Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jerry J. It's a ex-time. We're here, Nick, Hallsman. Nick, we got a full docket today. It never stops.

And it's all over the place, though, today. This is going to be interesting. It's all the fuck over the place. And, like, as we were putting together this show, you and I were talking and sort of comparing notes.

Things are happening so quick that like even major disturbing things sort of fall through the cracks sometimes.

Like we're in a weird manic period, it feels like.

And a lot of times there is a through line that can kind of make sense with some things.

And it's like this is a tougher one.

This is getting to be yeah

you're just getting all sorts of webs that are

not necessarily congruent here

but certainly worth talking

about. We're worth talking about

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with something that we knew was coming. You know, it didn't, it didn't take a psychic to know

that this was on its way. We saw sort of the different components that were coming together,

but now reports are trickling out that the Trump administration is tapping Peter Thiel's

company, Palantir, to consolidate, collate, and examine data that

has been harvested by the Doge operations in the federal government, creating the possibility

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