(In bed with) the Russians Podcast
1) 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 ...Show More
2) Epstein Christmas Special ft. Vampire Valley
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe dial in on Christmas Day from sleeping gas San Francisco to talk about the two-day power outage (caused by Yas...Show More
3) 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 rai...Show More
4) 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.comWe went to a private preview of Cover-Up, the new Sy Hersh documentary that comes out next month, and stayed for ...Show More
5) 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, peopl...Show More
6) 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. Nob...Show More
7) 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...Show More
8) 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.comWe’re posting part two of our conversation with Dmitriy Khvorostov (aka Artur Dugin, son of Alexander Dugin) abou...Show More
9) 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 off...Show More
10) Sovereign Art
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...Show More