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Everybody, it's great to be back.

Got some new equipment for the setup to hopefully make it look a little bit better and more professional.

As you can see, I'm a little bit dripped out, taking my profession a little more seriously.

I'm just kidding.

I think I'm gonna, though, I do believe I'm gonna start the precedent.

Summit, what's going on, man?

How are you doing?

I think I am gonna start the precedent of uh Flacco.

What's going on?

Already off to a great start.

Uh, no, infrared is getting more professional, by the way.

That is a thing.

Um, it's not just a joke, but um.

Yeah, I unfortunately wasn't able to stream in Moscow, and that's not because the internet was too bad, it was just because I didn't have the time.

I was really busy the entire time.

Numenous, what's going on?

How are you doing?

Either very busy or very tired.

One of the two, right?

And I can't wait to talk all about but the trip.

And uh my thoughts on Moscow, my thoughts on Russia, uh the new things that have come of it, some new things that are dropping.

I did interview Dugan.

I don't know if you guys know that.

Paperwind, what's going on?

Uh but let's kind of build up to that I guess.

Talk about the trip.

And more as well, 'cause I have a lot of thoughts.

I have a lot of thoughts on it.

And uh, you know, for starters I could say that I I terribly miss I terribly miss it.

I terribly miss Moscow.

Um it's very I it I was I've been very sad ever since I've come home.

To be honest, the contrast is extremely obvious.

It's extremely unavoidable.

I'll talk about that in more detail, I guess.

But I've never been to a better city in my entire life.

I've never been to a place, a better place in my entire life.

I don't think.

In terms of the soulfulness, in terms of the spiritual aroma, there's nowhere I have ever been in my life that comes close or compares.

to Moscow.

I have never seen a more beautiful city, a more beautiful place, a more beautiful creation by humanity.

Um

And uh

It was very sad coming back to the U.S.

And I think I'm actually going to talk about my trip back to the United States.

Uh just as a starter, because it was pretty unpleasant, to be honest.

Uh the airplane.

Was unpleasant, but that's not what I'm going to talk about.

I'm going to talk about when I got back to the U.S.

past customs and what happened to me.

'Cause I I didn't talk about this yet.

This is the first time.

Emila, what's going on?

So I was um

Pretty disappointed in our democracy, if I'm being honest, in our free democratic society.

Because here am I, Hazal Deen, I'm just a regular guy.

I'm just a curious American traveling to Russia to see, you know, what Moscow we're not at war with Russia, by the way.

But uh I go through passport control and I just tell them I'm coming from Moscow.

They said, Where are you coming from?

I said, Moscow.

I said, Why?

I said, Well, it's an international conference.

One hundred and thirty countries uh were there and we were also invited as a delegation.

And so they held me for like three hours.

Not only did they hold me for three hours, they took my phones.

They took both of my phones.

And they said they're going to look through my phones.

And I said, wait, wait, wait, do I have a right to say no to this?

Because I'm so stupid.

I didn't know that this was a thing that they did.

They take your phones and they could do whatever they want with them.

I didn't know I have no rights.

I said, wait, you're going to see my texts?

I'm going to tell you why I was worried about that.

And it's not for the reason you think.

So, first of all, I'm not a stupid person.

I went to Moscow with the full awareness that everything I was doing was being recorded and monitored.

So no, there was nothing incriminating I had on either phone.

I wasn't worried about that.

But while they were detaining me, or I don't know if it's detention, while they were holding me, I was in a group chat with Jackson and Grayson, basically talking shit about the people that were holding.

I was basically like, fuck these people, oh my God, whatever.

And by the way, that group chat can get pretty nasty.

And when I say pretty nasty, I mean very politically incorrect.

Um a lot of banter is going on.

Crazy banter about that's very offense, that would be very offensive to the people who read it.

Um, and I was super embarrassed.

They were like, We're gonna have to look through your phone.

I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.

Also, there's another thing, the fucking memes.

On my phones are also pretty.

I don't know if I don't know if they're bad as much as they're just confusing, like Indian Hitler stuff, Indian Hitler on a Segway.

I don't know, just crazy shit that's just hard to explain.

Also, like infrared inside jokes.

I don't know, it's just a lot of things I didn't want to like, I just thought were kind of embarrassing, like confusing at least, you know?

But um yeah, everything on my phone they took.

They took everything.

So like the feds pretty much they know about code along.

Yeah, they know about everything.

Um yeah, I mean I d I don't feel like anything changed because I was like, well, they they must know this already, right?

But here's the thing.

It was actually pretty surreal, 'cause I don't think I've ever done this to strangers where they knew my name, my real name, like my actual real name, right?

And they're like, Okay, what is your YouTube channel?

And I had to tell them everything.

They questioned me and I had to tell them everything.

I told them the truth.

If you lie to feds, you can go to prison.

I I told them the truth.

I didn't wanna say anything.

So I told them everything.

I was like, Yeah, I mean, I I run a channel called Infrared.

Uh and and and it's so funny.

She's like, Okay, can you show me the channel?

and I'm like

Do I have to?

I'm like kind of embarrassed a little bit, you know, because like I'm showing this random person this YouTube channel where I'm like yelling, calling Jay Dyer a faggot and it's just a lot to explain, you know.

Anyway, so that person, those people working at Border Control, have my real name.

They're the only people, the only strangers that I don't know personally, who actually, in fact, do know my real name.

And I was wondering: are the feds going to dox me?

Like, did they not know who I was before?

And now they're going to do it?

So all these things are running through my mind.

Um.

I didn't have anything on my phones that I'm worried about.

Uh

Like

Yeah, I mean everything is there, but

The way I operate is that I don't do anything incriminating.

You know, I I always assume the feds are watching everything I do anyway.

But I was so shocked at how I was treated.

I actually asked her, I was like, so like, what's the reason for all this?

Like, what's the purpose?

And she's like, well, I have to make sure you're not a threat to the United States.

And then I said, but I'm a, I didn't say this, but I was thinking in my head, I'm like, I'm a threat to the United States, I'm a U.S.

citizen.

Why are you treating me like I'm a foreigner?

You know, I'm a US citizen and I'm a threat to the United States.

Why?

Because I'm coming from Moscow and I'm wearing this leather bomber jacket and I actually like look like a foreign

Some kind of four.

I know it looks bad, right?

And then, by the way, my real name is on many terror lists.

By the way, my real name, that's another thing.

My real name is on many terror lists.

Multiple individuals have my real name that are on terror lists.

Not me, but the name, right?

So it's a really bad co uh combination.

But um

I didn't know they could take your phones.

That's kind of fucked up.

Um so they did that and uh I felt like they were stripping me naked, you know, like what if I was about to like show some attitude and be like, oh, um

Oh, I didn't know.

Are you going to pay my bills now for this phone?

They say, huh?

I said 'cause when I bought the phone they said it was my phone.

They said it was my phone and I get to have a pa and it's mine, like it's my phone.

I didn't know it was your phone too now.

So if it's your phone too now, are you gonna help me pay the bills for it?

Right?

I mean it's my fucking phone they and another adult can just take it.

For what fucking reason, right?

Thought that was crazy.

By the way, if you're coming in here new, this isn't Russia I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the USA.

So the land of the free.

Um, violated my civil liberties soon as I touched down on free soil.

Immediate violation of my civil liberties.

I learned, I learned something new.

I didn't know that.

I thought we were a free country a little bit, or at least pretended to be.

I know the NSA spies on us, but I didn't know that straight up at customs.

Give me your phone!

Give me your phone.

Not only that, give me your phone, give me your password.

Huh?

And I didn't know they straight up just do that, right?

So my first uh experience

Touching down into the USA.

The minister, what's going on?

My first experience.

Was a was a was I learned a new way in which the government violates our civil liberties unconstitutionally, violating our privacy.

So that was my experience coming back.

Uh, some positives.

I'm back and I'm going to bed at like 8 p.m.

As a matter of fact, right now, streaming, I'm staying up pretty late to do this.

Is kind of like a

Pretty uh

Pretty edgy thing I'm doing right now because my new bedtime is 8 p.m.

Can you if you can believe it?

Uh because of the time d I don't know, I don't want to even want to explain it.

Because of the time difference, it's eight hours ahead over in Russia.

So

There's that, right?

But um

Going to Russia.

So if you guys don't know, it was the um movement, the international rustophile movement that invited us.

We were one of the only American delegations.

I think there were a few other Americans, maybe two or three.

Besides that, it was me, Jackson, and Grayson.

Um passport control in Russia.

Now this is gonna sound shocking.

America's a very hostile country to Russia, very hostile.

America is more hostile to Russia than Russia is to America.

Keep that in mind.

I go to Russia's passport control, and guess what?

They don't hold me.

They do take my so you usually go through a booth, they check your passport, they let most people through.

I have an American passport.

So, what they did is they said, okay, one second.

They called a guy over.

He came and took the passport, brought it in the back, and he said, Okay, just wait, and we'll get to you.

Very courteous, very kind.

Um

Very uh professional.

I didn't feel like I was being having anything viol.

I didn't feel like my s liber I mean, I'm not I don't have liberties in Russia 'cause I'm a foreigner, but I didn't feel like uh my dignity as a human being was being violated at all.

I f it felt like the I mean, I'm gonna be real, like the cops over there are super chill.

