>> Welcome to
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It Is Written Canada.
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Thank you for joining us here
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at BC Helicopters in beautiful
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Abbotsford, British Columbia
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where you will hear some
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helicopters taking off
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and landing.
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Our special guests are Ruben
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Dias and Misha Gelb who shared
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an epic dream, a passion for
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flying helicopters and they
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united their interests
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launching the Epic Global
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Heli Tour.
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>> This trip around the world
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in a helicopter would carry
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them over 60,000 kilometres
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with 107 stops, traversing at
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least 45 countries on five
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different continents.
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Ruben and Misha, we are
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looking forward to hearing
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your intriguing adventure.
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Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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>> Thank you for having us.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Ruben and Misha, what was
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the objective of this trip
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around the world?
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>> Well, we call it The Epic
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World Tour.
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EPIC stood for Empowering
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something that Ruben came up
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with and it kind of, you know,
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we were thinking about what
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were all the reasons 'cause
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there was a lot of them, as to
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why we wanted to go on this
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trip and, you know, I think we
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wanted to be able to inspire
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people with the lifestyle that
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we live and the passion that
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we have for flying helicopters
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and exploring the world and
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seeing those things and so I
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think that was a springboard,
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but...
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>> Yeah, and also the
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achievement of having actually
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conquered something that was a
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dream for a long time for both
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of us and it came just as a
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normal flight that was being
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trained by Misha and we
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discovered that we both had
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that dream we wanted to do
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some day and we said, "Why we"
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"don't do it right away?"
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"Let's do it right now,"
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meaning planning for it,
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preparing for it 'cause it was
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a natural thing we had been
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nurturing for a long time of
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achieving a personal
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accomplishment that we've been
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dreaming for a long time.
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And then we wanna put a
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purpose on this dream so we
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associated entrepreneurship
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and healthy living into the
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whole project.
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>> So, Ruben and Misha, you
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are both Christian businessmen,
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entrepreneurs, and you
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love flying.
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So tell us where this passion
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for flying originated for both
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of you.
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>> Mm, yeah.
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Both of us when we were
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pretty young.
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When I was 16 years old, my
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mom gave me a ten-- well, it
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was a 12-minute flight in a
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helicopter and that was all it
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took to spark the interest and
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from that moment on it was
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like, I have to do this for my
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career, I have to do this for
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a living, I wanna be in the
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air, I wanna fly helicopters.
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And so it was just this, you
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know, this passion that
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snowballed into figuring out a
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way to actually make it happen.
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So, yeah...
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>> And I was probably
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the same age,
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actually probably younger.
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I was living in Uruguay, my
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parents were missionaries
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there and I had this crazy,
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I like to think immature idea
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that I could fly from Uruguay
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to South Africa on a little
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kit plane that I saw that was
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a helicopter on a kit plane
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magazine that I was buying and
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I dreamed about it: "One day"
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"I'm gonna fly to South Africa"
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"and it's gonna be at night,"
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so very, very...
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>> More adventurous.
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>> Adventurous even.
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And I was at-- had a passion
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about geography, just going
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around the world and being
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different places, very quickly
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changing culturals and
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changing countries so that,
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just the freedom that it
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gives, just flying like a
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bird, it was just-- inspired
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my imagination of doing all
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these things.
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>> So for both of you it was a
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dream that started when you
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were young and you just
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followed that and it was more
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of a dream when you were
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younger, right?
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And for you, at the age of 16,
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Misha, but then from there you
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just, you just took off with
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it, you started a business.
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>> Yeah, I mean, I always had
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sort of the entrepreneurial
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spirit and so I figured out a
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way, you know, I'm an
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Adventist, and so I figured
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out a way that I wasn't gonna
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have to fly on Saturdays which
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is a really hard thing to do
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and, you know, a lot of people
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said I could never do it and
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it would never happen, I'd
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never be a commercial
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helicopter pilot if I didn't
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fly on Saturdays.
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And so, you know, it takes
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creativity to make something
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like that happen and so I had
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to go a very unusual route
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and, yeah, and it's been a
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blessing the whole way.
