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hopefully make it look a little bit better and more professional. As you could 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

going to start the precedent. Summit, what's going on, man?

How you doing?

I think I am gonna start the precedent of Flacco.

What's going on?

Already off to a great start.

I know, infrared is getting more professional,

by the way, that is a thing. 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.

Numinis, what's going on?

How you doing?

Either very busy or very tired, one of the two, right?

And I can't wait to talk all about the trip and my thoughts on Moscow, my

thoughts on Russia, 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. Paper win,

what's going on? But let's kind of build up to that, I guess. Talk about the trip. And more

as well, because I have a lot of thoughts. I have a lot of thoughts on it.

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

I terribly miss it. I terribly miss Moscow.

It's very, 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

closer compares to Moscow. I have never seen a more beautiful city, a more beautiful place, a

more beautiful creation by humanity. And it's very 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 just as a starter,

because it was pretty unpleasant, to be honest.

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 US past

customs and what happened to me. Because I didn't talk about this yet, this is the first time.

Amila, what's going on?

So I was pretty disappointed in our democracy, if I'm being honest, in our free democratic

society.

Because here am I, Hazaldine, 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 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.

130 countries 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 my phones.

They took both of my phones and they said they're going to look through my phones.

And I said, 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 a thing that they did they take your phones

And they could do whatever they want with them. I didn't know I didn't know I have no rights You know I said wait you're gonna see my texts

I'm gonna 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.

A lot of banter is going on.

Crazy banter about, that's very offensive, that would be very offensive to the

people who read it and I was super embarrassed they were like we're gonna

have to look through your phone like 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 we're kind of embarrassing, like confusing at least, you know. But yeah,

everything on my phone they took. They took everything. So like the feds pretty

much they know about Kodalong. Yeah, they know about everything. Yeah, I mean I don't feel like anything changed because I was like

well they must know this already right. But here's the thing. It was actually pretty surreal

because 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 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 told them the truth. I didn't want to say anything.

So I told them everything. I was like, yeah, I mean, I run a channel called infrared.

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, like, are the feds gonna docks me?

Like, did they not know who I was before?

And now they're gonna 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.

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 US 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 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 for...

I know it looks bad, right?

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

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 combination.

But, um...

I didn't know they could take your phones that's kind of

fucked up so they did that and I felt like they were stripping me naked you

know like what is I was about to like show some attitude and be like oh

Oh, I didn't know are you gonna pay my bills now for this phone? They say huh I said because when I bought the phone, they said it was my phone.

They said it was my phone, and I get to have a...

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, are you going to help me pay the bills for it?

Right?

I mean, it's my fucking phone, 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 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 violated my civil liberties as soon as I touch down on free soil, immediate violation of my civil liberties.

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 the straight up at customs

though, 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 experience, touching down into the USA, the minister, what's going on?

My first experience 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. 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 pretty edgy thing I'm doing right now because my new bedtime is 8 p.m.

Can you if you can believe it.

Because of the time, 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 movement, the international rustophile movement that

invited us.

We were one of the only American delegations.

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

Besides that, it was me, Jackson and Grayson.

Passport control in Russia.

Now, this is going to 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 password, brought it in the back, and he said, okay, just wait and we'll get to you.

Very courteous, very kind, very professional. I didn't feel like I was being having anything violated. I didn't

feel like my liberty, I mean I'm not, I don't have liberties in Russia because I'm a

foreigner, but I didn't feel like my dignity as a human being was being violated at all.

It felt like, I mean, I'm going to 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 this so much. I'm gonna have to start getting used

to that. But, you piss off a Russian cop, you deserve it.

They are the chillest, when I say cop, I mean like the airport guards, the cops on

the street, 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 when they were checking my bags through the passport control, the guy was like opening

my backpack and he was kind of confused because there was a blue Yeti mic and he didn't know what that was and then he looked at it as a

Ah YouTube YouTube

Nah, this sounds Chinese. He was like

YouTube

Welcome to Russia hope you have a good . 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, they were, every, and it's a common theme I found in Russia is that

I want to talk about me leaving the Russian airport the Moscow airport because it was kind of funny but

No a general theme I found is that well first, first of all, nobody thinks I'm American

at face value.

