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Florida to Hormuz: Ukraine Tension, Iran Oil Fallout, China, Cuba · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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and welcome. I am Samuel Trap. This is
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International Flavor. I am still coming
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to you after technical difficulties
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from beautiful, not very sunny today,
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Florida. It is
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freaking cold. friends and neighbors. I
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am
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I don't like being cold. I really don't
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like it. So, I was wandering around the
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the last 3 months or so almost in uh uh
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Missouri wearing a park up basically. Um
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even inside uh and here in Florida uh
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it's only uh 52 degrees at present. And
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so I've been wandering around in my park
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down here, too. It looks kind of comical
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when you do that. Um, and I've been
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having nothing but problems this
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morning, you know. Um, so who else? And
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I shouldn't say hates, but I hate it. I
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hate it when And who else hates it when?
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So, two days in a row, I have attempted
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to get a Starbucks coffee. And
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yesterday, I actually had to pay for the
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damn thing. And I know I pay for it
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anyway, but there's this thing that is
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called a Starbucks app and when you
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drive through it just, you know, goes on
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your phone and you never notice it. So,
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you know, just uh magic occurs and you
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uh wander out of there with a a a black
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coffee, couple of stevia in it, maybe
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throw a little skim milk in there if you
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feel real, you know, uh saucy that day.
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And uh so yesterday I did it and it
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wouldn't let me log into the little
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thing. Starbucks has this horrible
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horrible habit of updating their
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software all the time. And when they do,
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they log you out and then you try to log
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back in and you don't remember your
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password because they force you to
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change it. And so when you force you to
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change it, you can't use a prior
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password. And when you can't use the
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prior password that you've always used,
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you have to create something new and you
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never remember what in the hell it is.
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And even if you update it in your phone
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and you try to use it, when they reset
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the system, they make you reset your
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password, which is completely stupid.
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It's freaking Starbucks. How many people
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are out there robbing other people's
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Starbucks cash? Okay, if this was 12step
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verification because you're trying to
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get into your private Swiss bank account
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in the vaults of some Jason Bourne bank
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down below ground, you know, where you
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only get in with a thumbrint and then
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you got to pull out your eyeball and
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stuff it on a retina scanner and then
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you got to, you know, sell your third
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child into slavery for several weeks to
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get in. that I get because your entire
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life savings of uh I don't know a dog
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sled in Gnome Alaska is uh on the line
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here plus your several fake passport IDs
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and all the things these piles of cash
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from various country are are in there
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that I get but it's freaking coffee. How
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many times must I
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pay for it? I have to find a alternate
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means of payment. You know how
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frustrating that is? It's extremely
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frustrating and I just don't like it.
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Anyway, I think I have figured out the
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uh
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what do you call it? Technological
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issues. Anyway, that's my bitching for
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this morning. It's done. It is. Well,
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no, it's not. I'm going to [ __ ] for an
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hour and a half. How do you like that?
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And uh I'm going to complain about a
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couple of things. We
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Uh I I I met a lot of So let's see. I'm
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down here for for both a little bit of
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business and a little bit of pleasure. I
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was meeting with some people on u uh my
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modern law ecosystem project and a civic
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outlaws project uh for expanding the
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scope of our uh charitable organization
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and modern law ecosystem because the
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ecosystem is is uh inviting lawyers uh
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parillegals uh court reporters um
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uh medical providers even um um and I
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thought about I had an interesting idea
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That's a it's a an interesting concept.
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So I have this this plan keeps
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spitballing of of what we are building
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here. And we've got a group of uh of uh
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IT people that are working in the
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background here to help me create this
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brainchild of ours and or help us create
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the brainchild of ours. And uh it's um
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it keeps expanding in spitballing and uh
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you know we're interested in more people
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coming along for the ride. I do uh uh
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a good amount of legal research. Um I do
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quite a bit of it and I so I met with a
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a couple of Russian speaking I told you
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I was going to get a little pissy about
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this. Um, I work with Russianspeaking
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people, you know, frequently both as a
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real estate broker and
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as a uh parallegal type in uh I can't be
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a lawyer. We'll get into that story
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another time. I don't want to [ __ ]
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about it again. I'm I have enough
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bitching to do today. But but I went
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into the office of a a a law firm
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and
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they everybody there is basically
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Russian speaking and or speaks Russian
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too. And then I went into another one
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that uh is is uh Russian speaking but in
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a Ukrainian area.
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And this is America. Okay, this is
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America. And last I was told anyway,
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we're still America, right? And I think
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I believe that we're still here. We
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still get to vote, I think, every once
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in a while to keep in the the uh the the
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people who keep the war train running.
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We we have to be able to do that. That's
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that's the sole critical purpose of uh
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we have to fund Lindsey Graham's uh
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continual wars. We have to do it. All of
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the neocons, we must fund that. Yeah.
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And so that is how that that's that's
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the purpose of your vote as an American.
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Okay. And uh uh of course that's
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fishist. Um, I I can't even speak this
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morning either now that I didn't get my
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coffee because Starbucks changed the
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damn password. And uh uh I had to go and
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and by the way, they did it since
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yesterday. So today I tried to log in
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but I tried to log in on my telephone
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and I wouldn't get it. I'm really all
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over the place, aren't I? And uh
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I'm without coffee. What else can you
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can it be? Um, and that's another thing
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to [ __ ] about, by the way, because last
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whenever I came down here, what was it
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last Tuesday or something? Um, so I'm
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driving down here and uh I don't I I I
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don't stop to get coffee, you know,
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unless unless I'm getting gas somewhere
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and place is open, maybe I'll get some
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coffee if uh but I usually throw a case
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of uh flavored water in the back and
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drive. I like doing that and I don't
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like stopping. I stop, get gas, you
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know, go to the bathroom, get right back
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in the car and uh and cruise on down.
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And so it's not like I was getting
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coffee. So I I had the worst pounding
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headache for several days and uh uh
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non- coffee days. And I don't have a
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coffee pot down here. And so the only
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time you get coffee is if you go buy it.
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And uh and your Starbucks app limits you
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from getting coffee. And so you're right
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back in the same scenario. So apparently
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what was happening to me because I also
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had a a appointment at the old VA
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hospital whilst I was down here. And uh
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I had to uh
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uh uh I was asking I was like, "Man, I
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got the worst headache." And uh the lady
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said to me something I already knew but
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never thought about. She goes, "Well,
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have you had any coffee this morning?" I
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was like, "No, I haven't had any in
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several days." Really? Oh.
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She said, "You know, day three and four
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uh are the worst." I said, "Of what?"
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And she says, "If if you you know," she
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says, "What'd you do? Go cold turkey?" I
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was like, "It's not like I'm trying to
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give it up. It's just I never thought
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about it, you know, or I, you know,
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haven't had any and circumstances
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prevented the the drinking of coffee.
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And uh she said, "Oh, well, you're
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probably going through caffeine
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withdrawal."
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And apparently it's a pretty big deal.
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Well, you know, everybody's always told
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me that if you quit coffee cold turkey,
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uh, you know, once you make it past day,
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you know, 3, four, you're okay. But uh
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uh that during that time you can have
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massive headaches and I've had the worst
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headaches ever since then. So anyway,
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that was now I've interrupted my own
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story three times. And so that's the uh
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that's the end of the first story. Uh
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the second story was Starbucks limiting
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my ability to get it. And the third I
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wanted to talk about this Ukrainian
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Russian deal. And here we are in
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Florida, right? is Florida. You know,
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you come to Florida, you throw on a uh a
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Hawaiian shirt, which I never figured
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out. Why would you throw on a Hawaiian
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shirt in Florida? Doesn't make any
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sense. You should throw on a Florida
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shirt. Should have an alligator on it.
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Or a snake or a huge freaking spider cuz
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they're everywhere. Or cockroaches or
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those big freaking beetles the size of
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your hand. Maybe that should be the
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t-shirt of uh Florida and not just
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Mickey Mouse. Although I've been
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thinking I should go get a Mickey Mouse
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fix before too long. Anyway, um I like
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the Harry Potter um
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uh the world over there. The Harry
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Potter world at Disney World. I haven't
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been there in
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15 20 years probably. But uh uh it was
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pretty cool when they first built it way
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back when and my son and I really loved
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it. So anyway, all things Florida,
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they're not all things Hawaiian. I mean,
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where are you getting these? Maybe we
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shouldn't call them Hawaiian shirts and
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we should call them tropical shirts and
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be done with it. Anyway, that really
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isn't a topic for today. Back to the
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Russians and Ukrainians. Okay, even in
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America. Even in America, Ukrainians
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hate Russians. Okay, hate. And I don't
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mean, you know, we we dispute, you know,
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I mean hate. They don't They hate it so
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much they don't even want to speak
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Russian anymore. and and all that
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because 30 years uh 35 now 35 years
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worth of denying your history claiming
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the Russians were the bad guys all along
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changing your textbooks. They have an
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entire generation of people who grew up
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this way with US funding by the way and
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the the US funding has assisted in this
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regard uh big time and uh US agency for
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international development. So basically
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all their textbooks they don't even
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recognize the tetum
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great patriotic war it doesn't even um
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register for them. They don't believe in
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it. They they call it World War II,
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right? They don't want to call it the
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you know they hell they deny it even
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happened. They say that the Russians
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were attacking them. Well there were
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about uh way in the west part of the
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Ukraine in the little Vulf part. I've
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been through this before. There were uh
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uh the Banderi which Stefan Bandera and
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he was a Nazi supporter. There were
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several others over in that region too,
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but he was the biggest. He's the most
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famous. He's the one they glorify as the
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uh defender of Ukraine, you know, and
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and he killed tons of Polish people,
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right?
