Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake podcast, Reunited, and it feels so good.

I'm Jared D. Sechstein. I'm here with Nick Hausman. Good to have you back, bud.

Thanks for having me back.

Luckily, there's nothing going on that we need to discuss today. It's going to be a laid-back show.

Later on, actual Powell of the podcast, Jeff

Charlotte, the author of The Undertoe Scenes from a Slow Civil War is going to come by. Me and him

are going to talk about how great things are going in this country and how there's nothing to worry

about. Nick, I assume that you had a restful time. You weren't worried about unsecure nuclear weapons.

You weren't worried about major superpower states, possibly being overtaken by mercenaries.

I assume you are well rested and ready to go.

I'm ready to go.

And, you know, well rested is a thing I can take up with my watch, my Apple watch, do you see that and measure that later. But, because I haven't really gotten a great night's sleep in a long time in like 10, 11, 12 days. So, so we can discuss that in a different pod, I suppose, or a different, a whole different pod like all together for sleep help but that's a weekender we can

we can we can talk about sleeping on the weekender okay yeah and we talk about like what the night not

night tears it's the one where you get stuck in between dreaming and awake you know that stuff that's absolutely

yes this this has a lot of meat on the bone absolutely we're going to about sleeping. But we need to tell people if they want to listen to something like that on the Patreon that they need to go to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. Patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. That's the place to go so you can listen to the weekend or on Fridays and hear us talking about our sleep. I have things to talk about

with my sleep. I'll talk about my sleep patterns. I'll talk about all of it. We'll be open books.

Yeah. And I think hopefully it would help people. Yeah. Maybe that's what this podcast is for to help

people sleep. Speaking of going to bed at night and not worrying about anything, Nick, this was one of the

wildest weekends in a hot minute. I assume everybody has heard of this, but let's go ahead and set the

table. In Russia, head of the Wagner group, and for those who don't know, Wagner is a group of mercenaries that have carried out the war in Ukraine as well as imperial projects in Africa.

Just an absolutely awful group of people. Wagner's billionaire head, Yegevni Progoshin, basically declared war on the Russian state this weekend after he claimed

that his encampment in Ukraine was hit by a missile strike, killing a bunch of his troops.

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