Russian rocket scientist Vitaly Melnikov has been picking wild mushrooms his&nbsp;whole life. Somehow though, at 77-years-old, he picks a bad one and eats it up. This kills him. His body shuts down and he's&nbsp;entered the eternal cosmos for real. Coincidentally, this happens just after the extremely important&nbsp;Kremlin Lunar 25 mission he worked on malfunctioned and crashed into the surface of the moon... Jake Hanrahan's projects: <a href="https://www.hanrahan.tv" data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="e54fc7cd-6103-41d3-b6a5-25ea59c6e984">www.hanrahan.tv</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Kaliningrad’s Decapitated Entrepreneur

RICH RUSSIANS KEEP DYING IN MYSTERIOUS&nbsp;CIRCUMSTANCES&nbsp;Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their&nbsp;whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides&mdash;that the deceased were simply depressed. We&nbsp;don't think so...Sad Oligarch is an&nbsp;investigative podcast series that looks into the strange deaths of the Russian elite, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Putin's political dictatorship across the world. This is season two&mdash;Russian oligarchs are still dying and things have gotten even weirder...