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by estimates between the uh or during
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the time period of uh uh the great
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patriotic war he he and his followers
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killed just in the in the Lvul area
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where which used to be Poland is they
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killed
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120 to 150,000
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ethnic Poles
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and uh now
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they they were already part of the
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Soviet Union. And so I don't know if
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they were as uh uh sophisticated as they
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are now, but surely and definitely
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efforts were a foot to uh uh put, you
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know, the the Nazi powers wanted to put
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uh their
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pol
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their not policies. Well, I suppose it
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was a policy, too, but their thought
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processes into these Ukrainians and
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helped them peel away from the Soviet
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Union. And so, this is what the
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Ukrainians honor in Steon Bandera. And
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I'm not saying that this war between
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them, obviously, it's difficult, but the
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ethnic Russians that are from Lugans,
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well, hell, they're all ethnic Russians
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for that matter, depending on how far
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back you go. And they were Velika Arus
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was not Kiev. Velik was in Kiev, but it
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was still the Russian Empire. And the
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Russian Empire pulled back to Moscow and
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they left all these people on the edges
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in Ukraine. Nakayak. And so it it was uh
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uh that's that's how Na came out to be.
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When you say Na on on the Ukraine,
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that's the Ukraine. You don't call it
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Ukraine, you call it the Ukraine. Even
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in English, it's nonsense. and and uh
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but anyway, that's how it came about.
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And uh so I mean historically, this is
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history, but they don't believe that
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anymore. They believe they've been
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fighting for their independence for
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hundreds of years to get away from
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nobody but Russia. It's all everything
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has been geared, all of their history
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has been geared toward uh uh we hate
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Russia, but only since 1991.
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Now, I'm not saying that people didn't
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exist before 1991 that wanted to say
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we're Ukrainian and they're not. I saw
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some interesting movies on it. In fact,
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that uh there used to be uh the peasants
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and the surfs and then the Russian
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lords, right? It's just very similar to
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what England was doing in its regions
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over there. And I forget the name of the
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of the series, but it was a really good
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um uh miniseries television show in
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Russian that was uh talk Ukrainian surfs
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and Russian lords and you know it was a
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long longunning several season thing and
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and beautifully done. It was a a very
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good um uh set of of of
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shows seasons I suppose and uh when when
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they were being told and it was very
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interesting because you don't really
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think about it that way how the Russians
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the that even back then the because the
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Russians even when it was the Kazaks and
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even in when it was the Tatars and even
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when it was you know there if you keep
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going further to the east there. You've
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got your Georgians, you got your
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Armenians, you got your I mean, you keep
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going over all the places that that
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eventually became part of the Soviet
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Union or satellite um uh satellites of
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the Soviet Union. All of those places
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have, you know, have been the same
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ethnicities for hundreds of years,
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right? And uh so these things developed
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over a long period of time, but that's
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not Ukrainian history today. So I tell
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you all that to tell you the following.
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Here we are in America.
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Number one, many of these people, their
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English isn't that great, you know, but
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but I don't, you know, I I don't
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begrudge anybody that, you know, it I'm
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I'm fine with that. You want to come
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here and speak Italian, I don't give a
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crap, you know, it doesn't bother me and
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it doesn't bother me if you come over
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here and you speak uh Ukrainian or you
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speak Russian. But what I don't like is
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coming here and
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tomenting hatred of some sort. And it
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seems far more prevalent
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among the Ukrainians than among others.
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Now I know that's a generalization and
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you know um just like uh I had a see if
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you can get this. I had a drill sergeant
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once tell me, uh, so you're not supposed
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to generalize, but he was also the same
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drill sergeant who would say, "Trap, if
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I told you once, I told you a thousand
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times, never exaggerate."
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And I always loved that one. I thought
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that was a really good one. And uh uh at
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any rate, I think that all of the
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disputes ethnically over are a either
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hundreds of years in the making or b are
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part of a uh westernbased
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uh creative fairy tale to convince the
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Ukrainians that they need to hate
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Russians. By the way, the same efforts
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are underway in in everywhere else that
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that that uh they have cho it happened
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at right after Breton Woods, you know,
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when the when Soviet Union was so
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powerful at the time and uh there there
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actually was some fear that they'd never
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give back Eastern Europe and uh uh you
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know, well then they didn't, you know,
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under Stalin. They they wouldn't. And uh
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I'm I'm not saying I necessarily blame
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them. Who would say that that's not the
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case if you're um
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if you've just been overrun and lost 26
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million people because of of the evil
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Germans. But nobody ever says evil
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Germans. We don't do that. You know, the
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evil Germans aren't evil Germans.
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They're just Germans. And uh you know,
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the evil Poles who were going the other
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way aren't evil Poles. They're just
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Poles. And the Lithuanian Empire, you
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know, which was associated with the
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Poles, they're they're not evil.
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Lithuanians aren't evil. They're just
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Lithuanian. But in Russia, every they're
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evil Russia and they've been evil for
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100 years, but only only uh you know, by
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slogan and we create them and we've
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helped do that and we turn them into the
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bad guy and everybody does it. So that's
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your history. And that's what Ukraine
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has been doing with American and Western
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help in Ukraine for the last 35 years,
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making sure to still p push the
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narrative that uh the Russians are the
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evil empire. And uh and they're not, you
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know, how many times
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how many times aside from Ukraine, you
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know, has has has Russia invaded? Is it
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anywhere close to the number of times
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that America has invaded even in the
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last decade in the last hundred years of
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Russia? How many times they've invaded?
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You could we have that in our pocket as
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western westerners in in the last 10
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years. You know, we got tons of them.
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Tons of incursions everywhere. We just
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do what we want and you know we are the
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colonialists. Okay. right now that uh
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that we we you know that we ran away
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from we're it you you you become what
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you run away from or you become what you
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hate the most u sometimes. Anyway,
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that's a very long story to tell you
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that the Ukrainians that uh um
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you meet with far too often here. Uh, if
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you try to go into the Ukrainian store,
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and I forgot about it cuz I've been in
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Missouri for a little while, and you got
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to travel further to get to the very
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nice Ukrainian stores in Stellia, and
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they have some great some great ethnic
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uh uh grocery stores and stuff like that
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where you can go pick up your your uh uh
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uh tuiki and your leapki and your your
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interesting foods over there. And
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Pilman, Periroki, great coffees and and
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very great tors that's cakes and and
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very good stuff over there. And it's a
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uh it's right next to the in fact that's
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next to the Starbucks. See how my
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stories all come together. There they
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are. No, I'm kidding. Um but the uh cuz
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this story sure as hell hasn't come
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together and I've been talking for an
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hour already. Anyway, the uh the part in
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u the Ukrainian
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section. So there's a there's a good
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number of Ukrainians and a good number
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of Russians everywhere. But a place
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called Northport, Florida has three or
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four Ukrainian churches. Uh Ukrainians
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have been congregating there. I don't
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know why. Ukrainian specific for just
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like in Sidelia, Missouri. There's a
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large population of Ukrainians over
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there. And I like to go over there, but
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everything's in Russian anyway. And
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nobody's ever had any problems speaking
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Russian because all the Ukrainians speak
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Russian anyway. And none of them and
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then none of them ever spoke Russian
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before. Well, now you got Zilinski who
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his whole life spoke Russian and he
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doesn't even speak Ukrainian very well
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and he never has. He's getting better,
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but he's he's never spoken Ukrainian
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very well. He's always been a Moscow uh
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actor and and trying to get in the
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Moscow in crowd and and suddenly he
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gets, you know, funded by uh the proper
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oligarchs and suddenly he's only
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Ukrainian and he gets to gets to uh
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torment anybody who even speaks Russian
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and he speaks Ukrainian with a Russian
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accent.
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I don't speak Ukrainian, so I don't know
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about the accent part, but uh uh they
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hate. Okay, so and they hate it so much
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so that they will not speak to you in
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Russian. If you recall listening to me
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back when I was in uh Lithuania back in
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September
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um and in Bellarus,
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uh the a couple of the cab drivers I got
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I I got in with or the the Yandex
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drivers over there
23:04
when I would speak to them in Russian,
23:06
they would answer in English and they
23:09
would, you know, they uh one of them
23:12
even went so far as to say, "Don't speak
23:15
Russian in my cab." I said, "Hey, man,
23:18
if you don't want to pick up," I said,
23:20
"Would you say that to a Frenchman?
23:22
Don't speak French?" "Yeah, Russians are
23:24
invading invading Ukraine." I said, "And
23:26
what in the hell are you doing in
23:27
Lithuania?" You know, this is nonsense.
