This is a low energy episode, befitting our new lowly status. We return to the topic of having a baby. We talk about ayahuasca trips, the anti-climactic nature of having a child, and America’s schizophrenic baby culture, where one of the first things Evgenia heard in the hospital after giving birth was: “Congratulations on your bundle of joy!!!! H’mmmm, just a few questions. Are you thinking of harming yourself or your baby?” — and much, much more.

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—Yasha Levine

Check out our previous episodes:

* Episode #8: Breeders

* Episode #7: Adam Curtis, get out of my head

* Episode #6: Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism

* Episode #5: The Serf aka Холоп

* Episode #4: Palestine and Soviet Jews

* Episode #3: Eduard Limonov and Natalia Medvedeva w/Thierry Marignac

* Episode #2: All the Sad Soviet Immigrant Lit

* Episode #1: Russians Against Politics

* Episode #0: The Ukrainian-Canadian left & Chrystia Freeland's Nazi grandpa

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