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I think the notion that they can't ramp up production is pretty misguided, and that'll be shown over the next 12 to 18 months now that massive investments being made in missile production. The problem is that there has not been a demand signal until just the last few months. You're talking about the Department of Defense pumping in billions and billions of joint investment into research and development into Lockheed Martin and Durathion. with which the primes can now, and are doing, invest billions in their supply chains and develop second sources on critical components and procurements at greater quantities of rare earth minerals and critical components of sub-assemblies that, frankly, they've just not been able to do. Since the last supper, and the last supper was a 1993 dinner at the Pentagon attended by the defense contractors to discuss industry consolidation in wake of the Cold War, Since the last supper, the defense primes have almost exclusively become system and platform integrators. We're not vertically integrated. That's all the supply base and the support base. Even starting at the second tier, like BAE, L3, and the like, they all face similar challenges. Workforce scarcity, raw minerals, subcomponent, skyrocketing costs, and shortages. the newish focus on eliminating Chinese sources all the way through the supply chain. The missile primes can only move as fast as the supply base and only aggressively as the demand signal supports. We've been operating under continuing resolution since Barack Obama. That impacts how long-term funding is forecasted and committed. Congress can complain that the primes aren't making out-year investments, but they haven't passed out-year funding in basically my kid's entire lifetime. Oh, but the primes are raking in so much money. They should have leaned forward into this. The objection might be okay, but does anybody not really look at the financials? Lockheed's net profit margin over the past four quarters has been 8%, 6%, 8%, 9%, that's while delivering more jets than any company in the world by a factor of 5, more jets than any company since World War II, record numbers of F-35 deliveries and still shipping new F-16s around the world at an 8 to 9% net profit. The supply chain and the demand signal, forward of the supply chain or the missile production story. Not that either the majors can't or don't remember how, you see, we do and will be in the next 12 to 18 months, but it takes investment in a thin margin industry by our primary customer, the Department of Defense, via funding and prioritization for Congress. As for Ukraine production of Patriot missiles and other weapons systems, I got no sourcing on this. I just listen to what's being said in the industry, and I hesitate as much about how Ukraine would engineer and stand up the supply, and would it all leak and go to China? would now get technology that we know the Chinese don't have. That's from inside the industry, just so you understand that that is the argument against letting Ukraine do it, that the problem is not that we can't do it or don't know how to do it. It's that Congress hasn't funded it and the Pentagon hadn't told them they need the missiles until all of a sudden the Pentagon says, oh my God, we're out of missiles. Don't tell anybody and everybody leaks. Valid arguments that need to be put forward and also a reminder too about how it's all changing. The president wants the Trump ship. The president wants the Trump class battleship. The Navy announced it inside the Pentagon.

The Navy whispers as loudly as anyone in Congress can hear that no one wants this ship. The Trump administration has stated its intention is to revitalize shipbuilding in the United States alongside the construction of the Trump class. Analysts have expressed skepticism, citing the lack of funding, unprecedented design, and high development costs. Its classification as a battleship is debated. It lacks the heavy armor and large-scale Navy guns, typical of historic battleships. The naming of the class after the incumbent president has broken conventions, and inside the Navy bureaucracy and the Pentagon, they say, this is not a ship that we need. its feet on development, but while developing the Trump class ship, it's having a hard time developing anything else. The United USS John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sent out to sea now. The newest of the aircraft carriers, the John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is out there on the sea. We had the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier, and now we're getting a new John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aircraft carrier. The old one had been decommissioned, the CV-67. This is the CV-76. It's belt on the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier platform. It was launched in 2019. It will be delivered in 2017. They started building it 17 and a half years ago.

