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Hey everybody. Welcome to the muckraig podcast weekend. Your edition, I'm Jerry Day,

it's next time here with my good friend and co-co-host Nick How are we doing? Are we glad this

week's over? I guess so, but I don't even feel like the week? Are we glad this week's over?

I guess so, but I don't even feel like the week is over. I guess it's over because we're talking on a Friday, but what is time? Can we be frank? Time has been speeding like a demon,

but this January has drug on, unlike any month I've seen in a very long time that's interesting is that that's

i thought like that to you i don't know if it feels like that but yeah i guess i keep looking at the

thing and it's still like the 25th and not like the 31st or whatever we still have like three weeks

of january left and we've been doing it for a month and a half well that's okay it's okay with me

i don't mind it time goes a little bit slower these days. I don't know about all that. But welcome to the Weekender edition. We have a whole host of things to talk about. Nick, we've got CIA SciOps with Taylor Swift. We've got Robo Call Deep Fakes. We got to talk about John Stewart rejoining the Daily Show.

And, Nick, something's a brewing down in the Lone Star State of Texas.

This week, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, was informed that the Supreme Court by a five to four ruling had ruled against the state

on their border fences, including razor wire at the Rio Grande and Eagle Pass.

They had ruled in favor of the federal government, which we'll talk about in a little bit,

what that means, what it doesn't mean.

And Greg Abbott proceeded to throw himself a little bit of a hissy fit and announced that he wasn't going to recognize the ruling of the court, Nick, which the last time I checked, you're not allowed to do that as a state.

That is supposed to be true, but when we're dealing with a state like Texas that has a history, I suppose, of independence, shall we say.

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