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Lavrov’s Warning, Ukraine’s Escalation, Drone Warfare, Euthanasia Debates, and Music Across Borders · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Good morning.
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  Hello.
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  Welcome.
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  I am Samuel Trapp.
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  This is International Flavor.
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  You are listening to Dem Radio on a
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  Wednesday.
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  Here we are on Wednesday and there's plenty
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  of news.
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  I came across something this morning that gave
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  me, I don't know, pause, I suppose you'd
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  say, it made me stop to think about
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  this.
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  It's a little bit on the odd side.
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  By the way, if you feel like calling
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  in today, please do.
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  573-746-8020.
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  I have some music that I want to
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  share with you.
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  I got some stories that I want to
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  share with you.
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  But I want to spend a little bit
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  of time on Sergei Lavrov's security conference speech
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  that he gave an international forum.
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  I believe it was inside of Moscow, Russia,
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  Moscow, but I don't know the exact circumstance.
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  I do know it was international, but I
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  watched the whole thing, hour and a half
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  worth.
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  It was well worth the edification.
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  But to say that Lavrov and company, that
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  the Russian leadership hasn't been consistent would be
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  a large misunderstanding, mistake, lie, whatever you want
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  to call it.
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  To say that they have said anything different
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  since at least 2007 on these topics would
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  be a grave mistake.
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  But before I get to that, I was
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  reading this morning and some of the news
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  items that took place overnight, and there's a
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  story in the Netherlands.
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  Dutch doctors, and think about this, a child
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  under the age of 12 has been euthanized
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  in the Netherlands.
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  This is the first time that someone under
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  the age of 12 under a new law
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  that they have.
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  This is the health minister Sophie Hermans reported.
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  The procedure was carried out under the rules
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  introduced in 2024 that allow the nation's doctors
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  to end the lives of a terminally ill
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  child in exceptional circumstances.
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  Similar measures in the Netherlands previously applied only
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  to newborns and those aged 12 or above.
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  So a newborn, they can, if it's a,
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  you know, a bad, they can just, you
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  know, put your child to sleep is how
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  it works.
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  In a letter to parliament on Monday, the
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  health minister reportedly said the terminally ill child's
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  death occurred toward the end of last year
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  and was reported to a special review committee.
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  Now, I can't imagine that you don't have
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  to have the review committee before you put
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  a person, you know, to their final resting
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  place.
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  This committee, yeah, great, a committee, you know
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  what committees do, they're a bunch of idiots.
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  A committee, these people get together.
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  Anyway, they've been set up to assess cases.
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  The minister didn't disclose the child's age, sex,
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  or medical condition.
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  It made me think a little bit about
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  what we do in the United States, or
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  if it's allowed, and it depends on the
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  states.
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  Tomorrow, there's a slew of major decisions of
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  the Supreme Court supposed to be issued in
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  the United States tomorrow.
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  End of June is always a big one.
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  They take a few months off now and,
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  you know, geez, they have so much work
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  to do up there.
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  Can't imagine that they'd take, shouldn't get a
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  three-month vacation up there before they start
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  deliberating again.
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  Anyway, this committee in the Netherlands reviewed the
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  circumstances and spoke to the doctor involved.
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  The findings have been sent to prosecutors who
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  will decide whether the procedure complied with Dutch
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  law, and the assessment will be made public
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  soon.
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  But under new rules, doctors have to determine
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  that a child is suffering unbearably from an
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  incurable illness and that no reasonable treatment option
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  remains.
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  Parents have to give their consent before the
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  procedure can take place.
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  Geez, how horrifying it is, you know, no
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  matter how you slice it, to be faced
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  with that kind of issue anyway, with a
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  child that literally, you know, can't, you know,
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  we don't know the circumstances on this.
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  When introducing the policy, Dutch authorities said that
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  this procedure wasn't expected to apply to any
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  more than five to ten children every year.
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  There's no formal policy that covers children between
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  the ages of one and twelve.
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  Previously, the applicable conditions include severe congenital disorders
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  affecting the brain, lungs, heart, as well as
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  metabolic diseases, according to sources.
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  Policy has proven quite contentious politically, with the
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  country's two main Christian parties coming out against
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  it.
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  Some medical experts also warn that doctors would
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  be reluctant to act because prosecutors have the
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  final say on whether the law was followed
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  rather than a committee.
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  In the past, a doctor could provide sedation
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  or stop giving food and fluid, allowing a
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  child to die gradually that could sometimes take
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  weeks.
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  The Netherlands became the first country to legalize
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  youth euthanasia in 2002.
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  Belgium removed age restrictions on the practice in
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  2014, becoming the first country to apply it
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  to minors.
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  The Netherlands recorded over 10,000 euthanasia cases
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  in 2025, six percent of all deaths nationwide,
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  according to the country's regional euthanasia review committee.
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  Wow.
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  That's a crazy story.
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  A young woman, you know, this is an
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  older story.
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  This is in March of this year.
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  There was another story about it.
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  A girl named Noelia Castillo died on Thursday
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  after receiving life ending, this happened in March,
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  life ending medication at a medical facility in
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  Saint Pere de Ribes near Barcelona in Spain.
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  She requested to be alone at the time
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  of her death, although relatives had been present
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  earlier.
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  A close friend who had hoped to persuade
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  her to change her mind was prevented by
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  the hospital from seeing her beforehand.
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  She had lived with psychiatric illness, including personality
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  disorder, and had attempted suicide many, you know,
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  previously.
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  In October 22, 2022, following years of sexual
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  violence and a recent group assault, she jumped
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  from a fifth floor window in an attempt
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  to take her own life, and she was
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  left with irreversible paraplegia and chronic pain.
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  She was later classified as severely disabled.
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  In an interview broadcast a day before her
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  death, she just said, I cannot go on
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  anymore.
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  She said, at last I've managed it, so
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  let's see if I can finally rest.
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  She also said, none of my family is
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  in favor of this, but what about the
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  pain I've suffered all of these years?
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  Now, Castillo applied for assisted death in 2024
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  through a Catalan oversight body that approved her
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  request, finding she met the required legal criteria.
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  The decision was challenged by her father, who
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  was represented by the conservative Catholic group Abogados
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  Cristianos, who argued that her condition impaired her
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  capacity to decide.
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  The case went through multiple courts, with Spain's
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  Supreme Court upholding her right and a final
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  appeal to the European Union, well, European Court
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  of Human Rights that was rejected as well.
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  Spanish media described Castillo as among the youngest,
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  one of the youngest persons to undergo euthanasia
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  in the country, which legalized the practice in
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  2021.
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  Spain is one of several European states that
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  allow assisted dying for adults with serious and
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  incurable conditions or severe suffering.
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  A total of 1,123 people had undergone
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  the procedure by the end of 2024 in
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  Spain.
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  Castillo's case was the first in Spain to
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  be brought before a judge to rule upon
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  euthanasia, and it drew nationwide attention, fueled debate,
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  and there was quite a bit of among
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  medical and ethical experts.
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  Some of the specialists told, you know, that
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  although it met the legal criteria for death,
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  others described it as a failure of society
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  and of medicine and raised concerns about her
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  mental capacity and whether alternative treatment options had
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  really been explored.
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  In a post on X that confirmed the
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  death of Castillo, Abogados Christiana called for changes
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  to the law, saying it fails to protect
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  vulnerable people.
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  Its president, Polonia Castellanos, wrote that Noela didn't
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  die, she was executed, criticizing what she described
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  as a lack of care and arguing that
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  death should not be a solution for young
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  people.
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  It doesn't give her her age anywhere in
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  this article, and it never came to the
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  age, oh no, no, no, no, yep, here
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  it is.
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  I had to go somewhere else to find
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  it, a different article published also in March.
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  She was 25 years old, and she was
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  scheduled to undergo it, trying to, she had
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  a, you know, a group.
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  Of course, somebody will tell me, well, I
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  don't want to share that story again.
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  You know, I don't know how I, I'm
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  trying to figure out how I, you know,
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  I don't, I don't envy anyone having to,
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  or being so knocked out mentally that they,
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  you know, that dying is the answer anyway.
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  I don't, I don't understand it, well, because
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  it hasn't happened to me.
