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Birthday Edition: War & AI · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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  Samuel Trap. This is International
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  more than that, but it doesn't count the
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  ones I did as uh Question Everything
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  might still be able to find those
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  somewhere, but I deleted most of them uh
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  because they were informal and sometimes
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  the sound was a little crappy. But it
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  would have been nice to keep around some
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  of the ones that age well. Uh, you know,
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  like I did a lot of uh Hillary bashing
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  in and in in the 2016 campaign and a lot
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  of wondering who the hell was going to
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  run the world uh because the 17
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  candidates uh that [laughter] ran were
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  all crap in my view. Uh the the only
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  shining star even remotely among them
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  was uh the old Trumpster mostly cuz he's
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  different than them. I wonder about that
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  now if he's really all that much
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  different. But uh uh anyway, a little
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  bit of a history lesson. My name is
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  Samuel Trap. Guess what? Today happens
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  to be my birth day. It's my B I R F D- A
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  Y as I learned to say in the military.
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  Uh because there were a lot of a lot of
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  the uh the brothers that were there that
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  couldn't say birthday. And it always was
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  interesting to me that they would call
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  it a birthday. And I'm like, how is it a
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  birthday? But anyway, in keeping with
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  that, I wanted to begin the show with a
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  tiny little bit of
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  uh interest to me and give you the so so
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  Russia treats. Now, maybe it's only me.
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  Maybe I'm the psycho. I don't know. I
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  suppose it's possible, but uh I'd be
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  willing to listen on that end. But I've
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  never considered a birthday anything
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  other than, you know, another day. You
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  know, maybe you go out to eat or
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  something or something you get to do on
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  your own for your day. And I got plans
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  for for what I want to do today. And
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  most of it's crap. But but most of it's
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  just stuff that I want to do. It's my
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  birthday. And I don't, you know, I
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  hadn't planned on taking anybody with
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  me. Maybe I'll meet somebody for a
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  beverage later or something, but but
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  that's not the point, you know. and uh
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  communicating with family, sending, you
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  know, uh and receiving happy birthdays,
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  that kind of thing is always fun. But I
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  was always interested in the difference
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  between how because in Russia,
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  especially for women, uh but men too,
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  the the birthday takes on a different
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  historical day. It's a big de day. It's
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  one of the biggest deals of the year.
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  and and man uh
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  tell you what my my my wife who uh uh is
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  is born in August. Oh my god, you got to
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  you got to plan you start planning, you
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  know, 364 days uh earlier. You figure
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  something out. And uh I'm thinking I
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  might go visit her in in Egypt uh
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  for her birthday in August or something.
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  I'm not sure. I got a few traveling I
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  got to do. I need to go twice this year
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  and and I don't want to turn it into
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  three, but typically I go three times
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  somewhere internationally. We travel
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  together and uh um I know I'm doing St.
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  Petersburg at Christmas. Anyway, the
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  birthday part that I'm talking about is
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  uh in Russia it's different. It's a big
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  day. Women get big huge piles of
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  flowers. Men, you know, uh you know,
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  meet with their friends, go to the the
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  Russian bath house, these kind of
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  things. And uh the I'm telling you the
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  focus is far more on the birthday. Now,
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  when I was in the military intelligence
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  school, uh the Defense Language
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  Institute in Montterre, California, I
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  had a a fantastic teacher named Rudolph
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  Tenonbomb and we were he was a Jewish
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  guy, left uh Russia, left the Soviet
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  Union in the u 70s. Uh taught us in um
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  school and he'd been doing it for a
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  while. And the impression I got even
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  back then was he was not liked by any of
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  the other instructors. And I don't mean
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  I mean professionally not liked. I don't
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  mean that they didn't, you know, get
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  together and do the Russian the Russian
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  things because he was always involved in
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  going to Bleini. Uh, blini is a um that
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  those thin Russian crepes that are so
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  tasty that either they stole from the
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  French the recipe or the French stole
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  from them the recipe for crepes. I I
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  tend to think it was the Russians had
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  them first, but I don't know. But
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  they're made a little bit differently in
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  Russia. I've learned how to make them. I
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  I uh I like them. If I eat anything
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  sweet, it's uh uh blinchy. Blin or
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  blechiki means they're a little bit
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  smaller. you know, you you make a little
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  round ones that are maybe uh like a
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  small Mexican tortilla. Uh but the big
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  Mexican tortillas how because I and they
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  fold in either some uh some berries,
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  some jam. I don't like anything really
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  really sweet. So, I dip mine inka and uh
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  guushona is uh
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  I don't even know what it's called here.
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  Uh it's uh oh it's a
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  it's a milk product. Uh condensed milk
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  maybe but sweetened condensed milk and
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  it's uh it's kind of like uh the
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  consistency of a syrup and they you
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  sometimes you'll pour it you'll see it
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  poured over the top of your uh of your
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  pancakes or something like that. But I
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  like to take a little bowl of that and
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  some blinchiki and dip them in and with
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  a little bit of sweetened condensed
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  milk. Friaking fantastic and they're
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  very very tasty. And uh the Russian
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  version of the uh bleiki I learned to
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  make. I'm going to make some for my
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  birthday later uh when I get home. I've
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  got some things I want to take care of
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  today. But um I wanted to talk about the
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  difference when I was in that school in
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  Russian Russian school with Mr. Tennval.
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  there were so there are 200 people in
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  the class but there's only 10 per
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  section so each section had its own
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  classroom and at the end of the day uh
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  the number of people that actually
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  passed that actually graduated in this
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  it's a military school so you don't make
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  it you're still in the army but you're
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  just you're going to be you're headed to
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  the infantry you know you got to find
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  something else to do if you don't pass
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  so there's an incentive to uh pass and
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  and be become good in Russian. And what
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  happened was out of the entire class,
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  typically uh 50 to 60% would graduate.
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  So we had like 103 104 that actually
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  ended up graduating in the first 3 4
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  months. You know, it's like a a shooting
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  gallery of people that are just
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  disappearing. Ping, clicked him off.
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  Bing, that guy goes ping, there goes
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  that one. We only lost one out of our
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  class. It was an older person. Uh,
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  everybody in the room was 18 to 20. I
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  was I had just turned 20 and was one of
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  the older kids in the class and I had
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  gone to a year of college first year and
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  a half and um I didn't it wasn't my plan
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  to join the military and uh I but then
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  when plans changed well you know you're
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  getting money for college you're getting
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  a a decent uh opportunity and military
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  is very positive to help you out
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  especially when you got a big family and
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  there isn't two cents to rub together
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  for parents to assist you. uh going to
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  college or anything like that. And uh so
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  I joined the military and uh so in that
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  class we the the sergeant quickly
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  disappeared and it was really kind of
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  odd cuz he allegedly spoke Polish
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  beforehand. In Polish the grammar is
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  similar. A lot of the endings are
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  similar. Like there's 16 17 18 endings
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  to each word. So every word you speak
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  the grammar depends on what the what the
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  word ends with and how the ending and
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  then they have prelogi which are are are
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  parts of the front of the word. So it's
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  it's confusing to get them all together
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  and that's part of the reason Russian is
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  so hard and uh because you know they'll
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  look at you like an idiot if you can't
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  speak with a decent amount of grammar
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  and uh they won't they won't talk to
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  you. I mean we do the same thing here in
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  some respects when you got somebody who
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  can't communicate. It's like I don't
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  understand and then then you turn around
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  and it's not really fair but those are
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  facts of life. Learn the freaking
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  language if you're going to try to be
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  associated with the country and uh and I
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  still believe that in both directions by
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  the way and and one of the greatest
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  things I did in my life is learn Russian
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  to the extent that I learned it. And I
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  appreciate Mr. Rudolph Tannonbomb
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  because he had we were in and we were
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  all a little bit worried about it. We
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  were in an experimental class.
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  Our class was an experiment and they
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  announced it to us when our teacher had
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  to announce it. And everybody else was
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  in they would meet together far more.
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  They they were all on the exact same
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  teaching plan. You know, here's your
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  teaching plan. Teach them these 10 words
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  today and all the endings for them.
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  Here's your teaching plan. teach them
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  how to uh take the accusative case and
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  and work with the accusative case
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  endings and beginnings and how they
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  change when you're when you're speaking
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  in accusative versus nominative or
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  instrumental case or anything else in
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  your grammar. So you have to learn your
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  grammar in Russian or your complete I
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  mean in American we don't we don't know
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  when the instrumental case kicks in. I
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  have no idea. And and it and it changes.
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  But in America, most of the time in
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  English, all you do is throw a bunch of
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  words together and it sounds good.
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  English isn't a difficult language
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  because there are no rules. If I want to
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  say uh uh help you, I can take you to
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  him. I will. I can. And everybody will
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  know what I'm saying, but they'll go,
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  "Well, that was a little weird." You
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  know, what is he Yoda? and then and go.
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  But in Russian, if you say it in the
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  various words, uh it doesn't really
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  matter either because the grammar is
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  what matters. You know, the grammar is
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  the important part. Anyway, I don't mean
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  to lecture on that crap, especially on
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  my birthday. And I do have a plan uh
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  when we're going here. But but in the
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  end
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  we were we were a quite experimental
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  class and Rudolph Tannenbal had created
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  his version of how to learn a language
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  and we were his guinea pigs and they
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  finally let him teach his own style of
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  class and they thought that all of us
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  were going to fail out and in fact the
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  opposite occurred in our nine class
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  people. He changed the face of the
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  Defense Language Institute most likely.
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  Although I never when I went back I
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  checked on him a couple of times cuz I
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  went back three four years later and did
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  another year uh for the uh uh INF treaty
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  and learned treaty language did the
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  nuclear testing treaties and stuff like
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  that different language uh category for
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  that year. It was very technical and
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  involved and far more uh necessary to
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  communicate and not just listen to the
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  radio and be able to tell what a tank is
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  doing um you know coming into from
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  training or whatever. And so ours was
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  far more detailed. But uh this class
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  method of the way he taught it was
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  somewhat similar and I bet he had
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  something to do with it and retired a
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  very rich man because he was selling it
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  to people like uh
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  I I should look it up sometime of what
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  he like uh Babel or uh there's a couple
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  of other really good language studios
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  that you can listen to. And he would
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  show us each day. So day one he comes in
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  and he was very excited about and he was
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  the funniest guy. He was so awesome and
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  he really was a great teacher and he
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  made it interesting and fun and I'm a
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  smartass and he appreciated it. He could
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  have kicked me out of class a million
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  times. But he didn't because he took the
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  point of view that even a smartass he
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  would say to me if you're going to be a
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  smartass be a smartass in Russian. and
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  that there were two things he did that
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  made sure that we learned Russian and
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  that we were levels levels levels above
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  what the normal students were able to do
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  at the end of one year. So it was 8
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  hours a day working with Mr. Tannenbal.
