#119 - Yury - Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

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There it is.
There it is.

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We got it.
Now we're cooking with gas.

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We got cooking with gas.
This is Mike and I's band Yuri

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song called Freeman Do.
You guys have?

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Hey boys and girls, it's
Christian Mike Show.

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We are here with Yuri.
We are I see live right now on

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So if you happen to be on those

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platforms, welcome to the show.
Welcome and then, as always, in

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a couple weeks, this episode
will drop on our podcast channel

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and all the podcast outlets for
your reviewing re listening.

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You know what is the word
pleasure?

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Pleasure, pleasure.
Hey, thanks for coming on, Yuri.

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It's nice to meet you.
And just so everybody knows, we

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just popped Yuri's cherry
because he has never been on a

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podcast before.
So, so welcome, Yuri.

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Welcome.
Thank you for doing that with

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the you know.
Thanks for coming on man.

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Yeah, so far, I enjoy that.
Can you?

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Let's go, Let's go.
Depart.

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All right.
Hi, guys.

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Yeah.
So what I did, you know

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homework.
I realized I have to talk about

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myself quite a lot so I I guess
I should my LinkedIn page and

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kind of copy paste and ask
myself to just read it out loud.

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Well, this this is.
Tell us like, who you are, why,

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why you want to come on.
You know what inspired you to

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want to come on and talk to two
knuckleheads like us?

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Yeah.
And where?

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And but before we start that,
where are you at?

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Because I'm in Arizona, Mike's
in Illinois.

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Where are you?
Right now I'm in a pool house.

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It's pretty much no.
I know you're in a pool house,

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but I want to know where you
what's what city, what?

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Country.
Yeah, it's a small town,

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Greenwich, next to New York.
Greenwich, CT.

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It's right next to Manhattan,
maybe half an hour.

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OK.
So New York's cool.

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So you're in New York, I'm in
Arizona, he's in Illinois.

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So it's a beautiful thing.
That's technology, man.

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You got to love it for that part
of it.

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Right, but you obviously have an
accent, so where did you grow

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up?
Yeah, it's a it's a great

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question, especially nowadays.
I have a cover story I always

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use.
Actually, I recently used that.

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I'm from Romania.
I know it.

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Awesome.
So no, I actually grew up a

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friend.
From Romania for years that I

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worked with was a cool.
Guy Yeah, right, right.

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No, actually the the real, real
story is I grew up in Soviet

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Union platform is how I called
that.

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And maybe 20 years back, when I
quite was guided by my

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grandparents, I made a big
decision.

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I moved out and now I live in
the United States for the last

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20 years with my right.
So you grew up in Romania?

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No, Romania is my cover story.
Because nowadays, in a place

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where I actually grew up,
because it's, it's not a good

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thing.
Oh, OK.

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It's not.
Yeah, it is Soviet Union.

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He.
Actually hit the nail on the

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head, Chris.
He grew up in the Soviet Union.

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You said that before he came
back on.

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Right.
I just assumed because the name

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of the accent, but I wasn't, I
wasn't sure.

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So.
Yeah.

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So how was so how so?
Because we like, we like we like

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to talk about anything and
everything.

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As you know, we're just, it's a
conversation.

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I want to hear that part of the
story.

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Right.
I want to hear.

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I want to hear what the Soviet.
Union.

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What was it like growing up?
Yeah.

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Yeah.
Wow.

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All right.
Please.

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All right, let's go from, I
think from the beginning, I

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guess it's, you know, Soviet
Union platform.

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I, I, it's how I called it
Soviet Union LLC Soviet Union

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Corp was powered by certain
beliefs and that was because

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they all came back to communism
party.

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So the communism communist
system was designed for everyone

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pretty much.
And obviously my family members,

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my parents, my grandparents,
they are under this umbrella.

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They believe what they should
believe.

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And I was super lucky when I
grew up at that point, when I

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was let's say 10 and 11.
It's actually the point when you

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start asking yourself questions.
All right, how long I can live

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in a life, right?
It's 100 years.

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So I already had 10% of my life
down when I was 10 years.

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So I was lucky at that point in
life, the whole, the system, if

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we call IT system and actually
the system, right, starts

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falling apart.
And I found that wherever my

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parents, they believe actually
it's alternative reality.

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And I had the luxury to
challenge that and ask them

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direct questions because at that
point it was already OK to ask

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what the heck is that, right?
So honestly, my mom, she was

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more conservative.
She had more political correct

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answers and my questions why we
do this, why we do that?

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My dad.
You're freezing up on us.

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Yeah, and I looked at my thing.
I'm uploading fine.

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So is he.
Weird.

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Sorry ladies and gentlemen here.
He's having technical

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difficulties, which really sucks
because I'm super engaged in

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this story.
I know, I know, right?

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I've never met anybody from.
Russia.

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No.
No.

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And I really want to hear about
how he grew up and like how old

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he is now.
That was one of the questions

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he'll.
Be back.

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Yeah, Yeah.
No, absolutely.

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Because that that's something
that's fascinating, right?

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Because it's you're going behind
the Iron Curtain.

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Is that what that was called
when you're growing up?

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100% good job.
So be able to see, you know, at

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least at least listen to a story
of.

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Of let's make sure we establish
how old he is now so we know

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what years we're talking about
when he was growing up, because

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if he's close to the same age as
us, yeah, you're going to hear

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what his experience in life was
compared to going to an American

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school every day.
And sure, right away you can

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just you hear the difference in
what those people went through.

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And right away, at 10 years old,
he was aware that his life was

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10% over.
Were you aware at 10 years?

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No, no, no.
And right away, my brain went.

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I had no idea my life was. 10%
over at 10 years old.

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But see, that means that he
plans on living to 100, right?

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But.
What I'm saying is that was the

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despair and the hopelessness
that life was, you know?

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It's just.
You're just kind of waiting to

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die because you're going to do
the same thing over and over and

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over and over again because
everything's for the system,

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right?
Right.

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And that's, that's communism,
which you know.

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It doesn't work.
No.

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And you eat the same, you sleep
the same, you work the same.

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You do this.
I mean, it's, it's, it's

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Groundhog Day movie to an
extreme.

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Yes.
And that's that's.

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A great way of putting a great
analogy.

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And I had no idea he was where
he was from when we were talking

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because it it, it just, it
wasn't his resume, his, his life

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resume he sent me was more
business related and things like

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that.
So this really surprised me when

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when I first heard him speak.
I'm like, oh, he's not from New

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York.
No, no, you hit the nail on the

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head.
I couldn't believe it.

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Yeah, he's like, I'm from
Romania.

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That would have been cool
enough.

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Here we go.
Absolutely.

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Yuri is piping back in, ladies
and gentlemen.

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You're good.
I don't.

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Know you're good, man.
We were.

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So I was just like, Oh my God,
I'm so engaged in this story.

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I want to hear the rest of it.
Right.

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Oh.
He froze again.

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Let's see if he was in Russia, I
could see like, you know, the

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three continents, right?
Or two continents apart, right?

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You know, and there's other
Wi-Fi.

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No, because the weird thing was
is he was keeping up with us on

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the upload speed.
Oh, interesting.

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Which is nerd talk, ladies and
gentlemen.

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But it is nerd talk.
You have to have a decent

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Internet connection to use this
service, so that's why we're

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always talking about it on the.
Podcast And that's why I

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included in all my welcome to
the Hey, there you are.

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There you go.
Nope, there you went.

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You're still freezing up on us,
brother.

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Man, that sucks.
Yeah, because now he does suck.

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0% loaded.
Yeah, but he, you know, he's

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looks like he's having a good
time.

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He's got a smile on his face.
I want to ask him if he's on

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ADSL connection.
Oh, that could be it.

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Because you and I are sitting
here talking to each other like

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we're in the same room and we're
1800 miles apart, so.

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We are.
So I wait for your to come back

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on.
Mike and I were talking before

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the show that that I have a
unique ability in my vehicle to

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get ethanol gas.
OK, so there's two stations in

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Arizona, both are in the East
Valley, one's in Tempe, one's in

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Mesa where you can actually get
this ethanol fuel.

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So I go to the one in the East
Valley because I'm on that side

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of town this morning doing real
estate stuff.

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What was I pull up to the gas
station slash restaurant.

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And the restaurant inside gas
station is one of, you know,

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Arizona's favorite fast food
Mexican stops called Filibertos.

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Yeah, Filibertos, right.
So I pull up in there and

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there's there's a landscape
truck and you know, a AA44 door

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Crew Cab, dually wheeled tire,
massive truck with a long

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trailer that's probably just as
long as a truck.

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And this gentleman's blocking
1233 pumps, right?

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Which means you're blocking 6
people's ability to pump

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gasoline on the other side.
The ethanol nozzle on that side

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of the pump is broken.
So the only ones on the side

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where his trailers at in front
of that spot is another truck.

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That's one of those, you know,
they have to have to the back is

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empty open.
So you unload, you know, like, I

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don't know, drop off pickup
donation type truck.

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OK, right.
It's like going to the

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restaurant and look around.
I kind of, you can kind of tell

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a landscaper because they're
everything's covered from head

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to toe except their face because
of the Arizona sun.

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So I was like, excuse me, you
know, is that your white truck

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out there?
He looks out there, looks at it,

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looks back at me, doesn't say
anything.

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I'm like, is that your white
truck?

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I said you there's ethanol
there.

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I like to pump that gas for my
vehicle.

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And that's the only one that's
working.

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Gentleman behind him rattles
something off in Spanish and the

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guy that I'm talking to responds
in Spanish that rewraps his

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burrito and continues to eat.
So I'm standing looking at him

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for about 3 seconds and I'm
like, I'm like I just need you

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to move your truck forward so I
can get gas.

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It's not that.
Big a deal.

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Reasonable request.
Didn't respond to anything I

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said OK, so forget exactly what
I said, but it's something to

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the level.
Well, if you're going to be a

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Dick about it, then maybe when
I, when you come out there,

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you're just not going to have
any, any air in your front 2

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tires.
And I walked out and none of

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them moved.
Like, no, it's, it's and it's

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somewhere in that conversation
that point out the fact.

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I know you understand what I'm
saying because what you do for a

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living, you have to at least
understand what I'm saying.

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Whether you speak it or not, you
have to understand what I'm

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saying.
And there's two guys here.

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There's three guys here and then
there's the door and there's

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there's four guys that are
there.

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Don't look like they're a
landscape.

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And again, in Arizona landscape,
like legit, you're wearing a

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bright white yellow shirt and
the only thing that's open to

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the air is yours on your face.
And even when you're in the

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yard, you put on your face with
a mask of sunglasses.

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So there's nothing exposed to
the sun, right?

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But you have to, and I've done
that when I've done light, it's

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actually a cooler environment,
being completely covered from

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the sun.
And the only thing really

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exposed, Nothing.
Nothing really.

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When I run my bones, everything,
I'm just like a landscape.

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So and nobody wants skin cancer.
No, but it was just, it was a

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reasonable request.
I wasn't being a jerk.

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I was, I was slight and and
respectful about it.

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And he just looks at me like,
like, fuck you is basically what

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he said.
And then the guy behind him

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again changed on something
Spanish.

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And I'm learning Spanish, but
I'm not quick enough to pick up

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what they say because, you know,
people who have spoken Spanish

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their entire life.
Well, I mean.

