: I don't know what a KitchenAid is. Right.
1311
Jeezy: Is that what they used to call diner? Is that what they… I have no clue. I've never heard of a luncheonette.
1312
Chuck: You know, we just want to get the criminals and the murderers, and you know, there's some people out there with the mentals… the mentals are just terrible. You can't even speak to them.
1313
Jeezy: won't.
1314
Manny: He said that, I was like, bro… What?
1315
Jeezy: You can't even speak to them.
1316
Chuck: So, you know, it is very interesting, very interesting. So, it makes sense, because Mark, Mark Wayne, for those who don't know.
1317
Chuck: Was about to get in a fight, Oh, bruh.
1318
Manny: Oh, yeah.
1319
Chuck: On the floor.
1320
Chuck: For the… with the AFL-CIO… Yes. …lead.
1321
Jeezy: in my life, bro.
1322
Chuck: If Bernie Sanders had to step in and, you know, got his Bernie was, no, you cannot do this, we, you know, we… we gotta act like we have some sense of some decorum, and… Look, Bernie, shut up.
1323
Manny: Well, first off, Mark Wayne was a wrestler, so if you…
1324
Chuck: Amy. Amy.
1325
Manny: I'm sorry, Eminem. MMA.
1326
Chuck: If you really wanted that smoke? Was he the yellow peanut in the…
1327
Manny: If you are… if you really wanted to fight him, if you were able to be physically stopped.
1328
Manny: by Bernie Sanders?
1329
Jeezy: You won't trying to do nothing.
1330
Manny: Sir, you weren't really trying to do nothing.
1331
Jeezy: Hey, but hey, shout out to Homer.
1332
Manny: He would lay out.
1333
Chuck: Oh, no.
1334
Manny: Birdie on the low might be lifted. He's like.
1335
Manny: for this.
1336
Chuck: Bernie, Bernie got…
1337
Jeezy: I live in those states.
1338
Chuck: Two steps away from… two steps from that hip being needed to be replaced. Brandon sat down somewhere, but not.
1339
Jeezy: McConnell fall.
1340
Jeezy: Slow motion.
1341
Chuck: Slow mission…
1342
Jeezy: They gotta stop.
1343
Chuck: Awesome, bro.
1344
Jeezy: They had to stop us from walking.
1345
Chuck: What… did y'all see that… that video where they were asking Mitch?
1346
Chuck: About calling the, what was it? Calling something into committee.
1347
Jeezy: Save Act, or whatever.
1348
Chuck: Yeah, the same act. Yeah. He froze up.
1349
Jeezy: Yep.
1350
Chuck: Oh, that hard reset.
1351
Chuck: Every time he hit a hard reset, the staffers were like, okay, give us a minute, y'all, hold on. Like, they gotta unplug them and plug them back in.
1352
Jeezy: Gotta take the cartridge out, blow on it like it's a Nintendo.
1353
Chuck: Like, man, why is our politics… This funny.
1354
Jeezy: And he's not even the oldest person in Congress.
1355
Chuck: No!
1356
Jeezy: Sad, bro.
1357
Chuck: Listen… I say this with the most sincere… And loving and endearing heart.
1358
Chuck: Maxine Waters go home.
1359
Manny: Go home.
1360
Chuck: The other older black man, who's the oldest person in con-.
1361
Jeezy: Clauburn, he need to go?
1362
Manny: If you were able to be in high… if you were able to be in high school or middle school.
1363
Manny: with our current president.
1364
Chuck: There was no middle school for them.
1365
Manny: It's all one building.
1366
Jeezy: That's when they call the grade school.
1367
Chuck: In grade school.
1368
Jeezy: You gotta go.
1369
Chuck: Don't.
1370
Jeezy: How do y'all call her Maxine Waters' auntie? She isn't. She's grandma. Great-grandma.
1371
Chuck: Oh, she's great-grandma. Great-great-grandma. Go home. Nancy Pelosi.
1372
Jeezy: Go home. You look like you've had…
1373
Chuck: 3 too many shots of Botox to the face.
1374
Manny: Well, she… Nancy is going home. No, she should have been home.
1375
Jeezy: Been home.
1376
Chuck: She should've been quot.
1377
Manny: Well, at least you're going now.
1378
Chuck: She should have never even came back after her husband died.
1379
Jeezy: Right.
