Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of From
Speaker 1: Russia with Trend. Oh trend doesn't sound like love, Jael
Speaker 1: doesn't at all. But that's that's what I got. My
Speaker 1: name is Jack. That's Miles. That one. That trending title
Speaker 1: courtesy of me, just realizing five seconds before we started
Speaker 1: recording that I needed a trending title. All right, Miles, Yes,
Speaker 1: Russia is trending.
Speaker 2: Russia. Russia, Russia is what they do this time?
Speaker 1: Yoj brother, what do this right time?
Speaker 3: Right around the time we stopped recording the trending episode yesterday,
Speaker 3: there's like this unsealed indictment from the Department of Justice
Speaker 3: that shows that a Tennessee based media network that produces
Speaker 3: shows for high profile right wing influencers such as Benny
Speaker 3: Johnson and Tim Poole, Lauren Southern, Dave Rubin, and the like,
Speaker 3: turned out to be largely funded by Russian state backed
Speaker 3: news network RT Russia Today. The DOJ quote claims the
Speaker 3: US company, along with other news outlets they were able
Speaker 3: to identify, as Tenant Media, but it goes unnamed in
Speaker 3: the indictment, posted hundreds of videos on social media that.
Speaker 2: Pushed Kremlin approved talking points.
Speaker 3: They were able to figure out because in the indictment
Speaker 3: it said like like there was just something that just
Speaker 3: was fully ripped off of like their YouTube channel, and
Speaker 3: people were like, Oh, that's this place. And then when
Speaker 3: they lined up like how many subscribers people had, They're like, Oh,
Speaker 3: that's Tim Poole, Oh that's Benny Johnson.
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 3: So it turns out this is from Wired Quote posing
Speaker 3: as outside video editors. The pair of Russia Today employees
Speaker 3: allegedly were intimately involved in Tenant Media's operations. Kalishnikov, for example,
Speaker 3: quote monitored Tenet Media's internal communications and edited content published
Speaker 3: by the company.
Speaker 2: The indictment claims.
Speaker 3: Afanas Yeva, who allegedly used the fake personas Helena Shudra
Speaker 3: and Victoria Pesti while working with Tennant Media, said to
Speaker 3: have Quote edit, did, posted and directed the posting by
Speaker 3: Tenant Media, and provided day to day direction to the
Speaker 3: company's staff, alleging that she worked with Tenet Media, including
Speaker 3: instructing the company to post pro Russian viewpoints such as
Speaker 3: pushing a micro pushing a conspiracy theory that Ukraine and
Speaker 3: US were responsible for a March terrorist attack, and a
Speaker 3: music venue in Moscow. The indictment is full of many
Speaker 3: damning little tidbits, like including some of the talking points
Speaker 3: that they wanted disseminated, and when you read them, you're like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like Fox. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: they say all the time, which is kind of odd
Speaker 3: because like that Also in the indictment, they're saying that
Speaker 3: these people were like unwittingly part of this scheme, but
Speaker 3: it seems like.
Speaker 1: So they didn't know they were working for the Kremlin.
Speaker 3: They were somebody's Yeah, they're like they're offering me, like,
Speaker 3: you know, timpoles like I want one hundred kN episode,
Speaker 3: you know, or it's just not worth it for me,
Speaker 3: and like it all like they got what they wanted.
Speaker 1: There are wires did this investigation?
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, not why this is just like
Speaker 3: this is just from one of the this.
Speaker 1: Is why it is reporting on a DOJ investigation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And many people are now reporting on this because
Speaker 3: it's pretty big and these are huge voices in like
Speaker 3: right wing talker sphere, and when you like look at
Speaker 3: the kinds of things that they've been saying, you're like,
Speaker 3: oh right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: This all makes sense.
Speaker 3: I mean people have been saying that for a while
Speaker 3: now are regurgitating this stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for a while now, it's been very strange that
Speaker 1: the Republican Party has like suddenly become very pro Russia
Speaker 1: and or at least like a lot of the adherence
Speaker 1: to the Republican Party and the mouthpieces of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party and Fox News' method for generating stories for a
Speaker 1: long time now has been just like, see what the
Speaker 1: types of people like Tim Poole are saying, and then
Speaker 1: just like let that stuff bubble up essentially exactly, so it.
