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Putin’s Warning, Odessa FAB Strikes and Ukraine’s Scam Call Centers · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning and happy freaking Thursday to
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  you.
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  I wonder when, I wonder when the colored
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  girls are going to go doo, doo, doo,
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  doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.
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  Is that going to happen at all?
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  Does it even happen in life anymore?
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  Oh, I tell you what, we might have
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  to find Lou Reed and answer that question
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  and others that just seem to bother us
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  lately.
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  When do the colored girls say doo, doo,
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  doo, doo, doo?
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  I don't know.
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  And when do we get to tear up
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  all of our swindle sheets and leave them
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  sitting on the scales?
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  I don't know that question either.
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  I just, I have very serious questions this
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  morning here on International Flavor where the men
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  are men.
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  I don't know, finish the rest of that
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  however you'd like.
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  In the army we'd say, and sheep are
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  scared, but that's when we were talking about
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  Oklahoma, Wyoming, or Texas, you know, and then
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  Oklahoma, boy, I tell you what, sheep are
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  scared there, is what I understand.
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  Here we are at the Lake Ozark Real
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  Estate of the Art Studio.
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  It happens to be Thursday.
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  I slept like a stone last night and
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  because I was sitting in an airport the
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  night before and that was probably a mistake,
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  but I did it anyway.
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  And I wonder if I'm still on the
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  groggy side.
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  I suppose it's possible.
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  Some genius gave me the idea of filling
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  my attic with moth balls.
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  Come to find out that's poison, but don't
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  do that.
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  That is not good.
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  My whole house smells like a geriatric ward
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  of a, I don't know what, and you
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  can't turn on the air conditioning because otherwise
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  you're circulating.
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  It's dangerous.
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  Come to find out, well, you know, what
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  good's a moth ball for?
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  Well, I'll tell you what, there isn't any
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  animal living in the attic anymore, but I
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  guarantee you there are no humans that are
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  able to live in the house either.
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  It's a bad plan and come to find
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  out it's poisonous.
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  However, it absolutely works, you know, so don't
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  let people tell you it doesn't work, but
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  boy, don't be filling your house with moth
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  balls either because, you know, when you think
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  more is better, apparently that's not the case.
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  At any rate, that's scientific advice from Sam
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  this morning.
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  No wonder I'm wondering if these colored girls
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  will sing doo-doo-doo-doo later.
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  We just don't know, but we're going to
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  find out and I've got the feelers out
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  trying to find the person who can answer
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  that question, but then maybe we'll get it.
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  If you feel like calling in, I'm on
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  a roll already and I haven't even done
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  anything yet here at Lake Ozark Real Estate
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  of the Art Studio 5737468020.
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  You can always listen live at demradio.com
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  forward slash live should you enjoy music.
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  It's really good stuff.
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  There's always good music.
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  Sometimes you even hear do-to-do-to
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  -do do-to-do-to-do do-to
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  -do-do and that does happen, but it's
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  pretty rare.
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  I must say that we get the do
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  -to-do-to-do's around here.
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  So I'm thinking we'll play some C.W.
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  McCall too just because I can, and because
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  I want to.
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  But let's get to the important news of
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  the day, which for many, for many people
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  out there has to do with excitement like
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  war and excitement like, oh gee, what's gonna
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  happen next in Iran?
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  Oh yeah, it's all very important.
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  We just love to talk about it, but
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  we have to do it while our phone
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  is on silent because otherwise people will harass
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  whilst we are on the air.
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  So we're gonna get to, let us begin
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  at the beginning.
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  It's a very fine place to start.
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  When you read, what do you begin with?
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  You begin with A, B, C, and when
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  you sing, you begin with do, re, mi.
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  Of course, I'm a trap, and so I
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  would know that, don't you think?
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  Let's get to the translation.
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  I was translating some stuff and enjoying every
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  fine second of it whilst I was doing
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  it.
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  Where are we?
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  There were some interesting conversations over the weekend.
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  There were some passages that the old Putin
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  spoke, had two speeches.
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  He had a July 27 address to the
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  deputies of the outgoing, the Eighth State Duma,
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  and he delivered it in St. George's Hall
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  at the Grand Kremlin Palace rather than on
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  the floor of the Duma itself, and so
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  the Kremlin published both versions, and I have
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  the Russian version, and I listened to it,
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  and there was a pretty good speech that
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  he gave there that I wanna cover about,
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  and he also spoke at the
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  anniversary, the, what do they call it?
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  Godavshina something or other, and I can't remember,
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  of the Vienno-Morskoye Flot, VMF, the Navy,
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  the Naval, the anniversary of the Navy.
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  He spoke at that, too.
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  Hey, look at this.
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  Ike is on TV.
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  I'm here watching an Ike Skelton conservative Republican
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  commercial on TV even now, and he is
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  all about the first county, and Ike looks
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  pretty damn good on TV.
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  When I grow up, I wanna be like
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  Ike.
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  That's what I think, and he's absolutely fought
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  mass surveillance, definitely.
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  You know I like Ike.
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  I like Ike, and I hope you do,
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  too.
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  Anyway, that's my advertisement.
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  I didn't even get paid for that.
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  Where's my political contribution button?
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  I want something, but I like Ike.
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  Good for him.
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  I like Ike.
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  Anyway, I also wanna talk to you about
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  a danger in Ukraine these days, the call
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  center.
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  I watched one of the most interesting videos
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  that I've seen in a long time, and
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  I don't know how this dude ended up
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  on my feed, but I'm glad he did,
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  and he was, well, you know what?
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  Let's begin at the beginning because it's a
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  very fine place to start, like I said
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  before, and I started in Odessa, and I've
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  never been to Odessa, and I wanna go
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  to Odessa, and unless Russia takes over Odessa,
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  I assume I'll be dead if I go
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  to Ukraine.
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  You know, I had my brother tell me
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  I went to Utah, and my brother said
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  something.
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  We were talking with a rather important person
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  on both of our radars and chatting with
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  that person, and he said, well, this is
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  my brother, Sam, and Sam is, you know,
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  did he tell you he speaks Russian?
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  You know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, blah, blah,
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  blah, and he goes, he doesn't.
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  Let's see, he hates Ukraine.
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  You know, he doesn't like, I never said
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  that.
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  I've never said that, and so I wanna
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  make sure that if people are listening to
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  me here, they understand that I don't have
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  anything against Ukraine.
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  I got something against what the US has
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  done to Ukraine and what has happened to
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  Ukraine since I served in the military, and
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  it was pretty funny because he explained it
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  in a way, and people didn't get this,
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  and he said it had to do with,
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  and he missed it, and so I wanna
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  make sure I explain it, and we didn't
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  have time to talk about it that day,
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  so I wanna, I don't dislike Ukraine at
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  all.
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  I dislike Zelensky.
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  I think the guy's the Green Goblin, and
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  I think he is bought and paid for
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  by a bunch of Western goons, and I'm
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  against the deep state.
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  I'm against the goons that use other people's
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  bodies.
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  Now, I'm also against the heavy-duty nationalists
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  inside of Ukraine.
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  I think the Nazis are very much alive
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  and well over there, and there is a
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  huge number of them, and that was part
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  of the speech that I was given about
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  this guy is an Odessa native, worked in
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  the shipping industry.
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  Odessa is the place to go if you're
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  gonna work in the Black Sea of Sevastopol,
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  I suppose.
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  You could be on the other side of
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  the Black Sea, or maybe the Bosphorus if
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  you wish to go down to Istanbul.
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  That area of the world is fantastically beautiful,
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  and now I could be forestalled from going
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  to Odessa, and I'm gonna try to get
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  to Sevastopol at some point.
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  I think that would be fantastic.
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  This year, I have the Arctic Circle and
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  St. Petersburg on my radar.
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  All my trips to Russia, and I've never
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  been to St. Petersburg, and so I'm going,
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  and I wanna go at winter.
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  I wanna go at Christmastime, and I'm gonna
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  go over there and wander around for a
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  bit and just see where it takes me.
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  I love it over there.
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  Yeah, well, I don't know if I love
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  St. Petersburg.
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  Everybody says they can't believe that I've missed
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  that, well, not missed, but that I haven't
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  done it yet with as many trips over
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  there as I've taken, and so let's see.
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  There was a Russian show I watched, and
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  I also watched faithfully while I download some
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  of these and watch them on the plane
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  or whatever, and I watched the speech of
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  Putin to the Vienna-Morskoye Flot, and I
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  watched him in front of the Duma and
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  his speech in front of the Duma, and
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  when you watch him and you watch his
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  mannerisms and you listen to how he speaks,
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  he's a very good speaker, and he's a
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  very, I suppose the word would be a
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  genial, genial kind of guy.
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  He's pretty, somebody you'd want to talk to,
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  let's put it that way.
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  You wouldn't feel like he's, I mean, certainly
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  not Brezhnev, right?
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  Certainly, maybe more a lot, he's an open
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  sort of person, kind of like your Gorbachev.
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  Yeltsin was just, he was open, but he
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  was a drunk, and so him being open
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  was a little bit different.
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  That's like me slobbering at the bar, oh,
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  look at that girl over there.
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  Yeah, you're really a great dude then when
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  you're a drunk dude.
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  You're really open, right?
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  Open to all kinds of weirdness, but these
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  people were just open, and obviously, they'd be
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  good conversationalists.
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  What do you write a book called A
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  Conversation with Vladimir Putin?
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  And I feel the same way about Donald
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  Trump.
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  What an interesting person to sit and have
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  a discussion with.
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  Not so sure I'd feel the same way
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  sitting in front of Brezhnev or Stalin.
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  Those people were just, I'd feel like a
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  bug sitting in front of those people, you
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  know, like I'm just, you'd be on the
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  defense all the time.
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  Openness begets other openness, and so you would
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  have an open conversation, and I think what
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  the US has done and what the West
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  has done during the time period of speaking
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  to Russia since the collapse of the Soviet
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  Union is a very negative, negative approach to
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  the world, and diplomacy isn't where you go
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  out and attack everybody and say, now, what
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  was it Trump said?
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  I'm gonna, effing, I'm gonna bomb the effing
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  S out of you.
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  Yeah, that's real presidential.
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  Thanks a lot.
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  You know, I don't appreciate that.
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  You know, do what I say or I'm
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  gonna bomb you.
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  Okay, Mom, clean your room or you're gonna
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  get it.
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  You know, you're gonna, okay, Mom, when's Dad
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  coming home?
