The flagship podcast series applying the Disinfolklore framework to current events, historical patterns, and the archetypes that shape our information environment. Each episode demonstrates the Twelve Tools in action.
Season 1
1. Archetyping Bad Faith
Explores the Code of Positive Trolls framework, distinguishing between infolklore (truthful storytelling) and disinfolklore (manipulative narratives). Examines how recognizing patterns of dishonesty helps resist manipulation, using contemporary political figures as case studies. Introduces the concept of finding the mana in the meme to detect coercive control tactics, and argues that effects matter more than intent when evaluating harmful narratives.
2. Pensees 128
Discusses how archetypal structures manifest in news cycles and disinformation landscapes. References the Tulsi Gabbard situation, Russian influence networks, and geopolitical tensions. Analyzes political narratives through linguistic and mythological archetypes rooted in Indo-European traditions, examining how figures like Putin and Trump operate as manipulative archetypes, contrasted with President Zelensky's authentic understanding of reality.
3. Russia’s Antisemitic Agitprop
Covers mental hygiene and visual content control, Russia's systematic use of antisemitic agitprop dating back to 1959, and geopolitical narratives about responsibility. Details how the KGB's Department D orchestrated desecrations of Jewish sites as strategic disinformation tactics. Also examines China-Russia territorial anxieties, the decline of Russia's actual military power, and free speech absolutism versus speech crimes.
4. Complicite between Disinfolklore and Staged Events
Explores the four aspects of the Disinfolklore analytical method: moods, attitudes, intentions, and motivations. Discusses how a good piece of Disinfolklore affects all four dimensions. Examines the distinction between Infolklore and Disinfolklore through examples from the Ukraine conflict, and how news that affects our attitudes, intentions, or motivations enters the realm of folklore.
5. Pensees 125 - Epstein Files and the Zero-Sum War
Analyzes the Epstein document dump and connections to Trump's legal challenges. Discusses international law regarding Putin and Russia's actions in Ukraine, arguing for pursuing charges related to the stealing of children under the Geneva Conventions. Introduces the zero-sum war framework and discusses Ancient Ukraine's role as the origin of Indo-European languages and culture.
6. Pensees 124 - Trump’s Mana and the Disinfolklore Galaxy
Traces the speaker's journey from autumn 2019, seeking to understand Donald Trump's power (Mana) and how he used Twitter to spread disinformation. Explores the hypothesis about trolls as energy units, the Pizzagate conspiracy's role in recruiting MAGA adherents, and applies the 12-tool analytical method to Tulsi Gabbard's Nuclear Ashes video.
7. Pensees 123 - FIFA, Korea Scenario, and MAGA Archetyping
Satirical analysis of geopolitical events including Russia's ever-changing Korea Scenario troll normalising genocide in Ukraine. Examines MAGA archetyping of Ukraine and Europe as weak, Russian asset confiscation implications, and the argument that America's stance reveals the capture of US national security strategy by those wishing to promote Russia's political proxies inside Europe.
8. Pensees 122 - US Declares War on European Values
Analyzes the US National Security Strategy as a declaration of war against post-World War Two legal and social orders. Examines how Donald's apparatchiks seek to restore a 1930s archetype of masculinity, the capture of US national security strategy by those promoting Russia's political proxies in Europe, and the far-right forces operating with Russian funding across European democracies.
9. Pensees 121 - Donald’s Thanksgiving Turkey
Wide-ranging analysis covering the Epstein Files, American skins masking Russians, Trump admin and Ukraine policy, Bannon and MTG political dynamics, Russia's economic crisis (printing 1.64% of GDP weekly in new rubles), NATO response to Russian escalations, and Russia's megalomaniacal destruction. Documents Russia's internal collapse: steel production down, internet suspended in 23 regions, military industries on four-day weeks.
10. Pensees 120 - Minsk as a Character in Disinfolklore
Explores how the Disinfolklore analytical method enables us to look for archetypal characters in data that are not typical characters -- sometimes countries and abstract forms. Examines Russia's core competency of industrialising suicide-bomber creation, how NATO can prepare for modern drone warfare, and the Trumpian monarchist shift. Discusses Russia's panic about their ethnos disappearing.
