Lloyd Austin's disappearance.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization. 70-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin disappeared from public view on New Year's Day, later disclosing that for three days he had been hospitalized in intensive care without the public being informed. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Austin ended up in intensive care after suffering complications from a surgery required to treat his prostate cancer, a diagnosis he kept from the public and from President Biden.
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| 0:48.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the T podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul. Today is Thursday, January 11th. We've got a lot going on in the podcast today. We're going to be covering Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary, |
| 1:14.3 | and this scandal, this cover-up, this bizarre story that happened with him over the last week. |
| 1:23.4 | And it's an interesting one, something I haven't really seen as a politics reporter, |
| 1:28.2 | something I don't remember seeing anytime recently. We're also going to be talking about |
| 1:33.0 | the results from the end of year Tangle survey, including how people rated us, what people |
| 1:40.8 | said about our bias. I'm answering a reader question about that. And before we jump in, |
| 1:47.4 | I have to apologize for yesterday. Over here at TangleHQ yesterday, we kind of had one of those |
| 1:54.0 | terrible mornings. It's like the opening scene in a rom-com where someone's fumbling around trying to get |
| 2:00.4 | to work. They walk into a glass |
| 2:02.7 | door and drop their keys and put their coat on backwards, and then they leave the house and |
| 2:07.3 | there's toilet paper attached to their dress shoe. That was basically us yesterday. So for some reason, |
| 2:13.8 | I still can't figure out how it happened or why it happened. We sent yesterday's |
| 2:18.4 | newsletter with a weird formatting error. It made every element in the newsletter a gigantic |
| 2:23.9 | letter and bold. It was really jarring. So if you got the newsletter yesterday, I know many |
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| 2:34.8 | one. And when we tried to remedy it, we sent an email that also had advertisements being displayed |
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