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(In bed with) the Russians

Yasha & Evgenia

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76:26

Spinal Tap 2: Senility Files

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/11/03

We get back into our old groove of recording right before bed. We talk movies. Specifically we talk about the horrible, senile sequel to the genius original Spinal Tap. Nobody asked for this film. Nobody wanted this film. And really, you can barely call it “a film.” It shouldn’t exist. Should never have been made. Evgenia discusses Christopher Guest’s pioneering approach to filmmaking and goes deep on his aristocratic background (he is a baron), discussing how his comedic interests are always about

62:28

Sam Kriss, the empty vessel

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2025/10/06

We come back from our break to do some light but cutting literary gossip and criticism. Our focus: the millennial essayist Sam Kriss. Kriss is one of the last erudite men of letters and blesses us all with his uber long Substack pieces that weave medieval history and current politics and go for tens of thousands words. Brevity is soul of the wit, as some dead British guy said. But to Kriss verbosity is essential — he needs to make his readers so confused and overwhelmed and so stuffed with facts and

5:37

What Russians think about the American Right w/Artur...

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/10/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe’re posting part two of our conversation with Dmitriy Khvorostov (aka Artur Dugin, son of Alexander Dugin) about politics, art, and culture in Russia today — specifically we discuss what Russian traditionalists think about America’s new right. If you missed part one, you can listen to it here: Sovereign Art.

46:36

Ghost

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/09/13

We had a small 35th anniversary screening of Ghost at Kingston last Saturday and I had a talk with Bruce Joel Rubin, who wrote the screenplay and won an Oscar for it. The movie was the biggest box office hit in 1990 even though it was an original screenplay and a story that was both melodramatic, funny, scary, and spiritual at the same time. “Just like life,” as Bruce would say. It’d be hard to imagine a movie like that would be noticed today or even made when every movie has to be a remake of a new

15:26

CHARLIE KIRK AND THE INFLUENCER MADE FLESH

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/09/12

A YASHA LEVINE VAMPIRE CASTLE TRANSMISSION With the Charlie Kirk assassination, political influencers are freaking out. It’s dawning on them that the Spectacle is not just an abstract entity. They’re realizing deep down inside that all the hate and misery they pump out into the Spectacle can be made flesh. And that this flesh can be killed. And that this flesh can be theirs.I wrote about this yesterday but since no one reads anymore, I decided to record a video from the safety of my bathroom. As

2:33

Sovereign Art

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/08/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe dial Moscow to talk to art curator and philosopher Dmitriy Khvorostov (aka Artur Dugin, son of Alexander Dugin) about art in Russia and about current attempts by Russians to find a new sovereign identity after the war and their rupture with the west. You can follow Dmitriy on Telegram at Sovereign Art.PS: This is part one of a two-part conversation. The second half — about what Russian traditionalists think

1:02

Israel through the looking glass

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/08/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe put on our matching army green outfits to talk to Ori Goldberg — a former academic and a dissident Israeli — about what it’s like to live in a society as it commits genocide. (Spoiler alert: They’re mostly fine with it. Ori thinks maybe one out of a hundred Israelis opposes the slaughter in Gaza.)—Yasha

1:40

Russia looking for a new idea

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/08/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe had filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov on again to talk Russian politics in the age of war and global realignment. Does the “Russian Idea” have anything to offer? Is there something there that’s unique? Can the Russian people be convinced to be enthusiastic about a centralized capitalism?Andrei was recently arrested and bizarrely held in detention for several months for accidentally filming in front of an FSB building

4:16

Cannibalistic America w/Greg Grandin

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2025/08/05

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe have a great time chatting with historian Greg Grandin about the end of the American Myth, collapse, America’s war against itself, Clinton and MAGA, how the USSR propped up the social welfare state both in America and Europe, toxic nationalism vs universal nationalism, individualism under capitalism vs communism, Israel…and a bunch of other things that are on our minds. Greg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning

10:36

All the info and no power

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2025/07/24

Been thinking about the Vampire Castle that is the internet and how we’re being drained by information, so I sat down to talk about it a bit.I come across people all the time who can’t read anymore, are revolted by screens, made sick by technology, their minds overstimulated, groaning under the weight of news and shows and infinite content…and yet they still can’t log off. Few of us can. We can’t escape. It is the Vampire Castle, after all. But something has to change. We need new values and a new

