Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Despite the world telling Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin that he's been not nice, the Russian military has
Speaker 1: continued its indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas in Ukraine, reducing
Speaker 1: them to rubble and leaving the people there without homes, food,
Speaker 1: or even water. And when the civilians tried to flee
Speaker 1: those cities, well, it turns out that Russia has been
Speaker 1: bombing them too, More and more civilians being killed as
Speaker 1: Russia escalates its attacks. Here, people trying to flee the
Speaker 1: invasion struck at an evacuation crossing point. Twice Russia and
Speaker 1: Ukraine agreed to cease fires in order to give people
Speaker 1: a chance to get out. Both times Russia broke the
Speaker 1: ceasefires with violent, indiscriminate showing. At least are people, including
Speaker 1: a woman and her two children, were killed in that attack.
Speaker 1: We will not forgive, We will not forget. Ukraine's president
Speaker 1: Zelenskive OUs to punish Moscow's troops as he reacts to
Speaker 1: the killing of civilians attempting to flee the conflict. We
Speaker 1: will find every we're shot at our cities of people,
Speaker 1: there will be no quiet place on this earth for
Speaker 1: you except for the Great Sweet Jesus. This is insane. Like,
Speaker 1: it's bad enough that Russia is blowing Ukraine to smithereens,
Speaker 1: but it's even worse that they're bombing people who are
Speaker 1: trying to escape during a ceasefire that Russia agreed to.
Speaker 1: I mean, what, well, what's what's Russia's logic here? I
Speaker 1: honestly don't get it. What is it? First we murder
Speaker 1: the people, then they'll warm up to us of their
Speaker 1: new rulers. What's the plan? And today, after attacking civilians
Speaker 1: during the first two evacuation attempts, Russia offered to create
Speaker 1: new humanitarian corridors to allow people to escape these cities.
Speaker 1: Except and you can't make this product. Many of the
Speaker 1: evacuation routes would funnel civilians straight into Russia, which is insane.
Speaker 1: Let just think about that for a more. People are
Speaker 1: trying to escape and you're like, we'll let them escape,
Speaker 1: but into our country. Like imagine hostage take us saying
Speaker 1: all right, we'll let the hostages leave. We'll let them
Speaker 1: leave the bank, but only if they come with us
Speaker 1: to our house. Then they're still hostages. Are you insane?
Speaker 1: I mean, not to mention even refugees probably don't want
Speaker 1: to live in Russia right now when things are great
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, but at least they still get the batman.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in Russia, and because many Russians have family
Speaker 1: members who are living in Ukraine, the idea of the
Speaker 1: Russian military leveling Ukrainian cities and killing innocent people was
Speaker 1: never going to be popular in the first place, which
Speaker 1: is probably why Putin has now gone into overdrive to
Speaker 1: make sure that in Russia nobody hears about it. Well.
Speaker 1: A new iron curtain has fallen in Russia, and this
Speaker 1: time it's an information iron curtain. That's why most Russians
Speaker 1: don't know what's really happening in Ukraine. The crime and
Speaker 1: today blocked Facebook and Twitter, and there are no independent
Speaker 1: media outlets left. Vladimir Putin signing a law tonight making
Speaker 1: it a crime to spread what the Russian government considers
Speaker 1: fake news about the conflict in Ukraine. The maximum penalty
Speaker 1: fifteen years in jail. Independent Russian news outlets have always
Speaker 1: found it difficult to operate. Now it's impossible. The staff
Speaker 1: at Moscow's last independent TV station walking off set as
Speaker 1: their final symbolic broadcast played out a similar scene played
Speaker 1: out at Russia's oldest liberal radio station, Echo of Moscow,
Speaker 1: which says it's been forced to close. We just can
Speaker 1: say welcome to the u s sur Yeah, just think
Speaker 1: about that for a moment. The only place to get
Speaker 1: any news in Russia now is state media. That's it
Speaker 1: puttin't even shut down Facebook in Russia, which is so
Speaker 1: messed up, Like why couldn't you have shut it down everywhere?
