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Introducing: The Last Soviet Hosted By Lance Bass · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: I'm Lance Bass, and you may know me from a
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  Speaker 1: little band called in Sync. What you may not know
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  Speaker 1: is that when I was twenty three, I traveled to
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  Speaker 1: Moscow to train to become the youngest person to go
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  Speaker 1: to space. Band member is one step closer to saying
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  Speaker 1: bye bye bye to planet Earth. I spent six months
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  Speaker 1: learning Russian astrophysics, even flying a fighter jet with a drunk.
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  Speaker 1: Commanders have named Lance Bass as a member of the
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  Speaker 1: three person crew. It was the craziest experience of my life.
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  Speaker 1: And when I was there, as you can imagine, I
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  Speaker 1: heard some pretty wild stories. But there was this one
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  Speaker 1: that really stuck with me. It's about a man who's
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  Speaker 1: traveling two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth at
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  Speaker 1: five miles a second. His name is Sergei Krikov. He's
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  Speaker 1: a Soviet cosmonaut, and he's manning the world's only space station,
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  Speaker 1: the Pride and Joy of the U. S. S R.
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  Speaker 1: The year is nineteen ninety one. Sarage has been up
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  Speaker 1: there for three months. By now, as the days bleed
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  Speaker 1: into one another, he's starting to feel a bit space sick.
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  Speaker 1: He's been counting down the weeks till he's due to
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  Speaker 1: come home to his wife and family, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: his friend, a Ham radio operator in suburban Australia, tells
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  Speaker 1: him something shocking. She says, Sarage, something bad is happening
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  Speaker 1: in the Soviet Union. After months strikes, protests and deepening
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  Speaker 1: economic chaoss, people are sleeping in train stations. I gave
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  Speaker 1: them my money, old one. We won't give you your bread.
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  Speaker 1: Law and order seem to be breaking down bread Almi
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  Speaker 1: almored personnel carriers on the streets of Moscow this morning
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  Speaker 1: heading to the Kremlin. The republics that make up the
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  Speaker 1: Union were starting to break away. They were wild scenes
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  Speaker 1: Guti and three days his handlers on the ground tell him,
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  Speaker 1: we can't keep this from you anymore. Everything is collapsing
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  Speaker 1: around us, including the Soviet Space Agency. We've run out
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  Speaker 1: of money. We can't send anyone to replace you. So
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  Speaker 1: we're giving you a choice. You can come back down
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  Speaker 1: to Earth's planned and abandon the station to an unknown fate,
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  Speaker 1: or you stay as long as it takes and protect
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  Speaker 1: the station, the final outpost of a falling empire. This
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  Speaker 1: is the story of the three thirteen days Sergei spent
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  Speaker 1: circling the Earth three hundred and thirteen days that change
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  Speaker 1: our world Thanks Christ. Cars like climsy toys. Historians are
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  Speaker 1: likely to be analyzing the events of this day for
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  Speaker 1: generation is to come in Moscow, the Hammer and Sickle
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  Speaker 1: is lord for the last time, and an era comes
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  Speaker 1: to an end. Of pay changed, a rank or status,
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  Speaker 1: everything changed. It was rather like he was a time
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  Speaker 1: traveling I'm Lance bass And from Kaleidoscope and iHeart Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Last Soviet. Listen to the Last Soviet
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