No BS Newshour Episode #389
From Russia with Love
Russian journalist and world traveler Ilya Varlamov lands in Detroit and asks us “Whad Ub Doe?”
Dana Nessel- your ass is grass and even the Russians know it.
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Transcript:
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Get the out of that mailbox!
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I just caught you on camera!
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Remember this toad dropping F-bombs on me from her
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upstairs window?
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Let’s hear that one more time.
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Get the out of that mailbox!
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I just caught you on camera!
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That was friendly.
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Must be a lawyer.
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That was Tracy Kornack.
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At the time,
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she was the Democrat state treasurer.
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She’s also besties with Governor Whitmer and A.G.
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Nestle.
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Kornack was accused three years ago of trying to rip
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off an insurance company through her client,
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an old woman with brain damage who slept in a helmet.
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Despite a mountain of damning documents,
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Nestle let Kornack off,
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scot-free.
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And now the old woman is dead,
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and a probate judge in Allegan County wants to know
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what Kornack did with all the old lady’s money.
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We should be ashamed at how we treat the elderly in
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this state.
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I’ve spent my career defending the rights of our most
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vulnerable.
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Nestle wouldn’t let us up in her office.
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What I want to know is,
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who’s investigating her?
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And if I was Madam Attorney General,
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I’d lawyer up.
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Dana Nestle.
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I phoned her many times over these past three years.
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There was a vulnerable old woman who needed help,
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and instead of helping,
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Nestle killed the investigation that would have protected
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that old woman.
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And now that old woman is dead,
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and Nestle’s reckoning is near.
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A probate judge in Allegan County wondered aloud two
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weeks ago if the old woman’s bank account had been
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plundered by her court-appointed conservator,
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Tracy Kornack.
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Kornack is a friend of Nestle.
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Kornack is a friend of Whitmer,
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and until recently,
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Kornack was one of the most powerful Democrats in
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Michigan.
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According to these probate court transcripts,
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Kornack made large withdrawals from the estate of
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Rose Byrd,
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an elderly and legally incapacitated woman.
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Kornack offered no receipts to the court.
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There was a $10,000 transfer from Bird’s account to
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Kornack’s personal account.
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Kornack also billed the 87-year-old woman $1,500 for
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sitting in a hospital waiting room.
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There were copious charges to Byrd’s bank account for
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things like pizza,
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Comcast, and unspecified merchandise from a home repair
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superstore.
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Incredibly,
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the day after the woman’s death,
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there were several more transactions.
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According to the probate judge,
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Kornack redacted the nature of those transactions,
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thus preventing the judge from seeing what exactly
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those posthumous expenses were.
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Essentially,
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Mrs.
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Cornack, you were making significant living off Ms.
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Bird, said Judge Clearwater,
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the chief of the Allegan County Probate Court.
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You charged this woman nearly $100,000 over the course
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of one year.
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I’m not certain that’s reasonable,
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the judge said.
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The judge will schedule an evidentiary hearing.
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That’s a trial.
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Into the matter of Kornack’s handling of the old woman’s
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money, I am going to direct you to submit receipts
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for these expenses,
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Judge Clearwater said.
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The court is concerned you have your name on her account,
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to which Kornack complained.
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That’s totally different than how it’s been done,
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to which the judge said,
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just because you’re
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previous accounts were allowed by the court,
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I can’t go back and change those.
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But I am going to review more carefully this last and
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final account.
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It should be noted that the elderly woman lived in
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an assisted living facility.
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Her food, her lodging,
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and her care were paid directly to the facility by
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the insurance company.
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Those costs were significantly less than $100,000 a
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year, so I don’t know what Cornaak was doing.
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What did Kornack actually do over the years for that
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kind of money she was paying herself from bird savings?
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We may never know.
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But it should never have gotten to this.
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Kornack is a slip-and-fall lawyer and former treasurer
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of the Michigan Democratic Party.
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She was accused in July of ’22 by the director of a
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West Michigan nursing home of using the account of
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her elderly client to fraudulently bill an insurance
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company for nearly $50,000.
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Nestle promised not to intervene in that investigation
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of Kornak,
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but documents obtained by us under a Freedom of Information
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request show Nestle not only breached an ethical firewall
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created to prevent conflicts of interest,
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but Nestle’s staff in December of 22 handed the active
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criminal file of Kornak over to Kornak herself.
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What’s more,
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those documents also reveal that Kornack admitted
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to Nestle’s investigator that she had indeed removed
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the money from the old woman’s account in order to
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pay her daughter for extra care provided to Ms.
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Byrd.
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Kornack told the investigator that she expected to
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reimburse the old woman’s account once Kornack received
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the insurance settlement.
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But there is no documentation that Kornack’s daughter
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ever provided a minute of care.
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and Cornack never received a check from the insurance
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company.
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So where’s the money?
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Then there is the Attorney Grievance Commission,
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which concluded earlier this year,
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three years after an initial complaint was filed,
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that there was no good evidence to initiate an investigation
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into Cornack.
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Neither the commission nor Nestle’s investigators ever
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contacted Joe LeBlanc,
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the director of the nursing home,
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who blew the whistle and provided the documents to
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me.
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How you feel,
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Joe?
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Disappointed?
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Did you expect this?
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I did expect this.
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Did you think it would be covered up?
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I did.
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Well, now we’re seeing it,
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aren’t we?
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Three years later,
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and that’s…
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How else do you show it?
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What do you got to say to the judge here?
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Thank you.
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Sincerely,
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this has been passed through.
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You just said it.
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went through the Attorney Grievance Commission.
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It’s gone through the Attorney General’s office.
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It’s been multiple hands.
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It hasn’t been covered by the media.
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Thank you to that judge.
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Thank you,
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your honor.
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Nestle makes grand shows and pronouncements about protecting
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our elderly.
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You saw it.
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You can look it up on his social media accounts.
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We did, but it’s just a cynical play.
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Nestle did less to protect one single brain-damaged
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elderly old woman than most anyone would do for a
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wet, strayed dog.
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She covered for a politically connected pal.
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And if I were Nestle,
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and I’m glad I’m not,
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I’d lawyer up.
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Evidence speaks for itself,
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don’t it,
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Joe?
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They ever reach out to you?
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No.
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one has.
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Except you.
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Would you be happy to testify?
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In a minute.
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I’ve wanted to testify.
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But that’s the ironic part.
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That’s what you know is nobody’s going to call you.
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That’s why I reported it this way.
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Because sometimes you can’t tell people the truth.
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You just have to show them.
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And maybe at that point,
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they have the will to change.
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And this isn’t for the politicians.
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This isn’t for anybody else.
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This is for the people of Michigan.
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And this is to get justice for somebody that lived
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in my house,
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that I love for five years.
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I mean, what would you do for somebody you love?
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That you see just getting financially raped,
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really?
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It’s a curious question,
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isn’t it?
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What would you do?
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I mean, what would you really do when the shit hit
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the fan?
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Everybody would say,
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I would do everything I could.
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Would you?
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But they didn’t live what we lived.
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They didn’t live what we lived,
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dude.
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No, there’s a reason,
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dude.
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Look at the prices.
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Try to hurt us,
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take us out,
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smear us,
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everything.
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All we were doing was,
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here’s a vulnerable woman in a nursing home.
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We lived through that COVID.
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I’ve done this 10,
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12 other times.
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You mean called on somebody’s ripping off an old person?
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Yeah.
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Call them right out.
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And all of them were convictions except one.
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Well, two now.
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But, done doing this for 15 years,
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people are focused on Koronak part.
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I know that.
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wasn’t an allegation.
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I know what’s there.
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My allegation is this is going to get covered up.
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Hey, Ruski.
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We got a Ruski in the house.
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Yes.
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Mark, show the people where Russia is on our LED mirror.
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That, that’s,
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no, that’s Kazakhstan.
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That was close.
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No, just kid,
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hurry up,
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stretch.
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Okay, Mark,
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show me where Moscow is,
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bro.
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Oh, that one I know.
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Okay.
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Yeah, okay.
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Where’s St.
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Petersburg,
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bro?
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Okay, where’s Ulanuti?
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That’s Mongolian,
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bro.
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Irkutsk.
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Where’s Lake Baikal?
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Oh, I know that from Risk,
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from playing Risk.
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Irkutsk.
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This is Ilya Verlamov.
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Is that correct,
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brother?
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Yeah.
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Now, we’ll do this after the break.
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Let’s go.
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All right.
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I like it.
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Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlene LaDa and Karen Dumas.
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What’s just breaking this?
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Double bullshit.
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Double bullshit.
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No bullshit.
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What are we doing,
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Mark?
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Tell me about Coney.
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let me see the Al Roker ad.
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All right.
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I’m Grace Karos,
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and I’m third generation of American Coney Island.
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Al Roker.
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That’s not Al Roker,
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bro.
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That’s Grace Karos.
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I see where you’ve been.
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We’ve been here for 100 years.
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My family’s been here on the same corner,
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serving our famous proprietary American Coney Island.
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I was like,
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what the fuck are you doing here?
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Christ, get me out of here.
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We’d love to have you come downtown and visit us.
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But if you can’t,
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you can always go to AmericanConeyIsland.com,
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order a Coney kit,
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get it delivered fresh right to your door.
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AmericanConeyIsland.com.
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Get them to your house.
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By the way,
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look at that one.
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Eat your heart out and eat Coney dogs copiously because
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yet again,
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American Coney Island voted the best Coney in Detroit.
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And when you say Detroit,
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you mean Michigan.
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That’s right.
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Do you know what Detroit means in Algonquin?
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Michigan.
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Really.
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I know we’re Michigan,
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Michigan.
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It’s unbelievable.
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No, it means the straight.
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OK, you speak French.
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I know where France is.
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Where?
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Go ahead.
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Point out.
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Where?
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You missed it.
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You put it to Ireland.
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No, not Spain,
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motherfucker.
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Fix it in post.
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No, we won’t.
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Okay, Luke Nowacki.
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By the way,
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before we hear from Luke,
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remember,
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you can go to AmericanConeyIsland.com,
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order a Coney kit,
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00:11:08,596 –> 00:11:11,516
12 dogs, homemade chili,
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Vidalia onion,
340
00:11:12,716 –> 00:11:13,676
steamer buns,
341
00:11:14,196 –> 00:11:15,196
and a nice hat.
342
00:11:16,316 –> 00:11:18,556
The famous American Coney hat.
343
00:11:19,276 –> 00:11:20,076
Right to your door.
344
00:11:20,716 –> 00:11:22,076
Go to AmericanConeyIsland.com.
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Luke Nowacki at 248-
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6634748.
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What’s gold going for?
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00:11:27,996 –> 00:11:29,036
4100.
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4100.
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I’m glad I talked to Luke.
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Everyone should.
352
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I’m sitting pretty.
353
00:11:35,436 –> 00:11:36,156
Do you own gold,
354
00:11:36,396 –> 00:11:36,716
Ilya?
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00:11:37,276 –> 00:11:37,676
Gold?
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00:11:37,676 –> 00:11:37,916
Yeah.
357
00:11:37,916 –> 00:11:39,156
Why not?
358
00:11:39,916 –> 00:11:40,396
Why not?
359
00:11:40,636 –> 00:11:43,676
It’s KG Russians.
360
00:11:43,836 –> 00:11:45,956
Yeah, I know you meddled in the voting shit.
361
00:11:45,996 –> 00:11:47,396
You voted as Janet.
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00:11:48,236 –> 00:11:48,716
As Janet.
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Janet for my house.
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Our friend Janet.
365
00:11:50,956 –> 00:11:51,076
Yeah.
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00:11:51,556 –> 00:11:52,236
Fucking ruskies.
367
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Luke Nowaki,
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roll it.
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00:11:57,596 –> 00:12:00,236
Is this the hole in one?
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00:12:00,236 –> 00:12:01,836
It’s a hole in one,
371
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$50,000 if you hit it.
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00:12:04,396 –> 00:12:05,516
Luke Nowacki,
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Financial Wealth Management.
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00:12:08,596 –> 00:12:10,476
What is 50 grand after tax?
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00:12:13,916 –> 00:12:15,956
37, 750.
376
00:12:15,996 –> 00:12:16,956
What about state tax?
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Yeah, that’s,
378
00:12:18,436 –> 00:12:19,916
I’m throwing both in there.
379
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What about sales tax?
380
00:12:21,596 –> 00:12:22,396
There’s no sales tax.
381
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Well, you’re buying the beer.
382
00:12:23,196 –> 00:12:23,596
It’s income.
383
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You’ll buy the beer.
384
00:12:24,876 –> 00:12:25,596
We write that off.
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Luke Nowacki,
386
00:12:28,556 –> 00:12:29,836
Financial Wealth Management.
387
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248-663-4748 for sound financial advice.
388
00:12:34,956 –> 00:12:36,076
Okay, where do we want to go with this,
389
00:12:36,076 –> 00:12:36,276
Mark?
390
00:12:37,396 –> 00:12:40,876
I’m interested in Joe and what that battle is going
391
00:12:40,876 –> 00:12:42,036
to look like going forward.
392
00:12:42,036 –> 00:12:43,036
Okay, let’s start this.
393
00:12:43,036 –> 00:12:44,316
I mean, today’s Tuesday.
394
00:12:44,396 –> 00:12:45,356
Let’s start this.
395
00:12:45,356 –> 00:12:46,636
Today is Wednesday.
396
00:12:46,876 –> 00:12:48,156
Oh, but I meant the other Tuesday.
397
00:12:48,156 –> 00:12:49,196
See you next Wednesday.
398
00:12:49,196 –> 00:12:50,316
I’m going to see you on a Tuesday.
399
00:12:50,636 –> 00:12:53,396
Now, I was talking to Joe last night and I said,
400
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what are you doing?
401
00:12:53,916 –> 00:12:56,316
He goes, I’m passing through Flint.
402
00:12:57,356 –> 00:12:58,796
I’m like, what are you doing passing through Flint?
403
00:12:59,036 –> 00:13:00,716
Because I’m on my way to your house.
404
00:13:01,436 –> 00:13:02,636
So what are you on my way to my.
405
00:13:02,876 –> 00:13:03,316
So anyway,
406
00:13:03,316 –> 00:13:04,476
it’s me and Joe.
407
00:13:05,036 –> 00:13:05,836
Joe, why are you here,
408
00:13:05,836 –> 00:13:06,076
bro?
409
00:13:06,836 –> 00:13:07,996
Do you think the reckoning is coming?
410
00:13:08,396 –> 00:13:08,716
I do.
411
00:13:09,196 –> 00:13:10,156
I do.
412
00:13:10,636 –> 00:13:11,396
I have a lot of hope.
413
00:13:12,076 –> 00:13:14,516
You know, there’s people that are working behind the
414
00:13:14,516 –> 00:13:14,956
scenes.
415
00:13:15,196 –> 00:13:16,316
This affected everybody.
416
00:13:16,396 –> 00:13:17,676
You know, I don’t see Democrats,
417
00:13:17,676 –> 00:13:18,316
Republicans,
418
00:13:18,316 –> 00:13:18,796
rich, poor,
419
00:13:18,796 –> 00:13:20,716
black, or white in my places.
420
00:13:20,716 –> 00:13:22,236
I have to look after all of them.
