Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. Here, as always with my friend, my co-host, my confidant, Nick Hausman. How you doing, pal? I'm doing well. I'm doing well another day, another Friday night news dump on our laps that we have to deal with. Yeah, unfortunately, this crazy train never stops rolling. We have a whole lot to get into a lot of concerning stuff. Also, at the end of this episode, I'm going to have an interview with Reverend Angela Dinker, whose new book, Disciples of White Jesus, The Radicalization of American Boyhood. I think we all know that this is important. I really hope people learn from this interview. And there are things that we're going to talk about today that feed into it.

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We appreciate your support and your faith. These are weird times. Nick, you spoke just a second ago about Friday night.

We had another so-called Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration carried out a military purge,

including firing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman CQ Ground Jr., Admiral Lisa Franchetti,

who's the chief of naval operations, and General James Slife, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff,

not to mention a whole slew of officers and Jags and you name it. This thing just keeps getting worse. You know, it also gets

worse because it's some notion of DEI pushback. Oh, God. You know, that's why they have to get rid of these people,

because they can clearly, in their minds, they're not qualified. But look who they're putting in

place for all these other things. Heg-Seth is in one example. And, you know, for the Joint

Chief of Staff, there is a legal definition for what your experience must be to hold this

position of which the person that they're going to now point to does not have this experience.

No, that's Lieutenant General Dan Kane, who the chances are they're going to have to

apply for a waiver to put in this position because he is completely unqualified and meets

none of the expected qualifications.

Right. And you know what? I guess this waiver will happen because everything happens now,

whatever they want, the dear leader did it have? And, you know, listen, Kane has three stars,

not four. I don't know. Is that a difference? I mean, I'm sure there's a big difference

between those two things. Well, I mean, it sounds like there's a difference. No,

there's absolutely a difference. This is a really concerning situation. And we have a clip here

from Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegssev, who went on Fox to discuss what it actually happened.

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