2025 in Review: Inaugurations to Investigations

It’s the final episode of 2025, and Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are taking y’all on a rollercoaster recap of this chaotic political year. From Trump’s second inauguration (yes, it was that weird) to Signal-gate, Pope Francis’ sudden death, the election of Pope Leo, and the not-so-golden idea of a U.S. “Golden Dome,” no topic is off limits.

The fellas tackle shady confirmations, puppet politics, nap-prone presidents, and how ChatGPT and ayahuasca may have been behind Kat Williams’ prophetic accuracy. Add in commentary on Iran, national security leaks, and whether a hairpiece can survive a neck-break nap on national TV, and you’ve got an episode for the ages.

It’s raw. It’s real. It’s hilariously unfiltered. If 2025 felt like 12 years in one, this episode is your comedic and cathartic therapy. #PardonThePolitics

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Jeezy: Hello, world. Welcome to Partner Politics Podcast, Season 2, Episode 46. I'm your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner in politics, Manny. My brother, how you doing today?
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Manny: Brother, we made it through the year.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: We did it.
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Manny: Yeah, bro.
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Jeezy: That's like, that's it. We did appear.
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Manny: We got to… we got to the finish line.
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Jeezy: By only the grace of God, we have made it thus far. And in this episode, to our listeners, we have another special treat for you. Once again, we got our brother Chuck from Encompass that's joining us on the last episode of the pod. My brother Chuck, what's good with you, man?
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Manny: Yee!
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Jeezy: That don't sound good, that don't sound good. We might… this episode might… might go left.
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Chuck: Listen, like you said, we made it. It's interesting enough, episode 46, I'm about to hit the kids 6, 7…
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Jeezy: Bruh, oh my god.
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Chuck: It drives me insane. Right, nuts.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: Yeah, I'm happy to be here, man. Let's have some fun recapping the…
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Chuck: Recapping how things have been going, and… Live life.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: Before he hit the path.
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Jeezy: A good old gospel song says, we've come this far by faith.
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Chuck: I think.
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Manny: Leaning on what? Yes, sir. Leaning on the Lord. The Lord.
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Jeezy: Hi, listeners, welcome to episode 36. This episode being our final…
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Chuck: exist.
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Jeezy: Excuse me, 46, excuse me, charged to my head and my heart. Pause. But to our listeners, episode 46, if you've listened to us all year, you've been with us through Season 1, Season 2, if you joined mid, Season 2, we're honored to have you a part of this episode, this last episode.
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Jeezy: of the year 2025. And on this episode, what we're gonna do
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Jeezy: We're gonna keep it simple. There's been a lot of chaos politically, domestically.
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Jeezy: Foreign, just… there's been a lot that has gone on. We've given you spotlights, we've given you tons of pickles, Pauls.
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Manny: I was getting rid of sales.
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Jeezy: I had it ready. I had it ready. I followed it up with it. But we've given you so much in all of these episodes.
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Jeezy: that we want to, on this episode, just give you a recap of some of the headlines that we have talked about, ones that have happened, throughout the months that have gone on on this political landscape in 2025. So, if you're tuning in, thank you, welcome.
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Jeezy: And we're gonna jump right into it, man, and we're gonna start with the month
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Jeezy: of January, and I think there's no question, with the month of January, what took place, and we got back on the, rollercoaster ride that is known as Trump.
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Jeezy: train.
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Manny: Whoa. Oh.
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Manny: I mean, but it says.
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Chuck: Tooned for the…
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Manny: Yeah, because it was a train, cause he, he…
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Chuck: Brain Rick?
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Manny: Train wrecked. Train ride. The other train? The train was had.
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Chuck: Right. I mean, we're being trained. Nevermind. Right.
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Jeezy: We should've known in January that this year was gonna be crazy, when the inauguration couldn't even happen like a normal inauguration. They had to have it inside of the rotunda, and we should have known then that we were kicking this thing off in an odd fashion.
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Manny: We knew. We knew.
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Jeezy: But then.
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Chuck: Wait, no, hold on.
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Jeezy: Hindsight is 20-20, though. We know it's gonna be this crazy?
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Chuck: We gotta give… we gotta… we gotta hold on and give somebody some credit that is not a part of the political landscape normally.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Chuck: We gotta shout out Cat Williams.
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Manny: Book.
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Chuck: This club, Shay Shay… It's his fault.
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Manny: He said it was gonna be some stuff this year.
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Jeezy: bruh, I don't know what kind of drug Cat Williams owns.
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Jeezy: They give him the insight and wisdom and knowledge that he had to foresee what 2025 was gonna be, but he won't… he won't wrong.
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Chuck: voila!
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Manny: Didn't miss.
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Chuck: What's that? Ayahuasca, ayahuasca, whatever?
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Jeezy: Something, something.
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Chuck: Aaron Rodgers be on.
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Jeezy: That stuff, man, it gave you that insight, but…
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Jeezy: He called it, and it has definitely been, man, a crazy year, and we should have known with the second, the start of the second term, and in that, man.
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Jeezy: I know for me, and Manny, you know, and Chuck, you know as well, you know, I still was grieving the loss that Big Mahler had, taking her and the Minnesota Mongoose.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: And then watching that inauguration, man, I can speak for myself, and maybe to some of our listeners.
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Jeezy: I didn't think that it would be this bad, but man, it has been… it's been a year. And it started off with…
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Jeezy: That inauguration, man.
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Manny: I… I… To a question you asked for, did we think it was going to be this bad?
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Manny: And I think we did.
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Manny: But I don't think it was… it was the sustainedness.
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Manny: Of all of it.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Like, it never actually stopped.
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Manny: like, even in the prep for this week, I don't know if it was because, you know, we had Christmas this week, just end of the year, it felt quieter, but, like, I'm going back and reading the news stories.
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Jeezy: Yeah, like…
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Manny: revealing the news stories, and I'm like, in any other decade.
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Manny: Any other 5-year period, some of these are major news-shaking Reports that are coming up.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And we're just unfazed by it right now.
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Chuck: Well, I thought… Yeah, go ahead, Joe. I'm sorry.
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Manny: No.
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Chuck: I'm with you, and with the inauguration, leading up to the inauguration with…
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Chuck: I just had a Sleepy Joe moment.
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Chuck: -Oh. And that was unintentional, oh my god.
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Manny: I hadn't blue.
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Chuck: But I was gonna speak on how Biden, it was so quiet on the Biden front, with the transition, and, you know, every… him taking such a large backseat for so long with Kamala,
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Chuck: taking the charge in the race, and normally with that transition from one president to the next, there is a lot of activity, and there's a lot going on where it wasn't at that level of fervor this year. Then.
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Chuck: Like, like, you mentioned, Jeezy.
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Manny: the inauguration was not of its normal fanfare. Yeah. And…
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Chuck: Go ahead, man.
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Manny: No, and I think that… I think those are great points, but I think that's, one, because this is a…
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Manny: In this transition, You saw Donald Trump coming into an office that he knew.
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Manny: Like, you know, he was one of the few people in history, outside of a…
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Manny: President running for back-to-back terms, that was actually running, that we knew, knew the job 1,000%.
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Chuck: But see, I guess the point I'm making is not even so much about the transition of power and the transition of, hey, this is what's going on in this job.
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Chuck: The activity from the sitting president
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Chuck: Wasn't as… as much of a fervor.
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Chuck: You know, just…
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Manny: Yeah, no, but I think…
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Chuck: the time and getting things done.
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Manny: Even down to the, to the…
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Chuck: The amount of pardons that she.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: And just the different… the different things that you see On the way out.
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Manny: Yeah. Well, I think…
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Chuck: It was more subdued.
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Manny: I think you usually, in most other…
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Manny: presidential cycles. I think you… we usually have, from the time that the election happened till the inauguration.
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Manny: That's the real lame duckness, like, the country sees the lame duckness of the president.
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Manny: That didn't happen in this case. The lame duckness of Joe Biden stopped as soon as Kamala stepped up to lead the ticket. So, like, we don't have this whole long period of, like, quote-unquote, I'll say mourning, or celebrate, let's do this, celebrating the president, his…
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Manny: We didn't… we didn't have that. Yeah. And maybe it would have been more of that had Kamala won.
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Manny: But she didn't win. Yeah. So, but I think you're spot on with the… a fear…
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Chuck: Or did she?
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Jeezy: Mmm!
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Chuck: Okay, I'm sorry. No X-Files yet.
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Manny: If you know, you know. Yeah.
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I definitely didn't agree with that, man. It definitely…
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Manny: felt that way, and I've seen a couple of clips, this past week of the inauguration, and just seeing…
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Jeezy: Joe and Kamala sitting there as Trump, you know, rattled off the things, and it's the new golden age and all these things. I mean, it just… it just further confirmed what you both are saying, man, and just…
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Jeezy: it was kind of sad, man. The way that it just all seemed to flow, and it made me think that even from a transition perspective, what real transition was there that even took place between both of these administrations? Because the…
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Jeezy: It, to me, appeared like there was much of none.
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Manny: It seemed like if there was any transition, it was only structural.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Here are the keys.
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Jeezy: Did we even… I can't remember, did we even get a… because I know normally the president leaves the next president a letter. Do you recall ever hearing that that happened around that time?
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Manny: Yeah, yeah, okay.
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Manny: Biden left the track from,
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Manny: From Ben… from Tupac Swap F-U-E.
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Chuck: Not a hit-em-up. Joe Biden version. Bruh.
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Jeezy: I wouldn't have left.
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Manny: But you're right, I don't ever remember hearing that… it would not shock me if Biden did, because Biden, at his core, seems like
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Manny: He cares about the tradition in the office enough, he would have done that.
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Jeezy: I mean, most grandpas do.
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Chuck: Did he write that letter with his auto pen, though?
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Jeezy: Hey, you know Trump?
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Chuck: Well…
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Jeezy: At this point, at this point, Trump can't talk, because he might have an auto-pin, but bruh, the way that y'all be using ChatGPT is nuts.
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Manny: Wow.
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Chuck: His apples and orange test that he did.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Chuck: Tell us this shape that you see.
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Jeezy: Bruh, leave… we gotta talk about that one day, brother.
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Jeezy: at some point, we're gonna realize that Trump publicly paraded that he was getting tested for dementia, and applauded himself out loud that he was passing cognitive dementia tests to see how far his brain had deteriorated.
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Manny: And it was, like, every month, and, like.
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Manny: But then again, that's where we were as a country. We're like, oh man, he's getting tested every month. And, like, no one really…
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Chuck: They thought to say, like, wait.
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Manny: What?
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Chuck: We're getting too far in the year, hello.
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Manny: I'm sorry.
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Chuck: Yeah, we were.
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Jeezy: I was just about to say, bruh. I was about to get right on the bandwagon with you, bruh.
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Manny: And that was January.
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Jeezy: Bruh. But, you know, we should have known then that we were off to a rocky start, and, as the months progressed, we see that that indeed held true. So, what headline do we have in February?
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Manny: Man…
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Manny: after you have the president, you have the confirmations. And all of the joys, and the comedy. And here's what I'll say about the major confirmations.
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Manny: Trump got most of these done. You guys know, listeners, that…
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Manny: We will… we will give him kudos and tear him down as… as we deem is… is necessary.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: He got pretty much every confirmation through.
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Manny: I mean, never close.
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Manny: Right. They were closed.
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Chuck: Oh, man.
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Manny: But…
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Jeezy: And up until this moment of this recording, correct me if I'm wrong, y'all, but…
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Jeezy: No one has been fired. No one's been fired. Which is shocking, because I think in the first…
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Manny: Because remember, we had, well, none of the major ones, because remember we had the IRS dude who was there for about 24 hours?
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah… But did he get reassigned, though?
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Chuck: Yeah, he just got moved to a new seat.
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Jeezy: Yeah, see, because, see, that's the move that they be doing. You don't really get fired in this administration, you get made an ambassador of some.
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Manny: You get regulated to the, the minor leagues. Which…
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Jeezy: we need, herschel Walker to come to the table, because he's the ambassador of some… some place, and I ain't heard him do no work. So I'm… the ambassador don't mean nothing.
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Chuck: You're probably the ambassador to Uzbekistan.
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Jeezy: Bruh, it's something crazy.
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Chuck: To your point about nobody being fired.
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Chuck: You're not gonna fire your puppets.
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Chuck: At least in his first administration… Chuck, that's a good point. You had a lot of guys who would stand up.
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Jeezy: That's a great point. Listen, Roger Stone is not gonna let you talk to him crazy too many times. Yep.
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Chuck: Steve Bannon, a Trump champion, but he.
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Jeezy: Ain't gonna…
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Chuck: There's so…
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Manny: One or two times.
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Chuck: But so many times, you're gonna talk to him crazy. So, in that first administration, he had a lot of guys who would stand up to him and give pushback.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Actually do their job.
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Chuck: Actually do their job.
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Jeezy: To our listeners, that should definitely, to what Chuck is saying, that should definitely be a wake-up call to let you know what type of administration we dealing with, because you did have that accountability, that's the key word.
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Jeezy: In the first administration, we don't have any of that right now. Go ahead, Chuck, to your point.
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Chuck: No, you… I mean, you… Doctor, that finished it up perfectly. The level of accountability… Yes, indeed.
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Chuck: That was… that was…
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Jeezy: repet.
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Manny: That was bad.
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Chuck: That almost called for a moment of silence, but… but, yes, there was no accountability… there is no accountability now. They're puppets.
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Manny: I'll give two responses. I def… I agree with the puppet thing, but I'm gonna add a layer of, like, context around it.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I also believe that no one has been fired yet in this administration, because nothing bad enough has happened
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Manny: where Trump has to… someone's head has got to roll.
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Jeezy: If it ain't, bro, we got toes off the edge of that cliff. Oh, we…
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Manny: Because the signal… and we're getting ahead of ourselves…
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Chuck: That's why I said… There, there's the thing… There are a couple…
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Manny: things that have gotten close, where I think we would all say, hey, if this story hangs around another week or two, like, someone's getting fired. And it's like they all happen to end.
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Manny: Right.
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Chuck: But I also think… I also think that part of that is…
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Chuck: if I keep them there, I have an automatic fail-safe. I have an automatic scapegoat to say.
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Chuck: It's them. Agreed. And we're seeing… and that's later on down the line in the year, but we've seen that in the past month and a half.
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Manny: Yeah, but I'm just shocked that it hasn't gotten to that point yet already.
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Manny: Like, where he's had to get rid of somebody. Like, he survived a couple fires this year.
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Chuck: Well, part of that is he was taking a nap when it happened.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Chuck: In the midst of it happening at the… at the Resolute Desk, he was taking a nap.
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Jeezy: There's something that always seems to happen when these things go on, if you notice. When they ask Trump about them, he never knows…
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Jeezy: What's going on? He always, like, I've never heard of that. This is my first time hearing this.
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Chuck: As done.
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Jeezy: You're gonna have to talk to that person. I don't know… But my thing is…
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Manny: Look, that man said that's not in his job description.
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Jeezy: Bruh, trouble is, I'm just the president.
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Manny: He said, I delegated that, so you know.
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Jeezy: Once I delegate it, it is not my responsibility.
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Manny: Go talk to them.
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Jeezy: He… so, when you think about these confirmations.
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Jeezy: one in particular, and when you talk about puppets, you know, one that just… just… I still can't believe got passed is, Kashat Patel, and…
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Chuck: Who is as big as a puppet, actually.
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Jeezy: He… a bit… but this is the thing.