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  It was decent amounts of homework
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  because what he gave us day one he said
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  he stood up he says my name's Rudolph
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  Dannenbalm I'm going to be your
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  instructor for the next year 8 hours a
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  day I have a a a program that I'm going
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  to give to you which is different than
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  everybody else's and we're like oh no
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  and he says but if you follow my rules
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  you will speak Russian fluently by the
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  time you leave this class you will be
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  you're not why learn a language if
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  you're not able to communicate in it and
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  all you can do is listen to tank tank
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  traffic coming in and understand that uh
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  you know
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  a uh pom uh means received uh that's uh
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  hey commander I'm I'm number six uh this
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  is number four call signs right number
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  six number four me we're going into the
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  to the station uh you know we're you
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  learn little military phrases that you
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  can pick up on the military stuff cuz
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  that's what was important. But he was
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  teaching us differently. He was truly
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  teaching us a language. And uh so I
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  think he changed the face of the school
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  at least for Russian. And he had the
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  same methods that he could teach with
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  anything. It was the way that children
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  learn. And so
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  uh Rosetta Stone is the other one. And
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  that one's really nice. It's even it's
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  expanded on what he was saying. I think
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  he may have had something to do with it
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  because the way you learn now is the way
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  we learned very first day. Number one, I
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  will never speak to you in English
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  again. I'm going to introduce you. I'm
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  going to introduce my method of class.
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  If it's important to you, you'll figure
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  out how to say it in Russian. So, don't
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  ask me anything. And we're like, what?
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  We're all freaked out and go, can we
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  learn? What the hell are we going to do
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  now? Oh my god. What are we going to do?
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  I'm going to be in the infantry and I'm
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  not going to like that. and I don't want
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  to be in the infantry. There goes my
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  $8,000 bonus at the end of the year. How
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  do I make sure to stay in here? Well,
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  after about 2 weeks, I freaking loved it
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  because we were already within a week
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  speaking full sentences, communicating
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  with each other in Russian while the
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  other classes were still learning a list
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  of words. You know, here's here's your
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  10 words for today. Let's talk about
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  them and then, you know, on you go. And
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  hell, we were watching movies within uh
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  two months and and uh and really picking
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  things up. It accelerated us so fast
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  beyond them. I think that the teachers
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  that were watching us were wanting to
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  know how they could switch their own
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  students right then and they couldn't
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  cuz they didn't have the means to do so
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  unless they start brand new and fresh
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  like Mr. Tenbomb did with us. And so the
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  what he had on the wall and every day
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  he'd give us a new u you know
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  mimographed piece of paper that would
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  have a series of
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  oh call it 20 pictures five rows of of
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  four sets of pictures a piece and
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  picture one would be the very first one.
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  The picture picture one is a chair and
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  it's not a chair. It's a little stick
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  figure chair. All these are little stick
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  figure drawings that he puts up there.
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  And the first one's a chair and the
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  second one is a table. And you're
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  supposed to compare the second one to
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  the first and tell what the difference
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  is. So it took a little explaining, a
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  little getting used to. And every day
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  he'd say, "I don't want you to memorize
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  words. I'm not going to give you word
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  lists. I'll never give you word lists.
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  I'm going to tell you what to say and
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  you're going to say it." And then in the
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  morning, the very first thing we're
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  going to do is we're going to as a class
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  and then individually verify what you
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  learned from this sheet. But you must
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  learn each sheet daily. Then this sheet,
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  he says, I could pick as we go on. He
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  said, I'm going to pick out, you know,
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  once we have 20 sheets under the bag, I
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  could pick out any of the 20 and I'm
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  going to do two or three with you every
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  day to make sure that you get the bases.
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  because the first 20 are the most
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  critical or the first 25, whatever it
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  was. And so [snorts] at any day, he
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  could verify which picture you were
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  doing and he'd pick one out and go, "Mr.
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  Trap, your turn." And he and everybody
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  would watch. So we'd do it as a class
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  and he'd go down the picture and the
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  very first page of pictures was table at
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  the at the stole at the karand at a
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  pencil um at the at the devushka at the
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  and it was just you learn not to say
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  uh which means woman or devushka which
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  means girl or Ivan which is a guy named
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  Ivan. Uh you would or or at the stole
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  this is a sto a table. A stole his
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  table. And uh but you learn to say it
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  correctly like you don't say this is a
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  table just going table and what's the
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  this is part because the this is changes
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  depending on what you're saying. So the
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  this is at the stol means this is a
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  table. Anyway, I'm going too far into
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  this and it really doesn't matter. But
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  uh the way he taught us was the way that
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  children listened to their parents and
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  the way that they get it and and it was
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  far stronger than the way they did. And
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  the basis of it all once you learn those
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  10 pages. So we're 10 days in to the
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  class. We're speaking in full paragraphs
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  and and none of us except for the old
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  sergeant who uh left our class within
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  about a month. Uh uh we we spoke Russian
• 18:56
  to each other. That's all we spoke for
• 19:00
  the year. And the other teachers were
• 19:03
  just amazed when we would go into their
• 19:06
  classes and then how far ahead we were.
• 19:09
  And at the end they give you three
• 19:11
  tests. One for listening, one for uh uh
• 19:15
  reading and one for speaking. And if you
• 19:18
  can do well in the speaking, you get
• 19:22
  potential. You know, you have just made
• 19:24
  a big freaking deal. And of the top five
• 19:29
  students in the class, three of them
• 19:31
  were from our class. And uh there was
• 19:36
  there was always argument about who was
• 19:38
  the best in our class, but I was either
• 19:40
  number one or number two, you know, and
• 19:42
  and I didn't really give a crap about
• 19:44
  that. I I was more on an individual
• 19:46
  level. Just very glad that I learned to
• 19:48
  speak Russian at the level that I did.
• 19:50
  And I got a uh on speaking they rate you
• 19:54
  on a one to five. And you nobody has
• 19:56
  ever in the history of DLI gotten a
• 19:58
  four. Okay, a four is a native speaker
• 20:02
  and a two and a half is astronomical and
• 20:05
  and three of us got two and a halfs in
• 20:07
  in my class and we were the only ones to
• 20:10
  get above two and uh uh you know
• 20:14
  everybody else is one one and a half you
• 20:16
  know on the spoken you know and many of
• 20:18
  them were much worse on the listening.
• 20:20
  you had to get a level twos across the
• 20:22
  board to get anything uh worthwhile
• 20:25
  basically. And um and I don't mean that,
• 20:28
  you know, but if you wanted to get
• 20:30
  beyond a listening post listening to
• 20:32
  what's going on in this country or that
• 20:34
  country, you know, listening to Russian
• 20:35
  tank traffic, which was always a lot of
• 20:37
  fun anyway. In the middle of the night,
• 20:39
  we listen to this Russian tank traffic.
• 20:41
  And I had a lot of fun doing it cuz it
• 20:43
  was they weren't the same. Their
• 20:46
  military is not the same. Certainly not
• 20:48
  in the 80s and 90s. They were not the
• 20:50
  same and it was uh interesting to say
• 20:54
  the least. Anyway, we started in those
• 20:58
  classes. Now I've spent Jesus 20 minutes
• 21:00
  telling you about that stuff. And in
• 21:02
  those classes we learned Russian
• 21:05
  intimately. My love of Russian movies,
• 21:08
  my love of Russian music, my love of
• 21:10
  Russian culture, all came from Mr.
• 21:13
  Tannenbal and some of the things that he
• 21:15
  watched. And what he would do is I knew
• 21:18
  about crocodile giashka.
• 21:21
  And if you don't know who Chaburashka
• 21:23
  is, he's one chebashka,
• 21:26
  boy, girl, we have no idea, but cheerka
• 21:28
  is a as a little bear uh came around in
• 21:32
  the in the 50s and uh or 60s when they
• 21:34
  first started TV and uh uh they had
• 21:37
  these little cartoons, these little
• 21:39
  claimation sorts of figures that they
• 21:41
  would do in Russia. And uh one of them
• 21:44
  was uh chaburashka. And chaburashka is
• 21:48
  an animal. We don't know what it is.
• 21:50
  It's a chaburashka. [laughter] It's kind
• 21:52
  of like goofy. What the hell is goofy?
• 21:54
  Nobody knows. And [laughter] I don't
• 21:57
  know, but he talks. And churashka was a
• 22:00
  little little
• 22:02
  bear looking thing with enormous ears.
• 22:05
  And he's been very popular in Russian
• 22:07
  movies lately. They've rebuilt him and
• 22:09
  brought him back to life. And it's it's
• 22:11
  friaking fantastic. And uh but before
• 22:14
  that they had crocodile gi and his
• 22:16
  birthday song. And birthdays are very
• 22:18
  very important to the Russians. And uh
• 22:21
  Mr. Tannenbalm was always very he
• 22:23
  brought us had his wife bake us cookies
• 22:25
  and he knew everybody's birthday. And he
• 22:27
  made a big deal of it [snorts] uh for
• 22:29
  you on your birthday. And he he he ran I
• 22:32
  mean we were going to be together for a
• 22:33
  year. You might as well uh not dislike
• 22:36
  each other, you know, and get along. And
• 22:37
  we created things and we went to dinners
• 22:39
  together. We went to uh uh Passover
• 22:43
  Pasca and they had the bleiki and the
• 22:45
  bleini and the like fish on Friday and
• 22:48
  stuff like that for the uh Provisanska
• 22:51
  uh church, the uh Russian Orthodox
• 22:55
  Church and uh they stuff like that. So,
• 22:58
  we really got a cultural dipping in. And
• 23:01
  so when you come to the birthday song,
• 23:02
  I'm going to play for you uh the Genna
• 23:05
  Crocodile's birthday song and then I'm
• 23:07
  going to translate it for you what it is
• 23:09
  because it's uh it's pretty cool. Now
• 23:12
  it's made for children, okay? But it's a
• 23:16
  children's birthday song and I happen to
• 23:18
  like it. It's a it's a birthday song and
• 23:21
  here it comes for you. This is Gua
• 23:23
  Crocodile and he's claymation.
