EARLY EPISODE: Viktor Bout, The Merchant of Death: Part 2
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*since the time of recording, all prisoners involved in a possible exchange for Viktor Bout have been released.
The conclusion (kind of) to the Bout Saga.
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I should stop listening to this podcast at lunch.
Do ya mans next https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkis_Soghanalian
We're actually currently working on an episode about him for our History of Armenia side series.
The posers hate Bill Clinton for Lewinsky, but the real heads hate him for the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant bombing. It's personally really hard to care if a particular president is a sex pest if they're all war criminals anyway
Victor Bout did actually mention missing dill in that interview right after garlic.
It seems a bit overcompensating for Victor Bout to complain about Tumblrinas considering he literally went to prison for sexually identifying as a [post-Soviet military surplus] attack helicopter. At some point it really does seem like the aircraft doth protest too much.
Btw, the guy who killed a guy in Germany was exchanged now too, in a different prisoner exchange
Who was he exchanged for?
Victor Bout’s story of how he got traded for Brittney Griner: _The Art of the Dill_
"Because the AntiSoviet warrior hasn't put his country on that last step to peace..." Snark so savage xD
It's not every service worker but I'd guess more than half of us don't give a fuck if people use bathrooms.
Quick update for the fans, Paul Whelan did get released Aug 1.
The Victor Bout isekai anime already exists. It's called Jormugand.
I did also clap like a seal on a GAO mention. God, their website is a relic, but they do good work
This is possibly the only time I've heard the GAO mentioned, and as someone who works for an equivalent in a different country, government auditors are always exasperated about this shit.
I laughed way too hard at Joe saying Woodenpoopin
Wait, what? Patti Smith's favorite poet ended as an arms/coffee merchant?
Got to admit, Bout being killed in Madrid by the very hate and terror that he empowered would have been a fitting death
So - the Weiner Oligarch gets exploded by a SAM and THEN Vickster Brixster gets released from prison. There's a non-zero chance that he's calling the shots for Wagner now. Shithead synnergy is real and it is terrifying.
By a SAM? No, *Lula* did it.
great episode but pls stop with the intro Music, its a to loude and not really fitting. and in special in series
Kinda agreed, I feel bad complaining to one of my favourite podcasts (I swear, I love the show and have been a patreon for years) but I seriously thought it was put in as an episode-specific joke as first, like lets combine the 'universally loved' bagpipes with 'equally soothing' dubsteppy-hiphoppy percussion 😅
On Nate's point about early 2000s random name generator spam emails, I do still have an old screenshot of mine somewhere of a Hotmail/MSN Messenger popup that says 'You have an email from Jack Bauer'
Spanish trains… and Dave Matthew’s Band: https://youtu.be/Vv_oDd7RE5U
These bouts were made for walking