The Big Beautiful Disaster: How Congress Burned the BBQ

This week, Jeezy and Manny bring you fireworks, floods, and fiscal fiascos. From the hilarity of North Carolina’s July 4th “budget” fireworks battles to Texas’ tragic floods, they tackle how politics continues to fail real people. They break down the “big, beautiful bill” that gutted safety nets, funded a wall, and left millions at risk—all while politicians literally celebrated with butt-grabs. Plus: Tom Tillis pulls a John McCain-style stand, Hakeem Jeffries tries to “perform petty,” and Mark Robinson still can’t catch a break. We also ask: who wins — Joey Chestnut or Usain Bolt in a hot dog dash? And what’s with Texas weather and weather balloon budget cuts? Tune in for laughs, insight, and a healthy dose of political side-eye.

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Jeezy: I'm just a bill one big, beautiful bill, and I'm getting fat on Capitol Hill. I'm just a couple 1,000 pages that nobody will read, filled with special interest in corporate greed. So of course, I'm gonna be alone. Some people say I'm bad for the poor. But how could that be true. I'm so cute.
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Jeezy: you know.
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Manny: Bruh Tiktok.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock man. So many creative people in the world.
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Jeezy: So so many shout out to this gentleman on Tiktok, name Brandon Manuel, for this excellent rendition. That is a great reminder of of our childhood growing up with Schoolhouse Rock so
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Jeezy: welcome and Hello, world! It's a season, 2. Episode 27 of part in the politics. I am your host, your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner and politics. Manny, my brother, on this fine day, how are you doing.
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Manny: Man, I'm doing good I got all of my my fingers still.
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Manny: July 4.th put it in a reverse tier date. Bro.
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Manny: Taxpayer, taxpayer, appreciation day.
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Manny: But I was hot man. So just quick story for you all and our listeners. I'm doing doing fireworks for my daughter. My daughter is old enough to like, be able to see and enjoy fireworks. I'm like, Yeah, this can be the closest she's going to do to fireworks, and I'm doing great.
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Manny: I done got like the best North Carolina fireworks that I can get.
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Jeezy: Which ain't saying much.
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Manny: And there we go. So like the neighbors are outside, they're bringing their kids. I'm feeling like a phantom.
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Manny: I'm doing it. I'm sudden. I'm now that dad in the community that's doing the fireworks
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Manny: until a phantom pulled up
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Manny: so directly across, not directly from across across from the neighborhood. But we have a clear eyesight to it.
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Manny: Somebody had gone to South Carolina.
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Jeezy: Bruh see? It's always that one Bruh.
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Manny: And I'm just like.
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Jeezy: Mnuggling them fireworks over state lines.
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Manny: And I'm just like.
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Jeezy: Then then my daughter looks like looks at me. She's like Dad. Can you do? Do one of those?
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Manny: If I got like one. I got one little rocket right.
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Jeezy: I want to.
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Manny: I send that up, and it does absolutely nothing.
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Manny: My wife's looking at me, and I'm just like, All right. Fireworks are done y'all.
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Manny: and one of the other neighbors was like, You're doing, good man. You were doing good. I'm just like you. You can't beat that. I'm like.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah. Brett.
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Manny: Okay, but there was enough of us in the neighborhood that all looked at each other and said, Oh, oh, so this is what we're going to do out here, Bet. So.
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Manny: All right.
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Jeezy: It's always that one that goes to South Carolina Bro. And get the get the get. The ones that we aren't so privy to have here in North Carolina, and maybe that's something that if you're listening and you're part of any regulation that we have in North Carolina, I think it's time for us to be able to step it up.
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Manny: We're losing a lot of tax money just going right over the border to South Carolina.
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Jeezy: Me. Really, I'm just saying
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Jeezy: it's not that. It's not that bad of a drive. Actually, if you really want.
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Jeezy: I mean, I think something needs to be done. I did a little bit of fireworks for my for my baby girl.
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Jeezy: But I didn't have the same setup as you. My area is a little more secluded, so I didn't have anybody to compete with. But I want, I do want to say. The highlight of my 4th of July was when I went out.
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Jeezy: My neighbor is about 2 doors down. Seen a whole lot of cars, man, and it was like, actually it was 3 doors down. I'm like, man. This looks like it's about 40 cars out there, man.
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Manny: Oh, man!
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Jeezy: And expanded over like 3 yards like it was like 3.
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Manny: Oh, wow!
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Jeezy: Like a whole event, and as I drove by I saw on the porch that they had balloons that spelled out Happy Juneteenth.
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Jeezy: So these people of African American descent celebrated the 4th by having a full blown
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Jeezy: Juneteenth celebration, with about 4 40 cars out there, and and then the kicker that got me even more tickled about it was that when I went out the next day
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Jeezy: the 40 cars are back, but like they had a whole weekend celebration.
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Manny: I thought I told you that we won't stop.
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Jeezy: We ain't celebrating America's freedom, but we will celebrate our freedom. I was just tickled because they were having a good old time. I've seen 4 Wheelers fireworks, I mean, it was crazy.
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Jeezy: So that kind of had me tickled, as my experience for the 4th of July, seeing our people out there doing their thing, and we don't miss a moment for a good cookout, so that.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: Entertaining that was entertaining, for sure.
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Manny: Oh, man!
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Manny: Well, here we are!
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Jeezy: To our listeners. Thank you for tuning in. Welcome back Hope hopefully. Your 4th is, it was just as entertaining, or you enjoyed it. And hopefully, this episode finds you with all your fingers still intact. So
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Jeezy: I believe that there was one individual, a social media influencer by the name of 4 extra. He lost his his little Riblets this past holiday, and it was funny because he showed the fireworks that he was using, and everybody pointed out, and I'm not making light of his situation, but but in hindsight. They were telling him in the comment section that when he showed his fireworks none of them had labels.
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Manny: Oh, brother, no brother, no.
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Jeezy: Pointed out that he potentially might have had a mic.
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Manny: Brother, no no man, no.
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Jeezy: But I went back and looked at the video. They want a single label, and these did not look like regular fireworks.
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Manny: No, he just had a cardboard tube.
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Jeezy: But I think somebody sold him something off the Black Market, and he thought that he had fireworks, but he lost. I believe they said he lost his entire hand.
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Jeezy: yeah, bro, so firework safety.
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Jeezy: As Jason Pierre Paul became an advocate, for that was a former Nfl linebacker. It's very critical, very important.
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Manny: Very important.
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Jeezy: If you are not well, knowledge in how to safely participate in fireworks, I would advise you not to. So hopefully. This episode finds our listeners with all their fingers still intact, and, as you all know.
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Jeezy: while fireworks were going on in America, there was nothing short of fireworks in our political landscape that we obviously have to come and dissect on today. So.
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Manny: The Bbb, man, the Bbb.
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Jeezy: The Bbb. Took a took us on a wild ride.
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Jeezy: this week this past week. Excuse me.
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Manny: And someone hit hit me up and they're like, why didn't y'all talk about it coming up? I'm be real because I didn't think it was actually going to get done by the 4.th I thought we were going to have a little bit more time.
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Jeezy: But also too.
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Manny: But like a lot of things you find out in this pod, we're wrong.
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Manny: We we did not have more time. They they actually got it done.
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Jeezy: But I I for one, I'm shocked that they got it done. I I am shocked that they got it done. I thought that
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Jeezy: I thought that it was going to take a little bit more time.
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Jeezy: I certainly would have hoped to have seen
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Jeezy: some more debate on it.
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Jeezy: that we did not get well.
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Manny: And it. And it's interesting, because, starting the house, you had all that initial debate.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: It took a while going through the Senate before they got to it, and I think that maybe that's where we we should we should start, is it?
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Manny: It hit the Senate? They started debate on it, and
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Manny: no less than probably a couple minutes after we've we finished recording, we got those initial reports that Tom Tillis was stepping down.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
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Manny: And I think that started that started off. And I was like, -oh! Here we go.
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Manny: And 1st off I'm gonna talk about Tom Tillis. For a little bit. I appreciate him.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I think it's a little. I think this is a little bit too late.
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Manny: But you know who's it, brother King? That said now is the always now is always the right time to to do what's right or what whatever he said. So that man put out a note saying, Hey, y'all, I'm done with this.
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Manny: because they were coming hot for him, and if you had listened to one of our previous episodes back as soon as this happened. I labeled Tom Tillis as one of the senators, that we were going to have to watch through this for this 1st 2 years, because he was going to end up being a swing voter.
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Manny: And that that's what we saw.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And I think that when I looked at Tiller's
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Jeezy: because I remember someone called me. And you know we're talking about the you know the Republicans and how they voted in the in the Senate for the bill. And I was like, Wait a minute, you you gotta you gotta put a little bit. Give a little bit of respect for Tillis, and not just Tillis, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul as well, too.
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Manny: Brother ran.
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Jeezy: Bro. Bruh bro.
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Manny: Bryant.
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Jeezy: The ring.
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Manny: Standing on, standing on business.
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Jeezy: Good on business man.