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They're talking as fast as we
are right now, right?

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So there's you.
One second, he's going to finish

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this.
I got to finish this story.

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So my point is, boys and girls,
it's not an unreasonable request

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to ask someone to move forward
when you're trying to get fuel

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if the only pump that is
allowing fuel to be dispersed.

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Be a human and respond instead
of just being a Dick and staring

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at the.
And one thing I would like to

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add to that story, yeah, is
true, genuine, heartfelt

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Mexicans that grew up in Mexico
hate Mexicans like that because

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they give them all a bad name,
right.

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When you fake that you can't
speak English.

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And that both that I've known
plenty of good Mexican families

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who came here illegally and
then, you know, made it legal

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later on, but their parents were
always careful to make them

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speak English when they were in
the house and, you know, just.

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We're in this country now.
Here's what we're going to do.

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So I, I hear that in my head
too.

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It's like, man, those, those
kind of people, they give

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Mexicans a bad name.
They do.

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Well, and it's just, it's just a
human respect thing, just.

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Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't
matter, but it's I'm talking

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now.
It's the language barrier thing

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too, you know.
Yeah, Yeah.

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Anyway, sorry you're.
Yeah, no, we were talking about

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little situation happened this
morning when I asked somebody

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politely to move their vehicle
so I could get some fuel and and

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they just stared at me like I
was and, you know, a space, an

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alien that just had no
relevance.

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It was the strangest thing, man.
So, you know, so anyway, so we

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want to we want to continue.
This is Yuri.

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He lives in New York.
He's originally from the Soviet

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Union.
And we were talking about how

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Mike and I both you made the
statement that when you turn,

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1010% of your life was gone.
That hit he and I, like you,

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wouldn't believe.
Because when we were 10 years

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old, we were not aware at all
that our life was ever even

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going to end for one thing, let
alone know that it was 10% over.

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So what made you hyper aware at
10 years old that your life was

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10% over?
That's my first question.

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Oh, it's a it's a great
question.

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And I actually first time in
life, I asked myself why I I

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knew that why I had this kind of
concern, right.

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And you nailed it.
I didn't expect it.

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Let me think about it.
My guess.

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All right, So here's what
happened back in the time in our

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culture when I say our culture,
whatever culture we had at that

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point, right, Sure.
When grandparents or adults die,

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the holdest event, the holdest
ceremony, I called it right, was

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designed around tragedy and it
was really depressing for

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anybody, even adults.
So I, I guess at that point I, I

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was witness of few, maybe
relatives or some neighbors that

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die.
And obviously that concept that

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life is over a certain point was
introduced by not even asking me

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kind of right.
And it was introduced in a

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pretty harsh style as a whole.
This, you know, process to say

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bye to those, you know, people
who die.

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It's, it was set up like like a
real, real experience, right?

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You can see actual dead body,
right?

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And that dead body, it was not
like modern days.

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It was not designed to be.
It looks healthy.

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And nice.
It wasn't, Yeah, it wasn't, it

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wasn't more.
It didn't go to mortician and

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get it all cleaned up and stuff,
right?

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Right, right.
So yeah, yeah.

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Now you kind of went to, it's
not a therapy session, right?

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I don't pay you guys right.
So I think at that point in

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life, I was first time
experienced, second time

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experienced that that concept
that you might be bright and

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and, you know, running around to
doing some shit when you child

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obviously, right.
And then at certain point you

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that piece of disposal piece of
meat which looks ugly.

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And so I think it was it is my
answer why I was kind of aware

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of the fact that eventually the
whole this, you know, version of

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the life is over eventually that
that that dude or that Lady

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were.
Yeah.

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OK.
Now my next question real quick

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is how old are you?
So we have a time frame of when

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we're talking about.
At that point or right now?

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Right now?
Oh, right now I'm roughly 45.

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OK.
Yeah, I would say it's my kind

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of.
Cool.

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So I'm, I'm 10 years old and
you, Mike's eight years old.

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And you, so you were, you were
10 years old in the Soviet

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Union.
Right.

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OK, so when did you move from
the Soviet Union?

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How old were you?
I needed that when I was in

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college.
Second year in college where

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maybe it was 19, it was in
Boston.

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And actually it was not Boston.
Yeah, it was New Hampshire.

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Right, OK, so you so you lived
there till you were 19?

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Right.
I I was OK till 17 1/2.

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I would say pretty precise.
So.

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So what was it like being a
teenager growing up in Russia,

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man?
Partly have Which part of that?

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I don't, I just like, I know
what is obviously we know what

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it's like to grow up in America
as teenagers.

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And it was, you know, when we
were teenagers, right?

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There wasn't the social media,
there wasn't the Internet.

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It was, it was basically, you
know, you, you get home by the

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time the street lights come out.
So it was a great childhood from

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that aspect.
If you look at what kids have to

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deal with now, right?
Because there was no hiding

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behind texts and phone calls and
cell phones and shit like that.

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It was just you're going to
knocking on Mike's door.

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Hey, Mike, can Mike come out and
play?

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You know, and then parents like
no, he's grounded.

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He'll you know, or he's doing a
homework, whatever.

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So did you have so just.
I mean, I don't.

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Here's a way of asking that, I
think here's a way of asking

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what you're trying to say.
Did you have that same kind of

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freedom even though you were in
a communist country?

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I mean, you could you could come
and go as you pleased as far as

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playing with your friends and
going to a club.

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Or that's what he's asking,
right?

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Robert, I think it's.
It's.

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It's not making.
Teenager in Moscow, in Russia.

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Yeah.
So in my Moscow, different

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cities as well, right, right,
right.

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I think the whole concept, the
whole narrative, we are less

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free nowadays.
Our kids, I have 3 kids, right?

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It's international.
So back in a time when you're

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17, when you're 15, when you're
14, the level of freedom and

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level of independence, I would
say, right, if we put any number

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on that, it was maybe less than
10X.

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So we did have a pretty similar
experience.

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You just go to somewhere and you
come back from somewhere and

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your time and obviously you have
some expectation from, you know

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yourself that your parents wants
you to see before the dark and

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you can have access to the bike.
You can bike somewhere and

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explore and find sometimes you
find troubles, right?

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Sometimes you find something
very interesting and sometimes

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you build, build, bring those
troubles to your household,

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right?
So, and I grew up in a small

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town, like roughly 9000 people
compared to a local town.

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So I would kind of say that it's
more like small version of

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Queens in New York.
OK.

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You have quite diverse
community.

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You have people who are
successful doing, you know, good

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stuff and a wife and obviously.
You have some Russia.

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It it was small town near and
usually in upgrade that time it

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was Gorky and that small town
was primarily built around two

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different 2 businesses.
One business produced food for

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peaks and second business
produced peaks and obviously

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humans, we eat those, you know,
pigs.

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So it's pretty simple.
Pretty simple, logical I'm.

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I'm pretty good with geography,
but are you closer to the

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European side of the Soviet
Union or are you more like in

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the interior of the country is
what I'm asking I guess.

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It's right in the middle.
I would say it's right in the

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middle.
And like, I know we're right

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where you're at.
Then yeah, like let's say 4

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hours by good car, 4 hours from
Moscow.

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It's very much to to put a
point, right.

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So that lifestyle was evolved
pretty dynamic dramatically

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when, you know, systems start
falling apart.

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The whole freedom was leveraged
by not just kids, but adults as

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well.
So the whole system was very

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like maybe 2 years a transition
from one type of everyone

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shared, everyone united by same
vision.

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And now over 2 years it become
more kind of independent

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lifestyle.
So each family who?

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Lived under two different
regimes, right?

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Right, so I what was?
The first regime.

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I'm sorry.
What Who was in charge during

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the first regime, when you were
like, from birth to whenever

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Putin took over?
Right, right.

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So the the last guy, I think to
be political correct, we should

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kind of stay away as far as
possible so our podcast can go

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live, right?
We don't talk about that guy.

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I will stay away from that part,
OK, Just for the reason.

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Fair enough.
I don't believe.

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I don't believe I have so much,
you know.

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What?
You call him Bob.

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Yeah, I don't have kind of very
concrete balls and.

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I like what Chris says.
Let's call him Bob.

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And when Bob was in charge, what
was life like?

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And then when Putin took over,
what did you notice like

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immediately and then maybe
progressively afterwards, so.

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The the Bob I wasn't part of Bob
umbrella How to say that when

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Bob was on top of family is a
family member.

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I already am flying over to you
know my new life.

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So but when I grew up, it was a
dude named Gorbachev, right?

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Based on based on record.
Think of his name.

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Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.

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So that dude, he was pretty kind
of human focused kind of.

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He was not a good manager, but
obviously he managed the

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country, which was not a good
business in the first place.

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So maybe we would have much more
success in the business if he,

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you know, run, you know, pretty
good business at that point.

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There's a previous guy, whatever
previous guy name, he could not

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build as a country, as a
business in any perspective.

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Yes, it was super inefficient.
It was super.

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How to say that super not right?
Inefficient works, and no

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inefficient works.
It just it wasn't.

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It wasn't performing the way it
should be.

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And the people suffered under
that right.

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Oh, it's a great, great note.
I didn't see anybody in my

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circle who had zero, who had any
negative emotional things in

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their life.
Right.

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The system itself, when you
unite people on their same

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vision and you let them go in
that direction and you tell them

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to feel, you know, the fact they
actually part of that journey

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and they can feel, you know,
accountable for whatever there

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is.
They have to be the one guy who

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might, you know, part of you
know, he might be plumber second

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guy, he might be big boss,
right?

454
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,880
But at a certain point, everyone
has access to the same table, I

455
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,960
would say, right.
And when people united by

456
00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:24,720
something huge, they actually
feel very happy about the

457
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,560
lifestyle.
They even it's not about money

458
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,680
at that point, right, It's more
about where we going.

459
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,560
I would say Ellen masks.
He isn't biggest communist type

460
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,000
of guy right.
He's trying to put you and me to

461
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:43,080
the Mars and when I grew up, the
guy who is in charge, our Ellen

462
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:47,040
Musk, they try to put me in a
live way in the future.

463
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,000
We all happy.
I forgot exactly the tagline,

464
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:55,320
but we did at we had exact same
branded message from the system

465
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:55,640
as well.
OK.

466
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,920
That makes sense, yeah.
So let's go to the Mars so.

467
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,040
So this is kind of a random
question.

468
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,280
I don't know if if it's even a
legitimate question.

469
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,440
But as I grew up not really
understanding communism, right,

470
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:11,600
because I lived in America,
right?

471
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:13,280
So I never had this struggle
through that.

472
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,720
Is it true that that the
government would dictate what

473
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:24,680
your occupation was?
At a certain degree you you

474
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,080
more.
Your journey started in high

475
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,000
school.
In high school, you're pick

476
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,320
something based on your parents
observations, right?

477
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,320
So your parents pretty much put
you on some path and that that

478
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,240
specific path will place you
somewhere in the society.

479
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,800
And you got a full time presence
in society and you feel very

480
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,840
happy because you go to the to
the to the Mars.

481
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,200
Gotcha.
OK.

482
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,320
OK.
Then with that said, sorry

483
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:49,160
Chris.
You're good.

