Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckreg podcast. I'm Nick Houselman and this is an announcement to let you know that we are going to be doing a new series called The Weekender over on Patreon that will appear every Friday.

And this is a little sneak preview so you can get a handle on what it's like and why you'd want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing with a lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

So here it is. Check it out. And feel free to check out the actual Patreon as well at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the muckrake podcast, Weekender Edition.

Crack it open.

Oh, Nick.

I just worked all day.

All right.

I need to crack something open next time I have to remember.

I worked all day for the first time in person teaching in a year and a half.

And boy, are my arms tired, but I'm happy.

It's always to be here with my good friend, Nick Houselman.

Thank you, as always, to our patrons over at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

A reminder for those of you who are listening to the preview, you can get the entire episode.

That is patreon.com slash my Craig podcast.

You should head over there post haste.

Today, tonight, whatever time it is, I don't know, it's storming outside.

I'm exhausted.

We're going to talk a little bit, and then we're going to get to your questions.

And we have a huge batch of really, really good questions. So we're going to get

to that here in just a moment. But we would be remiss if we didn't start the conversation off with

some developing information, developing situations over in Afghanistan, where we are getting

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