Political Violence in the Age of Algorithms

In this first anniversary episode of Pardon the Politics, hosts Jeezy and Manny open with celebration, and pivot into one of their most challenging conversations yet. Just days before recording, conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a campus event, with the shocking footage flooding social media in real-time. The boys break down their emotional responses, the trauma of witnessing violence online, and the failure of media, politicians, and platforms like Meta and X to protect the public from the chaos.

From misinformation to partisan finger-pointing, this episode asks: have we lost our collective humanity in the age of viral news? With candor and care, they reflect on the emotional toll of creating political content in a year that’s been anything but normal.

It’s raw, honest, and necessary. This isn’t just commentary, it’s a wake-up call.

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Audio shared by Jeezy: Hello, world.

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Manny: Welcome back to the Partner Politics Podcast.

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Audio shared by Jeezy: Season 2.

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Audio shared by Jeezy: Episode 37…

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Manny: 7…

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Audio shared by Jeezy: known as…

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Jeezy: The one-year anniversary episode is…

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Audio shared by Jeezy: Yay!

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Jeezy: Let's beat it, let's go!

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Manny: We made it!

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Jeezy: Let's go!

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Audio shared by Jeezy: In 65 days of doing the pod.

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Jeezy: Yay!

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Audio shared by Jeezy: And we've only been kind of canceled.

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Manny: Only kind of canceled.

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Audio shared by Jeezy: Holy cow to cancel. Let's go, let's go.

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Manny: A bit.

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Jeezy: Yeah, let's go!

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Manny: Meg, good sir. Congrats!

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Jeezy: Congratulations.

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Jeezy: Congratulations to you, man, and congratulations, brother. We did it. We did it, Joe!

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Manny: Bro, you…

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Jeezy: We did it, Joe.

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Manny: Now, did I think this first year was gonna go like this? Absolutely not.

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Jeezy: Abrah.

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Manny: Absolutely not.

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Manny: I had far different plans.

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Jeezy: Hey, bruh.

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Jeezy: I definitely thought that it was going to be, a much smoother ride, pause.

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Jeezy: It has been… A very chaotic journey, from a content perspective, but… Man, I, I would… I…

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Jeezy: Man, we're blessed, brother.

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Manny: We're incredibly blessed, incredibly blessed.

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Jeezy: I'm blessed to have done this.

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Jeezy: For this amount of time.

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Manny: And thank you all.

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Jeezy: Oh, bruh, yeah, before we continue…

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Manny: Thank you all, from all over, and, you know, Geez and I were talking before, to think that after one year, that we would have the listeners that we do

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Manny: you know, if you're listening to this year, you're likely in one of 22 different countries across 300-plus cities, every continent. We've had listeners in every continent in the world, except maybe in our…

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Jeezy: Hold on, hold on, talk that talk, bruh, talk that talk, man.

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Manny: continent.

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Jeezy: Yes, sir!

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Manny: From Istanbul, to Armenia, to Singapore, to Sweden, to Bulgaria…

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Manny: Japan, Finland, Ghana. We've had listeners in Iraq and Egypt.

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Jeezy: Brad.

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Manny: to our listeners, like, from Vegas to… to Oregon, all across New York.

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Jeezy: Future. Yes, sir.

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Manny: Georgia, one of the major states that continue to hold us down.

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Jeezy: Yes, sir!

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Manny: Man, thank you all so much. We do this for you all, and thank you guys for sticking with us, and if you are new here.

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Jeezy: Yes.

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Manny: Welcome!

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Jeezy: Welcome.

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Manny: Welcome to the chaos.

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Jeezy: We welcome you once, we welcome you twice, we welcome you three times in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Manny: But thank you all for rocking with us, and sticking with us.

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Jeezy: the D, man.

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Manny: And, you know, this has truly been a pleasure, and to what Jigi said, you know, we are incredibly blessed, and…

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Jeezy: We are, man.

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Manny: you know, it never ceases to amaze me. We talk about it all the time. You know, we'll release, you know, we release these at midnight on Monday, and before I get up and go to work, I'll check the stats, and to see that we already have people listening.

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Jeezy: Yeah, man.

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Manny: All across the nation, and in different countries, we… and… It… it's humbling for me.

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Jeezy: Yes.

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Manny: to know that y'all get up every Monday.

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Manny: Or Tuesday, or whatever day you get up and listen to the pod, and y'all say, you know what? I wonder what Manny and Jay-Z have to think about this subject.

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Manny: And y'all listen, and we don't take that for granted.

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Jeezy: Not at all, man, not at all. It is definitely a blessing, and… for me, it's just…

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Jeezy: is amazing, because, like, to your point, Manny, to know that someone…

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Jeezy: Tunes in, you know, every week to hear what we have to say about something.

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Jeezy: means a lot. I had one person that listened and said, hey man, you know, I really don't…

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Jeezy: I listen to, you know, the mainstream media. I look for real people that I know and can trust to give me their opinions or give them information, and…

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Jeezy: you know, they said that, hey, you guys, I can trust that, you know, you're not going to force-feed me your ideas, but just be real about what you… what you see in our world, and I can really appreciate that, and it makes it easier to digest knowing that…

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Jeezy: You guys are just two stand-up guys just giving your opinion, but you're not trying to, sway one way to the left or to the right.

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Manny: Right.

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Jeezy: as best as you possibly can to shoot it straight down the middle, and I can appreciate that. So that was just a testament of what we do, and I will say.

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Jeezy: Not only to our listeners, but shout out to our families.

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Manny: Oh, man.

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Jeezy: They allow us the space and opportunity to do these,

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Jeezy: recordings. We both are, are…

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Jeezy: present, active Black dads with families that we support, and our wives and our children, depend on us to be there to support them, but they also support us by allowing us this space to be able to come together, record, to take however much time we need, and even listen to the.

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Manny: Oh, man.

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Jeezy: that we have in, that can't go unnoticed as well, too, that they allow us that space to be able to do that. So shout out to our families, our wives.

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Manny: Yes.

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Jeezy: That give us, what we need to be able to keep the pod going, man. So, shout out to them.

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Jeezy: So, yeah.

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Manny: Well, now that we got that out the way…

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Jeezy: Man? I told Manny.

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Manny: Wait, wait, wait, before we even go further, we're gonna say it again at the end of the pod, but…

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Manny: Y'all, we've been going strong for a year.

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Jeezy: for a year.

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Manny: And we're taking next week off.

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Jeezy: I'm telling you now… We're taking next week off. For those that are faithful, when you don't see an episode next Monday, I don't want you to think that the boys have quit. I don't want you to think that… I don't want you to think that Cash Patel… Came in… came and got us. You know, Jada came and got the boys.

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Jeezy: We just… we honestly need a break, because, I mean, which is phenomenal.

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Jeezy: that we have even endured this much to go a year. Right. And you guys don't know, but sometimes in that pre-show, man, me and Manny come on, and we like, bruh.

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Manny: And, you know, and I think we…

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Manny: I hope you guys hear the intentionalness that we try to talk about everything. Facts. But as crazy as this last year has been, we've talked about a whole lot of subjects. There have been a lot of other things that we just haven't talked about due to time, subject matter, and let's be real.

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Manny: All that ultimately takes a toll.

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Manny: You know, the amount of content, both negative and positive, that, you know, we go through to produce this pod, you know, it takes a toll, and…

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Manny: And we're gonna give ourselves space to kind of process everything.

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Manny: If anything, this last week showed us that it's time for the boys to just take a minute and recess, so we will be back. Yeah. Look, if y'all give John Oliver the space to take 2 and 3 weeks off.

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Manny: Y'all give one… y'all can give one… Y'all give us a week. Y'all give us a… yeah. Now, if something crazy pops up, like, excessively crazy.

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Manny: We may slide through, but…

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Jeezy: But, yeah.

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Manny: But as of right now, We're gonna take next week off.

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Manny: We will be back. So, the homework that I'm giving all of our listeners, y'all go tell a friend to tell a friend.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: That the boys will be back week after next.

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Manny: And if you're new here, use this last week to catch up on any of the 53 other episodes that we've put out since then.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: You know, we got a lot of stuff out there.

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Jeezy: And if you're a faithful, and you've been with us from day one, or you've been rocking with us for a while.

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Jeezy: Take a break with us, too, because it's very imperative as citizens in this country, or just in politics in general. Sometimes you need to disconnect just a.

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Manny: Yeah.

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Jeezy: So, just as we do the same, or we're gonna try to at least.

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Manny: Yeah.

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Jeezy: You do the same as well, too, if you've been rocking with us and holding it down for us, holding it down with us for a while. Take some time for yourself, too, because… Yeah.

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Jeezy: It's a lot, and it can definitely weigh on you, so take that time if you need to reset, so you can be engaged. So…

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Jeezy: Man! Alright.

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Jeezy: Now we got that out the way.

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Manny: So…

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Manny: we were talking last week, and I… I didn't… I didn't know what we were gonna plan to talk about this episode. We had no plans, but if we did have plans.

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Manny: They'd have gotten thrown out the window.

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Jeezy: Growing clean out the window, bruh.

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Jeezy: I think that… bro, first of all, I was telling somebody that…

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Jeezy: I love having a podcast, a political podcast.

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Jeezy: But what we're getting ready to talk about, was one of those moments that I was like.

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Jeezy: I really hate that I have to come talk about this. Not from the standpoint of just the magnitude of.

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Manny: Right.

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Jeezy: what happened. I just was like…

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Jeezy: You host a political podcast.

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Jeezy: So, as we all know, this past week, on September the 10th.

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Jeezy: Charlie Kirk was… was killed. He was murdered. At the Utah Valley University. He was holding an event. Actually, I believe it was the… the kickoff of his.

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Manny: It's a tour.

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Jeezy: yeah, American Comeback Tour. It was the first, the first stop on his, campus event, American Comeback Tour, which I think not too long ago, he just got off of a tour, because I know that he had been going around to these universities, a few months ago, and looks like he was just kicking off this next one. And where he was debating

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Jeezy: students. We all know Charlie Kirk for, you know, his debates, be it on college campuses, or, online, or, you know, at random, you know, media events or what have you, but, he.

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Manny: I mean, and he was so well known for doing this, South Park did a parody… Yeah, yeah. …of this.

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Jeezy: Which, South Park now, because we've all seen the episodes, or we have seen the episodes, South Park has actually pulled

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Jeezy: the episode down. Yeah. In light of, the passing of Charlie Kirk. But, he was speaking at this outdoor event, and he was actually, at the time, debating a student about mass shooting.

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Jeezy: And he was struck by a single, bullet to the neck. Now, this… this was…

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Jeezy: I couldn't believe it, and this is probably where I'm gonna…

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Jeezy: bring up the first thing I want to say.

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Manny: Yeah.

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Jeezy: is that… Times have changed so much.

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Jeezy: with social media.

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Jeezy: it's crazy how they… I actually… we actually witnessed, seen…

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Jeezy: I remember just sitting in my office at work, scrolling through, I want to say it might have been Twitter, I might have been on, I think it was Twitter I was on.

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Jeezy: And I see it, like… The video is from far away, but it.

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Jeezy: And I'm like, yo… Charlie Kirk just got shot.

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Jeezy: And the numbness that I felt seeing it, and then after everything died down, I was like.

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Manny: Man, so…

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Manny: give y'all a little bit more view on the inside. In the group chat, I'm known as the one that has always.

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Jeezy: Bye.

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Manny: 5 to 10 minutes later.

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Jeezy: Yo, but for our listeners, y'all, I want you to know, we, we, bruh, we can be… we can be like, hey, LeBron James…

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Jeezy: LeBron James just signed with the Lakers. Mania come… we'll have a whole discussion about it. Mania come in the group 15 minutes after the conversation had ended. Hey, y'all know LeBron got traded, signed to the Lakers. We're like, bruh, we had a… you ain't seen the 60 notifications that we've been talking for, like, the past 15 minutes?

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Manny: Bruh, and… because I just got out of a meeting, and one of my coworkers, he's like, hey, you have a political podcast, right? I was like, yeah, as I grab my cup and take a sip out of it.

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Manny: He's like, oh.

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Manny: do you see that Charlie Kirk got shot? And I was like, what are you talking about?

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Manny: What?

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Manny: And he shows me the video, and I'm like, To your point.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: Wha…

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Manny: And again, I saw… so, I saw the faraway video, and it had to be no less than probably about 4 minutes later… Yeah. …that I saw the close-up video.

