Loyalty Gets You In the Room. It Doesn't Keep You There.

Pam Bondi is out, Todd Blanche is burying Epstein, and Trump's already threatening Iran's power plants on Easter Sunday. Season 3, Episode 14  breaks down the second cabinet firing, Day 37 of Operation Epic Fury, the most one-sided budget proposal in modern history, and Byron Noem's very surprising online second life. No scripts. No spin. All receipts

Correction: During Manny's spotlight on the NC Supreme Court's Leandro ruling, he cited the WestEd Comprehensive Remedial Plan figures as "$8.6 billion total, growing to $5-6 billion annually through 2028."
The correct documented figures are:
• Total plan cost: $5.6 billion over 8 years
• Annual investment target by 2028: $4-5 billion per year
The core argument in Manny's spotlight is unaffected by this correction. The Leandro ruling dismissed 32 years of litigation and left NC with no enforceable path to the funding its constitution guarantees. The plan cost is a detail. The betrayal is the story.

Transcript

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Jeezy: Hello, world. Welcome to Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 3, Episode 14. I'm your co-host, Jeezy. Along for the ride, I have my brother Manny here. I got my brother Chuck here.
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Jeezy: Fellas, how we doing today? How we doing?
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Manny: Bruh, blessed and highly favored.
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Jeezy: Happy Easter. Y'all gotta have some more energy than that, bro.
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Chuck: I don't have one.
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Manny: And I had some banana pudding, and I had some ham.
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Manny: Some brilliant.
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Chuck: Hey, Jesus.
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Manny: down.
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Chuck: Kick this dude off the podcast right now.
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Chuck: This man come over here talking about he done have some banana pudding, some ham. He had a real Easter supper.
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Manny: Bruh, I did. Not even dinner.
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Chuck: How do you know those songs?
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Manny: Y'all thought I was joking.
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Manny: This ain't a game.
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Chuck: No, we did. No, we did.
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Jeezy: No, no, no, no, no, we did not think you were joking. We might not have known the length, the extreme length, but we know it was gonna be extreme.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
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Jeezy: Well, fellas, I'm glad to be back with you. I know I missed the last episode, due to some family things going on, but I'm excited to be back with you guys, and especially to our listeners. We appreciate you coming back for another episode of Pardon the Politics.
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Jeezy: podcast. As Amanda has already said, Happy Easter to those that are listening, that observe. Hopefully, your kids got a bunch of those, first of all.
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Jeezy: We were a proper people.
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Manny: Mmm.
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Chuck: Proper people. Talk about it, brother. I already know where you're headed.
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Manny: No.
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Jeezy: I mean, we had to actually…
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Jeezy: Fill those eggs instead of going to the store and getting them pre-filled eggs, bro.
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Chuck: Oh, that's a good one. That's not where I thought you was headed with… that's a good one.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Chuck: We were a proper people when we had to spend all evening and afternoon cleaning up that godforsaken fake grass.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Manny: That green…
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Chuck: That little green plastic strip of grass that seemed to get everywhere, but nowhere at the same time.
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Manny: Everywhere you want it.
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Jeezy: If I grow up and become an old man, and see that there's an ad or a commercial out, that there was some type of chemical in that grass that may have affected me in some way, shape, form, or fashion…
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Manny: Yep, yep, sir.
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Manny: I'm, I'm…
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Jeezy: I put my claim in.
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Manny: quick. I don't care.
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Jeezy: If it's $5, $10, I'm getting my money.
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Chuck: Immediately.
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Jeezy: Happy Easter to those that observe it, and again, we thank our listeners for coming back for another episode. We're gonna get right into it. I don't know, how Easter went for this particular individual, but guess what? We got another firing, guys.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: You're fired! Get outta here! Go!
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Jeezy: Donnie, Donnie got the, he got the pink, he got the finger out.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: Bye!
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Jeezy: You know, that's that trademark, but, we got our second firing, bro.
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Jeezy: Pam Bondi.
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Jeezy: She gone, bro.
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Chuck: Okay.
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Jeezy: Which…
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Chuck: I believe here in the podcast.
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Jeezy: Hold on.
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Chuck: You're saying goodbye. Geez, you gotta put it on the soundboard.
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Jeezy: I have a record.
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Chuck: Damn, Bondi!
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Jeezy: Look, this ain't gonna be the last firing that I think.
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Manny: He's not administration.
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Jeezy: But according to reports.
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Jeezy: Bondi basically lost her job, man, from internal tensions and disagreements that had started boiling over, and we had been hearing this stirring for a while, that her job was essentially coming to an end. When you look at the performatives that she did, at her hearings, broke neck to her, even though she's fired, she's still gotta come for that congressional hearing.
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Manny: Right, and it's like… it's like you… you got the… you were running from this meeting as if it was truly a work job. You're like, cool, if I don't work here no more, I ain't gotta go to this all-hands meeting we got next week.
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Chuck: No.
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Manny: We'll see you at 9am sharp.
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Chuck: Good.
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Jeezy: You're still on the docket. You're still on the docket. Still. So, when we see this firing, she's the second firing that we have seen in the administration, with Christian Noem being the first
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Jeezy: And then Pam Bondi. When we look at, this happening, and I believe that it happened the same day that, Trump went to the Supreme Court.
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Manny: Yes and no. Yes and no. According to the reports that I'm aware of.
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Manny: She was fired the night of the congrat… the address to the nation.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: And then it came out, so then it came out Thursday, which was the day that Trump went to the Supreme Court. So it happened the day before.
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Jeezy: Give her some time to sit with it, so…
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Manny: Get your statement together.
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Jeezy: Look, get your tears together, because it's been reported that she begged and pleaded for her job.
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Jeezy: But of course, we know how Donnie T. do. Once you say, you're fired, you're fired. But my question to you, and I'm gonna go to you, Manny, first, do you think this signals, an instability within the administration, or do you think this is something that's just a normal political housecleaning, that we see going on right now?
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Manny: I mean, yeah, I definitely agree with that, because…
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Manny: For me, there's one or two reasons why I think she got the axe.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: The first being that this whole Epstein files thing was a complete disaster.
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Manny: You know, from saying… from that thing where she told that the list was sitting on her desk, and then no list existed, to how that phased rollout worked, and it never just shut the public up. So that's reason one.
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Manny: The second one was… reason that I see is that she wasn't going far enough.
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Manny: you know, every week, we briefly forget that whole Truth Social post that Trump put out there.
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Manny: Where he was like, Pam, I've reviewed over 30 statements and posts that essentially… saying that it's essentially the same old story as last time. All talk, no action, nothing is being done.
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Manny: Where, during that time, where he was talking about pushing… pushing them to go after Comey, Leticia James, and Adam Schiff. So, for her not to be able to rally the agency to really do what he wanted to do.
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Manny: and her unwillingness to go that far. It's one of the two reasons. And I do think… I think number one is part of it.
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Manny: But I think Trump ultimately fired her because she was not getting the job done that he wanted her to do.
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Chuck: Good… good analysis. No, not good. Excellent analysis, my good brother. Thank you. And I… and I've said this before, and God knows it drives me crazy. I'm having to come to the defense of this woman.
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Chuck: Because he put her in a tough situation. He had her… forcing… Cases enforcing its incidents.
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Chuck: That was a lose-lose in the beginning. Yeah. And so, she's up against the wall, trying to do his bidding.
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Chuck: she's a… she's a loyalist, she's gonna ride for him, she's gonna do… do his bidding, and that's part of the reason I truly believe that she was begging for a job. She's like, hey, I've done everything you asked me to do.
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Chuck: But you've put me in precarious situations where.
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Chuck: I'mma lose regardless. Comey, Letitia James, and I think the one that really broke it for her was Jerome.
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Chuck: on multiple instances of trying to get Jerome, and each time it got struck down. Then you look at also the situations with the,
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Chuck: journalists in Minnesota, and them trying to go after them because, again, this administration has shown time and time again their propensity to try to control the narrative. Forget spin.
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Chuck: It's not… it's not an even spin. They try… they are trying to shape the story how they want it to go, and every time.
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Chuck: She's sent to do a bidding, it doesn't happen.
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Manny: Chuck, run that last line back one more time for us.
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Chuck: Every time he sends a dude a bidding, it does not happen.
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Manny: And I think that's important to remember, not only for Pam Boddy, but for… we now have a term and a quarter, little more than a quarter, of Donald Trump. And what Donald Trump has consistently shown is an… a lack of understanding of how complicated
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Manny: our government systems are. So, even if you really want to do X.
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Manny: It's typically really hard to do. We've said it here before, the U.S. government is a battleship, it's not a speedboat.
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Manny: So it takes a while. There's systems of checks and balances that prevents this absolute rule of power that he wants his secretaries and other people that he's appointed to do, and he can't do that. And lacking that… that understanding of how complicated the system is?
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Manny: then allows you to do exactly what Chuck pointed out.
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Manny: giving out orders that just aren't fundamentally able to be done, either because A general conscience is in place, or B, the legal levers that are there aren't on your side to be able to do it.
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Chuck: Well, Manny… I'm sorry, Geez. I was gonna say, hey, brother.
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Chuck: Well, that's what their… that's their… was their argument for selecting him after, even he's done the whole term. He's not the career politician, he's not Washington, he's… he's a businessman.
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Chuck: Well, guess what?
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Manny: Here we go.
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Chuck: Here we go.
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Jeezy: The Apprentice, DC Washington edition.
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Chuck: It's, it's tough.
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Jeezy: Come… has… has come to, come to our network.
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Chuck: On NBC. Bro, but the thing…
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Jeezy: The thing is, to me, Well, let me ask you this.
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Jeezy: I'll ask both of you this. So, in hindsight.
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Jeezy: Did Pam Bondi do her job?
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Chuck: so… I think that's a very layered answer.
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Chuck: Yes, she did her job.
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Chuck: Did she do her job effectively? Because I won't say, did she do it well.
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Chuck: Did she do it effectively? No. But, again, like I said, she was put in a lose-lose situation.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: Because of being a loyalist.
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Chuck: I'm gonna do what the president wants me to do, and I'm gonna protect him in any way that I can, and…
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Chuck: If, if anyone with… There were, there were, DOJ…
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Chuck: Attorneys, staffers, who oftentimes have given
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Chuck: the reproach of, hey, we should not pursue this. Hey, there's… there's not enough legal ground for this. There's not enough…
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Chuck: Enough to stand on.
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Chuck: But yet and still… Get the task done.
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Chuck: So, from that standpoint, did she do her job? Because…
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Chuck: as I say this on a previous podcast, the Department of John.
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Chuck: That's what this was. This wasn't Department of Justice. Department of John. And so, what John wanted, John got. So did she do her job? Yes. Was it well? Was it effective? No.
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Manny: And I think… so if we go back and look at his previous, Attorney Generals.
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Manny: Jeff Sessions, bar and Bondi.
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Manny: You had Sessence, who…
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Manny: saw opportunities and rescued himself. He's like, I got too much in here, it's gonna be… I'm gonna rescue myself.
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Manny: Barr very much drew a line.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: and said, hey, I'm not… I'm not going to do this, because this is not right.
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Manny: And Bondi went all in for him.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Three very, very different approaches to deal with Trump, and they all got the same result.
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Manny: So at the heart of it, I think…
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Manny: Trump has got to be thinking who's next. Because I don't think Trump wants a Attorney General.
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Manny: Trump is wanting the person who's willing to be a personal hitman with a law degree.
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Chuck: Yep.
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Jeezy: Well, I think when you look at the situation, it kind of comes to head that there's a difference between loyalty and usefulness.
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Manny: Mmm.
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Jeezy: And loyalty.
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Chuck: Hey, we're back.
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Chuck: Monday back.
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Manny: Yes.
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Chuck: Isn't that bad.
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Manny: Yes!
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Jeezy: There's a difference between loyalty versus usefulness, and when you look at Bondi's situation, it really highlights something.
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Jeezy: Loyalty will get you in the room.
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Jeezy: But it doesn't guarantee that you can stay in the room.
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Jeezy: And at some point.
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Jeezy: it becomes about, are you still useful to what I'm trying to do, and where I'm trying to go next? And…
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Jeezy: That is the time clock. That's the expiration. She no longer became useful to the president
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Jeezy: Because she could not do what he wanted her to do. She was not either successful or not willing, and that ultimately
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Jeezy: basically null and voided her loyalty. I mean, you've seen a person…
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Manny: Your loyalty is no use to me if you can't deliver for me.
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Jeezy: If you can't deluxe. Bruh, I mean…
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Jeezy: I mean, you've seen this lady, and I mean… and we've seen this with Trump time and time again, bruh.
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Jeezy: I mean, the loyalty, and the length to go in that… The Colts. Bruh, oh my god, I mean, it's downright… I mean, do you have any… any integrity? I mean, do you… do you have any…
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Chuck: No.
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Jeezy: I mean, brother, you got anything you stand… I mean, you seen.
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Chuck: What do you stand for?
