Annie Jacobsen

parallel thought for that, which is that Raytheon has gotten rid of its marketing department.

It doesn't need it anymore.

They can't make enough missiles fast enough.

What you just told me is like people's physical being and their existential defense threats are aligned in terms of that there's no need.

There's too many orders to fill.

But I'm always interested in the people that have – that are those 3 percent you talked about, that suddenly have that moment, the catalyst, where they realize, oh, my goodness, I have to change.

Things have to change.

That becomes – maybe not everybody changes.

I mean I'm interested in the individual stories of people who change always because I think that it's too – I don't want to say depressing for me but it's too – like if I think of America as this big giant situation with problems, it becomes overwhelming.

I just try to focus on people's really interesting, cool stories.

I'll tell you one that comes to mind with the guy who was my Uber driver the other day.

And we're chatting away and he tells me that he used to be like 350 pounds.

And he was like this thin dude.

And he was talking to me about driving an Uber at night so he could save money for one of his kids to go to college.

And I was like, wow, how did you suddenly lose weight?

And he told me that he was a security guard at a military base.

And, you know, he said I was giant.

And the dudes in the military were totally fit.

And one of them said to me one time, dude, you gotta lose some weight.

And I listened to him and he let me go into the military gym.