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Challenging, incredibly
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challenging, but, you know,
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without challenge I think you
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don't get the opportunities,
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you don't get exposed to the
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opportunities that I think you
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could if you didn't put
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yourself in that situation.
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I think we found that with the
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world trip as well.
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>> So when we talk about this
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world trip, you're going
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around the world in a
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helicopter and so I don't
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think people realize how
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involved that is and the
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planning that goes into that.
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So talk to us about the
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planning, about the risks,
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what you anticipated.
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>> Yeah, well, I mean, before
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we went, 18 other people had
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gone around the world, or 18
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other helicopters had gone
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around the world.
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>> That's very few.
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>> Yeah, it's very few.
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And so planning is a
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significant part of it, you
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know, it took us two years
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from the time that-- I still
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remember as Ruben was talking
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about earlier, when we first
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had that discussion on the
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helicopter while Ruben was
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getting lessons, I asked him
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the next day, I said,
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"So were you actually serious"
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"about this world trip, like,"
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"I'll do it, but are you"
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"actually serious about it?"
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And 'cause, you know, you can
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say things and not be fully
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meaning it and I found out
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very quickly that he fully
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meant it and so I was like,
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"Well, we better start"
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"planning this 'cause it's"
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"gonna be a big thing."
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We took two years to plan it
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and I think we probably could
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have used more, yeah.
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>> It was a short planning.
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Two years was short.
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>> See, I think most people in
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their minds they think, "Oh,"
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"it's just like getting on a"
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"commercial airliner: buy a"
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"ticket, go around the world."
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This is not like that at all.
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[MISHA] No, no.
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[RUBEN] There's a lot of
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details about logistics from
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fuel, obviously accommodation,
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weather, gotta be flexible, if
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you change plans what happens,
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authorizations throughout a
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lot of air space in the world.
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We had a specialized company
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to get our permits and this is
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a company that only does
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adventure flights around the
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world and other things not
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only around the world, but
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also that has some type of
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very special situation of an
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aircraft so we engaged them
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and they helped us.
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We learned a lot from the
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previous person that did the
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same route and we wanted to
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beat his record and this is,
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as Misha said, a very small
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group of people and they have
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the same vision, the same
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passion and we help each
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other, right, and we already
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have given other advice to
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people who wanted to do it and
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the first advice that we give
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is be very, very serious what
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you get into because it's not
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really something you have to
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take lightly because there's a
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lot of weight on taking that
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responsibility of taking risks
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for the reward.
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And I think that the biggest
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thing about this trip is that
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the reward is huge, but the
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risk was pretty high.
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>> So, Ruben, you just
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mentioned that there was a lot
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of risk involved in this
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world trip.
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Did you face any close calls
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while you were flying around
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the world?
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>> Well, more than a couple.
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And I think that probably
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would be a better setting to
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be near the helicopter to tell
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you a couple of them.
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So let's go down there and
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talk about that.
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>> So we had a couple close
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calls on our trip.
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Ruben, I don't know if you
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wanna talk about the first
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one, I'll talk about the
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second one,
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yours involved wire.
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The interesting thing about
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our close calls were they
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affected us each differently
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and go ahead with yours first.
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>> Yeah, you know, when you go
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on a trip like this, I
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remember Misha had the thought
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everything's gonna be smooth
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because we were gonna have an
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under control schedule, not
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gonna take any risks, right,
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and I remember the first one
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that was kind of surprise
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after it happened was--
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because it was like the
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fourth, fifth day, right.
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>> It was just the beginning
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of the trip.
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>> Beginning of the trip
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and we...
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>> We went a long ways, but it
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was the beginning of the trip.
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>> Exactly.
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So we arrive in Acapulco and
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very, very excited because the
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place is beautiful, going the
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coast, the weather is
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impeccable and I remember that
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you and I, and you just
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talking about these amazing
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hotels all over the place,
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right, and we were so excited.
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And I know that-- I remember
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that I was talking Spanish
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with the tower and I think it
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was a mistake, right.
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>> That was, yeah, yeah.