Speaker 3: Goes from right wing shit talkers to then pretending it's
Speaker 3: like real mainstream news and you're saying stuff like Ukraine
Speaker 3: is the biggest enemy of the United States, and it's
Speaker 3: just like kind of hard to to like understand because
Speaker 3: a big rually these people just push whatever like the
Speaker 3: antithetical viewpoint is of whatever Democrats are saying. So it's
Speaker 3: like through that prism, like I can see how they
Speaker 3: could have plausible deniability of or like, well, like I'm
Speaker 3: just diametrically opposed to everything they say. So if they
Speaker 3: say we need to help Ukraine, I say they are
Speaker 3: our greatest enemy. But then you put this along the
Speaker 3: lines of what these specific talking points that these people
Speaker 3: were supposed to disseminate were.
Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, well, what came first.
Speaker 3: The propaly like the dissemination of you know, propaganda talking
Speaker 3: points or the Republican's habits of just being like the
Speaker 3: doing opposite day of Democrats.
Speaker 1: What is all Tim Poole saying at this point and
Speaker 1: we still do not know what is true on this one. Guys, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: He's like yeah with these then he but then he
Speaker 2: signs off.
Speaker 3: He's like Putin is a scumbag, Russia sunk sucks donkey balls.
Speaker 3: And to the journalists who wish to jump on, jump
Speaker 3: the gun, create their own narrative or lie about what
Speaker 3: is currently going on, you can my Irish ass.
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, Doug.
Speaker 2: So just I don't know, it's all.
Speaker 1: There's a great even more News episode or some more
Speaker 1: news episode from Cody and Katie about Tempoole and just
Speaker 1: like his instincts and like he'll there'll be like a
Speaker 1: mass shooting and he'll be he will just like guess
Speaker 1: exactly wrong as to like what's going on, and like
Speaker 1: be proven wrong within twelve hours. But like go real
Speaker 1: real strong on, like you know, I think we can
Speaker 1: tell what's going on here, Yeah, exactly, just like get
Speaker 1: the like get the person who's involved wrong. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it always felt like this is what was
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, and now we seem to have receipts
Speaker 1: that this is what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: This is causing a bit of a stir on the
Speaker 3: right as they're like trying to like Jesse Waters was like, well,
Speaker 3: by this metric, everything I say on this show, we'll
Speaker 3: have the earmarks of Russian propaganda. And you're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: trying to make it be like it's actually China that's
Speaker 3: bad and they're doing their best to like spin this all.
Speaker 2: Kinds of ways. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, like there are many other countries who I
Speaker 3: would say, are we have politicians disseminating their talking points
Speaker 3: as well through uh, you know, intermediaries such as APAC.
Speaker 2: But yes, today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh some ripples like Blaze just fired one of
Speaker 1: the video creators who was actually like tied in with
Speaker 1: this Blaze TV. The Glenn Beck's like weird little media
Speaker 1: company just fired Lauren Chen who's involved. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: like she's an independent contractor. We actually don't know her
Speaker 1: never never even talked to her. We just right churn intent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly, But yeah, this is this is all
Speaker 3: everyone is like trying to explain away, like what is
Speaker 3: happening on the right.
Speaker 2: It's just all very again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure this is going to continue to evolve
Speaker 3: as the weekend goes on, because people are bracing themselves
Speaker 3: for more revelations.
Speaker 1: More revelations. So there's this guy, Licktman. He has predicted
Speaker 1: successfully every presidential winner for the last forty years. At
Speaker 1: about this time, so about a month out, two months out,
Speaker 1: he runs the upcoming election through his thirteen keys and
Speaker 1: outcomes result and as thirteen keys, we will take you
Speaker 1: through what they are. They seem somewhat subjective. They're very
Speaker 1: confusing to me. They don't like make clear sense to me.
