Quick note about podcast settings
A couple of days ago, I changed some internal Substack options to separate out The Russians as its own unique “Section” — the idea is for the pod to stand alone as more of its own thing, apart from the newsletters I send out. That apparently broke a few things (thanks to a listener for pointing this out). Annoyingly and most importantly, it generated a totally new paid subscriber podcast feed.
So if you are a paid subscriber and you use the unique feed URL Substack generates for your podcast app, you’ll need to grab a new link from your account page. That info can be found here: https://yasha.substack.com/account
UPDATE: No, the better way to do it and the way that generates the correct link is to open up any of the episodes on Substack — like the last one we did — and grab the link using one of the buttons there. Doing it through the settings like I said earlier does not seem to work for a lot of people. Substack is buggy, it generates an inactive link.
Hope it works!
Apologies about the mixup. Substack runs a very buggy, very confusing settings regime. All that VC money and they can’t get basic things like this right.
—Yasha
PS: From now on emails alerting you to new podcasts eps will come from The Russians and not Yasha Levine. A huge change, I know.
And listen to our latest…



Please see the update above.
I followed your link and put it in my podcast app. It created a dead link to The Russians which wouldn't load anything. Then I tried again and it created a new link to your podcast, but not it's under Yasha Levine, and not The Russians.
I decided not to worry, take a break, and watch Balshoi Lebovski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yzSoRqakr0