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No Power Steering: Iran, Markwayne, and the Highway Nobody Knows How to Exit

March 23, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 12

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Episode 75. Manny's back. The boys are back. And the world was not waiting. Mullin's confirmation hearing gave Rand Paul the confrontation he'd been holding for years. The Iran war hit a new threshold — nuclear facilities, a 48-hour ultimatum, and an alliance showing cracks in public. The SAVE Act is on the Senate floor and Manny has one question for Trump: how does it guarantee the midterms, exactly? Plus the Supreme Court took TPS unanimously, Paramount-Warner is the media story nobody's talking about, and the Pickle of the Week goes to Maine.

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Jeezy: Hello, world. Welcome to Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 3, Episode 12. We got Manny here. Manny, what's going on, brother?

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Manny: A, we back. We're back.

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Jeezy: We got Chuck here.

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Chuck: Repealing.

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Chuck: Yes,

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Jeezy: The boys are back, the boys are back, and before we begin, we gotta give a shout-out to ourselves. This is the 75th episode.

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Manny: A party.

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Chuck: Hand claps, hand claps, hand claps, cheers.

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Jeezy: As a good old gospel song said, millions didn't make it, but we were the one that did.

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Chuck: One of the ones who did…

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Jeezy: Shout out to you, brothers, I hope this, hope you're doing well on this, on this fine, fine day of recording.

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Jeezy: To our listeners, welcome to another episode, how we feeling? Everybody good? Everybody good?

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Manny: I mean… -

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Chuck: Go ahead, man, you, you…

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Manny: Look, man… This guy's getting on my nerves, man.

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Chuck: that.

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Manny: real bad.

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Chuck: You're killing them with vibes already, man. God.

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Manny: Look, there were two options. There was two options that I was gonna take. Either I was gonna talk about gas prices, or I was gonna talk about how, Mark Robinson got on that podcast during the middle of March Madness, and talking about how he's a fan.

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Manny: I pray he gets the help he needs, but don't no one care, Mark. Don't no one care.

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Chuck: I don't. Especially not in North Carolina.

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Manny: Bruh, like…

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Manny: Okay, okay, you, you watch porn. Bruh, the issue wasn't the porn… I won't say it, it's North Carolina.

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Manny: That was part of the issue. But the other part was the crazy Nazi stuff.

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Manny: On top of your crazy platform!

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Manny: And on top of it, you don't really know what you're doing, you're just loud. But anyways…

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Chuck: Favorite part of that, though?

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Chuck: My favorite part of that was, I was trying to protect people, and amongst them, Donald Trump.

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Manny: Bruhr.

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Manny: Where was the… where was the protection for your… never mind.

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Chuck: Nope, nope.

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Manny: No, nope, nope, we're not going there.

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Jeezy: Trump left you out there high and dry. You talking about I was trying to protect the president. I don't want you to admit anything about what we already knew. How about you settle them allegations about you and your sister-in-law?

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Manny: I wasn't…

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Jeezy: I won't…

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Manny: Hey, we gonna go there, go there.

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Jeezy: No!

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Manny: I was gonna let it ride.

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Jeezy: He ain't say nothing about that, and it would have been nice to see him maybe have the support of his wife, but hey.

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Jeezy: Mark, whatever you're struggling with, Hey, bro.

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Manny: I hope you find… I hope that you find the Lord in your struggle, because He is a… He is a listening ear to all who believe in Him.

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Chuck: Let me bring the vibes back up. Let me get the vibes back up, because many would…

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Chuck: Manny was that dude, you go in the party, and you fresh, and you looking good, you know you about to have a good time, and Manny come by and step on your foot.

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Jeezy: Bruh, scuff the mess out your phone.

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Chuck: You have to mess out your forces, you can just throw your whole vibe off. Like, man, Jesus was like, hey, bruh, 75, how y'all?

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Chuck: Man, these gas prices… we all know the gas prices is trash, brother!

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Jeezy: Yeah, look, look…

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Chuck: Let's at least start jovial.

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Jeezy: grandparent that you already knew when you go in the house, they're gonna start complaining, so you're like, brother.

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Jeezy: Oh, no.

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Chuck: Oh, yeah.

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Jeezy: That's the last stop of the day.

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Jeezy: You already knew.

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Chuck: We ain't be here alone. We ain't gonna be here.

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Jeezy: The whole van, mate.

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Jeezy: Well, speaking of vibes, we had an interesting, hearing that took place, this week that had some, very interesting vibes that,

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Jeezy: Took place, and that was, good old Mark Wayne Mullen. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, who is Trump's, Department of Homeland Security pick for, the head of the department, and… man.

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Jeezy: it was, it was quite interesting. So, to start this topic off, I'm gonna ask you, Manny, what stood out to you most from, this hearing that we had with, with, good old Mark?

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Manny: That… that Brother Ran said it's up and it's stuck.

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Jeezy: Ayy.

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Manny: And we…

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Chuck: There ain't no more play.

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Manny: Ain't no lady here in.

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Jeezy: Dang.

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Jeezy: Right. Brother Brian.

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Manny: Me.

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Manny: Immediately.

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Manny: They barely got through opening pleasantries, and he's like, so, you had a lot of shit to say.

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Jeezy: About me.

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Manny: And I just want to hear if you're willing to run this back.

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Jeezy: That's how you do it.

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Manny: And he didn't. And he did. Oh, no. And it was…

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Manny: It was entertaining to watch, and I think the part that got me with that opening with it, and we'll get to everything else that was taught there, but that opening…

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Manny: he said, I'mma get on this mic, and I'mma drop a hot 32. Bruh. Facts. And you're gonna sit here and listen, and then I want

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Manny: respond, because I got another 16 for whatever you guys.

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Chuck: I'm just like… He gonna freestyle the rebuttal, you know?

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Chuck: Oh, man.

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Manny: And he kept going to other questions, and he's like, yeah, but you remember how you said…

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Manny: He did not let it go, he…

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Jeezy: He was hot about… he was hot about that, brother. That was something he had been waiting.

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Chuck: Waiting, waiting, and this was the perfect opportunity for me to address it.

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Chuck: address you. Oh, you said that? Say it now. Here we are, say it now.

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Manny: I ain't hear no apology. Oh, no.

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Manny: And you know what? To his credit, Mark Wayne kinda stood 10 toes down. He's like… Oh, yeah.

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Chuck: I'm like, man.

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Manny: Like…

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Jeezy: The same face, kind of.

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Manny: Yeah, I think he was like.

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Chuck: Yes.

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Manny: I'm not trying to walk back what I said, but I do realize there's a game here that I have to play to try to get enough votes, because quite frankly, I didn't know if he was gonna get the votes.

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Jeezy: Well, I think that the main thing that Rand was trying to do starting out was to dangle the angry carrot in front of his face, and expose him, because he's been known to be a hothead. And I think he knew that that was gonna be a play coming in, because I forgot the guy's name, that he basically challenged to, like…

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Manny: From the Teamsters?

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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, like, he had him sitting, like, directly over his right shoulder, and wanted to talk about how they talked about that, and, you know, settle their differences, and they're friends, and they speak all the time. He knew that this was going to be probably an area they were going to try to hit him at, but I don't think that he was nearly as successful as he thought he was gonna be, because…

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Jeezy: Homeboy is a hothead, man.

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Jeezy: And do you really want somebody like that heading this department that is already in a hot seat?

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Manny: And getting the constant accusations of having a whole bunch of hotheads.

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Jeezy: Yes.

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Chuck: And so, I agree a thousand percent, and to me, this was the most outstanding point of this whole confirmation hearing.

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Chuck: was that it was about his temperament. Yep. It was about his personality. Now, we all know and can run his resume. He's not qualified for this position.

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Manny: This administration.

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Jeezy: Nobody's qualified.

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Chuck: Except…

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Manny: It may be Marco. Except maybe Marco.

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Chuck: Yeah, meh, meh.

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Chuck: Just because you got work history don't mean it's the right work history.

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Manny: Bruh, I was… Oh, hold, bruh, bruh.

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Jeezy: joke.

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Audio shared by Jeezy: C…

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Manny: A bar.

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Jeezy: That was true. Very true, brother.

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Chuck: So, so in that, but… Y-yeah, this was a matter of…

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Chuck: are… not… not so much are you the man, or the right man for this, but can you keep your head? And… and we know…

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Chuck: You're putting on a show.

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Chuck: There's enough going on with the Department of Homeland Security to where they are seen as a rogue entity in how they're acting, particularly in ICE, but just overall, and now that you have someone

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Chuck: Because the messaging is not changing.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Chuck: Regardless of who… Trump put him up for nomination because he knew he would carry the continued message that they want pushing forward. It's just a matter now of, can he keep himself together and not lash out and burn the house down?

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Jeezy: Whoa.

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Jeezy: I think… Walking out of it.

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Jeezy: Certainly when you look at the votes.

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Jeezy: Democrats definitely didn't believe that he's able to.

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Jeezy: And I think that he hasn't proven himself to be able to. He talked a lot about, you know, I'll fix the DHS. You know, that was a lot of the energy he brought, that he'll fix it. Promising all this major reform and, taking shots at how the agency had been running.

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Jeezy: And kind of framing himself as an outsider who'll… who'll come and clean… clean house.

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Jeezy: when you hear that tone and that approach that he had with the energy of fixing DHS,

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Jeezy: Do we actually believe that? Or is that just more of confirmation hearing talk that we've seen previously?

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Chuck: This is that… this is that situation.

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Chuck: Where you know the person who goes in for the job interview, and they've done all the googling.

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Chuck: Watch all the YouTube videos. I hate those people.

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Manny: studied up.

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Chuck: I studied up and want to give the proper answer according to the study guide and the tutorials that have come about, instead of true, authentic

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Chuck: responses.

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Chuck: One, in having the proper knowledge and understanding, and two, which is the most important point here, having the proper temperament to be able to interact and engage in this space.

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Chuck: Nobody's buying the Girl Scout cookies that he's selling. Nobody.

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Manny: Especially when they…

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Jeezy: $6 a box.

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Manny: And to that point, Chuck.

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Manny: DHS is very much an organization, like we've all said, needs reformation, and you need to be of certain type of personality to be able to lead that reformation.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: Like, could I see Mullen as a person that people could rally around? I could.

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Manny: But could I…

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Chuck: For the wrong reasons.

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Manny: Right, like, is it the direction we actually want to go?

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Chuck: Yes.

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Manny: I struggle to see that.

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Manny: I struggle to see that.

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Chuck: I don't see it, because this is the same person that blamed innocent civilians who were killed by federal agents. It was their fault that they got killed.

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Chuck: Right. There was no… there was no call for investigation, there was no call for…

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Chuck: Are we following the proper procedures and techniques? You're blaming these folks.

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Chuck: Yeah. For… for professionals, not… acting professional.

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Manny: Yep.

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Jeezy: Well, I think that's a good point that you bring up, Chuck, because they definitely questioned him a lot.

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Jeezy: In regards to enforcement versus humanitarian balance. And when you look at…

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Jeezy: You know, the temperament that he has, or the lack thereof the temperament, to run this department, and the scrutiny that this department has had, previously in the months prior, with what has happened.

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Jeezy: how can you look at a person like Mark Waymo and say that he's able to do the enforcement side of what DHS needs, but also the humanitarian balance that we've seen lacking? I mean, they asked him about,

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Jeezy: I forgot, maybe it was Alice Pretti? I can't remember, but they were talking about how he was deemed, like, a domestic terrorist. And they were like, you know, are you gonna apologize to his family? Like, the way the tone? And he, I mean.

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Jeezy: It's not even what he said, and this is something I've always learned growing up and was taught in my upbringing. It's not necessarily about what's said.

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Jeezy: It's how it's said.

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Jeezy: And almost when they asked him that, it was almost this, like…

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Jeezy: darkness, like, well, I'll just wait until the investigation to see if… but if I'm wrong, I'll apologize then.

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Jeezy: Like…

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Chuck: Yeah. And to that point, he's also one that wants to keep the hardline rhetoric of immigration.

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Chuck: We're not changing the show. We might put somebody different.

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Chuck: Okay, perfect, perfect, perfect example. The Temptations.

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Chuck: Get a temptation.

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Chuck: They had different group members.

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Chuck: But they were still a temptation.

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Jeezy: Still Temptations.

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Jeezy: You're right.

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Chuck: That's what it is. You're still singing the same song, you just got a different band member now.

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Manny: I think we're focused a lot on the ice component of it, and it is a very large portion.

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Manny: But this man is also over the Coast Guard.

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Manny: He's over TSA?

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Manny: He's over FEMA?

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Manny: Like, do you.

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Chuck: FEMA is the stepchild of DHS anyway.

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Manny: Brookly.

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Chuck: Unfortunately.

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Jeezy: It shouldn't even be that way, but you're right.

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Jeezy: People in North Carolina still ain't got their money.

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Chuck: Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, poor people.

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Manny: It's… in a.

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Chuck: Hawaii…

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Manny: Are you… are you knowledgeable enough? Will you put the right people in the correct places? We are less than 10 weeks away from hurricane season.

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Manny: is FEMA.

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Manny: In any type of position to be ready to deal with this.

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Jeezy: No and no are your choices.

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Chuck: Oh, yeah, I got a third one for you.

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Chuck: Absolutely not.

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Manny: So it's like, we're not just asking him to take over ICE, you also had to head up these other organizations, cyber and infrastructure security.

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Manny: It'll be interesting. There's… with so much going around, because remember, Department of Homeland Security currently has no money.

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Manny: Well, ICE is only still being able to function right now because of the big, beautiful build gave them a little slush fund that they can play around with.

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Jeezy: Well, I was gonna say, to that point, you know.

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Jeezy: Are you putting someone in place?

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Jeezy: that Congress trusts to be able to do the right things with whatever funds

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Jeezy: to go in there and say, okay, look, we'll pass this amount of money, this bill, to fund DHS, and it will be functioning and running appropriately. I don't think he is.

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Chuck: Yeah, and… That's exactly what I was gonna say. They… Manny, you make… Accurate, beautiful points.

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Chuck: But if we had someone competent.

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Chuck: They would be worthwhile points to question.

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Chuck: They already…

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Chuck: They already… I think they already know he does not have the capacity to fully function, and he'll be relying on the subordinates.

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Chuck: But what… what… Homeland Security has come to, although we know there's other entities up under this umbrella.

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Chuck: Though even… we can go back to…

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Manny: Post-9-11.

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Chuck: Yes. So, in that, I can't remember who said it earlier,

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Chuck: we don't know who has the credentials. It's not many in this administration who have the credentials and the wherewithal to run this.

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Chuck: But… they don't trust him.

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Chuck: They don't trust him to be able to do all the right things and get the right things in order, but here's the number one problem, and they're not speaking it, nobody's saying it.

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Chuck: Who's his boss?

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Manny: Hmm…

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Chuck: Regardless if they had the right person in there, Or someone that they felt.

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Chuck: Who's calling the shots?

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Manny: The question that I feel like he needs to be asked… And I already know, again.

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Chuck: That's… that's a big one.

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Chuck: That's a big.

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Jeezy: Surprisingly, I don't think anybody asked them, right?

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Manny: Not… not that I recall.

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Jeezy: I don't recall seeing anybody ask, but you're 100% right.

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Jeezy: One thing that we've seen different from this administration

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Jeezy: Is there were people that we knew would say no.

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Jeezy: They were there to do their job.

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Jeezy: In the legal capacity that they were confirmed to do.

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Jeezy: We don't have that in this turn.

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Chuck: Nope.

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Jeezy: So, when you… when they asked him questions like, ICE agents going to polling sites, you know.

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Jeezy: Which is, to me, is intimidation. I don't care what you call it. Absolutely.

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Chuck: Facts. Facts.

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Jeezy: He couldn't give a clear answer, and all he said was, well, sir, if ICE… if there's a purpose for ICE to be there, then they'll be there.

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Jeezy: But if that purpose… what if the purpose is to intimidate?

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Jeezy: On the purpose they're supposed to be there.

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Manny: What if the purpose is against the law?

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Chuck: Bingo.

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Jeezy: Bingo!

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Chuck: We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

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Jeezy: But we've seen, and we'll bring it up later in the episode, but, man, you've already alluded to it, I believe, Trump is using ICE almost as his personal police, like…

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Manny: militia.

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Jeezy: Yeah, to do his bidding, and we're yet again about to confirm and put a person in that position, that's just gonna be even more hardcore of a Trump head than Kristi Noem was.

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Chuck: And you know what was very interesting about… the fact that his name is Mark Wayne.

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Chuck: And folks have the audacity to question the names of Black kids, and…

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Jeezy: Is this the equivalent.

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Chuck: It's…

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Manny: You took two…

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Chuck: I'm like.

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Manny: Two first names, and said, we don't want to give them a middle name.

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Jeezy: It's the equivalent of La Dasha.

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Chuck: It's definitely equivalent to LaDasha.

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Chuck: Definitely the equivalent. But… What was very…

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Chuck: telling, although not spoken, is his interaction and relationship with other senators.

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Chuck: Yes, we had… we had the clash with Rand Paul, but he's, he's not well-liked in that circle, and it's not even about,

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Chuck: You know, being the popular kid and everybody being your friend, but people feel like you are very…

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Chuck: brass, and disrespectful.

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Jeezy: Well, I don't think it's a matter of his likeness that stands out nearly as much of the fact that he's just not respected by his colleagues.

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Jeezy: And, I mean, you're not gonna be liked in some capacity, but there's a lack of respect for him.

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Jeezy: As a senator.

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Jeezy: And I miss, and I know we talk about it again all the time, about make politics, American politics, born again.

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Jeezy: But… There used to be a time

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Jeezy: There's a lack of that, because regardless of if you disagree with maybe some of his

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Jeezy: you know, his approaches or his thoughts, there was still at least a center respect of, I can respect you, Senator, because I know what you're trying to do for your people. He doesn't have that.

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Manny: Well, if we look at this entire administration.

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Manny: Usually, when you would see presidents go ahead and nominate people for his secret… his cabinet.

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Manny: like, they're getting through 90, 80, high 80s, 90… like, they're smooth… they're getting smoothed through. To date, the only person who had, like, a real smooth path in has been Marco.

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Jeezy: Yeah, about San Marco, yeah.

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Manny: everyone has struggled and had to campaign, and has needed Trump to come in and say, hey, this is my guy, give me my guy.

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Manny: And… this… this is… Interesting.

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Jeezy: Well, it goes to that… it goes to that respect factor, right? Because I think what helped Marco is because…

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Jeezy: he… regardless if you agree with him, they respected Marco, right? He was respected.

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Manny: And they felt as though he was competent enough to do the…

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Jeezy: to do the job.

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Chuck: Yes.

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Manny: To do the original job that he was assigned.

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Chuck: Remember, the original.

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Jeezy: 9, 10 other jobs that he's taken along the way. Expanded his work.

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Manny: work description.

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Chuck: Look, that's the loophole. Let's get him in for the job that we believe he's competent in, and then you just start assigning him another task. Right.

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Jeezy: Marco, that resume, that might be 15 pages long.

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Chuck: Boy.

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Manny: Now, I think the one thing that'll be interesting, there's been this whole thing with Mullen and this, like, classified trip under oath, and… Yeah.

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Chuck: Yo.

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Jeezy: Bro, what is that?

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Manny: The fact that he came out and said it was classified, and then, Senator Lankford came out and said.

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Manny: Not really. You know, it wasn't classified. There was an NDA, but it wasn't classified.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: And, like, if you as a senator.

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Manny: Is use a person who will now… who will have clearance.

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Manny: don't understand the meanings of words, and having a NDA versus something being classified.

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Chuck: Message…

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Manny: Farly different things.

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Jeezy: Very different.

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Manny: And if you're struggling with that, what else are you going to struggle with through this? When the Coast Guard brings you something that is classified, how are you going to handle it?

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Chuck: Well, we've…

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Manny: brings you something.

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Chuck: Well, Mahan.

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Manny: the lid.

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Chuck: My brother Manny.

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Manny: I know, I know.

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Chuck: We have… how many… Instances of classified information being leaked through group messages or discussed in open public.

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Manny: I'm like.

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Chuck: At restaurants.

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Manny: Oh, see, I wasn't even going that route. I was gonna go, how many classified secrets are we getting via Truth Social post?

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Chuck: Or true social posts. The list goes on and on. So, you know, NDA classified, nobody's supposed to know. At least he's holding it in.

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Chuck: Right. That's true, that's true.

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Manny: Now, they're saying the trip was legitimately authorized.

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Manny: But authorization, and again, classification are two different things.

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Jeezy: I guess the thing I'm getting confused on about this trip… is…

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Jeezy: What capacity would he have been operating in in the first place?

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Chuck: In the first place.

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Manny: My understanding, it had to do with some type of whistleblower thing, that's what's being rumored. I… I don't… I don't know.

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Manny: I mean…

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Jeezy: Congress Stephen Seagal to go over there to…

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Manny: style.

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Jeezy: The figure he's… you know, Steven Seagal be everywhere.

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Chuck: Yes, we used to go!

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Jeezy: He be everywhere. Kamar Wayne doesn't talk about he doesn't smell war and all this stuff, like, the only person I know that has done that just on a regular basis is Steven Seagal.

