Happy Halloween, everybody.

It's the weekend edition of the Mycray Podcast.

I'm Jerry G. It's Sexton, wishing a happy, spooky day to all the ghouls out there here with my friend, Nick How's doing, buddy?

I'm good. I'm good. I always like Halloween, believe it or not.

I love Halloween. Yeah. I mean, but do you like it because it's a scary thing? I think that's what you respond to, right? Well, I mean, I like the fall. I like, I like the vibes. I also, I'm going to put this out there because it's the Weekender edition. The United States of America suffers from a deep, deep denial and repression when it comes to the idea of death and mortality,

we would, we would really benefit more from like a day of the dead like other cultures have.

And I think Halloween is the closest that we get to it.

I think we would benefit from that.

Sure.

But, you know, as is the case when we mix capitalism with anything, right, it's become bastardized. It doesn't mean anything other than a chance to. Oh, my God. You just made me think about what an American Day of the Dead would be. That might be rough now that we're talking about it. Now that we're talking about it. Also, by the way, we're recording this on Thursday, October 30th. Nick, I got a little confession. I'm a Halloween guy. I love Halloween. I get a ton of kids that come to house. I'm so excited about it. Thursday, the day before Halloween, I still haven't bought the candy yet. Oh, I haven't either. crap. Yeah, we got to buy the candy. Well, we and you're gonna already if i ask you're

gonna just criticize me i'm sure but your candy what's your go-to candy i mean listen i i i make

sure that all the the the fan favorites are there yeah yeah but inside it won't above above all else

oh i mean listen i'm handing out kickats i'm handing out rhesusubsitch. Old muckrake heads. Old muckrakers know that Nick

Halseman had never had a Reese's cut before he was made to for this show. Have you had another one since?

Are you going to have another one? I had not had another one since, no. But would you know, would you, would you revisit it maybe tomorrow?

See, see how you're feeling?

No, I guess since I have to go to the store anyway to get some that stuff, maybe I'll throw one in there and then I can have one. Give it, give it another shot. Let's see, let's see if you've developed the palette. Yeah. Unfortunately, we don't have a ton of trigger cheers that come to our house. perhaps it's because of the clowns, the fear of clowns walking around, which is, that's our very real fear, but most people have, right? That, it is. Yeah. It is. Well, I hope you have some clowns walking around. It's a scary thing. Ugh, don't like it. Oh, creepy. Creepy Halloween. Anyway, everybody, I hope you're having a wonderful Halloween. We have a full show today.

We have a ton of stuff. I have a wild feeling that we're going to get into the weeds on a couple of

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to independent media. We need your support. You get the full episode. You also gain access to things like live shows, which Nick and I are thinking maybe next week. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have it. Do you have anything going on Thursday? Well, Thursday I'm on a plane late night, but or in the afternoon. But maybe. In... Okay, well, we're going to work this thing out. Yeah. We're going to kick the tires and light the fires. But anyway, that's patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. That was not the best live question I've ever asked. I'm sorry, I had to answer truthfully, unfortunately. You got to answer truthly. All right, we're going to figure the shit out. Speaking of, I don't know what the segue is here. Figuring shit out. We had reported, I want to say it was maybe a month ago, month and a half ago, that the Pentagon was considering what they called a reactionary force. Well, those plans have come into fruition.

It has now been reported that the Pentagon is putting together a force of about 23,500 National Guard

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