Rob Stein
speaker
556 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Rob Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I want to talk about Ukrainian gas stations.
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I'm pretty familiar with them because when you come to Ukraine from Poland, you have to drive 8, 10, 12 hours to get to Kiev because there are no commercial flights in Ukraine since the war broke out.
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And these Ukrainian gas stations along the highway, they're new, they're pleasant, and they're attached to food markets that are sort of a cross between 7-Eleven and Starbucks.
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You can actually get a decent sandwich and a good cup of coffee.
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I'll add that the bathrooms are clean.
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So you actually don't mind stopping on these long cross-country drives.
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But...
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Very recently, the Russians have started systematically bombing ordinary gas stations in Ukraine.
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Now, this is especially true near the front lines in the eastern part of the country, not in the western part of the country where I came in.
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But these gas stations used to be very nice places to stop.
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You could stretch your legs.
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You could get a bite and feel re-energized as you got back in and headed for several more hours on the road.
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Now there are potential death traps.
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And if an air raid alarm goes off, people get away as fast as they can from these gas stations.
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Oh, absolutely.
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No, absolutely.
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And now they've become targets.
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Yes, yes.
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I mean, the ones that are left, yeah.
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I mean, they're disappearing pretty quickly.
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