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Speaker 3: What's up dude? What was your breakfast before school?

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Speaker 3: Soft rep dot com stands it stands for Special Operation

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Speaker 3: Forces report, right, So if you're on the ground and

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Speaker 3: That's that's gnarly. See. The reason why I have a battery,

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Speaker 3: we're like, oh, they're locking onto us while we're doing

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Speaker 3: war games, like they're training on us, knowing that this

433
00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 3: is happening, and they're flying the drone all around us

434
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 3: and it's just you hear, it just buzzes and then

435
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: it just goes quiet. You just hear this like wind

436
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 3: howling over its wings as the magnet effect takes its toll.

437
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You're like, dude, that would

438
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,439
Speaker 3: totally smoke me.

439
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but I think like drones have the ability

440
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 1: to operate in a tactical nature too. Like my chief

441
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: revenue officer, Chuck, he was a preacher for Development Group

442
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,640
Speaker 1: and he's been you know, I think one day we'll

443
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 1: get to work on an indoor drone. Right, it's not

444
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: currently in our roadmap this year, but you know something

445
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: that is really small that helps you clear rooms and

446
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: it is something that you can rely on and is

447
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 1: tactical in nature, that would be super helpful. And you

448
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: could see that, you know in Israel with tunnels, or

449
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, in any area where drones have to work

450
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: in a small space. But that use case is super

451
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: super important. And Chuck builds them all day. He's got

452
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: like ten of these little tiny rigs and he just

453
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: talks about how much of a game changer that will

454
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Speaker 1: be when we can implement it. Well, you know, to

455
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: help him do his job, or.

456
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 3: Little drones you just turn around the corner, You're like clear, Also,

457
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,880
Speaker 3: there's just a little drone in your face, like with

458
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 3: like lights laughing at you. I don't even know.

459
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, someday, yeah, I mean that'd be a better way

460
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: to it's a clear room. I'm not sure just today,

461
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's coming right.

462
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 3: Have you seen the movie Batteries Not Included.

463
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: No? No, there's a lot of suits out there with

464
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: drones stuff in and I'm like, okay.

465
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 3: You should probably see Batteries Not Included. Okay, it's an

466
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,320
Speaker 3: eighties movie. It's pretty wholesome. Yeah, it's pretty wholesome.

467
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

468
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not saying it's anything bad. No, it's called

469
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 3: Batteries Not Included. And anybody out there that's here, we

470
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 3: say that and you're thinking, yeah, Rad, tell him about

471
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 3: Batteries Not Included?

472
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, small drones have you know, they get a

473
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: lot of cynical play on them, and there's a little

474
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: bit of dystopia built into it. Right, But when you

475
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 1: get to work with our guys each day and day out, no,

476
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: you know this is going into their hands, right, it's

477
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it takes shape over time.

478
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see. And uh, what's so cute about Batteries

479
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 3: Not Included and drones is that they're like spaceships that

480
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 3: if it was a trailer, and this is the eighties,

481
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 3: it would be these little spaceships fly to Earth unknowingly

482
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 3: have intelligence and eyeballs and heat. Yeah, batteries not included.

483
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Speaker 1: Gosh, all right, I guess I'll have to watch this.

484
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. And uh, you know,

485
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 3: it's all around the same time Police Academy was coming

486
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 3: out and Cocoon and like all those types of movies.

487
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 3: The Short Circuit, Johnny five is alive. Hello, Yes, I

488
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,640
Speaker 3: remember all those no Disassemble.

489
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Speaker 1: Yes, you're in my uh you uh yeah, that's the

490
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,479
Speaker 1: fling where the movies where I was growing up.

491
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,640
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, that's what's me too. Ber I can't stop.

492
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 3: I can't. I was born in the nineteen hundreds with

493
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 3: the big wheel was invented. You know what I'm saying.

494
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 3: The dukes of hazard actually is what I Yeah, that's funny.

495
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 3: Oh bro so drones. You come from Drone League? And

496
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 3: did you have a degree when you like did all this?

497
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 3: Do you have a degree? Did you go to college?

498
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 3: Or are you just a super genius guy? No?

499
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean I'm just a you know, I just ever

500
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: since I was a kid, I had a computer and

501
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: just kind of hacker.

