Welcome to the Weekender edition of my Craig podcast. I'm Jared Day Sexton here with my friend, my compatriot, Nick Houseman. Nick, you're getting up for a big trip. You're out in hot L.A., all kinds of shakings and doings. How you doing, my friend? I'm doing okay. I mean, we actually had some interesting developments here at Jodger Stadium today where people are standing up to ice, and ice is having to back down. So L.A., good for us.

Yeah. interesting developments here at Dodger Stadium today where people are standing up to ice and ice is having to back down.

So, L.A., good for us.

Yeah, L.A. is doing it the right way.

I'll just say that.

So good, good for you, Angelinos.

Before we get going, and my God, do we have a lot to talk about today?

Every episode jam-packed at this point because it never, ever this absolute authoritarian hell that we have to defeat never stops a reminder head over to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast support the show keep us editorially independent and also just get the entire show because you're going to hear this discussion about what's going on in iran and's going on around the country. Everyone who comes on over and they said they've needed to do it for a while

and they're happy that they have, Patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. Nick, since we released Tuesday's

episode, a lot has been going on. Israel and Iran have continued lobbying missiles back and forth.

Israel has apparently established dominion over the sky using drones and all of that good stuff.

Meanwhile, the situation with Donald Trump and his quote-unquote decision about whether or not the

U.S. should join in the war, which it should not, has gotten stranger and stranger.

Trump got on true social.

He advised everyone in Tehran, I believe about 10 million people to evacuate immediately.

Thank God nobody listened to him,

but here we are. He is also flirted openly with killing the Ayatollah for complete regime change.

He is called for a complete surrender. The Wall Street Journal has reported that he has given the

green light to attack Iran, but has given them a last chance to negotiate whatever that means.

We've heard today before we started recording that Trump and the administration has said that they're going to have a two-week window to decide whether or not to actually join the war in Iran.

This is a big, giant mess for a variety of reasons that we need to talk about,

uh, why this has happened, why he's in this position, but there's no other way to put it and

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