Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrardt Podcast. I'm Gary DeSexton. I'm here with my friend, my compatriot, Nick Hausman. Nick, how you doing, bud?

I'm good. I'm going to fresh off of a high school reunion weekend. Oh, yeah. How was your high school reunion? That's right. It was nice. It was nice. I hadn't been one in 20 years maybe. And it was it was nice to see some people and uh and have

a drink or two i and then be by way in chicago in the most beautiful weather and uh just you know

i i was dodging murder and bullets the whole time jared but um ended up uh it was uh i don't

a what a hell hole what a what a what you know, an absolute war it is out there.

That title in town. I tell you. All right, everybody, we, we got to talk about all of these delusions and all of these fears.

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Nick, speaking of delusional ideas about what's happening in the United States of America,

we begin with a development over the weekend. President Trump

had said that he was sending military to Portland and authorized, quote, unquote, full force.

Then he gave an interview to NBC in which he was challenged on this decision in order to invade Portland.

And he said, quote, I spoke to the governor.

She was very nice.

But I said, well, wait a minute.

Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?

My people tell me different.

This, we have a bunch of big stories to talk about.

But I don't think, Nick, that I've ever seen a single quote from Donald Trump really distill down the essence of what is going on in this country.

You were in Portland recently. I know you wanted to talk about that a little bit.

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