Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast. I'm Nick Houselman and this is an announcement to let you know that we are going to be doing a new series called The Weekender over on Patreon that will appear every Friday.

And this is a little sneak preview so you can get a handle on what it's like and why you want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing.

A lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

So here it is, check it out.

And feel free to check out the actual Patreon as well at patreon.com slash muckbrake podcast.

It's the weekender.

It's the freaking weekend.

I love it.

Welcome to the Muckrake Weekender edition.

We hope that your week has been fantastic, filled with joy, hope, redemption.

It is the beginnings of the summer of the Muckrake, just so everybody knows.

I am Jared Yates next. I'm here with Nick H. H. Sexton. I'm here with Nick Halsaman.

Nick, before we talk about anything else, we have to start with a follow-up from our show on Tuesday,

in which we were talking about the state of Arizona and the madness of their recount.

Nick, would you like to fill the people in on just a wonderful update to that story?

Sure.

You know, it's technology.

We live in an era of technology, Jared.

So why not use it when you have it, right?

Wait, before you begin, we were joking.

We were joking about how these people were going to be looking for radioactive isotopes, right?

That the Department of Defense or whoever had put in these in order to like capture like crimes.

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