Hey, everybody. Welcome to an action-packed episode of the Muckray podcast. I'm here with Nick Houseman. Nick, you are heading out of the country very, very, very soon. We're not going to talk to you for a little bit. Are you excited? How are you feeling? There's geopolitical intrigue. I mean, I'm worried about coming back and whether I'm going to get hassled or not or maybe like making it harder to get back in the country

based on the things I might have said publicly about the administration.

But if anybody's out there lives in Japan, I'm like, let me know because I would love to have a real authentic experience versus the typical, you know, touristy thing that we have already planned.

But, you know, anybody that lives there that's open, whatever, let me know, and I will come hang out. So any of our Japanese listeners reach out to Nick. Also, by the way, any of our listeners in New York City, rank Mom Dani. Just get out there, rank him. Do not go with Andrew Cuomo. My God, why would you? A reminder before we get into everything, head over to patreon.com slash my Greg podcast, support the show, keep us editorially independent. You'll also get the Weekender edition on Friday, which we know that you listen to. I'm going to be holding down the fort. I'm going to be doing some stuff. I'll have some people who will come in and woefully, woefully try and replace Nick Houseman for a couple of weeks.

But everybody, all right, so let's try and reset what has been going on over the past couple of days.

On Saturday, the United States of America entered Israel's war with Iran,

dropping 14 bunker buster bombs on three of Iran's nuclear sites.

They were flanked by fighter jets and supported by a barrage of Tomahawk missiles.

This is the first time those bunker buster bombs have been used in battle.

For the past couple of days, people have wondered exactly what Iran was going to do in retaliation.

And as of the recording of this podcast on Monday,

June 23rd, Iran warned America through Qatar that they were going to attack a base. They got

all their personnel out there. It seems like there were no casualties in a pretty telegraphed

little moment there. Nick, we have so much that we have to talk about here,

both in terms of how this administration handled this,

the disturbing aspects of what it means to have Donald Trump as president of the United States of America,

as always.

We have reaction.

We have fallout.

But based on what happened on Saturday and what has now happened on Monday with Iran giving possibly an off ramp in this war that could have gotten a lot worse, what are your reactions to both the attack of Iran on Saturday and what we have now seen on Monday?

Well, I got to tell you from a military standpoint, I was really kind of fascinated just

to kind of see whether these 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs actually work.

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