WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:38.000 Hello, we are to making entertainment podcasts for you today. Pull up a 2 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.039 wooden chairl but you made with own hands. Yes, he's such entertainment for 3 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:48.000 you. You listen with ears that are on head. I am make David 4 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:56.920 Steckel, I am due David Flora by photos. Nah, take a drink 5 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:04.319 of vodka every time someone say blurry photos, body photos. Oh, two 6 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:14.319 drinks the vampire rush. I don't know that, did it? Welcome, 7 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:21.599 Hi, weary traveler. You've stumbled upon the podcasts of the ages. That's 8 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.000 right, nobody knows about it. You made it through the twirly wirly hollow 9 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:27.879 Earth, all the way through the waste lands of the apocalypse. Yep, 10 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:33.519 you even survived Crumpus. All of these things have brought you to this the 11 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:40.519 new year. Yeah, good for you, and happy twenty thirteen. Right, 12 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.480 you did it. And now that we've dated ourselves, Yeah, how's 13 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.400 it going going? All right? Hey, Hey, hey, buddy, 14 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.439 what's you're thinking? We're just kidding? I can't hear you don't answer that. 15 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.319 Yeah, it'll get weird in here real quick, real quick. So 16 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.920 this week I don't know if you noticed, but we were a fact. 17 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:04.760 John t Russian accents at the beginning, and um, I know what you're 18 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:08.240 thinking. Oh, you guys must be talking about the Tunguska event, the 19 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:12.439 Siberian explosion. Wrong, wrong, right, Shirley, Shirley. Then we're 20 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.520 talking about the Loft Pass. Oh no, no, we're not. No, 21 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:17.599 we're not talking about that, Nick, No, sorry, lots of 22 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:22.759 dead Russians in space. Oh oh, do you think maybe like the rumors 23 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:27.159 of Chernobyl mutants? No, no, not that. How about yet he's 24 00:02:27.199 --> 00:02:30.840 in the side. Okay, we're talking about Rasputin. That's right, Gregory 25 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:35.080 Rasputin. Apparently Russia has a lot of stuff with it. I know, 26 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:39.319 I'm gonna make notes of everything. I was kind of surprised we kept it 27 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.479 going. Oh no, we just shafted ourselves because all these people are like, 28 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.560 oh, I can't Yeah, come on, we're oh no, no, 29 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:57.800 we're just listening about, right, what's here everything? Maybe maybe you 30 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:00.240 do know about him, Maybe you don't. Chances are though you've heard the 31 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.560 name, Yeah, but you're not sure what all this cat's about. Yeah, 32 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:10.759 what's all the buzz about all the hullabaloos arounding the mutant Rascal? He's 33 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:15.319 a he's a pretty interesting guy. Yep. There's a lot of controversy going 34 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:22.639 on with with him now, a lot of it as as we'll go through 35 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:27.680 here in this episode. Will it'll be like we're jazz inside your brain, 36 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:36.360 man, you just gotta feel it. We'll be we'll be discussing how exaggerated 37 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.319 it is that you know, the stuff about him, how much stuff was 38 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:44.159 true, how much stuff maybe wasn't true. Who knows? But to begin 39 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:49.840 with rest Sputin was a Russian mystic and a man of God yep, or 40 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:54.439 one of history's biggest religious charlatans. Could have been one or the other? 41 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:59.479 Did it have to be one or the other? Couldn't be both? Well, 42 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.199 if you're religious charlatan, you're a man of God and a jag. 43 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:08.319 Maybe maybe I'm just editorializing. I'm just saying I don't feel like the two 44 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.919 are mutually exclusive. Could could be, could be the same thing. He 45 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:16.120 was a Siberian peasant who became the closest advisor to the Czar and the Czarina 46 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:21.120 before the Bolshevik Revolution in the yearly nineteen hundreds. Now, he was a 47 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:28.000 purported psychic and healer. Yeah, and a visionary, so he said. 48 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:36.560 He was also a purported alcoholic sex fiend and the Devil Russia. See now 49 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:44.639 here's I see a lot of Alister Crowley. Oh Crowle, you're going You're 50 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.879 going there. You're going there pretty early, and I love it. Yeah, 51 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:49.279 yeah, I really Crowley. He's got his wang and all this stuff. 52 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:54.040 Oh yeah, absolutely, he is stirring the chili with his junk and 53 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.720 uh, I don't know if that really applies, but I wanted to say 54 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.319 it out loud, but yeah, this is this is what happens when you're 55 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:04.399 Russian and you still want to get into weird. Yeah, if you don't, 56 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:10.160 If if if Mummy and Papa haven't created this gigantic industrial supply company for 57 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.600 you to plunder and you don't have weird secret of societies to hang out in, 58 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.120 you're like, get I'm just gonna go to church and get weird with 59 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.680 that. Yeah. Is that good enough for you. I'm gonna make up 60 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:23.720 my own rules about religion. And there's still plenty of room for the ladies. 61 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:30.279 So maybe we'll we'll find out at the end of this episode if he 62 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:35.480 was for real or if he's just a legend and truly a really evil dude. 63 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:43.399 Yeah, it's but regardless, he is fascinating and worthy of an exploration. 64 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:49.079 Oh sure, the finest the Internet can provide. So, uh, 65 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:54.720 let's let's talk about his early life. Yeah about it. He was born 66 00:05:55.079 --> 00:06:02.160 Gregory Yefimovich Rasputin, and that's he was born January twenty second, eighteen sixty 67 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:09.920 nine, in uh, the Siberian village of Pakrovsky. That's Siberia, of 68 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:15.759 course, being the vast empty, worst place on her boring cold place in 69 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:19.319 him in Russia. And no offense to to you know, any of our 70 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:25.279 Russian friends or listener sends Siberia. Yeah, apparently you know you're living You 71 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:27.680 know you live in a rough spot. You know that you don't. As 72 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.720 a matter of fact, I think that you're right now nodding yourself, going 73 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.240 they get it. Dah Dah's at fun place to be. The only thing 74 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:40.240 to do is look at the horses and drink. He's winter, He's dying 75 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:47.240 outside the sum He's dying outside these mosquitos. His winter mosquitoes are worst. 76 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.600 I probably do have snowsquitos. By the By the way, we're going to 77 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.800 be doing this a lot for episode. Unfortunately. That's that's that's what we 78 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.920 got with this one um Happy New Year. So as a teenager, apparently 79 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:08.480 he was a big drunk. He was a thief, a womanizer. He 80 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:14.680 also apparently led a gang and was even paid by a priest to stay away 81 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:19.000 from church services in this gang. You know you are ahead of the crib. 82 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:23.759 You know you are winning when a priest is paying you to stay away. 83 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.519 Yeah, oh that is That is as cool as it gets when you're 84 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.399 when you're an anti establishment guy with your own street gang, that's you win. 85 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:33.519 Yeah, that's it. When you get paid to not cause trouble, 86 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:42.439 it's like Halloween every day. That's awesome. So he exhibited signs of spirituality 87 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:47.319 around this time, apparently being able to calm horses by just talking to them 88 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:54.240 and heal them by touch. So he was a horse whisper. That's brilliant. 89 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:58.879 How crazy, huh. He also apparently had visions of divine forces and 90 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:03.720 I'm gonna put quotes around divine forces, okay, and glimpses of the future. 