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Jeezy: I had to
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Jeezy: appreciate what they did by not falling in line because there were a couple of Republicans that were
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Jeezy: on the No, and we see that a couple of them, you know, they they crack. They folded and got in line, but I appreciate it till the stance and I listened to some of the things that he said on the floor when addressing the bill, and how it would affect
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Jeezy: the American people, and though I may not have all, I have always agreed with
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Jeezy: his position on certain things
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Jeezy: I did appreciate for once seeing, and I think we've talked about it before seeing, instead of this bending of the knee approach that so many people do to Donald Trump, seeing people actually stand
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Jeezy: for what they believe in, and and having principle and choosing principle over party, and I really appreciate it.
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Jeezy: Tom Tillis doing this, it made me kind of think of
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Jeezy: what we saw with John Mccain.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Years ago, the infamous thumb down.
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Jeezy: Not falling in line, and he got a lot of heat.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: For what he did, and not falling in line with his party. But that was a moment again of someone choosing Principal over over the party, and I very much appreciated Susan Collins, Brother Rand, and even Tom Tillis on his way eventually out the door that he took this step. But it scares me, and we'll talk about this, I'm sure, in another episode, because who's going to fill that vacancy once Tom Tillis's time is done?
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Manny: We, we definitely will get into that piece. But I can say for the pod
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Manny: that there is one person who will not be filled in a seat.
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Manny: Oh, Bruh! That is.
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Jeezy: Mark Robinson.
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Jeezy: Yeah, he! He! If he thank you
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Jeezy: about it, Mark, just sit down. Sit this one out, Buddy.
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Manny: Well in the in the funny part was after, after all this started happening.
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Manny: Tillis came out online and said, Yeah, looking forward to support Yada Yada Yada. But stay away from Mini soldier, and that tickled me
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Manny: right?
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Manny: Cause? Yeah, I think a list of people who dislike Mark Robinson. Number one on that list is probably me. I'm up there.
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Jeezy: For sure.
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Manny: I hate him. Oh, for sure! But number 2 is Tom Tillis.
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Jeezy: Yeah, Tom ain't fooling with Mark Bro.
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Manny: So. But that's a that's another episode for another day. The the person I want to circle back to is Lisa Robbie Flip flopping Murkowski
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Manny: Bruh. She pissed me off Bro.
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Manny: and I don't get it like to be
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Manny: so. She came out with issues with Medicare and the cut.
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Jeezy: It's true.
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Manny: The social safety net programs. And I was like, and I and I told jeez in the chat, I was like.
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Manny: we're good like this. There's no way she's not going to flip over. Then I saw that Senate leaders had gone ahead and made changes. Okay, we're cutting every place else but Alaska, I was like, Oh, okay. So she's back on. And then, when the Parliamentarians said, Hey, y'all can't do that. Instruct.
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Jeezy: That you can do that is wild. Bro.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: If we can get your vote we'll just make sure this don't affect anybody else.
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Manny: A wise politician, Jason, saying, here in North Carolina, once told me, all things are possible through Jesus Christ.
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Jeezy: And rob.
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Manny: It's rules of order.
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Jeezy: I like that.
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Manny: And this was not possible. This was so for her to be no.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And then the switch paper like, Okay, yo, we got to do something, but then to still vote for it.
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Manny: I'm like, girl, what? What? And then her comments immediately after to be like.
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Manny: Hey, I hope the house sends it back so we can keep working on it.
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Jeezy: Well, you, why do you vote for it?
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Jeezy: If you want to keep voting on working on it, then you could have voted no.
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Jeezy: brother. That's how I know that in the political arena for me, and I'm speaking only for me.
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Manny: I don't see myself any further than being a co-host on this podcast.
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Jeezy: Because I can't. There's no way I could be in Washington with people that think like that. That made absolutely no sense if you oppose it. Now
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Jeezy: then, why are you voting? Yes, and then saying, Well, I hope you send it back to me.
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Jeezy: Vote. No, now.
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Jeezy: no, now that to me was so stupid now, which everybody knows. The bill has been passed in the House. So it's not coming back to the Senate like you. That was the most idiotic thing.
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Jeezy: I will not the most.
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Manny: It's up there. It's on it made.
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Jeezy: It's on that list. It's on the list of some of the most idiotic things I've heard a politician say. And you know
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Jeezy: so so just just for for just to kind of to break this down.
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Jeezy: When it went to the Senate it did pass, it went, and I think they made some revisions right.
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Manny: 45 different amendments to make changes, and we'll hit on a couple of them. But there were 45 different changes that the house made.
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Jeezy: And ultimately Jd. Had to come in and break.
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Manny: Break the tie.
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Jeezy: Jd. Had to come in and cast his tie, breaking vote, which then sent it back to the House. And when this happened I thought, okay, well.
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Jeezy: that we're going to have a little bit more of a squabble in in the house.
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Manny: And and just so, everyone's aware. So because of how they they did this bill. Yeah, both Chambers have to pass the exact same bill.
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Manny: So
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Manny: the House would not have had to do this vote that they did if the Senate didn't make any changes. Yeah, because the Senate made changes now the House had to vote on it because the House made no changes, so they had to approve the exact same same legislation.
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Manny: I just was shocked, especially when you saw you know the the
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Manny: Taylor Greene. Marjorie? Yeah, there we go. Say, like, Hey, I'm against, like so many people in the in the week leading up to it was just like, Oh, no, no, no, I didn't read this. No, we can't be adding this much to the deficit to just come back and ultimately fold.
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Manny: And then I guys, we got smoke. I gotta smoke for a lot of people here.
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Manny: because then when it got to the house, your boy Hakeem Jeffries.
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Jeezy: Brett.
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Manny: Are so annoying, so annoying, so annoying.
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Jeezy: Yeah, cause I know we've talked about it
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Jeezy: with the performatives of the Democrat.
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Jeezy: This is what I heard.
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Jeezy: I heard that the objective partially was to give people time, the American people time
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Jeezy: to call and flood the phone lines of their representatives, to voice their concern
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Jeezy: of how they oppose the bill.
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Jeezy: That's what I heard, and that sounds cute.
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Jeezy: But I think at this point they're not listening to them phone calls, anyway.
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Manny: Listen to the phone.
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Jeezy: Stay in there.
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Manny: It's a holiday weekend. I'm trying to figure out what I'm throwing on this grill. I'm trying to figure out my route of 4th of July plans. Who's going to make the best, Mac and cheese? So I got to go to their house. Who's doing the ribs? Who's
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Manny: people? Ain't people ain't going to call in a greater portion of the American people had had already, after it got through. The Senate had already decided that they this was what this is, what it was going to be.
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Manny: My issue with. Hakeem
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Manny: and I have 2 issues with the Dems. Here's my 1st one, and talk about you, brother Jeffries.
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Jeezy: Did you know he was a capital.
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Manny: You know what I've learned a whole lot about this situation from that one fact I've.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: You know what a lot a lot just.
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Jeezy: It makes sense.
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Manny: It makes sense now.
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Manny: But, hakeem, if you're going to be petty.
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Manny: Let's be petty.
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Manny: So if I'm in Hakeem's, see.
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Manny: I'm going up there. Oh, oh, trump wants to! This is going to pass. I think he knows at this moment it's going to pass. Oh, yeah. Oh, trump wants to be able to sign this on July 4, th you know, when I'm going to be done talking about this. Fill this bill.
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Manny: July 5, th at 12 0. 1 a. M.
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Manny: I'm about to be up here in a minute.
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Manny: Bring me. Bring me a phone book.
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Jeezy: Breath.
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Manny: Because I'm reading all the numbers we gonna be here. I got no rules for my magic minute. Bet.
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Manny: Bet we're just going to be there.
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Manny: just so you can't sign in on your arbitrary deadline trump.
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Jeezy: Facts.
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Manny: So that's my 1st issue.
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Manny: Here's my second issue, dems. When the the Bbb came up, it passed by one vote.
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Manny: 2, 15 to 2, 14 to one.
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Manny: And if you guys have been tracking the Congress, there have been 3 Senators. I'm sorry. 3, 3 representatives.
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Jeezy: Forever! Yep.
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Manny: Pass, all Democrats.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: All pass. None of their seats have been filled, and I can only assume that those 3 seats
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Manny: we're going to be dem seats.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: So. Why, exactly are you all nominating people 1st off, who are old.
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Jeezy: Bingo!
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Manny: 1st and for old second off are are kind of sick.
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Manny: There were people that won seats that were actively fighting cancer battles.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And I think I would have an now not all cancers are made the same. Not all cancer battles are the same.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But my understanding is several of these. These cancer battles were were deep battles.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Why are you holding the seat?
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Manny: Why are you holding the seat?
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Manny: Because, had just 2 of y'all been around.
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Manny: Could have stopped this bill.
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Manny: And then the the last person that I'd actually, I think dems don't give enough smoke to.
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Manny: but I have a little smoke for them today on.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: TV. -Oh, Ruth, Beta Ginsburg!
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Manny: Bruh!
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Manny: I got a little smoke for her, too.
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Jeezy: Right from a great thief.
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Manny: Brett.
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Manny: because, like at some point. And this is this is the problem with the boomer generation across across the board.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: Is that they want to stay in these positions for so long.
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Jeezy: So long, bro, so long.
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Manny: If you were so concerned.
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Manny: Ruth, you should have stepped down in those months, because it's my understanding that Obama went to her and said, Hey, can you step down so I can appoint a younger, a younger justice, just in case you decide to make your way to the pearly gates.
