Zelensky in a Suit and Putin on Speed Dial

In this hilariously loaded episode of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny cover a busy week!

Starting with things heat up internationally: Zelensky suits up for a high-stakes summit with Trump and European leaders. Trump? He’s tossing hats, fielding calls from Putin mid-meeting, and allegedly trying to earn a spot in heaven. Yeah, you read that right. From wild Oval Office interviews to makeup-covered hands and “Trump-was-right” merch, the political circus never rests.

Back home, ICE continues its baffling deportation gymnastics, as one Maryland man faces exile to Uganda, despite having zero ties there. Oh, and shoutout to Arizona Tea and Costco for still holding down the $1 deals. Real ones.

With laughs, real talk, and righteous outrage, this episode serves a full plate of political hot takes just not from Subway.

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Jeezy: Hello, world, and welcome back to Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 34.
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Jeezy: Right?
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Manny: Yep, yep.
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Jeezy: I agree.
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Manny: I don't know what.
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Jeezy: Check.
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Jeezy: I had to double check.
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Manny: We're starting to get up there. We starting to get up there.
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Jeezy: these episodes starting to add up, so… But welcome back to our listeners, another episode. We're so, so honored to have you here. I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner in politics, Manny. Manny, what's good on today, brother?
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Manny: Man, man, just, just trying to stay out here and avoid COVID, but we… we doing good, man. Doing good.
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Jeezy: Alright, alright.
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Manny: How you doing, brother?
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Jeezy: Hey, man, I heard a song that said, truth is, I'm tired.
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Jeezy: a few.
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Manny: Phew!
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Jeezy: Bruh. I have, school starting back up this week in my household, so…
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Jeezy: My youngest starting kindergarten, and my wife being a 4th grade teacher, who is 8 weeks away from dropping our baby girl.
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Manny: Yay!
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Jeezy: So yeah, it's a… it's a busy time in the Newton household, but … I'm glad to be 6 feet above than 6 feet below, bro.
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Manny: Hey, hey, brother.
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Jeezy: We'll count it a blessing. Always a blessing to be seen and not viewed.
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Jeezy: Woo! Yes, yes it is, yes it is. So welcome, listeners, back to the episode, back to the pod. We hope that this episode finds you in great spirits. Hopefully, you are all, doing well. We thank you for, lending us your ear for,
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Jeezy: the duration of this episode. So, before we get into it, Manny, how you feeling, man? You got anything you want to get off your chest?
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Manny: Look, man.
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Manny: So… This Friday.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: You know, and before I begin on that, Netflix, I think, is starting to find its footing in the.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Because, you know, this is the time of year where I'm like, I re-evaluate all my streaming services, because I've.
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Jeezy: Definitely that time, bro.
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Manny: Because I gotta get either Hulu Live or YouTube TV, so I'm going YouTube TV, because the NFL season's back. Welcome, welcome to the family.
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Manny: So…
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Manny: Netflix's lane is documentaries and comedy specials. I think that's all… we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do this immaculately.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: So, Friday… Me and my wife, we, we tuned in to a new documentary about Juicy Smooye.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: That's a win.
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Jeezy: For our listeners who may not know who…
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Jeezy: who Manny is referring to. He is referring to… Jussie Smollett.
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Manny: Like, you know, Juice Movie A.
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Jeezy: juice smooth.
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Jeezy: Pause, I feel like. Oh, boy.
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Jeezy: So he, so he dropped a new documentary.
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Manny: He dropped a documentary, and I was like, finally, he's about to hop on here and say that he did it. Paul. That was wild. This is about to be a wild segment over this next…
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Manny: But he… he was going… I thought, up to this point, I've been about 80-20%, 80-20, that he definitely did this. But you know what?
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Manny: After this, watching this documentary, I'm about… 60-40, he ain't do it.
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Jeezy: Really?
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Manny: Yeah, I'm about 60-40, he ain't do it.
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Jeezy: The, the, the details are, are… Are that solid, bruh?
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Manny: So… He's… he… he goes through everything and what happened. And…
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Manny: Here is the first thing that kind of caught me off guard, was…
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Manny: There was eyewitnesses of these attackers who also said they were white.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: And I was like, hold up, I don't ever remember hearing about any eyewitnesses.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, I've never heard about any eyewitnesses either.
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Manny: But apparently, there was a woman, she hops on, older, older white woman, she was like, yeah, I was out walking my kids, aka her dogs, … I was about to say, what did… did this happen, like, at 2 in the morning? Yeah, exactly.
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Jeezy: Okay, alright.
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Manny: She was out walking her dogs, and she says she saw a white man.
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Manny: With jacket on, cigarette, and a rope hanging out of his back… back pocket.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: So I was like, huh, that's interesting. And she walked past him and walked back by. And she was, like, definitely a white man. And I was like, okay, that's… that's interesting. But then, there was another security guard.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Who saw them running.
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Manny: Flashed his flashlight.
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Manny: Saw them, also said they were white.
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Manny: So when they went back and looked at the security cam footage.
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Manny: The 10… it was 10 seconds of it that's just completely missing.
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Manny: Yeah!
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Manny: Yeah….
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Jeezy: this company.
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Manny: Completely missing. Like, where… and, like, perfectly missing. Like, you would have seen them run by perfectly, he… because the thought was, hey, we're gonna get this… get this security video. If he flashes flashlight, we'll be able to get a clear shot at him.
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Manny: And that's just completely gone… gone missing.
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Jeezy: Out of the security footage.
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Manny: out of the security. It jumps ahead 10 seconds, kind of like, Trump and team did.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Manny: That whole missing minute.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Same thing. So, then on top of that, it was… they reminded us that this is the same Chicago PD that apparently, a couple months earlier, had killed a minor, a black minor, in the middle of the street and provided security and body cam footage, and 80 minutes was missing.
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Manny: Bro, what? Yeah, and this is, like, the weeks before, and I'm like, had no idea what this was happening. So, it paints the Chicago PD in a much…
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Manny: darker light. Like, you had motives to really wrap this up and really wrap this up fast.
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Manny: Hmm. Then, on top of that, so you had the security cam missing, you had the Chicago police with the motive, you had the two witnesses, and then, ultimately, there was no physical evidence tying the two brothers to actually being there.
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Manny: And then there's this whole thing with the two brothers, where when they searched their houses, they found all these guns.
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Manny: And normally that doesn't matter, except one of them is a felon, and you can't have any….
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Jeezy: Aww.
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Manny: So then, there's a video of them… they held those brothers for 48 hours, and in the… in the, like, the… the video from them in the interrogation, there's a… there's a point where they're talking to the… the, their attorney, talking about, well, what does it mean to have this sealed, and this unsealed.
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Manny: And it all… there's no clear discussion about what the deal was given to the brothers.
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Manny: But, if they found those guns in your house and you are a felon.
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Manny: Bruh, you're supposed to be going to jail.
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Jeezy: Yeah, why didn't go to… yeah, why didn't go to jail?
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Manny: And I'm just like, mmm… Mmm.
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Manny: It's… it's enough for me to say, you know what?
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Manny: I'm about 60-40, you didn't do it.
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Jeezy: Well, I may have to watch this because my only reason why I believe that he 100% did it is because ain't nobody with that amount of money
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Jeezy: Eating Subway at 2 AM.
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Manny: That's the… that's the big problem.
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Jeezy: For me, it was the subway.
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Manny: Play at 2 AM.
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Jeezy: Ain't nobody with that amount of money waking up. I don't care if you've been… bruh, I don't care if you drunk, high, and or both.
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Jeezy: The last thing that should be in your mind is, hmm, I'm hungry. Let me go get me a tuna meal from Subway.
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Manny: Right, at 2 AM, in the freezing cold.
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Jeezy: In the freezing cold, you traveled, and all you came back as a reward for enduring the harsh conditions was a 6-inch
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Jeezy: And a macadamia cookie?
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Manny: Bro.
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Jeezy: No, wait, now, them cookies… them cookies used to hit back in.
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Manny: They used to hit back in the day.
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Jeezy: But I know, I know that me and, Juicy Smoothie.
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Manny: 8.
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Jeezy: We ain't in the same tax bracket.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Jeezy: I'm sure that he is much higher of a tax bracket than I.
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Jeezy: And I don't even subject myself nor my family to eat Subway. If you hear me, Manny, I'm telling you right now.
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Jeezy: If you call me, and you say, hey.
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Manny: What you thinking about doing for dinner tonight? And I tell you, I'm going to pick up Subway, call the law. I'm calling, I'm calling help.
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Jeezy: Not alone.
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Jeezy: I am held… I am being held hostage.
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Jeezy: There is a man in my house that has my family tied up with ropes, and we are being held at gunpoint.
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Jeezy: That is my word right there, to let you know that trouble is afoot when I say subway, because I have not touched subway since I grad… bruh, since the ECU days, bruh.
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Manny: It's gotta….
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Jeezy: I have not, and I was going there because I had the Power Bucks. It was on campus, I could get it for cheap. But in my adult years, since I've… the Bible tells you that when you become a man, you put away childish things.
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Manny: And one of.
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Jeezy: The childish things that I put away, brother, when I became a man was eating at Subway, brother. I don't know what that meat is, but I know it ain't something I'm supposed to have.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Jeezy: Shout out to Subway. Shout out to Subway. I don't know… I don't know who's keeping Subway open.
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Manny: Look, they showed the security footage of the subway, and there was, like, 4 or 5 other people there.
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Jeezy: Yeah, y'all, at 2 o'clock in the morning.
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Manny: 2 o'clock in the morning.
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Jeezy: Oh, y'all terrific. Y'all can at least do Jersey Mike's, y'all can do Quiznos. But those….