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Manny: And I remember taking the close-up video, posting it to the chat, and then, like, 2 minutes later, I delete it, because I'm like.

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Jeezy: All that.

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Manny: Wow. I felt it.

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Jeezy: Because I actually clicked, I actually clicked it as soon as you dropped it in the chat, and then by the time I saw it, I was like, yo!

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Manny: I just…

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Jeezy: I came back to the group chat, and you had deleted it out.

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Manny: I was like, because this is… because I ain't putting this…

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: Was that… vivid that… that gruesome of… Yeah.

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Manny: a… a video that I was just like, I can't just throw this out there. Yeah.

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Manny: Like, even it's… even in our political group chat.

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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Manny: we are more prepared, like, because I didn't do it in our large one, but it was like.

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Jeezy: Yayo.

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Manny: our political one, where I think we are more ready for something wild, even at that point, I'm like, this is wild.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: And to your point, the speed of which it circulated was everywhere.

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Jeezy: wild. Like, bruh, I couldn't even get away from it.

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Manny: Right.

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Manny: Man, my TikTok timeline, the algorithm is still trying to adjust.

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Manny: But I'm… I'm like… Meh.

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Manny: Except I knew that this was not a horror movie. Yeah. This was real life.

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Manny: To which… This is my first soapbox of this.

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Manny: Meta, you canceled… you took down our accounts.

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Jeezy: Bruh, bruh.

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Manny: For absolutely nothing. But y'all had videos of someone literally being murdered, circulating at speeds that are ridiculous.

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Jeezy: The likes of which no man has ever seen.

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Manny: It had to be… I think it was maybe, like, an hour or so after the announcement of his death that I started seeing censored versions of the video.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: And I'm like.

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Jeezy: And so, mind you, if that's the case, that was definitely hours after.

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Jeezy: So it had circulated for hours, nonstop.

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Manny: And…

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Manny: I don't think humans are made to deal with the constant trauma that we've been dealing with for the last 5 years.

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Jeezy: Bruh, and that's where I would… but it's wild, because… After the initial…

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Jeezy: But after just the… just the initial processing of what happened.

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Jeezy: So then it led me to the point of, like, as a society, with social media and the way things circulated.

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Jeezy: And that's… Not okay!

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Manny: Well, it's like we click-baited ourselves. Like, everyone wanted to be the one to show it.

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Manny: And… It's… Why are we like this? We should not be like this.

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Jeezy: And that's why I was like.

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Manny: It might be…

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Jeezy: I even had to, like, look at, like, look at myself, are you okay? Right. Because this ain't okay. But as a society, there is not a single person who has not seen this video.

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Manny: Which is insane.

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Jeezy: Which is very insane.

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Jeezy: That this is even okay, but…

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Jeezy: That certainly should have kicked in at some point, but by the time it did, it was too late.

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Manny: And I think if you look over the 5 years… these last 5 years.

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Manny: I think if you look at most of the content that we've seen.

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Manny: It's usually been within the context of a police confrontation.

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Manny: from what we saw with George Floyd, to every incident with the police, that body cam video being shown, it was always within that context, and I think it just years and years and years of us seeing it and consuming it.

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Manny: Have we been desensitized? Absolutely.

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Manny: Absolutely. Do you remember when the first saw, when that came out, and everyone was like, oh, wow, that's true.

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Manny: Oh, what are we doing here? We have lost our way. If you took someone from 20… 2003, and dropped them in 2015, and said, this was just shared freely on the interweb, on Al Gore's interweb.

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Jeezy: Brad.

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Manny: they would lose their mind. They're like, wait, what?

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Jeezy: Why do y'all… y'all.

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Manny: Do y'all need… y'all need a hug? Like… And it's… it… it… So, to your point.

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Manny: it took me a bit to, like, wrap my… first wrap my head around, wow, we just watched… the entire country just watched somebody die. Yep. Get murdered.

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Manny: Live and living color.

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Manny: And then, as soon as my mind wrapped around the, like, wow, that happened. My mind then went to, oh man.

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Manny: There are political ramifications of this happening.

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Jeezy: Bruh.

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Manny: And…

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Manny: I think we… I think the political ramifications of what we just saw happen, of what we… what we saw happen, we… we are going to be unpacking for the next several months, at a minimum.

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Jeezy: Bruh, the way that this… Whoa… When… when this happened, And… We had no details.

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Jeezy: where… we had nothing. We just knew that this… we… the man wasn't even pronounced dead yet.

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Manny: the news was move… and I think that's the other danger of all this, is it was moving so fast.

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Jeezy: Too fast.

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Manny: That we were get… and, like, I feel for media organizations, I do and I don't at the same time.

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Manny: Because it was moving… it is also one of the first news stories that we saw that was truly moving at the pace of social media.

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Manny: And what we saw during this time period is…

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Manny: Media outlets report something, and then retract something.

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Manny: And then report something. And then retract something. And especially the environment that we are in, we have to… we should be able to trust our media organizations to put out vetted information.

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Manny: but also at the pace that it's trying to report at the pace of social media. And I think you get yourself in immediate trouble.

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Manny: If you try to do that.

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Manny: I know just running the Twitter, the social media for this pod.

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Manny: I mean, me and Jay-Z went back and forth on…

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Jeezy: what we would post, what we would not post. Yep.

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Manny: And we stopped, literally at the… He was shy.

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Manny: Y'all saw nothing more.

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Manny: Because it was moving too fast. It was moving too fast, and too many mistakes were being made.

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Jeezy: It became very… to me, it became very nasty.

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Jeezy: Because… to your point, Everybody was trying to be the first to say something.

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Jeezy: But everybody was wrong.

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Manny: Everybody was wrong.

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Jeezy: Everybody was wrong, trying to be the first. And I'mma say it, I… what really got me…

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Jeezy: As soon… I mean, the man hadn't even made it to the hospital yet.

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Jeezy: some radical, lunatic left person, we don't even know who… man, I heard so much left and right, I just decided I just want to be transdirectional. I'm just…

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Manny: Bruh.

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Jeezy: I ain't left or right.

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Manny: I'm just… I'm just saying, I'm gonna stand still. I'm gonna stand still in this moment and not move.

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Jeezy: I, bruh, I'm transdirectional, I'm just… I identify as center. I ain't got no left or no right, because it just was insane. And so, in my opinion, to his family.

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Jeezy: So insensitive.

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Manny: Oh, God, yeah. To start throwing blame, and we knew nothing. Even, like, that older white guy.

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Jeezy: That.

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Manny: They caught the subject, they released the subject, they caught another suspect, they released another suspect.

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Jeezy: Which was wild in itself. But they… everybody, oh yeah, this guy, he's a Democrat so-and-so. I'm like, how y'all know that man? Y'all just seen the man in hand… 43 seconds ago. 43 seconds, and y'all know that he a Democrat already. Oh, he's a left, he's this, he's that.

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Jeezy: And then he got released, it wasn't even him.

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Manny: Now look, if there's one thing a Netflix… the Netflix documentary Don't F with Cats taught me.

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Jeezy: Is that the internet is smart, and the internet is going to move fast… Oh, they move fast. …investigation.

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Manny: But yeah… Al Gore's internet was moving too fast. Y'all were moving too fast.

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Manny: But it's like, how do y'all know these things? Yep. And this is where, speaking directly to Twitter, like, this is the problem with people being able to pay for blue checkmarks.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: You know, because if you look historically, that blue checkmark meant that you were a political official, you were a news organization, you were somebody that could be trusted. Yeah. And I know some of y'all are like, hey, don't y'all got a blue checkmark? Yes.

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Jeezy: Yes, we do.

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Manny: We… we… yes.

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Manny: I'm just gonna say that. Yes, absolutely. We got one.

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Jeezy: I was about to say, when you started, I was like, oh, don't we got a Bluetooth?

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Manny: Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, I'm absolutely… But we ain't like them other people did.

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Jeezy: We had that venue.

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Manny: I will say that I am deserving of a blue checkmark.

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Manny: Mr. Elon, if you're listening, I was a candidate, and y'all never gave me my blue checkmark.

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Manny: So I would say at least I should have a blue checkmark.

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Manny: But still, that… should we be able to buy that verified ability? No. There should be another color for that, but there should be something…

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Manny: for the media organizations, so we know who to trust. You have the gray checkmark for government agencies, I believe that's… I think that's a great idea. Something needs to be there for certified media organizations, so people can very quickly identify who is what.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Jeezy: So, but… With this going so fast, The thing that just…

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Jeezy: well, I should say the second thing, because the first thing is, and regardless, and we'll talk about it a little bit more, regardless of if you agreed with Kirk on his stances, opinion, views.

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Jeezy: No one should… the man should not have been murdered for that.

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Manny: Absolutely not.

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Jeezy: no one deserves… no one deserves their life to be taken because, of whatever their views may be. I don't care how good, how evil, how…

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Jeezy: I don't care. I don't care where you're at, nobody deserves for their life to be taken. In my opinion, I do not give the life, I don't have the ability, I should not have the ability, or should not have the right to take it.

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Jeezy: That is solely up to God and God Himself.

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Jeezy: So certainly that is not what we should do, so that, that is something that should not have happened. But…

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Jeezy: My second thing that bothered me was just the danger that came with rushing, trying to put partisan blame.

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Manny: Yeah. Scoring your points.

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Jeezy: Yeah, it… this man just died. Why are you trying to politicize it?

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Jeezy: You know, they had Nancy Mace.

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Jeezy: The Democrats. I've heard that a couple times. This is the Democrats' fault. This is the Democrats' fault. And I'm like, well, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

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Manny: There was no suspect at that.

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Jeezy: the man… we didn't get a suspect until almost 2 days later, and we'll talk about that, but he ain't even a Democrat!

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Manny: Well, and here was my questions in the immediate… When it happened.

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Manny: and started processing the ramifications, I was like, is this cuz… is this politicized? Or are we about to unfold a completely different drama?

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Jeezy: Bruh.

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Manny: Did Kirk mess around with somebody's wife, or some, you know…

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Manny: other, partner? Like, is it one of these scenarios? Is this a larger coordinated thing that we now have to be worried about? What is going on? Did this person just know there was a large crowd of people, and Timothy McVeigh-style wanted to just cause chaos, just knew that there was a large group of people?

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Manny: sitting.

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Manny: And it… We reacted so fast, and people were so loud, and so wrong.

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Manny: That it's… and when you are an elected official.

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Jeezy: Yeah.

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Manny: I said it when I was on the campaign trail.

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Manny: I, I continue to believe that now. As a leader.

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Manny: You have a responsibility over the people Who support you.

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Jeezy: Yep.

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Manny: Hands down.

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Manny: Yep. So, to be out there, to be that loud, and to be that wrong.

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Manny: On a myriad of issues, not just talking about this.

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Manny: I think people need to keep in mind

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Manny: That when it's all said and done, Your apology for being wrong.

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Manny: needs to be as loud, if not louder. Yes, sir.

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Manny: But…

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Jeezy: To that point, That's not gonna happen, because…

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Jeezy: people were first going to say that this was a Democrat, and they tried to somehow lay… again, suspect was not in custody, somehow he was linked to being transgender, like, bruh, it was just wild, and when you have these elected officials, even down to the president, when the president came out and said something, I mean…

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Jeezy: That, that was… that was what really has gotten me about all of this.

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Jeezy: is that… This has happened, Because we keep pushing ourselves further apart.

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Jeezy: We keep… we keep trying to make it, you either are left or you're right, and we're enemies.

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Jeezy: And when you have a president.

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Jeezy: Who had no known knowledge of the suspect.

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Jeezy: No details except for this man… this man had passed away, he was murdered.

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Jeezy: And then he ultimately comes out and blamed the Democrats.

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Jeezy: That's putting fuel on the fire.

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Manny: Right.

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Jeezy: And you're in the position, in the elected position, whether you are a Republican president or a Democratic president, as far as your affiliation, in that position, you are a president for all.

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Manny: Gotta turn it down.

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Jeezy: Bruh, you got to!

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Jeezy: And for him to come out.

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Jeezy: And in a moment, which we've talked about before, where Trump has these moments where we see that he may potentially

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Jeezy: Be presidential, He dropped the ball.

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Manny: on an issue that I think that.

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Jeezy: Would it… would it may have done anything? I don't know, but he could have certainly tried.

