Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Nick Houselman. And this is an announcement to let you know that we are going to be doing a new series called The Weekender over on Patreon that will appear every Friday. And this is a little sneak preview so you can get a handle on what it's like and why you'd want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing with a lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

So here it is. Check it out. And feel free to check out the actual Patreon as well at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to this week's edition of the Weekender of the Muckwreck podcast. Special treat tonight as we hang out with our patrons, our wonderful, wonderful patrons. It has been way too long since we've had one of these live shows where we get to see your wonderful comments. You all get to interact,

be good to one another. We need to do this more often. It fills me with love and energy. I am Jared

Diet Sexton, by the way. I didn't even introduce myself. I'm so excited about the whole thing.

I'm here as always with Nick Hauserman. Listen, let's be straight up. We have a shit ton of stuff to talk about tonight.

We're also going to be taking questions from our live audience, which if you want to be

involved in that, and you're listening to the preview, all you have to do is go to patreon.com

slash monkwreck podcast and become a patron and part of this community.

That's happiness. That's good stuff, Nick. There's bad stuff. That's happiness.

That's good stuff, Nick.

There's bad stuff.

There's bad stuff going on.

Right now, the state of Texas is frozen solid.

There are major cities, including the fourth largest city in the United States of America.

Houston, Texas, beautiful city, largely without power.

Austin, Texas, without power. People are trying to survive frigid winter temperatures that have been caused by climate catastrophe.

I've got loved ones down there.

I know a lot of our listeners do as well.

It is absolutely disgusting what's going on, and we got to talk about it.

We do.

And hey, Jared, hi, everybody.

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