Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack podcast. I'm Jared D.H. Sexton. I'm in a car. I'm tired of being in a car. I'm tired of being in parking lots. I'm ready to be in my studio. I'm ready to have my microphone. Nick Halseman. I'm tired of doing this from my car. I hear you. But, you know, you love your car, don't you? I like, I like driving.

I like going places. I like seeing things. I like looking at this country. I like taking in the sites. I like the freedom of it. But, yeah, a man can only take so much after a while. I hear you. Well, you know, it's interesting because I used to really disdain having to drive many, many hours. but with the advent of podcasts and the integration of a phone,

you're, you know, nicely. because I used to really disdain having to drive many, many hours. But with the advent of podcasts and the integration of a phone,

you know, nicely into your stereos,

I have to tell you, it's made those kind of drives a little bit easier for me

and also, I suppose, more educational.

I agree. I listen to a ton of podcasts. I listen to a ton of audiobooks,

just in the trip I've been doing. I've learned so much. I've grown so much. I'm going to stop complaining. There's a lot going on in the world. Listen, we got to talk about what's happening at West Virginia University. It's an absolute disaster. We got to talk about what's happening with the Republican Party. Things are moving, things are shaking.

They are completely falling apart in every possible way. We have to talk about where that's going,

what it looks like. But, Nick, we're going to start, of course, with Israel and Gaza.

A reminder to everybody to support the show. Go to patreon.com slash muckrague podcast.

You can gain access to the coverage we've been doing of this developing crisis.

Things are still happening in weird different ways. Nick, get everybody up to speed.

Two American hostages have been released. All of the word right now is that the American

government, the administration, of course, the military

industrial complex is champing at the bit. The diplomatic corps is pushing for a delay of the invasion

of Gaza, which I have things I need to say about that. We've got Joe Biden warning against

basically 9-11 brain, which we've talked about on this show.

We've got warships in the region, United States warships.

We've got Chinese warships.

It is a gigantic and utter mess.

And I just want to remind everybody, again, at the heart of this, are absolutely innocent

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