11. The Curious Case of Pro-Russia Disinfolklorist Jeffrey Sachs
Examines Jeffrey Sachs' resurfacing in Ukraine discussions and why personal testimony from direct experience loses credibility against arguments from those with no on-ground knowledge. Illustrates how bot networks, algorithmic amplification, and coordinated propagandists shape beliefs over authentic expertise. Emphasizes that countering disinformation requires emotionally resonant communication from diverse voices, not just fact-checking.
12. Pensees 119 - Anti-Woke as Disinfolklore
Examines how right-wing movements weaponised the term woke to target supporters of post-WWII legal and social orders. Analyzes executive orders designating Antifa as terrorist, and how trolls function as energy (mana) requiring amplification to sustain momentum. Discusses how far-right politicians' rhetoric stakes claims to sovereignty within Indo-European cultural traditions.
13. Pensees 118 - Why America Trusts Donald
Analyzes a Harvard-Harris poll showing Facebook as one of America's most trusted institutions. Notes that Zelenskyy, despite anti-Ukraine Disinfolklore, is more trusted than almost anyone alive in America -- demonstrating that Disinfolklore is not all-powerful. Discusses the Unified Reich, how MAGA will never run out of Epstein distractions, and why data supports infinity of stories to constantly troll us.
14. Ukraine Re-archetypes as a Giant Inside Donald’s Mind
Traces the re-archetyping of Ukraine's identity inside the minds of humanity back 6,000 years to Indo-European origins. Argues that the primary focus should be shifting how people perceive Ukraine -- establishing it as a superpower in collective consciousness. Describes this reframing as the great victory because it represents a fundamental shift in how people conceptualize Ukraine.
15. PayPal and Russian Mafias’ Struggle for Donald
Video episode analyzing the two monkeys on Donald's back: the Russian Mafia and the PayPal Mafia. Argues Russia's missile attacks on the EU embassy and British Council in Kyiv demonstrate recognition of defeat. Examines Peter Thiel's takeover of the CDC and NIH as the end of the beginning of the PayPal Mafia's reach for control over public health and humanity. Compares the current moment to how European aristocracy viewed the French Revolution.
16. Why No Ceasefire’s Great - for Ukraine
Analyzes eight aspects of President Zelensky's White House visit through the Disinfolklore lens. Examines Ukraine's re-archetyping as the West's essential security guarantor, how Zelensky's statements serve as psychological operations against Russian leadership, and the removal of ceasefire demands allowing Ukraine continued offensive capability. Argues Ukraine's dominant strategy involves trolling Russia further in while building irreversible military capacity.
17. Hot-Take - Ukraine’s Saudi Arabia Peace Talks Delegation
Quick-take analysis of Ukraine's proposed conditions for Saudi peace talks, including a moratorium on long-range weaponry and Black Sea attacks. Draws parallels to 2019 when major powers colluded to pressure Ukraine into accepting the Steinmeier solution. Expresses scepticism about capitulation, noting Ukraine's demonstrated resistance and European support differ markedly from 2019.
18. Pensees 96 - My Munich Speech
Discusses making peace in Ukraine stick -- with a stick. Based on 2015-2018 experience as a diplomat watching Russia breach the Minsk ceasefire thousands of times daily while brainwashing Ukrainians inside its occupation. Argues peace for Russia is another means of war and proposes an aggressive European peacekeeping force. Also covers Ukraine Peace Offers and the call for Europe to act in concert.
19. The Kidnapping War
Explores Russia's openly admitted violation of the Genocide Convention's prohibition against transferring children across international borders in times of war. Argues the mass kidnapping of children is the point of Russia's war -- to repopulate its one-sixth of the world's surface with white Europeans. Presents documentary evidence of Crimes Against Humanity and violations of the Laws of War and Genocide Convention.