1380
Chuck: I mean, she should have already been gone before then, but when her husband got attacked, go home and be a good wife. Tend to your man.
1381
Jeezy: Maybe he was home, he wouldn't have got hit.
1382
Jeezy: He's…
1383
Manny: Yeah, man.
1384
Manny: Now, come on, G.
1385
Chuck: No, she would have got hit as she was holding it.
1386
Jeezy: He wouldn't have got hit.
1387
Chuck: But go home, y'all, like, and this is… this is on both sides of the aisle. This is mad.
1388
Chuck: Any particular… I would…
1389
Jeezy: I would be in… I would be so for them coming up with an age and term limit for these people. Please, if retirement is 65, you need to be going home by 65.
1390
Manny: Yeah.
1391
Jeezy: You have no connection with… the current citizens of America.
1392
Chuck: Do like the… do like the other elders of… or in my church, they say the seasoned saints.
1393
Manny: Seasoned Saints.
1394
Chuck: that we do in the community. Go work at the Board of Elections. Like, if you… that's…
1395
Jeezy: You gotta go.
1396
Chuck: Please.
1397
Jeezy: Well, Mark Wayne, you got a long road ahead, man, and we'll see how it goes from here.
1398
Jeezy: Good luck.
1399
Jeezy: He should've… why he didn't make, like, Tom Homan? Like, Borders are really in a real position. Just make Tom Holman… the… the current. Like, I don't get it.
1400
Chuck: At least he… at least he comes more qualified.
1401
Jeezy: And he obviously knows what he's doing to a degree. I believe he's done it before in some capacity under the Obama administration, like, he knows what he's doing.
1402
Chuck: Yes.
1403
Jeezy: Why not make… I think that if you… you put him in… I mean, when he went to Minnesota and cleaned things up, I don't think from.
1404
Chuck: He would…
1405
Jeezy: You heard a single complaint. Exactly. Somebody knew what they're doing. He would definitely have… he would definitely have an easier path to confirmation. For sure.
1406
Chuck: Definitely.
1407
Jeezy: whatever. It's Trump, so, you know, we'll see what happens. But at this point in our episode,
1408
Jeezy: You would have thought we've already named about 3 or 4 pickles by now, but .
1409
Chuck: We got a whole jar.
1410
Jeezy: We a Mount Olive plant right now.
1411
Manny: There's 8 billion people that are absent for being pickles right now.
1412
Jeezy: Bruh, but we've reached that point of our episode where we, have reached the pickle of the week.
1413
Audio shared by Jeezy: We've got your pickle!
1414
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1415
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1416
Jeezy: Alright, I'mma keep this, short and to the point, but
1417
Jeezy: The pickle for the week goes to, Tony Gonzalez. And no, I'm not talking about the, tight end.
1418
Jeezy: former tight end, I think Hall of Fame now? Is he? Yes, Hall of Fame. Okay, I want to make sure he was in the Hall of Fame, yeah. I'm not talking about that, Tony Gonzalez. I'm talking about the congressman from Texas, Tony Gonzalez, who…
1419
Jeezy: He abruptly ended his, re-election bid after the scandal that he continued to lie about with an alleged relationship. He finally came out and admitted that he did have that.
1420
Jeezy: relationship with the young woman, who I believe, is no longer with us. She committed suicide due to, some personal things, but he had… he came out and was like, no, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, I'm not stepping down, I'm not doing this, I'm not… I'm gonna continue to go forward with re-election, which…
1421
Jeezy: In the primary, he did not win, which I believe it was heading into a runoff.
1422
Jeezy: But I'm pretty sure now.
1423
Manny: I don't know.
1424
Jeezy: Yeah, at this point, it's, it's done. Which, it was…
1425
Jeezy: alleged that the husband of the young lady who committed suicide was shocked to hear him finally admit that this actually was going on. Which, that might actually got to suck that, you know, your wife's not here, and now you hear that your wife was having this affair with someone who…
1426
Jeezy: she was working for, which this is totally against, ethics in Congress to begin with, which I'm sure he's not the only one.
1427
Jeezy: But… Brother, you in a pickle. You in a pickle.
1428
Manny: Good luck.
1429
Chuck: And you know, I would feed him some knuckle sandwiches to go along with that pickle if I was that one husband.
1430
Jeezy: Oh, you got… hey, I'm about to give you a knife fish sandwich.
