Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. Great news, everybody. Nick Alzman's back. Hooray! Where's my applause? How are you doing, bud? How's your vacation? I am doing well. I am recharged. I had a terrific long weekend. Well, first of all, the first part of it was hanging out with you at the podcast. We got to hang out in Nevada. Did you discuss that as all? We haven't really had we decompressed since then. We haven't had a chance to decompress. We had a great time. That's what I talked about. It was good getting to hang out with you, spend some quality time walking around. We had a big long discussion about what the last important rock and roll band was nick i have a different answer please arcade fire okay i love arcade fire did they i don't know if they got to the

heights of popularity they were big they were big we can this is a weekender discussion but i wanted to let

you know but we had a great time hanging out we got to meet a bunch of listeners a bunch. We had a great time. It sounds like a bunch of people got sick at this thing. I didn't. I don't think you did. I think we all escaped it, which is a good, good, good thing. What kind of sickness are we talking about here? Sickness that might not be named. Really? That's what I've heard. Well, how do we avoid? I guess, I don't know. We're careful. We're careful. We're careful, we're careful boys.

But if. Really? That's what I've heard. Wow. Well, how do we avoid? I guess, I don't know. We're careful. We're careful boys. But it is so good to have you back. You know, I held down the podcast last week, but you were dearly, dearly missed. And I'm glad that we get back to discussing terrible things in the world. Yes, the dearly terrible things as well. So thank you for letting me come back and, uh, and mixes it all up with you because I certainly missed a lot of things that happened this past week. There's a lot going on, Nick. And just a reminder very quickly, uh, to keep this podcast going, keep his editorially and then ad free. Go over to patreon.com slash Frank Craig podcast. this podcast growing we're on a roll right now we're doing really really well in terms of growing

uh I think uh the pod jam made it abundantly clear that we're we're hitting this thing

in a really really good way support us go to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast Nick I thought

you coming back was a good time for us to really

check and see where things are right now. The election season is just absolutely an overdrive

at this point. It feels as if there's been some movement back and forth. You know, our media

loves horse race coverage, which changes the way we perceive of

these things. Before it was Joe Biden was absolutely doomed to go down as a one-term president,

Donald Trump, to be reelected. It feels right now like things have switched over, like Joe Biden

is probably in the lead right now, at least in the minds and hearts. But what we are hearing right now, and the Biden campaign has been talking to a lot of different media outlets assuring everybody that they're being prepared. They're preparing for the worst case scenarios. They have talked to Rolling Stone. And at this point, they've said that they expect a, quote, uncomfortably close election. I don't know about you, Nick, but any election, uncomfortably close at this point. They say they believe that Trump will go into

overdrive is the quote. And in order to try and steal the election, the Biden campaign is

spending a lot of time talking to lawyers, getting infrastructure in place in order to take

on some legal contest and challenges,

but they fully expect at this point that Trump will try and steal the election,

just what I needed to hear in order to start my week off well.

Oh, absolutely.

And I guess it's good that, you know, they're trying to be prepared for all these things.

They're in charge, right? So in theory, they're in a better

situation in this go-round than they were the last time. But it doesn't stop him from, I mean,

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