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Welcome back everyone to another episode of The Damage of Ward I Am, John and Rola. It is Wednesday,

which is also day 26 of the shutdown. JR, welcome the day 26 of the shutdown.

Welcome to day 26. So to feel the pain for a lot of people that are dealing with day 26,

you have to stop and think about it. I remember I thought about it yesterday. Like, as you

job to work, as you go home, as you pick your kid up from school, just think about how much

different your life would be. And that sucks. Straight up, I mean, we don't think about that enough.

So remember that, as you go to your job, a lot of people can't. And then what they have to try and

do to make bills. Or have to go in our getting paid. Yeah. And also ongoing, we're in day three of

the LA teachers strike. So we're still awaiting any sort of sign that the teachers are going to get

what they want. That's going to be very interesting to watch. There's a million things we want to

get to. It's a gigantic news day. So big that I don't want to wait. So we're just going to jump

right into it. As of this morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she has communicated

with the president about the upcoming state of the union said that while this shutdown is going on,

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