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Hello, odd lots listeners. I'm Joe Wisenthal. And I'm Tracy Allaway. Obviously, mostly we've been

talking a lot about the trade war lately, the tariffs, but there are other things going on in the

world. And in fact, there are some episodes that we've recorded prior to all this that we still want to

publish. That's right. So what you are

about to hear is an episode we recorded way back on March 18th. It feels like it was a lot longer ago,

but it's been basically a month. And with everything that was happening in markets, all the

trade announcements, the tariffs, we've had to put this one on hold, but we want you to

listen to it. It's a really interesting topic and still very, very worthwhile to hear about it.

Right. We're going to be talking about the Pentagon budget and things like that.

If it fuels a little dated, the conversation, that's because it is dated. But take a listen. I still

think that you'll find, you know, there is still no world in which the nature of defense spending

is not an important question, is not something interesting. So even with everything else going

on in the world, you should take a listen. Here we go.

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