Well, hi, everybody. Welcome to Hot Mike. I'm your co-host. Bill Whittle. Hot Mike isn't with us today. It's not his fault this time. I sent him to go and plow the back 40 because, to be perfectly honest with you, he's kind of turning into a big sissy. So we'll let him back when he man's up a little bit. This episode is entitled Why Autopenn matters, why it's important.

It's not a trivial thing.

It's being made to be a trivial thing.

Donald Trump has declared void a number of the pardons, 8,000 acts of clemency that were written and authorized by Joe Biden.

And as usual, the mainstream media is dogpiling in defense of the Democrats. And the defense is that, well, Republicans use them too.

Absolutely true.

But in order to really understand why this is a big issue, not just something trivial,

and in fact, indicative of an even larger constitutional issue, we got to break this one down to basics.

So strap in, here we go. So first

things first, what is an auto pen? Well, an auto pen is something that reproduces a person's

signature. It's actually very simple. It's a pen that's attached to a couple of different levers,

and there are sensors in the levers. And so when you sign your name with the auto pen, the pen is measuring the position

of where the point of that pen is. It's measuring its position in space. It's also measuring its

acceleration. And once it records those things, it will simply play back those motions and those

accelerations and reproduce the person's signature with a high degree of accuracy. So this gets us to the bottom of the

base core issues, and that is why do we sign things in the first place? What is a signature?

Well, before people could spell, they would be asked to make their mark. Usually in the movies

that somebody puts an X, but I have no doubt that people had somewhat elaborate marks,

even though they couldn't actually spell. And the reason you would ask somebody to sign something or to make their mark

is to show that they were a party to an agreement. It is essentially, and this is an important

thing to keep in mind during this little discussion today, your signature is a receipt.

It's a receipt that says that you were, in fact, a party to this agreement,

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