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Christmasy Cruise: Clark-Griswold Clothes, Cross-Country Caravan, Cheer-Centered Counsel, Crimea-Crisis Commentary, Chernigov-Cutouts, Carolina-Congressman’s Caracas-Coup Crusade · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good evening, welcome.
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I am Samuel Trapper.
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It's not even evening though, it's morning.
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Oh my goodness.
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Here I am living in the past.
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You know, I wanted, I'm going to do
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something different for the next several days.
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Today, I am live in the Lake Ozark
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Real Estate of the Arts studio, but I
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am on the way to visit my wonderful
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son in Wyoming.
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Later tonight, I'm leaving.
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I like driving at night and taking another,
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some family members along for the excitement of
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it all.
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And we're going to take the four wheel
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drive sleigh.
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I'm going to throw on my Chicago Blackhawks
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Clark W.
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Griswold hockey shirt that I have.
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It's my Christmas attire because I want to
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be that dude.
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He just had it made, didn't he?
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He had all kinds of good things with
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dreams of girls on swimming pools and whatnot.
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Things were good for him, right?
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At any rate, I'm going to do that
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and head to Wyoming.
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Apparently, it's pretty far gone cold there.
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You know, it's kind of irritating to me.
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By the way, if you wish to call
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in, I really don't even have a topic
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today.
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We're going to cruise the news and there's
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plenty of that, you know, just the simple
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stuff.
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It looks like they're bombing Luke oil facilities
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again, but I'm not positive that I can't
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decide if that's old news or not, you
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know, in Romania and Hungary.
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They did that back in October and I'm
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afraid somebody's reposting that crap.
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I mean, it's not crap, it's news, but
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they're trying to claim it's news and it's
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not.
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So I have to verify that that actually
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did occur.
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But apparently, that's what it is.
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We have stories of Trump warning Maduro to
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get out.
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We have story of Vance telling his wife's
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critics to eat shiznit, as they call it.
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Orban warning against cash for Ukrainian oligarchs' golden
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toilets.
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We have Israel shut in down, you know,
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they vote to shut down the IDF radio
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stations.
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Trump wants to prevent nuclear war.
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Well, that's a good thing.
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Several other news stories that we could get
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to had some mercenaries, United States versions killed
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allegedly in Ukraine, which we'll definitely get into
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that story.
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But I just want to talk about in
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the beginning here, something that I don't think
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I do enough is talk about the greatness
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of life, the greatness of, you know, the
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positive outlook we need to keep on life.
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Sometimes I feel like I get on my
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show and I talk about all the negative
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crap that we know occurs.
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But in my personal life or in my
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real life, I try hard not to focus
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on the negative.
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You know, and that's hard sometimes.
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There's a lot of a-holes out there.
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There's a lot of people that will attack
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you.
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You know, we sometimes focus that.
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Certainly, we internalize it.
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But, you know, people are people.
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And at the Christmas season, you know, I
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sometimes get people who say to me, you
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know, say, my kids do it.
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You know, I never, never forced a thought
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process on my children, never.
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And I just I told them and I
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tell everybody what I think is the way
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to approach life, to approach people, to approach
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situations, to approach the world.
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The world really is your oyster and there
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are things out there no matter where you
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go on this great planet that are just
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fantastic.
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And here at International Flavor, I'm not so
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sure, which by the way, you can listen
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to it at internationalflavor.com or at damradio
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.com forward slash live and all the other
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wonderful programs we have here on DAM radio.
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And I'm not sure I, when I travel,
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I focus on the positive 99% of
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the time and it is a favorite part
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of my life.
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For the last five years, I have made
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it a priority in life to, the older
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I get, the more important this priority is,
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is to see things.
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You don't take any of your crap with
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you, friends and neighbors.
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Your crap is nothing but crap.
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And I've got a life full of crap,
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crap everywhere.
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And I still got a huge amount of
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crap.
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I got a storage unit in Florida full
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of crap.
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I have a retirement community home in Florida
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full of crap.
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And I got a place here in Missouri
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now, guess what it's full of?
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Crap.
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And it's stuff.
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And I've given away stuff, I've sold stuff,
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you know, and then you still go into
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your garage and you look at the stuff
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and you go, oh, I need that.
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I don't need any of this crap.
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I look at it and I look at
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it and I say, I don't, what the
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hell am I still doing with this?
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I've got a wallpaper, a commercial wallpaper glue
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machine, you know, you can put glue on.
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It's really cool.
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And I enjoy doing commercial wallpaper.
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I enjoy it.
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Okay.
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I'm not good at a lot of things.
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And, you know, there's stuff I'm not good
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at.
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You sure as hell wouldn't want me looking
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at your car and, you know, and I
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can't even spell, you know, carburetor, you know,
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look under the, where is it?
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You know, I'm lucky.
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I could find the little growth on the
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top of the battery, you know, the rust
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or whatever comes out of there.
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Anyway, I'm babbling because that's what I do
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for a living.
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But I tell you what, I'm generally a
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positive person and I don't want to take
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this show and turn it into, most of
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the time I'm talking about, you know, war
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and negative stuff and trying to make sure
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people are aware and get my opinion out
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there.
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And my opinion is just like everybody else's
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opinions are like a holes.
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Everybody's got one and 95% of them
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may be higher stink.
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You know, your opinions, your own, I love
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your opinion.
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I'm glad you have your opinion and I'd
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appreciate it if it didn't stink or it
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was at least based upon some form of
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logic.
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But I love opinions of other people.
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I have, you know, I get criticized.
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Everybody gets criticized and that your opinion is
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wrong.
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I'm okay with that.
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You know, you can't, you can't.
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What we've seen in the last 40 years
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is that your opinion now defines you as
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a good or a bad person, according to
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certain, you know, whatever the, whatever the stream
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of the day is.
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And I'm just going where my brain is
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taking me this morning.
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So I apologize for that.
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I didn't plan anything because I was going
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to tell everybody about what I'm planning for
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the season and whatnot.
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And maybe talk about what the show is.
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So if somebody wanted to call in and
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have a conversation, I'm fine with that too.
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But I have a, I have kind of
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a structure that I built in my head
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and I have also some, some pathways that
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I've gone through, you know, with the light
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outline of the show, but I don't have
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anything concrete and avoid talk about.
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But I think it's important sometimes to talk
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about what we need to, you know, I
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didn't do it at Thanksgiving, you know, I
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need to be grateful for, I was, I
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was real busy at Thanksgiving and I was
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moving, but you know, it's the entire season,
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you know, I hate shopping.
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I don't like, I don't like going into
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places and shop even during the Christmas season.
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And I'm truly, I'm a little bit depressed
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that I haven't done it yet.
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I, but I really want to, and I
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think I'm going to end up missing it
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again this year.
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And one of the beautiful things, if, if
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you haven't seen this before, one of the
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beautiful things is that the St. Louis Botanical
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Garden, and they do something, and if you're
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in town for this, perhaps you should make
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an effort to do it.
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I'm a member of the botanical garden, whatever
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that little club is that they, that they
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have you sign up for, where you get
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discounts on your tickets.
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It's cheap, you know, it's like $70 a
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year or something.
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It's nothing.
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And you get some, a couple of free
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admissions and some, whatever you get for the,
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for the free stuff.
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I get it and I use it and
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I like to go in the spring and
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wander it.
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It's how, you know, I'm going to, I'm
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going to pull that up for you and
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I don't mean to advertise for them, but
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I guess I'm going to and, and tell
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you what it is because it's, you know,
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they have videos on YouTube about it that
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you could, could get a garden glow and
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they do some, they're, they're, they're people that
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can see it.
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And I think, well, when you, I know
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that they have this really cool, so if
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those of you who know me know that
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I travel, right, that's international flavor.
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And when I was in Germany, I got
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into a Glühwein, which means basically glow wine.
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It's warm wine and it's, it's, it's available
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here too.
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And I, I used to get a case
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of it from, I can't remember the name
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of the, there's a couple of big liquor
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stores.
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There's a big one in Columbia and they
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built one here down on Highway K, KK
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and it's by that McDonald's over there and
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they sold it a couple of years ago.
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And they had this Glühwein and it's Glühwein
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is how the Germans say it in German
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class in high school.
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Frau, Frau, what was her name?
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I can't remember, but Frau, Frau, whatever her
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name was, used to get on me about
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Glüh, it's a Ü, Sam, it's a Umlaut,
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so the Umlaut is the little U with
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two dots over it, right?
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That's the Umlaut and when you say it,
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it's Ü, if you're German, you, you know
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what I'm talking about, but anybody who doesn't,
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I can get by maybe asking directions anymore
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and I was reasonably decent in high school,
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but when I learned Russian, I lost it
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all.
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But every time I go to German, I
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brush up, or Germany, I mean, I brush
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up on it a little bit and get
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a little bit of, a little bit of
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Umlaut to make sure that I can say
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a couple things properly when I'm asking for
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directions or Zahlenbitte and make sure that I'm
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asking for the check at the end and
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the, you know, stuff like that.
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But I got nothing, you know, I couldn't
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speak in German, especially like I do in
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Russian and in Russian I can, you know,
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give, give tax theory discussions.
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Maybe I'll make some ending errors, but there
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you have it.
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At any rate, I really am babbling today,
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but the Garden Glow in St. Louis, if
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you have not had the opportunity to get
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there, so, you know, a lot of people,
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even Missourians, haven't done it, haven't taken a
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Christmas season and gone.
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When I lived here, and I live here
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again, but when, when, when I lived here
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in Missouri on a permanent level for my
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single years, I always made an effort to,
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and when I was dating people too, I
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would drag them along too, but I would
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go to the, I had a kind of
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a ritual on the seasons.
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I remember the year I got divorced and
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my children were still children and it was
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the first year we did whatever it was,
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the swap, you know, where I'm in a
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divorce, you get the kids on New Year's,
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or I'm sorry, on Christmas Eve and I
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get them Christmas day.
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Now I always had theories about that too,
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if you're doing, if you're going through divorce
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and divorce sucks enough as it is, don't
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destroy the person you're exiting a relationship with,
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but especially don't destroy your children.
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Do whatever you can to focus upon them
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and not yourself.
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And so they're very, there's some ideas for
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that.
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And even when I was practicing law and
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I was practicing divorce law, I would have
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this conversation with people and say, look, you
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know, I've been through this and tell you
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what it, it, you know, those people who
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come into your office and want to, want
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to, well screw this B word, F that
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a-hole, you know, and I just want
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to stick it to him, you know, well,
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you're not ready to get divorced yet, friends
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and neighbors, cause you used to love that
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person and maybe you, you know, you're personalizing
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it once again, if it's gone, it's gone.
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And when you come in to, to, to
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meet with your attorney, it better be done
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and over with because your lawyer is not
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your guidance counselor.
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He's not your marriage counselor.
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And I really am all over the map
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today.
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It's just going everywhere.
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We could take a, a throw in arrows
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or darts at a, at a map here
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from across the room.
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Cause I'm a sucky dart player and some
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hit the map and some do not.
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I had a theme and I ain't even
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at the theme.
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So let's call this the theme list program
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and just Sam's babbling.
