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Birthdays, Wars and AI · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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nice to keep around some of the ones that age well. You know,
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like, I did a lot of Hillary bashing and, and in the 2016
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campaign, and a lot of wondering who the hell was going to run the
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world. Because the 17 candidates were all crap, in my view, the
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only shining star even remotely among them was the old
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Trumpster, mostly because he's different than them. I wonder
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about that now if he's really all that much different. But
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anyway, a little bit of a history lesson. My name is
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Samuel Trapp. Guess what today happens to be my birthday. It's
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my bi r f d a y, as I learned to say in the military, because
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there were a lot of a lot of the the brothers that were there
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that couldn't say birthday. And it always was interesting to me
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that they would call it a birthday. And I'm like, how is
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it a birthday? But anyway, in keeping with that, I wanted to
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begin the show with a tiny little bit of interest to me and
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give you the so so Russia treats now, maybe it's only me, maybe
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I'm the psycho. I don't know. I suppose it's possible, but I'd
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be willing to listen on that end. But I've never considered a
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birthday anything other than, you know, another day, you know,
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maybe go out to eat or something or something you get to do on
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your own for your day. And I got plans for what I want to do
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today. And most of it's crap. But most of it, it's just stuff
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that I want to do. It's my birthday. And, you know, I
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hadn't planned on taking anybody with me. Maybe I'll meet
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somebody for a beverage later or something. But but that's not
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the point, you know, and communicating with families and
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then, you know, and receiving happy birthdays, that kind of
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thing is always fun. But I was always interested in the
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difference between how because in Russia, especially for women,
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but men to the birthday takes on a different historical day,
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it's a big day, it's one of the biggest deals of the year and
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man. Tell you what, my wife who is born in August, oh my god,
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you got a you got a plan, you start planning, you know, 364
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days earlier, you figure something out. And I'm thinking
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I might go visit her in Egypt for her birthday in August or
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something. I'm not sure I got a few traveling I got to do I
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need to go twice this year. And I don't want to turn it into
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three. But typically I go three times somewhere internationally
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we travel together. And I know I'm doing St. Petersburg at
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Christmas. Anyway, the birthday part that I'm talking about is
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in Russia, it's different. It's a big day, women get big huge
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piles of flowers, men, you know, you know, meet with their
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friends go the Russian bathhouse, these kind of things.
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And the I'm telling you, the focus is far more on the
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birthday. Now, when I was in the military intelligence school,
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the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, I had a
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fantastic teacher named Rudolf Tenenbaum. And we were he was a
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Jewish guy left Russia left Soviet Union in the 70s. taught
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us in school, and he'd been doing it for a while. And the
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impression I got even back then was he was not liked by any of
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the other instructors. And I don't mean I mean, professionally
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not liked. I don't mean that they didn't, you know, get
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together and do the Russian the Russian things because he was
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always involved in going to blini. blini is a that those
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thin Russian crepes that are so tasty that either they stole
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from the French the recipe or the French stole from them the
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recipe for crepes. I tend to think it was the Russians had
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them first, but I don't know. But they're made a little bit
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differently in Russia. I've learned how to make them. I like
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them. If I eat anything sweet, it's a blinchiki. blini is a
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blinchiki means they're a little bit smaller. You know, you make a
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little round ones that are maybe like a small Mexican tortilla. But
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the big Mexican tortilla is how it comes in and they fold in
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either some, some berries, some jam. I don't like anything
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really, really sweet. So I dip mine in gushonka. And gushonka
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is I don't even what it's called here. It's Oh, it's a it's a
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milk product, condensed milk, maybe but sweetened condensed
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milk. And it's, it's kind of like the consistency of a syrup
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and they sometimes you'll pour it, you'll see it poured over
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the top of your of your pancakes or something like that. But I
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like to take a little bowl of that and some blinchiki and dip
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them in. And with a little bit of sweetened condensed milk
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friggin fantastic. And they're very, very tasty. And the
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Russian version of the blinchiki I learned to make, I'm
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going to make some for my birthday later. When I get home,
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I've got some things I want to take care of today. But I wanted
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to talk about the difference when I was in that school in
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Russian, Russian school with Mr. Tannenbaum. There were so
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there are 200 people in the class, but there's only 10 per
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section, sweet section at its own classroom. And at the end of
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the day, the number of people that actually passed, that
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actually graduated in this military school, so you don't
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make it you're still in the army. But you're just you're
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gonna be here headed to the infantry, you know, you got to
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find something else to do if you don't pass. So there's an
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incentive to pass and be become good in Russian. And what
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happened was out of the entire class, typically, 50 to 60% would
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graduate. So we had like 103 104 that actually ended up
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graduating in the first three, four months. You know, it's like
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a shooting gallery of people that are just disappear and
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picking clicked him off being that guy goes, ping, there goes
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that one, we only lost one out of our class, it was an older
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person, everybody in the room was 18 to 20. I was I had just
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turned 20 and was one of the older kids in the class. And I
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had gone to a year of college first year and a half. And I
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didn't, it wasn't my plan to join the military. And I but
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then when plans changed, well, you know, you're getting money
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for college, you're getting a decent opportunity. And military
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is very positive to help you out, especially when you got a
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big family. And there isn't two cents to rub together for parents
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to assist you going to college or anything like that. And so I
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joined the military. And so in that class, we the the sergeant
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quickly disappeared. And it was really kind of odd because he
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allegedly spoke Polish beforehand in Polish, the
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grammar is similar, a lot of the endings are similar, like there's
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16 1718 endings to each word. So every word you speak, the
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grammar depends on what the what the word ends with and how the
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ending and then they have pretty low key, which are parts of the
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front of the word. So it's it's confusing to get them all
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together. And that's part of the reason it Russian is so hard.
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And because you know, they'll look at you like an idiot if you
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can't speak with a decent amount of grammar, and they won't, they
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won't talk to you. I mean, we do the same thing here in some
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respects, when you got somebody who can't communicate, it's like,
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I don't understand anything, and you turn around. And it's not
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really fair. But those are facts of life, learn the friggin
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language, if you're going to try to be associated with the
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country. And, and I still believe that in both directions,
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by the way, and I'm in one of the greatest things I did in my
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life is learn Russian to the extent that I learned it. And I
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appreciate Mr. Rudolph Tannenbaum, because he had we
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were in and we're all a little bit worried about it. We were in
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an experimental class. Our class was an experiment, and
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they announced it to us, when our teacher had to announce it
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and everybody else was in, they would meet together far more,
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they were all in the exact same teaching plan. You know, here's
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your teaching plan, teach them these 10 words today and all the
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endings for them. Here's your teaching plan, teach them how to
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take the accusative case and, and work with the accusative
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case endings and beginnings and how they change when you're when
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you're speaking an accusative versus nominative or instrumental
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case or anything else in your grammar. So you have to learn
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your grammar in Russian or you're complete. I mean, in
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American, we don't, we don't know when the instrumental case
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kicks in. No idea. And it changes. But in America, most of
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the time, in English, all you do is throw a bunch of words
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together. And it sounds good. English isn't a difficult
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language, because there are no rules. If I want to say, help
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you, I can take you to him, I will, I can, and everybody will
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know what I'm saying. But they'll go, Well, that was a
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little weird. You know, what is a Yoda, and go, but in Russian,
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if you say it in the various words, it doesn't really matter
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either, because the grammar is what matters. You know, the
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grammar is the important part. Anyway, I don't mean to lecture
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on that crap, especially on my birthday. And I do have a plan.
