Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast.

I'm Jared Yates Sexton.

I am glad to announce that Nick Houseman is back so you don't have to listen to me,

ramble and stall and talk to myself.

It's good to have you back, Nick.

It's good to be back, Jared.

Thank you for making me feel welcome.

Well, I got to tell you, you know, it was really weird, the timing of you being gone.

Considering I basically had to sum up the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war as you had gone and try and give some historical background to it, I was left really wondering how you'd felt about it.

And luckily, there was a lot more that happened since then for people who haven't already.

Go back and check out.

Nick and I did a live stream on Tuesday night after President Joe Biden's State of the Union.

We'll talk a little bit about that tonight just to get everybody on the same page.

But that is out there.

We get into Ukraine quite a bit.

But yeah, I was wondering how you felt about this thing.

And since then, it has, it's just gotten worse, man.

Yeah. And we should just say that you can uh watch that live show on our patreon page the patreon dot com slash muckrake

podcast that's where you go and you can hang out with us uh in the middle of this stuff if we're

imprompt to uh you know live live streams and Q&As and such.

Just to get everybody on the same page where we are right now, the war in Ukraine has escalated as we kind of expected that it would.

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