If you are getting on the bad side of a Russian cop, you fucking deserve it.

You know?

Sorry, I'm gonna.

It's my new resolution to stop swearing so much.

I'm gonna have to start.

uh getting used to that.

But

But uh if you piss off a Russian cop, you deserve it.

Straight they are the chillest cop when I say cop, I mean like the airport guards, the cops on the street, um people involved in security, they're extremely chill.

Extremely cool.

If you do anything to get on their bad side, you 100% deserve it.

At least in my experience.

Even um when they were checking my bags through the uh passport control.

The guy was like opening my backpack.

And he was kinda confused 'cause there was a blue Yeti mic and he didn't know what that was.

And then he looked at it and said, Ah, YouTube YouTuber.

Now this sounds Chinese.

He was like YouTube.

Welcome to Russia.

Hope you have a good time.

Like, he saw that I have a camera Yeti and he liked the fact that I was coming to Russia to show my country what's going on, right?

He liked it.

He's he he they were ha every and it's a common theme I I found in Russia is that

Um, I want to talk about me leaving the Russian airport, uh the Moscow airport, because it was kind of funny.

But um no, a general theme I found is that well, first of all, nobody thinks I'm American at face value.

Uh every single person who approached me spoke to me in Russian.

with um without exception.

There wasn't a single exception.

Every single person spoke to me in Russian tho and did not think I was an American.

Only when I started speaking English

Or only when I had to say uh ni gavarit paruski, only when I had to say these kinds of things did they um know that I they didn't speak the language, right?

I had to specify it.

So, yeah, there's that.

But Jackson and Grayson, on the other hand, everyone knew they were American.

Oh, Grayson, I don't know.

Grayson was a little ambiguous.

Everyone knew Jackson was American, though.

Everyone knew that.

Um

I don't think I look ethnically Russian.

I just look like someone who is local to that region.

So like Armenian or um

Uzbek I got Uzbekistan, I got Afghanistan I got Afghan.

Someone who would be in Moscow for a local reason, basically, who would speak the language, right?

Anyway, um

I'm going to talk about how their attitudes about Americans and things like that a second.

So I left the passport control.

Finally got to the airport.

And I'm I'm telling you this because I've only been to a few airports, like European ones.

some Middle Eastern ones, um

First thing I see in the airport is they had a 7-Eleven.

Like their equivalent of a Russian 7-Eleven.

I was like, that is so cool.

They're just like Americans over here.

Like, they're actually chilling.

They had like a 7-Eleven.

They had like some Russian fast food place with burgers.

I was like, damn.

This isn't one of those like fruitcake European countries.

This is actually like a real country, you know?

I very much.

Are we lagging?

That's great.

I love that.

I love when we're lagging.

Well, um

That's what happens.

Fives

'Kay.

It's only one guy who typed it.

Only one person.

Sevenths.

We're not back until I see those sevens.

No, we ain't we ain't back till I see them sevens.

I see one I see three sevens.

Four sevens, not nearly enough.

Alright.

Okay, uh where did I leave off?

Oh my god, we're so fucking l delayed.

This is crazy.

Now I'm seeing the fives.

Now the fives are back.

That's crazy.

Okay guys, where did I leave off?

Go ahead and tell me where I left off.

We are so behind.

This is crazy.

This is fucking crazy.

Moscow not fruity.

Okay, I'm just going to continue as normal and just leave it at that.

Uh anyway, as I was saying.

Even right off the bat entering the uh past the uh passport control to the airport, they have like a s their equival their own equivalent of seven eleven, they have their own equivalent of like uh

Like a fast food place with cheap burgers and stuff.

And I was like, this is not one of those fruity European countries.

This is actually a real country.

They're straight up chilling over here, you know?

Um

You know it in your head, obviously, like from a rational perspective.

But when you actually go and touch down into Moscow and you just see how, like, they're straight up chilling over there.

They're cool.

They don't care about how they're being demonized and all this bullshit's being.

They don't care.

They're straight up chilling.

It's a completely different world, right?

It's like imagine a completely bizarro version of America.

And that's kind of the vibes I was getting.

Um

So I uh left the airport.

I got a taxi.

And it was about a forty-five minute drive to the hotel, which is in the center of Moscow.

which is really cool.

But, um

Driving inwards.

I'm already extremely impressed.

The architecture, the buildings that I'm seeing on the outskirts, just the way they're lit up, the lighting.

I'm driving, it's February, so there's snow.

It's very scenic.

It's very beautiful.

And keep in mind, I didn't really get any sleep, and I'm already driving through this, and I think, wow.

This is literally like a paradise for me.

This is the city I've always dreamed about since I was like twelve years old or something, right?

And it's the place that I wanted to see before I died the most.

I'm gonna say something blasphemous.

But I kind of I do regard myself as a Muslim, right?

But

I want to see Moscow before I die, before I travel to Haj.

Okay, that's how much it's important for me.

Um

On a personal level, Moscow is more sacred as a city to me.

Um, that's some crazy that's that's very crazy to say, but it's just the truth.

I'm telling you the truth.

I'm sewing out, basically.

I'm right.

We haven't even entered the city, and I'm just on the outskirts.

And one of the reasons I love it so much is because it's like this.

Combination of it's very American.

That was my impression.

It was a combination of like a highway with a bunch of like very big.

Uh, retail stores and uh malls and like

Big signs and big buildings.

Just a lot of bigness in general.

It was very um I don't know, I don't know how to explain it.

It it was I've never seen any city or anything like that.

It's very much car-oriented on the outskirts, like like

Um

like mechanic shops, everything like that, and it's uh

Very, very cool.

Very cool.

Uh, how do I i i it felt like I don't know, this isn't gonna make sense.

Maybe I just like didn't get any sleep and this is why I remember it this way.

But like the outskirts of Moscow from that airport felt like this was like a um a giant

Mecha factory or something like that, like a literal.

Um

City made for mechs.

Like, it was just kind of like it was, like, very sci-fi, you know?

I don't know how to how else to put it.

Very s it was very sci-fi, but not in the sense of just like like Shanghai pure futurism.

But it was like very sci-fi in the sense of like uh punk sci-fi, like

Like, it was very rugged.

A lot of the brutalism, all that kind of stuff.

I don't know, it's very pleasing aesthetically to me.

I found it very aesthetically yeah, very, very industrial.

That's the word I'm looking for.

Very, very industrial.

Very industrial.

Very, very industrial.

Again, it's like it's literally the mecca of infrared.

Which.

Which which makes sense because of our ideology and everything, but it really is, it really is, you know?

Anyway, I want to talk about

How Muscovites see Americans.

And I'll say that wherever me, wherever we went, wherever I went,

When people found out we were American, they were very surprised and they were very glad, actually.

They were very glad.

They said, We haven't seen Americans in a very long time and

They respected us.

They respected us because they understand

the belligerent posture of the United States against their country.

And the fact that we're there means because they know that they don't just let spies through or whatever.

So the fact that we're there we're there means like that we have an open mind and that we're willing to actually hear them out and see their perspective.

And

Almost everyone was really glad to see that.

They were really glad to see that there's Americans here who are going to hear our side of the story and go back home and tell it.

I think that's very telling.

You know, I think I think if Russia had something to hide

I think if if Russia felt like it was in the wrong or it had something to hide, I think people would be hostile to the presence of Americans, right?

But it's just the opposite.

We are the closed society

And they're the open-minded ones.

They're the ones who want to kind of just be heard.

They're like, listen.

We just want the information that's here to be transmitted there.

We just want the truth to be communicated.

But that can't happen because they're blocking access to Russia from the United States.

They're smearing anybody who transmits information from Moscow, from Russia in an honest way, smearing them and

Preventing them from doing it basically, that there's a media blackout.

I mean, uh people would be surprised at how

Normal and modern, and not only just modern, but just state of the art.

Moscow is really a.

World-renowned city.

A lot of people don't appreciate the fact that I'm not just saying it's modern, it has modern amenities.

Um

There isn't a single city in the United States that comes close to Moscow.

You factor everything in.

By the way, the number one factors are always going to be cleanliness and infrastructure.

On those two metrics alone,

It's the best city I've ever been to and it it easily it's easily better than any city in the United States, period.

Without question.

Um

Without question.

Uh

period.

And I'm not ever gonna go to Europe, by the way.

If I wanna go on vacation, I'm either gonna go within the States because it's easy or go to Moscow, but never going to Europe.

Uh because everything that's in Europe is in Moscow, but better, right?

I can highly recommend it as a destination to go to for purposes of tourism.

I can highly recommend it.

You will have a good time.

On that, just just we're not even getting into the more serious stuff, but just on that.

Just if you want to go to a nice place, you know, instead of going to Rome or Paris.

Or London, you should visit Moscow.

By the way, I don't even know where to begin.

The food, best I've ever had anywhere.

And I didn't know this.

I didn't know Russian food was so good.

I didn't know that.

And I'm not sure if it's just Russian food, it's just food from all over the former Soviet Union, I guess, mixed together.

And it's really good.

It's real.

Street food is really good.

The food in general is really good.

Everyone, I didn't know about this thing they had for breakfast.

It's called Cernikey.

It's really good.

Love it.

Um.

But, you know, I want to also pat myself on the back.

I lost 10 pounds on this trip.

