Hey everybody. That's in celebration. Nick Houseman's back. How you doing, Nick? Oh, I, you know, I didn't realize I was gone, but you're right. You didn't, you didn't think of us. You didn't think about the Muckraig community. You didn't think about this little universe we've got going here. Yeah, what is time? I just felt like nothing had, you know, poof, I'm sitting back in my chair. It's here where I am. So I'm glad to be back, and it really felt like no time it passed.

Oh, well, that's good. That's why it's nice to take a little step away every now and then and take care of. I'm just living at Downhog's Day. And, uh, I mean, hey, listen, it, it, it reminds me, um, I can't remember what poet wrote it.

It was, you don't have to be crazy to be here, but it helps.

That's a good one.

I don't know.

That's where we are at this point.

Folks, we have a whole rundown.

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Nick, when I helmed the show last week, it was a few minutes before Trump was about to give a press conference.

And at that point, on Monday, the stock market, what's the technical term, was eating shit? It'd do bad. And then Trump got on a phone call with Vladimir Putin, which is always interesting, got off the phone call, signaled that he might lift all restrictions on Russian oil.

Then went and gave a press conference in which he said that the Iran war was, quote,

pretty much done.

Well, over the past couple of days, as he continues to say that this war is basically over,

Iran is like, fuck that, this war isn't over until we say it's over.

The strait of Hormuz has been turned into a killbox in which all of

these shipping boats with oil and other goods have just been held hostage. Donald Trump and

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