145% Tariff? Cool, We’re Still Buying!

In this fiery and funny episode, Jeezy and Manny unravel one of the wildest weeks in politics—featuring $2,000 TikTok cars, market chaos, and Trump possibly pulling a fast one on Wall Street. From the absurdity of 145% tariffs to the tragic wrongful deportation of a legally protected immigrant that united the entire Supreme Court—yes, even Clarence and Ketanji—we dive deep into America’s current identity crisis.

With side tangents about Dire Wolves, conspiracy-flavored Sunny Delight, and bargain-bin Balenciaga, this episode balances political heat with humor and cultural commentary. Is Trump waging economic war or just boosting his buddies’ portfolios? Why is the U.S. playing chicken with China? And what happens when the Supreme Court tells the President to go get someone back—and he doesn’t?

Grab your furkins, lace up your Mikey’s, and tune in for one wild ride.

Transcript

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Jeezy: Hello, world, welcome to parting, the politics. Podcast season 2, episode 15. I am your co-host, jeezy along with my brother, and my partner in politics. Manny Manny, what's good, my brother, on this fine day.
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Manny: I got a lot of problems this morning.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: And I think I think our listeners from the pod should hear about them.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: Here we go! Here we go!
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Jeezy: The.
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Manny: We we just getting run into it. Y'all.
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Jeezy: This is what type of time this, what type of time we on? Let's go all right.
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Manny: 1st off. I just finished doing my taxes.
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Manny: This some bullshit, this symbol shit. I'm I'm tired. I'm tired.
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Jeezy: Was that big? Was that movie clip. I'm tired, Grandpa.
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Manny: And here's my thing about it, jeez
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Manny: the Federal Government knows how much.
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Jeezy: So.
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Manny: So yeah, here's what taxes are. Taxes are quiz by the Federal government.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: To see if I knew how much I owe them.
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Jeezy: You.
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Manny: But they already know it, y'all already know. Just tell me how much.
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Jeezy: Just.
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Manny: Just tell me it.
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Jeezy: Bro, that's funny. I have never.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: I've never heard nobody to put it that way.
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Manny: How much do you think? And if I'm wrong I go to jail.
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Jeezy: Yup, Yup, popcorn, you don't get it right. We send you to jail.
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Manny: Who did jam.
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Jeezy: Pressure the pressure. But I'm sorry. But just you saying that is funny to me. Because why do people lie about taxes when the government already knows.
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Manny: They already know.
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Jeezy: Has there been anybody that got away with this like
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Jeezy: Uncle Sam? Don't play about the money. He know.
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Manny: You can get off for murder, you can get off for drug trafficking. But as long as you claim all that illegal money on your taxes. You're gonna be good to go.
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Jeezy: Bruh that is crazy.
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Manny: So that's that's my 1st problem this morning. Okay.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: My second problem.
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Manny: That ain't a damn direwolf.
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Manny: Yonnan took a gray wolf and modified its genes.
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Manny: and, according to to my my rabbit hole research. Dire wolves are closer to coyotes. So what did y'all just create.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro! Hold on! Hold on!
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Jeezy: I'm so tired that is not a dire worship.
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Manny: It's not a dire wolf. It can't be a dire wolf like what.
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Jeezy: Right. And this is.
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Manny: All fun and games until they're like, Oh, we're gonna release them back in a while. Here we go.
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Jeezy: You're back.
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Manny: There are countless movies that have told us and shown us why. This is a bad idea.
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Jeezy: This is a bad idea.
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Manny: But hey, y'all cook y'all cook timelines already messed up.
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Jeezy: Out of all the things, brother, that you could be doing.
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Jeezy: We get dire wolves. Bro.
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Manny: Dire wolf, no cancer. Nope.
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Jeezy: No cancer, no, all kinds of nothing. Well, Rfk. Did.
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Manny: Rfk's on it, though.
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Jeezy: He said, by September.
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Manny: He's on it.
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Jeezy: We gonna know he gonna but watch September cover. He gonna say something wild.
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Jeezy: It was mon. It was a mondo juices that we.
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Manny: This cheese.
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Jeezy: I brought autism into the world. Bro.
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Manny: Brilliant, that sunny delight. Y'all were drinking.
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Jeezy: Do on the on the packaging for sun straw.
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Manny: See, picture.
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Jeezy: Seeped into the plastic, and we now have autism.
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Manny: That that's.
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Jeezy: Teenage, mutant, ninja, turtle, pizza.
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Manny: Woo-hoo.
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Jeezy: Autism.
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Manny: Bro quit playing with this.
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Manny: I'm just saying I'm just saying Hello, listeners.
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Jeezy: Thank you.
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Manny: Are having a great week.
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Jeezy: Welcome listeners
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Jeezy: to the new episode of pardon the politics as you can see what type of time we are on today with this episode. We as always, thank you for tuning in and listening. As you can tell, we're we're growing quite tired of this time.
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Manny: So tired.
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Jeezy: And as the days and months progress.
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Jeezy: it gets a little a little harder to do these episodes with with any seriousness. When we are part of the the circus that we call America today. So this.
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Manny: Be a hilarious reality. TV show. If we weren't the stars.
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Jeezy: Right? Right? Thank you.
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Manny: If we weren't the stars we wouldn't looking at
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Manny: this completely differently. But we are the stars.
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Jeezy: This is a real life season of the office. I feel like.
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Manny: For me.
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Jeezy: Is it always something every day, every week, and that's.
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Manny: Even every hour, even by the hour.
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Jeezy: By the hour. Bro, like literally by the hour, is always something, and that's a great segue that you give me to our 1st topic when it comes by the hour, because when we look at our tariffs they seem to be changing by the hour, and by the time we report on one aspect of tariffs we have a new one that comes out so
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Jeezy: after.
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Manny: We. We worked on putting this this docket together for y'all, and at least 2 or 3 changes have happened.
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Jeezy: Happen.
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Manny: Since that moment.
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Jeezy: I can't keep up, and I don't think anybody else can, so.
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Manny: So we're gonna we're all gonna be here and try together.
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Jeezy: We're going to just try to piece it all together as one big family. On April 13, th a few days after our great Liberation day. President Donald Trump's tariff policies have undergone yet again, significant changes. And those changes as of today. And I feel like we have to say as of today, particularly concerning electronics and trade relations with China.
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Jeezy: I don't know why China said they. China said they won't smoke so.
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Manny: Are they ready.
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Jeezy: They're ready.
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Manny: They ready?
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Jeezy: So after trump went back and forth with China
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Jeezy: on tariffs, I think we started out at 34%.
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Manny: No, no! Well, it started high when when the initial, like wave, was thrown out there, I think cumulatively, we were like 50, 54%.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay. Okay.
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Jeezy: Bye.
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Manny: End of it. What we got to? What about a hundred 45
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Manny: with China saying, Okay, bet 125 on your stuff.
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Jeezy: At a hundred, a hundred 45% tariff is a wild number.
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Jeezy: 1st of all, how is Trump coming up with these numbers, is he? I feel like he's playing blackjack.
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Manny: And if he wins.
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Jeezy: He's like, Oh, cool. I got the 2020% tariff deal. Me another card. Oh, we got this. Oh, yeah, it's the most ridiculous numbers that he chooses. But he had these tariffs, and then
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Jeezy: He announced some exemptions. So we have tariffs that are imposed, and then he comes out. We've seen it before, where I think even he had like a 90 day pause and he kind of went.
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Jeezy: He was at some event. I saw.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Where he was talking like, oh, these countries are are basically kissing the ring and begging me to negotiate which I think that he's lying. I'm sure countries would like to negotiate, but I don't think that it's in the manner in which I don't think
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Jeezy: they're begging.
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Jeezy: I don't think they're begging you, and I think that tone is, is is very destructive, because he's trying to push a narrative. And when you got a country like China that we're seeing they like. Oh, okay, Bet, like
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Jeezy: we we ain't. We punks like we're not backing down. You're not. You're not scaring us. So in this exemption, he exempt key consumer electronics which included smartphones. So, Manny, even though you got your new iphone with, there's hope that if you want to upgrade, we may be fine
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Jeezy: laptops, memory cards, semiconductors, and solar cells. They were exempt from his recently imposed reciprocal tariffs.
