A Christmas Show with Roman Genn & Ricochet VIPs

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Broadcasting from the world's most beautiful beaches
in sunny Florida. Here's a soldier,

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storyteller, historian, and maybe a
bit of a hell raiser. It's Dave

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Carter and this is the Dave Carter
Show. Yes, I'm broadcasting from the

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world's most beautiful beaches, but this
time of year, I can't help it.

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Man, My heart goes back home
where the mischief all started, right

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back home on the Bayou. That's
right, Santaco Baby. Merry Christmas all,

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and welcome to the Christmas edition of
another podcast from a happy place.

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I do hope that you will be
surrounded by loved ones and friends and enjoy

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the things that, somehow, you
know, make the rest of the year

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worth it. We've loaded up the
show with all kinds of good ease and

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fun and surprises, a little Cajun
humor. Perhaps you may have heard of

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the Twelve Days of Christmas. Well
we've got the Twelve Days of Boudreau.

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But that'll be coming up in a
little while. But there's still time if

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you'd like to pour some magnog or
call your tele doctor, or do whatever

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it is that you want to do. Santa Claus, Santa Claus, No,

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no one, not Santa Claus.
I spent a cloth I've been.

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If you want to marry me heavy
bring my baby back to me. I

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mean, I mean how many how
many of us have spent Christmas away from

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our loved ones. You know how
many of you spent Christmas away from your

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baby? Baby man? I spent
so many Christmas Is away from wives and

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girlfriends. And I mean not at
the same time, obviously you understand,

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but they'll believe me. Between the
military, I spent Christmas in nineteen eighty

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three in boot camp with this psychopath
and a smokey the bear hat yelling Merry

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effing Christmas and suggesting things that I
didn't know you could do with a Christmas

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tree. Deployments the Mideast during Christmas
time, and then there were the holidays

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I spent on the road, drive
across the country in an eighteen wheeler doing

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Christmas. I mean, you basically
learn to harden your heart to some extent,

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or at least you learn to compartmentalize
when you will and will you when

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you will not allow yourself to become
a sappy an emotional wreck. So then

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you you mentally rub some dirt on
it and you press on, which is

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very different from retail, by the
way, where the goal is to get

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through the holidays without an arrest record
or getting fired because some knitwit decides they

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want to gain the system somehow and
get extra discounts, or they wait until

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closing time to come in and experience
an existential crisis, some idiotic, protracted

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hamlet issue about whether they want a
plaid shirt or a solid shirt, or

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a button down collar or a shirt
that's made to untuck, or when they

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can stuff down their pants or tuck
it in or shove it up. You

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get the idea. But we all
have who will I have an aneurysm here,

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But we all have holiday traditions,
right. I have the advantage this

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year of making my own holiday tradition
for a change, and not trying to

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glom onto another family traditions. Not
sure what I'll do just yet, That's

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part of the fun, to be
honest. For once, my Christmas schedule

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isn't dependent on Uncle Sam or the
good graces of a trucking dispatcher or anyone

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else. And to be honest,
I kind of like that, Well,

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what about you? What about other
traditions or what memories do you take with

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you from the past and relived those
special moments and memories now? In fact,

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I tell you what less explore that
topic and more with our first guest,

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What do you say? My guest
was born in Moscow in nineteen seventy

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two, at the height of the
Cold War. Roman gen is a familiar

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name to a great many people,
and his artwork and political cartoons have graced

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the covers of National Review, among
other publications, basically since back in nineteen

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ninety one, when his political cartoons
earned him the enmity of the Kremlin's ministers

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of totalitarian misery or do you use
Barack Obama's formulation, Roman Ginn was on

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the wrong side of history. So
in nineteen ninety one, when he was

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nineteen years old, Roman arrived in
the US, and, to use his

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words quote, since accomplishing the American
dream, owning a car wash or body

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shop was Algin's league, he had
to stoop to selling his caricatures to,

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among others, the Los Angeles Times
and New York Times, Wall Street Journal,

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Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore's
Sun, New York Daily News,

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International Tribune, Newsday, Newsweek,
HarperCollins, Penguin Group and Saucians, and

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on and on and many other publications. At some point we must must do.

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We have this lugubriuson gemination, we
have what this legal brisation. No,

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we're winding in, we're riding in
the end of it now. But

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after Bill Buckley scooped you up,
it resulted in what to me is about

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the most rapturous label anybody could ever
have, is they called you that attack

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dog that Buckley unleashed on humanity,
which is awesome. That earns my respect

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every time. So anyway, Roman, how you do, man, it's

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good to have here on the show. I'm doing great. I'm doing great.