Speaker 1: Why only in Russia? Which is truly evil. We also
Speaker 1: want to break from Facebook, I mean. On the plus side,
Speaker 1: the one silver lining of this is that everyone is
Speaker 1: getting the exact same news in Russia, which means Russian
Speaker 1: family dinners are probably going to be like the least
Speaker 1: contentious affairs ever, especially way more than American family dinners. Well,
Speaker 1: I heard the war in Ukraine is going well, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard the same thing. Yeah, more stuffing police every
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving will Russians together enjoying same news. So we don't
Speaker 1: disagree Russia's plan to liberate Ukrainians by bombing all of
Speaker 1: their cities, and things don't look like they'll be getting
Speaker 1: better anytime soon. A third round of peace talks has
Speaker 1: ended with no resolution. Two million Ukrainians have now fled
Speaker 1: the country, and the Russians are reportedly trying to pay
Speaker 1: Syrians to come fight with them against Ukraine. And I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like Syrians must be pretty conflicted
Speaker 1: about this because on the one hand, Russia's asking them
Speaker 1: to fight in another war, but on the other hand,
Speaker 1: there's finally one European country happy to have Syrians come over.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you ask me, I think this
Speaker 1: is a pretty smart strategy from Putin. He's probably thinking
Speaker 1: that if he can turn this into a Middle East conflict,
Speaker 1: then the West will stop caring about it. Meanwhile, in
Speaker 1: the battle to isolate Russia, McDonald's and Starbucks have become
Speaker 1: the latest Western corporations to cut ties with Russia, with
Speaker 1: both announcing that they would temporarily close all locations in
Speaker 1: the country. Yeah, no Starbucks, no McDonald's. That's a sad
Speaker 1: life to live. And no pick me up in the morning,
Speaker 1: no happy meals, or as they call them in Russia, meals.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have a word for happy, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like go to the drive through and then give
Speaker 1: the kid the food, just like looking meal. Dmitri, there
Speaker 1: is great toy of will Barrow to remind you the
Speaker 1: purpose of life is work. Do you see is your birthday?
Speaker 1: This is your birthday. You were born on this day.
Speaker 1: This is your birthday. Now, as the situation in Ukraine
Speaker 1: gets more dia, the economic fallout of the wall is
Speaker 1: spreading to the rest of the world. This morning, gas
Speaker 1: prices story to the highest average ever recorded, four dollars
Speaker 1: and seventeen cents a gallon. I just felled up right
Speaker 1: now and it cost me fifty dollars versus normally. It's
Speaker 1: cost me thirty up ten cents in just one day,
Speaker 1: and fifty five cents since last week, eclipsing the previous
Speaker 1: record of four ten a gallon set fourteen years ago
Speaker 1: in California. Four dollars a gallon would be a relief
Speaker 1: the average. There is five prices at this shell station
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, hitting nearly seven dollars. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: gas prices shocking drivers at the pump. It's a hundred
Speaker 1: dollars and it's not even a full tank. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you thought gas prices will read high, Russia invading Ukraine
Speaker 1: has only made things worse, which sucks for everybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: it sucks for parents who needs to drive kids to school.
Speaker 1: It sucks for small businesses who have to spend more
Speaker 1: money to move things around. It sucks for everyone because
Speaker 1: the price of gas affects the price of everything. Like
Speaker 1: if this keeps up, the next Fast and Furious movies
Speaker 1: is going to take place on public transportation. It's all
Speaker 1: about saving gas. And I feel so bad for everyone
Speaker 1: who gets surprised when they fill up their tank. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about yesterday you had enough money, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden today you don't. Your salary didn't go
Speaker 1: up a right, nothing in your life change. You just
Speaker 1: don't have enough money, which, by the way, is weird.
Speaker 1: Can we agree on this as a concept. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It's weird that the price of gas changes, but like
Speaker 1: instantly at the pump. Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like I feel like the change should only affect the
Speaker 1: gas that's on its way, not the gas that's already there.
Speaker 1: Like this gas has been here for a week, so
Speaker 1: technically that's the four dollar gas, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Give me the four dollar gas. In fact, give me
Speaker 1: the gas at the bottom of the tank. There's like
Speaker 1: the two dollars ship. It's been there for a while.
Speaker 1: I don't chart the five that's still coming. The price change.
Speaker 1: That price changed. I want the stuff that's here now.
Speaker 1: And can we spare a moment for this woman who
Speaker 1: was surprised there. Let me just think about a camera
Speaker 1: crew comes up to and they're like, can we film
Speaker 1: you while you fill up your tank? She was probably like,
Speaker 1: oh boy, I'm on a secret game show. Oh he's
Speaker 1: gonna finally propose. And then they're just like, ha ha,
Speaker 1: we showed you don't have enough money on the news.
