2026-05-21
53 分钟He wears Hawaiian shirts and tells the Pentagon how to defend the Republic.
Palmer Luckey on Uncommon Knowledge Now.
Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, recording today at a Pacific Research
event here at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.
I'm Peter Robinson.
A native of Long Beach, Palmer Luckey was homeschooled by his mother.
He attended Long Beach State and then dropped out to develop a virtual reality company.
In 2014, Mr. Luckey sold that company, Oculus, to Facebook for $2 billion.
He was 21. In 2017, Mr. Luckey founded Anduril.
Palmer, thank you for driving up from El Segundo for us.
It was no problem at all.
I took my helicopter partway, actually, and I had another engagement.
Palmer Luckey on 60 Minutes just a year ago.
I'm quoting you, Palmer.
I've always said that the United States needs to transition from being the world police to being the world gun store.
What do you mean?
Well, there's a lot packed in there.
The first one is the United States has a history of fighting for other countries
that maybe aren't very interested in fighting for themselves.
And maybe there's times that we want to go in there for US interests.