Catching up with a fired federal worker, a shrimper and a fraudster

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  NPR.

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  This is Ian Decada from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods here with Waylon Wong and Stephen Basaha.

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  And we've been reflecting on how 2025 has been a little unusual for us at the podcast.

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  There has been such a fire hose of economics news every single day that we've just been racing from government cuts to historic tariff announcements to unprecedented A.I.

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  deals.

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  Yeah, we don't need to pitch news story ideas anymore.

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  It's always just tariffs, tariffs, tariffs.

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  Tariffs all the way down.

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  I know.

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  And just explaining what just happened, how this fits into the economy, what a 50-year mortgage is.

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  That's basically what we've been doing.

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  And because events have been moving so fast,

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  we wanted to check in with some people we've met through this wild ride through the economy.

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  Like, after we got off the phone with them, how have they been doing?

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  Yeah, so today's show, it is a special one.

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  It's rest of the story from The Indicator.

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  We meet up again with a woman fired by Doge, see how a pro-tariff shrimpers business has been going,

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  and learn about the consequences of a pretty brazen tech startup's fraud.

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  Back at the start of the year, Doge was the huge story.

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