484
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,000
No, you're good.
I like where you went with that.

485
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,120
With that said, what if you
wanted to be an artist?

486
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,360
him and I played in a band
together, right?

487
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:59,400
We chose that as part of our
profession for a portion of our

488
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:00,760
lives.
What if you wanted to be a

489
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,080
guitar player in a band?
You don't have that freedom.

490
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:09,600
You have a freedom to play
guitar with any rhythm you can

491
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,600
come up with because guitar
music doesn't impact does have a

492
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,400
direct message, right?
But as soon as you open your

493
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:22,160
mouth, whatever comes from your
mouth, it has to be in a certain

494
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,560
Li was a message.
We go to the Mars.

495
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,520
It's got to be politically
correct.

496
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,520
Pretty much.
You can't be.

497
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,560
Anti establishment gets you
taken off the stage and shoved

498
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,480
in in a closet in the backroom
for days.

499
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,520
Pretty.
Much, Mike?

500
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,000
Yeah.
Yeah, so like it or not, we

501
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,480
could Chris and I could have
went on stage and said, you

502
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,040
know, fuck America.
We hate this fucking the way

503
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,080
this country's run, which we
never would have said because we

504
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,560
love where we live, but we
already.

505
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,200
Said that right.
To get up there and what if?

506
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,800
What if you did that?
Oh God.

507
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,080
In my time, in my yeah, sure,
yeah.

508
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,400
I don't see anybody.
I didn't see anybody in my life

509
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,480
in my circle.
And I did have some, you know,

510
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,920
very bold and proactive
activists wherever people who

511
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,600
against the system.
Nobody would say that.

512
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,680
Yeah.
It's it's so it's not just bold,

513
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:21,960
it's it's not even the the the
bad news when system when you go

514
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,360
too far too long for to the Mars
you actually start, you actually

515
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:29,640
believe you, you you're in a
path to the Mars and anybody say

516
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,480
the Mars is fuck anybody say
that the Mars is illusion.

517
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,200
Not so many people can hear the
message.

518
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,200
Not so many people can support
that.

519
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,400
So what are we screaming your
Microsoft on the stage.

520
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,040
Not so many people can, you
know, get reacted in that

521
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:46,200
passed.
Away.

522
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,440
Gotcha.
Yeah, that makes sense.

523
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,920
So now, so now you're in
America.

524
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,000
You like you, you moved from
Soviet Union, Russia and you're

525
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:55,960
in America now.
You go to you go to college.

526
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,000
What did you study in college
and was and what did you notice

527
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,800
when you came over from a
communist country to the

528
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,760
freedoms of America?
What was the biggest culture

529
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,280
shock for you?
Great question.

530
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:13,080
Yeah, go back to education part
then we can culture police.

531
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:19,640
OK, Yeah, I, I just maximize
opportunity to study as much as

532
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,840
I could.
Thank you for, you know, to my

533
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,200
parents, I guess they, they are
pretty direct.

534
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,400
You, you better still learn and
be smart than not.

535
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,000
Yeah.
So I went to same.

536
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,600
Message.
Right, right.

537
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,960
So I went to mechanical
engineering school.

538
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:41,600
I graduate after 70 years, been
in a in a pretty good college

539
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,880
and I went to PhD and as a
mechanic engineer type of guy.

540
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:51,160
And obviously I drop out for the
sake of someday I will say it

541
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,080
loud.
I drop out PhD instead of high

542
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,320
school.
So this I, I Max out the fact

543
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,520
that we had free education
system.

544
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,560
It's a good part of the kind of
go to the Mars.

545
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,000
It's it's, it has a good
benefit, right?

546
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,120
When you go to the Mars, you
have to build a good platform

547
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,560
for education.
You have to get to the Mars, you

548
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,480
need engineers.
So I spent seven years studying

549
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,280
math, finance, where we named
that.

550
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,480
So I was full time in a few
different education systems.

551
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,280
The good news, I paid 0 for
that.

552
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,680
The best news, sometimes I even
get paid for that.

553
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,000
If you started good, if you got
good score points, whatever you

554
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,560
call that, you actually get
paid.

555
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,560
And so transition to cultural
question, what was quite

556
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,400
different versus here versus
Russian culture?

557
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:45,360
Yeah, honestly, it's more I'm
trying to go back that time, my

558
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,240
impression that time versus my
impression nowadays and.

559
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,280
That time he's been
Americanized, Yeah.

560
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,520
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of, you
know, it's now I'm going to

561
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,400
different Mars, right.
Right.

562
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,200
Exactly.
And my belief system already

563
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,440
kind of influenced by years.
Be present.

564
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,520
Be present here.
I'm not going to say prison.

565
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,760
Well, maybe, maybe, maybe pose.
Let me, let me pose the question

566
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,680
this way.
Like so when you, when you first

567
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:16,320
come to America, right, and the
freedom that you were then

568
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,760
allowed, was that just like
overwhelming, like, Oh my gosh,

569
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,240
I can just get up whenever I
want.

570
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,360
I, I can go to McDonald's and
get a cheeseburger or I can go

571
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,400
in this movie at blockbuster.
You know, just that type of

572
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,720
because you're going from like a
what a communistic world where

573
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,280
you're kind of told what to do,
when to do it, how to, you know,

574
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,960
all this stuff, right?
And now you're now you're

575
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,280
completely free to kind of do
whatever you want, right?

576
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:42,520
Like you can go in the middle of
the not.

577
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,920
Exactly not, not not even
exactly.

578
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:49,480
I would take even absolute the
good news in my personal case

579
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:54,360
when I was out, when I checked
out from that hospital, from

580
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,880
that Mars expedition, right.
Yes.

581
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,560
I would say it the last two or
three years, the, the, the, the,

582
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,960
that regime, the system was
already collapsed, right?

583
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,800
It was complete freedom that
time in that part of the

584
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,960
country, not OK that those three
years after the system

585
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,200
collapsed, it was the biggest
freedom you can experience in a

586
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,320
life.
So you do whatever you do, you

587
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,360
go against legal things and your
legal system, you, you quite

588
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,560
control that.
You go against messages.

589
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,000
You can open your mouth, you can
say whatever you want because

590
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,680
the system doesn't exist now.
You can say it out loud.

591
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,880
Your parents were dumb.
Follow this, you know, one to

592
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,920
three belief.
So back to your question was a

593
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,000
big like difference in the
freedom to be honest here I

594
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,480
experienced much less freedom.
So right it it was much less

595
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:49,880
you, you you observe by rules.
There is something you you you

596
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,600
have to be compliant every day,
right?

597
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,880
It's what I experienced here,
right?

598
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,680
So if you compliant follow a
certain protocol.

599
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,840
It's what I discovered here.
Is it good or bad the first day?

600
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,480
Yeah.
The first time you kind of you

601
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,080
don't feel comfortable.
You you feel control kind of,

602
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,720
right.
You have some boundaries, right?

603
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,000
But eventually, when you realize
all those girls, they actually

604
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,560
designed for good of your
things, for good of your

605
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,800
presence, being part of the
system.

606
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,240
I I decided, listen, that that
version of control is much

607
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,600
better than what I experienced
when I was a child.

608
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,520
So give me a simple example of
something that you have to do

609
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,960
here that you did not have to do
when you lived in your hometown.

610
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,280
Oh my God, so now?
This is, this is, this is that's

611
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,080
a, that was a fast, fast answer,
Yuri, because really, I never

612
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,880
would have thought coming from
communistic control.

613
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,680
Have a claim that he had less,
more freedom there, Right,

614
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,720
right, right.
Give me a simple example.

615
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,760
Right, which if you.
Think one off top of your.

616
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:52,160
Head Brilliant insight, man.
But again, big note that we're

617
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,040
trying to compare apple and
banana.

618
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,200
Yeah, we know, right, because
the last three years it was

619
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,240
episode of companies.
If you compare communism

620
00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,960
different different animal,
right.

621
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:06,440
So the the the biggest thing,
not the biggest one of oh wow,

622
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:13,160
it's going public, right.
Let me pick something in a more

623
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,960
easier to to to let's.
Get you in trouble?

624
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,040
Right, right.
So I'm trying to stay away from

625
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,080
trouble all about.
You see how much KGB now?

626
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,280
Oh, let's doorman.
I'm knocking on my door either.

627
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,000
Let's use that thing as the fact
we we're trying to discover,

628
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,880
right?
You see, when we try to say

629
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,280
something here, right, we're
still trying to filter where

630
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,360
there are some messages they can
put you guys and me in certain

631
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:43,520
trouble if you go to let's say,
oh, the big one, which, and

632
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,960
obviously let's not count
details because I don't know,

633
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,080
we're kind of in trouble for
sure when we go races, when

634
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,320
we're trying to define different
personalities driven by

635
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,000
different, you know, ethnicity,
the history behind each.

636
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,600
So we all came from different
places, right?

637
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,240
We have to have some expectation
who that person based on ways

638
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,920
he's coming from, right?
So that subject, the race, it

639
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:11,400
might be color, it might be the
size of the body, etcetera in

640
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,239
the country we're part of right
now, right.

641
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:18,840
It's much less written to, to
emphasize, to explain, to be

642
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,679
verbal on that subject, much
less like I would say, TNS.

643
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,120
Yeah, Holy crap.
Amazing example, Yuri.

644
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,440
Wow, that was a brilliant
answer, man.

645
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,480
Thank you very much.
Now I understand.

646
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:32,800
I.
It was just.

647
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,199
In the show.
Just in the show.

648
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:35,480
How?
Do we go up from there?

649
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,719
No, but that was that, that was
amazing that way.

650
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,639
And that was a, that was a great
way to, to, to frame that

651
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:45,360
because I never would have
thought of that.

652
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:49,159
So over there, you're just over
there, you're just communistic,

653
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:50,840
you're in that world and that's
how it is.

654
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:53,880
So they don't see any of that
per SE, right.

655
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,240
And over here, like you just
said, there's so much division

656
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,840
from from the cultures
themselves, the race, the

657
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,680
religions, because you didn't
touch religions, right.

658
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,080
There's religion and religion is
the mother of all wars, right?

659
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,440
That's why the world's always
been at war as religions and

660
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,920
stuff.
So I mean, that's that was a

661
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,560
really great insight on on the
difference between the two for

662
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,720
sure.
Nice job.

663
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,200
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
Yuri from from, from, you know.

664
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,040
Yes, I think it's better phrase
that way.

665
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,120
So OK, so here's another fun
question because Mike and I

666
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,080
talked about this before you
came on the show.

667
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,840
We were talking he like we've,
we've always asked people what

668
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,200
is America's perception from the
country, but obviously we're not

669
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,800
going to ask that because you're
in America now.

670
00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:42,480
But we've learned that people
that are in other countries

671
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,840
outside of America, some of them
think that we're arrogant pieces

672
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,440
of shit.
And then Mike had a conversation

673
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,240
with someone and and the answer
was basically, well, we only

674
00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:54,200
speak one language in America,
whereas your buddy speaks how

675
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:58,840
many, Mike?
5. 55 So how many languages?

676
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,840
He speaks 9 languages, but he
speaks 5 fluently.

677
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,120
And where is he from?
Norway, right?

678
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,560
So what about you, Yuri?
How many languages do you speak?

