A Rocky Start: Speaker Johnson’s Narrow Win and What’s Next

Season 2 is here, and Jeezy and Manny dive headfirst into 2025’s chaos! From honoring Jimmy Carter’s remarkable legacy to dissecting his presidency’s challenges, the duo reflects on his impact as a true American statesman. Shifting gears, they tackle the shocking New Year’s Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, discussing veterans’ mental health, radicalization, and national security concerns. The conversation then turns to Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin re-election and the political balancing act ahead. And for New Yorkers? Manhattan’s new $9 toll sparks a heated discussion on transportation and congestion. Tune in for sharp insights, political humor, and a fresh start to the new season!

Transcript

Jeezy: Hello, world, and welcome to pardon the politics. Season. 2. Episode, one new Year, new Season, new.
Manny: We, we back, season 2.
Jeezy: I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with, as always, my partner and politics. Manny, what's good, Brother Manny?
Manny: Man. We we made it to the New Year. We made it to the new season. Yes.
Jeezy: Sir.
Manny: Ready to hop into what faf o season one is gonna hit for.
Jeezy: Word, indeed, man, we are on the cusp
Jeezy: of season, one of Fafo, but we here at partner, politics are so excited for season 2 to kick off. It's a New year, so new season, and we are so excited to be back with you. So shout out to our listeners, thank you for tuning in to episode one. Hope you guys had a good New Year New Year's Eve. Hopefully,
Jeezy: you able to see the ball drop, and if not, if you saw the back of your eyelids drop that can count as the ball as well, too, so I know some people don't make it midnight. Let me tell you.
Jeezy: man, almost didn't.
Manny: We almost didn't make it either.
Jeezy: But I didn't get that.
Manny: 3 o'clock, nap.
Jeezy: Look. I did do the brother we were hurting, but the kids kind of kept us up, and we were able to spend some time, together with our families together, and we had a great time, and we are now ready to kick off the episode. So with that being said, Man, there's already
Jeezy: in 2025 immediately.
Jeezy: but did not wait whatsoever. But before we get into the chaos of what has already transpired here in 2025. We want to start 1st with our 1st topic. Remembering the legacy of
Jeezy: the former president, Jimmy Carter, as you are aware, President Carter did pass away this past week, and just want to highlight.
Manny: 100 man, let me tell you
Manny: so. That's that's long years, man.
Jeezy: That man has seen a lot of things. Come and go, and let me tell you that is a if you live to be that long man that is just a blessing within itself. So, and he fulfilled his promise that he said he was going to be here long enough to vote for Vice President Harris, and he did so. Unfortunately, he did not see her make it into the seat, but.
Manny: And quite frankly. Neither did the rest of us.
Jeezy: Nonetheless again, a beautiful life to have lived for 100 years. So we just want to highlight a little bit of his legacy for those of you that don't know, and we're telling our age and our age is that we're still young. But we were not living during the presidency
Jeezy: of President Carter. He was our 39th President of the United States, which was between 1977 and 1981. So we, I'm gonna let Manny just do a little highlighting of what his Presidential achievements or failures were during during his time as a 1 term President of the United States.
Manny: Yeah, I think that is a big call out almost immediately that he did only serve one turn. Yeah, he was in there, he said, I'm here for a good time, not a long time. Well, maybe he didn't say that. Reagan came through and said, Hey, you're not here for a long time.
Jeezy: Came through with a sweep, and for our listeners to know that Carter served one term, and it was not against, you know. It was on his own accord he was voted out. It wasn't like a Biden situation where he decided to step down after one term. He was not successful in reelection.
Manny: And Reagan beat the dog brakes off of him.
Manny: It is still one of the most dominant electoral college maps that I have seen.
Jeezy: That's what I was just about to say is this known as one of the worst political butt whippings that American history has ever seen.
Manny: It's got to be. It's to my knowledge it is. You know. President Reagan got 489 electoral college votes.
Manny: and Jimmy Carter got 49.
Jeezy: And.
Manny: He won Georgia, West Virginia, and Minnesota.
Jeezy: But he he took. He took a mean l.
Manny: A very mean L.
Jeezy: So I think from just that evidence again, we weren't alive during that process. But I'm assuming that his Presidential term was not highlighted.
Manny: It was not great. It was not great, I think. If you look at the country as a whole, it was a time of global trauma. You know, we had the start of the whole energy crisis and the big push to get everyone off of fossil fuels because they were getting the the crazy lines at gas stations, people waiting 2 and 3 h because you had Opec throwing their weight around.
Manny: and
Manny: look, the Presidency is hard. It's hard, and you got lots of challenges. But he was able to do a lot of things. One of the some of the main things big on human rights advocacy, and this not only during his Presidency, but his Post Presidency. He really
Manny: prioritize human rights and criticize people who were who were going against them, regardless of their cold war alignment. So if he didn't like what you were doing, he was going to call you out for it. Yeah. Big pressure in that around South Korea and Argentina and other authoritarian allies to reform, and some places it worked it. In some places it didn't work.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: The next big achievement he had was the camp David accords, and that was really just kind of a a piece
Manny: treaty between Egypt and Israel, and people even say from that it is those
Manny: initial accords, those agreements that really helped lay the groundwork about what peace could look like in the Middle East.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Domestically, he was the person who established the Department Department of Energy. So it's not again, you know. We look at Trump with a department of governmental efficiency. It is not.
Manny: It's not uncommon that Presidents create new new departments. But he was one of one of the 1st to really push for solar energy. He had solar panels installed on the White House during his time, and then, when Reagan got in, they, I believe they were taken out.
Manny: Rip ripped him right off. Yeah, he's like him.
Manny: And then he was also big on the environment. He protected over a hundred 1 million acres of Alaskan wilderness.
Manny: to protect it from drilling other types of development.
Manny: But yeah, also, you have factoring in is, during this time there was high inflation, sorry. High inflation.
Manny: bad unemployment, the energy crisis. So the confidence of the American people wasn't really with him. Then you also tap in on top of all of this from 79 to 81. You had the Iran hostage crisis, where they had 52 Americans captive for 444 days. Yeah.
Jeezy: And I remember hearing about that, and that was the way that he handled that was not overseas.
Jeezy: Well, by the amount.
Manny: Some people.
Manny: Yeah, it was not. It was not. And one of the big things that
Manny: I would say, probably eventually, you know, led up to some of his demise in office is a speech that he gave to the American people where he was basically like
Manny: y'all need to chill out. Y'all need to stop buying things. Y'all need to stop being so materialistic.
Manny: And if we just stopped doing all of that we would. We would be more in control. You wouldn't have to depend so much on Opec. We wouldn't have to depend on. And if you look at it today, we're having some of those same same arguments. You know, if you look at the whole tug of war that we're having with Taiwan and China over their semiconductor production.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Like, so.