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Manny: Those places are closed at 2 AM.
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Jeezy: Bruh, if I gotta… bruh, I'm eating whatever we got at the house.
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Jeezy: I'm not going to Subway in the brutal cold.
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Manny: I'm a DoorDash, I'm a Uber Eats something.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I wouldn't even DoorDash that, because I'm not even about to let… I'm not even about to be embarrassed when the person come drop my food off and say, you live here, and you eating Subway? That's never… I'm judging. If I'm the… if I'm the… if I'm the DoorDash driver, if I pull up to this nice luxury apartment with a bag of Subway, oh, I'm judging you hard about it. I'm an off-gate, I'ma think you must do crap.
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Jeezy: You gotta do great.
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Jeezy: You want something. Heroin, crack, something.
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Manny: Bruh, he on that stuff.
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Jeezy: He on that… he on that stuff, you hear me? Bruh. I don't believe… that was what was holding me up, but if you're telling me that this documentary…
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Jeezy: Questions the legitimacy of all that we have been told in the media and in the news outlets.
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Jeezy: He might be right, bro.
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Manny: I just… look… I… I feel like MLK at the end of it, and I'm just like, somebody.
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Jeezy: Told a lie one day. Somebody told a lie one day.
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Manny: Somebody told a lie one day.
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Jeezy: Well, he's been very adamant that, he's innocent, and… I don't know, bruh.
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Jeezy: I will say that it looks like, from what I… from what details I can gather, that from the director and producer, they, they were the same ones that did the documentary, Don't F with Cats, and I don't know if anybody's ever seen that doc.
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Manny: wild.
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Jeezy: That dog was wild, but it was good. Like, I have a very short attention span. I got the attention span of a toddler.
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Jeezy: I can get lost real…
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Jeezy: you got about, you got about 1 to 5 minutes with me, and I'm like, you know how many documentaries I've started, and didn't even get to the good stuff, because I'm like, yeah, it's too slow. They killed that Don't F with Cats documentary, so if they… if they were the ones that, they are the ones that did this one, I'm gonna have to give it a spin, bro.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Manny: It's only an hour and a half.
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Jeezy: Oh, that ain't bad.
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Manny: Yeah, it's not a multi-part….
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Jeezy: And if they're releasing that much detail, then yeah, that's enough to keep my attention. I'm gonna have to tune in, bro.
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Manny: Yeah, man.
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Jeezy: Well….
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Manny: But, back to the shitshow that is American politics, how's everyone doing?
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Jeezy: Hey! We got wings in the back, meatballs…
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Jeezy: There's, sweet tea, lemonade, and water, come have a seat.
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Jeezy: So, with, this past week, we had another summit.
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Jeezy: loosely use of the word summit, but there was the… this one actually might be close to a summit.
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Manny: Yeah, I think it… I think it reaches….
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Jeezy: I think this is a summit, yeah.
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Manny: I mean, there was more than 3 parties.
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Jeezy: There were. And it was all day.
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Manny: It was all day. All day, not a quick stop by, hey, let me stop by your office, we gotta chat.
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Jeezy: So, for those of you that don't know, there was the Washington Summit, we'll call it that. That took place, this past week, where there was a meeting between, Trump
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Jeezy: Ukraine president, the Ukrainian President, Zelensky, key European leaders, and they met in Washington, and what they, were meeting for was a discussion on.
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Jeezy: What are the next steps in this Ukraine-Russia war? For those of you who are not familiar with what happened this past week, we'll fill you in, but the first thing I want to say is that Zelensky looked nice in his little black getup.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: He looked nice, bro. He did, he did. He looked presidential for Wink.
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Manny: And we talked about it last episode, we both were wondering how he was gonna show up.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And he's like, let me go ahead and throw in this tie before I gotta cuss JD out again. Yep. And it becomes a situation in the Oval Office. He already too close to poo-poo, so… Poo-poo.
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Manny: That's what I just imagined they refer to Putin in the group chat.
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Jeezy: Good. Poo-poo.
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Manny: Because side note, in a bit of too much information I learned, this… this week, the Russian government actually has, like, a portable
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Manny: bathroom for Putin to use, and they take all of his body waste with him back to Russia. So foreign governments can't take it and analyze it for, like, its biology and understand the health issues that Putin is dealing with.
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Jeezy: I was gonna say, well, they gonna take it and create a clone or something? Yep.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: Bruh, that's wild.
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Manny: But I digress.
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Jeezy: So yeah, they, they, they met, and even Trump said in…
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Jeezy: he complimented Zelensky on his outfit a little too much. Trump get weird like that, and I don't know if that's just like a… you know, no offense, I don't know if that's just, like, a white man thing, but the over-complimenting of a man, like, oh, you look great, you look real handsome, you look…
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Jeezy: Like, whoa, pause, bro. All I got on is a black getup, bro. Like, y'all act like I came here, like, fitted up, dipped in butter. I don't… I don't get it.
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Manny: But all he needed… all he needed was a gold tie, and Trump might have walked him over to the new, stop and shop in the Oval Office and given that new black and gold cap.
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Jeezy: Hey, I ain't gonna fret.
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Manny: That black and gold cap is fresh.
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Jeezy: The black and gold Make America, again, hat is clean.
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Jeezy: That is by far the cleanest of the hats that I've seen that he's created. But he should have gave Zelensky one. Why he ain't walk him over to the little… to the gift shop? The White House has a gift shop, bruh. All of Trump merchandise. Do you know how wild that is?
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Manny: Selling your own merch.
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Jeezy: Selling your own merch in the White House, bruh, is insane.
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Manny: And that's not the only one, like, apparently, whoever is, like, working on the ballroom, they were there, and he's like… Trump loves sitting behind his, desk, and we'll get to that… that in a little bit, but he threw them hats. He's like, hey, you take a hat, you take… and I'm just like, bruh…
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Manny: They… first….
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Jeezy: Puerto Rico 2.0, bruh.
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Manny: Yeah, like, he loves throwing stuff.
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Jeezy: He loved Bray, bro, like, why couldn't you just hand it to him?
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Manny: They weren't that far away.
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Manny: Walk over….
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Jeezy: Is it a disgust thing? Like, you stay right there, let me just hand this to you, like, just toss it to you.
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Manny: Huh.
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Jeezy: which I might add, he's pretty accurate. He's… he's… look… He's pretty accurate, and he has good form.
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Manny: Beat… I mean, accuracy is accuracy. We cannot stunt the form on which Trump throws his hats.
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Jeezy: I think the, the, the, the, the poor, the poor form.
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Jeezy: Throw it to the poor.
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Manny: But yes, the summit. Sorry, y'all. Y'all, it's about to be one of those episodes where we all over the place.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: So….
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Jeezy: chemical.
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Manny: Buckle up, here we are.
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Manny: But you know what, I was glad to see… Europe very much rally.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: you know, when they knew… because I believe this meeting between Zelensky and Trump had been on the calendar for a little bit, and after they saw that he was going to meet with Putin a couple days before, they're like, oh no, we pulling up.
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Manny: We got some things to say, you know, but you're not about to just bully Ukraine into doing whatever Russia wants.
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Jeezy: Yeah, and I think that was some of the tone that he had before going into it.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I think one of the things that were mentioned was, look, just give him Crimea. Like, just give him what he wants, in the land that he's already occupied, look, just give it to him, and let's be done with it. And it's like, bruh, like….
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Manny: This is mine!
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Jeezy: And which we mentioned on the pod last time, because if Zelensky signs off on that, then what's to stop any other further acquisition of any land in Ukraine, and just taking over Ukraine completely? Right.
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Manny: Right. So, I think the biggest thing to come out of this… pause, was… was the fact that this is the first time
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Manny: And he backtracked almost immediately, but he came out and said that, hey, the U.S. was willing to be involved in, you know, maintaining peace and order and enforcing this.
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Manny: And we hadn't… we hadn't heard Trump say anything.
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Manny: in regards to that, he's been non-committal. Now, the people got pretty…
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Manny: pretty freaked out when he came out and ended up walking back, saying, hey, he's not going to put U.S. troops on the ground. But his focus is that, hey, we can provide support from the air, and, you know, if Europeans are gonna take the ground, we'll cover the air.
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Manny: And I think it was very interesting to hear him say that.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I think so as well, and I think we even talked about it on the last episode of what his tone and approach was going to be.
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Jeezy: … And I was… I was surprised a bit.
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Jeezy: I thought that he would…
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Jeezy: kind of do what he did last time that Zielinski was there, and maybe because Zelensky pulled up with reinforcements, that the president decided to not play bully ball, but be presidential.
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Jeezy: And I think even coming from, you know.
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Jeezy: Well, let me ask this, to kind of go into this next part.
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Jeezy: Do you think that Zelensky walked away with a win?
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Jeezy: Or do you think it's… it was a draw, or do you think he… he lost in some capacity with this summit?
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Manny: It's… I'm not sure. Yeah. I think… I think he definitely got some wins here with getting the… the West to say, hey, we are going to be, you know, helping enforcing whatever security guarantees that come out of this.
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Manny: I think Ukraine won in terms of them saying, hey, this needs to be a three-group negotiation between Ukraine, the U.S, and Russia.
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Manny: I… But, again, much like the Putin summit.
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Jeezy: Nothing….
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Manny: nothing got signed, nothing got agreed to. These are all… for all intents and purposes, these are all just platitudes that could change from day to day.
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Jeezy: They're pulling a Jared Jones and Michael Parsons, like, we talking, but ain't nothing been signed.
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Manny: But let me tell you who I think actually won this summit.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Emmanuel Macron.
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Jeezy: Really?
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Manny: I think he won. Okay. Because if you watch him in this entire summit, you watch the clips, you watch the entire one, he is essentially, at least from my standpoint.
