Hey everybody, it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to That Trippie show with my co-host, Alex Sashlow.

Today, we're back to video.

We're going to keep working on it.

So if you're watching us on YouTube, we're streaming

us, there'll be more of these, and you're going to see, yeah, hey, it's, whatever mistakes we make,

whatever hyming and highing I do, you're just going to have to live with it. You're really going

to see how good our editors are, I think. Yeah, that's true, too. They can cut back and forth

whenever you see Alex, it probably means I screwed up. Anyway, Trump still has the government

shutdown. Of course, we look at the data and what Democrats do. Plus, how's the economy going? And yes,

it does matter, although some people ask whether

it does. And a big No Kings weekend coming up, what do we have to do to make a difference?

Alex, where do you want to get started? Oh, man. So look, as we're recording this as people are watching

it, we are still in a shutdown, Trump's shutdown.

There is like no end in sight as of right now.

We don't even have to tell them that we're still in one.

We're going to be still in one for several more weeks.

I think it's going to go be the longest one in history and go well past November 1st.

Yeah.

I mean, well, 35. I think the last one was the longest

one in 2018 was 35 days. I think it's going to be longer than that one. So zooming out a little bit,

and we started to get this on our last live show last week, but haven't done it for the pod yet.

Looking at how both sides are messaging this and very consistently you hear Trump and

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