The Trillionaire Mindset - 23: Why Russia is Screwed

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

This week Ben and Emil talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine, the economic sanctions being placed against Russia, and Joe Biden’s State of the Union.  Listen on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/trillionaire To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to https://MINTMOBILE.com/trill  Check out https://audible.com/wellbeing  Our listeners get 10% off their first month at https://BetterHelp.com/trill  Start hiring today with a risk-free 15-day trial. Just go to https://workable.com to start hiring.  Trillionaire IG: https://www.instagram.com/trillionairepod/ Trillionaire Twitter: https://twitter.com/trillionairepod TMG Studios YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tinymeatgang TMG Studios IG: https://www.instagram.com/realtmgstudios/ TMG Studios Twitter: https://twitter.com/realtmgstudios BEN https://www.instagram.com/bencahn/ https://twitter.com/Buncahn EMIL https://www.instagram.com/emilderosa/ https://twitter.com/emilderosa  *DISCLOSURE: THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS VIDEO ARE SOLELY THOSE OF THE PARTICIPANTS INVOLVED. THESE OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF ANYONE ELSE. THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. THE VIEWER OF THE VIDEO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSIDERING ANY INFORMATION CAREFULLY AND MAKING THEIR OWN DECISIONS TO BUY OR SELL OR HOLD ANY INVESTMENT. SOME OF THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO IS CONSIDERED TO BE SATIRE AND MAY NOT BE CONSIDERED FACTUAL AND SHOULD BE TAKEN IN SUCH LIGHT. THE COMMENTS MADE IN THIS VIDEO ARE FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND ARE NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.*

We need a peace treaty between the right and the left and everyone in between. What? That's what we need. We need a peace treaty. Yes. What does the peace treaty say? It says everybody stop. No.

Not biting. Because you wanted to say one thing, but other people wanted to say the other thing. That's why you make a treaty. So you have a connection. What's the treaty going to say? I don't know. I'm not the fuck. You can't come down.

Somebody else. Come up with it. Hey. You're going to go down and go, and go hey, hey, I've got a solution Someone come up with a solution. No, I'm saying a piece treaty. What in it? I don't know You got to get people from both sides to say hey, we want to be able to say you know this and then the other people go I don't really like that and then they say okay, well you give us something Oh, you know, do do this and then so you you're trading like, okay, give us green energy. And you guys can say the R word again.

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Yeah, well, it's it's just going off of when he got off his space capsule and they were like, did you have a good time? He went hell yes. Maybe they've replaced them with, they should replace them with a robot and just as hell yes or hell now. Hell yes. Hell no. He, uh, man, that little guy, he's huge now.

Like Jack. Yeah. He's trying to figure out the secret sauce to life, buddy. It's just come. We already know we've known for a long time. What do you mean the secret sauce to life? Like he's working on, um, he's not working on it, but I read that he's like funding some startup that's trying to prolong life.

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Hey, well, well, I'm out of it. You might as well click on the description box to see more thing and read the disclaimer down there. You got to read that and see if it's the thing. I've been meaning to say this forever. What? You didn't say it this time? What?

But every time you say click the see more button and it's like the famous joke. Is see more there? See more butts? That's the joke? Yeah, you like like, you know, yeah, I remember in little league. Mike Hawk. Mike Hawk. Oh yeah, sure. Mike Hawk there. Yeah. Well, no, no, he's not. It was, it was, I remember for some reason it being in Little League, it was like under the bleachers by Seymour Butts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That stupid shit.

Just like cracker jokes. You say, Seymour Butten. Yeah. Oh man. I gotta start. Seymour Butten. I gotta start. Who milking that thing?

Milking that thing. It is weird how we don't drink human milk. Well, ew, no, it's not. Sure it is. I ain't drinking no cowl's milk. Where are we gonna get it? Uh-oh. We're just gonna have pregnant women and new mothers milking?

Hey. This is just start up for everything. Oh gosh, and they're just gonna spell it like MLK. Oh, and then they're gonna spell it like MLK. Yeah, that's probably. It's gonna be that dumb lobster font. It's the font that they use for every fucking new startup It's that italicized

It was like big in 20 20 like 2009 to 2013 when everybody had a startup. Oh, they all had that same font and they all like you all you had to do is take out a couple Vowels out of the out of the name of it right Right, no vowels. It doesn't necessarily work for milk, because then you get MLK. Yeah, lobster, there you go. And then you put dot LY, so milkly. We're the only ones who are saying natural bluerous milk for you.

Hahaha. Do you think they'd use a, they'd replace MLK's mustache with a milk mustache? Why not? And you gotta be provocative. You gotta sell that milk. This fake milk company human milk. Yeah.

I bet you could get freak SF tech people to drink human. I'm sure that there are plenty who do it. And just don't talk about it because it's taboo. Keep me away from the Bay Area. Those freaks can have it. Yeah. Yeah, they really can't speak in a freak. Man, you Colombo freaks. God damn. What the fuck is with the Colombo heads? I love

it. You guys just love this Colombo. I got to watch Colombo now. It's just such a funny word and funny name. Anything ending in bow is funny. Colombo. I won't get on board with that as an... Our producer told me that people were like, oh, we figured out a meals Greek. I'm also Italian. I'm not going to disparage a... An Italian American king like Colombo. A guinea.

Yeah, well you can't... Is that a derogatory term? Yeah, really? I know Gumbah. That's one as well. There's a lot for Italians. What else? Well, you know, it's the best You could there's this joke. Uh-huh. You can get three Italian slurs in one

You say what sound does a guinea make when he hits the water Gumbah Is that it? No, what you say day go WAP because day go and WAP Are both are both slurs what where what do you get WAP how does that it means without papers? Oh like a immigrants. Yeah, he's fucking WAPs coming in here man. Yeah, there's a lot of Goombas. There's a lot of Italians. Hey, it smells like pepperoni over Sunday. I do it as I say with a New York Italian accent. No.

A New York would be like, it smells like a pepperoni. Yeah. Well, so wow, everybody now knows your secret. I didn't think it was a secret. I don't care. Well, the jokes on them, they've been listening to an italian from New Jersey that most disgusting creature of all you are a creature. Well, so these Colombo freaks are gonna be thrilled because we are gonna put out some Colombo merch stickers. We're working on stickers and shirts, right? I think so. I think we're working on all kinds of merch. It takes a while

speaking of merch, but yes, you will get I Think we're gonna do it sounds like everyone wants don't hassle me. I'm watching Colombo That's gonna be great. I can't wait and and we Can we say this we are working on doing some bonus content stuff It just takes a minute. We'll get we'll get there, but maybe I'll get Ben to watch Colombo with me I'll definitely watch and we'll uh we should do yeah That's one thing that we want to work on is like maybe it's an entirely new show I don't know what it is, but just watching shit and I think for Trillionaire mindset

We could do bonus content Colombo episodes. Yeah. One of the... Well, I don't want to get caught up in Colombo. It's great. I think it's one of the earlier episodes, Steven Spielberg directed it. Wow. I think it's murdered by the book. Wow.

