Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jerry Gates Sexton. I am in my studio. I'm no longer doing a phoner. I do have to tell you, Nick. I know the Weekender is sometimes a little bit lighter. I have suffered the crumbling infrastructure and transportation network of the United States of America, and I am salty.

Why do you hate America, Jared?

Because it doesn't get you anywhere.

All these highways and byways? Come on now.

The highways are crumbling. The byways have already fallen into the ocean.

It's absolutely ridiculous that this country doesn't. I'm sorry, that we don't have high-speed rail at this point is an absolute national embarrassment. I'm ready to go today, Nick. I'm ready to go. Well, we can go all through the catastrophe of trying to do high-speed rail between L.A. and San Francisco because, like, listen, I have my beef trying to drive an electric

car between those two cities last few weeks ago. That was not as easy as it should have been.

I can't even imagine. I am fit to be tied. A reminder, if you're listening to the preview of this,

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We got to do a live show. You want to maybe do one next couple weeks? This is how we organize the whole podcast. Yes, let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah, anytime soon. I was just thinking about that. I missed that, you know, I missed that, that excitement energy we have and we're talking live. Let's do that. Okay, so as soon as we're done on here, we're going to go and schedule that. So keep an eye out. I love it. I love that they just got into one of our meetings. That's fantastic. Yeah. That's the kind of glimpse you'll get in the Patreon. So on that note, speaking of meetings, we got to start this thing off. The January 6th hearing committee,

whatever we're calling it, had, I think, I don't know, Nick, if you've heard this,

presumably their last hearing, once again, and we'll get into the nuts and the bolts of this

thing and reactions from it and sort of the larger reaction to all these hearings,

presented some more audio, some more videos, some more exclusive things, you name it.

And then at the end of the hearing, voted to unanimously subpoena Donald Trump to come and talk to the committee.

We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion.

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