He remembered when the Pueblo had been captured by North Korea the crew had given the cameraman the finger, to show that they hadn’t really defected, despite what the Koreans claimed. Given that the ponies didn’t fully understand English, it would be reasonably easy to add a phrase to indicate that he’d actually been kidnapped and was being forced to do this against his will—but of course he didn’t want that. He wanted the opposite, some kind of way to indicate that as crazy and unlikely as the message seemed, it was true.