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Senator Cruz HAILS HEROISM in First Ever Drone Boat Rescue at Sea · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The two pilots were rescued out of the water by
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  Speaker 1: an unmanned seed drone operated by Task Force fifty nine
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  Speaker 1: in Bahrain.
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  Speaker 2: The drones Texas made.
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  Speaker 1: It's twenty four feet long and can travel one thousand
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  Speaker 1: miles and hit speeds of thirty five knots and it's
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  Speaker 1: the first sea drone rescue in combat.
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  Speaker 3: As you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 3: Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning, nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one big
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  Speaker 4: story for you, and it involves an incredible rescue of
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  Speaker 4: two service members that were shot down in an Apache
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  Speaker 4: helicopter by Iran. What's amazing about the story is how
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  Speaker 4: they were saved and it was by a drone. Senator
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  Speaker 4: Cruz join me to talk about this amazing rescue, and
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  Speaker 4: we have all of it for you. But before we
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so Center, let's get into this first story.
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  Speaker 4: And you said it best. Welcome to just Technology. In
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six, for the first time in history, you
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  Speaker 4: had a drone boat that saved the lives of two
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  Speaker 4: Americans that were shot down by Iran.
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  Speaker 2: There's no pilot like no one on board.
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  Speaker 4: This is a boat just like a drone in the
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  Speaker 4: sky that is controlled by you know, a joystick, and
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  Speaker 4: it was able to go extremely fast, get these guys
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  Speaker 4: and get out before the enemy could touch them.
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  Speaker 2: This is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: And the best part is this technology is coming out
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  Speaker 4: of the United States American in fact, it's coming out
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  Speaker 4: of Texas well.
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  Speaker 5: It's not even directly controlled by a joystick. It's actually
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  Speaker 5: AI that controls this. And this is a company based
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  Speaker 5: in Austin. I've been to their factory. I've seen their factory.
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  Speaker 5: It's amazing that they're building these ships. And the ships
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  Speaker 5: are and they have all sorts of different sizes. They
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  Speaker 5: have bigger ones, they have smaller ones. They're going to
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  Speaker 5: have drone ships that are over one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 5: feet long that are big ships. But they also have
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  Speaker 5: smaller military vessels. And then they have really small drones.
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  Speaker 5: And these drones can do all sorts of things. They're
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  Speaker 5: all boats, but they can do surveillance, they can do espionage,
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  Speaker 5: they can do military combat, they could be armed with weaponry.
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  Speaker 5: They can transport supplies if you're trying to say resupply
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  Speaker 5: soldiers that are in a form forward combat position, they
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  Speaker 5: can resupply them. So this is all coming out of Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 5: It's amazing technology and what precipitated it is that that
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  Speaker 5: earl earlier today, an armed Iranian shah Head drones struck
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  Speaker 5: a US Apache helicopter and it went down in the
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  Speaker 5: sea off the coast of Oman on Monday. US Central
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  Speaker 5: Command reported that the helicopter was on patrol when it
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  Speaker 5: was struck by the drone, but the two pilots who
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  Speaker 5: were aboard the Apache helicopter were safely rescued with it
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  Speaker 5: about two hours of the strike. And it's worth here
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  Speaker 5: we're going to play the Fox News report that covered it,
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  Speaker 5: and for those of you who are watching this on YouTube,
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  Speaker 5: you can watch the video of this drone ship that
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  Speaker 5: was responsible for rescuing our soldiers in combat. Give a
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  Speaker 5: list and give a watch.
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  Speaker 1: Deron's under attack. Trump ordered Sentcom to launch self defense
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  Speaker 1: strikes after an enemy drone took down an Apache helicopter
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  Speaker 1: patrolling the strait. The two pilots were rescued out of
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  Speaker 1: the water by an unmanned sea drone operated by Task
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  Speaker 1: Force fifty nine in Bahrain. The drones Texas made it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty four feet long and can travel one thousand miles
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  Speaker 1: and hit speeds of thirty five knots, and it's the
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  Speaker 1: first see drone rescue in combat history.
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  Speaker 2: Trump was on the phone with the press when he
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  Speaker 2: gave the order.
