Trump’s Wild Week: NATO Wins, F-Bombs, and Daddy Drama

This week on Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny dive headfirst into a fiery international saga featuring stealth bombers, suspect Pentagon footage, and one very dramatic NATO summit. Was Iran’s nuclear program really “obliterated,” or did we get a TikTok-worthy CGI demo from the Pentagon? As the U.S. scrambles to justify Operation Midnight Hammer, leaked intelligence hints at a less-than-successful strike, and a rush toward peace that smells more like PR.

Meanwhile, Trump drops an F-bomb on the global stage (literally), gets called “Daddy” at NATO, and somehow convinces 32 countries to cough up 5% of their GDP for defense. Oh, and Canada thought now was a good time to tax AI. Trump responded with maple syrup tariffs, because of course he did.

With hilarious political analogies, side-eye at press briefings, and serious questions about truth in national security, this episode has it all. Tap in for laughs, analysis, and the week’s juiciest headlines.

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Jeezy: Hello world and welcome to part in the politics podcast season 2, episode 26. I am your co-host jeezy along with my brother and my partner in politics. Manny, my brother, how are you doing on this fine day?
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Manny: Brother I am. I'm vertical and above room temperature.
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Jeezy: Hey! Brother!
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Manny: A whole lot better than what a lot of people could say.
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Jeezy: As old folks say, brother, it's better to be seen and not viewed.
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Manny: Amen! Amen! How you doing.
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Jeezy: Hey, man, I'm tired, as as all as the active and present black dad normally is, but all is well, man, I'm glad to be here for another episode of partner politics, glad to be giving our listeners our viewers some more content, as
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Jeezy: political landscape continues to just get crazier and crazier and crazier by the day.
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Manny: By the day, by the hour, by the minute.
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Jeezy: But I'm sure by the time that this episode reaches our listeners something will.
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Manny: We're going to be wrong.
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Jeezy: Bro, we gonna be wrong. Something's gonna be changed. It's gonna be something crazy. It's it's whatever. But hey to our listeners, you're used to this.
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Manny: Welcome back!
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Jeezy: Welcome back to the chaos. Welcome back to the politics that we so dearly love to bring to your attention, with as much comedy as we possibly can. So thank you for tuning into another episode. We are so appreciative of you being a part of our community. And yeah, man, we got a docket full for you on this on this day, so.
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Manny: I want I wanted to note for our listeners. Is that me and Geez are recording this a little bit early than
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Manny: yeah.
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Jeezy: They do bit early.
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Manny: So there's a good chance that things can ebb and flow, and all this could be different by the time we come out. But you know.
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Manny: hey? It is accurate at the time of recording.
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Jeezy: Unless we were live all the time.
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Manny: Bro, we gonna be late.
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Jeezy: We gonna be behind? Oh, something, because this show and this roller coaster politically just does not stop.
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Manny: Can't stop what's up.
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Jeezy: Hey! Hey! Shout, hey! How about say, shout out to the Diddly. But, my!
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Jeezy: The time this episode drop he might be he might be.
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Manny: Got off. Yep.
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Jeezy: Brian still might go to 2, and oh, 2, and oh! He got young thug out! Can he get the diddler out?
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Jeezy: Bro. But I digress.
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Manny: Completely, yeah.
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Jeezy: Got enough to talk about.
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Manny: Focus.
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Jeezy: So our 1st topic on today, we kind of pick back up where we left off in our previous episode. And we talked about operation. Midnight hammer. Pause, but it's June. So
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Jeezy: do with that.
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Manny: As you make so.
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Jeezy: But there's been a lot of talk, and there's been a lot of heat around
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Jeezy: operation midnight hammer. So if you have not, or if you're not aware, and you have not looked at our list to our previous episode. On the 20 second.
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Jeezy: the Us. Sent B 2 stealth bombers to drop about 14 massive, penetrating Bunker Busters. That sounds like such a pause
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Jeezy: on Iran's 3 nuclear sites, and they were supported by some submarine launch tomahawks dubbing the mission. As you. We have said, Operation Ben, Knight, Hammer, and of course we know President Trump. As soon as this immediately happened, as we discussed previously, he claimed that these facilities were completely and totally obliterated. But, brother, guess what
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Jeezy: somebody told a lie one day.
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Manny: Someone told a lie. Somebody told a lie.
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Jeezy: Bruh. So somebody somebody told a lie and of course.
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Jeezy: as always, that we have seen when details start coming out. Guess what happened, brother.
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Manny: What what happened?
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Jeezy: You know what happened? It was a leak, T.
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Jeezy: There was some leaked intelligence, and there was, of course, some media fallout
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Jeezy: elite preliminary Dia assessment, which was reported by Cnn. And the New York Times 2 days later, on June 24th indicated that the strikes only temporarily delayed Iran's nuclear capabilities, maybe by just a few months, and critical uranium had remained intact.
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Manny: Oh, so so they'll be back by q. 4 q. 4 q. 1.
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Jeezy: Boy said, you ain't stopped nothing. You just
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Jeezy: hey? You might have delayed us, but you didn't deny us.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Jeezy: I mean. So if we look back at this, this was part of the discussion leading up to it is how deep was the facility.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And could the Bunker Busters like, we know, like they publicly say the Bunker Busters get through 200 feet of reinforced concrete?
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Manny: I gotta assume that. That's just the public number
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Manny: I'm assuming there's a classified number about how deep they can go. Pause.
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Jeezy: Oh!
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Manny: June. But, Paul, but I would have
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Manny: assume that it could probably go into the earth to a greater depth than what they tell us, and so I'm not sure.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Jeezy: I'm not sure what what I want to present you. A question really quick with this leak
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Jeezy: that we have. Does this somehow discredit
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Jeezy: the information that the public has received from this administration.
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Manny: I mean, probably you know
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Manny: but you know you you they're stepping in to do something that wasn't very
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Manny: they knew wasn't going to be well liked if they did it. So you knew. I think everyone knew they had to come out and say, Yeah, we completely succeeded on everything that we needed to do.
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Manny: So
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Manny: it's not. It was not unsurprising to hear that message. I think every President, you know, if they're coming, and they're making that walk down that red carpet to announce they did a military operation.
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Manny: You better not walk. You better not walk down the aisle and tell us you took a L like, yeah, we we almost got our target. But but no, not completely. He. He got out through the back door like, no, we're not trying to hear that the key is that you're supposed to walk on that carpet. You're supposed to make that announcement. Everyone starts chaining U.S.A. U.S.A.
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Manny: So I look back at all this. And I'm like, okay, so why did we do that?
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Manny: And then I had a thought.
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Jeezy: -Oh! Hold on! Let me keep you back up right, brother.
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Manny: And then I had a thought, what was that thought?
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Manny: So? So I started putting all this together in my head. And I was like, okay.
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Manny: So we told Iran that we were coming.
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Jeezy: How about? Thank you.
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Manny: We told them that we were on the way.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So that gave them time to move stuff. I don't know how how much, how much notice they.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, or how much they moved.
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Manny: Right. And I got to assume also that as soon as Israel started launching missiles over that, they were probably starting to move stuff. Yeah. But what if this wasn't
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Manny: about the nuclear facilities.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: I mean, if you look at Iran, Iran is hit me hit it.
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Jeezy: Hey, you! You went to another tier, brother. I had to bring it back.
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Manny: And so, Iran, we know, uses military defense systems from both China and Russia.
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Manny: What if this was really just to show China and Russia
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Manny: using your best technology that you have down there.
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Manny: We're going to fly all these bombers into this place.
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Manny: Drop these bombs and fly out before you even know we're there.
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Manny: You're going to see the big explosion, and we're already gone.
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Jeezy: We're already home.
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Manny: Because you saw real quickly after this, like before, damage assessments where people were like, oh, oh, yeah, let's let's chill this out. Let's calm down. Let's get some peace going. So I wonder, like, was this really about the did we get to to the peace deal we're getting ready to talk about that? Did we get there as fast as we did? Because all of a sudden they're like.
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Manny: how'd they do that? How they do that? And we not know we ain't see them. They just came in and left.
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Jeezy: You told me you was on the way. Bro, that's like you waiting on a package to come. And you like, oh, yeah, it's supposed to be here between 4 and 8 and all you and you like. I've been sitting in the living room all day, and then you like.
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Manny: Where'd Misko.
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Jeezy: When did they drop this package on the porch?
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Manny: You get. You get that message. It it's 8, 55. You look at that message. Wait! You sent 4. 0, 1. It was delivered.