20. Swifty Decoding Interview
Interview with host Ronan Swift exploring how trolling extends far beyond online harassment. Defines trolling as emotion-moving activity of body, speech, and mind. Introduces the Code of Positive Trolls -- six criteria adapted from Buddhist principles: Generosity, Ethical Discipline, Patience, Energy/Mana, Focus, and Insight. Applies these criteria to recognize both positive and negative trolling in personal relationships and politics.
21. Two Shaman Tricksters (Don and Putler) vs The Comedian
Explores archetypal patterns in geopolitical narratives, examining Trump, Putin, and Zelensky as manifestations of the shaman-trickster archetype. Discusses building disinfolklore.com using 600 Claude Code prompts to organize one million words. Examines data-resistant archetypes, Putin's resurrection of Soviet-era mythology since 2006, and how quantity changes quality as empirical facts gradually dislodge entrenched mental images.
22. The Four Dimensions - Moods Intentions Attitudes Motivations
Introduces the concept of looking for the mana in the meme -- examining the energy within informational units rather than focusing on the sharer's intent. Explores how content affects emotional states across four key dimensions: moods, intentions, attitudes, and motivations. Includes examples of fabricated demonstrations (titushky) and practical guidance for scrutinising information before spreading it.
23. AI and Disinfolklore - An Introduction
Explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and disinformation narratives. Introduces infolklore as the divine twin of disinfolklore. Examines how large language models can influence human emotions and behaviour, presents the Code of Positive Trolls framework, and discusses how the Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica disrupted the balance between authentic and false narratives.
24. Battling Archetypes - Why Disinfolklore
Explores how disinformation operates through narrative archetypes rather than isolated facts. Examines how Ukraine gets archetyped as a damsel in distress, how abstract concepts like NATO and Russia become characters with traits, and how data-resistant archetypes persist despite changed circumstances. Analyses Zelensky's resilience maintaining 61-62% approval despite relentless Disinfolklore campaigns.
25. Battling Archetypes Episode Six - System Effects
Explores how disinformation operates as a system rather than isolated incidents. Draws on years of experience in Russia-occupied Ukraine to describe an apparatus designed to manipulate identities through coordinated media, coercive control, and fake institutions. Introduces the concept of counter-narrative through infolklore -- truthful information presented in ways that support positive values.
26. Don’s Archetyping as Mad
Explores how Trump embodies the archetypal madman from game theory -- a strategy where appearing unpredictable creates political advantage. Examines inner-outer realm archetyping that divides populations into trusted insiders versus threatening outsiders. Discusses Cambridge Analytica's use of psychological profiling and advocates developing mindfulness to recognize manipulative meme patterns.
27. What’s Folklore about Disinfolklore
Traces the origins of Disinfolklore back to Herder's 1777 call for German cultural unity through collected stories, which inspired the Grimm brothers and Wagner. Draws on three years of fieldwork at the bridge at Stanytsia Luhanska (2015-2018) to describe encountering archetypal folkloric elements. Connects ancient Iranian mythology's house of lies versus house of song to contemporary information warfare.
28. Paradoxes’ Brainwashing Qualities in Ordinary News
Explores how paradoxical statements function as psychological weapons in information warfare. Analyses contradictory claims like supporting Ukraine while believing it will lose, arguing that such contradictions repeated thousands of times accumulate to transform minds similarly to cult indoctrination. Advocates scanning for internal contradictions within narratives as a discipline for resisting manipulation.
29. Faery Tale Beginnings - the Training Data Set
Describes three years of observing contradictory stories at the Stanytsia Luhanska border crossing as the training data for understanding how disinformation spreads. Examines Indo-European language roots connecting linguistic structures to governance concepts. Defines disinfolklore as a narrative form akin to folklore, triggering the same emotional impacts, but with real-world consequences on how you perceive reality.