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  And so, I don't know, there's some terrible
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  stories out there.
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  Israel has killed over 20,000 children in
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  Palestine, according to a UN report.
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  Israeli forces have deliberately targeted minors in Gaza
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  and the West Bank.
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  Wow, yeah, crazy stuff.
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  I'm gonna share with you today, like I
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  said, it's a, I have a, kind of
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  a, a slow day today that I'm gonna
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  pick for you some musical tunes that I
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  figured out last night that I wanted to
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  share.
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  And it's, if any of you ever watched
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  that, that Riverdance, if you haven't seen that,
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  there's a, holy crap, that was the Scottish
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  dancing or the, that they, or Irish, whichever
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  it is, I don't remember.
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  And I'm gonna play some Victor Tsui for
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  you right here, and then we'll get into
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  the Lavrov, the Lavrov analysis, okay?
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  Let us begin at the beginning, which is
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  a very fine place to start, isn't it?
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  Let's see here.
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  Victor Tsui was from the group Kino, and
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  very famous in Russia in the 90s.
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  So many, many tunes of his ended up
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  in movies.
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  So here, this is called Grupa Krovi, the,
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  basically, blood type is what it means.
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  And it's a story, you know, once again
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  about war.
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  Kind of weird, didn't it?
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  That was Victor Tsui and Kino, Grupa Krovi,
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  and Blood Type is the name of that
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  song.
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  Good song, I like it a lot.
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  So it's basically, the guy talks about his
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  blood type is on the sleeve of his
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  arm, you know, tell his blood type, like
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  in the U.S. Army you wear dog
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  tags, in Russia they put it on your
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  uniform.
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  And he says, so my serial, my blood
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  type is on my sleeve, my serial number
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  is on my sleeve, and the stars are
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  aligning me forward to take me off to
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  battle, but I think I'd just prefer to
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  stay with you.
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  I wanted to say it's a, you know,
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  kind of a love song, but a guy
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  who's torn between duty and love.
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  Love, true love.
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  I mean, I fall in true love probably
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  several times a day.
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  You know, you wander down the street, oh,
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  look at that, true love, there it went,
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  true love.
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  Who are we to question true love?
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  Indeed, it hits you right in the face.
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  How many times a day are you, you
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  know, does true love strike you in the
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  face?
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  Now, I'm falling in love with AI bots
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  that get on, and here's one for you.
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  I won't play very much of it, but
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  I'm going to play some of this for
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  you, because these, remember me telling you yesterday
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  about the songs that come through?
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  This one's a kind of a trance mix.
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  We're going to start in the middle of
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  it, but it's, you can pick them out
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  by progressive DJ mixes with melodies, voice heavy,
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  voice intensive, female, male, and then you can
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  get these cool backgrounds in there where people
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  are creating these worlds for your stuff to
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  go through.
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  I saw one yesterday on Victor Tsoi, in
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  fact, where somebody created, I wonder if it's
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  in my, so that guy, he died, and
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  I can't remember whether it was drug induced
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  or what, I really don't remember, and I
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  meant to look, but I want maybe I'll
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  share that with you first, because Victor Tsoi,
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  I like his music anyway.
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  I like his voice and, you know, and
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  how he sings and the, what do you
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  call it?
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  The topics that he sings about.
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  This one, they have his whole, his whole,
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  that one's not the one I want to
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  hear on war, I want to play the
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  one, damn it, come on, people, internet's not
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  working right here.
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  It's going a little on the slow side.
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  I'm going to share a couple more with
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  you today that I really quite liked.
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  Solncez, I don't know, we didn't want that
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  one.
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  Where'd it go?
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  Son of a nutcracker.
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  Am I going to have to look him
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  up again and get the right Victor Tsoi?
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  And there's a couple of mixes for him,
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  but we're going to play, here's another one
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  that I really like.
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  This one I've played for you before.
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  There's one called A Star Named the Sun.
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  That's a good song.
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  But I like Kukushka, and Kukushka came out,
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  oh, geez, mid 90s again.
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  And Kukushka, I've always liked.
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  You know what, I've played that for you
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  guys before, probably too many times.
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  So we're going to skip that.
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  But somebody created a Victor Tsoi AI, and
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  what they're doing is you can go and
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  create, say, I want to create a song.
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  Get this, music is changing.
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  You can go in and take a number
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  of Victor Tsoi songs, suck them into AI,
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  and tell AI, this is Victor Tsoi, he
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  died in the 2000s or something like that,
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  and he had a group that he was
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  with Kino.
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  And I want you to create a song
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  in this genre, with his voice type, with
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  his musical accompaniment from his band, in the
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  style of the 90s in Russia, and it'll
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  create for you a song.
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  And somebody has done that on Russian channels.
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  They have done it.
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  And so if you wanted to take probably
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  the most famous Victor Tsoi song is the
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  song called Kukushka, and it's still played regularly.
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  Hell, I play it.
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  It's that popular over here.
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  Let's see if you can recognize this here
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  song.
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  What have I done?
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  Why can't we hear it?
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  Hello, how's the family?
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  There it is.
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  And that song is called Kukushka.
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  And it's a good song.
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  And it's a 90s, you know, very famous
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  in the 90s.
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  But somebody has created that genre in a
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  new, and I think that's kind of a
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  cheat.
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  But they take all these songs and suck
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  them together, and you just go out, AI
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  is creating it.
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  You don't even have to be creative anymore.
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  You can go create a song.
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  I mean, just go in and you know
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  how you tell AI to create you a
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  country western song?
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  Do you remember the joke?
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  You know, what happens when you play a
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  country western song backward?
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  What if you, you know, remember, they used
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  to play all those songs backward, and you
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  could hear devil chanting in the background or
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  whatever.
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  They'd have these secret messages in there.
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  Well, you know what happens when you do
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  that with a country song?
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  Well, your pickup truck, the repossession company gives
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  it back, your wife moves back in, and
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  your dog comes back home from having been
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  lost, run away.
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  That's what happens when you play a country
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  western song backward.
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  So if you don't want your dog or
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  pickup or wife back, don't do it.
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  It's a bad plan.
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  I wanted to talk a little bit today,
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  and we're going to play another one.
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  There were a couple of my favorites that
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  I saw last night, but they're really eclectic.
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  They're all over the freaking place.
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  And of course, of course, that's me most
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  of the time.
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  Anyway, I get bored with something to move
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  on and switch, you know, got to go
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  next topic.
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  And what we're talking about right now is
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  I wanted to include for you this interesting
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  Lavrov discussion.
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  You know that I like to, I like
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  to get the words as straight from the
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  horse's mouth, if at all possible, what they
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  say.
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  It's, I don't really like to get my
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  news from another commentator.
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  You know, I prefer to make my own
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  impressions based off of what I've listened or
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  heard of leadership or from leadership myself, people
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  that are in charge.
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  Now, you have your topics and depending on
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  where you get it, you might not get
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  it.
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  But if you listen to them straight up,
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  like if you're deranged enough to watch C
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  -SPAN, you can get all of the, a
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  lot of the news straight from yourselves.
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  But Lavrov was given a show, he was
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  at a round table of ambassadors.
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  So it was a ambassadors round table held
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  in Moscow at the foreign ministry.
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  He's the, you know, equivalent of Marco Rubio,
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  Secretary of State, has the longest serving Secretary
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  of State on the planet.
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  I think he was appointed first or started
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  serving first in 99, 2000, something like that.
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  And he gave, of concern to them, to
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  everyone, and frankly should be of concern to
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  the whole world, are the threats that Zelensky
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  is making against Belarus.
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  He's demanding, and he's not being quiet about
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  it.
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  This is not diplomacy at all.
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  And so Lavrov started expressing support for Belarus
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  after a Ukrainian drone attack, which occurred last
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  week in Bryansk against a bus carrying Belarusian
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  children, an entire soccer team.
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  And there were new threats made by Zelensky
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  toward Belarus.
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  And his argument is that Ukraine isn't defending
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  itself, but trying to expand the war's geography
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  by including Belarus, wants to drag Belarus right
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  into it.