Jeezy: You know it was not a long presidency, but.
Manny: You know it happened it happened. He he's very well known, and people said it almost immediately. He was a far better citizen than he was than he was a President, and I think he said it himself, like when I think when he was out on the campaign trail, he was like, you know, after I'm done done in office as president, I'm just going to step back in and be a citizen.
Manny: Yeah, I think that's what he did
Manny: largely with what he did post office.
Jeezy: Yeah. And I think that to the point that you make, that is what a lot of people, when it comes to the legacy of Carter again. Like you stated, his presidency wasn't viewed as the best at all, and really
Jeezy: took place during a difficult time. But the legacy of Carter, the highlights. The bright moments of his legacy really were his post presidential contributions. He founded the Carter Center in 1982, and it focused on advancing human rights and promoting democracy and combating diseases worldwide.
Jeezy: The Carter Foundation that he had. There was a story that I've heard that I heard recently where
Jeezy: Vice President, I mean not Vice President. Excuse me, President-elect trump had came out and been critical of Carter and the things that he had done, and Carter kind of called him up and ended up meeting trump. And the 1st thing that he says to trump was that you know I'm glad that we're having having this meeting, because I would like for you to make a significant contribution to the Carter Foundation and the Carter Center and Trump said, from that moment he saw how this guy was able.
Jeezy: To become President. He's done great work with habitat for humanity.
Jeezy: We participated in building homes for those in need, demonstrating his dedication to success and community development. Again, like you said before
Jeezy: that citizenship, not not just even though, you know, he could have been very disgruntled about the one Presidential term that he had, and he could have just faded into the black. But you see that he was very the things that he was very serious about, and very adamant about in his presidency. He continued to do the work further. After he ran he was in office and became a citizen, even down to
Jeezy: in 2,002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in finding peaceful solutions and international conflicts and advancing democracy and human rights. So again, just you know, Presidency wasn't the best. But the beautiful thing about his legacy is the work that he had he had done after. And to me, that's very inspiring.
Jeezy: Because a lot of people think that. Okay, once you're in the position of power, you do these things, and once you don't have the power. Then it's like, Okay, well, you don't. You know you can just fade to black. You don't have to worry about doing it, you know it's not as important of a thing, but to see that this man made his life really his life legacy of what he did after. The fact is just how we're supposed to be. As I think it's
Jeezy: poor, right?
Jeezy: It's the definition of what I believe being American is continuing to care in spite of the fact. You know, in spite of what he was viewed as a president, continuing to do the work to
Jeezy: uplift and provide for the American people, that that may not have or may not have the rights that they should, making sure they're promoting democracy. And you think about how the question of democracy comes up now, and how people say that democracy is fragile now, and you know, knowing that there is a person, that no matter what side of the coin you follow him. He wanted to promote that democracy is American. This is the
Jeezy: what America is and doing that work up until I would say, until he couldn't
Jeezy: anymore from a health perspective, and even his foundation still going on in the Carter Center still going on after he has now passed, just as a Testament to his dedication to his country. So you know, with him passing away, despite how you feel about Carter's Presidency, I think that he
Jeezy: should be revered as being a true American that did care and try his best, you know. I think sometimes when we look at presidents, too, we think that you know when it didn't go too well that they don't care about America, and I don't think that's the case. Sometimes, man, you think you make the right decisions. And sometimes you like, you say man in hindsight, it's 2020.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Probably didn't work out the way that they should. But it doesn't mean that the person didn't care didn't have the
Jeezy: thought of the American people at at mind, at heart when he made these decisions, and I think
Jeezy: President Carter is a perfect example of that.
Manny: Yeah, I think he's from a time in politics that I think we long to get back to.
Jeezy: Hmm.
Manny: Where
Manny: the the number one rule was, assume no harm, assuming that no one here is actively trying to destroy anything, and I think that's why he's revered and will be revered in hindsight because he was the President. That again post office that would help go and negotiate, you know. Peace treaty. Try to get Americans free across the State across the globe and actually putting feet on the ground to do that.
Manny: So I I the one thing I'll land on. Wrap up, you know. It's not often we get a a presidential, you know, death and the the pomp and circumstance that's surrounding that. So
Manny: there's a lot going on.
Manny: if you're listening to the to this, and it's Monday.
Manny: President Carter is still lying lying in repose at the Carter Presidential center for the public to still pay their respects.
Manny: Starting Tuesday on January 7.th That's when they'll start the trip from Georgia over to DC. Carter will lie at the lie in state at the Us. Capitol
Manny: from Wednesday, January 8.th All the way until January 9th January 9, th is the the big state funeral. The stock market will be closed in honor of Carter, so all that will take place on Thursday.
Manny: And then they'll eventually fly him back home. He's gonna be ultimately laid to rest. Next to his wife, Rosalyn Carter. So you know, from for to the Carter family Carter himself. Thank you for your service to America. And you know your service post office, you know.
Manny: A 100 years is a fantastic life, and it's, you know from all accounts that I've read. It sounds like it was a life well lived. So
Manny: rest, good, sir. And yeah.
Jeezy: Rest, brother.
Manny: Condolences to the family as you as they begin this now transition into this world without President Carter.
Jeezy: Yes, sir, indeed, indeed! So with that being said, we will move on to our next topic, and
Jeezy: Once we got into 2025, and the ball dropped. Boy, did we?
Manny: Boy did the ball drop.
Jeezy: Instant. Chaos, man, instant chaos. So, not too long after the ball dropped a couple of hours, actually around 3 15, there was an incident that happened on New Year's Day, and there were actually 2. But we.
Manny: Residence.
Jeezy: Yes, that happened. But we'll start with the 1st one that happened in New Orleans. So in the early hours of January first, st a 42 year old, Us. Army veteran, which I'm not going to slaughter his name. But I will say, Jabbar, his his last name drove a pickup truck into a into a crowd on Bourbon Street in the French quarter.
Jeezy: which resulted in approximately, I believe, 15 fatalities and injuring dozens, and the attack lasted approximately 2 h, which was from 4 15 A. M.
Jeezy: To 3 17 am. Just
Jeezy: man an instant, just disaster. Just as soon, I mean, we're only 3 h in into the New Year, and we're hit with something. And there has been a lot of circulation online of video footage. I saw one a couple of days ago of actually showing when he started the attack. And he's just driving down the road very normal. And then it's just he hooks this right and bam. He's into it. So there's been a lot of of investigating going on. With this.
Jeezy: It was reported that Jabbar, who had converted to Islam, had recorded videos pledging his allegiance to Isis prior to the attack, and he initially had planned to harm his family.