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Jeezy: Brown, what do you stand for? We've seen how she, I mean, acted in these congressional hearings.
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Jeezy: And really, it's fueled by her loyalty to Trump.
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Jeezy: All for that, to me, absolutely nothing.
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Manny: In the…
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Jeezy: Brilliant.
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Manny: And what's crazy on top of that, I've never seen Trump really try to save anybody.
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Jeezy: No, bruh!
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Manny: No! Absolutely not!
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Chuck: Absolutely not.
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Manny: A life raft like knobs.
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Manny: Light.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Manny: Rudy Giuliani.
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Manny: That man destroyed.
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Chuck: Perfect example. Perfect example.
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Manny: destroyed his…
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Jeezy: Life.
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Manny: legacy and life for Trump.
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Jeezy: And now, once did he say that, man?
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Manny: But for what? It was like, I can understand, like, if you're gonna be that focused, you're like, me over everything else.
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Manny: You ride that till you can build something, then you jump.
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Manny: And for these people to still stick around, I don't get what your play is.
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Manny: like, what is the goal? Because I also have…
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Manny: The people that are so blindly loyal to him.
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Manny: are really loyal to him. Like, Stephen Miller. I feel like he's running a plan. Like, he's mapped out…
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: exit out of all this. Yeah. I think Susie Wiles, she's mapped her exit out of the… well, she's dealing.
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Jeezy: He already.
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Manny: cancer, unfortunately. Yeah. But I feel like she had an exit plan already in her mind. Like, so you can tell the people who, like, believe what we're doing, but then you have the people like Hegseth, like Cass, like Pam, who…
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Jeezy: The armatures? The rookies?
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Chuck: Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on. Your name is officially now Dylon.
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Chuck: Dylan, Dylan, Dylan. Spit hot firewood.
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Manny: And I'm just like, what is your play? Where do you…
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Manny: What do you want to do with your life?
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Manny: It looks like…
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Jeezy: It can't be… it can't be to serve Trump, bro.
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Manny: It can! It can. Like, you gotta want something more for yourself.
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Manny: There's, like, no plan.
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Manny: It's crazy. The only one who's really, like, parlayed… the only one in the Trump world that doesn't have a Trump last name, that has been able to parlay their association with Trump into something larger, has been, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Manny: But she had the last name Huckabee, so didn't really…
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Chuck: She had something going for her.
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Manny: Yeah, she had that as a base, but she's the only one from a Trump administration that's really been able to spiral this into something else.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: But I think it's just when you look at it, you know, it… for these loyalists that end up getting the axe, I just think that it's gotta be a wild feeling for your head to be on the stake, and the last thing you see is the executioner take his mask off, and it's the person that you were loyal to.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Jeezy: And…
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Jeezy: For what? Like, what is left for Bondi now? I mean, he said, okay, she's going to the private sector.
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Jeezy: What, Chrissy Noan was going to the Shields of America, like, what… what… I don't even know what that is.
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Manny: Yeah, that's…
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Jeezy: He made up a Marvel department and sent her, too, and was like.
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Jeezy: Go over there and just do whatever Hydra asks you to do.
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Chuck: You know…
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Jeezy: for… what is… what did you profit from it? What did you… you gained nothing, because at the end of the day, I believe, honestly, I mean, I'm sure there are some…
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Jeezy: legal work that Pay and Bonnie will do. But ultimately.
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Jeezy: This is a cul-de-sac, you've reached a cul-de-sac.
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Manny: I can tell you what it is. We're gonna get a book.
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Manny: In the next 3 to 5 years.
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Jeezy: They don't read, Manny.
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Manny: We'll get an audiobook.
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Manny: In the next 3 to 5 years, brought to you by Audible.
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Manny: OAN Network. And she'll find… I think she'll find a spot, probably about 2 years from now, on Fox, on OAN, like…
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Manny: she'll.
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Jeezy: So nowhere.
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Manny: Something to do with media. I…
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Manny: It would be interesting to see what any state…
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Manny: Would potentially challenge her, bar status.
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Chuck: That's tough.
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Manny: Like, that's something you gotta consider, though.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Like, that's the.
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Jeezy: Price you pay.
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Chuck: Well, Jeezy, I'll tell you, since it's Easter Sunday.
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Chuck: But what does she tell a man profit, bruh, to gain the world?
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Jeezy: Lose.
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Chuck: to lose the soul.
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Manny: But that only makes sense. In this situation, what good is it for a man to gain nothing and lose?
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Chuck: But that's what… but that's what I'm saying.
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Chuck: She thought she was gonna profit. That's why she…
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Jeezy: Thought she was gonna profit the world, bruh.
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Chuck: I thought she was gonna profit the world, she's riding Trump coattails, and they truly…
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Chuck: believe that this man, especially, like you said, the amateurs, was the second coming. And…
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Chuck: You're falling… you're another one that's fallen flat on your face.
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Jeezy: I don't… I don't get it, because…
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Jeezy: It's a model that has been in place for quite some time.
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Jeezy: to every… last individual. Why do you think
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Jeezy: that you're different. Maybe Trump know how to negotiate the heck, and really… I mean, really know how to tickle an ear. You know, Paul's no diddy-d.
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Manny: No Epstein.
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Jeezy: But there's no way that your turnaround is like this. You come to me and say, hey, I got a job I want you to do. Sir, you can't keep nobody in place. I do not want to work for you.
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Jeezy: I mean, I just don't get it.
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Manny: And, like, if you just look at his attorney generals, Jeff Sessions, 22 months, Will Barr, 22 months. Pam Bondi, 14 months.
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Chuck: No one's had that in years. Sounds like to me. Sounds like to me, there's a revolving door.
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Jeezy: I don't.
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Chuck: Why don't do that.
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Jeezy: The less amount of money… the least amount of money.
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Manny: Oh, no, no, dude.
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Manny: there was another one. He had an acting, Attorney General, too, Sally Yates, but she got the heave-ho after… Yeah, she got the heave-ho after 10 days.
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Manny: For refusing to defend the travel ban.
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Manny: So…
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Jeezy: Oh, I remember her, yeah.
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Chuck: That's because he don't respect women. Let's be honest. Let's pull the veil off the ugly face.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: He don't respect me.
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Jeezy: The only way that Pam got where she was at was because she…
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Chuck: She was blind.
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Jeezy: Yup. And she had to… Lather his ego, something serious.
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Chuck: Oh, you know it. You know it.
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Jeezy: get in that position, and once, you know, a couple of X's happened, She was done.
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Jeezy: And who you replace it with?
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Jeezy: Another man.
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Chuck: Another man, not… and I'm… not just another man.
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Chuck: A man who… on paper, it's qualified. He's an attorney, I guess.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chuck: Make you qualified.
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Manny: But hasn't actually, to my understanding, has not, like, actually tried cases in front of juries.
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Chuck: That's why I said, on paper, you're a lawyer, but…
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Chuck: He served as Trump's lead criminal defense attorney.
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Chuck: Well, I waited.
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Jeezy: I want him to be my Attorney General, because at last, I checked Trump'.
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Chuck: Lost.
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Jeezy: You, you…
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Chuck: Lost.
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Jeezy: You be losing.
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Chuck: house.
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Chuck: Your track record.
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Jeezy: Terrible.
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Chuck: Them numbers on the board against you. I see 30… I see 34 felonies.
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Jeezy: The man that couldn't keep them 30-plus felonies away from you, you said, okay, let me put him in.
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Chuck: I got a suggestion for Attorney General.
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Chuck: Brian Steele.
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Jeezy: And listen, let me tell you something.
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Chuck: The man that wins.
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Jeezy: Hey, bro.
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Chuck: Brown still might have been.
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Jeezy: that, that, Mount Rushmore up there with, with, Crocod.
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Chuck: ol' Johnny.
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Manny: Yes, sir?
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Jeezy: I don't know who else gonna go up there, but them two, they making their case.
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Chuck: listen.
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Jeezy: You know, Todd Blanch again, personal attorney.
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Jeezy: Gonna do the bidding of Trump, but…
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Jeezy: is this the end of the road for him, too? Because we…
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Chuck: Oh, it is.
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Jeezy: pace, like you said, Chuck. We know that, we know what's gonna happen. He's already came out, and I don't know if you guys heard, but the way that he's talked about the whole Epstein files.
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Manny: What Epstein found. Ain't nothing to see here. Keep moving.
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Jeezy: Buried. Buried. Like, bruh, I don't even know why y'all even asked me about this. If we were gonna prosecute somebody, it would have been done by now. Like, burying it.
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Manny: That whole clip…
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Chuck: That whole clip…
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Manny: with him saying, like, this hypothetical list of men that exist that exploited women… I'm just like…
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Manny: What? Like, he really got up there and did that entire press conference as if this was the first time he ever heard the name Jeffrey Epstein. He's like, hold on, I just got briefed backstage, I have no idea what's happening. This man got called from the mailroom and is now leading the agency. That's how he answered these questions.
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Jeezy: He said, the department, when I say we, I'm talking about a department. I just got here.
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Jeezy: So don't get it twisted.
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Chuck: But he was the deputy AG.
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Manny: Fact. I just got here.
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Chuck: You been there, bro.
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Chuck: You just got a new title. But who was Trump's previous personal attorney?
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: Mmm.
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Manny: I believe…
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Jeezy: is the one that drip sweat off, drip dye and sweat all over that podium.
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Chuck: All over. All over.
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Manny: The Marriott or the Hyatt Gardening Center?
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Jeezy: Where is Giuliani?
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Manny: Bro…
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Chuck: Somewhere… somewhere trying to get Section 8.
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Jeezy: Where in the world is Rudy?
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Chuck: Foodie Giuliani.
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Jeezy: Try to say, Section 8, man, that's a… that's a hell of a fall.
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Chuck: Bruh, he took… he's taking a draft… he live in New York, bruh. Hold on, Section 8 in New York is a 4-bedroom house in Greenville, maybe a 5-bedroom house in Greenville, North Carolina, bruh.
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Jeezy: Right. Try to say he living like the boys did and coming to America when they first moved to New York, bruh.
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Chuck: This is nice!
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Manny: Emmy.
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Chuck: Shout out to Luma Apartment.
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Jeezy: Well, at any rate, you know, Pam Bondi's out, you know, we'll see what comes of her.
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Manny: And Lori Chavez?
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Manny: You… you in the hole.
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Jeezy: But I will say this, for you rookies, you amateurs in this administration.
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Chuck: Amateurs.
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Jeezy: Gnome is already out.
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Jeezy: Pam Bonnie is gone.
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Jeezy: And as they say at the funeral, when somebody passed, Not the…
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Chuck: No, it come in three. It come in three.
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Jeezy: Who, Knicks?
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Chuck: Come in threes.
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Manny: It's… I… reports are out that it is Lori Chavez de Ramire?
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Manny: the Secretary of Labor.
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Chuck: I'm so… I'm… hold on, that… that might be racist.
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Chuck: That she's the Secretary of Labor.
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Manny: Look, I'm… I'm… I just reported…
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Chuck: No, no, no, no, no, no, that's you. I'm not saying you.
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Chuck: But…
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Manny: That's, that's what…
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Chuck: Debating on…
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Manny: Trump always has a black man leading HUD.
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Chuck: Always, exactly.
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Jeezy: I was about to say, that's probably the safest job right now.
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Chuck: Does he forget about it? He don't forget about it. Just go over there.
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Jeezy: How's housing looking? It's terrible. Good job.
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Chuck: Wasn't Carson a neurosurgeon?
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Manny: Neurosurgeon. Yeah. A whole neurosurgeon.
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Chuck: In charge of it.
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Manny: If you can map out a brain.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: housing.
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Jeezy: As smart as you are to be a neurosurgeon.
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Chuck: Bro, super smart.
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Jeezy: I thought that your abilities would best be served.
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Chuck: stamping our approval for Section 8 housing.
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Manny: Surgeon General.
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Jeezy: the most racist thing I've ever heard.
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Chuck: Not Surgeon General.
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Chuck: Not Surgeon General, at all.
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Manny: Anything adjacent to the thing that you are known for doing?
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Chuck: Bruh, you're not…
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Jeezy: RFK, Dr.
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Chuck: I was about to say, I was just about to say, you ain't got him in charge of Health and Human Services. No!
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Chuck: Hood.
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Jeezy: Make sure these.
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Chuck: These projects is straight for these folks.
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Jeezy: Bruh, how many, how many, Section 8 applications have you denied this month, this quarter?
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Jeezy: Good enough.
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Chuck: Are they over there truly being equal housing opportunities, or are we skewing the numbers?
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Chuck: That is… that's diabolical.
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Jeezy: It is, bro. I'mma be honest with you.
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Jeezy: I think the next one gonna be… it might be headset, bruh.
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Manny: Well, okay, so here's what I think… here's why I think… this is the order in which I think the block is high. It's Lori Chavez, because she just had this whole inappropriate workplace relationship, and being publicly accused of drinking in the office.
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Manny: And to that second part, if I work for this administration, too.