And was that after Jaws? No, no, no. Before. Wow. That's what's cool about Colombo. A lot of like famous people before they were famous on it. Huh. Interesting. Martin Sheen. Wow. That's what's cool about Colombo. A lot of like famous people before they were famous on it. Huh. Interesting. Martin Sheen. Wow. John Cassavetes. Yeah, Steven Spielberg directed it's like it's considered one of the greatest episodes of TV. Huh. Interesting.

So speaking of that, you got to check out if you're a Reddit Redditor, uh, there's a trillionaire mindset subreddit. It is trillionaire mines pod. So instead, it's like trillionaire mindset, but instead of the ET at the end, it's POD. Trillionaire mines pod. So you're going to want to go ahead and check that out if you are so inclined. We don't like manage it or anything. Some enterprises. But Ben went on there and said something.

Yeah, I went on there and said, hey fuck faces, this is infringement upon our intellectual property. I've done this whole thing down. We're shutting this down unless you want to get sued. So, oh, and so your boat, people have been really excited about your sailboat. Yeah, I'm gonna have to get a bigger boat.

Everyone's coming. Yeah, everyone climb aboard. Everybody's been asking, so this guy, I'm gonna have to get a bigger boat. Everyone's coming. Yeah, everyone climb aboard. Everybody's been asking, so this guy, Ikees77, what are you going to name the boat, Emil? We're gonna name it Columbot. Columbot. There's only one thing to name it. Yeah.

Emil, legit question, because I've thought about the sailboat thing too. What about pirates? You just can't stay docked. This is from David D. David D. Pirates don't care about me. I'm not gonna have anything valuable. What are they gonna do? Take me hostage. Try it.

Call my family and tell them you got me taking hostage. They're gonna say keep them. Yeah, mine too. Mine too. They'd be like, well, see how long you can last with a work good day. He's your problem now. Yeah. One time my, this guy used to work with years ago, bought a sailboat and lived on a sailboat. And he paid like 200 bucks per month rent to live in the marina. And he said, Hey,

let's go sailing. And I said, Okay, so mean my younger brother, Nate went out there. and I had to pee. So I jumped into the ocean and I peed. Austin didn't have a ladder to get back up in the boat. So they had to lean out the boat and pull me up. And it was so fucking hard to get back into this boat. Because the water's choppy. So like, the boat would be like, you know, one minute, it's only a foot out of the water. And then the next, it's like five feet out of the water's choppy so the boat would be like, you know, one minute it's only a foot out of the water

and then the next it's like five feet out of the water. So I'm trying to get pulled in and my little brother has the most contagious laugh and he's just cracking up. He's going, ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah That's how he laughs. Yes. And I'm just dying. I'm so tired and I'm trying to pull myself back up and I'm like mad but also laughing. I'm like, Nate, stop laughing. You gotta pull me up. And I was losing strength very quickly. Wouldn't you know it eventually I got pulled out of the boat.

And that's why I'm here today. Because of that sailboat. Because of that sailboat. But yeah people are, you know, we need more sailboat. Cause of that sailboat. But yeah, people are, you know, we need more sailboat talk. Jeannie 365 says, Jenny Barnes says, I could listen to a whole episode of Meal

talking about his dream of living on a boat. Why doesn't everybody just Venmo and Meal 20 bucks? And we get enough people and he can buy sailboat. That would be very, or a little robot. You know what I mean? Fucking robot, I can't live on a robot. Sure you can. You can live anywhere if you imagine little robot. You know what I mean? I mean, fucking robot, I can't live on a robot. Sure you can.

You can live anywhere if you imagine hard enough. You can live anywhere. I would say I don't wanna live on a robot. Yeah, that would suck. There's no coverage. But on a sailboat? Maybe you got all the coverage you want. You got, it's got built-in blankets.

You get cold, you just take down the sails. I got a lot to learn, this is a problem too. So you got a chip in for the boat, now you got also a chip in for my sailing lessons. That's true. My friend Olivia just took sailing lessons at the Long Beach Yacht Club, she's no, great, she knows how to sail now.

And she's a member of the... After one lesson? After like multiple lessons, but I think she's still taking them. She knows how to sail, more than I do. I got a book that I keep on my coffee table from like the American sailing association, it's just like, it's how to sail, more than I do. I got a book that I keep on my coffee table from the American Sailing Association. It's just like, it's how to sail.

Damn. So when people come over, they're just like, oh, you sailor, we go, not yet. I'm working on it, don't work out. I'm working on it. Wow, we're already 13 minutes in Christ on the cross. Yes, sorry about that. I shouldn't say that, should I?

Uh. Yes, sorry about I shouldn't say that should I We got a lot to talk about but you know, I just I got a new American Express card. I'm excited about I don't know why yeah, wow I'm just excited because it's got a big sign-up bonus Oh, I wanted to give a big thanks to all the people who reached out for my gas code because you're getting me some major discounts the next time I get gas and gas off for you. Hey, so on the way over here, I was listening to the radio, I was listening to NPR, the radio station where old people go to Whisper.

This is Terry Gross live from Ukraine. It's just, they just, this is NPR, National Public Radio. Just put me to fucking sleep. But they were talking about these new COVID things. And one thing that I learned things, what new COVID thing? Well, so number one, the one of the new protocols or whatever is you're going to be able to get tested at a pharmacy. And if you get at any pharmacy, and if you test positive, they're gonna like give it a rapid,

you wait here, get your result. And if you're positive, they just give you, yes. Or, I mean, if you're a Fargon, they kill you. But if you're not, they give you viral meds, the like pro, not Prozac, the Pfizer. A Pfizer meds, yeah. The Pfizer meds and then send you on your way, which is tight.

Is that ready already? I have no idea, but they're working on it. And then the other thing that I learned, okay, was this, are you listening to NPR folks? It's not just for the tote bag. There's something called the waste water surveillance system where they test, they were,

oh, all the poop. Yeah, one way to see, yeah, how much COVID is in the poop water? That was my idea. Is to test the waste water? I went to the White House and I said, sir, have you checked the shit? There's COVID in it. Mr. President, have you checked the shit?

You know how they do the designated survivor for the state of the union? What's the designated survivor for the state of the union? They should, uh... What's the designated survivor? You've never, since the state of the union has like everybody in the government, all in one building, they have what's called the designated survivor, which is the person... Oh, oh yeah. Yeah. Who's in case the whole thing gets blown to shit.

Right, they're like, you're president now. Yeah, and it's usually just like the, eh, yeah, I guess. The department of transportation or something. Yeah, and he for Sutherland He for Sutherland's like, where's the shit? I need to check it I'm the Well, wait on the on the news they say like and this year's designated survivor is and they showed it It was like bootage. No, it was this woman chased in bootage. No no it was this woman who's like the secretary of commerce or something

But it would be great if next year they do the dukey tester this year it's Bob fucking Give me a last minute it doesn't matter. He's the guy who checks the shit for coveners. He's the dukey guy He's in the skin still tons of COVID in the shit He just covered it shit. He's in the skin. He's still tons of COVID in the shit. I'm tasting it all day.

People, what are you doing? Uh, can you tell that we're avoiding talking about the thing, the big thing? No, it's nice to have a new big thing that takes over. We don't have to talk. COVID's done. We don't have to worry about it anymore. Yeah, it's officially over. Now we just get to think about nuclear war. We're not going to have nuclear war. You don't have to worry about it anymore. Yeah, it's officially over. Now we just get to think about nuclear war.