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Manny: And she's like,
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Manny: I actually have no idea if that's how the conversation went. But that's how. That's how it happened in my head.
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Jeezy: Everybody.
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Manny: But like, yeah, like you should have stepped down, because now there's now a younger Conservative justice on board, and you've lost. You've lost the you lost the court.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: All in all. Old people. Stop running for office.
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Manny: Go, be with your grand, go, take care of your grandkids.
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Jeezy: Like, I want to really know why, just why.
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Manny: Oh, they get to lie in state, and all the hoopla around a sitting politician passing in office.
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Jeezy: Same right.
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Manny: The wrong things across the board the wrong things like, what are y'all doing?
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Manny: But anyways, that's who I got smoke for on the Dems today. But back to the the big, beautiful bill. Yeah. 8 and a half hours.
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Jeezy: Bruh. That's a long time now. I will say that I clearly did not watch it, because I have much better things to do, but I will say that his little Marathon of talking was a lot better than what I seen from Cory Booker.
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Manny: But you can't, just I think that's.
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Jeezy: And so like, after some look at the cord book. I'm sorry.
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Jeezy: I'm just saying I just don't like looking Corey Board. Booker is
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Jeezy: person when he get up and say something you just like.
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Jeezy: Hi, good! This this! And again like.
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Manny: In Corey's defense. He did speak for almost 3 times, for about 3 times longer than Hakeem.
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Jeezy: Yeah, but I'm going off the 1st 5 min. I was sick of him the first.st When I look at both of them. I'm not talking about how they looked at the end of the race I'm talking about just naturally just up there. I just
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Jeezy: existed.
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Jeezy: Cory Booker just bothers me. I don't know what it is, man.
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Jeezy: I don't know. I just maybe not. Granted Akeem. Ain' ain't that much better? They're like 2 variants. Bro.
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Jeezy: They almost like the same person. But Corey Corey is just like the worst of the 2.
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Manny: Right?
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Manny: So yeah. So this. This hot mess of a bill passed.
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Jeezy: And of course, in good fashion, and it brought it was so sickening
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Jeezy: they after they did it. They all the Republicans got together and circled around a picture. Mike Johnson held up the little piece of paper that had the final tally on it, and they all got the thumbs up, and you know it's so great to be an American. This is a day in history that we'll all remember. Yeah, you're right.
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Manny: Yeah, we're gonna remember it.
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Jeezy: You're right.
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Manny: But like at any point, is anyone shocked by this like.
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Jeezy: Ain't know like to me. The house does not have a single backbone
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Jeezy: when it comes to any agenda that trump wants to do.
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Manny: Oh, well, hold on! Hold on! Hold on!
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Manny: We we're not. Gonna we're not gonna shoot down Brother Thomas Massey also.
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Jeezy: Oh, oh, yes, sir, yes, sir, hold on! Hold on! Hold on! I can't! I can't! You're right. I can't let. I can't let brother master like that.
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Manny: Cause cause. He came out standing on business just like like big Brother Ron.
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Jeezy: It was him and Fitzpatrick.
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Manny: Fitzpatrick.
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Jeezy: From Pennsylvania and see he had every reason to stand on.
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Jeezy: I think he he barely won.
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Manny: He barely one, and PA is about to get hit hard from these cuts.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir. So he he stood on the right side of business on that, but shout out, I will give you that shout out to these 2 brothers that stood up
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Jeezy: and were the only ones to show that they had some backbone. Because
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Jeezy: I don't think that and correct me if I'm wrong, man. Even when this bill got sent back to the House from the Senate, was there even a single debate on anything.
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Manny: No, because again they had to pass the exact, the same exact bill.
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Jeezy: So, okay. So so even in in doing that, no discussion even.
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Jeezy: is there any discussion that comes of what's in it.
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Manny: There was definitely like out outside of Chamber discussion. So there were 2 votes. There's a procedural vote that has to happen. And then the actual vote, and they held the vote.
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Jeezy: Wouldn't go ahead. I'm sorry.
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Manny: No, they held the vote open so people could make their votes change their votes. You know you can do whatever with your vote until the the vote closes. So because if they had just made one, I believe it's as detailed as like one change.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: If they say Oh, we mistyped instead of, and it's supposed to be a if they would have had to make that change. I think that even to that level it would have gone back to the Senate.
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Jeezy: But my thing is, if it came back
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Jeezy: from the Senate with how many amendments you said it was.
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Manny: 45.
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Jeezy: Did y'all read it? And I know the answer.
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Manny: No, no.
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Jeezy: Y'all signed off again.
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Jeezy: Not even now, like.
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Manny: Now, I do believe, because the intention was
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Manny: I I do believe people took a look at it like I I do believe there was conversation around it. That's why it took so long for this bill to happen. It's why Hakeem had 8 and a half hours to talk, because
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Manny: they had to figure out if they if this was going to get enough votes to pass.
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Jeezy: Well, of course, you know, with the with the bill passing in the in this in the House
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Jeezy: Trump had to make this as monumental as they possibly could be.
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Manny: Hey, look it, love it, or hate it, just looking from a purely
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Manny: political standpoint. This was a win for him, because I didn't think I didn't think it was going to get done.
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Jeezy: I mean, yeah, it definitely was a win for them, and and being able to accomplish it.
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Jeezy: But of course he signed it on the floor if he want what you wanted to do.
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Jeezy: and he signed it around about 4 Pm. During the White House picnic, which
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Jeezy: he had the B 2 bombers overhead right.
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Manny: It.
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Jeezy: He called it the most popular bill ever, despite it having a 55% disapproval in the polls.
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Manny: And I feel like that 55% is generous.
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Jeezy: Oh, that's very generous!
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Jeezy: I think that's very generous.
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Jeezy: But when we look at this bill for for all of our people that list to the pod.
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Jeezy: What's in this actual final version of this big, beautiful
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Jeezy: But did I did I? Did. I hear or read correctly that Chuck Schumer tried to do something to change the name.
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Manny: Change the name? Yeah.
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Jeezy: Lightning.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: See, slap his hand.
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Manny: Bruh, stop with the performance like. Come on, now.
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Jeezy: Gonna lose. That's why you're gonna lose the Aoc.
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Manny: Aoc about to dog walk, you.
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Jeezy: The big, ugly, atrocious bill, or whatever he tried to change it, to like Sir.
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Manny: Aoc is about to dog walk, took.
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Jeezy: Don't want you.
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Manny: Through Central Park while eating a Pastrami pastrami on Rye.
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Manny: It's it's gonna be a bloodbath
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Manny: that it was like. Bro. Now you now you are too old Chuck Schuber to be playing them games. Bro.
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Manny: There was somebody online who was like the difference between Chuck Schumer and
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Manny: Oh, God! Cocaine Mitch Mitch Mcconnell.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Is, if they're both playing monopoly.
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Manny: Mitch Mcconnell steals all the money from the bank, lights the board on fire and throws it out the window.
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Manny: Meanwhile Chuck Schumer looks up from looking at the rules and says, one of us gets to be the thimble.
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Jeezy: Terrible.
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Manny: Y'all not playing the same games here, and every.
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Jeezy: Doing that.
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Manny: And every major bill it becomes more and more apparent that you guys are playing 2 Republicans and Democrats playing 2 very different games.
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Jeezy: Very Bruh 2 different games. Bro. But but in that, what is in this final.
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Jeezy: big, beautiful bill that the American people can can look forward to.
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Manny: Oh, man! Well.
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Manny: tax cut the Trump Era tax cuts, and they were going to expire in 2025. Those keep going. I think that is good. That is good. The middle class needed that.
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Manny: The child tax credit is going to go up to 2,500 until 2028,
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Manny: and then it's gonna go back down to 2,000. The the things that we heard around tip and overtime tax deductions to a certain point.
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Manny: The interesting one. But I'm I'm kind of low key upset about the the Maga savings accounts.
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Manny: Look. Let me tell you why I'm mad about the Mega savings accounts, because you could have started this for kids that were born in 2024, you could have right?
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Manny: You could have waited. But okay.
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Manny: the the interesting piece from a tax policy is that there is a new tax on large private university endowments. Now I want to do some digging on that one. But Harvard.
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Jeezy: Yeah, bro.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Jeezy: That's wild.
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Manny: So, and then the authority to revoke tax, exempt status for nonprofits supporting designated terrorism groups.
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Manny: While I read those words, and I say, you know what that makes sense?
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Manny: that makes sense from the words. Now they're getting ready to apply this all wrong.
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Jeezy: But I'm about to say that the applicant.
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Manny: Of that phrase.
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Jeezy: Easy.
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Manny: The the one that's about to be problematic that no one talked about is they are eliminating the Irs direct file
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Manny: in favor of public private tax filing options.
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Manny: So you can file your taxes electronically for free using Irs direct file.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Now, what I believe is going to happen is that you will. That's not going to be an option. You're going to have to go through tax act turbotax 8. And if you've ever been on their site it is pretty hard
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Manny: to file your taxes electronically for free on those sites. They are possible. Yeah, but it is really really hard. So you know.