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But it's when you, you know, the overall
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point of this, which I hope I'm still
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holding on to just a little bit is
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that, uh, you know, life is positive.
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You should try to keep it positive.
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You should especially note that at times of
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the season and even in those periods when
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life just sucks, you need to, uh, uh,
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understand that even that is temporary and, uh,
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and it's hard, hard, hard, hard to do.
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It's especially hard to do that first time
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when you are on your own during a
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holiday, when you're used to having holiday things.
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I do intend to tell some trap family
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stories over the next few days about what
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we used to do over Christmas time.
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And I'd be interested in hearing anybody else's
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Christmas traditions and stories, but I created my
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own when, um, I, I, I became single
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and I've always said that a marriage, uh,
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a relationship is two good people sharing, you
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know, their lives together.
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It's not one life.
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It's, it's two good people with good lives
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that are sharing parts of their lives with
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each other.
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There's still got to be a core you,
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and you know, there's a core you, there
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are things that are important to you that
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may not be important to your spouse.
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There's rare occasions when everything is, is, you
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know, where, where, and I envy those people.
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I truly do because for me it's been
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a, uh, you know, a rough ride relationship
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wise.
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Let's call it that.
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But, but, you know, all of the, the,
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all sounds horrible when you say, but all
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of the wives I've had, each of them
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have been wonderful in their own way, you
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know, and, and, and, and obviously I loved
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them.
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And, uh, when, when you come to see
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an attorney and you, and you are ending
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this relationship, uh, whether, you know, whatever relationship
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that is a business relationship, a personal relationship,
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a life relationship, um, you know, there, when
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you talk about estates and people dying, those
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estates, the fights between family members are horrific.
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You hate to see it.
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I mean, it is so horrible to fight
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over crap.
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I've started this story by telling you about
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all the crap I got all over the
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planet.
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If I die and my, my family is
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fighting over my crap and I don't have
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any, that is wrong.
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And you have a duty to your, uh,
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what do you call, patomki, your, uh, uh,
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people that come after you to your descendants,
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uh, patomki, if you have a, uh, uh,
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you have a duty to your patomki to,
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uh, uh, make sure that you aren't screwing
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up their lives after your death.
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You have a duty to do that.
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And I also say you have a duty
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when a business ends to not screw up
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each other's lives over it and not steal
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from each other and not rob each other.
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And that's especially true when you get into
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a divorce situation.
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Okay.
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And that's, it is 10 times more important.
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You know, it's easy.
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I don't want to say easy, but I've
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had it done to me quite a few
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times where, where women just pull the plug
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on you and go, I'm not going to
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be with this guy.
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Men do it too.
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So I don't mean to, to, to pick
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on it.
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It's just happened to me.
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So I can, I can tell you, they
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just shut people off.
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You are, that is it.
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They make a decision and they turn around
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and you are nothing after that.
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And they just, maybe that's the easy way
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to do it.
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You know, like a Seinfeld, you say, rip
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it off the bandaid, you know, uh, you,
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when, when you have a, a, a, a
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bandaid stuck to your sore, you just rip
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it off.
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It's a, or, or duct tape, uh, you
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know, over your, uh, over your eyebrows and
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rip it off of the one thing.
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People do hair that way.
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They do all that stuff that way.
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And that's how they treat relationships in their
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lives.
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And I'm truly against that, especially in the
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realm of divorce with children because children are,
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they remember, Oh, trust me on that.
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They remember.
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And they, they have their, and their kids.
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And so they misunderstand the things that are
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going on and they experienced these feelings 10
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times more than you might.
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And so if you're pissed, imagine what that
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poor little kid's going through.
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And so I, I, I suppose it's the
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season for me to talk about relationships, to
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talk about where we're supposed to be in
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life during the holiday season and what we
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are supposed to be living for.
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And when I started my own traditions in
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that first Christmas Eve of mine, and I
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was by myself and I'm wrapping gifts cause
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I know there are kids coming and I'm
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a last minute or, you know, I'm not
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a, I'm not a good, I don't put,
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I don't do a Christmas season.
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And I got to thinking about it that
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very first night when I was all by
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my lonesome and my kids were, I think
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one was in college, two were in high
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school and one was, uh, one was still
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in grade school and, uh, and I knew
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they were all coming the next day and
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it was going to be just, just the
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five of us and, um, uh, my, uh,
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one of my, one of my children's boyfriend
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and girlfriend that were going to come with
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us.
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And I was making a big, big dinner
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the next day and I was making a
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big day out of it.
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Just like, you know, it's Christmas, people are
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supposed to do this.
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But there I was all by my lonesome
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on Christmas and Christmas Eve and going, all
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right, life, you know, where are we going
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with life?
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And even then I was like, well, you
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know, it's, uh, the tradition is in, in
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the Trapp family household when I was married
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to, uh, uh, uh, Janice, who's just a
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fantastic person and a great mother and, uh,
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and all of that, uh, we had a
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horrible breakup, but you know, it was a
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dragged out over six, seven years.
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It was a horror story, you know, for
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the kids, but we tried to stay together
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for the longest time, you know, and I
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still got feelings for her.
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I'm sure she probably has got them for
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me.
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And, uh, but you know, with that very
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first Christmas all by myself in this big
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old house with a, with a 10, 12
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foot Christmas tree in this huge living room
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and I'm sitting there going, why, why, you
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know, well, I did this for the kids.
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That's why.
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And, uh, and it was for myself too,
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because it was therapeutic.
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All right.
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So, so therapeutic Christmas could be theme number
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two because it is a good season.
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And, uh, if you can take these, uh,
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traditions and, and make things, uh, you know,
21:46
I'm looking at the TVs here in the
21:48
studio and there's one says Christmas at the
21:50
Vatican, I've been to the Vatican.
21:52
It is beautiful and fantastic.
21:53
And this year I was supposed to be
21:56
in, uh, uh, St. Petersburg, Russia for a
21:59
winter.
21:59
And I still want to do that before
22:00
I kick the, uh, the bucket shuffle off
22:03
this molten coil and, uh, you know, join
22:07
the choir invisible, you know, I hope, unless
22:10
it's the choir down below burning, uh, burning
22:13
and all that, but, but on that Christmas
22:15
Eve there I sat and I was like,
22:18
you know, what, what, what do I, what
22:20
are the things I like about the season?
22:23
What are the things I want to share
22:26
with the future of, you know, a future
22:29
ex-wife?
22:30
What are the things I wish to share
22:32
with my children?
22:34
Or have my children come back and think
22:36
about, well, because one year you'll get Christmas
22:38
and the next year you'll get Christmas Eve.
22:40
It's like, uh, you know, on Christmas Eve,
22:42
we always shared a pair of pajamas, you
22:45
know, a new, uh, some kind of Christmas,
22:47
ugly pajamas.
22:49
We'd, we'd, we'd have sweaters, sweatshirts, whatever.
22:51
And then a pair of new jammy pants.
22:53
Everybody'd get their jammy pants the night before
22:56
and we'd watch Christmas movies.
22:58
Well, my favorites are not everybody else's favorites,
23:01
but I, I want to watch one of
23:03
the Home Alones just because I want to
23:07
watch a Christmas story, which is, uh, you
23:10
know, always fun.
23:11
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
23:13
And, uh, that's what I remember growing up
23:15
to.
23:16
Not, not the movie because that movie didn't
23:19
come out until the late eighties or something
23:20
like that.
23:21
But, uh, um, I remember growing up like
23:24
that, you know, I got a baby gun
23:26
when I was a kid, my brother got
23:28
one and, uh, uh, you know, we'd run
23:31
around and act like we were, you know,
23:32
taking hip shots, you know, stuff like that.
23:35
And, uh, I remember, tried to remember the
23:37
things that were important for me when I
23:38
was a kid and I like on, uh,
23:41
on Christmas Eve and I've kind of expanded
23:43
it cause I cheat is, uh, I watch,
23:47
um, uh, the 1958 version of A Christmas
23:54
Carol with Alistair Sim.
23:56
To me, that's the original one.
23:58
Although there are, there are some good ones.
24:00
Sir Patrick, uh, Stewart of Star Trek Next
24:05
Generation fame gives a good one.
24:08
Um, I really liked the, the Bill Murray
24:11
Scrooged.
24:12
I will watch that one.
24:14
I will watch a Christmas Vacation, of course.
24:18
Um, I know this is a Thanksgiving themed
24:20
movie, but I really like it.
24:22
And, uh, uh, during the season sometime because
24:25
you watch these seasonal movies and, uh, uh,
24:31
that is, um, uh, now I've lost my
24:35
train of thought thinking about the next thing
24:37
I was going to say that, uh, uh,
24:39
you know, these, these movies I like, and
24:41
now I've completely lost it cause I was
24:43
already moving on to the next thought.
24:45
That's the trouble when you have problems with
24:47
your brain, it jumps forward in the story
24:50
and, uh, the story isn't even here.
24:53
I'm, I'm making this up completely as I
24:55
go along is, uh, but some of my
24:57
favorite movies, there's a new one that I
24:59
started watching and, and, uh, it's called Last
25:03
Christmas and the girl who's in it is,
25:06
uh, she was, uh, the Targaryen in, um,
25:13
in Game of Thrones.
25:14
She was a Targaryen blonde chick, you know,
25:17
when it was, it showed up naked several
25:19
times and that was, those were the highlights
25:22
of that show, you know, but she, she
25:23
gives a very good, uh, Christmas show.
25:27
And, uh, uh, it's called Last Christmas and
25:30
I liked it.
25:31
It was a very, very good show and
25:32
it's very Christmasy, you know, you know, a
25:34
little bit of a cry baby one, but,
25:36
uh, it's still pretty good.
25:38
And, uh, you know, pick, there's so many
25:41
of them out there.
25:42
People could share all of these there, you
25:44
know, and some of them you can have
25:45
on in the background.
25:46
And for me, if you, you know, I,
25:50
I get into how, and I try to
25:52
share it with my family as well is,
25:54
and friends and whoever I happen to be
25:57
dating or married to at the time is,
25:59
uh, I share it with them as well.
26:01
And there are some beautiful Russian ones.
26:03
Russians have traditions too.
26:05
And, uh, and I like to, uh, do
26:08
a bunch of those things.
26:09
So I like to create, um, a big
26:13
pot of borscht.
26:14
I love borscht.
26:15
Borscht is very good and then, uh, very
26:18
tasty.
26:18
And I like beets anyway, and I like
26:21
red cabbage anyway.
26:23
And, uh, so, uh, you know, it's like
26:25
going to Germany and eating sauerkraut.
26:27
I love it.
26:27
And I love sauerkraut here anyway.
26:30
And, uh, so I like trying new and
26:33
interesting things and seeing how other people celebrate.
26:37
And, and, uh, here I am getting ready
26:39
to take that four wheel drive wagon.
26:42
Um, and my son and his wife and
26:44
child and head off to, uh, the north.
26:48
And, you know, uh, I, I think, uh,
26:52
sharing these things is important and talking about
26:57
them, uh, you know, is important and, and
27:01
what, what I would, if you're here in
27:03
the area, you know, a lot of it
27:05
is area specific and in St. Louis, they
27:08
have the garden glow, which I think, I
27:11
mean, if you can go see that it
27:12
starts, you know, what times it get dark
27:14
these days, the shortest day of the year,
27:16
Holy crap.
