Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm JJ 8th. I'm here with my friend, my co-host, Nick Houseman. How you doing, bud? I'm doing well. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Well, I mean, people are listening this on Tuesday. Well, every day is St. Patrick's Day, right? To somebody somewhere. If every day was St. Patrick's day, nothing would get done. I got to tell you, Jared, having two drinks over the course of like six hours, just the next day is gone. I don't know what happened to me. Man. Okay. Well, it sounds like

somebody was celebrating. So, uh, I guess the solution is I need to have more than two drinks more often.

I, listen, you are, you, you, you, you, you, you have. I guess the solution is I need to have more than two drinks more often.

I, listen, you are, you, you, you have control over your own fate.

You were the captain of your own ship, my friend.

Thank you.

I will, I will keep that in mind next time.

All right.

Well, hopefully everybody had a good St. Patrick's Day. We, we to just run through so many things here. In the wake of that, we have a bunch of developments to get into. A reminder, everybody, head over to patreon.com slash McCrack Podcast. Keep the show editorially independent. Keep us growing. We appreciate your faith and your support so much, especially during this time.

We just, we can't say enough about the people who support us. And don't forget what you get.

Like you get a whole episode on Fridays. It's our best episode each week. And then access to the

Discord discussion, which. Live shows, live events. All of that. It really is a special community that you get a

lot of access to. It's, it's absolutely lovely. And guess who needs community right now, Nick,

the Democrats? They need community bad. We recorded the Weekender last week on Thursday.

And I would say probably about an hour and a half, two hours after we recorded.

We had talked about how we expected the Senate Democrats to go ahead and capitulate and go along with the Republicans in order to pass the continuing resolution.

Surprise, surprise, everybody.

Everything that we have seen before, everything that we have experienced, it came true again.

Under the quote-unquote leadership of Chuck Schumer, eight Democrats voted with the Republicans in order to move the process along in order to pass a continuing resolution, avert government shut down

and to push the agenda of Donald Trump. Immediately after this, Chuck Schumer, who we have to talk

a lot about on this episode, unfortunately, made a statement that said, on to the next fight,

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