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Speaker 1: Jay Scoop. Jay, why why don't we start with this?

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Speaker 1: What's your go to karaoke song? Well? I killed it

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Speaker 1: Am I wrong on that? Yeah? So I left San

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Speaker 1: Francisco on the twenty fifth. I was supposed to get

427
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Speaker 1: here on the twenty seventh. Because of that stupid Vienna fiasco.

428
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Speaker 1: I got here a day and a half later, so

429
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Speaker 1: instead of two and a half of days, it took

430
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Speaker 1: me four days to get here. So so yeah, I

431
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Speaker 1: got here on the twenty eighth. So you've been there

432
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: about as we're talking. You've been there a couple of weeks,

433
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Speaker 1: and and you're you're enjoying the experience. I mean, you're

434
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Speaker 1: obviously you're going there. Just you said this was a

435
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,160
Speaker 1: recon mission. You're trying to figure out the next step

436
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: and all that, and and where you at in that

437
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: journey right now after a couple of weeks into this. Sure,

438
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Speaker 1: So the main thing was, Okay, where on the scale

439
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: am I going to be from fall on the left

440
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: side of the scale as humanitarian and all the way

441
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 1: on the right side is I'm just gonna volunteer Ukraine

442
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: Army and just boom, I'm in and under their control.

443
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: And obviously I wanted to lean more towards humanitarian UM

444
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: and some of my loved ones were really pushing for

445
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: me to not do the military route. So I was like, well, okay,

446
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 1: how how's the best way for me to go around this?

447
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: And then I decided, you know, I think a combination

448
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: of financially and and trying to get some goods to

449
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: the right people UM was the route I wanted to go.

450
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Speaker 1: And I knew that I with my background, I'm willing

451
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Speaker 1: to traverse into the areas that you would you would

452
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: not want to go to UM and so I have

453
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: brought a lot of supplies and stuff to the civilians

454
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: in the areas that you normally will see that are

455
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: read the map in Ukraine right now, UM and UH,

456
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: and the soldiers. So I've I've gone, I've gotten to

457
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: mingle with soldiers where I normally would not be able

458
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Speaker 1: to go. But because they were able to verify that

459
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: I was legit with my background, they've let me into

460
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: their kind of inner circle, if you will. So I've

461
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: gotten to go in where where troops are and that's

462
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Unfortunately I can't bring my phone there. Uh.

463
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: I believe it when they say if the drone is

464
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: flying around and it detects the cellular signal, it's going

465
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Speaker 1: to launch something at that direction. I don't even know

466
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Speaker 1: if that's true. Is that what they tell you? That's

467
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: why I wonder is do they you think they have?

468
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: The technology is crazy? Right? I know, right? But am

469
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: I going to test it? I know? I know how

470
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: long ago you were in the military for what four years? Right?

471
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,719
Speaker 1: I think you told me so. How long ago did

472
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: you get out? You've been out of the military for

473
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: for a number of years, right, Yeah, it's been quite

474
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,239
Speaker 1: some time. Now. Imagine the technology now and you were not.

475
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: I mean it's been been a few years. But think

476
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: about where they're at right now with the bells and whistles,

477
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: with the stuff they because every year, right, they come

478
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: up with the new the new technology, and and they're

479
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: always at the forefront the military. I know, Russia's different

480
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: and the Ukraine's using a lot of US stuff though, right,

481
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: they have a lot of a lot of the money

482
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: from the US has gone to the mission for sure.

483
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: Well fortunately for me and maybe not fortunately for the

484
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: infantry people. A lot of that stuff doesn't go too

485
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: fast in terms of the advancements and the technology for

486
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: like a normal infantryman. So even like say the rifles

487
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: that they're using right now are just like kind of

488
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: like a brother or sister to what I was using.

489
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: A lot of the gear is adjusted slightly, but it's

490
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: basically the same, Like I could easily just jump into

491
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: it and do whatever. And then obviously aiming and shooting

492
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: is that's like riding a bike. So it's really more

493
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: on the more support side, right, Your types of rockets,

494
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: your drones, all that, these are things that weren't weren't

495
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: there and prevalent with So it's like, okay, I gotta

496
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: be careful getting detected and stuff. Yeah, no, for sure

497
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: for sure. And so when you when you go around,

498
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: you've been there a couple of weeks, now, is there

499
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Speaker 1: is there anything that some of the locals in the Ukraine,

500
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: some of the people you've met in the different cities

501
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: you've traveled to, they have anything they wanted to pass

502
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: on to the people who might be hearing this, and

503
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: like just curious about just the general the sense of

504
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: what's going on. I'm trying to think of the right

505
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: word here, but there messaging they have, or any kind

506
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: of theme you've heard from the people there. Definitely, yo,

507
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: I was very I was very curious because again with

508
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: how tough people are here, you know, you're not sure

509
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: if somebody's gonna open up and tell you. And then

510
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: much like how I know, you know, being back in

511
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: the States, you know, you ask somebody like, oh, were

512
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: you in the war or you know, you have to

513
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: be careful when you ask them these things because it could,

514
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: you know, be insensitive to that person. So you got

515
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: to know when and when not to ask things. But

516
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, one of the people here, um that I

517
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: became good friends with, I just say, hey, you know,

518
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: I'm curious, like what if you could tell America what

519
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, what you're what you're feeling about, what's going on?

520
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: You know what, what would you say? And this is

521
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: what they told quote Honestly, I don't want to say anything.

