1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, Higgy, have no fear that I Am Rapp 2 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: Reports Stereo podcast is here on today's I Am Rapp 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: Reports Stereo podcast. Why No Shooters, Why no NBA shooters 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: shoot with the ball below their chin? But somehow, some way, 5 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: I say in an air quotes rapper Jack Harlow has 6 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: been cast in the remake. The remaking probably gonna ruin 7 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: another classic. In the remake of White Man Can't Jump Yet. 8 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: We saw Jack Harlow at the Celebrity All Star Game 9 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: weeks ago, shooting with the ball below his chin like 10 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: a little boy. Plus a wonderful week on Wendy Williams 11 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: and I have the International Correspondent, the Official slash Unofficial 12 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: International Core find under the Iron Rapports stereo podcast Eli 13 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 1: Lake on a more serious note to break things down 14 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: in layman's terms of everything that's going on in the Ukraine, 15 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 1: who is currently under attack by Russia? All that more, 16 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: Andy's fantastic museum quality. Iron Rapp Reports Stereo podcasts coming 17 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 1: up right now, Myles Jordan Blief Brothers ak the Dust Brothers. 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: Start to puppy off. It's up real nice start to 19 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: prop you off with something real property, Yes, but most 20 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: important to start this puppy off with something real, loud 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: and real. I am rapp Reports Stereo Podcast. Let's fucking 22 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: go boom, Yes, higgy, have no fear. The Iron Rapports 23 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 1: Stereo podcast is here. Boom. Name is Mike Rapport a K. 24 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: The Gringo man Dingo a K. The Disruptive Warrior a K. 25 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: The Inflaming Oscar Nazi a K. The Sultan of Sniff 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: a KA. The White Chocolate Tito a K. The Disruptive Warrior. 27 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: They say that there's there's so many nicknames, so little 28 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: time a KA the Jewish Jake La Matta. And you're 29 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: now rocking with the very very best the I Am 30 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: Rappaport Stereo podcast this year. Have no fear. Welcome to 31 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: the Iron Dome of Disruption, the the Zone of Disruption. 32 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: On today's podcast, I have guests the official unofficial international 33 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 1: correspondent of the I Am Rappaport Stereo podcast, the great 34 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: Eli Lake, who has been with us for so many 35 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: years giving insight and intel to foreign affairs, political affairs. Obviously, 36 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: with what's going on in the Ukraine right now, I 37 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 1: wanted to get some just some information, some questions, some perspective, 38 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: from somebody who's educated and who covers international affairs for 39 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: a living. He's a pro, just like I'm a pro podcaster, 40 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: a professional ship talker, a professional disruptor. We're gonna get 41 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: to that in a little bit. But I hope everybody's 42 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: feeling good. I hope everybody's feeling strong. I hope everybody's 43 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: hanging in the pocket. Who do you want to hang 44 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: in the pocket like this week, Terry Bradshaw, I hope 45 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,559 Speaker 1: you're hanging in the pocket like the great Terry Bradshaw, 46 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steeler. And I'm gonna be in Pittsburgh this weekend 47 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: at the Improv in Pittsburgh. Uh, Friday, Saturday, Friday, and 48 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: Saturday night. I was gonna do a Sunday show, couldn't 49 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: do it, But I'm doing March fourth, March five at 50 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Improv. Tickets are available at Michael Rappaport Comedy 51 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: dot com. Then me the Greno Many. I got some 52 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: time off from the road, Okay, I ain't going back 53 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: on the road until the two of March, going out 54 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: to Spoking. Okay, I've never been to Spokane, all right, Uh, Spokane, Washington, 55 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: Ain't that right? Spokane, Washington, out in there out there 56 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: on the West coast. That's on the March, and then 57 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: I'm off again from traveling. On the two of April. 58 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 1: April I'm in Irvine, which I'm looking forward to. And 59 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,919 Speaker 1: then on the twenty nine and thirty of them in 60 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: d C. And then in May I'm in pleasanton Pleasant 61 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: in California. I performed at that place Tommy ts I 62 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: was outside, but this time we're inside. That's in northern California, 63 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: right side of San Francisco. That's in May fourteen, and 64 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: then there's some dates in the summer. There's some dates 65 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: in the fall, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. 66 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: All tickets, all information is available at Michael Rappaport Comedy 67 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: dot com. And like I said, I'm excited to be 68 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. The only other time I was in Pittsburgh 69 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: in my life was when I was doing a movie 70 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: called What the Funk is the name of that movie. 71 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: It's a great cast, not a great movie, Money for Nothing, 72 00:05:53,080 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack, Beniciel Del Toro, Philip Halfman, 73 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: the late great Philip Hoffman, Debbie May's are myself? Did 74 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: I mentioned myself I think Michael Madson might have been 75 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: in that movie. A great cast, not a great movie. 76 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: It just goes to show that when you have a 77 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: great script, and it was an excellent script. It's a 78 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: true story about a guy, a kid from Philadelphia named 79 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: Joey Coyle because the name of the movie was gonna 80 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: be called Joey Coyle who wins the lottery? Was it like, 81 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: do you win the lottery and then the money gets 82 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: stolen and it's that that that that, and then the 83 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: mob comes in and his friends come in and cheated 84 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: the lottery something. I had a great time doing that film. 85 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 1: We were in Pittsburgh. It was the middle of the winter. 86 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: It was we got snow the fucking I remember that 87 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: production had to shutdown for like five days because there 88 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: was so much snow. We couldn't leave the hotel. Me 89 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: and Benicio were hanging out heavy. I mean, there was 90 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: nowhere to go because we were literally shut in the hotel. 91 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: John Cusack, who I was a big fan of, and 92 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 1: you know, I don't give John Cusack enough credit for 93 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: inspiring me to be an actor because the movies say Anything. 94 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: Iconic movie Say Anything. Was the first time I went 95 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: to a movie I saw that movie when I was 96 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: probably about seventeen or eighteen, maybe sixteen, whatever year it 97 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: came out. We're not fact checking. We never fact check. 98 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: But when I saw that movie, I remember I saw 99 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: my friend Randy. We were with these two girls. When 100 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: I saw that movie, I remember saying to myself, I 101 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: can do that. I can do that. And I remember 102 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,559 Speaker 1: having a conversation with my friend about me becoming an actor. 