We're not going to have nuclear war. You don't think so? No, because I say so. Hey, I'll tell you what, don't listen to me. Okay. I fucking, I thought this would never happen in a million years. What? Russian invading Ukraine.

Bullshit. We all knew that it was, I did not. I honestly did not pay attention. I did not think this would happen. Wow. Why? It just seemed crazy. It seemed I mean, and It seems like the general consensus is that it's the stupidest thing Putin could have done Yeah, aside from like shoot his own dick off because that would be pretty stupid or fall into the toilet that I bet if I talk to oh no

I bet if I talk to some security experts they would agree that they would revise that and say Shooting your own dick off was stupider than invading. Yeah. Well who knows you could fix your dick probably No, you probably could. It'd just be a mess. Yeah. But he's, I think he's 70. It's probably a mess already. Yeah, his dick.

I'm 32. I can hardly piss. Oh, speaking of. What, what are you doing? What? You have this perfect gray hair. Oh, pluck it. I can't.

Fuck. Goddamn it. All right, well, thanks. It's just perfectly in my- Hey, leave a comment if you see my gray hair. So, uh, oh man, there's so much stuff we wanted to talk about. I mean, first of all, the whole thing with Russia, because look, we're not experts

at all in the least. We are, I am not an expert on all things geopolitical and I'm not about to pretend like I understand and I've been reading about this shit nonstop and it's, you know, do we have a responsibility to ourselves as members of society to keep abreast of? It is fun though, all the people who have become experts. Epidemiologists are now shifting and becoming geopolitical experts, which is nice. Yeah, it's really cool. My friends who used to know everything about COVID now know everything about Russia. And they're also green. And they're getting, and they're getting,

so they have a major in epidemiology and geopolitics and a minor in infographics and graphic design to share all that information on time. And they took a lot of electives in being a fucking annoying piece of shit. Yeah. Ah. Ah.

Ah. Ah. Ah. You know, so one of the things we wanted to say is that you can be against this stuff. You can be anti-war without necessarily getting wrapped up in it. I know that there's a certain sense of guilt and shame for not speaking out about every last fucking thing you don't have to. Well, I would also say the, me and you have been talking about this, it's been the weirdest week.

Yes. For it to just all of a sudden be the only thing people are talking about. And the amount of things proven to be fake, it's a lot. So lots of like, people are processing in real time and just like saying things of things proven to be fake. Yeah. There's a lot. So lots of like be pro, people are processing in real time and just like saying things and then you go, I don't know, that seems a little off and then the next day it's just like, Oh yeah, that was fake, move on. Yeah, we got that wrong, but hey, check out this thing.

Or not even that was fake move on. It was like, it doesn't matter if it was fake, it's good. Yeah. It's like, okay. Yeah, it's really overwhelming. And I like to consider myself as being quite media literate. That's like consider yourself? Yeah, yeah, I do.

I consider myself to be a critical thinker. Hell yeah. Yeah, I like to consider myself to be a critical thinker. But it's hard because you can never... These days, I really don't trust like anything. I just don't. I don't know what source to trust with fucking anything. The only thing we can trust is that Zelensky is daddy. Yeah, he is daddy.

I was reaching for some kind of zombore that I got nothing outside of that. I don't know. I can't tell. It's also just horrible. I don't want to like cheer this stuff on. Like when the snake island thing came out, the fuck off. Yeah. 13 people on snake island who said fuck off Russian worship. Yeah. I remember it came up in my feed and I watched it. And it was, I don't say I think it was Scott Galway. Oh, Professor Galway. And he was like, this is the sickest fucking thing.

And I was like, God, man. Holy shit, did I just watch 13 people fucking die? This is not sick. Yeah. Luckily it came out, I think they're still alive, which is great. Some people seem disappointed. They were like, this awesome story's not real. Yeah, it was one out. I think they're still alive. Which is great. Some people seem disappointed. They were like this awesome story's not real Yeah, it was one of those. Yeah Americans are really good at making everything everything into entertainment and

condensing complicated things Doming down things in a way that's counterproductive because there's making things easy to be understood and digested and then there's just like cheapening and belittling things like making it entertainment and that's what it is. There was that clip from CNN, like I don't know a week ago where it was all dramatic and talking about war and then they had to go to commercial that it was like this Friday No, it was worse. What was it? It was that fucking country song. So it was it was the air It was like the air raid siren

Uh-huh, so it's like And then all of a sudden it cuts to little bit of chicken fried Cold beer on a Saturn. Yeah, that's right. That's a fucking insane chicken fried cold beer on a standard. Yeah, that's right. That's a fucking insane. Un-fucking-real. Another thing that the media has been doing is, it's hard to phrase, it's basically making,

suffering around the world is awful, but they're making it seem like somehow this is more real for us because it's not coming. It's in Europe. Yes. It's not in the global South. Yes. I mean, that's probably been the weirdest thing to watch.

I was, I was seeing the clips pop up and then someone, I think we have a compilation of them. Someone had a thread of these media clips. And, you know, these are like CNN, MSNBC, people, this is probably the most famous one, we can play it. It's- This guy on CBS. Yeah, it's just 22 seconds, but-

And you can hear him trying to be careful- Yeah. ...and still saying the wrong things. This isn't a place with all due respect. You know, like a rock or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. You know, this is a relatively civilized, relatively European. I have to choose those words carefully too. City where you wouldn't expect that or hope that it's going to happen. So it's partly human nature, but they are not in denial. This isn't a place where trash people are getting bombed by their own trash other people.

It's white, clean, lily white people being... I mean, dude, you joke, but so I mean, we don't have to watch all the clips. Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not developing third world nation. This is Europe. Yeah. You know, what's happening? Just looking at them, the way they're dressed, these are prosperous middle class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the Middle East or North Africa.

They look like any European family you could live next door to. We're not talking here about Syrians fleeing the bombing of the Syrian regime backed by Putin. We're talking about Europeans leaving in cars that look like ours to save their lives. Not about boo.

What are you guys trying to say? And you know, this, I mean, there's one, if you scroll down a little, there's, this one is probably the worst one I've seen from BBC. It's really emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed. Jesus Christ. And look, which is bad. I mean, obviously anybody getting killed

or displaced is bad. Right. And this is the thing. It translates into some policy things. And I want to preface this by saying the reaction that the world is having of being just horrified by this is the right reaction. The reaction of countries opening their arms to Ukrainian refugees is the right thing to do. It should just happen when the refugees maybe don't look like you as well. And so I mean, this is from the Washington Post. 400,000 Ukrainians flee to European countries including some that previously spurred refugees, right so

In previous years when there was conflict in the world Europe was gone. Well, well, well, well We're all full. Yeah, we're a capacity. Yeah, you know, so So far European leaders and communities say they're ready to welcome Ukrainian refugees including countries in Slovakia Hungary Poland, which have previously hardened their borders and policies in the face of other waves of refugees and backlash from the far right in contrast to 2015 when many European countries were hostile to sharing the burden of so many refugees German Interior Minister Nancy Fesser said Sunday the Germany was ready to offer Poland and other Eastern European countries support to handle the sudden certain Ukrainians.

and other Eastern European countries support to handle the sudden certain Ukrainians. It's wild. Shit's fucked. I wish everybody would just stop it, you know? Yeah, I definitely wish they would stop. I definitely wish Putin would stop. I also wish the horrible fucking takes would stop. Yeah, Joy Beihar from The View,

a show that is still on for some reason for your grandma is so let's watch this clip if you haven't seen it. It's really great. I can't, I've watched it so many times. Here we go. Estimates are 50,000 Ukrainians will be dead or wounded. Yeah. And that this is going to start a humanitarian crisis, a refugee crisis in Europe.

