After the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey, Russia and NATO stand nose to nose raising the threat of a world war that could lead to a nuclear holocaust that obliterates life on Earth.

Happy holidays!

Good morning, I'm Andrew Cleven and this is an Andrew Cleveland jet. Yes, a lot of crazy stuff happening in the news. Yesterday I think I misspoke and said that Russia had shot a Turkish jet out of the air or something and just came out that way.

But I didn't want to start an international incident. I heard that Cleven said that. No, no, it was a Russian jet.

So, so much is happening. Life on Earth is completely under threat. So, I want to start by talking about a personal grudge. I have with somebody in this very room. In this very room, someone has betrayed me. It's like the last supper except with me instead of Jesus.

Which okay has a substantial difference. So, maybe it's not like the last supper at all. But yesterday, now I've spoken before about how much I love working at the Daily Wire.

It's true, I love coming in here, the people are great. However, yesterday I go out and meet a friend at a cigar bar. And I love this guy because he always brings me a great cigar. He brings, he takes care of the cigars, I take care of the scotch. That's how we, that's how we work it.

And he also, because he's a cigar lover, he knows all these great places in LA, I'm kind of new to LA.

And I, I mean, a cigar bar to me to sit in a cigar bar, smoking a cigar and drinking a single mall with a game on television. I won't say anything shallow like heaven is a cigar bar. But heaven includes a cigar bar.

Okay, because, you know, the him, you know, the him says, we'll, we'll praise God for 10,000 years after that I'm hitting the cigar bar. I'll be like, yeah, that was 10,000, I'm done, you know, I'm done. I'm hitting the cigar bar. And you know, one of the things I love about the cigar bars is people say whatever they want because it's almost all guys, it's all guys. That's, that's basically yesterday I'm sitting there and two guys, two British guys and back of me are going into this anti-Semitic rant.

And the guy says, the guy said, it's the Jews, you know, who start all the wars, it's the Jews. But you, but you can't say that in Los Angeles because it's politically incorrect.

I thought, no, actually, you can't say it because it makes you a flamin' jackass. Just because something is politically incorrect doesn't actually mean it's true, you know, it could be politically incorrect and incorrect at the same time.

Anyway, I'm sitting there talking to this pal and we're smoking cigar. We're upon, he reveals to me that Jonathan Hay, the man who produces this show and who does all this great technical stuff had a poker game at his house and did not invite me.

This is insane. I mean, really, really, I mean, come on, oh, let's do that again.

Oh, I mean, we were talking yesterday about how much I love games, my favorite game of all games, you asked me what was my favorite game, but we were talking about board games, so it didn't come into my head, my favorite game of all games is poker.

And just to make you feel really bad, I'm going to tell you about the last poker game I was in. This is an absolutely word-for-word true story.

I was so hurt that I had to retire to my safe space. Luckily, my safe space is a car bar. So I didn't have to go anywhere. There I was.

But this is true. This is the last poker game I ever played. I love poker. I mean, I love poker. And I'm a good person to have because I'm only a mediocre poker player.

I mean, somebody, yeah, exactly, exactly. It's not like I'm a shark coming and taking all your money. I win some, I lose some, but somebody explained to me long ago that just in the same way that Scrabble is not a game about words, is a game about tile placement.

Once you figure that out, the game is no longer fun, but you become a much better Scrabble player. And poker is not a game about cards or luck. It's a game about money and how people react to money and how people think about money.

And once I realized that, I realized I'd always be a mediocre card player because I don't know anything about money. I mean, I just, I mean, I've been really fortunate. I've made good money in my life, but if my wife didn't take care of it, I would be broadcasting today from a dumpster.

You know, I say, yeah, that's where, in the dumpster, giving her a shot, I'm an artist, I know nothing about money. So I'm a good person to have it a poker.

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