Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm JJ. It's next time I'm here with my friend, my co-host.

Hey, Caldman. How you doing, bud? I am. I'm good. I'm good. And just, you know, running on fumes a little bit with all these games. But every day it goes by to be less got to watch and I'll be even better. You know, for all these years that we've been doing the show during the NBA playoffs,

you are split, like having to do not just two jobs, but you're having to do two jobs with a lot

of intensity. And now the political world is completely on fire as you're having to do this other

thing. You're doing a great job. But as a person who has like three jobs, I know what that

feels like. Well, let me ask you. Let me ask you this. Does this sound familiar to you when you

use video evidence to explain how a rule works? And then you have people who just descend upon you

and insist that you are not saying what you are saying with video weapons.

My friend, welcome to modern America. Yeah, it's wild, Jared. It's wild out there. And a lot of,

a lot of what we're going to be talking today is about how the American brain is absolutely cooked.

And it's not just in politics.

It is like top to bottom.

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Nick, speaking of cooked brains, we unfortunately have to talk about the president of the United States of America.

The commander in chief, he welcomed in Kristen Welker from Meet the Press in an absolutely stunning interview.

And Nick, we're going to go through parts of this.

And it's not just to talk about this man's

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