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'd want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing with a lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to this edition of the Weekender Muckrake-Rick podcast. I'm Joe G. G. Sackston

here with Nick Houselman. We've got one of my good buddies

and one of my favorite writers out there,

salon political writer, Chauncey DeVega, host of the

Chauncey DeVega podcast. He's going to join us in a little bit.

Personally, when you hear this,

I will be on spring break. And I, the life of an academic. I, I am transitioning right now into what I call vacation, Jared. I'm, I'm letting

life flow over me, Nick. I'm trying to be present. I'm going to enjoy a week

of watching the NCAA tournament and, and, and just engrossing myself in that. But before we get there,

before I earn my break, Nick, we have to talk about, in the words of Joe Biden, a big fucking deal.

We have to talk about the COVID relief bill, which was signed into law today.

There's a lot to go over with this, a $1.9 trillion relief package.

I would argue it probably should be even larger than $1.9 trillion, but that's neither here nor

there.

It is a massive relief package that got passed with, Nick, can you check our stats here?

How many Republicans voted for that?

None.

Wait, wait, no, that can't be right.

We're in the middle of a generational pandemic and a bleeding economic crisis.

Let me check.

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