Hey everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jerry J. Jaxston. I'm here on Memorial Day. My good friend, Nick Thompson. How are you doing, Nick? I'm doing. I'm doing. Okay. You have a, you have a stacked Memorial Day ahead of you. I don't know anybody who does holidays more than you. You're a holiday guy. You get out there. You move, you shake,

you eat, you have a good time. Yeah, but we ring our hands for the days leading up to I thinking that we're not getting invited to anything. And then sure enough, you know, something happens and people get us, you know, invite us to places. So it feels good, but it makes us sweat a little bit beforehand. You're popular. That's what we're talking about here. You're a, You're a holiday guest.

You're a delight.

I've seen you at parties.

And you,

you,

you,

you, popular. That's what we're talking about here. You're a holiday guest. You're a delight. I've seen you at

parties and you, the people come to you. They gravitate toward you. Well, I got to tell you that

if you're looking for a solution to the feeling that you might have out in the world about how

everything is weighing on you, interacting with people in a setting like that like that is the best therapy there is possible.

Even if it's not even the fun part, he just get out there and make it fun.

Otherwise, you don't have the energy mixing.

You don't have those things.

I can't tell you how important it is and how the isolation of our lives is making

things worse.

I couldn't agree more.

It's the antidote to everything that ails us. I mean, not just personally, interpersonally, but also politically. Good for you. Well, I'm glad that you're doing it. And I'm glad that you have a good day ahead of you. And I hope everybody listening to this had a good Memorial Day. It's a weird. I'll just say before we get into our stories, it's a weird day.

America has a fraught relationship with its military, with the fact that, you know, the powers to be have absolutely siphoned everything away from us and either put it towards, you know,

helping billionaires or throwing it at the military industrial complex, which last time I checked

Nick was helping billionaires. And we do all

this lip service for veterans and the people who have fallen. But meanwhile, we don't really take

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