Hey everybody, happy 1 moving meal.

Virgil, Texas here with Matt Trismin. It's one of those episodes. Everyone else is off for Martin Luther King Day weekend.

Yep, showing their respects.

We have a great, we actually do have a great episode. Two teachers in Los Angeles, union activists will be joining us to discuss what's

it's taking that strike. Before we get to that, I don't know, some bullshit. It's week 17 of the government shutdown.

Yep. And I maintain that now is the time to disable smoke detectors in airplanes.

Yeah, yeah. Go nuts. Who's going to stop you?

If you ever wanted to join the mile high club, now is the time. There's no air marshals to my knowledge.

I don't know, maybe, but if there are, they aren't getting paid in their pissed.

Julling is not a crime. It isn't goddamn it. I have to say the fact that these guys are still going to work is really

disperting. Yeah, it really does show how we are a absolutely house broken population in the United States.

And now what's their name from current affairs was talking about that the other day and it's really staggering.

Like, how do you just not become just corrupt right now? Yeah, just be like, hey, you know, I'll get you on the plane, but you're going to have to wet the beak.

Yeah, I would, but I mean, come on, you're not getting paid. We haven't been paid for a month. And you're still going to work. What the fuck?

It's a tight job market too. Yeah. What are you doing? Well, you're a lot of the people that lower paid federal employees, which is especially in the TSA.

They're just calling in six so they can go drive ubers. Yeah, but it really does show. I mean, we're house broken, but it's not like, oh, you're just a bunch of busses.

There's so much precarity baked into the life of even people with steady federal jobs that they can not pay you for a month and keep going to work is less scary and disruptive alternative than trying to find a new job or trying to organize some sort of stop it.

It's very disheartening. You catch Saturday live last night. I haven't seen it. I wasn't out. I was out, but I saw the cold intro.

So I don't walk. I don't go home and watch it every Saturday night. You fucking assholes. And I'm home and nothing else is doing. I will watch it. But I'm usually out with my cool friends.

They had a little suggestion for how the shutdown is going to end hamburgers.

Oh, God. I saw that. I saw the cold open and it made me have my bones ache. You're out and about and your leg just you start feeling that ache in your bones. And that's how you know, oh, storms are brewing.

Yeah. There's satires coming. Oh, I can feel the twinge. Oh, they've got they've got Alex Baldwin in that fucking wig again. But I realized I thought that the that the stuff with Baldwin where it's him scared of Mueller and Robert and Erol comes out and put yours lines off of the cue card and everyone goes crazy.

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