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By the way. The guy who
said it was David Levine, whose

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birthdays today he would have been probably
about ninety seven. Oh wow, So

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David living of a New York with
your books. So he called me the

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attack dog that Buckley unleashed up monkey
right, which I loved, and he

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allowed me to use it. That's
good. Well, that was and that

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was obviously after I think you said
one time before that Buckley found you because

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you were floating as a baby down
the nile or something like that. Uh,

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you know, no, it was
I think between Cuban Miami scooped you

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up out of the water. He
was, yeah, he was. He

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was taking a ride in his yacht
and yeah, I was trying to make

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it out. Yeah. Oh well, and okay, so thank you for

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taking time to chat with us,
man, I appreciate it. We were

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talking before you came on the show
here about Christmas and holiday traditions, some

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of which are enjoyable, something not
so much. Are there any particular holiday

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traditions in your household they stand out
in your mind, either from back in

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the day or from current times.
Well, in Russia, the tradition basically

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goes like this, around the twenty
fifth, people get drunk and they stayed

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drunk until I think February first,
maybe February second, and then uh yeah,

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clo closer to Valentine, and then
they they basically invade some little country,

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um usually about three million people or
five million people or something like this

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when they sober up. So um. But unfortunately this time they decide to

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invade a larger country and that got
them into some trouble. So I think

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this goes to uh, this is
a result of COVID and oh, the

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Ukrainian thing is a result of COVID. No, No, the fact that

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Russians invaded a larger country. Okay, they miscalculated tremendously and decided to invade

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the country of forty million people rather
than go for a smaller target of let's

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say three million or five million,
like Finland maybe or George George again,

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or maybe Armenia. So yeah,
So well, I was I was going

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to ask you, because I mean, they obviously underestimated by a huge amount

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of the resilience of the people in
Ukraine. How did that happen? Were

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they just that uninformed or did they
overestimate their own capacity or their own capabilities.

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Well, there was an interesting book
a long time ago by General Koch

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who was who was Patents Chief of
Intelligence Patents G two, and he wrote

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that the one of the essentials in
intelligence is having the confidence of your of

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your commander. It doesn't really matter
how good your intelligence is. As long

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as as you don't have a confidence
of your commander, it's no good at

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all. And basically that's what happened. Russians had excellent intelligence on Ukraine,

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excellent as good as as as it
goes, I mean, every second guy

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there was providing intelligence. Unfortunately they
miscalculated because people tend to believe what they

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want to believe. And a friend
of miney Ukrainian, told me at some

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point that Putin went to Ukraine years
and years ago when Kuchma was still president

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of Ukraine, so it had to
be like at least one years ago,

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and he listened to the service and
couldn't understand anything. So so he turned

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to Kwasnevski, I think, who
was the president of Poland, and asked

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him, so, do you understand
anything what they're saying. And Kostievski said,

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yeah, about ninety percent probably,
and Putin said, well, I

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understand about thirty percent. And that's
that's what that's what his problem is.

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He understands about thirty percent. So
he knew Ukrainians were greedy, he knew

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that Ukraines were corrupt, but what
he didn't understand what they were also dishonest.

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They just took his money and then
when he came to conquer them,

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they stood up and then then fought
him off. And that's what that's what

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he failed to understand. He just
did not understand the spirit of Ukrainian people,

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which is, you know, they're
like the Irish. They like to

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fight and they love the land.
Right, So, um, it's a

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it's a disastrous campaign. He thought
he was gonna win in in three four

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days. He didn't calculate his force
properly. He thought he could conquer Um

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a country of forty million people with
two hundred thousand troops, which is absolutely

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diotic. It's that just pure was
that just pure hubers on his part,

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just just playing hubris and also stupid. It was logistical stupidity. If you

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if you look at the at the
New York Times couple a couple of days

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ago wrote there was a huge investigation
piece on on how the war started,

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and and they're all basically one of
the orders was to some tank commanders was

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to cover four hundred miles in twenty
four hours, and that included crossing the

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deeper river. So a civilized army
like you know, like for example,

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you know, first recon in the
invasion of Iraq moved about thirty miles per

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day. And that that's the first
recon. That's not that's not Putin's crooks

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drunks, right, that's like rapists
traveling. So they couldn't they couldn't move

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faster than thirty miles. Uh,
you know, unless I'm getting it wrong.

