White House Tesla AutoMall…or TESLER?

Things are getting wild in Washington! This week, we break down Trump’s latest hustle—selling Teslers from the White House lawn (seriously, what’s next, a Cybertruck giveaway?). Meanwhile, Elon Musk is down bad, losing billions as Tesla faces protests and the #TeslaTakedown movement spreads.

But that’s just the beginning. Town halls across America are turning into war zones, with Chuck Edwards’ North Carolina district leading the charge against Republican leadership. The people are mad, and they haven’t even felt the real economic pain yet.

And just when Democrats had the perfect moment to capitalize on GOP chaos… they fumbled. Again. We dive into the government spending bill disaster, why Chuck Schumer’s taking heat from his own party, and whether AOC could be gearing up for a major primary challenge.

Strap in—this episode is packed with political gems, hilarious takes, and the raw truth about where things stand in 2025. Don’t miss it!

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Manny: Tesla going on now at the White House, Tesla Auto Mall. It's the biggest sale of the year. It's safe. It's very strong, heavy. It's all steel, stainless. Come on down to Pennsylvania Avenue, just off Route 29 to get our best deal ever on a brand new Tesla. I want to make a good deal here. They have one

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Manny: which is $35,000, which is pretty low. Get a model one with a different panel and everything's computer. This is a different panel that I've had. Everything's computer. So don't waste your time going to those other Tesla dealerships with riots and flaming cybertrucks. You gotta come down to White House, Tesla auto Mall. I love Tesler. You gotta come down to White House, Tesler Auto Mall. This is really amazing

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Manny: man. I am excited to get that 1st sponsorship of the pod.

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Jeezy: Right.

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Manny: Shout out to Whitehouse, Tesler!

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Jeezy: We got to go to White House, Tesla, on Pennsylvania air.

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Jeezy: shout out, shout out to the listeners, Welcome to pardon the politics.

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Manny: 6 pies.

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Jeezy: Season. 2. Episode 11. I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner at politics. Manny Manny, what is good? You ready to.

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Manny: Go now, Pennsylvania, get that, Tesla, brother?

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Manny: I need the look. I was debating a Tesla. But these Teslas, where everything's computer.

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Manny: But how? How could I not? How could I not.

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Jeezy: How can I not brag?

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Jeezy: I don't even I don't even let's get into it.

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Manny: Hey? Listeners, how are y'all doing.

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Jeezy: Shout out to our listeners, welcome as you could probably see what type of time we're going to be on this episode because we we have Teslas, we got Teslas. We got it all, and none other than our great president, Donald Trump, is probably has a career in use. Sales, man use auto sales.

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Jeezy: This sounds just like the type of guy that would sell you a vehicle that was overpriced on a loan that had way too much interest

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Jeezy: way break down, probably within the 1st 14 days after you got it off the lot.

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Manny: Bro.

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Manny: So I remember in college. So in between my dog stratus, yeah.

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Jeezy: No, no.

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Manny: No, no, yeah, no, no. The dodge stratus, right as I got the ford. 500 all right.

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Jeezy: P. For the Og.

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Manny: Brought the Og man. The stories and the lack of breaks.

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Jeezy: Right.

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Manny: Brakes on that car.

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Manny: but my credit was kind of not great, and I went out and got this $10,000 4 or 500. I thought I was doing something that that credit card like. Apr. I said, Oh, no, absolutely not.

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Manny: Nope, not like this. Nope.

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Jeezy: Absolutely. By the time you finish

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Jeezy: hand it off you would have bought 3 of them.

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Manny: Bought 4 of them.

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Jeezy: So, man, yeah, for our listeners. That was a little bit of a snippet of the Commercial for the White House, Auto Mall for Tesla on March 11, th as you can guess, and we talked about it in our previous episode that things hadn't been looking up for our Buddy Elon Musk and Tesla or Tesla.

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Manny: Down, bad.

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Jeezy: Damn bad.

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Manny: Damn!

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Jeezy: So Trump went on the offense

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Jeezy: as he typically does, and he put out a tweet where he was encouraging people to buy a Tesla, and then he said him hisself

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Jeezy: would be purchasing a red Tesla model. S. But I did not foresee

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Jeezy: in my doctor. Strange way of looking into the future that the next day on the 11, th we'd be rolled out with a showcase on the southern lawn or the south lawn of the White house a Tesla showcasing

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Jeezy: and boy did this deliver.

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Manny: Okay.

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Manny: And before we continue with that, I do want to point out, because we try to, we we try to be as fair, as balanced as we have. Other automakers have come to the White House and showcase their vehicles before.

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Manny: But this one was funny. This one was funny.

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Jeezy: No, this? This?

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Manny: This one brought us.

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Jeezy: Brought us some gems. 1st of all, Trump has. Can't remember the last time he's even been behind the wheel of a car. He's probably the only wheel that he's been behind in his, probably in probably 1520 years have been have been a golf cart.

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Manny: At mo.

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Jeezy: At most.

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Manny: Most, not not ignoring the fact that he's rich.

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Jeezy: For sure.

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Manny: You're the president. You can't drive cars anymore.

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Jeezy: That that is not a knock on the man. Success of why he has not been behind a wheel.

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Manny: You become President, you guess what you don't have to deal with traffic anymore. And you know what.

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Jeezy: Problem.

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Manny: I would love that for myself to not deal with traffic.

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Jeezy: Right. So in this move, as you all know, there have been recent attacks on Tesla and the decline of his stock. So this was a move for trump to help his Buddy Elon out. Elon's been scratching his back, so I believe I guess now it's time for him to return the favor.

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Manny: Well, and some of what I'm hearing in the interwebs about how this came together is apparently allegedly.

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Manny: Elon was feeling quite quite emotional, like Carl Thomas, emotional.

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Jeezy: Hmm.

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Manny: Why, this lady won't leave her family and be with me.

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Jeezy: If we.

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Manny: It'd be free.

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Jeezy: Oh! That!

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Manny: A whole topic in it about it. So.

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Jeezy: You.

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Manny: Apparently he was very emotional with how down bad Tesla is, because, from all accounts.

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Manny: Mr. Musk is very cash poor. All his value is tied up in Tesla, and I believe.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: Down 144 billion dollars.

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Manny: and I'd like to just say, for the the sake of the pod, if the good Lord should see fit

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Manny: to put me in a financial position where I, too, could lose 44 billion dollars. Us. American.

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Manny: They'll be the richest person.

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Manny: God pass not that cup for me. No, sir.