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Jeezy: Does being a puppet… Equal total loyalty?
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Jeezy: Because how do we know that just because Cash is doing what…
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Chuck: Trump is doing… telling him to do, what else is Cash doing that Trump doesn't know that he's doing? Because Trump is sweet. So, to that point, a puppet does not mean total loyalty.
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Chuck: A puppet means I am going to do what needs to be done to advance and put myself in a better position.
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Chuck: And we see that with a lot of them. I completely agree, no. I don't believe it's… because…
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Jeezy: But I say that because I feel like that's how Trump views it.
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Manny: It's definitely for…
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Chuck: He does, he does.
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Manny: It's definitely one of those, like, you can do whatever you need to do, but when I call and tell you.
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Manny: You need to be picking up that red phone and doing what needs to be done.
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Jeezy: But that is so dangerous, because just looking at, for instance, again, Cash App Patel.
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Jeezy: When his… when he's all said and done, and it's over.
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Jeezy: What condition will he leave the Bureau?
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Jeezy: What can… these people that have been confirmed.
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Jeezy: When their time is over as head or, you know, director, or whatever it may be, once they're done, what damage that we don't know they're doing
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Jeezy: That will be catastrophic to us trying to run this nation as a whole, when these departments are gonna be, from a structural standpoint, so crippled.
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Jeezy: I mean, just because you put a puppet in charge.
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Chuck: Jeezy, I'mma tell you what it is.
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Chuck: It's exactly how it is when, as a parent, you say, hmm.
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Chuck: My kid's been quiet for too long.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Chuck: Lindy, you go in there, and you shake your head. Bruh, room tour.
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Chuck: I knew they were quiet. Yeah, you were quiet for a reason for far too long.
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Manny: It's truly… to the question of loyalty and puppeteering.
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Chuck: to the guys I spoke of earlier, they're loyal.
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Chuck: They're not puppets. Because to this day, they will tell you they support and back and ride for Trump.
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Chuck: But they're… I don't want to call them stand-up men.
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Chuck: They, they have… they stand on their principle and their belief.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: We don't know what these people stand for and believe.
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Chuck: And that's… that's the puppet.
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Chuck: nature I speak to, in that they are just…
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Chuck: They probably have underhanded backside agendas, but they're just mouthpieces for Trump.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And that's what we're seeing.
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Chuck: They're doing the bidding, As they are handling their own agendas on the.
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Manny: Agenda.
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Jeezy: Well, I'm just shocked that in all of these confirmations.
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Jeezy: That no one's gotten fired, especially… Pete KXF.
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Jeezy: Cash App potato.
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Chuck: Yeah, okay.
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Jeezy: Bruh, I don't know what Dr. Oz does. Every… only thing Dr. Oz does is that whenever there's a press conference, if y'all notice, every time that he's at a press conference, someone passes out, and he runs, and he's
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Jeezy: Every. Single. Time. He's sitting there. The last time he was speaking, Bobby Kennedy went into a coffin spell, and Trump had to call… Trump was like, give him the Medicaid… give him the serum now. Next one, some dude just passed out in the back, and Trump's… y'all remember Trump stood there like a fool.
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Manny: I bet you're wondering how I asked you.
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Jeezy: Brother, you know, hold on, hold on, bruh, brother, I got it. When that man fell out, and Trump just stood there.
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Chuck: Trump was sleepwalking.
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Jeezy: And when that man fell, it woke him up, and he realized when he woke up, he was in front of all them cameras, he said, I'm in front of the nation. He just stood there, because what can you do?
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Manny: Either that, or he just soiled himself.
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Jeezy: Bruh. Hey, you know how toddlers be, you see them standing in that corner, you're like, what you over there doing?
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Jeezy: Nick.
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Manny: First thing you know, you got a blowout. Bruh.
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Chuck: That's exactly what it was with Trump.
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Chuck: That man passed out, he was asleep, it startled him.
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Manny: just stuck, like, okay, somebody gonna help him out?
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Manny: What'd you expect Trump to do? Get up there and cut a jig real quick?
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Jeezy: Well, as much as he calls Sleepy Joe Sleepy Joe.
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Jeezy: You like the doze off too, Donald.
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Manny: Those and Donnie?
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Chuck: You're not in.
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Jeezy: throws off Donald. You like to take your napper too now, too, so you can't talk about Sleepy Joe but so much now.
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Manny: Look, and look, and this comes from me. I'm a man who loves a good nap.
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Jeezy: Yay.
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Manny: Man, you be… you be nappin'…
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Jeezy: You nap at the wrong time.
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Manny: Oof.
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Chuck: Frequently. That man is napping in the middle of a meeting that he called, and is running.
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Manny: And I've been there. There's been meetings I've called where I want to take a nap, too. I don't.
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Jeezy: Poor calendar management. Poor calendar management, bro.
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Chuck: Listen, let me… let me do a little self-deprecation here, so… I've had a situation, Will.
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Chuck: I'm, diagnosed with, obstructive sleep apnea.
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Chuck: And…
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Chuck: Before I start taking measures to address it.
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Chuck: I used to struggle with sleeping at night, in increments of two and a half hours, sometimes an hour and a half, and just waking up off and on. So I go to work, and my team used to always talk about how I'd be sleeping in my office, and I'm like, hey.
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Chuck: It is what it is. Well, one day, one day, I was helping a customer.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Chuck: And in the middle of helping this customer.
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Manny: I fell asleep.
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Chuck: Sweet!
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Manny: Brad, that's wild.
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Chuck: helping them and talking to them, and they was like, they were like, hey, are you sleeping? I was like…
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Chuck: I'm sitting here thinking about how we gonna resolve this issue for you.
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Jeezy: You definitely pulled a Donald.
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Chuck: You definitely would have done it.
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Jeezy: I was like…
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Chuck: What in the world?
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Jeezy: Good.
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Chuck: And that was one of the… that was one of the points I was like, okay, I gotta get…
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Jeezy: Yeah, I gotta do something about it.
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Chuck: You gotta do something about it. Well, I'm talking about mid-conversation and helping them. They were talking, and I'm sitting there looking at my computer screen, and I just.
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Manny: Fade to black. Powered down.
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Jeezy: Them pixels on that computer screen, Roger, right on the sleeve.
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Manny: RBG.
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Jeezy: Bruh, hey, man, Trump gotta do something about this, because look, we're just not getting to one year in this, in this presidency.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: this turn. Boy, if you sleep like this at year one.
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Jeezy: Right. We might catch in your two… we might catch him drooling, we might catch them doing it… you've seen it before.
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Chuck: Love open.
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Jeezy: Bruh, now, Lord, you done blessed me in 2025.
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Jeezy: I can't ask for nothin' else.
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Jeezy: But if I can ask you for a moment to let me experience.
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Jeezy: is in 2026, let Trump be sitting at one of them meetings, and get one of them head kickbacks that you see them old folks in church… Break that, break your neck. Break that neck that you…
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Jeezy: If you let me get one of them moments live on TV… Lord, look…
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Jeezy: I serve you faithfully to the day I die.
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Manny: Woohoo!
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Jeezy: to see that little, to see that wig flop up, flop back up? Oh, bruh. You ain't got… you ain't gotta ask me, Lord. You ain't gotta worry about me now. One more… one more time, bruh. I'm good. One more good, I'm good, I'm good, bruh.
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Chuck: See, that hairpiece gonna flop like a wave.
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Manny: Huh.
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Chuck: How you doing?
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Manny: Mmm!
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Jeezy: Hey, you remember the old Lincoln, you remember them old Lincolns and Buicks, bruh, that your grandma and grandpa used to have back in the day, and after a while, that ceiling started sagging a little bit.
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Manny: Ceiling falls, yep.
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Jeezy: I'm still a start.
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Chuck: Hold down.
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Jeezy: That bug gonna move like that. But man, you know, we're getting back to moving along. February, with the confirmation, and talking about people getting fired.
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Jeezy: I thought March would've done it. And I think we all thought March was gonna do it.
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Jeezy: We, we, we had the leak that came out, bro.
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Jeezy: And we found out…
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Jeezy: And I don't know how disappointing that is. I know some of our listeners, you may use group chat or WhatsApp.
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Jeezy: But, we and Drake.
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Manny: You sing.
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Jeezy: And it was very disheartening to me.
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Jeezy: To find out that the same level of encryption that me and my brothers use in our messaging.
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Manny: Angry.
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Jeezy: Our government and Drake, use it. Our government uses it as well, too.
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Jeezy: There was a leaked group chat involving national security officials revealing internal messaging, and… nobody got fired from it.
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Chuck: So…
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Manny: I feel like somebody got fired. I feel like somebody got fired, but it was, like, the.
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Jeezy: Wanna go get the coffee?
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Chuck: That's it.
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Manny: Social media director? Yep.
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Chuck: But I have a different… I have a different feeling about, them using Signal.
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Chuck: That actually, reaffirmed the decision to you.
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Manny: Why will you say…
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Chuck: Versus what we used before. I ain't gonna call out what we used before, but, it reaffirms that, oh, if it's good enough for them, I know we were on the right track. For a hot second, I low-key felt like that. We were presidential with it, bruh. And the fact that we had been using it for a while.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: It was a while we had been using it.
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Jeezy: I remember when Drake said something about it in the song, we were like, hey, hey, hey, hey.
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Manny: Miami.
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Chuck: July.
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Manny: Can't be living the spot.
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Chuck: Love our business.
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Jeezy: You making a decision? Bye!
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Chuck: Telling everybody our business, bro. But yeah, that… that… that… I agree. It was a point where…
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Chuck: it was, like, This might be it.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Like, you, you…
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Chuck: You allowed this to slip up to somebody outside the game.
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Chuck: And not only…
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Chuck: That you let this slip up, but the reports were… you was… you was going loose on the goose.
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Manny: Well, and here's the confusing part for me.
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Manny: When I ran for office.
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Chuck: Fantastic. Every…
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Manny: Every… every, journalist was marked a very specific way in my phone.
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Chuck: Smart.
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Manny: And… and knowing how Signal is set up, I would say it's…
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Manny: You got some really improper contact management.
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Manny: To just…
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Chuck: Or…
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Manny: Absolutely, yeah.
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Chuck: or… Or, you was just blazed out your mind, and super drunk, or…
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Manny: You knew what you were doing.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: We…
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Chuck: We actually, low-key, are almost prophetic there, Jeezy, with,
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Chuck: The conversation about loyalty and puppeteering.
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Chuck: is… because Keth was a former journalist of sorts.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: So… Manny, you? You?
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Chuck: I see where you… I see the direction you're pointing, brother. I'm just saying. Bruh.
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Manny: I'm just saying.
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Jeezy: At any rate, I… I… it's…
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Jeezy: the severity of it. And I think the thing that was funny in that moment, well, odd in that moment, was…
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Jeezy: I felt like all the American people thought that this was serious, but…
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Jeezy: this administration. We all were like, hey, that doesn't sound like that's supposed to be happening. And everything was, oh, it ain't that big of a deal. Oh, you know, hey, he just made a mistake, like…
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Jeezy: sensitive information and just sharing it over an app isn't just a mistake. I mean, it is a mistake, but that's a pretty big darn mistake.
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Manny: I mean… yes.
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Manny: But to be a little bit… also equally concerning, the fact that they…
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Manny: We're giving the go-aheads to launch missiles and attacks via emojis.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: and gifts was… I was like…
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Manny: We are very unserious as a country right now.
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Jeezy: I mean, do you… Confirm somebody that was unserious.
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Manny: True.
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Jeezy: I mean, if I hire a child, I expect child work. Yep. I expect child quality. Yes, sir. I don't… if I need the job done, I don't go hire somebody that don't know what they're doing. I go hire somebody that's well qualified.
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Jeezy: If I need somebody to look at my heart, I don't go to the foot doctor.
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Chuck: Unless you're… nevermind.
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Manny: Brother.
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Jeezy: I was trying to alley, I was trying to alley.
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Chuck: I mean, cause some people say if you put something on the bottom of your feet at night.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Chuck: It can pull toxins from your heart.
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Manny: All the toxins?
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Chuck: That's what somebody told me. I ain't gonna tell you who told me that, or where they massage parlors are at, but that's what they said.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Was Grandma a Christian and practicing witchcraft? Never mind.
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Manny: Shh…
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Chuck: He… I mean, you know, back in Southern culture.
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Chuck: There is… It's complicated. It's complicated.
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Jeezy: complicated.
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Manny: It's complicated.
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Chuck: That Geechee life is… is… It's a fine line. Hey, bruh. It's a thin line.
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Jeezy: I've been wondering sometimes…
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Chuck: You talking, you talking about.
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Jeezy: I tie this collar leaf around my arm, and it's gonna take this, hey, wait a minute now, that look like…
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Chuck: Or, putting the egg, or putting the egg above the door seal.
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Manny: up.
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Chuck: Bruh. That baby teething, just put a little egg up there. Right.
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Jeezy: what y'all practicing, because I don't read that Paul nor Peter did any of this.
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Manny: Not nam… not a damn one of them.
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Jeezy: But, at any rate, man…
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Chuck: Well, hold on now. They did put blood above the door, so…
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Manny: Them were specific instructions.
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Chuck: Who's to say they didn't get them instructions from up high either? I mean…
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Jeezy: Bad.
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Chuck: egg, embryo, blood, firstborn, I mean…
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Jeezy: Hey, I'm with Chuck, bruh. DM line, bruh.
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Jeezy: I'm just saying, I'm just saying. It's a day in line.
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Chuck: But they am alive.
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Manny: But before we continue to roll on through the months, here's what I will also denote about Signal Gate.
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Manny: he… it's not like, Jeffrey Goldman got added.
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Manny: and just saw what they were talking about. He got added, and then 2 days later, they were talking about the strike.
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Jeezy: So Jeff had been in there a hot 48 hours before they started talking about this particular strike.
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Chuck: So they ain't.
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Jeezy: And they're chilling.
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Manny: Chillin'. Yeah, they there chillin'.
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Jeezy: They didn't even got it separate aside, like, you got the one group chat where you just shoot the breeze, and the one that we, you know, the serious stuff, this is the one we really dropped.
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Manny: It was amazing.
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Jeezy: They're doing it all in one. It's all… it's super Walmart. They got everything. They got everything.
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Chuck: Bruh. I was definitely about to say the Golden Corral of Signal Chair, bruh. It's a buffet of conversation.
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Jeezy: Hey, but I do remember I liked the way that one person moved when all this got ass, though. Toasty Gabrie said, hey, look, bro.
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Manny: I ain't got it. I ain't got nothing to do with anything.
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Jeezy: Hey.
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Jeezy: You know it's happy hour today? Hey, you know they got wings? Hey, 50-cent wings? I don't know what you're talking about. Signal.
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Jeezy: I use left and right. I always turn my signal on.
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Chuck: Turn my 6-year-old.
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Chuck: But when I'm changing lanes, I do use.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, I'm glad you're concerned. Yeah, I have to hear that every signal that I see.
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Chuck: When I get on the plane, I look for the signal to buckle my seatbelt, to stand up and de-board you.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, I sit by the emer… yeah, where they signal the emergency door? Oh, yeah. I sit by… I sit a row behind it all the time. That's my favorite seat.
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Chuck: Yes, sir, yeah.
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Manny: I just got up out of there with the quickness.
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Jeezy: How you doing?
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Manny: She said, no.
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Jeezy: That's how you do it.