We're talking about 5 million people that are going to be displaced. I mean, it's heartbreaking to hear what is going to happen. I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe, too. You know, you're just, you're playing a trip, you want to go there, I want to go to Italy for four years.

I haven't been able to make it because of the pandemic. And now this, you know, it's like, it's like, what's going, what's gonna happen there? Yeah, what's gonna happen to my vacation in Italy? Listen, I get what she's saying, I do. I do, part of me gets it, it's like, that's her fucking, that's the thing,

because that's my fault. I hear her, but that's what we're trying to say here too, is like, it's okay to live your life. Honestly, but just don't be that tone deaf. Don't even talk about it. I have a celebrity chef on. And make the fucking, Penny fucking vodka.

That's such an Italian thing of you to say. But like, why? And this is the problem, you put these people on camera and you go say something about it. And she's like, what, I'm fucking pissed. I can't go to Italy this summer. You still can't want you to go over there. Go to Italy, check it out.

See how it is. The report back to us. So that's, yeah, you don't, that's another thing, though, with this is a lot of people when shit happens, it's like there's a script that everybody follows. It's like everybody's a script that everybody follows. It's like, everybody makes it about themselves. And you don't have to.

Like silence is an option. There's this feeling of urgency to show everybody, hey, I care, I care, I care, don't, like I care too. We all care. Like you don't have to, there's this great psychotherapist on Instagram that I started following and she posted this thing that some, I know I shit talk like info graphics a lot, but she posted, you are not morally obliged

to comment on every global crisis. You don't have to prove you care. You don't have to publicly demonstrate your emotional reactions. It's okay if you don't have to prove you care. You don't have to publicly demonstrate your emotional reactions. It's okay if you don't understand the intricacies of a complicated issue yet. It's okay to have an opinion or not have one or not know enough to have one. None of this social media crap is important. Don't be bullied by it and then there's a picture of a tiger for stories.

She's a seerute. K. Oh, here we go. Jolla. Come on, British. We don't pronounce anything wrong anymore. Do you see it? It's amazing how quickly people learned how to say, Keeve. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was Keeve this whole time. I thought it was Keeve and the Ukraine. And then I learned, rightfully, I'm glad that I learned that like calling it the Ukraine is what the Russians do because I thought it was a P. Kamala. It's Kamala. I know. She's such a fucking cop, it's insane. Like she's just Kamala Harris.

Wow, Ben. So another thing is like, like, I don't think, I mean, it's great. You can call out the horrible things that are happening, but you don't need to like, have a fucking take. Yeah, you don't have to be a little fucking take machine. Yeah, and I don't even know exactly what we're trying to say here is that, I'm saying this week as sucked.

It's made me crazy, but the, I was making fun of that speaking of MPR. I was making fun of that MPR. What is it? Like mental health. How to deal with your mental health? Oh, they take those like mental health break PSA things. Yeah. No, it's like, they're, it's their articles about like,

how to deal with your mental health while the world is falling apart. Scream. Just scream. And it's like, make sure to unplug a little bit. Great advice. Fuck off. Yeah. But you know, there's, there's some truth to that, because I've gone insane. Maybe I should unplug.

Yeah. I just think that now more than ever, and increasingly so, day by day, as things happen more and more and faster and faster, it feels overwhelming. And social media exacerbates that, because you're either not doing enough or you're not saying enough or you're not spending enough time Learning about them and it's just It's heartbreaking because yeah at the same time

There's a sense of guilt for living your life or complaining about things that are going wrong for you on a day-to-day basis. Like, oh, I spilled my fucking coffee and it's like, that's what you're gonna complain about, Ben. Spilling my coffee? I didn't spill it because I'm perfect, but for those who are imperfect and experience things like spilling coffee or having the wrong opinions,

personally, all my opinions are right on everything. That's cool. I like that about Good for you. Perfect genetics, because I didn't get COVID at all. I don't even need to knock on one, because I'm not gonna get it. Plus, this isn't what this is some sort of polymer. I've gotten every variant so far.

Yeah, I'm collecting them like Pokemon. I got the Hall of Foil new variant. And inside my body, I'm creating a super variant that you're gonna shit into the water supply for some poop detector guy. You got the Hall of Foil new variant. And inside my body, I'm creating a super variant. That can shit into the water supply for some poop detector guy. That some guy at the White House is gonna be like, Mr. President, we're in trouble. Some, some gumball on the West Coast. Some guinea just took a shit.

But so the tone, the tone deafness thing just doesn't end. I think also the kind of thirst for war is Yes is Hard to deal with I think also. I don't know if it's a little bit of Ignorance or if they just don't care you know I Think when I see people pushing for you know Bill Ackerman, we were joking about him being like billionaire cry baby Bill. billionaire crying as baby. Yeah.

Being like, and pretty early, like send American troops now. Yeah. It's like, holy shit. You're talking about declaring war. Well, it's easy for him. He was born into, he was born with a gagging on a gold spoon, not even a silver spoon. Yeah, now he's just up in San Francisco drinking MLK. He's not in. I saw a thing from the New York Times, um, last week, this fucking article pointed

out that only 30% of Ukrainian refugees were seen wearing masks. We have to kill them. Liberalism, we are liberals. I'm not, don't fucking call me a little. I mean, if we had to be classified like I'm left leaning obviously and I would consider myself quite liberal. I wouldn't consider myself liberal. What do you consider yourself? Emile. I don't know. I wouldn't call myself a liberal. Yeah do you consider yourself? Emile. I don't know. I wouldn't call myself a liberal. Yeah, okay. Then I'd like to track my statement.

I think so. Okay, then I'm not that either. I mean, to clarify, I wouldn't call myself conservative either. Oh, me neither. I've found both of those people a sickness. But that has taken hold of them. That one, yes. That is liberalism is a mental disorder in that sense.

There's some New York Times reporter counting how many masks he's- Just fucking shut the fuck- These people fleeing their homes for safety. Where do- where is shut the fuck up? Yeah, just big time shut the fuck up to that- Sure, I have a scoop. The refugees were hardly wearing masks. Oh my god.

We can't take them in. Oh, no we can't. The variants are on the rise. It'll be a super spreader. Which is more, which is, yeah, it'll be a super spreader. Have you checked the poop out of these people? We need someone to get in there. We need to wait on the shit in your grave.

