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🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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0:00.0 | We got some 80s Cold War vibes when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 21st, 2022. |
0:12.3 | This horrible war is bringing back memories of pop culture moments, like MTV videos of |
0:18.7 | Nana's 99 red balloons that caused a nuclear holocaust, or Elton John |
0:24.2 | wooing a Russian border guard named Nikita. Even Sting has us wondering again if the Russians |
0:31.0 | love their children too. Today, comedian Dan Cass, who studied experimental theater in Moscow, |
0:38.6 | joins us to look at how Russian propaganda infiltrates the internet and why people are sexualizing Ukraine's hunky |
0:44.0 | political leaders. |
0:45.0 | Plus, how to spot misinformation on the internet when you agree with what they're saying. |
0:51.2 | And was Ian Fleming's James Bond based on Ukrainian super spy Sigmund Rosenblum. |
0:57.0 | I'm Fausto Farnos. I'm Mark Fillion. And Hazaar! This is Feast of Compromat. |
1:05.2 | It's Feast of Fun. Oh. That's right. Don't you forget it? Oh, that's right. And don't you forget it. |
1:32.1 | That is Edward Kill. |
1:35.5 | I hope I'm pronouncing his name right. |
1:38.8 | Internet sensation, best known as the Trollolol guy, |
1:46.8 | who in the early days of the internet was famous for doing the song called I'm very glad because I'm finally returning back home. In times of war, it's important to see the beauty and the humor and the |
1:52.7 | humanity in everyone. And, you know, now when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 21st. |
2:01.3 | We certainly, it feels very retro because we're now back in sort of a Cold War, |
2:07.5 | pop culture moment and, you know, certainly on internet memes and everything. |
2:12.2 | And it feels like, you know, Stings song Russians is more relevant than ever as we're in the precipice of possibly |
2:19.2 | nuclear war. |
2:20.6 | Yeah. |
2:21.4 | Fun times. |
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