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Manny: not… not…
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Jeezy: My name Bennett, and I ain't in it.
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Chuck: I ain't… I ain't.
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Jeezy: Let the clowns play.
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Jeezy: Did the clowns play.
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Manny: Will.
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Jeezy: When we jumped to April.
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Chuck: What happened, bro, at this point? April, April, April is my favorite month. I just wanna…
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Jeezy: Put that out there before we, we…
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Chuck: Talk about the, subject. You know, I was born in April.
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Jeezy: Ayyy, national holiday, national holiday, national holiday.
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Chuck: Yes, sir. My wife was born in April.
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Jeezy: Ayyy, okay.
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Chuck: My whole chapter, my fraternity, was charted in April, I believe? Yes, indeed, yes.
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Manny: Yay!
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Chuck: You know, it's a lot of love for April.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Chuck: And then there was some, some, heartache.
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Jeezy: In April of this year.
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Chuck: Particularly for the Catholic Church.
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Chuck: as… Good ol'… what's it, Pope Francis, right?
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chuck: Yeah, yeah, Pope Francis, you know, they changed names with every outfit. But, Pope Francis passed in April, and
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Chuck: It was, it was…
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Manny: you know, AA…
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Chuck: Very interesting time, because in his passing.
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Chuck: This might have been a question of voodoo as well.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Chuck: Because before he passed… before he passed, he had a visitor.
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Manny: He did. He did. He did! He did.
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Chuck: Sit up with him.
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Manny: It's…
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Chuck: And it was broadcasted across the world. Merely days before he passed.
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Manny: No, I don't think it was days, I think it was, like…
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Jeezy: Bruh, I think it might be…
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Chuck: I was 24 months.
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Jeezy: 48 to 72 hours, bro.
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Chuck: I thought it was… I thought it was 48 hours… I thought it was, like, a day and a half.
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Chuck: Either way.
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Manny: It was enough time where Pope Francis says, I need to personally go see the man.
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Jeezy: Hey.
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Manny: about this. Right.
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Jeezy: It gave me Game of Thrones vibes, like, when Tyrion had to go see old Lena Martell.
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Jeezy: That was a weird name.
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Chuck: Yeah, she…
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Jeezy: He said, let Cersei know it was me. That would have pulled me. He said, I'm gonna go ahead and take this poison, but you go ahead and let them know it was me, and I'm up outta here.
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Jeezy: He said.
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Manny: I need to personally go speak to the Father about this.
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Chuck: So those who don't know, and you should if you follow the pod, the boys were definitely covering this, but J.D. Vance went and visited Pope Francis before his… do you wanna… can you say untimely? I mean…
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Manny: He was.
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Chuck: He was old. He was old. And quite honestly.
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Chuck: the way I was brought up, if you were a servant of the Lord, His time is always, on time.
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Chuck: So, you know… But anyway…
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Jeezy: I don't think that black people say untimely.
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Manny: Cause he's an on-time guy.
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Chuck: D.
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Manny: Yes, he is.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Jeezy: There's so much more I can say, but for the sake of the pod, I'm just gonna believe it alone.
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Chuck: Oh, yes.
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Manny: And I did check, it was the next day.
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Chuck: It was the next day.
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Jeezy: Oh, that was a mouthful powder.
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Chuck: That's that pure Colombian.
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Jeezy: Go ahead.
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Jeezy: Buh.
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Jeezy: Terrible.
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Chuck: Yes.
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Jeezy: You sit down with J.D. Vance, bro.
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Jeezy: I don't want to sit down with… I don't want to lunch with you. I don't want to sit down for a meeting. Every team called me.
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Jeezy: Because physically, you done had a man die within 24 hours of being with you.
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Chuck: Bruh, let's in your presence.
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Manny: less than 24 hours, Pope Francis says, I'm gonna go talk to God about you.
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Chuck: I need to sit… I need to sit.
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Manny: He didn't sit at his feet.
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Manny: How bad things gotta be.
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Jeezy: That you, bruh, that you expedite your return?
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Jeezy: You know how bad your… you know how bad where you at right now that you… bruh, that's the equivalent of being in a… bruh, me saying, hey, my flight supposed to leave Tuesday, but I heard that there's some bad weather coming in here. Let me call and see if I can get my flight moved up.
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Manny: Blue.
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Jeezy: Let me go ahead and get out of here now before it get too bad.
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Chuck: I can't hit the next day air out of here. Right.
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Jeezy: From UPS Ground to F.
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Manny: the air.
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Jeezy: Bruh. Within the same… no, I don't think it was within the same month that we got a new pope, right?
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Chuck: No, it was…
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Jeezy: No.
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Chuck: We'll keep… I believe it was… okay, I just wanted to double check.
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Chuck: It wasn't within the same… it wasn't within the same month, and it actually works a perfect segue. In May.
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Manny: Well, and here's the wild thing.
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Manny: If we would have just stopped talking about these four items individually, that's a jam-packed year, man. That's a full year! Man.
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Jeezy: The fact that we just didn't get into May.
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Manny: That's the fact.
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Manny: That's the first third of the year.
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Jeezy: Buh.
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Jeezy: Ridiculous.
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Jeezy: Well, in May, we got the new Pope, and for our listeners and those of you who may not be aware, I just want to go ahead and let you know that the new Pope is not Black.
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Manny: It's not…
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Chuck: Where is he?
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Jeezy: He is from Chicago, he is from Chi-Town.
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Manny: They're the genealogists.
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Jeezy: Oh, ho, ain't no, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on!
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Chuck: Okay, so… What do you mean?
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Jeezy: Polls.
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Jeezy: Oh.
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Jeezy: Hey, I think, bro.
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Manny: Whoa.
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Chuck: You guys…
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Manny: That's like a ha- that's like… yeah.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: So…
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Manny: So… -Oh.
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Jeezy: Fans watching.
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Manny: Fanswise.
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Jeezy: Yes.
581
Manny: So, for our listeners at the pod, we're all in different locations.
582
Jeezy: Oh, here we go, here we go.
583
Chuck: Alright, so…
584
Jeezy: Look, we had just made a disclaimer, like, the fans watching, bruh, they lock it in.
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Chuck: My Wi-Fi, I don't know what had… the light is green.
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Chuck: And all of a sudden, it was like, your internet connection is unstable, and I'm like.
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Manny: See, we don' We don't make… we don't made… we don't made one Pope joke too many.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Manny: Grandma, Grandma, if they come get me, you know what it is, baby.
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Jeezy: I love it.
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Chuck: I ain't never gonna commit suicide.
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Jeezy: What'd you smoothly say? If they say, I hurt myself, they're lying.
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Chuck: Lay!
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Jeezy: He ate a sub and sub wavy! He lied!
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Chuck: I know it's not real tuna, I'm not eating that.
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Manny: I am not suicidal!
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Chuck: I am not suicidal.
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Jeezy: Where you are, never mind.
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Chuck: Oh, man. Sit to that point.
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Chuck: What was in that Pope, leo.
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Manny: Polio. Yeah, polio.
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Chuck: Pope Leo from Chicago. When it was announced that Pope Leo was, selected, when we seen the white smoke, which it was, it was very, entertaining to me because our very own Jeezy,
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Chuck: was very, very entrenched in the white smoke. In the commentary… in the commentary from him concerning the white smoke…
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Manny: was A1.
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Manny: If you missed that… I just remembered it!
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Chuck: Yes! The white, the white smoke coverage was A1 for my good brother Jeezy.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Chuck: Hot tier coverage.
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Chuck: Hey, man.
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Jeezy: the Lord's work.
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Chuck: Yes, sir! So in that, as we followed and the white smoke appeared, and it was announced who the Pope was, like, like everything else, people immediately dive in with the drill down of information. And then it came out that his folks…
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Chuck: I believe on his mother's side, originate, I want to say, Louisiana, somewhere down there.
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Jeezy: Mmm…
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Chuck: And they have black ancestry.
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Jeezy: So we got a nope after all.
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Chuck: And… in this, They were what you would call white-passing.
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Chuck: they were of a fairer skin. And so, when his mother, met his father, his father is white, Caucasian male, his mother met his father, and… yeah, because it's his maternal grandmother, that is…
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Chuck: of African American descent.
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Chuck: met his father, they moved to Chicago, and…
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Chuck: No more spoken of, yeah, the rest is history. Now, he does not… I don't want to say.
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Jeezy: God.
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Chuck: acknowledge… That, like, they don't… they don't operate in the… in the instant of…
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Chuck: you know, I'm a third, I'm a… Yeah.
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Jeezy: You're pulling a Tiger Woods.
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Chuck: No, Tiger just said, I'm…
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Chuck: Tiger said, I am a blot. I ain't no color, I'm a blot. But Pope Leo, and even his brother, because I actually saw his brother, do a 60-minute, interview on 60 Minutes after he was selected as the Pope, and there's no mention of their African American ancestry.
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Chuck: But, they did the genealogy and ran it all the way back, and I think it was his maternal grandmother, where that bloodline flows. So, we got a partial nope.
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Jeezy: Hey, we all got a little black in it somewhere.
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Chuck: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: Yo.
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Chuck: So yeah, that's where that came from. But yeah, they were, digging deep into his background, for sure.
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Manny: And I think the…
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Jeezy: Give him that Obama background.
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Chuck: Whoa.
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Chuck: Birth certificate.
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Manny: Trad.
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Manny: The other part that was really interesting came out of this is that for years, it had been said that there would never be an American pope.
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Jeezy: It would give the United States too much power if the person, essentially the head of the Catholic…
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Manny: church to also be an American, for them to be an American… American military superpower.
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Jeezy: and to have the influence over finance, like, it was too much power for the U.S. to have, so I think it was very interesting.
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Manny: to not only see us to get an American Pope.
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Manny: But then, as we progress through the year.
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Manny: to watch how Pope Leo has been I won't say outspoken, because.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I feel like outspoken means he was more with him than he might actually be, but he was…
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Manny: Very critical of this administration.
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Chuck: Yes, agree, brother. He's made some very, strong points.
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Jeezy: But, like you said, I wouldn't call it outspoken, because it hasn't been…
649
Chuck: A staunch stance against a lot of things, and, you know, making it a point to be…
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Chuck: strongly against, but he's had some strong words, like you said, critical of certain aspects, going on within this administration, particularly the treatment of immigrants in this country, and when they started with the…
651
Chuck: inhumane mass deportation of immigrants. He was definitely strong to speak out against that, to your point, Manny.
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Jeezy: Shout out to Pope Leo, man.
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Chuck: Yeah, and I want to give them another kudos. We share something in common besides, Negro DNA.
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Jeezy: He is a big baseball fan.
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Manny: Ew.
656
Chuck: Baseball was my first love, and so, you know, shout out to him for that, even though he's a White Sox fan. I mean, I don't care. I'm a Chicago, whatever.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: Yeah. Shout out to him and his affinity for baseball.
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Jeezy: And I do like that, you know, for the longest. We really haven't seen…
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Jeezy: I'm gonna say the human side of the Pope.
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Jeezy: They've been made to be, you know, this big figure, in society, and, I mean, obviously so will being in charge of the Roman Catholic Church, but, just to see his brothers, and how they talk, and how they joke, and…
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Jeezy: you know, the things that they do, and even his brother, I couldn't believe that my, you know, my brother is the Pope.
663
Jeezy: that's a side of the Pope that we haven't been able to see when we've seen other previous popes. We see him being, you know, pretty…
664
Jeezy: pretty down, downright, down-earth guy, you know? So, just seeing that side of a pope was pretty interesting, especially with it being the first American pope that we have.
665
Manny: Well, and I think we just… we didn't care.
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Jeezy: Like…
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Manny: Like, largely, like…
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Manny: I think the… because of the Pope and it being in Europe, and then… as much as we like to say America is a Christian country, like, the whole split with… between Catholic Church and the rest of Christianity and U.S, and the rise of other religions.
669
Manny: we just didn't really care, like, it was like, oh, okay, who is this Pope guy? Oh, it's a guy they selected. It's never from the US.
670
Manny: Because, again, I saw… I also see the Pope very much like the U.S. sees the Olympics.
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Manny: We don't care about a whole bunch of sports until the Olympics.
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Chuck: Yep.
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Manny: And then we're like, yeah.
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Chuck: I agree, and there's another reason why we didn't care.
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Chuck: We couldn't understand them.
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Chuck: They won't speak English again.
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Jeezy: Come see, come sigh, whatever, okay?
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Manny: Yep.
679
Chuck: But…
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Manny: Demon…
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Chuck: He can speak our language.
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Manny: It helps. It helps.
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Chuck: So, you know, I'm not one, and that's not to be ignorant or any derogatory discrimination, but…
684
Chuck: I… I get, disinterested in movies where I gotta read the subtitles, more than I can just watch what they're… watch the movie, if I gotta read the subtitles to see what they're talking about.
685
Jeezy: Right. The key to it is that you gotta convince yourself that you already know what they say.
686
Jeezy: That's how you do it.
687
Jeezy: And then the subtitles don't even matter. And then if you find out you're wrong later on, then you're just like, I guess I was wrong.
688
Jeezy: You don't create an entire…
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Manny: Start lining flops in his room.
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Chuck: Jesus.
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Jeezy: When I watch some old school clothes.
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Chuck: Right.
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Jeezy: When I watch them old-school kung fu movies, when they start talking, bro, I just… I assume that I know what they're talking about. And if I found out at the end of the movie I was wrong, and oh, he won't the bad guy after all, then I'm just like, oh, well, I was wrong. Next movie.
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Manny: Plat twist!
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Jeezy: It makes it a lot easier for you to enjoy it, bro. Hey, try it one day, bro. Try. Is the method to the meantime? Try it, bro.
696
Jeezy: I'll tell you, it's gonna change your whole experience, bro. You be like, oh, bro.
697
Manny: I get it.
698
Chuck: I had to, yeah. Jeezy said, just make… make them say what you want them to say.
699
Jeezy: Hey!
700
Manny: You have all the body language, bruh. Just take it in the context clues.
701
Jeezy: Look, I feel like I use it as another, like, bruh, like a… never mind, bruh.
702
Manny: Bro, you can watch the same movie, like, 5 different times, it'd be…
703
Chuck: Hey, you don't like no movies with a different ending, all depending on what you select.
704
Jeezy: I'm telling you, we're gonna try it.
705
Chuck: I feel it, I feel it.
706
Jeezy: Try to get a whole different experience.
707
Manny: Shut up!
708
Jeezy: Shout out to Pope Leo and the cast, bruh.
709
Jeezy: Shout out to him, bruh. Another thing before we move on from May, that I gotta at least admit, bro, because we, you know, I gotta give my boy Donnie T a little bit of headache, bruh. I gotta throw a little bit of shade his way.
710
Chuck: Yeah, yeah.
711
Jeezy: In May.
712
Jeezy: You know how Donnie does. He sits at his desk, he looks at the world, and he says, what do other people have that I don't have?
713
Jeezy: And he had so many conversations with Big Benny, and, you know, one thing that kept coming up was his Iron Dome.
714
Chuck: And…
715
Manny: Oh, God.
716
Jeezy: Iron Dome just…
717
Jeezy: It's something about this, and Trump said, you know what? They got an iron dome, you know what I'mma do?
718
Jeezy: I'mma… I'mma… I'mma get plans and details unveiled.
719
Jeezy: of the Golden Dome.
720
Jeezy: Here in the United States.
721
Jeezy: Marketed as a next-generation shield against hypersonic and long-range missile threats, Trump says the Golden Dome Defense Project is coming to America.