502
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

503
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: I came into drones by doing software and then hardware

504
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: and then just always kind of been a gearhead. A

505
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: lot of the guys who I work with to are

506
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: the same way, the self taught or they just learned

507
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: on Oh no aol.

508
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 3: Right, you've got mail. Yeah, my business, it's the same way.

509
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 3: It's the same way.

510
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 1: Solving and testing and seeing what works and what doesn't.

511
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: We're really fast iterators. Uh. We made practical decisions. We

512
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: listened to the end user quite a bit. And you know,

513
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: we're all generally meat eaters. We understand you know, firearms

514
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: and combat systems, and you know, love to study doctrine

515
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: and things like that. So I'm trying to say, is

516
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: you know, and cholesterol.

517
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 3: Let's put that out there. Cholesterol. You gotta understand cholesterol too.

518
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 3: Come on, now, let's go. We're gonna get that out there.

519
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 3: I'm on a Let's talk about status. Let's talk about

520
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 3: zoom stat and let's talk about that for a second. Okay,

521
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 3: let's talk about constipation. Let's talk about how.

522
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: I'm good with it. I never had any.

523
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 3: She's on that, no, are you? I'm on a five

524
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 3: milligram nightly?

525
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: Okay, probably thing. My numbers are good though.

526
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 3: Now. I just got back from my dietician this morning.

527
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 3: She's like, you're doing everything that I think I would

528
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 3: tell you to do, you know, working out, eating good,

529
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 3: cutting out all of the fried foods, which is hard

530
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 3: bro right. Yes, Holy cow, I just stumbled onto this

531
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: thing between us. But I'm trying to normalize talking about

532
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 3: men's health women's health. Make it a normal conversation. People

533
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 3: should not be so like, oh, hip a hippa hippa. No, man,

534
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 3: I got I got plaque in my widow maker.

535
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get the calcium check. I got that too.

536
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 3: I'm forty seven. And they're like, we're going to start

537
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 3: you on a statin at a younger age than we

538
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 3: usually do. And I was like, too, let's roll with it, dude.

539
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, hey man, you gotta.

540
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 3: Live well, right, yeah, Like, Well'm lod.

541
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: Of excited about for this phase of America. I'm really

542
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: proud of, you know, some of the things that happened

543
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: over the last few years in terms of you know,

544
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: ar capabally produced innovative stuff.

545
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 3: Right.

546
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, right now there's a company called Dji, yeah

547
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: of course, you know, and and China is just you know,

548
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: the best at the hardware game. Right. Their ability to machine, produce, fabricate, industrialize,

549
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: and very quickly iterate on hardware is extremely reflective I

550
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: think in the ev car game right, with like the

551
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: by d s, the x pangs and the Neo's, also

552
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: with the drones and if you open up a Dji drone,

553
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: it is fantastic. They are very very good at what

554
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: they do. The way they do their sensors, the way

555
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: they do their you know, their board, the board connectors,

556
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: they're they're operating at Apple levels, right. And you know,

557
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: people on my side who are doing robotics right have

558
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 1: to delve into hardware scale machining, making sure that's all

559
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: American made, and you know, there's still a lot of

560
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: work to be done to really get them up to speed.

561
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: On the other side, though, we have you know, groups

562
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: like Nvidia and Opening Eye and Dropic and Apple just

563
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: you know, reaching you know this and leading the world, right.

564
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: And I think there's a really exciting time for American

565
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: industrial right where people like us are figuring out how

566
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: to make you know, these uh these component stateside, how

567
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: to scale them well, how to make them cheap, right,

568
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of you know, the sentiment

569
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: in America is really excited to really build that out right.

570
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: So I get to share in a lot of you know,

571
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: great experiences. One working on new combat systems with SAW

572
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: forces and you know, sharing executive physicians in our company

573
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: with them. I get to work on you know the

574
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: American industrial uh, you know, re energy, re energation. I

575
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: don't even think that's a word, but like, you know,

576
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: bringing back American hardware, scaling and making sure that.

577
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 3: We're re integrating it. Yeah dude, yeah, integration. Yeah, really

578
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 3: cool arena to play in, right it is. Let me

579
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 3: ask you if you're the troop in the trench and

580
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 3: there's drones go on both sides, Okay, how does he

581
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: know who's just who's what's the troops in the trench?

