Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of my Craig podcast. I'm Jared D. Sexton. I'm in a car. Nick, I'm just absolutely shotgunned a Red Bull. I'm ready for the subscriber mailbag edition of the Weekender. How are you, my friend, Nick Hausman?

I'm good. I'm good. I'm just, you know, busy getting down to the brass tacks of the weekender. How are you, my friend, Nick Hausman? I'm good. I'm just, you know, busy getting down to the brass tacks of the NBA playoffs.

And it's fun.

Indiana Pacers.

Indiana Pacers.

They have a really good shot, by the way, Jared.

They have a really good shot.

We don't need to talk about it too

much but i'm very excited all right well see all we get into a lot of questions from a lot of

different places and people we have a lot of questions so again uh if you are not part of the

patreon subscription you should really get over there because we do

these from time to time. And just a fantastic community and really this smart questions and really

push us to have to come up with some interesting answers that will hopefully be enlightening

to people. I mean, I certainly hope so. And a reminder that is patreon.com slash McCrigg

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ad free, and rolling forward. Nick, roll that beautiful bean footage. Here we go. Well, we have Lori Balland,

who wants to ask any thoughts on the Iran situation? We have family there, some full time,

some part time, as well as green card and nationalized Iranian-born family here. It's always

my awareness. Thank you. So what are your thoughts here? Lori, I'm so sorry that you've got family over there,

and undoubtedly that's very, very stressful. Basically, the entirety of the modern era, and you know

this, Nick, has been focused on Iran in one way or another, especially of neo-conservatives,

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