Armando Iannucci
speaker
2,955 appearances
51 recordings
23 series
first heard Jan 2021
last heard 5d ago
Armando Iannucci’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it was real. It was real. I know. I know. And that's when you just think, You don't have to embroider it, you know. If what is true makes the point, then make that point with the truth. You know, with the death of Stalin, as we researched the story, we kept finding more and more stories that were just absurd but actually happened.
Vasily was high up in the Soviet Air Force. He was overpromoted. He was drunk. He was in charge of the ice hockey team. He sent them to a tournament in an ice storm. He was warned there'd be a danger to the flight. The flight went down. He lost the ice hockey team. He was too scared to tell his father. So he just recruited like friends of friends for a new team who were terrible.
And that's such a bizarre story, but it says so much about even his son was scared of him. And that's why I'm saying it's all about the truth. It's the truth of what people really felt at the time. How can we get to that, that uneasy feeling they had at the bottom of their stomachs for years that they might be rounded up and taken away in the middle of the night?
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Rengas puhkee.
Autoliitto auttaa.
Avaimet jää autoon.
Akku hyytyy.
Autoliitto auttaa.
Kala nappaa.
Siima kireeksi.
Missä ja milloin vain.
Liity plus jäseneksi autoliitto.fi.
Some bugs.
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I've not heard anything like this before.
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What's that smell?
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Once upon a time, there was a pessimist, an optimist and a sadist.
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The pessimist was always afraid of the worst.
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The optimist hoped for the best and even thought too much.
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What about the sadist?
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