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Chuck: I would be drunk in the office, not drinking. I'd be drunk. I'd be drunk in my office. Drunk.
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Manny: So, I… I got that. My next one, who's on the Hasey, I think it's Tulsi.
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Manny: Because apparently her name came up hot a couple months ago.
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Manny: And Trump's like,
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Manny: I'm good, I'm good with her right now, she, you know, she's still alright.
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Manny: But I think she's next, and then I think it's gonna be Hegseth, because at least… at least by that time.
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Manny: I expect…
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Manny: If the Lori firing happens, I expect that in the next 2 weeks. Tulsi, probably in the next month or so.
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Manny: But if Tulsi goes, then I got Pete going right… right behind him.
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Manny: Because someone's… someone's gotta, somebody's gotta go to the gallows for… for this war being a disaster, and we know it's not gonna be the person who made the decision to go.
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Manny: To war.
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Jeezy: But this is why I say, hey, Seth.
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Jeezy: Because normally the first sign…
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Jeezy: that this is happening, or at least it's starting to be thought about. Is Trump publicly.
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Manny: Putting somewhere.
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Jeezy: blame on you.
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Jeezy: He sat beside him on that podium.
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Chuck: And then…
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Jeezy: Like, I think it was Peter told me to go ahead and…
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Chuck: And how bad?
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Jeezy: had this war, the taste of this war is getting in people's mouths, and he's already, with the threats that he's doing, it might slingshot him like Artemis, bruh.
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Chuck: Fate.
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Manny: And you saw what Hexet did immediately, like, earlier this week, and start, what, firing 5.
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Chuck: Fire.
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Manny: 10 generals, gone.
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Chuck: Dropping heads off.
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Chuck: Definitely right. I'm gonna tell you what's gonna be the determining factor.
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Chuck: The… the… how fast the price of gas rises.
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Chuck: If gas shoots up over a short period of time, Pete is gone.
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Chuck: If it takes… if it takes… if it takes… if it's… we know it's gonna go up.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Chuck: If it's a gradual increase.
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Chuck: then I'll go with Ms. Chavez, but if it goes up very sharply, very fast, Oh.
427
Chuck: Because the way he… he didn't even run… throw Pete under the bus. He slapped Pete's face with the bus.
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Chuck: And…
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Jeezy: like Spider-Man.
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Manny: What do we say? We don't… Americans don't like high egg prices, high gas prices, and dead soldiers.
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Jeezy: Bruh. And, you got a lot of that going on, right?
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Manny: We've got all of that.
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Chuck: I was about to say, all of it's happening right now.
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Jeezy: So, I think, gentlemen, this is the perfect segue to go to our next segment about the war. We gotta lean right into it, but…
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Jeezy: Man, you know… First of all.
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Jeezy: you know, Trump gave a speech.
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Jeezy: And I think we all heard that it was gonna be a primetime speech, and when it got announced…
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Manny: Trump read a speech.
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Jeezy: Oh, but first of all, He re… bro.
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Manny: It's different. We know when Trump is giving a speech, ain't no teleprompter, he's just vibing and going with the crowds. I had to… Trump read a speech.
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Jeezy: just my ears a little bit when he did his speech, because I had to get past just hearing them breathe.
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Jeezy: The breathing was… the sucking in of the air was like…
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Manny: Them cherry blossoms giving him hell.
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Jeezy: A bruh, politen, ain'
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Jeezy: tear that fool up, bruh, but he came out on Thursday, primetime, and I believe it was announced, like, what, 24 hours before it happened? That there was gonna be a primetime speech, and we didn't know which direction this was gonna go, because we seen a couple of nations were doing the same thing. We were like, okay, alright, like…
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Jeezy: What's going on?
447
Jeezy: And basically, he came out in this speech.
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Jeezy: And I'mma be honest, I'm… well, I'mma ask you guys, just… Rated. 1 through 10.
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Jeezy: what you thought of the speech, and I'm gonna go ahead and tell you mine's gonna be a 3. But we're gonna go into it more, why we think it is what it is, but I wanna hear just initially, where do you rate the speech?
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Manny: Okay, so before I give this, do… am I ranking this in the range of a good to excellent Trump speech, or am I ranking this in the history of all political presidential addresses I've heard in my lifetime? Because these are far different.
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Jeezy: That is.
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Chuck: Come on now. Come on now, man. Come on now, man.
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Jeezy: simple, I'mma say a Trump speech.
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Manny: Okay.
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Manny: I give him a 5.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: for your Trump speech.
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Jeezy: Okay, Chuck.
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Chuck: I'mma give him a 7 for a Trump speech.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Jeezy: Alright? Now…
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Manny: Wait, so do you go up from a 3? Are you still holding at a 3 for…
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Jeezy: Oh, no, I'm still going for my 3.
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Manny: Dang.
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Jeezy: automatically, the breathing, the highest he can get with the breathing was gonna be a 5. I'm telling you, I do… bro, that's almost like a pet peeve of mine. I do not want to hear extra saliva or breathing.
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Chuck: Listen.
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Jeezy: I cannot do it.
468
Chuck: I have that auditory issue as well, brother.
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Jeezy: I can't do it, bruh.
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Chuck: I don't want to hear you chewing your food. Right, yes. I get angry and violent.
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Jeezy: Bruh, so the fact that I had to fight through that, and then you talking on some BS, oh yeah, bruh, you lucky you ain't get a one.
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Jeezy: All Trump said in his speech, which… and this is another reason why I graded it so low.
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Jeezy: It's because, for one, It was a speech that he should have already had from the jump.
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Jeezy: It was… it was…
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Jeezy: delayed. I mean, we were, what, at the time he gave the speech, like, at least three and a half weeks into the war, conflict, whatever you want to call it?
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Jeezy: is already late, and then you're lying. You're coming out saying that, you know, we're winning, we're close to being done, the mission is almost accomplished.
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Jeezy: But at the same time, he didn't really say how it was going to actually end, so…
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Jeezy: What I want to ask both of you, with the rating that you gave, and your thoughts on the speech, how do you feel like this speech, do you feel like this speech gave us any clarity, or was it just kind of…
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Jeezy: Ugh.
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Chuck: I'll go first since I had the highest rating, and I actually might adjust my rating and bump him up even higher.
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Manny: So, I'm gonna…
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Chuck: I'm gonna give him… I'm gonna give him a 9. I'm not gonna give him a 10, I'm gonna give him a 9.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Chuck: Because, we gotta understand, we gave this grade on the context of a Trump speech.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Chuck: And being that this is in the context of a Trump speech, number one.
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Chuck: He told the same lies. He was consistent in his lies. We've heard these lies.
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Manny: and see.
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Chuck: We've heard… we've heard you gotta boost them up.
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Jeezy: a little bit, okay.
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Chuck: Yes, sir, that's right. We've heard these lies before. So, he didn't come out and bring any new lies to the table that we're trying to figure out. Like, bro, we know you're lying. We've heard these lies. It's kind of like your children, they come in, you know they lying.
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Jeezy: Not the.
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Chuck: It's almost to the point you laugh because you know the lie is just outrageous and outlandish. That's number one. Number two…
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Chuck: he… he… Has never been clear in giving a plan, an understanding, a clarity in the…
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Chuck: Almost in the entirety of any of his administrations.
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Chuck: But the number one reason that gives him the greatest boost, and I'll say graded on a curve.
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Chuck: the length of time. He did not ram alone in just go into it and…
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Jeezy: Cho, that's a good point.
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Chuck: Mind-boggling diatribe.
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Jeezy: But I also think it's because he only bought 20 minutes.
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Chuck: Whatever the reason. Whatever the reason. He was on the clock.
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Jeezy: See, he tried to a couple of times. You can see that… He tried, he tried. That car hitting the shoulder a little bit, and then he was like, alright, let me get back, let me get back in my lane.
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Chuck: No, that was the auto… auto lane adjustment form.
504
Chuck: But that's why I give him the score that I have.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Chuck: He's consistent in the lies, he's never been clear.
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Chuck: And most importantly, we did not have 45 minutes to an hour of our evening interrupted on rambling, bambling foolishness.
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Jeezy: Did we hear Joe Biden in any of that speech before you go banning?
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Manny: Once… I can't…
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Jeezy: Remember.
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Jeezy: Apparently, I believe we heard Barack Hussein Obama.
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Chuck: You don't always hear it.
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Manny: You wanna hear his nemesis, man.
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Jeezy: But go ahead, Manny.
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Manny: I'm actually gonna revise my score up from a 5 to a 6.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: And a couple things helped with that revision. The first, that it was a 20-minute speech. Yeah. Because I, in my mind, was…
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Manny: I was prepping for 45 minutes to an hour of him rambling.
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Jeezy: Yeah, so… I got ill, bruh.
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Manny: And the way they cut that visual feed, as soon as he was done…
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Chuck: Man…
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Manny: They're like, we are not giving him an opportunity to ramble on in any shape, form, or capacity.
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Jeezy: They kept it 20 and 20 straight.
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Manny: So, here's why I have…
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Manny: This is why I leave him at a 6. Okay. Because there were 4 arguments that he made in this speech. That the war was necessary, that the war was already won, that the war must continue, which completely conflicts with Objective 2, but that's where we're at.
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Manny: And the fourth one, the war will wrap up soon.
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Manny: He failed to stick the landing for any of these.
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Jeezy: He's terrible. He's a terrible gymnast.
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Jeezy: legitimate.
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Chuck: With the body of a professional athlete. Right.
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Manny: Like, no real argument about why the war is necessary. Nope. No real proof that the war has been won. Nope. No real understanding that the war must continue. Like, that might be the closest one to, like…
532
Manny: He came close to maybe potentially getting around to landing that.
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Manny: But, like, the only real argument for the war to continue right now is that, because we don't know how to stop it yet. That's why it's continuing, and that the war will wrap up soon, we don't believe you. You've been saying it's gonna be taking two to three weeks.
534
Manny: The…
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Manny: So, this is why I have an issue. We learned nothing new from it. I think the big positive for Trump is that he was teleprompter Trump, which is more cohesive, and you can tell… you can tell a little bit more about what he believes when he's talking through his team.
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Jeezy: When the shoulders tense up and he leans, that's when he's saying something he really, like, I ain't… I don't believe this.
537
Manny: And the thing that they can't shake is this whole, hey, we never aim for regime change.
538
Manny: But then you…
539
Chuck: Seven seconds later.
540
Manny: We keep coming back to talk about regime change.
541
Manny: Anyway…
542
Jeezy: It's already happened. It's already done.
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Jeezy: They're a lot better.
544
Manny: On top of that, the one thing I think the U.S. had in its pocket in all of this was the instability and, like, the internal civil war that's happening in Iran.
545
Manny: And you know what we've probably largely done? We've probably driven all the people together into the new big bad enemy to fight.
546
Manny: So, ending a war… do we get to add that? Ending the internal civil war in Iran? Can we… can we contribute that to the, I guess, now nine wars that Trump has stopped?
547
Jeezy: Bro. He's gonna put it in there somehow.
548
Chuck: Well, Manny, real quick before Jeezy gives his take, speaking on the uprising and protests, did you hear that Trump said that we sent them weapons to the protesters via the Kurds, but the protesters never got it?
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Jeezy: Never got him.
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Jeezy: They never got the weapons.
551
Chuck: Just like…
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Manny: Operation Fast and Furious, that he… he berated, President Obama on.
553
Jeezy: There was a cartoon I watched in the 90s, and it said a line in it that is just ringing in my head right now, and that line was, Stampy, you idiot.
554
Chuck: You stupid Edie!
555
Manny: Is it bad that when you said, hey, a cartoon from the 90s, I was like, oh yeah, 10 years ago. And I was like, oh, no.
556
Jeezy: Did it?
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Manny: That's that banana put in the ham. Yup, yup.
558
Manny: Man. Check your sugar, check your sugar. Oh, man. It's been a minute.
559
Jeezy: But yeah, man, you know, this…
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Jeezy: My thing that I don't understand, and…
561
Jeezy: Again, we try to be as straight down the middle as we possibly can on this podcast.
562
Jeezy: So, when I listen to Trump, Talking this speech.
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Jeezy: the thing that, outside of what he says… and I'll bump my score up to a 5, I'll give him a 5.
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Jeezy: The thing that I don't understand is, as a…
565
Jeezy: Common sense individual, and maybe that's my answer.
566
Jeezy: How do you listen to some of these things and say.
567
Jeezy: 2 plus 2 ain't equalin' 4.
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Jeezy: You're telling me… that… This is necessary.
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Jeezy: But the objective of why it's necessary is something you told me months ago was completely obliterated.
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Chuck: Yep.
571
Jeezy: But then you tell me, oh, well.
572
Jeezy: the uranium and all that stuff is bare so far down in the ground that I don't even care about it anymore.
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Manny: Now we gotta care about him.
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Chuck: dealt with.
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Jeezy: Like, I'm like, yo, I have never…
576
Jeezy: I heard somebody lie so much!
