Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Bunkerick podcast. We hope you've had a good week. We hope you're going to have a good weekend. Nick, how we doing, buddy?

I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm trying to stay out of the heat and trying to conserve energy, at least in California. They're pretty big on, you know, turn the thermostat up a little bit. Maybe not charging your cars between four and nine p.m. Easy, easy, easy, easy.

I'm, I'm hearing that out of California real fast forward again with very serious matters, because again, we have an absolute jam-packed episode.

Um, I think the people are clamoring to know, Nick, what temperature is your house set at usually? What's the resting?

Here's the weird thing. Our thermosats are strange. And so if we had it at 72, we'd be

like frigid in an icebox or something weird with the new calibration. So we keep it at like 74, 75,

and that's really nice. In my office, I keep it at 77. And that's nice, too. Again, it's a smaller office with probably way too much power to come in there to cool it down. So, you know, I keep it 77. I have my charging for my car, my electric card, you know, it already is set to charge at certain times of the day. So I try and keep the grid, you know, relatively. By the way, you know, the California by 2035 wants to have every single car that new car sold be electric. That's very exciting. Yeah, that's ambitious. I'm a 72 man in the summer. I can go up to a 74. In the winter, I'll let it get down to 60. I'm a Jimmy Carter guy in that way. I'll throw a cardigan on. I'll get

all cozyed up. But this is the hard hitting political podcast, everybody. A quick little bit of

house cleaning, a reminder that we are going to take Labor Day off next week, which means there

will not be an episode on Tuesday. I will post a solo

podcast on Patreon on Friday of next week. So, you know, just make sure that you go over to

patreon.com slash smunkwreck podcast to not only get access to that, but if you're listening right

now to the free preview of this episode, listen, you're going to want the whole thing.

Stop dipping the toe in the water. Jump in.

Be an American, God damn it.

Be an American.

Because today we got to talk, man, we got to talk about Mikhail Gorbachev dying.

We got to talk about Trump tweeting out his own admission to crimes one after another.

We got to talk about friend of the show, Blake Masters, just absolutely eating it.

So again, that is patreon.com slash muckrake podcast to not only get the rest of this episode,

but the bonus episode next week.

And as I said, Nick, Mikhail Gorbachev has died on Tuesday at the age of 91, the former

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