Speaker 1: But he was one of the only people who picked
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to win in twenty sixteen who wasn't like
Speaker 1: actively working for the Donald Trump campaig. And the one
Speaker 1: place that he was off is Al Gore. He predicted
Speaker 1: Al Gore would win in two thousand, George W. Bush
Speaker 1: one in two thousand. But he's like, actually not really though,
Speaker 1: if Florida had not fucked up the vote counting, which
Speaker 1: I mean is an argument. I think it would just
Speaker 1: be fair for him to be like it was extremely close,
Speaker 1: that was the only one that was marginal. But anyways,
Speaker 1: he has run the numbers on the upcoming election and
Speaker 1: they I think it's of the thirteen keys, he has
Speaker 1: like ten of them going for Kamala Harris. And yeah,
Speaker 1: because like the way the article in the the article
Speaker 1: that's writing about it is the Daily Mail dot Co.
Speaker 1: Which yeah, not the most so like this this should
Speaker 1: put just put what we're saying in the proper context.
Speaker 1: This person is like somewhere between the octopus who could
Speaker 1: predict the world outcome and Nate Silver, you know, who
Speaker 1: also not very reputable, but.
Speaker 2: He's not weird hair. Is that a wig? You think?
Speaker 2: Have you seen this guy?
Speaker 1: Is the braids? I don't what is it? Who lickman?
Speaker 2: Yeah he's got oh wow. Yeah yeah, Now I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that's a wig, but yeah.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a wild head of hair on top
Speaker 1: of his head.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I mean a lot of people are a lot
Speaker 3: of people are picking It's not just the Daily Mail,
Speaker 3: but like a lot because you know, because of his
Speaker 3: sort of nickname.
Speaker 2: As like election nostrodamus.
Speaker 3: You're like, whoa, another little another, Let's put another check
Speaker 3: pollmark on that side for the horse race.
Speaker 1: The other key, which direction myke ken burns ass hair
Speaker 1: is pointing When I wake up the morning before the election. Hey,
Speaker 1: uh so I'll just the keys. The thirteen keys include
Speaker 1: mid term gains, incumbency, primary contest, third party, short term economy,
Speaker 1: long term economy, policy change, social unrest, white House scandal,
Speaker 1: incumbent charisma, challenger charisma, foreign policy failures, and foreign policy success.
Speaker 1: And like, the article by the Daily Mail is weird
Speaker 1: because it's it says like, well, two of these things
Speaker 1: could switch for Trump in the coming weeks, which would
Speaker 1: swing the election. But then it goes on to say
Speaker 1: that even if those two factors switched, Trump would only
Speaker 1: have five keys in his So I don't know why
Speaker 1: they say in the first place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I would expect nothing less from a
Speaker 3: conservative rag to like try and put a nice blanket
Speaker 3: of cope around the bad news.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but yeah, great.
Speaker 1: It seems who knows. Other people are talking about how
Speaker 1: Trump's attack ads on Kamala Harris might be working. According
Speaker 1: to the Economist, which.
Speaker 3: Is the one where he's like, she's she does sex
Speaker 3: acts on people for her career.
Speaker 2: Like what the like that ship that he's been saying, Okay, she.
Speaker 1: Murdered people and used immigration as the murder weapon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're all voting for all.
Speaker 1: Right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back. We're back, And I guess that here's
Speaker 1: one thing that Lichtmann's model isn't taken into account. Trump TikTok.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's got a new ad out. I guess
Speaker 3: you call it an ad. It just looks like a
Speaker 3: direct to camera rant that he's doing. But telling all
Speaker 3: the young ones out there that I love TikTok and
Speaker 3: you should vote for me. This is him with his
Speaker 3: latest plea to help him from legal jeopardy.
Speaker 4: For all of those that want to save TikTok in America,
Speaker 4: vote for Trump. The other side's closing it up. But
Speaker 4: I'm now a big star on TikTok. Have TikTok Jack.
Speaker 2: And what's that say, TikTok Jack. I don't know what
Speaker 2: that last part was, gonna have TikTok Jack?
Speaker 1: What are you?
Speaker 2: Are you TikTok Jack?
Speaker 1: I mean I do have a TikTok.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, anyway, he's a big star. We'll take it again.
Speaker 3: Maybe they have a check mark, but that you would
Speaker 3: have that because you're a political anyway, I'll go on, Donald, we.