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Jeezy: These products, which previously faced tariffs as high as 145% are now only subject to the universal 10%. So we're back down from 1, 45 to 10. Now, I believe that this is the thing that's odd with me when it comes to these tariffs, especially from these exemptions, is that his billionaire friends
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Jeezy: are being hit so significantly from this apple is one Elon we've already talked before about how Elon's taking hits with Tesla, but you know you think about apple and what they're able to do. I think I saw a report that Apple was actually looking at, shifting and moving some of their production around, moving some of it from China to India to try to kind of avert.
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Jeezy: Some of these things. So
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Jeezy: I again, and we've said it previously. I don't understand what is the goal.
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Manny: i i i don't know. Well, actually.
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Jeezy: Unless you're just trying to set the globe on fire. I mean.
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Manny: I mean, you know, that's always an option. You would think that a
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Manny: a man very well versed in business would be very much pro free trade to really encourage, you know, goods to be shipped all across, you know, for free for low cost. But that doesn't seem to be the goal. I know he's trying to level the field with trade deficits.
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Manny: I don't know if any of these countries will ever actually like lower the trade deficit. Nor do we actually need to lower the trade deficit.
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Manny: But it's it's very interesting that China, Mexico, and Canada have been our biggest punching bags in in terms of all this.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And you know I think you're seeing the softening tone on Canada and New Mexico. Sorry Canada and Mexico, but I think a lot of that is, if you looked at the Senate, Tom Tillis, and everyone starting to get fed up with all this, and and looking at taking this power back.
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Manny: and I think he's now in a situation where he's like. If I don't tread lightly here.
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Manny: I might lose control of the Congress who will snatch this power away from me.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: Now.
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Jeezy: But will they? But is it enough of them fed up that are fed up to even make that a real possibility.
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Manny: You need 60 people in the house.
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Manny: so you need probably about 5, 10 Republicans to flip.
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Manny: and then you need the the house, I think, probably lose about 3 or 4 people. So it's possible we're in number. We're in a number range where it's possible.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: But I mean shout out to everyone who's working in the stock market and traders, because I know they all look like that Popeyes, lady.
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Jeezy: Bro hot here.
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Manny: When this was going on.
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Jeezy: Tired Bro like this. This is this is insane, the impact and and just the response of how all of this has taken place. We've seen the market, I mean it's gone crazy.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I think that in some places I think we've even talked about it in the previous episode that, like Fox, news, had took the ticker away just because the market, the needle was just all over the place, and even when
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Jeezy: he announced a 90 day pause on global tariffs. But he maintained that 10% base rate there still were massive adjustments that were happening to the market. The market rebound, I believe. S. And P. Had, like a 5 500 point recovery. They end up valuing to like 4, I think. Here the 4 trillion dollars.
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Manny: Trillion.
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Jeezy: Value, like.
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Manny: Remember in that as soon as they got they got enlisted, stocks were crashing that Tweet came out, saying, Hey, he was going to do a 90 day pause that sent it up 8%
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Manny: only to say, Hey, no, that's not the case. To watch it come crashing back down.
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Manny: That is one of the reasons I feel like the Us. Dollar became. The reserve currency of the world is because of our stability and predictability of our market and our economy.
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Manny: And
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Manny: maybe that's the goal, you know, a stop being the the reserve currency. So people hold fewer of our dollars to change some of our purchasing powers. It's a wild way to go about it, to get countries to the table, to negotiate one of the. There are lots of clips out there from economics experts that are way far versed in this than either of us.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Have essentially said, tariffs are definitely a tactic to get countries to the table to talk about issues
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Manny: if they're short term.
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Manny: And I think that's the that's the other uncertain part. When you look at our market like, are these short term like, how long are you going to continue this this pissing match with china
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Manny: on tariffs that produces. If China, if China does not produce it, and directly ships it to the Us.
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Manny: It produces, it sends it someplace else, and sends it to the Us.
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Manny: So
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Manny: they are so key in our manufacturing infrastructure that even in the perfect world. And we've said this before, even in a perfect world. Every major Us. Company says, now we're done with this. We're moving everything back on shore. We're looking at at least
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Manny: 5 to 7 years to get just the infrastructure built.
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Manny: ignoring, hiring, ignoring, training, to get these markets up to par.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And that's the.
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Jeezy: And then we've I've had that question before is that
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Jeezy: this goal of using tariffs to persuade, or I think in the way that trump's using it. I would almost throw out the word bully some of these companies into coming back. There's so much substantial
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Jeezy: infrastructure that has to be in place for that to even take place. You think of, like the technology of semiconductors or building some of these assets, even if these companies were able to bring
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Jeezy: the the these, these things back on shore.
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Jeezy: where it would be the programs for reskilling workers to be able to do these jobs? Where would the training like think about from a financial perspective, how much it costs to
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Jeezy: enable somebody to have these abilities or these skills to do these jobs that are not currently over here, and not just be able to do them, but having enough workforce that can do them at the quality and level that we need them to, so that they are beneficial to making them
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Jeezy: out to the consumer. And then what does that cost look like in America. Because I because, you know, I'm just throwing a number out there. Let's say
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Jeezy: the working in a apple plant in China. Let's say they're paying workers $3 an hour. Okay.
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Jeezy: which may be high going to my understanding.
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Manny: Super high. These are your top. Skilled workers.
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Jeezy: Hey? Somebody listens over in China, like, Okay.
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Manny: Where they do that at.
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Jeezy: Where do I fill out that application at? An, indeed. But let's say it's $3. What does that number look like in the us because we still are struggling with a minimum wage number here in this country which is funny to me. And 1st of all, I want to say, thank you. Lord, that minimum wage has no impact on me that I'm blessed that.
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Manny: Thank you. Lord!
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Jeezy: In my life. Thank you.
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Manny: Good Lord! Because there was a time
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Manny: there wasn't. There was a ton.
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Jeezy: Where was time in my life, where that number was?
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Manny: A whole lot, a whole lot to the kids.
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Jeezy: 1st of all, before I say anything else I want to say thank you, Lord, for blessing the boys that they don't bother us.
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Jeezy: but when I think about it.
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Jeezy: we still can't agree on a a number of minimum wage that needs to be the standard in this country. So you want to bring jobs here, and
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Jeezy: what is the cost? Because I'm sure these companies are going to look to keep their costs as low as possible. Coming over to the Us. Well, if they were paying $3 in China, who's to say that this factory they're looking like, okay, $9 is what we're looking at. But no, sir, no, that's not going to happen.
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Jeezy: So that's a shrinkage in the workforce to take on those jobs and those abilities which probably don't come with the best of benefits. Or so you think of somebody working in a factory making an iphone. They're going to be wanting to make a certain amount of money, and these companies aren't bringing it here to basically double their cost.
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Jeezy: You know, you can say how much red tape you want to slash, and how many tax cuts you're going to make at the end of the day. These call it what it is. These people are greedy.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: So they're going to look to keep it as cheap and as much as possible. So I wonder oftentimes, when they say things like, oh, well, Trump will say, Apple said, that they're willing to bring
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Jeezy: 500,000 manufacturing jobs over in the Us. By 10 years. Are they really like, brother. This man ain't gonna be around in 10 years. We just gonna tell him that, so he'll give us what we want right now, and you know we still gonna keep it moving in China and India.
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Manny: Well it again. I think it's really important to remind ourselves about how everything is interconnected.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Because I got a 401 k.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So the the profit lot minds of these companies.
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Manny: While directly
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Manny: does not impact me. Today, if I'm looking at that long term performance of my 4 0. 1 K.
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Manny: I need these companies to do well and do well, consistently.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So it's like it for for us as Americans. How we're set up like we. We need them to keep doing that. Now there's a whole nother discussion here about labor exploitation around the world.
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Jeezy: Whatever.
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Manny: We're not here to have that conversation today because we're not. I can feel it now. The listeners like Whoa, Whoa, you guys, are. We're not ignoring it. No, it's just not the topic of discussion today.
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Manny: Got them.
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Jeezy: Not today.
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Manny: Not today. So it you know. What?
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Manny: Where's my aluminum foil?
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Jeezy: -Oh! -Oh.
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Manny: Hold on! Hold on! I didn't pull it out and had it completely ready for the pod today, but let me
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Manny: let me reach for it.
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Jeezy: Hold on! I got you, brother, you ready?
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Manny: I hit hit me
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Manny: all right.
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Manny: Is the Us.
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Manny: Preparing for a longtime war economy?
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Manny: And why I asked that so a couple that if you we rewind back to Covid
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Manny: and we saw the Us. Government take a kind of unprecedented step where they stepped in, and they started saying, Oh, you, this company! So Bauer Bauer is a hockey equipment maker, and I don't know if this is Us. And Canada. But I'll still use this example. Okay. They reached out. You can see the Us. Canada reached out to Bauer said, Hey, we need you guys to stop making hockey equipment, and we need y'all to start making face shields.
