Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrigg podcast. I'm Jerry J. It's Saxon here with my good friend of

Nick. How are you doing, buddy? I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. I've been thinking,

we talked before we started recording about you, you had your glasses broken by an errant basketball play.

And since then, since you mentioned that, I've had that happen to me too.

And all I just keep thinking about the physical feeling of it. I can't get it out of my head now.

Oh, I know. Well, you know what's funny is I've been coaching for, I don't know, 30 years now.

I had never got hit in the face with the basketball for 29 years. And in the last year or so, I've gotten at least two or three right to the face. And I'm like, what is happening here? I guess it makes sense. What a, what a streak you were on. I know, I know. I mean, for more, you know, one of the first one I did happen. The kid just threw it. I wasn't looking at all in the direction. And it should have hit me in the chest, right? You throw a good path to hit you in the chest. I mean, that's what I got told back in the Hoosier State. But, you know, speaking of basketball is hitting yourselves in the face. We got a show today. We got a ton of awful shit that we got to talk about, which is what we do.

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Nick, unfortunately, we have to start with Jeffrey Epstein.

Right.

And it has been, you know, we're a little over a year into the second Trump presidency, and it just feels like every few weeks, there are new releases of files that are more disgusting than the last. At this point,

estimates are that this is about 50% of the government's Epstein files, and that's not

even counting the things that they haven't given us. They've said it's been redacted or it's

not allowed to be released to the public. There is so much to go over and actually so many implications in what came out in this

tranche of files.

It starts Nick with what was revealed, but then what was taken back.

In true Department of Justice, malfeasance, incompetence, whatever it is, while trying to get rid of

any mention of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. And by the way, we've already had 5,300 mentions of him

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