Every single person who approached me spoke to me in Russian without exception.

There wasn't a single exception.

Every single person spoke to me in Russian,

and did not think I was an American.

Only when I started speaking English,

or only when I had to say,

Negavarit Parusky, only when I had to say these kinds of things, did they know that I didn't

speak a 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 I look ethnically Russian.

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

So like Armenian or Uzbek, I got Uzbekistan, I got Afghanist, I got Afghan, someone who would

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

Anyway, I'm going to talk about how their attitudes about Americans and things like that

at second.

So I left the passport control, finally got to the airport. And I'm telling you this because I've only been to a few airports, like

European ones, some Middle Eastern ones. The first thing I see in the airport is they had a 7-11, like they're 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 fruit cake European countries. This is actually like a

real country, you know?

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Now I'm seeing the fives. Now the fives are back. That's crazy.

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Moscow, not fruity. Okay, I'm just going to continue as normal and just leave it at

that. Anyways I was saying even right off the bat entering the past the passport

control to the airport They have like a their equivalent,

their own equivalent of 7-Eleven, they have their own equivalent of like a

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.

You know it in your head obviously 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, like, they're being demonized and all those bullshits being they don't care

they're straight up chill it's a completely different world right it's like

imagine a completely bizarre version of America and that's kind of the vibes I was

getting And that's kind of the vibes I was getting. Um, so I left the airport.

I got a taxi and it was about a 45 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 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 12 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 going to 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 Hajj, 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 very crazy to say but it's just the

truth I'm telling you the truth. I'm sowing out basically. I mean 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

retail stores and

malls and like

big signs and big buildings.

Just a lot of bigigness in general.

It was very, I don't know, I don't know how to explain it. It was, I've never seen any city or

anything like that. It's very much car oriented on the outskirts like like like mechanic shops everything

like that and it's very very, very cool.

Very cool.

How do I?

It felt like, I don't know, this isn't going to make sense.

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

Like the outskirts of Moscow from that airport felt like this was like a giant mecca factory.

Or something like that like a literal city made for mex. 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 it was very sci-fi but not in

the sense of just like like Shanghai pure futurism but it was like 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 punk sci-fi like like it was very rugged a lot of

the brutalism all that kind of stuff I don I know it's very pleasing aesthetically to me.

I found it very aesthetically. Yeah, very, very, very industrial. That's the word I'm looking

for. Very, very industrial. Very industrial. Again, it's like it's literally the mecca of infrared, 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, you know, they don't just let spies through 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 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.

There's a media blackout.

I mean people would be surprised at how normal and modern and not only just modern but just state of the art.

It's 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

has modern amenities

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 easily, it's easily better

than any city in the United States period.

Without question.

Uh, period.

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

If I want to go on vacation, I'm either going to go within the states because it's easy

or go to Moscow, but never going to Europe.

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. 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.

Um, 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 Surniki. It's really good love it

Um

but you know I'll really good, love it.

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

I lost 10 pounds on this trip.

I lost 10 pounds.

Went from like 196 and now I'm at 186. And that wasn't because the food wasn't good.

It was because I was walking like 15 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 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 car culture in Moscow.

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

But underground you have 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 beautiful, beautiful images, there's beautiful symbols, there's beautiful things

on the walls.

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 this stuff is still there. There is a Mark statue.

I took a photo next to it. In the heart of Moskolic, right in the center.

I'm sure that's because of the pressure in the lobbying of the KPRF, you know, God bless

them.

But I really appreciate that. They don't, they don't, 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, it's just, it's, it's, unavoidable.

The hotel we were staying at was

was also was a building that was

sorry it was a building used for the Bolshevik Party's

central committee, their meeting.

Now 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?