• 23:26
  Uh, Guenna is short for Y if Guinea,
• 23:29
  Eugene. And Yfghenei. So, Guenna
• 23:32
  crocodile would be uh uh uh Eugene the
• 23:35
  crocodile. Yuf Guinea. And uh
• 23:39
  he's showing up with his violin. He's a
• 23:42
  crocodile. He's walking down the street.
• 23:44
  And I will give you the words, but I'm
• 23:46
  going to first let it run through and
• 23:48
  then uh you know go from there. Okay,
• 23:50
  here we go.
• 23:58
  >> [music]
• 24:05
  [music]
• 24:07
  >> It's a cartoon.
• 24:10
  Little truck pulls [music] up.
• 24:29
  for
• 24:48
  [music]
• 24:59
  foreign.
• 25:26
  [music]
• 25:31
  Oh, we skipped to the next one. Sorry
• 25:34
  about that. We need to go backwards now
• 25:36
  and get back to him because it's a very
• 25:40
  uh cute little song. And the words go
• 25:44
  like so. We're going to play it again.
• 25:48
  This time I'll stop it when [music] we
• 25:50
  get there and turn it down just a little
• 25:53
  bit so that [music] we can hear.
• 25:58
  And basically an ice cream [music] truck
• 25:59
  is pulling up. It's a rainy cloudy day
• 26:03
  in the claymation land that they have
• 26:05
  created.
• 26:07
  And the uh the driver,
• 26:12
  >> okay, that is
• 26:15
  uh let the uh clumsy people uh run along
• 26:19
  the streets.
• 26:21
  Uh
• 26:25
  let them run among the puddles.
• 26:27
  And then
• 26:30
  and water run down the streets like a
• 26:33
  lake
• 26:38
  >> which is a pocoy
• 26:45
  and it's not clear to the to the passers
• 26:48
  by on this nepoi means
• 26:53
  nonweather not a very it's not a nice
• 26:56
  day like gloomy on this gloomy day. But
• 26:59
  nepoi is is not you know not good
• 27:03
  weather basically. And uh on this why on
• 27:06
  this uh on this gloomy day
• 27:10
  why am I so happy
• 27:14
  I am playing
• 27:16
  on my harmonica
• 27:18
  so the people on the streets can see me.
• 27:21
  But unfortunately,
• 27:23
  my birthday
• 27:25
  comes only once per year.
• 27:29
  [music]
• 27:30
  That's verse one.
• 27:32
  Suddenly upflew a helicopter with a a
• 27:37
  light blue helicopter uh in in a u
• 27:41
  carrying a wizard.
• 27:45
  [music] And he showed me for free some
• 27:48
  movies.
• 27:52
  He said happy birthday to me and maybe
• 27:55
  he will leave for me
• 27:58
  a gift of 500 Eimo which is uh your ice
• 28:03
  cream pop your ice cream uh on a stick.
• 28:09
  I playing on my harmonica and that
• 28:13
  people's passing by are watching. But
• 28:16
  unfortunately,
• 28:18
  birthdays
• 28:20
  comes only once per year.
• 28:24
  Unfortunately,
• 28:26
  birthdays
• 28:28
  come only once per year.
• 28:32
  [music]
• 28:33
  >> Cute little song in uh uh of Guina the
• 28:36
  crocodile. And uh that is what children
• 28:40
  learn for for their birthdays. So I like
• 28:42
  getting a crocodile and I like to play
• 28:44
  it and uh uh I think it's interesting.
• 28:47
  Um and since I am a very important
• 28:49
  person and when I was uh 12 I was
• 28:52
  telling people that I was going to be a
• 28:54
  lawyer then I was going to become the
• 28:55
  president just because why not? Anybody
• 28:59
  can become the president, right? And uh
• 29:01
  I can do it. I'm sure I could. And uh by
• 29:04
  the way Chbarashka is in the video. This
• 29:07
  is on Visi.
• 29:09
  The channel has 322,000 subscribers and
• 29:12
  there's some Russian songs in there that
• 29:14
  are pretty cool. Uh I also happen to
• 29:16
  find and I haven't listened to it up
• 29:18
  front, but uh I I I'm hoping it's the
• 29:20
  correct one and uh
• 29:24
  I'm going to play for you a something
• 29:27
  that is very historic in nature. Um, I
• 29:29
  hope you enjoyed my walk down learning a
• 29:31
  foreign language and uh the importance
• 29:34
  of understanding the cultural uh impact
• 29:38
  behind it. Um, it'd be like us with our,
• 29:41
  you know, whatever our birthday songs
• 29:43
  are and kids have their own, you know,
• 29:44
  that that come out, but this is this
• 29:46
  develops the lives of people in Russia
• 29:49
  and and they're not so different. I
• 29:52
  mean, they're very very similar to us
• 29:53
  and what they do, their love of
• 29:55
  children, their love of family. And I
• 29:57
  hate the fact that everybody tries to
• 29:59
  demonize everything Russian in America.
• 30:03
  You can't watch a movie with a Russian
• 30:04
  in it without him being a killer or a
• 30:07
  mafia guy, drug dealer, a prostitute,
• 30:10
  you know. It's it's um you never see any
• 30:13
  good Russians, you know. And the the the
• 30:15
  only funny one was in uh Armageddon, you
• 30:18
  know, and he was he was supposed to be
• 30:20
  goofy, you know. where you can go to you
• 30:23
  can go to uh
• 30:26
  Branson and watch that guy tear up
• 30:28
  anything that uh that was Russian and
• 30:30
  talk uh you know ironically about things
• 30:35
  that happened in Russia when he was
• 30:36
  there 30 40 years ago. Russia is not
• 30:39
  same as it was 30 40 years ago not
• 30:42
  remotely. It is a different land and
• 30:45
  they are, you know, especially in
• 30:48
  Moscow, they are a wealthy place. They
• 30:51
  are booming like we did in the 80s. And
• 30:55
  uh I'll go back and I'll report to you
• 30:56
  as soon as I get my freaking passport
• 30:58
  back in the mail. Actually, the plan
• 31:00
  isn't to go until uh Christmas time, but
• 31:02
  I'm thinking about another another trip
• 31:05
  in between there, but my schedule is so
• 31:07
  stacked. I'm trying to figure out how to
• 31:09
  get it done and still be able to
• 31:11
  accomplish the things I need to
• 31:13
  accomplish. But, uh, back to America now
• 31:15
  and birthdays in America.
• 31:20
  Sorry, I needed a little sip of my
• 31:22
  flavored water. And this one, what is
• 31:24
  this? Grape flavored Propel. I don't
• 31:28
  drink a lot of water, so I got to get
• 31:29
  the electrolytes, you know. So, I try to
• 31:31
  drink a couple of those every single day
• 31:35
  because I'm always dehydrated. Um,
• 31:36
  anyway, this sorry it's so much about me
• 31:39
  today, but it happens to be my birthday,
• 31:41
  so screw you if you can't take a joke.
• 31:42
  No, I'm kidding. But, uh, it's a a a
• 31:45
  good day for me. And I think uh I'm
• 31:48
  going to share with you May 19, 1962,
• 31:54
  which is a uh high point uh of President
• 31:59
  Kennedy's birthday salute at Madison
• 32:02
  Square Garden and Marilyn Monroe who
• 32:05
  came in who came up to the stage when a
• 32:09
  great bundle of white mink following an
• 32:12
  introduction by Peter Lofford and due to
• 32:15
  a delay before her entrance. Mr.
• 32:17
  Laughford introduced her as the late
• 32:20
  Marilyn Monroe. Arriving at the lect
• 32:23
  turn, Miss Monroe turned and swept the
• 32:25
  furs from her shoulders, and a gasp rose
• 32:28
  from the audience of 15,000 before it
• 32:31
  was realized that she was wearing a
• 32:33
  skintight, fleshtoned gown. Then, in a
• 32:37
  sultry voice, Miss Monroe sang, "Happy
• 32:39
  Birthday, Mr. President," which we're
• 32:41
  going to play for you here. She
• 32:43
  continued the song with a snippet from
• 32:45
  the classic song, Thanks for the Memory,
• 32:47
  which she had written, new lyrics,
• 32:49
  specifically aimed for Mr. Kennedy.
• 32:52
  Thanks, Mr. President, for all the
• 32:54
  things you've done, the battles that
• 32:55
  you've won, the way you deal with US
• 32:57
  Steel, and our problems by the ton. We
• 33:01
  thank you so much. Afterward, as a large
• 33:03
  birthday cake was presented, President
• 33:05
  Kennedy came on stage and joked about
• 33:08
  Miss Monroe's version of the song,
• 33:10
  saying, "I can now retire from politics
• 33:13
  after having had Birthday sung to me in
• 33:16
  such a sweet and wholesome way. Uh, this
• 33:20
  channel is real time 1960s and uh I'm
• 33:24
  going to leave it in my feed and I think
• 33:27
  they'll throttle me uh slow me down on
• 33:30
  YouTube or any of the other but I'm
• 33:31
  going to leave this part and the
• 33:33
  birthday celebration songs on mine.
• 33:35
  They're songs of children and songs of
• 33:38
  history. Maybe they won't uh delete me
• 33:41
  so I'm going to leave them in for the
• 33:43
  purposes of this birthday discussion.
• 33:45
  But this is a a notable birthday song
• 33:48
  and I thought I would play it in its
• 33:50
  entirety. 2 minutes and 44 seconds is
• 33:52
  all it has to be. And here it comes.
• 33:56
  >> Mr. President,
• 33:58
  on this occasion of your birthday, this
• 34:01
  lovely lady is not only punkinous but
• 34:05
  punctual.
• 34:07
  Mr. President Marilyn Monroe.
• 34:12
  Perhaps
• 34:20
  there has been no one female who meant
• 34:23
  so much, who has done more than there,
• 34:38
  Mr. cousin,
• 34:40
  the late Marilyn Monroe.
• 34:49
  She just took off the mink. Wow.
• 35:03
  History
• 35:05
  worth a watch for sure.
• 35:11
  Happy
• 35:13
  birthday
• 35:15
  to you.
• 35:18
  Happy birthday
• 35:20
  to you.
• 35:24
  Happy birthday,
• 35:26
  Mr. President.
• 35:30
  Happy birthday
• 35:33
  to you.
• 35:42
  Thank
• 35:44
  Mr. President
• 35:47
  for all the things you've done, the
• 35:50
  battles that you've won.
• 35:53
  The way you deal with US Steel and our
• 35:57
  problems by the tongue. We thank you
• 36:01
  so much everybody. Happy birthday.