Speaker 1: Have a good day, And you know you've already got
Speaker 1: a hand it to corporations when you think about it, man,
Speaker 1: because you hear people all the time going like, ah,
Speaker 1: the price of oil has gone up, so everything costs more.
Speaker 1: But they've done a great job of tricking all of
Speaker 1: us into thinking that prices of these magical things that
Speaker 1: nobody has control over. Because you understand, as consumers, we
Speaker 1: understand it. We go the price of oil went up,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to pay more. But who made
Speaker 1: that rule? Right? Oil companies are making windfall profits right now,
Speaker 1: over a hundred billion dollars a year. Why can't they
Speaker 1: take a hit, just a tiny hit? Yeah, because when
Speaker 1: prices go up. You know, the oil companies are there
Speaker 1: and they just making the money. They're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I wish there was something we could do, well, you
Speaker 1: could make a little less profit. No, No, something else,
Speaker 1: something else, something else we could do that wouldn't affect us.
Speaker 1: What would it be? The question is, now, why are
Speaker 1: gas prices surging the way they are. Well, as you heard,
Speaker 1: Russia supplies a lot of oil to the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. And even though America and Europe have passed
Speaker 1: loads of sanctions against Russia, they've cut off its banks
Speaker 1: and they've kicked it out of the U. N. Book Club,
Speaker 1: they're still paying Russia five hundred million dollars every day
Speaker 1: for oil and gas, which I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of sense. You're sending money to
Speaker 1: a country that you basically at war with. Like if
Speaker 1: you were in a bar fight, wouldn't it be strange
Speaker 1: to buy the other guy a bottle of bud light
Speaker 1: so that he can smash you over the head with it.
Speaker 1: In fact, that such a weird arrangement that many countries
Speaker 1: have been talking about boycotting Russian oil, which then created
Speaker 1: fears of an oil shortage that sent oil prices skyrocketing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and apparently those fears were well founded, because today America
Speaker 1: did this Today, more consequences from the United States. President
Speaker 1: Biden announced a ban on all Russian oil, natural gas,
Speaker 1: and coal imports to the US. Today, I'm announcing the
Speaker 1: United States is targeting the main artery of Russian's economy.
Speaker 1: We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy.
Speaker 1: America's of rally support have rallied to support through Ukrainian
Speaker 1: people and made it clear we will not be part
Speaker 1: of subsidizing Putent's war. This is a step that we're
Speaker 1: taking to inflict further pain on Putent, but there will
Speaker 1: be cost as well here in the United States. Since
Speaker 1: Prudent began as military build up in Ukrainian borders, just
Speaker 1: since then, the price of the gas of the pump
Speaker 1: and American up seventy five cents. And with this action
Speaker 1: is going to go up further. I'm gonna do everything
Speaker 1: I can to minimize Prudent's price ike here at home. Yes,
Speaker 1: you heard the President's Russian oil is now banned from
Speaker 1: the United to the States. But don't get it twisted.
Speaker 1: America isn't just gonna start riding bikes everywhere. All right,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get that well from somewhere. And luckily, America
Speaker 1: produces a lot of its own oil. There's Texas, there's Alaska,
Speaker 1: there's Rudy Giuliani. But it's not enough. It's still not
Speaker 1: enough oil. So America has also been reaching out to
Speaker 1: countries that it's not exactly on great terms with, you know,
Speaker 1: like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, to try and get them
Speaker 1: to pump more oil to get the prices back down,
Speaker 1: which you have to admit is a bit of an
Speaker 1: awkward situation to be in, you know, because yeah, America
Speaker 1: is basically like, these countries are immoral and we will
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with them. Do you guys have
Speaker 1: any gas money? Saudi Arabia? I said that ship to
Speaker 1: you before I was home. Yeah, it wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: funny of those countries turned around and and flipped on
Speaker 1: America if they were like America, we would love to
Speaker 1: sell you oil, but we cannot do business with a
Speaker 1: country that drowns civilians in the Middle East. Our conscience
Speaker 1: will not allow it. Now, we'll just kid day and
Speaker 1: we'll take your money. You should have seen the face.
Speaker 1: You're so scared, he imagine, we don't take your money.