23:30
And uh it's a language, dude. And this
23:34
drives me baddy, just like it did back
23:38
in the 80s when I was in the army and
23:41
some particularly rude um American
23:45
soldiers would say something like,
23:47
"Don't speak that Mexican." You know, it
23:50
it was the the the southern we were in
23:53
uh Ngalas.
23:55
Um and across the border, I forget the
23:58
name of the US town across the border,
24:00
but near Fort Hua. And I was in Fort
24:03
Wuka, Arizona for I don't know several
24:06
months. And we would go over to Nogals
24:09
and but there was a cool place on this
24:11
side. So you didn't have to cross the
24:13
border. They really didn't like us doing
24:14
that. And you had to get special
24:16
permission across the border when you're
24:17
military anyway. And so at least in our
24:20
unit and uh uh and we had clearances
24:23
anyway. They really didn't want us
24:25
crossing the borders unless we were as a
24:28
group or doing something like that. And
24:30
uh but I would get really mad about uh
24:33
uh and and and say, "Geez, will you
24:36
stop? You know, you're drive I hate
24:38
that. You're driving me nuts. You can't
24:41
belittle a person because of their
24:43
language." You know, and if they you
24:46
come to America, speak American. It's
24:49
not American, by the way. It's English.
24:52
Now, the British wouldn't agree with
24:53
that, but anyway, that long, long story
24:57
to tell you that Ukraine and Russia,
25:01
well, mostly Ukraine, you know,
25:03
Russians, you know, don't say don't
25:05
speak Ukrainian. You want to speak
25:07
Ukrainian, fine. I I told you about the
25:09
the case uh that I assisted with a
25:12
couple of years ago where uh uh husband
25:16
and wife were having dinner in a
25:18
restaurant in um on the east part of uh
25:21
Hollywood which is in Miami area. Um
25:27
and they were speaking Russian
25:31
and they were there several hours, you
25:34
know, it's a Friday night or something.
25:36
and they were going there to have a good
25:37
time and uh later in the evening an
25:40
entire wedding party came in of
25:42
Ukrainians. Now, the bulk of the people
25:45
in that restaurant and apparently the
25:47
owner were Ukrainian. And um
25:52
it ended up that one of the wedding
25:55
guests came over to the table of this
25:58
Russian couple who'd been sitting there
26:01
and told them to quit talking that
26:03
Russian came over and confronted them
26:04
and wanted to fight with the husband.
26:07
wanted to create a scene because
26:10
Russians were there speaking speaking
26:13
that Russian. They weren't speaking
26:14
Ukrainian. Speak Ukrainian in here. They
26:17
said, "Well, even you half the
26:18
Ukrainians don't speak Ukrainian.
26:21
I don't know how." And so they learned
26:25
Russian. That's what they have done. And
26:27
so it was it turned into a a a fight.
26:30
You know, you had people in a wedding
26:32
party beating up on a guy and the wife
26:34
getting knocked to the ground. all kinds
26:36
of stupidity and uh um you know
26:39
potential uh potential case for for that
26:43
kind of thing. But how foolish all of
26:45
that was is is part of the point for
26:49
today. And uh I'm telling you it's
26:55
frustrating the stupidity going on in
26:58
the world today. And uh anyway, that
27:01
long long story to tell you that uh that
27:05
Samuel Edward von Trap believes that uh
27:09
it's time for for everyone to put their
27:13
swords aside, you know, and try to a
27:17
little what is what is that song? try a
27:19
little bit of peace, love, and
27:21
understanding or something because the
27:24
world is going to [ __ ] pretty quick and
27:28
we're all along for the ride. And on
27:30
that note, we're going to um uh talk
27:35
about first an Axio article that uh the
27:41
US
27:44
is there's a push to build an Iran
27:47
coalition that is turning into a mess.
27:51
And I've watched so many uh reports on
27:55
this and uh keeping track of it uh
28:01
especially regarding the Straits of
28:02
Hormuz and uh that
28:06
well we we help NATO. We do everything
28:09
for NATO basically and uh the rants that
28:13
uh that Trump goes on on his true social
28:16
and says we we've done everything to you
28:20
know for Europe. They haven't done a
28:21
damn thing. And now we want them to come
28:24
in and help escort ships in the Straits
28:26
of Hormuz. Well, now remember, I told
28:29
you last week that I've read a couple
28:30
other articles that say that uh the
28:33
Straits of Hormuz, you you can't escort.
28:37
There are procedural and reality
28:41
limitations to being able to
28:45
um
28:47
escort militarily ships through the
28:50
Straits of Hormuz. And the US Navy
28:53
allegedly through whatever the senior
28:55
admiral is told Trump that it's it's not
28:59
really possible or or realistic at all
29:02
for US Navy ships to be escorting
29:06
uh ships through the Straits of Hormuz
29:08
uh commercial ships and it would turn
29:11
them into little bit especially in the
29:13
method of the war that's going on right
29:15
now which is mostly pounding each other
29:17
with missiles.
29:19
uh it would put them in a a greater uh
29:24
risk coalition and so that's not really
29:26
how you secure the straits of moves. Um
29:31
and you know Trump isn't listening to
29:33
that. You know we're we're we're going
29:36
to secure this. I I remember a couple of
29:38
weeks ago when I was first uh when I
29:41
first stated something about this
29:44
ridiculous and foolish war that we've
29:47
involved ourselves in. Uh by the way,
29:50
just as a as a deliberate attack of our
29:53
own at the behest of Netanyahu,
29:57
uh and not even as
30:00
the American public has zero, there's
30:03
nothing positive that comes of this for
30:05
us. Nothing. We are not the world's
30:08
policemen, nor should we be. And the and
30:11
and I don't appreciate it as do what are
30:14
we up to 66% 68%
30:18
uh with the last numbers of people who
30:20
were supporting going to war in Iran. Uh
30:24
the the naysay are uh a hell of a lot
30:28
less I'm I mean a hell of a lot more
30:30
than the yays on uh I I don't think like
30:35
many of these stupid wars they they uh
30:38
in hindsight always look foolish and uh
30:42
just like Afghanistan and and uh many
30:44
many many reports over the last couple
30:46
of weeks said that if the Iranians can
30:49
hang out for a couple of weeks and turn
30:52
this into a
30:56
uh sort of an attrition war and create
30:58
the discomfort that not only will the
31:01
missile abilities and the defensive
31:03
posture of the West and the desire to be
31:07
involved be uh
31:13
be a horror story on the Western side,
31:17
but that there's a a a pretty good
31:22
indication
31:24
that there might be efforts to make it
31:26
even worse, like get out of the Middle
31:28
East, like pushing the the United States
31:31
out of there. You can agree with that or
31:33
disagree with it. I'm not positive. I
31:34
agree with it or disagree with it. It's
31:36
an opposing point of view. And uh I want
31:39
to be supportive. I'm a patriot. I was
31:42
military. You know, I was one of the
31:43
guys who might have had to go somewhere.
31:45
Although I was in during Iraq uh one and
31:49
I didn't I didn't go. I was a Russian
31:51
interpreter. the hell am I going to do
31:53
over there? And um but anyway, uh you
31:56
know, the Russians weren't weren't at
31:58
war at that time. Um and this straits to
32:01
Hormuz thing and the war in general is
32:04
turning into a a pretty huge mess. Um, I
32:08
listened to and admitted uh admittedly
32:10
he was an Iranian professor from a u a
32:16
uh
32:18
Thrron University and he's a professor
32:21
there and he told some some pretty grim
32:26
stories about what is being targeted
32:29
over there. He he said that there are
32:33
the uh double tap missions that are
32:36
going on even now that the that and
32:39
Israel has long been known to do these
32:41
type of things and uh people complain
32:44
about it quite a bit. This is the
32:46
preferred method of uh of their war
32:51
tactics. They they they they are in a
32:54
destructive mode and they are doing back
32:58
what was done to them. No, nowhere near
33:00
as horrible, but still horrible. Um,
33:04
like the school that was bombed in uh um
33:08
uh I forget the name of the little town
33:10
where the girls were the girls were uh
33:13
destroyed. The more news that comes out
33:15
about that, the worse it looks. It was a
33:18
Navy Navy officers uh mostly
33:22
uh school for
33:25
uh Navy officers children and uh
33:31
they say it was intentionally targeted
33:32
and they even worse say that the US data
33:36
has been using AI for some of the
33:39
targeting and the AI data is old. Uh one
33:43
of the stories this economist told was
33:47
economic professor. Anyway, he said that
33:50
uh uh
33:54
that there an example for one of the
33:58
examples he gave was that u there was a
34:02
park that's called in Iranian uh or in
34:06
Arabic I suppose would be the um the
34:12
or do they speak Farsy I don't remember
34:14
but I think it's Farsy and uh uh he they
34:17
they would have um the park was called
34:20
police park and um that was the name of
34:26
the park. It has nothing to do with the
34:28
police. The police aren't located there.
