Hey everybody. Welcome to the McCrack Podcast. Weekender edition. I'm J.D.8. Sexton. It pains me to say that I'm here with my beloved podcast host, Nick Hausman, who is under the weather?

You know, I did it to myself, though. I am suffering from the booster, I suppose,

the effects. You have sacrificed your own momentary well-being. Yes, although I don't recommend,

like, I had a sore throat the morning of the booster shot, and I kind of just ignored that.

You're supposed to tell them if you're not feeling well. And I just, you know what the booster so I got it so I have this feeling that I've you know accentuated any kind of ill feelings they might have already had with with a booster but it's I'm on my way back I feel better already from yesterday well don't let anybody say the Nick Houseman does not play hurt.

He does.

And thank God that he does because we have an absolutely jam-packed show today.

Obviously, we have to talk about what's going on in Congress right now.

I actually just got off the phone with a staffer from the Democratic Progressive

Caucus where Nick, shit went down today.

Shit, shit went down.

Do you have like a red phone on your desk that you can pick up?

Is that how that works?

No, but I do have an iPhone and let me tell you

when when something like what happened today goes down the staffers and the

people around these politicians they do enjoy getting on the phone because I

and we'll talk about this later and by the way if you want if you want here's here's where we do it. This is the hard sell. And apologies, because we've got to do the hard sell, because this is the show for our Patreon subscribers. This is what they're investing in the show for. Thank you, as always. If you want to hear about what happened today within the Progressive Caucus, if you want to hear about the, If you want to hear about the conversation that within the progressive caucus you want to hear about the

if you want to hear about the conversation that i just had you're going to need to go over to

patreon.com slash muckering podcast and and take care of the show also what are you waiting for take

care of the show nick plays hurt we bleed for you people i'm doing the breaking news music in the background, too.

I mean, come on. I love it. We need some sort of a segment. But before we get into what happened

during the Progressive Caucus today, first things first, we have to talk about this development

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