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Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel. Greetings, comrades. Sorry that this episode is a bit shorter than usual, and it's actually only half scripted, but I was really ill for a while and I couldn't work.

I got tonsillitis or something we call that angine.

You know, that stuff that your throat gets really sore and you get an infection there.

And I still have that, by the way, so talking hurts for me physically.

But don't let that worry you. Let's go down to the tasty stuff.

But yeah, I'm sorry for this episode. I am trying my best here while in pain while doing this and I'm ill.

But this is a serious episode and I still can't get to everything I wanted to in this one.

For one, I wanted to talk about the five-year plans, but I understood that really this will go into the Stalin's episodes,

because I will now, in the next Stalin episode, skip over a bunch of years.

But yeah, I will make sure that everyone's properly entertained, and there are some

things that I wanted to talk about in this episode, and some of them are political in nature.

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