All right, Jack, so we're here. We're live for a special live impromptu session of thought

prime. We are here. It is debate night. Now normally we do these on Thursdays this week, we are doing it on Wednesday. So right now, we're in the pre debate setup, but I want to also let you know that we've got a bunch of the gang everyone is here. So let's go back over to Phoenix, who we got there in the hot seat.

Andrew call that Andrew's in. I'm in Blake. I'm in sunny South Dakota, where it feels like it's Phoenix, because it was 106 degrees today, but I guess we're waiting on Charlie to show you guys are actually in Phoenix then, huh?

No, no, we're waiting on, we're waiting on Charlie to show up, but I believe he's I can't remember where he's at right now, but he'll be in time for the debate. I think he's coming. He's coming. He's got like a thing he's doing family dinner for a little bit, but then I'll be here in a minute. No, trying to be around. And we've got producer Andrew as well. Yes, sir, here I am in the West Coast holding on the West Coast. You guys see me hear me? Yeah, yeah, now I got you.

Well, the West Coast, you guys get rain or what? Did you hit with that with Hurricane Hillary? It was just a great little drink for the plants, Jack. It was fine. Much to do about nothing. It reminded me when I went to Israel, and they they told me I was going to get like blown up by a terrorist bomb or something and everybody was living happily as could be and things were fine. So anyways, and then I don't know if you saw this, Jack, but all those images of Dodger Stadium, that was totally they have almost like a reflective concrete top. So it looked like it was.

Flooding, but Dodger Stadium is completely fine in Los Angeles. So unfortunately, God will smite them eventually.

Yeah, no, it's good. We, Jack, we got a lot to unpack tonight, but you made a special request in the group chat, and I think it's a good one.

You're going to give us an update on what's going on in Russia before we get into all of the debate night stuff. So as the, as people file in as the stream builds.

Tell us about that.

Right. So we got news and this was just as I was going to air with human events at the 2 p.m. Eastern show today that essentially there was assassination.

It seems like an assassination of pregusion, the head of former head, I should say, of the Wagner group, this mercenary group that had been involved in years of operations with the Russian military or alongside the Russian military in Syria in parts of Africa.

And then most recently in Ukraine, I think most famously, they were involved in the taking of Bakmut, the city, which ended up being a strategic choke point for a lot of the Ukrainian forces while so they were fighting out that battle while Russia was building their defensive lines and counter defenses throughout the entire area that the entire area that they are able to control since since the invasion of Ukraine last year.

So pregusion led this activity, right, this about two months ago today. Some people said it was a coup. Some people said it was a fake coup. Some people said it was a mutiny. It was hard to say outside exactly what was going on, whether or not it was real, because he sends these tanks up through these main highways, main thoroughfares of Russia.

And then eventually says that he's going to not take out Putin, but he's targeting some members of the Russian high command, the Kremlin high military command, Sergei Shoigu, the head of their government or head of the military rather.

And so all of a sudden Putin says, okay, turn back and no harm will come to you. Charges will be dropped. We're going to send you off to Belarus. We'll send you off to Africa. You'll do other things.

But all will be forgiven. All we've forgotten. Or so it seemed until about 2 p.m. today when his aircraft was shot out of the sky outside of Moscow.

And pretty much every source has come out now, Russian, Ukrainian, Western all saying that it looks like this was shot down by an entire craft missile. And so it seems it seems as though we got our answer as to whether or not the coup was really not.

Well, I think we saw there was a sort of a foreshadowing of this for anyone who's seen the movie The Godfather is like, all right, you know, my brother-in-law, I'm going to send you into exile.

I think anyone who's seen that remembers how unfortunately without the end of that film right in the whole world.

Hey guys, can you hear Blake or is that just on my end?

No, Blake, you're you're cutting it out, buddy. Well, that sucks.

I know after all that. We'll have the tech team work with you Blake and get back. Hey, Tyler, boy, your joins us. Tyler, give us an update. You're in Wisconsin.

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