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Well, I just got back from Russia. Do we have any Russians in here? We love Russia.

Awesome. Oh, good. God bless you. You're Russian? Oh, glad you're here. Love Russia. Russia's improving.

And I've been going there for a few years and seeing Russia just getting better and better

and the Russian people are just wonderful people. The very first time I went to Russia, I think it was

six years ago, I got invited to Russia to a city. I probably won't pronounce this right. Don't judge

me. Something like Croschenols. Now, it's something like... It's something like that. But

and so it's four plane rides there. It took me the first time I had a 12 hour layover, so it took me

37 hours to get there. And so I'm in the last plane. I've been in the airport for 12 hours. Now,

in Russia, nobody speaks like they speak as much English as we speak Russian. So once in a while,

you find someone that speaks English but not very often. So I'm in Moscow and I'm waiting for

this plane, this small plane that goes to Croschenols. And 12 hours. And there's no one to talk to.

And when you're an external processor, I don't even know what I think for 12 hours. I started

talking to my hand. It's just like getting really weird, like getting a basketball and talking to it

like that weird movie. So I get on the plane and I'm sitting next to somebody and this like,

literally I couldn't find anyone in the airport who even spoke English. I got to the information booth

just to try to figure out what line because nothing's in English either. You know, don't you think

every country should have everything in English? Like, tell me the gate in English. I want to know

in English. I'm looking at this thing. I'm like, what's that say? So anyway, and I went to the

information booth and I'm like, sorry, no English. I'm like, you're the information booth. So I get

on a plane. This plane I've been waiting for 12 hours. Little planes like a two hour flight.

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