Manny: The head of his wife and kid right.
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was planning to actually, you know, take out his family, but chose to target strangers to draw attention to what he described as a war on non
Jeezy: believers. So man, just.
Manny: Yeah, this is
Manny: first, st I think my my entire thought was, how could this have been avoided? I think my the 1st thought truly in my mind was, how did a car get onto Bourbon Street.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: On New Year's Eve.
Jeezy: We, and we've both been to New.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Both have been, you know, to the French quarter in Berber Street, and this is not something that is normal at all.
Manny: Oh!
Jeezy: When I heard it. I'm like, how in the world did you know a pickup truck even get on Bourbon Street? And I think they reported that I guess there was a malfunction with the barriers and whatnot. And you know again. Still.
Jeezy: you know, I hate when these things happen, and it's always something that normally would have been in place. But somehow
Jeezy: it's just not in. And yeah
Jeezy: got dropped. And you know, and and like you said, I mean the biggest one of the biggest days of the year.
Jeezy: and then work any day. It needs to work today.
Manny: Well and think. Think about where New Orleans is as a city just like right now, for the next couple of weeks. Yeah, they had New Year's
Manny: people come to New Orleans. They had the sugar bowl the next day.
Manny: and they got the super bowl down there like if there is no time for your security to be top tier. It's now yeah. So to hear in
Manny: in retrospect. Now, everyone who's come out. It's like, yeah. We gave them this report we called out that this was going to be an issue here, and we called out, this is going to be an issue here. Why did we sit on all that, and all of that needs to be taken and will be handled?
Manny: Obviously, politically, because it sounds like, not only will people lose their jobs by just being fired. It sounds like there's going to be people who lose elections. Over this, and you know I can't say I fault anyone for for voting
Manny: against. You know the leadership that was in in place when this is called. But so that's 1 piece. So let's bucket all that up and put it in in its own box. But then you have the separate piece
Manny: the fact that homeland security had come out and said, Hey, y'all keep your head on us for New years. You know we could have some issues here, especially with people and and automobiles, so I'm kind of like were y'all listening to the Department of Homeland Security.
Jeezy: Right.
Manny: Like. But then, on top of that, you have this issue around veteran health.
Jeezy: Yeah. Oh.
Manny: Better in meant mental health, and I think you see it in both of these situations. We'll hop more into it in a little bit. Yeah. But
Manny: you know, I think once I found out the person was in the military that that's what popped in my head. I was like these men and women see and encounter and deal with some of the worst things in humanity, and then we expect them to get out of the military and just be able to clearly slide back into civilian life.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: That's not realistic. We need to as a country, just all decide like, Hey, yeah, this is not a normal reaction. This is not a no, we got it. We have to do something different here. But
Manny: I, the to you, said to Video, other video that I saw
Manny: is the police look, to move. Really, really fast.
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
Manny: Because this could have got real. This could have got real bad, real bad, real fast.
Jeezy: I would definitely say that that needs to be commended because I've seen the same video as well. And once this thing seemed to have taken.
Manny: They're moving. I mean you.
Jeezy: I've seen. Video cops are like hauling tail down the street to get to where this was taking place. And obviously it's
Jeezy: you can tell so, because this attack only lasted, and I know 2 min is a long time, but this man could.
Manny: Only 2.
Jeezy: 10 min he could have been under 15 min before he was stopped. So, though we extend our condolences to the families that were affected in this incident in New Orleans. It certainly could have been a lot worse.
Manny: Far worse.
Jeezy: So. So yeah.
Jeezy: also, too, when you look at this, they were saying that. And to your point about this this mental health thing, man for veterans. I have an aunt that was in the in the army, and she graduated now. Granted she didn't go to war, but she graduated high school at 18, when the military and then she retired at like 50 something, you know. So a long time of being in the military.
Jeezy: and I remember having conversations with her and my mother, and just for her. Now she's not been in war or anything but just for her to have been in the military, and had done things in the way that the military does it for so long. Her being a civilian now was a serious adjustment for her, and it took her a while to be used to how the world works outside of being
Jeezy: yeah
Jeezy: military. So I can just imagine if she struggled with not having to be in combat, not having to be to deal with some of these things that some of these soldiers have seen and experienced and been through.
Jeezy: If she struggled. I can see exactly how it could be a very serious issue mentally for these individuals to come back in. I can even speak about my father. My father was in the Vietnam war, and I can remember just how.
Jeezy: until he was able to receive help from the Government, how rough it was for him, and
Jeezy: you know, for our our servicemen to do the things that they do.
Jeezy: just seeing how hard it was for him to come back home and get the help that he needed. I don't know dates, but you guys know when the Vietnam war ended or you can look it up. But I was like a senior in high school, so I'm talking like 2,000.
Manny: To watch 2,004, 2,004, 2,005, when my dad finally got like.
Jeezy: The serious amount of help he needs. That's a long time.
Manny: Super long time.
Jeezy: To be out as a civilian who is not right mentally, you know.
Manny: Expecting, with a public perception of this person, should just act like this.
Jeezy: Yeah. Yeah. And to see that this is so. There, there's a lot of conversation. And oftentimes it's a soft spot for me when I hear people talk about how they support our troops and support our veterans, and then you have people that you see that the Government makes it almost impossible for them almost to get the help that they need. So a lot of them just quit trying to get it. And then they end up doing extreme things, whether it be abuse, addiction.
Jeezy: suicide, homicides, you know. It could. It could really turn left really quick, and it shouldn't be that way. And I bring that up because it was investigated that he had this guy Jabbar. When they looked at his travel history. He took a month long trip to Egypt back in 2023.
Jeezy: And it's determining, or they're determining, that this was the potential connection to how he got kind of hooked onto this extremist group, how they how he got it dedicated to Isis to a point where he was like, you know.
Jeezy: basically there he got radicalized.
Jeezy: Yeah, he was radicalized. He was on that level. It was 1st announced that they thought that he may have not acted alone, but then it was later cleared up
Jeezy: that the FBI did believe that he he acted alone, but again, just terrible man, just.
Manny: Because they found bomb making stuff at at yeah, at the man's house. So it's like
Manny: this could have been
Manny: so like worst case scenario. He let's say he could have driven up in there, and it was a what I believe it was a Ford lightning. So you got the giant battery under it.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: If he would have been able to rig a bomb in there that would have gone off, that eventually
Manny: would have gone after that battery after enough heat.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Now again, I'm not an expert in cars. This is just how my brain works and how thermodynamics works in my brain.
Manny: But eventually enough heat in that battery would have caused something to happen, so this could have been far, far worse.