1431
Chuck: Mr. Chris.
1432
Jeezy: this.
1433
Chuck: Feast.
1434
Jeezy: With a couple of pickles right on top, so…
1435
Chuck: Your first.
1436
Jeezy: Tony, you're in a bind, brother, you're in a pickle. He's apologized to his wife and his family.
1437
Jeezy: Which they all do, and yeah.
1438
Jeezy: Good luck, man, with the remaining time that you have in Congress. Hopefully you can get something done positive, and…
1439
Jeezy: Keep your hands off people you ain't supposed to be touching.
1440
Manny: It's like that.
1441
Chuck: And that representative who was saying that he should not resign because they need his vote.
1442
Chuck: I want you to get punched in the throat, too.
1443
Jeezy: Oh, who do they got? Mike Johnson to that list as well.
1444
Chuck: Yeah, Mike Johnson, too. Yeah, but he was a nut.
1445
Jeezy: You're a little nasty bastard, too, because you love to talk about all that.
1446
Manny: We gotta do the right thing, and…
1447
Jeezy: Christ always leads us to do what's right for the people. You know that this man was doing this. You know the right thing for him to do was to step down. And the reason why you weren't for that is because of the slim majority that you have.
1448
Jeezy: I ain't have much respect for you to begin with, but definitely don't have nothing for you now.
1449
Jeezy: So…
1450
Jeezy: With that being said, we've reached the conclusion of our episode, and this is the time where we give you our spotlights of the week. So, my brothers, what spotlight do you have? I'll go with Manny first. Who you guys in the spotlight this week, brother?
1451
Manny: So I wanted to circle back, because we didn't have time to touch it, pause, at the beginning segment, and… I wish… I wish we had the video out for this, so everybody could see my face. But,
1452
Manny: someone else who could also be considered in a pickle is Phil Berger, the, Senate leader… Senate…
1453
Manny: pro temp in North Carolina. He had a very, very tough primary.
1454
Manny: And… it ended the night with him being down by 2 votes.
1455
Jeezy: Wild, bro.
1456
Manny: And…
1457
Chuck: Listen, people, listen, people, listen. And I'm sorry to cut you off, Manny, but I think this is a very important point to make.
1458
Jeezy: Your vote counts. Right.
1459
Jeezy: Prime example.
1460
Jeezy: Crime exam.
1461
Chuck: Get off your butt and go vote. Okay, there you go.
1462
Manny: So, 2 votes. Now they've counted the provisional ballots, and now Phil Berger is down 23 votes.
1463
Manny: So, they are now heading into a recount. And this will be interesting to play out, because there were lots of conversations last time
1464
Manny: around Jefferson Griffin and the Supreme Court, and what votes were going to count, and which ones weren't going to count, and the precedent that that race has set is now going to be put to the test here on what votes count and what votes don't count.
1465
Manny: This'll be interesting, not… not only just because of this race and who's in this race, but what implications it will set for the larger Senate race coming in November with Watley and Cooper. What makes this the most interesting is the reason
1466
Manny: And a lot of it pretty much comes down to, in 2023, there was legislations put up for four North Carolina concedos, including one in Rockingham County.
1467
Manny: Paige has a post, opposed the casino.
1468
Manny: And it was that local issue.
1469
Manny: that really got everything riled up, so if Phil Berger loses.
1470
Manny: the North Carolina Republican Party will be choosing a new leader.
1471
Manny: And they haven't done so pretty much since 2011, when he, when he took over the role. So, it's…
1472
Manny: It's gonna be a tough one, but interesting to watch over the next couple weeks. I will be… it'll be interesting to see when this race is officially decided. But that is my Spotlight of the week.
1473
Jeezy: Okay. My brother Chuck, what you got?
1474
Chuck: Yes, sir. So, my spotlight is a little less,
1475
Chuck: tough, I didn't say tough, but, draining on our emotions and our mentals. I want to talk about the World Baseball Classic. For those who don't know, the World Baseball Classic is a competition where countries around the world come together for a couple of weeks to
1476
Chuck: crowned the true world champion of baseball. And it is going on right now. Very fun time.
1477
Chuck: Although…
1478
Chuck: this is… can be easily disputed. Baseball is still said to be America's pastime, although that is.
1479
Manny: Up for debate?
