Happy Friday Slatesters.

Welcome back to another edition of Shoutin Friday.

This is our series where we find the fun in the fundamental breakdown of democracy.

We make it exclusively for our Slate Plus members and sometimes release it on YouTube because that's kind of fun.

This week, okay, look, it's like day 56 of the longest government shut down in American

history. And sure, it sounds like some workers are maybe getting paychecks, but still. Also,

you're probably not thinking about that because there's a whole war in Iran that's going on,

and Congress has been out of town for the last week or so.

So that's happening. It's pretty bleak. But into that bleakness stepped an unlikely hero, or I don't

know, anti-hero? Because the person who has done as much as perhaps anyone to channel Americans rage at Washington

right now is Harvey Levin of TMZ.

And Harvey is joining me right now.

Harvey, hey, how you doing?

I am good, Mary.

How are you doing?

I'm pretty good.

I wanted to talk to you because you've done this kind of wild thing.

You've activated the folks who are your users to send you photos of Congresspeople on vacation for spring break.

And it has been kind of a shout in Freudi delight for me over the last week and a half. And so I figured I'd bring you on

to talk about what the heck you're doing here and why you're doing it because TMC is not known

for Washington coverage, but seems to be ramping it up. So, okay, I should just like lay out for

listeners who may not know what you're doing or maybe you can. Like the most famous picture is

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