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Florida Cold, Caffeine Withdrawal, Ukraine Diaspora Tension, Iran Oil Shock, China Calculus, Cuba Talk, and Civic Outlaws Friday · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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And welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapp.
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This is International Flavor.
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I am still coming to you after technical
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difficulties from beautiful, not very sunny today, Florida.
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It is freaking cold, friends and neighbors.
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I don't like being cold.
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I really don't like it.
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So I was wandering around the last three
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months or so almost in Missouri wearing a
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parka, basically, even inside.
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And here in Florida, it's only 52 degrees
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at present.
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And so I've been wandering around in my
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parka down here, too.
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It looks kind of comical when you do
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that.
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And I've been having nothing but problems this
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morning, you know.
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So who else?
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And I shouldn't say hates, but I hate
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it.
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I hate it when and who else hates
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it when?
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So two days in a row, I have
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attempted to get a Starbucks coffee.
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And yesterday, I actually had to pay for
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the damn thing.
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And I know I pay for it anyway.
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But there's this thing that is called a
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Starbucks app.
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And when you drive through, it just, you
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know, goes on your phone and you never
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notice it.
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So, you know, just magic occurs and you
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wander out of there with a black coffee,
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a couple of Stevia in it, maybe throw
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a little skim milk in there if you
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feel real, you know, saucy that day.
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And so yesterday, I did it.
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And it wouldn't let me log into the
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little thing.
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Starbucks has this horrible, horrible habit of updating
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their software all the time.
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And when they do, they log you out.
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And then you try to log back in
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and you don't remember your password because they
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force you to change it.
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And so when you force you to change
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it, you can't use a prior password.
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And when you can't use the prior password
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that you've always used, you have to create
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something new.
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And you never remember what in the hell
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it is.
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And even if you update it in your
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phone and you try to use it, when
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they reset the system, they make you reset
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your password, which is completely stupid.
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It's freaking Starbucks.
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How many people are out there robbing other
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people's Starbucks cash?
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OK, if this was 12 step verification because
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you're trying to get into your private Swiss
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bank account in the vaults of some Jason
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Bourne bank down below ground, you know, where
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you only get in with a thumbprint and
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then you got to pull out your eyeball
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and stuff it on a retina scanner.
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And then you got to, you know, sell
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your third child into slavery for several weeks
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to get in.
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That I get because your entire life savings
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of, I don't know, a dog sled in
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Nome, Alaska is on the line here.
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Plus your several fake passport IDs and all
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the things these piles of cash from various
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country are in there that I get.
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But it's freaking coffee.
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How many times must I.
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Hey, for it, I have to find alternate
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means of payment.
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You know, frustrating that is.
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It's extremely frustrating and I just don't like
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it.
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Anyway, I think I have figured out the
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what do you call it?
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Technological issues.
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Anyway, that's my bitching for this morning.
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It's done.
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Well, no, it's not.
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I'm going to bitch for an hour and
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a half.
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How do you like that?
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And I'm going to complain about a couple
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of things.
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We.
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I met a lot of.
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So let's see, I'm down here for both
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a little bit of business and a little
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bit of pleasure as meeting with some people
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on my modern law ecosystem project in a
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civic outlaws project for expanding the scope of
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our charitable organization and modern law ecosystem, because
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the ecosystem is is inviting lawyers, paralegals, court
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reporters.
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Medical providers even.
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And I thought about that, an interesting idea.
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It's an interesting concept.
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So I have this this plan keeps spit
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balling of what we are building here.
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And we've got a group of of I
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.T. people that are working in the background
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here to help me create this brainchild of
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ours and help us create the brainchild of
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ours.
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And it's it keeps expanding and spit balling.
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And, you know, we're interested in more people
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coming along for the ride.
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I do.
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A good amount of legal research.
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I do quite a bit of it.
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And I so I met with a couple
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of Russian speaking.
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I told you I was going to get
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a little pissy about this.
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I work with Russian speaking people frequently, both
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as a real estate broker and as a
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paralegal type.
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And I can't be a lawyer.
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We'll get into that story another time.
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I don't want to bitch about it again.
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I have enough bitching to do today.
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But but I went into the office of
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a law firm and.
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They everybody there is basically Russian speaking and
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speaks Russian, too.
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And then I went into another one that
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is is Russian speaking, but in a Ukrainian
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area.
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And this is America.
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OK, this is America.
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And last I was told, anyway, we're still
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America.
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Right.
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And I think I believe that we're still
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here.
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We still get to vote, I think, every
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once in a while to keep in the
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the the the people who keep the war
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train running.
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We have to be able to do that.
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That's that's the sole critical purpose of we
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have to fund Lindsey Graham's continual wars.
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We have to do it.
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All of the neocons, we must fund that.
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Yeah.
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And so that is how that that's that's
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the purpose of your vote as an American.
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OK.
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And of course, that's facetious.
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I can't even speak this morning either now
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that I didn't get my coffee because Starbucks
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changed the damn password.
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And I had to go.
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And by the way, they did it since
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yesterday.
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So today I tried to log in, but
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but I tried to log in on my
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telephone and I wouldn't get it.
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I'm really all over the place, aren't I?
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And I'm without coffee.
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What else can it be?
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And that's another thing to bitch about, by
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the way, because last whenever I came down
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here was the last Tuesday or something.
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So I'm driving down here and I don't
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I don't stop to get coffee, you know,
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unless unless I'm getting gas somewhere and place
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is open, maybe I'll get some coffee.
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But I usually throw a case of flavored
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water in the back and drive.
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I like doing that.
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And I don't like stopping.
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I stop, get gas, you know, go to
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the bathroom, get right back in the car
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and cruise on down.
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And so it's not like I was getting
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coffee.
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So I had the worst pounding headache for
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several days and.
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Non coffee days and I don't have a
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coffee pot down here.
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And so the only time you get coffee
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is if you go buy it and in
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your Starbucks app limits you from getting coffee.
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And so you're right back in the same
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scenario.
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So apparently what was happening to me, because
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I also had a appointment at the old
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VA hospital whilst I was down here and
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I had to.
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I was asking him, man, I got the
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worst headache and the lady said to me
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something I already knew, but never thought about.
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She goes, well, have you had any coffee
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this morning?
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I was like, no, I haven't had any
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in several days, really.
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Oh.
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She said, you know, day three and four
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are the worst.
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I said, of what?
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And she says, if you you know, she
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says, what'd you do?
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Go cold turkey.
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I was like, it's not like I'm trying
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to give it up.
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It's just I never thought about it.
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You know, I, you know, I haven't had
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any and circumstances prevented the drinking of coffee.
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And she said, oh, well, you're probably going
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through caffeine withdrawal.
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And apparently it's a pretty big deal.
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Well, you know, everybody's always told me that
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if you quit coffee, cold turkey, you know,
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once you make it past day, you know,
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three, four, you're OK.
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But that during that time, you can have
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massive headaches.
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And I've had the worst headaches ever since
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then.
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So anyway, that was how I've interrupted my
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own story three times.
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And so that's the that's the end of
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the first story.
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The second story was Starbucks limiting my ability
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to get it.
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And the third, I wanted to talk about
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this Ukrainian Russian deal.
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And here we are in Florida.
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Right.
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It's Florida.
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You know, you come to Florida, you throw
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on a Hawaiian shirt, which I never figured
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out.
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Why would you throw on a Hawaiian shirt
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in Florida?
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Doesn't make any sense.
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You should throw on a Florida shirt.
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Should have an alligator on it or a
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snake or a huge freaking spider because they're
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everywhere or cockroaches or those big freaking beetles
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the size of your hand.
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Maybe that should be the T-shirt of
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Florida and not just Mickey Mouse.
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Although I've been thinking I should go get
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a Mickey Mouse fix before too long anyway.
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I like the Harry Potter.
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The world over there, the Harry Potter world,
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the Disney world, I haven't been there in
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15, 20 years probably, but it was pretty
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cool when they first built it way back
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when.
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And my son and I really loved it.
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So anyway, it's all things Florida.
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They're not all things Hawaiian.
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I mean, where are you getting these?
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Maybe we shouldn't call them Hawaiian shirts and
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we should call them tropical shirts and be
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done with it.
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Anyway, that really isn't a topic for today.
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Back to the Russians and Ukrainians.
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OK, even in America, even in America, Ukrainians
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hate Russians.
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OK, hey, and I don't mean, you know,
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we dispute, you know, I mean, hey, they
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don't they hate it so much they don't
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even want to speak Russian anymore.
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And all of that because 30 years, 35
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now, 35 years worth of denying your history,
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claiming the Russians were the bad guys all
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along, changing your textbooks.
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They have an entire generation of people who
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grew up this way with U.S. funding,
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by the way.
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And the U.S. funding has assisted in
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this regard big time and U.S. Agency
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for International Development.