And now the president has tied up the Navy with a new class of battleship that the Navy says it doesn't need and will be outdated when it arrives, but it's named after the president, and he says he wants it, not because the Navy needs it, because he wants to revitalize American shipbuilding. Again, politicians are using our military as a jobs program, not as a way to fight wars. And now, with a great alarm and concern, comes a story that the United States has been war gaming with Ukraine using drones and in every scenario every time Ukraine won. In the afternoons, I do a four things to know in the afternoon podcast. It's the four things you need to know by the time you get home. And if you subscribe to it, you can text Eric to 3377 yesterday. I put that in there. The story hit the wires, and I caught it right as it was hitting the wires and put it in there, so you knew this story yesterday afternoon if you subscribed to the podcast. It otherwise has not gotten a lot of attention, but it's a big deal. Listen to this. The U.S. Army troops faced off against Ukrainian drone operators and a military exercise in Germany earlier this year. It didn't go well for the Americans. During the exercise called Combined Resolve, Ukrainian drone units easily spotted and defeated U.S. troops and armored vehicles on rotation from Fort Hood in Texas. The exercise, coupled with U.S. casualties in Iran, shows American vulnerabilities to drones, years after the U.S. made uncrewed systems in a central part of warfare. America pioneered using long-range drones in the war. The Pentagon has recently spent billions acquiring new drone and counter-dron technology and form special units to operate it, still in the Middle East this year. The U.S. has struggled to defend against Iran's long-range drones, which have killed and injured soldiers and destroyed aircraft. The drubbing in Germany conveyed lessons from Ukraine focused on short-range battlefield drones. The exercise held in April and May tested visiting troops' ability to operate and defend against the proliferation of smaller frontline drones that have dominated the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Exercises like Combined Resolve are run precisely so that forces can experience realistic combat conditions. Army leaders in Europe over recent years have taken advantage of having Ukrainian forces on hand to participate and impart their hard-won skills to U.S. and allied troops and practice on simulated battlefields. The expectations is that failures are educational. British and Swedish exercises have also resulted in Ukrainian triumphs. You can't get trained like this in the United States, says U.S. Air Force General Grinkevich, the NATO top military leader.

He said after NATO forces exercise against Ukrainian forces, the change is remarkable. Elliot Cohen, a scholar at the Center for Strategic International Studies Think Tank, said the recent battlefield experience shows how drones of all kinds are essential to modern war. It's vital the U.S. military master this, and thus far, unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case, he said. Combined resolve is a semi-annual exercise focused on large-scale ground combat operations in which rotating U.S. forces use armored divisions supported by ground troops, helicopters, drones, and other military assets. Around 3,500 U.S. personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, took part in the exercise. Their task was to attack a position defended by the Army Training Ground's Opposition Force, which was reinforced by Ukrainian troops from the 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces or Nemesis. The rotating troops were equipped with standard electronic warfare and counter drone systems. New mobile brigade command teams equipped with the latest gear in tactics have fared much better. The Ukrainian drone operators eliminated a U.S. armored brigade in the exercise. The exercising troops sent into battle heavily armored vehicles that threw up dust and were easy for Ukrainian reconnaissance drones to spot. The drones were followed by drones dropping explosives and first-person view drones, which smacks into targets in combat. Live ammunition is rarely used in the exercises. Drones typically hover above a vehicle, and they're awarded as a kill. Ukrainian drones were doing this so quickly with U.S. vehicles that they had to be sent back into the exercises as new units or respawn to keep the exercise going. The U.S. re-ran the training scenario over the two-week engagement. The rotating forces improved their performance as they became more adept at dispersing and concealing themselves and using electronic warfare. The Ukrainians also switched sides midway through the exercise and helped them use drone technology offensively, which they did effectively. Ukrainian troops have become experts in drone warfare. In Ukraine, so many tanks and other armor are destroyed in battle that largely parts of the country's vast frontier is now free of armored vehicles. Some U.S. military officials argue the drones are particularly deadly in this war because it's reached a stalemate with little battlefield movement. In a war of maneuver, the tank and other armor could come back into their own, they claim. But Ukrainian military thinkers argue the drone technology has made traditional maneuvering unfeasible on a plane.

Explaining that largely static front lines in Ukraine's east are because of the drones, not in absence of the armor. The exercise showed the U.S. is struggling to protect its armor. They tried it again and again and again, and the result happened every time. Meanwhile, the president wants to build a battleship that no one in the Navy thinks is practical or useful. The military never sent the signals to Lockheed and Raytheon to start building more missiles and drones. We are down to only a quarter of our Reaper drones left. Iran blew the rest of them out of the sky. It doesn't seem like... We're equipping ourselves to fight. We're equipping ourselves for a jobs program. And a jobs program is not going to beat a combined force of the Russians, Chinese, Cubans, North Koreans, and Iranians. In fact, we're not beating the Iranians. We're actually choosing to lose to the Iranians. And the Iranians, we now know, were able to get ancient American F-5s under radars into Kuwait to attack American positions and did so far more effectively than the Pentagon led even Congress to believe. These are not good signs, but you know what? It gives us an opportunity to adapt, and we're still the most adaptable country if we care to do it. Follow Eric on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble. Search E.W. Erickson. Come on, be on the show. Call Eric now at 877973-4425. Traditional Islamic jurisprudence, Sharia. views dogs saliva as ritually unpure and certain prophetic traditions advise against keeping dogs as indoor pets. So there is cultural caution about dogs. It is actually a thing in Muslim communities. In Great Britain, the animal control people are more and more vocal that the British should give up dogs as pets because Muslims don't like them. In New York City, a number of Muslim community activists are pushing the city to more regulate dogs in communities because they don't particularly like dogs because of Sharia law. In Michigan, Abdullah Abdul El-Sayed was the Senate candidate there, has said that he intends to live his life by Sharia because when he gets to Allah and will be held accountable, he wants Allah to know he kept Sharia. He's probably not a coincidence then that he oversaw Detroit's animal shelter where the kill rate of dogs was 74%. 74% of dogs that were placed in Detroit's animal shelter were killed by the animal shelter. A whistleblower called at a slaughterhouse and the city had to pay $63,000 to settle a lawsuit over conditions. Fecis was backed up into kennels. Rats and cockroaches were everywhere. And it was Abdul El-Sayed, the man who wants to honor Sharia law, which says not to keep dogs as pets, that ensured the 74% kill rate and the...