Speaker 4: Even have TikTok Jack, and we're setting records. We're not
Speaker 4: doing anything with TikTok, but the other side's going to
Speaker 4: close it up. So if you like TikTok, you back
Speaker 4: and vote for Trump. If you don't care about TikTok
Speaker 4: and other things like safety, security and prosperity, then you
Speaker 4: can vote for a Marxist who's going to destroy our country,
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Okay, Wow, And that was their best take, which is wild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you know, you even got TikTok Jack, and you
Speaker 1: know the kids.
Speaker 2: They love to tick it on the talking like what
Speaker 2: do you do it? What do who are you talking to?
Speaker 1: Who's your Whoever made that video obviously was just like
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's a part where we don't know what
Speaker 1: the fuck he's saying or intending to say. But that's
Speaker 1: actually a pretty good percentage ten percent, pretty good for
Speaker 1: a normal Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Do we even have TikTok Jack?
Speaker 1: Even is tick is the person who owns TikTok named Jack.
Speaker 1: No tick talk Jack.
Speaker 2: We even have TikTok Jack.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's just one of those weird because
Speaker 3: here's the thing, right, The thing that sticks out to
Speaker 3: me is that, like all the time, like he's this,
Speaker 3: this is he'd like any down the camera sort of
Speaker 3: like ads he does. There's a fuck ton of edits
Speaker 3: and cuts in there because the guy's brain is transitioning
Speaker 3: from solid state to liquid fart. And this one is
Speaker 3: remarkable because if only just for the fact that it's
Speaker 3: just one take, like he's fucking hove.
Speaker 2: In the booth or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So because of that, it has the camera
Speaker 1: shut the fuck up, get me in front of the camera.
Speaker 3: In my brain, yeah, he's like, yeah, okay, no pen,
Speaker 3: no pad, what's this?
Speaker 2: What's this? I'm about to black out in the booth.
Speaker 2: But that's why I like the TikTok Jack part.
Speaker 3: Again, I'm maybe getting hung up on a weird thing
Speaker 3: like the six point eight weeks, but uh, I don't
Speaker 3: know what that means.
Speaker 2: But there he is, and that's his plea to please
Speaker 2: vote for him. Because the other guys.
Speaker 1: Find I'm not getting anything. I went to Internet and
Speaker 1: searched TikTok Jack and quotes, and it's just people ray
Speaker 1: the text from this add out and then saying what
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 2: Oh really? Yeah? Yeah, or it's a Joe Biden meme.
Speaker 2: What's TikTok jack?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that's how I opened TikTok jack jack. Anyways,
Speaker 1: but you know, so we'll see when you stick that
Speaker 1: in your keys. Lichtman, I think he just fucking opened
Speaker 1: the door one of my whole fucking thing. I think
Speaker 1: he just TikTok jacked opened the door on this election,
Speaker 1: all right. And then we just wanted to check in,
Speaker 1: as we do. We could care. That's about the country struggling. No,
Speaker 1: I want to hear about Havana syndrome.
Speaker 2: Don't we don't we folks? We love Havana syndrome, don't
Speaker 2: we folks?
Speaker 1: We love it, don't we folks? Uh So, one of
Speaker 1: the first stories we ever talked about on the show.
Speaker 1: Uh and it might be time to bid farewell. I
Speaker 1: mean it already seemed pretty.
Speaker 2: But fully killed it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I bodied that shit miles. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was dredged up by sixty minutes earlier this year. And
Speaker 1: then there were the conspiracy theorists who suggested that Biden's
Speaker 1: pour debate performance was due to some kind of sonic
Speaker 1: weapon and not literally every other problem that's been plaguing
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's brain that we all knew.
Speaker 3: About, right, and also like to the symptoms of Howyavana
Speaker 3: syndrome's like, I don't know, stress and aging.
