Blake Resnick: Kicking Chinese Drones Out of American Skies
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Phil sits down with 25-year-old Blake Resnick, the founder of BRINC, to talk about how a teen who loved building drones ended up taking on Chinese tech giants in America’s skies. Blake explains how the Las Vegas Route 91 shooting changed everything for him, why he started cold-calling SWAT teams as a teenager, and how that led to his life-saving Lemur and Responder drones now used by major law-enforcement agencies. And former NYPD Chief of Department John Chell joins the conversation to share how critical drones have become to keeping his officers and the public safe, and why he believes every police department in America should be using them.
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| 0:00.0 | Once you got into the conversations, this all happened really fast. |
| 0:05.0 | I went from having no money to having, you know, the better part of $100 million in about a year. |
| 0:15.0 | My guest, Blake Resnick, isn't your average 25-year-old. |
| 0:20.0 | By 14, he was in college. |
| 0:23.4 | Did you hate school so fast you zoom through it? |
| 0:26.6 | That's actually pretty accurate. |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah, I know the feeling. |
| 0:30.0 | And after the Las Vegas Route 91 shooting, |
| 0:34.7 | you'll remember that, it was tragic. And it was in his hometown. |
| 0:39.3 | He set out to build drones that could save lives instead of just record tragedy. |
| 0:45.3 | He cold called SWAT, built the LEMER tactical drone with them and turned that into brink an American company now |
| 0:57.4 | supplying drones to agencies like NYPD and ICE at a time when the US is |
| 1:03.6 | rethinking how much it trusts Chinese tech to be in our skies now he's's young, he's bold, and at the front line |
| 1:13.6 | of one of the biggest technology and national security battles of our time. So Blake, thanks |
| 1:20.0 | for being here. Thank you for having me. No kid sits in their sandbox at five years old and |
| 1:25.2 | thinks, okay, I'm going to start building drones for law |
| 1:29.1 | enforcement and other type things. So how did this, how did you get into this? It was, it was a |
| 1:34.6 | journey for me for sure. I've always loved science and technology ever since I was for. I was |
| 1:40.7 | taking things apart, trying to put them back together. And I've also always loved aerospace. |
| 1:46.0 | I mean, I grew up reading about, you know, skunk works and the SR71 development program |
| 1:51.0 | and Kelly Johnson, you know, those were all fascinating things for me. |
| 1:55.0 | When I was 10, I couldn't quite build a full-scale band aircraft, but I could build a drone. |
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