The Epstein Files: America’s New Watergate?

NFL season is back, and so are Jeezy and Manny, unpacking fandom breakups, fantasy picks, and the emotional toll of rooting for toxic teams (looking at you, Raiders). But the fun quickly pivots to fury as they dive into the latest Epstein revelations, including DOJ name redactions, shocking victim testimonies, and Mike Johnson’s jaw-dropping claim that Donald Trump was an FBI informant.

Plus, the boys roast the $300M rebrand of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War,” ponder what that money should’ve fixed, and clown a Karen at a baseball game who tried to rob a kid of joy and a home run ball.

Add in sugar vs. salt in grits, job numbers flopping, and a botched immigration raid at Hyundai, and this episode is your full-course political comedy meal. Catch the chaos, controversy, and camaraderie only on Pardon the Politics.

👉 Tap in, laugh loud, and stay woke.

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Jeezy: Hello, world! Welcome to Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 36. My name is Jeezy, your co-host here at the podcast, and I'm here with my brother and my partner in politics, Manny. My brother, what's going on with you today? How you feeling?
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Manny: Bruh, it is… it is the kickoff.
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Manny: NFL Sunday.
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Jeezy: Yay! We back!
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Manny: We bad.
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Jeezy: We bet, we bet.
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Manny: And I'm back without a team.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: So we're taking… we're taking all interest calls. Have your people talk to my people. Now is your opportunity to acquire me as a fan.
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Jeezy: Bruh, hey, hopefully your agent isn't, the same agent as, Michael Parsons.
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Manny: Whew!
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Jeezy: You might be in for a bad deal, bro.
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Manny: Right. But what's his deal that bad?
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Jeezy: Well, time will tell.
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Jeezy: I will tell. I will say, looking at him in a Green Bay jersey, he looks less intimidating and less as a threat than he did in the Dallas color, so I don't know, man. We may see the real Michael Parsons.
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Manny: But see, I think he's sad. I think at least this first game, he's sad.
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Jeezy: So, so the… so he looks small because he done dropped at, he… is… that's depression weight?
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Manny: Yeah, and his back hurts.
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Jeezy: Bruh, how you… bruh, first of all, how you been laying on the sideline on training tables? You come to your new team, oh yeah, my… my L4, L5…
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Manny: It's gonna look good.
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Jeezy: Got a little crack in it. My alternate leaking a little bit.
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Jeezy: It's all good, you know? It's all good.
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Manny: It's all good.
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Manny: Jerry Jones, like, no Treybacks.
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Jeezy: Really, yep. This ain't Walmart.
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Manny: We'll take everything back. We ain't got one of those Costco return policies.
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Jeezy: Well, since you're a free agent for this season, tell our listeners, who was your original team?
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Manny: My previous team was the Los Angeles, Oakland, Las Vegas Raiders.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: They've been on the move.
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Manny: Bruh. It's so disrespectful, and waves of fanship.
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Manny: Al Davis, and Mark… and you know what? I was good through the Al Davis years, because, you know, he at least got 3… he got three Super Bowls.
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Manny: Now, did he… does he know what he's doing? Did he know what he was doing, you know, towards the end? Absolutely not. But one of the things I'll remember about Al Davis…
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Manny: Well, it's not about Al Davis, it's more about when he died.
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Manny: I remember how I found out that he died.
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Manny: It was you.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: You called me. You called me. I don't remember this. You called me, and I was in total wine.
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Manny: in Cary.
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Manny: And you're like, yo, you hear the news? And I was like, no, what happened? And you said, Hal Davis died. And I sat there, and I was like.
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Manny: Damn, that's wild.
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Manny: Anyways, I'm drinking tonight.
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Jeezy: I vaguely kind of… now it's kind of coming to me, like, I feel like I do remember this conversation.
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Manny: And, like.
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Jeezy: If anybody would call you, it'd be me.
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Manny: It would be you. And I'm like, it's you or Eric.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Top two, and my boy Rashad. One of y'all three would have been the three… one of the three that told me.
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Jeezy: Great news to you.
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Manny: Because, like, I remember I wasn't completely upset, and then I was like, aw, this man got a family.
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Manny: But for a moment there, I was like, man, maybe the Raiders will get better.
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Jeezy: So, I was about to say, since that moment, in hindsight.
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Manny: It has not gotten better.
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Manny: It did not get better.
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Jeezy: Raiders, y'all lost a good fan, man, because I will say, from my group chat, Manny has tried, he has tried, he has tried, but one thing I'm glad to see is that my brother has finally
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Jeezy: gotten to the emotional space and acceptance where he can, detach himself from a toxic relationship that has caused him great harm over the years. I've seen him… I've seen the harm that it's done to him, but, you know, sometimes when you're in those type of relationships, the person won't do nothing until they're.
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Manny: Right. And you just keep thinking it's gonna get better, and it don't. It never do. It never gets better. It's like, oh, okay, this is where we at. This is where we at.
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Jeezy: If any of our listeners are experiencing a relationship like that, please make sure you call… I don't have the number handy, but…
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Manny: I think it's, like, 811, like… Yeah. Right, yeah, get some help, release yourself. Don't let decisions that you made
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Manny: 10, 11, 12-year-old permanently haunt you into adulthood. Because that's what sports fanship is.
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Manny: You as a child making a decision of what team is going to control your happiness for the rest of your life.
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Jeezy: Bruh, don't, don't do it. There are so many, men that around this time.
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Jeezy: That get into this. That toxic relationship is back.
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Jeezy: And they experience those highs and lows, and it can weigh on you after a while, man. So, it's okay to walk away from it, man. It is. It don't matter how much money you spend on gear, how many tickets you've bought, how many times you've seen them play in person, it doesn't matter. You don't have to stay.
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Manny: You know what, I think what I might do is I might let my girls dictate what team I become a fan of.
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Jeezy: Hey. Yeah, bro, then it'll be like a connection for all three of you, bro.
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Manny: Right, we can all be upset together.
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Jeezy: There you go, bro. Well, I know there's an, speaking of fans and being upset, I believe we saw something on social media this past week where a fan got a little… a little tight,
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Manny: I'm kidding.
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Jeezy: We had a… we spotted a Karen at a baseball game, didn't we?
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Manny: Wow, that is… that was wild! Like…
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Jeezy: First, you on the road, so, like, chill out. Yeah. Second off.
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Manny: I thought the rule, and maybe I'm wrong. Now, I know you're a bigger baseball fan than I am, but I thought the rule was, home run ball
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Manny: Every game until you secure the ball.
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Jeezy: After…
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Manny: After you've secured it, then… And if that's the rule.
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Manny: Watching the replays, I do not believe that she or her,
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Manny: I won't say husband, but the… her male… the male person sitting next to her… Yeah. …did not secure it.
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Manny: My man was in the same section.
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Manny: Went over and got it.
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Manny: And you know what? I'mma be real, Jeez.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I wouldn't have given the ball back.
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Jeezy: Oh, no, I wouldn't got that ball back. She would have had to fight me for it.
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Manny: Like, first off, I gave it… that's… and that's really where it should have ended. Like, she should have seen, oh, he gave it to the kid, like…
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: It's gone.
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Manny: And, like, the… the worst case scenario…
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Manny: for me and that lady, would have been me taking that ball and throwing it back on the field, because ain't nobody getting it.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: I definitely would have done that. I would've… if you're gonna keep arguing… actually, you know what? No, I ain't giving nothing back. I wouldn't have thrown it back on the field either. You know what?
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Manny: Ma'am, you better go sit down and get out my face. Because I'm not the one or the two.
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Jeezy: I'm not the one nor the two. Nope.
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Manny: Don't come for me if you ain't been sent for.
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Jeezy: All I know, I don't know what the update is, but I have seen that people have seen social media, do your job. Oh, no, from my understanding, social media has already done their job. Oh, she's been located?
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Manny: She has been located and found.
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Jeezy: The Karen has been identified.
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Manny: And… I hope she's not in corporate America, because she's gonna have a very interesting Monday morning.
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Jeezy: Bro, wouldn't it be funny if she worked for something like United Way, or, like, the St. Jude's Children's Hospital, like…
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Jeezy: Bruh. Like, you got a job where you… this is what you do, you spread love and joy to children, and you, on national TV, just took the joy right out of a kid's hand, man. He had a… how many kids said they've been to a game, man, and they had a home run… Home run ball. Exactly.
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Jeezy: You, you on the road went and took that ball from that kid.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: You gotta be ashamed of herself, bro.
