Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckrek podcast, I'm here with Nick Houseman. Nick, did you see the eclipse today? Did you go outside and see the serpent swallowing the sun?

I did not. I kind of forgot. Oh, well. What? I just forgot. What do you mean? This isn't a bit. We didn't practice this. We didn't discuss this before the show started. What do you mean you forgot? I don't know. I'm in L.A. It's not, didn't, didn't, there's nothing really happened here. Did they, wait, you had to, you had some eclipse right what do you mean what are you what are you

missing it's a it's a it's a it's a once every like couple of decades like phenomenon what do you

mean what are you missing i don't know i mean if i if i was correct in my memory when i saw this

the last time it happened uh like you can see the the shadows of certain things have like a cut out of it. Like, you know, because of the moon. I saw that already 20 years ago, whatever. I don't know. You're done. You're over. You're over solar eclipses. I will say this. I was at the airport dropping somebody off and there was a pilot at the gate waiting

to get on and this lady who, you know, listen, I don't want to make any judgments on appearances,

but the lady basically was in a age range and a, I don't know, a situation where she goes up to

the pilot and says, what will we have to be worried about from 30,000 feet up when the eclipse happens?

Or is the plane safe?

Something like that.

Something like she was very concerned that the plane was going to have a real problem with

an eclipse happening at 30,000 feet.

Well, you don't know.

Phenomenon happens.

And like you don't even know what's happening with the sun.

I'm shocked everyone. I promise that we did not plan this as a bit. I went out. I watched the eclipse. I was in wonder. It was beautiful and magnificent. It made me think about life and the universe and how we're all in this thing together. And you just you forgot about it like like a, like a show, like a show on television. You weren't even that interested in. Did you have proper eyewear this time? Absolutely. This time I had proper eyewear. All right. Because I didn't, I didn't have eyewear either. So I don't know. I guess it just didn't seem like it was going to be that big of a deal. Listen, I'm the guy who we literally flew to St. Louis specifically to see the last one.

So I did it, you know, I don't know. I don't know. You just did it, not interested in it again. All right, everybody, what a rollicking start to this episode of the McCrack podcast. I can't believe you just forgot about it. It was just, wow. Well, we are recording this for everybody listening. It is Monday, April 8th. That is right. I was outside all morning and early afternoon watching the solar eclipse. I had a great time. I'll tell you what isn't having a great time, the United States of America, and that's why the McCrack Podcast is here to do what we do.

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Today, everybody, man, a lot of stuff is on the docket.

We have to start, unfortunately, with the Republican nominee Donald Trump.

And Nick, Donald Trump has had, how do I put this, an interesting relationship with the issue

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