103 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: And I wanted to be an actor, and obviously I 104 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: talked about the actors like Stallone and de Niro and 105 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: Travolta and dust then Hoffman. But on a whim, going 106 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 1: to see that movie Say Anything, I think that was 107 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: the first time that had ever crossed my mind to 108 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: actually be an actor. Like I said, I was either 109 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: sixteen or seventeen, maybe eighteen, I don't remember what year 110 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: that movie came out. Saying Anything's iconic film, romantic comedy, 111 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: and I just felt like, you know, John CUSACKI wasn't 112 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: a pretty boys, like a regular guy, kind of fast talking, 113 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, I can do that. Um. 114 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: And then working with him was cool. He was really 115 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: cool with me. You know, John Cusack has a he's 116 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: a dope career. You know, he hasn't done much lately. 117 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's my choice or he hasn't 118 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: found the right thing. But I'm sure he'll wind up 119 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: on some really good show to flex his muscles because 120 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 1: people love John cusack Um. And like I said, Benicio, 121 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: we were we were fucking just going. It was James 122 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: Gandel Fenian Money for Nothing. James Gandelfeni is also in 123 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 1: Money for Nothing. And I had just done True Romance 124 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: with James Gandel. Yeah, James Gamdelfoeni's in Money for Nothing too. 125 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: Like I said, it's not a great movie. It's not 126 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: a ship movie. It just is not a great movie. 127 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: And it just goes to show with all that talent. 128 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: And I just named off a bunch of people, and 129 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm probably forgetting a few more people. You know, 130 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: a movie could I mean, Philip Hoffman, a movie could 131 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: still not be great. Um. But we shot it in 132 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: Philadelphia and in Pittsburgh. And that was the only time 133 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: I was in Pittsburgh. I don't know, maybe I was 134 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: there three weeks a month, I don't remember. But it 135 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: was fun time. It was like fucking kid I was 136 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: a kid man. There was this is a simple, simpler 137 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: way of looking at life. When you're that young, you're 138 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: working as an actor, you're hanging out with all these 139 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: people that you watched act before you even considered acting. 140 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: But I'm pumped to be back in Pittsburgh. You know, 141 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: Uh in the seventies and the eighties is you know, 142 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: it was really two teams in America. It was the 143 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: Cowboys quote unquote America's team and the Pittsburgh Steelers. And 144 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: I was Pittsburgh Steelers. This is when I thought I 145 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: was gonna be, you know, a professional football player. This 146 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: is before I even thought I was gonna be a 147 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: professional basketball player. Both, as you guys know, didn't happen. 148 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: But I love that Pittsburgh Steeler team. I loved Terry Bradshaw, 149 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: Frank o'harris, Rocky Bler, Mike Webster the center because I 150 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: played center on my football team. Uh, John Colb, Jack Ham, Uh, 151 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: Jack Lambert. On defense, Elsie Green would mean Joe Green. 152 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: I'm going off the dome here. Fuck. I mean I 153 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: used to be able to name that whole defense. Mel 154 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: Blunt of course, John Stoworth, Lynn swan Man. There. If 155 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: I if I look at it one time, I can 156 00:10:55,320 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: name that hole offense and whole defense um off the dome. 157 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: But that was when you know, you just didn't have 158 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: access to ESPN, you didn't have Acts. There's no Fantasy Football, 159 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: there was no phones, there was no you know, you 160 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: watch the games and you you watch the pregame, you 161 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: watch the d end game, and you know there's no 162 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 1: changing the channels. Only four or five channels anyway, So 163 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: when the games, when you watch those fucking games. But 164 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: my favorite was Jack Lambert, I love fucking Jack Lambert. Um. 165 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: And of course me and Joe Green. Everybody loved me 166 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: and Joe Green the name as a kid. How could 167 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: you not love me and Joe Green. So I'm pumped 168 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: through me back in Pittsburgh. I want to try to 169 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: get out there and explore the city best I can. 170 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: I'm suspended in d MS. Already got one DM from 171 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: an Iron Wrap Ports stereo podcast listener who's coming to 172 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: the shows this weekend. Yo, I can't hit you back, 173 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: but I'll do my best to meet up with you. 174 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: Or you gotta do is say Dingo, come around the 175 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: dress rooms after this show, say Dingo. Tell him and 176 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: say tell Rapp report that somebody said Dingo is outside. 177 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 1: That'll be the password. In Pittsburgh, it's always the password 178 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,839 Speaker 1: Gringo man Dingo, Sultan of Sniff. Just say there's somebody 179 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,439 Speaker 1: outside looking for the Sultan of Sniff or the inflamed 180 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: Oshka Nazi or the gringo man Dingo, and I will 181 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: I promised to do my best to try to say 182 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 1: what's up to anybody who fox with the I Am 183 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: rapp Report Stereo podcast, And um, it's just been a 184 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: great week man. I had a great time watching the 185 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: doing the Wendy william Show. Do you guys fucking watch 186 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: the Wendy Williams Show? If you listen to the podcast 187 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: when I'm hosting the Wendy Williams you have to watch it. 188 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: It's bugged out. Me and Mr new York came to 189 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 1: see me do it live in New York from France. 190 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: Brought me a whole fantastic gift bag for for me 191 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: and Mrs Rappaport. He does all the cartoons, the drawings, 192 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,719 Speaker 1: the dope artwork for the Iron Rapports stereo pockets that 193 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: always repost Mr new York from France. But you bug 194 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,079 Speaker 1: out if you saw me on there, because I can't 195 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: curse but I talk shit, it's a lot of fun 196 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: doing that Wendy Williams show. I'm gonna be doing it 197 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: again in April the eighteenth, the April eighteen for another week, 198 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: and um, it's just a fun time. I have so 199 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: much fun doing it. Um. Anyway, what else is going on? 200 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: I saw that they're remaking white men can't jump? Why 201 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: are you remaking white men can't jump? Why don't why 202 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: don't you just leave well enough? Is it? What is it? Baby? 203 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 1: What is it called? Leave well enough alone? Lee went, 204 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 1: leave well enough alone? The remaking a white man can't jump? 205 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: With the rapper Jack Harlow playing the Woody Harrilson part. 206 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: I know nothing about it, but I bet you Woody 207 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: Harrilson and Wesley Snipes will be in it, which will 208 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: be dope. And then they probably have kids, and Woody 209 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: Allison's kids probably Jack Carlow, who we just watched on 210 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: the Celebrity All Star Game, he can't play. He shoots 211 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: with the ball below his chin. Any grown man that 212 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: hasn't lifted the ball above their head to shoot does 213 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: not know how to play basketball. And going funk? What 214 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: you see LaMelo ball and these guys doing real shooters 215 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: shoot with the ball above their eyes. It's not a 216 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: Papa shot. You're not in the seventh grade. You don't 217 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: shoot with the ball below your chin. That's what little 218 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: baby do. That's when you're too small. Steph Curry, you 219 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: watch those videos of Steph Curry when he was a teenager. 