Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckray podcast. I'm Joe G. It's nice. I'm here with Nick Houseman. Nick, how was your weekend, bud?

Oh, chock full of events, I suppose, is the term we use these days, right?

We talked right before we started recording. You went to multiple things in one day.

Oh, yeah. It was exciting. I went to a Chargers game with my son and his first football game ever. SoFi Stadium, brand new stadium, we're kind of brand new, very exciting. And a concert. You're moving and shaking. You're living that jet set and lifestyle. Oh, yeah. And this is what you can do in a place like Los Angeles, which you have a lot of things. Like they talk about you can go to the beach in the morning and then you can go skiing in the afternoon, right? Well, you can go to the Chargers game. And by the way, there are two NFL teams in L.A. And I don't even know half the L.A. Angelinos even know this. I don't think that most people are even really keeping up with this stuff. So I'm glad you're recovered. I'm glad that you are here.

I'm glad that we're able to, today is, we're recording on September 11th of 2023.

A lot of, we'll talk more about that here in a little while. We have an absolutely jam-pack show,

tons of stuff to get into. Just a reminder, everybody.

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Meanwhile, Nick, let's go ahead and let's get into the news today.

A big, an actual big thing that is taking place, which shocker of shockers isn't getting much press coverage whatsoever.

The United States government is dragging Google into the courtroom.

That's right, everybody.

We're having an antitrust case against Google.

The United States government, uh,

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