34:30
There's nothing there. And that park was
34:32
bombed several times now. The park has
34:36
been bombed. So AI is picking the the
34:40
the the
34:42
targeting data for for how you uh target
34:46
um how you target missiles into Iran on
34:51
both the Israeli side and the American
34:54
side. And he said that the double taps
34:57
have been consistent and prevalent and
35:01
that and a double tap if if for those of
35:04
you who don't know are bombing a place,
35:07
waiting 20, 30 minutes for for uh people
35:12
to arrive
35:15
and then bombing it again so you can
35:18
destroy the uh the first responders. so
35:23
you can destroy them as well and all the
35:26
people that are coming to dig through
35:28
the rubble or whatever. And uh he said
35:31
that has been the preferred method. Now
35:34
admittedly that could be you know
35:36
propaganda. He didn't he seemed like an
35:38
economist to me. his you know he's
35:41
clearly uh his English was extremely
35:44
good or he was educated in the west
35:47
which is typical for a lot of for a lot
35:50
of people in in in many areas of the
35:53
world they come over to the to Europe or
35:55
to the United States and get educated
35:58
and then then they go uh back home and
36:01
and live you know after their education
36:04
and they get a western education and he
36:08
said one other interesting thing. So,
36:10
first was on the targeting and on the
36:12
missiles and on on and the whole
36:14
interview was pretty interesting. Um but
36:17
he said also that
36:22
the the lies that are being told over
36:25
here about the fact that uh and these
36:29
are his words not mine that u
36:33
the Iranian people do not support their
36:36
government
36:38
um is you know completely false. He said
36:42
that he has participated himself in
36:45
rallies of 250 to a mill 250,000 to a
36:49
million people showing up. Um, you know,
36:53
there were marches after that uh that uh
36:56
Saturday or or
37:00
I don't know why I said Saturday, what
37:01
it had to do with it, but that the the
37:03
the bombing I forget it started on the
37:07
28th or whatever and they blew up that
37:09
school and uh so I that's why I think I
37:11
said Saturday, but uh uh uh it was a u
37:16
that after that there were huge protests
37:18
uh and
37:20
support for the government, um,
37:23
martyrdom,
37:24
marches, those kind of things that, uh,
37:27
that they're everywhere and the the
37:29
Iranian people are at their core
37:33
together. Now, to tie that into the
37:35
Ukrainian part, okay, the Ukrainians
37:38
been losing for years now, we're in year
37:41
five of this, and the Ukrainians have
37:43
been losing, and the hatred that they
37:46
show for Russians
37:48
isn't really warranted. in my humble
37:51
view.
37:52
But
37:54
I understand and I understand the you
37:57
know call it solidarity that they are uh
38:01
uh you know
38:04
in solidarity even if they're not in the
38:07
country you know they all run from the
38:09
country and then yeah you fight whoever
38:14
else could fight but everybody runs from
38:16
the country like the guy flying the
38:17
little German uh light ultra light plane
38:21
out into Verbadia last week that I told
38:23
you about and every everybody is running
38:26
away cuz they don't want to be the meat
38:28
lines inside of Ukraine and then you
38:31
know hell if you want to come over here
38:33
and preach to the Russians about
38:35
speaking you know don't speak that
38:37
Russian you know who in the hell are you
38:39
to tell them not to speak Russian
38:41
nonsense and that's nonsense that'd be
38:45
like me going up and go don't speak that
38:47
Ukrainian [ __ ] to me speak English and
38:50
none of them speak English or very
38:53
poorly and and then there's huge amounts
38:55
of them that don't speak English at all
38:58
and they're they're over here and they
38:59
have no intention of learning it. You
39:01
know, they just get a few things to get
39:03
by, but they speak Ukrainian in their
39:05
homes. They have all their money to
39:07
Ukrainian businesses. They uh they will
39:10
only hire Ukrainian uh lawyers. They,
39:13
you know, stuff like that. And uh it it
39:17
exists. And so we're creating these
39:18
riffs inside America which supposed to
39:21
be a melting pot. Now in a generation
39:23
who's going to know the difference
39:24
because their kids will all learn
39:26
English. But maybe not. I don't know.
39:30
Maybe we're creating regions inside
39:32
America that are going to be like the
39:33
regions inside the world where we're all
39:35
supposed to be at each other's throats
39:36
the rest of our lives. And uh this is no
39:39
way to run a uh you know peace, love,
39:41
and understanding. That is my thesis.
39:46
And with Trump not being able to figure
39:49
out what in the hell is going on in the
39:51
straits of her or moves, uh there's
39:54
strong skepticism on that. And I wanted
39:56
to share this with you. Um this uh
40:01
opinion so that the US uh efforts to
40:04
build they want to build a uh a straits
40:09
of four moves coalition. Here we are
40:11
again with that magic word, the
40:13
coalition. Coalition of the willing
40:16
willing to do what? The willingness to
40:19
hate Russia, right? And now we have to
40:21
have a coalition to secure shipping in
40:23
the straight or moose. And they this has
40:26
turned into a mess because Washington's
40:29
uh alleged partners don't want to offer
40:32
any assistance. According to Axios
40:34
yesterday,
40:36
US, Israel, and by the way, US and
40:39
Israel are on their own in this. You
40:41
have Mcronone throwing in a little bit
40:43
because uh you know uh he he he likes to
40:47
do what daddy tells him to do but uh
40:51
most people are against and these and
40:53
this USI Israel strikes on Iran and
40:56
Thran's acts in retaliation have led to
41:01
the oil flow
41:04
dri you know dwindling to nothing in the
41:08
straits of Hormuz.
41:11
And the de facto closure of one of the
41:13
world's most important energy choke
41:16
points is sending shock waves through
41:19
global oil markets. I watched another
41:21
article that uh uh what is his name
41:27
wasn't Midv
41:29
um well it doesn't matter who Kiriel
41:33
Demitri is who I think it was um that uh
41:36
he predicts that within a very short
41:38
period of time the uh prices for oil
41:42
with all the choke points and all the
41:45
destruction of infrastructure related to
41:47
oil all around the world going on at the
41:51
hugest suppliers except the US, you
41:55
know, and if and and and the cynical
41:56
people like me, you know, boy, this is
42:00
convenient. You're turning the the the
42:02
market into the US alone, having the
42:05
market for oil. Trump says, "Oh, gez,
42:07
we'll never run out. We got so much
42:09
capacity. We'll just provide our own."
42:13
Well, that's easy to say, but what about
42:14
the rest of the world? They'll have to
42:16
buy it from us. And so I
42:21
I'm one of the
42:23
critical
42:25
I criticize that quite a bit. So uh
42:28
these I believe Brent prices, you know,
42:32
and all the the you know, the sweet
42:34
crude, all of the prices are all going
42:36
to go way in the hell up. And uh it's
42:40
it's it's uh fluctuating around the $100
42:44
a barrel mark right now. sometimes up,
42:47
sometimes down. Um, and according to
42:50
Axios, the administration has been
42:52
lobbying countries including
42:55
UK, France, Germany, Germany, Italy,
42:58
Australia, Canada, Japan, and South
43:01
Korea, all of whom have said no,
43:05
as well as several Gulf States and
43:07
Jordan to provide naval vessels or other
43:10
forms of support for the mission to
43:13
secure the regional shipping routes.
43:17
But the outlet says that the potential
43:19
partners have ranged from skepticism to
43:22
hell no. Germany, Italy, and Japan have
43:26
ruled out sending any navy while France
43:28
has remained non-committal. Prime
43:31
Minister Kirst the genius has described
43:36
as forwardleaning cuz he's going to, you
43:38
know, lick rear ends should the need
43:41
arise. and uh London is drafting its own
43:44
proposal to uh
43:47
you know hang out with its brothers in
43:49
arms in the United States. Uh but the
43:52
road map um isn't being shared with
43:56
every you know with all the countries
43:58
being invited and one European diplomat
44:01
described the negotiations as a mess and
44:05
told Axios that a lot of people are
44:08
confused.
44:11
publicly EU uh top diplomat and I hate
44:16
to say stuff like this because Jesus she
44:18
has zero diplomacy skills Ka Kalis said
44:22
that there were there was no appetite in
44:26
the block to participate in the US-led
44:29
coalition against Iran. So that's the
44:32
she's the top diplomat in the EU and
44:34
German defense min M minister Boris
44:37
Ptoria said that this is not our war we
44:42
have not started it now where have we
44:45
heard that before friends and neighbors
44:47
not our war we didn't start it
44:51
the old Trumpster is forever saying you
44:55
know it ain't my war Joe Biden's war
44:59
if it was me it never would have
45:01
started. Well, I'm not so sure about
45:03
that anymore because you started your
45:08
own brand of war everywhere else in the
45:11
last little bit. Meanwhile, Trump warned
45:14
that NATO would face a very bad future.
45:17
his long long rant and I I wouldn't I I
45:20
I rarely read it, but I saw this one
45:23
because somebody else was quoting it and
45:26
this horribly long rant of his about
45:31
NATO facing a very bad future. Um if its
45:36
European members refuse to participate
45:40
in uh securing hormones, well, look what
45:44
we've done for you. when what are you
45:46
going to do for us?
45:48
I'm not sure those two questions go
45:50
together.