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When we're going here, but but in the end, we were we were a
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quite experimental class. And Rudolf Tannenbaum had created
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his version of how to learn a language and we were his guinea
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pigs. And they finally let him teach his own style of class.
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And they thought that all of us were going to fail out. And in
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fact, the opposite occurred. In our nine class people, he
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changed the face of the Defense Language Institute, most likely,
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although I never, when I went back, I checked on him a couple
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of times, because I went back three, four years later and did
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another year for the INF treaty, and learn treaty language to the
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nuclear testing treaties, and stuff like that different
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language category for that year was very technical and involved
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and far more necessary to communicate and not just listen
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to the radio and be able to tell what a tank is doing, you know,
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coming into from training or whatever. And so ours was far
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more detailed. But this class method of the way he taught it
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was somewhat similar. And I bet he had something to do with it
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and retired a very rich man because he was selling it to
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people like I should look it up sometime what he did, but people
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like babble, or there's a couple of other really good
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language studios that you can listen to. And he would show us
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each day. So day one, he comes in and he was very excited about
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and he was the funniest guy. He was so awesome. And he really
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was a great teacher. And he made it interesting and fun. And I'm
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a smart ass. And he appreciated it. He could have kicked me out
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of class a million times. But he didn't because he took the point
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of view that even as smart as he would say to me, if you're
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going to be a smart ass, be a smart ass in Russian. And there
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were two things he did that made sure that we learned Russian,
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and that we were levels levels levels above what the normal
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students were able to do at the end of one year. So it was eight
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hours a day working with Mr. Tannenbaum. It was decent
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amounts of homework, because what he gave us day one, he
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said, I stood up, says, My name is Rudolph Tannenbaum. I'm going
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to be your instructor for the next year. Eight hours a day, I
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have a program that I'm going to give to you, which is different
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than everybody else's right? Oh, no. And he says, But if you
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follow my rules, you will speak Russian fluently. By the time
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you leave this class, you will be you're not. Why learn a
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language if you're not able to communicate in it, and all you
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can do is listen to tank tank traffic coming in and understand
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that, you know, no, she's just yet to know, know, steroid,
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because also pre yo, a pre yo means received. That's a Hey,
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commander, I'm number six. This is number four, call signs,
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right? Number six, number four, medium park, we're going into
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the to the station, you know, where you learn little military
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phrases that you can pick up on the military stuff, because
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that's what was important. But he was teaching us differently.
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He was truly teaching us a language. And so I think he
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changed the face of the school, at least for Russian. And he had
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the same methods that he could teach with anything was the way
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that children learn. And so Rosetta Stone is the other one.
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And that one's really nice. It's even it's expanded on what he
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was saying, I think he may have had something to do with it.
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Because the way you learn now is the way we learned very first
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day. Number one, I will never speak to you in English. Again,
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I'm going to introduce you I'm going to introduce my method of
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class. If it's important to you, you'll figure out how to say it
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in Russian. So don't ask me anything. And we're like, Whoa,
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freaked out. Can we learn? What the hell are we gonna do? Oh my
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god, what are we gonna do? I'm gonna be in the infantry and I'm
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not gonna like that. And I don't want to be in the infantry.
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There goes my $8,000 bonus at the end of the year. How do I
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make sure to stay in here? Well, after about two weeks, I
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friggin loved it. Because we were already within a week
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speaking full sentences communicating with each other in
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Russian while the other classes were still learning a list of
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words. You know, here's here's your 10 words for today. Let's
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talk about them. And then you know, on you go. And hell, we
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were watching movies within two months and, and really picking
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things up. It accelerated us so fast beyond them. I think that
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the teachers that were watching us were wanting to know how they
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could switch their own students right then and they couldn't
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because they didn't have the means to do so unless they start
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brand new and fresh like Mr. Tenenbaum did with us and so
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that what he had on the wall, and every day he'd give us a new,
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you know, mimeographed piece of paper that would have a series
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of Oh, call it 20 pictures, five rows of four sets of pictures a
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piece. And picture one would be the very first one. The picture
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picture one is a chair. And it's not a chair. It's a little stick
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figure chair. All these are little stick figure drawings
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that he puts up there. And the first one's a chair. And the
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second one is a table. And you're supposed to compare the
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second one to the first and tell what the difference is. So it
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took a little explaining a little getting used to. And
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every day, he'd say, I don't want you to memorize words, I'm
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not going to give you word lists, I'll never give you word
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lists, I'm going to tell you what to say, and you're going to
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say it. And then in the morning, the very first thing we're going
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to do is we're going to, as a class, and then individually
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verify what you learned from this sheet, but you must learn
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each sheet daily. Then this sheet, he says, I could pick as
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we go on, he said, I'm going to pick out, you know, once we have
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20 sheets under the bag, I could pick out any of the 20. And I'm
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going to do two or three with you every day to make sure that
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you get the basis, because the first 20 are the most critical,
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or the first 25, whatever it was. And so at any day, he can
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verify which picture you were doing. And he'd pick one out and
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go, Mr. Trapp, your turn, and he and everybody would watch. So
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we do it as a class. And he'd go down the picture. And the very
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first page of pictures was table at the at the stool at the
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caran d'ache. It's a pencil at the gentian at the devushka. And
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it was just you learn not to say gentian, which means woman or
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devushka, which means girl or Yvonne, which is a guy named
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Ivan, you or at the stool, this is a stool, a table, a stool is
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table. And, but you learn to say it correctly. Like, you don't
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say this is a table, just go on table. And what's the this is
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part because the this is changes depending on what you're saying.
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So this is at the stool means this is a table. Anyway, I'm
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going too far into this, and it really doesn't matter. But the
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way he taught us was the way that children listen to their
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parents, and the way that they get it in. And it was far
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stronger than the way they did in the basis of it all. Once you
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learn those 10 pages, we're 10 days in to the class, we're
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speaking in full paragraphs, and none of us except for the old
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sergeant who left our class within about a month. We we
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spoke Russian to each other. That's all we spoke for the year.
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And the other teachers were just amazed when we would go into
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their classes and and how far ahead we were. And at the end,
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they give you three tests, one for listening, one for reading,
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and one for speaking. And if you can do well in the speaking, you
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get potential, you know, you have just made a big freaking
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deal. And of the top five students in the class, three of
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them were from our class. And there was, there was always
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argument about who was the best in our class, but I was either
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number one or number two, you know, and I didn't really give a
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crap about that. I was more on an individual level, just very
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glad that I learned to speak Russian at the level that I did.
