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Welcome to the Risk Reversal podcast. I am Dan Nathan. That is Morgan Brennan. She is the host of the morning call on CNBC. She also has a podcast called Manifest Space, which I think is pretty dope. How are you, Morgan? I'm doing great. It's good to be here with you, Dan. I feel like we've talked about this for a while, so thank you for having it. We have, and I will tell you this. It must have gotten lost in the mail because we went back and we have a request for you to join us going back, I think, in like 24. I'm just going to tell you that right now. So Guy and I feel a little ghosted. But here's the deal.

Why is it just you and me and not Guy Adami?

Well, he had something else, so I'm not going to dox him. But I'm really interested, really interested in your beat, as they say, in the business. And you've been covering it really fabulously. And it's space. It's defense tech, and you're going to help me think about

all those things. You're going to talk to me like I'm Guy Dami about tech, okay? But I really think

this is a couple topics that I think a lot of investors, unless you're in the VC space or unless

you come from, you know, something that is related to government and regulation and all that

sort of stuff, you're probably not that focused on it. I think SpaceX kind of dominates most people's kind of minds about all this. So you're going to help me think about that and IPOs and all this sort of stuff. But really quickly, for our listener who doesn't know Morgan Brennan's background, and I know your background, but it's really cool. Like, how did you get to CNBC? How did I get to CNBC? I was in the music business at exactly the wrong moment as Napster

was taking hold in my teen years as a singer-songwriter. No, I did not release an album, but I have some

half-finished albums, you know, tucked away in my base in my closet. And then from there, I transitioned to

NYU as an adult student and studied anthropology and thought I'd be an archaeologist until I went

on a dig and then realized that maybe that wasn't for me. Anthropology translates really well,

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