Introducing: The Last Soviet

Hey, Ridiculous History listeners! The newest hit docuseries of another star-studded podcast, The Last Soviet is live. Go check out the beginning of this thrilling journey with Lance Bass, NSync Superstar, and Russian-trained astronaut!”

 

About The Last Soviet: Lance Bass, NSync Superstar, and Russian-trained astronaut takes you on a wild ride into space. He tells the story of the last Soviet cosmonaut who is trapped on the world’s only space station, as the country he knows and loves collapses beneath him. On this journey through Earth’s atmosphere in the form of a podcast, Lance introduces you to the woman who won a reality show cosmonaut contest, a ham radio operator in Australia who became a lifeline for the Soviet Space Station, a hustler from Chicago who tried to sell coca-cola to the Russians and the editor of Playboy who took part in a revolution.

 

It’s one man’s dream to go to space, his dedication to the country he thought he knew and 313 days spent orbiting the Earth. 313 days that changed our world. 

 

Plus, Lance’s own dream to go to space and the lengths he went to make it a reality. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
I'm Lance Bass, and you may know me from a
little band called in Sync. What you may not know
is that when I was twenty three, I traveled to
Moscow to train to become the youngest person to go
to space. Band member is one step closer to saying
bye bye bye to planet Earth. I spent six months
learning Russian astrophysics, even flying a fighter jet with a drunk.

(00:23):
Commanders have named Lance Bass as a member of the
three person crew. It was the craziest experience of my life.
And when I was there, as you can imagine, I
heard some pretty wild stories. But there was this one
that really stuck with me. It's about a man who's

(00:45):
traveling two miles above the Earth at five miles a second.
His name is Sergei Krikov. He's a Soviet cosmonaut, and
he's manning the world's only space station, the Pride and
Joy of the U. S. S R. The year is

(01:08):
Sarage has been up there for three months. By now,
as the days bleed into one another, he's starting to
feel a bit space sick. He's been counting down the
weeks till he's due to come home to his wife
and family, and that's when his friend, a ham radio
operator in suburban Australia, tells him something shocking. She says,

(01:33):
serge something bad is happening in the Soviet Union. After
months strikes, protests, and deepening economic chaos. People are sleeping
in train stations. I gave them my money that they
should old one. We won't give you your bread. Law
and order seemed to be breaking down. Red Almi Almus
personnel carriers on the streets of Moscow this morning heading

(01:56):
to the Kremlin. The republics that make up the Union,
her star being to break away were wild saints. Three days.

(02:16):
His handlers on the ground tell him, we can't keep
this from you anymore. Everything is collapsing around us, including
the Soviet Space Agency. We've run out of money. We
can't send anyone to replace you. So we're giving you
a choice. You can come back down to Earth's plan
and abandon the station to an unknown fate, or you

(02:40):
stay as long as it takes and protect the station,
the final outpost of a falling empire. This is the
story of the days Sergei spent circling the Earth three
d and thirteen days that changed our world. Thanks Christ,

(03:01):
Cars like climsy toys. Historians are likely to be analyzing
the events of this day for generation is to come
in Moscow, the Hammer and Sickle is lord for the
last time, and an era comes to an A pay changed,
a rank or status, everything changed. It was rather like
he was a time traveling I'm Lance bass And from

(03:24):
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