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  That he, Zelensky demanded that Belarus restore order
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  on its territory by getting rid of Russian
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  relay towers that allow Russia to attack.
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  And so he wants to restore order.
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  And if Belarus, if Lukashenko doesn't do it,
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  Zelensky is going to do it.
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  Zelensky is going to attack Belarus.
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  And people are actually freaked out about this
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  right now.
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  Belarus is a country of, what is it,
• 30:45
  10,000 people, nine.
• 30:46
  It's not a very large country.
• 30:48
  It's not got a high population.
• 30:51
  And of course, neither does Ukraine.
• 30:52
  Ukrainian population was around 45 years back when
• 30:57
  they were the Soviet Union, but they're down
• 31:01
  to, according to the latest numbers, and nobody
• 31:04
  can tell for positive, but likely under 20,
• 31:08
  sub 20 million, including about six to eight
• 31:13
  million who ran out of the country.
• 31:16
  And they're not coming back.
• 31:17
  They're not going to go back.
• 31:19
  But Zelensky demands that Lukashenko restore order, or
• 31:25
  Ukraine's going to do it themselves.
• 31:27
  Lavrov criticized, there's a European commission spokesperson, I
• 31:31
  forget her name, but another European moron who
• 31:34
  effectively justified Zelensky's threats by saying Ukraine has
• 31:39
  a right to defend itself.
• 31:42
  Well, how are they defending themselves if they're
• 31:44
  attacking Belarus?
• 31:47
  So it's up is down, down is up,
• 31:51
  cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.
• 31:54
  It's nonsense.
• 31:56
  Lavrov's point is that in his view, the
• 31:58
  West isn't restraining Kiev and hasn't been.
• 32:01
  It's giving Kiev permission to threaten Belarus.
• 32:06
  And he said to these group of ambassadors
• 32:09
  that since March of 2025, Russia and Belarus
• 32:13
  had signed a treaty on security guarantees within
• 32:16
  the union, and that Russia's prepared if necessary
• 32:20
  to take a full range of measures under
• 32:22
  that treaty to protect Belarus and the union
• 32:25
  state.
• 32:26
  So the fact is that if Zelensky is
• 32:31
  really that big an idiot, now he's never
• 32:33
  been that bright in the first place, but
• 32:35
  if he's really that stupid, that he's going
• 32:39
  to attack Belarus in an effort to draw
• 32:42
  people in.
• 32:43
  Now granted, they're going to twist it everywhere
• 32:45
  else as if Russia attacked Zelensky from Belarus,
• 32:50
  but that's not what's going to happen.
• 32:51
  That's going to result if Zelensky does attack
• 32:56
  Belarus or try to take out these towers.
• 32:58
  Russia has been telling Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland,
• 33:03
  Sweden, all these other countries that are allowing
• 33:06
  Ukrainians to use their airspace as a starting
• 33:10
  point and a base for their drones to
• 33:13
  attack into St. Petersburg and into northern Russia,
• 33:17
  that you keep this up and we realize
• 33:22
  that we've been fighting NATO all along anyway.
• 33:26
  And if you keep this up, we're going
• 33:28
  to respond by taking out your capacity to
• 33:32
  do these things with towers.
• 33:35
  We'll take out relay towers in your countries.
• 33:38
  So that's expansion and Russia hasn't done it.
• 33:42
  But now Ukraine is threatening to do that
• 33:44
  to Belarus because they're getting desperate.
• 33:48
  They need an escalation.
• 33:50
  They need that escalation.
• 33:52
  That is why they're sending missiles into Russia
• 33:58
  at the level they're doing.
• 34:01
  And the Lavrovs of the world are saying,
• 34:09
  look, don't push us.
• 34:13
  And Belarus ambassador was there and he described
• 34:18
  the June 17th attack in Bryansk.
• 34:20
  He said that a Ukrainian origin strike drone
• 34:24
  attacked a civilian bus that was carrying 44
• 34:28
  Belarusian children to Gelendzhik, including 28 children from
• 34:34
  a youth football team.
• 34:35
  He said a pregnant Belarusian woman died and
• 34:38
  eight people were wounded.
• 34:40
  Six of them were children.
• 34:42
  The pictures are terrible.
• 34:43
  His argument reinforces the theme that Lavrov was
• 34:47
  putting out.
• 34:48
  The war is more brutal.
• 34:50
  Civilians are being targeted by Ukraine and Belarus
• 34:53
  believes that Ukraine is trying to provoke it.
• 34:57
  Zelensky specifically is trying to provoke it and
• 35:00
  drag it into the conflict.
• 35:02
  Belarus demanded an explanation and investigation from Ukraine
• 35:06
  and reserve the right to take its own
• 35:08
  measures.
• 35:10
  So the rhetoric is escalating, if nothing else.
• 35:13
  The ambassador's strategic point was that long-term
• 35:17
  peace requires an inclusive security architecture based on
• 35:23
  sovereign equality, indivisible security, and the principle that
• 35:27
  no state should secure itself at another state's
• 35:30
  expense.
• 35:31
  He tied this to the Eurasian Charter of
• 35:36
  Diversity and Multipolarity with a ministerial meeting that's
• 35:40
  planned in New York in September this year.
• 35:44
  So Lavrov's argument that the Ukraine crisis really
• 35:49
  isn't isolated at all, and it's not an
• 35:52
  isolated conflict, it's a long Western strategy after
• 35:56
  the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• 35:58
  The West signed on to the principle of
• 36:00
  indivisible security through the OSCE, then violated that
• 36:06
  principle by expanding NATO toward Russia's borders over
• 36:10
  and over, and creating what Lavrov calls a
• 36:14
  belt of instability and Russophobic political regimes near
• 36:20
  Russia.
• 36:22
  He talked about the coups in 2004 and
• 36:25
  2014, first interfered in Ukraine by forcing a
• 36:29
  third round in the presidential election which wasn't
• 36:32
  provided for by the Ukrainian constitution.
• 36:35
  West used that process to block the candidate
• 36:38
  who won the second round and install its
• 36:41
  preferred political figure.
• 36:43
  And then in 2014, they played a direct
• 36:45
  role in the February 2014 coup, and he
• 36:51
  accused Kyiv of using the army, combat aviation,
• 36:55
  and nationalist battalions against civilians in violation of
• 37:01
  international humanitarian law.
• 37:05
  You know, he talked about the lack of
• 37:09
  diplomacy and how the West has been pushing
• 37:16
  a Russia or Europe framework for all of
• 37:22
  these countries.
• 37:23
  You cannot pick, you cannot, you have to
• 37:29
  pick one or the other.
• 37:30
  You can't just say, no, no, no, we
• 37:32
  have our own point of view.
• 37:35
  And, you know, we're not going to pick,
• 37:37
  we want to get along with everyone.
• 37:38
  You're not allowed to say that.
• 37:40
  And that's all of Europe these days.
• 37:42
  You're not allowed to say that.
• 37:43
  Anyone who tries is beaten into submission by
• 37:46
  the Ursula von der Leyen of the world.
• 37:49
  The Minsk agreements, same thing, you know, just
• 37:52
  a delay tactic.
• 37:54
  The treaty proposals in 2021 and how NATO
• 37:57
  rejected it, they tried to create treaties around
• 38:04
  here.
• 38:04
  Current European role is for not a mediator,
• 38:08
  but being a party to the war.
• 38:11
  And then, you know, it was the G7
• 38:15
  statement that they had last week when the
• 38:18
  G7 met.
• 38:20
  No peace of any kind, no discussions of
• 38:23
  peace at all, no European desire for peace.
• 38:26
  They only want weapons and sanctions, more weapons,
• 38:30
  sanctions, Russian capitulation.
• 38:33
  They want a ceasefire.
• 38:36
  They don't want the goal of the ceasefire
• 38:39
  is not peace, but saving the Zelensky regime
• 38:43
  and preserving Ukraine as a platform for continued
• 38:47
  struggle against Russia.
• 38:48
  That's why they've upped the ante with these
• 38:51
  storm shadow missiles that are being allowed, they
• 38:55
  use Western targeting that are being allowed to
• 38:58
  strike inside of Russia.