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And I got a on speaking, they rate you on a one to five and
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you nobody has ever in the history of DLI gotten a four,
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okay. A four is a native speaker, and two and a half is
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astronomical. And three of us got two and a half in my class, and
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we were the only ones to get above two. And, you know,
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everybody else's one, one and a half, you know, on the spoken,
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you know, and many of them were much worse on the listening, you
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had to get a level twos across the board to get anything
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worthwhile, basically. And, and I don't mean that, you know, but
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if you wanted to get beyond a listening post, listening to
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what's going on in this country or that country, you know,
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listening to Russian tank traffic, which was always a lot
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of fun anyway, the middle of the night, we'd listen to this
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Russian tank traffic, and I had a lot of fun doing it. Because
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it was, they weren't the same, their military, not the same,
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certainly not in the 80s and 90s. They were not the same. And
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it was interesting, to say the least. Anyway, we started in
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those classes. Now I've spent Jesus 20 minutes telling you
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about that stuff. And in those classes, we learned Russian
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intimately, my love of Russian movies, my love of Russian
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music, my love of Russian culture, all came from Mr.
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Tenenbaum, and some of the things that he watched. And what
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he would do is I knew about Crocodile Giena and Cheburashka.
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And if you don't know who Cheburashka is, he's when
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Cheburashka, boy, girl, we have no idea. But Cheburashka is a
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little bear came around in the in the 50s and 60s, when they
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first started TV. And they had these little cartoons, these
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little claymation sorts of figures that they would do in
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Russia. And one of them was Cheburashka. And Cheburashka is
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an animal, we don't know what it is. It's a Cheburashka. It's
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kind of like Goofy. What the hell is Goofy? Nobody knows. And
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I don't know, but he talks. And Cheburashka was a little, little
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bear looking thing with enormous ears. And he's been very popular
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in Russian movies. Lately, they've rebuilt him and brought
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him back to life. And it's it's friggin fantastic. And but
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before that, they had Crocodile Giena and his birthday song and
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birthdays are very, very important to the Russians. And
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Mr. Tenenbaum was always very interested. He brought us, had
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his wife bake us cookies, and he knew everybody's birthday, and
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he made a big deal of it for you on your birthday. And he ran, I
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mean, we were going to be together for a year, you might
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as well not dislike each other, you know, and get along. And we
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created things. And we went to dinners together, we went to
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Passover, Paska, and they had the blinchiki and the blini,
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and like fish on Friday and stuff like that, for the
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Provozhenskaya Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, and
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stuff like that. So we really got a cultural dipping in. And
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so when you come to the birthday song, I'm going to play for you
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the Giena Crocodile's birthday song, and then I'm going to
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translate it for you, what it is, because it's, it's pretty
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cool. Now, it's made for children. Okay. But it's a
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children's birthday song. And I happen to like it. It's a it's a
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birthday song. And here it comes for you. This is Giena
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Crocodile. And he's claymation. Giena is short for Yevgeny,
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Eugene. And Yevgeny, so Giena Crocodile would be Eugene
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Crocodile, Yevgeny. And he's showing up with his violin. He's
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a crocodile. He's walking down the street. And I will give you
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the words, but I'm going to first let it run through and
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then, you know, go from there. Okay, here we go.
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And it's not clear to the passer-by on this bad day, why am I so happy?
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Oh, I play the accordion. The passers-by have a birthday only once a year.
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A magician will suddenly fly in a blue helicopter and show a movie for free.
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He will congratulate me on my birthday and probably leave me a gift of 500
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Eskimos. Oh, I play the accordion. The passers-by have a birthday only once a year.
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A magician will suddenly fly in a blue helicopter and show a movie for free.
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He will congratulate me on my birthday and probably leave me a gift of 500 Eskimos.
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Oh, I play the accordion. The passers-by have a birthday only once a year.
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A magician will suddenly fly in a blue helicopter and show a movie for free.
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I'm going to play it again this time. I'll stop it.
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Just a little bit.
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And basically, an ice cream truck is pulling up.
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It's a rainy, cloudy day in the claymation land that they have created.
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And the driver...
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Okay, that is...
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Let the clumsy people run along the streets.
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Let them run among the puddles.
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And then...
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And water run down the streets like a lake.
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And water run down the streets like a lake.
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And it's not clear to the passers-by on this...
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And it's not clear to the passers-by on this...
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It means non-weather. It's not a nice day.
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Like gloomy. On this gloomy day.
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But not good weather, basically.
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Why on this gloomy day...
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Why am I so happy?
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I'm playing on my harmonica so the people on the streets can see me.
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But unfortunately, my birthday comes only once per year.
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That's verse one.
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Suddenly, up flew a helicopter with a light blue helicopter carrying a wizard.
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And he showed me for free some movies.
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He said happy birthday to me.
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And maybe he will leave for me a gift of 500 Eskimo.
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Which is your ice cream pop. Your ice cream on a stick.
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I'm playing on my harmonica so the people on the streets can see me.
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But unfortunately, my birthday comes only once per year.
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Unfortunately, birthdays come only once per year.
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Cute little song of Giena the Crocodile.
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And that is what children learn for their birthdays.
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So I like Giena the Crocodile and I like to play it.
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And I think it's interesting.
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And since I'm a very important person,
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and when I was 12 I was telling people that I was going to be a lawyer,
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that I was going to become the president just because.
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Why not? Anybody can become the president, right?
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And I can do it. I'm sure I could.
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And by the way, Cheburashka is in the video.
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This is on Vesely Pesny.
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The channel has 322,000 subscribers.
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And there's some Russian songs in there that are pretty cool.
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I also happened to find, and I haven't listened to it up front,
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but I'm hoping it's the correct one.
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And I'm going to play for you
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something that is very historic in nature.
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I hope you enjoyed my walk down learning a foreign language
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and the importance of understanding the cultural impact behind it.
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It'd be like us with whatever our birthday songs are,
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and kids have their own that come out,
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but this develops the lives of people in Russia.
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And they're not so different.
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They're very, very similar to us in what they do.
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Their love of children, their love of family.
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And I hate the fact that everybody tries to demonize
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everything Russian in America.
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You can't watch a movie with a Russian in it
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without him being a killer or a mafia guy, drug dealer, a prostitute.
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You never see any good Russians.
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The only funny one was in Armageddon.
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And he was supposed to be goofy.
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Or you can go to Branson and watch that guy tear up anything that was Russian
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and talk ironically about things that happened in Russia
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when he was there 30, 40 years ago.
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Russia is not the same as it was 30, 40 years ago.
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Not remotely. It is a different land.
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And they are, especially in Moscow, they are a wealthy place.
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They are booming like we did in the 80s.
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And I'll go back and I'll report to you
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as soon as I get my friggin' passport back in the mail.
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Actually, the plan isn't to go until Christmastime,
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but I'm thinking about another trip in between there.
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But my schedule is so stacked, I'm trying to figure out how to get it done
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and still be able to accomplish the things I need to accomplish.
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But back to America now and birthdays in America.
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Sorry, I needed a little sip of my flavored water.
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And this one, what is this? Grape flavored Propel.
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I don't drink a lot of water, so I've got to get the electrolytes.
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So I try to drink a couple of those every single day.
