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Hello, and welcome to The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast. I'm Joe, and with me today is not Liam.

It's Romeo and Anthony from Ukraine without hype podcasts, and how you doing, fellas?

Ain't not too bad, not too bad. I'm doing all right. I'm on a bureaucracy voyage right now,

halfway across the country. There's always a special layer of hell when it comes to bureaucracy,

and some of the places that we live. I think I've talked before about dealing with the

citizenship office here, and it's something of an engineer to nightmare. It could only exist

in a parody of if you were reading a fiction novel with a world building, and they're purposely

trying to make a bureaucracy that's like comically insane. That's the only way it makes sense.

It's actually the U.S. Yeah. Yeah, he's doing NBC. NBC. Oh hell, yeah. Which is just

in normal times. It's fun enough, fun, meaning the opposite of what that word typically means,

but during war, it's more exciting. Yeah, so the U.S. Embassy fucked off like before the war

started, and so they set up shop in Poland, but they told me to do my stuff. They would like

send their consulate officers into the country, but wouldn't tell me where, wouldn't tell me when,

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