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Manny: So…

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Jeezy: What classified trip was he taking with a helicopter rescue from the King of Jordan or something? And bruh, like, what?

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Chuck: Then he was like, yeah, we can talk about it, but I need to talk about it in private.

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Jeezy: Bro, what?

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Manny: Right.

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Chuck: What CIA operative are you?

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Jeezy: Bruh, that's what he kept talking about, like…

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Manny: Hey, come over here, I'll tell you. Because again, if you understood the difference between classified and not.

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Chuck: In India.

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Manny: But you would know that, hey, come over here, and I'll tell you, is probably in violation.

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Chuck: of the…

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Manny: Damn sure at least one.

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Manny: Probably both.

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Chuck: Probably both.

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Jeezy: And they kept pressing him about it. It was funny, because they were like… he was like, you sent me a letter, and it said that I could… I didn't have to talk about anything that was classified. And they were like, okay, okay, yeah, I get that, but what was the nature of this trip?

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Manny: bruh.

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Jeezy: They were not letting that go.

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Manny: Look, there's… there's a lot of time between now and when the… sorry, not the House, the Senate actually votes on him.

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Manny: And… I'mma be real.

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Manny: I could see a path. Now, there… Tillis has come out in support of him, so I think there's a.

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Manny: I think there's a…

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Chuck: Drinking, buddies.

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Manny: Yeah, like…

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Manny: I… do I think he will get to 51 votes somehow? Yes. Do I think that they'll need the help of JD to make it happen?

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Manny: I actually don't. I think they will be able to get over the hump without JD having to show up to work to vote.

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Manny: But it's gonna… it's gonna be tight. Pause.

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Jeezy: I'm about to say yes.

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Chuck: I mean…

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Manny: Yes.

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Jeezy: We wouldn't even have to worry about it getting to the Senate.

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Jeezy: If it won't, if it won't for that bastard fell.

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Manny: Bye.

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Jeezy: He was the only… he was the only Democrat to break ranks, if I'm not mistaken, correct?

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Manny: That is my understanding. Yeah, it's almost like they flip-flop. Let me go… .

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Jeezy: I know Brother Ann didn't vote for him.

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Manny: Oh, yeah. They basically… they swapped seats. Fetterman went yes, Rand Paul went no. But I knew Fetterman was gonna vote for him when I saw them both show up in the elevator, and Fetterman looking all smiling and stuff.

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Manny: I'm just like…

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Chuck: They're probably outsiders.

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Jeezy: 2020, boy.

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Chuck: I haven't correction for that, but we'll talk about another… we'll talk… yeah, hindsight is 20-20 when you put corrective lenses on it.

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Chuck: It is. I'm telling you, Mothers and Federman knocked out a case of Natty lights the night before.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: Without question. Not natty. Not natty. Not light.

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Chuck: They're either nannies or Bush?

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Manny: Or Bush Lightning?

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Chuck: Who knows?

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Manny: Maybe, maybe.

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Chuck: the keys.

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Manny: stone.

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Chuck: Or Keystone. They definitely… they definitely some Keystone wood.

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Jeezy: Depending on how stressful the work week is, they might get to Milwaukee's bisque.

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Manny: Now, one thing I think everyone can look forward to when this comes to vote.

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Manny: Something tells me Brother Rand ain't done yet.

396
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Manny: Because the part that… the part that got me the most is when they were going back and forth, and Rand said, let's run the video. I said, this man, Don made a hot.

397
00:28:46.790 --> 00:28:48.320
Jeezy: Oh, that beautiful bean footage.

398
00:28:48.320 --> 00:28:50.520
Manny: Roll the tape.

399
00:28:51.540 --> 00:28:53.700
Chuck: Moran was like, did you say it?

400
00:28:53.950 --> 00:28:55.089
Chuck: Did you say it?

401
00:28:55.090 --> 00:28:56.849
Manny: All the same.

402
00:28:58.380 --> 00:29:02.699
Chuck: Yeah, Rand definitely… he's gonna reload the clip.

403
00:29:03.080 --> 00:29:03.470
Jeezy: Oh, for sure.

404
00:29:03.470 --> 00:29:07.069
Chuck: Sure. Well, he might bring the drum for the Senate hearing.

405
00:29:07.300 --> 00:29:12.299
Manny: He ba- I… I could see a world where he might filibuster him.

406
00:29:14.850 --> 00:29:17.579
Manny: That's tough. I could envision where…

407
00:29:17.580 --> 00:29:19.070
Chuck: That's high-level pity.

408
00:29:19.070 --> 00:29:21.120
Manny: It is, I'm here for it.

409
00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:21.779
Jeezy: I'm here for it.

410
00:29:21.780 --> 00:29:29.600
Chuck: But I'm here for it, because you sat there and cheered me being attacked, unprovoked.

411
00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:34.319
Chuck: Talk about… if we talk about political violence, this is the situation.

412
00:29:34.530 --> 00:29:45.969
Chuck: the epitome of political violence. I did nothing to this individual. You snuck me from behind. I lost a part of my lung, went through months of rehabilitation.

413
00:29:46.510 --> 00:29:49.550
Chuck: Essentially, you settle, and it was like, haha, that's what you get.

414
00:29:49.550 --> 00:29:50.140
Manny: What?

415
00:29:51.410 --> 00:29:52.719
Jeezy: It ran better than me.

416
00:29:53.600 --> 00:30:01.020
Manny: on… on Mullen's face when he said, I didn't say I approved it. I said I understood it. I said.

417
00:30:01.020 --> 00:30:01.440
Jeezy: Oh, Brad.

418
00:30:01.770 --> 00:30:02.210
Jeezy: No worries.

419
00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.510
Manny: That's worse! I'd have come to my table.

420
00:30:04.950 --> 00:30:07.210
Jeezy: That Windsor not on that tie would have been coming loose.

421
00:30:08.710 --> 00:30:11.509
Jeezy: And that jacket would have been coming off.

422
00:30:11.510 --> 00:30:14.110
Manny: Ain't no Bernie Sanders to stop us now.

423
00:30:14.110 --> 00:30:15.670
Jeezy: Oh, no, I ain't no burner here.

424
00:30:16.100 --> 00:30:19.889
Chuck: Bernie won't stop in that first incident, he was just…

425
00:30:19.890 --> 00:30:23.169
Jeezy: Vernon King stopped that cold air every time he outside.

426
00:30:23.620 --> 00:30:24.900
Jeezy: Them big mittens he keep wearing.

427
00:30:25.700 --> 00:30:26.559
Jeezy: That ain't stopping nothing.

428
00:30:28.150 --> 00:30:42.440
Manny: But going back to that, that's how I knew in that first one it was all for show, because who… if two people really wanted to fight, and Mark Wayne, you got this, this MMA record, you let Bernie Sanders hold you down?

429
00:30:42.750 --> 00:30:45.199
Manny: Who are you fighting in these MMM fights? MMA?

430
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.940
Chuck: The teaser was like, we can take it outside.

431
00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:48.720
Manny: Shit.

432
00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:51.330
Chuck: We ain't gotta do this on the chamber floor, let's take it outside.

433
00:30:51.330 --> 00:30:52.029
Jeezy: You have some respect.

434
00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:57.300
Chuck: My decorum ends when I walk through those doors.

435
00:30:57.300 --> 00:31:02.239
Jeezy: It's just crazy, though. Ain't Mark Wayne the tough guy that was hiding behind the chair? .

436
00:31:02.800 --> 00:31:03.850
Manny: Yes.

437
00:31:03.850 --> 00:31:04.429
Jeezy: Why, why he ain.

438
00:31:04.430 --> 00:31:07.500
Chuck: Oh, yes. He was ducked down. He was. He was.

439
00:31:07.930 --> 00:31:09.709
Manny: Closer to, like, ugh.

440
00:31:09.710 --> 00:31:18.209
Jeezy: But you don't smell war. You classify going over and having to handle all these Steven Seagal missions, but you hiding behind chairs. You that tough guy.

441
00:31:18.210 --> 00:31:20.369
Chuck: That was the war he smelled.

442
00:31:20.750 --> 00:31:25.710
Chuck: The burning of the bonfire outside from the Bible.

443
00:31:25.710 --> 00:31:28.049
Jeezy: the food trucks outside the Capitol.

444
00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:30.699
Manny: The mob of your people.

445
00:31:30.910 --> 00:31:31.939
Jeezy: That's what you smell.

446
00:31:33.060 --> 00:31:37.069
Jeezy: Well, I mean, I think… it's gonna be interesting when it gets to the Senate, because…

447
00:31:37.700 --> 00:31:43.539
Jeezy: Of course, that… that Fetterman, casted his vote to allow it to go forward, but ultimately.

448
00:31:43.970 --> 00:31:56.449
Jeezy: when you think about this, and we've heard this before when we look at Mullins, it's no different. You know, this… I'm gonna fix everything day one, I'm gonna fix it, I'mma fix it, I'mma fix it. But we can look at multiple…

449
00:31:56.980 --> 00:32:11.849
Jeezy: positions within this administration that we've had that same promise, and it turns into 365 days real quick, and it's still an issue. I don't think that he… I don't… I just don't think he can. I don't think it's a matter of what support he has.

450
00:32:11.850 --> 00:32:21.820
Jeezy: I think the damage that has been done to the DHS is at an all-time high right now, that you need a qualified person to get in there and get it right.

451
00:32:22.060 --> 00:32:28.440
Jeezy: And he's not. He's no better than… I mean, well, he's a little bit better than Christy Noem, because we probably won't see him on…

452
00:32:28.590 --> 00:32:31.170
Jeezy: Advertisements and commercials every…

453
00:32:31.170 --> 00:32:32.800
Manny: For $200 million.

454
00:32:32.800 --> 00:32:33.250
Chuck: Beautiful name.

455
00:32:33.250 --> 00:32:33.640
Jeezy: Yeah.

456
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:34.310
Manny: Really?

457
00:32:34.310 --> 00:32:42.670
Jeezy: I ain't gonna do that, but I don't think it's any better in steering the ship of the DHS into the right direction. I just don't see it.

458
00:32:42.670 --> 00:32:49.500
Manny: I think the one thing that's outstanding here is… because, again, I think he does get confirmed.

459
00:32:49.500 --> 00:32:50.080
Jeezy: Yeah.

460
00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:54.670
Manny: What does DHS look like post-shutdown?

461
00:32:55.520 --> 00:33:06.900
Manny: Because I think we… with now what we're in the 36th, 37th day of the shutdown, at the time of recording, at this point.

462
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:15.030
Manny: they could start carving off agencies from DHS and start sending them back to their original places or different places.

463
00:33:15.650 --> 00:33:25.079
Manny: So, what DHS Mark Wayne is leading could look vastly different than what we understand as the Department of Homeland Security today.

464
00:33:26.560 --> 00:33:30.149
Chuck: Okay, I'm about to take us left for a second.

465
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.350
Manny: Whee!

466
00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:34.280
Jeezy: Let me put my… let me put my signal light on.

467
00:33:34.280 --> 00:33:38.650
Manny: Let me buckle up, make sure my tray's in an upright position.

468
00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:43.809
Chuck: First and foremost, We have to stop calling him an MMA fighter.

469
00:33:45.100 --> 00:33:46.799
Chuck: I just looked this up, man.

470
00:33:47.080 --> 00:33:48.500
Manny: He 3-0, man!

471
00:33:48.820 --> 00:33:52.739
Chuck: This fool got 3 fives… well, claim a 5.

472
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.960
Chuck: Officially, 3-0.

473
00:33:55.330 --> 00:33:59.790
Chuck: Three of those fights against… or two of them are against the same individual.

474
00:34:01.110 --> 00:34:01.720
Manny: Hmm.

475
00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:02.659
Chuck: If you don't.

476
00:34:02.660 --> 00:34:03.670
Jeezy: Drink, booze.

477
00:34:03.670 --> 00:34:05.860
Manny: You beat the same person twice.

478
00:34:06.120 --> 00:34:07.640
Chuck: The same person to our.

479
00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:14.070
Jeezy: I mean, we're gonna call him an MMA fighter, then we're gonna have to, we're gonna have to acknowledge, Paul as a professional boxer.

480
00:34:14.710 --> 00:34:15.840
Chuck: Exactly.

481
00:34:16.350 --> 00:34:17.120
Chuck: Exactly.

482
00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:18.440
Jeezy: And I'm not doing it.

483
00:34:18.449 --> 00:34:23.579
Chuck: I'm definitely not… I'm definitely not doing that. Now, what I will call him is a plumber.

484
00:34:24.090 --> 00:34:24.609
Jeezy: Oh, for sure.

485
00:34:24.610 --> 00:34:35.779
Chuck: You get my respect in the plumbing field, because you own a plumbing company, and, you know, I'm pretty sure you know the joints, to the jouts, to the…

486
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:37.920
Chuck: PVC pipe to the…

487
00:34:37.929 --> 00:34:38.909
Jeezy: Yeah. Clamps.

488
00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:47.900
Chuck: I'm not calling you an MMA fighter no more. That's why he hid behind a chair, and didn't go out in the lobby with the Teamster, because…

489
00:34:48.120 --> 00:34:50.790
Chuck: It was a new opponent, and he ain't… he ain't known.

490
00:34:50.929 --> 00:34:58.249
Chuck: Yeah, I just… And he watched film. I was just… yeah, I was just curious, you know, he had… he had a one-year career. One year.

491
00:34:58.250 --> 00:34:59.090
Manny: nature.

492
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.440
Jeezy: He can identify with whatever he wants to identify as.

493
00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:06.289
Chuck: You're right, nowadays, you can identify as a…

494
00:35:06.570 --> 00:35:08.849
Chuck: Speaking of, I seen a video of this girl.

495
00:35:08.850 --> 00:35:11.730
Jeezy: I thought I had it. I thought I had it.

496
00:35:11.730 --> 00:35:14.760
Manny: I was like, -oh.

497
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:21.850
Chuck: I saw you were good. That's why I'ma just lay it up, because I saw a video of this girl claiming she was a dog, them little fairy.

498
00:35:21.850 --> 00:35:22.540
Jeezy: Woohoo!

499
00:35:22.540 --> 00:35:27.759
Chuck: This little dog came… I think that was in the chat. The dog came and snatched her up by the collar.

500
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:28.410
Jeezy: Ayy!

501
00:35:28.410 --> 00:35:30.140
Chuck: And she's like, let me go!

502
00:35:31.730 --> 00:35:32.590
Jeezy: Right.

503
00:35:32.730 --> 00:35:38.559
Jeezy: I know we gotta move on, which, when I saw that video, it led me to another thought that I don't understand.

504
00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:39.200
Chuck: Okay.

505
00:35:40.410 --> 00:35:45.140
Jeezy: I never understand why… why Black people… Get German Shepherds as pets.

506
00:35:47.080 --> 00:35:47.810
Chuck: German.

507
00:35:48.340 --> 00:35:51.220
Chuck: Herman… sounds racist to me.

508
00:35:51.700 --> 00:35:54.419
Jeezy: There's no way I can look at a history book.

509
00:35:54.630 --> 00:35:56.909
Jeezy: And see the same dog sitting on my floor.

510
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:00.010
Manny: Like, some of my same people.

511
00:36:00.010 --> 00:36:00.540
Jeezy: I'm just saying…

512
00:36:00.540 --> 00:36:02.899
Chuck: A lot of people who fight in water hoses.

513
00:36:03.100 --> 00:36:06.869
Jeezy: And by that video, the way that dog viciously came upon that woman?

514
00:36:07.140 --> 00:36:07.890
Chuck: Egg!

515
00:36:07.890 --> 00:36:09.489
Jeezy: Breeze still got hate in him.

516
00:36:12.610 --> 00:36:14.180
Chuck: It's in his DNA.

517
00:36:14.180 --> 00:36:17.690
Jeezy: the DNA. Hey, they say, they say, hey, this talk, not for German Shepherds or anything.

518
00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:20.170
Manny: -

519
00:36:20.900 --> 00:36:25.969
Jeezy: Peter don't know, hey, I ain't got no discrimination against dogs, though. It's all juice. It's all juice. It's all juice.

520
00:36:25.970 --> 00:36:31.309
Chuck: Ain't no harm… no animals were harmed in the recording of this audio event.

521
00:36:31.310 --> 00:36:33.990
Jeezy: You know, you know, they say dogs got feelings, bruh.

522
00:36:36.380 --> 00:36:40.530
Manny: I mean, I'm sure, like, I've accidentally stepped on my dog's foot, and he yelled. He…

523
00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:43.439
Manny: So, obviously, he feels pain.

524
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.039
Chuck: So do my knees when it start about to rain, too.

525
00:36:46.040 --> 00:36:46.960
Manny: Bro.

526
00:36:47.700 --> 00:36:48.830
Manny: I've got a little pressure for you.

527
00:36:48.830 --> 00:36:49.349
Chuck: But we can't.

528
00:36:49.350 --> 00:36:49.910
Manny: True. Believ.

529
00:36:49.910 --> 00:36:52.950
Chuck: I can't get no weather forecast out there.

530
00:36:52.950 --> 00:36:53.650
Jeezy: Thank you.

531
00:36:54.070 --> 00:37:01.870
Jeezy: At any rate, whatever Mark Wayne decides to identify as as an MMA fighter, we just gotta, we'll respect it.

532
00:37:02.600 --> 00:37:03.740
Jeezy: It will.

533
00:37:04.190 --> 00:37:10.430
Jeezy: allow it for the meantime. But, you gotta get a couple more fights up under your belt, Martin. You can't fight your drinking buddy.

534
00:37:10.530 --> 00:37:11.419
Jeezy: That ain't how that worked.

535
00:37:12.950 --> 00:37:15.719
Jeezy: Well, moving on…

536
00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:22.429
Jeezy: Good luck, Mark. Don't know how to send it is, and Brother Ran, if you're listening to this podcast.

537
00:37:23.180 --> 00:37:24.409
Jeezy: By all means.

538
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:27.870
Jeezy: You are welcome to be as petty as your heart desires.

539
00:37:27.870 --> 00:37:28.520
Manny: Bruh.

540
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:34.149
Jeezy: We support you wholeheartedly.

541
00:37:34.150 --> 00:37:49.859
Manny: It is clearly up and it's stuck, and I am excited to watch how this plays out. Yes, sir. But he said it on Twitter that anyone who cheers on political violence is not qualified to lead a federal agency.

542
00:37:50.030 --> 00:37:53.030
Manny: He clearly cheered on political violence.

543
00:37:53.290 --> 00:37:58.470
Manny: He cowered when political violence came to his front door, his office door.

544
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:00.360
Manny: And I just…

545
00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:09.779
Manny: To not have the empathy to realize that your words carry pain in an agency that is constantly delivering pain to its constituents now.

546
00:38:09.780 --> 00:38:10.250
Jeezy: Mmm.

547
00:38:11.070 --> 00:38:11.840
Audio shared by Jeezy: Message!

548
00:38:12.790 --> 00:38:13.990
Manny: Figure it out.

549
00:38:14.110 --> 00:38:15.330
Manny: Figure it out.

550
00:38:16.250 --> 00:38:19.399
Jeezy: And to be led in answer to a person.

551
00:38:19.990 --> 00:38:22.289
Jeezy: Who does the exact same thing.

552
00:38:22.290 --> 00:38:22.780
Manny: Vaccine.

553
00:38:22.780 --> 00:38:25.180
Jeezy: Or is not the biggest champion.

554
00:38:25.570 --> 00:38:30.160
Jeezy: for… this type of activity, so… We'll see.

555
00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:30.860
Manny: Yep.

556
00:38:30.860 --> 00:38:31.479
Jeezy: We shall see.

557
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:32.740
Manny: We shall see.

558
00:38:32.740 --> 00:38:33.180
Jeezy: Alright.

559
00:38:33.180 --> 00:38:39.460
Manny: Y'all at home, tell us what y'all think at home. If y'all got thoughts, tweet us at the pod, we'd love to hear your thoughts.

560
00:38:39.720 --> 00:38:40.940
Jeezy: Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed.

561
00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:44.360
Chuck: And we're also… we're also gonna get an Instagram page back.

562
00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:49.189
Jeezy: Man, listen. Now, Mark, Mark Wayne, whichever Wayne, Mark, Bruce Wayne, whoever.

563
00:38:50.070 --> 00:38:53.479
Jeezy: If you can help the boys get their pod, get the pod back on IG.

564
00:38:54.010 --> 00:38:55.180
Manny: Let us know!

565
00:38:55.180 --> 00:38:58.010
Chuck: Oh, I got a challenge for you, Manny, I got a challenge for you.

566
00:38:58.010 --> 00:38:59.120
Manny: -Oh, here we go.

567
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:04.769
Chuck: If Mark Robinson helped us get a page back on IG… No. Would you at least? No.

568
00:39:04.770 --> 00:39:07.010
Jeezy: That is, under no terms and conditions.

569
00:39:07.200 --> 00:39:07.779
Manny: I know.

570
00:39:08.350 --> 00:39:09.710
Manny: Absolutely not.

571
00:39:09.710 --> 00:39:11.519
Chuck: I was just gonna say, speak to the man.

