Hi there. It is Eric Erikson here. It is my show and I am so glad to have you with me. I hope the weather is beautiful where you are. It is for me here, but gosh, it's gotten chilly. In fact, so I went out this morning, got Chick-fil-A for breakfast and on my way, my neighbor calls and says, do you have a pressure gauge for your tire? And I did and it broke.

The little thing that pops out.

It just shot off the thing.

And I haven't gotten a new one.

And same thing had happened to her.

She said she was getting a low tire warning.

I too was getting a low tire warning.

And it's because of the cold.

It's cold in middle Georgia and North Georgia.

It's just, it's chilly, which is great.

But it does complicate things for bourbon and cigar nights on Sundays because I got to have the outdoor heater on, which is fine.

And then eventually it gets so cold.

You have to decide, do I really want that cigar or do I just want to sit on the back porch where it's warm? In any of it, we must move on. I want to spend some time here

talking to you about something that you're probably not going to get a lot of people talking about.

In part, you're not going to get people talking about this because of the implications and the denials and the like I think this is a subject

that we probably need to put more attention on and devote more attention towards over time.

This is from the Financial Times. Here is the headline from the

Financial Times. China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile. Launch in August of

nuclear-capable rocket that circled the globe took U.S. intelligence by surprise.

China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in August that circled the globe before

speeding towards its target, demonstrating an advanced space capability that caught

U.S. intelligence by surprise. Five people familiar with the test said the Chinese military launched a rocket

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