The Ledger, every show

“So in Ukraine, there was this, I think it was called Operation Spiderweb, where, ah, Ukraine snuck basically like under false floorboards of a truck. They snuck a million dollars of worth of drones into Russian territory. And then the drones basically took fli…”

“We have been effectively losing war games when they model the scenario of US versus China since, I think like, 2015. We have been, the US loses those war games.”

“The Chinese have developed missiles that they affectionately refer to as carrier killers, that literally it's, I mean, these still might be fairly expensive missiles, right, these are 15, twenty million dollar missiles, But they can destroy a multi-billion dol…”

“Today it is sub one percent of global R&D.”

“And then a year ago Microsoft basically admitted defeat to some extent, and the government said, we're going to recompete the contract, and Anduril first as a potential partner to Microsoft, and then eventually took over a twenty-two billion dollar IVAS contra…”

“Like several people are working on that, including Anduril, much to the surprise, I don't know if you have heard this story, but there was a story of Palmer talking about subterranean warfare, and the marketing person at Anduril was there, it was like, to the …”

“And like you have projects that should have cost 13, fifteen billion dollars that are upwards could cost a trillion dollars, like the F-thirty-five program, right? It's like dramatic overages.”

“Palmer says that Anduril has had products on the ground in Ukraine basically since day one. They were over there pretty quickly, you know, deploying assets and stuff like that.”

“Any time a rising power threatens a established power, it ends in large conflict, great power conflict, and when you look throughout history, there are 16 instances where that happened. Of those 16, 12 of them resulted in mass scale conflict”

“In their very first pitch deck, he said, we are going to make billions of dollars by saving the government tens of billions of dollars of revenue and of costs.”

“During the cold war in the fifties and sixties, the DoD alone represented 36% of global R&D.”

“And like their first customer, if I remember correctly, it wasn't even the government. It was a private like ranch owner who wanted to monitor because there was like drug traffickers coming across his land.”

“Their first product they ever built and prototyped was? It was called Century, but it wasn't the tower. It was a autonomous firefighting tank that would roll into a forest fire and could deploy, like, fire suppression”

“The U.S. Was like, 40 plus percent of manufacturing capacity globally.”

“While he was in high school, he volunteered at a lab where they were basically doing research around how to use virtual reality to help soldiers deal with PTSD.”