30. Disinfolklore Universe Episode 2 - Archetyping at Scale
Explores how modern information warfare operates through archetypal narratives. Examines how deep cultural symbols are weaponised for psychological manipulation, from the migrants eating dogs trope to Odin references in Wagner mythology. Draws parallels between Russian disinformation tactics in occupied Ukraine and MAGA rhetoric, and discusses how concepts are deliberately inverted -- peace becomes capitulation, liberation becomes annihilation.
31. Disinfolklore Universe Episode 1 - Battling Archetypes
Introduces the concept of a Disinfolklore Universe -- a framework for understanding how coordinated disinformation campaigns affect collective consciousness. Argues that stories are weaponised to manipulate moods, intentions, and attitudes at scale. Examines how international law is systematically undermined and how those controlling the memes of production can archetype populations globally.
32. Human Safari Disinfolklore
Examines Russia's use of first-person view drones in Kherson, where the UN Commission of Inquiry determined documented killings constitute crimes against humanity. Analyses how the Russian state publishes footage across social platforms as disinfolklore. Explores how political figures deploy archetypal characters to embed psychological control mechanisms, drawing from Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology.
33. Are We Complicit in Concealing Russia’s War Against Us
Explores how Russia uses the term hybrid warfare as a euphemism to conceal actual military aggression. Argues that by reframing acts of war as hybrid warfare, Russia prevents appropriate Western responses to its attacks on infrastructure, elections, and civilian populations. Examines the NAFO counter-example, archetypal literacy, and the speaker's experience in occupied eastern Ukraine 2015-2018.
34. Contaminating our Information Environment
Explores how coordinated disinformation operates as a systematic information environment rather than isolated false claims. Defines Disinfolklore as a narrative form discovered while working in Russia-occupied Ukraine. Presents the 12-tool analytical method including Paul Ekman's trigger-experience-reaction model, and examines how Tulsi Gabbard's messaging employs archetypal imagery mirroring Russian playbooks.
35. Peppercorns Mana Early Roman Religion and Memes
Explores the concept of Mana -- subtle energy exchange between people -- through multiple cultural and historical lenses. Begins with peppercorn rent in English property law, then references Marcel Mauss's The Gift. Traces the M-N sound appearing in words like communicate, mana, and meaning across Indo-European languages. Identifies three recurring Russian disinfolklore archetypes and proposes: there is Mana, Mana is permanent, let's communicate positive Mana.
36. Touching on Contagion in Disinfolklore
Continues discussion of Disinfolklore as both an analytical theory and a way of seeing. Explores how tools from Cultural Psychology and sympathetic magic -- specifically the Laws of Contagion and Similarity -- apply to disinformation analysis. The speaker claims to be the first writer applying these frameworks to Disinfolklore, connecting ancient magical thinking to modern information warfare patterns.
37. Magic as Propaganda Disguised in Disinfolklore
Explores how Russian disinformation campaigns employ war magic -- propaganda using symbolism and esoteric practices to manipulate emotions. Traces this interest to studying the Fifth Dalai Lama's use of war magic around 1560, where the rumour of spells itself became the weapon. Argues contemporary propagandists mix mythological references and contradictory narratives to create confusion, and emphasises developing immunity through understanding symbolic architecture.
38. Combatting Russia’s Mental War
Introduces the Disinfolklore analytical framework for identifying and countering propaganda by examining the Mana within informational units. Uses English MP Zarah Sultana's statement that Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class as a case study. Outlines a six-step analytical process: scan for Mana, identify layers, characterise dimensions, evaluate, judge, and act. Draws on Laws of Sympathetic Magic to explain how disinformation spreads.
39. How Russia’s Mental War Will Persist After Ukraine’s Victory
Explores Russia's mental war strategy -- psychological operations designed to persist even after military defeat. Cites Russian military doctrine: destroy self-awareness, change the mental civilisational basis of the enemy's society with 10-15 years allocated to rebooting historical self-awareness. Identifies patterns across MAGA, Georgian Dream, Brexit, and Ireland for the Irish as coordinated campaigns following similar manipulation techniques.