572
00:39:12.550 --> 00:39:13.070
Manny: not only.

573
00:39:13.070 --> 00:39:14.270
Chuck: Nope.

574
00:39:14.270 --> 00:39:19.070
Jeezy: Mark can't help us get nothing back on social. He can't… he can't get off the wrong site.

575
00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:24.740
Jeezy: Gonna sign the boys up for… For the wrong site.

576
00:39:24.740 --> 00:39:25.770
Manny: My bruh.

577
00:39:26.610 --> 00:39:29.389
Chuck: And then we were having to… out here trying to protect ourselves.

578
00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:35.079
Manny: I'm still gonna say, nude Africa is a wild sight.

579
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:36.430
Manny: to be on.

580
00:39:36.550 --> 00:39:37.690
Manny: Why…

581
00:39:37.690 --> 00:39:41.859
Jeezy: That's how I know you got an addiction. I know you sick.

582
00:39:42.060 --> 00:39:48.070
Manny: In 2026, that's where you went? That's wild, man. That's wild.

583
00:39:48.710 --> 00:39:50.050
Jeezy: He went on them back pages.

584
00:39:50.350 --> 00:39:51.339
Manny: But are you guys…

585
00:39:51.340 --> 00:39:52.440
Chuck: He was gonna go on Twitter.

586
00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:53.820
Manny: It's.

587
00:39:53.820 --> 00:39:54.910
Chuck: Screaming on your feet!

588
00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:58.240
Manny: Right. But, prayers you find the help that you need.

589
00:39:58.660 --> 00:40:03.060
Manny: But just know that pelp is likely not coming from the boys here at the pod.

590
00:40:05.670 --> 00:40:12.999
Jeezy: Well, Brother Mark Wayne and Brother Mark Robinson, y'all get y'all… good luck. That's all I'm gonna say. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck.

591
00:40:15.180 --> 00:40:24.420
Jeezy: we'll stay right in Washington on our next segment, and there's a major move that's happening as we slowly are approaching

592
00:40:24.630 --> 00:40:28.350
Jeezy: Election time again, and that is the save.

593
00:40:28.730 --> 00:40:29.400
Jeezy: Act.

594
00:40:29.620 --> 00:40:37.529
Jeezy: This thing is starting to catch steam, and Trump is pushing for this to get passed as swiftly and as quickly, as possible.

595
00:40:37.820 --> 00:40:57.369
Jeezy: In this past week, I don't know if you guys have heard, but there was some hot mic, that was caught with Mike Johnson saying a few things, about the bill. But before we begin, I wanted to kind of give a breakdown of the bill in a simple way, so hopefully our listeners kind of, are aware of what we're talking about. But,

596
00:40:57.590 --> 00:41:08.350
Jeezy: basically in the SAVE Act, it requires documented, proof of citizenship. And for that, birth certificate, passports, etc.

597
00:41:08.650 --> 00:41:23.270
Jeezy: But the concern is that it targets, non-citizen voting, which has been a big thing when it comes to, voters and turning out at the polls. But it, I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, it only applies, specifically to federal elections, correct?

598
00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:26.440
Manny: That… that is my understanding, but…

599
00:41:26.550 --> 00:41:30.719
Manny: At this point, if it passes federally, you're gonna see most states…

600
00:41:30.980 --> 00:41:31.650
Jeezy: Adopt.

601
00:41:31.910 --> 00:41:34.380
Manny: Adopt it, adopt some version of it.

602
00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:34.710
Jeezy: Yeah.

603
00:41:34.710 --> 00:41:36.360
Manny: Are there state and local elections.

604
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:39.809
Jeezy: I think that… but here's the catch with this bill for our listeners.

605
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Jeezy: And why it's blowing up, there are millions of Americans who don't have easy access to those documents. Especially when you look at low-income areas and rural voters.

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00:41:53.430 --> 00:42:04.790
Jeezy: a lot of them don't have that access to that documentation, or don't have it readily available. Even when you think of married women or others with name changes, they could run into issues when it comes down to,

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Jeezy: the SAVE Act. So, let me ask you guys, and I'll throw it to Chuck to answer first, does this feel like a common sense security when it comes to the election, or are we creating, or are they creating a new barrier to vote?

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Chuck: First and foremost, they continue. This is another barrier to vote, without question.

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Chuck: the…

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Chuck: Proponents of this will say and claim that this is stronger election security. We are protecting the sanctity of

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Chuck: Our voting by preventing voter fraud.

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00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:55.140
Chuck: The numbers say… Voting fraud is very minuscule. Does it happen? Yes.

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Chuck: Interestingly enough, here recently, most of the voter fraud cases

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Chuck: By popping up in favor of the Republicans.

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Chuck: So, who are we going against? Then they would also say there's standardized proof of requirements to vote.

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Chuck: Okay.

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Chuck: as the point you just made, geez, these particular paperwork and documents…

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Chuck: everybody doesn't have, number one. Number two, getting them is not… sometimes not the easiest thing to do. Think about someone… we won't even touch on the disenfranchised, we won't touch on…

619
00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:42.920
Chuck: the marginalized communities. Think about somebody who moved.

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00:43:43.940 --> 00:43:46.120
Chuck: You live in a whole different state now.

621
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Chuck: Now you have to stop, Go to your home state.

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Chuck: Anybody can call over the phone and get a birth certificate.

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Jeezy: No, sir.

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00:43:55.520 --> 00:43:58.159
Chuck: So, you gotta go to my home state.

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00:43:58.710 --> 00:44:11.769
Chuck: do whatever I need to do. Don't let them be having computer issues, or systems down, or whatever. I know in North Carolina, y'all dealing with the insane wait times at DMVs.

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Jeezy: Bruh.

627
00:44:12.810 --> 00:44:21.249
Chuck: for… to do a, you know, get your license plate or a license. So, let's factor that into it.

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00:44:21.630 --> 00:44:25.849
Chuck: This barrier is another issue for you.

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Chuck: But I have another question.

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Chuck: What is the purpose of the real ID?

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Chuck: Because in this.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Chuck: Everything that they're talking about, you need…

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Chuck: To get… have a passport or present for voting?

635
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:48.629
Chuck: If you have a real ID.

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00:44:48.630 --> 00:44:49.009
Jeezy: Why do I.

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00:44:49.010 --> 00:44:52.809
Chuck: You've already presented this to get your real ID.

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00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:55.130
Jeezy: So my real ID should be sufficient enough.

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Chuck: Efficient enough.

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00:44:56.300 --> 00:44:57.789
Manny: But it's not.

641
00:44:58.060 --> 00:44:59.980
Chuck: But it's…

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00:44:59.980 --> 00:45:00.585
Manny: But…

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00:45:01.190 --> 00:45:04.879
Chuck: And understand, I am not… I am… I am…

644
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Chuck: Not the biggest proponent of the Real ID.

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Chuck: But if you… if you have it in place and it's established, you have to have it to fly. You have to have it to do, you know, this, that, and the third, and people have gone through the rigors of getting it.

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Chuck: What is the meaning of it?

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00:45:23.030 --> 00:45:25.249
Chuck: You… now you have…

648
00:45:26.240 --> 00:45:38.569
Chuck: chaos. You're creating chaos, because what they're not talking about is there is not an established entity that you have to go to to present these documents to vote.

649
00:45:38.710 --> 00:45:44.569
Chuck: you're taking it to Aunt Jean, Billy Joe, and Jimmy Willey.

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Jeezy: Local pastor, retired teachers… Regular people.

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Chuck: The regular people who are your local election officials, y'all know when y'all go and vote, who y'all looking at over there, looking at your IDs and giving you your ballots?

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Chuck: That's the people who used to be greeters at Walmart, they do this on the side, they do this during election time to make some extra money, because they have the time on their hands. These people are not trained, they are not, versed in identifying the proper documents, they're not trained in

653
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Chuck: how to process these documents. Now you open the door to legal risk for these individuals.

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00:46:22.820 --> 00:46:27.569
Jeezy: Or just com… From what it sounds to me, just utter chaos.

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00:46:27.570 --> 00:46:37.320
Chuck: Pure chaos! And I won't even… and I'm going this route because I can easily take it down the route of voter suppression.

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00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:37.900
Jeezy: Oh, bro.

657
00:46:37.900 --> 00:46:47.569
Chuck: Cakewalk. That's a cakewalk. Yes, indeed. I could easily take it down to it being parallels to the days of a poll tax. That's a cakewalk.

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Chuck: Let's have some common sense commonality with this.

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00:46:52.630 --> 00:46:56.669
Chuck: How many of y'all can go put your hand on your birth certificate right now?

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Manny: Okay, so I can.

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Chuck: But, you also have your passport.

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00:47:02.850 --> 00:47:09.950
Manny: I also have my passport, and I also recently just got the, the real, the real ID for North Carolina.

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Jeezy: I ain't getting that real ID, because as much money as I spent to expedite my passport, now y'all gonna get this passport.

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Manny: I didn't…

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Jeezy: The bond on this passport book gonna… I need it to be broken in, bruh. It's gonna get folded before I can be real ID. No, sir, not doing it. Not doing it.

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Chuck: But…

667
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.059
Jeezy: But to that point, though, but think about that.

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Jeezy: How…

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Jeezy: when you think about low-income and rural voters, who can… how many of those can go and say, oh yeah, I got my passport, let me go grab it?

670
00:47:43.190 --> 00:47:48.939
Jeezy: Oh, I got, oh, I got my, my birth certificate, let me go grab it. A lot of them do not.

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Chuck: No.

672
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Jeezy: So, you… I already don't… have the documentation. I'mma have to go… cause you know if this does pass.

673
00:47:57.220 --> 00:48:01.250
Jeezy: The agencies are gonna be overwhelmed with the amount…

674
00:48:01.250 --> 00:48:03.000
Chuck: Already not funded.

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00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:04.600
Jeezy: Bruh, already… bruh, thank you.

676
00:48:04.600 --> 00:48:09.419
Chuck: And… And they've been… and their staffing has been cut. Hi, Doge!

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00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:12.720
Jeezy: Bruh. So how in the world

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Jeezy: does this sound like a great idea when you are… this is… this is going to do nothing but create utter chaos at the polls, because first of all, if I don't have it, and I call, and I gotta try to obtain it.

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00:48:25.260 --> 00:48:28.600
Jeezy: Let's be real, most people are gonna say, man, if I gotta go through all that, I'm just not gonna vote.

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00:48:28.600 --> 00:48:29.520
Chuck: I'm just not gonna vote.

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00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:30.330
Manny: Yep.

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Chuck: Listen, you have… I work in management, and I've worked in management for 10 plus years now, and when you hire somebody, they gotta bring their different IDs to fill out their I-9. Do you know how many people I know struggle to find their social security card?

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Jeezy: Bruh.

684
00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:48.299
Chuck: Your social security card.

685
00:48:49.330 --> 00:48:50.350
Jeezy: Let me tell you.

686
00:48:50.950 --> 00:48:52.900
Jeezy: It's… it's insane. So…

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00:48:53.360 --> 00:49:05.829
Jeezy: you have this, and you're pushing this integrity, and this is the thing that bothers me about those that, especially the hard, hard, hardcore Trump fans and the MAGAs, is that…

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Jeezy: you… he paints this as, this is a good thing, this is a good thing, we need this, we need this. Not realizing how…

689
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Jeezy: This bill is going to cripple you.

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Chuck: Well… Talk them numbers. Talk them numbers.

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Jeezy: It's gonna cripple you! And you have a hot take, the hot mic moment where Johnson was speaking, where he admitted

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Jeezy: basically what the Democrats have been already arguing.

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Jeezy: He suggested if the bill actually passed, it can change who's able to vote, or who's able to vote, excuse me, and he's thinking that this will potentially benefit the Republicans.

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Jeezy: I don't think so.

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Jeezy: I don't think so at all.

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00:49:47.930 --> 00:49:53.070
Jeezy: But, this is a moment that you're trying to pass something that is going to

697
00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:56.450
Jeezy: People already have a bad taste in their mouth about voting.

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Jeezy: You're doing nothing but adding this new barrier.

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Jeezy: to voting.

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Jeezy: And ultimately, having people that are just like, even the younger vote, the younger kids that are coming in that are now able to vote, how many of them, 18, 19, 20-year-olds, have their birth certificate, have a passport?

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Chuck: They gotta go… they gotta go back home to Mama to get it.

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00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:19.520
Jeezy: And that's mama nowhere.

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00:50:19.520 --> 00:50:21.360
Chuck: to have it. Yeah.

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00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:22.190
Jeezy: I like mine.

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Jeezy: I don't know, baby, it might be up under the… it might be up under the mattress, it might be.

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00:50:27.450 --> 00:50:31.169
Manny: Look, go check it in that… the third draw. Yep.

707
00:50:31.170 --> 00:50:33.409
Chuck: I'm looking at that booth.

708
00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:35.140
Jeezy: Look at my sock drawer.

709
00:50:35.870 --> 00:50:42.340
Chuck: But I'm gonna run some numbers before we yield the floor to my brother Manny, because I know he has some great input and insight on this.

710
00:50:42.540 --> 00:50:46.000
Chuck: Just to the point you were making about that hot mic moment.

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00:50:46.490 --> 00:50:51.389
Chuck: Approximately 42% of white Americans hold a valid passport.

712
00:50:51.780 --> 00:50:54.909
Chuck: This is a lower rate than.

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00:50:54.910 --> 00:50:55.270
Jeezy: team.

714
00:50:55.270 --> 00:51:02.220
Chuck: Hispanics at 55% in some studies, and Black Americans at 47% in some studies.

715
00:51:03.190 --> 00:51:09.449
Chuck: And… If you really break it down, like you said earlier, less than half of the U.S. population

716
00:51:09.950 --> 00:51:16.589
Chuck: Roughly 170 million active passports are in circulation as of 2025.

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00:51:16.770 --> 00:51:17.580
Jeezy: Jeez.

718
00:51:18.270 --> 00:51:21.700
Chuck: So go ahead and dilute your numbers. Go ahead and cut it down.

719
00:51:22.750 --> 00:51:25.950
Chuck: Go ahead. You stepping on your work.

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00:51:25.950 --> 00:51:26.690
Manny: Meh…

721
00:51:26.690 --> 00:51:27.620
Jeezy: Big time.

722
00:51:27.830 --> 00:51:31.950
Manny: to add on to the numbers that Chuck went through, because…

723
00:51:32.120 --> 00:51:48.139
Manny: I was queuing them, I was queuing them up, too. So, if… on top of that, Americans without accessible citizens documents, so that's no passport and no access to a certified, certified birth certificate.

724
00:51:48.640 --> 00:51:49.770
Manny: It costs money to get.

725
00:51:49.770 --> 00:51:51.230
Chuck: Yes, sir.

726
00:51:51.230 --> 00:51:57.310
Manny: 21 million. There's 2.6 million, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

727
00:51:57.600 --> 00:52:05.239
Manny: 2.6 million people that have no type of government-issued ID. If we bring it back to North Carolina.

728
00:52:05.480 --> 00:52:14.770
Manny: 56% of the state Would need to locate their birth certificate plus their driver's license to make this happen.

729
00:52:15.380 --> 00:52:16.160
Jeezy: Good day.

730
00:52:16.160 --> 00:52:29.520
Manny: Voter ID is such a interesting monster, because if you look at the polling, it is the most one-sided… I won't say it's the most one-sided, but it is a highly one-sided thing.

731
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Manny: Pew Research did a poll back in 2025 where about 83% of U.S. adults favor requiring photo ID to vote.

732
00:52:41.270 --> 00:52:54.830
Manny: Harvard, did a poll, found 81%, and then if you look at the crosstabs with that, about 79% of independents were okay with it, and 70% of Democrats.

733
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Manny: So, if you look at voter ID, just… and I think it's key to, let's also talk about how these questions are asked. Every poll asks about voter ID and concept.

734
00:53:06.190 --> 00:53:09.629
Manny: The devil is always in the details here.

735
00:53:10.850 --> 00:53:11.690
Manny: And we're re…

736
00:53:11.690 --> 00:53:13.259
Chuck: I thought the devil was in a red dress.

737
00:53:13.700 --> 00:53:19.880
Manny: Well, you know, the devil also went down to Georgia, so the devil a busy man.

738
00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:21.290
Chuck: And Endeavor Wells Prada.

739
00:53:21.530 --> 00:53:35.090
Manny: So, it's so… I've had a lot of conversations about voter ID in North Carolina, and the pushback that I hear

740
00:53:35.140 --> 00:53:42.539
Manny: is, based on some of the arguments that they've heard, is like, you know, don't you think it's kind of a racist take?

741
00:53:43.340 --> 00:53:57.739
Manny: Democrats argue about voter ID wrong all the time, because a lot of them, from my standpoint, is given from a white savior complex of, like, oh, these black people aren't smart enough to get… that's how some of these arguments are made.

742
00:53:58.260 --> 00:54:02.620
Manny: And they sound horrible, and it does not help the situation.

743
00:54:03.220 --> 00:54:19.049
Manny: when I've talked about it with people, they're like, man, don't you think people should show ID to vote? Yeah, sure, whatever, okay, perfectly fine with it. But let's not be blind to the fact that we are adding a barrier to somebody.

744
00:54:19.720 --> 00:54:21.870
Manny: Them having the ability to vote.

745
00:54:23.140 --> 00:54:27.900
Chuck: Why don't you do me a favor real quick? Real quick. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

746
00:54:28.250 --> 00:54:28.949
Manny: What you need?

747
00:54:29.380 --> 00:54:37.030
Chuck: I need you to pull up, and you can finish your point, but I need you to pull up the electoral map

748
00:54:37.420 --> 00:54:46.130
Chuck: For this past election, this past general election, presidential election. Because after you make your point, we're gonna have a serve-volley session.

749
00:54:46.470 --> 00:54:48.170
Manny: To prove…

750
00:54:48.170 --> 00:55:07.540
Chuck: No, this is to prove… because I don't want this… and I feel your point about this white savior complex, and it tries to minimize the intellect of minorities when the numbers just showed you minorities have a higher percentage than whites.

751
00:55:07.680 --> 00:55:13.080
Chuck: But this… this number that I just came across, and this data from the Center for American Progress.

752
00:55:13.590 --> 00:55:14.729
Chuck: Gonna blow their mind.

753
00:55:14.730 --> 00:55:17.990
Manny: Oh, okay, the… for 2024?

754
00:55:18.310 --> 00:55:20.240
Chuck: Yes. You got that up, too?

755
00:55:20.240 --> 00:55:22.289
Manny: The, the electoral map, or…

756
00:55:22.290 --> 00:55:23.779
Chuck: Yeah, the electoral map.

757
00:55:23.780 --> 00:55:24.440
Manny: Okay.

758
00:55:24.830 --> 00:55:27.370
Chuck: So, the final results.

759
00:55:27.370 --> 00:55:27.990
Manny: Yep.

760
00:55:28.300 --> 00:55:34.639
Chuck: And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna name a state, and I want you to give me who that state voted for.

761
00:55:35.690 --> 00:55:36.050
Chuck: Okay.

762
00:55:36.050 --> 00:55:48.549
Manny: So let me pull it up, not… let's see, see, I was gonna say something real… let me, let me, make it larger so I'm able to easily be able to tell. Right, good catch.

763
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Chuck: Oh, that was the…

764
00:55:50.250 --> 00:55:53.929
Manny: Come out, all kinds of records. Alright, what you get… what you got?

765
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:55.700
Chuck: Michigan.

766
00:55:56.870 --> 00:55:59.480
Manny: 2024, blue.

767
00:55:59.960 --> 00:56:01.290
Chuck: It was blue, okay.

768
00:56:01.810 --> 00:56:03.390
Chuck: Let's go…

769
00:56:04.510 --> 00:56:05.409
Manny: Is that right.

770
00:56:05.690 --> 00:56:07.629
Chuck: I thought Michigan went red.

771
00:56:07.630 --> 00:56:09.740
Manny: I did too, sorry, that was the… okay.

772
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:11.800
Chuck: Yeah, the correct one.

773
00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:13.079
Manny: Sorry, I pulled up the wrong.

774
00:56:13.080 --> 00:56:14.380
Chuck: Any missing of the church money.

775
00:56:14.380 --> 00:56:15.749
Manny: Hey, here it goes.

776
00:56:15.750 --> 00:56:17.020
Jeezy: See?

777
00:56:17.020 --> 00:56:18.759
Manny: Michigan went red.

778
00:56:19.270 --> 00:56:20.030
Chuck: Okay.

779
00:56:20.340 --> 00:56:21.500
Chuck: Michigan.

780
00:56:21.710 --> 00:56:31.290
Chuck: would… has, as of 2024, has an estimated percentage of citizen population with passports, 39.7%.

781
00:56:31.430 --> 00:56:32.000
Manny: Hmm.

782
00:56:35.070 --> 00:56:36.010
Chuck: New Jersey.

783
00:56:36.720 --> 00:56:39.379
Manny: New Jersey Blue.

784
00:56:40.620 --> 00:56:48.420
Chuck: New Jersey has the highest estimated percentage of citizens with a passport at 79.9%.

