Peace Through Strength: This is Why America Will Keep Winning w/ Sen. McCormick

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
What I have seen here is an incredible awakening of this defense industrial base that has huge tangential benefits to all walks of life in a way that I'm pretty confident if you let these guys do what they're gonna do, nobody's gonna screw around with America.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:19)
It feels good to be in an America that does that sort of thing again, where people are willing to say, yeah, I'm gonna move down from Michigan to Indiana because this is such a huge opportunity for me to use my skills for something that's gonna be the economy of the future.

**Josh Holmes** (0:35)
What this has done in some ways for me is to take it entirely out of the ideological and back into the whole American dream, leader of the free world type category, which it just puzzles me with people who have access to any information at all, how you can be a Bernie Sanders. In this environment, like how can you take a look at the world around you or see what we have seen here in the last 48 hours and be like, yes, socialism is going to get it done.

**Comfortably Smug** (1:08)
It reveals that really their entire agenda is just anti-capitalist.

**John Ashbrook** (1:14)
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**Michael Duncan** (2:19)
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**Comfortably Smug** (2:25)
I just saw your number one.

**Michael Duncan** (2:26)
So congratulations.

**Josh Holmes** (2:27)
It's an honor and a pleasure to welcome the great Sean Hannity.

**Comfortably Smug** (2:32)
Guys, I love you.

**John Ashbrook** (2:34)
Congratulations on all your success.

**Michael Duncan** (2:36)
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**Comfortably Smug** (2:40)
The only political podcast worth listening to is the Ruthless Podcast.

**John Ashbrook** (2:43)
It's time for our main event.

**Michael Duncan** (2:47)
The Ruthless Podcast.

**Josh Holmes** (2:49)
Good Thursday to you. Welcome back to the Ruthless Variety Program, a little different backdrop. We're coming to you from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the home of the Army War College for an incredible summit. I'm Josh Holmes along with Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, left to right across your radio dial. Fellas, for the listener, I think they need to understand that what we're about to do here will re-ignite your passion for what you think America can accomplish. I don't think I've ever been anywhere, and we'll tell you a little bit more about this summit in a second, where there is such a renewed enthusiasm and incredible important time to do so, and like eliminates all your skepticism about what this country can do than what we're doing. We were invited here by Senator Dave McCormick, who puts on these summits. I didn't know that Senators could do this kind of thing, but the convening power of him and Dina, his wife, is incredible. Everybody says yes to it. And this Defense and Innovation Summit here in Pennsylvania has gathered almost a who's who of defense, AI, energy.
I mean, you name it.

**Michael Duncan** (4:04)
Finance, labor. It's incredible.
And that was a really great moment, when Senator McCormick the other day said it's not just about getting the builders here. It's about getting like Jamie Dimon is putting an investment here to create jobs in Pennsylvania. It's about getting the capital behind it. It's about getting the energy we heard from the largest natural gas producer here in Pennsylvania, of how they're going to help power the reindustrialization of America and creating all these jobs. It's incredible seeing everyone focused, working together to make America great again. That's what's happening.

**Comfortably Smug** (4:41)
It's a real palate cleanser for people like us who spend so much of our time in Washington, DC and the cynical nature of the daily debate and politics. You come to a place like this where you meet all these people across all of these industries and government.