0:00 [Music] after 30 years mcdonald's is leaving russia damn and they're smiling all of their restaurants because of the because of the war because the war yeah that makes sense are they selling it are they selling it including the branding are they only selling they're not selling it with the branding they're basically just selling the restaurants to someone else yeah to whoever is now it's gonna be crackdonald [Laughter] who buys those spaces and i'm wondering if they like just keep all because you know how like some some spaces move into other restaurants and they don't change it yeah you're talking about i know you're talking about noodle world moving into bob's big boys
0:51 and they just kept the big boy there because like you would see like old school signs like the winchell's ████ triangle sign but they change it or taco bells taco bells are so iconic when they change that you're just like or that's still a taco bell or any place that's a wiener schnitzel it's like a ████ hut yeah yeah just like you ain't no dinner that's what happened all the pizza huts remember they all used to look like huts like they were in the logo yeah oh yeah yeah with the red hut yeah same with shakies in russia right a lot of the businesses are state run but they're owned by oligarchs so what is this what will be the oligarch version of mcdonald's right and like are they gonna be the comrades i don't know i don't know anything about russian like politics or like who the big players in russia i just know that there's a lot of
1:41 oil there so they have a lot of natural gas yeah they're billionaires but it's a oligarchy yeah yeah right so mcdonald's doesn't they don't even own every mcdonald's there like they only own like a they want like a obviously like a high amount but they're they're pulling out is this a is this a political move yeah because they said they just can't um support the humanitarian crisis that's happening and it's reputationally too expensive it also sounds like a ████ headache to just figure out logistics in a country where you're ████ dumb like you're where your currency is like crashed oh yeah like why bother have the headache and then have all these other people being like we support russia just ████ yeah people's is actually like the top performing currency right now it's not better than luna what happened because it like took a dump like when the war cracked out right but yeah right now i think it's the top performing currency i heard though so they luna and then they recovered yeah yeah maybe
2:31 people bought the gif sanctions aren't working man what the ████ the cool thing is that even though they're leaving they are trying to implement into place some kind of uh switch-off where people won't lose their jobs they're like yeah they're like they're trying to find a seller who can take it when they transition to make comrades dude their uniforms are all sick it's all ████ red and yellow can you sovietize me please just smaller [Laughter] you don't get a choice of there's no like soda found it's just soda like there's just it's just water there's just state-owned soda vodka or diet
3:22 so we're seeing it from the restaurant side right like but there's like a whole supply chain inside of there that mcdonald's is operating yeah their own logistics their own logistics and everything are they pulling out of that as well probably yeah i'd imagine yeah because like a trucking company there's like freezer storage right right holy ████ i wonder what their menu is over there because they have like regional like specific yeah mcdonald's items in every country right i wonder what's going on burgers this guy is our resident russian expert he knows everything about watching what is it not chef's table one of those like food food netflix shows and they're showing all these delicacies and then one of them was they're like there's this russian chef he's like he's like in the stables petting these moose he's like i love my moose or whatever and then the next time the next edit was a plate full of like ████ just tongues laying there
4:13 i was like oh ████ with the head or just just tongues just ████ tons of tastebuds oh dude it actually says that in the russian mcdonald's they have chicken wings shrimps uh the breakfast menu has cheesecake rolls oatmeal and something called blini that's normal ████ they don't got sturgeon and ████ where's the moose tongue dude why was i thinking moose knuckle that's all american brother have you guys tried like the different items at four in mcdonald's yeah oh dude yeah the malaysian mcdonald's has the best spicy chicken nuggets really uh pork burgers in thailand oh this was ages ago i don't know if they still have it now does hawaii still have a little pineapple in the big mac or in the you know they put pineapple slices in the
5:04 burger last time i went i didn't see that you can get like a side of rice too you got like ube pies yeah breakfast they're like hawaiian breakfast yeah spam and the portuguese sausages oh they're prestige in japan they have uh koroke burgers so it's just all carb so it's like you know the koroke it's like that deep fried potato yeah oh and then they put that on sandwich carb carb carb it's basically a potato sandwich yeah i have like a chicken sandwich for breakfast or like a little bit of wasabi in it yeah so the russian menu has uh like shrimp roll mick combo it's like a fried chicken i think yeah fish rolls france has a good uh mccafe and pastries oh yeah yeah it's pretty good there they have actual like good coffee and stuff and when we went there they took bitcoin really yeah they took bitcoin on the on
5:55 the ████ uh machines it was crazy huh pretty ahead of their time there yeah because back then dude bitcoin was like a thousand bucks a coin so yeah have you guys ever done any bitcoin transactions like at a store like out of cash i'm about to i'm gonna go to el salvador in a few weeks oh ████ and everything like every most of the stores have like bitcoin oh wow except you send it to the i think it's like they address chivas wallet or something that's like what they use to like get your bitcoin that's insane so i'm curious to see like logistically can you make a video of it i want to see what the whole process looks like i don't know if i want to spend my bitcoin because it's like in the dumps right now look at this look at this mini doesn't it look aggressive slightly it's like why are you yelling at me it's an old one but like it's got that feel huh it's got the soviet feel yeah