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Manny: If I was her manager, she would walk into the office Monday morning, and I would just have a litany of Rawlings baseballs on her desk.
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Manny: See, this is why I know I'm a great and a horrible coworker at the same time, because I'd… if I would have seen it was one of my coworkers. Oh yeah, you're… you're walking into the office littered. Littered with baseballs.
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Manny: Anytime, anytime they would get… Wait, she put.
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Jeezy: I'm waiting till she puts it on her desk, and when she come back from lunch, there are just baseballs all over the place.
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Manny: All mixed up, so now you don't know.
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Jeezy: Now you don't know which one is which. Good luck.
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Manny: And I got to the batting cages, picked up about 4 or 5 more.
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Jeezy: Yep, put a little dirt on it. Yep, good luck.
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Manny: But yeah, that's wild. That's wild, like,
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Jeezy: Well, that was just in regular life, but in the political life, it's been just as crazy, which is every week. I'm tired.
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Manny: Sweet tire. Sweet tire.
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Jeezy: If y'all can't tell, as you listen to these episodes week after week, We tired.
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Jeezy: Me and Manny were talking in pre-show, that if Biden…
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Manny: You can go to… go to the beach.
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Jeezy: And Trump can go play golf.
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Jeezy: Then the boys here at the pod, at some point, we ought to be able to go sit down too, bruh. We're gonna take a vacation coming up, y'all. We gonna have to take a vacation.
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Jeezy: Because this is… while… while I'm very… I'm very grateful.
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Jeezy: That this political landscape gives us the.
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Jeezy: amount of content that it does, and we are never short. If anything, we gotta… we gotta figure out what we're not gonna talk about, because there's so much going on.
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Jeezy: It does… the well does, overrun at times.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: And the boys need to take a little break.
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Manny: So many topics we just… we don't talk about. Mostly because we don't have 4 hours of time, and at last that I checked, you nor I hit that $1.7 billion Powerball last night. No, sir.
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Jeezy: Two people did, I think.
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Manny: Yeah, it's like Missouri and Texas.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Man, and congratulations to them.
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Jeezy: If you would like to sponsor the board.
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Jeezy: If you'd like to… Let us know. …give us a donation.
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Jeezy: We would gladly, we would gladly take it.
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Manny: Hey, if you just won the Powerball, and you would like us to put on this show daily, give the boys… reach out to the boys. Let's figure out how we can make sure…
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Jeezy: We can get our account information over to you. You will get our information over to you.
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Manny: Every day.
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Manny: We can make it happen.
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Jeezy: So, yeah, we're gonna have to, at some point to our listeners, and while, I'm sure that…
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Jeezy: that may be, saddening to you, please understand that at the end of the day, while we love to laugh and joke and rate the coals under some of these political figures, we are human, and we need that time, too. So, be on the lookout for that vacation coming. Now, come now, make sure you come back now. Just because you leave don't mean that we don't need you to come back. We need you to come back once we,
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Jeezy: Once we're back and rejuvenated from taking a break from all the chaos that comes with this political landscape, but…
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Jeezy: Yeah, man. Let's get into it, man. Let's go ahead and do it, man.
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Jeezy: Our first topic, man, we got an Epstein update.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Jeezy: This thing ain't going away, man.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: But we actually got some… it's starting to get kind of funny.
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Jeezy: Hold on, let me say, let me, let me, let me…
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Manny: It is starting to get amusing from a purely political…
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Scandal standing.
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Jeezy: Damn point.
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Manny: Not from the reality of what actually happened to the individuals impacted, the victims of these very heinous crimes.
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Jeezy: Which they, they have shown, and this, this, past week was very interesting, because now we have faces.
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Manny: Yes. Something that we were missing for a very long time.
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Jeezy: We just were hearing and hearing and hearing about these things going on, but we actually have faces. And I'm gonna get into that in a little bit, but, the first thing that I want to bring to your attention is that the DOJ
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Jeezy: The Department of Justice has filed a request asking a federal judge to keep the identity of two individuals associated with Jeffrey Epstein
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Jeezy: who received roughly $350,000 from him in 2018, sealed from public disclosure. Now, the DOJ argues that this protects their privacy while, the individuals have objected, to the release. So…
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Jeezy: We have two people that are known co- I'm gonna say co-conspirators.
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Manny: Oh, conspirators, yep.
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Jeezy: But now the DOJ is somehow looking to… and this is, to me, when we have this word thrown around called transparency.
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Jeezy: And the public, I think Donald Trump has even said so himself. You had GOP and Democratic lawmakers saying that, you know, they think that the American people deserve transparency in what has happened. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, now we're seeing the DOJ wanting to…
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Jeezy: conceal.
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Jeezy: these two… individuals. So… What's sealing these names, even though they're linked to criminal cases.
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Jeezy: How can you have transparency when you have the Department of Justice looking to.
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Jeezy: keep these two individuals, these two co-conspirators, private from the American public.
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Manny: I think… I think it's a question of why.
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Manny: And here's the rough part about this entire thing at this point. We can't… I feel like the large…
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Manny: the large amount of the American public has an extreme trust issue.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: you know, no Drake, with the Justice Department. With the Justice Department, because… Yeah.
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Manny: Let's say… Individual 1 and Individual 2…
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Manny: these are foundations that Epstein wrote a check to.
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Manny: Okay, I… Not clearly linked.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: need to talk about it.
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Manny: But, again, who are these two? How much were the payments, and what were the payments for?
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Manny: So, if the pay… from my standpoint, if the payments were completely not linked to anything.
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Manny: then I would say, yeah, okay, let's keep it expunged, but I would have a hard time arguing that they're not involved, because then you have to look at the genesis of how you got the money.
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Jeezy: Yeah. I think, and for me, if it was… I think individuals…
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Jeezy: are, is the part of it that's kind of… is where I'm stuck at, because let's say that…
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Jeezy: He, you know, gave $350,000 to, you know, the, you know.
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Jeezy: cheesy and Manny campaign for re-election.
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Jeezy: Okay, that's not personally coming to me or you.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: It's going to our campaign.
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Jeezy: to me, I don't think that that is of that grave of magnitude, because I can say… we can say, hey, look, yes, we knew, yes, he's…
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Jeezy: you know, contributed, he donated, but hey, we had no idea that these things were going on. These were purely just a donation, and we have the, you know, we have the, the information financially that shows that this was nothing, you know, done ill intent, or what have you, there was nothing illegal done. But now, if it was… he gave…
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Jeezy: GZ and Mandy $350,000, and he gave it to us individually. Okay, now that's a problem.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: And… It's just so… it's so murky at this point, because.
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Jeezy: What we also know is that Epstein was known for collecting political favors the same way Ask Ketchum caught Pokemon.
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Manny: So I'm like, was this a loan? Or were you paying back a loan? Or was this a cover-up?
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Manny: like, sure, redact the names, but what we all know about Al Gore's internet… Right.
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Manny: If you give them a breadcrumb.
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Jeezy: Oh, they.
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Manny: They gotta find a bakery.
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Jeezy: I think that when you see the DOJ,
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Jeezy: doing something like this. And you see that, again, this word of transparency being thrown around.
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Jeezy: How is this perceived by these survivors, by these advocates, by the public, when…
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Jeezy: the DOJ's arguing this privacy. How, how…
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Jeezy: To me, it just looks bad, and from the point that you're making, is that if there's already this…
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Jeezy: This notion that we can't trust the department.
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Jeezy: When we are told that we're putting people in to bring back the credibility of the department, this does…
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Manny: We are.
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Jeezy: Well, supposed to. It was supposed to be that for the DOJ and the FBI, but we clearly see that those that are in the leadership of both of those agencies and departments aren't reestablishing the American people's hope and faith.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: they're doing the right thing. I just think that this is… I feel like instead of doing it by saying, hey, just don't release their names, there gotta be a better way of doing it.
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Manny: I… I don't know.
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Jeezy: That'd be a better way.
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Manny: Now, again, I don't know which judge this was given to.
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Manny: And I think that's gonna be interesting, because that judge could be like, nope, put it out there, which would be, again, funny from a content standpoint, very interesting for, again, why did these people get this money?
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And that's the biggest question. And I feel like if there was an above-board reason why they got this money.
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Manny: They would have included that in the request.
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Jeezy: And that's what I was just about to say.
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Jeezy: That would have been, I would think, in the request, but from knowing the power and the money that… and just the connections that we've been told that Jeffrey Epstein has.
