Episodes
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NEFARIOUS RUSSIAN MINDSET: MASTERCLASS ON SURVIVING COLLAPSE
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com This is our live event at the KBG Bar in New York — recorded on June 7th. If you weren’t there in person, here’s your chance to take a passive part in our 13 Step Program: Learn how you can survive and even...
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Eduard Limonov: Soviet Forrest Gump
The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS are back — our first video podcast from our undisclosed bunker location. We discuss Eduard Limonov as the Soviet Forrest Gump who was somehow able to in the right place in the right time to experience the entire spectrum of international boomer existence. Unlike Gump, he...
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Individualism keeps males submissive and exploited
We use the occasion of Andrew Tate getting an invite to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to discuss the big psyop that’s been waged on gender relations in America. Liberal lean-in feminism is pushed on women; alpha predator men’s rights is pushed on men — all while keeping everyone...
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Putin conquers Hollywood
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS return to discuss Wizard of the Kremlin, a new film about Putin’s rise to power, where Jude Law plays Putin. Yeah, Jude Law. While formally it’s a pretty bad film that feels like an...
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PROGRESS PROPAGANDA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com I talk to Samuel Miller McDonald about his new book on the history of the idea of progress and how this idea has been used to justify parasitic super-stratified societies that have been denuding and killing…
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Assassins & Precogs
The NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS return to discuss their favorite topics: fame, movies, morality of media, power, cults, collapse, similarities between the Soviet Union and the United States… We also discuss Evgenia’s ongoing precog abilities: she sensed that there would be a White House correspondents’...
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Silicon Valley's war on children
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com For this Vamp Valley stream, I speak to Josh Golin about how commercialization and consumerist brainwashing of children, already dominant in American society before the internet, has been very consciously...
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REVOLT AGAINST AI/Joe Costello
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com Today I chat with Joe Costello about the backlash to data centers and why he thinks this national grassroots movement just might be the very first time Americans are engaging in politics in many, many decades....
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Chatting about movies, liberalism, and American collapse
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com Married with podcast, we catch up on some topics dear to our hearts. Among things discussed: Evgenia’s films, the ghettoization of feminist (and minority) filmmaking in a liberal society, Yorgos Lanthimos,...
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GETTING DRONED
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com For this vamp valley stream, I had Peter Korotaev on to talk about drones and war. Drones, which I see as very much related to the internet, have made big leaps in battlefield adoption in the last few years:...
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The Politics of Ape and Machine w/Joe Costello
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com For this week’s vamp valley stream, I’m publishing a talk that Evgenia and I did with Joe Costello about his wonderful new book, The Politics of Ape and Machine. We’re in the middle of another industrial power...
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INFORMATION IS PACIFICATION W/DANIEL BESSNER
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com For this week’s vamp valley stream, I’m joined by Daniel Bessner to talk about how our politics are in the grips of a powerful decadent rationalist illusion: it’s the idea that information is power. But as...
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WE'RE ALL TRAPPED IN THE VAMPIRE CASTLE
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com For this week’s vamp valley stream, I talked to C. Derick Varn about the backstory of Mark Fisher’s controversial (at the time) and influential “Exiting the Vampire Castle” essay and why it still matters…
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Pistachio Wars and Doom and Gloom
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com Rowan and I were at UC Santa Barbara last month presenting Pistachio Wars. We had a wonderful Q&A after the screening, which you can see below. Subscribers can listen to it on our usual podcast feed and read a...
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PLATFORMS WANT TO INGEST AND DESTROY
For this anti-vamp stream from my newly established NY basement studio, I’m joined by Mike Pepi, author of Against Platforms. We talk about the failed utopian promises of the internet and how the tech platforms that now dominate our world are concentrators of power and destroyers of all other…
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Requiem for Nikolai Komyagin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com Evgenia pays tribute to Nikolai Komyagin, the frontman of the Russian cult band Shortparis. He died recently — tragically and unexpectedly ay 39. As Evgenia explains, he was a true poet — and a total artist....
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WE ARE ALL LUDDITES NOW
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com For this anti-vamp stream from my newly established basement studio, I’m joined by internet by Brian Merchant, author of the wonderful book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech....