1480
Chuck: No, it's not debate. Them number… them TV numbers and those, rights deals definitely show it's not baseball. But it is my first love. But what I want to talk about is some of the biggest MLB stars are not participating in the World Baseball Classic this year.
1481
Jeezy: And that is due to…
1482
Chuck: an insurance issue That has come up where the sole insurance company
1483
Chuck: is restricting some guys from playing and not insuring them or covering them with insurance to play in the, Classic. So a couple of years ago, Edwin Diaz and Jose Altuve, were injured during the tournament.
1484
Chuck: And because they were injured during a tournament, the insurance company had to pay their clubs to compensate for their salaries
1485
Chuck: In this, for being injured in this tournament.
1486
Chuck: Will… Jose Altuve and Edwin Diaz had big contracts.
1487
Manny: Yep.
1488
Chuck: And because of them having big contracts and such large payouts.
1489
Chuck: Insurance companies are like, hey, if your contract is at a certain level, we're not insuring you.
1490
Chuck: And you're not gonna be able to play. For you to be able to play, you have to have insurance. So,
1491
Chuck: just the other night, the Brazilian team was going up against Team USA.
1492
Chuck: And on this Brazilian team, there was a 17-year-old high schooler who was pitching
1493
Chuck: against Aaron Judge. And if you don't know who Aaron Judge is, Aaron Judge is one of the perennial players in Major League Baseball, two-time MVP.
1494
Chuck: 6'7", gargantuan man who makes a 35-inch bat look like a toothpick in his hand. Just… he's…
1495
Chuck: He's a Goliath. Big guy. Yeah. And so,
1496
Chuck: You… you would not normally see
1497
Chuck: a 17-year-old high schooler going against a… I wanna say, Aaron Judge has been in the league at least 10 years.
1498
Chuck: 60-plus home runs, like a monster of a player.
1499
Chuck: Interestingly enough, the young man did end up forcing, Aaron Judge to Ground into a double play.
1500
Chuck: But I wanted to bring attention to this because as we have discussed about the war in Iran, part of the reason the Strait of Hormuz
1501
Chuck: Is in such contention, because many of the insurance companies have pulled their coverage on these ships and liners, so if they ain't got insurance, guess what?
1502
Chuck: They're not selling, because if they get sunk and go down.
1503
Chuck: That's the company. The company… Somebody gotta write that check. Somebody gonna write that check. So, it was just very interesting that this issue was going on, and then Bryce Harper came out and made a point of wanting to get baseball back in the Olympics.
1504
Chuck: Where it is… it was for a short period of time, and then gone away. He was like, World Baseball Classic is cool, but everybody knows the Olympics is where it's really at.
1505
Chuck: It's… I like the World Baseball Classic, it's fun.
1506
Chuck: It's very exciting, and I… I know for sure they're gonna get this insurance issue fixed. First and foremost, you can't just have one company.
1507
Manny: Yeah.
1508
Chuck: Monopolies are not… Conducive to a very competitive balance, so… That's my swallow.
1509
Jeezy: Alright. Well, my spotlight is something that,
1510
Jeezy: I've spoken about on multiple occasions here on the pod, and I think it's safe to say that I am the resident moon landing skeptic here at Pardon of Politics.
1511
Jeezy: But my spotlight is centered around
1512
Jeezy: The moon landing. It was reported…
1513
Jeezy: that NASA has, pushed out.
1514
Jeezy: their moon mission, Artemis. The Artemis program, it was supposed to…
1515
Jeezy: be going until 2026, 2028. But they've hit some snags where.
1516
Jeezy: The spacecraft heat shield is having issues. The SpaceX Moon Lander development is having issues. They're now trying to develop
1517
Jeezy: New spacesuits.
1518
Jeezy: So it's pushed back, so I believe the first front was that they were going to, go on the backside of the moon, or circle on the backside of the moon that they have not, previously done, and then the next were to actually land…
1519
Jeezy: crew on the moon, well, that landing is not gonna happen. They're going to, go with trying to actually get a rover on the moon, and then, the landing.
1520
Jeezy: So yeah, as somebody, again, your resident moon landing skeptic.
1521
Jeezy: I, I, I don't understand how, in the 60s.
1522
Jeezy: We went, with a dash made out of, calculator keys.
1523
Jeezy: a landline phone, duct tape, and a few men. We sent it up to the moon successfully.
