#179 - Soviet Refugee Explains Putin & Flat Earthers | Mario Bastunetti

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 188 minutes

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Mario Bastunetti tells the story of how he escaped Bulgaria, and was eventually smuggled into the United States. DANNY https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon EPISODE LINKS 0:00 - Growing up in Communism 10:25 - Propaganda, Berlin Wall coming down 18:57 - Joining Bulgarian military 23:24 - Escaping Bulgaria 47:38 - Getting political asylum in Canada 53:20 - Carwash drug operation 56:52 - The King of Angola’s son 1:06:44 - Being smuggled into the United States 1:30:41 - Florida 1:39:46 - Witch doctor 1:46:28 - Deported by Clinton 2:06:03. - Mafia / corruption 2:19:49 - Arlen Specter 2:25:22 - Putin 2:33:36 - Flat Earth debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some of the best podcasts on here with people that have never been on a podcast before.
0:11.7	Well, it's good to know.
0:12.8	So this could be a fun one.
0:14.0	All right.
0:14.5	I just got done watching.
0:15.7	So I wanted to like give myself a better understanding of what happened in the part of the world that you're from.
0:24.8	Because I've never gone super deep on it.
0:27.1	Like I had that guy, Beck Lover on here.
0:29.4	You saw his episode.
0:30.3	He was from Kosovo or Albania.
0:32.9	He's from Albania.
0:33.6	Yeah.
0:33.9	But he was part of that whole Kosovo war.
0:35.8	And he was explaining what life was like over there.
0:37.6	I just watched a 30 for 30 on these two basketball players that are from there.
0:43.9	And one of them was from Croatia and the other one was from another country over there.
0:49.1	But it was when it was Serbia.
0:50.5	Yeah, maybe it was Serbia.
0:51.4	But it was when it was Yugoslavia.
0:53.0	And they won the Olympics
0:54.4	together. And I guess a guy walked out onto the court with this national Croatian flag. And he
1:00.6	grabbed the flag out of his hand. It's like, no, we're Yugoslavia. This is not, they're just like,
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