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#0139_ STORY INSPIRE: Let’s Take a Beat: A Moment to Pause, Reflect & Reset · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, sorry, we had a Han Dynasty Chinese food,
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  Speaker 1: and it's spicy. Ben loves Chinese food. It's his favorite
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  Speaker 1: kind of food. It makes him feel. Very few things do.
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  Speaker 1: You would say it's your favorite food by far.
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  Speaker 2: By far.
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  Speaker 1: Is Thai food more than Chinese food?
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  Speaker 3: I would say it's Chinese and then Japanese kind of
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  Speaker 3: in a Thai right there.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. It's all East Asian. I mean, Eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern world, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Phenomenal. That's great. I like Chinese. I don't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a, you know. I don't, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's not my favorite, you know, because I'm a civilized person.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't eat chicken feet and stuff, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind it. I like countries with tablecloths. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the alt-right Nazi food hour. Thank you for coming, and
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  Speaker 1: this is when we... I'm watching a show on HBO
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  Speaker 1: right now called The Gilded Age, which isn't good, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not bad. And it's about all these old money
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  Speaker 1: families in New York that are being displaced by new
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  Speaker 1: money families, and it's about a family that's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be the Vanderbilts because it's a railroad tycoon and his wife,
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to break into... old New York. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: you see in the show, how bad the Irish had it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody, we always hear about, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh, slaves, but we never hear about Irish slaves.
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  Speaker 1: And there were like a ton of them. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what my podcast is now about telling the story of
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  Speaker 1: Irish slaves. Um, But, you know, one of the maids
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  Speaker 1: is Irish. She's like a gambler. And a guy's just
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  Speaker 1: beating her up and throwing her on the street trying
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  Speaker 1: to get his money. But now, you know, HBO's got
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  Speaker 1: to force all these storylines. They got to force diversity.
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  Speaker 1: So you have like a black character who, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just you're watching this thing. A girl gets robbed.
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  Speaker 1: The black lady lends her money. And then she goes
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  Speaker 1: to this, you know, rich family in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: then they just take her in. So here's what you
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  Speaker 1: have to believe now. You have to believe that America
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  Speaker 1: was this stunningly racist, horrible society, which there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of merit to that belief, but you also have to
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  Speaker 1: suspend that belief to enjoy a show where they just
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  Speaker 1: move a black woman into the home within two days
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  Speaker 1: of meeting her because you need the diversity in this show.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like the craziest storyline ever. It's like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she lent me money to get on the train. And
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  Speaker 1: then she gets there and they're like, oh, you can
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  Speaker 1: dictate my letters. You can read or write. Live with us.
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  Speaker 1: Live with us and be a principal character on the show.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where the diversity start going. It's odd. I'm
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  Speaker 1: all for having another black family on the show in
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn where it's believable. Where it's not like you're not
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  Speaker 1: forcing this thing that would really just never happen. In
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  Speaker 1: my estimation. I'm not saying it's never happened. But the
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  Speaker 1: idea you have this old money New York rich family
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  Speaker 1: just taking in this black girl after knowing her for
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  Speaker 1: less than 24 hours. Just live here. Just live here.
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  Speaker 1: It's odd. But again, this is part of the new.
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  Speaker 1: Ethos in Hollywood where even if it doesn't make sense,
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  Speaker 1: just do it. Just throw it in and no shade
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  Speaker 1: to anybody. Hey, get your money. I'd rather watch a
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  Speaker 1: show where there's a black family experiencing truly what it
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  Speaker 1: was like in that era than that forced storyline, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that we're seeing, which clearly seems to be, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Not what would have happened. Or maybe I'm wrong. But
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be... Like, the whole show is
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  Speaker 1: about this woman being terribly uncomfortable with her white neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: That's the entire show is about these two women who
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  Speaker 1: are just, you know, one's old money, one's new money,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't get along. The new money one is
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  Speaker 1: garish and vulgar. She's a vulgarian. And the old money one,
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  Speaker 1: Christine Baranski, doesn't like her. Now, we're supposed to believe that.
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  Speaker 1: She's terribly uncomfortable with, but she moves in the black
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  Speaker 1: girl in under 24 hours and goes, come live in
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  Speaker 1: the house. Late 1800s, by the way. Civil War is
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  Speaker 1: ended hours ago. And we're supposed to believe she just, oh,
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  Speaker 1: just come on in the house. The whole show is
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  Speaker 1: about she hates different classes of white people who have money.
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  Speaker 1: They have more money than her. It's not even a bet.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the whole show is about how you hate
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  Speaker 1: the other. Like, you just, there are, people are tribal
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  Speaker 1: by nature, and people hate disruptions, and they hate change,
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  Speaker 1: and she hates this woman who lives across the street
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  Speaker 1: who has real money, and her husband's this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: brash railroad tycoon who's a, you know, big money player
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  Speaker 1: in New York, and she's terribly uncomfortable with that, and
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't like it, but she moves into Black Girl,
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  Speaker 1: and we're supposed to just... you know, kind of ease
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  Speaker 1: past that, what seems to be a glaring contradiction because
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  Speaker 1: HBO needs to do that now. And you go, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right. It's also whatever the show is, nobody asked
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  Speaker 1: for the show either. Nobody was like, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: the guy who made it did Downton Abbey, which a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people loved, my grandmother loved it, which was
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  Speaker 1: like a show about British aristocracy, and he's doing it
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  Speaker 1: for America, for New York. But, you know, nobody was
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  Speaker 1: pounding on the door saying, please, God, make a show
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  Speaker 1: about this. And not only have they made a show
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  Speaker 1: about it, but they've made a show about it where
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  Speaker 1: one of the key plot points, to me, feels a
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  Speaker 1: bit ludicrous. Or maybe it wasn't that racist. Maybe those
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  Speaker 1: old white women who lived on Fifth Avenue weren't that bad.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of what you have to deduce. You have
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  Speaker 1: to go, she's not that bad. There's a black girl
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  Speaker 1: living in a house. That's lovely. I'm sure that's not
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  Speaker 1: a common thing. Again, you can't have it both ways,
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  Speaker 1: you know? The country was horribly racist. I'm with you there.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think you're right about that.
