Hey, everybody. It is Nick Houselman here, hosting from my home studio while Jared is with us via phone on the road. And this is the muckrake podcast. Welcome and lots to talk about. Jared, are you with us? I am. Thank you once and more for putting up with me phoning in.

I've got some personal stuff that I've had to take care of.

But listen, the news waits for no one man.

That is true.

And we wish you save travels and resolutions with your life that hopefully will go okay.

I appreciate that.

And while I'm at it, I'm not going to miss out an opportunity to say everyone listening, go to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast because Nick, I know that you're keeping an eye on this as well.

We're going to talk a little bit about our media's complicity when it comes to Donald Trump.

And people are absolutely desperate for actual analysis and actual coverage.

And we see that from the people who are coming to us, who trust us after our coverage of the

2024 election. We hold that sacrosanct. We are very, very emboldened by it. To support the show,

patreon.com slash my Craig podcast, you also get the Friday show, but yeah, come on over and join.

And it really helps us stay editorially independent and uninfluenced by the people that are being

influenced out there as our first segment we'll talk about, which is you'll never guess, Jared,

but it turns out that some of the mainstream media people think that it might be a good idea

to, quote unquote, restart communications with the Trump administration.

Nick, if only we had predicted this, if only we've not been telling people this for months, that this was going to happen if Trump was going to be elected.

And yet, here we find ourselves, right smack dab in the middle of it.

Yes. And let's hear directly from the horse's mouth of, that's probably not a great term, but we'll hear it right from them directly.

That would be Mika and Morning Joe, who had not spoken apparently to Trump for seven years. And they even got on the plane head down to Mara Lago.

Here they are.

Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from so many people, from political leaders to regular

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