Vladimir Putin recently accused the Western world of trying to, quote,

cancel a whole 1,000 year culture.

It might seem like just another powerful white dude complaining about being canceled,

but some facts.

Russian acts are banned from Eurovision this year.

Christie's and Sotheby's called off auctions of Russian art,

the Munich Philharmonic parted ways with its conductor, Valerie Gurgiev,

who's an old friend of Putin's.

The Bolshoi ballet got booted from a residency at London's opera house,

and many, many miles from the Kremlin, a man in Peoria, Illinois, made a decision.

Ahead, today explained, I'm Noel King.

I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses.

I love walking with the dog for long periods of time,

so hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm.

So I think the frozen noses are sweaty armpits,

because your wrap tops so warm, but then you're climbing hamps and heath,

and you get to the top and you're like,

and then you can see the breath, but then your nose is still freezing to top.

Joy in every sip with red carbs now back at Starbucks.

Between forgetting the cellar tape,

trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table,

and the cat taking down the tree again.

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