40. Disinfolklore in Executive Orders and National Security Memos
Examines how US government executive orders use disinfolklore. Highlights fictional claims about Antifa used to justify policy decisions, including verifiably false allegations about bullet casings containing anti-fascist messaging. Explores accusation in a mirror -- a tactic where actors accuse opponents of crimes they themselves are planning, identified in both Russian propaganda and American political discourse.
41. Sinister Becomes Right
Explores how false narratives become accepted as truth. Traces linguistic roots of the word right through Indo-European languages, connecting it to concepts of sovereignty, security, and prosperity. Examines the January 6th insurrection, how disinformation creates psychological distance from truth, and European leaders' response to attempts to delegitimise President Zelensky. Maintains clarity about factual reality against coordinated campaigns.
42. Jurisprudence of Sympathetic Magic
Explores how sympathetic magic's Laws of Similarity and Contagion explain why people believe misinformation. Examines how a smidgeon of plausibility amplified by Disinfolklore dominates thinking. Analyses the Three Billy Goats Gruff narrative structure -- an inner realm community building against outer realm threats -- as a pattern permeating contemporary political discourse from Trump's 2016 campaign to Russian propaganda.
43. Wife-Beater Logic - Look What You Made Me Do
Analyses provocation logic -- a manipulation tactic where aggressors blame victims for forcing their harmful actions. Examines how this wife-beater logic appears in Russian disinformation, authoritarian rhetoric, and narratives about Ukraine. Uses a Laplander folk tale to explain how narratives inculcate behavioural rules as mental routines. Discusses how AI systems potentially absorb corrupted reasoning patterns from disinfolklore.
44. Intimidating Russia through Archetypal Imaging
Examines how Ukraine and Russia employ archetypal symbolism in warfare. Discusses Budanov's owl imagery, Ukrainian drone units named Magyar's Birds, and historical goddess symbolism from Paleolithic through Bronze Age cultures. Argues the conflict operates on two fronts -- kinetic warfare and a war of symbols -- and that controlling narrative archetypal frameworks determines geopolitical outcomes.
45. Pattern Recognition - Perennial Characters in Disinfolklore
Explores how identifying recurring characters in information narratives helps detect manipulation in real-time. Defines characters broadly -- not just people but fictional entities, countries, and concepts. Traces the etymology of trolling from fishing through policing to internet culture. Examines pro-Palestinian activists as a new character with suspicious patterns, and how words like ceasefire become decoupled from reality.
46. In the Faery Tale Donald and Russia Always Win
Video podcast examining how fairy tale archetypes are weaponised in modern propaganda. Traces the concept back to February 2015 at Stanytsia Luhanska when the speaker first recognised something folklore about the situation. Discusses how propagandists use primordial archetypes like the mother and maiden to embed manipulative ideas, and references the shelling of the Fairy Tale kindergarten.
47. Alaska Trolls and Timeline of Emotions Model
Analyses peace negotiations through the lens of narrative analysis. Introduces the Timeline of Emotions model developed by Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama, structured around trigger, experience, reaction. Examines the Don't Poke the Bear meme as the most successful disinfolklore element in geopolitical discourse, and techniques for building personal resilience against mood-altering disinformation.
48. Coercive Control in Global MAGA-Russia Disinfolklore
Examines how coercive control operates as the underlying mechanism for spreading coordinated disinformation. Defines coercive control as encompassing isolation, surveillance, economic abuse, threats, and psychological manipulation. Uses the Spider-Man's web metaphor to describe how citizens become entrapped in sticky, translucent information ecosystems. Traces genetic connections between MAGA techniques and Russian disinformation operations.
49. Patterns in Data - The Disinfolklore Narrative Form
Explores recurring patterns across geopolitical discourse using the Disinfolklore analytical method. Analyses EU data showing X/Twitter's involvement in 86% of over 40,000 foreign information manipulation cases. Uses Russian propagandist Maria Simonyan as a case study, examining how she frames dangerous strategies through folksy anecdotes. Examines how the Don't Poke the Bear meme affected US foreign policy on Ukraine.