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So basically all their textbooks, they don't even
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recognize the Velika Teotihuacan Great Patriotic War.
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It doesn't even register for them.
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They don't believe in it.
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They call it World War Three.
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They don't want to call it that.
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You know, hell, they deny it even happened.
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They say that the Russians were attacking them.
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Well, there were about way in the west
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part of Ukraine in the Lvov part.
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I've been through this before.
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There were the Bandera, which Stepan Bandera.
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And he was a Nazi supporter.
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There were several others over in that region,
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too.
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But he was the biggest.
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He's the most famous.
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He's the one they glorify as the defender
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of Ukraine, you know, and he killed tons
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of Polish people.
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Right.
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By estimates between the or during the time
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period of the Great Patriotic War, he he
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and his followers killed just in the in
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the Lvov area, which used to be Poland,
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is they killed 120 to 150,000 ethnic
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Poles.
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And now they were already part of the
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Soviet Union.
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And so I don't know if they were
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as sophisticated as they are now, but surely
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and definitely efforts were afoot to put, you
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know, the Nazi powers wanted to put their
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policies, their policies.
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Well, I suppose it was a policy, too,
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but their thought processes into these Ukrainians and
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help them peel away from the Soviet Union.
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And so this is what the Ukrainians honor
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and Stepan Bandera.
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And I'm not saying that this war between
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them, obviously, it's difficult, but the ethnic Russians
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that are from Lugansk.
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Well, hell, they're all ethnic Russians, for that
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matter, depending on how far back you go.
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And they were the leak at Roos was
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not Kiev, the leak.
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It was in Kiev, but it was still
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the Russian Empire.
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And the Russian Empire pulled back to Moscow
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and they left all these people on the
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edges in Ukraine and so it was that's
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how now Crimea came out to be when
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you say now Crimea on on the Ukraine,
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the Ukraine, you don't call it Ukraine, you
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call it the Ukraine, even in English.
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It's nonsense.
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And but anyway, that's how it came about.
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And I mean, historically, this is history, but
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they don't believe that anymore.
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They believe they've been fighting for their independence
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for hundreds of years to get away from
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nobody but Russia.
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It's all everything has been geared.
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All of their history has been geared toward
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we hate Russia, but only since 1991.
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Now, I'm not saying that people didn't exist
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before 1991 that wanted to say we're Ukrainian
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and they're not.
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I saw some interesting movies on it, in
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fact, that there used to be the peasants
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and the serfs and then the Russian lords.
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Right.
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It's just very similar to what England was
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doing in its regions over there.
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And I forget the name of the of
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the series, but it was a really good
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miniseries television show in Russian that was talk
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about Ukrainian serfs and Russian lords.
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And, you know, it was a long, long
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running several season thing and beautifully done.
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It was a very good set of of
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of shows, seasons, I suppose.
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And when when they were being told, and
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it was very interesting because you don't really
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think about it that way, how the Russians,
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the that even back then, because the Russians,
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even when it was the Kazakhs and even
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in it, when it was the Tatars and
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even when it was, you know, if you
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keep going further to the east there, you've
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got your Georgians, you got your Armenians, you
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got your I mean, you keep going over
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all the places that that eventually became part
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of the Soviet Union or satellite satellites of
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the Soviet Union.
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All of those places have been the same
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ethnicities for hundreds of years.
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Right.
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And so these things developed over a long
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period of time, but that's not Ukrainian history
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today.
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So I tell you all that to tell
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you the following.
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Here we are in America.
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Number one, many of these people, their English
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isn't that great, you know, but but I
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don't you know, I don't begrudge anybody that,
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you know, I'm fine with that.
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You want to come here and speak Italian.
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I don't give a crap.
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You know, it doesn't bother me.
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And it doesn't bother me if you come
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over here and you speak Ukrainian or you
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speak Russian.
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But what I don't like is coming here
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and fomenting hatred of some sort.
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And it seems far more prevalent among the
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Ukrainians than among others.
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Now, I know that's a generalization.
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And, you know, just like I had to
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see if you can get this.
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I had a drill sergeant once told me,
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so you're not supposed to generalize, but he
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was also the same drill sergeant who would
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say, Trapp, if I told you once, I
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told you a thousand times, never exaggerate.
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And I always loved that one.
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I thought that was a really good one.
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And at any rate, I think that all
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of the disputes ethnically are a either hundreds
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of years in the making or B are
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part of a Western based creative fairy tale
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to convince the Ukrainians that they need to
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hate Russians.
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By the way, the same efforts are underway
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in everywhere else that they have.
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It happened right after Bretton Woods, you know,
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when the when Soviet Union was so powerful
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at the time.
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And there actually was some fear that they'd
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never give back Eastern Europe.
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And, you know, then they didn't, you know,
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under Stalin, they wouldn't.
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And I'm not saying I necessarily blame them
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who would say that that's not the case.
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If you're.
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If you've just been overrun in the last
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twenty six million people because of the evil
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Germans, but nobody ever says evil Germans, we
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don't do that.
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You know, the evil Germans aren't evil Germans.
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They're just Germans.
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And, you know, the evil Poles who were
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going the other way aren't evil Poles.
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They're just Poles.
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And the Lithuanian Empire, you know, which was
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associated with the Poles, they're they're not evil.
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Lithuanians aren't evil.
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They're just Lithuanian.
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But in Russia, every they're evil Russia.
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They've been evil for a hundred years, but
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only only, you know, by slogan.
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And we create them and we've helped to
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do that and we turn them into the
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bad guy.
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And everybody does it.
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So that's your history.
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And that's what Ukraine has been doing with
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American and Western help in Ukraine for the
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last thirty five years, making sure to still
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push the narrative that the Russians are the
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evil empire.
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And and they're not, you know, how many
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times?
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How many times aside from Ukraine, you know,
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has has has Russia invaded?
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Is it anywhere close to the number of
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times that America has invaded even in the
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last decade, in the last hundred years of
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Russia?
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How many times they've invaded?
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You could we have that in our pocket
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as Western Westerners in the last 10 years.
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You know, we got tons of them, tons
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of incursions everywhere.
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We just do what we want.
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And, you know, we're the colonialists.
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Right now that we, you know, that we
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ran away from, we're it.
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You become what you run away from or
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you become what you hate the most sometimes.
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Anyway, that's a very long story to tell
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you that the Ukrainians that you meet with
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far too often here, if you try to
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go into the Ukrainian store and I forgot
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about it because I've been in Missouri for
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a little while and you got to travel
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further to get to the very nice Ukrainian
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stores in Stelia and they have some great
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some great ethnic grocery stores and stuff like
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that where you can go pick up your
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your to do you go Nikki and your
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lipstick and your your interesting foods over there
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and appeal many pyroski great coffees in very
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great torts that cakes and very good stuff
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over there.
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And it's a it's right next to in
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fact, that's next to the Starbucks.
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See how my stories all come together.
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There they are.
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No, I'm kidding.
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But the because this story sure as hell
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hasn't come together.
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I've been talking for an hour already.
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Anyway, the the part in the Ukrainian section.
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So there's a there's a good number of
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Ukrainians and a good number of Russians everywhere.
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But a place called North Port, Florida, has
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three or four Ukrainian churches.
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Ukrainians have been congregating there.
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I don't know why Ukrainian specific for just
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like in Sedalia, Missouri.
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There's a large population of Ukrainians over there.
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And I like to go over there.
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But everything's in Russian anyway.
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And nobody's ever had any problems speaking Russian
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because all the Ukrainians speak Russian anyway.
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And none of them and none of them
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ever spoke Russian before.
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Well, now you got Zelensky, who his whole
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life spoke Russian and he doesn't even speak
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Ukrainian very well.
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He never has.
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He's getting better, but he's he's never spoken
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Ukrainian very well.
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He's always been a Moscow actor and trying
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to get in the Moscow in crowd.
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And suddenly he gets, you know, funded by
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the proper oligarchs.
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And suddenly he's only Ukrainian and he gets
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to it gets to torment anybody who even
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speaks Russian.
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And he speaks Ukrainian with a Russian accent.
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I don't speak Ukrainian, so I don't know
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about the accent part.
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But they hate.
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OK, so and they hated so much so
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that they will not speak to you in
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Russian.
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If you recall, listen to me back when
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I was in Lithuania back in September and
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in Belarus that a couple of the cab
22:57
drivers I got, I got in with the
23:00
Yandex drivers over there.
23:03
When I would speak to them in Russian,
23:06
they would answer in English and they would,
23:09
you know, they one of them even went
23:13
so far as to say, don't speak Russian
23:16
in my cab.
23:17
I said, hey, man, if you don't want
23:19
to pick up, I said, would you say
23:20
that to a Frenchman?
23:21
Don't speak French.
23:23
Yeah.
23:23
Russians are invading, invading Ukraine.
23:25
I said, what in the hell are you
23:26
doing in Lithuania?