27:17
Is today the shortest day of the year?
27:18
I believe it is.
27:19
Today is the 23rd.
27:21
It should be the winter solstice.
27:23
Isn't that what they call it?
27:24
Which today is the shortest day of the
27:28
year.
27:28
And tomorrow we start going back to the
27:30
other direction.
27:31
So the point of that is the garden
27:33
glow is open.
27:34
And if you get a chance, you can
27:35
go, you know, stuff, don't make your Christmas
27:38
about stuff.
27:39
Make your Christmas about experiences and the experiences
27:42
that I like.
27:43
And that I've, that I just, and I've
27:46
looked every year for the last one, because
27:48
what I like to do is go.
27:50
This is why I don't like the Bolshoi
27:52
ballet being blacklisted, being canceled, you know, everywhere.
27:57
And it is because I want to go
27:59
see the nutcracker, the Russian nutcracker performed by
28:01
the Bolshoi ballet and, uh, or somebody else
28:05
of significance.
28:06
And, uh, I've seen it at the Fox
28:08
theater in St. Louis, I make an evening
28:11
of that and I'll go down there.
28:13
And that will, that that's a night to
28:15
remember.
28:16
I love it.
28:17
And I'll dress up.
28:18
I got a tux.
28:19
Sometimes I'll put it on and have a,
28:21
take a beautiful lady also dressed up and
28:24
go to the, uh, nutcracker.
28:27
Uh, they all used to have, and after
28:30
COVID everything really sucks anymore, the schedules.
28:33
And, uh, uh, I like to go see
28:35
a Christmas carol on a play stage at
28:39
the Fox theater.
28:40
That's an experience if you haven't done it.
28:42
And I did it quite a few years
28:43
in a row.
28:44
And, uh, that is cool.
28:45
The garden glow, you can go down and,
28:48
uh, uh, you know, that's a couple of
28:49
weekends in St. Louis, you know, and those
28:53
you, you, you make a, a long evening
28:56
or a weekend of it, go have a
28:58
beautiful dinner somewhere, go to the theater or
29:01
make a dinner.
29:02
And you go to the, uh, uh, garden
29:04
glow, garden glow is, uh, inexpensive and beautiful,
29:07
and they decorate however many acres that garden
29:11
is.
29:12
And, uh, they decorate it.
29:14
I like going there anyway, two, three times
29:16
a year.
29:16
I really liked the, uh, the international festivals
29:19
that they have down there.
29:21
They switched one of them one year I
29:23
went and it was the Japanese festival and
29:25
I thought it was really fantastic.
29:27
And then the following year they were having
29:29
the Japanese festival and I went down there
29:32
and it was all young kids dressed in,
29:38
um, you know, like emojis or dressed like,
29:42
uh, you know, Pac-Man or whatever, um,
29:45
fighting shows that they had, uh, or fighting
29:48
games that they had Japanese, uh, I forget
29:51
what they call it, but everybody was wearing
29:53
these weird outfits and dressed in black and
29:55
there wasn't any, which was cool too, but
29:58
had I known that that's the Japanese festival
30:01
turned into, uh, something else, you know, I
30:04
will, but so I don't know, but they
30:06
have different, you don't have to become a
30:09
member.
30:09
You can always buy tickets and go to
30:10
these things, but being a member, you either
30:12
get one, one free a year or something,
30:14
a cup, and then you get first, uh,
30:16
you get preferred nights where only members get
30:20
to go and see it and it's less
30:22
crowded.
30:22
And that includes at the beginning of the
30:24
garden glow, like garden glow will open for
30:27
you several days in advance.
30:29
And so you get to go down and
30:30
have these and wander the gardens and see
30:32
all the beautiful decorations and take some great
30:35
videos and, and, and pictures.
30:37
And, uh, uh, every so often they'll have
30:41
these little, uh, huts where you, uh, can
30:44
buy glue vine and you can buy a
30:47
hot cider and you can get a cup
30:49
of hot chocolate and with marshmallows or whatever.
30:52
And I'd buy something every single one and
30:55
walk on down, but I had the preference
30:57
for the glue line and you could get
30:59
a, because I just love it.
31:00
And you could get a little bit drunk.
31:02
Anyway, I'm just sharing memories of interesting things
31:05
and, uh, uh, you know, and, and hopefully
31:08
have positive things to share with people when,
31:13
uh, you enjoy the season.
31:15
And so I did want to just babble
31:17
about that for a little bit before I
31:19
jumped into some of the, some of the
31:22
news.
31:22
And, uh, I hope you, you don't think
31:24
I'm too freaking lunatic now to, uh, uh,
31:28
to listen to me further.
31:30
But, uh, those are the things I enjoy
31:32
in the, the, you know, if I could
31:33
encourage anybody to, uh, if your life sucks
31:38
and trust me, mine has sucked before and
31:41
probably quite a few times and there are
31:43
ups and downs in life.
31:45
And I've known, I've seen, uh, I've helped
31:48
some people get through some very dark times
31:51
and, uh, you know, and, and it's hardest
31:54
to get through the dark times.
31:56
Uh, that, that certainly come up in everyone's
32:00
life and it's very hard to get through
32:03
them, but persevere, you know, uh, terapy is
32:08
the word, uh, you know, um, you know,
32:12
uh, bear it basically, terapy, uh, terapy, if
32:16
it's more than one person, but, but anyway,
32:18
terapy means, uh, you know, um, uh, live
32:22
through it, you know, uh, handle it, hold
32:24
on, you know, hold fast, stand fast, you
32:28
know, you'll, you know, you'll keep on, you
32:31
know, hold, hold to the line and the,
32:33
the, the bad things, let the bad things
32:35
pass through you, don't let them become you,
32:38
you know, and, uh, at the Christmas season
32:40
and I don't do this very well, I
32:43
don't thank people enough, I don't tell people
32:46
I, I know that, uh, that I love
32:48
them enough, I don't tell people that they're
32:51
a positive impact on my life enough and
32:54
I, I just don't do that and at
32:56
the holiday season, if you know me and
32:59
I haven't told you, well, you know, I
33:02
appreciate you and, and, and I think that
33:04
is important and, um, to, to thank people,
33:09
you know, people ask, you know, you know,
33:11
um, one of the key questions of going
33:12
to my son's house, I have a grandchild
33:15
I've never met, it was a year and
33:17
a half, geez, I hope I didn't get
33:19
that too wrong, he'll slap me when I
33:20
get there, but, um, uh, we don't want
33:23
that and I have a couple of stepchildren
33:25
that I've never met and, uh, I, you
33:27
know, this is, this is a big deal
33:29
for me and, and, and I, I want
33:32
to go and do it, but if I
33:33
don't tell people enough, understand that if you're
33:37
involved in my life, I, I, I, I
33:39
appreciate you and, uh, if I don't say
33:42
it enough and, uh, Merry Christmas, truthfully from
33:46
the, uh, from the heart of, of Samuel
33:49
and, uh, you know, hold fast, if I
33:52
can help anybody with anything, I don't have,
33:55
you know, many ways of helping people, but
33:57
if I can help you get through something,
33:58
talk you through it, you know, trust me,
34:01
if it's crap in your life, I've been
34:04
there.
34:05
If, uh, uh, you know, there are some,
34:07
uh, powerful people that came after me and,
34:11
uh, you know, and I'm, I'm, I'm living
34:13
proof of living through it and you can
34:15
live through it.
34:16
And the only way you can win is
34:19
to let it go through you and don't
34:22
let it become you.
34:24
And that's very, very hard to do.
34:26
And I can tell you that, you know,
34:29
I've, I've, I've fought, fought large things in
34:34
my life and I've taken risks in life
34:38
that, uh, other people would not take and,
34:43
uh, or would just, I'm not a giver
34:46
upper, I don't give up.
34:47
I will fight you to the death if
34:50
I believe.
34:51
And, uh, uh, if I'm a believer and
34:53
I know there are more people like that,
34:54
there are a lot of us out there
34:55
that, uh, you know, better to go down
34:58
swinging than, uh, then go down standing for
35:03
nothing.
35:03
And, uh, there are things I stand for
35:05
and I hope I tell you what they
35:08
are in the proper voice, you know, in
35:11
the proper frame of mind.
35:13
And by the way, one of the things
35:15
that I stand for is your right to
35:18
stand for what you believe in.
35:20
That's, that is key.
35:22
That is one of the biggest things in
35:24
my life is I don't, I don't, I
35:28
don't mean to, I know I do sometimes,
35:31
but I don't mean to preach to you
35:33
or force my opinion down your throat.
35:36
Your opinion is your own and your opinion
35:39
should be your own.
35:41
If someone else is handing you your opinion,
35:44
trust me, I think that is weak.
35:47
You should consider, in my opinion, you know,
35:50
again, the opinions are like a-holes.
35:52
Everybody's got one and, uh, uh, and you
35:55
should, uh, uh, you know, go through the,
35:59
the, uh, issues if you like to, if
36:05
you like to tell your stories, go through
36:06
them, tell people what they are and, uh,
36:08
tell people what your opinions are and where
36:10
you stand on a particular subject.
36:13
And if you want to do it on
36:14
this show, call in.
36:16
I got a couple of, uh, charitable, uh,
36:19
organizations that are going to be joining us,
36:21
uh, probably after the first year and during
36:24
the Christmas season, uh, my schedule, uh, I'm
36:27
going to try, I've always said that I
36:30
can, uh, um, do my show from anywhere
36:34
and tomorrow I'm going to be on the
36:35
road and I'm going to try it.
36:37
I'll probably be, uh, you know, cruising across
36:39
South Dakota by that time of the morning,
36:42
um, and, uh, I will, uh, uh, be
36:47
sitting in the passenger seat, let my son
36:49
drive for a while.
36:50
We're going to try it.
36:51
I got wifi in the, in the four
36:53
wheel drive sleigh, there's wifi in there and
36:56
we're going to try to do the show
36:58
and make and see if the connection works.
37:01
I'm going to try to put, if at
37:04
all possible, a, uh, show connection in the
37:07
event that everything goes poorly, that I'll try
37:10
to record a show, um, this evening or
37:13
later on tonight and have one in the
37:16
bag as it were.
37:18
But I still, I'm going to try it
37:20
tomorrow because I do have a internet available.
37:24
I've done it before and when I get
37:26
logged out, I can usually log back in.
37:29
It'd be nice to have, uh, you know,
37:31
some, um, Christmas music to, uh, to live
37:36
with and, uh, maybe we could play the,
37:38
uh, the nutcracker suite, you know, in the
37:41
background.
37:42
And if you haven't seen the nutcracker at
37:44
Christmas time, my gosh, at the Fox theater,
37:47
I would do that too.
37:49
You know, and, and, uh, you know, that
37:52
is fantastic.
37:53
That show the, the, there's a theater in
37:56
Columbia, I forget what it's called, but they
37:58
usually have a pretty good one every year
38:00
too.
38:00
There's a theater down on, um, ninth street,
38:04
maybe seventh.
