"A friend of mine knows people who worked at a Prigozhin restaurant in St. Pete — one of those tourist boats on the Neva River. Apparently Prigozhin would run after his wait staff with a baseball bat. That's his management style." - Yasha Levine

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"We talk to our old friend Brett Forrest about his new book Lost Son and about the — which he experienced firsthand as a WSJ journalist stationed in Kiev on the eve of the invasion and reporting from right after the Russian army retreated from there."

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"We’re leaving next month and decided to record an episode about Haight-Ashbury, where we’ve lived for the last year and a half, and about the neighbors we’ve gotten to know here — the local . We’ve developed a strange, maybe parasocial relationship with them — but it’s a relationship that’s still more real than the nonexistent one we have with our housed neighbors."

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#sanfrancisco #homeless #housingcrisis #crisedulogement #homelessness #sdf #evgeniakovda #yashalevine

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"For this ep Evgenia and I talk to , comedian and cohost of , about the politics and history of .

" are such a big part of our culture now. (..) Turns out that this big boom started with a bunch of desperate, down-and-out white Gen X looking for another shot at getting their careers back on track."



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