Missing MAGA: Is Trump on the Sick and Shut-In List?

In this flu-splashed, conspiracy-laced episode of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny return from the COVID trenches to ask: Where is Trump?! As rumors swirl about a missing MAGA mouthpiece, bruised hands, and “truths” possibly written by AI, the Pentagon Pizza Index is spiking, suggesting something big is brewing. Meanwhile, Bobby K fires the CDC director, and a whole squad of public health professionals flees, raising red flags about America’s pandemic preparedness.

Oh, and North Carolina? Your elections board just made national headlines because a man allegedly dropped MDMA and cocaine into a Dairy Queen Blizzard.

From Venezuelan tensions to short-staffed science to tinfoil-hat theories about Stephen Miller’s lineage, we cover it all with laughs, receipts, and just enough sanity to keep you paranoid. Tap in.

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Jeezy: Hello, world, and welcome back to Part in the Politics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 35. I'm your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner in politics, Manny. My brother, how you doing today, man?
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Manny: Look, let me tell you, whoever decided they wanted to mess with that bat in 2019, your mama's a hoe. Your mama is a hoe. So whoever that was, your mama's a hoe. Right.
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Jeezy: Whoever brought that… that mess over here.
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Manny: Patient Zero, your mama's a hoe.
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Jeezy: So, for our listeners…
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Since last episode…
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Manny: Both me and my brother have been down bad.
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Jeezy: with the Corvette.
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Manny: Brother got us… got us slippin'.
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Jeezy: As of right now, my brother has recovered, and I am on the mend, so…
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Jeezy: Yeah, this is the, this is the COVID episode.
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Jeezy: Episode 35. We both have, have been going through it. I found out the day after my birthday.
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Manny: Yeah, and we didn't talk about it, but happy birthday, man.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man, I appreciate it, man, I appreciate it, brother. Thank you, thank you. So…
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Jeezy: Oh, boy, where do we go from here, man? We had a hell of a run, man, like, for… Man… for us.
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Manny: to have gotten through 2020 without COVID.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: for us having that trip to Maryland.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: No COVID. From us going to see that Kanye concert.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: In Atlanta. No COVID.
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Manny: Yo!
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Jeezy: 5 years, bro.
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Manny: your family had had it, you ain't got it, my family had… and technically, I still don't know if I had it.
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Jeezy: I'm… you know what? I may have been one of the originals.
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Manny: Yep. Yep.
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Jeezy: But it won't… it won't… we didn't know it was COVID then, so I'm not claiming it, so I'm saying that we went 5 years without catching it, brother.
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Manny: Buh.
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Manny: And most people can't say that.
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Jeezy: No, no they cannot. No, they cannot, brother. So, regardless, we're here.
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Manny: Hey listeners, how y'all? Welcome back.
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Jeezy: Welcome back. So, if we don't sound like ourselves, don't hold it against us. We out here battling.
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Manny: Blame it on China.
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Jeezy: I'mma blame it on the Chinese, man. Somehow or another, they trying to shut the pod down, bruh. They threw a little bit of that woo monkey on them.
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Jeezy: Well, speaking of that, I know somebody else who's on the mein.
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Manny: I mean, do we know… do we know if they're on demand?
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Manny: Are we lurking at a weekend at Bernie situation?
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Jeezy: Bruh, for our listeners that do not know, there was a lot of stirring that went on.
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Jeezy: This past week.
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Manny: Yes. Cut.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Bruh, I… I thought he was gone.
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Jeezy: Sported.
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Jeezy: that we saw smoke coming from the White House signaling that the Pope is dead.
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Jeezy: Bruh, there was… which was wild, because, Manny, I remember you hitting the group chat, and that's when I started seeing the stirring on social media, that people were like, hey, has anybody seen Trump?
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Manny: Bro, where you at? I ain't seen…
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Jeezy: And he has not spoken to the press, he hasn't been seen.
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Manny: Like, as of recording, he's still not officially, like… no one's being able to catch a extremely close-up photo of him.
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Jeezy: Yep. From what we've seen, I think I just saw something a few minutes ago that they got a picture of him, but everything's from a distance away. There has not been any press that's been close enough to the president.
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Jeezy: To even talk to them, to engage with them, and just from looking.
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Jeezy: At some of these still shots that we've seen of him.
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Manny: be hurt.
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Jeezy: Doing good, bro.
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Manny: He hurt, man, he is hurt.
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Jeezy: He, bruh, you can't let that… you can't let that fish filet stay out too long, bruh.
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Jeezy: It started getting… it ain't real meat.
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Jeezy: So, and I think this is interesting with all this coming out, because this past week, we had J.D. Vance kind of make some comments as well, too, saying that, hey, you know, the president's in good health, but, you know, if the time comes and I have to stand in.
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Manny: I'm ready to go.
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Jeezy: I'm ready to go. And I thought, okay, that was… that was a little weird, so…
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And I believe they said, and I think you talked about it on the last episode, that his hands are still being bruised, he's been sitting down, taking interviews behind the desk in the Oval Office. His appearances have not been much. We didn't… even though he went golfing the other day, we didn't see him on the golf course, which is unusual. We typically get a shot of him.
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Manny: You know, he likes to flex him hidden off the tee box.
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Manny: Okay, no pause there.
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Jeezy: We might have to get… that might just get a little… a little pause, just a small, tiny one, just to be sure.
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Manny: But it was interesting from the fact that, like, he…
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Manny: you know, they came out and said, oh, the bruising on his hand was all because of him shaking hands so much. Well, then the bruising went from his right hand, started showing up on his left hand in some camera photos. -Oh. You know, he was… we had the whole big cabinet meeting on Tuesday, and then no one saw him.
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Manny: After that cabinet meeting, no one saw him, so…
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Jeezy: That's right.
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Manny: He had a,
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Manny: there were changes on his public schedule. I know the big one that I think started all the… I won't say hoopla, but the… started the… The concern.
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Manny: the concern was he was supposed to go to New Jersey for a, some type of fundraiser, I believe.
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Manny: And, like, it's the flight trackers. And, look, these… if flight tracking is your holiday, or your hobby, then, you know, this is…
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Manny: I didn't think y'all were gonna see a peak like this, but, like, apparently his flight plans got scheduled, airspace closure notifications.
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Manny: We're stopped, but yeah, so… and he usually…
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Manny: has late August plans to go to his resort in New Jersey, all canceled.
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Manny: And… Here was the kicker for me.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: where I felt like something was really awry.
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Manny: Friday, we saw the appeals court, the federal appeals court, come out and say, hey man, your tariffs ain't good. And we didn't hear a response.
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Jeezy: Bruh, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
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Jeezy: I didn't think about that, Manny.
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Manny: We… every other time the Supreme Court… the… any court… who has, gone in favor or against him, we've heard him say something.
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Jeezy: Yeah, he always gives a response back.
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Manny: He ain't said nothing.
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Jeezy: And you know what? That's crazy that you say that, because I saw on social media that they were pointing out that one of his, his truths, I guess that's what you call them, on Truth Social.
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Manny: The truth is.
