The White House did decline our invitation for a member of the administration to come on the show today, saying they were leaving it up to Congress to act.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckrakeye podcast. I'm Jared D.A. Sacks. I'm here with Nick Houseman. Nick, it's the summertime, baby.

Yay, I guess.

Summer time. summertime, baby. Yay, I guess. Summertime.

Living is not so easy, Jared.

It's not. It's not. And it's hot and it's brutal.

And I'm a creature of summer. I enjoy the summer. I enjoy the fruits of summer.

I'm once again, and I believe this is for the second summer running, I'm declaring it the summer of Muckrake. Okay. That's right. I forgot about that. I'm just planting the flag again. Welcome to it, everybody. And thank you to our patrons, who, of course, went over to patreon.com slash munkwreck podcast to listen to this show

everybody else should go over there you listen to this show you're hanging out you're enjoying the

vibes going over there and support us uh show your boys a little bit of love meanwhile the summertime

is a time to reinvent yourself every now and then like to buzz the hair buzz the beard uh uh try

something new go to the beach, see what's happening.

It's time to change the narrative, Nick.

Okay.

Please change the narrative, Jared.

I'm ready to change the narrative.

Well, I got good news for everybody.

President Joseph, Robinette Biden has decided to change the narrative.

People aren't feeling necessarily great. The vibes have been off. I don't know how you've been feeling because we need to talk about the fact that existential dread has been absolutely soaking this country for, by my watch, years years it's been particularly rough lately

can we go ahead and acknowledge that can we just admit that fact sure I mean

listen Biden's approval rating is are like the trumps at this point they are

roughly equal if not lower at this point. The country is frustrated.

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