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Manny: So
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Manny: hey, guys just keeps getting worse from there. So there is about a trillion dollar in Medicare Medicaid reductions. And they basically execute that by kicking a lot of people off and wrapping up some of the programs. So we're going to see tighter eligibility, more work, requirements, and obviously more paperwork. Because you add more paperwork. You discourage more people from doing it.
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Jeezy: I think I think, with that Medicaid thing, too. That was very interesting, Manny. I just wanted to point out
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Jeezy: yeah.
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Jeezy: they had. Had. I want to say it was either on Cnn. Or it may have been Fox. I can't remember exactly which one, but they had Mike Johnson on, and of course Mike Johnson is from Louisiana, and they were talking about. You know you have a large population of people who rely on Medicaid, and so, if you have a large population of people from where you're from that, rely on it. And you're saying that what you're cutting
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Jeezy: is going to cut the waste, fraud and abuse of the program. Then how can you ensure that that's taking place without forsaking or putting those people who actually need it in a much tighter bond or eliminated it from them as support completely, and his response was
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Jeezy: to me was telling.
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Jeezy: because it sounds like, Well, we'll be able to do it. And it's like, but just it doesn't seem like that. You have a real process of how to do it. And we've already seen with this administration.
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Jeezy: and some of the cuts that have happened, and the process and procedures that they've gone about doing things, that there are some people that get left in the dark that don't. That shouldn't be so I just don't understand. How are you going to make sure that the American people who need this? And I think one thing he even said, too, was.
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Jeezy: if you're able, and and can work and do all these things that you need to be doing so well, there are a lot of people. What? What does that look like?
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Jeezy: Because how do you define if I'm willing? Well, not willing. But I'm able-bodied person to work. What does that? What does that look like for someone? Let's say that has been using the system for 10 years. And now I have to go back and
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Jeezy: do all this other paper? Are you going to run every single person back through the system again?
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Manny: Yep, that that this.
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Jeezy: That is, that's nasty work.
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Manny: No, it's super nasty, I mean.
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Jeezy: Because what if what if I don't? What if you know
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Jeezy: grandma's on this? And she doesn't have necessarily the help she needs to get all this paperwork and do all this file, let alone understand it, especially in some of these rural counties.
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Jeezy: Where people are not not of the ability to do all of these or understand all this, how are you going to ensure that they're able to go through the process smoothly and seamlessly before their benefits are revoked or taken away. Because you've created this hard process for these people to be able to make sure that their benefits stay intact.
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Manny: Well, I think, what? What's 2 things are going to happen. The 1st is, people are going to lose their coverage.
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Jeezy: And I wish they would say that that's what pisses me off.
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Jeezy: Tell it people are gonna lose it.
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Manny: People gonna lose their coverage. But then the other part that's just as bad is you're going to. You're either going to create an industry
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Manny: or further support an industry of companies that will help guide people through this process, and then Bill Medicaid for helping them through this process.
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Manny: In the most predatory of ways.
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Jeezy: Bruh. I'm glad you said you. That was a that is a very, very great choice of word to use predatory.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: This is going to be nasty, man, and I'll talk about this a little bit later on. But
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Jeezy: the 1st thing that came to my mind, and I could be wrong.
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Jeezy: But with some of these cuts.
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Jeezy: especially when I think about Snap, and I know you'll bring that up shortly.
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Jeezy: But it made me think, with the with the quality of living that we already have in America.
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Jeezy: and some of these things being snatched away.
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Jeezy: and we see how things are happening even from an immigration standpoint. Is is this not a recipe for disaster? To increase things such as crime?
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Jeezy: Things that are
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Jeezy: a detriment to the quality of living. Are we? Are we in the society right now? We're about to raise up some jokers in Gotham City.
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Manny: Well, jeez.
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Jeezy: Where.
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Manny: Oh!
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Jeezy: Know you got some what you got.
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Manny: So here we've alluded to it before.
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Jeezy: They want to, Bill, bring all this manufacturing back on on land. And there's all these questions about who they're going to be able to find to do all these jobs.
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Manny: Well, now, if we take all these benefits
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Manny: here we go that people are going to go start looking for jobs. Well, here we go. We're about to have a whole bunch of manufacturing jobs.
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Jeezy: I got a nice field over here that needs some work in, and I got a nice warehouse that needs some maintenance. We have most certainly said it before. Where are these people going to go? And when you see a lot of these effects
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Jeezy: which it seems like it's going to affect those that are in rural areas or low income areas, though that's your pool.
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Manny: Well. And here's what's surprising to me about specifically when we talk about the snap and the Medicare cuts is the state cost sharing? Yeah, like, I don't understand why States weren't screaming about it, more because, especially when we talk about the responsibility. So the 2 big changes a little 3, the 1st one is that States are now required to cover 5% of the benefit costs of snap.
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Manny: They previously were not responsible for any of it. It was truly a a federally funded program.
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Manny: So that's the 1st change. So now, states are like, okay, now, we got to figure out where this 5% comes out of in our budget.
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Manny: Then you now have states now responsible for 75% of the administration costs
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Manny: previously is 50%. So now we got this. And now they are going to penalize State. If the amount of States, if the amount of errors that they have exceeds 6%,
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Manny: and then it ultimately just comes down to a question of
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Manny: Okay, Federal government. You're cutting all this. This money from
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Manny: from your budget is shifting this onto States. Not only this, you're seeing a hurricane disaster and relief efforts like you're starting to push these onto states. And that's a problem like, because where states are going to come up with this money because it's also not like the fed is cutting all this spending and returning that to the taxpayer. No, no, no, no, not at all. All. That money is shifting, going other places.
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Jeezy: But my thing is is, and this is where I'm confused, Manny.
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Jeezy: The stakes that are right.
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Jeezy: It.
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Manny: Did the most.
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Jeezy: Are gonna are gonna suffer the worst.
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Jeezy: Louisiana can't afford to do what they need to do without without the Federal money.
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Jeezy: Even. I saw an article that I read this past week that there's a hospital in a rural area in Nebraska that just off the strength of hearing that the bill might pass had to shut down a hospital because they were already struggling with the little bit of Federal money they were getting to stay afloat. And they're like, okay with these cuts.
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Jeezy: We definitely. Ain't we got to shut it down these these republican areas, these States
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Jeezy: which voted for these people in? And which is why I'm confused at the way that these people voted as far as in the House and in the Senate. The people you represent are going to suffer the most.
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Manny: Hey? But it's all good cause you know what transgenders in in sports that got taken care of.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: But you ain't got to worry about transgender being in sports. You won't have a TV or a newspaper to even read what's going on in the world because you're gonna be so poor.
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Jeezy: But we digress.
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Jeezy: I'm not. I'm not. I am not understanding the logic here, and I do not understand the benefit at the end of the day for the American people they're talking about 8 million Americans are projected to lose their snap benefits now we've said it before on this pod. Are there some people that probably got food stamps who do not need it?
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Manny: Absolutely.
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Jeezy: Absolutely absolutely. We all know somebody.
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Manny: No food stamp.
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Manny: Whoa!
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Jeezy: You was in college, and you got you a good little piece of 100 $200 where you got. Everybody knows somebody that has benefited. But you cannot tell me that there's 8 million people.
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Manny: Abusing the system.
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Jeezy: Abusing the system.
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Jeezy: I just can't.
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Manny: Hey?
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Manny: But it's all good because we we were able to get 46.5 billion for the border wall.
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Manny: 5 billion for border patrol facilities and personnel, and then a hundred 50 billion for drones, kamikaze boats and missile systems.
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Jeezy: Bro. I'm sorry, Bro.
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Jeezy: And and
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Jeezy: but I I try to. I try to keep a clean, a clean mouth when I speak about certain things
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Jeezy: in respect of my mother. But what the hell are we doing.
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Manny: Hey!
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Jeezy: What what the hell are we we doing right now? Bro, are we? Are we really serious? I've seen the amount of money going towards that wall, and I'm like, Oh, here we go again, hit with this damn wall
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Jeezy: like, are we serious right now?
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Jeezy: We're very serious.
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Manny: But we but we're cool. We're cool with taking.
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Jeezy: All this money from the American people, 8 million Americans losing Snap 11 to 12 million
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Jeezy: at risk of losing their coverage with Medicaid. But don't you worry. That wall is secure. We got drones, and we got all this going on, sir.
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Jeezy: Are we serious right now?
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Manny: Yep.
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Manny: I mean. And that's just what we're spending money on. That's that's just how we're cycling around. Let's not ignore the 3.5 trillion dollars we're about to add to the national deficit.
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Jeezy: Vincent say that he wouldn't raise the deficit.
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Manny: But yeah.
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Jeezy: And I think they I think that number you quoted is the low number.
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Manny: That is a very, very conservative number.
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Jeezy: They said it could get upwards to 5.
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Manny: Like, what are we doing?
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Manny: Elon Musk said it best.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: That we don't have 2 parties.
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Manny: We we have one party that's dedicated to overspending.
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Manny: and that that's what's happening right now. Yeah. The the quote unquote, positive
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Manny: that we we can find in there is the AI band went from 10 years down to 5 years.
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Manny: So they lowered that down, and it did obscure some things like copyright and and likeness and consumer protection.
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Manny: But yeah.
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Jeezy: So so when it comes to the potential harm that this bill
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Jeezy: has for the American people.