38:05
I don't remember.
38:06
But there's a theater down there that, that
38:08
puts on a pretty good, uh, version.
38:11
You know, you can usually once a year,
38:13
you can go down there, the university, I
38:15
think up there puts on some, uh, some
38:17
Christmas things and, uh, whatever you do with
38:20
Christmas, uh, make it, make it your own.
38:22
If you're, if you're by yourself, traditions help
38:26
even your own traditions.
38:27
But I, you know, that, that, that Christmas
38:29
Eve that I sat there, I remember sitting
38:31
there, you know, and, and it's like, you
38:34
know, I had no plans.
38:35
I didn't want to go anywhere and I
38:37
knew I was going to be by myself
38:39
and I, you know, I made myself a,
38:42
a, a, a eggnog, um, and, and I
38:47
like eggnog, you know, and this is the
38:49
time of year where I will drink it.
38:51
And I like whiskey, you know, that you
38:54
put in there and you can buy, oh
38:57
man, you can buy several versions of this,
39:00
um, eggnog with the, with the, uh, whiskey
39:03
already in it or the bourbon or whatever
39:05
you, whatever they put in it, uh, that
39:06
you can get.
39:07
And it's a square bottle and I forget
39:09
the brand name of it, but it's fantastic.
39:12
And I recognize the bottle and I go
39:14
buy it, but, but I don't really care
39:15
which bottle is, and you can, you can
39:18
buy the, uh, the good ones.
39:20
And, and I, I don't like my, how
39:24
do I say this?
39:24
I don't like the alcohol that tastes like
39:26
alcohol when, when I'm drinking it.
39:28
I, you know, when I, when I was
39:31
drinking regularly and then I really don't anymore,
39:34
but when I was drinking regularly, uh, I
39:37
would, it was always, uh, vodka tonic, uh,
39:41
light ice and light vodka, you know, you
39:45
can just splash the vodka and if you
39:47
want, I, I, I drink fast, you know,
39:51
and I don't want to taste the alcohol
39:53
and sometimes that catches up with you because
39:57
you don't taste the alcohol, but also, you
40:00
know, I, I know that I'm going to
40:01
drink a larger quantity, you know, that I,
40:05
that, and I don't, I never really, I
40:07
switched to beer mostly, but, uh, especially during
40:10
the season, but during the season I'm going
40:12
to be drinking glue vine and I'm going
40:14
to be drinking eggnog and that night, you
40:17
know, as a first time single dude, I,
40:20
um, had, uh, some, uh, what do you
40:26
call it?
40:27
Some, uh, eggnog and I watched the, um,
40:33
Christmas Carol 1958, just like I always do
40:37
and, uh, very much enjoyed the evening sitting
40:41
around, uh, you know, in the, in a
40:44
very nice, uh, Christmassy place and just basked
40:49
in my own Christmas tradition that I began
40:52
and now I try to, and I look
40:55
forward to every year, you know, having, and
40:59
I pick an evening, it doesn't have to
41:01
be Christmas Eve, you know, I'm going to
41:02
be with family this year on Christmas Eve
41:05
and doing whatever they do.
41:06
It's their tradition and I'm just the interloper
41:09
enjoying it with them, right?
41:11
And, uh, um, figure out what their traditions
41:14
are and what they do for Christmas and
41:16
maybe add something that, that, uh, that I
41:20
like or grandpa's going to do, you know,
41:21
that kind of thing to it.
41:23
So very much looking forward to it.
41:25
I've talked way too much about it this
41:27
morning.
41:27
I intended to do like, uh, uh, a
41:30
theme on that and just tell some of
41:32
the, some of the trap stories, but I
41:35
do plan on, on Christmas Eve, this is
41:37
Christmas Eve, Eve, uh, do plan on Christmas
41:41
Eve on being on the program.
41:42
I even plan on Christmas morning, uh, being
41:45
very early because, uh, Wyoming is a, an
41:49
hour before Missouri and I plan on giving
41:52
a, uh, uh, a program if at all
41:55
possible and, uh, uh, maybe, uh, have some,
42:01
uh, participants that discuss along with me about
42:06
Christmas and what they think it is and
42:07
all of that.
42:08
It could be fun.
42:09
If not, we're going to talk about some
42:11
of the things that are important to me.
42:13
And I wanted to share with you today,
42:17
uh, you know, now that I've told you
42:19
my, my thoughts and, um, beliefs here on
42:26
Christmas, I wanted to share with you some
42:30
of the news about, uh, what is going
42:34
on, some people aren't going to be able
42:36
to have a Christmas for, um, because of
42:43
war, because of things that are going on
42:45
and, uh, you know, it's easy to talk
42:47
about these things when you don't have these
42:49
huge negatives in your life.
42:51
But I wanted to talk about, uh, there's
42:54
some strikes, more strikes on energy infrastructure, and
42:57
I'm going to share with you a little
42:58
bit of, uh, one of the programs that
43:03
I listened to, and then we'll discuss a
43:05
little bit.
43:07
During the previous night, between the 22nd and
43:10
the 23rd of December of 2025, the Russians
43:13
carry out massive missile attack, massive drone attack
43:17
through the entirety through Ukraine.
43:19
The Ukrainian sources are saying that during the
43:21
previous nights, uh, the Russians attack used more
43:25
than 600 drones.
43:27
So we have some, some summary about the
43:29
tax.
43:30
The pro-Russian sources are saying that power
43:32
facilities reported heat Bush, thin sky, thermal power
43:36
plant, LA, the женская thermal power plant, kind
43:39
of sky, a power plant, additional reports of
43:42
attacks on power facilities and both and humanistic
43:45
obelisk without details in Chernigov obelisk drone hit
43:49
a power facility in Novgorod, Seversky.
43:51
So the Russians carry out a massive drone
43:55
and missile attack against on the Ukrainian energy
43:58
facility through the entire territory Ukraine.
44:01
And during the previous 12 hours, we received
44:04
a lots of videos, but mostly we received
44:06
the lots of videos about consequences of attack.
44:09
So as of the moment, when I started
44:12
making this video, uh, I didn't have a
44:15
map where we might see, uh, the approximate
44:17
roads of Russian drones and missiles that were
44:20
attacking Ukrainians, Ukraine positions and facilities during the
44:24
previous 12 hours.
44:24
I believe that we will receive these detailed
44:27
map incoming hours, and then we will discuss
44:30
this map in the evening.
44:31
And also in the evening, we will discuss
44:33
additional videos and additional details about this massive
44:36
attack.
44:37
As of now, we know for sure that
44:39
currently Ukraine experience experiences, huge problems with the
44:44
power supply.
44:47
Most likely in coming hours, we will see
44:49
a partial blackout through the entire territory Ukraine.
44:54
Now let's go to the situation on the
44:57
ground and let's discuss the situation along the
44:59
line of combat contact.
45:01
And first let's talk about the ideas.
45:03
I think this part is important about the
45:06
Odessa.
45:07
I've been talking about the consequences of, of
45:14
failing to come to a peaceful settlement of
45:18
this conflict.
45:19
Um, and it's far more important to Ukraine
45:23
to come to a, uh, an agreement that
45:27
it is to Russia, because remember Russia's winning
45:31
and the Russian demands are in my opinion,
45:37
few, and they've been well communicated.
45:40
They are reasonable.
45:42
They are, uh, well-documented, uh, historically, you
45:48
know, of course you're going to disagree with
45:51
them.
45:51
If you're a, uh, a diehard Ukrainian and,
45:55
you know, just like there are Ukrainians that
45:56
live in Russia that, uh, are anti-Russia
45:59
on this, I guarantee you there are Russians
46:02
and Ukrainians living in Ukraine that, you know,
46:05
they would prefer to see this go back
46:08
to the way they were 30 years ago,
46:10
where, where we are brothers in arms and
46:13
we aren't brothers at each other's throats.
46:16
It's far better when you have brothers to
46:18
have them at arms instead of at throats.
46:22
And, uh, so I've been talking about this
46:24
for at least six months.
46:27
If, and I, I hinted at it in
46:29
the very beginning of when I started talking
46:31
about this topic is that anything east of
46:36
the Dnieper is Russia and by vast majorities,
46:41
you know, anything east of the Dnieper river,
46:44
and that's a geographic border.
46:46
So, you know, it's, it's, it's like any
46:48
geographic border, but, you know, just like there
46:51
are tons of Hungarians living in the Western
46:53
half of Ukraine and a lot of Polish
46:56
descendants living in the Northeast, Northwestern parts, and
46:59
a lot of Belarus, uh, people living South
47:02
of Belgrade and South of Belarus on the
47:05
Ukrainian side and vice versa.
47:08
This is, this is a horrific war story,
47:11
seriously.
47:12
And it really is historically brothers against brothers.
47:16
This is, this is, this is exactly if
47:20
you went to and said right now, a
47:23
war is going to start between Florida and
47:25
Georgia.
47:27
These are the territory we're talking about.
47:30
Well, probably better to say Texas and about,
47:33
you know, six states around it, you know,
47:35
would, would probably be a better example with
47:37
the sizes, but these people have been, you
47:41
know, called the U S the melting pot.
47:43
I got news for you.
47:44
We have no idea what it means because
47:47
melting pot up there means the borders are
47:51
what they are.
47:52
And trust me, the intermix familially, there are
47:56
Russians that have married Ukrainians for years and
48:00
vice versa.
48:01
Polish people that have married Russians and Finnish
48:03
people that have married Russians and, and, and,
48:06
you know, Estonians and it's nonsense.
48:09
These areas are the size of states.
48:12
Okay.
48:13
And think about this.
48:15
If we in America went to war with
48:18
Colorado versus Kansas nonsense, you know, there's chiefs
48:27
fans and Bronco fans at each other's throats.
48:30
You know, I just saw that, that that's
48:33
what the Christmas game is.
48:34
And I guarantee you, my son's going to
48:36
be big deal there.
48:37
One of the reasons I'm going to see
48:39
him is I've been storing all of his
48:42
Broncos crap and I liked the Broncos to
48:44
the Broncos crap for years.
48:47
I'm taking it to him and you know,
48:49
giving him a big bill for the storage
48:52
unit.
48:53
It's a joke by the way, but I'm
48:54
going to give him his stuff back.
48:57
But when we get to this guy that
48:59
we're listening to right now, this is the
49:00
military summary guy that I listened to several
49:03
times a week and just figure out what's
49:04
going on.
49:05
The massive drone strikes that are going on.
49:08
I don't want you to think those are
49:09
only on the Russians against the Ukrainians.
49:11
Ukrainians are doing them too.
49:13
And people are blowing up oil facilities and
49:15
they're blowing up stuff.
49:16
These people are freezing their nuts off, okay.
49:19
In Ukraine because there's no infrastructure and their
49:23
leaders are so stupid.
49:25
They won't cut, you know, a so hard
49:28
headed that they can't recognize defeat when they
49:31
should.
49:32
And defeat is upon them.
49:34
Ninety billion dollars from the European idiots isn't
49:38
going to save them.
49:39
You know, blowing up luke oil plants inside
49:42
of Romania and Hungary aren't going to save
49:45
them.
