Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckreg podcast. I'm Jeremy A. Sexton here with my friend, Nick Hausman. Nick, how are we doing, pal?

I'm doing really, really well, although I have an interesting thing, which is we went to the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday to see John Williams retrospective.

And John Williams, if you're not familiar, it's probably the goat of musical scores for...

Probably not even close.

Right.

It's remarkable how many is not.

But they did the national anthem when we first started, which I think they do, you know,

when they have an orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl.

I got to tell you, people stood, but it was a little bit like in the movie office space when they were singing the happy birthday to Lundberg, the boss, because it was the most depressing national anthem I've ever heard.

It don't hit the same.

No.

It don't hit the same.

And we have to talk about that and why that is because I regret to inform everybody that things are picking up. And that is one of the

things that we have to talk about today. A couple of things, a programming note, first things first,

Nick and I, we're taking Labor Day off next week. So we're not going to have the regular Tuesday

episode a week from today. We will have the weekend or after that on Friday. And again, if you enjoy this show.

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patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. Nick, before we get going with this, is it fair that in this

capacity, in this job of ours, that we have had to pay a lot of attention to the insanity and fascistic

inclinations of Donald Trump. Is that fair? It is more than fair. I mean, I think you and I

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