Manny: but I think he just
Manny: I think it shows. And I kind of reminds us here in the Us. That we're we're not, you know, we're not exempt from having these kind of things happening here. Yeah, so vigilance is always always important. Now, if I was on Bourbon Street, would I have probably been in the state of mind to been like, hmm!
Manny: There's missing traffic pylons here. I don't know if we should go out. Probably not. That's not me.
Jeezy: Maybe before you had one.
Manny: That 1st hand grenades. Yep.
Jeezy: Then maybe you'd be like, Hey, something's not up.
Manny: Something's awful.
Jeezy: Something's missing. This street shouldn't be this wide open.
Manny: Be right.
Jeezy: You know again, and I believe they moved fast, and, like you said they had the sugar bowl, and then now they have the Super bowl, and I think they have moved pretty quick to try to
Jeezy: open Bourbon Street back up. I won't talk about it much in detail. I was a little bothered
Jeezy: around the media.
Manny: Out. Y'all we good, we good. Everything's good. Y'all y'all come back out here.
Jeezy: And I kind of was bothered by Representative Kennedy as well, too.
Manny: Hmm.
Jeezy: He I felt like he kind of took a moment to kind of.
Jeezy: you know, Flex his political muscles a little bit to try to use the moment to maybe benefit him a little bit, and I didn't necessarily agree with that. That's my personal opinion. But I just felt like that he kind of in the way that he kind of used this moment or is using this moment I feel like is a bit insensitive, even down to like you said already opening the street back up. And oh, no, it's good.
Jeezy: I mean, it wasn't even like 24 h if I'm not mistaken. Oh, we got a game to play. People came to watch football, and it's like
Jeezy: 15 people died on that street last night like
Manny: We also saw. We also saw immediately trump come out and say, Hey, this is about illegal terrorism. And then there was all the rumors about how the
Manny: trunk bracelet across the border, and they brought it back.
Jeezy: Like, yeah. Bro, yeah, wait for some reporting man
Jeezy: and and see. That's what. And I think I brought up the conversation to you in the group chat, and I won't expound on it too much. But I feel like, from a media perspective. We need to be careful how we use the word terrorist.
Jeezy: And the reason why I said that say, that is because of what you just stated. There was so much going on around about. Okay. He drove the truck over the border and came over to New Orleans. Oh, he drove from Canada and came down and did this, and you know then people kind of take the word terrorists and point it to one group of people and demonize a certain group of people who are not associated with this radicalization at all.
Jeezy: It even came out that he wasn't. You know. He's a Us. Citizen born in Texas, you know. But the report was already out there. Oh, he's a terrorist. And so then we or not, we. But people, equate terrorists to one specific group of people. So that's why I'm kind of of the thought of.
Jeezy: We need to have a difference between a terrorist and a domestic terrorist, someone who was born here that commits a terrorist act. I believe that it was some of the school shootings that we have seen. They have deemed some of these as investigating them as a terrorist attack. Well, when you use the word terrorist. You don't think about a white kid.
Manny: No.
Jeezy: And I. So I think it needs to be well, like.
Manny: Of we saw we've seen we've seen already with Luigi.
Jeezy: New York.
Manny: Being charged for terrorism. So.
Jeezy: But that's just my, that's just my
Jeezy: my thought, you know. But I'm not going to harp on it too much. I just think that we have to. The media has to be careful how we push that narrative, because there are some people, and we've seen it before where you go out here and say the word terrorist. And now Islamic communities are attacked by us citizens because of this of this word. So I think it should. It should be, it should be used a little carefully.
Jeezy: but on the same day we had another attack that happened and took place in Las Vegas. So
Jeezy: on the same day, and I'm I'm probably going to butcher his last name. But Matthew Livelisberger.
Jeezy: a 37 year old. Active duty soldier, was found deceased in a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The vehicle contained fireworks and explosive, which detonated injuring 7 bystanders and he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to the explosion. Now
Jeezy: this gentleman was a decorated green beret, and was identified through his distinctive tattoos. That's how they were able to identify him out of the carnage that took place, which included a large Us. Flag that he had and his family suggested he did not intend to harm others, though his presence of explosive indicated
Jeezy: otherwise. So again, another individual, and I think, going back to the point that you stated
Jeezy: manny about mental health with our veterans. It was authorities that actually started investigating to see what their potential link between
Jeezy: Livelisberger and Jabbar, noting similarities such as their use of the same vehicle sharing App in military backgrounds. What's it? The.
Manny: Man.
Jeezy: More editorial.
Manny: Boy, let me tell you they.
Jeezy: If I'm them, I'm canceling every reservation for the next like 30 days.
Jeezy: We need Chihu.
Manny: I,
Manny: and not to be selfish here, like or even sound. But toro is Toro is in a pickle, because now what do you do you know, all Toro's largely is is Airbnb for cars? Yeah. So now you have 2 separate instances of someone renting a vehicle from you.
Manny: and then using that to commit a felonous activity like, think about the guy in New Orleans who was just turns on his TV and sees his Ford lightning with the license plate sitting on Berman Street, mortified.
Manny: absolutely and completely mortified. Yeah, so it'll be. I think there's a couple reactions that are going to look real interesting with Toro is, how do the people who put their cars on there react? And how do them? How do they act as a corporation?
Jeezy: Yeah, cause. That's what I.
Manny: So obviously, there's a hole there perspective like, does this?
Manny: What if you? What, what would you have done? You think you would have seen either of these people. Hey? Military?
Manny: Okay? Valid license.
Jeezy: Yeah, nothing. It would check out.
Manny: Enough.
Jeezy: To say, otherwise.
Manny: I mean, what would have stopped this person from doing the same at Hertz.
Manny: Yeah, what would the sub.
Manny: Very true.
Manny: you know, at avis. So I think you know, Toros access makes it a little bit a little bit easier, especially in these cases. In this case, all these 2 cases, but they they are in a pickle, because I don't know if they have the same protections as a rental car company as a Hertz or Avis does so.
Jeezy: Thinking, are these families of the potentially deceased and those that have been injured? Could they legally come after toro
Jeezy: you know I don't know.
Manny: Can they? We'll find out, will they?
Manny: Probably they will probably most definitely. They'll they'll go after taro in some capacity.
Manny: I don't know how it will land. So I think we'll have to kind of watch how that plays out. But they they did not have a great start of the year.
Jeezy: No man, and I think that with them, looking at this, and again going back to what you stated, these 2 instances have raised concerns about extremist activity involving current and former military personnel. Prompting calls for enhanced measure to address
Jeezy: this radicalization with the armed forces, and I think that is something that definitely needs to be put on high alert, because I don't think that it is no coincidence of the such that these 2 individuals were decorated
Jeezy: military veterans, and that is a concern that needs to be addressed. And I pray.