49:46
And Russia is gonna defend its people in
49:51
the Donbass.
49:53
Those people have given a referendum and they
49:58
have selected.
50:00
They have selected.
50:01
They want to beat with Russia and Crimea.
50:05
Same thing.
50:07
That's who they were.
50:07
You can disagree with that, but you don't
50:10
go to war over it.
50:11
You know, it's nonsense.
50:13
And what changes?
50:15
What?
50:15
I mean, seriously, what changes?
50:17
A Schengen visa?
50:19
You get a Schengen visa.
50:20
You get to be part of the EU
50:21
and have your costs go up 20 times
50:24
higher than they were before.
50:26
What are you getting Ukraine by being a
50:28
part of the EU?
50:30
The mess that they are.
50:32
You lose being a Ukrainian.
50:34
That's for sure.
50:35
What do you know?
50:36
What is Hungary got?
50:38
Seriously, what is Hungary gotten from being in
50:40
the EU?
50:41
They get told what to do.
50:42
What are the Polish got from the EU?
50:44
They get the EU telling them what to
50:47
do.
50:47
Polish people are proud.
50:48
I know some great Polish.
50:49
You know, Polish, Polish interpreters and Russian interpreters
50:53
were put in the same unit when I
50:56
was in the army.
50:57
Now that it's, you know, the enemy border
51:01
has shifted over a country or two and
51:04
it used to be the Germans, you know,
51:06
why would you want to learn German?
51:07
They're not our enemies.
51:09
And I don't mean that, but, you know,
51:11
they have German at the Defense Language Institute,
51:13
too.
51:13
But why would you when you learned Polish,
51:17
you were truly talking about Soviet bloc countries.
51:22
And so that was an enemy country.
51:23
And so when when I mean, it wasn't
51:25
an enemy, but it was certainly an antagonist
51:27
right being on the Soviet bloc.
51:30
What are we talking about here?
51:32
This idiotic war that continues to go on.
51:36
Why?
51:37
Because Zelensky wants to lean to the left
51:40
instead of to the right.
51:41
He wants to lean into the EU.
51:43
We want to be part of the EU.
51:44
What do you get out of it?
51:45
A Schengen visa.
51:47
You get a Schengen visa, which means you
51:49
get to travel freely inside of Europe.
51:51
There are no borders for you with a
51:53
Schengen visa.
51:54
Russians can have Schengen visas.
51:56
They've canceled that for a vast majority of
51:59
them since 2022.
52:00
But Russians were allowed to have them, too.
52:02
What do you get out of being in
52:03
the EU?
52:04
Ask Greece.
52:05
Ask Cyprus what they got out of it.
52:08
Ask Hungary.
52:10
Ask, what do you call it?
52:12
Serbia.
52:13
Herzegovina.
52:14
Ask all those places what they got, where
52:17
you used to be able to afford to
52:18
live and you can't afford to live there
52:19
now.
52:20
Jesus, what these people are in.
52:25
This cooperative union means sucking all the money
52:29
to the central governmental organization, which is unelected,
52:34
by the way.
52:35
Your Ursula von der Leyen's and your Kala
52:37
Kala's, who are idiots, are running the show
52:40
and they aren't even elected.
52:41
And they're telling the rest of Europe what
52:44
they're going to do.
52:45
Imagine our disgust at that kind of thing
52:48
with a Democrat in the White House.
52:50
Did we like that?
52:52
I mean, I don't give a crap which
52:54
one it is, Democrat, Republican.
52:55
I think it's all the same thing, you
52:57
know, in my view.
52:58
And I know there are people who don't
53:00
like that point of view, but I think
53:02
they're all one in the same.
53:03
Trump's marginally different, but it's no different.
53:07
Three years from now when he's gone, things
53:09
will go right back to the way it
53:10
was before.
53:11
Which is the disgusting truth.
53:13
You know, if the borders are closed and
53:15
we have nobody coming across the borders now,
53:18
which I believe is true, and, you know,
53:20
they say zero people have come in and
53:22
out.
53:22
That's a lie.
53:23
That's not true.
53:24
There's people who have snuck across the border.
53:28
That has happened.
53:29
But, you know, I'm sure that they haven't
53:31
come in and been processed.
53:33
People are being turned away.
53:34
And the huge caravans of people, you know,
53:37
are no longer there.
53:38
And I think that was the joke that
53:40
got Donald Trump elected.
53:42
You know, this bullshit with with, oh, gee,
53:44
let's open up the borders.
53:45
And I think people are going to be
53:48
very suspicious and very careful come 2028, you
53:53
know, who they bring in for that reason.
53:57
I don't think that the borders should be
54:00
open.
54:00
And Democrats and Republicans alike, there were a
54:04
huge number that were against that.
54:07
Let them flood in from anywhere.
54:09
People are against that.
54:10
Well, that's the same thing going on in
54:13
Europe.
54:14
OK, and so this Ukrainian stuff and I've
54:17
gone on a little bit of a rant
54:18
there.
54:19
But this Ukrainian stuff versus the Russians.
54:22
I mean, seriously, if you're going to equate
54:24
this, this is crap.
54:27
This is Texas versus Oklahoma and Arkansas, Texas
54:31
versus Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico.
54:34
You know, it's this crap.
54:36
And because these are very, very similar people,
54:42
similar belief structures, similar religious structures, similar cultural
54:47
aspects, very similar in Eastern Europe.
54:51
And they were brothers and sisters for a
54:53
long time.
54:54
Whether after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet
54:58
Union and all of our propaganda crap trying
55:01
to say, oh, geez, that's the big, bad
55:03
Russians that are the bad people.
55:05
Russia forced all of this on everybody else.
55:09
Russia, Russia saved the planet from Nazis, is
55:13
what I say, along with China taking out
55:17
the Japan.
55:19
And, you know, these these are huge issues
55:23
that people don't understand their history.
55:26
They just don't get it.
55:27
And so this, you know, it'd be like
55:31
the people of Tatarstan, which is now a
55:33
Russian republic, the Tatars.
55:37
But imagine Mongol horde.
55:39
OK, imagine the Mongols coming up.
55:42
Those are people in between China and Russia,
55:45
in between China, Europe with the Turks on
55:48
the left, right around on the south southwest,
55:51
you know, at about 500 years ago, 400,
55:53
whatever years it was.
55:54
There's some very cool museums that you can
55:56
go in.
55:57
I spend days in those things when I
55:59
travel because I love it.
56:01
I like learning about this stuff.
56:03
The Silk Road people imagine along that that
56:05
was the cut of lines before with the
56:08
Chinese coming across and going all the way.
56:11
Chinese and Indians and Nepalese going all the
56:13
way across to the Arabic states, going over
56:16
to Egypt and into Europe through the Silk
56:18
Trail.
56:19
The Silk Silk Road is what they called
56:21
it.
56:21
But that is rebuilt and it's beautiful.
56:23
It's fantastic.
56:24
And there are mosques all along it that
56:26
are a thousand years old.
56:27
Well, the Tatars and the Mongol horde, they
56:30
were kind of semi under under Genghis Khan
56:33
long ago, and they flooded that area.
56:36
Are we going to complain about that these
56:38
days?
56:39
I mean, do we hate the Tatar people
56:41
because historically, 500 years ago, they were part
56:45
of the Mongol hordes?
56:46
I mean, nonsense.
56:47
This is crap.
56:49
And the same thing is going to happen
56:50
a hundred years from now when people look
56:52
at this idiotic war that is going on
56:55
between brothers in arms that should be or
56:58
that were for the longest time.
57:01
Just like right now, nobody could tell you
57:03
what, why the Austria-Hungary Empire fall, why
57:07
the Polish Lithuania kingdoms failed because Polish Lithuania
57:13
was huge and ran that entire area also
57:17
under the kings in the 1600s, 1500s.
57:22
The empires that reached almost to Moscow, but
57:26
Moscow has always been somewhat separate because guess
57:29
what?
57:30
Over there, they got some rough territory in
57:33
Siberia and in the north.
57:34
Those are harsh climates.
57:36
And Russians are tough.
57:38
Russians, they're it's like going up to Minnesota
57:41
and Canada.
57:42
You know, those people that the weather doesn't
57:44
slow them down.
57:46
You know, it doesn't slow them down here.
57:48
You get an inch of snow on the
57:49
ground.
57:49
The world comes to an end that don't
57:52
happen in the great white north.
57:54
And it sure as hell don't happen in
57:56
Russia.
57:57
And I'm telling you, the Ukrainians and the
57:59
Russians are brothers and sisters.
58:01
And this is a nonsensical war that shouldn't
58:04
be going on.
58:05
And the Russians are standing for this because
58:08
Vladimir Putin understands history and that is why
58:12
he keeps talking about historical basis for where
58:17
we are.
58:18
That is why he keeps saying if elections
58:21
occur in Ukraine, that the people that should
58:25
vote are all the Ukrainians who left Ukraine
58:28
because they don't like what's going on.
58:32
And some 10 million of them, according to
58:35
the last counts, live inside of Russia.
58:38
Imagine if you let those people vote, too.
58:40
Are they going to vote for a Schengen
58:42
visa and the euro?
58:44
Are they going to say we want to
58:46
be dominated by the dollar and by the
58:48
swift banking system?
58:50
No, they're going to vote for historic, cultural.
58:57
What do you what do you call it?
58:59
Moral and religious beliefs that they all share.
59:03
That is what they're going to vote for.
59:05
And I'm telling you that that the West,
59:08
the globalist a-holes that have been pushing
59:10
this agenda forever are destroying a beautiful culture
59:15
and a beautiful possibility that we should be
59:19
honoring and not each other's throats, just like
59:23
a divorce where you shouldn't be beaten up
59:28
on each other because you got to worry
59:30
about your descendants.
59:31
Yesterday, I gave you a whole story about
59:34
a four and a half hour interview with
59:37
Vladimir Putin.
59:39
And this is why that was important.
59:42
It's because he was explaining the future to
59:47
a future generation of people to try.
59:50
And they are working together.
59:52
Do they all agree?
59:53
Hell no, they don't agree.
59:55
There are people in Russia that don't like
59:56
Putin.
59:57
Of course there are.
59:59
But they have a pretty big support for
1:00:01
him because they understand that what he is
1:00:05
doing is defending the Russian homeland.
1:00:09
You hate Stalin, but I guarantee you, they
1:00:12
know that Stalin defended the Russian homeland.
1:00:16
Was he a tyrant?
1:00:17
He sure as hell was.
1:00:18
And they admit that.
1:00:19
And they they you know, they they struggle
1:00:21
some with that fact.
1:00:23
But they also know that if it wasn't
1:00:26
for Stalin, that place would be German right
1:00:29
now.
1:00:30
That place would be Germany.
1:00:31
Nobody, including the United States, England and France,
1:00:35
would have defeated Nazism.
1:00:38
It wouldn't be.
1:00:39
Nazism would be a spread everywhere.
1:00:41
If it wasn't for 26 million Russians losing
1:00:45
their lives, they wouldn't make there.
1:00:48
And the theme of Vladimir Putin's speech is
1:00:50
exactly what I'm telling you today.
