Hey, everybody. Welcome to a big old birthday weekender edition of the Muckraig podcast. I'm the birthday boy, Jared Yates Sexton. Nick Halsemann, how you doing, buddy?

Really, really good. I get to be the birthday boy in a couple more days. That's right. We're birthday monthers together. that means that we probably shouldn't get along, right? These fellow Libra chaplers? What? Libras don't get along. Is that what people think? I don't know. I've just been trained to think that like the opposite signs are the ones that seem to get along the best. I'm like, I don't know. This is all fascinating. I don't know. And I'm sitting here, by the way, we're recording this earlier in the morning because Nick is still out on the highways and byways of America. I'm nursing a cup of coffee. Do you not drink coffee? Have we talked about this? Yeah, no, I don't. I never drink coffee. Never had it. You don't drink coffee at all? No. I mean maybe I've tasted it once don't like it sorry sorry not sorry wait what you've

tasted it once yeah I't like it. Sorry. Sorry, not sorry. Wait, what? You've tasted it once. Yeah, I think I had like, you know, I was tired. Someone to get here. But it was, yeah, no thanks. I don't know how we've done this podcast now for years. And I'm still learning the weirdest things about you. I think I've tasted it once. How did you get out of bed? What do you do? I'm just I guess I'm slightly a morning person. You know what it is? Once I get out of bed, and once I'm upright, then I'm like I can make it happen. It's just, you know, it's something about the blood moving up vertically that helps me better. I don't know. Now, not to say I don't drink like Coke, even though I've tried to eliminate it from my life every other day.

But this is incredible.

And by the way, if you were listening to the preview of this and you're like, man, this is a dynamite podcast.

You need to go for patreon.com slash muckering podcast.

Well, the other part of that is that we have this awesome discord discussion.

And you know that everyone's going to be flying in there about the signs and the astrological stuff, too.

No, they're going to be flying in there talk about you having had coffee once and not liked it. That's absurd. That's absurd. But speaking and absurd, listen, you all know what this first segment is going to be. You're all aware what we're going to talk about.

It pisses me off in every single way how not surprising and predictable and repulsive this is.

Nick, I don't know if while you've been traveling, if you've heard the news, Georgia Senateia senate candidate uh former heisman trophy winner

herschel walker um i just have here on on my segment rundown herschal walker jesus christ

uh it turns out paid for an abortion uh in 2009 a friend of the pod roger solubberger of the daily beast

roger by the way, is going to

haunt Herschel Walker for the rest of his life. It is nonstop investigative reporting, old

school gum, gum shoe stuff. Walker is both denying it and weirdly apologizing for it, saying he doesn't know this woman.

Today, by the way, it's come out.

Turns out that woman is the mother of one of its children.

So I don't know, Nick.

We got a lot to unpack here.

We got to talk about the Republican response.

What are your initial reactions on this thing?

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