Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I am Jared Yates-Saxson. I am talking to my friend Nick Housman. I am going to be with Nick Housselman this week. Nick, I can barely contain my experience.

I could not be happier. I'm going back to where we decided to launch this podcast in the first place.

I'm going to go total Hollywood. People will not recognize me when I leave. I'm totally and

utterly prepared to complain about sub-70 degree weather. Oh, yeah. Well, if you're lucky,

maybe we get a little bit over 70. I'm not sure. I'll check right now, but we're lucky. But do we get to go? Do you want to do some touristy stuff? Because that'll be fun. That's not a terrible idea. I love it. Okay, I am all in on this thing. And to go ahead and to remind people who haven't heard us talking about what's happening, I am going to go out to

California. And I got bad news for everybody first and foremost. There's not going to be a

weekender edition Friday morning. And that is because I am getting to Nick's house on Friday.

And we are going to be doing our first live together edition of the

Muckrake podcast. That will be sometime TBA on Friday, April 21st. We will let everybody know

as soon as possible. If you can't make the live stream on Friday, April 21st, it's a B-there-B-Square situation,

but we will release that episode once it has been recorded.

But we hope you'll be able to make it, correct, Nick?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, me and you in the same shot will be some, some incredible stuff happening there.

Some would say unprecedented. Others would say historic. Also on Saturday, April 22nd, I will be at the

Los Angeles Festival of Books. Come out, see me talk about challenges against democracy. That's

1030 on Saturday, April 22nd.

Then Nick and I are going to drive in a car to Arizona, where on Tuesday, April 25th, at 6 p.m.

And again, we tried to figure out the time there.

I don't know how all that stuff works. We're going to be at the Changing Hands bookstore in Phoenix. We'll be in conversation. We'll tape that. We'll release it. I could not be more excited, Nick. Oh, listen, we got a huge drive with together. That would be really fun. And then I can't wait to be part of whatever, you know, this is the Jared Yates' Sex and Experience. I'm just part on the wrong for the ride. I'm very excited for this. I celebrate your book and, you know, have a conversation. I told them that Nick Hausman was going to be in conversation. They said, B-ball breakdown, Coach Nick. That's what got my foot in the door. Uh-oh. Well, you know,

I am a little bit busy this time of year. That is true. That is, and that's another thing. I don't

know if people understand that. Like, Nick Houselman, the NBA guru, is going to have me around

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