Speaker 1: For all, America is able to go cold Turkey on
Speaker 1: Russian oil. Europe is hooked. They completely hooked for now,
Speaker 1: and like completely hooked. The EU gets its gas and
Speaker 1: a quarter of its oil from Russia, which is why
Speaker 1: they couldn't join this boycott even if they wanted to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without Russia's energy, Europe wouldn't have enough heat for their homes,
Speaker 1: or fuel for their cause, or oil for their weird
Speaker 1: Christmas black face celebrations, which means that Russia has a
Speaker 1: lot of leverage in that relationship. And it turns out
Speaker 1: that they know it. As the way of crippling sanctions
Speaker 1: falls on Russia, Vladimir Putin is now threatening to cut
Speaker 1: off Europe's gas supply. In an address on state television
Speaker 1: on Monday, Russia's deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak warned that
Speaker 1: Russia has every right to shut off its gas deliveries
Speaker 1: to Europe. He added, so far, we are not taking
Speaker 1: such a decision, but European politicians, with their statements and
Speaker 1: accusations against Russia, push us towards that. Yeah, you see,
Speaker 1: you can't go too hard after the country that makes
Speaker 1: it possible for you to survive winter. That's why Europe
Speaker 1: always has to pepper its denunciations of Russia with like
Speaker 1: the occasional compliments. This war in Ukraine is as inexcusable
Speaker 1: as Tchaikovsky's music is unforgettable. Now, of course, this is
Speaker 1: a two way streets. Sure, Europe needs Russian oil, Russia
Speaker 1: needs Europe's money. I mean, what else do they have
Speaker 1: to offer. It's not like they're going to fund a
Speaker 1: war by selling cabbage soup. So both sides of this
Speaker 1: relationship are in a game of chicken, and nobody knows
Speaker 1: who's gonna give. But one thing we do know is this,
Speaker 1: it would definitely be better for Europe and America to
Speaker 1: not be in this situation in the first place, because
Speaker 1: Putin has shined a spotlight on the trade offs that
Speaker 1: dependency on fossil fuels creates. If countries want to move
Speaker 1: to renewable energy or safe nuclear power, they can no
Speaker 1: longer afford to make that, like item number ten on
Speaker 1: the agenda, Yeah, because not only will the planet suffer,
Speaker 1: but you'll find yourself constantly having to make deals with
Speaker 1: the devil. One of the big stories of Vladimir Putin's
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine has been the surprising resilience of the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian people. But what's been almost more surprising is that
Speaker 1: it turns out the Russian military wasn't as prepared or
Speaker 1: powerful or effective as everybody thought. Yeah, their tanks are
Speaker 1: falling apart, their trucks are getting stuck in the mud,
Speaker 1: and the soldiers don't seem very prepared, which is not
Speaker 1: what any of us expected. You know, Russia struggling is
Speaker 1: not what anybody thought. It's like, imagine if in Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones we waited seven seasons for the White Walkers
Speaker 1: and then when they arrived, it was just a bunch
Speaker 1: of old dudes using walkers, you know, I mean, it
Speaker 1: still would have been a better ending, but you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You know, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: you realize there's a chance that Russia's nukes don't even work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if you look at the trucks that get stuck
Speaker 1: in the mud, you realize there's a chance that the
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons don't like they might press that red button
Speaker 1: and the nukes are just going to be like yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: please note if I'm wrong about the nukes were all dead,
Speaker 1: So whatever you do, don't act on my intelligence. This
Speaker 1: is just me brainstorming here. The point is that in
Speaker 1: the two weeks that this has been going on, Russia
Speaker 1: has only been able to capture completely capture one major
Speaker 1: Ukrainian city so far, but that hardly means that things
Speaker 1: are going well for Ukraine. Several other cities are on
Speaker 1: the siege and facing constant bombardment, and Russian troops have
Speaker 1: taken control of one especially strategic assets. Ukraine is raising
Speaker 1: alarms about the situation. If that's your noble nuclear power
Speaker 1: plant the side of the world's worst nuclear disaster, Ukraine
Speaker 1: officials say Russian forces disconnected the decommissioned facility from the
Speaker 1: power grid, but called for a ceasefire in order to
Speaker 1: restore power. Ukraine's foreign minister says the plant has reserve
Speaker 1: of diesel generators that can power it for forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: but after that the cooling systems for spent nuclear fuel
Speaker 1: store there will stop making radiation leaks. A minute, Come on, Russia,
Speaker 1: can you not mess around with a nuclear power plant?