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Jeezy: Cup right in front of me. Don't pass that cup nowhere.

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Manny: yeah, so apparently he was. He was down bad and trying to trying to prop up Tesla. And it's it's rough out there.

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Jeezy: Hey, man, it's rough out in them streets, man, trump went on to, you know. Basically say that his boy, you know that he was an incredible patriot, and that, you know Elon's done so great for the country. And just this, this whole movement against Elon is just so wrong which I want to. I want to point this out to our listeners.

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Jeezy: Now remember now it was. It was brother. It was Brother Donald Trump that told us that Biden was trying to take all our cars and make us drive all these electric vehicles. It was a mandate to have them. He talked about how bad they were, how terrible they were! And then, in great Donald fashion, we see this switching of the sides, and now.

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Manny: Oh, yeah.

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Jeezy: Encouraging people to buy them. And I 1st want to say this and that in his little infomercial commercial, whatever he said at 35,000 was really really low.

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Jeezy: I don't know if he knows the demographics or where the lines are drawn for Americans, but there are quite a few Americans who cannot afford a $35,000 car.

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Manny: You. You're looking at somewhere between a 4 $500 a month payment. If you're lucky.

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Jeezy: Bruh.

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Jeezy: That ain't happening.

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Manny: And your voting bay. You, the Us. Allegedly right now is begging Denmark to send us eggs.

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Jeezy: Hey!

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Manny: Send the eggs, man.

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Jeezy: If we complained about egg prices, I'm pretty sure that we ain't.

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Manny: Justin should not be. Dave Ramsey would have a have a fit.

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Manny: You can, and you buy eggs, but want to buy a Tesla.

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Jeezy: That does not sound right at all, and the crazy thing about it in this whole

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Jeezy: auto auto mall showcasing on the south lawn. Elon said that I can't remember the exact number. Oh, he said that he had plans to double Tesla's Us. Vehicle output within the next 2 years.

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Jeezy: Sir, might not be a wise thing to do

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Jeezy: as a Tiktok. I saw earlier this week said that at the rate that Tesla is going we'll be able to go to the clearance section at Tj. Maxx Ross, and we'll be able to get one of them Teslas on one of them back racks.

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Manny: But so in Raleigh there is a Tesla dealership, and Friday I'm driving, driving home, and it is lit.

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Manny: It is like both sides of us 70 flags, signs, people honking, yelling.

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Manny: I feel bad for anyone who is heading to the Tesla dealership to to get your tires rotated.

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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.

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Manny: Because because they let you know they were. They're they're not pleased with the the actions of Mr. Musk.

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Jeezy: And I think we talked about it in our previous episode. And there, to what you're saying, Mandy, there's a whole movement collectively going on nationwide in these protests. And they're using the hashtag, Tesla Takedown.

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Jeezy: And like I said, this has been unfolding all across the United States, and what they're doing is they're targeting these Tesla showrooms and expressing their discontent. So there's the problem is that is, not that people don't like Teslas, or don't think that they're in cool cars, or they are beneficial. Or what have you? The problem is is that people are not happy with Elon Musk.

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Jeezy: His involvement in the Federal government. And that's where all of this is is stemming from. And like, we said in a previous episode

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Jeezy: to Elon's Point, and what you have said before about him, winning capitalism.

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Jeezy: At what point are you tipping your toe in a pond?

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Jeezy: Google.

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Manny: Right.

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Jeezy: Because I would imagine that at this point Brother Brother Musk feels like this. May he may be questioning whether this is worth it.

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Jeezy: but is it too late?

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Manny: In a degree, yes, I think like the the way they have started deconstructing government.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: You're not going to be able to put it back together normally.

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Manny: So like just the raw confidence of a government job for years like you wanted something safe and consistent government job. Yeah, you've you've taken that away. You've removed the blindfold. You can't put it back in the box. So

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Manny: in that standpoint. Can it go back to normal? No, no. Can they put something better back together in theory.

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Manny: in theory, I trust and believe that it is 100% possible for something better to get put put back together.

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Manny: But we've been warning about this from day one.

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Jeezy: Bingo!

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Manny: Like there's again. We've never seen or heard or called out a problem with us, taking a very strategic and detailed look of what's happening with the finances, and how government is running.

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Manny: But these guys looking one level, deep and slashing and burning. Yeah, it has.

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Manny: It has frustrated people. And I I don't. I think Elon thought this was going to be a little bit more fun, yeah, than it is.

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Jeezy: Have been that trump may have sold him. Trump's a great salesman, I think Trump may have sold him on something that he believes

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Jeezy: would have been very beneficial to him. Well, I have to imagine, because a man doesn't just give 290 million dollars to a campaign, not

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Jeezy: or nothing.

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Jeezy: There's a promise that this will. There will be some great benefit for him in all of this, but I think that when I think about that that leads me to

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Jeezy: Trump's track record, though, and that's the weird thing that that comes to mind with me is that

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Jeezy: trump has a track record where most people that deal with him. When the crap hits the fan they get the short end of the stick he always will win. He will always somehow prevail.

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Jeezy: But it's always those people that stick their neck out for them that get get left with some battle scars that get left with some stitches in the situation. And so I always wonder, when is it going to be a point where people will realize, okay, yeah, this man has the Golden Rabbit foot. But for me.

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Jeezy: I'm not going to walk out of this situation in the manner in which I walked in, and.

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Manny: Oh, yeah.

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Jeezy: And that situation will be not be to the positive, but be to the negative. So I feel like that's kind of the trap that trump sets sometimes, and people fall into it, but ultimately they meet their their demise, and I just got a feeling that

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Jeezy: I don't see how musk can can rebound, rebound from this, because

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Jeezy: the damage is almost. It's already done like I don't, unless you come out of this winning. And by winning I mean, like people see that the slashing that you've done has benefited that. And I want my listeners to think about this. The things that Elon has done so far with Doge.

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Jeezy: The American people really haven't felt the impact yet. So that's that if you really process that and compartmentalize it, that is is wild to see the response from people who don't even feel it. They just

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Jeezy: right seeing the initial reaction. They're seeing the initial action and have not felt

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Jeezy: the repercussions of those actions. So then, what happens when these veterans start seeing the issues with their funding? What happens when people are getting delays on social security checks. What? Because they're going to point the musk, I mean. And that kind of goes to what you said in a previous episode. Trump gets these people in place, so then, when it falls apart, they point it at them, and then they get rid of them, and then it's like, all right, we'll put something else in, and we'll clean it up.

