Hey, everybody. It's Jared Yates Sexton in the McCrack podcast. I just wanted to record this quick message reminding everybody that my book, The Midnight Kingdom, A History of Power, Paranoia in the Coming Crisis, comes out next week, Tuesday, January 17th. It's a long time coming, and I've got to tell you I've been excited for a very, very long time for people to get their hands on this book. It is by far the hardest thing and also

the most rewarding thing that I've done in my career. This tells the story of how the modern

world was created using white supremacist lies, evangelical mythologies, and capitalist conspiracy

theories. It is both a guide to how we've arrived at this moment,

how we are approaching an authoritarian future, but also how we might save ourselves,

how we might actually push back and make a better world. Again, that's the Midnight Kingdom,

a history of power, paranoia, and the coming crisis. If you haven't already, get your

pre-order in from your local independent bookstore. Let him know. You want me to come out, hang out with you, talk to you, sign a couple books, do those types of things. And I would be more than happy to do that. Again, Midnight Kingdom, History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis comes out next week. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jerry Yates-Saxton. Nick, how are we doing, bud? We're doing. It's cold. It's rainy. I'm happy to be inside with you. Wait, time out. What's cold for Los Angeles, California? We got to get some specifics here. It is currently I want to say

54 degrees and and raining. That's not good. Why that really is that fun? Fifty four is come

on. Are you 54 are you putting on earmuffs? What do we do it? I got a hoodie. I got a really

nice if it's a warm sweatshirt thing that I zip up. You, it's, it's something. Okay. All right. Well, we'll send our hopes and prayers to you. And maybe you'll make it through this hard time. I appreciate that. Let them, let them rain down upon me. Well, we got a lot to talk about today. We got, man, Florida is an absolute disaster.

We got to talk about the actual deal that ended with Kevin McCarthy becoming the speaker of the house.

My God, what a mess that is.

But, Nick, first things first, we got to go south.

We got to go to Brazil, my friend.

Because this nation that we have been keeping an eye on for a while now,

it brewed over, Nick.

We knew there was an opportunity for some of these things to happen.

There was a troubling, a troubling scene that took place on Sunday, January 8th.

Thousands of Jair-Balsanero supporters stormed, the presidential palace, the

National Congress, the Supreme Court.

They made an absolute mess of everything.

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