Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muck Rake podcast. I am on my own. Jared is not with us today,

but I am extremely lucky, and this is Nick Halzman, by the way, and I'm extremely lucky to have

as our special guest, Pete Dominic, who is a comedian and host of Stand Up with Pete Dominic,

as daily podcasts of which you should all be listening to and tuning in. And he's also the warm-up comedian for last week tonight with John Oliver. So Pete, maybe you can get me warmed up as well right now. It's a little bit chilly over here in L.A. Yeah, you're not alone. I'm right here, buddy. I'm right here with you. Thank you very much for having me, Nick. I think, yeah, Jared has lost of the woods. I am taking his place. He's irreplaceable, but I hope he gets lost for a long time because I like talking. Well, listen, we don't want to speak ill of anybody behind their back, but I'm looking very forward to having this conversation one-on-one.

So I don't have to share the mic with anybody else because you're, you know,

you're too valuable to be shared with anybody else.

So yes, go ahead.

Nobody really thinks that, but I am flattered.

I appreciate that.

Well, hey, listen, that's why you're here.

I'm here.

We've got to talk about some stuff.

On a serious note, we had five officers charged with the brutal killing after pulling over Tyree Nichols.

And I thought we would discuss that in a little bit and figure out, you know,

what you felt about that.

And, you know, if there's ever going to be a way to stop having this from happening.

I think it's a really very, very, very intractable problem in America, especially.

The idea of police violence and brutality in general, not only against black bodies and not only killings, but just corruption and

violence. I mean, I've been the subject to police violence like three, four times in my life.

And I'm a white guy. I feel like we don't talk enough about how too often law enforcement is abusive to everybody.

And there's so much that we need to discuss about this because the issue has been happening for years.

But obviously, in marginalized communities, especially in black, minority communities in this

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