I lost 10 pounds.

I went from like one ninety six and now I'm at one hundred eighty six.

And that wasn't because the food wasn't good.

It was because I was walking like fifteen miles a day.

Just taking the metro everywhere, doing all that, getting around the city on my feet like a civilized person.

I'm also surprised that the kind of uh discourse about infrastructure

Moscow was never brought up because it's the best of both worlds.

They do have a car culture.

And I love the cal car culture in Moscow.

Sometimes I do need to just take a taxi 'cause it's faster.

But underground you have the the most impressive transportation system I've ever experienced, personally.

The Metro is I've seen a lot of different parts of the Metro, okay?

Every single station is a work of art.

Every single stop is a work of art.

There's there's beautiful, beautiful images.

There's beautiful symbols.

There's beautiful things on the walls.

Um

No nobody realizes this, but

They do not erase their history in Moscow.

The legacy from the Soviet era is all there.

And it's not it's not just untouched.

It's also renovated.

It's up to date.

The Lenin, Marx, all this kind of stuff, it's all there.

They don't get rid of it.

Maybe there's some they got rid of in the past, but th this stuff is still there.

There is a Marx statue.

I took a photo next to it in the heart of Moscow, like right in the center.

I'm sure that's because of the pressure in the lobbying of the KPRF.

Uh, you know, God bless them.

But I really appreciate that.

They they don't they don't n not only do they not get rid of the history, they keep it up to date and preserved.

They polish it, they make sure it's clean and looks new, looks brand new.

Um

The obviously the legacy of the Soviet era there is just it's it's unavoidable.

The hotel we were staying at.

Um

was

was uh also s it was a building that was uh

Sorry, it was a building used for the Bolshevik party's uh Central Committee.

Their meeting.

And that wa that's in the building itself.

It has like the portraits of all the people who've been there.

Including Lenin and Stalin.

Mao was also there.

A lot of they have all the portraits, right?

Side of the hotel is the bust of Lenin.

I mean, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Stalin, they're all over Moscow.

They don't hide it or sweep it under the rug at all.

And um

The metro is just is just beautiful.

I mean, um

All all Soviet era art.

The metro, I mean.

That's what it's made of.

And it looks brand new.

It's shining, polished, brand new.

It's not decaying, it's not rotting.

I mean, this image we have in our heads of Moscow or even Russia in general is just a decaying country.

It's just I know Mos everyone says Moscow isn't Russia, but it's like yeah, but you could judge.

A country's paradigm of development by its city.

For example, we have New York City and Los Angeles, some of our best cities, right?

And they're

They're really big shitholes, right?

Sorry, I got this new uh diffuser light and it's actually

It's actually violently attacking my eyes right now, so give me a sec.

I have a lot to talk about.

Australia Stani, what's going on?

I actually have a lot of lot to talk about.

Uh when it comes to this.

Um

No, I mean the j the general impression you get when you're there is that it's a thriving society.

It's a it's a society undergoing a renaissance.

No, I I don't know if I would say that.

I would say um

The overall impression I got of Moscow is that it's a society right about to enter a Renaissance.

That's more accurate.

Not necessarily in its renaissance, but it's about to enter a big, big new era, right?

And it's kind of like preparing for that.

It's a big preparation for a new era, is the impression I got.

Um

So many things I have to talk about, like how people dress very stylish, very good fashion.

Very, very good fa like very the l what the latest and greatest trends that you in the US, like they're ahead of it.

They're they've got great, great fashion.

Um

We talked to some liberals there.

We went to a coffee shop.

uh we were just walking and there's these liberals working there.

And even the liberals in in Russia are better than the US.

They're chill.

They're just chill.

They were we were talking to them and they were just kind of

You know, giving us their opinion, but they were just naive.

We were just like, oh, yeah, they don't, they don't know.

Like, they don't realize the reality of liberal freedom in the US.

They take for granted this beautiful country they have because the liberals were themselves like very well dressed, very, you know, stylish, wealthy, seemed like.

We were just like, Yeah, they just take it for granted.

They don't know the truth about the US.

But um

There's that.

Uh

I'm gonna have to fix this, by the way.

This is

This is, uh, you know what?

I might just fix it now.

Give me a second.

Give me a second.

Alright, that's a little better.

It's a little better.

Dialed it down fifteen percent.

I guess that'll do a little.

Um

Yeah, to continue what I was talking about.

Um

I got the impression, uh, going there that it's a it's a very soulful place.

Um you don't get the sense of I know it's a city.

Moscow is a city, but it's the only city I've ever been to which

contradicts the basic principles of sociological urbanism, at least as existed in the West.

In the United States, urbanism is this kind of pure abstract cosmopolitanism, violently tearing and abstracting individuals from their communal context, their traditional cultural context,

And throwing them out into the kind of brutality and harshness of this kind of anonymous.

Um what's that painting

That painting, uh

By the German guy.

Where they're walking at night on the street and there's like a bunch of like alien looking strangers walking past them.

Like the early 1900s.

Forgot what it's called.

Uh anyway.

That's not what Moscow was like.

That was uh

Something like something street.

Forgot the painting name.

Anyway.

Moscow is a kind of and this is from the Soviet this is a Soviet legacy, a hundred percent, but this type of city is very much reproduces the sense of warmth and homeliness and familiarity that a rural kind of village would

Uh but but amalgamated in a kind of

Integral and diverse context where there are different cultures.

It's a very multicultural city, okay?

The right-wingers who have this idea of Russia as a white supremacist or white nationalist country, they go on the Moscow metro and you're walking up the sorry, you're going down the escalator, and all the people that are going up.

Are different colors, different ethnicities.

They all look different from all walks of life.

But the difference there is that it's not alienating.

The cultural diversity that exists in Moscow is not alienating.

It's an integral diversity.

And what that means is that it's not a random, arbitrary mishmash of different groups.

Whose relationship toward one another is purely based on difference.

It's a bunch of different groups who actually share something in common, namely Russian-ness, being a part of this bigger civilization called Russia, which can actually tolerate, not just tolerate, but can actually integrate different cultures.

And include them in the content, the substantive content of what Russia is.

When you see a random Chechen on the subway, on the metro.

People don't see that as like an alienating presence that's alienating them from their own culture.

They see that's a Chechen.

We have Chechens here, right?

They can account for the different groups they have.

They're familiar to them.

Their existence is familiar.

And if you don't know, and if there's a lack of knowledge, you just assume it's one of the many different minorities.

But the good faith that exists there in contrast to here is that whatever minorities exist in Moscow

They are part of Russia.

Their existence is compatible with our existence, right?

In the US this isn't the case.

The so-called diversity that exists in the US is an alienating diversity.

Same thing in Europe actually, right?

It's alienating because those are not inclusive civilizations.

They're exclusive civilizations.

So when you see someone from another background, from a completely different culture or religion,

It's kind of imposing a a level of uncertainty and doubt.

Upon you with regard to your own background and culture and religion and so on.

It's making you feel like you're not a part of this place and you don't, and it's not yours anymore.

And it's just like it's open to literally anyone and anything.

And who are these people and their culture and what are they doing?

And you don't understand it because not only you don't understand it, you don't know if it's human or not.

You don't have the good faith assumption that these other people are human because you don't share any common human reality with them.

And that's the kind of chaotic alienation of multiculturalism in the West.

Russia is multicultural.

Moscow is multicultural.

But it's just not alienating.

So

Both liberals and western right wingers.

um don't would not understand this country.

Right wingers who want to project this kind of ideal on Russia, that it's a right wing trad paradise, they don't understand, for example, yes, Russia's very traditional, but it's also modern.

And what that means is that

Uh tradition is for them intuitive.

It doesn't mean that they're not modern anymore.

It just means that intuitively they're traditional.

But it's not an idea.

It's not about the idea of being traditional.

It's just what they are.

The same goes for the kind of um

LGBT stuff.

Nobody is running around in Moscow actively affirming.

Their hatred of LGBT people.

They don't need to.

It's redundant.

Everyone is just normal.

Nothing is being called into question.

What a man is and what a woman is, it's not being called into question.

Nobody has to bother with that.

It's not even on their mind.

Nobody's thinking about it.

Human the normal human reality of the family.

The normal human reality of the people say, Well, there's no Engels' origin.

Yeah, well, I'm being intuitive and commonsensical right now, okay?

Engels understood heterosexuality was natural, the natural state of humanity.

That can take different forms, sure, but to be clear.

Uh

Man plus woman equals child is a human universal.

Doesn't matter the history or the culture, right?

Anyway, um this is something uh in crazy enough, it's intuitive to them.

It's not an ideology they have, it's not an ideology, it's just it's just common sense.

It's not even called into question.

And I think this is why right wingers are kind of getting disillusioned with Russia.

Because right wingers are anti-social degenerates.

They don't want normalcy.

They just want

They want to die on the hill of an extreme position of some kind.

They want to be extremists, right?

And

Secretly they themselves harbor degenerate tendencies.

They get a thrill out of it, right?

And it's just, uh, there's no place for that, that I saw, at least.

in Moscow.

Um

So

You know, I'm not saying there's no minorities or fringe.

I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying it's not an intrusion upon public life at all.

You know, one thing I alluded to this a little bit in the interview I had, but one of the things I was extremely impressed by.