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Manny: Y'all already know how to make face shields for.
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Jeezy: Goals and stuff.
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Manny: Yep, convert it. Let's figure out how to do health, and in times of emergency
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Manny: we know that the Us. Government has the ability
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Manny: to take over manufacturing in the Us. To produce a thing, to produce the things that we need in an emergency?
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Manny: What if we are trying to bring all this infrastructure back on shore.
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Manny: So when and if we go to war, we have the manufacturing capabilities to be able to produce
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Manny: everything that we need.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Jeezy: That sounds exhausting.
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Manny: I just want the Tva to just show up real soon. Be like, hold on, yeah, this timelines got out of control. We're gonna prune it. We're gonna reset it back.
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Manny: But it's this whole pissing match between the Us. And China
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Manny: is the 2 largest economies in the world.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Are truly interdependent on each other.
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Manny: The Us. Is the top destination for all Chinese goods.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I think, in total it was about 580, approaching 600 billion.
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Jeezy: Wow!
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Manny: Is imported into the Us. So a lot of these Chinese companies rely on the Us. And the consumer demand to really drive their own growth in manufacturing, especially with electronics appliances, all the industrial things. Our supply chains are tied.
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Manny: And then on top of that. So you take all of that out. Let's just focus on the financial implications of it. China holds a little bit over. I'm not sure the exact amount, but I believe it's at least 850 billion in us treasuries.
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Manny: China continuously buys our Us. Treasuries that the Us. Continuously has to sell because we can't stay on on a Federal budget
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Manny: to provide to our people here in the United States
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Manny: to be able to continue to buy the stuff from China.
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Manny: So it's like we are. We are really interdependent on each other, and
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Manny: I hate how much he's on TV right now.
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Manny: But, Mr. Wonderful, 1st off you're a Canadian. Go back up North.
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Jeezy: Go home.
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Manny: Go! Home! Go!
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Manny: Oh, Roger!
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Jeezy: But he pointed out the issue with, like China constantly stealing intellectual property, and all of that.
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Manny: And I'm like there's got to be an easier way.
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Manny: To have these discussions instead of doing it like this.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I agree. I think there has to be some some method
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Jeezy: to accomplishing the goal that doesn't involve chaos.
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Manny: Lives are going to be lost over this.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: In one or 2 ways either qualities within these these manufacturing plants.
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Manny: Loss of job revenue every time there's a layoff. I don't know the exact percentage, but there is a percentage of people that unalive themselves as due due to it. Yeah, like, that is a reality. Then on top of that, you're looking at the cost of pharmaceuticals.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Dealing with that. So now you're having people trying to on top of already having to make that decision continuously, having to decide if I'm going to get this medicine, or I'm going to feed my family.
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Manny: People are going to die over this, and I don't think we are treating it with that level of realization.
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Jeezy: Yeah, and that has been a concern of mine when it comes to trump, is that
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Jeezy: this is, and we've said it again. We've said it on previous episodes. This is not
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Jeezy: running just some company.
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Jeezy: The decisions that you make
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Jeezy: in real time have implications that will affect not just Americans, but just there is global implications to the things that you do. This is not a job that you play games with, or that you get to experiment and test out your little theories, or whatever your buddies say behind closed doors, that hey? If we do this, maybe we'll do that, or something that you read off of true social
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Jeezy: heard. Steve Bannon or Roger Stone say, these are legit.
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Jeezy: like decisions that have real life consequences that are irreversible.
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Jeezy: and they should be treated as such, and I think that's what has been
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Jeezy: such an issue with me, with how the the tariff, war or trade war has gone is because it's not a game.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: It's not a game. This isn't fun for any of us. Certainly the people that are controlling looking at the market, the stock market and running the numbers obviously don't feel that this is a game. So why is it that trump can be more? Well, I don't know if I say he could be more strategic than this. But maybe he can't. Maybe this isn't.
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Manny: His, his, his, his, his hand, his hand.
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Jeezy: This is Mo. This is how he moves. But there, there are real life implications that come with the moves that we're making from from doing all of this. And
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Jeezy: I just wonder what, how does he think that he's gonna achieve the the goal? Because if I would be honest with you. I believe we're are we past 90 days, or we.
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Manny: Yeah, we look the I was looking at it earlier the 100 days.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Is going to be. On April 29.th
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: So we we getting close. So we're not there yet. But we are.
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Manny: We're we're right up there on 90 days.
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Jeezy: So so with us coming along on it, I feel like. And we could. This could be something later on down the road.
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Jeezy: but so far, all we have is chaos.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And we have not been able to
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Jeezy: solve any issues. I think that we may have made matters slightly worse.
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Manny: But the winning's coming, man, they told, the winning is coming.
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Manny: We just got to be patient.
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Jeezy: Man, this ain't. This ain't the Philadelphia 76 ers when they drafted Joel Embiid and said, Trust the process.
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: If you you came and you said all these big you were talking big talk.
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Jeezy: I need you to big walk.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: And I don't think that's happening.
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Manny: And the one thing that I hope for in all this.
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Manny: Well, 1st off.
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Manny: I know the good Lord works everything out to our favor. So we 1st we're going to start off there. Yes, sir.
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Manny: but I want Trump to be successful. He is the President of the United States. His.
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Jeezy: And I agree with you. I agree with you. I want everybody for you. I just want everybody to understand that we won't.
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Manny: We want this to be good. We want this to go. Well.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: But I just don't know again. The the thing we've said repeatedly on this is, I don't know what the plan is.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: It feels like we are building the plane as we are flying it.
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Manny: and no one has a degree in aerospace engineering on this plane.
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Jeezy: Bruh, no way.
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Manny: Not not no one from Boeing. I don't even care if it's a janitor from Boeing, no one, no one from Lockheed Martin, no one from Airbus.
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Manny: but it's it's 2 people from from Trump and Sons, golf course, golf horses and casinos.
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Jeezy: 1st of all, Trump Trumpet says it's wild.
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Jeezy: But but with you saying that, what is the plan, I wonder, Mandy.
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Jeezy: I wonder, is this the plan and I want to play you a clip.
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Jeezy: Is this market manipulation?
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Manny: Hmm, no! Why not?
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Manny: If it was a plan, if it was always the plan, how is this? Not market manipulation?
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Jeezy: Is that the plan?
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Jeezy: And the reason I say that I want to play you, and I want to play you another clip. I want to play. I listen.
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Manny: Oh, man!
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Jeezy: This. This was inside. This is inside the oval office. Now this was this was inside.
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Jeezy: Trump had some of his buddies in there. This is John Schwab.
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Jeezy: It's not just a stock. It's actually an individual. He made 2.5 billion today. And he made 900 million.
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Jeezy: They they discussing who made what today, how they made it.
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Manny: There was a
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Manny: there was a key point that you know. I threw it in the group chat when it happened, but not exactly when it happened after I realized it, which was.
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Manny: Far too late, but far too late!
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Jeezy: Is that the case for all of us? Bro.
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Manny: Well on Truth social. He hopped on and said, Hey, the markets will be fine. This is a great time to buy everyone. Don't worry. Go ahead and buy
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Manny: 8,
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Manny: and no less than about 2 to 3 h later.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: He announced the 90 day pause.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Look.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: It if it walks like a duck.
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Jeezy: Hey, Bro.
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Manny: And talks like a duck athlete aflac man aflac.
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Manny: Look
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Manny: if it's not market 1st of all, if it's not market manipulation, then, either. I don't know what market manipulation is.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Or smarty manipulation, like.
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Jeezy: I think that is a strong case.
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Jeezy: If it's not manipulation, it's at least.
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Manny: Significantly influencing. Well, it's like the okay.
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Manny: So if
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Manny: if Trump top on truth social and made an announcement to the world that everyone needs to buy.
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Manny: Is it still an insider? Is it still insider trading.
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Jeezy: Hey? I'm glad that you brought that up, because.
