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All right, guys. John Mark Dugan.

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I'm sitting here with a very interesting guy, Kiernan DiPietro, and he has a very

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interesting story for you.

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He has a very interesting story in general.

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He is a corrections officer. What did you call it?

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Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

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For the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

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He's Russian by birth, adopted in the United

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States, and he came home to see his real family.

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Maybe I shouldn't say real family because –

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Biological.

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Yeah, biological. So for me, that's really, really

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cool.

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And –

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His first time coming here was when?

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It was May of 2022.

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Mm-hmm. Oh, May of 2022.

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Yeah.

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Your first time.

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Yes, yes.

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Okay. And so the special military operation had already

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kicked off by then.

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Yeah, it kicked off in February, so I had came here about three to four months into

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it.

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Okay. Were you scared?

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No, not really.

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Realistically.

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I knew nothing was really going to happen in regards to my trip being – coming over

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here because I came over here as part of a show.

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Okay.

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And I knew that – I mean, they would not have invited me over if they thought

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something was going to happen.

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Sure.

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So I wasn't scared at all.

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Okay, cool.

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So which city in Wisconsin are you from?

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Milwaukee.

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Oh, Milwaukee.

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Yes.

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All right, so I got to ask you this.

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So you've walked around Moscow.

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Yes.

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Have you walked around Moscow at night?

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Yes, actually.

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I like to walk around and take photos of the – one thing about Moscow is they have

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beautiful night lights.

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So I love to take photos of those.

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Okay.

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So when you compare this to Milwaukee, I'm not talking

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beauty.

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There's almost no city in the world as beautiful as Moscow.

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But from a safety standpoint, how do you feel in

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Moscow?

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Yeah.

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I would say Moscow is definitely safer.

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You know, in Milwaukee, you're isolated to certain areas.

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You know once you leave those areas, the odds of you getting killed or run over by

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a car because, you know, stop signs, red lights are optional in Milwaukee now.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But here, though, I mean, I've never had an issue.

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Only once did I run into a drunk guy.

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But, you know, he's like a 67-year-old drunk guy.

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But he – you know, I was with a friend, and he left us alone after maybe five

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minutes.

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Uh-huh.

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But, you know, it was fine.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Would you ever walk around, like, a bad

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area of Moscow?

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You know, I don't really know what a bad area of Moscow is.

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It's all the same, really.

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Okay.

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There are no bad areas of Moscow.

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I've been to over 300 cities here.

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Yeah.

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And I've never come across any kind of bad area.

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It's weird because Russia is so integrated.

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They're so mixed.

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Like, you go to Moscow.

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You go to some of these housing developments.

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You'll see, like, this huge house next to some dilapidated shack.

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Yeah.

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And it's just kind of strange to me.

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So, all right.

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In terms of cleanliness, what's cleaner?

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Definitely I'd say Moscow.

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You know, you walk around Milwaukee, and it's disgusting.

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You got trash all over the place.

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People just litter.

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It's just nasty over there.

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And graffiti all over the place, you know, over here.

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I really don't see it.

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I see a little bit of graffiti, but it's not to the extent as it is in the United

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States.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And you almost never see trash on the streets here.

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Not even cigarette butts.

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Have you noticed that?

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, the one thing I noticed here about they actually have people they, you know,

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it's a way to create jobs.

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They have people that go out and clean up and clean the streets.

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And they do a much better job than in Milwaukee because, you know, over there,

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it's, oh, we don't have any money to budget this, budget that.

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And that's one thing about the whole thing.

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Yeah.

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The whole minimum wage in the United States that, you know, because is it worth

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paying somebody $15 an hour to scrape gum off of the sidewalk or pick up cigarette

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butts off the sidewalk?

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Yeah.

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No, but some people would like $15.

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Some people would like to work for $7 an hour, for instance.

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Yeah.

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You know, maybe they're mentally challenged.

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They really have nothing to offer.

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Yeah.

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But, you know, they could have a job that, you know, at least they're doing

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something.

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And making a little income.

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Well, because, you know, also in the U.S., there's a lot of senior citizens who

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would like to go to work who are on Social Security, collecting a pension, maybe

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have investments.

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And it would be nice for them to be able to go in, you know, just do an easy job of

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four hours a day, just, you know, sweeping trash, doing this and doing that.

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But they make it so complicated because they say, oh, we want to hire you full time.

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Well, a lot of these retirees or even those who are disabled are unable to do that.

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Right, right.

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So, you know, if they made it more flexible, I think they could, they would be able

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to find people.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So, your biological family here, who do you have?

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I have my mother and my sister.

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Uh-huh.

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And how old is your sister?

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My sister is 49.

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Oh, 49.

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Yeah, I know.

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She's way older than me.

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I'm 33.

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She's 49.

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Her son, I believe, is 29.

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So, he's literally my age.

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Holy crap.

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Yeah.

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And then my mother, I believe, I know she's in her 60s.

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Mm-hmm.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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And how do you find general life?

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You know, the one thing about life here in Russia, because, you know, I went, last

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trip, I went to Bryansk.

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Mm-hmm.

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And this trip, I went to another city, begins with a V, heading down toward...

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Voronezh?

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I think so.

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Mm-hmm.

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You know, the one thing is, is here, you know, people just live their lives.

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Yeah.

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The one thing I noticed is, you know, with the metro, you know, it's like people,

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boom, they know where they're going.

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And you don't have a lot of pain handling that over here you have in the U.S.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, I've seen it.

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I've seen a few crazy people, but it's nowhere to the extent of in the U.S.

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Because, you know, in the U.S., it's just like everywhere you go, it's like you got

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bums, you know.

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Like when I fly out of Chicago, I take the Chicago metro to the train station.

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Mm-hmm.

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And just one of these things where you have homeless people literally changing

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their clothes, you know, pissing on the metro and the light rail.

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Well, over here, you don't have that.

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You know, it's more, it's more controlled over here.

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Yeah.

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It's more safer.

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It's more cleaner.

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It's just not as, again, disgusting as over there.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's...

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Even, I don't know if you've ever been in New York subway.

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It's...

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New York subway is supposed to be like the best subway in America, and it's

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just absolute trash.

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Yeah.

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Compared to the metro here.

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Yeah.

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So the metro here is absolutely gorgeous.

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Spotless.

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No trash anywhere.

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I mean, you could literally lick the floor.

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Yeah.

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And...

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And the one thing I want to comment about, I like about the stations here.

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They're very...

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They're artistic.

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Mm-hmm.

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But they have...

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They're different.

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They have different...

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You know, they're not all the same.

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Right.

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Each station you go to, I know I'm...

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You know, they're like, for example, when I...

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I live by 1905, so when I go there, it's like I know I'm there based off the design.

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Mm-hmm.

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Where if I go to another one, it's like, oh, wow, you know, it's different.

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And that's what's unique about the Moscow metro is each of them are unique in their

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own right.

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Yeah.

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So...

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So you stopped in the city of Voronezh, which I happen to love Voronezh.

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It's one of my favorite cities in Russia.

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Where were you...

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Where were you going?

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Well, I was going to go to Donbass, Donetsk, and Mariupol area.

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Uh-huh.

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And did you get there?

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Yes.

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Yes, you did.

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Yeah.

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In fact, I saw some really cool photos of you in Azovstal.

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Yeah.

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And what were your impressions?

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Well, the first thing that I noticed right away is just all the destruction and the

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damage.

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Yeah.

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When you go there, obviously, you...

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One of the things that shook me by surprise was you see an apartment building, and

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on the one side,

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these huge artillery blasts, but then you walk to the other side of the building,

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and there's no damage.

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And the really sad part is you got people still living in them.

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I know.

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Where in the U.S., they would be condemned.

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Yeah.

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Now, the one thing I did know is when we were...

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Again, I was part of a show.

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When we were taping out there, we had a lot of people from the Moscow crew coming

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up to us and telling us,

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oh, yeah, where are we building this?

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And so, you know, and even on the way into Mariupol, you had the contractors or the

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workers rebuilding the roads,

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trying to put up the lampposts, you know, trying to bring life back to...

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Yeah.

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Yeah, man.

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I was there in May.

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If you would have seen it back then, it was shocking.

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Yeah.

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It was...

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But now life is, like, returning.

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You got all these markets.

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Yeah.

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Because, you know, when I was there, too, we saw people standing outside the bank,

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you know,

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people slowly adjusting back to a normal life, which was good.

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Again, it's going to take a while.

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Obviously, we build everything.

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But it's good that we saw...

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You know, we saw, for example, we saw a mom taking her kid to school.

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Yeah.

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You know, and that's the ultimate.

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The ultimate sign of life coming back to normal is a kid going back to school.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I wish you could have met the Mariupol mayor with me.

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Okay.

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He's a very cool guy.

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Yeah.

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And actually, his interview is going to be up.

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Well, by the time this interview is up, his interview is already up.

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Okay.

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So, you know, if you're watching this, you have to go check out my interview with

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the Mariupol mayor.

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Very, very nice guy.

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Kind of reminds me of my dad.

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Did you talk to people there?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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There were a few people there that knew how to speak English.

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So, it was kind of nice to get a firsthand story from them about their side of the

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story.

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And what I heard was...

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So, isolating to Mariupol, we won't get into Donbass, Danez.

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We'll get into that in a second.

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But the thing about Mariupol was a lot of the natives told me that what happened

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was after the conflict started,

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the Ukrainian military withdrew from Mariupol, realizing they couldn't contain it.

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The problem is the Azov battalion...

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The Azov battalion, which is not part of the Ukrainian military, they refused and

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they stayed in Mariupol.

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And they set up all these booby traps and so on and so on.

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And the people there said if it wasn't for the Azov battalion, half the damage

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would have never happened.

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Right.

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And they said that the Azov were holding people hostages in the steel plants.

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And that's why there is, you know, all over the global news, there's a siege of the

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Azov steel plant.

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Yeah.

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But the locals there, you know, it was kind of...

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It was kind of interesting when I was there because you had some of them were

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afraid of us.

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But most of them were fine.

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They came right up to us and talked.

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And, you know, I didn't feel a thing there at all.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, a lot of people were afraid to talk to Americans there.

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Because, well, naturally.

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Yeah.

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Naturally, because America is backing Ukraine in this conflict.

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Well, the thing, when I was there, I was with a Russian crew.

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So, you know, the one reporter was holding the Russian microphone that said Russia

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on it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, I think that kind of made things a little more comfortable.

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Yeah.

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But, I mean, I could tell definitely when I was there, you know, I was looking

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around.

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And, you know, people were kind of curious.

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More curious than anything.

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Because they saw me speaking English because I don't speak Russian.

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Right, right.

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And that's when some of the people came up.

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And they were real nice.

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And, you know, I didn't have any hostilities or anything towards me or towards us,

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you know, as a crew.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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That's really good.

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Sorry.

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You're fine.

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And did you notice any difference

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from the attitude and the atmosphere

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in Mariupol than what's been reported

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in the Western mainstream media?

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Yeah.

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The big thing was, you know, in the Western media, they portray it as, you know,

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Russia is the occupier, that Russia is basically, you know, that they're…

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They're terrorizing the people, terrorizing the locals there.

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But that's not really the case.

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Again, when you have people standing outside a bank, people coming up to me, coming

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up to us, explaining what's happening, explaining their side of the story.

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You know, the Azov steel plant, the thing that shocked me the most, to tell you the

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truth, there was people taking photos like it's a tourist attraction.

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Yeah.

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That shocked me because it's just like here we are in the U.S. access.

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They have the people that are depressed and not doing anything.

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But, again, you had a mom taking her kid to school.

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And it just…

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It wasn't at all how the West portrays it.

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Yeah.

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So where else in Donbass did you go?

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I went to Donetsk.

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Let's see.

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So I'm not exactly sure of the location because they didn't really tell me the

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locations for security reasons.

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But in Donetsk, there's a park where they make steel plants with

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steel…

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They make steel ornaments in the park.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so we went.

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And there's a lady named Galina who was showing us around.

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And she was captured by the Ukrainians in 2015.

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And she explained to us her story, what happens.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then we went on a humanitarian mission.

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Cool.

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So we had to do the humanitarian part.

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So outside of the city of…

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Direct city of Mariupol, I can tell you that I don't know exactly where we were.

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Again, I don't know the exact locations.

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I don't know the addresses.

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But we were in this area.

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And it looked essentially like the slumps.

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And it was horrific.

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Horrific conditions.

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Yeah.

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And we were, you know, obviously with humanitarian aid, gave out dog food, food,

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toys, cat food, so on and so on.

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But when I was walking around, you had these houses where people don't have…

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You know, they have to plant these soda, these two-liter soda bottles under…

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Parceling into the ground to keep their food cold.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You know, I saw that for the first time.

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Now, you hear about it in the U.S., but you don't actually think people do it.

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You know, you do it more as a joke in the U.S.

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Because everybody has a freezer, refrigerator.

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Yeah, sure.

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And then I found out…

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And then I found out that some of the ladies where they were living, their houses

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were destroyed.

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So that's why they had to move in with neighbors and so on and so on.

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So they were trying to consolidate their resources.

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Got it.

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Yeah.

