Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton, and I'm sick.

I've been traveling, and I am here with, I don't know, a cold, a flu, something new. I don't have a clue.

But Nick Houseman is celebrating Memorial Day with barbecue.

And so I'm here holding down the fort.

And I wanted to get on here and talk about a couple of the things that have been going on over the past few days and get my thoughts down on them.

So yeah, flying solo today. So apologies for no intro music.

I know some people really enjoy that. And you always get a bootleg version of things when I'm at the

controls because I don't know where the music is. I think I could probably figure out how to play it.

I mean, I'm able to do that with my stuff over on dispatches from a collapsing state.

But yeah, I don't have that file. But here we are.

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to this show to have conversations about what's going on. So we do, do appreciate that more than

we can even put into words.

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growing, and again, we are so, so grateful for that support. We start, unfortunately, with the

House of Representatives passing in a 215 to 214 vote, the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, which is so-repulsive, not just in its

contents, but also much like Doge being an oligarchical coup tool to dismantle the government

and give control over to the oligarchs. It's disgusting that these

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