Gentlemen, we're live.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a special edition of the PBD Podcast, Emergency Press Conference,

emergency podcast to discuss the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I know a lot of you out there have been asking for Pat's feedback on this.

He's actually traveling on a business meeting right now.

He's in Mexico, but we did not want to delay our commentary and our feedback on this.

So with that being said, we brought in PBD live from Mexico to give his thoughts on what

is happening in Ukraine.

PBD are you with us?

I am can you hear me?

Yes, I can't sir.

I'm in my hotel room right now.

My wife is like, babe, all the kids are waiting for you down

so we just had a business

meeting all morning, came from lunch and I'm getting stories, Pat, how come you're not talking about this?

How come you're not talking about this?

Like I've been traveling, but look, a few things.

I just finished watching the press conference with President Biden, which by the way, I have to say I was very impressed with the way he handled the questions at the end. We'll cover that as well as what the actions he's taking. There was a question asked about him, whether he's going to get China, whether he's reached out China to help out to get Russia to slowdown. It was very interesting what his answer was, which we'll talk about that as well.

And then how we got here, you know, a bit of the history, what does Putin really want?

A few questions that I've been, you know, a lot of people are asking me and I've been thinking about it myself but

before anything else here's the one thing to keep in mind.

There's a lot of videos that are circulating when I hear that alarm, the, that alarm, it's like like this, I go back to Iran being

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