Bezos Eats The Washington Post

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

It is Super Bowl weekend and neither the co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton or Nick Hauselman can pretend to care about the game. Jared is in full "They Live" mode and he is not being polite about it. The conversation quickly turns to the Washington Post gutting itself under Jeff Bezos, and what it means when a billionaire can buy a load bearing newsroom with pocket change. They argue that this is not a business mistake, it is the point, and they connect it to the bigger pattern of institutions being neutralized on purpose. Then they jump to the bitcoin slide, and how gambling keeps getting sold as hope in a collapsing economy. From there they hit Kamala’s new “Headquarters” relaunch and why it reads like brand management in the middle of an emergency. They close with France raiding X’s offices over sexual abuse material and deepfakes, and why Europe still has levers the US refuses to pull. The Weekender ends with what they’re watching and what they’re reading, including a rough movie recommendation and a couple books that actually land. Support the show by signing up to our Patreon and get access to the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0	Oh, that was a juicy one.
0:03.6	Oh, hey, everybody.
0:05.3	Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Bucking podcast from Jared Yates Sexton here with my friend Nick Hausman.
0:09.9	Nick, how you doing?
0:10.7	How's your weekend shaping up?
0:12.0	It's Super Bowl weekend.
0:13.3	Are you having a party?
0:15.1	Is it Super Bowl weekend?
0:16.8	No.
0:17.4	Wow.
0:18.8	By the way, we later on the show, we're going to talk about the Super Bowl halftime show. Am I wrong or is this the like least anticipated least talked about Super Bowl that you can remember? It feels like nobody gives a shit about this game. They care more about the halftime show. You didn't even know what's
0:37.5	happening this weekend. Yeah, I mean, I guess I did. We were going to actually have a little shindig and then a bunch of our neighbors were busy. And so we're going to, I invited myself over to someone else's house. Well, I mean, we love, we love to do that. Yeah. You know, I mean, It's got that askers feel where it's like, okay, we want to watch all the commercials or something
0:54.9	or we want to watch commercials for the Super Bowl, too, versus the actual game and all. It's always sort of been the thing. I think, you know, certainly in recent years, commercials, though, how quaint is that to like want to watch an ad? I'll go ahead and since it's the weekend or I'll put my two cents out there. I hate the modern Super Bowl commercials. They're all, hey, do you remember this celebrity? Do you remember this thing that happened with this celebrity? Yeah. Here it is again. You know, don't you want to see like Fonzie jump on the shark at age? No, it's brain dead. It's the most brain dead shit imaginable. And it is, for me, it is a signifier of the decline of the United States of America. I hate it.
1:33.0	Bigfoot discovered, Jared. That's my, by way, I really do. You know, I'm sure I'll be at least one commercial about it.
1:39.4	I'm such a grumpy man during the ascendance of fascism and the fall of America,
1:45.6	that I'm just like, I see these things that are like, hey, here's this little preview of our Super Bowl.
1:50.8	Go to hell.
1:52.1	Yeah.
1:52.3	Well, if you're new to him, listen to this.
1:54.6	Jared probably looks at this like the movie, they live, and he's got the sunglasses on.
1:59.8	Yeah.
2:00.1	He knows exactly what everything, all the billboards are really saying.
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