• 36:05
  [music]
• 36:10
  >> [music]
• 36:12
  >> Huge cake.
• 36:15
  [music] Carrying my two guys under with
• 36:18
  poles underneath it. Hope they don't
• 36:20
  drop the damn thing. It's huge. [music]
• 36:29
  [applause]
• 36:29
  >> Thanks.
• 36:32
  >> I can now retire from politics after
• 36:34
  having had Happy birthday sung to me in
• 36:37
  such a sweet open way.
• 36:40
  >> Yeah, no problem there. And both of them
• 36:43
  ended up u
• 36:47
  dead in strange ways. Uh and and it's
• 36:50
  unfortunate when uh people like that get
• 36:53
  taken for excuses like that, you know.
• 36:56
  It's uh it's not right. Um anyway,
• 37:00
  I wanted to uh do some birthday
• 37:04
  discussion, which I have done. Um I want
• 37:07
  to go and put in a uh one of the regular
• 37:11
  songs that I listen to that are not
• 37:14
  birthday related. But since it's my
• 37:17
  birthday, I want to uh go back to my
• 37:22
  history
• 37:23
  and pick for you a uh Oh crap, I am not
• 37:27
  signed in. What a nut job. Um well let
• 37:32
  us become signed in and we will uh
• 37:36
  engage in that because I have a song
• 37:38
  already picked on my uh on my channel
• 37:41
  fire
• 37:43
  uh in my history and I wanted to play
• 37:45
  this for you. So now we get to play some
• 37:47
  of my uh my my best mixes uh that I like
• 37:51
  to play. Where are we? History.
• 37:57
  Well, here we go. We're gonna play
• 38:03
  the
• 38:05
  song
• 38:07
  uh where is it? Where is it?
• 38:11
  Elondor.
• 38:12
  I have found it. Thank you. And I'm just
• 38:16
  going to play this Elcondor Pasa because
• 38:18
  I like it. Very good song. Great version
• 38:22
  of that song and I like it. Um hold on a
• 38:26
  second here. Friends and neighbors,
• 38:30
  looks like we have an color. Color, what
• 38:33
  may I say to you?
• 38:36
  >> Well, happy birthday to you. Happy
• 38:41
  birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear
• 38:46
  Sammy.
• 38:48
  >> Happy birthday to you.
• 38:50
  >> And many more. Well, this must be my
• 38:53
  illustrious sister and her esteemed
• 38:55
  husband, uh, Virginia
• 38:59
  and Matt,
• 39:01
  >> or better known as Jenny,
• 39:02
  >> or better known as murderous bastards.
• 39:05
  Everyone, you know,
• 39:06
  >> me and my murderous bastard husband are
• 39:09
  calling to wish you,
• 39:10
  >> we know about you, murderous bastards.
• 39:13
  >> We have heard about you. Uh, we
• 39:16
  understand what your intents and
• 39:19
  feelings and thoughts are. Anyway, would
• 39:20
  you have you obviously you've been
• 39:22
  listening this morning on my uh on my
• 39:24
  birthday and uh have you enjoyed my
• 39:27
  commentary on uh uh learning Russian?
• 39:31
  >> Oh yeah.
• 39:32
  >> You speak a little bit of Russian.
• 39:36
  >> Uhu. Yep. You've you've been into the to
• 39:39
  the to the motherland several times.
• 39:41
  Both of you, isn't that right?
• 39:43
  >> Or Kazakhstan for you Matt, right?
• 39:46
  >> No, no, no, no. He went to Russia with
• 39:48
  me also. S Beenber. Yeah.
• 39:51
  >> Oh, I thought you got Didn't you do a
• 39:53
  bicycle thing over there that I was very
• 39:55
  jealous of you about?
• 39:56
  >> Oh, duh. Duh. Yeah.
• 39:58
  >> Yeah. Very nice. These are Idaho Idaho
• 40:01
  folks that uh they have purchased a
• 40:03
  place.
• 40:03
  >> We're trying to convince our Russian
• 40:05
  friends to come to Idaho and see
• 40:08
  Yellowstone.
• 40:10
  >> Yeah, that's a Do you know there's a lot
• 40:12
  of Russians that come over and uh stay
• 40:14
  for weeks and one of the things to do
• 40:17
  because it's inexpensive. if it's a
• 40:18
  great vacation is drive around and go to
• 40:22
  all of the wonderful northwestern
• 40:25
  national parks that are just amazing
• 40:29
  everywhere. And you can if you can't
• 40:31
  find something to do cheap that way.
• 40:33
  Now, if you're a fivestar must have a
• 40:35
  five-star hotel, you know, you're going
• 40:37
  to have a little more trouble. But if
• 40:38
  you're comfortable getting a camper or
• 40:41
  even, god forbid, uh camping in a tent,
• 40:45
  >> uh watch out for the bears. I'm not
• 40:47
  doing that. There are bears up there.
• 40:49
  But, uh, anything else I would, you
• 40:52
  know, I would I would do and I wouldn't
• 40:54
  do it.
• 40:54
  >> So, I I invited my Russian friend to
• 40:57
  come to Idaho and I told him that I
• 40:59
  would uh uh even give him a tour of the
• 41:03
  Tetons and the Yellowstone and all of
• 41:06
  this, but uh he was having none of it.
• 41:09
  He said, "Uh, [snorts]
• 41:11
  yeah." And actually his daughter is one
• 41:14
  of the top violinists
• 41:17
  at, uh, BYU down in Utah.
• 41:20
  >> Wow.
• 41:21
  >> And, uh, he used a Russian interpreter
• 41:24
  over, you know, well, actually English
• 41:26
  interpreter, right, in Russia. Um, and,
• 41:31
  uh, Alexi was his name. But uh but he
• 41:35
  would
• 41:36
  >> govern this
• 41:38
  >> but uh instead he said no. He said I
• 41:43
  will never come back to the United
• 41:45
  States. He had been of course and I said
• 41:47
  why what why would you not want to come
• 41:49
  to you know ses you off? He's like uh
• 41:54
  because you are not free which
• 41:57
  absolutely
• 41:58
  >> isn't that funny. Isn't that funny? And
• 42:00
  they all say that. They say
• 42:02
  >> you were not free. He said your
• 42:04
  government is lying to you. And that was
• 42:08
  in 2017. Yeah.
• 42:09
  >> And I have no idea.
• 42:13
  >> Well, I tell you what, I have heard that
• 42:16
  so many times and there are so many
• 42:19
  Russians that I have met in Florida, in
• 42:22
  New York, and even in Missouri. There's
• 42:24
  Sadelia is a big Russian community. I
• 42:27
  know you know that having been here
• 42:29
  before. and they have that great
• 42:30
  Ukrainian uh store there. And the
• 42:33
  Ukrainians, the Russians, the people
• 42:35
  that live here go,
• 42:38
  >> "This is not this is not the America
• 42:42
  that we were told about." And even the
• 42:44
  ones that have lived here for 30 years,
• 42:47
  they say, "This is not what I came here
• 42:49
  for. I truly want to go home." And
• 42:52
  there's a bunch of them that are leaving
• 42:54
  and going home.
• 42:54
  >> It's really sad. It's really sad that
• 42:56
  our country which is a beacon of hope
• 43:00
  for people around the planet
• 43:02
  >> of freedom
• 43:03
  >> supposedly and they come here and they
• 43:06
  say oh no first of all the biggest thing
• 43:09
  is we live better than you in our
• 43:13
  countries and and and that's and it's
• 43:16
  unfortunately true at least at the
• 43:19
  middle class level now our rich our rich
• 43:23
  are a lot well I don't even know that I
• 43:24
  believe that our rich are richer than
• 43:26
  their rich because in Qatar when you go
• 43:28
  to the uh and it's all internationals
• 43:31
  there and the the boats that pull up to
• 43:33
  the docks there aren't the boats that
• 43:35
  you see at the lake Ozark here the
• 43:37
  richest people are over there the
• 43:39
  poorest people among the rich you know
• 43:42
  but uh we're we're talking millions and
• 43:45
  billions for these guys over there and
• 43:47
  it's uh the the world is different and
• 43:50
  the middle class is different and uh I
• 43:53
  don't
• 43:54
  mean that they don't have their
• 43:57
  struggles because they do too. So,
• 44:00
  >> sounds like you're quite busy. I'm gonna
• 44:02
  How about I let you get back to your
• 44:04
  day? I very much appreciate you calling
• 44:06
  in and wishing me this.
• 44:10
  And I'm very glad you did. So, did you
• 44:13
  hear my crocodile song?
• 44:16
  >> I did. And actually, my favorite Russian
• 44:18
  song is the alphabet song
• 44:21
  >> also by Is that the one?
• 44:24
  Is that the one by Jenna Crocodile?
• 44:27
  >> No.
• 44:28
  >> Yeah, I'll listen to them.
• 44:29
  >> No, no, no, no. I ask you, is that from
• 44:31
  Genna Crocodile 2? That version?
• 44:33
  >> No, no, no, no, no. That's
• 44:35
  >> that's just one of their
• 44:36
  >> just one of the kids songs for how they
• 44:38
  learn it. Yeah.
• 44:40
  >> Right.
• 44:41
  >> Yeah. Good stuff. Okay. Well, I
• 44:42
  appreciate you. Thank you for calling in
• 44:44
  and you have a very good day.
• 44:46
  >> You too. Happy birthday.
• 44:48
  >> Yep. Yep.
• 44:49
  >> Bye.
• 44:50
  >> Bye. And there she goes. I appreciate
• 44:53
  that call from my sister. That was very
• 44:55
  nice of you. Thank you for listening and
• 44:57
  enjoying the program. And we're going to
• 44:58
  go to my uh I wanted to speak about some
• 45:03
  news today because it was also a fairly
• 45:05
  big uh news yesterday. And so I'm I'm
• 45:08
  usually a day behind in the news because
• 45:10
  I follow it on the east and it's not
• 45:12
  really a day behind. It may be a half a
• 45:14
  day ahead depending on how you look at
• 45:17
  it. So the news over there, if I pick it
• 45:20
  up right now, it's the evening news. uh
• 45:22
  on the in in Europe and everywhere else
• 45:25
  and there's a lot of talk about uh
• 45:27
  framework. So I want to uh you know the
• 45:30
  top stories aren't really all that
• 45:32
  isolated. I Ukraine is trying to use the
• 45:35
  G7 to get more weapons, more sanctions.
