Hey, muckrakers.

Welcome to the Muckrakeletical podcast.

I am Nick Houselman.

Jared is not here with us today, but I am pleased to bring on the show Michael Leon, who is the host of the Can We Police Talk podcast?

And we're pleased to bring him on to discuss what's going on the news today.

So Michael, thanks for coming on the show.

I appreciate it.

Nick, thank you so much for having me.

We got a little bit darker complexion, Jared, here, less facial hair, a lot of less facial hair,

especially up on the top here, this cul-de-sac.

You can't see it on video.

But thank you so much for inviting me on the podcast.

And I got big shoes to fill.

I mean, this guy, your host has got a book out here. He's got thousands of followers. I got a few hundreds. So I'm happy to fill in. Hey, my pleasure. And I'm glad that we can maybe parse for a minute, that facial hair. it counts the top of the head counts his facial hair too yeah yeah i would say well it depends

like side burns and then if you get a little scruff here in that facial hair. It counts the top of the head counts his facial hair too.

Yeah, I would say, well, it depends. Sideburns and then if you get a little scruff here, but if, you know, the Costanza, if the enemy is advancing past here, there's no more hair going to be growing there, Nick. So, fortunately, I'm a bald man, you know. I hear you. Well, I'm battling that. I'm kind of winning so far, but uh you know it's you know you can i have a i used have a t-shirt it said just another sexy bald guy and perhaps

i'll need that and you know you are you definitely could wear that shirt michael so oh i love that

yeah defeats inevitable nick but but it's how you get defeated is the key there.

That is true. Well, speaking of being defeated, we had a vote today in Congress that yanked

Ilan Omar off of her committee assignment. And I find that interesting because the Foreign

Affairs Committee is an important thing. I'm kind of curious, I looked it up because I kind of wanted to get a handle on what that committee really does. I feel like sometimes we get in the weeds here. We don't necessarily realize what all the different committees are and why they're more lucrative or not. Do you have a sense of what that purpose of the Foreign Affairs Committee is? You know, I'm so glad you said that.

And by the way, fantastic transition there because I was looking it up as well earlier. And, you know, we've had members of Congress on our podcast before. And I remember Representative Jamal Bowman, who's very close with Ilyon Omar, telling me about some of the subcommittees and committees that he's on. And they all act in a bipartisan nature. The foreign,

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