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The shutdown is underway.

And I got to be honest with y'all. You know, and I think Buck and I have talked about this quite a bit on the program. We are not of the opinion that the

shutdown is ultimately that big of a story because eventually it will get resolved and we'll just add on more debt.

But I do want to give you some historical analogy of where we are.

Since 1976, the U.S. government has shut down 20 times.

So if you are out there and you're thinking, this just feels like the same

plot over and over again, Groundhog Day, in many ways it is. There were no shutdowns between

1995 and 2013, but three have occurred in the 12 years since. The longest one was in Trump 1.0 and that lasted 34 days

back in 2018. Really the essence of this shutdown, just so you know, is a battle over whether

there should be an extension of COVID health care policies,

which were put in place by Democrats as part of their massive blockbuster out-of-control

spending bills that they forced through in the COVID era. And the reason why this

spending cost is up now is because they pegged it for a relatively

short period of time so that it did not continue to cost money going forward.

Now, this is me, and you have heard me go off on this quite a lot.

The healthcare system in the United States is broken.

Every single one of you listening to me right now is nodding along

because it is just a broken marketplace.

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