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full on our YouTube channel at Bobby 1 Podcast. When we're on, today's guess we've got the Russian Nico I'm going how to pronounce it

of what I'll be of my first Russian brother well done well done my first Russian

man if you knew how many times people fucked up my name in school but you know that the first time

I'm good at me I'm good at that brother you sent me a book to World Great Reed come out last summer. You've travelled all over, you've been in El Chapples house,

you've mixed it with some of the big boys, but you don't call yourself a gangster you kind I say you're a geek.

Yeah yeah, um, so the whole reason why I like, I mean you can hear my voice now.

I didn't sound like a British guy.

Actually, I didn't sound like a British guy. Actually, I didn't sound like anything. So I was born in Russia,

but I weren't English in America from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Now I moved here. So like my accent is all fucked up. Actually even if I speak Russian I didn't have a Russian accent in Russian. I have an English accent. People call me like Israeli or some shit.

But anyway, so like I never really fit in anywhere.

I was always like the odd one out.

And like growing up in school, like that was quite hard.

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