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>> And because he was more
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comfortable with Spanish and
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just going away with
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the little directions there
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and he said something that I
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understood going through a
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certain bay.
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So we're going through that
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certain bay and I know that
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you and I felt a little bit
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uncomfortable about that,
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wasn't it?
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>> Yeah, because backing up
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just a second, about 15
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minutes earlier he had said
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that there was a restricted
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area coming up ahead and
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you're not allowed below
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500 feet.
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>> Yeah, I remember that, yep.
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>> And now he's telling us
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descend below 500 feet and I'm
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questioning you and you're
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saying, "No, no, no, he's"
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"saying descend below 500"
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"feet," and you confirmed it
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with him.
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>> I think he-- I believe he
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did a mistake.
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But then we go at 500 feet and
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very happy, looking at right
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side, left side and all of a
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sudden I just see-- I was on
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the controls, right.
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>> You were on controls, you
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were flying, yeah.
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>> And I literally see a wire
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in front of me, right,
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like a wire.
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>> But a cable.
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>> It's a big cable.
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>> A cable.
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>> It's a big cart zip line,
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I think, right?
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That is in Acapulco,
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I think it's well-known and
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you can check it out.
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And I see this cable in front
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of me, my reaction I believe
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was a divine moment that I had
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this reaction that I was not
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prepared for.
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And I immediately-- and this
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helicopter you can't push,
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right, you can't push over
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because it has that limitation
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of low G's, but I put the
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collective down, I put the
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cyclic down, immediately,
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like, bam, like we went
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below the wire.
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>> I was actually filming with
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my phone at the time and I
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dropped my phone, did you see
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it happen, I dropped my phone.
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>> Yeah, and you got
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very scared.
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>> And I went and grabbed the
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controls, "What are you doing?"
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>> I thought he-- I thought
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Misha thought of me going
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crazy, right?
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>> I didn't know what was
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going on, yeah.
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>> Something was going on
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'cause, "What were you--"
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"what was happening?"
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And that was a split of a
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second, we went literally
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below the cable and both of us
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look at each other and say,
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"What just happened?"
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"What happened?"
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And after that we had to calm
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down, debrief, decompress, we
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landed, I think it was five or
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ten minutes later in a very--
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the first spot where media was
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there waiting for us.
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>> Yeah, we had to jump right
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into an interview.
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>> And our faces were not
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prepared for that, I remember
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that because we were landing,
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we were still thinking of that
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moment, it was a split second,
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almost died there.
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>> Yeah, and I recovered from
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that one, it was incredibly
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scary, but I recovered from
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that one a little faster
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because I wasn't flying, I
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wasn't the one making those
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control inputs, but I think
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you held onto that one for a
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long time.
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>> Several days,
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I think weeks.
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Two weeks.
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>> You kept bringing it up,
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"I can't believe that!"
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>> "How did it happen??"
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>> And so forth, yeah.
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Yeah, so I think we each
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experienced our stories a
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little bit differently.
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I remember, you know, we were
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in Japan, leaving Japan,
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hopping over the ocean over to
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Russia, it was a fairly large
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water-hop and this was late in
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the trip, this was getting
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down to the last couple weeks.
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And I remember, you know, it
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was one of those days you wake
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up, you look outside and it's
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blue sky, it's beautiful, but
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we looked at the weather very
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carefully and there was an
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overcast layer that was
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sitting on the ocean kind of
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between where we were and
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where we were trying to go and
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we were trying to make the
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right call; do we go over,
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do we go under, how do we
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work this?
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You know, the ceiling of the
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base of those clouds seemed
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very reasonable, very safe so
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we set out on the journey and
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that could have been the
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fateful day for us, it was
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incredibly dangerous.
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You know, I've been flying for
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a long time, 8000 hours, I've
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instructed hundreds of
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students and through my whole
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career, you know, I've drilled
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into every student that if
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you-- when we're flying visual
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flight rules which is, you
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know, what this helicopter is
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rated for, meaning you have to
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see visually outside either
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terrain or land or water or
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whatever.