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  Speaker 1: But this old bitch loved this black woman and moved
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  Speaker 1: her in in under 24 hours, having not even known her.
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  Speaker 1: Moved her right in. Oh! And that's the show. Just
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  Speaker 1: go with it. Just go with the show. And you go, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading about You know, I'm trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the diet that we're all being fed right now was war.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a steady diet of Ukraine war. And it's unhealthy.
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  Speaker 1: It's unhealthy. The TV just went on. It's unhealthy to
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  Speaker 1: just hear about the war. I'm not saying it's unimportant.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it doesn't matter. I'm saying there's how
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  Speaker 1: many explosions should you watch? It's a fair point. It's
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  Speaker 1: a fair question, right? How many buildings should you watch
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  Speaker 1: being shelled before you have coffee? Four? Because we are
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  Speaker 1: now being fed a steady war diet. The troops are advancing.
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  Speaker 1: They may launch an amphibious assault on Odessa. They are
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  Speaker 1: in the Black Sea. The convoy has been stalled on
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  Speaker 1: the way to Kyiv, which everyone has pronounced Kiev, and
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  Speaker 1: now it is Kyiv, whatever. People on Twitter are fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Is Vladimir Putin a rational actor, acting in his self-interest style?
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  Speaker 1: after being goaded into the war by the expansion of NATO,
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  Speaker 1: there's something to that, for sure, certainly. And the other side,
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  Speaker 1: or is Vladimir Putin a psychopath who's behaving erratically, which
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  Speaker 1: there's also room for that, because when you look at
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  Speaker 1: what he's going to have to do with Ukraine, have
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  Speaker 1: a military presence there for a long time, bleed his
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  Speaker 1: country there, bleed his country dry financially, have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to deal with an insurgency situation for as long as
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  Speaker 1: they're there. Ukrainians are never going to forget about this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like he could just install a puppet government
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  Speaker 1: and be done. This is a real project. We just
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  Speaker 1: got done with this in Iraq and Afghanistan. How did
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  Speaker 1: it work out for us? We were humiliated. The Taliban
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  Speaker 1: came back 20 years later, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: made a lot of money in that period I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, naive But these things don't usually work So,
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  Speaker 1: a cost-benefit analysis of this But I think he was like,
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  Speaker 1: listen I'm in my 70s There's rumors that he has
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  Speaker 1: Parkinson's He's like, hey He's concerned with his legacy. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let you put missiles all around Russia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not going to do it. I'm a nuclear power.
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  Speaker 1: We have more nuclear warheads than anybody else. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to act like it. There's a great line in Succession.
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  Speaker 1: What good is having fuck you money if you can't
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  Speaker 1: say fuck you? And I think Putin goes, well, what
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  Speaker 1: good is having all these goddamn nukes? Just so what?
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  Speaker 1: I could talk to Oliver Stone. No, I want to
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  Speaker 1: party too. America's running around the middle East, pretending they're
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  Speaker 1: democratizing things. And they ain't, you know, Israel's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Palestine, the whole thing, Saudi Arabia is doing a genocide,
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  Speaker 1: genocide in Yemen. Why don't I get involved? I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he feels like, Hey, you're not gonna put
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  Speaker 1: me in a box, but we, so we have that, um, Now,
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  Speaker 1: that being said, he's invaded a country and it's it's
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  Speaker 1: terrible to watch right now. A lot of Americans don't
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  Speaker 1: seem to feel any which way about the people that
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  Speaker 1: are being killed. In fact, some of them think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. or that Putin is doing something to
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  Speaker 1: be cheered on, like you would cheer on the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: And they are saying that Vladimir Putin isn't your enemy,
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  Speaker 1: which is okay, sure, but who is my enemy? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: why does there need to be an enemy all the time?
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  Speaker 1: Because inherent in Vladimir Putin isn't your enemy, it's Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris is your enemy. You go, well, okay... Can I
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  Speaker 1: live in a world where I'm not in direct conflict
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  Speaker 1: with either Vladimir Putin or Kamala Harris? Because I'm trying to...
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  Speaker 1: Kamala has more effect on my life. She could raise
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  Speaker 1: my taxes. She could do things that I don't like.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, I'd rather live here in America than
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  Speaker 1: live in Moscow, which people have forgotten. I think somehow, somewhere...
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  Speaker 1: People have forgotten that. They go, well, no, America's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems, too. Yeah, pound for pound, though,
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  Speaker 1: it would be hard to really make the argument that
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  Speaker 1: you'd be better off living in Russia. I mean, I
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: know you may be upset about what's happening in the country.
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  Speaker 1: You don't like certain things. Critical race theories, you know,
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  Speaker 1: got you bent out of shape. You know, whatever drag queens,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: you know, read The Cat in the Hat in the library.
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  Speaker 1: That's keeping you up. You know what I mean? You know,
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: there's not enough diversity in the Marvel movie franchise. On
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: the other side, whatever your problems happen to be, it's
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  Speaker 1: probably pound for pound still better to live here. Not
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  Speaker 1: maybe by that much and maybe not for much longer,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how we go. But when you hear people
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  Speaker 1: talk about this idea, there seems to be this idea that,
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: you know, where it's the debate is kind of about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like that we that the CIA and America
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  Speaker 1: has done bad things, which we are well aware of.
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  Speaker 1: We've had all of this on the show. We've been
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  Speaker 1: completely aware that we are an empire in the stage
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  Speaker 1: of decline, that the empire was established by CIA coups,
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  Speaker 1: military conquest, as all empires are. I mean, we're very
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  Speaker 1: aware of this, right? There's been no empire in history
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  Speaker 1: that's ever gotten to the size we are or any
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  Speaker 1: approximation of it without doing all those things. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not the way empires are built. That doesn't excuse them.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't make them right. But there is a weird
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  Speaker 1: idea or a strange idea that everything Russia does, which
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  Speaker 1: is a bad thing, has to be immediately countered by
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  Speaker 1: reminding people that we've also done a bad thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: like an interesting kind of a knee-jerk, whereas if Putin
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  Speaker 1: were to go in and nuke Ukraine tomorrow... people would tweet, well,
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  Speaker 1: we also dropped the atom bomb on Japan. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that does. I don't know what that accomplishes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what, where that, I don't know. But
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  Speaker 1: it's people are very, it's kind of people, if nukes
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  Speaker 1: came flying over here, there'd be a fair amount of
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  Speaker 1: the population that went, and he's right. Good for him. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, would they stop at that? That's a fair point.