679
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,200
I think the English, my second
now become eventually the first

680
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,160
one, I guess because the way I
process, yeah, first one

681
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,200
English, second Russian.
I can speak, I can speak Ukraine

682
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:24,760
to support Ukraine.
And then somehow I understand

683
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,080
Espanol and Spanish and pretty
much that's it.

684
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,440
I'm not language guy, I'm more.
No, it's, but still that's.

685
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,000
Still speaking?
You're still speaking 2 fluent

686
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,040
languages, then you can
understand two other ones, so

687
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,200
that's still 4.
Languages.

688
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,000
I only speak one fluent.
Right, right.

689
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,080
I'm learning Spanish, but it's
not, you know, I had my little

690
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,040
ordeal today and I didn't
understand the thing those guys

691
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,520
said because they said it so
fast.

692
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,680
I was like, it's like, OK, so
no, that's still that's props,

693
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:54,720
man.
That's good job.

694
00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:59,000
Now I had an uncle who took
Russian in college and

695
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,000
supposedly that is one of the
hardest languages to learn other

696
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,840
than like Latin which is a dead
language anyway.

697
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,320
So they say that Russian is
actually the hardest language to

698
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,600
learn that's actively spoken
every day on the planet today.

699
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,680
Would you agree with that or no?
It'd be hard for you to agree

700
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:20,280
with it because you grew up with
it, yeah.

701
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:22,600
No, it it was hard for me as
well.

702
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,840
It was like I said, yeah, I was
pretty good in physics, math,

703
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:28,840
and, you know, such science,
right?

704
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,360
Can I ask you a quick question?
Why are the words this long?

705
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,080
And I'm, I'm holding my fingers
really wide.

706
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,160
Ladies and gentlemen, why are
there so many letters?

707
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,200
There's where in a, in a, in a,
each word.

708
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,800
In Russian, yeah.
Like when I look at Russian

709
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,960
signs, you know when you see
them on TV, like the the names

710
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,720
seem like they're 14 letters
long.

711
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:54,720
Yeah, they do.
Oh, I think oh wow, is a test.

712
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,840
No, no.
OK, let me nail that.

713
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,960
The the biggest difference
between English American

714
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,720
language, right?
There is a symbol might have

715
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,400
there are two symbols, right.
But when you write description

716
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,480
for how you pronounce that, you
have to come up with three

717
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,920
symbols, right?
OK, in in that type of group of

718
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,680
languages like in Bulgaria or
Romania as well, right?

719
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:22,040
And all those languages is
Slavic.

720
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,400
There is no such like to be
honest, there is no such

721
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,400
language as Russian.
They all function of it's a mix

722
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,680
of and they always evolve,
right?

723
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,960
They answer your question.
They are not.

724
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,760
They don't have issue to write
all small sounds, so you just

725
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,640
can read that exactly what I
see.

726
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:46,240
You don't have to generate big
sounds from, you know, small

727
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:47,240
symbols.
Kind of.

728
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,840
It doesn't make sense.
OK.

729
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:53,640
So whatever you see, you have to
read that in English, you have

730
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:58,440
to memorize certain combinations
of symbols and you pronounce

731
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,720
them quite different whether you
see actually in the paper.

732
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,600
OK, so, so if dog in in America
is dog in Russia could be what's

733
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,680
your call and it could be 14
symbols long.

734
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,400
Yeah, right.
No, actually, right, right.

735
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,240
No, that animal, the one who
have have.

736
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,120
Yeah.
In English there are three

737
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:22,520
letters and it's dog in Russian.
Sabaka is 11 more symbol bigger.

738
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,560
OK, but no need for that.
We can call it Sabah.

739
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:26,640
Whatever.
Sabah.

740
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:28,360
Yeah.
So now, yeah.

741
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,800
Now we we simplify like become
more English.

742
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,800
I know, I know Russian Sabah.
So now that we now that we've

743
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,840
picked your brain about how you
grew up and all that kind of

744
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,000
stuff because it's fascinating,
Mike.

745
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,240
Now let's turn our attention to
what you do now and and what you

746
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:45,840
want to share while being on the
Chris and Mike Show.

747
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,200
There's no specific message to
share beyond us.

748
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:58,360
It just going through the life
and be have quite different

749
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,760
experiences.
Eventually you, I ask myself.

750
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,080
I should talk to myself
directly, I guess.

751
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:10,120
At what point I should actually
combine this knowledge and at

752
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,320
least in my head and feel it,
enjoy it and so feel the whole

753
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,880
life, which I already went
through right.

754
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:18,720
So being in the camera, being in
the podcast, thank you guys.

755
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:24,280
You know, for to be here.
It was pretty much the main

756
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,040
driver.
There is no direct message or I

757
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,120
have a message XYZ.
No, I actually, I decided, OK,

758
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,040
it's time to.
I'm 25.

759
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,240
I already had the laugh.
And maybe it makes sense to help

760
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:39,760
yourself become, you know, more
public versus less public, I

761
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:40,840
guess.
Sure.

762
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:45,000
So with that said, Yuri, let me
ask you this question.

763
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,120
Obviously, you probably looked
over your shoulder for quite

764
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:49,960
some time when you first came
here.

765
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,040
Do you still do that?
What do you mean by that?

766
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:53,960
By the way?
I discourage.

767
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,560
Were you nervous about being
here on your?

768
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,440
Well, just because the, I think
Mike what, what he's getting out

769
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:06,520
of the atmosphere in America,
you know, the Cold War and

770
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,000
stuff, I don't think that was
still relevant.

771
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,280
Relevant, right.
But but the fear, the fear like

772
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:14,360
I'm from another country, in any
given time, somebody could just

773
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:15,880
tap on my shoulder and say, you
know.

774
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,600
Oh, the, the, and we're talking
about, it's not about

775
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,040
podcasting.
It's about, you know, back to

776
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,080
the first part of the outcome.
Yeah, yeah.

777
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,680
No.
Just what you just said.

778
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,720
Were you ever did you just kind
of go into a headstrong and say,

779
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:33,840
this is what I'm going to do and
I'm going to move forward in

780
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:38,200
this direction?
Or you know what, you at some

781
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,800
point you had to make a decision
that you're going to change your

782
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:42,520
life.
What?

783
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:49,160
What triggered that?
The the trigger back to it's a.

784
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,920
It's a next great question,
which might be quite.

785
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,920
A great question.
Right, right, right, right.

786
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,040
It might be there are multiple
triggers.

787
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:04,160
It was not just one, right,
Obviously the fact the fact,

788
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:09,000
right, I didn't believe that go
to that specific Mars.

789
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,400
It was a good, you know, time to
spend.

790
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,240
I didn't believe in that vision
they had when I was 10, whatever

791
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,360
11 would say, right.
Then next time, next chapter,

792
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:25,000
like when you from 10 to 14, I
guess when systems start falling

793
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,560
apart, I had clear picture that
there is no such system as the

794
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,200
system exists.
You pretty much define your own

795
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:36,520
system when you go.
And obviously there are some

796
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,120
external messages from
grandparent, let's say right and

797
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:45,600
from somebody else who might
whisper to ear its norm that's.

798
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,160
Still super intuitive at 14
years old.

799
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:49,960
I'm going to give you that
again.

800
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,600
Yeah, but again, when you're in
a journey to find signals and

801
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,440
symbols, you you can find them
even you, I don't know, five, I

802
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,920
guess, right.
I have, I have a sound history

803
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:01,440
as old right now, right.
And I can see.

804
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,600
His I was looking at girls at 14
Yuri.

805
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,840
That's was my only.
No, no, no, I I did that as

806
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,760
well, but just for record, I, I.
No, I'm not saying you.

807
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,680
I'm not saying you didn't.
You're, you're a man like

808
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:15,480
anybody else.
I'm just saying that was my only

809
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,960
concern at that point.
I I wasn't thinking about.

810
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,000
This my only concern as well, to
be honest.

811
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:25,880
No, we we, we, we, we, we all
right, so we, we probably have

812
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,720
to go numbers, right.
Sorry.

813
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,520
Back to the shoulder part.
Let's go back to the shoulder.

814
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,720
It sounds like we missed that
part.

815
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:42,760
The shoulder part yeah, being in
different ventures different I

816
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,480
was an entrepreneur trying to
make different things in the

817
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:50,800
life trying to I was trying to
generate cash flow.

818
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,800
I didn't know that thing.
I would say cash flow at that

819
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,000
time, right.
But obviously I was involved in

820
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:00,760
so many different ventures and
some ventures I was part of a

821
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,880
joint somebody think somebody
initiative, right and most of

822
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,360
the time it was mine, right.
I was a guy who designed idea.

823
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:12,200
I was a guy who actually go
after and I was the one who you

824
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,920
know, to take all the
responsibility for the outcome,

825
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,720
good or bad.
So being on different ventures,

826
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:24,440
multi different country, it was
the easiest project I took over

827
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,640
in my life to be honest.
Well, we're done.

828
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,320
That's a great answer.
Yeah, that is a great answer.

829
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:36,000
So let's, so you, you, you sent
me a, a, a full back history on

830
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,400
you.
And I kind of I, I skimmed

831
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,440
through it because again, we
like this being real raw and

832
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,320
relevant.
So I don't, we don't like really

833
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:45,120
knowing who we're talking to too
much because it's, it's the

834
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,000
reactions in the conversation is
more genuine from our point of

835
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,800
view, because I, I had a radio
show and so I did all that and

836
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,880
that was, you know, as cool as,
but it was never, never genuine.

837
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,720
And, and what Mike and I like
about this is we're genuine and

838
00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:02,040
the people we talked to, they're
genuine conversations and like,

839
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,280
like this entire story about
where you, where you grew up.

840
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,200
And that's fascinating to both
of us.

841
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,560
And you answered questions for
us, probably for a lot of people

842
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,680
that will listen to this episode
that are watching now too,

843
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,760
because you never really get to
get in depth with someone who's

844
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,400
lived behind the Iron Curtain.
So that was cool.

845
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:19,680
Totally appreciate you sharing
that.

846
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,960
And hopefully that, you know,
the KGP doesn't come knocking on

847
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,240
your door tomorrow.
I don't know if they still

848
00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:25,880
exist, but if they do, tell them
it's our fault and they can come

849
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:27,720
find me.
Right.

850
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,800
And it's a record.
I, I didn't share any secret so

851
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,280
far.
So by the way, I can share both.

852
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,880
It's all for Sale, by the way.
Any secret guys?

853
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,480
Reach out if you want to get
some secrets.

854
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,480
Yeah, listen.
We can talk about the business

855
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:44,960
model behind the podcast.
Yeah, Yeah.

856
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,000
Let's get a business model
together and we'll we'll connect

857
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,600
you to and you know, we can make
some money there.

858
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,120
I'd love and you're anymore
every.

859
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:54,000
Minute that goes by, right?
So you're married now?

860
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,720
You have three kids, right?
How long you been married?

861
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:59,880
20 I guess it sounds like.
Right.

862
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,000
OK.
Yeah, my wife and I'm together.

863
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:03,320
I'm 32.
So good job.

864
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:05,760
And you, you said you had a 3
1/2 year old.

865
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,600
What about the other two?
How old are the other two?

866
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,280
I have a quite diverse
portfolio.