Ha, ha, ha. One of my favorite things is seeing how airplane Instagram has reacted to certain pieces of things. Oh, I meant to send my condolences to you. Yeah, thank you. As you all probably know, I'm very big into airplanes, and I follow many airplane meme accounts. And the largest aircraft in the world,

which is called the Antonov AN-225 Maria, was destroyed. And some of these airplane meme accounts made these like this one says fly high Maria thank you for your service and then it shows the born and death date of the airplane and then it says legends never die and the other one rest in peace it's a big fucking it's a huge plane. Maria, the world's largest plane has been destroyed by Russia's strike zone. Ukraine, in my dumbass, did not even know it was Ukrainian. Even though I've seen countless pictures of this thing,

watched countless videos of this thing, taking off, landing, approaching all sorts of shit. How would you know it's Ukrainian? Well, it's got the fucking yellow and blue. There's other places that are yellow and blue. Yeah, but it's also, it's like Russian, it's got the Russian, you know, MR, IYA, that's what it's called.

That's like a Russian name. Is it? Yeah, it means like freedom or something. Well, aren't they the same language? Really? I don't think so. I thought Ukrainian, I thought Ukrainians speak Russian. I think a lot of them do. Oh okay. See I don't know and that's okay. That's okay.

The dream, it means the dream. Yeah it's Ukrainian for the dream. Uh okay. You are in trouble. Fuck, fuck, please don't come for me. Please get in front of the desks and self-flagelate. I already sucked today. I did my daily self-flagelate. Oh, oh, yeah. Wait myself. Okay, so I guess I'm not gonna self-suck. My favorite thing though has been the Avengers Ukraine fan. We were together when we saw this.

At first you couldn't watch it. I mean, well, there's two. There's this long excerpt about how the Avengers would react. And it goes through each character in the Avengers and how they would react to it. This is what we're talking about when we say silence is an option. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. I just want to read. Can we zoom in a little bit here? Yeah. Should we just read the Captain America? You read Captain America. How Captain America would react? Well, we'll just switch off because there's a bunch of characters here.

Let's just do Captain America in Thor. This is how the Avengers will react. Captain America, don't worry guys, I've seen these Russians before. I've seen Stalin. Putin doesn't stand a chance. Throws shield at Russians. This is an action phrase here, or a sentence here. Throws shield at Russian soldiers snapping his spine. Thor says, this looks like a job for me.

Not so fast, says Falcon. These aren't just your everyday criminal. These are Russian soldiers. I aren't just your everyday criminal. These are Russian soldiers. I've seen them use their bow. You're gonna need more than your hammer. You sure about that? Thor says hitting Sergey Lavrov with lightning. Black Widow enters NATO headquarters. Head of NATO, please give us black Widow. Please save us. Oh please save us black widow. We can give you anything you need black widow I only need one thing NATO. What is it courage? Oh, and a couple guns if you can spare some she wisecracks I'm not gonna do black Panther because I'm not black so I'll do Spider-Man

Enteres the Kremlin through a web sling from the top of same Basil's Cathedral from the top of St. Basil's Cathedral, Suvić Interpreter Putin's office. Sorry for Putinia in this sticky situation, Mr. President. Spider-Man says, putting Putin left St. Louis. He's currently all this. Putin breaks free as Spider-Man lets his guard down. Wait, wait, wait. Can I do Iron Man?

Sure. Remind me not to invite you on the next mission, kid. Hulk, Hulk destroy Putin. He else. Really? As Putin tries to flee, he picks up Putin by a shirt collar. Nice army of lad. But what you fail to consider is that we have the Hulk, Iron Man says the Iron Legion steps into aid the citizens of Kiev to the cheers of the entire world. This has to be fake. It has to be someone knowing that this is how...

I would say that if this video didn't exist, this other video, if people weren't taking, like it's fucking so weird. It's the final battle scene of the final Avengers movie and they've labeled everything appropriately, so like what's his name, the big purple hamburger, what's his name? The big purple hamburger. What's his name?

Thanos. Thanos. So he's Putin? He's Putin in the Russian army is... This is a minute long. A minute long. We won't watch it all. But look, just play it for a second.

So they've labeled Thanos' army, the Russian army. And then Zelensky is, I think, Captain America. And then... Hey! The Russian army and then Zelensky is I think Captain America and then This is just weird fucking like American foreign policy porn. It's Disney adults. This is just Disney adults Phanacizing about shit. I don't even understand and then here's the portal black Panther comes out. Oh, it's the clinch go brothers Jesus Christ. And so it's he's like, oh, good to see you. We're gonna take on. I was like, we got it. It keeps going. Let's get ahead a little bit. Oh, yeah.

Ghost of key comes out. He's flying around at some fucking Avengers guy. I don't know. Putin is pissed. This is the people of Kiev. This is terrible. The army of the... Oh my God. But skip ahead, oh, Snake Island soldiers there you go, and you get, look, 300 million Euro military and Stinger, Annie aircraft missiles from the Netherlands.

We can fucking stop it. If you're listening, just be glad that you're listening and not watching. I mean, if you've seen Avengers, what is it? Endgame? Mm-hmm. You'll know the final scene. It's everyone showing up to unite. I would like to just offer a hearty log off. Yeah.

Just relax. Yeah, just relax. Don't relax. I mean, it's terrifying. I'm very scared about what the end of this will be. I have no idea. Putin's going to get spanked by Captain America. I would, you know, I don't know if it's a realistic hope. I hope there's a way to deescalate this in a way that is not...

I mean, this is what I was advocating for last week. I hope we can end the suffering as soon as possible. You know, there was that actress who made that poem, uh, Pooot, dear Pooot, and if I was your mother, dear Pooot, and we wanted to do our, another deranged take. Yeah. She, this actress,

Alan McCord, Alan McCord did this video, um, apologizing to Pooot, and she just looks at the camera with her with her eyes saying, dear Vladimir Putin, if I was your mother, I would like shower you with love. So we wanted to kind of try our own thing, didn't we? Yeah, what would we be? We would be Vladimir Putin's two gay dads. Oh, are we in a relationship in this?

Yes. And we're raising Vladimir Putin. Yeah. Dear Vladimir Putin. If I'm sorry that we aren't your two gay dads, if we were, we would hold you in light. Yes, and love. And you'd never even be president of Ukraine. No, he's not president. He's president. I mean, sorry, of Russia, Russia, you would be, you'd be in a charter school. You'd be a, the best tutors. You'd be charter schooled.

And I don't know what the fuck I would, I would raise it. Get plenty of hugs, plenty of hugs and kisses on your big old forehead, hats on the head, golf lessons. Golf lessons. Tennis lessons. Tennis, now we're talking. Tennis, tennis, tennis. We would take you to the beach so you could feel the cool ocean on your little tozes. And being a dictator would be the furthest thing from your mind. Perhaps you'd end up being a chef.

That might be nice for him. Cooking up. Yeah, cooking up some, what are those parochies? Parochies. Are those Russian? I don't know. Yeah. cooking up some, what are those parrotskies? Parrotskies. Are those Russian? I don't know. Yeah. Maybe you'd make a nice vodka.