1:00:54
I'm telling you culturally, ethically, religiously and morally,
1:00:59
Ukraine and Russia are so similar.
1:01:03
It'd be like saying Texas is fighting Oklahoma
1:01:06
and Arkansas and New Mexico and Colorado.
1:01:09
You know, it's nonsense.
1:01:11
It's just crap.
1:01:13
And people like Lindsey Graham, you know, and
1:01:16
by the way, there's a new Lindsey Graham
1:01:17
video that I wanted to share with you.
1:01:19
What a freaking moron.
1:01:20
And we're going to we're going to share
1:01:22
that video for for part three, which I
1:01:25
really need to get into and get to
1:01:26
my my disgust over that idiot, because here
1:01:30
he goes again.
1:01:32
You know, there you go again.
1:01:33
Like Ronald Reagan, you say, you know, when
1:01:36
I was a kid.
1:01:37
Anyway, let's finish up with a little bit
1:01:39
of this story, because the attack in Odessa,
1:01:41
this is the future.
1:01:44
Russia will take Mikhailov and Odessa if they
1:01:48
don't come to an agreement soon.
1:01:51
Mikhailov and Odessa become the new Donbass and
1:01:55
the because those areas are also historically 60
1:02:00
to 80 percent Russia, not Ukraine.
1:02:03
Odessa, all the ports, all the Black Sea
1:02:06
used to be a Navy fleet port for
1:02:11
Russia, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and
1:02:16
Odessa will be the next target if they
1:02:19
don't freaking agree.
1:02:22
Now, people want to say that in Europe,
1:02:25
you know, in Europe.
1:02:25
Oh, geez, the Russians are going to try
1:02:27
to take Poland.
1:02:29
No, they're not.
1:02:31
The Russia right now.
1:02:32
Remember your your your historic your history.
1:02:36
Remember it.
1:02:37
The Russians are not the aggressors.
1:02:39
This is the first time that they're I
1:02:41
mean, Russians haven't.
1:02:42
They don't start wars.
1:02:43
Go back and find one that the Russians
1:02:46
have started.
1:02:47
Find one.
1:02:49
And then call me and debate me on
1:02:50
it.
1:02:50
I'd be happy to do so.
1:02:52
Find one that the Russians have started.
1:02:53
Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham is starting another one.
1:02:56
Lindsey Graham, he's given up on Ukraine.
1:02:58
You know, nobody's you know, he's you haven't
1:03:00
heard him talking about that in a while,
1:03:01
have you?
1:03:02
That's because he's got a new he's got
1:03:04
a new girl now.
1:03:06
Anyway, let's let's finish up with the Odessa
1:03:08
points that this military summary is going to
1:03:11
make for us.
1:03:12
I've ranted enough.
1:03:13
Ready?
1:03:14
Region, if you remember during the previous days,
1:03:17
the Russians attacked the settlement of Miyagi.
1:03:20
More precisely, the Russians were trying to destroy
1:03:22
the bridge between the eastern and the western
1:03:25
banks of the River of Dniester.
1:03:28
And pro-Ukrainian sources published this video this
1:03:31
morning or yesterday in the evening where we
1:03:33
can see the consequences of Russian attacks.
1:03:36
As you can see, a lot of the
1:03:38
bridge was heavily damaged.
1:03:40
The Ukrainians managed to probably establish some barriers
1:03:43
with the purpose not to allow the civilian
1:03:46
vehicles to get to these holes or to
1:03:50
something like this.
1:03:51
But obviously, this is not something when we
1:03:54
can say that the bridge was repaired completely.
1:03:56
The situation here is critical.
1:03:58
Furthermore, I would like to remind you that
1:04:00
this is not the first situation with the
1:04:02
bridge, with the critical bridge.
1:04:04
Since the beginning of the special military operation,
1:04:07
we used to see the same things in
1:04:09
the area of the Antonovsky Bridge in the
1:04:12
area of the settlement of Kherson.
1:04:14
This bridge was completely destroyed in 2022.
1:04:18
And the sources are saying that, no, the
1:04:20
sources are saying, but we remember that Ukrainians
1:04:22
were attacking this bridge with harmless missiles.
1:04:25
And it took probably one or two months
1:04:28
before Ukrainians managed to destroy the bridge completely.
1:04:31
So now we can see the same story.
1:04:33
The Russians attacked this bridge with drones and
1:04:37
most likely in coming days or in coming
1:04:39
weeks, the bridge would be completely destroyed.
1:04:42
So, for example, this video we received on
1:04:45
the 19th of December.
1:04:47
And this is the moment when the Russians
1:04:49
just began attacking the bridge.
1:04:51
The bridge was damaged, but not so critically,
1:04:54
as we can see right now, according to
1:04:56
the latest video we've discussed a minute ago.
1:04:59
So the bridge would be destroyed most likely.
1:05:01
And I would like to remind you that
1:05:02
according to Ukrainian sources, up to 60 percent
1:05:06
of fuel supply of Ukraine goes exactly through
1:05:10
this area.
1:05:12
Another video published from Odessa region.
1:05:15
Here we can see consequences of Russia's attacks
1:05:18
on energy facilities and critical infrastructure of Ukraine
1:05:22
that took place during the previous days.
1:05:25
This is not the consequence of attack during
1:05:27
the previous night.
1:05:29
The Russians attack.
1:05:30
OK, I want to get to the Lindsey
1:05:32
Graham moronic Lindsey Graham stuff because he's an
1:05:36
idiot, but I am going to play a
1:05:38
little bit more of that video.
1:05:40
But what he's showing you in these videos
1:05:41
is the same stuff back when they were
1:05:44
fighting in Kherson when the war first started.
1:05:47
There's a bridge that was is critical to
1:05:50
survival of what do you call it?
1:05:52
Eastern Ukraine, Western Ukraine.
1:05:54
These are big bridges.
1:05:56
And the one in the Kherson area, the
1:05:59
Ukrainians were trying to keep the Russians from
1:06:01
coming into her son.
1:06:02
And so they were bombing the bridge.
1:06:03
And then the Russians were bombing the bridge
1:06:05
and then back and forth until the Russians
1:06:07
are now fully in control of her son
1:06:10
area.
1:06:10
And they have both sides of the bridge.
1:06:13
Well, the same thing is going to happen.
1:06:15
I have been talking about this forever.
1:06:17
If Ukraine doesn't do something quickly, they I
1:06:21
mean, if they don't settle this, somehow stop
1:06:24
the bleeding, somehow get this over.
1:06:26
And I believe that means getting rid of
1:06:28
the Z monster is what I believe is.
1:06:32
Are you aware that Moldova is still part
1:06:35
of the Commonwealth of Independent States?
1:06:37
And so is Ukraine.
1:06:39
So when when Russia or the Soviet Union
1:06:41
collapsed, all of the member states joined the
1:06:46
Confederate of Independent States, all of them.
1:06:48
And Moldova and Ukraine are still members.
1:06:52
Now, they suspended somewhat their membership in it,
1:06:55
but there are still a huge amount of
1:06:57
Russians and Russian influenced people in both of
1:07:00
those places.
1:07:02
And Ukraine has a huge Russian population.
1:07:05
And the further east you go, the bigger
1:07:06
that population gets.
1:07:08
That is the basis for this war.
1:07:10
And it has nothing to do with Europe
1:07:12
and it has nothing to do with America.
1:07:15
OK, it has to do with the Russians
1:07:17
and the Ukrainians figuring this crap out themselves.
1:07:21
And for the last 30 years, they've been
1:07:24
destroying Russian culture, Russian people, bombing Russian areas
1:07:32
from inside Ukraine.
1:07:34
The Ukrainian nationalists are saying, nope, you people
1:07:37
won't speak Russian.
1:07:38
Nope, you people won't live Russian.
1:07:40
We won't let you have different Russian schools
1:07:43
or anything like that.
1:07:45
Imagine not being able to have a Russian
1:07:46
speaking school in America.
1:07:49
Imagine that.
1:07:50
Or let's say you can't have a Spanish
1:07:52
speaking school in America.
1:07:54
OK, can't do it.
1:07:56
Nope, not allowed.
1:07:59
It's nonsense.
1:08:00
Let's say in Texas, maybe in Minnesota, you
1:08:03
don't want to do it.
1:08:04
I don't know.
1:08:05
But in Minnesota, they have Arabic schools now,
1:08:07
don't they?
1:08:09
Yeah, they do.
1:08:11
And so everybody's fighting the same issues.
1:08:14
How do we get along globally?
1:08:15
We get along globally by accepting each other,
1:08:18
by not terrorizing each other, by not forcing
1:08:22
our beliefs upon other people.
1:08:24
Maybe I'm naive in believing that's the way
1:08:25
it's supposed to be.
1:08:27
But this Russia-Ukraine thing, we need to
1:08:29
stay out of it.
1:08:30
And what we can do to end it
1:08:31
is quit giving them crap.
1:08:33
You know, don't give 90 billion more to
1:08:35
Ukraine.
1:08:36
This will be over in a heartbeat.
1:08:38
It'll be done.
1:08:39
And so let it be written.
1:08:41
So let it be done.
1:08:42
That's what I say.
1:08:43
And what I say is if they don't
1:08:44
get this done quickly, here is the end
1:08:47
result.
1:08:49
Mikhailova and Odessa will be Russian territories.
1:08:55
Russia will take them back and Ukraine will
1:08:57
be cut off from the Black Sea.
1:09:00
And you know why Odessa is so important?
1:09:04
Because England has put so much money into
1:09:08
Odessa, into the ports, into everything like that,
1:09:12
that the Russians and the Russians aren't against
1:09:14
that.
1:09:15
They want to see the infrastructure built.
1:09:17
They don't care who comes in there.
1:09:18
But get along.
1:09:19
Don't tell us what we're going to do.
1:09:21
And don't put NATO on our border because
1:09:23
you're going to be enemies to us.
1:09:25
And you have been ever since the days
1:09:27
when you when Bush and everybody else said
1:09:31
not one inch to the east after East
1:09:35
Germany joins West Germany, which we discussed yesterday.
1:09:39
So that is the point here.
1:09:42
And if this doesn't end soon, Mikhailova and
1:09:46
Odessa will be Russian.
1:09:48
And then Transnistria, the Moldovan Republic that is
1:09:52
Russian, the Moldovan state anyway, inside the Transnistria,
1:09:58
separated as it as it were, they have
1:10:00
their own governor.
1:10:00
They have Russian troops.
1:10:02
They deal with Russia.
1:10:03
It's a part of Russia, basically a subordinate.
1:10:07
It's not really a subordinate, but Russia's got
1:10:09
troops there and across Odessa.
1:10:11
So go across Transnistria.
1:10:13
You cross Odessa and guess where you get
1:10:15
to.
1:10:15
You get into Zaporizhzhia when you get across,
1:10:20
when you cross a little little chunk of
1:10:22
the Black Sea.
1:10:23
But if Russia takes Mikhailova and Russia takes
1:10:25
Odessa.
1:10:29
Ukraine is cut off from the Black Sea,
1:10:31
OK?
1:10:33
That's the result.