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And due to all kinds of mechanical
problems, all kinds of things that

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can go along the way. So
these people just cannot calculate. They they're

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just dumb. Um you think you
think you think put Putin's commanders don't want

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to tell them, no, sir, that that's not going to work.

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I don't think they even know,
because I've talked a lot of colonels over

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there, and they just they were
just dumb. They don't know what they're

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They don't understand logistics. They watched
too many movies, um, and they

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thought they were going to fight United
States, that Ukraine was gonna take a

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week uh and at least, I
mean the most, and then they were

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on to fight United States and Europe. They were absolutely sure that we're going

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to fight United States, kick United
States out of Europe and get Alaska back.

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So that just really just shows you
yeah, oh yeah, yeah,

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that's that's what That's what people here
don't don't understand. They think it's um,

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you know, they listened to Mersheimer
or I don't know this, Tucker

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Carlson or something. They think that
that it was put In's backyard, that

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was it. No, it was
just the beginning of what they wanted to

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do. They had way larger plans, and then Americans seemed to realize um

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you know, and they failed.
I mean, but they thought they were

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gonna win in in a week or
two weeks, and then they were gonna

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consume Ukrainian resources um and continue continuing
into Eastern Europe and then into Western Europe.

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So along that same vein. What
do you make of the US response

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to the invasion to this point?
We are what are we doing this?

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This working? Do you think?
Well? I think I think our strategy

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is generally correct. Trump gave them
anti tank weapons um um, which which

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was a smart thing to do at
the time. Biden, I don't think

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gave them anything until the war started. I could be wrong. So I

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think we need to in our best
interest is to give them um twice what

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they're asking. Yeah, we have
to find because if if if, if

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they lose, then it's us then
we will have to fight this war,

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um uh, you know, for
ourselves. So I think it's it's it's

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the traditional American response was sent the
bullet, not a man. And I

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think we that that's a smart policy. I think we need to we need

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to increase our production of haimers and
artillery pieces. Um uh. Howitzers,

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how how howitzers that that are doing
rather well. They're very useful weapon um

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M seven seven seven so uh.
And also haimers has has been excellent.

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So I think our response is to
to give to to give Ukraine whatever they're

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asking for and more. That is
in our great interests as a nation.

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And I'm not even talking about the
right thing to do. I'm talking about

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the prudent thing to do for the
future, right right. Um And and

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also you know, people need to
understand that this money is not going to

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Ukraine. The money is going to
US defense contractors. So so it's it's

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actually going going to Arkansas, to
California, to New York. So wherever

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our defense companies are, that's that's
where the money going. So um yeah.

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So the answer is given, given
what they're asking and and more and

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given like more than what they're asking. Well, especially like you say,

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if if if Putain's ultimate aim was
was Alaska and American troops, I mean,

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better to deal with it there,
you know, like you said,

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they're sent a bullet than men.
What do you what do you make of

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Putin's uh they threats with respect to
nuclear weapons? Nothing? Nothing, just

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he's a headenist. He loves life, he wants to live here. He

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loves his gymnasts, he loves he
is, he loves his plastic marble MC

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mansions that he builds with, you
know, and uh, and he doesn't

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want to die. Yeah, so
all his all his nuclear threats are absolutely

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empty at this point. So at
this point, so what's going to happen

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next? I know, worth tongue, but at this point they're just bluffing.

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What do you I wouldn't even What
do you think would change? You

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say, at this point? What
would change to have him reevaluate his calculations.

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Well, if Moscow was threatened,
you know, he might, he

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might change his mind. Let's say
like NATO is standing at the gates of

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Moscow something. But he's still I
mean that I keep telling Russians is the

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same and same thing over and over
and over. You can just declare victory

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and go home because you know,
and you will believe that there was a

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victory over five hundred million NATO troops
because that's what they're saying they're not saying

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that they're fighting Ukrainians, They're saying
they're fighting NATO. Right, So that's

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how delusional these people are. Well, their information flow, that's what they

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get, I guess, yeah,
and it's it's it's an absolutely or well

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in society at this point, and
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and they're just there's this insane frenzy
of militarist propaganda that they march to sou

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But they're still gonna lose this word. There's no way to win it for

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them because you know, the country
with the one point five percent of the

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world's GDP cannot compete with the coalition
of countries that are that to compose more

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than sixty percent of the world's GDP
just impossible to do, particularly with them.

