At ACF, everyone wants to make videos. But there aren’t enough cameras to go around. There was, however, one spare microphone.
The team got their hands on it, locked themselves in the farthest little storage room, and recorded a podcast. Then another one. And another.
Eventually, they got tired of recording audio just for the sake of it. They came to me and said:
“You, Alexei, have a media empire, and we have media content. And it’s on important topics, too. Let’s get it to people who care about the truth. Tell us, Alexei, have you listened to deputies and officials discussing the pension age increase?”
“No,” I said. “I couldn’t make it through four and a half hours of that filth.”
“Exactly,” they replied. “But we watched it, and we also put together a solid breakdown. We brought in an economist and caught those scoundrels lying. So you don’t have to dig through it yourself—you can just get the full story right away.”
They hit play, and there’s no picture—just sound. At first I was ready to send them to the editor to add visuals. But they talked me out of it. They said podcasts are the trendy new format. Everyone’s doing them, and we’re not, so we need to catch up.
So I suggest you give it a listen too, because it has everything you love: stupid, greedy officials, a great host, and lots of truth.
One of the first episodes is, of course, about the pension age increase. More precisely, about how various clowns like Zhirinovsky, Topilin, and Kudrin justify their burning desire to steal your money.
Podcasts are a handy thing. You can listen while driving, on the subway, even at the dacha (country house) with weak internet. There’s no video, just audio. You can even download them in advance. The team promised to regularly record stories on topics you don’t have time to sort through yourself.
Subscribe so you don’t miss new episodes:
SoundCloud for Android (no suffering required).
YouTube, but without video.
And here are Spotify and RSS, if you know how to use them.
And if you’re against the pension age increase, join the protest on September 9. In Moscow, it will be at Pushkin Square at 2:00 p.m. Links for other cities are here:
Group for events on Facebook Group for events on VK
And here you’ll find invitation images for the protest in different cities. Download an image and send it to all your contacts on WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram, and to every group you’re in. Then ask people to forward it on. Every image sent increases the chances that the protests will be truly strong and effective.