Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Muckrake Political Podcast.

I am your host, Nick Houselman, with my dutiful co-host, Jared Yates-Sexton, on the road today calling in.

So we need to discuss some things, even though he's out there, you know, blazing a trail throughout the country.

Jared, how's it going today?

I'm okay. I'm in Las Vegas. I'm getting ready to do a presentation at UNLV, which, you know,

basically for me is just where Larry Johnson hangs out. Oh, that's sort of, that's, that's, that's

sort of how that works in my mind. You can walk around making the L with your both arms, uh, if you remember that, that sign. Exactly. That's, uh, that's for the old buck rakers. Uh, but yeah, I'm good. Uh, first time that I flew, uh, since the, the pandemic, uh, didn't care for it. I don't know how you feel that.

It's still a little shaky about it.

Still feels weird.

Sure.

I've flown a number of times since and, you know, mostly masks, but a couple not

masked.

And, you know, it is what it is.

Also, the prices are insane as well.

They're able to gouge or whatever you want to call it all over the place.

Let me give you a quick example.

Flying from Madison to Chicago was twice as much as it cost me to fly from Chicago to Los Angeles.

So figure that one out.

No sense.

Well, speaking of which, we need to talk about, you know, lands far away in Ukraine

because we're having a bit of an escalation here and a bit of a dealing with a madman's

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