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But again, I mean let's let
let let let me make a let

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me repeat it. They definitely wanted
Alaska back. They don't think that Alaska

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was sold. They think that it
was rented out or something for one hundred

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years. So um, and you
know, it's insane, but that's what

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they believe. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't aware of that and all.

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Honestly, I simply wasn't aware of
that that part of itt um speaking

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of something, I mean, you
wanted to keep it light. That's fine,

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that's fine. I want to keep
it real, but I want to

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do I want to keep it real. So speaking of Russia being an Orwellian

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country on that topic, I've heard
people that come from communist countries, not

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just Russia, but Cuba and China
and other places. I've heard them talk

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about how they managed to escape those
totalitarian regimes only to arrive in the US,

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and they see this country trending in
the same direction. So I'm curious

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as to what your take on all
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in the same direction or is it
an apple and oranges name? Well,

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I you know, I'm I'll go
with Einstein's dictum. Uh, everything is

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in in in America's mass produced,
even idiocy. But but the fashion,

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you know, passes. So I
do believe in common sense this country was

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designed right. But funny should ask
because one of the reasons why Putin started

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this war he thought that in America
admirals were addresses. So he thought that

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there are some lipstick sailors and soldiers
and who who you know? And part

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of that was also our loss of
our disasters withdrawal from from I was going

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to mention that. Yeah, so
he's he thought, uh that we have

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this transgender Uh we are those in
the Pentagon who were dresses and withdraw you

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know every time that that there's an
opportunity to withdraw it, that we cannot

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win anything, right, right,
So so that insane culture of of of

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uh politically correct lunatic um in position
of insane values. So yeah, a

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fact a foreign policy too because to
him, if I may just kind of

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make us a position here, to
him, it reflects and projects weakness.

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Is that right? Correct? Correct? Yeah? Absolutely? Yeah, yeah,

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so they emphasize it. They constantly
talk about it. Hy they show

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them on television. They showed this
this uh, this lovely gentleman or whoever

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is who stole a purse? I
forgot what his name is. Yeah,

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the guy flifted everything from the airport. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Is

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it a gentleman or a gentle lady? I don't do that. I expect

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he or she is gentle at least. But that's about all I know.

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And they have a problem. Ye're
all having the terminology mistake. I think

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it's they they right, right,
right, you're right, You're right,

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they apologize, right, So,
yeah, and that projects the weakness to

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to to to people who who believe
in traditional muscle power. Yeah and uh,

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but he may have a point in
terms of our are we ready to

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four challenges of the twenty first century? If if our military is concerned about

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transgender equality rather than fighting a bill. And the problem is is that what

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happens here makes the situation worse where
not I think, for the for the

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disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and some of
these other issues, a lot may may

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or may not have I think I
don't think this would have happened in the

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first place. I think there was
a reason why people were fairly well behaved

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when Donald Trump was in office because
they thought he was not say wasn't They

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weren't sure what he would do.
And in a sense, it's not a

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bad thing to project that a little
bit of uncertainty. Well also, I

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mean, you know the Trump was
planning to withdraw by May, I believe,

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Yeah, and which is when the
fighting season starts in against a little

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earlier, I would think I would
think probably April, uh and and Biden

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withdrew right in the middle of the
fighting season, which is August, which

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is insane. So I don't think
anything bad would have happened if Biden said,

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you know, we're gonna withdraw in
in November December, when when the

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Snall pass were covered and Talban wouldn't
be wouldn't have been able to move on

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to to the large cities as fast
as they did. And I'm sure the

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military knew it, you know,
every lance corporal noted, but that's they

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Biden didn't want to hear it.
He just said, you know, move

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you know, I need I need
my speech on September eleventh. I wanted

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to be done by September eleventh.
And that's very puttin esque in a way.

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So it's basically the leader doesn't want
to hear what he doesn't want to

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hear. Uh. And that led
to to to that astonishing speedy fall of

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Kabul and other products transfer of all
billions of dollars of weapons over to the

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Taliban. Well, it would have
probably happened anyway, because I don't think

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our social engineering worked there, because
we try to we try to change their

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way of their ancient way of life
with with you know, in a few

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years. But at the same time. You know, it needed to happen,

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We needed to get out, no
question about it. So just they

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just shouldn't have been done the way
the way it was done, right,

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Yeah right, I'm gonna just real
radically change direction because I haven't asked you

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a question about your artwork, and
so I'm real one real quick question.

