Hello, and welcome to Series Inquiries. Only this is episode 317. I'm Thomas, and with

me is always is Dr. Lindsey Osterman. How you doing?

Hi. Oh, wonderful. How are you?

Best science person in the biz. I'm good. I am, I just watched hours of congressional

testimony, which is always painful before we get into it. I think this is like we do things

in the worst possible way, like even even the good guys and even on stuff that's kind

of bipartisan. It showed Congress at its quote unquote best, like when even Ted Cruz is

kind of trying to like get at the truth, maybe, which is, which is, it was a real throwback,

you know, to see like, oh, both sides are kind of interested in this issue. So they're

not just attacking each other in really stupid ways during, but it's still at its core.

The format of this thing is, hey, person whistleblower, a Facebook whistleblower, come testify.

And what we'll do is we'll give each senator 13 seconds to try to make a viral video

out of you that won't maybe have anything to do with anything. And then we'll go to

another senator. It's the worst format. It absolutely is. I hate that they're five minute

quick Q&A sessions. Yeah. With each member of the committee. I applaud you for actually listening

to it. I just read the transcript because I couldn't actually watching all of it, but yeah.

Well, a little known secrets, listening to it at like 2x speed is how I do it. Oh, you know,

so maybe I can't read as fast as you can, but I can't listen very quickly.

So this is something, I mean, there's a few weeks old now, but just to give the background,

I'm sure, you know, virtually everybody's heard of it by now, but there's a whistleblower.

Francis Hogan, I think is how she pronounces it. And she leaked a bunch of stuff, I guess,

to the Wall Street Journal is what I'm seeing initially, which is an interesting choice.

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