4-17-25 - 6am - Trip to Chicago

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back, Michael. You were so missed. Do not worry
what the pill and host did while you were away.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Do not turn.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Listeners off from your show, nor did listeners engage with
your show. All is well, so glad to have you back.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
That didn't seem very they didn't sound very sincere.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm convinced.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I want to talk about the trip a little bit
because some interesting things happened while I was in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
But I was hanging out with Biden because you guys
were both speaking at the in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, one of us was speaking and one of us
was mumbling, that's true. Yeah, so there was that. He
was I think he was somewhere downtown. I was in
beautiful Hyde Park, Chicago. I was in the South Side
at the University Chicago, which is a denizen of absolute
Marxism and communism. I'm unfreaking believable. Just how you know,

(01:10):
I know, don't get me wrong. It's like you know
these things, and intellectually you understand these things until you
are confronted with it, and then when you're confronted with it, you
realize shazam. Actually, I want to use the oshword holy
s word here. It really is as bad as what
you think it is. Oh, I'll tell you a little
bit about a professor because because the topic of anthropogenic

(01:33):
global warming or climate change came up and I just
told them exactly. I told the crowd exactly what I thought,
and oh, my gosh. And of course she was wearing
a mask when she came out to me also, and
I wanted to say, do you think that's gonna protect
you from, like, you know, the rising sea levels? And
why are you sitting here on the edge of Lake
Michigan when you know pretty soon it's gonna fly. I really,

(01:54):
there's so many things I wanted to do, but I was,
I was, I was nice. But before we do any
of that, Uh, Dragon put on my console this morning
a story that he says, I have to do this.
Rarely does my producer Rarely does he come in and
say you must do this. So I don't know what's
going on here, but I've got to do this. Here's

(02:15):
here's The story comes from The Daily Mail. World's first
sperm race will take place before a live audience and
more than one thousand spectators next week. I want to
you know, before I even read the story, I'm just
curious how did the little sperm get started?

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Like, how do they normally get started?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Michael, Well, I guess that's that's what I'm that's what
I'm wondering. It's and it's a million dollar events. That
mean there's a million dollar prize, because you know what
I would enter for a million bucks. Most men would
do it for nothing. But so I don't know. Uh,

(02:55):
let's see talks about the sperm tail. Sperm tales consist
of around one thousand building blocks, including structures known as tubulans,
which form long tubes. These pull and bins sperm tales,
enabling them to swim. Who hasn't seen the sixth grade
black and white video about the little sperms? So why

(03:17):
do you want me to do this story? Could have
anything to do with the bazillion text messages that I
saw that said, uh, I'm tuning out till you get
back because of apparently someone did a sperm story yesterday.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
It did Tuesday because Caldera came in that was one
of the first things that he did. And I assume
somebody was listening to the podcast because the text came
in around two or three o'clock saying I'm tuning out,
I'll tune back in once Real Radio, Real Talk comes back.
I was like, you must be new here if you
think Michael wouldn't have done that story. So of course

(03:54):
I had to read that text yesterday when Ryan was on,
and Ryan and I had a little fun with that too,
so of course, and get your take on your thoughts
and what that that sperm story.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay, all right, so let's go through. I had a
high school starts, a professor. I had a high school
teacher one time that I had In fact, I think
it may have been Chicago. I'm not sure, but I
had been at a national Student Council meeting or something

(04:27):
and he I don't know why, but it was my
best friend and I had gone to this to this conclave,
and when we got back, he had picked us up
in Oklahoma City to drive us back and he told
me a story which to this day is still stuck
to me, because you know, we had I think we

(04:47):
were maybe juniors in high school. I don't think we
were seniors yet, and we were all excited because you know,
we've been to the big city, we've been to the
Windy City, and we had a great time and it
was it was pretty cool. And and we get in
the car and we're making the long drive back to
from Oklahoma City back up to the Panhandle, and he

(05:07):
starts talking to us about, now, now when you get back,
people don't want to hear about your trip. People don't
want to hear about what you did. People don't want
to hear about excuse me, a little throat bug. They

(05:28):
don't want to hear about how much fun you had.
They don't want to see I mean, in essence, what
he was saying was, they don't want to be invited
over to your house to watch the slide show of
your family vacation. Which that's something my parents used to do.
They wouldn't necessarily invite people over, but every once in

