Hey everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of Muckrake Podcast, a patron exclusive episode.

If you want to listen to this whole thing, go over to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

Listen, everybody, I'm opening up this beer and I'll tell you why.

It has been a long week, Nick.

I have been in the studio recording the audio book for The Midnight Kingdom, a history of power, paranoia, and the coming crisis.

It's exhausting.

I can imagine.

It's a tiring thing to do.

I mean, were able to get the author's voice properly?

I hope so.

I hope I was able to capture it.

But I, first things, first, I've basically been talking for about six hours a day right now.

So if it sounds like my voice is a little bit weak, you're not imagining it.

All right. So my apologies, but I'm a gamer, Nick. I play hurt. That's right. Well, and don't forget, just because you mentioned the Patreon, you know, on Tuesday, election night, next Tuesday, we're having a big live show with special guests and everything to analyze in real time what's happening. So you got to get over there and check that out.

So I got it. I got to recover. I got to recoup. So on Tuesday, of course, election day,

we'll be releasing our midterm election preview show, which we'll be recording on Monday.

And then Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, Nick and I, along with Democracyish, are going to be offering alternative election night coverage, in part because we want to be together like we've been doing in all of these big major moments in American politics. But also because I'll be frank with you. I do not trust the American media to cover

this thing correctly. We need to get some actual information out there, some actual discussion.

Again, I'm not excited about it, but as a political junkie and sicko, I am excited to be

hanging out with my friend Nick, my friends from Democracyishish, and to hang out with the McCrack community.

I'm looking forward to that.

Yeah, absolutely.

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