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Jeezy: his truthies, they, they made notice of the little dash that is, common when you're using, ChatGPT, so they were like, the responses that he's, that he's putting on truth aren't even his words. They were saying that, like, some of the words that he used, like, I think they said, like, one of the words was, like, literally. And they were like, Trump never uses that word, so I was like…
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Jeezy: Bruh, now Trump can't even tweet? When the Twitter… bro, when the Twitter fingers is gone, bruh.
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Manny: Brian, what…
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Jeezy: You damn bad, bro.
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Manny: down bad, bad.
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Manny: Bad, bad.
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Manny: And both you and I are saying this from experience. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. If one thing you're gonna do while you're sitting there, if you're on the sick and shut end.
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Jeezy: You can at least have the phone in your hand. Bruh, I'm gonna get some laughs, I'm gonna find some of these laughs. Yeah, you gotta get the laughs, and you gotta get some of those tweets off. Trump ain't doing neither one of those. It ain't looking good, bruh.
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Jeezy: And then… Ain't good.
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Manny: The other thing that popped off was the… are you familiar with the…
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Manny: I think it's called the DC Pizza Index.
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Jeezy: No, I'm not.
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Manny: Alright, so… Are you familiar with the Waffle House Index?
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Alright, so for our listeners, the Waffle House Index is a unofficial, unofficial
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Manny: index of how bad a storm was. So when a hurricane, you know, or tornado comes through an area, they really gauge how bad the area is impacted by what Waffle House is serving, because that is the level of preparedness that they have.
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Manny: The Waffle House is gonna stay open.
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Manny: So…
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Manny: they have that in the… in DC, but this… it's the pizza Index, and what that is, it is a tracking of all of the pizza places around DC.
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Manny: And what usually happens is… it's the… sorry, the official name, the Pentagon Pizza Index.
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Manny: And what that… what happens is on days, or pretty much the day before or the night before, there usually something big happens.
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Manny: that…
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Manny: all of the food places and delivery places around the Pentagon skyrocket in terms of orders, because people are working late.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Manny: Ordering pizzas in.
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Manny: And right now, I'm looking at it right now, they are on DEFCON 2.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: And so they are seeing a lot… so what, like, historically, they'll see this peak, there'll be a whole bunch of stuff happening, pizza and stuff firing, and then something major will happen.
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Manny: Mostly because the Pentagon or something is getting… getting ready to… getting ready to happen. And there's, like, a history around this.
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Manny: So, all during… definitely on, Friday, and definitely, like, through the weekend, we've seen it pretty high.
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Manny: As…
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Jeezy: What are they working on?
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Manny: I don't know, because there's a couple… so, everyone immediately jumps to.
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Jeezy: Hold on, bruh, I feel like this is necessary. Yo, let's go ahead.
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Manny: I just feel like all the dish you're saying right now is… Oh, yeah.
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Manny: So, I think it could be a couple things.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Could be Trump is down bad, and they prepping for that.
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Manny: What else it could be is it's starting to get hot with Venezuela.
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Manny: Oh yeah, we're sending ships and submarines over off the coast of Venezuela, because allegedly, they're starting to be rising tensions about the U.S, you know, potentially wanting to have some regime change.
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Manny: I'm there.
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Manny: So… And then…
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Manny: other thing… let's go… other things just happening in the world. You got Big Netty, who's trying to box it out with Yemen, taking out their prime minister.
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Manny: So we got that happening. You also got Big Netty striking the hospital in Gaza that reporters are at, got all the reporters there, and then struck the, struck the building they were all at. So there's a lot of things happening.
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Manny: that… Too much happened. There's a whole… bro, can we just chill for, like, a week? Can we all just come together? Here's what we need. We need a global eclipse. Bruh, yes.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: I feel like… I feel like that's the only time, you know, the entire… look, when we had that eclipse, what was it, 2 years ago?
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Jeezy: Yeah, I think it was 2 or 3 years ago.
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Manny: Calmest… had to be one of the calmest days.
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Jeezy: Everybody would.
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Manny: Everyone looking up at the Lord's handiwork. So I think that's what we just need. We need a global eclipse, just like, hey, I just need everybody here to calm down.
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Manny: Just look up. Look up…
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Jeezy: Wasn't that when Trump… was it… no, was that…
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Jeezy: Was that the time that Trump looked up without his glasses?
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Manny: That was the… that was the first time in 2017?
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Jeezy: Yes. I think it was. But then it had… there was another one that's recently happened, wasn't as, like, defined as the one when Trump decided to look directly into the sun.
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Manny: And that's wild.
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Manny: Brett Trump a wild dude.
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Jeezy: Excuse me.
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Manny: Squinted and everything.
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Jeezy: They were selling special glasses and everything, like, did not look directly into it. My man walked out on the balcony of the White House and said.
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Manny: I am.
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Jeezy: Who ain't gonna look?
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: NYU president, like…
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Manny: That's the one thing I'm almost certain that they're gonna make sure that you go. Oh, you want some glasses? They will go. The Smithsonian is right there.
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Manny: Send 15 interns, hey, run over, get ahold of.
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Jeezy: And come on back, so we have the glasses. He ain't been right since he looked up at that sun, bro.
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Manny: bro.
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Manny: Bruh, you're right, because a couple weeks later, he got that COVID. Yup.
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Jeezy: He's the right thing.
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Jeezy: He ain't been right since?
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Jeezy: But man, we… with Trump, man, with all this speculation going on, it just seems kind of odd, because you have him talking about, you know, making sure that he goes to heaven, and…
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Jeezy: he's been… he's been kind of MIA, which in turn… I mean, Trump is old, too, so I mean…
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: But… I think it's odd, because…
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Jeezy: where was all this? Where was the same energy about Biden and him doing this?
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Manny: Boy…
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Jeezy: If… cuz… Right. Because they were, they were wearing… they were wearing it out.
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Jeezy: False.
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Manny: That was wild.
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Jeezy: It was wild.
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Manny: That was wild.
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Jeezy: Oh, wow, I'm blaming it on the COVID.
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Manny: Bruh, but yeah, like, 4 days. Because I was talking to my wife about it, and she was like.
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Manny: why is this a big deal that we haven't heard or seen from him? I was like, first of all, if there's one person who loves the internet and loves the cameras, it's Donald J. Trump.
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Jeezy: Donnie T. Donnie T.
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Manny: So for… I'm like, for him, for no one to see him, or he… that Sharpie won't Sharpie?
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Manny: He'd love him an executive order and be able to turn it around and flash it to the crowd.
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Jeezy: Exactly.
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Manny: We ain't getting none of that for 4 days. Like…
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Jeezy: quiet. I don't recall… bruh, it's hard to recall going 24 hours without hearing from Trump.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: So, to go 4 days, definitely…
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Jeezy: seems to be an issue, and I don't recall if the White House really addressed it or anything. It's almost like they just kinda… I'mma tell you what I think. I think they doped them up and got them out there just so everybody could see them, because we didn't see him on the golf course, we didn't see him swing, we just saw him walk to the car.
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Jeezy: I think he arrived at the golf course in Virginia, I want to say he went to?
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: He ain't even… brother, when the last time he been down to Florida to Mar-a-Lago to golf?
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: He ain't even getting on the flight.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Might be sick, bro.
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Manny: And… and the… here's another, like, interesting piece around this.
