Hey everybody. Welcome to the McCrack Podcast. I'm Jerry D. Saksden. It's not the

weekender. You don't have your calendar all mixed up. Nick is out and about running around,

so I'm helming the desk, and it's been that kind of day. Cheers. Oh, man, this, uh, this moment.

I don't even know if there's any other way to put it.

This fucking moment.

Uh, we've got a full show today.

Uh, hopefully you'll, uh, hang out, keep me company.

We have to talk about the developments in the war with Iran,

as well as the escalating economic consequences of all of that. There's been a lot of movement

all over the place that we have to discuss. On top of that, actually, good news. Who knew? Ben Shapiro's daily wire is laying people off

like gangbusters at this point. So we need to discuss that, the larger implications. And I regret

to inform you that there is a neoliberal, I guess at this point, it would be neo-neo-liberal because the Democratic Party is already neoliberal, but man, the abundance folks, they're angling to take over the party even more.

So we'll get into all of that and more here in just a minute.

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