There we go. You'd be an entrepreneur. See the videos of people pouring out vodka? Yeah. You know, it's just, it's just... Hey, everybody do your part. Speaking of doing your parts, these, so what, what people are doing, what the government and companies and other countries are doing to stick it to Russia is

Restricting business with them and as a result the rubble which is the currency in Russia has plummated And I wanted to kind of explain why that happens and basically You know the world is essentially saying hey, you can't play with us anymore. So your currency that you use to interact with everyone, because you're shut off from everyone, why would your currency be worth anything? Because it's not worth a damn, though. So what does that do?

It's like every dollar you have is not worth a penny. Yeah, it's wild. Remember, we were gonna try to break it all down and we had the article. They have been just completely isolated. Oh, it's wild. Remember, we were going to try to break it all down and we had the article. They have been just completely isolated. We started trying to go through the sanctions and it's just the list is endless. And not only that, but their central bank reserves were frozen. So they couldn't even so the central banks couldn't prop up the rubble, which they would have liked to have done. But here's just a small list of some of the sanctions. Nike halted sales in Russia for

the suspending operations in Russia. Visa and MasterCard are blocking Russian banks from their networks. The New York City Police Pension Fund, which is a huge fund, is divesting everything that they have in Russia. Apple is halting sales there. BP and Shell are selling their positions.

And then some of the stupid shit that's like inconsequential and just posturing for good PR, Electronic Arts, the video game company, is dropping Russian teams from the FIFA soccer video game. I mean, there's a lot of Disney came out and was like, you guys don't get the new Pixar movie. Hey, Vladimir Putin, have you heard of Turning Red? You can't see it. Nope. Pixar movie. Hey, Vladimir Putin, have you heard of turning red? You can't see it. Nope.

It's so, it's just so fucking lame. It's, it's truly just, it's so stupid. What I do like is that they're going after those oligarch. I mean, I get it. Pull out. You just don't have to like release a fucking PR statement. Yeah. Well, it's, it goes back. It's like the, it's the individual social media posturing, but it's, it's, to the next level. It's, um, it's like when companies change their flag to the

rainbow flag for gay pride. A weird one. Or 9-11. They're like this, this, Bush's baked beans would like to commemorate 9-11. Switzerland. Uh-huh. Famous, uh, for being neutral. Famous neutral country in World War II. They have announced their own sanctions on Russia. Yeah, they're cut Russia off. Yeah, everybody's cutting them off. So apparently, I don't know. I mean, if I'm Putin, I'm...

Apparently Hitler didn't cross the line, but Putin did. For Switzerland. Bidod. Yeah. Well, but Putin did for Switzerland. Bit odd. Yeah. Well, but go absolutely off. Yeah. Go off, Queens. RUSL, which is the ETF for Russia, is halting trading after dropping from $35 to $3. In the quote from the company that does it.

Due to the restrictions on Russian securities and sanctions that have been imposed on Russia by the United States and other countries in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, shares of direction daily at Russia bull, two-time shares will cease trading on the NYSE. And also, the RTS, which is the Russian stock market, is down 45% in the last six months. So imagine you're Russian.

Okay, I'm trying to think about it. I'm a little bit drunk on vodka. I'm eating a potato. Is that what they do? Yeah, you potatoes, I should. I don't know much about Russian culture. I mean, I know about the dolls that have other dolls inside them. Yeah.

I know about the ballet, the ballet, Elizabeth the Great. Wasn't a catheter in the Great, I'm sorry. Right. Kazer in Russia, but she was German or Prussian. I believe British. No, oh, really? I don't think so. Well, either way, if you're Russian,

you are getting fucking hosed and it's terrible. Because not only are your savings suddenly cut in half, but the value of what remains is also completely diminished because of the currency going down. So, I mean, Putin has a fuck ton of pressure on him to not only from everyday people, but now from the oligarchs, the, what the fuck is an oligarch? You hear it?

Is it just rich aristocrats? There's a movement people being like, call American billionaires oligarchs too. We should. Yeah. Bill Ackman, crybaby oligarch. But they don't like it when you call them that. No, they don't, because it sounds just foreign.

Wait, so speaking of these sanctions, you're making a good point about like ordinary people are going to feel these Hard big time and I don't know if all the garks will and I think I think it's hard to target the sanctions in that way I think there's also like a lot of wall street deregulation that makes it harder to access these people's Information and understand just where all their assets are and everything. I don't think they will be hit as hard, which is a fucking shame. I mean, we were sharing that video of,

you know, the train platform where everyone right as the, you know, visa and credit card systems went down in Russia, everyone's just stranded on the platform trying to get through the gate because there's no way down. The bundling for cash, right? I Think you'll see a lot more that I was curious because I was looking in you know, I

Was trying I was like do sanctions actually work? Do they? Well, it's a they can I'm sure it says in one of the most comprehensive studies on sanctions Is it academia examine more than 170 case studies spanning a century of economic measures and concluded that sanctions were partially successful only 34% of the most comprehensive studies on sanctions is today, academia examined more than 170 case studies, spanning a century of economic measures and concluded that sanctions were partially successful, only 34% of the time. So the idea is that we can punish them economically enough and cause enough suffering that this will all either stop.

You know, he'll decide it's not worth it or potentially cause regime change. And so it says the success rate was heavily influenced by the type of policy change pursued, where it is modest, the release of a political prisoner, for example, the rate jumps up to half of cases, but regime change or efforts to disrupt a military adventure fears less well. Interesting. The evidence also suggests that the longer sanctions last, the less likely they are to succeed.

So I think in this case, though, when you're getting like, I just read this morning as of this recording, which is tomorrow for you listening, and I have to do that again where I get caught up in the timeline. Some big rushing gas company basically is shouting mercy and just saying enough like they're urging Putin to just cut the shit because it's being it's such a detriment to business. On the American side of things, the just to show how disgusting shit is, the S&P is down 5% in the last month, but Raytheon is up 14%. Lockheed is up 16% Northrop Grumman is up 23%. Oh, wait, do we have the same thing happens with gun stocks whenever there's a shooting or it at least it used to be whenever there was a mass shooting when, when that would happen, gun stocks would rally because this, oh, sorry. Go ahead. It's just gun sucks. The gun sucks with reality. Because do you know why? Because after shooting the, the

thought would be, Oh, now legislation is going to come to restrict guns. So people are going to go out and buy a bunch of guns before it happens. I also think that happens whenever there's a democratic president elected. That's true. They get nervous that Obama is going to take our guns. So let's go buy five more. Anyway, what were you gonna say? Well, I think I sent this to you, but I mean, I made a fucking joke. I would never do this,

but I was talking about buying these companies. Oh, the war ETF. Yeah. But now that this has happened, this is from business insider. Wall Street's top analysts are picking these seven defense contractors that stocked the buy. So they're talking about like the, you know, the conflict is left investors wondering how the Federal Reserve will respond to the crisis, where this will impact their import folios

in the short term and long term, and even what that might mean for cryptocurrencies. Defense stocks were a notable outlier though, with major weapons suppliers rallying after Vladimir Putin ordered an attack. And then it just goes through him. I'm not gonna list them, don't buy them. I mean, it's gross, because yeah, these companies profit off of... Oh, and there was that meeting as the troops were,

I wish we had the clip, as the troops were, they were massing troops at the border. Defense contractors executives were just openly saying, like, this is good for us. Yeah. It's gonna be good for business. For business, Jesus, God. Okay, let's pivot to the remainder of the show.

