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[Alexandr Korol]

It’s better, instead of spending 500 thousand on a trip to Italy, to buy land near St. Petersburg. And all those who listened to me before the pandemic are now very grateful to me, because land is no longer worth 500 thousand rubles. New York really affected my taste. It opened up so much to me, all these different social strata of society, rich, materialistic, various. A taste for music, films, clothes, food. Simply social-material adaptation, some kind of expansion of horizons. I’ve tried all the different cuisines of different countries, but in New York, you don’t need to go anywhere, I’ve tried everything there. Japanese food of various kinds, Thai food of various kinds, Mexican, and so on, and so on, and so on. It’s like New York, it taught me to be more open and not to be shy about myself. Because when I’m in Russia, it’s like you don’t even want to stick out unnecessarily. That’s how it was at that time. Now, of course, there are a lot of upstarts, but now the time is different. And again, if a person is not shy about anything, it means something is wrong with them. All people are different, of course, the time is different, but I don’t want to talk about people. I want to talk about miracles.

Question: What you saw in America and described as a landscape resembling the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, can we assume that things are not as straightforward as what was written in history textbooks, and that there were advanced civilizations before us, of which only small traces remain?

When I was in San Francisco, I saw that all of this landscape – it was all shaped by waves of water. There must have been huge waves, and then they just receded, and San Francisco was built on top of it. And I thought, ‘Wow, why is nobody talking about this?’ Also, when I traveled through all the national parks of California, and everywhere across the states, I went to where the sequoias are. And suddenly, I felt and saw that these sequoias became like that because of radiation, that these trees just survived because they were hidden among the mountains, and when there was some kind of nuclear explosion, everything around the ‘Sequoia’ national park was wiped out, but inside, it was preserved because radiation from the mountain, from the sky, all the fallout went there. And inside, these trees mutated from radiation and became so big – that’s how the sequoia appeared. I saw it like that.