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Because I'm always dehydrated.
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Anyway, sorry it's so much about me today, but it happens to be my birthday,
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so screw you if you can't take a joke. No, I'm kidding.
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But it's a good day for me.
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And I think I'm going to share with you May 19, 1962,
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which is a high point of President Kennedy's birthday salute
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at Madison Square Garden.
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And Marilyn Monroe, who came in, who came up to the stage
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with a great bundle of white mink following an introduction by Peter Lawford.
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And due to a delay before her entrance, Mr. Lawford introduced her as
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the late Marilyn Monroe.
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Arriving at the lectern, Ms. Monroe turned and swept the furs from her shoulders
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and a gasp rose from the audience of 15,000 before it was realized
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that she was wearing a skin-tight, flesh-toned gown.
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Then, in a sultry voice, Ms. Monroe sang,
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Happy Birthday, Mr. President, which we're going to play for you here.
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She continued the song with a snippet from the classic song,
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Thanks for the Memory, which she had written new lyrics
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specifically aimed for Mr. Kennedy.
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Thanks, Mr. President, for all the things you've done,
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the battles that you've won, the way you deal with U.S. steel,
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and our problems by the ton, we thank you so much.
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Afterward, as the large birthday cake was presented,
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President Kennedy came on stage and joked about Ms. Monroe's version of the song,
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saying, I can now retire from politics after having had
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Happy Birthday sung to me in such a sweet and wholesome way.
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This channel is real-time 1960s, and I'm going to leave it in my feed,
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and I think they'll throttle me, slow me down on YouTube or any of the other,
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but I'm going to leave this part and the birthday celebration songs on mine.
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They're songs of children and songs of history.
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Maybe they won't delete me, so I'm going to leave them in
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for the purposes of this birthday discussion.
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But this is a notable birthday song, and I thought I would play it in its entirety.
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Two minutes and 44 seconds is all it has to be, and here it comes.
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Mr. President, on this occasion of your birthday,
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this lovely lady is not only punctitudinous, but punctual.
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Mr. President, Marilyn Monroe.
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Perhaps there has been no one female who meant so much, who has done more.
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Mr. President, the late Marilyn Monroe.
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She just took off the mink. Wow.
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Wow.
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History. Worth a watch, for sure.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday, Mr. President.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Mr. President, for all the things you've done with U.S. Steel,
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and I love you so much. Everybody, happy birthday!
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Huge cake, Ronnie. Enormous.
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Carried by two guys with pulleys underneath it.
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Hope they don't drop the damn thing. That's huge.
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They don't, though.
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I can now retire from politics after having had a happy birthday sung to me
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in such a sweet, open way.
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Yeah, no problem there.
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And both of them ended up dead in strange ways.
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And it's unfortunate when people like that get taken for excuses like that.
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You know, it's not right.
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Anyway, I wanted to do some birthday discussion, which I have done.
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I want to go and put in one of the regular songs that I listen to
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that are not birthday-related.
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But since it's my birthday, I want to go back to my history
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and pick for you a...
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Oh, crap. I'm not signed in.
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What a nutjob.
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Well, let us become signed in, and we will engage in that,
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because I have a song already picked on my channel, Faya, in my history.
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And I wanted to play this for you.
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So now we get to play some of my best mixes that I like to play.
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Where are we? History.
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Well, here we go.
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We're going to play the song...
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Where is it? Where is it?
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Umetazkan, El Condor.
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I have found it. Thank you.
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And I'm just going to play this, El Condor Pasa, because I like it.
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Very good song, great version of that song, and I like it.
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Um, hold on a second here.
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Friends and Neighbors.
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Looks like we have Ann Collar.
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Collar, what may I say to you?
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Well, happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday, dear Sammy.
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Happy birthday to you.
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And many more.
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Well, this must be my illustrious sister
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and her esteemed husband, Virginia and Matt.
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Or better known as Jenny.
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Or better known as murderous bastards.
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Yeah, but me and my murderous bastard husband
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are calling to wish you a happy birthday,
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fellow murderous bastards.
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We have heard about you.
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We understand what your intents and feelings and thoughts are.
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Anyway, obviously you've been listening this morning on my birthday.
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And have you enjoyed my commentary on learning Russian?
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Oh, yeah.
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You speak a little bit of Russian.
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Do you speak Russian?
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Yes, I know.
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Yep, you've been into the motherland several times.
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Both of you, isn't that right?
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Kazakhstan for you, Matt, right?
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No, no, no, no.
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He went to Russia with me also.
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Oh, I thought you didn't you do a bicycle thing over there
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that I was very jealous of you about?
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Very nice.
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These are Idaho folks that they have purchased a place in.
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Yeah, we tried to convince our Russian friends to come to Idaho
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and see Yellowstone.
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Yeah, do you know there's a lot of Russians that come over
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and stay for weeks.
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And one of the things to do, because it's inexpensive,
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it's a great vacation, is drive around
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and go to all of the wonderful northwestern national parks
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that are just amazing everywhere.
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And if you can't find something to do cheap that way,
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now, if you're a five-star, must have a five-star hotel,
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you know you're going to have a little more trouble.
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But if you're comfortable getting a camper
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or even, God forbid, camping in a tent,
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watch out for the bears.
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I'm not doing that.
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There are bears up there.
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But anything else I would do, and I wouldn't do it.
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So I invited my Russian friend to come to Idaho,
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and I told him that I would even give him a tour of the Tetons
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and the Yellowstone and all of this.
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But he was having none of it.
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He said, yeah.
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And actually, his daughter is one of the top violinists
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at BYU down in Utah.
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Wow.
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He used a Russian interpreter over,
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well, actually, English interpreter in Russia.
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And Alexei was his name.
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But he would.
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But instead, he said, no.
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He said, I will never come back to the United States.
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He had been, of course.
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And I said, why?
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Why would you not want to come to Seychelles?
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He's like, because you are not free, which absolutely stunned me.
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Isn't that funny?
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Isn't that funny?
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And they all say that.
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They say, you are not free.
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He said, your government is lying to you.
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And that was in 2017.
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And I have no idea.
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Well, I tell you what.
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I have heard that so many times.
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And there are so many Russians that I have met in Florida, in New York,
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and even in Missouri.
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Sedalia is a big Russian community.
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I know you know that.
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I haven't been here before.
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And they have that great Ukrainian store there.
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And the Ukrainians, the Russians, the people that live here go,
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this is not the America that we were told about.
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And even the ones that have lived here for 30 years,
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they say this is not what I came here for.
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I truly want to go home.
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And there's a bunch of them that are leaving and going home.
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It's really sad that our country,
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which is a beacon of hope for people around the planet.
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Supposedly.
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And they come here and they say, oh, no.
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First of all, the biggest thing is we live better than you in our countries.
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And that's true.
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And it's unfortunately true, at least at the middle class level.
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Now, our rich are a lot.
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Well, I don't even know that I believe that our rich are richer than their
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rich, because in Qatar, when you go to the,
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and it's all internationals there and the boats that pull up to the docks
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there, aren't the boats that you see at the Lake Ozark here.
