NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS

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 thrive during American decline. == 🚨 Don’t forget to buy tickets to our SOVIET COLLAPSE CINEMA SERIES in...

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 wrote about his experiences and was able to synthesize them into political insight and wisdom. We also di...

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 trapped in an individualistic society where you have no one to depend on except yourself. To quote fro...

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 illustrated wikipedia article, we were still surprised by it. Because, for a mainstream film, it offered a...

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 our world, going back into antiquity. Pretty much everyone believes in the notion of progress these days....

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’ dinner shooting the morning before it happened and talked about it. Due to technical issues (aka sabotage...

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 turbocharged by the tech overlords that mediate our reality. We discuss problems facing children in the ag...

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. Joe recently published a great book —  The Politics of Ape and Machine. Also check out his newsletter:...

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, Kathryn Bigelow, Sophia Coppola…Then we move on to discussing the saga of the Feiyue sneaker and how it il...

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: first in the Russian-Ukraine war and now in the Israeli-American war on Iran. The United States pioneere...

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 grab. We talked to Joe to make sense of the situation. We talked about AI, the parasitic internet, in...

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 Daniel points out, despite having all the information regular people have no effect on politics. We know e...

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 today. I wrote about Fisher’s essay last summer as part of my attempt to understand the way hyper-connecte...

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 cleaned up transcript below. Thank you to Rich Farell and everyone at Carsey-Wolf Center for having u...

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 forms of organization that came before them. This monopolization/destruction isn’t an aberration or a co...

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. With his music and videos, he did something that no one else had done yet. He captured on a pure emotion...

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. It’s a book about the rise and fall of the Luddites, a decentralized 19th movement of English textile w...

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 appearance in our talk. We also discuss how America’s ruling class hasn’t just psyoped the masses with this f...

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 who grew up in 1990s Russia — a collapsed society that ran (and still does) on “Epstein ethics” and where...

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: influencerism , Olivia Nuzzi and Yasha’s stories about briefly working with her at the start of her career, the c...

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 Shut and Kubrick , Russia, Marquis de Sade… Happy Holidays! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST. SPEND TIME WITH...

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 back on it now, there was pretty much no way that the internet would not have turned into the parasi...

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. And, sadly, it’s not a positive one. There are a lot of problems with the film — overproduced yet clunky,...

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 listen to our discussion. Film’s streaming now on your favorite oligarchic platform ! —Yasha --- If you...

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 de...