Hey everybody. Welcome to the McCrink podcast. I'm Jared D. Sexton. I'm here with Nick, I know we

usually do the banter here at the beginning. Bad weekend. We're coming off a bad weekend.

One of the worst weekends, as far as I can feel, just, you know, only in the sense that like I'm so numb to

some of the things that we're'm so numb to some of the

things that we're going to have to talk about that it doesn't have that same dread that I would have and wouldn't have done this in the past. But when you add it all together, it's like we haven't had a weekend like this in a long time. And we have a lot of bad weekends now. I mean, over the court like you know we have like mass shooting weekends which we're going to talk about that we have

tragic weekends fascists I mean, over the court, like, you know, we have like mass shooting weekends, which we're going to talk about that.

We have tragic weekends, fascistic weekends.

I mean, like, it is, we're finishing out 2025 on some bummers.

And I just want to put that out front because what we're dealing with today, the news that we have to unpack, it's tough.

And this is one of the reasons why we do this show.

It's not all shits and giggles.

You know, it is sometimes like unpacking some of the really, really hard things.

So we appreciate you tuning in.

We hope that wherever you are that you had a better weekend than a lot of people did.

A reminder, head over to patreon.com slash Mike Craig Podcast, support the show,

gain access to the weekend or hopefully on Friday.

We will have a much lighter episode.

Nick, our lead story today, we will get into the political angle on this secondarily.

But we're recording this on Monday, December 15th, last night, Sunday night. Later in the evening, it came across the wire that director,

Rob Reiner and his wife, actress Michelle Reiner, producer Michelle Reiner, had been seemingly murdered, possibly by their son in

their home. Again, we'll get into the political aspect of this here in just a second, but I have to assume

that you and I similarly respected Reiner, not just as an actor,

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