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Have you talked off any other presidents
lately? Because I know that it was

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an issue at one point before where
president sent the artwork back? I yeah,

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yeah, that was Obama with with
with We did a cover from for

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National View of Obama's the Parctologist put
Putting the Glove on, right, and

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they did, I believe, sent
ten issues that they're getting for their White

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House library back to us. So
uh, since then, no trouble at

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all. I think Trump was at
some point pissed about this, but and

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we actually he came out, you
know, blessing the magazine before it hit

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the stands, so we were able
actually to put a drawing of him being

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pissed inside the very issue that he
was complaining about it, so that we

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had like a few hours to so
he's holding he's holding the very cover that

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I love it, I love well
you know, we both love Wayne Matt

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Buckley, and he said one time
that style is timing, and that was

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perfect style. Then to be able
to pull that off, that was perfect,

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That was wonderful, right right,
So we had a few hours to

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do that because he read it online
or somebody told him that we were gonna

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we were gonna say nasty things about
them, and uh so I was so

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I was able to stick it in
widen, My own thing is lucid enough

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to get pissed about cartoons, you
know, No, I mean even if

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weekend at Bernie's, you couldn't read
a cartoon on that either. So yeah,

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yeah, so uh and uh no, it's it's been quiet unfortunately.

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I I you know, I feel
neglected and forgotten and the disappointment. I

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know, I know you had,
you had the creative resources and where with

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all to correct that. I'm sure. So I have no doubt it's your

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cartoonist is only as good as his
editors. Okay, so is it at

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this point did you start getting drunk
for Christmas? Then? Yeah, I'll

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I well, I you know,
I celebrate Koka, I celebrate Kwanza,

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I celebrate Christmas, and I think
there's some some Borderman's holiday in Tajikistan or

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something. Don't don't that's that's coming
up. Don't don't forget about Martyral.

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So that's that's a large holiday.
Marty Gral comes up. Marty Gral comes

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up in February down in New Orleans
too, so you don't want to forget

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that. Well, one has to
survive to February show, it's not it's

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not easy being me. Somebody's got
to do it. Somebody's got the Russian

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arts Christmas, then Old Russian New
Year and you know, all kinds of

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things before before February. So yeah, yeah, but you know, to

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answer your earlier, earlier question about
traditions, were gonna have a you know,

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we just get drunk and watch,
you know, watch the Great Leader

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speech, which is usually for ten
minutes before midnight, I think after midnight,

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and then you eat and drink till
till you're in a coma, and

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that continues for like ten fifteen days. I think maybe till February. I

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would start drinking before the speech,
personally, that's just me. Yeah,

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people usually start drinking, yeah,
so before the speech so they can they

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can stomach the speech. But uh
and um, but I haven't. I

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haven't lived there for thirty years,
so we um, you know, I

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do what Americans do, have you, which is also get drunk? Same

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thing? Have you just had tried
to shoot the you know, the blimps?

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Right, yeah, very quickly,
but just out of curiosity? Have

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you been back to Russia since you
arrived here or have you just not going?

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Oh? Yeah, I no,
no, I have I have been

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there. I haven't been in eight
years since we've been invaded invaded, Cramie.

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I mean, I haven't dealt with
them and have been back. So

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so all my knowledge is superficial and
I'm just going with with what I know

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um to be true from my life, life's experience over there, some reflection

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based on newly acquired information, other
than that I haven't been there in like

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eight or ninety No, no,
okay, yeah, alrighty well, look,

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thank you for taking the time to
talk with us. I really appreciate

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It's been fun. Thank you so
much, Dave Story for keeping it.

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Yeah, no, it's been it's
been fun. I've enjoyed it. I'm

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gonna go out and get some vodka
now because I feel like I'm falling behind

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here, So get get Ukrainian.
Okay, I'll do that, all right,

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sir. Thank you so much.
It's always a treat. Thank you

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so much, folks. That's Roman
again on the Dave Carter program. All

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right, now let me talk to
you about um well, let me just

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pause for a minute and ask are
you having a good time now? I'm

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having so much fun doing this here
that there'll be two of me to contain

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the mischief. I'm beside myself,
which actually looks pretty odd. So are

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you through with your Christmas shopping?
Ed? Because here's a confession against interest.

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If there wasn't an Amazon or some
related service from which to order things,

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I'm not sure anyone would be getting
a thing from me. Not that

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I don't love my family and friends
immensely, I'm just not interested in facing

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the great horde of shoppers. A
very dear friend of mine took me into

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a I don't know if it's the
T J. Ross or Max or some

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such hideous place. A few weeks
ago. It was frecked. It was

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clothing all over the place, and
these nuts were just trampling all over it.

