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People who have opinions about it, it's genuinely contested, like whether it's a successful program or not, there's evidence against its success.

TSA would argue that it's not a coincidence.

There hasn't been, you know, a successful aviation terrorist attack since 9-11.

So I think, like, the true, the honest answer is it's kind of hard to measure the effectiveness.

Kathleen, happy belated birthday.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So I was not a part of this. I learned after the fact, but supposedly

TPO gave out your phone number so that paying subscribers to the poor over were able to

text you, like personally? Yeah, to my phone. Long story short, I'm off on Sundays.

And so when they were putting together Monday's newsletter, Monday was my birthday,

they thought it would be really funny to all of our paying subscribers.

There's like 8,000 of them.

They're like, oh, these people like the pourover.

How can we reward them?

Let's give them our managing editors phone number.

So yeah, I woke up Monday morning and I was like, oh, what a glorious birthday. 80 text messages. How did these people know my

family all puked last week? I don't know any of these people. They all started at 4 a.m.

That's when the newsletter... Anyway, it was a really fun morning of trying to figure out

how so many people got my phone number. And if you're listening to this and you texted me,

I have not even opened most of them. If I saw that your text said it was your birthday too,

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