Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of our Craig podcast. I'm Jared Yates

Sexton. I'm talking to a very chilly and hotel-bound Nick Housman. How are we doing,

bud? It's not right, Jared. I travel to San Francisco for a quickie, and man, walking around

here at 48-degree weather and pouring rain is, I don't wish on anybody. I love, by the way, that you're out there. And one of the things you were doing is you're going to Alcatraz, which is a tourist destination. And it's a jail. It is a jail where we go and we're like, wow, look at this old jail. Isn't this an incredible old jail? Well, it's funny because my buddy remembers being there. I went with him. You know, he went there in the early 80s, perhaps, or late 70s. And in the, there's an area where they show you the isolation places where you have to be, you know, walked up by yourself. And he remembers they would let you walk in and they close the door and then be completely blacked out and silent for a minute or two. So they don't do

that anymore. I think that would have triggered too many people. So, but I tell you, it's a cool little thing. You get on the ferry, you go over there, you get some good pictures, and then you can come back. I'm not saying it's not cool, but we are a wild country. That's all I'm saying is that it's absolutely

incredible that we're like getting on a ship to go sightsee this stuff. But by the way,

there is a very focus on sort of the notion of incarceration and rehabilitation versus punishment.

So, you know, people would call it woke if you were there on the information on the

signs, but they do pay attention to that for sure. Absolutely. And listen, on this note, we have a

theme today, and it is how absolutely screwed up the United States of America is in so many

different ways. I want to tell people, if you want to get on the Patreon, if you've been thinking about it, if you've been considering it, like you want to hear the entire episode, this is a great episode to get your start off point.

We are talking about so much stuff today.

We're talking about Trump being saved by a subprime car mortgage guy.

We're talking about the solar eclipse. We're talking about artificial intelligence. We're talking about the Supreme Court. We are doing so much. Also, by the way, before this is over, you and I are going to have our much-needed discussion about the octopus murders. Like, there's so much that's going to take place on this episode. Go to patreon.com slash Mark Craig podcast. Support the show. Keeps editorially independent and growing. Nick,

the news of the moment. Donald John Trump, the assumed Republican nominee for president of

the United States of America, the former president of the United States, who was given a gift by

the courts. He was given more time to post his bond.

Also, his bond was reduced down to $175 million. You and I had talked about the obvious fact that he

was throwing out a flag and hoping that even foreign nations and foreign banks were going to help him

out. Well, we don't have necessarily proof that that is what has happened, but there are

plenty of reasons to think maybe it did. But the story is that billionaire Don Hankey, known as the

king of subprime car loans, swooped in and gave Donald Trump the loan that would help him

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