(PREVIEW) MeatSpinning Boris w/ Milo Edwards

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4.3 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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We are joined by Milo Edwards from Trash Future to discuss the 1996 Russian election in which the United States intervened to help re-elect Boris Yeltsin and save democracy which is totally unlike the whole Russia 2016 thing that liberals yell at me about online. We also discuss the Jeff Goldblum driven dramatization of the ordeal, 2002's Spinning Boris. MILO EDWARDS @Milo_Edwards @trashfuture @mastersofpod @tot_anglichanin Milo is a comedian and writer and one of the hosts of Trashfuture. Formerly, he lived in Moscow and was part of the cast of Russian TV stand-up shows ‘Open Microphone’ and ‘StandUp’ on the TNT network and still runs a weekly Russian podcast called Toomuch (Тумач). His writing has appeared in The New Statesman and Private Eye FULL EPISODE AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0	My favorite Yeltsin story is that, I mean, the man was always drinking, but is that while he was still president, he had a dachar in this village called Uspenskaya, which is kind of like, it's to the west of Moscow.
0:11.3	It's like a very bougie place to have a dachar.
0:13.7	What is the dachar?
0:15.2	Oh, sorry, dachar is like a Russian country house. So like, it's very like, if you've got any money at all in Russia, like usually what
0:21.9	you'll do is you'll have an apartment in the city and then like a datcher in the countryside
0:25.5	summer where you go at weekends. And so he has this dacha and he's really drunk and he's
0:31.7	wandering around the village and the Moscow River flows through Spenska, right? And so he's so
0:37.1	drunk that he's walking over the bridge
0:38.4	and he just manages to like fall off the bridge
0:40.7	and into the river.
0:42.1	At which point he gets rescued by just a drunk homeless guy
0:46.0	who's like under the bridge who like pulls him out of the river
0:49.2	thinking it's like some other drunk homeless guy
0:51.2	who fell in the river and he's just like,
0:52.5	that's fucking Boris Yeltsin.
0:54.5	God damn it.
0:56.3	Like I need to stop fucking drinking.
0:59.2	Willie Wonka style story for this lucky bridge man.
1:03.8	History would have changed if he had not done that, I guess.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:10.3	Because, uh, yeah, Yeltsin's a one and only, really. Yeah. Because,
1:13.1	Yeltson's a one and only, really.
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