577
Jeezy: It'd be just all open, like, how can you…
578
Jeezy: Support something that you can't understand.
579
Jeezy: I mean…
580
Chuck: Well…
581
Manny: I really think the administration
582
Manny: Probably… no, misplayed their hand completely, because here's… here's the better lie to go in there with.
583
Manny: Because of all of the protests and the Iranian government killing protesters, that's why we're going in.
584
Manny: He would have probably… Had less pushback.
585
Manny: With that argument.
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Chuck: I doubt it.
587
Manny: I think he would have had less pushback, because I think, at least at that point, the fronting reason we could have justified as an American public
588
Manny: Like, oh, we're going in to stop a government… it is a story we've heard before in our expanding of democracy.
589
Manny: But to Jay-Z's point, I think because he came in with the nuclear programs while we strike.
590
Manny: We destroyed it. Oh, but, you know, we don't care about it, so like, oh, now we gotta care about it again.
591
Manny: I've… it's been a rough argument without any of the proof, and I think they're dealing with a lot more of that.
592
Manny: So I think had they gone in with the whole, hey, y'all, we're gonna go help the protesters, and that's how we're getting involved, I think… now, does he… does all this eventually happen? Yes, absolutely. But I think he probably buys himself a week or so.
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Chuck: But here's where I give my pushback, and this is gonna sound very imper… Not imperialistic.
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Chuck: Whatever the word.
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Chuck: he very much campaigned on America first.
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Chuck: Yep. He very much campaigned on no new wars. He very much campaigned on…
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Chuck: putting us first. Yep. And in this.
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Chuck: A lot of his… his supporters?
599
Chuck: Don't care about them people.
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Chuck: They don't care anything… anything about…
601
Chuck: the welfare, the livelihood, the rights of those individuals. So, to say we're going in to help them
602
Chuck: they don't care. And… and in that.
603
Chuck: There was already a bunch of stirring when we did the strikes.
604
Chuck: Before, and even he came back and said it was obliterated.
605
Chuck: many of his supporters… I'm only focusing on his supporters, Question, why even do it?
606
Chuck: Because it… what… there's a point that you brought up. What benefit was it to us?
607
Manny: And Chuck, I… I think you're spot on. I agree… I agree with that as well. It's also the same argument the Iranian president gave in his letter to us, where he said, exactly which of America… of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war?
608
Manny: is…
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Manny: Is America First truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?
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Chuck: He's using… this is a rap battle, because he is using Trump's words against him to throw it in his face. And that's why…
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Chuck: Any other… had he not… had this been the first administration?
613
Chuck: I think you're 100% correct. People would back him and go behind, hey, you know, we are the world police. We have to support and protect these protesters and give them their rights, although you step on…
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Chuck: mutilate, destroy the rights of people in America. But… but…
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Chuck: he would have some kind of support in regards to going in if it was the first administration. The second administration, they don't want to hear that.
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Jeezy: And like you said, you didn't campaign on that. And, you know, my thing is, is don't point the finger at, that's why you're going in.
618
Jeezy: When you've had the approach you've had on the Ukrainian people.
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Jeezy: You've had the approach that you've had on what Israel has done, to Gaza.
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Chuck: Palestinians, yeah.
621
Jeezy: if you want to be the world police, why don't you do something about what's going on in Sudan? I mean, like, there's so many other conflicts going on that if you want to talk about, oh, people are being mistreated and we gotta do something.
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Jeezy: this is where you want to tip your hat at? Or screw… I mean, screw all that. Let's say… let's bring it back home. I mean, in the amount of money that you're spending in this war that Israel basically ushered you in, like Easter Sunday church service.
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Manny: Bruh, while they spun off and went to go start something with Lebanon.
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Chuck: Yeah, we're gonna leave y'all fighting now.
625
Manny: You got it? Alright, bet.
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Jeezy: off the cost of a couple of these missiles that you mistakenly just hit, painted on targets.
627
Jeezy: You could have made it housing affordable, you could have helped homelessness, you could have…
628
Chuck: You could've paid for daycare.
629
Manny: We don't…
630
Jeezy: We can't afford daycare, we just can't afford it.
631
Manny: Here, we got wars, man.
632
Chuck: We got.
633
Jeezy: But we can just drop millions of dollars of bombs in a war that we didn't ask for, or don't want, or does not serve the agenda of America first? I don't understand.
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Jeezy: I really don't get it, and when you have a president that gets up there on a primetime speech and basically tells you that U.S. and Israel has crippled Iran's military, that the objective is nearly complete.
635
Chuck: I have no navy.
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Jeezy: They have nothing. And then… But then boats ain't moving.
637
Chuck: They ain't moving nowhere.
638
Jeezy: They shoot down one of our… one of our jets!
639
Chuck: But then I shot up a couple of our gels.
640
Manny: Yeah, that I'm sorry, yeah.
641
Chuck: And a black hole.
642
Jeezy: Yeah, they had to send a rescue, it's like, they did it literally within 24 hours. I thought you said they didn't have capabilities.
643
Chuck: Yep.
644
Jeezy: So…
645
Chuck: I can't release the video.
646
Jeezy: Bruh, they… I don't know who running they social media.
647
Chuck: It ain't TMZ. They better than TMZ right now.
648
Jeezy: Brother, let me tell you.
649
Jeezy: They sent out, and they were looking for those two pilots, and I believe they have been, and I want… because they are American soldiers, so I don't want to make light of it.
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Manny: They, they have been, according.
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Jeezy: They've been richer report.
652
Manny: they've been rescued.
653
Chuck: So they've been rescued, yeah.
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Jeezy: rescue, but the Iranian government was like, hey, look, if y'all can go out there and find them.
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Manny: with any of.
656
Chuck: We got you. Oh, oh, you… boy, that news broadcaster, that lady was up there?
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Jeezy: Bruh.
658
Manny: Insane.
659
Chuck: Go get them, we will compensate you greatly and generously.
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Jeezy: Brad.
661
Jeezy: No, them folks was up there, like, them…
662
Manny: But that terrain up there, they were like the mountain goats.
663
Jeezy: You know, the Malcolmes, they don't need but a little bit, bruh, they would look a little bit nervous, bruh.
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Chuck: Man…
665
Manny: And here's the… I think the rough part about the U.S. is we're starting to learn about how many countries really just don't like us.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Jeezy: You know, Trump told…
668
Chuck: No, we're not. No, we're not.
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Jeezy: We already kind of knew.
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Chuck: We already knew.
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Manny: But now.
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Chuck: We were such a… Yeah, because we're getting punked. When the bully… when the bully gets punked, everybody's fear changes.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chuck: That's what it is.
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Jeezy: Even down when you talk… when Trump talks about the straight, you know, he's telling them they, you know, they're delayed courage, and they gotta do something, and they're like, well, they letting us through.
676
Manny: I got my… I got my… I got my shit, man. My stuff's on the way.
677
Jeezy: It came delayed, but I got it. I'm like…
678
Jeezy: Trump… the bullying and the tactic that he's using is not working. So when you look at the war, and Trump keeps talking about, we're winning, we're winning, we're winning, are we actually winning? Or are we just deeper in it than what we actually thought?
679
Chuck: And then I saw a report that said that there were individuals in the White House
680
Chuck: Putting, the pressure on his aides to stop
681
Chuck: lying to him about what's going on with this war, and take off the rose-colored glasses, because what he's talking and what's reality is contradictory, and we can see it.
682
Jeezy: Yep.
683
Manny: Because there was a whole report that was out there that there's been a rumored report floating around that far more people have died than the 13.
684
Chuck: Oh, bro.
685
Manny: 14, 13.
686
Chuck: Brother. White. Like, hundreds.
687
Manny: hundreds of U.S. soldiers have died is the rumor.
688
Jeezy: Which is nasty, which is nasty, bruh. That is nasty. Can you imagine, you know, God forbid this is anyone that is listening to this podcast, but can you imagine that you know that your family member has died because of this war, and you have a president that's standing on national TV saying, oh, we've had very limited casualty, and it's like…
689
Jeezy: Bro, what? Like, no, we… there's people who are losing loved ones. This is not a numbers game to try to sway.
690
Jeezy: the perception of this war. What you need is a president who's honest and real, and when you got into this conflict off of, whatever was sold to you.
691
Jeezy: by Israel, then you put yourself in this position, and ultimately, you're hurting yourself at home, worrying about playing a game in the Middle East.
692
Chuck: Especially when you had that nasty comment at the start of this, well, there will be casualties. That's just paraphrasing. That's just a part of it. You so cavalier about this. How?
693
Chuck: How are you so cavalier?
694
Jeezy: At no point should we be that casual about any casualties.
695
Jeezy: Period.
696
Jeezy: But if it… I bet you wouldn't be that casual if your son Barron was on them front lines.
697
Chuck: Nope.
698
Chuck: Not at all.
699
Jeezy: You know, I'm interested, man, because I think now he's given him a 48 hours, and .
700
Manny: Tuesday. Tuesday is what brings…
701
Chuck: To Tuesday.
702
Manny: Britt, it is.
703
Jeezy: Oh, Taco Chuck. Taco Tuesday, bro.
704
Chuck: I'll bridge your power, so…
705
Manny: Power Plant and Bridge Day. All wrapped up in one.
706
Manny: Open the effing straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell, just watch.
707
Manny: And what's…
708
Chuck: Happy Easter.
709
Manny: The… well, the crazy part about what comes next, praise be to Allah.
710
Jeezy: Right.
711
Manny: What? On Easter? You, Donald Trump?
712
Jeezy: That was… that was Stephen Miller that sent that, that sent that truth out.
713
Manny: Bro! Like… Really? Donald Trump? On Easter, you, your favorite book is 2 Corinthians? Right.
714
Manny: Why?
715
Chuck: or I'm not a Christian, or I'm not going to heaven.
716
Manny: Jesus, gee, on Easter. On Easter.
717
Jeezy: If I'm not… if I'm not mistaken, I believe you, sir, you might be tiptoeing towards some war crimes.
718
Manny: tiptoeing.
719
Chuck: Tiptoeing?
720
Manny: Thank you, thank you.
721
Chuck: Yeah, man.
722
Manny: We started this whole thing out with a war… we struck a school.
723
Manny: Oh, boy.
724
Jeezy: Right, yes, yeah.
725
Chuck: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
726
Manny: Yay!
727
Chuck: Hold on, forget this. He committed a royal crime when he went into Venezuela and snatched a president!
728
Manny: That's true.
729
Jeezy: Man, he had a, right, he had a court case that's passed, we ain't nobody say nothing, bro.
730
Manny: Bruh. Bruh, it is…
731
Jeezy: Whole person of Venezuela sitting in New York, bruh.
732
Manny: We… we've been doing nothing… that
733
Manny: turned to 2026, and he said, welcome to the Department of War Crimes.
734
Jeezy: Bruh. That's the name of it. The Department of War Crimes, bruh.
735
Jeezy: This is absolutely insane. And Ukraine's just like, hey, look.
736
Jeezy: We don't call you a bluff. I am waiting.
737
Jeezy: To see, because so far, he's… they've been calling his bluff.
738
Jeezy: We're gonna see what happens Tuesday. Like Chuck said, it's Taco Tuesday. Is Taco gonna… he gonna fold?
739
Manny: This is really just… yes, he's gonna fold us. Either the fold or the announcement of the deal. I think one of those two happened.
740
Chuck: How you gonna announce a deal when the other party…
741
Jeezy: They said, bro, we ain't about you.
742
Chuck: Hey, Dylan.
743
Manny: But…
744
Chuck: Amen.
745
Manny: agreement.
746
Chuck: But hold up, also, also, why is there… and these are reports, and the reports seem to line up.
747
Chuck: that the U.S. is not telling Israel who they're trying to negotiate with, because every time they do, that person dies.
748
Manny: Mission!
749
Chuck: No, they don't go missing, they go bye-bye.
750
Jeezy: They brought it.
751
Chuck: Go bye-bye.
752
Jeezy: obliterating. Vaporizing.
753
Chuck: Yeah, like, ain't no missing. No, Israel did not miss.
754
Jeezy: them from existence. Like, yeah, bruh.
755
Chuck: It's crazy.
756
Jeezy: You know, but that's the… but when I heard that, Chuck, I was like, yo, this is crazy, because…
757
Jeezy: You brought us in it!
758
Chuck: You did.
759
Manny: Dude.
760
Chuck: Brothers in it.
761
Jeezy: What is Israel's objective? Or, excuse me, what is Benjamin Netanyahu's.
762
Chuck: No, no, no, no, no, no.
763
Chuck: No, no, not been…
764
Manny: I'm not saying. I'm not saying, but I'm saying.
765
Chuck: Am I Benjamin Netten. AI who?
766
Chuck: I'm just saying.
767
Manny: I'm just… Hey, bro. This is what the streets are reporting.
768
Chuck: I still have not seen a credible video of this man.
769
Manny: I heard Trump mention them either.
770
Chuck: Trump ain't said his name.