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Jeezy: with some details that I was looking up, they were saying that
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Jeezy: this whiplash style or pattern of of dips and surges in the market is ideal for insider trading or benefiting aligned investors. This this is what you want to do, and some of this. I just want to, for example, and we've talked about it. But I just want to give you give you give our listeners a pattern
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Jeezy: from April 1st to April the second, he announced tariffs, including 145%
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Jeezy: rate percent rate on electronic electronics. And the market crashed
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Jeezy: from the 11th through the 12th he exempted consumer electronics and rescinded
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Jeezy: that claim before carrying it back down to 10. The market rebounded drastically. So to me it looks like
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Jeezy: he playing a game. Okay, I do this. This happens. I do this. This happens now
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Jeezy: you come into timing of when he does these things. Now it has been reported that people are putting these details together, and they're saying, this may be, this may be. Manipulation
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Jeezy: is that they feel like that when trump has been doing this, it's been very strategic, the timing of when he does these things, the pauses and the exemptions tend to follow market sell-offs or negative economy, economic forecasts, and some have said that he's even done these before major fundraising events or political deadlines leading to suspicion that they're designed to support his allies and boost their confidence.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: I don't know.
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Jeezy: He playing it? He playing it, brother, he playing in our faith.
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Manny: But also.
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Jeezy: And from the clip that we just heard. Now, if I will.
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Manny: Who.
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Jeezy: Hey? He made 2.5 billion a day. He made 900 million today. Now, how's this money being made? You're the one that's pausing and and playing the button, and it said that a lot of his, the portfolios of a lot of his allies and his donors
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Jeezy: have been very sector specific and the relief that he's given them, like the exemptions on apple products and the solar sales. And they're calling it telegraph chaos to let his insiders. Front run market moves.
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Jeezy: I'll bet. Bro.
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Manny: Is it illegal out to unusual whales who track, who track portfolios of politicians.
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Manny: But like, okay, let's put all this aside a moment, and it's a lot to put aside.
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Manny: But why are y'all doing this game with China. Like, so
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Manny: like, yeah, I don't want to try this on some. Try this with the EU first, st like some someone who can't really fight back as.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: As strongly like.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I don't think people are realizing to the level that China is prepping to fight back. If I look, if I.
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Manny: Look on my tick tock, feed.
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Jeezy: Bro. They said something on the clip like they're using the same like China's using the same verbiage or language as if, like they're legit going to war like.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: They they like yo squad up.
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Manny: And here's 1 of the major differences. I think we we forget. Between China and the Us.
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Manny: We have more ready access to information to ask these questions. They don't have that over there.
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Manny: So it's very. It's a whole lot easier, I would assume, to get your people on board to going through like with this. I heard somebody say, China's been around for 5,000 years, and China's gonna be around for the next 5,000 years.
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Manny: Us just got on the block.
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Manny: It's it's true, but I so over the last 48 h, the Tiktok algorithm
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Manny: has just been feeding me all of these manufacturers that will produce look.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: And I'm I'm at the big age
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Manny: where I just want stuff to be comfortable.
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Manny: So if you tell me you can bake me sneakers.
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Jeezy: Night.
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Manny: Key quality in my size.
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Manny: And for the price of what I would get one here I can get about 5 of them bought.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: Sir, if I was getting direct from China, my wardrobe would be wild.
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Jeezy: Brother.
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Manny: Look at this rate, my my wife and kids, all the females on life. They about to get some furkin beds for.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
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Manny: For Christmas, every everyone with a furkin, everybody getting to Turkey.
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Jeezy: Don't see.
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Jeezy: Barking.
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Manny: Some some Lewis.
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Manny: Yup, Louis, not Lewis, not Louis, Louie.
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Jeezy: Lewis.
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Manny: LEWI s yep.
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Jeezy: So feiky we did, Bro. We did it right.
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Manny: I just want to be comfortable.
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Jeezy: Hey, Bro? And look. And it's funny, because when you say that I'm like you have the Tiktok shop you got she in
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Jeezy: Timu, hey, bro! They! They! They already they already like hey, look!
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Manny: Already.
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Jeezy: Everything that you want to put a tariff on cool. We'll just copy it and sell it for cheaper, and it'll be fine, and everybody been buying it right.
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Manny: Now, now, there are a couple of things that it's probably not gonna work. I'm probably not gonna be able to get knockoff bluey toys.
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Jeezy: Oh, brilliant, no.
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Manny: Paw, Patrol.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: I might but think about that. So if you think the American consumer the impact it would do to Nike if we just stopped buying directly from Nike, and started buying directly from
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Manny: from China, the same near same quality, all.
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Jeezy: It's missing.
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Manny: A logo.
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Jeezy: Hey, Bro.
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Manny: I grew. 1st of all, I think some of these brands need to realize some of these millennials that are starting to come into adult money. Yeah, I wore shacks.
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Manny: Shaqs were the 1st shoe name brand that the Kid had.
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Manny: So 1st of all, getting Clown for not having not having label ain't nothing new for me.
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Jeezy: Brother! Hey! Hey!
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Manny: Shout out to Shaq, yeah, like shout out to Shaq. Send the boy up with his 1st Major Brand.
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Jeezy: I haven't ever had a pair of shacks in my life.
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Manny: So this not having Nike not having the nikes.
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Jeezy: It'll bother you.
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Jeezy: Nothing to me.
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Jeezy: Mean nothing to him.
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Manny: Absolutely nothing.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Jeezy: Bro, that is so funny like at our age. I don't know. If you remember the training some of our listeners may may remember
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Jeezy: a couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple. Actually, it was a couple of months ago. The trend was going around of the Walmart shoes, and they were like, Hey, these like look just like the new balances that 1st of all, a lot of these shoes. And and then, in our adult age.
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Jeezy: I remember some of these shoes were $50.
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Jeezy: Why are you charging me almost $200 for a pair of balances? Why.
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Manny: Why?
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Jeezy: Remember when I remember when no one even wore these shoes. The only people that wore these shoes were people that worked on fries.
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Jeezy: mop floors were janitors, or at a hospital or at a school? Why are these shoes now? $200? But the trend was that these shoes look very similar to the ones that wear at Walmart, and they were like $25 at Walmart.
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Jeezy: and people were buying them up. And I said, Okay, there. People are not caring anymore. And these these Nike new balance you you better start realizing
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Jeezy: all right.
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Jeezy: Ag ain't working no more.
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Manny: I remember growing up I was at a thrift store, and my parents got me a champion T-shirt. This is nineties wore that to shirt in school, got clown to kingdom come.
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Jeezy: Bruh! But if now.
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Manny: But if I were to rock some champion.
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Jeezy: A champion shirt cost you like 50, $60.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: I remember nobody wore. I remember having a pair of champion shoes, and I thought them dresses were clean. They were like Bro. Them dresses mad, ugly now.
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Jeezy: Different ball game, right?
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Jeezy: so so that goes to show you that obviously there is a big consumer base that don't care for the label
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Jeezy: care at all can get the comfort and and it looks, and it look halfway decent.
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Manny: Well, think about it like right now.
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Manny: The the items are either coming straight to the from the manufacturer in China to the Us. Or they're going to some 3rd party country that's going to add some finishing details and send that over when they're sending these over. They're at bulk prices.
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Manny: So there's maybe a shoe a there's they're selling it for $5.
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Manny: Well, oh, oh, Manny, come through! Buy that for $10 directly. Oh, they don't sold 2 shoe! What.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Are we about to be there.
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Jeezy: The shoes don't make demand, make the shoes, and if China make the shoes, the man don't wear the shoes.
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Manny: Every day, China making the shoes right now.
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Jeezy: You already making them. You already know you already. You already got the equipment. You already got, the supplies.
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Jeezy: You take that label off. You can put it for all I care. You put dog crap in Chinese on the side of the shoe, and I'm aware I can't read it. I can't. I don't know what they say.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: I got no idea, and hold hold on. Let me wouldn't pull up my calculator.
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Manny: So let's say I spend $10 on a pair of shoes.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: And let's just add the 145% tariff on there. That is a $14 and 50 cents shoe.
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Manny: That same shoe from Nike is a hundred $20. I'm saving.
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Jeezy: Like what Martin say. I'll pay the fine.
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Manny: Pay the fine, I pay the fine, happy.
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Jeezy: Bro, that ain't no, that ain't no problem. That ain't no problem.
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Manny: No problem.
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Jeezy: So so I don't know what kind of I don't know what kind of game you think you playing, Donald trump.
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Jeezy: but we gonna buy them. We go, buy them shoes.
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Manny: We gonna buy them shoes and pay them tariffs.
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Jeezy: Of fact, child, don't even worry about it. They ain't got to be no debate who gonna pay the 1 45.
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Manny: We gonna pay it.
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Jeezy: I'll pay the 1 45 gladly, if.
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Manny: Because we still saving $80.