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  I'll just finish it before then.
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  But at my house, it was the opposite.
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  My mom was the evil tyrant antichrist of
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  the 12 children running around the house, and
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  I maybe don't blame her so much anymore,
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  but, boy, she was the, you know, evil
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  tyrant, and Dad was always the nice dude.
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  He'd come home and he got to play
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  good dad, you know, because he was gone
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  all the time trying to make money, and
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  so I hear that changed with my younger
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  siblings who didn't get the joy of the
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  same family that I did, and that much
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  is very clear in how they were raised
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  because they are different, and tell you what,
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  they have no idea who their older siblings
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  are, and that is depressing, and I blame
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  our parents, and I blame ourselves for not
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  doing something to combat that because they sure
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  as hell don't know or even remotely appreciate
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  their older siblings and what they could offer
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  to them.
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  They grew up in a different family completely,
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  and it's pretty funny because, well, I won't
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  get into that, but I could lecture on
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  this topic now having lived it and watching
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  the difference of the babies of the family
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  who really were, their take on the world
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  and on everything is so different.
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  They are not, they just are not the
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  open types like you would talk to.
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  They are the Brezhnev that, you know, you
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  feel like a bug when you're talking to
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  them.
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  They just, you know, they believe in one
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  thing and one thing only, and that's power,
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  and that they are not open to people,
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  and so it's pretty funny to have that
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  vast of a difference in siblings in a
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  family, and you gotta understand that people are
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  not the same, and just because they came
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  from the same sources of our wonderful parents,
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  even if mom was the evil dictator type.
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  That's the evil dictator type.
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  You do what I say, not as I
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  do, and boy, that's for sure because she
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  would do whatever she felt like.
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  Anyway, interesting world we live in.
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  I watched a video, and I watched this
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  video from St. Petersburg, I mean, I'm sorry,
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  from Odessa in there, and I wish I
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  could transcribe it for you, and I watched
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  these two videos from Putin, one at the
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  Russian Duma and one at the anniversary of
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  the Navy that he was commemorating, and on
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  the July 27 one that he gave at
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  St. George's Hall was pretty, pretty interesting.
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  He described the preceding five years, four and
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  a half of which have been during war,
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  as exceptionally difficult and decisive period in Russian
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  history, and I agree.
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  In the country's future, in the shape of
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  a new world order are being determined through
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  struggle and intense competition.
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  That's how he started his speech.
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  He then strengthened the deputies.
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  Remember, he's got election coming up, and the
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  election's coming up in September, and it'll be
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  somewhat of a referendum on him and what
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  he's saying personally, and if you're judging by
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  what happened in the hall of the Duma,
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  this is gonna be a bellwether year for
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  Vladimir Vladimirovich, and I could be wrong, but
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  I'm watching these election things across the planet.
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  I'm interested in what happens here, very much
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  so.
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  Around a little bit earlier, a couple of
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  months, we'll be watching the same thing in
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  Russia, and basically, this is his last chance
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  to talk to everybody, not really, but on
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  a grand level, on a world stage before
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  these elections come up, and so he talked
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  about the previous five years.
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  He thanked the deputies for doing the things
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  that they had worked upon together to strengthen
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  and support Russian sovereignty, the military, the special
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  military operation, and assisting soldiers and their families,
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  helping the defense industry grow and passing economic
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  and social legislation.
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  Now, Solovyov on Sundays always bitches about that
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  as do a couple of the economists that
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  are on there, and they bitch about the
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  country's not doing enough, and remember, here in
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  America, we are used to the government manipulating
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  the market through regulation, taxation, dictate, you know,
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  we're used to that, but they always call
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  it a free market economy, and when you
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  look at an economic model in the way
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  that we are trained about it in America,
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  here, they talk about the free market, and
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  our market is nowhere near free.
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  We talk about the economic models of supply
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  and demand and all that, and we talk
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  about Milton Friedman and who examined all of
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  these relationships, and you talk about economics and
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  economies, like the U.S. economy, as if
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  the U.S. economy was straight capitalist market,
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  and it is not, not remotely.
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  It is heavily regulated, heavily taxed, and just
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  as manipulated as it is anywhere else on
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  the planet, only here, we manipulate everything for
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  the entire world.
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  If we wanna adjust oil prices, well, we
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  take over Venezuela.
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  If you wanna adjust, you know, make sure
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  the world is gonna be forced to accept
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  U.S. dominance of the energy markets, you
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  bomb the shit, what do you call it?
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  You bomb the effing shit out of Iran.
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  You bomb them back to the Stone Age,
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  and you destroy any market ability.
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  You're manipulating a supposedly free market, and that's
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  what's going on.
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  Everything has to do with resources, and so
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  Putin, the funny, the different part is, in
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  Russia, that is a, that part is a
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  given, and when people like Solovyov and the
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  economist that he has on his shows, and
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  there's several of them, when they get on
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  and they argue about it, they, and if
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  you listen to Mikhail Khazin, who's a very
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  noted economist, and he has his own YouTube
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  channel, and I watch him all the time,
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  and I think he's a damn genius, you
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  know, and you watch some of his, at
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  least on the point of view of going
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  through the manipulation of markets, and how market
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  economies work, and the part that the government
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  plays in manipulating the economy, it's a very,
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  very interesting to listen to the different schools
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  of thought, because Western school of thought is,
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  the market is free, and nobody can, the
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  market is not free, not remotely, and it
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  hasn't been for hundreds of years, it's certainly
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  not in America, it is manipulated, and it's
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  manipulated by the people who go up and
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  get to control that market, many of whom
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  are not elected, okay, or through the Donald
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  Trumps and the wars, and which is, this
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  is absolutely market approach, he's trying to dominate
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  energy for the next 100 years, and so
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  that people will be forced to, this is
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  how he combats BRICS, you know, and combats
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  the global south, if he can control it,
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  he don't give a crap what they do,
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  because he will control all the toys, right,
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  and so this is the battle of the
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  future that people are talking about, right, well,
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  that anybody who knows what the hell is
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  going on, and doesn't have their thumb inserted
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  in places where it shouldn't be inserted, and
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  just sitting on it, and rotating on their
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  own thumb, well, the rest of us understand
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  what the hell is going on in the
• 21:50
  planet, and Putin absolutely understands it, and he
• 21:55
  speaks about it, and he talks about the
• 21:58
  strengthening of what they're doing in passing economic
• 22:00
  and social legislation for Russians, they are depending
• 22:06
  on their government, just like we're dependent on
• 22:08
  ours to do something for their future, and
• 22:11
  they manipulate, they straight up manipulate it, there,
• 22:15
  the government industry, the government does control many
• 22:19
  of the means of production of the bigger
• 22:22
  industries, they have a huge influence, I saw
• 22:25
  a report once said that Donald Trump, Donald
• 22:28
  Trump, Vladimir Putin's the richest man in the
• 22:30
  world, because of resources, and because of all
• 22:33
  those things, and his fingers, and so many
• 22:35
  pies, and that may be the case, depending
• 22:39
  on how you did, but he said Stalin
• 22:40
  was the richest guy in the world, for
• 22:42
  sure, and at any rate, Putin continued by
• 22:47
  defending the incorporation into Russia of Donetsk, Lugansk,
• 22:51
  Paris, and Kherson, as reflecting the population's right
• 22:54
  to self-determination, he accused Western governments of
• 22:57
  selectively invoking the UN Charter, absolutely true, treating
• 23:01
  other countries as subordinates, also true, and imposing
• 23:05
  sanctions intended to fracture Russian society and destroy
• 23:10
  its economy, so these global, and another set
• 23:13
  of sanctions, the European Union is no longer
• 23:17
  talking about the 21st package of sanctions, what
• 23:21
  they've done is they've released a list of
• 23:22
  500 specific companies that they are going to
• 23:26
  attack, they're attacking these companies, and they're companies
• 23:31
  that do business with Russia, and they've changed
• 23:35
  focus, just like the Ukrainians have changed focus
• 23:38
  to bombing individuals, and civilians, and civil businesses
• 23:45
  inside of Russia, they're trying to, it's all
• 23:50
  the same, the same global battle for resources
• 23:54
  that we're talking about, and sanctions was a
• 23:59
  big part of his discussion, he argued that
• 24:01
  sanctions had proved ineffective, for the most part
• 24:04
  they have, and it damaged their own initiators,
• 24:07
  like Europe and the United States, that's also
• 24:09
  true, us to a little bit lesser extent,
• 24:12
  but certainly Europe is themselves reeling from sanctions
• 24:18
  on Russia, Putin said that Russia would continue
• 24:21
  financing their own defense while protecting social commitments
• 24:26
  to families, healthcare, education, culture, small business, and
• 24:30
  employment, he called for respectful parliamentary elections, and
• 24:34
  continued political consolidation, in his closing remarks he
• 24:37
  said that Russia remained fourth globally in purchase
• 24:41
  power parity, and first in Europe, the largest
• 24:43
  economy in Europe, he argued that the principal
• 24:46
  achievement is the stability of Russia's financial system,
• 24:50
  and that is getting more and more stable,
• 24:53
  because of India, China, and Russia, and in
• 24:57
  some extent Iran, and in that area, this
• 25:00
  battle, this global domination battle, and us getting
• 25:06
  embroiled into it, don't forget what it's about,
• 25:09
  it's about destroying BRICS, and the global south's
• 25:15
  effort to, well not necessarily BRICS, but the
• 25:19
  things that BRICS represents, and when they talked
• 25:25
  about faster, and future military action, he recounted
• 25:31
  being told by a general, what he said
• 25:35
  was that one of the leaders said, we
• 25:37
  are winning, and we will win, but we
• 25:41
  must be bolder, and the cheers that went
• 25:45
  up when he said that, he said we
• 25:46
  have to be more bold, and when he
• 25:48
  said it, it was clear that they agree
• 25:50
  with him, they want escalation in the Duma,
• 25:54
  they wanna escalate, they wanna do more, and
• 25:58
  they've been trying to, everybody says that Russia
• 26:02
  has changed their approach too, and they have,
• 26:04
  they're doing the same thing to Ukraine, that
• 26:06
  Ukraine was doing to it, and it's pretty
• 26:08
  funny, because I think YouTube is opening up
• 26:10
  about it too, there are more opinions out
• 26:13
  there, they're listening to more sides, and there
• 26:16
  are more and more people saying it, you'll
• 26:17
  see things on your feed that you'd have
• 26:19
  never seen, even six months to a year
• 26:21
  ago, and he said that the great speed
• 26:27
  will produce additional Russian battlefield losses, and that
• 26:32
  they've been trying to keep them, and on
• 26:35
  the Ukrainian side, people are dying for this,
• 26:38
  they've been trying to keep those low, and
• 26:40
  he said Russia will proceed carefully, persistently, and
• 26:43
  consistently, and it will achieve its objectives, and
• 26:49
  if you wanna read the entire transcript, by
• 26:52
  the way, the Kremlin does put out, every
• 26:54
  time he gives a major speech, you can
• 26:56
  go out and read an English translation of
• 26:59
  the entire speech on the Kremlin's website, and
• 27:02
  this one, I was able to download the
• 27:06
  source, I don't think it was as accurate,
• 27:09
  I wouldn't have translated some of the things
• 27:12
  he said in the way that they did,
• 27:14
  but okay, so remember, we all politicize, and
• 27:20
  don't think that just because Voice of America
• 27:23
  said it, that it's an accurate translation, you
• 27:26
  know what I mean?