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Jeezy: It was delivered. You go outside. You're like I've been sitting here all day.
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Jeezy: What did they drop? I didn't even hear the truck pull up right. That's a flex. Bro. I'm not. If that is the case.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: That's a that's a that's a big flex. That's a big flicks.
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Manny: And that, and that seems on Brand. Not not just for this administration that's on brand for America as a whole. Yeah.
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Manny: again, I think it is important for us to all. Remember, there's only been one country
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Manny: that's ever launched. Nuclear weapons.
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Manny: And we did it once, and then we did it again, just in case y'all thought it was a fluke. Yep.
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Manny: light fool me once can't fool me again. Right? Like we low key. Like to
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Manny: stunting our military, the amount of tiktoks of saying, and that's why we don't have free healthcare. You're not wrong.
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Manny: You're not wrong.
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Manny: One of them stealth bombers over 2 billion dollars. Yeah.
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Manny: yeah. Yeah. Could we have possibly put a massive dent in in hunger in the United States, with the the cost of the airplanes that flew to drop these bombs absolutely.
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Jeezy: Absolutely.
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Manny: But then we wouldn't have something to drop these bombs.
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Jeezy: But then we couldn't flex on them.
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Jeezy: So sorry, little Johnny, that you go to bed in Hungary
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Jeezy: night. We still got to flex flex on China.
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Manny: Flicks.
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Jeezy: Bro, that's a Bro, that's a wild. That's a wild way to look at it.
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Manny: I'm just. I'm just.
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Jeezy: Real, though.
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Manny: Is.
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Jeezy: It's weird.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Well, I I mean I could definitely see that. Go ahead. My brother.
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Manny: So I mean.
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Manny: I don't know. But I thought it was always going to be in question. What damage we ultimately did. Yeah, to these facilities cause I looked at the pictures, and I'm no expert. But I'm like this. Don't look obliterated.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: This looks like a hole in the stand.
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Jeezy: I was sitting there, and I was looking, and I said, Now, hold on, wait a minute.
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Jeezy: no, hey? You're stupid, Bro. I'm sitting here, flicking back and forth like I know before.
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Manny: Or after that just looks more dusty like. Oh, no.
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Jeezy: Row like, hold on! Wait a minute like I had to put them side. But like, do I need to go to the library and print these out, and.
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Manny: Perfect paste them, wolf!
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Jeezy: Let me let me get a what's the joint we used to have when we was in school? A projector.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: Overhead projector overhead, projector piece of video.
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Jeezy: Original, and then put the the new one on top of it, so I can see the difference.
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Jeezy: I couldn't see any damage except for, and they kept saying, It's the holes. You gotta look at the holes.
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Manny: And I was like, but like this is still not what I expect. Here's why.
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Jeezy: Exactly.
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Manny: When I heard about these bombs being dropped, I thought they were going to drop one and then drop another one right on top of that one and then another one on top of that one, and then in my math that at least gets you about 5, 600 feet.
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Jeezy: Bingo like this was not what I what I expected, but of course, with the leak that came out by Cnn.
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Jeezy: You know, Donnie, you know he get he get anytime that you challenge anything he say he get his feelings get hurt. So this leak that came out, which I might add.
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Jeezy: it's early right, can can we?
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: It's hard to assess the damage that has taken place, because it's a little early. 2 days later, which I thought that President Trump, saying the date like that, like within moments after it happened, saying that oh, it was complete obliteration. It's like
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Jeezy: how you know.
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Manny: It's not like this thing was like above ground, and you saw it like.
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Jeezy: Thank you.
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Manny: It was.
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Jeezy: You're talking about penetrating something. Paul's that is so far underground. How do you know? And I would be real with you.
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Jeezy: Iran? Silence is telling me a lot.
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Manny: Right the way their social media had been going. I definitely would have had a scientist sitting in a chair in the facility like when he signed up like
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Manny: piece up atem. There.
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Jeezy: A little dusty, but ain't nothing that a broom can't fix.
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Manny: Right, right.
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Jeezy: I would have.
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Manny: Well, and then to going back to my conspiracy. Then we look at the response.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Because we I think we all knew Iran had to pop off like you just can't come up in my spot, and me not do anything.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So I I'd literally so in the group chat I I'd send out to all the the guys. I'm just like I would bet money
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Manny: that Iran is about to fire at the closest military base that they can find.
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Manny: and these things are going to hit the equivalency of blank grass.
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Manny: and about 3, and I'm like, and I would be shocked if they didn't tell us before.
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Manny: What was it like? 2 h later.
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Manny: Here come the strikes all shot out. The air right over at Qatar is right across the strait from them, shot them all out the air, and then came come to find out. They had called Qatar, saying, Hey, we're firing missiles at this us base, just so, y'all know.
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Jeezy: I don't like that I don't like. I don't like all this calling.
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Manny: You know they were trying not to. They're like, Look, man you got we had to put on for our people, man.
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Jeezy: Right got put on for the city.
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Manny: Because they came out and said, Yeah, we fired as many missiles as they drop bombs, sir, sir. You you fired these measly missiles.
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Jeezy: The Sea Squad.
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Manny: Right, brother, you said you were going to be playing the the Oklahoma City thunder.
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Manny: and you sent the Pitt Community College right
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Manny: basketball squad, not even basketball. The intramural squad. Yep, including.
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Jeezy: Club team.
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Manny: So like, yeah, yeah, we responded with strength, sir.
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Jeezy: You knew what you were doing if you called, I mean, I get that you were doing the same courtesy they gave you. But it definitely won't. The same.
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Manny: I don't. I don't even think it was the same courtesy. I think this is like, Hey, we have to respond because not are people going to be wild. So we're gonna shoot at nothing we want y'all to know. Shoot them out the sky. Yeah, shoot them out the sky. And and they were trying to get off the ramp. They're like, Hey, okay, let's chill. Let's chill, because y'all were just able to fly here
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Manny: and bomb us, and we had no idea it happened till we heard the boom.
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Jeezy: I will say this because you know they're they're still assessment
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Jeezy: on the damages that are being done.
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Manny: I believe Congress has just started getting briefings.
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Manny: Friday. Yeah.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And that seems to kind of still be, maybe not as full crew.
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Manny: I'll go complete. I'll go complete. I'll give them benefit.
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Manny: The fleet.
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Jeezy: They don't have the complete details or briefing of how this took place.
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Jeezy: I'm gonna be weak if, like come November.
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Jeezy: we got a situation where Iran, having these nuclear missiles again, Bro.
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Manny: Like, I said, we back we they back in business by Q. 4.
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Jeezy: If they back in business by by Q. 4 Bro.
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Jeezy: I'm going to be weak, and I'm going to tell you why I feel like they are.
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Jeezy: I think that one. That's why there's a rush for peace.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: There's a rush for peace, hey? Before this. Get out of hand.
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Manny: Let's get back to the table.
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Jeezy: Let's get back to the table. Let's get a deal done.
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Manny: And I'll make another prediction right here on the pod.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: That whatever deal they're getting ready to sign.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Is going to look a whole lot like the Obama deal that he had originally.
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Jeezy: What is this? The spider-man meme, where he's pointing at himself.
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Manny: Like yep.
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Manny: This looks real, familiar.
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Jeezy: Which would be wild.
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Manny: On brand.
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Jeezy: On Brand, but wild because the amount of money
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Jeezy: that taxpayer dollars that was wasted.
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Jeezy: and the casualties that took place.
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Jeezy: All because you wanted to sign a deal that had your name on it and not Obama's, is absolutely nuts.
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Manny: Do you remember the quote from the joker?
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Manny: It's not about money.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: It's about proving a point.
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Jeezy: But but that's a whole. Another rant. I can go on about how they be playing with people's lives like we just like it's call of duty, and we could just revive at any point that's fine
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Jeezy: worry about.
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Jeezy: We can just we can revive in our loot or be back somewhat decent to what it was before we died, and parachuted back in.
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Manny: Yep, but anyway, head to the Gulag.
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Jeezy: To the gulag, but
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Jeezy: I have a feeling that a deal, and I and I, low-key kind of want Iran to be kind of like, yeah, I don't know if I want to do a deal.
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Jeezy: because I wanted to come out that they they really didn't hit the way that they did, and I believe that they didn't, because on the 26, th
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Jeezy: you know the the Pete Hags theft brother, brother, Brother Brother PH.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: He came out
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Jeezy: and had a press briefing, and I and I remember I hid in the group chat, and I told Mandy
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Jeezy: I say anytime that you gotta come out and prove.
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Jeezy: But you did.