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Manny: serving as the leader of the European government.
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Jeezy: Bruh, that's a… that's Manny, that's a very good point, because now that you mention that, he did… he did move that way.
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Manny: Yeah, he moved, like.
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Jeezy: It's moving that way.
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Manny: I run this. And so, I think he… he won a fair bit, especially when you talk about going back home.
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Jeezy: And for France to be as small as it is, you know, comparatively.
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Manny: … And, you know, if France came out ahead, that means the UK also fell back.
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Manny: Mmm. Curr stammer.
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Manny: You know, to see…
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Manny: I feel like Stammer's a little bit more low-key than some of his other predecessors that would have been like, hey, oh yo, France, no, chill. You're France. We got this here in the UK. …
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Manny: So… Stammer got shown to have very limited influence with Trump.
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Manny: In comparison to… to Macaroon.
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Manny: So, I think that… that's very interesting to see. I think the other interesting thing to see was the fact that Finland went.
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Manny: Yeah. Because they are one of the newest members of NATO, and being the closest.
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Manny: you know, I think for them, there is… they have… I think you have…
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Manny: Ukraine with the most to lose, but then right behind it, you have Finland, just because of raw, proximity to everything that's going on.
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Manny: And then, NATO as a whole, as a bloc, I think they got to be seen as very much involved in the negotiations, but not actually involved.
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Manny: So… The other winner, I think, in this ends up being Russia.
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Manny: Yeah. Because when Trump came out and said, hey, yeah, I'm gonna go call Putin right now.
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Jeezy: Yo.
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Manny: That's a lot.
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Jeezy: I mentioned that. I immediately thought of the pie, because when I heard that… that he stopped in the middle of it to go take a call with Putin, I was like, I don't… that… that looks like… that looked real… in my opinion, looked real weak. Like, … Let me go check with Daddy. Daddy called.
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Manny: Daddy.
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Jeezy: I'll talk to you when I get done, not, oh, wait a minute, my dad's calling.
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Jeezy: That reminds me, like, when I got my first cell phone when I was a freshman in high school at 13, my mom always told me, when I call that phone.
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Jeezy: You better ask.
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Manny: You better pick that thing up. Yup.
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Jeezy: And it better not be the fourth ring, either. You better pick that phone up.
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Manny: You got 3. You got….
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Jeezy: Three is way too many.
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Manny: You got one to recognize that the phone is ringing, you got a second to locate it, you got a third to hit send. Yep.
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Jeezy: After that, my mom was very straight, but I better not ever hear what your voicemail sounds like. If I hear a voicemail, we got a problem. So, for him to have that energy that he had to go and talk to Putin as if he couldn't… Putin couldn't wait.
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Jeezy: I kinda just was like, … that still looks like… and to me, I'm thinking from a…
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Jeezy: from the way that Putin may be trying to curve it, like, yeah, y'all talking, but when… but when I enter the room, when it's… when I am a part of this, everything shuts down to hear what I got to say. That's how I looked at it.
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Manny: Oh, absolutely.
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Jeezy: And I think that that kinda…
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Jeezy: took a little bit of the summit, a little bit of the win out of the sails for the summit, because like you said earlier, we walked away from it, and ultimately, we still didn't have it, we don't have anything. There was a verbal commitment for them to explore security, guarantees.
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Jeezy: But… Nothing. Okay.
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Manny: It's gonna get hammered out, like, I think they gotta… who's sending troops?
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: We say, hey, U.S. is gonna control the air, you sending Raptors, you're gonna have a B-2 flying back and forth.
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Manny: you know…
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Manny: I think there's so many things that have to be ironed out here that we don't know the validity of what actually happened here until, I would say, until we get that trilateral meeting.
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Jeezy: Yeah, which I think that… and I think Trump has already commented, saying that they're on the way, that, the trilateral meeting involving, himself, Zelensky, and Putin are in talks, but again, there's no firm date, there's no agreement.
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Jeezy: And I think, as of right now, Moscow hasn't even confirmed a willingness to even participate in it, if I'm not mistaken.
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Jeezy: So it's something that Trump is urging to happen, and I believe some of the European leaders as well said that they wanted to be…
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Jeezy: a part of that, or at least, you know, around… In the know. Yeah, in the know of what that may entail, if they're going to, have the support for Ukraine as they do, but…
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Jeezy: even in spite of all of this, the NATO-like security guarantees that, with a verbal commitment, but no real structure or framework of how that's going to happen.
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Jeezy: The war's just going on.
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Manny: Right. Things… things are still happening, and….
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Jeezy: No ceasefire.
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Manny: No ceasefire, no ceasefire whatsoever.
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Manny: And you gotta think, you know, if you're… if you're Trump, how do you…
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Manny: When do you have something to deliver?
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And I think until he has that, there's going to be questions.
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Manny: You know what?
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Jeezy: Our good brother Chuck always has said, you know, don't talk my head off, show me. Right. You know, at some point, all these talks.
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Jeezy: They don't mean anything if we're not getting anything done.
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Jeezy: I can come out every day and tell you, hey, I'm working on it, hey, I'm working on it. That's just like our jobs. We both work in corporate America. If my director comes to me and says, hey, where are we at on this? And I say, hey, we're working on it. Hey, we're working on it. Eventually, my boss is gonna be like, hey, okay, I hear you keep talking about you working on it, but when are we gonna see something? When are we gonna see some progress? When are we gonna see,
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Jeezy: A real-life solution, or a result, or a path, or a plan.
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Jeezy: Right. Right now, we're not getting anything, we're just hearing talk, talk, talk, talk, but there's still nothing going on.
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Manny: Well, and then that led up to, you know, this week, Trump was taking, questions in the Oval Office, and let's just play a quick clip.
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Manny: Into what happened there.
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Jeezy: I was sent one, and I thought you'd all like to see it. That's a man named Vladimir Putin.
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Jeezy: Who I believe will be coming, depending on.
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Manny: what happens?
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Manny: He may be coming, and he may not, depending on what happens. We have a lot of things happening over the.
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Jeezy: There you go. Next couple of weeks. But I thought it was a nice picture of him.
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Manny: Okay of me, but nice of him.
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Manny: So that was very nice that it was sent to me, okay? Mr. President, yes. On that subject, have you talked to Vladimir Putin about the fact that yesterday a big U.S. factory was hit in a Russian airstrike in Ukraine? What's your reaction to that? I'm not happy about it. And I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I said…
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Manny: Bruh, first off.
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Jeezy: Yo, this man held up a school photo!
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Jeezy: Oh, give me poop!
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Manny: Bruh, that's… that is best friend, man.
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Jeezy: Bruh. You may know him, he's a man named Vladimir Putin.
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Jeezy: Absolutely hate.
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Jeezy: And I don't mean any harm, bruh. And this is what kills me… about…
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Jeezy: the MAGA… the MAGA movement, and just MAGA in general.
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Jeezy: Is that he talks
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Jeezy: As if everybody is just stupid, and he's the smart one, and people just eat it up.
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Jeezy: It's crazy. The fact that he's doing this whole segment, I think it's Friday.
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Manny: with a Trump-was-right-about-everything hat.
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Jeezy: No, you weren't.
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Manny: Talking about how he might be coming, pause. But, you know, but he's still bombing.
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Manny: Things are still….
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Jeezy: When they ask you about him hitting that place in Ukraine, I'm not very happy about it.
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Manny: Very happy.
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Jeezy: And do something about it. How about you go do something about it and be happy about it?
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Manny: But here is… here's the piece that I find also really interesting, and… and guys, we're gonna… we're gonna take a brief trip… -oh. …to one of our favorite times during this, so hit my theme music.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah. Let's go.
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Manny: So I just want to point out, this happened in the Oval Office.
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Manny: And…
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Manny: I don't know if you know this, but apparently, good old Donnie hasn't been golfing in the last 2 weeks.
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Jeezy: Oh, ….
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Manny: And more and more often, he is doing these interviews from in the Oval… in the Oval Office, behind the desk.
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Manny: On top of that, the makeup that they keep using on his hands keeps getting worse and worse.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: I don't know what's… I'm not a doctor.
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Manny: But… It's real strange, much of this man loves golf, and finds time to golf. You know, for him….
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Jeezy: You can't golf when your hands on tools.
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Manny: Your hands all tore up, and your cankles all sore.
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Jeezy: Yeah, could we? We hadn't seen them cankles in a while.
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Manny: Yeah, that air pressure from Hurricane Aaron tearing them up.
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Jeezy: Trump get out of bed, say, for as soon as he get out of bed, it's gonna rain today. How you no president?
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Manny: My left ankle.
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Jeezy: Man, fold back the covers. Look at my
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Jeezy: my ankles. They'll tell you everything you need to know. It's gonna rain. Heavy rain in Washington today.
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Manny: At least three and a half inches of rain.
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Jeezy: How do you know?
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Manny: and it's.
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Jeezy: comforts of my ankle right now, swelling. Swelling up. But that's a good point, though, man, because he has not golfed in a while, and we know Trump does love….
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Manny: You love some golf, man.
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Jeezy: And… there has been conversations about his health.
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Manny: Meh.
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Jeezy: Has started to climb more, because the, I believe, where they're covering up, on his hand, that spot from where it was, all that started up about, what, 2 months ago, a month ago?
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Jeezy: to bring this up, it's getting… that spot on his hand is getting bigger. It's almost… it's almost the front of his palm is, like, completely covered. The front side of his hand.
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Manny: So, he's a… yeah, I don't know what's happening.
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Jeezy: The phone hasn'.
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Manny: Something happened. Something happened, they ain't letting us know.
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Jeezy: Well, I mean, something might be happening, because didn't he mention sometime this week that, … Oh, yeah, he's trying to get… he's trying to get in there.
