Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the McCrick podcast. I'm Jerry G. Sexton. Hey, Nick

Ellsman. How you doing, bud? I'm great. I'm great. I'm going to be great until I'm not great.

I think that's fair. Yeah. I want to make a disclaimer before we begin this because it's autumn,

one of my,

easily my favorite month.

I drank some tea.

I made some hot tea.

I wanted the vocal chords to sound good on this episode.

And Nick, as I always do, I forgot that Earl Gray has caffeine in it,

which is going to affect this broadcast. Awesome. You know what's funny? I don't drink caffeine in it, which is going to affect this broadcast.

Awesome.

You know what's funny is I don't drink caffeine anymore either.

It's been two months.

I had a little caffeine last night in the form of a sugar-free Coke.

And I was bouncing off the walls, Jared.

I tell you, we underestimate how the substances affect us.

Yeah.

And in the past, when I normally would drink it, I could drink a Coke and then fall asleep on the couch immediately. No problem. Yeah, I was wired. So yeah, I had probably some residual, you know, energy myself. So let's do it. Let's get nice. Let's bring it. A reminder to everybody listening to the free preview. and if you want to hear me go into like the absolute thrall of caffeine, you need to go over to patreon.com slash McCrigg podcast, which not only gets you the weekly weekend or edition of the McCrigg podcast, you're going to get to hang out with us after the election here in a week and a half.

You're going to see, I mean, we do these marathon

post-election broadcast. You're going to get more analysis and reaction. And also, you'll get to

go through this thing with us. And anyone who is tuned in for one of our election broadcast,

you understand this is cathartic. We can come together as a community.

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