6:46 it feels oppressive i'll kill you [Laughter] straight to jail was that proved by putin yes encouraged by i wonder what putin likes to eat i wonder what food store i don't know what putin's favorite like fast food place leaving he's like no that gives him that that makes him stop the war he's like ████ it yo it's like fine you broke me i have a friend um him and his brother ate dinner with putin by accident what do you mean they have a they have a conglomerate group in vietnam and um one of their investors is a
7:36 oligarch slash like top-ranking military official in russia of course and because you know rich people all over the world got their hands all over the world right so he invited him to st petersburg they went out there and um you know these guys are like american born vietnamese dudes that are in vietnam and the russians didn't know they were americans they just go we love vietnamese you know we've been friends for a long time whatever whatever and then so um yeah they they went downstairs to eat but i guess like saying petersburg has a lot of billionaires and ████ their hamburgers were like a hundred bucks and even though these guys are rich they're still american vietnamese dudes that will not pay a hundred dollars for a hamburger right so they went across the street got a six bag of beer and then
8:28 their investors dude come there for their dinner yeah they're a beer they had a six pack of beer drink for dinner thank you but how are your question of them they're uh uh the guy shows up and then he's like oh did you guys have dinner yet and they're like oh no we you know we're just chilling with these beers and then he's like well you should have dinner with us uh but you know dress appropriately and then he's like okay so then they get into their like business clothes and stuff and then they get you know they drip they get driven out they go to this place they go up it's like this elevator that's private there's this table laid out and he goes there's already food laid out everyone sits down and then there's like people in like military outfits and then this guy rolls in and they're like oh crap that's putin what the ████ right
9:18 and then like so they're just nudging each other like that's poo putin that's food that's food they just don't speak english all right speak vietnamese and then you're like speaking vietnamese the whole time he's like i can hear you guys over there i can hear the americans they're just speaking vietnamese the whole time because they thought they were vietnamese nationals yeah that's scary and then he's like damn what the heck and then after that i guess like yeah they wanted to take pictures but they they're too scared no ████ that no you gotta do one of those far away like selfie ones yeah is that worse if you get caught though or just worse to ask oh yeah that's true talk to remember when that story about how uh like i don't know it's true but putin like asked to see like a nfl championship ring from some guy oh he just took it right she walked away with it i forgot what i forgot who it was but i
10:09 did hear that story he's like oh this is cool what do you say after that right how he just like put it on he's like oh like he said can i see that and then he put on and then he just walked away what did they do the guy was like wait and then putin's guard was like yeah he's like say goodbye that's it he just stole his ████ do you see all those photos of mma fighters taking pictures with putin or like mcgregor would be like this and then the guard would be like no and he goes yeah yeah yeah habib could put his arm around him [Laughter] come on this guy's gonna stop the war [Laughter] in russia putin is like he's portrayed as this servant of the government he only makes a hundred thousand dollars lives in us in like a little apartment in the city kind of thing but now people
11:00 are starting to find it like it's true like one of his yachts were seized his yacht costs almost a billion dollars what wow multiple yachts multiple yachts how big is it it's like a small cruise line yeah into something that's exactly what my buddy told me is that um the same one that went to go eat with putin by accident he said that that forbes list is utter ████ completely incorrect because all these guys know who the rich people are and they will never put dictators and you know right dark matter you're not going to make a people political war over it no but he goes yeah those guys on the whole like the like the un family uh i mean the kim family like kim jong-un all them like right that family alone owns north korea if you think about it right so all their factories everything that's
11:51 theirs so that calculates into the ultimate like worth right yeah so then if you think about putin and it's like russia but technically he is russia so he owns a lot of that ████ you think kim jong bought aboard ape i wouldn't be surprised because i heard that they have a lot of bitcoin actually north korea north korea is one of the the centers of all of the bitcoin and crypto hacking in the world oh hacking they jack bitcoin so there's this there's this popular game called axi infinity oh yeah one of the biggest blockchain games of of the time right and they have this token called ronin right that's the ronin network is where all their transactions happen so i remember i was at nft la a couple months ago and up comes the ceo of of actually to talk about his thing and you can see that this guy is clearly like he's disturbed
12:41 and so as he was coming on the host is like hey i know you're in a hard moment let's just ask you a couple of questions at that point in time axi infinity was hacked and the ronin network i think there's billions of dollars that are siphoned off from it and nobody know who did it and so they finally found out a couple a couple weeks ago that's the north koreans oh they have this group of hackers i forget the name of it but pretty much any of the largest crypto hacks are happening are all done by the north koreans it's crazy i think the hacking group is called anonymous sayo
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