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But, yeah, we went to, again, Donetsk.

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We went to Mariupol.

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We went to different parts of Donetsk.

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You know, the thing that caught me by surprise, talking about how the U.S.

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portrays the Ukrainian military as, oh, they only strike military installations.

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Yeah.

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This is interesting.

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I want to hear your opinion on this.

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Yeah.

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I can tell you firsthand that we were in this park, and there's a children's

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playground right there.

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And we're looking at the steel statues that they're putting up.

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I looked over, and I saw this bench was all torn up.

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And I looked over, and I saw an artillery shell or a missile.

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I'm not exactly sure what it was.

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Right there in the ground, literally within feet of a children's playground.

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And we know it was Ukrainian because just of the direction of the rockets.

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We know that Russia would not have fired a rocket toward the Russian border.

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We know that that would have been, you know, stupid.

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So we knew it was Ukrainian.

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And it was surprising to me to see it firsthand that there's a missile right here

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within feet of a children's playground.

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Now, luckily, the fire department—now, we were told, you know, don't get too close

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to it because it could still be active.

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But the fire department came, and, you know, they were inspecting.

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And they ended up removing it before we left.

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But it was kind of fascinating to see that, that the West only portrays one side of

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the story, you know, as, again, Russia's evil.

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Russia this, Russia that, and Ukraine are these patriotic heroes.

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When you see—for example, do you remember the Russian space agency director's house

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got blown up?

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That's when I was there, like last week or just recently.

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No, I don't.

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Okay, so basically the Russian space agency director in Donbass, his house got

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blown up by a Ukrainian rocket.

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And he actually got injured in a restaurant.

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Okay.

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And I actually go to the house.

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And when you go to the house, it's in the middle.

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It's in the middle of nowhere.

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So Ukraine intentionally attacked his house.

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Right.

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And when, you know, I'm there, and I'm reporting.

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You see glass all over the place.

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You see wood all over the place.

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And you're looking around, and it's like, well, there's no military—there's no

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weapons, no artillery, nothing here.

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This was a deliberate attack by the Ukrainians to try to kill as many Russian, you

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know, leaders as possible.

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Going back to the missile that you saw in the playground, what

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was around that area?

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Did you see any troops, any military vehicles?

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No.

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That's what I'm saying.

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There was nothing there.

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You know, this was just a park where people—what they do, which is kind of cool.

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I like this.

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What they do is they grab the shrapnel from the damage, and then they make these

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steel designs, and they put it in this park, kind of like as a memorial.

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Yeah.

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And as a—it helps them cope with their pain and their suffering.

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And there's nothing there.

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I mean, it was wide open.

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You know, it's in the middle of a pedestrian park where people go, and I'm assuming

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kids go there and play.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the missile, yeah, there was no weapons, nothing, no troops, nothing there.

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Yeah.

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That's very sad.

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Yeah.

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And this has been the theme all through Donetsk, not just since

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the start of the special military operation, but since 2014.

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Yeah.

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I want to comment on that because some of the locals in Donetsk were telling me

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that there was Ukrainian shelling.

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I'm telling you, when I was in Donetsk, I saw a hotel.

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Mm-hmm.

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A hospital, schools, completely obliterated, you know, destroyed.

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You had wooden billboards blocking up the windows.

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Yeah.

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And the locals there told me that it was years from 2015 to 2021 of Ukrainian

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shelling into that region.

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Yeah.

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You know, I kind of find that interesting because the United States says Russia's

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committing all these war crimes, but it's like, well, why don't you look at what

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they did?

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And I'm telling you, all the locals said the same thing.

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Yeah.

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And they said that it was Ukraine that basically destroyed all these.

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They destroyed all these civilian infrastructure in the Donetsk-Donbass area, and

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the world didn't even blink an eye.

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They didn't care until all of a sudden Russia got involved, and oh, my God, it's

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the end of the world.

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That's it.

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The humanitarian aid, definitely, they need a lot of humanitarian aid.

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Yeah.

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I mean, when we were there, we had no running water.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yeah, I know.

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It sucks, doesn't it?

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Yeah.

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It's living like back in the 1800s.

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Yeah.

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You have to get a – you have to – I don't know where they get water from.

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We didn't get the water.

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Out of a lake.

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Okay.

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They pump it out of a lake, and they filter it.

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Okay.

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Yeah, it's really cool, actually.

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Yeah, because you have to fill these huge buckets of water, and you have to have

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them sitting around the house.

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Yeah.

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You know, one of the things about Donetsk was we went to an art studio.

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Uh-huh.

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And it's kind of fascinating because, you know, we got to walk around, and we got

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to see a stage where kids used to perform.

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Obviously, they don't do it anymore.

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And we got to see all the art.

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And the thing that was – that caught my attention in the art studio was you had –

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over in the corner, you had these paper – like paper statues of these three cats.

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Yeah.

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They were in the corner.

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So I asked the lady.

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I'm like, you know, I thought that was kind of fascinating.

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I knew it was done by kids.

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I said, well, what's that for?

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And she told me it was done a few months ago, and she said, basically, there used

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to be three cats that hung around the art studio that were bad.

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You know, every time you tried to paint, they'd knock the paint over.

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Oh, yeah.

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And she said, so the kids made the statue of them in timeout.

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And it's just kind of interesting that even during a war zone, you can still have a

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sense of humor and still have, you know, bring – you know, have the kids be

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entertaining and express themselves.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But, no, I mean, in regards to the – I mean, there's so much that I saw.

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Like, when I was going through Donetsk, I saw complete markets just destroyed,

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completely boarded up.

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Obviously, I saw the space director, the Russian space director's house firsthand

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literally within a couple hours after it was hit by the artillery rocket.

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I saw – you know, the one thing I will say, also unrelated to the war situation,

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the one thing that I did see that I found fascinating was I can tell you –

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The roads are just god-awful in eastern Ukraine.

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Yes, they are.

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Yes, they are.

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They're trash, yeah.

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You know, you got big potholes.

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I mean, pretty much it's like going through a jigsaw.

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You got to constantly – you can't drive straight.

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You got to drive off the road, avoid this pothole.

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I mean, it's kind of like reminding you of being in some of the roads in the U.S.

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And that kind of gave me the indication when I was there that Ukraine, even before

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the whole conflict started, you know, not the Russia thing, but back in 2015, it

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gave me the indication they never spent any money in –

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Dumbass.

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Yeah, in that area at all.

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And the one thing, too, that I want to comment on, when I was in Donbass, Donetsk,

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not so much in Mariupol because that's like – that's a whole other situation.

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When you're in there, you have the feeling that people want to be part of Russia,

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that they don't want to be a part of Ukraine.

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When you're there, you see Russian flags, the DPR flags all over the place.

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You know, you go to the market and they're selling all types of Donbass, DPR, you

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know, stuff all over the place.

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It's real popular.

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And I went to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Donetsk, Donbass, and I went

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inside the museum, the World War II Museum.

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Obviously, it's closed now, but we got to go inside for some filming.

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And it was fascinating because, you know, you still have people that are still

00:21:24.094 --> 00:21:28.413
operating these buildings, you know, making sure the stuff, you know, doesn't

00:21:28.413 --> 00:21:30.240
deteriorate, doesn't go to waste.

00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:34.485
So I thought it was good that, you know, people are trying to hopefully live back

00:21:34.485 --> 00:21:35.120
normal lives.

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Mm-hmm.

00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:38.120
And I know one of the residents was telling me that –

00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:40.045
The biggest fear is that with the U.S.

00:21:40.045 --> 00:21:43.840
backing Ukraine is that the Ukrainians will be able to push back and take it back.

00:21:43.980 --> 00:21:46.580
And a lot of them don't want to be part of Ukraine anymore.

00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:47.140
Yeah, yeah.

00:21:47.580 --> 00:21:49.160
The vast majority of them don't.

00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:49.360
Yeah.

00:21:50.620 --> 00:21:52.120
And that's even in Mariupol, though.

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Mm-hmm.

00:21:52.620 --> 00:21:52.800
Yeah.

00:21:52.800 --> 00:21:53.660
That's even in Mariupol.

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Yeah.

00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:03.336
Regarding funding, regarding the U.S.

00:22:03.336 --> 00:22:06.520
sending all this money for weapons.

00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.520
What are your thoughts on this?

00:22:11.180 --> 00:22:14.981
Honestly, I don't think they should be doing it because, you know, it's in the

00:22:14.981 --> 00:22:18.926
American news that the American stockpile is running low so they can give all the

00:22:18.926 --> 00:22:19.840
weapons to Ukraine.

00:22:20.080 --> 00:22:20.360
Mm-hmm.

00:22:20.560 --> 00:22:23.471
But, you know, I don't agree with it because, first of all, we have so many

00:22:23.471 --> 00:22:24.620
problems in the United States.

00:22:25.080 --> 00:22:25.180
Mm-hmm.

00:22:25.180 --> 00:22:26.920
You know, every year is the same thing.

00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:28.440
Don't have enough money to fund schools.

00:22:28.560 --> 00:22:32.540
Don't have enough money to fund – can't fund hospitals, can't fund Social Security.

00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:35.137
You know, they keep saying Social Security is going to go bankrupt, but then every

00:22:35.137 --> 00:22:36.440
week they give a billion dollars to Ukraine.

00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:36.760
No.

00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:37.060
Right.

00:22:37.060 --> 00:22:37.880
What sense that makes?

00:22:38.060 --> 00:22:38.220
Right.

00:22:38.320 --> 00:22:38.480
Right.

00:22:38.820 --> 00:22:41.727
You get all these pensions in the localities that are about to be bankrupt, but

00:22:41.727 --> 00:22:44.380
they have no problem giving, you know, wasting all this money on Ukraine.

00:22:44.560 --> 00:22:44.800
Right.

00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:47.268
And it's like, at the end of the day, we know when, you know, the U.S.

00:22:47.268 --> 00:22:48.460
is never going to get the money back.

00:22:49.120 --> 00:22:51.180
You know, it's just a waste of money.

00:22:51.180 --> 00:22:56.218
We should be focusing their efforts into making sure America – you know, we could

00:22:56.218 --> 00:22:58.000
be doing scientific research.

00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:01.933
You know, and that's why I think America is falling because they're so worried

00:23:01.933 --> 00:23:05.268
about what's happening in Ukraine that they're ignoring their own situations in

00:23:05.268 --> 00:23:06.060
their own backyard.

00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:08.180
Well, it's money.

00:23:08.380 --> 00:23:09.660
It's money for the military-industrial complex.

00:23:10.140 --> 00:23:14.392
Well, yeah, because, you know, one of the things is if you look at the military

00:23:14.392 --> 00:23:18.644
contractors, Halliburton, Boeing, I think Bristol-Myers, if you look at all the

00:23:18.644 --> 00:23:21.780
military contractors, they're making a killing off of this.

00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:22.500
Yes, they are.

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Because, you know, they're increasing production, and then, again, instead of

00:23:27.131 --> 00:23:31.940
keeping, you know, preparing our military arsenal, we're giving all our military

00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:35.680
arsenal over to Ukraine, which is being destroyed within a day.

00:23:36.300 --> 00:23:38.220
And also, you know, a lot of people in the U.S. –

00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:41.835
u.s also the one thing i want to comment on there's a lot of people i talked to in

00:23:41.835 --> 00:23:42.140
the u.s

00:23:42.140 --> 00:23:46.355
you know they're against funding operation for ukraine because they say it's not

00:23:46.355 --> 00:23:46.980
it's not our

00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:52.192
problem why are we the police of the world you know i mean we just spent time in

00:23:52.192 --> 00:23:52.900
afghanistan

00:23:52.900 --> 00:23:57.328
iraq and all of a sudden we're in this conflict that has nothing to do with us well

00:23:57.328 --> 00:23:57.960
i think it's

00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:03.116
bigger than that though because why are we funding it if uh i mean we're funding it

00:24:03.116 --> 00:24:04.160
based off a false

00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:10.028
narrative yeah that russia has invaded ukraine yeah which you know uh

00:24:10.028 --> 00:24:12.040
everybody everybody here

00:24:12.040 --> 00:24:17.897
and everybody in the donbass knows that um uh the ukrainians have been killing

00:24:17.897 --> 00:24:19.380
their own people for

00:24:19.380 --> 00:24:23.258
years well it's deeper than that too you know i did research upon this situation

00:24:23.258 --> 00:24:23.880
before coming

00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:28.283
out here and the one thing that i saw was there was a coup in ukraine you know you

00:24:28.283 --> 00:24:28.920
can get into

00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:31.859
conspiracy theory whether you think it was led by the cia because you know they

00:24:31.859 --> 00:24:32.300
kicked out a

00:24:32.300 --> 00:24:34.140
russian president put in a pro-us president

00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:39.980
well it's not a conspiracy theory yeah newland victoria newland is on record or

00:24:39.980 --> 00:24:40.780
on a secret

00:24:40.780 --> 00:24:45.061
tape recording actually uh talk about who they're going to install yeah not just

00:24:45.061 --> 00:24:45.960
that though but i

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.176
think about it you know joe biden becomes president and when he was running for