• 45:39
  Europe is trying to stay relevant
• 45:42
  and they're not and they m star merits I
• 45:47
  want to be involved. I want to control
• 45:49
  and they want to be relevant in these
• 45:51
  negotiations but they don't control
• 45:53
  them. Trump I think might be trying to
• 45:56
  re-engage and but he's juggling Russia,
• 45:58
  Iran, tariffs, oil and AI. NATO is
• 46:03
  practicing war scenarios near Russia and
• 46:06
  uh nonwestern outlets are treating the
• 46:09
  Iran hormuz
• 46:14
  you call it a story. I call it a farce.
• 46:16
  and uh uh you know it's more
• 46:19
  economically important than Ukraine for
• 46:22
  sure. Um but I I don't I don't believe
• 46:26
  what I've been hearing and I'll believe
• 46:29
  it when I see it and uh I I
• 46:32
  unfortunately think that is a big fat
• 46:36
  goose egg of a failure. It's a zero uh
• 46:40
  for the American side is what I say.
• 46:43
  Now, I could have somebody disagree with
• 46:45
  me, and I'm and I'm certainly interested
• 46:47
  in that, but that doesn't mean I'm going
• 46:48
  to change my opinion, and we'll just
• 46:50
  wait and see. Okay.
• 46:54
  Russia's overnight massive attack on
• 46:56
  Ukraine occurred. More than 40 targets
• 47:00
  were hit in Kiev and the surrounding
• 47:02
  areas.
• 47:04
  Uh they are um
• 47:08
  tell you what they hit drone production
• 47:12
  sites, missile workshops, military
• 47:15
  factories, airfields, and dual use
• 47:18
  logistic facilities like train yards, uh
• 47:22
  shipping depots like truck truck areas.
• 47:25
  The Russian framing of what they're
• 47:27
  saying is that these are retaliatory
• 47:29
  strikes against military-industrial
• 47:32
  targets, not civilian or religious
• 47:34
  sites. It specifically says that Ukraine
• 47:37
  counts 70 missiles and more than 600
• 47:40
  drones and argued that the damage to the
• 47:43
  lavra, which is uh so I've been to
• 47:46
  several lavas in a monastery. You go to
• 47:48
  the relig to the to the back area where
• 47:50
  the where the monks are and they have a
• 47:52
  lavra which is um a kind of a huge
• 47:56
  churchy reception. I don't know the
• 47:58
  exact translation of lavra. I just know
• 48:01
  what it is cuz I've been in a bunch of
• 48:02
  them. And uh in in monasteries they have
• 48:05
  these huge beautiful
• 48:08
  uh cathedral style ancient that have
• 48:12
  been around for centuries. and you go
• 48:14
  into the lava and it's like going into
• 48:16
  the the chapel, the cyine chapel or
• 48:18
  something like that. It's just freaking
• 48:20
  beautiful. It's fantastic inside. And uh
• 48:23
  the Ukrainians are
• 48:26
  uh saying that the Russians tore down
• 48:29
  this or or aimed at and hit the per
• 48:33
  petra, the assumption cathedral u that
• 48:36
  they hit which is in a monastery yard
• 48:39
  and that the Russians hit it. The
• 48:41
  Russians say it was actually um
• 48:44
  misaligned patriots or um
• 48:49
  uh fragments of targets that were blown
• 48:52
  up in the air that probably damaged it
• 48:54
  but the aim was not for there. The
• 48:56
  Ukrainians on the other hand attacked
• 48:58
  the panorama they call it which is a uh
• 49:03
  a shipping history of shipping and uh
• 49:06
  victories of Russia on the ocean in the
• 49:10
  17 and 1800s that is in Sevastapole and
• 49:14
  they really did target exactly that
• 49:17
  location and blew it to bits and they've
• 49:20
  done this several times you know that
• 49:22
  they're they're attacking historical
• 49:23
  monuments um directly
• 49:26
  And uh there's always kind of an
• 49:28
  unwritten agreement that you don't
• 49:30
  destroy history. And if you have people
• 49:33
  that want to take that that that mean a
• 49:36
  lot to people, it's like killing a
• 49:39
  Vatollah. It's um um it creates a martyr
• 49:43
  out of him and it and it creates a
• 49:46
  historical narrative that will survive
• 49:50
  the lives
• 49:52
  that were [clears throat] lost in a war.
• 49:55
  the historical markers uh are much more
• 49:59
  important and and I don't mean that but
• 50:02
  how important are we all once we're
• 50:05
  dead? I mean everybody has a path in
• 50:07
  life and that life path is important for
• 50:10
  you and uh uh but it's not as important
• 50:13
  to the rest of the world what your path
• 50:15
  is and the number of people that uh uh
• 50:20
  know their history and keep all of the
• 50:23
  history. One of the things that I I
• 50:25
  don't want to say I dislike cuz I don't.
• 50:27
  But uh it's kind of a thing about for me
• 50:31
  why I love to travel so much is going
• 50:33
  back and seeing things that were done
• 50:35
  2,000 years ago, 3,000 years ago, four,
• 50:38
  five. going back and seeing historical
• 50:41
  items that have been saved in far away
• 50:44
  countries like uh the monasteries, the
• 50:48
  uh uh mosques uh in the in the Far East
• 50:52
  are freaking fantastically beautiful and
• 50:55
  they're being restored and they're
• 50:57
  they're huge and you learn a perspective
• 51:00
  that you do not get in America when you
• 51:03
  go to any one of the things that I
• 51:05
  really love and this is going to sound
• 51:07
  weird but you go to a early 20th century
• 51:11
  town that was built and they they have
• 51:13
  the town square. We got hundreds of them
• 51:16
  in Missouri and they got the town square
• 51:18
  and you go in and in the center of the
• 51:20
  town is a big old courthouse
• 51:23
  and the steps come up on all four sides
• 51:26
  and across the street you have a square
• 51:28
  of all the important buildings and
• 51:30
  people would gather in the town center
• 51:33
  near the courthouse and do these things.
• 51:35
  That's history, folks. And some of these
• 51:37
  are very beautiful, especially when they
• 51:39
  re uh when they revamp them and redo
• 51:42
  them. They're just beautiful. Well, the
• 51:44
  same things exist in other countries.
• 51:46
  They do the same. I remember uh being in
• 51:50
  u a park in
• 51:56
  I'm 90% certain that was in Nabi Chelni.
• 51:59
  Uh, it was on the water, on the river,
• 52:02
  and you go down there and they have this
• 52:04
  huge stone plaza. Everywhere you go in
• 52:08
  Russia, there are historical markers
• 52:09
  that go back to World War II, go back to
• 52:12
  farther back than that, historical
• 52:14
  museums, and they they try to keep their
• 52:17
  history and remember it, not just
• 52:19
  Soviet, but Russian and and and f far
• 52:22
  farther back. And Sevastapole was one of
• 52:25
  those places and it was on my list to
• 52:28
  see. Uh when the army kind of forced me
• 52:32
  to make the decision to leave cuz they
• 52:34
  wanted to disrupt my law school which
• 52:36
  really pissed me off. I was going to be
• 52:39
  sent to u uh Yaltta and Yaltta's on the
• 52:43
  Black Sea very close to it and you can
• 52:46
  go down and and and and I wanted to go.
• 52:48
  I I strongly wanted to go. The altar was
• 52:50
  the place of uh many conferences between
• 52:54
  countries and historical uh markers. You
• 52:57
  know, Kazan has become one of those in
• 52:59
  the white Kremlin which I showed you
• 53:02
  from when I was there in late 2024 and
• 53:05
  Vladikovkaz and I went there in mid 2024
• 53:08
  and all the place Groni which I which I
• 53:11
  went to in in that year and showing all
• 53:13
  these historic and ancient places and
• 53:16
  it's important. So when when Ukraine is
• 53:19
  targeting these, if you believe they're
• 53:21
  targeting, which Russians do, I mean,
• 53:24
  these are the the news that they show is
• 53:28
  solid missile hits. These are not
• 53:30
  fragments. Okay. What they've shown from
• 53:33
  the Ukrainian side about this Lavra that
• 53:35
  was hit. It's unfortunate that it was
• 53:37
  hit, but it appears to me logically to
• 53:40
  to be Russia is telling the truth. We
• 53:43
  didn't aim for that. you know, you guys
• 53:45
  knocked it down and there were some
• 53:47
  skullki, some um
• 53:50
  fragments that hit the uh that hit the
• 53:52
  lava and uh we wouldn't we don't aim at
• 53:56
  civilians at individuals. We don't aim
• 53:58
  at historical uh historic artifacts. We
• 54:01
  don't do that. You do and you kill
• 54:04
  people, you know, uh civilian types of
• 54:06
  people that are on the beach. It's BS
• 54:09
  you know what they what they are doing.
• 54:11
  And uh so that is some of the things
• 54:14
  that are in the news. Al Jazer says that
• 54:17
  uh uh Ukraine is emphasizing you know
• 54:20
  Russian strikes on Kiev right now as an
• 54:23
  escalation. Uh Russia says these are u
• 54:26
  mirror kind of activities. We're bombing
• 54:29
  the crap out of you cuz look what you're
• 54:30
  doing. You're hitting civilian
• 54:32
  facilities. We're not. We're hitting
• 54:34
  factories that are producing drones.
• 54:36
  We're hitting centers and we're hitting
• 54:38
  your uh your uh oil and gas storage
• 54:42
  because that's what you're doing in
• 54:44
  Moscow. They hit another one in Moscow.
• 54:46
  Ukraine did. I've said repeatedly that
• 54:48
  Ukraine's got nothing left but this.
• 54:51
  They're losing their asses on the front
• 54:53
  line and that's clear. You know, they're
• 54:56
  they are losing and it's bad for them.
• 54:58
  But that's that's the truth. Um, Al
• 55:01
  Jazer says uh Russian is uh that Russia
• 55:05
  is uh warning foreigners. I've seen some
• 55:07
  of these. They drop leaflets and they
• 55:09
  drop uh and they put out radio things
• 55:11
  and they tell all the foreign ministries
• 55:13
  that uh that you need to leave Kiev
• 55:15
  because we're going to keep it up. We're
• 55:17
  going to have systemic strikes on any
• 55:19
  defense industry target. And the Russian
• 55:22
  says that uh Kiev's defense industrial
• 55:24
  infrastructure is now its central
• 55:26
  target. But Al Jazer says it's a major
• 55:29
  escalation against Ukraine. Um more than
• 55:32
  a retaliation. I think it's a bit of
• 55:34
  both. You know, uh here Russia says it
• 55:38
  hit military related targets and carried
• 55:41
  out the strike in response to Ukrainian
• 55:43
  attacks inside Russia. And the people in
• 55:45
  Russia, if anything, are going, look,
• 55:47
  escalate. Get this over with. You know,
• 55:50
  so there the the talk that's going on is
• 55:53
  similar as well. Um there are blackouts
• 55:55
  and strikes on Kiev and other cities.