722
Jeezy: Bruh.
723
Chuck: Comparing the Iron Dome…
724
Jeezy: in the size of Israel.
725
Chuck: and the size of the United States. And a golden dog.
726
Jeezy: This man acted like he could get a California King fitted sheet from Walmart and was gonna stretch it.
727
Manny: Bro, from Vermont…
728
Jeezy: To Hawaii, to Washington, to… can't forget our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico.
729
Chuck: When do you go.
730
Jeezy: He was gonna stretch it, bruh, and get that fitted sheet, and we were gonna have the Golden Dome.
731
Jeezy: At this point.
732
Jeezy: I ain't heard no more about the Golden Dome since May.
733
Manny: I mean… Here's what people keep forgetting.
734
Manny: Israel.
735
Manny: in terms of land mass, is the same size, approximately, as New Jersey.
736
Jeezy: Bruh.
737
Chuck: That's… yeah, that…
738
Jeezy: Shout out New Jersey, bro.
739
Chuck: Shout out of New Jersey, my wife from New Jersey.
740
Jeezy: Ayy, hey, shout out New Jersey.
741
Manny: Tel Aviv.
742
Manny: to Jerusalem in 30 minutes.
743
Jeezy: It's not that big. It's not that big.
744
Manny: And we're gonna…
745
Jeezy: But we're gonna get bigger and better, man. We got the Golden Dome, brother.
746
Chuck: It's golden. It's golden iron. It's golden, not iron.
747
Jeezy: It ain't college.
748
Chuck: Iron rust.
749
Chuck: It's golden.
750
Jeezy: Golden.
751
Manny: Oh, okay.
752
Chuck: Not gold-plated, golden.
753
Jeezy: Gold… golden.
754
Chuck: It's not gonna turn your neck green. Right. It's golden.
755
Jeezy: It ain't gonna turn your borders green.
756
Jeezy: Estimated to cost around hundreds of billions of dollars.
757
Manny: Donald Trump came… got an early… early viewing of K-pop Demon Hunters.
758
Jeezy: Bruh. Yes. The, the Hamun?
759
Manny: Is it… Yes, the gold…
760
Jeezy: The golden hamoon?
761
Manny: Look out at the news.
762
Jeezy: Bruh, Trump really got up on a Saturday, got the four Crayola crayons he got that ain't broken.
763
Jeezy: Got him a clean, blank sheet of paper.
764
Chuck: They don't have.
765
Jeezy: It ain't got bike marks on it.
766
Manny: It drew out the…
767
Jeezy: And drew out an outline of the United States and said, yes.
768
Jeezy: I'm gonna just scribble and color all over, and this is what I want the gold dome to look like. And they said, okay, yes, sir, President Trump. That's why we ain't hear no more about it, because somebody just gave him some BS plans they copied out of ChatGPT that he could talk about, and they said, man, he was sleepwalking in, bruh, he don't know what he talking about. Let him just get it, go ahead and say what he got to say, and we won't talk about this no more.
769
Chuck: No, nobody brings it up, he'll forget about it.
770
Jeezy: He'll forget about it.
771
Manny: But you know what, here's the thing. I'm almost certain we have plans for some type of dome like this.
772
Manny: Somewhere.
773
Jeezy: Better.
774
Chuck: So, don't we already have a missile ballistic defense system?
775
Jeezy: We've got a defense system already.
776
Chuck: Already, he's…
777
Manny: So I'm almost… I'm almost certain that they… You want to name it pretty.
778
Jeezy: Iron don't make so iron anyway. Shout out to Iran.
779
Chuck: Iran. Iran. Iran says no. Right.
780
Chuck: Oh, man.
781
Jeezy: It ain't striking everything down there, so… and it may be, instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the Golden Dome, just stop pissing off everybody so they would stop trying to shoot at us anyway that we would need the Golden Dome.
782
Jeezy: I mean, that's cheap, I believe.
783
Chuck: Much cheaper.
784
Jeezy: I mean, I think a telephone call is, like, 10 cents a minute. I think that's cheaper than…
785
Chuck: Hold on, MCI.
786
Manny: Not MCI. Hey, look, we got.
787
Jeezy: pretty nice and weekends, why we got, why we… why we gotta spend hundreds of billions?
788
Jeezy: And text messages. And we get text messages. It's cheaper, trucks, just don't piss nobody off, and you ain't gotta worry about having a Golden Dome, but…
789
Chuck: Or just ask AT&T to use their Wi-Fi, like… It's not that hard, man.
790
Jeezy: Maybe he felt like we need a golden dome because we keep getting these balloons that keep flying into the country.
791
Jeezy: A balloon flew from Washington all the way to Wisconsin, and ain't nobody… y'all just keep telling us, but ain't nobody did nothing.
792
Manny: Ain't no one do nothin' by it. Hey, look at this.
793
Chuck: Hey, look at that!
794
Jeezy: Y'all talking about something on Channel 6 News, we have an update on the balloon. The balloon is now moved over. Bruh, why y'all keep telling us? Why don't y'all… we supposed to have the greatest military on the Earth. Why don't y'all go wrap it up, bring it back in, and survey… bruh, do something! Just stop talking to us and telling us about it.
795
Chuck: You know where that balloon did fly over, right?
796
Jeezy: Where?
797
Manny: Texas.
798
Chuck: black people.
799
Jeezy: Bruh.
800
Jeezy: That balloon got close enough… bruh.
801
Jeezy: If it flew over Memphis.
802
Chuck: They are, they already, they're already still in the tanks from the National Guard.
803
Manny: You ain't about…
804
Chuck: No, no.
805
Manny: And to Manny's point, it definitely ain't flying over Texas, boy.
806
Chuck: No, you ain't gonna play that?
807
Jeezy: You flew over a place, and somebody in North Dakota woke up and said, hey, did you see that?
808
Manny: Right.
809
Jeezy: They had to travel 30 miles to the nearest payphone to call somebody.
810
Manny: Depending on what.
811
Jeezy: what was going on in the sheriff's sleep. That's right.
812
Chuck: The Starlink wasn't even out then, was it?
813
Jeezy: -
814
Chuck: Not en masse like that, yeah.
815
Manny: Brother, by the time they saw it and knew they were gonna get to tell somebody, it'd be a whole day. They gotta take a…
816
Jeezy: They gotta journey into town and do all that, no.
817
Jeezy: Nope, they just letting it go. That's how I got so far.
818
Jeezy: Bro, ain't nobody saying nothing in Idaho.
819
Jeezy: I ain't met not one person, no matter who.
820
Jeezy: By the time they told someone, it's 97 miles down the road. Bruh, what?
821
Jeezy: It now flew the pigeon.
822
Manny: With no wind.
823
Jeezy: With no wind, just moving.
824
Chuck: Just more.
825
Jeezy: Bruh, but maybe we'll get… maybe the Golden Dome will come back up, because you know Trump like to recycle stuff. When… when he feel like the pressure's getting on him, and he need to get some attention, he like to throw out of those Uno cards out there and try to get that draw 4, that draw 2, the reverse. He like to throw them special.
826
Manny: Oh my god.
827
Jeezy: out there to get the attention off of them, so we might see the Golden Dome come back up in February or March of 2026, but, Trump…
828
Jeezy: Don't do it.
829
Jeezy: Just don't.
830
Jeezy: Use that money wisely.
831
Jeezy: Like, like my girlfriend used to say, I'mma give you $10 now, use it, don't go to that store and just go buy it, you better use it wisely.
832
Chuck: When it's gone.
833
Jeezy: no more.
834
Chuck: Right. Ain't getting no more.
835
Jeezy: Alright, so let's move on to June.
836
Jeezy: What, what happened?
837
Chuck: in June!
838
Jeezy: Bruh, we just in June, bro.
839
Jeezy: What happened in June?
840
Jeezy: Trump claimed… there was a strike that happened.
841
Jeezy: The U.S. hit Iran's nuclear system.
842
Jeezy: If you remember, Trump came…
843
Chuck: Oh…
844
Jeezy: And Trump said…
845
Jeezy: that the, the assessment that was done by the intelligence, community said that, their nuclear program was obliterated. Now, one thing you gotta understand with Trump, when Trump started using certain words.
846
Jeezy: One… He'd be excited, too. He'd be excited to use it.
847
Manny: Babies.
848
Jeezy: Very excited to use them. Right, Mandy, that is a great point, because I can tell when my middle baby come home, and I'm like, she's learning Spanish, and she's in dual language. And when she get real excited and throw a word out there, I say, hmm, you learned that word at school today, didn't you?
849
Jeezy: Hold on. Yeah, Dad.
850
Manny: Holding it like that, that draw for Uno.
851
Jeezy: Waiting to come home and use it. Guess how I say… white in Spanish, okay. Ready to say it. Say it with so much infantsis.
852
Chuck: Honestly.
853
Jeezy: So Trump said, obliterated.
854
Jeezy: Excited about his new word. No, half the people that support him probably don't know what the word means, or can spell it.
855
Jeezy: No shame, just real. There's a lot of people… there's a reason why 50 Cent told Floyd Mayweather to read a page out of a Harry Potter book. Floyd Mayweather…
856
Jeezy: A lot of Americans on the same level as Floyd Mayweather, and I ain't talking about money.
857
Manny: Mmm.
858
Jeezy: Alright? So… so Trump came out and said it was obliterated. They came out and said, Iran said, you might have said us back about… about 2-3…
859
Jeezy: Two or three months.
860
Chuck: Just summertime. If that.
861
Jeezy: You might have got us for a season.
862
Manny: Morrison Midnight Hammer.
863
Jeezy: Bruh.
864
Manny: And the name, Paul's…
865
Chuck: That sounds like a porno…
866
Jeezy: Yes.
867
Manny: When them tapes, you come…
868
Chuck: Yay!
869
Jeezy: We don't know.
870
Chuck: Please rewind before returning.
871
Jeezy: Yup.
872
Jeezy: That's one of the ones that Mark Robinson got his hands on at that, at the shop after the pizza nights.
873
Manny: After being shot. Got a little saucy.
874
Jeezy: I got a little marinara hands on one of them DVDs.
875
Chuck: Allow all of the…
876
Jeezy: What's the name? Mariner Martin.
877
Jeezy: And there, Mark.
878
Manny: Oh my god.
879
Jeezy: We caught a stray for no reason, brother.
880
Chuck: No, whatsoever.
881
Jeezy: We might have to leave Mark Robinson in 2025, bro.
882
Manny: No.
883
Chuck: It's up in the sniff.
884
Jeezy: Did he?
885
Jeezy: Man, the man can't take but so much more of a beating, bruh.
886
Manny: Pause.
887
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
888
Manny: Whoa.
889
Jeezy: Oh, Jesus Christ.
890
Manny: Whoa.
891
Chuck: I got him in his predicament.
892
Manny: Yep.
893
Chuck: Right.
894
Jeezy: Yep, that and his sister-in-law. But anyway, trump came out and said this thing was obliterated. Iran said, no, it won't.
895
Jeezy: I think Tulsa Gabbra came about and said something about it in the same sense, like, we're still assessing Trump. I was like, she don't know what she's talking about. It's obliterated.
896
Manny: And…
897
Jeezy: Yet again… You better know more about it.
898
Chuck: And he really did, but like, she don't know what she's talking about.
899
Jeezy: Which, isn't she head of the Intelligence Committee?
900
Jeezy: Like, national… she's a national intelligence, right?
901
Manny: Yep.
902
Jeezy: And you're telling me she don't know what she talking about? And I'm supposed to believe the man that don't read but one brief every 90 days?
903
Manny: Correct.
904
Manny: Now you're getting HEs, yes.
905
Chuck: So, with this being said.
906
Jeezy: With Trump making this claim.
907
Jeezy: Why is it such a rush for Trump?
908
Jeezy: To have to…
909
Jeezy: be this person, or to act like he knows… if you put these people in places to run these organizations, why.
910
Manny: You play the part as if you know more than the people that you put in positions to do those jobs?
911
Chuck: I mean… It's par for the course for him, though, man.
912
Chuck: It's really par for the course. I mean, he's the smartest person on Earth, he's the greatest president ever.
913
Chuck: So, you know…
914
Jeezy: Or…
915
Audio shared by Jeezy: Or…
916
Jeezy: Manny.
917
Manny: Yes.
918
Manny: I'm back with another one.
919
Manny: I… I think…
920
Manny: that this might have had a little bit of something to do with what was happening with Russia.
921
Manny: And… in Ukraine.
922
Manny: So, what we also know is…
923
Manny: A lot of the defense stuff that Russia has is also deployed in Iran.
924
Manny: They get all of this from China.
925
Chuck: Oh. So…
926
Manny: because they… this is all theoretical, and once again, I would like to say everything on this podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
927
Jeezy: Only. Only.
928
Chuck: Unless you, unless you believe it.
929
Jeezy: Then that's on you.
930
Manny: But… knowing they have the same facilities, but then also watching how tensions are rising between Ukraine and Russia.
931
Manny: and everything that's happening there, this did provide a great opportunity for the U.S. to flex on a lot of Chinese infrastructure.
932
Manny: to fly into Iran, Drop these bombs.
933
Manny: Fly out before they even knew and could even really do anything.
934
Jeezy: Or did they know already?
935
Chuck: I mean… Because that was the other piece.
936
Manny: They are.
937
Chuck: reports that Materials and equipment got moved out.
938
Manny: Jim.
939
Chuck: before.
940
Manny: Yeah, we just left the 2024 models back, but we got all the 2025s out. Yep.
941
Jeezy: You can have it, but we won't sell it in no way.
942
Manny: Right.
943
Chuck: Man, we was gonna write them off?
944
Jeezy: Buh.
945
Manny: That costs attached to us.
946
Chuck: You did us a favor, right? You did us a favor.
947
Jeezy: He's interested in that.
948
Jeezy: It, again, went away very quietly.
949
Jeezy: And we heard nothing else about it. And for all we know, the program could be back up and running. If you are anyone that's in the Iranian government and just want to give us confirmation whether or not the operations in your nuclear program are back up and running, please contact us here at Pardon the Politics Podcast. Thank you.
950
Manny: Don't you contact us. We want no exposure. As soon as that email hit, it hit the show.
951
Jeezy: Bruh, flashbangs, dark canines?
952
Manny: Nope.
953
Jeezy: What?
954
Manny: Nope.
955
Chuck: Oh, man. And you mentioned something, man, which is a very valid point. I just want to point out, is Russia and Ukraine the worst situationship in the history of civilization? Because I'm sick of them.
956
Manny: Look, remember, we were told that within 24 hours of the inauguration.
957
Chuck: Of me getting the oath, it was gonna be…
958
Manny: This'll be over, and we're still in… where are we?
959
Manny: We're in June. We're in June, and…
960
Chuck: The situation has not resolved at this point. It's the worst situationship ever. Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead.
961
Jeezy: Total, total, just, nonsense.
962
Chuck: Nonsense.
963
Jeezy: Bruh.
964
Jeezy: Well, let's see if it ended in July. What do we have in July, fellas?
965
Jeezy: Oh, man.
966
Jeezy: Not this candy.
967
Manny: The, oh, oh, Big Bala brand.
968
Jeezy: Oh!
969
Chuck: Put your B's up.
970
Manny: The big, beautiful bill.
971
Jeezy: Woo! The big, beautiful, sweeping, big, beautiful bill that, the Senate passed, which I believe was, what, $9 billion, bill-cutting social programs while reducing taxes.
