Ukraine update ~3 million have left, thousands killed. Bucks would like to thank David Kotok for the link to New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen’s 2017 interview on Vladimir Putin. Scary how prescient this analysis was. ~2 hours long; can listen to ~20 minutes to get the drift. Video is the property of PBS Frontline.
Mr Kotok is chairman of Cumberland Advisors. Full disclosure: Neither Dave nor Del has any money invested with Cumberland Advisors. Here’s the link to the video.
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This was Mr. Kotok’s closing thought:
After listening to at least some of this interview, please consider the ancient mythological dilemma. You are in a sealed cave. You are discovered by a monster who wants to eat you. You are trying to find a reason to argue and therefore to convince the monster not to eat you. From birth, the monster has learned only deceit, arrogance and brutality. The monster has only one thing in his mind and cannot be persuaded to change his goal of consuming you. What do you do? The choice becomes binary: be eaten or find a way to kill the monster.
Contribute to your favorite charity supporting the people of Ukraine. Just google "contribute to Ukraine" and you'll get links to several options.
It’s Tax Season again. The IRS uses “courtesy disconnects” to hang up on callers when wait times are long. Yes, you read that correctly: “Courtesy Disconnects” is the official term used by the agency.
Del runs Trivia Night and gets out alive to tell about it. Dave has a Trivia experience of his own.
Brady’s back, much to the chagrin of the guy who paid $250K for the “last touchdown” ball a few hours before Brady announced his reincarnation.
It’s March Madness again. Dave plans to suffer from sleep deprivation again
Speaking of sports, Shaq explains how to save money on gas - 2018 advice but still just as valid. Watch the video here.
Del falls down, experiences pain and suffering…again.
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