785
00:56:48.680 --> 00:56:49.240
Jeezy: -Oh.

786
00:56:50.490 --> 00:56:52.830
Chuck: Let's go Washington State.

787
00:56:53.500 --> 00:56:54.620
Manny: Blue.

788
00:56:55.780 --> 00:57:00.289
Chuck: Washington State has an estimated percentage of 61.4%.

789
00:57:01.630 --> 00:57:04.969
Chuck: We… I'm not… California, New York.

790
00:57:05.200 --> 00:57:13.189
Chuck: are in the top 10. Oh, excuse me, they're in the top 5. So you have New Jersey, California, New York. What did Connecticut do?

791
00:57:14.190 --> 00:57:16.139
Manny: Connecticut was also blue.

792
00:57:16.730 --> 00:57:18.610
Chuck: 65.1%.

793
00:57:18.790 --> 00:57:20.940
Chuck: Let's go… what did Massachusetts do?

794
00:57:21.130 --> 00:57:24.210
Manny: Hmm. I'm gonna go with Azul.

795
00:57:25.950 --> 00:57:28.549
Chuck: And for those who didn't watch Dora, that's blue.

796
00:57:30.210 --> 00:57:33.440
Chuck: So your top 5 highest states.

797
00:57:33.960 --> 00:57:37.969
Chuck: New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut.

798
00:57:38.770 --> 00:57:40.039
Chuck: are all blue.

799
00:57:40.040 --> 00:57:41.710
Manny: But Texas there, right?

800
00:57:42.410 --> 00:57:43.740
Chuck: Oh, you want Texas?

801
00:57:43.740 --> 00:57:46.649
Jeezy: I was gonna throw a state that I was curious about.

802
00:57:46.650 --> 00:57:51.130
Chuck: Texas is at 54.8%. They aren't even in the top 15.

803
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.240
Chuck: Jeezy, give me a state you're curious about.

804
00:57:54.240 --> 00:57:55.250
Jeezy: Louisiana.

805
00:57:56.290 --> 00:57:57.660
Chuck: Louisiana.

806
00:57:57.910 --> 00:58:04.180
Chuck: Louisiana is in your… Bottom 6 at 30.4%.

807
00:58:04.180 --> 00:58:05.370
Jeezy: Also, also.

808
00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:13.949
Chuck: Matter of fact, I'll give you your bottom five, and I want you to… I want the listeners to guess what color their states voted.

809
00:58:14.430 --> 00:58:15.790
Chuck: West Virginia?

810
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:17.200
Chuck: Mississippi.

811
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:19.870
Chuck: Alabama, Arkansas.

812
00:58:20.200 --> 00:58:21.360
Chuck: Kentucky.

813
00:58:22.980 --> 00:58:24.790
Manny: So, all the SEC schools.

814
00:58:27.900 --> 00:58:28.420
Chuck: Yep.

815
00:58:28.420 --> 00:58:29.780
Manny: Okay.

816
00:58:29.780 --> 00:58:33.599
Jeezy: Listen, if you didn't get a chance, we'll help you. They all read.

817
00:58:34.140 --> 00:58:34.870
Chuck: They are real.

818
00:58:37.050 --> 00:58:39.800
Chuck: And I bring that point up to show.

819
00:58:40.460 --> 00:58:42.340
Chuck: You shooting yourself in the foot.

820
00:58:42.600 --> 00:58:49.630
Jeezy: That's exactly what I was about to say. Johnson, why are you… and that's why I said Louisiana, because Johnson is from there, but…

821
00:58:50.030 --> 00:58:59.609
Jeezy: I don't… I don't understand if the objective that you're… you're screaming is also… Your own demise.

822
00:58:59.890 --> 00:59:03.000
Manny: Oh. Yes. Oh. Oh, oh, but wait.

823
00:59:03.910 --> 00:59:06.400
Manny: What if I told you the SAVE Act

824
00:59:06.640 --> 00:59:09.799
Manny: was not about actually passing voter ID.

825
00:59:12.730 --> 00:59:15.309
Audio shared by Jeezy: I thought we were gonna go this whole episode without one.

826
00:59:16.760 --> 00:59:19.440
Chuck: Well, well, well. Well, well, well.

827
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:24.600
Manny: I didn't even have to call it… look, this is not tinfoil hat, this is just raw reality.

828
00:59:24.600 --> 00:59:25.620
Jeezy: It felt like it.

829
00:59:25.620 --> 00:59:26.179
Manny: It is true.

830
00:59:26.180 --> 00:59:27.310
Chuck: Indeed, indeed.

831
00:59:27.310 --> 00:59:34.740
Manny: So, the Heritage Foundation, which is a conservative think tank, they have an election fraud database.

832
00:59:35.070 --> 00:59:37.899
Manny: I would like you all to guess for me.

833
00:59:38.590 --> 00:59:46.509
Manny: How many incidents they have of non-citizens voting going all the way back to 2000.

834
00:59:46.910 --> 00:59:47.560
Jeezy: Wow.

835
00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:52.969
Chuck: If we're guessing, I'm gonna give you about 11 minutes.

836
00:59:52.970 --> 00:59:53.820
Manny: How's ears.

837
00:59:54.200 --> 00:59:54.630
Chuck: about…

838
00:59:54.630 --> 00:59:55.950
Manny: 6 years.

839
00:59:55.950 --> 01:00:03.370
Chuck: 26 years… I'll say about 100,000 incidents.

840
01:00:03.370 --> 01:00:04.090
Manny: Okay.

841
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:09.339
Manny: Geez, how many… how many do you think a conservative think tank had…

842
01:00:09.340 --> 01:00:10.889
Jeezy: I said, 100,000.

843
01:00:12.550 --> 01:00:17.199
Jeezy: I'mma go… $57,000.

844
01:00:18.240 --> 01:00:21.200
Manny: Y'all are both horribly, horribly wrong.

845
01:00:21.960 --> 01:00:23.159
Manny: It is. What's the numbers? It is.

846
01:00:23.430 --> 01:00:24.770
Manny: Wayne Gretzky.

847
01:00:25.830 --> 01:00:26.530
Chuck: 99?

848
01:00:26.530 --> 01:00:28.820
Manny: In 26 years.

849
01:00:28.820 --> 01:00:30.769
Jeezy: Bruh, come on now. See?

850
01:00:30.990 --> 01:00:32.039
Jeezy: Seeing that one…

851
01:00:32.040 --> 01:00:33.309
Manny: How you playing?

852
01:00:33.310 --> 01:00:34.840
Chuck: 99.

853
01:00:35.050 --> 01:00:36.329
Jeezy: Now y'all playing with the savings.

854
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:44.420
Manny: But this is not about… This is not about voting. This is a ballot-moving issue.

855
01:00:44.870 --> 01:00:45.950
Manny: What they're trying.

856
01:00:45.950 --> 01:00:46.480
Jeezy: If you would.

857
01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:52.180
Manny: At this point, because this needs 60 votes to pass, and I'll get to that point in a second.

858
01:00:52.180 --> 01:00:52.710
Jeezy: Yeah.

859
01:00:52.710 --> 01:00:56.590
Manny: But this is about having an election.

860
01:00:56.930 --> 01:01:05.169
Manny: having a vote to get people on record, so now I can go home heading into my election.

861
01:01:05.310 --> 01:01:20.080
Manny: and have something to run that 83% of… of U.S. citizen… U.S. American… sorry, U.S. Americans, that was… that was a weird word… Americans support voter ID.

862
01:01:20.490 --> 01:01:22.199
Manny: And this senator didn't.

863
01:01:23.110 --> 01:01:24.990
Manny: And that, Senator, but me, I…

864
01:01:25.370 --> 01:01:33.789
Manny: And they need something… at this point, they are trying to distract from the reality of the situation that they're in.

865
01:01:34.070 --> 01:01:49.270
Manny: to be able to try to run stuff. On top of that, so that's the first level of this. Second all is realizing this needs 60 votes to pass, and there's no way in hell they're getting it.

866
01:01:49.270 --> 01:01:51.430
Jeezy: I was about to say, the life of this thing is very short.

867
01:01:51.430 --> 01:01:58.410
Manny: Unless… Unless… this is the… this actually might have been the tinfoil hat moment of it all.

868
01:01:58.410 --> 01:01:58.910
Jeezy: -Oh.

869
01:02:04.870 --> 01:02:16.590
Manny: If they are trying… if… because there is so much public support for quote-unquote voter ID, they are going to try to eliminate the filibuster.

870
01:02:17.160 --> 01:02:22.310
Manny: on an issue that all Americans support, quote-unquote.

871
01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:29.949
Manny: To get rid of the filibuster, so this only now needs 51 votes to pass.

872
01:02:30.240 --> 01:02:40.560
Manny: And if they do that, then they are going to run some of the craziest, most outlandish legislation from now through Election Day.

873
01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:52.929
Manny: And I think that is now why the SAVE Act is Trump's top priority, is because he's trying to get rid of the filibuster so he doesn't… To open the door. …open the door

874
01:02:53.130 --> 01:02:59.440
Manny: for him to be able to do something, because they're not opening DHS anytime soon.

875
01:03:00.990 --> 01:03:06.219
Manny: They're… they're not gonna give him his power, so… to be able to continue the war, because what?

876
01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:13.530
Manny: they… wait, only about 5 or 6 more weeks before that funding, he needs official funding from Congress to continue this war.

877
01:03:13.770 --> 01:03:24.110
Manny: They have got to try to take out the filibuster to try to get things moving. And to try to do it with this issue provides them an opening for them to attempt to do it.

878
01:03:25.870 --> 01:03:30.030
Chuck: It's a very, very, strong point, man. Very strong point.

879
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:31.709
Chuck: Very strong point.

880
01:03:33.640 --> 01:03:36.129
Chuck: Lord, yeah. I'm sitting there like…

881
01:03:36.990 --> 01:03:42.199
Chuck: I'm, I'm, I'm… that was that 12-6 curveball.

882
01:03:42.200 --> 01:03:42.990
Jeezy: Bruh.

883
01:03:43.550 --> 01:03:48.430
Chuck: Yeah, or in hockey times, you put it through the wicker.

884
01:03:50.630 --> 01:03:51.730
Manny: So…

885
01:03:51.910 --> 01:03:53.240
Jeezy: Yeah, that's… that's crazy.

886
01:03:53.510 --> 01:04:03.699
Manny: It's the only way it… because why would it all of a sudden become Trump's top priority? You need to get authorization for this war, or you're about to run out of money.

887
01:04:04.590 --> 01:04:07.700
Manny: And you about to crash the economy for no reason.

888
01:04:08.110 --> 01:04:16.549
Manny: you can't get anything through Congress, because the filibuster is standing in your way. You need to be able to provide some type of cover.

889
01:04:17.110 --> 01:04:19.000
Manny: To get rid of the filibuster.

890
01:04:20.830 --> 01:04:22.549
Chuck: But… go ahead.

891
01:04:22.550 --> 01:04:23.629
Jeezy: No, go ahead, Trent, go ahead.

892
01:04:23.630 --> 01:04:24.829
Chuck: No, go ahead, brother, go ahead.

893
01:04:24.830 --> 01:04:27.330
Jeezy: I was gonna say, but in getting rid of that…

894
01:04:28.370 --> 01:04:33.669
Jeezy: And what the likely results may be for the 2026 midterm election.

895
01:04:35.470 --> 01:04:39.280
Jeezy: Are you… are you setting… aren't you just setting yourself up for failure?

896
01:04:41.170 --> 01:04:42.250
Manny: Well…

897
01:04:45.830 --> 01:04:49.210
Audio shared by Jeezy: Go ahead, going for a triple-double. Get that hat trick.

898
01:04:49.560 --> 01:04:52.030
Manny: It… if you get rid of the filibuster.

899
01:04:52.210 --> 01:04:55.469
Manny: You can now federalize the entire election.

900
01:04:56.640 --> 01:05:03.779
Manny: And who knows what a Trump-run, federally executed election ends up producing in terms of results?

901
01:05:03.950 --> 01:05:04.839
Chuck: Yes, we do.

902
01:05:04.990 --> 01:05:05.569
Chuck: We know.

903
01:05:05.570 --> 01:05:09.009
Manny: I'm sorry, we, yeah, we know exactly.

904
01:05:09.010 --> 01:05:10.630
Chuck: He's president now.

905
01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:11.680
Manny: Right.

906
01:05:12.060 --> 01:05:17.410
Manny: So, you put all the… You put every seat back into your control.

907
01:05:18.830 --> 01:05:24.510
Chuck: My only question on that is… How much… not how much…

908
01:05:25.830 --> 01:05:31.280
Chuck: How much of their friendship is still salvageable between Elon and Trump?

909
01:05:32.830 --> 01:05:34.320
Manny: As far as the money goes?

910
01:05:36.180 --> 01:05:39.560
Manny: Because one thing I know, I feel know about Elon Musk.

911
01:05:39.970 --> 01:05:40.830
Chuck: He's not gonna pass away.

912
01:05:40.830 --> 01:05:41.910
Manny: He's gonna try.

913
01:05:41.910 --> 01:05:42.360
Jeezy: That'd be with you.

914
01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:43.710
Manny: Money resides.

915
01:05:43.710 --> 01:05:46.790
Chuck: He's not gonna pass a book. He's not gonna pass a book.

916
01:05:47.070 --> 01:05:51.879
Manny: He said, you don't get to… how much he got, like, $800 billion now, allegedly?

917
01:05:52.170 --> 01:05:55.740
Manny: You don't get there by not looking for the money.

918
01:05:55.740 --> 01:06:01.160
Chuck: But he, he got some things to worry about. Well, we'll see if he got to worry about them.

919
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.290
Chuck: This is a little legal case.

920
01:06:03.290 --> 01:06:05.920
Jeezy: Yeah, you got a little bit of dirt, a little bit of dirt. A little bit of dirt.

921
01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:25.150
Manny: I think the cra… because I think what we'll see as this debate around the SAVE Act keeps ramping up is that, well, North Carolina made it a constitutional… they put it on the ballot as a constitutional amendment, and the people voted for it. But everyone seems to forget that that took 5 years of litigation.

922
01:06:25.860 --> 01:06:27.349
Manny: And it's only just now.

923
01:06:27.470 --> 01:06:30.139
Manny: And, Chuck, to the point that you made.

924
01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:36.210
Manny: with all these lines of the DMV and the implementation of the real ID,

925
01:06:36.370 --> 01:06:39.910
Manny: That they've been trying to do for at least 20-some-odd years.

926
01:06:39.910 --> 01:06:40.230
Jeezy: Yeah.

927
01:06:40.230 --> 01:06:43.000
Manny: It's just now even coming into play.

928
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:44.110
Chuck: Yeah.

929
01:06:44.450 --> 01:06:50.629
Manny: So what's the play here? Are we now going to go to some type of national ID situation?

930
01:06:51.910 --> 01:06:59.560
Chuck: Yeah, because I… I have my real ID, and the reason I got it was when I moved to Georgia.

931
01:06:59.870 --> 01:07:11.059
Chuck: because I don't think I had it in North Carolina, but when I moved to Georgia, and all the trips and traveling that I wanted to do, they were supposed to implement the requirement to have Real ID,

932
01:07:11.530 --> 01:07:13.020
Chuck: Doggone 5 years ago.

933
01:07:13.020 --> 01:07:13.910
Manny: Yep.

934
01:07:13.910 --> 01:07:23.670
Chuck: Where you had to have it to get on an airplane. And even to now, they kind of backpedaled a bit to, oh, you can get on, but you gotta pay an extra fee.

935
01:07:23.790 --> 01:07:24.820
Chuck: What?

936
01:07:25.650 --> 01:07:44.609
Chuck: It doesn't make sense, but you make some very strong points there, Manny, particularly the killing of the filibuster. I hadn't even thought about that, because Trump definitely has, been screaming the notion that the SAVE Act has to get done, it has to get pushed through.

937
01:07:45.060 --> 01:07:51.869
Manny: Well, and he's also said the passage of the SAVE Act will guarantee the midterms for Republicans.

938
01:07:52.010 --> 01:07:54.900
Manny: How would it How does that guarantee it, Donald?

939
01:07:54.900 --> 01:08:01.679
Chuck: And the last time… the last time he talked about a guarantee and not worrying about poll numbers, we saw what happened.

940
01:08:01.680 --> 01:08:02.120
Manny: What happened?

941
01:08:03.000 --> 01:08:06.040
Chuck: We saw what happened. Now, at this point.

942
01:08:06.040 --> 01:08:13.669
Manny: Now, I think it's important to also denote at this point, there does not seem to be the appetite

943
01:08:13.870 --> 01:08:26.510
Manny: to get rid of the filibuster. The only change that's really being floated now, just recently, around changes to the filibuster, is a proposed standing

944
01:08:26.850 --> 01:08:36.429
Manny: Filibuster, and it is a parliamentary procedure that would require senators must physically stand on the floor to filibuster.

945
01:08:37.210 --> 01:08:39.720
Chuck: We know how old most of them are, so…

946
01:08:39.729 --> 01:08:41.699
Manny: Right, so, ain't no… ain't no hate.

947
01:08:41.700 --> 01:08:42.520
Jeezy: No one ain't.

948
01:08:42.529 --> 01:09:00.989
Manny: I'm gonna hand… I'm gonna briefly hand my time to my colleague, to… to talk so I can go pee and grab me a pack of, nabs from… from my office real quick and come back, or I'm gonna sit down. But that is… that is the only thing that's being floated around…

949
01:09:01.129 --> 01:09:02.669
Manny: the filibuster.

950
01:09:02.670 --> 01:09:06.760
Jeezy: Well, I can think about 5 or 6 different things they need to be standing up for instead of worrying about that.

951
01:09:07.090 --> 01:09:10.050
Manny: First up, they need to be standing up for the Word of God.

952
01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:16.320
Chuck: But, you know, I… to that point…

953
01:09:16.660 --> 01:09:26.170
Chuck: To that point, I also think the issue… not the issue, but you run into an issue when you have to let too many people know your plan.

954
01:09:27.689 --> 01:09:30.299
Chuck: And so, in this…

955
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:43.279
Chuck: This is my own theory, everyone. Yes, I think there was some espionage going on with the 2024 elections. I don't care what anybody says, the numbers don't look right.

956
01:09:43.990 --> 01:09:53.029
Chuck: And for him to throw a guarantee out there in regards to the midterms, we start to see the results of…

957
01:09:53.260 --> 01:10:05.809
Chuck: Hey, there's a storm brewing up ahead for the GOP in regards to the midterms. I'm not gonna call it a blue wave. Last time they called it a blue wave, it was just a tidal pool of water.

958
01:10:06.020 --> 01:10:07.840
Chuck: That was blue.

959
01:10:07.840 --> 01:10:11.980
Manny: The car wash. The blue cannonball. Yeah.

960
01:10:11.980 --> 01:10:16.540
Chuck: So, so in that, I'm definitely… but there are,

961
01:10:16.790 --> 01:10:28.389
Chuck: signs that there could be massive changes, but for him to get people on board, he's gonna have to open up his mouth and say, hey, this is my plan, and then you start doing that.

962
01:10:28.510 --> 01:10:29.989
Chuck: We start causing…

963
01:10:30.350 --> 01:10:31.090
Manny: Well, I think…

964
01:10:31.090 --> 01:10:31.850
Chuck: We started seeing it?

965
01:10:31.850 --> 01:10:34.020
Jeezy: boy Elon started coming back around.

966
01:10:34.330 --> 01:10:35.060
Manny: I think he's.

967
01:10:35.060 --> 01:10:35.749
Chuck: Oh, you already knew.

968
01:10:35.780 --> 01:10:38.530
Manny: I think he's already started to do that.

969
01:10:39.700 --> 01:10:52.710
Manny: Again, back to my theory, Congresswoman Anna Luna, out of Florida, she called the SAVE Act the only way to resolve the DHS funding dispute.

970
01:10:54.350 --> 01:10:56.330
Manny: It's the only way. Why would that.

971
01:10:56.330 --> 01:10:57.040
Chuck: The only way.

972
01:10:57.040 --> 01:10:59.350
Manny: Must that be the only way?

973
01:11:01.320 --> 01:11:04.519
Manny: So, but ultimately, as it stands right now.

974
01:11:05.460 --> 01:11:08.900
Manny: Ain't, ain't no way they're getting to 60.

975
01:11:08.900 --> 01:11:10.030
Jeezy: Yeah.

976
01:11:10.030 --> 01:11:11.960
Manny: Zero chance they're getting to 60.

977
01:11:12.110 --> 01:11:14.919
Manny: So, how you gonna make this happen?

978
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:17.030
Manny: Either you just concentrate…

979
01:11:17.030 --> 01:11:17.600
Jeezy: treachery.

980
01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:27.180
Manny: Right, either you just want it as campaign fodder, or you're getting ready to try to do a major structural upheaval across the system.

981
01:11:27.390 --> 01:11:30.579
Manny: That is going to cause a level of whiplash.

982
01:11:31.370 --> 01:11:36.170
Manny: From now till forever, because after we get rid of the filibuster, it's not coming back.

983
01:11:36.170 --> 01:11:37.379
Jeezy: Yep. Yep.