91 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.399 So at this time, now, granted this was him saying most of 92 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:16.920 the stuff about himself, but he convinced people that this stuff was was real 93 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:22.199 because of of some you know, a few things that he was able to 94 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:28.360 either predict or or tell u and one of those was he heard his father 95 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.879 once talking about a horse that was stolen from him, and Resputin went directly 96 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.840 to the thief that stole it and pointed him out. And everybody in the 97 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:43.960 town was like, what an idiot? You know this this guy does nothing. 98 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.519 He you know, he's much lazy. He's uh saying, you know, 99 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.799 just laughing him off. But a couple of people followed that guy home 100 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.919 and found the horse there, so it was proved that he was correct, 101 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:00.000 and so everybody was like, wah Resputin, he, oh my god, 102 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.919 Oh she knows how to tail the future. Yeah. He and he, 103 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.080 you know, especially at this time of his life. He's a teenager. 104 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.600 He's out there, he's making his name for himself, and uh, one 105 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.200 of the one of the weird who's you know, who knows what actually happens 106 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:18.200 of history. Goes from being paid to stay away from church to becoming very 107 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.480 involved in it. Oh yeah, spends three months at the oh boy, 108 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.200 viculture Vicultier monastery. I don't know how to pronounce that. I'm not I 109 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:31.960 think it's Vercatia, Yeah, something like that. Now here's the thing. 110 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.399 Though, it's like saying you got sent to management training, but you actually 111 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.480 got sent to anger management training. Well, it's he may have gone of 112 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.759 his own volition, maybe got sentenced there because he stole a bunch of right, 113 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:52.080 right, Yeah, nobody knows it was either yeah, it was either 114 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.840 penance for for this theft or a refuge. Yeah, or it could just 115 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:00.720 that could have been his spin on it, because it what if what if 116 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.600 his old gang finds out, Hey, Rasputin, where had you been hanging 117 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:07.080 out with them? Sis? No, No, I'm not hanging out with 118 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.840 I am roughing up and roughing in face of monks. No, no, 119 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.960 it's not. I go there because they're like this, muted you're such bad 120 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.519 man, you must come ute to mona stadium. Mike, you are such 121 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:26.320 CC's I stay with you to prove I am man. Jesus, Oh he 122 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:33.320 really, we really might have to knock that. So far, I'm enjoying 123 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:39.759 the ride. So who knows why he went. Maybe he told everybody ucause 124 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.000 I was stealing too much. Yeah, I don't know, but he did. 125 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.519 He did set out on this path of religious involvement, and that was 126 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:52.000 Yeah, he was around eighteen or nineteen when Yeah, when that happened a 127 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:56.440 little bit before that. He had two siblings growing up, Maria who was 128 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:03.559 epileptic drowned in a river and Dmitri who fell in a pond, and then 129 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.240 soon after that died of pneumonia, and those affected him quite a bit apparently. 130 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.200 Yeah, that will, that will, that's gonna leave a mark. 131 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:16.799 Yeah, that that reminds me a little bit of mister Tesla. Yep that 132 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.679 you know. I think the same thing happened to him with his brother and 133 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.799 Crowley. Crowley's father died when he was one eleven or something like that, 134 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.120 so you know that that kind of I don't know if that messed him up 135 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.679 or if he was just like, yeah, I get money now. I 136 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.519 don't know how he felt about that. But but we're we're gonna drug. 137 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.559 We're gonna take some strings on the corkboard and connect him to different pictures. 138 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.600 Here for you, the corkboard of madness. So yeah, after he went 139 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:52.120 to Verkaturia Monastery. Yeah, that one, That one's the toughest name we're 140 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.080 gonna come across, I bet you. Um. Now, while he was 141 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.679 in there, he did claim to see a vision of the Virgin Mary. 142 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:07.679 Oh yeah, and from from that day forward he considered itself a religious man. 143 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.000 He was from that day forward, he was like a mix between like 144 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:15.840 Joel Austen and Bruce Banner. He was just gonna like just wander the lonely 145 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:22.799 roads, dude, dude, hoping not to hulk out, and also praying 146 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:28.879 and bringing God to the people. He also he also met a holy man 147 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:35.960 named McCary, who had advised Zar Nicholas the Second and the Zarina Alexandra earlier 148 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.600 in his career, and maccari apparently had a huge influence on him because McCary 149 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.200 was kind of a wandering holy man at the time. There's nothing that a 150 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.879 young wandering holy man likes more than an old wandering holy man. Yeah, 151 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.000 he kind of, I think set the tone for for what Resputin would become 152 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:00.320 later. He's like, I like this guy. I like the guy. 153 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:05.120 Like this good guy. He's out there, he's doing he smells a little 154 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:11.840 like a bear claws in hot summer Mosquito weather. Is it like a peace 155 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:18.480 from little dog? He smells smells this good guys what this guy? So? 156 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:24.240 Um? He He may have also come in contact and this is not 157 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:30.919 of course confirmed, but it's very highly suspected with a band Christian sect known 158 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:37.679 as the Kleisti. Oh yeah, who danced them That Kleisti means the flagelence. 159 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:41.559 Kind of these types that would you know, beat themselves and yeah, 160 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:48.000 forgive themselves. They weren't all um albinos as you believe. No, no, 161 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.559 screw that. Some of them are quite swarthy. Uh. And apparently 162 00:13:52.639 --> 00:14:01.639 they danced themselves into fervors and ended services in physical exhaustion, and some rumors 163 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:09.120 were spread that they even achieved this exhaustion through orgies after this dancing, and 164 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.559 m m, it's besides the orgies. It kind of sounds like the Sufi 165 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:18.960 dancers. Yeah, yeah, the whirling dervishes things like that, and the 166 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.919 orgies sound like the seventies. So so they were ahead of their times, 167 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:24.559 so I think, no, not ahead of his time. There were even 168 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:28.679 to be a time traveler. Oh, I'm just gonna I'm just throwing some 169 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.559 more stuff on the pile. Yeah, yeah, that's fine, we'll sort 170 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.159 through it later. And keep in mind, this is Siberia, not a 171 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:39.120 lot going on, right, So I imagine people are going to say whatever 172 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:41.720 pops into their heads. And I know, whenever I'm looking to slander a 173 00:14:41.799 --> 00:14:46.120 person, the first thing I go to is orgy accusation. Oh, sure, 174 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.399 because what are they gonna say, Oh, no, I've never had 175 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:50.840 an amazing group sex. Oh they can't. They have to own it. 176 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.919 No, No, I'm not gonna or they've jinxed themselves from it, you 177 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:00.960 know. So you yeah, that's a great try it out at the office, 178 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:05.080 accused co workers of having mind blowing group sex. They'll just have to 179 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:11.679 own it. Yeah, I learned that trick from Rasputin. So, returning 180 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:20.200 to Pakrovsky, he married Praskovia Fyodorovna Dubrovina in eighteen eighty nine. It's just 181 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.919 that was the one person, just one person, just one. That's that's 182 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.679 where the orgy roars came from. Yeah, and uh. And he had 183 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.080 three children with her, and apparently he also had another child with another woman 184 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:37.360 who shall not be named. I guess ye could lost to history. But 185 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:43.440 he left the village in in nineteen oh one to wander as estronik or pilgrim, 186 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:50.120 and he walked all the way to Jerusalem and Greece, and he just 187 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.919 lived off the donations of people that that he helped along the way, and 188 00:15:54.120 --> 00:16:00.600 healed and he also told fortunes to make money. That's amazing. Yeah, 189 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.840 you know, like that is I will say that I find that the most 190 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.759 amazing thing about Rasputin. Yeah, A, because I believe it, and 191 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.240 B that's just a hell of a thing. He walked from Siberia to Jerusalem, 192 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.360 right now, Yeah, this is this is walking. I mean, 193 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:19.279 this is when you know people people aren't going to give you a ride, 194 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:23.440 if there even are people to give rides in that part of the world. 