972
Jeezy: for the wealthy, it seems. Jd Vance was the one that came in and cast the tie-breaking vote.
973
Chuck: again.
974
Jeezy: And Trump, yup, bruh. And Trump signed it into law around.
975
Manny: I believe it was around the 4th of July, calling it big.
976
Jeezy: And he's calling it beautiful.
977
Manny: Because that was his deadline.
978
Manny: And I didn't think it was gonna get done.
979
Jeezy: He got it done. Now, in hindsight, looking at what's happened thus far,
980
Jeezy: Who actually benefited from this bill?
981
Chuck: Not I, says the cat.
982
Chuck: Nada.
983
Jeezy: I don't think most Americans.
984
Chuck: As an American did not.
985
Jeezy: did not benefit from this bill, so… While this was paraded as being big and being beautiful, it might have been big, but I believe the word that has been, opposing the beautiful aspect of this bill has been ugly. And I think that we… most of us can agree.
986
Jeezy: That, this big, beautiful bill is nothing but big and ugly, and I wonder how, going into the midterms with the effects that this bill has had, how will this affect voters and their turnout in the midterms?
987
Manny: And I think that's… that's gonna… that's the… the million dollar question, because now we are going to see
988
Manny: The reality of it.
989
Manny: you know, everything in 2025 was already allocated. Yeah. All that money was already spoken for. Now…
990
Manny: We, we made this decision.
991
Manny: Now we're about to live with it. First one is getting ready to come in immediately. Healthcare subsidies, gone.
992
Chuck: No, I ain't.
993
Jeezy: To answer your question, who benefited from it?
994
Chuck: Those who properly report their tips.
995
Chuck: Nobody.
996
Jeezy: Nobody.
997
Manny: Oh, man, I was like…
998
Jeezy: I had never worked in that industry, but I know that if I did, I wouldn't be reporting them accurately.
999
Chuck: I have. I used to be a waiter.
1000
Chuck: Nobody. In fact, when I was in training, they trained me how to not accurately report my tips.
1001
Jeezy: Bruh.
1002
Chuck: Nobody.
1003
Chuck: Those who get overtime, globe.
1004
Chuck: Companies are cutting their, their workforce.
1005
Chuck: So, that's not much of a benefit.
1006
Jeezy: Nope.
1007
Chuck: So, yeah, I'm not finding anywhere where the common American Can benefit from this.
1008
Jeezy: And I like, to Manny's point, you know, everything was accounted for this year. We're gonna start seeing the real implications in 2026, and…
1009
Jeezy: Going into midterms.
1010
Jeezy: Some people may be already behind the eight ball on this situation when it pertains to getting out there to their constituents and having to
1011
Jeezy: say, hey, you should re-elect me. Why should I re-elect you when you sign this bill?
1012
Jeezy: And this is the effects that my family are feeling from it.
1013
Manny: And I'm interested to see how some of them respond, bro.
1014
Jeezy: I'm really interested to see how some people will respond.
1015
Manny: Well, if…
1016
Manny: And, you know, we don't have it as an official topic here, but it's like, if the indications, what we saw from the town halls that they were having in the fall of this year.
1017
Manny: Any indication?
1018
Chuck: Sure.
1019
Manny: It's gonna be a long, long year. You know, it is extremely likely that we're going to step into an early 2026. Sorry.
1020
Manny: And hear about a whole bunch of people, like, retiring.
1021
Jeezy: Which I think we've already had some of that already happening now, right?
1022
Manny: with, yeah, with some of the deadlines coming up, but I think now, you know, I've had people sit with their families and have some of these conversations.
1023
Manny: you'll hear a bunch of people be like, this ain't it, I'm good.
1024
Jeezy: I know there has been a report that's been going around that a lot of the consensus has been, that this is not the job I signed up for.
1025
Jeezy: This is not what I was hoping to come to Washington to do.
1026
Jeezy: And…
1027
Jeezy: I don't know how I feel about that, you had to have some kind of inkling of what you were coming there to do, and if you signed off on things that hurt the people that you represented back home, then…
1028
Jeezy: Sounds like more of a cop-out than anything, and it seems like there's gonna be a lot of copping out in this year, coming up, where people are just saying, hey, look, I'm just… I'm just not gonna run, because…
1029
Jeezy: I don't have an answer. I can't… I have nothing to go back home and run on, so…
1030
Jeezy: Let me just go back home with my tail between my legs, and figure out another way of life, and enjoy the, the benefits that I got from being a congressperson.
1031
Manny: Yeah.
1032
Chuck: Yeah, and what was the lady that y'all spoke on before who…
1033
Chuck: voted for the big, beautiful bill.
1034
Jeezy: Oh! She didn't agree with me. Her name…
1035
Chuck: She thought it was gonna come back around.
1036
Manny: Oh, from Alaska.
1037
Jeezy: Yeah, it ain't Murdoch, is it?
1038
Manny: Murtowski.
1039
Jeezy: Yeah, Murkowski.
1040
Chuck: Like, to your point, Jeezy, you gotta go answer for this.
1041
Manny: Yeah.
1042
Chuck: Because it's gonna hurt your constituents. And can you tell me why you voted for it?
1043
Chuck: even with the notion, oh, I thought it wasn't gonna pass here.
1044
Chuck: No. If you didn't think it was gonna pass, and you didn't agree with it, you should've said no.
1045
Jeezy: And I hope that when her time comes, they go ahead and rake them cold, nice red and hot up under her, because she needs to answer for that, because that makes logically, and I remember we talked about it on the pod, if I don't stand for something, I'm not gonna say yes to it and say, oh, well, you know, I just said yes to it because I'm…
1046
Jeezy: It's probably gonna come back to me anyway. No, I'm standing on business. I don't agree with it, I don't agree with it. So, I don't even understand the logic, and if her constituents let her slide with that, then…
1047
Jeezy: You got the day that you voted for.
1048
Chuck: And get what you deserve. Yes, sir. For sure.
1049
Jeezy: Well, that's July. Now we're on to my birth month, the month of August.
1050
Chuck: Yeah, yeah.
1051
Jeezy: What do we have happen in August?
1052
Manny: What happened?
1053
Jeezy: That was a…
1054
Manny: Oh, the sandwich guy.
1055
Jeezy: the same.
1056
Chuck: Listen.
1057
Jeezy: A federal grand jury declined to indict a man.
1058
Chuck: Who threw a sandwich at a federal officer.
1059
Jeezy: In DC. Conservatives have framed this as selective enforcements, and others have argued that it is Presbyterial restraint. It became, a thing. Actually, there's videos circulating, and that's the one thing that we talk about with social media. You can find everything you'll be able to look at. But he definitely took this sandwich.
1060
Jeezy: And with as much force as he can muster up, as drunk as possible as he would.
1061
Manny: You look to be a little bit elaborated.
1062
Jeezy: He hurled… the sandwich.
1063
Jeezy: At this federal officer's chest. Now, I would like to ask, what kind of sandwich was this first?
1064
Chuck: So, my brother… I know, and we'll, we'll… what do they call it, the third wall, or whatever?
1065
Chuck: Fans, we discussed this pre-pod, and we were trying to figure out what kind of sandwich it was, and I think I have the answer.
1066
Manny: Man…
1067
Jeezy: Got it!
1068
Chuck: I think I have the answer.
1069
Jeezy: What kind of sandwich was it, bro?
1070
Chuck: It was a Subway sandwich.
1071
Jeezy: Bruh, come on, are you serious?
1072
Chuck: So, so, as I scrolled, in the initial story that I was reading, and for those who don't know, this happened in DC. And so, I was reading the…
1073
Chuck: looking on BBC, and as I continued to scroll, I didn't scroll far enough.
1074
Chuck: Because there's a photo of the guy, In front of the agents.
1075
Chuck: In front of a subway. Now, when he threw the sandwich, that's not the spot where he threw the sandwich.
1076
Chuck: But there's a picture of that very guy holding the sandwich in his hand.
1077
Chuck: In front of a subway, and there's agents there in front of that subway.
1078
Chuck: So, I'm gonna say it was a Subway sandwich.
1079
Jeezy: Well, for one, if that's the case…
1080
Jeezy: Subway, your marketing team needs to be fired.
1081
Chuck: Fired!
1082
Jeezy: Cause…
1083
Chuck: Listen, in this age.
1084
Jeezy: That could be true, too. Because in this day and age, the way that you… the way that you can get off some of these jokes in marketing, on social media, you should have definitely seen this moment, especially in a season, excuse me, in seasons that Subway, I have to believe.
1085
Jeezy: has had declining performance, because who in America is still eating Subway?
1086
Jeezy: Who? I have not ate Subway since I was on campus at East Carolina University, going down to West Campus, getting me a sandwich late night.
1087
Jeezy: That's the last time I had a Subway sandwich. You can't pay me to eat Subway now, because the tuna… that ain't tuna.
1088
Chuck: That's definitely not tuna. And they got sued for that.
1089
Manny: But here's all.
1090
Jeezy: Oh, but they did get sued for that, that's right.
1091
Manny: Go ahead, man, you also got… Subways everywhere.
1092
Chuck: Yeah.
1093
Manny: Like, I don't know anyone who consistently eats at a Subway.
1094
Manny: For there to be as many subways as there are.
1095
Jeezy: Bro, there's about as many subways as there are Chinese places besides food.
1096
Manny: Mattress firms.
1097
Chuck: Listen, matches…
1098
Chuck: If you do not know, Mattress Forum is a money laundering initiative, scheme, operation, because ain't nobody… how many people you know have bought a mattress in the last 2 years?
1099
Jeezy: I've never been anywhere.
1100
Manny: Right.
1101
Jeezy: I've never been to somebody's house to say, hey, this mattress is nice, man, where you got this mattress from? Oh, mattress firm? Bruh, no you didn't.
1102
Chuck: I bought… now, I did buy two of my kids' mattresses from Mattress Firm before. However, when I went in the store.
1103
Manny: He was in.
1104
Chuck: And I was in the store for about a good…
1105
Chuck: 45 minutes, because they allowed them to go around, lay around, pick it out, figure it out. We haggled some numbers.
1106
Manny: And nobody came to the store.
1107
Jeezy: Hold up, hold on, hold on, hold on.
1108
Jeezy: Oh, okay. No other customers.
1109
Manny: customer. Yeah, no, the customer.
1110
Jeezy: Okay, because in my mind, I thought that you said it… I was like, well, if the salesperson walked there, then who are you having to pay? Because, see, when I drove past one, there ain't even a salesperson in there.
1111
Jeezy: Georgia's there.
1112
Chuck: Knowing the customer, knowing the customer.
1113
Chuck: And this happened, and the reason I bought it from Mattress Firm, we had moved, and my kids had gotten older, and from the last time we had bought them mattresses, so it was like, okay, it's fine time, we need to give them something better to sleep on.
1114
Chuck: I love my upbringing, I love my mother, but I think I slept on the same mattress for at least.
1115
Manny: At least…
1116
Chuck: 8, 9, maybe 10.
1117
Jeezy: Bruh, bruh, in the black household, it's the only household I know.
1118
Manny: Yeah.
1119
Jeezy: When the kid is a toddler, after they get out of the crib, they get a queen-size bedroom.
1120
Manny: Cause you both.
1121
Chuck: I ain't get no Queens, huh?
1122
Manny: I'm having an interest.
1123
Chuck: You just go get my mattress. Right.
1124
Jeezy: get a queen size or a full. If you get a full, that gotta last you till about 12.
1125
Manny: You might get, for your teenage years, you might get an upgrade, but really, they're just buying that mattress, going to guest.
1126
Jeezy: When you graduate high school, bruh. They gave you the.
1127
Chuck: Yeah, old mattress. Bruh.
1128
Jeezy: Black trauma, bruh. Black trauma.
1129
Chuck: Oh.
1130
Jeezy: Good for you.
1131
Manny: We got off, we got off way off track.
1132
Jeezy: In fact, we was at the sandwich man.
1133
Chuck: Yeah, sandwich Man, he took his sandwich and hurled it
1134
Chuck: At a federal agent, and one of the headlines said, sandwich exploded and it left a mustard stain on the agent's uniform.
1135
Jeezy: Bruh.
1136
Jeezy: The story writes itself, bro.
1137
Chuck: But they said it was a form of protest.
1138
Jeezy: Oh, that's how you got away with it?
1139
Chuck: That's how he got away with it. I want to test that theory.
1140
Manny: I was like, -
1141
Chuck: Aye!
1142
Chuck: Personally, Disagree with it being a form of protest, For certain demographics.
1143
Chuck: That's just, you know…
1144
Jeezy: The bread, the bread was white and not weak.
1145
Chuck: Right in that week, you better believe it.
1146
Jeezy: Every time, bruh. Every single time.
1147
Chuck: Bread was white and not weak.
1148
Jeezy: That's why he threw it, because that further confirms how you know it was Subway. Because I believe it looked like a footlong that he had. It was.
1149
Manny: listening.
1150
Jeezy: And you know a footlong at Subway costs you, like, $3.49.
1151
Chuck: No, nothing… nothing in Trump's 2025 costs $3 or anything.
1152
Jeezy: Well, they don't went up to $6 now?
1153
Chuck: I don't know, I ain't no subway.
1154
Manny: Same…
1155
Jeezy: That's it?
1156
Chuck: I just know.
1157
Jeezy: They usually… well, it was always $5 a foot long.
1158
Chuck: And that's the child prison was the.
1159
Jeezy: Ain't he out now?
1160
Chuck: He's still… I think he's still locked… I think he got, like, re-locked up.
1161
Chuck: -
1162
Jeezy: Not to re-lock the…
1163
Manny: You're pulling away. You get back in here.
1164
Jeezy: Hey, you gotta register the address, bruh.
1165
Jeezy: You see how nigga… never mind.
1166
Manny: Avenue.
1167
Jeezy: Niga Minaj about to catch a string.
1168
Manny: You do not wish.
1169
Jeezy: She didn't at no turning points.
1170
Chuck: She need it. She need it. She better… mmm.
1171
Chuck: Anyway…
1172
Jeezy: Hey, Sandwich man, sandwich man. If you walk to the pod, you wanna come…
1173
Chuck: I'll see you.
1174
Jeezy: Well, you wanna come talk to us about your situation, man, and how you got off, pause, with no charges? Let us know, man, so that maybe we can share that knowledge to our community, so we can, too, in an act of protest.
1175
Jeezy: Subway sandwiches.
1176
Chuck: And it had to be… it had to be a turkey and cheese.
1177
Jeezy: Oh, it had to be, and that… the way that turkey… that turkey said, it'll bruise your… it'll bruise your sternum, he threw it at the right… right velocity. And that bread, because, you know, so, hey, back in the day, I remember you gotta catch… you gotta catch the right person when they bake that bread, because, you know, they come out… it come out just like a little piece of dough. I mean, it go in like a little piece of dough, but then they blow up to a whole loaf.
1178
Jeezy: Something ain't adding up, bro.
1179
Jeezy: There's some concrete in there somewhere.
1180
Manny: The… the one other thing that happened in August that I wanted to call out is,
1181
Manny: Someone who did not have a great 2025, Kilmar Arrigo.
1182
Manny: have been released.
1183
Chuck: Yeah!
1184
Jeezy: Oh, bro.
1185
Manny: then re-arrested.
1186
Manny: So, the story around him, he was captured during one of the many ICE raids that was happening across the country, sent to El Salvador.