220 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: His father said, if you don't lift the ball above 221 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: your head and learn to shoot like a big boy, 222 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: you're never gonna play in the NBA. He had to 223 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: change around to do obviously. Now sometimes when he catches 224 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: it and shoots it sort of looks at it he's 225 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: doing that. But those are under extreme situations. There's no 226 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: gre eight shooter in the in the history of basketball, 227 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: the history of the NBA that shoots with the ball 228 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: below their chin. Larry Bird, Reggie Miller, Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, 229 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: Ray Allen, Jack Harlow, who's starring in White Man, can't jump. 230 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: Shoots with the ball below it chin. He don't shoot 231 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: it like a big boy. He shoot like a baby, 232 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 1: like he said David Bustas. Nonetheless, I hope it's a 233 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: good movie. It'll be fine. I just don't know why 234 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: they're remaking White Man. Can't Jump. Why they remake Space 235 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: Champ They're never as good as the first one. Well, 236 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: I mean I auditioned for White Man Can't Jump. I 237 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 1: hadn't really done anything, but I had an audition for that. 238 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: I remember we had the auditions first. You had to 239 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: play basketball and get approved that you could play basketball 240 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: to even audition. And I remember playing basketball with everybody, 241 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes, not Woody Harrelson, um, but like Matt Dylan, 242 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: Timothy Hutton. I mean there was everybody. I wish I 243 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: had footage of that. Every act. John qu Sack was there, 244 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: Timothy Hutton, I named him, everybody was there. Anyway, they're 245 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: remaking that movie. And uh, I got Eli Lake coming 246 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: up to break down everything that's going on in the Ukraine. 247 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: And like I said, I'll be in Pittsburgh this weekend. 248 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: And all tickets, all information for all the shows that 249 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: I mentioned are available at Michael Rappaport Comedy dot com 250 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: Michael Rappaport Comedy dot com. Anyway, let's just let's just 251 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: get to it. Coming up now is my guy who's 252 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: been breaking things down from Jump Street on the Iron 253 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: Rapports Stereo podcast. 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It's been a long time, but 270 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: I knew when this whole situation unfolded with Ukraine and Russia, 271 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: we needed the Minister, the unofficial official Minister of worldwide 272 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: Affairs for the I M. Rapp Reports serial podcast for years. 273 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:15,400 Speaker 1: Friend of the podcast and as I said, the official 274 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: unofficial Minister of worldwide Affairs, the excellent informative Eli Lake, 275 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: to break things down. How are you, my ma'am? I'm good. 276 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me, and if your listeners 277 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: are interested, this month we're gonna be launching The re 278 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: Education with Eli Lake. It's a new podcast that I'm 279 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: doing which will be political but also cultural and we'll 280 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: we'll do some deep dives and have some good guests 281 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: and one of these things, I hope to have you 282 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: on any any time. I owe you many many appearances, 283 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: So anytime. Where are you launching it? Uh, it's with 284 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: something called the Nebulous Network. It's a new podcast network. 285 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: They have something called instain Wretches. They have one on 286 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: military history which is very good. And this one isn't 287 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: a gonna be at first twice a week like yours, 288 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, well, we'll see what happens. Well, 289 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: I'm wishing nothing but the best, And of course i'd 290 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: be a guest when whenever you're ready, whenever you whenever 291 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: you want me. You have nothing but support from me 292 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: on whatever you're up to, and especially with podcasting, and 293 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gonna be great and informative, and you 294 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: could break things down as you do so well and 295 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: so basically, and I say basically in the most flattering terms, 296 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 1: because you know, obviously the world is watching what's going 297 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: on in Ukraine, and you know, I just wanted you 298 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: to come on to explain to me and to the 299 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: listeners how did we get here, how did we get here, 300 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: and how are we going to get out of it? 301 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: I mean, you could just sort of there's so much 302 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: to discuss and history and all that stuff, but how 303 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: did we get to this point? So let me go 304 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: back about uh ten years and um to understand Ukrainian 305 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: politics that there has always been a There was a 306 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: struggle after the Cold War when Ukraine became independent between 307 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: parts of the country that were Russian speaking and then 308 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: more western parts of the country, including the capital Kiev, 309 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: which wanted to integrate with Europe. And eventually the side 310 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,719 Speaker 1: that wanted to integrate with Europe proved to be a 311 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: potent political majority and of a long time Ukrainian politician 312 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: named Viktor Yana Kovic ran in I believe it's on 313 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: a platform to integrate with the European Union, and that 314 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 1: was seen as very threatening to Ladder Putin and Russia, 315 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: which wanted Ukraine to be sort of part of the 316 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: economic network that was tied to Moscow. And at the 317 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: very last minute, as Ukraine was about to accede to 318 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: the European Union, Vladimir Putin effectively ordered the President of 319 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: Ukraine to reverse the decision and go the other way. 320 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: And this prompted at the end of massive uprising in Ukraine. 321 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: As one would imagine. Now this is where it gets. 322 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: There's a lot of different versions of this, and I 323 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: have to admit that I reject the sort of Russian 324 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: version of it. But the Russians interpreted this as a 325 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: coup fomented by the United States, and they have said 326 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: this repeatedly. But it was not a coup because in 327 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: this uprising, the response that it usually is when people 328 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 1: take to the streets was quite violent, and Jannakovich ordered 329 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,719 Speaker 1: the shooting of protesters. This led to a vote of 330 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: no confidence in the Ukrainian parliament and Janna Covid fled 331 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: the country for Russia, and the sort of day of 332 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: the night, all of this is happening, right, you know, 333 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: the end of and this then is interpreted by Russia 334 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,199 Speaker 1: as an effort to remove basically what they considered to 335 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: be their pro Russian guy in Kiev, and that then 336 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: prompts the first it's an invasion, but it's an invasion 337 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 1: with special operations forces that don't have official Russian uniforms, 338 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: which is very different than what we're seeing now. And 339 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,080 Speaker 1: that's what they do. They launch a sort of special 340 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: operation to take a part of Ukraine called Crimea, which 341 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: is later than officially annexed to be part of Russia. 