195 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:32.159 And apparently he didn't bathe he didn't change his clothes. He smelled terrible. 196 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:34.480 Yeah, well that's a long walk, or if you're a holy man, 197 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:44.759 awesome. Smelled great. But when he came back, people definitely noticed some 198 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.000 kind of change in him. He had some sort of religious essence about him. 199 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:53.559 He really people really believe this. Now. The big thing with Rasputin 200 00:16:55.639 --> 00:17:00.879 was his eyes. People were just mesmerized by by these deep set eyes and 201 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:07.880 apparently they were real light blue and and just people completely got drawn into them 202 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:14.640 and almost hypnotized immediately by them. He claimed to be a higher being after 203 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.480 he came back from his journey. Well I don't blame him for that. 204 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.759 He earned it. Yes, higher being granted, and it was around this 205 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:29.599 time he saw another vision that told him to go to Saint Petersburg, which 206 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:33.119 was the seat of the Russian Empire at the time. And this was around 207 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:41.480 nineteen oh three, so word had reached Saint Petersburg already about him and the 208 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:48.400 mystical stuff that was going on at the time. They occult seances, mediums, 209 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:52.559 things like that. That was all the rage in the aristocracy at the 210 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.880 time. People were going nuts over over mystics and fortune tellers and you know, 211 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.160 the people that were talking to the dead. So this was kind of 212 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:06.640 a perfect storm of stuff that would that culminated. Well, he's got massive 213 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.880 street cred. Now. While you were just speaking, I just tried to 214 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:18.359 Google map from Polkovskoy to Jerusalem and Google's like, nope, I don't know 215 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.960 how to do that. I think you can even do, like how to 216 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.440 drive from New York to London. I think it even tells you how to 217 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:26.960 do that. And it doesn't tell you how to do youn't. Yeah, 218 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:32.400 it won't tell you how to walk bus or car. You can't. It 219 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:37.000 will not calculate a path between those two places. But just looking at the 220 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.759 map, let's see you go through Kazakhstan. Depending on which way around the 221 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:47.279 Caspian see, you either go through Uzbekistan, Turkamenistan and Iran. Let's assume 222 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:51.799 he didn't do that. Yeah, then that means that you go through Russia 223 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:59.000 down through Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel. 224 00:18:59.759 --> 00:19:03.000 I mean, come on, walking walking, Yeah, walking, that 225 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:07.200 is mind blowing. Yeah, I mean that'll change a person. Yeah, 226 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.160 I can't see how it won't, right, and he kind of want to 227 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:12.920 do it myself. Yeah, if he wasn't crazy when he started, he 228 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.960 was crazy at the end of it. Where should we walk to, Like 229 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:21.720 if we started in Chicago, Okay, we'd go to what Machu Picchu? 230 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:25.599 I just want to know what the distance between the two is. You keep 231 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:32.440 looking at that. I'm gonna so anyways, Rasputin met a bishop named Hermagen 232 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:38.160 who was impressed by his healing abilities. Apparently h he Rasputin would would lay 233 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:44.160 on hands for people and they would claim, yes, my headache is gone, 234 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:47.720 or my my arthritis is gone, I can I can move again. 235 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.400 And a lot of people apparently a lot of people believe this enough or you 236 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.720 know it actually happened that he was getting very like you said, this massive 237 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:03.599 street crad built, and so he he started entertaining aristocrats in the salons for 238 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.799 a while in Saint Petersburg. But with doing his healing and doing his fortune 239 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.240 telling things like that, of course, he was still just like shaggy. 240 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:18.759 I should mention he had a He had long black hair which he parted in 241 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.480 the middle, and it was greasy, nasty. He had a long, 242 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:29.240 shaggy black beard which had like last week's lunch, there was still stuck in 243 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:32.559 there. There was like a kaiser role that he refused to eat that just 244 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:37.039 lived in his right and that made that up. Okay, sorry, but 245 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:41.680 you can believe it about about him. He had just dark features, wore 246 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:47.480 black peasants clothes, and smelt like a goat, everybody said. And if 247 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:48.960 you've ever smelled a goat, you know the smell. You know what I'm 248 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:53.359 talking about. And even if you you know, google images of him or 249 00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:59.119 pull up any any information about him, there are a lot of pictures of 250 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:02.000 him. For one thing, and he does, man, he looks like 251 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:07.119 this just wicked looking guy. You know, it looks like the type when 252 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:12.839 when you say like either Antichrist or Satan worshiper. Yeah, this this picture 253 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.920 could be up there. You know he is. He is a haunting looking 254 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:23.519 guy. He kind of reminds me of like Charles Manson, Yeah, in 255 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:27.599 some of his uh the way he looks. But anyway, he had this 256 00:21:27.720 --> 00:21:32.400 going for him and and and he embraced this look. And the Aristocrats just 257 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.039 ate it up because you know, they're all they're living in opulence, and 258 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:41.119 for for this goat smelling peasant to walk in there and entertain them, it 259 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.200 was like, oh, yes, Dan's monkey. They's so delightfully both. 260 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:52.160 Oh my gosh, smells like last week's garbage, which I won't continywhere near. 261 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:56.279 Oh all right, um, I think I'd rather hear the Russian actor. 262 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:03.400 I just like the variety. Now let's uh, let's get to when 263 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:10.720 he was introduced to Zar Nicholas the second and now we're picking up some steam 264 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:15.319 here now. In nineteen oh five he was introduced to them. Alexandra had 265 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:21.000 a son, Alexeiya, who had hemophilia, which is a condition where the 266 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:26.759 blood doesn't clot, which means any small injury could be fatal. Made famous 267 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:33.279 by inbreeding in Europe, they want to keep that aristocratic line going right, 268 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:41.759 keep that blue, thin, unclotting blood flowing. So there was a there 269 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.400 was a time when Alexei a had a bad accident and he was he was 270 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.279 bleeding, whether it be internally or externally, he was in a bad way. 271 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:57.880 Rasputin walked into the palace basically and was like, let you got a 272 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:07.720 little bug I was playing the death say what um. That's how he changed. 