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Manny: Heaven!
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Manny: Hey, bro. Now, before we go any further on this one, let's be clear. There's only one route to heaven.
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Manny: And that is through the acceptance of Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
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Manny: And I would encourage anyone who listens to this pod that if you don't.
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Manny: If you don't currently believe that, you go ahead and take yourself a journey through the first four books of the, …
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Manny: the New Testament.
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Manny: and learn about what our Savior Jesus Christ did.
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Manny: And that salvation is given and not earned. So, first off… so, Mr. Trump, that's your first problem.
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Jeezy: That's true.
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Jeezy: We can't earn salvation.
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Manny: And our net.
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Manny: You can't earn your ticket into heaven.
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Manny: But now that we got that, you know, we took care of that, yeah, brother, look, man, I don't… first, if you are wondering if you're going to get into heaven.
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Jeezy: That might be that you feel like you might be knocking.
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Manny: It's getting close. It's getting… it's getting close.
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Jeezy: As my uncle would say, Brother Trump is closer to the exit than the entrance.
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Manny: Right. Right.
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Manny: So, for… for him to say, hey, I gotta do this to try to get into heaven, like…
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Manny: Are you starting to have that? Because he hears that… the, the part that got me was him saying, because I hear I'm not doing well. Okay.
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Manny: So this could mean one or two things. Either A, you ain't done enough good things to… in your head to get to heaven, or you're not doing well as, look, man, you should not be drinking 8 Diet Cokes and 3 Big Macs a day.
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Jeezy: I don't care how much they tell you, it's zero sugar in them, but….
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Manny: But just….
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Jeezy: At that point, though.
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Jeezy: I wonder why'd you pick this war? Because if you wanna… if you wanna do a good deed, I thought that you could just, I don't know, maybe stop the man-made famine that's happening in Gaza to the Palestinian people? Maybe that might be easier? I think that might be an easier one for you to earn a ticket, if that's what you're trying to do.
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Manny: I mean, even better, how about you yourself just stop trying to create a localized civil war, launching your own military in various places across the country?
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Jeezy: For you not to be able to buy your ticket into heaven, and you think that if you want to get to heaven, you gotta pick something… one thing that you got to do.
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Jeezy: To make sure you can get it at Heavy, you chose this war.
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Manny: This war. Not the war… not the war you're starting.
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Jeezy: Maybe not the mistreatment of the immigrants, and maybe we can handle that with more compassion, or you could end homelessness, or….
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Manny: Not the war. You could call Benjamin Netanyahu and tell him, Abrah, it's over. Stop.
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Jeezy: Trump could stop.
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Manny: the war on Gaza with a phone call.
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Jeezy: Oh, brother, definitely.
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Jeezy: He definitely could.
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Manny: he could.
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Jeezy: That's why I don't understand it. You know, I'm not even gonna get into it, because I ain't gonna ever get pissed off.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Right now, I believe that Israel has started their
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Jeezy: Their offense on, was it Gaza City?
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Manny: Gaza City, and at this point, the agencies are now saying that, Gaza is an official famine now. Yep.
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Manny: As if it, you know, we ain't know that before. Yeah. So, the situation, it continues to get more and more dire out there, and I'm just saying, this is the war you gotta stop to get, like…
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Manny: Sir.
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Manny: Now, people are dying. People are definitely dying in that war. But, like…
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Manny: You don't have enough control in this war to stop it.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: You can slow it up, but you cannot stop it. But there are other.
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Jeezy: But there are definitely other conflicts.
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Manny: you have complete ability to step in and handle, and you're not. So…
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Manny: I'm just saying, look, it doesn't matter what you do, because crisis standard is perfection.
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Manny: But, I'm just saying, this is a poor executed plan, even from your own standpoint.
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Jeezy: Exactly.
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Jeezy: It's, it's just… ugh.
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Jeezy: I'm wondering, as we go further and further, … down this, this, …
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Jeezy: Down this, this, this path of this war.
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Jeezy: And with reports being that Moscow hasn't even committed to participating in this trilateral meeting, we don't even know where it's gonna take place at, but I'm sure it's not. I know one place that ain't gonna be at, it ain't gonna be in Washington.
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Manny: It's not gonna be… it could.
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Manny: It could.
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Jeezy: Dave, who's gonna come to the white?
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Manny: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: You saw how excited he was to hop out. Do you realize….
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Jeezy: But see, but see, he won't that far from home, though.
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Jeezy: Alaska ain't that far from the house.
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Manny: But that's the thing. So you're mean to tell me that… Putin would have to fly.
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Manny: His airplane.
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Manny: With his fighter jets, over American airspace.
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Manny: the entire American airspace to get to Washington, D.C. That… man, Putin…
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Manny: if he… excited… excited beyond all get out to go to DC. So he's gonna get escorted, not only by Russian military, but also… because if I'm the Russian military.
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Manny: I'm gonna… I'm not gonna let my president fly. Like, I… I trust the U.S, trust whatever that looks like, but I'm… I'm gonna be there, so you're gonna have them fly Russian assets.
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Manny: onto a U.S. military base, because where are they gonna go? They gotta put them down somewhere.
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Manny: Oh yeah, he would absolutely come to DC. Absolutely.
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Jeezy: I'm asking this because I'm not 100% sure, but I think that it hasn't happened, but Putin has never been to the White House, has he?
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Manny: I have no idea.
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Manny: I have no idea. That is a great question.
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Jeezy: Because I just thought about that. That would be… I don't… I don't recall, or at least I have never seen it.
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Jeezy: Certainly within… in my adult years, I don't recall seeing it, but….
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Manny: He did visit, he did visit, in 2001. November, George W. Bush hosted him as part of an official state visit.
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Manny: So….
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Jeezy: The homie, Bush.
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Manny: Yeah, yeah.
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Jeezy: He was the funniest president we ever had until….
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Manny: Bro.
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Jeezy: till Trump got in office. I… I don't agree with nothing that George Bush necessarily did to an extent, not everything, but one thing that I have… I thoroughly enjoyed is that man is very comical.
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Manny: Bro. Torn blizzard.
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Jeezy: Funny dude, bruh.
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Manny: Right, he… His ability to connect to the common man for his simplicity.
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Jeezy: Manny, that is like a… It's such a… professional ways.
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Jeezy: You're calling someone… just… you're just goofy.
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Jeezy: I've never seen a president have shoes thrown at him, couldn't open doors, couldn't even finish his… he didn't know what he was saying at rallies, he was just talking.
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Manny: The… the shoe throw… I love the shoe throwing video, because he throws the video, Bush ducks, and smiles, because internally, he is probably like, this is funny. Dodge is the other one, like, ha!
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Manny: Can't catch me, ha! Yeah.
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Jeezy: In a country where, shoes are not….
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: That's something you just have a plethora of, so this man threw his last two pair.
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Manny: Bye It's Pear Birkenstein.
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Jeezy: Just in a complete different space. Disgust. A disgust of an American president, bruh.
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Jeezy: I have never in my life, and I thought about that, because I seen that clip roll across my social media this past weekend, and I thought to myself.
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Jeezy: Bruh, you know how great this would be if that happened to Trump.
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Jeezy: to see that happen to Trump would be….
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Manny: So comical. Which I hope that he dodges one, but get hit by the second one.
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Jeezy: And it somehow just grazes his hair, where it just….
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Manny: He flips it out.
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Jeezy: It takes the weasel out of position? Oh, bruh.
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Jeezy: I'm ready, I'm ready, Lord, you can come get me now. I done had the best laugh that I can have on.
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Manny: Is there….
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Jeezy: I'm ready to come home.
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Manny: Oh, man, that would be… hilarious.
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Jeezy: Bruh, but….
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Manny: The aftermath for that person involved would not be.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
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Manny: But….
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Jeezy: They gonna televise his execution worldwide.
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Manny: Bruh. Trump gonna bring him in the middle of Fifth Ave and let him have it. Bruh.
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Jeezy: Remember back when he was running for office, he said, I could… I could shoot a man… That'll be the man he shoots?
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Manny: That'd be the.
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Jeezy: And he shoot.
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Manny: Bye.
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Jeezy: I was just curious, man, because I didn't know if Putin had been to Washington. If he went in 2001, I can tell you right now, Putin, if you're listening, or any people that may be a connection to you, the food in D.C. is a lot better now than it was then.
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Manny: It is.
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Jeezy: So, if you….
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Manny: It's a lot better.
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Jeezy: So you… so come on and take a visit, we can take you down to Hitchin' Post.
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Manny: Now, I don't know… I don't know if the food at the White House is better.
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Jeezy: That I can't guarantee you.
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Manny: Well, look.
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Jeezy: with the locals.
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Jeezy: Putin, let… hey, if you come to… decide to come to Washington, let the boys here at the pod know.
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Jeezy: We'll meet ya, we'll meet you up in DC.
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Jeezy: We'll even give you some gear and stuff to kinda… kinda disguise you a little bit.
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Manny: Because, cuz it could….
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Jeezy: DC's a melting pot, so you can fit in, and nobody would even know. We'll get you in the car, take you over to hitching post, ain't none of those folks in Hitchin' post gonna ask a question. They probably ain't even gonna recognize you.
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Manny: And I don't even know if Russians eat fried chicken, but you can. You can. And I'll tell you who will today.
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Jeezy: You will go back. You will go back to Russia, and I bet that you'll be requesting it. Yup. So, man, I'm interested to see, going forward, where this…
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Jeezy: this Ukraine-Russian war conflict goes, because with just getting verbal commitments with no framework of…
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Jeezy: Security guarantees, no ceasefire.
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Jeezy: I mean, it's talked, but it's… to me, it's just dropping water in a bucket at this point.