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Jeezy: I'm not understanding if…
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Jeezy: these two individuals, whatever case it may have been that he gave them this money, I'm sure that there are multiple individuals
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Jeezy: That probably fit the same scenario.
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Jeezy: So then, are we going to see a reduction of… this is just the first step to see, okay, hey, look, can we get this kind of get approved? Is this gonna get struck down by a judge? And if so, if not, then hey, okay, we know we can move forward by doing this, this, this, and this for these individuals, because we can go into court of law and say that they fit the same criteria as these two that we have asked to be.
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Jeezy: Asked to be their identity.
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Manny: Redacted.
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Jeezy: Redacted, yeah.
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Manny: Well, geez… I got a theory.
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Manny: Oh, yes.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: -Oh, let's go.
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Manny: There we go.
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Jeezy: There's go.
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Manny: So, you know, we also heard some very interesting comments by members of Congress today.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Not today, but this past week. And maybe one of these two people is an informant.
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Manny: And then…
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Jeezy: predict… protection.
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Manny: Like, the identities of the informant.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Because per what we heard from Mike Johnson.
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Jeezy: Oh, oh, oh, Donnie T.
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Manny: was an informant.
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Manny: For the federal government.
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Jeezy: you, you know, I was gonna, I was gonna say that…
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Manny: Chill.
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Jeezy: Until we were done with this topic.
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Jeezy: But, since we're here…
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Manny: Century, make yourself at home, jeez, come on.
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Jeezy: Donald Trump has been known.
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Jeezy: As a… billionaire?
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Jeezy: a… Real estate tycoon?
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Manny: Mogul, one might say.
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Jeezy: mogul.
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Jeezy: Personality?
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Manny: Social media influence?
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Manny: Crypto, bro.
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Jeezy: No, bro.
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Jeezy: provider of some of the best steaks you've ever had in your life. Trump Steaks.
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Manny: the finest waters in Trump water.
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Jeezy: He's even had his own university.
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Manny: I mean…
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Jeezy: But on my bingo card, My orange Trump bingo card.
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Jeezy: Not one of those spaces did I think
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Jeezy: would get called out that said, FBI informant.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Why did Mike… first of all, Mike Johnson, I want… I hope that at the time of this recording, I hope that you went to church.
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Jeezy: And I hope you… I hope you repented.
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Jeezy: From that big ol' That big ol' orange lie. That big ol' orange lie you got on CNN.
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Manny: What did MLK say?
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Jeezy: Somebody told a lie.
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Manny: First off.
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Jeezy: Donald… actually, listen, let's be honest for a minute.
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Manny: Donald Trump, precisely.
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Jeezy: Right. Strikes me as an individual.
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Manny: who would get up under them lights and sing like a canary. Right.
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Manny: But… This just adds to the… the recurring evolution of the Epstein…
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Manny: Because it went from, oh, they didn't know each other, to, like, what about all these pictures, to, like, oh, well, we weren't cool because he stole land, wet land? Well, he stole my favorite masseuse. Hold up.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Wait a minute…
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Jeezy: out.
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Manny: what? To now, this is all a giant Democrat hoax. Yep. To now, he is an informant.
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Jeezy: He was an FBI informant in the Epstein investigation, helping dismantle the trafficking network.
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Manny: And, like… I don't know how long the FBI was looking at Epstein.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But I would assume, because he didn't get arrested, what, 2018.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: So, that means Trump would have had to be an informant.
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Manny: At some point during his presidency?
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Manny: If not while he was running for… running for office?
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Jeezy: This man, you mean to tell me, was running for office, and was working for the FBI.
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Manny: Man, wearing wires.
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Jeezy: Right. Wearing a wire.
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Jeezy: They take down a trafficking network.
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Jeezy: If that was the case, then he was the FBI… mmm…
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Manny: You think Donald Johnson… Hold on, hold on. Nick, so…
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Jeezy: Could… could… could it be… If he was an informant, then I would assume that…
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Jeezy: They should have him as a witness, or some type of testimony, or some type of…
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Jeezy: You done made this strong… hey, release the tape?
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Manny: Release the tapes!
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Jeezy: I want to hear the wire conversations that you got from Trump as an informant, where, Donald Trump… I mean, Jeffrey Epstein admitted all these things, and you presented this as evidence in court.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Because he's an informant.
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Manny: where is the grand jury testimony? Right. That… but you mean to tell me Donald Trump helped
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Manny: Take down an international child trafficking network, and he ain't telling us about it?
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Jeezy: Yo, he been… bruh, Trump can't keep quiet about nothing, bruh.
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Manny: No problem.
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Jeezy: You mean to tell me he ain't… he ain't… now, one time was he about to slip up.
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Manny: And you just let the world know. You know I saved them, Martin. Yep.
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Jeezy: I just… I… he… when Epstein went down, he should have been on Truth going ham.
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Manny: Yep, got him. Got him, we finally got.
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Jeezy: I took now one of the world's… The world's most…
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Jeezy: just horrendous human traffickers known to mankind, and thanks to me, Donald Trump.
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Jeezy: The FBI informant.
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Manny: Russ, start playing the Matlock music.
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Jeezy: In the background.
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Manny: Dun, dun, dun-dun-dun.
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Jeezy: But when Mike Johnson said this, I was like… and it was crazy, because I was like…
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Jeezy: Now, Mike always says he's a man, he claims, professes himself as a man of faith.
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Manny: And we're not here today.
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Jeezy: And I'm not here to… and that ain't got nothing to do with me. I'm just going by what the man said, and if you say that's what you are, then I'm gonna take you for what you say, because at the end of the day…
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Manny: They don't mean nothing to me.
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Jeezy: When we all get up on that golden escalator to the sky.
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Jeezy: The one at the top of new.
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Jeezy: It ain't for me to know.
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Manny: But if you say you are who you say you are.
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Jeezy: You told this big ol' lie.
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Jeezy: Mike, Mike Johnson, you gotta be ashamed of yourself, bro. There is not…
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Jeezy: MAGA, I need you to come to the front.
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Jeezy: And I need you to raise your hand, and I need to know how many of y'all really think.
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Manny: This man was a foreman.
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Jeezy: It's an FBI informant.
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Manny: If you believe that, then I'm gonna believe that he was the one that taught Luzinder.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I went to… had to go to the throwback name.
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Jeezy: He taught him to skyhook.
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Jeezy: Trump was the one that trained Larry Bird to shoot threes.
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Manny: Matter of fact, we just gonna start.
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Jeezy: by saying that Trump… all the most ridiculous things that Trump could possibly have done in his life.
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Manny: He did it.
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Jeezy: Don't say he did it, bruh.
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Manny: He was…
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Jeezy: He's the one that gave Colonel Sanders the recipe and told him what spices to use, bro.
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Manny: Did you know that before Colonel Sanders met Donald Trump, it was only 11 spices?
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: The wind…
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Jeezy: That trunk.
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Manny: He said, oh, go ahead and sprinkle some of this on in.
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Jeezy: Yeah, you need to… this is what you're missing.
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Manny: The streets will go wild.
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Jeezy: This is what you're missing right here.
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Manny: Did you know that Donald Trump, John Trump, was the person who introduced Kanye to the 808 beat? Correct.
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Jeezy: Ew.
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Manny: Dude.
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Jeezy: Trump was the first one to sold Snoop Dogg weed, bruh.
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Jeezy: Snoop Dogg wouldn't be who… Snoop Dogg wouldn't be Snoop Dogg if Trump hadn't sold him that first dime bag, bruh.
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Manny: Did you know Ice-T originally wanted to go by the name Orange Juice?
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Manny: Until Donald Jones said, man. Ice-T is a far better name.
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Jeezy: Bruh, if it weren't for him, we would've never got NWA, bruh.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Thank you, Donald Trump.
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Manny: We need to be more thankful as an American public.
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Jeezy: There are so many roles that this man has played that has made America… that's why he's so obsessed with making America great again.
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Manny: It's gotta be. It's gotta be. Because no one is coming to him. No one is coming to him asking for his help, and that's why he ran…
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Jeezy: We lost our way, and that's why we have lost our way as American people. We stopped… we stopped letting the innovator…
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Jeezy: Known as Donald John Trump.
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Jeezy: Give us the… lead us!
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Jeezy: to success.
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Manny: All these great things we've experienced in life, and we don't even realize.
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Jeezy: it happened because of Donald and John Trump. We, we, you're right, man, we gotta be more grateful, bro.
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Manny: Did you know Donald John Trump was the one who went up to Henry Ford and said, hey, hen.