23:28
This is nonsense.
23:30
And it's a language, dude.
23:33
And this drives me batty, just like it
23:37
did back in the 80s when I was
23:39
in the army and some particularly rude American
23:45
soldiers would say something like, don't speak that
23:48
Mexican.
23:49
You know, it was the southern.
23:52
We were in Nogales and across the border.
23:58
I forget the name of the U.S.
23:59
town across the border, but near Fort Huachuca.
24:02
And I was in Fort Huachuca, Arizona for,
24:05
I don't know, several months.
24:07
And we would go over to Nogales.
24:09
And but there was a cool place on
24:11
this.
24:12
So you didn't have to cross the border.
24:13
They really didn't like us doing that.
24:14
And you had to get special permission across
24:16
the border when you're military anyway.
24:19
And so at least in our unit and
24:21
and we had clearances anyway, so they really
24:24
didn't want us crossing the borders unless we
24:27
were as a group or doing something like
24:29
that.
24:29
And but I would get really mad about
24:32
it and say, geez, will you stop?
24:37
You know, you're dry.
24:37
I hate that.
24:39
You're driving me nuts.
24:40
You can't belittle a person because of their
24:43
language, you know, and if they come to
24:46
America, speak American.
24:48
It's not American, by the way.
24:50
It's English.
24:52
Now, the British wouldn't agree with that.
24:54
But anyway, that long, long story to tell
24:57
you that Ukraine and Russia, well, mostly Ukraine,
25:02
you know, Russians, you know, don't say don't
25:04
speak Ukrainian.
25:06
You speak Ukrainian fine.
25:08
I told you about the case that I
25:10
assisted with a couple of years ago where
25:14
a husband and wife were having dinner in
25:18
a restaurant in on the east part of
25:21
Hollywood, which is in Miami area.
25:26
And they were speaking Russian.
25:31
And they were there several hours, you know,
25:34
it's a Friday night or something, they were
25:36
going there to have a good time.
25:38
And later in the evening, an entire wedding
25:41
party came in of Ukrainians.
25:43
Now, the bulk of the people in that
25:45
restaurant and apparently the owner were Ukrainian.
25:48
And it ended up that one of the
25:55
wedding guests came over to the table of
25:58
this Russian couple who'd been sitting there and
26:01
told them to quit talking that Russian came
26:03
over and confronted them and wanted to fight
26:05
with the husband, wanted to create a scene
26:08
because Russians were there speaking, speaking that Russian.
26:13
They weren't speaking Ukrainian, speak Ukrainian in here.
26:16
Even you have to Ukrainians don't speak Ukrainian.
26:23
They learned Russian.
26:25
That's what they've done.
26:26
And so it was it turned into a
26:29
fight.
26:30
You know, you had people at a wedding
26:32
party beating up on a guy and the
26:34
wife getting knocked to the ground, all kinds
26:36
of stupidity and, you know, potential potential case
26:41
for that kind of thing.
26:43
But how foolish all of that was is
26:47
is part of the point for today.
26:50
And I'm telling you, it's frustrating the stupidity
26:57
going on in the world today.
26:59
And anyway, that long, long story to tell
27:03
you that that Samuel Edward von Trapp believes
27:08
that it's time for for everyone to put
27:12
their swords aside, you know, and try to
27:16
a little.
27:18
What is what is that song?
27:19
Try a little bit of peace, love and
27:20
understanding or something, because the world is going
27:24
to shit pretty quick and we're all along
27:28
for the ride.
27:29
And on that note, we're going to talk
27:34
about first an Axios article that the U
27:41
.S. is there's a push to build an
27:46
Iran coalition that is turning into a mess.
27:50
And I've watched so many reports on this
27:55
and keep in track of it, especially regarding
28:02
the Straits of Hormuz and that we help
28:07
NATO.
28:08
We do everything for NATO basically.
28:11
And the rants that that Trump goes on
28:14
on his true social and says, we've done
28:18
everything to, you know, for Europe.
28:20
They haven't done a damn thing.
28:22
And now we want them to come in
28:24
and help escort ships in the Straits of
28:26
Hormuz.
28:27
Well, now, remember, I told you last week
28:29
that I've read a couple other articles that
28:31
say that the Straits of Hormuz, you can't
28:35
escort.
28:37
There are procedural and reality limitations to being
28:43
able to.
28:47
Escort militarily ships through the Straits of Hormuz
28:51
and the U.S. Navy allegedly through whatever
28:54
the senior admiral has told Trump that it's
28:58
not really possible or realistic at all for
29:02
U.S. Navy ships to be escorting ships
29:06
through the Straits of Hormuz, commercial ships.
29:10
And it would turn them into a little
29:12
bit, especially in the method of the war
29:14
that's going on right now, which is mostly
29:16
pounding each other with missiles.
29:19
It would put them in a greater risk
29:24
coalition.
29:25
So that's not really how you secure the
29:28
Straits of Hormuz.
29:30
And, you know, Trump isn't listening to that.
29:34
You know, we're going to secure this.
29:37
I remember a couple of weeks ago when
29:39
I was first, when I first stated something
29:43
about this ridiculous and foolish war that we've
29:47
involved ourselves in, by the way, just as
29:50
a deliberate attack of our own at the
29:54
behest of Netanyahu.
29:57
And not even as, you know, the American
30:00
public has zero, there is nothing positive that
30:04
comes of this for us.
30:05
Nothing.
30:06
We are not the world's policemen, nor should
30:09
we be.
30:10
And the, and I don't appreciate it as
30:13
do, what are we, up to 66 percent,
30:16
68 percent were the last numbers of people
30:20
who were supporting going to war in Iran.
30:24
The nays are a hell of a lot
30:27
less, I mean, a hell of a lot
30:30
more than the yays.
30:32
I don't think, like many of these stupid
30:36
wars, they, in hindsight, always look foolish.
30:41
And just like Afghanistan, and many, many, many
30:45
reports over the last couple of weeks said
30:47
that if the Iranians can hang out for
30:50
a couple of weeks and turn this into
30:52
a sort of an attrition war and create
30:58
the discomfort that not only will the missile
31:01
abilities and the defensive posture of the West
31:05
and the desire to be involved be a
31:12
horror story on the Western side, but that
31:17
there's a pretty good indication that there might
31:25
be efforts to make it even worse, like
31:27
get out of the Middle East, like pushing
31:29
the United States out of there.
31:31
You can agree with that or disagree with
31:33
it.
31:33
I'm not positive I agree with it or
31:35
disagree with it.
31:36
It's an opposing point of view.
31:38
And I want to be supportive.
31:40
I'm a patriot.
31:41
I was in the military.
31:42
You know, I was one of the guys
31:43
who might have had to go somewhere, although
31:45
I was in during Iraq one, and I
31:49
didn't go.
31:50
I was a Russian interpreter.
31:52
What the hell am I going to do
31:52
over there?
31:54
But anyway, you know, the Russians weren't at
31:58
war at that time.
31:59
And this Straits of Hormuz thing and the
32:03
war in general has turned into a pretty
32:05
huge mess.
32:07
I listened to and admitted, admittedly, he was
32:11
an Iranian professor from a Tehran university.
32:20
And he's a professor there.
32:22
And he told some pretty grim stories about
32:27
what is being targeted over there.
32:30
He said that there are the double tap
32:35
missions that are going on even now, that
32:38
Israel has long been known to do these
32:41
type of things.
32:43
And people complain about it quite a bit.
32:45
This is the preferred method of of their
32:50
war tactics.
32:51
They they they they are in a destructive
32:55
mode and they are doing back what was
32:58
done to them.
32:59
Nowhere near as horrible, but still horrible.
33:03
Like the school that was bombed in.
33:08
I forget the name of the little town
33:10
where the girls were.
33:11
The girls were destroyed.
33:14
The more news that comes out about that,
33:16
the worse it looks.
33:17
It was a Navy Navy officers, mostly school
33:23
for Navy officers, children.
33:28
And they say it was intentionally targeted.
33:33
And they even worse say that the U
33:35
.S. data has been using A.I. for
33:38
some of the targeting.
33:40
And the A.I. data is old.
33:43
One of the stories this economist told was
33:46
economic professor anyway.
33:49
He said that that there was an example
33:56
for one of the examples he gave was
33:59
that there was a park that's called in
34:04
Iranian or in Arabic, I suppose, would be
34:08
the the or do they speak Farsi?
34:13
I don't remember, but I think it's Farsi.
34:16
And he they they would have the park
34:20
was called Police Park.
34:22
And that was the name of the park.
34:27
That's nothing to do with the police.
34:28
The police aren't located there.
34:30
There's nothing there.
34:31
And that park was bombed several times now.
34:35
The park has been bombed.
34:37
So A.I. is picking the the the
34:41
the targeting data for for how you target
34:45
how you target missiles into Iran on both
34:52
the Israeli side and the American side.