342 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: And then they also sort of stir up a separatist 343 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: movement in areas of eastern Ukraine that border Russia known 344 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 1: as the dom Bass and Wahansk and other places like that. 345 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,479 Speaker 1: And this then becomes and this is the beginning of 346 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 1: what is the Russia's war on Ukraine. So there is 347 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 1: a kind of intermittent fighting along these areas that are 348 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: again close to the Russian border. That's how it's been 349 00:22:53,880 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: since now fast forward to where we are right now. 350 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: Last year, Russia began again building up military forces on 351 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 1: the border of the Ukraine, and most people believe that 352 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: he might be preparing an invasion, and Joe Biden, the 353 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: President of the United States, obviously had tried for most 354 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: of one to talk to Putin and say you really 355 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: shouldn't do this, and the U S approach was somewhat conciliatory, 356 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,959 Speaker 1: and that he lifted sanctions on this important pipeline between 357 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: Germany and Russia known as Nord Screen too, which is 358 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: a very it's a very big deal in terms of 359 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: not just the economies, but like sort of the geopolitics 360 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 1: of Europe and Russia. And then the US began getting 361 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: very good intelligence about Russian intentions, as you remember, and 362 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: the build up to this, the President and the and 363 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: the U S Government began declassifying the intelligence about Russian 364 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: intentions to invade, and they promised devastating sanctions, but also 365 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: said the United States will not be drawn into a 366 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 1: war to defend Ukraine, which is not a member of 367 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: the NATO Alliance. So if Russia attacks Poland, which is 368 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: a member of the NATO Alliance, then you know, we 369 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: have a treaty obligation to defend Poland that does not 370 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: exist for Ukraine. So that was a situation. There was 371 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: a bit of a standoff, and then Vladimir Putin delivered 372 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: last week. I don't know if and the listeners should 373 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: should check this out because it really reveals his insanity, 374 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: a kind of crazy speech where he talked about a 375 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: kind of fantasy view of Russian history and asserted that 376 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: Ukraine was not a very not a real country, that 377 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: his intention was to denoxify the country. And you know, 378 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelinski, is a Jewish person, 379 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: which is an crazy thing to say that a country 380 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: that elected the Jewish president is UH a Nazi country. 381 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: And then he launched his war. And then so that 382 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,719 Speaker 1: was last week. I think Putin badly miscalculated in the 383 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: following way. He did not predict that Ukraine's leader, vladimir's 384 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: Olymsky and the people of Ukraine would stay and fight 385 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: and they managed to sort of propel the invasion up 386 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: to now because Russia has a far more powerful military. Also, 387 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin really miscalculated in the response, particularly from Europe. 388 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: And I had to say, I was shocked to see 389 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: the measures that have been taken in the last few days. UH. 390 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: It's remarkable Switzerland, which is historically a neutral country that 391 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:50,159 Speaker 1: hid Nazi gold, has decided to freeze the assets of 392 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: Russian billionaires. London, which is where a lot of the 393 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: UH what it called the Russian oligarch have of home 394 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: and they have their lives and they send their families there. 395 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has 396 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: really kind of gone into a financial war with him. 397 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 1: This says nothing of the banking system which allows for 398 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: various banks to communicate, known as the Swift communication system, 399 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: which is you need to be on this system in 400 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: order to do any kind of global finance, and major 401 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: banks have been kicked off of that system. It's a 402 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: series of sanctions that are largely unprecedented, especially against the 403 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: nuclear power like Russia. That is a kind of equivalent 404 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: of a twenty one century blockade, and that is not 405 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 1: just financial, it's also diplomatic. Um it's extraordinary how isolated 406 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: Russia is as a result of launching that war. So 407 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: that's the good news. The bad news is is that 408 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: Putin has raised the nuclear threat level, he has continued 409 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: the war, and we now have a lot of evidence 410 00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: in the last two days his military is now kind 411 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: of using tactics that we associate with World War Two, 412 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 1: where they are basically trying to kill and terrify the 413 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: civilian population using artillery and bombs indiscriminately in residential areas, 414 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: which is a humanitarian catastrophe and a pretty serious war crime. Um. 415 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: So that's the status right now. And uh, it's a 416 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: major crisis and the world really has changed dramatically that 417 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,840 Speaker 1: we're there's no going back to the sort of prior 418 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: economic and diplomatic relationship that the United States and Europe 419 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: at least had with Russia until a week ago. That's 420 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: a lot of information, um, And it's great information. What 421 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: does Russia want Ukraine for? And what would they do 422 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: if they when this war? Like why are they doing this? 423 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,439 Speaker 1: It's not just for fun? Is if financial? Reason? Is it? 424 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: What is the reason to do this? Well, I think 425 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: there's a chance that Vladimir Putin, it's crazy, it has 426 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: lost his mind. It's happened before with dictators. But he 427 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,880 Speaker 1: imagines himself as kind of a heroic figure to say 428 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: in a long sweep of Russian history. So he says, 429 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: and this is is true, like a thousand years ago, 430 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: that the origin of the Russian people was from something 431 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: when it was called Kievan rus which is the original. 