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

and I am so happy that I am reunited and feels so good. I'm here with my good buddy, Nick

Houseman. Good to see you. Good to talk to you, pal. One might say we're as solid as a rock.

So we're both on the road.

And we're going to talk about what's been going on and what we've been doing.

Obviously on this episode of The Weekender, we're going to talk about what's going on in Israel.

We're going to unpack a lot of different things.

We've got to talk about the Speaker of the House debacle, a whole host of things.

Nick, it has been, you know, the last couple episodes that we've had

talked about this, this is obviously really, really hard, dangerous at times demoralizing

situation. We're definitely going to get into it. Go over to patreon.com slash my Craig

podcast to listen to the whole ordeal. But before we do that, I thought it would be good for us.

I thought it would be good for our listeners.

Let's talk a little bit about what we've been doing as we've been traveling around,

as we haven't been able to connect.

Nick, I don't know if people know this, but you were recently profiled in Forbes for what you are doing.

You're having a little bit of a moment right now.

I guess so.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, so I think we might have mentioned it at some point, but over the last couple of years, in my basketball trials and travails, I invented a new defense. And it's kind of radical because you play behind the ball.

And so I've been slowly leaking out little bits and pieces of it as I've been running it

with players and learning how to teach it and all that stuff. And so I did a video on it on my

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