421
00:13:22,956 –> 00:13:25,996
And it affected everybody because this could have been
422
00:13:25,996 –> 00:13:27,436
any one of our moms or dads.
423
00:13:27,756 –> 00:13:29,796
And so that’s the part that I’m excited about.
424
00:13:29,836 –> 00:13:31,356
That’s where I really see hope coming.
425
00:13:31,596 –> 00:13:35,276
Yeah, I don’t know.
426
00:13:36,876 –> 00:13:39,876
who monitors the chief law enforcement officer of the
427
00:13:39,876 –> 00:13:41,036
great state of Michigan.
428
00:13:41,356 –> 00:13:42,636
But somebody needs to.
429
00:13:43,036 –> 00:13:44,156
And it’s right there.
430
00:13:44,156 –> 00:13:44,796
Now again,
431
00:13:45,516 –> 00:13:47,596
the judge is holding an evidentiary hearing.
432
00:13:47,836 –> 00:13:49,036
The judge has serious questions.
433
00:13:49,036 –> 00:13:49,836
That’s all I’m saying.
434
00:13:50,636 –> 00:13:52,076
But it sure don’t fucking look good.
435
00:13:52,956 –> 00:13:57,836
And nobody followed up on all the documents,
436
00:13:57,916 –> 00:13:58,876
the text messages,
437
00:13:58,876 –> 00:14:02,556
everything that you laid out about trying to get money
438
00:14:03,676 –> 00:14:06,396
In this old woman’s name from an insurance company
439
00:14:06,396 –> 00:14:09,516
for goods and deliverables that were never delivered.
440
00:14:09,836 –> 00:14:09,996
Right.
441
00:14:10,956 –> 00:14:11,996
I think at this point,
442
00:14:12,156 –> 00:14:14,156
the silence speaks louder than anything else.
443
00:14:15,676 –> 00:14:16,796
And where’s your industry?
444
00:14:18,076 –> 00:14:19,676
You know, I have to reach out to you.
445
00:14:19,676 –> 00:14:21,516
I reached out to you specifically for help.
446
00:14:22,236 –> 00:14:22,956
You mean the media?
447
00:14:23,276 –> 00:14:23,596
Yeah.
448
00:14:24,156 –> 00:14:24,476
I know.
449
00:14:25,476 –> 00:14:26,396
I’m a healthcare worker.
450
00:14:27,076 –> 00:14:27,836
Where’s my industry?
451
00:14:27,996 –> 00:14:28,716
Where’s yours?
452
00:14:28,796 –> 00:14:29,436
Are you following?
453
00:14:29,756 –> 00:14:30,716
Are you following what’s going on?
454
00:14:30,716 –> 00:14:31,676
What we were just doing there?
455
00:14:32,396 –> 00:14:34,076
Are you following what we were just doing?
456
00:14:34,796 –> 00:14:36,956
I tried to.
457
00:14:37,996 –> 00:14:38,236
Okay.
458
00:14:38,396 –> 00:14:39,476
So can I?
459
00:14:39,556 –> 00:14:39,916
Yeah, go.
460
00:14:40,156 –> 00:14:41,516
I’m not even a victim in this.
461
00:14:41,516 –> 00:14:42,716
You’re not a victim in this.
462
00:14:43,276 –> 00:14:45,156
I’m trying to help a lady that is now dead.
463
00:14:45,156 –> 00:14:47,836
And this is the shit you’ve got to go through.
464
00:14:48,876 –> 00:14:49,516
I know, man.
465
00:14:49,516 –> 00:14:50,636
It’s fucking.
466
00:14:50,836 –> 00:14:51,196
Thank you,
467
00:14:51,196 –> 00:14:51,436
man.
468
00:14:51,436 –> 00:14:53,436
Like, you paid a fucking price for this.
469
00:14:53,676 –> 00:14:54,556
It’s been a slog.
470
00:14:55,116 –> 00:14:55,876
We’re not giving up.
471
00:14:55,916 –> 00:14:57,356
It’s only just beginning now.
472
00:14:57,356 –> 00:14:58,476
It’s only just beginning.
473
00:14:59,116 –> 00:15:00,156
See, we’re going to,
474
00:15:00,396 –> 00:15:01,316
I love this country,
475
00:15:01,316 –> 00:15:04,076
Ilya, because we have something that you don’t have
476
00:15:04,396 –> 00:15:04,956
in Europe,
477
00:15:05,596 –> 00:15:05,996
you know,
478
00:15:06,476 –> 00:15:08,556
or Asia, whatever you want to call Russia,
479
00:15:09,356 –> 00:15:10,116
or Western Europe.
480
00:15:10,236 –> 00:15:11,436
We have the First Amendment.
481
00:15:11,996 –> 00:15:13,436
So it’s fucking beautiful.
482
00:15:13,676 –> 00:15:14,716
It’s in codified.
483
00:15:15,116 –> 00:15:16,076
First Amendment says,
484
00:15:16,396 –> 00:15:18,316
don’t tell me what to say,
485
00:15:18,836 –> 00:15:19,836
what to think,
486
00:15:20,116 –> 00:15:21,196
where to stand,
487
00:15:21,356 –> 00:15:22,236
or how to pray.
488
00:15:22,396 –> 00:15:23,516
You may not.
489
00:15:23,596 –> 00:15:24,476
You may not.
490
00:15:24,476 –> 00:15:26,196
It’s our God-given right.
491
00:15:26,836 –> 00:15:28,796
And they’re not going to tell us.
492
00:15:29,516 –> 00:15:31,436
They’re not going to tell us what to say,
493
00:15:31,476 –> 00:15:32,396
where to stand,
494
00:15:32,956 –> 00:15:33,916
who to bow to.
495
00:15:34,316 –> 00:15:36,396
We only bow to the Almighty,
496
00:15:36,396 –> 00:15:36,716
right?
497
00:15:36,956 –> 00:15:38,156
And maybe our grandfathers.
498
00:15:38,476 –> 00:15:39,036
That’s it.
499
00:15:39,756 –> 00:15:40,236
That’s it.
500
00:15:40,716 –> 00:15:41,876
We’re going to hold that dear,
501
00:15:41,876 –> 00:15:43,516
and we’re going to hold people to account.
502
00:15:43,716 –> 00:15:44,636
That’s what we’re doing here.
503
00:15:44,956 –> 00:15:49,436
Now, Ilya Varlamov is an independent Russian journalist
504
00:15:49,436 –> 00:15:51,836
covering people’s lives across the planet,
505
00:15:51,916 –> 00:15:56,796
like the slums of Eritrea to the farmlands of the
506
00:15:56,796 –> 00:15:57,276
Amish.
507
00:15:58,556 –> 00:16:01,436
He’s got the world’s best job.
508
00:16:02,316 –> 00:16:03,356
It is the world’s best job.
509
00:16:03,676 –> 00:16:04,636
It’s for a young man.
510
00:16:05,756 –> 00:16:07,556
Just go see the world.
511
00:16:07,836 –> 00:16:08,476
That’s what he’s doing.
512
00:16:08,796 –> 00:16:16,636
And I looked you up.
513
00:16:18,956 –> 00:16:20,196
But I’ve been to Russia.
514
00:16:20,196 –> 00:16:21,756
I love that place.
515
00:16:21,996 –> 00:16:23,596
What an interesting people you are.
516
00:16:24,276 –> 00:16:25,116
What a culture.
517
00:16:25,436 –> 00:16:29,276
You go to Russia and you can just smell the centuries.
518
00:16:30,156 –> 00:16:30,476
Do you know,
519
00:16:30,556 –> 00:16:31,756
I went to the Bolshoi Theatre.
520
00:16:32,956 –> 00:16:34,636
I had one hit of LSD,
521
00:16:35,676 –> 00:16:36,556
one hit of acid,
522
00:16:37,036 –> 00:16:38,156
and I took it.
523
00:16:38,636 –> 00:16:40,156
And I got great tickets.
524
00:16:40,316 –> 00:16:44,156
I sat in the mezzanine of Joan of Arc.
525
00:16:44,556 –> 00:16:46,076
Joan of Arc was playing at the Bolshoi,
526
00:16:46,236 –> 00:16:47,436
and I was tripping balls,
527
00:16:47,436 –> 00:16:47,676
bro.
528
00:16:47,996 –> 00:16:50,036
And she rose at the end.
529
00:16:50,156 –> 00:16:54,796
She rose from the stage and the smoke,
530
00:16:54,916 –> 00:16:56,956
and she rose right to my face.
531
00:16:58,836 –> 00:16:59,596
It was awesome.
532
00:17:00,236 –> 00:17:01,436
Where are we supposed to go with that?
533
00:17:02,596 –> 00:17:05,116
That’s why when I went to graduate school,
534
00:17:05,516 –> 00:17:07,596
I had always planned to go back to Russia.
535
00:17:07,756 –> 00:17:11,716
It was so interesting and intoxicating that I wanted
536
00:17:11,716 –> 00:17:13,636
to go back and know more about you guys.
537
00:17:13,636 –> 00:17:15,276
When was your last time?
538
00:17:15,356 –> 00:17:17,196
I think like 1990.
539
00:17:17,756 –> 00:17:19,116
When was Yeltsin on the tank?
540
00:17:19,116 –> 00:17:21,196
Okay, it’s a completely different country.
541
00:17:21,196 –> 00:17:24,236
So now it’s a different country.
542
00:17:24,476 –> 00:17:26,956
Well, Moscow is a different city.
543
00:17:27,796 –> 00:17:28,956
It’s very rich.
544
00:17:28,956 –> 00:17:30,476
It’s very cosmopolitan.
545
00:17:30,636 –> 00:17:32,796
But if you go out to Irkutsk,
546
00:17:33,356 –> 00:17:34,236
something like this,
547
00:17:34,556 –> 00:17:35,276
it’s the same.
548
00:17:35,956 –> 00:17:36,396
It’s right.
549
00:17:36,636 –> 00:17:39,596
Like us, it’s a lot of poverty,
550
00:17:40,236 –> 00:17:40,556
right?
551
00:17:40,636 –> 00:17:41,396
Yeah, absolutely.
552
00:17:41,556 –> 00:17:42,636
There’s a lot of inequity,
553
00:17:42,956 –> 00:17:43,316
right?
554
00:17:43,436 –> 00:17:44,596
A lot of very rich people,
555
00:17:44,596 –> 00:17:45,676
a lot of very poor people.
556
00:17:45,836 –> 00:17:46,716
And that’s a problem.
557
00:17:47,356 –> 00:17:47,916
Right, brother?
558
00:17:48,236 –> 00:17:48,436
Yeah.
559
00:17:49,276 –> 00:17:50,556
Kakskazap Porowski,
560
00:17:50,556 –> 00:17:51,036
brother.
561
00:17:51,356 –> 00:17:51,836
Brat.
562
00:17:52,076 –> 00:17:52,476
Brat.
563
00:17:52,636 –> 00:17:52,956
Brat.
564
00:17:53,116 –> 00:17:53,676
Okay, brat.
565
00:17:54,156 –> 00:17:54,716
You know what I mean?
566
00:17:55,276 –> 00:17:56,316
Honest, it’s honest.
567
00:17:56,396 –> 00:17:56,716
Okay.
568
00:17:56,876 –> 00:18:01,036
So Ilya’s people contacted me.
569
00:18:01,036 –> 00:18:02,596
You are now in Detroit.
570
00:18:02,596 –> 00:18:02,716
Yep.
571
00:18:04,556 –> 00:18:08,396
Just taking a look and they contacted me and they said,
572
00:18:08,556 –> 00:18:10,716
can I interview you for 20,
573
00:18:10,716 –> 00:18:11,396
30 minutes?
574
00:18:11,396 –> 00:18:11,756
And I said,
575
00:18:12,156 –> 00:18:14,556
well, why don’t you do it on my podcast?
576
00:18:14,636 –> 00:18:19,196
That way my people can hear how I talk about our people
577
00:18:19,516 –> 00:18:20,316
in an honest way.
578
00:18:20,316 –> 00:18:23,196
So what I’m going to do is go ahead.
579
00:18:24,276 –> 00:18:24,556
Go ahead.
580
00:18:24,716 –> 00:18:25,196
Ask away.
581
00:18:25,676 –> 00:18:28,236
Joe, you and you’re free to just throw it in there.
582
00:18:28,476 –> 00:18:31,276
But he’s from farm country.
583
00:18:33,196 –> 00:18:34,156
There’s farms in Russia.
584
00:18:34,316 –> 00:18:36,876
We’re very real.
585
00:18:36,876 –> 00:18:37,436
Farm.
586
00:18:37,956 –> 00:18:41,396
What is it,
587
00:18:41,396 –> 00:18:41,756
Alex?
588
00:18:43,196 –> 00:18:44,556
Alex is from Siberia.
589
00:18:46,556 –> 00:18:48,156
The only two things come from Siberia,
590
00:18:48,156 –> 00:18:48,476
boy.
591
00:18:50,476 –> 00:18:51,596
And you don’t have no horns.
592
00:18:55,396 –> 00:18:56,396
Yeah, that one stays.
593
00:18:57,076 –> 00:18:58,516
He don’t get it.
594
00:18:58,516 –> 00:18:58,996
You get it?
595
00:18:59,076 –> 00:19:00,316
You get the reference?
596
00:19:00,796 –> 00:19:01,036
You do?
597
00:19:01,036 –> 00:19:01,756
You saw that movie?
598
00:19:02,516 –> 00:19:02,636
Yeah.
599
00:19:03,636 –> 00:19:04,716
Anyway, Siberia.
600
00:19:05,996 –> 00:19:07,676
So how’d your people end up in Siberia?
601
00:19:09,516 –> 00:19:10,156
I know how.
602
00:19:11,436 –> 00:19:12,396
Fucking Stalin.
603
00:19:13,196 –> 00:19:14,716
Let me tell you something about,
604
00:19:15,036 –> 00:19:16,796
let me tell you something about you.
605
00:19:18,316 –> 00:19:18,716
Interesting.
606
00:19:18,876 –> 00:19:19,756
Karl Marx,
607
00:19:20,156 –> 00:19:20,796
Engels.
608
00:19:21,196 –> 00:19:22,156
Das Kapital,
609
00:19:22,236 –> 00:19:23,596
right, the Communist Manifesto,
610
00:19:23,916 –> 00:19:26,956
the greatest critique of.
611
00:19:27,056 –> 00:19:28,216
capitalism that there is,
612
00:19:28,576 –> 00:19:29,496
and it’s accurate.
613
00:19:30,056 –> 00:19:34,616
The problem is the solution to runaway capitalism,
614
00:19:34,776 –> 00:19:38,136
and it always ends with Alex’s family on a train to
615
00:19:38,136 –> 00:19:39,176
say fucking beer you.
616
00:19:39,896 –> 00:19:40,456
You know what I mean?
617
00:19:40,936 –> 00:19:42,016
That’s the problem.
618
00:19:42,856 –> 00:19:43,736
Besides that,
619
00:19:44,856 –> 00:19:45,776
have you had a Coney yet?
620
00:19:47,096 –> 00:19:48,216
Have you had a Coney Island yet?
621
00:19:50,376 –> 00:19:51,016
Coney Island?