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Jeezy: Why don't you… Not here!
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Manny: why don't you go ahead and just have everyone specialize in a piece? And he gave him the initial keys to the assembly line.
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Jeezy: That's why he be talking the way he talk. I could end this, I could do this in one day, no problem.
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Manny: Can you go?
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Jeezy: Y'all don't even know what I've already done. That's why y'all think it's crazy when I tell y'all that I can end the war, the Russian-Ukraine war, in one day. Y'all think I sound crazy, you don't realize.
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Manny: You don't know this. You don't know.
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Jeezy: How do you think the moon landing got recorded? I went up there a day before and set up the camera. What are y'all talking about?
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Manny: Look, they were gonna land on this side, I said, hey, y'all need to go 43 miles to the right.
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Jeezy: the flashlight and told him to go left a couple of knots. Brother, what y'all talking about?
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Manny: Oh, that's me!
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Manny: I'm not a JT!
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Jeezy: I'm panic to eat!
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Jeezy: Come on, it's me!
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Jeezy: Bro, Mike Johnson oughta be ashamed of his…
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Manny: Right, bro.
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Jeezy: But to call it a hoax, and then you end up being an informant to a hoax is just wild, bro.
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Manny: Wild escalation.
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Jeezy: It's wild, bruh. Bruh, this whole F-State thing is starting to… which I…
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: The problem is, is that I feel like Trump started…
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Jeezy: He figured that this was probably gonna just blow over pretty quick. If he could somehow not give it any sting.
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Jeezy: it would blow up pretty quick. The problem with him calling it a Democratic hoax is that…
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Jeezy: Some of his own GOP members are involved in it, too.
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Manny: When the victims were up on the Capitol.
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Jeezy: This past week, when she… she is trying the best to rebrand herself, bless her heart.
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Manny: Bruh, trying so hard.
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Jeezy: Marjorie Taylor Greene…
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Manny: Hey, look, okay. Alright, look. I… I… We've been rough on Margie.
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Jeezy: We…
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Manny: But you know what?
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Manny: There are two Republicans right now.
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Manny: That we need to protect right now.
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Manny: And that's MG… MTG.
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Manny: and Thomas Massey.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Because I… I don't want it to be undersold, what they have offered to do.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: But before that, I'm gonna hit a real key point that I think's important with this, is that the survivors who have come out have said, well, if y'all not gonna release a list, we the victims, we are going to compile a list.
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Jeezy: Yo.
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Manny: And it is… it is very well known that if they compile a list.
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Manny: And they put it out there that they will be attacked.
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Manny: and… and come after legally for the words that they said for deformation. Well, that doesn't necessarily apply to the floors of Congress. So, for them to… for Massey and MTG to hop out there and say, we… give us the list, and we immediately…
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Manny: they can't come after us. And I said, oh yes, this is… this is what I want to see.
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Jeezy: Yep, this is the work you're supposed to be doing. Right. This is the work that you're supposed to be doing. And I hope that the victims do it, because at the end of the day, I think that they have…
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Jeezy: For far too long.
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Jeezy: They have waited by to see if the, the, if the people in those positions would do the right thing.
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Jeezy: But you gotta look at it from their perspective. If I'm sitting back on TV, and I have someone calling what I experienced as a hoax, that it didn't happen, this is just a democratic hoax, and this is just a bunch of stuff just to distract you, and I know for a fact
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Jeezy: that I experience these things, enough is enough, bruh.
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Manny: Now, you, Nancy Mace.
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Jeezy: Bruh, when you saw the picture, I guess they talked behind, like, a closed-door session, or something another, where they spoke to some of the victims, and she walked out crying. Like…
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Jeezy: Let your own convictions carry you.
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Jeezy: You were one of the ones that was saying, talking all this junk about it, and how it was fake, and it was all this and that. Look, it's all fun and games until you meet you sitting there in the face of the person who actually experienced this, and they're telling you, and you can see from… even those girls, man, I was… I didn't watch all of it, because that's… it's just too much for me, but just hearing some of those… just some of the… those… those moments…
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Manny: Oh, really.
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Jeezy: 14-year-old, 15-year-old, you know, I work here, and then next thing you know, this and that, and they were saying, man, there were some powerful people that we were… we were abused by.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And we're not gonna stand by, and shout out to these women.
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Manny: So much strength, man, so much strength.
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Jeezy: And just, not just them, just any… any woman in general.
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Jeezy: To go through any type of abuse, whether it be sexually.
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Jeezy: Physically, verbally, to have the strength to come out and speak your truth.
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Jeezy: is… is an amazing thing, and it's something that should not be taken lightly, and these congressmen…
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Jeezy: should not take these victims' story lightly at all. There should be something done. I don't care if Trump wants it being swept up under the rug or not. If these victims… because remember, we… this fumble has happened before. Remember what happened with the girls,
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Jeezy: in the Olympics.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: They were talking about that doctor. They said, look, we came to y'all and told y'all.
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Manny: And y'all ain't doing nothing.
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Jeezy: Y'all ain't do nothing, and oh, now, now we won't… y'all want to have us come before Congress and testify and do all this. We came to y'all before and said something to you.
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Manny: Where were y'all 20 years ago? Bingo.
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Jeezy: Now y'all let that man run wild for Daniel.
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Manny: there, another generation doing the same thing.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: All could have been avoided had we taken stuff seriously.
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Jeezy: Yep, and I hope that now you have the opportunity. The damage has been done. This gentleman is dead.
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Jeezy: But the truth, and those that were associated that are still roaming these streets, whether they are Republican, Democrat, or whoever they are, how powerful they are, they need to answer for those crimes.
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Manny: And look, I'm gonna… I'm gonna… I'm gonna take it one step closer.
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Manny: I believe that the U.S. has already secured a relationship with a place that I think that we should send them, you know? El Salvador.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Manny: So if we're sending our worst there, then we got a place for them to go. Hey, or you can send them to the deportation Depot. The new facility down there in Florida.
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Manny: But one of the… let me ask you this question before we move to the next topic. One of our listeners reached out and asked me the question, what… and I didn't answer them, because I was like, oh, we gotta answer this for the pod. Okay.
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Manny: Is the Epstein files The current-day version of… of Watergate.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: I don't know.
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Manny: I think it could be.
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Jeezy: What throws me off is… But I can see why it could possibly be the same.
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Jeezy: the political connections that were tied into Watergate is what makes me think, like, okay, maybe not quite, but to what we kind of have already been privy to about the Epstein files, there could be so many high-ranking.
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Manny: figures and political figures tied to this, that it could very well be just the same… A ginormous house of cards. Yes. So, yeah.
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Jeezy: Yeah, bruh.
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Manny: Now, the… I think the question will remain, because one of the big differences between Watergate and this is…
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Manny: A, this Epstein thing has gone on far longer.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: than Watergate, with far less details. We know a whole lot more about Epstein, and no one has moved, than we knew about Watergate before they started moving. Most of the stuff that we know about Watergate came out towards the end, or right after.
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Manny: So… Definitely think… but the biggest question will be, what is… what accountability will there be?
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Jeezy: I was gonna say, and to add to that.
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Jeezy: What extent does the president play in it?
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Jeezy: Because in Watergate, Nixon was playing a very heavy hand.
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Manny: and concealing some of the details that were surrounded… he orchestrated it, basically.
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Jeezy: If Trump has any type of connection in orchestrating how these files are handled, that will be the nail in the coffin for me to say, yeah, this is our Watergate. This is our Watergate.
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Jeezy: I, I think it… But this is how you know there's… where there's smoke, there's fire.
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Jeezy: Because if the things and the rumors and all the, alleged details that we've heard about the Epstein files…
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Jeezy: if none of it was true, then they could really refute a lot of this stuff by just releasing it. Instantly. The fact that there's this… this tiptoeing, this… this walking on the crate.
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Jeezy: approach to the Epstein files.
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Jeezy: I mean, just as a just general American person hearing these things, I have to believe that there is some validity in what has taken place.
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Manny: There are too many questions for this to just go away.
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Jeezy: way too many, and if those things weren't true, you could easily refute them. Yep. I don't know if you know, but there was a DOJ official that had a secret recording that came out about the files.
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Manny: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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Jeezy: it was a DOJ official allegedly admitting the department planned to redact names of Republicans and conservatives from the Epstein-related files while exposing the Democrats. So it's like you're even trying to…
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Jeezy: You're not saying that it didn't happen.
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Jeezy: But now you're trying to figure out, okay, if it did happen… since it did happen, how can we try to protect ourselves?
