Owen Gregorian

start a conversation, this is an example they give with your egotistical uncle about talking about your shared alma mater, you might reduce the chances that he'll lash out at you later when you suggest that he's failing to fulfill his family duties or something.

If you can find something in common with the person, you might be able to sort of get on their good side.

And again, I'm not saying this is perfect.

It might not work with everybody, but at least it might work.

And then the third thing is it says to communicate carefully and more specifically, they're saying you might want to just move all your communications to things like text or email so that you actually have documented

what you said and what was agreed to.

Because if someone is this toxic person, one form of that might be that they lie or they gaslight or they say, you know, no, I never said that or I never did that.

And if you keep things in text or email, then you have a record of it and you can just put that right back in front of them and say, here it is, here's the record, you know, and it's indisputable.

So anyway, those are just some additional techniques.

And I would certainly say if you can cut the person out of your life, that's probably the best solution.

If you can't, then these are some things you might be able to try.

Yes, I believe so.

And I thought I heard at least one of his sons was in the UK at this point.

So that's interesting.

I don't know if that's the same person actually.

All right.

Well, certainly I think one story that I posted was from Zero Hedge.

They're talking about how apparently there are some discussions with Kurdish fighters or Kurdish leaders to potentially be the resistance in Iran.

I think this is potentially being floated as an alternative to having US ground troops in the area.

So that's something to watch.