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Jeezy: I feel like I feel like

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Jeezy: musk is in a he's in between a rock and a hard place, and I think the only thing he can do is just double down on what he's doing, and and pray that it works.

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Manny: Yeah, I mean, the the only way path forward for him is straight through.

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Jeezy: Brush right through.

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Manny: Right there. Yes, now

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Manny: the I think here's the question as they start their work digging into the Irs, because that's the big agency they're in right now.

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Jeezy: Mind you, during tax season, during tax season.

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Manny: Right?

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Manny: Okay.

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Manny: Gonna look, I'm already not getting ready.

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Jeezy: I hadn't filed mine yet, because I'm scared. I already know what's gonna happen. I already know what I'm gonna have to do. But now, with all this stuff, I don't know how much more I'm really gonna have to do.

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Manny: I mean the

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Manny: the question I think Elon and his team had that they need to confront right now is, have they learned lessons from Usaid?

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Manny: The Department of Education. Have they learned lessons there? The incident with the with the new, the CIA Black Side.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: Releasing the Faa people, the people who are managing the nuclear stockpile have they learned the lessons as they step into these agencies

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Manny: to do it better, because at this point, you know, you even have trump starting to now, having to speak out against it like, Hey, we're we need to be a little bit more precise as we're doing this. Yeah.

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Manny: So I think what I'm getting ready to say is getting ready to be a very rough comment. But.

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Jeezy: I like it.

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Manny: Let's go.

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Manny: I don't want Trump to fail, because if he fails ultimately, the American people fail.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: But in no way do I actually think I want him to be successful at any of his plans.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: So I'm kind of like I where's.

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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.

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Manny: Know you fail. I know it's gonna be bad on me.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: But if you succeed, I don't think it's gonna be good on me as well. So what do I do? And I think that's the paralysis a lot of people are in, and that's a lot of anger that you're seeing. Not only at all these Tesla dealerships across the Us. But you're seeing them

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Manny: at the the various town halls representatives are starting to do. We had a clip we we had Chuck Edwards, yeah, and chuck Edwards here in North Carolina. So he is in western North Carolina.

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Manny: Asheville area now, even though it includes Asheville. This is a very, very conservative district. You know this was the same place that both Madison Cawthorn and damn it, what was?

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Manny: Mark Meadows? Yeah, both represented. So you're talking about?

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Manny: a very conservative district, and people were not happy. And let's let's play a clip from

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Manny: from that interaction, from protesters outside 2 angry constituents inside

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Manny: Thursday night's Town Hall in Asheville with Congressman Chuck Edwards was, in a word, hectic Chuck Edwards going against the wishes of Republican leadership, who asked members to avoid public town halls in recent weeks. I'm proud of what Republicans are accomplishing right now, and I want the opportunity to talk about that. Edwards, starting with remarks on Hurricane Helene. Recovery efforts and recent votes in Washington.

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Manny: but was quickly interrupted. I was proud to vote recently for the House Budget resolution which provides the framework, and you wonder why folks don't want to do these town halls.

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Manny: The Congressman, finishing his remarks despite those interruptions, but spent the majority of the evening Fielding questions about the Trump, White House and his adviser, Billionaire Elon Musk. What he is doing to control the problem of the President usurping Congress's constitutional right to allocate funding folks should have the right

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Manny: to voice their opinion. And I'm okay to hear that. And yet and you know what?

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Manny: Geez, I'm gonna give 1st off shout out to Queen City news, who provided who we got the clip from? I give. I 1st up big ups to chuck Edwards. Oh, definitely, you know, to to defy leadership and say, you know what I'm gonna go stand in front of my people and hear from them. I believe that was the that was the correct thing to do as a representative.

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Jeezy: Yeah, I don't think you had any other choice.

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Jeezy: Now that we got that out, the way.

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Manny: Boy.

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Jeezy: These people go to these town halls, and they getting, they getting the best king for.

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Manny: is that this town hall could fit somewhere between 3 to 400 people, and close to 1,700. Show up, showed up, protested outside, and and made it very rough for Representative Senator Edwards to get to. I'm sorry, Representative Edwards, to get out of the Town Hall.

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Jeezy: What from what I'm seeing in in numbers, there were 300 that were actually inside the auditorium.

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Jeezy: but when they got outside them doors. There were over a thousand people outside waiting in this area, this district that this town hall was in. It wasn't just about

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Jeezy: the hurricane, Helene recovery. There were a number of things that these people were angered about.

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Jeezy: It was the trade war. We've talked about that a lot on previous episodes. These trade wars with tariffs going back and forth. And I think that's a tricky thing, too, because I don't think a lot of people understand how tariffs work, and then you hear they're here that you hear they're taking away. You hear? They're up, you hear they're down. They're here, and I've said this before summer's about to hit. Spring's about. I think spring is this week. If I'm not mistaken.

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Jeezy: thank you.

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Jeezy: This week, it's time to get out. People can start trying to get outside families are.

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Jeezy: outside. And right now, I believe, nationally, the only thing that is down is gas prices. I think gas prices are slightly down, but it don't matter if gas prices are down, if it cost me just about double to feed my family if we decide to go to the beach. But the trade.

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Manny: But it's okay. Because I got my Tesla.

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Jeezy: But I got my Teslas, so I'm good. Everything

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Jeezy: cheese. It's a bread, and we could just use the motor. Use the battery in it as a as a George foreman. Griddle.

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Manny: We. We can watch Netflix because everything is computer.

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Jeezy: but they were outraged and angered about the trade wars. The the Administration's handling of the hurricane. Helene recovery which here, in our great State of North Carolina, we've seen Josh Stein talking about that in his state of the State, and how they're trying to do everything they can to handle and get a grip around that. The proposal

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Jeezy: to dissolve Fema, which I thought was a very interesting one, because if you go back and look at our episodes on the when Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, we talked about how they, with misinformation, there were a lot of people that did not trust. Fema did not want fema

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Jeezy: grant money any type of relief or assistance coming from Fema. But now we look at in a short period of months. And now it's not that, hey? I don't want Fema, but now I'm pissed off that you're talking about dissolving it.

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Jeezy: The cuts to various government agencies, health care programs, and the Us. Support on Ukraine. So they were.

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Jeezy: These people were pissed off. If you get a chance. Go look at the on Youtube, at the clips. This was not a I know that there's been this. I want to say it's misinformation. But there's been kind of this this misinformation about how, oh, all these people that are showing up are paid. There may be some paid in the group.