1187
Manny: Then, because of a clerical mistake, El Salvador said, well, the U.S. said we couldn't get him back. El Salvador is saying, hey, we're not in the business of releasing terrorists.
1188
Manny: But then, all of a sudden, they've decided to release them.
1189
Manny: So, he came back to the U.S, and what? He was here in 72 hours, and then the U.S. re-arrested him for,
1190
Manny: Oh, God, a bunch of, like, random… oh.
1191
Jeezy: Yeah.
1192
Manny: transporting, terrorists.
1193
Jeezy: Like the Chargers that was down in Tennessee or something, yeah.
1194
Manny: Yep.
1195
Manny: So he was re-arrested. Later on this year, the, in December, a federal judge ordered his release from ICE custody, saying that the government lacked a willful… a lawful plan to deport him, and could not detain him indefinitely without a final removal order, so…
1196
Chuck: But hold on, but even before that, a federal judge said, don't do it.
1197
Jeezy: Don't move them.
1198
Chuck: Yeah. Don't move them.
1199
Manny: This is true.
1200
Chuck: He wasn't supposed to go anywhere.
1201
Manny: Yep. And then Trump administration?
1202
Chuck: Nope.
1203
Manny: Got him on that first…
1204
Chuck: you ain.
1205
Manny: Yeah, I did.
1206
Jeezy: Man, the way they done had him in and out of facilities, he done seen more doors than an Amazon delivery driver.
1207
Jeezy: They did, they did him, man.
1208
Manny: During Christmas.
1209
Chuck: They did him dirty, boy.
1210
Jeezy: to hit me.
1211
Jeezy: Bruh, I can only imagine the mental state of this gentleman.
1212
Chuck: Yeah.
1213
Jeezy: to have gone through all of this in the middle of, I believe, that his girlfriend or wife either had just had a.
1214
Manny: pregnant.
1215
Jeezy: or either was pregnant, or something of that nature. You ain't there to see it, then they let you come home, then they rip you back again, then they tell them I send you to Africa, then they say…
1216
Manny: Yep.
1217
Jeezy: Going.
1218
Chuck: And the worst part about it is, he gets no freaking flyer miles for all his travels.
1219
Jeezy: Bruh.
1220
Manny: Zero.
1221
Jeezy: None.
1222
Jeezy: None whatsoever. But I think up until this moment, I think that he is currently now home.
1223
Manny: Yes.
1224
Jeezy: So… I mean… For what it's worth.
1225
Manny: And I believe they are, they are launching a, civil case against the U.S. government.
1226
Manny: So…
1227
Jeezy: Which, I… rightfully so.
1228
Chuck: Rightfully so.
1229
Jeezy: They played, they played with you, bruh, no homers.
1230
Jeezy: They played with you.
1231
Jeezy: But I just can't imagine just the magnitude, but I know that there has to be some sense of relief that he was at least home for the holidays with his family.
1232
Manny: Family, yeah.
1233
Jeezy: And that just shows you how jacked up and how insane this whole immigration thing that's going on in the country has been for 2025. We haven't talked about it yet. It started, I believe, in February.
1234
Manny: It started… it started January as soon as he was done, because he started launching those orders immediately as he sat down.
1235
Jeezy: So that, I mean, he is just one case. That worked out. That worked out. Brug, yes, that worked out. That's a great point, Manny. But there are so many that have… are displaced, that are, you know, going through the system, trying to,
1236
Jeezy: get it all worked out and figured out, and may not… and I don't want to say the word lucky, but the situation may not have worked out with a favorable and fortunate, conclusion, as Kilmars has. So…
1237
Jeezy: With that being said… We're in the month of September, and in the month of September,
1238
Jeezy: We had something that took place, and when we spoke about it,
1239
Jeezy: it was something that was disturbing, and to our listeners, that was the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But it was disturbing from the sense of not just somebody losing their life, but for their political, or just their views, whatever, but how his assassination circulated the…
1240
Jeezy: the internet and social media like none other, and all of us, literally. I mean, if you saw it, I think… unless you just wasn't on social media, I can't see how you missed it, unless you just have your algorithm set up accordingly, but…
1241
Jeezy: You had to darn near run away to try not to see this video.
1242
Jeezy: him being assassinated in September at, Utah… in Utah.
1243
Manny: It was a… moment where I think you saw bipartisan condemnation of tech companies this year.
1244
Jeezy: Yeah.
1245
Manny: Who said they had been focused on censorship because…
1246
Manny: the way and the ease that you were able… to what you say, geez, that you were just able to see this video.
1247
Jeezy: Yeah.
1248
Manny: A very graphic, a very close-up and detailed video.
1249
Manny: was… wild.
1250
Jeezy: And I just want to say for our listeners, it hasn't… it's died down, but it hasn't stopped. Just as early as yesterday, I mean, as recent as yesterday, I was scrolling on my social media and seeing a video, talking about, his assassination and showing, you know, the moment happening.
1251
Jeezy: So it's still even…
1252
Jeezy: to this point, it's still out there. You know, it's still out there, it's still circulating, and once it's on the internet, it's on the internet, and it's… it's gonna be there some way, shape, form, or fashion. But really, to Mandy's point, the political world seemed to have some…
1253
Jeezy: bipartisan understanding that this was something that needed to be addressed. And…
1254
Chuck: bipartisan hypocrisy.
1255
Jeezy: Mmm.
1256
Chuck: straight bipartisan hypocrisy, because there is killing and murder… I'm not gonna say assassination. This man was murdered.
1257
Chuck: And there's killing and murder that runs rampant up and down social media.
1258
Chuck: And it's crickets.
1259
Chuck: Pure crickets.
1260
Chuck: Do I agree that it should not be shown?
1261
Chuck: A thousand percent.
1262
Jeezy: Go.
1263
Chuck: Do I believe that it has desensitized us to a point to where we've seen people's lives be taken
1264
Chuck: And it's… it gets reposted, retweeted, re-shared… ad nauseum.
1265
Chuck: And it is disgusting. Yeah. But it's hypocrisy, because… The way that…
1266
Chuck: they… George Floyd, just to share a name, in a video that was shared over and over and over again, and his family had to live through and live with
1267
Chuck: seeing his… His demise on social media, left and right, and you did not hear this uproar and outrage
1268
Chuck: from politicians.
1269
Chuck: But… And…
1270
Chuck: with this moment, you get uprage, outroar, uproar and outrage, oh, we don't need to have this on socials. It's been years we shouldn't have had this on socials. Yeah.
1271
Jeezy: It would have been done about it.
1272
Chuck: Yes, you should have applied the pressure to these tech companies years ago. So for this to happen, and like you said, Geez, it hasn't stopped anything, because it's still there.
1273
Jeezy: Yeah.
1274
Chuck: His video and other videos since then, Are still being posted.
1275
Chuck: like, where's the consistency?
1276
Chuck: Yeah. In your outreach.
1277
Jeezy: And I think that we haven't seen any consistency with the approach to this.
1278
Jeezy: situation at all, because there's been, oh, there's so much we have to do in here, and there, and this, pertaining to Charlie Kirk, and this, but…
1279
Jeezy: what happened to him was unfortunate, but to Chuck's point, there's…
1280
Jeezy: a lot of this has already been going on. There's been political violence going on before. You know, nobody sat here and made the fuss when the man ran up into Nancy Pelosi house and hit him with the hammer. Nobody cared from, you know.
1281
Jeezy: Outside of the aisle, you know, what happened.
1282
Manny: I would say this was, like, a summer of political violence, because from the Charlie Kirk, situation, well, the Charlie Kirk murder, to what happened with the…
1283
Manny: legislators in the State House and State Senate in Minnesota.
1284
Manny: Back in… sorry, June, where someone ran up into their houses and tried and killed one couple.
1285
Jeezy: Yeah.
1286
Manny: Injured in.
1287
Jeezy: I barely heard the other, yeah.
1288
Manny: So, I think Charlie… the Charlie Kirk one, when I think politically, I think it now has finally hit
1289
Manny: a loud enough tone in groups of people where the bell had not been ringing, that we have a political violence problem, to a, oh yeah, we have a political violence problem. Maybe it's… maybe we've finally turned it up too loud.
1290
Manny: And I think you're starting to see a combination of people trying to turn that down, and people running from the problem they created.
1291
Jeezy: But should I not care about a problem?
1292
Jeezy: Before it reaches my door.
1293
Manny: No, no, you absolutely should care.
1294
Jeezy: And I think that's the problem with so many things that happen, is that it only becomes an issue when it hits the right doorstep.
1295
Manny: right doorsteps.
1296
Jeezy: Why can't it be an issue because it's hitting doorsteps, period?
1297
Chuck: You know, you, you think, and I've, man, you've heard me.
1298
Jeezy: Talk about this, about, you know, the… the issue with fentanyl, and how, you know, we're attacking it, the war on drugs with the opioids, and…
1299
Jeezy: It never became…
1300
Jeezy: Issue that really was getting the attention it got… it's getting as it does today, until it started affecting certain… certain people.
1301
Jeezy: And certain people start saying, okay, well, I lost my kid to fentanyl, we gotta do something about it. Well, there's people that's been dying from fentanyl way before, why is it that you just now want to declare it as a war? You know, to President Trump, he's been saying that Venezuela's, bringing drugs into the country and doing all this and doing all that.
1302
Jeezy: Why are you doing something about it now? The four years that you were in your first term, were they not doing it then?
1303
Manny: Was this not always an issue?
1304
Jeezy: Why does it always have to reach certain people's doorstep before we say, okay, we gotta do something about this? Because while the damage is done, think about all those that are suffering already that have been dealing and living in this problem, and now you just want to do something about it because it's reached your doorstep.
1305
Chuck: Message.
1306
Chuck: So…
1307
Jeezy: One thing I will say about Charles Kirk, and we'll move on in October, I want his wife, Erica.
1308
Chuck: sad.
1309
Jeezy: I am.
1310
Jeezy: Yes, Chuck. At my grandma said, get somewhere and sat down.
1311
Jeezy: I understand, and maybe that's your way of grieving, I don't know, but if I was… if I was… if I was deceased.
1312
Jeezy: And my wife went on a book tour and all this stuff, and I would make sure I visit her nice and quietly in her sleep and say, sit down.
1313
Manny: But… but the pyrotechnics, man…
1314
Jeezy: That's what Charlie would have wanted. The videos of her saying… they saying that she be coming out like how Batista come out, bruh.
1315
Manny: There would be people.
1316
Jeezy: They had on there, the white turtleneck.
1317
Jeezy: It's, I mean, to me, I mean, hey, if that's how you do it, that's how you do it, but, certainly, that's a weird way to grieve the loss of your husband. And, you know, everybody grieves different. She grieves different, she's handling it her way, Candace Owens is handling the grief differently, with the loss that she…
1318
Chuck: Candace. Oh, Candace.
1319
Jeezy: Candid… Candid A.
1320
Jeezy: Side chicks grieve too, bro.
1321
Chuck: Side chicks do agree.
1322
Manny: They suffer a loss.
1323
Jeezy: It ain't always… it ain't always… it ain't always the wife that lost something, too, bruh. Sometimes it's a side chick that lost something too, man.
1324
Jeezy: And in the case… Sometimes it…
1325
Chuck: They've lost more.
1326
Chuck: I didn't lose hope.
1327
Manny: Oh, it's the truth!
1328
Jeezy: What could have been?
1329
Jeezy: What could it be?
1330
Manny: He was not legal.
1331
Jeezy: He said he was gonna… bruh, that's exactly what I… he said he was gonna leave her.
1332
Jeezy: I'm not candid, this is just… I'm just saying, this is my opinion. I ain't saying that I got any facts, because I know how you like to operate.
1333
Jeezy: But you definitely giving off the grief of a side chick type of vibe. Y'all done sat and met together and stuff, y'all… -
1334
Jeezy: Y'all just take a break. Just take a break.
1335
Jeezy: Care the kids to Chuck E. Cheese, or wherever conservative Christians care their kids for fun.
1336
Manny: Well, she got one on the way, too.
1337
Chuck: Ho.
1338
Manny: Whoa, time out, y'all didn't know this?
1339
Jeezy: Who?
1340
Manny: It's been reported that Erica Kirk, the…
1341
Jeezy: man, no, no.
1342
Jeezy: JD?
1343
Chuck: Hold on. Come to the front. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
1344
Jeezy: Man, I don't think… bruh.
1345
Chuck: Let me go look this up, Wes.
1346
Jeezy: Yeah.
1347
Chuck: Because I'm good at math now.
1348
Jeezy: Bruh, very, bruh.
1349
Chuck: wrap that.
1350
Jeezy: Very good.
1351
Manny: It… it was rumored out there… For a while. Pregnant photo.
1352
Chuck: Many, I don't know.
1353
Jeezy: Man, you said it was rumors, so maybe it's just rumors.
1354
Chuck: I'm seeing… I'm seeing Facebook links, Manny.
1355
Jeezy: You know what that means.
1356
Chuck: I'm seeing Facebook wins.
1357
Manny: You know what that mean? I would give you a truth.
1358
Chuck: obligated speech.
1359
Manny: I gave my grandma.
1360
Manny: So, it seemed like there was confusion around a USA Today, article where she was quoted saying, Erica Kirk's… the tag is, Erica Kirk said she prayed she was pregnant when Charlie Kirk was killed.
1361
Jeezy: Yeah, I remember her seeing her sick.
1362
Chuck: Yeah, I remember seeing that quote.
1363
Jeezy: I thought that was a little strange, but…
1364
Chuck: Well, I mean?
1365
Manny: Planned Parenthood.
1366
Jeezy: All the credibility we got.
1367
Jeezy: Take it easy.
1368
Manny: flush it.
1369
Jeezy: Like, right down the drain, bro. Bruh. Now, that don't mean nothing, hey? No.
1370
Jeezy: Will we give it. This happened in, what, September?
1371
Jeezy: November, and carry the 2, minus the 1.
1372
Jeezy: Now, she come around about April.
1373
Jeezy: We might have to revisit this.
1374
Manny: Right.
1375
Jeezy: But, at any rate…
1376
Chuck: It'll be a turning point.
1377
Jeezy: Bruh. It'll be a teleport, bruh. Yay!
1378
Manny: I see what you did there.
1379
Jeezy: That was a good one, that was a good one.
1380
Chuck: Where's the spoon?
1381
Jeezy: Yeah.
1382
Jeezy: Well, going into October, and to our listeners.
1383
Jeezy: No, we're not covering 2-year… a 2-year span. This is… we're on month 10, so…
1384
Jeezy: This thing's a bit long, that means that we've all been through a lot, and these are just headlines. These aren't even what… really, bro, there's so many…
1385
Manny: Bro, there will be entire, like, theses written
1386
Manny: About individual aspects of individual topics that we just breezed through.
1387
Jeezy: Well…
1388
Chuck: Again, we're only talking about the top political stories.
1389
Manny: The top… the top.
1390
Jeezy: And some of these, we could argue, got a 1A, 1B, 1C. We didn't…
1391
Manny: Talk about Doge.
1392
Chuck: We did not.
1393
Jeezy: We ain't mention Elon Musk one time, bro.
1394
Manny: But major player. Was a… was a second or third level player in the entire first half of the year.
1395
Jeezy: Yep.
1396
Chuck: Crazy.
1397
Chuck: 2025.
1398
Jeezy: 2025, bro.
1399
Manny: Oof.
1400
Jeezy: Well, in October, we started to see, some protests ramp up, and, I believe these protests were minus the sandwiches.
