Hello everybody and welcome to the Muck Rake podcast.

I am your co-host, Nick Houselman, joined by Jared Y. Sexton, who's on the road, so he might sound a little bit different, but in spirit he's with us.

And we have a lot to talk about. Thanks so much for being part of this conversation.

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hear it. So Jared, how's it going today? I mean, I'm on the road.

It is what it is. But I just want to pause for a second, my friend, and just talk about the

dulcet reading that you just gave. Let nobody be mistaken that Nick Hauselman has a professional

sounding broadcasting voice.

Well, thank you so much.

Sometimes I hear that.

I wonder if they're just trying to make me feel a lot better about what's going on.

But I'll take your word for it.

Well, I mean, you know, if you can have that, even in the midst of like a complete shitstorm that is cultural and political and all of it, like, I mean, that should help, right? Well, speaking of a cultural shitstorm, let's just quickly describe everyone listening what we're going to talk about today because we have the South Korea coup attempt. We have the assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health Care. We have a Supreme Court case going on that's going to have vast implications we must talk about. Plus, we have a pardons from the Biden administration preemptively and then talk for who the DNC chair might be.

This is a chock full of things to talk about, Jared, and a lot of them have, I don't know,

I suppose interest, but maybe even makes us feel concerned, I think, is the word.

Yeah, I think concerned. There are no throwaway topics anymore. We're on a runaway freight train

at this point. And so there's not a whole lot of being neutral at this moment, as we'll talk about

today. Well, what do you make about the South Korean coup attempt, which was basically the head of South Korea declaring martial law? And then

the basically the government defying that to convene and vote it down. You know, that's a pretty

impressive standing up of democracy, what you say?

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