• 27:26
  Okay, so there were remarks by Volodin, who's
• 27:34
  another guy in the parliamentary faction, leaders were
• 27:37
  able to speak to, and they do talk
• 27:40
  about plenty of other things, and then he
• 27:44
  talked about, there are two consecutive appearances, like
• 27:48
  I was talking about, Navy Day, the meeting
• 27:50
  which was on July 26, and then the
• 27:52
  State Duma meeting on July 27, and he
• 27:56
  said, he was talking about risk, and the
• 28:00
  assessment of risk, and how you put risk
• 28:02
  into thing, and he said probably, he said
• 28:08
  in both places, that they needed to act
• 28:10
  more boldly, or accelerate military operations, and remember,
• 28:16
  they're headed for an election, and so he
• 28:17
  has to show some progress too, and not
• 28:21
  his election, he was elected last year, but
• 28:24
  he has to go through, and make sure
• 28:27
  that his coalition is highly successful, and of
• 28:32
  the, I think they hold about, what was
• 28:36
  the number, 65%, 70% of the Duma,
• 28:40
  is his, maybe not that big, and he
• 28:44
  doesn't wanna lose that, and what he said,
• 28:49
  one would like to be bolder, but then
• 28:52
  the question arises, how bold do you wanna
• 28:56
  become, how far do you wanna go, you
• 28:59
  want me to go faster, you want me
• 29:01
  to go further, but what do you mean
• 29:03
  by that, and what they were talking about,
• 29:04
  and what on the West they say here,
• 29:07
  is that he has said, there's going to
• 29:08
  be a mobilization, and he said it, Dmitry
• 29:12
  Medvedev said it, and Dmitry Medvedev was blunt
• 29:14
  about it, he goes, we don't need a
• 29:16
  mobilization, and if they're lying, I don't, first
• 29:21
  of all, I don't believe they're lying, either
• 29:23
  one of them, I think it's accurate, they
• 29:24
  say that in the first half of 2026,
• 29:28
  200,000 people have signed up voluntarily, with
• 29:33
  big bonuses, they still have the signs in
• 29:35
  Russia, and it's been almost a year, the
• 29:38
  last time I was in Russia, was September
• 29:40
  of 2025, and I'm not slated to go
• 29:44
  again until January, well December of this year,
• 29:48
  and one of the interesting things, that I
• 29:50
  want to see, is if those signs are
• 29:51
  still up, and I'll bet you they are,
• 29:54
  where they're offering eight million rubles, which is
• 29:58
  easily enough, to buy a very nice apartment,
• 30:01
  in many many places inside of Russia, and
• 30:06
  it's probably 130, depends on the conversion rate,
• 30:12
  but it's been fairly stable, $130,000 something
• 30:16
  like that, but remember purchase power parity, you
• 30:19
  get more for your money, absolutely in the
• 30:22
  rest of the world, than we get for
• 30:23
  ours in the United States, and when you
• 30:26
  examine purchase power parity, China is the biggest
• 30:29
  economy in the world, followed by the US,
• 30:32
  followed by India, followed by Russia, and so
• 30:35
  three out of the four are, if you
• 30:38
  go on purchase power parity, they do control
• 30:41
  the planet, in an economic way, and because
• 30:44
  they can buy more for their money, the
• 30:47
  reality is, if you go to Russia, and
• 30:50
  you have $2,000, $3,000 a month
• 30:54
  to live on, you're a wealthy man, and
• 30:58
  in America you can't live on that, people
• 31:01
  do, but you can't live on that, the
• 31:06
  people living on their only social security, they
• 31:11
  better have paid for everything, as they were
• 31:13
  aging, because you can't live on that, and
• 31:16
  you can't live on social security, Ike, if
• 31:21
  you're gonna get in there, and Ike's gonna
• 31:23
  be, judging from his TV commercial, that was
• 31:26
  very well done, and that's awesome, so I'm
• 31:30
  very glad for Ike, and hope it pans
• 31:33
  out for him, he was on last Friday,
• 31:34
  if you wanna hear my interview with him,
• 31:36
  you can go to civicoutlaws.com, and listen
• 31:39
  to my Ike interview, and he did not
• 31:45
  do what Fauci did, and plead the fifth,
• 31:47
  Fauci isn't talking, Fauci's not talking, my lawyer
• 31:51
  told me not to talk, just let me
• 31:53
  die, when I get older, stop bothering me,
• 31:56
  yeah, I'll be interested to see how that
• 31:59
  comes out, but according to Ria Novosti, account
• 32:02
  of the audience applauded, at the point where
• 32:05
  he was, and Putin said this, after being
• 32:09
  bouldered, do you want escalation, basically, he said
• 32:12
  listen, in war, just as in the economy,
• 32:15
  there are risks, and the price of those
• 32:17
  risks, is losses on the battlefield, therefore, here
• 32:22
  too, we will act carefully, but persistently, and
• 32:25
  consistently, achieving the objectives set, before the country,
• 32:30
  and we will achieve them, and that, after
• 32:33
  that applause, that was, we're gonna, in the
• 32:39
  English, translation from the Kremlin, now that's my
• 32:43
  translation, okay, what the Kremlin one is a
• 32:46
  little more woody, if you watch Monty Python,
• 32:50
  they talk about words being woody, or tinny,
• 32:55
  tin tin tin, oh that's a tinny sort
• 32:57
  of word, but caribou, caribou, that's a woody
• 33:01
  sort of word, and very nice, you like
• 33:03
  to speak of those words, well, if you
• 33:05
  want the tinny version, you can read the
• 33:06
  Kremlin's version, but if you want the nice
• 33:08
  woody version, you'll have to listen to what
• 33:10
  I translated there, because it sounds a little
• 33:12
  more flowing, and poetic, right, let's see, Putin
• 33:21
  was answering the Russian patriotic criticisms, that the
• 33:24
  operation has been a little too slow, and
• 33:27
  cautious, he said that it's not the faster
• 33:29
  action, that's impossible, he says it's not impossible,
• 33:33
  it's the faster territorial movement, will require more
• 33:36
  concentrated assault, greater exposure of Russian troops, less
• 33:40
  time for recon and preparation, and consequently, higher
• 33:43
  Russian casualties, if you've watched this war like
• 33:45
  I have, over the last four years, you'll
• 33:49
  see they're always talking about, on the Russian
• 33:51
  side, creating a cauldron, a brewing kettle, and
• 33:57
  they put the lid on that, when they
• 34:00
  close it at the end, and it's a
• 34:02
  surround and conquer, and they surround entire cities,
• 34:06
  they've done it, remember us talking about it
• 34:08
  in Pokrovsk, and Mir Nagrad, and Bakhmut, and
• 34:12
  everywhere that you go, they're doing it again,
• 34:17
  and everywhere they go, it's a slow methodical,
• 34:22
  the thing when I was talking about the
• 34:24
  other day, with them getting rid of Serskiy,
• 34:28
  Serskiy thought this way, but Serskiy would prefer
• 34:32
  to leave the guys, in the cauldron, and
• 34:34
  not withdraw them, and they had 10,000
• 34:36
  surrounded, in Pokrovsk and Mir Nagrad, 10,000
• 34:41
  soldiers surrounded, and ultimately abandoned, by Serskiy and
• 34:48
  company, and people don't like that, but what's
• 34:51
  your option?
• 34:52
  Retreat, they're fighting to the last, and that
• 34:56
  is what, and the Russians are methodically, and
• 35:01
  slowly, and Serskiy is fighting to the last
• 35:03
  man, and this Trapati, whether he's gonna do
• 35:06
  that or not, remains to be seen, well
• 35:08
  they've changed their tactic, and they're tired of
• 35:11
  losing all their men, and they don't have
• 35:13
  any men left to lose anyway, they're having
• 35:16
  to send them back from Europe, and so
• 35:18
  they have switched to drone warfare, and everybody
• 35:21
  thinks that that means they're winning, they're now
• 35:23
  winning, and they're winning even remotely, and now
• 35:28
  they're probably gonna lose Odessa, because of it,
• 35:32
  and how long have I been saying that?
• 35:34
  They're gonna be cut off from the Black
• 35:36
  Sea, and be landlocked, many people are saying
• 35:38
  it's already a done deal, and listening to
• 35:41
  the other interesting audio, that I listened to
• 35:45
  from this person, that was brand new, and
• 35:48
  he won't give his name, he's against it,
• 35:51
  and he doesn't live there anymore, but he
• 35:53
  was a fifth generation resident of Odessa, that
• 35:58
  was his home, and he said, and over
• 36:01
  the years he outlined how it changed, I'll
• 36:04
  get to that in a little bit though,
• 36:05
  because I wanna talk about the far more
• 36:07
  consequential, Navy Day remarks that Putin gave, and
• 36:12
  they were far more consequential, and he was
• 36:15
  talking to the military commanders, and the Navy
• 36:17
  commanders, and the Black Sea commanders, everybody was,
• 36:21
  this is the Navy, and he was talking
• 36:23
  about the military action itself, and in front
• 36:29
  of the Duma, he was talking to politicians,
• 36:31
  and he said we're gonna do what we're
• 36:34
  gonna do, but we wanna take care of
• 36:36
  the people, and we wanna get there, but
• 36:37
  his tone changed talking to the military, and
• 36:41
  he gave an extensive answer, in the Navy
• 36:45
  Day remarks, in his meeting with Navy personnel
• 36:48
  in St. Petersburg, where I'm gonna go, a
• 36:52
  Russian Marine asked a question, about how Ukrainian
• 36:55
  soldiers can behave so brutally, when Russians and
• 36:59
  Ukrainians once shared textbooks, films, heroes, and a
• 37:03
  common historical culture, and Putin who loves talking
• 37:08
  history and culture anyway, he gave a pretty
• 37:11
  long answer, he said Russia had not initiated
• 37:15
  this war, but responded to a war launched
• 37:18
  by Kiev, with Western support against Southeastern Ukraine,
• 37:24
  because of their Russian heritage, he returned to
• 37:28
  the historical division, between the left bank and
• 37:31
  right bank Ukraine, which is divided by what?
