Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Muckrakeye podcast, the Weekender Edition.

I'm Jared Yates next.

Our friend Nick Hausman, he's still out of the country.

He'll be back next week.

We should be ready to do our two-man regular pod, starting with Tuesday's episode.

A couple things to get on your schedule before we get into our regularly scheduled program.

First of all, next week, Wednesday, January 10th, they're going to debate again.

That's right.

The GOP is going to hold their last, absolute last debate before the caucuses in Iowa that is on the 10th and you better believe it that we're going to host exclusive post-debate coverage. We will talk about what has happened. Has anything changed? Has anything moved, what it looks like going into Iowa.

And that's right, if you listened on Tuesday with my conversation with Sarah Kinseyer, and by the way, as an old professor, mandatory listening, mandatory homework.

You have to go and listen to that conversation I had with Sarah Kensier on Tuesday.

But if you listened, you know, I'm going to Iowa again. That's right. Back in 2020, I went to Iowa to cover the caucuses. I was there when Joe Biden was on the ropes and it seemed like he might end up dropping out and be replaced by John Kerry. What a weird time. I also got COVID before we knew what COVID was and thought I was going to die in a Des Moines hotel room. Weird stuff. Well, I'm going back. I'm going back to Iowa starting on, I believe, the 13th. And I'll be there for a couple of days and through the caucuses to provide the muckrake audience, an exclusive on the ground look of what's going on in Iowa.

If you have been around for a while, if you've listened to this show for the past few years,

you know that I'm going to offer you absolutely one-of-a-kind coverage.

If you want to get a hold of all of that, If you want to listen to the rest of this

weekend, and I'm going to get to a bunch of listener questions and they're fantastic,

you need to go over to patreon.com slash Mike Craig Podcast. Supports the show,

keeps us ad-free, keeps us editorially independent, which we will talk about later because

things are getting rough out there. Go on over to patreon.com slash Mike Craig Podcast.

Also, a weird thing that's happened over the past couple of days.

I think it's a combination of, I don't know, the fact that a lot of things are coming to bear that I've been warning about for a while,

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