• 55:57
  Moscow claims the targets are uh their
• 56:00
  targets are connected uh to Ukraine's
• 56:03
  war infrastructure. So the fight is no
• 56:05
  longer just trenches and villages and it
• 56:08
  hasn't been for several months. The
• 56:09
  Ukrainians have no trenches. They have
• 56:12
  no villages and they are being pushed
• 56:14
  back and lo with great amounts of loss
• 56:18
  and they are near the end of people.
• 56:20
  They don't have any people to throw at
• 56:22
  this. All they have are drones and uh so
• 56:27
  it it's industrial capacity, drone
• 56:29
  facilities, air defense, any logistics
• 56:32
  depots and the political theater around
• 56:35
  every damaged landmark is showing their
• 56:38
  desperation and the money that they're
• 56:40
  taking 90% of it well I'm making that
• 56:43
  number up that but a great amount of
• 56:45
  that money is going toward drones. I
• 56:48
  don't have a straight percentage, but
• 56:50
  it's a it's a fantastically large amount
• 56:53
  going toward drones because you can put
• 56:55
  an invalid in a in a basement and have
• 56:58
  him push buttons and they're they're
• 57:00
  taking them out of hospitals probably to
• 57:02
  do just that. But they're sending they
• 57:05
  don't have anybody to send to the front
• 57:06
  line either. So if you can be sent,
• 57:08
  that's where you're going. And uh so the
• 57:12
  Russians might be correct that Ukraine
• 57:15
  places military assets near civilian
• 57:17
  infrastructure because they do. But the
• 57:20
  lava damage was caused by Ukrainian
• 57:23
  patriot to be debris. I don't have any
• 57:26
  uh evidence any real evidence of that.
• 57:28
  The west is send zilinski are saying
• 57:31
  they targeted this church. Well, you've
• 57:33
  targeted a bunch of historic places as
• 57:36
  well and I think that's a BS.
• 57:39
  uh accusation on either side. Neither
• 57:42
  side should do it. But who the hell is
• 57:44
  going to trust either side? You know,
• 57:46
  Ukrainians aren't going to trust the
• 57:48
  Russians. Ukrainians and me or you
• 57:50
  Russians and me absolutely do not trust
• 57:54
  anything that you hear from the
• 57:56
  Ukrainian side. That's that's that's all
• 57:58
  lies. Times of India says that Trump at
• 58:01
  the G7 um you know, well, let's let's go
• 58:05
  back a little bit. So Zilinski is at the
• 58:07
  G7 meeting in Avon and he wants a
• 58:11
  meeting with Putin that involves Trump
• 58:13
  and Mcronone. Don't know why he wants to
• 58:15
  throw in that loser, but he wants to
• 58:16
  throw in Mcronone. And he's using the
• 58:19
  Kiev and Lavra damage and the fact that
• 58:21
  Russia's bombing Kiev now. Well, quit
• 58:23
  bombing all the outskirts of uh of of
• 58:26
  Russian uh uh civilian targets and
• 58:31
  perhaps you won't have the damage
• 58:33
  downtown that you're getting right now.
• 58:36
  Um, Europe wants Trump to remain
• 58:38
  committed to Ukraine. The transcript
• 58:40
  that I read on uh some of the G7 stuff
• 58:44
  says there was not a separate Zalinski
• 58:48
  bilateral meeting. Now, Mcronone is
• 58:50
  still pushing that and uh that uh who
• 58:53
  knows. But in Ukraine wants yet another
• 58:56
  20 billion from donors because they've
• 58:58
  already spent the last 20 million they
• 59:00
  got. Um, Times of India says that Trump
• 59:04
  urged Russia to make a deal and wanted
• 59:06
  renewed sanctions on Russians oil. That
• 59:09
  kind of signaling came out. G7 leaders
• 59:12
  are trying to intensify pressure on
• 59:14
  Moscow. Um, but you know, this is what
• 59:18
  you know, Trump is uh fully lined and
• 59:20
  and I expected this. I still expect it.
• 59:23
  He's fully in bed with the uh the
• 59:26
  globalists right now, the neocons. He's
• 59:29
  he's in there and and everything he's
• 59:31
  doing is is their playbook. And uh in my
• 59:34
  view, no, you can disagree with that.
• 59:36
  I'd be happy to see what difference he's
• 59:38
  doing, but this is not the peace
• 59:40
  president. He isn't making he isn't
• 59:42
  trying to get peace and he isn't I don't
• 59:44
  even know that he's trying to make a
• 59:45
  deal anymore. I I think he may be on his
• 59:48
  heels, but that's me.
• 59:51
  Um I don't know. the neutral view is is
• 59:56
  I I would like to see uh something
• 59:59
  happen, but uh Zalinski needs the G7 to
• 1:00:03
  become a weapon and sanction summit for
• 1:00:05
  him, and that's not what it was supposed
• 1:00:07
  to be. And Trump wants to become a
• 1:00:10
  dealmaking summit, and Europe wants a
• 1:00:12
  unity summit, but none of these goals
• 1:00:14
  are the same. You know, it's um you
• 1:00:18
  wonder a little bit about the 55inute
• 1:00:21
  Putin Trump call that happened on
• 1:00:23
  Trumpster's birthday three days ago. Uh
• 1:00:26
  with Putin congratulated Trump. Trump
• 1:00:28
  allegedly said he could pressure both
• 1:00:30
  Europe and Kiev. Uh Russia says that
• 1:00:34
  Moscow is willing to talk but not under
• 1:00:36
  Zilinsk's staged format. If Zilinski
• 1:00:39
  what wants to meet Putin he can come to
• 1:00:43
  Moscow. That's what that's what
• 1:00:45
  allegedly
• 1:00:47
  I've heard that from a lot of Russian uh
• 1:00:49
  programs that I've been tell Zalinski
• 1:00:50
  can come to Moscow. He can come to us
• 1:00:52
  and beg. He goes everywhere else and
• 1:00:54
  begs. Has his hand out everywhere. Why
• 1:00:56
  don't he come to us with his hat in his
• 1:00:57
  hand? Instead, he writes threatening
• 1:00:59
  letters and says that he's uh that
• 1:01:01
  Ukraine is winning and Ukraine is not
• 1:01:04
  winning. That is not happening. and uh
• 1:01:08
  uh they're losing their asses and uh on
• 1:01:11
  the front line they are being pushed. I
• 1:01:14
  mean the Russians are almost to sumi for
• 1:01:16
  God's sake and uh uh it's it's you don't
• 1:01:19
  hear any I mean on the headlines over
• 1:01:21
  here you don't hear anything but
• 1:01:23
  Russia's losing and this is attrition
• 1:01:24
  war and slogging through the stuff.
• 1:01:26
  Russia is gaining a a large amount of
• 1:01:29
  kilometers nearly every day all along
• 1:01:32
  the uh,00
• 1:01:36
  uh kilome 1,200 kilometer uh front line
• 1:01:39
  all the way from up in Kursk down to uh
• 1:01:44
  Odessa. This is this is big. I mean, and
• 1:01:48
  it's a large front line, and Russia is
• 1:01:51
  pushing back the Ukrainians all along
• 1:01:54
  the front lines. And the Ukrainians have
• 1:01:56
  no more people, no more equipment to
• 1:01:59
  throw at them. All they have are cheap
• 1:02:03
  but effective drones that they can use
• 1:02:06
  to torment Russians in hopes that
• 1:02:10
  Vladimir Putin will be forced to change
• 1:02:14
  what he's doing only because of drones.
• 1:02:17
  the same argument that Trump and Israel
• 1:02:20
  are using against Iran, you know, for
• 1:02:22
  these drones. But drones are changing
• 1:02:25
  the face of the world. Ukraine can
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  withhold can withstand a little bit
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  more. If they had been doing this since
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  the beginning and only this perhaps it'd
• 1:02:33
  be a different war, but now Russia's too
• 1:02:35
  far ahead. The Donbass is gone.
• 1:02:37
  Zaparisia is gone. Her son is gone and
• 1:02:41
  uh uh they up in Kharkov, they need to
• 1:02:43
  go after that. And it still wouldn't
• 1:02:45
  surprise me if Odessa doesn't become a
• 1:02:48
  victim as well and they hook up
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  Transnistria.
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  Um I and and capitulation isn't going to
• 1:02:55
  happen by either side. It's not going to
• 1:02:57
  happen. Russia and Putin says they're
• 1:02:59
  fighting they're fighting all of NATO.
• 1:03:03
  And they are. And uh and that's not
• 1:03:06
  going to change. You know, they're
• 1:03:07
  they're they're not they don't want to
• 1:03:09
  come into Europe. the the lies that they
• 1:03:11
  tell you about that they don't want to
• 1:03:13
  come and take over Europe, Latvia,
• 1:03:16
  although Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia'
• 1:03:18
  probably be better off if they did.
• 1:03:21
  They'd be far better off. You know, they
• 1:03:23
  they're they're on the fringes of Europe
• 1:03:25
  and they're not treated well. Putin says
• 1:03:27
  that all these people in Finland and
• 1:03:29
  Sweden, these people who joined NATO did
• 1:03:32
  so because they thought when this war
• 1:03:34
  all started too that they wanted to be
• 1:03:36
  well well positioned to uh take Russia's
• 1:03:41
  uh assets, Russia's resources when they
• 1:03:43
  just collapsed because of the pressure.
• 1:03:46
  Russia's not going to collapse over the
• 1:03:49
  pressure. That's not going to happen.
