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Thanks for joining us for episode 308.

It's really nice.

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We had a young woman who I cannot remember her name. Oh, it's Jackie. Jackie, reach out to us. Her fiancé, right? Yeah. Michael Welch is a Marine, and he's an officer candidate school. Big shout to Michael there. And he's a fan of the show. Yeah, we actually met him at Texas A&M. That's right. We did, yeah. And so Paige and I wrote him a letter because of this stage at the OCS, he's not allowed to talk to anybody. And we send it out, but it just kind of feels good to know that we have listeners whose significant others ask us to help. I'm just glad that he's marrying her. Yeah. That's a true sign because when she reached out to me, she was like, oh, it would mean so much. You don't have to, but like it would mean so much. And I was, I absolutely. In fact, me and Mark are going to write a letter together. Yeah. So, uh, Michael, you won't hear this for a while, but you got a good one. You keep her around, keep her clothes. Exactly. I guess our audience has heard us say, where are our reviews?

It's just we got one.

If you want to leave us a review, there's a link in the show notes. It makes it ridiculously easy. If you want to try to memorize it, it's love the podcast.com forward slash OGTW. You want to read the review? I love the show, Mark and Page, blend industry news and insights with lighthearted banter.

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Yeah.

So one of the things that's happened actually in the last

18 hours. Yeah. So one of the things that's happened that's important for you to know is that

Russia has a very large mercenary army. All right. These are paid for soldiers, mercenaries,

and they were helping the Russian troops in Ukraine fight the Ukrainians. And about eight hours ago, they stopped and they turned around. They started marching toward Moscow.

Rumors say that Putin has fled the country. We don't know if that's true or not yet. This group of mercenaries who are very experienced, heavily armed, is's called the Wagner Army. Their leader,

who's a former Putin ally, said that he's marched as men within 125 miles of Moscow,

the capital. A lot of people, myself included, expected this to turn into civil war. Well,

in the last literally 45 minutes, there's been a peace offering that has been taking it.

So basically, the commander of the Wagner fighters had a deal brokered by the Blue Stream

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