Jeezy: and I know that you know we don't know, but I just pray that this is not the start of something extreme that we're going to start seeing in this country. We've been blessed and fortunate to not necessarily have a lot of activity in our country in this area, and I certainly do not want
Jeezy: it to start now. But I wonder just with a different administration coming in some of the things that may transpire that this administration may do. Will this lead to certain people feeling some way and reacting in a very radicalized way, I pray and hope not, because at the end of the day, you know, we already have enough division.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: In this country. The last thing we need is to be attacking each other in a way that is that is just completely unnecessary and just harmful to who we are
Jeezy: as a nation. So I hope that this is not the start of a pattern, and I hope that that whatever resources we have as a country that is able to kind of sit and find and see some of maybe the potential warning signs of these things to come. I'm hoping those things are being utilized at its highest degree to prevent some of these things from going on. If it's if it's if it's at all possible.
Manny: Well, and I think that's where it's also going. The conversation post. This is going to get real interesting, because we saw it in the wake of 9 11 is, how much of our freedom are we willing to give up in the name of security? You know we talk about that people have talked about for the Patriot Act for years, and how much freedom and how much power we've given. You know the Nsa. And the FBI and the CIA. You know
Manny: how
Manny: I don't want to, you know. Come as far as saying, well, you know, the government needs to be looking at everyone's Internet search history. Well, no, get no you that I'm not giving that up.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: For for the sake of security. At this point, from a from a mass standpoint, not without a warrant like.
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
Manny: Yeah, so that that's, I think, what we also have to
Manny: to look at and watch that debate evolve is about how much of our freedoms? Are we willing to give up in the, in the, in the name of security, that we don't necessarily have to.
Jeezy: Yeah, I agree, I agree.
Manny: Sorry.
Jeezy: Conversation, and that realization of what that looks like needs to come to fruition more sooner than later.
Manny: And we'll we're in spin game. So we'll see how this, how, how both of these attacks are are spun.
Manny: but I think the out the Las Vegas. One could have also been a whole lot worse. Oh, you know, just sitting sitting your truck outside and then explode one of the things I read is that due to how the cyber truck is built
Manny: it? It was less less dangerous than it could have been because of the the steel body kept the explosion
Manny: kind of internal to the Cybertruck instead of really, really going out large like it could have been other things. So
Manny: one thing I did also see immediately from this is apparently Elon Musk called up. The Las Vegas police department was like.
Manny: here's all the information we have on that particular Cybertruck.
Jeezy: Yeah, so, how?
Jeezy: Wow, bro.
Manny: Don't mind totally.
Jeezy: Already. Start bro.
Manny: Like, how much data are you really capturing when I'm writing in this Tesla? Right?
Jeezy: Brother. I thought the same thing like
Jeezy: it's like a computer on wheels. Man like.
Manny: It is. It's a giant computer.
Jeezy: Giant computer on wheels. Man, it's just whatever you do in it. I bet it. Tell you how long you've been sitting there, what the temperature of your butt is
Jeezy: brother like it could give you all types of data, but shout out to Elon, Brother, the Tesla Cybertruck as much as it looks like a stainless steel refrigerator riding down.
Manny: Oh, they don't made him out there yet. Oh, Bro.
Jeezy: I seen I seen the all black one, and I ain't gonna fret. That drink was clean like I'm talking about like liquid black, clean
Jeezy: right.
Manny: Some of these raps, some of these raps that they're doing on these Cybertruck. I'm like that goes.
Manny: I couldn't drive it. I couldn't. That couldn't be my everyday car.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: But I could definitely pop out.
Jeezy: I thought about renting me one toro, but I think it might be old Paul's.
Manny: But.
Jeezy: Stay away from Toro for a little bit. I'm gonna let the spike. I'm let the spike get a little less hot.
Manny: Right, just a little bit, just a little
Manny: little bit. So yeah, man, hopefully, this will not be the start of something in this country. But those are the details that we have.
Jeezy: On the New Year Day incidents that took place. And again, as I said before, condolences to those families that have lost loved ones, and those that are injured prayerfully, you will have a speedy recovery. And and you'll heal to your most wanted and needed help. So
Jeezy: with that being said, we'll jump to our next topic, and something a little less less damaging. And
Jeezy: but is it? But is it?
Jeezy: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's trading the devil for the witch.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: On January the 3rd we had a interesting vote take place 1st of all. On the 3rd was the day that the new Congress
Jeezy: came back in, and those individuals were sworn in by Vice President Harris. But immediately after that they got to work, and Representative Mike Johnson was up for voting
Jeezy: as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and he was reelected, securing a minimum. 218 votes required for his position. Now the vote again. It was barely he barely made the cut. 218 is what you need, and 218 is what he got.
Jeezy: But he did receive exactly 218, with all 215 Democrats supporting their leader, Hakeem Jeffries. And I'm not gonna lie now. I knew it wasn't going to happen. But I've been also dealing with Mandy too long. I was looking at. I was looking at the numbers, and I was like, is it possible that Hakeem could get to 2 18
Jeezy: because they were the.
Manny: That.
Jeezy: There was a couple of Republicans that had voted other.
Jeezy: But I again, that's the the you know, the the watching, the game type of feeling that you like. I was hoping how kings will get like 2 17. I was, gonna be like, Oh, boy, this is interesting.
Manny: Well.
Jeezy: But it. But it had that happened you probably would have seen Trump walk in the chambers like.
Manny: Personally be like, Hey, hey? No.
Jeezy: Him, and President-elect Musk would have walked in there like Hey.
Manny: Yeah chill out y'all chill out.
Jeezy: Now in the voting. There were 3 Republicans that that held out initially, and that was Representative Massey, Norman, and self opposing Johnson's reelection. But there was, you know, you know Big Daddy Orange had to make a call.
Manny: Well, and I'm be real. When he made that call earlier this week and said, Hey, I'm endorsing, you know. Speak, Johnson for Speaker. Yeah, I thought a lot of this was going to be put to rest. I I thought I thought this was gonna go through pretty smooth. But then in
Manny: day before the 3.rd The sorry. The second is what that would be. The yeah. I'm about to say.
Manny: The second I'd been hearing and reading up some places like, Hey, this is, this is going to be tight. And I was like, -oh.
Manny: yeah. But I want to. We still don't know what happened in that room.
Jeezy: We don't.
Manny: So for those of you who were not walking as intently as Jay-z and I.
Manny: The vote landed. I think it was like what 2, 16, 2, 15, and then, or yeah.
Manny: 16 for the Republicans, 2, 15 for the Democrats, and 3 were listed as other.
Jeezy: Yep.