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Jeezy: But ain't nobody paid 1,700.

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Jeezy: Unless they giving them krispy kreme coupons or cookout trays. That's the only way you gonna afford paying 1,700.

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Manny: To get on. Chuck Edwards.

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Manny: Oh, oh, no!

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Manny: Now this is Chuck Schumer. If this is Jeffries, this, if this is, if this is a big name person.

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Manny: To some random say, and Representative Chuck Edwards, who.

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Jeezy: I'ma tell you I didn't know who Chuck Edwards were until I seen them put them coals up under.

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Jeezy: but but I think they and I think there's validity in the attacks and the anger that we're seeing, because this is not just in North Carolina. As Manny said before, we're seeing it at Tesla dealerships we're seeing at Town Halls. There was one in Michigan that happened where basically they they had to change it to just telephone to. Now it's been advised by leadership

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Jeezy: from Mike Johnson that if any of this happens, it goes on. It needs to be just virtually to kind of calm it down a little bit. But even in that Mike Johnson has made it known that he has advised Republican lawmakers to forego any in-person town halls because of this organized disruption.

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Jeezy: So that goes to show you that there is. This is not one of those things where there's smoke there's no fire.

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Jeezy: The people that are angry have not yet seen the implications of these decisions. So can you imagine if these things, if if trump and elon musk fall flat on the things that they're doing, and they put a significant impact. I don't even think the impact got to be significant. Honestly.

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Jeezy: Because veterans don't play. If a veteran, my dad is a veteran, trust me, I've seen him try to go get something or get something, and they say, Sir, you got to come back tomorrow. Oh, it's only Poppy.

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Manny: But you you! I think the inflection reports came out this this week where we're like 2, 8, 2, 9,

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Manny: And what's the game plan like.

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Manny: Primary primary season next year is about to be wild.

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Jeezy: Wild. But and but this goes to the point that we were talking about before. Manny is that you have these people

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Jeezy: that are, you know, essentially, just like Chuck Edwards trump don't have to come and answer to his people. But he does. And you see, video after video, time after time again that as soon as these people say, these representatives say, well, I stand with what trump is doing. It's immediate boos like they're going back and having to fight for their lives in their regions, in their districts. So when you think about when it comes up to the primary.

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Jeezy: what leg do I have to stand on, because before the argument was during the Biden Administration you had Republicans saying, we're not doing anything, you know, before it was Republicans weren't doing anything. I think that if you look at the number of laws that were signed into in action with the last past Congress, it was some of the lowest that we've seen in the nation's history. But now you're like, okay, we went from not really doing anything to now

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Jeezy: And this is, we want you to do something. But this is not what we ask you to do, so I think that you have a situation where

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Jeezy: And and God knows, man, it's going to take me off because I'm sitting back. And I'm like you have angry people.

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Jeezy: They're angry at one group of people. They're not angry at the Democrats, you know, at the moment you could sit in the back where the wings are at and the fruit trays and the cheese tray, and you can sit back and just enjoy the show and just grab your popcorn because people are pissed at what the Republican leadership is doing. But somehow I'd be darned. The Democrats are going to screw it up.

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Jeezy: and and we see that already happening with the division we're seeing over the government.

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Manny: Well, look, it goes to what Senator Fetterman said, and you know what.

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Manny: He's about to be.

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Manny: The realist.

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Jeezy: You listen to the pod. Bro. You got to come over. They clown my man and understand. Fetterman. I know he went through some health challenges, and I'm glad to see that Brother Fetterman has recovered to his most wanted and needed help.

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Jeezy: you know, but he's not the Polish politician. He comes in with it, looking like he just finished shopping at home depot or Lowe's, or you know he's been out cutting grass all day, but he. He has lately had some real things to say about the Democratic party, and things that I agree.

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Manny: The the whole Democrats bringing casserole.

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Jeezy: So, as as most of you may already know, in the prime season, where the alley-oop is thrown at the right height. I mean, it's a it's a no brainer. This is just as clean as it could possibly be with the issues that the Republican party, with Elon Musk with trump, having with trying to get their hands on, are wrapped around the issue they're having. You would think the Democrats will be prime and ready to seize the moment. But what happens? We have chaos so.

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Jeezy: So the Republican authored Government Spending Bill has led to significant turmoil within the Democratic party. The bill signed into law, and it has been signed into law by President Trump funds the Government for 6 months, so I know we had that here at the pod on our ticker that we mentioned about a month and a half ago that they need to get to work on this, and I will say this, shout out to Mike Mike Johnson, because lately he's been able to check them off.

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Jeezy: You know he didn't have the votes for something before it even went to another round of voting. He was like, y'all, y'all come back here in this room. He got it passed. Well.

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Manny: But I think you will look if you were going to be like trump is going to be.

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Jeezy: And I was surprised. Because and again we will. This. This is a gamble, because we will see this is not a

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Jeezy: I won't say it's as short of a term as I believe that recent spending bills have been, because I think that's when you have about 6 months the Government's funded for 6 months. So we will see the implications of this Government spending bill, but it reduces the non-defense, spending by approximately 13 billion dollars while increasing defense spending by 6 billion, I mean a major point of contention, rose

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Manny: Is it time for new leadership in the Senate?

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Jeezy: Senator Chuck Schumer is from your State. He clearly has a different view of this than you. He is not saying, let's go back to the negotiating table, he's saying, Let's take this vote. So do you. Have you lost confidence in him? The fact that you guys see this so differently? Next question. You have dodged.

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Manny: he said. Let me give this really long answer, so y'all can stop asking me this stupid question, cause, y'all know I'm pissed at him, y'all know I'm pissed at him.

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Jeezy: Yeah, y'all know what's going on. But, man, they have a problem, because now they're divided. And at a moment where we've talked in previous episodes, where the Democrats really need to be in a position to try to figure out what their identity is going forward. And we've looked in previous episodes. How just some of the demonstrations that they have done

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Jeezy: So then why not just go ahead and avert the chaos of shutting the country down, shutting the Government down, because we know the implications of that, regardless of what we agree on in this spending bill that can be argued. But if we shut the country down. We.

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Jeezy: Yep. So then, if you try to hold it up, then I feel like ultimately Democrats. You look worse.

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Manny: To try to figure out what you needed, what, what concessions you needed to get!

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Manny: Well, I think that that couldn't have happened, Manny, because.

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Jeezy: They don't have a clue right now.

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Manny: Oh, no, not at all.