• 1:03:52
  you know, even if somebody went in and
• 1:03:54
  killed Putin, that doesn't mean it's
• 1:03:57
  over. Uh, you know, Midvive,
• 1:03:58
  [clears throat]
• 1:04:01
  who who is a likely, you know, next
• 1:04:04
  dude, couple other people uh that are
• 1:04:07
  that are out there. H that may be the
• 1:04:10
  next leader. Tell you what, I'm not so
• 1:04:13
  sure you you'd get anything softer from
• 1:04:16
  from Russia absent a straight up
• 1:04:19
  collapse of everything, government,
• 1:04:21
  army, everything. But that ain't
• 1:04:22
  happening. So I I that's uh I don't
• 1:04:27
  know. Trump's not pro-Russian or pro-
• 1:04:29
  Ukraine. He is proTrump, you know, and
• 1:04:32
  he's trying to get something that looks
• 1:04:34
  good for him. Uh he was unable to solve
• 1:04:36
  it in one day like he said he could. We
• 1:04:38
  forgotten about that part. he is unable
• 1:04:41
  to get what he wants out of the Iran
• 1:04:43
  deal and now uh you know he he is
• 1:04:47
  reduced more and more to becoming the
• 1:04:49
  bully because he can't get it what he
• 1:04:51
  wants through a deal and he's made so
• 1:04:53
  many threats and and
• 1:04:57
  his posturing as people say that he's
• 1:05:00
  post oh he's just posturing you know but
• 1:05:02
  his posturing means he's got to escalate
• 1:05:05
  that's all he can do so I anticipate an
• 1:05:08
  escalation on this uh on this myself.
• 1:05:11
  Um, so the G7 agenda also included Iran,
• 1:05:16
  the Straits of Hormuz, China, tariffs,
• 1:05:19
  and AI. It suggests that the the the
• 1:05:24
  babies the babies of of Europe, you
• 1:05:28
  know, uh, your stars, your merits, your
• 1:05:31
  Mcron
• 1:05:34
  suggests that they want the Iran deal to
• 1:05:37
  happen soon as possible. and moves
• 1:05:40
  to reopen because the energy
• 1:05:43
  consequences for Europe are huge.
• 1:05:45
  They're enormous. Um Al Jazer says that
• 1:05:49
  Trump announced the US Iran ceasefire
• 1:05:51
  peace deal and said the strait is going
• 1:05:55
  to be open for shipping but also noted
• 1:05:58
  that Thran has urged a great deal of
• 1:06:01
  caution about speculating
• 1:06:04
  anything before a final signing occurs.
• 1:06:08
  in India says it's a major economic
• 1:06:11
  story for India. The reopening Hormuz
• 1:06:14
  could lower the oil prices that jumped
• 1:06:17
  because of the the US and Israeli
• 1:06:20
  strikes in Iran could ease inflation,
• 1:06:23
  help the rupee and benefit import heavy
• 1:06:26
  economies. Um, and it also reported a
• 1:06:29
  possible 14point interim deal.
• 1:06:33
  Uh, reopening Hormuz, sanctions relief
• 1:06:36
  for Iran, and reconstruction related
• 1:06:39
  terms. There was one I heard yesterday
• 1:06:41
  that said we're paying 30 billion as
• 1:06:44
  well for reparations from the West. You
• 1:06:47
  know, the money that's coming from Qatar
• 1:06:49
  and UAE, places like that, Saudi Arabia,
• 1:06:52
  that Trump's going to have them pay so
• 1:06:53
  he doesn't look like Obama giving up
• 1:06:56
  money. But they're going to give up
• 1:06:57
  money because they bombed the crap out
• 1:06:59
  of Iran and uh then and uh Thrron won't
• 1:07:04
  u won't accept anything less. You know,
• 1:07:07
  especially if you want the Hormoo
• 1:07:08
  Straits open, you're going to pay us
• 1:07:10
  off. And uh um I still think it it's uh
• 1:07:13
  it's not unreasonable for them to charge
• 1:07:15
  a fee to go through. Doesn't bother me
• 1:07:17
  at all. And why should it bother
• 1:07:19
  anybody? At least it's a straight cost
• 1:07:21
  and you know what it is. And uh uh you
• 1:07:24
  know the US can't go in there and steal
• 1:07:27
  it. They haven't so far. They've blocked
• 1:07:29
  it. But what's that done to the world,
• 1:07:31
  you know, and and and by the way, what
• 1:07:33
  difference does it make if they block it
• 1:07:35
  or if Iran blocks it? It's still
• 1:07:37
  blocked. And uh uh you know, there's
• 1:07:40
  there's alternative structures being
• 1:07:42
  made all the time. Trust me, people are
• 1:07:44
  going to remember this in the future.
• 1:07:46
  And and perhaps the next president will
• 1:07:49
  think before he will just willy-nilly
• 1:07:52
  follow along along the path that Israel
• 1:07:55
  chooses. Uh [snorts] which Israel is
• 1:07:57
  always going to bomb the out of
• 1:07:59
  people. That's what they do. They they
• 1:08:00
  attack and they bomb and we follow them
• 1:08:03
  and there's no discussion. It's not like
• 1:08:05
  we are strategic uh allies. We may be
• 1:08:08
  strategic allies, but we're not a
• 1:08:10
  strategic partner. They do what they
• 1:08:12
  want and we follow. And I don't see it
• 1:08:15
  any other way. It's always been that
• 1:08:17
  way. And it it doesn't, you know, we
• 1:08:19
  just Oh, yeah. Well, that's Netanyahu.
• 1:08:21
  He can do what he wants. Netanyahu is
• 1:08:22
  going to win again. People want that
• 1:08:24
  war. Remember me telling you about the
• 1:08:26
  Russian guy that sat on the plane with
• 1:08:28
  me the other day when I flew back from
• 1:08:30
  uh Idaho. Um he um
• 1:08:33
  he was uh s Russian guy. We spoke
• 1:08:36
  Russian. It was very very interesting.
• 1:08:37
  And he he's in Israel. He lives in
• 1:08:39
  Israel. He comes over to the US and
• 1:08:40
  tries to go to various states and
• 1:08:42
  various things to see. Did I say he
• 1:08:44
  lives in the US? He he he uh travels to
• 1:08:47
  the US from Israel. He said uh at least
• 1:08:49
  once a year, sometimes twice. And uh he
• 1:08:52
  comes over and visits friends. They go
• 1:08:54
  to uh historic sites, go to places here
• 1:08:56
  in the Russia. He likes to see nature
• 1:08:58
  and he likes to see some of that. Well,
• 1:09:00
  I was asking him about Israel in the war
• 1:09:02
  and uh uh
• 1:09:05
  we were the only people talking on the
• 1:09:07
  plane and we were talking Russian. It
• 1:09:09
  was just it was uh one of the most
• 1:09:11
  fortuitous things that happened to me in
• 1:09:14
  a long time to have a Russian sit next
• 1:09:16
  to me. But a Russian living in Israel,
• 1:09:19
  which is even more interesting. I'm
• 1:09:20
  interested in so many aspects of
• 1:09:23
  Russians in Israel because there's a
• 1:09:25
  good portion of uh Israel that is
• 1:09:27
  Russian and speak Russian. He speaks um
• 1:09:30
  uh I forget the I forget what their
• 1:09:33
  language is. It's not it's not the
• 1:09:35
  Jewish language, but he speaks he speaks
• 1:09:37
  the lang damn it. Why can't I remember?
• 1:09:40
  Uh but anyway, he speaks the language of
• 1:09:42
  of Israel. So does his entire family.
• 1:09:44
  His wife is Russian as well. They've
• 1:09:46
  lived there for 20 30 years and they
• 1:09:49
  travel a lot and uh he talks about the
• 1:09:52
  war and he is much more pragmatic than I
• 1:09:54
  expected going well you know I don't
• 1:09:57
  like what we're doing. He said you know
• 1:10:00
  I wish everybody would just leave each
• 1:10:01
  other alone. and he was really um he was
• 1:10:06
  really looking for uh
• 1:10:09
  peace. He said that the the the Russian
• 1:10:12
  people there just want peace. They don't
• 1:10:15
  want to, you know, bomb the out of
• 1:10:18
  Lebanon or Iran or or or Hamas or
• 1:10:21
  Hezbollah that they it's it's pretty
• 1:10:24
  cool when things are stable and they
• 1:10:28
  like stability. and he showed me
• 1:10:30
  pictures of both of his children, a son
• 1:10:32
  and a daughter are both in the army or
• 1:10:35
  some form of the military. I apologize.
• 1:10:36
  I think the son was in the special
• 1:10:38
  special forces and the daughter was in
• 1:10:41
  regular army but both of them were
• 1:10:43
  serving in the military and uh so his
• 1:10:45
  his view was a little bit we had a I
• 1:10:47
  mean it was a nice conversation and his
• 1:10:49
  view you know I was worried and I try to
• 1:10:51
  be diplomatic when I talk about that but
• 1:10:54
  it's much more from a point of interest
• 1:10:56
  instead of condemnation or you know you
• 1:10:58
  don't believe this and you're an idiot
• 1:11:00
  and blah I I I try not to go there my
• 1:11:02
  beliefs are my own but I'm truly
• 1:11:04
  interested in what other people have to
• 1:11:06
  say and it's uh perspective is what is
• 1:11:10
  extremely important and it helps you
• 1:11:12
  develop your own opinion and so it's he
• 1:11:15
  he and I asked him I was like well what
• 1:11:17
  about your your children he said well
• 1:11:19
  they do what they're told you know they
• 1:11:21
  would much prefer a defensive posture
• 1:11:24
  you know and uh but you know you signed
• 1:11:27
  a contract you're you're in the military
• 1:11:29
  that's the way it is and that's the way
• 1:11:31
  I always looked at it you know I I
• 1:11:32
  didn't have any desire when I joined the
• 1:11:34
  military to even join in the military.
• 1:11:37
  It was an economic decision for me
• 1:11:39
  because as I said, we had, you know, 12
• 1:11:41
  kids, you know, my mom had and um and we
• 1:11:44
  didn't have money to just uh oh gee, mom
• 1:11:48
  and dad are going to help us through
• 1:11:49
  college. We didn't have that. And uh
• 1:11:52
  they may have had that for the younger
• 1:11:53
  kids, but they're all [laughter] they
• 1:11:55
  think totally different than the rest of
• 1:11:58
  us that had to go through what we went
• 1:12:00
  through. And uh uh I'm going to take
• 1:12:02
  this call. I have a caller calling in
• 1:12:05
  and I'm going to take it. Uh let's see
• 1:12:07
  here. But there's a couple of things I
• 1:12:09
  do want to finish. Uh good morning. How
• 1:12:12
  may I help you? Caller,
• 1:12:17
  are you there?
