(In bed with) the Russians

Dec 10 2024 117 ep. 51 mins 39

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Bedtime stories with Evgenia and Yasha.

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Producing culture while the world burns

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comWe have a nice morning conversation. We talk about Yasha’s blossoming music career (and our plans to start a band). We discuss Evgenia’s attendance of a screening of From Ground Zero, an anthology of short films shot in Gaza this year that’ll be competing in the Oscars. We talk about the blurry li

Birthday Epiphanies

Nov 21 2024 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comOn the eve of my birthday we talk about the final disillusionment I had with American culture after joining the middle class suburban normie wife life and felt like I had been teleported to a different planet, a planet just for breeders. We also talk about the outliers of whom there are plenty in our ge

The Elex Ep: Make America Great Again and Again

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comWe broadcast to you from bed, barely awake, to talk about the election — Kamala, Trump, what we’d do if we had to choose between the lib and the MAGA camps…we even manage to get into a fight. So strap in and get ready for some real scenes from a marriage. —Yasha

The Third Temple and the End of Judaism

Nov 05 2024 96 mins

We get out of bed to talk with Rachel Feldman about messianic zionism and the Temple Movement, which wants to end Judaism as we know it and replace it with an Israelite theocracy in the Holy Land complete with animal sacrifices — to go back more than 2,000 years to before Rome destroyed Jerusalem and ended Jewish rule. We also discuss the core of Rachel’s research: Noahidism, a

Paul Schrader's Third Act

Oct 25 2024 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comIn this bonus ep for subscribers we lie flat in bed late at night on the edge of sleep as Evgenia talks about seeing Paul Schrader present his latest film — Oh, Canada — at the Woodstock Film Festival. We also discuss the upscale boomers of the Hudson Valley, Yasha’s anti-rabbi TikTok optimization

St. Francis of Hollywood

Oct 22 2024 86 mins

Late at night in bed we talk about Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed new film. Unlike most people out there, we were impressed and touched by it. Coppola dissects American society and its media propaganda machine only the way foreigners usually managed to do in the past — people like Paul Verhoeven with Starship Troopers and Robocop or Neil Blomkamp with Elysium

Exiting the art world with Andrew Norman Wilson

Oct 14 2024 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comWe got out of bed to talk to artist and filmmaker Andrew Norman Wilson about his work and his viral essay in the Baffler about the impoverished jet-setting life of an artist without a trust fund. He’s now turned the essay into a talk/stand up show he performs in New York. What he talks about is releva

October 7, 2024

Oct 08 2024 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comWe’re back in bed, struggling to stay awake, talking about October 7…one year on. Things we discuss include our wedding anniversary, the genocide, losing friends, the limits of rationalism, Yasha’s zi-fi novel, Zone of Interest, Philip K. Dick…the Black Iron Prison has captured us all. Full epis

Black Iron Prison

Sep 27 2024 1 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comWe took our podcasting from bed concept to its logical conclusion: Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage style video content. We finally went full internet. We’re streamers now.We talk about Philip K. Dick and his wife Tessa who seems to be living in poverty, PKD’s concept of the Black Iron Pris

The Hebrew god and Israeli bombs

Sep 18 2024 2 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comFor the first half hour we talk about the Hebrew god, zionism, and Yasha’s newfound vocation as the self-appointed Chief Rabbi of All Jews. Then we discuss the opening salvo of Israel’s digital device bombing campaign in Lebanon and about all the nukes that Yahweh has. And in the last twenty minutes