cruel conditions of dogs. You know, We have a dog in our house. I like my dog. My old dog was just the sweetest dog. It's taken me some time to warm up to our current dog, but my wife adores him. And he's a good dog. My wife's got a cousin down in South Georgia, Unidil, George. It's basically a dog whisperer. That guy can pretty much train any dog. And we took him down there, and Max came back a new animal. And he's a sweet dog. And there are days I want to ring his neck, particularly when he like jumps up onto the counter and decides to try to eat stuff out of the sink. And he's a giant like 80 pound dog, but he can get up on the counter. But I wouldn't ever want to leave him with Abdul El-Sayed, who doesn't want to abandon Sharia. And Sharia thinks you shouldn't have dogs as pets. and he oversaw a 74% kill rate. I wonder if all the animal activists out there who tend to be left wing will have any hesitancy in supporting a guy who oversaw a 74% kill rate of animals in the shelter he was in charge of. In today's uncertain economy, American financing is helping families find a way out of high-interest credit card debt. Massive high-interest credit card debt out there. 25% is the average interest rate on credit cards right now. And American financing understands that you need a real strategy, particularly if interest rates are going up in September. Right now is advantageous. With rates in the fives, customers are saving an average of $800 a month, wiping out high-interest debt. That's money that stays in your pocket to fight against costs. There are no upfront fees, no pressure. They've got salary-based agents. start today, you could delay two mortgage payments. Give them a call today. 866-886-9262. That's 866-886-922 or Americanfinancing.net slash Eric. NMLS number 182334. NMLS Consumer Access.org. APR for rates and a 5 start at 6.327 for well-4 for well-qualified borrowers. Pell 866 886-98622 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit Americanfinancing.net slash Eric. Average savings based on borrowers. We save over $1999.

to court, but oftentimes they contract out to other lawyers too. So the billboards are the named lawyers. They're like the puppy mills of law. They churn through lawyers all the time. The lawyers get burned out. I know so many lawyers who started out at one of those big billboard company law firms and then they get burned out. What they all say is the same thing. It's they send demand letters and they settle for, they try to go for the insurance policy limits and they settle. It's easy. They take a third of it. You get some money. You're happy. They turn my. wreck into a check. And it's the dregs of society who tend to use them. It is essentially the law firm version of a puppy mill. And they file oftentimes salacious ambulance chaser lawsuits. Hershey was sued because of the Halloween pumpkins last year. You know the Hershey pumpkins. They have the Hershey Hearts at Valentine's. They have the Hershey Easter eggs at Easter. They have the Hershey pumpkins at Halloween. They are the Rhesus peanut butter cups turned heart shape, egg shape, pumpkin shaped. And you pull it out and it is covered in chocolate. It is distinctly in the shape of something that looks somewhat like a pumpkin. And you eat it and it makes you happy because it is delicious peanut butter with chocolate on the outside. Except for a marketing campaign, the Reese's peanut butter pumpkins had what looked like a jack-a-lantern on the wrapper. So it was the chocolate pumpkin. But it had eyes and a smile through which you could see the peanut butter. And when you pulled it out, it was solidly chocolate. There were no eyes and there was no smiley face. And I kid you not, someone sued. In 2024, a lawsuit alleged the Reese's peanut butter cup ads for the Hershey for the Reese's pumpkins was deceptive because the smiling pumpkin designs on the rappers were absent from the actual Reese's peanut butter pumpkins. A judge has dismissed the lawsuit, noting consumers can still enjoy the treats even if they felt tricked by the rappers. On Thursday, a year after the victory, Hershey has announced it's introducing 20 Halloween-themed products that will hit stores this week. marking the company's largest Halloween rollout. The annual event is now celebrated for roughly one-third of the calendar year as consumers kick off their spooky celebrations early, beginning with summer wean celebrations in the warmer months. Summerween refers to Halloween-themed celebrations. Some consumers organize in the summer months that retailers participate in. Y'all, as we move beyond Christianity, Halloween is replacing Christmas as the big holiday. The pagans love them some Halloween.