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The richest people are over there.
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The poorest people among the rich, you know,
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but we're talking millions and billions for these guys over there.
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And it's the world is different and the middle class is different.
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And I don't mean that they don't have their struggles because they do too.
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So sounds like you're quite busy.
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I'm going to how about I let you get back to your day.
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I very much appreciate you calling in and wishing me this.
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And I'm very glad you did.
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So did you hear my Crocodile song?
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I did.
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And actually my favorite Russian song is the alphabet song.
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Also, is that the one?
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Crocodile?
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No.
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Yeah.
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I'll listen to them.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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I ask you, is that from Ghana crocodile to that version?
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No, no, no, no, no.
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That's just one of the kids songs for how they learn it.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Good stuff.
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Okay.
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Well, I appreciate you.
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Thank you for calling in and you have a very good day.
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You too.
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Happy birthday.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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And there she goes.
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I appreciate that call from my sister.
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That was very nice of you.
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Thank you for listening and enjoying the program.
44:58
And we're going to go to my, I wanted to speak about some news today because it was also a fairly big news yesterday.
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And so I'm usually a day behind in the news because I follow it in the east and it's not really a day behind.
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It may be a half a day ahead depending on how you look at it.
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So, the news over there, if I pick it up right now, it's the evening news in Europe and everywhere
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else.
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And there's a lot of talk about framework.
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So I want to...
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The top stories aren't really all that isolated.
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Ukraine is trying to use the G7 to get more weapons, more sanctions.
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Europe is trying to stay relevant.
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And they're not.
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And Macron, Starmer, Merz, I want to be involved.
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I want to control.
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And they want to be relevant in these negotiations, but they don't control them.
45:53
Trump, I think, might be trying to re-engage.
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Anybody's juggling Russia, Iran, tariffs, oil, and AI.
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NATO is practicing war scenarios near Russia.
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And non-Western outlets are treating the Iran hormuz.
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You call it a story, I call it a farce.
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And it's more economically important than Ukraine, for sure.
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But I don't believe what I've been hearing, and I'll believe it when I see it.
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And I unfortunately think that is a big, fat goose egg of a failure.
46:38
It's a zero for the American side, is what I say.
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Now, I could have somebody disagree with me, and I'm certainly interested in that, but
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that doesn't mean I'm going to change my opinion.
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And we'll just wait and see.
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Russia's overnight massive attack on Ukraine occurred.
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More than 40 targets were hit in Kiev and the surrounding areas.
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They are, tell you what, they hit drone production sites,
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missile workshops, military factories, airfields,
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and dual-use logistic facilities, like train yards,
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shipping depots, like truck areas.
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The Russian framing of what they're saying is that these are retaliatory strikes
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against military industrial targets, not civilian or religious sites.
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It specifically says that Ukraine counts 70 missiles and
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more than 600 drones, and argued that the damage to the Lavra, which is.
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So I've been to several Lavras.
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In a monastery, you go to the back area where the monks are, and
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they have a Lavra, which is a kind of a huge churchy reception.
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I don't know the exact translation of Lavra.
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I just know what it is, cuz I've been in a bunch of them.
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And in monasteries, they have these huge, beautiful,
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cathedral-style, ancient, that have been around for centuries.
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And you go into the Lavra, and it's like going into the chapel,
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the Sistine Chapel, or something like that.
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It's just freaking beautiful.
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It's fantastic inside.
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And the Ukrainians are saying that the Russians tore down this,
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or aimed at, and hit the Pechersk Lavra,
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the assumption cathedral that they hit, which is in a monastery yard.
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And that the Russians hit it.
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The Russians say it was actually misaligned patriots or
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fragments of targets that were blown up in the air that probably damaged it.
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But the aim was not for there.
48:56
The Ukrainians, on the other hand, attacked the panorama, they call it,
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which is a shipping, history of shipping and
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victories of Russia on the ocean in the 17 and 1800s.
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And it is in Sevastopol.
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And they really did target exactly that location and blew it to bits.
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And they've done this several times,
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that they're attacking historical monuments directly.
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And there's always kind of an unwritten agreement that you don't destroy history.
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And if you have people that wanna take that, that mean a lot to people,
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it's like killing a viatola.
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It creates a martyr out of him.
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And it creates a historical narrative that will survive
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the lives that were lost in a war.
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The historical markers are much more important.
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And I don't mean that, but how important are we all once we're dead?
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I mean, everybody has a path in life.
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And that life path is important for you, but
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it's not as important to the rest of the world what your path is and
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the number of people that know their history and keep all of the history.
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One of the things that I, I don't wanna say I dislike, cuz I don't.
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But it's kind of a thing about, for me, why I love to travel so
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much is going back and seeing things that were done 2,000 years ago,
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3,000 years ago, four, five.
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Going back and seeing historical items that have been saved in faraway countries,
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like the monasteries, the mosques in the far east,
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are freaking fantastically beautiful.
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And they're being restored, and they're huge.
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And you learn a perspective that you do not get in America when you go to any,
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one of the things that I really love, and this is gonna sound weird, but
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you go to a early 20th century town that was built.
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And they have the town square, we got hundreds of them in Missouri.
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And they got the town square, and you go in, and
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in the center of the town is a big old courthouse.
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And the steps come up on all four sides, and across the street,
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you have a square of all the important buildings.
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And people would gather in the town center near the courthouse and
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do these things.
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That's history, folks.
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And some of these are very beautiful,
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especially when they revamp them and redo them.
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They're just beautiful.
51:44
Well, the same things exist in other countries.
51:46
They do the same.
51:47
I remember being in a park in,
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I'm 90% certain that was in Naberezhnye Chelny.
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It was on the water, on the river, and you go down there, and
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they have this huge stone plaza.
52:06
Everywhere you go in Russia, there are historical markers that go back to
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World War II, go back to farther back than that, historical museums.
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And they try to keep their history and remember it, not just Soviet, but
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Russian and farther back.
52:23
And Sevastopol was one of those places, and it was on my list to see.
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When the army kinda forced me to make the decision to leave,
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cuz they wanted to disrupt my law school, which really pissed me off.
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I was gonna be sent to Yalta, and Yalta's on the Black Sea, very close to it.
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And you can go down, and I wanted to go, I strongly wanted to go.
52:50
The altar was the place of many conferences between countries and
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historical markers.
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Kazan has become one of those, and the White Kremlin,
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which I showed you from when I was there in late 2024, and
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Vladikavkaz, and I went there in mid-2024.
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And all the place, Grozny, which I went to in that year,
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and showing all these historic and ancient places, and it's important.
53:17
So when Ukraine is targeting these, if you believe they're targeting,
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which Russians do, I mean, the news that they show is solid missile hits.
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These are not fragments, okay?
53:31
What they've shown from the Ukrainian side about this Lavra that was hit,
53:36
it's unfortunate that it was hit, but it appears to me,
53:39
logically, to be Russia is telling the truth.
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We didn't aim for that.
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You guys knocked it down, and there were some Skolki,
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some fragments that hit the Lavra.
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And we don't aim at civilians and individuals.