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Manny: I do believe, though, we are closer to the end of the conflict than we are of the beginning.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: now….
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Jeezy: So what you just said is what Arnold said, the coach of Arnold just said.
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Jeezy: Hey, y'all, we down, but we not up.
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Manny: not have, like….
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I don't know if an ending is… is going to hap…
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Manny: Even better. I… I'm going with prediction, and I feel like I need to get a theme music for my prediction.
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Jeezy: Right, yeah, you do, bro. You do. We'll go ahead and figure that out.
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Manny: I believe… That there will be some type of resolution.
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Manny: to the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Manny: By this time next year.
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Jeezy: There might not be no Ukraine left.
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Manny: Well, I mean, that is a resolution, that is.
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Manny: But I believe Trump is going to want something he can give his Republican colleagues.
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Jeezy: Mmm, going on.
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Manny: to run on heading into the election, and it being handled in this time period allows time for people to spin up ads and all of that ahead. So, I would say by summer next year, we… it should be done.
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Jeezy: But to me, that's kind of the same as what we were talking about with…
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Jeezy: Him trying to get into heaven and picking that war, like, if you wanna give them the run-on, you gonna give them that when inflation is happening, prices are going up….
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Manny: Oh, inflation's here to stay, bud. I mean….
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Jeezy: Could it not be something else? Like, if I'm an American, and you've ended the Russia-Ukraine war, yay, but I'm paying $12 for eggs now.
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Jeezy: My family hasn't had a… we haven't had scrambled eggs in 9 months. We can't afford them.
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Manny: I think… I think at Trump… for Trump at this point, he's now trying to…
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Manny: Figure out what he can do to offset other things.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: So, inflation gets too high, you know, I think that's when you put in that call and be like, hey, Ben, chill out.
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Manny: I think, you know, we find out UF… he releases the Area 51 stuff, you know, if these Epstein files keep going on, because they dropped those, and what is it, like, 97% of the files that they dropped?
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Jeezy: public.
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Manny: RA public, and I'm like, yep. Quit playing.
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Manny: Give us the files, man. Give us the files.
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Manny: In fact.
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Jeezy: My mad IB is I was waiting on some documents on Friday, and they give them to me at 4.30, 4.45, when I get off at 5, and it's… and 98% of it is what I already.
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Manny: I already knew.
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Jeezy: Robbie, like, man, you know what?
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Manny: Kid.
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Jeezy: When I get back Monday, I'm about to cut y'all out so… so corporately, it ain't gonna make nobody sense.
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Manny: Bruh, so I think he's… I think he's trying to pace it out. I think he's trying to pace it out, because from the Trump perspective, to also hear Jerome Powell.
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Manny: you know, be able to be like, hey, rate cuts are coming. Yeah, rate cuts are coming. Why? Because the only people hiring right now, it looks like from the reports, is the public sector, and that's limited, extremely limited, only to, like, healthcare. You got farmers out here struggling, because now they're trying to do all the harvesting, they don't have people, they're having issues getting supplies.
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Manny: Costa… you saw the interview with the… and look.
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Manny: There are two CEOs.
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Manny: that are the safest CEOs in America.
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Manny: And that's the CEO of Costco.
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Manny: And the CEO of, of, Arizona Ice Tea.
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Manny: safest CEOs in the country. They ain't gotta worry about Luigi pulling up on them at all. If someone pulls up on them, they're, you know, giving them a hug or some flowers.
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Jeezy: How Arizona tea has been a dollar for 20 years is mixed.
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Manny: Yeah, well, he came out on that interview and said, look, that's… he's like, I wanted a drink.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: That the hard-working person could just go and buy for a dollar.
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Jeezy: Yep. And he's like, look.
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Manny: we are still going to sell Arizona iced tea for a dollar.
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Manny: But I just want y'all to know that the price of aluminum has gone up 40% this year, and that's wild.
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Jeezy: That is why.
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Manny: That is wild. And he's like, we're gonna eat the cost. But he's like, other smaller places like us.
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Jeezy: They can't do it.
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Manny: They can't absorb it. So….
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Jeezy: Shout out to Arizona team, bro, because you're a real one for that. Now, see, Trump, if you want to get into heaven, you do stuff like that. Right.
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Manny: Right. And then you got the Costco… Costco, CEO, who's like, hey, this… this hot dog and drink is gonna keep being $1.50, but sir, we're losing money. I don't care.
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Jeezy: to God.
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Manny: of 50. This is… I'm standing on this.
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Jeezy: Stand and own it.
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Manny: So, they… look, if works could get them in heaven….
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: That's how you do it.
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Manny: That's how you do it. That's how you… Trump, that is how you do it. If you try… if you want works to get you into heaven, and again, for all of our listeners, works will not get you into heaven. Nope. But do some stuff. Forgive all the student loans.
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Jeezy: And do it from your heart, generously, like, not grudgingly, as the Bible says. Right.
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Manny: Now, look, another prediction, if things really go sideways, and he's got a…
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Manny: I would not be surprised if all of a sudden you saw student loan forgiveness pop back out there, and him trying to help people.
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Jeezy: Well, hey, you know, it was stuff floating around on social media that they were getting some more Trump checks out here.
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Manny: Yeah, what?
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Manny: Because it's expensive, man, it's expensive!
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Jeezy: A Trump check is coming!
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: So, we'll see, like, Trump's got a whole lot going on.
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Jeezy: And a lot of it, I wonder how much of it is you…
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Jeezy: Going to that Golden Corral buffet and realizing that you're putting a lot on that plate when…
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Jeezy: Those plates aren't that big. It's not meant for you to pile everything up there, that's why you go back numerous times.
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Manny: Numerous times. Numerous times. Funny Golden Corral story while we're here.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: So, in high school, I wrestled.
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Jeezy: Okay. And….
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Manny: you know, in North Carolina, the weight limit was 275.
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Manny: So I'm com… I'm entering this season at 300 pounds, so I cut weight.
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Manny: Sir, that… I have so many subway-foot-long sandwiches. Yeah. But I get down 275 so I can wrestle.
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Manny: season's over.
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Manny: So, like, I get down to 275, and I struggle. Like, I'm eating salads every day, because I only got a pound to give, really.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So, end of the season, we go… we go to Golden Corral.
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Manny: as we're getting off the bus, for the end of the year, they took us to Golden Corral, and then a movie. So…
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Manny: we're on the bus, we pull up, he's like, hey, E. He… well, he called me Tiny, so he's like, Tiny.
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Manny: Right, you know… But, Brian, listeners, bro, listen.
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Jeezy: that don't know, in our American culture, so if somebody got a nickname like Tiny, Slim, chances are.
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Manny: They're a big person. And he's like, you go first. And I was like, I respect that, Coach.
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Manny: Let me tell you…
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Manny: I did work. You about to get that tap on the shoulder, sir. Met your limit.
596
Jeezy: But yeah, like, Trump is taking on a whole lot. He is. And that leads into our, like, our next subject.
597
Manny: You know, there's some good news that has come out of the administration, finally. Kill… Kilmar Brigo.
598
Manny: Got to go home.
599
Jeezy: Briefly, I think.
600
Jeezy: It's briefly, yes.
601
Jeezy: For those of you that don't know, this was, the gentleman that was from Maryland, I want to say he was? Yep. He was, detained by ICE, and he was not… Incorrectly. Incorrectly detained by ICE, was not supposed to be deported by court order, was deported by court order, sent to El Salvador.
602
Jeezy: El Salvador said they're not going to release him, because they don't smuggle terrorists back into foreign countries. They released him, but then he ends up back in custody in Tennessee.
603
Manny: Tennessee.
604
Jeezy: He was in criminal custody in Tennessee, and on the 22nd, he… was released.
605
Jeezy: Now, he's been released under GPS monitoring, under the care of his brother, and he's headed back to Maryland, where he awaits his trial. Now.
606
Jeezy: I wanna say, for him.
607
Jeezy: This has to be an amazing feeling. This man has gone through it for, I don't even know how long now, but it's.
608
Manny: Months.
609
Jeezy: it's been months that this man has been going through this, so… and I think that at the time that he was…
610
Jeezy: arrested, I believe his wife was either about to have a baby, or they had a newborn baby on the way, or….
611
Manny: I think they had… no, so… and that's crazy, because we're now mixing up all the cases.
612
Jeezy: I got, from Columbia.
613
Manny: Texas, yeah. This guy was coming through… that got sent… shipped out to Texas, then they tried to deport… tried to deport him out of Texas, the court stepped in, and then he got sent home. Yeah, but he did….
614
Jeezy: What's going on?
615
Manny: He does have two young children at home.
616
Jeezy: Okay, so, got two young children at home with his wife, he's finally getting to go back home, but, his trouble is not over. While he does have to wear GPS monitoring, he has to report
617
Jeezy: to the immigration office in Baltimore on Monday, which is…
618
Jeezy: when this episode dropped. So he got home.
619
Jeezy: Friday, this past Friday, and has to report Monday. So, ….
620
Manny: Under, under drug smuggling… well, it's not drugs, smuggling charges.
621
Jeezy: Yeah, human smuggling or something like that?
622
Manny: Yep.
623
Jeezy: Now, it was… and this is just wild.
624
Jeezy: So… Almost immediately after his release, ICE issued a notice stating that he may be deported to Uganda.
625
Jeezy: Yeah, bro.
626
Jeezy: Bruh.
627
Jeezy: Now, now, now, now, come on now.
628
Jeezy: This man… who lived in Maryland.
629
Jeezy: Who was wrongfully detained.
630
Jeezy: sent to El Salvador, Then brought back into the States in Tennessee.
