John Fardy

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834 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

John Fardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But there are certain people in the world you think have such global legacy and have changed history that you would think,

they're not going to be privy to any of this kind of stuff.

Like Billy, like Billy Joel.

Like Billy Joel.

Or Mikhail Gorbachev, who was flogging pizza.

This is partially in Russian, by the way.

Glasnost, Perestroika and Pizza Hut.

Yeah, nice hot pizza.

So that was 1998.

What's happening is it's a Pizza Hut in Red Square.

This was designed to be shown outside of the USSR.

And Gorbachev is in a Pizza Hut with seemingly his granddaughter or something like that.

And all these Russians out of central casting are discussing his legacy in Russian.

And then they stand up and clap him and go, let's all celebrate Pizza Hut.

It's horrific.

And he got a huge amount of negativity for it.

Understandably so.

I mean, let's not forget he was the, you know, also, you know, the godfather of the end of communism.

Like he had an understanding of capitalism that other people didn't have.

This was a wrong move, you would have to say.

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