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Jeezy: I think those that you can identify already that those that are low income Americans
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Jeezy: and working class Americans can potentially feel some pressure from this
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Jeezy: climate and energy consumers. There's there's been. You know, he, how you feel about solar and wind?
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Jeezy: Those investments are slowing down
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Jeezy: students and younger Americans. There's going to be less funding for education and college support.
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Jeezy: Which again, I think, goes back to what we talked about about that pool.
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Jeezy: That funding won't be there. So if if Johnny, in rural Louisiana doesn't want to work on a farm or be a generational manufacturer like his dad and his granddad was, and wants to go off to college. The funding that he needs likely and potentially won't be there for him to make that change and pivot in his life, to make a generational change that will benefit not only him but his family after him.
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Jeezy: That won't be there anymore. And obviously, like Manny, said, the debt, national debt being increased over over 10 years, which that is important, because that could spike inflation and even future interest rates. So
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Jeezy: I just don't.
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Jeezy: I don't think that this is as much as they celebrated. And I think what's going to be crazy is when the pressure starts being felt from this big, beautiful bill.
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Jeezy: Democrats better be smart because that I'd be running that ad campaign with them all, sitting there holding.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: Thumbs up.
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Manny: Miles.
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Jeezy: Grinning. Oh, Bro, I'm about to run that. I'm about to run them that clip through the ground.
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Jeezy: but they say.
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Manny: And it was.
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Jeezy: So excited, man. I don't know if you saw this, but the guy said that the Republicans were so happy they was in there grabbing each other's butts and stuff. Bro.
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Jeezy: Bro, I saw the video. And I'm just like, like, yeah, yeah, bring up.
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Manny: I've never understood the propensity of of people to to grab butts like that like, that's weird.
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Jeezy: Good.
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Jeezy: That's weird.
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Jeezy: hey, bruh! Wait, we gonna have to. We gonna have to get them. If we if we gonna
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Jeezy: prosecute diddy on some of the freak off stuff.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: Yeah, we we might need to start turning our attention up to Washington. Bro, because I ain't never.
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Jeezy: never got excited to sign a piece of paper and say, Let me go, grab some book.
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Manny: Yeah. I'm just.
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Jeezy: Y'all y'all y'all gop people weird. Bro.
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Manny: It's mad, weird, mad, weird.
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Jeezy: We'll see. We'll see how much y'all want to do all that, and all that excitement when the effects of this is felt
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Jeezy: by the American people and I. And one thing else. I just want to say
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Jeezy: that we've said before, there is nothing beautiful about a bill of this size.
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Manny: 1,000 plus pages.
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Jeezy: Bruh Manny has said it. I have said it.
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Jeezy: We should not be throwing all of these issues into one big, beautiful bill, because.
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Jeezy: or whatever Chuck Schumer wanted to call it, get out of here.
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Jeezy: But we shouldn't. It's not good for the American people. It is certainly not good for politics, because.
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Manny: Most of y'all can't. Mostly you elected officials can't read at a level to understand.
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Jeezy: To understand.
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Manny: Understand what was in there.
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Jeezy: To understand what's going on, and when you jumble all these concerns together, somebody's going to get the short end of the sting, while one part may be good.
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Jeezy: Somebody's gonna suffer from the other side or some other part of it.
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Jeezy: I think we've been. I've been very adamant about how we support just single line issues.
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Jeezy: It's it's fine.
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Jeezy: Yeah, get it.
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Jeezy: If if you got to get 45 single bills.
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Jeezy: do the 45 do the 45.
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Jeezy: What is the harm in doing that? Because this one big, beautiful bill is going to be one big one big, ultimate disaster for somebody in America. I believe the money that's going into detention, and all the ice things. I believe ice agents are now getting raises and stuff all this money.
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Jeezy: But over time, if the at the rate that they're doing all these deportations.
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Manny: Bye.
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Jeezy: Is that necessary? Because at the rate y'all going it sounds like y'all y'all about done there got everybody out.
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Jeezy: So then the level of this isn't is insane to me, and I just don't believe the money is allocated properly, and I feel like that. This will ultimately be looked back as a day that
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Jeezy: your your representatives they sold you out.
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Jeezy: They sold the American people out. Man.
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Manny: And chuck Schumer. If you want to use the one big, beautiful disaster line hit us up at the pod, I'd love to have you on. That's the cost that we'll put on you for using that name. Just come, join us at the pod.
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Jeezy: You need. So you need to go somewhere and sit down and take cocaine Mitch with you.
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Jeezy: Y'all need to go. Sit down, Bro, but that's the big, beautiful deal. We will see what happens.
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Jeezy: and and how this looks going forward. But
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Manny: Before before we hop into our next subject, because it's also kind of heavy. Geez! I got a question for you.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Would you rather.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: 1 million dollars or the ability to do one kamame hour blast.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro, I heard I heard this on social media a couple of days ago.
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Jeezy: I'm taking. I'm taking the blast Bro.
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Manny: See I am, too. Why are you taking a bath.
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Jeezy: But 1st of all, if anybody knows, do you know the damage that that blast will do right right?
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Jeezy: All I got to do is raise my hand, and I'm gonna get whatever I want.
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Manny: Right. Oh.
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Manny: well, and I just see I just see too many use cases where, like just having it in my pocket.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Would be helpful, like giant asteroid coming coming to Earth. I'm gonna get a whole bunch more than a million dollars at this point. Let me go.
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Manny: Thank you. Thank you.
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Manny: Go ahead and blast this this.
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Jeezy: Power that I have in my hands to wipe a hole in the earth.
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Manny: But I need that. I need that in my pocket.
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Jeezy: If I could have that cause. Because, look, if I got the 1 million dollars and somebody else got the got the blasted! What? What that 1 million dollars gonna do for me if they use it on
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Jeezy: right. If I.
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Manny: If an asteroid.
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Jeezy: Freezer.
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Manny: If an asteroid is about to hit Earth, what's that 1 million dollars going to buy me?
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Manny: That's not even a good that's not even a good shelter.
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Jeezy: If I use my blast, though that's.
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Manny: I got a fella.
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Jeezy: Breaks me.
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Manny: I'm I'm not buying anything.
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Jeezy: I am literally bigger than the avengers.
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Manny: I just seen her.
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Jeezy: I am earth's mightiest hero.
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Jeezy: So yeah. Bro, I already had thought that through Bro.
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Manny: Sure, and then and then one more for you.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: In honor of July 4, th and one of the America, I would say the most America's greatest athletes, Joey Chestnut.
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Manny: who would win in this race.
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Manny: This is the contents of the race.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: You have to eat one hot dog
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Manny: and then run a hundred meters, Joey Chestnut, or a saying Bolt.
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Jeezy: Eat one hot dog.
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Manny: You one hot dog, and then run a hundred meters.
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Manny: I'm gonna tell you my answer.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I'm taking Joey Chestnut, and I don't think it's going to be close.
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Jeezy: But I see that's why I'm torn.
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Jeezy: Because
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Jeezy: how? How did? How did one hot dog? Cause I'm I would say that Usain boat probably has a very strict diet.
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Manny: Oh, yeah. So it's gonna take him about like 2030 seconds to go ahead and and consume that Nathan's hot dog. I was gonna say something else, but it.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: It's July. It's July.
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Jeezy: I don't know how that hot dog would sit on him paws that him having to do that and run a hundred meters.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I might have to go with Joey on that, too.
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Manny: Now, Joey, he's going to eat that hot dog in less than 2 seconds. And look! I think me right now. I could probably run a hundred meter dash
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Manny: and probably about 22 seconds.
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Manny: It's somewhere between 18 and 22 seconds.
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Manny: I think it's going to take Usain Bolt, probably about 20 seconds deep at Hot Dog.
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Jeezy: Yeah, but he's wicked fast over.
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Manny: I mean, but it's still 10 seconds, so
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Manny: he need. Joey. Chestnut's gonna be somewhere neat between 8 and 10 seconds.
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Manny: Head start.
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Jeezy: Yeah, you gotta.
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Manny: And I just think, he that time to eat that hot dog.
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Jeezy: Yeah, you might be right. You might be right.
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Manny: But shout out to Joey Chestnut for coming back and saying, I'm the goat at gobbling glizzies.
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Jeezy: That's something I want to be known for.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: That's Daddy.
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Manny: But to eat 70 in 10 min is wild.
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Jeezy: Boy, I know when he get home, boy, he tear the paint off a bathroom wall.
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Jeezy: Bro. Ain't no way in the world. Bro. All that all that processed meat in your belly. Bro. No, I had to. No, ain't no way in the world I had to. I let my body digest that Bro.
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Manny: Oh, no! Absolutely absolutely.
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Jeezy: Bro. I feel I feel weird when I go to a cookout. Have 2 hot dogs. I can't imagine.
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Jeezy: I started looking around like I know.
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Manny: All right.
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Jeezy: That's enough.
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Manny: Well, you know, I wanted to do that little palate, cleanser, because it gets way more depressing.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, we yeah, we gotta.
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Jeezy: I appreciate that.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: I we we got we we got a little bit of a situation going down in Texas, and.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Before before we dive into it. I feel like we need to get the.
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Jeezy: We need to get the the most and the most meaningful part out of the way. Between July the 4th and 5th
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Jeezy: there was a flash flood that devastated Central Texas
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Jeezy: and basically there was a stalled storm system.
