Nat Towson

And obviously, one of the things that we try to do in this podcast is open up these conversations to other people.

And I personally, as someone without a lot of military expertise, I find that what often happens when we discuss military

especially military action abroad, is that we use these same phrases and everyone's kind of parroting each other.

And you even hear in civilian conversations, people saying these phrases that we don't

100% understand because it's like, okay, someone gave me some building blocks and now I know how to rearrange these to have an opinion on Ukraine, which is not to say people are like, you know, not trying to understand the situation.

But what I'm curious with you is like, how do you break through that kind of jargon or that kind of established vocabulary to, like, it sounds like people are really reacting to the clarity of your media.

Like, how do you, how do you cut through and how do you know as a person who's really on the inside of it, what you need to make available to other people?

or comprehensible to the average American.

I'm curious, when you –

This is clearly me, the podcast host, looking for professional comparisons.

But I'm curious when you bring on experts, do you find yourself being the sort of audience surrogate?

Like, do you find that you have to ask for a little translation as well?

Does that help you to translate to a listening audience of not like you said, it's like a it's your personal jargon.

So if you want to open it up to people who aren't.

who haven't served and aren't the one really weird guy from everyone's high school who memorized all that jargon, even though he didn't go into the military.

How do you translate from an expert to the people who know less than you?

Like, do you find that your comprehension is able to filter that?

How do I do it?

And where do you get the ticket?

Who do you ask?