120:30

Dialing in from Moscow

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2025/07/23

Evgenia joins me on the phone from the Duchy of Moscow for a late night convo about what’s happening in Russia and about what to her feels like the dawn of a new era for Russian society. You heard it here first…Sooner or later, for better or worse, a real monarchy is coming to the Russian Federation.—YashaVintage Lenin for sale This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nefariousrussians.com/subscribe

78:13

We are all sick in the head now

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/07/17

We talk to Andrew Kay about the political and cultural aspects of psychiatric disorders — looking specifically at how OCD has gone mainstream because of the kind of society in which we live.We start by talking about Andrew’s great Harper’s essay in which he chronicles his own struggles with OCD and recounts his participation in an OCD convention in San Francisco — where participants paid good money to, among other things, cure their OCD by hugging a homeless man and dumpster driving. And then we go

2:16

White Devils w/Rania Khalek

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/07/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe got out of bed to talk to Rania Khalek — who joined us from Beirut. What started this conversation was an offhand remark Rania made about how living in Lebanon, a country that is being attacked and invaded, is less stressful than being in America, where it seems everyone seems on edge and nervous and ready to snap. Why is that? From that discussion, we get into all sorts of things — what’s ailing America today,

1:05

BOOK CLUB #1: Alienated by design

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/06/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comIf you missed it this morning, here is a recording of our first book club livestream/chat about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep — about how Philip K. Dick is a philosopher-prophet of our technological age who just so happened to have worked in the pulp sci-fi format and how the novel is a metaphor for the central struggle happening in our world: the fight between the empaths and the sociopaths…between the

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DON'T BOMB IRAN

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/06/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe do some pillow talk about Iran — discussing the year Evgenia spent going native in Tehran, her education as an “Iranist,” and about her experiences and her thoughts on a society that America and Israel now want to obliterate. Most people in the west know next to nothing about Iran and picture it is some kind of barbaric repressive society full of terrorists. Iran is obviously not that. But this ignorance makes

73:20

With the vampires

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/06/15

We lie in bed, do pillow talk about our attempt to put a pie in Curtis Yarvin’s face and the cowardice of today’s media personalities — and how all fights are purely online now, no one does anything in real life. We also discuss the degeneration of the Red Scare women — who went from being genuinely popular and open to how they are now: keeping the details of shows secret and only inviting tiny groups of adoring fans to their events. I guess this is what happens when you join the vampires; you skulk

2:22

American Identity Crisis w/John Ganz

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/06/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe talk to John Ganz about how the USA began to unravel in the 1990s, when it no longer had the USSR to keep things in check. This 90s identity crisis has gained momentum and is playing out today with the rise of Donald Trump, the crisis of liberalism, and the push to go back to a pre-New Deal America. Some of the things we discuss include: The USA and USSR being a single meta political entity, with one

87:17

The Industrial Revolution Killed Democracy w/Joe...

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/06/03

Joe Costello returns to the show (and joins us in our attic) to talk about how the industrial revolution killed American democracy. Among topics we discuss are: the politics of technology, Trump as pure distilled America, the civilizational similarities between the USA and USSR, how technology changes society and induces amnesia, why the internet didn’t lead to democratization, how the USSR was a good place for dissident culture, the outdated US Constitution, which was created before the rise of the

2:55

Who gets Dick? w/John Dolan

(In bed with) the Russians ·

2025/05/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comJohn Dolan (aka the infamous War Nerd) joins us to talk about Philip K. Dick. Some of the topics we discuss: what first got John into Russian culture, sci-fi, growing up in California during America’s golden age, PKD as the 20th century Kafka, American decline, how Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner compares to the original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, drugs, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance…and more, including John’s top

89:16

Park Avenue Whistleblower w/Nick McDonell

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2025/05/20

We talk to novelist Nick McDonell — whose wonderful book Quiet Street recently reviewed — about his life among the most privileged people on the planet: the Park Avenue set. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nefariousrussians.com/subscribe

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