Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckrakew podcast. I'm Jared D. Stuyston. Nick, I'm going to get a space heater for my recording studio. It's way too cold down here. I need to take care of this. Well, it's good to know, you know, now before it's too, too cold, right? I guess so. I mean, I'm going to be, I'm going to be hitting the bricks for a little while. Also, just an update. All the, all the phoneer recordings that I've done, I got a Bluetooth mic for my phone. Oh, welcome. Welcome to that world. Thank you. So hopefully if I can figure that out, the next couple of weeks are going to sound a whole lot better than they would have in the past. Good, good, good. But for those who don't see, you should go over to YouTube and watch the show

because we have it there as well on the video side, but you can see Jared wrapped up like something

out of the, what was an HBO show we just saw in Alaska? Oh, true detective. Yeah. Yeah,

I look like the child in a Christmas story.

It's what I look like. And it has to change. It's time that I take care of myself. I'm getting a space heater. That's what's happening. That's absolutely all you have to do. It's easy. We have the technology. It is the technology. What a segue. Everybody, we have a pack show. We have so much to talk about. And by the way, we've heard the calls.

We're talking about drones today.

Don't worry. We're getting into the drones. You knew that me and Nick at some point or another, we're going to get into this. Stick around. That's going to be the last segment. You know that you want to hear us talk about drones. In the meantime, everybody go to patreon.com slash my Greg podcast. Support the show. Keep us editorially independent. Keep us growing. I know you're not watching CNN and MSNBC anymore. And also you'll get the weekend or edition on Friday. Well, and there's thousands of you that are listening to the show, the free version for 12 or 14 minutes every Friday. So thousands. Thousands. It really is thousands. We're not like. Thousands. And it's consistently thousands. It's really remarkable. But, you know, come out over. Join here's the thing, Nick. I'm going to make one last hard pitch on this thing. Are you ready? Yeah. I travel all the time. I drive in my car. I go everywhere. Everyone knows I don't like to fly. I listen to a podcast all the time. You know what I don't want to do with my favorite podcast? I don't want to listen to like the 10 minute preview of the Patreon shows and then not have that. I support those shows. And on top of it, like it kind of makes things better. I'm able to listen to those shows. I'm able to like, you know, listen to the whole experience. Patreon.com slash my Craig Pott. And you actually feel good about it. You feel like, gosh, I'm literally supporting this show. I'm actually supporting this show that has been in the

trenches. And by the way, as a segue into our first segment, just to remind everyone, actual

journalism is under attack. So we are going to need your support going into the first segment. Just to remind everyone, actual journalism is under attack. So we are going to

need your support going into the new year. I'm so frustrated by the first thing we got to talk about

on this thing. Yeah. Nick, we got to start with news. ABC, the American Broadcasting Corporation,

has settled a defamation suit with Donald Trump for $15 million.

This stems from a George Stephanophilus interview with Nancy Mace.

Oh, Nancy Mace.

And it has to deal with Stephanophilus talking about Trump being held liable for sexual assault.

Trump promised that he was going to start going after people with libel lawsuits.

And here we go.

ABC has settled with him for $15 million.

There's a lot that, you know, we can talk about in this actual decision to settle,

but also the larger ramifications.

It's not good, Nick.

It's not good at all.

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