771
Jeezy: You know, he do for a trip to DC, you know, he come out about once a quarter.
772
Jeezy: You seen him.
773
Manny: That's the terms of the custody agreement. They're gonna come over about every two and a half months.
774
Jeezy: At least to Florida.
775
Chuck: Florida.
776
Jeezy: I mean…
777
Chuck: Did y'all hear this?
778
Jeezy: beat.
779
Chuck: Did y'all hear that he went to high school in the U.S?
780
Jeezy: I heard that, too.
781
Manny: If I believe it's somewhere in Pennsylvania, right?
782
Chuck: Yes, sir, that… yeah.
783
Jeezy: Bruh.
784
Jeezy: Crazy, bro.
785
Manny: Same, but I'm sane.
786
Jeezy: Okay, look.
787
Manny: this is what…
788
Jeezy: I tend forehead community, y'all get, y'all get it. Somebody, somebody went to the galley with them. Somebody was in student union with them. Somebody get us some beets.
789
Chuck: Hey, hey, Susan, Susan, listen to me. I will buy you coffee, and I don't even drink coffee. If you hit the boys up and tell us how he was in the lunchroom…
790
Manny: Yup, I got you.
791
Chuck: I gotcha.
792
Jeezy: Somebody got a picture ahead.
793
Manny: Somebody got.
794
Jeezy: about it. At any rate, man, you know…
795
Jeezy: Right now, we got the president saying that we're near the finish line, but he's also…
796
Jeezy: you know, threatening to escalate even more if Iran doesn't back down, make a deal, open… open the strait with his wild troop on Easter. But, bottom line, you know.
797
Chuck: Thousand prayers.
798
Jeezy: Yeah, bro. Just thoughts and prayers, man. I think this is gonna get a lot worse before it gets any better, and, like, to Chuck's point, when you have one side telling you they're not making a deal with nobody, I don't know who's talking to who, I mean, you gotta even question whether the president's even talking to the right people. I mean…
799
Chuck: He's talking to somebody. He's talking to the right…
800
Jeezy: about it.
801
Chuck: He's talking to the right people, he's not talking to real people. So, to that point.
802
Jeezy: They might have to release the Donald dementia dossier.
803
Manny: bruh.
804
Manny: The… the freedom… the freedom.
805
Chuck: Information Act.
806
Manny: That people will file…
807
Chuck: Oh, what is his health records? No, never mind.
808
Chuck: I was about to say something wild inappropriate, but nope.
809
Manny: -
810
Chuck: loop.
811
Jeezy: This is a…
812
Chuck: Family Broadcast.
813
Jeezy: When it's all said and done, we're gonna get the dossier, bruh.
814
Jeezy: Right.
815
Chuck: It's a dossier, the triple Ds.
816
Jeezy: But Trump…
817
Chuck: No Magic City.
818
Jeezy: No magic city, bruh. No magic. No magic.
819
Jeezy: No magic, no deity.
820
Chuck: No, ain't no DD about no triple D's.
821
Jeezy: Depending on who you ask, bruh, you know Where are we living in?
822
Chuck: We didn'.
823
Jeezy: Anyway…
824
Chuck: Anybody can have them for the right price.
825
Jeezy: benevolent noses.
826
Jeezy: I wasn't gonna say it, but…
827
Jeezy: But at any rate, man, we're gonna watch this time, this ticking time bomb, because at some point.
828
Jeezy: You know, somebody gotta give, bro.
829
Jeezy: Somebody… somebody got some… it got, you're right, Manny. It gotta… I'm just pray. It can't take forever, bruh.
830
Chuck: I just pray somebody's wire get cut.
831
Chuck: And it… And he… He was the bomb, just… Take that how you want.
832
Jeezy: Man, well, if it wasn't, the war that was even, just going on, and Trump saying a bunch of wild stuff out of the White House… Let's talk about.
833
Manny: about the home front.
834
Chuck: Sweep around your own.
835
Jeezy: Oh, front door.
836
Chuck: Before you try to sweep around my… Oh, yeah.
837
Jeezy: So, as wild as Trump talked on the, the primetime, speech, something even wilder came out, and the White House released their budget proposal.
838
Jeezy: And,
839
Jeezy: It isn't just numbers, it shows their priorities. This is literally the government telling you this is what matters more.
840
Jeezy: Than that, so… Just a quick reminder before we get into the White House, budget proposal.
841
Jeezy: It's basically a wish list, so Congress still has to approve it, and it's based on how things have been going, and it's not, you know, by the way things have been going in Congress, this is not guaranteed at all that this will be a short pass, but…
842
Jeezy: They give it to you in a very, condensed and simple way.
843
Jeezy: It's massive increase to budget spending. Massive, massive increase to budget spending, and cuts.
844
Chuck: No… not… not these guys!
845
Jeezy: Oh, can't be so!
846
Chuck: It, it…
847
Jeezy: So, it is cuts across most domestic programs, so you're looking at defense being up by 44%, with, I believe, $1.45 trillion, and non-defense going down about $73 billion, which is about.
848
Jeezy: a 10% cut, so basically more money for war, less money for everything else. So, when we look at this…
849
Chuck: Hold on, hold on. Not the President of Peace!
850
Jeezy: President of Peace. I love peace.
851
Manny: Peace is not…
852
Jeezy: Peace is amazing.
853
Jeezy: No one can give you peace like I can. Yes, yes, there is. There is someone. You might need to find them. Please.
854
Manny: And somebody that says the piece…
855
Jeezy: Passes all understanding.
856
Chuck: I guess that's why he thinks he can give peace that nobody else can, because he don't understand.
857
Manny: You know what I'm saying?
858
Jeezy: So the administration is leaning hard on this military spending with new weapon systems, AI military tech, nuclear modernization, and new fighter jets, and missile defense, so…
859
Jeezy: First point I wanna… well, first question I wanna ask, and Manny, I'll go to you, do you think that this is justified, because of the current war situation, or is this an overcorrection?
860
Manny: In the… I don't even know. That's a great question. I don't even…
861
Chuck: That's an even better answer.
862
Jeezy: Fans. Because, okay.
863
Manny: So there, I think there are a couple ways to look at it. If this… if you are the president of peace.
864
Manny: And…
865
Manny: you're in the middle of a quick war. If you think this war… and you're not looking for wars, and this war is about to be over, then why do I see…
866
Manny: $1.1 trillion.
867
Manny: going to the… so, are you telling me we're going… we need more war? Or is this reactionary to being like, man, we don't have the heat that I thought we had, so let me go ahead and, and bolster them in that?
868
Manny: The other piece is, from my standpoint, not from my… from a standpoint of… Wartime economies tend to spur…
869
Manny: national investment into infrastructure and manufacturing and stuff, so I could see some of that happening here, him trying to bolster his manufacturing push, and trying to do that through the Department of Defense, and it's a growth out there.
870
Manny: And, yeah, so that's what I think might be in flight, but we got all of that for what?
871
Manny: Like…
872
Jeezy: Che… Oh, sorry, baby.
873
Manny: Yeah, no, go, Chuck.
874
Chuck: Oh, man. It… To your question, Jeezy.
875
Chuck: Do I think… This is a reactionary measure to what is happening now? Yes.
876
Chuck: Do I think it's…
877
Chuck: sufficient? No. Because when you start chopping the brilliant minds, the experience, the knowledge base of your military, and start reducing the experience.
878
Chuck: you reduce the intelligence. We just talked on the last part about the counterintelligence Individuals who were fired.
879
Jeezy: Yeah.
880
Chuck: You're… you're shooting yourself in the foot.
881
Chuck: And saying, I know I need a better gun.
882
Chuck: It makes no sense.
883
Chuck: But then again, What have they done that makes sense?
884
Jeezy: Common sense ain't common, brother. Common sense is not…
885
Chuck: Not common. And this further cements the point that This is not America first.
886
Chuck: The… the amount of cuts… The areas that the cuts are hitting.
887
Chuck: drastically impede The… the growth, the…
888
Chuck: the substantial nature of living and livelihood of the American people.
889
Chuck: Those who set to benefit from this budget, if it's approved, we don't know how these cowards in Congress are gonna go. Right.
890
Chuck: Are those who are already wealthy.
891
Jeezy: Yep.
892
Chuck: And like many have said this before, this country is not set up how it was 50, 60 years ago to where the economy was bolstered
893
Chuck: during wartime. We're not a manufacturing country. Regardless of the… several…
894
Chuck: Large, defense contractors who would be making these… more advanced.
895
Chuck: Weapons?
896
Chuck: That… that wealth does not spread around.
897
Jeezy: It does.
898
Chuck: So it's still gonna be concentrated.
899
Chuck: Richer get richer, as has always been with this administration.
900
Chuck: And you're further digging a hole for the American people.
901
Jeezy: Well, when you… you make a great point, Chuck, and my thing is, is that…
902
Jeezy: You want a bigger purse.
903
Jeezy: And you don't have the people in the room that can properly manage the purse.
904
Jeezy: So, we're going to spend more money, you want more money, with less accountability.
905
Jeezy: Less people in the room that know what to do with that money.
906
Jeezy: And… I don't understand how this is going to benefit the American people. I talked to Manny earlier, and was making the point that you don't need more money for defense if you just stop
907
Jeezy: doing stupid stuff out here. Stop making the blocks.
908
Jeezy: You're making the block height and say, I need more money for protection. Stop making the block height. I mean, that's… That's probably cheaper. I think, I think, I don't know how much.
909
Chuck: Much cheaper.
910
Jeezy: I don't know how much it costs to send a truth tweet out, or whatever they call them, truths out. I would say maybe 15 cents, like it used to be back in the day when you sent a text message.
911
Chuck: Text messaging.
912
Jeezy: But for 15 cents, you just shut up, and you don't need… you'll need $1.45 trillion.
913
Chuck: Well.
914
Manny: Okay, and let's go to how that plays out in policy.
915
Manny: Yeah. You have the government agency, USAID, that is stepping into these war-torn places and providing support.
916
Manny: to these people, because you know the best way to not have to spend over a trillion dollars on your defense?
917
Manny: Eliminating reasons for people to go to war.
918
Jeezy: But didn't the certain department do something about the USAID? I think, though?
919
Manny: Yeah.
920
Manny: Yeah, that is not listed in this document.
921
Chuck: All things go… all things go back to Doge.
922
Jeezy: Because…
923
Manny: If you think about it, if I can prevent war, if we just invest a billion dollars into a random country, Serbia, I don't know why Serbia…
924
Chuck: Yeah, these will do.
925
Manny: What?
926
Manny: I gotta beat with them, like… You know?
927
Manny: So, let's just say we…
928
Manny: Let's say the U.S. had invested a billion dollars in the Don't Test Reason region of Ukraine.
929
Manny: and calmed everything down with the U.S. with Ukraine and Russia.
930
Manny: And that billion dollars prevents that war, because everything doesn't deteriorate in that area.
931
Jeezy: Yeah.
932
Manny: Don't you think that a billion spent in food or whatever kind of aid that we provided is worth not having to spend $500 billion on weapons for a couple-month conflict?
933
Jeezy: I think probably not, because, when Doge made the cuts for the USAID, they literally let the food and all the supplies basically drop.
934
Chuck: Yeah.
935
Jeezy: go to waste.
936
Chuck: Just sit there, and yeah.
937
Jeezy: So…
938
Manny: 43% raise, and I… here's one other thing on the Department of Defense, of which I will still call it.
939
Manny: It's officially documented down as the Department of War.
940
Manny: It's not a nickname, they literally list it like that.
941
Manny: just… interesting.
942
Chuck: Oh, and…
943
Manny: Excellent.
944
Chuck: Yo, what up?
945
Manny: now?
946
Chuck: Look, very valid and interesting. Also, what has come to mind is you want to give them more money.
947
Chuck: And they still ain't passed the audit. I'm just saying.
948
Jeezy: I was gonna bring that up, cuz. Good day.
949
Chuck: I'm just saying.
950
Jeezy: They can't allocate the money they got now. We want to give them more?
951
Chuck: If you would do right with the money you got, that's another $8 billion.
952
Jeezy: Boy, you remind me of my grandma when you said that.
953
Manny: You got it.
954
Jeezy: to do right.
955
Jeezy: Do right with what you got.
956
Manny: Hey guys, but we're gonna have… we're gonna have drone dominance.
957
Manny: unprecedented.
958
Chuck: Listen, I don't know what kind of drone dominance we're gonna have if you can't beat the Chinese with the drone light show that they be having.
959
Chuck: Man, that's just…
960
Jeezy: entertainment. I don't.
961
Chuck: That's just entertainment. I know they wore drums be doing some wild stuff.
962
Manny: If I ever become the mayor of the town in which I live.
963
Manny: That might… that might have to just be part of my platform.
964
Chuck: Listen, a drone light show is amazing.
965
Jeezy: It is, bro.
966
Manny: And we're gonna do… we're not just going to do it for 4th of July, no, it's gonna be Valentine's Day. We're gonna use those drones at least once a month.