We got the state of the union. Oh, well, I want to talk about just one last thing with this. Sure. Bitcoin shut up. Yeah, I think the crypto thing is, I mean, we've been fucking begging for a good use for crypto. Yeah. I would say this is a huge one.

And I think getting around sanctions is they might have found their niche here. Yeah. Bitcoin shot up. Yeah. 5K from, well, I mean, it's obviously probably up more or down more. I don't know. For me, the biggest takeaway from all this is that America needs to be energy independent and I don't know why we're still not pursuing things like nuclear power

green energy. Yeah solar panels Get that shit up and going so that we don't have so not only it's better for the environment, but we don't have to be beholden to so that we don't have to, so not only it's better for the environment, but we don't have to be beholden to fucking Russia and this oil garbage. Well, it's funny you say that a lot of people are echoing the same sentiment that we need to be energy dependent. Dependent? Independent. Independent. Sorry. Thank you. But I don't think they share the sentiment that we need to move towards green. Yeah, they want to do shit. and crack. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm pretty sure the US is, I think the third largest supplier of oil already.

Yeah, we got a lot of behind Saudi Arabia. A lot of dinosaurs done croaked under the the Rockies. I think those, I mean, obviously I'd prefer we shift to degree and energy, it makes me feel crazy, people, talking about the fucking restarting the Keystone pipeline, like that's gonna help. It's not gonna be ready for like a decade. Really? Yeah.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. You know what's fast, easy and modular solar panels. Get them by the being, by the boom. I mean, look, that's not, that's not a panacea either. It's not gonna happen overnight, but if we're gonna move in a direction to become energy independent, I'd love to move in that direction.

And not to skip ahead. Did you hear about there was a new IPCC report? Yeah, but it's, and everyone collectively said, not now. Yeah, we got other. I mean, it was pretty brutal. What is the IPCC? I think it's the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they think about once a quarter, they release a study that says we're all fucked. Yeah. Number one, things are way worse than we thought. Number two, losses. I mean, right now, it says the new report makes clear around 40% of the world's population

is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Cool. Yeah, it's not great. According to the IPCC, the use of some tech, this one, this one hurt. I mean, I obviously knew that like some of these things were not going to work. Carbon capture, it seemed like that was a pretty long shot. Carbon capture. Yeah, these big machines that are taking the carbon out of the object. Oh, right, right. But according to the IBCC, the use of some technologies designed

to limit warming or reduced CO2, reduced CO2 could make matters worse rather than better. We're also worried that machines that sucked CO2 from the air could simply trigger the release of more warming gas. Awesome. Awesome. This is good news. Yeah.

I mean, shit sucks, just whatever. Any further delay in concentrated global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable future. If we figure, if we find out that we legitimately only have a few years to live, I'm taking up cigarettes. I'm getting a sailboat, baby. Yeah, that's a good idea.

You can ride the tsunami. I'm gonna have a cool ocean breeze on me at all times. Yeah. If I get too hot, I jump in the ocean. Yeah. You got a pee, you jump in the ocean. Got a pee, jump in the ocean. Or I could just pee off the side.

Yeah. If I don't want to get wet, because I don't want to, I want to get back in bed and get watching more Colombo, I just pee right off the side. Uh, okay. We had the state of the union. Oh wait, before we get that, what? I forgot, I want, this goes back to the rest of the thing. Uh huh.

I want to read it. I was, okay, what? So there's this guy, Roger Fishery, he's like an old academic. But in the 80s, everyone was obviously very worried about, you know, Heidekohl to where everyone was very worried about. Sure. Nuclear war.

He has one of the funniest nuclear code policy suggestions, and I want every country to adopt these. Okay. So, and this is from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist in March 1981. My suggestion was quite simple. Put that needed code number in a little capsule and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the president.

If ever the president wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him to first with his own hands kill one human being. The president says, George, I'm sorry, but tens of millions must die. He has to look at someone and realize what death is, what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet, it's reality brought home. When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon, they said, my God, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the president's judgment. He might never push the button. I love that. God, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the president's judgment. He might never push the button.

I love that. That's the point. Pentagon. Yeah, that is the point. He would never push the button. Well, you know, who would never push the button Biden? Because he's too old and frail. Did you? The state of the union was yesterday.

And my man just is like wait. Since you're talking about this, I put one clip in here. Can we watch the clip real quick? What Nancy Pelosi reacting to his yeah, yeah, this Twitter. Yeah, yeah, faced in the Afghanistan face many dangers. One being stationed at bases breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits. Many of you have been there. I've been in a out of a room.

It's weird. It's so weird. Get up and like rubbed her fucking hands together. She... I wonder like with... Three ghouls. Look at those ghouls. With...

It's very odd and nice to see Zelensky running around his country being with his... Being a leader. Being a leader. Yeah. Alert. Yeah. Cogent.

Awake. Yeah. Being able to, you know. Or lucid. And it was, you know, it makes me jealous. I want to do like other countries look at us and see that clip and just be like, America has an elder abuse problem.

This is why are they doing this? And I'm not trying to be. No, it's due to, I mean, it's obvious to anyone with grandparents or parents who have Alzheimer's or dementia, the guy. Or God, I'm not even, even if he's all there. They're so let them go home. Yeah, that was that takes place 9 p.m. Oh You you make my grandma go to a fucking thing at 9 p.m. I'm I'm gonna be pissed

There's no way she's standing awake for that The other thing that pissed me off she's gonna stand up and do weird. Yeah. And now everyone's mocking her on Twitter. Yeah. Rightfully so. She doesn't give a shit. Let her go home. Everybody in the, everybody, a lot of people were wearing Ukraine colors

and Ukrainian flag pins, which is just impotent gesturing. I feel like just, it's just a whole thing is gross. The, the, the, it's not pomp and circumstance, it's the, the, the, God damn it, what's the fucking word I'm looking for, man? I don't know.

That gesturing, the empty gesturing, the posturing, it's all just fucking gross. I'm fine with it, just do this stuff for fucking when it happens outside of Europe. Yeah. And then the big thing that he was pushing for is how COVID is basically over and we need to unite as a country. And I have an idea, just to wrap this up this whole episode, because we're just about out of time. What? No, we're in an hour, we should fucking, what do you want to talk about icon after this? What do you want? What do you think? I, what? I feel like I was at a party having a good time.

My girlfriend was like, it's time to go. Oh, well, okay, so here's my idea. Obviously shit's fucked around the world and especially in America. We're more divided than ever. You know what we need? We need an internal peace treaty. We need a peace treaty between the right and the left and everyone

in between. What? That's what we need. We need a peace treaty. Yes. What does the peace treaty say? It says everybody shut the fuck up and stop. No, not fighting because you wanted to say one thing, but other people wanted to say the other. That's why you make a treaty. So you have what's the treaty? I don don't know I'm not the fucking guy. I just say you can't come down somebody else come up with it Hey, you're gonna go down and go hey, I've got a solution Someone come up with a solution. No, I'm saying a piece treaty. What's in it? I don't know You got to get people from both sides to say hey, we want to be able to say you know this and then the other people Go I don't really like that and then they say okay, well you give us something

Oh, you know did do this and then so you're trading like okay give us green energy and you guys can say the R word again Yeah, that's it. Yeah, we won't cancel any you got we can you can have Louis CK back and Louis CK back and we're gonna give you back. We'll get back the child tax credit. Yeah. You guys can have, um... See, exactly. Someone's got to, you got it. I'm just saying.

