Jim Erdman
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1,069 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Jim Erdman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So after 9-11, Patriot Act opened up a bunch of authorities, a bunch of operations were opened up.
And the good managers are the ones who could juggle a gazillion different things at once.
I wish I was one of those people.
I was never good at juggling a gazillion things at once.
I stuck to sort of a handful of things I knew I could accomplish.
But the good managers, they could.
And they were working in a time where there was a ton of money.
We've always had money.
We've always had money.
And so those good managers who didn't really have to get tested about, hey, should we do this?
Should we save this money for something else?
Should we make this moral decision on blah, blah, blah, blah, blah?
They got confused as good leaders, so they matriculated upwards.
And they were never really, and this is a generalization, they were never really tested in terms of moral decisions or decisions that were weighty in terms of like, should we continue doing this operation or not?
And we had chances to be tested.
How many people spoke up during the whole enhanced interrogation piece?
How many people came forward and said, hey, last I checked, that's torture?
Well, one did.
One did, and he was destroyed, right?
He went to prison.
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