Preston Stewart
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the Russian-Ukraine war.
And then as other conflicts have kind of come and gone, Iran, US, which as of today, I don't know, maybe it's over.
I wouldn't say it's gone.
I'll be honest, Ned, it's kind of a daily thought process.
Is this too far in the weeds or not?
And I try to navigate that with pulling on experts.
So we'll do interviews from time to time with people that are very well-versed in a certain subject and try to kind of pick their brain rather than my trying to get too far down in the weeds.
It genuinely is a balance.
Look, the military jargon can be really cool and can sound awesome, right?
Effects on targets and target packets and all sorts of things you can put together.
The number of acronyms through the roof, like you mentioned, and you can use that.
It's kind of speaking code to your tribe in certain ways.
But the number of people relative to the rest of the audience that would understand that is pretty minuscule.
take that information from military sources, be it Ukraine, Russia, or here in the United States, Israel, Iran, and kind of just back it off a step or two.
So instead of the model of the missile and the nomenclature of the missile, maybe it's an intermediate range missile that can travel this far with the hope that somebody can hear it for the first time and need no background and kind of get an understanding of what it is we're talking about.
Sometimes, again, it's a constant thought.