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Jeezy: Fed by the remnants of tropical storm, Barry, that dumped a ton of rain.
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Jeezy: In Texas
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Jeezy: the Guadalupe River, which is near Hunt and Kerrville surged. And this is not a joke. These are actual numbers. It surged 22 to 29 feet within one to 2 h.
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Jeezy: I want you to know. That is a nuts number like when I read that I was like, Hold on, maybe
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Jeezy: they mistyped it. Yeah.
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Jeezy: maybe they meant 22 to 29 inches, No. 22 to 29 feet
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Jeezy: in an hour to 2 h.
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Jeezy: Then intense rainfall prompted 6 flash flood emergencies in the Texas central Texas area as of July 5, th there are at least 52 people that have been confirmed dead.
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Manny: Hold on a correction. Cause I actually just checked. It is.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: 70.
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Jeezy: Jesus. Yeah. Man.
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Manny: That number has climbed since we started recording.
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Jeezy: That is wild, that is wild. But this devastation has, which is even wild to even hear Texas having a flood of this magnitude. I feel like when I was a kid, and it could have just been the fact that I was a kid. I don't recall Texas having
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Jeezy: weather like this like over the past couple of years. We've seen them get crippled by ice storm. Now a flood. It's crazy. But before we really dive into the side of this we want to speak about.
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Jeezy: We do want to offer our thoughts and prayers and condolences to those that have been impacted, those that have lost their lives, and also to those that are still unknown at this time, I think that they're still rescued
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Jeezy: efforts going on. There have been more than 850 people that have been rescued using both helicopters, drones, and ground teams want to give also just the the thoughts and prayers to those that are actually on the ground in these boats that are carrying out these rescue operations, because that takes a level of energy. And there's also
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Jeezy: a fight of exhaustion that they have to go through, to continue to do this hour, hours in night, in and night out, day in and day out, because we know that with any natural disaster, any devastation, every minute, every second it counts, and there is a potential between life and death. As minutes and seconds pass by so just just that whole situation, and as the efforts of it continue to go on
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Jeezy: just condolences to everybody, and thoughts and prayers to all those that are involved, and I believe that President Trump has declared
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Jeezy: in a national emergency.
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Jeezy: Yep,
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Manny: That one that was in question, and that was in question for a little bit.
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Jeezy: It was.
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Manny: Is.
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Jeezy: Which I think also in this, with some of the cuts. And what trump has been wanting to do with Fema Fema, is there, Kristi Noem is there.
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Jeezy: as I call a cosplay cosplay? Christy?
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Jeezy: Which I had to actually look this up? Because I'm like, why is she even there, but Fema falls under.
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Manny: Falls under. Yep.
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Jeezy: Of the Director of Homeland Security. But it's not practical. And normally the Acting Secretary isn't actually on the ground.
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Jeezy: but they're just making sure that they're in communication with the local government, with Fema, with the national government, on what's going on, what needs to happen? And what have you?
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Jeezy: But, as we see with Cosplay Chrissy, she got to be in the mix of it. She got to be in the thick of it, and as we've seen, so, in spite of that, I hope that she's not using this as another one of her. Her moments that we've seen that she's done with the immigration deportation in the roundups, but she's actually there to help and assist the people of Central Texas through this difficult time.
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Manny: I'm always torn in situations like these about whether
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Manny: whether higher ups need to actually go out there and be on the ground, because anytime. You have a situation like this, and you bring in a high profile person.
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Manny: you know, that takes resources away from where they need to be. But
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Manny: glad that trump did sign the declaration, calling an emergency that was obviously in question for a while here about whether he would actually do that. Talking about. You know his longstanding focus that, hey? We're going to push this back onto the States
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Manny: and
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Manny: before we really get into it, I I you. You hit it, and I want to hit it again. Pause.
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Jeezy: It's called.
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Manny: Oh, my favorite.
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Jeezy: No!
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Jeezy: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
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Manny: You. You brought up the point. I want to reiterate the point that anytime, if you look across America when there is a major
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Manny: incident situation like this, the ability of the American people to rally together to try to help one another. It does speak to the the strength of the American people.
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Manny: It's just unfortunate that it takes incidents like this to to see it.
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Jeezy: Yeah, absolutely. Agree.
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Manny: Yeah. But there were definitely questions about whether this was going to be be signed off on, whether they were going to put the responsibility of managing this back on on the State. I think in this situation it's it's probably fortunate that it happened in Texas.
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Manny: That we saw this. I think there are probably some questions that are going to be sitting around. About. Well, what if this was in Texas?
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Manny: That's a great question. Hopefully, we won't find out but with the with the uptick and what we what we've seen done.
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Manny: it's likely
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Manny: to be the case. And when I 1st saw this and kind of got around around the shock. I was like, how did we get here?
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Manny: Because usually we're really good about being able to at this point. Track weather know when these situations are happening, providing ample time for people to be able to hear about something and be able to react. But I think a lot of this comes down to the budget cuts that we saw.
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Manny: So
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Manny: for those of you who aren't aware so in terms of how you know the National Weather Service works. They have so bunch of different stations that are responsible for tracking the weather in a particular area, and what they do essentially is they send up weather balloons.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Usually every site sends it up twice a day, so they're able to see it get this data and be able to react to it before the cuts. Most sites were sending it up, was sending balloons up at least 2 times a day.
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Manny: This gave them usually gives them really high confidence in 24 to 48 h rainfall, which allows them about 30 to 90 min of lead time of an emergency.
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Manny: Now, because of the cuts. Sites are not necessarily sending up 2 balloons. There may be sending up one.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: And that takes the lead time over on emergencies from 30 min to an hour and a half to 5 to 30 min.
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Manny: What are you going to do with 10 min of lead time that the river that your house is next to is getting ready to surge 20 feet? What do you do with that?
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Manny: And that is, and these are not expensive. But if you're thinking about, it's about $200 to send up a weather balloon.
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Manny: But if you think about you got multiple sites doing this, it adds up over time. Then on top of that you you cut out the relationship that the national weather services had with the Department of Defense being able to use their satellite data and their existing ecosystem, to be able to see into storms and see the pressure and be able to make adequate assessments.
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Manny: You know that's no longer there now, the official claim out there, we're we're going to say is because there's issue around cyber security of these satellite systems. So they are going to phase them out for newer systems. But there are issues with the newer systems about their ability to be able to show that very detailed data that meteorologist needs and
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Manny: unfortunately.
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Manny: the the obviously, we're a political podcast so we're having that conversation today. But as a entire country, we are going to have to have the conversation
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Manny: about where's the line?
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Manny: You know these, these cuts like what we see in the big, beautiful bill like we're seeing right now. These cuts have real implications. And this is the second like incident, like. We're not that far removed from the tornado incident, where people would have had 30 min notice to be able to get to shelter for a tornado down to 5 min.
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Manny: Yeah, like, these cuts are not just arbitrary numbers in an excel sheet. These these cuts have real impacts to real people and cost real lives.
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Jeezy: And we. And we have stated that numerous times on this, podcast that you can't just play with the numbers and think that there is just no implications about it. These things have real impact on the American people. And I think what's funny about this because the National Weather Service has come under immense fire in light of what's taking place in Central Texas. But the government of accountability, the office of Government accountability.
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Jeezy: warned years ago.
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Jeezy: That the infrastructure at the National Weather Station could lead to major forecasting failures if funding did not improve.
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Jeezy: Funding hasn't improved, it's actually gotten worse.
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Jeezy: And then, when we have something as catastrophic as this happened.
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Jeezy: the finger gets pointed at the National Weather Service as if they're not doing their job.
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Jeezy: But how can you and I think that for me, for for us, the American people, we got to use common sense.
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Jeezy: We've all worked a job before
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Jeezy: most of us started out. Some of us, if you've started out as a as a middle class citizen or somewhere around that range, you started a job where you work an hourly, hourly wage.
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Jeezy: and let's say it was holiday time, and you were short staffed.
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Jeezy: You know that it was hard to do your job at a hundred percent if you did not have the resources. If 2 or 3 people call it out.
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Jeezy: if you had to work extended hours. If you did not have everything you needed to fulfill the exact duty that was needed. You understood that there were some things that fell through the crack if you worked at target. And it was the holiday. Okay, yeah, we're going to get everybody in the register checked out and everything. But yeah, our shells gonna look crazy because ain't nobody there to run.
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Manny: They don't restock everything about.
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Jeezy: Everything's about to.
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Manny: Look like a dollar. General.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Jeezy: But Bro, we've all been it. We've all been to target or well, we ain't supposed to be going target no more. But.
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Manny: -
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Jeezy: We've all been to a department store during the holiday season, and we've seen how torn up it looks because they're shorthanded, and they don't have the resources to make sure something is going to fall through the cracks. So then, when we have something now granted, I understand that lives of the American people isn't something that should be compared to a department store. But the example. What I'm trying to get you to understand
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Jeezy: is that when you don't have what you need. You can't perform at a level that you're expected to. So why are we expecting, or why is the nation acting like the National Weather Service is supposed to be operating at 95% efficiency when they keep getting cut off at the knees.