867
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:17,640
The oldest asset I have 22, OK,
the middle 112 and the youngest

868
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,200
3.
So it's kind of wow, 10 years

869
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,760
gap.
Yeah, that's OK, you know.

870
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,480
And there's.
There's I have a friend who had

871
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,640
had what their kids were all
gone up and grown and then all

872
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,120
of a sudden they decided to have
another kid.

873
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,600
And so there's like 25 years
apart, you know, it's crazy and.

874
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,280
Just for record, same acts, same
sperm, same exact kind of thing.

875
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:50,400
That's.
Funny, Vernon, so talk a little

876
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,680
bit about your, your, your
business side of what you do

877
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,080
now, because I did, I did skim
what you sent me and you talked

878
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,240
about some ventures and real
estate stuff and, and things

879
00:46:57,240 --> 00:46:59,360
like that.
And, and, you know, give us a

880
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:00,560
little insight to what you do
now.

881
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,600
Is there something that you want
to, you want to share?

882
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,480
I mean, are you, you know, like,
what's your like?

883
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:07,920
We OK, let me put it to you this
way.

884
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,360
Like we've had people on here
that are health and Wellness,

885
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:15,920
that are fitness coaches,
peptide experts, writers,

886
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:20,600
authors, producers for movies.
We've had a professional boxer

887
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,280
on who ironically enough, a week
after he was on our show, he

888
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,360
like literally just dropped this
guy with one punch.

889
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:31,520
And he was the most quiet,
sincere, polite, gentle human I

890
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,520
think we want to talk to.
And he just laid this dude out,

891
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,040
man.
Like we just one punch and then.

892
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,840
He jabbed him and then he just
laid him out with the second hit

893
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,360
to hit.
It was beautiful.

894
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,680
It's just, you know, so but
that's the cool thing.

895
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,280
Everybody has has something,
whether it's it's are we going

896
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,920
to be a coach or we're going to,
you know, teach about investing

897
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,320
and things like that.
So that's kind of what I'm

898
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,960
getting at with that, because
obviously we connect a while

899
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:00,240
back because we have such a a
scheduled out show.

900
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:03,440
But what is it?
What's your passion in life,

901
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:04,840
man?
What fuels your fire?

902
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,200
What What makes you up in the
morning and get you excited?

903
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,760
Yeah, what makes your ego now at
45 in America?

904
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,280
Yeah.
Right, it's good coffee, I

905
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,720
guess.
That helps.

906
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,360
We love we.
Should have a product placement

907
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,840
right here like Dunkin' Donuts I
guess or.

908
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,680
Chris and I, I think he's still
drinking it.

909
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,680
We drank Don Francisco's
butterscotch toffee.

910
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,920
If you want to send it to me by
the case, I'll talk about Don

911
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,520
Francisco's from here to Kingdom
Come.

912
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,480
Yeah, yeah, Mike introduced me
that.

913
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,560
It's legit, dude.
It's like you don't even have

914
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:40,400
anything.
It'll change your life.

915
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:41,840
Yeah, you don't have to have
anything in it.

916
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,800
It's that good.
It's just and, and they have a

917
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,360
wide variety, Yuri, there's a
wide variety of flavors from Don

918
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:50,560
Francisco, you know.
All right, I should try that and

919
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,480
thank you for time to to let me
process and come up with the

920
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,480
right answer.
I guess what makes you wake up?

921
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,640
Well, everybody wakes up because
they're alive.

922
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,400
But once you wake up, what's
your?

923
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:04,600
Yeah, I know that party.
I got it.

924
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,400
I've been trying to make a joke,
I guess.

925
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:07,080
Still here?
Right.

926
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:08,240
No, it's good.
It's good, man.

927
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,000
Yeah, There's a child.
He's three years old.

928
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,720
He makes me wake up.
No, actually, the biggest

929
00:49:13,720 --> 00:49:19,520
answer, the right answer would
be I still, I have curiosity and

930
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,160
a level of nine out of 10, I
guess.

931
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:28,040
And it comes to the price.
Sometimes you go to too many

932
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:29,560
directions, right?
Sure.

933
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:33,760
So yeah, that is.
Main reason that's called ADHD.

934
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,640
Yuri squirrel.
Squirrel.

935
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:40,160
Welcome to United States.
We all have kind of diagnosed

936
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,800
kind of thing.
No, actually it's curiosity when

937
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,120
you have interest in something,
right?

938
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:49,400
So nowadays, right, I, I found
myself with a big, big, with big

939
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:54,680
passion involved in, I called it
opportunistic investment

940
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,760
transactions.
And, and what I found the whole

941
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,360
my life is more opportunistic
type of investment.

942
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,840
I invest my, my time to execute
certain vision which I can come

943
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,760
up when I wake up one day,
right?

944
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,680
So pretty much the answer your
question, what it wake UPS.

945
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:17,160
Nowadays I have a vision that me
and my team, we can build quite

946
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:22,320
sizable portfolio of passive
investment investments.

947
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:28,760
So we can retire with a quite
stable cash flow and enjoy this

948
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,880
American dream, do nothing
pretty much, and still have a

949
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,600
nice lifestyle, right?
That's my dream too, Yuri.

950
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,080
Yeah, you see how I nailed it?
You see how I made it right And.

951
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:41,400
And I'm in tune with that dream
too.

952
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:43,240
So let's all find that dream
together.

953
00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:44,880
Yes.
How do we find?

954
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,440
The dream is not it's challenge.
The dream I can, you know, write

955
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,040
it down.
The dream I can give you a lot

956
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,240
of details of what this dream is
about, right?

957
00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:52,320
The whole thing.
Is put it into.

958
00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:55,160
Emotion.
Yeah, the whole exercise to find

959
00:50:55,160 --> 00:51:00,280
the path to the dream, right.
And that is called execution

960
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,320
center point.
And at the same time, it's more

961
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:06,680
not just execution part, just
sometimes it's not execution as

962
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,680
well.
Sometimes you put to yourself in

963
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,360
a in a treadmill and you go on
direction, which doesn't bring

964
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,000
you to the vision that you come
up with, right.

965
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,320
So sometimes it makes sense just
doing nothing, right.

966
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,800
So if the equation, what makes
me up sometimes doing nothing,

967
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,080
right?
So I'm, I'm most of the time I

968
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,200
take a break to do not most of
the time.

969
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,880
Sometimes I take a break, do
nothing, just kind of reassess.

970
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,600
Is it right path, not the right
path.

971
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,960
Is it right action plan to the
vision?

972
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,160
I can I just come up recently.
So nowadays I'm in debt space,

973
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,120
investment space, trying to find
deals, trying to find

974
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,440
opportunities, make sure that
those opportunities, they, they

975
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:46,680
bring the value for to me, to my
investors very much.

976
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,560
So do you run like an investment
portfolio?

977
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,520
Do you run like a hedge fund?
Help us understand.

978
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,200
It's coming up, it's coming up.
You know, it's more friends and

979
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,360
family structure because I do
that.

980
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:05,000
I do that.
I'm investor had for the last,

981
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,640
let's say four years, three
years and a half before I was a

982
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,720
guy who's a horse when I say
horse and the guy who run the

983
00:52:11,720 --> 00:52:12,640
show.
Yeah, I.

984
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,440
Know I got that.
Right.

985
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,080
I was a guy who focused on start
up.

986
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:21,720
I had and I was trying to build
something big, building an.

987
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,080
Empire.
Right, right.

988
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,080
So whatever Elon Musk's dream is
about right.

989
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,480
And then last three years I
shipped gears.

990
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:31,040
I realized there are different
approach to to the the goal.

991
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,800
There are different strategies
how you can accomplish your goal

992
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,040
passive, all this type of
income, right.

993
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,920
So last three years I shipped
completely from active guy.

994
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:44,440
Obviously I am active to find a
deal, but I I prefer that that

995
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,080
deal has one more driver.
OK.

996
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,360
Who can drive?
So you, so you, So you're the

997
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,520
passenger.
You're the passenger in the car.

998
00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:54,440
Right.
Sometimes a passenger, sometimes

999
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,920
you step on a on a gas station
and you put a gas in a in a car.

1000
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,200
So there has to be somebody.
Yeah.

1001
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,080
And somebody has to tell the the
driver where, you know, the

1002
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,560
highway ends and it become, you
know, Paver Rd.

1003
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:07,920
So you have to slow down the
guy.

1004
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:08,960
Yeah.
OK.

1005
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,240
That's do you have some great
analogies?

1006
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:13,120
Man, yeah, he does.
Yeah, right.

1007
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:14,080
I love it.
I like the.

1008
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:15,920
You should like it.
Just write a book about

1009
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,520
analogies.
Analogies by Yuri.

1010
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,240
That's a.
That's a good analogy, man.

1011
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:23,160
You're very good at making
people understand.

1012
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,160
Yeah.
Complex things, yeah.

1013
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,640
You're good at painting a
picture.

1014
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:27,840
Your answer's painting a
picture.

1015
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,520
So it's not just a generic
answer.

1016
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,800
It's like you're framing it,
which is perfect for for

1017
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,000
podcasting, for people to listen
to it because then they can they

1018
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,560
can picture what your answer is
because the way you frame the

1019
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:40,560
response.
For your first podcast, you've

1020
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,920
done amazingly well and I've
been captivated the whole time.

1021
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:46,160
First off, I've never met
anybody that grew up in Russia,

1022
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,720
so you got me right there.
That was a win.

1023
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,160
Thank you guys.
I agree with Chris, this whole

1024
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,400
time we've been talking about
some pretty seriously complex

1025
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,400
issues and you have a really
good way of painting a picture

1026
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,080
to make my stupid brain
understand it.

1027
00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:05,280
Not just listen, there are such
thing as stupid brain.

1028
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,640
Just being funny.
I think it's it's a stupid

1029
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:11,120
approach to explain things.
So I I was trying to make your

1030
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,320
your brain comfortable.
You did a great job.

1031
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,680
Yeah, for sure.
Man, you did absolutely.

1032
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,840
That's fantastic.
So what's on the horizon for

1033
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,280
Yuri?
What's what's, what's the,

1034
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:22,920
what's the five year where
you're going to be in five

1035
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:23,760
years?
What's the goal?

1036
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:25,240
What's the target?
There's goal you're.

1037
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,520
Going to take over the world and
and and we can join.

1038
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:34,760
No, no, no, I I'm not that dude.
I have 0 Mars plans.

1039
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,640
I don't see myself in the Mars 0
plans for that.

1040
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:39,200
I don't.
Want to go to Mars either man?

1041
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,480
No.
I don't even have I have 0

1042
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:47,400
desire be in a part of any
government or related journeys

1043
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:48,920
processes would say right.
I agree with that.

1044
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:56,120
So the plan is very simple, stay
humble as much as I can, kind of

1045
00:54:56,240 --> 00:55:00,720
control emotional part is
obviously we get older and we've

1046
00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:05,720
found ourselves that the middle
age crisis kind of behind the

1047
00:55:05,720 --> 00:55:07,960
back.
So control that part.

1048
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,800
So where we can accomplish
wherever I can accomplish, it's

1049
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,920
migration, right, It would be
good enough.

1050
00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:20,240
So obviously tangible part of
the equation, what I expect it

1051
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,880
be to have, I have a least, I
have a vision board.

