Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake

podcast. I hope you're having a good Tuesday so far. This is Jared Yates-Saxston

here as always with Nick Hausman. Nick, how was your weekend? It was great. We went out to a party.

We actually were in the presence of people in real life outdoors. It was amazing.

Weight civilization, undaing, starting to work.

And yeah.

And it was actually in the middle of like Malibu Canyon,

you know, like this oasis in the middle of these mountains.

It was, it was like amazing.

Although it was also strange because I wasn't sure

how I was supposed to react or to act amongst people. It had been so long.

But I think I did okay. It's going to be odd trying to figure that stuff out for sure,

like how to reenter society. But that sounds nice. I'm glad for you. Thank you. I take it that you

did not have any similar experience. No, I did not. I have continued my lockdown. I'm waiting

on my next dose of vaccine, waiting to, uh, to reenter society like a lot of, uh, the rest of us are.

Uh, but we, we, we, we thought this would be an interesting opportunity to sort of get people

up to speed on a couple of ideas. There was an intelligence

report released very, very recently that we want to talk about a little bit and give some

historical background. When we talk about this current moment, and again, this is something

we like to do on the McRake podcast, we like to talk about current events, but we like to give

it a deeper sort of a dive historical perspective, give people an idea of why things have happened and

a little bit more than the headlines. So today we need to talk about why America is, and this is a technical term, Nick, why America is so

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