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Exiting the Slop Shop
We record this on President’s Day to talk about the slop machine we all now inhabit and how all internet culture is an abusive psyop meant to keep us tethered and addicted and pacified. Everyone knows this. But few of us can escape. Sam Kriss, slop merchant to the overly educated, makes an...
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Jeffrey Epstein, American Exceptionalism, and a lesson from Russia
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We talk about how the Jeffrey Epstein scandal/spectacle fits into the larger context of American decline and collapse. And Evgenia explains how normalized all the Epstein revelations are to someone like her…
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New Year's Eve Banya Session
We recorded most of this from inside a banya on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco as a rainstorm raged outside. We had to pause several times because the heat was making us woozy, but we persevered and held it together. As promised we are now releasing the ep… Among the topics discussed:...
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Epstein Christmas Special ft. Vampire Valley
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We dial in on Christmas Day from sleeping gas San Francisco to talk about the two-day power outage (caused by Yasha psi powers), CIA mind control, the Luddites, Trump’s holiday Epstein file dump, Eyes Wide…
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Fighting the vampires
We dial in to talk about my Silicon Valley Soviet immigrant tech bro origins story, my early anti-tech documentary attempts, and the anti-Silicon Valley series I’m making now — Vampire Valley. I’m raising money for the doc right now. So pitch in if you have some extra cash! As we discuss, looking...
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The new Sy Hersh doc is a waste of time
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We went to a private preview of Cover-Up, the new Sy Hersh documentary that comes out next month, and stayed for a Q&A with Laura Poitras, its director. In this ep we give our honest appraisal of the film.…
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Pistachio Wars Q&A at the Roxy — Yasha Levine w/ Will Menaker
Posting the Q&A Will Menaker and I did after Pistachio Wars screened in NYC’s Roxy Cinema on November 6th, 2025. Chinatown made flesh, insane consumerism, our dead ender industrial civilization, people worked to death so that a few can live in Beverly Hills... Watch Pistachio Wars first and then...
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Spinal Tap 2: Senility Files
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…
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Sam Kriss, the empty vessel
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...
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What Russians think about the American Right w/Artur Dugin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We’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...
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Ghost
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,...
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CHARLIE KIRK AND THE INFLUENCER MADE FLESH
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...
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Sovereign Art
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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...
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Israel through the looking glass
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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...
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Russia looking for a new idea
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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...
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Cannibalistic America w/Greg Grandin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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...
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All the info and no power
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...
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Dialing in from Moscow
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...
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We are all sick in the head now
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...
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White Devils w/Rania Khalek
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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,...
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BOOK CLUB #1: Alienated by design
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com If 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...
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DON'T BOMB IRAN
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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...
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With the vampires
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...
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American Identity Crisis w/John Ganz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We 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...
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The Industrial Revolution Killed Democracy w/Joe Costello
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...
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Who gets Dick? w/John Dolan
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com John 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...
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Park Avenue Whistleblower w/Nick McDonell
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...
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The Century of the Modified Self w/Oliver Bateman
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We talk to Oliver Bateman about how body building culture, with the help of the internet, took over the world and helped forge a path to our century of the modified self.
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Eunuchs by choice?
We discuss the Twitter scandal I unwittingly caused by talking about the connection between children and art. What was meant as an offhand remark made people angry beyond belief. The thing, as I find out, is that “kids” are a touchy subject in left-liberal creative circles, largely because…
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Red Bourgeoisie w/Branko Milanovic
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We have Branko Milanovic, an economist born in Yugoslavia, on to talk about class and inequality in the USSR. How was power transmitted across generations, if inheritance was abolished? Why did the Soviet…
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Talking about "Too Hot To Work" and other harem/incel fantasies
We discuss Evgenia’s essay on Too Hot To Work. Some of the things we talk about are: the crisis of liberal feminism, incels under communism, how socialism is actually good for women and men, the unattractiveness of plastic surgery…and more. —Yasha Subscribe to NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS and help yourself...
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All is not well here
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com We recorded this ep on the centennial anniversary of the Great Gatsby but end up having a wide-ranging convo about culture, religion and politics — people’s obsession with the hereditary rich, the difference...
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NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS LIVE! #1
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.com As promised here’s the live taping of our AGAINST NIHILISM event at the KGB Bar — as a bonus for our subscribers. Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it this time. We’re planning to have another one sometime in…
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