432 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: So so he sees Ukraine as part of Russia. And 433 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: the problem is even Russian speakers in Ukraine do not 434 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: believe that. I mean, there was very vicious fighting, uh 435 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: in one of the second largest city, which is majority 436 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: Russian speakers, and they were they were saying, we don't 437 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: want to be occupied by Russia. We don't want you 438 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: to get away. So he may have believed that, you know, 439 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: the Russian forces would be greeted with cakes and flowers 440 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: and that he was liberating Russian speakers. But that's delusional, 441 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: and so that's the first So I think he's thinking 442 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: of you know, he's sixty nine years old. Who knows 443 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: how many years he has left. I hope it's very few. 444 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: I hope it's less than one. But um, you know, 445 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: this is he's I think he's trying to kind of 446 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: make a legacy play, and he thought it would be 447 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: very easy to walk into Ukraine, kill Vladimir's Lynski, the 448 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: President of Ukraine, and you know, the rest of his 449 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: cabinet and install a puppet government. And then I think 450 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: he maybe thought he could leave and that would be it. 451 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: And that's not gonna happen. And even if he gets 452 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: to you two key of the capital, and even if 453 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: he manages to do all that, I certainly hope the 454 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: Lynsky survives, there's gonna be a major guerrilla insurgency in Ukraine. 455 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: That's not going to be good for the Russian soldiers 456 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: who are going to have to occupy it. And so 457 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: if he's committed to occupying Ukraine, it's gonna be a 458 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: huge burden for him. It's not gonna be like you 459 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: can easily pacify it, um. And then he's gonna have 460 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: to pay for all of that when everybody in the 461 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: home world except for China, has decided that they're declaring 462 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 1: like economic the equivalent of like economic nuclear war on him. 463 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: So all these major oil companies, and Russell is a 464 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 1: huge energy exporter, but like British Petroleum, the French national 465 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: oil company, they've all divested in the last few days. So, 466 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: and the ruble is worth I think it's dropped to 467 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: like I think it's dropped maybe fifty or six value. 468 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: But now we're at the point where it's like one 469 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: ruble is worth like one cent uh. Where it was 470 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: a week ago it was probably like maybe six or 471 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: seven roubles to the dollar. Uh. This is an economic 472 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: shock that sadly, average Russians are gonna feel. But it's 473 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: gonna be hard for him to pay for a long 474 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: military occupation, and that says nothing of that that before 475 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: this Russia's relationship with Germany, Germany was dependent on Russian 476 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: natural gas. I mean, there was all this economic ties 477 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: between Europe and Russia which constrained European leaders from really 478 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: taking significant action against a lot of things that Putin 479 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: has been doing for years that are very bad and 480 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 1: undermined sort of the you know, global order and things 481 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: like that. And the fact that the Germans now said 482 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: that they're gonna be spending two percent of their GDP 483 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: on military, They're now going to be sending arms to Ukraine. 484 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: These are unprecedented moves to Germans. The fact that, you know, 485 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: Emmanuel McCrone of France has announced that there's gonna be 486 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: he's building ten new nuclear power plants so as to 487 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: become more energy independent. All of these are very bad 488 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: long term trends for Russia. I means, they're gonna have 489 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 1: far less influence in Europe and they're gonna be far poorer. 490 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 1: So he's really screwed his country over to kind of 491 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: pursue this like weird dream of his to you know, 492 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: unify what he thinks is the sort of historic orders 493 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: of the Russian Empire, which is an insane fantasy anyway. 494 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: But you know, in order to do that, he's really 495 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: made He's made his country in a much worse position. 496 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: It's really bad. It's very bad for him. Everything that 497 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: you said so far and everything that I've learned, this 498 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: isn't like some financial gain for Russia. It's almost like 499 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: an eagle play. Yeah. Man, that's fucking insane, Man, that's insane. 500 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: He may have thought that he would never face this 501 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: kind of resistance from Europe. So he may have believed that, like, 502 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,800 Speaker 1: there's no way that the Germans would agree to these 503 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: kinds of sanctions because if they do, I'll just cut 504 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 1: off the gas and there, you know, they'll be cold 505 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: for the winter. And that's what I thought was gonna happen. 506 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,360 Speaker 1: I I thought that the Europeans would would kind of 507 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: you know, went out on this. But I think two 508 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: things they didn't and to pay a full scale invasion 509 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: like that, They thought this would just be another kind 510 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: of border war. And they also didn't anticipate this guy 511 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: who was a former comedian and television star to become 512 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: like the Winston Churchill of the twenty one century. And 513 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: I think that Zelinsky's carriage. Uh, and statesmanship has inspired Europe. 514 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: And that's what they say that there's a expression you 515 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: roll the iron dice of war because you know, you 516 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: can plan it out, but it never goes according to plan. 517 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: So it's not really going to according to Putent's plan. 518 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: At the same time, this could be a disaster anyway, 519 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: because he's cornered and he's he has absolute power, so 520 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: there's no one in his inner circle to tell him 521 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: to stop getting high on his own supply. You know 522 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: what it's like, Uh, it's like Scarface, you know, at 523 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: the end, Scarface is kind of nuts, you know, And 524 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: I feel like this is like putin Scarface movies, like 525 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 1: take a look at the bad guy. The mask is 526 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: off for ever until now, until like you know, ten 527 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: days ago. Putin had a lot of people, you know, 528 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: in Europe and a lot of people in America and 529 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: the West just thought he was a thug. But he's 530 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: now kind of been a very different category. He's in 531 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: the Saddam who's saying like Kim Jong n, Yeah, you 532 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: can't anyway, I don't think he's gonna be able to 533 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: ever get out of that club. And you went, you're 534 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 1: in that club, you don't get out of the club, right. 535 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: Talk more about Zelinski and and his history, and I 536 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: mean it's amazing that I think, you know, they thought, 537 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: amongst other things, that he was gonna be a pussy. 538 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: He's just a comedian. He's a joke. And these guys, 539 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: you know, like obviously Putin, you know, takes himself very serious. 