(In bed with) the Russians

• Vibe Shifts w/Mark Ames

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe talk to our friend Mark Ames about nihilism, cynicism, culture wars, Red Scare, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Russia of the 1990s, and the vibe shifts of America’s political culture — from punk to the podcasts of today. —YashaWant to know more? Read Evgenia’s hit essay “Against Nihilism” and listen to our ongoing series…

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• Red Scare Bonus Pillow Talk

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe recorded this in bed over a week ago while we were in Miami — mostly for our ourselves…to talk through some ideas and concepts. We weren’t going to release it. But I gave it a listen and I thought we had a great conversation — genuine pillow talk before going to bed.Some of the things we discuss: the start of our crusade against Red Scare, Anna K’s ties and similarity to Mike Cernovich, the beta-lib-husband-turned-pick-up-artist-turned-MAGA-boy-turned-trad-dad-influencer. We also talk about the pick up artist self help scene, Roosh…and how a lot of that world went trad and renounced their early whoring. And we discuss how the Red Scare women are the counterpart to the Cernovich and Tate influencer types — but they poison the minds of young women, rather than young men. One thing that these influencers push, especially the trad types, is that having a family means you naturally adopt The Zone of Interest politics — that this is just how the world works. But this is a lie. There is nothing natural about it. You can be a father or mother without adopting a nihilistic view where nothing and nobody matters outside your immediate family. I know this personally... Enjoy the ep. Sweet dreams.—YashaListen to our two previous episodes on Red Scare:

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• "Anora" and Russians at the Oscars

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe record an emergency ep to talk about Sean Baker’s sweep at the Oscars with his new film Anora. We talk about Sean Baker’s sentimental style and his “changemaker” interest in stories of marginalized people. He comes from good New Jersey suburb but the only layer of American society he’s interested in are the lower classes — the delivery workers, trans prostitutes, third rate porn stars, strippers, poor immigrants. We discuss our opinion of the film, the reaction that other Russians had to it, and end up talking about Todd Solondz a lot, who like Sean Baker, grew up in upper-middle-class suburban New Jersey but couldn’t be a more different director.As a bonus, I tell the story of how I tried to score heroin on the LA corner where a lot of the action in Tangerine, Baker’s breakthrough hit film about transgender prostitutes, takes place…and how I ended up going to a gay brothel in West Hollywood.Do the Anora Oscar wins signal that Hollywood is ready to reset relations with Russia? Only time will tell.—YashaPS: We discuss Evgenia’s short film Changemaker — watch it here.

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• Red Scared

  We continue our discussion of Red Scare’s turn into a real red scare platform. We have been doing deconstruction of their rhetoric on Twitter the past week, which has been going viral and has been drawing all the nastiness and poison of the Red Scare universe to the surface for everyone to see. And we’ve come to a very grim conclusion about the nature of this podcast project, and it’s this: What Red Scare promotes as “good” politics is captured by The Zone of Interest — where the happy family of the commander of Auschwitz lives on the other side of the wall from the death camp surrounded by sounds of suffering and not caring. They see themselves as good people. These are the morals that the Red Scare women want to push on people. To them the only thing that makes you a “good” person is treating your family and friends right. That’s it. The pain and suffering of other people doesn’t matter. In fact, it doesn’t even exist. And if you care about anyone outside your little world, you’re fake and manipulative and just projecting your own mental issues onto the world. Our world is already a series of Zones of Interest. But what Red Scare tries to do is to sell this kind of cynical tribalism as something cool and avant-garde. They’ve become agents of nihilism.We want to draw the line in the sand and call it what it is, and to remind young (and not so young) people that there is a black and white and good and bad in cases like this. Not everything is gray. —EvgeniaListen to part one of our Red Scare saga: Red Scare's Wake……and subscribe for more and join us on the chat. 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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• Back to the Future

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nefariousrussians.comWe talk about my recent epiphany that the scary and volatile world of Russia that I grew up in post-collapse in the 1990s might be the future of America, rather than a distant, embarrassing past that I used to think was irrelevant to my new life here. Turns out I’m a time traveler of sorts. I am from your future.—EvgeniaPS: At the end of the ep, Yasha ruminates on how when collapse finally does come, he’s willing to become a peasant at a PMC women-run colony that will surely pop up here in the Hudson Valley…working the land in exchange for protection from the brutish bands of MAGA scavengers.

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