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Like…
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Manny: And them coming out and saying, hey, we're gonna hide every Republican name, and leave every Democrat name. Give us… give us all the names.
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Jeezy: Give us all the names.
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Manny: All the names.
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Jeezy: And even in that video, it also, the guy said that he suggested that Maxwell, which we've already speculated anyway, that Maxwell's prison transfer was arranged to secure her silence.
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Jeezy: Because we know she went from a facility that she was at, so she went to, like, she went to Club Fed down there in Texas, where she's living good.
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Manny: Chillin'. Chillin'. So, there's a lot of…
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Jeezy: There's a lot going on with this man, and I know that people are tired of hearing about it. You know, obviously, you know, it's something that's getting ran down in the ground quite a bit, but it's getting that way because we're not doing anything with it.
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Jeezy: it's just this elephant in the room, and we're just like, you know, don't mind that elephant, just scoot around, it's fine. Like, no, if you handle it.
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Jeezy: Release… release all the details, excuse me, you release all the details.
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Jeezy: And stop trying to protect those that don't… shouldn't… why are we trying to protect criminals?
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Jeezy: Why are we… why are we trying to protect abusers? If we say that we…
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Jeezy: care about those that have been victims. We love to talk about how victims demand justice. Well, if victims demand justice, then why are we protecting abusers?
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: For the sake of their political positions, or whatever their status may be in society? No.
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Jeezy: I don't care if it… Bill Clinton a homie. He can play a mean saxophone. Pause.
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Jeezy: Hey.
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Manny: But y'all know Liz.
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Jeezy: If he on that list, he on that list, bruh.
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Manny: Bruh, you gotta go.
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Jeezy: Ayy Chris Tucker, I appreciate what you did on Friday. You gave us an amazing.
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Manny: Rush the hell.
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Jeezy: with Rush Hour, you…
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Manny: You gotta go, too.
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Manny: You own L.A. You gotta go, too.
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Manny: T.D. Jakes? It's like, let me stop. Stop.
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Manny: Did he?
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Jeezy: You are, hey, the diddler?
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Jeezy: you're already one foot in, one foot out the door anyway.
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Jeezy: R. Kelly? Now, R. Kelly ain't have enough money.
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Jeezy: I can't read or write, allegedly. So…
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Jeezy: But yeah, bruh, this thing is getting out of hand, and I think that…
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Jeezy: At this point, Massey and Marjorie.
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Manny: They do the Lord's work? Yeah.
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Jeezy: They get that list in front of Congress, and let something be done with it, because at the end of the day, if there are abusers that are roaming around these streets.
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Jeezy: While these women have had to deal with the years of abuse, the trauma that I'm sure has come from it.
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Jeezy: having to rebuild and retool their life. I'm certainly… I have not been abused, so I don't know what that feels like, but I'm certainly sure that, it is traumatic. It's a lot to have to process, and now that it's getting… you probably feel like you got over a hill, and you finally got to a good place of healing, and now it's being played out again in front of the public eye, so you're reliving some of that stuff. That's traumatic.
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Jeezy: The least that you can do.
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Jeezy: Is do all that you can in your power.
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Jeezy: To help these women, to seek closure if they have not found it, and provide justice by knowing that those that have abused them
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Jeezy: Have, have met their consequences.
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Jeezy: Simple as that.
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Manny: And before we hit our next subject, I just want to say this one thing.
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Manny: Did you know?
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Manny: that it was Donald Trump who first told people to put salt and pepper and butter in their grits.
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Manny: Donald Trump.
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Jeezy: I thought you were gonna say he was the one that told him to put sugar, I was about to be mad.
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Manny: Exactly.
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Jeezy: Rather, sugar does not belong in grits.
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Manny: Hold up now.
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Jeezy: Sugar don't belong in Grits, Manny.
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Manny: First off.
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Manny: Have you ever had grits with some sugar in it? No. It's amazing.
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Jeezy: No.
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Jeezy: Because I don't… Manny, I don't try to just go out here and just willfully sin.
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Manny: If I see him?
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Jeezy: If I see him by accident, I see and I messed up. I made a mistake. I don't go out here and purposely make mistakes.
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Manny: First off Sugar and grits is good.
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Jeezy: Bruh. Then just eat oatmeal! Did you cream a week, bruh, no meat. Bruh.
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Manny: -
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Jeezy: But see, Manny, but Manny, also, too, for our listeners.
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Jeezy: Betty you're not from the South, though.
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Manny: This is true. This is true.
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Jeezy: You're not from the South. This is true. They come with an asterisk. I can see that from coming from where you're from.
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Manny: Look.
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Jeezy: The South? Bruh.
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Manny: I didn't really have grits, and so… I was telling Frank this story, yesterday, because when they were over, I threw some wings on the grill, and
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Manny: it came up, there was a question, hey, sugar or salt and pepper and grits? And I was like, first of all, it can be both. I'm like, I can… I can do both, pause. But it depends on the event and my mood.
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Manny: Coming from Colorado, we had cream of wheat.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So I was like, okay, this is what I'm used to. So I came down here, I remember at my aunt's house, and she's like, hey, you want some grits? I was like, yeah, sure. I have a little bit of it. And I was like, hey, can I get some sugar for this? And she looks at me. Much like you just described, as if I… I have just asked to willfully say it.
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Jeezy: She was about to plead the blood of Jesus over you, brother. But, like…
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Manny: Look.
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Manny: To our listeners, you do you.
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Manny: I'm just saying, everyone out here talking about, like, you put sugar in grits, then you will surely die.
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Jeezy: Y'all talk about putting sugar in grits the same way.
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Manny: people… people say God says, don't eat from the… from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Y'all make it sound like if you put sugar and grits…
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Jeezy: It is.
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Manny: Surely back. Bruh.
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Jeezy: Hey, bruh. I mean, I ain't got a heaven and hell to put nobody in, but you asked for your name to be put on the list.
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Jeezy: You just… some things you just don't do, bruh. They're just like… they're just like pineapples on pizza.
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Manny: Yeah, but have you had pineapples on TV?
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Jeezy: I have, and I'm not even gonna lie, it ain't that bad, but still. But still, it don't belong.
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Jeezy: It don't belong, bruh.
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Manny: Ay.
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Manny: But I digress.
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Jeezy: Anyways, we at least got one more topic we need to hit before we… Bro, when it comes to things that don't belong where they're supposed to be, your president this week decided to change the name of the Department of Defense.
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Jeezy: We are now being called… well, the department is being called.
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Jeezy: the department, of war.
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Manny: Four.
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Jeezy: What's your thoughts on this, brother?
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Manny: For me, it is…
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Manny: there's a lot of places we could go with this one, so I'm just gonna pick one that's the direction I'm gonna start off with. Okay.
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Manny: I thought you were a peacetime president. If you're a peacetime president, why you want a department of war?
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Jeezy: Better.
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Manny: For me, Department of Defense, from a U.S. perspective, is, hey, we're not gonna start it, but we'll finish it.
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Manny: And I was okay. That felt like good, solid American energy. Like, hey, don't start nothing, won't be nothing.
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Manny: Second off, Here is… here's my issue.
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Manny: Right now, as it stands.
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Manny: This is about to be expensive.
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Manny: Right now, conservative estimates of doing this have it at costing $300 million.
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Manny: To do this.
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Manny: And I started asking myself, what problems could the U.S. solve?
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Manny: for $300 million.
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Manny: And I started thinking about it, and I started doing some research.
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Manny: Do you know that with $300 million, we could provide insulin for a year for over half a million people?
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: We could provide permanent housing.
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Manny: Permanent housing.
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Manny: For 2,000 veterans.
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Manny: We could, provide 100 million school lunches.
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Manny: Full yearly salaries for 4,000, teachers.
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Manny: We could replace.
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Manny: 64,000 lead pipes.
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Manny: We could provide mental health coverage for a million vets.
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Manny: We can provide FEMA aid for 60,000 families, but we gonna use this money.
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Manny: To change letterheads, Logos on buildings.
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Manny: Also, also, Pete Hegseth could get his little heart on giving that speech.
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Manny: in the Oval Office.
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Jeezy: I'm so sick of him.
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Jeezy: I'm so sick of hearing… every time that he… every time that he's stand beside the president.
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Jeezy: and say something. The first thing he do before he open his mouth is put his hand right down Trump's hands, bro.
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Manny: Is that you? Yes, sir. Yes, I am.
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Manny: This is… It's stupid. This is stupid. It's dumb. And here's the thing.