Manny: And
Manny: it looked like they got through all the votes, and they didn't actually slam the gavel down to say the vote was closed. So then everyone rallied to their corners, and then people started having conversations, and I believe it was trump that had to call directly. You know, representative Norman and self, and essentially say, Hey, y'all, let's get with the program.
Manny: Everyone keeps saying that, hey? You know, Johnson didn't go in there and negotiate anything.
Manny: and that's sure that that's great. I don't believe it.
Jeezy: I don't believe it either.
Manny: That's not how this works. One of the things that did come out is, and I think it was really good. Is that the threshold to throw out. The Speaker of the House has been raised from one to 9. So I'm like, Okay, good it it. It didn't need to be there. In the 1st place.
Jeezy: Which I think I heard a report that the Conservatives, which oh.
Jeezy: have come from the freedom caucus yeah, wanted it to be 5.
Jeezy: So. So you know, 9, I feel like is ideal. 5 is is better than one. But I think that I think that 9 is is a fairly decent number, and I think a lot of the issue that has been coming as far as opposition, which which is crazy to me is that Johnson is known to be quite conservative.
Jeezy: but a lot of the Conservatives, especially from the freedom caucus, believe that they
Jeezy: were not being heard as much as they would have liked, or what they may have been promised to be. I believe they wanted some positions, according to, I believe, even like the the ruling committee.
Jeezy: They wanted to chair the ruling committee, and Johnson was like, Yeah, no, I ain't doing.
Manny: And not.
Jeezy: I'm interested to see, you know, when it comes to him saying that no deals were made once these things start playing out, I'm wondering. Okay, is the individual going to be chairing that committee.
Manny: We gonna find some stuff. But, like I to the point you brought up, there is a vast difference between what you do as a representative, and then what you do as having to actually lead this body, I can guarantee, you know. No matter if you're a Republican or Democrat, if you're Republican. You're not going to be conservative enough as a speaker.
Manny: as a Democrat, you will never be liberal enough as a speaker, but you're not. You're trying to move this legislative body of both parties.
Manny: And you know I was telling Jesus, but I think Dems might have misplayed this a little.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: I think we knew at the end of the day, and who knows? You know, some of this could have been in play for second and 3rd and 4th votes. Yeah, but jeez let me tell you what I would have done if I if I was a them.
Manny: I'd have looked over there
Manny: and saw that they needed a couple of votes, and I'd walked over to Hakeem. Been like, Hey, Keen? I'm getting ready to go vote for Johnson.
Manny: and let him be upset and let the rest of the Dems be upset. But
Manny: I think there was an opportunity for them to get some kind of leverage. Yeah,
Manny: And then also, while also simultaneously shutting down that crazy crowd.
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
Manny: You really would have some people loved it. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, no.
Jeezy: On both sides.
Manny: So I'm like, oh, so now, as a as a dem, you know, I'm showing that I'm willing to to come and work with Republicans. Yes, that's cause. That's how politics works. If you actually want to get stuff done.
Jeezy: Exactly.
Manny: I think they one or 2 of them, especially dems that were in that one in seats that were barely blue or could have been red. That'd been a great opportunity to give them something they can take back to to the people who don't traditionally align with them, but that could also move from them. I think you saw in that whole the whole day that there was a lot of discussion about working together.
Manny: What was very clear to me. Is that Speaker Johnson, very subtly, at least from my standpoint, drew a line in the sand.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: In regards to immigration. I think that that line is, hey? We're going to focus on immigrating, not immigrating. That's not the word. I'm looking deporting those who are criminals. But the way he gave that comment it sounded like, that's where we're stopping. We're not
Manny: which a is going to do wonders for the economy because of the impact of all of that happening. So I think that was a very, very defined line of where
Manny: where they needed to get so.
Manny: But pressure, man, look, press, sure.
Jeezy: And I think this this is signs of the challenges that will will go ahead, because, as we all know, there, there's a narrow majority with it being what 2, 19 and 2, 15.
Jeezy: And I think you made some mention of it before that that number is gonna be a little bit less with.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Things that are coming up.
Manny: Yeah, cause you got well. You got Matt Gates, Elise Stefanke and Mike waltz
Manny: that he he actually has a T. And Z. For for our people who listen. Mike, waltz who will be leaving Congress? Stefanke, and waltz, leaving to go join the Cabinet, where what essentially will happen is, new, elections will be scheduled for those seats, and he is going to have probably a 1 vote majority.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: In the house, and that is going to be hard. He's
Manny: he's going to be in a pickle. He's going to either cut, have to cut deals with the Democrats, or cut deals with the with the far right, and I don't know who wins.
Jeezy: Now, and I think that he has done it at least on one accord. Where he has. He has made a deal with Democrats to be able to get some, some support on some things in his
Jeezy: narrow majority. But when you have opposition of, you know the 3 that held out, and then essentially, Massey maintaining his opposition. This definitely may turn into a pickle situation. And I wonder. And the one thing about Massey that's kind of a notice to me is that every there's still people that aren't completely on the bandwagon of trump.
Jeezy: There's still some people, and you know that it doesn't matter if if Trump called and said, Look, you need to get on board with this. We know of one person that's like
Jeezy: well, and I think it is what it is.
Manny: I think, with Massey. I don't think it was the issue. Well, the issue was directly with Johnson. Yeah, it was from a very principled. Take stand like I get that
Manny: but it'll be interesting to see how the rest of this kind of kind of plays out. I mean, you do have the freedom caucus. Use this really as an opportunity to kind of flex a little. They're like, Hey, you need all of us, and that that's why I think the some of the Dems hopping in to be like, well, maybe they don't need y'all. Maybe they just need some of us.
Manny: it. It'll be interesting. And I think the other thing to watch amidst all of this is those new elections, because.
Manny: And Stafranki. See.
Manny: That is a very competitive seat. So there is an opportunity for Dems to be able to flip that seat, and what we could be watching. There is one of the most expensive house races.
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
Manny: In a while, because you're talking about really going after margins and whatnot.
Jeezy: -
Manny: So gab.
Jeezy: That could be something interesting, man. We will definitely have to keep our eye on it. I will make a note, though, for Johnson that this he survived the 1st round of votes. He didn't have to like. You said before, the gavel hadn't strike. So this is not where he had to go back and revote, which I'll be honest with you
Jeezy: from watching it. I'm thankful that I didn't have to watch it called all those people names out, man, and shout out to the lady that was, I don't know her name, but the the lady that was calling out all of all of their names because she didn't mess up on a single name, and I knew if that was me.
Manny: I'd have messed it all up.
Jeezy: Oh, somebody getting somebody's name is either getting mispronounced or I'm gonna forget my place on the card, and I'm gonna miss calling somebody. And it's gonna have to be like when.