1:10:34
If they don't end this now, if they
1:10:36
if they continue to bleed troops like they
1:10:39
have been for the last three years, almost
1:10:42
four, then that's going to be the end
1:10:45
result.
1:10:46
Maybe maybe in five more years, but that
1:10:49
will be the result.
1:10:50
And this this war will continue to go
1:10:51
on.
1:10:52
Russians, what was the word I gave you
1:10:53
early in the show?
1:10:55
Terpit.
1:10:55
That's the verb.
1:10:56
And, you know, terpit, it means withstand, stand
1:11:00
up, hold, hold fast, manage it, deal with
1:11:04
it, live through it.
1:11:05
You know, that's terpit.
1:11:06
And you can you can do it.
1:11:08
And basically, that's what the Russians are going
1:11:11
to do.
1:11:11
They're used to it.
1:11:13
That's life in Russia.
1:11:15
That is history in Russia.
1:11:18
We withstand Nazism.
1:11:20
We withstand, you know, attacks from from from
1:11:24
the outside everywhere.
1:11:25
We withstand being made to live apart from
1:11:29
anyone else.
1:11:31
That's what they do.
1:11:32
And so, you know, I wanted to share
1:11:34
that with you about the things going on
1:11:36
in Kherson and and not her son in
1:11:39
Odessa and these strikes that are going on
1:11:42
in Kiev and people freezing their butts off
1:11:45
during the holiday season.
1:11:46
Now, their Christmas traditionally is the seventh of
1:11:49
January.
1:11:50
So they are in the reverse.
1:11:52
Right.
1:11:52
They start the season with New Year.
1:11:56
And by the way, one of the one
1:11:57
of the shows I love to watch at
1:11:59
Christmastime is called Slokin Potom Slokin Potom, which
1:12:05
means with a with a with a steam,
1:12:07
have a nice steam bath, basically.
1:12:09
And they go to the to the banya
1:12:12
and the banya is the bathhouse.
1:12:14
And what a tradition that is, you know,
1:12:16
going to a Russian bathhouse.
1:12:18
Florida has a couple of them.
1:12:20
I would love to build one here in
1:12:22
Russia.
1:12:22
In fact, I have a perfect room in
1:12:24
this place right now that I that I
1:12:26
wish to turn into a bathhouse.
1:12:29
I think it'd be fantastic.
1:12:30
And I'd love to have a Russian bathhouse
1:12:32
here in the area and, you know, find
1:12:34
somebody to invest in that and build one
1:12:37
and have Russian borscht and have some German
1:12:39
glühwein.
1:12:40
And, you know, it'd be a lot of
1:12:41
fun anyway.
1:12:44
I watched this movie Slokin Potom.
1:12:46
These are part of the wonderful traditions from
1:12:49
Russia.
1:12:50
They have a yulkin, a yulka.
1:12:53
It's a Christmas tree.
1:12:54
And they it's they you know, they they're
1:12:57
Christmas trees.
1:12:58
They have Christmas traditions, too.
1:13:00
And I like to pay attention to some
1:13:02
of those.
1:13:02
You know, my ex-wife and I used
1:13:04
to collect Christmas Santas from around the world.
1:13:07
And we had a big collection of Christmas
1:13:09
Santas.
1:13:10
A lot of the crap that ends up
1:13:11
in your storage units later in life.
1:13:14
Sorry about that.
1:13:16
I bring that up and my show is
1:13:17
drawn to an end.
1:13:18
And I really want to get to and
1:13:20
I've been just on a tear about all
1:13:22
kinds of stuff that probably doesn't matter to
1:13:25
most people.
1:13:26
But it's been a it's been a fun
1:13:28
rant for me this morning so far.
1:13:30
And I do want to rant further about
1:13:33
the moron and the moronic story, the moronic
1:13:37
history, but constant.
1:13:40
At least he's a constant moron of Lindsey
1:13:43
Graham.
1:13:44
And let me see if I can.
1:13:46
I'm going to let you listen to a
1:13:47
little bit more of this history in Russia
1:13:51
or in Odessa while I search that video,
1:13:55
OK?
1:13:56
At this facility a few days ago, and
1:13:58
now we received a full video where we
1:14:00
can see the exact situation in this area.
1:14:03
So we see that the situation continued deteriorating.
1:14:07
Now, let's discuss the situation on the ground.
1:14:10
And first, let's talk about the Zaporozhye direction.
1:14:12
During the previous 12 hours, we received lots
1:14:15
of very important updates.
1:14:16
And first, I would like to talk with
1:14:17
you about the situation of Varekhov.
1:14:20
During the previous two months, the Russians reported
1:14:22
that they managed to capture the settlement of
1:14:24
Mount Akhmachka, but without showing us proofs, without
1:14:27
showing us videos that can confirm this.
1:14:30
But today, pro-Ukrainian sources published this video
1:14:33
where we can see how Ukrainians were attacking
1:14:36
Russian soldiers on the territory of the former
1:14:39
prison with FPV drones.
1:14:41
So this attack...
1:14:43
War has turned into nothing but drone strikes
1:14:45
against each other.
1:14:47
And well, that's not true.
1:14:48
But they're they're blowing up a lot of
1:14:51
people that way.
1:14:52
I wanted to get to another one of
1:14:56
the.
1:14:58
The.
1:15:00
Idiot.
1:15:01
So here we are with, you know, here
1:15:04
we have a new we have a new
1:15:06
war for Lindsey Graham to get behind.
1:15:09
Remember, I believe.
1:15:11
And if you don't believe this, you know,
1:15:13
let me sell you some property in in
1:15:15
Venezuela, you know.
1:15:18
We're going to share the idiocy.
1:15:22
Here we go.
1:15:23
Lindsey Graham, guy's an idiot.
1:15:26
And there he is.
1:15:28
And you will never find this guy not
1:15:30
beating the drum for war.
1:15:32
He is.
1:15:33
What is he from?
1:15:34
He's from one of the Carolinas.
1:15:35
And I wish I remembered.
1:15:36
I really don't care.
1:15:37
But which one he's from?
1:15:39
Because it doesn't matter.
1:15:40
The guy's just an idiot.
1:15:42
And he here he go in a lot
1:15:46
of the commentary.
1:15:47
Ready?
1:15:48
Here's some of the commentary.
1:15:50
You get a read upon it.
1:15:51
Dear God, please free us from Lindsey Graham.
1:15:55
I cannot bear him any longer.
1:15:58
From Monja Spore 4439.
1:16:01
And then Russia is not the enemy.
1:16:04
Merry Christmas from JC Monte Carlo.
1:16:07
Uh, here's another one.
1:16:10
Lady Lindsey is a disgrace to humanity.
1:16:14
Uh, Lindsey Graham is a traitor to American
1:16:17
people.
1:16:18
As a Dane, I hate the EU and
1:16:21
NATO warmongers.
1:16:23
That's somebody from from from the Danish Republic
1:16:26
or Danish, uh, uh, homeland.
1:16:29
Europe proves that in fact, there is no
1:16:31
honor among thieves.
1:16:33
Graham makes my skin crawl.
1:16:35
He's the absolute last person that anybody should
1:16:38
allow to speak about international topics, a sickening
1:16:42
individual from start to finish.
1:16:45
And I happen to agree with that one.
1:16:48
British media hit a new low.
1:16:50
Ukrainian sources say Russian soldiers are now eating
1:16:53
each other.
1:16:54
This is what they have left.
1:16:56
Kaja Kallis, as usual, never disappoints me.
1:16:59
She's the clown of the year 2025.
1:17:02
When will somebody send Lindsey Graham to the
1:17:05
front?
1:17:05
He loves war.
1:17:07
Give it to him.
1:17:08
These are the comments.
1:17:09
And there's not one pro pro Lindsey comment
1:17:11
in here.
1:17:13
Macron knows how easy it is to end
1:17:15
up in prison in France once you lose
1:17:17
your political protection.
1:17:19
I can't believe the people of South Carolina.
1:17:22
There it is.
1:17:22
South Carolina.
1:17:23
Keep voting Lindsey Graham into office.
1:17:25
I agree.
1:17:26
How do they keep voting for this moron?
1:17:29
This leads me to the political corruption in
1:17:32
our own country.
1:17:34
Wake up, South Carolina.
1:17:36
Peace is more profitable than war for your
1:17:39
population.
1:17:40
War only gives the billionaire class stupid money.
1:17:44
The US is an evil empire.
1:17:46
Nothing more to say.
1:17:47
No, I don't believe in that.
1:17:48
But there's but people like Lindsey Graham make,
1:17:52
you know, if we don't get rid of
1:17:54
him, we're going to become one.
1:17:56
If we attack Venezuela, we're going to become
1:17:58
one.
1:17:59
Alex, can you please order a bigger circus
1:18:01
tent?
1:18:02
Because clown world is getting bigger and bigger
1:18:04
every day.
1:18:06
Maria Zakharova, a Russian, has actually said that
1:18:09
Russia believes that Europe deliberately promotes the ignorant
1:18:11
and incompetent people to office.
1:18:14
She did say that.
1:18:15
She said that about Kaya Callas, and she
1:18:17
said it about Ursula von der Leyen.
1:18:19
And she says it all the time.
1:18:21
Man, please add a warning before Lindsey Graham
1:18:24
video.
1:18:25
I was eating Lee awarding Graham.
1:18:28
We don't want you to stay in power.
1:18:30
All these Ukrainian meetings in the West is
1:18:33
to negotiate their exit and how who gets
1:18:35
paid off.
1:18:36
They're not doing peace.
1:18:38
Every corrupt Ukrainian politician is preparing for a
1:18:41
rapid exit with tons of dollars.
1:18:44
My prayers for the general, his family and
1:18:46
his driver, the one who died and they
1:18:47
got blown up every time one of these
1:18:49
politicians opened their mouths.
1:18:51
It's a clown world.
1:18:52
How can Putin ever trust Western leaders again?
1:18:55
Ever?
1:18:56
Kaya Callas is lying.
1:18:57
Nothing has changed.
1:18:59
Graham is still trying to prove he's not
1:19:00
a flaming homosexual by acting like a tough
1:19:03
guy.
1:19:04
I mean, geez, you could just read the
1:19:06
commentary and have a whole show about this
1:19:09
moron.
1:19:09
And let's listen to him because he's just
1:19:12
an idiot.
1:19:13
And this is from my I've been on
1:19:16
a show, Alex Christoforou.
1:19:18
If you ever want to get straight scoop
1:19:20
and you want to hear the he he
1:19:23
he usually broadcasts either from Greece, Cyprus.
1:19:26
He goes to Moscow.
1:19:27
You know, he he talks with another Alex
1:19:29
out of I forget his last name, but
1:19:32
he Mercoulis and Alex Mercoulis is in England
1:19:36
and they they have a show together called
1:19:38
The Duran.
1:19:39
And that's a good show.
1:19:40
You want some good, truthful topics.
1:19:42
Listen to those to those two guys.
1:19:45
They're very well versed and they know quite
1:19:47
a bit of things.
1:19:48
I've been on their show with them when
1:19:50
I was in Kazan last year.
1:19:52
That was and they have a good show
1:19:53
and good topics and good information.
1:19:56
OK, and this is from this is his
1:19:59
commentary at the beginning.
