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Decoding the Gurus

Supplementary Material 15: Russian Stooges, Lex Love-bombs, and Heterodox Hypocrisy

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We rip off the unconvincing plastic mask to reveal the true gurus lurking underneath and discuss:

  • Russian Propaganda and Influencer Scandal
  • Profit Incentives in Alternative Media and the Need for Disclosure
  • Excessive Profiteering and Advertising
  • Lex Fridman interviews Trump (with love)
  • Trump and Anti-Vaxx Conspiracy Theories
  • Trump and Kamala Debate Reactions and Heterodox Takes
  • Destiny vs. the Low Bar of the Alternative Media
  • When Joe met Bret
  • Rogan & Bret's Massive Projection and Hypocrisy
  • Financial Incentives in Alternative Media
  • Gabor Maté cites some Neuroimaging Studies
  • Matt's HUGE Correction on Twitter Funding
  • The University of Austin in Texas still exists!

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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Hello and welcome to decoding the Guru's with the psychologist Matthew Prime, the

0:32.3

cognitive anthropologist,

0:33.6

Christopher Kavna, and we are here with a subsidiary production,

0:39.2

the supplementary materials to the mean attraction attraction which is the decoding episodes just to clarify for everyone.

0:48.0

But here we are again, Matt.

0:52.0

Here we are again, here we are again. A little affiliate broadcast of Dakota McGurus.

0:57.0

Supplementary materials, the most important part of any research paper. But yeah, you know, this is our time. This is our time.

1:05.4

We are free from the constraints of talking about one specific guru in terminal.

1:09.5

And we can talk about gurus in general, stuff that's been going on, little updates to what they've been doing.

1:14.4

The gurus have been up the things. They often are, but they've been up to many things, and one of the things is that it seems some of them have

1:27.2

wittingly or unwittingly being serving as propaganda outlets for Russian state media.

1:37.0

And this concerns the story around Tenet Media,

1:41.0

a American self-styled, you know, heterodox, but actually right-wing outright

1:49.4

outlet that had

1:55.0

Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan were the two people who founded it ostensibly

1:57.0

and they in turn hired people like Benny Johnson,

2:01.0

Timpool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Sovereign.

2:04.0

But according to the United States Department of Justice,

2:09.0

this was actually an operation funded by the Russians.

2:16.0

They're kind of via Russia today.

2:19.0

There were operatives in the US not disclosing their affiliation. There were people

2:26.0

created characters, Fiac Founders, and there were various marching orders

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