• 38:59
  I don't see, I mean, it's obviously not
• 39:02
  ending well, but I watched a show last
• 39:04
  night on the war and with these strikes
• 39:08
  going on as they are, hundreds of drones
• 39:10
  daily back and forth, Russia taken out all
• 39:14
  Ukrainian infrastructure, but Ukraine sending over, and it's
• 39:18
  pretty, it's not funny, but pretty interesting that
• 39:22
  every day, like for example, if Ukraine targets
• 39:29
  inside of the Bryansk region, heads north from
• 39:33
  Sumy or wherever and heads up into that
• 39:36
  area, then Russia will respond into that area
• 39:41
  that they fired from.
• 39:43
  If they come into the Crimea region from
• 39:46
  the Zaporozhye area, Russia will bomb the crap
• 39:50
  out of Zaporozhye and they have these answering
• 39:52
  volleys that take out these drone shops in
• 39:58
  other places, but the West keeps supplying them
• 40:01
  and that's why they're running out of drones
• 40:03
  and so now they're supplying them with missiles
• 40:05
  and they can't produce drones fast enough to
• 40:08
  keep them going.
• 40:09
  I think Russia's finally running into some limitations
• 40:13
  on drones as well.
• 40:14
  Although the reports before were that they had
• 40:17
  thousands upon thousands in reserve, I'm hearing that
• 40:21
  there might not be any longer, especially with
• 40:24
  Iran being in the trouble that it's in,
• 40:27
  and it makes you think of, wonder if
• 40:29
  that was part of it as well.
• 40:32
  What was finished, the Western, you know, with
• 40:37
  Lavrov, he talked about, he finished up by
• 40:40
  talking about the suppression of speech, freedom of
• 40:43
  speech in Europe, that Western freedom of speech
• 40:47
  is nothing but a fraud.
• 40:48
  He says a European publication refused to publish
• 40:52
  his article that he wrote despite a prior
• 40:55
  agreement to send it for him, and he
• 40:59
  said the text of the article was distributed
• 41:02
  to attendees and connected to a broadened pattern.
• 41:05
  Any truth about Ukraine is taboo in the
• 41:08
  West.
• 41:08
  You're not allowed to talk about it and
• 41:10
  your channel gets blocked.
• 41:15
  OECD statistics claim that a 2025 official aid
• 41:19
  to the poorest countries fell by 23 percent,
• 41:22
  this is people of the global South, because
• 41:25
  of all the increase in support sending weapons
• 41:29
  to Ukraine.
• 41:30
  So he then expanded past Ukraine.
• 41:33
  He said that the U.S., Britain, and
• 41:35
  Europe seek total global dominance, again, control of
• 41:41
  energy markets, resources, transport routes, and all geopolitical
• 41:45
  corridors.
• 41:47
  He talked about U.S. intervention in Venezuela,
• 41:50
  Israeli aggression with the U.S. against Iran,
• 41:54
  Trump's alleged statement that the U.S. is
• 41:56
  going to take control of the Strait of
• 41:58
  Hormuz if negotiations fail, Trump's pressure on Cuba,
• 42:02
  Western efforts to influence Central Asia and the
• 42:06
  South Caucasus, France's actions in Africa and reliance
• 42:11
  on separatists, terrorist groups, and Ukrainian fighters opening
• 42:14
  a second front against Russia, military blocks in
• 42:19
  Eastern Asia, including groupings with nuclear components.
• 42:22
  NATO's claim that threats now come from the
• 42:25
  South China Sea, Taiwan, and East Asia, and
• 42:29
  the broader thesis is this, Ukraine is now
• 42:31
  part of a larger Western project to dominate
• 42:35
  Eurasia from east to, from west to east,
• 42:38
  contain Russia and China, and pressure post-Soviet
• 42:41
  states into Western alignment the same way they
• 42:44
  did Ukraine.
• 42:46
  So what's the, Russia's alternative is an inclusive
• 42:49
  Eurasian security architecture.
• 42:53
  Their architecture is that Russia and its partners
• 42:56
  aren't imposing anything, but proposing a serious conversation
• 43:00
  about conflicts and security problems across the continent.
• 43:04
  And it's a positive alternative, not NATO expansion,
• 43:09
  not exclusive blocks, but an inclusive Eurasian balance
• 43:13
  of interests, trying to go back to what
• 43:16
  the U.N. charter says it was founded
• 43:19
  for, and multi-polarity and not one size
• 43:22
  fits all.
• 43:24
  And he talks about his, and finally he
• 43:27
  finished up with the objectives of Russia and
• 43:30
  Ukraine.
• 43:31
  He listed the required settlement points.
• 43:34
  Ukraine has to have a neutral, non-block,
• 43:37
  non-nuclear status.
• 43:39
  That status, he said, is part of Ukraine's
• 43:42
  declaration of independence already, and the basis on
• 43:45
  which Russia and others recognized Ukraine.
• 43:49
  Discriminatory, discriminatory laws against Russian language have to
• 43:53
  be repealed.
• 43:54
  Discriminatory laws against Russian orthodoxy have to be
• 43:59
  repealed.
• 44:00
  New geopolitical realities have to be recognized, meaning
• 44:03
  Crimea, Donbass, and Novorossiya, as determined by what
• 44:08
  Russia calls the, the free will of their
• 44:12
  people, the referendums.
• 44:14
  And he ended by quoting Putin's message to
• 44:16
  Russian soldiers.
• 44:18
  He said, the one I told you about
• 44:19
  last week, he said, the whole country is
• 44:21
  watching you.
• 44:22
  The whole country is proud of you and
• 44:24
  hopes for you.
• 44:25
  Work, brothers, he said.
• 44:28
  And then he connected that phrase to a
• 44:30
  Russian fighter in Dagestan who used it before
• 44:33
  death while surrounded by terrorists, saying the same
• 44:36
  fate awaits their modern successors.
• 44:39
  So then there were a lot of questions
• 44:40
  and answers, and I'm not going to go
• 44:42
  too far into those.
• 44:44
  We're going to take a bit of a
• 44:46
  break and then come back and follow some
• 44:48
  more news.
• 44:49
  But this break, I'm going to play for
• 44:51
  you my favorite version of this, and I
• 44:58
  think you will enjoy it.
• 45:00
  I like this.
• 45:01
  This is orchestral in its, in how it
• 45:05
  is put together, and it is amazing.
• 45:10
  And if you get a chance to watch
• 45:11
  it, you should.
• 45:14
  We're, we are going to play, this came
• 45:17
  out from, here it comes.
• 45:23
  Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
• 46:06
  No, no, no, no.
• 48:56
  Oh, was
• 51:23
  an excellent rendition of the good, the bad
• 51:27
  and the ugly.
• 51:28
  And how do you not appreciate that?
• 51:32
  Got to tell you.
• 51:33
  So when my, when every Father's Day, when
• 51:37
  I was a kid, or, well, hell, whenever
• 51:41
  it would come on TV, it's not like
• 51:43
  you had VCRs when we were kids.
• 51:46
  Those came out in the 80s, and my
• 51:48
  dad was always into whatever the newest stuff
• 51:50
  would be.
• 51:51
  But I'm telling you, when he, when we
• 51:54
  did get them, one of the first purchases
• 51:56
  was definitely the good, the bad and the
• 51:58
  ugly.
• 51:58
  My dad was a big Clint Eastwood fan,
• 52:01
  as am I.
• 52:02
  And he would put on that show, and
• 52:06
  you know, the good, and I do the
• 52:08
  exact same thing.
• 52:09
  I'll put on the good, the bad, the
• 52:11
  ugly, and watch that show, and then wake
• 52:14
  up when the, I always wake up at
• 52:16
  two parts.
• 52:17
  You know, I'll put it on, and I
• 52:19
  watch it a decent amount, too.
• 52:20
  I'll at least watch it once or twice
• 52:22
  a year.
• 52:23
  And it's, you put it, and I wake
• 52:27
  up at the fight to get across the
• 52:29
  bridge, when they blow up the bridge, and
• 52:32
  they meet the drunk commander, the Union commander,
• 52:37
  fighting over the bridge.
• 52:38
  And then I wake up again at the
• 52:40
  gunfight scene in the last, where they play
• 52:43
  the song.
