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What is up, everyone?

Hello, welcome to the Friday edition of Dangerous Ideas.

It's good to hear everybody throwing into the chat where you're coming from.

I see we've got a couple of Scotland, a couple of Ireland.

Thanks for being here.

I love that we're international.

Lovely to see all of you.

Wonderful people as we continue to fight against the twirling toilet bowl.

That is our reality.

The swirl, sorry, swirling, not twirling.

I mean, sometimes it feels like it's twirling.

But anyway, I'm going to get into, and even though we have covered the shutdown a little bit on this show, I'm going to get into the secret reason for the government shutdown that apparently no one in the government wants to actually talk about, neither Democrats nor Republicans.

And I have to admit, I was not informed on this secret reason.

We talked a little bit about, you know,

how the Republicans want to make it about trans issues, which it's not really and or not at all.

And Democrats wanted to make it about health care, which it is a little bit. There is a little factor of the health care, your cost. If you're on the Obamacare plan, the ACA are going to skyrocket up by 75% premiums

immediately after this thing has passed, this budget that Trump once passed.

But all of that seemed to be a bit of a side show as to the actual reason for the government

shutdown, which is pretty fascinating once you actually

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