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Steve King

Steve King

Businessman and former United States Representative

Sep 4, 2026

6:28
Is Dragonfly, is it your sixth startup or scale-up that you've done? Is there something, is it possibly passion, but is there something that does keep drawing you back to building things from scratch? Is it that drive, that motivation to get things going? Is that a big thing for you or is it just part of the kind of Steve King story?
6:50
Another great question.
6:51
I always feel like, you know, when we have time to sit down and we talk about the future, like we always, a lot of us, we're so busy that we'd like, you know, do the list, do the list.
6:59
And I think like every so often you get to sit down and go like, what if, like, what if we were, you know, wouldn't it be great if, and like how we've noticed that, you know, and there's kind of like, you have those moments in life sometimes where you just have a beautiful moment, like, you know, one of our proudest moments was having Black Swan acquired by Mintel and like what you guys are doing with it.
7:17
That came from a moment with Hugo, my co-founder, in a pub in Canada after we'd had a day.
7:23
I mean, it probably sounds a bit romantic, but we'd had a day at Niagara Falls.
7:27
And it was all, you know, it wasn't like there wasn't a plan.

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19:43
I mean, how did you first encounter that type of work? And what did you see in it that others perhaps had not seen in it? What was that moment for you?
speaker_2HOST
23:15
Is he the one that gets you WWF bookings? And then, like, how does that happen?
23:19
Well, at first, what happened was, Killer Kowalski's shows were obviously Saturdays and Sundays.
23:25
And a lot of the guys from the, uh, WWF office, like Pat Patterson, René Goulet, and, um, Tony Garea, they had weekends off, because they weren't doing, whatever house shows they had, the house shows were assigned to different, uh, agents.
23:40
So if you weren't working, then you didn't have to go.
23:43
So Patterson and René, uh, Goulet, and Tony Garea would all get in Pat's Porsche and drive to Killer Kowalski's school, and they'd, he'd, they'd hang out and watch us work out on the weekends, or they'd come to a show if we had a show.
23:56
So I was working, I was, my very f- it was my third show that I ever had.
24:00
I was in a mixed tag team, a guy and a girl versus a guy and a girl.

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speaker_2HOST
29:11
Right.
15:11
Yeah, I don't
15:12
remember.
15:13
I don't think so.
15:14
But I think I actually was there and remember each one that took place.
15:19
But at the governor's level, the last one, and maybe the last one in modern times, the only one perhaps in modern times, was when...
15:29
when Kim Reynolds was named Lieutenant Governor.
15:31
And if you remember, Bob Vander Plaats, who played a positive role in this primary, by the way, he was in a primary against Terry Branstad for governor, lost the primary, he took 41% of that vote.

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40:57
residential neighborhoods losing value and also um tonal not just noise pollution but tonal noise pollution disrupting cattle livestock reproduction um children frontal lobal um development anxiety nervous systems and i'm just i'm just touching on the surface there your thoughts
22:14
And Investigator King had a working theory.
22:18
He shoots his wife.
22:22
My belief is that he went upstairs and suffocated his daughter, put them both in the van and went to Ametek Dixon and put both of them in their trash receptacle there.
23:35
Using global positioning technology and landfill logs, they set up a grid system, much like an archeological site, zeroing in on quadrants where they believed they'd find trash from Blagg's company, trash dumped the previous November.
23:55
There are people that I know that were out there when it was 104 degrees, when every bag it seemed like you were opening up was a dead deer or elk carcass.
24:10
And that sight, that smell would cause you to retch and just wanna drop you to your knees.

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