hat I wasn't alone in the man cave. I had a little friend. You see him? That was behind my chair as I was trying to relax. Do you know if you're trying to relax and you see a California king snake coiling through your garage by your feet — well, maybe five feet away from my feet — it doesn't put you in a relaxed mode. Let me just say that. If I could summarize the feeling that I had at that moment, it was if this were relaxed, it would be somewhere over here. Different kind of a gap between those two concepts.

Now what some of you know that I did not know at the moment, this is a good snake. It actually is non-venomous, and people are happy to see them because they chase away dangerous snakes. They eat other snakes. I guess that's why they're called the king California snake. So the good news is totally safe. I don't have to do anything about it. I just let him out and he was fine. It was kind of beautiful, frankly. But wow, was that a creepy, scary looking thing. Wow. So that's what I came back to. And Wi-Fi didn't work. I was a mess. But we're back at it.

Let's talk about the news. China just announced, or I guess gave some publicity to, its China drone mothership. So they've created a vessel which carries 50 drones. Now 50 sounds like either a lot of drones or not many drones depending on what kind of drones they are. But something tells me these are the good kind, like the really expensive kind that maybe don't come back. I don't know. Do they come back? I'm not sure if they come back and land on the ship or how many of these are meant to be suicide attack drones. But a mothership with 50 drones, it looks like that's going to be the future of naval warfare. Actually the future of all warfare is just going to be drones. It's just going to be all drones.

I'm thinking about reading my book *The Religion War* that I wrote in 2003 or whatever it was. And it's about a future when basically it's all drones. Thinking of reading that because I never signed away the audio rights for that book. So I might just read it into the Locals platform if I get a chance.

All right. Here's a question I asked. Did you know that a 3D printer can make 90% of the parts for a 3D printer? That's right. You can get a 3D printer to make most of another 3D printer. Now I think it's probably the electronics that's the part you'd have to buy. But if you didn't have a shortage of the chip part, which we probably do by the way, but if you didn't, I asked this hypothetical question. Somebody says it's the print head. Yeah, so there may be some parts you can't quite do yet. But 90% of it you can do. Although I suspect that the 10% you can't do is the important part, you know, the really vital part. And the part you can do is probably the case. But if you could do 90% of that, I asked this question: How long would it take if you had one printer, one 3D printer, and your goal was to make drones? The small ones.

So apparently you can make almost all of the parts, 90% again, of a drone. And it's a drone that would be good enough to be part of a military operation. So it could drop a grenade, for example, or do reconnaissance, that sort of thing. And so the question I asked is, and of course they could be suicide drones, so I asked how long would it take if you just had one 3D printer but you had no shortage of the 10% stuff that was coming in? How long would it take for it to make extra printers and then those extra printers make drones if you had lots of space and lots of money, which the US military could certainly have, right?

And it's one of those fascinating situations because on day two you might not even have a second printer, right? But on day three you'd have close to three of them. And then the three of them would be creating, each of them a new printer ap