1401
Jeezy: We had the No Kings Nationwide Protest, and it was estimated about 7 million people participated in nationwide anti-Trump No King protests.
1402
Jeezy: Yeah, one of the largest protest movements in U.S. history is what it has been, categorized as, and it was seen as re-energizing grassroot organizations and organizing. So yeah, do mass protests still…
1403
Jeezy: And that's right, when you see the No Kings Day, and I think I already know the answer to this, but when you see so many people gather in protests on one day, with these, 7 million people, do mass protests move policy by any shape, form, or fashion?
1404
Manny: I'm gonna be chucked to the point. Do… do protests still work? Absolutely. But parades do not.
1405
Chuck: You didn't beat me to the point, Manny.
1406
Manny: Oh, kidding, okay.
1407
Chuck: I have another point.
1408
Jeezy: -Oh.
1409
Manny: Fast.
1410
Manny: I'll finish my point. Yeah, so, protests do work, parades do not. You know, what was being.
1411
Jeezy: protests? What were the crowds there specifically demanding? What were the specific things that were being asked for?
1412
Manny: None of that was there.
1413
Manny: This is all, you know, vibes and feelings. Now, not saying that vibes and feelings are nothing.
1414
Manny: But if it is not directed, it is not ever going to form into…
1415
Manny: Anything that's going to substantiate any level of an actual movement.
1416
Chuck: Facts. So…
1417
Manny: Do… do protests work? Yes. Has this No Kings thing risen to the level of being an effective protest, or protests at all? No. No, not… No. Not at this point. Could it get there?
1418
Manny: Yes. No. No. I think it could! I think it could, because I think as things get real.
1419
Manny: As the… as real-life squeezing starts to happen.
1420
Manny: I think then… You will see people more open to pushing back.
1421
Manny: And I think that's what No Kings really signified, is that, hey, You have a now…
1422
Manny: movement of people. People who are amped and ready to be given direction to do something.
1423
Manny: How are you going to direct them to go?
1424
Manny: You know, what are we pushing for? What does this crowd want to happen?
1425
Chuck: I agree with you that I only want vibes and feelings at the kickback.
1426
Chuck: Not at a protest, because all this was was a parade.
1427
Chuck: Agree a thousand percent.
1428
Chuck: However… I have a… I won't call it a fundamental difference.
1429
Chuck: But I have a difference in the effectiveness of a protest.
1430
Chuck: Protest only works when blood is shed. In America.
1431
Chuck: in America.
1432
Chuck: Protest is only effective when blood is shed. Think of all the changes that have taken place in this country.
1433
Chuck: from protests.
1434
Chuck: And tell me a time where there was no bloodshed, And change happened.
1435
Chuck: Sit with it.
1436
Manny: Now, as you sit with that.
1437
Chuck: The point that I was gonna say about the No Kings, they…
1438
Chuck: I'm gonna call it a parade, because it was a parade across the country, is it lacked certain seasoning.
1439
Chuck: It was quite raisin in the potato salad.
1440
Chuck: of No Kings Day. So, that would… and interestingly enough, that's not me, and I hate this term.
1441
Chuck: pulling a race card. This was actually observed and reported by many news outlets.
1442
Chuck: In the lack of ethnicity.
1443
Manny: That was… or ethnic diversity.
1444
Chuck: that was in the midst of these No Kings Day gatherings.
1445
Chuck: And it was on socials, but it really… and these conversations were had in socials in different circles, but it really,
1446
Chuck: stood out to me when I saw it through different news outlets, and them making a point in this observation.
1447
Chuck: for, the different gatherings. So,
1448
Chuck: That was my biggest thing about it.
1449
Chuck: And interestingly enough, being here in Atlanta.
1450
Chuck: where we call the Black Mecca of America.
1451
Chuck: You ain't seen many of us out there.
1452
Jeezy: All the black people at the trail ride.
1453
Chuck: That was the next weekend.
1454
Chuck: But… and it's funny because I was in…
1455
Chuck: What was it? I was in Decatur, I wanna say.
1456
Chuck: And I heard… I had a conversation struck up, and I overheard somebody else's conversation, and it was like, yeah, we're getting together for the No Kings Day, protests on tomorrow.
1457
Chuck: And I kinda looked over.
1458
Manny: Someone had a cookout.
1459
Chuck: Oh, y'all are, huh? And she had on her Lululemon.
1460
Chuck: Right. I was like, okay, cool.
1461
Chuck: But, to me, that's what really stuck out. And even in many other protests, like you said, Manny, there is not enough emphasis on demand. What are we…
1462
Chuck: want. What do we want done?
1463
Chuck: What effective change are we looking for? Or are we out here just walking and singing in unison together?
1464
Chuck: as a parade.
1465
Chuck: Oh, yeah.
1466
Jeezy: Okay.
1467
Manny: So we'll find…
1468
Jeezy: Well, well said, well said.
1469
Jeezy: Well, we're gonna keep moving right along and, head over to November, the month of Thanksgiving. But…
1470
Jeezy: Well, some people may have been thankful for this. The government shutdown.
1471
Jeezy: A government shutdown ended after becoming the longest in U.S. history.
1472
Jeezy: Democrats, held their ground for as long as I assumed they possibly could, but, ultimately, a deal was done, the government was opened back up and, on a promise.
1473
Jeezy: to hopefully bring a vote to the floor on healthcare subsidies, and I believe they did… I believe they did bring it to the floor, but it was easily shut down, and they had to go back home with their ball.
1474
Jeezy: Yeah. So, with this government shutdown lasting as long as it did,
1475
Jeezy: what was the purpose? What was the point? What did the Democrats walk away with?
1476
Jeezy: What did… what did the Republicans walk away with? What did the American people walk away… walk away with, with, this shutdown?
1477
Manny: Sala, you know, yeah.
1478
Manny: I think… wasn't there a speech? Someone did a really long speech again?
1479
Jeezy: Cory Booker.
1480
Manny: Somebody did a speech.
1481
Manny: They… They won some seats. Some seats were won.
1482
Manny: So, they got to use that as a talking point to, you know, that I think helped Magdani in…
1483
Manny: And I really need to figure out how to say his name, correctly, so I'm.
1484
Jeezy: Mab Donnie.
1485
Manny: Mabdani. Mabdani. It don't matter, he knew. Look, chart… well, okay, you know…
1486
Chuck: Join me in.
1487
Jeezy: The Lord know his name.
1488
Manny: Right. Some of that… some of that undercurrent helped… probably helped, propel him. You have the elections that happened in, Virginia that helped propel the Democrats there. So I think you saw… you saw…
1489
Manny: the messaging of being anti-Republican, you know, Republicans aren't helping, it helped advance that in a time specifically around…
1490
Manny: this happening.
1491
Manny: So… that's maybe the thing that you gained?
1492
Manny: The people that caved?
1493
Manny: were all people who aren't on the ballot in 2026. You know, either they've decided to retire, or they're going… they're up in 28 or later. So, you know, these people don't have to go back and answer to their constituency, you know.
1494
Manny: in this cycle, So, they were the perfect people to be able to do this.
1495
Manny: But again, what we've said on this pod over and over and over before.
1496
Manny: Dems, what are you going to do?
1497
Jeezy: Like, cause I don't see what you actually gained.
1498
Manny: Because you didn't gain anything on healthcare.
1499
Manny: You… you got… you got lottery tickets.
1500
Chuck: Yep.
1501
Jeezy: $1 scratch-off.
1502
Chuck: Dollar scratch-off.
1503
Chuck: And you won nothing. And won nothing. Now you're hoping to win on the second chance, option on the back of the scratch-off, where you gotta submit your information and hope your name is drawn in the raffle.
1504
Chuck: to win $5. Like, this… this was… A high level of embarrassment.
1505
Chuck: And I believe Jeezy and I covered this in your absence, Manny. Speaking of the shutdown and how…
1506
Manny: You spoke on it, y'all spoke on it before, and even then…
1507
Chuck: The Dems show some machismo.
1508
Chuck: And it wasn't just talk. And we stood on it, and we stood strong, and then you got undercut by individuals who do not have to face the music.
1509
Jeezy: Yep.
1510
Chuck: And… for me, I was… I would…
1511
Chuck: I don't want to say disappointment, because then that… disappointed, because then that means I had some… some hope.
1512
Chuck: In them, but I was… it was disturbing that there was not…
1513
Chuck: pushback from other Dems on those individuals.
1514
Chuck: Who… who sold them short.
1515
Chuck: Because it, to me, it reminded me of… the Republicans hit them with stuff I.
1516
Manny: I used to hit.
1517
Chuck: My younger siblings with.
1518
Chuck: hey, let me hold this object, and I promise you, when I… whatever.
1519
Chuck: You know, I… you know what? This is exactly what it reminds me of. I have an older aunt.
1520
Chuck: That is.
1521
Chuck: Older, but close in age, where we could be siblings. I think she's, like, 4 years older than me.
1522
Chuck: And she asked me to borrow some money one time.
1523
Chuck: And I let her borrow the money, knowing good and well that this person was notorious for not paying back. And her favorite phrase is, well, as long as I owe you, you won't be broke.
1524
Chuck: Which is a lie!
1525
Jeezy: Bruh, we'll face a lot.
1526
Chuck: Bold-faced lie. If the Dems got hit with, well, as long as I give you the chance to vote on this.
1527
Chuck: You know, you'll have a chance to fight it. You idiots!
1528
Jeezy: Bruh.
1529
Chuck: You were set up to lose from the beginning.
1530
Jeezy: Around the beginning.
1531
Chuck: And, and, and you allow this to happen.
1532
Chuck: And… understood, you had a group that sold y'all out.
1533
Chuck: And it was enough to get the Republicans over the hurdle.
1534
Chuck: But y'all didn't…
1535
Chuck: give any pushback against them. Like, there was no ridicule, or… or… I can't say reprimand, because there's nothing that they really could have done to them. But I at least would have spoke out and, hey.
1536
Chuck: they sold us short. They undermined the goal that we pushed forward, they undermined the American people, because now.
1537
Jeezy: these, healthcare subsidies are about to expire.
1538
Chuck: And these healthcare costs are gonna be ignorant.
1539
Manny: Hi.
1540
Jeezy: And because of that, and that lack of ridicule for their decision.
1541
Jeezy: You're gonna probably have to hold some of this blame.
1542
Chuck: Yes, you're gonna be comfortable.
1543
Jeezy: Yeah, you had a moment where this solely could have sat.
1544
Jeezy: on the GOP, on the Republicans, you now have to sit with some of this, and that's gonna have some effect on you as well, too.
1545
Chuck: Yeah.
1546
Jeezy: So, I completely agree, Chuck.
1547
Jeezy: Completely agree.
1548
Manny: And in, in total, 43 days.
1549
Manny: So you take the 43 days of this term, and you add the, 38 days of his first term, Donald Trump is now responsible for 81 days of the government being shut down.
1550
Chuck: If I'm not mistaken, I can't remember if I did it on PTP, or if I did it on my podcast.
1551
Chuck: And he accounts for more than half
1552
Chuck: of all the days of government shutdown in American history.
1553
Jeezy: Wow, bro.
1554
Chuck: More than half. One presidential… and he…
1555
Chuck: Well, he talks out of all sides of his mouth and neck and anywhere else he can make a noise from, because there's clips and videos showing
1556
Chuck: during Obama's term, that the president is responsible when there's a government shutdown.
1557
Jeezy: But, but oh, how we forget.
1558
Manny: This is…
1559
Chuck: There's a Trump tweet for everything. Like they say, there's a Jay-Z line for everything, there's a Trump tweet for everything.
1560
Jeezy: Trump tweet for everything.
1561
Chuck: It, it's, it's, it's… It's sad. Sad and comical, because you laugh to keep from crying.
1562
Jeezy: Yeah.
1563
Chuck: How that's the case, and…
1564
Jeezy: Yep.
1565
Jeezy: Like I've said before, man, I wish they would…
1566
Jeezy: understand that they are playing with the lives of the American people when we have to go through this. And while it's 43 days of a government shutdown, the implications that people will feel from those 43 days.
1567
Jeezy: will extend way beyond that. And I believe there was a senator, or a congressperson, I can't remember who it was, that brought a motion to the floor that I stand by wholeheartedly.
1568
Jeezy: That while there's a government shutdown, you shouldn't get paid.
1569
Jeezy: And you also shouldn't receive back pay, either.
1570
Jeezy: No. That'll put pressure on you to get the job done.
1571
Manny: Well, and let's circle… I want to circle back to the point of feeling the pain. Some of that's happening now. SNAP benefits…
1572
Jeezy: Yeah?
1573
Manny: expired for people, and they are making everyone reapply.
1574
Jeezy: Bruh, that is the wildest thing.
1575
Manny: That is going… that's a month or so process, and now you got…
1576
Jeezy: about how backlogged the system's gonna be, trying to re-enter all… bruh.
1577
Manny: Assume how backlog it is just normally.
1578
Jeezy: Normally, normally. And you're just gonna, what, wipe the system out, and everybody has to reapply, and in that time that it takes, then what's…
1579
Jeezy: How am I feeding my people?
1580
Manny: I'm a female fan.
1581
Manny: Are we going to eat?
1582
Jeezy: Wow, bruh.
1583
Jeezy: Wow.
1584
Manny: Congratulations!
1585
Manny: can't survive.
1586
Manny: One day without food.
1587
Jeezy: Right. Before, before things start getting greasy.
1588
Jeezy: Man, listen, it sounds like it's headed a greasy.
1589
Jeezy: Well, when does… when this government shutdown ended, when is the potential for another government shutdown? End of January. January, okay. So, to our listeners, on the flip side of 2026, we might be right back in, talking about a government shutdown.
1590
Manny: Pretty soon. We might. We might.
1591
Jeezy: Lovely.
1592
Manny: We already back. Bruh.
1593
Chuck: And we back, and we back.
1594
Jeezy: But, we have now reached the month of December, the month that we're currently in recording this episode, and, for the month of December, one thing I want to say.
1595
Jeezy: before, we, we throw any of our topics out there, is I would like to give a shout-out to our brother, at LXI, Brother Eric.
1596
Jeezy: And, just want to give him a shout-out, letting him know that in this month of December, we will have recorded that, his Steelers lost to Shador Sanders and the Browns.
1597
Manny: Hmm.
1598
Jeezy: And I just want to put that out on… I just want to put that out to the world.
1599
Jeezy: That y'all lost to my boy Shador Sanders. Now, I'm not a Browns fan, but I do support Shador Sanders.
1600
Chuck: disappointed.
1601
Chuck: And that loss put their playoff chances in jeopardy.
1602
Chuck: As, I believe, if next week they face the Ravens in the winner of that match.
1603
Chuck: goes to the playoffs, and the other one stays home, if I'm not mistaken.
1604
Jeezy: I believe you are correct, brother. So, I just wanted to, put that out there. And the only reason I'm saying this is because, in the group chat today… Confident. Eric spoke very confident of his victory that would come today.
1605
Jeezy: Against, against, I call him $2, Shador, Shador Sanders. And I, and I, I replied in the group, telling them, alright, no.
1606
Jeezy: You better be careful. And careful has been brought unto you, my brother, so…
1607
Chuck: And furthermore, it's his birth month. Bruh, bruh. And it's his birth month.
1608
Manny: Did we not warn him about the manning curse? It can come for anybody at any time.
1609
Chuck: So, shout out.