1:20:01
And I've been babbling so long.
1:20:02
I want to make sure we get there.
1:20:03
You ready?
1:20:04
President Trump promised to get America, as you
1:20:06
know, out of foreign wars, not start new
1:20:09
ones.
1:20:09
Would he be going against that promise if
1:20:11
he did, in fact, go to war with
1:20:12
Venezuela?
1:20:14
Here's Lindsey.
1:20:15
Absolutely not.
1:20:16
If you're an American and you want Maduro
1:20:18
to stay in power, man, have you lost
1:20:20
your way?
1:20:21
President Trump promised to secure our nation from
1:20:23
the scourge of narco drug trafficking.
1:20:26
The kingpin in our backyard is Maduro in
1:20:28
Venezuela.
1:20:29
They're poisoning America.
1:20:30
They're aligned with Hezbollah.
1:20:32
Iran vowed to come to their aid just
1:20:35
yesterday.
1:20:35
So I applaud President Trump of trying to
1:20:38
bring down this narco terrorist state in Venezuela
1:20:40
run by Maduro.
1:20:42
They're bad news.
1:20:43
They did seize our assets in 1976.
1:20:46
They are flooding our country with cocaine.
1:20:49
They're aligned with international terrorist organizations.
1:20:52
I support the idea of standing up to
1:20:54
Maduro Maduro, and I want him to go.
1:20:57
I am all in the camp for regime
1:20:58
change.
1:20:59
This I am all in the camp, as
1:21:02
usual, for regime change.
1:21:05
Do you hear him?
1:21:06
Do you hear this moron?
1:21:08
Let us live in 1976 when Venezuela took
1:21:13
U.S. property.
1:21:14
What an idiot.
1:21:16
OK, I tell you what, let's let's why
1:21:18
don't we rewind the clock all the way
1:21:21
back to the Spanish empire and let Spain
1:21:24
have all of South America?
1:21:26
Let Spain have Florida.
1:21:28
Let Spain have everywhere.
1:21:30
History is all over the freaking place.
1:21:32
Why are we living in the past?
1:21:35
What?
1:21:36
Because people like Lindsey Graham make big money
1:21:39
off of this.
1:21:40
Where are the largest military bases?
1:21:44
South Carolina.
1:21:46
You know, there's a good number of them
1:21:47
out there.
1:21:48
And where does Lindsey get his cash?
1:21:53
Where he gets his.
1:21:54
How has he become so fabulously wealthy by
1:21:57
beating the drums of war?
1:21:59
How long has he been in power or
1:22:02
in this in South Carolina?
1:22:04
Where nobody would ever go against him and
1:22:06
you can't get rid of him?
1:22:07
Let's get the Lindsey Graham full story, because
1:22:12
there he goes.
1:22:13
The the moronic senator is 70 years old.
1:22:18
He was born July nine of nineteen fifty
1:22:21
five.
1:22:23
Let's see where Lindsey Graham has his.
1:22:26
The guy's like, oh, Jesus, what a nut.
1:22:30
Let's talk about this.
1:22:31
Graham secures 50 million for South Carolina projects
1:22:36
in the in the twenty twenty six government
1:22:39
funding bill.
1:22:40
Yep.
1:22:41
Graham is introducing, you know, money and all
1:22:45
this money stays in South Carolina.
1:22:47
He gets his his chunk.
1:22:49
That's why they keep him in office.
1:22:52
His page says 50 million bucks coming to
1:22:55
South Carolina.
1:22:56
That is why this moron is still in
1:23:00
office.
1:23:01
OK, I want to find out how long
1:23:04
this jack off has been in power.
1:23:07
Where where where do I get that?
1:23:10
I got to go to Wikipedia, Lindsey Graham,
1:23:12
don't I?
1:23:13
Because wiki p.d. Lindsey, the idiot Wikipedia
1:23:18
can't type either.
1:23:22
Lindsey Graham cracker.
1:23:25
Lindsey Graham, the cracker.
1:23:28
Lindsey Graham is an American politician.
1:23:32
Gee, isn't that nice?
1:23:34
He was born July 9th to nineteen fifty
1:23:36
five as an American politician and attorney and
1:23:40
has held his seat since 2003.
1:23:44
Right.
1:23:45
And he chaired the Senate Committee on the
1:23:47
Judiciary from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one.
1:23:50
He has a bachelor of arts and a
1:23:52
juris doctorate from University of South Carolina.
1:23:55
He worked in eighty two to eighty eight
1:23:57
in the JAG Corps as a defense attorney
1:24:00
and chief prosecutor in Europe.
1:24:02
Then he was in the Air Force Reserve
1:24:04
while in Congress.
1:24:06
Some moron gave him a bronze star for
1:24:09
meritorious service in 2014 and he held the
1:24:12
rank of colonel.
1:24:13
Never saw active combat during his service.
1:24:16
He worked as a lawyer in private practice.
1:24:19
OK, a neocon.
1:24:21
He is a defense hawk and strong advocate
1:24:24
for aggressive interventionism, foreign policy, which we just
1:24:30
heard him talk about again.
1:24:32
Right.
1:24:32
He wants to be your president.
1:24:34
He has sought the Republican nomination for president
1:24:36
when when Trump ran.
1:24:39
OK.
1:24:39
And he's a critic of Donald Trump.
1:24:41
Now he's all behind because he can, with
1:24:45
his good friend John McCain, they can take
1:24:48
over the world because this is what they
1:24:50
do.
1:24:51
They wish to take over the planet.
1:24:55
And how do they do that?
1:24:57
Through globalist policies that bring 50 million bucks,
1:25:01
of which he gets a good chunk to
1:25:03
his own country or his friends do.
1:25:05
Who do you think gets to decide where
1:25:07
that 50 million goes?
1:25:09
You're connected.
1:25:11
You're gonna keep it up.
1:25:12
This is how the system works.
1:25:15
Friends and neighbors, the money you bring home,
1:25:18
the bacon, you fry it up in a
1:25:20
local pan.
1:25:21
That's what you do.
1:25:22
And Lindsey Graham, that's the only thing he
1:25:26
is good at.
1:25:27
And how does he do it?
1:25:29
He has defense industries in South Carolina that
1:25:33
he funds, that he gets big chunks of
1:25:37
Pentagon money and budget money every single year.
1:25:41
That's why they continue to bring him.
1:25:44
And that's why chunks of that 50 million
1:25:47
go into his reelection coffers.
1:25:49
That is it.
1:25:51
And if you don't believe that's how our
1:25:53
system works, you better think again, because that's
1:25:56
exactly how our system works.
1:25:59
And so democracy.
1:26:01
Oh, yeah.
1:26:02
It's all about democracy that Lindsey Graham gets
1:26:05
to promote in Maduro.
1:26:06
Did he say a word about democracy?
1:26:08
Nope.
1:26:09
He said Venezuela stole our assets in 1976
1:26:12
and we should bomb the crap out of
1:26:16
Venezuela.
1:26:17
They want to go on the ground in
1:26:19
Venezuela and start a war.
1:26:21
I'm all for regime change.
1:26:23
Did you hear that?
1:26:24
I'm for regime change.
1:26:27
Who in the hell are you to tell
1:26:28
Venezuela how they got to live?
1:26:31
All this crap pisses me off to no
1:26:34
end.
1:26:34
It's idiots like this that need to be
1:26:38
outed.
1:26:39
This is why there's and I could say
1:26:41
a few names here.
1:26:43
This is why term limits are important.
1:26:46
You get rid of these embedded a-holes
1:26:49
who all they care about is bringing home
1:26:54
the money.
1:26:56
You bring home the money back to your
1:26:58
voters in South Carolina.
1:26:59
It's all about the power.
1:27:01
Trust me, it is no different in any
1:27:03
other state.
1:27:04
Graham has just performed this act for so
1:27:08
long that he knows exactly how he's going
1:27:11
to do it.
1:27:12
How much of that 50 million comes out
1:27:14
of the budget part for Ukraine?
1:27:17
Here's the 50 million.
1:27:18
How much do we get to ship off
1:27:19
of here?
1:27:20
Or does this 50 million build some of
1:27:22
the things that we get to sell to
1:27:24
the EU that the EU or NATO buys
1:27:27
and then donates to Ukraine?
1:27:30
Remember, Lindsey Graham was all about giving billions
1:27:33
more.
1:27:35
Who was the guy going over there?
1:27:36
And I, you know, said the same things
1:27:39
back when he spent more time in Kiev.
1:27:41
I'm sure he did during he spends more
1:27:43
time in Kiev.
1:27:44
And as soon as regime change happens in
1:27:47
Colombia, I mean, well, Colombia, too, by the
1:27:51
way, Colombia and Venezuela.
1:27:52
Where's Lindsey Graham going to be then?
1:27:56
Yeah, why isn't he going to Venezuela now?
1:28:00
Where's his little why?
1:28:01
Why isn't he on a warship in Ukraine?
1:28:04
How come he never saw any war service?
1:28:07
You know, where's that go, man?
1:28:09
I've been all over the map in today's
1:28:10
show.
1:28:11
And I tell you what I want to
1:28:13
go through again.
1:28:14
We have today is only Tuesday.
1:28:18
And I want to get to you the
1:28:21
schedule of where we are today as this
1:28:25
show winds down.
1:28:26
And I began my rant this morning.
1:28:28
We're going to have beautiful damn radio music
1:28:32
all the way up until J.R.'s really
1:28:34
big shoe from 2 to 4 p.m.
1:28:37
And then the search of solutions, which comes
1:28:40
up with Josh at 4 p.m. to
1:28:42
6 p.m. And tomorrow is the biggest
1:28:45
day in radio.
1:28:47
Now, I'm going to attempt doing my show
1:28:50
whilst along the road and and I'm going
1:28:55
to attempt it.
1:28:56
We'll see if I can pull it off
1:28:57
or not.
1:28:58
But I will be certainly trying to be
1:29:02
live tomorrow and babbling like I always do
1:29:05
from 730 to nine.
1:29:06
And if it doesn't work, I will have
1:29:08
something reserved in the background so we can
1:29:10
click on that and get it ready to
1:29:11
run for tomorrow's biggest show, which will be
1:29:15
a Christmas Eve Wednesday.
1:29:17
It's going to be fantastic.
1:29:18
We have the damn swag at nine.
1:29:20
We have the Gabby Hayes show at 11.
1:29:22
We have a really big shoe at two
1:29:23
search of solutions at four and the Ike
1:29:26
Skelton show at six.
1:29:27
Now, truthfully, I don't know whether those shows
1:29:29
are all going to be on tomorrow night
1:29:31
or not, because it is Christmas Eve.
1:29:33
And I have no idea if Christmas is
1:29:36
I don't think we're doing any Christmas show
1:29:39
that is off the schedule.
1:29:40
I think Christmas is a is a no
1:29:42
go.
1:29:43
But we shall be talking on Friday for
1:29:45
sure.
1:29:46
I hope you all have a very good
1:29:47
day, no matter how you slice it.
1:29:50
And listen again tomorrow.
1:29:51
Search all the old shows at International Flavor
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dot com.
1:29:56
Have a very nice day.