Hello, everybody. I am Nick Housman, co-host of the Muckrake podcast, and Jared D.H. Sexton is joining me from the road today, so glad to have him here with us. And we have a really busy show today. So, Jared, are you ready? Are you ready to drive along with us?

Unfortunately, and apologies for audio quality, I got called out for work again, and that's good news, but at the same time, like, it puts a little bit of strain on things. But I trust my friend, my co-conspirator, Nick Alstman, to handle this thing. It's good to be here today. Terrific. Well, we have a lot of talk about, Jared, and we'll start with ending the shutdown deal, if it is a deal

or not, and the reaction to that.

Plus, fake elector pardons and going after Adam Schiff, celebrating Ritzie parties

at Mar-a-Lago.

Plus, Musk has gotten a hefty, nice package from his company Tesla.

So lots of things that you discuss there.

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about the government shutting down or not shutting down or being open.

What do you think? Is this really going to be a deal?

Yeah, I think it is, Nick. And I regret to inform everyone. I know they're going to be shocked,

but the Democratic Party absolutely caved on this thing. And as the news started to hit the wires, I,

you know, I expect very little out of Chuck Schumer. I expect very little out of the corporate

Democrats. And somehow or another, I still got less than I expected. They completely capitulated.

And, Nick, I want to hear your thoughts on it, but I do want to make a point that they

didn't stop the government shutdown. They didn't come with this deal when 40 plus million Americans

had their assistance cut off and did know where to get their food. And they cut it off instead

whenever air travel started getting disrupted.

And we're going to talk about the fallout from this and the backlash

and how people are fed up with this shit.

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