967
Chuck: Yeah, that's how you get the effective, cost me the life shit.
968
Manny: Man, yeah, yup, yep.
969
Jeezy: But, you know, that increase, to me, is crazy, and it just makes me think, you know, as the good word says, that you be faithful over a few and make you rule over many.
970
Chuck: over many. Boy, you better preach on this good Sunday, yes, sir!
971
Jeezy: I don't believe that they have been faithful over the few that they've been given, and by few, I'm stretching that, because there has been a lot of money that has been poured into our defense.
972
Chuck: I got another scripture for you, boy. Whoo, go ahead.
973
Chuck: You got my spirit stirred up.
974
Chuck: given, it shall be given unto you good measures.
975
Manny: Damn, shaking the river.
976
Chuck: Runneth over shall men give unto your bosom.
977
Chuck: Hallelujah.
978
Jeezy: Bruh, so I don't believe, especially when you look at these increases, and I'm switching now to, you know, the cuts, and Chuck made such a great point about how this isn't America first, because
979
Jeezy: You're taking some major cuts into some of the biggest hits in small business programs.
980
Jeezy: That's cut by 67%.
981
Chuck: That's the backbone of America.
982
Chuck: a backbone. And the economy. The backbone of America's economy.
983
Jeezy: Environmental programs cut in half. Science research cut over 50%.
984
Jeezy: Foreign aid, a major reduction or elimination.
985
Jeezy: And it's not just cuts, it's some programs that are just straight up gone, you know?
986
Manny: Job Corps.
987
Jeezy: Minority business support, eliminated. Broadband access programs, gone. Some housing and community programs, gone. So…
988
Jeezy: When you look at this.
989
Jeezy: what stands out to you more? The budget increase that we've already kind of identified as ridiculous, or these… or these cuts?
990
Chuck: It's a cuss.
991
Manny: It's the cuts, yeah.
992
Chuck: That's a nasty. They super nasty. And I got a message for my black people.
993
Chuck: Those who are…
994
Chuck: Trump supporters. I don't knock you for support. Support who you support. I'm gonna call you stupid if I think you're stupid. Support who you support. But using this argument that Trump has done more for HBCUs than any other president is a lie.
995
Jeezy: Number one.
996
Chuck: If you look at this budget request here, This'll tell you right now.
997
Chuck: Right. You can hang that up, you can hang that notion up. Like, get it out your head.
998
Jeezy: I don't know what time he going to to make America great again, but I don't know if it was when we were cleaning chimneys, or we all was working in mines, or we was in the cotton fields, but…
999
Jeezy: The math ain't mathin', bro. The, the…
1000
Chuck: And this Common Core, man.
1001
Jeezy: Yo, this is…
1002
Jeezy: Now, this is the wild thing about the math in this joke, is that the White House is saying that with this budget, it'll be a 3.1% economic growth.
1003
Jeezy: From this… from what they're trying.
1004
Chuck: It will. It will. It will.
1005
Manny: Yeah.
1006
Chuck: They're positive.
1007
Manny: Yeah, like, are we not forgetting the whole, contract that I think Gnome had signed with her friend for a company that spun up 7 days before the contract was written? Right.
1008
Manny: It's gonna show on paper that money was made.
1009
Manny: Now, whether…
1010
Chuck: How much money has Jared Kushner made?
1011
Jeezy: Man, let me tell you…
1012
Chuck: This term started.
1013
Jeezy: Don't… nobody out not ever say nothing about Hunter Biden, bruh.
1014
Chuck: Not a… not a word about…
1015
Jeezy: Not a… not a mumbling word.
1016
Manny: Never said a mother's word.
1017
Manny: Ehh.
1018
Manny: It's bad, like…
1019
Jeezy: It's bad.
1020
Jeezy: It's bad. I mean, it's just…
1021
Manny: This is bad, like…
1022
Chuck: There's no other way to say it.
1023
Jeezy: Experts are saying, you know, between the Fed and the CBO, that what they're doing, it's gonna be under 2%.
1024
Jeezy: That's a huge gap between what the White House is assuming and what we have experts that are saying. And we're talking that gap being hundreds of billions of dollars.
1025
Jeezy: So…
1026
Chuck: And that's hypothetical and theoretical.
1027
Jeezy: Yeah.
1028
Manny: optimistic, I think.
1029
Chuck: And I'm very optimistic.
1030
Jeezy: Very optimistic.
1031
Chuck: With everything else that's going on.
1032
Jeezy: Yeah, and if you look at that gap, that growth… if that growth doesn't happen, this plan actually increases the deficit.
1033
Chuck: He's been increasing the deficit ever since.
1034
Jeezy: I was about to say, he been… he been paying that deficit.
1035
Manny: Well, and I think… BTA. What's also really interesting is what was not included. And this is the first time in modern budget history that they've not provided a deficit projection.
1036
Manny: So, so either they don't know what they're doing.
1037
Chuck: I mean, anything.
1038
Manny: Or they about to… They about to run this card slam up.
1039
Chuck: The deficit is like the Epstein Files. They don't…
1040
Jeezy: Defense don't exist. Inflation don't exist, deficit don't exist. Now, I will say, to be fair, to be fair, there are some increases outside of the defense. There is some veterans funds, I believe that's up.
1041
Jeezy: There is Pell Grants, increase for educational access.
1042
Jeezy: And disaster relief funding that is increasing well. So it's not all cuts, but overall, I believe when we look at this, the direction of this administration with this White House proposal is very clear, and I would think that we all can agree it is heavily, one-sided.
1043
Chuck: But, Jeezy, real quick, to what you were saying about the Veteran Affairs, there are reports that there are staffing cuts
1044
Chuck: to V.
1045
Manny: VA hospitals, yeah.
1046
Chuck: And canceling certain contracts.
1047
Chuck: Yeah. So… Is this really beneficial?
1048
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1049
Chuck: On the back end, when you… you've slashed and cut, and we've talked about this before, when you have…
1050
Chuck: Trimmed the staff.
1051
Chuck: to a very… below-breaking point and stress point. And…
1052
Jeezy: Yep.
1053
Chuck: You increase veterans every day.
1054
Jeezy: Yep.
1055
Chuck: Somebody's getting out of the military every day. So now, it's taking longer to process things.
1056
Chuck: you're causing more stress on workers, you also have a workforce that, if they have not been cut, they'll be retiring, or they're gonna quit, so now what do we do? And then the turnaround time to train someone up, to be able to do these things.
1057
Chuck: Where is the progress?
1058
Jeezy: There is no progress forward, because if you've cut, you've put us behind, and if anything, you can make it look like an increase, but if anything, you're just getting me back to point A, or maybe a little closer to it.
1059
Chuck: ye…
1060
Jeezy: But you.
1061
Chuck: out of the negative, yep.
1062
Jeezy: Yeah, we just… we were at first and ten, now we at second and.
1063
Chuck: Second of 15.
1064
Jeezy: Right now, just because it's third 10, we right back where we was at. Like, we ain't get a first down.
1065
Manny: getting to work.
1066
Jeezy: We ain't got the first dance, so…
1067
Manny: There are 3 ways I see this playing out.
1068
Manny: I'll start with the least likely of the three.
1069
Jeezy: Oh, we already know what that is.
1070
Manny: is that I think it's least likely that it is a full or a near-full adoption of everything. Yeah. Like, there's no way I think, that plays out.
1071
Manny: The,
1072
Manny: Other one is they find some weird continuing resolutions, they don't actually try to do a budget, and they just keep going piece by piece every couple months, funding things at a very small level.
1073
Jeezy: So you think more of a compromise?
1074
Manny: I wouldn't say compromise, but I say it's more one of those just-in-time things. Okay.
1075
Chuck: impact.
1076
Manny: Okay, yeah, we'll go three months, then, okay, we'll fund these things like this. Three more months, we'll fund these things like this. So I think it is actually probably likely that we'll see more weird… more weird situations where we have single agencies not funded, kind of like what we're still dealing with.
1077
Manny: Health and Human Services.
1078
Manny: The one I actually think is most likely, I actually do think they try to hit some type of longer-term budget that is more of a compromise.
1079
Manny: I think… and if…
1080
Manny: I see a world where that could happen. What it looks like, I think, is…
1081
Manny: There's probably some type of bump for defense spending.
1082
Manny: I think they protect the VA funding, they protect the educational programs, like the Pell Grants, they protect those,
1083
Manny: And…
1084
Manny: I think they try to soften some of the other cuts that you see for, the National Institute of Health, the EPA, and I think they're able… they don't get shut down, but they're extremely, like, scoped down.
1085
Manny: And those are the 3 that I think play out, but I think we are probably just most ultimately likely that we'll just keep doing continuing resolutions.
1086
Manny: Until…
1087
Manny: I think to August, there'll probably be another wave, and then they'll just try to get Congress through the election.
1088
Manny: And then come back in, like, November, and then you watch a lame duck Congress and how they react. And that'll be a real interesting Congress to watch, if Republicans do sustain the losses that they're projected to have now.
1089
Chuck: You know, one thing that was real humorous to me is the request, for $152 million
1090
Chuck: to restore Alcatraz.
1091
Manny: Damn.
1092
Chuck: And…
1093
Manny: It's like a functioning prison, right?
1094
Chuck: Well, just… I don't even know if you want to say it's functioning, because there was a report, a couple years ago that the National Park Association said it would cost almost $2 billion to rebuild that place.
1095
Chuck: Sorry, we got…
1096
Manny: We got… we ain't got anything else suspended on.
1097
Chuck: But it's just like this ballroom. This ballroom started out…
1098
Jeezy: Oh, Jesus.
1099
Chuck: So Alcatraz is about to… Alcatraz is about to take the path of the ballroom.
1100
Manny: Yeah.
1101
Chuck: And…
1102
Jeezy: And then we building something up under the ballroom, like, bruh.
1103
Jeezy: Indeed, just shut it down, bro.
1104
Jeezy: Just shut it down, bruh. That's where I'm at. Just shut it down.
1105
Jeezy: So, you know, at the end of the day.
1106
Jeezy: the budget, to me, and for our listeners, I want to point back to this direction as we…
1107
Jeezy: close this segment. This budget answers one question, and I think we all should…
1108
Jeezy: When someone tells you what they believe, who they are, what they want to do, believe them the first time.
1109
Chuck: Believable!
1110
Jeezy: look at this budget, the question now that comes to mind is, does this administration believe America… what should this administration believe that America should invest in?
1111
Jeezy: And…
1112
Jeezy: I don't see this as an America-first agenda, and we gotta get out of the mindset of thinking, oh, because we have such a great military, our lives are just so amazing.
1113
Jeezy: Brad no.
1114
Jeezy: I mean, that's just my stance.
1115
Jeezy: I think that there is money that needs to be served in the backbones of the American people to help them, and when you have something like small business.
1116
Jeezy: Which is essential to the backbones of Americans.
1117
Jeezy: That you're cutting that… Funding?
1118
Jeezy: the resources, Why would you not want that?
1119
Jeezy: Why would you… Feel that that's not necessary.
1120
Jeezy: Affordability.
1121
Jeezy: anything to help that to enhance the lives of the American people.
1122
Jeezy: Nothing in this budget tells me that, except for I guess I'm gonna feel safe that we got a golden dome and there's no missiles that's gonna strike me. I guess, as long as that doesn't happen, then I guess…
1123
Jeezy: America first.
1124
Chuck: As long as it's not built by the company that Israel contracted.
1125
Chuck: I'm just saying.
1126
Jeezy: I mean, hey…
1127
Chuck: Rustin' that iron.
1128
Jeezy: Yeah, look, yeah, they got a little…
1129
Jeezy: Got a little rest on that… on that iron. But at any rate, you know, as we said, I think, you know, the three things you're looking at is a gridlock, some compromise, or…
1130
Jeezy: some measure of passing something, but at the end of the day, it has to go to Congress, so it's just a wish list. It's not final. I would expect some adjustments to be made, but…
1131
Jeezy: With the cowards, what we call them over there in Congress, Chuck?
1132
Jeezy: The Congress of Johns?
1133
Chuck: Yeah, the cowards of Congress.
1134
Jeezy: Towers of Congress. Towers of Congress.
1135
Chuck: Regardless.
1136
Jeezy: You know, we'll see what happens, but,
1137
Jeezy: That is our coverage of the White House proposal budget, and at this time in our episode, you guys know we always like to come to you with our pickle of the week.
1138
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1139
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1140
Audio shared by Jeezy: We got your pickle!
1141
Jeezy: Alright, alright, alright, alright. So, our pickle of the week.
1142
Jeezy: It should be.
1143
Jeezy: Should be Tiger Woods.
1144
Manny: Not Tiger.
1145
Jeezy: And the only way he gets in this political.
1146
Chuck: Tiger Tiger Woods, y'all.
1147
Jeezy: If you, if you go flip your car over…
1148
Jeezy: Man, don't try to play the president card.
1149
Jeezy: Correct.