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And their mission to spread holiday pandemonium
and leave a pile of merchandise in

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their wake, and since I don't
have to deal with that stuff this year,

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well I'm not dealing with it.
So evidently my facial expression must have

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registered something like post traumatic stress events
or something, because my friends said,

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we probably need to get out of
this place before an ugly incident unfolds.

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You know what I'd rather do than
Christmas shop, basically anything really, But

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what I have been doing, what
I've been enjoying since being back and Florida

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is spending more time on Ricochet Man. The articles are amazing, the debates

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are lively but civil, and the
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Bennett's got a show, And of
course you'll find Peter Robinson, rob Long,

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and James Lilacs over on the Ricochet
Flagship podcast, where they talk with

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newsmakers and scholars and pundits and basically
the most interesting minds on their political scene

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Dave Carter, it's Rob Long calling
to wish you a very merry Christmas.

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Wish you and your listeners very merry
Christmas. And I just want to tell

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you what I'm looking at right now. I've been in Los Angeles working for

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about two weeks on a project,
and i am in a hotel because i

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don't live here anymore. So I'm
in a hotel and I'm on the balcony

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and I'm looking out at the canyon
just right above Sunset Boulevard. It's just

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dark now, it's the nighttime,
and in the canyon, about two minutes

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ago, everybody turned their Christmas lights
on, so you can't see the canyon.

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It's dark, but you can see
the Christmas lights in the Christmas trees.

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And that's where Christmas is. You
know, it's dark, but there's

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still a lot of light there,
and it's light we turn on ourselves.

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That's the important light. So that's
what I hope for you, Dave,

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and for everybody in twenty twenty three, a whole lot of light, even

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if you have to turn on yourself. Merry Christmas. I'll talk to soon.

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It's the day starter ship. I'm
ricorship so in keeping with the spirit

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of the Christmas season and the spirit
of this program, which is rooted in

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my homestead of Louisiana. Of course, in all its colorful weirdness. Here's

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a series of letters written by my
friend Boudreau. It seems he's been on

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the receiving end of a great many
Christmas kids of late from his girlfriend Marie.

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This is called the Twelve Days of
Boudreau. Day one, My dear

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Marie, thanks for the birdendim bear
treat. I'll fix it last night with

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dirty rise. I don't think the
pear tree is gonna grow into swamp,

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though, so I swap it for
some bell pepper there too. Dear Marie,

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you say in your letter that you
sent two turtle dove, but all

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I got with too skinny pigeons.
Anyway, I'm mixed it with some mondooy

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sausage and made a good gumbo.
Dear Tree, Hey, Marie, why

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don't you send some crawlfish. Huh, I'm tired of eating them damn birds.

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I gave two of those pressy French
chickens to Bobby trayhand over at Grand

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Bayou, and I fed the third
one to my dog fighter. Old Bobby

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said he needed some swarring partners for
his fighting rooster. Therefore, dear Marie

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mon Dieux, I told you no
more frigging birds. Those four how you

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called them colding birds? Who yah
yah? They're so noise you could hear

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them clear all the way in the
napoleon Ville. Oh gosh, dog Fiefee,

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it hurt my head. So I
used their necks for my crab traps

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and set the rest on the defeat
the gators. Day five. Oh my,

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dear Marie, you'll finally send something
useful. I liked them golden rings

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me. I howked them over at
the pawn shopping Tipidou, and I got

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enough money to fix the shaft on
my shrimp boat, and I'll buy around

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for the boys at the raising Cane's
Lounge Mercy Bookousha Day six, Marie,

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you coo, y'all back to the
darned birds, you cajun turkey. My

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dog five, though, is scared
like helladin them six scooses. He tried

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to eat the eggs, and they
picked the heck out of his snout.

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They're good that eating cockroaches, though. I made stuff one of them with

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oyster dressing for Christmas Day Day seven. Now look here, Marie, I'm

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about to make a pass on you
for playin Nosha Tiboo. The mailman he's

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ready to kill you too. The
crap from all them birds are stinking up

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his mailboat. He afraid someone gonna
slip on that stuff and shoot him.

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Good. I let those seven swans
loose to swim on the bayou, and

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some duck hunters from the Mississippi they
blast him right out the water. I

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talked to you tomorrow. They eight
dear Marie Poro Tiboo. He had to

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make three chips on his mailboat to
deliver them eight maids of milking, and

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their cows too. One of the
cows got spooked by the alligator and almost

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tip over the whole boat. I
don't like them shippers maids mean though.