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Manny: Yeah. To say, hey, we don't…

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Jeezy: Even his base, his people, hey, we… what has happened is a tragedy.

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Manny: And everyone can agree that. Everybody doesn't agree with that.

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Manny: I mean… Everybody gonna.

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Jeezy: I agree with that.

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Manny: the man… and it came out later that Charlie Kirk's wife and kids were there. Yeah!

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Jeezy: Like, it's a tragedy.

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Manny: This is complete tragedy.

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Manny: But you have a responsibility of toning it down. Like, even if you feel like that, not saying whether how you felt was right or wrong.

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Manny: Because that is a personal debate.

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Manny: You have a responsibility right now to calm everything down. Calm it down.

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Manny: Because you cannot think rationally. No one makes…

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Jeezy: great decisions when they're in fight or flight. You are exactly right, Manny. And you have an obligation as the leader

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Jeezy: Of this country to do so, and… You… you didn't.

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00:31:48.370 --> 00:31:49.060
Manny: You didn't.

387
00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:55.339
Jeezy: And we see it flaming up as far as… the hate is even more now, because…

388
00:31:55.540 --> 00:32:11.939
Jeezy: you know, you see on social media, people holding visuals for Charlie Kirk, and within that, they're having rallies where they're chanting, white men, fight back, and all this stuff, and there's a whole nother group of kids, or people that are more far-right extremists.

389
00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:12.490
Manny: Damn.

390
00:32:12.490 --> 00:32:19.720
Jeezy: This is not okay, and his, his, his death… Should not be used.

391
00:32:20.670 --> 00:32:28.139
Jeezy: as fuel… For the flames of division that have already been sown in this country.

392
00:32:28.370 --> 00:32:29.000
Manny: Right.

393
00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:34.420
Jeezy: What we should look at this moment and say, Hey, y'all.

394
00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:38.419
Jeezy: We… we gotta… everybody stop right quick.

395
00:32:39.030 --> 00:32:42.140
Jeezy: Everybody just… regardless of what you believe, everybody.

396
00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:42.960
Manny: Let's chill out.

397
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:43.760
Jeezy: Let's just chill out.

398
00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:44.510
Manny: the show.

399
00:32:44.970 --> 00:32:51.610
Jeezy: Chill out real quick, and let's get this thing back in the center, because… We are acting like…

400
00:32:51.970 --> 00:32:53.579
Jeezy: Barbarians at this point.

401
00:32:53.580 --> 00:32:54.819
Manny: Yeah, absolutely.

402
00:32:54.820 --> 00:33:00.820
Jeezy: We are acting like barbarians, like we are not humans, like, we are not people.

403
00:33:01.010 --> 00:33:09.829
Jeezy: So, let's… let's chill out. But that moment is… unfortunately, man, I don't foresee that moment coming. I really think, to what you said earlier.

404
00:33:10.630 --> 00:33:13.999
Jeezy: This… this… we are in a bad spot, bro.

405
00:33:14.270 --> 00:33:20.820
Manny: And it's a constant… just think this year, This is…

406
00:33:21.190 --> 00:33:28.999
Manny: And this is probably an understatement, Third, high political… high visibility.

407
00:33:29.560 --> 00:33:31.680
Manny: Active political violence.

408
00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:42.309
Manny: So, first, with Mr. Kirk, the second with the representatives in, was it Michigan or Wisconsin? Where's Waltz from?

409
00:33:42.890 --> 00:33:47.680
Jeezy: Michigan. No, no, no, Walt, you said, talking about, that ran with Kamala?

410
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:48.480
Manny: Yeah.

411
00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.030
Jeezy: Minnesota.

412
00:33:49.030 --> 00:33:56.290
Manny: Minnesota, there we go. The Minnesota state reps that were the husband and wife that were murdered…

413
00:33:56.290 --> 00:33:57.080
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

414
00:33:57.080 --> 00:33:59.509
Manny: In their house, and the other set that were

415
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:04.769
Manny: Also shot, but, you know, horribly hurt.

416
00:34:04.860 --> 00:34:06.720
Jeezy: In this year.

417
00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:07.520
Jeezy: Yeah.

418
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:13.639
Manny: And it's like, we keep escalating, and escalating, and escalating.

419
00:34:13.870 --> 00:34:17.549
Manny: And… I'm gonna be honest, I think some of this…

420
00:34:17.909 --> 00:34:28.389
Manny: This has started years ago. This has started years ago. But I am especially concerned about the speed of acceleration that we are dealing with, especially now.

421
00:34:28.600 --> 00:34:29.270
Jeezy: Yep.

422
00:34:29.270 --> 00:34:31.850
Manny: because of COVID.

423
00:34:32.370 --> 00:34:47.600
Manny: Going back to COVID, I think we as a country have ignored the long-term implications, not of COVID, the disease, but COVID, the attempts to stop it.

424
00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:56.520
Manny: And our move, where we were isolated more in that 2-, 3-year period than we had ever been.

425
00:34:56.610 --> 00:35:01.349
Manny: Sending people online, looking for sources of community.

426
00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:17.029
Manny: And finding those in the internet, and then adding on top of that the need for monetization of social media platforms, and trying to keep eyes on their sites and on their apps.

427
00:35:17.420 --> 00:35:19.620
Manny: That now take content.

428
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:39.039
Manny: And constantly become giant echo chambers. And in that echo chamber, just constantly feeding back that more extreme content over and over and over again, to the point that you cannot humanize the people on the other side.

429
00:35:40.120 --> 00:35:50.470
Manny: And then on top of all that, our political leaders simplifying complex political issues.

430
00:35:51.340 --> 00:35:55.649
Manny: to a them versus us, which is A lazy.

431
00:35:55.650 --> 00:35:56.969
Jeezy: Lazy as all get out, bro.

432
00:35:56.970 --> 00:36:02.039
Manny: Extremely lazy. Right. And B, extremely dangerous.

433
00:36:02.060 --> 00:36:07.730
Jeezy: Right. Because the more you simplify these complex political issues… Yep.

434
00:36:07.730 --> 00:36:12.580
Manny: The easier it becomes to make it us versus them.

435
00:36:12.580 --> 00:36:13.290
Jeezy: Yep.

436
00:36:13.290 --> 00:36:17.690
Manny: Combo with everything else making that dangerous echo chamber.

437
00:36:17.690 --> 00:36:25.669
Jeezy: Because, man, that's an excellent point that you make, because I love on social media, I forgot what the name of the two guys that go around interviewing people.

438
00:36:26.010 --> 00:36:45.720
Jeezy: But the simplifying those complex issues is such a problem, because most of the time, people can tell you… they'll tell you why they don't like something, because if I'm a Republican, my first thing to say, oh, well, it's something that the right is trying to do, and then when you go to that next tier of thought.

439
00:36:46.210 --> 00:36:54.659
Jeezy: 9 times out of ten, people can't tell you anything about it. Oh, well, well, I don't like this because the Democrats… okay, well, what do you not like about it? They can't explain it.

440
00:36:54.660 --> 00:36:55.809
Manny: Because it's common.

441
00:36:55.810 --> 00:37:05.140
Jeezy: complex, and it's been simplified that, oh, well, if it got… if it's stamped by the right, then I can't like it if I'm on the left. If I'm on the left, I can't like it because it's stamped on the right.

442
00:37:05.710 --> 00:37:12.150
Jeezy: You can't… in this world that we have to coexist in, and have to really have…

443
00:37:12.330 --> 00:37:21.850
Jeezy: serious dialogue on these complex issues, you can't simplify these things. What you can do is stop being lazy as a reporter.

444
00:37:21.850 --> 00:37:26.670
Manny: It's not that you can't, it's that you shouldn't. Thank you. That you shouldn't.

445
00:37:26.670 --> 00:37:49.019
Jeezy: You shouldn't, but what you should do as an elected official, why don't you have town hall meetings and explain to your people these complex issues? Why don't you go out and really try to educate? That's the problem in politics no more. There is no education no more. It's just, hey, we don't like it because it's right. We don't like it because it's left. And nobody questions in this society, well, why is it a left thing? Why is it a right thing?

446
00:37:49.020 --> 00:37:51.090
Jeezy: Why… why can't I agree on that?

447
00:37:51.090 --> 00:37:59.129
Manny: Oh, oh, I'm on the left, and you said not to? Oh, okay, sorry. Like… It's so tribal at this standpoint.

448
00:37:59.130 --> 00:38:00.279
Jeezy: He is, man.

449
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:05.799
Manny: And… Unless we have intentional leadership.

450
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:06.200
Jeezy: Yep.

451
00:38:06.200 --> 00:38:09.890
Manny: That steps in and says, we're not doing this anymore.

452
00:38:10.790 --> 00:38:18.240
Manny: You know, when I ran, one of the questions I would get is if I was pro-life or pro-choice.

453
00:38:18.740 --> 00:38:24.080
Manny: And my response would be, I'm pro-life, but let's have the conversation.

454
00:38:24.080 --> 00:38:25.420
Jeezy: Yeah. Yes.

455
00:38:25.420 --> 00:38:29.280
Manny: What is it… for me, what does pro-life mean?

456
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:29.820
Jeezy: Yes.

457
00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:37.049
Manny: A, we need to be doing everything that we can to take care of that child and support that child's life in the womb.

458
00:38:37.050 --> 00:38:38.849
Jeezy: But it also means.

459
00:38:38.980 --> 00:38:50.789
Manny: we have to take care of that mother's life and the situation they're coming into. And then after that child gets here, we have to take care of that child as they progress through life.

460
00:38:50.790 --> 00:39:05.770
Manny: In terms of making sure there's healthcare infrastructure, and education and infrastructure, and there's economic infrastructure. And that also spurs all the way down to if that person commits a crime.

461
00:39:06.490 --> 00:39:10.409
Manny: I'm pro-life, so you know what that means I'm against? The death penalty.

462
00:39:10.410 --> 00:39:10.980
Jeezy: Yep.

463
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:17.559
Manny: the death penalty. Yep. And they're like, oh, well, how can you do that? Because I said, I am pro-life.

464
00:39:17.560 --> 00:39:17.940
Jeezy: life.

465
00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:18.710
Manny: life.

466
00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:23.100
Jeezy: And Manny, that's such a beautiful way to put it, because…

467
00:39:23.310 --> 00:39:39.490
Jeezy: in our society, you know, that became such a heavy topic in the political scene, when it came down to voting. And it would be funny to me, because I hear people say that they're pro-life, but then when somebody commits a murder, kill them dead. Kill them dead. I mean, just like the guy that's,

468
00:39:39.710 --> 00:39:42.409
Jeezy: That, that murdered Charlie Kirk.

469
00:39:42.860 --> 00:39:49.709
Jeezy: saying, I've seen somebody talk about, man, and it was wild. This dude, he was… he identifies as… on the right.

470
00:39:49.900 --> 00:40:03.850
Jeezy: But he went on this long rant that we should do this, and he shouldn't be fed, and then we should bring him out on live TV and shoot him with the same gun that he shot Charlie Kirk.

471
00:40:03.850 --> 00:40:05.220
Manny: Oh, wow.

472
00:40:05.220 --> 00:40:07.639
Jeezy: Anybody that knows him,

473
00:40:07.640 --> 00:40:16.330
Manny: That, that he… no, he said, anybody that this young man has agreed with that was a Democrat, you should bring them in and do the same thing to them, and I'm like… Insane.

474
00:40:16.690 --> 00:40:23.000
Manny: He said he was pro-life. There was a video much… years ago where he was talking about how he was pro-life, and I said, well, wait a minute.

475
00:40:24.100 --> 00:40:25.820
Manny: How are we sporting lives?

476
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:30.059
Jeezy: I thought we, I thought we, I thought we was poor life!

477
00:40:30.430 --> 00:40:35.930
Jeezy: It's… it is just… Manny, it is… this… to me.

478
00:40:36.890 --> 00:40:40.110
Jeezy: And I remember, I remember saying it in a group chat.

479
00:40:41.670 --> 00:40:47.279
Jeezy: Outside of the fact that this man has lost his life, and this family has lost a loved one.

480
00:40:47.810 --> 00:40:53.730
Jeezy: This is not good for American politics, and just America in general.

481
00:40:54.210 --> 00:40:54.820
Manny: It's not.

482
00:40:54.820 --> 00:40:55.550
Jeezy: Oh.

