Oh my God. Perfect. Perfect opening of the beer to start the Weekender. Hey, everybody, listen, this is the Weekender edition of the McCrigg podcast. I'm Jerry Jace. I'm here with my friend, my compatriot, my co-conspirator, Nick Alstman. Nick, I'm going to go ahead and say for anybody, and this isn't just a sales pitch to the people who need to go to Patreon.com slash McCrack podcast and become subscribers in order to listen to the entire show. Nick, I'm going to put this out there. This is a humdinger of a show waiting to happen. All right. You know what that makes me more most impressed is that you just never forget to have a beverage to open for the sound effect in the beginning. It's my gimmick, man. I get, yeah, I just, I don't know. It's, you know, you're on it. It's consistent.

It's got it.

And now, beverage to open for the sound effect in the beginning. It's my gimmick, man.

I get, yeah, I just, I don't know.

It's, you know, you're on it. It's consistent. It's got it. And that was a great opening. So a lot of excellent. Oh, my God. It can go to China, right? We've got, listen, I'm just going to give people the preview. That's not what I do. I never give people a preview what the show is going to be.

The opening, we're going to be talking about what I believe is one of the most historic moments in modern history. Like major, massive, important stuff. Everything after that, it's shits and giggles,

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Nick, we got to start here.

You brought up Nixon going to China, which it's funny that you bring that up because Nixon going to China was like one of those moments where American hegemony was growing.

And now we have a decaying, decomposing, monstrous embarrassment in Donald Trump,

who landed on Wednesday in China for a summit with Xi Jinping.

Basically, for anybody who doesn't understand what's going on,

and the corporate media does not tell

you this they're just like oh they're going to sit down and talk about this the united states of

america went to china to beg for china to get us out of the mess in iran whether or not they will or

they won't uh i have questions about that and i'll talk about what i've been hearing what the scuttlebut

is but nick for me watching this it felt to me like one of those moments that at the moment,

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