The side of the hotel is the bust of Lenin. I mean, Lenin, Jersinski, 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 Moscow isn't Russia, but it's like,

yeah, but you could judge... I know most 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 in Los Angeles.

Some of our best cities right and they're

they're really big shitholes right sorry I got this new 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.

Strayla Stanny, what's going on?

I actually have a lot of, lots of talk about when it comes to this.

Um, no, I mean, the general impression you get when you're there is that it's a

thriving society.

It's a society undergoing a renaissance. No, I don't know if I would say that. I would say

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.

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

what the latest and greatest trends that you in the US were like they're

ahead of it they've got great great fashion

we talked to some liberals there. We went to a coffee shop. We were just

walking and there's these liberals working there. Even the liberals in Russia are better than the U.S. They're

chill. They're just chill. They 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 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's that.

I'm going to have to fix this by the way.

This is, you know what, I might just fix it now. Give me a second.

Give me, give me a second.

Ah. Ah, okay.

Okay.

All right, that's a little better. It's a little better.

Dialed it down 15%.

I guess that'll do a little.

Um.

Yeah, to continue what I was talking about.

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

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.

What's that painting?

That painting 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. I forgot what it's called.

Uh, anyway,

that's not what Moscow was like. That was, uh...

Something like something street.

I forgot the painting name. Anyway, Moscow is a kind of, and this is from the Soviet legacy, 100% but

this type of city is very much reproduces the sense of warmth and homeliness and familiarity

that a rule kind of village would 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're 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 Russianness, 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 Chechen's 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.S., this isn't the case.

The so-called diversity that exists in the U.S. 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 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 in 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 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 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 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 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 who say,

oh there's no, Engels is ordinner.

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

Engels understood.

Heterosexuality was natural, the natural state of humanity, okay?

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

man plus woman equals child is a human universal.

It doesn't matter the history or the culture.

Right?

Anyway, this is something, 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 wingersers are kind of getting disillusion 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 there's no place for that that I saw at least

in Moscow

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 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 was the fact that, so they had a region's 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, they're regional fair, but it's a region's exhibition showcasing all the

different regions within Russia.

And it was the center of gravity that huge populations were just converging onto from

all over Moscow, from the metros, 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 VDNHA which is

Can I it's kind of hard to explain this kind of place

Soviet era

agricultural exhibition site. There's 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 a crazy fiend drug addict coming and attacking everyone.

Nobody has to worry about, you know, 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 its 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. 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.

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, falls over or something, I mean, people 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?

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 gonna I'm gonna

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.

You here you get trampled on Black Friday, you know.

That's what happens here.

You get trampled in front of Best Buy on Black Friday. So yeah, just little things like that I was very impressed by them, you know, I'm not

trying to say Russia's is perfect. Moscow's perfect

Um, 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, the 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 can 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 just start talking to people at random.

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 US?

Well, because there are certain people that walk among us who are really weird and really unpleasant

who just don't know how to end and the that the 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, the nice little Christmas village in Michigan, where all the rule 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 Mag, they in Russia have the Soviet legacy.

My eyes look fucking crazy right now.

Okay.

Sorry. I don't know if that's a lack of sleep or what is the... Okay, um

Sorry, I don't know if that's a lack of sleep or what 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 countries isn't made for them. We are just lucky to be here to

right. We're guests, I guess, but um... It's very much a people's city, a people's urbanism.

That's what I was so important.

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 continuity, that's their problem.

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. But 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. 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 of 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?

This, that's not what Moscow is. Moscow is a completely different universe almost.

It's, it's your, 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. I think that's kind of fair to say it

really feels like a different planet. 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, loves American culture. I mean, everyone loves American culture, but...

But I mean, like, there's a recognition that exists in Russia.

