Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.

We have a very special edition of Human Events Daily.

You know, a couple of weeks ago, I did another special edition of Human Events Daily, where

I recorded the entire podcast from an overnight train to Odessa as we were coming out of Ukraine.

We were headed back to Laviv and then on our way to Poland.

And I was recording that in a separate compartment, but back in my original compartment, waiting

for me, was the person that had traveled with me to Ukraine, was my partner in crime, the

guy who's been my partner in crime my whole life, my brother, and that was Kevin.

And so I remember that I was going through some of my recollections, some of my observations,

my perceptions, analysis, not too much analysis.

You know, I've got my opinions obviously, but I was trying to keep those opinions and

editorializing out of it and really just kind of talk about what I saw when I was on

the ground.

And I wanted to record it when it was super fresh.

And I realized that somebody back there in the train was taking a little break, was taking

a little nap while I was working.

And that was my brother.

We had a sleeper car.

We had actually bought the, so there were four bunks to a car.

And you know, these are, we're talking, you know, 50 year old Soviet style train.

And you know, not exactly the most comfortable.

So what I did was I bought four tickets.

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