47 - Rasputin: Russia's Mad Monk

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Rasputin is one of the strangest historical figures out there. He was a Siberian peasant who ended up becoming part of the Tsar's inner circle due to his alleged healing abilities. He also helped getting Russia's royal family murdered when the Russian people came to believe he was possessed by the Devil, partly because he was sleeping with about half of St. Petersburg, holding odd religious orgies, and doing stuff like getting drunk and waving his penis around at restaurants. Not cool for a guy the country assumes his sleeping with the Tsarina. Learn all about this mad monk and Russia's transition from imperialism to communism in a truly fascinating suck! This episode of Timesuck is brought to you by the Fantasy Footballers podcast. https://www.thefantasyfootballers.com/ The best fantasy football advice you can find and the most fun you'll have listening to it. Check 'em out and subscribe! Head to the Hollywood Improv, October 5th, 7:30PM for the first ever live recording of Timesuck! Part of the LA Podcast Festival. Tickets only $15. Click here for tix/more details. Want to hear Boney M's Rasputin? Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTVWXYctoY

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0:00.0	Grigory, a feme of itch, Rasputin, the mad monk, the dark one, the wandering mystic, the
0:06.2	con man, the faith healer, the antichrist, Russia's protector, Russia's destroyer.
0:11.4	Rasputin was a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
0:14.2	Did this late 19th and early 20th century Siberian peasant really have supernatural healing
0:19.3	powers?
0:20.3	Did he really hold strange spiritual orgies in both his Siberian basement and in St.
0:25.6	Petersburg with the imperialist elites?
0:28.5	How much do you really have to do with the end of imperialist Russia and his transition
0:31.8	to communism?
0:32.8	And how did this legendarily hard to kill dude really die?
0:37.1	There are a lot of different legends out there about Rasputin, but this we know for sure.
0:40.8	The dude's getting sucked right now on TimeSuck.
0:47.2	Happy Monday everybody, I'm Dan Comin, thanks for listening to a
0:58.4	new edition of the suck, thanks for choosing to put more strange shit into your mind.
1:02.8	Will you be able to use any of it to advance your career?
1:04.9	Highly doubt it.
1:05.9	Will make you more interesting person to talk to, for fucking sure it will.
1:09.5	Today's mad Russian Times Suckery is brought to you by the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.
1:13.3	Host, gentlemen, football scholars, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright have
1:17.2	a really special thing going on.
1:18.6	I don't know if you're an ESPN sports center fan, but I'll watch that even when I don't
1:22.0	care about what happened in sports that day sometimes, just because I like the vibe
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