582
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: What's his guidelines to think like, oh, that's my outbound

583
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 3: or that's an inbound you know, I mean, like how's

584
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 3: he going to not shoot down the outbound that needs

585
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 3: to go?

586
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: Well, there's just the there's just a lot of new

587
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: TTPs that are gonna.

588
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 3: Come, righttp oh tatle training programs Yeah yeah, yeah, okay.

589
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: And you know there's gonna you know, there's different styles

590
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: of training and you know we integrate now with different

591
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: exercises with the army and special forces. It's just going

592
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: to evolve, right, And just like any new combat system

593
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 1: or any new you know, big change in doctrine where

594
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: that be gunpowder, aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, mvgs. Right, you know,

595
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: it's it's just gonna evolve, right. And it's awesome too.

596
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: Work in my field right now with the defense, you know,

597
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: giant that's that's changing and trying to support us, right,

598
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: and I think our side has done really well to

599
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: something that's just you know, grown immensely in the last

600
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: twenty four months in you know, the I mean European War,

601
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: and I think everyone's a little bit reactive, but you know,

602
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: the Ukrainians and the Russians are using very unsafe, unsecure

603
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: methods to getting war done right. They're they're showing i

604
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: think some of the tactics and you know, the progress

605
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: of what small drums can do, but you know they're

606
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: not safe to handle. It's the wild West. There's no standards,

607
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: and what we get, you know, what we can do

608
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: is from that crucible really pick out the best things

609
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: that are working and implement you know, you know, higher

610
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: security higher safety and greater performance rights.

611
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, for the side that is using your stuff, it's like, hey, here,

612
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 3: it's a little bit more you know, third grade, get

613
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 3: it done, point it this way, versus like it's a

614
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 3: Maltov cocktail. That's yeah, that's like, you know, it's like, okay,

615
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 3: I think this will work. I've seen save with Private

616
00:32:54,800 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 3: Ryan sticky bombs yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like,

617
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 3: here's this. It's it's like a drone. It sticks. The

618
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: one guy just blew him apart though, before you even

619
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 3: got it stuck.

620
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean, and that's happening in Ukraine and Russia.

621
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: You know that they're using you know, uh, three D

622
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: printed shape charges, right, and there's there's no safety arming device.

623
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: And you know, we we watch it every day, right,

624
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: like it's it's just a proving ground for what can

625
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: work and whatnot sure. And I get to you know,

626
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: we all in our group, We get to have these

627
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: guys who have a ridiculous combat experience, you know, translate

628
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: what's meaningful and what's not. And I think we wouldn't

629
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: be live without our soft forces, I mean our company, right,

630
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: like we would we would be stuck in the mud.

631
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: And I think I think it's it's kind of interesting,

632
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: Like you'll see companies out there being like, yes, you know,

633
00:33:54,240 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: we hire veterans. My instinct was just to make them executives.

634
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: So like my chief technology officer, you know, he didn't

635
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: he learned everything, you know from development group, my chief

636
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: revenue officer with all the requirements and everything that he's gleaning,

637
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: you know the same thing. Like these aren't people who

638
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: went to MIT, but my god, there's so much greater. Yeah,

639
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: and there's so much more effective. And I think that's

640
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: like a little secret, like.

641
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 3: You well, they could bet they could be any of

642
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 3: these things. See these guys that go spec ops, you know.

643
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 3: I mean even my own dad to his horn, he

644
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 3: was a Green Beret. My father special Forces, always master's degree,

645
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 3: working on a doctorate before he passed away. I mean,

646
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 3: just like always thinking, you know, and always educating and

647
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 3: just being a better version of himself. And that's just

648
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 3: what these guys do. They have like a whiteboard that

649
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 3: has like five years planned on it and they just

650
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 3: like sit there and it is unbelievable.

651
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Speaker 1: Our biggest joke is making fun of Dylan's He's gonna

652
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: hear just laughing his schedule, the way that he gets

653
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: things done, the way he organizes, the way that he

654
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,919
Speaker 1: handles process efficiency. He's the best operator I've ever worked with.

655
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: And you know, when I first met him, he was

656
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: just making up his own stuff at the edge, right,

657
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,959
Speaker 1: and now he leads our entire technology team, our engineering team,

658
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: our mechanical team, or electrical team, our radio team, and

659
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: from the Yeah, you know he's a sniper. It's awesome,

660
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's just we're just in a

661
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: very fortunate position and you know, in terms of health,

662
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: I just want to hang on as long as I

663
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: can so I can keep doing this right, And it's

664
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Speaker 1: it's a very cool opportunity.

