I'm here. I was trying not to choke on a peanut. Too much information. I'm having a snicker bar.

Y'all don't want me hangary on the radio. It would be not a pretty sight. And I get hangary when I don't eat.

Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. You know what? We'll be a little looser on the phones today so you all can call in about stuff.

877977-7-425 if you want to be on the program.

I meant to in the last segment mentioned something else out of Ukraine.

I do want to move on.

We'll get back to it here in a little while, and I'm happy to take your questions on it.

My buddy, Matt, who we have not

gotten together for a beer in years and need to, and you're listening right now, I know it, because

you just emailed me, and we're going to have to rectify the situation, reminded me that I needed

to mention the ghost of Kiev, and I fell, fell negligent, fell short in my duties.

He's the first ace of the 21st century.

An ace is a fighter pilot with five kills.

And the ghost of Kiev, they don't know who the pilot is.

He is flying over Kiev in a mid-29 gunning down the Russians. He took out six Russian fighter jets

himself yesterday. They called it the ghost of Kiev.

He's a hero.

You know, the Russians captured the Ukrainian international airport in Kiev.

The Ukrainians were able to take it back.

Now, I need to put this in perspective for you, because this is actually kind of big.

Basic combat infantry from Ukraine were able to retake the airport from Russian paramilitary forces, like the most highly trained Russian forces fell to the least trained Ukrainian forces. Now, the Russians have since, it appears,

taking the airport back, but that's kind of big. The Russians are getting far more resistance

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