984
01:11:37.380 --> 01:11:42.840
Manny: Because as soon as the… and I'm against doing this no matter who's in office. Yeah.

985
01:11:43.040 --> 01:11:59.050
Manny: you know, the Senate was forced to be a body where there had to be some level of agreeance or bipartisan working. That's why it's always worked as the upper chamber. Now, if we're going to simple majority out of the office, we… we nerf.

986
01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:03.340
Manny: It's just… it becomes an extended version of the house.

987
01:12:03.780 --> 01:12:05.429
Jeezy: Yeah, once you open that door.

988
01:12:06.250 --> 01:12:07.970
Manny: Can't put the Ginny back in the bottle.

989
01:12:07.970 --> 01:12:10.470
Jeezy: Let me tell you… You can't, so…

990
01:12:10.470 --> 01:12:12.069
Chuck: Not even if you're Britney Spears.

991
01:12:12.660 --> 01:12:14.120
Chuck: Ain't that Jenny in the bottom?

992
01:12:14.120 --> 01:12:15.140
Manny: No, that was the.

993
01:12:15.140 --> 01:12:15.640
Jeezy: aggregator.

994
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:16.799
Manny: How's Christina Guilera.

995
01:12:17.030 --> 01:12:18.720
Chuck: Say a difference.

996
01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:21.189
Manny: Come through contact.

997
01:12:21.190 --> 01:12:21.740
Jeezy: It ain't different.

998
01:12:22.350 --> 01:12:25.900
Chuck: And in Montana. Look.

999
01:12:25.900 --> 01:12:39.569
Jeezy: Exactly. Well, it's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out, and I think that as we slowly start creeping, towards November, the ramping up of this SAVE Act will be, on a whole nother level.

1000
01:12:39.790 --> 01:12:47.219
Jeezy: So we'll see, and as Manny stated, there isn't a current appetite for it, as far as the 60 votes, but…

1001
01:12:47.940 --> 01:12:51.589
Jeezy: On this rollercoaster ride, Anything can happen.

1002
01:12:51.870 --> 01:12:53.970
Manny: And if you're listening to this.

1003
01:12:54.100 --> 01:13:03.349
Manny: Tell us… tell us what you think the impacts will be in your state. Because obviously this is going to keep going for the next couple weeks, so tell us about the impacts in your state.

1004
01:13:03.730 --> 01:13:09.579
Manny: Or if you want to hear us talk about what we think the impacts will be for your state specifically, let us know.

1005
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:16.570
Jeezy: Hey, if y'all on that bottom 5 or 6 that Chuck gave y'all, y'all better… y'all better start.

1006
01:13:16.570 --> 01:13:16.950
Manny: Yeah, sorry.

1007
01:13:16.950 --> 01:13:17.640
Jeezy: forms now.

1008
01:13:17.640 --> 01:13:26.089
Manny: Better… because you're dependent on another government agency to provide you paperwork to go take it to another government agency. Another government agency.

1009
01:13:26.440 --> 01:13:29.259
Chuck: Basically. And all these things cost money.

1010
01:13:29.270 --> 01:13:29.780
Jeezy: Hmm.

1011
01:13:29.780 --> 01:13:30.420
Manny: of them.

1012
01:13:30.580 --> 01:13:31.240
Manny: I think…

1013
01:13:31.240 --> 01:13:32.170
Jeezy: How much egg.

1014
01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:39.370
Manny: To get my, to get my certified birth certificate from…

1015
01:13:40.440 --> 01:13:46.539
Manny: I think it was, like, $30 to get the certified copy. Regular copy would have been, like, $10.

1016
01:13:46.540 --> 01:13:50.909
Chuck: Just to get… just to get a raised seal. Yeah. Clamp it.

1017
01:13:50.910 --> 01:13:52.660
Jeezy: Got a little bit thicker of a piece of paper.

1018
01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:58.119
Chuck: Hey, I got a… I got a little nugget for y'all. I actually have my original birth certificate.

1019
01:13:58.370 --> 01:13:58.820
Jeezy: Oh, wow.

1020
01:13:58.820 --> 01:13:59.830
Manny: Wow.

1021
01:13:59.830 --> 01:14:01.609
Chuck: Yeah, man.

1022
01:14:01.860 --> 01:14:02.539
Jeezy: Say that, bro.

1023
01:14:02.760 --> 01:14:03.689
Chuck: It looks like.

1024
01:14:03.690 --> 01:14:04.700
Manny: I know…

1025
01:14:04.700 --> 01:14:05.969
Chuck: But I got my original.

1026
01:14:05.970 --> 01:14:07.139
Jeezy: I started turning yellow.

1027
01:14:07.420 --> 01:14:12.160
Manny: Yellow, brown…

1028
01:14:13.530 --> 01:14:15.799
Chuck: We do a little carbon diocese.

1029
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:16.160
Jeezy: almost.

1030
01:14:17.880 --> 01:14:19.310
Manny: Not Meso.

1031
01:14:20.760 --> 01:14:29.569
Jeezy: But yeah, hey man, that stuff costs, man. Let me tell you. And so, even in the short span of time you're looking between now and November, it'll be here before you know it.

1032
01:14:30.360 --> 01:14:35.630
Jeezy: That's a lot. That is a lot. And I just think that it's interesting that…

1033
01:14:36.110 --> 01:14:38.010
Jeezy: You don't have to do all that to be president.

1034
01:14:39.870 --> 01:14:40.760
Chuck: I don't know.

1035
01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:41.290
Manny: No.

1036
01:14:41.750 --> 01:14:46.909
Manny: Well, no, Donald kept calling for, Obama to show his, his certificate.

1037
01:14:46.910 --> 01:14:48.329
Jeezy: But he was already president.

1038
01:14:49.140 --> 01:14:49.660
Manny: He was.

1039
01:14:49.660 --> 01:14:50.979
Chuck: He was already…

1040
01:14:50.980 --> 01:14:51.610
Jeezy: Crazy.

1041
01:14:52.470 --> 01:14:53.080
Jeezy: So…

1042
01:14:53.080 --> 01:14:54.230
Chuck: He showed it.

1043
01:14:54.230 --> 01:14:55.060
Jeezy: Did you show it?

1044
01:14:55.240 --> 01:14:56.119
Chuck: He showed it.

1045
01:14:56.120 --> 01:14:58.330
Jeezy: And just for our listeners out there.

1046
01:14:58.870 --> 01:15:03.030
Jeezy: I wouldn't try to find a shortcut when it comes to this birth certificate thing, so…

1047
01:15:03.030 --> 01:15:03.849
Manny: I would not advise that.

1048
01:15:03.850 --> 01:15:10.150
Jeezy: photo in your phone, a copy you printed off the internet, off Ancestry.com, ain't gonna cut it.

1049
01:15:10.150 --> 01:15:10.520
Manny: Hmm.

1050
01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:14.449
Chuck: Sue May and Marianne, they're gonna be.

1051
01:15:14.450 --> 01:15:14.810
Jeezy: Yeah, stick with it.

1052
01:15:14.810 --> 01:15:15.760
Chuck: for it now.

1053
01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:20.500
Jeezy: Let me tell you, them old ladies down at the voting pole, bruh, they don't play.

1054
01:15:20.500 --> 01:15:21.080
Manny: and play that.

1055
01:15:21.080 --> 01:15:24.740
Chuck: You gonna have a certified copy, and they still gonna question it.

1056
01:15:24.740 --> 01:15:25.670
Jeezy: Oh, bruh, come on.

1057
01:15:26.040 --> 01:15:27.259
Jeezy: Pulled it up to the light.

1058
01:15:27.260 --> 01:15:28.730
Chuck: Yeah, why has it got bumps on there?

1059
01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:35.469
Jeezy: Somebody gonna hold it up to that light, run their finger across that seal, that seal ain't raised up good enough.

1060
01:15:35.470 --> 01:15:42.359
Chuck: Your color is… Yours is different from mine. Yeah, you was born 57 years before I was.

1061
01:15:42.360 --> 01:15:42.710
Jeezy: Good.

1062
01:15:43.810 --> 01:15:46.280
Jeezy: The doctor put it down at your bedside when you…

1063
01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:47.150
Chuck: Mama again.

1064
01:15:47.150 --> 01:15:48.470
Jeezy: gave birth to you in the house.

1065
01:15:48.780 --> 01:15:52.410
Chuck: It almost has ink on it. Mine is typed out.

1066
01:15:52.410 --> 01:15:56.210
Manny: Man, they don't… we don't use typewriters anymore.

1067
01:15:56.210 --> 01:16:03.740
Jeezy: Yeah, I got… I was born back… I had a doctor present, you had a midwife, old school midwife, your aunt.

1068
01:16:03.980 --> 01:16:05.279
Chuck: a doula.

1069
01:16:05.280 --> 01:16:14.500
Jeezy: But yeah, man, what to say that, we'll see what happens, and we'll certainly hear Partner Politics keep our eye on it.

1070
01:16:14.670 --> 01:16:19.859
Jeezy: As our last segment, before we get into, my Pickle of the week, you guys know…

1071
01:16:20.390 --> 01:16:22.060
Jeezy: We gotta give you an update.

1072
01:16:22.790 --> 01:16:24.150
Jeezy: Owned a good old war.

1073
01:16:24.580 --> 01:16:26.090
Chuck: Boy, oh boy.

1074
01:16:26.110 --> 01:16:27.510
Manny: Is this, is it a warrior?

1075
01:16:27.510 --> 01:16:29.619
Chuck: Is it a… I think it's still a conflict.

1076
01:16:29.620 --> 01:16:30.010
Manny: Oh, yeah.

1077
01:16:30.010 --> 01:16:31.170
Jeezy: Yeah…

1078
01:16:31.420 --> 01:16:33.120
Chuck: Operation Epic Failure.

1079
01:16:34.010 --> 01:16:35.220
Jeezy: Perfect.

1080
01:16:35.580 --> 01:16:35.930
Manny: Yeah.

1081
01:16:35.930 --> 01:16:36.690
Audio shared by Jeezy: Message!

1082
01:16:37.400 --> 01:16:38.230
Manny: Yep.

1083
01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:47.540
Jeezy: Well, for one, before I start, have we gotten any confirmation if Big Ben is still with us, or has he gone home to be wherever he's supposed to go?

1084
01:16:47.540 --> 01:16:54.059
Chuck: It depends on your level of AI intellect, because…

1085
01:16:54.390 --> 01:16:56.869
Chuck: The Facebook audience could be fooled.

1086
01:16:57.710 --> 01:16:58.150
Jeezy: Oh, bruh.

1087
01:16:58.150 --> 01:17:01.100
Manny: Oh. Oh, but this Twitter audience?

1088
01:17:01.100 --> 01:17:02.739
Chuck: But it's with the audience.

1089
01:17:02.740 --> 01:17:03.910
Manny: Ain't having it.

1090
01:17:03.910 --> 01:17:09.210
Jeezy: Well, Facebook and Twitter, or X, are two different… two different landscapes, bruh.

1091
01:17:09.210 --> 01:17:10.960
Chuck: Two completely different landscapes.

1092
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:26.969
Jeezy: You can get on… you can get on Facebook and say that the Lord has cracked the sky at this moment, and there's gonna be at least about 3,000 posts that's gonna go that's gonna go look out their curtain and repost. The Lord has come back, y'all, and they ain't looked out the window at the sky one bit.

1093
01:17:28.090 --> 01:17:32.199
Manny: That… and share the message, and share it with 10 of your followers.

1094
01:17:32.200 --> 01:17:37.399
Jeezy: Facebook, but people believe… Bruh, people believe anything on Facebook, bruh.

1095
01:17:37.400 --> 01:17:41.220
Chuck: You need to like and share this to make sure you get caught up in the rapture.

1096
01:17:41.220 --> 01:17:49.339
Jeezy: That's why I don't… please, if you're listening, don't get your news off Facebook, bruh. We were a proper people.

1097
01:17:49.340 --> 01:17:50.600
Chuck: Oh, yes, sir. Yes, sir.

1098
01:17:51.180 --> 01:17:55.250
Jeezy: You had to have a college email address.

1099
01:17:55.250 --> 01:17:56.540
Chuck: To be on fence.

1100
01:17:56.540 --> 01:18:10.029
Jeezy: When y'all open it up and let grandma, grandpa, uncle, who got a GED and don't do nothing but drink Budweis all day, once you start letting them get on social media, we would not be in the position we are now

1101
01:18:10.260 --> 01:18:13.670
Jeezy: If we were proper people, and we kept Facebook safe.

1102
01:18:14.380 --> 01:18:25.770
Chuck: Every Sunday, my family, we do a family Zoom call. I've been doing it since COVID days, to protect my grandmother back then. Now, just to make sure she stays connected with everybody.

1103
01:18:25.960 --> 01:18:30.069
Chuck: And every Sunday, my grandmother tells us something that she read on Facebook.

1104
01:18:30.070 --> 01:18:30.770
Jeezy: Bruh.

1105
01:18:30.770 --> 01:18:31.830
Chuck: And every Sunday.

1106
01:18:31.830 --> 01:18:32.320
Manny: See, bro.

1107
01:18:32.320 --> 01:18:32.850
Chuck: off.

1108
01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:34.119
Manny: That ain't true.

1109
01:18:35.860 --> 01:18:38.940
Chuck: Grandma, you gotta, you gotta stop.

1110
01:18:39.250 --> 01:18:44.940
Jeezy: I had somebody one time tell me that Stevie Wonder had died, and it was a picture of Moesha Daddy. I said, brother, then come on…

1111
01:18:45.380 --> 01:18:46.290
Chuck: No.

1112
01:18:46.290 --> 01:18:46.610
Jeezy: Good morning.

1113
01:18:46.610 --> 01:18:48.700
Chuck: you need to say No…

1114
01:18:48.700 --> 01:18:49.060
Manny: Bruh.

1115
01:18:49.060 --> 01:18:50.220
Jeezy: Jimmy!

1116
01:18:50.220 --> 01:18:53.449
Chuck: No… Oh, my lord.

1117
01:18:53.720 --> 01:18:57.750
Jeezy: The misinformation's up there, bro. They ain't got no type of censor over there, bro.

1118
01:18:57.960 --> 01:19:03.859
Chuck: But you know what's crazy? My grandma don't even know the name of it. She just says, yeah, I just pressed the F, the blue F on my phone.

1119
01:19:03.860 --> 01:19:05.100
Jeezy: Holy breath.

1120
01:19:06.430 --> 01:19:10.380
Chuck: Alright, let's start talking about my grandma, though. I'm talking about my grandma. I'm sensitive about my grandma.

1121
01:19:10.730 --> 01:19:12.349
Jeezy: Bruh. Oh, boy.

1122
01:19:12.990 --> 01:19:14.069
Jeezy: Man, that's funny.

1123
01:19:14.130 --> 01:19:15.590
Manny: But yeah, man.

1124
01:19:17.200 --> 01:19:23.969
Jeezy: Big Benny, I don't know if he's still with us or not, the verdict is still out, but according to the interwebs.

1125
01:19:24.740 --> 01:19:27.319
Chuck: Everybody else says he's dead but the U.S. and Israel.

1126
01:19:27.320 --> 01:19:27.850
Jeezy: Yep.

1127
01:19:28.910 --> 01:19:34.679
Chuck: Everybody else. Everybody. And even… even he… That's right.

1128
01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:36.139
Jeezy: Trump ain't said nothing.

1129
01:19:36.470 --> 01:19:38.480
Chuck: That tells me he did.

1130
01:19:38.480 --> 01:19:39.290
Manny: Word to him.

1131
01:19:39.290 --> 01:19:40.429
Chuck: Tells me he did.

1132
01:19:40.430 --> 01:19:42.759
Jeezy: As much as he was coming over here going to Washington.

1133
01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:44.710
Jeezy: I gotta start thinking he dead.

1134
01:19:45.310 --> 01:19:49.429
Manny: And the speed of the analysis of these videos…

1135
01:19:49.430 --> 01:19:50.740
Jeezy: Bro, jeez.

1136
01:19:50.740 --> 01:19:52.910
Manny: Lightning fast, like…

1137
01:19:53.580 --> 01:19:55.320
Chuck: Immediate.

1138
01:19:55.320 --> 01:20:05.659
Manny: And I'm like, y'all, this is the same inter… y'all trying to fool the same interwebs that Netflix did an entire documentary on.

1139
01:20:05.660 --> 01:20:06.500
Chuck: Entireback.

1140
01:20:06.500 --> 01:20:08.110
Manny: with cats. Bruh.

1141
01:20:09.050 --> 01:20:15.820
Jeezy: There are some people out here that dedicate. They… after they finish their 9 to 5, they coming home and they breaking this stuff down.

1142
01:20:16.670 --> 01:20:20.059
Manny: There's people just got the alert up from.

1143
01:20:20.060 --> 01:20:20.560
Jeezy: Hey, bro.

1144
01:20:20.560 --> 01:20:22.159
Manny: when Netanyahu.

1145
01:20:22.160 --> 01:20:22.530
Jeezy: Yeah.

1146
01:20:22.530 --> 01:20:24.669
Manny: Israel tweet… oh, we got a video? Hold on.

1147
01:20:25.730 --> 01:20:28.100
Manny: Hmm, let's break this down frame by frame.

1148
01:20:28.100 --> 01:20:34.729
Jeezy: No matter how quick you edit, how quick you take off, if it's been up there 5 seconds, somebody done seen it long enough to announce it.

1149
01:20:34.730 --> 01:20:40.140
Chuck: And what's crazy is the videos, especially the early ones.

1150
01:20:40.360 --> 01:20:44.809
Chuck: were calls of response to what the internet was saying.

1151
01:20:44.810 --> 01:20:45.700
Jeezy: Yep.

1152
01:20:45.700 --> 01:20:47.079
Chuck: That in itself tells me.

1153
01:20:47.080 --> 01:20:48.290
Jeezy: Tell you everything you need to know.

1154
01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:54.569
Chuck: everything you need to know. Oh, you making videos to try to counter the points that we've already said.

1155
01:20:55.000 --> 01:20:56.380
Chuck: As a response.

1156
01:20:56.380 --> 01:20:57.420
Jeezy: And making it worse.

1157
01:20:57.440 --> 01:21:00.530
Chuck: You already lost. You already lost.

1158
01:21:00.530 --> 01:21:02.589
Jeezy: Well, Big Benny, if you're still with us.

1159
01:21:03.110 --> 01:21:06.880
Manny: We'd love to have you on the pod. Contact the pod. Come talk to boys.

1160
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:11.099
Jeezy: Don't, don't come here and make it, make yourself at home.

1161
01:21:11.620 --> 01:21:14.509
Manny: We'll take that, bye-bye.

1162
01:21:14.510 --> 01:21:15.900
Chuck: Y'all got it?

1163
01:21:15.900 --> 01:21:26.190
Jeezy: All you gotta do is just say, I'm here, and then that's it. Just roll by the house and blow the horn, like my grandma used to say. Let me know you're all right. Just roll by and blow the horn.

1164
01:21:26.650 --> 01:21:30.340
Jeezy: But when it comes to the war, we got something interesting that's coming up, fellas.

1165
01:21:31.020 --> 01:21:37.320
Jeezy: Trump has given Iran a 48-hour ultimatum, which… That's fine.

1166
01:21:37.640 --> 01:21:39.050
Manny: Countdown.

1167
01:21:39.050 --> 01:21:43.780
Jeezy: release of this episode, I believe that will be the end of the 48-hour.

1168
01:21:44.130 --> 01:21:48.969
Jeezy: ultimatum, but Trump has threatened to obliterate Iran's, power plants.

1169
01:21:49.290 --> 01:21:53.390
Jeezy: The demand is that he reopened, they reopened the strait.

1170
01:21:53.610 --> 01:22:11.130
Jeezy: And as we know, the Strait controls about 20% of the global oil supply, as well as other things. There was a video I saw this past week where they were talking about it's not even just about the oil. A lot of the sulfur that the farmers in South Africa depend on come through there as well, too.

1171
01:22:11.250 --> 01:22:12.280
Jeezy: So there…

1172
01:22:12.280 --> 01:22:14.659
Chuck: fertilizer here in the U.S.

1173
01:22:14.660 --> 01:22:20.850
Jeezy: Yep, so it ain't just about the oil, there's a lot of global implications with the strait.

1174
01:22:20.980 --> 01:22:27.759
Jeezy: But Iran said, 48 hours, you can make it 1 hour. We ain't gotta wait 48 hours.

1175
01:22:28.410 --> 01:22:30.940
Chuck: You can make it 48 seconds.

1176
01:22:30.940 --> 01:22:38.049
Jeezy: You've been making 48 seconds, we don't care. In the words of King Curtis, we're not listening to your rules anymore.

1177
01:22:38.790 --> 01:22:42.189
Jeezy: We ain't worried about them for that. And this is the thing I don't understand about Trump.

1178
01:22:42.920 --> 01:22:44.119
Jeezy: Threats don't work.

1179
01:22:44.950 --> 01:22:47.039
Jeezy: They don't… first of all, who are you?

1180
01:22:47.220 --> 01:22:51.759
Jeezy: Who are you? That you scare?