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Manny: Is… we had this… the school shooting.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: We didn't hear anything. We didn't even hear the generic, really, like, thoughts and prayers.
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Manny: All our…
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Jeezy: Didn't say nothing.
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Manny: all I remember seeing… and I could be wrong, it could be wrong, but I don't remember…
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Manny: him, like, all I remember seeing is them saying, hey, the president's been briefed.
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Manny: Heard nothing else about that.
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Manny: So… and here's the… here's the piece that's… that's also interesting.
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Manny: Trump sent a fundraising email.
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Manny: Bro, what? Yes. Yeah. He, so…
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Manny: it was sent on the 25th, Donald John Trump.
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Manny: With a subject line, I want to try and get to heaven.
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Manny: That was so good.
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Jeezy: No, bro.
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Jeezy: We can't, we can't… bro, we fundraising to get to heaven now?
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Manny: Yeah, he's… he said that he… well, he's… essentially, he said he was saved by God.
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Manny: And that he has enough to do, and we need that, you know, we need y'all to chip in. So I… I've not read the email, this is from reporting about the email, but essentially, the context was, hey, I need to raise money.
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Manny: So, I can make it to heaven.
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Manny: So, and the only way I'm gonna make it to heaven is so I can complete… okay, here we go, sorry, I just pulled it up.
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Manny: I want to try to get to heaven.
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Manny: Last year…
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Jeezy: That's a wild… that's a wild way to start it.
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Manny: called a paragraph.
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Manny: Last year, I came millimeters from death when a bullet pierced through my skin. My triumphant return to the White House was never supposed to happen, but I believe that God saved me for one reason, to make America great again.
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Manny: I certainly wasn't supposed to survive an assassin's bullet, but by the grace of the Almighty God, I did.
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Manny: So if you're with me all the way to the end, join with the millions of your fellow patriots by chipping in $15 to keep the winds rolling in.
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Manny: Yeah, because I… I mean…
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Manny: all things considered, you gotta send an email, he's gotta fundraise, because he's gotta help the Republicans defend seats that they're about to be struggling to try to keep.
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Jeezy: Go ahead.
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Manny: So… I… I just don't know.
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Jeezy: breath.
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Jeezy: Sherman, you can stop, bro.
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Jeezy: Trump didn't get a shot about it, he ain't…
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Jeezy: Bruh, he didn't get shot, bruh.
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Jeezy: I'm tired, I'm tired of this narrative, brother.
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Jeezy: The man… the man get… if the man got shot in the ear.
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Jeezy: And a bullet pierced his flesh. That man's ear is as smooth as a baby's bottle.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Evander Holyfield ain't here ain't healed yet.
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Manny: And that was done by his teeth. Just Mike Tyson's teeth, man.
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Jeezy: A bullet from a rifle pierce your ear, and your ear… That gotta be the most…
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Jeezy: miraculous miracle that Jesus ever performed. Right. Besides slapping the ear back on.
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Manny: On the Roman guard trying to take me. Oh, okay, here we, here we go, here we go.
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Jeezy: But, but, but even with that, though, But the fundraising email… Man, it didn't…
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Manny: Look, one thing in politics, this show don't stop for nobody. We gotta raise this… we gotta raise this money.
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Jeezy: Man, that's kinda…
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Manny: And here's the thing, we know Trump loves being online, so it's also hard for me to believe, unless he's strictly on Truth Social, and I also refuse to believe he's strictly on Truth Social.
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Jeezy: I don't think so.
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Manny: He had to see everyone talking about it.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: like, one of his aides had to come through and be like, you know, had I been one of the… one of the… I'd have peeked my head and went, hey, Mr. President, you need him? Okay, okay, he responded, he ain't dead yet.
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Jeezy: even as much as Trump loves to seize a moment to try to throw dirt on Democrats, he could have used this as, see, they can't beat me, so they're trying to say that I'm dead. You know, he could have done anything. The fact that he just let this be quiet is just…
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Manny: un-Trump-like.
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Jeezy: It's very untrump-like, man. So there may be… there may be something there, and all this talk about trying to make it to heaven…
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Jeezy: You know, folks don't start… hey, you know, people don't start trying to worry until they see that… they see that gate coming.
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Jeezy: Hey, so maybe… maybe… and Trump is old, too. How old is Trump?
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Manny: 80.
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Jeezy: Jesus.
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Manny: Ayy.
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Manny: Now, how wild would it be
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Manny: For as much talking as he did about Joe Biden.
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Jeezy: Bruh. And they, bruh, and they been saying, Joe out here looking healthy, bruh. Bruh. I seen some videos of him over the past couple of days going to get ice cream.
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Manny: Hell yeah!
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Jeezy: This man got cancer and everything, he out here… Joe look good for his age, man. Out here grinning, showing the veneers.
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Manny: But let's also remember, like, what has been said is…
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Manny: Every year with the presidency, ages you 4.
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Jeezy: Bruh, yes, yes. Every single president you look at, bro, when they… look at Obama. Tired. Obama came in looking like a nice young black man. He left out of there looking like that he had about 5 kids, and he tired and sick of all of them.
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Jeezy: He was through.
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Jeezy: it does age you, so that's why it was interesting to me to see Trump wanting to do another for which… I mean, we've talked about that in a previous episode, why we think he did another… another term, but… certainly.
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Jeezy: With the age that he is, and how rapid the seat of the presidency ages you with all that you have to deal with.
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Jeezy: This ain't good for Trump, man.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Too much stress, man. I mean, he ain't got the best diet when he sit here and drink Diet Coke and McDonald's all the time.
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Manny: Right, like…
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Jeezy: It ain't good, bro.
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Manny: It ain't good for you, man. It's not… and this is the thing that I've ultimately never understood about Trump.
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Manny: And everyone's like, he loves his country, he's doing it for this country. Cool, I understand that.
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Manny: Allegedly. Bruh, you… bro, you are a billionaire.
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Manny: Big B.
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Manny: With properties, you… you have to be on a list of the…
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Manny: I would say, even before he became president, top 25 most recognizable people in the world. At least top 50.
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Manny: In the U.S, every… Donald Trump was in Home Alone.
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Manny: And that used to be the peak of why we were upset with Donald Trump. Like, Donald Trump, he's looking for his parents.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: Why didn't you… why didn't you try to help him find his parents?
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Manny: But that's… that used to be the peak.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: You… you were, I won't say, beloved, but…
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Manny: pre the whole Obama birther thing, the streets were fine with Trump.
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Manny: The streets were fine with Trump.
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Manny: And to… you lose so much freedom becoming president.
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Manny: Like, yeah, you're the ruler of the free world, but you lose your ability to move as you want to.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: even right now as president, if Trump wanted to say, hey, I want to go to, you know, Greenland to see… to see my new golf course I'm building, gas up the jet will be there in 45.
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Manny: He can't… he can't really do that as president.
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Manny: So, for me, it's kinda like…
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Manny: I don't get it. I don't completely get it. I don't think it could have been me.
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Jeezy: Oh, it definitely went.
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Manny: Like, look, if I hit this one billy.
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Manny: if I ever hit the Powerball.
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Jeezy: Bruh. Oh, yeah. Which, that joker is high right now.