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 I, that's why I respect Russia, it's one of the reasons at least I respect Russia so much,

why it's so respectable, 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 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 as 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, D, Washington DC has a vision for what universal humanity is,

but Moscow is a separate, alternative and rivalring 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 reveres and holds in high regard the actual soul of man, the cultures of

man, the various different civilizations of mankind, in their content, in their

determinant content, not some pure form of freedom and liberty, but it's

exactly kind of like the Mongol modernity. Moscow is the city of Mongol modernity in a way, the kind of that

I've talked about before. Because it's this kind of universalism which it 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 Eurasia. Um, that's Eurasia.

It's something very beautiful, very, very beautiful about it. I mean, 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 Zardim of Muscovy, Russia's own history. You get the sense of yes, the Romanovs. You get the sense of, yes, the Ramanovs, you get the sense of

finally and most importantly the communist era, and all of these things come together somehow. I don't, I don't, I want to communicate something very carefully.

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,

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 Russia, 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, 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.

Yes, it has.

It's, it's, 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 determinant 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 in a sense Dugan is a universalist humanist thinker.

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

civilizations?

What's the real point?

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

Rather, and it's neither to deny the kind of universalist significance of Russia, but rather it's to basically, it's basically, it's basically

to insist upon the fact that Western metaphysics is not the final horizon of humanity's existence.

There are contrasting and different 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 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 metaphysical horizon. There's something very beautiful about that.

And in open to whatever that entails, for example, for the African logos or the Islamica, he named seven in his speech during the plenary session of the conference.

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

that this is the capital of the free world, that this is a...

That this is a beacon of universal humanity.

But, so this is the kind of bigger lens.

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

By the way, let me rewind it a little bit. 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 just rolling with them if that's the right word because

Grayson and Jackson had been previously acquainted 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

from Guangshaw, and I had the great honor and privilege of meeting Professor Zhang Wei, who, if you don't know, he is,

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

she, uh, uh,

um,

pays very close attention to the works of Professor Zhang Wei way.

Let's just say that.

So it's like a big deal, right?

I never want to say that or mention that because as scholars or intellectuals we should

be above this kind of sense of status-mongering.

But I mean, it was just such a great honor. I mean, it reflects on his brilliance, his wisdom, is what I mean to say.

But anyway, some of our Chinese friends were the ones that were filming us.

We didn't have a camera equipment or set up and we relied on our Chinese friends

to film the interview with Dugan that we had, which was 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, that 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 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 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 it's the problem is that

Dugan gave a very good response, but it was necessary that I needed to follow up and continue the discussion, right?

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

But when the cameras left,

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 Russia like

listen listen this person needs you this but and he kept telling no no no I'm

busy talking about La Khan.

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 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 at a certain point he did actually have to go.

So we said our farewells and 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 because I didn't get any sleep and I was like on a lot of coffee.

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

If it sounds really bad, I'm just not going to release it. But if it's okay, I'll release it.

Yeah, I wasn't just because I was star struck. I was star struck, though, definitely.

But yeah, I'm going to review that. 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 North Korea flag of the fort that was the Chinese?

that was their camera. I just had that on their camera.

Now, the, the, the, I, I, um, spent more time talking to Dugan students and making connections with Dugan students. And I was so extremely impressed by them.

I mean their level of intellect.

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

I'm not going to swear.

There are just a bunch of special needs people.

They're not intellectuals.

They're not familiar with anything.

They don't read books. 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 Soviet philosopher Evold Idyenkov. They're very open-minded. I talked to one young man.

We were talking at length about the kind of the relationship, the ontological significance of, sorry, the metaphysical legacy of Christianity

and Marxism, Leninism, like very in-depth, you know

Materialism always kind of They're very very well read. They're very

Worldly is the word I should say they the Eurasianists are into like 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 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 how should I say very state of the art

avant-garde you know

Like better than the best of the best of the universities we have here in the UL like we have the postmoder

They have that it's, very, I mean, if you

add like, why are they not communists? Because in Russia, it's superfluous. Like, the legacy

of communism is the premon. They take that for granted.

