Hi, everybody. Welcome to the Muckering Podcast Weekend, Your Edition. I'm here with my buddy,

Nick Hausman. Nick, how are you doing? I'm recovering. I was in the, I think the worst air quality

in the United States in the last couple days near a fire in the middle of Oregon. Very exciting.

Oh, man, these are fun times. Really? And we knew about that's the other thing that's weird is before we've been landed. We're like, this is a fire warning. They knew fire is going to break out. And they fight, they break out anyway. And I mean, you couldn't really go outside. I started, I had a coughing fit for about a day and a half straight dealing with the uh the so you can hear in my voice it was not

great bob that's that's outside, I started, I had a coughing fit for about a day and a half straight dealing with the,

the, so you can hear in my voice. It was not great, Bob. That's awful. I hate that for you and everybody else. You know, actually on that note, just programming note, we're going to talk about

Hawaii next week. There's some like truly grotesque things happening out there. In the meantime,

everybody, welcome to the Weekender. We have a bunch of questions from people. Fantastic questions.

We got to talk about developing news that happened since we recorded the last episode. Before we

do, though, this coming Wednesday, August 23rd, Nick, it's the first Republican primary debate.

How are you feeling? Have you caught the fever? Oh, my goodness. It's going to be a shit show, right?

It's going to be an all-out hate fest, hoot nanny, and white supremacy hour. Maybe there'd be a little bit less white supremacy without Trump. What do you think? No, there's going to be plenty of white supremacy. Plenty. Okay. Patriarchy and what, yeah, okay. Just hold on to it. It's going to get there. Don't worry about it. Yeah. And I think the problem we have here is that in order to get more air time, which they desperately all need because they're so far behind, they're going to have to one up each other on it and it's going to be gross.

They're going to have to

one up each other on it, and it's going to be gross.

They're going to go to town.

But the good news, everybody, is that that is why you listen to this podcast, because

Nick and I are professionals.

We deal with this bullshit.

So on Wednesday, August 23rd, the first debate is from Milwaukee. It starts on television

at 9 p.m. Eastern. As soon as that is over, you need to head over to patreon.com slash

Mike Craig Podcast because our patrons are going to have live post-debate coverage.

Myself, Nick Halseman, we're going to talk about it, we're going to unpack it,

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