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Jeezy: They don't have a clue right now, and I think I heard someone say that

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Jeezy: I can't remember where I heard it from, but they said if Democrats spent less time being about insults and more time about ideas, then we could maybe potentially get somewhere instead of worrying about sitting in front of the U.S.A. With a podium. Instead of sitting here saying this, or saying.

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Manny: Can we? Can we coordinate signs for the state of the user.

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Jeezy: Yeah, can we make sure we coordinate signs and outfits and colors and stuff? Why not get behind? And when you knew this was coming downfield. You say, okay, we're not voting for it, but we're willing to meet with our constituents, and this is what we want. We know that you can't do it without us.

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Jeezy: and then, when they say No, lay out your your I don't know. 5, 10 point plan or idea of what you wanted to see, taken care of, that made sense for the American people.

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Jeezy: 1st of all, light bulb

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Jeezy: Trump has not said a single thing about bringing down the prices of the things that are affecting the American people.

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Jeezy: Groceries, housing. You could attack those things.

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Manny: Something.

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Jeezy: Something and got those things that said, Look, the American people. This is why we said, no, because we realize and identify these things, impact you. And these are the measures that we believe that can be put in to allow immediate or short term.

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Jeezy: Relief for the American people. And we put that in, and the Republicans said no, something to fight back

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Jeezy: something.

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Jeezy: But you did nothing.

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Manny: And.

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Jeezy: I think sides of it, though. See?

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Jeezy: Yeah, man Democrats got to get it together. Bro.

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Manny: But like at this point, how much of this is leadership like? So the the thing that's popped up over the last couple days from fallout of this is, you know, who's in Chuck Schumer State.

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Jeezy: Hmm.

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Manny: The the one Aoc.

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Jeezy: -Oh.

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Manny: And apparently there's rumblings arising that they want her to primary chuck Schumer.

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Manny: And you're talking. You're talking about.

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Manny: A Old Guard versus New Guard Battle of the Democratic Party.

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Manny: Boy.

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Jeezy: If she could. If she could use this, she could use this against him hard. Bro. And they and really, Manny, that that might actually be coming come to fruition because she has been very vocal

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Jeezy: and about the democratic party and not in a way of sugar coating the state of the party.

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Jeezy: She

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Jeezy: been very vocal of what changes things that need to be different. She's taken more. If I got to be real, she's taken more of a leadership tone. Since this administration has come into play

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Jeezy: that could very well be possible, and I think that if that happens she has a very real shot.

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Manny: The one thing that Aoc has done very well.

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Manny: Is to very seamlessly but very intentionally, migrate from.

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Manny: This might sound a little bit more disrespectful than it comes off more where she stopped being a social media representative and started to try to be a real representative if she's to like. Hey, this isn't all about what I can put on social media. I'm still going to do that. That's still part of me. But I need to know how to move in these rooms.

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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.

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Manny: You could tell. There's a very learning.

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Manny: Yeah, she's she. She knows this. So a. I think it's time for time, just in general progression. It's time for her to to step up and take a shot, so it'll be very interesting

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Manny: to see how that plays out. If there is a primary.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: Because man, that's gonna be a bloody, bloody.

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Jeezy: All right.

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Jeezy: and I think that I think honestly, Manny is needed. If the Democratic party is going to reshape

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Jeezy: retool revamp, I think there has to be a death to the old and a uprising and rebirth of the new, and I think that there needs to be a real.

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Jeezy: true Renaissance within the Democratic party, because after the end of this administration.

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Jeezy: we're going to be in a very unrecognizable and unfamiliar state as a country.

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Jeezy: and I don't believe that either party can go into whatever our next phase of government is. If there's any left to have

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Jeezy: that will be able to operate, manage, lead govern, as either party has done over the previous 4, 8, 12 years.

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Manny: Right.

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Jeezy: So yeah, I think that things are heating up.

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Jeezy: And who knows? You know, this could be good for the Democratic party. This could be what they need to put a jet pack in their backs and and get to where they need to be. As a party.

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Manny: And I think if if you're the Republicans, you're breathing a sigh of relief because you just dodged something, you dodged the shutdown and you dodged giving any concessions, and we're saying right now here that there was no concessions given. Maybe there was something quietly given in the back that we don't know about. But at this point you're coming out looking very okay.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: You avoided this, the shutdown and they didn't really. And they didn't touch your bill. Same exact bill.

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Jeezy: That you just gotta bank on. Is that like, I said before that, it all works.

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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, it works because.

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Jeezy: If it doesn't.

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Manny: I truly feel like we're in the whole doctor. Strange, right

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Manny: at the beginning of infinity. How many paths do you see where.

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Jeezy: Right.

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Manny: Successful, one, just one.

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Jeezy: I see one.

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Manny: I got a plan. I got a plan, A, and guess what if plan a fails? Guess what plan B is? Plan a.

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Jeezy: Yeah, but.

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Manny: We go, make this work.

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Jeezy: We? I don't know, man, it's going to be very interesting. But we'll see what happens.

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Jeezy: I got a feeling that because I don't know what's next. Now you've been able to avert the government shutdown so essentially everything, all the biddings of the administration to a degree. The only people that are in the way now are just these Federal judges that keep blocking everything in the Supreme Court.

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Manny: Think that's the case. And I think that's why people are also so frustrated, because

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Manny: that you have no more.

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Jeezy: B.

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Manny: Big breaks that you can throw to stop things to try to get some leverage. Not not until September 30.th Yeah. So what are you going to do? Pray on the court? Pray that the courts back you out every time? I mean good luck with that, because even at best it's 50 50 situation in most. In a lot of cases.

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Jeezy: So yeah. At this point I believe that the Democrats don't have much of anything to. I say that, but they'll find something they don't have anything performative about. So maybe now.

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Manny: Give them time. Let them get to work.

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Jeezy: But maybe take this time to get back behind those closed doors and figure this thing out what the plan is going forward, because you got to play.

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Jeezy: you need a plan. You're going to be on that field, regardless of whether you want to be there or not.

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Manny: Right.

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Jeezy: It's up to you to show up with a game plan, or you just going to go out there and just wing it right. And we've seen how that that plays out in their favor. So

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Jeezy: yeah, man.

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Manny: Hi man.

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Jeezy: Crazy, cool.

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Manny: Dems down bad. Dem's down bad. But look! At least we know we're not going to be taking more. 4. 0, 1 k hits in the economy right now

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Manny: at the brain.

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Manny: Great. So least would be thankful for that, because with the volatility that we've seen last week in the marketplace, and had we hit a shutdown or.

