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Just for me to say the elephant in the room, you're working in the government in the era of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

What was your confidence level in the security of your future like before?

And what is it now?

I definitely had a stereotype of like, well, I'm in the federal government.

There will always be a federal government in some form, right?

So like, let's just call that 75% of like, oh, well, I'm mostly good.

But then when this administration came and started slashing currently, I would give it 55%. Mostly okay, but you just don't know.

Our guest today is a 39-year-old who we're calling Scotty.

He's a federal employee who lives in Washington, D.C.

How would you describe the people who live in D.C.?

Nerds. I've heard it's like every salutatorian and valedictorian in one know, in one city, that's definitely true.

It's intense, it's alpha, it's, you know, people got character, people got edges, and I love that.

Scotty loves living in D.C., and he loves his job.

We've agreed to keep Scottie's specific job and government agency private.

But what we can talk about is how afraid he's been that his whole life in DC was about to come to an end.

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