Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender Edition.

On the Muckrake podcast, I'm Jerry D. Sexton. Nick Hausman, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing well. I'm doing well. It's been the third time this week we get to talk. It's great.

I feel good about it. You know, I was getting ready for this weekender, and I feel like we just

ended our midterm live stream coverage, like maybe a half hour ago, something like that.

Well, that's the benefit of being on the West Coast. It wasn't that late, but it was a long show.

I'll tell you that. Yeah, you know, we got a big show. We got to recap the midterms.

We got to talk about

the state of American politics the Democratic Party the Republican Party and an

incredible growing feud between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis that I believe we

had that a while back we we had that but yeah I just want to go ahead and say first of all

thank you everybody who came out on election night we did four hours four hours

you me Nick or you Nick Hausman me Jared Hates sexton Daniel Moody fantastic

Wajad Ali showed up and and it. Your friend, a friend of the

pod, Dr. Jason Needleman, who was fantastic. I got to tell you, Nick, and I got to tell everybody this.

First of all, the people reacting to the coverage of election night were so kind. I had people

reaching out in the media saying, why don't, why aren't you on TV? Why is that not happen? Which made me think, by the way, why aren't there just a bunch of people sitting around like cursing and screaming about politics? How's that not a show? Well, they used to have that show, right? Wasn't that crossfire?

Whatever that was? I mean, sort of, except for that was full of shit.

Yeah.

You know, but I had people saying that.

And then on top of it, I had people who were like looking at this and they were like,

wow, your listenership is really engaged and understand things, which always happens.

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