622
00:19:51,016 –> 00:19:51,816
Yeah, this,
623
00:19:51,816 –> 00:19:52,376
this, this.
624
00:19:52,696 –> 00:19:53,616
Ah, hot dog,
625
00:19:53,616 –> 00:19:53,816
yeah.
626
00:19:53,976 –> 00:19:55,256
Did you have it yet?
627
00:19:55,576 –> 00:19:55,816
Yep.
628
00:19:55,976 –> 00:19:56,576
Where’d you have it?
629
00:20:00,536 –> 00:20:01,336
He’s fucking lying.
630
00:20:02,216 –> 00:20:02,896
He’s fucking lying.
631
00:20:03,056 –> 00:20:03,816
He’s here 10 years ago.
632
00:20:03,816 –> 00:20:04,536
How do I know what it is?
633
00:20:04,536 –> 00:20:05,856
He’s fucking lying.
634
00:20:07,736 –> 00:20:08,576
You’re KGB.
635
00:20:08,576 –> 00:20:09,056
I got KGB.
636
00:20:09,056 –> 00:20:10,496
You just call people out on the spot.
637
00:20:10,536 –> 00:20:12,136
That’s your set up.
638
00:20:12,296 –> 00:20:13,656
Anyway, Ilio,
639
00:20:13,656 –> 00:20:13,976
go ahead,
640
00:20:13,976 –> 00:20:14,216
man.
641
00:20:14,216 –> 00:20:15,096
Ask, ask away.
642
00:20:15,456 –> 00:20:16,216
What would you like to know?
643
00:20:16,656 –> 00:20:17,416
About that’s right.
644
00:20:17,736 –> 00:20:18,216
Anything.
645
00:20:18,776 –> 00:20:20,256
Wait, hold on a second.
646
00:20:21,176 –> 00:20:22,376
Do you hear that phone going ding,
647
00:20:22,416 –> 00:20:22,776
ding, ding,
648
00:20:22,776 –> 00:20:22,936
ding?
649
00:20:23,656 –> 00:20:24,696
It’s my cast of kooks.
650
00:20:24,856 –> 00:20:25,176
Hold on.
651
00:20:25,576 –> 00:20:26,456
See what we got here.
652
00:20:26,496 –> 00:20:26,776
Hold on.
653
00:20:27,336 –> 00:20:28,296
Could be breaking news.
654
00:20:29,416 –> 00:20:31,976
Oh, gold’s now 4110.
655
00:20:32,296 –> 00:20:32,456
OK.
656
00:20:32,536 –> 00:20:33,136
Anyway, thanks,
657
00:20:33,136 –> 00:20:33,416
Luke.
658
00:20:33,736 –> 00:20:34,456
Hold on a second.
659
00:20:35,176 –> 00:20:36,136
How many gold do you have?
660
00:20:36,216 –> 00:20:37,896
Why do you care about the price?
661
00:20:39,256 –> 00:20:40,296
How many gold do you have?
662
00:20:40,536 –> 00:20:42,336
Why do you care about the price?
663
00:20:42,336 –> 00:20:42,696
What are you,
664
00:20:42,696 –> 00:20:43,496
the IRS?
665
00:20:44,776 –> 00:20:46,016
No, I think that’s in it.
666
00:20:46,016 –> 00:20:46,256
Hey, man.
667
00:20:46,256 –> 00:20:47,016
Can you own gold?
668
00:20:47,736 –> 00:20:48,336
Can you own gold?
669
00:20:48,456 –> 00:20:49,176
Do you own gold?
670
00:20:49,456 –> 00:20:49,896
Me not.
671
00:20:50,296 –> 00:20:50,656
You should.
672
00:20:50,696 –> 00:20:50,976
No.
673
00:20:51,256 –> 00:20:51,736
You know why?
674
00:20:52,536 –> 00:20:58,376
Because Putin and Xi are buying a lot of gold to displace
675
00:20:58,376 –> 00:20:59,976
the dollar as the world’s currency.
676
00:21:00,536 –> 00:21:01,576
I think Chinese do.
677
00:21:01,736 –> 00:21:04,136
No, that’s you guys.
678
00:21:04,376 –> 00:21:05,056
Yeah, no,
679
00:21:06,456 –> 00:21:07,696
Putin goes over there and begs.
680
00:21:08,216 –> 00:21:09,336
He goes over there and he begs,
681
00:21:09,336 –> 00:21:11,496
give me weapons,
682
00:21:11,496 –> 00:21:12,776
give me gold.
683
00:21:12,776 –> 00:21:14,016
You know how it is.
684
00:21:14,136 –> 00:21:15,176
It’s true.
685
00:21:15,656 –> 00:21:16,056
It’s true.
686
00:21:16,376 –> 00:21:19,496
I got people in my neighborhood that think Zelensky
687
00:21:19,496 –> 00:21:21,616
shouldn’t be president of the United States.
688
00:21:22,456 –> 00:21:22,776
I know.
689
00:21:23,256 –> 00:21:24,856
They speak Russian in the Ukraine,
690
00:21:24,856 –> 00:21:26,696
don’t they?
691
00:21:26,696 –> 00:21:27,176
Zelensky?
692
00:21:27,896 –> 00:21:28,296
Yeah.
693
00:21:31,496 –> 00:21:32,376
Translate for me.
694
00:21:33,496 –> 00:21:34,296
Okay, go ahead.
695
00:21:34,376 –> 00:21:35,416
He asked you about Detroit.
696
00:21:35,456 –> 00:21:36,056
Go ahead, go ahead,
697
00:21:36,056 –> 00:21:36,376
go ahead.
698
00:21:36,936 –> 00:21:37,576
Ask me a question.
699
00:21:37,656 –> 00:21:39,856
What do you want to know?
700
00:21:39,856 –> 00:21:41,256
Okay, about Detroit,
701
00:21:41,656 –> 00:21:44,696
can you tell me how it changed over the years?
702
00:21:45,456 –> 00:21:48,296
What was Detroit 20 or 30 years ago?
703
00:21:49,256 –> 00:21:50,256
50 years ago.
704
00:21:50,296 –> 00:21:51,056
50 years ago,
705
00:21:51,056 –> 00:21:51,216
okay.
706
00:21:51,256 –> 00:21:52,416
50, I’m 60.
707
00:21:52,416 –> 00:21:53,656
I’ll be 60 in March.
708
00:21:54,056 –> 00:21:54,536
Okay.
709
00:21:55,656 –> 00:21:56,856
When I was 10 years old,
710
00:21:56,856 –> 00:21:58,376
Detroit was the richest…
711
00:21:58,616 –> 00:22:02,416
city in the United States more rich than New York more
712
00:22:02,416 –> 00:22:06,296
rich than LA we Owned cars we owned houses.
713
00:22:06,536 –> 00:22:08,776
We had a DACA in the woods,
714
00:22:09,176 –> 00:22:09,456
right?
715
00:22:09,456 –> 00:22:12,416
We had a little fishing jack 50 years ago.
716
00:22:12,416 –> 00:22:15,736
We were the richest city in the world Today in the
717
00:22:15,736 –> 00:22:17,536
world only in the United States.
718
00:22:17,536 –> 00:22:18,856
Yeah, very good English.
719
00:22:18,856 –> 00:22:19,576
Also, he speaks
720
00:22:28,536 –> 00:22:30,696
Today, we’re the poorest big city in America,
721
00:22:31,096 –> 00:22:31,896
in my lifetime.
722
00:22:32,136 –> 00:22:32,736
My lifetime.
723
00:22:32,736 –> 00:22:34,456
This is what I lived and what I witnessed.
724
00:22:36,136 –> 00:22:36,536
Why?
725
00:22:36,856 –> 00:22:37,376
What happened?
726
00:22:37,896 –> 00:22:39,056
You can ask me that if you want to.
727
00:22:40,056 –> 00:22:41,216
That’s my next question.
728
00:22:41,776 –> 00:22:42,456
What happened?
729
00:22:44,536 –> 00:22:45,976
Race riots happened.
730
00:22:47,576 –> 00:22:49,816
World trade compacts happened.
731
00:22:50,456 –> 00:22:51,816
Wall Street happened.
732
00:22:52,056 –> 00:22:53,656
Everybody was gambling with houses.
733
00:22:54,136 –> 00:22:55,336
Corruption happened.
734
00:22:56,696 –> 00:22:57,896
We have a race problem here.
735
00:22:57,896 –> 00:22:58,776
All of these things.
736
00:22:59,096 –> 00:23:01,176
All of these things came to a point.
737
00:23:01,896 –> 00:23:08,376
So when we’re looking at the USSR and the United States
738
00:23:08,416 –> 00:23:10,136
and this Cold War that we had,
739
00:23:10,376 –> 00:23:11,096
who won?
740
00:23:12,776 –> 00:23:13,896
Did either of us win?
741
00:23:14,776 –> 00:23:15,256
No.
742
00:23:15,896 –> 00:23:18,576
Because I know you’re probably going to go around and
743
00:23:18,576 –> 00:23:20,136
say, oh, look at the comeback and everything,
744
00:23:20,376 –> 00:23:22,736
but I hope you’re going to go meet the people,
745
00:23:22,736 –> 00:23:24,256
and they’re not going to tell you that.
746
00:23:24,856 –> 00:23:26,696
Not the good people of this city.
747
00:23:26,936 –> 00:23:27,976
They’re very angry.
748
00:23:28,296 –> 00:23:29,336
They’re left behind.
749
00:23:29,496 –> 00:23:30,456
They’re poor.
750
00:23:33,256 –> 00:23:33,936
That’s what happened.
751
00:23:35,176 –> 00:23:35,416
OK.
752
00:23:35,736 –> 00:23:37,016
He’s got his questions written down.
753
00:23:37,016 –> 00:23:38,656
Are they written down in Russian or English?
754
00:23:39,176 –> 00:23:42,776
No, it’s Cyrillic.
755
00:23:43,256 –> 00:23:44,056
Wouldn’t that be right?
756
00:23:44,536 –> 00:23:45,816
Russian language is Cyrillic?
757
00:23:45,976 –> 00:23:46,136
OK.
758
00:23:47,736 –> 00:23:50,696
Your book is called The Trust America Autopsy,
759
00:23:50,696 –> 00:23:50,936
yeah?
760
00:23:51,416 –> 00:23:51,896
Let me see.
761
00:23:52,656 –> 00:23:53,016
Let’s check.
762
00:23:54,816 –> 00:23:55,416
Detroit.
763
00:23:56,136 –> 00:23:56,856
Yeah, and American.
764
00:23:57,336 –> 00:23:58,376
Autopsy, yeah,
765
00:23:58,376 –> 00:23:59,416
it’s available on Amazon.
766
00:23:59,416 –> 00:24:01,416
Yeah, what does it mean?
767
00:24:02,456 –> 00:24:03,096
The name of the book.
768
00:24:03,336 –> 00:24:04,376
You didn’t look it up?
769
00:24:04,776 –> 00:24:05,976
Yeah, so.
770
00:24:06,456 –> 00:24:07,016
Detroit.
771
00:24:07,656 –> 00:24:07,896
Yeah.
772
00:24:07,976 –> 00:24:08,576
That’s French,
773
00:24:08,576 –> 00:24:10,216
that means the straits,
774
00:24:10,776 –> 00:24:11,056
right?
775
00:24:11,096 –> 00:24:14,736
It means there’s two lakes and there’s a connection
776
00:24:14,736 –> 00:24:15,736
of water in between them.
777
00:24:15,896 –> 00:24:16,656
That’s Detroit.
778
00:24:17,016 –> 00:24:18,696
The straits,
779
00:24:18,776 –> 00:24:20,056
okay, so the straits.
780
00:24:20,456 –> 00:24:22,136
And the reason Detroit was founded
781
00:24:22,856 –> 00:24:24,216
was because the European powers,
782
00:24:24,216 –> 00:24:26,056
the French were here first.
783
00:24:26,296 –> 00:24:27,896
Leblanc, Les Douf.
784
00:24:29,256 –> 00:24:30,456
They were here for beaver.
785
00:24:30,456 –> 00:24:31,416
You know what a beaver is?
786
00:24:33,576 –> 00:24:33,896
Yeah.
787
00:24:34,536 –> 00:24:37,736
The beaver’s fur is waterproof.
788
00:24:38,056 –> 00:24:40,136
So in the courts of Europe,
789
00:24:41,176 –> 00:24:42,136
the crown,
790
00:24:42,136 –> 00:24:44,856
all of the elegant people wore beaver.
791
00:24:46,056 –> 00:24:47,256
And they killed the beaver.
792
00:24:47,256 –> 00:24:48,456
They extincted the beaver.
793
00:24:48,696 –> 00:24:49,896
And when they came over here,
794
00:24:49,896 –> 00:24:51,176
they saw all of our beaver.
795
00:24:54,896 –> 00:24:57,416
That’s kind of kind of.
796
00:24:57,416 –> 00:24:58,696
I didn’t know that story.
797
00:24:58,776 –> 00:24:59,256
Beaver.
798
00:25:00,136 –> 00:25:00,456
Beaver.
799
00:25:00,616 –> 00:25:01,656
You can see my beaver.
800
00:25:01,816 –> 00:25:06,376
But so the French now had beaver.
801
00:25:08,856 –> 00:25:10,576
The king of England sort of king of France.
802
00:25:10,616 –> 00:25:11,336
He’s got beaver,
803
00:25:11,336 –> 00:25:11,456
man.
804
00:25:11,456 –> 00:25:12,456
I want some fucking beaver.
805
00:25:13,016 –> 00:25:14,376
So there was a whole war here.
806
00:25:14,616 –> 00:25:15,496
It wasn’t gold.
807
00:25:15,656 –> 00:25:16,456
It was beaver.
808
00:25:17,736 –> 00:25:18,216
That’s right here.
809
00:25:18,496 –> 00:25:19,896
An autopsy means
810
00:25:20,456 –> 00:25:21,136
After you’re dead,
811
00:25:21,136 –> 00:25:23,016
they look through your body to find out the cause
812
00:25:23,016 –> 00:25:23,496
of death.
813
00:25:24,296 –> 00:25:25,496
Detroit is not dead.
814
00:25:26,216 –> 00:25:28,256
So if you’re still alive and you’re peeling through
815
00:25:28,256 –> 00:25:31,416
a body, the English word is vivisection.
816
00:25:32,136 –> 00:25:33,896
But that’s hardly a good title for a book,
817
00:25:33,896 –> 00:25:34,136
is it?
818
00:25:34,296 –> 00:25:35,736
And it’s not just Detroit.
819
00:25:36,056 –> 00:25:37,816
It’s Metro Detroit.
820
00:25:37,976 –> 00:25:38,856
It’s Michigan.
821
00:25:39,096 –> 00:25:40,136
It’s the United States.
822
00:25:40,936 –> 00:25:42,056
But that’s too much for a book.
823
00:25:42,056 –> 00:25:42,936
So it’s Detroit.
824
00:25:43,736 –> 00:25:44,776
Let’s look at the body.
825
00:25:45,336 –> 00:25:46,216
But we’re alive.
826
00:25:46,776 –> 00:25:47,496
We are alive,
827
00:25:47,496 –> 00:25:47,736
man.
828
00:25:49,096 –> 00:25:49,416
Okay.
