Hey everybody. Welcome to the Valkirk podcast. I'm Jerry D.Sex. I'm here with Nickhouse.

I'm good. I'm good. How are you doing, Jerry? I'm, I'm good today. Good. Yeah. I said that. I heard it coming out of my mouth. It surprised me a little bit. I needed to recalibrate, ground. But yeah, I'm good today.

Well, you know, it's funny because I had something happening today that might be a microcosm for the entire, you know, country,

which is in order to make the lock work on the gate near the sidewalk of my house,

they had to make the door thinner or whatever or like whatever. So they ended up just

grinding out their edges around the lock. And so

it works great now. I can unlock and lock it with a little switching to switch, but it looks

absolutely horrible. It looks like dog shit. So now I got to deal with that. Well, I mean,

yeah, I mean, that that's the way it works, right? Like it, I'm glad your gate works. That makes me very happy to hear that my friend Nick will be safe. Yeah. Yeah, the gate works, but it just doesn't look good at all. Well, I mean, you win, you lose. We're going to figure out how to make that gate look good again. We're going to make that great. We're going to make that gate great again. Yes, absolutely. That's what we're going to do. Well, everybody, we have a completely packed show. We've got a brand new bunch of polls. We've got centrist being centrist. We've got Trump with, listen, a VP picking strategy we've never seen before, Elon Musk, just musking it right up,

and Clarence Thomas can't stop complaining. Just a reminder before we get going, go over to patreon.com

slash my Craig podcast and support the show. Keep us ad-free, editorially independent, keep us

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Mike Craig podcast. Also, if you tell this one other person about this podcast that really,

really helps with word of mouth. Get them over. Yeah, just one, just one person each. It'll be awesome.

I hear from people all the time who are like, you know, I never thought about recommending this podcast and all of a sudden now me and my friend talk about it. So yeah, why not do it? And by the way, if you go ahead and subscribe to the Patreon, you can get the Weekender edition on Fridays, which is another episode that you get to hang out with me and Nick, and I think it's worth it.

Nick, we got to start with campaign 2024.

That is our corporate news media package with graphics all over the place.

Nick, we are, I don't know if you're paying attention.

We're almost to the summer.

We're almost to the summer of a presidential election.

This campaign is one of the weirdest that we've seen in a long time.

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