• 37:36
  The Dnepropetrovsk River, which I've been talking about
• 37:39
  for four or five years, that east of
• 37:41
  that river, it's 90% Russian, Russian, Russian,
• 37:46
  and west of it, it's Hungarians, Romanians, and
• 37:50
  Polish, and in between was a small sliver
• 37:54
  of Ukraine, but that Stalin gave them and
• 37:58
  Khrushchev expanded Ukraine, and gave them some of
• 38:02
  it as kind of a reward, from the
• 38:04
  Soviet Union, but Ukraine didn't really have their
• 38:09
  own, for as long history, they had separatists
• 38:15
  from Russia, and people that had intermarried with
• 38:19
  Hungarians, Romanians, Moldovans, Polish, Lithuanians, from the Lithuanian
• 38:26
  Empire, when it was Polish Lithuania, and so
• 38:30
  that's a blend over there, but east of
• 38:33
  the Dnepropetrovsk, it's all Russia, it always has
• 38:38
  been, and so he was talking about this,
• 38:41
  and saying it's not culturally closer, saying left
• 38:45
  bank Ukraine is not culturally close to Russia,
• 38:50
  but it actually been a part of Russia,
• 38:53
  the left bank Ukrainian parts, they were part
• 38:56
  of Russia, Russian, Kievskaya, Rus', which moved back
• 39:01
  during the imperial years, from Kiev to Moscow,
• 39:06
  and he specifically discussed the Donbass, and Lenin's
• 39:11
  decision to place it, within the newly constructed
• 39:14
  Ukrainian Soviet Republic, he concluded that it is
• 39:21
  now up to you, Russian Navy, and to
• 39:25
  us to get back on the normal course
• 39:28
  of history, like we're gonna, basically we're gonna,
• 39:32
  if there's a threat anywhere, this was it,
• 39:36
  we're going back to Russia, hell, we might
• 39:39
  go all the way to Kiev, I imagine
• 39:42
  this would get people thinking, that got me
• 39:45
  thinking it, well, Odessa, this makes it clear,
• 39:50
  they're bombing the snot out of Odessa, right
• 39:52
  now, because that's what the Ukrainians, and now
• 39:55
  the Ukrainians are asking for, well, Zelensky is
• 39:59
  anyway, are asking for, okay, let's not break
• 40:04
  airspace anymore, we'll stop bombing you, if you
• 40:06
  stop bombing us, and Russell's going, screw you,
• 40:08
  our bombs are bigger, it's like the judge
• 40:10
  when I was in Utah, when I was
• 40:12
  back there in May, a couple of idiot
• 40:15
  family members, were being stupid in the courtroom,
• 40:18
  and the judge said, listen, I see you
• 40:24
  throwing arrows at each other, with your eyes,
• 40:28
  he said, I don't like that, don't do
• 40:31
  that in my courtroom, and he said, if
• 40:33
  you're gonna be throwing arrows, I have a
• 40:35
  few arrows, I'm gonna throw, my arrows are
• 40:39
  bigger, and I will win, and I was
• 40:42
  like, that's probably one of the best quotes,
• 40:44
  I've ever heard from a judge, my arrows
• 40:46
  are bigger, and I will win, in other
• 40:49
  words, you guys are morons, and knock it
• 40:53
  off, and don't piss me off, or I'll
• 40:56
  destroy the lot of you, that was good,
• 41:01
  and that's kind of what Putin is doing,
• 41:03
  did Putin finally call the Ukrainians the enemy?
• 41:06
  I don't think so, kinda, because he's never
• 41:11
  called them the enemy, the Ukrainians are not
• 41:13
  the enemy, and a lot of people, and
• 41:15
  in the military circles, they speak protivniks, cause
• 41:18
  all the enemy did this, the enemy did
• 41:21
  that, they don't even speak to them, and
• 41:23
  apparently it helps you, in adjusting to the
• 41:27
  fact, that you can only look at them,
• 41:32
  as not human, you know, they called the
• 41:36
  Ukrainians, all called the Russian orcs, for a
• 41:38
  while, they've quit doing that, because nobody in
• 41:40
  the West liked it, and they didn't like
• 41:43
  the brutal nature, of what they were doing,
• 41:46
  you know, well the Ukrainians, they are brutal,
• 41:51
  and they talk about it, and they video
• 41:53
  it, and you know, all the videoing of
• 41:55
  them torturing, and peeing on Russian soldiers, that
• 41:59
  they captured, and you know, beating them on
• 42:03
  the camera, and torturing them on camera, those
• 42:06
  things, they still exist, but they're in much
• 42:11
  smaller circles, they were putting them all over
• 42:13
  telegram, the Ukrainians in the early days, and
• 42:16
  if you wanna get people against you, try
• 42:20
  that dummies, you know, and that's what they
• 42:22
  did, and they did it a lot, and
• 42:25
  they showed them peeing on them, or trying
• 42:27
  to get them to, you know, if you
• 42:28
  don't, they're horrific video, and plenty of it,
• 42:33
  the, so no, my brother, I am not
• 42:39
  anti-Ukraine, I'm anti-Nazi, that I'm against,
• 42:44
  and I'm anti-nationalist SS, you know, I'm
• 42:48
  against that, and I don't think, and they
• 42:51
  say, remember the guy from last week, don't
• 42:54
  lecture a Ukrainian, we're not listening to your
• 42:57
  ultimatums, we do what we want, so screw
• 43:01
  off, you don't get to tell us to
• 43:03
  behave, you don't get to say, we're Ukrainians,
• 43:07
  basically, so, let's see, Putin said that the
• 43:12
  key of government rests upon extreme nationalism, and
• 43:16
  neo-Nazi ideology, frankly, I think he's right,
• 43:20
  he described how the ideology was preserved, in
• 43:24
  anti-Soviet organizations, and later returned to Ukraine,
• 43:27
  he said the regime soldiers, adopted a worldview,
• 43:32
  in which Russian-oriented civilians, are killed without
• 43:37
  a second thought, without remorse, against the Geneva
• 43:40
  Convention, and later, a different serviceman promised, he
• 43:45
  said, well, Vladimir Vladimirovich, we will rout the
• 43:48
  enemy, and we will win, and Putin said,
• 43:51
  that's how it will be, there is no
• 43:54
  question about it, and I have no doubt
• 43:56
  whatsoever, that that's what's gonna be, so the
• 44:00
  rhetoric hardening, is absolutely real, the Ukrainian military,
• 44:05
  and the Kiev political order, are unmistakably now,
• 44:09
  on the political level, being described as the
• 44:12
  enemy, and the change, in tactics, is also,
• 44:21
  very well noted, but Putin still preserves an
• 44:24
  important distinction, he says Ukrainian civilians, they are
• 44:29
  victims, Russian civilians, to the Ukrainians, are still
• 44:32
  part of the army, there are still people
• 44:35
  you can kill, and not think twice about
• 44:37
  it, it's war, they need to go, but
• 44:39
  Russians are not permitted, to think that way
• 44:43
  about Ukrainians, and Ukrainian civilians, and is what
• 44:46
  Putin says, and he said the southeastern population
• 44:50
  of Russia, is treated as a historically Russian
• 44:52
  -oriented location, it is, and I'm gonna share
• 44:55
  that audio, I wish I could, I wish
• 44:59
  I had a full translation, it was kind
• 45:01
  of interesting, ordinary Ukrainians, are separated from the
• 45:05
  nationalists, governing ideology, and the enemy, is the
• 45:09
  regime, it's military forces, and the ideology that
• 45:13
  sustains them, but he has not yet said
• 45:16
  anything, about all Ukrainians, ethnically and nationally being
• 45:20
  enemies, he continues to leave the concept, open,
• 45:26
  that Ukrainians that reject this Nazism, and belong
• 45:30
  within a wider Russian, or especially Slavic, historical
• 45:34
  community, like, Romanians, Hungarians, the Polish, Lithuanians, you
• 45:42
  know all the Slavic sort of things, Polish
• 45:44
  maybe more, a little more on the European
• 45:46
  side, and Lithuanians too, but he talked about
• 45:50
  them too, and what he said was, get
• 45:55
  this, he said that sooner or later, and
• 45:59
  he said two years, five years, 10 years,
• 46:03
  15 years, I don't know when it will
• 46:05
  be, but there will be no Ukraine, he
• 46:09
  said, sooner or later, Ukraine is also gonna
• 46:12
  lose those Western lands, what belonged to Poland,
• 46:16
  will be taken back by Poland, what belonged
• 46:19
  to Hungary and Romania, will sooner or later,
• 46:22
  not tomorrow, but in a year or two,
• 46:25
  in 10 or 15 years, will be put
• 46:27
  back in its historical place, and he said,
• 46:31
  Russia was the only guarantor, of Ukraine's territorial
• 46:35
  integrity, Russia was the guarantor, not the West,
• 46:40
  not France, you know, not the UN, and
• 46:44
  those are Putin's words, from the July 26th
• 46:48
  Navy Day meeting, and his underlying argument, unmistakable,
• 46:52
  the Soviet Union assembled modern Ukraine, from territories
• 46:58
  historically connected, to Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Russia
• 47:03
  accepted and protected, that territorial arrangement, while Ukraine
• 47:06
  remained friendly, or at least non hostile, but
• 47:10
  by declaring Russia as the enemy, Kiev destroyed
• 47:13
  the power, that had guaranteed those borders, and
• 47:17
  Ukraine's Western neighbors, Poland's talked about it, Hungary
• 47:20
  has talked about it, I think, well Romania,
• 47:23
  I'm not so sure, that they've been vocal
• 47:25
  about it, but certainly Hungary, and absolutely Poland,
• 47:30
  once their Western was Polish, they want it
• 47:33
  back, and they eventually reclaimed that territory, that
• 47:37
  they historically regard as theirs, that's not part
• 47:41
  of Ukraine, just like Eastern part, was not
• 47:43
  part of Ukraine either, there was no Ukraine,
• 47:46
  and I've said that since the beginning of
• 47:49
  this too, there has never been a Ukraine,
• 47:52
  never, and it was just the edges of
• 47:57
  Russia, that's what it was, and Putin didn't
• 48:01
  say this has happened, during the present war,
• 48:04
  he allowed a horizon, you know, but he
• 48:06
  says it's gonna happen, so it's not a
• 48:08
  military announcement, it's more of a forecast, and
• 48:10
  a warning, did he say that Ukraine would
• 48:14
  lose the Black Sea, he didn't say that,
• 48:17
  but he did, and he didn't directly say,
• 48:19
  Ukraine's not gonna exist any longer, or be
• 48:22
  cut off from the Black Sea, or that
• 48:24
  Russia had formally decided, to take the regions
• 48:28
  of Odessa and Nikolaev, but tell you what,
• 48:32
  it's looking that way to me, so that's
• 48:36
  how some people are interpreting them, so the
• 48:38
  larger conclusion, is that this war isn't gonna
• 48:43
  be over any time soon, I wanted to
• 48:49
  speak about this guy, who calls himself Kolobok
• 48:54
  Tavricheski, and he presents himself as a native
• 48:58
  Odessan, a port welder, who worked there on
• 49:02
  the ports for 10 years, but now lives
• 49:04
  abroad, can't live there anymore, somebody still connected
• 49:08
  to port workers and residents, like many friends
• 49:10
  and family still there, an organizer of small
• 49:13
  charitable effort, helping pensioners and draft evaders, and
• 49:17
  he's an opponent of the post-Maidan Ukrainian
• 49:20
  order, and we're gonna get to that, but
• 49:23
  before we do, I wanted to provide for
• 49:29
  you, a little bit of a break, and
• 49:43
  that break is gonna go back to where
• 49:46
  we started before, and see if we can
• 49:51
  find a wonderful interlude, where the colored
• 50:01
  girls go, do, do, do, do, do, do,
• 50:03
  do, do, do, do, do, that's possible, and
• 50:06
  I believe I have found it.