483
00:40:56.140 --> 00:40:59.960
Jeezy: At. All. I really don't know.

484
00:41:01.470 --> 00:41:08.809
Jeezy: where we're going. But I know we're going somewhere fast, and I know I don't want to go where we're going right now.

485
00:41:08.810 --> 00:41:14.480
Manny: Well, and I think… We're seeing some levels of leadership.

486
00:41:14.990 --> 00:41:15.910
Manny: Now.

487
00:41:16.420 --> 00:41:17.620
Manny: And…

488
00:41:18.030 --> 00:41:22.819
Jeezy: we'll start talking… I'll first start with Thomas Massey, who's just like, hey… Yeah.

489
00:41:22.940 --> 00:41:25.020
Manny: Hey, we gotta tone it down.

490
00:41:25.250 --> 00:41:25.570
Jeezy: Yeah.

491
00:41:25.570 --> 00:41:30.970
Manny: We gotta tone it down. We gotta stop, you know, kicking… kicking up the dirt.

492
00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:34.850
Manny: Like, at the end of the day, at the end of the day.

493
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:49.150
Manny: you individually, as a person, have to make the decision, and I think what we were talking in pre-prod… pre-pod… pre-pod, I said that… it didn't sound right.

494
00:41:49.150 --> 00:41:50.249
Jeezy: I'm gonna let you slide.

495
00:41:50.250 --> 00:41:59.450
Manny: In pre-production, you know, so much times I've heard, over this last week, we're better than this, we're better than this.

496
00:41:59.450 --> 00:41:59.970
Jeezy: Yeah.

497
00:41:59.970 --> 00:42:01.160
Manny: individually.

498
00:42:01.770 --> 00:42:07.730
Manny: Individually, I truly believe that we are all individually better than this.

499
00:42:09.160 --> 00:42:14.580
Manny: Now is the time that we have to collectively, as a group.

500
00:42:15.070 --> 00:42:17.300
Manny: Prove that we're better than this.

501
00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:20.359
Jeezy: Because that's where it's… that's where it gets dangerous.

502
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:24.449
Manny: Because people lose their identities once they become part of a group.

503
00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:25.450
Jeezy: Yep.

504
00:42:25.450 --> 00:42:29.459
Manny: So you had to individually take that responsibility to the group.

505
00:42:30.560 --> 00:42:32.020
Manny: And show that.

506
00:42:32.510 --> 00:42:36.389
Manny: And you gotta bring it down, you gotta stop trying to score the political points.

507
00:42:36.390 --> 00:42:36.980
Jeezy: Yep.

508
00:42:37.310 --> 00:42:43.629
Jeezy: Yep, because at the end of the day, what is it worth? We always say it in the group, what does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his soul?

509
00:42:43.630 --> 00:42:44.550
Manny: Lose the soul.

510
00:42:44.550 --> 00:42:55.270
Jeezy: That's what's happening in politics right now. And this is a very dangerous, game to play. And you're right, there have been people out, I listened to, Mike Johnson.

511
00:42:55.550 --> 00:43:05.419
Jeezy: The speaker was on, I believe he had an interview on CNN, and he talked about it, and he said some of the same things that Matt said. We… we… we have to calm it down.

512
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.599
Jeezy: We have to calm it down.

513
00:43:08.020 --> 00:43:11.400
Jeezy: We're better than this.

514
00:43:11.940 --> 00:43:14.439
Jeezy: And we… we have to move…

515
00:43:14.820 --> 00:43:21.679
Jeezy: this needle in the right direction. Because if we don't have… but my thing with Massey, with Johnson, anybody else.

516
00:43:22.540 --> 00:43:26.400
Jeezy: We really need our leaders to speak up.

517
00:43:26.690 --> 00:43:31.410
Jeezy: And to get this thing under control, because if you choose to use this as a moment.

518
00:43:31.600 --> 00:43:35.660
Jeezy: To amplify your ideology, your viewpoint.

519
00:43:36.340 --> 00:43:43.600
Jeezy: it becomes very dangerous, and I think we're seeing a lot of that. In some instances, Charlie is being…

520
00:43:43.890 --> 00:43:47.290
Jeezy: held up as a martyr.

521
00:43:47.460 --> 00:43:50.120
Manny: Yeah. As he died for the calls.

522
00:43:50.690 --> 00:43:59.259
Jeezy: And… I have a issue with that, because… What… what is the cause?

523
00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:03.359
Jeezy: What is it that you're… what is it that you're saying that he was…

524
00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:07.719
Jeezy: trying to achieve that he died for. Now, I will say this.

525
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:13.249
Jeezy: outside of… Cause there's been a lot that's gone on on social media.

526
00:44:13.650 --> 00:44:17.350
Jeezy: Before I say this next thing, I want to say this.

527
00:44:17.700 --> 00:44:22.170
Jeezy: If you are applauding, Celebrating.

528
00:44:22.810 --> 00:44:25.050
Jeezy: The death of another human being.

529
00:44:25.700 --> 00:44:29.440
Jeezy: You're just as much of a problem as the person that you're disagreeing with.

530
00:44:29.910 --> 00:44:32.860
Jeezy: If you're saying that Charlie Kirk was a problem.

531
00:44:33.230 --> 00:44:46.860
Jeezy: You celebrating him losing his life, and his family losing a loved one. If you're celebrating that, you are just as terrible as what you claim or profess this man to be.

532
00:44:47.450 --> 00:44:59.189
Jeezy: I don't care how evil you may think that he was, how some people called him racist, some people called him many things that they thought he was. I don't care if… and I don't care if he was all those things.

533
00:44:59.850 --> 00:45:04.129
Manny: That's… that's not… that's for the good Lord to sort it out. That's not on…

534
00:45:04.130 --> 00:45:07.740
Jeezy: I ain't got no heaven, and I ain't got no hell to put nobody.

535
00:45:07.740 --> 00:45:08.210
Manny: Nobody.

536
00:45:08.210 --> 00:45:13.590
Jeezy: All I know is that when it's all said and done, Versus what we have.

537
00:45:13.590 --> 00:45:17.260
Manny: We all gotta stand, stand before them and give that a count.

538
00:45:17.260 --> 00:45:23.619
Jeezy: That's all I… that's all that you can do. So, I can't put anybody in either heaven or hell.

539
00:45:24.030 --> 00:45:28.469
Jeezy: It has bothered me that people have celebrated the death of this man.

540
00:45:28.790 --> 00:45:30.090
Jeezy: He has children.

541
00:45:30.470 --> 00:45:36.339
Jeezy: Regardless of what you agree with that he said or did, there are kids that are gonna grow up without their father.

542
00:45:37.120 --> 00:45:40.160
Jeezy: while you sit here and spew your hate.

543
00:45:40.370 --> 00:45:45.499
Jeezy: and still have yours. Nobody took your parent, but somebody took theirs.

544
00:45:45.740 --> 00:45:53.179
Jeezy: Regardless of if you agree with this man or not, there's a wife that now is a single mother that has to bear the responsibility.

545
00:45:53.240 --> 00:45:54.500
Manny: Raising two children.

546
00:45:54.500 --> 00:45:56.480
Jeezy: Of raising these two children.

547
00:45:56.640 --> 00:46:09.300
Jeezy: And if you… if you are raising your two… you're raising your kids with your spouse, and still have them but celebrate that she has lost hers, regardless of your opinion, you're wrong.

548
00:46:09.770 --> 00:46:11.370
Jeezy: That is… that is wrong.

549
00:46:12.300 --> 00:46:13.889
Jeezy: Now, I will say this.

550
00:46:15.460 --> 00:46:21.210
Jeezy: What has bothered me… It's how he has been…

551
00:46:21.790 --> 00:46:29.409
Jeezy: put on a platform as a martyr, and during characterized as Jesus H. Christ Jr.

552
00:46:30.050 --> 00:46:32.230
Jeezy: They've acted like this band.

553
00:46:33.170 --> 00:46:41.129
Jeezy: went around… and… I'm just gonna say it, as if he did… That much good.

554
00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:47.599
Jeezy: We've talked about it, a lot of what Kirk did was not him… you know, they say about how he debated, and…

555
00:46:48.430 --> 00:46:54.390
Jeezy: Part of debating… In my opinion, Good debating.

556
00:46:54.910 --> 00:46:59.270
Jeezy: is… conversation.

557
00:47:01.140 --> 00:47:07.949
Jeezy: With the approach… Of actively listening to what the other person's views are.

558
00:47:08.710 --> 00:47:09.959
Jeezy: That's my opinion.

559
00:47:12.180 --> 00:47:13.470
Jeezy: Charlie didn't do that.

560
00:47:15.370 --> 00:47:23.100
Jeezy: Charlie went… to prove his point. I don't think that he ever actively listened to anybody.

561
00:47:23.570 --> 00:47:27.190
Jeezy: I think that if you fell in line with what he…

562
00:47:27.570 --> 00:47:30.959
Jeezy: what he believed, then, you saw a different side of Charlie?

563
00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:35.070
Jeezy: But certainly if you were on the opposite.

564
00:47:35.700 --> 00:47:37.580
Jeezy: You didn't get the same, Charlie.

565
00:47:38.390 --> 00:47:39.620
Jeezy: And…

566
00:47:40.330 --> 00:47:47.319
Jeezy: To put it into a point where he, you know, they're talking about laying him to rest at the state.

567
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:51.359
Manny: Right. That is reserved for elected officials.

568
00:47:52.270 --> 00:47:53.639
Jeezy: But wait a minute.

569
00:47:54.160 --> 00:47:59.619
Jeezy: The two people that were elected officials, or excuse me, the elected official and his wife.

570
00:48:00.790 --> 00:48:02.430
Jeezy: that were killed in Minnesota.

571
00:48:02.430 --> 00:48:03.160
Manny: Right.

572
00:48:04.230 --> 00:48:06.180
Jeezy: Why didn't… why didn't they get the same treatment?

573
00:48:08.500 --> 00:48:10.160
Jeezy: They are elected officials.

574
00:48:13.410 --> 00:48:14.250
Jeezy: Why?

575
00:48:14.830 --> 00:48:16.240
Jeezy: Why is that okay?

576
00:48:17.640 --> 00:48:23.479
Jeezy: This man… And again, he is entitled to his own opinions.

577
00:48:23.790 --> 00:48:35.910
Jeezy: his own viewpoints. I will never… I have talked to people before, and… that I… that have been downright racist people, and I love them with the love of the Lord. I have no ill will, no ill will on anybody.

578
00:48:36.570 --> 00:48:39.279
Jeezy: But I'm certainly not gonna act and say.

579
00:48:39.560 --> 00:48:41.719
Jeezy: That Charlie said some hurtful things, man.

580
00:48:41.720 --> 00:48:49.030
Manny: Right. That people were moved As many people as that were moved positively by the things that you said.

581
00:48:49.030 --> 00:48:49.430
Jeezy: Just as.

582
00:48:49.430 --> 00:48:51.469
Manny: They were just as negative.

583
00:48:52.150 --> 00:48:55.039
Jeezy: And we gotta stop mixing truth with opinion.

584
00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:55.590
Manny: Right.

585
00:48:56.220 --> 00:48:57.279
Jeezy: Go ahead, I'm sorry, brother.

586
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:03.000
Manny: And, no, to that point, starch debater. Starch debater.

587
00:49:03.560 --> 00:49:08.890
Manny: But you never really change anybody's mind by making them feel stupid.

588
00:49:09.430 --> 00:49:10.120
Jeezy: No.

589
00:49:10.430 --> 00:49:15.650
Manny: You know, people… People do not care about…

590
00:49:16.610 --> 00:49:19.989
Manny: What you think, until they know that you care.

591
00:49:20.190 --> 00:49:27.180
Manny: And that's how you have a true, long-lasting conversation and true debate.

592
00:49:27.550 --> 00:49:38.839
Manny: You have that empathetic understanding of this person, person X, feels… way Y about Issue Z.

593
00:49:39.140 --> 00:49:42.529
Jeezy: And now that I've understood those 3 parts.

594
00:49:43.120 --> 00:49:47.780
Manny: I can now have a conversation with you about how I feel about X,

595
00:49:48.040 --> 00:49:54.310
Manny: Based on my position A, because of B. And it's that understanding.