50. Why I’m Optimistic America Will Go All-In for Ukraine
Analyses President Zelensky's mastery of 21st-century communication versus Putin and Trump's 20th-century approaches. Argues Zelensky understands both the magic-religious and juridical aspects of sovereignty. Warns that the media is not mediating but creating reality, and encourages monitoring emotional responses to identify whose interests benefit from our state of mind. Emphasises Ukraine's core competency of transforming constraints into creative solutions.
51. Stealth Genocide - How Russia Uses Disinfolklore
Explores how Russia employs disinfolklore to conceal and manufacture genocides. Describes witnessing a carefully orchestrated information campaign in eastern Ukraine that the speaker initially failed to recognise as genocide preparation. Examines the inner/outer realm framework, how Russia deploys thousands of micro-narratives targeting different audiences, and stresses that everyone regardless of education remains susceptible to disinformation.
52. Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy
Explores how archetypes function as informational units across traditions. Draws connections between Tibetan Buddhist practices, Jungian psychology, and St. Augustine's work. Traces intellectual lineage through Evans-Wentz's work on fairy tales and Madame Blavatsky's theosophy, noting how these historical figures influenced modern psychological theory, particularly Jung's understanding of archetypal patterns.
53. Mana of Disinfolklore
Explores linguistic and etymological connections underlying disinformation tactics. Traces words like troll, control, and patrol to shared semantic roots. Examines the Indo-European TR sound found in Sanskrit Rta (truth) and present in English words like right, writ, security, and integrity. Positions mana as the mechanism through which emotionally resonant false narratives influence audiences.
54. The Volya Radio Interview - Part One - Archetypes
Interview discussing Disinfolklore -- story-based propaganda artefacts used by authoritarian regimes. Examines how Russia, MAGA, and the CCP disseminate emotionally resonant false narratives through X, Telegram, and TikTok. Traces Indo-European linguistic origins to the Yamnaya people in Ukraine's Bronze Age steppes. Analyses how political figures use folksy narratives and fashion symbolism to manipulate perception.
55. Archetypal Disinfolklore - The Four Tools
Introduces four analytical tools for identifying and countering disinformation: (1) Incoming Troll Radar for detecting manipulative narratives, (2) Look for the Mana in the Meme focusing on power embedded in information, (3) Inner/Outer Realm Division recognising false dichotomies, and (4) Code of Positive Trolls ensuring ethical counter-disinformation. Illustrates through a personal anecdote involving archetypal characters the Mother and the Maiden.
56. Saving the Global Right
Examines how the political right has been hacked by MAGA and Russian disinformation. Proposes a hierarchy: Right (primary archetype) to Conservative to specific manifestations like MAGA. Argues nefarious actors exploit this framework to transform right from principles of rule of law and responsibility into grievance-based politics. Positions European leaders like Meloni and Merz as defenders of authentic conservatism.
57. Our Disinfolklore Universe
Introduces Disinfolklore as a new analytical method for parsing Russian, MAGA, and all forms of emotionally resonant disinformation. Examines how stories are weaponised to manipulate moods, attitudes, and motivations through visual, audible, and sensory memes. Discusses counter-disinformation strategies and how disinformation trolling attempts to destroy civil discourse and societal cohesion.
58. How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes into Our Inner Minds
Explores how disinformation operates through archetypal storytelling. Examines how archetypes like Russia as unbeatable bear or Ukraine as weak damsel shape perception independent of factual data. References seven years as an OSCE diplomat on a bridge in eastern Ukraine and teaches listeners to identify techniques like the Banderite character -- a fabricated bogeyman distorting historical facts to delegitimise Ukrainian resistance.
59. What I Do as a Writer
Reflects on the speaker's role as a writer who does not merely describe the world but intervenes in it. Draws parallels to Eneduana, history's first known named author from around 2500 BCE. Discusses the MN sound hypothesis, the Finding Manuland project aiming to unite Turkic and Indo-European speakers, and the commitment to recoupling the political right with moral rightness.