But it's not gonna work. The stuff, you know, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what guns? I don't want, I don't want more guns. Well, you just put them with, um, you know, what more guns? I don't want more guns Well, you just put them with you just you could just make ones. It's actually work That's a fucking treaty though, right? Some people are gonna get guns some people are gonna get tax credits Yeah, I just think that now more than ever We got it we got to just squash the beef We got to squash the beef or the impossible meat. We got a oh very good

We got it already being inclusive. We got to squash it and just move on, because that's the, you have an argument with someone. You don't just stay mad at them indefinitely, or you do, and that's called being passive aggressive. But you squash the beef, you apologize, you offer concessions, you be- Not me, you say, I remember, I'm forever. I got a scorecard up here.

Yeah? Every person who's wronged me, I'll never forget you're gonna punish them What are you gonna do? I'm actively punishing them how they don't even know Someone took too long to text me back one time. That's up here. Yeah, so I left you on red You know, I hate I I just can't stand People with I I can stand the people, but I don't like it when people have the read receipts on. You, you're that fucking important? Huh?

Well, it's not important, it's just, I, because I see it and then it's like, yeah, I saw you. I think I've asked someone about it. Yeah. Most people don't know that they have them on. Interesting. In my experience, years ago, when I don't know that they have them on. Interesting. In my experience years ago when I've talked to people who have them they're like, I don't even realize I had them. The person I talked to basically said they are

bad at texting. So it's that thing of like at least they know I saw it. That mean. But I was like, I said, I think it makes it worse because now I go, oh, you're ignoring me. Now I just know you're ignoring me. Yeah. Before when I just saw delivered I go, they probably haven't seen it. I know it's it worse because now I go oh you're ignoring me now I just know you're ignoring me Yeah, before when I just saw delivered I go they prime and see it I know it's been a couple days, but they prime and see it yeah But then we all are having the same experience It doesn't like I will see I forget to respond to text all the time I see something and I eat maybe I start responding on my laptop and then I get sidetracked or I fucking change my mind And I want to say something else, but then I get sidetracked, or I fucking change my mind,

and I wanna say something else, but then I gotta go pee, and then I forget. It happens, we're all human, most of us. Not including Mark Zuckerberg, he's human. It does talk when you do need to, it's like, what? Nothing cool. Oh, that I missed this mark so I'm, Yeah, well, also, I just, very quickly was like,

no, he's human. What was I saying? mark. Yeah, well, also I just very quickly was like, no, he's human. What was I saying? It is funny how you've, oh, when you miss one, and it was like kind of an important one, and then you kind of need something and you go to text them and you go, ah, shit. Hey, sorry, I did have a spat at this.

Yeah, I need something. But can you help me move? That's fine. No. Again, it's fine. We're all in the same boat. We all fuck up the exact same way. That's what needs to go in the treaty.

Hey, we're all similar. We all love McDonald's. I don't think your treaty is going to work. I think that, well, what else are we going to do? Kill each other? The only other option is California and like whoever else is the other option. Dude, you're going crazy with it. Listen.

Go ahead. I think you just need to start implementing popular policies, right? Populist policy. Popular. Emile. Populist policy. Populist is fine too. Populist.

Popcorn. Popular policies, right? There are things that Americans want that we just can't have. I mean, you see things like, you know, when you're talking about Medicare for all, it's like 88% of support across Democrats, you know, among independents and Republicans, it's, you know, way above 50. Put it in place. Yeah. we can work the other shit out later. Talk about, you know, housing programs that actually work and provide people with housing.

The problem is partisanship because so many people on both sides have been brainwashed to think that just because the other side likes something, it's automatically bad. And like, you get Republicans or conservatives whatever you wanna call yourselves these days, railing against shit like that that helps the general public,

because well, why should I pay for that level? It's like, okay, so do you wanna really live in, are you proud to say you live in a country where you can be completely bankrupted or ruined by getting in a car accident. But I don't think that's... Or getting sick. I don't think that's at the individual level.

You have a lot of dollars pouring into campaigns saying, you know, if this happens, it's going to hurt you and your family. You're going to, you know, there's not enough money to pay for it. It's going to ruin America. Or there's just full money to pay for it. It's going to ruin America. Or there's just full-blown voter suppression. Yeah, they do be doing that. They do be some press votes. And you know what, you can blame Republicans as much as you want, but we've had a couple of years of you know, Democratic president, uh, yeah, Democratic control of the House and Senate.

Just make the voting day a national holiday for fuck's sake. And every time it seems like we've got the votes, there's just one or two people who won't get on board. Yeah, I got a, I got a, I got a, I can buy a big Mac from an app on my phone. I can't vote for the president of the United States on that same app. I should be able to vote for the president

on the McDonald's app. Well, I don't know if I'm with you there, but I think I get the idea. Give everybody in America a free chocolate dip cone from Dairy Queen. And you would get, for every, if you vote for president, you get a free Dairy Queen cone. I used to work at Dairy Queen and one time I was doing a chocolate dip. Places do that. I was coming to tell you a story about, tell me the fucking story.

It's better be good goddammit. I was working at Dairy Queen and I had to do a chocolate dip cone. and then tell you a story about. Tell me the fucking story. This better be good, Goddammit. I was working in Dairy Queen and I had to do a chocolate dip cone. And I came back out and right about here the whole ice cream fell into the chocolate and I went, oh, and then I had to start over. Go on, what were you going to say?

Wow, really? Honestly, riveting. Yeah. I know we're in L.A. I got a couple guys who work in development I think we might have a movie the dairy queen story Guys sit down you know about chocolate dipped cones, right? Ben go ahead Tom case the wound

What was I gonna say I don't know I was people already do the fucking I voted shit. Also guys the sticker. I always say this But that's the real solution vote as much as you can As hard as you can as often as you can for other people. Yes, some may call it fraud But that's just not me. Information. If you vote by mail and you live in a household with a lot of people, take your family members ballot vote for them.

And if you vote by female, you may know I'm getting going. You may know. Oh, this is probably, this is going to, I I've been I've been suggested one in a long time. I'm gonna do I'm gonna give a book suggestion here. Oh, because we're in an election year. My man read and I think. I mean, I think that Democrats are gonna get wiped out. Oh, yeah, they're gonna get wiped like my 23 year old, but. a 23 year old but. She's great. But are actually current but this is also a plug for the newsletter. Go subscribe to the TMG newsletter.

It'll it'll be in there as well. Yes, but check out listen liberal by Thomas Frank. Is this listen comma liberal? Yes. Great book all about the Democratic Party. How it became uh, you know, basically how it became it went from the party of the working class. There it is. Listen liberal or whatever happened to the party of the people. Basically how how it shifted from the, you know, party of the working class into the party for the professional class. Oh, I'm guessing it's because of lobbying and corruption and ineffective policy and career politicians.

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