It's Thursday, May 29th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show wondering what being trapped on a Delta flight from Minneapolis,
Minnesota to Madison, Wisconsin must have been like for two pigeons.
Being a bird trapped on an airplane must be profoundly confusing, is what I'm saying.
On today's show, it's Pardon Palooza.
over at the White House.
And Elon Musk says President Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill undermines the work he did at Doge.
Sad.
But let's start out by talking about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them.
I've reported on conspiracy theorists and their ideas for years.
And before Kash Patel, Dan Bongino,
and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were prominent members of the Trump administration as director of the FBI,
deputy director of the FBI, and secretary of health and human services,
respectively, They were conspiracy theorists.
And now the conspiracies they pushed are coming back to haunt them in the sense that their fans are very upset that now that these men are in power,
they're not doing more about the conspiracies they pushed to get there.
Take Patel, who was on with Fox News' Brett Baer late Wednesday.
He was asked for what feels like the millionth time to explain why he believes financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide,
despite for years raising questions about the case.