James Verini
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216 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
James Verini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Rocky IV, right?
Rocky IV Rambo.
I grew up in the 80s watching the most preposterous anti-Russian propaganda.
So there's part of our minds that will never escape that, right, Anthony?
It doesn't matter how much we read.
It doesn't matter if we learn Russian.
There's something formative in us, having grown up in the end of the Cold War, that Russia will always have those silly negative connotations.
I think you and I would also agree, though, that you're a big reader and you love fiction.
You mentioned drama.
It also... Russia...
to our ears also means absolute artistic brilliance, right?
A sort of a creative brilliance on the page, arguably unrivaled in the rest of the world.
So I would say in the way that you set up the nice dichotomy about around the word
theater, I would say Russia has a similar dichotomy, right?
We, we think of it as we think of it as being both insane and brilliant at the same time, both both beautiful and, and as ugly as it gets, and as ugly as it gets.
They have the Bolshoi Ballet.
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