That was a delayed opening. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of The Great Podcast. I'm Deer J. Sexton here with my good friend Nick Hausman. Nick, how you doing, but I'm good? I'm good. I'm fine. That's the type of energy we want to bring into the weekend. Everything is fine, Jared. I'm okay. That's perfect. Yeah, I can't blink any louder, can I? I don't think so.

Yeah, I can't blink any louder, can I?

I don't think so. Yeah, that's, I think that's the consensus feeling at the moment.

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it well nick we have an update um when we were getting ready to record, we recorded on Monday for the Tuesday episode.

And right before we started recording, this major blockbuster report came out that basically the entire entirety of the Trump administration got on signal illegally and shared national and military secrets in a really haphazard and let me check my notes,

illegal way. And since that story has come out, we have watched multiple iterations of an

attempt to explain what has happened. Don't worry everybody, Pam Bondi is not going to

investigate this in case you're

like really concerned about it. But this major scandal has now played out in so many different

acts and forms. And Nick, it started out with the White House denying that anything had

happened. Pete Hegseth saying basically nothing had occurred here. The Atlantic was more or less dared to release the entirety of the exchange on Signal.

And since then, it's more or less been one of the most slap-dash haphazard bullshit denial stories.

It's partly a cover-up. How have you felt watching this thing start to

develop over this week? Well, I'm pleasantly surprised that it's managed to stay in the news as long as

it has. I thought there's a reason for that. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of felt like this is the one they'll be

able to put it away. And usually they put it away or goes away because something else equally or worse has

happened in between that and now, usually self-inflicted by the Trump administration.

So that is one thing.

They've kind of hunkered down a little bit and nothing else has kind of taken its place,

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