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Jeezy: Boy we'd have been, we'd have been in a pickle.

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Jeezy: And since you say that, that's where we're at right now. At our pickle of the week we got your pickle.

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Jeezy: We've got your pickle.

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Jeezy: We got your pickle.

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Jeezy: Hello.

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Manny: There we go! Who's in the brine? Who's in the Brian.

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Jeezy: So for those of you who don't know the Trump Administration put in a place something that trump does

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Jeezy: better than any President that I've known.

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Jeezy: and that is issue travel bans.

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Jeezy: So don't.

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Manny: Don't come here, wear clothes.

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Jeezy: Goal of the week are the 43 countries that trump.

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Manny: 43.

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Jeezy: 43 Bro. That he's put on the travel ban, but he's done it bigger, better, and better than he's ever done before. Not only are there 43 countries, but they're categorized into 3. Yes, you got it. People 3 colors, red, orange, and yellow.

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Manny: Oh, okay.

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Jeezy: It sounds like a sound like a board in my daughter's pre-k classroom, but the red are those who have full visa suspensions.

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Jeezy: and some of those countries. There's 10 countries in that category, and some of them are Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, the ones you you suspect.

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Manny: Dang, I'd have thought Donnie would have been nice. Oh, North Korea at least brought them down to Orange.

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Jeezy: Oh, no! Oh, no, sir, not not.

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Manny: No, keep the Sabbath.

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Jeezy: So then, next you have the orange, which are the partial visa suspensions, and those are. There's about 5 countries up there which are Hades, South Sudan, Laos. They just have partial ones that I believe, if I remember.

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Manny: Canada and Mexico.

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Jeezy: They're not up there yet.

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Jeezy: They're not up there yet. I got a feeling it's coming, but I believe that I think that those the partial visas. I can't remember the details on that one, but the the yellow is the conditional measures, and there's about 26 countries on there which is wild because Russia is on that list. Russia might be a little higher up, but.

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Manny: You know. Come see.

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Jeezy: There's about 26 countries on the conditional measures or the yellow. And they're Russia. Belarus are 2 of the ones that you may be familiar with, but they have been given 60 days. This is the conditional measure. They've been given 60 days to address identified security discrepancies.

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Jeezy: If they do not comply. It may result in partial visa suspension, or they be moved up to Orange.

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Jeezy: So if you're a part, I would advise you, before you decide to book a trip to come to our lovely country here the United States. I would check this to see if you're a part of this 43 countries to make sure that you don't catch yourself in a pickle.

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Manny: Oh, cause! Oh, Donnie's making a list.

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Jeezy: He's making a list. He's checking.

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Manny: Twice, and my brother, he is definitely.

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Jeezy: Checking it twice. But I got a treat for you, brother.

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Manny: -Oh!

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Manny: Oh, oh.

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Jeezy: Have I have more?

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Jeezy: Then one pickle.

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Manny: I have 2 pickles, eyes.

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Jeezy: 2 things. I have 2 tools today. Hey.

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Manny: Screw, Tickletty.

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Jeezy: I got 2 pickles for you today.

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Jeezy: and the other pickle of the week is

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Jeezy: the young lady that was holding the boom mic against Donald. Trump.

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Jeezy: March 13, th 2025. He was talking at a press briefing at the joint base, Andrews in Maryland, and he was struck in the face by a boom microphone as the reporters were asking him a question before he got on Air Force One. And if you haven't seen the video you got to see it.

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Jeezy: Trump gave this lady the the stare of death.

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Manny: 1st she let the the intrusive thoughts went, and she's like.

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Jeezy: I don't know how it happened.

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Jeezy: Why do you have this bike that close to him? If you're familiar with boom mice, boom, mice are always in the in the scene, but.

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Manny: Can't ever see him.

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Jeezy: Never can see. They're never in the scope of the video image. Or what have you? Because they're not supposed to be that close. I don't know if somebody pushed her. I don't know if she tripped. I don't know like Manny said. That thought came.

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Manny: Yeah.

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Jeezy: But Trump closed his eyes. He leaned back slightly, and then, with a raised eyebrow, he gave him the people's eyebrow. He said.

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Jeezy: she just made TV tonight.

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Jeezy: She just became a big story tonight.

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Jeezy: Now I don't know if he said that because of the incident, or that she may be found dead.

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Manny: They're about to deport her.

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Jeezy: We do not know her name.

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Jeezy: It says that the identity of the microphone operator remains unknown. She has not come forth to claim that she was indeed a part of this.

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Manny: Tis I tis I the great, my microphone bed.

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Jeezy: If, for all we know, she, there is a potential that she is no longer operating both the mic or operating period.

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Manny: I'd have got. I'd have got on that 1st plane to Canada.

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Jeezy: Oh, Bro, but let me get up

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Jeezy: these countries on this banned list, so I can make sure I don't any chance I can come back

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Jeezy: cool.

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Manny: Like, oh, I'm on the way.

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Jeezy: Yeah, she in the pickle, because you can't just bop the President of the United States in the mouth with a microphone and live and live to tell the tale.

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Manny: Not not in 2025.

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Jeezy: Bruh. Not at all. Bro, so those are my 2 pickles.

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Manny: Oh, man!

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Jeezy: Right?

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Jeezy: So yeah, man, we are are now at the

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Jeezy: end of our episode, and for our listeners, as you always know, at the end of our episode. We provide you with our spotlights of the week. So, my brother, what are your spotlight or spotlights for.

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Manny: Man.

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Manny: Well, I got 2.

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Jeezy: Okay.

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Manny: I got 2. We were 1st gonna start off

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Manny: with our good man rfk, over at health and human services. Okay.

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Jeezy: Brother K.

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Manny: You know what he did something I liked.

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Jeezy: -Oh.

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Manny: He did something I was like. Oh, look at! Look at.

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Jeezy: Saying, Go! A broken clock is right. Twice a day.

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Manny: And you got, I think we landed on something. So there was a meeting with him and food executives, and it was around the FDA's gros loophole, GRAS. Generally recognized as safe.

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Manny: And he is now pushing the food industry giants. So we're talking like Pepsi, general Mills Kellogg to remove artificial dyes and additives from products. Here, in the Us.

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Jeezy: Okay.

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Manny: So and you're like, okay, so how does that apply with gross? So gross was a standard that was put in by the FDA for commonly accepted additives. And when I'm talking about additives in this case, I'm talking like sugar

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Manny: baking soda, vinegar, base, basically base ingredients that we all agree what they should do.

