#409 - “KILL Chain!” - Navy SEAL Drone Expert on $4.5 Quadrillion Op, Anthropic & Pentagon | Brandon Tseng

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4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 188 minutes

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0:00.0	You're not building the antichrist, are you?
0:12.8	No.
0:13.5	No, not building the Antichrist.
0:17.6	So, yeah.
0:19.2	That's a good start.
0:20.0	We needed that checked off and everything. 100% not building the Antichrist. So, yeah. That's a good start. We needed that checked off and everything.
0:21.6	100% not building the Antichrist.
0:24.6	But it's great to have you here, man.
0:26.6	I appreciate Jeremy from over in Sean Ryan's place, putting this together.
0:31.6	He's like, you got to talk to Brandon.
0:32.6	He's doing some pretty crazy shit with AI.
0:34.6	And you were Navy SEAL for a long time too. Yes, I was. How many years were you in? I was in the Navy for seven years. Probably about five and a half years in the SEAL teams. How old are you? I am, I turned 40 this year. Really? Yeah. I'm kind of sad about it. Yeah, it's my Asian genes. They make me look like half Asian, yeah.
0:55.3	So when I turn 70, I'll grow a beard and white hair and that's right.
0:59.5	Just be instantaneous transformation overnight.
1:02.2	That's right.
1:02.7	Kimisabi.
1:03.4	Yeah.
1:03.6	You gotta start like you got to start working on the voice.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.6	That's funny as shit.
1:07.9	But so how young were you when you got into the teams?
1:11.8	Must have been 22, 23 years old.
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