You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode number 72.

I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, here's my agenda for today.

I, prior to like a week ago, or maybe a little more,

I had no idea, I had heard the name Joe Arpio but I didn't really know much about him.

So my plan was to do an in-depth look at him, but after this whole thing blew up,

it looks like that coverage has largely been done.

So I'm not going to go too in depth on him

just at the risk of it being information you already have but I am going to take a

bit of a look at who he is and what he did and why he was pardoned that kind of thing and then I want to compare

it to claims that people are making about people Obama pardoned so there's some

claims being made about Obama pardon a terrorist. It's actually worse than our pile so I wanted to look at that for a minute too.

Also, I'm finally going to answer the question of just where was President Barack Obama during Hurricane Katrina because he was oh wait he wasn't

president then there's there's actually there's actually people who are asking or saying he wasn't doing anything during Katrina when that was actually Bush who was president so it's really weird and there's also looks like there might be some like Russian bot influence on that we live live in a weird time, basically. I hope someday we have the answers for this.

Hopefully in the future, someone's listening to me right now and is's like well yeah no that was a weird time

here's here's what was going on I'll tell you but maybe not things are confusing

so I want to look at that and then I've got some voicemails during which I need to talk

about a few things I got wrong on Monday's episode.

I want to clarify a few things.

Don't panic.

Largely, I think the information on Monday's episode was great, but there are a few clarifications I need to make.

And thank you for everybody who has commented and especially people who are more science

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