829
00:25:50,856 –> 00:25:52,696
If you talk about the current situation,
830
00:25:52,696 –> 00:25:53,896
how safe is the city?
831
00:25:54,136 –> 00:25:55,576
Does anybody speak broken English?
832
00:25:55,576 –> 00:25:56,696
What do you say?
833
00:25:56,936 –> 00:25:57,896
How safe is the city?
834
00:25:58,216 –> 00:25:59,096
How safe is the city?
835
00:26:02,376 –> 00:26:04,216
How safe do you feel in the city?
836
00:26:05,216 –> 00:26:05,896
Pretty safe.
837
00:26:07,016 –> 00:26:09,176
But maybe I don’t know.
838
00:26:09,976 –> 00:26:11,416
Maybe it’s not safe.
839
00:26:12,376 –> 00:26:13,856
It’s a it’s maybe it’s an illusion,
840
00:26:13,856 –> 00:26:14,056
right?
841
00:26:14,296 –> 00:26:15,416
It’s a violent place.
842
00:26:15,456 –> 00:26:17,176
I mean, it’s a heavy place.
843
00:26:17,176 –> 00:26:17,656
It’s
844
00:26:19,416 –> 00:26:21,176
It’s an American place that stumbled.
845
00:26:21,176 –> 00:26:25,216
So you can imagine that there would be some violence,
846
00:26:25,216 –> 00:26:25,936
some robberies,
847
00:26:25,936 –> 00:26:26,776
some things like that.
848
00:26:28,856 –> 00:26:30,856
Our mayor and what you read,
849
00:26:31,056 –> 00:26:31,816
I’m sure you’ve read it.
850
00:26:31,816 –> 00:26:33,736
Oh, the crime’s down historically.
851
00:26:34,456 –> 00:26:35,096
But you didn’t,
852
00:26:35,096 –> 00:26:37,176
I don’t know if you read what we did here on this
853
00:26:37,176 –> 00:26:37,816
program.
854
00:26:38,696 –> 00:26:41,256
They lie about the number of homicides.
855
00:26:41,256 –> 00:26:42,056
They lie about it.
856
00:26:42,376 –> 00:26:44,616
They recategorize it.
857
00:26:44,856 –> 00:26:47,976
So they want you to feel safe with numbers.
858
00:26:49,096 –> 00:26:51,416
But in actuality with yourself,
859
00:26:52,216 –> 00:26:53,816
there’s things that you don’t do.
860
00:26:54,456 –> 00:26:56,576
So how do I,
861
00:26:56,576 –> 00:26:58,216
don’t even know how to answer it really.
862
00:26:58,216 –> 00:27:02,136
Yeah, it’s any big Moscow is,
863
00:27:02,616 –> 00:27:02,936
you know,
864
00:27:02,936 –> 00:27:05,336
you don’t want to fuck around in certain parts of
865
00:27:05,336 –> 00:27:05,976
Moscow, do you?
866
00:27:06,536 –> 00:27:07,896
Or Paris.
867
00:27:09,416 –> 00:27:12,776
Moscow, Moscow and Paris is completely different because
868
00:27:13,016 –> 00:27:16,616
in Moscow you can visit any district and I think it
869
00:27:16,616 –> 00:27:17,896
will be safe.
870
00:27:18,696 –> 00:27:22,776
Nothing will happen with you.
871
00:27:22,776 –> 00:27:23,976
Because you look like American.
872
00:27:25,656 –> 00:27:26,856
Well, I went to a wedding.
873
00:27:26,936 –> 00:27:28,496
I went to a wedding when I was in Moscow.
874
00:27:29,016 –> 00:27:30,496
I just got invited to it.
875
00:27:30,536 –> 00:27:32,056
was big, big,
876
00:27:32,296 –> 00:27:33,016
big wedding.
877
00:27:33,816 –> 00:27:34,696
Businessman.
878
00:27:35,576 –> 00:27:37,976
You understand me?
879
00:27:38,296 –> 00:27:39,256
businessmen.
880
00:27:39,896 –> 00:27:42,456
And I was like dressed as a hippie,
881
00:27:42,496 –> 00:27:44,056
because I only had one pair of clothes.
882
00:27:45,016 –> 00:27:47,576
And the band was playing Rock Around the Clock.
883
00:27:48,296 –> 00:27:49,656
One, two, three o’clock,
884
00:27:49,656 –> 00:27:50,216
4 o’clock,
885
00:27:50,216 –> 00:27:51,576
rock, 5, 6,
886
00:27:51,576 –> 00:27:52,056
8 o’clock,
887
00:27:52,056 –> 00:27:52,776
8 o’clock,
888
00:27:52,776 –> 00:27:53,816
rock, 9, 10,
889
00:27:53,816 –> 00:27:54,416
11 o’clock,
890
00:27:54,416 –> 00:27:54,976
12 o’clock,
891
00:27:54,976 –> 00:27:55,656
rock, gonna rock.
892
00:27:55,816 –> 00:27:57,416
But the band didn’t know the words in English.
893
00:27:58,136 –> 00:28:01,736
So I went up to this big wedding and I’m singing Bill
894
00:28:01,736 –> 00:28:03,736
Haley in the comments and I’m a hit,
895
00:28:03,736 –> 00:28:04,056
bro.
896
00:28:04,456 –> 00:28:09,576
And I go back to the Biznish men at my table and a
897
00:28:09,816 –> 00:28:11,176
big, big,
898
00:28:11,576 –> 00:28:12,776
big man, a bear,
899
00:28:12,776 –> 00:28:15,576
a bear of a Russian man hugs me like this.
900
00:28:15,896 –> 00:28:16,336
He hugs me.
901
00:28:16,336 –> 00:28:17,576
He’s got my hands like this.
902
00:28:17,736 –> 00:28:18,896
He’s lifting me off the ground.
903
00:28:20,216 –> 00:28:21,856
As he’s lifting me off the ground,
904
00:28:22,056 –> 00:28:22,856
the little guy,
905
00:28:22,856 –> 00:28:23,816
the other businessman,
906
00:28:23,816 –> 00:28:24,336
his friend,
907
00:28:24,696 –> 00:28:25,976
is going through my pockets.
908
00:28:27,656 –> 00:28:28,376
And I said,
909
00:28:29,416 –> 00:28:30,696
if you find anything in there,
910
00:28:30,696 –> 00:28:31,416
let me know.
911
00:28:32,256 –> 00:28:33,576
Because that’s a broke American hippie.
912
00:28:33,576 –> 00:28:33,816
Yeah.
913
00:28:34,296 –> 00:28:37,936
Now, the reason there’s no violent crime in Moscow
914
00:28:37,936 –> 00:28:42,136
is because the authorities will beat your ass to death.
915
00:28:42,136 –> 00:28:43,016
Is this correct?
916
00:28:43,736 –> 00:28:44,456
Is this correct?
917
00:28:44,616 –> 00:28:44,776
Yeah.
918
00:28:44,856 –> 00:28:47,416
You do not fuck around in Moscow.
919
00:28:47,496 –> 00:28:48,776
You do not fuck around,
920
00:28:48,776 –> 00:28:49,176
right?
921
00:28:49,736 –> 00:28:50,936
If there’s any murder,
922
00:28:51,176 –> 00:28:52,216
that’s businessmen.
923
00:28:53,576 –> 00:28:53,896
Correct?
924
00:28:54,056 –> 00:28:54,216
Yeah.
925
00:28:54,296 –> 00:28:55,496
We got businessmen too.
926
00:28:56,216 –> 00:28:58,456
But they’re in the fucking city hall.
927
00:28:58,776 –> 00:29:00,936
They’re in all these buildings you see.
928
00:29:03,176 –> 00:29:05,736
I say that the most violence committed in this city
929
00:29:05,736 –> 00:29:07,256
is economic violence.
930
00:29:07,416 –> 00:29:10,536
Taking the people’s money and enriching the very rich
931
00:29:10,696 –> 00:29:12,296
and leaving the poor very poor.
932
00:29:12,696 –> 00:29:13,376
That’s what I think.
933
00:29:14,736 –> 00:29:15,256
As I can see,
934
00:29:15,256 –> 00:29:17,096
I’m not happy with the current government.
935
00:29:17,176 –> 00:29:19,616
I am not happy with the government.
936
00:29:20,336 –> 00:29:20,896
Can I ask,
937
00:29:21,096 –> 00:29:22,856
you said your question was,
938
00:29:23,336 –> 00:29:23,976
is it safe?
939
00:29:24,216 –> 00:29:24,416
Yeah.
940
00:29:24,616 –> 00:29:25,336
Is it safe?
941
00:29:26,376 –> 00:29:27,896
I think it’s out of perspective.
942
00:29:28,456 –> 00:29:30,536
You know, you think about how we just opened the show.
943
00:29:31,016 –> 00:29:32,056
You know, like Charlie said,
944
00:29:32,056 –> 00:29:32,616
you beat their ass.
945
00:29:32,656 –> 00:29:33,096
It’s a program,
946
00:29:33,096 –> 00:29:33,656
Joe, not a show.
947
00:29:33,656 –> 00:29:34,136
Program.
948
00:29:34,456 –> 00:29:35,096
Program.
949
00:29:35,496 –> 00:29:38,216
Mike, is it safe for an eighty-five-year-old lady,
950
00:29:38,376 –> 00:29:39,416
brain damage lady?
951
00:29:40,936 –> 00:29:42,136
Yeah, you saw the beginning there.
952
00:29:42,416 –> 00:29:45,016
An old woman who the court said we need to.
953
00:29:45,416 –> 00:29:45,896
Yeah.
954
00:29:46,376 –> 00:29:47,736
Is that not violence?
955
00:29:48,776 –> 00:29:50,056
See, is that safe?
956
00:29:50,696 –> 00:29:51,416
Violence.
957
00:29:51,576 –> 00:29:52,456
So I mean,
958
00:29:52,456 –> 00:29:53,336
that’s violence.
959
00:29:54,656 –> 00:29:54,776
Yeah.
960
00:29:54,776 –> 00:29:55,656
To me, it’s violence.
961
00:29:55,656 –> 00:29:56,856
There’s no other way around it.
962
00:29:58,296 –> 00:29:59,496
That’s what you see here.
963
00:30:00,296 –> 00:30:02,216
In my opinion,
964
00:30:02,456 –> 00:30:04,216
is economic warfare.
965
00:30:05,656 –> 00:30:06,776
And I don’t want war.
966
00:30:07,576 –> 00:30:08,776
You know what happens in war?
967
00:30:09,496 –> 00:30:11,496
The beer truck does not come.
968
00:30:13,176 –> 00:30:14,616
The delivery man does not come.
969
00:30:14,616 –> 00:30:15,816
The bread does not come.
970
00:30:17,336 –> 00:30:18,136
Next question.
971
00:30:18,136 –> 00:30:20,856
Did I just say next question,
972
00:30:20,856 –> 00:30:21,096
bro?
973
00:30:21,736 –> 00:30:22,376
No, but go ahead.
974
00:30:23,656 –> 00:30:25,656
I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t going crazy.
975
00:30:25,656 –> 00:30:28,656
No, you were asking about Detroit and Michigan.
976
00:30:28,656 –> 00:30:31,176
I think that’s one of the things that’s very unique
977
00:30:31,176 –> 00:30:32,456
about us is just the people.
978
00:30:32,696 –> 00:30:33,776
And throughout our history,
979
00:30:33,776 –> 00:30:35,256
we’ve always looked after each other.
980
00:30:35,416 –> 00:30:36,856
You know, it’s always been that way.
981
00:30:40,136 –> 00:30:44,056
So I think that’s part of the side that makes Detroit
982
00:30:44,056 –> 00:30:47,656
unique, but also the side in Michigan that makes us
983
00:30:47,656 –> 00:30:48,176
unique too,
984
00:30:48,176 –> 00:30:49,136
is because we’ve got a lot of crops.
985
00:30:49,136 –> 00:30:53,096
Do you know that we are the friendliest urban people
986
00:30:53,256 –> 00:30:53,896
in the world?
987
00:30:53,896 –> 00:30:54,856
That’s, this is true.
988
00:30:54,856 –> 00:30:55,496
In the world.
989
00:30:55,496 –> 00:30:56,056
In the world.
990
00:30:56,616 –> 00:30:57,576
I’ve been all around.
991
00:30:57,736 –> 00:30:59,336
I’ve been all across,
992
00:30:59,736 –> 00:31:01,576
because in this place,
993
00:31:02,136 –> 00:31:03,816
before you get your face punched out,
994
00:31:04,056 –> 00:31:04,696
you say,
995
00:31:05,576 –> 00:31:06,296
How you doing?
996
00:31:06,296 –> 00:31:06,896
Somebody said,
997
00:31:06,976 –> 00:31:07,416
I’m good,
998
00:31:07,416 –> 00:31:07,696
thanks.
999
00:31:07,696 –> 00:31:09,696
And then they fucking take your shit.
1000
00:31:09,696 –> 00:31:10,416
In New York,
1001
00:31:11,736 –> 00:31:12,216
they say,
1002
00:31:12,776 –> 00:31:14,016
you say to a New Yorker,
1003
00:31:14,136 –> 00:31:14,616
how you doing?
1004
00:31:14,616 –> 00:31:15,656
The New Yorker says,
1005
00:31:15,776 –> 00:31:16,216
what are you,
1006
00:31:16,216 –> 00:31:17,176
my fucking doctor?
1007
00:31:17,656 –> 00:31:18,376
You see what I’m saying?
1008
00:31:18,936 –> 00:31:20,776
It’s here in Detroit,
1009
00:31:21,176 –> 00:31:23,656
we’ll put the knife in your chest,
1010
00:31:24,136 –> 00:31:25,016
not in your back.
1011
00:31:25,536 –> 00:31:26,816
You understand what I’m saying?
1012
00:31:26,936 –> 00:31:28,296
You’re in a very good place.
1013
00:31:28,696 –> 00:31:29,496
How have you felt?
1014
00:31:30,456 –> 00:31:32,056
How have you felt coming to Detroit?
1015
00:31:33,736 –> 00:31:35,856
I think it’s better than it was.
1016
00:31:36,136 –> 00:31:38,936
My first time in Detroit was more than 10 years ago.
1017
00:31:40,216 –> 00:31:43,416
There are much more abandoned buildings.
1018
00:31:43,416 –> 00:31:47,896
It’s looked more dangerous than now.
1019
00:31:48,456 –> 00:31:53,256
I can see that you try to build a new shopping centre,
1020
00:31:53,256 –> 00:31:54,616
a new GM headquarter,
1021
00:31:54,616 –> 00:31:57,736
and the subscriber with apartments look really nice
1022
00:31:58,896 –> 00:32:00,056
on Michigan Avenue.
1023
00:32:01,496 –> 00:32:02,456
It’s not far from here,
1024
00:32:02,456 –> 00:32:03,856
yeah, nice building.
1025
00:32:04,122 –> 00:32:04,242
Yeah.
1026
00:32:05,522 –> 00:32:09,562
And the things looks much better than it was.
1027
00:32:09,722 –> 00:32:11,682
My last time was after COVID,
1028
00:32:11,682 –> 00:32:12,282
I think it’s.
1029
00:32:12,282 –> 00:32:13,322
Before COVID.
