Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard — Evan Gershkovich (on surviving a Russian prison)

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Evan Gershkovich (on surviving a Russian prison)

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Evan Gershkovich (This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story) is a foreign correspondent and memoirist. Evan joins Armchair Expert to discuss his mother sewing gold earrings into her skirt to get them out of the Soviet Union, why the Soviet spies on The Americans felt more familiar than most Russians he’d…

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