596
00:49:56.550 --> 00:50:07.820
Manny: And we don't… and that's the problem with political debate… debate that we see, well, political conversations, quote-unquote conversations, is that they're not really conversations that we're having in this country. They are political…

597
00:50:07.820 --> 00:50:08.210
Jeezy: Not at all.

598
00:50:08.210 --> 00:50:25.109
Manny: debates. They are a plaintiff and defense trying to prove their point to the jury, which is now social media. You know, and the jury votes by likes, comments, and retweets, or repost.

599
00:50:25.460 --> 00:50:30.109
Manny: And… A healthy conversation?

600
00:50:30.390 --> 00:50:32.099
Manny: Usually isn't that exciting.

601
00:50:32.790 --> 00:50:34.109
Manny: You know, I… Yeah.

602
00:50:34.250 --> 00:50:41.260
Manny: I, in 2006, I wanna say? 2006. There was…

603
00:50:41.420 --> 00:50:45.940
Manny: there… I was in a documentary for PBS,

604
00:50:46.240 --> 00:50:51.540
Manny: called the… oh, man, I forgot the name. The New Deciders. Sorry, the New Deciders.

605
00:50:51.540 --> 00:50:52.880
Jeezy: And…

606
00:50:52.920 --> 00:51:04.020
Manny: It was me, and another young Black Republican, and 3 people from the Black Lives Matter movement in Greensboro.

607
00:51:04.200 --> 00:51:05.280
Jeezy: Jeez.

608
00:51:05.820 --> 00:51:09.549
Manny: We were in that conversation for about two and a half, three hours.

609
00:51:09.870 --> 00:51:10.900
Jeezy: Jeez!

610
00:51:10.900 --> 00:51:15.189
Manny: If you go watch that conversation that they played back in that documentary.

611
00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:18.650
Manny: It's maybe 30 seconds.

612
00:51:19.650 --> 00:51:30.039
Jeezy: Oh, that's wild, bruh. How do you… bruh, how do you edit two… two to three hours into 30 seconds? Oh, because it was vibes, man. Like, when you… Yeah, yeah, yeah.

613
00:51:30.040 --> 00:51:32.820
Manny: Get a group of people coming together.

614
00:51:33.860 --> 00:51:37.009
Manny: to have a conversation. Oh yeah, like, I'm thinking…

615
00:51:37.520 --> 00:51:41.170
Manny: They made a thought, like, oh, these people are gonna debate each other.

616
00:51:41.170 --> 00:51:41.660
Jeezy: Yeah.

617
00:51:41.660 --> 00:51:48.330
Manny: Every Everyone showed up. Yeah, everyone showed up really trying to understand where everybody was at.

618
00:51:48.510 --> 00:51:49.910
Jeezy: Yes. Man…

619
00:51:49.910 --> 00:51:52.560
Manny: And we were like, oh… Okay.

620
00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:54.370
Jeezy: That's what it's supposed to be!

621
00:51:54.370 --> 00:51:57.710
Manny: Oh, okay, so y'all are… oh…

622
00:51:58.390 --> 00:51:59.030
Jeezy: Yes!

623
00:51:59.030 --> 00:52:05.020
Manny: And that is conversation. And that is what we're lacking, especially in this moment.

624
00:52:05.170 --> 00:52:08.129
Manny: We want to debate. Everyone wants to score their points.

625
00:52:08.130 --> 00:52:08.640
Jeezy: debate, yeah.

626
00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:14.410
Manny: You want that 10, 15, 20 second clip? Oh, they got that… no.

627
00:52:14.710 --> 00:52:17.839
Manny: We gotta understand where the person is.

628
00:52:18.220 --> 00:52:20.880
Manny: And you know, and you don't have to like where the person is.

629
00:52:22.250 --> 00:52:24.770
Manny: But you gotta love them where they're at.

630
00:52:25.780 --> 00:52:26.300
Jeezy: Yep.

631
00:52:26.300 --> 00:52:33.929
Manny: You gotta… Bingo. Man, so, in all this, I think back to, you know, A, how great God is.

632
00:52:34.250 --> 00:52:34.820
Jeezy: Yeah.

633
00:52:35.070 --> 00:52:42.579
Manny: And, you know, when he went up to… when he had Moses go up to the Mount Sinai, gave him the Ten Commandments.

634
00:52:44.370 --> 00:52:48.819
Manny: you know, I had to… I would think… God knew what was gonna happen, so…

635
00:52:48.820 --> 00:52:49.200
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.

636
00:52:49.200 --> 00:52:54.909
Manny: I'm gonna say one of the angels. If I was one of the angels, I'd be like, oh, the people only gotta do 10 things.

637
00:52:55.690 --> 00:52:58.850
Manny: Cool. Cool. They can't… they can… God, they can do 10 things.

638
00:52:58.850 --> 00:52:59.240
Jeezy: They can do.

639
00:52:59.240 --> 00:53:00.250
Manny: I'm like…

640
00:53:00.250 --> 00:53:01.530
Jeezy: I got 10.

641
00:53:01.530 --> 00:53:06.139
Manny: Bro, we did not have 10. We did not have 10. We did not have.

642
00:53:06.140 --> 00:53:06.920
Jeezy: Every 10 seconds.

643
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:15.870
Manny: so much that God's saying that Jesus had to come down and say, hey, y'all, I understand that 10 was real hard for y'all.

644
00:53:15.870 --> 00:53:18.149
Jeezy: I thought Ted was gonna work, but obviously…

645
00:53:18.150 --> 00:53:20.199
Manny: So let me simplify.

646
00:53:20.200 --> 00:53:21.179
Jeezy: You won't.

647
00:53:21.180 --> 00:53:25.189
Manny: Let me give you two. You will have no other god before me.

648
00:53:25.190 --> 00:53:26.070
Jeezy: Yep, yep.

649
00:53:26.070 --> 00:53:31.360
Manny: And to love others like you love yourselves.

650
00:53:31.470 --> 00:53:34.830
Manny: And guess what? And we still can't get it right.

651
00:53:36.940 --> 00:53:41.259
Manny: What? Where is the love, GC? Where is the love?

652
00:53:41.260 --> 00:53:43.740
Jeezy: Bro, where… bro… Right.

653
00:53:43.950 --> 00:53:47.170
Jeezy: I don't know, bruh. So that's the…

654
00:53:47.990 --> 00:53:54.559
Jeezy: Because that's another thing about, you know, Charlie. Charlie was… and I'm not judging nobody's walk.

655
00:53:55.340 --> 00:53:57.890
Jeezy: Because again, I have no heaven and hell to put you in.

656
00:53:57.890 --> 00:53:58.680
Manny: None.

657
00:53:58.680 --> 00:54:00.500
Jeezy: But I do know what I have.

658
00:54:00.970 --> 00:54:05.170
Jeezy: And I… and I have… I have Jesus Christ.

659
00:54:05.170 --> 00:54:06.389
Manny: I do.

660
00:54:06.390 --> 00:54:13.059
Jeezy: And I also understand, not just from what I've read, brother, But from my own experience.

661
00:54:13.350 --> 00:54:18.499
Jeezy: That when you have Christ, The transformation power that comes.

662
00:54:18.500 --> 00:54:18.870
Manny: That's true.

663
00:54:18.870 --> 00:54:19.480
Jeezy: that.

664
00:54:19.720 --> 00:54:26.889
Jeezy: Allows you to move a certain way. You can't move… brother, you can't operate but a certain way.

665
00:54:27.680 --> 00:54:30.350
Jeezy: You truly have Christ within you.

666
00:54:31.180 --> 00:54:35.280
Jeezy: when I see… People.

667
00:54:35.600 --> 00:54:37.839
Jeezy: Posting pictures on social media.

668
00:54:38.330 --> 00:54:42.270
Jeezy: of Jesus Christ hugging Charlie Kirk.

669
00:54:42.520 --> 00:54:44.250
Manny: We are… we… how many…

670
00:54:44.250 --> 00:54:45.670
Jeezy: We are so weird.

671
00:54:45.670 --> 00:54:52.180
Manny: How many bottles of pure drinking water have been destroyed by AI?

672
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:58.160
Manny: coming up with different videos of Jesus and Charlie Kirk.

673
00:54:58.160 --> 00:54:58.610
Jeezy: They have…

674
00:54:58.610 --> 00:54:59.560
Manny: That's a lot.

675
00:54:59.560 --> 00:55:04.240
Jeezy: Bruh, it is… bruh, it is extreme. First of all, we…

676
00:55:04.370 --> 00:55:14.640
Jeezy: I just gotta say this, just because I know it's gonna piss somebody off. First of all, y'all getting these AI videos created with a white Jesus is wrong anyway. Go read your Bible.

677
00:55:15.100 --> 00:55:16.470
Jeezy: It ain't gonna say nothing else.

678
00:55:17.620 --> 00:55:26.079
Jeezy: They got him walking in with Charlie Kirk walking through the gates with a Budweiser American flag, buttoned-up shirt, but I was like, yo…

679
00:55:26.080 --> 00:55:26.520
Manny: Bro.

680
00:55:26.520 --> 00:55:31.840
Jeezy: This is too… Much. But I say that because…

681
00:55:33.030 --> 00:55:36.770
Jeezy: Whether he… whether his faith lied wherever it did or not.

682
00:55:38.980 --> 00:55:43.429
Jeezy: And all the positive, like you said, that he's done to those that support him.

683
00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:47.390
Jeezy: I look at a lot of the negative that he's done as well, too.

684
00:55:47.390 --> 00:55:48.000
Manny: Yeah.

685
00:55:48.850 --> 00:55:53.770
Jeezy: And while we say… You know, he was this and he was that.

686
00:55:53.960 --> 00:56:00.910
Jeezy: where was that love for those that he negatively impacted? Because I can disagree with you. There are some issues that I do not agree with.

687
00:56:00.910 --> 00:56:19.520
Jeezy: That I'm not going to spread on this podcast, but there are certain things in life that I don't stand for. Doesn't mean that I don't love those people that are within that. I may not believe in… I don't… I don't own guns. I'm not a big gun person. I think there needs to be reform on guns. I don't agree with our gun laws, but if you're a person that…

688
00:56:19.520 --> 00:56:25.000
Jeezy: Loves guns. I don't got a problem with you. I love you just as much. I might not agree with your stance.

689
00:56:25.620 --> 00:56:28.879
Jeezy: But that's not going to allow me to treat you any different.

690
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:29.520
Manny: Right.

691
00:56:29.520 --> 00:56:31.640
Jeezy: Not to love you any less.

692
00:56:31.830 --> 00:56:35.880
Jeezy: When you have someone that's saying things that,

693
00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:38.600
Jeezy: Martin Luther King was… was terrible.

694
00:56:38.730 --> 00:56:40.310
Jeezy: A terrible person.

695
00:56:40.970 --> 00:56:44.209
Manny: Looking at you, Mark Robinson.

696
00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:46.130
Jeezy: Bruh.

697
00:56:46.510 --> 00:56:47.350
Jeezy: Do you have some…

698
00:56:47.350 --> 00:56:49.399
Manny: It's a forever beef, man. It's forever beef.

699
00:56:49.400 --> 00:56:49.970
Jeezy: It's always up.

700
00:56:49.970 --> 00:56:51.920
Manny: This is always up.

701
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:55.680
Jeezy: When you have someone that says that,

702
00:56:56.070 --> 00:57:00.430
Jeezy: That when they… that civil rights was the worst thing that happened to black people.

703
00:57:01.090 --> 00:57:15.370
Jeezy: When you say… talk about how women, black women, have… have low processing minds or something of that nature. When you talk about if you got on a plane and saw a black pilot, it'd make you question whether or not he was qualified, like…

704
00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:22.700
Jeezy: Those are things that, sure, they resonate with your base, but how have you negatively impacted these people you talked about?

705
00:57:22.870 --> 00:57:36.289
Jeezy: I have never once got on a plane and thought to myself, well, let me go check and see if the pilot white, because they might have just let him get to be a pilot just because he's white. I never thought that. I'm assuming that if he's a pilot, he's qualified. Like, that type of.

706
00:57:36.290 --> 00:57:46.450
Manny: And also knowing the fact that most pilots usually come from the military, so if you can fly an F-16, guess what? You can probably handle this Boeing.

707
00:57:46.450 --> 00:57:48.179
Jeezy: Get me to Vegas.

708
00:57:48.180 --> 00:57:48.780
Manny: Get me to.