34:54
And he said that the double taps have
34:57
been consistent and prevalent and that in a
35:02
double tap, for those of you who don't
35:04
know, are bombing a place.
35:07
Waiting 20, 30 minutes for for people to
35:12
arrive.
35:14
And then bombing it again so you can
35:17
destroy the the first responders so you can
35:24
destroy them as well and all the people
35:26
that are coming to dig through the rubble
35:28
or whatever.
35:30
And he said that has been the preferred
35:33
method.
35:33
Now, admittedly, that could be propaganda.
35:36
He seemed like an economist to me.
35:40
His English, you know, he's clearly his English
35:43
was extremely good or he was educated in
35:47
the West, which is typical for a lot
35:49
of for a lot of people in many
35:52
areas of the world.
35:53
They come over to the to Europe or
35:55
to the United States and get educated and
35:58
then then they go back home and and
36:01
live, you know, after their education and they
36:05
get a Western education.
36:07
And he said one other interesting thing.
36:09
So first was on the targeting and on
36:11
the missiles and on that in the whole
36:14
interview was pretty interesting.
36:16
But he said also that the the lies
36:24
that are being told over here about the
36:26
fact that and these are his words, not
36:30
mine, that the Iranian people do not support
36:35
their government is, you know, completely false.
36:41
He said that he has participated himself in
36:45
rallies of 250 to 250,000 to a
36:49
million people showing up.
36:53
You know, there were marches after that that
36:55
Saturday or.
37:00
I don't know why I said Saturday, what
37:01
it had to do with it.
37:02
But the the the bombing, I forget it
37:06
started on the 28th or whatever, and they
37:08
blew up that school.
37:09
And so that's why I think I said
37:11
Saturday.
37:12
But it was a that after that, there
37:17
were huge protests and support for the government,
37:24
martyrdom marches, those kind of things that that
37:27
they're everywhere.
37:28
And the Iranian people are at their core
37:32
together.
37:33
Now, to tie that into the Ukrainian part,
37:36
the Ukrainians have been losing for years now.
37:40
We're in year five of this.
37:42
And the Ukrainians have been losing.
37:45
And the hatred that they show for Russians
37:47
isn't really warranted in my humble view.
37:52
But I understand and I understand the, you
37:57
know, call it solidarity, that they are, you
38:02
know, in solidarity, even if they're not in
38:07
the country, you know, they all run from
38:09
the country.
38:10
And then, yeah, you fight whoever else can
38:14
fight.
38:15
But everybody runs from the country, like the
38:17
guy flying the little German light, ultralight plane
38:21
out into Romania last week that I told
38:23
you about.
38:24
And everybody is running away because they don't
38:27
want to be the meat lines inside of
38:29
Ukraine.
38:30
And then, you know, hell, if you want
38:32
to come over here and preach to the
38:33
Russians about speaking, you know, don't speak that
38:37
Russian, you know, when the hell are you
38:39
to tell them not to speak Russian nonsense?
38:43
And that's nonsense.
38:45
That'd be like me going up and go,
38:46
don't speak that Ukrainian shit to me speak,
38:49
speak English.
38:50
And none of them speak English or very
38:53
poorly.
38:54
And then there's huge amounts of them that
38:56
don't speak English at all.
38:58
And they're over here and they have no
39:00
intention of learning it.
39:01
You know, they just get a few things
39:03
to get by, but they speak Ukrainian in
39:05
their homes.
39:06
They have all their money to Ukrainian businesses.
39:09
They will only hire Ukrainian lawyers.
39:13
They will, you know, stuff like that.
39:15
And it exists.
39:17
And so we're creating these rifts inside America,
39:20
which is supposed to be a melting pot.
39:22
Now, in a generation, who's going to know
39:23
the difference?
39:24
Because their kids will all learn English, but
39:27
maybe not.
39:28
I don't know.
39:30
Maybe we're creating regions inside America that are
39:32
going to be like the regions inside the
39:34
world where we're all supposed to beat each
39:36
other's throats the rest of our lives.
39:38
And this is no way to run a,
39:40
you know, peace, love and understanding.
39:43
That is my thesis.
39:46
And with Trump not being able to figure
39:49
out what in the hell is going on
39:51
in the Moors, there's strong skepticism on that.
39:56
And I wanted to share this with you,
39:59
this opinion, this so that the U.S.
40:03
efforts to build, they want to build a
40:06
straight and for Moors coalition.
40:11
Here we are again with that magic word,
40:13
the coalition, the coalition of the willing, willing
40:16
to do what?
40:17
The willingness to hate Russia.
40:19
Right.
40:20
And now we have to have a coalition
40:22
to secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
40:25
And this has turned into a mess because
40:28
Washington's alleged partners don't want to offer any
40:32
assistance, according to Axios yesterday.
40:36
U.S. Israel and by the way, U
40:38
.S. and Israel are on their own in
40:40
this.
40:40
You have Macron throwing in a little bit
40:42
because, you know, he likes to do what
40:47
daddy tells him to do.
40:49
But most people are against.
40:53
And these in this U.S. Israel strikes
40:55
on Iran and Tehran's acts in retaliation have
40:59
led to the oil flow, you know, dwindling
41:07
to nothing in the Straits of Hormuz.
41:10
And the de facto closure of one of
41:13
the world's most important energy choke points is
41:17
sending shockwaves through global oil markets.
41:20
I watched another article that, what is his
41:24
name?
41:27
It wasn't Medvedev, um, well, it doesn't matter.
41:32
Kirill Dmitriev is who I think it was.
41:35
He predicts that within a very short period
41:39
of time, the prices for oil with all
41:42
the choke points and all the destruction of
41:46
infrastructure related to oil all around the world
41:49
going on at the hugest suppliers except the
41:54
U.S. And the cynical people like me,
41:58
you know, boy, this is convenient.
42:00
You're turning the market into the U.S.
42:04
alone, having the market for oil.
42:06
Trump says, oh, geez, we'll never run out.
42:08
We got so much capacity.
42:10
We'll just provide our own.
42:13
Well, that's easy to say.
42:14
But what about the rest of the world?
42:16
They'll have to buy it from us.
42:17
And so I, I'm one of the critical,
42:24
I criticize that quite a bit.
42:27
So these, I believe Brent prices, you know,
42:32
and all the, you know, the sweet crude,
42:34
all of the prices are all going to
42:36
go way in the hell up.
42:39
And it's fluctuating around the $100 barrel mark
42:45
right now, sometimes up, sometimes down.
42:49
And according to Axios, the administration has been
42:52
lobbying countries, including UK, France, Germany, Germany, Italy,
42:58
Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea, all of
43:03
whom have said no, as well as several
43:06
Gulf states and Jordan to provide naval vessels
43:10
or other forms of support for the mission
43:13
to secure the regional shipping routes.
43:16
But the outlet says that the potential partners
43:19
have ranged from skepticism to hell no.
43:23
Germany, Italy and Japan have ruled out sending
43:27
any Navy while France has remained noncommittal.
43:31
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the genius, as described
43:35
as forward leaning because he's going to, you
43:38
know, lick rear ends should the need arise.
43:42
And London is drafting its own proposal to,
43:45
you know, hang out with its brothers in
43:49
arms in the United States.
43:51
But the roadmap isn't being shared with every,
43:56
you know, with all the countries being invited.
43:59
And one European diplomat described the negotiations as
44:03
a mess and told Axios that a lot
44:07
of people are confused.
44:11
Publicly, EU top diplomat, and I hate to
44:16
say stuff like this, because Jesus, he has
44:18
zero diplomacy skills.
44:20
Gaia Callas said that there were there was
44:24
no appetite in the bloc to participate in
44:28
the U.S.-led coalition against Iran.
44:31
So that's the she's the top diplomat in
44:33
the EU.
44:34
And German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that
44:38
this is not our war.
44:41
We have not started it.
44:44
Now, where have we heard that before, friends
44:46
and neighbors?
44:47
Not our war.
44:49
We didn't start it.
44:51
The old Trumpster is forever saying, you know,
44:55
my war, Joe Biden's war.
44:59
It was me.
45:00
It never would have started.
45:02
Well, I'm not so sure about that anymore,
45:05
because you've started your own brand of war
45:09
everywhere else in the last little bit.
45:12
Meanwhile, Trump warned that NATO would face a
45:15
very bad future.
45:17
His long, long rant, and I wouldn't I
45:20
rarely read it, but I saw this one
45:23
because somebody else was quoting it.
45:26
And this horribly long rant of his about
45:30
NATO facing a very bad future if its
45:36
European members refuse to participate in securing Hormuz.
45:43
Well, look what we've done for you.
45:45
What are you going to do for us?
45:48
I'm not sure those two questions go together.
45:53
Arguably, NATO would be some kind of a
45:55
common defense, right?
