So at the conclusion of your trial, you were sentenced to two years in prison, and you were transported to a prison camp in Perm. Berezniki, yeah. Berezniki. It's actually a small city in Perm region. And Boris Yeltsin, who was before Putin, he was grown up in that city.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. Berezovsky was in the Kremlin and would help out on that end.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. Berezovsky he went up against him and eventually ended up exiled to London.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. Berezovsky had lunch with him.
off some ends actually some colonies even build flooding chambers which which Berek Berek Berek yes but you who to call them garrison now yeah okay
In some areas of the United States now, and certainly some areas of the world, there's still very little in terms of social support for bereaved families. But I went looking for a book, and I couldn't find one that acknowledged that you could be young when your mom died. Ultimately, I wound up writing it myself.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. Boris Berezovsky was essentially a car salesman.
stops the car and we go out and we look at this Paddock here the on the right so as you can see it's almost totally bereft of vegetation now as you know from the news recently Australia has this rather distressing cycle of drought and flood and when I visited the drought had been
And so you have the internet boom. And do you need BeReal?
I often call this my sex, drugs, and rock and roll slide because so many things can cause this. There's bereavement, is a really big one. And this hence, the name of broken heart syndrome.
And that takes an emotional connection. It could be Green Beret.
And then, as you learn in the prologue of my book, in the spring of 2002, ovarian cancer killed my best friend. I was bereft. I had no idea how to fill the void this woman left in my life. I wasn't much up for continuing my quest.
Because those changes can range from being mild anxiety, if you're worrying about asking someone out on a date or asking for a raise, to intense trauma, when you're dealing with bereavement or a life-changing diagnosis or anything scary. However you experience it is totally normal.
I learned at some point that people cook for somebody who's in a difficult time. Maybe they're bereaved, they've just had a baby, they're sick. Some people make dishes, and they bring those over.
And so I'm less-- I suppose just instinctively a bit less keen on trying to control the public discourse away from sort They're a bit bereft of stuff to say.
conversation grief experts have always said these are people who are really wonky and who really dig deep into the literature of bereavement they've always said that keeping the memory of a loved one alive is essential for healing like you must remember a loved one in order
You're on vacation in Europe, you need to come home last minute, airlines don't care. Even the bereavement fares are full fare minus, like, $5, right? So protect yourself with frequent flyer miles and credit card points.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. He met Berezovsky, and he pitched him the idea of privatizing an oil company.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. So Boris Berezovsky became his roof.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. He ends up offering Berezovsky $1.3 billion.
So they may not be the right place, but they're the right country. How did Green Berets-- how did your 12 Green Berets, which is how Green Berets work, in groups of 12-- build an army of 3,000 fighters from multiple different tribes,
And I think that bereft of the real heart connection with both mothers when it mattered, that Steve just kept building wealth to compensate.
And they wore red berets and red jackets.
can not only console bereavement, it can provide an antidine or an antidote--whatever you wanna call it-- or amelioration of some pretty severe and serious and complex human problems. So,
That's why he has a beret.
And the girls-- or the female pattern, I should say-- because some men will grieve in a feminine approach and some women will have a more masculine approach to bereavement. But women tend to emote, to show their emotions, to reach out, to connect with other people to want to talk about it.
You did touch on this before a little bit, but why is that grief so exceptional in some way versus the grief that sometimes we There's the Two-Track Model of Bereavement, the Dual Process Model of Bereavement, all of that.
The people who keep the beret on-- you know what happens to them?
do and that is to ask your friends to post their remembrances in return so then you as someone who is bered can feel supported by the stories that come back so then it's a dialogue and maybe they upload pictures
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. And a man like Boris Berezovsky, who was very crafty and very smart, was able to find a way in.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. Abramovich would have to make payments to Berezovsky.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. And it was Abramovich and Berezovsky.
Scotty Neal, US Army Special Forces veteran, Director of Strategic Development for the Green Beret Foundation from Tampa, Florida. Scott was in a Green Beret training exercise when the towers fell. He immediately deployed to Afghanistan with the objective of destroying Al Qaeda training camps.
And Jimmy was just telling me about a bereavement program they have now throughout the year, taking care of parents whose child has died, where they're
it is to lose somebody that we love, especially if we're young and we don't have an intellectual framework for making sense of it yet because it's still developing. And this is really important when we talk about children's bereavement. I imagine there will be listeners here who lost somebody when they were very young.
I think it was actually a real disservice to a culture to imply or tell people, you need to let go. I read now articles that were written in the bereavement field in the 1970s and the 1980s by therapists and psychologists and psychiatrists who have case studies where they talk about how their clients are unable to let go of their loved ones after death.
You did touch on this before a little bit, but why is that grief so exceptional in some way versus the grief that sometimes we But we know so much more about children's bereavement now, and teenage bereavement.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. There were all these depositions taken in this trial between Berezovsky and Abramovich, depositions all the way to Putin's head of staff.
He wrote that you could tell he was a Green Beret because his hands were in his pockets.
It wasn't just because he had a great beret.
We are the birthplace of leather jackets rocked with berets at free breakfast, where Skyline High School taught Tom Hanks to act, the original terminal for all Pullman Porter activity,
But in this book, I have a much greater appreciation for how grief is culturally relative. I have a whole huge file on how different cultures respond to grief and bereavement. And they range from cultures that spend weeks experiencing the funeral and the aftermath,
to accept showing up in the palace and to take off that beret, it means actually it
When he died in 2008, I was bereft and upset and depressed.
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. Now you're finished. And Berezovsky took the money and then regretted it and sued Abramovich, in the largest lawsuit in history, for $6 billion in the legal courts,
He knew he couldn't control what I was going to write. He actually moonlit. He worked as security for Berezovsky and also was a KGB agent under Putin.
Well, he's left with pack of red bereted Guardian Angels, who were outside his compound, protesting his depiction of inner city youth.
a trim, brunette looker in a beret.
So he wore the same kind of socks. He always owned one beret. He said, "You only need three pairs of clothes, one on
So, um so the situation now is that Trump is pretty bereft of ideas. Uh his military