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  Speaker 1: Podas said, this is a retaliation for the helicopter hit,
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  Speaker 1: and it's important that our response is strong and powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Sincom called our response proportional. But sources say we're taking
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  Speaker 1: out Iranian air defenses, radar systems all along the Straight
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  Speaker 1: and we're not finished technically. I know it doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: like it, but we're still in a ceasefire. And the
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  Speaker 1: President continues to say we're close to a.
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  Speaker 5: Deal where in the final throes of what will be
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  Speaker 5: a very very good deal that will not allow in
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  Speaker 5: any way, shape or form, nuclear weapons, etc.
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  Speaker 2: And then Straight will open up right away.
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  Speaker 5: It'll open up immediately upon signing, which could be in
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  Speaker 5: two or three days.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's made the terms clear. The uranium must be turned
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  Speaker 1: over and destroyed. Enrichment must stop for two decades at least,
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  Speaker 1: all nuclear sites must be completely dismantled, and the United
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  Speaker 1: States is able to conduct snap inspects whenever the heck
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  Speaker 1: we want.
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  Speaker 4: You listen that report and it goes back to the
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  Speaker 4: bigger issue in the war and what we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: accomplish their senator. But you go back to just the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of it. Thirty five knots. That's about forty miles
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  Speaker 4: an hour in rough seas. That's incredibly fast, especially if
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  Speaker 4: you're twenty five foot boat.
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  Speaker 2: As they described here.
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  Speaker 4: This technology allows these boats to go faster than what
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  Speaker 4: most like if you're a human riding in a boat
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  Speaker 4: and heavy seas and rough seas, going at that speed
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  Speaker 4: is going to be very risky to you. This takes
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  Speaker 4: that away as well, which again talks about how the
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  Speaker 4: speed they were able to actually get to these two
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  Speaker 4: pilots that have been shot down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and look, it's a manifestation of the new age
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  Speaker 5: of warfare where where these drone ships are not massively expensive.
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  Speaker 5: You look at aircraft carriers and expensive ships that can
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  Speaker 5: cost hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars that
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  Speaker 5: are powered with nuclear reactor. That's been how we've approached
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  Speaker 5: naval power for seventy years, and now we have a
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  Speaker 5: scenario where these drones are not terribly expensive to be built.
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  Speaker 5: They can be built at scale, and you can deploy
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  Speaker 5: one of them, or ten of them, or a thousand
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  Speaker 5: of them or ten thousand of them, and the ability
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  Speaker 5: and with AI you can control Look, ten thousand in
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  Speaker 5: a normal world, you'd have to have ten thousand captains
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  Speaker 5: piloting them. You could have AI and you can assign.
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  Speaker 5: You could assign, for example, ten thousand drone ships patrol
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  Speaker 5: this area. AI can direct them, but they're searching and
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  Speaker 5: they'll engage in espionage and gain engage in reporting on
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  Speaker 5: what they find. You can train them to protect, protect
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  Speaker 5: a particular ship, protect something that's going on, protect a
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  Speaker 5: port or harbor. They can do that. You can assign
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  Speaker 5: them go intercept this vessel. And if they're armed with
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  Speaker 5: ordnance that they can fire torpedoes, they can have explosives.
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  Speaker 5: And because the ships themselves are not super expensive, it
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  Speaker 5: also means that if you lose one ship or ten
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  Speaker 5: or one hundred, it's not the end of the world.
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  Speaker 5: It's not that is risks. Yeah, and it's look, we're
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  Speaker 5: saying the same thing with aerial drones, where we're headed
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  Speaker 5: very quickly to a world and some of this we're
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  Speaker 5: actually getting some foreshadowing of this with the war in
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  Speaker 5: Ukraine where the battle between Ukraine and Russia, much of
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  Speaker 5: it is involving drones and the ability to have thousands
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  Speaker 5: or tens of thousands of drones and instead of one big,
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  Speaker 5: really expensive thing, lots and lots of smaller, less expensive
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  Speaker 5: things which can overwhelm the previous technology. And I got
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  Speaker 5: to say that having been to the factory. Look, these
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  Speaker 5: guys are a startup at Austin, Texas. I know, I
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  Speaker 5: know the CEO, I know the lead funders, and they're
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  Speaker 5: you know, young techies who are entrepreneurial, who have a
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  Speaker 5: vision and their desire to scale this. It is very cool.
