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Oh, for the best, expect the worst, oh for the best.

Welcome to the commentary magazine, Daily Podcast today is Monday, June 5th, 2023. I'm John Pudhord.

It's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always, executive editor, a greenwald high Abe.

Hi, John.

Washington commentary column, this Matthew Kahnetti. Hi, Matt. Hi, John.

Christine Rosen is out today. So it is just the three of us.

And we are going to move around on a popery of topics, something very weird happened yesterday in

and around Washington DC where a twin engine, Cessna was deemed to be behaving erratically or oddly and somewhere in and around the restricted airspace around the nation's capital and jets were scrambled to intercept it.

And the plane crashed. So what we don't know is was this a horrible overreaction and somehow they crashed the plane or the plane was in the process of crashing and they thought that it was intervening in airspace.

And the very weird fact that the plane, the chasing plane or planes went supersonic and broke the sound barrier and made a huge sonic boom over Northern Virginia.

Anybody have any thought? I mean, it's almost like a kind of panic, like multiple panics all at once.

Well, my first thought is I've spent the weekend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

And so while I'm looking at social media yesterday afternoon and I see that reports of a mysterious explosion in Washington DC throughout the DMV, throughout the whole beltway area from Maryland to Virginia, people were reporting on social media.

Some type of boom, they said they didn't didn't seem like an earthquake. No one could see smoke anywhere. What was this boom and it spread it spread on social media. And so I felt left out. That was my main complaint.

But the second thing was once it was determined to be the F 16s to F 16s dispatch to figure out what was going on with this plane.

It was a reminder, I think, 22 years after 9 11 that we still take the threat of aircraft approaching Washington DC very seriously and that we will will dispatch assets.

They will fly supersonic if there's a perceived threat. And then finally, I thought an interesting element of this was the social media aspect because as I said, it spread on social media.

But then the daily mail started reporting on it. Then people were speculating about it. You know, was it a was it a meteor was it something else, what finally found out the story.

But it occurred to me that in the in the history of this country, there must have been so many events like this.

Prior to social media age that we just have no record of people just go around, live their lives. Oh, that was odd. Maybe they find out about it the next day.

The idea that this would spread it become knowledge, it become a story that everyone's talking about probably is a very novel concept unique to our social media age.

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