Hello dear listener, editor J.T. here. We're excited to announce that by the time you're listening to this episode, our fall merch drop will be live at deprogramshop.com.

Whether you want a little fiddell peeking out of your frocket, a lovingly recreated don't tread on me sticker, or

hakem's patented theory carrying tote, we've got you covered.

The drop is live right now through October 15th, so go snag a hat before they're gone. All patrons will also receive a special discount because you're our favorite little pigies.

Thanks for your support. Enjoy the merch. And now on to the show. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to yet another episode of the The program.

Today we have a very special return guest for you all the way from Russia, Constantine.

A dear friend of the show, an acclaimed journalist, documentary filmmaker, TV presenter,

great geopolitical analyst, and most importantly importantly a Marxist comrade.

Mr. Constantine thank you very much for coming on again.

Could you please say a few words about your career as well as who you are to our dear listeners so that they can get to know you a little bit better.

Thanks for having me and for such a pleasant introduction. I'm a journalist. You're totally right. I spent over a decade or maybe two decades in journalism. I used to be a correspondent at the beginning of my career and then I worked as a head of the U.S. Bureau an anchor and eventually after I discovered a Marxist in me I quit my job in 2019.

Since then I'm focused on running my YouTube video blog and my social media accounts.

You will find links to all of Constantine's work in the description below.

I very, very warmly recommend this channel.

Most of the content is obviously in Russian, so I recommend it to the Russian speakers

as well as to everyone else who can survive the half-assed, decent at this point in my modest opinion, YouTube translation captions. But with that out of the way let's get right into the meat of this episode and what an episode it will be because we're basically covering what I would call the currently biggest topic in the world,

which is the Ukraine war, the Russian invasion, the Russian-NATO war, or the 700 different terms that have been ascribed to that.

So let's start with what's been on everyone's mind for the past half a month and excuse me if I sound like

the resident conspiracy theorist here but Constantine do you actually think that

pre-Gogen is dead?

Well, I think he is, although I won't be surprised if he is not.

In the last two years, we kind of, at least least here we kind of got used to living in a bloody circus

...