540 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: He's a serious person. He's done serious things, He's been 541 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: accused of serious things. He's a fucking animal. And you know, 542 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: pig dick Donald Trump is the only person in the 543 00:34:54,560 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: world praising him, which just reinvigorated how much of a 544 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,399 Speaker 1: scumbag he was to me, Not that I ever take 545 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,279 Speaker 1: my foot foot off the gas, but I just was 546 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: shocked that he could say those things about a dictator, 547 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 1: a murderer like um Putin and then doubled down on 548 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: them two days later. But explain more about who Zelensky 549 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: is and his history that you that you know of, Well, 550 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: I yeah, I've been to I've been the key of 551 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 1: ones that I saw him speak, and I know I've 552 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: talked to people who are like in his cabinet um. 553 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: But Zelenski is uh, you know, I think he's younger 554 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 1: than us and he's somebody it's it would you know, 555 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: it's the equivalent of imaginative. After the run of the 556 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: West Wing, Martin Sheen ran for president in one because 557 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: he had a show that was like a parody. It 558 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: was I guess it wasn't quite like Westman, but it's 559 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,239 Speaker 1: like a parody of Ukrainian politics, which you know, in 560 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: fairness is quite corrupt. Um And then he decided, hey, 561 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna run, and the people loved him, and he 562 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,839 Speaker 1: ran as a kind of reformer. And remember there was 563 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,440 Speaker 1: this moment where I mean, Donald Trump is it's a 564 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 1: paradox with Trump because Barack Obama after that war declined 565 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:18,839 Speaker 1: to send Ukraine lethal aid's climbed to arm Ukraine, thinking 566 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:23,640 Speaker 1: it would be too escalatory, and Trump in office decided 567 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: to reverse that and started arming Ukraine in twenty at 568 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: the end of ten and then used the use the 569 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,439 Speaker 1: lethal aid as it's known to Ukraine to then try 570 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,239 Speaker 1: to strong arm as a Lynsky. You remember this in 571 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: this was the first impeachment to dig up dirt and 572 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 1: to announce an investigation into Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. 573 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: But he also pursued a policy with Ukraine which was 574 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: to try to try to arm the Ukrainian So the 575 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: irony here is that it was a good bet to 576 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: get the military to start training and equipping the Ukrainian 577 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 1: military because they have put up much more of a 578 00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: fight than I think anybody had predicted. That it was 579 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,080 Speaker 1: not a cake walk. And that is in some ways, dude, 580 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,760 Speaker 1: as you call him, what is it, dick stain Donald. 581 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: So the weird thing about Trump is that if he 582 00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,560 Speaker 1: was more clever in this moment, he could have sort 583 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: of payn credit for making that decision, you know. And 584 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 1: then the other thing he said was, you know, notice 585 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: that Putin didn't do this when I was the president. 586 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 1: There are all kinds of reasons as to why Putin 587 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: decided to do this now. And explain that. Please explain, 588 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,440 Speaker 1: um that why he's doing it now, Why pig dick 589 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,839 Speaker 1: Donald Trumps the other nickname I call him pig dick 590 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, dick stain Donald Trump. Um, please explain why 591 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:50,479 Speaker 1: and the reality of why he's doing it now, um, 592 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: why he didn't do it just two years ago when 593 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: pig dick Donald Trump was the president. Can you break 594 00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,160 Speaker 1: that down in the bat I mean, I know you 595 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,759 Speaker 1: don't have the ants sure answer, because of you know, 596 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: we're dealing with a lunatic with Putin, But can you 597 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: break that down to the best shore. Okay, So the 598 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:11,480 Speaker 1: first thing is that the Russian military wanted to kind 599 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: of build up its military forces, and there are some 600 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: analysts who say that in twenty or eighteen it was 601 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 1: already And also, remember we get COVID. We're just coming 602 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,399 Speaker 1: out of COVID, so it would be hard to launch 603 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: a full scale invasion under those conditions. Um. Another factor 604 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,319 Speaker 1: I think is that and this is it's hard to 605 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 1: talk nuanced about this because we live in our current 606 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: political discourse is that you either love Trump or you 607 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,400 Speaker 1: hate Trump, and you have to have an extreme position. 608 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: But I think it's fair to observe that Donald Trump 609 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,920 Speaker 1: himself was kind of crazy and unpredictable, and that he 610 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,239 Speaker 1: was capable of wild swings in like policy that other 611 00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,520 Speaker 1: presidents before him and also with Biden are not capable. Up. 612 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: For example, remember he threat fire and fury and maybe 613 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: nuclear consideration to Kim Jong un in North Korea? Remember that, 614 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,160 Speaker 1: and then turned around and was the first US president 615 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,719 Speaker 1: to meet with the North Korean dictator and talked about 616 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:17,240 Speaker 1: how wonderful their relationship is well, that is really unpredictable behavior. 617 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,080 Speaker 1: So if you are putent and you want to make 618 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,279 Speaker 1: sure that you get to invade Ukraine, but you don't 619 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,799 Speaker 1: want to get a war with America, which has far 620 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:30,720 Speaker 1: more larger and capable military than Russia, then you don't 621 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: know if Trump is going to be fine with that 622 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,480 Speaker 1: or if Trump is going to interpret it as some 623 00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: sort of challenge to his ego and you know, bomb Moscow, 624 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: which apparently, I mean, there's a I don't know if 625 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: this is the true. I read it somewhere that apparently 626 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,680 Speaker 1: in one of their meetings, Trump has now said after 627 00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,799 Speaker 1: the fact that he said, if you make a move 628 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,719 Speaker 1: on Ukraine, I will bomb those beautiful turrets when he's 629 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:59,000 Speaker 1: talking about the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. So that's 630 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,800 Speaker 1: one possibility that he just he was too unpredictable and 631 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,840 Speaker 1: it was too much of a risk. Um Again, I 632 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,680 Speaker 1: don't I we're not inside of his head. And I 633 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: think the other thing is this, which is uh an 634 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,319 Speaker 1: inconvenient fact I think for Democrats, which is that the 635 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,799 Speaker 1: humiliation after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Whether you agree with 636 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: the policy or not, but the way it looked, and 637 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,759 Speaker 1: the whole world that sort of looked at this, I 638 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,560 Speaker 1: think gave the impression that America might be in decline 639 00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,359 Speaker 1: and was in no position to, you know, sort of 640 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,960 Speaker 1: escalate militarily. Um. All of those may have been a factor, 641 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,640 Speaker 1: but we also might must also might just be that 642 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,839 Speaker 1: two years of Covid isolation for Vladimir Putin made him crazier, 643 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,359 Speaker 1: and there was nobody in his inner circle who would 644 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,319 Speaker 1: dare tell him to not do it, and so he 645 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:53,840 Speaker 1: did it because he's nuts. What do you think of 646 00:40:53,960 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's response, his messaging, his comments on this, and 647 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:05,400 Speaker 1: will and what would it take for the United States 648 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:09,239 