Understanding Putin
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben does a deep dive on President Vladimir Putin’s history and how he has arrived on the brink of war with Ukraine with help from Putin expert and special Reuters correspondent Catherine Belton, and Russian journalist and activist Zhanna Nemtsova.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Potsay of the World. I'm Ben Rhodes and I am very sad that I'm not joined as always by one of my best friends and my co-host and the |
| 0:12.4 | the founder of this entire enterprise, not just this podcast but but Crooked Media, Tommy. |
| 0:19.6 | For those of you who don't know by now who haven't seen his post on Instagram or listen to Potsay of America, |
| 0:24.9 | he's just been going through an unspeakable tragedy. Tommy and his wife Hannah just a few days ago |
| 0:33.7 | lost their baby daughter at 24 weeks, got to hold her. I encourage you to look at Tommy's Instagram |
| 0:41.7 | post which was incredibly courageous of them to share that story and that information because |
| 0:49.5 | they know it's something that other people go through that people don't always talk about and as |
| 0:54.1 | Tommy references and one of his posts it's all the more tragic for them because this is |
| 0:59.9 | they've had miscarriages before they've been really battling to reach the point where they |
| 1:05.8 | were so close and all I can say is that one of the reasons I love doing this particular show |
| 1:17.2 | is you get a sense that there's a community around it and we joke about it sometimes |
| 1:22.7 | the world though community but I've met people around the world who listen to this podcast |
| 1:31.0 | and that's a reflection really of Tommy's personality more than mine. He's such an open and |
| 1:37.4 | inclusive person as you guys here every week. Not just kind of funny, not just entertaining but |
| 1:44.5 | genuinely searching, genuinely curious, genuinely interested in the underdog and I just want to say |
| 1:52.4 | that I've gotten messages and I know Tommy's gotten a lot from people who listen to this show, |
| 1:58.3 | who are worried about him and Hannah, who care about them, who just want to let them know that |
| 2:03.2 | that you're thinking of them and I want to thank you all on his behalf for for those messages. |
| 2:09.9 | They mean a lot to them. It's helped them through this terrible time. It's lifted them up |
| 2:16.2 | and I know how much it means to him to do this show. Thank you for that. I know that Tommy and |
| 2:26.5 | Hannah also have encouraged people who want to do something and this is another thing that Tommy's |
| 2:32.0 | always done encourage people to do something. There's several organizations that they would point |
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