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You know, when you're flying
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under those conditions, if you
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fly into cloud accidentally,
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we call it IIMC, so
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inadvertent flying into IMC,
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you lose all your reference,
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you lose all orientation and
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within typically the average
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of 72 seconds the helicopter
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is completely out of control
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and you end up crashing...
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>> Done.
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>> ...on the ground or in this
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case, the water.
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So, you know, we were well
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over the ocean, two hours out,
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too far to turn around and
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come back at that stage, the
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weather was deteriorating on
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us slowly and so it kind of
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lured us in, kind of like the
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frog, you know, boiling in
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water, right, and so it lured
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us in to a point where we
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couldn't turn around, we were
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so low to the water that we
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had to make a choice that the
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clouds were basically right
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above our rotors, we had to
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make a choice what we were
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gonna do.
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And I remember that moment
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because for me, flying into
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the cloud was not an option.
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It was absolutely we have to
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turn around, something has
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to-- we have to land on the
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water, pop our floats and you
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made this call, this momentary
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call that saved our lives and
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it was, "We have to climb, we"
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"have to go into the clouds."
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And it was this quick
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realization that's the only
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way we're gonna live, right.
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>> Yeah, we were so tight, so
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tight, literally almost there.
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>> We were losing reference,
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we almost couldn't see the
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water anymore and so it's this
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momentary decision.
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I was flying at that point and
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I looked up, you know, onto
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the instruments, started
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climbing and I remember we
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just went into survival mode.
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We both talking constantly,
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"OK, watch this, watch this"
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you know, "a little higher,"
00:14:18.39\00:14:19.49
"watch the altitude, watch"
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"the turn there," and I flew
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for a few minutes, it was
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maybe five minutes or
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something like that, then you
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took over, and I kinda went
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into instructing mode and
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started talking you through
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it, we kinda both worked our
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way through it.
00:14:29.73\00:14:30.73
After about 15 minutes in the
00:14:30.73\00:14:32.07
clouds we finally broke out
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and we were back into
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visibility.
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I remember that moment when we
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broke out, we-- I think we
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both started crying.
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>> I think so, yeah.
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>> There was definitely tears.
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>> It was too strong of
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an emotion.
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>> It was too strong of an
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emotion and that one stuck
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with me I think, again, harder
00:14:45.18\00:14:46.18
than it stuck with you, it was
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so impactful for both of us.
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>> How come we were in that
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situation, that was your
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problem.
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>> How-- my problem was how
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did I possibly let us get into
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that situation and I remember
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having the thought, "This is"
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"how the whole trip ends," you
00:14:58.26\00:14:59.59
know, "they're gonna read"
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"about us in the newspaper"
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"saying, 'yeah, guys just"
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"about made it around the"
00:15:02.83\00:15:03.77
"world and they crashed as"
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"they were arriving in"
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"Russia.'"
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>> Just one thing, Misha, you
00:15:06.30\00:15:07.60
know, when I was flying in
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that moment as you described,
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everything comes to your mind,
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your family, your kids, your
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wife, and I was thinking,
00:15:12.37\00:15:13.91
"This is it, we're done."
00:15:13.91\00:15:16.08
And it was so intense because
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I was seeing death at any
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second, but, yes, we were
00:15:20.22\00:15:21.85
blessed because obviously after
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that we saw blue skies and just
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start crying out of happiness.
00:15:25.55\00:15:26.89
>> Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:15:26.89\00:15:27.89
I think there was definitely
00:15:27.89\00:15:28.89
angels guiding the helicopter,
00:15:28.89\00:15:30.16
keeping it stable so that we
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could make it out of there.
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It was quite the journey.
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>> What a moment.
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>> You flew over some
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beautiful places in the world,
00:15:38.67\00:15:40.74
some tropical beaches, South
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America, Malaysia, Philippines,
00:15:42.64\00:15:45.77
you also flew over some very
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cold places like the frozen
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tundra of Canada, of
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Greenland, Russia, and desert
00:15:51.68\00:15:54.72
in the Middle East.