665
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. And I guess that's really just

666
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 3: kind of like, are you after any clients? Do you

667
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 3: have something that you is there somebody out there that

668
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 3: would reach out to you, or are you really just

669
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 3: very compliant, you know, like just USA. Uh, that's your

670
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 3: structure is the uh.

671
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: Customers customers now are soft forces. Uh. You know, we

672
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: just got a big program of record for the army.

673
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: It's around the medium range reconnaissance which is basically in

674
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: Ukraine they call that the mothership, but just a big

675
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: ass quad copter that can carry heavy payload for a

676
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: long periods of time, so we can drop mortars, we

677
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: can you know, deliver assets. It's fully tactical and meets

678
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: all the requirements uh for Soft and Army, and we're

679
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: really excited to work on that. We're working on different

680
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: vehicles that are smaller and yeah, I mean that's that's

681
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 1: our main customers, making sure that Soft an Army are

682
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,479
Speaker 1: happy and you know we uh can you know, help

683
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: with their mission, right, And we look at the entire

684
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: space as you know up and coming. So drones that

685
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: can do one ways that are really inexpensive that costs

686
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: as much as you know a round of ammunition, uh

687
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: or or your drones that are made for a thousand

688
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: hours the right, that are made to get through electronic

689
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: warfare and can eye on target really far away or

690
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: do a stag bite laser. But all of this is

691
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: made to come out of a single unit, right, So

692
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: they're all built from rucksacks, are smaller, and they're made

693
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,239
Speaker 1: to be organic and quick, and you know, they're made

694
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: to be tactical so you can deploy that, you know

695
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: in a contested environment.

696
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly like I've seen some images of marines US

697
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 3: Marines like kind of sling shotting. I know that's old school, huh.

698
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 3: You don't want to set up a stuntshot, you want

699
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 3: to just set it out. But that was like it's

700
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 3: like starlight night vision versus gen white phosphor. You know,

701
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 3: we we have to evolve, right, you probably know what

702
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 3: I'm talking about, right, And then they'd be the ones

703
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 3: where they like they put it together. Even the guy

704
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 3: narrating it, you know, he's like, clip a wing in,

705
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 3: clip the wing in, throw it.

706
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we got to make sure that the guys

707
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: can do it from you know, cover right. And it's

708
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: fun because that's that's tactical, right, And that's pushing the

709
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: limits on what you can do. It's making sure you

710
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 1: can have an asset that can be thrown around, right,

711
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: and design in a way that can you know, handle

712
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: mud and rain and also be deployed quickly. Right. So

713
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: it's pushing the limits on on small robotic design. What

714
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: we do is very different from the drones that you

715
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: can buy at Best Buy.

716
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 3: Right.

717
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: The thicknesses of our walls, how hard it is, you know,

718
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: how many powers we put on it before we give

719
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: to the customer. Like it's a much more robust, robotic system,

720
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: uh than just your typical DJI. And that's that's really

721
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: fun too.

722
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 3: I wonder if you can modify a copter to hover

723
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 3: with a sound system to like run like a rave

724
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 3: on a beach.

725
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,839
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean credence clear revival, Right, you can

726
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: just run that over right.

727
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like just causan. Yeah. Yeah, i mean

728
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 3: just taking it outside the space. You know, I'm just

729
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 3: trying to think outside the box with this. I know

730
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 3: it has its purpose and wow, so much you can

731
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 3: do and and uh you know, and it's and it's

732
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 3: it's not involving a human life per se, you know,

733
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 3: flying inside of the machine, where like you have these

734
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 3: guys that have back paramortars that can like you know,

735
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 3: get up with a parachute and then they're hauling stuff

736
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 3: to the top of a mountain for like electrical companies

737
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 3: and you know even for you know, doing jobs that

738
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 3: are high altitude. And now you can just take like

739
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 3: you said, like the mother ship quad copter probably and

740
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,920
Speaker 3: just zip and right on up with what you need.

741
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: Does democratize support, right, Yeah, you can you can do

742
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: what you need yourself, right, which is really cool.