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Manny: It's high. That 1.1.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Manny: Now, we were saying earlier, Lord, if you would like to move me off of your stronger soldier list, and move
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Manny: To your blessed and highly favored list.
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Jeezy: I'll be just fine.
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Manny: I'll be just fine.
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Manny: Let me tell y'all listeners, the Pardon the Politics podcast will become a daily show.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Manny: Daily.
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Jeezy: I come talk to y'all every day. Every day.
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Manny: But, like, so I never fully got why he wanted to be president.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And… at least the first go-round. Now, this second go-round, I get it, because, like, bro, you wild out your first one.
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Jeezy: But they was on your head, boy. Paul's. They were coming for you.
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Manny: Poss.
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Jeezy: Called again.
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Jeezy: Bruh. So he needed it, he needed that seat this time.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: But, you know, with all that he's going through, I don't think… I feel like this is gonna become a weekly occurrence, where if we don't see Trump for a certain amount of days.
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Manny: Where at? Where you at? Where? Where at? There you go, there you go.
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Jeezy: And up until this recording, it still has been very limited activity from Trump.
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Jeezy: So, from a health perspective, we…
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Jeezy: the questions are gonna start rolling in, and I think fairly so, because if we were gonna question the competency and the health of Joe Biden, I think that it's just as fairly to do the same thing. Completely fair.
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Jeezy: And I think the other uptick we should also watch is J.D. Vance sightings, because if there's one… if there's one person who likes to vacation more than Donald Trump, it's J.D. Vance.
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Jeezy: Bruh, they said J.D. Vance be out here, bruh. He be in the streets. He take him and his wife, and they hit them streets. We don't even… they don't even be with the kids, bruh, it just be him and the wife. It's like, dang, bruh!
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Manny: I ain't seen those kids in the back.
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Jeezy: Angie.
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Manny: In a hot minute.
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Jeezy: ain't… since he, since he took the oath, I ain't seen J.D. Vance's kids. I just see him and his wife vacationing, they in the pools, they drinking beer, they going to games. I said, yo, this man right here…
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Manny: He said, okay.
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Jeezy: Nobody talk about Obama and Joe Biden and doing… man, this dude be on… this guy has probably been… I think the only time he in Washington is when he got to come vote.
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Manny: We gotta break that 50-50 time.
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Jeezy: that 50-50. That's the only time he ain't Washington. Any other time, he ain't at the house. He out.
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Manny: Spreading democracy.
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Jeezy: Brooks, yup, that's what he doing. That's what he doing, is spending taxpayer dollars.
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Manny: Bye.
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Jeezy: But, yeah, that's a good point, though, man. The more we see him, and that's what I was saying earlier about those comments that he made, I thought that was very
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Jeezy: He pulled that in and said, hey, you know, if need be, I'm ready to go. So, we definitely gotta keep an eye on good old Vance and see
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Jeezy: Lord.
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Manny: Because there's also no shortage of conspiracy theories around him.
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Jeezy: Oh, bread.
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Manny: There's many of them.
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Jeezy: We don't… will the real J.D. Vance please stand up?
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Who is JDV?
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Manny: Who is JD Bank?
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Jeezy: Where'd you get that name from?
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Manny: Because I don't believe that JD stands for Juris Doctorate. Nope, I'm sure it does not, brother.
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Jeezy: Well, speaking of health and Donald Trump's health.
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Jeezy: I wonder who's gonna go first, when it comes to health. Us, or Doug?
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Manny: That's true.
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Jeezy: Because right now, with the way that the CDC is going, brother.
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Manny: Bruh, it… We might be… we all might be screwed. Yeah. Yep.
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Jeezy: So, for those of you that don't know.
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Jeezy: The CDC director, that was confirmed by the Senate just a month ago.
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Manny: July 31st.
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Jeezy: Bruh, these people are getting up outta here, bruh.
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Manny: For context, Susan Moranes.
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Manny: was CDC director in between your birthday… my birthday and yours. Bruh, that's wild.
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Jeezy: That's wild, bruh.
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Manny: No, bro.
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Jeezy: That's wild.
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Manny: She ain't making… she ain't making 4 podcasts.
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Jeezy: Yo, she… They didn't get the family pitch on the desk yet.
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Manny: No dust. No dust. Ain't even got a smell in the office yet. Still smelled like… like, like the janitors just left out of there.
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Jeezy: But she was abruptly removed from her role the day before my birthday, on the 27th.
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Jeezy: She had resisted directives from, good old Bobby.
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Jeezy: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, advocating for rollback on COVID-19 vaccine approvals and the dismissal of senior staff. Her attorneys called the firing a lawful and accused Kennedy of weaponizing public health
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Jeezy: for a political game. What's your thoughts, brother?
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Manny: first of all, we know who Bobby is, but I'm gonna start very simply here. We're gonna talk about the COVID vaccine.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I believe, 100%, one of the crowning achievements of Donald Trump.
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Manny: In his first term, Was him clearing the red tape.
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Manny: To allow the creation and distribution of the COVID vaccine.
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Jeezy: Facts.
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Manny: But it… it is…
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Jeezy: It's not talked… it's honestly not talked about enough in that first administration.
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Manny: It is… and I think history will look back and be like, he did some wild stuff.
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Manny: But this?
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Jeezy: That was crazy, because I believe they said the timeline that it would have took to do that was, like, years. Years! And he got that in a matter of months.
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Manny: And look, y'all know us on the pod, we're gonna try to keep… we're gonna be fair, but we're gonna have the jokes.
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Manny: I would say there is an argument here.
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Manny: that Trump could say he saved the world.
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Manny: With the COVID vaccine.
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Jeezy: Yeah?
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Manny: And I would be hard to argue with anyone who, who, under those circumstances, I would argue with… so…
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Jeezy: So what he was able to do, not only… it not only helped the American people, but we don't… we forget the distribution that went out into the world, to the.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: that needed those vaccines from us. So, yeah, you got a point. I mean, but when you…
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Jeezy: When you kinda… when you kinda ignore it, you kinda now gotta clean it up too, so…
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Manny: Right. So, that's why this whole push against the COVID vaccine from Trump supporters has always seemed weird to me.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: Because I'm like, this is your boy's thing.
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Jeezy: This is his crowning achievement.
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Manny: And…
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Manny: You know, at this point, I think Trump has two crowning achievements for his time as president. It's the fact that these wars are stopping.
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Manny: Now, he's taking credit, he might be giving himself… he's probably giving himself a whole lot more credit than he deserves, but you have that, and then you also have this. So it's always weird that the administration has taken this whole anti-vaccination kind of standpoint.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And with Trump not really saying anything to it. Like, he's just like.
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Manny: I've… I've never… I've seen him be very pro-vaccine when we were talking about COVID, but everything else, he's just kind of neutral.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So, I also believe he knows, like, this is not my lane, so I'm… I'm not gonna deal with this.
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Jeezy: I mean, but no, actually, I mean, if we gonna be honest, it ain't Bobby Lane either.
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Manny: That's true. That's also very…
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Jeezy: I don't think that we should be taking our information or our direction from somebody that told us that there was a worm in his head.
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Jeezy: ate some of his brain, and half of his face is lopsided.
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Jeezy: But, you know, I think this is…
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Jeezy: I think that we're in a very dangerous time, especially heading into what most will say the cold and.
