That's right. The can opening. I'm in studio. Nick Houselman is in studio. You heard it right, folks. The boys are back in town.

The boys are back. The boys are back. I am so excited to be back, Jerry. I'm recharged. I'm here. I was out on a little vacation. And man, are those important sometimes?

We don't release the video of the Weekender edition, but let me tell you something. Nick, Nick looks like he got some son. Yeah. Nick's looks like he got some fun. He's ready to go, folks. Yeah, shout out to those all-inclusive places you can go to, which you don't have to.

It's nice. You don't have to spend any money when you get there. It's really, really nice.

Well, you spend the money. Yeah. And by the way, I put on sunscreen. I put it on and I still got, you know, over-exposed. And now I'm, now I'm looking okay, right? I look kind of nice and, like, hand. You look good now, but let me, let me, let me tell people at home, we are pasty boys.

Yeah. We're, we are pasty boys. Yeah.

We're pasty boys. That's how it is. Well, welcome everybody to the first weekender edition of

2025. We hope that you had a good new year. Thank you for bearing with this as Nick was out doing his

thing. I was recording in a car. I sounded awful, Nick.

Oh, it sounded fine. Listen, I did a good job. Yeah. But it sounded terrible. No problems here.

We're on beautiful microphones. We're ready to do it. Everybody, a reminder, if you're listening to

the preview of this, go to patreon.com slash Mike Craig Podcast. Support us. We know that you're not paying attention to corporate media anymore because, my God, why would you? Support independent media that is speaking actual truth to power. Nick, we have so much to get into. We have the New Year's Eve attacks. We have the passing of Jimmy Carter. We have a segment that is going to go over 2024 in a variety of different ways,

but we have to start with New Year's Day. Nick, a couple of really weird, tragic moments here,

a pair of attacks. In New Orleans, a suspect drove a truck into pedestrians on Bourbon Street

and then engaged in a mass shooting.

He ended up killing, I believe it's 14.

He was flying what appeared to be an ISIS flag.

The authorities have shown that he has supposedly pledged himself to ISIS.

In Las Vegas, a man rented a cyber truck in, no, yeah, he rented a cyber truck

using the exact same app as the guy in New Orleans, packed it with explosives and fuel,

and detonated it in front of the Trump hotel there in Las Vegas. He injured seven.

A couple of weird coincidences or possibly links here. Both are

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