00:24:49.176 --> 00:24:50.020
real uh for president

00:24:50.020 --> 00:24:55.077
all of a sudden you had all these controversies happen where you had his son hunter

00:24:55.077 --> 00:24:55.800
biden was in

00:24:55.800 --> 00:25:01.134
ukraine even donald trump said you know how do you get this 200 000 job a 200 000

00:25:01.134 --> 00:25:02.240
job for a company

00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:03.804
in ukraine and now all of a sudden you're in ukraine and you're in ukraine and

00:25:03.804 --> 00:25:04.140
you're in ukraine

00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:07.218
and you know joe biden is giving all this free aid to ukraine yeah isn't that kind

00:25:07.218 --> 00:25:07.700
of suspicious

00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:10.991
absolutely you know there's a lot of fishy things going on but the one thing i want

00:25:10.991 --> 00:25:11.500
to talk about

00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:15.858
about the ukrainian governments is after this coup all of a sudden ukraine started

00:25:15.858 --> 00:25:16.540
passing these

00:25:16.540 --> 00:25:20.847
anti-russian laws in ukraine you know they made it a fine to even speak russian you

00:25:20.847 --> 00:25:21.360
can't have

00:25:21.360 --> 00:25:25.056
anything posted in russia and it's like now getting into the united states you know

00:25:25.056 --> 00:25:25.540
part of the

00:25:25.540 --> 00:25:30.135
constitution says freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of you know press

00:25:30.135 --> 00:25:30.920
blah blah blah

00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:34.060
but it's like united states has no problem allowing ukraine to

00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:39.126
suppress the russians right you know and to me this is bigger than just the uh this

00:25:39.126 --> 00:25:39.660
is bigger

00:25:39.660 --> 00:25:45.247
than what's happening right now you know i um it just shows you how manipulative

00:25:45.247 --> 00:25:46.420
the u.s media can

00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:51.090
be in portraying you know everything now is is anti-russia you know when the whole

00:25:51.090 --> 00:25:51.540
conflict

00:25:51.540 --> 00:25:57.224
started when putin declared a russian operation all over the american news you had

00:25:57.224 --> 00:25:57.840
all these

00:25:57.840 --> 00:26:03.220
people burning russian vodka bottles you know anything anti-russia you had all this

00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:03.860
stuff this

00:26:03.860 --> 00:26:04.160
anti-russia you had all these people burning russian vodka bottles you know

00:26:04.066 --> 00:26:04.120
anything anti-russia

00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:04.899
you had all these people burning russian vodka bottles you know anything

00:26:04.899 --> 00:26:05.240
anti-russian sediment coming out

00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:06.207
russian vodka bottles you know anything anti-russian sediment coming out which i'm

00:26:06.207 --> 00:26:06.440
glad it did come out

00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:08.317
anti-russian sediment coming out which i'm glad it did come out because it exposed

00:26:08.317 --> 00:26:08.520
the truth

00:26:08.520 --> 00:26:09.975
which i'm glad it did come out because it exposed the truth you know it exposed the

00:26:09.975 --> 00:26:10.200
hatred toward

00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:11.854
because it exposed the truth you know it exposed the hatred toward russia in the

00:26:11.854 --> 00:26:12.120
united states

00:26:12.120 --> 00:26:14.143
you know it exposed the hatred toward russia in the united states but the thing too

00:26:14.143 --> 00:26:14.600
is like then all of

00:26:14.600 --> 00:26:16.663
russia in the united states but the thing too is like then all of a sudden you know

00:26:16.663 --> 00:26:17.080
you had all these

00:26:17.080 --> 00:26:18.509
but the thing too is like then all of a sudden you know you had all these weapons

00:26:18.509 --> 00:26:18.840
and so on and so on

00:26:18.840 --> 00:26:20.142
a sudden you know you had all these weapons and so on and so on funding well first

00:26:20.142 --> 00:26:20.440
thing let me let me

00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:23.598
me go back let me back go backtrack for a little bit the first thing they did was

00:26:23.598 --> 00:26:24.060
they had all

00:26:24.060 --> 00:26:29.046
these american corporations pulling out of russia and all these americans oh yeah

00:26:29.046 --> 00:26:30.140
but it's like what

00:26:30.140 --> 00:26:32.989
they don't realize is you know what they're doing all they're doing is jacking up

00:26:32.989 --> 00:26:33.580
the prices in the

00:26:33.580 --> 00:26:36.977
united states and they're calling it inflation and we're getting quotes you know

00:26:36.977 --> 00:26:37.480
that's their

00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:42.262
always inflation no it's not like visa you know visa came out i think they said

00:26:42.262 --> 00:26:42.800
they lost

00:26:42.800 --> 00:26:47.150
they did an average of a few billion dollars in russia a year yeah of course in

00:26:47.150 --> 00:26:48.020
transaction fees

00:26:48.020 --> 00:26:52.179
all of a sudden you lose that money where are you going to make that up well see

00:26:52.179 --> 00:26:53.000
i've been saying

00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:56.429
that for years i've been saying that since the special military operation yeah

00:26:56.429 --> 00:26:57.080
we're all these

00:26:57.080 --> 00:27:02.800
um we're we're all these uh companies pulled out it's like what the hell yeah

00:27:02.800 --> 00:27:04.120
well you're you're

00:27:04.120 --> 00:27:09.432
why yeah and that's another thing too you know on one hand they say oh corporations

00:27:09.432 --> 00:27:10.380
shouldn't be uh

00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:15.580
shouldn't be geopolitical you know into geopolitical issues but if that doesn't tell

00:27:15.580 --> 00:27:18.000
you that these corporations all of a sudden are being bought

00:27:18.020 --> 00:27:22.600
or buying the government that that's really what it is yeah it's like facebook

00:27:22.600 --> 00:27:23.760
facebook twitter you

00:27:23.760 --> 00:27:28.871
know i'm making these accounts so it's okay for all these people to come out off

00:27:28.871 --> 00:27:29.880
kill russia fuck

00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:34.755
russia everything anti-russia but if i come out and i say i'm proud to be like for

00:27:34.755 --> 00:27:35.460
example when

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:38.403
i posted a picture with me with the russian soldier you know they restricted my

00:27:38.403 --> 00:27:38.660
account

00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:41.879
within minutes they did what they restricted my account within minutes you're

00:27:41.879 --> 00:27:42.580
kidding me within

00:27:42.580 --> 00:27:45.344
minutes yeah that tells you the freedom of speech that we have in the u.s it's only

00:27:45.344 --> 00:27:45.640
if you're

00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:47.920
brainwashed into thinking you know into thinking

00:27:48.020 --> 00:27:53.290
what the american wants you to think which platform was that facebook yeah within

00:27:53.290 --> 00:27:53.740
minutes

00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:57.508
yeah and it was was really pathetic or really sad about all these russian adoptees

00:27:57.508 --> 00:27:58.280
you know i'm part

00:27:58.280 --> 00:28:01.927
of a russian adoption group i posted a picture of me with a russian soldier all

00:28:01.927 --> 00:28:02.520
these russian

00:28:02.520 --> 00:28:06.942
adoptees coming out oh i stand with ukraine i stand with ukraine it's like okay

00:28:06.942 --> 00:28:07.440
you'll be

00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.180
trying your motherland okay let me tell you something to these russian adoptees if

00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:11.360
they

00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:14.351
think they're going to go to ukraine and be welcome with open arms they got a whole

00:28:14.351 --> 00:28:14.600
another

00:28:14.600 --> 00:28:18.000
world waiting for them yeah it's not to them they're just another russian yeah

00:28:18.020 --> 00:28:23.716
and uh they're no better than the dirt in donbass yeah is what they

00:28:23.716 --> 00:28:25.140
would say yeah so

00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:31.022
yeah it just it horrifies me just how brainwashed a lot of these people are

00:28:31.022 --> 00:28:32.880
but the bigger thing too

00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:37.590
is that shocked me was i went to donbass i went to mariupol to educate people on

00:28:37.590 --> 00:28:38.520
what's happening

00:28:38.520 --> 00:28:42.615
and there's so many people i don't want to hear about i don't don't even don't even

00:28:42.615 --> 00:28:43.200
care to want

00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:46.465
to know about what's really happening it's like you know i'm not asking i'm not

00:28:46.465 --> 00:28:47.240
trying to brainwash

00:28:48.020 --> 00:28:50.664
people i'm just saying that in order to have an educated debate you have to be

00:28:50.664 --> 00:28:51.300
aware of both sides

00:28:51.300 --> 00:28:54.444
of the story right because isn't that what they say about racism in order to

00:28:54.444 --> 00:28:55.220
understand you need

00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:58.394
to know both sides of the story isn't that what they say but it's again they want

00:28:58.394 --> 00:28:58.820
to pick and

00:28:58.820 --> 00:29:03.148
choose you know certain things and that's why i think things are so dysfunctional

00:29:03.148 --> 00:29:03.940
is uh regarding

00:29:03.940 --> 00:29:09.676
america yeah you're right you're 100 right so yeah anything

00:29:09.676 --> 00:29:12.640
else uh the one thing i do also

00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:18.378
want to say is if you do plan on going into donbass you will have to go through

00:29:18.378 --> 00:29:18.880
russian

00:29:19.360 --> 00:29:24.170
and i want to refer to myself because they were real suspicious of me um they

00:29:24.170 --> 00:29:25.280
pulled me you know

00:29:25.280 --> 00:29:29.641
again i got through eventually but they pulled me into this back room and they have

00:29:29.641 --> 00:29:30.420
my u.s passport

00:29:30.420 --> 00:29:34.504
and my russian passport now under russian law donbass dns is part of the russian

00:29:34.504 --> 00:29:35.160
territory but

00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:41.130
for anybody interested in going to the area it's not so much so at least in

00:29:41.130 --> 00:29:42.780
my case no again they

00:29:42.780 --> 00:29:47.394
did eventually well they do this with every foreigner even me even mike okay they

00:29:47.394 --> 00:29:47.900
if you're

00:29:47.900 --> 00:29:48.739
a foreigner and you're trying to go to donbass you're not going to go there you're

00:29:48.739 --> 00:29:48.860
not going to

00:29:49.360 --> 00:29:53.433
bass the fsb pulls you into a room and they start asking you questions why are you

00:29:53.433 --> 00:29:54.120
going what are

00:29:54.120 --> 00:29:58.825
you doing yeah what are your goals because for all they know you're like some cia

00:29:58.825 --> 00:29:59.800
guy yeah going in

00:29:59.800 --> 00:30:03.265
you're gonna you know start calling in coordinates so i mean that's that's

00:30:03.265 --> 00:30:04.420
absolutely understandable

00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:07.960
and the one thing also i mean i'm sure you know is when you get into the area

00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:12.534
you uh your my phone doesn't work because i didn't buy a sim card right because i

00:30:12.534 --> 00:30:12.980
was only

00:30:12.980 --> 00:30:15.849
there for a few days and i was with a group of people so it wasn't worth the money

00:30:15.849 --> 00:30:16.160
for me to

00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:19.167
buy a sim card because it's not worth it it's a pain in the ass to get a sim card

00:30:19.167 --> 00:30:19.680
there too yeah

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.635
yeah yeah i saw that they went into the store and they had to give their passports

00:30:22.635 --> 00:30:23.240
and then they had

00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.840
to do this and then go into the back and yeah it's a real headache to get a sim

00:30:26.840 --> 00:30:27.740
card over there yeah

00:30:27.740 --> 00:30:33.049
so um when you went into america last time did you have any

00:30:33.049 --> 00:30:35.880
problems no uh everything's done

00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:39.055
electronically you know you have to download an app now and then you fill out the

00:30:39.055 --> 00:30:39.520
stuff on the

00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:43.320
app it gives you a qr code then you scan and then you get right through oh yeah

00:30:43.320 --> 00:30:44.080
yeah i'm curious

00:30:44.080 --> 00:30:46.140
about this time uh when i go back

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:49.300
kind of curious because obviously i'm sure they know i was in donbass

00:30:49.300 --> 00:30:53.738
i'm sure they know by now so i'm just curious you know to see what the reaction is

00:30:53.738 --> 00:30:54.540
when i get back

00:30:54.540 --> 00:30:59.443
i yeah it's gonna be very interesting for me to see too yeah but it's a hell of a

00:30:59.443 --> 00:31:00.220
story to tell

00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:04.157
your friends man yeah and that's the thing too you know i tell people the reason

00:31:04.157 --> 00:31:04.740
why i did it

00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:09.380
was because i wanted to get a first-hand experience of what's going on you know how

00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:13.281
many people do you have can say they've had the opportunity to go into a military

00:31:13.281 --> 00:31:13.900
conflict zone

00:31:13.900 --> 00:31:16.140
you know to see the damage not

00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:20.113
a lot you know like even you know let's take out ukraine let's get into iraq how

00:31:20.113 --> 00:31:21.040
many people can say

00:31:21.040 --> 00:31:24.642
they went to iraq and got a first-hand experience of what was really going on there

00:31:24.642 --> 00:31:25.200
yeah you know

00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:31.124
to actually speak to the local it was uh you know it was very fascinating and the