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Manny: Blue and cold season.
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Jeezy: Because with the director of the CDC being fired, there's also been some other mass immediate fallout and resignations from this. You got the chief medical officer.
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Jeezy: She resigned. The Director of the National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases resigned. The Director of, Emergent and Zoonotic Diseases resigned. The Director of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology, that's major. That person resigned. All these people have resigned, citing, growing political interference.
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Manny: Misinformation, budget cuts, and again, like we said before, weaponizing.
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Jeezy: of public health as core reasons behind their exits. So, this is concerning for me because we saw how dangerous COVID was handled, and while we talk about how that is a crowning achievement of Donald Trump, being able to get that vaccine… vaccine, excuse me, Lord have mercy.
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Manny: Vaccine.
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Jeezy: COVID talking, bro.
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Jeezy: I don't know what that was, but we also can look back and see how his handling of it in the public eye
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Jeezy: Honestly cost a lot of people to lose their lives, man.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: So, when you have somebody like Bobby that's sitting here, and you have these
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Jeezy: I mean, we're talking about people that are qualified.
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Manny: So we're talking the medical officer, director of immunization and respiratory disease.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Which is what COVID was.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: the Director of Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, which is what, COVID was. Public health data and surveillance. This is finding these issues, identifying them, and publicly talking about them. You're talking about four of the key people that we need.
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Manny: to stop.
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Manny: wide pandemics, you know, and I think in the immediate… immediately, right now.
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Manny: void, and this is just senior staff that have left. No telling what else has all left all the way down to the ground. And then you throw in the firings, you throw in the budget cuts, and all the impacts there. And now you have Jim O'Neill, with no medical or scientific backgrounds.
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Manny: now, being the director of the CDC in the interim.
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Manny: Now you also leave the administration in a place where they have to find somebody else to take that position.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Not only agreed to take the position, but agreed to go through the hearings.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: to get approved.
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Manny: in a Congress that is not real inclined to do anything.
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Manny: So, leadership's gone. Big problem.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: all the… you're talking about operational disruptions, you know, so if there… if there's another issue, and let's say… let's say smallpox really starts popping off.
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Manny: and we gotta roll out a mass vaccine to address it. Well, we got measles that's popping up again, and we gotta…
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Manny: You have key people that would have been involved in those decisions and that rollout now gone.
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Manny: Again, if we have something else pop up, where's the public gonna be on this?
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Jeezy: Bruh, that's what I was just about to say. God forbid another outbreak comes, bruh.
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Manny: So… and then, that's… that's all just U.S.-focused.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah. Globally, the U.S. is viewed.
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Manny: as the gold standard. We are the people. There is a reason that when COVID popped off, that no one looked at any other country. Everyone looked at the U.S. and said, what's y'all… what do we need to do?
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Manny: We have led in this, in what we do with health.
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Manny: And… How do we look?
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Manny: How do we look?
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Manny: you know, going back to the fact that Trump being on… potentially on the sick and shut-in list.
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Manny: There is a good population of the world that was sitting, watching, and waiting, and even a subset of that population cheering for.
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Manny: Potential, feeling that, that you were gone.
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Manny: Globally, where does that leave everyone? Who is going to step in and fill in that void?
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Manny: It… there's a lot of problems here.
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Jeezy: I think it's very dangerous, because what you have now…
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Jeezy: Is science kind of taking a backseat?
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Jeezy: While the ideology of certain individuals is being pushed forward.
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Jeezy: And, as I said before, when we bring up how COVID was handled, and how there were a lot of people who lost their lives.
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Jeezy: Because they were told, oh, well, it's just, like, a cold or a flu, and yeah, now they wouldn't… they're dead. Right.
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Jeezy: Or even just how… You know, with vaccines.
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Jeezy: And how that transpired, you know, and how people responded to it because of what was said publicly. Now you have all these top
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Jeezy: qualified, you know, people that are… that were in these positions that could provide accurate information, accurate data, surveillance these things, and realize and understand what needs to be done for the betterment of the… not just the American people, but for the world.
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Jeezy: they're not there anymore. And we already have somebody that's the acting director who has no…
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Jeezy: Has no, no knowledge, no, no experience whatsoever.
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Jeezy: In this position, and this is something that we've seen happen quite…
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Jeezy: quite frequently in this administration, that there are people holding seats that aren't qualified, and mistakes that they have all… have already made. So then what happens now when we go into the fall, and God forbid something happens, and we have people in these seats that…
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Jeezy: have no experience, and now you're getting misinformation to the American people out into the world, and we're in a situation again. Now we found ourselves in a pickle.
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Manny: And it's a… and I think if you look at the core, like, root of a lot of stuff… and I think that's why Bobby is one of the most interesting people.
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Manny: And I say that with an asterisk.
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Manny: Because, like, in some things where, you know, we've talked about it here before, him talking about wanting to get a lot of these food additives taken out because they're not healthy.
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Manny: Great, I agree with that. Yes, let's do that. But then, you show a lack of understanding of herd immunity. Well, we didn't have, you know, we didn't have this many people testing for autism before, we didn't have people testing for this before.
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Manny: Ignoring the fact that testing for a lot of these things, access has improved.
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Manny: And the cost of diagnosing has plummeted because of science. So we're able to find these things. So yes, they're going to show up more because more people are getting tested. Access to these things are becoming easier.
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Manny: We said it now with COVID. During this past week, I've taken 5 or 6 different COVID tests.
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Manny: Could we have done that in 2020, or even 2021?
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Manny: Man, no. There was drama about Trump sending tests to Putin.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: So, it's like… and that… and realizing that a lot of the reasons why a lot of diseases don't come up here are not because people are not getting
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Manny: vaccinated, it's because of herd immunity that there's enough of us with the vaccines that kill off these disease that largely just prevent it from entering our populations, protecting the sicker people who aren't able to take the vaccines.
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Jeezy: And that's an excellent point, Manny, that you bring up, because…
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Jeezy: when I looked at it, and when the COVID vaccine came out, And…
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Jeezy: I never really looked at it that way, because I'm not a big vaccine person. I don't get the flu shot every year, because I just… I just don't. My wife does, because she has asthma, and my youngest daughter does, but I'm just not… I'm just… that's not my thing.
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Jeezy: But someone put it to me in a really great way that… It's not necessarily for you.
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Jeezy: It's for those around you…
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Jeezy: Your grandmother, your grandfather, your children, those that may not be in the best of health.
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Jeezy: To fight off those things, you protect them by protecting yourself.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And that really… I was like, okay, so it kind of changed my perspective when it came to vaccinations.
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Jeezy: and now you have someone that is in this position when it comes to public health, who… Bobby has… Bobby says that he is, that he says that he hasn't, then he… he… he… he backs… he backtracks and he walks around, but we all know that 9 times out of 10, his stance is that he's just not for vaccinations.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And you have this person that's in this position, and we know now, and we've seen how, how…
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Jeezy: COVID changed into all these different variations, and and then we know that when it comes in the fall and the winter, we know that people are getting sick, and there's times that, you know, vaccines rolling around, you need to get your flu shot, you need to get this, and you have someone saying to the public, that's standing in front of the public, that we know believes, no, we don't need vaccines.