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Jeezy: I mean, you can't. You can't run a Marathon without knees.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Jeezy: You can't. You can't be a a what's Hank Hill, Daddy.
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Manny: But I was gonna say, I was like Hank Hank Hills, Daddy. Yep.
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Jeezy: Everybody can't be Hank Hill, Daddy, so they're coming under scrutiny. I think you even got people like Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about the government manipulating the weather, and y'all this and Yada Yada Yada.
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Jeezy: and for our conspiracy heads there is some truth in in weather manipulation, but I don't believe.
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Manny: I like altar.
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Jeezy: And if that's the case, then why is the government playing with Texas?
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Jeezy: Why, Texas red is a red administration. Why is the red administration, messing with a red state right.
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Manny: Well throw you off the scent. That's what right?
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Manny: That's what they're trying to do.
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Jeezy: But you know the the scrutiny that they've had. Even even cosplay. Christie, while being down on the ground in Texas, has said the system's outdated.
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Jeezy: The system is, is not what it needs to be.
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Manny: And cutting funding. Still, not gonna get it where it needs to be.
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Jeezy: This is the thing that pisses me off instead of Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to come to the floor and introduce a bill that would make it a felony for weather manipulation. Why not bring a bill to the floor that would increase the funding for them so that they can accurately do their job so that they can alert the American people better. They can get better information
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Jeezy: and data to be able to see these things beforehand and make the necessary adjustments, give the necessary information to state and local officials so that they can properly plan for these devastations. We're not going to do that, but we're going to say, Oh, well, if you throw a couple of cloud seeding up in there up in the sky, then you need to be a felon and go to jail.
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Jeezy: Bro. Get out of here, get out of here.
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Manny: And I think what's most concerning
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Manny: is we're getting ready to. We are at our 3rd named Storm
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Manny: for this hurricane season. Usually we don't get our 3rd named storm until August.
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Jeezy: Bro. When I heard that I was like I had to look at the calendar.
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Manny: It's like, it's early.
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Jeezy: We just got in July.
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Manny: And there was a meteorologist out of Florida who said, We are going to be predicting hurricanes with the same accuracy that we were able to do in 2,000.
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Manny: And that's a problem.
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Jeezy: Bro. And even in a recent rally, that trump, had.
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Jeezy: he said, which would be again, it bothers me because it's a lie.
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Jeezy: he said that quote. We gave them more tools than ever before. Maybe it's time they learn how to use them.
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Jeezy: sir.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: In his administration.
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Jeezy: has previously proposed. Major cuts to Noaa, which oversees the National Weather Service, including satellite funding, which ding, ding, ding, ding, ding is essential for storm modeling. What are we talking about?
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Manny: Hey? Look well, let me tell you.
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Manny: we don't got them. Them boys and girls sports.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: I'm just telling you we
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Manny: we're getting them illegals out of here. That's what we doing that that is what we're doing. That is, that is what we are serious about.
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Jeezy: Right. Why do y'all care about it if it floods or not? There ain't no immigrants here ain't no trans in sports like Bro. Let's be, let's get serious about what we doing here. This is this is a devastation
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Jeezy: that has happened to the American people in Central Texas.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: That I don't care what side of the aisle you come from. We can agree
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Jeezy: that there is a level of accountability that the Government needs to take.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And this isn't about pointing fingers.
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Jeezy: This is about enabling
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Jeezy: excuse me, empowering the the locals and the State officials to be able to have the information and the resources and the data that they need to be proactive.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: In these situations and not reactive
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Jeezy: trump. I'm glad that you signed a national declaration of a national emergency for this storm, but you know what have probably been better. I think that the people that have lost lives thus far would rather that the Government have the funding that they need. So their family members will still be here. Not worrying about that. Okay, well, we'll give you the pieces to build back your life together, even though it probably won't be exactly how it was before this devastation occurred. That might be a little bit better of what the American people need. Not a finger pointing game and acting like that. You've done all that you can.
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Jeezy: and oh, it's somebody else's fault. I don't like that.
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Manny: At some point.
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Manny: Somebody's got to pick up the ball and run with it.
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Jeezy: Bingo!
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Manny: If everyone on the field is constantly pointing
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Manny: to the foot, to the football on the ground.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Then we're never going to make any progress. Somebody has just got to decide. And not only on this, but in a lot of areas of government. Someone's just got to decide that we are not going to let this happen, not on our watch and take it with the ball and run with it.
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Jeezy: I completely agree.
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: Shout out to to all of those working diligently in the recovery efforts,
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Jeezy: And I just hope that I always say, man, I just hope that people would just be smart and wise up and not play this political game with people's lives. But
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Jeezy: the more that I'm involved in this, the more it feels like it's just part of the game.
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Jeezy: And it's
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Jeezy: as a as just a common man in America. It's just sad to see, from a political standpoint.
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Jeezy: the amount of willingness to allow the American people to be pawns in this chess game.
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Manny: It. It's all fun and games until it's no longer fun and games.
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Jeezy: Exactly, and you know my heart aches for those, especially those children that were
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Jeezy: at the Christian camp, which you know I can only imagine, as a parent
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Jeezy: sending your kids off thinking that.
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Manny: They're about to have a fun summer camp experience that I probably paid a whole lot of money for.
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Jeezy: Now. I don't even know if they're alive.
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Jeezy: or even worst case, they're no longer here.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: That that's terrible and.
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Manny: Could not imagine it as a parent.
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Jeezy: Couldn't.
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Jeezy: And you know my my heart goes out to those people
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Jeezy: that are having to endure that
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Jeezy: I just wish that it's not always about thoughts and prayers. It's about action.
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Manny: Action.
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Jeezy: So well with that being said.
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Jeezy: we got that we had to get that out of the way.
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Manny: Yeah. So we I try to. We try to warn you all that it was gonna get heavy for a bit.
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Jeezy: It was going to get heavy, but you know we'll we'll await much detail, and, as we always say, with any natural disaster that you know whatever means of charitable donation that you would like to take.
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Jeezy: whether it be Red Cross or whatever that you you deem appropriate.
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Jeezy: If you want to support. Please please do as people just try to do whatever they can to piece back whatever they can of their their lives. So with that being said, we have reached the part of our episode where we
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Jeezy: or at the pickle of the week, and I don't even have the music queued up, because this whole segment just took me.
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Manny: You too.
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Jeezy: It took me. It took me out.
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Manny: We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: Yeah, y'all know about that. Y'all take a long.
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Manny: Go.
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Jeezy: But our pickle of the week, and maybe that's why I didn't queue it up, because I think we already can kind of identify what the pickle of the week is, and my pickle of the week it kind of goes back to our 1st segment, where
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Jeezy: I believe our pickle of the week
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Jeezy: are those that sign their name as Yes. On this, on this bill, and those that are empowering
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Jeezy: the government in some of these moves, like we see in our second topic with the government cuts to certain programs.
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Jeezy: At some point these people will have to go back home, these representatives.
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Jeezy: and they will have to stand before the people that they represent.
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Jeezy: and give an account for the things that they've done.
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Jeezy: as we all have to do when this life is over.
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Manny: tell them.
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Jeezy: But you have to stand in front of these people.
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Jeezy: and when there are families who don't have insurance anymore, when there are those that children that aren't able to eat when resources have been cut in health care and in in these government programs, such as head start when families have lost
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Jeezy: their loved ones, due to natural disasters, which funding cuts for and information couldn't get out. And as Manny pointed where we would have a response, time of an hour. Now we may be down to 5 min, 10 min. When you think of rural areas who don't necessarily have the infrastructure to endure these things.
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Jeezy: be it natural disasters, or when grandma and grandpa now have to drive 60, 70 miles to the nearest hospital, because the one that was remotely in their town or in their area had to cut down, had to close down, due to funding, like we've seen in that rural area in Nebraska. You have to stand at these town halls.
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Jeezy: You have to stand on these podiums and look the American people in their face and explain to them why you did what you did, and I hope that anyone that has voted, if this bill doesn't work out as it's been portrayed to be such a great thing for the American people.
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Jeezy: I really, truly hope that you don't act as cowards.
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Jeezy: that you don't run from that microphone, and that you don't run from the American people, and you tell them and and explain to them why you sold the American people out
821
Jeezy: just to say yay on a bill that you knew
822
Jeezy: was not going to benefit the people that you are representing. Your job is not to go to Washington to make friends. Your job is to go there and to do the work of the people that sent you there, and I think a lot of these people in Washington forgot or forget who put your butt in that seat.
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Manny: Elon, musk, elon, musk. Put them butts in seats.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: Now he's upset.
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Jeezy: And Elon as much as Elon gets a lot of heat.
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Jeezy: One thing he said, this week Manny.
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Manny: Be fed up.
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Jeezy: Head up.
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Manny: He said. One, he says one thing is for sure, and 2 2 things are for certain.
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Manny: I I got a bankroll, and I'm ready to flex it.
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Jeezy: And I'm ready to flex. And I believe that pause.
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Jeezy: See you, too. Yeah, Brad.
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Manny: I feel like.
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Jeezy: I feel like Booker T. When he said, Ho, Hogan, I'm coming for you.
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Manny: Who? Hell?
837
Jeezy: But Elon dropped something on us this week. Manny, Paul.