00:31:31.124 --> 00:31:32.280
one thing i also

00:31:32.280 --> 00:31:38.156
want to say is when we were there you know we went to this it was like a smoke

00:31:38.156 --> 00:31:39.420
type lounge thing

00:31:39.420 --> 00:31:44.644
and i can say the food in donbass was very good yeah yeah yeah um yeah it was uh

00:31:44.644 --> 00:31:45.740
again people were

00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:50.719
you know that's a cool thing it was kind of like underground we had to go oh you

00:31:50.719 --> 00:31:51.620
probably went to

00:31:51.620 --> 00:31:55.458
um okay yeah i don't know any of the names i just basically kind of was part of a

00:31:55.458 --> 00:31:56.160
group so i just

00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:00.821
followed them but yeah it was cool because you had these you know you had russian

00:32:00.821 --> 00:32:01.560
soldiers with

00:32:01.560 --> 00:32:07.142
civilians all just interacting you know there wasn't any any issues um the food was

00:32:07.142 --> 00:32:07.740
great you

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:12.283
know we had pizza and you know some people had sushi and burgers and you know cake

00:32:12.283 --> 00:32:12.940
and you know

00:32:12.940 --> 00:32:16.040
it was nice because it just shows you that there were there was still normalcy

00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:21.245
in a even in the area yeah yeah yeah when you were when you were sleeping in

00:32:21.245 --> 00:32:22.500
donetsk in the city

00:32:22.500 --> 00:32:27.290
you slept in donetsk right yes did you hear the shelling at night it's crazy isn't

00:32:27.290 --> 00:32:28.040
it that's the

00:32:28.040 --> 00:32:32.430
one thing i want to comment on non-stop you hear the shelling non-stop it's like

00:32:32.430 --> 00:32:33.080
every couple

00:32:33.080 --> 00:32:37.139
minutes boom and you can tell the different weapons that are being fired because

00:32:37.139 --> 00:32:37.540
you know

00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:41.569
some is boom boom and then some of it is boom boom boom boom you know is it comes

00:32:41.569 --> 00:32:42.060
in a burst

00:32:42.060 --> 00:32:45.814
yeah so again i'm not familiar with all the weapons but you you were there and you

00:32:45.814 --> 00:32:46.040
could

00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:51.964
like oh you know it was like non-stop shelling yeah and this is in donetsk

00:32:51.964 --> 00:32:53.280
is all that's all

00:32:53.280 --> 00:32:59.142
civilian yeah it's all a civilian area yeah so it's really it's really sad yeah so

00:32:59.142 --> 00:33:00.060
and these are

00:33:00.060 --> 00:33:06.040
a lot of these are uh a good majority of these are western weapons being used to

00:33:06.040 --> 00:33:07.000
kill citizens

00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:12.808
of donbass you got like highmars the 155s you got the uh well i know

00:33:12.808 --> 00:33:14.660
the u.s is now sending

00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:16.140
housers over i know

00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:20.040
they're sending the uh patriot missile system uh defense missile system over

00:33:20.040 --> 00:33:26.011
and it's just like okay like when is enough going to be enough like because

00:33:26.011 --> 00:33:27.740
you know it's all over

00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:32.038
again it's all over the western news um the european union is running low on their

00:33:32.038 --> 00:33:32.400
arsenal

00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:36.457
you know you even the pentagon came out and said oh our military arsenal is running

00:33:36.457 --> 00:33:36.940
low it may

00:33:36.940 --> 00:33:39.987
affect uh if we you know if u.s would get invaded or something it could affect

00:33:39.987 --> 00:33:40.720
military operations

00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:44.924
it's like then why are you still giving weapons to ukraine well you know why so

00:33:44.924 --> 00:33:45.660
they can go in

00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:51.462
congress and say look guys we're getting low yeah the people's support oh yeah are

00:33:51.462 --> 00:33:52.420
restocking yeah

00:33:52.420 --> 00:33:58.109
yeah and um so we're we're gonna we're gonna add because they just did in this new

00:33:58.109 --> 00:33:59.000
bill that was

00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:04.836
passed uh five if i remember correctly 532 million dollars

00:34:04.836 --> 00:34:08.100
to um to reinvest into restocking

00:34:08.100 --> 00:34:13.074
americans uh military supplies so fucking bastards yeah yeah and that's another

00:34:13.074 --> 00:34:14.380
thing too is like our

00:34:14.380 --> 00:34:16.080
taxes are going to go up in the u.s

00:34:16.160 --> 00:34:22.124
and it's like so i'm paying more federal taxes so you guys can give weapons

00:34:22.124 --> 00:34:23.380
to ukraine for a

00:34:23.380 --> 00:34:26.794
conflict that has nothing to do with the united states yeah you know because at the

00:34:26.794 --> 00:34:27.200
end at the

00:34:27.200 --> 00:34:31.418
end of the day you know russia is not going to go beyond ukraine that's another

00:34:31.418 --> 00:34:32.420
thing too that they

00:34:32.420 --> 00:34:37.624
do to scare people they say oh russia's gonna invade all of europe it's like right

00:34:37.624 --> 00:34:38.000
that's

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:42.930
that's clearly not true absolutely um because first of all poland uh not maldova

00:34:42.930 --> 00:34:43.600
but you got

00:34:46.160 --> 00:34:50.345
a side that are part of nato and obviously you know russians don't want because if

00:34:50.345 --> 00:34:50.900
there's war

00:34:50.900 --> 00:34:54.170
between nato and russia it could turn into a nuclear escalation sure so i don't

00:34:54.170 --> 00:34:54.660
think either

00:34:54.660 --> 00:34:59.069
side one side so i don't believe that and the thing too is you know uh the russian

00:34:59.069 --> 00:34:59.600
government

00:34:59.600 --> 00:35:05.102
before the whole conflict started he gave zelensky an ultimatum you know don't join

00:35:05.102 --> 00:35:05.560
ukraine

00:35:05.560 --> 00:35:09.740
that was pretty much the big one and zelensky basically you mean don't join uh

00:35:09.740 --> 00:35:15.437
yeah yeah and his and zelensky basically said fuck you and you know he basically

00:35:15.437 --> 00:35:16.000
you know

00:35:16.160 --> 00:35:19.619
didn't care and and then he thought it was a joke when he saw all those soldiers

00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:20.260
mobilized along

00:35:20.260 --> 00:35:23.234
the ukrainian border he thought it was a joke and didn't think anything was going

00:35:23.234 --> 00:35:23.560
to happen

00:35:23.560 --> 00:35:27.616
well because he watches the u.s politicians how wishy-washy they are yeah they

00:35:27.616 --> 00:35:28.540
never do what they

00:35:28.540 --> 00:35:34.399
say yeah and um but you know even bernie sanders is on record saying it's

00:35:34.399 --> 00:35:36.220
crazy for the u.s to be

00:35:36.220 --> 00:35:40.867
pushing for ukraine to be a part of nato because it's going to start a war i'll

00:35:40.867 --> 00:35:41.680
play that clip

00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:44.540
right here i am extremely concerned

00:35:44.540 --> 00:35:46.140
when i

00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:51.751
hear the familiar drum beats in washington the bellicose rhetoric

00:35:51.751 --> 00:35:53.360
that gets amplified

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.785
before every war demanding that we must show strength

00:35:58.785 --> 00:36:02.000
demanding that we must get tough

00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:07.946
demanding that we must not engage in appeasement now

00:36:07.946 --> 00:36:11.200
i know it is not very popular

00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:14.160
or politically correct i guess in washington

00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:16.120
to consider the

00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:22.114
perspectives of our adversaries but i think it's important that we do

00:36:22.114 --> 00:36:23.900
so if we are going to

00:36:23.900 --> 00:36:29.885
formulate good policy i think it is helpful to consider

00:36:29.885 --> 00:36:33.840
this one of the precipitating factors

00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:39.132
of this crisis one not the only one at least from russia's

00:36:39.132 --> 00:36:42.900
perspective is the prospect of an enhanced

00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:45.668
security relationship between the two and i think it's important to consider this

00:36:45.668 --> 00:36:46.140
one one of the

00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:51.673
Ukraine and the United States and Western Europe, including what

00:36:51.673 --> 00:36:53.200
Russia sees as the

00:36:53.200 --> 00:36:58.830
threat of Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance,

00:36:58.830 --> 00:37:01.100
NATO, a military alliance

00:37:01.100 --> 00:37:05.911
originally created in 1949 to

00:37:05.911 --> 00:37:10.080
confront the Soviet Union.

00:37:10.080 --> 00:37:12.380
It is good to know some history.

00:37:12.380 --> 00:37:18.309
When Ukraine became independent after the Soviet Union collapsed in

00:37:18.309 --> 00:37:20.140
1991, Russian leaders

00:37:20.140 --> 00:37:25.858
made clear their concerns about the prospect of former Soviet

00:37:25.858 --> 00:37:28.440
states becoming part of NATO

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:34.140
and positioning hostile military forces along Russia's border.

00:37:34.140 --> 00:37:39.430
U.S. officials recognize these concerns as

00:37:39.430 --> 00:37:42.260
legitimate at the time.

00:37:42.260 --> 00:37:47.997
One of those officials was William Perry, who served as Defense Secretary

00:37:47.997 --> 00:37:49.160
under President

00:37:49.160 --> 00:37:51.140
Bill Clinton.

00:37:51.140 --> 00:37:56.750
In a 2017 interview, Perry said, and I quote, our first action that

00:37:56.750 --> 00:37:58.400
really set us off in

00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:04.178
a bad direction was when NATO started to expand, bringing in Eastern

00:38:04.178 --> 00:38:06.020
European nations, some

00:38:06.020 --> 00:38:08.920
of them bordering Russia.

00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.020
That is former Secretary of State William Perry.

00:38:12.020 --> 00:38:17.899
Another U.S. official who acknowledged these concerns is

00:38:17.899 --> 00:38:21.200
former U.S. diplomat Bill Burns,

00:38:21.200 --> 00:38:26.400
who is now head of the CIA in the Biden administration.

00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:32.281
In his memoir, Burns quotes a memo he wrote while serving as counselor

00:38:32.281 --> 00:38:34.020
for political affairs

00:38:34.020 --> 00:38:39.855
at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1995, and I quote, hostility

00:38:39.855 --> 00:38:42.020
to early NATO expansion

00:38:42.020 --> 00:38:47.396
is almost universally felt across the domestic

00:38:47.396 --> 00:38:51.400
political spectrum here, end quote.

00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:56.786
Over 10 years later in 2008, Burns wrote in a memo to Secretary of State

00:38:56.786 --> 00:38:58.040
Condoleezza Rice,

00:38:58.040 --> 00:39:03.762
and I quote, Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all red lines for

00:39:03.762 --> 00:39:04.580
the Russian

00:39:04.580 --> 00:39:07.580
elite, not just Putin.

00:39:07.580 --> 00:39:12.815
In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, I have

00:39:12.815 --> 00:39:13.500
yet to find

00:39:13.500 --> 00:39:18.957
anyone who views Ukraine in NATO is anything other than a direct

00:39:18.957 --> 00:39:21.560
challenge to Russian interests,

00:39:21.560 --> 00:39:23.260
end of quote.

00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:28.816
So again, these concerns were not just invented yesterday by

00:39:28.816 --> 00:39:30.820
Putin out of thin air.

00:39:30.820 --> 00:39:36.547
But it is hypocritical for the United States to insist that

00:39:36.547 --> 00:39:39.220
we as a nation do not accept

00:39:39.220 --> 00:39:42.620
the principle of spheres of influence.

00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:49.211
For the last 200 years, our country has operated under

00:39:49.211 --> 00:39:53.780
the Monroe Doctrine, embracing the principle

00:39:53.780 --> 00:39:59.595
that as the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere, the United States has

00:39:59.595 --> 00:40:00.360
the right,

00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:06.077
according to the United States, to intervene against any country

00:40:06.077 --> 00:40:08.100
that might threaten our

00:40:08.100 --> 00:40:09.560
alleged interests.

00:40:09.560 --> 00:40:13.020
That's United States policy.

00:40:13.020 --> 00:40:18.122
And under this doctrine, the United States has undermine and

00:40:18.122 --> 00:40:20.380
overthrown at least a dozen

00:40:20.380 --> 00:40:25.591
countries throughout Latin America, Central America and the

00:40:25.591 --> 00:40:26.460
Caribbean.

00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:32.209
As many might recall, in 1962 we came to the brink

00:40:32.209 --> 00:40:36.380
of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

00:40:36.380 --> 00:40:38.620
Now, why was that?

00:40:38.620 --> 00:40:39.720
Why did we almost come to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union?

00:40:39.720 --> 00:40:39.920
subtitles

00:40:43.020 --> 00:40:48.899
Union. Well, we did that in response to the placement of

00:40:48.899 --> 00:40:52.200
Soviet missiles in Cuba 90 miles

00:40:52.200 --> 00:40:58.113
from our shore. And the Kennedy administration saw that as

00:40:58.113 --> 00:41:01.520
an unacceptable threat to national

00:41:01.520 --> 00:41:07.396
security. We said it is unacceptable for a hostile country

00:41:07.396 --> 00:41:11.280
to have a significant military presence

00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:14.332
90 miles away from our shore.