Speaker 1: to physically get involved? Okay, so let me ask the 649 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,400 Speaker 1: answer the first the second question. First, Joe Biden has 650 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 1: made crystal clear if Russia makes a move on any 651 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:21,520 Speaker 1: of the NATO countries, then he's inviting the military response 652 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 1: of the entire alliance. So that's the threshold for America 653 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 1: getting involved in any hot war. We are, by the way, 654 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:34,240 Speaker 1: involved now in a massive economic war with Russia, and 655 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,839 Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of cyber stuff and other things 656 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 1: that are going on on the sort of CIA side 657 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,640 Speaker 1: of it right now. I'd imagine as well, which has 658 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 1: kind of always been the case, went to the US 659 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:46,200 Speaker 1: and Russia on the intelligence side. UM. On the other 660 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: stuff about how Biden is doing, um, you know, if 661 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,960 Speaker 1: you want to give him credit for rallying Europe, uh, 662 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,680 Speaker 1: it speaks for itself. I think Europe died more in 663 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,520 Speaker 1: terms of sanctions and you know, kicking, you know, little 664 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,040 Speaker 1: things like the International Olympic Committee decided to ban Russian 665 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:13,239 Speaker 1: athletes from events. Um. So all of those kinds of responses, 666 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,880 Speaker 1: this massive amount of isolation, that was biden strategy. And 667 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:19,920 Speaker 1: also I think it is probably good for him to 668 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 1: telegraph the Russian troop movements and war plans before the invasion, 669 00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,120 Speaker 1: which sort of prepared the world for what was coming, 670 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 1: because I'm sure if the Russians had their way, they 671 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: would claim that there was a provocation from the Ukrainian 672 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,439 Speaker 1: side and they were defending themselves, which is a lie. 673 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:42,400 Speaker 1: So getting that out there that was very smart. I'm critical, however, 674 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 1: is that you know, it's good that Biden has said 675 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 1: that Putin is now a pariah, he has no plans 676 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,279 Speaker 1: to meet with him. That's all well and good, but 677 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,000 Speaker 1: we should we should stop working with Russia, for example, 678 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,080 Speaker 1: on trying to get an Iran nuclear deal. We should 679 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,120 Speaker 1: stop trying to work with restaurant climate change. There should 680 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,200 Speaker 1: just be nothing that we work with Russia on. Up 681 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:04,160 Speaker 1: is very important the current nuclear treaty between the US 682 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,400 Speaker 1: and Russia. There should still remain the channel, the military 683 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,839 Speaker 1: hotline between the Russian U S military because we want 684 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: to make sure that we have every opportunity to avoid 685 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,920 Speaker 1: a nuclear war. So that's important to kind of have 686 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,360 Speaker 1: that transparency. But there should be a real downgrading of 687 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 1: diplomatic relations. And that's the one thing he kind of 688 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,520 Speaker 1: hasn't done, but it might be coming. So overall though, 689 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,160 Speaker 1: I think, you know, I would give him a B 690 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,120 Speaker 1: or a B plus. But you know, listen, he helped 691 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,759 Speaker 1: he did help galvanize the world. He should get some 692 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,719 Speaker 1: credit for that. But I think a lot of this 693 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,799 Speaker 1: has to do with like the mask is off with 694 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,759 Speaker 1: Putin and everybody now sees, oh my god, this guy 695 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,840 Speaker 1: really is like, you know, modern day Hitler. Do you 696 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:50,120 Speaker 1: think pig dick Donald Trump? I'm pivoting here. Do you 697 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:55,839 Speaker 1: think pig dick Donald Trump will run for office? If 698 00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:00,480 Speaker 1: you had to bet everything today? Do you think slob 699 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:05,520 Speaker 1: Dick Donald Trump, we'll be running for president again. Sadly, 700 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:11,840 Speaker 1: I think he will. Um, it's uh, there's still a 701 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,360 Speaker 1: lot of factors, and there's a theory that he doesn't 702 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,880 Speaker 1: like to lose, and I thought worth it and he 703 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:23,600 Speaker 1: enjoys his life in Mari Lago, but he really believes 704 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:28,799 Speaker 1: he's also crazy. He really believes election was stolen and 705 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:34,080 Speaker 1: that he has to run to correct that, and uh, 706 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,000 Speaker 1: you know that's that is what he wants to do, 707 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,319 Speaker 1: and I just you know, if he does that, I 708 00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,279 Speaker 1: think he'll probably lose again, even though Biden is not 709 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,880 Speaker 1: doing a great job, you know what I mean. Like, 710 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,560 Speaker 1: it's not like if there was just a generic Republican 711 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,560 Speaker 1: running against Bid and the Republicans are probably be back 712 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,920 Speaker 1: in power. But if it's Donald Trump, Donald Trump, you know, 713 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,880 Speaker 1: I think he's you know, he has these devoted fans, 714 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 1: but then they're not any they're not a majority. I 715 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,640 Speaker 1: think he really scares most Americans and they'll they'll vote 716 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,720 Speaker 1: for whoever is in Donald Trump. Do you think that Biden? 717 00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,359 Speaker 1: I mean, who knows, he's only one year in. Do 718 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: you think he would run again? And if he didn't run, 719 00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,600 Speaker 1: he said he has said he has that he will, Oh, 720 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: I can't stay well, Like, what do you think of 721 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,920 Speaker 1: of Biden? What did you think of his his speech 722 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,960 Speaker 1: the other day? Yeah, the State of the Union. Yes, 723 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,600 Speaker 1: I mean I was he just talking? Man? He just talk. 724 00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,280 Speaker 1: I mean they all just talking, but he go ahead, 725 00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,200 Speaker 1: you talk. Well, I would put it like this. I 726 00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,960 Speaker 1: have been really disappointed with Biden on a number of 727 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,800 Speaker 1: things in my area, like Afghanistan, and you know, I 728 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,920 Speaker 1: don't like his policy on Iran, and I can but 729 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:47,759 Speaker 1: also I just think that he he needs to. He 730 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,120 Speaker 1: needs to as the leader of the Democratic Party and 731 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 1: the leader of the country, he needs to tell the 732 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,680 Speaker 1: people who want to like defund the police and police 733 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,759 Speaker 1: and tell us every prone down that we're supposed to 734 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,080 Speaker 1: say in the changes every few days. He needs to 735 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,120 Speaker 1: tell that crowd that it's over, that this is not 736 00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 1: you know, Americans are no longer going to do this, 737 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,799 Speaker 1: and that he needs to. It's there's just because I 738 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,880 Speaker 1: think that there's a danger culturally mainly, but there's a 739 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,920 Speaker 1: danger of this sort of far left stuff, which is 740 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:23,799 Speaker 1: very intolerant. It's constantly canceling people, and it's like, you know, 741 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,640 Speaker 1: finding this sort of won the presidency because he said, 742 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,880 Speaker 1: I'm a normal Democrat, I'm a normal person, So like 743 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,239 Speaker 1: I'd like to see more of that, and it just 744 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,040 Speaker 1: seems to kind of like incapable. He's incapable of doing it. So, 745 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: you know, my my hope is that if the Republicans 746 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,239 Speaker 1: can't get it together and ditch Donald Trump, which they 747 00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:46,040 Speaker 1: have to do, that maybe four is the year where 748 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,279 Speaker 1: we really do get a third party candidate, because I 749 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,960 Speaker 1: think most Americans are rare. I would imagine you and 750 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,200 Speaker 1: I are, which is that we're now we don't like 751 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, We're not into that. We think that's crazy, 752 00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,600 Speaker 1: but we don't like all this super woke stuff and 753 00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,959 Speaker 1: don't make stand these woke freaks exactly, and we can't 754 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,240 Speaker 1: stand it, like you know, like that remember that story 755 00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,800 Speaker 1: in San Francisco from a couple of weeks ago where 756 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:09,879 Speaker 1: they had a recall election for the school board that's 757 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, which is the one of the most 758 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,399 Speaker 1: progressive places in the world. You know, they decided as 759 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,920 Speaker 1: kids were kept out of school for COVID, that they 760 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,440 Speaker 1: had more time to like rename all these schools in 761 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,239 Speaker 1: San Francisco so that they weren't named for like even 762 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,120 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln they were going to rename the schools and 763 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,040 Speaker 1: everything like that. That's just it's so out of touch, 764 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,160 Speaker 1: it's so crazy. But that cannot be the Democratic Party. 765 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,359 Speaker 1: So Biden should be the guy and he I think 766 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:38,880 Speaker 1: he tried to do that a little bit in the speech, 767 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,680 Speaker 1: but he's gotta go further. He she needs to sort 768 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,440 Speaker 1: of tell AOC and the squad you had your you 769 00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,720 Speaker 1: had your moment. Uh, it was fun, but we're moving 770 00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,440 Speaker 1: on something like that. Yeah, I I agree, I agree, 771 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:53,880 Speaker 1: But you know, the thing is is the way he 772 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,880 Speaker 1: articulates himself, because it's such a struggle for him to 773 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:03,239 Speaker 1: articulate himself. I think debt we can't really buy. It's 774 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,400 Speaker 1: like he's he's holding his breath every time he speaks, 775 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,919 Speaker 1: and us the listeners are holding out our breaths every 776 00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,880 Speaker 1: time he speaks. You know, there's no gusto. We know 777 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:18,640 Speaker 1: he's reading everything off. There's no like power behind what 778 00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:21,839 Speaker 1: he's saying. And I don't know, I don't know. It's 779 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,640 Speaker 1: um he's frustrating. Yeah, but this is a scary moment 780 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:29,160 Speaker 1: with Russia and Ukraine, and I am really rooting for 781 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,120 Speaker 1: Bid to prevail. Like it's not now is not the time, 782 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:34,400 Speaker 1: we got to root for the president because he's the 783 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,240 Speaker 1: leader of our country, and it's really bad if Putin 784 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,000 Speaker 1: gets away with this, it would be even it's unthinkably 785 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:45,680 Speaker 1: horrendous if he uses nuclear weapons. Uh so I want 786 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,719 Speaker 1: him to succeed. But so if you would have asked 787 00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,440 Speaker 1: me about Joe Biden, I would have been spitting more 788 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,520 Speaker 1: fire two weeks ago. But you know, it's a we're 789 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,000 Speaker 1: in a different moment now. It's a little bit like 790 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,680 Speaker 1: the European Nino left. You think, yeah, I agree, and 791 00:48:57,840 --> 00:48:59,719 Speaker 1: I think you're right, And I think I'm gonna be 792 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,359 Speaker 1: kind just of that of being totally supportive of him 793 00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: right now, because it's only about winning. It's not about 794 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,480 Speaker 1: he's right or wrong. How good he's doing around not 795 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,240 Speaker 1: good now he's doing. You're right, you have to support 796 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:14,440 Speaker 1: the president, especially quite in a time of crisis like this, Right, 797 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,239 Speaker 1: I agree, you're right. You could be critical of him 798 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:22,000 Speaker 1: like but not in the there's a difference, and and 799 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,960 Speaker 1: you I don't understand that it's okay to say like, hey, 800 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,600 Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't have done it this way, or like, 801 00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,560 Speaker 1: well this is this is we gotta ask more questions 802 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,960 Speaker 1: about this that's fine. I'm just talking about the constant 803 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,920 Speaker 1: thing about like, oh, look at his he you know, 804 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,719 Speaker 1: is he senile? Does he have alzheimer We know he's senile. 805 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:39,279 Speaker 1: We know he's got Alzheimer's. It's like we we like 806 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,200 Speaker 1: speak about something else. He Is he doing well with 807 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,280 Speaker 1: Alzheimer's and being a senile old bag of bones? Yeah, 808 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,239 Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks he Based on what 809 00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,680 Speaker 1: you're saying, and I agree with you. Uh, you know, 810 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,680 Speaker 1: rallying Europe. I think that's the most important thing that 811 00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,920 Speaker 1: he's done so far. And he's done well. So uh 812 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:03,400 Speaker 1: that senile old bag of bones? Uh? Is it in there? Yeah? Yeah? Alright, Well, 813 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,200 Speaker 1: can I ask you one question really quick? Yes? Is 814 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,480 Speaker 1: this the year the Sixers finally get the championship? You're 815 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:15,839 Speaker 1: not gonna win the championship this year, but but you're 816 00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,200 Speaker 1: gonna make it to the Eastern Conference finals based on 817 00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,800 Speaker 1: injuries and everything else. I'll have to you know, listen, 818 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,040 Speaker 1: you just played like two or three games with James Harden, 819 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,319 Speaker 1: so I can't give you. I'm I haven't seen a 820 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,239 Speaker 1: guard like that. I mean, I love Iverson obviously, but 821 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,960 Speaker 1: James Harden is a different kind of skill set than 822 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:36,839 Speaker 1: even a I. I mean, I can't remember the last 823 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,279 Speaker 1: guard that made Andrew Tony. I don't know. I mean, 824 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,840 Speaker 1: who was the last Sixers guard that could do the 825 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:46,440 Speaker 1: things that James Carton does? I agree, And with Joel healthy, 826 00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,920 Speaker 1: they're gonna be a problem. And the MAXI is awesome 827 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,160 Speaker 1: and you have a real legitimate big three there. So 828 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,240 Speaker 1: you guys are definitely making it to the Eastern Conference 829 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:59,680 Speaker 1: finals if um, you know, everybody stays healthy. Um, and 830 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,279 Speaker 1: you know we'll talk before that. Hopefully there'll be some 831 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,279 Speaker 1: good news, uh, some some world good news, and I'll 832 00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,440 Speaker 1: give you a further breakdown of the Philadelphia seventy. But 833 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,040 Speaker 1: just just hold your horses. I know you're excited. Hold 834 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:16,600 Speaker 1: your horses. I'm waiting. I'm waiting for that ring. It's 835 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,640 Speaker 1: all right, all right, Well, I appreciate you breaking this down. 836 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,719 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the podcast when it drops. You know, 837 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,000 Speaker 1: you'll always have my support, and I am wrap Coort 838 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,960 Speaker 1: Stereo podcast support and stay in touch with me and 839 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,920 Speaker 1: I will stay in touch with you, Eli. 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