60. Video Podcast - Edessa and Gobekli Tepe
Documents a journey to Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey and the discovery of a Roman-era inscription dedicating columns to the king of Edessa, son of Manu. Represents a culmination of the Finding Manuland project tracing the MN sound across Indo-European languages. Weaves together ancient history, linguistic analysis, archaeological discoveries, and personal reflection on how geographical borderlands continue influencing modern civilisation.
61. Finding Manuland - Hunt for Menua’s Stables
Video podcast documenting the journey to Van Castle in Turkey, searching for inscriptions left by Menua, son of the founder of the Urartu Empire (790-775 BCE). Explores the historical significance of Lake Van as a meeting point of empires including the Hittites, Assyrians, and Persians, and how the MN sound in Menua's name connects to Armenia's linguistic heritage.
62. Finding Manuland - Road to Tushpa and Van
Explores the ancient Urartian capital of Tushpa, modern-day Van in Turkey. Investigates the region's significance as a strategic meeting point for civilisations including Kura-Araxes, Hittite, Mitanni, Assyrian, Urartu, Armenian, and Achaemenid. Highlights how Tushpa contained the first known written monument of the Kings of Urartu, revealing this ancient civilisation's lasting importance.
63. Solstice - Song of Amergin
Features the ancient Celtic poem attributed to Amergin, Ireland's first poet-judge, set to music and video. Filmed at Newgrange, the recording includes candid, almost proud words put into the mouths of Gods, offering insight into Celtic spiritual and literary heritage and the Indo-European poetic tradition.
64. Indo-European Immanences
Explores Indo-European linguistic and cultural origins, focusing on the Yamna community from the Kherson/Zaporizhia region. Discusses how this population created the foundational language, religious concepts, and cultural archetypes influencing civilisations from India to Ireland. Examines modern social media disinformation as contemporary folklore and identifies recurring MN and RT sounds in mythological founder names across cultures.
65. Peppercorns Mana and Finding Manuland
Explores Mana as an energy exchange phenomenon across cultures, from Germanic contract law to Marcel Mauss's anthropological work. Traces how the M-N phonetic pattern appears in words like communicate, communal, and meaning across Indo-European languages. Links ancient manifestations of energy exchange to modern memes and disinformation, tracking how leadership perspectives on Ukraine have shifted.
66. MN Sound Ubiquity in Turkic Languages
Explores the M-N sound pattern across Indo-European and Turkic languages, proposing it emerged from early contacts between these language families originating from a moon-based semantic signalling system in ancient Ukraine around 4,100 BCE. Traces how Turkic migrations under Osman reintroduced these linguistic patterns to formerly Indo-European regions. Argues we are united by our use of signifiers emanating from this system.
67. Indian or Germanic - Episode 6
Examines how the M-N sound pattern appears across Indo-European mythological founders, arguing it traces back to the Yamna culture of ancient Ukraine around 4,000 BCE. Explores how Manu (Indian) and Manus (Germanic) share this sonic coupling with identical meanings, and positions the Yamna people as the origin from which Indo-European languages dispersed between Ireland and India.
68. Indian or Germanic - Episode 5
Explores linguistic and mythological connections across Indo-European cultures. Examines figures like Manu, Manus, and Mananan as cultural founders sharing similar naming patterns despite geographic separation. Discusses ancient DNA evidence demonstrating that the Brahman caste had approximately 50% Indo-European steppe ancestry by 1000 BCE, supporting unified Indo-European origins.
69. Indian or Germanic - Episode 4
Expands mental models across 6,000 years from 4100 BCE to today. Examines cuneiform texts from Kanesh (1900-1800 BCE) and connects them to the Sintashta culture in Kazakhstan. Explores the three-function Indo-European social structure documented by Georges Dumezil, tracing how Germanic tribes mirror Indian caste divisions with Manu representing the first human in Vedic tradition.
