Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jared D.A. Sexton. I'm sick as a dog, Nick.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I got the COVID. I got it. I got it good. I kept away from it,

basically for two years, avoided it like a like a steadfast warrior, almost like a monk, Nick, but it tracked me down. It's, uh, it's inevitable. It's kind of like Grady Seasons playing Tom Cruise and, um, in the color of money. It's just, it's a nightmare. You never wake up. But, uh, you will wake up. It will get better day after day. I got it twice in the last four months,

and it will get better. I appreciate the pep talk. I got to tell everybody, I feel like straight

garbage. It is hitting me so hard. You know, I heard all this talk. Nick was even telling me

before we started recording that like, you know, it wasn't that bad for him when he got it.

I got all the, I got all the vaccines. I got the boosters. I got all the jabs, Nick. And it's still coming down on me like the judgment of God.

Well, have you, have you repented? I suppose. Is this what we're going to get to?

Well, to be clear, a winter hurricane

type situation descended on my town. It was everything that we talked about. It was so bad.

There was so much snow. It was the coldest I've ever felt. I had to go shovel my aunt's driveway

because why, why wouldn't I? And and and then this happens it feels like it feels

like I've got some repenting to do I've got I've got some I've got some some humiliation to go after

well I definitely want to wish sent some good wishes over to people like in Buffalo who are really

struggling there it sounds like it's all on the news here how bad it is and you know it's funny I saw some outrage of people who are really struggling there. It sounds like it's all on the news here, how bad it is.

And, you know, it's funny. I saw some outrage of people who are like, why do you have to go visit

relatives like on this one random day in December everyone wants to do it on? But I think that's

the point. And I feel like people should be a little bit more sympathetic because certainly

school schedules allow only for like the moments where

you can visit your family on December 25th. So it sucks that it has to be that way. And the

entire country has to get stuck because now you're looking at lines and all these canceled planes

and everything. But but I just hope I'm glad, I guess for me that I didn't have to go anywhere or, you know, to travel.

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