Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

I do believe that all boats rise together in free trade.

Now, if you're going to execute free trade whatsoever, you need a strong military, right?

You absolutely need a strong military to make sure that the powers you're trusting to produce your things

don't become misaligned.

And there is also, in that context of hard power, economic sanctions, tariffs, other things you need to apply to maintain your own sovereignty.

You can't just let everything go.

We can have this discussion like topic by topic.

Look, I think on the timber side is where people will probably disagree with me.

I think it's fine to import timber.

If it's cheaper to import timber than it is to cut down trees here, I think that's probably fine.

And I think the people that currently do that, we should make sure have

a very very important role doing something else now this isn't like a general statement like i made like a lot of black walnut furniture and like i think we should probably cut down black walnut but we're talking about like framing houses i think that is probably if canada is better at that trust canada to do that in a free trade sense now don't incentivize canada to do that but just like leave it up to capitalism because the government is a horrible allocator of capital and i will say that till i'm blue in the face if you try to solve all these government these problems with some

specific tariff approaches or investment approaches.

I think you push more towards nationalism in a way that I don't think is good.

Yes, which I think many folks will take as I'm saying that because I'm a defense company.

And that's fair to say.

I think I also founded a defense company because I believe in the importance of defense.

But defense is just inherently different.

It is the monopoly on lethality that it is the government's requirement to own defense.

And I think defense is a much wider window, right?

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