Well, hello, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Speak the Truth podcast.

My name is Matt Tardio, and I brought back a special guest for you guys today.

That I did, hey, yeah, welcome back, Slava, Ukraine, Gloria Mislava.

Yeah, we're back. I told you guys.

Nate Vance will be back, and here he is again.

He's back. And apparently I am the audio curse. Like I have in the kiss of death with audio.

Because every time I'm here, it sounds like we're underwater.

Yeah, it does.

Yeah, a very simple cable issue that had to get addressed rather quickly.

But we, we did it.

We finally figured it out.

Right.

And you know what?

Truthfully, I am kind of okay with you being this much taller than me, given your last name and everything else. I feel like, don't do that.

I feel like the Russians ought to look at it now and be like, you know what? Yeah, they ought to think I'm like a silverback. You know what I mean? That's what I'm saying. Yeah, like, oh man, it's not

just like those freaking Marines, man, they're huge. Just Yeah, just sending it. Oh, my goodness.

Did you happen to see this today?

And for those at home that haven't seen it, while we're talking about Marines and everybody,

I don't know, Marines just being who they are, for those that don't know, you worry.

Yep, I was a Marine.

How do you feel about that, by the way?

Saying like, if I was to say like prior Marine or former Marine, does that bother you?

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