• 50:28
  Holly came from Miami, FLA, hitchhiked away across
• 50:35
  USA, plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved
• 50:40
  her legs and then he was a she,
• 50:42
  she says, hey babe, take a walk on
• 50:45
  the wild side, take a walk on the
• 50:46
  wild side, Said, hey, honey, take a walk
• 50:49
  on the wild side Candy came
• 51:02
  from out on the island In the back
• 51:07
  room she was everybody's darling But she never
• 51:11
  lost her head Even when she was giving
• 51:14
  head She says, hey, babe, take a walk
• 51:17
  on the wild side Said, hey, babe, take
• 51:21
  a walk on the wild side And the
• 51:24
  colored girls go doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 51:26
  -doo-doo-doo-doo
• 51:27
  -doo
• 51:38
  Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 51:41
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 51:44
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 51:53
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 51:59
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:00
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:00
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:00
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:05
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:07
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:07
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:07
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:07
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:07
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 52:10
  I said, hey, Joe, take a walk on
• 52:12
  the wild side Sugar
• 52:24
  Pump Fairy came and hit the streets Looking
• 52:29
  for soul food and a place to eat
• 52:33
  Went to the Apollo, you should've seen him
• 52:36
  go, go, go They said, hey, Sugar, take
• 52:39
  a walk on the wild side I said,
• 52:43
  hey, babe, take a walk on the wild
• 52:45
  side Alright Ha!
• 52:56
  Jackie is just speeding away Thought she was
• 53:01
  James Dean for a day Then I guess
• 53:06
  she had to crash Valium would've helped that
• 53:09
  patch They said, hey, babe, take a walk
• 53:11
  on the wild side I said, hey, honey,
• 53:15
  take a walk on the wild side And
• 53:17
  the colored girls say Doo-doo-doo-doo
• 53:20
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 53:23
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 53:27
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Doo
• 53:43
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 53:45
  -doo-doo-doo-doo Sometimes
• 54:16
  I go out looking for soul food and
• 54:19
  a place to eat Yeah, a hustle here
• 54:23
  and a hustle there New York City is
• 54:26
  the place where they say Hey, bub, take
• 54:30
  a walk on the wild side Alright And
• 54:35
  I wanna sing doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 54:36
  -doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
• 54:38
  -doo-doo And that is why I played
• 54:40
  that song for you And it's not only
• 54:43
  the colored girls that are allowed to do
• 54:45
  it anymore It's anyone who wants to So
• 54:49
  I'm gonna do one more song for you
• 54:51
  just because I can and because I want
• 54:53
  to Why can you do this?
• 54:56
  Well, because I can and because I want
• 54:58
  to And I was thinking of Peter Gabriel
• 55:03
  And do you know that I was of
• 55:07
  the mistaken impression That old Mr. Peter Gabriel
• 55:12
  had passed on That he had shuffled off
• 55:17
  this molten coil And joined the bleeding choir
• 55:23
  Invisible That he was an ex An ex
• 55:28
  Peter Gabriel And guess what?
• 55:31
  He is not He is very much alive
• 55:35
  And in fact he is still active He
• 55:36
  is 76 and is releasing new material I
• 55:40
  gotta go find him As part of his
• 55:42
  album project O.I. with songs arriving on
• 55:47
  the full moon And what do I want
• 55:50
  to listen to?
• 55:51
  Just because I like it Is probably my
• 55:54
  favorite And we're gonna delve into it Before
• 55:59
  we get to To this guy in Odessa
• 56:06
  I wish I could translate it for you
• 56:08
  I'd love to give it to you I
• 56:10
  have a small part of it But before
• 56:14
  we get to that We're gonna get to
• 56:17
  the In my humble opinion The best song
• 56:24
  By Peter Gabriel In my opinion Now you
• 56:29
  could argue about it Whether it was the
• 56:31
  guy who What it should be And see
• 56:37
  if you remember channeling the guy from His
• 56:42
  sister was also an actress.
• 56:44
  What is his name?
• 56:45
  It'll come to me, but see if you
• 56:47
  can ponder what's going on here with what
• 56:51
  I say is the best Peter Gabriel song,
• 56:53
  Salisbury Hill.
• 56:57
  Salisbury
• 57:23
  Hill Climbing up on Salisbury Hill I could
• 57:30
  see the city light Wind was blowing, time
• 57:35
  stood still Eagle flew out of the night
• 57:41
  He was something to observe Came in close,
• 57:47
  I heard a voice Standing stretching every nerve
• 57:53
  I had to listen, had no choice I
• 57:57
  did not believe the information Just had to
• 58:02
  trust imagination My heart going boom, boom, boom
• 58:08
  Son, he said, grab your things I'm gonna
• 58:12
  take you home Yeah, I'm coming for you
• 58:22
  To keep in silence I resigned My friends
• 58:28
  would think I was a nut Turning water
• 58:32
  into wine Open doors would soon be shut
• 58:39
  So I went from day to day My
• 58:44
  life was in a rut Till I thought
• 58:49
  of what I'd say Which connection I should
• 58:54
  cut I was feeling part of the scenery
• 58:58
  I walked right out of the machinery My
• 59:03
  heart going boom, boom, boom Hey, he said,
• 59:08
  grab your things I'm gonna take you home
• 59:13
  Hey, back home Oh,
• 59:29
  an illusion's been a net I'm never where
• 59:34
  I wanna be And liberty she threw away
• 59:41
  When I think that I am free That's
• 59:46
  my empty silhouette Oh, close my eyes and
• 59:50
  I'll see Close their eyes, just look and
• 59:52
  see No one talking, any care I will
• 59:59
  show another me Today I don't need a
• 1:00:03
  replacement I tell them, put the smile on
• 1:00:07
  my face Man, my heart going boom, boom,
• 1:00:11
  boom Hey, I said, you can keep my
• 1:00:15
  things I said, come and take me home
• 1:01:25
  That's pretty cool.
• 1:01:26
  The video's actually pretty cool.
• 1:01:29
  At any rate, I enjoy that song and
• 1:01:32
  I thought I would play it for you.
• 1:01:34
  I had one more I was gonna do,
• 1:01:35
  but I'm not gonna do it.
• 1:01:36
  I might not have enough time to finish
• 1:01:38
  what I'm trying to finish today and tell
• 1:01:40
  you a little bit about the things that
• 1:01:41
  I want to talk about.
• 1:01:42
  There was such an interesting dude.
• 1:01:45
  And I started listening to him, I was
• 1:01:46
  like, man, this guy's nuts.
• 1:01:48
  And it sounds like just some guy who,
• 1:01:50
  and he's not nuts, but that he was...
• 1:01:54
  I don't know if you've watched this over
• 1:01:56
  YouTube, but since I get throttled by YouTube,
• 1:02:00
  I get slowed down because, especially my Russian
• 1:02:03
  channel, gets slowed down and blocked in Russia
• 1:02:06
  and my channel was gaining 2,000 to
• 1:02:08
  5,000 subscribers every single day on the
• 1:02:12
  Russian side and it was crazy, the growth
• 1:02:15
  that it was going through.
• 1:02:16
  And then I went to Russia in August
• 1:02:17
  of...
• 1:02:19
  I don't remember.
• 1:02:20
  Well, I did it every August for like
• 1:02:22
  five years in a row and went from
• 1:02:24
  August and September.
• 1:02:25
  And I'd go for 2 to 3 to
• 1:02:28
  4 weeks.
• 1:02:29
  I'd go 10 days in a sanitarium.
• 1:02:31
  That's a lot of fun, 10 to 15
• 1:02:32
  days, and then spend 10 to 15 days
• 1:02:35
  cruising the country.
• 1:02:36
  And then do it again in the spring
• 1:02:38
  if I could do it that way.
• 1:02:39
  And I like doing that.
• 1:02:41
  And then go to Istanbul and pick another
• 1:02:43
  couple of countries on the way and stuff
• 1:02:44
  like that.
• 1:02:45
  At any rate, when I went in August
• 1:02:49
  of either 23...
• 1:02:50
  I think it was 24.
• 1:02:51
  It was when they started serious throttling.
