Hey everybody, welcome to the official Muckrake podcast holiday party.

I'm Jared B. Sexton.

I'm enjoying a little gnaug.

Nice.

I'm here with Nick Hausman.

And for those of you who are not aware, Nick has weird decisions about things that he has eaten and things he is not.

At one point, Nick thought that Reese's cups sounded terrible.

He has also now said that fries dipped in a milkshake aren't going to be good.

And before we begin this show and talk about some really

important business, he is going to try it. And we're going to see, what do we have there? What do we have? This is a jack in the box. I thought it was Carl's Jr. It's jack in the box around the corner from my house. They make the thickest milkshakes I've ever had, which is obviously a very good thing. The fries though I thought they thought they were crinkle fries. I thought they were thicker crinkle fries. They're not. They're like, they're typical, you know. So we're doing a live show right now. And before Nick does this, for people who are listening to this in the future, Nick, has a cap over his milkshake. Take that cap off. Take that. What about the big hole in the middle of the cap? I think I can leave the cap. No, you're not dipping it into whipped cream. Okay. That's not what's going on here. We have to discuss this because I didn't remember that they put all this whipped cream on top. So the whipped cream can't be part of this? No, you need to take the top off, move the whipped cream to the side, and then dip in the shake proper. All right. Well, and I'm going to make a mess in my office, which is a big no-no. But, okay, there is the top. Okay. Maybe I'll put it in the bag, and then that way it won't touch anything. It's make it sticky. Okay. So there's that Maybe I'll put it in the bag and then that way it won't touch anything.

It's, it gets sticky. Okay, so there's that. I'll put it in the bag. Okay, here we go. So now here are the fries. Yes. Okay. Now, again, this is a little rough, though. You can see this is all kind of. You got to move it over to the side. By the way, as Nick is navigating this to let everyone know,

we're going to talk about one of the... Oh, my God.

I'm going to just break it separately.

Nick is hastily eating the whipped cream people,

listening in the future.

This is wonderful.

Oh, there is whiskey in this eggnog.

If you think that there is not, you are wrong.

There's no moving into the side. Let me get the last bit on the top of it. Yeah, you'll get there.

So after Nick does this, we're going to talk about the most important topic, probably in the world, probably the most important topic that we have ever talked about on this show, which is the war on Christmas.

And we're going to talk about the history of the war on Christmas, why it happened, what's going

on? And then we're going to take some questions from our live audience. If you're not live,

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