Manny: I'm gonna be calling the.
Jeezy: If you think get hold of community, they say, did anybody get omitted? Yeah, I don't admit about 5 people
Jeezy: bad. I lost my place on the sheet.
Manny: Bro. I would have called out.
Jeezy: Hold on!
Manny: Multiple. Mr. Wilder, you read out 500 names. I'm sorry I just. I said the guy for North Carolina 3 times, because I kept. I kept missing the name, and didn't want to skip. Yep, that had been me too.
Jeezy: Yep, so so shout out to her, man for for getting it getting it done, man, it's always cool to see how smooth of a process that these people are like they're ready to just do like what you think is just voting in this. You know, such a just a normal type thing of doing the business of Congress, and they hit these individuals that are in place that just do their job so flawlessly. So I got to shout out, There, man! So! But luckily Johnson didn't have to go to a second ballot.
Jeezy: and it was handled on the first, st so kudos to him that might be potentially the easiest of voting.
Manny: Oh, it will not, might be that that will probably be the easiest vote he takes and deals with, at least in the next 2 years.
Jeezy: Yep, so I hope I hope that he enjoys it.
Manny: Yeah, okay.
Jeezy: Because it might be a little rougher
Jeezy: from here. So with that being said, we are at our segment, which is our favorite time of the episode. I was, gonna say, the year.
Jeezy: but it's
Jeezy: seems like there's always a time in the year that this takes place, and that is our pickle of the week
Jeezy: we got your pickle.
Jeezy: We got your pickle.
Jeezy: We got your pickle.
Jeezy: Alright, man.
Manny: Who's 1st in the brine this year.
Jeezy: Our 1st pickle of season. 2. Episode. One is not a person.
Jeezy: But it's it's a it could be for anybody.
Jeezy: And that pickle of the week is anyone that is traveling
Jeezy: in the area of Manhattan, New York. It is reported that on yesterday Sunday
Jeezy: that there will now be a $9 toll charge. Basically, I'm assuming.
Manny: Way.
Jeezy: Bro, I'm assuming it's both way. It's a con. It's a congestion charge that they will be charging everyone that will be traveling into. And I'm assuming out of Manhattan. So $18 it is not. And this is not an impact of the ones driving. They're in a pickle to having to pay that.
Jeezy: but also all the public transportation is in a pickle, too.
Jeezy: because if people stop well, I ain't driving, I'm just going to get on the train, or I'm going to get on the metro, or whatever they have. Now, now that's congested.
Jeezy: So now the whole transportation. So that's the pickle. The whole transportation system of Manhattan is in a pickle.
Manny: Oh, no! So I want to look this up. So it's it's $9. If you have an easy pass. If you.
Jeezy: Don't have an easy pass.
Manny: 1350.
Manny: Oh, no.
Manny: no, it get it gets, and that so it is $9 weekdays from 5 Am. To 9 Pm. And weekends 9 am. To 9 Pm. Overnight. So if you try to peel off.
Jeezy: Hold on! Hold on overnight, Bro. They charge you overnight is 2, 25.
Manny: With an easy pass, and 3 30 without.
Jeezy: Jeez bruh.
Manny: So they don't want nobody traveling to Manhat.
Jeezy: Right. The whole transportation system is in a pickle because I can. I? New York people already are aggressive and get upset quick. I know they
Jeezy: I haven't they? Punching air and cussing out.
Manny: Driven in New York City once.
Manny: and if I never have to do it again, it will still man Bro.
Manny: so like it's it's an aggressiveness that, like.
Jeezy: Is it? I'm not, see.
Manny: Yeah, yeah, cause cause like, I feel like, only certain lanes in DC get aggressive. Like, if you say over here, you know, it's not going to be too bad. No, it was just like every place, and I'm like.
Manny: and it's not my car I was driving, so I was just like.
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
Manny: I was like. Nope, if I don't have to drive here in New York ever again, I don't plan on it.
Jeezy: So if anybody that is a listener of the pod, and you're in New York, in the Manhattan area, you'd like to give us a call. Let us know how the 1st week of this congestion toll. Let us know how the people of New York feel about this. We certainly will have you come on the pod? And
Jeezy: oh, yeah, air out your grievances.
Manny: Because, let me tell you, let me tell you who's about to be real upset. There's at least 2 or 3 people that are out there that completely forgot this is happening.
Manny: And they just driving it, they just driving into Manhattan all nice, nice and chill, like whatever.
Jeezy: Yup!
Manny: In February. They're gonna get that bill.
Manny: Yeah, they'd be livid livid.
Jeezy: Bro. I hate man. I remember when I was traveling somewhere, and I got that toll. I'm like I didn't even know where I went, there was even like a Bro, where did this come from? I'm like, okay, definitely about to be somebody that's gonna forget that the toll has started. So.
Manny: Truth.
Jeezy: And I feel bad, because by the time you hear this episode.
Manny: It's too.
Jeezy: If you, what does Drake say? If you're reading this, it's too late. If you listen, it is, it's too late.
Manny: It's too long.
Jeezy: Has already started.
Jeezy: Go ahead and expect that you got you got at least $9 or $18 already charged. That's in the mail coming your way so.
Manny: At least at least.
Jeezy: So that is my pickle of the week, man, that the whole transportation system of Manhattan is in a pickle.
Manny: Okay.
Jeezy: With that being said, we are at the conclusion of our episode. And you guys know that at the conclusion of the episode, we have our spotlight of the week. So, Manny, what we got for spotlight this week, man.
Jeezy: man, well, jeez, I'm about to do it to you again. I got 2 1.
Manny: One we've prepped for the other one we did not prep for. So we'll start. We'll start with the one that we've prepped for so earlier this week. Joe Biden again with his final, and we're not talking about his his pardons of the people on on death row. We're not talking about that. But he actually stepped in. He blocked Japan's 14 billion dollars. Takeover, a Us. Steal on national security grounds.
Jeezy: Hmm.
Manny: So if you guys haven't been watching or really paying attention to this, there was a 14.9 billion acquisition set up by Japan's Nippon steel. I think I'm saying that right for them to buy us steel. So if you guys don't know us steel us steel was a steel company that was started by Andrew Carnegie.
Manny: I said his name like that, because I think that's the like correct official way, and not Carnegie, as.
Manny: I've been taught, but that's his company. But basically they blocked it because there was concerns that foreign ownership of a major American steel producer could threaten critical supply chains and national defense, I mean, and that's fair like, let's say, for some reason we decide to pop off to war with Japan and us, steel is a
Manny: Japanese country. Well, they're not going to make steel for us. Yeah, so I think it makes sense. And this following that Us. Steel shop us steel shares dropped 6% and people within the company were like, Hey, there could be closing up some of the mills. But
Manny: this decision was was thumbs up by a lot of people especially with the the unions. Because of their ability. They saw long term with being able to negotiate better deals with them, so that that is a spotlight.
