Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm J.J.A.S.

My man, Nick Halsman, still outside the country, so you're stuck with me. Hopefully,

you're not sick of me by now. But we're going to do the job.

We're going to go through the stories of the day, and we have interesting stories today that I think we're going to be able to get into deep

and get some additional historical and analytical context too.

You know, this is one of the parts of the job that I enjoy, which is taking, breaking news, and actually getting into the weeds with it,

and going well beyond the headlines and talking about what is happening and why it is happening

and giving that context. So I am just, I don't know,

in the midst of all of this that we are going through all of this horseshit that we are

surviving and fighting against. I just want to say thank you for your support and for your

kindness. This is truly one of the great joys of my life, having this

community, having this podcast, and being able to make sense of all of this chaos. So I just want to say

thank you. I'm feeling very grateful today. For those of you who want to support the show, head over to patreon.com slash

my Greg Podcast, become a patron, gain full access to the additional bonus episode on Fridays,

the Weekender Edition, as well as access to the Discord, live events, mailbags, all that good stuff.

I think we're going to have a mailbag here

pretty soon. So, yeah, head on over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. We start today with horrific

news of a disaster in Texas, central Texas, over by the Guadalupe River, which is an area that I've spent a little bit of time with, and it is beautiful.

And the people that I have encountered there have been very, very kind.

Terribly flashed floods have killed upwards of a hundred people. Dozens are still missing.

People are being saved from trees and floating on debris. The accounts of what happened here,

it simply should not have happened.

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