Um was the fact that

So they had a um a regions exhibition.

It was going on for a few weeks.

And everyone from all the parts of Moscow, and I think all parts of Russia, were coming to visit this region's exhibition.

It's like their countrywide fair or state fair, I don't know, their regional fair.

But it's a region's exhibition showcasing all the different regions within Russia.

And it was this center of gravity that uh all huge populations were just converging onto from all over Moscow, from the metros.

Uh

every every time of the day, every part of the day that it was open.

And it's completely free.

It's completely free.

So you ask the question: well, how does it fit that many people?

Well,

There's kind of a line outside of Vidiencha, which is um can I r it's kinda hard to explain.

This kind of place, Soviet era, um.

Agricultural exhibition site.

Uh there's a l a very fast moving line.

Which barely had to be enforced.

Just naturally, people form lines in Moscow.

That's how civilized they are.

Nobody has to worry about getting trampled.

Nobody has to worry about a crazy fiend drug addict coming and attacking everyone.

Nobody has to worry about fights happening.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Families, kids, they're all coming in these crowds.

It's completely safe.

It's completely fine.

This is what I mean by it's the sense of warmth that you would typically associate only with a rural village.

You have that in Moscow.

You have a sense of integral kind of communal, in a sense, communal solidarity.

In terms of

How people walk around in public.

I'm not saying everybody's like holding hands and hugging each other, random strangers.

No, I mean, strangers are strangers, right?

People aren't bothering each other, but I'm saying there's a kind of communal solidarity in the sense of people know how to act as a group.

Um, that's from the Soviet era, obviously, from Soviet civilization.

That's very clear, but

When a line needs to form, people just do it spontaneously.

Like, they do it automatically.

Nobody needs to tell them to do it.

If someone is like uh uh falls over or something, I mean, people uh understand what they need to do.

They rush over.

People act collectively, you know?

A lot of people, if you're from an Asian country, you're from Russia, you're going to hear this.

You go, Haas, why are you making a big deal out of that?

And I'm, well, because I'm from America, dude, and maybe you need to come see America, how fucking different it is.

Sorry, I swore.

I'm going to have a coin jar for my swearing.

But you need to come to America and see how different it is.

It's very different.

Nothing works.

It's every man for himself.

Here, you get trampled on Black Friday.

That's what happens here.

Uh you get trampled in front of Best Buy on Black Friday.

Yeah.

Um so yeah.

Just little things like that, I was very impressed by them, you know.

I'm not trying to say mu Russians is perfect, Moscow's perfect.

Um I'm I'm assuming it as a given that there's flaws.

Obviously, there's flaws everywhere, but

Assuming that as a given

I was very impressed by the civilization there.

I was very impressed by.

Just how people interact publicly, you know?

This sense of universal good faith.

I was talking to Jackson about this and it was like

One of the reasons it's a high trust society.

Where you could just go up to strangers and like ask them for help or I don't know, things like that.

It's just like or you could just start talking to people at random.

Um

That's another thing you just talk to people at random.

It's so cool.

But um

One of the reasons you can't do, why are we so cold to each other in the U.S.?

Well, because there are certain people that walk among us who are really weird and really unpleasant, who just don't know how to and the 10% or 5% minority of complete freaks spoil any ability for the rest of us to have any kind of sense of communal solidarity.

Now, there's exceptions to this, okay?

When I go up north here in Michigan, when I go up north, the people up north, they're kind of like the people in Moscow, you know?

When I go to Frankenmuth, a nice little Christmas village in Michigan.

Where all the rural people in Michigan and the Midwest come.

I do get the same impression that I had in Moscow, right?

But we just don't have an entire city.

Made in the image of that.

Now, to translate the best way I could translate it into American terms, and this might enrage people, but it's like imagine MAGA City.

That's what Moscow is, but for Russia.

Because instead of MAGA, they in Russia have the Soviet legacy.

Uh my eyes look fucking crazy right now.

Okay.

Um sorry, I don't know if that's a lack of sleep or what is that?

But imagine MAGA City, like

That's kind of the impression I got from there.

Like, this is an entire city, and I think this is an entire civilization made for the actual people who live there.

Can you believe that?

Because here it's not like that.

It's not made for those of us who live here, it's made for an abstract principle of freedom and liberty.

Well, who is Liberty?

Can you show me who Liberty is?

Lady Liberty?

That's not a real person.

The real people that live here, the country isn't isn't made for them.

We are just lucky to be here to right, we're guests, I guess, but um

Uh

It's very much a people's city, a people's urbanism.

That's what I was so impressed.

And I know, again, I know this is the Soviet era, but people should understand that the Soviet era is not just erased, there's continuity.

And if Marxists can't understand that continuity, that's their problem.

That's their that's their mistake.

There is continuity from the Soviet era to present day Russia.

The idea that the Soviet era is just relegated to aesthetics is completely false.

Um

But uh

Not to get into questions of economic policy and so on, I just want to talk to you about experiencing the culture, civilization and so on of the city.

It's so impressive how much it's a different world.

So over there, all the way over there on the other side of the world.

It's a different world.

What I mean by that, I mean, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe and so on.

That's not a different world.

That's a different section of Epcot, of American global hegemony.

It's a different colony, right?

That's not what Moscow is.

Moscow is a completely different universe almost.

It's the capital of Eurasia, right?

You get the sense that you're in a completely different globe.

You're a different planet almost.

Um I think that's kind of fair to say.

It really feels like a different planet.

Uh I've been to Europe.

That doesn't feel like a different planet.

Okay.

I've been to even the Middle East doesn't feel like a different planet.

Middle East, everyone speaks English and, you know, uh loves American culture.

I mean, everyone loves American culture, but

But I mean like uh

There's a recognition that exists in Russia that it is a completely different civilization.

It's a completely different world.

It's a completely different civilization.

There isn't the slavishness toward Americanism.

Yes, there's an admiration for America.

Yes, young people.

Probably have delusions about America.

Of course, but

The slavishness toward Americanism, that's what's not there, because they have their own power and they recognize that they have their own power.

And that's why countries like Russia have my respect.

I don't respect these shitty little countries in the Middle East.

Excuse my swearing.

Because they haven't discovered their own power yet.

They just kind of are on this pecking order where they just worship America because it's what they perceive to be the most powerful country.

In Russia, people have a sense of pride and self confidence that they are a different power.

And that's why I respect Russia.

It's one of the reasons, at least, I respect Russia so much.

Why it's so respectable.

Um compared to other countries.

That sense of independent power is very, I mean, it sounds abstract when I tell you here, but when you actually go there and you feel it and you perceive it, it's very, very, it's, it's very inspiring, actually.

For me as an American, it's very inspiring because it proves that there is a possibility of another power.

The hegemony is not the only power.

Now, Russia is a different country with its own separate power, yes.

But the fact it's able to maintain that independent and sovereign power proves that we in the US can also build a power that's alternative to the hegemony, even here within here.

And this is another kind of point I wanted to touch on: I very strongly got the impression that Moscow was a universal city.

It it represented a form of universal humanity, the hopes, the dreams, the aspirations of a universal and free humanity, an alternate vision for what universal humanity was.

In contrast to Washington, D.C.

Washington DC has a vision for what universal humanity is.

But Moscow is a separate, alternative, and rivalrying vision of what that is.

And it's a vision of universal humanity that is based on the inclusivity and integration of its substantive content.

It's a vision of universal humanity that

Revere's and, um

holds in high regard the actual soul of man, the cultures of man, the various different civilizations of mankind.

In their content, in their determinate content, not some pure form of freedom and liberty, but it's it's it's it's exactly kind of like the Mongol modernity.

I've Moscow is the city of Mongol modernity in a way, the the kind of I've that I've talked about before.

Because it's this kind of universalism which it but but which isn't based on an abstract negation of humanity, but is somehow a universalism that is a universal inclusivity of humanity, if that makes sense.

It appears abstract because it's a universal inclusivity.

It somehow includes all of the wealth and treasure of mankind, the soulfulness, the universal soul of man.

Yes?

That's your raise up.

Um there's something very beautiful, very, very beautiful about it.

I mean um

You get the sense of a Byzantine legacy, you get the sense of the Mongol legacy, the Asian legacy, you get the sense of Muscovy, obviously, the Tsardom of Muscovy, Russia's own history, you get the sense of yes, the Romanovs, you get the sense of finally and most importantly, the Communist era.

And all of these things come together somehow.

Uh I don't I don't I want to communicate something very carefully if if you want to walk away with anything I want you to understand this if you don't believe me you have to go see it with your own eyes Anyone who thinks that okay the Soviet Union was this kind of society with a universal vision then Russia came and Russia is just some petty nationalist You know Balkan ex-Yugoslav country like I don't know like Slovenia or something No, no Russia is not a petty nationalist state Russia the Russian Federation

Is the inheritor.

It has inherited the universal vision, the universal.

notion of humanity that existed in the Soviet era.

It's still there.

It may not be fully elaborated.

It may not be clear even to Russi and it's not clear even to Russians themselves what it is.

But it's there.

It's still there.

It's still there, it's still the premise of their existence, and it's still

Their world.

That's still their world.

And I want people to understand that Russia is not a petty nationalist country.

It's not some small nation.

that just managed to inherit some Soviet statues.

