Hey everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the McCrink podcast. I'm here at the

Sexton flying solo this week. Tricy Nicky Halseman is out roaming the highways and byways of the

great American landscape. We miss him terribly. We're ready for him to be back next week.

In the meantime, you've got me.

And I'm really happy to be doing this.

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This episode today, I'm going to go in depth on a couple of things. We're going to learn a little

bit about the current crisis, both in Congress, but also around the world and, you know, get some real definitive ideas of exactly how we've arrived here and what we're dealing with.

We're going to go way, way deep into the weeds in a way that our media is completely and utterly allergic to.

So if you haven't already, go over to patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

You're going to want to hear this episode.

So to begin, we're going to read an article in a second together that is just one of these,

I don't know.

It's one of these articles that floats up and no one really pays attention to.

It's technically a business article from the New York Times, which means that it's basically

written by people with business interests, capitalist.

And through this, we're going to talk about this current era of neoliberalism, hypercapitalism,

and how that sort of defines not only the era that we're in, but also the crisis that we're facing.

And, you know, right now, of course, the major story in political circles is what is going on in Congress where Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, two Democratic senators, have completely hijacked an agenda that, uh, to be honest, is not even that liberal. It's not leftist at all. It is

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