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Hello, angry planet, listeners, this is Matthew here up at the top.

Jason is back from vacation, just got back.

I am still a little bit on my back, but I'm going to be fine.

We're going to be get back to things as normal next week. Jason's already got the next guest line up.

Got a big list of people from producer Kevin O'Dell who is kind of the secret sauce behind the show,

if you don't know.

He kind of is amazing at picking topics and knowing exactly who we should get on to talk to. So I want to shout at at he does in the background, which is a lot of like question suggestion and guest suggestion.

But again, we're going to do another set of reruns this week. It'll be the last set before we get back to normal going again deep deep

into the angry planet slash war college archive to a time when we were at

Reuters this first one is is very funny because it's very Reuters.

Jason introduces the Moscow Bureau Chief who then introduces the guest.

But why is it of interest now?

It is of interest now because it's a

gentleman talking about the beginning of Russia's war and Ukraine. We forget, I

think, sometimes that all this started back in 2014 it is older much older

than the current situation it's been brewing for a long time so we're going to get

kind of a view of that. The other episode I'm going to play, we're going to do two kind of crammed together here.

Is our first episode with a gentleman we've had on a couple times, Peter Pomeransev, talking about Russian

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