Speaker 1: It's nuclear power. I mean I one season two of Chernobyl, Yes,
Speaker 1: but I also want to be around to watch season
Speaker 1: two of Chernobyl. Now, thankfully, the International Atomic Energy Agency
Speaker 1: says that there's no danger of a leak right now,
Speaker 1: which is good news right now. But I mean, regardless, Russia,
Speaker 1: what are you doing huh? I mean, we're already dealing
Speaker 1: with one meltdown over here. The world doesn't need another one,
Speaker 1: and a cherobyl disasters bad news for you. Think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, best case scenario, best case scenario. What happens
Speaker 1: if you screw this up? Huh? A lot of Russians
Speaker 1: get sick. Worst case scenario, the radiation is going to
Speaker 1: create an army of mutant super Ukrainians and right now
Speaker 1: you can't even beat the regular one. So is this
Speaker 1: a move we readly want to make? Now? While all
Speaker 1: of this is taking place in Eastern Europe, the West
Speaker 1: is still trying to figure out how involved Nature should
Speaker 1: get in helping Ukraine fights off the Russian invasion. Because
Speaker 1: you see, so far, Nature has been sending a lot
Speaker 1: of weapons into Ukraine. They've been sending surface to air missiles,
Speaker 1: anti tank missiles, rocket launches, guns AMMO, some legos from
Speaker 1: the Russians to step on everything, and these weapons are
Speaker 1: all helping. But what Ukraine really wants, really, really really
Speaker 1: wants is some fighter jets, which apparently is a much
Speaker 1: trickier request. The Biden administration racing to catch up to
Speaker 1: news the Poland is offering to provide used fighter jets
Speaker 1: MiGs that could ultimately be delivered to Ukraine, multiple sources
Speaker 1: telling CNN that report initially caught US officials completely off guard.
Speaker 1: Poland said it would give Ukraine all of its MiG
Speaker 1: twenty nine jets but transfer them to an American air
Speaker 1: base in Germany, but the Pentagon said no, that it's
Speaker 1: too close to direct US military involvement in the fight
Speaker 1: against Russia. Okay, this is this is weird. This is
Speaker 1: really weird. Poland has offered Ukraine fights and jets, but
Speaker 1: they don't want to give the jets to Ukraine directly
Speaker 1: because then they will be in a direct role with Russia.
Speaker 1: So instead they want to give the jets to America,
Speaker 1: and then America hands them to Ukraine. But then America
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do that because then they're fighting Russia directly.
Speaker 1: So now there's jets and there's Ukraine, but nobody knows
Speaker 1: how to bring the two together. I'll be honest, I
Speaker 1: don't know why this is so complicated. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: just got to treat these jets like an old couch
Speaker 1: that you don't want anymore, Okay, just leaving on the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: And then if Ukraine happens to walk by and finds
Speaker 1: a jet, I mean, what's Poland got to do with it? Also,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just me. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's just me, But it's weird that they're going
Speaker 1: through all these mental gymnastics here, because even if Poland
Speaker 1: finds some sneaky way to get these planes to Ukraine,
Speaker 1: is it Russia gonna know where the planes came from?
Speaker 1: You told us on the news, Comrade, did you notice
Speaker 1: Poland offered you couldn't jets? No, you couldn't have Polish jets.
Speaker 1: How did that happen? Yeah? Probably same way tost always
Speaker 1: lends butter side down there. Life is crazy. We'll never know.
Speaker 1: And this has been a tricky situation since the war started.
Speaker 1: How involved can NATO get without Russia turning on them?
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I get it. It is hard
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, this is like the ultimate
Speaker 1: conundrum of life. Sometimes, like the other day, I saw
Speaker 1: a mugging on the subway, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: jump into stop it because now that person is stabbing me.
