Welcome to the Bullwark hot cast. I'm Charlie Sykes. Before we go back to the usual darkness,

could we just start off with this reminder that we can still do big things?

Oh my gosh. Oh wow. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Oh wow. Oh wow. I'm getting visual confirmation.

Oh right. We got it. We have a grand personality in the name of planetary defense.

Fantastic. Oh fantastic. And it is fantastic. A.B. stuttered associate editor and columnist at

Real Clear Politics. I joined me on the podcast today. I got to say I've listened to that probably

half a dozen times. I still get goosebumps. I agree. It's so rare and extraordinary. These days

to hear that unanimity that rejoicing that sense of mission accomplished for something that's

actually not only super cool but really important and that there are people out there trying to

prevent our ultimate demise is really heartening and I didn't know how much I needed it until

that happened. No, I agree and it is cool. I mean obviously I think that you know people know

that we're talking about the the fact that we we sent this spaceship directly like a dart

into this space rock and hit it and you know this is the world's first planetary defense

test mission which is kind of amazing. I just humanities first attempt to alter the motion of an

asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the missions operation center

outside Washington DC. It 10 months after we first launched it and you know it it's cool in and

of itself but I don't know should I go here should I go should go for the snark right away. Yes.

I'm sorry you know it in contrast to the billionaire phallic rockets which are like hey look at this

we go up and then we come down again. This actually has very very clear relevance in utility.

Excellent. And it's easily understandable. There are asteroids out there now it may not happen

anytime soon but the odds are with billions of asteroids flying around that's super later one's

going to hit our way and then really really bad things could happen and this is something that

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