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Jeezy: All the ingredients that make crack.

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Manny: Okay, yes, yes, got it so. And they they do.

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Manny: And they do this to make sure to make it less strenuous. So like anytime you want to release a different kind of cake that still has baking soda and vanilla and.

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Jeezy: All right.

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Manny: You wouldn't have to do it. Because, hey, they're recognized as safe. But how these products are validated

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Manny: is industry. Experts have essentially said that. Oh, yeah, these things are safe.

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Manny: So you can go ahead and use them. So a couple of the additives that are under that grass, red, 40 yellow, 5 and 6 blue one. So Rfk. Is now pushing

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Manny: them to get these additives out of food. They're they're not supposed to be here. So I'm like, all right.

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Jeezy: Okay, I got.

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Manny: Good job.

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Jeezy: I can get with the Rfk.

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Manny: And so that's my 1st spotlight. So we'll see it. This is going to take many years to play out.

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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, so you, yeah.

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Manny: But it's got to start, you know. Best time to play.

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Jeezy: I believe he did say like he, he would hope by the time that his his term.

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Manny: Term is up. Yep.

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Jeezy: That he that these things will be be fully into place, so.

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Manny: Yeah, I, mean, look.

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Jeezy: Game. I like that, he, looking at the long game.

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Manny: Best time to planting trees 20 years ago. Next best time is right now. So I'm glad we're picking up on that

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Manny: I like.

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Manny: and the second one also, we're we're going with the Conservatives. I've agreed with this week. Okay? Is Candace Owens.

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Jeezy: Clinch my pearl.

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Manny: So.

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Manny: I was on on the tick, tock, and she was talking about Mahmood Khalid, and if you and again apologies, if I pronounce that incorrectly. I tried several times to make sure I got that right.

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Manny: But he is a former student at Columbia. He graduated this past year this past semester with his master's from Columbia. He is a green card holding citizen here. Well, not, citizen. He's a green card holder, so he is legally here. Well, what they have done is, they have revoked his visa

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Manny: and are trying to deport him, and he is married to an American citizen.

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Manny: Who is 8 months pregnant.

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Jeezy: Come on!

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Manny: So she was raising a lot of the questions around, okay, well, what did this guy do for A for us to revoke his visa and B to deport him, because it had been my understanding as well that everyone that the administration was targeting would have been here illegally and committed a crime.

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Manny: He has a visa that was current, so sounds like he was here illegally, and he had not been so. There have been back and forth with the Administration. On trying to figure out what's going on, our press secretary denoted a couple things, and when she was directly pushed on, it

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Manny: is that he was that a Marco Rubio reserves the right to restrict, revoke anybody's visa at any time. Yeah. And so everyone's like, and there's a very small use precedent to be able to do it. So everyone's like, Okay, and they're like, and he's also helped lead protests on campus and distributed flyers across the campus.

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Manny: threatening violence and everything. And it's real weird. But I'm gonna I'm gonna play a clip from from Candace's own podcast where she talks about it a little bit, and I'm like she's spot on

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Manny: when she's talking about the other materials that he distributed out. So that's the other piece is that he was distributing materials, but no one's really seen those, and she raises questions on it.

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Manny: Not be prudent to just release those flyers.

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Manny: Wouldn't you quiet the noise immediately. If what you're saying is true, and there's no reason for us to doubt that what you're saying is true. It's a different answer than everybody else is giving. You're saying he distributed materials that were in support of murder I'm assuming, and therefore, by the way, I would imagine that that he could have been arrested for that.

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Manny: It seems weird that he wasn't arrested by Columbia University, that he didn't get into any trouble with the police at Columbia University, but now he's in trouble with the Feds. That seems like a remarkable jump there in the process. Why not release those flyers?

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Manny: Wouldn't that make sense to you? And are we supposed to all magically forget, while this is going on, that back in 2020 Bibi Netanyahu was sounding like a gangster, saying that he was going to get speech laws passed in America, and any person that boycotted Israel would themselves suffer

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Manny: so. A. And I think it's it's real interesting what we're what we're looking at now.

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Manny: Is okay. So now we're talking about someone who's here legally

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Manny: that we're just trying to kick out for essentially what it's viewed as as

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Manny: him just saying something contrary to what the Administration believes. Yeah. And I think that's that's problematic. Because we are. We are built. America's built on a level of public discourse, and we're starting to take steps and steps and steps of that being eroded.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: You know.

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Manny: So what? So as of right now? The. It has been blocked by the courts, him being deported. Yeah, but I know he and his family are still looking for answers, and obviously trying not to be deported, and.

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Jeezy: Is he detained still.

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Manny: He is detained. He's still detained as of right now. So that's something.

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Jeezy: Wow!

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Manny: Something else that we're watching.

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Jeezy: I think that when you look at this Manny and I said something when we were looking at pre-production, the line is being, the line is not. The goalpost is not being moved at this point. I feel as though the line is just being completely obliterated, just crossed and erased, and I think one of the things I said to you in pre-production was, where are we trying to be North Korea? Now that

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Jeezy: the Government controls what you say how you say it.

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Jeezy: what can be said? And if you oppose the government, then I mean, that's essentially your life.

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Manny: We'll give you the old heave. Ho!

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Jeezy: Yeah. And that's not what the Us. Is about. If this man truly was causing or trying to incite violence against Jewish students or spreading Hamas propaganda. Why haven't we seen it? Why hasn't he been arrested for inciting violence? So I just think that this is.

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Jeezy: I fear for him that this will be more of making him an example than him actually.

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Manny: Absolutely.

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Jeezy: Something. And that's unfortunate, because you know all that this man is doing from what we've been able to see. And this is just what we've been able to see and what has not been released. But this man was just an opposition of how we were treating the Palestinian people in the midst of the situation. It was never about Hamas.

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Jeezy: From what I can gather from these protests, it's been about the treatment of the civilians, and that is just a human right that people should have. We. 2 things can be true. There can be the fact that Hamas needs to be eliminated, and that while we are trying to go down that path, we have to protect

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Jeezy: these people, these Palestinian peoples as best as possible, and that has to be a thought, not just a consideration. It has to be a thought. It has to be a part of the plan.

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Manny: We need to be intentional.

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Manny: Thank you. And I tell you, personality.

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Jeezy: That's why you have so much chaos going on is because that has not been. And I think I feel very safe in saying this, that that has not been the intention of Big Benny.