1150
Manny: But look, I get it.
1151
Jeezy: You fly like a man.
1152
Manny: I… look, I get why you go for that card. You're in Florida, If it's gonna work anywhere.
1153
Manny: It's either Florida or Texas.
1154
Manny: So, I can get why he pulled the card. He flipped that car over and immediately assessed the situation and said, what do I need to do to get out of this predicament?
1155
Jeezy: Bandit's a…
1156
Manny: Tiger Woods ain't enough.
1157
Jeezy: The man didn't say, Lord, thank you that I… that you spared me, I didn't lose my life.
1158
Jeezy: First thing I gotta do when I flip over and get out the car…
1159
Manny: Let me call it Donnie. Hey, Donnie, it's me, Tiger.
1160
Jeezy: I wanna know what that conversation sounded like, because I gotta know that it was wild.
1161
Jeezy: But Tiger… Hey, man. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta get off them pills.
1162
Manny: eager.
1163
Jeezy: Or if that's the case, just don't take them and drive.
1164
Jeezy: Get your private driver, you have more than enough resources to afford that.
1165
Manny: We'll say.
1166
Jeezy: We're not hurt.
1167
Manny: But, but I will say, Chuck called it.
1168
Jeezy: Yep.
1169
Jeezy: Yes, he did.
1170
Manny: I called him.
1171
Jeezy: So… Tiger Woods is not our pickle of the week, but…
1172
Jeezy: Our pickle of the week goes back to, a familiar, at least last name. We're going back to the Noem family. I believe a couple episodes ago, Christy Noem was the pickle because she had lost her job as head of, Healthy, of DHS.
1173
Jeezy: And she's back in the headlines again, but not for a political reason.
1174
Jeezy: Her husband, Byron Noem.
1175
Jeezy: Has been exposed for allegedly having an online second life.
1176
Jeezy: Oh, wow.
1177
Manny: Wildlife. I thought that…
1178
Jeezy: I thought Mark Robinson was a wild dude, but apparently…
1179
Jeezy: It gets wilder, and apparently, he's… there were leaked, photos of him in certain chat rooms and spaces,
1180
Jeezy: Dressing in something, calling himself a bimbo?
1181
Jeezy: I will not listen to this note.
1182
Jeezy: I mean, nothing…
1183
Chuck: Beyond wild.
1184
Jeezy: of this… of this life, of this… of this fetish, I have… All of this is,
1185
Jeezy: It's news to me.
1186
Jeezy: But yeah. And he was revealing in chat that… well, first of all, before I continue.
1187
Jeezy: Brian, I gotta, I gotta hit you with this.
1188
Audio shared by Jeezy: He a fan, he a fan, he a fan, hmm, he a fan, he a fan here.
1189
Jeezy: Got to. Be afraid.
1190
Manny: That is famine-like behavior.
1191
Jeezy: That is a very fan-like, activity. But, he was exposed, and, you know, Chrissy Noem said that this information has, rocked her family.
1192
Jeezy: And, she's asking for, privacy during this matter, which, in turn, I've heard a lot of people say, well, you didn't mind giving families any privacy and peace when you were tearing them all apart.
1193
Chuck: Yeah, go slam apart.
1194
Jeezy: So why you think that people gonna give it to you now? But yeah.
1195
Chuck: Or when you run around on these jets, unauthorized with that man, that other man.
1196
Jeezy: I was about to say, so it's a wild combination, because he, in one of the chats, and I believe he was exposed by a model who was in one of these chat rooms, which I don't even know why… I don't…
1197
Jeezy: I don't even want to know why. Let me just put that like that. I don't even want to know why.
1198
Jeezy: This is something that… this is a part of a society that I don't need to know exists.
1199
Jeezy: But, she said that he exposed that apparently, I guess, that his wife was having an affair with her co-worker, which we had heard rumors of that.
1200
Manny: So…
1201
Jeezy: So, she was already having what sounded like, allegedly, some extramarital affairs, and then, I guess, in his space of being home.
1202
Jeezy: He, he lived this online, second alternative, secret life.
1203
Chuck: Felt lonely.
1204
Jeezy: I mean, Grand Theft Auto Bimbo Edition, I guess. I don't know, really.
1205
Jeezy: Hey, man, I don't know, but… she… you know, this is, this is, you know, can't get any worse for the Noem family, at this point.
1206
Manny: Don't say that.
1207
Manny: Just when you hit rock bottom, there can always be a layer.
1208
Jeezy: They're, they're…
1209
Chuck: We go to hell. We go to hell.
1210
Jeezy: But hey, man, at the end of the day, you know, when you think about this, it's nothing to do with policy, but everything to do with perception, and in politics, perception is reality. So, when you're in the public light, and Manny, you can attest to this, though… he was not a political figure.
1211
Jeezy: When that political spotlight get put on you?
1212
Jeezy: There it is.
1213
Manny: There you go.
1214
Jeezy: There's a space for you to be exposed, and my brother, you have been exposed with your fake chest out.
1215
Chuck: Bruh. Yeah. Yeah.
1216
Jeezy: I don't… I ain't got no heaven to hell to put nobody in, so I don't judge nobody. If that's the way he lived, that's the way he lived.
1217
Manny: Where you live.
1218
Jeezy: I just…
1219
Chuck: You look stupid, you look stupid.
1220
Jeezy: And if you look… I just gotta… it's kind of strange to me, you know what I'm saying, that you live at home with him, and you ain't never one time just go, where are my heels at? And you went and pulled back that bag in the closet, and you saw.
1221
Manny: Man, he's just walking down the hallway, sushing, like,
1222
Chuck: My favorite Teddy is missing.
1223
Jeezy: Why we keep going through tissue so much?
1224
Chuck: Bro.
1225
Jeezy: But I know I'm your wife.
1226
Chuck: Oh, man.
1227
Jeezy: for that.
1228
Jeezy: You gotta be a pickle of the week. You just got to, bruh. Sorry, man. So.
1229
Chuck: Maybe now that it is out? Don't even ask me how.
1230
Jeezy: that is out, now he can live the life that he's happy with, so…
1231
Chuck: Live free. Live free.
1232
Jeezy: free, man, live free, be free. And Chris, whatever you doing to that, man, stop.
1233
Jeezy: stop. That man just trying to find happiness, bruh. He gotta go in the chat rooms and be…
1234
Jeezy: They'd get it this way, I mean, I guess, but…
1235
Jeezy: I guess. There is some happiness you can find on this Easter Sunday, and that is in Jesus Christ, and I hope that you find.
1236
Manny: Thank you!
1237
Chuck: Hallelujah!
1238
Manny: Thank God!
1239
Jeezy: With that being…
1240
Chuck: Real quick, real quick, real quick, quick and spotlight. I don't know how many of y'all remember the original,
1241
Chuck: Oh my god. Ultra Light Beam.
1242
Chuck: When it first came out. What you hear on streaming now is an altered…
1243
Chuck: version of it, because as my good brother Jesus can tell you, the music connoisseur he is, and definitely during that time period, he was a very…
1244
Chuck: big Kanye fan. This is before Kanye went left. I ain't gonna say he ain't… he… he went way left after that. And so, but Ultralight being this, sampling of a little girl who's saying, hallelujah!
1245
Jeezy: Yeah.
1246
Chuck: We want God, we don't want the devil. That's just my favorite in this song.
1247
Jeezy: Hey, bro.
1248
Chuck: Sunday, so, you know…
1249
Jeezy: Yes, sir. That, man, that, that joint.
1250
Jeezy: That joint… that's a song right there, bro.
1251
Chuck: Yes, sir.
1252
Jeezy: That's a song, but yes, sir, I definitely remember that, and to that point, Chuck, I'mma go ahead and move us to the conclusion of our episode, and I'mma ask you what your spotlight is, brother, for the week.
1253
Chuck: My spotlight for the week.
1254
Chuck: is jobs. Okay. Jobs, jobs, more jobs.
1255
Chuck: Or is it more jobs?
1256
Chuck: Or is it not?
1257
Chuck: No, no.
1258
Manny: Who knows?
1259
Jeezy: remind me of the cha-cha slide, bro. Take it back now, y'all.
1260
Manny: Do have this…
1261
Chuck: That's a… that's a perfect description.
1262
Jeezy: And that would be moved.
1263
Chuck: That number be moving, moving. So, yes, my spotlight is the job number. So, recently, the job numbers came out, and they blew people's mind, because they came out very strong. Very strong.
1264
Manny: 3X projected.
1265
Chuck: very strong. It was projected to be a little more than 60,000 jobs earned, and the reports came out that it was about 178,000 jobs.
1266
Chuck: And immediately, I hit pause.
1267
Chuck: Good.
1268
Manny: Some, somebody.
1269
Chuck: Go ahead, go ahead, Jim.
1270
Audio shared by Jeezy: Somebody told a lie one day.
1271
Chuck: And because… there's several factors to this. Number one…
1272
Chuck: Just a few weeks ago, my good brother Jerome Powell came out and talked about how he was, apprehensive of the economy because we were at a net-zero job growth creation, or job creation.
1273
Chuck: For y'all who don't understand, net zero means… nothing.
1274
Jeezy: Nothing.
1275
Chuck: Whatever jobs we are getting are being taken away by those who are being fired.
1276
Chuck: Then there was a report that came out that said, who was it? Oracle?
1277
Chuck: Was, getting rid of 30,000… Employees?
1278
Jeezy: Got it.
1279
Chuck: And I'm talking about, they… they… I don't know…
1280
Jeezy: It came like a thief in the night.
1281
Chuck: Well, Oracle played no games, and did not sugarcoat that. Y'all about to lose y'all job, don't come back tomorrow, you got 24 hours to accept this severance package, or you outta here? Are you out of luck?
1282
Chuck: Then, if I'm…
1283
Jeezy: And then no reply all on it.
1284
Manny: Everyone BCC.
1285
Chuck: It did, if I'm not mistaken, is it Meta and Manny who's doing, like, $20,000?
1286
Manny: Allegedly, yep.
1287
Chuck: But then… The report dropped that, a few days after these wonderful job numbers came out.
1288
Chuck: Oh, hey guys!
1289
Chuck: We made a mistake upon the February job numbers.
1290
Chuck: We know we told y'all. We, added some jobs.
1291
Chuck: We lost about 133,000.
1292
Manny: And look, they revise these reports all the time.
1293
Chuck: Yes.
1294
Manny: light.
1295
Chuck: Easily.
1296
Manny: These are revenues.
1297
Jeezy: If I'm not mistaken, didn't Trump fire the young lady that was keeping accurate, you know, giving accurate data?
1298
Chuck: Because she was not one of his people, yeah.
1299
Jeezy: So…
1300
Chuck: to hear that.
1301
Jeezy: We're still seeing bad numbers.
1302
Manny: Well, we're seeing good numbers when they're the top number, and then they run back and fix it, because, you know, we on to March. We on to, March. We're not talking about February no more.
1303
Chuck: What ain'.
1304
Jeezy: Well, they show play like we stupid.
1305
Chuck: Yeah. So, here, here's some positive numbers.
1306
Chuck: Unemployment rate is down from 4.4% to 4.3%.
1307
Chuck: Yeah.
1308
Jeezy: That, that's… that needs an asterisk.
1309
Chuck: But here's the crazy thing, here's your asterisk on it.
1310
Chuck: The number of long-term unemployed, meaning those who are out of work for 27 weeks or more, remains at 1.8 million.
1311
Chuck: Up over $300,000 compared to year over year.
1312
Chuck: That's a million and a half more people.
1313
Chuck: Unemployed.
1314
Chuck: Under Trump's… under Trump's presidency.
1315
Chuck: Yeah, so…
1316
Jeezy: We booming.
1317
Chuck: We booming, we bucket. We service all the best.
1318
Jeezy: You know what I'm saying? We gotta stop. We're winning so much, we can't take it anymore.
1319
Chuck: Yeah, so, and finally, in regards to this job number, the numbers that was released,
1320
Chuck: for March, and it looked so wonderful, was… the strongest growth was in the healthcare sector.
1321
Jeezy: Yep.
1322
Chuck: But here's the asterisk on that.
1323
Chuck: Much of the growth in the healthcare sector wasn't new job creation, but rather the statistical return of thousands of nurses and medical staff who were on strike during the February reporting period.
1324
Chuck: So we get… I tell y'all all the time, men lie, women lie, and numbers do too, depending on who's presenting them.
1325
Jeezy: Good man.
1326
Chuck: That's my spotlight.
1327
Jeezy: Alright, Manny, what you got, brother?
1328
Manny: Man, so, the state of North Carolina never ceases to, to become entertaining, and…
1329
Manny: I guess I shouldn't say entertaining, because this, you know, directly impacts me. So, have you guys ever…
1330
Chuck: You gotta laugh to keep from crying.
1331
Manny: The, Lenidro timeline, so, the Lenidro…
1332
Manny: case came up in front of the North Carolina Supreme Court and was struck down. I wanted to have a real quick point about the Lenidro case. So, the Lenidro case…
1333
Manny: was the first time the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled unanimously that students have the constitutional right to have the opportunity to receive a sound, basic education.
