Hey everybody. It's Jared Yates Sexton here with your Weekender edition of the McRig podcast.

Again, my buddy Nick Hausman is somewhere being silly on a boat. I hope he's having a great time.

I haven't heard from him, but I also have not seen in the news that any boats have capsized or become stranded or victim of some sort of rare stomach disease that is only found on cruises.

So we wish him well.

Hopefully he'll be back for our regular edition on Tuesday.

Listen, we have a full show.

You did not disappoint. I reached out and i said listen i have to hold down

the fort while nick is gone i need some questions and you delivered we have a full slate of

listener questions we've got some voicemails we We've got some emails. We're going to

answer that after we do this initial segment of the show. A reminder for people who are listening

to the free preview of this Weekender podcast. Head over to patreon.com slash Montgrig podcast.

That way you can listen to the full weekender.

That way you can get in on the fun of asking questions.

That way you can support the show and we can remain editorially independent,

ad free, all that good stuff.

So here we are at the end of the week.

I don't know about you, but I am grateful for it.

This has been quite a week. I'll just say that. We're in the doldrum stage of the summer,

the dog days, as it were. I know we're all dealing with our own separate things. The weekend could not get here soon enough for me. I hope wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you've got something

decent lined up. I want to start before we get to the question and answer segment of the

weekender. And again, like, I really am glad we're doing this.

Should have done this a lot earlier.

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