Speaker 1: So instead I said, hey, don't do that, and then
Speaker 1: immediately jumped off the train and I ran away, which
Speaker 1: I think struck the right balance. Now, while the war
Speaker 1: war rages on the West, economic war against Russia is
Speaker 1: ramping up too. Just yesterday, President Biden band all Russian
Speaker 1: oil from entering America. But that's created its own problems
Speaker 1: because America kins still need gasoline to drive cars and
Speaker 1: to heat offices and to set their homes on fire
Speaker 1: for the insurance money. So President Biden is going around
Speaker 1: the world asking other countries to pump more gas to
Speaker 1: replace Russia's right. Unfortunately, some of the countries that could
Speaker 1: help America apparently won't pick up the phone as Americans
Speaker 1: watch gas prices rise. The Biden administration is now looking
Speaker 1: at importing oil from hostile countries, but it's not going
Speaker 1: so well. The Wall Street Journal reports President Biden tried
Speaker 1: to call the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Aramembrance,
Speaker 1: but they would not take his call. Officials from both
Speaker 1: countries are upset over American policy in the Gulf. Specifically,
Speaker 1: the Saudis want legal immunity for Prince Mohammed Ben Solomon
Speaker 1: in the US, he's facing several lawsuits over the killing
Speaker 1: of journalist Jamal ka Shogi. Back in Saudi Arabia and
Speaker 1: the UAE also want more backing from the US and
Speaker 1: Yemen to quell the civil war there, and both are
Speaker 1: also reportedly not happy with the revival. They ranni a
Speaker 1: nuclear deal. You have got to be kidding me. Apparently
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia won't even pick up the phone for the
Speaker 1: President of the United States. I mean, look, I know
Speaker 1: it's hard to arrange those calls. You know, read is
Speaker 1: eight hours ahead. Biden is asleep by four pm. It's
Speaker 1: a narrow window to make it work. But still, I
Speaker 1: must have been really embarrassing for Biden. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: he phones them and they don't pick up. He probably
Speaker 1: had to do that thing where you pretend that the
Speaker 1: other person did pick up. Ha ha ha, yes, MBS my man, Yeah, Ukraine,
Speaker 1: that is what I'm calling. You got me, baby? You
Speaker 1: got yeah? Oh, I have been working out, yeah, kind
Speaker 1: loves me, he loves me, yeah, yeah, Okay, I'll call
Speaker 1: you back all right, Love you too. You know what
Speaker 1: the White House needs to do, you know they should
Speaker 1: do for the situation. They need to redirect the call
Speaker 1: so that instead of Washington, d C. It looks like
Speaker 1: the call is coming from Ohio. Yeah, because then the
Speaker 1: saudiast curiosity is going to get them. Phone's gonna ring.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be like, ah, who's calling from Ohio? Do
Speaker 1: we know anybody from Ohio? And I was gonna be like,
Speaker 1: don't answering list, But what if it's Lebron I have
Speaker 1: to answer Hello, Joe Biden? Damn it? You are right, ship, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I was hoping you would call now. According to the
Speaker 1: White House, According to the White House, this story is
Speaker 1: totally untrue. They deny it, which I would too. But
Speaker 1: either way, man, there's no denying that Saudi Arabia isn't
Speaker 1: playing ball with Joe Biden. And you know what, you
Speaker 1: can say what you want, but this would have never
Speaker 1: happened to Donald Trump. Never. No one was ever ignoring
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's calls. Yeah, because if you ignored Donald Trump's calls,
Speaker 1: you didn't know how he would respond. Maybe he'd send
Speaker 1: an angry tweets, or maybe he just like banned your
Speaker 1: country from everything. You don't know. That's why I bet
Speaker 1: in these situations Biden actually wishes that he could hire
Speaker 1: Trump to step in as president. Wild card. You know,
Speaker 1: just keep everyone on their toes because if Trump was calling,
Speaker 1: you best believe the UE, there'll be racing to pick
Speaker 1: up the phone. Mr Trump. Mr Trump would here, We're here, Hello, Julie,
Speaker 1: doc med you made me too. Rings. We're bombing the
Speaker 1: UA and the UFC. Just engage now. While Biden and
Speaker 1: Nature are trying to figure out how to get Russia
Speaker 1: back in line, people all over the world are trying
Speaker 1: to do their part to stand up to the Russian regime.