1610
Jeezy: Shout out to Cleveland, shout out to Ohio, shout out to Shador Sanders and the Cleveland Browns on your victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I don't know what your plans are, Browns fans or Browns organization next year, but give my boy an off-season and see what he can do, man.
1611
Chuck: Facts. Big facts.
1612
Jeezy: So, that's all I got for December that I wanted to bring up. I've been waiting since the beginning of the recording to say that, but I was trying to wait for the right time, and I said, oh, December would be perfect, bruh. But, any headlines we want to cover? I know we're still in the month of December, and any headlines we want to cover?
1613
Manny: I mean…
1614
Chuck: Go ahead, Manny.
1615
Manny: The biggest one that I have, of course, comes now, where the U.S, launched strikes on ISIS-linked militant groups in Nigeria on Christmas.
1616
Manny: And how wild of the… We're gonna talk about this in the new year.
1617
Manny: But… on Christmas.
1618
Manny: on Christmas, you're going to strike people, that's wild. But then also…
1619
Manny: We keep going into places where they obviously don't want us.
1620
Chuck: That's U.S.
1621
Manny: Yes, sir.
1622
Chuck: I mean, facts.
1623
Manny: It's our national pastime.
1624
Chuck: Yes, facts.
1625
Manny: So…
1626
Manny: will be read… I'll be more read up on this one as, you know, everything kind of progresses, but the…
1627
Manny: We… we gotta be in some type of military… military operation somewhere, or it's like we get bored.
1628
Manny: So…
1629
Chuck: So…
1630
Manny: And we still keep playing this game of, like, chicken with Venezuela.
1631
Manny: So…
1632
Chuck: For me, the headline… for December is Trump, you lied.
1633
Chuck: Because you campaigned on and came in saying, I'm gonna get us out of these wars, I'm gonna keep us away from war, America first. And it's been…
1634
Chuck: conflict, issue, after another, like Manny just mentioned, the potential situation with Venezuela, the strike on Nigeria.
1635
Chuck: faux… in the faux sense, on behalf of…
1636
Chuck: African Christians, or Black, or whatever, went from a man who says himself he's not Christian, Can't give you…
1637
Chuck: a, a Bible verse.
1638
Jeezy: That didn't Jesus whip.
1639
Chuck: Not even the shortest one, Jesus Will, if his life depended on it. He probably, he probably pronounces Psalms as Passalm, or as Nicki Minaj's ignorant self said, Sam's.
1640
Chuck: Oh…
1641
Jeezy: Mike, bro.
1642
Manny: job.
1643
Jeezy: That might have been the wildest pronunciation when she said that. I was like…
1644
Manny: What?
1645
Jeezy: Why do y'all… why do these people keep letting y'all play that they are so… never mind.
1646
Jeezy: Yeah, man.
1647
Chuck: The wildest. The Book of Job, I can see him definitely saying the Book of Job. Definitely job.
1648
Chuck: And then he'll tell you the job numbers are up, we're doing such a great job. Economy, A++.
1649
Jeezy: Earth.
1650
Chuck: Yes. Gold Star Economy.
1651
Jeezy: Yep.
1652
Chuck: Anyway, but yeah, and these conflicts, R, are… At the crux of… Of our,
1653
Chuck: national attention, and I'm…
1654
Chuck: I'm just… I'm baffled by it. I am baffled by it. We really didn't even touch on… again, as we said earlier, there's so many 1A, 1B, 1C different topics. We didn't go into detail about the different conflicts that Israel
1655
Jeezy: perpetuated.
1656
Chuck: And we backed up.
1657
Chuck: And we gave them the battery in their back and the confidence to do some of the things that they've been doing on this year.
1658
Chuck: But again, to the point, You lied.
1659
Chuck: You keep us in the midst of mess.
1660
Jeezy: And…
1661
Chuck: It's not gonna end, sadly,
1662
Chuck: I'm just… yeah. I'm not… I have… I have…
1663
Chuck: my thoughts, and I'm trying not to be personal.
1664
Manny: In regards to the strikes that happened on Christmas.
1665
Chuck: In Nigeria.
1666
Chuck: Because… Follow the money.
1667
Jeezy: Yep.
1668
Chuck: Simple as that. We said last time, like, like they said in rush hour, follow the money.
1669
Chuck: Follow the money, you see what the whole purpose of all this mess is. It's not about Christianity.
1670
Jeezy: Nope.
1671
Jeezy: It's not about Christianity at all. He's not worried about persecuting Christians at all.
1672
Chuck: At all.
1673
Chuck: Because it… anyway, yeah. So, that's my thoughts on that. December has a lot to still offer us. Here on the 28th.
1674
Manny: And that's… and that's wild. That's very wild. It is still wild.
1675
Jeezy: The boy's like, bro, we got about 2-3 days, and it still can go crazy from here.
1676
Manny: Like, no, like, literally, as we are recording right now,
1677
Manny: Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky is meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. So at any moment, you know, world-changing news could happen as we're recording.
1678
Chuck: I told y'all, the worst situationship I've ever… witnessed.
1679
Jeezy: We might have called Trump the minister a miss.
1680
Jeezy: Bruh, I like that truck, though, you know.
1681
Jeezy: accountability. And what we say here is that, you know, when Trump does something right, we'll say he's done something right. When he's done something wrong, we'll say he's done something wrong. But I think that the statement that my brother Chuck has made is, quite valid, in that Trump has not held…
1682
Jeezy: to the promises, to the things that he said that he was gonna do. I believe I heard him say that he was gonna be a president of peace.
1683
Jeezy: He hasn't done nothing but sown as much division as he possibly can.
1684
Jeezy: So it's just… This, this, this year…
1685
Jeezy: As you can tell by the length of this episode, and the.
1686
Manny: It's been a long time. It's copies that we've covered.
1687
Jeezy: It's been… it's been a… it's been a long time.
1688
Manny: That we've all had to endure, and I don't care what side of the political aisle that you…
1689
Jeezy: sit on.
1690
Jeezy: One of these topics.
1691
Jeezy: has had some impact or some implication to somebody, that you know. Like Chuck was saying earlier, when we talked about, the murder of Charlie Kirk.
1692
Jeezy: You know, while it's affecting some people now, there are some people that are being… have been affected since January, since February. That happened in September. There are some people that are… that have suffered all year.
1693
Jeezy: By some of the things that are happening, whether it be SNAP benefits, whether it be their healthcare, whether it just be, from any government, any government support or assistance that they've received, even down to our Department of Education.
1694
Jeezy: And some of the uncertainty that may be coming with the dismantling of that department.
1695
Jeezy: So much that we all, have, have experienced, but we all have experienced something, this year.
1696
Manny: Yep.
1697
Jeezy: And while we, conclude this recap.
1698
Jeezy: One thing that I'd like to say is that in spite of all of it, that we've had, all the headlines, all the stories, all the, the breaking news, all the situations and circumstances, one thing that I, am glad to walk out of with, in 2025, walking into 2026,
1699
Jeezy: Is you all, and my co-hosts.
1700
Jeezy: my brother Manny, and my brother Chuck as well, too, and the entire LXI. That we are able to, with all the things that have gone on, we get to walk into 2026 to continue to provide content for you, and continue to do what we love.
1701
Jeezy: it gets tough, some of these headlines get hard, some of them get frustrating. As you can tell, sometimes when we cover stuff, and sometimes you can tell that we have a level of, the tone of our
1702
Jeezy: of our voice changes, and you can tell that we're getting serious. But, you know, it's one of those things, man, that I'm grateful for that we have this platform to be able to bring you guys our opinions, my thoughts, and I hope that you enjoy them.
1703
Jeezy: And, I'm thankful for you guys, man. I don't know about y'all, man, but I'm thankful for the pod. I'm thankful for part in the politics. We made it to one year in September, we didn't even speak about that, man.
1704
Manny: We did, man.
1705
Jeezy: We made it one year, you know, Brother Chuck has started Encompass, he's been doing his thing.
1706
Jeezy: Our brother Frank DeFresh, who allows us all to sound, as clear and crisp as we possibly can, he's been.
1707
Jeezy: delivering the music and the beat tapes all year, and he's been doing a phenomenal job with that, in spite of him leading his family. Our brother Eric, doing his thing in the therapist realm and being able to make the strides that he's made.
1708
Jeezy: So many other that are in our group that you guys don't even know, that are, that are making the strides, and I'm grateful that 2025, despite all the things we've been through.
1709
Jeezy: we've been able to have those accomplishments and bring, this podcast forth, to have Encompass, to have our brother Chuck step in. We didn't even covered that with Chuck stepping in for us, when Manny had to go down, then I had to go down, and…
1710
Jeezy: you know, we had those that were able to stand, stand in the gap, and even when we had to take a break, you guys allowed us that grace to do so, and came back. And came back and returned with us, to enjoy this podcast, and I'm grateful for that, man. Anything else you brothers got as we conclude?
1711
Manny: No, definitely, you know, stayed with us, and looking at the early numbers, some of y'all brought some people back with y'all.
1712
Jeezy: Hey, you brought a friend. That's how family and friends, they work. Don't just come to church, bring somebody with you. Bring someone with you.
1713
Manny: So… So definitely so appreciative, you know.
1714
Manny: Minus the BS, you know? Yeah.
1715
Chuck: Life in it.
1716
Manny: Life is amazing, God is so, so good, so amazing.
1717
Manny: this… this year has truly been amazing. And I thank you all for… for joining me on this, on this trip around the sun.
1718
Manny: Introduced to another.
1719
Manny: You know, we'll see what 2026 has in store. Hopefully it's a little calmer. I think we… I think we've earned… earned a.
1720
Jeezy: I think we earned it, right?
1721
Manny: 2026.
1722
Jeezy: But midterm.
1723
Manny: Terms are… are coming, so…
1724
Jeezy: Hey, and look, get ready. Get ready, because we… the boys gonna be here for midterm. Oh, yeah. And it's gonna… it's gonna get, it's gonna get pretty heated. There's some… there's some races that's gonna go… that's gonna get crazy.
1725
Jeezy: And, we're gonna make it as informative and as entertaining as possible when that time comes. So yeah, I'm excited. Brother Chuck, what you got, man?
1726
Chuck: Man… How can I follow that up, bro? You, you…
1727
Chuck: Definitely highlighted all the important aspects of what we are grateful for.
1728
Chuck: It's been an amazing year.
1729
Manny: Through the ups and downs, it's been an amazing year.
1730
Chuck: And as our good brother Manny says, it's good to be seen.
1731
Jeezy: Mmm.
1732
Chuck: Instead of you.
1733
Manny: Navy.
1734
Chuck: I'm thankful. And I'm thankful for that, and so…
1735
Jeezy: Hmm.
1736
Chuck: you know, with that, I appreciate you guys. It goes without saying,
1737
Chuck: You're not heavy, you're my brother, and…
1738
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
1739
Chuck: We, you know, continue to be a pillar in each other's lives, to hold each other up when we're weak, and I implore everyone to get you a strong community.
1740
Chuck: It doesn't have to be a whole bunch of people. We are blessed for our community to be as deep as it is, but get you a community that you can lean on, that you can…
1741
Chuck: get recharged with. There are times when each of us may be dealing with something or be down, and we know that we can get recharged
1742
Chuck: within our community. And it could be simply as us
1743
Chuck: cracking jokes on each other, and laughing, and just having that moment of community, but I implore you to get a community
1744
Chuck: As you go into 2026. I've actually been on a hiatus with my podcast, because life has been…
1745
Chuck: super busy with my, new job and my new responsibilities. It's… it's been too long, but I will be dropping a new episode before the new year comes in. And I want to focus on, renewing yourself. It's not new year, new me. It's the same you. It's just a renewed mind.
1746
Chuck: energy, just renew yourself, and the way you can do that is by building your community, and allowing yourself that grace.
1747
Chuck: I… I thank the pioneers.
1748
Chuck: For welcoming me and not, you know, sending vitriol and hate mail to my brother saying, get a bum out of here. I thank you for embracing me and welcoming me into your space. That's all I have, man. Thank y'all.
1749
Jeezy: Amen, amen. We appreciate you and everything that you do, brother, so,
1750
Jeezy: I believe we reached the conclusion of our episode, as always, man. I believe all hearts and minds clear. We hope this episode finds you, in the best space possible.
1751
Jeezy: And that we just thank you for tuning in. We thank you for being, here, whether you, again, joined at… from season… you've been from Season 1, you joined in Season 2, you've been here, all year, or you just got here, welcome. We got wings and we got drink in the back. Make yourself at home.
1752
Manny: Whether you're here in the U.S.
1753
Jeezy: Yeah.
1754
Manny: in North America, South America, our listeners globally, wherever you guys are at, thank you guys so much for your time and your attention this year.
1755
Jeezy: Yes, yes, we appreciate it greatly, and we hope to see all of you and more. Bring a friend, bring a friend, bring a friend.
1756
Chuck: friend a telephone.
1757
Jeezy: Tell a friend to come, and we will be back with Season 3.
1758
Jeezy: Man…
1759
Manny: Season 3, bro. And wait, wait, wait, wait.
1760
Chuck: I just want to say real quick, I know we didn't do a pickle, but, the podcast has inspired me, because I have a jar of Mount Olive kosher Dealer
1761
Chuck: In the pantry, and when we finish, I'm going to eat some.
1762
Manny: We did have a pickle, it was Eric, but…
1763
Chuck: Oh, yeah, he is the puco.
1764
Manny: I do want to shout out our spouses and our other halves.
1765
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
1766
Manny: They do a lot of work as well, that allows us to be able to do what we need to do as well. So, thank you all for your support.
1767
Jeezy: Manny doing that just to go ahead and make sure he check all the marks.
1768
Chuck: He tried to make sure he come back.
1769
Jeezy: Dot all the I's and crossed all the T's. He said, look, y'all, if I gotta get this shot out of there, it won't be no Season 3.
1770
Jeezy: But yes, he… Part of my absence.
1771
Manny: to do names. Pardon my accent.
1772
Jeezy: But to Manny's point, yes, we're joking, partially.
1773
Manny: But.
1774
Jeezy: You know, our families in general, they support us, and I think it's, you know, just a testament to that, because even when I'm…
1775
Manny: I'm getting ready to record, and my baby girl will say, you going to talk to Uncle Mandy? And I'm like, yep. She was like, okay, I know when, she know when that might come on.
1776
Jeezy: She know that Uncle Mandy's coming, and we're gonna talk about politics, and she gives me that space where she don't come bother me, and she say, did you finish recording, Dad? And, you know, that excitement and how our families are connected with bringing this content together is a joy. So thank you to our spouses, thank you to our families, because our kids.
1777
Chuck: Yes.
1778
Jeezy: you know, this is time away from them, too. You know, we could be playing, watching Bluey, doing this or doing that, but instead, we're recording and trying to build this podcast into what our vision is for it in the future. So, thank you to our family. So, if nothing else further, we will see y'all.
1779
Jeezy: In the new year, 2022.
1780
Manny: beer.
1781
Jeezy: We'll circle back next year. Season 3. I can't believe we're on Season 3, bruh.
1782
Manny: Season 3.
1783
Jeezy: Season 3 of Pardon the Politics Podcast. I am your co-host, Jeezy.
1784
Jeezy: My brother Manny.
1785
Manny: Ayy…
1786
Jeezy: My brother Chuck.
1787
Chuck: What'd it do?
1788
Jeezy: We thank you, we thank you for tuning in, and we will see you guys then in Season 3. Take care, world.
1789
Chuck: Peace.