743
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, wow, you could be your own crew

744
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 3: chief the whole thing. You can chase after it as

745
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 3: it's crashing into the water.

746
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: Like no, I mean it's just starting. Like we see

747
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: the future where they're you know, carrying small arms, carrying supplies,

748
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: you know, so it's it's gonna go quick. And you

749
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 1: know again, like our job is to make sure the

750
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: US has the mess ship.

751
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 3: And I've talked to other companies on here, and some

752
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 3: of them don't arm their stuff, right, so I'm a

753
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,959
Speaker 3: little hesitant to bring that up. But like you said,

754
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 3: small arms and for soft forces, these guys are using

755
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 3: these four combative missions.

756
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: We make weapons, that's what we do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's.

757
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 3: What kind of hell fire missiles? Like what do we fire?

758
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: That's a big asset, right, but like yeah maybe one

759
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: day okay, yeah, essentially, like if your asset can't be lethal, what's.

760
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 3: The point I see, Well, yeah, some want to probably

761
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 3: have like the item out there and then maybe somebody

762
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 3: does something with it.

763
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: No, I mean you got to do it all at once.

764
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,919
Speaker 1: Like if that's you can't just strap a sidewinder onto

765
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: a quad after, right, you can integrate that bake it together,

766
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: do your targeting systems. It's all. You can't buy it

767
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: javelin without a warhead.

768
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 3: That's kind of what you're you were explaining they were

769
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 3: doing over there, you know, like they're kind of putting

770
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 3: these ad hoc systems together.

771
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: To we deeply bake our stuff that you know, it's

772
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: it's easy to purchase into use, right, But yeah, I

773
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: mean we're developing combat systems actually, you know, so we

774
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: have to make sure it does a really great job

775
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: at that. And you know, we play as an active

776
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: role as possible doing sure that it is as capable

777
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: as you can.

778
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 3: Get, like submarine detecting.

779
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, right now, you know, we're doing you know,

780
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: consumable right where you have a small drone that that

781
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: that you know can hit antipersonnel or armor, and we

782
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: also have a mothership that launches those small assets. And

783
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: then our mothership can also drop mortars and and uh

784
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: you know, heavier munitions as well. Right, So that's the

785
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: space we plane. It's very similar to what you see

786
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: on the Eastern Front with Ukraine and Russia. But as

787
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 1: that evolves, you know, our assets will be doing small arms,

788
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: you know, laser target designation, they'll be doing you know,

789
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: heavier arms, right, that's.

790
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 3: All to come. Oh yeah, oh yeah, mapping, Oh yeah,

791
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 3: you know.

792
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: I mean like but in terms of like people who

793
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 1: have like these dual use drones and like, oh yeah,

794
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: we sell it best buy. But then we also work right,

795
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: you know, like you can't have a camera drone. It's

796
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: not why would you have a camera drone if it

797
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: can also carry a weapon, right, So like you have

798
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: to do everything right. No one is going to have

799
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: just a camera drones taking pictures. It should be able

800
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: to be lethal as well. I see we're you know,

801
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: so like I think that we're very much defense first.

802
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: Our customers are you know, war Wick fighters, and yes,

803
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: we're making products for them to use to be effective,

804
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: right right. We're never going to make a drawn that

805
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: just is a camera drawne.

806
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 3: I got you. Yeah, I know, nothing that can follow

807
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 3: me on the mountain that I'm snowboarding. Nothing yet right now?

808
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 3: I want that.

809
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the difference between right.

810
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: I got you, I got you, yeah, And and and

811
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 3: about four slits in the front grille, I got you,

812
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 3: But no, that's I just wanted to be clear with

813
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 3: what we're talking about here, you know, And I know,

814
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 3: I laugh about things and and chuckle, and you're really developing,

815
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 3: you know, weapons for war and for defense and for

816
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 3: the special operation forces community. And you know, I just

817
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 3: wanted to hear that from you. So thank you for

818
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 3: explaining that, you know, to my to my listener and viewer.

819
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 3: For sure, that's exactly it, you know, so and and

820
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 3: and again, are you ever is there a place that

821
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 3: a listener could you know, submit a resume to you guys?

822
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 3: Are you guys always open to someone who's like, hey,

823
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 3: you know you sound just like where I belong.

