Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jared D.H. Sexton. Nick Kallsman, how are you doing, buddy? I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm doing okay. I am a little bit better rested than the last time I was on the show, which is good, right? We got some sleep. You went out, you celebrated some people. You got, you got some fresh air in the lungs. You're ready to go, are you not? Yeah, I was up in the, in Denver, in the, a mile high. And so that was the whole other experience. So I feel much better now back at sea level. I like Denver. I like Denver a lot. I like Denver as a city as an experience outside the fact that I almost died in a snowstorm outside Denver, but I really enjoy the city.

Good times. Oh, I was in the really nice part of Denver, Cherry Creek, maybe it's called.

Yeah, folks live a different way out there, I'll tell you. They do. I've been out there,

spent a little bit of time, and it is a whole different type of life. By the way, speaking of living a good life,

just a quick little program note.

Next week, we will not have a regular Tuesday episode. We will be celebrating Memorial Day,

taking the day off, well-deserved rest. So we will be back on the weekender then next Friday.

But as of right now, Nick, the good news, the nation is absolutely hurtling toward the

financial cliff. January 1st has been the date set out by Janet Yellen. And let me tell you

something. We are having a lot of fun trying to navigate the completely fictional bullshit

debt ceiling.

As we run towards that cliff, Joe Biden and his administration has been, quote, unquote, negotiating with Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the House GOP, which, by the way, there's no certainty whatsoever that anybody will vote for anything that he pushes forward.

And here we are.

The two sides are very far apart. This weekend, there was a lot of gesturing, a lot of professional wrestling that took place. We'll get into the specifics. But Nick, how are you feeling about

our now inevitable collapse, economic collapse in total.

Is it time to start feasting on the gooey insides?

I have a question.

Are we talking about the debt ceiling or are we talking about the ineffectuality of the

Democrats to actually negotiate something in a general sense?

I don't know what we're talking about.

Can you help me figure this out?

I will say this.

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