• 1:02:58
  If you ever mentioned anything pro-Russia or
• 1:03:00
  if you said anything in Russian, they throttled
• 1:03:02
  all those cases and then they cut off
• 1:03:04
  and blocked and you couldn't get onto it
• 1:03:06
  for VPN.
• 1:03:06
  They got rid of the girl who was
• 1:03:09
  from Ukraine.
• 1:03:11
  Great Ukrainian channel.
• 1:03:14
  She had 2 million subscribers and they just
• 1:03:17
  canceled her channel because they don't like what
• 1:03:21
  she's saying.
• 1:03:22
  And they didn't like what she was saying,
• 1:03:24
  so they turned her off.
• 1:03:25
  And she's coming back.
• 1:03:27
  She had to start again, new channel, all
• 1:03:30
  because they didn't like what they were saying.
• 1:03:33
  This is crazy.
• 1:03:35
  So here's this guy, this guy who calls
• 1:03:37
  himself...
• 1:03:39
  Kolobok, which means gingerbread man.
• 1:03:43
  They always have these little stories, the Kolobok.
• 1:03:48
  You remember little gingerbread man stories from when
• 1:03:51
  you were a kid?
• 1:03:52
  Well, Kolobok is a gingerbread man, basically, or
• 1:03:55
  a little ginger cake, right?
• 1:03:58
  And he calls himself Kolobok Tavricheski.
• 1:04:01
  And he says he's a native from Odessa.
• 1:04:04
  He was a port welder, worked on the
• 1:04:06
  ports for 10 years.
• 1:04:07
  He now lives abroad.
• 1:04:08
  He's still connected to port workers.
• 1:04:10
  And he started a little charity.
• 1:04:12
  And he uses code, and a lot of
• 1:04:14
  people are speaking in code.
• 1:04:16
  A lot of people won't call Zelensky Zelensky
• 1:04:19
  because they don't want to be tagged with
• 1:04:21
  that if there's a speech of something else.
• 1:04:24
  People will get to the point where they're
• 1:04:26
  not using real words.
• 1:04:27
  They'll put other words in there.
• 1:04:28
  You don't want to say the word Nazi
• 1:04:30
  or you're going to be blocked even if
• 1:04:33
  you just say the word.
• 1:04:33
  So they take off a letter and call
• 1:04:35
  them Nazis or whatever.
• 1:04:37
  And they do that all the time.
• 1:04:39
  And he uses some kind of a code.
• 1:04:40
  He doesn't speak about Russia.
• 1:04:42
  He says the bear, and it's all in
• 1:04:45
  Russian.
• 1:04:46
  But even in Russian, they're blocking based on
• 1:04:49
  your topic, especially in Russian, in fact.
• 1:04:52
  And you won't get to be heard in
• 1:04:54
  the West in Russian if you speak the
• 1:04:56
  truth.
• 1:04:57
  You won't get it.
• 1:04:59
  They will only allow people who don't speak
• 1:05:02
  the truth to be promoted on YouTube.
• 1:05:05
  Crazy, but true.
• 1:05:07
  And in the West, anywhere.
• 1:05:09
  And so he speaks about the bear.
• 1:05:11
  You can give a show about bears.
• 1:05:13
  You can't give a show about Russia.
• 1:05:15
  And he says, Nizhnyaya, which means Ukraine, Nizhnyaya,
• 1:05:21
  and the wild ones, mean Western Ukrainians or
• 1:05:25
  nationalist newcomers because Odessa, according to him, has
• 1:05:30
  been overrun by young nationalist Ukrainian newcomers who
• 1:05:34
  don't know anything about their Russian history or
• 1:05:36
  ancestry and that Odessa has been flooded with
• 1:05:40
  these types.
• 1:05:42
  He uses deliberate dialect caricatures to distinguish between
• 1:05:47
  people who are authentic Odessans from people arriving
• 1:05:53
  from Ternopil, Lvov, Ivano-Frankivsk, and elsewhere.
• 1:05:57
  So the coding is partly humor, but mostly
• 1:06:02
  platform self-protection in a method of building
• 1:06:06
  a little bit more of an intimate audience
• 1:06:08
  because if you understand these things, you're more
• 1:06:11
  likely to listen to his Russian part points.
• 1:06:15
  And his Russian points are very well put
• 1:06:17
  together.
• 1:06:18
  So either I'm duped.
• 1:06:20
  I'm a dupe that understands these things or
• 1:06:23
  I believe in the sales pitch that has
• 1:06:26
  been put out by the other side and
• 1:06:28
  I'm nothing but a Putin puppet, right?
• 1:06:30
  Where's Hillary Clinton when you need to be
• 1:06:32
  called a Putin puppet?
• 1:06:33
  I don't know.
• 1:06:35
  There you have it.
• 1:06:37
  But his underlying statement is Odessa isn't merely
• 1:06:40
  changed government.
• 1:06:42
  It has been demographically, linguistically, and economically destroyed
• 1:06:51
  and replaced.
• 1:06:51
  That is his program.
• 1:06:55
  And it's the first time I've seen it.
• 1:06:56
  It could be the first one he's ever
• 1:06:58
  done.
• 1:06:59
  I've never seen it.
• 1:07:01
  And the story of the port actually has
• 1:07:03
  foundation.
• 1:07:05
  And his stories actually are foundationally true.
• 1:07:09
  And he's a person who lived it according
• 1:07:11
  to his own short story.
• 1:07:12
  So let's talk about Odessa for a moment
• 1:07:14
  because Odessa, historically, Russian port for centuries.
• 1:07:18
  And the imperial, Russia, had ports down there.
• 1:07:27
  And Catherine the Great established, not established, but
• 1:07:32
  there's plenty of history revolving around her in
• 1:07:35
  western Ukraine and in all those places from
• 1:07:37
  Catherine the Great in Odessa notably.
• 1:07:40
  And Russia has been using right now these
• 1:07:44
  guided aerial bombs, FABs, FAB-500s, all the
• 1:07:48
  way up to FAB-3000s to destroy now
• 1:07:51
  the port infrastructure of Odessa.
• 1:07:54
  Now, my view, they wouldn't have done it,
• 1:07:56
  hadn't planned on doing it, and didn't want
• 1:07:59
  to destroy these historic cities because they're historic
• 1:08:04
  cities.
• 1:08:05
  But Ukraine went over into the Azov Sea
• 1:08:08
  and destroyed the port infrastructure, destroyed the ability
• 1:08:12
  to haul grain.
• 1:08:14
  They bombed and blew up and fired at
• 1:08:17
  grain ships over there and burned them out.
• 1:08:21
  Now, they don't have, on their drones, they
• 1:08:24
  don't have capacity enough to destroy and sink
• 1:08:28
  a ship.
• 1:08:28
  But Russia, and they have sunk a couple,
• 1:08:30
  but it takes multiple, multiple efforts to get
• 1:08:33
  there.
• 1:08:33
  But they certainly impacted Russians' ability to ship
• 1:08:37
  grain, to ship fertilizer, to ship what the
• 1:08:42
  world needs.
• 1:08:44
  Grain, fertilizer, and my sister was telling me
• 1:08:48
  that the fertilizer impact on the United States
• 1:08:53
  is very real, and that they're not going
• 1:08:56
  to have crops of several things because of
• 1:08:59
  it.
• 1:08:59
  Now, she's a conspiracy theorist, which I don't
• 1:09:03
  take as a bad thing, but just so
• 1:09:05
  you know where it comes from, she also
• 1:09:07
  believes in bigger picture things, some of which
• 1:09:10
  I believe and some of which I don't,
• 1:09:12
  but it doesn't matter.
• 1:09:13
  The fact is these are global events that
• 1:09:17
  are going on with Ukraine starting the bombing
• 1:09:21
  of well over 100, if not more than
• 1:09:24
  that.
• 1:09:24
  I mean, some numbers they're generating as high
• 1:09:27
  as 250, destroying Russian tankers and tanker ships.
• 1:09:32
  There are catastrophic releases of oil into the
• 1:09:35
  Black Sea and into the Azov Sea, and
• 1:09:38
  they're talking about it in the Straits of
• 1:09:40
  Bosphorus, if it gets down there.
• 1:09:41
  They're talking about it in the Mediterranean.
• 1:09:44
  That's where Ukraine first attacked an oil tanker,
• 1:09:46
  and Britain's done it up in the North
• 1:09:50
  Sea, and people are talking.
• 1:09:51
  Ukraine doesn't listen to anyone.
• 1:09:54
  The guy who said don't give Ukraine ultimatums,
• 1:09:57
  he's absolutely right.
• 1:09:58
  They don't care.
• 1:09:59
  They're like Netanyahu.
• 1:10:01
  Netanyahu, you can't tell him what to do.
• 1:10:04
  Don't bother.
• 1:10:05
  If he wants to throw a nuclear weapon,
• 1:10:07
  he's going to.
• 1:10:08
  He ain't going to ask your permission.
• 1:10:09
  He's going to do it and go, now
• 1:10:11
  you've got to back me because we're really
• 1:10:13
  in charge, not you.
• 1:10:14
  Unfortunately, a lot of people think that the
• 1:10:17
  old Green Goblin is the same as that.
• 1:10:20
  Frankly, there's a lot of truth to these
• 1:10:24
  perceptions.
• 1:10:24
  That's definitely my perception.
• 1:10:26
  Why in the world aren't we telling these
• 1:10:28
  a-holes what they're going to do if
• 1:10:30
  we're telling the rest of the planet what
• 1:10:32
  we're doing, and is the tail wagging the
• 1:10:34
  dog or vice versa?
• 1:10:37
  And so there's substantial factual support for the
• 1:10:42
  immediate military developments that this guy, this Kolobok,
• 1:10:45
  was talking about, Terechevsky or whatever his name
• 1:10:48
  was.
• 1:10:49
  He was pretty comical to listen to in
• 1:10:51
  Russian, and what he did is he said,
• 1:10:53
  the way he said he makes his videos,
• 1:10:55
  he has friends because he's no longer in
• 1:10:57
  Odessa, and he had a friend take a
• 1:11:00
  walk around Odessa in its present condition and
• 1:11:06
  film what was going on, especially if they
• 1:11:10
  could get near the ports, but you don't
• 1:11:11
  want to get near the ports anymore.
• 1:11:13
  It's hard to do.