824
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: We have like twenty thirty job openings right now. It's

825
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: all LinkedIn on our website. Our you know, entire go

826
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Speaker 1: to market team is betteran based. I think the entire

827
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Speaker 1: group is most of our company culturally, you know, that's

828
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Speaker 1: that's what we that's our that's our chee could right.

829
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Speaker 1: So w dot a I is where you can find

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Speaker 1: our website. There's there's career session on there also on LinkedIn.

831
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Speaker 1: I think we just posted ten ten job offerings yesterday.

832
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Speaker 1: You know, we're based in Huntsville, Alabama.

833
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Speaker 3: M Yeah, no, that's great. I just want my listener

834
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 3: out there who's just saying hey, how do I transition

835
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 3: to hey, oh this is great. You know, maybe they've

836
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 3: been brought up in the field as an MS in

837
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: the army or already and they're getting out of computer

838
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 3: sciences or whatever they want to call cyber security, whatever

839
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Speaker 3: they want to you know, that's what you're after. You're like, hey,

840
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Speaker 3: hit me up right.

841
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Speaker 1: No, I mean there's a huge amount of drop repardings,

842
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: especially for veterans.

843
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 3: Right. You guys stalk food in the breakroom for everybody

844
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 3: to eat.

845
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, like everybody's drinking celsius.

846
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 3: Now I gotta drink my water. I almost just spit.

847
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 3: We try to stalk our pantry at our shops for

848
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 3: our guys to like pick at whatever they that's in there.

849
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,760
Speaker 3: You know, like, hey, I know, here's your benefits package.

850
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: Because they think I have low test.

851
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Speaker 3: I buy peanuts and almonds.

852
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm such I don't want to say, but I like,

853
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm so not worthy that.

854
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Speaker 3: I stopped drinking caffeine. Dude, it's real. It's like, oh,

855
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Speaker 3: I don't need hepatitis sea on the liver. Try to

856
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Speaker 3: clear up my cholesterol. Bro, You've been really cool to

857
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 3: talk to, all right, and I know you're super busy

858
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Speaker 3: and and and I love that you came on the

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Speaker 3: show and and you really did well. You presented yourself well,

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Speaker 3: and I think that this has been a really entertaining

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Speaker 3: uh time, and and right, and I know that I'm

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Speaker 3: going to let you get back to your normal business

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Speaker 3: day because you got a lot of things going on,

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Speaker 3: as we talked about prior to this. But Ryan Gurry

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Speaker 3: with PDW dot AI. You can check out his information

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Speaker 3: on LinkedIn as well if you feel like you want

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Speaker 3: to maybe send your resume or have somebody that might

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Speaker 3: take a look at it and maybe give them some

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Speaker 3: feedback if they do send it, say hey, we're looking

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Speaker 3: for somebody that has these qualifications. And then you know,

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Speaker 3: just remember there's people out there trying to help the

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Speaker 3: special operations community for the US and this is one

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Speaker 3: of them right here. And you know, tactical to practical,

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Speaker 3: practical to tactical, it all kind of blends in together

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day. So good good job

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Speaker 3: on getting yourself where you're at today, right and plus

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Speaker 3: taking your statins Okay, I just want to say.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate it. I'll keep taking them.

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Speaker 3: Yes, me too, me too, all right, And to my

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Speaker 3: listener out there who is like, do I need to

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Speaker 3: take a statin? Go talk to your doctor, bro, Just

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Speaker 3: go talk to your doctor. Say I'd like to know

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Speaker 3: what a statin is. Okay, go look it up. Go ahead,

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Speaker 3: hit it up and make it normal, all right, and

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Speaker 3: be kind to somebody out there because it's contagious and

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Speaker 3: unless you got to really drop a drone on him,

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Speaker 3: and that's probably gonna suck. So all right, so on

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Speaker 3: behalf of soft Rep and the family here and Brandon

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Speaker 3: Webb and Ryan Gurry my man over here, the CEO

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Speaker 3: and the world's record holder for the fastest drone at

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Speaker 3: one hundred meters at two hundred plus kilometers. Second show

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Speaker 3: super Fast. I just want to say thanks for tuning in,

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Speaker 3: welcome to twenty twenty five, and let's just have a

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Speaker 3: great year. And I say peace, thank you.

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Speaker 2: You've been listening to self red Lady