273 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.960 He changed to he was crazy. No, but he walked in the 274 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:17.839 palace and he just, uh, he asked to pray over Alexeiya's body. 275 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:21.519 Uh, not that the kid was dead, He just wanted to pray over 276 00:23:21.640 --> 00:23:26.119 him. And to the onlookers, he seemed to know what was going on, 277 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.680 which was a big deal because they kept this hemophilia a secret as best 278 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:33.240 they could because they didn't, you know, this was the only heir to 279 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:37.279 the throne. They didn't want the Russian public to be in an uproar because 280 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.000 you know, and it's never a good idea for people to know that you 281 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:45.559 can assassinate the head of the nation with the paper cut right right, or 282 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:52.079 just like throw a beer can against him and Bruce who could poke him with 283 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:56.680 a pillow he would kill him, so he asked to pray over him. 284 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:03.000 Alexeyer was bleeding. Resputant was able to stop Alexey's bleeding apparently somehow, mystically, 285 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:07.400 somehow, and people to this day debate on how he did this. 286 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:12.559 Was it some kind of mystical healing ability. Was it hypnosis? A lot 287 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:15.440 of people said that, you know, he was able with those eyes to 288 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:23.240 just hypnotize people. And and was it saying no more aspirin because aspirin was 289 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.559 a new thing that was invented in all the doctors were like, this a 290 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:32.359 miracle drug, give it to everybody for everything. But aspirin is a blood 291 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:37.400 thinner, which would just exacerbate the problem. And it could have been him 292 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.720 saying nope, no more aspirin, just let him rest or It could have 293 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:44.640 just been he was a calming influence and just calmed him down and let let 294 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.960 the boy's body, you know, take care of itself. Nobody knows for 295 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:55.039 for real, but he was able to continue curing Alexei a of bleeding and 296 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:02.119 making things okay for many years and this just comp completely endeared him and earned 297 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:08.880 the trust of Alexandra. Yeah, the mother the Tzarina that's basically when all 298 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:14.160 hills started to break loose. Yeah, yeah, he once he had established 299 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.839 the trust with the family, now he's an advisor. And anyone in the 300 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:23.200 Russian government at that time had to have been made very nervous by this absolute 301 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:30.039 lunatic who has now seen shuffling through the hallways muthering to himself, healing people 302 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:32.880 whether they like it or not. Right, and at this time, don't 303 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:37.440 forget he is not done with the group sets. Yeah, this is this 304 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:41.319 is all going on, and we're about to blow the doors wide open on 305 00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:48.799 the sexy stuff by get comfy by night, candle. By nineteen twelve, 306 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:56.440 he was visiting the Royal Palace at will without invitation, just showing up willie 307 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.720 nilly, and he was referring to the Czars as Mamma and Papa. This 308 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:07.119 is the this is how in with them he was. Now, to his 309 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:11.640 credit, I think Czar Nicholas the second wasn't a big fan of him, 310 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:18.519 but Zarina was such a huge fan and she had such influence over Nicholas that 311 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:23.200 he basically had to go along with you know what what she wanted and what 312 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:30.039 Resputin said. Now, apparently he used his fame and his abilities, you 313 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:38.960 know, to administer healing and forgiveness, particularly to women and particularly to their 314 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:45.559 genitals, yet to their jennels. Uh, and this is this is great. 315 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:52.200 He thought that sexual contact with women healed them. His sexual contact with 316 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.680 women healed them. He believed this. He's brilliant. He also believed in 317 00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:03.279 sinning greatly. So the forgiveness was a greater bringing everyone closer to God, 318 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:10.880 and sexual sin was the easiest. Oh my gosh, he's won me over. 319 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.440 You're gonna, You're gonna, I mean he was at this point, 320 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:19.079 he was pretty much pan sexual. That's like eating a birthday cake before you 321 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.079 start your diet. Yeah, but over and over and over and over and 322 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:26.000 over and over, and the birthday cake is sex exactly. That's it. 323 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.079 It's like, I will not commit that any more sins. I will be 324 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.640 completely washed clean. But I've got to really do it up before I know 325 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.759 true forgiveness. Yeah, but that means that he's like, no, I'm 326 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:41.759 not gonna eat some cookies. If I can't eat five boxes of cookies, 327 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.119 I'm not eating any It's about big sin here, people. Yeah. He 328 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:51.119 doesn't write bad checks. He just drobs banks. He would hold religious gatherings 329 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:59.359 and services at his apartment and take the girls in a back room and help 330 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.759 them sin and then forgive them brilliant and by that I mean rape them. 331 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:08.279 Oh wa wah, you just tricked me. Sorry, totally tricked me. 332 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:15.039 Now I sound like I'm pro rapist now not. You see how labels can 333 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:19.200 can change it? Damn it. I thought that everyone was all into it. 334 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:23.039 He had a he had a big interest in prostitutes too. Well, 335 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:26.960 they were into it or the money. But man, now it sounds like 336 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:30.960 I was high fiving a rapist. I am no longer a part of his 337 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:36.559 ecumenical teachings, and I'm outside of his congregation. Now some people began seeing 338 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:41.839 his life as nothing but debauchery. Hermagen, the guy that introduced him to 339 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:48.559 the Tzar, and a fellow cleric named Eliodor, accused him of using the 340 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:53.799 power of the devil to do all this madness, and one day they cornered 341 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:59.400 him and beat him. Of course, what's rasputin new? But runs straight 342 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.559 to alex Andra and tell her all about it. They hit me and zaid 343 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:11.960 I was working with the devil, and so she she banished them, banished 344 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:17.799 them from Saint Petersburg. Oh that that didn't sit too well with Iliodor. 345 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.799 Yeah. And in nineteen fourteen, Rasputin was visiting his wife and his family 346 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.880 because you know, yeah, this is going on, but he's still family 347 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:33.960 man. He was visiting them in Pokrovski. He was attacked by a woman 348 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:38.039 who was a former prostitute and a victim of his, named Zenya Guseva. 349 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:44.319 And she was at this time a disciple of Iliodor's, so he kind of 350 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:51.519 trying to get his revenge her. She stabbed Rasputin in the abdomen and by 351 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:56.920 all accounts, she basically gutted him like he had intrails hanging out. This 352 00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:02.799 was how bad she she got him, and and he had immediate surge, 353 00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:07.799 free performed and survived. They stuffed his his guts back in him, sewed 354 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:11.519 him up, and which especially at that time, in his general habits of 355 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:17.279 hygiene and alcoholism, he's still million to one against him coming out of that, 356 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:19.440 right, So I mean, and that added, you know, fuel 357 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:23.079 to the fire of like this guy's a little more than human or something. 