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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Attack On Democracy Was Predictable, If Not Disturbing

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is an abbreviated version of our weekly Patreon show. To access the full-episode and support the pod, head on over to http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the latest on John Eastman's coordinated attack on the 2020 election and how many moving, and dumb, parts it included. Plus, they dive into the interest rate hike and what it means to a hyperventilating economy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to a weekend or edition of the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jared

0:09.2

at Sexton. I'm here with Nick Housselman. If you, of course, want to get the full version of

0:15.0

the show, go over to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. You're not going to want to miss it. This is going to be

0:19.5

an important show. We are talking about all kinds of things, Nick. We're talking about treasonous tours of the capital. We're talking about economic decline. I mean, we're getting into so much stuff. A lot of stuff. I don't even know where you want to begin. Well, I'll tell you where I want to begin, Nick. You know, as we talk about

0:38.3

on the Muckrakech, podcast, we deal a lot with the milieu of growing authoritarianism, radicalization.

0:47.0

We get really, really deep into ideology. But I want to change something today. And I want to

0:53.3

start this show off with a little piece of advice because here's the thing,

0:58.5

Nick, in our profession, it's the support of the people that keeps us going.

1:04.7

Am I wrong?

1:06.5

Absolutely that support.

1:08.2

And we appreciate them.

1:10.6

We believe in them. So I thought today would be

1:13.6

a good time to give them a little piece of life advice. Are you ready? Please, I could use it too.

1:19.8

Here's the thing. A wise man once said, find something that you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life.

1:28.7

Have you heard this before?

1:29.7

Yes.

1:30.7

It reminds me of a variation of the city slickers, curly, one thing.

1:36.4

So here is the thing, Nick.

1:39.2

What I want to suggest to our listeners is this. Find something in your life that you love to do half as much as

1:49.1

Jenny Thomas and John Eastman love trying to overthrow the government of the United States of

1:54.2

America. And if you do that, you will never work a day in in your life. Whoa, whoa, whoa,

1:58.7

well, well, hang on. Thank God we figured guy, John Eastman, was up to no good, Jared. If only we were on that for months. Trump, I mean, Trump is, he's like, this is, we got to, this guy's got to go to prison. This guy is crazy, right? Look what he was saying to everybody. Can you believe this?

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