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  Speaker 5: This is the first drone rescue at sea in combat
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  Speaker 5: in the history of the world. And you know what,
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  Speaker 5: this is not going to be the last. We're going
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  Speaker 5: to see a lot more. By the way, there are
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  Speaker 5: civilian applications of this that have nothing to do with combat. Look,
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  Speaker 5: look the Coast Guard.
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 4: I literally was talking the Coastguard as we were on
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  Speaker 4: family vacation and one of the guys I saw and
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  Speaker 4: you know, just saying things. But one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that was cool they were talking about is technology. They
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  Speaker 4: said a lot of times the helicopters when there's the
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  Speaker 4: worst weather and boats get in trouble, they can be
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  Speaker 4: commercial vessels, they can be recreational, they can be commercial
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  Speaker 4: fishing boats when things get really bad with weather. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes the weather's too bad to go out right at
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  Speaker 4: that moment in a.
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  Speaker 2: Helicopter because it's so bad.
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  Speaker 4: But if you have drones that you can risk no
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  Speaker 4: life going out there, it changes the entire way that
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  Speaker 4: it works. And they're similar that are afraid, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: well that's gonna take jobs and in a way human beings.
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  Speaker 4: But if you can't be there in that moment and
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  Speaker 4: you can send out a drone that could quite possibly
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  Speaker 4: save your life, that a normal if it's if it's
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  Speaker 4: if it's you know, man controlled, you just can't take
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  Speaker 4: that risk and you come back it's too rough. You
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  Speaker 4: can throw drones out there and save countless lives in
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  Speaker 4: that scenario. This is technology that is life changing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I will say, Ben, have you ever met
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  Speaker 5: Coast Guard swimmers?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they're unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean they're kind of they're the equivalent
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  Speaker 5: of Navy seals or Delta Force green berets that they're
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  Speaker 5: they're the most badass coastness. Yeah, and I met met
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  Speaker 5: a number of them, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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  Speaker 5: So Hurricane Harvey was a twenty seventeen was at the
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  Speaker 5: time the second most costly natural disaster and history, did
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  Speaker 5: massive damage all the way down from Corpus Christie all
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  Speaker 5: the way up hundreds of miles up the Texas coast
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  Speaker 5: to to to the border right with Louisiana, and it
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  Speaker 5: just was devastating damage. And the coasties that these swimmers
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  Speaker 5: would go out and these guys you meet them, and
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  Speaker 5: they're like twenty year old guys, and it's sort of
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  Speaker 5: imagine like g I Joe combined with a California surfer dude.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. So they're guys.
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  Speaker 5: They have these, you know, enormous chests because they're like
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  Speaker 5: massive swimmers and and so imagine Michael Phelps with these
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  Speaker 5: like long ass arms and like massive swimmers, but with
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  Speaker 5: sort of bleach blonde hair and they've got like shades
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  Speaker 5: hanging from their head and they're like, yeah, bro, look
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  Speaker 5: like it's it's it's they're not like the guys that
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  Speaker 5: that you also met that save people's lives and and
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  Speaker 5: the flooding that happened in Texas. Not that yes, yes,
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  Speaker 5: look last fourth of July. But these swimmers, they will
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  Speaker 5: get on helicopters in the middle of a hurricane where
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  Speaker 5: you've got waves in the ocean that are ten twenty
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  Speaker 5: feet high that are terrify, and these guys will jump
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  Speaker 5: out of a helicopter into the crashing waves and go
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  Speaker 5: rescue someone. And it is there's a fearlessness to not
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  Speaker 5: only jumping in crashing twenty foot waves, which most of us,
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  Speaker 5: if we're in those waves, are going to die, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but they'll jump in when they are people in harm's
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  Speaker 5: way and they'll go grab them. To be clear, if
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  Speaker 5: you or I were in twenty foot waves and drowning
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  Speaker 5: someone came, we'd grab on them and pull on and
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  Speaker 5: you're terrified, Like they know they're gonna go rescue someone
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  Speaker 5: who's freaking out, who's gonna not intentionally, but it's going
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  Speaker 5: to effectively try to pull them under, and they're just
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  Speaker 5: they're really cool. But you're right. There are times where
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  Speaker 5: the weather is so bad you can't send the chopper in,
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  Speaker 5: and the ability to send a drone in to have
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  Speaker 5: something to rest you say, you know someone that's out,
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  Speaker 5: you know just just on a boat and gets in trouble.
