Episode 1: Bob's Your Oyster
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 1:10.1 | Meet Slava. |
| 1:12.3 | So my original name was Yaroslav Pasakov, but that's way too long. |
| 1:15.9 | So I shortened it to Slava Pasikov, and then I shorten that to Slava Pashtuk, and then I shorten that to Slava Pasta. |
| 1:22.5 | Slava is 29 years old, tall, broad-shouldered, thinning hair. |
| 1:27.0 | He's got a regular amount of tattoos for a hipster, so a lot. |
| 1:33.4 | When I meet him, he's wearing board shorts and a t-shirt just regular around the house clothes. |
| 1:38.5 | He lives in Brampton, a suburb of Toronto, and doesn't get out much. He spends a lot of time in the basement playing video games |
| 1:45.4 | and watching old crime movies. |
| 1:47.5 | He says he's teaching himself Morse code. |
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