45:58
Although they they absolutely helped in the in
46:01
the ridiculous invasions of Iraq that went absolutely
46:05
nowhere after the fact and haven't helped at
46:09
all.
46:09
They're always along for the ride.
46:11
And but I don't I'm not sure that
46:14
under Trump they're going to want to.
46:17
Because he's he's he doesn't have to consult
46:22
with anyone.
46:23
I'm king of the world.
46:24
That's it.
46:25
And he doesn't have to.
46:26
So as the Iran war continues with no
46:30
clear end in sight, Washington Post reports and
46:35
I'm not a big Washington Post reader, but
46:37
it says that Trump has received very sobering
46:42
briefings on the Iranian leadership remaining firmly in
46:46
control of the country.
46:48
Well, that economist that I spoke to yesterday
46:51
said that the government is in control and
46:54
the people in vast majority are supportive and
47:00
the attacking the country has done very little
47:04
for, you know, geez.
47:07
And who would think this anyway?
47:10
What moron would think that bombing a country
47:14
would turn the people into with the desire,
47:18
especially at the levels that has been going
47:21
on the last two weeks?
47:23
One school, you know, assume even that it
47:26
that that it was, as Trump said, oh,
47:29
gee, they cut their own women in half
47:31
and they're cut baby's heads off and stuff.
47:34
Nonsense, by the way.
47:36
But suppose that you even believe that.
47:40
And it was a false flag to destroy
47:43
a naval officer's school with young girls between
47:48
the ages of eight and 15 and 20
47:52
or so of their teachers and staff that
47:55
were there.
47:55
Right.
47:56
Assume it was a false flag.
48:01
It's not.
48:02
I don't believe that.
48:04
And I don't believe that Trump has any
48:06
basis to say that it was a false
48:09
flag operation.
48:11
And there's too much.
48:13
The A.I. targeting the fact that it
48:16
was near a.
48:19
A prior military site, the fact that they
48:25
did these decapitation strikes.
48:29
In as prevalent a manner as they did,
48:32
they picked a wrong target.
48:35
That's the most likely presumption is that they
48:38
picked a wrong target.
48:41
Tell me that under that scenario, that if
48:45
this happened, if the same thing happened and
48:48
Russia did the same thing in Ukraine, that
48:51
everybody wouldn't be anti-Russia.
48:55
They would be and everyone would be is
49:00
anti-U.S. around the world over what's
49:04
going on in Iran in vast majority.
49:08
The only lunatics in Israel, the standard Netanyahu
49:13
and Lindsey Graham style lunatics exist.
49:17
The rest of the world is going like
49:19
Minister Pistorius said that this is not our
49:22
war.
49:23
We have not started it.
49:26
And so.
49:29
I'm not sure where we go from here,
49:30
people, but it wasn't just predictable, said The
49:33
Washington Post.
49:34
It was predicted he was told all of
49:38
these things in advance.
49:40
Now, I've heard that story, not just from
49:42
The Washington Post, but from multiple sources that
49:48
are respected journalists and not not crap for
49:52
the most part.
49:53
Now, there's plenty of crap out there, too.
49:56
But I watched a Fox News thing.
50:01
Several days ago, and it was embarrassing, you
50:05
know, it was a morning show, three people
50:08
sitting on a bed, you know, these high
50:12
back chairs enjoying their coffee and ranting about
50:15
how great it was that we're bombing the
50:17
crap out of Iran and that the Iranian
50:20
people are going to reach up and over
50:22
and turn over their their government and start
50:25
again.
50:26
You think so?
50:27
I do not.
50:29
And I think that little tidbit should be
50:33
told a little bit more.
50:40
Openly, let's say.
50:43
And the EU is very, very divided on
50:48
on.
50:50
The Iran war, very divided.
50:54
There was another article, a kind of an
50:57
opinion piece that says that this war, how
51:01
far with the question.
51:03
So it's kind of a.
51:04
I like to write this way.
51:06
Sometimes you present a question and then provide
51:09
alternatives to answer it.
51:10
And I liked this one.
51:13
It said, how far does the echo of
51:17
the Middle East war reach?
51:20
And a lot of people say this is
51:22
going to hit all of us.
51:26
Choking off LPG, LNG, all kinds of stuff.
51:33
There are road stalls or canteens.
51:35
I had heard a story or saw read
51:39
a story.
51:41
Yeah, I read this story.
51:42
It doesn't matter.
51:43
But the that the Indians are.
51:47
Now, I don't know how this goes with
51:50
it, because you would think it's a little
51:52
bit different.
51:53
They say they're.
51:58
Having to and it's a long trail that
52:01
gets you there, but the lack of oil,
52:06
the lack of petroleum is causing shortages in
52:12
food markets.
52:14
I mean, this is a is a consequential
52:18
thing across India.
52:24
I mean, many, many places in India.
52:26
There are concerns from canteens, from restaurants, from,
52:32
you know, people's livelihoods are at stake.
52:36
They can't get shipments because shipments are stalled.
52:42
There's a here's a here's I was trying
52:45
to find the quote that the guy said,
52:47
guy named Singh.
52:49
Gee, there's a surprise.
52:52
It's SINGH.
52:55
And I'm not there's there's nothing wrong with
52:58
the name.
52:58
It's just that it's like Smith over over
53:01
in America.
53:02
So India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
53:06
Other countries, Sri Lanka in the South Asia
53:09
region are facing very prevalent signs of no
53:16
liquefied petroleum gas.
53:19
And there's a huge shortage as the Middle
53:21
East hits these energy supply chains.
53:26
And so this isn't helping Donald Trump either.
53:30
A guy named Prahalad Singh, who's 48 years
53:34
old, runs a roadside eatery in outside of
53:38
New Delhi.
53:39
And he's trying to figure out.
53:42
And, you know, they interviewed him.
53:44
He's going through his phone saying the disruption
53:47
consequences of the war in Iran triggered by
53:50
U.S. and Israel, a war that rattles
53:53
the global energy supply chain and has led
53:56
to uncertainty across oil and gas markets.
54:00
This is going to hit all of us,
54:02
says Singh, who sells Chinese food from a
54:06
small roadside stall and is now counting how
54:09
long his remaining gas supply will last until
54:13
he loses his livelihood.
54:15
He says that cylinder he is using may
54:18
be the last may only last another three
54:22
days.
54:23
I'm already worried that I won't be able
54:26
to get another one on time.
54:28
Our livelihood is at stake across India.
54:31
Similar concerns emerge from other canteens, restaurants, hotels
54:36
who defend depend heavily on commercial LPG cylinders
54:41
to run their kitchens.
54:43
Energy supply disruptions have already pushed LPG prices
54:48
up in India and elsewhere, with the government
54:51
recently increasing the cost of household cylinders by
54:56
about 60 rupees and commercial cylinders by 115
55:01
rupees.
55:03
Now, that's a small amount of money in
55:05
America.
55:06
But remember when you're looking at purchase power
55:09
parity, the rupee buys a hell of a
55:12
lot more in India than the dollar buys
55:15
here.
55:16
In the southern state of Telangana, vegetables like
55:20
carrots, cauliflower, onions, cheese are chopped on restaurant
55:23
counters.
55:25
You guys like biryani.
55:27
Oh, my God, I love biryani.
55:29
And this one's talking about a biryani house.
55:31
But the kitchen has fallen silent.
55:33
The owner says that there are severe shortages
55:35
of LPG cylinders and they don't operate except
55:40
for one meal a day.
55:41
Now they operate only at nighttime.
55:43
The restaurant requires about 10 cylinders each week
55:47
to operate smoothly.
55:50
But the owner says he only got two
55:52
delivered in the week, with supplies tightening.
55:56
The crisis is getting worse every single day.
55:59
Now, there's a billion and a half people
56:01
in India.
56:03
OK, so take this story and explode it
56:08
astronomically because of the lack of petroleum products.
56:18
And the same goes in China.
56:21
And I mean, hell, we're feeling it here.
56:23
You know, I was bitching yesterday about the
56:25
cost of gas.
56:28
I saw something yesterday.
56:31
My first time I saw it, it was
56:33
over in the Miami area.
56:36
More than $4 a gallon for gas.
56:40
And diesel is well over five everywhere on
56:45
my travels down here.
56:47
Well over five bucks a gallon.
56:49
And that's depressing.
56:52
It's just depressing.
56:55
So I don't know, people.
56:57
I think somebody needs to end this.
57:06
It's not.
57:07
We're not going to have capitulation.
57:09
But let's try to get to a better
57:12
story.
57:14
Meanwhile, all of this happening right now, China
57:18
is very much in the news.
57:22
China is, now everybody, well, I don't know
57:25
if you heard this or not, but apparently
57:27
Trump is putting off his, he was planning
57:31
to go to China at the end of
57:32
this month to meet with Xi Jinping and
57:35
allegedly put some pressure on him about Russia.
