Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jerry J.J. It's Sexton. Nick Housselman is back. The people were waiting. They were pounding on the table. They were chewing on their nails. They're so excited, Nick. Nick Houselman, never ever leave again.

Let me tell you, I was in Portland for some of the most beautiful weather I ever imagined anywhere on earth. And it's the only kind of

weather I know when I've been to Portland a few times in the last few years. So keep it up is all I

can tell you for you, Oregonians. Portland has some, has some beauty to it. Oh, yeah. I mean,

we did some hikes. And by the way, the people there, just a fantastic place. Again, I might not feel that same way if I had experienced the 50-degree rainy weeks in a row that they have there.

But so far...

You were hiking in beautiful Portland and me and Carl Fulk were basically screaming, put these people in jail.

Listen, I was mentally screaming with you. I think everybody was. screaming, put these people in jail.

Listen, I was mentally screaming with you.

I think everybody was.

Everybody, we have an absolutely packed show.

We're also going to have an interview with Craig A. Johnson, a researcher whose new book from Rutledge is called How to Talk to Your Son about fascism.

I cannot recommend him enough.

Really, really good conversation.

I'm excited for people to listen to it.

But, Nick, listen, the news doesn't stop because you're up in the hills.

It certainly doesn't.

And so much has happened and we have to talk about so much.

We have to begin, though, with Pope Francis.

88 years old dies. The Pope is dead. He has been the Pope since 2013. He has been controversial in so

many different circles. This is newsworthy, not just because a Pope has died, which is always

newsworthy, but this has

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