What the Hell Is Going On
Hosted by Marc · AEI Podcasts
4.4from 717 ratings
- 350
- Episodes
- 147
- Transcribed
- 717
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About What the Hell Is Going On
The American Enterprise Institute’s Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen address the questions we’re all asking in their podcast, “What the Hell Is Going On?” In conversational, informative and irreverent episodes, Pletka and Thiessen interview policymakers and experts, asking tough, probing questions about the most important foreign policy and security challenges facing the world today.
- Publisher
- AEI Podcasts
- Category
- government · history · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
147 of 350 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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WTH Are We Doing To Replenish Our Weapons Stockpiles? Anduril’s Chris Brose Explains.
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But I think it's a remarkable thing how much the culture has changed and how much The Pentagon is changing, including on the uniform side in terms of the war fighters and their desire for new technology, their willingness to kind of think differently about it. There's still plenty of work to do. I think one of the hardest things that companies like ours still have to do is this question of adoption. How am I going to use this? How am I going to fight with this? How is it going to make my mission better? How is it going to help me come home safe? I think those are the bits that we're spending a lot of time on actually with the Air Force right now in the context of the experimentation in an operational environment around these kinds of robotic fighter jets and different kinds of systems that we're building. […]
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- Chris Brose
- Stephen Hadley
- J D Crouch II
- Josh Kraushaar
- Audrye Wong
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 630 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 87 ratings
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- 87
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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