57:37
I think for several reasons that is not
57:47
going to happen.
57:48
I heard an interesting theory on this yesterday.
57:51
And I don't know how I think about
57:53
it, but it is definitely interesting.
57:57
And I can see that it is a
57:59
potential truth that Trump was trying to structure
58:06
post-Venezuela, post-Iran, and he wanted a
58:11
quick decapitation.
58:15
We're taking the oil in Iran to China.
58:19
So we took it from you in Venezuela.
58:23
And now we're going to take it from,
58:25
although ultimately I don't think they even did
58:27
in Venezuela.
58:29
That's just a short-term, short-term deal.
58:32
Three years from now, it's not going to
58:33
matter.
58:35
I think China will be right back in
58:37
there.
58:37
But the theory was that Trump takes Venezuela,
58:46
takes Iran, says he controls the global supply
58:52
except from Russia, and China gets, I forget
58:57
what the percentage is, don't quote me on
58:59
it, but it's a big percentage.
59:01
I want to say 70, 80% of
59:04
their, or maybe they take 70, 80%
59:09
of the capacity of Iran through the streets
59:11
of Hormuz goes into China.
59:13
It's one of those two figures that they
59:16
get, because China gets a butt-ton of
59:22
energy from Russia.
59:25
And the story goes that Trump cancelled this
59:30
meeting because he didn't get his quick victory
59:35
in seizing of oil interests in Iran.
59:39
I can't imagine that he would have tried
59:41
it in the first place.
59:44
That'd be a desperation move, if that's what
59:48
you think, or a completely arrogant and cocky
59:52
move, one of the two.
59:53
But it's not a reasonable move under any
59:56
stretch of the imagination.
59:59
It's either we're so cocky that we think
1:00:01
we can decapitate, and these people are going
1:00:04
to welcome us in with open arms, because
1:00:09
they're cutting babies in half and chopping off
1:00:13
women's heads in Iran.
1:00:15
The error is in the premise.
1:00:18
They're not doing that.
1:00:21
Or we have horror stories here in America
1:00:25
too.
1:00:26
If we focused only on the lone horror
1:00:28
story that occurred, you could argue that everybody
1:00:32
here in America is a school shooter, because
1:00:37
we have plenty of that going on here,
1:00:40
or these mass shootings going on in America.
1:00:44
Far too many, for my comfort, and I
1:00:46
don't like it.
1:00:47
But I don't want all of America to
1:00:49
be judged because we've got a bunch of
1:00:50
morons running around.
1:00:52
It's the same in any country.
1:00:54
Everybody's got their share of idiots.
1:00:57
You take the lone story of a baby
1:01:02
being cut in half 30 years ago, and
1:01:05
I've never heard that story, but let's give
1:01:10
Trump the benefit of the doubt.
1:01:12
I'd like to.
1:01:13
But you don't get on Air Force One
1:01:15
and say, well, you know those Iranians, all
1:01:16
they do is cut their babies in half
1:01:18
and behead their women.
1:01:21
That's not true.
1:01:23
It might be one Iranian or a couple,
1:01:27
but you don't get a lump the entire
1:01:30
population into the baby killing, the baby cutting
1:01:35
in half and beheading wife bit.
1:01:37
That's nonsense.
1:01:39
And any more than you'd be able to
1:01:40
call all American school shooters.
1:01:43
Nonsense.
1:01:44
And so if the theory going that he's
1:01:48
now having to figure out how to proceed
1:01:50
because he was either A, too arrogant or
1:01:54
B, too foolish to understand the risks and
1:01:59
chose not to risk to listen to his
1:02:02
leaders, that here he is embroiled in another
1:02:05
debacle in the Far East.
1:02:10
This is nonsense.
1:02:12
And now, how long is this one going
1:02:16
to drag on?
1:02:17
Is this one?
1:02:17
And I heard him referring to them as
1:02:19
terrorists again the other day.
1:02:21
These are the terrorists.
1:02:22
I thought the Taliban was the terrorists before
1:02:25
that or after that.
1:02:27
I thought it was ISIS.
1:02:28
How many freaking everybody is a terrorist, too.
1:02:31
Everybody is a terrorist.
1:02:32
Everybody's a baby killer.
1:02:35
And so therefore, we need to go to
1:02:37
war with Iran.
1:02:40
Wrong answer.
1:02:42
You do not pass go.
1:02:44
You do not collect two hundred dollars.
1:02:46
You don't get to go on to the
1:02:47
next round where the prices really, you know,
1:02:50
improve and get bigger.
1:02:53
No, we don't.
1:02:54
That is not what's happening.
1:02:56
And so he's canceled his trip to China.
1:02:58
Now, I don't know that that's true, but
1:03:00
it makes sense to me if that was
1:03:03
his theory, that he was going to go
1:03:05
and hold China's feet to the fire about
1:03:08
Russia and a couple of other things and
1:03:10
about trade deals with Canada and Europe like
1:03:15
he is.
1:03:16
He is, you know, speaking about he's going
1:03:19
to do then.
1:03:21
The failure to take over the Iranian oil
1:03:24
would certainly be a problem for him.
1:03:28
That's what I believe.
1:03:30
So anyway, China, in the meanwhile, has been
1:03:34
meeting with many sides, many different countries.
1:03:39
They've been talking to European leaders that are
1:03:42
coming over.
1:03:42
European leaders are going to China.
1:03:45
Chinese leaders are going to Europe.
1:03:47
Same thing in the Middle East.
1:03:48
Same thing in South America.
1:03:50
Same thing across the planet is Chinese leaders
1:03:54
are going right now and projecting the voice
1:03:58
of.
1:04:01
Reasonableness.
1:04:02
And because everybody is now claiming that Trump
1:04:07
is not less than reasonable, let's put it
1:04:10
that way, because he's he's doing anything he
1:04:13
can.
1:04:14
I mean, here's an example of another story
1:04:16
that proves that it doesn't prove, but comes
1:04:22
to the same conclusion.
1:04:24
You know, it's just a story.
1:04:25
It's not proof of anything.
1:04:26
Take it or leave it.
1:04:28
I can do anything I want with Cuba.
1:04:32
I mean, think about that.
1:04:33
I can do anything I want with Greenland.
1:04:35
I've done whatever I wanted with Venezuela.
1:04:37
I mean, hell, I can bomb the crap
1:04:39
out of Iran and people are going to
1:04:41
come running into my arms and talk about
1:04:42
how glorious and wonderful Donald Trump is.
1:04:46
You know, he may have the honor of
1:04:49
being the president to take to take Cuba.
1:04:54
I told you about this last week a
1:04:56
little bit.
1:04:57
U.S. President Trump has said he expects
1:04:59
to have the honor of taking Cuba in
1:05:01
some form, claiming he could do anything I
1:05:05
want with the Caribbean nation.
1:05:07
He made the remarks on Monday in the
1:05:09
Oval Office, despite ongoing talks between Washington and
1:05:13
Havana as the island grapples with a deepening
1:05:16
energy crisis because the U.S. has blockaded
1:05:19
any oil from Venezuela.
1:05:22
I do believe I'll be having the honor
1:05:25
of taking Cuba, and that's a big honor,
1:05:28
Trump said, adding that he's taking Cuba in
1:05:32
some form.
1:05:35
I don't understand this thought process at all.
1:05:40
I just don't get it.
1:05:42
Who has asked him, did I vote for
1:05:46
this?
1:05:47
No, I don't know who else has voted
1:05:49
for this.
1:05:49
I didn't vote for him to take over
1:05:51
the world.
1:05:52
I voted for him because I didn't want
1:05:55
him to start any new wars or conflicts.
1:06:02
The first year, it's all about my, I
1:06:05
didn't get the peace prize.
1:06:06
That's my peace prize.
1:06:08
Obama got one.
1:06:09
Where's mine?
1:06:11
Now, I'm the wartime president.
1:06:14
Look what I get to do.
1:06:15
I'm taking Cuba.
1:06:16
I already took Venezuela, and that's why Cuba's
1:06:19
in bad shape, because I won't let that
1:06:20
Venezuelan oil go to Cuba.
1:06:23
Screw them.
1:06:24
We're going to take it.
1:06:25
Is he doing this for Rubio?
1:06:29
Very curious.
1:06:30
I might have to look into that.
1:06:31
This is nonsense, because it's a big honor.
1:06:35
Oh, yeah, it's a big honor.
1:06:39
We're saving the world, right?
1:06:41
That's what we're doing.
1:06:43
Pressed by reporters, Trump said that the U
1:06:45
.S. could take different actions toward the island,
1:06:48
whether I free it or take it.
1:06:53
I think I can do anything I want
1:06:55
with it, if you want to know the
1:06:57
truth, he said, without elaborating.
1:06:59
Trump spoke as Cuba plunged into a nationwide
1:07:02
blackout Monday.