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I told him to get to work, gut and fish and sweep in the

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shack, but they say it wasn't
in your contract. They probably think they're

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too good the skin the nutrils I
caught last night too. Day nine,

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Marie, what you're trying to do? Ha? Tiboo had to borrow the

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Lucher ferry to carry them jumping twitch
you call lords a leaping the cost to

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buy you. As soon as they
got here, they wanted the tea break

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with crumpets. I don't know what
that means, but I said, well,

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lad Da, you get chickery coffee
or you carry your ass back to

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them boat mondeu. What am I
going to feed all these bozos half?

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They're too snooty for fried nutra and
that cows don't eat all my turnip greens.

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Day ten, Dear Marie, you've
got to be out your mind.

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You. If the mailman don't kill
you, our will for sure. Diday

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he delivered ten half naked flosies from
Bourbon Street. They said they was ladies

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dancing, but they don't act like
ladies in front of those little leaping lord

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twits. They almost left after one
of their own got bit by Watermarkerson over

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there by the outhouse. I had
the butcher two cows to feed tootlem On

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and had to get toilet paper because
the Sears catalog wasn't good enough for these

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hoidy toties. And they're royal behind. Day eleven, Hey Marie, where

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are you at hand? Cheerio and
Pip Pip, you're eleven pipers Piping arrived

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today from the House of Bourbon second
lining. As they got off the boat,

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we fixed stuffed goose and beef.
Jump Alaya, we're having a fado

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dough. The new mailman he having
a good time too, dancing with all

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the floozies Tiboo. He jump off
the Sunshine Bridge yesterday screaming your name the

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whole time. If you get the
mysterious taking package in the mail dawn opening

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Day twelve, Dear Marie, I'm
sorry to tell you, and it nearly

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broke him a heart and twice here, but I'm not your true love anymore.

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After the Fedo do, I spent
the night with Battil, who runs

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them ladies dancing. We decide to
open a restaurant and ship club on the

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Bayou. The Flosi a part of
me. The ladies dancing can pull in

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twenty bucks a table dance, and
the lords can be waiters and valet part

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the boats. Since the maids don't
have no more cows to milk, I

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trained them to set my crab traps, run my trot lines, and run

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my champ In business, we probably
gross over a million dollars next year's ship.

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I prayed that you stay well and
may God bless the hell out of

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you. Your friend Boodrow Hi,
Dave, this is your old friend Troy

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Senek. You and your listeners are
very merry Christmas. They say that this

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is the time of year which you
should really sit back and reflect on what

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you're thankful for it. I've done
that, and the answer is money mostly,

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but also friendships like the one I
have with Daves and a lot of

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the listeners, many of whom I
know. We're part of our community back

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and Ricochet. So I hope you
all have a merry Christmas and a happy

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New Year as well. My new
year's resolution was going to be to develop

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a broadcasting voice as good as Dave's, but they say you should set manageable

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goals, So my new resolution is
to drink more and exercise less. It's

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going to be a great twenty twenty
three Mary Christmas. Hi, Dave,

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it's Jenna Stacker, your snowbound sister
from Minnesota, calling to wish you a

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very merry Christmas. I'm the same
to my Ricchet family, the only one

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I'll admit to being part now I've
admit to having me is another issue.

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But anyways, I hope your days
are merry and bright, and your heart's

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joyful, and all your balustrates,
of course are poniful Merry Christmas. Well,

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that's my friend Jenna Stalker, and
before that, old Boodreau having the

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kind of Christmas that one can only
experience either deep in the bogue of someplace

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or deep in the fever swamp of
an unbalanced imagination. Dave Carter, So

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I put the question to you again, are you having a good time?

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Because I'm having an absolute blast here, just cutting up, as as a

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family member once described it, cutting
up like a sprayed roche. From the

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from the fun music to the crazy
twelve Days of Boudreau, from the ruminations

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of artists extraordinary Roman gim to the
Christmas greetings from members of the rick Che

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family we've had a chance to laugh, saber friendships and celebrate the holidays here.

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You know. I began the show
talking about Christmas over the years,

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whether spent overseas or on America's highways, But it was always the memories of

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Christmas spent with loved ones and the
traditions that we observed over the years that

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would warm the heart, no matter
what part of the globe by happened to

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be in at any given point in
time. For example, there was an

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old, an old record player in
my grandmother's house. It was we called

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it the High five for high fidelity. It was in Granny's study, and

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every year her mother, my great
grandmother, would sit patiently by that high

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five waiting to hear her favorite song. So eventually my grandmother would remove the

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album from its old faded cover and
place it gently on the High five.

