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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney. Alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. All right, let's talk space. Now,

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Speaker 1: we're talking outer space. Just in the last month we've

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Speaker 1: seen Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rocket into space,

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Speaker 1: continuing the commercialization, if you will, of outer space. Let's

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Speaker 1: get a sense of where we're going for John Wensby,

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Speaker 1: executive director of the Allen b Levan NSU Broward Center

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Speaker 1: of Innovation, joins is John, give us a sense here.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I was a kid, it was all

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Speaker 1: the US government talk to us about is the future

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Speaker 1: space innovation? Is it no longer NASA? Is it with

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Speaker 1: billionaire entrepreneurs? Well, ga Marine, and thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually glad that you mentioned UH the Apollo program

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Speaker 1: because we recently recruited Buzz Aldrin's son Andrew Aldrins, the

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Speaker 1: director of our new space program called Level five Space

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Speaker 1: dook to support these entrepreneurial opportunities. But to really answer

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Speaker 1: your question, there's never been a more opportune time for

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs to launch and scale companies in the space sector.

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Speaker 1: And it's not the old government model of doing anything.

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Speaker 1: And the barriers of entry are coming down, and the

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Speaker 1: much more cost effective than they've ever been. They're still high,

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Speaker 1: but they're certainly coming down, which really leads to increased

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Speaker 1: space sector. And the recess successes as you mentioned with

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Speaker 1: SpaceX and Version Galactic and Blue Origin are really great examples.

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Speaker 1: But the point is it's not just about it's not

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Speaker 1: having you. Um. John Bensfeen is I think internationally known

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Speaker 1: right now, and specifically to Disney earnings coming out after

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. He is live, Are you live in the studio?

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Speaker 1: another generation men of equity research covering the media sector

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Speaker 1: coming up for Bloomberg Intelligence. Kevin, you're joining us here.

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Speaker 1: I want to get over to Greg Hahn. He is

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Speaker 1: the chief investment officer at Winthrop Capital Management and I

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Speaker 1: want to kick it off with an inflation question. Question,

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Speaker 1: Of course it is very important, but profitability, quality, growth

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun the mode men. All right, Naste,

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