Hello and welcome to another T-Rex talk. This one's going to be about radio. But it's not going to be about technical radio. It's not going to be about practical applications of radio. It's a, I'm going to read through an article that Slate published a week ago, two weeks ago, an article by Max Fenton. And the title of this article is,-Right extremists are using personal radios to plan violence.

Now, I don't know that this article is going to pick up a lot of traction.

It took me a while before people started sending it to me.

This is an interesting opportunity to talk about a couple of things radio-related,

journalism-related, but also

labeling and totalitarianism. So Slate is not a bastion of great reporting, and this article is not

great reporting on its own. I will say that I'm impressed that Max Fetton went out and

talked to a few people who actually are involved in the field,

like his actual humans.

Didn't just copy and paste their words out of somebody else's article, so good job, Max.

But at the same time, the article does kind of miss a whole lot of points about the topic that he is addressing

because he's trying to make a different point.

And I kind of don't need to read the whole article because everything in the article is really

best summed up by the title and the subtitle.

Title is, far right extremists are using personal radios to plan violence.

Subtitle is the government prepared to stop them?

That actually gives you a much better idea of what

this article is trying to accomplish than the article itself, possibly because an editor

wrote the title and subtitle, but let's get started. During Cassidy Hutchinson's explosive testimony

at the January 6th Commission's hearing on Tuesday, footage was shown of the chaotic scene

at the White House ellipse that day as an estimated

more than 10,000 people lined up to go through magnetometers to listen to former president

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