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Jeezy: 9 times out of 10. You didn't do what you said you did.
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Manny: But if you have to walk around and declare how great you are.
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Jeezy: You? Ain't that great brother.
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Manny: That great. You're not that great.
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Jeezy: So he came out, and of course, with this leak they have been firing at Cnn, new York Times. Even calling the person who leaked this a lowlife, and that this leak is flat out wrong.
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Jeezy: But then in this he he denounced this by exaggerating. That was a low confidence. DIA report. But then he went through. And this is what got me.
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Jeezy: He had a video
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Jeezy: he pulled out. He he did like how we did back in back in elementary or middle school, when when the teacher came around the corner and she wheeled in that TV in the classroom, you knew what time it was.
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Manny: Acc championship.
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Jeezy: They wheeled in the TV.
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Jeezy: And what he did is he put on a video that walked through how the Bunker Buster bombs worked in their target mechanics, emphasizing precision, penetration, pause, and obscuring the location of victims and sources. And when I seen them pull out the video and explain to the American people how this bomb works, which undeniably was supposed to prove that what they said was true. I said.
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Jeezy: Man, I'm joking.
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Manny: Y'all lost! Y'all lost.
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Jeezy: You ain't, because in my mind I'm thinking, man, and correct me if I'm wrong now.
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Jeezy: But what do you have to prove.
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Manny: Like, what do you? What do you have to prove at this point, when there's already a deal in place like if your if your goal was to move this and end the war to get the peace deal. You've already done that. And if I'm the administration.
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Manny: this is how this, what I was expecting the trump administration to do
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Manny: is cool. We bombed them around. But look, there's a ceasefire.
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Manny: We're we're edging towards peace.
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Jeezy: Being, a.
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Manny: Israel like, and I would have pivoted. So I thought it was an incredibly weird flex for them to.
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Jeezy: Very weird.
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Manny: Hey? Y'all, yeah, we really did it. Yeah, we about, sir.
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Manny: sir. It's okay. It's almost. It's almost like they're trying to cover up the real reason they did it.
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Jeezy: Bro. When I seen it, and they showed the video footage of it. You know what it looked like to me.
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Manny: What it'll look like.
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Manny: Whoa!
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Jeezy: That fake moon landing. I digress, I digress
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Jeezy: when I when I see Bro. When I seen the camera, and they showed the bomb penetrating through through some concrete, and continuing to go on the ground, I said, No, I know.
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Manny: You said, Hold up now.
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Jeezy: Who set now? Who set that camera up? Now.
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Manny: It was.
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Jeezy: Camera. What camera sustained? What is it? 33,000 pound bomb just passing by recording in 4. KI, okay.
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Manny: You said from the producers.
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Jeezy: Right for the producers of the.
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Manny: Apollo 7.
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Jeezy: Come to you.
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Manny: We're both.
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Jeezy: Bunker Buster missiles like Bro. Stop playing with me as soon as I've seen that joint. I was like Bro. Come on now, now the camera angle. They had me at 1st I was like, all right now. 1st they had it dropping down, but then they had a tunnel, and I'm like. Well, of course, obviously, it's going to penetrate through the top of the tunnel, and then you're gonna see the explosion come out of the tunnel. But when they showed the camera angle
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Jeezy: of the of a camera right there, watching it come through the top of the concrete and going continuing to go on the ground. I say, Okay, yeah. Now, y'all think I'm stupid.
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Jeezy: Y'all think I'm stupid. But okay.
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Manny: You said I was born at night. It wasn't last night.
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Jeezy: But it won't last night. Bro.
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Jeezy: so I'm like, okay, the fact that you have to go to the extent. And then, of course, you know how drunks have get.
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Jeezy: He started getting up there, and he get hot, and he get mad and bothered and pissed off, and I'm like, if if y'all did what you said, why do y'all feel like y'all keep having to defend it? I don't understand that
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Jeezy: if Manny, if I ended up doing something, and I said, Hey, I did this. The results will speak for itself when Iran does not have any nuclear capabilities from here until the end of this administration. That is proof of the success of what you did. Why do you got to come out with press briefings and showing me a video that looked like it was created by AI. And all these things to try to prove what you said you did. If you did what you said you did then
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Jeezy: come September, October, November. Iran. We ain't gonna have no conversation about them having any uranium enrichments or any of that nature.
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Manny: But again, if the goal ultimately was to end the war, I'm talking about that. Let's talk about this. Ceasefire.
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Manny: Waste your time. If you're saying that this report came from a low life loser.
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Jeezy: Time on a low life loser. I'm not understanding that. Why, so is it? Is it that
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Jeezy: you just have this obsession with being right?
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Jeezy: Or is this low life loser right?
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Jeezy: And it seems like from the briefings that the Congress is getting that isn't complete and clear.
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Jeezy: There may be some validity into it, and and I remember but I know we talked about it in episodes a long time ago, a lot of times when Cnn. Be dropping stuff. I don't know who's on the investigative team and who got
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Jeezy: baby on it, delete. But cnn, don't be wrong, Bro.
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Jeezy: That it's got to be vetted.
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Jeezy: They have been very, very credible, and when they bring these details they are sure that they have the right information. So in the way that they're defending it.
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Jeezy: I got a feel, brother.
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Jeezy: Maybe it didn't happen.
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Manny: Somebody somebody told a lie.
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Jeezy: And Brother King told us somebody told a lie.
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Manny: Live one day.
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Jeezy: Bruh. So I just with all of that being said.
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Jeezy: And you look at the optics of it all.
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Jeezy: Does this raise concern about what is truth? Versus the optics in national security?
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Manny: Let's be honest.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: The Us. Government is never going to tell us the full truth on anything, and you know what
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Manny: I don't think we should all know the full truth on some things
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Manny: we we can't. We can't handle it.
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Jeezy: Yeah, we can.
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Manny: We cannot handle the truth.
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Jeezy: I agree.
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Manny: So it's probably it's probably best. But if you know, your public can't handle the truth.
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Manny: don't keep coming out and doing things that make us keep questioning it. Y'all got to keep it moving.
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Jeezy: That one person that's sitting there in the class that raise their hand say, that's not true.
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Jeezy: that's not true.
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Manny: Y'all keep giving time for people to argue with y'all. Yep, y'all should have said it and say, Oh, look okay. Any reporter asked the question, yeah, we're not talking about things in the past. We're looking on to the future. And right now the future is an Iran and Israel that is no longer at war with each other. You know we're working on the seat pivot, pivot.
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Jeezy: Put put your hat on that because of this.
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Manny: That would have been a hell of a thing to be hanging your hat on.
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Jeezy: Which I think that the Administration has been trying, that that was the path they were taking before they got hit with this curveball of the leak, because I think that's why they were so. So
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Jeezy: they were pushing us so forward and making this sound like a war, calling it the 12 Day war to try to have that that success of there was a war, and we ended it.
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Manny: Wasn't. Well, that is, I believe that is factual. There was, in fact, a war between 2 countries.
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Jeezy: I like my words to be a little longer than 12 days.
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Manny: Well, there have been 6 day wars like there. There have been other wars.
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Jeezy: A disagreement.
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Manny: That's fair, that's fair.
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Manny: But I'm like there was a there was an opportunity for the Administration to just take a win.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And keep it him, and he couldn't do it. Couldn't do it.
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Jeezy: Think they've gone so far as they're trying to like, find out where the who actually leaked and seek actual like. I think they say I heard something about the FBI getting involved, and to me that just seems like, if if it's I don't understand, if it if it's a lie, then why do you care if it's untrue?
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Jeezy: Why?
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Jeezy: Well, there is.
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Jeezy: Some people may say, well, it damages the credibility.
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Manny: It does, it does, and I think with every leak they try to find who leaked it.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: The energy they're putting into.
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Manny: It's a lot of energy.
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Jeezy: It's a lot of.
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Manny: It's a lot. It's a lot of public energy.
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Jeezy: Well, and then it made me think, too, you know, with the leaking of this classified assessment.
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Jeezy: do you think that leaking a classified assessment is ever justified when it comes to holding the government
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Jeezy: accountable, because essentially this is what this leak does. They said that it was obliterated, they said, came out Big bank tank and was saying that they did all these things, and this assessment was only leaked because the details that were given contradicted what the Administration was saying, so? Is it justified in holding them accountable?
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Jeezy: Because because if if it didn't happen, then ultimately
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Jeezy: you're lying to the American people.
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Manny: But we knew that like.