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Manny: dry.
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Jeezy: This is dangerous.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: So, I think when you look at it, there's obviously a legal fight that's coming. Oh, for sure. Because Susan has insisted that it was an unlawful removal.
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Manny: Since only the president, and I think that's the interesting piece, this was… this was Bobby firing her.
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Manny: No, only that… the CDC director can only be removed by the president.
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Manny: So, there's that question, and… If that lawsuit… if she wins that lawsuit.
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Manny: And I think that's… that's where it'll get interesting, because it's pretty clear Who fired her?
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Especially because Trump been on that sick and shutting list. That this was… this was Bobby's firing.
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Manny: Say she comes back to the CDC, what are you coming back into?
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Manny: Alright, are you walking into a Jerome Powell situation, where you're fight… you're gonna be fighting Bobby all day, every day, on everything, and then how effective can you be?
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Manny: But then it's also from the American people, you almost need people now at this standpoint, fighting…
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Manny: For these… for these roles, and providing that resistance within the administration.
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Manny: to just keeping a… a standard that will protect the American people.
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Manny: You know, we've already seen Health and Human Services stop monitoring, several different food pathogens. You know, I think it was from 7 to 2.
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Manny: You know, these are real things that affect people's lives.
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Manny: And just because you like to eat raw hamburger.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Don't mean that's for everybody.
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Manny: Doesn't mean that I should be going down… you eating raw hamburger from a top-tier, steakhouse.
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Jeezy: Not the same.
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Manny: is not the same from someone pulling up to the Dollar Tree and getting one of those steaks and eating that raw.
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Jeezy: Yo, hold on.
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Manny: It's two different things.
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Jeezy: Rick.
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Jeezy: Our… I don't… if there's anybody out there, if there's any of our listeners…
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Jeezy: That's eating steak from the Dollar Tree.
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Jeezy: Email the pod, bruh.
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Jeezy: We'll give you a couple of dollars.
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Jeezy: I can give you a couple of dollars.
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Manny: Coat.
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Jeezy: Cause that… that meet, bruh, you… you gonna wake up and be like, Homelander.
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Manny: Right. But… and that's the thing, and I think that's what… this… it is a theme with this administration, is that y'all are almost administering, based on your understanding of the world.
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Manny: Forgetting that your understanding of the world is a 1% view of the world that the average person doesn't have to deal with.
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Jeezy: Man, you hit it right… you hit the nail right on the head, man, because that… that's what really is my gripe about how they handle these things, is that you're not… you don't see the world through the same lens as most of the people that live in America. You just see it from your porch. But if you… you can't judge everybody's lawn based off of what you see standing on your porch.
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Jeezy: Everybody lawn ain't yours, everybody ain't got Bermuda grass. So you gotta understand, Well, hold on.
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Manny: Everybody in my neighborhood does have Bermuda grass.
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Manny: So I'd be like, hmm.
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Manny: You're not cutting your grass enough. You're letting your lawn get a little too high.
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Jeezy: Little too high.
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Manny: A little too high, you need to cut that down, you need to take it down to about an inch, inch and a half.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Manny: water and get that inch of water every week on lease on your front grass. Right, at least. You got to. Gotta protect these property values, but I digress. I digress. But you are correct.
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Jeezy: But, you know, that is something that really bothers me about this administration, and I just don't understand what's the purpose. What is Bobby trying to achieve?
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Jeezy: Because if I gotta be honest, to me, it sounds like you're trying to kill the American people. But what is it that they're trying to achieve here?
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Manny: I'm gonna… I'm gonna say something that might be a little bit controversial.
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Jeezy: Okay. We like controversy here.
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Manny: I think Bobby might be one of the few people in this administration without an ulterior motive.
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Manny: I think Bobby, in his head, thinks he is doing the best that he can.
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Manny: For all of the people.
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Manny: I… I truly believe that.
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Jeezy: I, I, I can see that.
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Manny: They…
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Jeezy: But the asterisk is Bobby's head.
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Manny: It's wrong. You're doing all the things wrong.
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Jeezy: I'm doing what I believe is right, but it's wrong.
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Manny: Great.
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Jeezy: I don't know what's wrong.
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Manny: What…
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Jeezy: Oh, what, what was the J. Cole on? Good news is, you came a long way. Bad news is, you went the wrong way. You went the wrong way.
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Manny: Like, Stephen Miller? Oh, no. Oh, no, he… he…
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Jeezy: It's all nefarious. Bruh. It's all nefarious. That dude, that dude gotta get up out of there, boy.
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Manny: All in the face.
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Jeezy: That dude got some stuff with him.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: But, Bobby? Bobby, I think, honestly believes he's doing the best… he's doing the best job for the American people.
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Manny: And I don't know what happens, and this is… I'm tired.
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Jeezy: I'm tired.
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Manny: I want politics to be boring.
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Jeezy: Bro, we just wanted to be born again, bro.
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Manny: Look, do you… you remember when Mitt Romney…
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Manny: came on stage, and they were asking him about female representation in his cabinet, and he said, I have binders full of women. And that…
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Manny: That was peak political contact.
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Jeezy: Yeah, bro.
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Manny: Right. Bring those days back. Bring tan… tan suit contra… I can handle some tan suit contraits.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, some tan suit controversy, but this stuff right here?
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Manny: I'll even go further.
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Manny: Bill Clinton getting some head in the Oval Office. I can deal with that. That is the level of controversy and chaos I want in my government. Yep. This?
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Jeezy: I did not sign.
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Manny: I did not sign up for all this. I did not sign up for all this.
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Jeezy: Bruh!
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Manny: Bring back the days where we were just like, man, people were like, man, politics… I want this…
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Jeezy: The newspaper days, bro.
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Manny: I want… I want us people to listen to this pod, and they're like, man, they are taking really boring things and making them funny. Like, that's what I want this pod to be, not like, man, these guys are taking horrible things, and trying to make them funny without us all crying. Yep. Make politics boring again.
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Jeezy: That's definitely what I want. But, man, you know, this is a concern, so for the American people, for the world.
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Jeezy: Be careful. That's all I can say, is be careful, check what you're getting your information from.
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Manny: Maybe.
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Jeezy: Always make the best decision.
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Jeezy: For you and your family, and your community, but just be careful where you're getting that information from, because you gotta check the source, like everything. Look. Gotta check the source.
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Manny: And like we said all during COVID and even now, stay prayed up.
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Jeezy: Yeah, bruh.
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Manny: Keep that hand sanity on you.
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Jeezy: Let me tell you, I got some in there right now.
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Manny: Hand sanity and mask.
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Jeezy: But before we move on, I just got one thing that I want to say to you.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Jeezy: It's a thought that came across my mind just a few minutes ago.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Jeezy: What if… Stephen Miller.
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Jeezy: is the sun.
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Jeezy: of Vladimir Putin.
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Jeezy: They kind of resemble each other, bruh.
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Manny: You know?
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Manny: You know, I mean… Eddie track. Eddie track.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Jeezy: He give off a little bit of boom vibe, bruh.
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Manny: It would track, like…
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Jeezy: For our 104 hat community, I had to throw you a curveball on that one. Y'all go look that up and make that connection.
