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

This week, we're trying something new video for the first time.

So what could go wrong? We'll find out. Anyway,

sure will. We're continuing, we're continuing our, and this is one of the things going wrong

already. We're continuing our series about how to fix it with people who Alex and I think

need to be heard. This one's really fun one, folks.

Today we welcome Jane Converse to the show. She's a history and civics teacher who has been

breaking down current events, MAGA, the resistance, what Trump's doing through the eyes of a

history educator.

Her videos on Substack are must watches.

I feel like I learn something every time.

Jane, welcome.

Thank you, Joe and Alex.

Thank you so much.

I'm so glad to be here.

Alex, where do you want to get started, my friend?

And so as we're recording this, the government is shut down. We should probably start there. Jane, for our listeners and now viewers who probably haven't caught up with

your work, your substack's awesome. You got a bunch of really good digestible videos that

everyone should watch. I think your latest one or maybe your

second latest one is people will be seeing this. You talk about the shutdown. You talk about how it's

basically a manufactured crisis. I mean, is this, and then your other videos, you talk a lot about

cult and we'll get into that, but is this crisis like just to feed the cult or is it something else?

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