Darryl Cooper
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5,155 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Darryl Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The incentives that are built into the system to favor these these large complex systems, it's really hard.
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Having spent a couple of years actually standing up the procurement department of the installation I used to work at.
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Um
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you you know, I really got a first hand look at just how
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I I I mean, I'm sure there's corruption at political levels and things like that, you know, things that we would call corrupt, but that that wasn't even what I encountered.
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What I encountered was that.
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didn't I I stood up our department on the base, right?
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I was talking to people um at the at the distributed command level.
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Um, you know, people
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at the Pentagon, uh, you know, dealing with the procurement stuff.
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I never spoke with a single person that I came away feeling like they understood ten percent of the US military procurement system and what was going on.
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Like nobody seemed to have any clue what was actually going on.
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It's like it's like when you talk to somebody, you know, uh like who runs a hedge fund or something like that, you expect that they just understand the global economy and the financial no, not
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Not really.
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Not really.
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They they find like little areas to arbitrage and stuff, but not really.
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Nobody understands it.
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It's just um
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Daryl, it's
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