631
Jeezy: gets to go home for a weekend, and they say, we might send you to Uganda. Brian, all the places you could pick, why you sending me to Uganda?
632
Manny: And that was my question, and I dug into it a little bit. So, the U.S. has recently entered into an agreement with Uganda allowing the U.S. to send non-citizens there.
633
Manny: Provided that those individuals Do not have a criminal record.
634
Jeezy: Bruh.
635
Manny: So, if he's on… let's just say for a month.
636
Jeezy: Hold on, hold on, hold on, man, hold on. It just processed in my head, bruh.
637
Jeezy: The agreement… with Uganda is that they can't have a criminal record.
638
Jeezy: But he's being charged with crimes that….
639
Manny: Yep.
640
Jeezy: think are criminal?
641
Manny: Yep.
642
Jeezy: Okay, continue.
643
Manny: Yep, yep, yep, yep, nope.
644
Manny: Yeah, so being in the country illegally is a crime, so maybe they throw that one out, so maybe it's no additional…
645
Manny: criminal… criminal records, but aren't you currently trying with a crime? Like, I…
646
Manny: I… I… I don't know there.
647
Jeezy: Hello, my name is Confusion.
648
Manny: How are you?
649
Manny: But, you know, he has no ties to Uganda.
650
Manny: And… you know… what….
651
Jeezy: Bruh.
652
Manny: Is that better or worse than going to El Salvador?
653
Manny: And I don't know. I don't know. But, like…
654
Manny: This is… I think this is another attempt by… it's nothing. This is another attempt by the government to try to continue to instill fear as they're continuing their, you know, immigration push.
655
Jeezy: Well, I think that, cause, and for, for details.
656
Jeezy: one of the concerns that I had was.
657
Jeezy: What are they trying to pit him into?
658
Jeezy: Because the administration had offered him a deal.
659
Jeezy: And that deal was that he remain in custody.
660
Jeezy: He plead guilty to human smuggling charges, which is what they're charging him with, and then he would be deported to Costa Rica.
661
Jeezy: Would he live as a legal immigrant after serving his sentence?
662
Jeezy: But homie stayed on business, he refused. He said, bruh, I'm not… I'm not guilty. I didn't do anything. I did not do… I didn't do anything.
663
Manny: Do what you said that I did.
664
Jeezy: Which, shout out to him.
665
Jeezy: Because… Stanley… Manny, you know what this…
666
Jeezy: You know what it's made me think of? And I hope the American people realize… What's going on here?
667
Jeezy: This type of activity… by the justice system is something that happens to everyday Americans all the time.
668
Manny: All the time.
669
Jeezy: There are so many individuals That are sitting in jail right now.
670
Jeezy: that are innocent.
671
Jeezy: But have been put in a position where they feel like, hey, my back's against the wall.
672
Jeezy: The best thing I can do right now is to just accept the plea, do whatever, and keep it moving.
673
Manny: And… and for that reason, is why I think there's a good chance of Juicy Smooye and do it.
674
Jeezy: Right.
675
Manny: Juice Smoothie ain't do it. They ain't do it, man.
676
Jeezy: But….
677
Manny: But you're saying, yeah, you absolutely….
678
Jeezy: ill is this? Yeah. And because I'm fighting for my free… and that's where…
679
Jeezy: I'm not saying that this… because I know this guy has not… he ain't got a squeaky clean record. He's done some things before, and he's whatever….
680
Manny: Submitted, then?
681
Jeezy: He's admitted to those things, and he's… whatever punishment or, whatever consequences came with that, he's done those things.
682
Jeezy: But this happens far too often, where individuals get these charges put on them, and the system is set up so much that you gotta look and put yourself in his position. With all that he's been through, how much would you be continuing to continue to fight?
683
Jeezy: Right. When you can say, bruh, you know what? Man, I'll just….
684
Manny: start my new life in Costa Rica.
685
Jeezy: Because at this point, we don't know the condition of this man, as far as his mental state, what physical condition he's in.
686
Jeezy: what he's experienced, and where he's been in El Salvador, being in Tennessee. Now you gotta think about it. Now he gets to see his family for 3 whole days, and then he comes back and gotta go to the immigration office in Baltimore on Monday, and he don't know what's that gonna look like.
687
Manny: For all we know, ICE could grab him again, because there… there has been…
688
Manny: an uptick of ICE officials looking at court, court dockets, seeing who's up for cases that day.
689
Manny: Canceling those cases at the last moment, and grabbing people as they come into the courthouse.
690
Jeezy: Brad.
691
Manny: Just trying to do what they're supposed to do.
692
Jeezy: And that's why I have such a problem about how these things are being handled, because one.
693
Jeezy: Bruh, that's jacked up. You're pitting people into a situation where they're going about something in a legal way that they have been asked to.
694
Manny: And the way you told me to do it.
695
Jeezy: I showed up and did what you told me to do, and then I got in trouble. Like, how is that… how did that even happen? Even down to look at… look at what they're doing with this guy.
696
Jeezy: They said, okay, we'll send you to Costa Rica.
697
Jeezy: He says no, now we're gonna send you to Uganda. Bruh, do you know how crazy that is?
698
Manny: Right.
699
Jeezy: A place that I may have some familiarity, to now a place over in Africa… Sir, I'm not from there. That's like dropping me over in the middle of Russia and saying, hey, have at it. I don't know nobody here.
700
Jeezy: Like, I have no connection, no ties, no family, no nothing. Why… why do we not see this as a problem? Or the fact that I could have sworn that in this whole immigration thing, we were going after these hard-nosed gangsters and criminals… Right.
701
Manny: Smugglers, yep.
702
Jeezy: Y'all told me he was an MS-13 member, why he ain't charging no gang activity?
703
Manny: None.
704
Jeezy: Ain't nothing on his record saying anything about what y'all charging with. Y'all came out with a list of stuff that y'all was gonna charge him with, now it's just about this human trafficking.
705
Jeezy: And then y'all saying that it's human trafficking because he just happened to be riding in the car with immigrants?
706
Manny: Bye.
707
Jeezy: And he's smuggling them?
708
Jeezy: Okay.
709
Manny: Yep.
710
Jeezy: And in that, y'all are trying to pressure him into a guilty plea by saying, okay, first of all, if he did the crime, then why are y'all trying to get him to plead guilty to doing this and sending him to another country? If you have all the details, charge him so that it's a clean-cut case.
711
Manny: And especially if you're trying to set an example.
712
Jeezy: Yeah, set an example. Why are you… hold on. I got one better, Manny. Why are you pleading with criminals?
713
Jeezy: Charge that man, present the evidence, and get his butt out of here. If he is what you say he is.
714
Manny: Right.
715
Jeezy: Sounds like an open shut to me. So why are we pleading with him? And then because he's not taking a plea, we're gonna make a… we're gonna give you far more harsher conditions when we find you guilty.
716
Jeezy: Send him back where he came from. I don't know where he came from.
717
Manny: I don't know, was it El Salvador? It was El Salvador, yeah.
718
Jeezy: Then charge them, and send them back?
719
Manny: come back!
720
Jeezy: And then he gonna try to send him somewhere that the terms and conditions of what y'all have of sending, illegal immigrants for, he don't think that anyway.
721
Manny: Apply.
722
Jeezy: What are we doing in this process? This is crazy.
723
Manny: Are we just making up as we go?
724
Jeezy: Man, he better than me, man. See, I would tell him, bruh, I'd go on the run, but then he gonna make his case worth it.
725
Manny: They gon'… they gonna find him.
726
Jeezy: Yeah, bruh, I just can't… I mean, I know this man ain't perfect, God knows I know he ain't, but the mental state he's probably had to put himself into to endure all these months…
727
Jeezy: Just for y'all to dangle the carrot in front of me and let me hug my babies.
728
Jeezy: hug my wife, Sleep it, get… feel normal again.
729
Jeezy: and then you about to throw me back in the fire. That's just the same as sending a soldier over to war, he come back home.
730
Manny: You gotta send him back to work on Monday morning.
731
Jeezy: And you think that he's supposed to act normal? That's why I believe wholeheartedly what his legal team is saying, like, they're… they're doing this on purpose. They know what they're doing, and this is wrong.
732
Manny: It is going to be crazy.
733
Manny: Because I think, ultimately, based on what we know.
734
Manny: And, you know, maybe the Fed's got more details than we're aware of.
735
Manny: But… If and when Kilmar wins, the, the civil suit that will be launched.
736
Jeezy: against the….
737
Manny: U.S. government is going to be wild.
738
Jeezy: And I think they know that, Manny.
739
Manny: They trying to get him.
740
Jeezy: They want as many….
741
Manny: allocating, yeah.
742
Jeezy: Because his criminal trial is scheduled in January of 2026.
743
Manny: They gotta get him the break before the end. Yep.
744
Jeezy: Because if he decides to take a plea deal, and do this, and do that, and then get up outta here.
745
Jeezy: It's clean cut, it's over with, it's done.
746
Jeezy: But if he can hold out, and I hope, for the sake of him saying, I don't know if he's guilty or not.
747
Jeezy: But if the man is saying that he's innocent, I hope he holds to that.
748
Manny: Yep. And I hope that he maintains and does not allow them to break him so that he has an opportunity to prove his innocence.
749
Jeezy: in the court of law, and we, the American people, get to see.
750
Manny: Good to see you, huh.
751
Jeezy: Acts, too.
752
Jeezy: And if he is innocent, I hope… I hope that he does win, but I'm telling you, if he does.
753
Jeezy: This is January 2026. If he… let's say this case goes out to February, or March, and he wins this case, to the point we talked about on the last topic, then what is it… what signal is this going to send for Republicans when it comes to midterm elections? That you sit here and did all this ICE stuff and was wrong.