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  Speaker 1: If Putin were to invade America, which he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to do, but if he were to do that, would
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  Speaker 1: there be a segment of the population that goes, good,
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  Speaker 1: good for him? I don't know. I'm not saying this.
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  Speaker 1: It just does feel like it's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a knee-jerk reaction to Where a lot of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: coming out of the Ukraine is propaganda. For sure. We
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  Speaker 1: know that. Is it dangerous propaganda? Perhaps if it needlessly
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  Speaker 1: escalates the war where these neocon war hawks are like,
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  Speaker 1: let's just enforce no-fly zones, which is essentially an act
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  Speaker 1: of war. Yeah, I'm all for not being taken in
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  Speaker 1: by war propaganda. But I don't personally need to fact
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  Speaker 1: check every single inspirational story that comes out of the Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't personally... When that goes to Kiev thing happened,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. If the ghost of Kiev is real
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  Speaker 1: or not, whatever they need to believe, right? They're getting bombed.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever they need to believe. You want to believe in
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  Speaker 1: the ghost of Kiev, the ghost of Christmas past, none
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  Speaker 1: of it means anything to me. People in this country
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  Speaker 1: believe in all kinds of shit. They believe in monsters, cannibals.
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  Speaker 1: People believe in Jesus. People believe in all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they believe it or not. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you. But if you want to believe in
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  Speaker 1: the ghost of Kiev, I don't care. It doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: affect me. Now, if you start to see the propaganda
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  Speaker 1: go in a direction where you can kind of see
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  Speaker 1: it moving, where it's like, well, I think we should
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  Speaker 1: do more. Then you go, hold on. Calm down. Relax.
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  Speaker 1: I am not for doing more. I am for Doing
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  Speaker 1: the same... Or less... Because... We're not... We shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: getting into a war with Russia over there... It's not
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  Speaker 1: our fight... I just don't... I don't see the value...
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  Speaker 1: In like... Fact checking... Every... Little thing... That comes out
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  Speaker 1: of the Ukraine... Where they're like... Putin... They got into
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  Speaker 1: some firefight... At a nuclear plant... And everybody's like... It's fine...
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: The nuclear plant is fine... Everyone's freaking out over it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's actually good. And you go, oh, okay. But
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  Speaker 1: what is this? How far will this go? You know?
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  Speaker 1: The orphanage Putin bombed was actually a secondary school. The
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  Speaker 1: kids were four to seven. Okay. Well, it's different because
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  Speaker 1: it's not an orphanage. You said it was babies.
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  Speaker 2: They're eight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I understand that. Well, I'm just saying, get your
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  Speaker 1: facts straight. Oh, yeah, well, all right. But again, I
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  Speaker 1: understand if that propaganda is being used to justify more
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  Speaker 1: of a direct conflict with Russia, then yeah, fuck it, no.
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  Speaker 1: That should be off the table. That's off the table.
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  Speaker 1: We're not doing that. It's off the table. So I understand, like,
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  Speaker 1: I understand, like, figuring out what's what. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: see the need for myself to, like, you know, Zelensky,
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  Speaker 1: there were three assassination attempts. Yeah, maybe not. Okay, but
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  Speaker 1: in your own head, why wouldn't the Russians be trying
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  Speaker 1: to assassinate him, right? Just think about it. Like, why
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't they? If you were put, would you not want
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: him dead? I don't, you know. He's doing a pretty
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: good job of galvanizing support behind the cause. So wouldn't
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: you want him out of the picture? Well, they said three.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: It was two. Get your facts straight. You go, I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: understand the imposter. to to to distrust media narratives I
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: think it's important to have and I've done it my
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: entire life with 9-11 with all these things but in
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: this case it just feels again like everything is a
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: domestic politics Like, the big problem with the conspiracy movement
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was it got fused with domestic politics. It used to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: be people that were really well-read, who knew a lot
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  Speaker 1: about history, questioning conclusions, and doing it in a very, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pretty bookish way. They were pretty meticulous. And
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: they read a lot. And then the conspiracy movement through
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: QAnon became fused with domestic politics. The horse race, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to win. I'm going to beat you. And
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: then a lot of people started to get interested in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: these topics who had never read a book. and didn't
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: know anything, and were completely unaware of what disinformation was,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and were completely unaware of, yes, there is human trafficking
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  Speaker 1: going around, but maybe the human traffickers are the ones
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: pushing these stories that they're cannibals, and they're boiling kids
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  Speaker 1: in pots, and maybe they're doing that because it actually
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: seems so fantastical that it makes people dismiss the actual
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: reality of human trafficking as it relates to political elites
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  Speaker 1: in America. So when you're talking about Chrissy Teigen running
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a cult of witches eating children, people easily dismiss that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: But when you talk about Epstein and you talk about
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: things like that, and there's facts, now it's much harder
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  Speaker 1: to dismiss. So a lot of that weird, and I'm
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: not saying that the weird people in this country don't
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  Speaker 1: do occult shit and don't murder kids or whatever, But
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, as this grand conspiracy that QAnon became, it
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  Speaker 1: actually did more to hurt legitimate concerns and questions about
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  Speaker 1: human trafficking because it was all about winning. It was
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  Speaker 1: all about the domestic political impulse of seeing your enemies
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  Speaker 1: get smashed, seeing them lose. And this was, of course,
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  Speaker 1: seeing them get locked up, put in Guantanamo Bay, executed. So...
