I would do this fight if I was living in a cardboard box.

I would do it if I had to use stone knives and bearskins.

Your task will not be an easy one.

Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

Good night and good luck.

Hey folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome back to Lincoln Projects, The Elephant in the Room.

I'm your host, and we're going to talk about the elephant in the room today.

First off, I want to say this. It was a bad night for Joe Biden. I'm not going to spin it

for you. I'm just not. But you know what? I've learned it being a pilot

for a long time. When you're in an emergency, the first thing you do is fly the plane. In flying,

we practice these emergency scenarios all the time. What happens if the engine quits, if your

avionics die, if there's a fire in the cockpit, if a bird flies through the window, you know, smacks through your window like a goose flies through your window, you practice those things all the time. And I'll tell you, you practice them so much because you memorize certain parts of it, okay? So you could wait me up in a sound sleep and say, Rick, I've got an engine out, we're flying a beachcraft baron,

what do you do? And I know what to do. I've memorized the bold-faced checklist. I know what the

flow of the controls is. But the first rule of this is not to go through the checklist line by

line. The first rule of it in any aircraft emergency is to fly the plane.

It's the simplest actable.

You fly the plane.

If you don't keep flying the plane, you're not going to solve the emergency and you're going to be out of control and you're going to crash.

And so when you have a problem when you're flying, there are three rules.

They're very simple.

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