Christopher Ems

So the officer's looking and he goes and takes a picture of my passport.

I think, oh, here we go again.

And then he stamps my passport and he goes, thank you for visiting Saudi Arabia, Mr. Rams.

You're welcome anytime.

And I said, thank you very much.

I won't be back.

These two Turkish pilots have flown down from Istanbul to pick me up.

You know, it's not like what you can imagine a private jet.

It's not like a Gulfstream.

It's a real old sort of rickety little jet.

And I get on the plane and I just saw it taking off.

They go, Mr. James, please just call me Chris.

They said, Chris, just, you know, we're not allowed to do it, but you probably haven't had a beer, have you, in like eight months?

I said, no, nothing.

They said, we brought an entire bar with us.

So we fly in the air and these guys come out, Jack Daniels, vodkas, beers, I just have my first beer in eight months.

The plane opens, I'm greeted by about six Russian immigration officials and a

And a guy, an older guy is insane close.

And he goes, oh, Mr. M. And so I'd already arranged with Russia Today that was going to go on and talk about my story the next day, go through.

And he's like, well, why are you here?