The kindest release of the podoks "Medusa"

To finally distract from anxious news 🧘‍♀️

In news feeds a continuous crisis and coronavirus, and many of us really surrender the nerves. Everyone is looking for different ways to get distracted. You can watch a movie, read a book or engage in physical education. And also - listen to one of our podcasts. Yes, in them we also often talk about what is happening in the world right now. But in this material we have collected only the kindest episodes - no pandemic, falling ruble and oil crisis.

Small instruction: here we have collected the nine of the kindest episodes that our podcast studio has released since the beginning of 2020. They can be listened to in any order! If you are not familiar with our podcasts at all, it doesn’t matter, they are built on the principle of anti-anthologies-you don’t need to know anything special, just click on the play. And if you really liked the episode, be sure to listen to other issues of this podcast. You will find a link to a full feed on audio roads.

Who are Little Big and why are they so popular on YouTube?

• Podkast: "What happened"
• Helps to be distracted: for 26 minutes
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Although Eurovision will not take place this year (you yourself know why), the Little Big group can be listened without reason. Perhaps the most funny episode of the serious news podcast “What happened” is about how this project came from and why it is it - the perfect candidate from Russia for Eurovision. Musical journalist Andrei Nikitin recalls how the work of Ilya Prusikin began, and the musical producer Alexander Kushnir explains why the choice of Channel One finally coincided with the expectations of the audience.

Perfectionism often interferes with living. And that's why

• Podkast: "First Home"
• Helps to be distracted: for 36 minutes
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In the era of “ideal people” from social networks, we also strive to be perfect. Well, or at least just very good: beautiful, effective, peppy and happy. And, of course, it is perfect to educate your ideal children. But in fact, this is a direct path to continuous disorders, because expectations do not always coincide with reality. Vladimir Tsybulsky, Yuri Saprykin - the youngest and Alexander Borzenko decided to talk about how to stop demanding too many children from themselves and. And they came to the conclusion that their own mistakes should really be loved (although it is very, very difficult).

The young astrophysicist began to invest from scratch and became a millionaire. We talked with him

• Podcast: "Calculator"
• Helps to be distracted: for 39 minutes
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After the release of the “calculator” with a pensioner Larisa Morozova, who lives on dividends from her investments and traveled around 65 countries, it seemed that the best success story about private investors could no longer be found. But in the second season, this episode has a worthy competitor. The presenters Natalia Gribul and Nazar Shchetinin were invited to the studio of Eugene, a modest young astrophysician scientist from the Moscow Research Institute. But modest only at first glance. In fact, thanks to dividends from his investments, he has been like a millionaire for several years. He may not work at all, but continues to go to the research institute - for pleasure.

Everyone says that after the birth of a child, romance disappears in a couple. This is true?

• Podkast: "You are a mother"
• Helps to be distracted: for 44 minutes
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It is not easy to find the most positive episode of the podcast, in which the real problems of mothers are discussed without embellishment. However, this issue, in which Alexander Dovlatov, Anastasia Khartulary and Nastya Krasilnikov, speak of difficulties in relations with her husbands, turned out to be very romantic. Yes, the birth of a child is a real test for a couple, but it also really ralves and takes a relationship to a new level. In the episode, not only the presenters told about this, but also their husbands - Eugene, Yaroslav and Artem. In the end, Sasha, Nastya and Nastya sincerely thank the fathers of their children, and one of the leading even decides to invite his husband to a romantic date.

The daughters of the Soviet engineer listen to the letters of Father from Vietnam and try to understand how he was

• Podcast: "rewinding"
• Helps to distract: for an hour
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The piercing episode of mining engineer Vladimir Zaitsev, who worked in Vietnam in the early 1980s and sent a cassette with touching songs and audio painters from there. Now Vladimir Zaitsev is no longer alive. And his daughters, Natalya and Svetlana, are trying to understand what their dad was: how he was not afraid to leave his family and leave for Vietnam for two years. And also - why could not find himself after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

How to read the Lord of the Rings? And what should you know about its author?

• Podkast: "Book Bazaar"
• Helps to distract: for 48 minutes
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For the entire episode dedicated to John Tolkien, the leading Galina Yuzefovich and Anastasia Zabrzov recalled only one case when the writer was angry: in the preface to the Swedish edition, the translator called the Lord of the Rings allegory. Tolkien did not like such an interpretation of his plan, and he immediately wrote a response angry letter. Otherwise, the author was a reference Dobryak, a pacifist and a defender of nature: he ran barefoot on the grass, hugged trees, refused the car, making a study out of the garage. These values ​​were also shared by the readers of Tolkien: “The Lord of the Rings” fell into the mood of the hipping youth of the sixties and quickly became a bestseller.

Foreigners learn Russian. But why?!

• Podkast: "Rosenthal and Guildenster"
• Helps to be distracted: for 32 minutes
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One of the most entertaining issues of the podcast: the presenters Alexander Sadikov and Vladimir Pakhomov find out from the chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok (and the author of the podcast The Naked Pravda ), what difficulties in foreigners causes Russian. Kevin says that he decided to learn the language after he looked at the militants about Russian spies, and not after he read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. And instead of the textbook, they read the blog “Vladimir Vladimirovich” Maxim Kononenko. And Kevin also says that he does not always distinguish when we get swarmed to praise, and when to scold.

History of animation: from full -length cartoons of Disney to Pixar projects

• Podkast: "Cinema Stories"
• Helps to be distracted: for 53 minutes
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The episode about one of the kindest areas of cinema is about animation, which, by the way, is increasingly watching adults. The film critic Anton Dolin and the program director of the Great Festival of Cartoons Maria Tereshchenko say that Hayao Miyazaki was inspired by the Soviet “snow queen”, and they call the “Avengers” the triumph of animation. In addition, the presenters advise ten main cartoons of the 20th century: from the first successful full -range Disney to the Pixar computer animation. A great way to distract from the negative information stream and panic in social networks.

Neurosurgeon Alexei Kashcheev talks about the diet of doctors and reads poetry

• Podcast: "Complex cabbage soup"
• Helps to be distracted: for 39 minutes
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Funny medical bikes, “alcoholic” verses and many stories about hikes in the mountains - this is the recipe for the most positive release of the second season of “complex cabbage soup”. The guest of Marianne Orlinkova became a real man-organ. Alexey Kashcheev is a neurosurgeon who, in his free time from work, is engaged in mountaineering and writes poetry. He does not cook at all, but he talks about food perfectly. For example, he talks about his grateful patients who once prepared a huge cauldron of pilaf for the entire department. He also talks about his favorite food in the mountains, which heats the body and soul: Belarusian lard and a sublimated cheesecake.

Anna Chesova, Alexander Sadikov, Anna Kovalenko, Alexey Yurtaev