{"podcast":{"title":"The Russell Brunson Show","slug":"the-russell-brunson-show-743397","podcast_index_feed_id":743397,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/YAP7634977833","website_url":"https://marketingsecrets.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/eede8e0c-f048-11ee-bf7f-5fe8d12a8b74/image/7c3d06ab29be18694fabb789edfb1db3.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Russell Brunson","episode_count":865,"summary":"Welcome to The Russell Brunson Show, a podcast that breaks free from the marketing \"box\" to explore the ideas, strategies, and stories shaping success in business and life. Building on the foundation of the Marketing Secrets Podcast, this new evolution dives into Russell’s passions and expertise beyond just marketing. In each episode, Russell shares insights on marketing, selling, personal development, and the lessons he’s learned from studying some of the most important figures in history. It’s a mix of practical strategies, timeless principles, and fascinating stories that will inspire and challenge you to think differently about business and life. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, creator, or someone striving to make an impact, The Russell Brunson Show is your go-to guide for thinking outside the box, achieving success, and leaving your mark on the world. Subscribe now to join Russell as he shares his playbook and his passion for growth.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T16:18:58.197972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-russell-brunson-show-743397"},"episode":{"title":"The Propaganda Playbook: Legos (Did Iran Beat America’s $886 Billion Military… With Legos?) | #Marketing - Ep. 129","slug":"the-propaganda-playbook-legos-did-iran-beat-america-s-886-billion-military-with-legos-marketing-ep-129","published_at":"2026-05-25T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-russell-brunson-show-743397/the-propaganda-playbook-legos-did-iran-beat-america-s-886-billion-military-with-legos-marketing-ep-129","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-russell-brunson-show-743397","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/cohst.app/pdcst/2Y7X1X/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/YAP5608546664.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/cohst.app/pdcst/2Y7X1X/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/YAP5608546664.mp3","summary":"There’s a moment when you realize the most powerful military in the history of the world just got out-marketed by a group of teenagers with laptops. Not outgunned. Not outspent. Out-marketed. Iran’s $0 propaganda budget — a few Lego figures, some AI rap music, and a couple of memes — pulled more eyeballs and more shares than the Pentagon’s entire $886 billion public affairs operation. And the strangest part? They didn’t invent any of it. The exact techniques they used were written down a hundred years ago… by an American. In this episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I break down what The Wall Street Journal is calling “Lego Ganda” — the AI-generated Lego-style videos out of Iran that ran the table during the 2026 Iran war. I take you back to Edward Bernays’ “Propaganda” (the first-edition copy is sitting on my desk), through Neil Postman’s 1985 warning about entertainment-as-propaganda, and right into the four-part framework I use to decode what just happened. Because the exact playbook a group of anonymous Iranian students just used to humiliate the United States is the same playbook I used twenty years ago to bootstrap a company past a billion dollars in sales without a single dollar of venture capital. Same science. Different story. Key Highlights: ◼️The “Lego Ganda” breakdown — how a group calling themselves Explosive Media racked up millions of views per video, got referenced at Coachella, got their channel pulled by YouTube… and just kept popping back up everywhere else ◼️Bernays’ 1929 “Torches of Freedom” campaign and the cultural-hijacking technique Iran just ran in reverse — using American Legos, American rap, and American memes to undermine the American narrative ◼️Why Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” predicted all of this in 1985 — and why “slop-a…","meta_description":"There’s a moment when you realize the most powerful military in the history of the world just got out-marketed by a group of teenagers with laptops. 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