Releasing this early to capitalize on all that Good Discourse. A lot was said on this episode regarding Ukraine and Russia, particularly a birthing Russian identity and nationalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yegor Letov was an experimental punk/psych/noise musician and poet in the Siberian USSR, who eventually co-founded the National Bolshevik Party (representing the communist faction). After differences became irreconcilable within the party, Yegor disengages from politics entirely in 1999 and takes a looooooot of drugs. This is the episode that will get Kevin and Kaleb cancelled, and Klaus committed and sedated in a Russian psych ward.

Topics: Siberian punk rock, psychedelic rock, noise rock, experimental rock, hallucinogens, Aleksandr Dugin, Eduard Limonov, Instructions for Survival, Russian Field of Experiments, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Solstice, Soviet identity, Vladimir Putin, GrOb, Igor Letov, Konstantin Rubinov, Boris Yeltsin, Victor Tsoi, god, Orthodox Christianity, something about atheists and foxholes, cats, mice, Come and See, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Yanka Dyagileva, Alexander Vvedensky, Russian futurist poetry, Sergey Letov, monarchism, cancellable offense, cancel culture