• 52:44
  And one of the best parts about the
• 52:48
  spaghetti western genre is this music.
• 52:54
  And it was, and what is the guy's
• 52:58
  name?
• 53:00
  Enrico, no, do I got it right?
• 53:04
  The, what is his name?
• 53:08
  The music of the good, the bad, and
• 53:13
  the ugly, by Enio, E-N-N-I
• 53:17
  -O, Morricone, M-O-R-R-I-C
• 53:21
  -O-N-E.
• 53:22
  And it's freaking awesome.
• 53:23
  And the one for a few dollars more
• 53:26
  is also really good, the spaghetti music, spaghetti
• 53:30
  western music from the Sergio Leone western music
• 53:35
  from the spaghetti westerns, the Clint Eastwood ones
• 53:39
  that were extremely famous and started out.
• 53:44
  And the Dutch symphony, putting those on, they
• 53:47
  did an evening of them.
• 53:48
  There's an entire concert that you can watch
• 53:51
  that goes on.
• 53:53
  And I think I'm going to play for
• 53:55
  you the Royal Safari music as well.
• 53:59
  There's a group, and it's O-T-T
• 54:03
  -A Orchestra.
• 54:05
  And I don't even know where they're from,
• 54:07
  but it was like four years ago.
• 54:09
  And it appears to be 90% or
• 54:11
  more women that are there.
• 54:14
  There's no men.
• 54:15
  It's like, what are you, against men or
• 54:16
  something?
• 54:18
  They don't get to play in your band?
• 54:21
  None for you, thank you.
• 54:22
  And you don't get to hear any of
• 54:24
  it.
• 54:24
  But there's some great music out there of
• 54:27
  a variety of types.
• 54:29
  And I like a wide variety of music.
• 54:31
  And I like, you know, that deep house
• 54:34
  stuff.
• 54:34
  There's a couple of Tiesto ones that I'd
• 54:36
  love to play for you.
• 54:38
  There's a 2026 version, appears to be from
• 54:41
  outside of Russia, a small town, which town?
• 54:50
  It's on the outer rings of Russia, one
• 54:51
  of these studio, well, not studios, open air
• 54:56
  studio.
• 54:56
  It's huge.
• 54:58
  And there's 10,000 to 20,000, whatever.
• 55:01
  There's people packing these huge parks.
• 55:04
  And I've been to a couple of these.
• 55:05
  They're just fantastic.
• 55:07
  And the music festival arrangement where you go
• 55:11
  there, and they're very well put on.
• 55:13
  They're very organized.
• 55:15
  They're very safe.
• 55:16
  They're very clean.
• 55:19
  And the music is just fantastic.
• 55:22
  And I may play some of that for
• 55:24
  you today, too.
• 55:26
  And I'm going to share the relaxed music
• 55:32
  from Ota.
• 55:33
  It's called Royal Safari, is the song that
• 55:37
  comes out here.
• 55:39
  And I particularly like it.
• 55:42
  And I don't know why I'm doing music
• 55:44
  today.
• 55:44
  It's just there were quite a few of
• 55:46
  them that came up on my feed.
• 55:48
  And I like to share the ones that
• 55:50
  I like to share.
• 55:52
  And this one is a another pretty good
• 55:54
  one.
• 55:55
  We'll get back to some more commentary in
• 55:58
  a little bit.
• 55:59
  But this is Ota Orchestra, called Royal Safari.
• 56:04
  And this is good stuff, Maynard.
• 1:01:04
  Very nice.
• 1:01:05
  That was Ota Orchestra, Royal Safari.
• 1:01:09
  You got to see the visual of that.
• 1:01:11
  What they did on that is they had
• 1:01:13
  a everybody's all dressed in white, the piano
• 1:01:16
  players wearing the long tuxedo tails, the ones
• 1:01:19
  that come down to the...
• 1:01:21
  And I can't tell if it's a guy
• 1:01:22
  or a girl.
• 1:01:23
  I think it's a girl.
• 1:01:24
  I apologize, but I can't really tell.
• 1:01:26
  And it goes back.
• 1:01:27
  Everybody's in white.
• 1:01:28
  And then out front, they have a girl
• 1:01:30
  playing the electric guitar, who is in black
• 1:01:34
  sequined sort of dress with a green guitar.
• 1:01:37
  And the visual is pretty damn cool, is
• 1:01:40
  all I'm saying.
• 1:01:41
  And that was in Russian, what do you
• 1:01:45
  call it?
• 1:01:48
  Music Hall of some sort.
• 1:01:50
  And there's another one that I've been watching
• 1:01:51
  by a guy named Pavlik in the Pavlik
• 1:01:55
  Gored of the City of Green Colors.
• 1:01:59
  And it's another one that I'd like to
• 1:02:01
  play for you, but I'm not going to,
• 1:02:02
  not today.
• 1:02:03
  I got one more I want to give
• 1:02:05
  to you, and then we're going to get
• 1:02:06
  back to somewhat normal.
• 1:02:09
  If you can figure out ever that I'm
• 1:02:11
  normal, we shall see.
• 1:02:14
  But let me find that other one that
• 1:02:16
  I have in my history, and we shall
• 1:02:19
  play it fire.
• 1:02:23
  Where, where, where, where, where?
• 1:02:28
  Here it is, Tiësto.
• 1:02:31
  This is the Tiësto one.
• 1:02:33
  It's in my memory is the name of
• 1:02:34
  the song.
• 1:02:35
  And this one has already 1.7 million
• 1:02:39
  views.
• 1:02:40
  And they'll probably trim me up on YouTube
• 1:02:44
  for keeping it on there, but I'm not
• 1:02:45
  going to delete these.
• 1:02:47
  They'll just slow down my, or they won't
• 1:02:51
  allow it on YouTube.
• 1:02:52
  We have license to play any music we
• 1:02:54
  want to, but they always limit it if
• 1:02:57
  it's, or do it if you take content
• 1:03:00
  from other places or whatever, some other persons.
• 1:03:04
  And so, to hell with YouTube though.
• 1:03:06
  If they take it off, they take it
• 1:03:09
  off, and we shall see what happens.
• 1:03:11
  But I like this one, this Tiësto.
• 1:03:12
  So, when I travel, I try to find
• 1:03:14
  several different groups.
• 1:03:15
  I like Paul Van Dyke.
• 1:03:16
  I like Tiësto.
• 1:03:18
  I like, well, geez, there's quite a few
• 1:03:22
  other ones that I like to listen to
• 1:03:24
  that I've gone to see several times.
• 1:03:26
  And Tiësto is one of them.
• 1:03:28
  And you can go to these DJ things
• 1:03:30
  that they just, and it's all electronica or
• 1:03:33
  deep house or whatever they call it.
• 1:03:35
  But this one is called, in my memory,
• 1:03:37
  it's a Sadrikan 2026 Remix.
• 1:03:40
  And so, this was pretty recent.
• 1:04:32
  It's supposed to be All the way back
• 1:04:38
  to the future in my mind I've
• 1:04:48
  been so heavy underneath the pressure Everything I
• 1:04:57
  face is seen in my memory Oh
• 1:05:40
  Face me, see it in my memory How
• 1:05:46
  I remember Keep
• 1:06:26
  me constantly in disagreement About everything,
• 1:06:36
  distance is nothing to me Pressure,
• 1:06:51
  everything's seen in my memory Ooh And
• 1:07:43
  that is the end of my musical endeavors
• 1:07:47
  for today.
• 1:07:49
  There's a quite a bit of music out
• 1:07:53
  there.
• 1:07:53
  It's a beautiful world in it.
• 1:07:55
  In it, it says there's some pretty good
• 1:07:58
  stuff.
• 1:07:59
  So now we're going to get back to
• 1:08:01
  war, destruction, horror stories.
• 1:08:04
  What else are we going to do?
• 1:08:06
  And what else is there to talk about?
• 1:08:07
  But destruction and mayhem.
• 1:08:09
  That's what there is.
• 1:08:11
  There's the US is setting up at least
• 1:08:14
  two domestic test ranges to mimic the conditions
• 1:08:17
  of battle in Ukraine, said Army Secretary Dan
• 1:08:22
  Driscoll Tuesday.