• 1:12:20
  I got nothing. Caller, maybe you can try
• 1:12:23
  back. I don't know what that was. I I
• 1:12:26
  have no idea. But um anyway, didn't
• 1:12:28
  work. the um uh tell you what, the the
• 1:12:32
  Straits being what they are and um all
• 1:12:35
  of the stuff going on there, the this
• 1:12:38
  interesting gentleman telling me about
• 1:12:41
  uh the economic damage, the bombing
• 1:12:46
  damage, the u I mean obviously the
• 1:12:50
  airport's still open. He was able to fly
• 1:12:52
  out and come here, but that he's worried
• 1:12:53
  about his his army. the same stuff that
• 1:12:55
  we would worry about if uh if our sons
• 1:12:58
  and daughters got sent to a war for
• 1:13:00
  something like Ukraine. And uh
• 1:13:04
  Ukraine is complete from our
• 1:13:06
  point of view. We have no reason to be
• 1:13:08
  there. This uh the hiding and the lying
• 1:13:10
  about um uh these bio research
• 1:13:15
  facilities and what was brought out.
• 1:13:17
  That's big freaking news. I'm I'd like
• 1:13:20
  to do a whole separate show on that. I
• 1:13:22
  told you a little while ago, but there's
• 1:13:24
  nearly 40 of these that we built and
• 1:13:27
  paid for and I and uh and funded and
• 1:13:33
  helped man and were using as research
• 1:13:37
  for for horror story biological types of
• 1:13:42
  weapons. I mean,
• 1:13:46
  I'm offended that that our country would
• 1:13:49
  would go to this this thing. You know,
• 1:13:52
  when my sister was on the phone here
• 1:13:53
  earlier and said that the people said,
• 1:13:55
  "Well, you're not really free." Well, I
• 1:13:58
  I I I think she may have some uh you
• 1:14:01
  know, may have may have had a point
• 1:14:02
  there and and all especially from the
• 1:14:05
  point of view that they're always doing
• 1:14:07
  crap that the bulk of us wouldn't want
• 1:14:09
  and that they're if you got to keep it
• 1:14:11
  secret, that means you know nobody wants
• 1:14:14
  it and uh you know, you lie about it,
• 1:14:17
  you're the bad guy and and that is not
• 1:14:20
  what we uh desire. Um, you know, I'm
• 1:14:25
  worried about right now what they're
• 1:14:27
  talking about. Uh, you know, my
• 1:14:28
  skeptical, you know, announcements of
• 1:14:32
  settlement aren't really peace. The real
• 1:14:36
  question is whether Iran uh can can
• 1:14:41
  still have nuclear power without having
• 1:14:43
  nuclear weapons. Whether they change
• 1:14:46
  their behavior regarding that, whether
• 1:14:48
  the US actually really does lift the
• 1:14:50
  pressure against Iran, I don't see that
• 1:14:53
  happening. Not with neocons running the
• 1:14:55
  show like they are right now. And
• 1:14:57
  whether Israel accepts this deal and
• 1:14:59
  whether shipping insurers Lloyds of
• 1:15:02
  London
• 1:15:04
  believe that Hormuz is really safe. I
• 1:15:06
  question all of that because I don't
• 1:15:08
  believe any of it has been uh uh truly
• 1:15:10
  decided yet. So I don't know. There's a
• 1:15:14
  big section on AI
• 1:15:16
  from the G7 meetings that uh you know
• 1:15:20
  could be entertaining as well. And uh uh
• 1:15:26
  I'm not so so uh
• 1:15:30
  certain what's going to happen with AI,
• 1:15:33
  but uh the artificial and the new
• 1:15:35
  sovereignty fights cuz Russia says that
• 1:15:39
  their gener generative AI uh regulations
• 1:15:42
  have replaced the climate agenda, you
• 1:15:45
  know. So now there's no longer a climate
• 1:15:47
  agenda at the G7 because AI is now a
• 1:15:51
  major conflict point between the US and
• 1:15:54
  Europe and they're t they have open AI
• 1:15:58
  mist and Google deep mind that they're
• 1:16:01
  talking about. Um and people are talking
• 1:16:04
  about claude in the same fashion these
• 1:16:06
  days. The AP has confirmed that the G7
• 1:16:09
  is wrapping up with a full session on AI
• 1:16:12
  economic growth and the US dominance of
• 1:16:16
  the AI industry. And this is what the
• 1:16:19
  rest of the world fears that we're going
• 1:16:21
  to use AI as the club to replace uh
• 1:16:25
  climate agenda to replace oil uh beatups
• 1:16:31
  and gas and to replace the and to force
• 1:16:34
  people or try through AI to force people
• 1:16:38
  back to the swift system uh to make sure
• 1:16:42
  that the uh continued
• 1:16:46
  I don't know disintegration
• 1:16:48
  of the of the uh
• 1:16:51
  system of the old system does not
• 1:16:54
  continue. So AP says that major AI
• 1:16:57
  executives are attending and they have
• 1:17:00
  leaders from open AAI, Google, DeepMind,
• 1:17:02
  Enthropic, Coher, Mistl and others. And
• 1:17:06
  so western coverage says this is
• 1:17:08
  governance, safety and tech sovereignty.
• 1:17:12
  Not for all though, just for the US, you
• 1:17:15
  know, we need to control it. But
• 1:17:16
  multipolar critique of that sort of
• 1:17:19
  system says that Europe fears becoming
• 1:17:22
  now Europe too fears becoming digitally
• 1:17:26
  dependent on the US in the same way it
• 1:17:28
  was militarily financially dependent
• 1:17:32
  both on NATO, the World Bank, the IMF
• 1:17:34
  and and then now they're energy
• 1:17:36
  dependent on the US because they cut
• 1:17:39
  themselves off from the cheap fuel that
• 1:17:41
  they could have gotten from Russia. Now
• 1:17:43
  they're paying the the the maximum. So,
• 1:17:46
  this is good for the United States in
• 1:17:47
  the short term. Long-term, it's all uh
• 1:17:51
  uh horrible for Europe and they'll
• 1:17:53
  continue to decline as they have been.
• 1:17:56
  And uh I I don't I mean decline in
• 1:17:58
  importance and in financial importance.
• 1:18:01
  That's what I mean. And u but remember
• 1:18:05
  um this fear because Europe really does
• 1:18:08
  fear their digital dependence. you know,
• 1:18:10
  if they're going to have AI dependence.
• 1:18:12
  They don't have any serious players in
• 1:18:15
  AI in Europe right now. There's nothing.
• 1:18:19
  All they're doing is uh hitching their
• 1:18:21
  wagon to America's AI shooting star. And
• 1:18:25
  uh I I I the rest of the world though is
• 1:18:28
  not they're developing their own. I told
• 1:18:30
  you last week after the uh economic
• 1:18:33
  forum in St. Petersburg where uh Putin
• 1:18:36
  was talking specifically about this
• 1:18:38
  issue. Xi Jinping has talked about this
• 1:18:40
  issue. Narendra Modi has talked about
• 1:18:42
  this issue and and uh and by the way
• 1:18:44
  they have the engineers and the people
• 1:18:46
  everybody we hire is from either China
• 1:18:48
  or or or India. Anyway, they just happen
• 1:18:51
  to be run by people out of I forget
• 1:18:54
  where Elon Musk is from. Isn't he
• 1:18:55
  Yugoslavian? I don't remember. But uh uh
• 1:18:58
  all the rich people seem to come out of
• 1:19:00
  out of military places where military BS
• 1:19:04
  occurred and they get their start and
• 1:19:06
  suddenly they got all these government
• 1:19:07
  contracts and the government is paying
• 1:19:09
  them butt tons of money and uh you know
• 1:19:12
  it's I'm not saying he hasn't grown it.
• 1:19:15
  I'm saying that the basis he he's he has
• 1:19:18
  a lot of military contracts and you know
• 1:19:20
  he's uh he's deeply embedded in there
• 1:19:23
  too.
• 1:19:24
  You know, we got NATO exercises near the
• 1:19:27
  Silwaki corridor and pressure on
• 1:19:29
  Khenrad. Remember uh whoever it was,
• 1:19:32
  Estonia or Latafia, don't remember,
• 1:19:34
  saying we need to take over Khenrad.
• 1:19:37
  Khenrad's the Russian outpost on the
• 1:19:39
  Baltic Sea that is separate uh
• 1:19:42
  territory. It's like uh for us Alaska is
• 1:19:44
  not connected to the mainland. It's the
• 1:19:47
  same thing with Kengrad in Transnistria.
• 1:19:50
  They are not connected to uh Russia, but
• 1:19:53
  they're parts of Russia. Then uh so um
• 1:19:56
  NATO is rehearsing already war with
• 1:19:59
  Russia. They're pushing it. They want
• 1:20:01
  war with Russia. They're already
• 1:20:03
  exercises near the Sloaki corridor
• 1:20:06
  involving Lithuania, Poland, and France.
• 1:20:08
  And German air force statements about
• 1:20:10
  potential strikes on Russian targets
• 1:20:13
  like Kenrad, Cola Peninsula, and the
• 1:20:15
  Black Sea assets if Russia attacks NATO.
• 1:20:18
  Russia's not attacking NATO, but they
• 1:20:21
  have every reason to do so. Uh, defense
• 1:20:23
  24 says that gallant bore 2026 exercise
• 1:20:27
  involved Lithuania, Poland, France. Uh,
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  their strategically important land
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  corridor between Bellarus and Keningrad
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  and so other, you know, states are are
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  covering something similar. The
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  exercises run from June 16 to the 26th.
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  and uh uh uh the German air force angle.
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  Several outlets report that the Luftwafa
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  and Luftwafa commander Holgar Newman
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  discuss NATO strikes against Russia in
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  the event of the Russian attack on NATO.
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  Ukrainian outlets are saying this is
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  deterrence
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  and Russian aligned framing treats it as
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  escalation and proof that NATO is
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  planning direct war, which they are.
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  They're they're every NATO exercise is
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  called defensive, but everything they do
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  is attack related in the defensive
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  plans, right? How do we attack? Every
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  Russian response to any of this is
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  called aggression, you know, but but if
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  you rehearse war on another country long
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  enough and al right along their border
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  long enough, eventually somebody has to
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  believe it's not rehearsal. And uh uh
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  Putin says it's not. I don't know. Happy
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  birthday to me. Interesting takes on all
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  this. Up next, we have the damn swag
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  coming up soon as I close out of here.
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  Close out the button. And I'm damn glad
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  to have you. Happy birthday to me, to
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  me. And uh uh I will see you tomorrow
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  with the last show of the week. I hope
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  you've enjoyed this one. Uh party on
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  Wayne, party on G.