Welcome to Friday's edition of the Morning Show podcast, a daily dose of audio to make your day a little better.

As you may have noticed yesterday, we took an unexpected day off. It was just kind of a mental thing we needed to do.

And I know that some of you rely on us to bring you some of the news and whatnot.

And I want to read this message from Jamie who DMed me on Instagram. She said, I feel lost without you both in the morning. Thanks for posting because we posted that we weren't going to do the show. So I stopped checking at least. So thank you for making us part of your morning. I know that yesterday was unexpected and we had to take the day off. but thank you for continuing to show up for us. We appreciate it. And we will try as hard as we can to always show up for you.

Um, Yesterday was unexpected and we had to take the day off, but thank you for continuing to show up for us. We appreciate it and we will try as hard as we can to always show up for you. Anthony? Yes. Guess what day it is October. Oh, October 3rd. It is Mean Girls Day. Yes, it is. It is. My favorite movie of all time. It's up there. Mean Girls and Clueless are two of my favorite movies ever created.

Green flags. Are those green flags? Yeah. Okay. I'll take it. Well, welcome to the Morning Show podcast. My name is Anthony. I'm Carla Murray, and today is Friday, October 3rd, 2025.

The Core 4. The Four headlines you need to know.

There is so much drama right now with this government shutdown.

So let's break down some of it.

First off, what are these dummies even fighting about?

Well, according to Trump and his fellow Republicans, Democrats are refusing to sign a resolution to keep the government funded because Democrats want to spend a

trillion dollars on health care for illegal immigrants. But is that true? Well, according to Democrats,

it's not. And the interesting thing is that in reality, illegal immigrants cannot get free

health care from federal funds, which means things like Medicare and Medicaid.

Now, there are state programs that allow undocumented people to get some health care,

but that is not from the federal government.

But here's where things get spicy.

Hakeem Jeffries, who is a Democrat and the House Minority Leader, claimed that in their meeting on Monday, like before the government shutdown, Donald Trump barely

even mentioned health care for illegal immigrants and claims Trump and his team are just using

that excuse now with the media. But here's what I love. Jeffries was on the Midas Touch podcast yesterday,

and he challenged Trump and Republicans to meet today to discuss the government shutdown and

allow TV crews to basically live stream the entire process.

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