Soviet Union, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 34Tristan Harris 1Tim Leatherman 1Polina Veksler 1Paul Eremenko 1John MacFarlane 1Joe Laurienti 1Henk Rogers 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Soviet Union comes up
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Supercharging Lithium-Ion Batteries with Gene Berdichevsky of Sila Nanotechnologies
The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 2
- ▶ 17:45 Tristan Harris So informal conversations between American nuclear scientists and back then Soviet nuclear scientists about basically making sure that we had safer controls on nuclear weapons.
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 3:28 John MacFarlane If you remember, that's right when the breakup of the Soviet Union was happening, and Russia had some really specialized scientific centers, these secret cities, and to exchange information with them, there was no real easy way to mail…
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- ▶ 2:25 Guy Raz When Hank Rogers first encountered this obscure Russian video game at a convention back in 1988, he was instantly hooked. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:49 Guy Raz And it turns out the inventor is this Russian computer guy at the Academy of Sciences in what was then the Soviet Union. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:40 Guy Raz And, and, and I guess I, I, we haven't mentioned him yet, but he's, Robert Stein is kind of a, a key player in the story because he was, ah, this, this guy who early on negotiated with the Soviets to get 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:01 Guy Raz And he's sitting in the one Soviet office where he might be able to negotiate that, Elorg, which oversees the export of computer software.
- ▶ 51:44 Guy Raz And, and meanwhile, I mean, in the early 19 nineties, the Soviet Union dissolves, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:18 Henk Rogers Belikov and his lawyer, and I said, well, I'm not, I'm not a lawyer, but I, I, I kind of feel that, uh, at some point there, there's going to be a jury of Americans that are going to decide who owns the rights to Tetris, whether it's the,…
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
- ▶ 9:15 Joe Laurienti We almost wanted to throw a bone to the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union, and, you
HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
- ▶ 9:22 Paul Eremenko The Soviets actually flew an airliner called the Tupolev one 55 on hydrogen and in 1988.
HIBT Lab! Universal Standard: Polina Veksler
- ▶ 1:44 Polina Veksler We left when it was still the former Soviet Union, and my parents wanted a better life for myself and my brother, and the anti-Semitism at the time was quite high, and we were lucky enough to be able to leave and end up in Florida.
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Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
- ▶ 43:27 Tim Leatherman Knife enthusiasts as one category, and back in those days, there were people who were building bomb shelters because they thought the Soviet Union was going to drop the big one on us.
Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
- ▶ 52:35 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how John finally gets the money he needs, and how, with a little help from Soviet television, he starts to turn Discovery around.
- ▶ 59:56 Guy Raz You would have documentaries, right, that you would air, um, and then you would, I think one, like, at one point you just played, you just broadcast hours of television from the Soviet Union. 3 times in the scene