1524
Jeezy: Got it back down safely, and 40-something plus years later.
1525
Jeezy: you know, we… we just seem to struggle and can't do it with the technology that we have. So, they have pushed this out again. There seems to have been a race at the time with trying to get this done, before another country, but…
1526
Jeezy: It's just not happening. So,
1527
Jeezy: Yeah, we'll see what updates we have. I believe that,
1528
Jeezy: the… I can't remember when the… is it later on this year? I think that, September, they're supposed to do the trip around, or whatever? Yep. They're trying to get that done, but I'm pretty sure that there'll be some delays in that as well, too, so…
1529
Jeezy: As a skeptic here, I'm not surprised, and we'll… and I'll keep my eye on it to let you guys know.
1530
Chuck: I have the solution to your problem, brother.
1531
Jeezy: Okay.
1532
Chuck: We've said it before, and I think it's a continuing theme.
1533
Chuck: I doubt they have any black women.
1534
Chuck: Helping, like they did the first time when they went to school.
1535
Manny: Those hidden figures.
1536
Chuck: Those hidden figures.
1537
Jeezy: You, you need some hidden figures!
1538
Chuck: And I just want to give a shout out, because it is Women's History Month, that's what I'
1539
Chuck: Part of the reason… listen, double entendre don't even ask.
1540
Manny: Yeah.
1541
Chuck: That's part of the reason I kept emphasizing that point. But I have one other question.
1542
Chuck: You said the other side of the moon. As a Transformer fan… Dang.
1543
Manny: Bruh.
1544
Chuck: Dark side of the moon.
1545
Jeezy: Dark side.
1546
Chuck: And I wondered if they got approval from Optimus to go out there.
1547
Manny: did not. That's why they're struggling.
1548
Jeezy: or Optimus, or whatever's on that other side, that dark side, got signaled what we were trying to do, and sent that signal back and said.
1549
Chuck: Shit, don't do it.
1550
Jeezy: Don't do it. Please don't do it. So yeah, that's my spotlight of the week. If y'all want to… y'all seem to be struggling to get to the moon.
1551
Jeezy: Just go down in the ocean.
1552
Manny: Bruh.
1553
Chuck: And that's the problem, is they don't want.
1554
Manny: That's… yeah. We've put more people in space than have been down to the.
1555
Jeezy: I do.
1556
Jeezy: Allegedly.
1557
Manny: Ugh, there we go, here we go.
1558
Chuck: Listen, I've watched the Discovery Channel, and I used to watch TLC when it was The Learning Channel and not the Foolishness channel. Yep.
1559
Chuck: Stay out there, Ocean.
1560
Jeezy: A little…
1561
Chuck: alone.
1562
Manny: Just clean my shrimp, give me some mussels, and some…
1563
Chuck: Some scallops. Leave the ocean alone.
1564
Jeezy: I'm not worried about going to space or going as deep as we possibly can in the ocean.
1565
Jeezy: Let's just explore what we can do right, right here.
1566
Manny: Like healthcare? Caring cancer?
1567
Jeezy: Education.
1568
Manny: Let's kidding.
1569
Jeezy: Medical advances.
1570
Manny: I don't know.
1571
Chuck: Reduce prescription drug costs?
1572
Jeezy: Make whatever you gave Magic Johnson accessible to all the other people.
1573
Manny: Stop.
1574
Chuck: Your cancer, for sure.
1575
Chuck: Well, they… Never mind. Never mind. I was about to say another episode.
1576
Manny: Another day, man.
1577
Jeezy: I was trying to throw the alley.
1578
Chuck: Listen, I saw it, and I…
1579
Jeezy: It doesn't.
1580
Chuck: the road in the NA.
1581
Jeezy: Yay!
1582
Jeezy: But to our listeners.
1583
Jeezy: We appreciate you listening in to this episode. We know it was a bit longer than normal, but, hey, you know, when you got this much chaos, it takes a while to get through it, so… So, to our listeners, we hope this episode finds you in great spirit. We thank you for tuning in, brothers, all hearts and minds clear, we good?
1584
Manny: All clear.
1585
Jeezy: Alright.
1586
Chuck: I'll stand.
1587
Jeezy: Well, listeners, we'll see you at the next episode, and we thank you for tuning in, so take care.
1588
Chuck: I love!