00:41:14.332 --> 00:41:19.621
Russia, like the United States, would still have an

00:41:19.621 --> 00:41:20.740
interest in

00:41:20.740 --> 00:41:26.660
the security policies of its neighbors. And I want people to think about this.

00:41:27.660 --> 00:41:33.651
Does anyone really believe that the United States would not have something to say

00:41:33.651 --> 00:41:34.820
if, for example,

00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:41.260
Mexico or Cuba or any country in Central or Latin America,

00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:44.941
were to form a military alliance with the U.S.

00:41:44.941 --> 00:41:48.680
adversary? Do you think that members of Congress

00:41:48.680 --> 00:41:53.438
would stand up and say, well, you know, Mexico is an independent country.

00:41:53.438 --> 00:41:54.660
They have the right

00:41:54.660 --> 00:41:57.646
to do anything they want.

00:41:57.646 --> 00:42:00.402
I doubt that very much.

00:42:00.402 --> 00:42:04.880
Mr. President, countries should be free

00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:08.879
to make their own foreign policy choices.

00:42:08.879 --> 00:42:11.260
But making those choices,

00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:17.028
wisely, requires a serious consideration of the costs

00:42:17.028 --> 00:42:21.180
and benefits. The fact is that the U.S.

00:42:21.260 --> 00:42:26.100
and Ukraine entering into a deeper security

00:42:26.100 --> 00:42:30.500
relationship is likely to have some very

00:42:30.500 --> 00:42:32.933
serious costs for both countries.

00:42:32.933 --> 00:42:37.440
Okay. Okay. Not just that, but another thing, too, that I think

00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:41.260
also needs to be talked about is regarding the whole,

00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:46.433
Ukraine situation is, okay, so at the very beginning of the

00:42:46.433 --> 00:42:48.580
conflict, well, actually,

00:42:48.740 --> 00:42:51.904
let's be virtual right now. So Joe Biden, you know how Zelensky made the secret

00:42:51.904 --> 00:42:52.220
mission,

00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:54.306
you know, James Bond mission trip to the United States.

00:42:54.306 --> 00:42:55.640
And he was welcomed with open arms and

00:42:55.640 --> 00:43:01.526
like a superhero. But now Joe Biden is telling Zelensky, don't negotiate until

00:43:01.526 --> 00:43:02.420
you get your

00:43:02.420 --> 00:43:04.317
terms. And that's not how negotiating works.

00:43:04.317 --> 00:43:06.340
Right. You know, one thing about the news media,

00:43:06.340 --> 00:43:11.200
U.S. news media, is through the beginning of the war, it was interesting because it

00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:14.044
was like, okay, Ukrainian retreated.

00:43:14.044 --> 00:43:18.002
Well, they retreated, but it was a strategic defeat.

00:43:18.002 --> 00:43:18.600
And it's

00:43:18.600 --> 00:43:20.959
like every single defeat Ukraine had, the U.S.

00:43:20.959 --> 00:43:23.620
news came out. Well, it really wasn't a strategic win

00:43:23.620 --> 00:43:26.040
for the Russians. It's like, that's not how war works.

00:43:26.040 --> 00:43:27.800
You know, you gain lands, you're winning

00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:31.223
the war. And it's just like, like, look in the Confederate, you know, look in the

00:43:31.223 --> 00:43:31.640
Civil War.

00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:36.415
Every time the Confederates won a battle, it was a victory for the Confederates.

00:43:36.415 --> 00:43:37.020
Only in the

00:43:37.020 --> 00:43:40.880
American news, all of a sudden, is a loss for Ukraine, a victory.

00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:46.183
Right. You know, and they manipulate it so much because anybody with common sense

00:43:46.183 --> 00:43:46.900
can tell you

00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:50.667
that when you lose and your soldiers have to retreat, that's a defeat.

00:43:50.667 --> 00:43:51.940
But only in the American

00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:54.083
news, all of a sudden, no, no, no, that's a victory.

00:43:54.083 --> 00:43:55.620
It's like, even some of the stuff that

00:43:55.620 --> 00:43:58.439
you read, it's just, it says, what the hell is going on?

00:43:58.439 --> 00:44:00.220
It's really a disgrace. Yeah. If you

00:44:00.220 --> 00:44:04.167
ask me what the news media has been perpetuating.

00:44:04.167 --> 00:44:07.720
Yeah. It's like, and now the news media could

00:44:07.720 --> 00:44:10.856
ever trust these people again. Well, it's not just that, but the news media is now

00:44:10.856 --> 00:44:11.120
pushing

00:44:11.120 --> 00:44:11.420
forward. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's

00:44:11.252 --> 00:44:11.260
like,

00:44:11.280 --> 00:44:16.244
oh, don't just take back Donetsk, Donbass, take back Crimea.

00:44:16.244 --> 00:44:18.360
It's like, so. Yeah. Well,

00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:20.758
that leads to multiple problems, you know, which kind of shows you how crooked the

00:44:20.758 --> 00:44:21.180
U.S. government

00:44:21.180 --> 00:44:24.398
is because it's like, they know in order to do that, they need to give way more

00:44:24.398 --> 00:44:24.800
weapons to

00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:26.345
Ukraine because Ukraine can't do it on their own.

00:44:26.345 --> 00:44:27.860
They can't do it with the weapons that they have.

00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:31.743
Yeah. And which means that also they plan, they want this battle to last for years.

00:44:31.743 --> 00:44:32.100
They do.

00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:34.668
Because there's no way Ukraine's going to be able to do anything with, even within

00:44:34.668 --> 00:44:34.960
two years.

00:44:35.460 --> 00:44:38.821
It's all money for the Western politicians though, dude.

00:44:38.821 --> 00:44:41.120
Yep. That's, that's all this war is for

00:44:41.120 --> 00:44:42.461
them. And I want to bring up the U.K.

00:44:42.461 --> 00:44:44.260
for a second. So you got the, you know, it's in the

00:44:44.260 --> 00:44:48.218
news, the U.K.'s in a recession. You got all these unions striking in the U.K.

00:44:48.218 --> 00:44:49.320
because they're fed up

00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:51.088
with inflation going up, but they're not getting pay raises.

00:44:51.088 --> 00:44:52.160
And what does the government come out

00:44:52.160 --> 00:44:54.918
and say? The British government? We don't have the money.

00:44:54.918 --> 00:44:56.440
But then the new prime minister,

00:44:56.740 --> 00:44:59.544
he promised to, he pledged billions of dollars to Ukraine.

00:44:59.544 --> 00:45:01.540
Now you tell me what sense does that make?

00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:04.431
Don't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense that your country internally is

00:45:04.431 --> 00:45:04.700
falling,

00:45:05.140 --> 00:45:08.610
but you're so worried about kissing America's ass that, you know, you're willing to

00:45:08.610 --> 00:45:08.940
let your

00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:11.100
country just fall into a wormhole to all of a sudden.

00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:13.255
Keep funding a war that your country cannot afford to do.

00:45:13.255 --> 00:45:14.360
Your country's not able to do.

00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:18.836
And it's like, you know, the British government used, the British, you know, used

00:45:18.836 --> 00:45:19.380
to be one of

00:45:19.380 --> 00:45:22.102
the greatest countries and now they're just, they're just collapsing.

00:45:22.102 --> 00:45:22.880
And the same thing's

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:23.984
going to happen. Look at Germany.

00:45:23.984 --> 00:45:25.900
They don't even have enough electricity in Germany, but the

00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:29.637
British, I mean, the German chancellor comes out and says, oh yeah, we're going to,

00:45:29.637 --> 00:45:30.260
we're going to

00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:32.106
keep supporting Ukraine. It's like.

00:45:32.106 --> 00:45:35.080
Yeah. And not only did they say that, but they said, we're

00:45:35.080 --> 00:45:40.354
going to keep supporting Ukraine, no matter what our population thinks about it.

00:45:40.354 --> 00:45:40.680
Yeah.

00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:41.260
Which is, I don't know, I don't know.

00:45:41.017 --> 00:45:41.317
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

00:45:41.080 --> 00:45:41.100
I don't know.

00:45:41.100 --> 00:45:45.326
Which is, what the fuck? Yeah. What kind of leader, dude, they're elected to

00:45:45.326 --> 00:45:46.040
represent the

00:45:46.040 --> 00:45:49.414
people of Germany. Yeah. I don't, I don't get that.

00:45:49.414 --> 00:45:51.880
Yeah. So. At least, you know, the good

00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:56.974
news is, is that when you check the areas out, you know, you have Italy, the new

00:45:56.974 --> 00:45:57.980
British, I mean,

00:45:58.020 --> 00:46:02.037
the new Italian prime minister, I can't think of her name right now, but the

00:46:02.037 --> 00:46:03.080
Italian PMs came out

00:46:03.080 --> 00:46:06.305
and they basically said, starting 2023, we're not funding Ukraine anymore.

00:46:06.305 --> 00:46:07.380
You know, I think there's

00:46:07.380 --> 00:46:09.884
other countries that are going to follow similar routes because it's like, you

00:46:09.884 --> 00:46:10.360
cannot let your

00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:15.128
internal economy collapse to fund a war that basically the United States really is

00:46:15.128 --> 00:46:15.760
a US versus

00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.210
Russia. That's really what this is about.

00:46:17.210 --> 00:46:19.040
Yeah. And at the end of the day, US is trying to push

00:46:19.040 --> 00:46:22.272
Europe to make it seem like they have a united front when they really don't.

00:46:22.272 --> 00:46:22.860
Yeah. Because,

00:46:22.940 --> 00:46:27.337
you know, I don't, you know, look in European news, you have, I think it's Hungary,

00:46:27.337 --> 00:46:27.860
where they

00:46:27.860 --> 00:46:32.939
had to lift the gas caps because inflation is so bad, they had to lift the caps.

00:46:32.939 --> 00:46:33.880
Look at Serbia,

00:46:33.980 --> 00:46:37.044
now you got tensions flying up in Serbia between Kosovo and Serbia.

00:46:37.044 --> 00:46:38.260
Yeah. And you got all these

00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:40.340
local issues that are starting to perk up. And it's like,

00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:42.068
European Union can't handle that.

00:46:42.068 --> 00:46:44.780
Yeah. And another thing I want to bring up was, again,

00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:47.640
I've done a lot of research on this topic about just isolated to the European Union

00:46:47.640 --> 00:46:48.080
for a second.

00:46:48.640 --> 00:46:53.768
You have Serbia, you have all these countries trying to join the EU and Serbia and

00:46:53.768 --> 00:46:54.200
I think

00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:59.014
Hungary, the leaders already came out and they already straight up said that they

00:46:59.014 --> 00:46:59.660
do not want

00:46:59.660 --> 00:47:02.683
to have negative ties with Russia because where do you get their natural gas from?

00:47:02.683 --> 00:47:03.120
From Russia.

00:47:03.120 --> 00:47:08.936
Right. But I think the UK, from Macron in France, Germany

00:47:08.936 --> 00:47:10.240
came out and,

00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:13.943
and they did try to get a hold on the EU, the EU is basically, you know, it's well

00:47:13.943 --> 00:47:14.720
known that they're

00:47:14.720 --> 00:47:18.894
trying to bully these countries that want to get into EU into agreeing in the base

00:47:18.894 --> 00:47:19.900
of being brainwashed

00:47:19.900 --> 00:47:22.631
and being nothing but puppets for them.

00:47:22.631 --> 00:47:26.660
And it's gonna be interesting to see because you're willing

00:47:26.660 --> 00:47:30.711
to let your country collapse because you're desperate to get into the EU, like that

00:47:30.711 --> 00:47:31.820
doesn't make any sense.

00:47:32.600 --> 00:47:35.360
Right. You said that you're thinking of moving next year.

00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.600
Yes, I've saved up a lot of money.

