How you guys doing this episode of sponsored by Black Buffalo in American Giant?

All right, how are you guys doing? We're back here with Anton Anton is a uh, he's in American

But he's also Ukrainian. I'm gonna call him a Ukrainian American because he was Ukrainian before he was in American

But he lives here now he he's been over. He was over there once prior

He came back to hang out with his kids for Christmas time and he wasn't a birthday right? It was his Christmas

Just Christmas pretty much. What was it birthday? Yeah, it was his birthday. It was birthday. Yeah, okay. I remembered see look

I'm a good friend. I remember things like that. Yeah

Oh, so he came back and he was over there for like two and a half months

Ish so if you guys have not seen the previous episode you probably go check it out

He's like an American fighting over inside of Ukraine

I think that's what the title is and this is gonna be a multi-part series for sure

So there is that so I'm gonna give him the stage

And just let him roll and just let him tell you guys entirely what is going on in his life like from

I guess catch him up and then you know what I mean just just do your thing

Well, I mean you we're giving you the stage. This is this is Anton's day sounds good. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me back

So just the short recap. I am Ukraine and American

I volunteer to go to war in the beginning of this conflict

This not begin of the conflict was 2014 but the beginning of the full scale invasion

That everybody likes to call it. Yeah, this is the beginning of war, which we're coming up almost a year of right right

Because before you can sort of kind of call it civil war supported by Russians, you know, whatever whatever the bullshit that

The politicians come up with right the beginning of World War three. Let's just put it that way

So

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