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Jeezy: Bingo, so I don't know what kind of war you think you playing, and what games you playing. But look one thing for sure, we always love to cut out the middleman.
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Manny: Always love to cut out the middle man.
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Jeezy: There are savings when you cut out a middleman and the middle man so happened to be the United States whammy.
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Manny: Miami, Little FAFO.
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Jeezy: Let me let me go. Let me go ahead. Go to Walmart, get one of them prepaid debit cards and put my money on, and that's how I'm gonna buy the shoes.
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Jeezy: Yeah, my credit card information.
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Manny: I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get a po box.
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Manny: Yeah. Yeah.
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Manny: When.
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Jeezy: Look, and if it and if it take 35 days for them shoes to come, it's okay, ma'am
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Jeezy: said, to buy the shoes out of season, anyway. So.
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Manny: I'll wait.
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Jeezy: I'll get my winter boots now.
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Manny: Are, we.
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Jeezy: And you want to play this tariff game. We we know how to play that game.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: So yeah, I agree with you. Bro, I don't know why we why we playing this game with China, go play with Costa Rica. We.
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Manny: Wow, need us to buy them bananas need us, China, Google, they're cool. Bro.
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Jeezy: They got a plan.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: I don't know what our plate is, but.
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Manny: I know what my plan is. We Christmas about to Christmas about to be boom.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bruh Bro, my baby! About to think that daddy didn't hit a lick one second
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Jeezy: when I look when I buy my teenage daughter, this this Suv. From China. That cost me $2,000.
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Jeezy: They can only hold 1212 gallons of gas in it.
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Manny: But it, but it gets you back and forth from class.
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Jeezy: But it's built. It's built like a Kia. Oh, yeah, Bruh and Merry Christmas, baby.
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Manny: You can fix that thing with zip ties and.
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Jeezy: Oh, brother!
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Manny: And it run per.
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Jeezy: Bruh. I gotta put it together when it come in. Bro.
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Manny: And well, go ahead. Let me know I'll come. I'll grab some tools.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: We will get Google translate.
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Jeezy: I agree.
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Manny: Out these instructions, and we put it together.
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Jeezy: And we'll put a but if that's a if that's how much it costs. I got an electric car for my baby for $2,000 straight from China. That's what I'm talking about, and I ordered it off the Tiktok shop.
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Manny: Oh, but then you had to pay the tariff. So it's still a $3,000 car.
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Jeezy: But still still cheaper than a smart car.
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Jeezy: All right, Elon. So yeah, man, we hopefully, man, I'm sure by the time this episode drops. There's gonna be some more.
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Jeezy: Everything's gonna be wrong.
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Jeezy: But I think that it was to round it up. I think that there was an announcement by the Democrats that they were going to look to see? Was there a possibility of market manipulation.
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Manny: Okay.
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Manny: Okay.
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Manny: Y'all ain't done nothing since Cory Booker got up there and read his 96 thesis.
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Jeezy: Right, but.
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Manny: While starting, while while I, while I do believe.
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Jeezy: There's a market manipulation that may be going on
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Jeezy: as Kenny as a good man, Kenny Rogers would tell you. You gotta know when to hold them.
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Jeezy: No, we're home.
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Jeezy: Hold them way. No one to run.
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Manny: You ain't gotta fight every battle.
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Jeezy: You ain't got to fight every battle. Bro. At the end of the day you're gonna waste the money
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Jeezy: they benefited from it. If it is going on so they ain't. They ain't gonna oust themselves.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: So if I ain't gonna lie to you, maybe if I'm 1 of them Democrats, I'm trying to get across the aisle and ask, how can I get in on this.
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Manny: Yeah, I gotta. I gotta do what? When?
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Jeezy: We're telling you.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: I saw y'all at the back of the bar talking last night. What are y'all talking.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Y'all got something I want in.
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Manny: So saw them chuckling, chuckling, and carrying on, and Ben's Chili bowls.
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Jeezy: Yup I want in.
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Manny: Somebody came over. Oh, I got all their meals.
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Jeezy: See, that's the bipartisanship that you need to be worried about. Why the water market get in, get in the boat.
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Manny: Y'all seem to be having fun over here. I want to have fun, too.
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Jeezy: While we, while we getting greasy, let me let me get a piece.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: That's all. But yeah, man, we'll see what happens. I'm sure that by the time this episode, like I said before, drops that there'll be some more
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Jeezy: going on, and maybe the plan will come to fruition. Maybe the Democrats will find out there's mass market manipulation, and they'll do something about it. But we'll see.
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Manny: Maybe not.
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Manny: I'm not holding those. I'm not holding my breath.
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Manny: I haven't seen the Vegas odds, but they they probably not too good.
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Jeezy: They ain't looking good, brother. So that is our coverage on the tariff war trade war that we got going on. And hey, China, if you got some of that merchandise that you thinking about, you know, wanting the boys to
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Jeezy: hey, demo for you.
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Manny: Hey!
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Jeezy: You know you want to send us some some promotion. Merch.
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Manny: We run a brand deal.
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Jeezy: Hey, look, look, we, we just cause, we just because we are American based podcast. Don't mean that we're not a equal opportunity.
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Manny: The Kid needs some new suits.
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Jeezy: And a variety of dress shoes.
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Jeezy: Let's do it.
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Jeezy: And maitland, let's make a deal, let's make a deal
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Jeezy: all right so our next topic that we want to bring up.
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Manny: We spent a whole lot. We spent a whole lot longer than that one than I expected. But yeah, man.
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Jeezy: Hey? But our next topic is Donald Trump versus the Supreme Court
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Jeezy: on deportation. So we know that there have been some
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Jeezy: some sparks of legal implication is, Donald Trump has tried to use an old 1798 alien enemies act to deport people, and I believe that he specifically brought this up in the recent deportation
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Jeezy: of gang members from Venezuela. Those legal challenges have happened, and I believe that
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Jeezy: on the 7th the Supreme Court voted for a 5 4 decision. They actually lifted the lower course order, saying that he couldn't use this, that he's now able to use this to continue to deport those that he deems need to be deported under this act.
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Jeezy: But I wanted to bring up this case as far as him going against the Supreme court, because we have a gentleman by the name of Kilmar Garcia.
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Jeezy: He's a Maryland resident. Shout out to Maryland, that's where my in-laws and my wife is from and shout out to west, Moore!
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Westmore, so he's a Maryland resident, with legal protection against deportation, but was mistakenly deported to El Salvador back in March, and, despite a court order. Safeguarding him from removal, he was sent
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Jeezy: to the Deportation Center anyway, where he remains detained in El Salvador on April 10th the Supreme Court affirmed the lower Court's directive that the Government must facilitate Garcia's return.
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Jeezy: So I don't. I don't mean to laugh at this bad situation, but the man was deported incorrectly.
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Manny: Completely let me back up illegally, illegally would be the
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Manny: the man left. The man left El Salvador.
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Jeezy: So that he could not. I guess in El Salvador I guess there's this thing where the gang members like go to the school, and they try to recruit kids at a very young age to get them in the gang, and Yada Yada Yada. So he feared that, and he fled, and he came to United States legally.
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Manny: Well, legally.
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Jeezy: Legally he!
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Manny: Okay. I just checked.
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Jeezy: He had the right to be here. He went through the correct process, and he was here legally, somehow.
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Jeezy: which I'm to no surprise that the trump administration and this whole deportation is a mess. He was deported back to
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Jeezy: El Salvador illegally.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Jeezy: And the trump Administration had the nerve to say, he's over there in their custody. We don't have to do anything to get him back over here.
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Jeezy: and it went to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said, Yeah, no, you you gotta go. You gotta go get him.
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Manny: To.
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Jeezy: You gotta go get him.
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Jeezy: And so far to our latest update, they're supposed to actually given daily update of what they're trying to do to facilitate his return, and so far no details have been given on what they're trying to do to get this man back home.
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Manny: I want to take a quick moment because I think there was a key detail that I want all of our listeners to understand.
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Jeezy: When they said they had to go get him.
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Manny: The Supreme Court voted 9 to nothing.
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Jeezy: Oh, wow!
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Manny: That means you got justice, Contiji Brown.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Voting the same way as Clarence Thomas.
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Manny: saying, Y'all need to go get him.
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Jeezy: Y'all go get that man.
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Manny: 9. Nothing. Our most divided Supreme Court, possibly in history. I know that can be debated, but most divided I have seen. I'll say that one
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Manny: 9 to nothing.
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Manny: Everybody, everybody said, go get him, and you know
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Manny: I knew we would eventually hit a constitutional crisis.