00:47:38.640 --> 00:47:39.620
And

00:47:39.620 --> 00:47:43.453
into russian you know living like open up being i opened up a bank account a

00:47:43.453 --> 00:47:44.200
savings account

00:47:44.200 --> 00:47:48.246
um i try to get an internal passport but that's going to be put on hold for a

00:47:48.246 --> 00:47:48.920
couple months

00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:52.799
because i have to do some stuff but it's like yeah i'm uh this trip i got more and

00:47:52.799 --> 00:47:53.500
more acclimated

00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:58.813
into living with russia you know buying a metro card um you know doing this doing

00:47:58.813 --> 00:47:59.720
that so i feel

00:47:59.720 --> 00:48:04.927
more confident now so when i return to america i'm going to you know right now the

00:48:04.927 --> 00:48:05.680
stock market

00:48:05.680 --> 00:48:09.184
is down because a lot of my money's in stocks but i'm going to look at everything

00:48:09.184 --> 00:48:09.740
and then very

00:48:09.740 --> 00:48:14.792
soon i'm going to make the acclimation to come back over here but another reason

00:48:14.792 --> 00:48:15.540
too that i'm

00:48:15.540 --> 00:48:19.532
probably going to have to do that is because i can see you know because you know

00:48:19.532 --> 00:48:20.320
how the american

00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:24.826
corporations are you know you know it's going to come out that i was in dynast on

00:48:24.826 --> 00:48:25.540
bass and even

00:48:25.540 --> 00:48:29.302
though i work for the wisconsin department of corrections i don't trust i don't

00:48:29.302 --> 00:48:29.960
trust that you

00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:33.381
know they're going to remain neutral i can see them trying to force me out of the

00:48:33.381 --> 00:48:33.840
job because

00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:35.660
this is how america america

00:48:35.660 --> 00:48:38.530
is you know if you don't again if you don't get with their point of views they can

00:48:38.530 --> 00:48:38.980
force you out

00:48:38.980 --> 00:48:42.350
so i have a feeling i'm going to be kind of forced out to move over here so that's

00:48:42.350 --> 00:48:43.040
what they do they

00:48:43.040 --> 00:48:47.943
start creating a disciplinary record uh and they're going to jam me up i mean

00:48:47.943 --> 00:48:48.760
that's that's

00:48:48.760 --> 00:48:53.688
what happened to me uh i was under five internal investigations i went from deputy

00:48:53.688 --> 00:48:54.400
of the month

00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:59.559
twice in one year to being under five internal affairs investigations uh after i

00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:00.260
came out on

00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:04.904
a bunch of dirtbag cops so you know it is what it is so you were saying something

00:49:04.904 --> 00:49:05.640
about the bln

00:49:05.640 --> 00:49:10.403
uh movement you you were gonna tell me about the blm movement yeah you know working

00:49:10.403 --> 00:49:11.140
in correction

00:49:11.140 --> 00:49:16.193
you get a first-hand insider what's really happening and again i'm just isolating

00:49:16.193 --> 00:49:16.440
into

00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:19.998
milwaukee but this is happening all over the country you know you have

00:49:19.998 --> 00:49:21.000
black-on-black crime

00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:26.239
happening all the time no protest nothing it's just life as usual for example in

00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:27.080
the news boom

00:49:27.080 --> 00:49:30.761
got shot robberies you know people running red lights people getting killed by uh

00:49:30.761 --> 00:49:31.120
reckless

00:49:31.120 --> 00:49:34.660
drivers yeah but the minute a police officer gets involved

00:49:34.660 --> 00:49:35.516
you know i'm not going to lie to you i'm not going to lie to you i'm not going to

00:49:35.516 --> 00:49:35.620
lie to you

00:49:35.640 --> 00:49:39.191
they will burn down the city of milwaukee yeah you know now i've been reading

00:49:39.191 --> 00:49:39.920
articles back in

00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:44.286
the u.s. right now even in the courtrooms you have a lot of these uh young men

00:49:44.286 --> 00:49:45.060
going in there

00:49:45.060 --> 00:49:48.272
screaming black lives matter thinking that's going to get them out of trouble right

00:49:48.272 --> 00:49:48.540
now the

00:49:48.540 --> 00:49:53.846
sad part is it is getting them them out of trouble they're weakening the you know

00:49:53.846 --> 00:49:54.040
now

00:49:54.040 --> 00:49:58.864
like in milwaukee attempted car theft is not even an arrest it's simply a ticket

00:49:58.864 --> 00:49:59.400
what yeah

00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:03.781
they're weakening the the in new york city dv is now just uh new york state

00:50:03.781 --> 00:50:04.300
probation

00:50:04.300 --> 00:50:05.487
they're weakening the current state of public health except for stephanie tiara and

00:50:05.487 --> 00:50:05.600
rangeled

00:50:05.620 --> 00:50:08.637
crimes because they're terrified of the whole blm movement and that's another thing

00:50:08.637 --> 00:50:08.960
i've been

00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:12.746
telling the russians over here they don't understand that now you know over here

00:50:12.746 --> 00:50:13.120
russians

00:50:13.120 --> 00:50:16.334
tell me that they're terrified of the police you know they say you know you don't

00:50:16.334 --> 00:50:17.040
talk to the police

00:50:17.040 --> 00:50:20.601
now that's not per se true i mean i've spoken to police haven't had any problems

00:50:20.601 --> 00:50:21.260
it's just about

00:50:21.260 --> 00:50:24.764
respect you know they want to be treated with respect yeah but the united states

00:50:24.764 --> 00:50:25.240
you got now

00:50:25.240 --> 00:50:30.067
people spitting on cops you have them basically uh death traps where they make a

00:50:30.067 --> 00:50:31.080
false call saying

00:50:31.080 --> 00:50:35.829
you know whatever they need police to come oh swatting yeah yeah and all of a

00:50:35.829 --> 00:50:36.620
sudden police

00:50:36.620 --> 00:50:39.900
come and it's ambush and then next thing you know police are killed and community

00:50:39.900 --> 00:50:40.340
thinks it's

00:50:40.340 --> 00:50:44.039
acceptable you know you don't have any any of these blm leaders coming out and the

00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:44.440
democrats

00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:48.510
the democrats are the ones uh enabling this yeah absolutely you know they they want

00:50:48.510 --> 00:50:49.140
to be weak on

00:50:49.140 --> 00:50:53.376
crime you know they want to they don't want to enforce any laws yeah and like in

00:50:53.376 --> 00:50:54.160
wisconsin again

00:50:54.160 --> 00:50:58.421
i'm familiar with wisconsin but it's happening all over yes it is and in the last

00:50:58.421 --> 00:50:59.200
governor's race

00:50:59.200 --> 00:51:00.780
besides

00:51:01.080 --> 00:51:04.800
spending over a billion dollars in the governor's race for a state like wisconsin

00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:10.718
it came out in the news that the district attorneys are not prosecuting they're

00:51:10.718 --> 00:51:10.940
not

00:51:10.940 --> 00:51:15.131
enforcing any of the laws they're not prosecuting gun crimes you know americans say

00:51:15.131 --> 00:51:15.780
we need to be

00:51:15.780 --> 00:51:20.011
have tougher uh handgun enforcement but it's like they already have laws in the

00:51:20.011 --> 00:51:20.540
books that

00:51:20.540 --> 00:51:23.993
aren't being enforced right and that's what i try to explain to a lot of the

00:51:23.993 --> 00:51:24.980
russians over here you

00:51:24.980 --> 00:51:27.850
know they think i'm going to go to america and live a better life but i tell them

00:51:27.850 --> 00:51:28.200
that's not

00:51:28.200 --> 00:51:30.940
the way it is anymore it's just not you know everything

00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:31.060
you know everything is not the way it is anymore it's just not the way it is anymore

00:51:31.060 --> 00:51:35.324
i mean for example there's uh there's a restaurant called culver's which is famous

00:51:35.324 --> 00:51:35.940
to wisconsin

00:51:35.940 --> 00:51:41.812
a burger probably a year ago year and a half ago only cost seven dollars is

00:51:41.812 --> 00:51:43.280
one burger now it's

00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:47.796
over twenty dollars what the same burger and i tell people you guys don't

00:51:47.796 --> 00:51:49.200
understand our salaries

00:51:49.200 --> 00:51:53.633
are not keeping up with this inflation you got more you got a homelessness problem

00:51:53.633 --> 00:51:54.220
you know in

00:51:54.220 --> 00:51:59.892
los angeles uh all over all over the western u.s yeah now to even make it to even

00:51:59.892 --> 00:52:00.860
make a dentist

00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:01.160
a problem you know in los angeles all over the country all over the western u.s

00:52:00.910 --> 00:52:00.920
yeah now to even

00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:01.288
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:01.288 --> 00:52:01.420
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:01.420 --> 00:52:01.788
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:01.788 --> 00:52:01.920
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:02.288
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:02.288 --> 00:52:02.420
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:02.420 --> 00:52:02.788
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:02.788 --> 00:52:02.920
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:03.288
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:03.288 --> 00:52:03.420
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:03.420 --> 00:52:03.788
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:03.788 --> 00:52:03.920
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:04.288
make it to even make a dentist a problem you know in los angeles all over the

00:52:04.288 --> 00:52:04.420
western u.s yeah now to even

00:52:04.420 --> 00:52:07.437
months to make an appointment it's no longer you go there next week they let you in

00:52:07.437 --> 00:52:07.940
like it's it's

00:52:07.940 --> 00:52:10.988
terrible in the united states you're kidding me no it's it's getting really bad you

00:52:10.988 --> 00:52:11.460
know you have

00:52:11.460 --> 00:52:17.270
a lot of um well a lot of old americans who in the 1670s are telling me the america

00:52:17.270 --> 00:52:18.100
today is not

00:52:18.100 --> 00:52:22.655
the america of the past right you know they tell me uh for example my aunt said

00:52:22.655 --> 00:52:23.680
when she was going

00:52:23.680 --> 00:52:28.531
to college she could work a part-time job and go to go to school right but now when

00:52:28.531 --> 00:52:29.340
school's 20 to

00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:32.957
50 000 you can't you can't even work a full-time yeah make that much yeah you know

00:52:32.957 --> 00:52:33.480
the american

00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:38.235
dream is being suffocated it is and that's one thing i try to explain to many of

00:52:38.235 --> 00:52:38.940
the russians

00:52:38.940 --> 00:52:43.522
over here i try to explain to them that that look you're better off staying over

00:52:43.522 --> 00:52:44.540
here because first

00:52:44.540 --> 00:52:48.273
of all you don't have discrimination you know because believe me it's okay you know

00:52:48.273 --> 00:52:48.940
to discriminate

00:52:48.940 --> 00:52:52.669
against russians in america it's just the way it is you know it's acceptable the

00:52:52.669 --> 00:52:53.360
second thing is

00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:59.147
is like you don't have to wait in lines for uh to get any any

00:52:59.147 --> 00:53:02.320
services right you know prices are

00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:03.460
going up through the roof everything

00:53:03.460 --> 00:53:09.374
um now hotels you know if you want to rent a car they charge you for parking now um

00:53:09.374 --> 00:53:10.360
seriously it's

00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:13.647
ridiculous i'm telling you it's ridiculous in the u.s yeah you enter you uh you

00:53:13.647 --> 00:53:14.140
book a hotel

00:53:14.140 --> 00:53:17.260
they charge you to park your car in their in their own parking lot i mean

00:53:17.260 --> 00:53:18.440
everything's becoming a scam

00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:24.220
you just told me something amazing um go ahead and repeat it so at

00:53:24.220 --> 00:53:26.980
my job there's a co-worker who's

00:53:26.980 --> 00:53:32.176
a kenyan citizen and he told me we were talking the other day and he told me that

00:53:32.176 --> 00:53:33.000
he's going to

00:53:33.460 --> 00:53:37.509
fly to kenya in march and begin the transition of moving back to kenya because he

00:53:37.509 --> 00:53:38.200
said living in

00:53:38.200 --> 00:53:43.258
the united states is is just getting bad he said the the thought the mindset of the

00:53:43.258 --> 00:53:43.920
people he's

00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.140
tired of it you can't have a you can't have an intellectual conversation with a lot

00:53:47.140 --> 00:53:47.600
of americans

00:53:47.600 --> 00:53:51.457
the financial part of it you know even with uh you know working for the government

00:53:51.457 --> 00:53:52.200
we get a pension

00:53:52.200 --> 00:53:57.036
the pension social security he said you still can't make it and he doesn't want to

00:53:57.036 --> 00:53:57.560
be one of

00:53:57.560 --> 00:54:02.140
these people who is in their 70s collecting a pension social security and

00:54:02.140 --> 00:54:03.440
investment retirement

00:54:03.460 --> 00:54:08.968
and still has to go back to work full-time because you can't make it so so this is

00:54:08.968 --> 00:54:09.300
a guy

00:54:09.300 --> 00:54:13.884
a kenyan guy from kenya been living in the u.s his whole life he speaks fluent

00:54:13.884 --> 00:54:15.160
english and everything

00:54:15.160 --> 00:54:21.086
who is moving back to kenya because it's going to be a better

00:54:21.086 --> 00:54:24.240
fit for him yeah it's going to be

00:54:24.240 --> 00:54:28.448
more affordable um and better opportunities for him because he said again in the

00:54:28.448 --> 00:54:29.020
u.s there's

00:54:29.020 --> 00:54:33.260
really nothing for him over there this is unbelievable and that's what i keep saying

00:54:33.460 --> 00:54:38.108
america of the old is not the america of the new you know like for example another

00:54:38.108 --> 00:54:38.780
co-worker of

00:54:38.780 --> 00:54:42.975
mine he bought his own condo he owns it and he told me he's paying almost a

00:54:42.975 --> 00:54:44.300
thousand dollars a month

00:54:44.300 --> 00:54:49.065
between maintenance fees and taxes a month and he's like it's like paying rent he

00:54:49.065 --> 00:54:49.820
said you know

00:54:49.820 --> 00:54:53.316
you buy a condo and then you're still getting slapped a thousand dollars a month

00:54:53.316 --> 00:54:53.920
plus his water

00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:57.760
bill not including his water but all his other utilities it's like he said it's

00:54:57.760 --> 00:54:58.480
ridiculous like

00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.958
the country is so expensive and so damn you know ridiculous yeah if you remember