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Looking at this war and making it about Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: or Donald Trump or making it about how to win
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  Speaker 1: against somebody else that disagrees with you about something seems
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  Speaker 1: I try to look at both sides of an issue
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  Speaker 1: and go, where are people correct in my estimation and
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  Speaker 1: where are they wrong? So I get checking propaganda, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I get that propaganda being dangerous if it's used to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: force more of a direct conflict with Russia, right? But then,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of course, I see that that can go overboard, too.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: That can get a little silly. You know, that just
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: seems it can get a little silly, right? Like, for example,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: if Putin just launches nuclear strikes at four or five
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: different countries, now he's not going to do this. But
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: let's say he did, you know, would people, well, it's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the expansion of NATO. Yeah, maybe, but hey, we're in
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a different place now. Let's try to think about how
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to survive here. You know, you don't have any survival instinct. Well,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: you know, we shouldn't have done. Yeah, well, hey, you know.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: It's like you're in a bad situation. You know, some
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: guy's got a gun to the back of your head.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You're in a bad part of the city and one
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of your friends looks and goes, we never should have
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: came here. It's like, hey, this is not helping. This
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't really help at the present moment. I don't know
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: how bad things are going to get. You know? You know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hoping that this, I mean, I'm bored
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of it already, if that's a good sign. I hope
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it's a good sign. It's become boring to me. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: don't really want to keep watching this. It was fun
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: for a few days because it was new and interesting,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: but it's really become, to be honest, dull. And people's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: takes are already becoming circular. You've heard them. They keep...
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I'm getting wary of the sing-songy bullshit on one side
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: about how... zielinski and all this stuff like i'm getting
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: wary of that because that's my nature to be like
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: wait a minute hold on where are we going and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: then on the other side where people are just literally
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: putting putin's cock in their mouth and sucking them off
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: on tv is also slightly so i don't know where
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: i just turn it off gotta turn it off you
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: know all these dumb things that we do you know
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the you know i was in long island the other
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: day and There was a sign, you know, the town
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: of Babylon stands with Ukraine. It's like that type of shit.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's like cringe. You look at that stuff,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you go, what the fuck is this going to do?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: But what else are we going to do? What the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: fuck else are you going to do? You just go, yeah, well,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: town of Babylon stands with Ukraine. And by the way,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I've been to Babylon. They probably don't. That's the other thing.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they took a poll. I don't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: know who the fuck put up that sign. But it's just,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm getting tired of it. I'm getting tired
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: of it. We're supposed to be out of this. We're
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: supposed to be getting out of a pandemic. And then
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: there's supposed to be some type of creative renaissance. This
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: is what I've been. And I don't mean in a
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: good way. I mean like a very dumb, silly, stupid,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you know, spate of film projects that come out where...
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: People are really goofy. Nothing has a plot. And everybody
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: is just so happy to be out of their house.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: They just don't care anymore. And that's what I was picturing.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Not a war. We're in war mode. And I'm just like,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I can't get into it. I just can't get into it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I can't get into it. Does that sound cunty? Perhaps.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: But what do you want me to do? Force it?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I can't force it like HBO is forcing the storyline.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I can't force myself into it. You know, we did it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We had the guy on the show. And we listened
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to David Bowie's Heroes in the car. And we drove
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: over the 59th Street Bridge and then we went to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: have bagels. We did it. We did what we were
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: there to do. He came on. He told his tale.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: And we supported him. I donated $ 5, 000 of Bitcoin to him.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And he sent me a few photos of like charred
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Russian bodies, I guess, which I wanted photos of something else,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: which I don't think he got. I think it was
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: a language barrier for $ 5, 000. I wanted other, but whatever.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. We wish him well. We wish him the best. But,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: you know, we did a heroic thing for Ukraine by
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: having him on a show. you know, that's ad supported
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and we made a lot of money to do. But
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of now, I've reached the point now where
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I go, okay, I just, I want to, you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: we're heading into the spring and the summer and I just,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: you know, we don't need gas being a million trillion dollars.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: We just don't need it. We don't need it. Enough
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: with the sanctions. Let's calm down with the sanctions because
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: here's the deal. It's about to impact all of us
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: in ways we don't like. Airfare going up. Price of
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: gas going up. We're trying to have a summer here.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I'm talking like this. Everyone's afraid to say these things.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say them. And by the way, I
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: don't mean that because there's a lot of people saying them.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: By the way, it should be taboo. Like, what I'm
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: saying should be taboo, but I believe it's being pretty
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: openly discussed in Congress. But I do believe we got
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to look out for ourselves a little bit here, and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I just think we can't really go too crazy with
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the sanctions. What if we did it? What if we
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: lifted the sanctions on Putin and said, hey, what if...
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: What is it? You catch more flies with honey than
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: you do with vinegar? What if we lifted the sanctions?
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, as a show of good faith... I'm not
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: a geopolitical mastermind, but what if it was a show
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: of good faith? Lift the sanctions. And go, hey, do
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: what you gotta do. But just, you know, take care
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: of us here. We need... Get the price of fuel down.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: It's a fact. From New York City, how many miles
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: is it from New York City to the Hamptons? How
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: many miles?
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It is, let's see here.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Sorry.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: It is exactly 94 miles.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. It's 100 miles. Let's round it. Okay. It
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: is 100 miles of gas. How many miles to the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: gallon are people getting?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: On average, on that highway, probably like 18.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: 18 miles to the gallon. So how many gallons of gas?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: About five or six?
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: We're looking at about five or six gallons.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: And gas is what now?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: About four. I mean, it's about four. Four or five dollars. Yeah,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: people are bracing for five. That's what's coming.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: So every time... We go to the Hamptons, about $ 30.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, five gallons there, five gallons back. You're looking at.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: $ 60.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: That's $ 60 for one trip to the Hamptons. $ 60. Now,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: that's for the people that drive. Then we have helicopters.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: We have private planes. No, I mean, this is.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: No, you're right, you're right.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, here's the reality here. No, this is... I'm not...
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not here to pretend... That things aren't how they are.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: This is a big problem heading into the summer. People
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: are going to want to go to Europe. They're going
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: to want to travel. I have a lot of friends
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that are going to be in Martha's Vineyard. Maybe they're
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: going to be in Nantucket. Ferries. You know what I mean? Like, guys,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: what are we?