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Manny: I didn't know this was gonna be the route that we got there. I I knew it was gonna be around. No, I didn't know no one knows. We're all guessing here.
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Manny: I knew we'd eventually run into something, but like
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Manny: it's going to be very interesting to watch the next steps.
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Manny: and also looking at the precedent that this sets.
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Manny: So if we're just going to allow people to be kidnapped, let's call it what they did to.
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Jeezy: Yeah, correct, yeah, they can.
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Manny: Kidnapped this man and sent him out of the country, and then said, here's a line. I can't cross that line
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Manny: you. You were saying this as President of the United States, the same United States
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Manny: that sent in a seal team.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: Over the cover of darkness
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Manny: to go get Osama bin Laden, who was being protected potentially by Pakistan. This, that same United States.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Oh, now, now we scared to go go get people, and it doesn't even sound like some of the basics have happened like, I'm almost certain that if Donald Trump gives a call down to El Salvador, Amen!
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Manny: We messed up. Send them back that they wouldn't be like. Oh, no, no, we go. Okay, cool like this sounds like it could be handled with a phone call.
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Jeezy: Very much, so.
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Manny: But it's like they don't want to make the phone call. So it's almost like they want this legal capacity to be able to take people who speak down on the administration
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Manny: and send them out. The country.
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Jeezy: Yep, I think good wild, because
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Jeezy: I mean, just take it outside. Take it outside of the the legal
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Jeezy: perspective, and just out of just right and wrong if you made a mistake.
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Manny: Just on it. Just own it.
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Jeezy: Then you should own it, and you should fix it right if I worked at Mcdonald's, and you ordered a number one with no pickles, and I gave you pickles. And you say, Hey, man, I didn't need pickles. I didn't ask for pickles.
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Jeezy: and I look at you and say, Huh, sorry
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Jeezy: you ain't gonna fix it like you did. This is wrong. You're not gonna make it right. Most of us would say, that's crazy. Well, you did something, America that was wrong. You should make it right. This man was taken from his home.
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Jeezy: He shouldn't have been.
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Jeezy: You need to go get this man.
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Manny: Now also hold on. You said something in a way that caused me to think about this in a different light.
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Manny: The Us. Doesn't have necessarily the greatest track record
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Manny: right of making things right with people. They did wrong.
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Jeezy: You're.
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Manny: Don't! We just don't.
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Jeezy: We're talking about someone that does not have a very good customer ranking.
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Manny: Good.
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Jeezy: One out of 5 stars on Google. Not great. But Bro, I mean just the whole thing about this, that it had to.
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Jeezy: If if it, why did it even have to go to the Supreme Court
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Jeezy: like you? Didn't? You didn't find out that you were wrong once it got to the Supreme Court, and was like, Oh, man, we jacked up. You knew you were wrong before it even got there.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Hence the lower court, making the ruling that it made in the 1st place like this is so wrong, and I don't think that you're going to find that Donald Trump is going to make the call, or maybe he is, I guess. Is he forced to, because the Supreme Court has said, no, you have to go. Get him, or you.
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Manny: Well, I think.
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Jeezy: Facilitate his return.
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Manny: I think that's the part where we don't know, like, I think that is the part that becomes a constitutional crisis. What if the executive branch just decides not. And there's a couple things that could happen. Okay,
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Manny: And oh, man, so what? What? You could happen.
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Manny: what and what I think is likely to happen.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Is, you could see Congress step in
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Manny: and start stripping power from the Presidency.
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Jeezy: Hmm!
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Jeezy: I think that's a real life. I'm not going to say it's a possibility, but it should be something that should be explored, because if we're going to talk about how Doge has handled some of the things they've done, and how that should be going through Congress, I think some of these deportations.
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Jeezy: The process of overseeing these deportation should be done as well, because obviously the people that are are either in leadership or are invoking what the process or strategy of doing this are not obviously taking multiple factors into consideration, because if that was the case, we wouldn't be making so many mistakes.
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Manny: Right like. And we've seen. And we've seen constitutional crises like this before. And
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Manny: when I say it in this vein, I really just mean a situation that's popped up, that the Constitution doesn't specifically say what to do in this situation. What you usually find is that there is a judicial enforcement as well, so they could be held in contempt of Congress and a referral given over to the Department of Justice to impeach
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Manny: people over this. Now do we have a department of justice that will do it in this standpoint.
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Jeezy: I don't think so.
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Manny: I don't know. Usually there is political ramifications where people lose offices, party loses power. There's a lot of things that
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Manny: are floating around.
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Manny: And usually there is a reaction to it, and if Mr. Trump is not careful
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Manny: we could watch a scenario, and maybe it's not this case, maybe it's another case that happens down the line where Congress could strip a lot of the President's power.
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Manny: And if if I were to ask you this question.
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Manny: And I don't even know. Oh, hold hold on! Let me!
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Manny: The Jeezy, who is.
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Manny: The President of Israel.
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Jeezy: I don't know who it is, because Nettie is the Prime Minister. Correct.
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Manny: He runs for conquers, he runs
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Manny: first.st Man first.st Where is the President in all of this?
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Manny: So Isaac Herzog is the is the current President of Israel.
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Jeezy: Does he do.
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Manny: So in Israel the Presidency is largely ceremonial, because most of the executive power is vested in the Prime Minister, Big Natty.
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Manny: So in Israel. The President plays a role more as a unifier comforter in chief, overseeing the formation of new governments following elections in that piece. But, like y'all keep playing around, and we keep seeing one man that has all this power, and we're getting ready to see one man that will not have all this power. And then the Presidency is ceremonial.
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Manny: I don't think Trump wants that, I
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Manny: but it could happen if we keep playing with fire, but also go get this man. This man got a baby.
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Manny: Go get this man back.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I I think that when you, when you bring that up, Manny, that makes me think that
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Jeezy: we're we're we're we're flying a little too close to the sun.
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Jeezy: because it was also reported that Trump did another controversial policy.
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Jeezy: where he classified over 6,000 living living immigrants as deceased.
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Jeezy: and in doing this he canceled their social security numbers, which means that it cut off their access to employment, banking, housing, and other essential
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Jeezy: services, and the whole goal of him doing this was to pressure these individuals whom had legally
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Jeezy: entered the United States granted under a Biden error parole program, still legal.
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Jeezy: Is, he's trying to force them to self, deport themselves.
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Manny: I hope all these 6,000 people have very large credit cards with large credit card lines
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Manny: cool. I'm gonna buy everything. And I'm leaving.
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Jeezy: But but but my thing in this is, 1st of all.
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Jeezy: you you've you already make errors, as is in this process. Who's to say that of those 6,000 you got all of those right, and even in that 6,000 they legally are.
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Manny: They're legally here.
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Jeezy: This is not a like.
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Jeezy: just as a nation. I want our listeners to understand this. Those of you that are here in the United States.
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Jeezy: Why do we think that this is okay?
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Jeezy: If if this was, if this was you, if this
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Jeezy: was your brother, if this was your uncle, if this was your mother or your father.
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Jeezy: would you be okay with the approach that the country is taking? Think of my! But the homie! Mahmoo Khalil.
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Jeezy: Whose wife at the time that he was, he was taken into custody. She was 8 months pregnant now, I would assume now the baby's back.
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Manny: Real? Close, yeah.
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Jeezy: I think at this point now the baby should be born in about almost 2 or 3 months old. By this point I mean 2 months old.
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Jeezy: or are tipping towards it.
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Jeezy: This man hadn't seen his newborn kid.
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Jeezy: He wasn't there for his wife to support her in her labor. He wasn't there to cut his his child's umbilical cord. He wasn't there to none of that.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: All because he disagreed with something the country did.
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Jeezy: And now we're saying that it's okay for us just to start just deporting any and everybody.
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Manny: Any and everybody like, how do we think as a nation that this is okay?
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Manny: And and for us to think that if at some point.
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Manny: This doesn't move on from just
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Manny: people who are immigrants. But to us citizens.
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Manny: yeah, they can be a little.
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Manny: They'd be looking at the boys at the pod, and be like.
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Jeezy: Bro. Listen.
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Manny: Y'all got to go.
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Jeezy: Because it I
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Jeezy: when we thought about this deportation thing and we we joked about how how big Tom Homan was going to go do his thing.
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Jeezy: I did not expect it. This is this to me, in my my opinion, is beyond homing.
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Manny: This man went for extra credit.
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Jeezy: No like home, and from what I can understand, had an objective, and his objective was the people that aren't supposed to be here. Okay. Now, we're talking about people that have the legal right to be here.
