Russian

Here's Strange Hill.

It was widely accepted in the small Herefordshire village I grew up in, in the 90s, that Rush, as in Rush Keepers, was an abbreviation of Russian.

This was fact.

We would often very formally announce Russian Keepers today before an all-day park session started.

There was about 10 regulars who played, and I cannot recall it ever being questioned.

We all knew that in Russia, the keepers played an expansive role that would shame the so-called sweeper keepers of today.

Macy Dribbles popping up in the box, etc.

We avidly watched Euro 96 and completely failed to notice the very normal role the Russian keeper played.

This afternoon, we're saying goodbye to a fan favorite in Hollywood, actor Walter Koenig.

Are you all right, kid? Where's Apollo? He disappeared again, like the cat in that Russian story.

Don't you mean the English story, the Cheshire Cat? Cheshire? No, sir.

Minsk, perhaps.

He joined the sci-fi series in its second season, playing young navigation officer Pavel Chekhov.

From TV to the big screen, it was a role he enjoyed for decades.

Are you all right, Captain? Where's Apollo? He disappeared again, like the cat in that Russian story.

Don't you mean the English story, the Cheshire Cat? Cheshire? No, sir.

I mean, normally, the encyclopedia and certain things is vaguely reasonable, but not when it comes to Russia, and certainly not when it comes to Nicholas I.

Even Wikipedia, in fact, if you go to antisemitism in the Russian Empire, it's, they come out and say that given everything we've, we've said, that Nicholas I wanted to destroy Jewish life, that he engaged in forcible conversion of Jews, and that even when, you know, they were, he, th-they make it seem like all Jews or young men were, Jewish young men were drafted and used as cannon fodder.

That was explicitly stated, um, on Wikipedia, not on the page for Nicholas I, on the page on antisemitism.

And I think some of that mentality came straight from the, um, um, the Jewish Encyclopedia on this, on this, just, just for, uh, Nicholas I. It's actually fairly brief.

They could say anything, and so kids in school are writing this crap down, and it gets, uh, um, it gets, not only does it get repeated, but then so-called scholars will use these erroneous facts and then build theories with these facts in mind.

That's when a lie becomes unassailable in their eyes.

When it becomes a part of the field, it becomes a part of a logical, uh, theory about something, about Russian history, about history in general, and, um, uh, the entire thing is based on, on falsehood.

But keep something in mind, and, and Solzhenitsyn would agree with me on this, I'm pretty sure, that in the Talmud, of course, Rome, it had many, uh, code names- Um, Amman or Haman obviously is a, is a big one.

They liked, you know, liberal dissidents like, you know, Brodsky and, and people like that.

But here you have a man who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as we all know, for The Gulag, uh, Archipelago, and he has written, 15 years ago now, um, something like that, 20, a book on, uh, Jews in Russian history, and it caused a tremendous stir.

It took ages to have it translated.

I've, I've been using this book for a long time.

In this book, the presence of the Jews in Russia prior to 1772 will not be discussed in detail.

However, for a few pages, we want to remember the older epochs.

One could begin that the paths of Russians and Jews first crossed in the wars between the Kiev Rus' and the Khazars, but that isn't completely right, since only the upper class of the Khazars were of Hebraic descent, the tribe itself being a branch of the Turks that had accepted the Jewish faith." If one follows the presentation of J.D.

Br- I'm gonna need your help with some of the pronunciations on the names 'cause I'm just terrible, um, o-on some of these.

Walter Koenig.

And he wasn't even Russian.

He did an excellent Russian impersonation.

Yeah.

Excellent.

He was great.

I thought

he really was Russian until like years later I found out that he was just acting.

He was from Minnesota.

He would scream in the Russian accent.

I was at a wrestling then.

Arne Anderson said he hated him because he, you know, behind the scenes, it's like we're a brotherhood.

We take care of each other.

He's walking around like he's Russian.

Dude, what's your problem? He stayed in character.

He did.

They have Dylan McElrath on the third pair and, Like, like maybe, maybe, um, maybe they can't possibly want Simon Benoit, but maybe like a, like a how gay grounds or a Murchison plus like a third round pick, like just something like that.

Um, I just feel like he's somebody that, you know, Being Russian helps.

Being a power forward helps as well.

But he's someone that the Flyers should at least be kicking their tires on.

Like tears are literally coming down their eyes to say like, this is just an incredible way that I know that, I now can buy this food, make it available for myself and have extra resources at the end of the month to do other things that are important to me in my life.

And that feels like incredible to our market managers who are switching from English to Spanish to Russian.

to Cantonese at any given moment of their life or their work to engage our shoppers in the language that they're most, you know, comfortable with and being trying to be helpful in.

So it just feels really inspiring that, you know, these folks that I got to work with are just so passionate, so committed to this organization that it's not just about That one shopper that was able to feed themselves that day is like this whole ecosystem that is created every single time that we're at a market.