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Manny: And and that's where I think that is a completely fair question. But I think we knew that. You know, I think in every circumstance, I think, that one or 2 things are happening from the Us. Government.
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Manny: Either they're lying to us or they're not giving us the full truth.
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Jeezy: Bye.
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Manny: And yeah.
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Manny: it. It's rough like, because, yes, it holds them accountable for for lying to the American people. But what did what did we? What did you gain? What? What was gained from it? So it's for me. It's almost like you're you're wasting the media attention loosely
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Manny: on this like, yeah. These assessments were going to come out.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's true.
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Manny: They were going to come out. So I think it is different when you're leaking something, and there is some active situation you could step in and stop someone from doing an actual whistleblowing.
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Jeezy: But but.
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Manny: And I. I don't see this particular piece as a whistleblowing.
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Manny: I see this. They're like Teacher teacher. You forgot to give us homework like we like we knew, like we knew, or at least we weren't shocked. Well, I don't think a single person was just like, Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I can't believe like, because his supporters, who believe him 1,000%, they're gonna say.
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Jeezy: Garlic.
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Manny: Believe it, and then everyone else is but so like, what did we gain? What? What did we stop? What did we advance by doing it, and Senator Fetterman said it.
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Manny: You can't fight him at every front.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Because every you're for every one battle you win. You're going to lose 10.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And those 10 are gonna hurt more.
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Manny: And it's like we're burning through so much fodder
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Manny: on on some things, some other things that we probably need more attention on. And we're not going to get that attention on it, because we're still talking about these 10 other things.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: That have completely no impact to us.
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Jeezy: Well, or the person who leaked it is probably has the same type of personality that I have, because if you're wrong, I have no choice. But I can't sleep at night unless I tell you
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Jeezy: so. Maybe when Trump came out and said that without even having an assessment, because I don't want us to ignore that. Homie came out without any knowledge whatsoever.
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Manny: Right? Everyone.
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Jeezy: Woke up in the dead of night. It was like obliterated. Wait a minute.
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Manny: But I again we all knew that.
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Jeezy: And we and we.
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Manny: All knew it.
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Jeezy: But sometimes we've all been there where it's like I can't help it. Bro, I gotta say something
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Jeezy: in this.
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Jeezy: This leaker was like.
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Manny: And no way.
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Jeezy: But I.
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Manny: Today.
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Jeezy: I can't. I can't let us sit.
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Jeezy: Can't let it slide. That thing sitting over, man, and I got to say something, but you know I agree with you wholeheartedly, though, that you know, and Featherman is right, and that's something that you can't win in a battle with Trump, because one thing about it. I will say, trump, gonna fight his lie to the bitter end.
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Manny: He is gonna fight.
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Jeezy: You know, he going, and if they find out who this person is, you better be careful, because he he might be as good to send you up out of this country.
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Manny: You might as well self self, deport, modular.
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Manny: make your way onto the border.
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Jeezy: But you know, before we close this out I will say this, that if Pete Hegsif
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Jeezy: had used any more CGI and that bomb Demo.
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Manny: It had been produced by Michael Bay.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Jeezy: Marvel will be calling Homeboy! Hey, man!
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Jeezy: Hey! We.
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Manny: What are you thinking? What are you thinking about? Post? Post your time.
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Jeezy: This may not be your calling, but I feel.
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Manny: Have.
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Jeezy: Hey?
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Jeezy: You may have a calling in something else in this arena.
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Jeezy: but you know I will see what happens, because I think again I don't, even in the briefing that Congress has has received, there still hasn't been a complete breakdown
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Jeezy: of the assessment of what damage actually occurred from the strike. Correct.
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Manny: And I still don't. Yeah. And I still don't think that's going to happen, for I think it's going to take months.
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Jeezy: I was about to say, because if you're in a whole nother country, how in the world are you getting a full assessment? Within a week.
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Manny: Now we got assets.
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Jeezy: I mean we do.
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Manny: We we got assets. So I'm not doubting our ability to do it. It's just gonna it's gonna take a little bit
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Manny: like a little bit.
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Jeezy: And cause it's not like we set up tents outside of the facility.
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Jeezy: Well, like in day, in and day out, to.
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Manny: And here's the.
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Jeezy: Even on a day.
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Manny: Here's the thing. On Friday it was noted that they had seen activity at the forehand site, where it looks like they're starting to clean up.
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Jeezy: Their home is way back.
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Manny: Bro, they're like.
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Jeezy: On his way back to work, and I think one of the reporters as he accepted that, and he went off like.
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Manny: Bro.
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Jeezy: They're like Bro. We already seeing like they they should. They got a nice little long weekend.
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Manny: Extended vacation.
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Jeezy: And they back to work. So if you telling me
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Jeezy: that this happened, it don't look like it happened, because if that's the case, and you did all this this obliteration. You ain't got just some workers there sitting there cleaning up. There is no workers to clean up. We gonna have to regroup and revamp.
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Manny: And like, if I'm Israel.
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Manny: And I'm I'm big, Nettie, and I want that big Nettie. Energy after trump told me that they dropped bombs. Guess what I'm hitting that place at least 1015 other times, just
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Manny: just for unnecessary points.
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Jeezy: Just to be sure. Bro.
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Manny: Oh, you opened you opened the ground up a little bit. Let me
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Manny: here we go! Here we go.
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Jeezy: Well, I was about to say something.
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Jeezy: Got it?
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Manny: Was P. And I think that is the one piece that we are. We are slightly, you know, missing. They did get a peace deal.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: That that look kind of shaky, and we just didn't know.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: But yeah, well, I think we'll we'll hit that in our next our next segment. But yeah, I mean.
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Manny: we'll know in a couple weeks.
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Manny: what it, what it ultimately looks like. And you know what? Then? Where we go from? There? Yeah, yeah.
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Jeezy: The world like the like. The world may never know. Brother.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: We may we? Next week. We might not even hear any more about this, and it'll just fade in the dust. Bro.
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Manny: No, we'll be on to something else. Yeah.
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Jeezy: That'll be something else that'll take take the media's attention so but.
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Manny: And you know what that might be worth. A episode at at the end of the year.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Bro, end of the year. Recap.
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Manny: Here's a follow up on all of the stories that.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: That we just couldn't keep following, because the news cycle kept moving.
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Jeezy: Right at the end of the year. Bro. I don't know how in the world with as much that this administration has done. I don't know how in the world we can recap. It might be a 4 and a half hour. Episodes.
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Manny: So do you remember Bet used to do that? Notarize 100 on New Year's Eve, where it was just like, here are the top 100 videos.
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Manny: yeah, for sure.
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Manny: for whatever year it was. That's what it's gonna be. We're gonna have to drop it the entire. We're gonna have to come in, do a segment. Talk about the news of the day. Spend the next 30 min. Here's number 100 through 90.
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Jeezy: But do that for for weeks. Insane, bro insane. Bro.
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Jeezy: Well, that wasn't the only action that we got on this past week.
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Jeezy: Trump he was at NATO Bro. The NATO summit happened on the 24th and the 25th
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Jeezy: And broke.
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Manny: Right, and it got on, and popping almost immediately.
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Jeezy: Yo.
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Manny: Almost immediately.
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Jeezy: Who was it? The lady from the well, this was him. On his way we got a clip. Yeah.
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: This is the energy he had boarding on his way on his way to NATO.
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Manny: So we want to set it up. So this was after the peace deal had been set up. Yeah. And
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Manny: it was almost immediately that there were calls that hey? People were violating the the the peace Treaty and trump's walking to marine one, and had this to say about Iran and Israel
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Manny: Israel. As soon as we made the deal they came out, and they dropped a load of bombs. The likes of.
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Jeezy: I've never seen before the biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with this.
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Manny: You know, when I say, Okay, now you have 12 h. You don't go out in the 1st hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with that.
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Jeezy: I'm not happy with Iran either, but I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land that was shot, perhaps by mistake that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. We basically have 2 countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: The way he leaned into that joint.
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Manny: But he he was pissed.
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Jeezy: They were so pissed. Bro.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: But you know what? Here's the wild thing. After he did that they both were like, All right, all right. Y'all let's chill.
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Jeezy: President dropped an F-bomb and people listen, Bro.
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Manny: So here's the question I have. You know you. You asked me questions, Jeez. I got a question for you.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Does this make the F word a now corporately acceptable word?
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Manny: Just. I just need to know. I've heard it in corporate environments, and it's still taboo.
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Jeezy: It is, it is.
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Manny: Can I can I can. I just say that, can I just say.
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Jeezy: Going to say no.
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Manny: Dah.