53:57
We don't aim at historic artifacts.
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We don't do that.
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You do, and you kill people, civilian types of people that are on the beach.
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It's BS, what they are doing.
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And so that is some of the things that are in the news.
54:15
Al Jazeera says that Ukraine is emphasizing Russian
54:20
strikes on Kiev right now as an escalation.
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Russia says these are mirror kind of activities.
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We're bombing the crap out of you, cuz look what you're doing.
54:31
You're hitting civilian facilities.
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We're not.
54:33
We're hitting factories that are producing drones.
54:36
We're hitting centers.
54:37
And we're hitting your oil and
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gas storage because that's what you're doing in Moscow.
54:44
They hit another one in Moscow, Ukraine did.
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I've said repeatedly that Ukraine's got nothing left but this.
54:51
They're losing their asses on the front line, and that's clear.
54:55
They are losing, and it's bad for them, but that's the truth.
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Al Jazeera says that Russia is warning foreigners.
55:06
I've seen some of these.
55:08
They drop leaflets, and they put out radio things, and
55:11
they tell all the foreign ministries that you need to leave Kiev because we're
55:16
gonna keep it up, we're gonna have systemic strikes on any defense industry target.
55:21
And the Russian says that Kiev's defense industrial infrastructure is now its
55:25
central target, but Al Jazeera says it's a major escalation against Ukraine,
55:32
more than a retaliation.
55:33
I think it's a bit of both.
55:36
Here, Russia says it hit military-related targets and
55:40
carried out the strike in response to Ukrainian attacks inside Russia.
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And the people in Russia, if anything, are going, look, escalate,
55:48
get this over with, and so the talk that's going on is similar as well.
55:54
There are blackouts and strikes on Kiev and other cities.
55:57
Moscow claims their targets are connected to Ukraine's war infrastructure.
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So the fight is no longer just trenches and villages, and
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it hasn't been for several months.
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The Ukrainians have no trenches, they have no villages, and
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they are being pushed back with great amounts of loss, and
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they are near the end of people.
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They don't have any people to throw at this.
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All they have are drones.
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And so it's industrial capacity, drone facilities, air defense,
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any logistics depots, and the political theater around every damaged landmark
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is showing their desperation.
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And the money that they're taking, 90% of it, well, I'm making that number up,
56:44
but a great amount of that money is going toward drones.
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I don't have a straight percentage, but
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it's a fantastically large amount going toward drones.
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Because you can put an invalid in a basement and have him push buttons,
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and they're taking him out of hospitals, probably to do just that.
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But they don't have anybody to send to the front line either.
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So if you can be sent, that's where you're going.
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And so the Russians might be correct that Ukraine places
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military assets near civilian infrastructure, because they do.
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But the lavra damage was caused by Ukrainian Patriot to be debris.
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I don't have any evidence, really real evidence of that.
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The West is saying, Zelensky is saying, they targeted this church.
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Well, you've targeted a bunch of historic places as well, and
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I think that's a BS accusation on either side.
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Neither side should do it, but who the hell is gonna trust either side?
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Ukrainians aren't gonna trust the Russians.
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Ukrainians and me, or Russians and me absolutely do not trust
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anything that you hear from the Ukrainian side, that's all lies.
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Times of India says that Trump at the G7, well, let's go back a little bit.
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So Zelensky's at the G7 meeting in Avion, and
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he wants a meeting with Putin that involves Trump and Macron.
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Don't know why he wants to throw in that loser, but he wants to throw in Macron.
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And he's using the Kiev and Lavra damage and
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the fact that Russia's bombing Kiev now.
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Well, quit bombing all the outskirts of Russian civilian targets,
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and perhaps you won't have the damage downtown that you're getting right now.
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Europe wants Trump to remain committed to Ukraine.
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The transcript that I read on some of the G7 stuff
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says there was not a separate Zelensky bilateral meeting.
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Now, Macron is still pushing that, and who knows?
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But Ukraine wants yet another 20 billion from donors,
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cuz they've already spent the last 20 million they got.
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Times of India says that Trump urged Russia to make a deal and
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wanted renewed sanctions on Russian's oil, that kind of signaling came out.
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G7 leaders are trying to intensify pressure on Moscow.
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But this is what, Trump is fully aligned, and I expected this.
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I still expect it.
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He's fully in bed with the globalists right now, the neocons.
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He's in there, and everything he's doing is their playbook.
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And in my view, no, you can disagree with that.
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I'd be happy to see what difference he's doing, but this is not the peace president.
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He isn't making, he isn't trying to get peace.
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And he isn't, I don't even know that he's trying to make a deal anymore.
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I think he may be on his heels, but that's me.
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I don't know, the neutral view is I would like to see something happen.
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But Zelensky needs the G7 to become a weapon and sanction summit for him.
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And that's not what it was supposed to be.
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And Trump wants to become a deal-making summit, and
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Europe wants a unity summit, but none of these goals are the same.
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You wonder a little bit about the 55-minute Putin-Trump call
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that happened on Trumpster's birthday three days ago, with Putin congratulated Trump.
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Trump allegedly said he could pressure both Europe and Kiev.
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Russia says that Moscow is willing to talk, but not under Zelensky's staged format.
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If Zelensky wants to meet Putin, he can come to Moscow.
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That's what allegedly, I've heard that from a lot of Russian programs that I've
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been telling, Zelensky can come to Moscow, he can come to us and beg.
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He goes everywhere else and begs, has his hand out everywhere.
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Why don't he come to us with his hat in his hand?
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Instead, he writes threatening letters and says that Ukraine is winning.
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And Ukraine is not winning, it is not happening.
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And they're losing their asses.
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And on the front line, they are being pushed.
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I mean, the Russians are almost to sue me, for God's sake.
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And you don't hear any, I mean, on the headlines over here,
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you don't hear anything but Russia's losing and this is attrition war and
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slogging through the stuff.
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Russia is gaining a large amount of kilometers nearly every day.
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All along the 1,100, 1,200 kilometer front line.
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All the way from up in Kursk down to Odessa.
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This is big, I mean, and it's a large front line.
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And Russia's pushing back the Ukrainians all along the front lines.
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And the Ukrainians have no more people, no more equipment to throw at them.
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All they have are cheap but effective drones that they can use to
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torment Russians in hopes that Vladimir Putin will be forced
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to change what he's doing only because of drones.
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The same argument that Trump and Israel are using against Iran for these drones.
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But drones are changing the face of the world.
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How Ukraine can withstand a little bit more.
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If they'd have been doing this since the beginning and only this,
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perhaps it'd be a different war.
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But now Russia's too far ahead.
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Donbass is gone, Zaporizhia is gone, Kherson is gone.
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And up in Kharkov, they need to go after that.
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And it still wouldn't surprise me if Odessa doesn't become a victim as well,
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and they hook up Transnistria.
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And capitulation isn't gonna happen by either side, it's not gonna happen.
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Russia, Putin says they're fighting all of NATO, and they are.
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And that's not gonna change, they don't wanna come into Europe.
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The lies that they tell you about that,
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they don't wanna come and take over Europe, Latvia.
