Are you exclusively only drinking Pamplemose-flavored LaCroix, Kathleen? Oh, really? I mean, if I didn't know this. I mean, if there's a lime in the fridge, I'll take it. But as far as what I'm purchasing, it's three boxes of Pamplemose LaCroix every Sunday. Three boxes every week? Okay, Target only has the eight packs. That is an important clarification.

But they started giving me the whole palette in my pickup order instead of taking it.

It's an important clarification, but it's still excessive.

It's how I would agree.

I just have to go pick up my palette of LaCroix.

Hello and welcome to another episode of TPO Explaners.

I'm Joe, podcast producer here at the pourover, and I'm here with Jason, our founder and editor-in-chief, and Kathleen, our managing editor.

So here's the idea behind the show.

Our readers share which topics they want us to explore, and then we bring that idea to the podcast.

Today's winner, government shutdown.

Yes, government shutdown.

Joe, what do you know?

All right. I feel like this is deja vu multiple times a year.

Yep.

Like we're always, the government is always about to shut down and in the 11th hour, they agree to something that prevents it.

My familiarity with it is I feel like it's usually budgetary or related to the budget.

Like they have to come to an agreement on how much and how they're going to be spending X amount of dollars.

Or if they don't, they got to shut down because there's no more money left.

So that's my understanding of it.

Yeah, pretty good.

Pretty good.

Yes.

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