Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckrank podcast. I'm Jada,

Day, Sexton. I'm still very sick. But guess what, everybody, we got good news. The boys,

they're back in town. Me, Nick Houseman, doing the podcast. How you doing it, brother?

I'm doing. I'm just, you know, hanging in there, looking forward to a little break after the

playoffs are ending, and then I can focus completely full time on politics. I'm sorry. I know, I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. It's, it just vacillates between what it is and what it isn't. I'm so happy. This is the, like, Nick and I haven't talked for about a week. I'm so excited. We get a little bit of bro time. And to talk about the bros, we got to talk about men who aren't doing well. They're doing badly, Nick. They're doing badly. And I understand it, you know. Well, I wouldn't have too much empathy for the boys that we're talking about who aren't doing well. Okay. But, I mean, we have to figure that out because there's a lot of nuance into who they're talking about, who they have to target, what ages, what, you know, everything. So all of that stuff. And we will get to it in full. We have a full, big, spicy episode for you today. A reminder, go over to patreon.com slash my great podcast. Become a patron, support the show. Keep us growing, keep us going, keep us editorially independent, keep us doing what we do best. We appreciate the support. But if you are not a patron yet, patreon.com slash my great podcast. And you get the full weekend or show. This is one that you're not

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But Nick, we have to start with big news. Put it up in giant neon lights. Oh my God,

the entire paradigm has changed. Elon Musk has announced that he is

officially stepping away from his role in the Trump administration. As we have been covering,

his entire empire is financially in trouble at this point. Tesla is still on fire. He says that he is

done and spent enough on politics.

And as he's walking out the door, he criticizes the quote unquote big, beautiful bill as hurting Doge.

Nick, the long national nightmare is over.

We no longer have Elon Musk to kick around.

I have to imagine that there are parties in the street.

There's nothing at all to be

concerned about here. Oh, well, you know, his job is done, Jared. That's right. He's done.

He did his job. Let's not forget why, um, what his job was. I think that's the key. His job was

to dismantle any of the government agencies that were investigating his companies

that's chunk of it yeah and although i guess the ntsb is still doing the test list up

which is thank goodness they're still looking into crashes that happen with his cars um but uSAID

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