(05:49):
a while, my mom or my dad would say, hey,
let's get the projector out and let's watch some did
your family ever did this dragon? They would literally say,
let's let's get the projector out and let's watch some
family film and some family you know, color chrome slides.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, let's look at their trip that we went to Italy, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
And so the kids, not you know, the kids not,
but my brother and sister and I would sit there thinking,
we've only seen these like five thousand times, why aren't
we watching them again? And that would be the entertainment
for the evening, you know, Mama, mamauld You know, because
Mom would because you know, in those days, you know,
the men, well, the men, you know, the boys. We
didn't do anything. So you know, the little lady would

(06:35):
clean up the kitchen and then we would just you know,
wait for her, and then you know, Dad would set
the projector up and then we'd all sit on the
floor and we'd we'd he he had a screen everything
him and he had the whole works, and we'd watch. Okay,
we'd we yeah. And they'd say things like remember that,
and we're like, yeah, we remember that. We've seen it
like twenty times we were there. In fact, that's us,

(06:56):
we remember it quite well. Well, let's get some older stuff.
When you were a kid with little you won't remember that.
Oh my gosh, it was unbearable. So here's this. This
he was our biology teacher, explaining, you know, you don't
want to hear about stuff, Well, but I can't resist
because it's it's part of what we normally talk about

(07:24):
on this program. So first and foremost, on the way there,
I had been told by a friend of mine that
I had to go to a particular pizza place to eat.
And I ask why, because you know it's it's up
in Lincoln Park and I'm gonna be in Hyde Park
and that's a long ways away. And he's all, just

(07:44):
send your bags onto the hotel and go to this place.
Trust me, you're gonna like it. And I and I'm
really grilling him about why should I go to this
one particular piece of pizza place. And he goes, because
I know you watched The Bear. I think it's on
Hulu or I forget what it is, but it's a
story about out a chef in Chicago. And he goes,

(08:04):
that is the pizza place where they go eat. And
there was an episode in which this restaurant is famous
for catering to their customers whatever their customer wants. You know,
they'll have certain they'll have a limited menu, but if
there's something you want done a different way, they will

(08:26):
try to accommodate everything. And somebody had mentioned one time
that they had never had deep dish pizza in Chicago,
and the cousin of the chef says, oh, I'll take
care of you, and he runs around the corner to
Peaquots and picks up pea Quots pizza and brings it
back and they played it very fancy on it, you know,

(08:47):
a nice dish, and he surprises the guests, and the
guests are just taken aback about the service, and it
gets written up in the Chicago Tribune and it's and anyways,
so long story short, it makes the pizza place turn
out to be one of the most popular pizza places
in Chicago. So, based on this recommendation from a friend
of mine, I send the bags to the hotel and

(09:08):
I take the Uber over to Pequants and I get out.
The guy drops me off and I get out, and
I instantly think this is a huge mistake because it's
it's already late, it's kind of dark, and it's Chicago,
and it's like, okay, but there are literally, I'm not
exaggerating here, there must have been twenty five thirty people

(09:31):
lined up outside waiting to get in. And I'm like,
I'm never going to get in this place. What am
I doing here? I should, you know, get the Uber
right back and just go somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
But I.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Force my way through the crowd and I get to
where the mate it's I mean, it's a dive. But
I get to where the matre d for lack of
a better term, is standing, and I walk up and
I say, hey, listen, I just I thought I would try.
Although I think it's gonna be I'm it's a great lesson.

(10:05):
What I did is a great lesson. And if you're just,
if you'll make a connection with somebody, a genuine connection,
not this artificial how are you kind of bull crap,
but a legitimate connection with somebody, people will go to

(10:26):
the ends of the earth to accommodate you. And this
is the this is the story that proves that point.
I walk in and I instantly realize I'm in an
impossible situation where it's never going to happen. I might
as well just turn around and walk out. But before
I as I'm thinking that through my head, we make

(10:49):
eye contacts and he says, can I help you? And
so I I go ahead and walk up to the
stand and I said, well, I don't know whether you
can or not, but here's the deal. I literally just landed. O'Hare,
my bag's all away to the hotel and I'm staying
way south of here in Hyde Park. I'm up here

(11:09):
in Lincoln Park. H My best friend told me to
come here to have pizza tonight, which obviously is not
going to happen. But I thought, you know, having just
flown in from Denver, I might be able to make it.
And he turns and he goes, oh, Denver. You're from
Denver And I said, yeah, why, oh I have I