358 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:29.440 Yeah, and let's let's just call that the first point on the Rasputant is 359 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:33.839 a semi immortal thing. The scoreboard. We're now keeping track now. It 360 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:40.160 was just like a few hours after this happened, the Archduke Ferdinand was shot 361 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:45.680 and the basically World War One, Yeah just started in Sorn, just started 362 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.640 it did. It seemed to others that after after he recovered from this, 363 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:55.759 he was a little bit changed again. Yeah, and I'm going to have 364 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:02.519 made me less, not so much the sex to prostitutes make so much. 365 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:10.640 He's making me feel stabby. Yeah, a knife to the gut will change 366 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.799 a man's perspective. By this time, as we as we mentioned, he 367 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:19.160 had an immense influence over Alexandra the Zarina. He could he could make or 368 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:25.920 break people in politics and positions of authority just just by giving her the word. 369 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:32.799 In nineteen fifteen, Rasputin wanted to go to the front lines of the 370 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:38.279 Russian army and bless the troops, and Czar Nicholas the Second said, Um, 371 00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:41.599 if you go there, I'm gonna hang you. You are going to 372 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.440 be hanged. Really Yeah, I would have thought he would have been like, 373 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:51.119 yeah, front lines, go get him, bless him all. The 374 00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:56.519 Tsar wasn't wasn't the brightest uh poppy in the in the opium field. So 375 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.359 that's that was brilliant? Is that all right? Yeah, loved it. 376 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:07.640 Poppies are bright, but he so here's the takeaway. Poppies are bright, 377 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:10.519 but you should know. Um. So, yeah, he didn't. He 378 00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.039 didn't want him go there. He's like, if you, if you do 379 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:15.240 this, because he didn't like him. He thought he was a fake and 380 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:21.400 thought it was just weird. But that didn't sit too well with the old 381 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:27.559 Rasputin. Apparently right after that he had a vision saying that the army wouldn't 382 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:35.000 succeed unless the Czar himself took over the forces, so that somebody's going to 383 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.799 the front line in this house. That sent old Nicholas the second straight out 384 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:45.119 to take charge doing it firsthand. Yeah, which left Alexandra in charge, 385 00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:52.920 meaning it left Rasputin in charge. He oversaw the appointment of four prime ministers, 386 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:58.160 four war ministers, and six ministers of the Interior in the in the 387 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.440 year or so after. He took over a lot of turnover, a lot 388 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:07.759 of turnover. Now, between this and the declining economy, the disastrous war 389 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:12.440 that was going on. By the end of it, they had like four 390 00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:17.599 million Russians die in this Yeah, that's how Russia just never loses, because 391 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:22.400 they just never stopped throwing people. But also how they never win, Yeah 392 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:25.200 they don't. No one ever called Russia a big winning army. And uh, 393 00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:31.799 rumors of an affair between Russputin and Alexandra because he was always I've been 394 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:37.319 I've been waiting for this to come up because uh, and the manipulation that 395 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:43.319 he was obviously doing it made him kind of an unpopular figure in many circles 396 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:49.519 in Russia. I'm amazed that it's just kind of unpopular and still people were, 397 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.519 you know, he was just more and more going out, having these 398 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.319 these orgies, having the you know, these these parties, sex and getting 399 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:04.119 drunk and just live in this this opulence that the meanwhile, people were paying 400 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:07.599 you know, four times what they used to pay for for just a loaf 401 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.599 of bread, and they were doing everything they could not to starve. Yeah, 402 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:17.800 yeah, exactly. And I did hear this one account that one time 403 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:24.400 he ran to a palace balcony naked and just started swinging his way around, 404 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:34.880 saying, this is what rules Russia. He helicopter. Oh see, you 405 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.360 know what, it's so hard not to love this guy. So now we 406 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:45.719 come to a little dandy fop named Felix Yusupoff, Yeah, who got caught 407 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:52.639 up in the anti Rasputin fervor. Yusupov was rich, he was handsome, 408 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:58.760 he was bisexual, and he was determined to save the Russian royal dynasty. 409 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:05.320 So he gathered a small group of nobles together to hatch an assassination plot because 410 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:09.119 they believed that Rasputin was what was causing Russia to go down the toilet. 411 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:17.480 Now, along with the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch and the politician Vladimir Purishkevitch, 412 00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:24.320 Yusupov lured Rasputin one night to his palace, to Yusupov's palace, with the 413 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:31.639 prospect of meeting air quotes his alluring wife Irina. Now, fun fact that 414 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:36.400 they don't tell you in the history class books is that the written invitation spelled 415 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:50.880 meeting m E A T or know what I mean? Now, what happened 416 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:57.320 next is all over the place. Yeah, and that's mostly because the details 417 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:01.159 of it came from Yusupov himself, and some of them came from autopsies later. 418 00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:06.559 Yeah, so much much later, much much later, And and there's 419 00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:13.000 all kinds of accounts of the murder of Rasputin. So the classic version goes 420 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:20.000 like this, Rasputin was fed small cakes and wine which were laced with cyanide, 421 00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:24.280 and I mean laced like in frigging shoe laced. They're like, enough, 422 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:29.360 this sline taste awfully cyanide? Why is it so thick and paste? 423 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.440 Right right? I mean this is laced like a bodice. Yeah, this 424 00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:43.599 is laced like okay, um, like really big tall hiking boots placed like 425 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:50.960 a goth girl's wet dream, like like those giant stupid Chuck Taylors that the 426 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:54.280 kids that hang out at the skate park where uh oh boy, apparently he 427 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:59.679 was enough sanide to kill like five men. He and he ate eight the 428 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:04.920 k and drank the wine, and hours passed and he sat there being like 429 00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:08.960 where's arena? That is awesome because that is a very awkward amount of time, 430 00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:13.920 and you know, occasionally everyone's just making small talk and then they forget, 431 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:15.559 oh, we just poison the shit out of him, and then and 432 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:19.480 then it would come back and like, oh my god, he's still here. 433 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.280 What is going on? What is taking something that is a good joke 434 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:30.440 rescipue. So after After a while, this him just sitting there being full 435 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:37.559 of poison and not dying. Uh, Yusupov decides enough's enough and he runs 436 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.800 and gets a gun, comes back shoots him. Yeah, which is another 437 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.239 great part of the dinner part. Yeah, everyone's just yeah, I was 438 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:54.119 gonna maybe go on a trip this spring. And then finally, what's along 439 00:37:54.199 --> 00:38:07.480 with this guy? You can hear him chump, chummiddunt rasp beard, and 440 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:10.559 we're gonna have to do maybe maybe we'll have another podcast. It's just radio 441 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:19.239 plays of of of assassinations, dramatic reenactments. We'll put together a YouTube channel, 442 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.360 put the podcast up, but we'll also do dramatic reenactments. Oh absolutely, 443 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:27.239 that's what people want to see. So Rasputin crumbles to the floor and 444 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:32.239 goes upstairs to where the Grand Duke and the other fop are waiting, and 445 00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:37.519 they all celebrate, Oh, what a good job we did, while they 446 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:42.039 don't know. Rasputants downstairs just banging out push ups because he doesn't give them. 447 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.440 Yusupov comes back to check on him a little while later, he goes 448 00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.480 over, you know, does the old classic shake the body, see if 449 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:57.360 he's alive. Last Spruting Friday the thirteenth style. Eyes fly open and his 450 00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:04.280 hands grab Yusupov's neck. It starts strangling him. This is great. He 451 00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:08.920 breaks free and he and he runs out and escapes into the courtyard. Uh, 452 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:12.679 this is a spot. Who's doing He's trying to get out of this 453 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:19.800 palatial estate. The all the conspirators chase after him. Everybody grabs their gun, 454 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:23.320 their revolver. They shoot him two more times as he's trying to leave. 