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Thanks for joining us for episode 259.

What's up, Mark?

Ukraine.

I'm telling you. I'm telling you.

I'm telling you. The world. Yeah. So before we get the news articles, I just real quick, I know that you're listening to this, you've seen everything that's going on in the Ukraine. I'm going to give you my personal opinion. I'm also going to talk about a few things I think are really important. First thing is, unfortunately, there's a lot of scam orders out there.

They're taking advantage to this situation and soliciting money. The one place I found page that 100% trust is the Ukraine Red Cross Red Crescent. Okay. They're in frantic need of donations, cash donations to buy medical supplies, blood, all that sort of stuff. And they work on both sides, right? So we put a link in the show notes. You want to make a donation that's going to save lives. Here's a place to go. And then if all my buddies and all my brothers and sisters in Russia and Ukraine, what the hell, the Russian people, from what I've seen of what I've heard, aren't supporting this invasion of Ukraine.

Putin has his own agenda,

I believe.

I think that agenda is basically built around trying to reform the old Soviet Union as the former Soviet states.

There's also a whole geopolitical thing in here.

But the thing that's amazed me the most page is the fighting spirit of the Ukraine people.

Right. I am telling you. Right on. It is crazy. So a couple of things I just want to give a big shout out to Poland. First thing you did is open their borders. No visa, no papers, no passports, no vaccinations. I don't care if you're coming from Ukraine, we'll open arms. We got place you to sleep. We got food to feed you, right? So, big shout to Poland. And then you'll never hear me say this. Thank you, Anonymous. The evil hacker,

rural hacker organization, they've already started cyber attacks on Russia. They've taken down a whole

bunch of Russian news sites. They actually started playing pro-Ukraine music on some of the Russian

radio stations. That's hysterical. So anonymous, keep it freaking up. And then, how cool is this?

So when the invasion started, when the first things Russia did was kill the internet access to the

Ukraine people. So one of the prime ministers reached out on Twitter to Elon Musk, goes,

hey, can you help? And what many of us

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