Reese's actually wasn't sure it was going to bring back the pumpkin this year because some trial lawyer found somebody who felt emotionally aggrieved. Now, I need to describe this package to you more particularly because it shows a bite taken out of the Reese's peanut butter pumpkin and it shows two eyes and a jack-a-lantern smile. They did not as part of their lawsuit, which Hershey's pointed out, they did not complain that the bite was not taken out of their pumpkin per the package. They complained that the eyes and the jack of lantern teeth weren't there. But it actually showed a portion of the pumpkin eaten. And Hershey's actually in court pointed out, they aren't upset. That they get a whole pumpkin. Because on the package, they only get three quarters of a pumpkin due to the big bite out of it. They didn't complain. They actually got more of a pumpkin than what was advertised, but they didn't get the eyes and the smile. That's what they were upset about. Some lawyer found someone to do that. The case has been thrown out. That's the problem with this looser reform, is lawyers just find people who are gullible enough to I can get you rich by suet. It's absurd. And they take the fun out of life. They take the joy out of life. The number of things that we can't do in this country anymore because someone decided they're going to sue to take your joy away is absurd. It's why I support tort reform. It's why we need more tort reform. It's why I view the billboards all over America advertising lawsuit lawyers and ambulance chasing lawyers. They're a blight on America. They are a virus. I was a lawyer. I represented people in wrecks. I represented people who were taken advantage of. I represented people in torts. I represented a black lady one time who worked for a major corporation who sued for discrimination because she claimed very salaciously she had a child out of wedlock with a white man. And when she went back to work, her manager in the company announcements welcomed Betty back to work by announcing that they should give her congratulations for her zebra child. It sounded too good to be true. But I filed the lawsuit. And we found the welcome back newsletter where the manager welcomed Betty back to work and encouraged people to give her congratulations for her zebra child. Don't tell me racism doesn't still happen in America. That lawsuit was in 2003. I filed a lawsuit against a company that had a tractor-trailer truck that caused a wreck to my client.

They claimed to be an independent contractor, and you couldn't sue the company. There was no way to know it was an independent contractor. And in fact, as we dug into the case, it turned out it really wasn't an independent contractor. They just pretended it was an independent contractor. You know what happened? The tractor trailer came loose from the truck. It had no brake likes working, and my client slammed into the back of it. They were on the interstate. The tractor trailer broke loose from the back of the truck. It had no brake lights. It was still rolling forward. My client hit the back of it. We sued and we want a lot of money. There are people who are legitimately injured from legitimate lawsuits and they deserve to be taken seriously. But the guys who file these lawsuits, they undermine the entirety of the industry. And they drive up the costs. Hershey had to hire lawyers to go to court over this. Apple gets sued on a regular basis for nonsensical things related to the iPhone. And it just drives up all of our costs. And you know, the Democrats are so in the pocket of the plaintiff's lawyers. and the bar associations that they fight tort reform and it drives up all of your costs. You're worried about your cost of living. Part of it is because the trial lawyer sue everybody for anything. How much money did Hershey have to spend to go to court to get a stupid lawsuit thrown out because some lawyer somewhere thought he could make a quick buck off of some victim claiming to be emotionally traumatized by her Hershey pumpkin not smiling at her? And the Hershey response was, well, hey, at least a third of it wasn't gone like a big bite represented on the rapper. People have turned these things into get rich quicks. You know, that's the biggest problem now. is we live in a low-trust society these days. We live in a post-Christian society. It's one of the reasons Halloween is exploding. By the way, since people are already starting to celebrate Halloween, Ladies and gentlemen, please, I beg of you, when you're buying your costumes for your toddler child, don't turn them into a prostitaut. Don't make them dress up like a prostitute for Halloween. Don't put them in some salacious, sexy nurses outfit when they're four years old. Please, I beg you. Exercise some reasonableness and the discretion of the costumes that you're going to give your children at Halloween, but also. If your kid gets a Reese's pumpkin for Halloween, don't sue because it's not smiling at them when they pull it out of the package.

