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Prigozhin Eras Tour | The Tim Dillon Show #358

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
We appreciate it.
We're back on Saturday nights.
We were all over the place this summer in terms of releasing.
But we're going to remain for the foreseeable future
on Saturday evenings.
And thanks, everybody, for all the messages and well wishes
and things that you sent me about the death
of Evgeny Pregosian, who was kind of a part of my life
and a factor, a force in the last several months.
And I appreciate that.
And it's sad when these things happen
because we barely know.
We knew this man for a little bit,
and I felt like there was more to come.
Certainly the American media was saying that.
They were saying that there was more to come from him.
They were very excited about what was happening with him
and how much the Russians were, you know,
that Putin was going to, he was down bad.
Putin was down bad.
And he was really, like, it was a rough,
people were, like, no longer respecting him.
And this guy Pregosian, he had attempted this coup.
It didn't work.
The president of Belarus stepped in and negotiated a deal,
which seemed, at the time, like, you know,
maybe it would be a little bit of a setup.
And, but then this guy gets blown out of the air
with all of his top, like, lieutenants, assistants,
all the commanders of Wagner Group, you know,
his private military.
Because what's interesting about this guy is he is a warlord.
Like, he started out selling hot dogs,
and he then makes inroads with Putin.
They're both from St. Petersburg.
And that's the thing about Russia.
It's kind of like a clash of clans.
You have people from St. Petersburg,
people from Moscow, you know,
like Shogu and Gerasiminov,
and all these other guys are from, you know,
wherever they're all from, they all have these,
they all grew up together,
and they all have these certain little mafia units
that they are a part of.
And this guy and Putin were buddies
from when Putin was, like, a young guy.
Putin was just, like, a dude in the local government.
And him and Prigozhin became buddies.
And Putin kind of helped him out.
And he helped him out.
Prigozhin had spent, like, nine years in jail
because he, like, choked a woman out,
stole her pocketbook.
He was a rabble rouser.
And he was, you know, incarcerated
in a no-joke, real deal, Russian prison,
and then came out of that,
started selling hot dogs,
and then became, they used to call him Putin's chef,
Putin's caterer.
He starts catering.
You know, there's photos with him.
Get the photo up of him serving,
I believe it's George W. Bush.
He was serving.
Yeah, he's there.
Well, he's serving Putin.
But I think Bush, there's, there's, there you go.
There you go.
There's Prigozhin.
Isn't that fun?
For the Bushes are somewhere in Texas.
I'll be like, remember that guy that served us,
Borscht, when we were in Moscow?
He tried to take over Russia,
and then Putin blew his plane up.
But what's interesting about this guy, right,
he looks like any sommelier,
you'd see it like a New York restaurant,
any maitre d', maitre d'.
He was, he was a warlord.
Cutting people's heads off.
But right there, he's like, you know,
he looks like a sommelier.
Serving our leader, at the time,
GWB, in the Kremlin.
He was a, it's funny to have those two sides of you,
to, like, have an appreciation for cuisine,
and yet also end up someone who would behead people
in the street, which is what, you know,
when they raided his Wagner PMC headquarters
or his house, I was reading that, like,
he had photos of the people he had beheaded
in, like, in his house.
He had photos of, like, the heads
that he had taken off.
It was like Colonel Kurtz, a little bit,
Apocalypse Now.
But it started, you know,
you know, he was a chef,
and Putin brought him in.
He started making a lot of money.
He started the Wagner PMC,
which was this private military contractor,
this private military group
that Russia would send to do certain things
that they needed done.
Syria, whatnot.
They did a lot of work in Africa.
There's a lot of African warlords
that are upset that this guy's dead.
They're not happy,
because he would go in there with Wagner,
and he would provide private security
to African warlords,
and they would give him,
they would give Russia mining rights.
And a lot of the Wagner is very,
they're very, you know,
engaged and active
on that continent in Africa.
And, you know,
so Purgosian is like,
he's a cartoon character
in the sense that he was a hot dog salesman
who then became this
kind of high-end caterer.
He also, you know,
furnished meals for the Russian military.
That's where he made the big money.
He made a lot of money.
He became a billionaire.
He's an oligarch.
But he liked killing.
He liked killing people.
And he was good at it,
and he was good at talking
and dealing with killers,
rapists, murderers.
Like, even Putin.
Get up the Putin quote
after he died.
Putin said something interesting.
Putin was like,
he made mistakes in his life.
By the way,
you gotta love the way Putin talks.
Number one,
Putin, they clearly did this.
Right?
His plane was clearly,
they put a bomb in it or whatever.
But Putin, you know,
the Kremlin comes out and goes,
no, no, hey,
this is,
this is,
you take a chance when you fly.
The Kremlin's gotta go,
no, no, no, no.
Every time your plane takes off,
you gotta say a prayer.
Because you just take
a chance when you fly.
It's not a,
it's,
hey,
it's weird
that he tried to do a coup
and that his plane
had a malfunction.
It's,
the timing is odd,
but this is not us.
This is not us.
Putin goes,
I've known Prigozhin
for a long time
since the early 90s.
Putin describing him
as a talented businessman
with a complicated fate
who made serious mistakes
in his life,
but what I love,
Putin said,
is he also,
Putin goes,
he got the necessary results.
Prigozhin,
when he was talking about him,
he goes,
yes,
he's made mistakes in his life
and he got the necessary results.
He did the things
that needed to be done
to get where we needed to go.
And the Western media,
like some of them
have an understanding of Russia,
a lot of them don't.