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Manny: Yeah, and then and then my last one for for giggles is

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Manny: the rescue pod to save Suny Williams and Bush. Wilmore has arrived.

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Jeezy: Dang, freedom, freedom, freedom, squad, freedom, right they finally coming home.

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Manny: It looks like here in a little bit. As soon as March 19th they could potentially be coming home. And let me tell you the way. I would just start cussing people out as soon as I as soon as that hatch door opens, and that person answers

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Manny: immediately.

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Jeezy: Bruh, if you got a line of reporters waiting for me after I have not

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Jeezy: took a hot steaming shower in my in my bathroom. There's there.

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Jeezy: I don't care what the bathroom look like up there at the space station. I haven't took a bath and had.

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Jeezy: and my my hot water, and and put on fresh clothes that have been washed in my detergent.

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Manny: You want me to.

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Jeezy: Oh, Bruh! I am going.

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Manny: Lining everyone up.

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Jeezy: Shout out to them, Get home! Elon said that they would be coming home soon, and what it looks like.

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Jeezy: Elon.

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Manny: Promises promises made, promises kept.

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Jeezy: Well, and we've said here at the pod. This is his avenue.

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Jeezy: Stay there, stay there.

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Manny: Stay in space, man, stay in space.

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Jeezy: 0, right?

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Jeezy: Right?

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Jeezy: Instead. Everybody hates you.

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Manny: Right, yeah.

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Jeezy: So I will say just to end it off. My spotlight of the week is, I just wanted to bring up the fact that on March 14, th President Trump delivered a speech to the Doj, and I want us to understand that this is

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Jeezy: quite a rare thing for the President to do but in this, and it was sickening man, because Pam Bundy was showing him around, and she was like, Oh, Mr. President, turn around and look! And she had his picture plastered on the wall, and it's like kissing feet, kissing feet, kissing feet, kissing, bending the ring, all this bending to the ring, and all this stuff.

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Jeezy: But in this speech all he did was criticize the media, his political opponents. Which kind of goes to some of the stuff that Manny was saying about this criticism of what people are saying. He was calling for investigations into far reaching investigations into the Democratic party and specific news organizations. So again targeted. But the one thing I want us to understand in this, and he even went to talk about how the 2020

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Jeezy: campaign I mean the 2020 election was rigged. But the one thing I want us to understand and see

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Jeezy: is how the Department of Justice is supposed to be independent.

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Manny: Hmm.

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Jeezy: It's supposed to be independent. That is a traditional norm for the Doj. And this is a person who basically has argued that it has not been independent

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Jeezy: to now make a speech to cite that it will not be independent to a degree. It will

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Jeezy: go into the direction of what the President wanted to do, and in his remarks he challenged them to this separation between the Executive branch and the Justice Department which raised concerns about potential politicization. This, this is what he's trying to do and we should not. We're not a we're not a. This is not a dictatorship.

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Jeezy: Our Justice Department should be able to function independently without the influence of the President, no matter what side

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Jeezy: how he comes from. So I just want us to understand and why I'm saying this as a spotlight is that we need to understand the area in which we're in. We need to understand how dangerous these things are. And I heard someone say today that we are living in a time where we need to listen to every word that these people are saying.

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Jeezy: Your elected officials, your President. These news outlets everything we need to listen because we are in a very dangerous time. In this speech he talked about trying to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, which was taking place in 1797, and it was used. And this is wild because you're probably as a listener like what the heck is this, I've never even heard of it. It was used during World War One and World War 2.

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Jeezy: And basically the Us. Used this act to detain and deport Germans, Italians, and Japanese nationals under this law, and it's rarely used. But what trump is trying to do is he's trying to invoke this act to deport members of Venezuelan gang members. But the legal challenge into this act is that this act was put into place when you were in at war with a country.

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Manny: With the country.

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Jeezy: We're not at war with Venezuela.

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Jeezy: but but this is the angle that he's taking, and he's at the doj spewing this and and kind of trying to take what was in a traditional Norman independent department. Now, it being a dependent department upon what the President of the United States wants to do so. I just want us to

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Jeezy: understand.

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Manny: Keep our head on the swivel.

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Jeezy: Your head on a swivel, because I don't know. 1st of all, trump ain't a scholar. So how in the world? He, reaching back to something that was used in World War I and World War Ii, and trying to make it relevant for his actions. When you see people start to reach

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Jeezy: to to justify their actions, you should be on alert.

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Manny: Hmm.

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Jeezy: So that's all I'm going to say. That's my spotlight of the.

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Manny: Yeah.

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Manny: Man.

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Jeezy: With that being said, we have reached the end of our episode. We appreciate you guys listening. Oh, before I go.

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Manny: Blue beaver, Miss.

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Jeezy: We want to mention. There has been some devastation that has gone on recently in the Midwest and the southern part of the United States. There were recent tornadoes that outbroke over various countries. It was, I mean, excuse me, States

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Jeezy: country. Oh, no, Brett.

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Jeezy: Oh, you're trying to break up the us already.

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Jeezy: Hey, look! I'll be listening to the trump too much. You got me tripping. But there was some devastation in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana.

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Jeezy: Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Arkansas of just massive, massive devastation and fatality. So we just want to say here at the pod that our thoughts and our prayers are with those that have been affected by this storm system that has just left a trail of destruction across these States, I believe, is last at the time of this recording. It's been reported that at least 30

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Jeezy: 5 fatalities have been reported, but there are some areas that they have not been able to quite assess what the damages are. So we just want to just say that our thoughts and prayers are with those that are affected and impacted by this storm, and hopefully the resources that you may be able that you may need. Be it from your local government, from your State

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Jeezy: and from hopefully. The Federal Government may be available to you, so that you may be able to, in some shape, form, or fashion, put your lives back together as best.

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Manny: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

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Jeezy: So with that being said.

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Manny: Yeah.

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Jeezy: That's the end of our episode, my brother, your heart, heart, and mind clear you did.

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Jeezy: Minds are clear, y'all like we say here at the pod.

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Manny: If nobody else loves y'all.

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Jeezy: Boys here love you.

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Manny: Boys here at the pod. We love y'all, so. Thank y'all so much for tuning in.

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Jeezy: We gonna put these Mics down and we headed over to Pennsylvania Avenue to go get out.

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Manny: Get my get. My! I want I want to. All black. Yes, yep, and so

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Manny: they say, don't meet me there. Beat me there, beat me there.

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Jeezy: All right. Y'all we'll see you next episode.

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Manny: Take care!

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Jeezy: Take care, world.