Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckreg podcast. I'm Nick Houselman and this is an announcement to let you know that we are going to be doing a new series called The Weekender over on Patreon that will appear every Friday.

And this is a little sneak preview so you can get a handle on what it's like and why you'd want to go over there and join the Patreon and be part of that community, which has been incredible and amazing with a lot of people there and a lot of great conversations.

So here it is. Check it out. And feel free to check out the actual Patreon as well at patreon.com slash muckrake podcast.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast.

Thank you to our patrons.

You are wonderful.

We're so glad that you support us, and we're so grateful for that.

I'm Jerry Yates Dexton.

I'm here with Nick Houselman.

We like to pull back the curtain on the wakender a little bit.

Let's be honest.

We are taping this on Wednesday, June 2 bit let's be honest we're taping this on wednesday june second that's when we're taping this because i'm going out of town i'm planning

on on traveling seeing some people nick i need america not to melt down while i'm gone

i can't remember where you said you were going but i don't know if you want to even reveal this, you know, on my podcasting. I'm going away. I'm going away. I'm going away for a couple of days. Up there. I need there not to be a meltdown. Don't worry. I think we're in that summer mode where, you know, summer gets more.

Oh, I couldn't disagree with you more.

Oh, yeah?

Okay.

So let's go ahead and let's start the show.

I was just openly sending it out in the universe.

I was, what do they call it, manifesting?

Yes.

I was trying to make there not be a major national crisis.

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