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Although, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia would probably be better off if they did.
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It'd be far better off, they're on the fringes of Europe and
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they're not treated well.
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Putin says that all these people in Finland and Sweden,
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these people who joined NATO did so because they thought when this war all
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started too that they wanted to be well positioned to take Russia's assets,
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Russia's resources, when they just collapsed because of the pressure.
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Russia's not gonna collapse over the pressure, that's not gonna happen.
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Even if somebody went in and killed Putin, that doesn't mean it's over.
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Medvedev, who is a likely next dude,
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couple other people that are out there that may be the next leader.
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Tell you what, I'm not so sure you'd get anything softer from Russia,
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absent a straight up collapse of everything, government, army, everything.
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But that ain't happening.
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So I don't know, Trump's not pro-Russian or pro-Ukraine.
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He is pro-Trump, and he's trying to get something that looks good for him.
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He was unable to solve it in one day, like he said he could.
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We've forgotten about that part.
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He is unable to get what he wants out of the Iran deal.
1:04:44
And now he is reduced more and more to becoming the bully,
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because he can't get what he wants through a deal, and he's made so many threats.
1:04:55
And his posturing, as people say, that he's posturing, he's just posturing.
1:05:02
But his posturing means he's gotta escalate, that's all he can do.
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So I anticipate an escalation on this myself.
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So the G7 agenda also included Iran,
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the Straits of Hormuz, China, tariffs, and AI.
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It suggests that the babies of Europe,
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your Starmers, your Mertzes, your Macrons,
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suggests that they want the Iran deal to happen as soon as possible and
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Hormuz to reopen, because the energy consequences for Europe are huge.
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They're enormous.
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Al Jazeera says that Trump announced the US-Iran ceasefire peace deal and
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said the Strait is going to be open for shipping, but
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also noted that Tehran has urged a great deal of caution.
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About speculating anything before a final signing occurs.
1:06:08
And India says it's a major economic story for India.
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The reopening Hormuz could lower the oil prices that jumped because of
1:06:17
the US and Israeli strikes in Iran.
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Could ease inflation, help the rupee, and benefit import-heavy economies.
1:06:27
And it also reported a possible 14-point interim deal reopening Hormuz,
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sanctions relief for Iran, and reconstruction-related terms.
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It was one I heard yesterday that said we're paying $30 billion as well for
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reparations from the West.
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You know, the money that's coming from Qatar and UAE, places like that,
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Saudi Arabia, that Trump's gonna have them pay.
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So he doesn't look like Obama giving up money, but
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they're gonna give up money because they bombed the crap out of Iran.
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And Tehran won't accept anything less.
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Especially if you went to Hormuz, Strait's open, you're gonna pay us off.
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And I still think it's not unreasonable for
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them to charge a fee to go through, doesn't bother me at all.
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And why should it bother anybody?
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At least it's a straight cost, and you know what it is.
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And the US can't go in there and steal it, they haven't so far.
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They've blocked it, but what's that done to the world?
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And by the way, what difference does it make?
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If they block it or if Iran blocks it, it's still blocked.
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And there's alternative structures being made all the time.
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Trust me, people are gonna remember this in the future.
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And perhaps the next president will think before he will just
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willy-nilly follow along the path that Israel chooses.
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Which Israel's always gonna bomb the shit out of people, that's what they do.
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They attack and they bomb and we follow them, and there's no discussion.
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It's not like we're strategic allies.
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We may be strategic allies, but we're not a strategic partner.
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They do what they want and we follow, and I don't see it any other way.
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It's always been that way.
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And it doesn't, we just, yeah, well, it's Netanyahu, he can do what he wants.
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Netanyahu's gonna win again, people want that war.
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Remember me telling you about the Russian guy that just sat on the plane with me
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the other day when I flew back from Idaho?
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He was a Russian guy, we spoke Russian, it was very, very interesting.
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And he's in Israel, he lives in Israel, he comes over to the US and
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tries to go to various states and various things.
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Did I say he lives in the US?
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He travels to the US from Israel, he said, at least once a year, sometimes twice.
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And he comes over and visits friends, they go to historic sites,
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go to places here in Russia, he likes to see nature and he likes to see some of that.
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Well, I was asking him about Israel and the war.
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And we were the only people talking on the plane and we were talking Russian.
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It was one of the most fortuitous things that happened to me in a long time,
1:09:14
to have a Russian sit next to me, but a Russian living in Israel,
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which is even more interesting.
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I'm interested in so many aspects of Russians in Israel,
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cuz there's a good portion of Israel that is Russian, and speak Russian.
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He speaks, I forget what their language is,
1:09:34
it's not the Jewish language, but he speaks the, damn it, why can't I remember?
1:09:40
But anyway, he speaks the language of Israel, so does his entire family,
1:09:44
his wife is Russian as well, they've lived there for 20, 30 years.
1:09:47
And they travel a lot, and he talks about the war,
1:09:52
and he is much more pragmatic than I expected.
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Going, well, I don't like what we're doing.
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He said, I wish everybody would just leave each other alone.
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And he was really looking for peace.
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He said that the Russian people there just want peace.
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They don't want to bomb the shit out of Lebanon, or Iran, or Hamas, or Hezbollah.
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It's pretty cool when things are stable, and they like stability.
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And he showed me pictures of both of his children,
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a son and a daughter, are both in the army.
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Some form of the military, I apologize.
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I think the son was in the special forces, and the daughter was in the regular army.
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But both of them were serving in the military.
1:10:44
And so his view was a little bit, I mean, it was a nice conversation.
1:10:49
And his view, I was worried, and I try to be diplomatic when I talk about that,
1:10:53
but it's much more from a point of interest instead of condemnation.
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Or you don't believe this, and you're an idiot, and blah, blah, blah.
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I try not to go there, my beliefs are my own.
1:11:03
But I'm truly interested in what other people have to say.
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And perspective is what is extremely important, and
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it helps you develop your own opinion.
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And so, and I asked him, I was like, well, what about your children?
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He said, well, they do what they're told.
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They would much prefer a defensive posture, but
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you signed a contract, you're in the military, that's the way it is.
1:11:30
And that's the way I always looked at it.
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I didn't have any desire when I joined the military to even join the military.
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It was an economic decision for me, because as I said,
1:11:40
we had 12 kids, my mom had.
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And we didn't have money to just, gee,
1:11:47
mom and dad are gonna help us through college, we didn't have that.
1:11:51
And they may have had that for the younger kids, but they're all,
1:11:55
they think totally different than the rest of us that had to go through what we
1:11:59
went through, and I'm gonna take this call.
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I have a caller calling in, and I'm gonna take it, let's see here.
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But there's a couple of things I do wanna finish.
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Good morning, how may I help you, caller?
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Are you there?
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I got nothing, caller, maybe you can try back.
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I don't know what that was, I have no idea.
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But anyway, it didn't work.
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Tell you what, the straights being what they are,
1:12:34
and all of the stuff going on there.
1:12:37
This interesting gentleman telling me about the economic damage,
1:12:45
the bombing damage, I mean, obviously the airport's still open.
