Joking around with Comrades
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades! Due to editing issues, we lagged behind with this episode, but here it is. A semi-serious interview with Jonathan Waterlow PhD, author of the newly-published book “It’s only a joke, comrade!” – a book about Soviet political jokes during Stalin’s era in the 30’s. Semi-serious, because we talked about the cultural impact of jokes and…well, Stalin himself, this episode consists of the largest quantity of jokes of all of our episodes. I also managed to look like a worried amateur at times, but as I do that now and then, it should be ok. We also have a contest in the end.
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| 0:15.2 | Imagine you, you in a nice, comfy seat, With your hands behind your head |
| 0:22.2 | Taking in the views |
| 0:24.2 | Instead of taking on the road |
| 0:26.4 | Maybe even taking a nap |
| 0:28.3 | That's the bliss of getting where you need to go |
| 0:31.5 | Without worrying about driving |
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| 0:39.3 | Avanti West Coast. |
| 0:41.3 | Feel good travel. |
| 0:42.3 | The Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Order. |
| 1:02.5 | Today, as I promised, we have a very special episode. |
| 1:05.8 | We have a guest from Scotland. |
| 1:08.2 | He's called John. |
| 1:09.4 | Hi, John. |
| 1:10.7 | Hey, how you doing? Or should I say hello, comrade |
| 1:12.7 | John? Hello, nice to meet you. He's my British spy or Scottish spy, so to speak. |
| 1:22.1 | But yeah, unlike my previous episodes, which have all been terribly depressing, as usual, |
| 1:26.8 | this one's actually gonna be, |
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