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Manny: it's not actually changing the name. So, you called it out in our group chat, they're like.
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Manny: And you said something to the effect, I forget exactly what you said, but, like, isn't Congress the one that named it the Department of Defense?
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: And you're correct. You're correct. Only Congress can do it. So what this executive order did was establish the Department of War
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Manny: As a secondary title, So it's all symbolic.
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Jeezy: Bro, this idiot here, man. This man's so darn stupid.
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Jeezy: What's the purpose of that?
607
Jeezy: And then you had, you had, the homie, the janitor, Scraping the…
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Manny: Just scraping letters off.
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Jeezy: Messing up the paint.
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Manny: Bruh, you gotta repaint it.
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Jeezy: Now, if, if it's… so what I'm… what are they gonna do? It's gonna be the department of, and then they're gonna put the little…
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Manny: Ward a little… Pretty much. And…
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Jeezy: bro, why? What is the purpose of doing this? The first time that it was called the Department of War, we were in war!
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Manny: We were in war. We actually had a war to fight.
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Jeezy: But we changed it, trying to move forward. You can't be the Department of War and talking about defensive strategies and all these other… and he's going full steam with it. I think he said this past week, like, Chicago's gonna see what it means to deal with the Department of War. Like, bro, what are you talking about?
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: So much better uses of time and money.
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Manny: And manpower, and, like.
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Jeezy: What he gonna rename this?
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Manny: You mean to tell me there ain't no faulty plumbing in none of these Department of War buildings, but now you got him changing letters on a sign?
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Jeezy: Bro, you know how mad I'd be if I was sitting in the office, and we on the third floor of the Department of Defense, bruh.
622
Jeezy: Our AC ain't been working right all summer.
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Jeezy: And I find out that, oh.
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Jeezy: The work order got pushed up to go ahead and take the letters of defense off the lobby wall, and we still sitting here.
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Manny: In the heat?
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Jeezy: Using box fans?
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Manny: In the middle of summer.
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Jeezy: In the middle of summer? Oh, bruh, I'm about to be pissed, bruh. But I'm just like, this…
629
Jeezy: Do Flint and Michigan have clean water yet?
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Manny: I think, I think only recently have they finally, finally finished replacing all that.
631
Jeezy: Could that money not being used in Western North Carolina to help with the hurricane relief and all that they need to do in rebuilding?
632
Manny: It… and remember, that $300 million was a conservative estimate.
633
Manny: It cost somewhere between $6 to $8 billion for them to rename Fort Bragg.
634
Manny: Fort Liberty. And then another 6 to 8 to rename it back.
635
Jeezy: Why? Bruh… This is stupid.
636
Manny: I would… since the federal government is throwing around money, I would like to formally request
637
Manny: 2 billion… $2 million.
638
Manny: Because if we're doing pointless thing… That's line work.
639
Jeezy: Lightwork.
640
Manny: Just 2 minute laps.
641
Jeezy: I ain't asking for a lot. Not the way y'all throwing money around, I ain't asking for a lot.
642
Manny: 2 million.
643
Manny: 2 million, that's all I would like.
644
Jeezy: Bruh. I, I just… Trump running out of stuff to do, bruh.
645
Manny: Bro, cause he's running out of time.
646
Jeezy: time is fleeing.
647
Manny: food.
648
Jeezy: Time to fill with swift transitions.
649
Manny: He said, I only…
650
Jeezy: He's starting to feel that, like, that clock about to strike midnight. Bruh, that bruise starting to spread, bruh.
651
Jeezy: That… that carriage about to turn back into a pumpkin. Right. He said, I must continue. It's all fine having cankles to move up to your quads, bruh.
652
Jeezy: Right. From the hand is alright, so you start feeling it on… hey, you look at your elbow one day, and it's got a little tint to it. Right. It's starting to spread, bruh, you gotta…
653
Jeezy: It's running out of time. But bro, this is dumb. When I heard this…
654
Manny: Whoa!
655
Jeezy: He made a whole announcement.
656
Manny: Right, he…
657
Jeezy: He made a whole announcement about it, talking about, hey, you know, and I'm sitting there waiting, like, okay, we about to have an announcement that's gonna be, like, you know, something that's gonna be worth of substance. I should've known, dealing with Trump, that it was gonna be nothing at all.
658
Jeezy: With substance whatsoever. But with the amount of money that this has taken, to…
659
Jeezy: move all these letterheads, do all these things. Like you said, they've made…
660
Jeezy: there's so much they could have done with this money, and this is what the president has had to do. I'm just curious to see what's next, because he might change the name of the White House.
661
Manny: We're gonna quick, quickly pause. For our listeners, you probably just heard… Right.
662
Jeezy: You ain't. Old folks say you ain't living right, bruh.
663
Jeezy: You ain' living right.
664
Manny: So, what, what had just happened?
665
Manny: Is my daughter had woke up.
666
Manny: Seeing me focus on this conversation with my noise-canceling headphones on, came over and tapped me on the shoulder.
667
Jeezy: Whew, bruh.
668
Manny: Boy, I almost said I heard a kingdom.
669
Jeezy: What about saying… what about saying baby girl through that roof?
670
Jeezy: Get one of my U's.
671
Manny: Oaks, but… Right.
672
Jeezy: Like, you're like, oh, say, man, you ain't living right.
673
Manny: Yep.
674
Jeezy: That's why when we record, I record with the door to my left, bruh. There are no blind spots that anybody can… that anybody can pull any ninja stunts on me.
675
Manny: Bruh, I'm gonna have to, like, rearrange my studio.
676
Jeezy: Oh, let me do it.
677
Manny: I was like, oh, that's what I just did.
678
Jeezy: But yeah, man, this is… this is the Department of Def… Department of War. I hope nobody refers to that, but him and PKXF.
679
Manny: Oh, no, no, no, no, you know his little henchman. You, you gotta figure that at some point, somebody's gonna put up a bill to say, we need to rename it.
680
Jeezy: Oh, Lord have mercy.
681
Manny: And I'm just like, don't you… aren't we heading very fast forward to a government shutdown? Y'all… y'all got bigger things y'all need to figure out.
682
Jeezy: Way bigger thing. I'll tell you something else before we get to, to, to our favorite topic.
683
Jeezy: When it comes to handling some other things they need to be worried about, what about them job numbers, bruh?
684
Manny: Bruh.
685
Manny: It's getting… look, we… I knew they were about to be bad when Trump tried to get ahead of it.
686
Jeezy: Bruh, now hold on now.
687
Jeezy: They fired, old girl.
688
Jeezy: Charge of the numbers.
689
Jeezy: Why the numbers still look bad? Did you replace her with somebody that said, and I too am going to do my job, and these numbers look terrible?
690
Manny: Now, here's what I think what happened. They fired an old girl, brought in a new person, who still hasn't been confirmed, so they still have, like, an interim person.
691
Manny: Got all those numbers together, and then took it to Donnie and said, hey.
692
Manny: Donnie, I know you helped Einstein create electricity, but there's no way I can make these numbers look good.
693
Jeezy: Sir, indeed, she was giving the right numbers.
694
Manny: So, I knew it was gonna get bad when Trump was out, like, the day before, and started to say, hey, a year from now, these numbers are gonna be great. I was like, bruh.
695
Manny: Bruh, you're not lowering that?
696
Jeezy: That's 365 days, sir. Right.
697
Manny: That's 4 quarters, like, that's 12 months, sir.
698
Jeezy: Brad.
699
Jeezy: Them numbers came out, brother, and they said in August.
700
Jeezy: 2025.
701
Jeezy: that U.S. job growth virtually has stalled.
702
Manny: Yeah.
703
Jeezy: 22,000 jobs added.
704
Jeezy: Falling short
705
Jeezy: Of the roughly 75,000 that economists expected. And, like we talked about on a previous episode, numbers… previous numbers do get updated.
706
Jeezy: June's data was revised drastically as well, too. So instead of, 14,000 jobs gained, the economy lost 13,000 jobs. The first net loss
707
Jeezy: net job loss since December of 2020, and unemployment… Rate rose to 4.3.
708
Jeezy: A near 4-year…
709
Manny: We have been gaining jobs since COVID.
710
Jeezy: Yep.
711
Manny: since COVID.
712
Manny: And…
713
Manny: You know, I think this almost guarant… what some of the analysts and experts are out there saying is almost guarantees that there's going to be a rate cut. You know, two of the… the mandates for the Fed are to control inflation and, you know, try to keep the economy and jobless claims low.