1181
01:22:51.870 --> 01:23:01.760
Jeezy: people that much. You strike fear in people's hearts so much that, oh, we gotta do something in 48 hours, or Trump's gonna obliterate. Obliterate it! Do what you gotta do. Iran's standing on business.

1182
01:23:02.220 --> 01:23:02.840
Chuck: Home business.

1183
01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:07.319
Jeezy: You see, same thing with the Democrats. If you, if you don't do anything about,

1184
01:23:07.470 --> 01:23:14.050
Jeezy: TSA and the funding, ICE is going into the airports on Monday. Democrats say, okay, and…

1185
01:23:14.510 --> 01:23:17.339
Manny: I… I think what triggered this…

1186
01:23:17.610 --> 01:23:34.099
Manny: well, lots of things. You could go to Qatar getting their, liquid nitro… natural gas lines getting hit, but what I think triggered this whole deadline is when Iran launched that,

1187
01:23:34.100 --> 01:23:38.369
Manny: Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile at Diego Garcia.

1188
01:23:38.750 --> 01:23:54.429
Manny: I… and I believe when historians will… depending on how this 48-hour thing plays out, historians will look at that attack, or attempted attack, on Diego Garcia as the situ… the scenario where it really started to escalate.

1189
01:23:54.610 --> 01:24:06.860
Manny: And why I say that is… Iran has long believed… it's been long believed that Iran could only really strike with, I think it's about 2,000 kilometers away from it.

1190
01:24:07.550 --> 01:24:14.369
Manny: Diego Garcia, I believe, is further in the Indian Ocean, but it's, like, 3,000 kilometers.

1191
01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:19.530
Manny: So, if Iran was able to get its missile over there.

1192
01:24:19.960 --> 01:24:36.180
Manny: oh, this is another turn that the U.S. was not prepared for. They're like, oh, they can hit a lot… a lot more of our assets. A lot… from my understanding, there is a lot of U.S. assets in between that $2,000 to $3,000 range that we felt as though was safe.

1193
01:24:36.690 --> 01:24:40.290
Manny: Now, Pull all of that into question.

1194
01:24:40.410 --> 01:24:42.780
Manny: So now it is now an escalation.

1195
01:24:43.420 --> 01:24:51.819
Chuck: Well, everything has been put into question since day one. True, true, facts. Like, what… I question, what was your plan?

1196
01:24:52.480 --> 01:24:56.109
Chuck: What was your course of action and attack?

1197
01:24:56.110 --> 01:24:56.929
Jeezy: Does the concept count?

1198
01:24:56.930 --> 01:25:05.310
Manny: He had a plan. I do believe, wholeheartedly, that Trump had a plan.

1199
01:25:05.390 --> 01:25:06.850
Chuck: Well, what did Mike Tyson say?

1200
01:25:06.850 --> 01:25:26.710
Manny: It was the wrong plan, and it did not survive first contact with the enemy, but I believe there… I think in Trump's mind, he thought, I'm gonna… we're gonna take out the leader and his round circle… round table, and the people are gonna rise up in Iran and take over the country, and we're gonna be done in 48 hours.

1201
01:25:26.710 --> 01:25:28.049
Jeezy: That was a dope one thing. I think…

1202
01:25:28.350 --> 01:25:34.800
Chuck: And Mike Tyson said… Mike Tyson said, everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

1203
01:25:35.270 --> 01:25:35.980
Manny: Yep.

1204
01:25:36.370 --> 01:25:41.440
Chuck: And in some of the research, and shout out to the New York Times.

1205
01:25:41.590 --> 01:25:45.329
Chuck: In assisting in some of this research, I found out that

1206
01:25:45.510 --> 01:25:49.179
Chuck: Yes, that probably was their plan, because that…

1207
01:25:49.300 --> 01:25:53.080
Chuck: That was an… that's an old adage of the U.S. military.

1208
01:25:53.080 --> 01:25:53.850
Jeezy: Yeah.

1209
01:25:53.850 --> 01:25:55.350
Chuck: They did it in Iraq.

1210
01:25:56.060 --> 01:25:57.769
Chuck: And Iran learned from Iraq.

1211
01:25:59.230 --> 01:26:01.960
Chuck: So, their leadership and their…

1212
01:26:02.500 --> 01:26:08.319
Chuck: leader, their workings were spread out. We didn't have everybody in the same space.

1213
01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:12.369
Chuck: And… One thing that they, they show…

1214
01:26:12.630 --> 01:26:17.560
Chuck: after the Ayatollah was killed, was that they already had in place

1215
01:26:17.950 --> 01:26:21.300
Chuck: If this happens… which they already knew he was dying.

1216
01:26:21.700 --> 01:26:22.460
Jeezy: Yeah.

1217
01:26:22.460 --> 01:26:24.000
Chuck: He was dying!

1218
01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:25.320
Jeezy: He was, like, pushing close to 90, won't.

1219
01:26:25.320 --> 01:26:26.070
Manny: Yeah.

1220
01:26:26.070 --> 01:26:29.110
Chuck: Yes, and he had cancer, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.

1221
01:26:29.110 --> 01:26:31.229
Manny: I think… something… something of the sorts.

1222
01:26:31.280 --> 01:26:42.050
Chuck: Yeah, so there were already plans in place in my passing. We have things set up. We have a council of three.

1223
01:26:42.580 --> 01:26:48.629
Chuck: that will be making decisions until there's a new Supreme Leader selected.

1224
01:26:48.850 --> 01:26:52.190
Jeezy: Well, I think the thing, when you… to your point, Chuck, is…

1225
01:26:52.880 --> 01:27:02.620
Jeezy: Even if they had a plan, they certainly didn't have the knowledge or wherewithal to execute any plan, because if you look at the structure.

1226
01:27:02.730 --> 01:27:05.350
Jeezy: of Iran's… government.

1227
01:27:06.010 --> 01:27:21.279
Jeezy: there's no way you could just take out the leader and think that that was gonna end anything. Right, facts. Like, it's a very complex structure, like, with a lot of branches. I mean, you'd have to completely wipe out the entire tree to change for true change.

1228
01:27:21.640 --> 01:27:29.210
Manny: it's almost like they looked at how the U.S. has stuff set up, and said, huh, if it works for them.

1229
01:27:29.520 --> 01:27:30.160
Manny: It's…

1230
01:27:30.160 --> 01:27:30.710
Chuck: Yeah.

1231
01:27:30.710 --> 01:27:36.369
Manny: Probably… and been battle-tested, we should probably have some level of the same.

1232
01:27:37.350 --> 01:27:39.229
Jeezy: Well, that plan went…

1233
01:27:39.280 --> 01:27:51.349
Manny: Well, it's… again, we said it… we said it when this started, that Trump went into Iran with the same game plan that Putin had going into Ukraine.

1234
01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:55.069
Manny: They thought this was gonna be… because even we did.

1235
01:27:55.070 --> 01:27:55.680
Jeezy: Whoa.

1236
01:27:55.680 --> 01:28:00.949
Manny: Yeah, even we did. Like, when Russia went in, I was like, well, this is gonna be done in 3 days.

1237
01:28:00.950 --> 01:28:01.730
Jeezy: Yeah.

1238
01:28:01.730 --> 01:28:03.620
Manny: Here we are, 4 years later.

1239
01:28:04.460 --> 01:28:08.530
Chuck: I thought that for Ukraine and Russia. Yeah, I didn't think that for us in Iran.

1240
01:28:08.530 --> 01:28:12.979
Manny: Oh, no, I think we learned… we learned better at this point, and said, oh no.

1241
01:28:13.450 --> 01:28:18.579
Chuck: No, I didn't even need that. I told y'all before, when we…

1242
01:28:18.950 --> 01:28:23.789
Chuck: hit them, when Israel hit them the first time, and they shot back.

1243
01:28:24.740 --> 01:28:27.560
Chuck: And they… they let that yapper sing that first time?

1244
01:28:28.570 --> 01:28:30.949
Chuck: That… that let me know then

1245
01:28:31.540 --> 01:28:40.220
Chuck: Oh, they already… they prepared for whatever's coming next. They're prepared, they're ready, and we have to come correct, because

1246
01:28:40.780 --> 01:28:43.680
Chuck: What gassed him up was Venezuela.

1247
01:28:44.190 --> 01:28:44.840
Manny: Oh, yeah.

1248
01:28:45.410 --> 01:28:52.070
Chuck: Oh, what gassed them up is, oh, we dipped in this first time to bomb, and I think Iran set us up.

1249
01:28:52.710 --> 01:28:56.840
Chuck: I think they set us up, because, as we discussed before.

1250
01:28:57.110 --> 01:28:58.860
Chuck: A lot of that stuff was moved.

1251
01:28:59.300 --> 01:28:59.770
Jeezy: Yep.

1252
01:28:59.770 --> 01:29:00.610
Manny: Yep.

1253
01:29:00.610 --> 01:29:06.410
Chuck: stuff at all. Satellite images shows trucks moving back and forth from some of those facilities.

1254
01:29:06.540 --> 01:29:09.180
Chuck: They knew it was coming, they had an idea it was coming.

1255
01:29:09.300 --> 01:29:12.680
Chuck: Go ahead, y'all can do this. We'll make y'all feel comfortable about it.

1256
01:29:12.940 --> 01:29:15.779
Jeezy: Yep. But he said, hey, business as usual.

1257
01:29:16.040 --> 01:29:25.569
Manny: I disagree. I disagree, Chuck. Okay. I actually think Iran started planning this as soon as the U.S. pulled out of the Obama-Iran.

1258
01:29:25.570 --> 01:29:41.820
Chuck: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You don't disagree. You don't disagree? You don't disagree? You just moved the timeline up. And I… and I was gonna… I was gonna say… I was gonna mention the pulling out of the Obama deal, because even back then, they were holding true to the deal.

1259
01:29:41.820 --> 01:29:42.370
Manny: Yeah.

1260
01:29:43.300 --> 01:29:45.009
Chuck: They were holding up the end of the bargain.

1261
01:29:45.720 --> 01:29:52.320
Chuck: But once y'all said, okay, We don't wanna… we don't wanna, honor this deal anymore?

1262
01:29:52.670 --> 01:29:53.370
Chuck: Will.

1263
01:29:53.850 --> 01:29:56.569
Chuck: I know how y'all act, so I know how you respond.

1264
01:29:56.570 --> 01:29:57.490
Manny: I know how to move.

1265
01:29:57.490 --> 01:29:59.889
Jeezy: Go grab that other Manila folder, and it's on the game.

1266
01:30:00.360 --> 01:30:02.960
Jeezy: Plan B.

1267
01:30:03.060 --> 01:30:08.629
Jeezy: But yeah, they have this 48-hour ultimatum, at the time of this release, I don't believe.

1268
01:30:08.860 --> 01:30:09.570
Jeezy: I'm…

1269
01:30:09.570 --> 01:30:15.599
Manny: Monday at 7.44 PM is when the clock starts midnight. Start the clock.

1270
01:30:15.700 --> 01:30:19.140
Jeezy: I don't believe that there's gonna be any real de-escalation.

1271
01:30:19.370 --> 01:30:25.099
Jeezy: I've seen reports where Iran has started saying that, hey, look, you know, for a certain fee.

1272
01:30:25.400 --> 01:30:26.980
Jeezy: You can come through the street.

1273
01:30:28.020 --> 01:30:32.460
Chuck: Oh, well, they already said everybody can come through but Israel and the USA.

1274
01:30:32.460 --> 01:30:33.610
Manny: Everybody.

1275
01:30:33.610 --> 01:30:33.990
Chuck: Everybody.

1276
01:30:33.990 --> 01:30:34.740
Manny: Doors open.

1277
01:30:34.900 --> 01:30:37.950
Chuck: Our doors hang on welcome hinges for everybody but y'all.

1278
01:30:39.940 --> 01:30:47.410
Manny: And then on top of that, to now also see the Trump administration temporarily lifting the.

1279
01:30:47.410 --> 01:30:48.000
Chuck: Yes.

1280
01:30:48.860 --> 01:30:49.430
Jeezy: Iraq.

1281
01:30:49.430 --> 01:30:56.629
Manny: oil to sell 140 million barrels of oil that it's currently sitting on takers.

1282
01:30:56.840 --> 01:30:58.740
Manny: And I was just like, hold on, Trump.

1283
01:30:58.990 --> 01:31:00.989
Manny: Are you the same person.

1284
01:31:00.990 --> 01:31:01.420
Jeezy: Bro.

1285
01:31:01.420 --> 01:31:02.330
Chuck: Know the car, brother.

1286
01:31:02.330 --> 01:31:10.740
Manny: criticized Obama for doing what you said, sending them over pallets of money. What, it was like a couple billion?

1287
01:31:11.020 --> 01:31:12.900
Chuck: It was less than $2 billion.

1288
01:31:12.930 --> 01:31:17.679
Manny: 140 million barrels of oil?

1289
01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:20.090
Chuck: Estimated $14 billion.

1290
01:31:20.310 --> 01:31:21.040
Jeezy: Bruh.

1291
01:31:21.520 --> 01:31:23.399
Manny: Look, I… I might…

1292
01:31:23.400 --> 01:31:24.109
Chuck: In revenue.

1293
01:31:24.830 --> 01:31:25.740
Chuck: in revenue.

1294
01:31:26.450 --> 01:31:26.790
Jeezy: Wow.

1295
01:31:27.020 --> 01:31:35.030
Manny: I might be good at math, but I'm not the best. But last that I checked, 14 does appear

1296
01:31:35.130 --> 01:31:37.139
Manny: It'd be a larger number than 2.

1297
01:31:37.980 --> 01:31:39.469
Manny: Right. But that's just me.

1298
01:31:39.810 --> 01:31:43.069
Jeezy: Iran said, you can lift them, lift that all you want, ain't no oil sale.

1299
01:31:43.390 --> 01:31:43.920
Manny: Go.

1300
01:31:44.600 --> 01:31:45.410
Manny: And it's…

1301
01:31:45.410 --> 01:31:49.149
Chuck: And to the Obama point as well, Manny.

1302
01:31:49.250 --> 01:31:55.029
Chuck: A lot of that money that Obama sent over there was already Iran's money. He just gave it back to him.

1303
01:31:55.160 --> 01:31:57.080
Manny: We just froze the assets.

1304
01:31:57.080 --> 01:32:01.380
Chuck: That's it. That was crazy. That's it.

1305
01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:06.540
Manny: We were doing Farahan, like, what my mama and them used to do.

1306
01:32:06.540 --> 01:32:07.420
Chuck: Yes. Oh.

1307
01:32:07.420 --> 01:32:08.689
Manny: I'll hold this 20 for you.

1308
01:32:08.690 --> 01:32:09.240
Jeezy: Yep.

1309
01:32:09.240 --> 01:32:10.409
Manny: get home, and then I was.

1310
01:32:10.410 --> 01:32:15.070
Chuck: Because I know how you gonna do if I let you have it.

1311
01:32:15.320 --> 01:32:19.730
Jeezy: Put your own money back, and then act like it's theirs. Right.

1312
01:32:20.590 --> 01:32:27.720
Manny: So, this is not going to end well. But here's what confuses me about the ultimatum.

1313
01:32:27.830 --> 01:32:36.749
Manny: What is our motivation to actually, like, the U.S. standpoint, what does that actually do? If you actually start bombing

1314
01:32:37.080 --> 01:32:43.609
Manny: oil facilities and natural gas facilities in Iraq. You know what the response is going to be?

1315
01:32:43.610 --> 01:32:44.550
Jeezy: Oh, boy.

1316
01:32:44.900 --> 01:32:49.659
Manny: Mines, all up and in… all up and through the strait.

1317
01:32:49.660 --> 01:32:50.320
Jeezy: Bruh.

1318
01:32:50.320 --> 01:32:52.279
Manny: Like, it's up and it's stuck now.

1319
01:32:52.630 --> 01:32:59.879
Manny: And I think if… If this goes off and they… they start striking at 7.44,

1320
01:33:01.050 --> 01:33:06.120
Manny: then I think our steps are paths to nukes.

1321
01:33:06.820 --> 01:33:07.600
Manny: Kids on.

1322
01:33:07.600 --> 01:33:08.070
Chuck: Yes.

1323
01:33:08.070 --> 01:33:16.919
Manny: gets a whole lot faster, because you're already seeing Iran and Israel strike each other's nuclear facilities.

1324
01:33:17.210 --> 01:33:17.870
Chuck: Yep.

1325
01:33:17.870 --> 01:33:20.740
Manny: And we are just going to inch closer.

1326
01:33:21.410 --> 01:33:31.559
Manny: We're already on a path where we can't go back. Now, we can change direction, but we can't go back. Here, we have just accepted that we are… we are approaching

1327
01:33:32.280 --> 01:33:33.140
Manny: Pure destruction.

1328
01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:36.260
Chuck: But that, that change in direction…

1329
01:33:36.980 --> 01:33:38.980
Chuck: It may not be a full U-turn.

1330
01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:41.249
Chuck: But it's two left turns.

1331
01:33:41.250 --> 01:33:45.110
Manny: It's a… it's a turn. It's going a different… different way.

1332
01:33:45.410 --> 01:33:51.729
Chuck: No, no, it's two left turns, and if you think about it, what is two left turns?

1333
01:33:54.810 --> 01:33:55.360
Chuck: Yeah.

1334
01:33:56.160 --> 01:34:06.399
Jeezy: I think, man, this 42-hour ultimatum is gonna be very interesting, because you have two heads that Iran's not gonna back down.

1335
01:34:06.530 --> 01:34:08.360
Jeezy: They're not. They've already told…

1336
01:34:08.360 --> 01:34:08.830
Chuck: We have no…

1337
01:34:08.830 --> 01:34:09.190
Manny: to.

1338
01:34:09.190 --> 01:34:10.220
Chuck: They have so much. For no reason.

1339
01:34:10.220 --> 01:34:15.209
Jeezy: Yeah, they have no reason to. Like, they have no reason to not. I can't…

1340
01:34:15.210 --> 01:34:21.859
Manny: I trust the person who I'm negotiating with on the other side, so even if I say, okay, we're gonna stop.

1341
01:34:22.670 --> 01:34:23.180
Jeezy: Patrick?

1342
01:34:23.180 --> 01:34:24.160
Manny: you say you're gonna stop.

1343
01:34:24.460 --> 01:34:28.579
Jeezy: Can't trust you. You start hitting us at the negotiating table.

1344
01:34:28.730 --> 01:34:35.140
Manny: Well, like, even the U.S. So, okay, let's say the U.S, we stop. That's not gonna stop Israel.

1345
01:34:35.460 --> 01:34:37.239
Manny: Like, so you still got a problem.

1346
01:34:37.240 --> 01:34:51.299
Jeezy: Because you don't have… you don't have a grip on Israel, because what Israel did bombed, Iran, and Trump came out and said, oh, we had no idea that was even happening. Like, we didn't know that. So, you don't even have a grip on your homie.

1347
01:34:51.300 --> 01:34:54.229
Chuck: Cause his homie ain't there, and they ain't talking to him.

1348
01:34:54.580 --> 01:34:55.200
Jeezy: Bingo.

1349
01:34:55.700 --> 01:35:00.629
Jeezy: There ain't nobody for you to talk to. You call the president of Israel, he's like, hey, look, I don't handle that stuff, man, that's a problem.

1350
01:35:01.280 --> 01:35:02.360
Chuck: You had a cough.

1351
01:35:02.360 --> 01:35:02.889
Jeezy: You had to call.

1352
01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:05.420
Chuck: The wrong number, wrong number.

1353
01:35:05.420 --> 01:35:08.530
Jeezy: Wrong number. Let me transfer your call. Wait, please.

1354
01:35:08.530 --> 01:35:20.320
Manny: And I think one thing we're underselling right now is the strike on Qatar, and how much liquid natural gas is now taken out of the market for at least 5 years.

1355
01:35:20.420 --> 01:35:24.920
Manny: We have… this war has now permanently starved

1356
01:35:25.310 --> 01:35:29.319
Manny: The reserves for the globe.

1357
01:35:29.470 --> 01:35:34.740
Manny: So, natural gas is going to be elevated now for the next 5 years.

1358
01:35:35.030 --> 01:35:36.110
Chuck: Listen.

1359
01:35:36.110 --> 01:35:43.069
Manny: Because you ain't wanna… you ain't wanna get out there publicly, whether it's in those Epstein files.

1360
01:35:43.860 --> 01:35:45.569
Manny: Because we ain't forgot this is why we're here.

1361
01:35:45.810 --> 01:35:49.379
Chuck: This is… that's… it all… it all boils down…

1362
01:35:49.380 --> 01:35:50.900
Jeezy: Wild, bruh.

1363
01:35:50.900 --> 01:35:52.109
Chuck: Epstein Files.

1364
01:35:52.990 --> 01:36:02.490
Jeezy: But I mean, the strategy that Iran has had, and the impact that they have been, the goal of the impact they have been wanting to make globally.

1365
01:36:02.790 --> 01:36:07.530
Jeezy: I mean, I'm not saying it's a win for us, but they're winning at what their strategy is.

