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We thank you for subscribing, for downloading 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.120 the podcast, for giving us a nice review, and we 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.680 are back up to our old tricks yet again. On 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.760 the Friday edition the podcast, myself and Danny Gray. We 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.520 welcome in now someone who has been a big part 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.640 of this show for many, many years. We've had him 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.520 in studio. He has traveled the entire United States to 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.200 meet other listeners of the show, and now he is 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.280 spending some time with us on the international line, which 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:25.480 sounds pretty impressive. But the magic of WiFi, the magic 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.600 of the Internet. I can look at this man right 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.800 now we have a video connection. You can't see it 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.320 because we're on the podcast and it's audio only on 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.480 the fifth hour, but we welcome in a man who 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.759 has been a big part of a many many things 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:45.720 that we've done, a platinum winning member of the Mallard Militia, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.640 the Great Jays Scoop. Now Jay Scoop is joining us 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:56.760 from a secret location in the Ukraine. You're saying, hey, Mallard, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:02.280 isn't that country at war with Russia. Yes? Yes, Jay Scoop, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:07.480 who lives in northern California, has made the trek across 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.120 oceans to get to Europe. He's had to cross into 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.200 the border several plane flights will walk you through all that, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.720 and I wanted to have him on to go in depth, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.280 find out what it's been like, what his experience has 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.520 been like as he's traveled around in a country that 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:33.160 is actively at war against Russia. An amazing thing to experience. Now, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.040 a little backstory. Jay Scoop did spend four years in 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.520 the military, and he's a proud former Marine and so 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:46.960 he has that background. He also has some Ukrainian bloodlines, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.280 so that's also a factor. But let's welcome in now 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.400 without further Ado Live on the Fifth Hour with Ben 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:59.080 Maller and Danny j from Ukraine. We welcome in a 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.520 Jay Scoop. Jay, why why don't we start with this? 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.320 Jay Scoop? Tell me how many hoops? You look great, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.720 by the way, but tell me how many hoops you 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.239 had to jump through to get to where you are 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.119 right now? Oh man? And isn't it crazy right now? 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.000 Like you're literally in La and I'm in Ukraine talking 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.639 to you right now, Like this is mind boggling. Well, 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.720 and you look like you're like next door. The wife 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.360 is pretty good. I can I kind of can tell 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.960 whatever room you're in, it looks Ukrainian a little bit. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.200 It doesn't look like American broom. There's there's not a 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.800 lot of advertising on the walls or anything behind you. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.200 So I got that. Yeah, well, from from what I'm told, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.360 this is a revamped old communist like Hoteller or something. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.560 But wow, only the best, Jay Scoop, Only the best. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.280 But yeah, originally, um, you know, and I told some 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.800 other people this, but when this swar first kicked off 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.320 over a year ago, I was like, oh man, you know, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.480 I really feel for these people. I'm also a quarter 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.200 of Ukrainian, like, I really want to go over there, 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.080 But at the time I was in a relationship with 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.440 my girlfriends. So that's usually always been the kicker for me, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.520 whether I was gonna try to jump in on a 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.120 conflict or not. If somebody I loved was like there, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.839 I usually would refrain. But obviously my girlfriend and I 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.520 broke up in the summer last summer, and that kind 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.120 of opened the door for me coming over here. So 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.280 I decided to pull the trigger once I once I 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.760 saw that it was possible. So you see that it's possible. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.000 But I would have no idea if I woke up 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.600 tomorrow and said, you know, I want to go to 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.400 the Ukraine, I have no militarch anybod I want to go, like, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.719 I wouldn't. I wouldn't know how to get there. You 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.280 can't just fly into the Ukraine. You you would mentioned 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.360 that you had a lot of different stops on the way. Hey, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.640 obviously it's a long fight. You live in California now, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.440 so you had to fly from northern California to Europe, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.760 And did someone walk you through it? Did you know 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.320 because you were in the military, did you kind of 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.279 have an idea of how to get into the Ukraine 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:18.040 or how complicated was it? Yeah, so it was kind 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.200 of interesting because I had good intel and bad intel 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.200 and I had to go through the stages there. But 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.080 you know, I did have a couple of people that 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.240 I already knew in Ukraine, a girl that I liked 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.600 those over here, an artist that worked on some of 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:40.080 my music graphics stuff, a couple other people. So I 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.920 was asking, you know, like, Okay, how do I get 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.599 over there? I already knew it was a no fly zone, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.799 and quite frankly, if it was still a fly zone, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:56.239 would you really want to take your chances? You know, exactly? Yeah. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.680 So basically I was like, okay, how do I get 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.640 in there? And I knew, you know, okay, I got 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.240 to go to a boarding bordering country and get in, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.480 so Poland seemed like the most likely one to do. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.040 So then I had to find out how to get 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.320 a cheap flight to get me to Poland. And then 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.159 from that spot, it was like, okay, how do I 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.440 get in? How hard is it to get in? What 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.520 do I need to cross that border? You know, it 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.279 would suck to go all the way to the border. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.160 And then they're like, yeah, no, what what the hell 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.200 are you doing if you can go home now, surprise 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.920 you're not getting in. So how much paperwork did you 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.320 have to bring with you? Like? Yeah, how complicated was 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.000 that part of it? So? You know, I went out 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.720 I think it was visit Ukraine Calm or or something 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.760 like that, and it had all the all the hoops right. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.680 It was just like you know, your standard okay passport. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.479 Being an American, I didn't have to worry about like 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.920 a visa or whatever. But then it was like, okay, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.320 you gotta have your COVID stuff ready. Your COVID stuff 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.520 has to be within you know, reasonable amount of times 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.400 since your last shot. You have to buy Ukraine COVID 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.279 insurance in case you get COVID over here. You won't 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.880 be like bogging them down in the hospital as somebody 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.560 who didn't have any money. Um, now that sounds worse 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.840 than it is. You had like a lower tier version 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.680 and a higher tier version. The higher tier version, I 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.160 can't remember. It was like the eight bucks or something. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.200 It was like a Burks. It was like, oh crap, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.200 and then I looked at the price, was like oh whatever, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.840 just like rattle off the few dollars like stripper money. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:41.720 At them. And then so you're saying, you're saying, Jay Jesse, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.640 you're saying that the American dollar goes a long way 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.400 in the Ukraine. Is that? Is that what you're saying? 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.480 The difference in in the money you can stretch a 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.040 little bit. Yes, it definitely does. Um right now, it's 0:07:53.040 --> 0:08:01.559 hovering around thirty seven revenreveniez to the dollar. And so 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.160 like a good example, when my last Uber ride was 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.480 sixty herevniaz, so that can tell you that's under two 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.760 dollars that it took me for that ride. So okay, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.960 So yeah, okay, so you have your I can't believe 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.360 this COVID insurance is still a thing, but whatever, I 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.200 find that they have their rules. So you have your COVID, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.080 you have your COVID insurance, and then what else did 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.720 you need? And so then there's a couple of things 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.920 like they want to make sure you have enough money 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:37.600 for your stay, so that in conjunction with this standard one, right, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.960 why are you here? Where are you going? And why 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.040 are you why are you coming here? And so of 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.640 course I'm like, oh, I'm coming to visit the mic 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.360 at this hotel. And honestly that's all you had to 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.959 really do is say, okay, I have this reservation at 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:55.240 this hotel and here's my bank account. I show that 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.559 I can meet them, and they have this little algorithm, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.680 this little formula that says, okay, this is how much 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.000 money if you're there this many days, is how much 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.360 you have to prove you have. And I had enough 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.720 for that, So so I had all this stuff. Ben 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.280 when I got to that border, they just looked at 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:18.080 my passport. They didn't I did all that shit and 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.559 I didn't need any of it. So it was mostly 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.680 outdated stuff. So they ran you around and then I 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.719 took one look and then I go ahead, do it, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.400 do what you want. So when you get when you 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.240 get to the border, like you know, you're you're tougher 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:33.520 than me, you're in the military and all that. But 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.240 when you get to the border and you cross over, 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.080 and you know you're going to a place where there's 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.280 like Russian bombs coming in, Like, do you know right 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.320 away did you see stuff when you cross the border. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.360 Did you have to go further into the Ukraine before 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.040 you you saw some of the stuff that you've you've 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.800 witnessed her since you've gotten over there. Sure, well, although 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.760 everywhere in Ukraine is in range. Ukraine is a very 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.839 big country, and so when you enter on the west 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:05.760 west side, it's so far from the front that you 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.480 know you're you're pretty safe. So Leviv is the name 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.000 of the biggest, you know, city out on the west side. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.920 You kind of cross and then go through there, So 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.480 it takes quite a while to get over into the 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.880 more dangerous areas. So when you're crossing the border, you're 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.080 not really worried about the Russians. You're worried about the 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.800 border gardens from getting in, worried about the politics of 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.480 the Ukraine possibly maybe, And then the other part of it. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.720 I was curious, I mean, this is you're an American, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.240 you're in the Ukraine. Did you have to deal with 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.520 the embassy? Are they even open in the Ukraine because 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.920 of what's going on there? Like that part of it? 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.160 What kind of what kind of stuff? Did you have 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.880 to deal with that? From what I understand, there's still 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:55.840 representation there. But honestly, I just ignored them. I really 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.800 only was going to involve them if it turned out 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:03.079 I needed them to volunteer for the Ukraine military, and 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.600 I wasn't sure if I was going to be doing that. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.240 So so my first foray over here was really more 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.640 of a reconmission at first to decide, okay, you know, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.959 what is it like over here, and then maybe I 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.640 can make a decision, and then if I needed help, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.840 I was gonna try to go through the embassy things. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.960 But it very clearly says on any website you go to, 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.000 the US is telling you not to come here, like everywhere. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.040 So if you get smoked over here, they're basically gonna 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.480 say I told you so. Yeah, and so they have 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.160 no it's liability, right, it's always the lawyers, right, yeah, yeah, 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:43.240 yeah about lawyers and lawsuits and things like that. Let's 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.520 rewind for a minute though, because before I got to 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.240 that border man, he was a ditch my freaking flight. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:53.920 So my flight was from San Francisco to London, which 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:55.959 was cool. I'd never been there before, so I can 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.880 technically say I got to be there, and then from 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.320 London to v in Austria. Well, you could see on 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.320 my ticket there was thirty five minutes from when I 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.760 was supposedly gonna land to when that next flight to 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.760 go to crack All, Poland was going to take off, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.480 and everybody on that plane along with me that had this. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.000 We kept asking, hey, are we good? Are we good? 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.800 Like this is a small window, are we good? Yeah, yeah, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.200 you're good, You're good. What happens We get and we 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.040 run through and they make you go through the screening 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.920 all over again, like it. I can understand if it 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.880 was like a different flight, but this was Austrian Airlines 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.240 to an Austrian Airlines thing, so it wasn't like we 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.080 anything where we should have had to go out and 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.600 then back in, so that slowed us down. We get 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.040 up to the thing and they're like, yeah, no, sorry, 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.320 it's too late. And by the way, the next flight's 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.080 like I don't know, like a day away and all 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:57.080 this stuff. And that killed me because remember I have 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.160 a lot more stuff ahead of me, I have a 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.960 trained catch a bus to catch all these things, are 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:07.400 already paid for set up, and the stupid thirty five 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:12.000 minute turnaround ended up literally derailing all my all my 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.079 travel plans, so I had to call audibles at that point. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.559 Did they give you refunds on the trains and the 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.720 planes and the part of the automobiles the rest of 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.640 the trip, or did you have to buy pay pay 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.920 for that again? They were like, Okay, here's a hotel 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.160 in Austria, will pay for that, take a cab, here's 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.800 a card. When you end up paying for that, we're 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.800 going to reimburse you. And here's this flight like the 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:43.520 next day. And so you know, I'm sitting there just raging, raging, 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.720 right because like I was supposed to. And so I 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.200 just basically got online and I started seeing if there 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.560 were any other options. I even checked to see if 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.880 there was like an uber that could take imagine how 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.880 much that would have cost. Well, maybe not much, but 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.680 my god, that would be a long uber ride. Yeah, 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.880 because I was like, well, it's an our flight, like 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.400 it was a short trip by plane, but you know plane, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.320 I mean, it could be going over mountains, who knows. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:17.000 So ultimately I found a there's this a bus company 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.640 that's pretty international. It's called flix Flix and they cover 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.800 a lot of different areas. And there was a bus 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.480 route that went from Austria through Oh I'm gonna I'm 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.160 gonna mess this up. It's either Slovakia or Slovenia. I 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.440 think it's Slovakia going to Slovakia. We'll go We're going 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.320 with Slovakia. Nobody looking don't look at a map. Nobody 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.280 look at a map. All right, we're just gonna go 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:45.000 with this exactly. So Vienna Austria into Slovakia, you traverse 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.280 Slovakia and then you pop out through the border to Ukraine. There. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.720 So instead of crossing from Poland into Ukraine, which is 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.840 a little bit more easier route in I was crossing 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.560 in from Slovakia. And let me tell you, that bus 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.280 ride wasn't too bad because it was comfortable. But when 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.320 I got to that border, it was like you know 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.600 when you go through customs, is the one guy and 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.640 you go through and you're like, ah, shoot, okay, that 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.000 was good, no problem. There was four moments of that, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.520 every time I handed my passport and then and then 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.440 we would inch forward a little bit, and then there'd 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.520 be another guy, and then there was another guy. And 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.480 they even stopped one guy and pulled them off the bus. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.480 I'm like, oh, they're coming for me. This must be 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.800 what it was like in World War Two, Like what's 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.480 happening here and there? And these guys and they're like 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.320 checking you out there like mad I and you're mad 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.040 dogging and all that, right, like what are you doing? 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.560 And you're American? So did you say probably Were you 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.920 the only American doing this? Yes? Yeah, yeah, I had. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.200 To the left of me, I had this girl who 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.040 had dual citizenship for Great Britain and Ukraine, and so 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.560 she was helping me out with some of the you know, 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.440 translations and things like that. But yeah, I had very 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.880 very limited speech to be able to If these guys 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.480 engaged with me, I knew I was screwed because they'd 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.480 be like, oh, he doesn't know the language and get 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.280 off the bus, let me see what you're about. But 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.320 they didn't do it. I was under the radar. It 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.200 was awesome. Have you seen any Americans since you've been there? 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:18.920 You've been there a while now, is there have you 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.120 seen anyone who's from the States there or is it 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.720 just all people from the Ukraine and maybe Great Britain 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.280 or some other places. It's funny that you mentioned that, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.760 because just last night I heard my first two English 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:35.000 sneaking people. When I got back in town, I got 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.760 grabbed some stuff at the market and these two black 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.960 guys were walking by me and I'm like, wow, that's 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.360 those are the first black guys I've seen since I've 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.240 been here. And I listened, I'm like, I wonder if 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.880 they're sure enough. They were speaking English, and I like 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.280 kind of like did the old way, like hey, what's up? 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.400 But that was crazy. That was the first first people. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.240 There's a lot of people here that speak at least 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.520 some English, but I mean as far as just like 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.640 flat out American, those are the only ones. I wondered 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.120 why those guys were here? Did you ask him? Did 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.399 you say what? Nah? I was? They were heading out 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.560 the door and I was ordering my Uber. It's called 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:14.679 bolts over here. They don't call it Uber, it's bolts. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.119 They do have Uber here, but it really sucks because 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.879 there's not that many people using it. There's a bolt 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:25.520 and something called Uklon. Yeah, uk lo o n. How 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.520 much of the native tongue have you learned? You said 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:32.280 your bloodlines from the Ukraine? Do you know enough? As 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:37.280 it a pig Ukrainian buy a little bit sloppy Ukrainian. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.720 I have decent enough and according to the ladies the 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:48.080 accents working for me too so. But yeah, I downloaded 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.320 an app probably about a month out from me coming here, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.120 and I've been taking my lessons on there and so 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.480 far I've been getting getting decent reviews. Give you a 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:06.240 sample Chennio tlebab p is even know you? So I said, 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.880 wouldn't you like to have dinner with me tomorrow? Oh? 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.560 So you've learned the pickup lines. Yes, that's good, Yes 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:18.800 you've learned. It's very smooth of you. The priorities, uh, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.640 I would learn like where's the toilet or something like 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.960 you were going to pick up the ladies here in 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.080 the in the Ukraine. Well, and then I'll tell you, though, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.280 the best part about though here not knowing the language 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.560 is our technology. I literally, anytime I run into trouble, 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:38.440 I just break out my phone, go to Google Translate, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.600 and they're doing the same thing like they clearly they're 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.920 used to it, and so if they can't speak it enough, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.920 they're doing it right back. And so we're just sitting 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:51.800 there typing on our phones. That's awesome, that is See. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.679 It breaks down all the barriers and all the walls 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.000 and all that stuff of communication. Imagine traveling back in 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.040 the day before before the phones and stuff like you 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.119 to have like what books out with the language and 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.240 try to figure it all out, right, you got to 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.720 do body language like a motho on that one. Not 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.919 good at that. I would not do well in that 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.640 world if I would not do so, Like day to day, 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.240 paint the picture here, like we know what we see 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.199 on the news here, and that it's obviously an active 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.320 war zone in Russia's bombing in the Ukraine's fighting back 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.400 and all that. So like in the city or are 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.919 people is it just normals? It feel normal? Can you 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:33.040 tell there's some weird stuff going on? Like and where 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.560 you've been, you traveled all over, So paint the picture here, jascha. 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:40.480 What's it like day to day there? Sure? So for 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.040 most of the most of the people here, they kind 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.240 of go like as if on the outside they're showing 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.160 like as if nothing is happening, right, nothing is different, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.280 And I think, you know, that's more of kind of 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.240 like us keeping your sanity thing right, Like like the 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.240 girl I was talking to you before I came over here, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.600 she said, you know, it would it would drive us 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.320 crazy if we thought about the war too much. So basically, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.040 we just live our life like it is and if 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.080 we you know, if we get killed, we just hope 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.480 it happens fast. And I was like, wow, that's very 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.640 cold to say, you know, Like I'm used to military 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.520 people saying that, but not civilians. And but you know, 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.240 Eastern Europeans also have a kind of a reputation for 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.240 being a little bit you know, more sterne. I don't 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.920 know what's the right word, but you know, they're stoic. 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:31.960 I don't know if that's the right word. They're able 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.760 to come year mentalize. Yeah, they have a very tough 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.360 that does not happen, um, you know in America very 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.280 I mean people freak out over the right now, we 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.120 freak out over all kinds of bullshit that's going on here. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.440 So I can if something terrible like this happened here, 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.440 what would would take place? But yeah, what a way 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.880 to live your life, though, Chase Cooper right an, you're 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.200 like something, you know, I guess it's got to be 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.600 the way you do it, right, I mean, diagnose the situation. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:04.520 You're like, what else? What else can you really do? Yeah, 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.199 it's it's crazy, And but I found that the bigger 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.679 city you're in pretty much the more safer you're going 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.000 to be, unless you're like all the way out in 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.400 the east where the Russians are, you know, have been 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.960 taken over and so and then of the big cities, 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.760 the one that's going to take the most fire is 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.679 the obvious one. Kiv is the capital, right, so you 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.960 take the capital, you cut off the heads. So obviously 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:36.080 they're constantly trying to mess with Kiv. And the town 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:41.160 that I go to when I'm not traversing other places 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.720 is one of the closest, bigger towns to Kiv, so 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:50.560 it kind of benefits from that, right, if if rockets 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.520 are coming, they're gonna go the other the other direction, 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.200 because it's like, well, why why I hit this town. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:22:00.960 There's not really much reason to hit this one. Yeah, 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.639 And then like, but all the restaurants are open and 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.000 people are out, you know, just living their lives like 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.960 you know, so no, yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Like they 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.359 have curfews everywhere and it can change depending on your region. 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.959 But even while I've been here, the curfew let up 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.080 a little bit. Like I want to say, the curfew 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.800 was between nine pm and five am. You were not 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.800 supposed to be out on the streets, and I want 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:28.000 to say, right now it's like midnight to four. It 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.600 just switched to so um. But yeah, all the places 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.879 I just I did some karaoke, like last time I 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:38.159 was I was in town. I was like what and 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.760 then they were like, Wow, this American. This guy's like 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.840 she's singing like he's really American. I'm like, because I am. 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.920