#296 - RAND Corp Insider: Russian Psyops, Chinese Spies & the New DARPA | Eric Czuleger

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 202 minutes

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Eric Czuleger is a National Security student at the RAND Corporation who is focused on using emerging technology to solve persistent challenges in emerging economies, conflict zones, and thriving ecosystems alike. Eric has lived and worked in over 45 countries as an aid volunteer, journalist, and tech storyteller. SPONSORS https://AmericanFinancing.net/Jones - Disclaimer NMLS 182334 nmlsconsumeraccess.org http://morning.ver.so/danny - Use code DANNY for 15% off your first order. https://huel.com/danny - Use code DANNY for 15% off your first order + a free gift. https://www.magicmind.com/dannyjones - Use this link for 50% off a subscription. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off. GUEST LINKS https://x.com/eczuleger Eric's book: https://amzn.to/3ppXZ6b Eric's newsletter: https://t.co/RQgtbd89rJ FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - Everyone should start their own country 11:30 - America's biggest geopolitical vulnerability 13:26 - 5th generation warfare 25:00 - Operation Doppelganger 33:36 - Russia's psychological warfare on Americans 39:28 - LLMs and social media psych warfare 47:30 - Why is Israel blamed for JFK assassination 53:12 - The rational actor model 58:03 - Napoleon's p**is problem 01:11:09 - Christianity is infiltrating Silicon Valley 01:26:37 - The moon landing 01:42:25 - Government transparency 01:52:29 - Kessler syndrome 01:56:29 - Spreadsheet warfare 02:07:37 - Russia manipulating the information space 02:15:28 - Risk of crowd control weapons 02:22:47 - China's police stations in America 02:35:00 - USAID 02:53:55 - Working at RAND corporation 02:58:56 - America's information defense strategy 03:04:19 - Truth decay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If I sound too smart on this podcast, it's because I'm using performance enhancing drugs.
0:12.4	Right, right, right.
0:13.0	Mm-hmm.
0:14.4	All right.
0:16.6	Cheers.
0:17.2	Crushed a magic mind.
0:18.9	Off we go.
0:19.6	Yeah, baby.
0:20.5	So what the fuck were you doing at the Rand Corporation?
0:22.6	I'm still there.
0:23.6	You're working there.
0:24.6	No, no, I'm a national security master student.
0:27.6	So they have a...
0:29.6	So wait, where did you work...
0:31.6	We talked about this in the first podcast, but you worked for some sort of other national security agency first.
0:35.6	I didn't work for an agency. No, I was an open source intelligence analyst. Open source intelligence analyst. And then you started to see like
0:41.6	decapitation videos and you quit. Basically. And now those are so common that it's like now I'm
0:47.8	clearly a wimp. No, I was working in open source intelligence for a little bit and just writing geopolitical
0:54.8	analysis and forecasting.
0:57.5	And then at a certain point, I got laid off along with a lot of the rest of the company
1:02.0	and decided to go overseas again.
1:05.1	I'd spent a lot of time overseas because I was a Peace Corps volunteer.
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