Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the McCrink podcast. I'm Jerry Jek Sexton. I'm here with Dick

Kassman. Hey, bud. Hey, Jared. Happy Thursday. Whoops. Well, that was the day before, I'm sure. That was so

labored. That was like watching you navigate that was something. I wasn't prepared. You kind of got to me earlier than normal. So I just, you know, wasn't. Oh, is that quicker than normal? There's usually a little bit more of something before you turn to me, I think. You're you. I get it. The pattern pattern pattern. The pattern pattern. Yes. Okay. All right. Well, we'll work on that.

Okay. Everybody, as you know, this is the weekender for those of you listening to the preview at home, Patreon.com slash Mike Craig podcast. It's growing by leaves and bounds. People are enjoying it. we're hearing that people are loving it come on over

patreon.com slash my Craig podcast they don't want to miss the fun nick they don't want to live shows we

do after a tent pull events they don't want to miss our movie breakdowns we have a BP debate coming

up that we all want to watch oh we do and this one's going to have it you have no doubt it's

going to happen there's no one's back i i think this one's going to have it. You have no doubt it's going to happen.

There's no one's back. I think this one's going to happen. Yes. Yeah. It kind of has to.

Yeah. I think this one has to happen. But Patreon.com slash one Craig podcast. And people, we have a whole lot to talk about today. But we have to start with a really, really bizarre story that I think has huge implications.

Over the past few days, Israel has carried out a, I don't even know what else to call it,

a strange, innovative, tragic attack in Lebanon against Hezbollah, blowing up pagers and walkie-talkies. So far, it looks like the death toll has climbed up over 30, and we're talking about over 2,000 people being injured

by this. The details are starting to come out a little bit here and there, how this might

have happened, what exactly took place.

Israel has officially called this, quote, a new era of war. And also, it seems that they're now

turning their eye towards Lebanon in their operations as peace remains unfortunately and

tragically far off or non-existent. Nick, I have a lot of thoughts about this. I've been

walking around thinking about it for a few days now. What were your initial reactions when you heard

about this? I mean, it sounds like a mission impossible thing where somehow a number is dialed.

And at some point, I thought it was only the only could have like they could

have put explosives in there and then the next page is when it blows up but supposedly no it was

coordinated to only a specific number received so they all go off at the same time um and i suppose

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