709
00:57:48.780 --> 00:57:53.830
Jeezy: Peter Vegas All I'm asking you to do, land this mug in Vegas and smooth.

710
00:57:53.830 --> 00:57:55.280
Manny: That's all I need.

711
00:57:55.280 --> 00:58:01.250
Jeezy: But, to me… and what makes me think about this, Manny, and I'll end here.

712
00:58:01.640 --> 00:58:10.800
Jeezy: I don't know if you've ever seen… there's an older guy, I can't remember his name, but he's an older gentleman that goes around on college campuses, and he basically professes the gospel.

713
00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:13.799
Manny: Oh, like, that one guy we got on 5th Street.

714
00:58:13.800 --> 00:58:14.580
Jeezy: Oh,

715
00:58:14.580 --> 00:58:15.190
Manny: Dude, that…

716
00:58:15.190 --> 00:58:30.299
Jeezy: That dude was a fraud. This guy, this older man is legit. Okay, okay. But he does something similar to what Kirk did. He goes around the college campuses, and there's a large gathering of people, and he professes the gospel.

717
00:58:30.530 --> 00:58:36.300
Jeezy: And there are some tough conversations, but one thing about him is that

718
00:58:36.450 --> 00:58:42.079
Jeezy: when he says, okay, yes, you're living in sin, yes, you're doing… yes, God doesn't agree with this.

719
00:58:42.120 --> 00:59:00.830
Jeezy: he does so much in a way of love that there's never any… if there's anyone that walks away from that situation, it's the person, but it's not him. There is no hostility. Right. Never once has he been approached in a hostile manner. Certainly not in a position where someone's trying to end his life.

720
00:59:01.090 --> 00:59:05.920
Jeezy: But… This man handles that difference with love.

721
00:59:06.660 --> 00:59:19.959
Jeezy: And I can't say that those that do this… Charlie Kirk is not the only one. He comes from a group of people. Candace Owens is one of them. She's the same way. You can disagree with a person, but how you disagree is all in a matter of how you handle that with love.

722
00:59:19.960 --> 00:59:34.610
Jeezy: And it bothers me when we have people that we put on these platforms as, you know, we put them such on a high pedestal in society and coat them around this love of Christ as if they're doing the good work of the Lord, but they're missing some fruit.

723
00:59:36.240 --> 00:59:45.710
Jeezy: Because last I checked, the fruit, there's a few things that you got to have, brother, and they ain't fruits. You need all of them to be considered the fruit.

724
00:59:45.710 --> 00:59:46.380
Manny: Right.

725
00:59:46.780 --> 00:59:48.530
Jeezy: And I know one of them is love.

726
00:59:48.890 --> 00:59:59.219
Jeezy: And it's missing sometimes, and that just bothers me when we… when we do this. And there's a way we… everybody shouldn't agree.

727
00:59:59.590 --> 01:00:01.139
Jeezy: No. That's what makes us great.

728
01:00:01.140 --> 01:00:01.730
Manny: It did.

729
01:00:01.730 --> 01:00:19.030
Jeezy: We have differences, but what makes us who we are is how we handle those, and the best way and the best example given to us is what Christ did, is with love. He didn't agree with the Pharisees and the Sadducees, but He loved them regardless, regardless of their stance.

730
01:00:20.310 --> 01:00:23.140
Manny: And my closing thoughts on this is…

731
01:00:24.100 --> 01:00:26.450
Manny: You don't gotta always call people out.

732
01:00:26.740 --> 01:00:27.420
Jeezy: Bruh.

733
01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.390
Manny: We need to be calling people in.

734
01:00:31.390 --> 01:00:32.180
Jeezy: Mmm.

735
01:00:32.300 --> 01:00:34.050
Jeezy: Preach, preacher.

736
01:00:34.050 --> 01:00:35.300
Manny: Gotta call him in.

737
01:00:36.240 --> 01:00:42.559
Manny: But that goes… it's hand-in-hand with what you said. When you're calling people in, you're bringing them in with love.

738
01:00:42.560 --> 01:00:43.140
Jeezy: Yeah.

739
01:00:43.400 --> 01:00:51.340
Manny: You're bringing them in with understanding. You're bringing… you know how you win a conversation where you are calling people in?

740
01:00:51.340 --> 01:00:56.109
Jeezy: That you usually leave that conversation, both sides leave that conversation.

741
01:00:56.110 --> 01:00:58.569
Manny: With a deeper feeling of empathy.

742
01:00:58.570 --> 01:01:00.079
Jeezy: to one another.

743
01:01:00.860 --> 01:01:07.340
Jeezy: Mmm. Bruh, me, mmm. Cuz… Charlie Kirk said, Empathy.

744
01:01:07.700 --> 01:01:09.109
Jeezy: Was a horrible thing.

745
01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:24.160
Jeezy: Empathy was a horrible thing to have, and he… it… I can't… I'm not quoting him directly, but it was a… it was something that's horrible that has… that… that… that… I can't remember the words he said, but basically, in a nutshell, he said that having empathy was a horrible thing.

746
01:01:25.690 --> 01:01:36.010
Manny: And to that, I will say that people will never remember what you say exactly, but they will always remember how you made them feel.

747
01:01:37.070 --> 01:01:37.910
Jeezy: Bro.

748
01:01:39.390 --> 01:01:44.559
Jeezy: That… That's a… that's That's… that's… that's a mouthful, man.

749
01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:50.650
Manny: And if we… Ed, if we want to get back to a country that.

750
01:01:50.650 --> 01:01:51.530
Jeezy: Oh, man.

751
01:01:51.530 --> 01:01:54.149
Manny: You know, can have the conversations.

752
01:01:54.580 --> 01:01:59.450
Manny: Out loud. You can disagree with somebody without making them feel bad about themselves.

753
01:01:59.500 --> 01:02:00.580
Jeezy: No. You can't.

754
01:02:01.050 --> 01:02:04.740
Jeezy: You can't, you can't, you can't, you, you can't tear people down, man.

755
01:02:05.210 --> 01:02:05.700
Jeezy: You…

756
01:02:05.700 --> 01:02:07.429
Manny: I mean, you can.

757
01:02:07.430 --> 01:02:08.110
Jeezy: productive.

758
01:02:08.820 --> 01:02:09.200
Jeezy: Who cares?

759
01:02:09.200 --> 01:02:10.430
Manny: It's not gonna be productive.

760
01:02:10.930 --> 01:02:21.260
Jeezy: You know, while this man has lost his life, And, you know… I can't… Relate.

761
01:02:21.580 --> 01:02:26.769
Jeezy: To his family, because I have not, this isn't something I've ever experienced.

762
01:02:27.220 --> 01:02:34.509
Jeezy: But I will say… Regardless of what you feel, how you feel about him.

763
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:40.780
Jeezy: We should be sensitive to the loss that his family has experienced.

764
01:02:41.640 --> 01:02:43.370
Jeezy: And we should not wish.

765
01:02:44.200 --> 01:02:47.530
Jeezy: deaf on anyone. And certainly not…

766
01:02:48.020 --> 01:02:51.259
Jeezy: A tragedy, to this magnitude.

767
01:02:51.460 --> 01:02:54.969
Jeezy: Don't, don't wish bad on somebody and block your own blessing.

768
01:02:57.160 --> 01:03:01.540
Jeezy: You will never, you will never, you will never… get ahead.

769
01:03:02.300 --> 01:03:06.880
Jeezy: Using the tragedy of your enemies as a footstool.

770
01:03:07.240 --> 01:03:07.750
Manny: Never.

771
01:03:07.750 --> 01:03:09.329
Jeezy: You let God do that.

772
01:03:10.070 --> 01:03:11.449
Jeezy: But don't you do that.

773
01:03:11.450 --> 01:03:12.110
Manny: drawing.

774
01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:15.860
Jeezy: So… Prayers to his family.

775
01:03:16.830 --> 01:03:23.850
Jeezy: Prayers to his wife, His children, his loved ones.

776
01:03:24.510 --> 01:03:29.800
Jeezy: But I would also extend that to… Prayers for our nation.

777
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:30.890
Manny: Everyone.

778
01:03:31.630 --> 01:03:35.420
Jeezy: We have got… to move.

779
01:03:35.860 --> 01:03:37.870
Jeezy: This thing back in the middle.

780
01:03:38.890 --> 01:03:51.390
Jeezy: these… and I hope that those that are listening, I don't care… as you know, me and Manny both are from different affiliation. Manny's a Republican, I'm a Democrat. And before we ever even mention our affiliation.

781
01:03:51.970 --> 01:03:57.060
Jeezy: I'm sure you probably couldn't even tell that we weren't on the same side. Right.

782
01:03:58.160 --> 01:04:03.240
Jeezy: But let this podcast be an example, and that's why I love this podcast.

783
01:04:03.620 --> 01:04:16.580
Jeezy: Because this serves as an example that while you can be from two different sides of the aisle, that does not mean that you cannot have a bond, you cannot have love, that you cannot coexist together.

784
01:04:17.020 --> 01:04:19.949
Jeezy: In joy, and in happiness.

785
01:04:21.110 --> 01:04:22.780
Jeezy: In this political climate.

786
01:04:23.730 --> 01:04:28.700
Jeezy: You can do it. Me and Manny don't agree… me and Manny don't agree on every single topic.

787
01:04:28.700 --> 01:04:29.400
Manny: Right.

788
01:04:29.790 --> 01:04:34.090
Jeezy: But one thing I do know is that we hear and we listen to each other on every.

789
01:04:34.090 --> 01:04:34.950
Manny: Copy.

790
01:04:36.280 --> 01:04:37.810
Jeezy: We listen to each other.

791
01:04:38.270 --> 01:04:44.869
Jeezy: So, as this is our… One-year anniversary episode, and as we take our vacation.

792
01:04:45.410 --> 01:04:50.210
Jeezy: Let this podcast be that example of where we should be.

793
01:04:51.420 --> 01:04:53.199
Jeezy: in, in, in America.

794
01:04:53.410 --> 01:04:54.760
Jeezy: in this country.

795
01:04:55.390 --> 01:04:57.779
Jeezy: Not left, not right.

796
01:04:58.000 --> 01:04:58.990
Jeezy: Just together.

797
01:04:58.990 --> 01:05:00.829
Manny: Just together, man, just together.

798
01:05:00.830 --> 01:05:06.219
Jeezy: Just together. That's it. That's it. And as Manny said, and we need to… don't sell our idea.

799
01:05:06.580 --> 01:05:08.780
Jeezy: Make American politics born again, bro.

800
01:05:08.780 --> 01:05:11.999
Manny: Make politics boring again.

801
01:05:13.230 --> 01:05:18.889
Manny: let's just make it boring again. This was a whole lot more fun for me when it was boring.

802
01:05:18.890 --> 01:05:19.330
Jeezy: Right.

803
01:05:19.330 --> 01:05:25.340
Manny: Man, this is boring. It was exciting to me. Now it's exciting, and I'm like, this is too exciting.

804
01:05:25.340 --> 01:05:33.179
Jeezy: Yeah, bruh, I was expecting to have to come up here and do, like, schoolhouse rock, and they were gonna tell you how bills work.

805
01:05:35.390 --> 01:05:37.520
Jeezy: We're gonna talk about parliamentary procedures!

806
01:05:37.520 --> 01:05:38.580
Manny: Right.

807
01:05:38.580 --> 01:05:40.110
Jeezy: Starting with Robert's Rules.

808
01:05:40.610 --> 01:05:44.200
Jeezy: Nothing boring, it's just all chaos.

809
01:05:44.750 --> 01:05:48.780
Jeezy: I really just hope that… for the extreme.

810
01:05:49.060 --> 01:06:04.360
Jeezy: these extreme groups, movements, they're not… to anybody, they are not good for us. I don't care if it's an extreme left or extreme right, it is not good for us. If you want to destroy a country.

811
01:06:05.850 --> 01:06:07.369
Jeezy: That is how you do it.

812
01:06:07.540 --> 01:06:14.620
Jeezy: These extreme movements that take people from rational conversations

813
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:25.970
Jeezy: and move them into a space where they have drunk this crazy Kool-Aid so much that they are… they just can't make any sense of what

814
01:06:27.020 --> 01:06:33.149
Jeezy: American… Politics should look like, and it should not look.

815
01:06:33.780 --> 01:06:36.469
Jeezy: Like, all this craziness that we have now.

816
01:06:37.030 --> 01:06:40.510
Jeezy: If you are an elected official, Stand up.

