Okay, that was a bit of a mess. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the weekend edition of a great podcast. I'm Jerry Jace. I'm here with Nick Housselman. Nick, how are you? How's your weekend looking? It's going to be warm, finally. It's going to be warm here. So I'll be excited to kind of do outdoor activities, perhaps. And so, yeah, maybe that'll make me feel better. But I don't know, general unease all around has been making, you know, anxiety levels are higher than normal. It's a little frustrating right now. Un ease, what? The country's going great. What are you talking about? I know. The country's great. The world is going awesome. Everything is great. I went to the, I don't even want to tell you

what I went. I bought steak dinner for my family for like four. I won't even tell you what it

cost, but holy, holy, forgive me for ever pretending that the inflation was going down.

Thanks, Joe Brandon. Am I right? Yeah, you can't go out and buy your entire family a steak dinner anymore.

I mean, things are great. Russia is doing military exercises in the Caribbean, which we'll get into.

It's all wonderful. We got a, we got a banger of a show today. We got so many different things that we got to get into.

Go to patreon.com slash McCrack podcast. You'll gain access to the full weekend. You listen to the preview. You want to listen to this. I promise. We have so much that we have to get into. On top of that, you support the show. Keep us ad-free, editorially independent. You keep us growing. You join the, you join the community. We have all kinds of, we have a debate coming up, Nick, which we are going to cover and react to. We give you analysis. You're not going to get anywhere else. Patreon.com slash Mike podcast. And just last week, we released the entire episode for everybody to be here so they can get a sense of what that live show sounds like. And I think people are really digging it. People loved it. They keep coming over. They say, you know, we got a taste of this

thing. We have to have the entire dinner, if you will, without the expense of having to go like young

Nick Houseman and drop his MX gold or what's the highest one now? Is it black? What's the high?

Platinum. Platinum it black? Platinum.

Sure.

Platinum.

Cool.

All right, everybody.

So before we get going, we got to talk.

We are recording this on June 6th.

For your enjoyment on Friday, we need to talk about the 80th anniversary of D-Day, which was the beginning of the liberation of the continent of Europe from Nazi domination.

This is one of those major turning points of history.

I don't need to tell you, I think the movies and your teachers and your grandparents and everybody has done a decent enough job of telling you,

this was not a foregone conclusion that D-Day was going to work,

the greatest invasion assault of all time. You know, it's incredible that it did work. We're all very

lucky we live in a post-Third Reich world, although we're dealing with some of the remnants and

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