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: What?
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Like, are you willing to trade your summer for Ukraine? No, no, no, no, no.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I'm dead serious. Are you willing to trade your summer
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: for the Ukraine? I'm talking about the summer of love,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the summer of fucking. COVID is finally over. Fax mandates
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: have dropped. I'm talking partying outside. I mean, eating a
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: pussy that tastes like peach melba. The summer. I'm talking
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: about warm summer breezes. I mean, are you willing to not...
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: participate in a lot of those activities because of the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Ukraine and I don't know I don't think I am
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: so I believe right now we need to lift all
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the sanctions on Putin until the fall because and he'll
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: still be there we can sanction him in the fall
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I just let's be honest You know? Where were you
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: going to go this summer? Carviv? Is that where you
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: were going to go? Were you going to go to Carviv?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Were you? Or were you going to go to Malibu?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Let's start looking out for number one. We didn't get
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: to be the greatest country in the world by taking
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: care of other people let's be honest and maybe you
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: might not believe we're the greatest country in the world
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: and that's absolutely fine but we didn't get here by
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: concern for others as Twitter will tell you So it's
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: time to stop pretending that we got to cut it
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: out now. Cut it out. Stop the flags. Stop the songs.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Stop the song and dance routine. Cut it out. We've
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: done it now for a week. Our movies suck. Nobody
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: respects us anymore. We don't even put out good shit.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Everything we make is horrible. Every comedian special that comes
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: out on HBO, not all of them, but a lot
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: of them, it's just somebody on a stage talking about
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: how sad they are without a goddamn joke. The rest
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: of the world has figured us out. Okay? We fucked up.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: We haven't put out a good movie in a long
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: fucking time. There's not shit to watch. We used to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: bomb the hell out of these people, rape and pillage,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: but we used to give them good shit. Great movies, okay?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Ghostbusters and Seinfeld and Scent of a Woman, whatever. They
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: loved it. You know, rap music, black culture, all these
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: things we exported all over the world. Everything we do
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: now sucks. We don't have any soft power that's worth
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: a damn. So just shut it down. Lift the sanctions
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: on Putin. Lift them on Putin. Let's have a summer.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: It's time to have a summer. Whether you're a poor
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: piece of shit trash bag who gets drunk at a
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: lake or you got a little scratch and you find
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: your way to one of the fucking oceans in this
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: country somewhere. Whatever. Not my business. Everybody deserves a fucking
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: summer after the two years we've had. And that involves
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: immediately lifting the sanctions on Vladimir Putin. I'm sorry. I apologize.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But there's no other way out here. Lift the fucking sanctions.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I'm talking gas 289. Not even. Let's start cutting deals.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Here's the deal. We're going to feel bad if we
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: lift the sanctions. We're going to feel horrible because he's
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: going to use all that money to go in there.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: And I mean, God, what he's going to do. But
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: that's why the gas has to be so cheap. The
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: deal has to be so good. I mean, I'm talking
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: about what can we get it down to?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: 210.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: It's got to be so good. That you're eating that
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: burger and the summer breeze is hitting you in the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: face and everybody's got their tits and dicks out and
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: everybody's having fun and you just, you don't, you feel
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: a little bad but not that bad because the deal's
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: gotta be good for us to turn away from this.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: To look away. And remove all sanctions, we gotta get
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a good deal on fuel. Good deal. So that we
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: can go have a summer. The world is going to
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: be uninhabitable in, I don't know, seven years? Enjoy what
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: you have. Enjoy what you have now. So this is my,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and again, it is not, it is not the most,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, it's not a position that makes
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: me proud that I have it. I'm not proud of it.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: But do you see another way out?
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: Do you see another way out of this?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Do you see a way out?
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Here's why I like it. Here's why I like it. Yeah,
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I like it. Here's why I like it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Because if they're going to occupy for 10 or 15 years,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: we come back in the fall and we sanction them
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: fall and winter.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Or not, because we got to do shit then too.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: The fall is amazing. People want to do a weekend
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: in the Berkshires. Listen, can we cut it out with this?
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Stop with this. Have a summer. I mean, this is
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: what we got to do. This is what we got
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to do. There's no other way around this here. And
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: this is unfortunate. When is this? Do we have to
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: just put this out as the main one? Because if
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: we put it out as a Patreon, when's that supposed
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: to go out?
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: That would be in six days from now So if
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: there's like nuclear things.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: So we have to put this out as the main
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: one Yeah, probably I just do audio only Yeah, what
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: are you gonna do? Hey, fuck you If you don't
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: like it Who cares? But I am saying right now
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: we should absolutely, without a doubt, remove all sanctions on
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin and commend him on securing the Ukraine from Nazis. Now,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: there are some Nazis over there that Azov, that's their
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: elite fighting force. They're all not. Can we call the great,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I want to call the great Melanie here. Let's see
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: if she answers because... There's no one funnier than her,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: quite frankly. And she did sum this up kind of
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: brilliantly the other day. And by the way, some people
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: listen from Ukraine, and I'm very sorry about this, but
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: we just deserve a summer. Hello? Hey, Melanie, how are you? Hey,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: what's up, man? Listen, you're on the podcast. Let me
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: ask you, you know more about everything. Putin, we all
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: know Putin's a psychopath, but aren't the Ukrainians also like
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: kind of Nazis? Yeah, they're like white supremacists, and all
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: of a sudden everybody loves them. They are kind of Nazis, though. Yeah,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: they're part Nazis. One of the guys that, like, what's
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: his face? Byron's hand, like, shaking hands with is like,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you know, a total Nazi. And people forget it, too.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, well, you know. They're... They're Nazis, but
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: they're not as bad as the Russians. Right, right. You know,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: it's convenient. Right, for sure.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know why this is all even happening. But
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: it's not going to end well, I can tell you that.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know what? Putin's not going to lose.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: He's just going to push the button at the end. Right,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: he's not going to lose. But I'm just saying, listen,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I want to keep gas cheap because I think we
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: all deserve a nice summer. Oh, God, dude, let me
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: tell you something. Yeah, exactly. The gas situation, what you recall,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Putin has, I think it's about, I.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Would say between at least almost 30% of the market
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: coming in, and he's exporting almost all the natural.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Gas to Germany. That's why you're seeing such a tepid
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: response on Ukraine from all these countries.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, we want to help, but we want
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: to eat food.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: We don't want to pay a zillion dollars for heat
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: and all this other stuff, especially here.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah. I don't know what
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: we have to do here, but I'm not into going
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: into a nuclear war for the Ukraine. No, me neither.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: No, no. Or as Biden would say, the Uranian, which
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: I thought was hysterical.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, he's a corpse. No. No nuclear war. What
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: should we call it? He.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: God, I mean, if the gas, like right now everybody's like,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the poor Ukraine, but if it goes up to like,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: you know, $ 8 or $ 9 a gallon, they're going to
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: go to war with them. You know what I mean?
