ually kind of impressed. Now, do they still lean a little bit left? Yeah. Yeah. But Abby Phillip, who I've criticized before, she was a proponent of the fine people hoax before she had her current assignment as CNN. So I started off with a negative opinion of her and as her show got a lot of traction and a lot of clips, I maintained my negative opinion because I didn't think she was up to the job, honestly. However, as I've been watching, because you know, Scott Jennings causes everybody to go watch. He's an amazing hire for them. My observation is that she's just getting better and better at her job and she's a young person so you'd expect that. So I would say at this point she has achieved admirably. I will compliment her on this. I believe that she's built her talent stack pretty much right up to where CNN would want it to be for hosting that show. And I've seen her on a number of times interrupt a lefty who was making a claim that just wasn't true. So we have seen her fact check people who were on the left if they were just going into garbage territory which I appreciate.

But she was just on Charlamagne tha God's show. And I'll give it to you in her voice. She says, "It's fair to say that CNN, we're not Fox News, but we're also not MSNBC." Okay, that's good framing. We're probably center left. Correct. That's what I observe. And I think it has a lot to do with our audience. Correct. Correct. If you say we're serving our audience and they're center left, I'm okay with that. I mean, Fox News is serving their audience, they're Republicans. I'm okay with that. MSNBC is serving their audience, which are people with mental problems. I'm not okay with that, but at least it keeps them busy. And then Abby says, and I believe this is true too, by the way. I saw this in Jason Cohen's post on X. Give him credit. Abby says that CNN is left center, has more Republican voices and more diversity of views than either MSNBC or Fox News. Damn it, you're right. That is true. That CNN at the moment, now this has not been true forever, but at the moment, I'm pretty sure she's right that CNN has more diversity on than the other two networks.

Now, to be fair, do you know why Fox News doesn't have more lefty people on it? It's not because they don't want them. It's because if they invited them, they wouldn't come. So apparently CNN still has the ability to invite Republicans. And where do Republicans go when they're invited? Wherever they're invited. So if they're invited on CNN, they go on CNN. If they're invited on MSNBC, they go on MSNBC. If they're invited on Charlamagne's Breakfast Club, they go on Charlamagne's show. It just doesn't work the other way. So I think the one thing that Abby might have added for context is that it's not always an option for Fox News because they're so reviled that people think just associating with them would be some kind of mistake. Fetterman or a few people might be exceptions, you know, but mostly I'm sure that Fox would like to have more lively debates with leftists because they think they would win those and it would be good TV.

MSNBC is telling us that today marks the first day of air traffic controllers not getting a full paycheck. So would you feel comfortable flying on the first day that the air controllers didn't get paid? I'm going to say I wouldn't. I would not. I don't think anybody I know is in the air at the moment. And I hope they don't because I don't know. I wouldn't be comfortable with the air controllers not being paid if I'm in the air in this giant tube flying through the air. No thank you. But I hope we get that worked out.

It's weird that that air traffic control job has been such a problem for so many decades ever since Reagan, right? So it's always been these guys can barely stay sane and the jets are barely staying in the air because it's just so hard and it's been decades and we never have enough of them. And there's always some problem about getting them paid. Why is this the one place we can't solve? And by the way, this should be the place that AI takes over completely. In 10 years, if we have human air traffic controllers and we have human pilots who are in charge of taking off and landing as opposed to just being sort of emergency people on the side, if any of this is run by humans in 10 years, oh my god, we're stupid. Every plane should be AI. And you know, it should be flying on its own. It should be landing on its own, should be taking off on its own, and it definitely should have air traffic control be automated. There's no way that this should be human driven. It's just crazy that we're putting up with that level of risk. But 10 years will be solved.

I love this story, switching stories, of Rand Paul trying to get what he would call justice for what he thinks are Fauci's crimes or at least mismanagement of the pandemic. So Rand Paul was just on Benny Johnson's podcast. By the way, Benny Johnson's doing a great job. Have you noticed his rise in terms of being an influential podcast on the right? I love watching the people on the right put together talent stacks and then make it work like right in front of you. He's one of those. So when I look at everything from Tucker starting his own whole deal there, studio, you know, Megyn Kelly dominating podcasting in my opinion, PBD runs a class operation, Benny Johnson suddenly has this property that I assume he's going to monetize to the hilt and deserves every bit of it. But when you look at them there, you can see them working the talent stack. So part of the talent stack is networking and apparently all the good ones are great at it. They network so they have people to invite etc. The other is just managing a business because the podcast will eventually have engineers and producers and stuff. So you got to be able to manage. But the other part is managing your physicality which I always note that Benny's in rea