754
Jeezy: You try to detain people, because it already kind of has a… I'm not going to say a bad taste, but it's not a good taste in the American people's mouth right now, Paul's.
755
Manny: Okay.
756
Jeezy: But if he wins this, what does that sin…
757
Jeezy: To those constituents when they go and try to,
758
Jeezy: run these campaigns for the midterm election, and what kind of… what kind of leverage have you now given Democrats?
759
Manny: Yeah.
760
Jeezy: as well.
761
Manny: And this is not… so, not only do we have this, you have him… have them beginning to nationalize the National Guards to start going to major cities across the U.S. You know, I think, what, Chicago is next. On top of that, that came out Friday, that Alligator Alcatraz.
762
Jeezy: Oh, yeah!
763
Manny: Stop taking new detainees and begin closing within 60 days.
764
Jeezy: Like, what are we doing?
765
Jeezy: What are we doing? And y'all opened Alligator Alcatraz, and it was… it is so inhumane, it's ridiculous.
766
Manny: Well, and again, I think that Alligator Alcatraz is closing because they forgot to do an environmental review.
767
Jeezy: Bruh, so tips, bruh.
768
Manny: Typical breath.
769
Jeezy: So typical, bro.
770
Manny: And it messing up the Everglades and tribal land.
771
Manny: like….
772
Jeezy: If you're gonna do something… Nevermind.
773
Jeezy: I don't make enough… I don't make enough money to make them decisions.
774
Manny: Not at all. Not at all.
775
Jeezy: I'm… like, it's above my pay grade, bruh.
776
Manny: Way above my pay grade.
777
Manny: But it's like, even on this immigration front, now you're starting to see the real impacts with Nebraska, saying that they about to be up out of money. What are y'all doing? So prices are up, this immigration's not going well, farmers are struggling, you're losing optics everywhere.
778
Manny: At some point, the Trump administration has to be able to engineer a win for themselves publicly in some shape, form, or fashion.
779
Jeezy: Because right now, it's looking like… it's looking like a long shot.
780
Manny: And at this point, It looks like, potentially, the only thing they might be able to spin as winds.
781
Manny: Is the stock market is up.
782
Manny: And they might be cutting rates.
783
Jeezy: He needs Jerome to cut them rates bad.
784
Manny: But… but here's… here's what's going to happen there. You're gonna turn up… we already got inflation acting wild.
785
Manny: Already got that actin' wild. I went… I went, … did we talk about it last week? I don't know, so I'll hit it again. I went to buy a car seat.
786
Jeezy: walls.
787
Manny: I went to buy a car seat. I… in February, I bought the same exact car seat. It was $270… I paid, like, $275. I went two weeks ago to buy the same exact car seat.
788
Manny: That thing was now 435.
789
Jeezy: Bruh, it's real out here, bro.
790
Manny: In… in 2 months? In a couple months?
791
Jeezy: It's real out here, bro.
792
Manny: And, like, and these are some of the costs of inflation that we're not seeing, that it's not registering.
793
Jeezy: I got one better for you, bro.
794
Jeezy: I was on the… I looked on the website to buy something. While I was sitting in my office, it was, like, 2 weeks ago.
795
Jeezy: about 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock in the morning, I was like, okay, when I get off work, I'm gonna go buy this place to go buy it.
796
Jeezy: By the time I got there, the same day, Price is already up, bruh.
797
Manny: Bro, that's wild.
798
Jeezy: Price was up the same day, bro, I'm not….
799
Manny: Wow, man.
800
Jeezy: When I saw that, I was like… I had to look, I looked at my phone, because I had screenshotted, but then when I went back to the website.
801
Manny: Okay, don't change the two?
802
Jeezy: change was up, change was already up. But I was sitting there in my mind, I said, yo, this is crazy. In 9 hours.
803
Jeezy: The price of this item…
804
Jeezy: Has went up. Now, it was only… went up, like, it was a small item, it wasn't something serious. It might have went up, like, $2 and some change, but still….
805
Manny: Up is up.
806
Jeezy: Up is up, bro. Up is up.
807
Manny: And it… it keeps getting harder. Now, we point at the inflation number, saying, hey, inflation is up, like, 2%, you know, year over year. That's great, year over year. What we're forgetting is that inflation has taken about a 20% jump from 2020 to now.
808
Manny: And that's what people are feeling, and that is what people have not adjusted to. And that is… yeah, we can deal with a 2% increase year over year, but still, people are still entirely far behind because of that 20% jump that we've hit.
809
Jeezy: Yep.
810
Jeezy: I agree.
811
Manny: So….
812
Jeezy: But I want to say this, and then we'll move on, but with this, Kilmar, situation.
813
Jeezy: Why is he charged?
814
Jeezy: with human smuggling, But these farmers aren't.
815
Jeezy: If I pick up some illegal immigrants, and they… I got them… in the country, And I'm…
816
Jeezy: Transporting them field to field to field, Are you not smuggling humans?
817
Manny: I mean, that's what I think, you know, is the definition of smuggling, but I mean, I could be wrong.
818
Jeezy: I'm not no criminal attorney.
819
Jeezy: But I'm just… just as a common man.
820
Manny: Let's got some questions.
821
Jeezy: That's just got questions.
822
Jeezy: If that is what he was doing, if he was transporting people around, then why aren't a lot of these farmers in the same water that he's in?
823
Manny: That's a good question.
824
Jeezy: Because we talk about how they're struggling because the immigrants are here, but we're not talking about how they got them moving around, working for them.
825
Jeezy: And that's illegal.
826
Manny: That is a fantastic question.
827
Manny: And the world… and the world's never gonna know.
828
Jeezy: The world may never know, brother.
829
Jeezy: So….
830
Manny: Ugh.
831
Jeezy: Oh, boy.
832
Manny: Oh, yeah. Alright.
833
Jeezy: That I just… you know, Kilmar, keep fighting the fight, brother. Yeah. Again, if you're innocent.
834
Jeezy: And that's for anybody. If you're innocent.
835
Jeezy: You know you ain't did anything.
836
Jeezy: Fight to fight.
837
Manny: Fight to fight.
838
Jeezy: Fight… fight your name, man, fight your name, because at the end of the day, that's all… that is all….
839
Manny: That's all you got.
840
Jeezy: That's all you have, man. So, you know, continue to fight the good fight, and hopefully, you know, you come out, you come out on top, so…
841
Jeezy: Well, with that being said, we're at…
842
Jeezy: Our segment of the week, which we call our Pickle.
843
Jeezy: of the week. We got your pickle!
844
Jeezy: We got your pickle!
845
Jeezy: We got your pickle!
846
Manny: -Oh. Who's in the brine this week?
847
Jeezy: Man, I'mma keep it simple, man.
848
Manny: Anybody that typically gets to these situations where they find themselves at odds with Trump.
849
Jeezy: 9 times out of 10, you're gonna find yourself in the brine.
850
Manny: Yep, facts.
851
Jeezy: It's always gonna happen, so….
852
Jeezy: Our pickle of the week is none other than Lieutenant General.
853
Jeezy: Jeffrey Kruse. And I hope I said your last name right.
854
Jeezy: For those of you who don't know, this Lieutenant General was, head of the department… I mean, excuse me, of head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, also known as D…
855
Jeezy: I. A. Well, now he can add…
856
Jeezy: Former. At the front of that title.
857
Manny: Bye.
858
Jeezy: head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, because he was abruptly removed from his post, after what Pentagon insiders are calling a loss of confidence in leadership.
859
Jeezy: Now, I want to say that I think that this probably comes at the worst time, because the DAI is the backbone of military intelligence.
860
Manny: Yep.
861
Jeezy: Feeding critical information to the Pentagon, the White House, and battlefield commanders. So, losing its chief in the middle of rising tensions abroad when you have things going on with Ukraine, Taiwan, the Middle East.
862
Jeezy: That's essentially like benching your quarterback during the playoffs. You don't want to do that.
863
Manny: Or taking your quarterback out in a preseason game without giving them a chance to operate the two-minute drill.
864
Jeezy: Yep. … Cleveland, you might find yourself in a pickle.
865
Manny: We're gonna say that.
866
Jeezy: fall season approaches, we might have to start putting some of these other people there. You ain't gotta be political, you just be in the brine.
867
Jeezy: But, you know, he… I believe…
868
Jeezy: And he's had hot water kind of… he's been in hot water….
869
Manny: That, that temperature been rising.
870
Jeezy: ever since, if you guys are not familiar, he, kind of undermined it or contradicted Trump when it came to the assessment of the Iran bombing. In a preliminary… go ahead, I'm sorry.
871
Manny: And this is completely what this is over, though.
872
Jeezy: And I think that's what it is. When they say they've lost confidence in the leadership, I think that's just another way of saying, you won't do or say what I want you to say or do, and you think that you can do and say what you want to do when you work for me, so since you won't do it, you're fired.
873
Manny: We're just on another….
874
Jeezy: Episode of The Apprentice.
875
Jeezy: But a preliminary, Defense Intelligence Agency report overseen by him, concluded that the U.S. strikes in June against Iranian nuclear facilities only set,
876
Jeezy: back Iran's program by a few months, but you guys may remember, Trump said it, it was like, the program was completely, like, obliterated, and to the likes of no one has ever seen, and he throws out all his little fancy words, but…
877
Jeezy: once this assessment was leaked, of course, with Trump, it drew
878
Jeezy: sharp criticism from him and his administration, who insisted the operation was successfully, carried out, and he denoted this report as misleading, and even calling it, which I agree with you, Mandy, saying this is fully why he was fired, because one of the words that Trump's administration threw out was saying that this was treasonous.
879
Manny: Here we go.
880
Manny: So….