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: You know what, that's probably what will happen is the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: gas will go up to about $ 7 a.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Gallon and like $ 10 in California, and we'll sneak a
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: bomb in there to just end it and blame it
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: on the Russians.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: It may be the best thing to do. Of course.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, we just have to do it. All right,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I'll call you later, babe. Thank you so much. We
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. It's a great Melanie. Again, it's rare that
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: someone has moral clarity in these times, and she does.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: That's what I like about it. It's moral clarity, and
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: we don't see a lot of it. We don't see
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of it in these times, but I do
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: think it's important that we keep our eye on the
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: prize here, which is the price of fuel and our
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: ability to have a good summer. And I know the world, well,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the world order is being rocked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: But you know what? How about a fun summer that
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: we've earned, that we didn't have last summer because of
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: fucking Delta. Now we're just, it's going to be great.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: COVID is done. It's in the rear view. And I
• 48:20
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• 48:23
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• 48:27
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  Speaker 1: You don't even care if he washes it first. Suck
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• 50:46
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• 50:55
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• 51:23
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• 52:16
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• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Fuck me, you hero. Fuck me, you hero. That's what
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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• 52:47
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• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Yes. Never stop. President Zelinsky fucking you. Like an animal.
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• 53:08
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• 53:17
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• 53:22
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• 53:26
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• 54:34
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I wonder if I'm going to do the
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  Speaker 1: Bitcoin convention. You know, we've been playing chicken with them
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  Speaker 1: because I want more money and whatever. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I'm going to go. I do have fun when
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  Speaker 1: I go. I do like that community. I got to
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  Speaker 1: find if I can get a big guest. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I can get a big guest. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: Caitlyn Jenner. That was my fucking goal. And I don't
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: know if I'm going to be able to get her.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted Caitlyn Jenner for the Bitcoin conference. Logan Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Caitlyn Jenner together was a goal of mine to have.
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  Speaker 1: And then this kid Will Clemente on Twitter is very
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  Speaker 1: smart about Bitcoin. But I just don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get any of the big names. Does it
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  Speaker 1: make sense to go there without the big names? Right?
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: No, we got to have Caitlyn.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted somebody big. Maybe we get Putin. If I
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: could get Putin, that would be great. If I could get,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Zelensky or something. But I don't want to
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: sit there and I need some real fucking star power.
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  Speaker 1: to make that conference worth it. Last year we had
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the Winklevoss twins, who said a collection of nine words
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: throughout the hour, and Jake Paul, who talked about wanting
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: to kill Dana White. But I was at least funny,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: and the show was good. I don't know what else,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know what we're gonna do this year. I
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: don't wanna do stand-up, they're doing a comedy tent, I
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: don't wanna do that. So I don't know who I
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: can bring in. I just don't know. So, you know,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I'm still up in the air with this. They just
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: sold a house in L.A. called The One. And it's
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: a great story. Oh, they sold it. And I subscribed
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  Speaker 1: to the L.A. Times. They sold it. And the thing
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: about this house is the builder is in a shitload
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: of debt. If you go to the L.A. Times article,
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  Speaker 1: which you're not subscribed to, but I'll give you the
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• 57:03
  Speaker 1: What publications are you subscribed to for the good of
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: the show?
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal I finally signed up for.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. This is what you should be subscribed to.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not kidding. Okay. And you can submit this
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  Speaker 1: and I'll pay for it like I do everything else.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Here's what you should literally be subscribed to. The New
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: York Times, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, probably
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: the Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune. Fuck it. Especially because of Lightfoot,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: the Chicago Tribune. Mm-hmm. The Boston Globe You should subscribe
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: to like 10 or 20 papers, truly Even the Cleveland
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Plain Dealer Because there's stories in there You know what
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I mean? But again, I know it's your like How
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: do we do less, spend less Do it on the cheap.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Well, this is my one of six free articles For
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  Speaker 3: the month for LA Times Well.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Is that the way to build a show?
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  Speaker 2: Into an empire?
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Trying to have six free articles? No That's right Thank you. Well,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: this article is cool because the guy that built this
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: house took a $ 90 million subprime loan from a company
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: called Westlake Financial, which does hard money loans, which means
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: loans you can't get in the traditional banking system. So
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: the developer took this loan, and then he went wild.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, he built this massive home. It's 100,000 square feet.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: It's grotesque and heinous, vulgar. And this guy then had
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: trouble selling it. So then he was like, hey, he
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: went to Westlake Financial. He's like, and this guy's a
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: billionaire that is building the home. And he goes, well, hey,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: why don't I just live in the house and we'll do,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, this is all in the article.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: He goes, we'll do celebrity boxing events. We'll make our
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: money another way. We don't have to sell it. We
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: won't flip it. I got in too deep. I went
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: too crazy. I spent too much money. He goes, we'll
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: do celebrity boxing events, and then we'll do, I'll do
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: the best entertainers in the world, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: and they'll all be holograms. And they'll be holograms. and
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: then people beating shit out of each other in the
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: backyard and then holograms of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: and that's how we'll make our money instead of flipping
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the house read a little bit of the article it
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: is interesting when you get to this point where you
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: start building things that are this big And again, you
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: want to sell it for more money? Lift the sanctions.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, so the mega mansion known as The One sold
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Thursday for $ 126 million at a bankruptcy auction.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: It's a deal. By the way, $ 126 million for that
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: house is a steal. It's a steal. $ 126 million. It's
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: a good price. It's Bel Air prime, prime, prime.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: That's a huge discount from $ 295 million listing price, even
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: with the 12% auction fee bringing the total to $ 141 million.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: It set a record for the costliest house sold at auction,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: but it fell well short of the California sales record
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: set by venture capitalist Mark Andreessen, who purchased a Malibu
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: estate for $ 17. 7 million. So this is still leagues and above.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. $ 17. 7? Who gives a fuck? Why is
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: that even in the article? Uh.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, they put a period here. It should be $ 177 million. Yeah,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know why they put a period there. That
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  Speaker 3: doesn't make any sense. The most ever spent on a U.S.