1:07:04
Nearly 11 million people left without electricity as
1:07:08
fuel shortages strained the country's aging power stations.
1:07:13
Following the U.S. president's comments, New York
1:07:16
Times reported that American officials have signaled in
1:07:20
negotiations that removing Cuban president, again, it's about
1:07:25
regime change, and that's it.
1:07:27
Finding somebody who will lick Trump's butt for
1:07:30
the next three years.
1:07:32
President Miguel Diaz-Canel could be a key
1:07:35
objective in the bilateral talks, though Washington hasn't
1:07:39
publicly confirmed that demand.
1:07:41
I don't know why we don't understand that.
1:07:45
I mean, that's the only reason we could
1:07:47
have to take it.
1:07:48
Why else?
1:07:49
Why else bother?
1:07:52
You know what we need?
1:07:54
We need another 11 million Cuban residents of
1:07:57
Florida, right?
1:07:59
What state has that become in my ongoing
1:08:01
determination of which states we've added so far?
1:08:09
I can't remember the order anymore.
1:08:11
Israel has always been state 51, but actually
1:08:14
Israel is state one.
1:08:16
The rest of us are numbered, you know,
1:08:19
the rest of the American states are numbers
1:08:21
two through 51.
1:08:24
And then 52 would be Canada, right?
1:08:30
And then we have Greenland, we have Venezuela,
1:08:34
we've taken Cuba and Iran.
1:08:37
So we could be up to 56 various
1:08:39
states by now under Trump.
1:08:43
He's to be proud of, right?
1:08:46
So 11 million people on the government dole,
1:08:51
right?
1:08:51
Have them come up and put their kids
1:08:54
in American schools.
1:08:55
That'll be great, right?
1:08:57
That's what we're after as Americans.
1:09:00
New York Times reported that these officials, you
1:09:03
know, that they want to get rid of
1:09:04
this government.
1:09:07
The talks marked the first time in more
1:09:10
than a decade that Havana has publicly acknowledged
1:09:14
formal discussions with Washington.
1:09:17
This follows several weeks of power cuts, fuel
1:09:21
shortages.
1:09:23
And by the way, the U.S. won't
1:09:25
let anybody else in there to discuss with
1:09:26
them.
1:09:27
And, you know, you wonder about whether this
1:09:34
is really an anti-Russia move as well.
1:09:39
But after all of this and the rising
1:09:43
public anger after Venezuelan oil shipments are halted
1:09:48
by the U.S. following the U.S.
1:09:51
seizure of Maduro—illegal seizure of Maduro, but still
1:09:57
happened—Trump repeatedly has threatened a total oil blockade
1:10:03
of Cuba and warns that countries selling crude
1:10:07
to the island won't face tariffs.
1:10:10
I'm going to make you pay some tariffs.
1:10:12
We're going to have four years of arguing
1:10:14
over tariffs.
1:10:15
Oh, well, one of them has already happened,
1:10:17
so we're well into that.
1:10:18
Diaz-Canel said last week that any dialogue
1:10:20
with Washington must be based on the same
1:10:23
thing that everybody else in the world wants,
1:10:25
equality and respect for the political system of
1:10:28
both countries, stressing sovereignty and self-determination.
1:10:32
He said that Cuba has received no oil
1:10:35
shipments for three months due to the blockade,
1:10:38
which he said has affected many, including children
1:10:40
needing medical treatment.
1:10:42
Russia condemns the U.S. economic blockade of
1:10:46
the island and call these sanctions unlawful and
1:10:50
destabilizing.
1:10:52
And Sergei Lavrov said Moscow supports the Cuban
1:10:56
people in defending their own sovereignty.
1:11:01
I don't really care for this sort of
1:11:08
behavior.
1:11:10
I really don't.
1:11:13
I already told you about the Straits of
1:11:16
Hormuz, but I did want to share this
1:11:18
article with you, but I don't think I'm
1:11:21
going to.
1:11:25
But on the same oil problems everywhere, I
1:11:30
want to return to Hungary and Ukraine to
1:11:36
replay these deals.
1:11:38
Kiev is rejecting proposals from Hungary for a
1:11:42
meeting.
1:11:44
Ukraine is refusing to resume oil supplies via
1:11:48
the Druzhba pipeline for purely political reasons, despite
1:11:53
the infrastructure being fully functional, says Petr Zharto,
1:11:58
Hungarian foreign minister.
1:12:00
Today, he added that Kiev has declined to
1:12:03
propose a trilateral meeting with Hungary and Slovakia
1:12:07
to discuss the issue.
1:12:08
Ukrainian authorities are preventing Russian oil from reaching
1:12:14
Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline that
1:12:18
runs through Ukraine, claiming it was damaged by
1:12:21
Russian strikes.
1:12:23
Budapest and Bratislava have accused Kiev of blackmail
1:12:26
and also say Brussels has sided with Ukraine
1:12:29
instead of backing two EU member states.
1:12:33
And Ukraine's not even an EU member.
1:12:35
It's become obvious that there is no technical
1:12:37
or physical reason for the oil supply not
1:12:40
to be restarted to Hungary through the Druzhba
1:12:43
pipeline, said Zharto, at a press conference in
1:12:47
Brussels.
1:12:48
And he accuses Kiev of making a pure
1:12:50
political decision.
1:12:52
The minister added that a trilateral meeting with
1:12:54
Ukrainian minister of energy in Brussels initiated by
1:12:57
Budapest and Bratislava was cancelled by the Ukrainians.
1:13:02
Again, he highlighted that Kiev has rejected all
1:13:06
initiatives taken by Hungary and Slovakia and even
1:13:09
the EU to even allow a site visit
1:13:12
to see the actual state of the pipeline.
1:13:16
Well, if it's not blown up, they'll blow
1:13:18
it up so that they don't have to
1:13:21
continue it.
1:13:23
And then they just blame the Russians.
1:13:25
Oh, that's what they do everywhere else.
1:13:27
Remember, they blew up the Nord Stream 2
1:13:29
and said that was the Russians blown up
1:13:31
their own pipeline.
1:13:33
That's what we heard for the longest time.
1:13:36
Russia blew up their own pipeline.
1:13:38
Right.
1:13:38
Yep.
1:13:40
Minister added, reiterated that a delegation from Hungary
1:13:46
spent more than three days in Ukraine last
1:13:49
week, but all requests for meetings were rejected.
1:13:53
So, you know, I can't tell you anything.
1:13:56
But if a country keeps us under an
1:13:58
oil blockade, then that country cannot expect us
1:14:02
to support any decisions in Brussels in favor
1:14:05
of them.
1:14:06
That's the case.
1:14:08
In response to Kiev's halting supplies through the
1:14:10
Soviet built pipeline.
1:14:12
Now, remember, this is all about 90 billion
1:14:14
bucks that a.
1:14:18
Hungary and Slovakia are blocking a 90 billion
1:14:23
dollar loan that will never be repaid to
1:14:26
be giving more money, at least not by
1:14:28
the Ukrainians, it'll be repaid by the EU
1:14:32
because the only condition for the loan would
1:14:35
be that it had to be guaranteed.
1:14:37
By the EU states.
1:14:41
And so the EU leadership in Brussels, von
1:14:45
der Leyen and Kaya Kallis are trying to
1:14:47
force Hungary and Slovakia into agreeing to this
1:14:53
90 billion, although they're already members of the
1:14:57
EU and Ukraine is not.
1:14:59
And so they support Ukraine over their own
1:15:01
members.
1:15:02
That tells you what you need to know
1:15:04
about the EU.
1:15:05
Right.
1:15:06
So.
1:15:08
The Victor Orban vetoed the new round of
1:15:13
sanctions against Russia and also blocked the 90
1:15:16
billion dollar or 90 billion euro, 105 billion
1:15:20
dollar loan.
1:15:21
And on Monday, Sartor confirmed that Budapest will
1:15:24
continue to expose another bailout for Kiev until
1:15:29
the oil supplies resume.
1:15:32
Hungary, a longstanding opponent of Ukraine's EU membership
1:15:37
bid, has consistently refused to send weapons to
1:15:42
Kiev or approve EU military aid to Kiev
1:15:46
and has called instead for a diplomatic solution
1:15:49
to the conflict.
1:15:53
That's that's true, actually.
1:15:59
Lavrov said that Sergei Viktorovich said that the
1:16:04
EU has discredited itself completely in the Ukraine
1:16:09
peace process.
1:16:13
The EU, they wanted, EU wanted to be
1:16:16
at the table, you know, and they want
1:16:17
to be at the table for the Hormuz
1:16:21
discussions, but they don't want to be involved
1:16:24
in the securing of it.
1:16:29
But the EU has completely discredited itself as
1:16:31
a mediator in the Ukrainian peace process, said
1:16:36
Lavrov.