455 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:29.199 Still doesn't do anything. He's crawling away. He's trying to get through 456 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:31.960 the gates. So they they run over to him and they beat him with 457 00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:38.000 a rubber club until he's he's subdued, and by some accounts they severed his 458 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:44.960 penis what At this time, they're like, surely he's dead. This is 459 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.719 this has got you know, he's got to be dead. Apparently he was 460 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:52.239 not, though. They wrap him up in a carpet or a blanket or 461 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:55.639 something. They wrap him up. Time up. They drive out to the 462 00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:01.119 Nipo River and they drop his ass in there and then they then they drive 463 00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:10.480 home and all celebrate with unsanided cakes, which again very awkward. Everyone just 464 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:16.280 holding the cake, yeah, coughing quietly watching everyone else so was a good 465 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:20.280 time. No, yeah, no, no, you eat your cake. 466 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:24.000 I'll tell the story, told my tail you eat you eat that cake first. 467 00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:30.599 I have no appetite. And you see how much is pani stump was 468 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:42.719 bleeding. Oh guys, uh, well I'm going home. Ye, that's 469 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:47.199 what mistake. I should not have mentioned the stump. Oh we were doing 470 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:53.360 good s. So um. A couple of days later, the body washes 471 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:57.000 up. They were hoping it was gonna be taken out to see. Nope, 472 00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:00.639 the body washes up and when it washed out, they discovered the arms 473 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:06.880 were free of this this blanket and in the ties and the ropes, and 474 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:13.000 apparently he had water in his lungs, meaning he drowned. After all that 475 00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:17.599 stuff, he dies of drowning and possibly hypothermia, not the beating, not 476 00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:22.840 the penis severing, not the shooting, not the poisoning, not the poisoning. 477 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:27.760 So that's yeah, that's how he dies. That that's how he comes 478 00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:31.440 to an amazing end after an amazing life. Yeah, what's more? Now, 479 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:36.360 Now, that's like I said, that's the classic way of how he 480 00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:39.960 bit it. People will I will replace the word classic with fun. That 481 00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:45.239 was the that's the fun version. Well there's I think there's another version that's 482 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.800 that's equally as fun, involving the British Secret Service. Yeah, what a 483 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:55.199 cool angle. That is, right handgun for forensics. So there's a picture. 484 00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:59.480 You can even find this on on the old interwebs. There's a picture 485 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.159 he's got a a bullet wound in his forehead. Yeah, like front and 486 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:06.920 center. That's how you kill a guy. And nothing. This was not 487 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:12.360 in any of the testimony of any of the conspirators in there, which leads 488 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:15.559 a lot of people to be like, Okay, this this dandy fop is 489 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.440 just trying to make himself look sexy. He's trying to make the story bigger 490 00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:22.719 than it is. You know, this is not what happened, which is 491 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:25.880 weird because if I was going to make up a story about an assassination in 492 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:32.119 my version, everything would go according to plan. He was poisoned in the 493 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.639 story. Yeah, he made some cakes, he ate them, and that 494 00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:37.000 was pretty much it. No, nothing else happened. I don't know why. 495 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:42.119 You would have seen me running through the streets carrying that gigantic bun Yeah 496 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:45.239 he miss in one hand, bundle in the other. No, none of 497 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.360 those things happened. Everything I planned came out exactly the right way. So 498 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:54.159 it is weird that he would fabricate like this gigantic comedy of errors, like 499 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:58.519 ridiculous. He Hollywood eyes did it? You know, he just made it 500 00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:05.920 like die hard lass Sputin was played by Alan Rickman, which he was in 501 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:08.920 the nineteen ninety six movie, and he was Hans Gruber. Yeah, he 502 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:13.519 just he would not die. So it's and and so some of the fun 503 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:17.360 facts is that they did review the autopsies. I mean they've they've everyone takes 504 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:23.440 a crack at Rasputin's autopsy. It's like the thing you check off in medical 505 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:28.079 school, like a requirement. Yeah, it's that that thaves everyone goes through 506 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:32.599 during the third year. Um. And but the nineteen sixteen the initial autopsy 507 00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:37.159 that was never really released, UM, didn't find any poison. Um. 508 00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:42.719 And there's you know, I think that's fascinating, right, No no poison 509 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.880 in there. Now, this could be some people say it could be because 510 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.199 it evaporated before they got to check it, or it could be that he 511 00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:52.480 didn't ingest any poison at all. Yeah, could not have even been a 512 00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:58.039 player in the in the fars, Yeah, exactly. And now again with 513 00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:00.920 with Rasputin sort of a run and the roost, making a lot of calls, 514 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:06.519 changing people's jobs, determining who gets what jobs. Now he starts making 515 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:12.280 international enemies. What was once just a problem in the household is now starting 516 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:17.880 to piss off other countries, including grades who happens to have just a couple 517 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:22.159 of Jolio chaps in England in Russia keeping that finger on the pulse as it 518 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:30.360 was, it was a my six and all bulle So great man, we're 519 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.760 taking you guys on a trip around the world. You should see how fast 520 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:40.159 we're changing mustaches. Some people say the wound in his forehead was from a 521 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:47.119 Webley revolver, which was only a British issue firearm. Now a Webley fires 522 00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:52.480 unjacketed bullets and it creates a larger hole. And he was shot four times. 523 00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:59.039 It's just all this stuff. I'm thinking. I think Resputin would say 524 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:15.480 this about himself health. Yeah. Nah. Oh, So he was shot 525 00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:20.440 four times, and three of the bullets fit this jacketed bullet profile that Russian 526 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:23.280 firearms used at the time. But this fourth one, the head shot, 527 00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:29.320 the one that the money, Yeah, the one that indisputably killed him. 528 00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:35.480 Very quickly, bordering on instantaneously, was from an unjacketed gun. It was 529 00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:38.519 an unjacketed bullet which none of the Russian guns were capable of firing. Right, 530 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:43.559 And so they say, all right, well, who uses unjacketed weapons 531 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:47.480 in the British Secret Service? Yeah, British Secret Service does at the time. 532 00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:52.360 This this Webley uh handgun, the Webley revolver. They say, well, 533 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.599 were there anyone in Russia that would have those? Why? As a 534 00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:59.639 matter of fact, there there was. There There are a couple chaps, 535 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:05.599 yeah, a couple of bully gentlemen. And and there is apparently some testimony 536 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:09.559 out there from a few people that were, you know, close to the 537 00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:15.760 situation saying yeah, there was a there was a plot because apparently Britain knew 538 00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:22.599 that this would throw the Russian aristocracy into total chaos instead of just half chaos. 