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Manny: Yeah. Getting getting removed.
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Jeezy: And even down to. I have a concern, Manny, but because even when you think about now with voting, you have to have right of proof of citizenship, or, yeah.
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Jeezy: that to me sounds like it could get that could get real funky if people aren't careful.
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Jeezy: So I just don't understand.
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Jeezy: Is, is there? Is there
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Jeezy: a need for reform in our immigration process? Yes.
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Jeezy: 10,000%, 10,000%
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Jeezy: with that at all? Are there people here that shouldn't be here illegally. Yes.
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Jeezy: But why are we touching the people that are legally that have the legal right to be here? And why are those people being targeted just because they disagree with an administration's support and approach to certain aspects that are happening both domestically and internationally. This is not okay.
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Manny: Yeah. Well, it's the same thing that we see happening in. We've seen happen in Russia. We've seen happen in China, where they're trying to silence dissent.
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Jeezy: Yeah, what?
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Manny: There's the line.
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Jeezy: I never envisioned as long as I lived in this country. America's not great. Let me say that
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Jeezy: love America. I love.
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Manny: Aspire to, but we aspire to be great.
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Jeezy: We're not great, but that is the goal that we're working towards that goal. It's a, it's a, it's an everyday. It's an everyday job.
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Manny: Yet becoming.
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Jeezy: But I never thought that what I would see in countries that I've never been to never lived in.
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Jeezy: that I've seen and read about. I never thought that I would see those things playing out in my own country.
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Jeezy: and the the suppression of
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Jeezy: free speech to the point that if you oppose these countries like. I think it's wild that you go to Korea, North Korea, and the men can only pick from 12 different haircuts. That's wild to me.
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Manny: Hot top fade.
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Jeezy: But.
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Manny: I can't take bulk it number 7.
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Jeezy: Number. Nope. Yep, a a number 2 with a razor line like
739
Jeezy: like I thought to me, that is wild right that a country has that much control that they control. What what you look like from a from a haircut.
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Jeezy: And they control that at certain points in time. You have to do this. What you watch on TV, they control what you watch. You can't even have the freedom to watch what you want to watch. Well, are we not tipping
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Jeezy: at least taking a 2 step.
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Manny: Get a little bit closer.
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Jeezy: To that direction of control. So it's weird to me that people say free speech, free speech, free speech. But if the free speech ain't catered to what I believe it should be. Now we got a problem, and the problem is detaining you and deporting you. And to a point you said earlier, when does this start happening to people that have every single aspect of right to be here? Let's say that if it was me
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Jeezy: or are you, we we run this podcast, what is it?
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Manny: They're gonna send. They're gonna send both of us.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, if we going down, we're going down together. You come get me.
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Manny: We we ride together. Hey! We die together.
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Jeezy: We ride together, that boy.
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Manny: A lot bad boys for life.
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Jeezy: But when it comes to that.
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Jeezy: and it comes to me and my, and what I say, and how I oppose the Government. Then what are the implications for me as a person that's legally been here?
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Jeezy: Now, if you're gonna send me back to Africa, can I at least pick because he.
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Manny: There's a lot of options there. There's a lot of options.
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Jeezy: You don't know where I came from, and neither do I.
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Manny: Even.
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Jeezy: Now are you gonna hold me in custody until my ancestry DNA test results. Come back, and then you send me back the banana Tobo or Togo, or you don't.
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Manny: Am I going to Ghana? Am I going to Nigeria? Where am I going.
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Jeezy: Just don't send me to South Africa because y'all well, actually, no, send me that South Africa, because trump's already offered a path of South African farmers to come to the United States. So then, that's my way back in.
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Manny: They they about to trade you, you about to get traded
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Manny: trading for a 3rd round peak in South Africa.
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Manny: Future considerations.
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Jeezy: With future considerations to come back as a as a farmer. But
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Jeezy: where's the to your point, Mandy? Where's the line?
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Jeezy: And where's the accountability.
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Jeezy: And where is the line going to be drawn that this Administration is going to say? Screw the Supreme Court screw the lower Court's ruling? We're not facilitating anything. And who's the? And I hope to God that this doesn't happen, because we know that in El Salvador he's in a facility where he's he's in danger.
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Manny: Pickle.
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Jeezy: Life is in danger.
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Manny: Incredibly.
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Jeezy: What happens when we wait too long, and God forbid this man.
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Manny: Something happens.
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Jeezy: Dies in prison, he dies in custody.
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Manny: Now I, el Salvador, I don't believe is stupid.
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Manny: They probably that man has probably now been put in solitary, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.
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Manny: Or he's moved into the worst pod and.
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Jeezy: If.
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Manny: Either are possibilities.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But if I'm El Salvador, I'm like, Oh, they're getting ready to call.
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Manny: There were somebody who's getting ready to reach out and
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Manny: or if I was El Salvador, I try to make myself look good. But oh, oh, he's here wrong. We'll send him back. We've just pulled him out. He's safe. We're sending him back today. I could see that happening. But
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Manny: and it's not, I think, becomes a temperature of Congress like, how long are y'all gonna let him go, cause y'all know he's wild like.
782
Manny: How long before y'all step in and be like
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Manny: because he's stepping around you with this whole tariff thing
784
Manny: trump has completely stepped around. You guys, y'all gonna let trump punk y'all out like that.
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Jeezy: And I just want to say this. I just looked this up to some of you said earlier.
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Jeezy: from the understanding that I'm seeing on the Internet. The El Salvador, President and Donald Trump have a very close and strong relationship.
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Jeezy: So, like you said to your point.
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Jeezy: he could definitely call and pick up the phone. And this won't be a problem at all.
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Jeezy: So this is a choice.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: That you're being defined against the highest court in the land, and saying, bruh!
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Jeezy: I'll do it when I get ready.
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Manny: There there's.
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Jeezy: That's wild. Bro.
795
Manny: We we gonna see.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man. Well, that that is our coverage on
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Jeezy: the deportation. I hope all of these individuals are safe. I hope that
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Jeezy: they get the justice that they need and return home.
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Jeezy: I know that things may get a little bit more hairy for
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Jeezy: Mahmoud Khalid, because I think that they did rule. In fact, a court did rule, in fact, that he could be.
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Manny: Could be sent.
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Jeezy: Could be deported, which is as a father, as a family man.
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Jeezy: That's that's.
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Manny: It's horrible!
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Jeezy: Trouble.
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Jeezy: and that whole situation is just crazy. So hopefully that work, it works out for him. And I would hope that someone will intervene, or Congress will intervene to to get a hold of this deportation before it gets to a point that it just becomes an utter disaster and affect someone or someone's that really, truly
807
Jeezy: don't need this in their lives at all.
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Manny: Don't need it all.
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Jeezy: But yeah, that is our coverage of that. And, as you guys know, we have reached the period of our episode to bring a little bit of laughter hopefully into this episode of our pickle of the week. We got your pickle.
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Manny: Thank you.
811
Manny: We got your pickle.
812
Manny: We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: All right, all right, all right, all right.
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Manny: We got into Brian.
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Jeezy: Our pickle of the week.
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Jeezy: The pickle of the week isn't necessarily a person.
817
Jeezy: It's a company, and that company is Meta. Meta is in a pickle.
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Manny: It!
819
Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Good.
821
Jeezy: We got we got beef with.
822
Manny: We got beef with y'all.
823
Jeezy: So yeah, y'all y'all been before y'all got into Brian. We we had some cold ready, hot and ready for y'all, anyway.
824
Jeezy: but it was reported this past week that a Meta whistleblower, which was a former executive, accused the company of compromising us. National security and exploiting vulnerable users. She testified her name was Sarah Williams. She testified that Meta secretly collaborated with China AI development and helped build censorship tools for the Chinese Government.
825
Jeezy: She also alleged that Meta targeted mentally vulnerable teens for profit by sharing sensitive data with advertisers. She actually wrote a memoir called Careless People, where she details extensively. These claims, now, of course Meta has denied these allegations.
826
Jeezy: and they are attempting to take legal action to suppress her disclosure of details.
827
Jeezy: Maddie, you, I believe him.
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Manny: Personally, I think it was when
829
Manny: Curtis, 50 Saint Jackson, who who said this quote? They did that. Guilty, guilty. They did that.
830
Jeezy: I believe, wholeheartedly and and you know what get Meta up out of here.
831
Jeezy: Yeah. So I'm sorry aunties and and grannies that love to use Facebook. But y'all got to go Facebook a weird place anyway.
