everybody that is the sound of a long long week coming to it and i'm jared a

at sexton i am here with my good friend nick houseman who was amazing in my absence it is so good

to see you be back to the regular regularly scheduled programming of our show my friend i i hope people like the insights into

ken paxton because i feel like it's been so under the radar although people are vaguely aware of it

that uh who knew how much intrigue and uh innuendo was involved in that and uh and yet he gets

he got off yeah i it's one of those amazing things of this modern era. It's like there's a moment of

like consequence for things that have happened and then we just sort of roll past them.

Right. That's that's the thing. I remember when the Paxton thing first occurred.

Everybody's like, oh, the GOP at least aren't looking past this. And it's like, well, here we are again.

You know, interestingly enough, there's more uh comments on that video than any

of our other videos on youtube so um i don't know there's some weird lighting and like some right

wingers kind of got involved i don't know how they came across it but um either way check it out

we on youtube we are you know posting these and uh it's a great way to listen to this as well

if you want to that and engage with right wing talking points.

That's fantastic.

Yeah.

At least, there could be another level. If you're not a Patreon subscriber in theory, you could at least comment on the on the shows there and we have a little bit of a back and forth. Yeah. So we got that going on. And on that note, Nick, Before we get started with this jam-packed episode, we have to say goodbye

to Rupert Murdoch and eulogize just an awful, awful career. Talk about these massive strikes

and also answer your questions. We have a really good mailbag ready at, uh, in later on in this

episode. A reminder to everybody, go to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. First of all, to gain access to this entire episode, which you want to do, you're already listening in this preview, come along, support the show. Keep us going. Keep us growing. But also, Nick, I'm so excited. Next Wednesday, September 27th, that 9 p.m. Eastern, the second GOP debate is going down. And as soon as that ends, we will be going live with our analysis, our thoughts on that. And I don't know if you remember this, Nick, I'm sure you do. And I'm sure the listeners who are there do as well. We kind of told you exactly what was going to happen in the wake of that debate,

how the next couple of weeks we're going to play out. And alas, here we are.

Here we are. Here we are. So that again is Wednesday, September 27th. 9 p.m. Eastern is when

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