1366
01:36:07.750 --> 01:36:13.160
Manny: If the goal is to make the king bleed, Oh, the old 300 strategy?

1367
01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:14.340
Manny: It's working.

1368
01:36:14.340 --> 01:36:14.820
Jeezy: It's working.

1369
01:36:14.820 --> 01:36:15.310
Chuck: Yeah.

1370
01:36:15.540 --> 01:36:25.449
Jeezy: And I think when you have Trump even down to getting mad at every… we don't need all these countries to help us open the stray. We'll open it on our own, but they should be helping.

1371
01:36:25.810 --> 01:36:26.929
Chuck: Please help me.

1372
01:36:26.930 --> 01:36:30.060
Jeezy: How you go from… how you go from dogging me…

1373
01:36:30.300 --> 01:36:37.850
Jeezy: Talking trash about me, and then say, hey man, I need your help. But if you don't help me, I don't need you. You're just a coward. Like, bro, what…

1374
01:36:37.850 --> 01:36:38.520
Chuck: That'd be perfect.

1375
01:36:38.520 --> 01:36:39.200
Jeezy: Terrible.

1376
01:36:39.200 --> 01:36:48.040
Chuck: That's a perfect, perfect, demonstration or dramatization of his messaging, for real.

1377
01:36:48.690 --> 01:36:52.769
Jeezy: This is why you shouldn't have been crapping on your allies in the first place.

1378
01:36:52.770 --> 01:36:54.000
Chuck: In the first place.

1379
01:36:54.000 --> 01:37:09.960
Jeezy: But here we go, again, just Trump doing what Trump thinks is the right thing to do, and the people that are whistling in his ear, and giving him the direction, or the feeding of his ego for him to approach this war like this.

1380
01:37:10.460 --> 01:37:12.320
Jeezy: This conflict, rather.

1381
01:37:12.840 --> 01:37:20.789
Jeezy: It ain't gonna end well. And at the end of the day, I don't care who told you what, you can say, oh, well, Marco told me this, JD told me that, at the end of the day.

1382
01:37:20.890 --> 01:37:23.890
Jeezy: Name on the White House says Trump.

1383
01:37:24.330 --> 01:37:30.880
Jeezy: And that's what'll be remembered. The implications, the gas, gas is slowly creeping to $4.

1384
01:37:31.220 --> 01:37:31.650
Manny: Oh, it'd be.

1385
01:37:31.650 --> 01:37:32.640
Jeezy: The average?

1386
01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:34.570
Manny: It'll be 4 before we come back.

1387
01:37:34.570 --> 01:37:34.939
Jeezy: Oh, for.

1388
01:37:34.940 --> 01:37:36.020
Manny: See y'all next week.

1389
01:37:36.280 --> 01:37:47.900
Jeezy: For sure. All these things are taking place, and we still don't have an off-ramp. It sounds like we're just gonna keep staying on this ride. It's not a good look, and I be.

1390
01:37:47.900 --> 01:37:48.609
Chuck: We don't see what happens.

1391
01:37:49.330 --> 01:37:53.739
Chuck: We on the highway of conflict with no power steering… no power steering fluid.

1392
01:37:53.740 --> 01:37:54.180
Manny: Right.

1393
01:37:54.180 --> 01:37:54.860
Chuck: If you've ever…

1394
01:37:55.730 --> 01:37:58.249
Manny: If you ever tried to turn a car with it, bruh.

1395
01:37:58.590 --> 01:38:00.029
Jeezy: The forearm strength meter.

1396
01:38:01.530 --> 01:38:05.189
Jeezy: By the time you get to your destination, you gotta sit down, man. Hey, man, why you quiet?

1397
01:38:05.560 --> 01:38:07.789
Jeezy: with you, man, my forearms are fat.

1398
01:38:07.790 --> 01:38:10.429
Chuck: You don't worked out.

1399
01:38:10.430 --> 01:38:14.240
Jeezy: Don't let you have no big deuce and a quarter, I had to do that, boy. Good thing.

1400
01:38:14.240 --> 01:38:15.900
Chuck: Trying to make one right turn.

1401
01:38:15.900 --> 01:38:18.420
Jeezy: Bruh. I feel like trying to turn a charter bus.

1402
01:38:19.140 --> 01:38:25.510
Manny: Right. You plotting all your trips on MapQuest to be on straight routes. Good luck.

1403
01:38:25.510 --> 01:38:32.119
Jeezy: Man, listen, what? But man, listen, we'll see what happens. Trump… You gotta do something.

1404
01:38:32.430 --> 01:38:38.479
Jeezy: And I know you're gonna do something, I just hope you do the right thing, and I don't know what the right thing is right now, because you got.

1405
01:38:38.480 --> 01:38:38.860
Manny: Sure.

1406
01:38:38.860 --> 01:38:39.389
Jeezy: kind of in a pickle.

1407
01:38:39.390 --> 01:38:41.789
Manny: I… I… I know what the right thing is.

1408
01:38:41.950 --> 01:38:42.910
Manny: Resign.

1409
01:38:43.210 --> 01:38:43.730
Jeezy: Yeah.

1410
01:38:43.730 --> 01:38:44.470
Manny: go home.

1411
01:38:44.470 --> 01:38:47.400
Jeezy: All of them. Everybody, everybody go home, bruh.

1412
01:38:47.400 --> 01:38:50.240
Manny: Go home. We'll figure it out.

1413
01:38:50.240 --> 01:38:54.650
Chuck: Let's say reset on the government, on the federal government. Hard reset.

1414
01:38:54.650 --> 01:38:55.140
Jeezy: gel.

1415
01:38:55.140 --> 01:38:58.859
Manny: Blow on it, put it back in. I was like, okay.

1416
01:38:59.750 --> 01:39:06.820
Jeezy: Maybe it's like… maybe it's like owning that PlayStation where you didn't have a memory card. Maybe we just cut it off and cut it on, it's like we just restart it all over again.

1417
01:39:08.650 --> 01:39:15.049
Jeezy: No memory, no recollection of where you left off at, no memory card, we just start right back from square one, bro.

1418
01:39:15.050 --> 01:39:26.790
Manny: Here's the problem. If we start back from square one, are we talking about square one, 2024, square one 2020? Square one 17…

1419
01:39:27.330 --> 01:39:34.049
Chuck: Well, that was a… that was a question when they first said, make America great again. Look at the full circle moment.

1420
01:39:34.200 --> 01:39:40.229
Jeezy: This take me back to the Clinton administration, where I could watch them on Arsenio Hall playing the saxophone, bruh.

1421
01:39:40.440 --> 01:39:41.680
Jeezy: I'll go back there.

1422
01:39:43.440 --> 01:39:44.539
Jeezy: Right before the scandal.

1423
01:39:44.740 --> 01:39:48.429
Chuck: I don't care about the scandal, the economy's booming.

1424
01:39:48.430 --> 01:39:49.590
Jeezy: Bad booming.

1425
01:39:49.590 --> 01:39:54.280
Chuck: We was booming, we had a surplus, the deficit was down.

1426
01:39:55.000 --> 01:39:56.190
Jeezy: Hey, bruh, life was good.

1427
01:39:56.190 --> 01:39:58.620
Chuck: You can do what you want to in that White House.

1428
01:39:59.340 --> 01:40:00.520
Chuck: Yeah, it's me!

1429
01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:02.090
Manny: Cash money was given.

1430
01:40:02.090 --> 01:40:02.610
Jeezy: Prior to pay.

1431
01:40:02.610 --> 01:40:03.330
Manny: over.

1432
01:40:04.160 --> 01:40:05.339
Chuck: Small price to pay.

1433
01:40:05.800 --> 01:40:14.630
Jeezy: Hey, man, I know one thing that Trump has done, the benefit of this war he had with Iran, I don't know about y'all, but I ain't been getting as much, scam calls.

1434
01:40:15.490 --> 01:40:16.760
Jeezy: Since the war started.

1435
01:40:17.330 --> 01:40:20.650
Manny: Well, that's because now, because of the war, they're starting to send people home.

1436
01:40:20.860 --> 01:40:24.160
Manny: You ain't… you got less time to scam.

1437
01:40:24.890 --> 01:40:26.000
Manny: Corporate leave.

1438
01:40:26.410 --> 01:40:29.750
Jeezy: I didn't know it… I didn't know to take a war to get them calls and stuff, but…

1439
01:40:29.750 --> 01:40:30.680
Manny: Fanada.

1440
01:40:30.680 --> 01:40:31.590
Jeezy: Fantastic, thank you.

1441
01:40:31.630 --> 01:40:36.209
Chuck: But that's cause Pakistan and India are about to blow each other up.

1442
01:40:38.040 --> 01:40:39.459
Chuck: That's what that is.

1443
01:40:39.660 --> 01:40:49.399
Jeezy: Before I move on to the pickle, I did read something this past week that said the reason why Trump's ego is out of control right now is because

1444
01:40:49.880 --> 01:40:53.100
Jeezy: He's… he's never beat a man in an election.

1445
01:40:54.610 --> 01:40:55.920
Manny: I mean, tis fact.

1446
01:40:59.090 --> 01:41:00.510
Manny: Tis facts.

1447
01:41:02.420 --> 01:41:03.260
Jeezy: Welp…

1448
01:41:03.260 --> 01:41:09.739
Audio shared by Jeezy: We've got your pickle! We've got your pickle!

1449
01:41:10.590 --> 01:41:13.509
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!

1450
01:41:17.700 --> 01:41:29.359
Jeezy: Alright, we've reached that point of our episode where we have the pickle of the week, and if you've been listening from the beginning of this episode, we probably named about 8 to 10 pickles already.

1451
01:41:29.540 --> 01:41:31.370
Jeezy: But there's another one to add, yeah.

1452
01:41:31.370 --> 01:41:33.329
Chuck: That's a whole jar. Yeah.

1453
01:41:34.270 --> 01:41:35.240
Jeezy: Mount Olive.

1454
01:41:36.640 --> 01:41:42.690
Jeezy: We got a, a new one, a new character to the pickle this week, and this one's a little messy.

1455
01:41:43.040 --> 01:41:47.049
Jeezy: There's a gentleman by the name of Graham Platner.

1456
01:41:47.930 --> 01:41:49.040
Jeezy: Up in Maine.

1457
01:41:49.800 --> 01:41:59.310
Jeezy: He's a candidate for Senate for the Democrats, and he's running against, Janet Mills, the governor of Maine.

1458
01:41:59.310 --> 01:42:00.120
Manny: governor? Yep.

1459
01:42:00.830 --> 01:42:03.569
Jeezy: They're running for the, U.S. seat that'll…

1460
01:42:03.770 --> 01:42:06.869
Jeezy: challenge… I forgot the Republican lady's name.

1461
01:42:06.870 --> 01:42:08.070
Manny: They leave, but… Collins.

1462
01:42:08.070 --> 01:42:09.499
Jeezy: Collins, yes, Collins.

1463
01:42:09.690 --> 01:42:14.940
Jeezy: They'll be running up against Collins, but whoever wins. But, this week,

1464
01:42:16.340 --> 01:42:24.739
Jeezy: Governor Janet Mills, put a little bit of controversy behind, Graham over some controversial past remarks.

1465
01:42:24.900 --> 01:42:32.599
Jeezy: That were really out of touch, inflammatory, and in today's political landscape, not okay, and in my opinion, not okay at all.

1466
01:42:32.910 --> 01:42:38.760
Jeezy: I'm not gonna say exactly, read his comments, but they were pertaining to abuse.

1467
01:42:39.700 --> 01:42:53.039
Jeezy: that women may have from sexual assault, rape, or what have you. So she paid a full-out ad about this, which is their first big negative ad hit against, Graham, in this race.

1468
01:42:53.450 --> 01:42:57.260
Jeezy: And his response to it, of course, is always, like, everybody's response, say.

1469
01:42:57.260 --> 01:42:57.750
Manny: Perfect.

1470
01:42:57.750 --> 01:43:03.870
Jeezy: So try to soften it, you know, it was taken out of context, and it's being weaponized politically.

1471
01:43:04.510 --> 01:43:14.049
Jeezy: But he's trying to walk that back. Now, he did get a previous endorsement by Elizabeth Warren. She has endorsed him because he's a progressive.

1472
01:43:14.290 --> 01:43:21.589
Jeezy: So he has her endorsement, but, with Governor Mills, with this, ad that has come out.

1473
01:43:21.910 --> 01:43:27.930
Jeezy: Might be a… might be a tough season for, for Mr. Graham. You… this is a great lesson.

1474
01:43:28.430 --> 01:43:30.870
Jeezy: That the things that you say.

1475
01:43:31.830 --> 01:43:34.999
Jeezy: May not live then, but they may live now.

1476
01:43:35.270 --> 01:43:37.940
Jeezy: So you might want to be careful what you put on the internet.

1477
01:43:38.430 --> 01:43:49.740
Jeezy: And those little jokes, and those little comments you make when you decide to get into a political landscape where you're running for office, especially in a pivotal seat as this one.

1478
01:43:50.200 --> 01:44:05.029
Jeezy: Might come back to bite you, brother. So, Graham, I don't know how this is gonna shape. I believe he's actually up in the polls against Mills, which is perfect timing for her to drop this. And most of the ads… I mean, in most of the polls in Maine, he's leading. Some of them are pretty comfortable leads.

1479
01:44:05.170 --> 01:44:17.249
Jeezy: So this certainly comes at a time where she needs that negative… that negativity to hopefully, repel her over, when the time comes against… against Graham. So we'll see what happens. Mr. Graham?

1480
01:44:17.540 --> 01:44:19.000
Jeezy: Whether you're min them or not.

1481
01:44:19.770 --> 01:44:23.900
Jeezy: Hey, gotta live with them, brother, when it comes to politics, so… good luck!

1482
01:44:24.120 --> 01:44:25.910
Jeezy: And watch your mouth.

1483
01:44:26.510 --> 01:44:30.480
Chuck: That's part of the reason why I would not go into politics.

1484
01:44:30.480 --> 01:44:31.509
Jeezy: Hey, listen, bruh.

1485
01:44:31.510 --> 01:44:33.420
Chuck: And I leave it to my good brother Manny.

1486
01:44:34.420 --> 01:44:45.360
Chuck: I'll support him on the sidelines and work a campaign and help where I can, but I know the dirt that's under my rug and the skeletons that are in my closet.

1487
01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:50.150
Manny: And what'd G.I. Joe say? Knowing.

1488
01:44:50.250 --> 01:44:51.489
Manny: It's half the battle.

1489
01:44:51.490 --> 01:44:53.969
Jeezy: Half the battle. Well, I'mma tell you.

1490
01:44:53.970 --> 01:44:55.720
Chuck: I ain't trying to be a pickle.

1491
01:44:56.030 --> 01:44:59.130
Chuck: On the podcast, as I sit here with my brothers.

1492
01:44:59.130 --> 01:45:09.550
Jeezy: Hey, look, ain't no… I'm right there with you, Chuck. Ain't no way in the world I could clean out them closets good enough for it not to be a speck of dirt on the mines.

1493
01:45:09.550 --> 01:45:12.870
Chuck: Now, I will say, they're not Epstein-File level.

1494
01:45:12.870 --> 01:45:16.749
Jeezy: Oh, no, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, no.

1495
01:45:16.750 --> 01:45:20.800
Chuck: We ain't that… we ain't presidential dirt butler.

1496
01:45:20.800 --> 01:45:21.140
Jeezy: No.

1497
01:45:21.140 --> 01:45:25.349
Chuck: But it's enough that, my mama have a nice conversation with me.

1498
01:45:25.990 --> 01:45:28.410
Chuck: Bruh. What's wrong with you?

1499
01:45:28.410 --> 01:45:29.770
Jeezy: It's just jubes!

1500
01:45:31.370 --> 01:45:32.030
Jeezy: Come on, guys!

1501
01:45:32.030 --> 01:45:36.500
Manny: I kid, I kid, I kid. I joke, I joke, I kid!

1502
01:45:36.500 --> 01:45:37.420
Chuck: Yeah…

1503
01:45:37.420 --> 01:45:41.660
Jeezy: Well, Graham thought he was kidding, and he got himself in a political pickle for this week, so…

1504
01:45:41.810 --> 01:45:44.619
Jeezy: Mr. Graham, good luck to you.

1505
01:45:45.090 --> 01:45:52.020
Jeezy: So, with that being said, man, we've reached the conclusion of our episode, and guys, you know, as always, we give you our spotlights.

1506
01:45:52.250 --> 01:45:56.259
Jeezy: Of the week, so, Chuck, what you got this week, man, for your spotlight?

1507
01:45:56.790 --> 01:46:04.069
Chuck: Man, I've mentioned this before, and I will continue to mention this, because it is very alarming, it is very…

1508
01:46:04.290 --> 01:46:12.040
Chuck: Frightening, honestly, and that is the attack on free media and free speech.

1509
01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:24.350
Chuck: As you all know, the deal that Paramount Skydance, reached to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

1510
01:46:25.050 --> 01:46:33.339
Chuck: This deal puts… A conglomerate of news and journalistic media

1511
01:46:33.560 --> 01:46:40.200
Chuck: Under the power of one individual and one entity, Who is…

1512
01:46:41.070 --> 01:46:46.069
Chuck: to say friends would be an understatement with Donald J. Trump.

1513
01:46:46.360 --> 01:46:52.900
Chuck: And… thus… Politicizing and silencing

1514
01:46:53.970 --> 01:46:59.670
Chuck: What we would like to believe could be independent and journalistic integrity.

1515
01:47:00.220 --> 01:47:01.729
Chuck: But it doesn't stop there.

1516
01:47:02.950 --> 01:47:14.130
Chuck: The FCC recently approved, or not approved, waived a restriction at the behest of Mr. Donald J. Trump.

1517
01:47:15.770 --> 01:47:23.349
Chuck: to allow… Next, what's the name of this company? I'm sorry, y'all, I had it.

1518
01:47:23.610 --> 01:47:29.160
Chuck: Next… Teg… Tegna by Nexstar Media.

1519
01:47:29.290 --> 01:47:33.300
Chuck: is doing an acquisition. So the… the…

1520
01:47:33.850 --> 01:47:43.840
Chuck: Regulation, or statutory regulation, is that no one company can hold more than 39% of a national audience reach.

1521
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:55.700
Chuck: Will… Donald Trump, is buddy-buddy with the chairman and CEO and founder of Nexstar.

1522
01:47:55.850 --> 01:47:57.930
Chuck: Mr. Perry Souk.

1523
01:47:59.910 --> 01:48:04.050
Chuck: Souk. I don't know. It's S-O-O-K. Y'all… 1-800.

1524
01:48:05.020 --> 01:48:06.280
Chuck: for me, yeah.

1525
01:48:06.510 --> 01:48:09.730
Chuck: They're buddies, so they waive this.

1526
01:48:09.940 --> 01:48:12.959
Chuck: And this could allow the company

1527
01:48:13.340 --> 01:48:18.840
Chuck: A combined reach anywhere between 55% to 80%.

1528
01:48:19.010 --> 01:48:21.319
Chuck: of U.S. television households.

1529
01:48:21.460 --> 01:48:23.950
Chuck: Now, this is local television ownership.

1530
01:48:24.410 --> 01:48:28.369
Chuck: And these things were put in place many, many years ago.

1531
01:48:28.540 --> 01:48:34.990
Chuck: Two, one, not monopolize such a larger environment, and two, knowing the

1532
01:48:35.250 --> 01:48:39.139
Chuck: The, influential impact that this can have

1533
01:48:39.290 --> 01:48:49.839
Chuck: In many different areas. But this is not the first time that, FCC Chair Brandon Carr, or Brendan Carr, has done something that is a little funny and shaky.

1534
01:48:50.130 --> 01:48:53.860
Chuck: If you remember back during…

1535
01:48:54.090 --> 01:48:59.100
Chuck: the primaries for, Jasmine Crockett and Telarico.

1536
01:48:59.280 --> 01:49:03.650
Chuck: there was a notice that was put out to CBS

1537
01:49:03.790 --> 01:49:08.640
Chuck: That, they could not air the TeleRico interview

1538
01:49:08.890 --> 01:49:14.420
Chuck: Because there's this clause that actually goes back to the 1920s.

1539
01:49:14.630 --> 01:49:22.930
Chuck: Called the Fair Use… Fair Exposure Clause, where if you're gonna have one candidate shown,

1540
01:49:23.540 --> 01:49:28.949
Chuck: Aired, you must give an equal opportunity and amount of time to the next candidate.

1541
01:49:29.730 --> 01:49:30.720
Chuck: Okay.

1542
01:49:31.540 --> 01:49:34.310
Chuck: All well and good in intention, but…

1543
01:49:34.510 --> 01:49:51.100
Chuck: this had not truly been enforced for many years. It really came… it started out and established in the 1920s because of radio broadcasting, and making sure that there was equal opportunity back then. As time went on.

1544
01:49:52.480 --> 01:50:04.529
Chuck: it came up again with Jay Leno and Arnold Schwarzenegger when Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for governor, and him and Jay Leno are buddy-buddy. But the SEC made an exemption, because in this…

1545
01:50:05.160 --> 01:50:07.299
Chuck: standard, or statute.