A lot of them don't,
I don't know
where they get a lot of the stuff
they get it from.
I don't know
if it's fed to them
directly from the CIA
or if they just,
you know,
watch movies
and just think
that they'll just go,
well,
that might be the way it happened
because it,
you know,
happened in a movie.
Like,
I don't know where they get
any of this.
Like the CNN article
that I posted
and people were like,
well,
that was 10 days
before he died.
It was like,
CNN was like,
Prigozhin is large
and apparently in charge.
It was a,
let's get this article up.
It's interesting
because it shows
the disconnect
and I knew
when Prigozhin
was going to die,
by the way.
I knew
when he was fucked.
I knew when he was fucked
and,
and we'll go into that.
Um,
uh,
and it,
it,
it was a moment
and it was after
that attempted coup
and I said,
God,
he's not thinking.
Um,
so CNN,
where in the world
is Wagner Warlord Prigozhin
at large
and in charge,
apparently.
And
this article
that we're going to get up
is just basically,
uh,
it's so,
it's the disconnect
is,
is,
is very,
very apparent
if you,
like,
just think of
how things
in that part
of the world work.
Like,
you don't,
you don't get away,
it's not America,
you don't get away with it.
Like,
America's still
a really fun country
where you can do shit,
you can run into the Capitol
with horns on.
That guy's doing interviews now.
I think he's,
he might be running for Congress,
the QAnon shaman.
Like,
in America,
it's still fun.
You can still
do things for the gram
in America.
It's like,
as long as you're willing
to get progressively crazier
in America,
there's genuinely a way,
like,
if Trump just said,
I'm not running for president
anymore,
he's like,
I'm done.
I'm going to go back
to hosting water balloon fights,
everybody get their tips out,
I'm going to be nasty
and rude,
there would be billions
of dollars behind him
to do anything he wanted
in the media space.
The reason they're
indicting him
every other day
is because they don't want him
running for president,
and he's done some criminal stuff
for sure,
but that's why
they're indicting him.
If Trump had said,
I'm going back
to entertainment,
the money would have
lined up behind him.
It didn't matter
about January 6th,
they wouldn't care
because they'd go,
they need to have more money
with that guy,
we can make more money,
he'll do another show,
he'll do another apprentice,
but this time,
and they'll make a fake set
that would have looked
like the White House,
they would let him sit
in a fake Oval Office
in L.A. somewhere,
in Burbank,
in his studio,
and he would fire people
and he would be
the fake president
and he would be nasty
and rude
and it would be great
and no one would remember
January 6th,
you know,
President Bush,
you know,
Guantanamo Bay,
torture,
Iraq,
Afghanistan,
no one cares,
he's on Ellen,
look,
he's painting,
look at the horse
he painted.
We forget,
as long as you're willing
to get progressively crazier,
like,
if you did all that shit,
like Bush,
you just have to show up
on Ellen and go,
now I'm a painter
now,
I'm painting,
and that level of insanity
we respect,
he's an artist,
the guy that dragged
everybody through the war
and tortured all these people
and destroyed our image abroad
is an artist now,
so as long as you're willing
to go crazier
and crazier,
you can figure it out
in America,
it's still why it's the greatest
country in the world,
because Donald Trump
would have been fine
if he just left,
there's no route
for Pregosian
to do a game show,
there's zero route,
that's not how Russia works,
that's not how it works,
you can't go be the host
of Wheel of Fortune
after you've tried it cool,
but in America you can,
if Trump was like,
listen,
we got a little,
people got together,
they got a little wacky,
they got a little,
you know,
it's,
then he would go,
listen,
I get it,
it was a little nuts,
but now we're back
on streaming,
Amazon,
Netflix,
every single,
all of these people,
when they had assurances
he was no longer
going to be the president,
when they knew
he was out of political life,
when they knew
he was done,
they would have opened
the vault of money
for him,
Fox,
everybody,
because he's a magnet
of eyeballs,
they don't want him
running the country,
for a myriad of reasons,
but they want to watch him,
they love him,
the media loves him,
they adore him,
there's enough,
they can't get enough of him,
they want to hear him,
they want him to call people
names that they hate,
they also hate Ron DeSantis,
but they want Trump
to destroy Ron DeSantis,
they want him to call
Ron DeSantis names,
but because he is
currently still,
amazingly,
the front runner
for the presidency,
they,
you know,
he's going to be indicted,
they just indict him,
indict him,
indict him,
indict him,
indict him,
and we just bury you
in paper,
because we're not going
to blow your plane
out of the air here,
we're going to bury you
in paper to prevent you
from running for president,
but they don't care
about him,
like there was a route
for him to just go
right back,
slide right back,
and become
a media kingpin,
I think he was interested
in that before he got elected,
he was interested
in a Trump TV,
something like that,
he could have taken
a whole Fox News audience,
it would have been his,
and nobody would have cared,
right,
just in the same way,
the thing is,
when I knew
Pregosian was going
to die,
is when he,
look at this photo,
and by the way,
let's read a little bit
of this article too here,
because this will make
some of my point for me,
it is why America,
by the way,
is still far and wide,
the best country
to live in,
it's the greatest country
to live in,
because there are,
there are roots
to redemption
in this country
that do not exist
anywhere else,
there are roots
to redemption
in this country
that don't exist
anywhere else,
and a lot of them have to,
they live in the
entrepreneurial world,
if Kevin Spacey
comes out with a meal plan
that's good,
he's back,