• 1:11:14
  And the beautiful city that he loved, and
• 1:11:16
  he was talking about it as the guy
• 1:11:18
  is walking through the city with his camera,
• 1:11:21
  he says that people that remain in Odessa
• 1:11:24
  don't say anything, that if you speak Russian
• 1:11:28
  in Odessa, a Russian city historically, that there
• 1:11:34
  will be consequences.
• 1:11:36
  You're likely to get beaten up on the
• 1:11:38
  street, and I'm telling you those people are
• 1:11:41
  alive and well in Miami, and you go
• 1:11:43
  to these huge Russian stores down there, and
• 1:11:47
  people are afraid to speak Russian.
• 1:11:48
  The Russians are whispering among themselves, and the
• 1:11:52
  Ukrainians are quite loud and speaking Ukrainian, and
• 1:11:56
  if you speak Russian, you're impacted.
• 1:12:01
  This is what he's saying is going on
• 1:12:03
  in Odessa and went on ever since Maidan
• 1:12:07
  in 2014 all over the eastern half of
• 1:12:10
  Ukraine.
• 1:12:11
  And there's a definite truth in this.
• 1:12:13
  I've been talking about it for a long
• 1:12:15
  time.
• 1:12:16
  And he said the Russian reporting stated that
• 1:12:21
  from July 22 to 24, the port facilities
• 1:12:25
  in Odessa were being bombed because they're used
• 1:12:29
  for military cargo, fuel storage, and what the
• 1:12:32
  West is doing, and remember, Britain put up
• 1:12:34
  a ton of money to develop a lot
• 1:12:37
  of this stuff.
• 1:12:38
  Britain is pissed off about it too.
• 1:12:41
  And Britain wants to own Odessa, and they
• 1:12:45
  put a lot of money into it, into
• 1:12:47
  the upgrading of port facilities and blah, blah,
• 1:12:49
  blah, modernization, and now Russia's bombing it.
• 1:12:52
  And they're only doing it because Kiev, Ukraine,
• 1:12:57
  bombed it in the Sea of Azov, right?
• 1:13:00
  And now in Ukraine, in Odessa, the ports
• 1:13:04
  are being used for military cargo in and
• 1:13:07
  Ukrainian grain out.
• 1:13:09
  Well, allegedly it's been completely blockaded, just like
• 1:13:15
  Russia has been cut off in the Azov
• 1:13:17
  Sea for getting their grain out into the
• 1:13:21
  Black Sea and later on through the Straits
• 1:13:23
  of Bosphorus and into the Mediterranean and elsewhere,
• 1:13:26
  that their port capacity in the south is
• 1:13:30
  definitely curtailed, and there's some hundreds of ships
• 1:13:35
  that have been bombed.
• 1:13:36
  Well, Russia's done the same thing, but they
• 1:13:38
  blow them up.
• 1:13:40
  There are conflicting stories about whether the ships
• 1:13:42
  in the Azov Sea, that Ukraine wasn't able
• 1:13:46
  to destroy them, but they've all been done
• 1:13:48
  with U.S. intelligence anyway.
• 1:13:52
  And Russia doesn't need U.S. intelligence.
• 1:13:54
  Russia just has been and said, okay, well,
• 1:13:58
  you're going to do this to our port,
• 1:14:00
  to our fertilizer market, to our grain markets,
• 1:14:04
  into Africa and elsewhere.
• 1:14:06
  We're going to do it the same to
• 1:14:08
  you and take out Ukrainian exports of grain
• 1:14:11
  to Western Europe, at least through the Black
• 1:14:15
  Sea, and we're going to cut off that
• 1:14:17
  leg completely.
• 1:14:18
  And so now they've either got to go
• 1:14:19
  all the way down to Romania, maybe Bulgaria,
• 1:14:22
  try to get some of this stuff out,
• 1:14:23
  or not, and it's mostly a not.
• 1:14:28
  And Russia has drone component workshops, drone warehouses,
• 1:14:33
  shipping, 23, 24 ships that have been destroyed,
• 1:14:39
  sank, in the harbor in Odessa.
• 1:14:42
  There are facilities at Izmail that are associated
• 1:14:47
  with making these unmanned boat drones, and then
• 1:14:51
  cargo vessels that were being unloaded in Nikolaev
• 1:14:54
  that have been blown up.
• 1:14:55
  But more importantly, Ukrainian reporting, based on official
• 1:14:59
  Air Force warning, said that on July 25th,
• 1:15:03
  guided aerial bombs, these FABs, were launched toward
• 1:15:07
  Chernomorsk.
• 1:15:08
  Chernomorsk is to the north of Odessa, and
• 1:15:10
  it's a huge port infrastructure, and the bombs
• 1:15:13
  didn't reach the city, allegedly, but just the
• 1:15:16
  warnings itself said the possibility was real.
• 1:15:19
  I've seen video on Telegram that say they
• 1:15:22
  actually hit.
• 1:15:23
  All the cranes being taken out, nobody can
• 1:15:26
  load their ships anymore, and the speaker's discussion
• 1:15:30
  and concern was not a fantasy.
• 1:15:33
  I believe he was talking about reality.
• 1:15:37
  And these guided bombs toward the Odessa port
• 1:15:39
  means that Russia Naviations is bombing and increasingly
• 1:15:43
  putting pressure on the coastal logistics networks of
• 1:15:47
  Ukraine, and they aren't having to use expensive
• 1:15:51
  missiles and drones because these FABs, so these
• 1:15:54
  FAB bombs, your FAB-500, your FAB-5000,
• 1:15:58
  I'm sorry, your FAB-1500s and your FAB
• 1:16:00
  -3000s, are the amount of TNT, basically, they
• 1:16:05
  put in there, and they will blow up
• 1:16:07
  a...
• 1:16:08
  Oh, man, go out and check out FAB
• 1:16:11
  -3000s and the destruction of what they do.
• 1:16:14
  Find it on YouTube if you're interested and
• 1:16:15
  just watch what they do because it's kind
• 1:16:18
  of a vacuum effect.
• 1:16:20
  And so it goes in.
• 1:16:21
  The initial strike blows something up.
• 1:16:24
  There's like a 3-second delay, and the
• 1:16:27
  entire thing goes.
• 1:16:28
  Then the real explosion hits, and so it
• 1:16:30
  sucks all the oxygen out in the first
• 1:16:33
  strike and then explodes the oxygen in an
• 1:16:38
  outward push and has twice as much damage
• 1:16:41
  as a typical bomb.
• 1:16:43
  And basically, these are 3,000-pound equivalents
• 1:16:48
  to TNT, and they will take out city
• 1:16:50
  blocks, several blocks, not just one, several, when
• 1:16:55
  they are dropped on the FAB-3000.
• 1:16:58
  And the FAB-1500 is destructive.
• 1:17:00
  One big building, FAB-500.
• 1:17:02
  You know, you send out those.
• 1:17:04
  And so these FAB bombs, what the Russians
• 1:17:08
  have done, and this used to be like,
• 1:17:10
  you see in the old black-and-white
• 1:17:12
  World War II things with the U.S.
• 1:17:14
  dropping bombs on Japan, you would see the
• 1:17:18
  cargo open up and all these bombs would
• 1:17:21
  drop out.
• 1:17:22
  You couldn't really aim them.
• 1:17:23
  They weren't ballistic in nature.
• 1:17:25
  They were just being dropped.
• 1:17:27
  And Russia has tens of thousands, hundreds of
• 1:17:30
  thousands of these bombs from the past that
• 1:17:33
  they have saved.
• 1:17:34
  What they've done is they've put glide kits
• 1:17:36
  on them, and now they can be controlled.
• 1:17:41
  And they put glide kits and tracking and
• 1:17:47
  all of that.
• 1:17:48
  So now take these bombs that we were
• 1:17:50
  using to destroy entire cities back in World
• 1:17:54
  War II, and now you can use them
• 1:17:57
  to guide to a specific block.
• 1:18:02
  And you don't need to drop 30 of
• 1:18:03
  them like the U.S. would do.
• 1:18:05
  Well, everybody did, you know, when they would
• 1:18:08
  drop them from their bomber planes.
• 1:18:11
  You could drop it from a regular.
• 1:18:12
  Hell, you could drop it from a helicopter.
• 1:18:14
  And now it can be controlled by these
• 1:18:17
  glide kits that they put on them, and
• 1:18:19
  they can take this bomb and target it
• 1:18:21
  to a specific location and blow it up.
• 1:18:23
  And that's what they're doing with these FAB
• 1:18:26
  3000s especially.
• 1:18:29
  And they are destroying entire infrastructures, including in
• 1:18:36
  Chornomorsk and including in Odessa.
• 1:18:39
  And frankly, I'm not sure that there's some
• 1:18:44
  discussions that I've followed as well that talk
• 1:18:47
  about whether or not they really don't blow
• 1:18:53
  up when they drop to the ground anyway.
• 1:18:56
  Whether they, you know, if you blow them
• 1:18:58
  up midair, you might stop the guidance, and
• 1:19:01
  then they just become the 3,000-pound
• 1:19:04
  bomb that drops wherever.
• 1:19:06
  So do you really want to?
• 1:19:07
  I mean, what do you want to do?
• 1:19:09
  And so the destruction potential is amazing.
• 1:19:12
  Anyway, the larger conclusion that he was making
• 1:19:17
  is that a FAB itself doesn't prove that
• 1:19:20
  the complete naval economic blockade, but I realize
• 1:19:23
  it's coming.
• 1:19:24
  The commercial shipping is stopped.
• 1:19:26
  You know what Russia did?
• 1:19:27
  They put in a blockade.
• 1:19:29
  Did you know that?
• 1:19:30
  They mirrored what the U.S. did down
• 1:19:32
  in Hormuz, and they've established their own blockade.
• 1:19:35
  No ships can go through in the Black
• 1:19:37
  Sea if they came from Odessa.
• 1:19:40
  And they're boarding them, they're doing this.
• 1:19:43
  There's discussion going on about, well, you know,
• 1:19:46
  the Brits are stealing our cargo and selling
• 1:19:48
  it, you know, everywhere else in the world.
• 1:19:50
  They're taking the money from selling our oil
• 1:19:53
  to somebody else, and they're pocketing the money.
• 1:19:56
  Well, we're just going to do the same,
• 1:19:58
  or put them at the bottom of the
• 1:19:59
  Black Sea, you know, and that's what they've
• 1:20:02
  been doing more and more.
• 1:20:03
  So Russia has its on there too, and
• 1:20:06
  there's plenty of those.