1052
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,200
I did it maybe 10 years, 10
years ago.

1053
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,840
Certain point I can share with
that with the with the crowd.

1054
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,520
I guess I'm not ready right now,
but obviously there are some

1055
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,200
tangible.
We're going to, we're going to

1056
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,360
have you back on the show, man,
because I mean, we're not done

1057
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,520
yet, but we're going to have you
back on the show because you're

1058
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,400
an interesting conversationalist
for sure.

1059
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,120
You're very intelligent because
you're a mechanical engineer.

1060
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,720
So that alone you have a very
analytical mind, which is

1061
00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:49,400
fascinating.
Which is good and bad, right?

1062
00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:52,560
Well, no, but it's it's been.
Great for this podcast.

1063
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,000
That's all we care about right
now.

1064
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,560
We're damn glad to meet.
You Oh, you guys selfish, right?

1065
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,640
No.
You should think about my brain.

1066
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,040
I have to analyze everything
what we discussed here.

1067
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,080
Just just nature.
It's my muscle.

1068
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,960
I can't help you there.
You're you, you got to live in

1069
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,840
that body.
I get to live in this one.

1070
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,720
We're just, we're just happy
that, you know, like Chris said

1071
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:13,800
for a podcast, it's great for
the audience when you can paint

1072
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,360
a picture and make them
understand right along with us.

1073
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:20,520
So.
The the really cool thing is

1074
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:24,960
that your your, your responses
to the questions, the fact that

1075
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:28,360
you pause and think about how to
respond shows your level of

1076
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:31,800
intelligence because you're just
not wanting to to quickly answer

1077
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,200
something just to fill the
space.

1078
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,640
You're wanting to answer the
question with a legitimate

1079
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:41,440
response to help us understand
why we asked and and the answer.

1080
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,960
So don't ever feel like like
your answers were wrong.

1081
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,360
They were they were spot on.
It's public speakers, right?

1082
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,120
When you go to see a public
speaker, they will have pauses

1083
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,080
when they're on the stage.
And those pauses on stage are

1084
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:53,840
because in their brain, they're
going from this chapter to that

1085
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,080
chapter.
But what that pause does, it

1086
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:57,520
makes the person kind of lean
anymore.

1087
00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:00,400
What's he going to say?
And then when you deliver your

1088
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,280
answer, because the way you do
it so eloquently and the way you

1089
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:07,200
frame it, it's a great answer.
Like it's just, it's a great

1090
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,520
answer.
Like I want to ask you what you

1091
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,240
have for breakfast, but I'm
afraid you'll you'll make my

1092
00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:13,800
breakfast pale in comparison
just how you would paint the

1093
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,720
picture.
It's very simple.

1094
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,920
It's a yogurt and two knots.
See, it still makes our

1095
00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:22,840
breakfast sound like shit, just
the way he said.

1096
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,080
It.
All right, so yogurt.

1097
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:28,400
It's yogurt and it's and a white
colored yogurt.

1098
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:29,800
I'm not going to raise this
here.

1099
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:36,040
It's a white yogurt.
That's awesome.

1100
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,000
That was hilarious.
So.

1101
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,880
So did you ever watch the Rocky
the Rocky trilogy's the Rocky

1102
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,880
movies with Sylvester Stallone?
Fight the guy.

1103
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,400
Oh yeah, I did that.
That wasn't that sport as well.

1104
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,800
Oh, right on.
So so that's great because I

1105
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,480
love, I love boxing.
So does Mike.

1106
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:55,720
So you're from so so you're from
Russia's and Ukraine's in that

1107
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,120
area.
The Klitschkos did you?

1108
00:57:58,240 --> 00:57:59,400
Have you?
Did you watch them in their

1109
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,040
careers?
Not not enough.

1110
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,080
Because I'm not.
I'm not a box guy.

1111
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:05,200
I'm kickboxing guy.
OK.

1112
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:07,560
OK.
So you're more you, more you go

1113
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:10,280
boxing just for physically
fitness and just to do that so.

1114
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:13,760
You I gotta go kickboxing?
Oh cool, right on.

1115
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:15,920
Straight up kickboxing or Muay
Thai.

1116
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,480
Straight, yeah, the, the, the,
the basic one.

1117
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,960
The basic one, right.
The regular one when you when

1118
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:26,320
you use your legs to break, to
break somebody else's legs.

1119
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,040
So when you watch the Rockies,
did Dolph love Dolph Lundgren's

1120
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:34,400
character?
You know, the Russian guy?

1121
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,640
Was that a good stereotypical
example of, you know, the

1122
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,760
steroid arrowed Russian athlete
that was just juiced up like

1123
00:58:41,760 --> 00:58:46,560
crazy?
That was a great look.

1124
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,320
You didn't answer the question
with the look man.

1125
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,280
In real life, in the real life,
this guy who looks quite

1126
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:59,480
different to be honest, he is
more his shoulders more rounded,

1127
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,800
he's more less organized, I
would say, right.

1128
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:10,800
But it was important for local
crowd to to enjoy the fact that

1129
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,880
we can nailed that type of
machine.

1130
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,040
So it it was a picture not for
me, it was a picture for you

1131
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,720
guys.
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense for

1132
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,000
sure.
I must break you.

1133
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:25,240
Yeah.
Yeah, it was a style machine.

1134
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,360
I never saw such guy.
All my friends are good guys who

1135
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,800
actually perform nicely in the
kickboxing, etcetera.

1136
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,280
They are quite different.
Yeah.

1137
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,320
Yeah, do you know?
Do you know who Bert Kreischer

1138
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:40,760
the comedian is?
Yuri.

1139
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:43,720
Google that.
OK.

1140
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,520
Yes, Google's your friend.
He has a great story of going to

1141
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,480
Russia when he was in college,
and he's told this story a

1142
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:56,240
million times and he elaborates
on it each time he tells it.

1143
00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:01,360
But I will say the one thing
that he says about his time in

1144
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:06,080
Russia is it was the most
intimidating experience going

1145
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,080
into it.
With some of the nicest people

1146
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,440
he ever met, he said they were
scary as shit, but they were

1147
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:15,680
cool to him because they wanted
to party with him.

1148
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:20,960
Right.
And in general, yes.

1149
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,520
And in the general, general yes,
yes, yes.

1150
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:29,520
I didn't find any culture any
place when I travel and I travel

1151
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:33,080
quite remote spots in in the
universe, I would say, right?

1152
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:37,480
Let's say in Bangladesh, right?
I found myself so sometimes

1153
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,800
shocked by certain local
messages for them.

1154
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,520
It's norm for me.
Outsider is quite wow.

1155
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:50,120
I'll give you 1 which quite
remarkable, at least for myself,

1156
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:53,480
right?
I was in Bangladesh and the guy

1157
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:57,640
who was my kind of buddy, he's
local, right?

1158
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,680
So he put me in a, in a program,
like not a program.

1159
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,760
We went for different local cool
places, etcetera.

1160
01:01:04,760 --> 01:01:06,280
Right.
At a certain point he was

1161
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:09,400
explaining to me about certain
religion, which I don't want to

1162
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:12,360
kind of promote right now, not
because I don't like that, just

1163
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,760
because I feel responsible for
what you're saying here, right?

1164
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:20,320
So what he said that we all
different and at that point,

1165
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:24,400
imagine what we had, we had a
food in a good restaurant and in

1166
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:28,040
the food we had on table, we use
our hands to use to to eat the

1167
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:30,240
food.
So it's a restaurant, it's you

1168
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,160
have you dress nicely because
those most guys are professional

1169
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,760
in that in that meeting, right?
And they use hands and what he

1170
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:40,800
said, listen, we might be all
different in any degree, right?

1171
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,320
We may have different,
different, different opinions,

1172
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,440
different, etcetera.
But in reality, if we cut our

1173
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:50,160
hand right here in this spot,
you and me will have exact same

1174
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:51,280
blog.
Yep.

1175
01:01:51,480 --> 01:01:55,160
Yeah, we do so.
And so the bottom line, he

1176
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,440
introduced me the concept that
actually he's absolutely right,

1177
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:01,400
etcetera.
And then I do believe we're all

1178
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:04,000
the same.
We do have some differences just

1179
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:07,760
based on a place where we grew
up, based on messages we

1180
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:11,720
listened from our parents and
based on books we consume.

1181
01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,440
And it's why I'm trying to stay
away from books.

1182
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,640
I don't have been influenced by
somebody else.

1183
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,800
So it's kind of the summary for,
you know, to make this whole

1184
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,920
thing.
I agree with what you said that

1185
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:30,240
that speaks to me because I
don't buy into governments

1186
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,000
borders.
We're all on this planet right?

1187
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:37,000
A lot of people don't even
consider the fact that we are

1188
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,560
literally spending at 1000 miles
an hour hurtling through space

1189
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:47,600
into Infinity and it could all
end in 1/10 of a second, right?

1190
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,400
Something terminal if if the
Earth, well, if the Earth

1191
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:55,920
doesn't stay at 23 1/2°, if it
goes to 18, we're all dead,

1192
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:57,480
right?
Yeah, yeah, that.

1193
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:59,160
Would be.
That's how fragile life is.

1194
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:03,520
So for us to define all these
things by races, religions,

1195
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,840
countries, cultures, it's just
so stupid.

1196
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,560
We're all human beings.
We all came a theoretically and

1197
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:12,240
you know, if, whether you
believe, if you believe in the,

1198
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,840
in the big boom, right, the
evolution with you, Carl Sagan,

1199
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,840
we all spawn from monkeys.
But if you believe the biblical

1200
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:21,680
side of it, we all spawn from
Adam and Eve.

1201
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,360
So sure, we're all related if
that's the case.

1202
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,080
And there's I've heard something
and you may know if this is true

1203
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:29,640
or not, Mike, because you're,
you listen to so many things.

1204
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:32,160
There's a point in time where
the world population was just

1205
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,040
under 2000, correct?
And we still survived that.

1206
01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:37,400
So we're all related in some
way, shape and form to those

1207
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:39,960
2000 people.
We can trace.

1208
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:42,400
This is a true story.
I just got it.

1209
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:47,800
OK, They just figured out that
they can trace all modern man

1210
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:52,160
down to one woman.
Everybody that's in our current

1211
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,680
state today.
They call her Mitochondrial Eve.

1212
01:03:56,080 --> 01:04:01,880
She was busy.
I got a joke by the way.

1213
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:08,320
What's your joke exactly?
I got a message 19199 other

1214
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,520
people.
Trying to get my style kind of

1215
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,320
explain couple of things in a
simple language, right, right.

1216
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:15,600
We're going to.
Practice that.

1217
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:16,920
We're going to practice that,
Yuri.

1218
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,600
Every conversation we have, we
learn something.

1219
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:21,680
Today.
We've learned so much.

1220
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:23,760
It's, that's why we do this.
Yeah.

1221
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:25,720
It's it's it's been fascinating
talking to you to.

1222
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,360
Be honest, it was my question,
why did you guys do that?

1223
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,960
What you.
Because I got to meet somebody

1224
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:36,040
who grew up 10 years after me,
17 years.

1225
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:37,400
Right, right, right.
Yeah.

