Yevgeny Prigozhin

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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^{Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin[a]} (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Приго́жин, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈɡoʐɨn]; 1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch.^[4] He led the Wagner Group private military company and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023.^[5] Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin.^[6] Once a convict in the Soviet Union,^[7] Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose operations, according to a 2020 investigation, were "tightly integrated with Russia's Defence Ministry and its intelligence arm, the GRU".^[8]

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0:00.7	Shrek doesn't make his name up on the spot.
0:03.8	He does, rewatch the scene.
0:06.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:06.9	The one other time someone says his name
0:09.2	is in the first act when the donkey introduces him
0:11.2	to someone else, it kinda makes sense.
0:13.8	There you go, breathe by breathe.
0:16.4	Oh, I really think we should just call the hospital.
0:18.4	Yeah, well, we can't.
0:19.7	So just, yeah, he's packed on.
0:22.1	Hey, guys, what happened to you?
0:24.7	Yeah, you look like you got beat up pretty bad.
0:27.7	Yeah, we did.
0:29.5	So, you know how this week's episode is about
0:31.5	if you have any progoation, Russian oligarch,
0:33.6	try to overthrow the government.
0:35.3	Uh, yeah, of course.
0:36.8	Yeah, well, we got to thinking,
0:38.4	hey, maybe that's what we need to do as well.
0:42.0	Oh, for the throw the Russian government?
0:44.0	No, no, no, no.
0:45.0	Overthrow the more popular podcasts than ours.
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