It still has a universal vision of humanity and the world.

It yes, it has it it's it it's w w when when when Dugan, for example, is talking about the Russian logos,

And Russia pursuing its own path of development.

He's not talking about a small petty nation.

He's talking about a regional polarity.

It's Eurasianism.

Remember, he's a Eurasianist.

So it's a determinate universality, to put it in Hegelian terms.

Russia is still a universal civilization, but it's a determinate universal.

It's a specific universality.

That makes sense.

And acknowledging the specificity of that universality.

I mean, i in a sense, Dugan is a universalist, humanist thinker.

Um

Because what is he really doing when he's talking about the ki this kind of multiplicity of different civilizations?

What's the real point?

The real point isn't to deny uh uh the universal universality of man.

Rather, and it's neither to deny the kind of universalist.

Uh

Significance of Russia, but rather it's to basically um

It's a it's basically to insist upon the fact.

that Western metaphysics

Is not the final horizon of humanity's existence.

There are there are contrasting and different

Um outlooks, if you will.

which up until now did not have the language to articulate their specificity and particularity.

They didn't have the conceptual apparatus uh to do so.

There's something extremely universalistic about this as far as what Dugan is doing.

He is freeing humanity.

He's liberating humanity from the tyranny of one specific

Uh metaphysical horizon.

There's something very beautiful about that.

and in open to whatever whatever that entails.

For example, for the African Logos or the Islamic he named seven in his speech his during the plenary session of the uh the conference.

But you you get the sense just from being in Moscow that this is this capital of the free world, you know?

That this is the capital of the free world, that this is um

That this is a um

A beacon of universal humanity.

But uh so this is the kind of bigger lens.

I want to say that I I did get the opportunity to interview uh Dugan, but there were there was a problem.

By the way, let me uh rewind it a little bit.

Uh we mainly were hanging out with the Chinese delegation the entire time.

We were in the same hotel as them.

We took the same like bus or small car, I don't know what s van as them to the event.

And mainly we were mainly like um

Just rolling with them, if that's the right word, because Grayson and Jackson had been previously acquainted with them on their trip.

I had the pleasure of meeting them as well.

Great people.

uh from Guan Shah.

And I had the the great honor and privilege of meeting

Uh Professor Zhongwei Wei.

who, um, if you don't know, he is

He I don't I don't even know if I should say this, but he, uh

G

Uh

Um

pays very close attention to the works of Professor Zhang Weiwei.

Let's just say that.

So it's like a big deal, right?

And I never want to say that or mention that because as as scholars or intellectuals, we should be above this kind of.

sense of uh status mongering, but I mean, it was just such a great honor.

I mean, it it reflects on his brilliance, his wisdom, is what I mean to say.

Um but anyway, um

Some of our Chinese friends were the ones that were filming us.

We didn't have a camera equipment or setup.

And we relied on our Chinese friends to film the interview with Dugan that we had, which was uh very sudden.

So Dugan, like, told us the day before, like, Okay, we'll do it tomorrow and then finally when Dugan was available, he's a very, very busy man, very, very busy.

But finally when he had the window of

opportunity to speak with us, he brought us into the back

Sat us down and we set it up, and he was willing to speak with us at great length, but the problem is that.

Our crew, our friends that had the cameras and stuff, they had to go at like 2 p.m.

Because the Chinese delegation was going to go to a museum, a Chinese museum in Moscow full of artifacts from, I don't know, is something related to China.

But they had to go.

They were on a short schedule.

So we got, I think it was an hour total footage, and it was divided 30-30.

So Jackson asked one question to Professor Dugan, and Dugan gave a long answer.

I asked to uh

A very convoluted question to Professor Dugan.

He gave a very long answer.

But then the crew had to leave.

Dugan didn't have to leave.

They had to leave, right?

And it's it's uh it's the problem is that um Dugan gave a very good response, but it was necessary that I needed to follow up.

and um continue the discussion, right?

Because uh I didn't get a chance to dur on camera present my own unique uh theoretical outlook.

But when the cameras left um

I continued to talk to Professor Dugan and

We actually spoke at a pretty good length.

And it's crazy because his assistants kept coming in and saying, telling him, like in Russian, like, listen, listen, this person needs you.

And he kept saying, no, no, no, no, I'm busy talking about Lacan.

He was very interested.

He was very interested in what we were talking about, I think.

Because he was taking time out of his very busy and he I knew he had a very busy schedule because every five minutes someone would be walking in, like telling him, you know, that he has this to do, he has that to do, but he put that all on hold to talk with us about Lacan.

Talk to me about Lacan, really.

And it was such a great privilege and honor.

But but at a at a certain point he did actually have to go.

Um so we said our farewells and um

But we will speak again.

We will speak again.

If not in person, we're going to do it remotely, and it's going to be a great discussion.

So you can look forward to that.

I'm going to review the footage.

And if I like it.

I'm gonna I'm gonna confess something.

When I asked the question to Professor Dugan, my voice was a little bit trembling, but it's not just because I was like super nervous, it was also 'cause like I didn't get any sleep and I was like on a lot of coffee.

So I'm gonna have to review how that sounds.

If it sounds really bad, I'm just not gonna release it.

But if it's okay, I'll release it.

Yeah, it wasn't just 'cause I was starstruck.

I was starstruck though, definitely.

Um

But yeah, I'm gonna review that.

I just Jackson just sent me the footage, so I'll review that and probably get that out tomorrow.

I don't know.

Yeah.

But yeah, that's that.

What was the Nor North Korea flag in the floor?

That was the Chinese.

Uh crew, that was their camera.

I just had that on their camera.

Now, uh the the the I I I um spent more time talking to uh Dugan students and making connections with Dugan students.

And um

I was so extremely impressed by them.

I mean their level of intellect.

They're level uh people I mean, people have such a warped view in in the West about what's going on in in Russia's intellectual circles.

The Eurasianists are not like the alt-right in the United States.

Okay, first of all,

The alt-right in the United States are a bunch of

Mm.

I'm not gonna swear.

There are just a bunch of uh

Special needs

People

They're not intellectuals.

They're not familiar with anything.

They don't read books.

They're not familiar with philosophy.

The young Eurasianists that I met, they knew all about Marxism.

They read Lenin, they read Marx, they read uh Soviet philosopher Evolt Idienkov.

They're very open minded.

I talked to one young man

we were talking at length about the kind of uh

the relationship, the ontological significance of

Sorry, the metaphysical legacy of Christianity and Marxism-Leninism.

Like very in-depth, you know.

Materialism.

They're very, very well read.

They're very worldly is the word I should say.

The Eurasianists are into a huge diversity of fields and subjects.

Economics, not just philosophy, economics, sociology, information theory, all this kind of stuff.

They're not like right-wing, they're not right-wing Philistines.

I can't even say they're right-wing.

They're not.

They have a very worldly outlook, like the Renaissance men of the Italian Renaissance.

Very um

How should I say?

Very state of the art.

Avant garde.

Yeah.

Like better than the best of the best of uh the universities we have here in the UA.

Like we have the postmodern one.

They have it's a very very I mean if if you add like why are they not communists?

Because

In Russia, it's superfluous.

Like, the legacy of communism is the premise.

They take that for granted.

When they say they're not communists, what they really mean to say is they're j they're not just the old Soviet style Marxist-Leninists.

Which

seems reasonable because the Soviet Union d dissolved.

Uh clearly, I mean Mao believed there was something deeply flawed about Soviet Marxism-Leninism.

That is not a negation or a wholesale complete repudiation or rejection of Marxism.

That's just a rejection of dogmatism.

And they're very open minded when it comes to Marxism and they're very interested in it.

And not just interested in it, but in drawing unique conclusions from it.

They're very interested in Hegel, you know, they read Hegel.

Um

I'm ve I was very impressed by the young Eurasianists and the students of Dugan.

I was very, very impressed by them and I was very sad at the same time because we don't have an equivalent in the US but infrared, uh the the showrunners, we always knew that brilliant, brilliant minds were coming out of Russia.

But it's just one thing to s to know that, and it's another thing to actually experience it first hand.

Um

But uh you know they they there uh there there's going to be a lot of fruitful dialogue and collaboration that is going to happen between Infrared and the Russian Eurasianists, one thousand percent.

1000%.

Um I am it's it's I am so glad.

I think it's the the best

Connection that I made over in Russia was with the young Eurasianists and students of Dugin.

Of course, Dugin himself, but also them.

Um.

And a lot of exciting things are happening on that front.

And stay tuned.

Stay tuned because it's not over.

It's not just I met them and I'm No, they're a a channel of communication and collaboration was definitively forged.

Um

So, yes.

Now regarding the KPRF.

Uh I had a friend who was trying to schedule a interview for me, but it was just too short notice.

The problem with KPRF is I don't think a lot of them speak English, so we need to get interpreters and so on.

So my next trip to Russia, which I believe is going to be this year, I'm also going to be meeting with um KPRF people, including KPRF youth.

So that's that.

Um

And talk with them as well.

So let me just put that out there.

Don't worry, I wasn't able to meet them this trip because it was too short notice, but the next time I definitely will.

And Jackson actually attended a KPRF rally at the Karl Marx statue before I came.

I was on the plane while he was doing that.

Um so yeah.

That was also very cool.