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Jeezy: Eddie, Eddie, Eddie! He might not be wrong. Manny.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: It may be time.
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Manny: Or the America, the America party.
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Manny: which would be wild that a party got started by a man that ain't even American ain't even
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Manny: American man any American.
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Jeezy: We had to have a South African come over here and tell us we need another party.
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Manny: Bye.
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Manny: And and here's the problem, you know, when we've talked about 3rd parties in the Us. Before, they've all been failures because A, it's expensive.
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Manny: But B, it's also been too broad, I think. What Elon is talking about doing very looking at the the majorities in both the House and Chamber House and Senate that he's going to target. You win 2 or 3 of these races. You've dramatically
848
Manny: changed. How? How this is! Gonna go! So with the America party. He says he is going to be laser focused on 2 to 3, Us. Senate seats
849
Manny: and 8 to 10 house seats, and
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Manny: I'm I'm intrigued to see A. How serious he is about this threat. But B. How much he's willing to bankroll this, because
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Manny: I think that's where it becomes difficult. It's not hard to come up with a platform. It's not hard to have people like come together for the logistics of it, but it's the money.
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Manny: It's the money, and I would envision that Elon would have to invest somewhere between a hundred 50 to 200 million dollars
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Manny: to be able to get the the ballot access for his candidates to be able to spend on these campaigns, be able to do ads and infrastructure. And I think, with him, having, you know, 200 billion dollars. He
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Manny: he might be able to find a hundred, 100 million 5,200 million to be able to do something with that.
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Manny: So I think this is going to be very interesting. It's going to make life hard for a lot of people.
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Manny: And with his statements that the the party is largely going to be focused on conservative, fiscally conservative bills or fiscally conservative ideals. I think it becomes real interesting
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Manny: about how everything realigns. Because, do you have current members of Congress see this happening? Say, well, I'm leaving. You know the Democrat caucus. I'm joining the America caucus, or I'm leaving a Republican caucus. I'm joining the America caucus. How many sitting people change parties? Who do they find in these places.
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Manny: And I'll say this, Elon.
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Manny: if Mark Robinson does run for the Senate, and you would like to find a candidate in North Carolina to represent the American party in a battle against Mark Robinson.
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Manny: hit me up.
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Manny: I would gratefully enjoy running against Mark Robinson.
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Manny: but I digress, but I digress but it'll be interesting to see how this plays out and could be a dramatic turning point in American politics, largely just because he has the money to do it, and has shown a propensity and willingness to spend the money politically if he feels as though he needs to.
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: I agree.
865
Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: That's that's my pickle.
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Manny: Hmm.
868
Jeezy: Of the week.
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Manny: We'll see what happens.
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Jeezy: I think that times are. Times are crazy. Bro.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: We we living in a wild time right now.
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Manny: But Jesus got to be looking for the sandals. You can't tell me he still ain't found them.
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Jeezy: Oh, I'm sure he know where they are.
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Manny: Unique.
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Jeezy: You just trying to give us a chance. Bro.
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Jeezy: I got faith that y'all gonna work it out. But maybe I'm wrong.
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Jeezy: But with that being said, we've reached the end of our episode, and there's always at the end of the episode. We have our spotlights of the week. So, my brother, what's your spotlight that you have going on.
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Manny: Man.
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Jeezy: This week.
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Manny: Well, we got an important date on the calendar that's getting ready to come up. January 9.th I'm sorry not. January 9, th sorry July 9, th
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Manny: and
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Manny: for those of you who are unfamiliar. July 9th is the end date for the 90 day, moratorium for tariffs. So after after the 9, th the pause on tariffs end, and all of the tariffs that he that he put up. If you don't already have a deal in place, then
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Manny: All those, all those go back. So that little island with the penguins. Yeah, tariffs are coming back. That 10%. It's coming for you.
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Jeezy: Somewhere 20, hey, brother Penguin was somewhere just shaking his head. Bro.
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Manny: Right you.
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Manny: Now. Why this ends up. Being a spotlight is a because this is happening. But B. There was a new leak or report coming out of the White House, where a senior trump administration insider told politico
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Manny: that the whole tariff policy, especially the Liberation Day deadlines, are more theatrical than actual substance.
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Manny: Their quote was, It's all fake. There's no deadlines. It's a self-imposed landmark for this theatrical show.
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Jeezy: That's that's crazy.
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Manny: To 1 point, I say, Duh.
892
Manny: but to the other point, I'm just kind of like.
893
Manny: So if y'all know this internally.
894
Manny: what are we doing here? Why are we playing around with the economy like this? Let's not.
895
Manny: Let's not. Are there some countries we actually need to have some, some true trade conversations with, yeah.
896
Jeezy: But leave the leave the penguins alone. They ain't do nothing. Leave Canada alone. Leave Mexico alone like.
897
Jeezy: Come on, now.
898
Manny: Too much right? And it's like.
899
Manny: for what like? What is this theater buying you a sense of power? No, you're you're just buying enemies. We've said it before, like at some point. You can't fight everybody.
900
Jeezy: Exactly.
901
Manny: We don't have an while. We have a lot of B 2 bombers. We don't have enough to fight everybody.
902
Manny: So yeah, so we will, we will watch what happens. As though the White House very, very strongly came out, and say, the hollowing out of American Main street and industry is not theatrical to show. President trump pledged to use tariffs to level the playing field, and the administration is committed to delivering on this pledge.
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Manny: to which I say, Okay, cool. So what we gonna do on Wednesday. So we'll find out on Wednesday and make calls from there.
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Jeezy: Bad.
905
Jeezy: Well, from my side of the of this spotlight.
906
Jeezy: man, there was something that happened over the this past week. There was a report that came out.
907
Jeezy: and on the 4th the Dutch and German intelligence released a report that was stating.
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Jeezy: that Russia had been increasingly using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
909
Jeezy: Now this report wasn't on any isolated incidents, but it was just.
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Manny: In general.
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Jeezy: In general that they were doing. But the Dutch Intel community believed that Moscow was testing the boundaries of international law, seeing how far it can push without triggering global retaliation, and that international law that they were talking about, that it violates was the 1993 chemical Weapons convention that bans both the use and development of such weapons in war.
912
Jeezy: Now it has been hard for them to trace to necessarily isolate an incident, but they feel like they're doing just a little bit just enough. And and Ukrainian warriors have talked about how they've even fallen ill from exposures to some of the trench war zone
913
Jeezy: warfare zones, but there hasn't been much discussion about it, and I thought that that was pretty.
914
Manny: Interesting, because I'm very.
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Jeezy: Problematic, but also this past week.
916
Jeezy: before that report came out in Brussels between July second and the 3, rd a Chinese Foreign Minister said to the EU Foreign Affairs. Chief, that Beijing cannot accept Russia losing its war to Ukraine.
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Manny: Oh, cause it looks bad on them.
918
Manny: Because that's in number 2.
919
Jeezy: And if they did, they felt like. Obviously there was to be a pressure from the Us. To fully pivot towards China, but I thought it was very interesting with him making those comments, and apparently those comments were made in private when he said that. And then, a day or 2 later you have this intelligence coming out about some of the chemical warfare that may be going on, that Russia is kind of tipping that line.
920
Jeezy: This may be a problem. And how far is Putin willing to really go
921
Jeezy: tiptoeing that line? And we still don't have a deal made in this. In this Ukraine Russia war.
922
Manny: I mean, I'm not shocked to hear this. I don't think anyone should be shocked to hear this.
923
Jeezy: Most definitely.
924
Manny: You know, we always knew that this could be an option that they would they would take up but this is concerning
925
Manny: this is concerning. And you know
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Manny: we're we're getting good news for us where it looks like we're getting ready to wrap up the situation. Israel, with with Gaza with a with sounds like a deals coming together there. We've kind of Israel and iran has calmed down so we might just be back down to one conflict. We can maybe pay attention to.
927
Jeezy: Yeah, hopefully, hopefully, because I think this war has been going on long enough. And
928
Jeezy: at this point, with this information, at what point does a line get enforced, and who
929
Jeezy: who will enforce it?
930
Jeezy: Yep, who's going to defend that line?
931
Jeezy: And I think that
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Jeezy: if if the other 2 wars are cleaned and off the table. This put some pressure on this trump administration to really do something, because it seems like Putin is definitely trying to tip his toe over that line and see how far he really can get. And if we decide to defend that line, what further implications does that bring us into when you see somebody like China making these comments over in Brussels.
933
Manny: But don't worry. 24 h, 24 h the war is gonna be over.
934
Jeezy: Bro. These the longest 20 bro. I ain't never felt 24 h that felt like 6 and a half months, but.
935
Manny: Laugh.
936
Jeezy: But yeah, man, that's my spotlight of the week. And that is the conclusion of our episode. Episode 27. So.
937
Jeezy: yeah, listeners hope you enjoy. We thank you for tuning in many, all hearts and minds. Clear anything, brother, you guys.
938
Manny: All, all hearts and minds clear over here.
939
Jeezy: All right, man. Well, as always, we appreciate you listening. As we always state. If don't nobody love. You just know the boys here at the pod.
940
Manny: So.
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Jeezy: We love. Y'all we thank you for tuning in like share. Follow, spread the word of partner politics, and we will see you at the next episode, take care!
942
Manny: Take care! Y'all.