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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Death of Expertise, Long Live Disease

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This is a preview of the Weekender. Get full access to the entire episode on our Patreon: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Nick Hauselman and Jared Yates Sexton unpack a wild week: The Epstein survivors speak and the right tries to launder Trump’s proximity. RFK Jr. does the “don’t trust experts” routine, while Florida moves to end school vaccine mandates. The U.S. blows up a Venezuelan boat with 11 people on board, insisting they were drug smugglers with no evidence. They talk about how manufactured uncertainty keeps power unaccountable, why shredding public health is the point, and what it means when even Rand Paul sounds like due process. Plus: Oasis in Chicago, beer showers, and why Jaws in IMAX still rips.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Muck Wrake podcast. I am your host, Nick Houselman, and my co-host, Jerry V.Sexen, is with us from the road today, and we have a lot to talk about. So, Jared, great to have you on here, wherever you're calling in from, and how's everything going?

0:18.0

Well, first of all, it's good to see you. We took Labor Day off.

0:21.6

We don't take many days off.

0:24.0

I hope it was good for you.

0:25.1

I spent Labor Day with a few 10,000 other people watching Oasis put on the best concert I have ever seen in my entire life.

0:34.6

I will talk about it at the end of the weekender and a reminder that in order

0:39.4

to listen to this entire episode, you're already listening to previews. Head over to patreon.com

0:43.7

slash my Craig Podcast. We'll get into that. So many other things. But Nick, my friend, it is so good

0:49.1

to talk with you and hang out with you again. Absolutely. And I was also out of town over the Labor Day weekend. I was

0:55.0

dodging murderer and bullets, I suppose, in Chicago, left and right. In absolutely, it's a beautiful city,

1:02.3

my hometown, that's howling town. We just met each other. We missed each other in Chicago by a few

1:09.7

hours. I know, I know.

1:11.5

It was so close.

1:12.3

Chips passing in the night.

1:13.5

But again, if you were to walk around and we were all over the city all weekend long,

1:18.2

and you would not get any sense of what Trump is trying to portray as far as that city goes.

1:24.0

But we have a lot to talk about.

1:25.2

So we have to talk about the Epstein victims who spoke out for the first time in public

1:30.2

and how Trump is reacting to that.

1:34.1

That goes to takes us to Florida, where they are eliminating mandates for all vaccines

1:39.7

in schools, good times.

1:42.5

We also have RFK Jr. testifying in front of the Senate, which is a chalk full of sound

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