You know, I would still be a lawyer, to be honest with you, except there's this thing called a client, and they all had problems. And I got tired of dealing with their problems. I had enough problems of my own. I didn't need to deal with clients. I actually liked helping small businesses. I did election law, but I also helped small business. I set up a lot of LLCs, and I loved doing that. I loved helping people with good ideas get off the ground. And you know, the Democrats at the end of the Biden administration? They passed a rule that every small business in America had to register with the federal government. If you were a sole proprietor, you had to register your business with the federal government, you had to identify your bank accounts, you had to identify your business structure, everything had to be on file with the federal government. Today, Scott Bessent has announced that they've gotten rid of that rule. It was opposed by Republicans in Congress, but the Democrats blocked him from repealing it. Democrats who said at the time that they thought it was a bad idea, too, they refused to stand in the way because it was the Biden administration doing it. The people who covered for Biden's dementia. By the way, prayers for that man. I don't know if you've heard his cancer has spread to his bones now. Donald Trump sadly said the other day that... He has no sympathy for Joe Biden. He gets what he deserves, and he's okay if Joe Biden is miserable. You will know a Christian by their love, and I don't think that signifies someone with a Christian heart, but that's a different topic for a different day. But Joe Biden, cancer is spread. Keep him in your prayers. Love your neighbor, including Joe Biden. but they wanted to burden small businesses, and in large part they did it for the trial lawyers. They wanted to make it easy to go after assets. They wanted to document where their bank accounts were all these things. Scott Bessent has repealed this rule, and it's good he repealed the rule. Because you know, a lot of this stuff would get public, and then data brokers would buy it, and the data brokers would sell it to the con artist, who would know where your bank accounts are, know where your bank is, know how you're doing business, and incogny, you would all have to hire them, and you should hire Incogny to protect you. Incogny is a company that frankly shouldn't exist. It shouldn't exist because Congress should ban the data brokers from buying all your information and repackaging it selling it other people. But Congress isn't going to ban it because politicians benefit from it too. How do you think you get the telemarketer scams from the congressmen who are running for reelection? How do you think you get the campaign mail? They buy it all from the data brokers who put together your consumer profile and sell it and they can micro-target you. What car you buy, where you go to church, what doctor you see, how often you go to doctor at all tells whether or not you're a Republican, a Democrat, a conservative, a liberal in Congress. However, comes along and sends takedown notices and makes the data brokers delete your information. Incogny, I-N-C-O-G-N-I, Incogny.com slash Eric, save it at 60%. Use Incogny, protect your privacy online. Incogny goes to the data brokers and says...

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And then apparently her shower caddy fell off in the middle of the night and scared the mess out of her. But she's out of the house again back in a door. That means I can actually park in my driveway where I want to park instead of parking on my grass now that I got one of them back. I just wait. Back to school is happening around the country now, and I got one who started his senior year in high school. My daughter started her junior year in college. She's suddenly interested having now gone to this tirade about trial lawyer. She wants to go to law school. She wants to do business law, though. She wants to work for a defense contractor or do public policy in D.C. She's interested in politics, too. Kind of like her dad. The only downside is that she was home and cooking a lot, and her food is, she's a great baker. She's a great artist. I wish you could find a way to do art, but she got burnt out by the wokes when it came to art. Now my wife is into sourdough. Y'all know how much money I am spending on a weekly basis on flour. It is a scam. And I, for the record, wants you to know, I started doing sourdough during COVID. And my wife said, stop. We're all going to get fat. You cannot do sourdough. Do not do sourdough. And so I killed my starter. I murdered my starter. Now my wife is doing it on a daily basis. She makes sourdough egg, English muffins now. They're actually really good when they're hot out of the oven and you slather them and peanut butter. Holy cow. But still. The amount of money I spent, the Erickson spent on flour each week is starting to get absurd. I had to get on my house on Monday night. I stayed at, I will tell you the hotel. It's the St. Regis. I had a meeting there. My cost was covered. And the air conditioner, it was hot in the room the whole night. And I normally stayed at a different hotel. And I stayed at that hotel. I normally stayed at that hotel. I normally stayed at it. It was my 61st visit to this hotel. I'm not telling you which one, Joel Pecock. Not going to say. And the hot water broke while I was in the shower last night. Yo, you're absolutely right. This is run high commercial because the hot water. Like it was, I had a, it was not ice cold, but it was a cool shower. I had the, I had shampooed my hair. I had face wash and the water. And then it got hot again. And then it got cold. And I got up this morning and it was cool again. I don't have that problem at home because I have a Reney tankless water heater. I don't know what the, I mean, it's a nice hotel. I don't know what they're going to do for their skyscraper building, but they should get a tankless water heater from Rani, if they can. Talkingtankless.com. You can get one for your house and not have a cold shower experience like I had last night. Talkingtankless.com. You can even find a certified professional to install your Rani tankless water heater and never run out of hot water and never run out of hot water.

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