Oh, yeah. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Munkwreck podcast. I'm Jerry D.E.S.

I am here with Nick Houselman and pouring myself against us. I'm hanging out with dozens of my closest friends.

And those people are our patrons over at patreon.com

slash muckrake podcast. We always enjoy these things. If you haven't had an opportunity to hang out

with us on the live show, I highly, highly recommend it. Tonight we are going to be talking about

current events. We're going to start answering questions from our patrons

if you aren't already a patron i i don't know what you're doing come aboard one of us one of us

nick how you doing i'm good i'm good we have a virgin in the crowd by the way joe is out there

the first time joining us for a live show so um and i'm hanging in. I might turn my mic off to cough, but that's okay. I'm fine. Other than that, and I'm... What I love, Nick, is you've got your cough, your cough medicine right next to you. It's a ricola, right? Ricola, yes, it works pretty well, but, you know, one might sneak in there every now and then with my wife.

I love the Ricola ads so much as a kid.

What a successful ad campaign that was?

Very Eurocentric, very exotic.

I was very won over by the Ricola ads back on the day.

Like, you know, in the same vein as like Mentot, perhaps, the fresh knicker.

Very, very much so.

And I have to tell you, as a Hoosier growing up in small town, Indiana, like, it made me feel like I was out in the world.

Right.

Very nice.

Very nice. But here we are. You know, you know't, we all can't be jet setters like me, I guess. That's right. We can't, we can't all be movers and shakers like Nick. We're going to get, we actually have a little bit of good news to report tonight. But before we get to that, you know, you can't have your pudding

if you don't eat your meat. We have to start with the ongoing saga within the Kyle

Rittenhouse trial. We got to talk about where that's at, the absolute madness of it. Matt

Gates, who you can't get rid of this guy. It doesn't matter what he does. It doesn't

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