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  Speaker 3: residence was $ 238 million by hedge fund mogul Ken Griffin
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  Speaker 3: for a New York City penthouse in 2019.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Several international sales have surpassed $ 300 million, though. So the
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  Speaker 3: buyer will be disclosed by March 8th when paperwork must
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  Speaker 3: be submitted.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's Putin. I pray to God it's Putin.
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  Speaker 1: What a great show. Putin's in Bel Air.
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  Speaker 3: It says the buyer pool for this is very small.
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  Speaker 3: And with everything happening in Russia, all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: those Russian billionaires who may have been your best bet
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  Speaker 3: to buy it are pulling out.
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  Speaker 1: Lift the sanctions. Lift the... It's not their fault they
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  Speaker 1: own a yacht. It's not their fault Putin went a
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: little wacky. It's not their fault. Is it Roman Abramovich's fault?
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to sell the Chelsea Football Club. It's not
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  Speaker 1: his fault. Shout out to Roman Abramovich.
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  Speaker 3: It says here, the guy who bought it just got
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  Speaker 3: a great deal. He's got people willing to pay $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 3: a day just to do commercials and films.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's going to be a long time to
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  Speaker 2: make your money back.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a good deal at all. What are you,
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  Speaker 1: an idiot? Yeah, well, these people.
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  Speaker 2: Are brain dead. Hankey? Who's Hankey?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who Hankey is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, the largest creditor is Los Angeles billionaire Don Hankey,
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  Speaker 3: who lent $ 106 million to the dream project of developer
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: Niall Miami.
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  Speaker 1: He's a hardscrabble subprime lender scumbag who's got an office,
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  Speaker 1: I think, in the Valley, right? Westlake Financial.
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  Speaker 2: Westside Realty.
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  Speaker 1: Westlake Financial. And he's a real old-school scumbag. And he
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: lent this guy $ 90 million or something?
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  Speaker 3: He lent him exactly $ 106 million, and the lender is
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  Speaker 3: owed more than $ 130 million in secured debt, including money
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: he provided in bankruptcy to repair and spiff up the property.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so who did he lend it to? Who did
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  Speaker 1: Hankey lend this?
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  Speaker 2: The developer, Niall Naimi.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Niall Naimi, who's a billionaire in L.A., right? I believe.
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  Speaker 2: He's a developer. Let me see if he's a billionaire.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he is.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: He might not be. I guess he's not if this
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  Speaker 1: is all happening.
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  Speaker 3: He's an American former film producer turned real estate developer
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  Speaker 3: who has built and sold multi-million dollar mansions.
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  Speaker 1: Does he have a net worth?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he did point blank.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see his net worth. Net worth.
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  Speaker 3: Niles' net worth is $ 6 billion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's a billionaire. Mm-hmm. And they're still fighting over this. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy from Westlake Financial is also a billionaire.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. What's his worth?
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  Speaker 2: Don Hankey?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Don Hankey. He's just an old school, he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the last subprime lenders. Hard money, baby. God, it
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: gives me a hard cock. What a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: 5.5 billion.
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  Speaker 1: So you have two billionaires fighting over this house, the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: debt that was lent to build this. By the way,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: go Google this thing. It is heinous. And I say
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: that fully understanding and appreciating how ostentatious and vulgar L.A.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: homes usually are, this is especially grotesque. It is ugly
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: in a way that is hard to describe. It is
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: aesthetically displeasing. It is a big waste of money, truly.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: It is a big waste of money. It is only
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: for some... Billionaire that wants to say that they own
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the most expensive home in America. And obviously this isn't,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: but it was supposed to be. It was listed for
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: $ 295 million. It was supposed to be the most expensive
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: home in America. So again, who would want that? Oligarch,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: a sheik, Saudi, somebody, Chinese amusement park tycoon, Russian fertilizer magnate.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: It's a small buyer's pool. But I mean, go look
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: at this house, and they call it the one. It
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: is obnoxious beyond anything that you can even... It's not
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: even nice. Are you looking at it?
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's in the article.
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  Speaker 1: It has like a moat around it. It's like a
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: swimming pool. And it looks like a moat.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's dumb.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: But I'm rooting for Don Hankey, the hard money lender.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he took over his father's dealership in 1972
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  Speaker 3: and he built the Hankey Group. And its main business
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: being Westlake Financial Services, which makes subprime car loans.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing with a guy like Don Hankey. No
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: matter how much money he has, they still treat him
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: like scum. Like that other guy, Niles, a developer, and
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: he hangs out with the beautiful people. And Don Hankey
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: is just, he's a sunburned. low-class scumbag.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: He is, actually.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: I'm looking him up. No, he's a real drunk. And
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: no matter what, he's not in that Hollywood glitterati respected.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: He's an unfortunate-looking guy. Even though he's a billionaire, he's
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: a used car salesman. He's got the stink of used
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: cars on him. And he got swindled into lending this Nile,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: this Hollywood... playboy, real estate developer, film producer, probably just
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: fucking tens all day, and Don Hankey. The name Hankey
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: sounds like handkerchief. You know, he is just, but that's
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: why I root for him, because he's just got soot
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: on his red, sunburnt face, and he's just trying to
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: recoup his money. And even though he's a billionaire, you
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: just look at him, you go, he's one of those
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: where they don't want him in the club. They don't
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: want him in the country club. They don't want him anywhere.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: He's got a couple of properties in Malibu, but they
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: don't want him anywhere. They don't want Don Hankey.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: This was expected to hit the market at $ 500 million
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: when they first built it.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: They were mentally ill here.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they really took a bath here.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: And the buyer is going to be revealed.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: March 8th.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: March 8th. Who do you think it's going to be?