(11:33):
have family lives lives in Denver. Now I'm thinking I've
got an entree. I've got a reason to converse with
this guy. Oh really, so, uh, what does your family doing?
Where do they live? You know, trying to get him
to talk, and he starts describing to me, wellther really
my cousins, and you know, I don't see them that often,

(11:54):
and they don't really live in Denver. They live in
some place that's far away from Denver, Golden And I said, oh, well,
gold is really not far away from Denver at all.
It's it's a suburb of Denver, and it's really i mean,
they abut each other. Well you go, I mean, technically
you got Golden lake Wood in Denver. But I'm trying
to explain the guy that you know, it's really right
there and Golden's up against the mountains and Denver's and

(12:14):
so really because I've never been there, but they love
it and they do all the you know, telling me
all they do. And I said, but yeah, well I'm
south of there and blah blah blah. And he goes,
so what do you do? Why why are you here?
So well, I'm you know, I'm speaking tomorrow at the
Universe of Chicago. And I was told, you know, this
was the place to come and uh and he goes,
why because of the bear And I said, well, I

(12:37):
that was one of the stories I heard, but I
heard it was the best deep dish pizza that is
in Chicago right now. And he goes, man, he says,
I'm so sorry, but it's like a three or four years.
He said, one takes you weeks to get reservations and
it's like a three hour wait to get to get in.
And I said, okay, well, I'll just get a new ber.
He she says, oh, just hold on a minute, Hold

(12:59):
on a minute. And I said, well, if there's any possibility,
I said, I'll sit at the bar. I'll sit I'll
sit on the floor somewhere. You know, I've come this far.
M as we'll try your pizza. And he goes, just
just stand here, don't talk to anybody, just stand here,
and I've I got to do some stuff and I'll
be back. So he leaves and he's gone for a man.

(13:20):
He comes back and he's you know, he's taking phone
calls and he's doing everything else, and I'm just standing
there like an idiot. And while I'm standing there, people
literally come up and say, hey, just want to make
sure you haven't forgotten me, have you, because you know,
you know how you're told, hey, it's going to be
an hour wait or a two hour wait, which I
never do because I just refuse to do that. And
you're you're waiting because you see other people move and

(13:42):
you're like, hey, you still have my name? Saw my name?
And that's happening while I'm standing there. And so eventually
he says okay, he grabs a menu and I'm thinking,
holy crap, I'm going to get in. And he grabs
a menu and he says, come on, come with me,
and I'm thinking he's gonna put me in the kitchen
to put me. He's can put me in a closet somewhere,
He's can put me in the restroom. So he takes

(14:04):
me upstairs and we passed where the kitchen is, and
we pass we passed the bar that's upstairs, and we
go way back in the corner and I'm thinking, this
is ideal because this is where I would normally like
to sit anyway. And he takes me way back in
a corner where there's a single little table the size

(14:24):
of I don't know the size of a TV tray.
I mean, it's tiny little table. And he goes, I
can pull a chair up here and you can sit here.
Is this okay? I'm thinking, I'm trying not to be excited,
but I'm thinking this is ideal for me. This is perfect.
I can put my back to the wall, i can
have a view of everything going on, and I can

(14:45):
watch all of this. I can watch everybody people watch
and have this pizza. So I say, yeah, this is great,
and he goes, okay here, and before he walks off,
I said, here, hang on, hang on a minute, don't
don't leave you. So I reached into my wallet. I
had him twenty bucks and I said, thank you for
doing this. I just way beyond the call of duty.

(15:07):
And he goes, oh, and now He's extraordinarily appreciate me
because I've acknowledged that he's done something extraordinary for me,
and I've given him twenty bucks. And don't argue twenty
bucks as I think a reasonable amount. I mean, what
am I gonna do give him a fifty dollars bill, No,
I him, I gave him twenty bucks. So now so

(15:27):
I ordered, you know, blah blah blah. And it turns
out great. It was good pizza. It was it was Yes,
it was some of the best deep dish piece I've
had in Chicago. But on the way out, he said,
and he has me a little piece of paper with
an article a link on it, and he goes here,
if you watch the bear, watch this news story. Okay,

(15:49):
So I go back to the hotel. I'm dead tired.
I don't watch it, go to bed, get up the
next morning, and there's that piece of paper. So I
watch it and I realized the he gave it to
me is because he's in the cameo. He's the guy
that when the when the cousin of the owner of