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So of all those areas that you
00:15:56.18\00:15:57.69
flew over, which areas did you
00:15:57.69\00:15:59.72
like the most, did you enjoy
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the most?
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>> Well, it's funny, you know,
00:16:02.52\00:16:03.59
'cause people ask that
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question and you right away go
00:16:04.79\00:16:06.03
to kind of the typical ones,
00:16:06.03\00:16:07.40
you know, the places with the
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beautiful beaches and kind of
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the more exotic type areas,
00:16:09.66\00:16:10.90
but for me it was more, it was
00:16:10.90\00:16:12.30
kinda two different things, it
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was first of all the people
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that you encountered and the
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experience that you had with
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those people and then it was
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also the places that were the
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most unique or different than
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what you have around here, you
00:16:20.91\00:16:21.88
get used to in your own
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surroundings so when you're in
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a completely separate,
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different type of place,
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that's very unique.
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So for me, you know, it's
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places like Greenland where it
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was just, it was very raw,
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very pristine, very beautiful,
00:16:33.19\00:16:34.96
but very, very different than
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what we have here, lots of ice
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and icebergs and things like
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that, so that was really,
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really incredible.
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And, you know, places like far
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east Russia, where there's,
00:16:42.73\00:16:44.50
you now, there's not much out
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there, it's incredible kind of
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scenery, but the people that
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you encounter and the culture
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and kinda getting to know
00:16:49.74\00:16:51.17
people and things like that, I
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think that's, you know, a
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really big one as well.
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So, yeah, lots of memories in
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different places, but those
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are a couple that stand out.
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Yeah.
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>> I have similar places as
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Misha, but also some others to
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add, I really like-- Greenland
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was amazing because it was so
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different, it is-- also I like
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places that don't have a lot
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of people, it was just in
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nature and it looks like
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nobody has been there before.
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Which is not realistic because
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somebody has been there before
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for sure, that place, but we
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think it's not possible that
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anybody was here before.
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And I remember some scenes in
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Greenland some places have a
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very tight gorges and with the
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waterfalls and the glaciers
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and all that, but also the
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extreme the other side was
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Saudi Arabia.
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For me, Saudi Arabia,
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especially going Egypt to
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Saudi Arabia crossing and
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there's this desert that has
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some mountain formations.
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And, again, you look at it,
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how is it possible somebody
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will survive here?
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And for me it was just
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shocking to see such a long
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stretch of land that nobody's
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there, nobody lives there.
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We did nine hours I think it
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was in Saudi Arabia and now
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and then we saw some nomad
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camps, but that was it.
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And for us it was like little
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lighthouses of guiding us
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through the trip.
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So those moments, the ones
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that stick forever, I believe.
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And also Columbia, Myanmar.
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Myanmar was extremely dense and
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lush forest that, again, it's--
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>> Very organized,
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very pristine.
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>> And then organized at the
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same time, when we see
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civilization and urban
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gatherings, you would see a
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very simple and poor houses,
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but extremely clean,
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organized, everything in its
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own place and not only one
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house, every single house was
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that way.
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And seeing-- that's the
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benefit of travelling from the
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air in a helicopter at low
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altitudes from the ground
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because you see things that
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you don't see in an airline.
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And that's big memories that I
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have from these little
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unique places.
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>> And then, Misha and Ruben,
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you relied on something called
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"the power of nice."
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So can you tell us what you
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mean by "the power of nice?"
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>> Yeah, I remember that when
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we coined that term, it was
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kind of natural after midterm
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or after two thirds of the
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trip, it was in practice and I
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think that we first talked
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about it, but we had been
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using it at that time for a
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long time, probably already
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for 30, 40 days of the trip.
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And it is so special when you
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make everybody special,
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I think that's the key.
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We were-- wanted to make sure
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that independently of the
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rank, the position, the
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responsibility of that person
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that we were gonna meet, that
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we'd treat them as a unique
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human being.
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And we know that people like,
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first of all, to be called by
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their own name so we always
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ask when we get some place,
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"What's your name?"
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That was the first thing we
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did, right?
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So, "What's your name?"