Speaker 1: The only downside is that some people don't quite seem
Speaker 1: to understand the assignments. Backlash to the Russian invasion of
Speaker 1: Ukraine is leading to some misguided hostility in the US
Speaker 1: Congressman Eric S. Walwell, who says that the consideration of
Speaker 1: kicking every Russian student out of the US should be
Speaker 1: on the table. A young Russian pianist who is set
Speaker 1: to perform with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra this week has
Speaker 1: been struck from the schedule after protests. The Can't If
Speaker 1: Philarmonic Orchestra have removed the Russian composer Tchaikovski from its
Speaker 1: program of up and coming concerts due to the current
Speaker 1: conflict in Ukraine. The popular Russian restaurant in d C
Speaker 1: is now vandalized. D C police say several people broke
Speaker 1: windows and spray painted anti Russian writing on the Russia
Speaker 1: House restaurant. New York's Russian sam of Our restaurant says
Speaker 1: they've lost six of their customers. The co owner is
Speaker 1: half Ukrainian. He said their sign has been kicked down,
Speaker 1: and people have been leaving one star reviews online, saying
Speaker 1: things like stop the war. Just because you're a quote
Speaker 1: unquote Russian establishment does not mean you kind of checked
Speaker 1: the prudent or his regime. Man. Really, people, really, you know,
Speaker 1: the only thing worse than not getting help is getting
Speaker 1: help from idiots. People. Just because something is Russian doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's automatically bad, all right, Like like Russian dressing,
Speaker 1: for examt Okay, that that is bad. That's actually bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that tastes like ketchup died inside a bottle of mayonnaise.
Speaker 1: But you get what I'm saying. Not all Russian things
Speaker 1: are bad because of what's happening in Russia. Do you
Speaker 1: understand you're not trying to be against the Russian people.
Speaker 1: You're trying to be against the Russian government to stop
Speaker 1: them from what they're doing in Ukraine. You understand you
Speaker 1: can be anti Russia and pro Russian, all right. It's
Speaker 1: the same way you can question the Chinese government's handling
Speaker 1: of coronavirus without punching Asian grandmothers in the street. Do
Speaker 1: you understand this? Americans, of all people, should understand this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes people want to be separated from the
Speaker 1: actions of their government. Yeah, we've seen you Americans traveling
Speaker 1: around the world with your Canadian flags sewn on your backpacks,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can't tell the difference between your accents.
Speaker 1: By the way, you might think it's a good idea
Speaker 1: to ban Tchaikovsky now, but wait until Christmas comes and
Speaker 1: you're trying to get your nutcracker on, then come talk
Speaker 1: to me. But look, idiots taking their anger out on
Speaker 1: Russian restaurants in New York. That's one thing. There is
Speaker 1: another backlash that's going on with corporations, which does make sense.
Speaker 1: Every day, more and more corporations are deciding they don't
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the Russian economy that
Speaker 1: is funding this war right. As we told you yesterday, McDonald's, Starbucks,
Speaker 1: and now Coca Cola have announced that they're suspending business
Speaker 1: in Russia. Yes, which means the Russian people are going
Speaker 1: to be forced to develop diabetes on their own now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And today today another big names calling it quits. Bumble
Speaker 1: also announced that it will be discontinuing operations in Russia,
Speaker 1: removing all of its apps from the Apple App Store
Speaker 1: and Google Play Store in Russia and Belarus. And it's
Speaker 1: just the latest company to do so. Wow, normal Bumble
Speaker 1: in Russia. That's harsh. And you need dating apps in
Speaker 1: the country with a cuffing season is ten months long?
Speaker 1: Have you seen their winters? And I know you might
Speaker 1: be saying, oh, Trevor, meeting women in Russia is easy.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is look inside a slightly
Speaker 1: larger woman. But that's not how it works. Don't be stupid.
Speaker 1: This is yet another hit to the Russian people because
Speaker 1: of what Prutin has done. And you know, when you
Speaker 1: think about it, because Russian people only get Russian news,
Speaker 1: they probably have no idea why all these companies are closing.
Speaker 1: None think about it. Every day, something else just disappears
Speaker 1: from their life. McDonald's gone, Starbucks, gone Coca Cola on
Speaker 1: you don't know why? Can you imagine how confusing that
Speaker 1: must be? Yeah, it's probably Russians just walking around like huh,
Speaker 1: I guess I was the only person drinking coke. Now,
Speaker 1: as always, where the Western companies move out, the Russian
Speaker 1: government steps in, and luckily for all the Russians looking
Speaker 1: to meet horny singles in their area, there's another app
Speaker 1: that's coming out, Comrades. Are you upset that Bumble has
Speaker 1: abundoned Mother Russia? Like coward, We'll do not worry, or
Speaker 1: we put you in jail. You do not need Bumble
Speaker 1: because Russia has new debting ap putting out. Now you
Speaker 1: can meet single Russians who met your interests like loving
Speaker 1: putting or willing to die for putting or feet just
Speaker 1: swep right on fellow Russians. Then you checked feature to
Speaker 1: learn more about them. Maybe you fall in love, or
Speaker 1: maybe you report them to police. Either way is wind.
