So joining me now as somebody, I have, I always make a priority to read when he has one of his big, deep dives in whatever news periodical he's working for at the time.

Currently, Dexter Filkins is with the New Yorker these days and has been there for a while.

He's probably our country's best sort of war correspondent in the written word these days.

Keep talking.

Yeah, I was just going to say, I don't think Dexter's going to stop me there.

And he, you know, you do it in such a way where it is both enlightening, illuminating,

but at the same time, it lacks an agenda.

And I mean that in a positive way in our era of journalism where everybody's assuming there's an agenda behind every story,

that is not how you work.

You work more like an anthropologist, I think, in trying to put the puzzle together,

unpack it and things like that.

And your most recent piece is what sort of drove me to to get you on the pod here. Is America

ready for the next war? Which was really powered, it seems like, by lessons that military

planners are learning from Israel and Ukraine at the moment. But, Dexter, welcome.

Thank you so much. And thanks for the nice intro. No, please.

It's well deserved. And I learned a little something extra that you got, you cut your teeth down

in Miami back in the day. I miss Miami. What I say about Miami and I love visiting and my daughter's

a resident now. It's a great place to be from.

It's a weird place to live.

It's a tough place to live sometimes.

Bad traffic, too.

But it's a, yes, they keep adding people and they, you know, you can't widen US one.

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