Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckraig podcast of Jared Yates Sexton here with Nick Hausman.

This is a special weekend edition because, first of all, I am in a hotel, which means that I'm going to sound terrible, undoubtedly.

But you know what, don't let anybody tell you. I'm not.

That sounds great. Your hotel room sounds amazing to me.

I love that. And I love the, I love the support. I just, I, I'm, I love that and I love the I love the support.

I just I I'm I I care about this. I want this to be good. I care about our fans. I care about

our patrons. So my apologies for hotel room quality recording, but to make up for it,

we have a whole list of your questions. So we are

going to get that in a minute. But Nick, we have to start by talking about the confirmation

hearings of Cantongy Brown Jackson. I wish I could tell you that it has been a respectful

affair. I wish it was true what everyone was saying that Republicans were going

to let this one slide because they had already stolen the Supreme Court. They are not let

it slide and it is just devolving into absolute racism, sexism, and apocalyptic fear-bongering.

It could not be more repulsive. Jared, just tell me one thing.

What is a woman? No, I'm sorry. Define a woman for me. You know, if I could just take a second

and admire the fact that the Republicans tried to bait her into a larger culture war question,

and she totally sidestepped them.

And now the Republicans are using her artful sidestep as a weapon against her

and have now turned it into the biggest issue in the world,

because obviously Katanji Brown Jackson wants to destroy all genders, bring in CRT,

and, you know, just more or less destroy the United States of America. That's what we're

dealing with here. And also, this isn't even about her, which is the worst part about it,

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