Jeezy: When we talked about this earlier, and Manny was informing me of some of the details of this. The funny comical thing about this to me was that the Us. Doesn't want Japan to own the company, Us. Steel.
Jeezy: but we don't buy steel, or at least majority of our steel from us steel, but
Jeezy: we buy overseas, so you don't want to overseas Company to own us. But you won't buy steel from us either, and Manny's response was pretty much.
Manny: Pretty much. That's where we're at.
Jeezy: So if I'm us steel, I'm kind of peeved. Because what do you want me to do? If you won't buy from me, I can't be bought by a foreign company. It sounds like we're just here just to, you know, basically fizzle out and like Manny said, the shares have dropped. Investors are concerned over the Company's future without any anticipated investment. So
Jeezy: pretty soon you may hear on one of the future episodes of the pod that us still may end up being the pickle of the week. So us still, I'm putting you on notice.
Manny: And this is, and this is not the only time, you know.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Trump blocked several deals. Yeah. Especially around semiconductors and other. You know, crucial technology. Yeah. On the list there. Okay, I gotta find it. Hold on! Hold on! Digging through my list.
Manny: There was another sale interesting blocked in 2020, the Chinese firm tech
Manny: They were trying to buy the app. Grindr.
Jeezy: Right.
Manny: And it was, it was stopped because there was concerns that user data, including sensitive personal information, could be exploited.
Jeezy: I'm not even gonna make a joke.
Manny: Right? So
Manny: it we. We've seen it before, and with, you know, I think, with trump. And you're we're looking into a larger America 1st
Manny: kind of policy standpoint.
Manny: What does this mean about foreign investment moving?
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: You know.
Manny: Is the Us. Government's going to stop a lot of foreign investing and owning of companies here.
Manny: What does that investment look like long term.
Jeezy: Well, if if it's supposed to be America first, st but we won't buy American steel, then I'm kind of confused on what America 1st means.
Manny: Hey! Hey! Cliff!
Jeezy: Found out.
Manny: We'll figure it out, man, we'll figure.
Jeezy: Figure it out along the way.
Jeezy: What's the surprise with.
Manny: And the second one.
Manny: boys. So you know how the kid has been on here ranting about our bills being too big.
Manny: And how many Republicans have been telling like, Hey, we need just single issue bills.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Well, apparently in a closed door meeting Johnson told told Republicans that Trump wants one big policy bill.
Jeezy: Oh, God!
Manny: He wants it all scooped up into one. So all, all the all the
Manny: border, the energy and tax policy.
Jeezy: No.
Manny: In a single bill.
Jeezy: No, no, no, no, no, no, Bro, we just talked about this trump ain't listening to the pod man. That's the problem.
Jeezy: Donnie. We are here.
Jeezy: man, you don't have to read. You don't have to read. Just listen to what we're telling you.
Manny: Right.
Jeezy: Easy. Bro. Why, why would we do that?
Jeezy: Elon and Vivek? Yeah, that's there. Y'all need the department.
Manny: Your boys.
Jeezy: Efficiency, y'all need that's not efficient. That's that's not gonna work. We don't need to do, brother, we do not need to do that.
Manny: Here's why I think he trump wants to do it.
Manny: He wants his obamacare. He wants his big title.
Jeezy: Shiny.
Manny: His crown right?
Manny: Right? He's like he's like
Manny: looking for. I think he's looking for that big spike of the ball like this is what I I did, and it did all of this.
Jeezy: This kind of I don't know why this feels like in in the Avengers movie, where they had the Sokovian accords
Jeezy: and like it just like split the avengers up like Bro. We don't need the trump accords. Bro.
Manny: I mean, look, if it's gonna if it
Manny: look, we'll we'll save. We'll save some of this for for post post pod.
Manny: but yeah, man, this is why so one large bill.
Jeezy: One large bill, just one Marshville, in motion to get just.
Manny: Well, and the problem is, ladies.
Manny: it's going to be. Let's say they do it.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: It's going to. 1st of all, it's going to be huge, and then they're going to have to negotiate it. And that. And you're talking about having margins as slim as one and 2.
Jeezy: Half of his term to trying to get that Bill passed.
Manny: And he only got really 2 years to do it. With this Congress.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: So.
Jeezy: Matter of fact.
Jeezy: go ahead and do it. So we so then you give us some content at the pod. When y'all start breaking this thing down we got we got something to deliver, some content to the people. But yeah, that's that's wild. Bro.
Manny: So, yeah, so that's the the other spotlight and the other one the last piece, while not fully a spotlight. It's something that both Jeez and I are keeping our eyes on Senate. The Senate is getting ready to be back for its 1st full week.
Manny: so we're hoping to get a real schedule of these Confirmation hearings cause I need to put in my Pto.
Jeezy: Bruh cause as of right now, there's only one person on the schedule, and
Manny: May not even make it.
Jeezy: He may not even make it. And you are aware, and that was said in the manual when we were doing pre-show production, is that if Trump wants his his people in place on day one.
Jeezy: it doesn't look like day. One activity.
Manny: And we still got time. I mean.
Manny: yeah, we do. We do. Yeah.
Jeezy: But if but if this next week come up, and this list don't look any different than what it looked now.
Manny: I would think that it would have to be. I would.
Jeezy: I think it would have to be too many. I mean, I think it's just. It would be crazy if it's not. But if somehow another.
Jeezy: This list is still as bare as it is. Come Friday or Saturday. I'm I'm scratching my head and wondering what what are we doing here.
Jeezy: so we're going to keep our eye on it and see what happens. But hopefully we get some more, because, like Manny said, I'm trying to take some time off, and I'm trying to get my popcorn my feet up, and I'm trying to watch every single second.
Jeezy: The comedy that may come from these hearings. So
Jeezy: with that being said, that is our spotlights of the week. So that is the end of our episode again. Season 2 episode one. So glad you guys tuned in again. As we said before, happy New Year appreciate you rocking with us in 2024, and I hope that you're excited, just as excited as we are to get this thing rocking in 2025. So, man, you got anything for the people.
Manny: Man, you know we we know this giant cold snap is coming through the the country, so everyone, you know stay warm. Check in checking on your friends. Make sure you guys are all good heading into the New Year, but like like, we always say, Hey, if no one else out here loves. You just know the boys of the pod
Manny: we love. Y'all.
Jeezy: We love you. So that is the conclusion of our episode, guys. We will see you next week. So take care.
Manny: Bye, everyone.