00:55:02.958 --> 00:55:03.400
before i

00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:09.035
just freaked out because yeah for six months of my utilities was was six hundred

00:55:09.035 --> 00:55:09.800
dollars for

00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:14.500
and that was electricity and water yeah and heating and all that other stuff 600

00:55:14.500 --> 00:55:15.080
bucks yeah

00:55:15.080 --> 00:55:20.725
for six months yeah and i i have a problem with it being so

00:55:20.725 --> 00:55:24.300
high so yeah um but your kenyan friend

00:55:24.300 --> 00:55:28.497
has he been to kenya does he remember it i guess he told me he's going back in

00:55:28.497 --> 00:55:29.560
march i would assume

00:55:29.560 --> 00:55:32.789
so okay yeah he told me he's like he has friends over there and stuff so i assume

00:55:32.789 --> 00:55:33.380
he's going back

00:55:33.400 --> 00:55:37.083
in march i assume he's active over there jesus christ yeah i mean think about it

00:55:37.083 --> 00:55:37.720
you have a lot

00:55:37.720 --> 00:55:42.085
of nigerians who are my job who are gonna move back to nigeria because it's a

00:55:42.085 --> 00:55:42.980
better life over

00:55:42.980 --> 00:55:47.666
there you know you can make more money in the u.s but quality of life is better

00:55:47.666 --> 00:55:48.720
overseas it's true

00:55:48.720 --> 00:55:53.615
it's true especially here yeah especially in russia i love the quality of life here

00:55:53.615 --> 00:55:54.140
well it's

00:55:54.140 --> 00:55:58.540
true over here because you know again i've been over here since december 9th or

00:55:58.540 --> 00:55:59.420
something almost

00:55:59.420 --> 00:56:03.380
a month and i can tell you for example last night i had

00:56:03.400 --> 00:56:07.316
i was with a friend we had two beers and we had i don't know what they're called

00:56:07.316 --> 00:56:07.800
they're um

00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:12.962
these two like subs whatever they're called less than ten dollars yeah in america

00:56:12.962 --> 00:56:13.780
alone the two

00:56:13.780 --> 00:56:17.350
beers probably would have been 15 16 dollars and this it would have been a probably

00:56:17.350 --> 00:56:17.860
30 40 dollar

00:56:17.860 --> 00:56:22.157
meal in the u.s so you went out to eat yes yeah yeah it's crazy um not just that

00:56:22.157 --> 00:56:22.900
but everywhere

00:56:22.900 --> 00:56:27.338
we go it just is super cheap where over over in america that that people don't

00:56:27.338 --> 00:56:27.900
understand

00:56:27.900 --> 00:56:33.380
that same meal could be triple in price you know it's just ridiculous

00:56:33.400 --> 00:56:39.285
over in the united states like and and the quality of food in my opinion is a

00:56:39.285 --> 00:56:40.040
lot better

00:56:40.040 --> 00:56:44.467
here like the produce and all this other stuff you don't have the gmos you don't

00:56:44.467 --> 00:56:45.560
have the fillers you

00:56:45.560 --> 00:56:49.053
don't have any of that it's all illegal here yeah there's one thing that a lot of

00:56:49.053 --> 00:56:49.820
my russian friends

00:56:49.820 --> 00:56:53.448
tell me is that eating in russia is a lot healthier than eating in the united

00:56:53.448 --> 00:56:53.960
states yeah

00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.993
you know uh you know how mcdonald's left russia so i went to the big and tasty i

00:56:57.993 --> 00:56:58.740
think it's what

00:56:58.740 --> 00:57:03.052
it's called yeah i can tell you that like the burger is blah it doesn't really

00:57:03.052 --> 00:57:03.380
matter

00:57:03.400 --> 00:57:07.278
it doesn't really have any flavor to it but i know it's it's a lot healthier than

00:57:07.278 --> 00:57:07.940
what you would

00:57:07.940 --> 00:57:12.304
get in the united states yeah yeah and to tell you the truth even burger king i

00:57:12.304 --> 00:57:13.340
went to burger king

00:57:13.340 --> 00:57:17.359
the other day and i got out here i got i don't know what a burger with fries and a

00:57:17.359 --> 00:57:17.940
typical meal

00:57:17.940 --> 00:57:22.343
and with tea and that's something else that uh some of the russians were asking me

00:57:22.343 --> 00:57:22.980
over here we

00:57:22.980 --> 00:57:28.243
went to kfc before we went to donbass and they were asking me about that they said

00:57:28.243 --> 00:57:28.940
uh does the

00:57:28.940 --> 00:57:32.813
kfc in america offer what offer the same things they offer in russia and i'm like

00:57:32.813 --> 00:57:33.380
hell no like

00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:38.690
the kfc in america all they offer you is fried chicken a chicken sandwich and soda

00:57:38.690 --> 00:57:39.200
and soda

00:57:39.200 --> 00:57:44.951
uh here you can get shrimp sandwiches you can get beer yeah um so yeah i was

00:57:44.951 --> 00:57:46.520
telling them that and

00:57:46.520 --> 00:57:49.908
you know i mean the menu i don't read russian but the menu was just long over here

00:57:49.908 --> 00:57:50.480
and i was like

00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:55.545
holy shit like it's just so uh awesome yeah and even the big and tasty thing you

00:57:55.545 --> 00:57:56.420
know like they

00:57:56.420 --> 00:58:01.586
had way more food than they did uh in america and it's just it's fascinating

00:58:01.586 --> 00:58:02.660
because again in

00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:08.745
people think people in russia oh you know all they do is go to the farm and eat

00:58:08.745 --> 00:58:09.680
beets and bush

00:58:09.680 --> 00:58:13.451
and yeah yeah they don't understand that it's lively over here there's a lot to do

00:58:13.451 --> 00:58:13.860
over here

00:58:13.860 --> 00:58:19.568
um now don't get me wrong you know i haven't explored a lot of moscow obviously but

00:58:19.568 --> 00:58:20.180
it's like

00:58:20.180 --> 00:58:24.051
there's just so much to do over here like i've tried obviously i've tried different

00:58:24.051 --> 00:58:24.420
types of

00:58:24.420 --> 00:58:28.714
bush uh you know what's interesting is they put sour cream in bush over here yeah

00:58:28.714 --> 00:58:29.500
yeah yeah which

00:58:29.500 --> 00:58:33.140
makes it much better but even going to the grocery store i go to the grocery

00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:38.809
store i buy stuff and for example the other day i bought

00:58:38.809 --> 00:58:41.940
turkey meat this i thought it was

00:58:41.940 --> 00:58:47.163
i thought it was a beef but it was turkey meat and chicken and then i bought

00:58:47.163 --> 00:58:48.180
tomatoes it was

00:58:48.180 --> 00:58:51.665
less than ten dollars i can tell you the same thing in the united states would have

00:58:51.665 --> 00:58:52.080
been 60 to

00:58:52.080 --> 00:58:56.177
70 dollars what yeah i can tell you like people don't understand prices in the u.s

00:58:56.177 --> 00:58:56.720
are so high

00:58:56.720 --> 00:58:59.672
right now and the incomes are not going up to offset that that's what a lot of

00:58:59.672 --> 00:59:00.120
people don't

00:59:00.120 --> 00:59:03.380
understand and that's what i keep trying to explain to the russians over there who

00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:06.308
say oh i want to go to america for a better life you're not going to get a better

00:59:06.308 --> 00:59:06.840
life over there

00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:11.994
yeah you know people talk about uh ideologies people are so worried about i can

00:59:11.994 --> 00:59:12.960
protest against

00:59:12.960 --> 00:59:18.204
the government i can protest against putin but it's like okay i guess you can

00:59:18.204 --> 00:59:19.280
somewhat protest

00:59:19.280 --> 00:59:24.648
in america somewhat yeah but you won't get adequate health care you can't afford to

00:59:24.648 --> 00:59:24.840
eat

00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:30.420
you got a lot of senior citizens in america choosing between paying their

00:59:30.420 --> 00:59:31.400
electric bill

00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:33.240
and paying their their um

00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:37.560
doctor bill you know this is a real life situation going on in the united states

00:59:37.560 --> 00:59:41.707
you know you they always say in america you never truly own something like i was

00:59:41.707 --> 00:59:42.680
telling you earlier

00:59:42.680 --> 00:59:47.513
about how my co-worker he owns his own condo and just in the fees and the taxes

00:59:47.513 --> 00:59:48.600
he's paying almost

00:59:48.600 --> 00:59:51.647
a thousand dollars a month even though he owns the condo he's still paying a

00:59:51.647 --> 00:59:52.280
thousand dollars

00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:55.802
a month he might as well sell the condo just pay rent you know that's what that's

00:59:55.802 --> 00:59:56.360
what a lot of

00:59:56.360 --> 00:59:59.870
people don't understand internationally is that you know america they will steal

00:59:59.870 --> 01:00:00.520
your money left

01:00:00.520 --> 01:00:02.760
and right yeah yeah yeah so

01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:04.840
do you have a russian sim card

01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:09.080
yes actually i do have a russian sim card how much did it cost you

01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:16.231
i think 300 rubles a month i think it's it's through spur bank i yeah but it's like

01:00:16.231 --> 01:00:16.680
i think

01:00:16.680 --> 01:00:21.766
300 rubles a month 300 rubles a month that's uh five dollars yeah yeah uh-huh can

01:00:21.766 --> 01:00:22.200
you get

01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:26.267
can you get internet can you get phone service with internet in the u.s for five

01:00:26.267 --> 01:00:26.920
bucks a month

01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:31.640
no no well look at my phone bill for example my phone bill is 182 dollars a month

01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:33.160
uh-huh

01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:38.678
it's expensive over there that's what people don't understand uh yeah uh 182 a

01:00:38.678 --> 01:00:39.880
month jesus christ

01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:43.686
yeah everything's a rip-off over there uh like for example my ex-girlfriend is

01:00:43.686 --> 01:00:44.360
peruvian and i

01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:47.534
tell people the same thing similar to russia when you go down to peru we went to

01:00:47.534 --> 01:00:48.200
tgi friday's down

01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:53.360
there for me her mom for me her her mom and her

01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:58.520
brother we got alcohol we got you know appetizer

01:00:58.520 --> 01:01:02.395
we got dessert we got meat meals you know not just soup and water the total meal

01:01:02.395 --> 01:01:03.400
came out so let's see

01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:06.957
20 and the same thing i explained to them in the united states that same meal

01:01:06.957 --> 01:01:07.960
easily would have been

01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:12.612
200 to 300 in the u.s and that's what people can't understand they don't think it's

01:01:12.612 --> 01:01:13.000
real um

01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:17.184
and that's the thing you know i want just want people to be aware of is that you

01:01:17.184 --> 01:01:17.560
know what

01:01:17.560 --> 01:01:22.561
hollywood portrays about america is not what's happening in real life and i just

01:01:22.561 --> 01:01:23.240
want i just

01:01:23.240 --> 01:01:26.218
want you know people to who are watching this just to be aware you know who are

01:01:26.218 --> 01:01:27.000
thinking oh i'm going

01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:31.101
to go to america and i'm going to live a great life that even myself you know i

01:01:31.101 --> 01:01:32.280
make over 80 000 a year

01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:39.209
and they take about almost 30 000 in taxes and in benefits

01:01:39.209 --> 01:01:42.360
so right off the bat boom that's

01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:47.556
what uh 20 gone and then not including rents not including other bills so basically

01:01:47.556 --> 01:01:48.360
at the end of

01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:52.702
the day when it's all said and done i might have 10 12 000 to play with you know

01:01:52.702 --> 01:01:53.560
after that's off

01:01:53.560 --> 01:01:57.475
80 000. now imagine somebody making 30 000 they they they're struggling you know

01:01:57.475 --> 01:01:58.200
you got you got

01:01:58.200 --> 01:02:01.836
people with making foot i know on a personal basis you have people making forty

01:02:01.836 --> 01:02:02.200
thousand

01:02:03.400 --> 01:02:06.327
and they're not making thirty thousand dollars a year so they're making twenty

01:02:06.327 --> 01:02:06.920
thousand dollars

01:02:06.920 --> 01:02:10.834
a year and they're not making it's crazy how many people are heading to soup

01:02:10.834 --> 01:02:11.800
kitchens heading to

01:02:11.800 --> 01:02:15.805
pantries in america because they can't make it that are on energy assistance they

01:02:15.805 --> 01:02:16.440
can't make it

01:02:16.440 --> 01:02:21.571
and that's what i just want people to be aware of is that again you know a lot of

01:02:21.571 --> 01:02:22.760
the older americans

01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:25.831
i'm talking to again these are people in the 60s even the 80s are telling me it's

01:02:25.831 --> 01:02:26.280
not the same

01:02:26.280 --> 01:02:30.807
america yeah it used to be what about what about hollywood's portrayal of russia do

01:02:30.807 --> 01:02:31.400
you find it

01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:32.905
accurate no no you know it's funny hollywood's uh hollywood's betrayal of russia

01:02:32.905 --> 01:02:33.240
well we don't even

01:02:33.240 --> 01:02:37.000
We need to talk about real life. You know, there's a lot of YouTube channels of

01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:38.880
these. I don't want to say fake Russians

01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:39.660
They are Russians

01:02:39.660 --> 01:02:44.373
But we'll just say these Russian youtubers who are trying to get media attention

01:02:44.373 --> 01:02:47.340
who make it seem like Russia's terrible Russia this

01:02:47.380 --> 01:02:51.180
Let me tell you something. I was at the store the other day and a kilo of

01:02:52.120 --> 01:02:57.540
Tomatoes was like 98 rubles, which is a dollar 20 dollar 20. Yeah, so

01:02:57.540 --> 01:03:02.870
Yeah, so a kilo is 2.2

01:03:02.870 --> 01:03:04.260
pounds

01:03:04.260 --> 01:03:07.440
Yeah, I can tell you in America where I live and again you keep in mind

01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:11.700
I live in one of the cheaper parts a pound of tomatoes is about three dollars

01:03:11.820 --> 01:03:14.781
So imagine the same thing will be about seven eight dollars.

