Hey everybody. Welcome to a big edition of a great podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. I am enjoying a hard-earned weekending beer.

Unfortunately, our good friend and co-host Nick Halseman is still out on vacation.

He will be back next week.

I want to go ahead and send out some props to Nick, who I've missed terribly, but also I just want to point out that even as he is on vacation and enjoying himself and taking a load off, you can still see him over

on Twitter.com, still indulging in some of the more disturbing and upsetting politics of the day.

That's what we like to see.

Here at the McCrack podcast, we are, of course, a bunch of just political sickos

who cannot help pay attention to all of this stuff even while we're enjoying a hard-earned

vacation.

So looking forward to having back, Nick, next week.

In the meantime, I am here to hold down the fort and talk

about some of the biggest news stories of the moment, as well as some things that we need to keep

an eye on and really kind of dig down deeper into. We got to start with not surprising news, probably just confirming

what we all sort of assumed already, but interesting nonetheless. It has emerged that the January 6th committee, which continues to nip at the heels of a lot of people who, in case people have forgotten, have attempted to overthrow the presidential election of 2020 and the democratically elected government in the United States of America,

they have discovered that within the phone records of Donald John Trump, who I don't know if you heard this, had a hole in one and decided that that was as important as anything else in the

world and so not a big press release about it because he is a absolutely empty, sad, sad man.

Found that Donald Trump's call records had a seven-hour gap on them on the day of January 6th, seven hours.

Just missing, just nothing. And it is obviously just an attempt to scrub the record to hide certain things and or there's an alternative

which I'd like to talk about for just a second and that is the fact that Trump and

Meadows and a lot of the people involved on January 6th those who weren't using their own

personal phones or social media accounts,

which, you know, a lot of these people, the way that politics works in terms of schemes and

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