1:12:51
He was able to fly out and come here, but that he's worried about his army.
1:12:54
Same stuff that we would worry about if our sons and
1:12:58
daughters got sent to a war for something bullshit like Ukraine.
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And Ukraine is complete bullshit from our point of view.
1:13:06
We have no reason to be there.
1:13:08
The hiding and the lying about these
1:13:13
bio research facilities and what was brought out, that's big freaking news.
1:13:19
I'd like to do a whole separate show on that.
1:13:22
I told you a little while ago, but there's nearly 40 of these that we built and
1:13:27
paid for, and funded, and helped man.
1:13:34
And we're using as research for horror story, biological types of weapons.
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I mean, I'm offended that our country would go to this thing.
1:13:51
When my sister was on the phone here earlier and said that the people said,
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well, you're not really free.
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Well, I think she may have had a point there.
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And especially from the point of view that they're always doing crap that
1:14:07
the bulk of us wouldn't want.
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And if you've gotta keep it secret, that means you know nobody wants it.
1:14:15
And you lie about it, you're the bad guy.
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And that is not what we desire.
1:14:24
I'm worried about right now what they're talking about, my skeptical.
1:14:29
Announcements of settlement aren't really peace.
1:14:35
The real question is whether Iran can still have nuclear power without having
1:14:43
nuclear weapons, whether they change their behavior regarding that,
1:14:47
whether the US actually really does lift the pressure against Iran.
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I don't see that happening.
1:14:53
Not with neocons running the show like they are right now.
1:14:56
And whether Israel accepts this deal, and whether shipping insurers,
1:15:01
Lloyds of London, believe that Hormuz is really safe.
1:15:06
I question all of that cuz I don't believe any of it has been truly decided yet.
1:15:11
So I don't know, there's a big section on AI from the G7 meetings
1:15:18
that could be entertaining as well.
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And I'm not so
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certain what's gonna happen with AI.
1:15:33
But the artificial and the new sovereignty fights,
1:15:36
cuz Russia says that their generative AI
1:15:41
regulations have replaced the climate agenda.
1:15:45
So now there's no longer a climate agenda at the G7,
1:15:49
because AI is now a major conflict point between the US and Europe.
1:15:56
They have OpenAI, Mistral, and Google DeepMind that they're talking about.
1:16:02
And people are talking about Claude in the same fashion these days.
1:16:06
The AP has confirmed that the G7 is wrapping up with a full session on AI,
1:16:12
economic growth, and the US dominance of the AI industry.
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And this is what the rest of the world fears, that we're gonna use AI
1:16:22
as the club to replace climate agenda,
1:16:27
to replace oil beat-ups and gas, and to replace the,
1:16:33
and to force people, or try, through AI, to force people back to
1:16:39
the SWIFT system to make sure that the continued,
1:16:45
I don't know, disintegration of the system,
1:16:52
of the old system, does not continue.
1:16:55
So AP says that major AI executives are attending, and
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they have leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Entropic, Cohera, Mistral, and
1:17:05
others, and so Western coverage says this is governance, safety, and
1:17:10
tech sovereignty, not for all though, just for the US, we need to control it.
1:17:16
But multipolar critique of that sort of system says that Europe fears
1:17:21
becoming, now Europe too, fears becoming digitally dependent on the US
1:17:27
in the same way it was militarily, financially dependent,
1:17:32
both on NATO, the World Bank, the IMF.
1:17:34
And then now they're energy dependent on the US,
1:17:38
because they cut themselves off from the cheap fuel that they could have gotten
1:17:42
from Russia, now they're paying the maximum.
1:17:45
So this is good for the United States in the short term.
1:17:48
Long term, it's all horrible for Europe, and
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they'll continue to decline as they have been.
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And I mean decline in importance, and in financial importance,
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that's what I mean, but remember this fear,
1:18:06
because Europe really does fear their digital dependence.
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If they're gonna have AI dependence,
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they don't have any serious players in AI in Europe right now.
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There's nothing.
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And all they're doing is hitching their wagon to America's AI shooting star.
1:18:25
And the rest of the world though is not, they're developing their own.
1:18:30
I told you last week after the economic forum in St.
1:18:34
Petersburg where Putin was talking specifically about this issue.
1:18:38
Xi Jinping has talked about this issue, Narendra Modi has talked about this issue.
1:18:43
And by the way, they have the engineers and the people,
1:18:46
everybody we hire is from either China or India anyway.
1:18:51
They just happen to be run by people out of, I forget where Elon Musk is from,
1:18:55
isn't he Yugoslavian, I don't remember.
1:18:57
But all the rich people seem to come out of military,
1:19:02
places where military BS occurred, and they get their start.
1:19:06
And suddenly they got all these government contracts, and
1:19:08
the government is paying them tons of money.
1:19:12
And I'm not saying he hasn't grown it,
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I'm saying that the basis, he has a lot of military contracts.
1:19:20
And he's deeply embedded in there too.
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We got NATO exercises near the Silwaki Corridor and pressure on Kaliningrad.
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Remember whoever it was, Estonia or Latvia,
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don't remember saying we need to take over Kaliningrad.
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Kaliningrad's the Russian outpost on the Baltic Sea that is separate territory.
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It's like for us, Alaska is not connected to the mainland.
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It's the same thing with Kaliningrad in Transnistria.
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They are not connected to Russia, but they're parts of Russia.
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So NATO is rehearsing already, war with Russia.
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They're pushing it.
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They want war with Russia.
1:20:02
There are already exercises near the Silwaki Corridor involving Lithuania,
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Poland, and France, and German Air Force statements about potential strikes
1:20:11
on Russian targets like Kaliningrad, Kola Peninsula, and
1:20:15
the Black Sea assets if Russia attacks NATO.
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Russia's not attacking NATO, but they have every reason to do so.
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Defense 24 says that Gallant-Boer 2026 exercise involved Lithuania,
1:20:28
Poland, France.
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They're strategically important land corridor between Belarus and Kaliningrad.
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And so other states are covering something similar.
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The exercises run from June 16th to the 26th.
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And the German Air Force angle, several outlets report that the Luftwaffe and
1:20:49
Luftwaffe Commander Holger Neumann discussed NATO strikes against Russia
1:20:53
in the event of the Russian attack on NATO.
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Ukrainian outlets are saying this is deterrence.
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And Russian aligned framing treats it as escalation and
1:21:04
proof that NATO is planning direct war, which they are.
1:21:08
Every NATO exercise is called defensive, but
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everything they do is attack related in the defensive plans, right?
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How do we attack?
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Every Russian response to any of this is called aggression, but
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if you rehearse war on another country long enough and
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right along their border long enough, eventually,
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somebody has to believe it's not rehearsal, and Putin says it's not.
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I don't know, happy birthday to me.
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Interesting takes on all this.
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Up next, we have the damn schwag coming up as soon as I close out of here,
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close out the button, and I'm damn glad to have you.
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Happy birthday to me, to me.
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And I will see you tomorrow with the last show of the week.
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I hope you've enjoyed this one.
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Party on Wayne, party on Garth.