(16:11):
the bear goes to Pequots to pick up the pizza
so they can fancy it up and give it to
their high end restaurant restaurant tour patrons. He's the guy
that is at the front stand that the bear Star
talks to, and he's really proud of the fact that

(16:32):
he's in that cameo. And I think it's cool that, Oh,
you're the kid that last night I gave the twenty
bucks through so I could sit and meet your pizza.
The lesson is very simple. If you make a connection
with somebody, and if you're just friendly to somebody and
you tell them a good story, like you know, I
wasn't lying. I literally just flown in, got in my uber,

(16:56):
sent my uber, you know, had my uber drop me
off there, had my uber gave him extra cash to
take my bags onto the hotel to give to the
bellman and have the bellman hold my bags. And I
walked in, sat down and I had good pizza. Do
you know and how much I spent on a pizza dragon.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I dare not to ask.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
It just shows pizza, the different sizes and the size
for cheese pizza for like a personal small, medium, large.
I asked the waiter, I'm kind of hungry, so I
assume a personal size is too small. He goes, yeah,

(17:42):
get a small then you can just, you know, take
home whatever you don't eat. But I don't want to
cheese pizza, so I'd loaded up, not knowing it at
all how much each ingredient came. So I've got black
allis sausage, pepperoni, Pecorino's roasted bell peppers, and I think

(18:07):
Italian Italian beef.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Six.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I think six ingredients plus the cheese, plus the sauce
and a steep dish. The pizza alone. About the wine
or the salad? Fifty five dollars fifty pizza of which
I could only eat half the other half put to

(18:33):
the uber driving. Uber driver got the other half. All right. Now,
when we get back, let me tell you about the
pest that I encountered at the Universes horn and fair face.
Morning Ding Dong, Happy Thursday to everybody. Hey, having Mike
and Dragon back together again is like reliving the sperm races.

(18:57):
I guess I should go, except I I refuse to
listen to it. But I'm curious, how could you spend
You and Ryan talked about it. In addition to cal little.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Bit, we talked about the fact that cal Dara and
I talked about it because of the text messages that
came through that was very displeased that we were talking
about sperm on the situation with Michael Brown.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
People were pissed off that I even mentioned that that
it was mentioned. Can't even mentioned it was mentioned. Can't
even talk about that again.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
You all must be new here, really, because you.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Know how passive aggressive we are, so speaking, a little
passive aggressiveness. So the you know that we're doing the
Q and A, and this little petite female at the
at the back of the room stands up and I

(19:55):
don't think she had her mask on then, but she
stands up, and you know how I've talked, I've tried
to explain, listen to the question, and never accept the
premise of the question. Well, she starts out with this, well,
mister secretary, considering that the frequency of these catastrophic storms

(20:20):
are increasing, and they're also increasing in their severity and
the amount of damage that they're causing when it comes
to climate change, how do you think that we should
deal with blah blah blah blah. And I'm sitting there
and I'm instantly thinking to myself, your little twit, you're
you're a professor here, and that's what you're teaching them,

(20:42):
So I said, quite bluntly, I said, well, I disagree
with the premise of your question. I said, I the
storms are not getting more intense. There's scientific evidence and
data to back that up. The frequency of storms is
actually decreasing. But I will agree with you to this extent.

(21:04):
The damage caused by the storms that are occurring is greater.
But the reason that the damage is greater is because,
compared to even ten years ago, let alone twenty thirty
forty years ago, the amount of infrastructure that exists, the
number of people that populate any given area is greater.
The cost of rebuilding something is even greater now because

(21:27):
of supply chain's issues. I'm going through bam bam, bam,
bam bam everything. And I said, and then in response
to that, yes, you should always build in terms of
resilience based on the risks and the hazard that you
are building in. So, for example, in Colorado, we should
be prepared for ice storms and blizzards and high winds

(21:48):
and chinooks and you know, all the kinds of things
that happen here in droughts blah blah blah, and so
we should build our infrastructure, you know, to be resilient
against those kinds of hazards. And I, you know, so boom.
I laid the boom down on her, and I think
that's it. And then she approaches me afterwards, and now
she has a mask on, and of course I'm I

