It's been a year since Putin started his illegal invasion of Ukraine.
We here at TC are staunchly pro democracy and pro Ukraine.
I wonder how people feel about this in Russia?
We could ask Russian. So we did.
Daniil also told us the story of his leaving Russia in March of 22.
We're back.
Well, Ken was for a bit, then there was a LIBRARY EMERGENCY!!
Gee, what'll we talk about? How about Putin's war of choice in Ukraine?
Putin knows little of the operational. art.
Deception is key.
This got us thinking about a lot of things, Babylon 5, DS9, Operation Mincemeat, Romans, Barbarians, the Gulf War, General Patton etc.
Oh right, it was a Russia episode, so Daniil joined us again, thanks man!
Please give to the Red Cross or the UNHCR to help the people of Ukraine.
Lots of weapons are coming in.
Lots of war crimes are happening.
We talked a bit about the history of war crimes.
How can you get someone to do something evil?
I talked a little Asch Line Experiment.
Ken has lots of books.
These show notes are getting lame.
We stand for democracy, we stand with Ukraine.
Of course we've been both thinking about the topic ever since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Does Putin actually believe his own propaganda?
Are we swayed by propaganda (of course we are).
I've. got a lot of problems with Noam Chomsky.
Oh yeah, this one was recorded live and in person.
Gee, what's been in the news? Maybe the Soviet Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Is this a reboot of 1918 or 1938? (With credit to @docpinko). We think it's more like 1918.
What is Russia's end game? We don't know, what the hell do we know about anything?
Will this lead to the end for Putin? We can only hope.
Putin has put his nukes on alert, it might be the only thing he has.
The Russians are the Cardassians, not the Romulans.
The book of Boba Fett makes an appearance, as does the Flu Trux Klan.
HOLY SHIT WE'RE RECORDING.
You know, Ken has been coming over to my place every Thursday for a few years now, we talk a lot then we watch a show. Man in the High Castle, the Expanse, Manhattan, and now, Altered Carbon. The thing is before every show we talk about politics and technology and history. Sound familiar?
So, we recorded tonight.
It was inspired by Putin's lovely speech today where he decided to show a cool video of Florida being nuked.
This got us into the Korean War, Trump, anarchists, false flag operations and of course that led into the mirror universe and our impressions of ST:Disco (A Disco. Control. Panel.)
We ended talking a bit about a strange thing that happened on wikipedia a few years back. This reminded Ken of a thing archivists do. Who knew? Now you do.
We hope you like episode 34
No, really, we're back.
Tonight we decided to talk bitcoin, Bitcoins, Quatloos, beanie babies, tulip bulbs and such.
We also talked some about the crisis in the Crimea.
I promised to mention Robin's blog, you should read it. You can follow Ken on twitter and me too.
Listen here, and enjoy.
