Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jared Day of Saks. I'm here with my friend, my co-host, Nick Houseman. We are going to talk about the protest. And yes, we're going to talk about the video, all of that stuff. But before we do, how are you doing, my friend? I'm doing. I'm hanging in there. I had a really nice weekend. We was, you know, as we saw in the Discord, if you're part of the Patreon. We were, I was out at the No Kings in L.A. And it was, it was good. And we'll have to talk a little bit about it, because I'm kind of curious your take on some of the, I guess, how they made it, how they made the vibe out there while we were there and what that means in terms of how we're supposed to feel during these kind of protests. Yeah, there's a lot to go over. And by the way, I mean, you buried the lead. You were wearing a nice little sun hat. You were protecting yourself in Los Angeles. Yeah, I didn't know that that was going to be of notes. They drove the people crazy. They loved your hat. Okay. Well, yeah. I mean, listen, it was hot as something out there. Hot as fuck. Yeah. And I needed to have shade, you know. You know, I appreciated it. I thought you looked tremendous out there protesting fascism.

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Well, speaking in the No King's protest, Nick, on Saturday in the second round of No King's protest, it appears from estimates that this was an even larger day of protest. Estimates have put it over seven million American showed up, which, by the way, I will admit when I'm wrong, I had said when we were previewing this that I thought that

maybe there would be less people showing up.

It looks like more people did.

Over 2,000 cities had this from the biggest cities to the smallest towns.

Of course, we're going to talk about this disgusting AI video that Trump shared.

We'll get to that in a second. But I think it's important to talk about this disgusting AI video that Trump shared. We'll get to that in a

second. But I think it's important to talk about the No Kings protest, what it represents, what we

can take from it. You were there. What are your thoughts on it? What were your reactions? Like,

what did you walk away with, Nick? Oh, well, you know, the first thing was this is much bigger than the first one

in downtown L.A. And plus, there were dozens across the city. There were so many around that had

tens of thousands of people as well. But this one had to have had six figures of people. And it was a

march that was much longer than normal, where they let us through a number of blocks all the way around and it circled back in front of the, uh, the, um, where we have our, all of our people run the city called city hall. Thank you. Um, and so it was really kind of interesting that what the thing I was going to bring up, though, was they had a truck with a band that was playing music, Guantanamera and all sorts of other stuff like that, which everyone was kind of enjoying and having a good time. And part of me felt like I think we're supposed to be mad and we're supposed to let people know how angry we are. That's why we're all here, even though there is that sense of community that we're trying to find. So what do you think about that, you know, when these things do turn into some sort of

like a party more than a protest?

Yeah, and I'm glad you brought that up.

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