When they say they're not communist, what they really mean to say is they're not just the old Soviet-style Marxist-Leninist,

which... Leninists, which seems reasonable because the Soviet Union dissolved.

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 Hagel.

You know, they read Hagel.

Um, I'm, I was very impressed by the young Eurasianus 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 the showrunners we always knew that

brilliant brilliant minds were coming out of Russia.

But it's just one thing to know that and it's another thing to actually experience it

firsthand. hand. But you know there's going to be a lot of fruitful dialogue and collaboration that

is going to be a lot of fruitful dialogue and collaboration that is going to happen between infrared and the Russian Eurasianists. 1,000 percent.

1,000 percent. I am so glad.

I think it's the best

connection that I made over in Russia

was with the young Eurasianists

and students of Dugan.

Of course, Duganan himself but also them

And a lot of exciting things are happening on that front and stay tuned

Because it's not over.

It's not just I met them and I'm...

No, there...

A channel of communication and collaboration was definitively forged. So, yes.

Now regarding the KPRF, I had a friend who was trying to schedule an 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 KPRF people, including KPRF youth.

So that's that.

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. Anyway, I have to confess and admit, going to Moscow was

very emotional for me, a very spiritual experience, almost religious, you know.

I didn't cry because Haas doesn't cry, but it was very emotional for example visiting Lenin's mausoleum and I don't I don't

know if I should even describe it if it's...

But it's, 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 Harry Haywood,

who's right there buried at the,

buried at the uh... Kremlin wall uh...

uh...

wait not harry hawood

I don't know hold on

I got that wrong wrong wrong

that's a really I fucked that moment up but there's an American buried there

that you see right there.

I'm blanking on that. Give me a sec.

Fuck. Anyway, forget that. Anyway, um...

The mausoleum is breathtaking, okay?

The maus...

Yeah, it's a Haywood.

I think it is Bill Haywood.

I think it was Bill Haywood.

Yeah.

Wallow, thank you so much. Let me double check. But yeah, it was Haywood.

It just wasn't Harry Haywood. Yes, it was Bill Haywood. I can't believe I messed that up.

So sorry.

Bill Haywood is the first one I saw, yeah.

And he's buried right there.

The mausoleum was, if you don't know, the architecture was inspired by,

it's very relevant for my book, upcoming book, but it's inspired by the tomb of Cyrus the Great and other kinds of oriental

despots in history.

Very based.

But anyway, um, you take the stairs down below the mausoleum and Lenin is there and very bright, very bright like a fire, right? It's like a fire almost.

Uh, like a flame.

And then you have to keep walking, right?

And on the ceiling, there's these kinds of

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.

Because 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 sublime, really sublime.

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.

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. 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?

I will 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. 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 idea, 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 that's like just infrared was right it was a

complete wholesale vindication of indirect 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 extreme. Yes, it's about the worker, the actual worker. Yes, it's like, I don't know how to put this in vault.

It's a tough ideology. It's a tough.

It's hard. You understand understand it's tough.

No room for sissies.

No room for, uh, weaklings.

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

I visited museums about the October, that included parts about the October Revolution,

how they remember their history. They don't remember their history.

I feel like an idiot because I told people

this thing. I was like, yeah, did you know that there's a pan leftist? I didn't say, I

say, 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, is 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 as a very strong conservative

stigma.

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

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?

Any... Listen, here's the new rule. Stop arguing with Pan leftist 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 leftist about whether Lenin

was pro-LGB. We're just not going to do that. Because why would we do that? It's 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... the more we argue like

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 transgender. Like they know that men do different things than women and vice versa. They dress differently,

they act differently, etc. etc. Like that's just common. That's not a, 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.

So, uh, 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, anyone trying to like well, what about what marks? Yeah, you're just

you're just twisting yourself into a pretzel okay

it marks when he talked about workers he wasn't talking about people he wasn't

talking about the Chucky Cheese in a costume he wasn't talking about the costume Chuckie Cheese guy, okay?