45:52
Uh, arguably NATO would be some kind of
45:55
a common defense, right? Although they
45:59
they absolutely helped in the in the
46:01
ridiculous invasions of Iraq that went
46:04
absolutely nowhere after the fact and
46:08
haven't helped at all. They're always
46:10
along for the ride. and uh uh but I
46:13
don't I'm not sure that under Trump
46:15
they're going to want to
46:18
um because he's he's he doesn't have to
46:22
consult with anyone. I'm king of the
46:24
world. That's it. And he doesn't have
46:26
to. So, as the Iran war continues with
46:30
no clear end in sight, the Washington
46:33
Post reports, and I'm not a big
46:35
Washington Post reader, but it says that
46:39
Trump has received very sobering
46:42
briefings on the Iranian leadership
46:45
remaining firmly in control of the
46:48
country. Well, that economist that I
46:50
spoke to yesterday said that the the
46:52
government is in control and the people
46:56
in vast majority are supportive and and
47:00
the attacking the country has done very
47:03
little for uh you know gez and and who
47:09
would think this anyway? What [ __ ]
47:11
would think that bombing a country would
47:15
turn the people into with the desire,
47:18
especially at the levels that has been
47:20
going on the last two weeks, one school,
47:24
you know, assume even that it that that
47:27
it was a, as Trump said, oh gee, they
47:29
cut their own women in half and their
47:32
cut babies heads off and stuff. Um,
47:34
nonsense, by the way. But suppose
47:38
uh that you even believe that and it was
47:41
a false flag to destroy a naval
47:45
officer's school with young girls
47:48
between the ages of 8 and 15 and and 20
47:52
or so of their teachers and staff that
47:55
were there, right? Uh assume it was a
47:57
false flag.
48:01
I I it's not. I I I don't believe that.
48:04
And I don't believe that Trump has any
48:07
basis to to say that it was a false flag
48:10
operation. And there's too much
48:13
the AI targeting, the fact that it was
48:16
near a um a uh prior military site, the
48:24
fact that they did these decapitation
48:27
strikes
48:29
in as prevalent a manner as they did,
48:32
they picked a wrong target.
48:35
That's the most likely presumption is
48:38
that they picked a wrong target. Tell me
48:41
that under that scenario
48:45
that if this happened, if the same thing
48:47
happened and Russia did the same thing
48:50
in Ukraine that everybody wouldn't be
48:53
anti-Russia.
48:55
They would be. and everyone would be is
49:01
anti-US around the world over what's
49:04
going on in Iran in vast majority. The
49:08
only lunatics, you know, in Israel, the
49:11
standard Netanyahu and and Lindsey
49:14
Graham style lunatics exist. The rest of
49:18
the world is going like Minister Ptorius
49:21
said that this is not our war. We have
49:24
not started it.
49:26
And uh so
49:29
I'm not sure where we go from here,
49:31
people, but it wasn't just predictable,
49:33
said the Washington Post. It was
49:36
predicted. He was told all of these
49:38
things in advance. Now, I've heard that
49:41
story not just from the Washington Post
49:44
Post, but from multiple sources that uh
49:48
uh are, you know, respected journalists
49:50
and not not crap for the most part. Now,
49:54
there's plenty of crap out there, too,
49:56
but uh uh I I I watched a Fox News thing
50:01
several days ago, and it was
50:04
embarrassing, you know. Uh it was a
50:06
morning show. Three people sitting on a
50:10
bet, you know, in these highback chairs
50:12
enjoying their coffee and ranting about
50:15
how great it was that we're bombing the
50:17
crap out of Iran and that the Iranian
50:20
people are going to reach up and over
50:22
and turn over their their government and
50:24
start again. You think so? I do not. And
50:29
uh I think that little tidbit should be
50:33
told a little bit more
50:38
uh
50:41
openly, let's say. Um and the EU is very
50:46
very divided on on
50:51
the Iran war. Very divided. There was a
50:55
another article a kind of an opinion
50:57
piece that uh says that this war how far
51:02
with the question was it's kind of a I
51:05
like to write this way sometimes you
51:07
present a question and then provide
51:09
alternatives to answer it and I and I
51:11
liked this one um it said how far does
51:15
the echo of the Middle East war reach
51:20
and a lot of people say this is going to
51:23
hit all of us
51:26
uh choking off LPG,
51:29
um LNG,
51:32
um all kinds of stuff. There are road
51:34
stalls or cantens. I I hadn't heard a
51:37
story or saw read a story. Yeah, I read
51:41
this story. Doesn't matter. But uh the
51:44
that the Indians are
51:47
now I don't know how this goes with it
51:50
because you would think it's a little
51:52
bit different. They say they're um
51:56
um
51:58
having to and and it's a long trail that
52:01
gets you there, but the lack of oil, the
52:06
lack of uh petroleum is causing
52:10
shortages in food markets. I mean this
52:16
is a is a consequential
52:19
thing across India.
52:24
I mean many many places in India there
52:27
are concerns uh from cantens from
52:30
restaurants
52:32
from uh you know people's livelihoods
52:34
are at stake. Uh they can't get
52:36
shipments because uh shipments are
52:39
stalled. Um, there's a guy uh here's a
52:44
here's I was trying to find the quote
52:46
that the guy said. A guy named uh Sing.
52:49
Gee, there's a surprise.
52:52
That's s i ngh gh the the and I'm not
52:56
there's there's nothing wrong with the
52:58
name. It's just that it's like Smith
53:00
over over in America. Um so India,
53:04
Pakistan, Bangladesh,
53:06
other countries, Sri Lanka and the South
53:09
Asia region are facing uh you know very
53:13
prevalent signs of uh no liqufied
53:17
petroleum gas. Um and there's a huge
53:20
shortage as the Middle East hits uh the
53:23
these energy supply chains. And so this
53:28
isn't helping Donald Trump either. a guy
53:31
named Praalad Singh who's 48 years old
53:34
runs a roadside ery in outside of New
53:38
Delhi and uh he's trying to figure out
53:42
and you know they interviewed him he's
53:44
going through his phone saying the
53:46
disruption consequences of the war in
53:49
Iran triggered by US and Israel a war
53:52
that rattles the global energy supply
53:55
chain and has led to uncertainty across
53:58
oil and gas markets
54:00
This is going to hit all of us, says
54:03
Singh, who sells Chinese food from a
54:06
small roadside stall and is now counting
54:09
how long his remaining gas supply will
54:12
last until he's loses his livelihood. He
54:16
says the cylinder he is using may be the
54:19
last uh may only last another 3 days. I
54:23
am already worried that I won't be able
54:26
to get another one on time. Our
54:28
livelihood is at stake. Across India,
54:31
similar concerns emerge from other
54:34
cantens, restaurants, hotels who defend
54:38
depend heavily on commercial LPG
54:41
cylinders to run their kitchens.
54:44
Energy supply disruptions have already
54:46
pushed LPG prices up in India and
54:50
elsewhere with the government recently
54:53
increasing the cost of household
54:55
cylinders by about 60 rupees and
54:59
commercial cylinders by 115 rupees.
55:03
Um now that's a small amount of money in
55:05
America. But remember when you're
55:08
looking at uh purchase power parody the
55:11
rupee buys a hell of a lot more in India
55:13
than uh the dollar buys here
55:17
in the southern state of Telen Ghana.
55:19
Vegetables like carrots, cauliflower,
55:21
onions, cheese are chopped on restaurant
55:24
counters. Um you you guys like biryani?
55:27
Oh my god, I love biryani. And this
55:29
one's talking about a biryani house, but
55:32
the kitchen has fallen silent. The owner
55:34
says that there are severe shortages of
55:36
LPG cylinders and they don't operate
55:39
except for one meal a day now. They
55:41
operate only at nighttime. Uh the
55:44
restaurant requires about 10 cylinders
55:47
each week to operate smoothly, but the
55:50
owner owner says he only got two
55:52
delivered in the week. Uh with supplies
55:56
tightening, the crisis getting worse
55:57
every single day. Now there's a billion
56:00
and a half people in India. Okay. So
56:05
take this story and explode it
56:08
astronomically
56:09
because of the uh lack of of uh
56:16
uh petroleum products. And the same goes
56:19
in China. And uh I mean hell, we're
56:22
feeling it here. You know, I was
56:24
bitching yesterday about the uh the the
56:27
cost of gas. I saw something yesterday.
56:30
Um my first time I saw it, it was over
56:33
in the Miami area.
56:36
Uh more than $4 a gallon for gas.
56:40
And uh uh diesel is well over five
56:44
everywhere on my travels down here. Well
56:47
over five bucks a gallon. And uh uh
56:50
that's depressing. It's just depressing.
56:55
So I don't know people. I think uh
57:00
somebody needs to uh
57:03
end this.
57:06
It's not we're not going to have
57:08
capitulation. But let's try to get to a
57:11
uh a better um a better story.
57:14
Meanwhile, all of this happening right
57:17
now. China is very much in the news.
