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Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show.

I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show.

But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fooled.

The real Eric's in jail folks welcome to hour two

i continue my conversation with patrick burn and i got to tell you uh and that's b y r and e

patrick burn uh patrick i did not uh say much about you before you came on. You were the head of overstock.com.

So you're a wealthy, successful entrepreneur. You love your country, and that's how you got involved

in all this stuff. And what we're talking about right now is your relationship, which became romantic with Maria Bettina, who's a key figure in all this kind of stuff.

And what you're saying, and I do think this is important that I've said this on the program, right?

Most of us would have a view of Russia that we're kind of conflating it stupidly with the USSR, okay?

Russia, ladies and gentlemen, when I think of the Russia of the Tsars, the 19th century Russia,

that's not the same as the Russia of, you know, Lenin and Stalin, the satanic Russia that crushed

anybody who loves liberty, that that tortured people in the Gulag that made Alexander

Solzhenitsyn right, the Gulag archipelago, that's the Soviet Union. That is communist, totalitarian,

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