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Jeezy: Because the President, this President.
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Manny: To say, noble.
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Jeezy: Should should not be setting the standard of what's acceptable and what's not acceptable.
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Jeezy: I'm gonna say that he was not in his official capacity because he did not have a tie on.
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Manny: That's fair. That's fair.
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Jeezy: You know. Can you hear me presently?
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Jeezy: Are you really President? If you got a time.
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Manny: I don't think so. I don't think so. That's fair. That's fair. That should be our.
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Jeezy: He said this in casual passing by asking a question, he gave his response in a casual manner. He was not in his official capacity as the President.
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Manny: That's fair. So from now on, if the President does not have a tie.
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Manny: is not in a in a a complete acting capacity. Bingo, President of the United States, so that.
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Jeezy: And also would like to add that I don't believe also that when he wears the hat
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Jeezy: in random moments, where he just wears these hats which I'm going to assume is because he's having a bad hair day. That is also not him in his official presidential. So.
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Manny: So if I I don't have a tie, not an official capacity.
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Jeezy: If you got a snap back on.
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Manny: If I got Snap back on.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: 9. So what happened? So what happens if he has a snapback and no tie?
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Jeezy: We shouldn't. We shouldn't trust anything that he's saying. Bro.
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Manny: That made sense.
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Jeezy: To come.
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Manny: Yeah, after he's.
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Jeezy: He is way we should treat it. How we treated Obama wearing that tan suit. That's what we should.
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Jeezy: What we should do when he got the hat and no tie, and he ain't playing golf.
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Manny: We should.
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Jeezy: Treated how the media treated Obama when he was at 10.
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Manny: So if trump is at a golf course.
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Jeezy: It is.
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Manny: Golf, polo, and khakis on with the hat on with the snap back on. Is he in official capacity.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: Okay. So anytime we see the hat. He is not in the official capacity.
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Jeezy: If he ain't got a towel.
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Manny: So what if he has a tie and the snapback.
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Jeezy: We should be cautious.
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: We should listen, but we should be cautious.
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Manny: Like as so asterisk.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are. Those are asterisk moments.
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Manny: Cliff notes, cliff notes. Okay, so.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: So that was when he was on his way to the the NATO summit. And then
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Manny: it it got a little bit more interesting, because he sat down with the
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Manny: with the NATO general, the NATO chief.
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Manny: for for a further conversation, and then we had this moment.
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Jeezy: Oh, Jesus.
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Jeezy: on the American President! They fight like hell. You can't stop them. Let them fight for about 2, 3 min, then it's easier to stop them. He called you Daddy earlier.
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Jeezy: Do you regard.
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Manny: Your.
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Jeezy: NATO allies as kind of children. No, he likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back, and I'll hit him hard. Okay, he did it very affectionately. Daddy, you're my daddy.
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Manny: Bro, yeah.
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Manny: First, st off.
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Jeezy: Rubio, Bro.
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Manny: Couldn't, couldn't keep himself together, man, but also, like
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Manny: you, you. You refer to that man as Daddy.
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Jeezy: Did. He said it just so casually. Bro. Not to.
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Manny: And like it was gleeful calling this man Daddy
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Manny: and Trump was about beside himself when he heard that.
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Jeezy: Oh, brother!
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: You know he loved flattery. Now you know he he heard that he was like oh, say it again! Take that! Take that.
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Manny: And like I feel for Rubio, because he was standing there, and he was like, what is happening here.
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Manny: I gotta think at least 3 times a day. Rubio looks up and he's like.
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Manny: how did he become President?
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Jeezy: But I imagine that Rubio has a moment like R. Kelly had, and.
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Manny: Cover closet no, or during same girl.
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Jeezy: No, I was going to say. I wish, when he had that breakdown.
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Manny: Mom, in heaven.
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Jeezy: And she said, Oh, Robert, mom, I'm trying.
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Manny: What is it? Probably.
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Jeezy: The man to gain the whole world and loses mom, I'm trying.
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Manny: I feel like that's Rubio Bruh at at all times, and.
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Jeezy: Like Bro. His moral compass has to be so janky.
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Manny: That is just like is is about as bad as a rolex with a with a bad battery in it. Bro, Bro, it's just terrible.
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Manny: So we get to the NATO summit, and the NATO summit was interesting.
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Manny: I'll say it is interesting.
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Manny: Because here's what I wasn't expecting. We all know how Trump has felt about NATO.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: And I think his official declaration
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Manny: is, he's like I stand with Article 5. If I didn't stand with it I wouldn't be here, and for for those of you who aren't aware. Article 5 of NATO is equal defense of everybody. So attack on one is an attack on all.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And he had always called that into a question.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And you know, Mark Root, the the Secretary General of NATO, said that President Trump brought clarity to a core principle.
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Manny: and I was like I. I didn't think that principle needed clarity, but apparently it did So
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Manny: I think it's good for NATO, like if I'm all the NATO allies. I'm feeling, you know, a little bit better. But the other big thing for the I think, for the Us. And and the biggest impact to NATO was that 5% pledge.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's why I was just about to say, yeah, that was a big win for trump. That was a big win for him. That trump got all 32 NATO members to agree to increase their defense, spending to 5% of Gdp by 2035. And I think that the breakdown of that is 3.5 of that is, on traditional military spending, and then the other. 1.5 is on cybersecurity, infrastructure and infrastructure and civil defense.
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Jeezy: And with this this more than doubles the longstanding 2%. I believe it was. That was NATO's goal, so that I know that we rag trump a lot, but that's a big win, because he has been very adamant about, hey? Y'all need to y'all need to step.
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Manny: Yeah, I need to step it up.
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Jeezy: Because y'all look at the Us. And if the Us. Got to step in, we doing our due diligence. But it seems to be that you guys aren't stepping up to the plate.
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Manny: This could account for somewhere between 400 to 600 billion dollars.
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Jeezy: Wow!
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Manny: New defense, spending globally
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Manny: by 2035 in 10 years, over half a half a trillion dollars in new spending.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And I and I gotta give. I gotta give trump kudos on this, because trump succeeded where previous Presidents failed in this.
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Jeezy: Yeah, he did.
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Jeezy: This this is undoubtedly, and I got to give it to trump. You know as much as I rag him. This is a win, both politically and diplomatically for trump.
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Jeezy: So with him, you know, and kind of going back to our past segment with ending the war, getting a peace deal with Iran now being able to go to NATO and getting them to agree all 32 to agree that it's 5%,
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Jeezy: hey, Bro.
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Manny: And he and he had everyone ha! Ha! And Key King with him, like, you know. There.
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Jeezy: I don't know if you saw that video that the lady from Netherlands copy him. Bro.
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Manny: Bro. Roasting him. You you know what there's got to be a NATO group chat.
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Jeezy: Has to be Bro.
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Manny: Where where they just be lighting into them. And if at least, you know, it's got France, Belgium, it's got a couple of the countries who real cool be like, yeah, they.
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Manny: But the all things considered, I think this was a great summit for trump, and there was another moment during this, and
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Manny: you know 1 1 of the groups of questions that trump got hit on is, Hey, we still have this war in Ukraine.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And
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Manny: what are we going to do here? And I want to say of this Presidency? So this round of presidency with trump, this is one of the most human moments I've seen from him in this moment. So I want to play the clip
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Manny: but he is. He's answering a question from a Ukrainian reporter. Okay, let's play the clip.
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Manny: White shirt. Oh, she's all excited. So
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Jeezy: BBC. News. Ukrainian, where are you from? I'm from Ukraine. So my question to you is whether or not the Us. Is ready to sell anti-air missile systems patriot to Ukraine. We know that Russia has been pounding Ukraine really heavily right now are you living yourself now in Ukraine? My husband is there?
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Jeezy: Wow! And I can see you're very, you know, it's amazing. And me with the kids, I mean also, actually, because he wanted me to, is your husband a soldier? No.
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Jeezy: he's he's there now. Yeah. Well, that's rough stuff, right?
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Jeezy: That's tough. And you're living here in Wausau, and you're a reporter.
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Jeezy: I am good. So let me just tell you, they do want to have the anti-missile missiles. Okay, as they call them the patriots.
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Jeezy: and we're going to see if we can make some available, you know, they're very hard to get. We need them, too. We were supplying them to Israel, and they're very effective. 100% effective, hard to believe how effective. And they do want that more than any other thing, as you probably know, that's a very good question. And I wish you a lot of luck. I mean, I can see it's
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Jeezy: very upsetting to you. So.
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Manny: Sir, that for for those of you
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Manny: who who follow it, please go find this clip, because I.