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Manny: Look, it…
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Manny: And when y'all make that connection, go ahead and send that… send it over to the pod so we can talk about it, because…
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Jeezy: Let us review the file.
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Manny: Because, look, the government's already looking… probably looking at our computers enough, like, hmm, these boys got a pod, they…
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Manny: They've been a little too accurate, let's.
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Jeezy: Good, bro.
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Manny: Where they getting their…
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Jeezy: Sir, they own to us.
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Manny: So…
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Jeezy: When you said, when you brought his name up, I was like, him and Vladimir Putin kind of look alike.
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Jeezy: But, you know, hey, it could be just… evil people just look like evil people, so…
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Manny: That's true, that's true.
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Jeezy: Well, nonetheless, we have reached our point of the episode where we have… Our Pickle of the week.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle!
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Jeezy: We got your pickle!
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Jeezy: We got your pickle!
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Manny: Alright, who we got? Who got in the… who we got in the brine?
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Jeezy: Alright. I'mma bring it home.
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Jeezy: To the great state.
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Jeezy: of North Carolina.
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Manny: Okay, this… this is not… we're… the pickle is not the ECU.
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Jeezy: No, man, and they lost to NC State, no, they ruined my birthday, folks.
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Jeezy: But, the pickle of the week is none other than a gentleman by the name, and I'm probably gonna mess his last name up, but James Yokeley.
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: You're familiar with this, we talked about this earlier this week. Mr. James… It's…
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Manny: 66-year-old man.
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Jeezy: Serves, as the County Board of Elections, on the County Board of Elections in North Carolina.
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Manny: Mmm, hmm.
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Jeezy: It was reported that on… Amen, you got…
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Manny: Yeah, good evening.
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Jeezy: Mayans out of him, bro.
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Manny: Make it easy.
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Jeezy: Raymes out of here.
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Jeezy: You're a fan.
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Jeezy: But, on August the 3rd, he allegedly placed 2 blue peels.
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Jeezy: into Dairy Queen blizzards, consumed by his 16-year-old step-granddaughter and her 15-year-old friend.
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Jeezy: The girls discovered the peels.
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Jeezy: And did not ingest them.
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Jeezy: Field tests indicated that the pills contained MDMA, And cocaine.
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Manny: Bro, what?
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Jeezy: Yokely was arrested on the 26th, charged with felony child abuse, possession of a controlled substance, and contaminating food or drink with a controlled substance. He posted a $100,000 secured bond, and is scheduled to appear on court in 9-11. You definitely gonna fall.
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Jeezy: He resigned his chair on the next day, on August 28th, proclaiming these accusations as false, and expressed confidence in his exoneration. The resignation came after swift pressure
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Jeezy: From the state auditor, who had demanded it and said the board could now move forward without Distraction.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Manny: Bro, how… Alright, so there's a lot I need to know about this story.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: The first being, Okay, who got you so mad?
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Manny: Who at that Dairy Queen has you so mad that you were willing to potentially expose your granddaughter
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Manny: to MDA and Coke.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: What?
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Manny: Because allegedly, they got him on video.
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Jeezy: Oh, they got a Modelior door?
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Manny: Allegedly, there's some type of visual… I think they said visual evidence.
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Manny: That he, he, he sprinkled a little crack in there.
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Manny: Allegedly.
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Jeezy: Who got you on that?
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Manny: Who got you that mad, though?
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Jeezy: Well, now… First of all, he's just a… he's a fan, and he wrong.
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Manny: Totally wrong.
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Jeezy: This is a ditty behavior.
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Jeezy: Diddy behavior.
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Jeezy: But I have had a blizzard before.
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Jeezy: And they're good.
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Manny: They are good. I haven't had a blizzard in a little bit, but…
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Jeezy: It's been a while. It's been a very long time, but Dair Queen, shout out to Dair Queen. Dair Queen does have some good ice cream.
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Manny: They do.
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Manny: It's in their name. It's in their name, like… You can't, you can't…
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Jeezy: Have dairy in there and not have good dairy.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: But… They have a very smooth and silky texture to their ice cream.
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Jeezy: What in God's name did you think was gonna happen when they got… when they took a spoonful of that smooth, silky ice cream and felt that big blue pill?
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Manny: He hit the back of the throat.
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Jeezy: in the back of their throat. You ain't trying to crunch it up. You ain't trying to…
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Manny: Brady?
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Jeezy: got him a Cookie Crunch one, and sprinkled it in, so…
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Manny: And maybe… and maybe that's… that was the point. It wasn't for them to actually ingest it, but it was to… so it was blatant that they could see it. So that's why I think there's a… there's another story about somebody who worked at Dairy.
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Jeezy: Oh, you think somebody planted this on them?
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Manny: I… I… no, no, I think he planted it.
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Manny: Okay. So he could be, like, that manager, or that person at the.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: That's… that's what I think is happening here.
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Jeezy: That's my tinfoil hat.
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Jeezy: Bruh, if that was the case, bruh, I can think of a thousand ways that you can get revenge on somebody. Planting drugs on your step-granddaughter and her friend to point it at somebody else is kind of… that's on some juicy smoothie-type stuff.
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Jeezy: of juice smoothies.
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Manny: Just…
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Jeezy: smooth, yay. Bruh.
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Jeezy: He in a pickle, man, because if he did do this, first of all, I mean, from his picture.
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Jeezy: He look like he'd do something.
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Manny: I ain't gonna say he do MDMN, I ain't gonna say he do Coke.
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Jeezy: But it look like he'd do something.
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Manny: He looked like he knew where to get that from.
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Jeezy: And I want to know what time of the day did this happen, because…
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Jeezy: Most old people, they go eat, like, Dairy Queen at, like, 10 o'clock in the morning. You know, they eat breakfast at 6, so lunch for them has moved up 2 hours, so that's, like, 10. So it's like…
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Jeezy: Alright, now, if this… you did this, like, at lunchtime, bruh, you… you definitely… it's wild, it's a wild occasion completely. Yep. Bruh, you about to drug up some teenagers in the middle of the day.
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Manny: In the middle of the day.
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Jeezy: What were you gonna do with him?
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Jeezy: Like, bruh, this is kinda… I don't know. And it's his step… his step-granddaughter?
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Jeezy: So, I don't know, bruh.
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Manny: We're gonna see how this… how this shakes out, cause I… there's questions.
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Jeezy: Bruh, there's definitely some questions. Long story short.
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Jeezy: Don't go to Dairy Queen with creepy white men that look like they might do drugs.
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Manny: And always check your ice cream, too. Check your ice cream. Always check your ice cream.
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Jeezy: Like, what was the movie, with Bompy Johnson?
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Jeezy: who was that movie that Lawrence Fishburne was in? They tried to poison him with rat poison, and by putting.
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Manny: I'm making the life.
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Jeezy: Almonds on his, on his hot…
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Manny: On the side, folks.
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Jeezy: Yup. You gotta check your ice cream, bro. Word of Bumpy Jensen.
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Jeezy: So yeah, man, James, if you'd like to come on the pod and, tell us what happened…
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Manny: We're here to listen, and we judge. I just need you to know that.
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Jeezy: I'mma judge you.