Sorry, like, 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 well why not theoretically well we could

help you answer but if you don't if you're not

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...

Talin, what's going on?

You know, 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.

Okay, besides the ideology stuff, I think I also talked about it. It's literally the most beautiful city in the world, to me.

The weather, nothing new for a Michigander like me, so that's completely fine.

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 stock music or whatever.

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

Anyway, let me think.

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

Because a few funny things did happen. Let me think.

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

Ha ha ha ha!

Oh man. And I will, I will tell this story.

All right.

So, it's 6.20 a.m.

No, it's 6 a.m. I go down to the lobby because I'm trying to get a new room

for the next day.

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 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.

And the funny, the joke is not that he had a Chinese accent. It's trust me, it's good.

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

All right, Jean, you gave me the permission. All right. All right.

All right, then I'm gonna do it, all right? So, uh, me and Jackson are like walking we're gonna sit he's sitting there

I'm gonna be sitting farther I didn't see yeah he went and sat down because 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 Russofile 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's 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 cover piece or something, but I really thought it was like a vice news journalist right?

And I was like I was really overwhelmed so I sat down as like okay you can have a seat and talk about what you want to talk about so he told 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 he kind of was like he's like oh I visited

Russia and um and I he had this pin on his jacket I was like oh what's that pin

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. I kept kind of asking. I was like, so what are your political views? Like, oh 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 China is capitalist.

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

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

I was like, huh? He's like, yeah, that Jankamping is not important.

And I was like, yeah, that den camphing is not important. And I was like, okay, um, and I just wanted to like switch gears because I was like,

okay, I don't know who this guy is like, what, because, because that was my way of,

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

Anyway Turns out he was from Singapore. Uh, anyway, um, okay, this is gonna go somewhere, right? Just bear with me.

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 a name Toby. Now, what comes to your mind when you think Toby? And I was like,

I'm not nothing. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, I know something. I know something. I said,

I keep my is like six a.m. No know something. I said, I, keep mine, it's like 6 a.m.

No coffee yet.

I'm really tired.

And then he's like, finally, oh, no, Toby from the office.

The show of the office is 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, 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. I was like Jesus Christ. I would saying that like, like, you can handle me, yes?

I was like, Jesus Christ.

I would expect that those of you in 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.

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

I'll tell you about that later.

You just remind me of that, thank you.

But, uh, I basically like, what did I say? I was like, oh yeah, I gotta go basically. I don't know.

No, 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.

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, it's a different like 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.

Tobias makes his appearance at this gala. Of course no one notices him until he climbs on stage and starts

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

Like, what's going on?

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?

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

This is like the grand finale.

So, somewhat, they're trying to remove him.

The 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.

I think it was more of a...

I didn't see the injury, but it's like apparently it was blood everywhere. It was so horrible. He was taken to the injury but it's like apparently it 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 like he wasn't a Fed he didn didn't work for vice news. It was literally just a crazy person

Just some random shit that happened pretty much

Yeah, I would have I mean I make it a rule when I visit a foreign country I'm not

getting into any fights

Yeah for the land bridge.

All right.

Okay.

Yeah, it's okay.

All right, 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 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 going to go to I was calling a taxi to go

back to my hotel.

Uh, I left like, like everyone was leaving basically. I left, got my own taxi because 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 50 years old old walks up to me

He talks like Steve he kind of looks and talks like Steve Bouchemi at least in my memory Steve Bouchemi right

He looks a little odd like a little creepy. He goes, haze, right?

And I'm like, yeah.

And he's like, I recognize you.

Here with Jackson?

And I'm like, he's like, oh, how did you, how did you, what videos 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 suss. Like he didn't, it seemed 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.

Um, yeah, I thought that was actually a CIA agent. I actually believe to this day

That guy was in the CIA He literally said, and he sounds like Steve Bouchemi.

He literally looks like he'd be a CIA agent.

He's sketchy as fuck.