832
Manny: But but, girl, I hope you stay safe.
833
Manny: They stay safe.
834
Jeezy: Oh, yeah, that's.
835
Manny: Streets.
836
Jeezy: And I believe there's there's, I believe, she testified, if not on Congress, about these allegations, and I believe there has been call where they're going to bring in Meta.
837
Manny: And.
838
Jeezy: Good old mark to testify before Congress so hopefully. That happens. I believe it was actually Republican that Josh
839
Jeezy: Holly I believe his name is, he's called for Meta CEO, to testify before Congress, accusing him of misleading lawmakers and compromising national security. So, Meta, you might be in a.
840
Manny: I mean, this wouldn't have happened 1st of all, that's what y'all gave for for blocking the pod.
841
Jeezy: Yep.
842
Manny: And taking down all my profiles.
843
Jeezy: Yep, we don't have no Facebook. We don't have Instagram. They still won't let us have it. They're opposed to contact the pod and have a discussion. They never did.
844
Jeezy: So yeah. And I see why y'all out here doing stuff.
845
Manny: I heard being greasy.
846
Jeezy: Should have been doing the Lord's work. But you out here.
847
Manny: Send it off indulging in the devil's work.
848
Manny: Look at you now! Look.
849
Jeezy: Gotta look at you hurting so shout out to the whistleblower for coming forward with these details.
850
Manny: Stay safe.
851
Jeezy: Stay, stay safe, my love, watch over your shoulder
852
Jeezy: check your food. Don't door dash anything.
853
Manny: Nothing.
854
Jeezy: And don't be out past 7.
855
Manny: Definitely definitely in before the streetlights. Come on.
856
Jeezy: Yep, and you don't use any public public restrooms.
857
Manny: Nope.
858
Jeezy: Definitely don't do that.
859
Manny: Like Nope.
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Jeezy: Well shout out to her for coming forward with these details. Because, Meta, you, you got a you got a bit of a situation. So that is my pickle of the week. Good luck, Meta! Don't wish nothing
861
Jeezy: but the absolute worst for you.
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Manny: Absolute, worst, absolute worst, nothing but bad things.
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Jeezy: So.
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Manny: I want. I want every executive when they open up.
865
Jeezy: And then.
866
Manny: Lays potato chips to have 2 chips.
867
Jeezy: Yep.
868
Manny: And they're both cracked.
869
Manny: Yup, it's a bag full of crumbs.
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Jeezy: Good luck, and Congress do the right, do the right thing for once, and get biology.
871
Jeezy: Get them up out of here. So that is our pickle of the week. So, as you guys know, at the end of every episode, we give you our spotlights of the week. So with that being, said, Manny, what are your spotlight or spotlights of.
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Manny: All right. I got 2 coming back to one that I brought up last week because we got some more developments in North Carolina. The battle for the North Carolina Supreme Court rages on.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: So earlier. There was a lower court ruling that said, Hey, these 60,000 ballots! We got to throw them all out. They don't count. Let's let's get them out of here. Let's recount it. Well, that was appealed to the Supreme Court to which they ruled.
875
Manny: That there's of the 60,000 ballots that were from long form registrations, and those lack certain identification numbers such as driver's license, last last digits of their social.
876
Manny: They said these ballots should be counted, and that the reason that they're missing the information is on the specific election officials. It's no fault of the people who registered
877
Manny: so now. So now those have been counted. Now we're into a new 30 day period for these military and overseas voters who've never resided in the Us. Aligning with State Residency laws. So they have 30 days for those overseas voters to cure their ballots and get all that information correct for them to be counted so another 30 days. But I think if you're.
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Jeezy: Reason.
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Manny: If you're Justice Riggs, this is a big win for you. And for Jefferson Griffin. This is this is not the information, this, not the news that you wanted.
880
Jeezy: -
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Manny: For those of you who came toward Justice Riggs is currently up by 734 votes and a quick reminder. There were 5.5 million people who voted in that race.
882
Manny: so that one is sure to be interesting, and we will be seeing stuff playing out over that
883
Manny: all right. And now for my next one, I realized while this was probably a very humorous episode, it was maybe a little bit heavy.
884
Manny: So I'd like to play a clip for you.
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Manny: I heard.
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Manny: I think it was a letter or report that I heard this morning. I wish I could remember the source, but that there is a school system that's going to start making sure that 1st graders, or even pre-k's, have a 1 teaching, you know, every year starting. You know that far down in the grades. And that's just a that's a wonderful thing.
887
Manny: So.
888
Jeezy: Hey? What.
889
Manny: I heard this, and I said, Oh, a 1 teaching cool thought about it.
890
Manny: Another 5 min I kept scrolling. I was like, whatever keep going. I was like, wait a second.
891
Manny: What? The heck is a 1 teaching.
892
Manny: and I was like, hold on, she she can't mean AI right, and she.
893
Manny: She can't be talking about the sauce. They can't be talking about teaching pre-k kids, about a 1 steak sauce, because 1st off.
894
Manny: if you need a 1 steak sauce for your steak, then your steak. You don't have a quality steak you got. You got one of those dollar tree steaks, and I and I understand.
895
Manny: Throw some of that a 1 salt. But.
896
Manny: Linda Mcmahon, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. I am embarrassed.
897
Jeezy: Embarrasses.
898
Manny: Not only as a fan of Wwe, but I
899
Manny: I am offended as a fellow alumni from the greatest university
900
Manny: in the country. East Carolina, you out here embarrassing your fellow alumni talking about a 1
901
Manny: you in charge of the Education Department, so I we might be cooked, man. We might be cooked so.
902
Jeezy: Might be in a pickle. Oh, Lord.
903
Manny: So those are we. There's a lot of stuff floating around this week. We'll see what happens with with everything else. But those are my 2 spotlights.
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Jeezy: Okay, what's your.
905
Manny: Got for us.
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Jeezy: Mine's isn't political of any nature.
907
Jeezy: but I want to give a shout out to our brother, Chuck.
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Manny: Hey!
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Jeezy: Chuck has released this past week, the 1st episode of his brand new podcast encompassed podcast so I would advise our listeners, go check it out. He's our brother. He's under the Lxon brother. And he's been talking about this podcast. For quite some time. And he took the leap
910
Jeezy: of faith and got out there and got it put out to the masses, and it has some very exceptional
911
Jeezy: content, and I believe that he is on to something that will be very long, lasting and enjoyable to anyone that takes some time and listen to it. So I would just tell all our listeners that if you would go out there and look up, encompass podcast is spelled NCOM. PASS. D, podcast and check our brother out. So he's gonna be along with us. You guys have seen him for those of you that tuned into our live.
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Manny: Oh!
913
Manny: Should I cover.
914
Jeezy: Yeah, election night coverage. Chuck was up there with us, and you may hear him from time to time. Come on
915
Jeezy: an episode with us.
916
Jeezy: So yeah, check him out. Give him a listen. Give him a follow on his social. I believe he's on all social media platforms, and if you go to our social media.
917
Jeezy: On Twitter.
918
Jeezy: you'll see that he's up there as well, too. So check him out. Good luck to you, brother, welcome to the podcast game. We're sure you're going to do well, and we wish you nothing but the best. And we look forward to the success you have with encompass, podcast so shout out to them so.
919
Manny: Second, Pod. Lxi. Studios.
920
Jeezy: Second part out of the studio, so we're very excited about that, and shout out to our engineer, Frank, that take care of all of us, and gets us sounding as crisp and as pristine as we possibly can, so shout out to you as well, Frank, and the whole lxi. Team. So those are our spotlights. That is the end of this episode.
921
Jeezy: We thank you for tuning in for listening again. If there's any topic, any concerns that you would like for us to talk about, or address, or give you our viewpoint or our perspective on it, reach out to us, on our socials.
922
Jeezy: And yeah, that that is the episode. So
923
Jeezy: Mandy, you got anything, brother, you good.
924
Manny: No, I'm good. I'm not even gonna try to look at Cnn and try to figure out if anything happened while we were recording
925
Manny: it it'll be, I'm sure some did.
926
Manny: It'll be it'll be in the morning.
927
Jeezy: Right, it'll be. Yep, we'll figure it out then. So if all hearts and minds clear, we just want to thank you again for listening, and as we always tell you at the end of every episode, that if don't nobody love, you just know that the boys here at the pod.
928
Manny: We love you.
929
Jeezy: Appreciate. You have a great week, and we'll see you. The next episode. Take care, world.