Um, anyway, uh

I have to confess and admit, going to Moscow was very emotional for me, very spiritual experience, almost religious, you know.

I didn't cry.

'Cause Haas doesn't cry, but um

It was very emotional, for example, visiting uh

Lenin's Mausoleum.

And I don't I don't know if I should even describe it, if it's but it's uh the mausoleum is absolutely beautiful and it's breathtaking seeing it from the outside.

But

And then on the way there you could see the grave of uh Harry Heywood.

was right there, buried at the um

Buried at the uh Kremlin Wall.

Um

Wait, not Harry Haywood.

No, no, no, hold on.

I got that wrong.

Wrong guy, sorry.

That's a really I fucked that moment up.

But there's an American buried there.

Um that you see right there.

Uh I'm blanking on that.

Give me a sec.

Fuck.

Anyway, forget that.

Anyway, um.

The mausoleum is breathtaking, okay?

The Maz, there, yeah, it's a Haywood.

It's, I think it is Bill Haywood.

I think it was Bill Haywood.

Yeah, Wallow, thank you so much.

Let me double-check.

But it yeah, it was Haywood.

It just wasn't Harry Haywood.

Yes, it was Bill Heywood.

I can't believe I messed that up.

So sorry.

Bill Haywood is the first one I saw, yeah.

Um and he's buried right there.

Um the mausoleum

uh was if you don't know the architecture was inspired by this is very relevant for my book upcoming book but it's inspired by uh the tomb of Cyrus the Great and other kinds of

Oriental despots in history

Uh very based.

But anyway, um you take the stairs down uh below the uh mausoleum.

And um

Lenin is there and very bright, very bright like a fire, right?

It's like uh it's like a fire almost.

Uh like a flame.

And then

You have to keep walking, right?

And and and on the ceiling there's these kinds of uh

Granite.

I don't know how to put this.

Granite, uh.

Not paintings, images in granite of red flags, and it looks so striking and chilling.

'Cause you just get a sense of profound movement the whole time, like this is something happening and it's just seeing it in person is just so uh

Sublime.

Really sublime.

Um

I recommend if you call yourself a communist, you should visit Moscow because you need to see the fact that this was actually something real.

Like this was actually something real.

It's not just like an ideology.

Like this was actually a real thing.

You know, it's not an idea.

Like this was a real thing.

Like I know we've had these disputes with people about, oh, like infrared just cares about aesthetics when it comes to like workers.

Like what about Starbucks workers?

Well, visit Moscow if you think it's just aesthetics.

Because when Moscow, when you see the glorification and the veneration of the worker, that's the worker working on steel.

That's the worker working with their hands.

Actual labor.

Toiling the soil, digging dirt out of it, right?

That's the actual worker laying bricks.

You see it there.

It's the actual labor that builds the city.

That's what the worker is in Moscow.

The whole communist, the Soviet communist ideology, it's very clear what it means.

Just go and visit there.

You call us fascist, Total, you call us fascist, patriarchal.

Go there and see it for yourself.

Because one of the things, you know, one of the impressions I got going, it's like just infrared was right.

It was a complete wholesale vindication of infrared's.

Specific understanding of what communism was in contrast to Western pan-leftists.

Yes, we were right.

We were 100% right.

And I feel stupid for even having

thought it was in contention.

It's not in contention.

There's no dispute about this.

We are right.

Pan leftists are just people who escaped the mental asylum.

Period.

Like, yes, we were right.

Okay?

Yes, communism, it's an extremely masculine ideology, like extre yes, it's about the worker, the actual worker.

Um yes, it's like uh

I don't know how to put this invol it's it's a tough ideology.

It's a tough It's hard.

You understand?

It's tough.

No room for sissies.

No room for uh

Weaklings

I visited all the museums and everything and it's like, yes, it's very clear.

I visited museums about the October Revolution that included parts about the October Revolution, how they remember their history.

They don't remember their.

I feel like an idiot because I told people this thing.

I was like, Yeah, did you know that there's like pan-leftists?

I didn't say I said, you know, there's these leftists in America that they say that Lenin was pro-LGBT.

I kid you not, I was with this guy and his wife, she started cracking up laughing.

She literally burst out laughing.

And I felt embarrassed.

They both laughed in my face when I told them that.

Do you understand how stupid I look just bringing up to them the delusions of Western leftists?

As somehow, like something worth taking seriously, they laughed, they thought it was funny.

Every single person I told that to thought it was funny and laughed because of how ridiculous it was.

Because from their historical memory, they don't make that association.

They're like, what?

They're like, we have those kinds of liberals here, but they hate Marxism.

They hate communism.

It's like the total opposite, right?

Like, every single young person I talked to about this, every single person politically involved, every single one told me the same thing.

We do have what you're talking about in Russia.

We do have these like liberal people.

We do have the pro-LGBT people, but they're like all extremely anti-communist because they associate communism with traditional family values.

And traditional morality.

And like here, communism is very conservative and it's associated, it has a very strong conservative stigma.

And I felt stupid for even like ques like asking them in the first place.

'Cause because I already knew this.

It's just like I was gaslighted by like these deranged pan leftists into thinking somehow it's even possible to consider the the uh

The alternative.

It's like, yes, of course we were right.

Are you stupid?

We shouldn't even be and my takeaway, guys, is we shouldn't we should stop arguing about it, okay?

And you listen, here's the new rule.

Stop arguing with pan leftists about common fucking sense.

Excuse my swearing.

Let's stop arguing with them about common sense.

Okay.

No, Patrick, we're not going to argue with pan leftists about whether Lenin was pro-LGBT.

We're just not going to do that because why would we do that?

It literally makes us look stupid and it's embarrassing on the international level.

Okay.

The second thing is, when right-wingers repeat that stupidity, we should just mock them.

We should respond to it, yes, but with mockery.

We should just make fun of them because it's so stupid.

It's self-evidently stupid.

And it's just worthy of mockery.

And if you mock them, I think they'll even realize how wrong and stupid it is.

When right-wingers try to make the argument that communism is socially liberal, we should just mock them.

Be like, yeah, yeah, the Soviet Union was having pride parades.

You're so right.

And that will immediately make them feel stupid and shut them up.

Because it's literally common sense that everyone knows in their heart what the truth is, okay?

We don't need to argue on b the more we argue like um ideologically, the more it makes us seem like we're like we're wrong because it's making it seem like this is about an ideology rather than just reality, you know?

And then, like, you know, people are like, well, what about the feminism stuff?

And it's like, women's equality from the Soviet era and that legacy.

That was not feminism, okay?

There was a very strong sense of gender difference.

Both in the Soviet era and obviously today in today's Moscow.

But it's like, yeah, they know what a man is and they know what a woman is.

And I'm not just saying this about like transgenders.

Like, they know that men do different things than women and vice versa.

Like, they dress differently, they act differently, etc., etc.

Like, that's just common.

That's not in contention to them.

Okay.

I mean, young people are young people everywhere, but like, in terms of how people act and actually behave, that's the reality, okay?

So, yeah.

Uh

Yeah, um

So, um

Yeah, the the the barista discourse feels really funny when you visit Moscow.

It's like it's so stupid.

It's really stupid.

Yeah, yeah, we shouldn't.

Yeah, the worker is actually a worker, guys.

We don't need a like, we don't need a like, yeah, be anyone trying to like, well, what about what Marks?

Yeah, you're just you're just twisting yourself into a pretzel, okay?

Marx, when he talked about workers.

He wasn't talking about people, he wasn't talking about the Chuck E.

Cheese.

uh in a costume.

He wasn't talking about the costume Chuck E.

Cheese guy, okay?

Sorry, like w you know what?

This this this opportunistic like, what about sex workers?

Isn't that labor?

And it's like, okay, well

Go to a fucking insane asylum, straight up.

Okay, that's where you belong.

Let's live in the real world, okay?

There's no yeah, there's no need to wrestle with a pig here.

It's pretty self-evident.

And if you're confused theoretically, maybe you should sort that out yourself.

If you have this, if you want to ask hypothetically, oh, well, why not?

Theoretically, well, we could help you answer.

But if you're not, if it's not clear to you what the reality is, you straight up belong in a mental asylum.

I don't know what to tell you.

Joe, what's going on, man?

What's up?

So yeah, there's that.

Um

I uh

Talon, what's going on?

You know, uh, it's funny because like if Russia tried to do decommunization, they would literally have to destroy Moscow.

They would have to level the whole city and rebuild it from scratch.

It's literally an anarchist position to advocate for that.

Thank you, EKS.

Appreciate you.

Uh okay, besides the ideology stuff, I think I also talked about this.

It's a it's a it's literally the most beautiful city in the world to me.

The weather, uh nothing new for a Michigander like me, so

That's completely fine.

Uh

Also, let me tell you guys something.

I'd get into a taxi, and they're listening to the same music that you guys make fun of that I listen to on my playlist.

Just food for thought.

They listen to the same music as me.

Like, they have the same taste.

Thank you, Tactile Taco.

Appreciate you.

You know like that music I play that's like it just seems like it's like um stock music or whatever?

Yeah, that's what they listen to, dude, 'cause it's soulful and it's pop music and can't explain it, all right?

Anyway, um

Let me think.

Uh

Uh I'm trying to think trying to think on some funny stuff that happened.

