Hey, hey, hey, we're back. We're black. We're brown. We harmonized.

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Oh, we're taking a little earlier today, Mandy. How you feel about it?

I mean, these midday recording sessions are a bit challenging. I have to say, but I'm working with it.

Thank you for accommodating me.

So unfortunately, you were, we're talking a little earlier. You were saying that we're still in this,

still in the government shutdown, which I'm like, yikes.

Is there any word on the street of there being like, you know, a slowdown to this?

We're officially in our, what is it? The fourth week now. It's a record.

A record-long government shutdown. My husband, I was talking to him.

He's been, we've been through since I've been with him for seven years. I think there's been maybe two shutdowns

that he's had to go through, but none has lasted as long as this one. I mean, this past weekend,

he did not get paid at all. I can safely say he has not been working overtime or trying to stay later

than he absolutely needs to. Because what's really sucky is like if you're deemed essential, which means you still have to go into work

and you're still not getting paid. Some people are furloughed, which means you just don't have to go to work and you're not getting paid.

But hopefully what they'll do is they'll repaint, they'll like back pay people when the shutdown is finally over.

But it sucks because some people are, I mean, yes, no one's getting paid and that's really, really challenging for some families

who are living, you know, paycheck to paycheck. But at least if you're not getting paid, don't have to go to work. You know, he still has to go to work.

Yes, he's shot that the expense of going to work whether it's the train or toll or gas or whatever.

Yep, it's like insult to injury. So I don't know what the hell is happening in Congress. You know, we had some Republican representative,

whatever his name is, make a comment about how he's not sure why white supremacy was ever seen like such a negative.

I saw that.

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