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"My name is Ruben," he'd say,
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"My name is Mishu."
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"What's your name?"
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And he would say, "Mohammed."
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So from that point on, we just
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call him, "Hey, Mohammed,"
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"Mohammed, Mohammed."
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People like to hear their own
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name and then a big smile on
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the face.
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>> Yeah, body language is a
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big thing, yeah.
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>> Body language, making them
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feel comfortable,
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automatically they don't feel
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threatened because they see
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that you are just talking with
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them at a human-to-human level.
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Some countries have a social
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position that you're the
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captain and they come into a
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position, we're captains, we
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have a small ship, but they
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come to you and say, "Oh,"
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"Captain, Captain," right.
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And we left that behind.
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"No, it's just Mohammed,"
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"Ruben," right.
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So we make them feel
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comfortable and that thing--
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that little detail opens so
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many doors along the trip.
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>> So many doors, yeah, and it
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disarms people, too, you know,
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we had a lot of hostile places
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that we went to as well where
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they at least appeared hostile
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when we first got there and,
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you know, you go out with that
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body language, you jump out of
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the helicopter with a big
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smile on your face and you go
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and try and shake their hand
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or whatever you can do to
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greet them and...
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>> Made a party, remember?
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>> And you really make a party
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of the interaction, the first
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interaction and you're meeting
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people that are holding
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machine guns and straight
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faces and, you know, the
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police of whatever.
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And we noticed, immediately,
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we would disarm them and all
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of a sudden, you know, they'd
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get a smile and we'd start
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talking and we got favours.
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It's amazing how it opens up
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doors and you get things that
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normally if you just got out
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and, "OK, here's my paperwork,"
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"what's next," you know.
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>> Nothing will happen.
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>> Nothing will happen and
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you're gonna basically fight a
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lot through every step that
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you have to go through and we
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found that, you know, doors
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would open up for us.
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Just simple examples like when
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we arrived in Mexico, same
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thing, you know, people with
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machine guns and whatever,
00:22:00.42\00:22:01.72
right away we had these
00:22:01.72\00:22:03.02
amazing conversations, really
00:22:03.02\00:22:04.42
struck up a friendship and,
00:22:04.42\00:22:06.09
you know, when the gentlemen
00:22:06.09\00:22:07.89
were asking, "OK, should we"
00:22:07.89\00:22:09.36
"search their helicopter now?"
00:22:09.36\00:22:10.43
They said, "Eh, don't worry"
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"about it, why don't you just"
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"open the door there, yeah,"
00:22:12.33\00:22:13.19
"OK, everything's good"
00:22:13.19\00:22:14.00
"alright you guys are good,"
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"you're ready to go."
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And, you know, we would have
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never gotten that kind of
00:22:17.33\00:22:18.40
treatment without creating
00:22:18.40\00:22:19.50
that relationship and that was
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already after doing a little
00:22:20.40\00:22:21.44
bit of paperwork with them and
00:22:21.44\00:22:22.60
so forth, but, you know, the
00:22:22.60\00:22:23.94
stories just go on and on
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about how the power of nice
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opened doors for us throughout
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the entire trip.
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I mean, we could go on for
00:22:30.41\00:22:31.91
hours on it, but there's
00:22:31.91\00:22:33.62
lots of good examples.
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>> I wanna just add that in
00:22:35.28\00:22:36.85
the beginning it was something
00:22:36.85\00:22:39.02
spontaneous that we had it
00:22:39.02\00:22:40.76
naturally, we knew that this
00:22:40.76\00:22:42.36
would work, but then after, we
00:22:42.36\00:22:44.26
became-- I think we were doing
00:22:44.26\00:22:45.36
a little bit better and better
00:22:45.36\00:22:46.66
because we plan it.
00:22:46.66\00:22:47.76
OK, now we're gonna land,
00:22:47.76\00:22:48.76
what we gonna do special for
00:22:48.76\00:22:49.66
these guys?
00:22:49.66\00:22:50.87
Let's do a little party here.