1030
00:32:13,322 –> 00:32:14,522
After COVID.
1031
00:32:14,522 –> 00:32:15,482
After COVID.
1032
00:32:15,962 –> 00:32:16,122
Yeah.
1033
00:32:16,722 –> 00:32:17,802
I was there several times.
1034
00:32:17,922 –> 00:32:19,042
And for me,
1035
00:32:19,042 –> 00:32:20,922
it’s interesting because I’m architect.
1036
00:32:21,082 –> 00:32:23,002
I’m graduate at Moscow Architectural Institute.
1037
00:32:23,002 –> 00:32:23,482
And for me,
1038
00:32:23,482 –> 00:32:27,642
it’s interesting to see how the things going here.
1039
00:32:27,962 –> 00:32:28,202
Class.
1040
00:32:30,762 –> 00:32:32,522
so I like Detroit.
1041
00:32:32,522 –> 00:32:33,162
I like Detroit.
1042
00:32:33,162 –> 00:32:33,682
I love it.
1043
00:32:33,682 –> 00:32:33,882
Yeah.
1044
00:32:34,322 –> 00:32:35,722
But these buildings are empty.
1045
00:32:35,802 –> 00:32:39,322
It’s a good example what could happen with the city.
1046
00:32:39,482 –> 00:32:41,242
But let me pause you.
1047
00:32:41,562 –> 00:32:44,122
So remember all the old abandoned houses?
1048
00:32:44,442 –> 00:32:45,482
You go out to the neighborhood.
1049
00:32:47,322 –> 00:32:49,402
There’s a scandal that we’re involved in.
1050
00:32:49,882 –> 00:32:53,322
They took the house out and then they took dirt,
1051
00:32:54,442 –> 00:32:57,722
poison dirt from industrial sites and put it in the
1052
00:32:57,722 –> 00:32:58,202
city.
1053
00:32:59,482 –> 00:33:00,042
You see?
1054
00:33:00,442 –> 00:33:04,842
So what you see and what might be two different things.
1055
00:33:05,002 –> 00:33:05,962
And next week,
1056
00:33:06,282 –> 00:33:07,082
next week,
1057
00:33:07,962 –> 00:33:08,762
we have a big,
1058
00:33:09,082 –> 00:33:11,482
big story about the dirt,
1059
00:33:11,882 –> 00:33:12,762
the demolition,
1060
00:33:13,162 –> 00:33:14,042
the poisoning,
1061
00:33:14,122 –> 00:33:15,122
and where the money went.
1062
00:33:15,402 –> 00:33:17,082
So I agree.
1063
00:33:17,882 –> 00:33:19,002
Things look better,
1064
00:33:21,402 –> 00:33:22,442
but maybe they’re not.
1065
00:33:23,042 –> 00:33:24,442
Remember we went bankrupt this city?
1066
00:33:24,442 –> 00:33:27,362
The city, biggest bankruptcy in the history of an American
1067
00:33:27,482 –> 00:33:27,762
city.
1068
00:33:27,802 –> 00:33:28,522
Yes.
1069
00:33:29,882 –> 00:33:33,002
Today, from 2013 to today,
1070
00:33:33,802 –> 00:33:35,642
we have no more money than we had then.
1071
00:33:38,282 –> 00:33:40,642
So what’s all these new buildings and stuff?
1072
00:33:40,642 –> 00:33:41,482
How did that happen?
1073
00:33:42,042 –> 00:33:42,922
How did that happen?
1074
00:33:42,922 –> 00:33:43,402
As I know,
1075
00:33:43,642 –> 00:33:44,922
after COVID,
1076
00:33:44,922 –> 00:33:46,242
the Biden administration,
1077
00:33:46,242 –> 00:33:47,242
they gave us some money.
1078
00:33:47,482 –> 00:33:49,322
Shitload of a billion dollars.
1079
00:33:50,282 –> 00:33:52,042
Oh, let’s go back to the Bolshoi Theater,
1080
00:33:52,042 –> 00:33:52,202
though.
1081
00:33:54,042 –> 00:33:55,282
I mean, here’s what’s similar.
1082
00:33:55,282 –> 00:33:58,042
Remember when they redeveloped the Bolshoi?
1083
00:33:58,562 –> 00:33:59,082
Remember that?
1084
00:33:59,242 –> 00:34:01,402
They upgraded it,
1085
00:34:01,402 –> 00:34:03,322
restored it to its grandeur.
1086
00:34:04,842 –> 00:34:05,802
How much did that cost?
1087
00:34:06,442 –> 00:34:07,082
Billions?
1088
00:34:08,202 –> 00:34:14,282
The fucking contractor that restored the Bolshoi reports
1089
00:34:14,282 –> 00:34:16,122
were he got paid three times.
1090
00:34:17,402 –> 00:34:18,522
It cost billions.
1091
00:34:18,922 –> 00:34:20,922
It cost 10 times what it was supposed to cost.
1092
00:34:21,242 –> 00:34:25,922
Now, in the impoverished districts outside of Moscow,
1093
00:34:26,282 –> 00:34:27,802
what $1 billion,
1094
00:34:27,962 –> 00:34:34,442
which is 100 billion rubles.
1095
00:34:36,322 –> 00:34:37,402
It’s about 100 to 1,
1096
00:34:37,402 –> 00:34:37,642
yeah?
1097
00:34:39,482 –> 00:34:42,202
100 billion rubles.
1098
00:34:42,522 –> 00:34:44,362
Where did that fucking money go?
1099
00:34:44,842 –> 00:34:47,562
Because that would protect some old people,
1100
00:34:47,562 –> 00:34:48,522
some pensioners.
1101
00:34:48,682 –> 00:34:49,482
You know what I’m saying?
1102
00:34:49,962 –> 00:34:50,922
That’s what we’re about here.
1103
00:34:51,802 –> 00:34:52,922
So you’re right.
1104
00:34:53,602 –> 00:34:54,082
It’s better.
1105
00:34:54,082 –> 00:34:54,682
It looks better.
1106
00:34:54,682 –> 00:34:55,482
I was sitting here.
1107
00:34:55,722 –> 00:34:57,082
It was such a beautiful fall,
1108
00:34:57,682 –> 00:34:58,442
an autumn day.
1109
00:34:58,922 –> 00:35:00,522
The light was fantastic.
1110
00:35:00,762 –> 00:35:01,722
It was warm.
1111
00:35:01,802 –> 00:35:03,442
You know, you’re from Moscow.
1112
00:35:03,442 –> 00:35:04,682
It gets very cold.
1113
00:35:04,922 –> 00:35:06,202
It was so beautiful.
1114
00:35:06,362 –> 00:35:07,642
And I’m looking up Woodward.
1115
00:35:08,202 –> 00:35:09,882
I said, this shit looks like Paris.
1116
00:35:10,282 –> 00:35:12,282
It’s so gorgeous.
1117
00:35:12,282 –> 00:35:14,282
The architecture from 100,
1118
00:35:14,362 –> 00:35:15,322
so beautiful.
1119
00:35:16,082 –> 00:35:18,202
And then you realize it’s empty.
1120
00:35:18,882 –> 00:35:20,202
Do you see people down here?
1121
00:35:21,162 –> 00:35:22,122
You’re from a big city.
1122
00:35:22,522 –> 00:35:23,922
You see people walking around.
1123
00:35:24,122 –> 00:35:24,842
Do you see it here?
1124
00:35:25,322 –> 00:35:25,962
No, not.
1125
00:35:26,682 –> 00:35:27,722
Maybe because of the weather.
1126
00:35:27,722 –> 00:35:28,202
I don’t know.
1127
00:35:28,282 –> 00:35:29,362
The weather’s beautiful.
1128
00:35:29,362 –> 00:35:31,402
It’s the best autumn I can remember.
1129
00:35:31,562 –> 00:35:32,602
And there’s nobody here.
1130
00:35:33,722 –> 00:35:36,562
So what are we talking about?
1131
00:35:38,442 –> 00:35:41,962
Okay, it’s not about that right.
1132
00:35:42,202 –> 00:35:44,762
This summer I was in San Francisco in downtown.
1133
00:35:44,762 –> 00:35:46,202
That situation there is terrible.
1134
00:35:46,202 –> 00:35:47,562
There are many homeless people,
1135
00:35:47,562 –> 00:35:49,922
people with addiction and mental problems.
1136
00:35:50,762 –> 00:35:53,402
I was surprised that many businesses they’re closing.
1137
00:35:53,962 –> 00:35:56,002
People leave their apartments,
1138
00:35:56,002 –> 00:35:57,562
their houses,
1139
00:35:58,002 –> 00:36:00,362
and downtown is empty.
1140
00:36:00,362 –> 00:36:03,242
You can work block by block,
1141
00:36:03,282 –> 00:36:04,522
and there is no shops,
1142
00:36:04,522 –> 00:36:06,602
no businesses there.
1143
00:36:06,922 –> 00:36:11,962
And it looks like Detroit 20 years ago.
1144
00:36:13,962 –> 00:36:17,002
It’s very strange for me because before I said San
1145
00:36:17,002 –> 00:36:19,642
Francisco was one of my favorite city in the United
1146
00:36:19,642 –> 00:36:19,882
States.
1147
00:36:19,882 –> 00:36:20,842
I like the best.
1148
00:36:21,962 –> 00:36:24,642
But now the situation is very strange for me.
1149
00:36:24,642 –> 00:36:25,722
What do you think?
1150
00:36:27,162 –> 00:36:29,002
Could it be the second Detroit?
1151
00:36:30,442 –> 00:36:31,162
People ask that.
1152
00:36:31,322 –> 00:36:32,202
Well, first of all,
1153
00:36:32,602 –> 00:36:33,402
I agree with you.
1154
00:36:33,482 –> 00:36:35,682
I used to live in Oakland,
1155
00:36:36,042 –> 00:36:37,722
right across the water from San Francisco.
1156
00:36:37,922 –> 00:36:39,802
That’s the most beautiful city in America.
1157
00:36:40,282 –> 00:36:41,122
That’s the coolest,
1158
00:36:41,162 –> 00:36:41,642
isn’t it?
1159
00:36:41,882 –> 00:36:43,722
Yeah, I completely agree with you.
1160
00:36:43,722 –> 00:36:44,922
It’s fucking gorgeous.
1161
00:36:44,922 –> 00:36:47,122
It’s just everything you would want in life.
1162
00:36:47,482 –> 00:36:49,882
And they ruined it with stupid ideas,
1163
00:36:50,522 –> 00:36:50,762
right?
1164
00:36:51,562 –> 00:36:52,682
Give people needles,
1165
00:36:52,682 –> 00:36:53,722
let them do drugs,
1166
00:36:53,722 –> 00:36:55,002
let them shit in the street,
1167
00:36:55,162 –> 00:36:56,642
pay them not to work.
1168
00:36:59,002 –> 00:37:00,682
They ruin the best place in the world.
1169
00:37:00,842 –> 00:37:02,042
Detroit, on the other hand,
1170
00:37:02,282 –> 00:37:04,602
this is where we made shit.
1171
00:37:05,002 –> 00:37:05,562
You know what I mean?
1172
00:37:05,722 –> 00:37:09,082
This was the mechanical heart of the United States.
1173
00:37:09,242 –> 00:37:11,562
Detroit made San Francisco possible.
1174
00:37:12,002 –> 00:37:12,762
It’s a port town,
1175
00:37:13,322 –> 00:37:13,602
right?
1176
00:37:14,762 –> 00:37:15,522
Look what they did to it.
1177
00:37:15,562 –> 00:37:16,762
I can’t believe it.
1178
00:37:16,922 –> 00:37:19,322
So friends of mine,
1179
00:37:19,322 –> 00:37:20,042
journalists,
1180
00:37:20,122 –> 00:37:22,602
reporters in San Francisco call me,
1181
00:37:23,002 –> 00:37:24,042
is it the next Detroit?
1182
00:37:24,042 –> 00:37:25,802
I go, no, it’s not the next Detroit.
1183
00:37:25,962 –> 00:37:27,162
It’s San Francisco,
1184
00:37:28,042 –> 00:37:28,362
right?
1185
00:37:28,882 –> 00:37:29,322
That’s all.
1186
00:37:29,722 –> 00:37:31,962
Here, we have as many homeless as they have.
1187
00:37:31,962 –> 00:37:32,602
Do you know that?
1188
00:37:33,562 –> 00:37:35,242
We have as many homeless as San Francisco,
1189
00:37:35,482 –> 00:37:37,882
except you can’t see them because they live in the
1190
00:37:37,882 –> 00:37:40,362
abandoned houses out in the neighborhood.
1191
00:37:40,522 –> 00:37:40,922
Yeah.
1192
00:37:41,082 –> 00:37:43,602
Fucking, I’ll take you there later if you want to see
1193
00:37:43,602 –> 00:37:43,682
it.
1194
00:37:43,682 –> 00:37:47,242
There’s fucking zombies walking in the middle of the
1195
00:37:47,242 –> 00:37:48,282
fucking street like this.
1196
00:37:48,282 –> 00:37:48,722
And it’s like,
1197
00:37:49,242 –> 00:37:52,682
we have homeless shelters for women and children,
1198
00:37:53,322 –> 00:37:53,602
right?
1199
00:37:54,922 –> 00:37:56,362
That haven’t passed inspection.
1200
00:37:56,362 –> 00:37:57,802
They don’t have a certificate.
1201
00:37:58,362 –> 00:38:00,522
that the city says it’s safe to live there and the
1202
00:38:00,522 –> 00:38:02,282
city’s putting them in there anyway.
1203
00:38:02,482 –> 00:38:03,642
And all that Biden money,
1204
00:38:04,122 –> 00:38:06,602
it goes to the man who owns the place,
1205
00:38:06,762 –> 00:38:07,562
but it’s not safe.
1206
00:38:08,282 –> 00:38:09,882
We have people freezing to death.
1207
00:38:11,082 –> 00:38:14,442
A woman was living with her four children in a van
1208
00:38:15,082 –> 00:38:17,002
in the middle of winter and the kids died.
1209
00:38:18,282 –> 00:38:20,042
And they were trying to go to this homeless shelter
1210
00:38:20,042 –> 00:38:21,482
that doesn’t even have a certificate.
1211
00:38:21,882 –> 00:38:22,922
This is what I’m talking about.
1212
00:38:23,082 –> 00:38:24,122
So San Francisco,
1213
00:38:24,522 –> 00:38:26,842
all they have to do is straighten their shit out
1214
00:38:27,282 –> 00:38:28,082
enforce the law,
1215
00:38:28,082 –> 00:38:29,562
and they’ll be fine.
1216
00:38:30,442 –> 00:38:31,442
See, in Detroit,
1217
00:38:31,482 –> 00:38:32,922
however, we carry guns.
1218
00:38:35,002 –> 00:38:36,522
So you ain’t gonna fuck with me like you fuck with
1219
00:38:36,522 –> 00:38:37,442
me in San Francisco.
1220
00:38:37,442 –> 00:38:38,362
You’re not gonna fuck with me.
1221
00:38:39,002 –> 00:38:39,642
You know what I mean?
1222
00:38:40,042 –> 00:38:40,682
See, here’s,
1223
00:38:41,482 –> 00:38:42,002
we have these,
1224
00:38:42,002 –> 00:38:43,282
I don’t, I’m gonna show it to you.
