Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jerry Dates Sexton. And guess what?

Reunited and it feels so good. I'm here with Nick Alstman. How are we doing, buddy?

I'm great. I'm feeling good. I'm glad to be back home. And man, it gets cold in certain parts of this country, man. I didn't know.

I had forgotten. It turns out that when you are not in Los Angeles, CA, it gets a little bit cold out in the rest of what we like to refer to as the heartland.

Oh, yeah. No one told me. I mean, it was like zero negative two in Utah. I mean, I couldn't believe it, but it was refreshing when the sun was out. I'll tell you that. You know, I'm a big fan of it. I like the crisp weather. I want to wear my flannels. I want to wear my heavy coats. I enjoy it as well. But man, it is, it is cold out there, people. Yeah, stay warm, please.

Stay warm. And this is, by the way, the last regular edition of the McCraeak podcast before the

holidays commence in full force. Happy Hanukkah, happy Christmas, happy Kwanza, everybody.

We hope you're doing wonderful. We appreciate all of you.

And yeah, this is sort of the lead up into the end of the year. Things are still cooking.

Things are still happening. And we hope everybody has a decent, safe holiday.

That sounds great to me. I'm looking forward to having one. And, you know, my son's birthday is on New Year's Eve. So we always have a fun dual celebration, if you will.

I always enjoy those. I always feel like a little bit jealous of the people who get the holiday birthdays. you know but they're not then they're not in school so you don't get the whole

have that whole thing but then when they're young you can convince them that all the

fireworks are for for them you know which is nice but that's it only lasts for so long but

still see

where i come from you'd have to convince them that all the gunshots outside are for them but that

that's neither here nor there uh by the way speaking of tumult and all of that uh we have to start

nick um the january 6th commission uh up today. We are, of course,

recording this on December 19th, Monday. They just had their last public hearing after an 18-month

investigation, multiple public hearings, a presentation that was made for TV, occasionally reached the level of, I guess,

entertaining and compelling at other times sort of got lost in the narrative, which we'll

talk about in just a moment.

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