00:22:50.87\00:22:52.00
We get out, "OK, Ruben, you"
00:22:52.00\00:22:53.37
"get out, I do this, I do"
00:22:53.37\00:22:54.70
"that and let's dance around"
00:22:54.70\00:22:56.04
"the helicopter," and it's
00:22:56.04\00:22:57.51
gonna impact the person, they
00:22:57.51\00:22:58.94
say, "What's going on," right.
00:22:58.94\00:23:00.34
>> So if you have a boring job
00:23:00.34\00:23:02.11
of just refuelling, all of a
00:23:02.11\00:23:03.55
sudden you have something
00:23:03.55\00:23:04.75
special and you go back home,
00:23:04.75\00:23:05.71
you say, "These guys, crazy"
00:23:05.71\00:23:06.88
"guys, they just jump out of"
00:23:06.88\00:23:08.18
"the helicopter and just"
00:23:08.18\00:23:09.32
"start dancing."
00:23:09.32\00:23:10.12
And so we wanted to make it a
00:23:10.12\00:23:11.65
special event, I think that
00:23:11.65\00:23:12.75
was the case, we want to make
00:23:12.75\00:23:13.99
a special event that they will
00:23:13.99\00:23:15.12
remember and that opened doors.
00:23:15.12\00:23:16.56
>> Yeah, we had an interesting
00:23:16.56\00:23:17.69
time in Saudi Arabia.
00:23:17.69\00:23:18.76
We had been told by the
00:23:18.76\00:23:20.06
previous person that had done
00:23:20.06\00:23:21.16
the trip, same trip as us,
00:23:21.16\00:23:22.73
that you have to plan for
00:23:22.73\00:23:23.90
multiple days in Saudi Arabia,
00:23:23.90\00:23:25.57
each fuel stop is gonna take
00:23:25.57\00:23:26.94
you minimum an hour and a
00:23:26.94\00:23:28.10
half, just because of all the
00:23:28.10\00:23:29.94
red tape that you have to go
00:23:29.94\00:23:31.27
through and so forth and so we
00:23:31.27\00:23:32.54
thought, "OK, we can do this"
00:23:32.54\00:23:33.74
"in one day, let's see how"
00:23:33.74\00:23:34.98
"quickly we can make these"
00:23:34.98\00:23:35.98
"fuel stops."
00:23:35.98\00:23:36.81
And so we used the power of
00:23:36.81\00:23:37.78
nice to the extreme level and
00:23:37.78\00:23:40.48
we timed each fuel stop and
00:23:40.48\00:23:42.58
they were between 11 and 12
00:23:42.58\00:23:44.19
minutes on each fuel stop.
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>> Wow!
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[RUBEN] Even the record
00:23:46.42\00:23:47.39
refuelling is already...
00:23:47.39\00:23:48.19
>> Absolutely.
00:23:48.19\00:23:49.32
And it was just unbelievable,
00:23:49.32\00:23:50.43
you know, how it can open
00:23:50.43\00:23:51.39
doors for you.
00:23:51.39\00:23:52.49
One of biggest examples that
00:23:52.49\00:23:54.20
we don't wanna go into all the
00:23:54.20\00:23:55.30
details right now 'cause it's
00:23:55.30\00:23:56.23
just a very long story, but,
00:23:56.23\00:23:58.13
you know, through a bell boy
00:23:58.13\00:24:00.37
in Dubai at a hotel, we were
00:24:00.37\00:24:03.27
able to obtain authorizations
00:24:03.27\00:24:04.91
that we didn't think we were
00:24:04.91\00:24:06.51
gonna get to get into Pakistan
00:24:06.51\00:24:07.94
and, you know, through his
00:24:07.94\00:24:09.31
connection that he had met
00:24:09.31\00:24:10.78
somebody and the relationship
00:24:10.78\00:24:12.38
that Ruben had formed with him
00:24:12.38\00:24:13.85
in previous trips, just, you
00:24:13.85\00:24:15.62
know, with that power of nice,
00:24:15.62\00:24:17.29
you know, he had already that
00:24:17.29\00:24:18.59
connection, that relationship,
00:24:18.59\00:24:19.65
he did a favour of a dignitary
00:24:19.65\00:24:22.22
that was there at that time,
00:24:22.22\00:24:23.86
he opened the door for us to
00:24:23.86\00:24:25.16
get the permit that we needed
00:24:25.16\00:24:26.16
to get into that country.