70. Indian or Germanic - Episode 3
Examines the recurring MN sound pattern in names like Manu (Indian) and Mannus (Germanic), proposing these represent shared ancestral cultural elements. Analyses tripartite sovereignty, military, and fertility structures reflected in Germanic days of the week. Discusses pre-Indo-European Old Europe goddess cultures and the earliest Indo-European writing discovered at Kanis/Kultepe in Anatolia.
71. Indian or Germanic - Episode 2
Explores how the three sons of Mannus -- Herminones, Ingaevones, and Istaevones -- reflect a trifunctional structure also found in the Indian caste system. Examines parallel organisational patterns across Indo-European cultures suggesting a common source, and analyses names, mythology, and migration patterns from ancient Ukraine connecting Mana as subtle energy across cultures.
72. Indian or Germanic - Episode 1
Explores whether Indian or Germanic culture emerged first by examining the M-N sound in Manu and Mannus. Proposes both descended from the Yamna people of southern Ukraine circa 4100 BCE. Traces how the M-N sound appears ubiquitously from the Menapii people to Irish locations like Monaghan and Fermanagh to ancient priestly castes. Positions the speaker as solving a mystery about the origins of the word man itself.
73. Human Safaris - Humanity’s Future Began in Kherson Twice
Explores the convergence of ancient history and modern warfare through Kherson, Ukraine. Draws parallels between the region's significance as the homeland of the Yamna community (4,100-2,500 BCE) and its role today as a battleground experiencing drone attacks. Argues Kherson today is the future of every European city and includes the accidental discovery of a Yamna burial mound destruction in Dnipro.
74. Mount Hazzi - the Hittites’ Mount Kassios
Documents a pilgrimage to Mount Hazzi on the Syria/Turkiye border, the sacred Hittite mountain also known as Mount Zephon and Saphon. Explores how mountain deities served the storm god Tessub, paralleling Zeus in Greek tradition. Examines the Dyeus sound relating to sky deities across Indo-European languages and presents evidence for the MN sound as a fundamental signalling system.
75. Ten Reasons Why Finding Manuland Matters Vol 1
Presents the first reasons why the Finding Manuland research project matters. Discusses discovering connections between the MN sound across languages, mythology, and geography. Emphasises that all Indo-European languages can be traced to ancient Ukraine in ways other precursor languages cannot. Interweaves personal travel anecdotes from Turkey with scholarly discussion of Yamnaya migrations and burial mounds.
76. Sky Episode - Finding Manuland
Explores linguistic roots connecting words for sky, death, and deity across Indo-European languages, all deriving from the ancient word Dyeus. Argues the M-N phoneme represents an equally fundamental concept. Discusses energy exchange coded in mitochondrial DNA, how meaning itself contains the MN sound, and Yamnaya burial mounds as archaeological evidence of cultural spread.
77. Harry’s Mana in Me
Explores how a deceased friend named Harry profoundly shaped the speaker's life trajectory. Introduces the concept of mana as energy that people exchange, arguing Harry's mana became part of him and continues to influence decisions posthumously. Traces how Harry's influence led to Cambridge, the OSCE, and a diplomatic career spanning Kosovo, Mongolia, and Ukraine.
78. The X Energy Mana
Explores Mana as the X energy appearing repeatedly across Indo-European cultures in mythological founders -- Manu in Indian culture, Mannus in Germanic tradition, Manannan in Celtic lore. Traces this pattern back to southeastern Ukraine around 4,000 BCE and the Yamnaya people. Introduces the central mystery of the series: which came first, Manu or Mannus?
79. Finding Manuland Episode XXIX
Introduces Finding Manuland, a series exploring Indo-European language origins and their connection to the Yamnaya culture of ancient Ukraine circa 4000 BCE. Challenges conventional narratives attributing Western civilisation solely to ancient Greece and Rome, arguing for a common linguistic source in southeastern Ukraine. Explores the MN sound, genetic evidence of Yamnaya ancestry, and proposes Manuland as a geographical and cultural designation.
Season 2
Coming soon. Season 2 deepens the analysis, exploring the Indo-European roots of Disinfolklore, the psychology of targeting, and the emerging frontier of AI and Disinfolklore.