01:03:14.781 --> 01:03:17.160
Yeah, and that's a lot of people don't understand

01:03:17.160 --> 01:03:19.160
It's just like it's so cheap over here

01:03:19.700 --> 01:03:22.253
And and the produce is so good.

01:03:22.253 --> 01:03:26.880
I love oh my god. You have to have the little Uzbek potato

01:03:27.540 --> 01:03:31.820
Tomatoes. Mm-hmm. They're so sweet. Yeah, it's like you're eating like

01:03:32.520 --> 01:03:34.320
Like a tomato

01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:38.409
Candy, you know gods are good. Yeah was one thing about my sister over here in

01:03:38.409 --> 01:03:38.720
Russia

01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:43.470
She has she owns a house with a huge, you know property and she has like her own

01:03:43.470 --> 01:03:46.520
garden where she grows tomatoes blueberries cherries

01:03:46.680 --> 01:03:49.765
Blackberries, so there's one thing is if I come during the summer time, I won't

01:03:49.765 --> 01:03:50.960
have to worry about buying that

01:03:50.960 --> 01:03:52.769
Yeah, you know, it'll be available.

01:03:52.769 --> 01:03:56.939
Yeah, but even though if even have to buy stuff I'm telling you it's so cheap over

01:03:56.939 --> 01:03:57.140
here

01:03:57.740 --> 01:03:59.080
I

01:03:59.080 --> 01:04:02.580
You know really don't have to even going out to eat like in last night and a couple

01:04:02.580 --> 01:04:03.080
other nights

01:04:03.080 --> 01:04:05.379
I you know, we went to a Vietnam restaurant.

01:04:05.379 --> 01:04:07.780
We got soup. We got a main meal. We got dessert

01:04:08.080 --> 01:04:12.040
It wasn't it wasn't even it wasn't even $20. It was so cheap

01:04:12.040 --> 01:04:15.336
Like that's that's what I keep telling people the same thing in the United States

01:04:15.336 --> 01:04:16.260
will be triple in price

01:04:17.080 --> 01:04:20.860
Amazing. Yeah, it's not just that but you have a lot of people in the United States

01:04:20.860 --> 01:04:22.480
also commenting saying that you know

01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:26.361
a lot of Americans are saying it's one thing I noticed about Russian life in

01:04:26.361 --> 01:04:27.520
general is that Russian

01:04:27.520 --> 01:04:30.852
Just so able to do stuff. Yeah, you know, even though they make less like there's

01:04:30.852 --> 01:04:32.680
one guy was telling me and that he only makes

01:04:32.680 --> 01:04:37.505
About 18,000 equivalent, you know, whatever their exchange is 18,000 US dollars a

01:04:37.505 --> 01:04:38.800
month or a year a year

01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:42.280
But he's still able to fly to

01:04:43.640 --> 01:04:45.640
Israel flights to Uzbekistan

01:04:45.900 --> 01:04:48.640
In America if you made eighteen thousand dollars a year

01:04:48.860 --> 01:04:52.491
You would be living in the soup kitchens and the government aid office begging for

01:04:52.491 --> 01:04:54.460
food stands begging for this begging for that

01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:57.400
Mm-hmm, you know you'd be probably going to your relatives for free meals

01:04:57.520 --> 01:05:00.520
You know, this is reality of the matter. So I explained to the Russians

01:05:00.520 --> 01:05:04.685
Yeah, you make a lot less but I've seen more opportunities that people are able to

01:05:04.685 --> 01:05:06.040
do more over here with less

01:05:06.860 --> 01:05:08.860
because again for me to fly from

01:05:09.200 --> 01:05:14.467
Milwaukee to Russia was seventeen hundred dollars, you know round-trip and that's

01:05:14.467 --> 01:05:15.880
not including the fees

01:05:16.100 --> 01:05:18.700
You know, for example, I had a book a hotel in New York City

01:05:18.700 --> 01:05:22.190
Which was two hundred and then you had to pay a fifty dollar deposit, which you

01:05:22.190 --> 01:05:23.760
don't get back until two weeks later

01:05:24.320 --> 01:05:26.980
So no and keep in mind. I don't have a car

01:05:26.980 --> 01:05:31.028
So thank God I didn't have to pay for parking but parking can be anywhere from

01:05:31.028 --> 01:05:33.180
thirty to seventy dollars a day or a night

01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:36.164
It's ridiculous over there. That's what people don't understand.

01:05:36.164 --> 01:05:37.500
Like wait, you don't have a car at all

01:05:37.500 --> 01:05:41.089
I used to have a car but my car broke down and I don't really need a car because I

01:05:41.089 --> 01:05:42.300
literally live like close to

01:05:42.300 --> 01:05:46.120
Where I work so I can just walk to work and then well here you can buy a boo honka

01:05:47.120 --> 01:05:51.376
Spend a million rubles or well, they start at like seven hundred thousand rubles

01:05:51.376 --> 01:05:52.480
get a really nice one

01:05:52.480 --> 01:05:54.620
It's a million rubles and it has like

01:05:55.420 --> 01:05:56.860
five seats inside

01:05:56.860 --> 01:06:02.009
A table yeah, like five seats like in the back and then two driver's seats and then

01:06:02.009 --> 01:06:03.480
some storage in the back

01:06:03.900 --> 01:06:09.200
But it's got like a nice table where you can like eat lunch and I was using it for

01:06:09.200 --> 01:06:10.860
video editing on this trip

01:06:10.860 --> 01:06:14.258
It was great. And the one thing I want to tell people watching this from America

01:06:14.258 --> 01:06:15.600
who have never been to Russia is

01:06:17.260 --> 01:06:19.942
Russian driving is fine. They use their blinkers.

01:06:19.942 --> 01:06:23.215
They stop at red lights. They stop at pedestrian crosswalks.

01:06:23.215 --> 01:06:25.200
It's normally just like everyday life

01:06:25.200 --> 01:06:26.840
You know a lot of people in America think that

01:06:26.860 --> 01:06:31.247
I get anything Russia is, you know, just just out of control and anything that a

01:06:31.247 --> 01:06:33.360
lot of well, what's funny about that is

01:06:34.580 --> 01:06:37.249
You hear that like the Russian drivers are crazy.

01:06:37.249 --> 01:06:41.040
Yeah, but when I drive over here people think that I'm the crazy driver

01:06:41.120 --> 01:06:43.120
Yeah, because well, yeah

01:06:43.880 --> 01:06:45.000
Yeah, yeah

01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.114
Yeah, but it's fascinating because it's just like the American perception that the

01:06:49.114 --> 01:06:50.700
American media put you, you know

01:06:50.700 --> 01:06:54.873
They may when the whole drafts was put was announced by Putin or can screw whatever

01:06:54.873 --> 01:06:56.661
is called inscription conscription?

01:06:56.661 --> 01:06:56.860
Yeah

01:06:56.900 --> 01:07:00.654
All of a sudden you had all these American news all these Russians fleeing.

01:07:00.654 --> 01:07:03.420
Ah, they're fleeing, you know, let me tell you something

01:07:03.420 --> 01:07:06.694
I'm a male. I'm 33 and it's like I've been to the police station.

01:07:06.694 --> 01:07:08.480
I went to Donbass. I went to Donetsk

01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:11.100
I was with Spetsnaz. I was with soldiers and it's like

01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:13.107
They could have easily told me. Nope.

01:07:13.107 --> 01:07:14.940
You're not going back. You're gonna stay here and fight

01:07:14.940 --> 01:07:18.180
But no again, you know here I am on this show, you know telling people what happened

01:07:18.180 --> 01:07:20.005
It's like no you have freedom over here.

01:07:20.005 --> 01:07:21.830
You know, I can go to restaurants again.

01:07:21.830 --> 01:07:23.700
You can do this. You can do that like that

01:07:24.660 --> 01:07:26.660
just because just because

01:07:26.860 --> 01:07:29.634
Putin phobia does it okay?

01:07:29.634 --> 01:07:33.640
It's not it's overhyped, you know, yeah

01:07:33.640 --> 01:07:37.497
He's the president of Russia, but it's like what he does really does not affect

01:07:37.497 --> 01:07:39.040
everyday Russians. Yeah, in fact

01:07:40.200 --> 01:07:42.200
in fact everyday Russians

01:07:42.540 --> 01:07:45.520
Really like him generally speaking not everybody but yeah

01:07:45.520 --> 01:07:48.520
Well that is true. I talked to a lot of people here and they they adore Putin

01:07:48.520 --> 01:07:52.436
You know, they say that he took Russia from the Soviet times into modern-day times

01:07:52.436 --> 01:07:54.040
and it must have been so difficult

01:07:54.040 --> 01:07:56.620
You know, I went to an orphanage the about a few weeks ago

01:07:56.620 --> 01:07:58.211
And I'm telling you like I went in there.

01:07:58.211 --> 01:07:59.840
I was like, oh my god, this is an orphanage

01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:04.480
It's not what they portray in America. They portray just doll, but like you had kids

01:08:05.160 --> 01:08:10.433
Wearing normal stuff like I saw a guy a kid in the orphanage like a goth dressed in

01:08:10.433 --> 01:08:11.500
all black or well

01:08:11.500 --> 01:08:13.280
He looked goth and maybe a rockhead. I don't know

01:08:13.280 --> 01:08:17.164
Yeah, and as a you don't envision that's the kind of guy living in these orphanages

01:08:17.164 --> 01:08:17.580
like dude

01:08:17.580 --> 01:08:19.900
The orphanages are nice even in Donbass.

01:08:19.900 --> 01:08:23.748
Yeah, so we went to a bunch of orphanages to give out humanitarian.

01:08:23.748 --> 01:08:24.540
It was amazing

01:08:24.540 --> 01:08:26.400
Yeah, and that's kind of stuff that you know

01:08:26.400 --> 01:08:29.640
They don't portray in the American news. It's like it's not real, you know

01:08:29.640 --> 01:08:33.254
This this phobia that you go to Russia everything's doll everything black.

01:08:33.254 --> 01:08:35.760
It's just not real like you you walk down the street

01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:38.840
No matter where you go, you're gonna find Christmas lights New Year's celebrations

01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:42.629
I can't wait to celebrate my first New Year's here in Russia and my first Christmas

01:08:42.629 --> 01:08:43.260
here in Russia

01:08:43.260 --> 01:08:45.718
So it's gonna be quite an excitement.

01:08:45.718 --> 01:08:48.499
When do you go back January 9th? Oh, okay.

01:08:48.499 --> 01:08:50.180
Yeah long trip. Yeah, cool

01:08:50.540 --> 01:08:53.340
Well, then we'll have to go out. I'll have to show you some stuff myself

01:08:53.360 --> 01:08:53.840
Yeah

01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:56.360
The America of the old is not the America of the new

01:08:56.400 --> 01:09:00.840
Mm-hmm anything going to these Ukrainian refugees heading over to America, you know

01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:04.440
They believe that they're going to live the American dream, but that's not the case

01:09:04.440 --> 01:09:09.030
Yeah, eventually the welcome will dry up and then they're gonna be left out in the

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cold realizing that all you know

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I there's nothing for me here

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And that's you know, just want to tell the Russian people just you know, just

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understand that, you know, I understand there's a

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conceptualization in people's heads that America

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Streets are paved of gold and anything I can become anything

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It's not the truth though, you know, I I mean I lived in USA since I was four and

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you know, I've been capped

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You know limited in my abilities.

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So I just want people to understand that that you know, like the health care

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I mean if you're willing to pay five to you know, if you have cancer, you're gonna

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get a bill for five hundred thousand dollars

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Oh, yeah million dollars. Absolutely with insurance.

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That's what people don't understand

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It's so expensive over there and it's not the best, you know, United States has

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what I believe the highest morality

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mortality mortality infant mortality death rate in the world for

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Supposedly being one of the most advanced countries.

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They you know, they don't really care.

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It's all about funding this Ukraine operation

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They don't care about their own people. Yeah

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Yeah, all right

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anything else

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No, that's pretty much it. All right.

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Well, dude, it was really cool to meet you.

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Yeah

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It's gonna be really cool when you move here

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Hopefully you won't live too far. We'll be neighbors. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so

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All righty. Bye. Thank you

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