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Then she'd flipped that little switch on
the right hand side, and the album

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dropped into place as a mechanical arm
swung into motion, placing the needle on

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the outside edge of the album.
And then we would hear that static over

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the speaker as the needle found the
little groove and the vinyl that would guide

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it to the first song, and
then with the deep bass sounds of men

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singing from my great grandmother's expression became
one of absolute rapture. The Little Drummer

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Boy was her favorite song, and
she made sure that we were aware of

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this fact every single year. I
wasn't sure why, though, I'm just

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an old country girl. She once
told my sister and me when we were

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little, and we had all kinds
of questions Mama. We asked, what's

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your middle name? And she assured
us that it wasn't one that she herself

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would have selected, And to our
surprise, she didn't want to tell us

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what it was, so naturally we
pressed further and refused to let up.

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Finally, she looked around as if
to make sure no one else was listening,

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and then she slowly leaned forward,
her nose wrinkling in mephitic disgust as

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she whispered the name with such comic
repugnant said it reduced all three of us

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to giggles. We tried to pronounce
it back to her, but she made

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us take an oath of secrecy,
which oath I won't break here, but

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trust me, it was the sort
of name that will put a curl in

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your teeth if you tried to pronounce
it. Just an old country girl,

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she would say. Forty five years
later, as I spend Christmas here in

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the flour of the Panhandle, I
drive about and knock out a few last

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minute items on the Christmas checklist,
my great grandmother's song will begin to play,

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either on the radio or in the
stores, and all the decades immediately

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just fall away. Does music do
that for you too? I mean,

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with the first notes of that song, I can see her perfectly poised,

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her comfortable shoes on her cane beside
her chair, her eyes sparkling and happy.

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Maybe it was a story that touched
her. In the song, we

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have a poor youngster who, having
heard of the newborn king to whom he

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is owed quote our gifts alexa bream. The only thing he has a drum.

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Then, approaching the infant Savior,
who lay in a simple feeding trough,

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the boy observes, I am a
poor boy too, while others bring

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gold and silver, the song says, the child offers everything he has and

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plays his drum his reward. Quote
then he smiled at me, me and

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my drum. Perhaps the story touched
an understanding sentiment in that old country girl.

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I was too young to understand it
back then, But time lens focused

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in perspective, something my great grandmother
had in abundance. Now the lights are

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twinkling, stockings are hung, the
presents are wrapped, and on Christmas Eve,

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a peace will calm will descend.
In some homes, Families gather to

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read the Christmas Story. Churches offer
special services, as the faith will give

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thanks for God's gift of peace and
salvation, even as they prepare to offer

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gifts to one another. The greatest
gifts, of course, are priceless.

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The only thing more beautiful than the
joy on a child's face on Christmas Morning

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is the love in apparent's eyes.
But for the moment, thoughts drift elsewhere.

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My grandmother had her favorite song,
and I have mine. Silent Night,

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Holy Night, Son of God.
Love's pure light, radiant beams from

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thy holy face, with the dawn
of redeeming grace. Jesus Lord at thy

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birth, Jesus Lord at thy Birth. The happiness beaming from the children,

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the loving embrace of family and friends, the warm smiles of generations gathered together,

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all illuminate the soul. But just
a glimmer of a light that reaches

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across to us two thousand years.
It's the light of perfect love which shone

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over Bethlehem, toward which so many
of us travel, with steps faltering and

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unsure, yet with hearts hungering after
God's infinite grace. Shall I play for

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you? Asked the little drummer boy. It's the question I ask each time

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I sit down to this keyboard or
behind this microphone, offering my own meager

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gifts, playing my drum for you, certainly, but also from my redeemer

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and in the service of Him and
the freedom he gives to us all.

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Just maybe, just maybe, if
I'm lucky in heaven as an old country

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girl with a knowing smile. Right
now, such is my prayer and my

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most fervent hope from my home to
yours. I wish you all a very

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merry Christmas, my friends, of
very merry Christmas, indeed, and with

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thanks to Roman again, Rob Long, Jennastalker and Troy Scenic and one of

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the very special thanks as always to
you the listener. I am Dave Carter.

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Merry Christmas and I'll chat with you
again soon. Thank you for listening

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to the Dave Carter Show. Don't
forget to subscribe on iTunes so you won't

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