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  Speaker 5: That is game changing, and that's coming out of Tech
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  Speaker 5: Texas and all of the new tech that is based
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  Speaker 5: in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is an incredible story.
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  Speaker 4: Every once in a while you get a feel good
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  Speaker 4: story like this, and we should celebrate it. It also
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  Speaker 4: is a reminder, I think of why it's so important
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that we're adequately funding technology. You've talked
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  Speaker 4: about this, and I've talked about this a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Center.
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  Speaker 4: This is a perfect example of us winning the war
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  Speaker 4: on AI to make sure that our adversary, China is
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  Speaker 4: not leading the way on AI. If this is AI controlled,
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  Speaker 4: this goes and this is one of those examples. I
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  Speaker 4: do think we should highlight it for a second. This
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  Speaker 4: is why America has to win the AI race. You
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  Speaker 4: have less us and you've been warning on this issue,
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  Speaker 4: and I think we should just take them out. Remind
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  Speaker 4: people if we aren't in charge of this, our adversary
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  Speaker 4: would be and that's a scary world as well.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, if China masters this technology before
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  Speaker 5: we do, that is a generation skipping advance in technology.
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  Speaker 5: And if they have the ability to send a thousand
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  Speaker 5: or ten thousand or one hundred thousand AI controlled drones
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  Speaker 5: at one of our aircraft carriers. There's a real risk that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the weapons we have to take say surface,
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  Speaker 5: surface to surface missiles or bombs we have, you know
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  Speaker 5: those Our aircraft carriers are incredibly expensive and powerful tools,
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  Speaker 5: but they were made to take out a limited number
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  Speaker 5: of ordinance and not just massive drone assaults. We're shifting
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  Speaker 5: to a new technology where look, if we're in a
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  Speaker 5: conflict with a smaller rival, that's less dangerous. Although you
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  Speaker 5: know what in times even terrorists and smaller rivals we're
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  Speaker 5: going to see. We're going to see more and more
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  Speaker 5: military attack using drones. We're going to see things, We're
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  Speaker 5: going to see assassinations, We're going to see people killed
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  Speaker 5: using drones. That is, unfortunately where the future is heading.
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  Speaker 5: One of the things the US military is investing in
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  Speaker 5: heavily with American technology is counter drone technology. How do
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  Speaker 5: you take out how do you take out drones that
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  Speaker 5: are attacking you? And some of what is working is
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  Speaker 5: lower cost ordinance that you can't fire a patriot missile
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  Speaker 5: at every drone coming in. It just the cost differential.
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  Speaker 5: They can swarm you, so you know is that another
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  Speaker 5: Texas company where they're building basically the equivalent of a
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  Speaker 5: really big, badass machine gun that is power that is
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  Speaker 5: firing like fifty cow rounds, but is firing them with
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  Speaker 5: AI where they could target hundreds or thousands of drones.
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  Speaker 5: But the cost of a round is not very expensive.
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  Speaker 5: So instead of spending an entire patriot missile or something
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  Speaker 5: that you have limited supply of, we have essentially unlimited
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  Speaker 5: supply of rounds and so but using those robot powered
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  Speaker 5: with AI to takeout attacks in scale. More and more
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  Speaker 5: of that is coming in. There are different ways to
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  Speaker 5: take out drones. You've got ordnance, got laser and microwave,
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  Speaker 5: and we're exploring all sorts of different technologies to take
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  Speaker 5: out a hostile drone. But if we lose this race,
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  Speaker 5: we would be at a serious military disadvantage to China.
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  Speaker 5: We can't let that happen, and I don't think
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