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Out there who want to jump on a mower, tweak it up and go hurtling around a field during the summer months, and long may it last. there are various different categories of lawnmower. some are bigger than others. but this is fundamentally a very egalitarian kind of sport. it doesn't drive like anything you've ever driven before, so you've got to learn it from scratch. all the engines are the same, the equipment is pretty much all the same, so everyone is on a level. the weather wasn't ideal, but over the course of two days, we witnessed some pretty high—endurance lawn mowing. this is a grassr...

Than ready, steady, mow! these are the lawnmower world championships, an annual event that dates back nearly half a century, which would be an awful lot of cut grass, except they take the blades out, just to be on the safe side. there are enough crazy people out there who want to jump on a mower, tweak it up and go hurtling around a field during the summer months. and long may it last! there are various different categories of lawnmower, with some bigger than others, but this is fundamentally a very egalitarian kind of sport. it doesn't drive like anything that you've ever driven before, so yo...

Ukraine is fighting, to go in over there. >> oh, my goodness, look, we have a ton of incredible veterans that have got some amazing experience over the course of the last couple of decades of combat that mark -- mark hurtling and i have been a part of. so they've got this sense of service. they want to make a difference. they see what russia is doing to ukraine. the challenge is clearly, look, this is combat zone. this is a war zone. i would give these great americans an a plus for initiative but a "c" minus for judgment. this does not make sense because of the legitimate challenges we're seei...

>> and general hurtling, more broadly as russia becomes more and more diplomatic isolated which we're beginning to see putin is vowing to accomplish all his goals in ukraine and said although he's not threatening anyone with nuclear weapons he'll protect russia's sovereignty if necessary. so at this point how do you think that ends? >> well, you know, spider and i have both said this multiple times, jessica. we can't look into the mind of vladimir putin. we don't know how this is going to end. the only thing we do know is this war for him has been a strategic failure on so many levels. what he...

Finally for anybody thinking of wanting to join the legion? >> oh, wow, well, if you have no military background, if you don't have any combat experience, if you expect to come here with air support, intense helicopter support then stay home because that is not the case. it is the russian army, and they have massive amounts of artillery. they have massive amounts of armor and the ukrainians are giving it their damnedest. >> and general hurtling, do you think it's a wise decision? do you agree? we heard president biden and barbara's story before this saying don't go to ukraine right now. do you...