Sup you beautiful bastards.

Hope you've been a fantastic Friday.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show.

And if you're new here on Fridays, I try to do something a little bit different.

And in fact, today, it's even different from our normal kind of different.

You know, whenever we talk about these massive stories that affect hundreds, thousands, hundreds of different. You know whenever we talk about these massive stories that affect

hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of people it is very

easy to lose the human beings in that story because the number of people is

so inconceivable to your everyday life that they just become statistic.

But it's so incredibly important for us to not lose the personal human level of these stories because that's why these stories matter.

And so that's why today, along with my dumb face,

talking to you about the news like normal,

you're going to be hearing from some of the actual human beings

being affected by the federal government shutdown

happening in the US right now.

And if for some reason you aren't familiar with the situation,

you didn't see our coverage earlier this week, you haven't looked at the news in general, here's a quick TLDR.

Today marks the 28th day of the partial federal government shutdown, which of course makes us a historic shutdown.

It is the longest shutdown in US history.

And this means that 800,000 federal government employees have been going without pay

and some, like the TSA, the Coast Guard, just to name a few, even working without pay

since the shutdown began.

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