1334
Manny: That case started in 1997.
1335
Manny: 14-month trial in 2002.
1336
Manny: A court finds that the state of North Carolina, was not meeting its responsibilities in accordance to the case and making sure that students were receiving a sound, basic education.
1337
Manny: In 2015, they found that it was getting worse. So, a plan had been developed called the WestEd Comprehensive Remedial Plan. It was an 8-year plan costing $8.6 billion, growing to $5 to $6 billion.
1338
Manny: annually through 2028 for additional investment into North Carolina's education.
1339
Manny: Well… earlier this week, they went ahead and tossed it.
1340
Manny: Yeah, after 32 years of litigation, completely tossed, and basically said that this is not something enforceable by the state legally, and that we should be looking for
1341
Manny: Policy and education policy to be coming out of the legislature, not the judicial branch.
1342
Manny: And… so yeah, so… North Carolina, who, if you look from a numbers and a percentage-wise, is near the bottom, if not the bottom, in several categories.
1343
Manny: But it paints our legislature in a very different… not a different, but a pretty bad situation heading into the next school year.
1344
Manny: To be able to hire for people, I think we're looking at somewhere in excess of 6,000 vacancies for next year at this point. We're in the low 40s in terms of funding.
1345
Manny: The attrition rate is 10% overall, and up… approaching 20% for early career teachers because of how we pay, and then depending on where you are in the state. If you're one of the top, kind of, 10 counties.
1346
Manny: There's a county supplement on top of what the state provides of over $4,000. If you're one of the bottom 10 counties, it's about $1,000 onto us, so you really have this disparity going from county to county.
1347
Manny: And, yeah.
1348
Manny: it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Whether the legislature decides to step in and do anything, whether there'll be another case, or this case gets argued up higher.
1349
Manny: Those are two of the major reactions. I think the one thing I'm looking forward towards, in all of this is May 1st, the North Carolina's teacher… NCAE, which is, like, essentially the teachers' union.
1350
Manny: in North Carolina is doing a very large, rally on May 1st. Governor Stein is going to probably propose some emergency education investment, but we'll see now that everything is played out from the primaries what could happen there.
1351
Manny: But I think it's almost…
1352
Manny: guarantee that the federal court's gonna get involved in some capacity. Either someone takes… someone's gonna take it to them, and they'll get involved.
1353
Manny: But yeah, education will become a forefront topic as we approach the primaries… not the primaries, the general election coming up, and what that happens… what happens to North Carolina voters.
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Chuck: Man, this… We, we gotta, we gotta change the name of the podcast.
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Chuck: You have to change the name to Pardon the Prophecy.
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Manny: Okay.
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Chuck: I swear, our spotlights are, like, flipping the next week or so, truly being spotlights where there's something from what we said that rears its head and, you know, pops out like, hey people, they told y'all this was a good look.
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Jeezy: Y'all better start listening to the blood. We only really…
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Manny: been wrong once.
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Chuck: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: That was a big one. It was a big one. It was a big one.
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Chuck: It's the big one, Elizabeth!
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Manny: But still only once.
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Chuck: Yeah, yeah, yes. And, real quick, shout out to the North Carolina Association of Educators. I have a couple of friends who are, in…
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Chuck: in the admin capacity of that organization. They ride hard for our educators in North Carolina, and although I'm no longer, a resident of North Carolina, I still have family there, and
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Chuck: the way that this impacts our kids and our students… Yeah, man.
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Chuck: On top of the staff, and just the entire school system, but it baffles me because they say it's life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And there are plenty of studies that show
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Chuck: Education is catamount to the success of your life. And this is not, oh, go to college, I mean, go to high school, go to college. Shout out to Alpha Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. Yes, sir. But… but just like… like Manny said, basic education. Yep.
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Chuck: The basic necessity of education to be able to read, write, and the good old, old school arithmetic.
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Jeezy: Oh, really?
1372
Chuck: How do you get RRR with a word that does not start with R? But anyway…
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Manny: Here's the crazy thing about this. They had to go define what it meant. That meant having a qualified t-shirt in every classroom, a prepared principal in school every… in every school, adequate resources, and pre-K for at-risk students.
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Chuck: Which should be… Common sense stuff.
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Chuck: It's, like, this stuff should be…
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Chuck: I'm sorry, go ahead, G, because I don't…
1377
Jeezy: If people are… if people wanna… Wear the title of pro-life.
1378
Jeezy: Is this…
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Chuck: Does life stop… does pro-life stop after they're born?
1380
Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Because, why… if we ride so hard for pro-life, why is this not something that people are, like, furious about, that this funding should be a guarantee, just as much as you would guarantee
1382
Jeezy: the kids to have textbooks, to have lunch, to have resources. This should be a no-brainer. Why is it that this has to be something that has to be fought for when it is a part of that pursuit of happiness that Chuck is talking about?
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Manny: I'll see your comment, which is spot on, Jeezy, I'll raise you with this.
1384
Manny: Conservatism… conservatism, for me, is just not about what you cut spending on, it's what you make investments to.
1385
Manny: And having a strong, educated, population space, you know what that does?
1386
Chuck: speaks.
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Manny: That brings companies. And you know what companies bring? Economic development, which brings expansion. That gives you more ability to invest into these things. So it's not just about what you cut, it is about what you invest in as well.
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Jeezy: Great point, brother.
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Chuck: Yes, sir.
1391
Jeezy: Well, I will say for my spotlight, I'mma keep it very simple and land, gracefully with some comedic relief.
1392
Jeezy: That,
1393
Jeezy: For those… we didn't have one of these, but I feel like it's just fitting for the occasion.
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Manny: We weren't planning on it anyway without one.
1395
Jeezy: For those of you that have been watching, we have sent four individuals into space for our return.
1396
Jeezy: To the moon.
1397
Jeezy: And as your residential, moon conspiracy theorist.
1398
Jeezy: I will say, I took that tenfold hat off this past week, and was able to see the excitement of my, my 5-year-old daughter seeing the…
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Jeezy: The launch that happened this past week.
1400
Chuck: Hold on, did you take the hat off, or did you tilt it to the side like T.I.'s cat?
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Jeezy: For the sake of her, I took it off just.
1402
Chuck: Okay, I got you, gotcha, gotcha.
1403
Jeezy: took it off just for a little bit, but, it's been very interesting just to see the details of Artemis II and, everything that NASA's been releasing, down to just, you know, the
1404
Jeezy: constant communication that we're being given, from the astronauts, and I believe within the next couple of days, it will actually be reaching the moon to make the loop around, and will be known as the furthest that mankind has went into space. And I just want to say that that's an awesome thing, because it's only a few things that you see in this
1405
Jeezy: In this society now, these days, that actually, brings people together.
1406
Jeezy: One of them was the World Cup, but that's about to be destroyed.
1407
Jeezy: the Olympics, and, you know, seeing the excitement of so many kids about this, this,
1408
Jeezy: of what NASA's doing, just was one of those moments that I was able to take that hat off and really enjoy the fact of this achievement that we've been made, and hopefully, it will be successful on their return. I believe it's a 10-day journey, and right now, at the time of this recording, they're on, like, day 3 or 4.
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Jeezy: But just want to keep everybody in the spotlight of watching.
1410
Jeezy: this great achievement, if, you know, Lord willing, everything goes well, and there are no setbacks or no issues or whatsoever, I think it'll be something very great that we can say as a society that we've accomplished. And there's an astronaut up there, I forgot his last name, but his first name is Victor.
1411
Jeezy: That, that brother…
1412
Jeezy: That brother be preaching up there in space. He had a very powerful Easter message this morning.
1413
Jeezy: When they spoke with him, and he… his approach to what they're accomplishing and what he hopes this means, not just as a Black man, but just as society, is very impactful and, something that I… is worth me taking my tenfold hat off to, so…
1414
Manny: So, see, geez, let me just say this. Yes. Oh, go, Chuck.
1415
Chuck: I was just gonna say, his name is Victor Glover.
1416
Jeezy: Glover, yes, yep, Vintage Glover.
1417
Jeezy: Jesus. Please wait a minute.
1418
Manny: If we are ever on a spaceship together.
1419
Jeezy: Bruh.
1420
Manny: and you break the toilet 10 minutes into this fight, I just want you to know.
1421
Chuck: We fight. I'm beat, I'm beat.
1422
Manny: ass. Well, listen.
1423
Jeezy: We ain't never gonna have to worry about that anyway, brother, because the way that them, them capsules look, we ain't.
1424
Chuck: No, sir, we ain't been…
1425
Manny: Ain't none of us getting in no capsules.
1426
Jeezy: That's a one-man mission.
1427
Manny: The whole…
1428
Chuck: The whole toilet section is on the floor.
1429
Chuck: Like, I was watching this little news segment, and they were talking about how… where they exercise, and they had a little band. If you're going… coming out of the bathroom, you gotta be careful, because somebody could be exercising right above your head.
1430
Jeezy: bro.
1431
Chuck: Right.
1432
Jeezy: I don't know if y'all remember when we went to Houston, bruh, we went to the.
1433
Chuck: Oh, yeah, yeah.
1434
Jeezy: You seen how, like, you know, tight the spaces are. I'm like, yo, ain't no way, bruh.
1435
Jeezy: To close off the episode, I do want to say this. I happened to see this pop up on my phone, and I just want to bring this to mention that there is a proposed Michigan bill
1436
Jeezy: that was introduced that aims to require drivers aged 75 or older to pass a vision-written road test every 4 years to renew their license, and at the age of 85, they have to do it annually. And I just want to say…
1437
Manny: Everybody.
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Chuck: immediately.
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Jeezy: Adopt, basically.
1440
Chuck: Drop that to 70, and I'm with you.
1441
Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
1442
Manny: bro.
1443
Jeezy: 70, yes, because some of these folks gotta get off the road, but Michigan, if you listen, if we got any listeners in the Michigan area, yes, this is the right thing to do. This is… this is road safety, this is what road safety.
1444
Manny: Looks like.
1445
Jeezy: So more people need to adopt this, but,
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Jeezy: To our listeners, this is the end of our episode, Season 3, Episode 14, and it's always a pleasure to be able to do this with my brothers, to come back and provide you some type of clarity in the amount of chaos that we are, dealing with in this world. So, brothers, anything? All hearts and minds clear?
1447
Manny: I'm good on my side.
1448
Manny: Chuck?
1449
Chuck: I just want to say I appreciate my brothers and their support of me on this past week. As many of the listeners know, I told y'all that I was in the process of moving. Well, I moved last week, and
1450
Chuck: if you've ever moved, you know the struggle of unpacking. That's probably my biggest struggle, because
1451
Chuck: As I said in the group chat with the boys, I thank God he has blessed us to be in a position
1452
Chuck: That we can hire movers.
1453
Chuck: And not beat up and break down our bodies.
1454
Manny: Boy… I…
1455
Chuck: As the old folks say, Lord Windland, if the creek don't rise, I will see the wonderful age of 44 on this coming week.
1456
Manny: Ayy!
1457
Jeezy: Yay!
1458
Chuck: I… listen, I couldn't… what?
1459
Jeezy: Never would've made it.
1460
Chuck: Never… without you.
1461
Jeezy: Even if I hand you.
1462
Chuck: Yeah, but my brothers have been supportive.
1463
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
1464
Chuck: And encouraging, and all the above. So, yeah, just want to give y'all a shout out.
1465
Jeezy: Hey, man, hey, I appreciate, I appreciate it.
1466
Manny: Followed.
1467
Jeezy: in my absence last week, so man, listen, y'all… with family.
1468
Chuck: I want to acknowledge, shout out to Geez. Me and Manny have mentioned it. I think we mentioned it on the pod. We said it in the group chat. He is the point guard. He is the point guard of the pie, because I…
1469
Chuck: I tend to go back and just listen to the pod, even after we release it, for a personal critique, you know, sharpening things, and I realized I didn't intro the pod, I didn't tell y'all what episode it was.
1470
Manny: We're here, we hear.
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Chuck: We here, we here, let's get it going. But, you know, and before we leave, I gotta hit you with a
1472
Chuck: Yeah, shout out to my guy Jeezy, because, boy, that thing was a mess last week.
1473
Jeezy: There's a man trying to develop under the microscope, as my brother would say.
1474
Chuck: Yes, sir.
1475
Jeezy: Hey, to our listeners, thank you, thank you, thank you. As always, like, share, follow, subscribe to our YouTube, all that we have as far as social media for the time being. Follow us, let us know if there's any input, any topics you want us to cover.
1476
Jeezy: Reach one. Reach one, and hopefully we can teach one. So, to that, I hope all hearts and minds are clear, and this episode finds you in the best space possible. If not, just know that the boys hit the pod. We love you.
1477
Manny: Love y'all.
1478
Jeezy: We love you, we love you. Take care, we'll see you at the next episode.
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Chuck: B.