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Oct 29, 2026
Brian KutePANELIST
The deepfake technology is getting better all the time.
Brian KutePANELIST
And the imagery and audio and, you know, phishing five, ten years ago, you could spot, if you look closely in the URL, that they might have substituted a Cyrillic letter for an English letter.
Brian KutePANELIST
There were some cues.
Brian KutePANELIST
Those cues are disappearing.
Sarah MacdonaldHOST
But then we eventually learn that it's actually an N.
Sarah MacdonaldHOST
In Cyrillic script, that's N for Natalia, this is the Russian godmother of the mother of Daisy
Claire NicholsHOST
Armstrong.
Claire NicholsHOST
I mean, it's also obvious when you look back, isn't it? Benjamin Stevenson, though, he does a lot of fun things with language in his own books.
Mark GordonHOST
Unfortunately, Bulgarian is not written in English.
Mark GordonHOST
It's written in Cyrillic, so
David HarrisHOST
poor.
David HarrisHOST
I can see the name of the station and I'm still struggling.
David HarrisHOST
It is Iskarskoe Shose.
David HarrisHOST
I bet you didn't know I could read Cyrillic.
David HarrisHOST
Quiz question.
Mark GordonHOST
Quiz question.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
Lena nodded in agreement as he tried to read some strange markings that had been etched onto the side of it.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
It looked like Russian Cyrillic.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
He thought back to that strange radio transmission but thought better of telling Wilson about it lest he sound like he was going crazy.
Richard McLean-SmithNARRATOR
Half an hour later, with the men having hardly made a dent in the trench, Wilson slammed his shovel into the ground, only for it to give way completely, unearthing a small sunken space about two feet wide beneath it.
Matt CrabtreeHOST
going into the city and, you know, like another place altogether.
Matt CrabtreeHOST
And then seeing the restaurant, which doesn't say McDonald's, or didn't used to when you owned it, didn't say McDonald's, said whatever it said in Cyrillic, but you damn well knew it was McDonald's.
Matt CrabtreeHOST
And I remember thinking, oh, okay.
Matt CrabtreeHOST
Oh, I sort of feel slightly at home.
Rob ZettelGUEST
You had to really be a trained eye to tell the difference.
Rob ZettelGUEST
But all the Soviet-built ones, everything was in Cyrillic.
Rob ZettelGUEST
There was no, there were a handful and not more than four or five labels in English in the entire cockpit.
Rob ZettelGUEST
Everything else was in Cyrillic.
Rob ZettelGUEST
All the instruments were still, they were factory stock Soviet gauges with two notable exceptions.
Rob ZettelGUEST
Maybe not so obviously, but we did change out the airspeed indicator from kilometers to knots, thank God, and the altimeter from meters to feet.
Tucker HamiltonHOST
How did it handle? What kind of surprised you in that transition, that experience?
Rob ZettelGUEST
Interesting enough, there wasn't a big surprise.
Dave FarinaHOST
Though there is some debate as to whether the Rus people were Slavs ruled by Scandinavians, or were Scandinavians themselves, our sources, admittedly written centuries later, suggest that they were Norsemen whose culture had taken on a Slavic coloring almost from the start.
Dave FarinaHOST
Until their conversion to Orthodox Christianity in the 9th and 10th centuries, they worshipped Slavic gods, and the Cyrillic alphabet, which was created for them in the 9th century by Byzantine missionaries, was designed to fit the Slavonic language.
Dave FarinaHOST
The Rus state was founded in the 860s by Rurik, a Varangian Knyaz, or prince, the title used by chiefs of the Rus who began to rule the city of Novgorod.
Dave FarinaHOST
It was then expanded by his successor Oleg, who captured and moved the city of Kiev farther to the south and built a number of forts to maintain control along his territory's trade routes.
Brian KutePANELIST
The deepfake technology is getting better all the time.
Brian KutePANELIST
And the imagery and audio and, you know, fishing five, 10 years ago, you could spot If you look closely in the URL that they might have substituted a Cyrillic letter for an English letter, there were some cues.
Brian KutePANELIST
Those cues are disappearing.
Brian KutePANELIST
So really the skeptical mindset, take nine seconds, just step back.
Victor KubikHOST
Also, they tutored us.
Victor KubikHOST
They had a tutor teach us Ukrainian grammar, how to write in the Cyrillic alphabet.
Victor KubikHOST
I even wrote an article in 1961
Mike MansouriSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
for
Deanna LorraineGUEST
Sorry launcher.
Deanna LorraineGUEST
It is Monday after all launcher in Cyrillic southern Iran with a number of IRGC forces wounded.
Deanna LorraineGUEST
and ambulances heading to the area, per initial reports and local sources.
Deanna LorraineGUEST
So we will continue to follow that story.
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