57:22
China is um now everybody well I don't
57:25
know if you heard this or not but
57:26
apparently Trump is putting off his he
57:30
he was planning to go to uh China at the
57:32
end of this month meet with Xi Jinping
57:34
and allegedly put some pressure on him
57:36
about Russia. I think uh for several
57:39
reasons um
57:43
that is uh
57:47
not going to happen. And I heard an
57:48
interesting theory on this yesterday and
57:52
uh I don't know how I think about it but
57:54
but uh it it is definitely interesting
57:57
and I can see that is uh a potential
58:01
uh truth that
58:04
Trump was trying to structure post
58:07
Venezuela post Iran and he wanted a
58:11
quick
58:14
decapitation.
58:16
We're taking the oil in Iran, too,
58:18
China. So, you know, we took it we took
58:21
it from you in Venezuela, and now we're
58:24
going to take it from you, although
58:26
ultimately I don't think they even did
58:27
in Venezuela. Um, that's just a
58:30
shortterm short-term deal. 3 years from
58:33
now, it's not going to matter. Um, China
58:36
will be right back in there. But
58:39
I the the theory was that Trump takes
58:42
Venezuela,
58:44
takes
58:45
um Iran,
58:49
says he controls the global supply
58:52
except from Russia and China gets uh I
58:57
forget what the percentage is, don't
58:58
quote me on it, but it's big percentage.
59:01
I want to say 70 80% of their um
59:07
or maybe they take 70 80% of the
59:09
capacity of Iran through the streets of
59:11
Hormuz goes into China. It could it's
59:14
one of those two figures that they that
59:16
they get um because China gets
59:20
a butt ton of energy from Russia. Okay.
59:26
And uh the story goes that Trump
59:30
cancelled this meeting because he didn't
59:33
get his quick victory and seizing of oil
59:37
interests in Iran. I can't imagine that
59:40
he would have tried it in the first
59:42
place. Um you know that's it. I can't
59:45
imagine now that that'd be a desperation
59:47
move if that's what you think you're or
59:49
or a completely arrogant and cocky move,
59:52
one of the two. But it's not a
59:54
reasonable move under any stretch of the
59:58
imagination. It's either we're so cocky
1:00:00
that we think we can decap capitate and
1:00:03
these people are going to welcome us in
1:00:06
with a, you know, open arms because
1:00:09
they've, you know, they're cutting
1:00:11
babies in half and chopping off women's
1:00:14
heads in Iran.
1:00:16
The error is in the premise.
1:00:19
They're not doing that. or it is, you
1:00:23
know, that we have horror stories here
1:00:24
in America, too. If we focused only on
1:00:27
the lone horror story that occurred, you
1:00:30
know, you could argue that everybody
1:00:32
here in America is a uh is a school
1:00:36
shooter, you know, cuz we have plenty of
1:00:38
that going on here. And uh or these mass
1:00:41
shootings going on in America, far too
1:00:44
many for my comfort, and I don't like
1:00:47
it. But I don't want all of America to
1:00:49
be judged because we got a bunch of
1:00:51
morons running around. Well, you that's
1:00:53
the same in any country. Everybody's got
1:00:55
their share of idiots. And uh you know,
1:00:58
you take the lone story of a a I don't
1:01:01
know baby being cut in half 30 years ago
1:01:05
and and I've never heard that story, but
1:01:07
let's let's claim that. Let's give Trump
1:01:10
the benefit of the doubt. I'd like to.
1:01:13
But you don't get on Air Force One and
1:01:15
say, "Well, you know those Iranians? all
1:01:17
they do is cut their babies in half and,
1:01:19
you know, behead their women. That's not
1:01:22
true.
1:01:23
Might be true of one Iranian or a
1:01:26
couple, but you don't get to you don't
1:01:29
get to lump the entire population into
1:01:32
the the baby killing, the baby cutting
1:01:35
in half and beheading wife bit. That's
1:01:38
nonsense. And any more than you'd be
1:01:40
able to call all American school
1:01:42
shooters, nonsense. And so if that the
1:01:46
the theory going that he's now having to
1:01:49
figure out how to proceed because he was
1:01:52
either a too arrogant or b uh too
1:01:56
foolish to to understand the the risks
1:01:59
and chose not to risk to uh listen to
1:02:02
his leaders that here he is embroiled in
1:02:05
another debacle uh in the the the far
1:02:09
east. This is nonsense. And uh now how
1:02:15
long is this one going to drag on? Is
1:02:17
this one and and I heard him referring
1:02:19
to them as terrorists again the other
1:02:21
day? These are the terrorists. I thought
1:02:23
the the Taliban was the terrorist before
1:02:25
that or after that. I thought it was
1:02:27
ISIS. How many freaking Everybody's a
1:02:30
terrorist, too. Everybody's a terrorist.
1:02:32
Everybody's a baby killer. Um and so
1:02:36
therefore, we need to go to war with
1:02:37
Iran.
1:02:41
wrong answer. You don't you do not pass
1:02:43
go. You do not collect $200. You don't
1:02:46
get to go on to the next round where the
1:02:48
prizes really, you know, uh improve and
1:02:52
get bigger. No, we don't. We that is not
1:02:55
what's happening. And so he's canled his
1:02:57
trip to China. Now, I don't know that
1:02:59
that's true, but it makes sense to me if
1:03:02
that was his theory that he was going to
1:03:04
go and hold China's feet to the fire
1:03:08
about Russia and a couple of other
1:03:10
things and about trade deals with uh
1:03:13
Canada and Europe like uh he is he is
1:03:17
you know speaking about he's going to do
1:03:20
then
1:03:22
the failure to take over the Iranian oil
1:03:25
would certainly be a problem for him.
1:03:28
That's what I believe. So anyway, China
1:03:32
in the meanwhile has been meeting with
1:03:36
many sides, many different countries.
1:03:39
They've been talking to European leaders
1:03:41
that are coming over. European leaders
1:03:43
are co going to China. Chinese leaders
1:03:46
are going to Europe. Same thing in the
1:03:48
Middle East. Same thing in South
1:03:49
America. Same thing across the planet is
1:03:53
Chinese leaders are going right now and
1:03:56
projecting the voice of
1:04:01
reasonleness
1:04:03
and because everybody is now claiming
1:04:07
that Trump is not less than reasonable.
1:04:10
Let's put it that way because he's he's
1:04:13
doing anything he can. I mean, here's an
1:04:15
example of another story um that proves
1:04:19
that ex doesn't prove, but uh comes to
1:04:22
the same conclusion.
1:04:24
You know, it's just a story. It's not
1:04:26
proof of anything. Take it or leave it.
1:04:28
I can do anything I want with Cuba.
1:04:32
I mean, think about that. I can do
1:04:34
anything I want with Greenland. I've
1:04:35
done whatever I wanted with Venezuela. I
1:04:38
mean, hell, I can bomb the crap out of
1:04:39
Iran and people are going to come
1:04:41
running into my arms and talk about how
1:04:43
glorious and wonderful Donald Trump is.
1:04:46
Um, you know, he he may have the honor
1:04:49
of being the president uh to take to
1:04:53
take Cuba. I told you about this last
1:04:55
week a little bit. US President Trump
1:04:58
has said he expects to have the honor of
1:05:00
taking Cuba in some form, claiming he
1:05:03
could do anything I want with the
1:05:06
Caribbean nation. He made the remarks on
1:05:08
Monday in the Oval Office despite
1:05:11
ongoing talks between Washington and
1:05:13
Havana as the island grapples with a
1:05:16
deepening energy crisis because the US
1:05:18
has blockaded any oil from Venezuela. I
1:05:23
do believe I'll be having the honor of
1:05:25
taking Cuba and that's a big honor,
1:05:28
Trump said, adding that he's taking Cuba
1:05:32
in some form.
1:05:35
I I I don't understand this thought
1:05:38
process at all.
1:05:40
I just don't get it. Who has asked him
1:05:45
did did I vote for this? No, I don't
1:05:48
know who else has voted for this. I
1:05:50
didn't vote for him to take over the
1:05:51
world. I taught him I I voted for him
1:05:54
because I didn't want him to start any
1:05:58
new wars or conflicts.
1:06:02
The first year it's all about my my I
1:06:05
didn't get the peace prize. That's my
1:06:07
peace prize. Obama got one. Where's
1:06:10
mine?
1:06:11
Now it's I'm the wartime president. Look
1:06:14
what I get to do. I'm taking Cuba. I
1:06:16
already took Venezuela. And that's why
1:06:18
Cuba's in bad shape because I won't let
1:06:20
that Venezuelan oil go to Cuba. Screw
1:06:23
them. We're going to take it. Is he
1:06:25
doing this for Rubio?
1:06:29
Very curious. I might have to look into
1:06:31
that. This is nonsense because uh there
1:06:33
there's been, you know, it's a big
1:06:35
honor. Oh, yeah. It's a big honor. I
1:06:38
Oh, we're saving the world, right?
1:06:41
That's what we're doing.
1:06:43
Pressed by reporters, Trump said that
1:06:45
the US could take different actions
1:06:47
toward the island. "Whether I whether I
1:06:50
free it or take it, I think I can do
1:06:54
anything I want with it if you want to
1:06:56
know the truth," he said without
1:06:58
elaborating. Trump spoke as Cuba plunged
1:07:01
into a nationwide blackout Monday.
1:07:04
Nearly 11 million people left without
1:07:07
electricity as fuel shortages strain the
1:07:11
country's aging power stations.