• 1:08:25
  He said defense contractors will have access to
• 1:08:27
  the sites where the army and industry can
• 1:08:29
  start to do much more aggressive testing.
• 1:08:32
  The US has been struggling to keep pace
• 1:08:34
  with the rapidly evolving drone technology used extensively
• 1:08:38
  by both Ukraine and Russia.
• 1:08:40
  You can have a kind of electronic warfare
• 1:08:43
  and all the contested environment created.
• 1:08:47
  And you can have drone manufacturers and counter
• 1:08:49
  drone tool builders engaging together.
• 1:08:51
  Tell you what, there'd be good money in
• 1:08:54
  that counter drone technology.
• 1:08:56
  I was talking about my prior position in
• 1:09:00
  the military.
• 1:09:00
  Hell, I'll be your advisor on undoing some
• 1:09:04
  of the anti-drone technology.
• 1:09:07
  The Russians have got those laser ones.
• 1:09:10
  The Russians have got wire guided.
• 1:09:12
  I'm sure everybody's copying it anyway.
• 1:09:14
  And then these drones, drone wars are creating
• 1:09:18
  places that make it basically unstoppable.
• 1:09:22
  But I think that make the attacks unstoppable.
• 1:09:27
  But I also think that the ethical concern
• 1:09:31
  that I have, war sucks anyway.
• 1:09:37
  But now, talk about a playing field leveler.
• 1:09:44
  If you take the argument, which I'm not
• 1:09:46
  necessarily there yet, but I get it.
• 1:09:52
  It would have been foolish, no matter how
• 1:09:54
  you slice it, for the US to engage
• 1:09:57
  in another Afghanistan style ground war in Iran.
• 1:10:04
  That'd be idiotic.
• 1:10:07
  And Americans wouldn't support it anyway.
• 1:10:10
  Although, it depersonalizes war to have it just
• 1:10:17
  be done by guys playing video games from
• 1:10:21
  their basement.
• 1:10:22
  So all the basement guys would now have
• 1:10:25
  jobs to do and they'd be pretty important.
• 1:10:29
  You have these goofy kids who for years
• 1:10:33
  make money playing video games and people watch
• 1:10:40
  them on YouTube.
• 1:10:41
  I never did understand that.
• 1:10:44
  These people are playing.
• 1:10:46
  What was the one that everybody was playing?
• 1:10:48
  And I'm sitting there going, are you kidding?
• 1:10:50
  What are you watching?
• 1:10:52
  And they're watching somebody else play Minecraft.
• 1:10:57
  And you're going, what?
• 1:11:00
  You're not playing?
• 1:11:02
  Oh, no, I'm watching somebody else.
• 1:11:05
  Why?
• 1:11:07
  I just don't get it.
• 1:11:12
  And there are people that make hundreds of
• 1:11:15
  thousands of dollars a year playing Minecraft and
• 1:11:19
  other people are watching them play.
• 1:11:24
  Okay.
• 1:11:25
  Oh, so that's how you do it.
• 1:11:26
  And then they don't even go do it
• 1:11:28
  themselves.
• 1:11:28
  They just keep watching.
• 1:11:30
  What's the point?
• 1:11:31
  I mean, you either play the game.
• 1:11:33
  I don't understand it.
• 1:11:34
  I don't get it.
• 1:11:36
  And you want to talk about a bridge
• 1:11:38
  too far.
• 1:11:39
  Well, that's a bridge too far.
• 1:11:43
  And you can have the electronic warfare testers
• 1:11:47
  by these people that sit there and go,
• 1:11:49
  yeah, well, I'm a video game player.
• 1:11:53
  That's all I've ever done is play video
• 1:11:55
  games.
• 1:11:55
  There are people who haven't had jobs.
• 1:11:57
  They go from high school to playing video
• 1:12:01
  games from other people.
• 1:12:02
  They're making $10 an hour or whatever.
• 1:12:05
  And then suddenly they're making 200,000 a
• 1:12:07
  year playing video games for EA sports or
• 1:12:11
  whatever the EA technologies is.
• 1:12:14
  It creates a bunch of these games.
• 1:12:16
  It's nuts.
• 1:12:18
  And so what are you striving to be?
• 1:12:20
  I don't know.
• 1:12:20
  I'm a video game player and more power
• 1:12:22
  to you.
• 1:12:22
  God love you for it.
• 1:12:23
  But wow, it's a different world than it
• 1:12:26
  was.
• 1:12:26
  I wish I'd have known back when I
• 1:12:28
  was playing.
• 1:12:30
  Do you remember Castle Wolfenstein?
• 1:12:33
  Me and my brother used to play Castle
• 1:12:36
  Wolfenstein and it was little, uh, dose prompt
• 1:12:40
  platform.
• 1:12:40
  My dad went out and bought a Vic
• 1:12:42
  64 and OG 64 Meg of, uh, of
• 1:12:47
  Ram.
• 1:12:47
  Their people is huge and there's no memory.
• 1:12:49
  You couldn't store anything, but you could play
• 1:12:52
  these video games.
• 1:12:53
  And you remember the ones, and I actually
• 1:12:55
  played them, these games that say, and you
• 1:12:58
  can watch it in, um, it's a Tom
• 1:13:02
  Hanks movie.
• 1:13:03
  Is it big where he's created, where he's
• 1:13:07
  playing this game where they're these, that the
• 1:13:09
  very first role playing games were put out
• 1:13:12
  by, they weren't video games.
• 1:13:15
  They were text games.
• 1:13:17
  So they'd say something, uh, you, uh, are
• 1:13:20
  standing on the top of a Hill and
• 1:13:23
  you see below you a shining rock to
• 1:13:29
  your right.
• 1:13:30
  You see a stop sign and you say,
• 1:13:33
  uh, go right.
• 1:13:34
  Then you head off to the stop sign
• 1:13:36
  and you get to the stop sign and
• 1:13:37
  it says, you've arrived at the stop sign.
• 1:13:40
  Now you see this.
• 1:13:41
  And all it is doing is sending you
• 1:13:43
  in different directions and you type in your
• 1:13:46
  next commands and you had to think and
• 1:13:48
  play the game and do stuff like that.
• 1:13:50
  And, uh, those were the first video games.
• 1:13:52
  And we played one called when, when stick
• 1:13:54
  figure guys showed up on the scene was
• 1:13:57
  castle Wolfenstein.
• 1:13:58
  And you could play that at your home
• 1:14:00
  and on your Vick 64 and you could
• 1:14:03
  play this castle Wolfenstein and go into a
• 1:14:05
  little room and you know, and you'd have
• 1:14:08
  these little, uh, little German stick, you know,
• 1:14:11
  you're the American going into a German castle,
• 1:14:14
  Wolfenstein castle to attack and go to find
• 1:14:17
  stuff crazy.
• 1:14:19
  And so these people are playing video games.
• 1:14:21
  And so the Americans here we are, we've
• 1:14:24
  created two new, uh, of these sites specific
• 1:14:27
  for Ukraine to, uh, we want soldiers to
• 1:14:31
  be able to go there and strengthen their
• 1:14:33
  skills, drone skills, and work hand in hand
• 1:14:37
  with developers.
• 1:14:39
  Uh, according to the Washington post, the Pentagon
• 1:14:42
  is seeking companies capable of producing 300,000
• 1:14:47
  low cost kamikaze drones and is prepared to
• 1:14:50
  spend 54.6 billion next year on, uh,
• 1:14:57
  expanded drone warfare programs.
• 1:14:59
  The widespread use of surveillance and attack drones
• 1:15:03
  in Ukraine has created vast kill zones along
• 1:15:06
  the front line with both sides using UAVs
• 1:15:10
  to repel mechanized assault and carry out strikes
• 1:15:13
  deep in enemy territory.
• 1:15:16
  Russian deputy prime minister, Dennis Manturov said earlier
• 1:15:21
  this month that domestic companies have now have
• 1:15:24
  in Russia have the capacity to produce more
• 1:15:26
  than 15,000 FPV drones a day up
• 1:15:31
  from around 15,000 per month in 2023.
