Hey everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I am Jaredi at Sexton. I'm here with my good friend

and Gronos, Nick Hausman. Nick Hausman, it's almost the 4th of July. When people hear this, it will be the 4th of

July. Happy America's birthday. Happy the British were slow to learn how to deal with guerrilla tactics day.

Right. And as I said in Dase, uh, dates and confused, let's not forget why we're celebrating,

uh, this holidays because a bunch of white men didn't want to pay their taxes.

That's right. They wanted to, uh, be financially independent and also saw an opportunity

in order to, uh, empower to empower and gain more profit.

So congratulations on that.

We'll talk more about the holiday here soon.

But what you need to put on your calendar along with your holidays, this Thursday, July 6th at 8 p.m.

Eastern.

That's right.

We're doing another live taping of our weekend or show. All you need to do is go over to patreon.com slash Mike Craig podcast. For everyone who's already a patron, you're good. Show up Thursday night. That's July 6th, that 8 p.m. Eastern. You know that these are good times. You always have a good time with these things. It's long overdue. We're going to start having more of these things. For people who haven't already gone to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast, Nick, what are they doing? Why are they making these choices about their lives? I don't know. I mean, they're already listening to the free part on Friday. And thousands of you are. Just come on over. You are already listening to the previews. You're enjoying it, I assume. I have to assume you keep coming back.

Yes. So this is a little push. It's all we have to ask. If you are eating, I, I, you know, I'm trying to be inclusive here. A Fourth of July cake. I'm thinking about those ones since you always see in the magazines. It's like pie-ish, but it's got blueberries and raspberries on it. You know what I mean? Yeah. Flagish, a red, white, and blue pie. Sure, sure. You don't want just a dab of that. I don't know. I've never actually eaten one of these things.

I was picturing funnel cake for some reason.

No,

or swirl cake.

I don't know. Sponge cake, maybe? Yeah. You know, no, the swirl where it's a chocolate like cake swirls with vanilla ice cream and you cut it and you slice it and you can, I don't know. Anyway, I don't know what these people are doing.

So you need to go over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast.

You need to become a patron and then show up again this Thursday night, July 6th,

8 p.m. Eastern, a live taping of the weekender episode for Friday.

In the meantime, Nick, before we get on to any of our main stories,

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