1:07:13
Following the US president's comments,
1:07:16
New York Times reported that American
1:07:19
officials have signaled in negotiations
1:07:22
that removing Cuban president again it's
1:07:25
about regime change and that's it.
1:07:28
Finding somebody who will lick Trump's
1:07:30
butt for the next three years. Uh,
1:07:32
President Miguel Diaz Canal could be a
1:07:35
key objective in the bilateral talks,
1:07:38
though Washington hasn't publicly
1:07:40
confirmed that demand. I don't know why
1:07:42
we why we don't understand that. I mean,
1:07:45
that's the only reason we could have to
1:07:47
take it. Why else? Why else bother?
1:07:53
You know what we need? We need another
1:07:55
11 million Cuban residents of Florida,
1:07:58
right? I don't what state has that
1:08:00
become in my ongoing uh
1:08:03
uh you know determination of which
1:08:06
states are uh we've added so far I can't
1:08:09
remember the order anymore. Um Israel
1:08:12
has always been state 51 but actually
1:08:14
Israel is state one. The rest of us are
1:08:18
number you know the rest of the American
1:08:20
states are are numbers 2 through 51. And
1:08:24
then uh 52 would be Canada, right? And
1:08:30
then we have Greenland. We have
1:08:33
Venezuela. We taking Cuba and Iran. So
1:08:37
we could be up to 56 various states by
1:08:40
now under Trump. He's adding states
1:08:42
everywhere he goes. And uh we ought to
1:08:44
be proud of, right? So 11 million 11
1:08:47
million people
1:08:49
on the government dole, right? have them
1:08:52
come up and uh you know put their kids
1:08:54
in American schools. That'll be great,
1:08:56
right? That's what we're after as
1:08:58
Americans.
1:09:00
New York Times reported that these
1:09:02
officials um you know that they want to
1:09:04
get rid of this uh government. Uh the
1:09:08
talks marked the first time in more than
1:09:10
a decade that Havana has publicly
1:09:13
acknowledged formal discussions with
1:09:16
Washington. This follows several weeks
1:09:19
of power cuts, fuel shortages,
1:09:23
and and by the way, the US won't let
1:09:25
anybody else in there to discuss with
1:09:26
them. And uh uh you know,
1:09:32
you wonder about uh whether this is
1:09:34
really an anti-Russia move as well. Um
1:09:39
but
1:09:41
after all of this and the rising public
1:09:44
anger after Venezuelan oil shipments are
1:09:48
halted by the US following the US
1:09:51
seizure of Maduro
1:09:54
uh illegal seizure of Maduro but still
1:09:57
happened.
1:09:58
Um, Trump repeatedly has threatened a
1:10:02
total oil blockade of Cuba and warns
1:10:06
that countries selling crude to the
1:10:07
island will face tariffs.
1:10:10
I'm going to make you pay some tariffs.
1:10:12
We're going to have four years of
1:10:13
arguing over tariffs. Oh well, one of
1:10:16
them's already happened, so we're well
1:10:18
into that. Diaz Canal said last week
1:10:20
that any dialogue with Washington must
1:10:22
be based on the same thing that
1:10:24
everybody else in the world wants.
1:10:26
equality and respect for the political
1:10:28
system of both countries.
1:10:30
Stressing sovereignty and
1:10:31
self-determination. He said that Cuba
1:10:34
has received no oil shipments for 3
1:10:36
months due to the blockade which he said
1:10:38
has affected many including children
1:10:41
needing medical treatment. Russia
1:10:43
condemns the US economic blockade of the
1:10:47
island and call these sanctions unlawful
1:10:50
and destabilizing. And Sergey Lavough
1:10:53
said, uh, Moscow supports the Cuban
1:10:56
people in defending their own
1:10:59
sovereignty.
1:11:01
Um, I I I I don't really care for this
1:11:04
um
1:11:07
for this sort of uh behavior. I really
1:11:10
don't.
1:11:12
Um,
1:11:14
I already told you about the Straits of
1:11:16
Hormuz, but I did want to share this
1:11:19
article with you, but I don't think I'm
1:11:21
going to.
1:11:23
Um,
1:11:25
but on the same oil, you know, oil
1:11:28
problems everywhere.
1:11:31
I want to return to Hungary and Ukraine
1:11:36
to replay these deals. Kiev is rejecting
1:11:40
proposals from Hungary for a meeting.
1:11:44
Ukraine is refusing to resume oil
1:11:47
supplies via the DURJBA pipeline for
1:11:51
purely political reasons despite the
1:11:54
infrastructure being fully functional,
1:11:56
says Peter Jarto, Hungarian foreign
1:11:59
minister said that uh today he added
1:12:02
that Kiev has declined a proposed
1:12:04
trilateral meeting with Hungary and
1:12:06
Slovakia to discuss the issue. Ukrainian
1:12:09
authorities are preventing Russian oil
1:12:13
from reaching Hungary and Slovaka
1:12:15
Slovakia via the Drewba pipeline that
1:12:18
runs through Ukraine, claiming it was
1:12:20
damaged by Russian strikes. Budapest and
1:12:24
Bratoslava have accused Kiev of
1:12:26
blackmail and also say Brussels has
1:12:28
sided with Ukraine instead of backing
1:12:31
two EU member states and Ukraine's not
1:12:33
even an EU member. It's become obvious
1:12:36
that there is no technical or physical
1:12:38
reason for the oil supply not to be
1:12:41
restarted to Hungary through the Drewba
1:12:44
pipeline said Jarto at a press
1:12:47
conference in Brussels and he accuses
1:12:48
Kiev of making a pure political
1:12:51
decision. The minister added that a
1:12:53
trilateral meeting with Ukrainian
1:12:55
Minister of Energy in Brussels initiated
1:12:57
by Budapest and Bratislava was cancelled
1:13:00
by the Ukrainians. Again, he highlighted
1:13:03
that uh Kiev has rejected all
1:13:06
initiatives taken by Hungary and
1:13:08
Slovakia and even the EU to even allow a
1:13:11
site visit to see the actual state of
1:13:15
the pipeline. Well, if it's not blown
1:13:18
up, they'll blow it up so that so that
1:13:21
they don't have to uh uh continue it.
1:13:23
And then they just blame the Russians.
1:13:25
Well, that's what they do everywhere
1:13:26
else. remember they blew up the uh uh
1:13:28
Nordstream 2 and said that was the
1:13:31
Russians blowing up their own pipeline.
1:13:33
That's what we heard for the longest
1:13:35
time. Russia blew up their own pipeline,
1:13:38
right? Yep. Uh minister added um uh
1:13:43
reiterated that a delegation from
1:13:46
Hungary spent more than three days in
1:13:48
Ukraine last week, but all requests for
1:13:51
meetings were rejected. So, you know, I
1:13:54
can't tell you anything, but if a
1:13:56
country keeps us under an oil blockade,
1:13:59
then that country cannot expect us to
1:14:02
support any decisions in Brussels in
1:14:05
favor of them. That's the case in
1:14:08
response to Kiev's halting supplies
1:14:10
through the Soviet built pipeline. Now
1:14:12
remember, this is all about 90 billion
1:14:14
bucks that uh uh
1:14:18
Hungary and Slovakia are blocking a $90
1:14:23
billion loan that'll never be repaid uh
1:14:26
to be giving more money, at least not by
1:14:28
the Ukrainians. It'll be repaid by the
1:14:32
EU because the only condition for the
1:14:34
loan would be that it had to be
1:14:37
guaranteed
1:14:39
by the EU states. And so the EU uh
1:14:43
leadership in Brussels, Fonderline and
1:14:46
Kayakalis are trying to force Hungary
1:14:49
and Slovakia into
1:14:52
agreeing to this 90 billion although
1:14:55
they're already members of the EU and
1:14:58
Ukraine is not and so they support
1:15:00
Ukraine over their own members. That
1:15:02
tells you what you ought what you need
1:15:03
to know about the EU, right? So, uh,
1:15:09
the Victor Orbin vetoed the new round of
1:15:13
sanctions against Russia and also
1:15:15
blocked the 90 billion or 90 billion
1:15:18
euro $105 billion loan. And on Monday,
1:15:22
Sajarto confirmed that Budapest will
1:15:25
continue to expose another bailout for
1:15:28
Kiev until the oil supplies resume.
1:15:32
Hungary, a long-standing opponent of
1:15:35
Ukraine's EU membership bid, has
1:15:39
consistently refused to send weapons to
1:15:42
Kiev or approve EU military aid to Kiev
1:15:46
and has called instead for diplomatic
1:15:49
solution to the conflict.
1:15:53
And that's that's true actually.
1:15:58
Um, Lavrov said that uh uh Sergey
1:16:02
Victorovich uh said that the EU has
1:16:05
discredited itself completely in the
1:16:08
Ukraine peace process.