1225
00:38:43,282 –> 00:38:43,962
ever seen this?
1226
00:38:45,562 –> 00:38:49,042
That’s my license to carry a concealed weapon.
1227
00:38:49,042 –> 00:38:51,162
That’s, most of us do.
1228
00:38:52,602 –> 00:38:53,322
Next question.
1229
00:38:54,122 –> 00:38:54,522
Okay.
1230
00:38:55,842 –> 00:38:59,162
What should be done to make Detroit great again?
1231
00:39:00,002 –> 00:39:00,362
What are you,
1232
00:39:00,362 –> 00:39:00,762
Trump?
1233
00:39:03,002 –> 00:39:04,122
We got to get ice in here,
1234
00:39:04,122 –> 00:39:04,362
man.
1235
00:39:04,362 –> 00:39:05,722
Run these motherfuckers out of here.
1236
00:39:06,362 –> 00:39:07,042
You know what I mean?
1237
00:39:07,042 –> 00:39:08,762
We got to build a ballroom and,
1238
00:39:10,202 –> 00:39:10,402
you know,
1239
00:39:10,442 –> 00:39:11,722
Tomahawks to Ukraine,
1240
00:39:11,722 –> 00:39:12,322
you know what I’m saying?
1241
00:39:12,322 –> 00:39:12,922
No offense.
1242
00:39:13,482 –> 00:39:16,762
It is great.
1243
00:39:16,762 –> 00:39:17,562
Detroit is great.
1244
00:39:18,442 –> 00:39:19,362
It’s great.
1245
00:39:19,362 –> 00:39:19,802
It’s great.
1246
00:39:20,202 –> 00:39:23,242
I resigned.
1247
00:39:23,802 –> 00:39:24,522
I left.
1248
00:39:25,242 –> 00:39:26,602
the west coast,
1249
00:39:26,762 –> 00:39:27,442
California,
1250
00:39:27,442 –> 00:39:30,042
and came home because I have a daughter and I want
1251
00:39:30,042 –> 00:39:31,322
her to be from this place.
1252
00:39:31,962 –> 00:39:32,682
It is great.
1253
00:39:34,202 –> 00:39:34,882
Economically,
1254
00:39:34,882 –> 00:39:35,482
it’s troubled.
1255
00:39:35,482 –> 00:39:37,882
So I don’t know what we’re going to do.
1256
00:39:39,722 –> 00:39:42,962
I do like the fact that Trump is putting tariffs and
1257
00:39:42,962 –> 00:39:44,842
encouraging business to come here,
1258
00:39:45,002 –> 00:39:46,522
bring our factories back,
1259
00:39:47,082 –> 00:39:47,242
right?
1260
00:39:47,242 –> 00:39:50,762
Because now we got more cars made in Mexico than we
1261
00:39:50,762 –> 00:39:51,482
do Detroit.
1262
00:39:52,922 –> 00:39:54,882
Financial incentive to bring jobs back.
1263
00:39:54,922 –> 00:39:56,042
That would be nice.
1264
00:39:56,482 –> 00:39:59,922
And 2, I don’t know.
1265
00:39:59,922 –> 00:40:01,162
Do you remember the Roman Empire?
1266
00:40:01,162 –> 00:40:01,922
You read about that,
1267
00:40:01,922 –> 00:40:02,082
right?
1268
00:40:02,082 –> 00:40:03,482
You went to architecture school.
1269
00:40:03,482 –> 00:40:04,202
We could see you,
1270
00:40:04,202 –> 00:40:04,682
fucking guys.
1271
00:40:04,682 –> 00:40:05,402
This is fucking…
1272
00:40:05,602 –> 00:40:14,202
There was the Roman Empire and now there’s just Italy.
1273
00:40:15,162 –> 00:40:16,762
But you’ve been to Rome.
1274
00:40:18,202 –> 00:40:19,562
You see all the pretty Italian women?
1275
00:40:20,122 –> 00:40:21,082
They’re wearing nice shoes,
1276
00:40:21,082 –> 00:40:21,482
aren’t they?
1277
00:40:21,882 –> 00:40:23,522
This drinking nice espresso,
1278
00:40:23,522 –> 00:40:23,762
aren’t they?
1279
00:40:23,762 –> 00:40:24,282
Are they not?
1280
00:40:24,602 –> 00:40:25,242
We’ll be okay,
1281
00:40:25,242 –> 00:40:25,482
dude.
1282
00:40:26,362 –> 00:40:27,482
The Roman Empire’s gone,
1283
00:40:27,482 –> 00:40:28,522
but Rome is still there.
1284
00:40:28,522 –> 00:40:29,322
We’ll be okay.
1285
00:40:29,802 –> 00:40:30,442
We’re great.
1286
00:40:30,442 –> 00:40:31,322
We’ll always be great.
1287
00:40:32,282 –> 00:40:32,522
Okay.
1288
00:40:33,522 –> 00:40:33,922
If you wrote…
1289
00:40:33,922 –> 00:40:34,922
I don’t think he bought that.
1290
00:40:37,482 –> 00:40:37,962
I buy it.
1291
00:40:39,602 –> 00:40:41,482
If you wrote a new book about Detroit,
1292
00:40:41,722 –> 00:40:42,362
how would you…
1293
00:40:42,722 –> 00:40:43,722
What title would you give it?
1294
00:40:43,962 –> 00:40:44,682
Detroit.
1295
00:40:45,402 –> 00:40:46,362
It’s still fucked up.
1296
00:40:48,282 –> 00:40:49,642
They’re still stealing from us.
1297
00:40:49,802 –> 00:40:50,122
right?
1298
00:40:50,522 –> 00:40:51,722
We’re still hurting.
1299
00:40:52,842 –> 00:40:53,962
We’re being ripped off.
1300
00:40:54,602 –> 00:40:55,802
It wasn’t the people’s fault.
1301
00:40:55,802 –> 00:40:58,762
The people just go on with their daily life.
1302
00:40:59,322 –> 00:41:00,762
So why are things like this?
1303
00:41:01,242 –> 00:41:03,402
You came in here and you said they’re going to redo
1304
00:41:03,402 –> 00:41:04,362
the Renaissance Center.
1305
00:41:04,602 –> 00:41:05,082
Are they?
1306
00:41:05,322 –> 00:41:06,122
Who said that?
1307
00:41:06,362 –> 00:41:09,082
Why are you led to believe that we,
1308
00:41:09,082 –> 00:41:10,442
the impoverished people,
1309
00:41:10,602 –> 00:41:13,162
are going to give a billionaire and a multinational
1310
00:41:13,162 –> 00:41:15,882
corporation a bunch of money to make apartment buildings?
1311
00:41:17,642 –> 00:41:18,282
That’s why.
1312
00:41:19,882 –> 00:41:21,722
I bought a share of General Motors.
1313
00:41:22,522 –> 00:41:23,642
Because you’re not,
1314
00:41:23,882 –> 00:41:25,322
if you want to do capitalism,
1315
00:41:25,322 –> 00:41:26,282
I’m a capitalist.
1316
00:41:26,522 –> 00:41:27,642
If you want to do capitalism,
1317
00:41:27,802 –> 00:41:29,082
then you risk your money.
1318
00:41:29,162 –> 00:41:31,402
If you risk your money and you make a profit,
1319
00:41:31,402 –> 00:41:34,122
the profit is the payment for the risk.
1320
00:41:34,762 –> 00:41:36,762
Because sometimes the risk you lose.
1321
00:41:38,282 –> 00:41:41,162
I don’t think that the poorest people in urban America
1322
00:41:41,322 –> 00:41:42,442
should be paying for this.
1323
00:41:42,522 –> 00:41:44,682
And they’re trying to tell us that they’re not,
1324
00:41:44,922 –> 00:41:46,282
that the people are not paying.
1325
00:41:46,442 –> 00:41:49,082
And I can tell you sure as hell as I’m sitting here,
1326
00:41:49,242 –> 00:41:49,882
we are.
1327
00:41:50,682 –> 00:41:51,402
paying for it.
1328
00:41:52,842 –> 00:41:54,522
Rose is paying for it.
1329
00:41:54,522 –> 00:41:54,722
Yeah.
1330
00:41:56,522 –> 00:41:57,242
Next question.
1331
00:41:57,402 –> 00:41:58,202
Oh, I’m done.
1332
00:41:59,482 –> 00:42:01,242
Okay, that was a great show.
1333
00:42:05,242 –> 00:42:07,602
Joe, show me your feet over here.
1334
00:42:08,682 –> 00:42:10,762
I got North Face sandals going on here.
1335
00:42:10,762 –> 00:42:11,882
It’s fucking November.
1336
00:42:11,882 –> 00:42:13,562
The bitch has got like flip-flops on.
1337
00:42:13,562 –> 00:42:15,482
Put your foot up on the phone here.
1338
00:42:15,882 –> 00:42:16,442
Put your foot up.
1339
00:42:16,762 –> 00:42:17,482
No way, dude.
1340
00:42:18,122 –> 00:42:19,722
No, just do it.
1341
00:42:20,282 –> 00:42:21,442
Let me give you some Mando.
1342
00:42:22,082 –> 00:42:23,362
Yeah, take off the take off.
1343
00:42:24,602 –> 00:42:25,202
You’re going to learn.
1344
00:42:25,202 –> 00:42:26,202
Just do it.
1345
00:42:26,202 –> 00:42:26,602
Just do it.
1346
00:42:26,602 –> 00:42:27,642
Just do what he says.
1347
00:42:29,322 –> 00:42:31,562
I’m not taking off the sandal.
1348
00:42:31,562 –> 00:42:32,522
I’m going to give you some Mando.
1349
00:42:32,922 –> 00:42:33,962
It’s good for the pits,
1350
00:42:33,962 –> 00:42:34,682
the packages,
1351
00:42:34,802 –> 00:42:35,242
and the feet.
1352
00:42:35,242 –> 00:42:35,602
Just do it.
1353
00:42:35,602 –> 00:42:36,442
There you go.
1354
00:42:36,882 –> 00:42:37,322
There you go.
1355
00:42:38,202 –> 00:42:38,842
I can’t, I’m good.
1356
00:42:38,842 –> 00:42:40,042
Thank you.
1357
00:42:40,202 –> 00:42:40,682
Rub it in,
1358
00:42:40,682 –> 00:42:41,082
rub it in.
1359
00:42:41,722 –> 00:42:42,202
How’s that feel?
1360
00:42:42,202 –> 00:42:42,682
It’s nice.
1361
00:42:42,762 –> 00:42:44,162
Oh yeah, look at that.
1362
00:42:44,162 –> 00:42:45,042
It is.
1363
00:42:45,042 –> 00:42:46,562
Give me your wrist over here.
1364
00:42:46,562 –> 00:42:46,882
Smell them.
1365
00:42:46,882 –> 00:42:48,442
Ilya, here.
1366
00:42:49,122 –> 00:42:49,482
What is it?
1367
00:42:49,802 –> 00:42:50,842
This is Mando.
1368
00:42:50,842 –> 00:42:52,762
This is, they have a line,
1369
00:42:53,242 –> 00:42:55,842
they have a line of man products,
1370
00:42:55,842 –> 00:42:56,602
deodorants.
1371
00:42:57,322 –> 00:42:58,682
Sprays for your feet.
1372
00:42:58,922 –> 00:42:59,722
Lotion.
1373
00:42:59,722 –> 00:43:00,842
It’s really quite good.
1374
00:43:01,122 –> 00:43:02,002
What’s the website,
1375
00:43:02,002 –> 00:43:02,282
Mark?
1376
00:43:02,282 –> 00:43:03,362
Shopmando.com.
1377
00:43:05,722 –> 00:43:06,922
Shopmando.com.
1378
00:43:07,002 –> 00:43:07,562
Promo code.
1379
00:43:07,562 –> 00:43:08,682
No BS.
1380
00:43:08,762 –> 00:43:09,282
No BS.
1381
00:43:09,282 –> 00:43:10,762
See, we love capitalism.
1382
00:43:10,922 –> 00:43:11,322
We do.
1383
00:43:11,802 –> 00:43:12,322
Smell that,
1384
00:43:12,322 –> 00:43:12,522
bro.
1385
00:43:12,522 –> 00:43:13,482
Do you use deodorant?
1386
00:43:14,202 –> 00:43:14,362
Yeah.
1387
00:43:14,402 –> 00:43:16,202
Well, check this one out.
1388
00:43:16,202 –> 00:43:16,562
Of course.
1389
00:43:16,882 –> 00:43:17,642
It’s so subtle.
1390
00:43:18,682 –> 00:43:18,962
Try it.
1391
00:43:18,962 –> 00:43:19,322
Try it.
1392
00:43:19,882 –> 00:43:21,522
No, put it on.
1393
00:43:21,522 –> 00:43:22,282
Never mind that stuff.
1394
00:43:22,682 –> 00:43:23,922
That’s from Joe’s feet.
1395
00:43:25,562 –> 00:43:25,762
Yeah.
1396
00:43:29,082 –> 00:43:31,162
you go to shopmando.com,
1397
00:43:31,402 –> 00:43:32,762
the whole body deodorants,
1398
00:43:33,802 –> 00:43:35,322
sweat controlled stick,
1399
00:43:35,642 –> 00:43:36,362
body wash.
1400
00:43:36,362 –> 00:43:37,322
You try to body wash.
1401
00:43:37,562 –> 00:43:39,482
Here, try to load the body wash.
1402
00:43:41,322 –> 00:43:42,122
Stinking Russia.
1403
00:43:43,962 –> 00:43:44,562
Clean up, man.
1404
00:43:44,562 –> 00:43:45,282
Get your act right.
1405
00:43:46,522 –> 00:43:50,042
So when is when’s Ukraine going to get solved?
1406
00:43:51,482 –> 00:43:51,842
When is it?
1407
00:43:51,842 –> 00:43:53,882
When are you guys going to like settle this Ukraine
1408
00:43:53,882 –> 00:43:54,082
shit?
1409
00:43:54,082 –> 00:43:54,602
What’s going on?
1410
00:43:56,042 –> 00:43:58,442
Give me, give me a window into thinking of Putin.
1411
00:43:58,522 –> 00:43:59,562
Yeah, solve the war.
1412
00:44:00,042 –> 00:44:01,322
Yeah, solve the war.
1413
00:44:01,362 –> 00:44:02,282
I have no idea.
1414
00:44:03,202 –> 00:44:04,762
I think Donald Trump knows.
1415
00:44:06,642 –> 00:44:07,642
Isn’t that crazy though?
1416
00:44:07,642 –> 00:44:10,122
No, this is crazy because it’s my buddy.
1417
00:44:10,122 –> 00:44:10,642
He’s over there.
1418
00:44:10,642 –> 00:44:12,042
He’s definitely got feelings.
1419
00:44:12,202 –> 00:44:14,082
You’ve got feelings about the
1420
00:44:14,682 –> 00:44:17,202
thousand-year history that we have no idea.
1421
00:44:18,122 –> 00:44:25,242
Okay, I think the war will be while Putin is in power,
1422
00:44:25,882 –> 00:44:29,242
but it depends on for how long he’ll be in power.