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Jeezy: Was a rare moment.
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Manny: It was a rare moment where he was like. Oh, because I think up to this moment he had only really talked about Ukraine with Zelensky.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Or like some of his entourage. So to see somebody who's actually been directly impacted by this asking him a question
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Manny: about these these systems. I think it's it. It was a very interesting moment that
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Manny: it I would say some of the most human I've seen trump in this administration towards this conflict.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I agree, I think, that he almost
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Jeezy: for what it's worth. And it's it's it's hard to say this, because the sensitivity
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Jeezy: and care of trump is not a it doesn't. It doesn't seem natural.
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Manny: It does not.
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Jeezy: So it almost, you know, when I look at this at A at a normal response, it didn't feel as
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Jeezy: caring, but for him, for him, super caring.
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Manny: Think that he handled it in the best trump way that trump could handle it, because I think that that I think he really was kind of caught off guard.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And luckily for that particular moment, he tapped into something I'm not going to say. His heart.
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Manny: But something in there.
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Jeezy: Or maybe it was like the grinch. At that moment his heart grew 3 times.
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Jeezy: Maybe he felt compassion for this woman, but that is certainly a rare occurrence that we have not seen from the President in previous times. I think, even in a matter of what some situations that happen with the assassination of those that happened in Minnesota school shootings. We don't see that soft touch that we saw trump display.
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Jeezy: I will give him kudos, and, like you said earlier. I think this whole trip this whole trip that he took to the
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Jeezy: NATO Summit.
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Jeezy: It was a win, and I think he handled it
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Jeezy: as best as he could, and I think he came out on top of it, even with the tension that happened with the 5% pledge from the 32 nations. There was one nation that tried to get bucks. Spain didn't.
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Manny: Spending.
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Jeezy: Trying to get.
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Manny: We'll do. 2, 1.
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Jeezy: Spain sitting there trying to Spain, sitting there trying to try to. We ain't gonna do 5. We might do 4, 2.
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Manny: Good.
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Jeezy: Trump doing what trump do, what he do.
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Manny: He's.
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Jeezy: Trade him.
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Manny: Okay. And I'm like.
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Jeezy: Why we there, why we here.
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Manny: While we're here.
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Jeezy: I ain't gonna say it. When I get back to Washington. I'm gonna say it in your I'ma say it in your face.
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Manny: I'll let. I'm gonna let you know.
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Jeezy: And we see what happened. Spain got it together.
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Manny: All things considered, this was a great week for Trump.
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Jeezy: I agree.
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Manny: Like the military campaign, went off without a hitch outside this whole obliterated thing. But you know they they got I, Iran and Israel, to a peace, to a peace, deal.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: It came out, I believe, while he was still at the summit, that Israel agreed to end the war in Gaza in 2 weeks. So that's wrapping up.
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Manny: And I'm like.
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Manny: you know, if he would have been able to somehow get a Ukrainian Russian deal peace deal, he would have pulled off the trifecta, and probably and would have arguably
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Manny: had one of the best Presidential weeks in history.
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Jeezy: I agree. I agree. I gotta give it to him. I gotta give it to him. But I am, which I hope those things happen. Let me let me say that I.
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Manny: 100% clear. Yeah.
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Jeezy: But I think that to his
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Jeezy: what may be a issue for him is once globally, things have calmed down
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Jeezy: the spot. Now you have, because right now you have about 5 spotlights going on.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: When you nail that down to one.
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Jeezy: And we've already seen the tension domestically, and then I know we'll talk about it a little bit later on, not in great detail. But we've seen some of the rulings that are going out this past week.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: Domestically. Is he more in a bind? Is he more in a pickle
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Jeezy: than where he has been globally.
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Manny: Well, that's not what we're talking about this week. There's been almost 0 0 media coverage.
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Manny: Dealing with the protests and the immigration efforts like.
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Jeezy: And real quiet.
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Manny: But after it, after everything else goes quiet. And yeah, all people have got okay. Was back here on the home front.
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Manny: you know, we we still got Kilmar Brigo, who who's still on his way to jail. They they released the other gentleman. Yeah. So
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Manny: 8.
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Manny: It'll be interesting to see how how long it remains quiet on the western front.
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Jeezy: Man, only only time will surely tell brother.
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Jeezy: So good win for trump, man.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Good for you, trump. I know we rag you a lot man with Du Bois just being fair man.
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Manny: We're just being fair. You you had a good week.
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Jeezy: We'll applaud you, and when you do bad we're going to rake them coals right up on you. So I hope you know.
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Manny: Great week man enjoy them. Enjoy because you don't get them very often.
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Jeezy: Man. Look! I wouldn't want your job, brother, because I'm sure that they don't. They come few and far between.
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Manny: But but before we go before we leave this.
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Manny: I want to know who in the White House
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Manny: thought it was going to be a good idea to take this video montage of Trump and put Usher's daddies home.
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Jeezy: Oh, God!
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Jeezy: I heard about that.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: I didn't even want to see it. Bro.
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Manny: Brother, the.
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Jeezy: I can't.
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Manny: It's.
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Jeezy: I can't let no man just sit there and degrade himself to to another man like that by calling.
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Manny: I I'm trying to think of the last time I referred to anybody as Daddy like. I never.
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Jeezy: I only call my own.
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Manny: My own dad like I didn't like.
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Manny: Maybe when.
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Jeezy: That is so.
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Manny: 4.
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Jeezy: My! My 5 year old calls me Daddy like that! That is the nature of how soft that that name is.
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Jeezy: My!
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Jeezy: My child has never called me Daddy.
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Jeezy: Right, Bruh! The nature of it is is, is so soft and gentle.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: A grown man shouldn't be calling another grown man dead.
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Manny: Daddy Nope bad, but.
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Jeezy: At any rate.
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Manny: Unless that is your cup of tea, and if that's your cup of tea, then that's your cup of tea. It's not my cup of tea, but if it's your cup of tea, it can be your cup of tea. I just think
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Manny: it's kind of weird
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Manny: for a man of which there appears to be no intimate relationship to call another man Daddy.
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Jeezy: Maybe he felt like it's June. I feel a little proud.
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Manny: Beautiful.
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Jeezy: Feel a little free.
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Jeezy: Let me call him Daddy.
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Jeezy: Me, we we hey? I believe he he's from. He's the Dutch Prime Minister, or something.
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Manny: Boy. You got to know his boys. Take him to the.
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Jeezy: I want to clarify.
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Manny: Polls.
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Jeezy: If you if you want. If you want to clarify, sir, you're more than welcome to do so. You can come on.
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Manny: Pod, because we got quite.
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Jeezy: You want to clarify the use of Daddy to this grown man
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Jeezy: you can come and clear, clear your name and clear the air
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Jeezy: here. Pardon the politics we'll we'll give you the.
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Manny: We'll give you the space.
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Jeezy: But be ready for us to rate them.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: Under you before you get off. Whatever you got to say.
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Manny: We? We gonna have those Kingsfords hot and ready.
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Jeezy: Like, really.
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Manny: Like a little Caesar pizza.
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Jeezy: Nice gray ash to him, with a flaming red ring around them.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: Well, at any rate, y'all, this is now our time to present to you, and you may have already said it seems like we got some pickles already in the brine, but we have our pickle
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Jeezy: the wheat.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: We got your pickup.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle
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Jeezy: all right. Y'all our pickle of the week. I'm gonna keep it simple.
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Manny: Who's in the brain.
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Jeezy: This pickle of the week goes to none other than our neighbors up North Canada.
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Jeezy: Canada's somehow
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Jeezy: managed to find themselves in a cross-border chess match with Donald Trump. After doing something that sounds like a rejected subplot of vape.
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Jeezy: They tax artificial intelligence, and you know, trump came back feeling greasy from NATO.
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Manny: I didn't have big win.
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Jeezy: He already done? Did the
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Jeezy: yeah. He already got the juice. He had no tie. He done dropped the F-bomb. He feeling good this week trump is the equivalent of a freshly sealed, coldly chilled bottle of Hennessy ready for a Friday night.
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Jeezy: And what did Canada do?
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Jeezy: They wanted to pull up and try.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: So what happened was in this move aimed at regulating taxes on Big Tech's role in AI development. The Canadian Government officially implemented what they call a digital services tax, which is a 3% levy targeting large tech companies generating revenue from online platforms, including AI tools and data monetization. And this came despite the opposition from the Us. Trump told them, like I like chill out.
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Manny: Jesus, don't try me!
