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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Woke Stupidity

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This is an abbreviated version of our weekly Patreon show. To access the full-episode and support the pod, head on over to http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how the term "woke" has been co-opted into a boogey man for anything progressive - including banks failing because they're too diverse. They also examine what's happening to Emmanuel Macron as he tries to force the raising of the retirement age on the French people, before finishing with some very positive news out of Michigan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody.

0:07.0

Welcome to the Weekender edition of the McCrack Podcast.

0:09.0

I'm Jada Sexton.

0:10.0

Nick, how we doing, buddy?

0:12.0

Well, it's not raining, and so it's cause it rejoice.

0:15.0

The sun came out today for the first time in a while.

0:17.0

It is raining like hell here.

0:20.0

I got to tell you, we're recording this on

0:22.6

Thursday, March 16th. We are only four hours into the NCAA tournament at this point, Nick.

0:29.2

My bracket is, it's, it's not busted, my friend. It is on life support. But regardless, I am here.

0:37.8

Rainy, overcast day, dismal, tough bracket times, but I am here for the weekend.

0:44.2

Break some news for me because I've been so busy focusing on bad calls from last night's NBA games.

0:49.1

Were there an upset already that I missed?

0:50.9

Furman knocked off Virginia, which I had in the in the sweet 16, or actually

0:55.0

the elite eight. I had them in the early eight. It's an incredible thing. People should look it up.

0:59.8

They should see what happened. Awful. That's a four and a 13. I'm so upset about it. Best time of the

1:05.3

year. That being said, we have a full show. Listen, we got good news to celebrate in Michigan. We've got weird

1:13.7

stuff that is happening with the conservatives. We've got a whole mess that's happening over in

1:17.8

France. And we got to get into the idea of wokeness. And by the way, Nick, whether or not

1:22.9

wokenness caused Silicon Valley Bank to fall apart. But before all that, if you don't listen to the whole show, cover to patreon.com slash McCrack Podcast. Do it. Just do it. You like this. You enjoy this. You listen to the preview. Go and get the whole thing. Help the show out. Keep us editorially independent and ad free. Give them that link one more time. That's patreon.com slash McCrack podcast.

1:51.7

So before we get into whether the secret spice in the failure of the Silicon Valley bank collapse was wokenness.

1:55.2

I'm sorry, but we have to share this on this show.

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