1423
00:44:31,962 –> 00:44:33,002
That’s that is true,
1424
00:44:33,002 –> 00:44:34,842
but you said ask Trump,
1425
00:44:35,242 –> 00:44:41,002
so even Mark point the distance between Moscow and
1426
00:44:42,102 –> 00:44:42,662
DC.
1427
00:44:46,022 –> 00:44:47,222
That’s a long way.
1428
00:44:48,502 –> 00:44:49,622
So even Moscow,
1429
00:44:50,062 –> 00:44:50,902
is what you’re telling me,
1430
00:44:50,902 –> 00:44:55,302
is looking to the United States to intervene in some
1431
00:44:55,302 –> 00:44:56,662
way, calm it down,
1432
00:44:56,662 –> 00:44:56,902
yeah?
1433
00:44:57,622 –> 00:44:59,542
That’s very interesting to me.
1434
00:45:00,422 –> 00:45:02,022
That makes me very hopeful for this place.
1435
00:45:02,022 –> 00:45:03,302
I’m glad you’re here,
1436
00:45:03,622 –> 00:45:04,022
Tarouk.
1437
00:45:04,662 –> 00:45:05,702
I’m glad you’re looking,
1438
00:45:06,342 –> 00:45:08,262
and I hope you’ll speak honestly about us.
1439
00:45:08,742 –> 00:45:09,942
You know, we are
1440
00:45:10,742 –> 00:45:11,782
the most beautiful,
1441
00:45:11,862 –> 00:45:12,662
friendly,
1442
00:45:13,302 –> 00:45:16,022
rugged people in America.
1443
00:45:16,182 –> 00:45:16,582
Brat.
1444
00:45:17,142 –> 00:45:17,622
Brat.
1445
00:45:17,622 –> 00:45:18,182
You’re my brat.
1446
00:45:19,862 –> 00:45:21,862
All right,
1447
00:45:21,862 –> 00:45:22,742
next week,
1448
00:45:23,542 –> 00:45:24,262
next week,
1449
00:45:24,502 –> 00:45:25,222
the dirt,
1450
00:45:25,222 –> 00:45:26,422
the dirt on the dirt,
1451
00:45:26,662 –> 00:45:30,142
and then I think there’s gonna be some hearings,
1452
00:45:30,142 –> 00:45:30,462
don’t you,
1453
00:45:30,462 –> 00:45:30,742
Joe?
1454
00:45:30,822 –> 00:45:31,062
I do.
1455
00:45:32,342 –> 00:45:32,582
I do.
1456
00:45:32,742 –> 00:45:33,462
Will you be there?
1457
00:45:34,542 –> 00:45:35,062
I’ll be there.
1458
00:45:35,062 –> 00:45:35,502
Call me.
1459
00:45:36,742 –> 00:45:37,222
Call me.
1460
00:45:37,382 –> 00:45:37,742
Call me.
1461
00:45:37,982 –> 00:45:38,982
I’ll be in Flint.
1462
00:45:38,982 –> 00:45:40,462
I’m still around.
1463
00:45:40,462 –> 00:45:40,862
I’m on the way.
1464
00:45:40,862 –> 00:45:41,822
He did.
1465
00:45:42,022 –> 00:45:43,302
He just showed up in my house.
1466
00:45:43,462 –> 00:45:44,222
It’s unbelievable.
1467
00:45:45,062 –> 00:45:48,262
Yeah, no, Piva.
1468
00:45:48,342 –> 00:45:48,902
No Piva.
1469
00:45:48,902 –> 00:45:49,542
No Piva.
1470
00:45:50,662 –> 00:45:51,942
It’s too early for Piva.
1471
00:45:52,422 –> 00:45:53,142
Maybe vodka.
1472
00:45:53,622 –> 00:45:57,782
Wait, what?
1473
00:45:58,022 –> 00:45:58,662
Because…
1474
00:46:03,462 –> 00:46:07,542
No beer, no vodka.
1475
00:46:07,942 –> 00:46:08,502
Yeah, it’s…
1476
00:46:08,542 –> 00:46:09,622
What time is it in Moscow?
1477
00:46:10,222 –> 00:46:10,702
In Moscow,
1478
00:46:10,742 –> 00:46:11,942
it’s 6pm.
1479
00:46:12,022 –> 00:46:13,302
Well, it’s time for some piva,
1480
00:46:13,302 –> 00:46:13,862
motherfucker.
1481
00:46:14,422 –> 00:46:14,742
All right,
1482
00:46:14,982 –> 00:46:15,662
see you next week.
1483
00:46:15,662 –> 00:46:16,582
Alex, thanks for coming,
1484
00:46:16,582 –> 00:46:16,742
dude.
1485
00:46:16,742 –> 00:46:17,622
It’s really good to see you.
1486
00:46:17,942 –> 00:46:18,182
All right,
1487
00:46:18,342 –> 00:46:19,182
if you want,
1488
00:46:19,182 –> 00:46:20,342
if this disappointed you,
1489
00:46:20,342 –> 00:46:21,782
we can go around someplace.
1490
00:46:21,782 –> 00:46:22,822
No, it was perfect.
1491
00:46:22,902 –> 00:46:23,382
I thought so,
1492
00:46:23,382 –> 00:46:24,662
because you’re fucking people.
1493
00:46:24,822 –> 00:46:27,142
Let me tell you something about TV people.
1494
00:46:27,942 –> 00:46:28,342
By the way,
1495
00:46:28,342 –> 00:46:28,982
before I tell them,
1496
00:46:29,462 –> 00:46:31,862
tell the people where they can find what you’re doing.
1497
00:46:32,142 –> 00:46:33,062
Very interesting stuff.
1498
00:46:33,222 –> 00:46:35,622
Yeah, on YouTube you can find Varlamov,
1499
00:46:35,622 –> 00:46:37,622
V-A-R-L-A-M-O-V,
1500
00:46:37,702 –> 00:46:39,662
and in English and Spanish,
1501
00:46:39,702 –> 00:46:41,142
or my main channel is in Russian.
1502
00:46:41,342 –> 00:46:41,542
Yes.
1503
00:46:42,822 –> 00:46:43,302
It’s really,
1504
00:46:43,302 –> 00:46:44,102
it’s quite cool.
1505
00:46:44,662 –> 00:46:45,622
It’s quite cool what you’re doing.
1506
00:46:46,342 –> 00:46:46,742
Really cool.
1507
00:46:46,822 –> 00:46:48,422
I love the Eritrea stuff,
1508
00:46:48,422 –> 00:46:48,742
man.
1509
00:46:49,222 –> 00:46:50,342
You are all over the place.
1510
00:46:50,902 –> 00:46:53,622
Yeah, I visit all the countries except 2.
1511
00:46:54,782 –> 00:46:57,222
What planet Earth?
1512
00:46:58,622 –> 00:46:59,382
All the countries,
1513
00:46:59,382 –> 00:47:00,142
all over the world,
1514
00:47:00,182 –> 00:47:00,982
all the places,
1515
00:47:00,982 –> 00:47:01,782
except two.
1516
00:47:02,262 –> 00:47:04,982
Can you guess which two countries?
1517
00:47:05,222 –> 00:47:06,102
Before we do that,
1518
00:47:06,262 –> 00:47:10,222
you’ve been to every country on planet Earth.
1519
00:47:10,342 –> 00:47:11,462
No, holy shit.
1520
00:47:12,582 –> 00:47:13,782
I’ve never met such a man.
1521
00:47:13,822 –> 00:47:16,062
Okay, no.
1522
00:47:16,182 –> 00:47:16,982
I’m going to give it away,
1523
00:47:17,102 –> 00:47:17,222
though.
1524
00:47:17,222 –> 00:47:17,942
You’re going to give it away.
1525
00:47:17,942 –> 00:47:18,742
You’re going to give it away.
1526
00:47:18,742 –> 00:47:19,782
I still want to guess.
1527
00:47:19,942 –> 00:47:21,342
Okay, so first of all,
1528
00:47:21,342 –> 00:47:22,182
let’s do it this way.
1529
00:47:22,902 –> 00:47:24,782
These aren’t like small,
1530
00:47:24,782 –> 00:47:25,302
like these,
1531
00:47:25,302 –> 00:47:27,382
not like Guinea-Pissau or some shit like that.
1532
00:47:27,382 –> 00:47:28,262
It’s a big country.
1533
00:47:28,742 –> 00:47:30,262
The two countries you have not been to.
1534
00:47:31,542 –> 00:47:32,742
No, not small,
1535
00:47:32,742 –> 00:47:33,062
not big.
1536
00:47:33,942 –> 00:47:35,782
They would be countries that people would know their
1537
00:47:35,782 –> 00:47:36,102
name.
1538
00:47:37,302 –> 00:47:39,662
Not like, you know,
1539
00:47:39,702 –> 00:47:41,222
like Papua New Guinea.
1540
00:47:41,462 –> 00:47:43,062
Like people might know New Guinea,
1541
00:47:43,062 –> 00:47:43,982
but they wouldn’t know Papua.
1542
00:47:43,982 –> 00:47:44,182
Okay.
1543
00:47:44,342 –> 00:47:46,102
So they’re countries people would know.
1544
00:47:46,662 –> 00:47:47,222
Yeah, of course.
1545
00:47:47,222 –> 00:47:47,542
Yeah.
1546
00:47:48,022 –> 00:47:48,422
Okay.
1547
00:47:48,742 –> 00:47:49,302
What are you?
1548
00:47:49,782 –> 00:47:52,182
It’s a famous country.
1549
00:47:52,502 –> 00:47:53,062
OK, yes.
1550
00:47:53,262 –> 00:47:54,182
I’m going to say Bolivia.
1551
00:47:55,142 –> 00:47:55,622
Bolivia.
1552
00:47:55,622 –> 00:47:56,182
I’m going to,
1553
00:47:56,582 –> 00:47:58,982
I’m not going to say Bolivia at all.
1554
00:47:59,062 –> 00:48:02,422
I’m going to say like,
1555
00:48:03,542 –> 00:48:05,862
well, New Caledonia is not a famous country,
1556
00:48:05,862 –> 00:48:07,382
but you’ve been to New Caledonia?
1557
00:48:07,382 –> 00:48:07,702
Of course.
1558
00:48:08,222 –> 00:48:08,622
Of course.
1559
00:48:11,862 –> 00:48:12,342
Yesterday.
1560
00:48:12,342 –> 00:48:13,142
Wait a minute.
1561
00:48:13,142 –> 00:48:16,862
I’m going to go over to the
1562
00:48:17,902 –> 00:48:19,942
G GPS LED map.
1563
00:48:20,502 –> 00:48:21,382
Mark, what are yours?
1564
00:48:22,102 –> 00:48:23,542
Well, if it’s something famous,
1565
00:48:23,542 –> 00:48:24,582
I kind of want to think it is.
1566
00:48:24,582 –> 00:48:25,222
Is it in Europe?
1567
00:48:26,582 –> 00:48:26,742
No.
1568
00:48:26,742 –> 00:48:26,862
OK.
1569
00:48:26,982 –> 00:48:27,182
All right.
1570
00:48:27,182 –> 00:48:28,502
It’s not Europe.
1571
00:48:28,902 –> 00:48:29,782
It’s in Indonesia.
1572
00:48:31,022 –> 00:48:31,142
OK.
1573
00:48:33,982 –> 00:48:34,982
Is it South America?
1574
00:48:35,622 –> 00:48:36,782
OK, give us a continent,
1575
00:48:36,782 –> 00:48:37,142
bro.
1576
00:48:37,462 –> 00:48:40,822
OK, one country is Africa.
1577
00:48:41,462 –> 00:48:41,702
Africa.
1578
00:48:41,942 –> 00:48:42,822
One is in Africa.
1579
00:48:43,262 –> 00:48:45,022
I mean, dude,
1580
00:48:45,022 –> 00:48:45,822
you got shit like…
1581
00:48:46,902 –> 00:48:48,022
How many countries are there?
1582
00:48:48,982 –> 00:48:51,582
No, I’ve been in India.
1583
00:48:51,862 –> 00:48:52,662
All the West Coast,
1584
00:48:52,662 –> 00:48:54,102
I visited by car.
1585
00:48:54,102 –> 00:48:56,742
I have a trip from Morocco to Gabbana.
1586
00:48:57,142 –> 00:48:57,622
Of course,
1587
00:48:57,622 –> 00:48:58,662
I’ve been in Botswana.
1588
00:48:59,782 –> 00:49:00,262
Of course,
1589
00:49:00,342 –> 00:49:00,742
I’ve been in…
1590
00:49:00,742 –> 00:49:02,662
No doubt about it.
1591
00:49:02,822 –> 00:49:03,302
Libya.
1592
00:49:03,462 –> 00:49:04,502
Libya.
1593
00:49:04,582 –> 00:49:05,142
Too hot.
1594
00:49:05,382 –> 00:49:06,422
Too hot even for you.
1595
00:49:06,822 –> 00:49:09,622
For Libya it’s a problem because of the civil war and
1596
00:49:11,782 –> 00:49:13,742
One, there’s two sides,
1597
00:49:14,182 –> 00:49:15,422
one side they support,
1598
00:49:15,702 –> 00:49:17,702
they supported by Russia,
1599
00:49:18,302 –> 00:49:20,582
and the second part is pro-European,
1600
00:49:21,262 –> 00:49:25,302
and for me it’s a problem because with the Russian
1601
00:49:25,302 –> 00:49:29,702
passport and because I against the current government,
1602
00:49:29,702 –> 00:49:30,582
I against Putin,
1603
00:49:30,742 –> 00:49:35,702
so if I go to a part which controlled by these guys
1604
00:49:35,702 –> 00:49:36,942
who supported by Russia,
1605
00:49:36,942 –> 00:49:38,902
it could be dangerous for me.
1606
00:49:38,942 –> 00:49:40,182
So Putin doesn’t like you.
1607
00:49:41,942 –> 00:49:45,542
I think he had no idea who I am.
1608
00:49:48,422 –> 00:49:50,782
Okay, the first country is Libya.
1609
00:49:51,862 –> 00:49:52,222
Libya.
1610
00:49:52,222 –> 00:49:54,062
Because it’s not safe for me to visit.
1611
00:49:54,062 –> 00:49:55,542
When I was covering the war in Iraq,
1612
00:49:55,582 –> 00:49:58,542
there was a freelance photographer and he connected
1613
00:49:58,542 –> 00:50:00,662
himself to me because he said,
1614
00:50:01,062 –> 00:50:02,742
well, if you’re the New York Times,
1615
00:50:03,062 –> 00:50:04,822
I have a chance to get a front page photo.
1616
00:50:06,502 –> 00:50:07,542
Interesting cat.
1617
00:50:08,102 –> 00:50:08,982
I go home.
1618
00:50:10,462 –> 00:50:13,142
I’m going to do journalism in the center of the empire,
1619
00:50:13,142 –> 00:50:14,502
the United States itself.
1620
00:50:15,142 –> 00:50:19,062
He goes to Libya and he caught a mortar and he died.
1621
00:50:19,382 –> 00:50:20,342
And I always wondered,
1622
00:50:20,742 –> 00:50:21,782
what were you chasing?
1623
00:50:22,582 –> 00:50:24,062
His name was Chris Handos.