714
Manny: So there… everyone's pretty much saying, yeah, we're pretty much going to have a September rate cut.
715
Manny: But at this point, It's… it's gonna be too little, too late.
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Jeezy: Yep.
717
Manny: it's gonna be too little… because at this point, we're just now starting to feel the effects of tariffs. Yep. You know, we look at manufacturing and what's happening, that's… well, let's not go into manufacturing, let's start with,
718
Manny: with, damn, where I was gonna… oh, with farming.
719
Jeezy: And we see what the soybean farmers in Kansas?
720
Manny: Please!
721
Jeezy: I think it was Kansas, yeah.
722
Manny: talking about, hey, we usually only sell to China.
723
Manny: and we ain't got no orders, what we gonna do with all these soybeans? To which I said, I say, well, if you're America first.
724
Manny: you should have been looking at the American public and said, hmm, if we're gonna be America first, we should be planting, potatoes and corn.
725
Jeezy: Bingo.
726
Manny: Not… not… and maybe even tobacco. Or maybe a little bit of devil's lettuce, depending on who you want to export it out to.
727
Jeezy: But…
728
Manny: Like, so, we are just now starting to see some of the impacts of the changes within the economy that this administration has filled, so it…
729
Manny: All… all reports say that, yeah, this is gonna… it's gonna be a long winter.
730
Jeezy: Bruh, it's gonna be a cold winter.
731
Jeezy: Tell you… Sumlook.
732
Manny: Some will say, possibly the coldest winter ever.
733
Jeezy: Bro.
734
Manny: Good night, my friend.
735
Jeezy: From what I heard, man, they were saying jobs right now are 1 and 1. For every one American, they got one job. There ain't a lot out there, man. Right now, companies are not firing, but they're not hiring.
736
Jeezy: Things… things are… things are looking a little… a little sticky for the winter, man.
737
Manny: Well, and then when we talk about the economy, we talk about manufacturing, and you see… if I'm going into what happened at Hyundai down in Georgia.
738
Jeezy: Bro, that was…
739
Manny: The immigration raid that, what, arrested 450 people?
740
Jeezy: I think it was, like, 4… I thought it was, like, 475, or something like that. Somewhere around there, yeah.
741
Manny: 450 plus people.
742
Jeezy: Yeah.
743
Manny: that were… South Korean nationals that, it's now coming out today, are here legally.
744
Jeezy: Also, they were legal.
745
Manny: Yeah, legal… they are here, so my understanding is that the visas they held.
746
Jeezy: did not preclude them. Like, they couldn't do actual manufacturing work here in the US, but they were here for training. They were doing trading.
747
Manny: In partnership with LG down.
748
Jeezy: Whoa.
749
Manny: So, they came and grabbed them all, so now South Korea is like, okay, we're gonna charter a jet, we're gonna send it down there, bring our people home.
750
Manny: And now, Hyundai…
751
Jeezy: our relations, bruh.
752
Manny: That's bad for relations. Hyundai has now come out and said, it's like, hey, we're gonna rethink our $20 billion… billion dollar investment in the United States manufacturing.
753
Jeezy: Oh yeah, bruh.
754
Manny: So I'm like, what are we doing here? What are we doing here?
755
Jeezy: Bruh, can you imagine? I read…
756
Jeezy: I read somewhere, bro, when they did the raid, that people started running, bro, they said that there was, like, a pond, bro.
757
Jeezy: homies jumped in a pond. They pulled out the boat and got him, bruh. They said there was another dude hiding that swam up under the boat, tried to turn the boat over with the ice ages in it, bruh. I was like, ugh.
758
Manny: This sounds like something out of a movie, bro, like…
759
Jeezy: All that just for the… to detain some people that were there for a training. They run out of stuff to do, bruh.
760
Manny: Apparently, only one person was there on a HB1 visa.
761
Jeezy: Bruh.
762
Manny: And at this point, and it had been said when we were talking about the Kilmar case, we talked about some of these other cases, at this point, it's… they're fear campaigns.
763
Jeezy: Yeah, because I think that Chicago was, like, supposed to have, like, a Mexican day or something like that, that's… I think it's gonna essentially be canceled, or…
764
Jeezy: Something of that nature, because of the fear that… of these ice raids. But I… I want to say two things, and we can move on.
765
Jeezy: We hadn't seen Tom Homan in a while.
766
Manny: What he got to report, he ain't got… first of all, we also know Tom Homan is the hardest-working person in this administration.
767
Jeezy: He, he, he is.
768
Manny: He's not doing the work we would like him to be doing, but this man understood the objective he was given.
769
Manny: But apparently those numbers ain't… But I think this
770
Manny: exposes. Well, like, what the… this is not about… this is not about people here that are legally here doing wrong.
771
Jeezy: Yeah.
772
Manny: Because where are those?
773
Jeezy: This is just really… this… to me, this is kind of like how we always talk about how, police officers at the end of the month are trying to hit their quota when it comes
774
Jeezy: We're just… any and everybody we can get, we just saying we got it. And for this agency that has… I would love to see what the number is, because remember a few months ago, we reported on this episode, they were… they had already blown through their budget.
775
Manny: Yep.
776
Jeezy: Where they at? Where are those numbers at now?
777
Jeezy: Because you ain't slowed down, you ain't stopped, not one bit, and it sounds like you've gotten even more aggressive in your, in your tactics.
778
Jeezy: That… where… where… what's that money looking like now?
779
Manny: Oh, we are… well, we are ain't… no, it ain't no more money.
780
Manny: Already know that.
781
Jeezy: Right.
782
Manny: So… And it's like, what are we going to do financially?
783
Manny: With this, because again, if we are a consumer economy.
784
Manny: These people, immigrants, to this company, not only help make stuff, but they also consume things.
785
Manny: Which helps me kind of… What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
786
Jeezy: This ain't looking good, huh?
787
Manny: Yeah.
788
Jeezy: It ain't looking good, man. Them number… job numbers ain't looking good, there's the whole immigration thing is getting out of hand.
789
Manny: Hey, but don't worry, next year…
790
Jeezy: amazed by the…
791
Manny: members.
792
Jeezy: We're gonna all look back, and all of this won't mean a thing to us.
793
Manny: Bruh, it's gonna be great, it's gonna be… and we're gonna let… look, man, Donnie T, he did it again.
794
Jeezy: He'll be like, you know what, that darn Donnie T, he did it again.
795
Manny: We did, in fact, put numbers in front of us that we couldn't believe. I did not know the economy could lose $18.4 million jobs.
796
Jeezy: I was about to say that, he didn't say… he didn't say what he meant by that.
797
Manny: Look, what was it from, it was Scarecrow on The Dark Knight 2.
798
Jeezy: Yep. He said, my drugs will take you places. I didn't say it would take you places you wanted to go. Exactly.
799
Manny: Yes.
800
Jeezy: Oh, boy.
801
Manny: Nice.
802
Jeezy: Well, with that being said, brother, you know we're at, we're at our, favorite segment of the episode, and that is our, Pickle of the Week.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
804
Audio shared by Jeezy: We batch a pickle!
805
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
806
Jeezy: Yes, sir, yes sir, yes, sir, yes, sir.
807
Manny: Who's in the brine this week?
808
Jeezy: Well, we've already kind of been on this, on this boulevard already in our episode, but, we're gonna go back over to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, since we're talking about the jobs, and…
809
Jeezy: I mentioned before, when we started talking about it, that the young lady that was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was ousted by Trump, fired by Trump, because
810
Jeezy: Of her numbers, her job numbers that she was reporting. Well, Trump nominated his own guy.
811
Jeezy: His name is EJ and Tony.
812
Jeezy: He's a conservative economist at the Heritage Foundation, and he's a pickle this week because, he was tapped to be,
813
Jeezy: The next commissioner, but… they kinda found some stuff about him, bruh.
814
Manny: Hmm.
815
Jeezy: Homie had some secret Twitter fingers going on.
816
Manny: -Oh, not the KD.
817
Jeezy: It's the ghost.
818
Manny: account.
819
Jeezy: Bruh, he had an account, and see, here's the problem. In a now-deleted Twitter, account, bearing his name, with aliases like, Dr. Antoni III, and other names that kind of refer to him.
820
Jeezy: This Twitter account was spewing conspiracy theories, which, hey.
821
Jeezy: Depending on what they were. We love our TM4.
822
Manny: Yeah, we do a good conspiracy theory every week.
823
Jeezy: So we're not gonna knock them for that.