1546
01:50:07.530 --> 01:50:21.119
Chuck: It was in reference to news media and news outlets that had to have that fair use, fair opportunity standard, and late night television was not seen as that.

1547
01:50:21.480 --> 01:50:24.579
Chuck: Well, as we continue in today's time.

1548
01:50:24.960 --> 01:50:35.439
Chuck: the Republicans are taking a beating in the late night standards, in the late-night circuits, from Colbert to, The Daily Show. Everybody, yeah.

1549
01:50:35.440 --> 01:50:36.810
Manny: Everybody's taking their shots.

1550
01:50:36.810 --> 01:50:41.280
Chuck: Everybody runs in their gamut, so this is their chance

1551
01:50:41.440 --> 01:50:46.279
Chuck: to kind of say, alright, y'all need to calm down. And so they, they…

1552
01:50:46.430 --> 01:50:55.749
Chuck: was Jimmy Kimmel. It was one of the first incidents last year where they really, tried to stick it to him.

1553
01:50:55.870 --> 01:51:00.669
Chuck: because of his commentary after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

1554
01:51:01.090 --> 01:51:04.720
Chuck: And if you're being honest, he did not say anything…

1555
01:51:05.360 --> 01:51:09.159
Chuck: inflammatory or derogatory towards Charlie Kirk.

1556
01:51:09.540 --> 01:51:12.660
Chuck: But, because they have the power, they…

1557
01:51:12.800 --> 01:51:24.540
Chuck: they insinuated that they would shut down some of the local networks against ABC. So, in this, we see more and more of a federal meddling in hand involved.

1558
01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:29.319
Chuck: In our news, and how things are covered, how things are portrayed.

1559
01:51:29.650 --> 01:51:36.600
Chuck: even to the point with this conflict with Iran, there's a lot of information that's not getting out, and is being suppressed.

1560
01:51:36.970 --> 01:51:51.980
Chuck: at the behest of the White House that our media outlets are not giving us. So it's very concerning, something that definitely keeping an eye on as this continues to go,

1561
01:51:52.100 --> 01:51:53.659
Chuck: In a terrible direction.

1562
01:51:54.950 --> 01:51:59.209
Jeezy: Alright. We'll definitely keep our eye on it. Manny, what you got, brother?

1563
01:51:59.210 --> 01:52:02.370
Manny: Man, so the Supreme Court is up to something.

1564
01:52:03.170 --> 01:52:08.490
Manny: I don't know what that something is, but it is something. So…

1565
01:52:08.630 --> 01:52:16.959
Manny: Earlier this week, they argued… they said that they were going to take up a TPS, that is Temporary Protected Status.

1566
01:52:17.280 --> 01:52:32.259
Manny: Temporary protected status allows nationals from crisis countries to live and work in the U.S. legally for… in 18-month increments, but there is no path to citizenship.

1567
01:52:32.510 --> 01:52:38.980
Manny: So, in Kristi Noem's time as the head of DHS, she's really focused on 13 different countries.

1568
01:52:39.210 --> 01:52:41.770
Manny: and their holders.

1569
01:52:42.100 --> 01:52:50.810
Manny: So, right now, it's being challenged in court, them trying to strip protective status from a lot of people who are here from these, countries.

1570
01:52:51.310 --> 01:53:04.050
Manny: So, right now, it's been making its way through the lower courts, and the Supreme Court has now hopped over the lower courts and said, hey, we're gonna take this up.

1571
01:53:04.450 --> 01:53:22.009
Manny: With a ruling that is slated to happen fairly quickly. They could say… they said as early as May, they could have a ruling out, which would be essentially them getting a ruling out before the court session ends.

1572
01:53:22.120 --> 01:53:39.820
Manny: And this is really interesting, because you don't really see the Supreme Court stepping over a lower court to do something. Now, right now, the lower courts have blocked them from being able to strip status from these countries.

1573
01:53:39.930 --> 01:53:48.260
Manny: But there are kind of 3 potential outcomes that I see happening for this, is that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the administration.

1574
01:53:48.380 --> 01:53:53.770
Manny: What that would mean is that the executive branch's ability to be able to strip

1575
01:53:53.890 --> 01:54:08.719
Manny: A country of their protected status is a… is a precedent that would be with the executive branch, but it could potentially not last long as you have a change of the administration.

1576
01:54:09.140 --> 01:54:23.379
Manny: The next scenario that could play out is they end up kind of stripping it down, letting only people do it for very particular reasons and very particular, use cases for it to be able to be used.

1577
01:54:23.430 --> 01:54:41.379
Manny: And the third outcome is they could actually go ahead and rule for TPS holders, saying, hey, you guys just can't do this, that it has to be defined and specified if you're going to, you know, try to take this, and it would be grandfathered back in to protect current holders.

1578
01:54:41.660 --> 01:54:48.950
Manny: But this is… this is real interesting, especially because they voted to do this as a Supreme Court unanimously.

1579
01:54:49.230 --> 01:54:52.290
Manny: No one… no one said, hey, we should not do this.

1580
01:54:52.400 --> 01:54:59.500
Manny: And… I don't know, y'all, like, when the court is clearly conservative, And…

1581
01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:04.799
Manny: If the court is moving this… you know…

1582
01:55:05.200 --> 01:55:12.039
Manny: carefully around an immigration policy, something in this really has their attention.

1583
01:55:12.550 --> 01:55:13.750
Manny: So…

1584
01:55:13.940 --> 01:55:23.299
Manny: I think we can expect to hear something over the next, probably, like, 2 to 3 months, but to a point that I think is linked with this, how does this play out with the war in Iran?

1585
01:55:24.410 --> 01:55:34.859
Manny: and everything that's happening there. So I think this is something that I'll be watching over the next… the course of the next couple months to see how this plays out, and how many people this will end up impacting.

1586
01:55:35.050 --> 01:55:38.600
Manny: That's my spotlight, and… yeah, that's my spotlight.

1587
01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:40.420
Jeezy: Alright. Well.

1588
01:55:40.420 --> 01:55:47.439
Chuck: Manny, you make a very interesting fact, or statement, that it was a unanimous vote.

1589
01:55:47.440 --> 01:55:48.790
Manny: Unanimous.

1590
01:55:48.790 --> 01:55:49.960
Chuck: That's telling.

1591
01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:50.290
Jeezy: That's.

1592
01:55:50.290 --> 01:55:58.769
Manny: To say, hey, we're gonna go deal… knowing the state of the courts, that everyone unanimously said, hey, we're gonna step in and go do this.

1593
01:55:58.770 --> 01:55:59.270
Chuck: Yes.

1594
01:55:59.270 --> 01:56:14.489
Manny: So, I think that's the other reason why they expect to see a ruling so quickly, and I think they're slated to hear verbal arguments for this at the end of April… April 27th, I believe, is when they are expected to start hearing arguments regarding this.

1595
01:56:15.790 --> 01:56:17.210
Manny: Okay. So, yeah.

1596
01:56:17.700 --> 01:56:24.420
Jeezy: Well, for my spotlight, kind of mentioned it already before, but when you're flying home.

1597
01:56:25.040 --> 01:56:28.130
Jeezy: And the lines alone, Who you gonna call?

1598
01:56:28.490 --> 01:56:29.430
Jeezy: Coast, Buzz!

1599
01:56:29.430 --> 01:56:32.910
Manny: Ice agents.

1600
01:56:32.910 --> 01:56:33.880
Jeezy: ICE agents.

1601
01:56:34.380 --> 01:56:44.489
Jeezy: At the release of this episode, Trump has announced since the Democrats, won't be doing any, won't fund, DHS, that ICE will now be…

1602
01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:55.940
Jeezy: constructed into going into airports, starting on Monday, and the operation will be headed up by, none other than our Border Czar, Tom Holman, so…

1603
01:56:56.380 --> 01:57:01.059
Jeezy: Tom said he's finalizing the plan, and it will be put into action starting Monday.

1604
01:57:01.240 --> 01:57:20.410
Jeezy: Don't know what that looks like, but I'm pretty sure that chaotic is a word that should be somewhere surrounded around this, this move that Trump is doing. So, if you were looking for relief in these airport lines, I seen a video from Atlanta that they were saying that it take… it was taking, like, 2 hours.

1605
01:57:20.410 --> 01:57:23.020
Jeezy: To get through, TSA.

1606
01:57:23.230 --> 01:57:37.460
Jeezy: So yeah, I'm interested to see what that looks like, and the ramifications that come from it, because certainly, this is not in the qualification of what I should be doing, nor do I'm assuming they know what

1607
01:57:37.590 --> 01:57:41.369
Jeezy: to even do. So.

1608
01:57:41.370 --> 01:57:43.620
Manny: On 24 hours notice.

1609
01:57:43.620 --> 01:57:57.839
Jeezy: 24-hour notice, yes. And I… particularly in watching this, because I'm interested in how people will move, with this, with this transition, because, you know, people could be trying to smuggle things in.

1610
01:57:57.840 --> 01:58:12.560
Jeezy: There could be some activity going on, that people feel like, okay, with this, now this is the time while the airports are chaotic to try to move and do anything. So I would really be concerned with how this looks, and even from a legal standpoint, what may possibly come out of this, so…

1611
01:58:12.670 --> 01:58:23.540
Jeezy: Yeah, we'll see what that looks like, with the 48-hour ultimatum and ICE being in the airports, we'll see, see where it goes. But, yeah, that's my spotlight that I'm watching this week,

1612
01:58:23.730 --> 01:58:28.610
Jeezy: the response that… that will come from that. So, if nothing else.

1613
01:58:28.610 --> 01:58:29.430
Chuck: Hold on, brother.

1614
01:58:29.430 --> 01:58:29.840
Manny: Boom.

1615
01:58:29.840 --> 01:58:31.500
Chuck: brother. Newslash.

1616
01:58:31.870 --> 01:58:33.579
Chuck: I'm not flying nowhere.

1617
01:58:33.580 --> 01:58:36.719
Manny: I was gonna say, Amtrak, Amtrak is…

1618
01:58:36.720 --> 01:58:45.900
Chuck: Amtrak… I don't know about… maybe Amtrak. I've never ridden a train before, and I want to do it. Oh, man. But if I can't… if I can't drive myself there…

1619
01:58:46.260 --> 01:58:47.129
Chuck: I know.

1620
01:58:47.390 --> 01:58:50.040
Jeezy: I had a conversation with one of my buddies last night about the world.

1621
01:58:50.040 --> 01:58:51.679
Chuck: Where this gas looking?

1622
01:58:52.740 --> 01:58:53.380
Jeezy: Bruh.

1623
01:58:54.100 --> 01:58:57.090
Jeezy: One of my buddies, I had a conversation with him, and I'm like, look.

1624
01:58:57.580 --> 01:59:05.049
Jeezy: you can, you know, just drive to Atlanta for the Spain, to see Spain play, but we don't know what gas is gonna look like by then.

1625
01:59:06.080 --> 01:59:08.120
Chuck: World Cup prices is stupid.

1626
01:59:08.280 --> 01:59:09.890
Jeezy: Crazy. I'm like…

1627
01:59:09.890 --> 01:59:11.759
Chuck: in heaven for $500.

1628
01:59:12.740 --> 01:59:13.400
Manny: Bye.

1629
01:59:13.840 --> 01:59:15.880
Jeezy: I don't even have to pay that, I can just live right.

1630
01:59:16.360 --> 01:59:19.480
Manny: A word.

1631
01:59:22.490 --> 01:59:23.340
Chuck: Yeah.

1632
01:59:23.340 --> 01:59:23.990
Jeezy: Amen.

1633
01:59:23.990 --> 01:59:38.800
Manny: But… a couple last key notes before we leave. I would like to say, condolences to the family of the one Chuck Norris, and most so Kiki Shepard, who, who.

1634
01:59:38.800 --> 01:59:39.290
Chuck: Yes.

1635
01:59:39.290 --> 01:59:40.140
Manny: this week.

1636
01:59:40.330 --> 01:59:41.129
Chuck: Yes, yes.

1637
01:59:41.450 --> 01:59:42.900
Jeezy: Yeah, bro.

1638
01:59:42.900 --> 01:59:48.380
Manny: Big… and big kudos to Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Cooglier.

1639
01:59:48.750 --> 01:59:52.070
Manny: For getting them gold statues at the Oscars.

1640
01:59:53.180 --> 01:59:53.869
Jeezy: Yeah, man.

1641
01:59:54.390 --> 01:59:56.280
Jeezy: Yes, indeed. In our opinion… Yeah, indeed, though.

1642
01:59:56.280 --> 01:59:57.860
Manny: How's it going? Yeah, I wish…

1643
01:59:57.860 --> 01:59:59.020
Chuck: Yeah, we…

1644
01:59:59.020 --> 02:00:00.079
Manny: I had no idea where I was going.

1645
02:00:00.080 --> 02:00:01.520
Chuck: Yeah, we've been mothers.

1646
02:00:02.170 --> 02:00:04.329
Jeezy: Chuck Norris didn't die, brother.

1647
02:00:04.460 --> 02:00:06.199
Jeezy: Walker, Texas Ranger did.

1648
02:00:06.200 --> 02:00:09.190
Chuck: Oh, real quick…

1649
02:00:09.740 --> 02:00:10.130
Jeezy: Walker.

1650
02:00:10.130 --> 02:00:11.680
Manny: Listen!

1651
02:00:12.020 --> 02:00:16.969
Chuck: Two, two points, two points. Number one, I did not know that man's name was Carlos.

1652
02:00:17.500 --> 02:00:18.070
Jeezy: Who?

1653
02:00:18.070 --> 02:00:18.890
Manny: Who?

1654
02:00:18.890 --> 02:00:22.300
Chuck: Chuck Norris' real name is Carlos. His first name is Carlos.

1655
02:00:22.300 --> 02:00:24.139
Jeezy: I've been, bruh, been laying it straight.

1656
02:00:24.650 --> 02:00:37.599
Chuck: I saw a video, I saw a video, and he was talking about this. This was his words exactly, or himself. His name is Carlos. He was somewhere, and then there was a Mexican gentleman who said, hey.

1657
02:00:37.670 --> 02:00:45.100
Chuck: You know what Carlos means in English, right? He was like, yeah, Charles. He was like, yeah, so I'm gonna start calling you Chuck.

1658
02:00:45.420 --> 02:00:46.570
Chuck: And it's… it…

1659
02:00:46.570 --> 02:00:47.489
Jeezy: And it just…

1660
02:00:47.490 --> 02:00:49.080
Chuck: stuck.

1661
02:00:49.080 --> 02:00:49.570
Jeezy: Wow.

1662
02:00:50.030 --> 02:00:53.520
Manny: His name is Carlos Ray Norris.

1663
02:00:53.520 --> 02:00:54.020
Chuck: Yes.

1664
02:00:54.550 --> 02:00:57.340
Chuck: Carlos. Carlos North. Second point.

1665
02:00:57.480 --> 02:01:08.419
Chuck: So, when he passed, I jokingly put up a post on Facebook and said, nobody tell my grandmother that Walker Texas Rangers… Walker Texas Ranger has gone on to glory.

1666
02:01:08.600 --> 02:01:11.690
Chuck: And let me call her and give her this news.

1667
02:01:12.690 --> 02:01:14.109
Chuck: I was being funny.

1668
02:01:14.420 --> 02:01:15.100
Manny: -

1669
02:01:15.100 --> 02:01:18.359
Chuck: But at the same time, kind of serious, because my grandmother loves some Walker, Texas Rangers.

1670
02:01:19.350 --> 02:01:23.630
Chuck: So I called her that evening, and we're talking, I wanted to check on to see how she feeling.

1671
02:01:23.850 --> 02:01:29.400
Chuck: And I said, Hey, you, you heard of, Truck… Chuck Norris Pass?

1672
02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:32.239
Chuck: She said, who? Walker, Texas Ranger?

1673
02:01:33.780 --> 02:01:40.779
Chuck: I said, yeah. She was like, no, I didn't know. She told me, oh, Lord, I'm so sorry to hear that.

1674
02:01:41.050 --> 02:01:42.729
Manny: Right. She's about.

1675
02:01:42.730 --> 02:01:56.359
Chuck: I love me some Walker, Texas, right? I said, I know you did, that's why I told you. Listen. And I want to thank everybody for not telling her, and letting me break that news. I have a special relationship with my grandmother.

1676
02:01:56.360 --> 02:02:05.280
Chuck: And I appreciate them not ruining that, so I could tell her. And she really said, Lord, no, I'm sorry to hear that.

1677
02:02:05.280 --> 02:02:06.409
Jeezy: But let me tell you…

1678
02:02:06.650 --> 02:02:07.140
Chuck: They literally will.

1679
02:02:07.140 --> 02:02:07.900
Jeezy: Walker was it?

1680
02:02:07.900 --> 02:02:08.659
Manny: They ain't funny.

1681
02:02:08.660 --> 02:02:11.240
Jeezy: We all had the hearts of a lot of black families back in the day, bro.

1682
02:02:12.970 --> 02:02:15.849
Jeezy: I wonder how a lot of them would feel if they found out he was a MAGA supporter.

1683
02:02:15.850 --> 02:02:16.380
Manny: Right.

1684
02:02:16.670 --> 02:02:17.560
Chuck: Mmm.

1685
02:02:17.990 --> 02:02:18.740
Jeezy: He gone now.

1686
02:02:18.740 --> 02:02:19.939
Manny: He gone. He gone now.

1687
02:02:19.940 --> 02:02:23.459
Chuck: And the show was in syndication, so, you know…

1688
02:02:23.460 --> 02:02:27.510
Jeezy: Yep. Oh, and RIP to the Robert Mueller, too, man.

1689
02:02:27.510 --> 02:02:27.830
Chuck: Oh, yeah.

1690
02:02:27.830 --> 02:02:29.400
Manny: Yeah, I've forgotten.

1691
02:02:29.400 --> 02:02:32.850
Jeezy: RIP to Robert Mueller, man. FBI director.

1692
02:02:32.850 --> 02:02:35.310
Manny: I know one person who didn't tell him RIP.

1693
02:02:35.310 --> 02:02:36.700
Chuck: No.

1694
02:02:36.700 --> 02:02:39.400
Manny: Trump's at rest in chaos.

1695
02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:42.019
Jeezy: Trump said, good. I'm glad he's on.

1696
02:02:42.020 --> 02:02:44.920
Manny: And I was like, dude.

1697
02:02:44.920 --> 02:02:47.000
Jeezy: Not a presidential bone in that man's body, right?

1698
02:02:47.270 --> 02:02:48.700
Chuck: No decorum, man.

1699
02:02:48.700 --> 02:02:50.260
Jeezy: None, none whatsoever, bro.

1700
02:02:50.260 --> 02:02:52.709
Chuck: Then that makes me feel like I can run for president.

1701
02:02:53.550 --> 02:02:58.180
Jeezy: Hey, listen… If he can do it, anybody can at this point.

1702
02:02:58.180 --> 02:02:59.399
Chuck: I don't have one felony.

1703
02:03:00.060 --> 02:03:02.549
Jeezy: Hey, listen. And I got my right mind.

1704
02:03:03.110 --> 02:03:04.689
Chuck: Devin's got my right mind.

1705
02:03:04.690 --> 02:03:06.120
Jeezy: And I don't swallow myself.

1706
02:03:06.120 --> 02:03:09.730
Manny: I was gonna say, I got control of my bodily functions.

1707
02:03:09.730 --> 02:03:11.440
Jeezy: I take baths, and I smell good.

1708
02:03:12.280 --> 02:03:14.740
Jeezy: Something that White House ain't seen in a while.

1709
02:03:16.640 --> 02:03:17.550
Jeezy: To our listeners.

1710
02:03:18.340 --> 02:03:30.479
Jeezy: This is the conclusion of our episode, the 75th episode of Pardon the Politics. So, lastly, I want to say shout out to you, brother, for the journey that we've been on so far in May.

1711
02:03:30.570 --> 02:03:42.100
Jeezy: The Lord bless us with 75 more as we continue, to bring chaos and clarity amongst the people. So, with that being said, all hearts and minds clear, brothers? You good? You good?

1712
02:03:42.100 --> 02:03:47.510
Chuck: Before we go, just let them know, hey, this is only 75, we got 75 more to go.

1713
02:03:47.510 --> 02:03:47.949
Manny: He's, huh.

1714
02:03:47.950 --> 02:04:00.760
Chuck: a lot. Share with your friends if you like it, subscribe, all the good things. Follow, like, subscribe, but most importantly, tell a friend and tell a friend. Partner Politics is here to give you everything you need.

1715
02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:08.649
Jeezy: Yes, sir, yes indeed. Yes, indeed, we here to stay, we here to stay. So please like, share, follow on all the platforms that

1716
02:04:08.870 --> 02:04:12.920
Jeezy: President Trump has allowed us to have thus far, and hopefully we can get some help.

1717
02:04:12.920 --> 02:04:14.810
Manny: They get on the other one.

1718
02:04:14.810 --> 02:04:21.990
Jeezy: But thank you, we hope this episode finds you, in good spirits, and we hope to see you at the next one, so take care, world.

1719
02:04:22.460 --> 02:04:23.080
Chuck: Release.

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