Episode Transcript: #1299 - Annie Jacobsen
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Now we're live. Three, two, one, boom. Hello, Annie.
Hello, Joe.
Very nice to meet you. I'm excited to talk to you.
I'm super excited to talk to you about several subjects, but this one,
thank you very much for this first edition copy of your Area 51,
an uncensored history of America's top secret military basebook.
I'm super excited about this.
I heard through the grapevine you were a fan.
I'm a freak when it comes to this stuff.
What do you think is going on up there?
I mean, same thing that's going on all over the place when it comes to military secrets,
which is stuff that you want to know about, very few people know about,
and every now and then a journalist gets a hint at it.
Yeah. Do you think there's any alien stuff up there?
I write in the book all about that.
Yeah. Well, tell me.
Last 12 pages. You want me to...
Want me to go to the last 12 pages?
What do you think?
So Area 51 was this secret test base where the CIA was running spy plane programs, right?