• 1:15:35
  Moscow has warned that Western supplies of drone
• 1:15:38
  technology and other weapons to Kiev have made
• 1:15:42
  NATO a de facto participant in the conflict.
• 1:15:45
  Uh, Ukraine uses drones to strike civilian targets.
• 1:15:49
  You know, I told you about the bus
• 1:15:50
  a little while ago, uh, last month UAVs
• 1:15:53
  destroyed a college dorm in Starobelsk that killed
• 1:15:56
  21, uh, Russian pedagogical students.
• 1:16:00
  And on June 3rd, a Ukrainian drone struck
• 1:16:03
  a commuter bus in Kiev that killed eight
• 1:16:07
  passengers.
• 1:16:07
  Two weeks later, a drone hit a bus
• 1:16:09
  carrying a youth football team from Belarus near
• 1:16:12
  the Russian village of Nelzhikchi killing a pregnant
• 1:16:17
  woman and injuring eight people, including six children.
• 1:16:22
  And so what are we making?
• 1:16:23
  We're making these drone warfare centers where you
• 1:16:26
  get to come in.
• 1:16:26
  I remember when I was in the military
• 1:16:28
  and they had these, uh, you had to
• 1:16:33
  go to a school to be a sergeant.
• 1:16:34
  You had to go to sergeant school.
• 1:16:35
  It's primary leadership development course.
• 1:16:37
  And on Fort Hood, Texas, it was, it's
• 1:16:39
  a very large base.
• 1:16:40
  It's one of the largest on the, on
• 1:16:42
  the planet.
• 1:16:43
  And, um, part of it would be, was
• 1:16:46
  set off for, uh, this primary leadership development
• 1:16:50
  course.
• 1:16:51
  And they gave you a compass and a
• 1:16:53
  map and 10 points you had to hit
• 1:16:57
  and they drop you off and say, see
• 1:17:00
  you tonight.
• 1:17:00
  You're hiking, you know, whatever your mission, should
• 1:17:04
  you choose to accept it is to hit
• 1:17:06
  all the 10 points on your, uh, you
• 1:17:09
  know, you go to point number one and
• 1:17:10
  if you don't get to point number one,
• 1:17:12
  you're screwed.
• 1:17:14
  The only thing they did do for you
• 1:17:16
  was label the points.
• 1:17:17
  So when you got to point one, you'd
• 1:17:19
  know it was point one and you know,
• 1:17:22
  because if you got to the wrong point
• 1:17:24
  and you thought you're point one, you're, you're
• 1:17:26
  just screwed for the day trying to fight,
• 1:17:29
  use a map.
• 1:17:30
  I wonder if they still teach that anymore.
• 1:17:32
  If they just hand you your, your, uh,
• 1:17:34
  technology GPS and say, here you go, your
• 1:17:38
  geo located here and here's where you go.
• 1:17:42
  But, but back then we had to figure
• 1:17:43
  out where we were going to go.
• 1:17:44
  And I, I wandered around and, and, uh,
• 1:17:47
  I ended up between one set of points
• 1:17:52
  that like around point I was okay till
• 1:17:54
  0.5 or six.
• 1:17:55
  And then on one of those points, I
• 1:17:58
  ended up going the wrong direction.
• 1:18:00
  And I swear to God, I was in
• 1:18:02
  a firing range.
• 1:18:04
  And, uh, uh, all of a sudden some,
• 1:18:07
  some dude came driving up in a Humvee
• 1:18:09
  is what the hell are you doing out
• 1:18:11
  here?
• 1:18:12
  And I was like, well, we're at the
• 1:18:13
  primary leadership development.
• 1:18:15
  And he goes, when did you last see
• 1:18:17
  anybody?
• 1:18:18
  I was like, well, I don't know.
• 1:18:20
  I was by myself most of the day.
• 1:18:22
  He goes, you're off course, get the hell
• 1:18:24
  off this range.
• 1:18:25
  They're live firing today.
• 1:18:27
  And he's out there securing the range against
• 1:18:30
  idiots like me.
• 1:18:31
  And, uh, as I go walking back at,
• 1:18:34
  you know, and I wasn't far off, but,
• 1:18:36
  but you see these old tanks later on,
• 1:18:39
  and you can see some, uh, they were
• 1:18:40
  just doing urban warfare stuff.
• 1:18:42
  And I remember seeing one of those off
• 1:18:44
  in the distance to where they would come
• 1:18:46
  in and use urban warfare and do live
• 1:18:48
  fire exercises and stuff like that.
• 1:18:51
  And, uh, but you had to, uh, protect
• 1:18:53
  the range, make sure nobody's down range.
• 1:18:55
  And, uh, why would they do that without
• 1:18:57
  fencing the damn thing off is what I
• 1:18:59
  never understood.
• 1:19:00
  It's like, uh, you know, if you come
• 1:19:01
  there, cause then they could just tell you,
• 1:19:03
  if you come to a fence, don't cross
• 1:19:04
  it.
• 1:19:05
  But I didn't even come to a fence.
• 1:19:06
  You just suddenly walk into a live fire
• 1:19:08
  range.
• 1:19:09
  Great.
• 1:19:10
  Welcome the army.
• 1:19:12
  That was good stuff.
• 1:19:13
  Anyway, the, uh, uh, uh, army has always
• 1:19:18
  done that type of thing.
• 1:19:19
  And they had the desert warfare after they
• 1:19:22
  started, when I was in there, they were
• 1:19:23
  all replicating, uh, East Germany, you know, places
• 1:19:27
  like that.
• 1:19:27
  And then they started doing desert training and
• 1:19:30
  we would go out to the Mojave desert,
• 1:19:32
  uh, once a year and go to the
• 1:19:35
  national training center in the desert.
• 1:19:37
  That was always entertaining.
• 1:19:39
  And they would try to, uh, reproduce, uh,
• 1:19:41
  Middle Eastern stuff in there.
• 1:19:43
  Now they're creating drone fields and drone technology
• 1:19:47
  for people to do it with the war
• 1:19:48
  or war is changing.
• 1:19:50
  And the playing field is somewhat leveled depending
• 1:19:53
  on, uh, on, uh, who's funding it.
• 1:19:58
  You know, Ukraine ain't funding it themselves.
• 1:20:01
  You know, everybody's given freebies, you know, uh,
• 1:20:05
  isn't the birthright citizenship coming up tomorrow or,
• 1:20:09
  uh, this week, is it?
• 1:20:12
  I think it's tomorrow is the day that
• 1:20:14
  they, they give out all isn't birthright citizenship.
• 1:20:17
  One of those been keeping track of that.
• 1:20:20
  Uh, I'm interested in, I think it's going
• 1:20:22
  to stay that way because what is it?
• 1:20:25
  The 13th amendment during slavery times was the
• 1:20:29
  13th amendment that abolished slavery.
• 1:20:31
  I think it was, but I don't quote
• 1:20:34
  me on that.
• 1:20:35
  But I think it also said the third,
• 1:20:37
  it's an amendment that said, you're born here.
• 1:20:43
  If you're born here, you're a citizen.
• 1:20:45
  So even if your parents didn't come from
• 1:20:48
  here, you know, and so I believe that
• 1:20:51
  was an amendment, but I don't know.
• 1:20:53
  I'm, I'm, I'm still interested in seeing what
• 1:20:55
  they're, I haven't been following the arguments as
• 1:20:57
  close as I should have been, but, uh,
• 1:20:59
  it's, um, interesting.
• 1:21:02
  And this is when it's coming out.
• 1:21:06
  Let's see, here's the view.
• 1:21:09
  Uh, let's see, where were we going?
• 1:21:13
  Do you remember these, um, the world cup
• 1:21:17
  restrictions that they were given under, uh, under,
• 1:21:24
  uh, I mean the U S the truth
• 1:21:27
  about world cup visas that nobody wants to
• 1:21:30
  hear and the entry rules ignores what happened
• 1:21:34
  when football opened the gates in 2018.
• 1:21:37
  So there's a place like that.
• 1:21:40
  Um, let's see, where did it
• 1:21:50
  go?
• 1:21:54
  Zelensky is skipping the key Ukraine recovery event
• 1:22:01
  over Nazi collaboration scandal.
