So I'm like, oh no. So I call Trump and I'm like, hey, sir, what's going on? He's like, Jada, you missed a very important phone call. And now I'm going to have to pick somebody else. And I'm, you know, I like tense up and almost have a heart attack. And the crazy thing about it is my son, who's seven, is in the hotel room with me. And he's really into Pokemon cards right now. He's going through a Pokemon phase. Are you guys into Pokemon? I am. Back in the day, yeah. That's a big phase right now, I think, in general. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, he's really into it. So he's trying to talk to me about Pikachu. And I'm on the phone with Donald Trump. And I'm like, son, shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu.

It's the most important phone call in my life.

Please just let me take this phone call.

As you might have guessed, because you had to start this episode of the Mike Craig podcast

with a moment of J.D. Vance.

I'm Jared J.J. Sexton.

And Nick Houselman is still out and about.

We wish him all of the best and he will be back on the Friday Weekender edition. I believe with a special guest and I am about to take my exit for a few days.

I am going to get out of Dodge, so to speak, and I will be returning back to the world of

politics and the muckrake and all that good stuff somewhere around the 15th of August. I'm going to take

the next 10 days or so and recalibrate and get ready for what's coming. I don't know how else to put it.

Yeah. So you will have your daily dose of Nick Houselman and I will return. I hope that you

miss me and send your well wishes. If you want to listen to that Weekender edition and get

reacquainted with Nick and maybe he'll talk about Hawaii and maybe he'll talk about the mustache

that he had for maybe a couple of hours. I don't know.

I don't know what my man's been up to.

He's been resting.

All you need to do is go over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast, become a patron to the show.

Hopefully you enjoyed last week for the weekender.

I left you with two separate interviews. If you haven't listened to them yet,

I highly recommend them. One was with Jake Rock, Rockatansky, from the QAA podcast, formerly

the Q&Nanonymous podcast. The conversation with Jake was fantastic. I loved it.

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