1:16:11
um
1:16:13
the EU they they wanted EU wanted to be
1:16:16
at the table you know and they want to
1:16:18
be at the table uh for the Hormuz
1:16:21
discussions but they don't want to be uh
1:16:24
involved in the in the
1:16:27
securing of it but the EU has completely
1:16:30
discredited itself as a mediator in the
1:16:33
Ukrainian process uh peace process said
1:16:36
Lavro um the KV's European
1:16:42
backers have demanded to be admitted
1:16:45
into the Russia US Ukraine peace talks
1:16:49
but they never they haven't upheld any
1:16:51
prior agreements according to him and
1:16:53
he's talking about of course the uh
1:16:57
Minsk one and Minsk 2 and in 2014 France
1:17:01
and Germany were the guarantors of an
1:17:03
agreement between Ukrainian President
1:17:06
Yanukovich and the opposition leaders
1:17:09
But and that's the Minsk Minsk one,
1:17:11
Minsk 2, which came up a little later,
1:17:13
but did nothing when nationalist groups,
1:17:16
Ukrainians, seized power. The EU failed
1:17:20
in its role a second time under the 2015
1:17:22
agreement, which was intended to
1:17:24
reconcile the new nationalist government
1:17:27
in Kiev with anti- coup forces in East
1:17:29
Ukraine.
1:17:31
And uh uh you know because they
1:17:34
overthrew the government in Kiev, which
1:17:37
you know, nobody paid much attention to
1:17:39
over here until 2022
1:17:41
when Russia uh who had been fighting the
1:17:44
same battle for eight years was uh
1:17:48
claimed to have invaded
1:17:52
uh the territories that had uh uh
1:17:57
separated themselves uh by referendum
1:18:00
from Ukraine.
1:18:02
former Chancellor to Germany, Angela
1:18:06
Merkel, and former French president
1:18:09
Francois Holland, who acted as the
1:18:11
guarantors to the deal, later admitted
1:18:14
that they never intended to fulfill
1:18:17
anything and just wanted to buy time to
1:18:20
arm Ukraine. And after the conflict's
1:18:23
escalation in 2022,
1:18:26
a settlement could have been reached as
1:18:28
early as April of 2022
1:18:32
if it hadn't been for interference by
1:18:35
Boris Jansen. That guy Bojo
1:18:39
is uh I never thought he was too bright.
1:18:41
I thought he was your typical blowhard
1:18:44
politician up there chasing young girls,
1:18:50
chasing interns, spending money,
1:18:53
spending the government's money on, you
1:18:55
know, look how cool I am. And uh that
1:18:58
exists in England just like it does
1:19:00
here. friends and neighbors uh US for or
1:19:04
I'm sorry the um
1:19:06
EU the top diplomat uh you know Boris
1:19:11
Johnson at the time um was really not
1:19:16
good for for the EU in my humble
1:19:18
opinion. Um Sergey Lavrav accused
1:19:22
European leaders of wanting to preserve
1:19:25
the presence of a Nazi regime in Kiev.
1:19:31
and he calls that one of the root causes
1:19:34
of the Ukraine conflict. If allowed, he
1:19:37
said the Kiev regime would continue its
1:19:40
hostile anti-Russian activities. They're
1:19:44
going to do that anyway. They're even
1:19:45
going to do it in America. They are not
1:19:47
becoming Americans. They have no
1:19:49
intention of becoming Americans. They
1:19:52
Well, they want the passport, but that's
1:19:54
it. You know, they just want the
1:19:55
passport and then uh you know, want want
1:19:58
the money. I wonder how many of them
1:20:00
will actually go back, you know, to
1:20:02
their Nazi regime in Kiev, you know, and
1:20:05
and and move back into Ukraine.
1:20:10
Um, I know a bunch of them over here,
1:20:12
and I've asked them that question
1:20:14
specifically.
1:20:16
If you love Ukraine so much, why do you
1:20:20
live here? You've been here 20 years.
1:20:24
Why? And I'd give a name of the guy, but
1:20:26
I had a a conversation with this guy.
1:20:28
He's good. He was a funny guy. We
1:20:30
partied together for a lot. I used to go
1:20:32
to this Russian bath house, the BA. Um
1:20:36
and uh there were I got in trouble by
1:20:40
the owner and and and I was like, well,
1:20:42
I didn't say anything. So, so a
1:20:44
Ukrainian guy came up to me and asked me
1:20:47
um asked me an opinion of the war or
1:20:49
something and he started talking about
1:20:52
uh uh the war and uh and I didn't, you
1:20:55
know, he said some things. I haven't
1:20:57
even said anything yet. I was just like,
1:20:59
"Look, we're in America and I imagine
1:21:01
half of the people here at the bath
1:21:03
house are are Russian and half
1:21:05
Ukrainian." And um the owner came up and
1:21:09
started and and you know, hey, you can't
1:21:11
come in here and and you know, get these
1:21:14
guys all riled up. Me, I was the one
1:21:18
that was asked the question. It's like,
1:21:21
you know, what's the story here? But
1:21:23
anyway, the guy that I um I spoke with
1:21:25
him at a couple of times later at his
1:21:28
house and so we weren't, you know, going
1:21:29
to get beat up upon by the uh by the
1:21:33
bath house owner. and um he says
1:21:37
that he and his wife have lived in
1:21:39
Florida um came to New York first I
1:21:42
think and then Florida. They've been in
1:21:44
Florida for 20 years and uh and you know
1:21:49
he
1:21:51
says that he still has a DACA in the
1:21:54
Ukrainian countryside somewhere that he
1:21:56
owns a plot of land and uh you know and
1:22:00
somehow he was involved in
1:22:05
my thought process on it was immediately
1:22:08
money laundering of some sort but maybe
1:22:11
it's just part of the corruption deal
1:22:13
because uh all the money circulates back
1:22:16
around. The only people who get any are
1:22:18
the people who already left the country,
1:22:20
you know, or people that are trying to
1:22:22
get out of the country. And so everybody
1:22:24
takes their dole and they get out. But
1:22:26
this this guy's story was was was very
1:22:29
interesting to me, but something wasn't
1:22:32
adding up either. And uh hell, I should
1:22:35
have stayed in the in the military or
1:22:37
the government service because US Agency
1:22:40
for International Development is one of
1:22:43
my last tours that I took um over to
1:22:47
Malddova and that was a corrupt hell
1:22:49
hole and [ __ ] show um and money floating
1:22:53
everywhere and US Agency for
1:22:55
International Development
1:22:58
telling us, you know, not much you could
1:23:00
do about that. Then why in the hell are
1:23:01
we doing it? you know, all the products
1:23:04
we deliver are going one way and then uh
1:23:07
uh the money is going another and some
1:23:09
back into the pockets of the very people
1:23:11
supplying it is what it seemed like to
1:23:13
me even way back then. And uh it's and I
1:23:17
had that's the first thought I had when
1:23:19
speaking to this Ukrainian guy who's
1:23:21
over here talking about you know living
1:23:23
in America for the last 20 years and uh
1:23:26
being connected to and whether he's some
1:23:29
Italian guy just trying to claim he's
1:23:31
with a mafia you know on the outskirts
1:23:34
and that oh you know the family you know
1:23:37
something like that or whether it's
1:23:38
reality that he really was involved his
1:23:41
story
1:23:44
seemed a little odd to
1:23:46
um on the connection side and on the
1:23:49
money side and on what he was allowed to
1:23:51
do in Ukraine even now. I've thought
1:23:55
about doing a couple of shows on that
1:23:57
type of thing. And maybe I will, but it
1:24:00
won't be this week. I've got a couple of
1:24:03
things. Um as the show winds down, I
1:24:05
want to tell you that I am in Florida.
1:24:08
Uh I I
1:24:12
am heading back in the next couple of
1:24:14
days.
1:24:16
And so I should be here again uh for
1:24:18
tomorrow's program in Florida, not in
1:24:21
the studio. So which makes uh if there's
1:24:23
any trouble in the broadcast uh I know
1:24:26
that uh uh it it appears to be working
1:24:30
okay and uh everything on the uh
1:24:33
recording I seems seems to be coming out
1:24:36
all right, but it'll be from uh outside
1:24:39
the studio again uh tomorrow and maybe
1:24:42
even the following day or this whole
1:24:43
week. Civic Outlaws will be on Friday
1:24:46
and uh we we have a big uh catchup day
1:24:49
on that one from my show on last Friday
1:24:53
and I suggest you go back and listen to
1:24:56
that. You can go to
1:24:56
civicoutlaws.commpodcast
1:25:01
and listen to that show because we're
1:25:04
we're pointing some fingers and uh I
1:25:07
think we we we might be having an impact
1:25:10
um on some of the well I know we're
1:25:12
having an impact and I want the impact
1:25:15
to be even larger. I don't like
1:25:17
government overreach by any stretch.
1:25:20
Anyway, I appreciate you listening to
1:25:23
the show this morning. I appreciate you
1:25:25
dialing in for the show uh daily from
1:25:29
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1:25:34
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1:25:45
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1:26:11
what I encourage you to do.
1:26:14
I believe
1:26:17
that will just about wrap up the program
1:26:21
for today from the real estate
1:26:26
studio which happens to be on the in the
1:26:30
traveling version in Florida this week.
1:26:35
I thank you very much for listening in
1:26:37
and I hope you have a very beautiful mid
1:26:41
Missouri or around the world type day.
1:26:44
Bye-bye.