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Jeezy: I mean. And really he just came because he previously warned that such attacks would be seen as discriminatory and aimed at American companies like Google.
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Jeezy: Amazon and Openai.
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Jeezy: Well, that that is 100% who this is aimed at. Exactly
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Jeezy: so, of course, you know, trump feeling greasy, coming back feeling good, he responded immediately. Now, at the time of this recording
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Jeezy: trump in classic fashion, did not hold back. Just hours after the announcement he had initiated. Guess what a retaliatory tariff package.
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Manny: Clap back.
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Manny: I gotta think that somewhere in the in the oval office there's a button
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Manny: when someone does something that he hits his butt and jaw rolls, clap back, starts playing.
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Jeezy: Right. He keep them tariffs in his pocket, boy, like Bro. He walk around with a big joker, so he sent another tariff package targeting Canadian exports, and the big hit was 10% tariff on Canadian aluminum
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Jeezy: maple syrup.
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Manny: Not the maple.
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Jeezy: And oddly specific tech equipment with embedded AI chips.
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Manny: Hmm, hmm.
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Jeezy: So now, while I want to say this, that
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Jeezy: Canada is in a pickle because they isolated themselves in this approach, the Uk and the EU have been considering a similar tax, but they hadn't pulled the trigger yet.
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Jeezy: I guess Canada decided to be Big Tank, little Tank.
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Jeezy: Well, he.
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Manny: Here's going to be. The the real interesting part about this is, how do they classify AI Chips.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Because that could end up being a very, very broad.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: This get this get really get really sticky
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Manny: because they could be taxing all microchips that are hitting their good luck. Canada.
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Jeezy: I wouldn't have been the one to pull the trigger on this.
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Manny: Be media.
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Jeezy: Just a couple of weeks ago, even though he left early, he was at a summit and was speaking to Canada, and it seemed like they were on good terms, that everybody was going to be playing fair and then. Now Canada wanted to go do this. So it's like.
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Manny: Why, y'all had to poke the bear.
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Jeezy: Bro. He just had a good.
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Manny: Had a good week.
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Jeezy: If you're gonna poke trump, poke him when he having a bad week.
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Jeezy: Good week, he really he really don't care.
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Manny: Like that would have been the time to try to swing a deal like, yeah, let's keep the good times rolling. Let's get a deal done, you can announce it like.
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Manny: So with this move by Canada. Was this a bold move, or was this just bad timing? As I said before, there are other countries that have been thinking about this, but also it made me think of, should countries be allowed to tax AI when it uses content from their citizens, because I think that that really becomes.
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Jeezy: Become sticky man.
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Manny: Well. And here here's the issue with AI and training AI in general is what data are.
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Jeezy: people training them off of. And who owns that data? There have already been issues with like the new York times and other big news outlets.
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Manny: Essentially alluding that AI models have been trained off of their data illegally or without their access and permission. So this is going to be a constant problem. And how we end up defining AI is going to be very key moving forward, especially when we talk about things like.
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Jeezy: Digital service, tax, yeah.
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Manny: Because AI chips like, Okay, are we?
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Manny: Are you talking about chips in which a AI service can be run off of.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Because that could be pretty much every electronic made since 2016.
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Jeezy: Bingo!
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: So Canada was the 1st to pull the trigger, and Trump responded.
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Jeezy: let's see, but Canada, I probably would have been the 1st one to pull this trigger after Big Donnie had a good week, so.
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Manny: You had a good week, man.
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Jeezy: And for you, thinking that you could do this, you in a pickle.
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Manny: You, and a pickle.
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Jeezy: Big. Don said, don't try me. Try, Jesus, but don't try me.
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Manny: Don't try me because I throw tariffs.
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Jeezy: Because I throw tariffs and curse words.
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Jeezy: So Canada that is, who is our pickle of the week. So we have reached the end of our episode, and as always, we like to give you our spotlights of the week. So, my brother Manny, what is your spotlight of the week?
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Manny: Well, on June 27th the Supreme Court say, Hey, we wrapping this up? We'll see y'all in the fall. But before we go we got some cases we want to drop some knowledge on. And I'm gonna hit a couple of these really, just really fast. These are all deserving their own discussions, and if we find some time we'll do our own discussions on these. But
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Manny: you had the Lgbtq school materials opt out that that passed with a 6, 3 majority that enables parents to opt out of their children. Getting school materials, featuring Lgbtq themes without prior notice.
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Manny: So it's going to get real complicated with that notice. Part you had the free speech coalition versus Paxton, which is, which was essentially the Texas Porn Age verification law
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Manny: that was uphold 6 through 6, 3, ruling the Texas law, requiring porn sites to verifies
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Manny: they, they can continue to force sites to verify users, ages
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Manny: that so that came through. You have Kennedy and Braidward management. That was the health appointment clause. Essentially the Us. Preventative services task force members are inferior officers whose appointments align with the Constitution, so that kept that in play.
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Manny: But the big one I want to talk. So there was also the one around gerrymandering. They said, hey?
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Manny: We're not going to talk about this right now. That's a that's a fault. We'll we'll see y'all during Nfl Kickoff.
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Manny: But the big one
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Manny: and a question I have for you, Jeez, have. Are you familiar with the hunger, hunger, games.
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Jeezy: A little bit, brother, a little bit.
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Jeezy: Well, I I would like to announce that we finally have our announcements of our new districts.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Manny: So in the trump versus Casa, inc.
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Manny: In a. 6, 3, ruling this ruling essentially limited limit.
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Manny: it limited lower courts abilities to issue universal injunctions to block Federal policies nationwide.
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Manny: So basically, if you sued and sued in the a federal policy in the right district court and some courts, some districts are easier to pass than others.
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Manny: they could issue an injunction on the federal policy nationwide.
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Manny: This now says that you cannot do that, that. It's limited to where it was filed, so shout out to all the lawyers who are getting ready to be making money because of all these, if you are not aware. In the Us. There are 11 districts.
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Manny: and I'm gonna talk about a couple ones. Since we are now split into our hunger games districts. If you're with us in North Carolina, joining us in district, I believe we are district.
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Manny: Sorry I'm looking at the 10. I'm gonna I think it were 10.
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Manny: Let me find a
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Manny: or we're 4 either way. We so it is North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. I like our odds in the hunger games. Oh, yeah, I like our odds.
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Manny: Florida, Georgia, and Alabama that's going to be. That's a strong district in the Hunger Games. So we had to watch out for them, and then also Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Jeezy: Also a strong district for the hunger games.
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Manny: So yeah, so now it only applies to the district level. And that is going to be interesting when we see various laws being challenged federally, and we'll see what happens when it comes down to birthright citizenship, because I know this is what they were looking at
806
Manny: really doing for birthright citizenships citizenship. But there is a very interesting line in this, and I want to read the line.
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Manny: The line says.
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Manny: no one disputes, and this is from the the ruling in this trump via Casa, ruling. No one disputes that the Executive, that the Executive has a duty to follow the law, the Executive being the executive branch.
809
Manny: but the judiciary does not have unobridged authority to enforce this obligation. In fact, sometimes the law prohibits the judiciary from doing so.
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Manny: I'm sorry what.
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Jeezy: So did the judiciary system just become the assistant store manager.
812
Manny: Pretty much pretty much like. Wait, Judici, you are there as a check on both branches.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Exactly. So. You're saying that in some cases you just can't, or you won't, to try to run from some of these.
815
Jeezy: No.
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Manny: This is problematic.
817
Jeezy: But that's very problematic.
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Manny: It's problematic.
819
Jeezy: I don't like. I don't like.
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Manny: Yeah. Now, proponents of this specific ruling as a whole, heralded as a guardrail against judicial overreach
821
Manny: critics. And I'm going to agree with this, it says, it risks inconsistent application of constitutional rights across jurisdictions, so we can hold up a a ruling in one district, and it still be completely at play in another district and on the other side of the nation.
822
Manny: I think that's problematic and.
823
Jeezy: And we're.
824
Manny: See how this plays out. But yeah, over the next couple days more information will be coming out about these rulings.
825
Manny: and we will see all the interesting nuggets that are listed in all of these cases. Opinions. So that is my spotlight of the week.
826
Manny: What you got for us.
827
Jeezy: All right, brother. Well, there was a showdown that happened this past week.
828
Jeezy: In a stunning upset 33 year old Democratic Socialist.
829
Jeezy: I'm gonna mess his name up his 1st name. But I'm gonna try.
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Jeezy: Zaran, Madonna Maddonna.
831
Manny: Madonna.
