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Sep 13, 2026
Jake BrennanHOST
Himself and a federal government aerospace contractor.
Jake BrennanHOST
It is unconfirmed, but it is widely believed that the contractor was Lockheed Martin and their special division, Skunk Works.
Jake BrennanHOST
The meeting was heavily secured.
Jake BrennanHOST
Four layers of security, armed guards, and white noise pumping through speakers to scramble any listening devices inside the dark, windowless room.
TonyPANELIST
Number three, I'm going to go to the Wraith.
TonyPANELIST
And by the way, this isn't a real Skunkworks patch for a project.
TonyPANELIST
They actually used Shangri-La, so that's fun.
TonyPANELIST
It's Lockheed Martin.
Stuart JamesHOST
radar stuff.
Stuart JamesHOST
Lockheed Vega, this Vega division of Lockheed, would eventually become what is known as Lockheed Skunk Works.
Stuart JamesHOST
So this is advanced R&D, aerospace technology, propulsion systems, you know, cutting edge scientific advancement for the military industrial complex.
Clayton JamesHOST
Yeah.
Tail DraggerHOST
The P-38 in its original form was already a complex aircraft.
Tail DraggerHOST
Lockheed's twin-engine, twin-boom fighter was pushing engineering boundaries when it was designed in the late 1930s by a team that included Hall Hibbard and a young Kelly Johnson, who would later run the Skunk Works and give us the U-2 and the SR-71.
Tail DraggerHOST
The P-38 was not simple in any sense.
Tail DraggerHOST
It was complicated in ways that single-engine fighters were not.
Dan BirkenstockGUEST
It is, especially today, now that we are in the age of AI, it is incredible what a group of four Stanford grad students can do with a million dollars in pre-seed money.
Dan BirkenstockGUEST
I mean, the types of technologies that were demonstrated in a very small, very select, very secretive group of government laboratories, you know, or such as the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, you know, back in the late 70s or early 80s.
Dan BirkenstockGUEST
These are technologies that are being built, you know, the equivalent complexity of technologies are being built by, you know, a handful of graduate students with a million dollars today.
Dan BirkenstockGUEST
And there are many, whereas there was one Skunkworks, there are hundreds, if not thousands of groups of those students today that are becoming interested, that have the sort of knowledge, access to technology and access to capital to go on and test things.
Mitch AshleyHOST
Maybe you could have $20,000 to go play with that in the lab.
Brad ShimminHOST
IT shouldn't be run like Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
Brad ShimminHOST
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Mitch AshleyHOST
total.
Noa LeviHOST
The demographic breakdown shows Jews and others account for approximately 7.828 million residents, or 78.3% of the population, while Arabs make up about 2.173 million, or 21.7%.
Noa LeviHOST
In business news, a submission on Reddit indicates that Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has been meeting with Israeli DefenceTech start-ups.
Noa LeviHOST
I'm Noah Levi.
Noa LeviHOST
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Dan PillingHOST
You know, we just...
Dan PillingHOST
If these car manufacturers spun up, I know some of them have got classics and stuff, but spun up like Skunk Works, where they were separate to the main business, but they had a P&L, so they had to produce profit.
Dan PillingHOST
But imagine if Porsche had a Skunk Works where they could just do whatever the hell they wanted.
Ryan BahrkeHOST
Yeah, you know, and we talked about this, not to bring up the Chubba episode again, but we touched on so many things, and this is one of them.
Ryan BahrkeHOST
We talked about how we're in this sort of post-performance world right now, and we want the stuff that makes us smile, right? So, you know, maybe this is that.
Eric SiemersHOST
I've noticed some changes in the product mix.
Eric SiemersHOST
We're seeing a lot of a brand called Squirrel Works, which I can only assume is a take on the great corporate experimental Skunk Works, where companies would test out new wild, crazy products almost in secret.
Eric SiemersHOST
Of course, that's just the spirit of the name, but...
Eric SiemersHOST
Squirrel Works came out with a hazy IPA, which is far from a German style, technically, unless you want to consider a Hefeweizen a hazy IPA, which it isn't.
Brian TraversGUEST
I think, I mean, you're going to see more in the Squirrel Works line.
Brian TraversGUEST
Obviously, the first is Hazy IPA.
Brian TraversGUEST
And it's funny that you say this, the connection to Skunk Works.
Brian TraversGUEST
That is, I asked my adult children about that and they had no idea what I was talking about.
Brandon FugalGUEST
And so I did indeed buy it as a skeptic with that in mind.
Brandon FugalGUEST
Uh, and for the first six months, with the exception of some really strange images that were captured by my, my drone surveyor and security, uh, which I thought could just as well be Lockheed Skunk Works or some other classified program testing within the, the airspace, I really wasn't convinced that there was anything truly unusual happening on the property.
Brandon FugalGUEST
Every time I visited on a monthly basis those first six months, uh, it was a peaceful, pristine, very diverse landscape.
Brandon FugalGUEST
Uh, and I saw it as, as potentially, uh, a scouting retreat.
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