(22:10):
so desperately, desperately you want to say, is there COVID
in the room? Are you okay.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
If you're wearing.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
I exactly, I can't. But this is what frightens me
sometimes about you and me, is is that is exactly
what I thought was like, if you're sick, like stand away,
get it, get away from me. But she hands me
I don't have it with me, it's at home with
my desk. But she said something to the effect that
I was mistaken about the frequency of storms and the

(22:49):
severity of the storms. And she handed me this little
torn piece of paper with this writing on it that
has the name of a professor that teaches, as she
described it, climate deniers like me to understand that this

(23:11):
stuff that we're reading that is counter to what she
reads is false. I'm that's sweet. She thinks she's helping, yes,
And I thought to myself, I told you from the
beginning that I believe in climate change, just that it's
not man made, is not anthropogenic climate change. She's well,

(23:33):
you need to, you need to. He has an online
course that you can take, just you know, you can
google it and google his name and and I'm like, this,
does he teach you at the University Chicago?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (23:47):
And she never told me where he teaches, so I
know nothing about him. But I realized at that point.
I didn't realize at that point, I realized that actually
earlier that I really was in the in the den
of of absolute true liberalism, Marxism, socialism, communism, whatever you

(24:07):
want to believe. And this is I guess because I
haven't been on a college campus in a while that
to see it up front, up up close and personal
is really striking. So I'm in the green room and
the director of the institute is there, and it's this
nice black Muslim woman. And I only say that because

(24:28):
she made certain that I knew, as if I couldn't tell,
that she happened to be black, and that she was
also Muslim. And we were talking about stuff, and turns
out she used to work at USAID, and I'm like, oh, well,
then you must have a interesting perspective on the dismantling

(24:52):
of USAID and somehow some of the NGOs are being
used to so to speak, because I'm trying to soften
my language a little bit, because I'm really trying to
get her to talk about how how it these NGOs
are being used to kind of funnel money back to
their UH, to their UH providers and too their you know,

(25:16):
their constituents that are in the UH that hold political positions.
Oh no, none of that's true. That that does, that
doesn't really happen. I'm like, oh, well, lots of things
that I read indicate that one a lot of these
n g O s take enormous salaries and that then

(25:38):
they hire contractors that are constituents of their sponsors on
the hill that do this. I said, And you know,
obviously I used to work with us A, I D
because if Colin Powell and I were, and then that's
just the mention of Colin Powell brought about well, you know,

(25:58):
Colin Powell, you know, lied to the United and everything
just fell into a crap hole. And I thought, man,
I have stepped into it here. But nonetheless I stood
my ground and it was fun. And then one more
thing happened while I was in Chicago. I was not
at the airport when this happened. I was not at O'Hare.

(26:20):
But this is a classic example of how stupid TSA is.
I'll explain why, but first let's go to CBS Chicago frantic.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Search for a man with a gun at O'Hare.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
And it was not me. Mine was on my desk
at home.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
It was all unfolding yesterday afternoon. Today we're learning new
details about exactly what happened. Ursusanlamnio joins US Live Now
with exclusive details on this case.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
Suzanne Hourrie, you know, it's still not clear why this
man was not held at the checkpoint until Chicago police arrived.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
And that's so important to note because maybe Dragon confind
one of the videos that shows it. But in the
news that I watched on I guess it would have
been Monday night when this happened. I forget what night
it was that it happened, but whatever evening it was
that I was watching evening news in Chicago about this.

(27:21):
It was fascinating because somehow I guess through the public
address system and through little TSA goober's running up and
down the concourses in I think it was Terminal one,
the United Terminal were forcing people to stand up against
the gates they had to get they had to step

(27:42):
into the gate area or line up against the wall,
you know where the restaurants and things are typical airport concourse.
They're they're not nearly as wide as the concourses at
Denver International. They're much narrow or particularly in Terminal one.
And the video shows them lined up, just lined up.
And as they're lined up, I'm thinking to myself, targets.

