That Time My Friend Turned Out To Be A Russian Spy: A Conversation with Elena Nico

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Chris Cotnoir

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4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Everyone has a story to tell and Elena Nicolaou has a helluva one. For years Elena and her family were close friends with Paul Erickson and his girlfriend Maria Butina...yes that Maria Butina. (The "alleged" Russian spy.) Elena details the relationship her family had with Paul and this red headed Russian girlfriend (who was half his age, but no judgement). Maria and Paul went to Disney World with Elena, Maria read Elena's palm and Paul texted Elena about Ariana Grande & Pete Davidson's relationship. If this story seems crazy, wait until you hear it ALL. Tune in for the absolutely crazy and unbelievably true story of the family that befriended the Russian (ahem "alleged") spy. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. Super Secret Studio. Hello, this is Washington for beautiful people on Deep State Radio.
0:48.0	Ooh, that sounded kind of fun.
0:50.0	I'm your host Emily Brandwin at CIA Spy Girl on Twitter that's how you know me and we're
0:55.4	broadcasting from the West Lift Coast and today we're doing a very very very
1:00.4	special espionage themed episode of Washington for beautiful people and you'll see why and I'm
1:06.7	beyond thrilled so excited to be joined by my friend
1:11.6	Elena Nikolao.
1:13.9	Hey, Elena.
1:15.8	Hey, Emily, how are you?
1:17.3	Good.
1:18.3	So I'm gonna give a little background
1:19.9	how we know each other.
1:20.9	So, Elena is an entertainment writer for Refinery 29 and she writes books,
1:26.4	books, movies, TV, everything super fun, celebrity related and you had contacted me when the movie The Spy Who Dump Me came out.
1:37.2	I did, yeah, I wanted to do a story about what it was really like to date as a spy, because there's so many spies in pop culture but I didn't know how real the
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