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I'm Jared D. Sexton here with my friend, my pal, my co-host, my cohort, Nick Houseman. How you doing, Nick? I'm doing well, Jared. Thanks for asking. Bringing that energy. I love it. That enthusiasm, that excitement that this show depends on. I am ready. No, we have a lot of great stuff to talk about for sure. There is a lot to talk about, some good, some bad.

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McCrack podcast. Nick, we are going to start with the No King's protest on Saturday, which has drawn,

which drew an estimated five to six million people in protesting the current authoritarian regime.

It is estimated to be the largest one-day protest in

American history. It took place in over 2,000 cities. Nick, this was a massive, massive thing.

And we're going to dissect this thing both in terms of what happened, what it means, some of the

uglier parts of it, as well as the reaction and the coverage and where we go from here.

But to begin, I know that you went to one of these.

I did as well.

What was your personal sort of reaction?

How did you feel going to one of these protests?

Well, it was interesting because it's a dichotomy between where we had gone on last weekend downtown in L.A., which somehow all the stuff broke out right after we left.

So somehow, I don't know if that was connected about, they was soon as they're like, hey, Nick's gone.

I don't know what happened.

But anyway, we missed a lot of that what happened.

But at the very least, the feelings that you could sort of garner from downtown protests compared to where I went yesterday, or on Saturday, with the, in Beverly Hills was palpable.

Like, it was frustrating. So we shan't go to Beverly Hills again to protest.

And you can imagine I'm waiting for everybody to be rolling their eyes with all Beverly Hills.

It pretty much was exactly what you'd think in terms of going to this little park.

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