881
Jeezy: Not long after that, Homeboy has been dismissed. So…
882
Jeezy: bruh, this is not good, with all the conflict we have going on, and they're trying to… because I'm assuming now, like I said before, this is taking your quarterback out in the playoffs, you need your backup in. So, they're scrambling now for that, and this is not a good time, and this is, yet again.
883
Jeezy: Trump and his administration adding another piece of pie on the plate.
884
Jeezy: That they don't have to handle, and they simply come at the hands of someone doing their job.
885
Jeezy: Being truthful about their job.
886
Jeezy: But it undermines you, and what you're saying, which is false.
887
Manny: Right.
888
Jeezy: What you're saying is wrong.
889
Jeezy: And he's saying, no, this is what it is, and because he didn't, you're fired. So….
890
Manny: Hmm.
891
Jeezy: You ain' LeBron, bruh.
892
Jeezy: If you want to come to the pod and air out your grievances.
893
Manny: We here. The door's open.
894
Jeezy: you don't even have to use your real name. We'll make up one for you. And just have you come on, and you can just talk, and air out your grievances of what the Trump administration has done, but certainly you are in a pickle. Good luck in whatever your next endeavor is, and… yeah.
895
Jeezy: Just know that when you work for Trump.
896
Jeezy: That pink slip is always right around.
897
Manny: Always locked and loaded.
898
Jeezy: Locked and loaded, bruh, your job… your introduction package come with the pink slip already. You gonna be fired at some point, so here it is.
899
Manny: Barry got it filled out, he's just gotta add his signature and a date.
900
Jeezy: Yep, bingo. You don't even get a reason why.
901
Manny: Because it's Tuesday, and it's 78 degrees.
902
Jeezy: We'll let you figure that out.
903
Jeezy: But that is my pickle of the week. So, as we always say at the end of our episode, you know, or what we do at the end of our episodes, we like to give you a spotlight of what we will keep our eye on, for the upcoming week. So, my brother, what are your spotlight or spotlights for the week?
904
Manny: Well, I got two. First is there's some Goldman Sachs, economists who came out and said that through June.
905
Manny: that U.S. consumers had absorbed 22% of tariff costs.
906
Manny: And that is expected to rise to 67% by October.
907
Manny: It's gonna get real, real rough for Christmas. I might start Christmas shopping now.
908
Jeezy: Bruh.
909
Manny: Because it's getting wild. So that's the first one. And we'll see what all happens over the next couple weeks when we hear about rake heights and everything, and how all of that plays together.
910
Manny: The second one is, I want to come back home to the good people in Winston-Salem, the Forsyth County Schools.
911
Manny: Board of, Board of Education.
912
Manny: The district ended last fiscal year with an estimated $46 million Dollar budget deficit.
913
Manny: …
914
Manny: And if you're saying, wow, that's a lot of money, it's because it is. And now they are in a position where they are looking to have to eliminate 340 positions.
915
Manny: And about 289 of those are staff… are going to be staffing-related in terms of the schools.
916
Manny: And 51… People being demoted.
917
Manny: And that's only going to save them about $18 million.
918
Manny: So, the superintendent came out and said.
919
Manny: We either don't pay our bills, or we don't pay our people. And that is a wild statement to make.
920
Jeezy: Very wild.
921
Manny: Superintendent Moore, that is a wild statement to make. So, the county has approved $8.5 million in funding to help them pay down the district's debt to the state, but there's a lot… there's allegedly a lot of overspending.
922
Manny: So, as school years are getting ready to come back into, into action for, I think, the majority of North Carolina, Wake County has been in there for a little bit.
923
Manny: Some other counties are gonna start this week and over the next week. This is definitely going to impact schools, and also, like, how did you not see this coming? You, like, you don't wake up and got a $46 million deficit out of nowhere.
924
Manny: So, yeah, that is my spotlight. We'll be watching, watching this and seeing what happens, and hey, maybe the General Assembly steps in and helps, helps kind of facilitate something for them. I would not be shocked if that's what happens, especially if things get especially dire. So, those are my Spotlights of the week.
925
Jeezy: Okay. Well… What you got? I got something simple, and it's already been mentioned already, but … Chicago?
926
Jeezy: The National Guard Tour is coming to you.
927
Jeezy: It has been reported that, the White House, along with,
928
Jeezy: talks with the Pentagon have quietly been developing a strategy to deploy several thousand National Guard troops to Chicago, potentially as early as September. And this is basically to mirror the previous deployment that happened in LA.
929
Jeezy: And in DC. And I just want to talk to, on this just really quick. I talked to my father-in-law this weekend.
930
Jeezy: who lives in Maryland, which is, where we… where my in-laws live at is, like, really right there at DC. And… he expressed about how, …
931
Jeezy: all the details of how it looked in DC, and just how unpleasant it was, and a lot of them, are not even doing anything. A lot of the National Guard are just kind of standing around. They don't really have anything.
932
Manny: Watching people.
933
Jeezy: But the one thing he said to me was very interesting.
934
Jeezy: The number of arrests… That have taken place before this happened.
935
Jeezy: And after it happened, Has been relatively the same.
936
Jeezy: Hadn't been much.
937
Jeezy: Much difference. You might have a couple of more arrests than you had before, but it's not like….
938
Manny: Earth-shattering.
939
Jeezy: Right. So, Trump portrays, like, oh, yeah, I cleaned the streets of DC and this.
940
Jeezy: If anything, there's a bunch of National Guard that are just standing around with twiddling their thumbs, because, quite frankly, there's not that much to do, especially when you got thousands of Guard members here, and there ain't enough work to be done. So it's… it really speaks to this just doing this to kind of just show some type of…
941
Jeezy: power that Trump wants to display as he's cracking down so tough on crime. So if you're going to Chicago, Trump, I got a suggestion that I would love to see.
942
Manny: -Oh.
943
Jeezy: I want you to go to Chicago.
944
Jeezy: Don't send them National Guard, members over there by the bean.
945
Jeezy: Just like you did in DC, they on the National Mall. If you've ever been to DC at the National Mall, there ain't no crime. I mean, I'm not saying there is no crime, but bruh, the National Mall….
946
Manny: It's limited crime.
947
Jeezy: There's very limited crime in the National Mall. Like, please, let's be serious.
948
Jeezy: If you're really about crime.
949
Jeezy: Then be about crime. And be it if you really want to, I want you to go to O'Block.
950
Jeezy: I want you to go where King Von and Lil Durk, Chief Keith, all the… Shirac, that area of Chicago, I want you to go there and clean that up.
951
Jeezy: If you go there and clean that up.
952
Jeezy: Then you've made a believer out of me.
953
Manny: If you're gonna be a bear.
954
Jeezy: Bruh.
955
Manny: Be a grizzly.
956
Jeezy: Be a grizzly. Be a grizzly.
957
Jeezy: But I'm telling you, if he… and I want our listeners to pay attention, if you don't know what Chirac is, go look it up. You don't know what O'Block is? Go look it up. If Trump deploys the National Guard, and they hanging out in Chicago around the beam.
958
Jeezy: I'm telling you right now, this is all just a game.
959
Jeezy: He ain't serious on crime, he ain't trying to clean it up, because one thing about it, and my in-laws were telling me.
960
Jeezy: Now, the bad area of DC is southeast.
961
Jeezy: Southeast is the hood.
962
Jeezy: Can you guess what part of DC the National Guard weren't? Wasn't that many?
963
Manny: Well, they were there, they're gonna send them where the crime's at, right?
964
Jeezy: There won't none of them in Southeast.
965
Jeezy: So, if you're talking about cleaning up DC, why won't there no National Guard in Southeast? That's where all… that's where a lot of the crime is at.
966
Jeezy: So, stop pissing on the American people's leg and telling them that it's raining. If you about to be about it, be about it. So when you go to Chicago, that's where I want you to go.
967
Jeezy: Don't send them nowhere nice, don't send them nowhere where it's been gentrified. Don't send them nowhere where you can get the most coverage. Go send them in the Shirac. Go send them in the war, and let them clean that up. And I want to see, after the 30 days that you do it.
968
Jeezy: Or 2 weeks, however long you do it.
969
Jeezy: I wanna see a nice, beautiful, white family walk around O'Block.
970
Jeezy: 63rd Street in Chicago, that's what I want to see.
971
Manny: With a Chihuahua, just walking the dog while the sun is going down, and I'm gonna say, darn it, that president did it.
972
Jeezy: Show me. Don't fool me. I'm not as gullible as some people.
973
Jeezy: Show us what you're trying to do. Don't say that you're being tough on crime, and you parading them around an area that's gentrified, and ain't got that much going on. Don't play us. We ain't… somebody might be stupid, but not me. Not ours.
974
Manny: Look, I was born at night, not lying.
975
Jeezy: Not last night. So, that is my Spotlight Chicago. I'm putting you on notice. Don't be surprised.
976
Manny: He on his way.
977
Jeezy: he on his way. So, yeah, that's my spotlight for the week, man. So, with that being said, we've reached the conclusion of our episode. As always, we appreciate you guys, lending us your ear, and tuning in to another,
978
Jeezy: Another episode, full of political… Whatever you want to call it.
979
Manny: Whatever we do every week.
980
Jeezy: a variety.
981
Manny: Y'all entertainment trained today.
982
Jeezy: The political pony show.
983
Jeezy: We thank you for tuning in, but that is our episode.
984
Jeezy: We hope to see you at the next episode. Manny, you got anything that you gotta say?
985
Manny: Good here, brother.
986
Jeezy: All hearts and minds clear. As we always say at the end of each episode, that if don't nobody love you, please know the boys here at the pod.
987
Jeezy: We love y'all. Thank y'all for tuning in, and as always, we'll see you at the next episode. Take care.