539 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:28.559 Right, in addition to the fact that Resputin had actually removed some sort 540 00:46:28.599 --> 00:46:34.159 of pro Britain Yeah, m minister ministers of the parliament, right, yeah, 541 00:46:35.239 --> 00:46:38.320 removed some of their pro Britain ministers and replaced them. So he was 542 00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:42.280 he was making he was he was up their game. He was messing making 543 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.679 their life more difficult, and he's just a crazy priest that likes to have 544 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:46.440 a lot of sex. Let's get him out of the picture, right. 545 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:52.159 Uh, here's a here's a fun thing. After a few months after he 546 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:57.199 was he was killed the This isn't the fun thing. Here's this is the 547 00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:01.599 setup to the fun thing. The the czar and his family were uh, 548 00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:08.599 the were taken by the Bolshevik revolution. Revolutionaries took them uh to a basement 549 00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:14.519 and executed all of them. Which this isn't the fun thing, Okay, 550 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:19.440 just wanted to make sure this was pretty pretty terrible because remember earlier when you 551 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.199 got me to cheer for a rapist and then you switched it on. I'm 552 00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.599 manipulative, I'm not an ass now now, oh look, here's the fun 553 00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:30.760 part that David Flora likes so much. Execution. You're a bastard. Um. 554 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:39.440 Uh. They some of the workers dug up Rasputin's body because it had 555 00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:44.599 been uh you know, the Zarina wanted it buried and everything proper. They 556 00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.559 dug it up and then it had clawed its way halfway to the surface. 557 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:52.079 They took it to they took it out into the woods and burned it because 558 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:54.400 they didn't wanted anything to do with it. You know, they wanted to 559 00:47:55.400 --> 00:48:00.360 burn this devil. Apparently, though, if you don't know what you're doing, 560 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.320 you know, during cremation, and you don't prepare a body correctly, 561 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:09.159 lots of fun stuff can happen, including the body sitting up and writhing in 562 00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:17.280 the flames no, which completely horrified everybody was watching it. How long have 563 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:22.119 you been dead at that point, um, what a few months? Probably? 564 00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:27.320 Apparently if you don't sever tendons and the ligaments and things like that, 565 00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:30.559 when they when they burn, they'll constrict and make the body just do all 566 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:36.840 sorts of dances. Whoa. So this just added to the legend of Oh 567 00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:40.000 my gosh, this guy was the devil. He's dancing in the fire. 568 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:45.679 Even after death. If you die and you are somehow allowed to just keep 569 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.280 watching the earth, that's what you hope happens. You're like, I hope 570 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:52.039 these jackasses burn me because and I hope they have no idea what they're just 571 00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.199 freaked them out so bad. Yeah, God, I'm okay, moving on. 572 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:05.480 Where's that light up heard about? So let's let's let's talk about just 573 00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:10.519 a real quick about the name Rasputin h This was a surname, and there's 574 00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:14.880 a lot of controversy about what it means where it came from. A lot 575 00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:20.119 of people think it means some bad stuff, as in the base Rasputiny, 576 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:24.320 which is licentious, which kind of fits yea, or Rasputnik, which is 577 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:30.119 basically dissolute that he and a lot of people are like. He was a 578 00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:35.559 dissolute. That's that's where why he got that name. But many people also 579 00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:40.159 think that it could come from Rasputia, which is which means a crossroads. 580 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:46.440 Oh, and Rasputin was apparently a pretty common surname at the time, so 581 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:52.159 a lot of people didn't pay that much attention to it. I think it's 582 00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:58.599 just hin hindsight that people are applying this, you know. Now. He 583 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:02.280 did apparently or tell his own death to the Czarina uh in a letter to 584 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:13.480 her that said, a multi paged letter starts out, get this, so 585 00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:20.199 listen up to Can you believe it? He said, no, that if 586 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:23.159 I'm killed by my brother peasants, then you have nothing to fear. But 587 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:28.719 if I'm murdered by nobles, if your relatives cause my death, then no 588 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.519 one, not you or your children will remain alive for more than two years, 589 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:37.760 you will all be killed by the Russian people. And that was that 590 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:43.880 was what he prophesied, and uh came true. So that's what rasputin in 591 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:49.199 a very large Russian mystic nutshell. Yep, that's better. Um, the 592 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:53.920 bearded nutshell. That's terrible. Now, I mean, going through this, 593 00:50:55.400 --> 00:51:01.960 I don't think that we exaggerated a lot of the sexual exploits that he was 594 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:06.199 purported to have had. If you look, if you look up stuff, 595 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.000 he was a fiend for this. We just sort of touched on it. 596 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:16.000 Yeah, but if you if you turn the gas up like ten more notches, 597 00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:22.519 that's that's pretty much the impression that you know, research gives you on 598 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:24.840 how he he was with the ladies and stuff. Yeah, yeah, not 599 00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:30.880 a conscientious or gentle lover right. In fact, he his way to seduce 600 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:36.320 women was to just rip open their bodices and go to town, which is 601 00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:39.639 yeah, not not elegant and not cool. That would yeah, I mean 602 00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:43.159 I think what they just call that as rape in most parts of the world. 603 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.519 Now, yeah, yeah, and not not really. You know, 604 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:52.159 in his emo of using the Bible as a maneuvering tool, Um, that's 605 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.400 that's the kind of trick that only works once. That the you know you 606 00:51:55.480 --> 00:52:00.440 got a sin hard if you want to get forgiven all right, right, 607 00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:04.480 but apparently they were lining up so he only needed to use it once, 608 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:10.000 right, Yeah. I there are different depending on which things you read and 609 00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:17.000 which documentaries you watch. He is painted as a very short scale of evil, 610 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:22.760 like he's either completely totally the devil, or he's sort of sort of 611 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:29.400 devilish, he's an awful person, or he's just like an old lunatic sex 612 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:31.800 fiend guy. It's like it's a to me, it's a very small scale, 613 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.199 but it's always on the bad side, right Yeah, No, one, 614 00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:37.239 there's no there's no balancing like no. I think that he was a 615 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:42.440 misunderstood visionary who was trying to help the people. Know a lot of people. 616 00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.400 There are plenty of people who do believe that he was legit and he 617 00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:49.599 was a good person. There were probably Wickens. The people who think that 618 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.440 they were probably Wickens, slow slow, still waiting for a hot wick and 619 00:52:53.480 --> 00:53:00.679 photographs. Sorry Wickens. But we're also looking at this halfway across the world 620 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:04.280 or all the way across the world at this point, I guess. And 621 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.760 a hundred years later, where all the propaganda has, you know, seeped 622 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:12.719 into history and true all that stuff. If you go, if you go 623 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.559 to his hometown Polkovsky, they still think he's he's a big deal, he's 624 00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:21.639 great. Yeah, well he's he's I mean, it's Siberia. There's not 625 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:24.159 a lot of celebrities. So even if no matter what you do, if 626 00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:28.039 people remember your name, they're gonna put a statue in a plaque. Up. 627 00:53:28.280 --> 00:53:32.559 Yeah, they probably have rest Sputin Days every April maybe where everybody gets 628 00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:36.599 drunk and has sex and yeah, you just eat cakes and then you shoot 629 00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:38.920 marshmallows at each other and then there's like the they have a race wrath to 630 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:43.840 swim across a river with a blanket wrapped around um. One person draws the 631 00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:47.239 British card, but it's secret. Nobody knows who has and you have to 632 00:53:47.239 --> 00:53:51.239 figure it out. Oh man, Actually, that would be a pretty fun 633 00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:55.119 party. I'm gonna I might have a Rasputin Days. Now. Here's a 634 00:53:55.199 --> 00:54:00.800 fun fact. Now, the actual date of his death is Sword of Lucy 635 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:06.440 Goosey. Yeah, it is either listed as the sixteenth or and I were 636 00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:13.760 usually very coquettish about dating ourselves or the date of this recording December twenty ninth. 