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: Well, it's 105,000 square feet, right? You have a big
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: 50-seat theater. You have nine bedrooms, multiple kitchens. This is big.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: This is a big, big place. It's got to be.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: So it's probably not a Russian oligarch, right?
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: It's probably not a Russian.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: I hope it's Nancy Pelosi. It's probably not a Russian.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Probably not a Russian.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: It's an Arab.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: So it's probably a Saudi.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: It's an Arab. It may not be a Saudi. Could
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: be a Qatari. Somebody from the United Arab Emirates. It's
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: an Arab. Or it's somebody from China. But I don't know.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Because of COVID and everything.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: But we won't know because it'll just be the name
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: of their company, their offshore thing.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: Most likely, unless they want you to know they own it.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: They may want you to know they own it. I
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: don't know. It's hard for me to know. But I
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: do want to say this. I don't trust all the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: Ukrainian propaganda, but this is a legit, real story. David
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Dobrik is fighting with that Nazi regiment in Ukraine right
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: now against the Russians. And I think that's pretty fucking cool,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: to be honest. I think it's pretty fucking cool that
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: David Dobrik right now is embedded fighting with the Azov
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Nazi Ukrainian battalion. I think that's pretty fucking impressive. And frankly...
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: We don't need to go over the fact that they're Nazis.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: What's important is that they are the elite fighting force
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: of the Ukraine. And Dobrik, one of our best cancelled YouTubers,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: has decided to take it upon himself to go fight
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: with them to hold off Russia. I think that's pretty impressive.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: Don't you? Yeah. It's the official position of the Tim
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: Dillon Show at this juncture to lift all sanctions. And
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: until September.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: Until after Labor Day and then we'll talk about it
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: we'll see what's been done if Putin can't get that
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: place you know if he can't steamroll them to Labor
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: Day I mean come on if he can't take that
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: by Labor Day we got a real problem and I
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen a lot of people gonna
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: be angry with me because oh you were so sympathetic
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: to the Ukrainians I am You know how much gas
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: it takes to fill up a boat? I'm just saying,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: we can't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Do
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: you get it? Do you understand what I mean here?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Or do I sound like a fucking heartless psychopath? Because
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: you know what? I don't think I do. I think
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: for the first time in my life, I'm making sense.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, truly, what do you think? What do you feel?
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: I think I'm with you, but we got to bring
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: back the sanctions in the fall, though. I think it
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: should just be a seasonal sanction. So that way they
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: know they got to cool off at some point. And
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: then they can return back to the killing and the
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: bombing in the high season.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: I personally don't love revisiting it before Jan. Because... No, no.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: And you need to hear me out here. The fall
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: is very, very, very lovely at the wineries. There's a
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: lot of bed and breakfast. And then you go right
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: into ski season. I think we do sanctions for the
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: month of January and February every single year until they
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: leave Ukraine. That's it. That's it. Sanctions January and February
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: every single year until they leave Ukraine. Yes or yes?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because it would suck around Christmas if it was
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: just to turn on the TV.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, it would suck. Oh, it would really suck.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: January and February sanctions every year until they leave Ukraine.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Am I right or am I right? I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: Sorry it's an audio-only this week, but we're on tour,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: and we have dates coming in Nashville, in Jacksonville, in Charlotte,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: in New Orleans, in Dallas, in Houston, in Cleveland, in Cincinnati.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: We're shooting this special in March. It won't be out
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: until early May, so for the month of April, I'm
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: going to do a lot of markets I haven't done.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: And we'll do the show live. We've had a lot
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: of fun with it. And then we will spend the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: spring and the summer chilling out, podcasting, making some other content,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: working on a book, hopefully enjoying, you know, again, but
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: if we lift the sanctions, we've got to make a
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: deal about the gas. We've got to make a good deal.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: I mean a good deal. But we're in a position
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: now to make a really, really good deal with him
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: for cheap Oil, daddy! I mean, that's the only thing
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: that I can really think of right now that would
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: make sense. And it's unfortunate that that's where we are.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: But I also think there's something about self-determination that is
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: very important that we as a society have to say
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: there are things we enjoy and there are things we
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: don't enjoy. And we have to get back to figuring
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: out how to enjoy more and have more fun and
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: be less. We need to bicker less. Truly. I think
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: instead of fighting about this war, we ignore it. We
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: remove all sanctions, get cheap gas, and go swimming. Put
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: a couple of dogs and burgers on the grill. Right?
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: You cannot hear Carviv being shelled over a kid rock
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: song if you blast it hard enough. It's time to
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: have the summer we deserve. The summer we've earned. Doesn't
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: matter who's right or wrong. Doesn't matter. It's time now.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: It's time to enjoy our summer. We'll revisit this in
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: January of next year. Let's give it a year. Let's
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: take a beat. Let's take a beat. That's the episode title.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: Let's take a beat. Because that's what we really have
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: to do. And a lot of people are upset with
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: me right now because I've solved this. And people hate
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: when I'm right. There's a lot of people out there
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: that don't like when I'm right. They go, oh boy,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: that's uncomfortable. Comedian, right again, solving world issues again. But what,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: do you not want me to do it? You want
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: me to leave it up to these scumbags in Congress?
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: I've just done it. Take an 11-month pause here on this.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: And let's enjoy ourselves. Let's enjoy ourselves in the spoils.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: What good is an empire if you can't even have fun?
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: If we're going to live in this morally compromised hellscape
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: that was built on the blood and bones of people,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: can't we enjoy it? Thanks for listening.