Jesse Carey

They're just doing internet research.

Yeah, come on.

But it was founded by a guy named Yeganey Progozhin.

And for Goshen, he's he's no longer with us because he people might know him better as the founder of the Wagner group, a mercenary group that I see the one that took up arms and was like marching.

He was back on.

Yes.

Yeah.

And he died in helicopter crash.

so his story real quick and then i'll get into the internet research agency he was he was basically like kind of a just like a russian thug and ended up serving time in russian prison and while there he kind of got pretty entrenched in the russian criminal underworld

he gets out, you know, he's this weird guy because as much as he is like this, like street thug, you know, and there's some really crazy videos of him.

Like, don't even go down that rabbit hole of like on the, in the Ukraine war doing terrible things, but like, gosh,

So anyway, when he gets out of prison, he is also like equal parts of entrepreneur.

And so he starts a catering company.

Um, you know, I think he had like food carts at one point, but he ends up getting military contracts to do like, uh,

massive like catering deals for Russian state events for the military.

I mean, it ends up being like tens of millions of dollars.

There's a picture of him at one point, I think it was Bush.

I think it was W was in, was that like a Soviet state dinner and Pergosian is there as like the head caterer or whatever.

It's crazy.

So anyway, he leverages all these military... So the catering wasn't, like, a cover.