817
01:06:41.520 --> 01:06:44.200
Jeezy: Do your job, stop being lazy.

818
01:06:44.560 --> 01:06:46.840
Jeezy: And feeding into all this bullcrap.

819
01:06:47.810 --> 01:06:52.219
Jeezy: We gotta get back in the middle, man. You can have your differences.

820
01:06:52.540 --> 01:06:55.800
Jeezy: But we gotta have differences with love and with grace.

821
01:06:55.800 --> 01:07:12.340
Manny: And I think Utah Senator John Curtis said it, earlier today. He said, I think you need to remove the word radical. Well, I think we need to take the word radical and remove left or right. Radical coming from any direction.

822
01:07:12.340 --> 01:07:13.040
Jeezy: any direction.

823
01:07:13.040 --> 01:07:14.370
Manny: It is not good.

824
01:07:14.370 --> 01:07:14.810
Jeezy: Yep.

825
01:07:14.810 --> 01:07:17.940
Manny: It's not healthy, and it should be called out.

826
01:07:17.940 --> 01:07:22.539
Jeezy: I agree. Wholeheartedly. Wholeheartedly. I'm tired of all this left and right.

827
01:07:22.940 --> 01:07:24.799
Jeezy: All this extremeness.

828
01:07:25.030 --> 01:07:27.440
Jeezy: Let's just get back to what matters.

829
01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:39.460
Jeezy: having an opinion is fine, but let's do it with love, let's do it with grace, and let's try to get an understanding, because everybody's walk of life ain't the same, bruh. That's another thing. Everybody…

830
01:07:39.890 --> 01:07:43.570
Jeezy: My walk in life ain't gonna be the same as yours, so my view…

831
01:07:43.770 --> 01:07:47.359
Jeezy: I had a conversation with a Republican, last year.

832
01:07:47.910 --> 01:07:51.779
Jeezy: And… and it was actually a group that I was working in, and…

833
01:07:52.120 --> 01:08:07.190
Jeezy: it was kind of cool, I felt like the mediator, but it was a young girl who was, a Democrat, and there was this young guy, he was a white guy that was a Republican, and he was like, hey, I voted for Trump, and she was saying she voted for Harris, and then they had this conversation.

834
01:08:07.410 --> 01:08:10.339
Jeezy: And I'm just kind of sitting in the middle, kind of mediating it.

835
01:08:10.810 --> 01:08:14.460
Jeezy: And the beautiful thing about it is that we walked out of there.

836
01:08:14.980 --> 01:08:30.589
Jeezy: Still cool, you know, walked out of there, and she just was like, hey, look, I just… this is my view because of my family. My family, this is that, my dad's an immigrant, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's like, oh, I can respect that. Well, I voted for this because of gun laws, but no hate.

837
01:08:30.850 --> 01:08:46.290
Jeezy: Just an understanding of, okay, your stance is this because it fits your life. My stance is this because it fits my life, and that's okay. I can understand and respect you, as long as you understand and respect me, and we can coexist together.

838
01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:52.289
Manny: one of my good friends, True Predigrew from the organization True Access.

839
01:08:52.889 --> 01:08:57.039
Manny: He would say, in this life, we're all focusing on getting.

840
01:08:58.350 --> 01:09:01.349
Manny: And he would say, in all of your getting.

841
01:09:02.340 --> 01:09:03.800
Manny: get an understanding.

842
01:09:04.069 --> 01:09:04.669
Jeezy: Mmm.

843
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:07.699
Manny: And all the… and all that you get.

844
01:09:07.970 --> 01:09:11.830
Jeezy: Get an understanding. Get an understanding. I like that. I like that.

845
01:09:11.960 --> 01:09:15.019
Jeezy: I like it. We… we gonna have to leave it on that, bruh. I like that.

846
01:09:15.750 --> 01:09:17.499
Jeezy: So, for our listeners…

847
01:09:17.500 --> 01:09:24.699
Manny: We, we did this, like, like, old-school black shirt, because we've been trying to end this topic for at least 10 minutes.

848
01:09:25.689 --> 01:09:30.380
Jeezy: Bruh, I like that, and all you get, get an understanding. So,

849
01:09:30.729 --> 01:09:33.810
Jeezy: for the suspect, I'm not… I'm not gonna…

850
01:09:33.810 --> 01:09:36.559
Manny: I'm not gonna glorify it and give him a name.

851
01:09:36.569 --> 01:09:40.399
Jeezy: But he, he has been, he's in custody.

852
01:09:40.899 --> 01:09:44.699
Jeezy: They went, I think, at the 33rd hour, and…

853
01:09:44.819 --> 01:09:51.419
Jeezy: The only way that they got him is it sounded like he told his family, and his family turned them in.

854
01:09:51.699 --> 01:10:01.089
Jeezy: He was, just so we can clear the narrative, he was not of the… he was not of the left, as y'all want to call it. He was not a Democrat. His family were…

855
01:10:01.209 --> 01:10:03.109
Jeezy: strong Republicans.

856
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:05.669
Jeezy: and Trump supporters.

857
01:10:05.929 --> 01:10:13.119
Jeezy: They are trying to spew this thing now to say that he might have had a lover that was trans, but… here we go again, Wick.

858
01:10:13.580 --> 01:10:16.139
Manny: And why does that matter? Like…

859
01:10:16.520 --> 01:10:20.319
Jeezy: So you mean to tell me they ain't… they ain't no Republicans? Never mind.

860
01:10:21.100 --> 01:10:32.969
Manny: No, no, we're gonna hit it real quick. There's an organization called the Log Cabin Republicans that are Republicans that focus on LGBT…

861
01:10:32.970 --> 01:10:33.380
Jeezy: Oh, okay.

862
01:10:33.380 --> 01:10:34.890
Manny: Q Issues.

863
01:10:35.460 --> 01:10:39.090
Jeezy: Right, I ain't know if you were gonna say one of these little freaky ditty groups that was…

864
01:10:39.810 --> 01:10:40.840
Manny: Nope. Nope.

865
01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:45.519
Jeezy: The log cabin kind of sounded a little wild for a name for a group, right?

866
01:10:45.590 --> 01:10:53.340
Manny: that support them type of rights. But no, they are conservative Republicans that talk about LGBTQ issues.

867
01:10:53.780 --> 01:10:56.399
Manny: From a conservative standpoint.

868
01:10:56.750 --> 01:10:57.410
Jeezy: See?

869
01:10:58.050 --> 01:11:01.480
Jeezy: But these radical extreme groups probably don't even know nothing about that.

870
01:11:02.140 --> 01:11:10.229
Manny: But, and again, that goes back to the fact that these are complex issues. Why? Because humans are complex.

871
01:11:10.580 --> 01:11:11.190
Jeezy: go.

872
01:11:11.790 --> 01:11:19.119
Jeezy: So, you know, he's in custody. Now, I will say this, and I'm not trying to make fun of it, but…

873
01:11:19.550 --> 01:11:22.900
Jeezy: I wonder if Homie would have got away with it had he not opened his mouth.

874
01:11:24.130 --> 01:11:28.910
Jeezy: They… cause from up to that time, I don't think… until they called, they didn't have nothing.

875
01:11:28.910 --> 01:11:30.599
Manny: They had nothing on him.

876
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:34.690
Jeezy: They had nothing, and the only tip they got was that.

877
01:11:34.890 --> 01:11:35.370
Manny: Repeat.

878
01:11:35.370 --> 01:11:36.489
Jeezy: Told on, Michelle.

879
01:11:36.490 --> 01:11:37.359
Manny: Well, and…

880
01:11:37.360 --> 01:11:38.350
Jeezy: Good for him, because…

881
01:11:38.350 --> 01:11:39.050
Manny: Yeah.

882
01:11:39.260 --> 01:11:49.050
Jeezy: you know, if you did something, which it sounds like he might have been church-going, you know, he may have had… I'm giving away that I'm Southern when I say that. Church-going.

883
01:11:50.100 --> 01:12:00.950
Jeezy: But, you know, he… it was apparent that his family were, you know, were Christians, and he confessed to his dad, and his dad called the youth pastor and helped him out with turning himself in, so…

884
01:12:00.950 --> 01:12:05.939
Manny: Well, because I heard reports, allegedly, that he was potentially suicidal.

885
01:12:06.260 --> 01:12:09.070
Manny: Oh, okay. And, you know…

886
01:12:10.510 --> 01:12:16.670
Manny: It'll be interesting when all this plays out, because here's the other political side of it.

887
01:12:16.810 --> 01:12:25.260
Manny: Apparently, people within government organizations are not too happy with how, Kash Patel dealt with this.

888
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:26.759
Jeezy: I, I, I…

889
01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:27.129
Manny: Yeah, and…

890
01:12:27.130 --> 01:12:27.510
Jeezy: that.

891
01:12:27.510 --> 01:12:28.210
Manny: And the…

892
01:12:28.210 --> 01:12:28.870
Jeezy: I see that.

893
01:12:28.870 --> 01:12:30.490
Manny: allegedly.

894
01:12:30.650 --> 01:12:40.160
Manny: In the last couple months, the head agent in charge over the FBI had been… had left their post after being demoted.

895
01:12:40.420 --> 01:12:40.800
Jeezy: Mmm.

896
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:52.109
Manny: And there were concerns about who was leading, who was running this organization from the FBI. And as I understand it at this point, people are not happy with Kayash Patel.

897
01:12:52.540 --> 01:12:58.170
Jeezy: Well, I definitely can see that, because I will say, just seeing how it was handled.

898
01:12:58.740 --> 01:13:00.560
Jeezy: He looked way out of his league.

899
01:13:00.990 --> 01:13:11.290
Jeezy: Even at the press conferences, he… he looked like… which, it might have been… it might have been the coke, because Cashby, I don't know if he got some social anxiety, or he be on that… he be on that white pony.

900
01:13:11.450 --> 01:13:17.560
Jeezy: But when he get in front of a crowd, bruh, his eyes be like… he be on that sugar.

901
01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:18.140
Manny: Oops.

902
01:13:18.430 --> 01:13:24.590
Jeezy: he owns something, but I can tell it… from previous…

903
01:13:24.860 --> 01:13:28.179
Jeezy: Directors, and how they have handled situations.

904
01:13:28.480 --> 01:13:32.919
Jeezy: It definitely felt a little, overwhelming for him and his agency.

905
01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:38.110
Manny: Well, and I felt like they also said, like, we heard a whole lot from the FBI.

906
01:13:38.510 --> 01:13:41.730
Manny: more than I would expect in a situation like this.

907
01:13:41.730 --> 01:13:42.320
Jeezy: Yeah.

908
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:52.349
Manny: Yeah, I was not expecting to hear from the FBI in any capacity until they're like, yep, we got… we got the person.

909
01:13:52.510 --> 01:14:04.340
Manny: We got the person. I was expecting near… was there going to be press conference? Yep, but I was expecting a bunch of nothing burgers out of the press conferences. Like, that was my expectation of this.

910
01:14:04.340 --> 01:14:07.099
Jeezy: Then they kept pushing them back, and they were canceling.

911
01:14:07.100 --> 01:14:07.740
Manny: Yeah, like…

912
01:14:07.740 --> 01:14:08.490
Jeezy: It was messy.

913
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:12.839
Manny: Y'all got two press conferences a day, and maybe a one…

914
01:14:12.840 --> 01:14:13.950
Jeezy: No updates.

915
01:14:13.950 --> 01:14:22.690
Manny: With no updates. We're still investigating all the leads… Why are y'all talking to us? Go do some work. Right, like… Go find this man. Go find him!

916
01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:23.840
Manny: Nope.

917
01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:30.159
Jeezy: Well, you know, I did know, you know, with Cash, I didn't know that he was, from Asgard.

918
01:14:31.210 --> 01:14:31.950
Manny: Bruh.

919
01:14:32.200 --> 01:14:32.740
Jeezy: He eats it.

920
01:14:32.740 --> 01:14:34.020
Manny: I thought he was… I thought he was hinting.

921
01:14:34.020 --> 01:14:36.669
Jeezy: Kurt and Valhalla, I said, I didn't know he was Asgardian.

922
01:14:36.830 --> 01:14:47.429
Manny: And… to tell a Christian man that you'll see him in Valhallis… I was… I was confused.