'Cause a few funny things did happen.

Let me think.

Ah, I don't know if I could tell this story.

Oh man.

I will.

I will tell this story.

Alright.

So,

Uh it's six twenty AM.

No, it's six AM.

I go down to the lobby because I'm trying to get a new room.

Uh for the next day.

Uh Jackson also went down because he wants to upgrade his room to something else.

And breakfast is at 6:30.

So we're both waiting in the lobby because we're going to have breakfast after we're done doing what we did.

And there's this guy.

In the lobby.

Uh

Two earrings.

He looks Chinese.

But he wasn't with the Chinese delegation.

So as it turns out, he would be from Singapore.

He's a Singaporean.

Now, I want permission from my Chinese viewers to do a Chinese accent.

And I don't want you to get offended.

I just want to talk like how he was talking.

Uh

And the funny the joke is not that he had a Chinese accent.

The it's trust me, it's it's good.

If you're Chinese, can you give me the pass?

Alright.

Zhang, you gave me the permission.

Alright.

Alright.

Alright, then I'm going to do it.

Alright.

So.

Uh me and Jackson are like walking.

We're gonna sit.

He's sitting there.

I'm gonna be sitting farther.

Or I didn't sit yet.

He went and sat down 'cause we're waiting for the breakfast to open.

He's like writing notes for his interviews.

Some guy who looks Chinese accosts me.

He's like

What did he say?

He's like

Hello, you are with the Russell File movement.

Something like that.

And I was like, Oh, yeah.

He's like, Oh, you are the event.

I need to meet Lavrov.

I need to meet Mr.

Lavrov.

I have something to tell him.

I said, Oh, I mean, are you with the Chinese delegation?

I didn't see you.

And he said, Oh, no, no, I came here on my own accord.

I was not, I was invited last year, but this year I was not invited.

And I was like,

I was like, okay, that's a little weird.

So apparently, like, he wasn't invited to the event.

So he came at his own expense

He was extremely manic how he was talking to me.

He was talking really, really fast.

Oh, yes, I am here because you know, I want to be a part of this pro-Russia event because about the Ukraine war.

And I was like thinking to myself, I thought this was a vice news journalist mocking me and trying to like.

Infiltrate the event to do like a a cover piece or something, but I really thought it was like a vice news journalist, alright?

And I was like, I was really overwhelmed.

So I sat down.

I was like, okay, you can have a seat and talk about what you want to talk about.

So he sits down.

He's like on the edge of his seat.

And he's like, oh man, he was just talking about so many different things.

I kind of forget.

He was like, first, it kind of was like, he's like, oh, I visited Russia and.

And I he had this pin.

On his jacket, I was like, Oh, what's that pin?

And he goes, Oh, this is a red army pin.

And I said, Oh, okay.

So I thought, maybe he's not a vice news journalist.

So I kept kind of asking.

I was like, So, what are your political views?

Like, oh, I am a socialist.

And I was like, Okay, I mean, but everyone's a socialist, right?

And he's like, Well, you know, Scandinavia and Finland.

And I was like, Oh, yeah, what about China?

Isn't China socialist?

He's like, No, no, no, China is capitalist.

And I was like, Uh, haven't you read Deng Xiaoping though?

And he was like, No, no, no, Deng Xiaoping is not important in China.

I was like, Huh?

He's like, Yeah, that Deng Xiaoping is not important.

And I was like, Okay, uh

And I just wanted to like switch gears 'cause I was like, okay, I don't know who this guy is, like, what 'cause 'cause that was my way of like I was that was my way of trying to figure out if he was Chinese.

At this point, I'm like, this guy must be like from Taiwan province.

Still Chinese, but like, or he must be like from Singapore.

Turns out he was from Singapore.

Uh

Anyway, um

Okay, this is gonna go somewhere, all right?

Just bear with me.

Uh, so uh, he's like, you know, my name, my name is Tobias.

I'm like, okay, he's like, I chose that name for myself because I know all about American culture, popular culture.

I know everything about America.

I was like, all right.

And he was like, you know, Toby.

Toby, I chose the name Toby.

Now, what comes to your mind when you think Toby?

And I was like, I not nothing.

He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I know something comes to your mind.

I know something.

I said, I keep in mind it's like 6 a.m.

No coffee yet.

I'm really tired.

Um

And then he's like, finally, oh no, Toby from The Office, the show The Office.

I never watched that show.

Um

And he just kept going, he kept going.

And I said, Listen, I want to be frank, man.

I was doing this in a very friendly way because I was like, I felt bad.

I was like, listen, I want to be frank.

You're extremely manic right now.

You sound extremely manic.

And then he, you won't believe the shit he said.

He was like, he was like.

Oh, but but you are part of the Russia conference, no?

Then you then you can you can handle me, yes?

You can handle me.

I am not, I am not too much for you.

You can handle me.

He kept saying that, like, like, you can handle me, yes.

And I was like, Jesus Christ.

Like, I would expect that those of you attending the conference, you would have enough energy and passion to be able to withstand me.

Like, he was saying some shit like that.

And I was like, Jesus Christ.

So I found some way to like leave.

I don't know what I said.

Yeah.

No, I did I did a CIA agent straight up tried to kill me.

I'll tell you about that later.

You just reminded me of that.

Thank you.

But um I uh I basically like what did I say?

I was like oh yeah, I gotta go basically I don't know no no I sat I I sat next to Jackson and I was like okay we have a lot of work to do It was just Jackson writing his notes I was like okay we have a lot of work to do And okay I will go Then he goes and starts like hugging the hotel employees and shit

Bothering them.

Okay, anyway, fast forward.

All right, that same day at the event, we took our bus.

We were at the event hours, hours later.

It's a different building.

It's a different place in Moscow.

Somehow, this guy snuck in.

He asked me to help him get in.

I said, I'm not going to do that.

This dude stole a name tag and stuck into the event.

He was like walking around.

Seamlessly.

So we were like, Holy shit, what is this guy up to?

Final day of the event, it was like a gala, right?

And it was like in this beautiful dinner hall.

We were all standing.

There was a lot of music.

There was a stage.

They were singing traditional Russian songs, Cossack songs, whatever you like.

Uh Tobias makes his appearance at this gala.

Of course no one notices him until

He climbs on stage,

And start singing.

Everyone is so confused because nobody knows, everyone thinks, like, is this part of the event?

Like, what's going on?

Um

Everyone is so confused.

He starts like singing.

He takes the microphone and starts singing, right?

This was actually a crazy person.

He was mentally insane, okay?

Um

Then he started screaming on the mic and uh this is where it gets d dir dark, okay?

This is like the grand finale.

So somewa they're trying to remove him.

A scuffle breaks out a little bit.

Tobias grabs a shard of glass and stabs one of the people working there in the face.

The end.

What a fucked up story.

That guy was actually a crazy fucking weirdo.

And I could have been their first victim.

But like it was actually an insane like mental asylum escape.

Escaped patient.

Uh the i he it I think it was more of a I didn't I didn't see the injury, but it's like apparently there was blood everywhere.

It was so horrible.

He was taken to the ambulance.

I believe he made it fine.

But he didn't have an agenda, that's the thing.

He wasn't a Fed, he didn't work for Vice News, it was literally just a crazy person.

Um, just some random shit that happened, pretty much.

Uh, yeah, I would have.

I mean, I I make it a rule when I visit a foreign country, I'm not getting into any fights.

Um

Yeah, for the land bridge.

All right.

Okay.

Yeah, it's you st okay.

Alright, yeah.

Uh that was a crazy person who was probably either on drugs or I don't know what was going on with them, but um

Yeah, that was something that happened.

Now, so if this guy is not a Fed, I apologize to you.

But it was extremely suspicious what you did, so I reserve the right to have my suspicions.

So I left the event.

The building where the event was in.

And I was gonna go to I was calling a taxi to go back to my hotel.

Uh I left like like everyone was leaving basically.

Like I left got my own taxi because uh the buses were taking too long so I wanted to get my own taxi.

So I was standing outside of it at like the bus stop

I shit you not.

There's not a lot of Americans in Russia.

Keep that in mind, okay?

Guy about like fifty years old walks up to me.

He talks like Steve.

He kind of looks and talks like Steve Buscemi, at least in my memory.

Steve Buscemi, right?

He looks a little odd.

Like a little creepy.

He goes, Haas, right?

And I'm like

Yeah.

And it's like

I recognize you.

You here with Jackson?

And I'm like, he's like, oh, how did you how do you where did you what video did you see me from?

He's like, oh, your destiny debate.

He's like, oh, I don't remember.

I questioned him.

It was really sus.

Like, he didn't seem like he didn't know where I was from.

And he's like, oh, I remember your destiny debate.

And it's like, oh, yeah, the.

That's kind of what a Fed would say, to be honest.

But he says something really odd.

He goes

Oh, you need a ride?

He says, You need a ride?

I said

What a crazy thing to ask.

Yeah, I thought that was actually a CIA agent.

I actually believe to this day that guy was in the CIA.

Um

He literally said, and he's remember, he sounds like Steve Buscemi.

He literally looks like he'd be a CIA agent, okay?

He's sketchy as fuck.

Steve Buscemi

Seems like he's creeping around Russia for nefarious reasons.

And he says, Do you need a ride?

Yeah, so I can get killed.