• 1:20:07
  The July 25th FAB warnings shows an expanding
• 1:20:11
  of the methods of attack, but it doesn't
• 1:20:13
  quite yet show.
• 1:20:14
  It's changed a little bit even in the
• 1:20:16
  last few days because he was on July
• 1:20:18
  25th is when his was going.
• 1:20:19
  He was given a prediction of widespread hunger
• 1:20:22
  in Odessa or in the world because the
• 1:20:27
  degrading of the port means that you can't
• 1:20:29
  export out of those ports, and a lot
• 1:20:31
  of the world is going to have trouble
• 1:20:32
  getting their grains.
• 1:20:34
  That's true, but I don't know that it
• 1:20:36
  means the global impact that he's alleging it
• 1:20:39
  does.
• 1:20:39
  But if you take out both the Azov
• 1:20:41
  Sea, Russian grain, and the Black Sea, Ukrainian
• 1:20:45
  grain.
• 1:20:45
  Ukraine is one of the biggest providers of
• 1:20:48
  grain to the west, or at least historically
• 1:20:51
  was, that it's going to be a bad
• 1:20:57
  event, yet another one, that is going to
• 1:20:59
  impact markets.
• 1:21:01
  You know, my sister and a couple other
• 1:21:05
  family members are into making sure you have
• 1:21:10
  a year's worth of food storage and stuff
• 1:21:13
  like that.
• 1:21:14
  Might be worthwhile to have right now, that's
• 1:21:17
  for sure.
• 1:21:20
  He had a very real and a revealing
• 1:21:25
  sentence in his description of the port city
• 1:21:30
  as the last refuge of true Odessans, and
• 1:21:34
  he contrasted the skilled industrial workers of Odessa
• 1:21:39
  for centuries, welders, electricians, crane operators, boat experts,
• 1:21:45
  dock workers, mechanics, industry and tally clerks with
• 1:21:51
  the new urban economy of the scam of
• 1:21:55
  the call center.
• 1:21:57
  Cryptocurrency schemes, bars, clubs, and sexualized entertainment of
• 1:22:03
  Odessa that is prevalent now.
• 1:22:06
  And he said it's not merely a nostalgia,
• 1:22:09
  it's a recognizable class warfare, class difference of
• 1:22:15
  the new Ukraine, which are scammers, which are
• 1:22:18
  computer experts, which used to be heavy labor,
• 1:22:24
  maritime trade, technical competence, Russian language, urban culture,
• 1:22:29
  and inherited professional identities.
• 1:22:31
  He said his family was fifth generation dock
• 1:22:34
  electrician, dock worker, you know, they worked on
• 1:22:38
  the docks, and they inherited this from their
• 1:22:40
  families, and none of that is there anymore.
• 1:22:42
  And he said there was a bit of
• 1:22:44
  a Soviet expectation that industrial workers also possess
• 1:22:49
  a kind of a professional tradesman social dignity.
• 1:22:55
  The new Odessa, according to this guy, and
• 1:22:57
  this is what made it so interesting to
• 1:23:00
  me to listen to this guy, is that
• 1:23:03
  it's political conformity.
• 1:23:05
  You know, you got to believe that a
• 1:23:07
  woman can be a man if she wants
• 1:23:08
  to and vice versa.
• 1:23:11
  Scams and speculative money are a way of
• 1:23:13
  life, and nobody stops them.
• 1:23:15
  There are thousands of these call centers.
• 1:23:18
  Ukraine is known for these call centers and
• 1:23:22
  the home of the scam.
• 1:23:24
  And they interviewed, I watched an interview on
• 1:23:26
  Pyotr V.
• 1:23:27
  Kinal the other day, Channel One, that said
• 1:23:30
  that the lady interviewed, and the guy had
• 1:23:32
  a black thing over his face, that he
• 1:23:34
  was a Ukrainian that worked at one of
• 1:23:36
  these places, and they would get paid 15
• 1:23:39
  percent of the scam.
• 1:23:41
  So if you get an old Russian pensioner
• 1:23:44
  on the phone or somebody whose kid was
• 1:23:46
  taken by the Ukrainians and they would ransom
• 1:23:50
  them off in these call centers, and they
• 1:23:52
  would start calling his family and say send
• 1:23:54
  us some money or we're going to kill
• 1:23:55
  the guy, and that's how they funded it
• 1:24:00
  all, that if you got the money, you
• 1:24:01
  got a 15 percent.
• 1:24:03
  People were selling their apartments.
• 1:24:05
  This guy said that the biggest one he
• 1:24:07
  ever got was in the neighborhood of two
• 1:24:09
  to three million rubles sold.
• 1:24:12
  And remember, that is a million rubles is
• 1:24:16
  roughly $80,000 or was at the time.
• 1:24:19
  And so that's $240,000, and he got
• 1:24:23
  15 percent of that for making a call
• 1:24:25
  and getting this person to sell off their
• 1:24:27
  stuff.
• 1:24:27
  And he said it was a scam, that
• 1:24:29
  in the end they don't even get what
• 1:24:30
  they're paying for, and they're taking the life
• 1:24:33
  saving, and they're doing it all over the
• 1:24:34
  country.
• 1:24:35
  49 countries when they bust them, and the
• 1:24:37
  prosecutors in Ukraine won't do anything about it.
• 1:24:40
  It is the whole place.
• 1:24:42
  These are alive and well, and it's all
• 1:24:44
  the kids that they're not sending off to
• 1:24:45
  war, because the only people that get sent
• 1:24:47
  to war are those that are older than
• 1:24:49
  25.
• 1:24:51
  Now they're all in the call centers, and
• 1:24:54
  this is the rich professional, if you want
• 1:24:57
  to call them that, rich professional call center
• 1:24:59
  class, and nobody will touch them.
• 1:25:01
  And the prosecutors don't touch them either.
• 1:25:03
  That's Ukraine, friends and neighbors.
• 1:25:06
  And this guy was talking about it.
• 1:25:07
  He said that Odessa is now political conformity.
• 1:25:10
  Y'all got to love the gays in
• 1:25:13
  the Western, you know, put in all these
• 1:25:16
  rainbow flags.
• 1:25:19
  Scams and speculative money, social media performance, click
• 1:25:23
  bait, consumerism, you know, what do I have?
• 1:25:26
  Where's my big, you know, show me, let
• 1:25:28
  me show you my puffy lips that I've
• 1:25:32
  had injected.
• 1:25:33
  I went to Kiev and got that done,
• 1:25:36
  or I flew over to Istanbul and had
• 1:25:38
  the doctors take care of it.
• 1:25:39
  I have fake boobs, you know, we have
• 1:25:42
  temporary migration, you know, we're taking it over
• 1:25:44
  from those, you know, those old Russian types
• 1:25:47
  that live in Odessa, and people who have
• 1:25:48
  no connection to the city or its maritime
• 1:25:52
  history.
• 1:25:53
  Now he may be exaggerating the contrast of
• 1:25:56
  this, but this is why the attacks on
• 1:25:58
  the port affect him so deeply, and he
• 1:26:01
  didn't even live there anymore, because the port
• 1:26:03
  was always to him a military logistic target.
• 1:26:06
  Odessa's economic foundation, in fact, Ukraine's economic foundation,
• 1:26:11
  the remaining workplace of the city's traditional population,
• 1:26:16
  and a symbol, the whole thing is symbolic
• 1:26:19
  of the Odessa that existed before the Maidan
• 1:26:23
  2014, when they started putting all this anti
• 1:26:27
  -Russian stuff together.
• 1:26:28
  And his argument is kind of tragic, actually.
• 1:26:32
  It's not a simple military, look at what
• 1:26:34
  we're losing.
• 1:26:35
  Russia might be the ones that are striking
• 1:26:38
  facilities that are now used by the Ukrainian
• 1:26:40
  military, but the economic and social casualties are
• 1:26:44
  going to include precisely the old Odessans, who
• 1:26:48
  Russia regards as culturally the same as them.
• 1:26:53
  Does that make sense?
• 1:26:55
  It's a legitimate tension that he's talking about,
• 1:26:58
  and he was truly distraught over the whole
• 1:27:00
  thing.
• 1:27:01
  He tried to talk about it in his
• 1:27:03
  gingerbread kind of, tried to keep it lighter,
• 1:27:07
  but it ain't light.
• 1:27:08
  It's a very serious topic.
• 1:27:10
  And the scam and call center industry is
• 1:27:13
  very real, and much larger than his small
• 1:27:17
  reference to it talks about.
• 1:27:19
  It's enormous.
• 1:27:21
  And the criminal industry is extremely well documented.
• 1:27:26
  An April 2026 study by the Global Initiative
• 1:27:29
  Against Transnational Organized Crime said that approximately 60
• 1:27:34
  ,000 Ukrainians work in scam call centers.
• 1:27:38
  The industry generates as much as a billion
• 1:27:41
  dollars a month.
• 1:27:46
  1,000 centers remain after recent alleged crackdowns,
• 1:27:51
  and major city operations will have as many
• 1:27:54
  as 200 to 350 employees working in a
• 1:27:58
  call center, and victims have been recorded in
• 1:28:01
  at least 29 countries.
• 1:28:03
  The report says the industry is highly consolidated.
• 1:28:06
  A small number of criminal networks control much
• 1:28:09
  of it, and connections to traditional organized crime,
• 1:28:13
  secrecy, war propaganda, and very few successful prosecution
• 1:28:18
  says that it's hard to track ownership right
• 1:28:21
  now.
• 1:28:21
  And Odessa is one of the documented centers
• 1:28:24
  of it, that criminal enterprises move from more
• 1:28:26
  exposed eastern areas into the comparatively safer cities
• 1:28:30
  of Odessa, Lvov, Vinnytsia, and Transcarpathia.
• 1:28:33
  It said that in 2025 many Odessa operators
• 1:28:37
  are working remotely, so now they can work
• 1:28:39
  at home through Starlink.
• 1:28:41
  How about that?
• 1:28:43
  Wow.
• 1:28:44
  Maybe we'll talk a little bit more about
• 1:28:46
  that next week.
• 1:28:48
  Patriotic scamming is alive and well, and maybe
• 1:28:51
  we'll get into some of that.
• 1:28:52
  The show went a little quickly, and I
• 1:28:54
  did get off topic and ramble a little
• 1:28:55
  bit, but I had fun doing it.
• 1:28:57
  I hope you had fun listening.
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