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support that, walk him out, put him in the car, and here we go.

But I never imagined or thought I'm going to do the same thing, but in a different sort of circumstances.

Never at that time.

So it was pretty fun to remember those kind of ballsy moves, especially out of the Soviet Union sort of system.

So how did your situation transpire if it was different?

My situation, we came Goodwill Games.

We were two months into the training.

We came to the tournament.

It's called Goodwill Games in the summer sort of thing, right?

Yeah.

And I had a few contacts with representatives of the Red Rings from Jimmy Lights.

Jimmy Lights at the time, I believe, was vice president of the Red Rings organization.

And they were...

They saw me a couple of times and eventually we have Super Syria with Red Army team in Chicago.

You know that story.

I hope you heard of it.

I escaped from back door where our team stayed and went to see Jimmy at the Drake Hotel.

He go full throttle with me.

He gave me a contract, show me zeros as far as a sign, show me beautiful, like a nice Corvette, uh, sort of like a book, you know?

And, uh, it was awesome.