Hell no, dude.

So I I I yeah, I I exited the premi.

I went far away from the I ditched that guy, made sure he didn't find me.

But it wasn't a taxi.

The thing is, I was on the sidewalk and he just walks up to me like a fucking Oblivion NPC, like out of nowhere, just walks up to me.

It's like, where did this guy come from?

We're not at a metro station.

We're literally in the middle of nowhere in Moscow.

Where did he come from?

Where's his car?

You know, I asked him, I said, oh, this is why it's so creepy.

Let me tell you why it's creepy.

Because I asked him, I was like, are you with the event?

He goes, Oh no, I'm not with the event.

I said, What?

He wasn't even at the event.

He wasn't in the building I just came from.

What was he doing there?

You're telling me a random American is just walking around there randomly?

N I don't believe that.

Ah, that was a CIA agent.

Hundred thousand percent, I'm convinced.

UQ same shit.

Uh US Embassy.

It could have been, I don't know, but it was some kind of Fed.

And

I think that was the creepiest thing.

It was one of the creepy things.

I'll tell you another creepy thing that happened to me, but it might be flattering, right?

It was late at night.

I was on the sidewalk and I was, again, I was waiting for a taxi.

This group of three girls.

not gr women, but like women my age, right?

Um

They were like laughing, huddling with each other, and they had their phones out.

I briefly looked to my right.

'Cause one of 'em is staring at me and I'm like, What the hell?

And then I looked down at this phone of like her friend.

It was the trippiest thing I ever saw.

It's literally recording my face, but it's the camera's not directly facing me somehow.

I was really confused.

So I just look I was like, What the fuck?

She turns around oh sorry, sorry.

I was like, What?

And then I got in the taxi and left before I had time to like even question what that was.

But uh

That was really weird.

It was like recording my face with no camera directly.

Facing me.

It was like on her phone, but it was like angled this way.

I didn't see any camera recording my face directly.

Meaning, I think one of them was wearing a camera which was facing me.

So weird, right?

What was that?

That was super sauce.

Um super sauce.

Probably thought I was cute.

Yeah, that's the non-paranoid.

Or they thought I was just.

unique looking, but um

Yeah, that's a weird thing that happened.

That was a weird thing that happened.

Uh

But the CIA thing was was the thing that unsettled me the most.

Besides Tobias, so people ask, Did you feel safe in Russia?

I was like, Well, besides Tobias and besides the CIA agent, by the way, the CIA agent thing was so funny because it made me realize the US are the bad guys, all right?

Russia is such a beautiful country, and the people are really beautiful.

I mean, inside and out, very beautiful people, all right.

And um

It's such a nice, soulful, beautiful city and it's just

Then you just have this CIA creep walking around like, you need a ride?

Like, get the fuck out of here, dude.

He's literally trying to destroy all of this.

For what?

Literally evil.

Literally a demonic evil.

presence.

Like it's like a cartoon, you know?

It's like a cartoon and like the troll is like destroy trying to destroy the the the winter f fairy tale kingdom.

Anyway, um

Yeah, the whole evil empire USSR was just such propaganda.

You go to Moscow yourself and it's not the evil empire.

This is actually the good empire.

The U.S.

is the evil empire, right?

When I'm walking around Chicago and I'm seeing these menacing, alienating skyscrapers screaming at me how broke I am, that's the evil empire, right?

Same thing in New York, okay?

When I'm in New York and I'm seeing these like grotesque, alienating urban landscapes, I'm like, yeah, that's the evil, all right?

Moscow is a very human, friendly, very has a human face, right?

Literally, same.

Literally statues glorifying humanity.

Massive statues of men and women who look so dignified and noble, with their faces looking forward to the future.

You know.

So much power and glory.

Literally, infrared if it was a city.

I mean, chicken and the egg.

We were the ones inspired by Soviet communism.

But.

Yeah, um

You get the idea.

You get the idea.

Um

I have a funny story, another funny story.

I was walking to the worker in Kolko's statue.

to get a photo up close of it.

and I found out you can go inside of the building.

And the building was open, an exhibition was going on.

So, this must be a museum for the statues.

You know, probably about the Paris World's Fair of

What was it, thirty-six, thirty-four?

I forget.

Anyway, I buy tickets for this museum.

I barely I barely speak Russian.

You know, I'm saying uh things like uh eta muze, like things like that, you know, like just barely, very bad Russian.

And somehow it was commuted communicated to me that it was a museum.

So I bought tickets, hung up my coat.

That's another thing about Moscow, you hang up your coat everywhere.

And I went up to the third floor to the museum.

Turns out it wasn't a museum, it was an exhibition, art exhibition of women's clothing from the 1700s.

It was just like a bunch of mannequins.

And I asked I was confused.

I asked one of the staff, I was like I asked them this in Russian, I forgot how to say this.

I was saying I was like, Is this the museum about the statues?

and they were like laughed and they were like no.

And I was like, Whoop, there goes ten dollars.

That's the thing.

Everything in Russia, when you pay for it, if it's educational, it's never more than $10.

This was $8 actually.

So it wasn't that expensive.

It's not like the US where they charge thirty dollars, right?

Um

So I left.

That place.

and I went across the street to the Cosmonauts Museum.

Where all children, it was all children, it was all um

I felt out of place.

There was no other like adults by themselves visiting the Museum of Cosmotechnics.

When you look outside this place, it's so cr you just look it up on Google, it's like fucking huge rocket.

Uh, blasting off into space made of metal.

It looks so cool.

But I buy a ticket for this museum.

It's like, what, three dollars?

Dirt cheap.

I get to see Yuri Gagarin's.

Uh, you know, his his uh whatever you call it, saw the Rockets, I saw Sputnik.

It was a bunch of like school field trips that were there.

And I was like doing this thing where I had to rush because as soon as the sound of thousands of children was coming my way, I was like, oh shit, I gotta go.

The zombies are here.

I'm not I'm not saying they were zombies like bad.

I was just saying like I didn't want to be like crowded by like a bunch of people.

I wanted to have like the serenity and peace of just being able to see things in silence.

But this was not a quiet museum because it was all children.

Uh but it was a cool museum.

It wasn't very big.

But it was pretty cool.

Is that a kid's theme?

I didn't know.

I mean, it i on the outside, it's it's literally the monument to the Russian cosmonauts.

It's huge, it's like giant.

It's right in front of uh V D and Ha, but

Look it up, it's pretty cool.

Uh Vidi and Ha itself.

When I first went there to go to the uh Regions exhibition.

It was beautiful.

I was again sublime.

It was a breathtaking experience.

I was walking, um.

forward and there is there's I don't know what to call the

Jesus Christ.

What is that thing called where it's like a it's a bunch of columns and pillars and it's just like a giant rectangle slaps like huge, right?

You walk under it and it's like

There's all these different workers, farmers.

huge kind of statues of them on these columns.

And I'm like, wow, this was really a giant civilization, super state, created by, for, and of the working class.

It's so striking.

Like

The level of glorification and veneration of the power of the worker, the farmer.

It's a leftist worst nightmare, say the least.

No no barista statues.

No uh grad student statues.

It's all actual workers.

Parthenon

Let me look that up.

No, it's smaller than that.

It's like that thing in Germany.

You know that thing in Germany, uh, with the chariots?

Uh the gate, the Brandenburg Gate.

Yeah, it's kind of like the Brandenburg Gate.

It it's like that, but bigger.

It's like the Brandenburg Gate, but bigger.

That's what it was like.

Uh

Yeah, there was no digital artist statues.

Uh

But listen, Moscow if you look at the Soviet architecture, art, monuments, Western leftists would call it fascist.

And Western right wingers would also call it fascist and maybe think it's based 'cause it's fascist.

They're both wrong.

It's communist.

It's l it's actually left wing.

Right.

But I'm saying, like, that's what they call fascism.

Like, oh, this hyper-masculine, militant.

Yeah, that's.

Not fascism though.

But they would call it fascist fascistic.

They would call it fascistic.

That's how they would describe it.

Uh it's very imposing, it's very the domineering.

It's like, it's like us it's like, listen, Moscow is Haas city, literally.

It's like, if Haas was a city, that's what Moscow is, straight up.

And if it was just a matter of my personal happiness, I would gladly live there.

Everyone tells me: go move to Russia.

You know, I can't just do that.

from on their end.

They they're not just gonna let me go and live in Russia.

You think they just let anyone live there?

No, they don't.

I would be privileged to be allowed to live in Moscow.

Are you kidding?

But uh listen, I have to stay in America.

Not because it's nicer here.

It's really not.

It's really not.

It's really not.

Uh it's really not.

But it's my duty to stay here and

Be part of the history the coming history of America.

and what America is, and what it it it what it is going to be.

But uh I I feel like I fit in there.

I feel like my personality fits in there.

Um

I feel like I temperamentally, psychologically,

Am very well adapted to that city.

It's the only city I've ever been to that's compatible with my psychology.

In terms of the psychology of the people there.

Shit.

By the way, I'm also sick.

But uh yeah.

I have to say stateside.

Anyway, guys.

It's been a great stream.

It's actually been a great stream.

Uh I may stream tomorrow.

But uh I'm about to pass out.

I've exhausted all my energy.

Anyway guys.

I will see you guys star side.

Goodbye.