1:16:38
The Kiev's European backers have demanded to be
1:16:44
admitted into the Russia-U.S.-Ukraine peace talks,
1:16:48
but they never, they haven't upheld any prior
1:16:51
agreements, according to him.
1:16:53
And he's talking about, of course, the Minsk
1:16:57
-1 and Minsk-2.
1:16:59
And in 2014, France and Germany were the
1:17:02
guarantors of an agreement between Ukrainian President Yanukovych
1:17:07
and the opposition leaders.
1:17:09
But that's the Minsk-1, Minsk-2, which
1:17:12
came up a little later, but did nothing
1:17:14
when nationalist groups, Ukrainians, seized power.
1:17:18
The EU failed in its role a second
1:17:20
time under the 2015 agreement, which was intended
1:17:24
to reconcile the new nationalist government in Kiev
1:17:27
with anti-coup forces in East Ukraine.
1:17:31
And, you know, because they overthrew the government
1:17:34
in Kiev, which, you know, nobody paid much
1:17:38
attention to over here until 2022, when Russia,
1:17:43
who had been fighting the same battle for
1:17:45
eight years, was claimed to have invaded the
1:17:52
territories that had separated themselves by referendum from
1:18:00
Ukraine.
1:18:02
Former Chancellor to Germany, Angela Merkel, and former
1:18:07
French President Francois Hollande, who acted as the
1:18:11
guarantors to the deal, later admitted that they
1:18:15
never intended to fulfill anything and just wanted
1:18:18
to buy time to arm Ukraine.
1:18:21
After the conflict's escalation in 2022, a settlement
1:18:26
could have been reached as early as April
1:18:29
of 2022 if it hadn't been for interference
1:18:34
by Boris Johnson.
1:18:36
That guy, Bojo, is, uh, I never thought
1:18:40
he was too bright.
1:18:41
I thought he was your typical blowhard politician
1:18:45
up there chasing young girls, chasing interns, spending
1:18:52
money, spending the government's money on, you know,
1:18:55
look how cool I am.
1:18:57
And that exists in England just like it
1:19:00
does here, friends and neighbors.
1:19:03
The EU, the top diplomat, you know, Boris
1:19:11
Johnson at the time, was really not good
1:19:16
for the EU, in my humble opinion.
1:19:20
Sergey Lavrov accused European leaders of wanting to
1:19:24
preserve the presence of a Nazi regime in
1:19:28
Kiev.
1:19:30
And he calls that one of the root
1:19:33
causes of the Ukraine conflict.
1:19:36
If allowed, he said the Kiev regime would
1:19:38
continue its hostile anti-Russian activities.
1:19:43
They're going to do that anyway.
1:19:44
They're even going to do it in America.
1:19:46
They are not becoming Americans.
1:19:48
They have no intention of becoming Americans.
1:19:52
They do, they want the passport.
1:19:54
That's it.
1:19:55
You know, they just want the passport and
1:19:56
then, you know, want the money.
1:19:58
I wonder how many of them will actually
1:20:00
go back to their Nazi regime in Kiev,
1:20:05
you know, and move back into Ukraine.
1:20:10
I know a bunch of them over here
1:20:12
and I've asked them that question specifically.
1:20:16
If you love Ukraine so much, why do
1:20:20
you live here?
1:20:22
You've been here 20 years.
1:20:23
Why?
1:20:24
And I'd give the name of the guy,
1:20:26
but I had a conversation with this guy.
1:20:28
He's good.
1:20:29
He's a funny guy.
1:20:30
We partied together for a lot.
1:20:31
I used to go to this Russian bathhouse,
1:20:33
the Banya, and I got in trouble by
1:20:40
the owner.
1:20:41
And I was like, well, I didn't say
1:20:42
anything.
1:20:43
So a Ukrainian guy came up to me
1:20:46
and asked me an opinion of the war
1:20:49
or something.
1:20:50
And he started talking about the war.
1:20:53
And he said some things.
1:20:57
I didn't even say anything yet.
1:20:58
I was just like, look, we're in America.
1:21:01
And I imagine half of the people here
1:21:02
at the bathhouse are Russian and half Ukrainian.
1:21:06
And the owner came up and started, you
1:21:10
know, hey, you can't come in here and
1:21:13
you know, get these guys all riled up.
1:21:16
Me?
1:21:17
I was the one that was asked the
1:21:19
question.
1:21:20
It's like, you know, what's the story here?
1:21:22
But anyway, the guy that I spoke with
1:21:25
him at a couple of times later at
1:21:27
his house.
1:21:28
And so we weren't going to get beat
1:21:30
up upon by the bathhouse owner.
1:21:34
And he says that he and his wife
1:21:38
have lived in Florida, came to New York
1:21:41
first, I think, and then Florida.
1:21:44
They've been in Florida for 20 years.
1:21:47
And, you know, he says that he still
1:21:52
has a dacha in the Ukrainian countryside somewhere
1:21:56
that he owns a plot of land.
1:21:58
And, you know, and somehow he was involved
1:22:02
in.
1:22:04
My thought process on it was immediately money
1:22:08
laundering of some sort.
1:22:10
But maybe it's just part of the corruption
1:22:12
deal, because all the money circulates back around.
1:22:16
The only people who get any are the
1:22:18
people who already left the country, you know,
1:22:20
or people that are trying to get out
1:22:22
of the country.
1:22:23
And so everybody takes their dole and they
1:22:25
get out.
1:22:25
But this this guy's story was was very
1:22:29
interesting to me.
1:22:30
But something wasn't adding up either.
1:22:34
And, hell, I should have stayed in the
1:22:36
military or the government service, because U.S.
1:22:40
Agency for International Development is one of my
1:22:43
last tours that I took over to Moldova.
1:22:47
And that was a corrupt hellhole and shit
1:22:50
show and money floating everywhere.
1:22:54
And U.S. Agency for International Development telling
1:22:58
us, you know, not much you could do
1:23:00
about that.
1:23:00
Then why the hell are we doing it?
1:23:02
You know, all the products we deliver are
1:23:05
going one way and then the money is
1:23:07
going another and some back into the pockets
1:23:10
of the very people supplying it is what
1:23:12
it seemed like to me even way back
1:23:14
then.
1:23:15
And it's and I had that first thought
1:23:18
I had when speaking to this Ukrainian guy
1:23:20
who's over here talking about, you know, living
1:23:23
in America for the last 20 years and
1:23:25
being connected to.
1:23:28
And whether he's some Italian guy just trying
1:23:30
to claim he's with the mafia, you know,
1:23:32
on the outskirts and then, oh, you know,
1:23:35
the family, you know, something like that, or
1:23:38
whether it's reality that he really was involved
1:23:40
in his story.
1:23:43
Seemed a little odd to me on the
1:23:47
connection side and on the money side and
1:23:50
on what he was allowed to do in
1:23:52
Ukraine.
1:23:52
Even now, I've thought about doing a couple
1:23:56
of shows on that type of thing and
1:23:59
maybe I will, but it won't be this
1:24:01
week.
1:24:02
I've got a couple of things.
1:24:04
As the show winds down, I want to
1:24:05
tell you that I am in Florida.
1:24:09
I am heading back in the next couple
1:24:13
of days.
1:24:15
And so I should be here again for
1:24:18
tomorrow's program in Florida, not in the studio,
1:24:22
which makes if there's any trouble in the
1:24:24
broadcast.
1:24:25
I know that it appears to be working
1:24:30
OK and everything on the recording I see
1:24:34
seems to be coming out all right.
1:24:37
But it'll be from outside the studio again
1:24:40
tomorrow and maybe even the following day or
1:24:43
this whole week.
1:24:44
Civic Outlaws will be on Friday and we
1:24:47
have a big catch up day on that
1:24:50
one from my show on last Friday.
1:24:53
And I suggest you go back and listen
1:24:55
to that.
1:24:56
You can go to civicoutlaws.com forward slash
1:24:59
podcast and listen to that show because we're
1:25:04
pointing some fingers.
1:25:06
And I think we might be having an
1:25:09
impact on some of the well, I know
1:25:12
we're having an impact and I want the
1:25:15
impact to be even larger.
1:25:17
I don't like government overreach by any stretch.
1:25:20
Anyway, I appreciate you listening to the show
1:25:23
this morning.
1:25:24
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1:25:26
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1:25:33
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1:25:59
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1:26:00
You'd have to create an account or anything,
1:26:01
but you can read the schedule from there.
1:26:09
And that is what I encourage you to
1:26:13
do.
1:26:14
I believe that will just about wrap up
1:26:20
the program for today from the real estate
1:26:25
of the art studio, which happens to be
1:26:28
on the traveling version in Florida this week.
1:26:35
I thank you very much for listening in
1:26:37
and I hope you have a very beautiful
1:26:40
mid-Missouri or around the world type day.
1:26:44
Bye-bye.