Red Scare (podcast)

Red Scare is an American cultural commentary and humor podcast founded in March 2018 and hosted by Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan. 
The show has been associated with the dirtbag left and has been described in "The Cut" as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned."
Content.
"Red Scare" bills itself as a cultural commentary podcast hosted by "bohemian layabouts" Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan, and is recorded from their homes in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Nekrasova is a Belarus-born actress, who became known as "Sailor Socialism" after an interview with an "InfoWars" reporter went viral in 2018. She immigrated to Las Vegas, Nevada, with her acrobat parents when she was four. Khachiyan is a Moscow-born writer, art critic and daughter of Armenian mathematician Leonid Khachiyan. She was raised in New Jersey. The two women met over Twitter, and started the podcast in March 2018 after Nekrasova relocated to New York City from Los Angeles.
Early episodes were produced by Meg Murnane, who would also appear as the show's third co-host. She disappeared from the show in October 2018, and episodes have been self-produced since then. On an episode released on December 5, 2018, Dasha and Anna officially announced that they had parted ways with Meg "amicably and mutually".
The show covers current topics in American culture and politics and is a critique of neoliberalism and feminism in a manner both comedic and serious in tone. The hosts are influenced by the work of Mark Fisher, Slavoj Žižek, Camille Paglia, and Christopher Lasch. Recurring topics include Russiagate, the #MeToo movement, woke consumerism and call-out culture, the death of Jeffrey Epstein and the Presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, whom both supported in the 2020 Democratic primaries.
Several writers, artists, social commentators and cultural figures from all sides of the political spectrum have appeared on "Red Scare", including Elizabeth Bruenig, Angela Nagle, Juliana Huxtable, Ariana Reines, Tulsi Gabbard, Simon Reynolds, Ross Douthat, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Steve Bannon, Slavoj Žižek, and Adam Curtis.
Nekrasova and Khachiyan have hosted several episodes of the show live, most notably broadcasting on NPR at The Green Space at WNYC and WQXR, as well as interviewing social media influencer Caroline Calloway at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Khachiyan has been interviewed by Bret Easton Ellis and Eric Weinstein on their respective podcasts.
Format and availability.
An episode of "Red Scare" is typically between 50 and 80 minutes long. The show's theme song is "All the Things She Said," the 2002 single by Russian pop duo t.A.T.u. Weekly free episodes of the show are available via iTunes and Spotify. Subscribers who contribute at least $5 per month via Patreon gain access to additional weekly premium bonus episodes. As of April 2021, the show has generated over $43,000 per month from over 9,900 subscribers.
Episode guide.
As of April 24, 2021, 238 episodes of "Red Scare" have been released. The show's most frequent guest is photographer Dan Allegretto at seven appearances, followed by Amber A'Lee Frost of "Chapo Trap House" at six appearances, and writer Patrik Sandberg, at five appearances.