Steve Bouchemi seems like he's creeping around Russia for nefarious reasons. And he says

you need a ride. Yeah, so I can get killed. Hell no, dude. So I, I, yeah, I, I exited the premon I went far away from the I

ditched that guy made sure he didn't find me but it wasn't a taxi it 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, are 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? I don't believe that. Ah, that was a CIA agent. 100,000 percent. I'm convinced.

You quit. Same shit. You U.S. Embassy. It could have been. I don't know. But it was some kind of fed.

And I think that was some kind of fed.

And I think that was the creepiest thing. It was one of the creepy, I'll tell you another creepy thing that happened to me,

but it might be flattering, all right?

It was late at night.

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

This group of three girls, not 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

because one of them was 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'sthe camera's not directly facing me somehow.

I was really confused.

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

It turns out to go, 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-suss. Um, super-suss.

Probably thought I was cute.

Yeah, that's the non-paranoid.

Uh, 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

But the CIA thing was was the thing that unsettled me the most besides Tobias. So people has a did you feel safe in Russia? I was like well besides Tobias and besides the CIA agent. By the way the CIA agent of was so funny because it made me realize, like, 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, 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 need a ride like get the fuck out of your dude

He's though he try 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 destroying, trying to destroy the

the winter fairy tale kingdom.

Anyway, yeah, the whole evil empire USSR was just such propaganda.

You go to, you go to, you go to, um, Moscow yourself and you know, it's not the evil empire.

This is actually the good empire.

The US 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, seem...

Literally statues, glorifying humanity.

Massive statues of men and women who look so dignified and noble

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 idea.

You get the idea.

I have a funny story, another funny story, I was walking to the worker in Kolkola 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 and 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 36? 34 I forget. Anyway I buy tickets for this

museum. I barely I barely speak Russian.

You know I'm saying things like, uh, at the museum, like things like that, you know, like

just barely, very bad Russian.

And somehow, it was communicated to me that it was a museum. So I bought

tickets, hung up my coat, something about Moscow, you hang up your coat

everywhere, and I went up to the third... Something 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 so I was saying I was like is I asked them this in Russian, I forgot how to say this or 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 $10. 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 $30, right?

So I left that place and I went across the street to the Cosmonaut Museum. Where all children, it was all children, it was all, uh, 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

you just look it up on Google, it's like fucking

huge rocket blasting off into space made of metal, it looks so cool.

But I buy a ticket for this museum, it's like what, $3. 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 like rush because as soon as like the sound of like thousands of children

Was coming my way. I was like oh shit. I got to go the zombies are here

I'm not 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.

But it was a cool museum. It wasn't very big, but it was pretty cool.

Is that a kid's thing? I didn't know. I mean, on the outside, it's literally the monument to the Russian cosmonauts it's huge it's

like giant it's right in front of Vidiancha but look it up it's pretty cool

Vidiancha up it's pretty cool. Vidyanha itself, when I first went there to go to the region's exhibition, it was beautiful. I was again sublime. It was a breathtaking experience. I was

walking forward and there was 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

slide.

It's a 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 foreign

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 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 with the chariots?

Uh, the gate, the Brannonburg gate.

Yeah, it's kind of like the Brannonberg gate.

It's like that, but bigger. It's like the Brandenburg Gate, but bigger.

That's what it was like.

Yeah, there was no digital artist statues.

Uh, but listen, Mosque, 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 because it's fascist. They're both wrong. It's communist. It's actually left wing

Right

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

It's very imposing it. It's very domineering.

It's like, it's like, 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're not just going to 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 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, 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 is going to be. But I feel like I fit in there.

I feel like my personality fits in there. I feel like my personality fits in there. 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. people there.

Shit.

By the way, I'm also sick.

But, uh, yeah.

I have to say, stateside. But, uh, yeah.

I have to say stateside. Anyway, guys,

It's been a great stream.

It's actually been a great stream.

I may stream tomorrow but I'm about to pass out. I've

exhausted all my energy. Anyway guys, I will see you guys star side. Goodbye.