1624
00:50:24,062 –> 00:50:26,222
I always wondered what Chris was chasing.
1625
00:50:26,342 –> 00:50:27,702
So he died in the dirt.
1626
00:50:28,182 –> 00:50:28,782
So it’s smart.
1627
00:50:28,782 –> 00:50:29,702
Maybe he didn’t go to Libya.
1628
00:50:29,782 –> 00:50:30,582
Where’s the other?
1629
00:50:31,142 –> 00:50:31,942
North Korea.
1630
00:50:32,982 –> 00:50:33,142
Really?
1631
00:50:33,542 –> 00:50:34,262
It was easy.
1632
00:50:34,422 –> 00:50:34,662
Really?
1633
00:50:34,662 –> 00:50:36,422
I mean, who hasn’t been there?
1634
00:50:36,902 –> 00:50:37,542
North Korea.
1635
00:50:41,142 –> 00:50:41,662
North Korea.
1636
00:50:42,182 –> 00:50:42,702
North Korea.
1637
00:50:42,702 –> 00:50:43,542
North Korea.
1638
00:50:44,662 –> 00:50:45,382
Try the noodles,
1639
00:50:45,382 –> 00:50:45,542
man.
1640
00:50:46,542 –> 00:50:48,582
Because you go to North Korea and they put you in a
1641
00:50:48,582 –> 00:50:50,582
grand hotel and you sleep,
1642
00:50:50,742 –> 00:50:55,622
you sleep in the ballroom and then they make a big
1643
00:50:55,622 –> 00:50:57,782
fucking table and it’s only you.
1644
00:50:58,262 –> 00:51:02,422
It’s only you eating a feast when nobody outside is
1645
00:51:02,422 –> 00:51:02,742
eating.
1646
00:51:02,822 –> 00:51:04,262
Do you want to go to North Korea?
1647
00:51:05,462 –> 00:51:07,462
Maybe sometime,
1648
00:51:07,462 –> 00:51:08,822
because now it’s not interesting.
1649
00:51:08,822 –> 00:51:11,342
You should be a part of a group.
1650
00:51:11,342 –> 00:51:13,182
You can do whatever you want.
1651
00:51:13,182 –> 00:51:13,702
To control.
1652
00:51:13,702 –> 00:51:16,422
Yeah, they try to control every step,
1653
00:51:16,462 –> 00:51:19,502
and it’s not interesting for me as a journalist.
1654
00:51:19,542 –> 00:51:20,822
So, yeah, you can get in there,
1655
00:51:20,822 –> 00:51:22,382
but it’s…
1656
00:51:22,382 –> 00:51:25,782
I’m waiting for the times when it will be more freedom.
1657
00:51:27,102 –> 00:51:28,262
He’s waiting for the war.
1658
00:51:28,262 –> 00:51:29,622
If you’ve been to all but two,
1659
00:51:29,662 –> 00:51:30,822
what are your top five?
1660
00:51:32,022 –> 00:51:33,062
Top 5 countries.
1661
00:51:33,062 –> 00:51:33,862
Your favorite countries.
1662
00:51:33,862 –> 00:51:34,582
For living,
1663
00:51:34,622 –> 00:51:35,382
for weak,
1664
00:51:36,502 –> 00:51:37,062
for example.
1665
00:51:37,142 –> 00:51:37,782
For autopsy.
1666
00:51:38,622 –> 00:51:42,022
Okay, I like Afghanistan.
1667
00:51:42,182 –> 00:51:45,462
I was in Afghanistan before Taliban came there.
1668
00:51:46,302 –> 00:51:47,622
I fly away by the last plane.
1669
00:51:47,622 –> 00:51:51,062
You remember these planes when the people try to get
1670
00:51:51,062 –> 00:51:51,462
out of it?
1671
00:51:51,462 –> 00:51:54,342
So it was a terrible situation when Taliban…
1672
00:51:54,502 –> 00:51:56,342
Do you know why that happened that way?
1673
00:51:57,222 –> 00:51:57,702
Yeah, I know.
1674
00:51:58,102 –> 00:52:00,262
You do know why the Biden administration
1675
00:52:01,062 –> 00:52:05,022
pulled out that quickly for what reason because it
1676
00:52:05,022 –> 00:52:07,542
was the 20-year anniversary of the American invasion
1677
00:52:07,582 –> 00:52:11,302
and they wanted a photograph the war’s over they they
1678
00:52:11,302 –> 00:52:15,622
did it for a photo op and look at that craziness but
1679
00:52:15,622 –> 00:52:18,862
anyway yeah so uh for me it’s interesting to be there
1680
00:52:18,862 –> 00:52:22,822
because uh it’s a unique culture you unique country
1681
00:52:22,982 –> 00:52:24,622
unique culture but uh
1682
00:52:24,742 –> 00:52:25,702
I’m not going to live there,
1683
00:52:25,702 –> 00:52:29,062
or I’m not sure I want to visit it twice,
1684
00:52:30,262 –> 00:52:32,142
but in Afghanistan I was two times,
1685
00:52:32,142 –> 00:52:33,622
in Somalia I was three,
1686
00:52:33,782 –> 00:52:34,582
three, four times.
1687
00:52:35,382 –> 00:52:37,782
But my favorite country in the world is Japan.
1688
00:52:38,102 –> 00:52:40,022
Japan, you know why?
1689
00:52:40,022 –> 00:52:43,542
Because it’s really a unique country.
1690
00:52:43,542 –> 00:52:44,502
It’s very safe,
1691
00:52:44,942 –> 00:52:45,942
a unique culture,
1692
00:52:45,942 –> 00:52:46,622
unique food,
1693
00:52:46,622 –> 00:52:47,142
unique clothes,
1694
00:52:47,142 –> 00:52:47,942
unique cars.
1695
00:52:48,902 –> 00:52:51,222
I’m a little bit disappointed about the globalization
1696
00:52:51,222 –> 00:52:53,462
because every country,
1697
00:52:53,462 –> 00:52:54,662
they now become,
1698
00:52:55,222 –> 00:52:56,422
cities are look the same.
1699
00:52:57,462 –> 00:53:00,982
Everywhere is IKEA furniture in apartments.
1700
00:53:01,382 –> 00:53:02,582
All cars are the same.
1701
00:53:02,582 –> 00:53:09,222
Now, yesterday was in this GM like exhibition in this
1702
00:53:10,502 –> 00:53:13,622
center, black subscribers in the river,
1703
00:53:14,342 –> 00:53:15,142
how we call this center.
1704
00:53:15,902 –> 00:53:18,422
And there was an exhibition with new cars at Buicks
1705
00:53:18,422 –> 00:53:19,222
by GM.
1706
00:53:20,542 –> 00:53:22,182
when you see it,
1707
00:53:23,062 –> 00:53:27,782
you can recognize is it Buick or maybe it’s Nissan
1708
00:53:27,782 –> 00:53:29,142
Kia or Ford,
1709
00:53:29,302 –> 00:53:30,182
because all the cars,
1710
00:53:30,582 –> 00:53:31,862
they become all the same.
1711
00:53:31,862 –> 00:53:33,862
There’s architecture,
1712
00:53:33,942 –> 00:53:35,782
it’s all the same.
1713
00:53:35,862 –> 00:53:40,742
Every big city they have building was built by Zaha
1714
00:53:40,822 –> 00:53:41,702
Hadid, for example,
1715
00:53:41,702 –> 00:53:42,342
architects.
1716
00:53:43,102 –> 00:53:44,102
And in China,
1717
00:53:44,182 –> 00:53:44,982
in New York,
1718
00:53:46,102 –> 00:53:49,262
That in Miami there’s subscribers built by I’m in the
1719
00:53:49,262 –> 00:53:53,222
middle of a fucking show Okay,
1720
00:53:53,382 –> 00:53:54,262
I’ll call you back.
1721
00:53:54,262 –> 00:53:54,862
Okay, good news.
1722
00:53:54,902 –> 00:53:56,182
Is it news?
1723
00:54:00,222 –> 00:54:01,662
Do we got news?
1724
00:54:01,702 –> 00:54:02,502
I’ll call you back.
1725
00:54:03,702 –> 00:54:06,542
Oh I’d lawyer up if I was you,
1726
00:54:06,902 –> 00:54:07,582
but I’m sorry.
1727
00:54:07,742 –> 00:54:08,102
Go ahead.
1728
00:54:08,502 –> 00:54:12,182
Yeah You know one time you know what a repo man is
1729
00:54:12,502 –> 00:54:14,742
have you heard of this repossession man?
1730
00:54:15,462 –> 00:54:17,462
You buy a car and you make payments.
1731
00:54:17,942 –> 00:54:19,222
If you can’t make the payments,
1732
00:54:19,382 –> 00:54:21,302
the repo man comes and takes the car.
1733
00:54:21,622 –> 00:54:24,942
Okay, so I’m going out with the repo man and he says,
1734
00:54:24,942 –> 00:54:26,102
we’re looking for the Buick,
1735
00:54:26,902 –> 00:54:27,222
right?
1736
00:54:27,622 –> 00:54:30,422
And we’re in an apartment where all these cars are
1737
00:54:30,422 –> 00:54:30,742
parked.
1738
00:54:30,742 –> 00:54:32,942
I’m like, they all look like fucking Buicks.
1739
00:54:33,142 –> 00:54:35,222
How do you fucking know what the fucking car,
1740
00:54:35,222 –> 00:54:36,302
they all look alike?
1741
00:54:37,022 –> 00:54:37,942
I was stunned.
1742
00:54:38,182 –> 00:54:39,142
So yeah, I agree.
1743
00:54:39,142 –> 00:54:39,462
Yes.
1744
00:54:40,102 –> 00:54:41,222
So it’s a problem.
1745
00:54:41,662 –> 00:54:42,662
Everywhere is a Starbucks.
1746
00:54:42,782 –> 00:54:43,262
Ken and I,
1747
00:54:43,462 –> 00:54:44,022
you have to go.
1748
00:54:44,022 –> 00:54:46,542
Ken and I went to the old Midtown.
1749
00:54:46,542 –> 00:54:47,542
You have to go,
1750
00:54:48,022 –> 00:54:48,422
Alex.
1751
00:54:48,902 –> 00:54:49,542
Midtown.
1752
00:54:49,542 –> 00:54:50,742
It’s called the new center.
1753
00:54:50,982 –> 00:54:52,582
It used to be General Motors.
1754
00:54:53,222 –> 00:54:56,502
world headquarters is made out of granite and copper.
1755
00:54:57,302 –> 00:54:59,942
And we went in and this was the architecture,
1756
00:54:59,942 –> 00:55:00,982
like the Bolshoi,
1757
00:55:02,102 –> 00:55:06,102
that speaks to humanity that you are of greatness,
1758
00:55:06,342 –> 00:55:06,662
right?
1759
00:55:06,742 –> 00:55:08,022
Architecture should speak.
1760
00:55:08,262 –> 00:55:10,982
And remember the young couple coming by and they were
1761
00:55:10,982 –> 00:55:12,102
looking at it and I said,
1762
00:55:12,262 –> 00:55:13,702
it speaks to your greatness.
1763
00:55:13,702 –> 00:55:14,262
And they said,
1764
00:55:14,422 –> 00:55:15,302
it does.
1765
00:55:15,862 –> 00:55:17,102
It does, right?
1766
00:55:18,102 –> 00:55:18,702
Cadillac place.
1767
00:55:18,702 –> 00:55:20,982
So whether you’re from Detroit or you’re from Moscow,
1768
00:55:20,982 –> 00:55:21,542
right?
1769
00:55:21,542 –> 00:55:23,782
That human emotions are the same.
1770
00:55:23,942 –> 00:55:25,702
We are something great.
1771
00:55:25,862 –> 00:55:27,542
God made something great in us.
1772
00:55:29,942 –> 00:55:31,382
If you hate Russian people,
1773
00:55:31,382 –> 00:55:33,062
then you just fucking fuck off.
1774
00:55:34,342 –> 00:55:35,302
De-friend me.
1775
00:55:35,782 –> 00:55:36,502
I will never hate,
1776
00:55:36,502 –> 00:55:36,662
man.
1777
00:55:36,662 –> 00:55:37,022
I love you,
1778
00:55:37,022 –> 00:55:37,302
dude.
1779
00:55:37,622 –> 00:55:38,422
I love you people.
1780
00:55:38,422 –> 00:55:39,622
You guys were so good to me.
1781
00:55:41,542 –> 00:55:43,542
Okay, another country.
1782
00:55:43,702 –> 00:55:45,382
You haven’t said America is a great place yet.
1783
00:55:45,382 –> 00:55:46,262
We’re waiting for it.
1784
00:55:46,742 –> 00:55:47,702
We’re waiting for it.
1785
00:55:47,702 –> 00:55:48,982
Just one of your favorite countries.
1786
00:55:48,982 –> 00:55:49,862
We’re waiting for it.
1787
00:55:51,382 –> 00:55:51,782
Say it.
1788
00:55:52,182 –> 00:55:52,822
Say it.
1789
00:55:53,302 –> 00:55:55,142
America is the greatest country.
1790
00:55:57,462 –> 00:55:58,422
That sounds like Borat.
1791
00:55:59,542 –> 00:56:00,022
But.
1792
00:56:01,662 –> 00:56:02,422
There’s a lot of buts.
1793
00:56:02,422 –> 00:56:02,702
Yes, I know.
1794
00:56:04,502 –> 00:56:05,222
so Japan, Japan,
1795
00:56:05,782 –> 00:56:08,022
I think it because it’s very unique,
1796
00:56:08,022 –> 00:56:08,342
unique.
1797
00:56:08,342 –> 00:56:09,702
They have unique car design,
1798
00:56:10,542 –> 00:56:11,382
very unique culture,
1799
00:56:11,382 –> 00:56:14,502
cloth, and they still try to protect it from globalization.
1800
00:56:14,982 –> 00:56:15,542
That’s why I like it.
1801
00:56:15,542 –> 00:56:17,022
One more and then we gotta go.
1802
00:56:17,142 –> 00:56:17,942
One more we gotta go.
1803
00:56:18,902 –> 00:56:19,742
Maybe Iceland.
1804
00:56:21,382 –> 00:56:23,142
Iceland because of the nature,
1805
00:56:23,302 –> 00:56:24,582
many waterfalls,
1806
00:56:24,582 –> 00:56:25,222
glaciers,
1807
00:56:25,302 –> 00:56:27,622
and there is no people.
1808
00:56:27,622 –> 00:56:28,902
If you don’t like people,
1809
00:56:28,902 –> 00:56:30,302
if you don’t like the tourism,
1810
00:56:31,062 –> 00:56:33,982
so Iceland is a very good place for visiting.
1811
00:56:36,742 –> 00:56:37,142
One more.
1812
00:56:37,462 –> 00:56:37,862
One more.
1813
00:56:37,862 –> 00:56:38,342
America.
1814
00:56:40,382 –> 00:56:41,822
Have you been to the Upper Peninsula?
1815
00:56:41,822 –> 00:56:42,982
That’s where you need to go.
1816
00:56:42,982 –> 00:56:46,182
All right.
1817
00:56:46,662 –> 00:56:47,302
Next week.
1818
00:56:48,102 –> 00:56:49,302
I got to call my source back.