522
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: I know that people abroad or tired of the war,

523
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: and many are angry that everywhere they are burning with war,

524
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: and I understand them. But the fact is that they

525
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: only hear about it and we live in it, and

526
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: they can't even imagine how tired we are. We are

527
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: very tired. We left our home, many families were destroyed,

528
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: how many young guys, including my acquaintances, died. I'm generally

529
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: silent about our Psyoche and after the war we will

530
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: be mentally destroyed because we live one day but we

531
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: do not know where and when something will fall and

532
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: whether we will wake up. But from the outside, we

533
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: don't care about it because we're just tired. Yes, we

534
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: hold on giving ourselves hope every day that we need

535
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: to suffer a little more. But we were promised that

536
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: it would be a little more than a month, and

537
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: it turned out already four hundred and twelve days. It

538
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: makes it to where you don't even want to convey

539
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: to anybody how you feel. How I feel, So that's

540
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. And the shocker for me was the

541
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: month thing. I was like months from the United States side.

542
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, oh Russia's attacking. That sucks. I guess

543
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: Ukraine's are about to be wiped out. Like I don't know,

544
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how everybody else thought, but I just thought,

545
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: oh Russia's army must be so big they're not going

546
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: to be able to stop this. And then I remember

547
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: everybody was surprised how good Ukraine was was doing out

548
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: the beginning. So I don't know when that month thing

549
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: came in, but maybe just after that start was good

550
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: for Ukraine. Maybe then they assessed it as a month.

551
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well. The other thing I've learned, and

552
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: I think this goes for any any country, is do

553
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: not believe when they say it's only going to be

554
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time. I mean, remember when COVID

555
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: started here in the un two weeks, A couple of

556
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: weeks will be good, everything will be all right, will

557
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: identify the problem, pinpoint the issue, everything will be fine,

558
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: and you know, two and a half years later, it's

559
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: like it's like the old the old Bruce willis thing

560
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: him die hard. Right, We'll have a couple of views

561
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: and a couple of ye what's the worst thing that

562
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: can happen? Man? All right, Well, we've kept you long

563
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: enough jascause I know you got stuff to do, and

564
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: I thank it. Boy, the connection has been great, though.

565
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I'm connection here, so stay safe.

566
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: Any idea how long you're gonna be there, just kind

567
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: of taking it day by day. Do you have a

568
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: rough outline and when you'll be heading back to the

569
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,719
Speaker 1: United States. April thirtieth is the date I've kind of

570
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 1: set for myself that possibly come back. I would stay longer,

571
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: but you know, without without a visa, residency or whatever,

572
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: you're allowed ninety days within a six month period, So

573
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: so I want to be strategic how long I stay.

574
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: So so there's a decent chance on April thirtieth I'll

575
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: start heading back and then at some point I'll probably

576
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: come back over to Ukraine. So yeah, all right, Well,

577
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: if you find your way to Minnesota, Jay School, Big Mallard,

578
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: meet and great. I know that's high on your priority list.

579
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: Jay scoop is to any you've been interacting, I know

580
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: during the show you've been we see. The time difference

581
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 1: is what time is the show on our shows on

582
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: what time in the Ukraine? Is it in the morning

583
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: or afternoon like when we're doing the show live. So

584
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: for you guys on the Pacific Coast, you would flip

585
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: the AMPM and then you would take two hours away.

586
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: For me, I do the opposite. I flip it and

587
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: I add too. Oh so it starts at nine nine am.

588
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: Is that am I rent on it? Right? Your your show?

589
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: H for me, it's one a am here. Oh so

590
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: it goes all because a day and then a couple

591
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: it's ten hours. Ten hours difference is basically what it is,

592
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: all right, I got e saite. I thought it was

593
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: a daytime thing, but it's kind of it is for us.

594
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: It is so at one pm your show it starts here. Yeah,

595
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 1: we're doing mid days. There you go, and all right,

596
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: Jay Scop, thanks stay safe man. I appreciate you doing this.

597
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: And you want to say anything to the fans of

598
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: the show. I know you've been interacting with them on

599
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: Twitter and all that. So any Justin and Cincinnati, your

600
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: your buddy Josh, just Josh, your musical comrade there in

601
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, and I know, I know bunch I got

602
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: reached out to me. They want to They've been trying

603
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: to get ahold of Terry in England and some of

604
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: the other guys are like, we gotta get all the

605
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: Jay scope and so they're all following along with your

606
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: journey here for sure. For sure, I miss everybody. I

607
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 1: missed my musical brother Terry in England. I tried to

608
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: text him. I don't know if he's got a rotary

609
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: phone or what's going on there. So Terry, just so

610
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: you know, I tried, man, But yeah, Terry's actually got

611
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: one of the first phones ever when they invented the phone.

612
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: He's no use. It's a tin cannon string. It's fascinating.

613
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,240
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. But other than that, uh,

614
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: I still also tried to interact with our podcast kind

615
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: of company um to the show, So just do my

616
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: due diligence. You can find me on the Mallartown podcast

617
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: on all streaming format ATS and it's also now on

618
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: YouTube at YouTube dot com slash at Mallartown. And I

619
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: gotta say, Ozzie Guy works very hard on this on

620
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: this show, and uh and especially lately because some of

621
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: the content. It fell off content wise, but we're revamping it.

622
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna have fresh and new fund parallels to the

623
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Speaker 1: Ben Mallar Show, just as the name mallard Town suggests.

624
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. And we don't do shoutouts, as

625
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, but this week we did not do a

626
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: shout out for Ozzie Guy, who may or may not

627
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: have crossed over into the may have crossed over into

628
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: his forty so, but we did not give him a

629
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Speaker 1: shout out because, as you know, we're not a morning

630
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: Zu show, but on the podcast we can. We could

631
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: do that if we wanted to, but we could. I

632
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 1: don't think we should though. Yeah, that's overrated, exactly exactly

633
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 1: all right, Jay Scoop, thank you by man, and we'll

634
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: have you on again down the line. And I can't

635
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: wait for you to get back and come visit us

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00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: in the studio sometime. All right, Love me off, Peace,