• 1:22:05
  And, uh, he's skipping it.
• 1:22:07
  This came out today and they venerated Ukrainian
• 1:22:13
  nationalists who supported Hitler and perpetrated genocide against
• 1:22:18
  the polls.
• 1:22:19
  So Vladimir Zelensky is skipping a gathering of
• 1:22:23
  Kiev's key backers in Poland to keep it
• 1:22:27
  free of scandals, said the Ukrainian foreign ministry.
• 1:22:31
  His absence at this event is linked to
• 1:22:35
  Kiev honoring Nazi collaborators that murdered a hundred
• 1:22:39
  thousand Polish men, women, and children in world
• 1:22:42
  war II.
• 1:22:43
  And, uh, they were expecting, and still are
• 1:22:46
  anticipating very large protests, especially if he shows
• 1:22:50
  up because of what, you know, he's out
• 1:22:52
  there honoring units that are, uh, changing their
• 1:22:56
  name to, um, to, uh, Nazi names, symbols,
• 1:23:02
  all of that.
• 1:23:02
  And the tension between Ukraine and Poland, which
• 1:23:05
  is allegedly a key supporter escalated in recent
• 1:23:10
  weeks when Zelensky named a special forces unit
• 1:23:13
  after the Ukrainian insurgent army, the UPA that
• 1:23:19
  collaborated with Nazi Germany in world war II
• 1:23:22
  and his fighters killed tens of thousands of
• 1:23:24
  Polish.
• 1:23:25
  This is last week, the Polish president, Carol
• 1:23:28
  Nowrocki responded by stripping Zelensky of the order
• 1:23:31
  of the white Eagle, Poland's highest honor, and
• 1:23:35
  prompted several Ukrainian officials to renounce their own
• 1:23:39
  Polish honors.
• 1:23:41
  At the time, Nowrocki argued that historic truth
• 1:23:44
  is not and can never be a bargaining
• 1:23:47
  chip.
• 1:23:48
  The memory of the victims is the moral
• 1:23:50
  duty of the Polish state to remember.
• 1:23:54
  And on Tuesday, prime minister Yulia Sverdenko confirmed
• 1:23:58
  that Zelensky will not attend the Ukrainian recovery
• 1:24:02
  conference, June 25 and 26 in Gdansk, that's
• 1:24:07
  Poland, which brings together senior EU and NATO
• 1:24:09
  figures with Ukrainian politicians and think tanks, and
• 1:24:13
  that she will lead the Ukrainian delegation instead.
• 1:24:17
  The Ukraine foreign ministry spokesman, Grigory Tichy called
• 1:24:22
  the decision absolutely justified and said it is
• 1:24:26
  aimed at ensuring that the conference remains within
• 1:24:29
  a pragmatic economic and correct framework without excess
• 1:24:34
  politicization and scandal.
• 1:24:38
  Tichy noted that Ukraine will be represented by
• 1:24:41
  top officials, expressed the hope that the conference
• 1:24:44
  will be very successful despite such unfriendly attitude
• 1:24:48
  from the Polish president.
• 1:24:51
  Prime Minister Tusk, a fierce political rival of
• 1:24:55
  Nowrocki said he will not be troubled by
• 1:24:57
  Zelensky's absence.
• 1:24:59
  There's a certain tension between presidents and disproportionate
• 1:25:02
  reaction on both sides and an unnecessary escalation
• 1:25:06
  of emotional tension, he told reporters.
• 1:25:09
  It may even mean a more efficient conference
• 1:25:12
  as I treat it as a gesture of
• 1:25:15
  de-escalation.
• 1:25:17
  Tusk previously called the dispute a strategic mistake
• 1:25:20
  that will cost both sides in business, geopolitically
• 1:25:25
  and reputationally.
• 1:25:27
  Moscow has welcomed the pushback from Poland.
• 1:25:30
  Of course, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in
• 1:25:33
  May that the nationalists being honored by Kiev
• 1:25:35
  are bloody butchers and that murdered Poles and
• 1:25:41
  Jews, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of
• 1:25:44
  thousands of them.
• 1:25:46
  And that, you know, Zelensky shouldn't be honoring
• 1:25:49
  them.
• 1:25:51
  And so I think that is actually accurate.
• 1:25:57
  Um, I think, you know, think about this.
• 1:26:02
  Has Zelensky ever, and I mean, ever missed
• 1:26:06
  an opportunity to travel abroad and squeeze some
• 1:26:10
  money from people and beg for money or
• 1:26:12
  to, uh, you know, browbeat people into hating
• 1:26:18
  Putin and you gotta love Ukraine.
• 1:26:21
  And then they, they take all these Banderites
• 1:26:24
  and, uh, honor them and give SS symbols
• 1:26:28
  and swastikas to, uh, to Ukrainian units that
• 1:26:32
  appear in France and England and put them
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  on their uniforms.
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  And these nationalists go, it's, uh, it's frankly,
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  uh, alarming that nobody's condemned it as much
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  as they ought to have, uh, from the
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  beginning.
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  And then there are plenty of reports that
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  say that, uh, Zelensky, the only thing he
• 1:26:54
  does fear are the people, the Nash, the
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  heavy duty nationalists, the Nazi style nationalists that
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  control the, uh, the halls of power.
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  You know, that's his deep state are the
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  Nazis and the people that, uh, that they're
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  just full of hate.
• 1:27:14
  They hate all things Russian.
• 1:27:16
  They don't, they don't like any, you can't
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  speak, um, um, Hungarian.
• 1:27:21
  Remember that, that, uh, Orban was complaining about
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  for the longest of times and they're, they'll,
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  they'll send them to the front line, Hungarian
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  speakers, you know, they'll send them, send them
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  away.
• 1:27:33
  They don't even speak Ukrainian, but they'll send
• 1:27:36
  them away.
• 1:27:37
  They'll put them.
• 1:27:38
  It reminds me by the way, that there
• 1:27:40
  was a, uh, a pretty large contingent of
• 1:27:43
  a Western style, English speaking, um, mercenaries, uh,
• 1:27:49
  taken out.
• 1:27:49
  And every time they are Russia, Russia broadcasts
• 1:27:52
  them, puts them all out there.
• 1:27:55
  Well, uh, the show has been a bit
• 1:27:57
  eclectic today, as I said earlier, that was
• 1:28:00
  the, uh, the plan for today.
• 1:28:02
  And I played a little bit of, uh,
• 1:28:05
  uh, a little bit more music than I
• 1:28:07
  normally do.
• 1:28:09
  Um, this week, uh, tomorrow, uh, I'd like
• 1:28:13
  to talk about some of the Supreme Court
• 1:28:15
  decisions.
• 1:28:16
  Friday, I'm putting something together, uh, and we'd
• 1:28:20
  like to speak more about, uh, these VLT
• 1:28:25
  machines.
• 1:28:26
  There's a great deal of movement in those.
• 1:28:28
  So in Civic Outlaws on Friday, we, we
• 1:28:31
  have a fairly large announcement coming and, uh,
• 1:28:35
  on, on Friday.
• 1:28:37
  So, uh, make sure to join us for
• 1:28:39
  Civic Outlaws at 7 a.m. on Friday.
• 1:28:44
  Um, you can go to civicoutlaws.com forward
• 1:28:47
  slash podcast, catch up with where we are
• 1:28:50
  so far on those efforts.
• 1:28:53
  Internationalflavor.com will provide for you all the,
• 1:28:56
  uh, prior, you know, I've been two years,
• 1:28:58
  360 or so, uh, episodes in the last
• 1:29:04
  couple of years.
• 1:29:06
  I appreciate you being here.
• 1:29:07
  Thank you for listening to DAM Radio.
• 1:29:10
  Join us every day, damradio.com forward slash
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  live great music and a very good, uh,
• 1:29:19
  spoken word content from, uh, my compatriots here
• 1:29:24
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• 1:29:25
  We appreciate JR for providing this platform for
• 1:29:28
  us and providing the platform for all of
• 1:29:32
  central Missouri.
• 1:29:34
  I will see y'all tomorrow coming up
• 1:29:36
  next is, uh, Jimmy Tebow's damn swag.
• 1:29:40
  Have a great day.