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 the Patreon exclusive weekend edition of the Macraig podcast.

I'm Jerry D.8 Sexton here with Nick Halseman.

We're going to do something that we don't normally do on this podcast.

We don't usually talk about the world of finance and stocks and markets and such.

Besides the fact to point out that they are um let me check

my notes here uh rigged fraudulent bullshit but we have to we have to have to have a conversation

about the madness that is currently taking place uh with the stock market.

Nick, do you want to take a stab at bringing maybe people who haven't been paying attention to this thing up to speed?

Sure.

And, you know, full disclosure, I worked on the floor of the Mercantile Exchange in 1988 and 89.

So I was a runner.

I literally...

Wait, time out, time out, time out, time out.

What subject are we ever going to get involved talking about?

We're not like, a true story, actually.

I betched Alfred Hitchcock his espresso ever afternoon.

Oh, no, there's more.

There's more, Don't worry.

No, shit.

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