824
Jeezy: But he was spreading disinformation, which we don't like.
825
Jeezy: Violent rhetoric, which we don't like.
826
Jeezy: Bigotry?
827
Jeezy: And sexist and homophobic attacks.
828
Jeezy: and even election denial conspiracies leading, to the January 6th, Capitol riots. So, he went on, there was, like, sexual things that he did, sexually, degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people.
829
Jeezy: And anybody that said anything, that was critical of Donald Trump, he had all of these crude insults that he aimed at him. Well, they, they, they found. They found the count.
830
Jeezy: He had deleted it, but they found it. They found it.
831
Jeezy: So now, with him looking to be nominated as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor, Statistics.
832
Jeezy: He in a pickle, bruh.
833
Jeezy: Gotta be careful with them Twitter fingers, man.
834
Manny: bruh, always.
835
Jeezy: They will indeed find you. So, he's in a pickle for this secret troll account that he had that, just because you delete it, one thing about Al Gore's internet that we know.
836
Manny: Nothing's ever gone.
837
Jeezy: Nothing… nothing's ever too far gone, brother.
838
Jeezy: So, hey, EJ and Tony?
839
Jeezy: Good luck, man. Yeah. Man, you gotta watch what you say, because you never know when it might come back and bite you in the butt, and as we know with the internet.
840
Jeezy: And just like that, Karen at that baseball game.
841
Jeezy: We will, and they will.
842
Jeezy: They'll find you.
843
Manny: We gonna find you. So you can rather tell that, homeboy.
844
Jeezy: So, Mr. EJ Antoni, you are our pickle of the week. So, with that being said, we have reached the conclusion of our episode, and you guys know at the end of every single episode, we give you our spotlight of the week. So, brother, what you got this week?
845
Manny: Man, mine's a little bit of a somber one, but, Joseph McNeil, one of the four North Carolina students, who went to that Woolworths counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, 65 years ago.
846
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
847
Manny: really started the, protests in the South. He, passed away on Thursday at the age of 83.
848
Jeezy: You're about to say 83? Okay. I had recently, visited the museum that's in Greensboro.
849
Manny: Yeah.
850
Jeezy: Over the summer, and, really got a chance. They have a very beautiful setup in there.
851
Manny: Absolutely, yes.
852
Jeezy: the, the counter, and details, and I was sitting at my in-laws, and I saw that come up across my phone. I'm like, hey, I remember, you know, the details of all of that that happened, and I wouldn't advise anybody.
853
Jeezy: Especially in the climate that we're living in now, we're seeing, for instance, the president is going to attack the Smithsonians, for anything that says that slavery.
854
Jeezy: was bad, and this woke idea. Before that these things, before these details, these American, moments in American history get somehow removed from us.
855
Manny: Yeah.
856
Jeezy: Take the time to go to some of these museums locally, and really digest some of this history. You can't go forward not knowing where you've come from.
857
Manny: Absolutely.
858
Jeezy: The story of those Greens, I believe it's called the Greensboro Four, right? Greensboro Four, yep. The Greensboro Four is a phenomenal story of strength, and honestly.
859
Jeezy: You would not… appreciate how far Greensboro has come if you didn't understand what the Greensboro.
860
Manny: Where it was at. During that time.
861
Jeezy: So, yeah, man, shout out to his family, a pioneer, a legend in our state and in our country.
862
Manny: his family released a statement, and I think it just categorizes this and everything you've said perfectly, that his impact on the civil rights movement and his service to the nation will never be forgotten. Yeah. Because what he and those four, and now there's only one of those four remaining with us.
863
Manny: Truly impactful, and helped us get to where we are today. So, thank you, sir. May you rest in power. Yes, sir. And may the Lord grant peace to your family in this time of transition.
864
Jeezy: Yes, sir, man, definitely, definitely. Mine's is,
865
Jeezy: Not as somber, but, more of an update, cause,
866
Jeezy: your boy Eric Adams might be, he might be…
867
Manny: in a pit.
868
Jeezy: He might be a pickle junior.
869
Manny: But that man stay in the brine.
870
Jeezy: He stayin' LeBron, bro, but…
871
Manny: It's been reported, man, that.
872
Jeezy: He might be coming about that race, bro.
873
Manny: Brother, they're, they're… they… look, oh, what's his face? I forget the, the, the Democratic guy's…
874
Jeezy: Matt Donnie.
875
Manny: McDon.
876
Jeezy: He puttin' pressure, they… He puttin' pressure on them bad, bro.
877
Manny: They trying to clear it up so it's a one-on-one fight, but you know what?
878
Jeezy: As the good words say, I believe in Star Wars. Try you might.
879
Jeezy: Fair, you will.
880
Manny: Look…
881
Jeezy: He got too much… he got too much sauce with him, man.
882
Manny: He's got… he's got a lot of sauce, and…
883
Jeezy: He's taking… he's taking… bro, I've looked up some of his stuff, bro, I don't know much about him, but…
884
Jeezy: Homie, homie got a movement going, bro.
885
Manny: he's got a lot of people rallying behind him, because I know they were putting pressure on Eric Jefferies. They're like, hey, how come you ain't come out in support of this man?
886
Jeezy: Yep.
887
Manny: So… You know, the fact that they're trying to align congressional folks behind him.
888
Jeezy: Yay!
889
Manny: stars… he already got AOC, he already has, Sanders, so… we'll see.
890
Jeezy: And one of the, one of the big, the billionaire investors that endorsed Eric Adams.
891
Jeezy: Bill Aikman, he flipped his allegiance to now endorsing Cuomo.
892
Jeezy: So, I think all signs are pointing, because he's.
893
Manny: He'll be trying to lie.
894
Jeezy: His numbers are low, his approval rating's low.
895
Jeezy: And they're saying that it's possible that, Trump could be looking to try to get him
896
Jeezy: to work in the administration as a favor to drop out of the race so we can get this as a one-on-one.
897
Manny: Mmm.
898
Jeezy: loaded that he may be, possibly the HUD secretary, which I thought we already had.
899
Jeezy: within it, but…
900
Manny: Below. And you also know how Donald Trump only has black people.
901
Jeezy: Running hood. Only. Only. And it said that also it may be a possibility that he could, be dangling the carrot of him being the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
902
Jeezy: Bruh, that's right up his air, boy. Bruh. That's right up there. With the allegations that he had, bro, that's a wild job to offer, bruh.
903
Jeezy: But, they're saying that it could come at any time as soon as this week, that we could… now, he's come out and he said, I ain't going nowhere.
904
Jeezy: That I'm in.
905
Manny: I…
906
Jeezy: But, but yeah, we, we.
907
Manny: I've heard that before.
908
Jeezy: And there's a lot of mounting, tension and pressure for him to step out, because they don't know what to do with Matt Donnie. He, he, he just… and I don't think… I mean, he's already killed…
909
Jeezy: Como. Yeah. Before, so it's like, bruh, I think that at this point, man, I mean, they can do all… the only way.
910
Manny: Aggressive, strong.
911
Jeezy: They gonna have to find a scandal on him or something, but he got… he got too much hot… he got too much heat behind him right now, man. He got the streets with him.
912
Manny: Hmm.
913
Jeezy: I want you getting the streets with you, bruh, it's old.
914
Manny: It's hard to recover.
915
Jeezy: Yes, sir. So, we'll see if he does indeed back out.
916
Jeezy: Of the race, making it a one-on-one.
917
Jeezy: But yeah, that's my spotlight for the week, man. So, with that being said, this is the conclusion of our episode. We want to thank you, listeners, for tuning in yet again to another episode of Pardon the Politics Podcast.
918
Jeezy: We love you, we appreciate you for just giving us, lending us your ear, for one more episode, and that's, that's all we have, man. You got anything, brother? All hearts and minds clear?
919
Manny: And join us next week for our year's celebration of the.
920
Jeezy: Hey, yeah, one year, one… look, man, it feels like we… it feels like we've been doing this longer than that, but yeah.
921
Manny: 47 years at this point.
922
Jeezy: But we have made it a year, next week, so please join us for that episode, as we celebrate, that moment. That's a big deal for us. Most don't make it, bruh.
923
Manny: -
924
Jeezy: don't make it a year, but we have, and we're blessed to do that, but we certainly would not have reached that… won't reach that moment without you, so please make sure you tune in for the next episode. So, with that being said, as we always say, if don't nobody love you, just know the boys here at the pod.
925
Manny: We love y'all.
926
Jeezy: Y'all take care, and we'll see you in the next episode.