923
01:14:47.800 --> 01:14:52.060
Manny: Because I'm like, I'm pretty sure that's Norse mythology.

924
01:14:52.420 --> 01:14:56.379
Manny: But, oh, okay, okay, maybe that's y'all relationship.

925
01:14:56.770 --> 01:14:59.579
Jeezy: When he said that, bruh, and it was… bruh…

926
01:15:00.750 --> 01:15:01.130
Manny: I agree.

927
01:15:01.130 --> 01:15:03.610
Jeezy: you know you're Christian, right?

928
01:15:03.610 --> 01:15:05.780
Manny: So confused.

929
01:15:06.400 --> 01:15:10.490
Jeezy: And then why… why are you… why are you talking about Valhalla? Like…

930
01:15:10.650 --> 01:15:12.020
Manny: You a Viking?

931
01:15:12.020 --> 01:15:13.170
Jeezy: You're…

932
01:15:15.220 --> 01:15:15.950
Manny: I'm confused.

933
01:15:15.950 --> 01:15:18.969
Jeezy: I'm confused. I was like, yo, cash gotta be…

934
01:15:18.970 --> 01:15:19.530
Manny: Too wild.

935
01:15:19.530 --> 01:15:20.960
Jeezy: He on that white horse, bruh.

936
01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:22.000
Manny: Wow.

937
01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:24.179
Jeezy: That man was seeing… he was seeing Asgard, he said.

938
01:15:24.180 --> 01:15:24.690
Manny: Oh my god.

939
01:15:24.690 --> 01:15:25.790
Jeezy: I see you in Valhalla.

940
01:15:26.170 --> 01:15:27.410
Jeezy: Me too.

941
01:15:27.410 --> 01:15:31.940
Manny: Until Thor I'll see you soon. What?

942
01:15:32.770 --> 01:15:33.970
Jeezy: But, bruh, you know…

943
01:15:34.430 --> 01:15:41.449
Jeezy: We'll see where this takes us. Hopefully, when we come back, after our vacation, things would have calmed down.

944
01:15:41.810 --> 01:15:42.959
Manny: Probably not, but, you know…

945
01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:48.179
Jeezy: Probably not, but… You know, I like to think so.

946
01:15:48.640 --> 01:15:50.509
Jeezy: But we shall see, man, so…

947
01:15:51.110 --> 01:15:54.349
Jeezy: Alright. That's all I got, brother, you know.

948
01:15:54.350 --> 01:15:58.079
Manny: I mean, we got a pickle this week, besides all of us?

949
01:15:58.450 --> 01:16:02.449
Jeezy: Man, I ain't got a pickle for you, brother. It's… it's… we all the pickles.

950
01:16:04.030 --> 01:16:04.820
Jeezy: Yeah, all the pickle, right?

951
01:16:04.820 --> 01:16:06.060
Manny: We all the pick one.

952
01:16:06.100 --> 01:16:11.139
Jeezy: It ain't even no… look, it ain't even no need, man. We all just… we all in the brine this week.

953
01:16:11.140 --> 01:16:13.970
Manny: We all the people.

954
01:16:15.410 --> 01:16:17.149
Manny: We all the pickles.

955
01:16:19.420 --> 01:16:21.020
Manny: So, yeah, man.

956
01:16:21.020 --> 01:16:21.810
Jeezy: But…

957
01:16:23.230 --> 01:16:40.029
Manny: Man. Well, we would… before we head out, I do have some quick spotlights that I think we will… we will cover at some point as these situations evolve. Okay. Because stepping into September 10th, I thought this day was gonna go completely different.

958
01:16:40.400 --> 01:16:43.489
Manny: Than what it did, because the day started off

959
01:16:43.910 --> 01:16:48.690
Manny: with Russia flying drones into Poland.

960
01:16:48.920 --> 01:16:49.809
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.

961
01:16:50.570 --> 01:16:55.920
Manny: And… Poland closed down airports and rallied jets.

962
01:16:55.980 --> 01:17:12.669
Manny: out there, and they've now called for Section 4 of, the NATO agreement, which is essentially a, let's, hey, hey everyone, I need everyone to get on this conference call, we gotta talk. Everybody report to the Zoom meeting? Right, because we gotta talk about what we need to do here.

963
01:17:12.790 --> 01:17:29.890
Manny: So… and Article 4 is what precedes Article 5, and Article 5 is the Collective Defense Clause. So, it'll be interesting watching how this goes. You know, Trump has come out and said that he has some of the strongest sanctions yet for Russia.

964
01:17:29.890 --> 01:17:30.809
Jeezy: I'm so sick.

965
01:17:30.810 --> 01:17:39.050
Manny: And he will not put them in play unless everyone in NATO agrees to stop buying Russian oil.

966
01:17:39.540 --> 01:17:44.070
Manny: Which I already believe lar… well, not completely, but so…

967
01:17:44.440 --> 01:17:53.270
Manny: NATO is still continuing to show very interesting cracks, but we'll see how that goes. And I thought we were going to be talking about that.

968
01:17:53.570 --> 01:17:55.580
Manny: And then a couple hours later…

969
01:17:55.970 --> 01:17:57.060
Jeezy: That's what I thought.

970
01:17:57.060 --> 01:18:01.310
Manny: A couple hours later, we had Big Netty, wildin' out.

971
01:18:01.760 --> 01:18:03.490
Manny: Bombing Qatar.

972
01:18:03.670 --> 01:18:04.540
Jeezy: Bruh.

973
01:18:04.540 --> 01:18:14.289
Manny: and to go after Hamas leadership, which is a wild move, because Qatar holds the largest U.S. military base.

974
01:18:14.440 --> 01:18:18.549
Manny: And then it came out that Big Netty did not tell Trump.

975
01:18:19.010 --> 01:18:19.380
Jeezy: Nope.

976
01:18:19.380 --> 01:18:25.360
Manny: That they were going to do that, and only did it, my understanding is a very limited time.

977
01:18:25.360 --> 01:18:28.690
Jeezy: beforehand, because they knew the U.S.

978
01:18:28.690 --> 01:18:33.160
Manny: would tell Qatar, and Qatar would send defenses.

979
01:18:33.300 --> 01:18:38.020
Manny: So, lots of questions there. A, how does Qatar feel about this?

980
01:18:38.610 --> 01:18:49.000
Manny: What does this do with Qatari-American relationships? What does this say about the U.S.-Israel relationship? Because also on that day.

981
01:18:49.450 --> 01:18:58.969
Manny: the Hamas government was supposed to be responding to a new peace deal that the U.S. had put together that Israel had already signed off on.

982
01:18:59.540 --> 01:19:05.149
Jeezy: I think Qatar already came out and was like, yeah, y'all, we ain't signing nothing, like…

983
01:19:05.150 --> 01:19:18.659
Manny: Well, yeah, Qatar pretty much looks like you've… Israel, you've pretty much killed most of your opportunities to get your hostages free. Because at this point, Qatar was seen as the neutral party, trying to help them through this. Yep.

984
01:19:18.810 --> 01:19:29.849
Jeezy: And I think that also, too, the Hamas leadership that they were trying to get in Qatar were part of the negotiations as well, too. Correct. So it's like, bro, how you trying to take out the people you…

985
01:19:29.850 --> 01:19:31.740
Manny: What are you negotiating with? What are you doing?

986
01:19:31.740 --> 01:19:33.449
Jeezy: Nettie, Nettie gotta be stopped, bruh.

987
01:19:33.450 --> 01:19:38.579
Manny: Bruh, it's… it's gonna come to that. It's probably gonna come down to that.

988
01:19:39.080 --> 01:19:39.719
Jeezy: Okay, he watches.

989
01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:40.310
Manny: So…

990
01:19:40.700 --> 01:19:51.249
Manny: And then, what was it, probably about 2 hours after, or maybe an hour after the whole incident with Charlie Kirk, we had the shooting at another school in Colorado.

991
01:19:51.250 --> 01:19:51.890
Jeezy: Yeah.

992
01:19:52.830 --> 01:19:56.300
Manny: This has been… A very wild.

993
01:19:56.300 --> 01:19:58.190
Jeezy: This was… this was a wild week, but this man…

994
01:19:58.190 --> 01:19:58.570
Manny: There's a lot.

995
01:19:58.570 --> 01:20:01.849
Jeezy: This may have been the wildest week we've had.

996
01:20:02.140 --> 01:20:02.930
Jeezy: Today.

997
01:20:02.930 --> 01:20:03.590
Manny: In a while.

998
01:20:03.590 --> 01:20:07.630
Jeezy: As far as the podcast, and I hope that it gets no wilder than this.

999
01:20:07.630 --> 01:20:08.260
Manny: Oh, no, I hope this.

1000
01:20:08.260 --> 01:20:10.249
Jeezy: I hope this is… yep, this is the peak.

1001
01:20:10.250 --> 01:20:12.550
Manny: It's all… it's all coming down from here.

1002
01:20:12.550 --> 01:20:15.999
Jeezy: Yeah, let's go back downhill on this, because we don't need that right now, bro.

1003
01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:16.530
Manny: Yay.

1004
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:17.959
Manny: So, you know… Meh.

1005
01:20:18.640 --> 01:20:19.120
Jeezy: Well…

1006
01:20:19.120 --> 01:20:19.710
Manny: Yeah.

1007
01:20:20.750 --> 01:20:21.399
Jeezy: You shall see.

1008
01:20:21.400 --> 01:20:26.290
Manny: We shall see, but to our listeners, Again.

1009
01:20:26.690 --> 01:20:27.940
Manny: Thank you.

1010
01:20:28.090 --> 01:20:30.770
Manny: Thank you. Thank you.

1011
01:20:30.770 --> 01:20:31.240
Jeezy: Thanks.

1012
01:20:31.240 --> 01:20:45.960
Manny: We couldn't have made it this far without you. We thank you again for your participation. Yep. Getting up every week and listening to what the boys have to say about things. We appreciate that.

1013
01:20:46.090 --> 01:20:50.770
Manny: Thank you, you know, we… we will never take that for granted.

1014
01:20:52.900 --> 01:20:53.840
Manny: Yeah.

1015
01:20:54.200 --> 01:20:57.940
Jeezy: Okay, we definitely couldn't. You know, you guys have been awesome.

1016
01:20:59.470 --> 01:21:08.059
Jeezy: Thank you for being a part of this one-year anniversary. It doesn't feel like it's been one year. It feels like it's been longer. I feel like I've been… I'm tired.

1017
01:21:08.060 --> 01:21:11.489
Manny: Not both. I feel like we've been out here…

1018
01:21:11.490 --> 01:21:14.260
Jeezy: Bruh, that's really what I was gonna start the pod with.

1019
01:21:14.970 --> 01:21:30.339
Jeezy: It felt like it didn't capture the celebratory nature of the episode, but, you know, we thank you so much. We can't say it enough. So, cheers to one year, and hopefully many more with that.

1020
01:21:30.340 --> 01:21:30.920
Manny: Many, many.

1021
01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:32.970
Jeezy: iHeart Contract, Spotify.

1022
01:21:34.130 --> 01:21:34.550
Manny: We hear…

1023
01:21:34.550 --> 01:21:41.240
Jeezy: If you want to pick the boys up, let us know. But we certainly thank you all, and like we say in every episode.

1024
01:21:41.630 --> 01:21:53.419
Jeezy: that if don't nobody love you, just know the boys here at the pod. We say this, and we mean this, no matter who you are, where you are, what side of the aisle you are on, we love you, we love you, we love you, so…

1025
01:21:53.750 --> 01:21:55.870
Jeezy: I'm good, bro. All hearts and minds clear.

1026
01:21:56.070 --> 01:21:59.989
Manny: All hearts and minds clear. Again, we are off the week of the 22nd, but we will.

1027
01:21:59.990 --> 01:22:00.460
Jeezy: We'll see.

1028
01:22:00.460 --> 01:22:02.729
Manny: you guys on September 29th.

1029
01:22:02.890 --> 01:22:13.609
Jeezy: We'll see you again, so don't, don't, don't, don't check out on us, just take your little, take your little water break, go in the back, get you some, some light refreshments, and we'll see you back here at the next episode.

1030
01:22:13.610 --> 01:22:14.670
Manny: Tell a friend.

1031
01:22:14.670 --> 01:22:16.139
Jeezy: Tell a friend. Take care, y'all.

1032
01:22:16.140 --> 01:22:17.200
Manny: Take care, y'all.