637 00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.480 Oh geez, Yeah, that's true, isn't it. Yes, it 638 00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:20.960 is. That's pretty cool. Yeah, wow, yeah, And it's usually 639 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:22.840 like I said, we don't like to list the date of recording, but 640 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:25.840 I thought this was significant. That's that's pretty cool. I don't I don't 641 00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:29.920 know what to think about this guy. Of course, I'm leaning towards you 642 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.039 know, probably probably just a dude that was that was looking to have as 643 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:37.440 much fun in life as he could through any means possible. I'm leaning I 644 00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:44.480 think towards the Charlatan route because I think the things that he was purported to 645 00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:47.559 have predicted, and like pointing out the horse thief, he could have witnessed 646 00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:51.360 the guy taking the horse. You know, he could have been hidden in 647 00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:55.519 a barn somewhere that in nobody knew, and he was hiding this information because 648 00:54:55.559 --> 00:54:59.360 he was too scared to come forward. But then he's he saw an opportunity. 649 00:54:59.719 --> 00:55:01.840 Yeah, you know, same thing with like by this time, he 650 00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:07.480 has to know that people hate him and he's probably gonna die soon, right, 651 00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:13.119 so to say, listen, I'm gonna die, but if nobles kill 652 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.920 me, then you're all going down. Like I think that was pretty safe. 653 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.840 Bet at that point, I don't think there was anything too mystical about 654 00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:24.239 his predictions. No, and and it I don't think it even necessarily has 655 00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:29.480 to be as simple as either he was legit or he was a charlotte. 656 00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.199 And I mean he could have completely been a charlotte but believed himself to be 657 00:55:32.360 --> 00:55:36.920 legit. Yeah, I mean people talk them into all sorts of things. 658 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.360 And if he has devoted his life to this pursuit of the holy church, 659 00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:44.840 but he's also like, but I also want to bang a lot of chicks. 660 00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:47.440 Yes, guys, any human being will will somehow find a way to 661 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:52.559 stitch those things together. And he's doing yeah ways of success. He happened 662 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:55.280 to be really good at it. Yeah. He was never ordained as anything. 663 00:55:55.400 --> 00:56:00.880 He was never an actual monk or religious figure. He was uh, 664 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:06.360 like we said estronik, he was a wandering holy man thing. He crowled 665 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:08.280 it. He just wandered the earth and then was like whenever he got to 666 00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:10.239 his new place, like, oh you should have seen me where I just 667 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:14.159 was all these people high five me. Now I'm like a super priest. 668 00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:19.480 Like that's that's his maneuver. You know, there's a there's a staggering amount 669 00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:23.039 of I think connections, or at least I don't think the two would have 670 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:27.360 gotten along at all, mostly because they would have worked with each other's games. 671 00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:31.639 But there's a lot of parallels in their lives and yeah, yeah, 672 00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:37.000 uh, let's let's do some puns. Let's get some puns going on about 673 00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:39.239 it. Let's segue into some puns. Yeah, just by slamming it in 674 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:43.719 your face, by ripping your bodice open and shoving the puns inside you. 675 00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:51.719 God puns. Okay, I've got I'm gonna start this off great. I've 676 00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:57.679 got one which is a Russian anti establishment hip hop group called raps Putin, 677 00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:02.920 and it works on a lot of levels. First of all, you know, 678 00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:07.039 rapp Putin was was not really beloved by the government, but this is 679 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.440 raps Putin. They can make fun of Vladimir Putin at the same time. 680 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:12.639 See how it works. Oh my, got it? Okay, I just 681 00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.280 wanted to make sure it's really really well thought out pun. Well. I 682 00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:19.719 like it because all you have to do is switch to letters. Yeah, 683 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:28.000 that's great. I have a marketplace for Russian junk called the buzzarret get it. 684 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:37.440 Tzarrez all right, I got you bizarre, terrible. I don't have 685 00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:40.000 good ones this week? Oh really, because raps Putin was really burning up 686 00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:45.760 the charts. They might with Diggie Toots Diggie Toots. Oh my god, 687 00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:50.840 raps Putin and Diggie Toots have to do an album together or or at least 688 00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:53.840 one of those tracks featuring like raps Putin and and Diggie Toots. It's just 689 00:57:53.920 --> 00:58:00.039 like, oh yeah, featuring Diggie Toots when he's like d T's up in 690 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:15.360 it, Illuminati toutes. Okay, I don't have a pun per se, 691 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:19.599 I've got a product, okay. And this podcast was brought to you by 692 00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:25.239 Mama Yusupov sanide flavored teacakes. You'll swear you're gonna die. I love these. 693 00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:34.519 The Death contains no cyanide, They're just cyanide flavored. Oh that's great. 694 00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:43.159 I'm going to dismount softly this week with which is actually that's a Diggy 695 00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:49.039 Toots track, so you kind of So after a planet Hollywood went under and 696 00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:54.760 everything, uh, Sylvester Stallone opened up a new restaurant called Sliberia. Oh 697 00:58:55.159 --> 00:59:00.880 god, I hope that they're only open in in northern your Northern Asia. 698 00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:06.760 Yep. There. The restaurants themselves are huge, but nothing's going on. 699 00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:14.679 It's always so cold, they're cold. There's nothing much going on. Bland 700 00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:22.719 food Mosquitos. Oh all right, So so I feel I feel thirdday like 701 00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:25.519 gold. Yeah, I smell like gold, smell like goat off their puns, 702 00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:34.440 oh man, Well, please kick our asses with better puns, please 703 00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.679 do, please send them, send them into our website blurry photos dot org. 704 00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:43.440 Please like us on Facebook why not? Uh? And follow us on 705 00:59:43.559 --> 00:59:51.039 Twitter. Worry underscore photos. We're covering every media base here where we're Stopchine. 706 00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:54.719 If we're not on YouTube by the time this hot track drops, then 707 00:59:54.800 --> 00:59:58.800 it'll it'll it'll get there soon, yeah, don't. You'll get you even 708 00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:00.679 on on on the YouTube. Yeah, and then we might even put some 709 01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:05.800 fun videos up that will be awesome. Right. Yeah, that's all I 710 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:09.440 got for this episode. You got anything else? I am absolutely amazing. 711 01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:15.960 I just want to get that out there. I had a chance, I 712 01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:20.159 had the chance myself. Well that's what I wanted the world to know today. 713 01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:27.199 I accuse you of being David Flora. I deny you being David Stecco. 714 01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:14.440 Oh those right, it was the bullets that they used were jacketed, 715 01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:19.280 where I'm sorry, we're not jacketed. Jacket which is completely different from any 716 01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.800 bullets that any of the Russian weapons used, which were completely unjacketed. Yeah, 717 01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:27.320 and uh or jacketed. I just I'm gonna say that whole thing over 718 01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:31.880 all, right, Okay, now Webley fires jacketed bullets, non jacketed, 719 01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:37.639 damn it. Okay, I might keep this. How can I can't get 720 01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.760 the two straight? I've got it right here in front of me, Okay,