Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrick podcast. Happy holidays to everybody. I'm Jared

Deut Sexton. I'm here with my good friend Nick Houseman. Nick, happy Hanukkah.

Well, thank you. Merry Christmas. They coincide this year. It's very exciting. It's a confluence of events.

It's a confluence of events. And we're glad to get this out on Christmas Eve for everybody.

We hope that your traveling is going okay, that your families are great.

We are very, very thankful for you.

We're here to cover just an absolute load of horseshit as always, but that is our love language.

What's it called when all the planets align?

We need something that's not even just a confluence.

It's an alignment of something that's beneficial even just a confluence. It's a alignment

of something that's beneficial for everybody. I don't know. Yeah, it's like, it's like the mercury

and retrograde, but of the United States of America. Right. And then throw in some potential

aliens and, uh, we know we've got a happening. We've, we've got a happening is what we've got.

Everybody, we will be back on Friday with

the weekender and a reminder. Go to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. Support the show. Keep us

editorially independent. There's a reason why you are flocking to independent media like us,

because corporate media, quite frankly, sucks and always has. But you'll also get to listen to

the weekenders on Fridays, you know, post with the rest of the community and support the show, patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. Also, by the way, you can give these out for gifts. You can. We are going to get all that set up very soon. That's, I mean, are we? You know what? It might already be set if you go to Patreon, but we'll figure that out. We're going to do a lot of interesting things in the new year to help people out. Well, I will say that I think that this is an interesting time to do stuff like that. Over at my substack dispatches from a collapsing state, a lot of people are giving out subscriptions to that to coworkers and family members who

might want a different take on everything, a more accurate take. But it's patreon.com

slash my Greg podcast. Nick, on the weekend or last week, we were covering the fact that Elon Musk

absolutely scuttled the funding bill in Congress, basically single-handedly.

Congress eventually passed the funding bill after Musk basically blew this entire thing up.

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