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A (0:00)
Hey, guys, if you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five star review. They're both a huge, huge help. Thank you. All right, so I think this is probably the start of a second episode because we have a lot on the bone here to go through that. We've had an awesome conversation today. So, people, if this one's coming out, the first one will also be linked down below. And these are going to be two very separate conversations. You'll be able to watch them separately, like in their own context. But really good stuff so far. So you did 20 years in the Air Force. You are now CEO of a tech drone company that integrates AI. You were saying it's basically like the inner ear for drones. We're going to define what all that is right here. But I think a really, really good way to start this, Jesse, would be to go through something we touched on a little, but didn't, like, officially go through the evolution of it, which is like the actual history of drone warfare. You've mentioned some of the names of. I'm gonna fuck them up, but some of the names of the initial drones that you would notice, like, flying next. Oh, right, yeah, on the planes and stuff. But like, we obviously got very heavy with it in 2008, 9, 10, 11. And now it's a whole different ball game how we do it. So for out there, who doesn't understand exactly how our drone program works, you know, where to come from and where is it now?
B (1:32)
Yeah, no, it's a. And that's a great way to set it. So for, like drone, by the way that, you know, the term, it's kind of come full circle. Drones say, you know, what is a drone? Well, drone is like a bee. And the idea is like a dumb bee, basically. It just goes in a certain area. So, you know, we started calling them this almost as like a pejorative. But the first one's really. It was Operation Enduring Freedom. So Afghanistan timeframe. So you had some stuff, you know, that was flying probably in the late 90s. And, you know, I don't know if I would know the full, like, when it started, but that it was kind of this idea of, like, okay, we can make this big plane and we can control it from a radio controller on the ground. Like, that's the basic concept. And if we do that, then we can design the plane way cheaper because it doesn't have to have a human in it. So I can just put, like, wings, I can put weapons on it or a Payload or that's it. Because a lot of the expense of like an F16 is because you're wrapping that thing around a human. So all of the injection seed and all the avionics and all that goes in there. But what if I could just control it from, you know, controller with a radio signal? Like. Like we've been doing with, you know, we grew up with cars, right? I'm just driving them. So. So that was kind of the impetus of, like, let's save a lot of money and we can develop something that is low cost and we can have it do a couple different things. So, like, a lot of things, it gets probably most real with the military. First. There's some early, like, drone racing league stuff, but that doesn't really come up until. I'd have to look at the history of that. But that's probably like 2010s before that's really starting to happen. So your first ones are these big drones that I would call big now, based on what we're talking about in Ukraine.