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Welcome to the bull work podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is Wednesday and once again

Stop me if you've heard me say this before. I feel like I've taken crazy pills

So as an antidote to all of that we are joined once again by our good friend Tom Nichols

Staff writer the Atlantic and Professor Emeritus at the Naval War College

Tom welcome back on to the podcast. Thanks Charlie. Well

Where do we start today? I really want to talk about what's going on in Russia the clock ticking in Russia

Vladimir Putin's various meltdowns you and I were talking about this right before we started I

Find myself going back and forth between

Saying to people hey guys could you just dial it down a little bit just calm down

Have a sense of humor on the one hand and then also looking at it around and going hey, well, people

Why do you not have your hair on on fire and this would be my reaction?

You know on in the same day different hours

But it does feel like we just toggle between these two extremes, right? It's either okay

This is just too ridiculous. I have to back off versus hey guys. There's a big fucking meteor headed right towards your head

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