Hey, this is Virginia Allen, and I'm excited to share this episode of Problematic Women, one of the Daily Signal's other podcasts. Each episode, we navigate the biggest stories in politics and culture. And we have a lot of fun doing it, too. If you like what you hear today, make sure to subscribe to Problematic Women for weekly episodes. Welcome back to problematic women.

We have a great episode for you this week because I don't know if you've heard, but the government shut down this week. There's a lot of information going on out there. So we're going to give you the Democrat side, the Republican side. And we're going to ask you at the end, who do you think actually shut down the government? There have been some crazy reactions coming out of this. and we're just going to break it all down for you and make it really simple to understand.

Because it's really confusing for us, even in Washington, who live here, to understand what's going on.

Also, Crystal had a great interview with a member of British Parliament, Katie Lamb.

Conservatism is on the rise in Britain due to some unfortunate happenings recently, and let's say if that actually sticks.

Let's see if they're

impressed by Trump-Trumpisms here and if they can implement it there. And also in the

pop culture front, there is more to NFL's halftime show performer decision than meets the

eye. We're going to bring it all down today on Problematic Women.

Welcome back to Problematic Women. I'm Elise McHugh. I'm Morgan. I'm Crystal. And Crystal,

please plug your amazing interview that came out yesterday. We're just going to get into it right now. Love it. In case you missed it. Yesterday we released the full audio and video from my interview with

Sage Steel, who just is such a rock star. She's amazing. She had this storied career in sports

broadcasting and she stood up to the tyrants in Hollywood and said forget that

I'm going to tell truth so now she has stage steel show we sat down and talked about her experience

telling the truth standing up for herself we were both at charlie's memorial so we talked about that

it was just a few days after the memorial so very raw and real but it but it's great. So if you missed it, go check it out.

It was around five years ago, like to the day that you interviewed her, that she got let go from Disney because she just, she complied with her vaccine mandate, but she had an opinion on it and she spoke out about it. So I think that's kind of crazy.

That was one of the craziest parts of the interview,

and I just loved watching all of it.

So if you haven't caught it, please go watch it. Please feel free to watch it on YouTube and Rumble, but also audio is great. But yeah, like we said, the government shut down this week. It is crazy. And Morgan, I had no idea how to condense all this information into one, but you do. So you're going to tell us what

happened. I'm going to do my best because honestly, a lot of the feedback that I've been getting this week about the government shutdown is what does the government shutdown mean? What is it to be a filibuster? Why can't Republicans just vote it through? Don't we have the majority in the House, the Senate and the White House? Like, none of this makes sense. So I'm not sure if you knew, but the government is shut down. I don't know how you wouldn't know that from this week. But basically the reason why that it kind of gets this point is October 1 is the beginning of the fiscal year. So that means that Congress has to vote on the budget or what

they can call a continuous resolution and they have to vote on it to get it passed through to then,

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