Hello, muck rakers.

Welcome to our Weekender edition of our show.

My name is Nick Houselman.

I am always co-hosted with Jared Y.Sexam, who's on the road today calling in.

And so we're excited because we have a jam-pack show to discuss with you.

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head on over to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast and join an incredible community that has a lot of

great discussions on Discord and then the full thing we have every Friday. So, Jared, are you with us

calling from the road?

You are so much more professional in your intro than I am.

Well, you are just an old hand.

But it's a little early in the day.

You are an old hand at this.

And I get on here like a schlub and I'm just like, hey, everybody, I guess we're going to do a show.

Hold on.

Well, you know what? There's room for any kind of opening. One thing I hadn't done, though, is discuss a little bit what we're going to talk about today since we're doing the opening. We have a lot of talk about, Jared. I'm glad that you're here to join us. We got a lot of pressure on Biden, both from COVID forces and then other people in the government.

We had J.D. Vance's speech last night during the Republican National Convention.

More details about the assassination of President Trump or attempted assassination.

And then how the media is covering Trump out of all this.

So, Jared, I don't know. Where do you want to start? Should we start with Biden and how he's dealing with his, he's having a heck of a week? It's not great.

Yeah, so I'm really glad we're getting a chance to talk about this because, you know, I've been

traveling and I've been talking with some people and sort of gathering in the temperature and

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