Speaker 1: It sounds yeah, yeah, well it's in the news again
Speaker 1: this week. First of all, the New York Times obtained
Speaker 1: part of the FBI's redacted twenty nineteen report on Havana syndrome,
Speaker 1: which definitively concludes that it was a quote social contagion
Speaker 1: and nothing else. The FBI is said, you got notes
Speaker 1: that the agency could not quote identify any single cause
Speaker 1: for these symptoms. The FBI, I was so dismissive of
Speaker 1: the Havana syndrome theory that they put the word victim
Speaker 1: in quotation marks describing those affected by havana sysm. FBI
Speaker 1: and the CIA don't get along, So like there's that,
Speaker 1: but like this.
Speaker 3: Is I just love to like for people who I'm
Speaker 3: sure are experiencing these kinds of symptoms. You read this
Speaker 3: thing like yeah victim number three, yeah, aka whiny ass Brad,
Speaker 3: and you're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, I think I use my home in there.
Speaker 1: But the big news is UH. A institution that is
Speaker 1: not known for beefing with the CIA, the National Institutes
Speaker 1: of Health, has announced that it's stopping its Havana syndrome
Speaker 1: research after a quote internal investigation found that people had
Speaker 1: been coerced into being part of the research, which is
Speaker 1: a big problem because voluntary consent is necessary for any
Speaker 1: ethically conductive research. You need the person to want to
Speaker 1: be part of it. Like, it can't it can't be
Speaker 1: like I don't know I'm being made to submit to this,
Speaker 1: because then obviously there are questions about do you have
Speaker 1: an ulterior motive? Who does the person who's making you
Speaker 1: do this have an ulterior motive?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I like that in that report, Like they couldn't specify, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the NIH doesn't specify. But these are CIA agents
Speaker 1: who are being forced by someone who's good at forcing
Speaker 1: things without being named to participate, even making them quote
Speaker 1: join the research as a prerequisite to getting healthcare. The
Speaker 1: CIA denies this.
Speaker 2: Wow wow, wow.
Speaker 1: In any case, the NIH is done with this shit.
Speaker 1: It's not like they don't have a lot of information
Speaker 1: at this point. Already, there've already been several studies conducted
Speaker 1: that found absolutely nothing, and the NIH has stated even
Speaker 1: though they're halting the current study, that decision does not
Speaker 1: change the conclusions they've reached already, which were that it
Speaker 1: is a social contagion, which was our conclusion, you know
Speaker 1: seven years ago when we first started.
Speaker 2: Is that when the story first came out.
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was happening at the very
Speaker 1: start of the Trump administration. So yeah, I believe I
Speaker 1: think it was. Actually I think the Havana sin.
Speaker 3: First story case is reported in late twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was. It predates this show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those things don't predate this show. My second kid doesn't.
Speaker 1: I know, It's been a long time.
Speaker 2: Holy shit.
Speaker 1: Also just worth noting, you know, Cuban President Miguel Diaz
Speaker 1: Canal Better Mudez took to social media and was like, so,
Speaker 1: we're gonna like take another look at this one because
Speaker 1: your quote disregard for the damage caused to this country
Speaker 1: by the Havanah syndrome theory is quote a vile pretext
Speaker 1: to include Cuba in the list of sponsors of terrorism
Speaker 1: and to reinforce the genocidal blockade. With more than two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty measures. Like, yeah, again, the blockade we've
Speaker 1: talked about also on the show is starving people to death.
Speaker 1: That's you know, America loves to have things. Let's be
Speaker 1: bad for Cuban people so they can be like you see, folks,
Speaker 1: if you oh.
Speaker 3: Wow, look at Venezuela, look at that. Don't look at
Speaker 3: the sanctions, just look at what's going on.
Speaker 2: We got nothing to do with that. If they maybe,
Speaker 2: if they weren't bad, put them on financial time out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, that is I mean that, that's precisely
Speaker 3: like all this did was like to kind of keep
Speaker 3: stoking the flames of a scary Cuba. But Blake Wexler
Speaker 3: went recently and he said it was wonderful.
Speaker 2: So Cia, you got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3: If Blake Wexler came back from there and was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, he was like, it was lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you came back from there flush with cash though
Speaker 1: and speaking with a Russian accent.
Speaker 3: Idea to get a classic car from the fifties that
Speaker 3: was cherry condition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, those are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow
Speaker 1: with a whole ass episode of the show. Until then,
Speaker 1: be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get
Speaker 1: the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,