Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckreg 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, uh, 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 Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast.

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Ah, there we go. Welcome to the weekend. We are so glad to have you for this Patreon exclusive show.

We know everybody likes to give these a little listen, even if you're not subscribing. We need your support.

We live off of your support.

It keeps this show ad-free, editorial free.

It allows us to talk about real shit.

So if you are interested in hearing this whole show.

And by the way, spoiler, today, we are talking about the 1987 classic Robocop.

And we are using Robocop, like all people do, to talk about hypercapitalistic markets, exploitation, and the privatization of public resources and the state's monopoly on violence.

So, if you want to go ahead and hear that, all you have to

do is go over to patreon.com slash monkwreck podcast. You'll get instant access to all of the

weekend or episodes. For all of our subscribers, thank you. You are wonderful and you're here and you're

wonderful and great. And unfortunately, Nick, we are, we're taping this episode.

Just go ahead and pull the curtain back.

I'm running out of town for a couple of days.

So we are taping this on Tuesday, July 20th.

And I think it's only fitting before we talk about a future dystopia where corporations and the wealthy have taken over the public functions of life, that we talk about the fact that fucking Jeff Bezos went into quote unquote near space for five minutes, came back, wore a stupid cowboy hat, and I'm just, I'm pissed off in 15 different ways about this thing.

You know, it's funny. I don't care. Like, you know what I mean? It's like,

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