00:24:26.16\00:24:27.36
Without that person, we would
00:24:27.36\00:24:29.20
have never gone into Pakistan
00:24:29.20\00:24:30.60
meaning we would have never
00:24:30.60\00:24:31.77
been able to accomplish the
00:24:31.77\00:24:32.73
full mission of the trip.
00:24:32.73\00:24:34.00
You know, the plan for this
00:24:34.00\00:24:35.54
trip was to go, you know,
00:24:35.54\00:24:36.87
around the world, but to touch
00:24:36.87\00:24:38.07
two opposite points of the
00:24:38.07\00:24:39.37
earth, two antipodes, right?
00:24:39.37\00:24:40.74
And so the first one was in
00:24:40.74\00:24:41.88
Neiva, Columbia, the second
00:24:41.88\00:24:43.11
one was in Pelambang,
00:24:43.11\00:24:44.18
Indonesia and the only way for
00:24:44.18\00:24:45.61
us to get to Indonesia was to
00:24:45.61\00:24:47.45
go through Pakistan and India,
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.25
and so forth and so without
00:24:49.25\00:24:51.32
the opening the doors of that
00:24:51.32\00:24:52.99
one bell boy, we would have
00:24:52.99\00:24:54.56
never been able to accomplish
00:24:54.56\00:24:55.82
that trip and break the world
00:24:55.82\00:24:57.03
record and accomplish the
00:24:57.03\00:24:58.59
mission that we had set out to
00:24:58.59\00:25:00.13
do, you know, so it's amazing
00:25:00.13\00:25:01.63
what that power of nice can do.
00:25:01.63\00:25:03.73
>> Oh, I'm so sorry, we've
00:25:03.73\00:25:05.17
come to a very crucial spot in
00:25:05.17\00:25:07.14
our story and I-- we're gonna
00:25:07.14\00:25:09.74
have to call it time out,
00:25:09.74\00:25:11.11
we've come to the end of our
00:25:11.11\00:25:12.57
time together, but I wonder as
00:25:12.57\00:25:14.61
we close this week if, Misha,
00:25:14.61\00:25:16.81
if you could close with a word
00:25:16.81\00:25:17.85
of prayer for us.
00:25:17.85\00:25:18.68
>> Sure.
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Dear Heavenly Father, I just
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wanna thank You for this
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opportunity to just come
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together and remember a few of
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these experiences, these
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incredible moments in our
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lives and-- where You
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intervened for us, Lord, and
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You were there in a very
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tangible and very crucial way
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for us and I just pray that
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You continue to go through
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every part of our lives
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with us.
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Take care of us, Lord, watch
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over us and I just pray that
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You bless each person that is
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viewing this right now, for
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them for them to be able to
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have a true experience with
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You as well.
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In Your name we pray, amen.
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[ALL] Amen.
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[MIKE] Amen, that really was
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an experience and we look
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forward to continuing the
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story next week so I hope you
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can join us to continue
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telling your story.
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>> OK.
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>> Good.
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>> Friends, if you were
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to get our free offer today.
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[MIKE] Friends, we want you to
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experience the truth that is
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found in the words of Jesus
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when He said, "It is written,"
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"man shall not live by bread"
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"alone, but by every word"
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"that proceeds out of the"
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"mouth of God."
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>> Alright, you guys, we are
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24 minutes away from lift off.
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[crowd cheering]
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>> Unbelievable, guys,
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this is the big moment.
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We're uh...we're officially
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starting, Ruben.
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>> What an amazing country we
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live in, you guys.
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Hard to believe we are where
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we are right now.
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Northern Territories, Nunavut.
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This is amazing.
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>> We're back, my friend
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we're back!
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Oh my goodness, my friend,
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we're here, I can't
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believe it!
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