Clay Travis (17:48)
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But the truth is the wars of the future and just the national security needs of the United States going into the future are going to be increasingly reliant upon two things that intersect very powerfully, really two things that are complementary technology and manufacturing. And you have to be able to make the most advanced stuff, but you're going to have to be able to make it at scale and quickly. Because when you're talking about drones and AI and hypersonics and just go through the list of all these things that are either in use and iterating, coming up with new versions of right now, or just over the horizon and going to become much more a part of what we see in the national security sphere. You have to be nimble, you have to be fast. And this is what Clay, the speech yesterday that Secretary of Warhead said, it was great to see him. We got to catch up a little bit. I mean, he was busy with like the second richest man in the world and taking around a bunch of very senior military folks. But we talked a little bit and I was glad to meet his staff and see how they're doing this arsenal of Freedom tour, which is what it was, the arsenal of freedom. And they're going around to a lot of the biggest, not just there's the defense primes, Boeing, Lockheed, I mean, these are the companies that you think of when you think of the military industrial complex they've consolidated. And this has happened really. Again, I'm not an expert on all this, but last 40 years or so, there's been a huge consolidation of this stuff. And now there's these companies, there's these upstarts, these startups, I guess maybe both upstarts and startups like Anduril, based out of California, Palmer Lucky's outfit, and others that are making really incredible defense tech. And Clay, before I get into the space side, I was going to just say this is one of the incredible things that Trump and the whole MAGA movement has accomplished that I think people don't have enough appreciation of. A decade or so ago, Google and its employees and from the top down refused, refused to do anything that could even have military use or, you know, any military projects whatsoever with the Pentagon. And that was considered just, oh, okay, it's a, it's a private company. They can do what they want. You know, it's like when they said build our own Internet, you know, do it, we would do it our, do it our way. Clay, that is a massive. First of all, it's borderline, in my opinion, borderline traitorous. And that was the culture, though, in Silicon Valley, our tech leading edge was unwilling to work to defend America against the threats of China and Russia and global terrorism and all these other things. And they were, they were fine with that. That's changed now, and I think it's one of the biggest wins that the Trump administration has, has racked up on the national security side. And Secretary Hegseth is working to change the procurement timeline because it's Become a joke. They're saying, yeah, we're going to build something 15 years out and it's going to cost 10 times as much as we say it is when all said and done. And by the time we get it, you're not even going to need it because there's going to be some other technology that you can't have. This in a world of drone swarms and hypersonics and increasingly low Earth orbit activity that deals with a whole range of military threats. There's so much going on, Clay, and we can get into the space piece too. But this is a transformation of the way that the United States top companies now work with in areas. You know, I'm not saying I work with them on everything, but there's crossover and they're willing to work with our defense contractors. I mean, in my opinion, no American should be willing to buy or do business with an American company. That will not help the United States military with technology, will not help the United States military defend us. Because these guys, Google, without the US military providing it, they'd all be speaking Chinese. Everybody, you know what I'm saying? Like Google only exists because the United States provides this marketplace. Yes, but this aegis of protection. And you're going to turn your nose up at working with, working with these companies. But remember, Pentagon's paying for this stuff. The Pentagon, it's not that they have to do whatever the Pentagon says, it's just the Pentagon will say, hey, we want to buy this from you. No, we don't want to work with you on that. Hey, we want to co develop this with you. No, you know, and this was Google and all these top companies out of Silicon, Google is the main one, but all these top companies out of Silicon Valley, it's shameful what they got away with. Palmer Lucky of Andrew has spoken about this consistently and, and it's amazing because he comes out of that community. There's a guy who founded Oculus now he's the founder of Andrew. He's a self made multibillionaire. He's founded really two unicorn companies which is, he's like a double unicorn. It's pretty amazing, Clay. The whole paradigm has changed now where. And it's important because if China has better AI, better tech, better, you know, better drones and manufacturing capacity for them as well, they can put, if they can make, you know, a hundred UAVs of the absolute top range that can be used in offensive warfare for every 10 that we can make, we can't beat them. That's what people have to understand, it doesn't matter. Yeah, we have the best soldiers in the world. Well, if they can just out manufacture us, the bravery of our soldiers is not going to be enough in a fight that's increasingly tech based.
