 Because I went That's the yeah This is the entire pocket and I ran out and I ran down the street after her and I stumbled a little bit and I touched her a little bit too hard on the shoulder and Pulled her in a bad way. You know, this is not a good way to approach a girl and She turned real in horror and I said hi look I saw you in there and when I was In the settling. I know it's not great, but and she's just there reeling more. This is she reels further and further and Then I just stop and I let you just stop mid-sentence. She's like what the fuck in Russian I don't know what that is in Russian and it was what you need and And I just stop and freeze And I take a deep breath in thanks to my Shaolin training. I bring myself out of my fucking Retarded useless head into my body down to my feet Close my eyes. This is all in front of this girl who's standing there Okay, breathe in Sweep up Breathe out relax Do you mind if I walk with you to the end of the street and she says I'm busy this I have a view on the university I said, okay, but can I walk with you to the end of the street? Let's go And I turn I start to walk and she sort of tentatively walked next to me obviously not really very pleased to be in this situation, but here she is and I have literally 150 meters and I know that she's not going to give me anymore and so My first my first impulse is to talk fast and again I take control of that situation as best I can and I just try to speak slowly to this woman that is Knee shudderingly amazingly beautiful and I said so why are you in Australia and she says it's a long story like Well, I'm interested to hear that story she says I'm with husband, but separated and And and I just asked a couple more questions and then we get to the end of This street and she says I'm leaving and I said Irina I Said to you I'd like to hear that story and I'm serious. When can I hear it? She looks at me and she just stares me up and down in the way that I've only seen one other person do which was a Man called should child who is a shawl in monk who looked at me like that when I asked if I could train at the temple Just that withering look of staring directly through you Down to you Maro and going what are you made of are you serious? Do you really want this? and that's the way she looked at me, which is the way most Russian girls look at every man and She said we can talk Sunday and then like wrote a number on a piece of paper and dismissively walked off Yeah, I There's only a few moments in my life where I felt like amazing elation and that was one of them Like I literally went like this That's the second time I've done that just then yeah What a phenomenal breakthrough and I thought well fuck it's gonna flake and it did flake she didn't answer Tried all sorts of text things me and it's hilarious. Sometimes you'll have who whatever crew I'm traveling with with Sasha Or Liam or John Keegan, whatever and you've got you know the the think tank of the greatest Seductive minds alive on the planet today and someone gets a text message from a 19-year-old girl and And the guy's looking he's like what do you reckon about this? And we all sit down there and then and then everyone starts crowding around like no don't put a full stop Now I reckon if you leave the capital off It makes it feel like it was just so casually like tossed away as if you just like texting whilst while snowboarding which is a cool thing Yeah, yeah, it's like yeah, no, but there's this problem. She doesn't speak that well English So you she gonna understand what are you up to she's gonna think and so on right and and then eventually all of us go All right, cool sin. Yeah 20 seconds later ping back from this 19-year-old girl with the perfect response Like what that team of girls over there is working way faster than us Scenarum boys The average 19-year-old will run rings around all of us. It's fucked up. Yeah anyway This girl flaked no matter how many how many great minds I put to the text she didn't reply Six months later. I was sitting with the guy that I started this business with who was a bit of a ghost now He was a man a legendary man who was riding a motorcycle through Africa. We don't speak his name. Did he exist? I don't know and He's I said to him. Hey, do you keep numbers that flake? He said no way Fuck that because he didn't he didn't typically get numbers. He didn't typically we get names either That's Jamie's laughing. It's we remember the days I Said why do he's like why I said well, I don't know maybe though Maybe you can bring a dead number to life. He said have you ever done that said? No, I'm gonna try now. I went scrolling through and I went of course the white whale the lost girl and I remembered in our conversation. She told me that she did modeling and that she played the accordion Well, you don't meet girls like that in Australia and The previous night I'd been out at some like crazy gypsy gig wisdom was playing accordion because I like that kind of weird music And so I just thought fuck it sent a message and I said Saw a crazy accordion playing someone in a band last night. Reminded me of you dot-dot And don't write that out. It's not the greatest text But whatever I sent it off and she wrote back you send me messages sometimes why? She's back. She's alive. All right, again Remember, I want to still hear your story and then she said we can meet Thursday on like show I rocked up to Fed Square and this girl did actually appear