(28:06):
You've got targets just standing there and while and here's
the funniest part, well they're standing there. This one news
report shows you know, the little TSA goobers, they they're
not goobers, they're that that's a majority, uh, the little
TSA officers with their little sewn on badges who have

(28:32):
no law enforcement authority whatsoever, and have no weapons. They
don't they don't even have pepper spray. They don't have anything.
They're running through this cleared out concourse, you know, well
the pathway that's been made while all these passengers everything's

(28:52):
shut down. They're running through. And I'm watching this video thinking,
and what are you going to do when you find
the guy, assuming, of course, that he has unlawful intentions,
assuming that he's there to commit an act of terrorism
or mass murder.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
You're running toward I mean, you know, it's one thing
for a cop that's got, you know, his service weapon,
and maybe at this point, maybe it's a swat team
member and they've got some automatic weapons. So much like
a school shooting, you run toward the danger. But what
are these little tsa idiots doing? Stop? It's like party five. Stop,

(29:35):
don't move.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
How he could be allowed to take his backpack and
make it all the way to the gate and board
his flight. But what is clear is this passenger was
able to get a loaded weapon onto a plane before takeoff.
This citizen app video shows Transportation Security Administration officers running
through O'Hare airport.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Moment, Oh, this is it, Dragon, it's the CBS Chica.
This is the one that shows them running through the airport.
It's hilarious. Just watch it and think to yourself, and
what are you going to do when you're finding Assuming
this all assumes that he is intending to commit murder,
that he's there to go on a killing rampage, which no.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Once after Chicago police say fifty three year old besnik
Istmelai of Saint Charles left TSA Checkpoint number two, Lane
nine at O'Hare Airport with his black backpack. Police say
inside that backpack was a loaded Glock nine millimeter semi
auto pistol. An image of the firearm had just been
picked up on a TSA X ray machine.

Speaker 6 (30:41):
It's a federal offense to carry a loaded weapon, to
carry any kind of a weapon on a commercial aircraft.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Signs like this warn travelers not to bring guns through
the TSA checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
So see see how effective a sign is says no
firearms are allowed past this point. Attention, attention, And it's
got the little you know, it's got the picture of
a handgun with the you know, the circle and the
line drawn through it. So clearly these are this is
the most effective way to prevent these things from happening.

(31:17):
No gun, no gun zones.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
Absolutely, Yeah, because we are so safe with the TSA
and Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, you can't take a
bottle of water on the plane because it might be
a bomb, and yet they just take it and toss
it into a trash can. Ten feet away. Americans are

(31:39):
morons for even thinking that this makes a difference, and
shame on our government for shoving it down our throat.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Dragon, if you do, you have the video up on
the website yet.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
I should be publishing right now, so you should be a.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Feating them your moment. Dragon just watched it, and Dragon
had the had the classic reaction to it.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
They show the TSA agents running towards the well.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
That's that's the word I used. Yes, that's the word
in the report, in the report, right.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yes, yes, I don't want to be too rude to
these TSA agents who put their life on the line
for us.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Wait wait, wait, wait wait when when did they do that?

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Because they were running towards a person who had a
loaded firearm.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Okay, running, which they just assume is a threat, correct,
because anybody with a gun is a threat. You know that.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well, of course, anyone who has a gun in a
location where there's a sign that says you can't have
a gun.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Is a threat. Right, yeah, of course, right, right.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
But the the video, they slowed down the running to
make it look like the guys are running. It's more
like you're you're crossing the street and there's a car coming,
so you do that that little arm motion, that little

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fast walk, maybe to make it look like you're moving faster,
but you're not. That's what those guys are doing, and
albeit for them. They're chasing down somebody who has a
loaded firearm in a place that you're not supposed to
have a loaded firearm, and they have no firearm themselves.
So I don't know if I could run towards somebody

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who supposedly has a loaded firearm with me not having
any protection, you might.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Be like that guber number fifty six seventy eighth that writes, Michael,
are you sure the ts agents were running toward the
guy with the gun or to the nearest exit or
eighty three seventy eight Mike. The TSA officers end quote,
thank you for doing that. Just wanted to be able
to tell all their friends they chase down somebody with
a gun. In reality, they weren't thinking more than ten

(33:51):
seconds into the future. They would come to a dead
stop if they saw him. The news report is glorious.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Rob Mark is a pilot and aviation expert.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
I've never heard of someone being stopped at a security
checkpoint for a possible weapon and being able to just
put their hand in and grab the bag and walk off.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
A TSA spokesperson told us the policy in these instances
is to keep the bag with the firearm inside the
X ray tunnel and contact Chicago police. Before police could
arrive to take the pistol, the passenger reached inside the
X ray machine, took the bag, left the checkpoint, and
went into the terminal. Screenings were suspended at terminals one

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and two. Chicago Police ay Ismili has been charged with
one count of carrying a concealed firearm at an airport.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I notice there was nothing about any thripped