1226
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:42,360
So we're all roughly within the
same era as far as, you know,

1227
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:45,040
the way we grew up before the
Internet and after the Internet.

1228
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,400
And that doesn't even matter.
I would have never met.

1229
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,160
I might have gone the rest of my
life and never met somebody that

1230
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:56,560
actually was born in a different
culture, came to our free

1231
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:58,960
culture and has lived on both
sides of it.

1232
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:00,600
And I got to hear it from your
mouth.

1233
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:03,880
I don't.
I like to speculate a lot about

1234
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:07,280
how, you know, different people
grew up and live, but I don't

1235
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:09,360
know till I hear it from them.
So that's why I do.

1236
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:15,280
This my question, sorry, sorry.
Would you consider to have a

1237
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:19,880
sample the taste of different
culture like a sample, you know

1238
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:24,120
the Whole Foods and you got a
sample of new food on the shell

1239
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,560
and you got you got a bite and
you can always shoot it tastes

1240
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:31,040
so different and good.
I I don't have extra bite.

1241
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:35,160
Would you consider to go
somewhere and have a bite of

1242
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,040
different culture?
Absolutely.

1243
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:39,080
I would love to, yeah.
For sure.

1244
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,480
Absolutely.
I've just never afforded myself

1245
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:45,360
the opportunity to do that.
So yeah, I would love to so.

1246
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,280
We have to push.
Yeah, I guess.

1247
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:53,720
It's going to happen, yeah.
So if I ever meet the future

1248
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,920
misses, I'm probably going to
make that happen.

1249
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:57,920
So there you go.
So now you mentioned Yuri, that

1250
01:05:57,920 --> 01:05:59,440
you travel all over the
universe.

1251
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,880
OK, We don't want to talk about
stuff off planet Earth because

1252
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,360
of, you know, you're, we got to
keep that stuff on the down low.

1253
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,040
We don't want KGB knocking on
your door.

1254
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,440
So you mentioned Bangladesh.
What other, what other countries

1255
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:14,040
or, or I guess it's a country or
wherever.

1256
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:18,240
What's what's something that
that somebody would be shocked

1257
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:19,520
to know that you went and
visited?

1258
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:25,520
Not much to me.
For me, Bangladesh was the

1259
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:31,000
biggest wow factor was the quite
the I know there are some

1260
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:36,240
different countries exist.
I I didn't have I had no need, I

1261
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:40,760
would say to go, but definitely
there are some places don't ask

1262
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,120
me names.
I have to Google that there are

1263
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:47,400
small countries and I met
someone's been in I think it was

1264
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:51,200
in what country?
It was in Indonesia somewhere.

1265
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:54,080
So I met some.
I already was impressed how we

1266
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,760
different from local guys, let's
say in Indonesia, right?

1267
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:03,360
And then in a breakfast in local
hotel, I came across small talk

1268
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,480
to someone from even more
different place.

1269
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:10,880
So that sample, the one I
mentioned, Mike, you want to go

1270
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:12,360
Whole Foods, right?
I had this bite.

1271
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:16,920
So what I back to the question
which we can circle that what

1272
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,920
makes me wake up every morning?
I still didn't touch.

1273
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:23,280
I didn't still bite other pieces
of the pie.

1274
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,480
So there are some cultures,
Laos, I guess.

1275
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:31,400
Laos, it's a country which I
kind of in my not exactly bucket

1276
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:32,600
news.
I don't believe in bucket news.

1277
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:35,000
It has to be a life list.
So I'm trying.

1278
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,640
To dude, I love that it's
lifeless.

1279
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:40,320
See, I have to have a thing
where I call it's it's your life

1280
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:41,640
resume.
Like what have you done in your

1281
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:42,760
life?
What kind of things have you

1282
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:44,920
accomplished?
That's a lifeless dude.

1283
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:46,360
It's so much better than a
bucket list.

1284
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,240
That's cool.
Again, the Uri euphemism.

1285
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:50,760
I like it too.
Yeah.

1286
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,880
I'm adopting that one.
Let's write a book, guys.

1287
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,320
Write a book.
Man, we have to come up with the

1288
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:58,400
title.
What?

1289
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:01,520
Yuri euphemisms.
Yuri euphemisms, right?

1290
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,600
Euphemism title, Yeah.
It has to be, that's what.

1291
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,840
Oh, that's what Yuri said.
Oh, really?

1292
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:09,280
There you go.
That's it.

1293
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,240
That's catchy.
That's what Yuri said.

1294
01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:16,439
I think it sounds like that I
come up with a name in the past

1295
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,319
to to send some messages to my
daughter.

1296
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:22,319
Oh, it was an exercise.
She asked me in a random spot

1297
01:08:22,319 --> 01:08:26,720
and she can put a camera in my
face and ask me any wisdom to to

1298
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:29,960
me.
So I would love to listen her

1299
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:34,080
records wherever I deliver,
produce I guess for the last

1300
01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,720
maybe 10-15 years because she
collect those records.

1301
01:08:37,279 --> 01:08:39,399
Yeah.
So it might be good content for

1302
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:41,680
whatever book nowadays.
So.

1303
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,439
You just sparked another
question that I have because you

1304
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,760
talked about records.
What kind of music did you

1305
01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:50,800
listen to?
Growing growing up.

1306
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:55,319
Growing up, yeah.
Growing up, I was not in the

1307
01:08:55,319 --> 01:08:59,279
space of music guys and I
actually went.

1308
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:02,840
I put myself in music school for
over the year just for the sake

1309
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,479
to be comfortable to have this
conversation, I guess, with you

1310
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,040
guys.
OK.

1311
01:09:07,399 --> 01:09:10,240
Let me ask you this real quick.
Music was not my thing.

1312
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,880
OK, when you turned the radio
on, what did you hear?

1313
01:09:14,279 --> 01:09:16,600
Like if you're at.
Did they?

1314
01:09:16,680 --> 01:09:21,680
Did they have radio in Russia?
No, we, we and we had cold and

1315
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,840
hot water.
It was a joke.

1316
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:29,040
I know.
All right.

1317
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:32,279
So if you go right now in
Miley's, I I rather talk about

1318
01:09:32,279 --> 01:09:34,160
today's kind of things.
Right.

1319
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:36,240
OK.
What are you listening to now?

1320
01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:38,000
It's.
Pretty much function of previous

1321
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:40,800
things.
You'll find the biggest one I

1322
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:46,279
have, which called papaya.
So papaya is a kids music and

1323
01:09:46,279 --> 01:09:51,760
somebody very smart dude come up
with the rhythm and the like

1324
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,520
this how to say that it's it's
designed for kids.

1325
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,520
But I enjoy it so much because
when you listen to five times

1326
01:09:57,520 --> 01:09:58,960
and it's stuck you in your
brain.

1327
01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:03,680
There's one more person I have
to promote in this podcast and

1328
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:07,320
don't share with anybody else.
I was a big fan of Selena Gomez

1329
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:10,640
and I was a big fan of Selena
Gomez for one specific song.

1330
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,360
And don't ask me which one I
learned.

1331
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:17,040
So if you go on my music list,
it would be some classical

1332
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:19,640
piece.
Just I trying to push myself in

1333
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:21,600
a classical.
I don't believe it's good.

1334
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:26,080
Stuff I I love classical.
Music I love most I can Queen,

1335
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:30,320
queen and such things.
Now we we had access to any

1336
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:33,600
music we can.
But obviously that if you go

1337
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:38,160
back to that, that time under
umbrella of communism system,

1338
01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:44,320
right, Obviously it was so
limited and we had local guys

1339
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:49,840
and local guys somehow the copy
paste international guides.

1340
01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:54,080
So somehow through the proxy, my
parents, they were part of

1341
01:10:54,480 --> 01:10:57,160
global culture.
But again, it's from the proxy

1342
01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:01,680
visit local guy, he had access
to international content and he

1343
01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:04,560
produced local content, but
influenced by international

1344
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,280
content.
So I was part of your culture on

1345
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,640
a 10% degree, I would say.
Gotcha.

1346
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:12,320
OK, gotcha.
Yeah, cool.

1347
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,400
Good answer.
So does your do you?

1348
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,840
Is all your family still in
Russia aside from you?

1349
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,480
Most of the family, yes.
OK.

1350
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:23,560
And so do you, do you visit or
you just phone calls FaceTime?

1351
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:27,240
For multiple reasons and we all
can Google those reasons.

1352
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:30,000
I I'm not part of that life
anymore.

1353
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,160
Gotcha.
And mechanically, emotionally

1354
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:35,680
and etcetera.
So it's kind of answer for that

1355
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:37,480
question, right?
That's cool, that's fine.

1356
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:40,480
I'm I'm in the same boat with my
my my family so no worries there

1357
01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:43,120
man.
It's just a random question.

1358
01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:49,200
By the way, my family lives.
My my my mother lives about

1359
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,760
probably within 15 minutes of
me, but I haven't talked to her

1360
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,080
in over a decade.
My father lives in Illinois and.

1361
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:58,360
I know, I know, I guarantee
there's a story behind that.

1362
01:11:58,360 --> 01:12:00,240
But it it makes sense, there is.
There is.

1363
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,800
There's all kinds of stories
behind that, but this is about

1364
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,440
you.
Now it's therapy session for you

1365
01:12:05,440 --> 01:12:08,640
guy.
My family lives next door to me

1366
01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:11,680
and two blocks away and I see
him multiple times a week, so

1367
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:13,520
yeah.
Mike is a good guy.

1368
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:15,000
And Kristen?
Yeah, Mike is a really.

1369
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:16,080
Yeah.
I had a good family.

1370
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:17,200
Kristen.
Not so.

1371
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:18,600
Yeah.
It is what it is.

1372
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:21,960
But but like you talked about,
like you're the person you are

1373
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:24,600
because of how you were brought
up and and your influence, what

1374
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,160
your parents did and what you
read and what culture and what,

1375
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:31,280
what world you were in as a
child and that that formed that

1376
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:33,520
formed who you are.
And I don't, I don't regret how

1377
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,920
I was brought up because it it
made me the person I am today.

1378
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:39,480
I'm the points, the fingers.
One of the things that I always

1379
01:12:39,480 --> 01:12:43,920
say is the people that I find
the most interesting

1380
01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:46,200
unfortunately have the most
fucked up lives.

1381
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,720
True, it's unfortunate.
It's.

1382
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,360
True.
Let me think about it.

1383
01:12:51,440 --> 01:12:52,560
You know the most.
Interesting.

1384
01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:57,480
People I've ever met have had
the most oppressive childhoods

1385
01:12:57,480 --> 01:13:00,840
that anybody could ever ask for.
And you can either come out of

1386
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,800
it triumphant, like Chris did,
and decide this is my life and

1387
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:06,880
I'm going to live it my way and
I'm going to be happy and

1388
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,360
positive and I'm going to go
forward and be effective.

1389
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:13,720
Or I'm going to blame the way I
grew up on the way I am for the

1390
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:15,400
rest of my fucking life.
Right.

1391
01:13:16,120 --> 01:13:18,600
And that's just there's.
Nowhere to and and it's also we

1392
01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:26,080
have a choice right, we can't.
So is it kind of transition to

1393
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:30,120
let's talk about why you're so
interesting based on how his

1394
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:36,360
life was fucked up.
The good news it was fucked up,

1395
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:39,960
but it was fucked up under
control of my personal.

