Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Nick Houselman. And this is an announcement to let you know that we are going to be doing a new series called The Weekender over on Patreon that will appear every Friday. And this is a little sneak preview so you can get a handle on what it's like and why you'd want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing with a lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

So here it is. Check it out. And feel free to check out the actual Patreon as well at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. It is the Weekender edition.

Let's, uh, late night.

One open. Cheers, everybody. We made it through another one. I am here, as always, with Nick Houselman. And we have a lot to talk about, including Tucker Carlson, embracing replacement theory, just absolute straight out white supremacist,

not even dog whistles, bullhorn, volume turned up to 11, white supremacy. But unfortunately, Nick,

we got to start out in the gutter, man.

It's fascinating, so it doesn't feel like I'm in the gutter, only because I think we are both sensing what's going to happen eventually, and that's exciting.

Oh, man.

So just to go ahead, because this is, of course, our Patreon exclusive podcast, you know, we can pull back the curtain a little bit. We can be honest about things here. And I'll just say first and foremost, Nick and I, Nick, of course,

lives in California. We know this from California segments. I live in the true blue state of Georgia.

And that means that we are in different time zones.

And today we were trying to communicate to set up this recording.

And for probably only the second time in our entire broadcast relationship, we crossed

wires.

We completely misunderstood time and space because what is time?

But I will say, because we are taping this later than usual,

this breaking story came out tonight with The Daily Beast around 9 p.m.

from Jose Pagliere and my friend Roger Solemberger.

And I'm just going to read the headline real fast for everybody.

Gates paid accused sex trafficker who then Venmode teen.

That's about the sleaziest headline, imaginable, wouldn't you say?

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