Speaker 1: After matching on pulking out, you will enjoy all kinds
Speaker 1: of fundad think adventures like storming or dessa viches or
Speaker 1: cleaning normal glowing rocks in Chernobo so fugged, So sign
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Speaker 1: already married. Is mildatory. Kim Kardashian Influenza business mogul and
Speaker 1: Instagram's Final Boss. To promote the new Kardashian show that's
Speaker 1: launching on Hulu, Kim and her sisters gave an interview
Speaker 1: to Variety where they talked about their lives and their
Speaker 1: business strategies. But one clip that's gone viral has rubbed
Speaker 1: many people the wrong way. Kim Kardashian has sparked outrage
Speaker 1: among some people after offering women career advice during a
Speaker 1: recent interview with Variety magazine. Here's what she said. I
Speaker 1: have the best advice for women in business. Get your
Speaker 1: ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to
Speaker 1: work these days. You have to surround yourself with people
Speaker 1: that want to work, no tox at work environments, and
Speaker 1: show up and do the work. Okay, okay, okay. I know.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are piste off at Kim.
Speaker 1: I know, but if I'm being perfectly honest, I can
Speaker 1: see this thing from both sides. I honestly can, like
Speaker 1: I can see it from from Kim's side. I can
Speaker 1: see it from Kim's side. You know, She's like you
Speaker 1: guys think I just take a few pictures and I
Speaker 1: go to a few events and then suddenly I'm rich
Speaker 1: and famous and you think it's easy. But it's not easy.
Speaker 1: And I understand that. I understand that Kim does a
Speaker 1: lot of work. She grinds all the time. She's a
Speaker 1: shrewd businesswoman, and she's a mom to Kanye and the kids.
Speaker 1: But but part of this idea that people have of
Speaker 1: Kim is Kim's fault. I mean, think about it. For decades,
Speaker 1: the thing that she's sold is not work. Yeah. In fact,
Speaker 1: she works really hard to look like she's not working hard.
Speaker 1: Every photo on Instagram, she's either on a beach, or
Speaker 1: in a pool, or in a hot tub, basically any
Speaker 1: relaxing body of water, she's there. You know. So I
Speaker 1: get why people have the idea that doesn't work because
Speaker 1: you don't see it, you know. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe Kim should put that stuff on Instagram, you know,
Speaker 1: put up photos of late night meetings, constant calls on
Speaker 1: product design. I mean, you can still do it in
Speaker 1: the beginni if you want, But The point is, you know,
Speaker 1: people should see more of the work they understand, Like
Speaker 1: take the Rock. Here's an example. Look at the Rock
Speaker 1: right because of his social media, I know what it
Speaker 1: takes to become the Rock. I know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try and become like him, I've got to wake up
Speaker 1: at four am every day, lift every weight in the gym,
Speaker 1: and try not to laugh every time I have to
Speaker 1: work with Kevin Hart. I mean, how can you know?
Speaker 1: He's like he's a human, but he's like just says
Speaker 1: of like a little Kevin. I got Kevin. He's like
Speaker 1: he's in my bucket right now. Damn. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing that maybe Kim Kardashian doesn't understand. It can come
Speaker 1: off as extremely condescending to tell women that the reason
Speaker 1: they're not successful is because they're too lazy to get
Speaker 1: off their asses and actually work. Because, yes, Kim kardash
Speaker 1: It works hard, but you know who else works hard?
Speaker 1: Most women, But what their asses don't have is Kim's
Speaker 1: luck to be born into a rich family with the
Speaker 1: famous lawyer parents and an even more famous olympian stepparents,
Speaker 1: and all the access and the connections that that brings.
Speaker 1: You think about it. If you're lucky, if you're lucky
Speaker 1: to have that, then yeah, there's a good chance that
Speaker 1: your hard work is going to make you successful. But
Speaker 1: don't forget how much luck has to do with that success.
Speaker 1: Anyone who says just work hard if things will work out,
Speaker 1: those people are forgetting a major component known as luck.
Speaker 1: A lot of people work hard and they're still broke.
Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of the time, the broker you are,
Speaker 1: the harder you probably work. Yeah, my grandmother worked ten
Speaker 1: times harder than me. But I'm bowling circles around that woman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you hear that. Google, You can't touch me. You can't
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