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Jeezy: Defeated former Governor, Andrew Cuomo, which Brokeneck to him, he get the bro neck of the weed. He thought he was that same redemption tool like trump. Had he thought he could run it back, and it'd be all gravy. He didn't.
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Manny: He said the South remembers.
834
Jeezy: They definitely remember but he won in
835
Jeezy: in the election that happened over this past week, and it's becoming called one of the most symbolic political rejections of the party's establishment in years, and it might just become the playbook that Democrats may be heading into in 2026, 2028. So the spotlight for me
836
Jeezy: is is this, in fact, going to be a sign of the blueprint that Democrats may be using going ahead in our midterm elections and our next Presidential election. Now, I wouldn't like to note that he is the first.st He's a 1st generation Ugandan and Indian, American, and one of the few Muslim elected officials
837
Jeezy: in New York, and his campaign focused on Housing Justice, universal childcare, fair, free transit, and confronting the politics that were behind.
838
Jeezy: gingrifying, if you will, and he was backed by Aoc, and we talked about in previous episodes how Aoc has been positioning herself, and where she may be a very pivotal piece going forward for the Democratic party, and what their new look may be going forward. But in his win
839
Jeezy: he had a very digital 1st campaign where he used Tiktok Instagram reels, and he really focused on the youth, and he leaned heavily into his authenticity, his humor and just emotional storytelling, and he did a lot of grassroots fundraising. 94% of his donations were under $100, and he match was matched by the New York's public campaign finance system, where he made big money irrelevant in that way.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And his turnout was amazing. He mobilized Muslims, South Asians, Gen. Z. And young progressive voters in both Queens and New York, and this model which is being called the Madonna model, is looking to be considered by some as what the approach of the Democrats need to be. A video that I watched, and I wish I had the clip that I could have played.
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Jeezy: But what they were saying. What this gentleman was saying is that the problem that the Democratic party is not doing is that they have superstars on their team, and instead of elevating their superstars, they choose to put in 70 year old white men, and the reference that he gave was that if on a basketball team, if you had a star player, you don't sit them on the bench you give your star player the hot you give him the ball. You enable that player to go forward, and oftentimes what this gentleman was saying is that the Democratic party likes to silence the young.
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Jeezy: strong, progressive, or just, powerful movement that some of these younger individuals may have just to continue to press forward individuals that just look like the standard, the status quo.
844
Jeezy: But in this approach there has been limits to this.
845
Jeezy: Most people think that the party elites are nervous about this. There are too many Mcdonald style candidates that can run and win primaries, and it could fracture the party just as it preps for trump for 2028. They think that this model just doesn't work. There is not enough confidence. So the reason why I make this a spotlight is because I think that we should look at what this individual has been able to accomplish in this local upset, but also.
846
Jeezy: what direction will the Democratic party go in, because right now, as we have talked about in previous episode, they need to rebrand. And right now the Rebrand looks to be exactly what it's been before, and there seems to be even more division that's going on than the Democratic party. But you have a young guy here, and he's backed by Aoc that has been able to make a splash in something that in an area and arena that he was not expected to do
847
Jeezy: so.
848
Jeezy: Democrats, what are you going to do? What is going to be your approach? How are you going to handle 2026. How are you going to handle 2028, because I can tell you this, if you wait till the last minute you're going to be in a pickle, you're going to be in a bind.
849
Manny: So here's my thought.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Primaries are great.
852
Jeezy: They are.
853
Manny: But primary is always on both sides, run to the extreme.
854
Jeezy: I'll greet.
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Manny: So there's a difference between winning a primary and winning a general election.
856
Jeezy: I completely agree what this gentleman was able to do in queens ain't gonna work in Kansas.
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Manny: It's not it. What it what he did in queens ain't gonna work in North Carolina.
858
Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So yeah, you might be able to unseat, you know, and it's on both sides. You may be able to unseat some incumbents
860
Manny: in a primary but or some establishment people in a primary. But can that person go on to win a general election where you have to moderate?
861
Manny: Yeah. And that will be the biggest test. Now he is running against Eric Adam. Up Adams.
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Jeezy: Bruh, and I'm ready. I'm ready for that. Bro.
863
Manny: Right that that man dropped an entire video of Get ready with me. And that man did not do a single thing
864
Manny: on his way to handle business, and did not do a single thing.
865
Jeezy: Single thing.
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Manny: So.
867
Jeezy: And he's even been attacking him already. Now that he's won. He didn't waste any time, because.
868
Manny: Yeah.
869
Jeezy: Like, you know, I still ride the public transit like I still am with my people. He says this man, Eric Adams. He gets ferried into town like he ain't even amongst the people. So how can he do anything to enhance the lives of the of the people that he does? He distance himself from, and I was like
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Jeezy: duly not a young man duly noted.
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Manny: Here's what I will also say.
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Manny: Eric Adams is the mayor of New York City.
873
Jeezy: The corrupt mayor in New York City.
874
Manny: But still the mayor of New York City like I wouldn't expect the Mayor of New York City to be able to just casually
875
Manny: take the subway here and there, like so.
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Jeezy: Some things never rode on public transportation.
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Manny: Never.
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Jeezy: Not in Hill's kitchen. He didn't.
879
Manny: Nope, so
880
Manny: it it will be interesting. Can they knock off party establishments? Yes, and I think in some of these States
881
Manny: they will.
882
Manny: But what's your plan for North Carolina?
883
Manny: What's your plan for Pennsylvania?
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Jeezy: Which are being.
885
Manny: Plan for Wisconsin, Ohio, you know, Michigan. What is your plan? Because one of the biggest concerns?
886
Manny: If you run too far to the left.
887
Jeezy: Your loose wing states.
888
Manny: You're gonna lose them.
889
Jeezy: Yep.
890
Manny: So what's the plan?
891
Manny: And trump being on a ballot or the the classic
892
Manny: the next? The next Republican is the next big bad threat.
893
Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: You know I know trump was bad, but let me tell you by, you know Jd. Vance is worse than trump.
895
Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: That only works for so long. Like, I think that's not going to work anymore. Now, I've been wrong about a lot of things, and I'll probably be wrong about this. But eventually that runs out where you're like. You know what.
897
Jeezy: It's not going to get worse than this can't get worse than this. So
898
Jeezy: I think we should. But I think that is noted that while I don't think the Democratic party will necessarily adopt a blueprint like this blue blueprint like this.
899
Jeezy: because they're just too scared of what it means, and how it will look on the national stage. I don't think it should go unnoticed that
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Jeezy: in these areas we're seeing this push of progressives, this push of Gen. Z. And those that are not fitting of the status quo being able to have success, and while this may not trickle into the national blueprint for the Democratic party. It could benefit them in other places if they're.
901
Manny: Oh, absolutely!
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Jeezy: To get the White House again.
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Manny: Because it also sounds like one thing that he did well is just know who the voter who were the underrepresented voters and get them out. And it's amazing if you.
904
Jeezy: Out of trump.
905
Manny: That's not even a playbook out of anyone that's just raw data like, Hmm, I know this group of people doesn't work, does it? Not. I know this group of people doesn't come out to vote.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I'm going to try to get them all to come out. And if I can get a 50% uptake of this particular classification of voters. I can overcome this number. This is about knowing your vote, count. This is knowing how many votes you need
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Manny: to win an election, and I'm being able to identify where they are. So I know where to go. Spend my time. I need. I know where to go, shake hands. I know where to go kiss babies like this is just knowing your voter data. You can't just depend on the party. I don't to swoop down and help guide you through the election.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So it'll be interesting. At least they're trying something.
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Jeezy: Doing something. Bro. So you know, shout out to this young man and his success, and we look forward to covering the showdown between you and Eric Adams. That will take place. I hope that it's exciting, as I hope and anticipate it to be, because we all know that Adams is not going to go down without a fight, and this young man seems to be packing a punch for himself as well, too. So with that being said, that is my spotlight. So anything else, brother.
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Manny: I do want to do. I do want to do a quick clarification. North Carolina. Our district for the hungry amps is the 4th circuit. Sorry we try to make sure that we have completely factual data. We are the 4th circuit.
913
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Manny: Okay. Now I'm done.
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Jeezy: All right.
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Jeezy: If all hearts and minds clear. That is our episode, we appreciate you tuning in. We hope this episode finds you in good spirits as always like we say here at the pod, if don't nobody else love. You just know, please, that the boys here at the part in the politics we love.
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Manny: We love y'all.
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Jeezy: We appreciate you, and we thank you for tuning in, and we will see you at the next episode. Take care.
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Manny: Take care! Y'all.