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Jeezy: I'mma judge you, because I'm coming in already. I don't believe that you're innocent until proven guilty. I believe you guilty already. But you can come up here and try to convince us that you're innocent.
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Jeezy: Nonetheless, until you get the situation worked out, Brother James.
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Manny: Do it a pickle.
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Jeezy: You're in a pickle, brother. You're in the brine. So that is…
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Jeezy: My pickle for the week. So, we've reached the end of our episode, and at the end of every episode, you guys know we give you our spotlights of the week. So, brother, what you got?
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Manny: So… As of August 2025, it's been announced that, the U.S. government has become Intel.
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Manny: Intel's single largest shareholder, with a 9.9% stake, outpacing Vanguard, who currently has an 8.4% stake.
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Jeezy: So…
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Manny: I think this is real interesting. So, Intel is a big chip maker, and with…
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Jeezy: have beef with the, Intel CEO at one point?
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Manny: Yeah, so…
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: how much of this is involved with this, but when you see everything that's happening with chip production and chips being made, like, also in the chip world, it… it was… came out, and I think they're still trying to figure out if this is…
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Manny: true or not, that NVIDIA had struck some type of deal with the U.S. government to be able to export their chips to China.
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Manny: for a 15%… they avoid most of the regular tariffs, but there is a 15% tariff that goes on these chips to China that goes directly to the U.S. government, but then it came out, like, hey, that may not actually be the case.
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Manny: But I think this is really, really interesting.
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Manny: as this is one of the first times in a little bit that you've seen a U.S. entity step in and kind of take… almost say take over, but step in and take a very large state in a company that is not in a bailout situation. You know, we've seen them step in with Chrysler, we saw it with GM, we saw it with AIG.
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Manny: So… that's real interesting,
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Manny: Another time that we saw the U.S. do this is when the U.S. temporarily nationalized railroads during World War I, so they could have efficiency with how stuff was moving around.
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Manny: So, I think this is really interesting, because there are no real, like, U.S. flagship company…
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Manny: Like, all of our flagship companies are independently run. Like France. France has complete control of… I won't say complete control, but it has a big control in Air France.
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Manny: you know, in China, you see Hui, SMIC, ICDB… ICBC, China…
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Manny: directly large stakes over those companies. So, it's very rare to see the U.S. do this in a time of peace, of them taking over a company that's pretty much healthy.
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Manny: And I think this will be interesting to see what happens, not only with its stock price over the next, you know, 6 months to a year, but also to see if this is the only company that the U.S. starts taking stakes in.
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Manny: For this. So…
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Manny: Yeah. The other question is, how long do we plan on holding all this stock? Because usually, most times, when the U.S. has control like this, we usually exit it. You see right now, with, you know.
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Manny: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We're trying to get… make those become public companies.
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Manny: So it'll be interesting to see what happens with this 9% stake.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man.
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Manny: Yeah, so that's what I will be watching.
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Jeezy: Alright.
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Manny: you got?
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Jeezy: My attention is, looking at Chicago in the state of Illinois.
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Jeezy: So, on the 29th of August, as you know, well, Trump did his whole thing with DC and the National Guard and all that stuff, and he is turning his attention to Chicago.
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Jeezy: Saying that he is going to do the same to clean up the violent crime and everything that's going on in Chicago.
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Jeezy: Well, on the 29th of August, Governor Pritzker, fired back at Trump's threat to deploy the National Guard troops to Chicago, stating that there is no crime emergency warranting such federal intervention.
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Jeezy: And he warned, and I like this tone that he's taking.
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Jeezy: is that he's warned that any attempt would be met with a response, calling it unconstitutional and politically driven. Now, I want to know what that means.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Because to me, that's… pull up… to me, that sounds like, pull up on this porch and you're gonna see what's gonna happen.
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Jeezy: So, in an earlier press conference, he told the president, do not come to Chicago, you are neither wanted, nor… you're not wanted here, nor needed here. Framing, the threat as an authoritarian.
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Jeezy: power grab and emphasized readiness to pursue justice under constitutional authority if the federal government is overstepping. And it didn't stop with just him.
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Jeezy: Mayor Johnson of Chicago. Shout out to Mayor Johnson.
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Jeezy: And shout out to Eric, our boy Eric is out there in Chicago. Eric, stay off the streets, bruh, cause the National Guard might be coming. I want you getting hemmed up and see you on the news.
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Jeezy: But on, next day after, Mayor Johnson signed an executive order directing the Chicago Police Department must not cooperate with any National Guard or federal agents in law enforcement or immigration enforcement operations. He stressed
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Jeezy: Police must remain clearly identifiable, wear full uniform, and respect civil liberties. So…
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Jeezy: Sounds like we about to have a clash of heads down in Chicago, bro.
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Manny: Yeah. Well, you know what?
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Manny: we see what the National Guard is doing down in, DC right now, they're picking up trash. Right.
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Manny: Maybe, maybe they're coming to Chicago to make, make the streets clean again.
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Jeezy: Make Chicago clean again.
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Manny: Yeah, he's trying to clean… look, maybe he was saying he was trying to clean up the streets of Chicago, maybe he actually just meant that literally. He was like, hey, we're gonna clean up these streets.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I don't think that the, part of the training for, the National Guard required any janitorial services, but… Hey, I mean, if they're not doing anything, I guess use them.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: But yeah, I'm interested to see what these responses will look like from the back and forth between, these three, and we may not get none, because.
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Manny: Trump's been quiet, so… Well…
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Manny: You know, as I was just reading, you know, we can't go quiet for too long, because… -Oh.
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Manny: I won't say Brother Trump, donnie T. Donnie T just came out and said, voter ID must be part of every single vote, no exception. I will be doing an executive order to end… to… to that end.
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Manny: Also, no mail-in voting, except for those that are very ill and the faraway military. U.S. Sorry, I almost said USE. He said, use paper ballots only.
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Manny: Trump wrote… yeah, so… late last night, he fired that off. So, you know…
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Jeezy: Maybe he's… maybe he's on the mein.
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Manny: Maybe I got the vitamin infusions, you know, and he's back to normal. So, we'll be following up as this plays out, because allegedly that's going to be signed later this week.
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Jeezy: Oh, boy. Alright.
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Manny: Just in time for elections.
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Jeezy: Yep, yep. So, to our listeners, be on the lookout, so you know what you need to do, so that your vote gets counted, so…
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Jeezy: Well, man, that's all I got for my spotlight, man. So, that brings us to the conclusion of our episode. So, to our listeners, we thank you for tuning in, we thank you for lending us, your ear for the duration of this episode.
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Jeezy: like, share, follow, get the word out about the podcast, to all those that, that, that need to hear it, and those that would enjoy to hear it. So, all hearts and minds clear, brother, you good?
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Manny: Yeah, every… everyone enjoy your Labor Day. If you're.
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Jeezy: Listen to this afternoon.
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Manny: Labor Day. We hope that you, you enjoyed your Labor Day, and geez, once again, happy birthday.
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Jeezy: I appreciate that, man, I appreciate that. So, that is our episode, and as we always say, at the end of every episode of Don't Nobody Love You, just know the boys here at the pod, we love you.
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Manny: Love y'all.
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Jeezy: Thank you, and take care, see you in the next episode.
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Manny: Good.