1396
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:48,360
I manage how much I need fucked
up, sure, and so I was lucky I

1397
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,920
was not fucked up like in our
language.

1398
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:54,440
You weren't fucked up beyond
repair.

1399
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,280
Right, right.
So it was not I had so Oh OK

1400
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,000
now.
OK, Speaking of your kind of

1401
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:03,240
language, I had to design
artificial fucked up lifestyle

1402
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:08,360
to become interesting person.
That was me.

1403
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:11,040
I had to do the same thing,
yeah.

1404
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:13,880
Thank you, Mike and I, I kind of
feel that, to be honest.

1405
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:17,200
I don't know why it's Yeah,
right.

1406
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:21,480
So I wasn't an adjourned.
I was actually I was always

1407
01:14:21,480 --> 01:14:25,480
looking for something which Mike
me which can put me on the edge

1408
01:14:25,480 --> 01:14:31,480
of stupidity kind of and come
out from this act whatever

1409
01:14:31,480 --> 01:14:36,440
exercise experience clean and
nice and make a mental note that

1410
01:14:36,440 --> 01:14:40,640
thing whatever I did right now,
I will leverage that to become

1411
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:43,080
good guy, a good person,
interesting person, wherever

1412
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:48,120
that's I have so many occasion
very another case stories in the

1413
01:14:48,120 --> 01:14:53,000
life which obviously was
designed and executed by me by

1414
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:54,920
my choice.
I have nobody to blame.

1415
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,760
I actually was.
I might very calculate sometimes

1416
01:14:57,760 --> 01:15:01,000
calculated choices to do
whatever I did.

1417
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:05,360
Yeah, that's awesome.
Maybe a good example.

1418
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:09,800
Anything else you want to talk
about, Mike?

1419
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,600
Any other questions for
conversations with with Yuri?

1420
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:14,440
We're going to have Yuri back
on.

1421
01:15:14,480 --> 01:15:15,520
We have to have.
Yuri back.

1422
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:17,840
We have to have Yuri, but now
you're getting into the the

1423
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,960
podcast zone.
So go do a couple more and then

1424
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,240
we'll have you back on.
And, and, you know, just because

1425
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:26,880
there's so much stuff we could
talk about just for the sheer

1426
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:29,560
fact that you're a great
conversationalist man, you're,

1427
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:31,720
you're fascinating human.
Thank you.

1428
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:33,800
Thank you guys.
You are you too.

1429
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:35,240
You too as well.
Listen.

1430
01:15:35,480 --> 01:15:36,880
And you have and you have a pool
house.

1431
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:38,880
I don't have a pool house.
Mike, do you have a pool house?

1432
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:40,040
I don't have a pool house.
No.

1433
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:41,280
Now do you have a pool?
Yuri If.

1434
01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:44,360
I have a pool house.
I should have pool I guess.

1435
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:46,400
Why you you would think that,
you never know, man.

1436
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:50,840
I just, I just, I'm trying to
kind of educate kind of

1437
01:15:51,480 --> 01:15:55,400
Meanwhile, no, I do have a pool
which right now closed for the

1438
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:59,480
last three years it's shut and
for for multiple reasons

1439
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:01,080
because.
The young, the little one, the

1440
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,960
little one right you.
Want to keep it's it's it's

1441
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:07,160
reason 55.
There are like 54, you know

1442
01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:08,960
before that. 54 other reasons
OK.

1443
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:11,360
Yeah, 54, I can give you the
main 1.

1444
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:15,320
I don't know why I need that
when when we travel summer and

1445
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:17,440
we need a full Yeah, when it's
it's sort of, you know, kind of

1446
01:16:17,480 --> 01:16:19,160
place where you should have a
pool.

1447
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:21,120
I don't know why people build
pools nowadays.

1448
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,200
Private.
That's what I always say about

1449
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:25,240
Illinois too.
It's stupid to have a swimming

1450
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:27,400
pool and all.
You know, it's more than that.

1451
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:33,320
It's like if you claim you can
afford such property and you

1452
01:16:34,480 --> 01:16:40,120
kind of calculated place that
thing in the property, how much

1453
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:43,840
you stupid man like like you're
going to use it five times in

1454
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:47,040
your life cycle and whatever
and.

1455
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:51,240
Yeah, where where Chris is going
to use his like 200 days a year.

1456
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:53,960
When we had a pool, we don't
have a pool now because our

1457
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:57,760
grandson was born in like safety
purposes, but where we lived

1458
01:16:57,760 --> 01:17:00,560
before with the pool, I was in
it every single day of the year.

1459
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,160
But it's Arizona, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1460
01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:07,560
No, listen, in Arizona you have
to have a pool just for safety.

1461
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:10,440
They have to jump in a pool to
cool down right?

1462
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:17,040
And N you have a pool to me I,
I, I.

1463
01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:20,080
I'm trying to find an actual
like logical reason why you

1464
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,240
should have a pool.
Obviously it looks sexy and nice

1465
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:25,360
when it's a blue kind of thing
on your, on a LAN, on your.

1466
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:29,240
All it is, all it is around
these parts, is to show your

1467
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:31,280
neighbors that you're that much
better than them.

1468
01:17:31,440 --> 01:17:32,160
It's a.
Status.

1469
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:34,520
Symbol I hope my neighbors
they're not part of the path

1470
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:38,400
cast, but if they hear that
listen guys, if you I have a

1471
01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:40,960
pool, I have a pool not impress
you.

1472
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:43,600
It's the last thing I want to
do.

1473
01:17:43,600 --> 01:17:47,120
Impress you guys to be a second.
That that's what I've

1474
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:54,000
encountered is people who have
pools, except for Yuri, who live

1475
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:58,600
north of what we consider the
South southern United States.

1476
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,040
It's a status symbol.
It's a status symbol.

1477
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:02,880
Right.
And he?

1478
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:04,920
Uses his it's a it's a dance
floor.

1479
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,600
He just covered it with with a
deck, right?

1480
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:09,840
And you just have barbecues and
shit on the pool deck.

1481
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:14,000
No, I have.
In my case, I haven't like kind

1482
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:17,400
of the the green colored condom,
you just put it down there.

1483
01:18:17,880 --> 01:18:19,840
There you go right now.
I call it that way.

1484
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:22,840
Oh, this has been this has been
fascinating year.

1485
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:24,000
We definitely want to have you
back on.

1486
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:25,640
You've been a great a great.
So much fun.

1487
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:29,360
Conversation with Mike and I
wrap this up all the time with

1488
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,000
with if you're having a bad day,
don't let the bad days when

1489
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:34,520
somebody's going to miss you,
Somebody Loves You.

1490
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:37,680
So make sure you wake up
tomorrow and and, you know, have

1491
01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:40,200
a better day because once you go
to sleep, tomorrow is always a

1492
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:42,160
better day.
So if you're struggling, if

1493
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:45,080
you're depressed, you're down,
you know, reach out to somebody

1494
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:46,920
that you know, they want to talk
to you, they want to hear you,

1495
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:49,320
they want to help you get off
that ledge and and keep you

1496
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:53,520
around because you know, this is
what life's about conversations

1497
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:55,800
and meeting people.
And this has been a great hour

1498
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,440
and 15 minutes or so.
You're just getting to know you.

1499
01:18:58,480 --> 01:19:00,840
And truly, Mike and I are
sincere to saying we want to

1500
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,880
have to come back on at some
point in time just to revisit

1501
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:05,760
and, and chat about life and
things like that.

1502
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:08,240
Absolutely.
So, So keep that in mind.

1503
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,320
And if you have anything you
want us to do as far as you

1504
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:14,960
know, like we sent you links to
like our, our pages and things

1505
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:16,720
like that and drop reviews on
the Facebook group.

1506
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,800
If you have anything else you
want us to do, by all means, let

1507
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:20,040
us know.
We'd be happy to do it for you.

1508
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:24,440
Yeah, just reach out.
Yeah, yeah, the the nice lady

1509
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:31,200
behind my emails, Sidra, she
will to execute what she

1510
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:34,880
believes makes sense because I
kind of ask her to become my

1511
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,280
producer.
I would say I produce people all

1512
01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:42,320
my life and now I ask somebody
else to do kind of push me to be

1513
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:44,560
here.
So it's a big thanks for her to

1514
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:46,800
her.
She made it happen, to be

1515
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,040
honest.
So where where all the emails

1516
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:51,560
you have is from her.
And I think you see the very

1517
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:54,680
good job.
Nice guys, Chris, nice awesome

1518
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:57,640
guy Mike.
He designed lifestyle on his own

1519
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,000
choice is good as well.
So we're on the same page, Mike.

1520
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:01,840
Thank you.
Thank you man.

1521
01:20:02,440 --> 01:20:04,360
Yeah.
You're the first person to

1522
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:08,040
notice that on the podcast.
There you go.

1523
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:10,440
You're, you have a fantastic
game, man.

1524
01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:12,000
We again, thank you so much for
joining us.

1525
01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:14,280
It's been a blast, man.
We've learned so much from

1526
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,280
talking to you, man.
Thanks for coming on man, nice

1527
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:17,800
to meet you.
Nice to meet you guys.

1528
01:20:18,280 --> 01:20:20,160
We're a great human.
We'll see you on Mars, buddy.

1529
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:23,680
No, I'm not.
No, no.

1530
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:25,760
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
We're just, we're just checking

1531
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:27,480
to make sure we're all still
staying here.

1532
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:28,720
Right, right.
Stay here.

1533
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:31,440
Listen, it is a fake bullshit
vision.

1534
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,400
There is no need to ghost.
We, we, we, we're good here.

1535
01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:35,600
Yeah.
Cheers.

1536
01:20:35,680 --> 01:20:37,000
Bye.
See you.

1537
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:39,320
Man, cheers buddy.
Love you Mike.

1538
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:40,200
See.
You love you too.

1539
01:20:41,960 --> 01:21:11,560
That was awesome.
Behind your eyes, yourself and

1540
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:17,240
need your nerves.
Take a moment, look until you

1541
01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:21,680
see it.
Bite the bail and tear.

1542
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,200
Bite the bail.
Put your bail.

1543
01:21:25,280 --> 01:22:28,830
Hold your baby to your finger.
The.

1544
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:53,810
Come down here, you haven't
found solids in your sand.

1545
01:22:53,850 --> 01:22:58,290
You keep fun fighting.
Wait for the dead.

1546
01:22:59,730 --> 01:23:04,530
When you close.
Your eyes and you ain't no

1547
01:23:04,570 --> 01:23:09,450
creature when you're playing
smile and you just you press on

1548
01:23:09,650 --> 01:23:16,640
the almighty dance.
You got a team ruin your life to

1549
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:23,480
keep on going every day.
Take the trail behind your eyes.

1550
01:23:23,480 --> 01:23:27,920
Feel the soul revolution now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1551
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:38,760
yeah.
Take your moment.

1552
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:43,400
Listen to your fear.
What's your better with you?

1553
01:23:43,760 --> 01:24:11,830
More clear.
You gotta, You gotta.

1554
01:24:12,510 --> 01:24:14,150
You gotta.
You gotta.

1555
01:24:14,190 --> 01:24:54,960
You gotta.
The.