Oh baby, welcome to it. Let's get it on. Let's do this thing. It is the 4th of May. May the 4th. Be with you. Happy Star Wars day to you.

I am Derek Hunter. I am your host for the next A-ish hour-ish little little short little long. I don't know what it's going to be. It's just a matter of what comes out of my mouth and when my mouth my brain says mouth shut up. Give it a rest bro. But anyway, thank you for download and share and telling a friend all that stuff. Please click the follow or subscribe or whatever the hell it's called. Wherever you get your podcasts, it's free. It's free. It doesn't even take a piece of your

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up to her support and said she didn't need a shout out. But I'm and I'm going to respect that. I'm going to respect that. Colleen. But thank you so much. And thanks to everybody out there. I didn't give a last name. I don't know. But there's a poll up there about the future of the show over the next week or two. There's going to be various polls as these thoughts occur to me. But what should I do? What do we do next? What would you do for a Klondike bar? So check it out.

And like I say, it's it's open to everybody. So you don't have to subscribe or anything to, I just want some feedback. Or you could just email me, whichever is more convenient to the question of the day at patreon.com slash Derek Hunter podcast. And yeah, you could have a big influence over the show. People are messaging me about ways to do like Twitter, Twitter spaces. I got to experiment with this. I know that you can. I'm not sure the quality. I've got to sort of do some tests or whatever.

But I would like a lot of people are like emailing me going. I like the way when you interact with people, which I'm like the most any social person in the world. But I'm able to talk to people. It's surprising how few hosts can actually talk to anybody. I don't get it.

There you go. Okay. Thanks for calling. Click hang up. And then I'm going to respond to what you said rather than have a discussion with you. I grew up in an era when it was, you know, Rush Limbaugh.

You'd hang for like an hour on hold. But then you'd get a chance. He wouldn't just be a jerk and go, what's your question? All right.

Hang up and listen to me. Talk about it. No, you are the reason his show existed. You're the reason this you're the reason every show exists.

You deserve the respect of not being shoved to the end of the show. So you run out of time or have spit out your question and then hang up and listen to it or whatever.

And so I did leave people on hold for a while just because you anybody. I think it's bad radio when somebody's on the phone.

So you immediately go to the phones. All right. Finish your points and then take the calls. But I think we can probably set up something.

If there's an appetite for it, I would require some participants to have that sort of interaction on occasion. It's going to be difficult.

But then there's going to be the question of the calls, the video, the whatever. We're starting out. There's going to be a series of questions. So check it out, please.

All right. So, you know, you wake up in the morning and I woke up to the news that my God, there's been an attempt on the life of Vladimir Putin. That was the story at a Moscow.

And by the end of the day, nobody really cares except for Russia. It's saber rattling over. Look, there's a lot of people out there that whatever.

Desire and reason to try to kill Vladimir Putin. Don't even get me started. I don't know. Anyway, there just is. Also, there's a good incentive for Vladimir Putin to pretend to have an attempt on his life, burning the Reichstag anybody.

He's got a pretty good hold on power as it is, but there I imagine after this long war, more than a year of war against Ukraine, and they're still sort of at a stalemate, I would think that within Moscow, in the power structure there, there'd be a bit of an appetite for getting rid of Vlad.

Maybe ending this thing. Why? Because it would be a lot like us losing a war to Canada.

Right? Now, Ukraine is big geographically, not nearly as big as Russia, but it's big geographically. Canada is big geographically, but Russia, at least what we were told, really, you got to wonder about all the scamming and all the ripping off that took place in Russia when it was the Soviet Union.

And after. And since then, because they should have been able to roll over Ukraine with Soviet era crap, if they just maintained it, but the money to build and maintain that stuff went somewhere.

It just doesn't seem to have gone into that. And then since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it seems as though the money to build and maintain the military,

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